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A 19 year-old driver from Hilton has received a suspended prison sentence and told to complete unpaid work after he was seen by one of our officers driving whilst he was disqualified.
Jacob Deas of Thames Way, Hilton appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court last week on Tuesday, September 5 and pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified and damaging a neighbour's vehicle and fence.
The incident happened earlier this year on Thursday, April 20 when one of our officers from the Hilton Safer Neighbourhood Team saw Deas driving a Vauxhall Corsa on Eggington Road in the village.
Shortly after, the car was found abandoned on Thames Way, near to a damaged van and fencing, and was seized by the team (pictured).
Deas was later interviewed and summonsed to appear at court.
He was given an eight week prison sentence that was suspended for 12 months, ordered to complete 40 hours unpaid work within the next 12 months, ordered to pay £200 compensation to the victim for the damage and told to pay £85 costs.
Sergeant Graham Summers, who is in charge of the team, said: "We are pleased that justice has taken its course in this case. The young man had dangerously ignored his disqualification from driving and got behind the wheel again.
"It shows that the local Safer Neighbourhood team strive to have a good knowledge of those offending in the area and will not hesitate to bring them to justice when and if they continue to offend.
"I hope that Mr Deas can learn from his mistake by realising how close he was to going to jail and so will now not cause the potential risk to other road users by continuing to drive whilst disqualified."
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So, you wanna shop Black Friday, huh? I gotta admit, there are some truly great deals to be had on this famous Day-After-Thanksgiving Sale. It's an excellent time to stock up on gifts for Christmas and throughout the next year. That is, if you are up for it — literally!
Now, keep in mind that I generally HATE shopping, and I am by no means an expert shopper or deal-monger. But Black Friday is one time when I usually get to shop without children and with adults I love. I have a plan, a mission, and a challenge — that's my kind of adventure!
Whether you are new to this crazy shopping experience or an old pro, I thought I'd share a few tips to make your trip slightly more sane. :-)
1. Plan your trip.
Definitely the most involved step. After setting your budget (VERY IMPORTANT!), one of the first things you'll want to do is peruse the black Friday ads. These usually come out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but most of the major ads have already been leaked to sites like The Black Friday and Black Friday 2011.
As you are looking through the ads for the stores you might want to hit, make a chart (or table or list) of 1) the items you may want to purchase, 2) where they can be found, and 3) for what price. Many stores will have the same product at different or similar prices, and if you find that one or two stores are going to carry most of your wanted items, it may be worth the few dollars to just get it all in one place rather than go to six different stores. Then again, some stores use a particular item as their "doorbuster" to get people in the store and so it may be MUCH lower than you'll find it at other stores.
A pretty easy way to look at ads and begin making your list is through an iPhone app. My favorite is TGI Black Friday because it lists all the stores, and then separates the deals by category (women's apparel, toys, electronics, etc). Plus, you can create a shopping list, see the actual PDF scans of the ads, compare prices, email your list or individual deals, and even shop for deals online that may be available before Black Friday.
Prioritize your list according to which items you most hope to purchase. This will help with the next step.
2. Know your stores.
Next, you need to know what time your stores are opening, when certain sales begin and end, and which items are "doorbusters" (these are generally the higher value and/or lower priced items of which there are only limited quantities, and they usually go fast). You'll obviously want to plan your trip so that you get the items at the top of your list, and what order you shop different stores will depend on those factors.
You'll also want to be aware of your stores' return policies, possible item limits, and connected deals (like get a gift card when you purchase such-and-such item). Also helpful is to know the layouts of your stores - departments, special "action alley" areas for the doorbusters, registers, and bathrooms.
Figure out which stores you can get away without using a cart. If you don't have a lot to buy and no big items, forgo the cart and joyously skip through the aisles unencumbered! :-) (sort of...)
Figure out which stores you can get away without using a cart. If you don't have a lot to buy and no big items, forgo the cart and joyously skip through the aisles unencumbered! :-) (sort of...)
3. Be comfortable.
Now, I'm all for not dressing all frumptastic, but just for this day, think about wearing the most comfortable clothes and shoes that you own. I'm talking comfy jeans (or other comfortable pants with pockets), tennis shoes, and unless it is blizzarding, skip the heavy coat and opt for a long or short-sleeved t-shirt with a cardigan or light jacket that can be tied around your waist if you get too warm. When you are rushing around and standing in line with bunches of people, it can get pretty hot and stuffy, and the trip to and from the car is not going to freeze you to death!
Try not to bring a big purse. I generally minimize my wallet to the cards and/or cash I know I'm going to use and reduce my keychain to just my car keys. This way I can just stick my small card wallet, keys and phone in my jeans pockets and not have to worry about another thing to carry. You may have other items to bring along (feminine items, chapstick, etc), but I urge you to go no larger than a small clutch-sized bag you can wear on a cross-the-body strap.
Try not to bring a big purse. I generally minimize my wallet to the cards and/or cash I know I'm going to use and reduce my keychain to just my car keys. This way I can just stick my small card wallet, keys and phone in my jeans pockets and not have to worry about another thing to carry. You may have other items to bring along (feminine items, chapstick, etc), but I urge you to go no larger than a small clutch-sized bag you can wear on a cross-the-body strap.
Also, bring some snacks. This is especially true if you are going to more than one store, if you are starting very early, or if you are not factoring breakfast or lunch into your plans. Your stomach will not thank you for neglecting it. Same goes for water - lots and lots of water!! (Remember, I told you to make sure you know where the bathrooms are!) Something about shopping makes a person feel so dry, and dehydration is not your friend! So make room in your purse or bag for these items.
4. Shop with a Friend (or 2 or 3).
My sister and I grew up doing the after-Thanksgiving-Day sales with our mom, and even when Mom doesn't join us, we still like to go together now that we are all grown up. :-) Team shopping has so many benefits:
- You have someone to talk to while you stand in line, thus saving your cell phone's battery life for the important stuff like checking lists and ads for the umpteenth time and posting pics of the crazy people on Facebook. :-D
- You can take turns standing in line to check out. This is especially nice when part of your team doesn't have anything to buy at a particular store — they can be the assigned place-holder while you go snag the item or two that you came for. Or you can take turns going to the bathroom without fear of losing your spot.
- You can split up to conquer the same store in half the time. One of you gets the toys you all want while someone else gets the small appliances and you can meet back up at the clothing department.
This may be the most important step of all. There can be a lot of crazy people out there trying to get the best deals, and shopping can make even the sane people go a little nutso. So do all the folks around you a favor and be happy!
Not only will you be a happier person, but you may find that your cheerfulness goes a long way in promoting goodwill among those around you. I have gotten more help from sales people and fellow shoppers just by putting on a smile and being friendly and patient and just plain kind. Most people are expecting impatience and rudeness. What a wonderful way to minister to others! Don't forget those magical manners — please and thank you!
Be on the lookout for ways to be a help to those around you. Smile at the tired masses, compliment the husband tagging along with his determined wife, offer help to that largely pregnant or new mama, visit with the grandma who is sweet enough to get presents for all 21 grandkids. I promise that these moments may be the highlights of your whole day. Just because Thanksgiving Day is over, doesn't mean kindness and thankfulness and goodwill should be.
Here's another thought:
Don't have major shopping to do? Wanna have a ministry to others? Set up a "relief station" (or pack a relief bag) for all those weary shoppers. Stock it with water bottles, small snacks, coffee or hot chocolate, etc. (maybe some tracts or church pamphlets if you feel led). If you get out really early or stay up late Thursday and go out around 10 p.m. to midnight, consider distributing handwarmers to those camping out in line at places like Best Buy and Target that aren't open 24hrs and tend to draw a big line ahead of store opening.
(Note: If you want to set up a table or operate out of your vehicle on store property, you probably need to ask permission from managers.)
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So, what am I planning? I'm still on step 1, actually. Aaannndd, I haven't really made up my mind about going this year or not. You see, my sweet 8-month-old is still quite needful of his mother. I can't imagine going without him, or with him for that matter. I'll be checking with my mom and sister, and we will make up our minds this weekend.
In the meantime, we've set up a poll on our Facebook page. If you haven't already, go "like" us there and cast your vote! And be sure to share your favorite shopping tips with all of us!
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SAS International's System 600 Acoustic Lighting Rafts were installed on the ground, first and second floors of the building. Working with Taylor Young Architects and DSSR, Building Services Consulting Engineers, SAS International supplied the flat design rafts to provide acoustic absorption in the building, as well as lighting provision.
Phil Sykes, Associate of Taylor Young Architects, says: "The building achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating helped by the thermal mass of exposed concrete coffer soffits. The suspended rafts below the coffers are fitted with both up and down lighting and acoustic absorption pads to provide a high quality working environment."
David Broadbent, Associate of DSSR, Consulting Engineers commented, "The lighting design utilised High Frequency T5 Lamp Technology together with Dali Lighting Controls with the lighting rafts incorporating occupancy and daylight sensors. The design created a challenge in providing the services to the rafts to meet the aesthetic qualities, but also to provide the client with an energy efficient, flexible and maintainable lighting design solution."
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If you know me, you know that the subject of race isn't something I talk about it. I grew up in a white family. I never really thought that I was "less than" or had to work extra hard because I was black.Of course some people think I should take my skin color and let it define me in all aspects of my life. But I'm not going to do that. I don't find my identity in my skin color, I find it in who I am in Christ. But that's also a different blog post for a different time.
I was recently asked to audition for a role of a middle aged, southern, black man. I didn't want to do it. I felt guilted into auditioning, because, I guess, I was the only black actor around here that people could think of. Which would be cool if the show had been "Race" by David Mamet, and the role was Susan a 20something (maybe early 30s...) black lawyer. But it wasn't. And I didn't audition. I included this in my email to the director, and I meant every word of it two weeks ago, and I still mean them today:
I think that finding a play with one African American character was very bold, and a very cool decision on your part. On the flip side, as an African American actress who is involved in a community theatre that only seems to pick shows where WHITE families are the main characters, unfortunately, I don't have a prayer of being cast. And then having the option to audition for a show just because I'm black, is cool, I guess, but "being black" isn't really my schtick. I'm a talented actress, and I can do so much more than just look a certain way. And my prayer for the future of theatre is that my son or daughter will not be called upon for a role just because of their skin color. Theatre is moving in such a good direction, when it comes to diverse casting, but I think we who are involved at the community level need to be more conscious of picking shows that can be filled with people of all races and backgrounds, not just a show with a "token black." The world itself is changing...I'm in a serious relationship with a white guy, I have some biracial friends, and some Indian friends and some Filipino friends. We are hard-pressed, especially in the State College community, to find someone who is 100% anything. Diverse backgrounds are becoming the norm in the world, and I believe that theatre should be a direct reflection of life and the world around us. Otherwise, unless we're doing a historic Wilson, or GB Shaw, or Isben, it becomes inauthentic, and more difficult to relate to. Thankfully, a lot of contemporary playwrights are moving in that direction. And they're doing that by writing plays that don't have specific character breakdowns. Which is awesome, because it gives actors of color more of a chance of being involved!
I'd like to point out that I'm not the only one thinking, talking, and writing about diversity in the theatre. I recently read a great article about the role of theatre critics where diversity is concerned. The Article Overview reads:
Some critics don't concern themselves with diversity or context, sticking to the subject before them. This is its own form of injustice as well as an abandonment of the critic's role; to see exclusionary practices and not comment on them is to perpetuate them, but also, to pretend a show exists in a cultural vacuum does a disservice to the role of art.I love this. The article goes on to say that the lack of diversity isn't just cultural/background. The theatre is also severely lacking women playwrights, producers, directors, etc...:
Just 17 percent of plays produced in this country are written by women. Since 2000, the annual list of the top 10 most-produced plays averages three female playwrights. (An interesting side note: there's far more ethnic diversity among these women than there is among their male counterparts, which is great, but leads me to wonder whether this is because such playwrights enable artistic directors to check off more than one "diversity" box.)I literally couldn't have written a better side note if I tried. Do we as theatre practitioners purposely stack our decks so we can appear diverse? This honestly hasn't been my experience, but I pray to God it never happens.
There are a few sides to the diversity situation: people who think producers should strive to include all types of people in every show of the season; people who think that the only type of "diversity" we should have is a
"Random Black Girl" in the ensemble of every musical (these people are usually the more old fashioned types of directors); and then there are people who don't think about this at all, which isn't necessarily a problem, but it's not a solution either.
I'm no expert, but I think the biggest thing we at the local level are missing is a simple dialogue on this issue. I can sit here all day and link you to bigger theatre communities who have devoted entire studies to managing and valuing diversity... but I think I'd prefer to ask the questions myself:
- Why couldn't we produce "Race" by David Mamet for a season? Or any other shows like that? (Memphis!! Sister Act!! The Color Purple!!)
- Why aren't we able to draw a larger diverse crowd to our shows?
- What if we took the notion of "black people wouldn't have been anything other than maids in the 1930s" and threw it out, and cast a black woman as Reno Sweeney, or any type of lead?
- Who says every family unit all has to look the same? I mean, have you seen my parents and siblings??
- What if we just sat down, and talked it all out?
I feel like I took the long way to a simple point, but I think the only way to get there is to talk about the hard, and potentially uncomfortable things. Sure, I may talk about it a lot, but that's because it's important to me. As a woman, as an actress of color, and as a human being.
I truly believe that art is a direct reflection of life, and I think most of my theatre and artist friends would agree. And if we're being truthful, life isn't seeing all white-bread families everywhere anymore. (Biracial, adoptive, and blended families, for example.) So why should our theatres show that? It's a direct misrepresentation of the world around us, and it's not 100% relatable to today's audiences. So even though I'm one person, I believe that I have the power to at least ignite the conversation. Join me, and together, we could change the world.
More Links:
Diversity in American Theater: The Mythology of Color Blind/Conscience Casting
On Valuing Diversity, Managing Diversity, and the Difference
"Random Black Girl" Composers: Kooman and Dimond


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All Grown Up
Grisham's narrative of a little boy's journey through childhood is a marked - and welcome - departure from his usual stomping grounds.
Think John Grisham and what comes to mind? A lawsuit, courtroom sagas, high-voltage verbal battles, pages spilling over with stories of juries, clients, defendants, and testimony. So what's new, you ask? Read "A Painted House" to find out.
Even before I was through with the first chapter, I was having trouble believing that it was a Grisham I was reading. He has made the transition from a courtroom to the cotton fields of Arkansas so effectively that it's commendable. The story line and plot are simple, unfolding through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, born into a family of farmers. His farm and his ramshackle unpainted house are the only world he has ever known. It's astonishing how a story with no scandals, no dramatic twists, and no thrilling escapades can grab your attention from the word go, and what's more, keep it firmly riveted right through till the end of the novel. All the above ingredients have been replaced in this book by yarns of the weather, of the village carnival, of cotton fields that stretch as far as the eye can see, of farmers struggling to make ends meet...and Grisham makes them work!
"A Painted House" is a narrative of a little boy's journey through childhood, his experiences, his secrets, his triumphs and his sorrows. It tells us of rural America of the 1950's, glimpses of which are fairly uncommon nowadays. The character of the protagonist in particular has been handled very sensitively, although the Mexicans and the Spruill family have been well-etched too. Luke's own family though, has not been developed as well as it could have been. His father and grandmother come through as particularly stereotypical; there is nothing to distinguish them from scores of other grandmas and daddies in other books.
The novel maintains a steady pace and, to its author's credit, never slackens. It seems like the kind of tale to which there is no suitable conclusion, but the end is possibly the best part of it, because it leaves the reader unsure of what to feel. Most of Grisham's previous works can hardly be described as moving, but this one certainly is.
All in all, "A Painted House" is a marked departure from Grisham's usual style, and that's just one of the many reasons for which you might want to read it. Pick it up if you haven't already, and you won't be disappointed.
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What To Say When They Ask Why You're Single
Hey there, good lookin'. Today we're tackling a pretty common single-gal situation: Navigating really fun, hilariously innocent (or totally loaded) questions being hurled at you regarding your relationship status.
More specifically: You're gorgeous, fabulous and everything, inside and out. So you must get this a lot: "Woman, how in the WORLD are you single?"
Oh, joy.
Do you take offense? Does it make you uncomfortable? Or is your reaction more like:
I personally don't mind it so much--it generally means they can see how flipping fantastic you are. In fact, you are SO awesome and loveable and together and brilliant that it's hard for them to understand why you don't have, like, 18 boyfriends.
But if you DO hate the question, there's some self-acceptance that needs to happen ASAP.
Do you feel unloveable, my dear? Unworthy of intimacy and being desired? Maybe you're desperately trying to keep your secret shadow side from being "found out" by keeping men at a distance. Maybe you're just loving the single life and feel pressured about coupling up.
Hmm... If that's the case, I could see how a question like this could trigger some ish you'd rather not address.
That's cool. That's a solid indicator that you have some self-love work to delve into (and maybe some boundary-setting to handle for all those relatives barking in your ear).
In the meantime, here are a few ways to handle the inquiry with grace, no matter how you feel about who and what is being thrown in your face.
Just hit 'em with:
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Fans of the noodle have more reason to patronize that menu in Singapore; it has kick-started new looks of Grandma Ban Mee to please is ardent eaters. Offering only three type of menu (dry/soup/chili) that is noodle based, guests can choose whatever they like and add more topping to spice up the palate. Especially these delectables never cost you above S$ 5.00 and classified as the most convenient hawker food ever. Sounds interesting? Let's check-in.
Nods to Amoy Street Food Centre's famous district, Grandma Ban Mee, are a simple food stall at the front row of the main entrance with royal red banner and light blue table. In short, this venue is easily spotted. Landed here, guest can join the queue that lasted until meal hours done, then greeted by the beautiful aroma of perfectly cooked noodle all the time. The humble young couple who run this business will serve your meal quickly and allow you to do the self-service after receiving your meal. Take anything you like but don't waste it.
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Dear Friends,
This is Louise's daughter, Michele. Sadly, I must report that my mom is not feeling well. She will be unable to post to her blog for some time. We aren't exactly sure how long she will be away, so for now, I will say, we are terribly sorry that the Picnic Game will be a no go for this year. Louise would like me to tell you all not to worry about her. She is strong and she is a fighter.
Neither of us will be available to review comments and I am not quite sure how to turn them off. Please don't feel like we are ignoring you, I am just blogger clueless!
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Hi Louise - so sorry about the picnic game - was looking forward to it - but even sorrier to hear about your ill health - take care and keep up the good fight to get better - will miss your friendly "face" online and look forward to when you are up to returning. And that is lovely of Michele to let us know.ReplyDelete
Hi Louise, sorry to hear that you are not well. Take care and wishing you speedy recovery.You are in my thought, may God Bless you.ReplyDelete
Thanks Michele for informing us. You too take care.
Warmest regards,
Hi Michele, Hope you mom gets well soon.ReplyDelete
You take care too.
You are in my thoughts. Whatever it is, please hang in and know you are loved and you ARE fighter!ReplyDelete
Hi Louise,ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry to hear that you are not well. I hope you will have a speedy recovery. Do not worry about not commenting or about the picnic game, there's always next year. Most importantly, take care of yourself. Get well soon! Hugs!
My thoughts are with you, Louise. I will miss you while you are gone. (((Hugs))) from afar.ReplyDelete
Dear Louise, My heart is broken to hear that you are not feeling good. I am praying for you to get better and that you will be back with us soon. Please get well soon. xo CatherineReplyDelete
Hi Michele, thanks for letting us know! Louise, SO sorry you're feeling poorly. Take care of yourself and get better. We'll miss your posts, but more than that we'll miss you! Looking forward to you getting well again. But don't rush back -- we have plenty of your past posts to enjoy.ReplyDelete
Hey dear ! Im so sorry about Louise (one of my best friends in this blogger world) please, please tell us how she feel.ReplyDelete
The most important she feel well.
Send hugs and love from Gloria
I am so very sorry to hear this news!! Louise is in my thoughts! Love and hugs, NellieReplyDelete
Thinking of you Louise and praying for your health.ReplyDelete
Oh this is such sad news to come by. I don't know if you'll see this but I am wishing you all the very best Louise for a speedy, speedy recovery and sending so much love from Australia to you friend. Well talk when you're ready and well. No stress! <3ReplyDelete
louise and her family are in my thoughts and prayers! :/ReplyDelete
I know you aren't going to be able to read this, but I am sending you lots of love and prayers.ReplyDelete
Oh dear, so sorry to hear that! Please ask Louise to take good care of herself & speedy recovery. God bless! xoxoReplyDelete
No need to respond. Just sending you all good thoughts for Louise's speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Oh, I'm so sorry for Louise, I do hope she feels better soon.ReplyDelete
My prayers are with her.
Thank you Michele for letting us know.
This is Jane from Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal (that's how I came to "know" Louise). I am very, very sorry to hear this about Louise! If possible, please give her a hug from me. I have been a big fan of her blog for years. I'm sending my warmest regards, some prayers for good measure, and good vibrations for a full recovery.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry to hear about your mother. Louise is an amazing person and I enjoy reading her posts.ReplyDelete
As a reader, I am wishing her all the best.
When it comes to heath, there is no rush. Sometimes taking it slow, is the best route to recovery.
Thank you for informing us... Hopefully she'll get better soon!ReplyDelete
Please can you tell us how is her please??ReplyDelete
If anyone reads this give Louise my wishes for quick recovery! My thoughts are with her! Lots of love!ReplyDelete
I've already made a comment, but just wanted to drop by again to wish Louise a very Happy Birthday! --JohnReplyDelete
Happy Birthday dear Louise and many more .ReplyDelete
Michele , thanks for the update ... please keep us in the loop ... keep wiggling those dear Louise Nee :)
Louise - sending you big spoonfuls of good thoughts and hopes for a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Hope you are better soon Louise and I know you are being well looked after.ReplyDelete
Reading this post now ..my bad...my prayers and good wishes are with you Louise...get well soon.God bless you with a speedy recovery...ReplyDelete
Just seeing this now. I am so sorry! Sending my thoughts and prayers and good wishes your way. Louise, hope you are on the mend soon!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for dropping in...Louise


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AbstractHow accurately can people identify the location of a sound source when blindfolded? Imagine the hemisphere of space that extends above your shoulders at arm's length. Divide that hemisphere up into regular sectors and test the ability of blindfolded test subjects to point to a remembered sound source. For example, you could use the beep from a timer held at each test location, and then have the test subject point to where they think the timer was located. Record the magnitude and direction of the error for each test location. Graph the error results for each test subject, and graph the average error for all test subjects. Where are people best at localizing sounds? Where are they worst? Something to think about for locations behind you: how much of the error is due to difficulty in pointing? (Dettmer, 2005)
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BibliographyDettmer, D.E. (2005). Sound Location. California State Science Fair Abstract. Retrieved August 23, 2006, from http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2005/Projects/J0310.pdf.
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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has developed a new method for murdering prisoners: forcing them to kneel on buried explosives. That is the treatment ISIS militants gave to ten "apostates," according to the UK Daily Mail. Even more disturbing, these executions were carried out not in Iraq or Syria, but Afghanistan, where ISIS has been working to establish a presence.
In the new ISIS murder video, uploaded to jihadi social media accounts on Sunday night, a group of ten men believed to be from the Shinwari tribe are led, blindfolded, to kneel atop buried bombs by black-clad Islamic State militants. Militant leaders theatrically prance around on horses across the fog-shrouded hills, and each dramatic cut in the video is accompanied by the sound of a sword slashing. The careful preparation of the explosive charges is depicted in detail.
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Seeing the Errors You Feel Enhances Locomotor Performance but Not Learning.
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Roemmich RT
Long AW
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In human motor learning, it is thought that the more information we have about our errors, the faster we learn. Here, we show that additional error information can lead to improved motor performance without any concomitant improvement in learning. We studied split-belt treadmill walking that drives people to learn a new gait pattern using sensory prediction errors detected by proprioceptive feedback. When we also provided visual error feedback, participants acquired the new walking pattern far more rapidly and showed accelerated restoration of the normal walking pattern during washout. However, when the visual error feedback was removed during either learning or washout, errors reappeared with performance immediately returning to the level expected based on proprioceptive learning alone. These findings support a model with two mechanisms: a dual-rate adaptation process that learns invariantly from sensory prediction error detected by proprioception and a visual-feedback-dependent process that monitors learning and corrects residual errors but shows no learning itself. We show that our voluntary correction model accurately predicted behavior in multiple situations where visual feedback was used to change acquisition of new walking patterns while the underlying learning was unaffected. The computational and behavioral framework proposed here suggests that parallel learning and error correction systems allow us to rapidly satisfy task demands without necessarily committing to learning, as the relative permanence of learning may be inappropriate or inefficient when facing environments that are liable to change.
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Counting calories... but mainly seeing where you are messing up.
Might be helpful
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What is Romanticism?
Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and the natural sciences. Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism, in the long term its effect on the growth of nationalism was probably more significant.
The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, made spontaneity a desirable characteristic (as in the musical impromptu), and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.
Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities; indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism. Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a Zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas.
Romanticism isn't exactly what you might be thinking
The group of words with the root "Roman" in the various European languages, such as romance and Romanesque, has a complicated history, but by the middle of the 18th century "romantic" in English and romantique in French were both in common use as adjectives of praise for natural phenomena such as views and sunsets, in a sense close to modern English usage but without the implied sexual element. The application of the term to literature first became common in Germany, where the circle around the Schlegel brothers, critics August and Friedrich, began to speak of romantische Poesie ("romantic poetry") in the 1790s, contrasting it with "classic" but in terms of spirit rather than merely dating. Friedrich Schlegel wrote in his Dialogue on Poetry (1800), "I seek and find the romantic among the older moderns, in Shakespeare, in Cervantes, in Italian poetry, in that age of chivalry, love and fable, from which the phenomenon and the word itself are derived."
In both French and German the closeness of the adjective to roman, meaning the fairly new literary form of the novel, had some effect on the sense of the word in those languages. The use of the word did not become general very quickly, and was probably spread more widely in France by its persistent use by Madame de Staël in her De L'Allemagne (1813), recounting her travels in Germany. In England Wordsworth wrote in a preface to his poems of 1815 of the "romantic harp" and "classic lyre", but in 1820 Byron could still write, perhaps slightly disingenuously, "I perceive that in Germany, as well as in Italy, there is a great struggle about what they call 'Classical' and 'Romantic', terms which were not subjects of classification in England, at least when I left it four or five years ago". It is only from the 1820s that Romanticism certainly knew itself by its name, and in 1824 the Académie française took the wholly ineffective step of issuing a decree condemning it in literature.
Defining the nature of Romanticism may be approached from the starting point of the primary importance of the free expression of the feelings of the artist. The importance the Romantics placed on untrammelled feeling is summed up in the remark of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich that "the artist's feeling is his law". To William Wordsworth poetry should be "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". In order to truly express these feelings, the content of the art must come from the imagination of the artist, with as little interference as possible from "artificial" rules dictating what a work should consist of. Coleridge was not alone in believing that there were natural laws governing these matters which the imagination, at least of a good creative artist, would freely and unconsciously follow through artistic inspiration if left alone to do so. As well as rules, the influence of models from other works would impede the creator's own imagination, so originality was absolutely essential. The concept of the genius, or artist who was able to produce his own original work through this process of "creation from nothingness", is key to Romanticism, and to be derivative was the worst sin. This idea is often called "romantic originality."
Not essential to Romanticism, but so widespread as to be normative, was a strong belief and interest in the importance of nature. However this is particularly in the effect of nature upon the artist when he is surrounded by it, preferably alone. In contrast to the usually very social art of the Enlightenment, Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and tended to believe that a close connection with nature was mentally and morally healthy. Romantic art addressed its audiences directly and personally with what was intended to be felt as the personal voice of the artist. So, in literature, "much of romantic poetry invited the reader to identify the protagonists with the poets themselves".
According to Isaiah Berlin, Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate effort at self-assertion both individual and collective, a search after means of expressing an unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals."
Unsurprisingly, given its rejection on principle of rules, Romanticism is not easily defined, and the period typically called Romantic varies greatly between different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. Margaret Drabble described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848", and few dates much earlier than 1770 will be found. In English literature, M. H. Abrams placed it between 1789, or 1798, this latter a very typical view, and about 1830, perhaps a little later than some other critics. In other fields and other countries the period denominated as Romantic can be considerably different; musical Romanticism, for example, is generally regarded as only having ceased as a major artistic force as late as 1910, but in an extreme extension the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss are described stylistically as "Late Romantic" and were composed in 1946–48. However in most fields the Romantic Period is said to be over by about 1850, or earlier.
The early period of the Romantic Era was a time of war, with the French Revolution (1789–1799) followed by the Napoleonic Wars until 1815. These wars, along with the political and social turmoil that went along with them, served as the background for Romanticism. The key generation of French Romantics born between 1795–1805 had, in the words of one of their number, Alfred de Vigny, been "conceived between battles, attended school to the rolling of drums".
The more precise characterization and specific definition of Romanticism has been the subject of debate in the fields of intellectual history and literary history throughout the 20th century, without any great measure of consensus emerging. That it was part of the Counter-Enlightenment, a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment, is generally accepted. Its relationship to the French Revolution which began in 1789 in the very early stages of the period, is clearly important, but highly variable depending on geography and individual reactions. Most Romantics can be said to be broadly progressive in their views, but a considerable number always had, or developed, a wide range of conservative views, and nationalism was in many countries strongly associated with Romanticism, as discussed in detail below.
In philosophy and the history of ideas, Romanticism was seen by Isaiah Berlin as disrupting for over a century the classic Western traditions of rationality and the very idea of moral absolutes and agreed values, leading "to something like the melting away of the very notion of objective truth", and hence not only to nationalism, but also fascism and totalitarianism, with a gradual recovery coming only after the catharsis of World War II. For the Romantics, Berlin says,
in the realm of ethics, politics, aesthetics it was the authenticity and sincerity of the pursuit of inner goals that mattered; this applied equally to individuals and groups — states, nations, movements. This is most evident in the aesthetics of romanticism, where the notion of eternal models, a Platonic vision of ideal beauty, which the artist seeks to convey, however imperfectly, on canvas or in sound, is replaced by a passionate belief in spiritual freedom, individual creativity. The painter, the poet, the composer do not hold up a mirror to nature, however ideal, but invent; they do not imitate (the doctrine of mimesis), but create not merely the means but the goals that they pursue; these goals represent the self-expression of the artist's own unique, inner vision, to set aside which in response to the demands of some "external" voice — church, state, public opinion, family friends, arbiters of taste — is an act of betrayal of what alone justifies their existence for those who are in any sense creative.
Arthur Lovejoy attempted to demonstrate the difficulty of defining Romanticism in his seminal article "On The Discrimination of Romanticisms" in his Essays in the History of Ideas (1948); some scholars see Romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some like Robert Hughes see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, and some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rationalism—a 'Counter-Enlightenment'— to be associated most closely with German Romanticism. An earlier definition comes from Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."
The end of the Romantic era is marked in some areas by a new style of Realism, which affected literature, especially the novel and drama, painting, and even music, through Verismo opera. This movement was led by France, with Balzac and Flaubert in literature and Courbet in painting; Stendhal and Goya were important precursors of Realism in their respective media. However, Romantic styles, now often representing the established and safe style against which Realists rebelled, continued to flourish in many fields for the rest of the century and beyond. In music such works from after about 1850 are referred to by some writers as "Late Romantic" and by others as "Neoromantic" or "Postromantic", but other fields do not usually use these terms; in English literature and painting the convenient term "Victorian" avoids having to characterise the period further.
In northern Europe, the Early Romantic visionary optimism and belief that the world was in the process of great change and improvement had largely vanished, and some art became more conventionally political and polemical as its creators engaged polemically with the world as it was. Elsewhere, including in very different ways the United States and Russia, feelings that great change was underway or just about to come were still possible. Displays of intense emotion in art remained prominent, as did the exotic and historical settings pioneered by the Romantics, but experimentation with form and technique was generally reduced, often replaced with meticulous technique, as in the poems of Tennyson or many paintings. If not realist, late 19th-century art was often extremely detailed, and pride was taken in adding authentic details in a way that earlier Romantics did not trouble with. Many Romantic ideas about the nature and purpose of art, above all the pre-eminent importance of originality, continued to be important for later generations, and often underlie modern views, despite opposition from theorists.
Romantic Literature
In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children, the heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Romanticism tended to regard satire as something unworthy of serious attention, a prejudice still influential today.
The precursors of Romanticism in English poetry go back to the middle of the 18th century, including figures such as Joseph Warton (headmaster at Winchester College) and his brother Thomas Warton, professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Joseph maintained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet. Thomas Chatterton is generally considered to be the first Romantic poet in English. The Scottish poet James Macpherson influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international success of his Ossian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young Walter Scott. Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as what they claimed to be earlier literature that they had discovered or compiled was in fact entirely their own work. The Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), was an important precursor of one strain of Romanticism, with a delight in horror and threat, and exotic picturesque settings, matched in Walpole's case by his role in the early revival of Gothic architecture. Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne (1759–67) introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental novel to the English literary public.
An early German influence came from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout Europe emulating its protagonist, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament. At that time Germany was a multitude of small separate states, and Goethe's works would have a seminal influence in developing a unifying sense of nationalism. Important motifs in German Romanticism are travelling, nature, and Germanic myths. The later German Romanticism of, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild (The Marble Statue), 1819, was darker in its motifs and has gothic elements. The significance to Romanticism of childhood innocence, the importance of imagination, and racial theories all combined to give an unprecedented importance to folk literature, non-classical mythology and children's literature, above all in Germany.
In English literature, the group of poets now considered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare. The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, is often held to mark the start of the movement.
In contrast to Germany, Romanticism in English literature had little connection with nationalism, and the Romantics were often regarded with suspicion for the sympathy many felt for the ideals of the French Revolution, whose collapse and replacement with the dictatorship of Napoleon was, as elsewhere in Europe, a shock to the movement. Though his novels celebrated Scottish identity and history, Scott was politically a firm Unionist. Several spent much time abroad, and a famous stay on Lake Geneva with Byron and Shelley in 1816 produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Shelley and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland and Thomas Moore, from Ireland but based in London or elsewhere reflected in different ways their countries and the Romantic interest in folk literature, but neither had a fully Romantic approach to life or their work.
Romanticism was relatively late in developing in French literature, even more so than in the visual arts. The 18th century precursor to Romanticism, the cult of sensibility, had become associated with the Ancien regime, and the French Revolution had been more of an inspiration to foreign writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure was François-René de Chateaubriand, a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution, and returned to France from exile in England and America under Napoleon, with whose regime he had an uneasy relationship. His writings, all in prose, included some fiction, such as his influential novella of exile René (1802), which anticipated Byron in its alienated hero, but mostly contemporary history and politics, his travels, a defence of religion and the medieval spirit (Génie du christianisme 1802), and finally in the 1830s and 1840s his enormous autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe ("Memoirs from beyond the grave").
The European Romantic movement reached America in the early 19th century. American Romanticism was just as multifaceted and individualistic as it was in Europe. Like the Europeans, the American Romantics demonstrated a high level of moral enthusiasm, commitment to individualism and the unfolding of the self, an emphasis on intuitive perception, and the assumption that the natural world was inherently good, while human society was filled with corruption.
Romanticism became popular in American politics, philosophy and art. The movement appealed to the revolutionary spirit of America as well as to those longing to break free of the strict religious traditions of early settlement. The Romantics rejected rationalism and religious intellect. It appealed to those in opposition of Calvinism, which includes the belief that the destiny of each individual is preordained. The Romantic movement gave rise to New England Transcendentalism which portrayed a less restrictive relationship between God and Universe. The new philosophy presented the individual with a more personal relationship with God. Transcendentalism and Romanticism appealed to Americans in a similar fashion, for both privileged feeling over reason, individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom. It often involved a rapturous response to nature. It encouraged the rejection of harsh, rigid Calvinism, and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
American Romanticism embraced the individual and rebelled against the confinement of neoclassicism and religious tradition. The Romantic movement in America created a new literary genre that continues to influence American writers. Novels, short stories, and poems replaced the sermons and manifestos of yore. Romantic literature was personal, intense, and portrayed more emotion than ever seen in neoclassical literature. America's preoccupation with freedom became a great source of motivation for Romantic writers as many were delighted in free expression and emotion without so much fear of ridicule and controversy. They also put more effort into the psychological development of their characters, and the main characters typically displayed extremes of sensitivity and excitement.
The works of the Romantic Era also differed from preceding works in that they spoke to a wider audience, partly reflecting the greater distribution of books as costs came down during the period.The Romantic period saw an increase in female authors and also female readers.
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