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As the middle-class daughter of a refugee mother and a Depression-era father, I was part of a transitional generation of consumers. My parents could afford much more than they were willing to buy; most things that broke could be and were repaired. By the time my own children were born, America was flooded with cheap and cheaply made goods. So while my parents continued working at the sturdy antique desks they inherited from my grandparents and sleeping beneath a hand-crocheted bedspread, my children and their friends became the first and last owners of a seemingly endless supply of plastic toys and particleboard furniture.
These days, nearly everything is produced in China and made to be discarded. According to a 2008 report by the Economic Policy Institute, the United States imported $323 billion in Chinese goods in 2007, including $26.3 billion in apparel and accessories, $108.5 billion in computers and electronic products, and $15.3 billion in furniture and fixtures.
The manufacture, distribution, and disposal of an ever-growing mountain of short-lived consumer goods have taken an enormous environmental toll. We can't, however, only blame the quantity and quality of Chinese goods for the consequences of this transoceanic factory-to-waste stream. For that we can blame the two horsemen of the modern consumer apocalypse: functional obsolescence and fashion obsolescence.
Functional, or planned, obsolescence is the intentional decision by designers and manufacturers to ensure that things don't last, so that consumers must buy new ones. Fashion obsolescence is the related decision to offer new features and aesthetic changes to entice consumers to discard their old items in favor of updated and supposedly better ones.
Ironically, product obsolescence was once seen as the remedy for what ailed our country. Lizabeth Cohen, chair of the history department at Harvard University and author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, traces the origins of mass consumption to the period immediately before and after World War II, when a demand-driven economy was seen as the key to our nation's recovery and prosperity.
"Our enormously productive economy . . . demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption," retailing analyst Victor Lebow said in 1955. "We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing pace."
Today, consumer spending constitutes 70 percent of the U.S. economy. Ultimately, environmental and economic sustainability won't be possible until that changes. We can't just keep churning out, buying, and disposing of stuff—we need to start making stuff that lasts.
Saul Griffith, a 2007 MacArthur Fellow and serial inventor, refers to this as "heirloom design." The best way to lower the quantity of energy required to manufacture and distribute consumer goods, he argues, is to make those products not only durable, but also repairable and upgradable.
Griffith shares this radically obvious idea with Tim Cooper, head of the Centre for Sustainable Consumption at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England, and editor of the forthcoming book Longer Lasting Solutions. Cooper calls for "slow consumption," the consumer purchasing equivalent of the Slow Food movement (which seeks to build consumer awareness and appreciation of food and its connection to community and the environment).
"The issue to address is what kind of economy is going to be sustainable in its wider sense—economically, environmentally, and socially," he says. "The current economy is not sustainable. The sheer throughput of energy and materials cannot be continued."
If products were more durable, Cooper argues, some jobs lost due to the decrease in consumption would be offset by the addition of more highly skilled maintenance and repair jobs. And whereas the lost jobs might be overseas, the repair jobs would be local. "We need to look at new business models that move away from manufacturing and selling more and more products," he says. Such models might include "products that last longer but have associated services attached to them, so that the supplier guarantees to maintain, repair, and upgrade the products for a certain period."
What would it take to overcome our dependence on cheap goods? Even though the rise of overseas manufacturing means that obsolescence is no longer a boon for this country's manufacturers, cheap products are essential for consumers who can barely afford to put food on the table. If a durable coffeemaker costs twice as much as a breakable one but lasts four times as long, it's still less attractive to someone who doesn't have the additional cash up front.
Policy would have to play a key role in reversing this unfortunate checkout counter calculation. Legislation on extended producer responsibility, requiring manufacturers to account for the full life cycle of their products from extraction to disposal, could affect consumer culture by making disposable items more expensive and reviving an interest in repair. Such legislation would also need to create a financial incentive for industry to produce more durable goods and for consumers to favor them.
Consumers are certainly influenced by price, but Cooper holds out hope that they also can be persuaded by having more of a connection to the objects they purchase—a quality referred to as "emotionally durable design." If that sounds too touchy-feely for a coffee machine, consider the difference between a pair of shoes custom-made for you by your local cobbler and an off-the-rack pair from the shoe store. Which would you be more likely to clean, resole, and repair?
Part of the solution might also be having more products available without the burden of ownership. Tool rentals, car sharing, and even laundromats diminish the number of products that need to be manufactured and place a premium on durability and longevity. (This can even be done informally. We've shared a lawnmower with one of our neighbors for years.) "We should have much more attachment to certain products, but for others we should see that they are services," says Andrew King, a consultant with the UK-based Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse.
King sees consumers playing a large role in putting pressure on industry to make the necessary changes. "The real issue is creating the demand," he says. "I work with a large number of large multinational [companies]. When they assign their designers to the challenge—design this for two lives—they rise to the challenge. They just start to think in a different way."
Excerpted from In These Times (Nov. 2009), a progressive monthly committed to political and economic democracy. www.inthesetimes.com
Of course you are more likely to maintain bespoke shoes that cost ten times as much in the first place. This analysis is completely insensitive to threshold costs as well as social class. It may cost more in the long run to buy cheap stuff, but at least we can afford it at any given moment. Without such economies of production and scale, lots of things would be simply unavailable to ordinary people. The world of the past may have been a world of durability, but it was also (much more than today) a world of poverty. In addition, there is no such thing as running out of energy. The Sun provides enough energy for millions of Earths, if we were to use it all. That's well beyond current technology, of course, but solar power is rapidly becoming the power source of choice.
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CONSUMERISM, Really we should ask the question do you really require the item, objects that we assume are necessary are as a result of not asking that question.One of the factors that breeds the appetite for consumerism is advertising, the inundation all around us beckoning to buy, as an example sitting here in front of a screen is companies selling their wares and services internet pages everywhere buy buy buy all forms of media entertainment information communication,selling products that we do not need. Companies sponser good causes and also condition our childrn into consumerism at the same time, subliminally selling we and especially our children will end up with the consumerist ethos. thank you by the way where does this comment go i would appreciate if you could come back to meon that question.
I agree that we need to be able to get goods that will last. You can buy a printer almost as cheap as you can buy new ink cartridges. The newer printer's ink cartridges can't be refilled so a whole new cartridge has to be bought. I just bought a new washer and dryer. My old ones were bought in 1972 and were still working. I placed them in a rental house for my tenants. I drive a 1996 ford ranger which has 244,000 miles on it and hauls what ever I need moved. Not many people can say the same. So many people have to have a new car every couple of years and new furniture also. I think you need to repair things when they break and not buy new ones every time you turn around. Fran
So-called conservatives and so-called progressives seem to deal in sweeping generalizations rather than looking at the sweeping scope of ideas and facts. "Slow Consumption" is a case of looking at one facet of American life and assuming that it holds across all of American life. (Utne Reader, March April 2010, http://www.utne.com/Environment/Slow-Consumption-Heirloom-Design.aspx) Yes, there are cheap goods that wear out and that we toss and replace. But there are also many things that last and last. Among these are the modern automobile. I am so glad that they don't build them like they used to. I bought a new 1997 F-150 truck in May 1996. In the fall of 2009 somebody asked me if it was new. Only a few times in those 13 years did I cancel a trip because of a problem. But it was undrivable only once; it had a flat tire. I traded it in this fall for an SUV and later met the buyer; he was pleased with his purchase. We have furniture that is over thirty years old. We live in a house built in 1922. We have appliances that are less than ten years old, but mostly because their energy consumption is so much less; that is, the new is truly better. Yes, we have gone through many coffee makers. But we wouldn't have to do so if we were willing to accept a little less convenience. We could buy a stovetop percolator for less than $15. If we kept it clean it would last for decades. For the rest see my blog at magree.blogspot.com


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continuing off some chatter in the cbox, i think itd be interesting to explore some things about roleplay as a craft that makes it distinct from other forms of writing. some themes that have come up:
present tense wasn't always the norm in neopets roleplay, which is the particular genealogy of play-by-post roleplay that this site came from. past tense used to be enforced in much widee use, and a lot of us favour it because it makes it easy to:
DISCUSSION STARTERS: do you prefer past or present tense in roleplay? if you do solo writing, do you prefer something else? have you noticed a difference?
recently, i've noticed present tense becoming prevalent in popular fanfics as well as roleplay. and as a practice and a community, fanfic has lots in common with play-by-post roleplaying:
i started off this topic by talking about RP as a craft, but havent substantiated it in the least! so what do you think? are there considerations for roleplay that are significantly different than for other forms of fiction writing? or do the same rules apply to both?
and finally, what other meta-thoughts do you have about roleplay? post them here!
Posted: Mar 4 2016, 12:29 PM
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aaaa rp meta
here are some thoughts/observation of mine that aren't particularly cogent or structured into any real cohesive argument one way or another
now i'm gonna edit this a million times while you guys say things that actually make sense
Posted: Mar 7 2016, 05:18 PM
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this started off as a reply but it became a meta analysis of fanfiction and i've already had way too much coffee today!!
everyone read this defense of fanfiction first
then look at this list of homestuck AUs and consider how fucking detail-oriented and true-to-the-medium some fanfiction can be, as far as presentation, tropes, and characters go!
now that being said, i have this knee-jerk dislike of most tumblrina fanfic writers, a dislike more refined and resilient than any single critique of roleplayers and their styles.
over the years, i have observed the roleplaying community slowly cop to the fact that we are all engaged in collaborative, literary escapism, and that the 'point' is not so much writing as it is playing a fun game with words with another person/other people. i think fanfiction is still a little clingy to the idea that it's "about the canon", without totally acknowledging that the canon is about escapism to begin with, and the fanfiction is about even deeper escapism. because fanfic writers are closer to traditional writers than roleplayers are, i fear they are more likely to possess delusions of grandeur, exaggerated by any attention they receive.
as a roleplayer, it is fucking hard to get other people to give a shit about your OCs and actually read your writing: it rarely happens. you continue to roleplay for your own private self indulgence and love of the craft and the characters. you only rank the quality of your own writing when you are searching for other roleplayers, and when you are trying to keep up with whoever you're writing with. you bond with other roleplayers directly through roleplaying, or around techniques and problems of writing and community building.
fanfic readers are ravenous fans who have not been satisfied by the amount or variety of canon material, and come stampeding into the fanfic buffet. fanfiction readers and writers bond over characters, canon, and subsequent interpretations of canon. the priority here goes to generation of material; the community exists only in extension of the content. you do not have to be any kind of good or interesting to get clicks as a fanfic writer: by virtue of existing within the fandom, someone will look and someone will like it.
as a roleplayer, pretty much no one is aware of your individual existence. as a fanfic writer, you can become known, not due to the quality of anything you generate, but because you generated it about something that people have a previous attachment to, predisposing them to like your work out the gate. roleplaying and fanfiction are both generally dominated by younger, less experienced, more socially isolated people, so you can really go a long way in reflecting on how these people shape their communities, and are shaped by them.
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first off to bird & xando, i kno i havent said much in the way of commentary to you guys in other chats, but there's been enough here for me to think about for days.
re bird: the way that roleplay writing has been influenced by contemporary published fiction isnt something i'd thought about before, so thank you for opening my eyes!! i dont have much more to add about the ways in which writing as a whole has been influenced by the internet, but it's a good reminder that we don't exist in a vacuum (insular as roleplay communities can feel sometimes, lol)
re: xander: one of these days ill have to press you on your hate of fanfic authors, cause i want names lmao. that said, i balk at pitting roleplay communities and fic communities against each other, even rhetorically; a lot of fic writers i know also roleplay, and vice versa, so i wonder how natural this distinction is. but lets talk about this over chat one of these days?? im super interested, but i feel like it might go out of scope for this topic.
what i really want to expand on in both ur posts tho was the idea that roleplay was unique as a social act:
even though you guys brought up different aspects of the roleplaying experience, to me what they have in common is the act of developing trust in your partner.
bird mentions writing a scene succinctly but accurately enough for your partner to reply to, not to mention yes-anding and building on ideas your partner's thrown out--i.e. trusting them enough to do a back and forth. on the flipside, xander describes the phenomenon of establishing bonds w other roleplayers & forming emotional attachments. and when people disappear, that's really a betrayal of trust.
i think this phenomenon is really unique to roleplay as a craft, because in every other kind of reader/writer relationship the exchange is lopsided. here, both parties are dependent on each other to build something.
in response, i wanna pose this question to the larger crowd:
when you start a new roleplay, what are you primarily hoping to achieve? is it something you've thought about at all?
and new people, please chime in!
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My primary goal whenever I roleplay is purely on making myself, and my partner, happy. If that means playing a canon character I absolutely despise that they wants for their original character I will do so happily, as long as they do the same thing for me.
I place a emphasis on fairness, I don't want either one of us growing resentful because my partner or I feel the other isn't doing their part.
I do it for fun and to explore characters. The overarching plot means less to me because I prefer just throwing my characters into a situation just to see what would happen.
re xander: I do have to respectively disagree in terms of fanfiction being obsessed with canon. In fact it's quite the opposite. As a regular connoisseur of fanfiction since I was a tiny little homosexual learning about femslash for the first time in the context of shipping (SangoxKagome and AerithxTifa at the same time) I've noticed the absolute opposite.
While fanfiction does tend to work within the confines of canon it also transforms canon in a way that is more satisfactory to the fandom. As much as I'd rather not bring up Swan Queen (again, I'm sure you guys are getting sick of it) fanfiction is used as a transformative work to bring canon into something more satisfying that we aren't getting from the canon.
Once Upon A Time (forewarning here, spoilers for season 2 on) for example has a horrible history in their treatment of POC characters and plausible queerness in their characters. Mulan, who was both, had been close to confessing her feelings for Aurora and not only did Aurora announce she was pregnant with Phillip's child just before she could. But Mulan left to join the Merry Men and never showed up again. Even when Robin and the Merry Men became part of the story.
Marian, Robin's dead wife brought back in season 4 by Emma, ended up being killed by Zelena (Wicked Witch) almost immediately after Marian was rescued by Emma. They literally killed off one of the few POC to bring back a white woman.
In Season 5 they killed off Lancelot a second time. Because killing a black man once before in season 2 wasn't enough.
Again and again the show has disappointed and disgusted fans with their treatment. I haven't even touched on some of the worse treatment the actor PR has given it's queer fans.
But you go into fanfiction (outside of a certain pair of canon coupling m/f fics, one moreso than the other -sideeyes-) suddenly all these issues are not only resolved but often called out. Throwing shade on the show in a humorous way because we know it's not ok.
Now we have stories tailor made to tell the story of transformative fairy tales. Like the show was advertised. Not the same whitewashed, heteronormative shit we get in every other TV show.
I can read a story about Emma and Regina going through the entire canon from season 1 to season 5A (since 5B hasn't been finished) and they can still have a happy ending despite the show doing everything possible to try and stomp that into the ground for the sake of them being 'straight'.
At the same time I can read a vlogger AU about Emma doing a drunk ranting vlog and Regina's drunk Shake It Off dance video got ridiculously popular because Emma shared it with her fans and they proceed to butt heads and bicker (as they do) until a common goal to prevent harassment in the Youtube community brings them together.
There is not a single other medium that provides stories like this. I can't go to the library and read the vlogger romance book for queer women. Or read a assigned-male-at-birth queer woman finding love and acceptance among her son's difficult and sometimes outright hostile other mother, while struggling with her own parents who gave her up and they mourn the loss of a son without bonding truly with their daughter. Or a queer re-telling of 'Bridges of Madison County' that takes place in the mid-80s with all the consequences a lesbian affair with a transient photographer is going to end up having.
I can find these transformative works in fanfiction. And nowhere else.
So I absolutely must disagree that fanfiction holds canon above all else. Because fanfictions very creation came from people dissatisfied with what canon gave them. (And came to popularity very much due to queer fans twisting canon to fit their needs)
Posted: Mar 17 2016, 12:22 AM
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trust is huge in roleplays for me, and it has gotten bigger over time. in my earlier roleplaying days, i avoided making friends with other roleplayers, for two reasons: (1) because i was primarily there to write with them and 12-year-old me gave 0 shits about the real people, i was here for the fake ones, and (2) i did not need to trust anyone, i was writing extremely vanilla shit and most of my roleplays were 'reply in 15 minutes on this neopets thread' kind of things. i didn't have to put myself out there and wonder if someone was going to reply to my distant, perhaps forgotten email - no, these people were on this thread, here to write, and they were gonna write until they had to go or sleep. that's it!
now i am older, and replies take a lot longer than fifteen minutes, and the shit that i write is very far from vanilla. when exploring Dark Content, you need to really trust your partner - you need to feel like they can honor the material that you're mutually interested in. so for example, while i would enjoy writing something like an abusive relationship, i'm pretty averse to actually looking for it, because i am very cautious about trusting someone to write that well. additionally, i need to actually trust that the other person is committed to the writing, and will actually make an effort to reply (and i need to earn that trust too, don't get me wrong.)
what am i hoping to achieve? quality entertainment! quality writing! quality examination of the human spirit! aka a lot.
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The History of Modern France
The History of Modern France
Jonathan Fenby
Simon & Schuster 536 pages £25
How the French Think
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Allen Lane 426 pages £20
'France', said Charles de Gaulle, 'cannot be France without grandeur.' The country's recent history suggests the great man was nearer the mark when he moaned how impossible it was to manage a country 'of 246 different kinds of cheese'. André Malraux famously observed: 'When the French fight for mankind, they are wonderful, when they fight for themselves, they are nothing.' November's horrific Paris attacks by Islamic terrorists, rightly, generated much sympathy for the country. However, will France's current President, François Hollande, be able to follow in the great traditions of France and show the world how to deal with one of the foulest scourges of our time?
Against this background, these two books could not be better timed. Jonathan Fenby knows the country well and argues that the French have become 'prisoners of their past'. It can no longer prosper because the country that bequeathed the world exceptional ideas such as Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité has been outpaced by the rest of the world.
Fenby's history starts with the restoration of the monarchy after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and ends with the murder of the editor and staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. Such a huge accumulation of facts can often be indigestible but Fenby, skilfully, avoids this trap with a narrative which has page-length biographies of major figures and important events, such as the Paris Commune of 1871, in a diary form plus a selection of choice sayings of the last 200 years. This includes the words used by the actress Arletty, who lived with a German officer in the Ritz during the occupation, to defend her collaboration: 'Mon Coeur est à la France, mais mon cul est à moi.'
Wartime collaboration is an issue which the French are only now, 70 years later, beginning to examine, with the evidence indicating that de Gaulle, who led the resistance, was an artful spin-doctor when presenting all Frenchmen as having followed his lead. Many, including Jean-Paul Sartre, did nothing; Francois Mitterrand, France's first socialist president, served the Vichy regime, and some even helped send Jews to their death.
Such contradictions should come as no surprise, for even as French thinkers at the close of the 19th century expounded ideas of universal idealism, France was hugely expanding its colonial empire on the grounds of 'the right of superior races over inferior races'. These contradictions are also the theme of Hazareesingh's book, but he deals with French ideas from Descartes – the first chapter is called 'The Skull of Descartes' – to Derrida. Rousseau also figures prominently and the book is a marvellous primer for students eager to learn about French thought over the last four centuries. It can, at times, be dense. One sentence runs to 24 lines combining discussion of the Académie Française with that of the rock star Johnny Halliday.
However, Hazareesingh does raise the question as to whether the 21st century has seen 'the closing of the French mind'. His most potent illustration of this retreat from universalist concerns is that in 2014 the French book that grabbed world attention was Thomas Piketty's study of global capitalism, a book on economics, rather than grand ideas. Like Fenby, Hazareesingh has an eye for detail. He reproduces the issue of the monthly satirical magazine, L'Hebdo Hara-Kiri, published just after de Gaulle's death in his village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises in November 1970. The headline on the front cover read: 'Tragic Ball at Colombey: 1 Dead.' This was considered so objectionable that the magazine was banned and turned itself into Charlie Hebdo, 'another impertinent reference to de Gaulle'.
In many ways de Gaulle emerges as the last great leader able to mask the country's contradictions. But while Fenby ends on a note of deep pessimism about where France is headed, Hazareesingh, despite starting his conclusion by talking of France's 'loss of self-confidence', concludes that 'the French will remain the most intellectual of peoples' and continue to produce ideas that enthrall the world.
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SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, at 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns ceased their thunder, the earth stopped shuddering and an eerie silence descended on the Western Front. The world war (not yet known as World War I, of course) was over.
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The Execution
I had just been judged as guilty of a crime, a crime I apparently committed. The only problem however was that I did not remember doing it. They said I killed my mother. They claimed I had stabbed her repeatedly. According to them, I'd started while she was asleep and I'd stabbed her a total of fifteen times- two while she'd been sleeping and the remaining after she had woken. I remember the warmth of her blood as it spilled in my face when her carotid artery burst. I think I heard her screaming in pain throughout the one minute it lasted but I had been too far away to be sure. How could I have killed her? The witnesses called to the stand testified that I'd always been a good girl and helped my mother in her store. I remember Mrs Layiwola saying;
"Why did you do it Preye? What happened?"
She had burst into tears on the stand and they'd had to carry her away. I remember sitting there beside my lawyer who was a man in his forties with a balding head. From where had they gotten him anyway? The government must have assigned him to me or me to him seeing as my mother was my only parent and the only family I had left. My dad had left when I was four and my mum had worked as a nurse and also had a shop where she sold groceries. So why would I kill her? Whatever had she done? My brain felt empty.
They were now leading me into the black maria, I was being transported to the site of my execution since I had been sentenced to death by hanging. There were so many press people outside and I was blinded by the flashes from their cameras. The van was dark and smelled of urine, the smell was so pungent and it reminded me of the ammonia I used in my school's laboratory. The drive was long and the policemen kept looking and me and shaking their heads. I had become the talk of the town; the seventeen year old who had stabbed her mother fifteen times, watched her bleed to death and then attempted to flee the site. I'd been caught red handed, literally as I'd tried to run out of our yard by my neighbour who found me having semi bloody hands very suspicious and called the police. Why would I want to kill my mother? I wondered. And for the first time, tears rushed to my eyes. The woman loved me, she worked herself to the bone every day to put food on the table. It made no sense. Had I been set up? Who would put so much effort into making me look like a criminal?
They brought me into a small room already set up for hanging. I kept wondering why I was going to be hanged when I was still a minor. I asked the policeman or rather told him
"But sir, I'm only seventeen" I said, tears running down my face
"I'm sorry, you were tried as an adult and you know this" he said, his face expressionless
I felt sweat on my palms. No! I had to get out. I began to scream, to beg.
"I'm innocent! I'm innocent!!" But even as I screamed, I realized how unfazed the guards were, they probably got this every time they had to kill someone. People had always trusted me. I could always beg my way out of every situation. How could this be happening? How could my life end like this?
I began to try to remember why I had killed mother, try to remember what she could have done, try to understand how I could have been so wicked but I could only cry more.
I stepped on the chair and felt the rope encircle my neck. The green twisted rope. I felt it gradually begin to squeeze life out of me and then I felt a sharp pain at my side, poking constantly. It was painful and as I struggled to look down at what it was, the rope squeezed tighter, the executioner waited impatiently for his job to be done.
It was my mother!! She was not dead! I hadn't killed her!! I waited for the door to open and the executioner to bring me down before I died and instead I felt a
tap slap on my arm.
''Get up!!, you'll be late!" My mother said.
I opened my eyes and felt my neck. I was alive, in my bedroom and my earring had been piercing my side. I really should stop watching Crime and Investigation before bed.
*PS My heart goes out to all the Bostonians affected by the Marathon bombing. You're in my prayers.


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Well, I did, just now. Currently listening to 90.7 love radio with Nicole Hyala and Cris Tsuper. The duo were talking about school. They dealt specifically about some subjects like Rizal.
Nicole asked, how did Rizal die?
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This is me and my best friend Lisa. I can't even begin to tell you how much this girl means to me! She is always there to support me and offer help when needed. I couldn't imagine not having her in my life. Thanks Lisa for being there for me!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
A Thousand Words Thursday!
Posted by Jesica at 9:31 AM
4 comments:
- Lisa Marie said...
You wrote about me....LOL
We both have been through alot these past years, but our friendship helped us get through it together. I am so thankful that I always have your shoulder to cry on and our sillyness to laugh about. I am proud to call you my best friend, I wouldn't trade you for a brownie sundae.
Your Lisa truly!
- October 16, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- The Mom said...
So sweet, I need to find some pics of my girlfriends!! Very special tribute!
- October 16, 2008 at 11:03 AM
- Hannah Noel said...
aren't friends the best?? Not just acquaintences (did I spell that right) but the ones that know every single most embarrasing secret about you and think you're great anyway!! thanks for sharing =)
- October 16, 2008 at 9:38 PM
- Sarah said...
There is nothing like the friendship between two best friends! Cute picture!
- October 21, 2008 at 12:48 AM
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Jonah Hex To Appear In "Legends Of Tomorrow's" Old West Adventure
With a premise involving time travel, the CW's "Legends of Tomorrow" can travel to corners of the DC Universe that would be hard to squeeze into "Arrow" or "The Flash." One such era is that of the old west and, as revealed by Variety, "Legends'" time-hopping nature will allow the ragtag team to cross paths with Jonah Hex.
"Ever since we decided that 'Legends' would involve time travel, we were eager to do a story set in the Old West," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told Variety. "But if you're going to do a story set in the DC Universe version of the Old West, you simply must include Jonah Hex in it. We're thrilled about bringing another well known, beloved DC character to television."
As Jonah Hex's debut is not scheduled until the 11th episode of "Legends of Tomorrow's" debut season, no casting for the character has been announced.
As DC's premier Old West antihero, Jonah Hex has been the star of a number of long-running comics, most recently the New 52 title "All-Star Western." The character was created by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga and debuted in 1972's "All-Star Western" #10. Josh Brolin previously portrayed the character in a live-action feature film, which was released in 2010. The film failed to find an audience, only grossing $10.9 million domestically. Thomas Jane also voiced the character in the animated short "DC Showcase: Jonah Hex," which was paired with the 2010 animated feature "Batman: Under the Red Hood."
"Legends of Tomorrow" debuts on the CW on January 21.
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With Apple's stock price under pressure, the company is gearing up at the San Francisco Cow Palace for the September 9 World Developer Conference.
The extravaganza is being promoted as Apples biggest event history as the company introduces the iPhone 6S; the updated Apple TV, focused on gaming; and a large-screen iPad. Although there are lots of rumors that Bono from U2 will be the big surprise on the stage, there are is not much of the usual buzz before such a big party.
Apple is expected to launch more products than at any of its prior events with almost every one of its mobile device getting an upgrade, including iPhones, MacBooks, iPads, Apple TV–and possibly even an autonomous car.
Apple employs a form of "Hunger Marketing" for these new offerings by bringing products to market with an attractive value or price point; and then restricts the supply to build marketing traction based on scarcity value.
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Breitbart News warned in an article entitled "Apple iPhone's Implode in China Stock Crash," published just days before Apple's stock price peaked at $132 a share, that China's stock market crash threatened to tank the company's sales momentum.
We argued that the 150 percent gain in the Chinese stock market prices had been the engine that drove most of Apple's 60 percent sales momentum. For Chinese investors, checking stock prices on an expensive iPhone was seen as a mark of sophistication and luxury. We were concerned that China's $3 trillion stock crash was going to torpedo conspicuous consumption.
On August 20, the highly-respected tech analysts at the authoritative Gartner Group reported that "smartphone sales in China, the world's biggest market for the devices, fell in the second quarter for the first time" in the quarter ending June–and appear to have fallen rapidly since then.
With China accounting for about 30 percent of total smartphones sales on the planet, worldwide smartphone sales grew at the slowest pace since 2013.
Product introductions for iPad and Apple TV will be crucial for the success of Apple's event.
The long-rumored iPad Pro update will finally be unveiled, according to reports from 9to5mac. The Pro will run iOS 9.1 and have a monster 12.9-inch display and a stylus. The device will have 64GB of storage, versus 16GB base models of the iPad Air and iPad mini lines. They will be shipped with Gold, Silver, and Space Grey variations.
The built-in LTE-capable iPad Pro versions with LTE chips will compare closely to Apple's latest MacBooks, support a new Apple-designed Bluetooth keyboard, and be priced at about $1,000.
The radically updated Apple TV 2015 will also run a modified version of iOS 9 and come with an interface that looks like the iPad. With the product not getting an upgrade since January 2013, the new focus will be on gaming with more power for better graphics. There will also be a new remote that could double as a controller and an app store to buy and download games.
Apple's stock price is still down 20 percent since July and has only slightly rallied prior to Wednesday's event. Shareholders are beginning to worry that Apple may be about throw a party, but "The Thrill Is Gone." Wednesday's event begins at 10 am West Coast time and is expected to run for about two-and-a-half hours.
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RICHARD (RICK) LORENZ – German born – Louisiana artist and creator of the popular series – 'BE THE BIRD'
"In the realm of all things symbolic…birds and feathers have held a certain fascination for me. My earliest drawings as a toddler were of birds and flying. Indeed, I drew every kind of bird imaginable. Self taught, working mostly in oils, I consumed the works of Audubon and other notable ornithologists both past and present. 1998 was memorable with my winning entry in the prestigious Louisiana Duck–Stamp competition.
Birds have always represented a more ethereal realm of freedom and liberation. Feathers have a long and illustrious history, beginning with the earliest of civilizations. In Egypt for example, the feather represented the word 'TRUTH'. Just as Truth can 'set you free', feathers may give flight to the Truth within.
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Across The Street
"He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God." 2 Corinthians 9:10
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"Jesus said, 'For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'" 2 Corinthians 9:10
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"He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8
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Where is God sending you?
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