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RAM Releasing, the new midnight label from Film Movement, has acquired U.S. rights to controversial castration movie "Moebius.
TOKYO — The Tokyo International Film Festival today unveiled the line-up for its 26th edition, which will unspool Oct. 17-25 in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills entertainment and shopping complex. The…
Kim Ki-duk's latest is a gloriously off-the-charts study in perversity featuring castration, rape and incest.
Getting to the Lido was easy for South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who presents his "Moebius" in the Venice festival's out of competition section Tuesday. Getting his picture a release at home was…
The documentary "A Fuller Life," which screens here Sunday and Tuesday, includes never-seen footage that ranges from World War II-ravaged families to scenes from a long-ago Venice Film Festival. In…
New York based-digital distributor FilmBuff will digitally release docu "Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater," which world preems Thursday in Venice Classics, and also handle worldwide…
HONG KONG — South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has won his battle to have his new film "Moebius" released in Korean theaters, but only after a third appeal to the country's censors and three minutes of…
South Korean film-maker Kim Ki-duk finds his latest film invited to Venice, but banned at home. Now the iconoclastic auteur is mounting a PR campaign in favor of a local release.
"Gravity," "Under the Skin" and "Moebius" are among our critic's most hotly anticipated titles at this year's Venice Film Festival.
While not quite a "Notorious" F.L.O.P., French spy thriller and Hitchcock wannabe "Mobius" struggles to suggest why its central pair of lovers would want to be together beyond physical compatibility… | <urn:uuid:300c1020-f3f6-48b6-b0f2-2760889a1a37> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://variety.com/t/moebius/ | 2017-05-27T14:02:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608954.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527133144-20170527153144-00423.warc.gz | en | 0.942405 | 414 | [
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Smart, Colorful Web Design
Alliance Imaging needed a website specifically for their location inside Roxborough Memorial Hospital just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Although they had a well established corporate brand, they asked for a fresh design that would be specific and appropriate for RMH. We chose to reflect the expertise of their personnel and their commitment to the local community by displaying their staff prominently. After showing them several designs, they chose this colorful, friendly interface. It is a good example that the medical industry does not always have to stick to its typically conservative pallet.
In consideration of the copy and content that was to be written and placed post-design, we kept the page layout simple, modular and ready to accommodate any copywriting, images and content to come. The website is still a work in progress. | <urn:uuid:1a85cb5a-f53a-41e2-b384-75dd019b3540> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.mainlinemedia.com/blog/web-portfolio/hospital-website/ | 2017-05-27T13:47:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608954.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527133144-20170527153144-00423.warc.gz | en | 0.974261 | 162 | [
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Here is the Group #3. I'm glad that this tournament excites people, thank you guys! This group is really tough one, with having characters very popular. And please vote only once.
Sooo... Group 3 is closed as well. Portgas D. Ace(24), Boa Hancock(12) and Thousand Sunny(11) are the ones who passed to the next stage.
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We have 3 abuse cases we have treated & made well with the help of our vet, donations & great foster carers. These lucky ones have been either adopted or sponsored by generous donors & their flights paid to the UK.
So far Bonzo, Felix & Pasca are booked in for the second week of August.
In cargo we can send 5 animals per ticket unaccompanied & we have 2 places spare, it would be a shame to leave them empty as we have 15 waiting to go to Woodland Nook Cat Sanctuary for re homing in the UK.
Bumble: We would like to send him he has been with us for almost 5 months, his pelvis has healed & he is jumping around his cage desperate to get out & stretch his paws.
Affectionate & loving he was so badly abused we think maybe he was struck with a heavy object or kicked breaking his pelvis in two, he is very deserving of a loving home.
Huggy the kitten: Next on the list to go & growing fast he & his siblings came to us at 7 days of age from the Chania team after his mother was run over.
Covered in parasites & starving they had to be bottle fed for three weeks by us & a team of volunteers. We lost one little one but Huggy & the others are now thriving. He already has a home in the UK waiting for him, please help give him a new start.
We are appealing for donations to reach the £285 per cat fee to fill this flight. Donors have come forward already offering to help, any sum you can afford however small is appreciated.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Randall Cobb ran for two touchdowns,
Derrick Locke rushed for a career-high 144 yards and a touchdown,
and Kentucky beat Vanderbilt 24-13 Saturday to become bowl eligible
for a school record fourth straight year.
Kentucky (6-4, 2-4 Southeastern Conference) has won seven of the
past nine in this series and can improve its bowl berth in the
final two games of the regular season.
Vanderbilt (2-9, 0-7) had its best scoring game this season
against an SEC opponent. But the Commodores blew a 13-10 halftime
lead and lost their seventh straight after being shut out in the
second half. They managed a mere 31 yards offense in the second
The Wildcats struggled to pass even with Mike Hartline playing
his first game since injuring his left knee Oct. 10 against South
Carolina. Morgan Newton started, and both had passes intercepted.
But Locke and Cobb helped Kentucky win its second straight and for
the fourth time in five games.
This game featured the SEC's two worst defenses against the run,
and Kentucky did a better job rushing with Cobb and Locke than
Vanderbilt managed as a team. Cobb finished with 99 yards on 14
carries, while Locke ran 25 times as Kentucky outgained Vandy
399-209 in total offense - 308 of that coming on the ground.
Cobb put Kentucky up 7-0 after taking the snap in the Wildcats'
wildcobb formation. He ran right before tiptoeing along the right
sideline for a 21-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Officials
reviewed the play to make sure he stayed inbound, and he did.
He put Kentucky ahead to stay 17-13 by capping the opening drive
of the third quarter by running in 3 yards for his second TD. Then
Locke capped a 72-yard drive with a 14-yard TD in the fourth
quarter to seal the victory, finishing with his third 100-yard
rushing game this season.
Vanderbilt hadn't scored more than 10 in any SEC game this
season but led 13-10 at halftime thanks largely to a defense ranked
10th nationally against the pass. The Commodores turned two
interceptions into 10 points in the second quarter but lost
linebacker Patrick Benoist, their leading tackler, to a suspected
concussion in the first half.
Eddie Foster picked off a pass by Hartline. That set up Ryan
Fowler's career-long 47-yard field goal to pull Vandy with in 7-6.
T.J. Greenstone tipped a Newton pass, and Myron Lewis grabbed it
for his 10th career interception at the Kentucky 20. Three plays
later, Mackenzi Adams found John Cole who pulled in a 21-yard pass
for the first touchdown of the receiver's career to give Vandy its
first lead of the game with 2:25 left in the half.
The Commodores could have scored more except Adams overthrew a
receiver, and Calvin Harrison intercepted the pass at the Kentucky
23 with 50 seconds left until halftime.
Kentucky 7 3 7 7-24
Vanderbilt 3 10 0 0-13
Ky-R.Cobb 21 run (Seiber kick), 8:00.
Van-FG Fowler 42, 3:01.
Van-FG Fowler 47, 10:07.
Ky-FG Seiber 36, 6:16.
Van-Cole 21 pass from Adams (Fowler kick), 2:25.
Ky-R.Cobb 3 run (Seiber kick), 10:14.
Ky-Locke 14 run (Seiber kick), 5:08.
First downs 22 11
Rushes-yards 58-308 34-82
Passing 91 127
Comp-Att-Int 7-15-2 11-24-1
Return Yards 14 1
Punts-Avg. 5-45.2 8-47.1
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0
Penalties-Yards 4-30 3-35
Time of Possession 34:48 25:12
RUSHING-Kentucky, Locke 25-144, R.Cobb 14-99, Allen 7-28,
Newton 4-18, A.Smith 6-16, Conner 1-4, Team 1-(minus 1). Vanderbilt,
Norman 12-52, Stacy 9-21, Adams 11-17, Graham 2-(minus 8).
PASSING-Kentucky, Newton 4-7-1-40, Hartline 2-6-1-10,
Locke 1-1-0-41, Team 0-1-0-0. Vanderbilt, Adams 11-24-1-127.
RECEIVING-Kentucky, King 2-41, Locke 2-6, R.Cobb 2-3, Newton 1-41.
Vanderbilt, Cole 5-61, Barden 2-31, Stacy 2-19, Umoh 1-13, Norman 1-3.
Team Records and Series Notes
* Kentucky is 6-4 overall, 2-4 in the Southeastern Conference. Vanderbilt is 2-9 overall, 0-7 in league play.
* Kentucky leads the series, 40-38-4. UK has won one in a row. The visiting team has won the last three games in this series.
* The win marks the fourth consecutive season that Kentucky has won six or more games.
* Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats play at Georgia on Sat. Nov. 21 at 7:45 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2.
UK Team Notes
* Kentucky gained a season-high 308 yards rushing in the game, the most since UK gained 355 rushing yards vs. Indiana in 2004.
* UK’s 308 rushing yards is the most against an SEC opponent since rushing for 310 at South Carolina in 1995.
* Kentucky had 399 total offensive yards, the most against an SEC opponent (non-overtime game) since rolling up 512 total yards vs. Florida in 2007.
* UK held Vanderbilt to 13 points, the fewest against an SEC opponent since the 14-13 win at Mississippi State in 2008.
* UK held Vanderbilt to 11 first downs, the fewest against an SEC opponent since limiting South Carolina to nine first downs in 1999.
* The Wildcat defense held Vanderbilt to 82 yards rushing, the second time this season UK has held an opponent under 100 yards rushing in the game.
* Kentucky held Vanderbilt to 209 yards total offense, the best showing since UK limited VU to 91 total yards in 1996.
* In the second half, Vanderbilt was limited to one first down, 31 total offensive yards, 0-of-5 on third downs and held the ball only 6:56 time of possession.
* Kentucky’s kickoff team did an excellent job today. Kickoff man Craig McIntosh had three touchbacks (second game in a row for that) and VU’s highly dangerous kickoff returner Warren Norman returned two kickoffs for just 38 yards. VU’s best field position after a kickoff was its own 28-yard line.
UK Individual Notes
* Randall Cobb opened the scoring with an 18-yard touchdown run. He has scored a touchdown in each of the last six games he has played. Cobb did not play last Saturday against Eastern Kentucky because of an injury.
* Cobb also scored on a three-yard run in the third quarter. It is the fourth time this season he has scored at least two touchdowns in one game.
* Cobb finished the game 99 yards on the ground on 14 carries, scoring twice.
* Derrick Locke carried the ball 25 times for 144 yards, both career highs.
n It is Locke’s third 100-yard game of the season.
n Locke moved past Bobby Cravens, Mike Fanuzzi and Al Baker into 15th place on the UK career rushing list. Locke now has 1,565 rushing yards as a Wildcat.
* Locke threw a 41-yard pass to quarterback Morgan Newton in the first quarter to move down to the VU 21-yard line. Cobb scored on the next play.
* Lones Seiber moved into seventh place in SEC history for extra points made in a career. Seiber has made (150) extra points as a Wildcat.
* John Conner broke the Kentucky career record for games played with 51. Tim Masthay also played in 50 games from 2005-08.
* Punter Ryan Tydlacka had the best game of his career, averaging 45.2 yards per punt on five punts.
* With two receptions, freshman La’Rod King matched a career high with 41 receiving yards attained last time out against EKU.
* Calvin Harrison’s interception in the second quarter was his third of the season and fourth of his career.
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Grand Bakery sign at 8th & Willow
Seems fishy to me
This sign posted at the old Grand Bakery location at 8th and Willow Avenues seems a bit bogus.
First of all, no business can possibly get an occupancy permit – especially since no construction permits have been posted and no work has been done. Additionally, to my knowledge – there is no such thing as a “City Of Hoboken Business Development Association.” And the kicker is – that if you dial this “200” area code – your call will end up in India – and all of a sudden your phone will be ringing off the hook with spam calls.
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A survey recently commissioned by NBN Co of about 1000 students has found that 75% use the internet to assist them with school courses at home.
It also showed 51% used online videos to help research subjects they were studying.
So what is driving this preference for students?
Jack Goodman, founder of YourTutor told The Educator that students were increasingly turning to online help due to the demands of a changing world, especially in terms of technology.
“The world is changing fast, and students and their learning behaviours are no different,” Goodman said.
“Students nowadays - the so called Netflix generation - expect help on demand, and don't expect days of frustration between challenge and resolution.”
He said YourTutor ensured that students are receiving ethical support in a form that aids their academic growth and development, whilst aligning to the standards and expectations of teachers and parents.
“With a growing number of progressive schools, YourTutor is the trusted out-of-hours study support, providing the on demand service students need, in alignment with school expectations and standards,” he said.
The NBN Co report also found that while many remote students still struggled with internet connection, more than 60% of those surveyed said online learning had helped level the playing field between different locations.
Peter West, director of e-learning at Queensland’s St Stephen’s College, told The Educator that online distance learning was crucial in addressing students who lived in rural areas or had been absent and needed to catch up on missed classes.
West’s Online Learning Environment (OLE) allows students to login and learn at a time, place and pace of their choosing, freeing up valuable time for teachers as well as busy parents.
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MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!
Carl Kozlowski's not about to let narcolepsy keep him from pursuing a career in comedy. Although he's forced to take buses and trains all over L.A. since crashing his car after falling asleep at the wheel in 2003, he keeps busy as co-host with Jake Belcher and Brant Thoman of the online radio show Grand Theft Audio, among many other credits. Kozlowski presents Asleep at the Wheel as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival this weekend.
L.A. WEEKLY: Narcolepsy that sounds dangerous, and not at all funny. How do you find the funny in something like this?
CARL KOZLOWSKI: What's not funny about waking up six miles from where I intended to stop on the bus, feeling like I've just drugged, kidnapped and abandoned myself? Or doing a faceplant into my computer keyboard in front of everyone at my newspaper office while engaged in a breaking-news interview with the mayor of Burbank? How about having Hilary Swank wonder if I'm choking to death and asking if I need her to give me the Heimlich maneuver when I started snoring horrifically during a question-and-answer round table for her new movie? Maybe it's just my personal way of dealing with situations that bizarre, but I gotta laugh, and lots of other people have been laughing at my "episodes" for the past 10 years, so I thought it's time to see if the rest of the world finds this funny, too.
What's the worst thing that's happened to you while asleep?
One night I was riding the 720 bus home down Wilshire after midnight when I drifted asleep into a dream in which I was on a date with a cute girl at a movie theater. In my dream, I had just gently placed my hand on her knee, when I suddenly was jarred awake by a cold sensation. I opened my eyes to find the Latino guy next to me was looking upset and holding my wrist with his hand, directly in front of my face just before he proceeded to slap me in my face with my own hand as the other 50 strangers onboard burst into laughter at my expense.
Are there any famous narcoleptics?
Well, Jimmy Kimmel is one, which is kind of inspiring, as what's helped me kick my habit is the fact that I showed my doctors a story on how he cured his and that made them think harder for a solution. Ironically, I even fell asleep in the studio at a taping of his TV show in 2003 amid his cranking house band and supercold studio temperature, only to wake up when the incredibly loud laughter of the audience members around me stirred me awake. I opened my eyes to find an ABC cameraman hovering directly over my face, putting my shameful sleepiness out before America on live national television as Jimmy wondered aloud if he was doing a bad job that night. So, Jimmy, gimme a call. There's great video of me there you can show again, and I can personally thank you for saving my life by sharing your story.
What have you missed because of your narcolepsy?
Unfortunately, my entire love life. Fortunately, the Bush administration. But unfortunately, not too many meals. I'm a good, solid 320.
Have you ever used narcolepsy to your advantage? Like pretending to be asleep to get someone to stop talking to you?
Huh? What? Did you just say something?
What can we expect at Asleep at the Wheel?
A mix of harrowing tales like the morning I totaled my car by falling asleep at the wheel on the L.A. freeway, surprising insights on what it's like spending five days locked down at L.A. County Hospital, funny stories of things I've seen in eight years of riding L.A. buses and trains, embarrassing tales of celebrity interviews gone awry due to my falling asleep on famous people, even more embarrassing photos taken while I was asleep across America.
Fri., June 17, 11 p.m.; Sun., June 19, 8 p.m., 2011
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When I was a kid, folks used to say “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Well, my SpanishviaSkype teacher, Laura, is proving that they were wrong. She is incredibly knowledgeable, patient, and dedicated to helping me build my Spanish skills. I live in Southwestern Ohio and there really aren’t many good opportunities to get first class Spanish instruction around here. So, SpanishviaSkpye works really well for me!”.
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The Spokane Indians return home to Avista Stadium tonight for their final homestand of the season with a pair of streaks intact.
One of those – a 16-game streak of at least one hit batter per game – isn’t one they’d like to have continue as the short-season Class A Northwest League short season winds down.
The other – a 19-game hitting streak (see factbox) – has Royce Bolinger on the brink of cracking the franchise’s top 10.
“It’s not just one hit, either,” Indians manager Tim Hulett said. “He’s getting 2 or 3 at times because of his approach – he’s fighting off tough pitches.”
Bolinger was hit in Spokane’s Aug. 3 loss to Boise, kick starting a 16-game streak of what has unintentionally become target practice – for Spokane and its opponents alike. Cam Schiller – one of Spokane’s more consistent batters – is benched with a broken thumb because of the trend.
The number hit unprecedented heights on Thursday when eight total batters were tagged in the Indians’ 8-2 loss to Yakima – five by three Spokane pitchers, and three by two Yakima pitchers.
That eclipsed the previous NWL record of a combined six hit batters in one game – recorded twice (in 1990 and 2004).
The total number of hit batters by the Indians won’t likely equal the 77 batters Yakima hit in the 2010 season, but Spokane’s streak has produced an unusually high frequency in a short period of time. With 13 games remaining, Spokane has hit a league-high 58 batters so far (in 63 games) – 22 in the last 16.
In the same 16-game stretch, Spokane batters have been hit 22 times by opposing pitchers.
Hulett isn’t sure what to make of it.
“For us I think it’s a lack of control, and it’s been on off-speed pitches,” Hulett said. “There’s a pattern in the development process where you try and get your guys to start pitching in – but I can’t even say it’s that for us, we’re not trying to do that right now.
“With guys at the plate, you get to a stage where you have to push them in a little and make them a little uncomfortable, and some guys don’t have the command to handle that.”
“But,” as Spokane baseball historian Jim Price pointed out, “that happens every year.
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General Motors received the top honor in the 20th annual Automotive Loyalty Awards, beating out Toyota, Nissan and Honda.
While GM won for best overall manufacturer — for sales of multiple brands — archrival Ford won for the most loyal brand in the IHS Automotive awards.
About 51.5 percent of the consumers who bought a new vehicle between October 2014 and September 2015 returned to their previous brand for their vehicles — more than a 1 percent increase over the previous year, IHS said.
Ford was the only brand that achieved a loyalty rate with buyers of more than 60 percent for the model year, while Jeep recorded the highest conquest rate at 27.8 percent.
Here were some of the other winners, which were cited for having the highest percentage of returning buyers:
Compact CUV: Jeep Renegade
Compact SUV: Jeep Wrangler
Compact car: Nissan Leaf
Midsize CUV: Subaru Outback
Midsize SUV: Jeep Grand Cherokee
Midsize car: Hyundai Sonata
Full-size SUV: GMC Yukon Denali
Full-size car: Toyota Avalon
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Waaaay back at the beginning of this blog, I posted this Cauliflower & Leek Soup that is still one of our most popular recipes. I used cashews to make it creamy without actual cream, but since then I’ve realized that blended cauliflower can become SO creamy and delicious all by itself. Sometimes less is more and I just love the pure simple flavor of this all-vegetable soup.
I start by roasting the whole cauliflower – florets, cores, greens and all. Waste not want not! I also roast shallots and garlic before blending it all with a bit of miso, dijon mustard, lemon juice, and thyme for flavor. As always, the soup tastes better the second day so it’s a perfect make-ahead meal. This one is sure to be on our rotation all winter long.
- 1 medium head cauliflower (about 2 lbs.)
- 2 shallots, peeled and sliced into quarters
- 4 unpeeled garlic cloves
- 4 cups (32 ounces) vegetable broth
- Leaves from 5 fresh thyme sprigs
- ½ tablespoon white miso paste
- ½ tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Trim the cauliflower head into florets and cut the core into pieces. Spread the cauliflower and the shallots on the baking sheet and toss with a drizzle of olive oil and pinches of salt and pepper.
- Wrap the garlic cloves, along with a drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of salt, in a piece of aluminum foil and place it on the baking sheet with the vegetables. (The garlic will roast this way making it soft and the flavor less strong).
- Roast for 30 to 35 minutes or until the cauliflower is browned around the edges. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly. Set aside 1½ cups of the smaller cauliflower florets for garnish.
- In a blender, combine the roasted cauliflower, shallots, peeled garlic, vegetable broth, thyme leaves, miso paste and Dijon mustard and blend until smooth.
- Add the olive oil, lemon juice and a pinch of salt and pepper and blend. Taste and adjust seasonings adding more salt, pepper and lemon juice. If the soup is too thick, add water, a few tablespoons at a time and blend to desired consistency.
- Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and the reserved cauliflower florets.
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Enjoying prime location close to Sri Parthasarathy Temple, Marina Beach and Breezy Beach, Hanu Reddy Residences Wallace Garden provides a quiet accommodation. Hanu Reddy Residences Wallace Garden caters to guests' needs, offering a business center, a safe deposit box, a designated smoking area, a luggage storage and currency exchange.
The quiet property is ideally placed close to the central railway station. The city center is 1 km away. Guests can enjoy a meal in Tuscana Pizzeria and Yoko Sizzlers, which are located in an a touristic area, just about 5 minutes’ walk from Hanu Reddy Residences Wallace Garden.
Fast access to Madras International (meenambakkam) airport within 15 km is provided.
Hanu Reddy Residences Wallace Garden comprises rooms with flat-screen TV, a laptop-size safe, free wireless internet, individual climate control and a private toilet. The property offers an en suite bathroom fitted with a shower and a bathtub.
Eat & Drink
Guests can make use of a kettle and a fridge.
A bar and a garden are provided on site.
Wireless internet is available in the villa rooms for free.
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GTA 4 PC DRM: Copy protection and activation in detail
GTA 4 will be released for the PC on December 3 and the question about the copy protection arises. PCGH reveals what copy protection and what kind of activation are used in GTA 4 (PC).
It has already been reported that GTA 4 PC would possibly require an online activation. Those rumors have been confirmed now. But Rockstar uses, in contrast to Electronic Arts' DRM system (Spore, C&C Red Alert 3) or Ascaron (Sacred 2), a less rigid solution. Here the summary of the GTA 4 DRM system:
DRM system GTA 4 (PC):
- Activation via Internet (1x per system, no limits, Fallback for systems without web access)
- Copy protection Securom: The original disc is required for playing (Exept: Download version of GTA 4, for example from Direct 2 Drive)
- Requirements for playing (singleplayer): original disc, Securom and GFW Live runs in the background
- Requirements for playing (multiplayer): Active internet connection, Games for Windows Live account, For uploading videos: Rockstar Social Club Account
Additional details about the activation of GTA 4 (PC):
- If you don't have web access or don't want to connect your gaming PC to the Internet, Rockstar wants to offer a not yet specified system to activate GTA 4 via another PC with web access. Details are supposed to be available on launch.
- For the normal GTA 4 (PC) version with disc installation, activations are unlimited. But the original disc is required for playing.
- This does not apply for legally downloaded versions of GTA 4: Depending on the vendor the following is possible: Five parallel installations with the possibility to revive a "free” installation, if an old installation is deleted. For this purpose the customer has to have web access with the PC GTA 4 is installed on.
- Those playing GTA 4 with an illegally hacked version have, according to Rockstar, to fear that the game will not be fully playable.
- If you change two major components of your PC (like the graphics card or the CPU), you will possible have to reactivate GTA 4.
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Oh look, hallowe’en. Every supermarket entrance glows with orange globes, and even shop seems to be festooned with fake cobwebs, mildly mouldy cut gourds and giant spiders. What larks, eh. What a bloody waste of a really good vegetable.
I love pumpkins, and their occasionally-lumped-in-with-them-cousins, squashes. But I loathe the nasty, stringy things passed off as pumpkins in shops at this time of year. The spaghetti types are designed for cutting and sculpting, and are about as nice to eat as a fat free fruit yoghurt. I don’t like this trend and I don’t understand it. Food waste is bad enough without actively marketing a vegetable which is delicious at all times except when it is most popular and easy to obtain. Pointless, much? Bluerk.
Trouble is, I see all the pumpkins, crave all the pumpkins and then I struggle to get hold of an actual tasty pumpkin, such is the frenzy which seems to surround cutting the buggers up and letting them rot away. You can probably pick up something decent at a market, farmers’ or otherwise, but as ever, the best solution is to grow your own. I grew Crown Prince squashes this year, along with Peter Pan and something else which failed and the label got squashed into the ground so I can’t remember what it was. The Pans were immense. The Princes were even better (thank you, James Wong, for the recommendation). Sadly, I’ve eaten them all, so I’m back at square one.
I do quite fancy carving a gourd. Or the pre-pumpkin British favourite, a turnip. But it seems you can’t get decent sized turnips easily unless you grow them, and I ate all of mine ages ago. So I’m going to attempt to seek out an edible pumpkin because WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING IT AND NOT EATING IT?
If you are lucky enough to have a decent variety knocking about, and you are planning on carving and cooking with it, or indeed just cooking with it, whey hey! There are loads of lovely sounding modern takes on pumpkin eating about, from oriental soups to warming breads. And it is divine slathered in dripping and salt and stuck in a hot oven. It’s amazingly versatile. Yet it’s only really been recently that we Brits have properly rediscovered how great it is (and presumably lots of people still haven’t, or it’d be pitchforks at dawn at the local supermarket to burn the inedible versions). Certainly my family never ate it growing up, and I don’t think we were alone in that. (We didn’t make them into lanterns either, though we did ceremoniously burn one of my teachers in effigy every year on Nov 5th, which trumped hallowe’en every time round my way). The only thing I’d ever known anyone make with it was pumpkin pie. I demanded to make it one year, and was allowed to make an American recipe from, I suspect, the BBC Good Food mag. It was very sweet and rather vile. The next time I encountered pumpkin cooked was another pumpkin pie, cooked by a classmate who was American, and asked her mum to send her tinned pumpkin as the thought of using a real life vegetable made her feel a bit funny (you can now buy the very same prepared pumpkin mix in Waitrose, I note). Again, sweet, icky and no actual pumpkin taste. Sigh. Since then, squashes have appeared on most tables as a fairly staple winter food, although I fear that the link between pumpkin and squash isn’t quite as obvious as it should be. Say pumpkin recipe, and I suspect a lot of people still think pie. And most of the articles I’ve seen about what to do with pumpkin still contain a pie recipe…..and they all look a tad scary-sweet to me.
Fast rewind to the seventeenth century though, when pumpkins first started to appear in recipe books, and suddenly pumpkin pie sounds much more interesting. At that point they were often called pompions, related probably to the French name for it at the time, pompon. Hannah Woolley (1670) has a recipe with pepper and salt and sharp apples. She also fried them in brandy batter. Robert May (1660) also uses apples, and rosemary and an egg ‘froise’ all layered up together. Even at the end of the nineteenth century recipe authors were suggested the addition of apples to pumpkin pie (or a touch of paprika). Such pies seem to continue the early modern habit of combining flavours which we would regard as being either sweet or savoury into one. Even in the Georgian period such combinations remained popular, and for good reason. They’d’ve been consumed after the main savoury dishes, but before the unequivocally sweet dessert items; a kind of bridging course.
Pumpkin was also preserved, made into soups, and, possibly the closest predecessor to the modern pumpkin pie, used for puddings. Boiled, pulped, and mixed with cream and eggs, it could be flavoured with booze, spice and rose water or orange flower water and then baked or boiled in a mould. Eliza Leslie, an early nineteenth century American author, has a lovely sounding version with wine, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, rose water, loads of butter, and cream, which she advises being baked in a buttered dish. It’s only a small step to putting it in pastry, right? A sort of unholy amalgam, which should be great, but leads directly to the kind of tooth-achingly nasty thing my teenage self turned out.
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Warren McGlone (born September 17, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Steady B, is an American hip hop emcee who, along with Schoolly D, the Fresh Prince, and Three Times Dope, was one of the first wave of Philadelphia-area emcees to gain notoriety in the mid to late 1980s. Steady B was a member (and de facto leader) of Philadelphia's Hilltop Hustlers crew. Steady B's musical career was relatively short-lived, and he is currently serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania state prison for his role in the murder of a Philadelphia Police officer during a botched bank robbery in January 1996.Early careerSteady B's original DJ was Grand Dragon K.D., later replaced by DJ Tat Money, who later became the DJ for Kwamé and a New Beginning. At his best, Steady mixed well-written metaphors and wordplay with sparse yet catchy drum tracks. Steady B released five albums over the course of his career, with mixed success.C.E.B.In 1991, Steady B formed the hardcore hip hop group C.E.B., with fellow, local Philadelphia emcees Cool C and Ultimate Eaze, in an effort to update his style and record sales. C.E.B.'s name was a backronym for Countin' Endless Bank, but it was also an acronym for the names of the group's three members. The trio released its only album, Countin' Endless Bank, on Ruffhouse Records in 1992. The single "Get the Point" reached #5 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles. The album was poorly received.Legal issuesOn January 22, 1996, Steady B, along with C.E.B. band mate Cool C, and another local Philadelphia rapper, Mark Canty, attempted a bank robbery at a PNC bank branch in Philadelphia. During the botched heist, in which Steady B served as the getaway driver in a stolen minivan, Philadelphia Police Officer Lauretha Vaird, who responded to the bank's silent alarm, was shot and killed by Cool C. Officer Vaird, an African American woman and the single mother of two children, was the first female Philadelphia Police officer slain in the line of duty. The incident inspired the song "Slipped Away (The Ballad of Lauretha Vaird)," which appeared on Philadelphia trio G. Love and Special Sauce's album Yeah, It's That Easy.Steady B was arrested at his apartment shortly after the bank robbery. Two handguns left at the scene by Cool C and Canty, including the murder weapon, were traced back to Steady, and he eventually confessed to his role in the crimes to police during interrogation.At his trial, the State presented evidence, including testimony from Steady's wife, that Steady B, Cool C, and Canty met at Steady's apartment shortly after the robbery, where they watched media coverage of the event on television, and discussed their escape. Incriminating statements by Canty were also admitted into evidence at Steady's trial.On October 30, 1996, Steady was convicted of the second-degree murder of Officer Vaird. On December 13, 1996, Steady B was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. | <urn:uuid:2ce80b19-db8c-4ec4-ab86-e5a8f1d42069> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.radionomy.com/en/artist/18790/Steady-B | 2017-05-25T10:36:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525102240-20170525122240-00390.warc.gz | en | 0.982499 | 679 | [
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Well, should he? Should Norm MacDonald take over for the ostensibly more chipper Craig Ferguson? The idea boggles the mind, but Colin Quinn, Mike Ward, Ben Hoffman, and Russell Peters have tweeted their approval for a MacDonald late-night takeover. I find it somewhat difficult to root for MacDonald when there are at least 15 excellent female candidates who'd be very welcome additions to the late-night realm, but maybe he's worth another look.
First of all, Norm should give himself credit for his interview skills. Here, he singlehandedly saves Conan O'Brien's conversation with Courtney Thorne-Smith.
In this Howard Stern clip, Norm discusses (at 13:00) getting a phone call from Letterman, who enjoyed his impersonation on “SNL.” He even backed up his point by bashing another “SNL” alum.
And if you want to see what a Norm-hosted talk show might look like, check out his YouTube show “Norm MacDonald live” where — at 25:00 — he discusses his “reasons” for gaining weight. It is kind of a scream.
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MY WAY TO THE PARK
so today I went for a little walk in the park with my bestie Kate. At first there was a dark sky and a bit sleepy mood. But luckily the sun has come up later and it was all good.
Also I managed to take some photos. So take a look and hope you enjoy!
Thanks so much for watching. Honestly it's the first time I'm that excited for autumn. Today in the park I could feel it coming. I don't know why.
In the comments tell me if you are excited for autumn.
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Income Tax: personal allowance and basic rate limit for 2016 to 2017 and 2017 to 2018
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Many successful students say that always using a notebook is an essential tool when learning a language. I think this is true, but I also think that such a statement is far from enough. How can a notebook help us improve? Why is it important to always have one with us? What should we write in it? In this article, I will answer those three questions from my own point of view. I’m also interested in hearing what readers have to say about using a notebook to learn Chinese!
Before I proceed, I’d like to make clear that when I say “notebook”, I simply refer to any of various ways of writing things down. If you’re used to using a smart phone or tablet to write things down, then by all means do so. I think a paper notebook is still superior because it’s easier to use and never runs out of batteries, but to each his own. What I have to say below is relevant regardless if you record on paper or digitally.
Why you should always keep a notebook with you
There are several reasons why you should keep a notebook:
- You won’t forget to learn cool/interesting/important words – When I encounter a word I think I really should know or an expression that I want to learn, the first thing I do is to write it down in my notebook. It’s seldom enough simply to hear it once and if I want to learn it, I need to write it down. Most learners are like me, we might pick up words automatically sometimes, but actually writing them down and studying is they way to go.
- You don’t risk losing important insights – Insights into language learning or language usage seldom comes when sitting in front of the computer. Rather, they tend to pop up randomly, often when it’s inconvenient or inappropriate to directly discuss or ask someone else. I typically have dozens of new ideas each lecture/lesson/seminar I attend, but it’s neither the right time nor the right place to bring up all of them immediately. I write most things down for later.
- You never miss an opportunity to ask questions – If you keep a notebook with you at all times, you will never miss an opportunity to ask questions. Back in the days when I didn’t use a notebook or when I forget to bring the one I use now, I often encounter situations where I can ask a teacher or a friend a few questions, but I can’t up with any. It’s hard to remembering words, grammar or pronunciation you think is tricky, but if you have them written down, you will never miss an opportunity to ask a question.
- You free your mind to do other things – I’m convinced that having a lot of things to remember burdens the mind and makes us feel stressed. Keeping a notebook is an excellent way of relieving our minds and thus freeing us to accomplish other things. This means that I don’t only write down words, ideas or insights in my notebook, I also write down anything else I think I ought to remember. That means that I’m free to focus on other things.
Now that we have a general idea of why keeping a notebook with you is useful, let’s look at the practical details.
What should you record and how should you record it?
This is probably highly individual and I don’t expect this to be the best way for everybody, but in order to provide an example, I will explain how I take notes.
- Use a basic category system – In order to make it easier to find things later, use a very simple category system. For instance, I write “+” in front of new words I want to add, “?” in front of things I need to discuss with someone, “HC” in front of ideas related to Hacking Chinese, “R” before references (books or articles) I should record for future references. And so on. The details aren’t important, but the principle is.
- Record anything that sticks out – As discussed above, there are many reasons why you want to record ideas, words and other things. In short, anything that sticks out in the flow of Chinese I’m exposed to gets written down. This is related to the idea of mental models; I jot down most things that suggest that a change in my mental model of Chinese is necessary, especially if I think that I might have been wrong about something and need to verify this somehow.
- Provide context and/or explanations – When I first started using a notebook to learn Chinese, I often made the mistake of not giving enough context or explanation of what an idea meant. Perhaps I felt that I would surely remember the context, but that was seldom the case. When I went through the list of things I’d written during the week, I often stumbled on notes that sounded cool and interesting, but that I had basically no idea what they meant. So, provide context, provide explanations. Rather write a few words too many than too few.
Managing your Chinese notebook
Keeping a notebook without ever going through it is next to useless (albeit not entirely, but this is off-topic). Thus, before I round off this article, let’s a have a brief look at what I actually do with my notebook after I’ve recorded things in it.
Typically, I go through the notebook once a week, usually on Sundays. This is what I do:
- Solve whatever problems I can solve on my own. If I can’t solve the problems myself, I look if someone is available to help me, perhaps through social media or on online forums. I’ve written much more about this in the article about language question triage.
- Mark the remaining questions with colours indicating when they can be solved. For example,yellow might mean “ask teacher A”, green might mean “discuss with native speaker friend B”, blue might mean “consult advanced second language learner C”. This means that next time I meet A, B or C, I can easily see which questions I want to ask or what interesting topics I want to discuss. Also, these questions are out of the way and won’t bother me until I have a chance to actually resolve them.
- Sort ideas, insights and other notes. Most of the things I write down aren’t questions as such. These notes should be transferred to the appropriate place. I keep a fairly complex system of notes for Hacking Chinese, a much simpler one for teaching and learning Chinese in general and just a text file for the rest. Consider if the idea is worth saving, and if it is, store it where you can find it later.
- Cross out resolved questions, highlight forgotten ones. This might sound obvious, but it’s essential to mark clearly which notes are already taken care of, otherwise you will soon be overwhelmed. Similarly, you will probably forget or overlook questions, so if you find old questions you haven’t resolved yet, highlight them in some way so you won’t forget them.
I think keeping a notebook is essential. It increases productivity, makes sure you don’t forget important things and just makes life easier in general. I didn’t really notice how many cool/interesting/important things I forgot before I started writing everything down and went from having a fair number of ideas to having more ideas than I can possibly carry out.
I’m also much better at following up language-related questions nowadays. If I find words or grammar I’m not familiar with or can’t use, they are seldom overlooked. This not only feels better (you don’t get the “this is the third time I don’t know what this is” feeling), but it also makes my Chinese more solid by gradually plugging holes.
I don’t expect you to use a notebook the same way I do, but I still recommend you to keep one in a manner than suits you. If you’re already doing this, please share your thoughts in the comments. How does your method vary from mine? What reasons do you have to keep notes?Do you want more practical exercises, audio versions of articles and Chinese translations? Check out my Patreon page!
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A zero FIR has been registered and the case will now be transferred to the Ghaziabad police, he said."
New Delhi, July 27 - A 25-year-old Delhi University student has filed a complaint against one of her friends, saying he raped her in a flat in Ghaziabad near the capital, police said Sunday.
The woman filed a complaint at the Mehrauli police station in south Delhi.
Police said the woman, a resident of Mehrauli area, had developed friendship with the 28-year-old accused Anil Sharma around a year back.
On Saturday evening, Anil called the woman and asked her to meet him at the Vaishali Metro station, from where he took her to his flat in Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad where he allegedly raped her. He also threatened her with dire consequences, a police official said.
A zero FIR has been registered and the case will now be transferred to the Ghaziabad police, he said.
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By Don Reid
COLDWATER TOWNSHIP — The Coldwater Township Planning Commission wants a detailed site plan for the 49-acre campground Jeff Friend plans to establish north on M-86 before it acts on a special use permit.
That could come Dec. 17, but more likely will not take place until January due to the detailed plans required.
Dozens of residents — several represented by three attorneys — appeared at the Tuesday public hearing to raise questions about the project between River and Hodunk roads.
The land has two ponds from rock pits and also borders on Little Randall Lake with 20,000 feet of waterfront. It is zoned agriculture and could be used for a campground only with the issuance of a special use permit and state license.
"We are trying to preserve the trees and keep it a nature preserve and a campground," Friend told the group.
The township Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) on Monday granted Friend a variance of the required 500-foot setback from residential property down to 250 feet, along with requiring Friend to maintain the existing 20- to 30-foot high embankments to provide noise protection.
Without the variance Friend could not use 750 feet of lakefront and 7 acres of the land. The ZBA will require only two access points to the property. It also will require a minimum of 5-foot high evergreens be planted as a barrier from neighbors.
Attorney T J Reed noted the hand-drawn site plan did not meet the requirement that it be from a licensed engineer and be sealed. Reed said the parking and environmental issues were not addressed.
That plan must be a topographic survey as well.
Attorney Lisa McNitt noted when the property was a gravel pit fencing was required but it was never enforced. She suggested a bond from the developer to make sure it is completed this time.
McNitt also asked for a phase one environmental study since a former asphalt plant dumped hardened material on the property. She wanted the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) involved, especially "since the ponds will be used for swimming."
Attorney Charles Bappert claimed Hazel Lane should not be used for any purpose by the developer. Homeowners he represents are concerned about trespassing by campground users.
Realtor Jerry Ford lives south of M-86. He argued that while surrounding residential development came after Waffle Farm Campground on Union City Road was developed, "We were here first."
Ford said he was concerned if Friend made a substantial investment in the project the township would not enforce restrictions required by the special use permit.
Commissioner Scott Anderson assured Ford the township does enforce its zoning rules and regulations.
Realtor Mike Thompson, who lives on Hazel Lane, warned about dangers more traffic would bring. He pointed out where entrances are proposed there is a curve and a dip in the road which makes the stretch dangerous as it now exists.
Campers coming in and out would make it more dangerous, Thompson theorized.
Planning Commission Chairman Al Swain assured those present that Friend would need permits from both the Michigan Department of Transportation and the county road commission. He also said any permits would be contingent on approval by DEQ and the health departments where required.
There are 21 criteria which must be met on the township zoning application.
The only support for the proposed campground came from Norma Finley, who said she at first opposed the project but now supports it after she checked out the property and plans.
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Growing up in Southeast Tennessee, I went to church, Sunday school classes and Vacation Bible School with my parents and was taught the beliefs about God I hold precious today. I was taught from the Holy Bible to respect all people regardless of their religious beliefs, color of skin, looks, age, wealth, or nationality. The people who taught me the word of God took the teaching of the truth to children, adolescents and adults very seriously and taught me the word of God using the Holy Bible (John 8: 31-32 ). They also took the following of Jesus Christ seriously and lived and live their lives as an example of someone who followed Jesus.
I first accepted Jesus Christ as my savior when I was eleven years old however going into my mid adolescence I did not at all times act as a Christian which means that in reality, I did not act at all like a true Christian. I was a hypocrite in my thoughts and actions and it lasted from my mid adolescence to later into my adult life.
Even though I knew and understood what I was doing was wrong and against Jesus’ teachings, I did it anyway just because I wanted to do it. I wanted to do it because I enjoyed doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. I wanted to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it and that’s what I did. I did not listen to anyone’s advice as I knew what it was I wanted to do and they did not. So I did what I wanted to do whether or not it hurt someone or not because I at that time did not care about anyone but me; I did not even care about God’s will for me.
Although I did not plan to do so, along the way I know that I deluded the truth to many people around me hearing my words and seeing my actions because I was deluding the truth to myself. The delusion of truth I created around me caused turmoil in my thinking and the longer I let myself think what I was thinking was true, it was only true to the point which I could suppress my conscience thought because deep inside I knew that I was living in a self-made delusion yet I just didn’t want to admit to myself that I was; and so, I did not admit it to myself.
I did not admit it to myself because I wanted to continue to believe that what I was doing was okay to do. I kept justifying what I was doing to myself. In all these things that I was doing I kept saying that they were really okay because everyone else was doing it and that with everyone else doing it, it must be okay for me too. My “everyone” included the worldly peers who were doing it, movies and TV showing and doing it and songs telling about it. The temptations were all there for me to choose to do and with many examples to follow, I made my choice.
In reality however; I was lying to myself to suppress the truth. The longer I lied to myself the easier it got for me to lie to not only myself but to others as well. My initial lie to myself grew to include other lies which included me lying to other people verbally and/or in my actions. All along the way I also continued to tell myself and others that I was a Christian.
From underage drinking, to some experimental drug sampling, totally reckless driving, taking advantage of family and friends, theft, planning a murder (shortly after my father was murdered) and sexual addiction among more terrible things I did that were all and still are against God’s will anyone to do, I did. During this time I easily broke each of the “Ten Commandments” and did not think much of breaking any of them either. After all, I said that I was a Christian.
On and on I went lying until one day I came to my senses and realized that I had become someone I did not want to be. Not only did I realize that I had become someone I did not want to be, I realized that I had become someone who I did not want to be around because I realized that I was not able to trust myself when I caught myself planning to take someone’s life in revenge of my father’s murder.
That day I admitted the truth to myself and to God that I was a liar. I confessed to God that I should not be acting as I was because I know the truth. I asked God for forgiveness and through the loving gift of His only begotten Son Jesus’ death on a cross and resurrection, God forgives me because I repented of and repent of the sins I commit (Romans 5:8 ).
I praise and give glory to God for giving me a second chance in that during those times when I was not in step with His Son, Jesus, He did not let me die an eternal death (Romans 6:23). I praise God and thank Him so for getting me over my addictions. I thank God for bringing to me a few years later a wonderful and precious blessing who is also founded in His love, my wife. I praise and give honor to God with every breath and heartbeat of my being for His love, mercy and grace.
To those I harmed in act and/or in thought while I was going against the will of God, I have no excuse for the hurtful thoughts, words and actions that I used against you which caused you pain and suffering that you may not realize came from me. I did it for my own personal gain and/or pleasure. My selfish desires were what I let be my idol to which I faithfully followed. My selfish idolization of myself caused pain and suffering to those who called me friend, to my family, coworkers and countless others who encountered me during that time in my life.
I ask forgiveness of you whom I have done wrong if I have not already personally asked forgiveness from you. It was totally selfish of me to do what I did to you and, I was wrong to do it. I know that I do not deserve your forgiveness but please find it in your heart to forgive me (Matthew 6:14).
Although along the way to and into my adult life I strayed, the early lessons I was taught from the Holy Bible, laid the Christian foundation which opened my eyes, saving me from an eternal death. I live my life today and will live for the rest of my life on earth following Christ Jesus. I chose and choose to forgo my God given free will to do as I please so to freely follow the will of God (Matthew 10:38). You making a choice to follow God’s will for you is something which only you can make for yourself.
Have you honestly read the Holy Bible for yourself? If not, then you most likely have some wrong information about it and thus do not truly know what it says. My request of you is that you be honestly open minded to reading and learning the truth about Christ Jesus’ love for you and true views on the Christian faith, morality and God. If you honestly truly seek to find and know God, you will.
God made these promises to us among many others:
Proverbs 8:17 – “I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.”
Jeremiah 29:13 – `You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
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NATICK - Spectators will have an easy way to identify the Boston Marathon runners participating in the town's fundraising program.
Natick officials awarded almost two dozen entries in the race to runners willing to raise at least $4,000 for charity. This year, the runners will wear red shirts recognizing them as part of the town program.
Here's a list of the runners and the charities they are supporting:
Natick Community Organic Farm: Abby Luke, Ken Racacot, Erik Simkins, Usha Narayana
Natick Service Council: Paul Joseph, Sophanny McArdle, Melissa Stephens, Caroline Goldman
Embrace A Family: Jayson Carr, Jennifer Bagni, Travis Vaclavik
Family Promise: Jon Strand, Adam Hoffman
Brian MacIsaac Sarcoma Foundation: John Jermyn, Karen Stott
Michael Lisnow Respite Center: Melanie Harrington
Kids Connect: Jane Depratti, Pamela Harris
Spark Kindness: Brian Harrigan
The Matty Eappan Foundation: Sandy Xenos
Patrick’s Promise: Shaun Sibley, Julie Moore
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Back from a crisp night walk taking the dogs down to the park ~ watching Orion in the cold sky, feeling warm and muffled in scarves (want one of these). We are greeted by a nasturtium-orange fire of coals and daffodil flames, and I curl up into the rocking chair I just found yesterday when I had a "feeling" I ought to stop by my favorite thrift shop. I made chocolate beet muffins this afternoon, and they are delicious, not beet-tasting, and a deep chocolate red color. Tim, and I quote, said, "This muffin is one of the best things I've eaten, ever."
I want to make these pancakes for breakfast at some point this week.
And, photos that have been inspiring me lately ~ One Two Three Four Five ~ and also this video.
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Karl Meltzer known as ‘Speedgoat Karl‘ Is one of the world’s best in endurance mountain running. He has won more 100-mile races than anyone! A regular co-host on Talk Ultra podcast, Karl has lived the highs and lows of the Appalachian Trail.
As a native of New Hampshire, trail running and hiking have always been a part of Karl’s life.
Growing up, Karl spent many days adventuring on the Appalachian Trail with his father.
He has always been partial to running his home course, which he often refers to as the ‘Green Tunnel’ due to the rich tree canopy.
Karl completed the ‘AT’ in 2008 in 54-days after continuing with severe tendinitis. He knew then that he could cover the 2190-mile journey quicker. He returned but failed. Last year, Speedgoat’s good friend Scott Jurek set a new record and for 14-days of that journey, Speedgoat was side-by-side with his friend telling him how to get the job done.
Fired up by helping Scott, Karl is back and with the full on support of Red Bull, Speedgoat hopes to set a new FKT for the AT in under 50-days. To add to the experience, Scott and Jenny Jurek plan to return the favour by joining him in the later stages. You can read about Scott’s incredible ‘AT’ HERE.
Each week I will post a 7-day update of Speedgoat’s journey and of course, you can follow online and in real time with the help of Red Bull and the official website HERE.
Day 1 Mt. Katahdin, ME
Day one started early from Mount Katahdin and Karl was ready to go. He pounded out the first leg of the journey with unbelievable timing, surprising our crew by arriving two hours early off a near 10-mile stretch. Karl had his first bumps and bruises as well, falling twice on the rocky mountain trail but he still finished three hours ahead of schedule. As expected, Karl was exhausted by the end of the day and in bed asap after eating some pasta! It’s a 4am start for day two.
Day 2 Maine
Karl’s spirits were high after dominating day one. He spent the morning smiling and making jokes with our crew. He has been early at every stop since the beginning of the attempt and was very optimistic for the day. The day continued smoothly until the second last stop where Karl mentioned his neck was bothering him. Our crew had some adventures of their own the truck got stuck trying to access the final check-in location on the gnarly backcountry roads. Overall a d successful start.
Day 3 Kennebec River, ME
Karl is happy! Well, as happy as a man can be for running 50+ miles a day. He decided to go ahead and run an extra 12 0r so miles to the Kennebec River to catch the River Ferry (canoe) across the App Trail river crossing. Hikers are advised to take the ferry in order to avoid the dangerous currents and for Karl, dry feet is crucial.
Day 4 Kennebec River, ME
The optimism continued for a third consecutive morning and Karl livened up the 4:45am wake up call making jokes with the crew while drinking coffee. He started on the other side of the Kennebec River around 6:15am, three hours ahead of the planned schedule. Mother nature was Karl’s friend today and he cooled off thanks to some rain. He concluded the day ahead of schedule again. More rest = better performance and Karl was in bed early.
Day 5 Maine
A smooth day! However, the weather was less smooth. Heavy rainstorms and showers caused Karl to arrive right on schedule; a first since starting! Karl senior (Karl’s dad) greeted him at the finish and even hiked the last mile. The biggest highlight of the day was the arrival of Karl’s wife, Cheryl. Currently Karl is in the Maine wilderness near the Canadian border. The last stretch of the day was the most intense part of the route yet and it will become more intense as the days pass.
Day 6 Grafton Notch, Maine
After a cold and wet night, Karl started day 6. The terrain for the next few days will be extremely rough as Karl has to climb his way up the mountains. His timing was on schedule and he continues to hit his marked destinations as per the plan. Tomorrow, the ‘toughest mile’ on the AT awaits!
Day 7 Gotham, New Hampshire
No rain today but the trail is becoming increasingly rockier. This section is one of the most technical sections of the AT as a combination of bouldering and hiking is required. It’s August and some ice is till on the ground. The trek through Mahoosuc Notch and Success Mt is intense and in particular, Mahoosuc Notch is known as the ‘toughest mile’ on the AT. On Karl’s last attempt (which he failed) his crew missed to feed stations on this day, not this year! It’s a huge boost for Karl to see everything clicking into place but also it’s super important he gets those vital calories. Karl is motoring and in great spirits.
About the AT:
The 2190 mile Appalachian Trail has been the pinnacle of American hiking for over 90-years. The first section of the trail was opened on October 7th 1923 in Bear Mountain, NY and Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) was founded in 1925.
Much progress was made throughout the early 1930’s as trails were blazed in West Virginia, Virginia and Connecticut. Stretching from Maine to Georgia, the trail goes through 14 states.
Earl Shaffer was the first through hiker who completed without the aid of a tent, sleeping matt or stove, he chose to leave them behind due to the weight! At the time, nobody knew of Shaffer’s hike and the ‘Appalachian Trailway News’ published an article titled, ’10 Reasons Why Nobody Will Ever Complete The Entire Trail’ – Shaffer proved them wrong in 124 days on August 6th 1948.
Karl will aim to complete the trail in 46-days!
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I have always found April a difficult month. It seems to be the defining month for transition between winter and summer. It can fool us on the first day (April fools day) and its weather for us in Europe does exactly the same, usually all month long, confusing us.
One where it is offering up a healthy mix of rain, stronger sun, a little flurry of snow and some heavy wind too.
It can constantly confuse us as it can rapidly alter within the same 24 hours to often keep the heating on, when it should be switched off and visa-versa. It can be an uncomfortable month of adjusting constantly, second guessing of what might be ahead.
On the innovation front I have been experiencing the same feeling of adjusting to uncomfortable days.
First, I was reviewing a report from Accenture, on how US big business was treating their innovation as more left to chance in their report, with my summary here on cloudy execution, my snakes and ladders. This ‘rocked’ some of my beliefs, ones where I thought we actually were making the progress on innovation understanding. It seems this is not the case, we are going backwards and then my month got suddenly worse from a report from Deloittes.
The Deloittes report was on how leadership within Boardrooms under my”uncharted waters”, was about how our boards are struggling to get their ‘collective heads’ around disruption and how innovation can, or cannot, dig them out of the threats they are facing. They are being disrupted constantly across the business. They are caught between fear and uncertainty on what to do and clearly that is not a comfortable place to be.
Both reports, as I was reviewing them, left me a little depressed to say the least and it just continues…..like the April weather…. leaving me totally uncertain and then what pops up….
Adding to this innovation reporting mix- Innosight provides a further angst report.
So a further report, this time from Innosight, throws even more angst into the boardroom, adding further into this mix of fear, caution, grim reading on a lack of innovation commitment facing larger organizations. The report from Innosight is in their Spring Insights, called Corporate Longevity: Turbulence Ahead for Large Organizations it just added more worrying news from my perspective on innovation lack of top level progress.
I again buckled up for a further reading of unpredictable innovation resolutions, just like this April weather, all raining down on us from those not heeding, understanding or changing their thinking. In many boardrooms they are not wanting to tackle in fresh ways the future and work towards embracing all the disrupting forces swirling around at present. They seem to want to hold on and not let go of the past .I’m getting really innovation weary from all this
So three reports I thought “oh no”- the grim reaper is truly upon us.
Innosight’s report starts with “We’re entering a period of heightened volatility for leading companies across a range of industries, with the next ten years shaping up to be the most potentially turbulent in modern history.”
Reap what you do not sow Mr Boardroom member- uncertain futures, badly invested in
So we all know that 50% of the current S&P 500 will be replaced over the next ten years, didn’t we? Well I did from past readings (clever me) but it is never nice to be reminded again. Not because of its reality but because of the leadership we have in place in many of these organizations is in the denial it will happen to them.
That is what is for me so upsetting. They earn Squillions and screw the long term health of the organization totally up as more often the case, because they were not even focusing on any belief of the future, just taking in the rewards for the immediate present. They could have done something about it but seem incapable to show the level of leadership to achieve this, just why, why is that?
With so much additional disruption coming from technologies, from start-ups, from intense M&A activities and having this ‘being overtaken’ by more agile, quicker growing companies just piles on the pressure within the boardroom but ignoring its threat as “it will not happen to me” without the boldness, decisiveness and intent to reinvent the organization to catch the different ‘waves’ of opportunity is sometimes bordering on criminal, well for me- what about you?.
Innosight in this report has a great passage
“Viewed as a larger picture, the lifespan chart serves as a barometer for marketplace change. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Shrinking lifespans are in part driven by a complex combination of technology shifts and economic shocks, some of which are beyond the control of corporate leaders. But frequently, companies miss opportunities to adapt or take advantage of change. For example, they continue to apply existing business models to new markets, fail to respond to disruptive competitors in low-profit segments, or fail to adequately envision and invest in new growth areas, which in some cases take a decade to pay off”.
This sums it up pretty well for me. We have failures all around us going on due to this lack of imagination, a poor coherent longer-term vision, a lack of confidence to achieve any form of transformation lies within the organization and so it becomes incapable to undertake the transformation that it needed to undertake, due to continually miss the opportunities offered to evolve.
Leadership still lacks real innovation commitment, the linkage to growth, to fending off disruption, of tuning into current and future needs, the message of embracing it has simply not got through to those within the boardrooms; one that the comprehensive management of innovation can offer significant improvements on present performance and they need to fully take hold of it, to learn and leverage, to explore and exploit, in imaginative and breakthrough ways.
Innovation can offer a pathway out of the existing position that many organizations are facing, ones of poor growth, limited sustainability and growing erosion of their existing market positions, often spiraling down, with cutting existing costs seen as the only option. It can be so very different if they wanted to fully engage with innovation. Others are reaping the rewards of their own inabilities in the boardroom to commit the time needed to practice innovation.
The question is “will it change?” If so how, why and when- not with these answers.
The Innosight report points out in the organizations they surveyed of 91 companies with revenue greater than $1 billion across more than 20 industries across the world, the shocking news that only 24% have a growth strategy with a time horizon of beyond five years, 16.5% report having no formal growth strategy or a growth plan at all as they are seemingly “too busy executing”, “really don’t have time to focus on it” or “we don’t have a good process for formulating a growth strategy that we are confident about”
Then you get the “but of course we are committed to long-term innovation” but it is our “day-to-day decisions that undermine our stated strategy to change” Oh for heavens sake can this really go on? To make substantial change when you are facing the type of change and threats occurring today can easily take up to a decade to fully realize.
So the future continues to be pushed off, growth stays morbid and we resort to simply cutting costs, lowering choice, quality and resources to handle this, we continue to outsource our future to others, who are more than ready to take it on and learn, so as to take your place eventually.
So let the bell toll- let’s say goodbye to 50% of who we know today, you deserve it.
It leaves you utterly sad, even depressed. Innosight offers these thoughts below as a worthwhile thought, when so many of these larger organizations are not heeding or reading about their serious lack of commitment to innovation and the future. They seem apathetic or incapable to comprehend what this eventually means to the future of their organizations.
So Innosight suggests: “Leaders have to confront what might be called tensions, balances, or, even in extreme circumstances, paradoxes. They must optimize today, and discover tomorrow. They must be decisive and bet on moonshots, and defer to experiments. They have to focus, and enable serendipity. They have to leverage the core, and break its constraints”
It seems many just simply do not have the appetite to grow, to look towards the future when their own investment and return is tied mostly to the present.
It just does not seem boards are confident in innovation. There seems a reluctance in wanting to take ownership for innovation, one encouraging and investing more confidently in an evolving/ learning series of experiments to evolve the future of their business in iterative, exploratory ways. It is not a ‘core’ discipline or focal point as innovation continues to have been left to others outside the boardroom. That needs to change.
We are left to judge each company by deciphering ‘the smoke and mirrors’ offered that are claimed to form their “unique” innovation culture, to attempt to determination the staying power and their true belief and undertaking in a future, and make our judgement- mostly it should be yank our money, run like hell, until this future can be well-articulated and well-backed in action.
As companies sadly stick to their historical core as the business, falling to take the risks, invest in the new growth ventures and experiments to build towards a better shot at the future, so I say “just simply go, fade away and leave a puddle as your mess or contribution, and forget the thrill of reinvention and providing a ‘sense of destiny’ and taking pride in exploring more than simply exploiting, often just for your own personal gain”
So Goodbye, many of you in leadership positions, as you do not serve innovation well for its potentially exciting future. You are simply letting down the communities, the stakeholders, your customers, our futures, by not heeding all these ‘darker’ messages coming out of Accenture, Deliotte, Innosight and countless others telling you to change or die!
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In the City, ordinary families have several days or even ten days worth of food storage. Always Bright Village is a rural village. They should have stockpiled even more. Yue Zhong had heard the villages around them, the families normally saved a full year of supplies .
Da Gouzi bitterly laughed: “Our village does agricultural tourism, specializing in hosting outside travelers. In the village there are some privately raised pigs, chicken, and fish. However every family had a little saved. The day the whole world suddenly spawned zombies, they bit several people. Everyone either fled or went into hiding.”
“Later on Big Brother Tiger and the rest came. They cleared out village zombies, but the provisions, pigs, and chickens of the village were all snatched away by them. When we ran no one carried much food. There was no method to do so. We are only able to dig up some vegetables and grass to live a meager existence.”
Yue Zhong pointed at the surrounding farmland: “Why not seed there? You only need to plant a few seeds, after a couple months you can collect a some food.”
There were only women and children searching for vegetables on the fields outside the village. There weren’t any poeple cultivating the land. Continuing on like this was out of the question. Only relying on reserves, even if they have a mountain stored up, eventually they will starve.
If there wasn’t anyone assigned to plowing, just the food problem was enough to make people have an endless headache.
Da Gouzi bitterly laughed: “Big brother Tiger bought seeds from the nearby supplier, but those seeds were planted a while ago. They’ve yet to germinate.”
Yue Zhong’s heart sank. If there was no way to resolve the issue of planting seeds, then mankind’s future plight will become more and more difficult. There are many food and supplies scattered all around, but every time they are use there’s less. Furthermore after a while the food will start to mold, and the amount of edible food will become even less.
Yue Zhong threw out the doubting thoughts in his mind, going towards the other places in the village.
In that village, except for the gunmen, everyone looked famished without light in their eyes, the same as a walking corpse. Their eyes couldn’t see a thread of hope.
Several men and women both young and old searched for vegetables and grass they could use.
The group of children that bothered Zhang Xin were all running around the field searching for edible food. The end of the world already took those originally innocent, lively, carefree, and anxiety free children and tempered them into early maturity. They all started to struggle for survival.
The zombies surrounding Always Bright village had already all been cleared out by Big Brother Tiger. Because of this the villagers were able to seek food outside the village.
“Here are two steamed buns. You and your wife accompany me for one day. These two steamed buns are yours.”
Passing a corner, there came a wretched voice.
Yue Zhong’s eyebrows wrinkled.
Looking inside a brick building, a short and small gunman with an 81 rifle held two large white steamed buns and smiled lewdly at two women.
The older woman’s age was over 30. She had a full figure, beautiful appearance, and was wearing a white blouse with jeans looking extremely classy. The younger girl looked only 11 or 12. Her large eyes looks at the gunman brimming with dread. At the same time her eyes frequently glanced at the two large steamed buns. She was already hungry for several days, really wanting to eat one. In the past her she didn’t even look at steamed buns.
That well mannered beautiful young woman, with silver teeth hiding fangs implored: “Older brother Xu! I’ll accompany you! I beg you release Shanshan! She’s still young!”
[TL: They used a phrase “銀牙暗咬” here, and I can’t find what it means. It literally means silver teeth hide bite. I think it might mean that the young woman although appearing innocent could hide sly actions. Any help would be much appreciated.]
Gunman Xu’s face sank, his face voice cold without compare: “Li Xuan, You don’t need to give me face. I’m shameless! This guy fancies your mother and daughter pair. It’s your good fortune. Don’t refuse a toast only to be forced to drink. Piss off daddy, and daddy will give you two shots. He’ll throw you in the ditch. In this world, if you two die, no one will stick out their neck to save you.
[TL: Laozi “老子” means father/dad, but he is using it to mean “I’m the man”. He is not actually their father]
Seeing Gunman Xu’s ugly evil face, Li Xuan’s heart became hopeless. After her man left the village to find food, he never returned. Without a man’s protection, this Xu Wei who always peeped at her body took advantage.
A crafty light flashed in Xu Wei’s eyes, the tone changed: “Li Xuan, if your mother and daughter pair follow me, I guarantee you two won’t go hungry so long as I have a bite to eat.”
Xue Wei used the carrot and the stick. Li Xuan didn’t have a plan. If it was before the end of the world, she could put this man in his place with just a phone call never to recieve a second glance from him. But now, she was without a man and had no choice.
A strange light flashed in Li Xuan’s eyes. She hugged her daughter with her thoughts in a whirl. There were no laws in Always Bright Village. Xu Wei could kill them as he pleased, and no one would stick out their neck to help. For she herself to follow Xu Wei wasn’t a problem, but Li Xuan didn’t want to throw her own daughter into the fire pit.
Xu Wei looked at Li Xuan and her cherished daughter Zou Shanshan with greedy eyes. He continued to threaten: “My patience has limits!”
Between words, Xu Wei loosened up the 81 type rifle on his back, and placed it beside is food. It both relaxed and threatened Li Xuan.
Seeing Xu Wei like this, Li Xuan was even more afraid. Her silver teeth with fangs delicate body shuddered, not knowing what to do.
“Wait a moment!” At this time there was a voice outside the door. Yue Zhong strode inside.
Xu Wei’s face changed seeing Yue Zhong walk in the door. He grabbed his 81 type rifle and nervously stared at Yue Zhong: “Yue Zhong, what do you want?”
Li Xuan’s gaze fell upon Yue Zhong while holding onto Zou Shanshan.
Yue Zhong’s manner was cold. Staring at Xu Wei, he asked in verbatim: “What do YOU want?”
Xu Wei became afraid due to Yue Zhong’s manner, and he retreated two steps. Steeling his nerves he spoke bold and confident with justice on his side: “I’m just doing a business transaction with them. Two steamed buns to prostitute them out for one day. This is free trade with them. Go tell big brother Tiger, I’m not afraid.”
[TN: Hmm… looks like someone no longer has the cojones to call himself daddy.]
Standing by Yue Zhong’s side, Lu Wen couldn’t help but curse: “Shameless!!”
The other girls all couldn’t believe that Xu Wei dared openly say these words.
Chi Yang looked at Yue Zhong’s eyes at this time. A murderous look flashed by.
Yue Zhong shook his head towards Chi yang. Now is not the time to turn on Tiger. If something happens, both sides will be in a life or death situation.
Yue Zhong pulled out two compressed biscuits from his pockets. He indifferently said to Li Xuan: “Here are two compressed biscuits. I’m using this to buy you two! After following me, you all only need to do the work given to you, and you won’t starve. If you wish take it. If you don’t it’s cool.”
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Friesens in Altona, MB, prints the majority of UMP's books. Last week, they sent duotone tests for some of the images in Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote.
According to Wikipedia, a duotone is "a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting
colour halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone. This
is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image."
For Imagining Winnipeg - like with John Paskievitch's The North End and Gerry Kopelow's All Our Changes - we'll be using "warm grey" along with black.
In Winnipeg Modern: Architecture 1945-1975, on the other hand, we opted for "cool grey."
The three sheets you see on the floor of UMP's offices represent different amounts of each ink.
Steven Rosenberg of Doowah Design, who is the graphic designer for this project, selected a range of photographs for the test. He then took each of those photos and sent both the original as we received it from the Archives of Manitoba (and other sources) and a version that he'd processed in Photoshop.
Apparently, one of the issues with this book is that Foote used a variety of cameras over the course of the four decades he was photographing the city and its people. Which means that the images, though all black and white, are all a little bit different...
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One of the things that’s a bit tricky about working primarily with written texts about old Ivanovo is that the major work of the village/town is obscured. Ivanovo was not just a center of textiles in the sense that it was a place in which linen or cotton fabric was produced. Although linen or cotton manufacture was at times a major part of the industrial world of Ivanovo, the village and then the town was particularly known for one particular kind of textile production: printed calico. That meant that it produced colors and patterns. (It also means that it came to be home to some chemical works that produced dyes and maybe caused some other problems, but that’s another story.) Continue reading
I’ve been following a thread from my work on soslovie that has led me to do some reading on the then village of Ivanovo in the early parts of the nineteenth century. I came across references to a number of serfs freed by Count D. N. Sheremetev who became merchants of Moscow in the 1820s, and they led me back to Ivanovo, where a number of them continued to live as factory owners in the area. I’ve been trying to trace out some issues with the social world of the village, where former serfs turned merchant factory masters lived in very close contact with their workers—who were of course mostly still serfs—and what that meant for life in the “Russian Manchester.”
On the side, though, I’ve also come across a whole slew of interesting little stories about other aspects of life in the region, and so I’m going to do a mini-series of posts about Ivanovo, mostly from the time of serfdom, but a few moving later into the nineteenth century.
I intended to post a second response in the conversation a while ago, but thoughts about cheese and then a trip intervened. I’ve been thinking about the commentary here a lot, though, and in particular about another aspect of the shift from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. I got distracted by thinking about the process of writing and revising last time, so this is in some ways a more serious response to the questions about the eighteenth century and the ways it is distinct from the nineteenth century.
First, I think Lindsay is right, that the Catherinian charters are meant in part to give incentives to take up a formal status that more or less accurately reflected socio-economic activity rather than live in a murky in-between. Now that I think about it, the fact that the charters to the nobility and to the towns (and the one for the state peasants that was never enacted) are so very similar in format plays into this more than I perhaps originally thought. Comparing the two charters really brings out their essential similarity—the nobility is comprised of six different parts (“true nobility,” military nobility, eighth-rank nobility, foreign nobles, those with distinguished titles, those of “ancient high-born noble lines”) and the townspeople are also divided into six parts (those who owned real estate in the town; merchants, artisans, foreign or out-of-town guests, notable citizens, meshchane). They both get record books (rodoslovnye knigi or obyvatelskie knigi) with similar lists of documents that can be presented in order to get listed in those books. The charter to the state peasants would have been very similar. In a way, it’s like a version of universal rule of law—everyone (except, of course, serfs) governed by essentially the same kinds of laws of status, even if the specifics of what applied to any one person might be different. Continue reading
Who knew, when I started writing about the Swiss cheese master Tinguely last November, that cheese would become the star of its own foreign policy drama? And yet, here we are. Type “cheese” and “Russia” into twitter’s search field and find a slew of half serious, half ironic stories about Russia’s turn against the evils of Parmesan. Type “сыр” in and find a slew of often pretty funny memes about it (my favorite? Melisandre hovering over Putin’s shoulder, urging him to burn the cheese).
Certainly when I was in Moscow earlier this summer, cheese was a big topic of conversation already, even before the burnings began. (Another sentence I never dreamed I’d write.) My first day in Moscow, at the prompting of a Russian friend, I spent some time looking at the cheese section at a new grocery store, raising my eyebrows at the labels indicating that some cheeses had been imported from Belarus, wondering at the labeling on the “No. 1 in Italy!” mozzarella that had apparently been produced in a nearby province. Later, I heard the saga of the palm oil rumors—the idea that Russia had begun importing huge quantities of palm oil, which was being used to increase the production of processed cheese. Rumors of its dire effects on health ensued, and labels began to appear on cheese, announcing its purity. When I went off to Berlin for a weekend, someone told me to “bring back cheese!” (I didn’t.)
First, let me thank Josh for organizing this conversation, and Alex, Lindsey, Charles, and John for taking time at summer’s end to take part in it. You are all very kind, and I’m thrilled to have the chance to think about what’s in my book by seeing it interpreted from your various points of view. I have a number of things I’d like to develop more out of this set of comments, and rather than put them all in one long post, I’ll spread them out a bit.
I’ll start by thinking about chronology, or rather, of the problem of the eighteenth century. Alex and Lindsey are both totally right when they note that I cover the eighteenth century differently than the nineteenth century—that, for example, the first and particularly the last chapters, the chapters in which I try to think more broadly about the meaning of soslovie, are very much weighted toward the nineteenth century (and the last chapter toward the last half of the nineteenth century). They’re also very nice in putting this off on a problem of the sources, rather than on how I wrote the book. Continue reading
Before reading Alison K. Smith’s new book, I had two broad visions of sosloviia in Imperial Russian life, one a dream, the other a nightmare. Both centered on its meaning for collective, rather than individual, life.
It is a pleasure to comment on Alison Smith’s For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being. Her careful examination of the mechanics of changing estates through painstaking research on individual cases demonstrates her central point—that estate mattered. It mattered enough to many Russians that they were willing to endure lengthy engagement with local estate administrations and at times costly bribes to move from one category to another. Alison combines archival work on particular people with memoir literature to show how changing estate status made possible ways of imagining themselves and their futures. Beyond Alison’s work in the capitals, she has worked in a half dozen regional archives to show that estate status had a powerful geographical/spatial dimension as well as a social hierarchical one. The chronological sweep of her study matches its geographical breadth. Her work addresses urban estate institutions from the eighteenth century to their demise after 1917, which makes her argument about the larger importance of estate all the more sweeping.
Many thanks to Josh for organizing such great panel and inviting me to participate, and also to Alison for writing such an insightful and engaging book. Her study of soslovie provides much food for thought, and I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s comments over the coming days.
It would take far too much space to enumerate all the things I liked about Alison’s approach to soslovie, and thankfully Alexander Martin has helped me by so concisely summarizing the book and its many merits. In particular, I’d also like to add that I am grateful for the reassurance that “confusion” really is the right response to the mess of laws and practices related to soslovie and cities in the eighteenth century. During the early stages of my dissertation research, I spent a great deal of effort trying to make sense of the conflicting regulations surrounding the phenomenon of trading peasants. I can now definitively put to rest any lingering worries that I had overlooked the magical law (if only!) that would have reconciled the contradictory strains of legislation and made everything clear on the matter.
Along those lines, while reading the chapters on the eighteenth century I found myself pondering the challenges historians face when undertaking a study that spans the entire imperial period. As Alex noted in his post, source limitations inevitably shape the narrative one can construct for this century. Alison skillfully handles this challenge by focusing on legislative developments related to soslovie and the complexities of how magistrates interpreted these laws in practice. But laconic sources mean that these chapters lack the rich insight into how individuals and communities negotiated the various meanings of soslovie that appear in subsequent chapters on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The source limitations are unfortunate, because it seems to me that a fundamental question underpinning this study is not just the evolving meaning of soslovie in the eighteenth century, but also how soslovie came to have any meaning at all. As Alison reminds us at various points throughout the text, the eighteenth century was a period when new social categories emerged yet older, pre-Petrine ones persisted. How and why did soslovie come to subsume these other categories, and what compelled individuals to opt in and choose to “fit” themselves within this new system?
This may be a relatively moot point for groups like the nobility or serfs whose status coincided more neatly with soslovie prescriptions, but it’s quite a different story for the jumble of urban residents that legislation struggled to corral and categorize throughout the eighteenth century. My experience digging through the Moscow Police Chancellery archives for this period made it clear to me just how easily individuals could—and did—lead prosperous lives that openly defied soslovie regulations, and also the tangible benefits one gained by transgressing category boundaries and opting not to fit within the system. These benefits ranged from the financial, such as avoiding taxes and other fees registered merchants had to pay, to the social. Serfs in Moscow could turn to an owner or, in the case of non-serf peasants, a chancellery to advocate on their behalf in moments of conflict, and very often with successful results. From this perspective, it always struck me as remarkable, not inevitable, that so many individuals opted to forsake these advantages by joining the merchant or townsmen ranks by the end of the eighteenth century.
Following this train of thought, I wonder what insights might be gained by considering how the eighteenth century may have been a period where rulers aimed not simply to categorize, but to co-opt subjects so they would adopt this new social framework. For example, I think Catherine’s legislation can be seen not simply as an effort to organize and reshape urban society, but also to raise the status of merchants and townsmen in order to entice her errant urban subjects to register in categories that better corresponded to their socioeconomic status.
Similarly, this perspective might allow for a study of how broader social changes throughout the eighteenth century connect to the evolution of soslovie. For example, land disputes adjudicated by the Moscow Police in the 1770s and 1780s show that individuals who engaged in commercial activity, including peasants, were more likely to view the Moscow Police or documents produced by the General Survey as a source of authority in times of conflict. In contrast, other segments of society like the city’s iamshchiki (which John knows more about than I do!) continued to articulate an older conception of the city where neighborhood elders served as the primary source of authority and where communal precedent, not state records or regulations, provided the ultimate standard for right and wrong. Perhaps viewing the decision to change soslovie as part of a larger process whereby urban residents came to increasingly accept the conception of authority, society, and the city Catherine promoted could shed new light on what compelled individuals to change their official status.
These are complicated questions, but I’ve always enjoyed the space this blog provides for more informal and forthright conversations about history, exemplified by Alison’s recent posts on the dead cheese master. I’d love to invite Alison and others to wade into the waters of speculation with me and hear their thoughts on the eighteenth century and the murky beginnings of soslovie.
I’m honored to have been invited to contribute to this conversation about Alison Smith’s new book For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being. This is, unless I’m forgetting something, my first-ever blog post, which makes the occasion doubly exciting!
If you have followed Alison’s posts on this blog about the dead cheese master of Gatchina, you have an idea of how she approaches history. Her overarching project is to understand how social identity worked in Russia, especially before the Great Reforms. Social identities, she argues, were constructed through a process of negotiation that included individuals, their local communities, and the state. She looks for evidence of this process primarily in the intermediate, mostly urban layers of society, because here (a) people moved actively between social statuses and (b) extensive documentation survives in the form of administrative records and ego-documents. Alison draws on massive archival research for her evidence, and as with the cheese master, she has an eye for the intriguing individual story that sheds light on wider social processes.
I’m very pleased to launch the eleventh “issue” of this blog’s book conversation series. Today we begin discussing Alison Smith’s For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014). Alison is well known to regular readers of this blog, not least for her fascinating multi-part series of posts on the “dead cheese master” over the past year. One can only admire her ability to write engagingly for the blog, compellingly for articles in the most prominent journals in the field (among them the American Historical Review and the Journal of Modern History), and in an equally attractive way in her most recent book.
The University of Toronto’s historian of the imperial era, Alison has always been interested in looking across long periods of time in her work. Her first book, Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (Northern Illinois University Press, 2008), ranged from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. In this book, Alison covers the period from Peter the Great through 1917 and proves able to make many interesting arguments on the basis of a longitudinal study of practices surrounding soslovie membership. I will leave the substantive comments to our panelists, all of whom are more expert on this topic than I am, but I will say that I was particularly interested in the way that Alison describes not only the multiple ways that soslovie functioned in the early imperial period but also the implications of this complexity in the post-reform period. Most notably, an institution that had been (from the perspective of the central state especially) primarily about defining specific tax and military obligations came to carry increasingly important entitlement implications as the rudimentary welfare state developed in the last decades of tsarist rule. Alison proves able to show not just how soslovie persisted after emancipation, but why. Continue reading
My posts on the dead cheese master may have made one thing about me as a researcher very clear: whenever I come across a list—of people, of things, of places—I am drawn to copy it. Last summer, as I started work on my project on Gatchina, I obviously copied down a fair number of lists, like those of the dead cheese master’s possessions that appear in several earlier posts. I did manage to stop myself from copying down every plant and tree in the gardens of Gatchina palace at the time Nicholas I inherited it from his mother, but there were many, many other lists that made it into my notes. There’s something about them that make places and people feel more known. Through them I see the sometimes unexpected variety of names that actually existed in a particular place (yesterday I found two Kleopatras and two Olimpiadas in early 19th century Vladimir province), or the foods bought for a noble family’s table (asparagus bought every day in May), or household goods left behind by a serf or a merchant (surprisingly long lists of icons).
I’m drawn to lists as I sit in the archives. As an academic writer, though, I always find them very difficult to use. I sometimes wonder if things would be different if I were writing different kinds of prose. One of the things that I particularly appreciated about Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies is the way she incorporates things like these sorts of documents into her narrative. It’s most explicit here, in a passage from Wolf Hall:
He rubs his eyes. Sifts his papers. What is this? A list. A meticulous clerk’s hand, legible but making scant sense.
Two carpets. One cut in pieces
7 sheets. 2 pillows. 1 bolster.
2 platters, 4 dishes, 2 saucers.
One small basin, weight 12lbs @ 4d the pound; my Lady Prioress has it, paid 4 shillings.
Mantel is completely right. Lists like these make scant sense. Or, rather, in one way they make completely literal sense: this is a list of things that were, that existed, at this point in time (always assuming the list maker was telling the truth, and not hiding a thing of greater value or inflating the cost of a small basin). That may explain the attraction of lists—they seem to be history in its purest form, a recovery of an actual lived past. Continue reading
Many thanks to Josh for getting back with such wide-ranging elaborations on my, David’s, and John Paul’s original posts. In the interest of keeping things going, let me take up just one of Josh’s points here, hoping to chime in on others as the discussion continues.
On decolonization as a useful frame for understanding of Russia’s Great War: I agree with Josh’s sensible defense of the term in his post on the topic. For all of the unavoidable shapelessness of the concept, “decolonization” as a way of understanding the formal end of empire shouldn’t be thrown out. In fact, if anything, Josh should be credited for bringing this conceptual terminology into our vocabulary on the Russian side.
The great benefit of Josh’s decolonization framework, as David suggested in his post, is that it places the messy, even torturous social politics of empire at the very center of the analysis. We’re used to thinking of the conflict as a contest of imperial alliances and have no trouble citing “nationalism” and “imperialism” among the various “-isms” on our list of the war’s causes. But we’ve done far less to explore the way that Russia’s “empire-ness” – that is, its possibilities and limitations as a sprawling multiethnic society and polity – affected all the dynamics of the time, high and low, including how the country experienced the momentous and ultimately uncontainable upheaval of 1917. Josh gives us a new way to perceive the relationship between empire and the Great War in the Russian context, all of which is a good thing, in my view.
But can one have too much of a good thing? One of the unavoidable perils of a singular provocative thesis is that it overshadows other dynamics and, perhaps unavoidably, takes on its own seemingly unassailable logic. Decolonization – yes, but did the tensions of empire drive everything? The war tested the form of empire that characterized the Russian state at that particular moment, and the white heat of the conflict ultimately proved too much. There is no denying that much — the empire, indeed, cracked apart, not least because Petrograd lost control of huge swaths of the country as the war progressed, including parts of its Central Asian hinterland.
But did “empire” make this so? If Russia hadn’t been the kind of empire it was at the time, couldn’t one argue that the grinding pressures of the conflict, especially when we add the leadership’s clear missteps to the mix, would have been enough to do in the government anyway? That is, “empire” is surely critical. It affects so much on the Russian side, even developments that we might not assume it would. But, for all that, states that are not empires can collapse, too. Perhaps “empire” in regards to the particular question of regime failure, then, is more a question of context than of cause?
On a related note: In his most recent post, Josh suggests – and I agree with him – that the Russian state was stronger than we might think at the start of the war. I’d only add here, amplifying Josh’s view, that it’s helpful to see the imperial state as both strong _and_ weak as the war begins. Obviously, some of the state’s limitations at the time proved to be terribly dangerous ones to expose to what eventually became the first truly “total war” in the country’s history, and these weaknesses took their toll. But I’m not convinced that they were inherent weaknesses of “empire,” even weaknesses of the particular sort of empire that Russia was at the time.
Alongside terrific tensions and seemingly unresolvable “imperial challenges,” Russia’s “empire-ness” also provided the country with abiding solidarities and much-needed resources during the conflict. Perhaps most of all, “empire” was simply the way one did things within Russia’s historical space. As William Appleman Williams might have put it, at the time at least, empire amounted to “a way of life.” And indeed Josh seems to suggest as much himself by reminding us in Imperial Apocalypse of the final stage of decolonization – phase four – the “state-building” phase that actually witnesses the “rebuilding [of] the empire” (258-62), albeit in changed form, under the Bolsheviks.
William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America’s Present Predicament Along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
OK, after a couple of rambles, this one will be a shorter post, and I’ll frame it around a question for all the panelists and for the readers of this blog. David McDonald remarks in his final point: “Finally, in Sanborn’s telling, the forces unleashed by the war and autocracy’s gathering failures took shape relatively quickly during the war itself. Does taking this view unduly underestimate the extent of social, political and ethnic fissures that had become so dramatically apparent in 1905 and that underlay imperial politics even amid the patriotic celebrations in July 1914? Had the empire—not least the “state”—fully recovered by 1914?”
My view, which I treat probably too briefly in my book, is that the Russian state was quite strong at the start of 1914, strong enough that independence-minded Polish and Finnish nationalists were rightly pessimistic about their future prospects and dynamic enough that Russia’s enemies (Germany in particular) feared for the future. This was not just the result of the post-1905 military reforms (and increasingly robust military budgets) but the result of a whole series of what we might call the “little reforms” on and around 1910, many of them spearheaded by Stolypin with the express purpose of bolstering state power. To be sure, the autocracy had its share of weaknesses, a whole Achilles flank rather than just a heel, and these would prove fatal in the war, but I don’t believe it was on the verge of collapse. Collapse, I argue came during the war, not as the amorphous outcome of “war” or “defeat,” but as the result of a series of self-destructive decisions made by political leaders: the imposition of martial law, the refusal to impose “discipline” on army and front commanders, the resolve to fight inflation through a scapegoating anti-speculation campaign and price controls, and the impetuous move to conduct a scorched earth campaign on their own territory in 1915, to name just a few.
I’d like to hear from others, though, who may see the Russian state as weaker in the months leading up to the war than I do. And how would this thesis of a weak state affect the interpretation of the war as a whole? Feel free to leave comments in the thread below. I and/or other members of the blog will “approve” them when we see them, as unfortunately the volume of spam prevents us from having instant commenting on these posts. If time passes and your comment isn’t posted, feel free to email me or another member of the blog so we can check the spam folder in the system too!
One of the pleasures of a forum like this is that an author can see how his or her work is read and used by colleagues in “real time.” John Paul Newman’s comments about mobilization and ideas, more specifically the “limits of the Russian imperial idea to mobilize its peoples,” are particularly interesting for me in this regard. I had not expected this line of analysis, as I have actually long seen this project as a departure from my first book, Drafting the Russian Nation, which was very consciously about the relationship between ideologies and mobilization. Nevertheless, John Paul is right. Ideas – including ideas about empire – were certainly important to the war and to my book. Continue reading
I too want to begin with more than formulaic thanks to Alison, John Paul, David, and Willard. Alison did a wonderful job of soliciting commentators for this conversation, and (shameless plug #1!) readers should keep an eye out later this summer for a conversation on her own excellent new book, For the Common Good and Their Own Well Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia. John Paul, David, and Willard were not only kind in their comments but also unusually reflective and probing. Thanks!
Those who have read the previous three posts know that there is a lot of terrific food for thought there. This is the stage in a blog conversation where it would be terrific to get lots of back and forth going, not only among the “panelists,” but the “audience” as well. Readers should feel free to use the comments section to question or hold forth on points briefly or at length. I will be responding to these comments in a series of posts over the next few days rather than writing one long response, as that seems to fit the idea of “conversation” a bit better. Plus, I need time to chew on this “food for thought!”
In this first response, though, I’d like to address some of the questions related to the concept of decolonization, as the use of this term has been one of the most controversial aspects of this project as I have presented parts of it in various venues over the years. Criticisms along this line are certainly valid. As Willard notes, the term is both central to my monograph and yet not fully explored in a theoretical or comparative way. This is an issue, naturally, that I have long been aware of. At a certain point in this project, I had to decide what the fundamental nature of my book was. If my core concern was to make a point about decolonization in its global context, with the Russian war experience as a particularly important case study, then I would need to write a comparative and theoretical text that left out much of the various aspects of the Russian war experience that interested (and still interest) me. If my core project was to describe and interpret the apocalypse of the war years, then I felt I had to have a somewhat lighter comparative and theoretical touch. In the end, I chose the latter, largely for reasons having to do with audience. Continue reading
Josh Sanborn’s Imperial Apocalypse is a remarkable book. With so much written about World War I, including the relatively less studied Russian fronts of the war, it’s easy to lull yourself into thinking that no single work is likely to deliver much that’s new. Yet this is precisely what Josh does. As David and John Paul both point out, his interpretation of the conflict is deeply researched, written with flair and power, and, perhaps most of all, fresh and provocative in the best of ways. As every good book should, Imperial Apocalypse has already begun to stir rich discussion in the Russian field and is bound to resonate with Great War specialists far beyond as well.
Since David and John Paul have already described the scope and themes of the book, let me continue by adding to the discussion they’ve begun of the work’s key contributions, most of which cluster around Josh’s central premise: the contention that the war in Eastern Europe is best understood not as a breathtakingly miscalculated game of chicken fought out between stubbornly expansionist powers or, alternatively, as a rising-up of would-be heroic captive nations against their intolerant imperial masters. Instead, it was a conflict over the very “existence of imperial control as such.” (4) “The Great War,” Josh states directly, “was a war of European decolonization.” (3)
Josh’s argument, in fact, is that the process of decolonization shaped the entire sweep of the war-revolution continuum on the Russian side. He breaks the arc of the times into four stages: a period of “imperial challenge” that helped ignite the conflict, the intertwined stages of “state failure” and “social disaster” that followed as the misery of the war churned on, and, finally, the “state-building” phase, which begins with the civil war and seems to end as the Bolsheviks gradually get the better of their enemies and reassemble much of the empire according to their own avowedly anti-imperialist devices. (I say “seems to end” because Josh leaves open the intriguing possibility that the “state-building” phase could still be with us. As he notes in his conclusion, “the building of a postcolonial state and society [in Russia]…might still be incomplete a century later.” )
Decolonization is thus the intellectual lynchpin of the book, the idea nestled at the heart of the argument, but what is it exactly? Josh offers hints of a definition but stops short of actually giving us one. One might say that as long as there have been empires, there have been decolonizations, since empires, like all state forms, are historical. They come and go. If decolonization, broadly speaking, is a process that leads to the undoing of imperial states, then it has been around since the days of the Akkadians. But this also means that it’s a highly varied process since imperial states themselves are nothing if not a motley crew. After all, if empires are put together differently and endure differently, it follows that they come apart differently as well.
Josh writes in his preface that the imperial idea wasn’t his main concern when he began his research on the war. It was only as he immersed himself in the sources that he began to see “a striking resemblance” between the events of the Eastern Front and “the world-historical process of twentieth-century decolonization.” (vii) I’d be curious to know more from him on this score. Even just limiting the view to the twentieth century, one comes across strikingly different forms and processes of “decolonization” – compare Algeria and Hong Kong, for example, or the Philippines and Ireland. How tight, then, is the arc of decolonization that runs from Russia’s Great War and Revolution to these cases and the countless others that mark the 1900s? If we use decolonization for all of these different moments of imperial undoing, does the term itself end up being too baggy and generic to be helpful?
I have more questions – the book is so rich! But since I’m already a little behind with this post, I’ll hope to pick up on them as the discussion unfolds.
In deference to emerging tradition on this blog, let me begin by thanking Alison Smith for her invitation to participate in this conversation about Josh Sanborn’s important new book on Russia’s Great War. Accessible to specialists and the proverbial “general reader,” alike, Imperial Apocalypse succeeds at an improbable goal: in a mere 250-odd pages it provides a lucid, engagingly written and clear account of the accelerating maelstrom that overtook and overthrew the Russian Empire (as well as its Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Ottoman rivals) after the summer of 1914. Along the way, he deals with the welter of challenges and failures associated with the strains of a total war for which none of the combatants had adequately prepared. In Russia’s case, these challenges included: equipping and maintaining an army led by an often incompetent senior command; managing the huge influx of refugees and POWs along roads and rail-lines that also served as lifelines for the front and the cities; growing distrust or outright hostility between the autocratic state and a self-professed “civil society” organized as Duma fractions and also, increasingly, as managers of transportation and industrial production; and, throughout, the erosion of the state’s monopoly on authority and violence in tandem with the widening gyre of non-state violence on Russia’s imperial peripheries and, ultimately, in the heart of empire itself. As with Sanborn’s scholarship in general, Imperial Apocalypse rests on an impressive source-base, while also casting its subject in comparative perspective.
Sanborn’s study is the latest entrant in a burgeoning literature on World War I’s eastern theatres. As such Anglophone readers will find Imperial Apocalypse an interesting complement to Peter Gattrell’s books on the period—most notably Whole Empire Walking, or Karen Petrone’s recent study on The Great War in Russian Memory, Peter Holquist’s many writings on the period, Eric Lohr’s book on “nationalizing” the Russian Empire or Russian Culture in War and Revolution, edited by Melissa Stockdale, Boris Kolonitskii, Steven Marks and Murray Frame (part of Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922). These works form part of a larger trend to revisit the war as its participants experienced it, rather than as a prelude to 1917. They approach the years of war and revolution as an important and contingent period of both continuity and transformation that bound the Soviet order to its imperial predecessor.
At the same time, Sanborn parts company with his counterparts by incorporating another historical literature that has undergone its own dramatic expansion since 1991, the “imperial turn.” He understands the war and its impact as perhaps the first instance of a “decolonization” process that we more readily associate with the two decades following the end of the Second World War. From this point of view, the Russian state proved incapable of governing and/or mobilizing its imperial peripheries, provoking chaos or resistance in turn. In the zones of military rule along the western and southern fronts, the brutal treatment and expulsion of local populations—Poles, Germans, Ukrainians and, most often, Jews—whose deportation to towns and cities in central Russia only added to already overburdened reserves of food and housing, exacerbating mutual suspicions among ethnic and religious communities that saw one another as strangers or worse. After 1916, the same processes would serve as a vector for epidemic illnesses from typhus to influenza. (Here, his attention to doctors, medics and nurses proves an especially useful lens on the contrast between the state’s and army’s incapacity and the patriotic spirit in large parts of civil society). In Central Asia, the effort to recruit indigenes as labourers sparked such events as the 1916 risings in present-day Kazakhstan. In both instances, state incapacity created zones in which the capacity for organized and sustained violence slipped from the state’s hands and into those of any force that could maintain itself, as vividly demonstrated by the appearance of rogue paramilitary detachments and the phenomenon of “warlordism” from late 1916 and throughout the revolutions and civil war that raged throughout the former empire—and, indeed, much of eastern and southeastern Europe—into the early 1920s. Sanborn sees signs of the emerging new order of things in the line of succession linking many tsarist bureaucrats, the Provisional Government and administrators under Whites and Reds, all of whom espoused a technocratic and instrumental approach to mobilization, requisitioning, markets and surveillance
Thus, in brief, Sanborn’s new book makes a welcome addition to our growing body of scholarship on the Russian experience of World War I. It largely avoids the teleologies of 1917 by tracing a rolling process of disarray that began at the empire’s edges and made its way in- and upward along various paths in dissolving the autocracy. In doing so, it draws our attention to processes and forces that don’t often appear so distinctly on accounts focused on the capitals or the conflict between “state” and “society.” For this perspective alone, it has much to recommend it. I will certainly use it in my undergraduate and graduate seminars on the period.
Rather than continue with a detailed discussion of this book and its many virtues, however, I would rather honour this blog’s invitation to a “conversation”—and spare the reader’s patience—by offering some questions that occurred to me in reading and reflecting on Imperial Apocalypse, in the hope that they elicit responses from Josh, the other participants and, of course, the blog’s readers.
- As he explains on pp. 4-5, Sanborn organizes his analysis in a schema that characterizes each successive period in what he defines as a process of decolonization: imperial challenge; state failure; social disaster; and state-building. I’d be interested to know what led him to identify these four phases as part of a general process of decolonization in the case of imperial Russia. (I can’t help noting in passing that this structure recalls S. F. Platonov’s categorization of the Smuta in the early seventeenth century as comprising “dynastic,” “social” and “national” phases.) What do historians gain and lose in using such analytic structures or, put another way, what do they reveal and what do they obscure? Such questions seem all the more germane with regard to these periods of systemic convulsion, whether the Smuta, the “imperial collapse,” or the more recent collapse/unraveling of the Soviet order.
- In a related vein, one of the great merits of the “decolonization” interpretation lies in the alternative it offers to the older national-liberation narratives that long predominated in the histories of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian (and, more recently, Soviet) successor states. That noted, what are the limits of the “decolonization” concept, particularly when comparing Europe’s “east” with the former colonies in the global south? How might the different trajectories of interwar European and post-colonial history in the global south lead us to rethink or refine our understanding of “empire” or “imperialism” in the early twentieth century? Here, thinking of John Newman’s post, how might an imperial Russian “Staatsidee” [gosudarstvennost’?]—have framed the ultimate outcome of self-determination among the aspiring successor states that emerged from the rubble of Russia’s collapse?
- Given the growing attention to the Great War as a link between two periods we long saw as qualitatively distinct, how might we reconceptualize our canonical periodization of modern Russian history? In the same context, Sanborn brings his account to a close in 1918, with a cursory prospective look into the 1920s—what other dates might have formed a plausible end-point for the story and what interpretive implications would flow from each?
- Finally, in Sanborn’s telling, the forces unleashed by the war and autocracy’s gathering failures took shape relatively quickly during the war itself. Does taking this view unduly underestimate the extent of social, political and ethnic fissures that had become so dramatically apparent in 1905 and that underlay imperial politics even amid the patriotic celebrations in July 1914? Had the empire—not least the “state”—fully recovered by 1914? We often treat the coming of the war in 1914 as an exogenous factor that disrupted Russia’s “normal” development. Might one not make the case, following Chris Clark’s Sleepwalkers at least part way, that the decision to enter the war stemmed as much as anything from Russian leaders’ concern over the maintenance of the empire’s Great Power status as an imperative buttress for the autocracy’s legitimacy and authority at home? Might not the failure to defend that status on the battlefield have reopened these old fissures? P. N. Durnovo seemed to fear precisely that in January 1914.
Many thanks for inviting me to participate in this blog discussion. I am delighted to participate in the lively scholarly discussion that Sanborn’s work has already sparked. I should make some excuses for myself before I begin in earnest: I am not a Russianist, I cannot speak authoritatively on the work’s contribution to Russian History; I am only tangentially connected to research on the First World War (being more interested in its aftermath and the ‘shadow’ of the conflict in the interwar period); and I am a novice blogger! Perhaps these shortcomings do not matter too much. Sanborn’s past work on military mobilization in the Russian Civil War has transcended the boundaries of its immediate field, it has found its way into the bibliographies of works on a range of topics. Imperial Apocalypse will not be different. Indeed, the very title could apply to a number of states, for the First World War was also an apocalypse for the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, and, eventually, the Ottomans (although not the British, the French, or the Portuguese). Indeed, the author himself has drawn out the comparative dimensions of his work: he makes very good use of the concept of ‘cultural mobilization’, first used by the contributors in the volume edited by John Horne, State, Society and Mobilization in the First World War to express the ways in which states at war need to imaginatively and culturally – as well as militarily – mobilize their populations towards the prosecution of total war.
Sanborn argues convincingly that this was a decisive failure on the part of the Russia’s imperial rulers, one to set alongside their equally dire failures on the battlefield. The First World War took on the form of a war of Russian decolonization. The problem of the Russian colossus is not per se one of manpower or materiel , but rather the limits of the Russian imperial idea to mobilize its peoples. Perhaps in times of peace these limits would not be exposed, but the frailty of imperial institutions is revealed because the imperial state must impose itself upon its subjects in an unprecedented fashion. As the war stretches on, the more the Russian state needs of its subjects, the more it demands, the less it gets, leading to a fatal breaking point. Historians of France’s First World War have described this as a ‘refusal’, the nexus can be applied throughout the belligerent societies, the critical refusal was never reached in France or in Great Britain, but it was in Russia, and in Austria-Hungary (and, I would argue, in Bulgaria, whose collapse says something about the limits of the Balkan nationalizing state idea). Sanborn’s great comparative insight is that the war was not simply a great gladiatorial battle between states and their leaders, it was also a matter of ideologies and ideas behind which people could rally.
And what a proliferation of ideas we are faced with. I think that anti-imperialism is actually one of a many political impulses to which the war gives birth. The First World War is marked by a great contemporary public discussion about the future, one that broadens as the war goes on…and on. Ideas about how international relations and states should look once the war is over, about how the great empires should reform themselves, dualism, trialism, Mitteleuropa, utopias of the far left and right (and of the liberal centre, too). Look at the would-be decolonizers: people like Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš, or anti-Habsburg émigrés of the Yugoslav Committee in London. In retrospect, they look like prophets or messiahs of the coming kingdom, the men of the hour, but this is to read the war backwards: at its outset they looked more like fanatical chiliasts raging and ranting at the edges of reasonable opinion. So, too, for that matter, did Lenin and his fraction. But my point is that these waking dreams were not simply the preserve of those who will for the imperial apocalypse: there is in fact a wide spectrum of ideas about the future, a panoply of voices and opinions about the architecture of post-war Europe. And they are vying with one another. I wonder if such a spectrum exists in Russia, of which decolonization was one, albeit the most significant, of many shades of opinion. If there is an antithesis to this decolonizing impulse, an alter-ego, perhaps one place to look for it would be in the occupation policies employed by the Russian state in those lands it temporarily gained during the war. I am thinking here of Jonathan Gumz’s work on the Habsburg occupation of Serbia, in which the author argues that the occupation was the monarchy’s attempt to boldly re-assert its Staatsidee in the heart of its nationalizing/decolonizing opponent, Serbia. Was something similar happening under Russian occupation?
Finally, this process of mobilization and imposition does not only have implications for states: it shapes the individual, too. This is present in Sanborn’s book, even though his emphasis, as the title suggests, is on the great Russian state cataclysm. We must also make a case for the transformative effect the war had on political and social subjectivity, in Russia certainly, but throughout Europe. As Saonborn notes, the war ruptures traditional ties, it uproots men and women from their homes and hearths, either as soldiers or as refugees. It scatters people across continents, it tears asunder families, it kills and maims. It permanently changes the relationship between state and individual. Even those men and women who, at war’s end, will retreat into ‘private’ spaces and abjure political or public life will likely carry with them an altered outlook on their relationship with the state, their expectations of it, and so on.
The war is a transformative event, its white heat burns away many traditional political and social relationships, but it does not leave merely ashes in their place: the conflict is both destructive and generative, it forges new forces, new phenomena. I’ve always been unsatisfied with George Kennan’s famous remark about the war being the ‘Ur-catastrophe’ of the twentieth century. It was more than that: it cleared the space for the foundations of much of what we still have today: the nation-state system, internationalist movements, international institutions (for the League of Nations, despite its manifest failures, is a crucial precursor to the United Nations). The war is more like the ‘Ur-event’ of the twentieth century, a century in which Fortuna did not smile upon the imperial rulers. Sanborn’s terrific book depicts a portentous early turn of her wheel.
Welcome to the second blog conversation of summer 2015. Our next conversation is Russian History Blog contributor Josh Sanborn’s great Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2014). Josh has brought a particular focus on Russia’s imperial dominion to this study of the effects of the First World War in the region; he views the Russian Empire’s experience of the war as part of a larger twentieth-century history of war and decolonization.
Because of the wide-ranging nature of Josh’s argument, we’ve asked specialists not just in Russia’s experience of the First World War, but also in its colonial holdings and oinrelated non-Russian experiences, to discuss the book. Participating in the discussion will be:
David McDonald, the Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. David has written widely on topics related to Imperial Russian foreign policy and military history, and has most recently been one of the project managers/general editors of the Russia’s Great War and Revolution project.
John Paul Newman, lecturer in history at Maynooth University. John Paul is a specialist the history of the Balkans, focusing on the role of veterans of the First World War in the new states of the region. His book Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is just now available.
Willard Sunderland, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati. Willard’s work has focused on stories of Russia’s colonial expansion, most recently with his remarkable The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2014).
And, of course, the author, Josh Sanborn, professor and chair of the Department of History at Lafayette College. He has written or co-written two previous books: Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day (Berg, 2007) with Annette Timm, and Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003); as well as many articles and chapters on related topics. He’s also a regular contributor to Russian History Blog–his previous posts are all here.
Thanks to David, John Paul, and Willard for taking part in this discussion; to Josh for letting them discuss his book; and to Oxford University Press for facilitating the discussion. I look forward to reading your discussion.
First of all, I want to thank: Steve Harris and Steve Barnes for taking the time to organize these blog conversations; Ana, Ekaterina, Asif, Wilson, and Jeff for taking the time to read my book with such care and offer their comments; and Yale University Press for facilitating the discussion. Second, I want to apologize for how long it’s taken me to formulate my first response. I’ve been traveling, and this has prevented me from sitting down to write something that is equal to the very high standards set by my fellow participants!
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Teams: Stoke City vs. Sunderland
As expected, Craig Gordon and Nyron Nosworthy were named in the Sunderland starting XI for the first time in the league this season. However, somewhat surprisingly, Danny Collins is named on the bench for the Black Cats.
Fraizer Campbell has recovered from the injuries he sustained in the collision with Norwich keeper Ben Alnwick on Monday to be named on the bench but Marton Fulop has not even been named on the bench after losing his place to Gordon.
Stoke have named a side containing four former Sunderland players, with a fifth on the bench. However, new signings Tuncay and Robert Huth are only named on the bench.
Sunderland: Gordon; Bardsley, McCartney, Ferdinand, Nosworthy; Malbranque, Richardson, Cana, Cattermole; Jones, Bent.
Subs: Carson, Collins, Campbell, Henderson, Leadbitter, Reid, da Silva.
Stoke: Sorensen; Wilkinson, Shawcross, Faye, Higginbotham; Lawrence, Delap, Whelan, Etherington; Kitson, Fuller.
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50 Cent interviews are always entertaining, and this morning on Hot 97, Curtis was really dropping some gems. He talked about performing at Summer Jam this year and what fans can expect out of his set. He also explained about having the same flight as Ja Rule, and his beef with Rick Ross.
One of the more interesting parts of the interview was when the topic of New York hip-hop was brought up. 50 said he "likes the idea of Troy Ave," and that he hears a lot of himself in Troy's music. He also touched on Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks doing songs with Troy, calling them Troy's hypemen now, which he clarified was not a shot. Though 50 said it wasn't, calling two seasoned rap veterans hypemen for a relative newcomer certainly comes off as one—especially two rappers who he has worked extensively with in the past, and now appears to have fallen out with.
Update: Tony Yayo responded on Twitter this morning.
As much bullets I took for Gunit. My moms crib shot up almost killed my sis and my niece. Now I'm compared to milk. I made that brand.— Tony Yayo (@TonyYayo) April 16, 2014
If you weren't hip, former G-Unit members Yayo and Young Buck dropped a track last night, and 50's album, Animal Ambition, is set to drop on June 3.
Watch part of the interview above, and the rest of it below.
UPDATE: The Game reacts to the situation between Yayo and 50.
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I am just finished doing a science PLC (Post Leaving Certificate) course and I found the science aspects of the year interesting enough, the trouble is only half of my classes are science based the other half are classes designed simply to stretch out the year.
Communications is a brilliant example of this. The assignments are long and pointless and the classes ruin any enthusiasm people have for learning. This class is mandatory and you have to get a distinction in it to get a proper diploma at the end of the year. This applies to almost all PLC courses around the country.
To be honest, the curriculum for communications is demeaning to me and the rest of the students. You have to write up a load of formal and non-formal letters which is basically a return to what we learned in primary school. We also had to learn how to send faxes – I don’t know anybody who still uses fax machines on a regular basis! To add insult to injury, next we had to make a non-verbal Christmas card. So here I am, instead of filling up beakers or struggling to grasp the complexity of genetics, they have me drawing pictures of Santa!
We need a well-funded education system where courses and curriculum are evaluated regularly and democratically decided by teachers and students. In reality, most of my class mates won’t get a place in college this year either because their families can’t afford it, or with the lack of jobs, everyone will try to get into college this year which will hike up the points. Why should we have to compete for places in college? Young people who want to go on to third level should have a guaranteed place on a quality course.
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Week 52, Illuminatus! online reading group
World War II spy Henri Déricourt, a famous double agent. It is apparently still unclear whether the former French Air Force pilot was working for the British or the Nazis in France during the German occupation, or working for both.
(This week, end of The Golden Apple: , the monologue of Tobias Knight (mostly), "I got into the Illuminati in 1951," page 545, to page 562 "IT'S ALIVE").
The autobiography of Tobias Knight, quintuple agent for the the FBI, the CIA, the A:.A:., the Illuminati and Hagbard Celine's Legion of Dynamic Discord (he explains that his work for God's Lightning, being overt rather than covert, doesn't really count.)
Quintuple agents may exist only in fiction; it is difficult enough to find examples of triple agents. For the definition of "triple agent," Wikipedia says, "A triple agent pretends to be a double agent for one side, while he or she is truly a double agent for the other side. Famous triple agents include Kim Philby and Alexander Litvinenko.
"A lesser used definition of triple agent is an agent who works for three intelligence services, but is usually truly loyal to only one of them."
I can't find many examples of the "lesser used" definition of someone working for three agencies, but I can offer one: There was a book released a few years ago, The Triple Agent by Joby Warrick, about an al Qaida triple agent who also had worked for Jordanian intelligence and the CIA. As a suicide bomber, he killed seven CIA operatives in 2009. Another possible example: Nikolai Skobline, who is "is alleged to have played the role of a triple-agent, working for the Russian white counterrevolutinaries (ROVS), Stalin's secret police (NKVD), and the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD)."
Did you remember that Tobias Knight was the truck driver when four heavy crates of statues from Atlantis obtained from Robert Putney Drake were transferred to an airplane at Kennedy International Airport? Knight also shows up in Fernando Poo, in Las Vegas during attempts to contain the Anthrax-Leprosy-Mu outbreak, and helps Joe Malik plan the bombing of Malik's apartment.
The Bogus Magus Illuminatus! studies site has a page of information about some of the characters. For Tobias Knight, it says, "Tobias Knight walrus mustache, pentuple agent: FBI, CIA, A A, Illuminati, LDD (also GL, Naval Intelligence, Pinkertons) Ringo Erigena, Prince of Wands E; prejudiced against Italians
The so-called “Tobias nights” were the first three after a wedding, and in the 18th century you could have sex then ONLY if you paid your bishop a fee.
Joseph's Night (Tobias Nights) Custom that required a bride and bridegroom to refrain from having sexual intercourse for one or several nights after their marriage in order not to incur the wrath of the gods."
A few notes:
Page 545, "Ringo Erigena," Knight's Illuminati name, and "Scotus Pythagoras," Winifred's Illuminati name. If you combine two of the names you get Scotus Erigena, whose saying, "All things that are, are lights" provided the title for the Robert Shea novel. "All things are lights" was Ezra Pound's translation in Cantos of a saying of Scotus Erigena. This may help provide the Robert Shea connection to Ezra Pound that I previously was looking for.
Page 547, Militarism: The Unknown Ideal for the New Herecleitean, the title of Atlanta Hope's nonfiction book echoes Ayn Rand's nonfiction books For the New Intellectual and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
Page 548-549, "War is the Health of the State!" Atlanta Hope thinks this is a positive statement. Her slogan, however, is the title of a famous antiwar essay by Randolph Bourne, who opposed American participation in World War I. The slogan "war is the health of the state" is a favorite saying of antiwar libertarians. Antiwar.com, a website run by antiwar libertarians such as Justin Raimondo, Angela Keaton and Eric Garris, is published by the Randolph Bourne Institute.
"Privilege implies," page 553. See Chad Nelson's discussion the comments for this recent post.
(Next week: Beginning of Leviathan, page 565, "The mutation from terrestrial to interstellar life must be made," to page 575, "Joe gasped, 'It's alive!' ") | <urn:uuid:bf86caf1-9e99-4da6-af83-b63379521843> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.rawillumination.net/2015/02/week-52-illuminatus-online-reading-group.html | 2017-05-29T03:49:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612013.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529034049-20170529054049-00183.warc.gz | en | 0.939067 | 991 | [
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Linda McMahon: Shelob, the giant venomous spider who lurks in the darkness
Posted on December 19, 2016
In our new Play of the Day series Sauron’s Army, Lady Parts Justice League will explore the key players Donald Trump has chosen to surround himself with: his advisors and the people being appointed to his cabinet, many of whom have a deep of history of being strongly anti-choice.
Today’s addition to Sauron’s Army is Shelob, the giant evil spider represented by Linda McMahon, professional wrestling mogul, repeat Senate race failure, and Donald Trump’s pick to head the Small Business Administration.
Of course, Trump’s nominee to the run the Small Business Administration would be a total disaster for small business–that goes with being part of Trump’s carny mirror world. And Linda McMahon is as uniquely unqualified as you would expect. Her wrestling empire exploited workers by forcing them to be independent contractors instead of employees. And the WWE actually drove many small businesses out of business by waging “relentless warfare” on smaller competitors.
But in addition to her anti-small business boner-fides, when it comes to reproductive rights, McMahon manages to be venomously anti-choice. That’s not always easy to find in a Northeastern conservative. And indeed, during her two disastrous runs for the Senate, McMahon did try to masquerade as a pro-choice Republican–as she would have to in order to have a shot at a Senate seat in Connecticut.
But McMahon’s true arachnid nature is evident in her support of restrictions on abortion rights such as parental notification and the ban on federal funding for abortion services. She also supported the Blunt Amendment, which would have allowed employers to deny birth control coverage to their employees. McMahon said “the issue that was being addressed was the fact that the government was trying to force religious institutions to be engaged in something that went against their beliefs.” Rick Santorum couldn’t have said it better.
Linda McMahon is an eight-legged freak lurking in the shadows to try and disguise her true nature. This SBA nominee is bad for business and bad for women. Connecticut women saw through her in both her Senate runs, with 60% of women voters rejecting her. Perhaps the Senate will do the same thing.
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Topics include Marketing Committee proposals, a Designation Program.
Message from our President:
When we allow our members to be creative in their positions it helps the organization to become a better organization making it a win-win for everyone.
One example of this is our Marketing committee proposed at our October association meeting a program to automate our committee reports and hold classes on power point. The purpose is think green, helping our members develop skills to help them professionally and personally.
Our Education Committee continues to work on developing a designation program. I look forward to working with them soon and hopefully we can launch ideas at the February Association meeting. Recently I watched a Webinar forwarded to me by Bea Grant on Member Engagement. After watching the webinar I was pleased that it pared well with my topic on Empower our Members. The information I took from this webinar was advanced technology and engaging events are some examples of contributions to the success of an association. However, associations would not exist if it weren’t for their members.
Our members are the heartbeat that keeps the organization alive. Although we focus on new member as the highest priority, let’s keep in mind that member retention is just as important. Keeping current members engaged and showing them that we care is vital. We must not only show members that we know who they are, but that we know what they need. Keeping member retention, we must know what our members want and be willing to serve them.
Listen to your members; it is important we continue to receive feedback from our members allows us to better their membership experience. In this day and age, there are many different ways of communicating, when communicating we need to keep in mind that we need to capture member perspectives across a number of different generations with regards to their respective points of view and preferences. Keeping this in mind, I would have to say it is apparent that high social media platforms and through different technological advances, connecting with others is easy. Through these forms of communication, it is important we remind our members of the great things our association is providing.
Our Marketing Committee mentioned at our October Association meeting we need to continue searching for ideas in making membership renewing easy. Especially in a time when technology is constantly evolving consumers are always looking for ways to make their lives more convenient. Sending automated renewal invoices, reminders and renew membership through automation are ideas to help our member retention as well an easy process for new members.
This information I am sharing with you came from the webinar I recently watched and I could not help to think how important it is to keep our members engaged.
Remember your input is valued and I would like to hear from you on your thoughts or ideas to lock in the MAIW Arch.
Yours in Fellowship,
Zenaide R. Noia CISR, AAI, CPIA
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Mauricio Solano Peralta
Mauricio Solano-Peralta, from Costa Rica, has over ten years of experience as a renewable energy and energy access engineer. Mauricio joined Infratec in 2016. Mauricio has been managing the New Zealand – Maluku Access to Energy Support (NZMATES) programme in Indonesia for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT). He will be now relocating to Ambon, Maluku province in Indonesia to manage this five year programme that aims at accelerating the uptake of renewables, improve access to energy, and encourage collaboration between Indonesian and New Zealand entities. Last year Mauricio together with Meister Consultants Group worked in the development of a Practical Guide to the Regulatory Treatment of Mini-grids. He also carried out a renewable energy access field scoping study for Volunteer Service Abroad in rural communities of East Pomio, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Before moving to New Zealand, Mauricio worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of his previous experiences include: project management for the installation of 600 solar-home systems in the Dominican Republic for local NGO Fundacion Surfuturo (2012 - 2013); conducted the final evaluation of Argentina’s PERMER rural electrification program financed by the World Bank (2013); and lead author of the technology innovation outlook for renewable mini-grid technologies for IRENA (2015 - 2016). Mauricio has contributed to the EU PV Conference as presenter and evaluator, acted as a reviewer for Elsevier’s Energy Policy journal, and contributes annually to the REN21 Renewable Energy Global Status Report, among other publications and conferences.
Training & Qualifications:
- Master of Environmental Science, focused in Sustainable Development of Energy Resources (honours), Utrecht University, Netherlands (2008)
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The advantage of the Simply 2 is that it only requires 2 EL34 tubes and a pair of 12AX7 tubes, making changing of tubes easy and economical.
I am glad that even though I have sold most of my precious vintage amplifiers, I am still able to enjoy the joy of playing with vintage tubes for my amplifier and experiment the different sound for the different tubes. 平有平玩！
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Jose Hess has dedicated the majority of his life to following his passion for jewelry design, a journey that stems back to his early teens when he worked as a goldsmith’s apprentice. His adoration for the art form was born and following a desire to learn more, he studied at the Gemological Institute of America and the Mechanics Institute of New York, where he ultimately earned his Jewelry Design degree.
Hess’ professional accomplishments include numerous prestigious awards from the likes of DeBeers Diamonds International, American Gem Trade Association, and Japan Jewelry Designers Association. He served as president of both The Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America and the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) and he is a founding member of the American Jewelry Design Council. Additionally, the designer has shared his wealth of knowledge with students as an instructor at New York’s acclaimed Fashion Institute of Technology.
Today, Jose and his wife and long-time creative partner Magdalena — also a DeBeers Award Winner — continue to maintain the integrity and quality their brand has become synonymous with while opening it up to a new generation of women concerned with timeless style.
Glamour has always been a cornerstone of our designs, as exemplified by the chic women who have worn them — a list that includes celebrities like Arianna Grande, Demi Moore, and Cindy Crawford. Today the brand is focused on creating sophisticated simplicity with delicate, feminine pieces can be paired with red carpet gowns as easily as with jeans and a t-shirt, making them versatile and accessible for a variety of stylish contemporary women.
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Title: Jade City
Series: The Green Bone Saga #1
Author(s): Fonda Lee
Release Date: November 7th 2017
If anyone had told me that they would publish a book that would blend The Godfather with magic in an Asian setting, I would have probably been skeptical and overlooked it without second-guessing my decision. Fonda Lee brings shames to doubters with her latest novel part of The Green Bone Saga series, Jade City. Maybe it is my love for anything related to organized crime (Goodfellas, The Sopranos, The Godfather, etc.) that helped me enjoy this more than I thought I would, but the author strives to deliver a brilliant story that stands tall and proud with its detailed world-building.
This urban fantasy is a fine example of a tale that focuses on a family-oriented development with an Asian touch to its lore. The organized crime structure incorporated in this story has all its rules, traditions and superstitions spiked with a dose of fantasy. On top of all the elements that constructs your typical family dilemmas in organized crime (honor, deception, betrayal, etc.), the story also finds originality with the inclusion of this mystical object known as jade in which clans find their power and respect.
Through jades, individuals find enhanced powers (Strength, Steel, Deflection, Channeling, Perception and Lightness) and use them to protect their clan’s interests or their own. Fonda Lee makes fantastic use of this element of fantasy to drive her narrative forward and create unique relationships and obstacles for her characters to develop in. You would think that this source of magic would create chaos in forms that a society could never recuperate from, but somehow Fonda Lee succeeds in incorporating it brilliantly and using it to build a world that stands firmly on a foundation supported with excellent history, culture and tradition.
The story puts the No Peak Clan into perspective and showcases the evolution of a war against the Mountain Clan. Without ever truly focusing on a particular member of the No Peak Clan, readers are given a third-person omniscient look at each character’s point of view. With each of them going through their own crisis, their position in the clan adds a constant threat to their lives and their loved ones. While their interests don’t always coincide, the story finds ways to align their destinies and create phenomenal bonding moments that will leave readers in awe.
As much as I’d love to share the structure of these clans reminiscent of Mafia families with their boss, consigliere, underboss, caporegime and soldiers, it is something that is just worth discovering for yourself. It does take a little bit of time to get used to the ranks and the names, but as soon as you finish the puzzle, the story flows perfectly and readers will be stunned at how well Fonda Lee manipulates the lore to her advantage. Her masterful grasp on the mythology she creates is one of the reasons why this new series should be on your radar.
There is a little downside to the third-person omniscient narrative, but it’s most likely something that’s more personal than universal, and it’s how I found that the author hands us on a silver platter the very thought process of a character, dissecting their intentions and the reasoning behind what they say or what they do. It would’ve been heavenly if these moments were sometimes left for readers to deduce for themselves. I do love to understand by myself the weight of an action by a key character instead of being told how important it is. Nonetheless, it doesn’t ruin the experience at all. Everything is conveyed with great precision and keeps you glued page after page.
The story is also filled with some intense sequences, whether they are adrenaline-packed fighting scenes or massive plot twists. Fonda Lee does a wonderful job at keeping the intrigue high and strong while laying out all the scrumptious details to the lore. In fact, the fight scenes are marvelously described and are easy to visualize throughout this story. Being a black belt martial artist definitely has its perks!
Fonda Lee’s latest novel has me sold on her potential to deliver exactly what I didn’t know I needed: a war among clans considered as organized crime with a touch of magic in an Asian setting. It’s the hint of drugs and magic that just heighten the experience and promises great things. Now I’ll have to impatiently wait for her to write up the next installment in this slick jade-filled story.
You can order your own copy now!
MY OVERALL RATING: ★★★★☆
Have you read it yet? Do you plan to? What do you think about Jade City?
Share your thoughts with me!
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Please beware the post below is really random and maybe doesn’t make sense.
Most people can read and write. Most people can write words and sentences. But every literature one makes is different to one another. The language, the words, the way one choose and arrange the words into sentences and to link each sentences or broke the sentences, those things make a writing different. How one can put a meaning into the writing. The way one can convey the writing into a work of art. The way one enjoy the movement of handwriting, the aesthetic value of it and many more. One even learn and study about literature. Reading, comprehending, and interpret a work of art is an art itself.
I. I think I just like to express myself in words that is written. The way it is written, the way that I can make a beautiful (
that’s what I think) rhyme out of a story of a writing, also that I can really think carefully about what I should and what I shouldn’t say (write). Like this example:
“I want that so bad! I even dreamt about it! I think about it and wishing it to come true. But I’m so stupid that I let my pride to bury that. Somehow I don’t feel well if I say it out and ask people. Why? Even I am frustrated with this question! Why can’t I just ask for it? Dumb. I know. It’s not a wish you want to tell people. It is a wish which I want to come up itself. Ask my family? Naaah.. I got it from them already. Have you sensed it? Yeah, something I want from my friends… Well.. I’m opening up to this – a little bit-. But how can
they call I call them friends but they don’t know what I have inside? *smirk* yeah, I cover up too much maybe? Well, I don’t think so. I’m a little bit more open now. I feel I have “friends” now. But yeah… that wish might be buried till it becomes my dream no more.”
Words… Sentences… I like to jumble them sometime. Making the meaning and what I want to say more mysterious and hidden. Hehehe.. weird? You judge yourself. 😛
Words.. Sentences… I like to use them repeatedly sometime. To emphasize what is inside my mind and express it to the world. 😉 Does that sucks?
Well… that’s just the way I write things of my own. kekekke…
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Pet Recommendations You Ought To Not Avoid OverDogs can be big or small. They can be furry or furless. They can be black, white, brown, red, or grey, or even a mixture thereof. They can be happy or sad, and which they are often falls upon your shoulders. If you want a happy, healthy dog, read on to find out how it is done.
Groom your dog regularly. A dog requires constant grooming to keep his coat in tip top condition. Make sure that your dog is completely relaxed before you start the grooming session; this is especially important if he is excitable. Keep the session quite short (5 to 10 minutes at most) until he is comfortable with the idea of being groomed. Most importantly - be sure to praise him and offer a treat after a successful grooming session!
If your dog gets lost, it is very unlikely that you will see him again unless he has proper identification. Tags can come off, so the best option is a microchip. It is quick to put in your dog, and it causes minimal discomfort. Simply register the chip ID after it is put in, and your pet will always have his identification with him.
If your dog has to stay outside during cold weather, give him a dog house. Adverse weather conditions can be detrimental to your pooch, causing illnesses, anxiety and poor behaviors. Build a shelter yourself or purchase a kit from the nearest pet store.
Find out what is going on that is causing your dog to act out. Ignoring it for a while can make it harder to correct later and you don't know what may happen if you don't. Be sure to control and contain your dog to prevent problems with people.
Never allow your dog to be alone with small children, no matter how much you trust his temperament. Many little kids have been attacked by family dogs who have otherwise never demonstrated a tendency towards violence. Sleeping dogs may be woken by a toddler and react negatively or some other offense is committed against the animal that sets him off.
Don't allow your dog to leave your property without being on a leash even if you think your dog is well behaved. He could easily get spooked by something and run off into harm's way. As the owner, you will be held responsible for any damages your dog causes.
Ask your vet what kinds of foods you should feed to your dog and what to stay away from. Keep in mind that a young puppy's stomach is not ready for certain foods. Choose dog food adapted to the age of your puppy and use common sense when determining which foods are healthy for your dog.
Determine your dog's specific exercise regimen. Dogs have different fitness needs based their sex, overall health, age, breed mix, or breed. Every dog should have a couple 10-minute walks a day around the block. Dogs between 6 and 18 months, active breed or mixed breeds, terriers, hounds, and herding dogs will most likely require more fitness than others types of dogs.
Groom your dog frequently. Keep them clean and reduce the amount of hair they shed by brushing them frequently. When the weather warms up, start checking them for ticks and fleas daily. Dogs generally require a few baths a year. Before you give your dog a bath, make sure to cut or comb out mats and tangles. Rinse their coat thoroughly to avoid dirt sticking to any soap residue.
Be prepared to have a lot of patience with your dog during potty-training. Much like children, dogs learn at different speeds and ages and your canine may be slow or stubborn. Have good resources at your fingertips to assist your efforts and remember not to get angry when your dog has "accidents" as that will only impede his progress.
Becoming a foster home is a good way to work with dogs without committing to one on a long term basis. There are many less than fortunate dogs in shelters that would love to find a forever home. Become a foster parent to test the waters.
If your dog is prone to getting burs in his coat, keep a can of Crisco in your kitchen cupboard. Next time you notice a bur, put gloves on to protect yourself and work the Crisco around until you can pry the bur out. Give him a nice shampoo to get the shortening out later.
If your dog is covering everything in the house with his shedding fur, grab a paper towel. Lightly wet it with water and rub it down his back in the direction of fur growth. The loose hair should come off easily on the paper towel and your dog will love the attention too!
Make sure there is just click the up coming internet page in your home for giving your dog table scraps. While some owners do not give their dog any table food at all, yet others wait until the family meal is done. This causes less confusion on the part of your dog, and makes meals much easier for your family.
No matter what kind or length of fur your dog has, it is important that they are brushed regularly. Without regular brushing, your dog's fur may become matted. Matted fur can cause inflammation on your dog's skin and is very difficult to remove. Also, brushing their fur regularly gets rid of dead hair and helps distribute oils.
If you are not sure how your dog will react to other dogs, make sure you keep them on a leash during the first introduction. Rescue dogs especially can be unpredictable around other dogs. Keeping your dog on the leash will allow you to better control their behavior. Once you feel comfortable and your dog is adjusted, you can take them off the leash and let them play.
If you are going to bring a new dog into your home you should do a lot of the preparation ahead of time. You should have a nice place for it to sleep, food, grooming products and toys all on hand before they arrive. This will make the transition easier for everyone involved.
Make sure your dog does not have access to any dangerous products. You should keep all your cleaning products on a high shelve and avoid using poison if you are dealing with pest. Check your garage too and put your automotive products on high shelves too. Do not hesitate to keep your dog out of certain rooms if some items are dangerous.
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Haas’ career officially ended
The career of tennis star Tommy Haas has now come to an end. Most recently, the German had announced that he would like to know again.
After six months without an official match, former world rankings runner-up Tommy Haas has declared his tennis career over.
“The last match I won on the tour was against Roger Federer,”Haas told the Californian newspaper Desert Sun. In June he had beaten the Swiss player on grass in Stuttgart, but at the beginning of August Haas lost his last match against the Warsteiner Jan-Lennard Struff in Kitzbühel.
At the Australian Open in Melbourne in January, Haas (39) was adviser to Lucas Pouille, a Frenchman, but he reiterated his intention to return to the ATP tour once again, saying:”I’m still burning,”Haas told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. This fire now seems to be extinguished.
Haas says:”It’s not so easy to get in shape if you don’t live for it all the time and breathe like a tennis pro. He does not believe that he still has the “power” for 60 or 120 minutes on the court. His last comeback in January 2017 was of particular importance to him,”It wasn’t about winning or losing,” said Haas:”It was about going back to some places with the family and enjoying it.
The father of two children has enough tasks in life after his tennis career, first his main job as tournament director in Indian Wells (from the age of 8. March). Haas also wants to compete against other tennis pensioners on the Champions Tour:”The reality is as follows: I will be back on the 3rd day of the Champions Tour. April 40 years old and the body is changing,”Haas said:”It’s a wise step not to torture him any further.” | <urn:uuid:04e5ad14-24ef-4deb-9b35-f3da1e5c8313> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://globalsports.news/2018/02/12/haas-career-officially-ended/ | 2018-05-25T11:01:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867085.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525102302-20180525122302-00435.warc.gz | en | 0.979913 | 420 | [
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My son is obsessed with cars, especially Lightning McQueen.
So, this theme was perfect for his 3rd birthday.
Unfortunately, his birthday conflicted with a lot of out of town plans, and other parties going on. So some of our friends and family weren’t able to make it. We sure missed seeing them, but we still had a great time.
The ‘Happy 3rd Birthday’ Banner was hand-made.
The circles are cardboard pieces, covered in white printer paper. The red outline is actually bunched up streamers, that I taped to the back. I used a hole punch to make two holes through at the top, so I could hang them up using red ribbon.
What 3rd birthday party would be complete without a piñata, filled with strange candy. (We also had a matching checkered flag but I forget to get a good picture of that.)
I wanted to have snacks that might be found at a race track . So we went with Water, Juice (Pop/Soda were in the cooler), Peanuts, and Popcorn.
For the Party Favors, I made Luigi’s Casa Della Tires!
Where the guest could pick up a goodie bag filled with
The other table had party favors, bubbles and some ‘Car's’ crayons to color a picture of Lightning McQueen.
The first game we played was Water Balloon Toss.
Which eventually turned into a Water Balloon Fight.
The next game was Hit The Can.
Where you stack up empty pop cans, and see who can hit them down using only rubber bands.
We ordered Hungry Howies Pizza. Amen for their [free] flavored crust.
Mingled a bit…
And then got down to business with the Costco cake.
The ‘Cars’ cake inserts are just pictures that I cut out of a coloring book.
I used the front/back pages because they are stronger & shiny.
Then I taped them onto an un-used chop stick.
Have you tried their frosting? Other grocery stores should bow down to it.
Make that wish, it’s cake time.
Then his favorite, the birthday gifts.
Did I mention he loves cars? ;)
When it was time for the piñata. The birthday boy went first.
And actually did manage to get some candy out of there.
Then the adults wanted a turn. And things got ugly. Quick.
I imagine they would be the winners, if we had a game called ‘The Cutest Couple at the party’.
Well that was his party! I had so much fun making all of the decorations and seeing it all come together. I hope everyone had a great time, especially my little man. I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. I’m guessing this year will do the same thing. Let’s make it great one. Ka Chow. | <urn:uuid:d9d40b45-6a4e-4586-88e7-dd2d7818d16a> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://sandysuesunshine.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html | 2018-05-26T12:01:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867417.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526112331-20180526132331-00115.warc.gz | en | 0.976658 | 622 | [
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After flunking a test their last time out, the Minnesota Wild hope to get back on track Thursday when they visit the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. The Senators hope to win two in a row Thursday for the first time since a season-high four-game winning streak from Oct. 11-18. Viewers in the Senators region can watch the game live on TSN5 starting at 7:30pm et. You can also listen to the game on TSN Radio 1200 in Ottawa. The Wild carried a three-game winning streak into Tuesdays home game against Pittsburgh and were handed a 4-1 loss by the Penguins, who won their fifth straight contest. Pittsburgh has allowed only four goals during that winning streak. Minnesota head coach Mike Yeo would like his team to forget about Tuesday and aim for a rebound effort tonight in Canadas capital. I think we know that it wasnt good enough, and now we turn our sights towards the next one, Yeo said after Tuesdays setback. The Wild, however, have had little success against the Senators in recent years, losing seven of the last eight meetings in this series. Minnesota did earn a win in its most recent trip to Ottawa, picking up a 4-3 regulation victory on Nov. 20 of last season. That win halted the Wilds three-game road losing streak versus the Sens. Minnesota fired 34 shots at Pittsburghs Thomas Greiss on Tuesday, but only Nino Niederreiter was able to get one past the Pens backup goaltender. Darcy Kuemper allowed three goals on 21 shots in the Wilds first home loss, as Minnesota fell to 5-1-0 at Xcel Energy Center. In addition to suffering their first home defeat, the Wild lost Zach Parise to injury on Tuesday and he wont be joining the team for their three-game road trip. Parise, who leads Minnesota with 10 points this season, suffered an upper-body injury against the Pens. Forward Matt Cooke sat out Tuesdays test and also wont be with the team tonight due to a a lower-body issue. Ottawa halted a two-game slide with Tuesdays 3-1 home win over Detroit. The Red Wings and Senators were tied at 1-1 late in the third period, but Patrick Wiercioch tallied the go-ahead goal for Ottawa with 5:23 left in regulation and Clarke MacArthur added an empty-net tally in the final minute. Erik Karlsson finished with a power-play goal and an assist in the victory. Craig Anderson turned aside 31 shots for Ottawa. Anderson will get the start again for Ottawa this evening, the first time a Senators goaltender has gone back-to-back this season. but is just 3-7-2 with a 3.08 goals against average in 13 career games versus the Wild. Niklas Backstrom expects to start for the Wild. The Sens began a four-game homestand Tuesday and have still yet to lose in regulation on home ice this season, going 3-0-2 so far at Canadian Tire Centre. Ottawa defenseman Mark Borowiecki (upper body) missed his third straight game on Tuesday, while forward Alex Chiasson (foot) sat out after getting injured in Saturdays loss against Boston. Both players are questionable for tonight, as is defenseman Chris Phillips, who suffered a lower-body injury on Tuesday. 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I have been severely lax this summer in updating my blog. I'll need to catch up with hikes, fishing trips, camping, and more but the highlight of our summer so far has been a week at Old Orchard Beach in Maine.
We rented a cottage within easy walking distance of the beach.
One of the first questions I get regarding vacationing on the beach in Maine is about the water temperature. Surprisingly, in August, the water temperature was not frigid. It was nearly 70 degrees. The surf was rather large at high tide, which made for some fun activities. Old Orchard Beach also has a dramatic low tide that reveals hundreds of yards of flat beach. During low tide you find many families (including ours) utilizing this flat, packed sand area for activities like bocce, Frisbee, football and kite flying. The beach itself is large enough that getting a spot is not an issue. We had no trouble getting enough real estate to spread out on the beach. However, the beach does become more crowded closer to the pier area.
The weather cooperated for us, and although some days were overcast, the rain mostly held off. It was a good week of relaxing on the beach.
Old Orchard Beach is 7 miles long. The north end of the beach features a wooden pier. This is the center of the commercial operation of the beach. Around the pier you find a lot of the kitschy tourist stuff like t-shirt shops, souvenir shops, and arcade, and an amusement part. There are several eating establishments that should be able to appeal to any appetite. Several ice cream shops are set up around the pier area, many featuring home made ice cream.
For the adults, there are also many bars and clubs in and around the pier. Although I did not get a chance to check any of them out, several seemed to be quite active.
The south end of the beach is home to a section of the beach called Ocean Park. Ocean Park is much smaller and lest tourist oriented. If has a delicious ice cream shop, a nice bakery/deli, and some small shops. If you feel like a nature hike, there is a pine forest in the Ocean Park section of town with some easy to walk trails. The Ocean Park section is less known to tourists than the pier, but I recommend checking it out if you are staying in Old Orchard Beach.
Old Orchard Beach certainly has people, but it's not so crowded that you can not get around by car. Access in and out of the area with most of the cottages is not difficult. The closer you get the pier, the more difficult driving becomes due more to the high number of pedestrians more than the car volume. Although car travel is doable, by far the best way to get around Old Orchard Beach is by bike. Cars are generally courteous to bikers and pedestrians. Since the roads are paralleling the sea, most of them are flat and easy ride. Each day we rode, usually multiple times, to the pier area and to Ocean Park.
Besides the beach and the town, there are several nearby attractions that make good day trips. We took 2 day trip adventures. One was to Freeport to do some shopping at the headquarter store of LL Bean. The other was to the Maine Animal Park with a stop in downtown Portland for a late lunch. Others went to a nearby Zoo in York, an amusement part, and a water park known as the Aquaboggin.
The fact that I was able fully read two books while I was there speaks to the laid back nature of the vacation. Even with 4 kids, the adults were able to relax as the kids kept themselves mostly busy on the beach. I think we made a good decision breaking up the beach days with a couple of day trips.
I hardly did an official investigation, but I believe the "going rate" for a small cottage within easy walking distance of the beach was about $1500 per week for a 2-bedroom cottage. Bigger houses are available, and most people split the cost with one or more families. There are also many motels lining the beach on both sides to the pier. All of them were fully booked while we were there (we saw many No Vacancy signs), so I would suggest booking well ahead of time. One note on location: since there is a large, protected grass dune between the buildings and the beach at Old Orchard Beach, there are really no true "beach front" cottages. All cottages and houses are separated from the beach by the grass dune. Therefore, even if at the first house closest to the beach, a short walk is still necessary to access the beach. For that reason, I recommend saving money and not getting the "beach front" cottage, and go for one, two, three, or four back from the beach. The walk is insignificant, but the cost savings is significant.
My family enjoyed our time at Old Orchard Beach, and would like to try to make it back in the near future.
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Is Dilbert Bad For My Employees' Morale?
Not only are you familiar with Dilbert as a member of the business world, but as a boss in the business world, you probably even think that Dilbert is sometimes funny. After all, these cartoons are not making fun of you, right? But then again, this firm self-assuredness can quickly evaporate when you start seeing Dilbert strips tacked up on cubicle walls. Sure, it seems silly to be concerned about the effect that these cartoons might have on morale, but you also probably start to think about the fact that you have, after all, read articles that talked about how Dilbert cartoons create a negative environment. And so the question becomes, are Dilbert cartoons bad for employee morale? First off all, one must remember that humor and laughter is good for morale. Certainly, these cartoons are posted on people's walls because they induced a laugh, so this is a sign in the right direction. But the issue, of course, is the fact that most of these laughs are induced by taking jabs at corporate culture. And when you see a cartoon tacked on an employee's cubicle wall wherein the boss is made fun of, it is difficult to keep yourself from wondering why they chose to post this particular strip. But before you jump to conclusions and ban these cartoons from the walls of cubicles, consider whether the solution is so simple. After all, it is unlikely that banning these strips would have any effect except to make employees think that you are out of touch with the way they feel. A better form of action is to look at the strips yourself instead of ordering that they all be taken down from walls in the office. Many of these strips are funny because they poke fun at the way businesses are run; if your employees think that these strips are applicable enough to be tacked on their cubicle wall, the problem might not be with the strip itself. The problem might be with the way your company itself is run! While this discussion might seem somewhat trivial on the surface, it is important to note that many companies actually have banned Dilbert from cubicle walls. Every boss wants to improve morale around the office, but instead of banning humor and hoping it will do anything but alienate employees, you should aim to improve employee morale by improving all the ways in which your business itself is run! | <urn:uuid:03ad6c72-65ef-49e9-9138-c78aa23c92be> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://e-ezine.blogspot.lt/2015/11/is-dilbert-bad-for-my-employees-morale.html | 2018-05-20T13:42:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863570.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520131723-20180520151723-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.970504 | 489 | [
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The science of penalties: Goal size, distance from the ball and reaction times put the odds overwhelmingly in a shooter's favour
- London's Brunel University found that skilled players can read opponents
- But research suggests other factors makes penalties very hard to save
- The best keepers can read where a penalty will be kicked over half the time
- But they will only be able to save the ball in less than a quarter of kicks
- This is due to the large size of a football goal - 192 square feet
- Reaction times of humans are not enough to cover the entire goal
- So keepers must make a decision before the ball is kicked - giving the striker an invaluable edge over their opponent
- So far, six out of six penalties at the Brazil World Cup have been scored
Picture the scene: Your nation has made it to the 2014 World Cup Final and the game has gone to a penalty shootout.
In dramatic fashion your opponents miss a spot-kick giving your captain the chance to win the tournament, but what are the odds on him scoring? As it turns out, exceedingly high.
Not only does he have an area bigger than a cargo container to aim for, but the slow reaction times of any given person compared to a kicked ball in tandem with psychological preparation should - should - seen him put the ball away with ease.
At least, that’s the theory.
Researchers at Brunel University in London have found that the most skilled goalkeepers can guess the right way in a penalty 70 per cent of the time, but other factors mean they'll only save it a quarter of the time such as Cavani's successful penalty against Costa Rica on 14 June (shown)
So far in the 2014 Brazil World cup six penalties have been given - and all six have been scored.
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Out of office - More than a quarter (27 per cent) of fans have booked time off work to watch the football over the next month.
Off schedule sport - Nearly half of fans (44 per cent) are planning to record matches and watch them at a time that suits them better than the scheduled broadcast .
Smart viewing - Almost a third of people (30 per cent) are planning on watching the action unfold on a smartphone, tablet or smart TV.
And in the season just gone, in the English Premier League. only 14 of 87 penalties were missed or saved.
But what makes penalties so hard to stop? The answer lies in the deceivingly large size of a goal, the short amount of time available to a keeper to react, and psychological mind games.
'If the player hits the ball hard enough the goalkeeper has very little chance of saving it,' Professor of Sport and Learning at the University of Wolverhampton Andrew Lane told MailOnline.
'Penalty taking is all about managing stress; players need to have overlearned the skill and practiced in stressful conditions; they need make their mind up and stick to that decision.'
But there is good news for goalkeepers - those that are exceptionally gifted have a significant edge over their colleagues.
In research commissioned by Gillette for Brunel University in London they found that World Class footballers can anticipate the actions of an opponent up to 80 milliseconds before they move.
That means that as England’s Joe Hart stares down Germany’s Thomas Muller, his brain will automatically notice minute details in the striker’s run up that gives him an indication as to which way he’s going to shoot.
Some goalkeepers come off their line when a penalty is being taken (Sevilla keeper Cardozo is seen making a save here) to reduce the area a player has to score, at the expense of having less reaction time. Doing so, however, is not technically legal and if a keeper comes too far of his line the penalty will be retaken
In fact, the researchers working with the Football Association found skilled players could anticipate the actions of their opponent 70 per cent of the time, compared to just 52 per cent for less skilled players.
‘The smallest margins can make the difference between winning and losing,’ said Brunel Professor Mark Williams, who was behind the Anticipation Training research.
‘As a result of extensive training and experience on the pitch, the top players have developed high-refined perceptual and cognitive skills that enable them to anticipate exactly what an opponent will do ahead of the act itself.’
Skilled goalkeepers apparently spend more time studying the face of the penalty taker and can fixate on the motion of a kicker’s legs moments before he touches the ball.
For a keeper such as Joe Hart, according to Williams, his ‘visual system is finely attuned to picking up information from the bodily movements of an opponent as well as the penalty taker’s preferred tendencies for kick placement.’
And he added: ‘This research shows that those players who practice their art and train hardest have the best chance of success.’
Some players stutter their run-up to make the keeper commit to a direction first before kicking the other way. Neymar attempted this in the opening came of World Cup 2014 for Brazil but, although Croatia goalkeeper Pletikosa went the right way, he didn't have time to get enough behind the ball to save it
That research is backed up a study by ESPN’s Sports Science on penalty kicks for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
They found that goalkeepers were able to guess the direction of the ball correctly 57 per cent of the time.
But this is where the good news stops for goal keepers; because of the time it takes to move, only 22 per cent of those shots were saved.
The reason for this is that no amount of psychological preparation can help if a penalty taker knows what he’s doing.
On average a ball kicked in a penalty travels at about 70 mph (112km/h), according to Business Insider.
With the penalty spot 36ft (11 metres) from the goal, this means it will take the ball less than half a second to reach the net.
That gives the goalkeeper around 700 milliseconds to look which way the ball is going, decide which way to jump and move his body in that direction.
The penalty spot is 36 feet (11 metres) from the goal. The average speed of a penalty kick is 70 miles (112 kilometres) per hour, which gives the goalkeeper about 700 milliseconds to save it. However it takes most almost a second to do so - meaning they have to move earlier
In reality it takes the goalkeeper up to a second to watch the ball and then jump in its direction – by which the ball will already be nestled in the net, providing the player shot to the side.
Instead, what most goalkeepers do is begin their jump and movement before the kick is taken.
This leads to some players, such as Brazil’s Neymar in their recent game against Croatia, to stutter their run-up and entice the keeper to move before they’ve kicked the ball, allowing them to shoot the other way.
The short amount of time available for a keeper to react and then begin his jump means the players have a huge advantage.
But it’s not just human biology that hampers goalkeepers – it’s the size of the goal, too.
A football goal is 24 ft (7.3 metres) wide and eight feet (2.4 metres) tall, giving It an area of 192 square feet (17.9 square metres).
Covering this entire area, bigger than a cargo container, is not easy.
This, combined with the short amount of time available, shows just how difficult it is for goalkeepers to save a penalty.
Another factor working against goalkeepers is the sheer size of the goal. Football goals have a total area of 192 square feet (17.9 square metres) into which a player can shoot and, with the ball starting just 36ft (11 metres) away, it gives the goalkeeper little time to make a save (stock image shown)
And that’s not all; a study by the University of British Columbia (UBC) found that ‘game theory’ played an important part in deciding the outcome of a penalty kick.
For those unfamiliar with game theory it’s the suggestion that opponents in any scenario, from war to chess, will follow predictable strategies to try and outwit each other.
According to associate professor in UBC’s Department of Computer Science Kevin Leyton-Brown the world’s top players such as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Iker Casillas are not just world-class athletes, but also skilled and rational decision-makers as well.
Kickers and goalies have to make decisions simultaneously because things happen so fast. They have to decide to go right or left or in the middle.
On top of that, 'kickers are usually better at kicking to one side than the other,' according to the researchers.
'You would think that the kicker would always kick to his stronger side, but if he did the goalie would always jump to that side and the kicker would be worse off.
'So a kicker, like someone who bluffs in poker, sometimes has to pick the lesser option and kick to his weak side to make goalies uncertain of what he’s going to do.
'What researchers found when they looked at this publicly available data was that kickers and goalies usually pick their equilibrium strategies.
'Kickers kick to their weak side just often enough so that the goalie doesn’t always want to jump the same way. Likewise, goalies picked an equilibrium strategy for blocking shots.'
All of this combined shows how much of an art form saving or scoring a penalty really is.
Perhaps teams can have a new excuse if they come to failing in penalty shoot-out again - it’s simply science and maths working against the team.
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Advanced emergency braking system (AEBS) sometimes reffered to as Autonomous emergency braking (AEB), is an ADAS feature which uses sensors to detect other vehicles and potential danger situations, by calculating speed and distance, thereby predicting if a collision is imminent. The system will then apply emergency braking to minimise damage.
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LeadaHose, The world's most versatile dog leash!
LeadaHose, The world's most versatile dog leash!
The simplest way to keep dogs secure when walking. The most convenient way to keep them clean. The safest way to prevent heatstroke!
The simplest way to keep dogs secure when walking. The most convenient way to keep them clean. The safest way to prevent heatstroke! Read more
The LeadaHose is a leash that was invented for imperfect dogs. Dogs who run into the pond. Dogs who roll in the mud. Dogs who eat poop. Dogs who don't stop when they're overheated.
Dogs who love being dogs, and the people who love them for it.
Think about every time you've tried to stop your dog from getting wet, too hot, rolling in something disgusting or getting in the mud.
Think about every time you ever had to take them home in the car wet, muddy and smelly.
Think about every time they rubbed that mud, sand and smell all over the house, on the couch and the bed.
In other words, think about every time you've had to stop your dog enjoying being a dog.
The LeadaHose: Redefining the dog leash.
The LeadaHose combines the simplicity of a standard leash with the convenience of a hose in an innovative, user-friendly design.
The perfect leash is comfortable, easy to use, convenient to carry and helps keep your dog happy and safe. We couldn't find the perfect leash, so we made it!
The LeadaHose Backstory
Who we are and why we've come to Kickstarter.
I’m a regular guy from Sydney who owns a four-year-old German Shepherd. In her first summer, Wilma discovered mud puddles were a great way to cool down. After that keeping her out of them was almost impossible. The only solution was to wet her down first to keep her cool. We started taking a short hose on all our walks, which also made it a whole lot easier if she went in the mud, as we could wash her off on the spot.
Suddenly all our friends wanted to use the hose. Some dogs overheated quickly, some liked to roll on dead birds and others liked the mud as much as Wilma. It was so useful for lots of different needs that I thought there must be a way of making it a more convenient item to carry all the time.
A few years, a few more wrinkles and seven or eight prototypes later, we're here to show you what we've come up with.
We know who you are.
Your dog really is your best friend. They are a big part of your life and your faithful companion. If you’re not at the park you’re probably walking to the local markets together or chilling out at the beach.
You’re practical about your dog - they might not be perfect, but they’re perfect for you. When you need to buy things for your dog you consider their health and well-being first. Quality and value are important.
You know your dog could be better behaved. They could always come when called. They could always sit when commanded. They could stop running into the mud or chasing the birds, but then you wouldn't see the pure joy them get from doing those things. The LeadaHose is designed with you and your dog in mind - so you can enjoy spending time with your dog without worrying about getting them in the car or the house later.
Nylon handle with comfortable neoprene lining and d-ring for accessories
Steel snap hook to fit any collar: to get your dog on and off quick
Adjustable spray nozzle
From the lightest spray for dogs who don't like the water to a powerful jet to get even the stickiest mud out.
Flat nylon hose
1/2 inch hose. As strong as regular nylon webbing with waterproof lining.
Connections to suit the USA and the rest of the world, just let us know where you are.
Let's talk about strength
We have tested the LeadaHose's strength to 75kg (165lb) hanging weight.
At her strongest, Wilma* pulls with a weight of 10kg (22lb).
*a 35kg (77lb) 5-year-old German Shepherd on the way to the park.
The LeadaHose Timeline
LeadaHose past, present and future.
A brief outline of the work we've done so far, and what we are planning for the future.
Risks and challenges
We understand that every project comes with risks and challenges. We have gone to great lengths to minimize foreseeable problems. The design of the LeadaHose minimizes the number of parts and materials required. It keeps the fabrication process as simple as possible, significantly reducing the amount of potential manufacturing issues.
We have partnered with a manufacturer who has produced our prototypes to a high standard and takes pride in quality and punctuality. We also have backup manufacturers should they be needed. In addition, we have allotted ourselves ample time to deal with setbacks without pushing our timeline back.
In preparation for this Kickstarter project, we have done small prototype runs to inspect quality, verify functionality and eliminate potential issues.
At this time there is no warranty on the product as we need to undergo further testing with the final manufactured product.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Aaaahhhh, Friday :) So last week I posted the hostess gift for my sister and I told you I was working on another one. This one will be given around Christmas, but I didn't want it to look too Christmasy, I wanted it to have a more wintry look.
I assembled this one exactly the same way as last weeks, coffee beans and all :) The only thing different is the embellishment on the front.
It's kind of hard to tell, but I die cut the snowflake charm with my Cricut and then smooshed it face down in my Versamark pad. I sprinkled it with Zing Aqua embossing powder...twice. It got a little messy, but I love how thick and shiny the snowflakes are. I added a couple of rhinestones for some extra sparkle!
Do you have big plans this weekend? I'm going to try and complete the mammoth task of wrapping the gifts (feeling very motivated and I need to strike while the iron is hot). Tomorrow, we have put a coupon in the girls Advent Calendar good for a trip to the movies with mom and dad. I'm really excited about that!
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After a strong 2014, new truck orders have started off with a bang in 2015. According to data compiled by FTR, January 2015 North American Class 8 truck net orders came in at 35,060 units, off slightly from 2014’s fourth quarter pace, but still the strongest January numbers since 2006.
Year-over-year, orders were up 2%. Class 8 orders have totaled 377,000 over the past 12 months, FTR said.
“Even though orders were their lowest in the last four months, the market remains very robust,” said Don Ake, vice president of commercial vehicles. “Fleets are now trying to determine their requirements for the entire year and then place orders accordingly. With limited build slots available, they have to be more strategic in their buying decisions. We should see more normal ordering cycles for the next few months. The orders this month continue to support the strong FTR forecast and are right in line with our expectations.”
On the medium-duty side, orders also remained strong. ACT Research, which reports Class 5-8 orders, said January’s numbers for the four classes reached 53,200 units, a 5% improvement over January 2014.
The January totals were down 21% from December, ACT said, and hit their lowest mark since September 2014.
“After three consecutive months in which Class 8 orders rose above 40,000 units, January’s Class 8 order intake of 35,400 units appears pedestrian,” said Kenny Vieth, ACT’s president & senior analyst. “However, while October-December represent the three strongest months cycle-to-date, January orders tilt the scale at a respectable fifth best, and are closely aligned with the 6-month order trend.
“Similar to Class 8, January’s medium duty orders don’t live up to the strong Q4 pace, but rise above year-ago activity,” Vieth added. “At 17,800 units in January, Classes 5-7 orders rose 11% compared to year-ago levels, but fell 22% from December’s second best month of the cycle order volume. January’s MD orders fell slightly below build expectations, suggesting that backlogs are likely to be 1,000 to 2,000 units lower when the complete data set is compiled mid-month in ACT’s SOI: Classes 5-8 Vehicles report.
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The market for digital audio devices continues to grow and is becoming saturated with so many brands it is difficult to know which to buy. Do you want to get something that looks great and sounds great, with a lot of features, and is not going to cost more than a TV? If so, you may want to check out the new iAudio CW300 Digital Audio Player from JetAudio.
At first glance, the CW300’s gray and silver housing is sleek, slim, and sexy. A thin vertical strip of blue backlit LCD makes the player look very high-tech. All of the device’s features are controlled by two main jog buttons on either side of the device with the exception of the voice record feature which is activated by a separate button on the front panel.
The CW300 comes in two “flavors”: a 128 MB version which holds about two CD’s worth of music, and a 256 MB version which holds four. MP3 files are transferred to and from your computer via a USB cable which is provided at a blazing fast 6 Mbps. A single AA battery powers the device for about 30 hours. Also included in the package is a CD with JetAudio (an MP3 player for your computer) and JetShell which is used for transferring files to your device.
Sound quality is where this player really shines. With a 95db signal-to-noise ratio and fully customizable EQ settings, the CW300 is easily one of the best sounding MP3 players out there. It’s powerful too! This player can blast tunes at incredible levels before distortion occurs. Included in the package are some Cresyn AXE 599BL earphones which offer fantastic frequency response across the entire spectrum of human hearing.
JetAudio didn’t skimp of features. The iAudio CW300 offers many more features than the average MP3 player. Since the player is also an FM tuner and voice recorder, JetAudio decided to allow users to use the voice record function to record FM or AM broadcasts. A program called JetVoiceMail, included on the installation CD, allows you to take recordings such as this and turn them into EXE files which you can for emailing to your friends. Virtually all of the player’s features are customizable from the length of time the LCD backlight screen stays on, to the animated image that appears when you first turn on the device.
The player’s only serious drawback is that it is not compatible with Windows Media Player or Windows Media files. This is a big problem to users of buymusic.com’s new digital download service who will find that they will not be able to transfer the music they’ve purchased online to their digital player. [Testing also revealed that the CW300 cannot play MP3 files over 320 kbps. – See Retraction] However, the JetShell program included on the CD allows you to convert virtually any type of music file to a compatible MP3 format.
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Product SpecificationsBit-rate: MPEG1/2 – Layer 2/3 (MP3)Supports whole range of 8Kbps ~ 320Kbps and VBR
Memory: Built-in memory (128 / 256MB)
PC interface: USB 1.1
File transmission rate: Maximum 6 Mbps
Battery: 1.5V (AA) 1 unit (maximum 30 hrs of continuous playback)
Button: 2 Jog Levers (PLAY, FF, REW, VOL UP/DOWN, MENU) and REC button
Display: 128 x 16 Bitmap (indicates track info) / Icon (battery level, mode, volume, album, track, elapsed time, repeat, memory usage,equalizer)
S/N ratio: 95dB
Output frequency band: 20Hz ~ 20KHz
Maximum output: 8mW + 8mW (16 Ohm earphones)
Dimensions: 1.57 x 3.25x 0.73 inches (40 x 82.5 x 18.6 mm)
Weight: 1.48 oz (42g) : without battery
Microsoft® Win98SE/ME/2000 Pro/XP Home/XP Pro
Pentium 200MHz or higher
32MB Available RAM
20MB Available hard drive capacity (recommended)
Warranty / Other Information
1-year limited warranty from Cowon Systems for body.
6-months limited warranty from Cowon Systems for components.
At $199 for the 256 MB version and $149 for the 128 MB version, the iAudio CW300 is a great buy. Add to that its amazing sound quality and long list of features, and it becomes almost irresistible. The iAudio CW300 is by far one of the best MP3 players released this year.
One of the best-sounding portable players available
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The honeymoon between Washington and Seoul will not last long without more harmony on the most important issue for the relationship: North Korean denuclearization.
At the Camp David press conference with new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, President Bush accentuated the positive and ignored the negative by choosing not to mention North Korea in his opening remarks. It was the fi rst sign of trouble in the new courtship between Washington and Seoul that began with Lee’s inauguration in March. Lee’s pro-U.S. stance and conservative approach to North Korea promised to bring the partners closer than they have been in a decade. His visit to Washington, D.C. in April should have set the course for alliance bliss. Lee was the first South Korean leader invited to Camp David. He was presented with a promise of visa waivers for South Koreans visiting America. The warm tone of his visit had been set in advance by landmark agreements to ease South Korean restrictions on importing American beef--a limit which threatened to derail congressional ratifi cation of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) negotiated last June.
Unfortunately, the summit did not live up to the expectations of its observers or participants. Beef and visas are the stuff of a great first date, but the strength of the long-term relationship rests on mutual understanding and trust about the toughest issues. In this case, the leaders must establish a common approach to North Korea. The recent visit suggested to the world a startling switch of positions between Seoul and Washington and the continued lack of U.S. strategic coherence on the North Korea issue.
Who’s Playing Bad Cop?
Given the prospects for stronger U.S.ROK relations, reports of a bilateral softening of the U.S. approach to North Korea just before the recent summit came as an unwelcome surprise. According to the New York Times, National Security Council offi cials confirmed reports that “declarations regarding proliferation and uranium would be negotiated separately” from plutonium issues.1 The signing of the not-so-secret “secret memoranda” between Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, Christopher Hill, and North Korea’s chief diplomat, Kim Kye Gwan raised concerns about whether the United States and South Korea really do see eye-to-eye. Many in Seoul and other Asian capitals think this shift undermines earlier agreements and gives Pyongyang time to stall or evade true disarmament.
Similar concerns continue within the United States as officials spar over whether to insist on complete verifiable disarmament or prioritize progress on plutonium negotiations. Days after the Bush-Lee summit, the administration was quickly walking away from Chris Hill’s agreement and even made plans to brief Congress on evidence of North Korean proliferation to Syria. The White House’s release of specific intelligence, including video of the suspect site before it was bombed by Israel, makes the split between Hill and the administration hardliners painfully clear.
Even though American offi cials insist the agreement will not change anything substantive, South Korean offi cials have focused more on the fact that the deal was made behind the back of the new President, undermining confi dence between the allies and perhaps signaling to Kim Jong-Il that his recalcitrance can continue to pay off. One persistent difficulty in the Six-Party framework has been the ability of Pyongyang to play the parties off one another, particularly South Korea, Japan, and the United States. Unplanned trading back and forth from “good cop” to “bad cop” cannot be productive.
While the disconnect over America’s negotiating position reflects some possible substantive problems, it is much more indicative of issues of style and process that have long beleaguered the relationship. In many cases, even where substantive disagreements are surmounted, issues of national pride and saving face have continued to be a genuine drag on the partnership.
The experience during the previous Roh administration is instructive. Despite considerable tension, including notable personal dislike between Bush and Roh, the alliance grew stronger. Washington negotiated the moving of U.S. troops away from the DMZ and the transfer of the historically signifi cant Yongsan military base back to South Korea. Th e two countries agreed to transfer wartime operational control from U.S. Forces to the South Korean military. Th e alliance also made significant strides in practical cooperation, from counter-terrorism to peacekeeping. Korea’s deployment to help the American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq occurred at the height of bilateral animosity. Moreover, the two sides negotiated the KORUS FTA and laid the ground work for the visa waiver program announced during the recent summit. But because of slights, real and perceived (often due to political pandering to domestic constituencies), unprecedented progress on many issues never added up to transformation of the alliance into a more mature partnership.
For over a decade America and South Korea have shared a goal of verifi able North Korean denuclearization. Th e prospects of a true breakthrough occurring in the remaining months of the Bush administration appear dim. Th e next president, Republican or Democrat, is likely to inherit a nuclear North Korea with possible links to global proliferation rings. If Washington’s policy is shift ing toward a more soft -line approach, South Korea will likely take the hard line, perhaps working closely with Japan. This would not be the best way to move forward because it highlights divergence between the American and the ROK-Japanese negotiating posture. Pyongyang has a history of manipulating diplomats and their negotiated agreements. Any sign of strategic incoherence will enable North Korea to further hinder negotiations.
For strong alliances, even very divergent positions need not spell disaster. But a convergence of views between Lee and Bush is no guarantee of harmony. Th e Bush and Lee administrations need to hammer out some very real issues on problems from trade to further military cooperation on issues like counter proliferation. The KORUS FTA faces a tough ratification battle even with the resolution of the beef issue, particularly given continued opposition from the American automobile manufacturers and growing anti-trade sentiment from U.S. voters and politicians. Meanwhile, the willingness of South Koreans to support the more robust use of their forces overseas is not guaranteed.
Coming to a more unified stand on North Korea would free up a lot of offi cial energy to pursue the important issues that can make the difference between advancing a partnership and merely maintaining it. Failure of America to ratify KORUS, for example, (particularly if the Korean National Assembly does ratify) will have a tremendous psychological impact on the Korean people and their support for the alliance. Policymakers in both Seoul and Washington should start thinking proactively about how to deal with the “worst case” scenario in which KORUS sinks. This situation will require a robust public diplomacy campaign that champions progress in other areas, like the completion of the U.S.-ROK visa waiver program, and the return of U.S. bases to the Korean government.
It is time for both parties to start reading each other’s signals better to ensure that the relationship stays as productive as possible. Korea is committed to supporting stability and democractic values and can partner with America on a global scale. U.S. policymakers need to read Seoul’s poker face and understand that anxiety can return even with the new government in place. Limiting surprises and building consensus on tough issues is within reach, and just requires a little more diplomatic understanding and clear communication.
Whatever course the current administration follows, North Korea almost certainly will have nuclear weapons when the next Commander in Chief steps into the White House. President Lee needs the three U.S. presidential candidates to think about how they would build a common strategic approach to North Korea. Hopefully, the current administration will help Lee by starting a high-level dialogue on both how to pursue North Korean disarmament within the Six Party Talks and more importantly, how to approach North Korea should disarmament fail. Th e strategic challenge of a nuclear North Korea is not hypothetical. It is here today, and it is past time for the main allied partners in the Six-Party Talks to come to terms with the nuclear reality in Northeast Asia. If America is not transparent with its closest allies about its negotiating strategy with North Korea, such strategic thinking will be impossible and progress on trade and visas will mean little. True alliance bliss comes from unwavering confi dence between partners through good times and bad. Washington and Seoul have a chance now to put the relationship on such strong footing by taking the hardest issue head on.
1 Steven Lee Myers, “Bush Still Waits for North Korean Nuclear Report,” The New York Times, 20 April 2008.
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A Recipe and a Rooster - Amy Does a Vlog 1
Hillooo! (I've just discovered from making these videos that I say hello like that a LOT)
This week I filmed my second video for my new YouTube channel. I thought I'd do a vlog this week and film snippets each day about my work, what I get up to and, well, food.
I quite like this format and I'll definitely continue making weekly vlogs! This has been the biggest motivation to get my butt in my chair and make content, both in my artwork and writing.
Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions, and please subscribe if you enjoy what you see!
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How many times have you said “I’m waiting to be inspired”, or have some sort of a block and just need inspiration to help you through? Now how much credit can we give to “inspiration”, “muses” and how much should we be taking?
I think as writers, artists or anyone else putting your work out there for the world to see, it can sometimes be overwhelming the thought of completing your work. So does our subconscious get in the way? Is it that we just need to give ourselves a nice little pep talk and move on or do we really need to be inspired by someone or something else?
Throughout history you hear of the greats having muses and glorious moments of inspiration, could they have done it without them? I feel that if someone makes us happy, then we will feel happy and if that’s a trigger for us to be creative then we are. When we are going through life we come across many people and situations that could trigger “inspiration”. But if all it took was a beautiful woman, a sunset or the greatest love of all time to be an amazing artist, wouldn’t we all be?
I think we go through life giving credit to a lot of people and situations instead of giving it to ourselves. I’m not saying to be conceited, or ignore help we get from outside sources. What I am saying is give yourself some credit; yes that sunset may have inspired you to take that amazing picture, but you took it, chose the angel, flash etc…
Once we stop giving all the credit to inspiration, we can also stop blaming it! I don’t know how many times I’ve said ill finish writing my book when I feel it or I need to be in the mood etc… Well I haven’t written in a ridiculously long time and a reminder popped up on my phone recently asking me if I’ve finished my 1st draft of my book…nope! Could you imagine telling your boss at work, “I’m not in the mood to write that report” or “I need to be inspired to give that presentation…sorry”; I can’t imagine that going over very well.
So why do we allow ourselves to put it off? I say we need to stop using excuses and get back to it, schedule your writing or artistic time just like you’d schedule work or an appointment. And yes absorb how people make you feel and use inspiration from all the beautiful things and moments you come across in your life, but know it’s all you!
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From NBC's Andrea Mitchell
Senior White House and Justice Department officials briefing reporters on a conference call just now insisted that the White House would not be involved in tactical decisions about the interrogation of detainees under new procedures approved by the president. Officials said the National Security Council interagency role would be "policy guidance" -- only.
The new unit will be headquartered at the FBI and overseen by the NSC's counter terror chief, John Brennan, who used to run the counter terror center at the CIA.
The briefers said they would also create a unit to do scientific studies of "best practices" of interrogation to find out what works.
They pledged that the U.S. would no longer "render" suspects to countries that torture prisoners and that renditions would be overseen by the State Department.
The CIA would still have a role, but a much smaller one under the new system, and the CIA would no longer be involved in running detention camps.
Here's CIA Director Leon Panetta's message to CIA workers today:
Message from the Director:
Release of Material on Past Detention Practices
Today, as part of a number of Freedom of Information Act cases, the government is responding to court orders to release more documents related to the Agency's past detention and interrogation of foreign terrorists. The CIA materials include the 2004 report from our Office of Inspector General and two papers-one from 2004 and the other from 2005-that discuss the value of intelligence acquired from high-level detainees. The complete package is hundreds of pages long. The declassification process, a mandatory part of the proceedings, was conducted in accord with established FOIA guidelines.
This is in many ways an old story. The outlines of prior interrogation practices, and many of the details, are public already. The use of enhanced interrogation techniques, begun when our country was responding to the horrors of September 11th, ended in January. For the CIA now, the challenge is not the battles of yesterday, but those of today and tomorrow. It is there that we must work to enhance the safety of our country. That is the job the American people want us to do, and that is my responsibility as the current Director of the CIA.
My emphasis on the future comes with a clear recognition that our Agency takes seriously proper accountability for the past. As the intelligence service of a democracy, that's an important part of who we are. When it comes to past detention and interrogation practices, here are some facts to bear in mind on that point:
The CIA itself commissioned the Inspector General's review. The report, prepared five years ago, noted both the effectiveness of the interrogation program and concerns about how it had been run early on. Several Agency components, including the Office of General Counsel and the Directorate of Operations, disagreed with some of the findings and conclusions.
The CIA referred allegations of abuse to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. This Agency made no excuses for behavior, however rare, that went beyond the formal guidelines on counterterrorism. The Department of Justice has had the complete IG report since 2004. Its career prosecutors have examined that document-and other incidents from Iraq and Afghanistan-for legal accountability. They worked carefully and thoroughly, sometimes taking years to decide if prosecution was warranted or not. In one case, the Department obtained a criminal conviction of a CIA contractor. In other instances, after Justice chose not to pursue action in court, the Agency took disciplinary steps of its own.
The CIA provided the complete, unredacted IG report to the Congress. It was made available to the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2004 and to the full committees in 2006. All of the material in the document has been subject to Congressional oversight and reviewed for legal accountability.
As Director in 2009, my primary interest-when it comes to a program that no longer exists-is to stand up for those officers who did what their country asked and who followed the legal guidance they were given. That is the President's position, too. The CIA was aggressive over the years in seeking new opinions from the Department of Justice as the legal landscape changed. The Agency sought and received multiple written assurances that its methods were lawful. The CIA has a strong record in terms of following legal guidance and informing the Department of Justice of potentially illegal conduct.
I make no judgments on the accuracy of the 2004 IG report or the various views expressed about it. Nor am I eager to enter the debate, already politicized, over the ultimate utility of the Agency's past detention and interrogation effort. But this much is clear: The CIA obtained intelligence from high-value detainees when inside information on al-Qa'ida was in short supply. Whether this was the only way to obtain that information will remain a legitimate area of dispute, with Americans holding a range of views on the methods used. The CIA requested and received legal guidance and referred allegations of abuse to the Department of Justice. President Obama has established new policies for interrogation.
The CIA must also keep its focus on the primary responsibility of protecting the country. America is a nation at war. This Agency plays a decisive role in helping the United States meet the full range of security threats and opportunities overseas. That starts with the continuing fight against al-Qa'ida and its sympathizers. There, alongside all its other contributions, the CIA is helping our government chart a new way forward on interrogation, one in keeping with the President's Executive Order of January 22nd. You, the men and women of this great institution, do the hard work and take the tough risks that intelligence and espionage demand.
I am very proud of what you do, here and abroad, to protect the United States. Your skill, courage, commitment, and focus on mission make the CIA indispensable to the nation. It is a privilege to serve with you.
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Die Mumie: Das Grabmal des Drachenkaisers (Originaltitel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) ist ein Abenteuerfilm aus dem Jahr , der unter der. Action · In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a. Critics Consensus: With middling CG effects and a distinct lack of fun, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor finds the series past its prime. Rating : PG (for adventure and violence). The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise. The SKS rifles used by General Yang's krimidinner casino aachen appear to be Russian SKS rifles with the "sword" bayonet. General Yang is crushed like paper. The team then shot on the courtyard set of gateway to Shangri-la. The adventure of a thousand lifetimes. | <urn:uuid:37f1eed0-04c4-447a-95cc-63d9ff1e0231> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://solugas.eu/online-spiele/the-dragon-emperor.php | 2018-05-26T13:53:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867417.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526131802-20180526151802-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.668985 | 213 | [
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Gordon Strachan was overjoyed after guiding Scotland to a 1-0 victory over Estonia in his first game in charge of the national team.
"I'm glad it's all over. In 40 years of football that's the most excited and nervous I've been before a game," he said after Wednesday night's match.
"I didn't know how I would feel when I first took charge of the team.
"Now I know. It was an incredible experience. It rivalled getting my first cap as a player.
"I didn't expect that. I've done nearly everything in the game, played everywhere, but it kind of blew me away tonight.
"Getting to sleep last night wasn't easy and when I woke this morning it was 'Bang - you're on'.
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Liberals screamed like mashed cats when George Bush championed the Patriot Act in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, predicting that precious constitutional protections would be routinely violated by the Bush government.
It turns out liberals were right. But not about George Bush. He used the Patriot Act to monitor communications and transactions of suspected terrorists – particularly when the terrorist was, say, calling Pakistan.
Liberal fears that this power would be abused and turned on ordinary American citizens has turned out to be right – in the Obama administration.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama promised a domestic security force equal in funding and force to the Pentagon. This is one promise he is keeping.
The 67,000 strong Transportation Security Administration has morphed into taking nude pictures and/or engaging in full genital groping of airline passengers in the name of safety.
No other country, some more conscious of the need for airline safety than we are, does this. Holland, for example, uses an RF (instead of X-ray) based scanner (the same American company makes both kinds of scanners) which detects “anomalies” on a stick figure representation of the passenger’s body. Holland is as safe as the U.S. but does not violate the privacy of the individual.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states in relevant part: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons … against unreasonable searches and seizures … shall not be violated, and no warrant shall be issued, but upon probable cause … describing the place to be searched, and the person … to be seized.”
Obama’s shredding the Bill of Rights seems deliberate and to have a political purpose.
The Department of Homeland Security (the agency which includes the TSA) put out an alert to all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. in April, 2009, requesting they keep an eye out for potential terrorists like returning veterans and pro-life or pro-gun political opponents of the new regime.
Reporting on the TSA “nudie” scanners and genital groping has already landed a CNN reporter on the TSA’s terrorist “watch list,” along with other opponents of the regime. Nixon’s “enemy list” lives again.
And the TSA issue is only the most well-known example. Consider what else the Obama government is doing to shred liberty.
In a Wired.com article, a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request resulted in the revelation that the Justice Department under Eric Holder was issuing “Hotwatch” orders allowing the real-time tracking of Americans through their use of credit cards, grocery store loyalty cards, car rentals and travel reservations without notifying the card owner or first getting a warrant from a court as required. These “orders” are justified, says the Justice Department, because they are in connection with a “criminal investigation.”
Until Obama, every other president has been required to show “probable cause” of criminal activity to a judge and obtain a warrant before spying on you or placing a tap on your phone or using the more modern methods now available to track your actions and whereabouts.
The Justice Department document describes how federal agents write their own subpoena to credit card companies to track your purchases, then get a court order, not to justify the search under the Fourth Amendment, but to prevent the credit card company from notifying you that the government is spying on you.
This lawlessness by the feds has crept into investigation of everyday crimes.
The Soto brothers were arraigned in federal court in Connecticut this year on bank robbery charges. Their attorney sought to suppress the evidence against them because the FBI had ordered phone companies to turn over records on 180 other people (phone numbers taken from the Sotos’ cell phones) so that the feds could monitor their calls and their whereabouts without their knowledge and without a warrant. This “dragnet” surveillance of American citizens not suspected of any crime is illegal.
The Obama Justice Department disagreed, telling the judge in the Soto case that warrantless tracking of Americans is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell phone use!
According to a March 2010 article at Consumerist.com, the Centers for Disease Control mined shopper loyalty cards to trace food purchases by individuals to find the sources of salmonella contamination without notifying any of the shoppers who owned those cards. As with the TSA groping your privates, the CDC claimed public safety required their illegal “search.”
What’s next? A CDC agent at my door asking about that bag of Doritos and six pack of beer I bought to go with Sunday’s NFL game? “Don’t you know Michelle is worried about obesity?”
The Obama regime is also continuing a Bush claim of a “border exception” to the Fourth Amendment to justify seizing laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices without a warrant from American citizens crossing the Canadian or Mexican border back into the U.S. Since October 2008, Customs and Border officials have searched and/or seized some 6,500 such devices.
Just as waterboarding became a rallying cry for the left against Bush when only three terrorists were actually waterboarded, warrantless tracking and spying on Americans was a liberal talking point in the anti-Bush hysteria leading up to the 2008 election. Bush did very little of it.
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Designing an effective visual identity is one of the hardest jobs of a graphic designer. Compressing a myriad of messages of an organisation or product (history, culture, attitude, philosophy etc.) into a single mark can be close to impossible. And an effective identifier shouldn’t just communicate to an audience but also be appealing when used across different media and in different sizes. A designer needs to make sure that a successful logo works even when it is stripped of any cosmetic treatment (such as shadows, colour gradients, relections and glows) and printed in one colour or used as a favicon. Coming to think of it, great logos are a rare species.
An example of a great visual identifier is this logo for The New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute designed by BRR. It is conceptually fantastic and its application (having the waterline extend outside the mark on the institute’s homepage) is surprisingly effective. With its basic forms and a neutral, sans serif typeface, it creates a powerful visual mark for the institute without any unnecessary decorative elements. The appropriation of such a powerful visual metaphor and its reinterpretation in a novel composition is brilliantly simple. It is clearly identifiable as an iceberg, without being ‘obvious’.
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Pick-up dates available:
|from 2018-05-14 to 2018-05-31|
Price (incl. tax): 600 PLN
Motorbikes and scooters are not only worth a lot, but also difficult to protect when shipped. Although, it turns out that the majority depends on how we do it and how much prior experience with shipping we had gathered. It is doable to transport a motorcycle or a moped without hussle, no doubts about that. The way you will secure it depends on the type of shipment. Owing to some useful advice you can prevent any scratches, and dents that are likely to happen when a moped or motorbike is not properly cared for.
When you are moving your motorbike using a trailer you will need four strapping belts to strap it down. If you use a trailer which is created for motorbikes or scooters, it already is equipped with the rail that stabilises the motorcycle. In this case you will need only two strapping belts. It is neccessary to use a closed hook at the ends of the belts, rather than an open one. The closed hook will not open up accidentaly during the transport.
It is also worth looking at the sharp angles or objects that may possibly rip the belts and make it impossible to safely transport your motorcycle. It's also reasonable to transport a motorcycle inside a truck. The protection and equipment required to keep the motorcycle resting safely in one place will not vary too much from other ways mentioned before. One thing that should be taken under consideration is installing the side pads to prevent any damage to the insides of the truck and other objects that may be transported with the motorbike.
There are also platforms that hooked to a car or another vehicle, can let you transport your motorbike not occupying the entire space in the truck.
It is important to check with the transport company if the equipment they provide will be enough to carry your motorcycle. For example, using a wooden platform for lifting your motorbike and loading it in a truck could pose danger to people providing the service or pedestrians passing by, but could also cause severe damage to your motorbike/motorcycle.
When posting an offer on Clicktrans you can receive a lot of great offers from shipping providers registered on Clicktrans.
Many of these companies can organise the transport, so that they can utilise the full capacity of their cars. Thanks to that, shipment gets cheaper and more eco-friendly with less and less „empty runs”.
Pick-up address and dateHintertux, A-6293, Austria
17 May 2018
Delivery address and dateBrzeg, Poland
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Fiesta Studios began over ten years ago as a project manufactured by Andrew Miller. The theory was to produce videos with the goal of simply making new friends and family laugh. After the group split up in 2007 to pursue other projects, the channel saw a resurgence of videos as Andrew Miller, Andy Amstutz, Kristin Wuensch and Danny Pelz attempt to create a “monster in the woods” series. Although this was a different tone entirely than the original Fiesta Studios content entirely, it combined these creative minds who would then go on to make up the new iteration of Fiesta Studios in 2015.
While the aim was casual with no focus on widespread marketing, something happened as you go along. We were contacted through the production studio behind “Outrageous Acts of Science” on Discovery Science channel, who planned to use our video ‘Eating a Durian Fruit’ which has been the first of several food challenges filmed that year. So, even though aim was not to get famous over the season, the group ended up getting viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on television anyway.
In 2016, Andrew Miller announced a brand new partnership with two highly experienced professionals who, as he put it, “will eventually make Fiesta Studios children name.”
Amir Hussain joins Fiesta Studios as Sound Director. Hussain, that has worked with over 200 artists worldwide in mixing, mastering and creating vocal effects for all genres of music, eagerly awaits the exciting challenges this medium provides. Hussain, who owns Amir’acle Records and contains two pending music albums releasing this coming year, also brings 20 years of related experience in the field with him.
Joey Leal, who joins Fiesta Studios as Video Effects Creative Director, brings with him 16 a lot of Multimedia expertise, including 3D modeling, animation, graphic arts, computer-generated Computer graphics, video editing, title sequence animation and web design. Leal, who graduated in 2004 from the University of Advancing Technology, also co-owned a pre-visual architecture firm named Visescape in Scottsdale, AZ, for four years.
Andrew Miller’s over 14 numerous years of video experience include directing, writing, editing, sound design, acting and producing, in countless projects including national television commercials while in the industry in Chicago.
Combined with the new partners and new website, Fiesta Studios boasts expanded web presence on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.
Fiesta Studios will build upon its reputation entertainment videos and expand outward both into existing markets and new markets as the company grows.
Fiesta Studios offers services for companies and individuals at affordable rates.
In case you are interested in working with Fiesta Studios, simply complete a request at the following page:
Product Demonstration Videos
Photo Album Compilation Videos
Event Coverage Videos
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Yesterday I received an e-mail from my Google-alerts on Mormonism. This time it alerted me to an article in MormonTimes written by Michael Ash who is on the management board for FAIR (Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research) which is obviously a pro-Mormon site.
In Mr. Ash’s article he gave his reasons why having a testimony is a necessary element in showing the validity and truth of evidence regarding the Book of Mormon. He stated that while there is no direct evidence pointing to the validity of the work he made certain to let people know that parallel evidence is a strong factor when “proving” the Book of Mormon true.
Part of his article stated that nothing in science can be proven, but something like mathematics can be as it is an absolute. I’m gonna have to disagree with Mr. Ash on this one.
I think he was trying to convey that archaeology is a science and maybe in some ways it is??? Maybe???
I have a subscription to Biblical Archaeology Review. It’s a very informative magazine that’s taught me a lot about digs; what they’ve found and what they haven’t. The one thing I learned above all else is that archaeology isn’t around to prove the bible is true. Archaeologists use the Bible to search for some things and if/when the find something then it compliments the Bible, not vice versa.
The sad thing about the Mormon Church and all of their experts that keep looking for something they’ll never find is that they’re leading an entire people group out on the same rabbit trail. Let us know your thoughts!
For more info on the evidence against Book of Mormon findings see our article here.
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DISCOVERY BAY – Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D-Discovery Bay) today announced that the Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) has begun the battle to control the spread of aquatic invasive plants that can clog Delta waterways.
DBW this week began mechanical harvesting of three types of aquatic invasive species and will soon start using herbicides to control the rest.
“As a Delta resident, I know how important it is to manage this issue and to get on top of the problem early,” Frazier said. “Maintaining navigable waterways is critical for the ecology and economy of the Delta. I’m glad the Legislature’s efforts to increase funding for aquatic invasive species treatment have allowed DBW to devote more staff and resources to this persistent problem.”
This week, DBW began mechanically harvesting water hyacinth, American spongeplant and Uruguay water primrose along waterways entering the Stockton Deep Water Channel.
On Monday, March 12, DBW may begin using herbicides to control water hyacinth, Egeria densa, South American spongeplant, Uruguay water primrose, curly-leaf pondweed, Eurasian watermilfoil, fanwort and coontail. (Exact treatment dates will depend on weather conditions and plant growth and movement.)
These aquatic invasive plants have no known natural controls in the Delta, where warm temperatures help them proliferate quickly and displace native species, DBW says. They are known to form dense mats of vegetation, creating safety hazards for boaters and obstructing navigation channels, marinas and irrigation systems. It is likely these plants will never be eradicated from Delta waters, which is why DBW operates “control” programs rather than “eradication” programs.
Last year, DBW treated 3,023 acres (210 sites) of floating aquatic vegetation and 2,967 acres (46 sites) of submersed aquatic vegetation. Mechanical harvesting efforts totaled 8.08 acres. The division anticipates drier conditions in 2018, as compared to last year, and expects to treat up to 10,400 acres.
Funding for DBW’s aquatic invasive plant control programs comes from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund, which receives revenues from boaters’ registration fees and gasoline taxes.
To report water weed sightings, subscribe for program updates or for more information regarding the control program, visit www.dbw.parks.ca.gov/AIS, or contact DBW via email at [email protected] or by phone, (888) 326-2822.
Assemblymember Frazier represents the 11th Assembly District, which includes the communities of Antioch, Bethel Island, Birds Landing, Brentwood, Byron, Collinsville, Discovery Bay, Fairfield, Isleton, Knightsen, Locke, Oakley, Pittsburg (partial), Rio Vista, Suisun City, Travis AFB, Vacaville and Walnut Grove. | <urn:uuid:2ee78b73-12c4-44ed-bf03-f2ec5a5a85f2> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://eastcountytoday.net/frazier-announces-start-of-2018efforts-to-control-spread-of-invasive-aquatic-weeds-in-delta/ | 2018-05-21T16:57:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864461.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521161639-20180521181639-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.900207 | 615 | [
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Elite Stage Management
Elite Training 2018 - Stage Management
Cirque du Soleil's own Stacey Myers, GSM at KA, leads a team to train Stage Manager candidates in the following areas:
“Being a Legal Eagle”
“Communication: A Must Have Skill Set”
“The Call of Climb and The Forest”
“Tips and Tricks for Your Tool Box” and others...
And, learn to work with Aurora (Cirque's proprietary artistic management software).
Candidates will have to attach their resume' during the application process but don't forget to bring copies to Vegas so that some of Cirque's SM staff can review it during the weekend. The staff will give advice and suggest tips for building your professional resume'.
Stacey A. Myers, General Stage Manager, KA
Stacey has been with Cirque du Soleil for over 15 years. She initially joined Alegria in Biloxi as a technician. Later Stacey went on tour with Alegria as a Stage Manager for almost 4 years during which time she became the General Stage Manager, visiting such places as Australia, Canada, and Singapore and opened the market in Mexico. Stacey is now the General Stage Manager for our resident show KÀ at the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel. She was involved with the creation of KÀ from 2004 and happily continues to face the challenges of one of Cirque du Soleil's largest shows.
Alana Clapp, General Stage Manager, Mystere
Alana began her career with Cirque du Soleil in 2009 as an intern with the Stage Management team at “O”. After graduating from the Stage and Production Management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, she returned to “O” as an Asst. Stage Manager, later serving as interim SM there. In 2012 she joined Cirque’s production of Mystere as a Stage Manager, becoming interim General Stage Manager in September 2015. | <urn:uuid:eed4f810-5c62-4aa9-9e23-f8329d7a98fe> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.usitt.org/learn/elitesm/ | 2018-05-21T16:36:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864461.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521161639-20180521181639-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.965448 | 419 | [
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Come check out Rachel Brenke, The Law Tog, as she will be giving away 50 copies of her book “The Laundry List” during the WPPI Expo at our booth each day.
You can check her out at these times: Monday, March 3 from 1-3 and Tuesday at 10:15am – ShootProof Booth #1313
Her book, The Laundry List, is a real-life practical guide to balancing family and business. She walks through setting realistic and flexible goals, choosing a workspace, balancing household commitments, and organizational tips to getting your business rocking to success.
Not only does Rachel bring this awesome guide to parents needing some life and work balance but she is also The Law Tog – a lawyer and business consultant for photographers. Through her site (www.thelawtog.com) she brings THE legal resource for photographers to find all legal information needed for their business, as well as lawyer/photographer drafted contracts for use in running a photography business.
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Hi everyone. I have a book I'm creating, and I want to sell as a digital download. The problem is people probably can find it once its on the server (Google probably index it, and anyone with the link, can download it). So I know AmazonS3 is a pretty good way, but whats a FREE alternative? I was thinking of using mediafire, and copying the straight download link to my e-commerce platform, but I found with mobile users, that link sends them to a mediafire page, thus, someone could copy the link. I'm thinking sendspace, but idk, is there any plugins, sites, or alternatives to selling digital products? Thanks in advance! | <urn:uuid:3212c6f7-7d7b-4179-8f1a-04e10a53dfc3> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/what-is-the-best-free-alternative-to-protecting-digital-downloads.565641/ | 2018-05-21T17:13:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864461.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521161639-20180521181639-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.962313 | 142 | [
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The blindness we have is the ego's heavy veil infront of the truth. How did it get there? We put it there. When we eat from a tree that has bad fruit, the results are simply bad. Pretty simple, right? The good news is we can do nothing to change the truth, it has remained the same. The light was always shining~the veil is lifted!
1 John 2:7
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Manager, New Initiatives
Karyn has more than 10 years of experience in administrative and secretarial support. Through the years, she has contributed to the smooth administrative operations of the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre and the Asia Private Equity Institute at SMU. For her current role at IIE, she manages the launch and incubation of new initiatives that benefits not only academic institutions, but also financial institutions.
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“Be so good, they can’t ignore you.” ~Steve Martin
I believe in a lot of things, but mostly, I believe in the power of the human spirit. People can make or break absolutely anything. And at the end of the day, it’s all about relationships. The following is a small list of some good people I have come to know along the way. They are doing good things that are worth your attention, collaboration and business.
Businesses In San Francisco
Karina Louise Photography
Karina is a San Francisco photographer specializing in social media and corporate head-shots. A previous photophobe turned professional photographer, she excels at taking natural portraits that highlight that special something in everyone. Most of the photography on this site was created by Karina.
Rob Smith Bodywork
Don’t let his average name fool you- there is nothing average about this massage! Rob is a truly gifted therapeutic massage therapist in San Francisco. His effortless fusion of massage therapy styles makes him a clear master, seriously fluent in everything from Deep Tissue to Shiatsu to Thai to Cranial Sacral. Providing both mobile massage and a friendly location option, Rob consistently provides the most intuitively skillful massages I have ever had. If you are in San Francisco, I can’t recommend Rob enough!
Businesses In Berlin
The Laundry Room
This full service laundry shop located in Prenzlauerberg specializes in 24 hour laundry service, dry cleaning and the incredibly friendly customer service that you might expect from a neighborhood laundry. They exist to make people’s busy lives easier and offer unparalleled attention to detail and kindness.
This business rents our holiday flats in Berlin and is a great travel resource with its comfy, central, fully furnished flats, easy going contracts and booking as well as locals only insider kind of info upon check in. It’s like having a friend in Berlin.
English Yoga Berlin
This English yoga studio in Kreuzberg provides intimate, high quality yoga classes offered by centered and knowledgeable international instructors. These yogis are not about the hype- they are the real deal.
The Primrose Practice
Sophie Frost is a caring and well-trained English speaking therapist operating her private practice in Berlin Mitte. She focuses on integrative psychology- treating people as whole individuals understanding that there are many paths to good health.
The Grinberg Professional Training Program
This bodywork training program offers a high quality education for people looking for a holistic therapeutic modality. The method itself is a kind of somatic coaching that uses body attention to change unwanted patterns and to treat chronic pain and other health issues. A truly innovative profession taught by incredibly kind and grounded folks, they offer a 3 year degree program as well as various workshops and seminars for improving overall well-being and empowering people to change their lives.
Businesses In Los Angeles
Alan Nocita: Master of Ceremonies
Alan is seasoned master of ceremonies also has a background in events coordination and non-profit fundraising, so he brings so much extra knowledge and aid to the table of every event. Beyond that, the warmth and kindness he brings along with his attention to detail and professionalism makes him an asset to any event. He is funny, sincere and great at free-styling ot make things run smoothly. If you are having an event, you want Alan to have your back (and your mic.)
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Be Like Water Tai Chi
This studio offers tai chi and qigong classes in West Los Angeles in various parks and community centers to people of all ages. Their commitment to integrative health, overall wellness and keeping their high quality classes small enough to make an individual impact is what sets this group apart. Founded by a duo of artists, there is a considerable amount of passion that goes into teaching this ancient form. | <urn:uuid:bc731b0e-3ee0-4f9e-b869-060a113f4233> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://shaleahdawnyel.com/i-recommend/ | 2018-05-22T17:13:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864837.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522170703-20180522190703-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.958975 | 861 | [
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He glanced down the red tinged passage. “I’ve heard of a stairway to heaven but I never knew there was an escalator to Hell.”
“Very funny. Just get on it.”
“Is the highway to Hell reserved for new inmates?” he asked as he stepped onto the top step. The escalator started with a jerk.
“Yeah, and the escalator is just for visitors,” she said. She stepped on behind him.
“Cool. So we aren’t staying?”
“Not if I can help it.”
It was an interminable ride down. They rode rather than walked, to preserve their energy. He hummed and eventually started singing. He transposed the lyrics to Highway to Hell with escalator. It didn’t fit.
She gave him an exasperated look. The song would be stuck in her head all day, now.
They stood on the same step, facing each other and not touching anything. It seemed safer that way. She used the time to triple check her weapons and ammunition. He watched her.
“Nobody seems to come up the other way,” he commented.
“No. Not often.”
“What makes you think we will?”
“I’ve done this before.”
“Right. I knew that.” He paused. “So you have a contact?”
“In a manner of speaking.”
“Hmmm. She doesn’t want to talk about it… so that makes it … an old boyfriend or-”
“Drop it!” she barked at him.
“-Or family,” he finished triumphantly.
He got an eye roll for that.
“Ha! I knew it!” He clapped his hands together. “Wait… fallen angels can’t have children.”
“So you can’t be Satan’s daughter, he’s a fallen angel.”
“Which Hell are we going to?” he asked with a frown.
“Now he asks. And you said it was Hell, I didn’t.”
“Shit. We must be going to the Underworld and that makes you Hades’ daughter, Macaria.”
“Yep. You know I prefer Marcie.”
Silence as he processed what she had said.
“Huh,” he said. “We should suggest they get an elevator. Although the music might make me crazy, but it would make it easier for next time.”
“Next time?” she asked with an eyebrow raise.
“My soul is in your hands,” he said.
She snorted. “More than you know.”
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Please Join Us
2014 LightSource Unlimited OMNI Golf Classic!
Monday, June 9, 2014
Royal Melbourne Country Club
4700 Royal Melbourne Drive, Long Grove
10:30am Shotgun Start
OMNI Youth Services and LightSource Unlimited invite you to attend the 24th Annual OMNI Golf Classic. This event features a fabulous day of golf on a private course to support OMNI’s mission to develop responsible youth and strengthen families throughout the northwest suburbs.
Event Features Include:
*18 Holes of Golf on a Private
Course Carts & Forecaddies
*Bloody Mary Bar
*Lunch & Dinner
*Fabulous Tee Gifts
*Contests and Raffles
*Celebrities Including Brian Urlacher!
*Silent and Live Auctions
*Three Hole-In-One Cars on the Course
*Making a Difference in Kids’ Lives!
Contact Chrissy at 847.353.1606 or [email protected] for more information or to register over the phone!
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|Casts||:||Sam Rockwell,Kevin Spacey.|
|Genres||:||Science Fiction, Drama.|
|Production Country||:||United Kingdom.|
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With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.
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Wrotham Clone of Pinot Noir
The Wrotham clone was discovered by accident as a wild grapevine growing on a stone wall near the village of
Wrotham in southeast England. The softly furred leaves were unlike the Pinot Noir of France, but the fruit
clusters were similar. The wild vine displayed a resistance to powdery mildew. DNA studies showed it was
identical to Pinot Noir. It has been speculated that the Romans brought cuttings of this vine to England 2,000
years ago. Dr. Richard Grant Peterson brought cuttings to the Napa Valley in 1980 and planted a two-acre
vineyard propagated from this single wild vine. To this day, this is the only Wrotham Pinot Noir vineyard in
The earliest vintages (2000 through 2005) produced only a Blanc de Noir style sparkling wine. Still Pinot Noir
appeared in 2006 and 2007. Dr. Peterson has now decided to produce Richard Grant Wrotham Pinot
Sparkling Wine and Richard Grant Wrotham Clone of Pinot Noir in alternate years because of the small
number of vines available.
Richard Peterson, now 76, is a well-respected senior winemaker whose accomplishments date back to the
early days of E. & J. Gallo Winery when he directed the transition from an emphasis on sweet wines to dry
table wines and taught the Gallos how to craft sparkling wines. In 1968, he replaced legendary winemaker
Andre Tchelistcheff as winemaker at Beaulieu Vineyard in the Napa Valley and fashioned a number of notable
wines including Pinot Noirs. His most notable achievement was designing the steel barrel racking system that
allows wineries to safely stack barrels using a forklift. Today he is a viticulture and enology consultant for
several high quality wineries in California.
2006 Richard Grant Wrotham Clone Napa Valley Pinot Noir
14.2% alc., 516
Reddish-violet robe. Complex and fascinating aroma profile featuring
berries, pomegranate, prune, dried herbs, wildflowers, wet leaf, and vanilla. The
wine is medium-bodied with juicy raspberry flavor very prominent. A hint of raisin
and spice adds interest. Moderate tannins and lively acidity with a refreshing tang
on the finish. A unique wine of great interest.
Richard Grant wines are sold on the website at www.richardgrantwine.com. Both the 2000 ($75) and 2001
($50) sparkling wines are available. The full Wrotham Pinot story and Peterson’s numerous accomplishments
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Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F Driver for Windows 7, xp, 8 and others- Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F the Improvement of Samsung Xpress SL-M2070 Samsung states that the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F is the new generation from the previous printer, the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070. in fact, the Xpress SL-M2070 does not bring a fax capability but now you can experience four document functions with the Xpress SL-M2070F.
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Your business document jobs will meet with their right partner. The printer is also geared up with advanced features in order to perform great print performance. In addition, you will find a control panel set with a 2-line LCD screen. The LCD enables to show the printer setting and operation. The Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F also features eco-friendly functions like One-Touch Eco Button and Easy Eco Driver
One-Touch Eco Button provides economical print options such as a printing with toner-saving, skipping black pages. Besides, Easy Eco Driver helps you to save more inks up to 20%. Moreover, the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F supplies with Samsung 600 MHz and RAM 128 MB. It offers you with powerful print performance.
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How to Install Driver and Software for Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F:Manual Installation of Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F Driver
For your printer to properly work, the driver for the printer must be set up first. You can follow the steps provided below on a computer running on Microsoft Windows.
- Once the download completes, you can begin the process of installing the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F driver on your computer. Find out where the downloaded file is stored. Once you find the file, click on it. Hint: A driver file’s name typically ends with .exe.
- You can either double-click on the file or right-click on it then choose “Run as Administrator”. Wait for some time while the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F driver file is being extracted. Once the extraction completes, you can move on to the next step.
- The installation process should commence at this point, if you had followed all of the instructions given on the computer screen. You must follow all of the instructions to properly install the driver on your computer.
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- Find the Start menu on your computer and click on it.
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- Double-click on the Samsung Xpress SL-M2070F and select “Uninstall/Change” option. Further instructions will pop up on the screen for you to follow properly. | <urn:uuid:1d3db543-7350-4996-b15c-11e232a65533> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.driversamsung.org/2018/05/samsung-xpress-sl-m2070f-driver-windows.html | 2018-05-26T17:14:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867841.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526170654-20180526190654-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.827643 | 965 | [
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“Structuring,” as readers may recall, is the federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them under a threshold such as $10,000 above which banks have to report transactions to the government. Structuring is unlawful whether or not it occurs in conjunction with any other legal offense, as opposed to being motivated by, say, a desire to keep a low profile in general or a sentiment that the government already keeps tabs on too many innocent activities. Nor is there any requirement that the person be aware that there is a law banning structuring; someone who gets wind that transactions over $10,000 are reportable, and decides “What’s up with that? I’ll just make $9,000 deposits”), has broken the Bank Secrecy Act. Indeed, the federal government instructs banks to report suspicious patterns of sub-threshold deposits, and not to warn customers that it is doing so.
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Meaning of Teddy Bear Tattoo
A lot of people adore the bears tattoos. Realistic bears have been noticed in the list of the most popular tattoos ever. These animals have different meanings in different cultures. Native Americans, inter alia, suppose a bear to be a symbol of freedom, spiritual things and the life energy. In Japan, a bear implies wisdom, strength, and patience. Chinese people believe that these creatures are connected with the Yan energy, in other words, with power, masculinity, and supremacy. Thus, if generalize all the cultures, we can assume that bears tattoos are the signs of the highest degree of domination, danger, and might.
Well, there is another side of the Moon. The bears can be as cute, as the fluffy kittens, and as adorable, as our playful puppies. Little cartoon bears look docile and friendly – in contrary to the real ones. Tattoos with such cuties soothe those, who see them and made everyone smile. Who might not like such images? They usually imply childhood, children, and optimistic lifestyle. A Teddy Bear tattoo does not mean that their owners are childish, windy and frivolous – they usually just want to cheer up their friends, have a good sense of humor and remember the young ages.
This a little bit sad Teddy Bear can touch even a bulletproof soul! The bright cyan bow-tie makes a colorful accent, and the purple wings are totally ready to fly. Such an image can imply a baby of the tattoo owner and always remind about the fact that children can feel uncomfortable and sad.
If you want to hide a Teddy Bear tattoo – make it on a foot! We guarantee that this warm picture will cheer you up every time you notice it. By the way, pink flowers add a feminine hint to the bear’s message, so, girls, do not be shy to get such a tattoo with a perfect mood for each day.
Persons with the high degree of empathy often suffer from deep feelings, that exhaust them. Several years ago a lot of such people formed the subculture called “emo”. Even today, when the number of this group participants is decreased, the emo flow still remains a significant time of one’s life. If you respect the way they think or live or used to be a part of this subculture, you can make a Teddy Bear tattoo – a little animal will soften the tragic emo message.
Once “me to you bears” have created a real boom on the Internet. Probably, everyone sent at least one message with this soft bear to the beloved person. Now they can be met rarely, but still are images of true cuteness and kindness. Tattoos with these bears are even rarer, however, they can raise one’s mood as if they were really fluffy cuties.
Outline tattoos can be different: for example, this baby bear looks a bit sketchy and this perfect negligence gives an image a special charm.
This fatty looks so adorable, in spite of the tattoo style that was chosen! The skillful tattoo master filled the eyes of this Teddy Bear with emotions, making the colorless image alive.
Do you remember a Teddy Bear you had in the childhood? The owner of this tattoo will certainly remember every amusing thing that is connected with the toy because this image is full of home coziness and sweet memories.
Parents, who adore their children in the highest possible degree, often want to depict the names of their babies in the form of a tattoo. This one is made in realistic style: we see, how sophisticatedly the master painted the shadows and how cool the chosen font of a child’s name matches the whole ink picture.
What can be better, than a Teddy Bear tattoo? A Teddy Bear tattoo with the balloons! We believe, such a choice is a double shoot for really optimistic persons. Moreover, here balloons play an important role: there are the babies’ names and their dates of birth. What a lovely way to show the love to the children!
Well, there are a bit serious and even thrilling Teddy Bears among different cuties; but just look at this sophisticated and amazingly detailed work! It is another creative interpretation that is worthy of attention. Keep this cool tattoo far from the children, otherwise, they would be really surprised because of the unusual look of their favorite toy. | <urn:uuid:94c309be-e88e-4efa-bc53-576d766248a9> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://inkprofy.com/teddy-bear-tattoos/ | 2018-05-21T20:32:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864544.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521200606-20180521220606-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.946651 | 896 | [
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A new 6-way fuse distribution box has joined Narva’s popular 12-way product, providing all the many great benefits of the larger box, but catering to applications requiring fewer circuits. The 6-way box is a compact and professional solution to eliminating messy wires particularly in RV, caravan and marine applications where limited earth connections are available.
Among the features are in-built common earth returns enabling accessories to be wired back to the fuse box using a single negative feed point, connected to a vehicle’s battery.
The unit also incorporates dual power inputs which allow accessories to be run from two separate circuits. As an alternative, outputs can be bridged to operate accessories from the one circuit or power source.
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$AUDJPY tumbles to 95.70 low, Copper headlines dominate
Topic: $AUDJPY tumbles to 95.70 low, Copper headlines dominate
FXStreet (Bali) - AUD/JPY is selling off aggressively in Asia, as news of copper crashing over 8.5% weigh on the pair, which combined with a strong Yen during Tokyo, adds extra pressure, leading the pair to test solid bids around 95.65/70 key support.
Technical analysis - Westpac
"The 2014 top was confirmed by a bearish monthly reversal candle in December, as it was at previous tops above 102 in 2008 and 2013. The 2014 top was accompanied by a negative LT momentum shift. Note that the 5 previous negative LT momentum shifts, since 2008, have pre-empted a material decline (minimum 16%). This bearish backdrop highlights a minimum decline towards 91.80/00 in the coming 4-6 weeks. A weekly close below 95.85 is the next bearish trigger to watch." | <urn:uuid:43c15a9c-5df3-479f-b34e-961bdae96715> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://mt4talk.com/viewtopic.php?id=2449 | 2018-05-23T20:52:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865809.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523200115-20180523220115-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.928023 | 207 | [
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0.8947,
0.9501,
0.9044,
0.9186
] |
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