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For example, William Hsu, SVP and Chief Product Officer at AT&T Interactive, indicated that the operators was looking at how to move beyond the YellowPages model of advertising to something more valuable and contextual such as television advertising. For him and for some other members of the panel, the opportunity presented by mobility was in being able to understand and track exactly how an ad on a phone might influence the end customers. Brian Wong, the CEO of Kiip, explained that a campaign his company did for a “major national consumer electronics retailer with a yellow label,” resulted in 15 percent of people who won a coupon actually going into the store and buying something. Being able to track those results and offer that to advertisers can be confusing for ad firms but is attractive to the product company that hired the ad firm. However, today, we’re still in a web-dominated world in part because ad firms and their clients understand that model. The result is developers who are trying to game the system and place ads next to areas on-screen where a consumer might click– even if it is an accidental click. Zephrin Lasker, CEO and co-founder of Pontiflex, noted that 50 percent of clicks are accidental. This obviously upsets consumers, who don’t want to interrupt their gameplay with an accidental click, but it’s also elevating the click-through rate to levels it may not deserve. Hsu reminded the panel that click-throughs are really a proxy for how an ad might help the advertisers’ business grow. He predicted that in a year we will be able to track how an ad converts to traffic in a store and within 24 months we will be able to track it all the way through to purchase and the size of the purchase. The rest of the panel was dominated by the idea that mobile can lead to the creation of an entirely new type of advertisement. While Wong called it “voodoo technology,” it’s clear that the combination of location, the deeply personal nature of a mobile device and better data tracking can create an entirely new and more effective way to get people to buy things. Unfortunately, no one on the panel discussed how users might react to all this high-tech effort to part them from their cash.
Apple’s iPhone 4S is on a roll this holiday in the UK, where it accounted for almost a quarter of all smartphone sales during the four weeks leading up to Dec. 9, according to research firm GfK (via Financial Times). The iPhone brand performed well in general, with five versions of the phone appearing in the top 15 handsets sold during the first week of December. Other manufacturers who did well include Samsung, which took the second spot for the week prior to Dec. 9 with its Galaxy S II Android-powered smartphone. BlackBerry also saw sales boosts ahead of the holidays, but Microsoft and Nokia didn’t score with Lumia Windows Phone 7 handsets, failing to crack the top 10 during the four weeks covered in the study. The performance of the 4S is great news for Apple, since it means the iPhone withstood the arrival of attractive new entries from competitors with relative ease. Chinese manufacturers entering the market with low-cost options like Huawei and ZTE also didn’t seem to take too much wind out of Apple’s sails, perhaps due in part to the continued strong performance of Apple’s nearly three-year-old iPhone 3GS, which reduces the cost of entry for iPhone ownership by being available for free with contract or lowering the minimum monthly requirement on contract commitments through some UK carriers. Analysts have lately been revising their predictions for holiday iPhone sales upward in light of this strong performance. Predictions for how many iPhones Apple will ship during the current quarter range from 28 to 31 million units, and Apple CEO Tim Cook himself said during the company’s mid-October earnings call that the Apple is “very confident” it will “set an all-time record” for iPhone sales during the holiday quarter.
I have been doing a lot of reading, praying and learning about trusting the Lord. One thing mentioned in some of the teaching I have been reading is remembering to give testimony. Remembering what the Lord has done. Sharing that testimony. I have done some of that in other posts, like this one, but I want to go a little deeper in my life this time around. Grab your favorite seat and come along with me. Deuteronomy 6:17 says: “…keep my commandments, keep my statues and keep my testimonies” paraphrase taken from A New Thing Ministries Motivation by Kim Potter Testimonies. The Word of our Testimonies. Revelation 12:11 says, “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…” I desire to be an overcomer in many areas and many ways. So here I take a few moments to share my testimonies. My parent did not have a lot of money when I was growing up, but there was a season where the Lord called them to put me in private Christian schools. And while they were not as expensive as they are now, it was definitely a sacrifice. Money was very tight, and part way through my 8th grade year, the money just wasn’t there; I was headed back to public school. It came down to the day I cleaned out my locker. Friends had planned a going away party, I had handed off some of my chapel duties to others. I went home heavy hearted. My mother met me at the door. Someone had anonymously paid my tuition for the rest of the year. I went on several mission trips to Mexico and a couple other places in high school. The fundraising was always up to me. The Lord provided each and every time. Since Junior High, I knew I wanted to go to a private Christian College, Spring Arbor, and I knew I would be on my own. I got some scholarships and grants, but at the end of it all there was a shortfall. At the final hour, another grant was found. I could go. Even when I got there I was going to be paying a great deal by working on campus. The amount was almost crushing. But I went each month to make a payment. The second or third month I was told by the business office that I did not have any balance. Another scholarship, that I was completely unaware of, had come through. I owed no more. After college, I did not find a job right away, rather, I went on the mission field for the summer. The Lord provided every penny of the support I had to raise, not just for one, but for two 4 month tours. I got very sick with some asthma issues while travelling. They continued to give me a great deal of trouble for several years. But when I got really sick with the Multiple Sclerosis, the Lord took the breathing issues and they have never returned. But I traded the asthma for severe issues with the MS that I had been diagnosed with at 15 years old. As the doctors pointed out, the asthma could kill me while the MS would not, but that is little comfort when you are in and out of the hospital 15 times in 3 years in your mid-20s. I was in and out of a wheelchair and kept getting sicker. But through it all the Lord was faithful. He used the times in the hospital to get my attention back on Himself, until the day He chose to put my MS in remission, where it has been for 6 years. Yes, medication helped, pregnancy helped, nursing my babies helped, but the Lord is the true Miracle giver. He has brought me from a wheelchair to chasing three kids and training for 5k races. He heard my heart cry for a family and has given me a wonderful husband and three beautiful girls. They grow me, challenge me and bless me. His ear was inclined to me when I begged Him to turn my breech baby, Patrice, back to proper birth position. He used all our efforts and she was born naturally and beautifully. Over the last year He has heard my cry many times when the darkness of postpartum depression threatened to overtake me. He raised up an army of people to pray for me, support me and love me. He used people I trusted to lead me to those who could help me find the road to reclaim my mental health. He is so faithful. He deserves all the glory. He deserves the word of my testimony.
1- They Get Ready in Seconds We have all suffered the never-ending female rituals of getting ready. Intricate mating face-painting (otherwise known as makeup), hair-dos that look like a dismembered cat, clothes that are too tight, short and expensive to have fun in, and of course, heels that could puncture the jugular of an elephant from a kilometer away. Dogs? Just show them the leash in your hand and they’re out of the door like you after a booty call. 2- You Can Be the Alpha Male The last thing you want is a horde of dateless feminists bashing you for being a chauvinist or whatever. And if you’re lucky enough to have normal girls around you, who can get a date if they want to, you must never win an argument. This is an unspoken rule, and if you’re a sly enough guy, you’ll know to roll over on your back and lift your paws up early on in the argument, to get it over with and go clubbing wherever you booked. That’s what is called a win-win situation, where your overcompensation for gender equality is quenched, and ultimately everyone is happy! Dogs? One command, and they’re on their backs with their paws up. All hail the alpha male (which can also be a female, for all you feminists cracking your comment-typing fingers) 3- They Attract Girls If you’re walking down the street with your girlfriend, well maybe not a street, but your campus for example, or in a club, you might as well cease to exist for other girls. Again, hopefully, if you are a decent and normal female human being, you ought to think that. Imagine all your missed chances guys… Shame… Dogs? Dogs are always cute, unless they’re slobbering over everyone of course, so walking your dog down the street, will attract girls among other annoying people, like kids. They want to pet and talk gibberish like “oobobobnoon pooshiepooshik”, and as your dog is thinking “seriously?” That’s when you can work your charm and win her heart! 4- They Don’t Know How to Use the Remote No matter how smart your pooch is, it won’t be able to decipher the machine I use to hack into cable networks. Girls though, do have that capability, and usually it winds down to Oprah or Syrian-dubbed Turkish melodramas full of what the Turks believe are “subliminal” messages, and the Arabs edit everything naughty into the opposite thing and quote Allah, like “Allah wouldn’t want this so I definitely won’t do it” So, unless you’re up for failed attempts at brainwashing you into converting to fundamentalist Islam, or forgetting the Turks are bad, or regretting you weren’t born a fat, cynical, black woman, then let your girlfriend have the remote. Dogs? They can’t even use the remote control, and as a result will watch all the gore, explosions, sci-fi, football and racing you need to lead a happy existence. 5- You Can Go Out Without Them There’s an awesome party, beautiful music and sexy people. Problem? Your girlfriend hates the venue, doesn’t like the music or the sexy people there are her sworn enemies. So, if you want to do things proper, you don’t go either. Solution? Stay home and get bored. State? Miserable. Dogs? They trust you enough to let you go, knowing you’d eventually come back. They sit at home, wait the long hours, only to welcome you with bucket-loads of unconditional love. And that’s why dogs are more lovable than girlfriends! The above is meant to illicit laughter, not provoke or offend anyone. They also don’t necessarily reflect my personal experiences and thoughts.
Today is my birthday. I'm 60 years old! This feels strange. I am surprised at how fast time flies. I don't feel 60. OTOH, I really enjoyed my 50s and felt like I learned a lot about myself in the last decade. I also learned to appreciate my life and my world more than ever. I began to feel more settled in where I fit into the world. Maybe the 60s will continue this nice trend. I got a couple of "Celebrate 60 Verbs" the other day: I like the word "Beckon." I don't think it was on my list. All of these are great additions to my future Word Quilt. I'll be making more verbs for myself next week after some family gatherings are done. On to my new decade of exploration! P.S. The blocks are from Kim and LeeAnn. Thanks!
I am craving looking like a rockstar everyday this fall! I just want to be the most fabulous fashion diva on the bus on my way to work, rocking out to the tunes on my ipod! I can't wait, now I just have to get the pieces to make this happen. Here are two ideas I have. Thursday, August 27, 2009 My friend Jen, and I went to a dance off at this club that I know as The Royal Unicorn. To be honest I can not even remember what its new name is but the renovations they have done are amazing! I miss the old version though. It was a bit grungey and sorta ghetto but it was the most fun I had ever had and the dancing was wicked! This new version doesn't have the same feel too it, less soul. The dance off was fun, there was even some rapping, which I, of course, mocked and they rappers thought it was funny, my mocking, if they only knew. This was the first time I have worn this dress and I am in love. I got it at True Value Vintage, it had a rip which I had repaired and now it is perfect! Can't wait to wear it again. Dress: True Value Vintage $40 (1960's) Shoes: H&M $40 Cuff: Value Village $2 Watch: Yard Sale $1 Like my dancing? Friday, August 21, 2009 Recently all of my days seemed to be the never-ending kind so when I leave me house in the morning I am dress to go to whatever event I am headed to after work. On Wednesday it was my friend Rebecca's birthday which was at Corduroy Lounge on Cornwall St. Great place, cheap drinks and good foods and usually live music! In fact my friend, Keith's band "Warless" was supposed to play but the night before a neighbour complain and now they are getting a new licence to let them play live music late. So the music will be back next week. Also I finally got around to sewing something I can actually wear with my sewing machine. I am in love. I am planning so many things to make in my head that it hurts a little. I made this skirt after seeing a skirt I really wanted at Zara. It was $70 dollars and I just couldn't do did. I got all the supplies at Dressew and in total this skirt cost me $8 and 2 hours of my time. What to make next? Also does anyone know of any sewing classes in Vancouver? I think I need a bit of a refresher course since I haven't really don't any pattern sewing since high school. Jean Jacket: Bootlegger $40 T-shirt: Dynamite, two for $18 Skirt: Made it myself!! $8 Shoes: Aldo $60 Necklace: Aldo $10 Belt: Thrifted from a friend's sister Purse: Thrifted $2 I also want to point out that the only new item in this outfit is the skirt. I have had everything else for years. It just goes to show that your can rearrange your wardrobe in a million different ways and sometimes just one piece is enough of a refresher. "Shopping your closet" is something I have been doing my whole life, not just since it became a recession trend. Tuesday, August 18, 2009 I don't know about you guys but I do not have a car. I take the bus, skytrain, ride my bike or walk. I find I do not need a car, but there are moments. Like Sunday night when a group of my friend and I head out for Indian Food. We were told we had to go to the Original Tandoori King which is right next to the Tandoori King. I'm thinking "ok so it on Kingsway near 49th...ish." NO! It is at Fraser and 65th! I would not even know how to get there by transit. Thankfully I have friends with cars! Oh and it was TOTALLY worth the trek, I would even figure out how to get there on transit and go again! Here is what I wore: Jacket: Le Chateau $40 Blouse: H&M $20 Jeans: Zara $50 Boots: Winners $50 Purse: Thrifted $2 Saturday, August 15, 2009 Every Friday after work a "gang" of us commandeer a table and have food and drinks. It started about a month ago and has turned into a little ritual that I really look forward too. Its a great way to end off the week. I like to dress well on the way to and from work anyways but now on Fridays I up the game a little as you never know where the night will take you...even though it usually take me dancing! Here is what I wore this Friday: Cardigan: GAP $50 (the only thing I have ever bought at the GAP) Blouse: H&M $15 Pants: H&M $10 Shoes: Army&Navy $10 Belt: H&M $15 Purse: Vintage Gift from my friend, Dusty Earrings: Le Chateau $10 Ever Present Ipod Touch: Christmas Gift from my friend, Justin Photos taken out in the back alley behind my work! Glam and Grunge! What a ritual you look forward too? The rain has return to the city of Vancouver and oddly enough I am loving it! A little bit of cooler weather is fine by me. Yes, I would love to spend Saturday laying around at the beach but I also love layers and fall fashion. I have made my first fall purchase and I was excited to see rain as it is a pair of Hunter rainboots! I have wanted them for 3 years and so how always talk myself out of them so I finally bit the bullet and bought them. They are slightly pricey but the cost per wear in this city is pennies! Hat: Gift from my friend's John (RIP) Jacket: From Hong Kong $20 Sweater: Le Chateau (got it in high school) $20 Jeans: Zara $50 Rainboots: Hunter at Gravity Pope $150 Scarf: Le Chateau $20 See puddle jumping make me happy!! Sunday, August 9, 2009 Last Sunday I spent the day on a patio watching the Vancouver Pride Parade! I love this parade, it is in fact one of my favorite days of the year! I gather up a group and camped out at the Cactus Club on Robson, with some food and beers, yes I know it should have been martinis or bellinis but its a marathon of a day! Ali rocking the Pride! Jen and Serg all glammed up for the occasion! Can you believe she got that dress at the Quick Nickel at Davie and Denman? After the parade we all went into the GAP dress up, you should have seen some of the looks. It was awesome! Christian and I in our Pride gear, I had to support all my "fairy" friends with the wings! It is such a fun day, and how often in the summer is it totally normal to walk all around downtown with wings and a tutu on? We went for sushi on Davie and the vibe was so FRIENDLY. I wish all of Vancouver could keep that vibe for whole year!
Weight Stereotyping: How People Judge You Based on Your Body Posted by Katie Ostoich on May 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM Nobody said it was fair, but it’s happening all day everyday. Weight stereotyping is harsh…and everywhere. Discrimination against heavier people is well documented—and, sadly, rising: a full 66 percent in the past decade, according to a Yale University study. But could this kind of bias extend to women of all sizes? And are people looking at your body and making assumptions about your life—and your personality? To find out, Glamour commissioned a survey of women ages 18 to 40, designed with guidance from Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D., director of research and weight stigma initiatives at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. They asked respondents to imagine a woman whom they had never met and knew nothing about except that she was “overweight” or “thin”; they then had to choose from pairs of words, like ambitious or lazy, to describe her. They could select neither, but fewer than half did—a telling statistic, according to Puhl. “Weight,” she says, “is one of the last acceptable prejudices.” And not only is this bias acceptable, the results of their survey show—it’s out of control. The results: Heavy women are pegged as…“lazy” 11 times as often as thin women; “sloppy” nine times; “undisciplined” seven times; “slow” six times as often. While thin women are seen as…“conceited” or “superficial” about eight times as often as heavy women; “vain” or “self-centered” four times as often; and “bitchy,” “mean,” or “controlling” more than twice as often. Even the “good” labels are unfair. An overweight woman may be five times as likely to be perceived as “giving” as a skinny one. “But it just fits into the stereotype that thin women are not that way,” explains Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D. “It’s still putting women in a box based on their body size.” So it seems no women are free from body judgement. And almost all of us are guilty of participating. And these days the body-acceptance movement has inadvertently added another negative spin. Glamour writes, “Think about it: If ‘real women have curves,’ as one popular mantra asserts, then a woman without curves is by extension unreal, not to be trusted. “Not only is a skinny woman assumed to be tight with her calories and, therefore, tight with her emotions,” says Amy Farrell, Ph.D., a professor of women’s and gender studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and author of Fat Shame, ‘she’s also pushed away as someone who is not sharing in the same struggles as the rest of us. People look at her and say, “You’re not friend material; you’re alien.”’” Historically, culture has been kinder to curvy women. For much of the past 700 years at least, a “robust” female figure meant health, wealth, and sensuality. But starting about 100 years ago, when food became more plentiful in this country and Americans began chasing thinness as a sign of wealth, extra weight became linked with inferiority. So while plus-size women may still be considered warm (hence their frequent casting as cheerful, supportive rom-com sidekicks), they are also seen as ineffective, lazy, ill-kempt, and unprofessional. How do we stop all this weight stereotyping? First, challenge the way people judge you. If someone presumes to know your personality based on the way you look, have a ready comeback. And question the way you judge others. If you see a thin woman and your mind leaps to something negative, question what’s really going on with you in that moment. Chances are, you’re channeling an inner self-esteem issue. Finally, and maybe most importantly, hit pause the next time you find yourself sizing someone up. Every time you stop weight-judging in its tracks, you help the world see women for who we really are. Are you guilty of body judging? Or have you been unfairly judged? Share your stories in the comments!
I wish to get the results of a WMS GetFeatureInfo request as a JSON instead of the table that comes up by default. Out of the box, the only options for the response from a WMS GetFeatureInfo are the table, XML and text. Update The 'hack' given below is necessary only for Geoserver versions 2.2.x and below. With version 2.3.0 and upwards, Geoserver can return JSON for WMS GetFeatureInfo request natively. End of Update There is an open feature request for this on geoserver's bug tracker. Using custom GetFeatureInfo Templates, it is possible to generate a Json response from Geoserver. You can follow these steps: 1]Go to the following folder 2] Create 3 empty text files with the following names: header.ftl, content.ftl & footer.ftl 3] Open the content.ftl file, and copy the following free-marker code: 4] Save the file and now make the WMS getFeatureInfo request. You'll see that the response is in JSON. This capability now exists in GeoServer 2.2.4. Here's how to request JSON output:
By Guest Blogger, Quiniece Sheppard If we had asked ourselves this question “what would Jesus do”, then many of us wouldn’t be in the situation we are today. If we hadn’t taken prayer out of schools, separated church and state, married the man or woman that God told us not to marry, had pre-marital sex that lead to a STD or unplanned pregnancy, and the list could go on, then we would be in a much better place emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially than we are right now. We should not only ask ourselves “what would Jesus do”, but also “what Jesus won’t do” (WJWD), so we can fully understand the ramifications of our actions. I wonder what happened to the “wwjd” bracelets, t-shirts, hats, etc. that we all wore as a sign and symbol of hope and faith in God. Once upon a time, the slogan was so popular that even those who didn’t know Jesus wanted to get the paraphernalia because everyone was saying the slogan and buying the symbolic meanings behind what it stood for. For many of us, life happened and we got distracted with our problems and circumstances surrounding us, so we no longer asked ourselves “wwjd”. We had a situation and we responded or reacted to it the best we knew how and we just didn’t consider what Jesus would do. If we were to be honest, we simply did what we wanted to do without thinking twice about consulting God. I know I am guilty of reacting out of my flesh many times instead of first going to the source, which is Jesus Christ. I know some of us reading this are like the bible character named Job found in the Book of Job who didn’t do anything wrong. We played by the rules and lived a righteous life and now we are going through a lot of tough situations. We shouldn’t act like Job’s friends and pre judge anyone for all the bad things going on in his/her life right now and say that it had to be his fault for all the bad things happening in their lives right now. No, that’s not right. Scripture tells us that tribulation and trials come to make us stronger, so they happen to all of us at one time in our lives. We will all face some difficulty just like our perfect savior, Jesus Christ, did. God rewarded Job for his faithfulness and he gave him double for his trouble and I know that if we continue the good fight of faith and remain steadfast, unmovable and unshakably in Jesus Christ, he will reward us. The bible record that Jesus is a rewarder of those who diligently seek after Him so our living righteous for God is not in vain. Let’s not do it for our own selfish gain to get the blessings of God, but let’s do it so that others may know that Jesus Christ is real by looking at the way we live and conduct ourselves. Others are watching us whether we know it or not, so let’s really give them something to see. So, let’s go back to consistently asking ourselves “what would Jesus do” and “what Jesus wouldn’t do” when we are faced with dark and gloomy situations and I bet that He’ll meet us right where we are and not only tell us what it is He will do, but He will also guide us to help us do what it is He is calling us to do. So, if you don’t know what Jesus would do or want us to do, then here it is. Matthew 22: 37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all our mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it” you shall love our neighbor as yourself.” Finally, I want to leave you with a scripture I always end with in my books. “The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.” Phillippians 4:9. Love your sis in Christ, Quiniece Sheppard is the founder of I am the Chase Ministries, LLC: a single women’s ministry whose mission is to promote abstinence and celibacy, and founder of Chasing Books Christian Book Club. Quiniece is also the author of “The Seven Deadly Sexual Sins” and “Before the Lights Go Out:11 Keys to Achieve Real Physical Intimacy”. For more information about Quiniece’s ministry and books, please visit her website at www.iamthechase.com. WWJD?
Hanako, a robot designed in Japan, has a mouthful of sensors that let her realistically react to the pokings and proddings of dentists in training. Let me be clear, dentists in training: no robot can loathe you like I do. While I will begrudgingly admit that the "polish" phase of the dentist check-up is not altogether unpleasurable, one of the things that essentially defines us as humans is our general reluctance to visit the dentist. Most people will go their entire life without finding themselves in a position more vulnerable than the one they're in every six months at the dentist—prone, mouth open, with a steel hook clanking around your chompers. Hanako, the combined effort of three universities and a robotics manufacturer, salivates, sneezes, and shouts her displeasure if the dental student doesn't wield that hook gently enough. The robot has can open and shut her mouth, wiggle her tongue, and roll her eyes to express discomfort. Don't get me wrong. I applaud the effort to give dental students more realistic responses in their training. But they should know that no robot will ever squirm quite like I do. [CrunchGear]
You brush. You floss. You swish some burning mint-laced liquid around in your mouth until it hurts. You go to bed with an oral hygiene gold star, and you wake up with white gloop connecting your lips and some vile odor emanating from it. Wtf happens in our mouths while we sleep? The short answer is that bacteria love the wet, warm, Petri dish you've provided them. The multiplying bacteria release stinky compounds (some 600 or so of them) that make a mess of the place, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Good dental hygiene is about the best head start you can get. Toothpaste and mouthwash create an unfriendly environment for bacteria attempting to multiply with ingredients like xylitol, triclosan, and essential oils. But the effects of these outside ingredients don't last. With a little time, your mouth flushes away the ingredients that keep bacteria at bay, setting the stage for rapid microbial growth. So far, the mouth situation is pretty much what we'd expect after we brush our teeth. But why is it so much worse at night? We drink coffee and eat garlic, and yet, it's the morning that produces the most startling breath stench. That's because there's an important element that plays a part in creating bad breath while we're sleeping: Saliva. Or rather, the lack of it. Saliva production slows significantly when we're snoozing, so the liquid that's typically responsible for diluting the bacteria or ferrying it down the long slide to our gut is on break. The result is bacteria left alone to multiply for hours, which results in an outsized concentration of components that are cooking up something nasty. We're not just talking about a few stinky compounds. Scientists estimate that there are more bacteria hanging out in one mouth than there are people on earth. And different types colonize different areas. So a really good tongue brushing isn't going to do much for the stuff that hangs out underneath-or on the roof of your mouth either. And smell it does. Inside your mouth, microbes are constantly perishing and self-replicating. According to the book, Breath: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Oral Malodor, "The [microbe] decomposition results in the production of a foul-smelling odor. This off gassing in the mouth is a similar process to that occurring at a waste disposal site." No wonder people don't want to take a whiff. See, bacteria gain energy via amino acid and protein digestion. Some of the amino acids digested contain sulfur, which is released when the bacteria process it. (Sulfur is one cause of unpleasant smells coming out of both ends, so it seems.) But it's not just one smell that makes breath bad; it's a bunch of yucky gasses working together in concert. Again, from the Breath book: "cadaverine (corpse odor), hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg odor), isovaleric acid (sweaty feet odor), methylmercaptan (fecal odor), putrescine (decaying meat odor) and trimethylamine (decomposing fish odor)… are components of human bad breath." The tongue houses nearly all the worst offenders. In other words, your mouth spends all night whipping up a putrid bouquet for the morning. If your partner isn't into your unique sweaty-feet-plus-corpse-odor offering, the only good news is that it only takes humans about five minutes to adapt to the smell. But would we really want to? Rachel Swaby is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. Giz Explains is where we break down whatever science or tech questions are scratching at the backs of our noggins. Got questions of your own? Shoot us email at firstname.lastname@example.org with "Explain this!" in the subject line, and we'll see about answering.
The HP Slate 7 is beyond fashionably late to the Android tablet party, but it tries to make up for its tardiness with a very low price. When the device arrives in April, HP's first Google-powered tablet just announced at this year's Mobile World Congress will cost just $169. That's $30 less than the the Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD. So how does this value-priced device stand out? HP is playing up the Slate 7′s Beats Audio sound and wireless printing capabilities. The Slate 7 certainly doesn't look like a $169 tablet, thanks to its stainless steel frame and soft-touch back that's available in gray or red. The device measures .42 inches thick (about the same as the Kindle Fire HD‘s .41 inches) and weighs 13.05 ounces, making this tablet lighter than the Fire (13.9 ounces) but heavier than the Nexus 7 (12 ounces). The Slate 7 has a microSD card slot and microUSB port. To differentiate its tablet, the Slate 7 is the first with Beats Audio built in, which is designed to deliver richer and more robust sound. According to Alberto Torres, HP's senior vice president of its Mobility Global Business Unit, Beats really kicks in when you're using headphones. However, the Slate 7 does sport stereo speakers. As you might expect from HP, the Slate 7 has wireless printing capabilities via ePrint. The app lets you print from most applications. MORE: Top 10 Tablets Right Now The Slate 7 does skimp on some specs for its low price. For starters, the 1024 x 600-pixel display has a lower resolution than the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7 (both 1280 x 800). On the other hand, HP says its High-aperture-ratio Field Fringe Switching (HFFS) technology gives its panel wide viewing angles, whether you're viewing documents or playing Angry Birds Space. Powering this Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet is a 1.6-GHz ARM A9 dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, and you'll find 8GB of storage on board. The Slate 7 features a VGA camera up front and a fairly low-res 3-MP camera on the back. By comparison, the Nexus 7 boasts a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, though HP claims that its device offers swift performance. When we asked HP's Torres whether shoppers will just opt for the faster Nexus 7 or more family friendly Kindle Fire HD for $30 more, he told us that "we are going to have a very strong value proposition with Beats Audio and that the design is far superior than those other tablets that you mention." Torres also reminded us that HP "wants to be the leader in tablets so to expect other price points." In other words, don't be surprised to see a larger, more premium Android Slates in HP's lineup in the not too distant future. Stay tuned for our hands-on impressions of the Slate 7 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Seal has finally removed his wedding ring. The "Kiss From A Rose" singer was spotted when he landed in Sydney, Australia and we noticed he didn't have on his wedding band. He did have yellow nail polish on his nails rather than his usual black. Does that mean he's single and ready to mingle? Swag. Back in January, Seal told Ellen he didn't plan on removing the ring any time soon saying: "Yes, I am still wearing my ring," Seal acknowledged, calling it a token of the "eight wonderful years" they spent together. "Just because we have decided to separate doesn’t necessarily mean you take off your ring and you’re no longer connected to that person,” he said. “We will be connected in many ways until the rest of our lives … though our children and also through this tremendous admiration, respect and love that we have for each other. "Will we wear the ring for the rest of our lives? Who knows? But right now it feels really comfortable on my hand so I have no intentions of taking it off anytime soon." It looks like that time is now. Heidi and Seal separated after they spent 8 years together and have five kids, four of their own and one from Heidi's previous relationship, who Seal adopted. Heidi and Seal's marriage may be officially over.
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"Trust" is the Foundation of Capitalism Susumu YOSHIDA (Senior Coordinator, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.) The fall of traditional authority, as the result of people's loss of trust in public and private institutions, is a marked, unfortunate social phenomenon that has been observed in Japan over the last decade, where great efforts must be made by private-sector's corporate managers. In the late 1980's, when the price of land and stocks started soaring sharply in Japan, many corporate managers were strongly tempted to seek windfall profits. The primary Tokyo stock market index, the Nikkei Index of 225 leading issues, which was slightly above 16,000 yen in early 1986, reached its peak of 39,000 yen in December 1989. Many investors predicted that the Nikkei Index would eventually reach a prodigious level of 80,000 yen and above. The whole atmosphere was maddening. People were intoxicated by short-lived returns from their investments and became arrogant. During the economic bubbles, bankers and other corporate managers, who used to make steady profits through their own risk taking and creative endeavors, suddenly turned around and began pursuing windfall profits. People respected them as the principal promoters of economic growth and the creators of wealth. As it is well known, the stock market then plummeted to 14,300 yen shortly thereafter. After the economic bubbles collapsed, numerous cases of default were disclosed to the public. Consequently, those managers involved in such dubious transactions were viewed with scorn, indignation and distrust. In the eyes of the general public, they were perceived as windfall gain seekers who lacked the virtues of self-restraint and modesty, which their proud predecessors regarded as an essential ingredients required for business managers. People have come to see injustice, illegal transactions and unethical behaviors with increasingly critical eyes. Naturally, they have serious concerns over the issues of corporate governance and moral, and demand corporate social responsibility more strongly than they did a few decades ago. Illegal practices and unjust business transactions have not been confined to Japan. In recent years, a number of cases of illegal practices such as out-of-pocket transactions and insider transactions have taken in the United States. For example, Enron, a major energy company, Andersen, a consulting firm for Enron, WorldCom, and Xerox, were reportedly involved in these illegal activities. As Max Weber wrote in the above-mentioned book, in a highly developed, modern capitalistic society, it would not be surprising to find a group of "specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart." Considering that disclosure of information to the public and auditing by independent auditors, based on the authoritative International Accounting Standards, had been most rigorously practiced in the United States, it was surprising to find that this is where a series of illegal cases occurred. It was very impressive, however, that corrective actions were speedily taken by the U.S. government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission. A recent case in Japan involves Mitsubishi Motors. Unfortunately, it is a problem of long-term malpractices covering over a decade, resulting from a fallible path of pathetically immature stewardship under poor corporate governance. This series of alarming events, occurring in almost all market-oriented economies, indicates that capitalism, though it proved a more workable system than socialism to realize dynamic economic development, is far from perfect, and therefore needs an apparatus for constant institutional improvement. What is absolutely necessary, but often missing today, is a general recognition of the importance of "trust" which provides modern capitalism with the spiritual foundation. It is precisely the recovery of trust, which political and business leaders must keep in mind, in order to bring about economic rehabilitation and full-fledged expansions.
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What Your Child Should Know A frequent question that the Department receives from teachers and parents is “What should children know about their faith by the time they are ‘X’ years old?” This question is fueled by a number of influences. First, schools have expectations that their students should reach certain milestones at various stages in their education. Teachers are expected to prepare their students to meet those points in the course of the year, usually because there will be some kind of test. Second, education itself is goal-oriented. Educational progress is measured by the acquisition of certain objectives. Teachers and students want to know their level of progress. Third, parents want to be able to assist their children in the learning process. Knowing the expectations and what the program hopes to accomplish is beneficial. The aim of education in the Orthodox Church is “to nurture, instruct, and direct each member of the community of faith – the Church – in Christian living, or as Orthodox writers typically call it, the life in Christ, so that each person grows ‘in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 3:18) and become ‘a partaker of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4). Alternately stated, the goal of … catechesis is for each person to become an icon, a living image of God, a person who lives in continual fellowship – communion – with God, reflecting a particular way – the Christ-like way – of knowing and living in the world.” (A. Vrame, The Educating Icon, 1999, p. 63). This vision of education involves acquiring information but also involves living according to the precepts of that information. Thus, an Orthodox Christian ought to be well-informed about the rich content of the Orthodox Tradition. Being able to name, to retell, to identify, to list, and more are dimensions of what it means “to know” one’s faith. A Church school program should be able to transmit these concepts to its students. But “knowing the Faith” also involves being able to appreciate its content, to consider how it influences one’s life, to participate in it, and to respond to its call of commitment to faith in Jesus Christ and His Church. For example, what is the benefit of reciting the Lord’s Prayer in a classroom setting, and a teacher’s assessment that the student has memorized it, without praying the Lord’s Prayer at home and reflecting on the words themselves? The real curriculum for learning the Orthodox Faith is the life of the Church as experienced in a dynamic, faith-filled parish. Our education in faith is a lifelong journey. No Church school curriculum can include or teach everything. Any series of published textbooks is merely the first step of learning. Even in the best series, the authors, editors, and publishers make choices about what they believe most valuable for learners to achieve in a certain timeframe. What follows -- at the elementary school level -- is the result of reading the existing “Living Our Orthodox Faith” textbook series, published by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Religious Education between 1989 and 1993, and summarizing the concepts that the textbooks strive to teach. We have tried to distill their contents, by grade level, to answer the question, “What should my child learn in grade X?” For middle school / junior high and high school textbooks (published from 1995 - 2011), we have provided each text's learning objectives. Please note the following: - New terms and concepts in a text are in bold type. - At the end of each grade, the Bible stories, lives of saints, and hymns covered by the textbook are also listed. It should be noted that Bible stories are frequently summarized in the textbooks to present the main point of the lesson or the story as well as to meet the developing reading skills of a student. When appropriate, based on reading ability, a student should begin using the Bible directly and learning Bible skills. - You will notice how the concepts become more involved and the number of stories increase as the learner progresses. - You will notice how certain concepts and topics, e.g., the Divine Liturgy, repeat themselves from year to year and are presented in new ways based on the theme of the book. The goal of the textbook series is not to present all of the information on a single topic in one year, never to return to it, but to revisit key topics in an unfolding pattern of discovery for the learner. - Some items, such as prayers introduced in each unit, are found only in the Teacher’s Guides to the books. Of course, individual parishes and teachers add material, information, (lives of saints, feast days, Sunday scripture readings) and activities, which will add to this list. Finally, the following list assumes that a child attends Church school faithfully, has a well-prepared teacher, and a family that is involved in the life of the Church, involved in the learning process, and reinforces the concepts at home. Anton C. Vrame, PhD - First Grade: Me and My World - Second Grade: Loving God - Third Grade: Sharing God’s World - Fourth Grade: Growing with God - Fifth Grade: God Calls Us - Stewardship: Serving in God's World - Facing Up to Peer Pressure - Knowing Christ - For to Us a Child Is Born - Journey through Holy Week - Journey through Great Lent - Heaven on Earth: The Divine Liturgy - A Lamp to My Feet: Introduction to the Bible - First among Equals: The Ecumenical Patriarchate - Come Receive the Light Bible Studies, vol. 1 (objectives to come) - Come Receive the Light Bible Studies, vol. 2 (objectives to come) - Rejoicing in One Lord, Jesus Christ (objectives to come) - Who Is God? Who Am I? Who Are You? (objectives to come) - Of Your Mystical Supper: The Eucharist - What Is the Church? (forthcoming) - Who Do You Say that I Am?: The Person of Christ (forthcoming) Prepared by Stephania Gianulis and Aimee Cox Ehrs Additional material added by Anton C. Vrame, PhD
Lovely. Thanks for scanning and posting this one up! Glad you enjoyed it! great collection! i've done a childrensbook myself, if you like, you can check it out at herzglut.com. click on "my big animal abc". i thought you maybe like it :)cheers Lovely...loved the rubbing rough texture of the chalky pastels...really brings the picture alive..Once my niece is older I'll show her and read these gems.. Post a Comment
Everyone loves a crowd-pleaser LYTHAM ST ANNES, England – Professional golf needs more Christina Kims – a lot more. Give me 144 of them in every field, every week. Give me players on the male circuits with her personality, too. Maybe then we’d spark some life into what is becoming a moribund professional game. Royal Lytham St. Annes and Turnberry shared much in common. Both seemed very flat most of the time, and there seemed much less interaction between players and fans than in previous years. True, the women are brilliant when it comes to signing autographs – much better than the men. The women patiently go down the line of fans waiting outside the scorer’s hut without fail and sign everything offered to them. With the men, it depends on how they’ve played. However, I’ve notice a distinct lack of recognition for the fans in both British Opens. For some reason the game seems to have become a breeding ground for faceless automatons who go through the motions looking miserable and grim. You’d think they were playing under duress rather than earning a very nice living from trying to guide a small white ball around a green and pleasant field. Often times they will receive a round of applause and then grudgingly acknowledge it, if at all. Contrast their actions with Kim’s here at Royal Lytham. She was a breath of fresh air. She acknowledged every ovation, every cheer. That’s as it should be. Professional golf as a source of entertainment ended a long time ago. We’ve gone from the days when players actually interacted with fans to a scenario where all they feel they need to do is play golf shots and nothing else. Fans don’t get much for the cost of their tickets. Thanks for coming! Kim might not have won the Women’s British Open, but she left Lytham St. Annes with a lot of fans. The effervescent 25-year-old thrilled the galleries with her histrionics, especially in the final round. “In a weird way she’s a delight,” Peter Alliss said. Thousands of British golf fans who attended the four days at Royal Lytham & St. Annes can relate to that. Watching Kim play in the final group was almost as much fun as watching Catriona Matthew win her first major. And I’m Scottish! Maybe Kim’s personality shone through more on the final day because of who she was playing with. Matthew may be one of the nicest women in professional golf, but she doesn’t give much of her personality away. Think of Retief Goosen and you get the idea, although that’s probably unfair to Matthew. She smiles more on one hole than Goosen smiles in four days. Kim seemed more excited about Matthew’s first major win than the Scot herself. Kim was the one firing up the crowd walking onto the final green. Kim pumped up the crowd with her arms as they walked onto the green, urging them to get up out of their seats and make some noise. Then when Matthew tapped in from an inch to clinch the title, it was Kim who let out a whoop of delight. Kim harks back to an age when more professionals wore their hearts on their sleeves. “Growing up I watched Lee Trevino play a lot of golf and I thought, man that dude is cool,” Kim said. “He wears his heart on his sleeve, his emotions were running high and sometimes when you're in a right circumstance, your emotions will help push you to a better place in your golf. Given Matthew’s even-keeled temperament, you’d have thought playing with Kim in the final round would have been a source of distraction. Not so. “It's always good fun to play with her,” Matthew said. “It's entertaining and you never know what to expect.” The last clause is apropos. Kim sometimes sails pretty close to the out of bounds markers, such as in the final round when she seemed to mouth the F-word after her tee shot on the 16th. However, give me Christina Kim every time over the politically correct brigade. Maybe then golf would become more entertaining.
Signed with Shell on Dec 15, 2011 and just received bank draft back. Reason for return was listed as "Title and Curative issues". I spoke to Holland Services, the signing agency, who stated that my deed was never researched because I only had 9.141 acres and Shell would not accept less than 10 acres. Anyone have suggestions? Any other folks with this problem? Any lawyers out there with legal advice? Either Holland Services who presumably has a contract for services with Shell didn't follow the instructions that Shell provided or Shell changed the rules of the game. Whether or not you have a claim depends on what you signed. Was it conditional in nature? There are no specific conditions listed on the lease, but we were told that as long as we had the mineral rights on the property, the lease would be valid. not a lawyer...but what does the contract state in the terms of agreement regarding the recording of the deed? just post the clause as you need to provide a bit more. Cause you say that Shell does not accept less than 10 acres..is that in the contract you signed? the other important part was did they as Lessee even sign the agreement and provide you with a copy of the signed agreement (was it recorded as well?) so look and see if there is any statements regarding the amount of acres accepted....for if you have legal title and they should have been able to proceed with 'title and curative' as stated on your contract...then I recommend you call an attorney...which you should anyhow...but I am sure you want to know if it is even worth your while..or you wouldn't put it here for discussion. But even if you do have a real reason to complain...is it going to be worth it for the amount of money spent on litigation and your time? surely the landagent from Shell should have disclosed that to you up front...as they read the legal desription when they even get your name to call you. I will state that many people in the state of Pa. have leased with even one acre...but I don't know about shell...but 'chesapeake and chief leased many leases under 5 acres...and some were included in 'land groups' also. Have you contacted a land group? perhaps you can add your acreage that way? and a land group may be the way for you to quickly get some monies for leasing... wish you success Thomas...it must be disappointing. My lease identified my acreage as 9.141 acres as did the memorandum of lease that Holland Services filed with the Guernsey County Records on January 25, 2012. The memorandum was signed by Kevin E. Hughes, Attorney-in-Fact, SWEPI LP. Sorry I am just reading this...Thomas, You didn't state the exact clause from the title and curative clause off your contract. Most lease contract have those clauses. If there is no clause that identifies a min. requirement by Shell of ten acres and the contract was signed and even recorded (find that out) as you stated it had been awhile since signing in DEC. I would say contact a oil/gas litigation attorney (some of them will discuss via telephone at no charge as if there is a case then they will tell you and their payment will come out of what they win for you...I do know of one in Pa)....of course you have to decide if it is worth it for your time also. But if leasing to Shell via Holland kept you from leasing to another company who would take your acreage...they kept you on contract for many months ...that's a hardship and a possible financial loss. I am not an attorney but I have done about ten years of real estate contracts...and the idea is when a contract is done that two parties agree and it is consummated...so look at the title curative clause and see if they have a min. as the 9.141 acres was on your contract .... So call a gas/oil litigation atty and find out if they think you have reason for pressing in.. ...Some attorneys that do leases do not do litigation that is why I mentioned that....and since you have a contract already (not a new lease) that may fall into an area of litigation if the atty thinks so. Now I do not recommend going the legal way that way unless it is really a necessary step.....but i do have a question...Have you called Shell yourself? and told them...why not do that first? It sounds to me that the Holland rep. was unawares of the Shell min. requirement. I also mentioned to you that you aught to see if there is any land groups in your area (there are county groups here at gomarcellusshale so you could ask someone)... you might do better in getting your acreage involved that way. I hope you success...when you do lease do take your time with the contract...as you can see doing gas leases can be somewhat tricky to understand. Hey Drew I hope it comes through for ya!!!! :) . I my wife and I push mow a little over 2 acres around the house. That will change. It will be nice to come home and get on my new riding mower and be done and not take 4 hours of watching my wife bust get butt. Going to surprise her with a new Camaro. Her dream car. Can't wait. Gonna get a big bow and put on it. Could go on and on. Gonna go buy a bunch of food for the people at the Rescue Mission also. Be smart and enjoy the ride. Wish everyone could be happy. Well I sure hope you are, spreading happiness is goodness. "4 hours of watching my wife bust get butt." I need to swing by your house... that would be some entertainment!!! Congratulations. It was unreal for us how much pressure it took off, and you're lucky-our bank held ours for two weeks. Not trying to rain on your parade but just be sure you put back enough for taxes. We were told to pay ours THAT QUARTER or they could hit us with late charges. Congratulations again and enjoy!!
A while back I remembered seeing a macaroon recipe in Jennifer Katzinger’s “Flying Apron’s Gluten-free & Vegan Baking Book”. The recipe haunted and scared me. It seemed so simple and delicious sounding. To my mind, it seemed almost too simple and defied logic – I just couldn’t see how it would hold together. I recently went back to it and changed it up quite a bit – complicated it just a tad – and made a GonePie version. Yum! When I work on a recipe, I write the original, then maniacally mark my changes. The second time I went to make the recipe I had trouble reading it and accidentally made something very close to the original recipe in the book. It was quite good and it certainly worked. But the changes I include here, take it up a notch from good to divine! This recipe is super easy and super quick to make. It uses multiple coconut ingredients to give the most amazingly full and rich coconut flavor, which is lifted by a generous measure of vanilla. - 1/4 cup brown rice flour - 2 tablespoons tapioca flour - 1/3 cup coconut flour - 1/4 teaspoon salt - 5 1/3 cups shredded unsweetened coconut - 1 cup agave nectar - 1/3 cup brown rice syrup - 1 cup + 2 tablespoon coconut milk - 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon coconut oil, melted - 1 tablespoon vanilla Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together rice flour, tapioca flour, and salt. Combine with remaining dry ingredients. Combine wet ingredients. Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients. The dough is odd and almost doesn’t seem right. It doesn’t hold together easily. I used an ice cream scoop and made 18 to 20 macaroons. You should pack the scoop tightly with the dough. It helps them hold together during the baking. I space them well on the sheet even though they don’t spread so I can work on them with wet hands to make them smooth. This really makes them look so elegant and also helps them stay together when baking. With hands moistened, gently shape them into perfect little rounds. Bake for 20 minutes. They need to sit a minute before you move them. Try one as soon as you can. They are almost too rich hot. They are best the second day, as the character of the coconut comes out more. Hope you like this recipe as much as I do! I sent a batch over to Integral Yoga yesterday and the staff was literally moaning as they tasted them. I got 19 out of that batch. They got 18 and the last one is mine. Right now…..
Jeremy Feist insists that progress comes not from screaming into the Internet echo chamber, but rather through open and vulnerable dialogue. Yesterday, I made a fat-joke on Twitter and a good follow of mine, @IAmUhura (whom you should follow, because that bitch is funny and hell and whipsmart) called me out on it, saying that the joke was offensive and crossed a line. So I apologized for it, and then we had a discussion about our intentions, thoughts and opinions until we came to a mutually agreeable conclusion: She agreed that I probably didn’t mean to be intentionally offensive, and I agreed that a line was passed and that I should think more carefully about certain things. In short, we had an actual debate on something and we both ended up on common ground. We both walked away feeling good about ourselves. This is not the rule of the Internet; this is once-in-a-lifetime exception. The Internet is not a place where you go to exchange ideas with people of differing opinions until you both better understand each other. It’s where you go to scream into an endless pit filled with other people’s screaming. A couple days ago, The Good Men Project read a little personal blog I wrote a year ago and liked it enough that they asked me if they could reprint. After I gave them the go-ahead, xoJane saw it and liked it enough to republish it on their site too, so I gave them the okay as well. It was an article I had written about my boyfriend’s cat after I had lived with it for two months, and I had called it “Cats are Bitchy and Fartish and I Hate Them.” Yes, I used the word “fartish” in a title. That right there should have clued you in that it was a jokey cats vs. dogs article. Believe me, I know it’s nothing new or profound, but you have to remember, I wrote it for myself, and when it was reprinted on GMP and xoJane, I gave it to them for free. That’s right: They found it and wanted to run it, and I got paid $0.00 for it because, once again, it’s just fucking cat jokes. Why would anyone get paid money for cat jokes? So that was that, right? The Internet would welcome in more cat-based humour and someone would hopefully chuckle about it over coffee and nothing else would happen. Yeah, about that… Remember my description of the Internet as a bottomless pit of screaming? People got pissed and accused me of promoting animal cruelty, because I made jokes about owning a cat. Sort of like how parents who make jokes about parenting are promoting child abuse. Why no one has ever called the cops on the producers of Married … With Children is a mystery. The smartest thing I did in all of this was to completely avoid reading the comments. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about writing for the internet after four years, it’s that an article can get 1,000 views, and the one comment left for it will be from someone who hated everything about it. Unfortunately, that didn’t block out Twitter, where an animal rights advocate decided to tell me how my cat jokes are the reason why everything bad ever happens to cats. Say hello to someone I will call… Adrian. Adrian works, right? I’m by no means a fan of this person, but I also don’t want to publicly shame someone in a public forum wherein they can’t defend themselves, so I’m going to hide her name. Although if I may interject: You may notice her picture is her riding a horse. How many horses do you think die every year from equestrianism as opposed to how many cats die every year from Internet jokes? “Adrian’s” problem with me was that I was making jokes about my two months of owning a cat, and since some cats are abused, I shouldn’t make jokes about them. Granted, if you refused to make jokes about anyone because something bad once happened to them, you’d be left with no one. Well, that’s the gist of it anyway. I had to read between the lines extra hard, since the lines were about how making cat jokes were on par with making homophobic or HIV/AIDS jokes. But regardless, I decided the best course of action was to lay my cards on the table, try and clarify my intentions, and start off fresh. This is her response: So that was eloquent and fair. I tried to reach a middle ground and her reaction was “WATCH ME ACT LIKE A SARCASTIC ASSHOLE!” But reflecting that back at her wasn’t going to solve nothing. So I tried again to apologize for a cat joke and try to make amends. And then I ran into a wall of stupid: Gee, the LGBT community has been treated poorly? Thanks for informing me, heterosexual rich white lady! I never would have known that! I tried, I really did, but it’s hard to debate someone when they’re actively refusing to say not ridiculous things. Look, regardless of what you think, if you’re offended by something and you want to talk about it, most writers and comedians are fully willing to sit down and discuss things rationally. That being said, we care about your feelings only to a reasonable degree; If you’re going to try and angrily shame someone until they adopt your viewpoint, instead of honestly and rationally discussing your opinion while taking into consideration their side, you’re going to get tuned out. It’s the difference between saying please and thank you, and falling to the floor and screaming until you get your way. No one is going to validate or enable your petulant, illogical rage just because you want them too. We’re not your parents, okay? We’re not the reason you are socially ruined as a person. It’s great that you want to prevent animal abuse, it really is. Animals should be treated humanely and encouraging that is great. WhatI disagree with is how she expressed these points. Fact is, 99.99 times out of 100, screaming, irrational, directionless outrage is a front for having absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. If you honestly think that civil rights for cats is the same as gay civil rights, or that joking about something on the Internet is the same thing as advocating its abuse, I’m kinda wont to believe you have no idea what you’re talking about and that you’re getting outraged for the sake of being outraged. The honest to God truth is that many of the people we vilify aren’t bad people. Yes, there are plenty of actual terrible people out there: people who oppress others for political gain, people who think women get raped because “they deserve it,” Chris Brown… The list is endless. I don’t think Adrian is a bad person, so much as hopelessly misguided and in desperate need of some sense of validation of her opinion. The average person is a good person, but we also want to feel the need that we’re doing good, that we’re always right, and that we’re actively fighting bad people. But there are, in actuality, far fewer bad people out there then there are good people. The internet is full of warriors and crusaders in desperate need of demonized opponents. So we project villains, monsters and nebulous motives onto average people and go after them. We gather into echo chambers and separate ourselves from anyone of dissenting opinion because we can never allow ourselves to be wrong. And if anyone doesn’t have the same opinions at us, it’s socially acceptable to publicly shame them because fuck that guy, you’re right and they’re wrong. You are always right, so no one else is allowed to be right too. But that’s not all bad, right? Being personally invested in an issue makes you passionate, and even if you don’t actually do anything, you’re still raising awareness and making other people passionate, right? Being aware of something and actually doing something are not the same thing. It’s like saying you ran a marathon because you made it to the starting line. Passion without action is basically just an unearned sense of self-satisfaction. And like it or not, you’re not always right and you don’t always know best. Raising awareness for things that don’t matter — like cat jokes on the internet. — raises zero actual awareness. In fact, it raises less than zero awareness. If anything, it pulls focus from things that actually matter so that you can redirect it your own personal vendetta. You’re actively pulling focus away from real issues because it’s easier for you to be offended and angered by everything than it is for you to think about one thing. I know the common saying is “if you’re not offended, you’re not paying attention,” but believe me, it’s entirely possible to do both. Once again, I don’t think Adrian is a bad person, and I don’t necessarily disagree with her: Animal abuse is bad. I just think that blaming cat jokes for cat abuse is fucking stupid, and her total refusal to take into consideration anyone else’s opinion other than her own doesn’t help her cause. Offense without open-mindedness or an intent to find a common resolution isn’t social change: it’s misplaced, impotent rage. Like screaming into a bottomless pit filled with screams. Oh, and in case you’re wondering how the cat feels about all this: Well, since I wrote the article a year ago, she’s still evil, but we have reached a mutual respect and affection for each other. Yeah, look how much we hate each other. Originally appeared at Jeremy Feist Writes Stuff Photo: Flickr/JD Hancock
"I thought summer camp was pure fiction." —CarterI was first introduced to summer camp through books and movies. I thought summer camp was pure fiction and a place that one went to in their imagination. I was wrong! I first heard of Camp Gray from my friend who had been going there since he was very young. He goes every year with his cousin. Last year he invited some kids from our class to go with him.When he invited me, I started to look at the camp on its Web site. It looked like fun! The comments were all positive about the camp. I signed up online and looked forward to my week of camp, even though I was worried about being homesick.Homesick? Not!Once at camp, I never thought about homesickness again. I was busy with plenty of activities and loved my counselor. In a way, I had a family at the camp with the counselors, my cabin mates, and everyone else. The counselors cared for me very much and made sure that I was having the most fun that I could at camp. For instance, my counselor would participate in a lot of my activities and laugh and tell us funny jokes. I also wrote letters about camp to my family. My letters were always lengthy, as I had much to tell. Each day is a new adventure Although we followed the same routine, each day at camp was packed with fun activities. We had ample free time, too. On the first day of camp each camper picked two special activities to do daily. Pick two!Here was my camp schedule:
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Lance Keimig: Upcoming Workshops First, the eight-week course on photography workshop will be held at the New England School of Photography beginning June 23. Second, there's a night photography camp out on Lovell's Island (in the Boston Harbor) on July 18. Third, if you want to shoot in California, there's the Finding Your Way in the Dark: Digital Night Photography from Capture to Print at Mono Lake, Yosemite and Bodie Ghost Town on August 14-17. And if you'd rather shoot in Texas, there's the Finding Your Way in the Dark: Digital Night Photography from Capture to Print at the Big Bend National Park and Terlingua Ghost Town from October 11-14. Lance was one of my first night photography instructors when I took The Nocturnes workshop in San Francisco six years ago. I've also attended his Mono Lake workshop twice in the past four years. I won't be able to attend the workshop this year, but I expect that everyone will have a great time. Lance was also featured in my short documentary film about night photography: The Night of the Living Photographers, which you can view on-line for free.
The Construction and Energy Group at the University of Zaragoza is designing a sustainable housing prototype that produces more energy than it consumes and generates no waste. The Pi House, as has been baptized, will be exhibited in Madrid in September next year at the Solar Decathlon 2012. The project is directed by Professor JosĂ© Antonio TurĂ©gano and coordinated by Dr. Alejandro del Amo. Both belong to the Building and Energy Group and have the collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers, biologists, chemists and designers of the University of Zaragoza, The prototype currently under design, will set out the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 (Madrid, 3-9 September), international competition in which universities around the world have to design, build and use energy self-sufficient homes, connected to the grid, taking all their energy from the sun and are equipped with technology that allows more efficient use of that energy. During the last phase of the competition, the house opens to the public at the same time develop the ten races that make up the contest: architecture, engineering and construction, energy efficiency, balance of power, welfare conditions, operation of the house communication and social awareness, industrialization and market feasibility, innovation and sustainability. The competition will be three types of punctuation: to complete tasks, in situ measurement and valuation of the jury. The Pi house, a single-family housing will have a cylindrical shape, a shape that was chosen because it allows you to build more square feet less interior wall exposed to the elements. It is divided into two floors with an area of â€‹â€‹70 square meters on the ground floor and 50 square meters in the first. Downstairs is the living, rooms, kitchen and bathroom and living room, outside the walls, a small garden with two lakes that are involved in the constructed wetland, a system of sewage disposal through wetlands where they develop certain aquatic plants. The first floor, with large free spans, reserves in the middle of its space for installations and elsewhere as a covered terrace, as on it will have a roof covered with photovoltaic panels, with nearly 10 KW of power. This first floor solar orbit following the path, so as to capture more sunlight, thereby increasing the production of photovoltaic solar energy. The creators of the Pi House that are designed as ecological housing, sustainable, accessible and affordable in the future, plan to install the prototype at the University of Zaragoza, where it can be used as a test for practice, for researchers and companies. No Comments » No comments yet.
I got home yesterday after five days partying with my sis an' bro from other mo's, unpacked, had a nice warm cup of chicken noodle soup and hit the sheets. My body was run down from five days of massive drinkin' and cookin' and watching football and more drinkin'. I think I'm finally re-hydrated. What a blast! I got a late start Friday morning because Patriot Gretchen kept me up late IM'in' on Thursday night, but I got out of town by 11:00 which was good for me. I made my way up I-5 to the 405 to the I-10 and was on the 1 near Malibu by 1:15 or so. Oh, when I say Malibu, I should really say Mexibu. There were more Mexican landscapers driving around in piece of shit trucks than I've ever seen anywhere in my life. Why is it that these rich Hollywierd/Los Angeles/Mexibu assholes can't afford American landscapers and/or gardeners? They're gonna pay these illegal fucks from Mexico to do their gardening? GMAFB! I hope most of their houses roll off the cliffs into the Pacific. Assholes! Normally I love the drive up the 1, but when you're driving it's kinda hard to check out the bitchen scenery, smoke and take pictures at the same time but I did get in this one. I was hopin' to get my rod and reel and check out the fishing from this rock, but I didn't have the time. Maybe next time... It took me no more than three hours +/- a few minutes to make it to the main gate from when I left my place. No stops, and very little L.A. traffic (which surprised the hell out of me). Overall it was a great drive. I had lots of tunes on deck but mainly listened to 95.5 KLOS and that was good enough for me. Just wish I had a doob with me for the drive. Here's that same rock from base. Z took me down to where he normally fishes and we caught up on some times and drank a few beers with this bitchen view. I had planned on leaving on Tuesday morning after we spent a day in the ocean on his buddy's boat doing some fishing Monday, but the weather fucking sucked. Normally I wouldn't mind, but I didn't bring any rain gear so we just pounded beers Monday hung out with his wife, his boy and base buddies. That was cool. Definitely a good group of proud Americans! I woke up late Tuesday and had to be in Pasadena to meet my cousin for lunch and a beer, so I hit the road from Pt. Mugu around 10:30 and made it to Pasadena close to 12:30. It was dumping down rain like a motherfucker and Los Angeles people are the most fucked up people behind the wheel when there's any moisture on the ground or in the air. They either drive 35mph or 90mph. I took the 118 out of Oxnard to the 210 and there were wrecks all over the fucking place. Morons! I had lunch and a beer with my cousin and then I hit the road home. I took the 210 to I-15 South and it was pretty easy going. The rain pretty much stopped just before I hit the 15 South. Lemme tell you, there are a shitload of morons in Norco whethere it's raining or not. Those morons just don't know how to drive. Period. I got home around five last night checked emails and hit the sheets. All the drinkin', lack of sleep and then the driving just took it all out of me. I was glad to be home, but I'm already missing my friends from North. I'm gonna have to make another mission up that way in the summer time, or maybe sooner. It was good to see my nephew and my sis an' bro. Hopefully next time we'll be able to rope some fish. Friday night photo op after Mom went to sleep (atta boy!): Reilly and Trooper- two of the coolest canines I've ever met in my life: Monday night. Reilly doesn't really give a shit about football, he just wants to lay on you and take up as much space as possible while his ears get scratched. I'm gonna miss you dude. He's definitely a good buddy for Trooper to punk. I think I'm finally back in the game, so to speak. When I got home I saw the fucked up news of Get well Denny!
Welcome to the official Tumblr for Gov. Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian Presidential Candidate, two-term Republican Governor of New Mexico & currently the Honorary Chairman of the Our America Initiative. Gov. Gary Johnson will speak at the University of New Mexico TONIGHT, October 9th, at 5:30 pm MDT. Joining Gov. Johnson will be Jim Villanucci, afternoon talk show host; Jon Barrie, Independent Candidate for U.S. Senate; Mike Blessing, State Chair for the Libertarian Party of New Mexico; and Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation. The event will take place at: Student Union Building, Ballroom C University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico
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I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators who don't have Photoshop but I can't find any library that supports layers. I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround. Let's say I get an image from our graphics team that's just a layered background. The translator opens this image with my tool and it renders the text over the image and then save the rendered text as a separate image. I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team. Is there an easy way to script (or automate somehow) the following?: - open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text) - look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd) - open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer Thanks for the tips
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The Swedish Teacher of Wisdom Love IS the Truth - Hermes love people around..it makes your world beautiful!!! - 'I see the Christ in every face and in every form. When the first child was born, the Christ was born.' - Baird T. Spalding Give a hungry person food at no cost! "For I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat" - Jesus (Matthew 25:35) Hermes Atar Trismegistus undervisning på Svenska (13-05-23) Best Viewed 640*480 Welcome and may God bless you through eternity. The purpose with this site is to share (with no thought of reward) Spiritual Wisdom and Knowledge told by many teachers to all people for all times. - Hermes Atar Trismegistus I am a Spiritual Life Philosopher and a Free Thinker. "If such a calamity should come to pass, He would come immediately, come through the steam and smoke of the burning atmosphere and damp the conflagration. With him would come THE GREAT TEACHERS FROM OTHER UNIVERSES who would help restore the harmonious vibration of the earth." "GREAT TEACHERS AND AMBASSADORS shall assemble from other worlds, and they shall call together all who have an understanding of my teachings, and every one who is earnestly seeking a knowledge of Light. And I, the Son of Man, shall appear in the midst of the steaming mist above the earth." "And there was a silence that was broken by Matthew, 'When, Master, when shall these conditions overtake the earth?' "That," answered Jesus, "is not known even by myself. Neither is it known by THE AMBASSADORS FROM THE OTHER UNIVERSES. It will be governed entirely by the conditions produced by the noise of the machinery of war, and the vibrations from the thoughts of evil-minded mortals. No one knows the day or the hour, but the calamity will come without warning, even as a thief in the night." - Matthew 24:29-30 Translated by Charles Lathrup Warn - Today as in the Days of Noah 1948, four years before the first claimed UFO-contactee! Dr. Warn makes the following statement about his translation of the same ancient text used by the Church in their translation still in use today: "This book is a literal translation of the Bible. It is made from the original unpointed texts of the Chaldeans, and the Greek Codex Sinaiticus. This is, I believe, the first time that such a translation has been published in the English Language." "Since we are part of this world, we must differentiate between the acts in our lives. We are allowed to analyze for the purpose of understanding, but must not divide or condemn. We have not the right to sit in judgment on our brother. He has come this way to learn his own lessons. Just as we cannot attend school for our children and expect them to receive an education, so we cannot attend the School of Life for another. We can offer a helping hand or a guiding word, but at no time should we try to force our will upon him. Remember, he may be struggling to learn the lessons we have already mastered, but he must master them himself." - George Adamski 1959. My aim is to handle all kinds of politicans and religiousminded as fellow man. Sorry for my poor Grammar. My English was on top in 1994. Live this and your situation WILL be changed: "Love everybody and everything and do God's will and you will experience heaven in your life." - Hermes Atar Trismegistus. Love is God and loving everyone is the way to eternal life "Love as much as you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the places you can, during all the times you can, for as many people as you can, for as long as you can." -Kevin Williams, a modification of John Wesley's quote Contents: (Last Updated year-month-day) Friendship with the Extraterristials in 2012 (10-05-26) Links to Boddhisattvas and Buddhist Teachers (08-07-06) Tao and Ch'an-Zen (07-10-08) Jewish Teaching and Teachers (08-06-18) Christian Mysticism - with links to christian teachers! (12-10-29) A-U-M (OM) Saints and Hindu Teachers (13-04-30) New Thought - New Age - New Life (12-04-28) Sufi Mystics, Masters and Saints Lessons from the Light (07-01-15) Fraud in METAPHYSICS, OCCULTISM and MYSTICISM by C.A. HONEY ( A must read for every honest seeker!) 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Bringing crowds to a game in style, minus the traffic Like many colleges with large football programs, the University of Iowa faces major congestion problems on football game days, when tens of thousands of fans converge on its stadium. But Iowa has come up with an innovative solution to the traffic. A railroad runs directly behind the football stadium, which got university administrators thinking. Working with Iowa Northern Railway, the University proposed running a train from satellite parking areas to the football stadium on game days. Iowa Northern thought it was a great idea, and the Hawkeye Express was born. In the beginning, they leased equipment from Colorado's Ski Train. For the third season, they purchased a former Amtrak locomtove and 6 bi-level former commuter cars from Chicago's Metra, now painted in Hawkeye black and gold. The train, while owned by Iowa Northern, operates over tracks owned by Iowa Interstate Railroad (whose chairman, Henry Posner III, is a prominent passenger train advocate). The train takes 8 minutes to get from the parking areas in Coralville to the stadium and costs fans $10. It has operated for seven seasons of Iowa football. No other university uses special trains just for football games. But it's certainly not the only university where fans can ride a train to the game. The University of Pennsylvania's stadium is just steps from the SEPTA Regional Rail station at University City. Georgia Tech's Grant Field is just a few blocks from the MARTA subway. And these aren't the only examples. In the past, many university stadiums were served by special trains from near and far. For many at the University of Iowa, this service hearkens back to the days when Rock Island trains brought fans from as far away as Chicago. For most, it's just a way to avoid parking problems and congestion. And, as the film shows, it's also a fun way to go. - Latest Metro map drafts add Anacostia parks and other tweaks - Bikeshare is a gateway to private biking, not competition - DC Council makes major policy changes overnight - Short-term Washingtonians deserve a voice, too - Public land deals have both benefits and pitfalls - Parklets give every block a little park - Judge denies injunction against closing schools
Three nature nerds are “Lookin’ at It” Three self-proclaimed nature nerds from Buffalo, N.Y., are on a mission to use comedy to inform the world about nature. Matt Candeias, Steve Fleck and Jason Mazurowski recently published episode five of their humorously enlightening ode to ecology, “Lookin’ at It: A Nature Show.” It features the Great Blue Heron, the largest heron in North America. Not only did I laugh out loud, I learned that they are one of few heron species that stab through their prey before eating it. The Lookin’ at It crew uses a comedic platform to highlight the greater Buffalo region’s beauty while educating their viewers about the importance of conservation. While some episodes are sillier than others, the marrying of comedy to nature seems to be working. “Anytime someone talks about an ecological issue, it usually comes around to something about polar bears or the deforestation of the rainforest,” Candeias says in the first episode of the show. “What very few people realize is that there are a tons of ecological issues going on in their own backyards.” All of the footage was taken in the greater Buffalo area.
The lust of the tiger and the Kratom Fairy had created uproar in the canopy of the Laotian jungles. So loudly had they screamed in their raging love that finally the Green Dragon had woken up. The Green Dragon had slept for ages at the caldera of the Agung volcano on the island of Bali. On the slopes of this volcano the Bali Kratom Leaves Incense was growing, and it was right in their fumes that the Green Dragon had slept. The fumes of the Bali Kratom Leaves Incense had nurtured the Green Dragon for centuries, had hardened his skin. The Bali Kratom Leaves Incense had even lowered the burning heat inside the Green Dragon. The Bali Kratom Leaves Incense had given him sweet dreams and unlimited energy. And now he was wide-awake. He spread his wings and took off to Laos. From the Green Dragon’s huge nostrils shot two long beams of Bali Kratom Leaves Incense fumes, and so the birds in the sky doubled their speed and the people on the ground began copulating. And the Green Dragon saw the effects of the Bali Kratom Leaves Incense and got worried. In almost no time he had reached the jungles of Laos and got worried even more. The Green Dragon thought: when this Kratom gives so much energy and pleasure and prowess to earthly creatures, when will they finally dare to come and plunder my Bali Kratom Leaves Incense plantations? These were the thoughts of the Green Dragon and he swallowed the Kratom Fairy in one gulp. This is why Kratom is banned in those places today, and this is why virgins do not seem to be protected any more by patron saints. The Power of the Tiger came from Indonesian Kratom The Kratom Fairy lived under the tree of Maeng Da Enter the Dragon Slayer eating Thai Kratom Incense Read what our Customers say on our Review of Kratom
This was fun, trying to capture the mood and theme of The Riddler’s Gift in a book trailer! Now I feel epic Archive for the ‘Lifesong’ Category This was fun, trying to capture the mood and theme of The Riddler’s Gift in a book trailer! Now I feel epic Over the centuries, sages have attempted to pass on the spiritual truths they have discovered in their lives. The problem is that ‘knowledge’ you gain in life is totally subjective. Life is a chaos-system of the highest degree. There are so many variables that affect everyone’s actions that using one’s life to establish ‘truths’ is as hopeless as trying to define the future by the imagined ‘interaction’ of the stars. I’m an atheist, and yet, The Tale of the Lifesong is deeply spiritual. How can I write it? Because atheism (or any ism or ity) is a point of view, and when I write, I lose myself. I am inspired. In that state, I cannot instruct or preach. I am an instrument and the Lifesong is the music. I am not trying to offer you the Truth; I am dancing and invite you to join me. Isn’t being alive beautiful? As to the truths that might lie within the Lifesong, I don’t think life has truths and laws, it is an organic and fluid situation … we are always required to engage the present moment, to evolve; to be alive. Truths and laws are, in a way, laziness, the natural tendency of the mind to simplify things and to find patterns in recurring events. In this respect, ‘truth’ is what we need to guard against. It can lead to narrow-mindedness, arrogance and fundamentalism. The wisest path I can see is to reflect on one’s situation and try to consider all the consequences before acting. We are always learning, and never ‘know’ the truth of how to live. Intuition can be helpful, but when we believe our intuition guides us to Truth, we end up ‘knowing’ that the earth is flat, that witches must be burned, and that the charming conman really can save us from the impending disaster of our own spiritual annihilation. What I suspect is that spiritual knowledge is too individual to be taught, but some people have a magic about them, acquired through the choices and actions that form their character. They’ve got it, but they can’t pass it on very easily. That’s why the wizards (the learned) are not nearly as powerful as the sorcerers (the self-taught) in the Tale of the Lifesong. And the Lifesinger simply enlivens, not claiming any knowledge for her own, but willing to share the joy with everyone. To me, that power is worth more than all of them put together. As a fantasy author with a science fiction slant, I’ve developed an interest in astronomy: here’s a new cluster of five review stars deep in cyberspace. Thanks to The Book Huntress (Danielle) for this informative review of The Riddler’s Gift. If you’re studying for something like the LAMDA Speaking Verse and Prose examinations, this would be a very useful analysis of this fantasy novel. The review outlines the magic system, characters, setting and themes in The Riddler’s Gift very well, as well as making some detailed comments about the story: “The magical system was one part science, one part high mathematics (those parts had me scratching my head a bit), one part spiritual, and one part philosophical.” “… each person fights an intimate battle against evil [...] It might not be easy, but we can choose to do what’s right. We might fall, and fail ourselves and others, but that doesn’t mean the war is over. We pick ourselves up again to fight the next battle. So there is always hope, in the end.” “… a story that had a shining heart, which was what stood out to me from the beginning, despite some of the very dark elements.” Nip over to Daneille’s blog to study the review further. As the northern winter closes in, it seems everyone is snuggling up inside … and reading books! Reviewers have recently taken notice of The Tale of the Lifesong fantasy series and are helping to spread the word. The Slowest Bookworm mostly reads Young Adult fiction; occasionally adult romance, historical fiction, fantasy or thrillers. She’s not accustomed to tackling epic fantasy, which makes her reviews more interesting because she can form an opinion untainted by familiarity with the genre. She finally braved the mountain of words and disappeared into Eyri. sounds of munching. a page moved. an i became an o, then a capital O, and suddenly, there was the bookworm emerging from the page, blinking, wondering where all the sprites had gone. Now Zarost will tell you, it isn’t easy to get a worm on a hook, and this worm is crafty. Although she pretends to be idle she eats up words faster than the Wranglewrithe, so all that’s left of my copy of the review is: “… Main … Amazing … Great … In … Characters … And … Lifesong” but you can read the rest of The Riddler’s Gift review on the Slowest Bookworm’s site. The verdict on The Riddler’s Gift? “Magical! I was hooked …” The Happy Booker reviews mainly epic, urban, and dark fantasy and most recently, Second Sight. Well it’s no fun being a parrot (just ask Zaul) and Zarost taught me that leaving out bits can make you holy, so I’ll recommend that you read the review of Second Sight on The Happy Booker’s book review site. “I would recommend this to anyone that wants to be utterly swept away into a story of epic proportions. I was quite honestly blown away by this book …” Finally, Fantasy Book Review is on a mission to find the Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time. I would respond ‘I haven’t written them yet!’ but I’d better step quietly away from the whistling precipice. I’m glad to have impressed the reviewer enough for Second Sight to be selected to stand beside The Riddler’s Gift in their hall of fame and jostle merrily for position with the great names of fantasy. You’ll find the review of Second Sight and other spellbinding fantasy novels on their website. They made an interesting comment on similarities. “If you are a fan of Stephen R Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant books then you will find much within that pleases you, especially if you wished they were slightly more light-hearted!” I found much to admire in Donaldson’s writing. It’s not a conscious decision to ‘write like him’ but I do try to take the best of what I’ve read and infuse my writing with the themes that excite me. Thanks to Donaldson, Hobb and Pratchett (and many others) I have a rich world of fantasy literature to draw upon for inspiration … but the Tale of the Lifesong is my own. “An epic tale of justice, forgiveness, beauty and temptation.” Amazon waved its magic wand, and my weighty fantasy novel became instantly weightless, inkless, paperless and available immediately to customers around the world. Yes, the Kindle version of Second Sight is now out, for only $7.99. It joins The Riddler’s Gift (the first novel in the Tale of the Lifesong fantasy series) which has doubled its ebook sales since the release of the Kindle in the UK. Small sales figures when compared to the printed version, but this is the new wave. From a fantasy author’s perspective, ebooks are a shining light in a treacherous forest of dead trees, logistics monsters and bookstore dungeon masters. Science fiction and fantasy are terrible genres to print: they are traditionally longer books and so they require bigger print runs to bring the unit costs down, they cost more to move around, they take up more shelf space, yet they sell for the standard fiction price. So the market pressure is to produce shorter fantasy; exactly what fantasy readers don’t want.I love epic fantasy and I want my fantasy novels to be big. I intend to continue writing that way. A story is a world: if it’s worth telling, it’s worth telling in full, so you can get totally lost in its ideas. Ebooks enable fantasy authors to write to any length, and by cutting out so much of the publishing cost, they can be priced cheaper than printed books. With Amazon’s 70% royalty option, more of the money can get back to the authors, which means they can begin to make a living out of writing great fiction … and fantasy will flourish. For that to happen, more people need to buy ereaders, many more. Amazon needs to reduce the cost of the Kindle even further to open the floodgates of demand. Publishers must drop the price of their ebook versions to stimulate buying and to prevent piracy. Yes there are development costs, but the potential market at a lower price point is massive. Will Kindle (Amazon) beat the iPad (Apple)? Quick answer: yes, in the fiction market, because many many people already buy books on Amazon, and Apple has to build its own market against a brand that is established as being the cheapest and most convenient. Overall, I think the market will be divided: the iPad is great for textbooks, comics, newspapers, graphics, and exciting apps like virtual-reality overlays, mapping, astronomy, whatever. It’s got the cool factor. But the idea of a basic book, something you carry around everywhere for a quick read remains a special treat. The Kindle is lightweight, easy to read and has a one month battery life. It’s simple. It’s the future of the fantasy novel. Writing fantasy? It would be more fun to simply read the latest sparkling fantasy novel from Trudi Canavan, Patrick Rothfuss or Joe Abercrombie. But instead, I wrestle with words, because I believe I am crafting something different, something inspiring; something that must be written. When it is done, I can’t judge if my book is good, because I wrote it: I stand inside the sculpture; I am the music. So I rely on my readers to evaluate the work and spread the Lifesong by word of mouth. I sent a review copy of Second Sight to SFbook a while ago and I was really looking forward to Ant’s review, because I knew from his excellent review of The Riddler’s Gift that he could appreciate the deeper visions of the Lifesong. Even so, I was blown away by his five star rave review: “Greg Hamerton is truly one of those rare breed of storytellers, where you forget the words written on a page and simply find yourself within the story and the characters around you – your friends and enemies.” “… this is high fantasy at its very best. Quite simply breath-taking …” He analyses the twisted paths that Ametheus takes, the darker nature of the story and the parallels with Tolkien within fantasy fiction. Ant over at Sfbook.com runs an impressive site crammed full of science fiction and fantasy book reviews. In the 5 star review class, there’s a great selection of top fantasy books, like David Gemmel’s Legend, Robin Hobb’s Assassins Apprentice and Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane. So I’m in the best company … Sfbook awarded five stars to The Riddler’s Gift. “There are moments in this novel that are sheer magic … ” “A very unique and individual style, I am at times reminded of Robert Jordan’s work alongside JRR Tolkien’s but only really in passing, The Riddler’s Gift is very much on its own …”
Monthly Archives: July 2011 1. Find your source / photo, open in photoshop! 2. Use Brightness / Contrast to alter the image to how you want it. 3. Sharpen with unsharp mask to make it as crisp as possible. 4. Feather off the edges to pure white; pure white is ignored by the brush system, so you will need to make sure there is no pale grey, or use an airbrush with pure white around your brush so that you do not get a grey box effect (yuk!). 5. Select box and highlight the part of the image you want for your brush, then click Edit – Define Brush Preset. 6. Open brush selector and select your brush (last one on the list), then open the Brushes Palette. 7. In the Brushes Palette, click and toggle / play with every single option to learn how they work, decide what sort of brush you want to create, and make it! Starting an image 3. Add a new multiply layer, and with this sketch your idea, if you haven’t had your Berocca today and need inspiration, hit the net (not literally) for reference pictures or art which tickles you (once again not literally). 4. Once you have a sketch down which your happy with (I went for a huge dragon, though more based on a lizard from some nature photos) add a Normal layer under the multiply layer and on here, get some tone down, paint away the basic shapes of the image… All the first steps I would recommend looking more at the thumbnail window than your main one, as you can get a better sense of where the composition is going. 5a. After this phase, use a combination of Overlay and Multiply layers to help you pull your image in to shape, and also to help you find a working colour palette. I used an Overlay layer first, as I wanted the dragon to be epic and gigantic, I went for a bit of a limited dusk colour palette. 5b. Using a multiply layer next, just to drop in some shadows and again try to shape the images composition. Here is a screenshot of the layers - (Note; I’ve put these in a folder of their own as the rendering process often takes many layers.) Rough painting – I’ve started to paint on top of my other layers now with a Normal layer, I do this until the image looks right when zoomed out / defocussed eyes.
Chatman's case was not a capital crime, but the problems that led to his wrongful conviction raise the question: How can we continue carrying out executions in Texas when we know the system is so prone to error? For years, Texas has led the nation in the number of executions. Why don't we now strive to lead the nation in a new direction: reforming a justice system in urgent need of reform? For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death. I am no bleeding heart. I have been a Republican for over 30 years. I started my career as a supporter of removing violent people from society for as long as possible, and I still believe that to be appropriate. But I also believe that the government should be held to the strictest burden before it deprives a citizen of his freedom. It is not too much to ask that we not convict and execute innocent people in our quest to enforce the law. Let's get this system fixed.
The many activities or jobs is not the reason why you can not notice the beauty, freshness, and health. Precisely the freshness and health of you who can make you productive. Therefore, you should be able to maintain and care for health and freshness of your body. Health is not a thing. But without health, everything is nothing. Health, will not mean anything. Health and fitness is the very first thing that makes you productive. If you do not notice, many problems will arise which in turn hinder your mobility. “The problem that often appears as dry skin, lips dry and cracked, his eyes tired, and also stress. Problem as above, of course, affect the appearance,” said Dr. Dipl Petrina Slamat CIDESCI from Edrea Spa located at Jalan. Hangtuah Raya No. 3, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, this. Such problems, namely dry skin, chapped lips, and eyes tired, emerged because the air conditioning. Dry skin can also arise due to lack of fluid intake, dehydration due to illness, dry skin treatment such as excessive use of antiseptic soap, bath with water that is too hot or too cold. In addition to its air conditioning, dry your lips are also caused by a lack of consumption of fresh fruit or vegetables, particularly those containing high doses of vitamin C, a matte lipstick, and less drinking water. While your eyes are tired because you can at the computer too long, too long to read, and too long to wear glasses or contact lenses. To overcome these problems, so you stay fresh and beautiful, there are some things you should do. In order to keep your blood circulation smoothly, you can do mild exercise. “Stretch in the neck, shoulders, waist, legs and hands. If you long hours in the air-conditioned room, you can use a suitable moisturizer for your skin,” continued Dr. Petrina. In order to keep your skin healthy and fresh, you should be diligent in cleaning it. There are some skin care techniques you can try, among others, facials, microdermabrasi, chemical peeling, and IPL. “The function is to cleanse facial skin from the rest of the dirt. Mikrodermabrasi function is to lift dead skin cells with erosion. And the function is a rejuvenating chemical peeling. Meanwhile, IPL stimulates collagen fibers that restore the elasticity of skin tissue,” explains this long-haired doctor. In addition to treatments that, you are also advised to consume fresh fruits and vegetables such as broccoli, almonds, fish (like salmon), sunflower oil, green tea, citrus fruits, apples, pears, melons, and watermelon can make your skin moist. Do not miss the white water at least 8 glasses a day. To maintain freshness and health of skin outside the room, avoid sun exposure beginning at 09.00 am-16.00 PM with UV lotions. UV lotion works to counteract the UV A and B that damage the skin. Simply put, freshness, health, and beauty will depend on a healthy lifestyle that you wake up. Healthy lifestyle is eating nutritious foods and beverages and contain vitamins and minerals, sleep, rest, and exercise enough and regularly, not drinking alcohol, reduce coffee, sugar, and salt, and positive thinking.
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Nightwing - Experimental Inks, markers on 11x17 board I typed, like, five dick jokes under this post at first… But uh, hey look, it’s Nightwing. I know fandom doesn’t like The Batman cartoon but this episode was cute. I really like the design they used for Hal (with the added bonus of him being the right body type! YESSS!) His voice was good too. Really the only thing that bothered me was that he denied ever being Sinestro’s friend and Sinestro agreed, saying that he was his “best student”. Though that could be an alternate universe thing shrugs I’ve been planning to watch this show for a while now. A lot of the fandom seems to hate it, but a few of my tumblr pals recommend it saying that Bruce is very likable in this. But I did not know Hal was in this! And he’s so cute ____ and proper looking in general. I have a mighty need to watch this right now. And look at that Batlantern handshake. And what is going on in that first screencap??? Always read the Didio commentary. Two notes of import: 1. Didio hates “redundant” characters, and thought Nightwing was one of them. No wonder he’s got such a hate-on for legacy characters. I really do not like this man. 2. Dick teaming up with Ion, Donna Troy and Monitors? You know, back during Countdown there was a theory that they originally planned to have Dick instead of Jason, but swapped him out with Jason at the last minute for whatever reason. That sure does seem like the case now. I usually read it too because boy does it explain A LOT of things. Definitely read it, guys, even if his smug and self congratulatory tone makes you sick. Also lol @ him finding out just then that Dick was popular. Because it’s not like the Nightwing series was something people had begged for for years and that had been going strong for a decade at the point this commentary was written. Dick’s reaction to his alternate self’s demise…because I’m pretty sure he’d giggle a little after finding out. xD Just some lighthearted fun! Batman Beyond by Sean Murphy & Jordie Bellaire [gotham knights #44] The best of Robin in Batman (1966)
Eagles Take First Two From Kennesaw State KENNESAW, Ga. - Georgia Southern Softball opened its trip to Kennesaw State with a pair of victories over the Owls at Bailey Park. GSU won the opener, 5-1, behind a two-hitter from starting pitcher . The Eagles slugged out 13 hits in the second game, five for extra bases to earn the 10-4 win and improve to 19-10 on the year. went 6-for-8 in the doubleheader, raising her team-high batting average to .484 on the year "We played two great games today," said Head Coach . "Our pitchers continued to throw at a very high level. In the second game, we gave up some early runs, but our team didn't quit and rallied for the win." The Eagles opened the series in style with a run in the first inning off a rocket-shot double to the wall in center by (Rincon, Ga.). Her shot to the gap allowed the speedy (Lawrenceville, Ga.) to score from first base after her leadoff single to open the contest. Fogle, however, would be stranded at second after consecutive strikeouts ended the Georgia Southern threat in the first frame. Kennesaw's Lindsay Vollmer leveled the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the second with a leadoff home run to centerfield. Lewis scored a run on her own to open the fifth inning with a leadoff home run to centerfield. The ball left the park with a ding, hitting the flagpole in center for Lewis' second career home run. Another two runs scored in the inning as a result of a fielding error with two outs in the inning. Pinch runner (Soperton, Ga.) and (Snellville, Ga.) each crossed the plate to give the Eagles a 4-1 lead. With one out in the seventh inning, Fogle added an insurance run with a home run to left field. It was her fourth four-bagger this season and 22nd in her illustrious career at Georgia Southern. GSU would strand two more runners in the frame, finishing the offensive phase of the game with five runs off nine hits and one KSU error to lead 5-1 into the bottom of the seventh. Starting pitcher (Warner Robins, Ga.) dismissed the Owls with no trouble in the seventh, holding Kennesaw State to the one run off two total hits. She fanned eight batters while throwing 100 pitches to get the win. The victory also lowers Purvis' ERA to 1.96 on the season. The Owls took an early advantage in game two, stringing together three-straight singles before a bases loaded hit by pitch brought in the game's opening run, giving Kennesaw State the early 1-0 lead. They added another run to the lead in the second inning to lead 2-0. After a leadoff hit by Lewis in the third, Ennis skied a high fly ball down the right field line for a game-tying two-run home run. It was her third bomb of the season and 13th career homer. Ennis' hit sparked the Eagle bats as Fogle hit a double down the right field line, reaching third soon after on a fly out to right. A wild pitch brought Fogle home to give Georgia Southern a 3-2 lead. With two runners aboard in the top of the fifth, Andrea Tarashuk (Flemington, N.J.) launched her first career home run over the fence in left field. Tarashuk is the ninth Eagle this season to hit a home run. Her blast gave the Eagles a 6-2 lead. In the bottom of the fifth, Kennesaw State drew back a pair of runs with a two RBI single to the gap in left center from Kaylee Williams. The runs made the score 6-2 through five complete innings. Georgia Southern extended the lead back to four runs in the top of the seventh on ' (Baxley, Ga.) two RBI double to centerfield. Her liner scored Fogle and Ennis from first and second bases, respectively. Williams came home from second later in the inning on Tarashuk's RBI double to the gap in left for her fourth RBI of the game to match both her career high and the most for an Eagle batter this season. Later in the inning, Douberley's infield single with two outs allowed Tarashuk to score from second thanks to alert base running from the Eagle third baseman. The run gave Georgia Southern a 10-4 lead going into Kennesaw's final trip to the plate. Relief pitcher (Statesboro, Ga.) nailed down the save, her first career save by going the final two and two-thirds of the victory. She allowed just two hits in the appearance with no runs charged against her. Freshman (Warner Robins, Ga.) improved to 8-0 in the circle with the victory. She went the first four and a third innings and was saddled with four runs, three earned in the outing. The Eagles wrap-up the three-game series against Kennesaw State on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. The game will close out Kennesaw State's first three-game series in program history. - Category: Softball - Published on Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:11
Davidson Slips By Georgia Southern Men's Tennis DAVIDSON, N.C - The Georgia Southern Men's Tennis (9-9, 2-4 SoCon) team rallied back in singles action, but fell short as Davidson (5-15, 1-6 SoCon) won 4-3 at the Covington Tennis Courts on Sunday, April 3rd. Juan Melian Puigventos (Las Palmas De Las Canaria, Spain) generated a victory at the top of the lineup to extend his winning streak to 11 matches. "We competed much better today and gave ourselves chances," Head Coach Nick Zieziula said. "If we continue to play like this, we are going to be ready to peak at the conference tournament and that has been our major goal all year." Doubles action started off in favor of the Eagles. Derrick Davison (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Alain Garrido (Vigo, Spain) defeated Davidson's Carter Braxton and Chris Mark, 8-2, on court three to start play. A Wildcats' win on court two evened the score with one match remaining. Puigventos and Matthijs Verdam (Hilversum, The Netherlands) fought to keep the score close at No. 1 singles, but could not tighten the gap, falling 9-7. Both teams took turns leading the match during singles action. Solid play by No. 1 seed Puigventos evened the score with wins in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0. The victory moved him to 17-1 on the season and gave the sophomore 30 career wins at the collegiate level. Garrido followed up at the No. 3 spot with straight set wins, 6-3, 6-2, to give Georgia Southern a 2-1 advantage. Victories on court six and four put the Wildcats back up 3-2. Verdam extended his match at the number-two seed to three sets in an effort to tie the match. Davidson won the final set on court two to secure the match and win. Senior Mark Paetz (Munich, Germany) delivered a 7-6, 6-4 victory over Davidson's Walker Lyons at the number-five spot to close out match play. The Eagles close out their final road trip of the regular season next weekend at Appalachian State and Elon. Georgia Southern travels to face the Mountaineers on Saturday, April 9th, for a noon match before visiting the Phoenix Sunday, April 10th, at 1 p.m. For more information on Georgia Southern Men's Tennis, follow the Eagles at GeorgiaSouthernEagles.com/mtennis or receive short updates at twitter.com/GSAthletics or facebook.com/GSAthletics. Davidson College 4, Georgia Southern 3 Apr 03, 2011 at Davidson, N.C. (Covington Tennis Courts) 1. J. Melian Puigventos (GSU) def. Joe Schafer (DAV) 6-1, 6-0 2. Chris Mark (DAV) def. Matthijs Verdam (GSU) 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 3. Alain Garrido (GSU) def. Calum Gee (DAV) 6-3, 6-2 4. Arie Hefter (DAV) def. Edio Castanhel (GSU) 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 5. Mark Paetz (GSU) def. Walker Lyons (DAV) 7-6, 6-4 6. Ethan Kallick (DAV) def. Thomas Bekkers (GSU) 6-1, 6-1 Order of finish: 1, 3, 6, 4, 2, 5 1. Calum Gee/Joe Schafer (DAV) def. J. Melian Puigventos/Matthijs Verdam (GSU) 9-7 2. Walker Lyons/Ethan Kallick (DAV) def. Edio Castanhel/Thomas Bekkers (GSU) 8-2 3. Derrick Davison/Alain Garrido (GSU) def. Carter Braxton/Chris Mark (DAV) 8-2 Order of finish: 3, 2, 1 - Category: Men's Tennis - Published on Monday, 04 April 2011 05:49
IMAO Conservative Solutions to Sissy Liberal Problems Posted by andrewfelsher on 07/09/2009 It’s been a while, I know. Needed a break from politics. Anyway, I’ve been keeping up with IMAO, and this post struck me as particularly funny: I was thinking that while conservatives are concerned about important things like terrorism and preserving freedom, liberals are always worried about silly pansy things. Maybe, though, to help them out, we can try using our practical conservative know-how to solve them. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Global warming. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Destroy the sun. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Children have low self-esteem. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Drop children in the middle of enemy territory. Those that make it back will have earned self-esteem. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Muslims feel unfairly discriminated against. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Forcefully convert them to Christianity. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Not enough support for the arts. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Classify monster trucks as art. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Endangered species. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Drop endangered species in the middle of enemy territory. Those that make it back will be toughened up to help their survival. All others probably deserved to go extinct. SISSY LIBERAL PROBLEM: Plastics don’t biodegrade. CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: Load plastics into rocket and fire them into the sun. If we’ve destroyed the sun, fire rocket to moon. Nuke moon. For your convenience: a link to the “nuke the moon” reference.
Posted by Annplugged on January 31, 2007 Growing free information – less and less physical, but there is a scarcity of attention. “Figuring out how to capture the attention of the right people and focus them on important information is extremely viable and only getting more so.” Fred Wilson’s opening keynote at the Software and Information Industry’s January 2007 summit in New York City can be watched at ScribeMedia. I strongly suggest his keynote focusing on the question ‘Where are the places where you can make money?’ - What are critical points? Discovery, navigation, trust etc. - The key: the data about data. - Future: micro-chunking the content, freeing it (I want you to have it), syndicating it, and then monetizing it. - And the most important part for me from the keynote: “I want to know how my info is consumed.” and “All through RSS” PS: Fred is a fan of Umair Haque. Posted in Attention economy \| Leave a Comment » Posted by Annplugged on January 21, 2007 I am taking feverish notes right now at the DLD conference in Munich: so the following series of posts will be about the conference and not about the cross-section of search, Google, and Hungary specifically. Linda Stone: On Attention So what about our so precious attention? Linda Stone says continuous partial attention (CPA) does not equal with multi-tasking (MT): while CPA is fuelled by the urge not to miss anything, MT is propelled by the sense of having to or wishing to be more productive. Although the trend of CPA is getting widespread, there is also a reversal in the trend due to the increasing attention and stress related diseases we are undergoing. The result? Searching for less being ON, being more protective and trying to fend off our private time, and looking for more meaningful relationships. ‘More meaningful’ does not necessarily mean, says Linda, that no more World of Warcraft is getting in your life. WOW in itself is a more meaningful form of interaction than first person shooters. ‘More meaningful,’ in this sense, gives scope for web-based hobby communities, i.e. collective attentions, which are like tribes, rather than games of solitude and purely individual achievements. Whether on or off getting more from what our attention is turned to is a growing demand. Endless stimulation is becoming less emphatic, instrad, the quality of stimulation is in the limelight. Quality of life is the new mantra. Ease of use has become a default setting, now the question is: how much this gadgety-widgety is improving my life? And that is a powerful message to the design world, to all of us connected to design in one way or another. For mass consumption of quality design just think of ipod (OK, it would have been more timely to say iphone, but that’s only coming to Europe, meaning the western part of it, in Q4, as I heard it) And one more thing, before CPA culminates in 2014, as estimated by Linda Stone, we may experience a period of tech-driven birth control: back home from work means being glued to blackberries rather than being glued to nice verbal intros to night’s niceties. But in a few years’ time, more and more of us will know how to use those attention devouring tools but will choose no to use them in certain ‘more meaningful’ hours. Just look at the millennials: “it is natural for them not to live to work, but to work to live, and actually stop working at 6 pm.” Linda also added “The millenials are more in control: they find it intrusive to be called on the mobile, and consider IM or sms as the natural way to communicate on a broad scale.” Well, this is the point where there surely will be an interesting change, in Europe definitely, now that free, fully ad-sponsored, Blyk is on the way (mid-2007 Blyk is lauched in the UK targeting 16-24 of age users. They will be flooded by Blyk phones, and speak, speak, watch, hear and speak for free on a mobile, and even enjoy some rich media, and speak. So who cannot disturb them, if companies can?) Posted in Attention economy, DLD07 \| 3 Comments »
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Here are some little portraits of some of the amazing people we had supper with in Lucca: 1. The incomparable comic artist Massimiliano Frezzato, creator of I Custodi del Maser, 2. Terry Brooks, author of Sword of Shannara, 3. Emanuele Vietina, vice-director of Lucca Comics and Games, and 4. Steve Perrin, game designer for Dungeons and Dragons and RuneQuest. Also: 1. Skippy, 2. Mandy, 3. Athos, and 4. Andrea. These sketches were all made with water-soluble colored pencils, and all were drawn around the supper table (except the one of Skippy, which was a workshop demo). Lucca Comics and Games
Turkey with apple and prune stuffing and glazed chestnuts – Maggie Beer Turkey is a lean meat and can dry out if overcooked. You can check it’s done by inserting a skewer into the thigh and the juices should run clear (with no pink colour). It’s a shame turkey is only sold as whole birds in Australia. I’d like to see organic turkey pieces, gluten free turkey slices and turkey bacon available in in Brisbane. - Christmas cook’s guide: turkey – delicious magazine - Classic brined roast turkey video – Emma Knowles - Classic roast turkey Christmas dinner – Jill Dupleix - Lemon roast turkey with hazelnut and fig stuffing – Gemma Purcell - Roast turkey breast with chestnut stuffing – Steve Manfredi - Traditional roast turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce – Valli Little - Turkey roll with chorizo and preserved lemon- Jill Dupleix
Welcome to GUY CODE, the official blog of MTV2's "Guy Code" series and your online destination for all things dude, including—but not limited to—irreverent commentary on sports, hip-hop and ladies. Stay awhile and flex your manhood. Vanilla sex is like vanilla ice cream: it'll hold you over, but you'd rather add some crazy ingredients. Problem is, you don't want to make your lady feel self-conscious about getting kinky. First off, never use the phrase "let's spice things up," or else she'll feel like guacamole. Secondly, you've gotta be careful about the size of your lingerie purchases. As for edible underwear...well, just take Jon Gabrus's word for it in this clip from the next episode of "Guy Code," which airs Tuesday at 11/10c on MTV2. If you ever visit England, you'll be tempted to distract those guards in stupid hats who are supposed to keep a straight face at all times. They probably won't react to your douchebaggery...but never test your luck with a street performer. In this video from Australia, a guy in a purple shirt harasses a silent cowboy who's trying to entertain a crowd. He did entertain the crowd, but not in the way that the heckler expected. Our favorite YouTube comment: "As a street performer... I understand where that punch came from very strongly. Some people will treat you as an object and a few feel entitled to do whatever they would do to a lamp post. If you've ever worked in customer service or serving you'll recognise this." In other words: Don't be a dick. And don't wear purple. Although she received some boos from the crowd, Daughtry also got some praise for her technique when fielding the grounder. The announcer called it a "pretty clean play," and Rays manager Joe Maddon said that "she presented her hands to the ball very well...the overall package was very, um, efficient." If Hollywood decides to do a remake of "A League Of Their Own," they should definitely get in touch with Daughtry. Here's the video: Tonight's "Guy Code" taught you how to deal with pain-in-the-ass friends, how to conquer fear and even how to treat your mom. But as always, there's more to learn! In these clips from the "Cutting Room Floor," you'll get the Code to impressing your girlfriend's gal pals, humiliating a buddy engaged in PDA and screaming in terror like a man... well, screaming in terror hilariously like Donnell Rawlings, anyway. Sometimes a friend invites you to hang out, which sounds awesome, but when you show up--expecting a crazy night--he's brought his girlfriend along...and now you've gotta be on your best behavior. Nobody enjoys third wheel status, but it happens to all of us. Fortunately, in this clip from tonight's "Guy Code," Dan Soder's got some advice on how to handle the awkward situation--and get out of it ASAP for some actual fun. Actually, that headline should just read "Andrew Schulz Goes Skydiving," 'cause Damien Lemon's fear of heights got the best of him. We brought you the sneak peek earlier, and here's the whole chronicle of Schulz putting his life in another man's hands...and between another man's legs. (Is Damien jealous? Hell, no! "This guy's a goddamn fool.") It's OK to have an irrational fear, as long as you try to conquer it. For example, if you're scared of bees, go to an apiary. (It's a honey farm, not an ape farm.) Or if you're scared of heights, jump out of a plane 13,000 feet up and pray that your parachute opens. That's exactly what altitude-phobic Andrew Schulz and Damien Lemon do on tonight's episode of "Guy Code." Watch the preview clip below, then tune in for the full episode at 11/10c on MTV2 to see whether they stick the landing. Spring break is right around the corner, which means that guys everywhere are getting ready for the beach. (Specifically, for the amazing parties and hot chicks at the beach.) At least, that's the plan...but spring break has a way of unraveling even the most well-conceived plans. Between too much sun, too much beer, cruel pranks and creepy old dudes, weird times are guaranteed. Comedians Ray Devito and Jon Savoy have scoured the Internet to find the worst spring break moments ever. Watch the video, then reconsider your vacation. If you guys are ready for some next-level s**t, this week's "Guy Code" is going to deliver. Dealing with your girlfriend's friends can be a very tricky venture. Most guys just try to be polite and keep their heads down, which is smart, but also very basic. You can use your time with her friends to improve your relationship. All you have to do is ask her friends questions that are also indirect compliments to your girlfriend. Questions like, "How great is she?" For more on this deceptively genius strategy, take a look at this sneak peek video from Tuesday night's new show, which airs at 11/10c on MTV2. The best part about a bachelor party is that you can have more than one of 'em. Well, Swizz Beatz's second one was on the French island of Corsica. In this clip from Tuesday's "Guy Code," he recounts the tale: speedboat, Billionaires Club, champagne Super Soakers...our weekend of Netflix doesn't seem quite so exciting now.
HP Support Forums Join in the conversation. 01-21-2009 09:42 AM I'm having some trouble getting the HP C4599 to work under Windows 7 (x64 if you're wondering) in wireless printing mode. I've ran the installer with compatibility settings under Windows Vista and also ran it as an administrator, but it consistently hangs at "Waiting for SLP reply from 192.168.1.104" in Steps 3/4 of the installer. This happens to both the drivers I download off of HP's website, as well as those provided on the install CD. I've posted my issues and steps at this thread on the HP forums. If anyone's found any solutions, it would be great to all post our experiences here, in hopes of finding a temporarily solution before HP releases Windows 7 drivers. I'd recommend viewing my other reply in the thread linked above, as that may save you hours of trouble that I had to go through to no avail. 01-22-2009 05:16 PM I have the HP 4580 printing wirelessly on Windows 7 as of today on my HP DV5 laptop. I had the same experience as you described: I ran the install in Vista compatability mode, as admin and all that, and I kept getting hung up waiting for a reply from the printer. I did all that yesterday and then got mad and uninstalled all the HP software, drivers and deleted the printer. Today, It dawned on me that I never joined the workgroup to which my printer and other machines belong. Same steps as in Vista. I went to start>right-click computer>properties>change settings next to 'computer, domain, workgroup settings'. I typed in the name of my workgroup that my XP and Vista machines as well as my printer are all set up to use, and I restarted the Windows 7 machine. Then I added the printer from the control panel and let Windows 7 find and install a driver. Restarted once more to be safe, and it printed! Don't assume you are connected to a workgroup just because you can connect to and view files from your other machines, and because Windows 7 detects the wireless printer. You must join the workgroup and reboot in order to use the printer wirelessly. 07-11-2009 10:44 AM the link to your other thread no longer works if it ever did. i too am stuck where you are and am hoping for help on the matter. i recall under vista that i had to allow access through my firewall however the entire firewall interface has changed drastically in 7 and the same options are either not available or not easy to find. mine has nothing to do with a workgroup as i have a single laptop that i want to print with wireless. no "network" of computers at all. 02-14-2010 12:32 PM I also have a c4580. Downloaded the Windows Home Premium 64 bit driver from the HP site. Printer works on the USB cable but not wirelessly. This is just one laptop (Sony Viao VPCCW21FX) and the one printer. How can I make the wireless work? 02-14-2010 03:49 PM The C4580 has a built-in print server, and you need to set it up with the USB cable in your laptop. Use the HP disk so the setup program can connect the printer to your router and get an IP address on your network. Make sure your wireless router is broadcasting your SSID so the printer will see it during setup! (make sure to tell it the the correct security key for your router) Once it is set up, it should work wirelessly with your laptop. Assuming both your laptop and your printer are connected wirelessly to your network: If for some reason you can't print wirelessly, open Devices and Printers in Windows 7 (I assume you are using 7) and remove all HP printers that may exist there. (Drivers will stick around so don't worry.) Make sure the printer is on then click Add a Printer. Click Add a Network, Wireless or Bluetooth printer. You will see two printers listed, and you want the second one which has the clean IP address Ex. 192.168.1.102, not the address beginning with http//. Go through the wizard and make sure NOT to 'share the printer' towards the end as your machine is not the server for the printer...the printer has an onboard server. Make sure to set it as your defauly printer. You should be printing wirelessly. If you have any sort of event in the future which causes the router to reassign IP addresses and you find yourself unable to print, you will need to remove/re-add the printer as above so your laptop will know where to find it. Hope that helps. 09-07-2010 12:43 AM - edited 09-13-2010 09:49 AM If you are setting up a wireless printer in Windows 7 then there may be different issues that can appear while installation. If the status of your printer is offline then you have to reinstall the drivers of printer on Windows 7-based system. [Text removed] Hope this helps you. 07-12-2011 03:57 AM During certain cases, you may have completed the physical integration perfectly. But still you may not be able to print anything. This can be due to the absence of a driver installed on your system. The problem can easily be averted, if you are installing the driver corresponding to the manufacturer. You can ensure that the version corresponds to the exact version of the printer series as well. To manually install a printer driver 1. Open Devices and Printers by clicking the Start button , and then, on the Start menu, clicking Devices and Printers. 2. Right-click the printer you want to update, and then click Printer properties. 3. Click the Advanced tab. 4. Click New Driver, and then follow the instructions in the Add Printer Driver wizard. To download HP printer driver go to Hewlett Packard - Enter the product name / number. Be sure to check the additional information, like how to install the driver or troubleshooting guides. Get more information to fix Wireless Printing in Windows 7 : Hope this information helps you 02-07-2012 05:37 AM - edited 02-07-2012 06:25 AM So, I've done all those things listed on this thread.. Uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, reset.. My C4599 was given a static IP on the wireless, I used the USB to do the full install and i get a message that the Laptop cannot communicate with the printer at the correct IP address.. It sees the printer on the network, but won't talk to it... suggests that I open 3 different ports via the firewall in Win7, done, added inbound and outbound rules.. still says i cannot communicate with the printer at the correct IP.. It worked fine until the last round of MS Patches.. did microsoft change some code? Added Details: 1 laptop (newer model HP) does communicate wirelessly after haveing to do a reinstall of the HP tools and software, other laptop (older model) no is the above issue. No changes to the Bufflo router i'm using, no changes to security software (laptop is using MS Security) and the only changes would be the Patches from Microsoft..
Ok, I am looking for some blogging fresh meat, so I thought I’d try my hand at starting a meme. The criteria is purposely vague and very simple. I want you to list ten blogs you’ve really enjoyed reading recently. Especially the underrated, undiscovered, recent finds. They don’t have to be your favorite blogs of all time, just ones that have caught your notice recently. Here are the official rules... - The Blog must have an rss (or ATOM) feed. Ok, that’s it. Here’s my list in no particular order... - Coding Horror Jeff Atwood does a great job of telling it like it is. He provides pragmatic insight into software development. Found danah boyd’s blog via Dare. She provides interesting insight into social networking softaware. Shelley’s always been a good read, but the pictures of balloons has pushed her way up my list. - .NET Undocumented I read Wesner Moise because he digs deep into .NET so I don’t have to. For you .NET geeks out there, this isn’t really a find as his blog is quite widely read, and for good reason. He’s in this list as a sort of blogtime achievement award for continually putting out good content. Take my blog, remove most of the crap, and you have Jon Galloway’s blog. Yes, this makes my list despite the code title. - Sharp as a Marble Robb’s humor is sharp and biting. He can insult twenty generations of your family and have you laughing about it. - Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Look up the term Job Security in wikipedia and I wouldn’t be surprised if you found a picture of Dare. Only someone who knows he can get a job anywhere can say what he says about his employer and keep working. Fortunately someone over there recognizes he’s part of the solution, not the problem. Need I say more? Only Rory can talk about suicidal thoughts and have you laughing about it. Don’t you feel like a schmuck now? - IanG on Tap Nobody is always right, except maybe for Ian. For a real in-depth insight into C# or IO Completion ports, Ian is the go to guy. This guy knows too much, I fear someone will take him out it.
Creativity abounds in putting together this pair of Super Mario Bros. costumes. [Rob] and his wife didn’t stop with a well-assembled troupe of familiar wardrobe items, but decided to go for authentic sound effects as well. It started by finding a few of his favorite Mario sounds on the Internet. From there he grabbed a greeting card that allows you to record several message. He recorded each of the sounds and removed the electronics from the card. From there an Arduino mini was connected to the playback buttons and to a Wii nunchuck. After the break you can see that when the kids press a button, the card plays back the sound of jumping, shooting fireballs, etc. So far it’s the best use of an audio greeting card that we think eclipses its intended use.
As promised yesterday, here’s a short 101 for your stay at Hacker Beach. If you have additional questions, just add them as a comment, and we’ll answer them and/or amend the post. If you’re flying directly to Phu Quoc, be sure to get some Dong at your arrival airport on the mainland. The new international airport on Phu Quoc is only open for 2 weeks, and doesn’t have an ATM yet, and the taxi drivers don’t accept USD. At the ATMs on the island, you can get up to 2,000,000 VND in a single transaction (~ 70 EUR or 95 USD). If you need more, e.g. to pay for your room, just do multiple transactions. There are 3 ATMs close to Thai Tan Tien (the guesthouse, where the first hackers are staying), all located on the opposite side of the street around John’s Tours. There are loads of licensed taxis on Phu Quoc, colored in light golden and green/white, and sporting a license paper in the front window. They are completely safe to use, not too expensive, and they will rigorously obey their taxi meter. Easy going. The most convenient way to get around by yourself over a longer span of time is renting a motorbike, of course. As typical for SE-Asia, motorbikes are the default means of transportation on Phu Quoc. Pretty much every place around you will rent them out for about 100-150 K a day. It’s much recommended to purchase gas from a proper gas station in Duong Dong instead of the street-side vendors. A full tank will set you back around 100K. We’ll have another journal entry on traffic on Phu Quoc, but for now just note: there are hardly any traffic rules, so keep to the right hand side of the street, and constantly look out for any moving obstacles. You can also rent bicycles. One hacker already fell off one, riding downhill with the brakes not working properly, though. So be careful on those as well! Apart from a low risk of acquiring Malaria from one of them, they’re mostly annoying as hell. But they will only come out in the early evening and morning, so you don’t need to use repellent during the day. Just don’t forget putting it on at about 5pm, and you should be rather safe. Also watch out for the tons of insects in the air, when riding a bike between 5 and 7pm. Pretty much every guesthouse and resort along the beach has a beach-front restaurant with decent Vietnamese food. You can’t do much wrong there. When you need a change, try one of the many French places, or e.g. German food at German B (check out the map for recommendations and add your own). In the evening, some places on the beach have barbeques with fresh seafood and some chicken and meat. The most extensive seafood menus are offered at the restaurants on the night market in town. Power outages are a very common occurrence on Phu Quoc (we’ll also have another entry on that topic). Basically the government will shut off different parts of the island every other day for a few hours roughly between 12 and 5pm. A lot of places run generators during the outages, but don’t count on that being the case every time or during the whole outage. John’s Tours on the main street always has a generator running immediately, so that’s a good place to stay online. Apart from working in your room or on the patio, we can mostly recommend German B to get stuff done. They have fast, reliable wi-fi, power outlets everywhere, and large tables, where you can comfortably hack with a group of people. As already said, when the power is off, John’s Tours is a safe bet to stay online. When you find more good places for groups of hackers, put them on the map! SIM cards (Update) All carriers in Vietnam offer some kind of pay-as-you-go plan with 3G access. The easiest way to get one is buying a TouriSIM e.g. at John’s Tours. It comes with English instructions and an English-speaking helpline, that doubles as a mobile tourist info. It’s 200K (~ 7 EUR / 10 USD), and includes a data flat rate. Viettel (there are rumors it has better 3G) is a bit tougher as there is no English website. Buy a SIM card for 65K VND, add some more money (instructions on the voucher) and get a data package. For 200k VND you get about 3.5 gig traffic a month. SMS exactly “3G ON” to ’161′. After you’ve loaded up your dong, SMS ‘MI 200′ to ’191′. We hope this was helpful to some of you. If you think we’ve omitted an important point, let us know in the comments, so we can amend this entry. And now: Hack the island!
Yes, just about everything in today’s issue is some kind of free contest. There are a lot, and I’m pretty sure I left something out. But be sure to skim through and see if there is anything you might have missed this week. The Weekly Flyer has managed to secure yet another free night at the W Hotel Atalanta, which is asking for reader support for their campaign to support the non-profit MusicCares. Read more at Points, Miles, & Martinis. Having never been to Atlanta or a W hotel (I’m a Hyatt guy) I’d love the chance to try something new. It takes only a few minutes of your time to enter: Remember my post about the new Air New Zealand preflight safety video last week? It was studded with cartoons of famous celebrities. If you can recognize them, soccerfanz10 on FlyerTalk shares that you can win a free around-the-world trip to London, Los Angeles, Auckland, and Hong Kong. The contest prize includes flights only, but I’m sure you all have enough points for the hotels. This isn’t a limited-time deal, but some people have been asking where you can get AA gift cards at Costco for 10% off. Not all Costcos sell them, even in the same city. The Flight Deal has a recently updated list. AAdvantage Geek shared yesterday an opportunity to win 100,000 AAdvantage miles. The catch is you have to create and film a short video. Yes, more work, but that probably also increases your chances of winning. Think of what you could do with that many miles! He also has a recap of other American Airlines contests. Hilton sent out an email yesterday encouraging people to enter their foodie contest to New York, co-sponsored by Bon Appetit. Am I the only one who misses Gourmet magazine? I’ve only gotten about three recipes from Bon Appetit to ever work–sometimes I think it’s just meant to be eye candy. Anyway, you don’t have to cook anything, just EAT EAT EAT! MichaelW Travels shares that you can win a free trip to Scotland to celebrate the release of Disney’s new movie, Brave (I refuse to call it Pixar, which they are slowly bringing down to their level…) Anywhoo, it would be fun to go visit the old plot of land my great great grandfather used to farm for potatoes. Hilton HHonors is giving away seven different vacations now through the end of August. Decide whether you like food, golf, relaxing, or something else when you get away from it all. HT to Frugal Travel Guy. FTG also shares a contest to win a free trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from Eagle Creek, which makes some very good, cost effective luggage. I used one of their backpacks when I headed to Europe for a month after college and loved it. Kathy at Will Run for Miles tells us how you can get free personalized luggage tags with your own pictures. Also from KLM, you can play a game through their online iFly magazine to win two tickets to Hamburg. The link opens up the magazine, and it’s a little hard to navigate, but just click on the index button (below the arrows on the right) and find the entry that says “Game.” Stacey at Very Good Points is giving away 10K United Airlines miles. All you have to do is guess the city and country in which her picture was taken. You have until Thursday to enter.
[Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru" tzafrir at cohens.org.il Fri Oct 16 21:07:47 MSD 2009 On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:05:14AM +0200, Vadim Eisenberg wrote: > guy keren wrote: > > you can mention memory leaks if you want - but students don't care about them so much, because it doesn't break their programs. > Starting from the Winter 2008-2009 semester, the memory leaks are > checked in Matam (Introduction to Systems Programming) course and 1 > point is reduced for each leak. The check is done automatically, > using, guess what, valgrind. So the students in Matam actually care > very much about the memory leaks. ... which are detectable by valgrind :-) Tzafrir Cohen \| tzafrir at jabber.org \| VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il \| \| a Mutt's tzafrir at cohens.org.il \| \| best ICQ# 16849754 \| \| friend More information about the Haifux
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The CTV Ottawa affiliate CJOH... started off their piece on supporting U.S. army deserters in Canada... "A small group of freedom fighters..." I almost fell outta my chair. First of all, there is no... as there was for the Vietnam War... draft in effect in the United States. This is an all volunteer army. All these people went out of their way to qualify to enlist in the American military. Maybe they should have considered the possibility that, as soldiers, they might be sent to fight a war. To label the people who violated their oath and deserted their duty to their country as "freedom fighters" beggars belief. It seems the CBC isn't the only Canadian media outlet that considers itself a media subsidiary of the lunatic left. RELATED: They don't even pretend to be evenhanded Anyway, good on Pamela Wallin for her non-partisan, classy handling of this issue. Craig Oliver must be frustrated that she didn't play the game.*
The 7th Column: Disguise Posted By: Mainevent<firstname.lastname@example.org> Date: 4 October 2003, 4:24 AM Travis and Wilson burst through the large double doors leading to the other half of the building's roof. Large white birds fluttered away in a spooked effort at protecting themselves from any attack that could have come, but didn't. The click of the door behind them told them it was closed, but they needed to bar it quickly. They combed the all-but-devoid gravel-laden ground searching for anything that would help them. A solitary air conditioning unit lay humming at the corner of the building's handrails, but it was of no use. Travis bounded to the edge and peered over, cars, people, and police scurried below. Wilson thought they looked like ants under a magnifying glass, but this was no time for his petty musings. There was a small emergency exit gangplank one floor below, and they needed to get to it. Wilson removed his thick black belt and secured it to the handrail, tugging at it a few times to make sure it would support his weight. He assured himself it would, and slowly inched over the side. If he missed the walk-way, there wouldn't be anymore running for him, ever. Travis held onto the belt, anxiously watching the door for anyone coming through. His stomach was in his throat and he was sweating profusely as the tension built. The clink and clank as Wilson's boots made contact with the floor below was a relief, and Travis took a firm grasp on the life-preserver. Wilson urged Travis on, and casually glanced around to be sure they weren't under anyone's watch. Travis was moving to slow for his comfort, and he tugged at the belt. Sweaty palms loosed Travis' grasp on the rope-like object, and he slid uncontrollably until landing on face-up on the heavy grated steel. "I hate you man." Travis coughed as he rubbed his throbbing skull. "I know you do, now go. I'm surprised they're not already here the way you move." Wilson locked wrists and pulled Travis to his toes. Their feet rolled in unison as they hurried back and forth, back and forth, back and forth down the steps. They passed window after window on their descent, Wilson prayed that they wouldn't be spotted, or else. In two minutes they had made it to the third floor, and took a knee as an officer and his partner patrolled the alley. "I hear they pulled up three bodies. A damn bloodbath up there. Mark says it's most likely a drug deal gone bad, but he's not sure. Said something about military histories and something." One of the cops said to his friend, who had stopped to relieve himself behind a dumpster. "Aww hell. Everyone on this planet has a military history. I got one, you got one, damn Steve, even your wife has one." His friend made a sort of grunt-like laugh as he zipped up. They finished their round and disappeared around the corner of the alley. Wilson and Travis inched down the catwalk, making sure that they could find cover at a moments notice. Noone presented themselves, and the duo dangled from the final ladder and then dropped simultaneously to the sandy earth. The shadows of the alley chilled it to the core, and Wilson whirled around as a cat skittered past. They jogged to the street, and casually entered the crowd. Wilson fell several yards behind Travis, and casually followed him to whatever destination he was led to. Although decked out in full military battle dress, he wasn't all that suspicious in the crowd. The solar system's governmental homebase was constantly being visited by UNSC ships at port, and the local militia was always on duty. His biggest threat was that someone actually need assistance, and force the unwanted attention on him. Travis slid slyly into a small cafe, and Wilson strolled in casually behind him. He refused eye contact, and made no recognitive motions. Only staring at the signs on the wall while fiddling at the change in his pockets. "Good day sir. What'll it be?" The shopkeeper asked politely. "I'll have a...bacon, lettuce, and tomato, and some fried Bangaro chips." Travis answered as though he had been in the town for some time, when in reality this was only his second trip. Wilson had to give him credit where it was due, he may be a tech-monkey, but he knew how to stay cool in a hot situation. "Comin' right up. Wierd what happened today 'eh? Some guy shootin up the park and then three guys found dead on the Basserby Bank rooftop. Damn near spooky if ya' ask me." The gray-haired and stubby manager stated in his subtle manner of probing his customers. "I wouldn't know, I'm here on business. I just got out of a meeting. What happened?" Travis replied with a quick and witty response, any hint of insecurity or falsehood in his lie unnoticeable. "Which company you say you worked for again?" The squatty man was getting too deep for Wilson's pleasure, and he slowly nudged the barrel of his rifle at the glass display case between him and the man. "You didn't what." "I didn't say which company I worked for." "Oh, oh yea. That's right. I'm sorry. Here's your order." The man snatched the ticket from the small holder and handed it to him with his tray. Obviously disheartened by his lack of personal intelligence gathering. Wilson lowered his weapon and placed his order as well, the man said nothing to him, and Wilson took a seat at the other side of the restaurant, yet close enough to maintain a line-of-site with Travis. Travis finished his meal in what he believed was the fastest he had ever eaten before, and noticing Wilson's progress on his lunch, decided to buy some time by getting a desert. After the two had finished they left the restaurant. They found cover in a small street-corner hotel, the kind where nothing's asked and nothing's told. Grimy walls were an unusual site to behold in such a squeaky-clean city. The dark reds and heavy carpeting looked out of date in the contemporary city surroundings. They shared a room. Travis exhumed obvious displeasure in their choice of board, but Wilson, being accomodated to Starboard quarters, was more than pleased with it. "I want to know what the hell was going on up there!" Travis nearly yelled as he unbuttoned his collar. "You think I know? Then your sadly mistaken. Randaford just pulled us along for the Op. I had no idea. Debrose and Rogers were the only ones I know in on it." "And why did that cop say they only found three bodies? There should be five. Your two partners, Debrose, Rogers, and Randaford. That means that at least two got away. That snake-in-the-grass bastard Randaford took two in the leg from you, and I gave him a shot of XM-90. He shouldn't be going anywhere." Travis' voice was hoarse as he inhaled another deep breath. "I don't know what happened there, but I know someone we can ask." "Yea, that lilly-livered son of a bitch is the one who picked us, so I figure if anyone knows about this, it's him. Tomorrow, we hitch a ride out to San Uradine, which is a small village about fifteen miles from Martina Sal Dur." "Alright, tonight we rest. Tomorrow we find the truth." Travis said enthusiastically, turning out the single light in the already dimly lit room.
So I made myself some tights! What do you think?! Pretty chuffed myself actually; self-drafted, and I did make up a paper pattern for next time although of course not all stretch fabrics are created equal and I think each fabric would have to be judged on its own stretch factor for this purpose before using a pattern... I didn't get enough fabric to go the whole length from toe to hip and initially was kicking myself for this frugality, but then realised that, of course! no one is going to see above hip height anyway! so not necessary to have an unbroken length of fabric all that way anyway... so made the above hip part of the tights separate to the leg part of the tights and joined them together after. So all turned out beautifully as this meant I used the whole width of fabric and had no leftovers, yay! As all seamstresses will agree; leftovers can be handy occasionally, but can also be a fiddly nuisance filling up one's available fabric storage space... The leg seam goes from little toe around the front of the toes and up the inside leg, there is a centre front and centre back seam on the above-hip portion (no side seams at all!) Then the round-the-hipbone seam joins top to bottom, and finally the top is folded over to form a casing and 2cm wide elastic inserted. (OK, so I'm wearing them here to show them as full length as possible, but in reality I will probably wear these with boots and longer skirts...!) Today's random picture below; witch's hat with a view, seen this morning Dress; Body & Soul, it's so long since I bought this (approx 12 yrs ago) the label is washed white and unreadable Tights; own design, stretch print jersey Shoes; Nina, from David Jones
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As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay HWTB $50 for each such unsolicited communication you send through the Website or Services. 4.7 You will not harass, annoy, intimidate or threaten any HWTB employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you. 4.8 You will promptly report to HWTB any violation of the Agreement by others. 5. WEBSITE AUCTIONS ACCESS AND USE 5.1 In order to access certain features of HANGWITHTHEBAND.COM and to participate in any HWTB Auctions and/or HWTB Event (Hangout) as a bidder, you must first register as a Hang With the Band user (free) by filling out completely and accurately all information required by HWTB as part of the Website’s online registration form. You must then activate your account for bidding by paying a one-time $10 bidding activation fee to have access to the bidding process. Rankings refer to the placement of your bid in relation to other bidders whereby the bidder who places the higher dollar amount bid shall be ranked highest and the bidder who places a lesser bid per person shall be ranked lower (i.e. the highest dollar amount per person bidder would receive a ranking of 1 whereby the second highest dollar amount per person bidder would receive a ranking of 2 and so on). You can check your ranking by logging into your account. Your ranking position can change from moment to moment as you increase your bid amount and as other bidders place their bids. You can generally update your ranking by refreshing the web page that displays your ranking position while logged into your account. You will indicate when registering for the auction whether you are bidding for one or 2 persons on the understanding that bids made for 2 shall be represented at 50% of your actual bid amount for purposes of determining your respective rankings in the auction. Your first bid must be at least the minimum bid amount specified on the auction you are bidding on (that amount should be doubled if bidding for 2). By clicking on the button to “Place Your Bid”, you will be prompted to type in your initial bid amount which must be a least the minimum amount per person as specified in the Event Details description on the HWTB web site. The Event Details description will also specify the number of prize packages (spots) that are up for auction. It is understood and agreed that the spots as described on the Event Details page will be awarded to the winning bidders in correspondence with their final auction ranking subject to fulfilling their obligations as stipulated herein. As a result of Paypal restrictions that may fluctuate, it is possible that your opening bid may not exceed $10,000 although you may bid beyond that amount thereafter. After your initial bid you may increase your bid as many times time you like up to the scheduled close of auction as specified in each event. You may not decrease your bid once it’s placed. You agree that by participating in an auction on this website that you are personally legally bound to pay HWTB the amount of your final bid should the auction close and your preliminary final ranking end up in a winning position according to the event details as described on the HWTB website. All bids and bidding minimums are in U.S. dollars. If you finish in a preliminary winning position or rank at the end of the auction, you will receive a link to a Paypal Invoice via the email address you have provided to HWTB, for the amount of your last bid before auction close. You agree that in this circumstance that you are legally bound by this agreement to pay that amount within 8 hours of that Paypal invoice being sent out by HWTB to you at the email address you have provided. If your final bid amount exceeds Paypal limitations for a single invoice payment HWTB reserves the right to provided multiple invoices to make up the total dollar amount bid or otherwise provide an option for an alternate form of payment. If at the end of an auction, you place lower than the winning rankings as described in the event details, then you shall not be obligated to pay the amount you bid. In this circumstance, you may be also be offered by HWTB a different tiered package (includes some but not all of the activities as prescribed in the event details) for the final price you bid which you may accept or decline at your discretion. You must have a valid credit card number in your name or have a valid Paypal account in your name in order to have your HWTB bidding account profile activated and bid on any HWTB Auctions. It is your responsibility to maintain the validity of this information. HWTB cannot be responsible for your inability to bid or pay for bids you make If your credit card expires or your Paypal account is closed or otherwise canceled for any reason. 5.2 Upon confirmation of enrolling on the Website as a Registered User and your payment of the Auction activation fee ($10), your bidding profile will be activated. You will then be able to log onto the Hang With the Band Website and place bids on HWTB Auctions. 5.4 Each HWTB Auction shall have a designated start time and end time during which you may place bids. Each HWTB Auction will provide a description of and details about the particular HWTB Event (Hangout) on which you may place a bid, including the number of spots that are available to bid on and the incremental procedure of the bidding. In some auctions bids may be increased freely while in others increases may only be done in pre-specified increments (i.e. increments of $100 or multiples thereof). During the pendency of any HWTB Auction on which you place a bid, you will be able to log into your Hang With the Band website account to see your ranking relative to other bidders; however, the dollar amounts and the ranking of other bidders will not be displayed. All bids are time-stamped and therefore, for purposes of ranking, bids of identical dollar amounts will be prioritized on a first-come basis by the date and time they are received (e.g., a $4000 bid made at 10:01 a.m. will be ranked higher than a $4000 bid made at 10:05 a.m. on the same day). All bids are legally binding and non-revocable. Once you place and confirm a bid on any HWTB Auction, your bid constitutes a legally binding agreement authorizing HWTB to collect the full amount of your bid if and when it is determined by HWTB to be among the winning bids at the close of the HWTB Auction for which the bid was placed. In the event that you are in a preliminary final winning position at an auction’s and you do not pay as per your commitment for any reason you shall be subject to possible action by HWTB as detailed herein and you will forfeit any claim to the HWTB Auction prize (event package) for which the bid was placed. In this event the ranking in question will also be forfeited and rankings below it will be adjusted upwards accordingly. In the event of this said failure to pay as promised you also agree that such action constitutes fraud and is subject to legal recourse by HWTB for any damages that ensue as a result of such action. 5.5 While HWTB will make every effort to ensure that all HWTB Auctions are continuous and uninterrupted, HWTB cannot and does not guarantee that all HWTB Auctions will be continuous and uninterrupted and operation of any HWTB Auction may be interfered with by numerous factors outside HWTB’s control. In the event that a disruption of an HWTB Auction occurs for any reason, including but not limited to, a crash of the computers hosting the Website and/or the HWTB Auction, then any such HWTB Auction and all associated bids shall be rendered null and void with HWTB reserving the right to decide whether or not the start over and run again the disrupted HWTB Auction within the same or different timelines as previously designated. As a user of the Hang With the Band.com website you agree to hold HWTB harmless against any damages that should occur as result of said interruption of an Auction. 5.6 Following the termination of each HWTB Auction, HWTB will tabulate the highest bids for the available spots and compile a Preliminary Winning Rankings list within 120 minutes after the close of each HWTB notifying potential winning bidders by email and/or telephone utilizing the contact information provided by the Bidders. Bidders who are not in “winning” ranking positions at this time will know as such by checking their ranking position after the auction end date and time. 5.7 For any HWTB Auctions for which you are among the Preliminary Winning Ranking (positioned in a package winning rank at auction close) you hereby agree to pay the Paypal invoice that will be sent to you by HWTB in full for the amount owing (the amount of your final bid amount) within 8 hours from the time that the invoice is sent by HWTB to the email address you provide at registration. In the event that your invoice remains unpaid 8 hours after the final invoice is sent, HWTB reserves the right to revoke your winning bid for non-payment and cancel your Website membership. HWTB may also, at its sole discretion (but shall not be required to) contact you in the event of non-payment after 8 hours via the e-mail address and/or the phone number you provided at registration to provide you with the opportunity to use an alternative method of payment for the purpose of paying for and securing your winning spot in the HWTB Auction. It is understood that this would be done as a courtesy and not as a matter of policy. 5.8 HWTB reserves the right to sell any unsold or additional spots after any auction closes so long as such spots do not usurp any previous paying bidders’ auction ranking in a negative or downward direction. Pricing and method of marketing of such packages shall be at HWTB’s sole and absolute discretion 5.9 In the event that your bid includes a bid for a guest and said bid is placed in a ranking position which divides your bid for two persons into winning and non-winning positions or which divides your bid into different tiers relative to the HWTB Event (Hangout) that you are bidding on, then HWTB, at its complete and sole discretion reserves the right to accommodate bidders in these types of situations by increasing the amount of available total winning spots and/or the available winning spots in total and/or in a tier of a multi-tiered Event (Hangout) by a factor of one person. 5.10 As a registered participant of the HWTB website, you agree to refrain from bidding or being a guest of a bidder for any HWTB Event (Hangout) where you have a history of altercation with a celebrity or celebrities who are featured guests of said Event (Hangout) whereby it may be reasonably deemed that said celebrity/celebrities may feel that your presence at the Event (Hangout) may constitute a threat to their comfort, safety or security. HWTB reserves the right to refuse your bid or to disqualify your bid, winning or otherwise, if said celebrity/celebrities determine and express to HWTB that they feel that you are in any way a threat to their comfort, safety or security. In the event that such a determination is made prior to the Final Winning Rankings being published or anytime before the start of the actual Event (Hangout), HWTB shall refund to you the Auction Price paid to HWTB for the Event (Hangout) and shall not be liable to you for any reimbursement otherwise. Should that determination/assessment occur after that start of an Event (Hangout) then the offending bidder(s) shall be removed from the event and barred from participating further in the Event (Hangout) Itinerary without refund or compensation by HWTB or the celebrity/celebrities. For purposes of clarity on this, HWTB strongly advises that any person who plans to bid, is bidding on an Event or is a registered guest of a bidder for an HWTB event that involves celebrity/celebrities with whom the bidder has had any kind of prior meeting, association or relationship, then the bidder should declare such history to HWTB via email so that HWTB may have the opportunity to approve their participation via the celebrity/celebrities in question. 5.11 To the extent you are required by law, you are solely responsible for remitting any taxes owed in your domicile to which you are subject to arising from any winning HWTB Auctions. HWTB is not obligated to determine whether such taxes apply and is not responsible for collecting, remitting or reporting such taxes arising from the HWTB Auction. 6. HWTB EVENTS 6.1 Upon successful payment in full of the Auction Price, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of your winning bid. 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It is further understood and agreed that as an event participant, your failure to be present at such a meeting point at a pre-determined time shall be just cause for HWTB to proceed to the destination without said participant. 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In some cases a person under the age of 18 may be able to participate in a HWTB event provided that HWTB has expressly given written permission as such and that person is accompanied by an adult who has bid for them and has also secured a spot for themselves via the bidding process or otherwise purchases or is awarded a spot. If you are under the age of 21, you hereby acknowledge, understand, and agree that you will be prohibited by law from participating in one or more portions of any HWTB Event that has age restrictions. Any portions of any HWTB Event that have age restrictions will be described in the HWTB Auction Hangout Description. 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HWTB also reserves the right to immediately remove you and/or your Guest from the HWTB Event in the event that you violate this provision and, in such case, you will not be entitled to any refund of the Auction Price you paid and HWTB reserves the right to cancel your Website membership. 6.11 If you have any food allergies, you must notify HWTB in writing at least 15 days prior to any HWTB Event where food will be provided by HWTB as part of the HWTB Event Itinerary. 6.12 HWTB makes no representations, warranties, guarantees, or promises of any form of relationship between you and any celebrity or other person attending the HWTB Event prior to or after the HWTB Event. HWTB further makes no representations, warranties, guarantees, or promises regarding the nature and quality of any time that you may spend with any celebrity attending the HWTB Event. 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There it is. My very favorite purse in the collection. And I only have one picture of it. I use this purse more regularly than the white or black ones and any of the other colorful ones. I love the pop of color, the way the color blocking reminds me of the seats in classic cars. Yeah. It's a good one. The interior is plastic. There is a zippered side pocket. It seems to be really well made or was not used that often by its first owner. The seams are not coming apart anywhere and the handles are in good shape. It holds a fairly decent amount of stuff, just not a digital camera as big as mine. Something I think about when I look at my vintage purses is the amount of things that modern women carry with them these days. The other day I realized how much electronic crap I haul around with me. I have my external hard drive, my smart phone, my thumb drives, my mp3 player, my portable hotspot. Half of the time I have my camera. The other half of the time I'm hauling around my laptop from work. I have a litany of non-electronic junk in my purse as well. I have an unfortunate amount of makeup in my makeup bag that I don't use very often. I go through it every so often and empty it out to lighten my load a bit. I also carry around an address book. Yes, a non-electronic address book. When I have to send packages or cards I need those addresses handy. I suppose I could add them to my phone. And I try to carry around a small notebook to take notes or make grocery/shopping/to-do lists. Occasionally I'll use it to jot down glimpses of inspiration. Today I have two books and an umbrella in my purse and two small honeycrisp apples. Oh, and a wallet and checkbook. Yeah, all the crap is not going to fit into my favorite purse. Also, it tends to get a little heavy. But there it is, the end of the vintage purse parade. Parades usually have giveaways, right? You might have noticed that I have an abundance of purses. Unfortunately, I don't use most of them that often. So, I would like to re-home a few to homes where they will be loved. I'll give away one each of the black, red, or white purses. Leave a comment saying which was your favorite purse from the parade or tell me about your favorite purse that you own (click on purse parade in the labels section and that should bring up all the purses). Next Thursday I'll pick three winners. The first can pick from any of the six, the second can pick from the four in the remaining two colors, and the third can pick between the two in the last remaining color. Does that make sense? So I'll be giving away one red, white, and black purse.
§ 2. £12,377, to complete the sum for Registrar General's Office, Ireland. § 3. £10,436, to complete the sum for Valuation and Boundary Survey, Ireland. § Motion made, and Question proposed, "That a sum, not exceeding £10,108, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1903, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Chief Secretary in Dublin and London, and of the Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums." § (9.0.) MR. T. W. RUSSELL, in resuming his speech, said that when interrupted by the Adjournment he had commenced to draw attention to the administration of affairs by the Government in the West of Ireland. His own view was that the situation in the West of Ireland was the main problem which the Government had to face. He thought it was full of danger; he was certain it was full of injustice, and he was quite clear in his own mind that the Government were largely responsible for it. Now, for the last nine years the Government had been pursuing a policy, through the Congested 1093 Districts Board, of which everybody in this House who followed it must approve. That Board was formed in 1891 and. it had done much to ameliorate the condition of the peasantry in the West of Ireland. Of late years it had devoted the principal part of its attention to the purchase of land, to the creation of a peasant proprietary, and what he might call the dressing of farms and their enlargement. He had not a word but that of praise and admiration for the action of the Board and of the Chief Secretary as its Chairman, but they quite recently had pursued a policy which had resulted in three things— First of all, the suspension of the Constitution over a great area in Ireland; second, the eviction of tenants, who, notwithstanding what the right hon. Member for South Antrim had said, he maintained, were utterly unable to pay the rents and the costs which had been heaped upon them; and, third, the formation of a Land Trust, which apparently was going to begin a war in Ireland of which no one could see the end. That was a very serious state of affairs. He would put the case historically. The Dillon estate which had been purchased consisted of 90,000 acres, it was to a large extent poor land, reclaimed bog. There were, both on the Dillon and the De Freyne estates, grass lauds which must be differentiated from those held by the people. In times past there never was an occasion of want or famine but the pinch was first felt on the Dillon estate, because the people were poor, lived from hand to mouth, and the first pressure brought them to the verge of starvation. Well, that estate was purchased, and he maintained that under all the circumstances that particular purchase was a grievous mistake in policy on the part of the Government. In the first place, it exhausted the whole of the money at the disposal of the Congested Districts Board, for they expended on it something like £300,000. In the second place, in doing so the Board set up an object lesson which had disturbed the whole province of Connaught ever since. It was no answer to him that there was a town land, as the Member for South Antrim had said, in the middle of 1094 that country which had been bought many years ago. In his opinion the purchase of a small town land by the Government, and its re-sale to the tenants, was one thing and the purchase of a whole country-side of 90,000 acres, with 4,200 tenants, was quite a different thing, because it set up an object lesson which could not be mistaken. They had reduced the rents on that estate by 6s. 8d. in the £, and the Government surely could not have expected that a thing like that would produce no excitement. Another thing they had done was to wipe out thousands of arrears—he had heard it stated in the district that it amounted to £20,000— in order to give the people a fair start, and they were now spending large sums in drainage works, and in the repair of houses. Just imagine 4,200 tenants getting their rents reduced by 33 per cent., getting their arrears wiped out, getting their houses repaired and their land drained by this beneficent Government, and then imagine the feelings of the tenants on the neighbouring estates who had got nothing of the kind. He had been accused by the Chief Secretary that night of palliating the disorder that had occurred in that district; he charged the right hon. Gentleman with having created it. He would put the matter clearly. It was impossible for any body of men sitting in a room in Rutland Square, Dublin, to come to the conclusion that action of that kind would not produce difficulties on the estates round the Dillon Estate. As a matter of course, the whole district was at once roused. What followed? A combination was formed. What for? To pay no rent? Nothing of the kind. The combination was formed to ask from Lord De Freyne the same terms which the Dillon tenants had received from the Government. That was the first request, and it was refused: Lord De Freyne, like the Chief Secretary with the Ulster tenants, even refused to see them when they wished to interview him. Things went from bad to worse, and led to what he thought was a breach of the law, because he had written over and over again that it was an offence for a man to stand on any platform and 1095 advise a tenant not to pay his rent. Let him here point out a curious omission in the brilliant defence of the Chief Secretary. The Constitution was suspended, but who signed the Proclamation suspending it? The Chief Secretary had not a word to say about that. It was signed by Mr. Smith-Barry and Lord Clonbrock, the two men who only a week before had become the leading members of the landlords' conspiracy against the people. They were Members of the Privy Council, and attended the meeting of the Privy Council, but Privy Councillors only attended the meeting of the Privy Council when they were invited. They therefore must have been invited by the Government to attend the Privy Council in order to sign the Proclamation. The Chief Secretary had whirlwinds of abuse for hon. Members opposite, and for himself, but the right hon. Gentleman had not one word to say in defence of an atrocity like that. The Constitution was suspended, men were sent to gaol, and everything went topsy-turvy. He saw the right hon. the Member for Montrose in his place. That right hon. Gentleman would remember that when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland he had to supply the forces of the Crown for evictions in this district. Who assailed him at that time, who described the condition of the tenants, who begged him to stay his hand? His right hon. friend would admit that he was foremost, ten years ago, in pointing out the condition of these poor people, and although he had written columns in the London Times, at the request of other people, the right hon. Gentleman had never accused him then, and would not do it now, of palliating disorder. It was only men who had no defence for themselves, it was only men who had sold themselves body and soul to the Irish landlords, it was only men who had gone over bag and baggage to the evictors, who dared to bring such charges against those who were as loyal and as law-abiding as themselves. Now, as to the position of the tenants. The right hon. Member for South Antrim charged the tenants' solicitor with creating the trouble, and being responsible for the whole 1096 thing. Fortunately, his hon. friends the Members for North-West Lanark, for Oldham, for Dewsbury, and for Orkney, had just come back from a visit to the De Freyne estate, and he hoped they would have an opportunity of stating what they thought of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. The hon. Member for South Antrim dealt with the question of heaping up the costs on the poor tenants, and said that it was the lawyers that were responsible for that. But might he ask, in all humility, why Lord De Freyne had gone to the Superior Courts at all? In 1887 he remembered that he was humbugged into assenting to what was called the "eviction made easy Clause," by which it was only necessary for the landlord, instead of going to the Superior Courts, to serve a registered letter on the tenant who was a defaulter in his rent, in order to determine his tenancy. Six months after the service of the registered letter, if the arrears of rent had not been redeemed, Lord De Freyne could have got an order from the nearest petty sessions court to put the tenant out of his farm. That was the law. Lord De Freyne could have taken that course at a trifling cost, but instead he went to the Superior Courts., and heaped up costs to the amount of £40 on each tenant—an amount which it was impossible for the tenants to pay. So much for the costs; he would now come to the right hon. Gentleman's statement in regard to rent. He confessed candidly that, along with his hon. friends who accompanied him, he had some difficulty in getting at the facts of the rent. He was quite aware of the possibility of being misled by Irish peasants in regard to the acreage of their holdings, and the rent they were asked to pay. They might be talking about statute acres while the peasants might be talking about Irish acres. His hon. friends opposite would remember that he advised them to go to the agent on the De Freyne estates and get him to tell his side of the story as to the amount of the rents. He himself did not propose to go with them to the agent, for the very good reason that he would have acted upon him like a red rag to a bull, and they would have got no information whatever. But these two stalwart Imperialists. 1097 followers of Lord Rosobery, and therefore having none of the character of the hon. Member for South Tyrone, as described by the Chief Secretary — whose opinion the hon. Member for South Tyrone did not care a rap for—surely ought to have been afforded the information. Lord De Freyne's agent told the hon. Gentlemen that he was prohibited from giving any information about the estate, and referred them to Lord De Freyne. The right hon. Member for South Antrim got his information from the rent office. § MR. T. W. RUSSELL said he stood corrected. But the right hon. Gentleman in his figures had included not only the arable land of the holdings, but the acres of heather-land adjoining. § MR. T. W. RUSSELL said that it was all very well to give the average rent per acre of farms, but in these holdings hundreds of acres were such that a spade could not be put into the ground. § MR. MACARTNEY denied that he included commonage in his average. He gave the average rent, and added that the occupier had the free right of grazing over a commonage of six acres. He saw the common, and there was no heather on it at all. § MR. T. W. RUSSELL said he had seen the land himself, and he had asked man after man there how the rent was paid. He found out that they depended for assistance upon their children in America, and upon English labour. One told him that his daughter had already sent him £20 that year. That was where the money came from. The Chief Secretary had suspended the Constitution in Roscommon in order that Lord de Freyne should be able to seize American money orders for his rent. The Irish Government ought not, in the circumstances, 1098 to have made this tremendous experiment on the Dillon estate. It would have been much safer for them to have gone on with the purchase of small areas and to have left this huge piece of land until something like a final settlement of the Irish land question had been arrived at. By making this experiment they had set up an object lesson which would stand in spite of anything the Chief Secretary might do. The Attorney General had said that the action of the tenants was perfectly natural. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKTNSON,) Londonderry, N. I said it was a perfectly natural outcome of the teaching they had received. § MR. T. W. RUSSELL suggested that that was a new and revised edition of the right hon. Gentleman's speech. The tenants took up their present attitude long before hon. Gentlemen opposite appeared on the scene. They were on the very brink of starvation; the failure of the potato crop meant ruin, and they were dependent on help from America; and, instead of being helped by the Government, battalions of constabulary were sent down. He wanted to make his position clear. He was against all reform by law breaking, and never had a fouler and more untrue charge been made against any man than that preferred against him by the Chief Secretary. He had always maintained that the Irish Members in that House were strong enough to compel justice. The right hon. Gentleman had been two years in Dublin Castle, and he never remembered two years in which less work was done for the country. Never since the days of the Chief Secretaryship of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Thanet Division had there been a man at Dublin Castle more defiant of Irish opinion, more careless of official work, than the present Chief Secretary, and no man had ever messed or bungled things as the right hon. Gentleman had done. In the case of Poor Law appointments, the right hon. Gentleman had been 1099 pressed to appoint a lady as inspector of boarded-out children in Ireland, the majority of whom were Roman Catholics; but, instead of appointing a properly-qualified Roman Catholic lady, he had appointed a Protestant lady, who was a distinguished graduate of the Royal University. What had the Boards of Guardians done? They had shut the door against this lady and refused to give her any information. The Chief Secretary should have looked out for a motherly woman who had children of her own, or he should have appointed a Protestant and a Catholic Inspector. The post was not one for which a graduate-of a University was required. There was, next, the case of the Marlborough Street Training College, the pupils of which were lodged in what were practically tenement houses close by a street occupied by disorderly women, where the young men were exposed to danger. It was a locality of the worst description. But it was, no doubt, thought good enough for Presbyterian and Methodist students. Even the Ulster Unionist Members made representations to the right hon. Gentleman, but what did he care for them? They would come to heel as usual tonight, or any other night. But nothing would be done. The right hon. Gentleman had been two years in Dublin. What had he done? Nothing. The late Chief Secretary had blundered through a Land Bill, passed a revolutionary Local Government Bill, and established the Industrial Board, over which Mr. Horace Plunkett presided, but he was recalled to fill an easier post, and the present Chief Secretary was appointed—what to do? To mark time. He could deliver beautiful speeches; but if beautiful speeches could avail, Ireland would be a Heaven upon earth, and the salvation of Ireland would have been achieved centuries ago. It was like bringing coals to Newcastle for the right hon. Gentleman to take his beautiful speeches to Ireland, where they were all born orators. And yet the Chief Secretary, in order to have a shot at hon. Gentlemen opposite, actually quoted from a newspaper which his own Government had suppressed. But they had seen a remarkable sight at the Table when the right hon. Gentleman quoted from the United Irishman, a paper, which, if he was not mistaken 1100 had been suppressed by the Government; and, going from bad to worse, he quoted from a paper edited by Mr. Hastings. He had known that gentleman for thirty years, and he said it was simply absurd to bring quotations from a man of his stamp, even to condemn an opponent. These were the straits to which the Irish Government were reduced. Who else could they quote? Even "the faithful few" from Ulster had been protesting, and declaring that unless the right hon. Gentleman did something for them they could not support his policy. The right hon. Gentleman had now gone over bag and baggage to the landlords, and it was worth while examining what that really meant for Ireland. At one time Lord Londonderry could control three or four seats on the land question in the county of Down, but he could not control one seat now. He remembered the time when the Hamiltons were supreme in Tyrone, but they could not control a single seat there now. The right hon. Gentleman had sold himself and his Government to a beaten party. He charged the Ulster tenants with sordid motives. What title had he to speak of sordid motives? [A Nationalist Member: "He is a paid patriot."] It was said that this was the result of agitation. There were the agitators on the Benches opposite. Not one of them could be bought; if they could have been, they would have been bought wholesale long ago. Who were those who talked about agitators? Some of the men who had raised that cry in the House had agitated themselves to the bench in the Four Courts, and those who were not there were moving heaven and earth to get there. An agitator got very little in Ireland but broken bones, and the man who denounced the agitator generally agitated himself into a fat situation as soon as he could. The right hon. Gentleman had talked about him as the leader of a small party in that House. He was nothing of the kind. He found trouble enough in leading himself. He had the fate of Irish leaders in all ages before his eyes, and he was not going to undertake the job. He did not object to the right hon. Gentleman's sneers, and he might sneer away. This House might cheer him, 1101 but he could assure the right hon. Gentleman that the tenant farmers would take notice of them. He had not stood out on this Land question because he could gain anything by doing so. Had his action brought him any reward? Had it saved him trouble? It had brought him oceans of trouble. In taking up his position of isolation, in ploughing his lonely furrow, he had no object except to do what one man could to wreck the system that had cursed Ireland for centuries. They talked about sordid motives. What about the class who forcibly captured the holdings of these tenants, evicted them by thousands, and drove them to take refuge in the slums of New York? The representatives of that class had the hardihood to stand up in the House and accuse them of sordid motives. The right hon. Gentleman, in attacking him, had publicly directed the attention of his Catholic constituents to his votes on the Education Bill. Was that fair fighting? As a matter of fact, he himself told his constituents at Whitsuntide that the Government had apparently committed themselves to a protectionist policy, that they had apparently committed themselves to the endowment of religion by means of education in England, and that they had undoubtedly committed themselves to the abolition of Mr. Gladstone's Land Act of 1881; and that he was resolved to oppose all three. His constituents passed a resolution approving his determination, and he had carried out that resolution. As to the views of Orangemen on the Education Bill, he reminded the Committee that the hon. Member for North Down had regularly voted against it. And yet the right hon. Gentleman thought to intimidate him by appealing to his Catholic constituents on the education question! He had acted openly and above board, and he would go through with it and take his chance at the general election, when some of the right hon. Gentleman's friends would have to take theirs. He believed the right hon. Gentleman had that night finally thrown away the scabbard, and had drawn the sword on the Irish people. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of impossible theories. But 1102 Ulster was practically unanimous on this question of land purchase; and did the right hon. Gentleman think he was going to get rid of that force by calling the thing impossible? What did they care about his impossibles? Was it not a fact that these impossibles rung down the centuries— § MR. T. W. RUSSELL asked if that was the right hon. Gentleman's only objection. They spent 200 millions upon the Ultlanders of South Africa. Could they not give a loan to the Irish tenant to end this long chapter of misery and woe, and to bring peace to this Parliament and to this country; or was this thing to go on for ever and a day? Ever since 1886, when he entered into active political life, he had felt keenly this Irish difficulty. He never had any objection to Home Rule in the abstract, and he had stated over and over again that his objection to Home Rule was the Home Rulers. That being so, what was his objection now? He thanked the Committee for the courtesy they had shown him. Why did he stand today isolated and alone in the Irish representation? He saw a chance in Ulster, and in other parts of Ireland, of bringing together the Irish people, of trying to create a homogeneous people for once, and of trying to get them to agree upon things on which they could agree, and to differ only where they must differ. A man in Irish polities who chose to stand out from his party and to forego nearly all the friends that he had—he did not speak of the pecuniary loss—with the object of trying to unite the Irish people, to teach them that they had a common country worth living for, and interests worth fighting for—the Chief Secretary was not entitled to hold up such a man as an apologist for disorder. Nothing entitled the right hon. Gentleman to speak in that way of him, and he would like him to know that his words would be remembered in Ulster for many along day to come. He had emptied his whole soul on this question, and he said emphatically that from the day that the Member for Thanet burlesqued in Dublin Castle as Chief 1103 Secretary, since the day that Lord Beaconsfield performed that melancholy joke on the Irish nation, there never had been a man inside the Castle more defiant of Irish opinion, more careless of official work, or who had messed and bungled things as the present Chief Secretary had done. § (10.15.), MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland) said he would not speak on the important question before the Committee were it not that he himself had been a cultivator of the soil, and had an intimate knowledge of all that concerned land. Further, as it had fallen to his lot to represent a constituency the circumstances of which were similar to those on the De Freyne estate, he had thought it his duty to visit that estate, and to see the condition of affairs there for himself. An Eastern potentate the other day was credited with stating that- London was a very nice place, but that he would be glad to get back to civilisation again. Having visited the De Freyne estate, he appreciated the force of that remark. They had heard a good deal about Imperial unity, and how the British Empire was welded into one great harmonious whole. But the De Freyne estate was the black spot in the Empire, and the Empire should be measured by it. Everyone seemed to talk about the landlords and the tenants, but not a word was said about the State. There were, however, to be considered not only the interests of the landlords, and the interests of the tenant labourers, but also the interests of the State. On the De Freyne estate, it was not too much to say that the tenant labourer had done everything, and had created something out of absolutely nothing. He had reclaimed his patch of land, grown his few potatoes and his oats, and now he saw himself about to be despoiled, and that by the worst process of all—the law of the land. Many hon. Members, and certainly a number of people outside the House, when they thought of the tenant labourer in Ireland, compared him with that much more important personage, the English farmer, who drove to market in a smart equipage, and whose wife, and children lived in comfort, if not 1104 in luxury. The English farmer went into a farm where everything was built for him, and all he had to do was to devote himself to the cultivation of the soil. When he left, he had nothing to complain of, because he could take away his capital. Compare him with the poor tenant labourer on the De Freyne estate, and on many other estates in Ireland. He had to build his own cabin, reclaim his land, and he did that in the blackest and dreariest months of the year, because in summer he was away in England or Scotland, leaving his wife and children to struggle on as best they could at home. He inquired how these poor people managed to make any money at all; and they told him it was by selling a few eggs at 6d. a dozen, occasionally selling a chicken, fattening a pig, or rearing a calf at the cost of the children's health. He could not understand how it was that a calf was worth half as much again on that estate than it would be worth in Scotland; but it was explained to him that the very best milk was given to the calf, and that only skim milk was given to the children. At the present season of the year, there was scarcely a man left on the estate. They were away working in the fields in England and Scotland; and when they returned they would probably find themselves turned out into the world without a shilling. What wonder was it that the iron of despair had entered into their souls? That was the position of the poor chaps on the De Freyne estate. He had always discounted, to a very great extent, expressions of Irish disloyalty. He had seen too much of the loyal Irishmen abroad not to take those expressions for what they were worth, and as natural ebullitions of temper on the part of men representing these poor tenant labourers. The question of compulsory purchase had been raised, he thought, in a very extravagant manner, by the hon. Member for South Tyrone, but in an absolutely ridiculous manner by the Chief Secretary. No one with his senses about him would ever propose for a moment that the whole interest of the landlords in Ireland should be turned over to the tenants, and that millions should be expended on that transformation in two or three years. But hon. Members were entitled 1105 to demand that a system of compulsory purchase should be established, and that the right hon. Gentleman should take power, through the Congested Districts Board, or through the County Councils, to acquire land whenever he thought it right to acquire it. That, and that alone, would solve the great question of the land. It was no new doctrine. Compulsory purchase was in active operation in New Zealand, and, he believed, in other parts of Australasia. There the Government said to the large landowners: "We do not want to confiscate your land; we will pay you the market value; but you must make way for others who want to cultivate the land." We were a nation of shopkeepers, and we would not be making a bad deal for ourselves if we succeeded in turning the poor peasants in Ireland into loyal British subjects. If we did that, it would be a greater conquest than that achieved by the war which had now happily terminated in South Africa. This was not a local question; it was not an English, or even an Irish, question; it was an Imperial question. Wherever one travelled abroad, from the Yukon River down to the plains of Australia, the same complaint was to be found as to treatment of the Irish tenants by the Irish landlords and the British Government. He had a small album of photographs taken on the De Freyne estate, and hon. Members would be surprised at many of the pictures. They would see the hon. Member for South Tipperary, for instance, followed by two policemen, one on each side. Why, his hon. friend, the Member for the Northern Burghs went to his constituents only a month or two ago, and directed the people to break the law and defy the Government. § MR. BIGNOLD (Wick Burghs) said, as a personal explanation, he must not be taken as having done more than suggest that a test case should be made for the Woods and Forests Department. § MR. CATHCART WASON said he would not pursue that point further. It 1106 was perfectly impossible for him to understand the policy of the Government with regard to land purchase. Where there were disorder and disaffection, they refused to purchase, but where there was no disorder they purchased. That was an incomprehensible attitude to him. But the worst charge was that legal costs had been piled up against the tenants on the De Freyne estate. If that were true, it was simply monstrous. In Scotland the Crofters Commission settled all questions arising between landlords and tenants, and why-should not a similar system be adopted on such estates as the De Freyne estate? It was perfectly true, as the hon. Member for South Tyrone said, that the Government themselves were very instrumental in bringing about the present state of affairs on the De Freyne estate by the purchase of the Dillon estate. He thought the Government did a noble work in purchasing the Dillon estate; and if any hon. Member could only see the difference between the people on these two adjoining estates, he would be surprised. The people on the Dillon estate saw a busy, bustling agent looking after them, not to see how much rent he could get out of them, but to see how he could possibly improve their position. Beautiful farm houses of stone were being built, while the De Freyne tenants had still to live in their damp thatched cabins; stables were being built on the Dillon estate, while the cows on the De Freyne estate were still being kept with the children. It was only human nature that the De Freyne tenants should want the same advantages. It was alleged that the United Irish League had other objects besides benefiting the tenants; and that its ultimate object was separation and a National Parliament in Ireland. If that were the ulterior object of the League, then the men who shut their eyes to the state of affairs which he had described, and who wilfully blinded themselves to the facts, were the best friends of the United Irish League. § (10.36.) MR. TOMKINSON (Cheshire, Crewe) said that the question what was the Irish Question had been asked in this House, and out of it, for more than 100 years without ever receiving, he believed, agenerally accepted reply. Nearly sixty years 1107 ago, an hon. Member said he wanted someone to tell him what the Irish Question was. Some said it was a political question, others a religious question; and the hon. Member then went on to describe the state of Ireland as it then was, with the shadow of the great famine looming in the near future. He said that Ireland had a starving population, an alien Church, an absentee aristocracy, and the weakest executive in the world. He asked what was the remedy for such a state of things, and they would say that the remedy was revolution, but Ireland was prevented from attempting that by being tied to a stronger country. If, continued the hon. Member, revolution was the remedy, England was responsible, and the duty of English statesmen was to accomplish by constitutional means, what otherwise would be left to revolution. The hon. Member who uttered these sentiments was Mr. Disraeli. He was challenged years afterwards as to whether he adhered to that statement, and he replied that, although he spoke with a freedom from responsibility, yet, nevertheless, the sentiments he expressed were true. Since then the alien State Church had been disestablished, and. speaking generally, the population could not be said to be overcrowded, inasmuch as it had been reduced by the most awful devastation by one-half. There was, however, along the fringe of the Atlantic seaboard districts where the inhabitants maintained a precarious existence, eked out by money earned in the English harvest fields and by domestic service in New York. The richest of the landlords resided in another country; the best of the Irish produce was exported to pay rent; and the Irish executive was still the weakest in the world, because it proceeded from force and not from the good will of the people. What was the Irish Question? was still being asked; and it was being answered according to the experience, the prejudice, or the ignorance of the person making the reply. He recently met two authorities on the Irish Question. One, with that assurance of certainty which appeared to be the appanage of all Englishmen said, "If you knew Ireland as well as I do, you would know she would be perfectly content were it not for these confounded agitators." 1108 That included every Irish Member on that side of the House, and the hon. Member for South Tyrone on the other. The other authority, with equal certainty, said that the Irish did not care a jot for Home Rule or self-government. When he pointed out that five sixths of her representatives demanded that reform in the Constitution, he replied that that was due to priestly dictation; and when he was reminded that the leader of every great Irish movement, with a single exception of O'Connell, was a Protestant, he appeared to be struck, but was not altogether convinced of his error. He then proceeded to advance the astounding theory that Ireland was still overcrowded, and that her population should be still further reduced. If the average Englishman were asked today what was the Irish question he would reply something after this fashion: "The Irish are a discontented, turbulent people. It is impossible to govern them according to ordinary methods; they have to be governed by force; and I would put the leaders and the agitators under lock and key." That was a very easy and convenient method of solving an awkward problem, and shifting responsibility from the shoulders of the Government on to the shoulders of its victims. It was what John Stuart Mill called the "vulgar" method. No one had written more forcibly or more convincingly on that subject than the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Dublin. He would refer to only one other authority, who would commend himself very largely to hon. Gentlemen opposite. One of the most distinguished men who ever sat on the Conservative side of the House, in discussing the Irish Question forty years ago, asked why it was that a country with such a fertile soil, so favourable a climate, and other advantages, lagged so much behind England in the race for wealth. It could not be attributed to Celtic blood; the experience of certain parts of France proved that. It was not because of the peculiarity of the Catholic religion; because in Belgium there was a people singularly industrious and prosperous, who yet were distinguished for their adherence to the Catholic faith. It could not be because the Irish people listened to agitators; because in America the same thing happened, but it could not be said 1109 that the American people were unsuccessful. There was only one thing, said this authority, peculiar to Ireland, and that was the Government of England. That authority was Lord Robert Cecil, now Marquess of Salisbury, four times Prime Minister of England. The Chief Secretary had every quality of eloquence, genius, and sympathy; it was only because the situation was an impossible one that he failed in bringing it to a successful issue. The present was not the time to discuss the question of Homo Rule, but it was a most extraordinary thing that the one policy which had never failed to allay discontent, avert separation, and elicit loyalty and goodwill, was the one and only policy that we persistently refused to apply to Ireland. One of the great difficulties had been the Land question, but he was convinced that we had now gone so far along the one road that there was no possible halting-place, and that there must be an entire transfer from the landowners to occupying owners; but whenever that transfer took place there ought to be the fullest and most generous measure of justice dealt out to the Irish landlords. All would agree that the debate had been a most painful one. It was terrible to think that such a state of things as that disclosed by the Sheridan case could possibly exist. It would be unjust to bring an indictment against the police on that one case, but it was impossible to believe that that could be the only case, and that there might not have been others which, although less in degree, were nevertheless of a serious nature. § (10.50.) COLONEL SAUNDERSON said the saying that times changed and we changed with them might apply to other countries, but it certainly was not true of Ireland. This debate was repeated year after year, and a useful debate it was, as it gave to Irishmen on both sides of the House the opportunity annually of attacking the policy of the Government. The object of hon. Members opposite in such a debate ought, he maintained, to be to show that the government of Ireland in the past had been unsuccessful. In his opinion it would have been better for the Nationalist Members, from their point of view, to have concentrated the attention of the House and the country 1110 upon the misery and poverty and the want of progress in Ireland which they alleged. But, instead of that, they had fixed the gaze of the country upon a man named Sheridan. Sheridan unquestionably was a scoundrel, who deserved to be hanged, and he was only sorry he had not been; but the fact that Sheridan existed was not a sufficient ground for impugning the government of Ireland by England. No attempt had been made to show that the condition of Ireland was a proof of want of success on the part of the House in governing that country. Instead of taking the whole of Ireland, one particular part—tho De Freyne estate—had been taken, and it bad been urged that the condition of the tenants on that estate was intolerable. The hon. Member for South Tyrone had suddenly fallen in love with the Members for Cork and Mayo. That, of course, was a matter of taste. But he was surprised to read a speech of the hon. Member in which he declared that the opinion he had formerly entertained of the Nationalist Members was entirely wrong, and that the years he had spent in attacking them would have been better employed in slanging the landlords. So sudden and grave a change of view rather shook his faith in the solidity of the political opinions of the hon. Member for South Tyrone. Hon. Members had sought to fasten the eyes of the Committee and the country upon the De Freyne estate. The question which the Committee had to ask itself was whether the present condition of that estate would have existed if the tenants had been left alone. It was hard for English, Scottish, or Welsh Members to realise the condition of affairs on that estate. From some observations which had been made, it might be imagined that tenants were ground down, tyrannised over, and robbed by their landlords. But no Irish landlord, however drastic or avaricious, had the power of raising rent 1s. a year; the rent was fixed by a tribunal appointed by the State. The original rents all over the country had been reduced by that tribunal to the extent probably of 35 per cent., so that it was absurd to call it the "landlords' friend." The tenants on the De Freyne estate might be very poor, but their condition was probably a more desirable one than that of the inhabitants of crowded lodgings in the East-end of 1111 London. There was clear proof that the De Freyne tenants had been chosen by a political party for political purposes. In order to carry out their objects this party were obliged to enlist the sympathy of the British people. In order to enlist the, sympathy of the British people there must be martyrs — someone suffering for the cause of Ireland's freedom and prosperity. In former times the Nationalist Members supplied the martyrs, and at one time they were nearly all in gaol. But since then they had apparently become tired of making martyrs of themselves, and so martyrs were made by choosing an estate whose landlord was too weak and impecunious to fight his battle with success, and the tenants were induced by the leaders of the Nationalist party to relinquish their farms, to go on the roadside, and become evicted tenants. That this was a spontaneous action on the part of the De Freyne tenants he absolutely denied. He quoted the instance of a tenant, who was the rural postmaster, asking a conference to allow him to pay his rent, because, if evicted, he would lose £1,500. This conference was presided over by the Vice-Chairman of the Roscommon County Council, and it decided that this tenant's case was common with the others, and that he should accept the consequences of paying rent. Everyone knew what that meant, for there was no crime at all comparable in Ireland to that of paying rent. The consequences would have been that this man would be boycotted and probably ruined. Of course this unfortunate man gave in. Then there was the case of a Dr. M'Dermott, who paid his rent, the conference being asked to declare that his dispensary appointments were vacant. § COLONEL SAUNDERSON said he did not know that that was the case, but at any rate he thought it was as true as any contradiction which the hon. Member might offer. At any rate he gave the extract from the newspaper, where it was stated that advertisements would be 1112 issued for another medical officer in Dr. M'Dermott's place. Therefore the United Irish League claimed the right to discharge and appoint officers under the County Council on political grounds. There were many other cases of a similar kind, where the United Irish League not only claimed the right to decide payment of rent, but also the appointment of men to various offices under the County Council. Take the case of this man he had mentioned, who was practically fined £1,500. What would happen to him? He would probably drift down in the social scale, and at last he might find refuse in this House as a Member of Parliament. He should like to hear from English and Scottish Members who ran over on tour to Ireland some definite statement on the question, whether Ireland, as a whole, was progressing, standing still, or going back. Taking the test of the deposits in the joint-stock banks, he found that in 1881 the deposits amounted to £31,161,000, and in 1901 to £41,568,000, while the deposits in the savings banks had increased during the the same period from £3,765,000 to £10,500,000. The position of the Irish tenantry was unquestionably far in advance of what it ever was in former times. What was the opinion of this agitation on the De Freyne estate held by one of the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church? The Bishop of Elphin, in a published letter, lamented that "strangers and paid organisers should be sent into that district, involving the unfortunate tenant farmers in so much difficulty and costs," and "protested against those strolling organisers who were only thinking of the salaries they could extract from their dupes, and not in the interests of the people." The Bishop added that he had learned from one of his priests, who had seen the hotel bill of one of these paid organisers for a month, and it amounted to £50. That was the calm deliberate opinion of a Roman Catholic Bishop in Ireland as to this agitation. Not only had an attack been made upon the Government during this debate, but strong expressions had been used with regard to religious differences which existed in Ireland, and which it was alleged made the government of that country so 1113 difficult. Naturally the Orange organisation felt itself very hardly used by the Chief Secretary for Ireland when such a meeting as that which it was proposed to hold at Rostrevor was prohibited. It was impossible to ignore in these matters the condition of public opinion in Ireland, which was not divided by political lines of demarcation, because the lines which divided the Irish people was something far wider and deeper than any of those political liberties which existed in this country. On the one hand, they had a minority in Ireland and it was represented practically by the great Orange organisation. This was not understood on this side of the water, and here people asked what was the use of having an Orange organisation simply to perpetuate the memory of things which occurred 250 years ago. That was not the object of this organisation. He had been an Orangeman for many years and had attended many meetings, but he had never heard on Orange platforms anything said of an insulting character to a religion of their opponents. The great majority of Orangemen were well disposed towards their fellow countrymen, and they had no desire to insult their religion. The Orange organisation had two objects. He wished to state first of all that it was not a secret society. One of its objects was to uphold the Protestant faith, and the other to maintain the supremacy of the British Crown. In Ireland they never heard the word "Imperial" mentioned and did not know what it meant until an attempt was made to break the bonds which connected Ireland with this country. Then they realised that the word meant something for Orangemen who had one great object in view, and it was not simply a selfish object for they had a far higher aim, namely to maintain the unity of the British Empire. Therefore when the Government prohibited a meeting such as that which was proposed to be held at Rostrevor, Orangemen looked upon it as very harsh treatment. Meetings were held in all parts of Ireland by hon. Gentlemen opposite at which sentiments were uttered which, he believed, were hateful to the great majority 1114 of the British people. The hon. Gentlemen opposite professed openly to be not the political opponents of the Government but the undying enemies of the British Empire. If the Nationalist Party had consulted him as to the line of policy which would be ruinous to their cause, he could not have advised them to follow a better course for that purpose than that which they had pursued themselves. Let them think what a strain they must have put on the political digestion and conscience of their Radical friends above the gangway. They had had two opportunities. When the Local Government Act was passed they had an opportunity of showing that they meant what they said when they promised, on the introduction of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, that they would treat the minority with justice and fairness. But instead of that they turned out and refused to elect a single Unionist in all Ireland where they could prevent it. That was the sort of treatment the opponents of these gentlemen would receive in a Home Rule Parliament. They had another opportunity in the war. From the moment war was declared, they took the side of our opponents, rejoiced in their victories, gloried in their triumphs, and their branches in Ireland used all their influence to prevent a single Irishman enlisting in the British Army. One thing they could not do; they could not prevent Irish soldiers in South Africa writing on the roll of fame a name which would never be forgotten. In dealing with the Orangemen the Government should remember these two qualities. They were loyal to the Crown. They desired to preserve the Union with Great Britain and at their meetings no disloyal sentiment was ever uttered; and when a 1115 meeting was proposed in the great county of Down, a loyal organisation had a right, as any one in this country would have the right, to go to any seaside place, to go to Rostrevor and proclaim even in the ears of a National majority, loyalty to the Crown and to the laws on which the prosperity of Ireland depended. He deeply regretted that his right hon. friend had felt it necessary to proclaim that meeting; and he thought the result of the debate would be that the House, in dispassionately considering, and the country in considering the case made against the Government, and by which hon. Members opposite hoped to prove the incapacity of Parliament to bring about the peace and prosperity of Ireland, would feel that that case had fallen to the ground. The verdict of the House and the country would be that under the authority and power of the British Parliament the prosperity of Ireland would be finally assured. § (11.35.) MR. HAVILAND-BURKE (King's County, Tullamore) said the speech the Committee had just heard contained painful reminders of the tone and temper of the speeches of fifty years ago. The right hon. and gallant Member had raised an Orange wail as to the suppression of an Orange meeting, but had no regard for the suppression of National meetings all over Ireland. The right hon. and gallant Member had appeared as a great devotee of a distinguished Catholic Bishop in Ireland at one end of his argument, and at the other end he seemed to regard the Catholic clergy of Ireland as being turbulent and disloyal to the core. He did not think that was a consistent position for an honest Orangeman to take up in 1116 this House or outside. The right hon. and gallant Member ought to take his stand one way or the other. With regard to the right hon. and gallant Member's complaint in regard to the manner in which County Council elections were conducted in Ireland by the Nationalists, it was ghastly hypocrisy for anybody on the Conservative Benches to make a point against Nationalists on that ground, when it was remembered that in nine cases out of ten in England, County Council and municipal elections were fought on the strictest party lines. They did not want to be preached to on the subject of tolerance by Unionist gentlemen who in this country made the local elections a matter of political test, or by Orangemen like the hon. and gallant Gentlemen who, in their own districts, where they were supreme, would not give so much as the post of scavenger to any Catholic or Nationalist if they could possibly avoid it. He must say that he approached a debate of this kind with something like a feeling of sheer hopelessness: If anybody were to tell him of a Home Secretary condoning and compounding a felony and assisting to escape from this country a police sergeant of Glasgow, London, or Cardiff, who had provoked outrage and committed crime, he would say that the thing was impossible. An English Home Secretary who attempted any double dealing and paltering with the law in that way would not be able to hold his office for a month. But the moment they came to deal with an Irish grievance a sort of moral colour blindness seemed to descend on the great majority of Members of this House. What was wrong in England was right in Ireland. What was black in England was white in Ireland. When the Irish Members raised the question there was a 1117 most ostentatious demonstration of indifference on the opposite side of the House. The Chief Secretary was supposed to stand for law and order in Ireland. He would ask the right hon. Gentleman what was the favourite pretence—he maintained a false pretence—for enforcing the Coercion Acts and abolishing trial by jury? It was that there was difficulty in getting the people of the countryside to supply the necessary evidence and to tell the truth. The Chief Secretary's main line in his defence was that the police force in this particular instance was so demoralised that his only chance of getting honest evidence from policemen was to give an indemnity, and to let the chief criminal go scot free. He maintained that if such a state of affairs existed in the Irish police force it should have been the duty of the right hon. Gentleman, on his honour and responsibility, to break it down, and on no account whatever to offer the stimulus of an indemnity or the stimulus of immunity to any policeman, as the price of that policeman telling the truth to his superiors. He (Mr. Haviland - Burke) was one of the defendants in the De Freyne case, and he would not go into the agrarian question which had been raised tonight. He was one of the wicked agitators of whom they had heard so much in the course of this debate. The right hon. Member for South Antrim gave away Lord de Freyne very conspicuously when he said that the people on the estate were well off. In an interview with a representative of the Morning Leader Lord de Freyne said—It was a mistake to call them Irish peasants. They are only English labourers living in Ireland because it is cheap.That was Lord de Freyne's definition of his tenantry, given to the representative of an English paper. He 1118 did not condescend to recognise them as Irish people at all. They were poor beggars of English labourers coming over to England to earn the rent which they could not make for themselves at home. What could be more absurd in the face of a statement of that kind than the contention of the right hon. Member for South Antrim as to the economic conditions on the Do Freyne state? He respectfully warned the right hon. Gentleman of the gravity of the task which he had taken up. In Ireland, as in any other place in the world, punishment lost all its sting if it brought no disgrace with it. In Ireland, to be sent to jail for addressing a meeting meant absolutely no disgrace whatever. If at the conclusion of the session he received marching orders to go and address a proclaimed meeting he would go to that meeting, and if necessary he would do his three or six months if the right hon. Gentleman liked, and he would come out feeling that he was as good a man as any hon. Member opposite, and better, he might say, than some of them. He warned the Chief Secretary that no punishment would deter him or his friends from doing their duty. § (11.50.) MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid.) said he desired to associate himself entirely with the remarks of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Armagh and his right hon. friend the Member for South Antrim in regard to the policy pursued by the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary in proclaiming the meeting of Orangemen at Rostrevor. He did not wonder at the storm of indignation which had been aroused by this action throughout the whole of the province of Ulster. What the people wanted to know was why was that meeting 1119 at Rostrevor proclaimed whilst only a few weeks ago the Government permitted, without interference of any kind, a mass meeting of Nationalists and members of the United Irish League, held in the city of Armagh for the purpose of unveiling a memorial to a man who died fighting for the Boers. Mr. Davitt and other well-known agitators attended that meeting, and delivered inflammatory speeches brimming over with disloyalty. The whole place was turned into a pandemonium, and the police made no attempt to interfere with the meeting. Was it any wonder that the loyal men of the North were indignant at this inequality of treatment? The Chief Secretary had stated that he could not, in the face of the opposition which was threatened by the Nationalist Party, proceed with the Land Bill which was introduced early in the session. He would respectfully point out that there were other Members from Ireland besides the Nationalist Party. He would like to inform the right hon. Gentleman that there were twenty Unionist Members from Ireland who were not sent here to waste the time of Parliament pressing for legislation of an impracticable or impossible character, but to support common-sense measures that would be of genuine and practical benefit to the country Seeing that the right hon. Gentleman had practically consented to drop the controversial Clause 36, he was convinced every one of the Unionist Members was ready to give the Bill hearty support. He was unable to understand the Chief Secretary being deterred from proceeding with a bill which would do so much to facilitate occupying ownership of land simply because the Nationalist Party was opposed to it. That Party opposed legislation of every kind that did not issue 1120 from its own ranks. It was time the Unionists of Ireland, who were loyal to the Throne and the Constitution received some consideration at the hands of the Government. Speaking for the farmers of his constituency, he would say that now the Government had dropped Clause 36 they would welcome the Bill as an evidence of the intention of the Government to make some effort to settle this interminable Irish Land Question. While too much could not be expected at a time when the financial resources of the country were so severely strained, he believed that the more voluntary sale was assisted by a measure such as the Bill recently introduced, the nearer at hand would be the time when the happy despatch would be given to dual ownership by the passing of a compulsory enactment. He trusted therefore that the Chief Secretary would proceed with the Bill despite every opposition. If the Government, with its large majority, permitted all legislation to depend upon the will of the hon. Member for Waterford and his followers and refrained from pressing this measure which was just as important to Ireland as the Education Bill was to England, because it was opposed by the Nationalists, they could not expect to receive from the Unionists of Ireland that amount of support which they had consistently rendered in the past. § Motion made, and Question, "That the Chairman do report Progress; and ask leave to sit again."—(Mr. Dillon)— put, and agreed to. § Resolutions to be reported to-morrow, Committee also report Progress; to sit again tomorrow. § Adjourned at five minutes after Twelve o'clock.
§ Lord N. CRICHTON-STUART asked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that there are fifty-nine children from two to thirteen years of age in the workhouse under the Kilmallock Board of Guardians; whether these children are not boarded 835W out because no one can be found to take the children on the terms offered; whether these terms are 10s. a week; whether these terms are settled by the Local Government Board; and whether he proposes to do anything to remedy this state of affairs? § Mr. BIRRELL The Local Government Board are aware that there are fifty-nine children in this workhouse, and they have asked the guardians to consider what steps should be taken to reduce this number. It has been suggested to the guardians that some of the children might be sent to the Glin District School, that others might be put out to service, and that as many as possible should be boarded out, and the guardians have these questions at present under their consideration. Only such as are "orphan or deserted" children within the meaning of the Pauper Children (Ireland) Act, 1902, can legally be so boarded out, and according to the information before the Board at present there are only about five of this class in Kilmallock Workhouse. The rate of payment allowed for the children boarded out is not determined by the Local Government Board but by the guardians, and it varies considerably in different parts of Ireland. The Kilmallock Board of Guardians have hitherto allowed 2s. 6d. a week for each child, but a proposal has now been adopted to increase this amount to 3s.
§ Mr. MANDER asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the treaty between France and Japan with reference to Indo-China, has been registered with the League of Nations? § Sir J. SIMON So far as I am aware, no definitive treaty has been entered into between France and Japan with reference to Indo-China since the signature of the Covenant of the League of Nations. On 30th August, 1927, however, these two Governments signed at Paris a Protocol for the purpose of regulating in general the economic relations between Japan and Indo-China, pending the conclusion of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation. This Protocol was registered with the League of Nations on 30th November, 1927.
§ Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg asked the Lord President of the Council what are the details of the arrangements at present in force to provide insurance cover for right 462W honourable and honourable Members who travel away from Westminster and also outside Great Britain on the business of the House; and what are the respective benefits in relation to death, injury, disablement, medical fees, treatment and loss of or damage to personal effects, money and luggage of those so travelling. § Mr. Foot Below is the text of a memorandum on personal accident insurance prepared by the Accountant. The arrangements for insurance do not cover personal effects. House of Commons. Personal Accident Insurance of Members Travelling on the Business of the House Arrangements have been made for a personal accident policy, the premiums for which will be met from Public Funds to cover the risk of death or injury on any day on which a Member is travelling away from the Palace of Westminster on the business of the House, in the United Kingdom or abroad. The business of the House for this purpose means service on a Parliamentary Committee or delegation which has been set up directly by the House or Committee of Selection, or Mr. Speaker, or by the Government. The policy will not cover flights in private or private charter aircraft, nor flights in prototype aircraft or test flights unless prior arrangements are made. The period of insurance covers any day on which you are away on such Parliamentary business. Although the premium is paid from Public Funds, any claims arising must be preferred by the insured person, his executors or administrators who, similarly, must prefer any legal action which may be undertaken against the Insurers. The benefits provided by the policy (as now amended) with effect from 22nd April 1975, are as follows: - Death—a lump sum of £25,000. - Permanent total loss of sight of both eyes; - or loss of one or two limbs; - or permanent total loss of sight eye and loss of one limb—a lump £25,000. Temporary total disablement—£100 per week for so long as such disablement continues but not exceeding altogether 104 consecutive weeks for any single disablement. In addition medical expenses will be paid up to but not exceeding 15 per cent. of the total amount of any claim admitted for temporary total disablement. The maximum sum insured under the House of Commons Insurance policy for any one aeroplane is £400,000. If therefore, more than 16 Members of the House of Commons intend 463W to travel on one aircraft it will be essential for the officer responsible for arranging the journey to notify the Fees Office, before the commencement of the journey, in order that additional cover can be obtained. It will also be necessary for the Fees Office to be notified of any proposed flights in helicopters since such flights have to be notified to the underwriters, who will require an additional premium to provide cover for this particular form of travel. In the event of illness not arising from accidents and therefore not covered by the above insurance arrangements Members will wish to be aware of the following: - (i) Should any Member require urgent medical or dental treatment whilst travelling abroad on the business of the House the local Diplomatic Service Mission should be asked to advise about recommended practitioners. - (ii) Members are asked to pay their own medical or dental bills and on return to the House receipted bills should be forwarded to the Fees Office. Members will be reimbursed the costs of treatment and medical facilities normally provided by the U.K. National Health Service. 2nd May 1975.
§ 22. Mr. Ridsdale asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will report to the Price Commission the prices of admission to agricultural wholesale markets. § Mr. Maclennan My right hon. Friend has no current proposals to refer such prices to the Price Commission for examination.
§ Lord Hylton asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether in their view the possibility of the inheritance of farm tenancies by two generations after the original tenant under the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 offends against the rule against perpetuities. § The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Belstead) Succession under the 1976 Act is not certain since the agricultural land tribunal can decide that an applicant is not eligible or suitable. The succession provisions of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 do not, therefore, offend against the rule against perpetuities, as modified by the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964.
§ Mr. Wrigglesworth asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the research report produced for the Government by Professor C. V. Brown of Stirling University on the incentive effects of tax cuts. § Mr. Norman Lamont 22 technical working papers have already been published. The Treasury has no plans to publish the final report itself, but Professor Brown will be free to publish his results if he wishes.
Kinzer has been reporting for major media outlets like the New York Times and Boston Globe throughout a long career, mostly from the U.S. empire's hot spots. In the 1980s, he wrote about Central America (Bitter Fruit: The Story of an American Coup in Guatemala). This wasn't a bad background for his subsequent books, on Iran (All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror) and U.S. empire more broadly (Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.) Kinzer hasn't given up on what I suspect people in the Middle World will think is excessive U.S. influence in the region, but he is able to envision a new shape to the relationship. To prepare people in North America who typically have little awareness of other people's histories to imagine a different relationship, he spends the bulk of Reset describing the history of Turkish and Iranian struggles toward creating popular democracy over the last century. It's fascinating stuff -- and a surprising number of U.S. adventurers and diplomats played supportive roles back before World War II when the U.S. was not yet reigning world empire. He believes this history implies that a new "power triangle" consisting of the U.S., Turkey and Iran should emerge, though all three countries would have to undergo significant changes before such a development could flower. The glue that would bind the three powers would be an attachment to democracy. Here's a sample of his thinking: Romantic? Utopian? Maybe, but learning the history and applying imagination sure beats the current stagnation. Recent initiatives from Turkey, such as joining with Brazil to lessen the Iranian nuclear reprocessing impasse or supporting humanitarian aid deliveries to Israeli-controlled Gaza, demonstrate that Turkey is very much on the path that Kinzer expects. Democracy's future in Turkey and Iran will depend on those peoples themselves. So will the future of democracy -- not by any means a certainty -- in the United States depend on our citizens. Kinzer may be right that we have more in common than we realize.
Bullpen the final big issue of spring The bullpen race looks to be down to three, possibly four, pitchers for one spot. Here’s how it looks, barring injury: – Lefty Franklin Morales should be the closer, since Huston Street is going to begin the year on the disabled list with shoulder inflammation. – With Morales closing, Randy Flores is the lone lefty in a setup role. – Righties Rafael Betancourt, as long as his shoulder continues to respond, Matt Daley and Matt Belisle are locks. Belisle is out of options, but that shouldn’t matter. He has not given up a run all spring, and Daley has been perfect since two bad initial outings. – Tentatively, count righty Manuel Corpas as one. He has been bad at times, but when he keeps the ball down in the zone he has been effective. Plus, manager Jim Tracy is considering him for end-of-the game duty alongside Morales. All of this means non-roster right-handers Tim Redding, Juan Rincon and Justin Speier are vying for a job. With all of them under Minor League contracts, there is no roster issue forcing the Rockies’ hand. The X-factor is lefty Joe Beimel, who agreed to a Minor League deal Monday night. General manager Dan O’Dowd said he does not expect Beimel to be ready for the opening of the season. Redding began the spring as a starter, and is in postition to throw multiple innings.Speier’s forkball has been an effective pitch against right-handers and left-handers, which makes him a candidate to hold a job until Beimel is ready. Rincon, who has a save and a 1.29 ERA and .209 batting average against, has impressed scouts with his location.
- Current Issue SIGN IN to access the Harper’s archive ALERT: Usernames and passwords from the old Harpers.org will no longer work. To create a new password and add or verify your email address, please sign in to customer care and select Email/Password Information. (To learn about the change, please read our FAQ.) It seems apparent, alas, that Facebook, Twitter, etc. have not improved American democracy, and yet we expect these tools to promote democracy elsewhere. The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. There are some nice mob effects, but the intensity of the failures is more profound than the delights of the successes. A flash mob in San Francisco in which people suddenly hold a pose and disperse doesn’t compensate for a flash mob in Philadelphia in which people are beaten up. –“On Digital Power and its Discontents,” Jaron Lanier, Edge From then on for two years or more, in hospital and out, I was convinced that I was infested. ‘Infested’ was the word, I thought, as well as ‘contaminated’. The pubic lice multiplied to a plethora and became imaginatively licensed to inhabit my entire body. They crawled on my arms, my torso, my legs, my hair, sometimes my face and neck. They had become all-rounder lice. Not even lice, if someone had pointed out the impossible ethology I had invented for them. They were … I didn’t know what they were, but they were. Insects, lice-like, flea-like, tic-like crawling creatures that lived on me, and indeed, in me. I thought they burrowed under my skin and emerged to wander about on the surface in the dark of night or under cover of my clothes. I felt them, tickling me in specific parts, and the redness I saw when I finished scratching my skin convinced me that they were there (so easy now to write that rational sentence). I saw them, always out of the corner of my eye. I became most distressed at night. I would feel their presence and then turn on the light quickly to catch them, but of course they had burrowed back into my skin by the time I could focus. It was a malevolent game of hide and seek. They had super-lice powers: they sensed me looking for them, and always dodged me. I was sure I saw them, yet I could never quite say what they looked like. I found evidence of them, even occasionally caught one and killed it as you do a flea, squeezing it between my fingers. Then I would put it in my palm and examine it carefully under a light. I saw it was something, a mote, a dot, black, white, grey, but never quite well enough to be sure exactly what. It could have been a flake of skin, a speck of dust, a tiny thread, but I knew it wasn’t. In that special way you know when you really know or are crazy. –“Diary,” Jenny Diski, London Review of Books Diehipster.com: bitterness never sounded so sweet; nearly all of Tajikistan is “wookin’ pa nub in all da wong places”; the week in pictures: a Jesus-like man riding a caribou-like animal, a guinea pig stuffed into a clear plastic handbag, and a gesture of human-canine solidarity In the experiences of both Ngo Dinh Diem and Hamid Karzai lurks a self-defeating pattern common to Washington’s alliances with dictators throughout the Third World, then and now. Selected and often installed in office by Washington, or at least backed by massive American military aid, these client figures become desperately dependent, even as they fail to implement the sorts of reforms that might enable them to build an independent political base. Torn between pleasing their foreign patrons or their own people, they wind up pleasing neither. As opposition to their rule grows, a downward spiral of repression and corruption often ends in collapse; while, for all its power, Washington descends into frustration and despair, unable to force its allies to adopt reforms which might allow them to survive. Such a collapse is a major crisis for the White House, but often — Diem’s case is obviously an exception — little more than an airplane ride into exile for the local autocrat or dictator. –“America and the Dictators,” Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch.com More from Rafe Bartholomew: Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary: Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious. In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill. Subscribe to the Weekly Review newsletter. Don’t worry, we won’t sell your email address! “This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
In the wake of Pat Lykos' election, Harris County prosecutors were nervously waiting to see how the Office would be structured on January 1st, 2009. Obviously the first thought on most people's minds was whether or not their job was safe. The next thought was curiosity over who she would be bringing in as her upper-administration. Jim Leitner was obviously going to be the First Assistant. Although he had lost the trust and respect of many of the ADAs when he endorsed Lykos (after he and Clint Greenwood had sworn up and down that would never happen), there was actually a little relief to hear that Jim would be in the Upper Admin. The thought being that he would provide some calm advice and stability during those moments where Lykos was letting her infamous temper flare up. When Roger Bridgwater lost the election for the 178th bench, and was named as part of Team Lykos, I was glad to hear it. I had always liked Roger as a defense attorney and had been very happy for him when he had been appointed judge. I thought Lykos was making a great call by bringing him on. I (and a lot of others) thought that if anything was going to make the next four years survivable with a crazy political hack, it would be having the calm and guiding force of these two men. Good God, did we miss the mark on that prediction.' Over the past six months, Jim Leitner and Roger Bridgwater have transitioned from the spineless hatchetmen to Official Administration Apologists to downright Grade-A Bullies. Jim was the first to fully embrace his Napoleonic complex, as he first decided he would break bad and just verbally eviscerate Rifi Newaz and Mark Donnelly after the Batson debacle. Some would think that a good administrator might have actually given them the benefit of letting them explain themselves, but not Big Jimmy Leitner. Of course, in all fairness, I guess he was under a deadline to chew them out since Lykos was in the next room calling the Chronicle about what was happening. He's continued his "tough guy" image by doing a lot of shooting first and asking questions later. Demanding explanations on perceived wrongs rather than asking what happened from his troops. As one prosecutor mentioned to me, "there's a presumption that you have done something wrong and he acts like he is looking for any reason to fire you." There have been at least two occasions that I'm aware of where Leitner has tried to play a diminutive Clint Eastwood tough guy on younger prosecutors for actions that they had carried out because he told them to. But the bottom line is that Leitner has become little more than Lykos' chief thug. What was more surprising to me, personally, was that former-judge Roger Bridgwater has now apparently decided to get into the act. I will freely admit that I used to be a big fan of Roger's. I thought better of him. I was wrong. His behavior has become as bizarre and erratic as the rest of the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight. Whether it be his officially revoking an invitation to Rusty Hardin to speak at an in-house CLE (yeah, that Rusty Hardin guy. What the hell does he know about trying a case?), or trying to push the moronic DWI Diversion Program off on the general public, the Roger Bridgwater I used to know ain't there anymore. But Roger hit his all-time low yesterday. During yesterday morning's weekly "Show and Tell" meeting (which is a regular update meeting attended by all Division chiefs, Bureau Chiefs and the Elected D.A.), he apparently went completely off the deep end. After being questioned on his rationale on decisions about Rusty Hardin, the diversion program, and the fact that more people learn about their Administration decisions from the paper than from the administrators, Bridgwater lashed out at none other than Donna Goode. Now, before reading on, keep in mind that Donna Goode and I aren't exactly best friends. Although I liked her and respected her during my time at the Office, we were never particularly close nor did we work on any cases together. Earlier this year, she referred to the blog as being "toxic" (which actually cracked me up). I don't dislike her, but I doubt we will be going bowling any time soon. But whether I'm friends with Donna or not, I respect her. She's a good lawyer and prosecutor who has devoted somewhere in the ballpark of 30 years to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. She was a Division Chief when I started with the Office, and prior to this morning, she was the Bureau Chief of Special Crimes (the position held by Kelly Siegler when Kelly left the Office). After having the audacity to question Roger on some very valid questions regarding how he was running his Division, Roger blew up on her and some others in the room. He completely lost his cool and went after a lady who has worked there, literally, over 50 times longer than he has. He did his best to humiliate her in front of everyone in the room. But he didn't stop there. When the meeting was over, he decided to file a complaint against Donna with the Disciplinary Committee for her remarks during "Show and Tell". The complaint he made against her? Insubordination. Now, if you are keeping score at home, two questions should be coming to mind. 1. Um, when did the Office get a Disciplinary Committee? I thought if somebody did something bad that Lykos just called the Chronicle. 2. How exactly could Donna be "insubordinate" to Bridgwater when they are both Bureau Chiefs? Well, I don't know the answer to Question # 2, but apparently since Lykos shot her mouth off on the Batson debacle, they have developed a Disciplinary Committee. Guess who is on it! Well, that would be Patsy Lykos, Jim Leitner, Hannah Chow, John Barnhill, and um, oh yeah, Roger Bridgwater. Yes, the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight has their own hit squad, and it is pretty much the entirety of the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight. As an added insult, somebody within the Gang decided to have Donna remotely locked out of utilizing her county computer. Jimmy Leitner was kind enough to offer Donna his computer if she would like to type a response to Bridgwater's complaint. She declined. So this morning, Donna Goode, a career prosecutor took her retirement and left the building as a prosecutor for one last time. It was pretty much the only move left to her by the incestuous and low-rent Gang. She was able to walk out of the CJC with class and with her head held high. I know she and I didn't always see eye to eye, but I wish her well, and I respect the hell out of her for leaving because of her principles. Perhaps the D.A.'s Office could bring her back to give a CLE on character. Nah, Roger would rescind the invite. So, today my opinion of Donna Goode has skyrocketed, while my opinion of Leitner and Bridgwater has pretty much bottomed out. They are both, unquestionably bullies. When Craig Goodhart got his notice of termination from Leitner and Bridgwater, he told them he was ashamed of them both. I think Craig was just slightly off on that assessment. Jim and Roger are who they are. They only have to answer to themselves at the end of the day, I suppose. They are more than welcome to be the bad guys. I'm more ashamed of myself for ever thinking that either one of them were ever good guys.
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The materials on this page are for students who are applying to a four year college or university direct from high school (ie, not transferring from College of the Canyons or another community college). For underclassmen who are considering applying to a university directly from high school, please note that the information on this page (and the resources listed here) will change from year to year based upon the requirements and procedures being used by the California universities for that year. Every year in late september, Ms. Cubbage gives a workshop for students who are applying direct to a university – all of the information on this page will be reviewed and your questions about applying direct will be answered during or after the workshop. You can read through all of the information on this page, or use the links below to skip to the section you are interested in. The tools listed here are designed to help you in preparing for the college application process. The process for applying to colleges and universities is time sensitive and students undertaking this task should leave plenty of time for filling out applications, completing personal statements, and getting letters of recommendations. The following tools are designed to help walk you through the process. Note: These are the same materials that Ms. Cubbage goes through in her Applying Direct Workshop in the fall. More information will be forthcoming in the spring. Probably the biggest concern many students have on some of the applications is the LOTE (Language Other Than English) requirement. ALL of COC's language 101 classes correspond to two years of high school foreign language. You should say this in the additional comments section of the application and include the web address for the page in COC's catalog that shows the course description. Most of our students who applied to the CSUs last year did not have any problems with the LOTE requirement but a few did and we had to write a few appeals. If you want to be proactive about this, contact the office of admission at the campus(es) where you apply (any school if you want) and tell them about this situation. For the CSU and UC, you can ask for a manual review of your application because you are meeting the LOTE with a college course. Be ready to give them COC's website address and tell them how to access the college catalog on the left menu bar of the main page. If you can give them the page number in the catalog for your course, that would be very helpful, too. The PSAT or "Practice SAT" is administer once a year in October. 10th grade students are encouraged to take it for experience. 11th grade students who want to be entered in the National Merit Scholarship competition MUST take it in 11th grade in order to qualify for the competition The SAT and ACT with Writing are the two admissions tests most commonly required and accepted by colleges and universities for the freshman application. All UC and CSU schools will accept EITHER test but the ACT must include the writing component. Most other colleges and universities will accept either test, but SOME schools prefer one test over the other. Students should check each school's test preference. Students should take their first test in the spring semester of 11th grade and the second in September, October, or November of 12th grade. Students can take both tests if they want. SAT®-type Prompts In MyAccess The MY Access!® prompt library presents a wide array of prompts that can help students practice persuasive and expository writing techniques that will be tested on the writing portion of the SAT. Several IntellimetricTM prompts and 10 pilot prompts will present writing prompts in a similar format to the writing portion of the SAT. Use the keyword SATPREP to find these prompts in the Assignment Center. And as always, graphic organizers are available to help students gather their ideas and develop content. Search for the graphic organizers using the iSEEK search bar in the top right section of any My Access! screen. AOC School Code: 053-262 COC School Code: 004-117 (or 4117 if asked for a 4-digit number) Parent Application Night Information (This workshop is given to AOC parents each fall)
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The under50over Program at Clear Lake City-County Freeman and the University of Houston-Clear Lake (CLASP) invite you to join us Friday, February 3rd at 10:30 am in the Marge Jacobson Community Room. William Powers, Ph. D., of UHCL, will present “Dinosaurs to Diesel: Oil and Its Implications. ” Light refreshments are provided by the Friends of Freeman Library. Please contact the Reference Desk at (281) 488-1906 or visit us on the Second Floor for more information.
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The Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Learning Resource is a Kindergarten to Grade 12 (grade-by-grade) set of healthy eating and physical activity classroom-based lesson plans for teachers to use. The resource supports teachers to build student skills and knowledge in making lifelong healthy choices in physical activity and healthy eating, and is aligned with the Health and Career Education, Planning 10 and Graduation Transitions curriculum. Primary Category Tags Get the Word Out! Related Programs & Resources Celebrations and parties are a fun way to mark special events or holidays and students look forward to the change in school r... This resource includes recipes that meet the Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Schools, as well as tips to make fa... This fact sheet provides questions and answers to help parents and caregivers in managing severe food allergies in children. People Involved (1) Sign in to View More People or Join Us Now
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Today, for our first inaugural Weddings Wednesday post, we want to celebrate the wedding of one of our closest and dearest. Kailey-Michelle, aka Chief Powerhouse, is the epitome of vintage love, and her wedding was nothing short of the perfect vintage celebration of family+friends+love. All images are beautifully captured by ameris. In her own words:- “As I look back now, my heart fills with gratitude; our wedding was nothing short of magical! But truth be told, being in the industry made my journey one of challenge and overwhelm. There were my own expectations, our families and the ones of others in the industry. And I can say first hand, I let the “expectations” get the better of me. Two months out I had a revelation. I was no longer planning the wedding of my dreams, but one that would satisfy and impress the countless blogs I had adored, the lavish weddings I had worked and the pro’s who would be ‘watching’. Sadness and embarrassment overcame me for allowing the wedding to overshadow the marriage. But I was determined to correct my wrong, at whatever cost, and prove to my fiance and myself it’s what comes after the day that matters most. So with eight weeks to go and the calendar clock ticking, I walked away from my big beautiful wedding and started fresh. The results are what you see today: the wedding it was always meant to be! One I had dreamed up as a little girl along side my mother; of sweet nostalgia and cozy familiarity, intimately surrounded by those who love me dearly. One of quaint charm and personal history; of passion and story telling. Every element shared our hearts: + The intimate first look beneath our favourite willow tree, in which we exchanged hand-made cards back to back + Dave’s father, who married us on my parents’ waterfront property + our high-tea reception in the park, where my angel brother, Cole’s memorial bench resides + our favourite fare, both sweet and savoury, indicated by tent-cards declaring who adores most + every nic-nac, made + crafted, every piece, a family heirloom. Guest shared that they now ‘know’ us more than ever, after experiencing our sacred day! It was truly an unfolding story, genuine to our two hearts. And while it may not have been the calmest journey, it was one of triumph and seeking pure joy. Now, You may be asking why I wished to share this side of my story … why I didn’t wrap it up pretty and paint the perfect picture. Because the truth is simple: there’s beauty in imperfection and life needs a little more grace! And in sharing my story with you, my hope is that some may resonate and find solace in my frank devulge. At Heirloom, we believe in marriage; in the genuineness of your nuptials. And while it may sound fine and dandy, we understand it’s far easier said then done. But know that we take this mission seriously: in helping guide and inspire your journey to the aisle, so that in the end, it may be one of true heart, authenticity and uniquely your own. In life and in your wedding, do what matters most and forget all the rest!” Venue \| Deas Island Heritage School House Florist \| Kjerstin Vaastra (Bride’s friend) Makeup+Hair \| Yuki Lam Gown \| Bryans Bride Jewelry \| BCBG Design+Styling \| Kailey Michelle EVents Catering \| Family+Friends Stationary \| Kailey Michelle Events Photographer \| Ameris Videographer \| Perfect Pair Media
Despite Rumors about Beyonce and Kim Karadshian’s friendship, the two ladies seemed to be hanging out during the “Watch The Throne” concert in Birmingham, UK, last night. It appears that Bey and Kim were standing next to each other until someone starting snapping pics, catching them as they hide their faces. Beyonce tried to hide while Kim Kardashian apparently tried to identify the photographer so she could get more photo ops next to Bey…just sayin’. These pics popped up on Twitter! Like HelloBeautiful on Facebook to stay on top of your favorite black celebrities: RELATED STORIES: Did Kim Kardashian Embarrass Kanye By Acting As A Groupie? RELATED STORIES: Kanye & Kim K Moving In Together?

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