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Looking for travel packages that break the mould? Don't want to go where everybody else has gone before? Instead, why don't you make your travel dreams come true, at a price that doesn't break the bank! One of the popular tours in this vein is to Indochina, which is a beautiful part of the world. So what are some of the truly magical places you will get to see on this trip?
Indochina with Tauck Tours
When you visit Indochina with Tauck Tours you will explore the countryside of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, as well as seeing its amazing cosmopolitan cities. You will see floating markets, mystical islets, artisans' workshops, Khmer temples, killing fields and wartime tunnels. Let's take a look at a few things you really shouldn't miss.
The largest city in Vietnam is Saigon, which is truly cosmopolitan. Don't miss the Notre Dame Cathedral, the former Presidential Palace and the War Remnants Museum. This museum looks at the Vietnam War and how it affected the country. Of course, you should also visit Hanoi, the capital of the city. It is dubbed as the "Paris of the East", because it is so romantic with its boulevards, parks and lakes. If you can, visit Hoi An as well, which is UNESCO listed. The houses here are over 200 years old and there is a fantastic market here as well. If you want to reflect and meditate, stop over at the Chinese Pagoda in Hoi An. Finally, if you have time to see Hue, the capital of the country under the ruling of the Nguyen Dynasty, is fascinating. Walking along the Imperial Citadel is an experience you will never forget. And it is the perfect place to take a tour by boat on the Perfume River.
Camodia is an amazingly beautiful country. It is starting to come out of the brutal legacy of the Khmer Rouge Regime, when Pol Pot ruled the country. Make sure you visit the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crime to see what impact this regime actually had. The Killing Fields are just as impressive. You must try to balance the history and present of Cambodia, so do also visit the Silver Pagoda, the Royal Palace and the National Museum. Angkor Thom is also a fascinating city. Leave from the Southern Gate and make your way to the Bayon. From here, visit the Elephant Terrace as well as the Terrace of the Leper King. Make sure you don't forget to visit Angkor Wat as well.
When in Laos, you simply cannot miss out on a visit to the Kuangsi Waterfall. Also, take a boat ride and enjoy the Mekong River. If you have time, visit UNESCO listed Luang Prabang as well, where you can see amazing temples.
The history of Indochina is truly ancient and it is filled with amazing natural wonders. It is impossible to not leave the area in awe after your Tauck Tours holiday.


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VMware acquires Integrien
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A significant amount of our work is conducted from offices that we maintain within actual military installations, providing our customers the opportunity to work closely with InnovaSystems team members as applications are developed and supported. This allows us to respond quickly to all issues as they arise, such as evolving requirements for new application development or issues related to currently deployed systems. In addition, many of our team members are former military personnel, helping to provide the functional expertise necessary to define requirements, implement appropriate solutions and maintain rapport with the military. This functional expertise, along with our close proximity, allows our development teams to better understand the business domain of our customers so that applications can meet the real needs of the end users.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Plates are not just for food
I seem to have a thing for plates lately. I used to do a lot of mosaic work where I would use broken dishes in my pieces. I have a huge collection of plates from those days and decided to hang some on a very large boring stair wall. I love the way it turned out and oh, the color! My next project will be incorporating some into the garden. Maybe a parade of colorful plates bordering a flower bed? We'll see.
My son gave me 12 bisque plates for Christmas and I finally finished painting them all. The thing I love about painting ceramics is you never know how it will turn out. Because the colors you paint with aren't even close to being true, it's a total guess on the outcome. I love the anticipation of waiting for the firing to be done. I now have 12 pretty little dessert size plates. Can you just see a cute cupcake or a piece of cheesecake drizzled with pink berry sauce served on these little cuties?
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I would love to see a pic of your wall that is full of mosaics! popping in to say "hello" from the Flying Lessons ecourse. -RobinReplyDelete
what a super fun idea! i love the plates arranged on the wall too. how i wish i owned all of the gorgeous dresses and skirts in your artwork :)ReplyDelete
xoxo, juliette
I think cupcakes would definitely taste better served on these little works of art. :)ReplyDelete
They're beautiful Julie!
thank you!ReplyDelete
These plates are adorable !ReplyDelete
I'm checking back to see the rest.
Have you considered selling your designs to a gift company?
You could be doing what you love and collecting the licensing fee.
I'm keeping you in my prayers, all good thoughts.
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Zhor-Tech helps brands to connect their shoes by providing them an end-to-end solution from technical specifications to industrialization.
Because your feet are the foundation of your body, we believe that connected footwear technologies will bring more added value than any wearables currentlyavailable on the market. Not only to monitor your daily activities and health status, but also to bring extra comfort to this essential part of your body. To bring these benefits to the end consumer, Zhor Tech provides a full package of services to its partners.
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Our hardware experts have managed to create extremely robust products that withstand repetitive shocks, constant foot humidity and dust.
All our connected footwear and wearables'-firmware (i.e. the embedded software) are developed in-house by our team of software engineers, allowing us to make the most out of every connected product we create.
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Softball Drops Series Finale to No. 3 Arizona
April 25, 2010
Tucson, Ariz. – Sophomore Paige Hall (Portland, Ore.) hit her third career home run, but the Oregon State softball team (22-24, 2-10) fell to the No. 3 Arizona Wildcats (38-7, 8-4), 9-1 in five innings, on Sunday at Hillenbrand Stadium.
Freshman Lea Cavestany (Pittsburg, Calif.), sophomore Mary Claire Brenner (Portland, Ore.) and junior McKenna Lowe (Tustin, Calif.) all recorded singles for the team's other hits.
Arizona scored first with a pair of unearned runs in the first inning before a pair of home runs made it 7-0 after three.
Hall broke up the shutout with a solo shot over left field to make it 7-1 in the top of the fourth.
Hall the pitcher of record, throwing two innings, facing three in the third and giving up two runs, both unearned. Her record is now 16-19. Senior Kelly Dyer (Eugene, Ore.) came in relief in the bottom of the third before freshman Marina Demore (Vancouver, British Columbia) made an appearance in the bottom of the fourth.
Arizona's Kenzie Fowler earned the win to improve to 27-5 on the season after throwing 4.0 innings. Sarah Akamine was the relief pitcher.
Oregon State heads to No. 1 Washington next. The three-game series begins on Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Seattle. Follow these games live through GameTracker or on Twitter – OregonStateSB.
Arizona 9, Oregon State 1 (Apr 25, 2010 at Tucson, Ariz.)
Oregon State........ 000 10 - 1 4 2 (22-24, 2-10 Pac-10)
Arizona............. 205 2X - 9 6 0 (38-7, 8-4 Pac-10)
Pitchers: Oregon State - Hall, Paige; Dyer, Kelly(3); Demore, Marina(4) and Black, Tarah;
Roderfeld, Audrey. Arizona - Fowler, Kenzie; Akamine, Sarah(5) and Chambers, Stacie.
Win-Fowler, Kenzie(27-5) Loss-Hall, Paige(16-19) T-1:27 A-2403
HR OSU - Hall, Paige.
HR ARIZ - Chambers, Stacie; Koria, Lini; Kemp, Victoria.
Weather: 74, Feels like 78 & Sunny
Hall faced 3 batters in the 3rd.
Oregon State Notes – Sophomore Paige Hall hit her third career home run.
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Reusing the Resource
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by Carol Steinfeld & David Del Porto
Water has been described as the 21st century oil. Water shortages, water quality and water rights are hot-button issues at the local, national and international levels. Climate change, population growth and contamination from industry, farms and human settlements have dramatically impacted water supplies and disrupted natural nutrient cycles. Strategic wastewater management will be a critical tool in protecting this valuable but threatened resource.
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Freedom of Animals is one of my favorite accessory brands.
Beautiful Handbags, including Clutches, Totes, Cross-Body Purses, Backpacks, and Day Bags for work that transition to night, are some of the staples of the current collection.
The founder, Morgan Bogle, designs her bags with a complete understanding of the modern aesthetic that women desire in a handbag today. Freedom Of Animals has been featured in many contemporary fashion publications, is completely vegan, and is as sustainability sourced as possible.
Morgan uses her social media as a platform to spread awareness about the issues closest to her heart; from Pitbull rescue and adoption, to the anti-Ivory trade movement, to the importance of volunteering for everyone.
See a capture from her Instagram below:
Sustainable Fashion is moving beyond the trend now.
Morgan is such an inspiration to me, because F.O.A. not only fills a much-needed void in the accessories market, but she also uses her place in the spotlight to highlight greater issues. She is an avid animal-rights activist, and donates a part of every purchase to wildlife conservation efforts around the world.
Values such as Morgan's are so important to be highlighted. I hope you enjoy the interview, that they have inspired, below:
Q&A with Morgan Bogle
What is your name, Where were you born/ where do you currently call home, and what is your occupation?
Morgan Bogle. Portland Maine, but I grew up on a sailboat in the Caribbean. I call the East Village, NYC my home. I am the founder of Freedom of Animals
Please describe your company, Freedom Of Animals
Freedom of Animals is a sustainable and cruelty free bag line that is made in the USA. We use the most eco friendly materials that don't harm any people or animals and support a local economy. Additionally we partner with conservation organizations and big retailers to spread the message of the importance of conscious consumption.
What does "Sustainable Fashion" mean to you?
As a designer it means using materials that are post consumer, have low chemical content and are made locally. As a consumer it is being aware of where the products come from, what they are made of and who was impacted during production.
Do you think more local/ sustainable fashion is possible? Totally. There is incredible craftsmanship in the USA and a plethora of sustainable and technologically advanced materials on the market. I am not against supporting communities world wide but having one element of your product being eco friendly is important to me.
What does "green living" mean to you?
Being mindful of our actions. Daily reminders such as recycling and using less energy is always important but bigger picture decisions are even more important and that is being consciously aware of everything that you are consuming from fashion to transportation to food to living arrangements.
How can a green message reach a broader audience??
It will take time but social media, inspiring marketing and coming up against not having much of a choice anymore will start to change peoples perspective.
I truly believe that living an AMAZING, ABUNDANT, FUN, and FASHIONABLE LIFE does not have to be in opposition with living green and sustainably.
...Do you have any tips for like-minded companies/ bloggers/ designers to help better reach the young women and men (teens-twenties) that are the audience for current magazine and television marketing?
I spent a year researching what I could do to be a part of the betterment of the world and I think it is everyone's responsibility to do the same. It is now more available than ever so my suggestion would be to research how we can all be a little bit more mindful on a day to day basis.
The values that designers like Morgan are building around their businesses, are not only necessary for our earth and future generations, but can also inspire beautiful design for fashion-conscious consumers. Please visit the LABELS I LOVE page, featuring FREEDOM OF ANIMALS for more info. Also please be sure to check out Morgan's Instagram and follow the Freedom of Animals website to shop and see updates!
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The study of
socialand culturaleffects on language.
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- noun the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context
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Feminist scholars in sociolinguistics have also developed constructs of dominance and difference in their writings on women's language. 71 In discussing the trivialization of women's talk, Dale Spender observes that men engage in similar forms of talk with comparable functions, but magnify its importance to preserve their advantaged gender position.
I mean that it is recognizable in the same way 'sociolinguistics' is recognizable as a Latinate word or y = mx + b is recognizable as the slope-intercept form for linear equations: certainly there are people who would not recognize it as such, but a passing familiarity with the subject matter should render it clear.
Fouser is teaching language-related courses such as sociolinguistics for undergraduate Korean majors and teaching Korean as a foreign language for graduate school students.
Jonnie Robinson, the British Library's curator of sociolinguistics, said these words are only pronounced as they are now because of the mania for not dropping the H. "Our middle class anxieties of the 19th century have inserted an H because you got clipped round the ear if you dropped one."
'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century
This post reminded me of the work done at my old university with the North Carolina Language and Life Project, led by Dr. Walt Wolfram, a leading researcher in sociolinguistics.
You can study the pragmatics and sociolinguistics of "ought" statements.
H. Samy Alim, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles who specializes in global hip-hop culture and sociolinguistics, also doubted the newly minted songs would retain the clever wordplay and innovative rhyme schemes inherent in popular music.
In a sociolinguistics course, I almost used that title for my final paper about the revival of Hebrew.
In a sociolinguistics course, I almost used that title for my final paper about the revival of Hebrew.
Both of them were educated at Georgetown; my housemate has a BA but is employed and respected in the field of computational linguistics, and my senior colleague has her doctorate in sociolinguistics.


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Quick start with 24ToneGongsIII: Percussives
First, put some reverb on the instrument.
The browser has a big knob in the upper part of the interface (1) with which you choose the category of patches. After picking your category which is displayed in the uppermost left part of the window, (2) choose your patch in the lower part (3) .
The GongMachine has a speed (4) and number of steps (5) slider situated around the big edit knob. Each step of the gongmachine has 3 editable parameters which are activated by clicking on them.: The intensity (6) of the current step, the articulation or playing technique (7) of the current step. And at the top of each step there's the Gesture (8) parameter. 7 and 8 feature a big popup menu.
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Well under wraps
A new Bosch paper packaging material prevents leakage without using any plastic
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For clean shelves and a clean environment: Bosch Packaging Technology and BillerudKorsnäs have come up with a world first that puts an end to leaky paper packaging.
Preventing leakage without using any plastic
As a packaging material, paper is cheap and eco-friendly. Unfortunately, the paper bags traditionally used to pack flour and sugar tend to leak, either on to supermarket shelves or into shopping bags. And while plastic packaging would put a stop to the leakage, it is out of the question for flour and other products that contain a residual amount of moisture, since it would cause them to spoil. On top of that, plastic is bad for the environment. But this longstanding dilemma might just have been finally solved.
Bosch Packaging Technology and the Swedish paper specialist BillerudKorsnäs have put their heads together and come up with a solution for this dilemma. Their innovative design is based on the idea of offering an alternative to plastic packaging films in the shape of "sealable paper" packaging that is dust-tight and biodegradable.
"Collaboration with BillderudKorsnäs allowed us to combine our two areas of expertise in one system, which we can now offer as an integrated solution," says the product manager Lena Beck. With respect to formats and packaging styles, the traditional Bosch bagging machine is extremely flexible. Up to now, however, it has only been suitable for packaging in bags made of plastic or plastic-backed paper.
"The solution has two significant advantages – an outstanding customer experience as a result of the use of a natural packaging material, and greater efficiency on the production line."
Ulrich Jansen, Pfeifer & Langen ("Diamant" brand)
The sealable paper packaging material is completely plastic-free. Instead, it uses the "power paper" developed by BillderudKorsnäs. During the packaging process, a tiny amount of hot glue is applied, and the package is sealed under heat and pressure, making any leakage impossible. While conventional paper would not be capable of withstanding this treatment, this is not true for the special power paper. It is harder wearing than paper packaging material, yet still retains paper's natural qualities, including renewability and recyclability.
Sealable paper packaging
The three qualities of sealable paper packaging
To prevent leakage, the machine applies glue to some parts of the paper, and the packaging is firmly sealed. This means that only a very small area is coated, and the paper's mono-material qualities are preserved.
The paper's mechanical qualities make for optimum processing and stability. Moreover, its sustainability is not compromised – from raw material to recycling.
This sealed paper packaging is a world first. The final product depends crucially on fine-tuning the interplay between paper material and packaging machine.
Bosch Packaging Technology and the paper specialist BillerudKorsnäs have joined forces to develop a sustainable packaging material. Without using any plastic, it prevents foodstuffs such as sugar from leaking out of the bag.


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With yesterday's release of their new album 'Leave No Trace', Fool's Gold is the #1 most added on this week's CMJ Radio 200. The album is also currently the third most added at AAA radio.
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After almost seven hours of reading complaints about the deceitful, fraudulant, lying, dishonest, bogus, thievery of the supposedly "free" sweepstakes offered by PCH, my memory harkens back not too many years ago,to a man named Ed McMahan, and a widely broadcast issue about the PCH Sweepstakes and their Prize Patrol,and the fraudulant activities of both.After much to-do about the Fraud part of their system, PCH and Mister Ed disapearred for several years. Now they're back, doing the same thing. I live in a semi rural area of Alaska, and I have yet to imagine how this non existant "Prize Patrol" is "going to show up on my doorstep, at(get this)P.O.Box *****(????)with my winning check for $$$",,,,,,,,What a bungus,(as in anal)bunch of hokey ***.
Everyone in their right mind(no offense to those of us who are not),should see this for the hoax it is and remember the last session with PCH and Mister Ed, where it was proven (in court)that PCH was involved in deceptive business practices concerning sweepstakes.NOBODY ever wins except PCH and their related publishers.Don't buy ANYTHING from them or their affiliates. YOU WILL LOSE!!!
By the way, PCH, you may want to consider(as do MANY others), that Alaska is a "foreign" country, do to our geographical local, and not send any "free" items to me or any other resident of this State, as our laws do protect most of us, in that if any "lower 48"company sends a product, that was not ordered, to ANYONE here,we are(by State Law),NOT required to return or Pay for it.Did you understand that, or should we take some of this inhumane,deceitful B.S. to a higher Judicial authority?
I have tried for several hours also to have any of my personal info removed from PCH files, so as not to have to waste any more oxygen on their useless trash, seemingly to no avail. However, you can trust(something I CAN'T do for you),that I will WEAR OUT my delete button on ANYTHING that is even remotely connected to you, you lying, cheating,ripoffs that shame honest business.Don't call me, don't write back, don't send any more "YOU WIN!!!"garbage to me.And, considering the type of (I hesitate to use a term that is usually reserved for decent people)people you undoubtedly are, you won't have the stones to print this complaint in public, as you for sure know exactly what I'm talking about.I hope and pray that your "business" sinks into oblivion sucking all you worthless bloodsucking leaches with it.
Product or Service Mentioned: Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
I'd like to know, Mr. Irving, when is the last time you actually awarded the SuperPrize of $5,000 a week for life??
It seems every time you have a substantial prize, "No matching number" was found.... pretty suspicious and convenient.
How about you draw another number until you get a match?? I'm beginning to agree with the critics here, this is just a big ad scheme to get people to sign up for email & personally, I've about had it!
Bunch of horse pucky. Several of us were very upset at the reaction of yesterday's winner who obviously already had a nice life.
Best of all, after being strung along and wasting countless hours, days, weeks, and months, that hyped 5 grand a week for life wasn't even the actual prize. We were misled. That Danielle Lam said "You guys didn't read the fine print." Oh, that *** again? After all the letters we've gotten to hurry up and wait after being told we're inactive when we're anything but.
I've bought enough ***, wasted enough hours on pointless games, done searches for God knows what, reported an illegal scammer for them without even a thank you, had my questions about fishy *** ignored. Enough.
Anyone *** enough to keep going after yesterday deserves everything they get, but I've finally listened to my boyfriend and wised up. PCH has made an enemy of me!
I've seen many of their TV commercials showing the prize patrol going to people's doors. The houses of the winners are always middle class and well kept. Never see anyone in a dirty mobile home get a visit from the prize patrol.
I suspect they have a "rule" that your house has to look good on camera or you can't win.
i will make your company a rap song. i will make it more famous and will only charge you fifty thousand dollars while you lure the world and make millions of dollars.
this include a video that will alienate the world. think outside the box and you will be glad you accepted.
People should stay away from PCH as most of their products are Made in China. Support companies that utilize your country and its citizens.
We should support the creativity and hard work of our country men and women. Why support a communist country that one day may use their amassed weapons and money against us?
Hello, this is Chris Irving from the Publishers Clearing House Consumer Affairs Department.
Not sure what the specific concerns are that have caused such a negative posting but do want so share the following:
-Ed McMahon has never worked for Publishers Clearing House. He was the former spokesperson for American Family Publishers a company that was not affiliated with Publishers Clearing House in any manner. Mr. McMahon passed away in 2009.
-We have awarded thousands of prizes over the years with over 58 millionaire winners and over $220 Million in prizes.
-Merchandise and magazine orders are only fulfilled to consumers who have returned an order form with specific products requested.
-Consumers who may need assistance with any issue at Publishers Clearing House, ranging from billing to name removal can easily reach us toll free at 800-337-4724. I am hopeful that the complaining consumer of the above posting will take the time to call so we can provide further information and assistance.
Chris Irving
Assistant Vice President, Consumer Affairs
Publishers Clearing House
honestly do you really want us to believe then show us the winner that is barely making it the one that did not do anything but enter because it was their only hope.... Did not think you could
no one have ever won the "forever" prize though, how convienent for PCH that number is always wrong
Chris, Your a dam lair I have received 2 items that I never ordered 1 was a smelly car dog seat made in china that had a horrible smell of some type of chemical and you wanted me to pay the shipping to go back you also sent me a Kaplin Magazine with some report that cost $ 12 bucks. Well I finally realized how you do your scam by people doing product surveys and you fill out for a chance to win something from survey you are sent the product you did the survey about and you figure how many people will send it back and other people will not and pay the bill after your demand for payment or you will send to credit company they will pay for fear of bad credit remarks Well did not return it because i was not paying to return it sold it for $5 at yard sale sent credit union a letter that PCH was scamming they removed it and now they cannot report anything else on my so I scammed them I get products magazines for free.. no one wins anything from PCH


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The Ontology of Tantrum —
On the eve of George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 I happened to attend a performance of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis at UCLA and, oddly enough, it was the perfect work of art to draw me back from the brink. I thought of this again after finding myself on the edge of an even deeper abyss following the debacle of November 6, 2016, when two recent productions served a similar purpose. I'm talking about Marissa Chibas's The Second Woman at Bootleg, and Letter to a Man by Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov at UCLA's Royce Hall. Both productions managed to cast new light on our increasingly dire situation in the US, reminding me in very different ways of the ferocity with which our right wing elite has been waging war against the rest of us for the past fifty years. My experience of these two productions points me in the direction I believe the artistic community needs to travel, through a cultural landscape that is sure to be seeded with new dangers.
The Second Woman opens as an actress (Zohra), statuesque and beautiful, easing into middle age, has been passed over for the lead in Medea by Euripides. Anguished and humiliated—she has been offered instead the role of the Nurse—Zohra vents to a younger woman (Sofia), with whom she has an intimate and long-standing relationship. Old victories and exaltations are brought down out of the attic of Zohra's memory and unpacked yet again. Sofia, also beautiful and also an actress, is kind to Zohra…but also a little distracted—she is departing soon on a long voyage, and has things to do. This is a departure, it turns out, that the two women have been anticipating for some time; now, on this evening, it has finally arrived. Zohra's upset about Medea begins now to register as an act of crisis-engineering—surely you can't leave at a time like this! Sofia remains firm yet gentle, joining in on a remembered Dionysian dance-ritual of passion, anguish and joy…but also dragging onto stage the large suitcase she has packed. The mystery of the bond between the two women looms larger now – what exactly is the relationship here? While Zohra enjoys Sofia's rich and erotic connection to life the way a mother might, the intimacy is too egalitarian for Sofia to be her daughter. And yet the bond feels too complete to be the product of friendship. Finally, and at precisely the right moment, we come to understand that the two women are the same person—Zohra is saying goodbye to her youth.
Drawing on John Cassavetes's film Opening Night and other influences, playwright Marissa Chibas achieves great poignancy with a disarming honesty, and a bare minimum of elements. Against the primary colors of Euripides in the background, the production draws on what critic John Bell perceptively named "avant-garde Classicism." Deploying the elegant temporal doubling at its core, the play remains grounded also in dramatic realism. Bell coined the term "avant-garde classicism" in the context of a rich vein of post-AIDS,1990s theatre-making (specifically the high-octane stage work of LA's enfant terrible Reza Abdoh), but Chibas here draws on an important fore-runner of this aesthetic: the Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. Playing at the Bootleg in October with Chibas and Paula Rebelo in the two roles, The Second Woman is lit up with the charisma of duende, Lorca's word for that ineffable quality that carries the transformative impact of art work, that intangible directness artists lose sight of at their peril. For Lorca duende is always linked to an awareness of mortality, a surrender to the inevitability of our departure from life that allows an embrace of a restorative mystery at the center of human being. Duende is also, by definition, transgressive—it is what gives artistic work its corrosive impact on accepted norms and value-structures. The disarming directness of the writing, and the remarkable performances director Zoe Aja Moore has elicited from the two actresses speaks to the power of duende at a time when our social world reels off of its axis from a chronic (and perhaps terminal) deficiency in the very same. The expressive force of these two women contemplating together the dark, Medea archetype, then gently surrendering to the inevitable course of things, reminds us again of our quiet magnificence, which is all wrapped up in our mortality.
A piece by Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov that also played in October, at UCLA's Royce Hall, explored another paragon of duende – the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Based on a letter Nijinsky wrote to the founder of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, the piece, Letter to a Man, was also, in a way, about aging. Running just over 70 minutes, Letter was Wilson at his most user-friendly, with Baryshnikov, framed a sharp-edged light box center stage, showing what a superbly-trained body can do when directed by a master of choreographic precision. Thankfully, all of the technical virtuosity on display was grounded throughout by Baryshnikov's quiet physical grace. Pages could be written, for example, on the pathos Baryshnikov is able to convey through simple hand gestures, and all of this pathos was needed to infuse Wilson's bold visuals with the capacity to move us. As you can probably tell, I have always found Robert Wilson's work a little trying as well as brilliant. I have often encountered a law of diminishing returns that kicks in halfway through Wilson's productions—the attention his striking imagery commands at the beginning of the evening starts to flag halfway through. Nothing sustains, perhaps, like a little narrative, and in Letter the meta-theatrical story of an aging Baryshnikov—what he can still do movement-wise…what he can express without movement… how it relates to the story of Nijinsky and the demonic Diaghilev—compensates, in a subtle way, for what Wilson usually sets aside.
Lauded by the Europeans (the Germans especially), Wilson's impact has had to do with the aesthetic needs of a people determined, after being brutally betrayed by narratives of power, to live without teleology, without History and its grand narratives. From this perspective, Wilson accomplished in his dramaturgy what Brecht announced as part of his aesthetic aim—a dramaturgy devoid of the affective manipulations of bourgeois storytelling—but, of course, Wilson left out all the social politics. Wilson's visual mastery and his embrace of the strategies of duration and reiteration were almost enough to compensate for the absence of narrative tropes, which in the actual world both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks had deployed to such devastating effect. But to me, at this remove decades later, the European embrace of the postdramatic has begun to seem like a colonial mindset—only possible for a population eager to negate its bad habits of mind, and to embrace instead the culture of an invading power. Our situation in the US today is quite different—for the past half century our political culture has been seized by a totalizing historical narrative that is so nihilistic it can be hard to miss, a right-wing narrative that goes by the deceptive name of neoliberalism in which the Market-place is believed to be a sacred and primordial aspect of divine nature who's dictates we have no choice but to follow everywhere, in all things, no matter the cost. Viewed incorrectly as an aspect of nature, the marketplace becomes pre-political, and so any kind of market regulation is sacrilegious, a sin. In point of fact we know that markets, and how they are designed, are everywhere and always the product of states—fully political, in other words. The world is currently in the grip of this Ayn Rand nihilism, the psychosis of the pure isolated self we know best from our experiences as children pitching tantrums. In this ontology of tantrum we are reduced to a bare nub, separate from all others, isolated and apart, completely defined by the anti-social affects of greed and aggression, lost in a zero sum war for survival. What neoliberalism does is simply dress up this unattractive picture in the language of the entrepreneur, suggesting to the unwary that by embracing this psychosis with sufficient fervor they too might attain the seeming immortality enjoyed by business entities, brands, products, commodities. In the snake oil salesmanship of this demonic seduction it is never mentioned that this imagined freedom from death is simply an attribute of a thing that was never alive to begin with. The con job would be amusing were it not so effective (and let me underscore that my critique is aimed at how entrepreneurialism is used by neoliberal ideologues, NOT at entrepreneurialism per se.)
Implied above is the sobering reality that neoliberalism (also known as libertarian capitalism, free market capitalism, Reaganomics, Thatcherism, etc.) has to be understood as a religion, a system of belief on which the demonic beings now in control of our nation have staked their entire existence. The antidote we must locate has to be equally comprehensive in how it articulates another way to engage collectively with the basic facts of our mortality, which present themselves to each of us in narrative terms: the end of our story. As progressives, this means, we cannot afford to abandon narrative entirely; doing so surrenders the cultural field to the reductive and enslaving narratives of the right. A certain pose of sophisticated detachment must be jettisoned, along with the very idea that it is ever possible to be "a-political." Rejecting easy resignation, progressives must counter neoliberalism's nihilistic and reductive account of human life by underscoring always the basic facts of mortality, the covert knowledge we carry with us from childhood that life ends in a common mystery. Doing this is the key to combating the zombie appeal of neoliberalism and its subtle but pervasive promise to deliver the false immortality of the non-living. Here again we encounter the need for the kind of avant-garde Classicism displayed in these two theatre productions—in the US we can no longer afford to leave the myth-making to those who tell us there is no alternative to the death-in-life of marketplace fascism. Aging and mortality need to be engaged with as central experiences of being human, experiences which, paradoxically, bind us to one another in a social fabric first, and then, secondly, in a web of life made up of all the other living systems we depend on for our continued survival.
In November it was oddly comforting to absorb Nijinski's madness among an audience of wealthy West Siders stunned by the shocking outcome in the 2016 presidential election. These are people no longer protected in the familiar ways by the civic structures of liberal democracy. We all now experience the vulnerability it has been easy to ignore when it applied only to those born without resources, outside of privileged identities and demographics. We are all in it now, and we can choose to hide alone or stand together to reclaim a common future. And to underscore the stakes I want to invoke the words Simone Weil laid down in her resistance to the Nazi madness in her brilliant essay "The Illiad: Poem of Might," which cuts straight to the heart of things:
THE TRUE HERO, the real subject, the core of the Iliad, is might. That might which is wielded by men rules over them, and before it man's flesh cringes. The human soul never ceases to be modified by its encounter with might, swept on, blinded by that which it believes itself able to handle, bowed beneath the power of that which it suffers. Those who dreamt that might, thanks to progress, belonged henceforth to the past, have been able to see its living witness in this poem: those who know how to discern might throughout the ages, there at the heart of every human testament, find here its most beautiful, most pure of mirrors.
Might is that which makes a thing of anybody who comes under its sway. When exercised to the full, it makes a thing of man in the most literal sense, for it makes him a corpse. There where someone stood a moment ago, stands no one. This is the spectacle which the Iliad never tires of presenting.
. . . the horses
Thundered the empty chariots over the battle-lanes
Mourning their noble masters. But those upon earth
Now stretched, are dearer to the vultures than
to their wives.
Confronted with our new politics of might, of pure domination, we will need to re-acquaint ourselves collectively with collective sources of vitality. Duende, the irreducible force that gives artistic work its charisma and its transformational impact, needs to become a basic principle of our politics as well.


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Michelle Obama launches her husband's new narrative
DENVER _ Michelle Obama introduced Barack Obama to a national audience Monday night as a loving husband and father and a dedicated public servant who shares the same values as other working-class Americans.
The wife of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was the closing act on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, a moment designed to show the couple's softer side and to take control of a personal narrative that Obama's Republican rival is trying to frame.
"I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend," she told a prime-time television audience and conventioneers gathered in Denver. "I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president."
After his wife spoke, a beaming Barack Obama told the Denver convention via video conference from a family's home in Kansas City: "Now you know why I asked her out so many times, even though she said no. You want a persistent president."
In addressing the convention, Michelle Obama reprised her crucial role during the Democratic presidential primaries as deal closer. It was Michelle Obama who, early in the campaign, visited black beauty salons and black college campuses to tell skeptical African-American voters that her husband was "black enough" and seasoned enough to be president.
Monday night's appearance _ which included a biographical video featuring her mother and older brother _ was a high-stakes effort to counter Internet rumors and conservative talk-radio suggestions that Barack Obama isn't American or patriotic enough to be president and that she has some sort of hidden left-wing political agenda.
Her message to the country: We're just as American as you.
"Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values; that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them," she said. "And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation."
She noted that this week commemorates the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote and the 45th anniversary of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
"I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history, knowing that my piece of the American dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me," she said.
Polls indicate that Americans like Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, but they also show that they don't know much about them.
Michelle Obama has been an active player in her husband's campaign, and foes of the Democratic soon-to-be nominee have tried to tag her as unpatriotic or angry.
Critics pounced on her last February when she told an audience that "for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country."
A Fox News Channel video scroll referred to her as Obama's "baby mama" and a Fox commentator called a seemingly playful fist bump between Michelle and Barack Obama a "terrorist fist jab."
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil rights-era icon, said Michelle Obama's speech would help some Americans get comfortable with the idea of an African-American first lady.
"America has never (considered) the possibility of a young, smart black woman as first lady," said Lewis, who initially supported Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign before endorsing Obama.
A 44-year-old hospital executive and mother of two, Obama described herself as a daughter of Chicago's South Side, raised by a loving family in a one-bedroom apartment in a brick bungalow.
Her mother, Miriam Robinson, was a stay-at-home mom. Her father, Fraser, worked for the city's water department, despite combating multiple sclerosis. Both parents instilled in their two children a drive to succeed.
Michelle met Barack Obama in 1989 when the Chicago law firm she was working for assigned her to mentor the-then summer associate from Harvard. They were married three years later.
Michelle Obama is the vice president for community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, though she's been on leave since January to help with her husband's campaign.
"And in the end, after all that's happened in the past 19 months, the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago," she said Monday night.
More from McClatchy:
Why Hillary lost? Study finds Americans prefer male leaders
Bad news for GOP? Fla.'s Hispanic voters no longer Cuban


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Corner of the eye, Moshekwa Langa and Nora Schultz at Kadist
On view until January 22nd, 2017
La trahison des images, René Magritte at the Centre Pompidou
On view until January 23rd, 2017
Send me no Flowers by Walter Pfeiffer at Galerie Sultana
On view until December 17th, 2016


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GunVault SV500 – Quick Look at The SpeedVault SV500, Pros & Cons
As a registered gun owner, one of your biggest responsibilities is ensuring that you keep the gun safe. It should be easy for you and only you to access for your safety and for the safety of those you live with. One of the best ways to ensure this is by investing in a gun vault. In this case, the SV 500 speed vault is one of the very best options in the market. Below is a comprehensive GunVault SV500 Review of this safe in terms of features and specifications that make it worth the investment.
GunVault SV500 Review
- Combination locking mechanism
The GunVault SpeedVault SV500 uses a combination code locking mechanism. During setup, you get to choose a 4-unit entry code. One unique feature about this model is the fact that you have the freedom to press multiple buttons at a go and have it recognized as one entry. For example, if you press 2, 3 and 4 the same time it will be recognized as one unit. This gives you a wider range of options in terms of entry codes.
Tamper detection mode
This special feature is meant to alert you in the event that someone tries unsuccessfully to gain access to your vault. You do this by simply pressing 2 and 3 simultaneously. If it blinks red, it has been tampered with.
Interior soft foam padding
This is meant to protect the handgun while within the gun safe. The foam padding can also be cut to accommodate larger guns or those with additional accessories such as scope-finders and laser lights.
Steel frame
The SV500 frame made from heavy duty 18-gauge steel. This frame design makes this vault one of the strongest and sturdy. It is very hard to penetrate or pry open with ordinary tools. This ensures additional security for your firearm and for you.
Backup override keys
The vault also comes with a pair of keys meant to override the combination lock mechanism. These keys come in handy in two occasions. The 1st is if the vault batteries run out and the combination lock fails to work. The 2nd is when you forget the combination lock or for some reason you happen to have a hard time getting the system to respond.
Battery powered
The system uses 9 Volt batteries. These power the combination system alone with the rest of the activities being purely mechanical. One unique feature in this case is the fact that the vault will warn you when the battery is about to run out. It does this by emitting a series of 7 beeps every time you open the safe. To be on the safe side, ensure you replace the batteries as soon as you get this warning.
1-gun capacity
The vault can handle one gun. It has sufficient room for firearms as large as full-sized 9mm handguns. Some also come with an extra compartment for storage of a single accessory. This can be an extra magazine, a scope or whatever else you need that might fit.
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Please read a few words of thanks & encouragement from subscribers of the Monday Morning Message!
Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.
1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
Proverbs 3:27
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Proverbs 21:26
He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
Proverbs 28:27
He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
Malachi 3:7
Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, said the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
Malachi 3:10
Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, said the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Matthew 6:1
Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Luke 3:11
He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.
Luke 6:30
Give to every man that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Acts 20:35
I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
2 Corinthians 9:6
But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
Level 4, Lesson 7
Elijah and the Poor Woman
In the long ago days there was a poor woman who lived at the seaside in a place called Zarephath. She had a little boy to love, but she had no husband to work either for him or for her.
The fields of Zarephath were bare and brown. There had been no rain for so long that the ground was baked hard. Neither corn nor fruits would grow.
The widow of Zarephath had no money and no bread. She had a handful of flour in the barrel, and a little olive-oil in the jar, and that was all. Her little boy and she went out beyond the city gate to look for sticks to make a fire to bake one little cake.
While they were gathering sticks, they saw a stranger coming towards them. He wore a cloak of camel's hair, fastened with a belt of leather. He said to the woman,
"Please give me a drink of water."
And she was going to fetch it, he called to her,
"Bring me, I beg, a piece of bread in your hand."
The woman knew that his name was Elijah. Now she said to him,
"I have no loaf of bread, only a handful of flour in the barrel and a little olive oil in the jar, just enough to make one little cake for my son and myself. After that there will be nothing left."
Elijah said,
"Don't be afraid, but make me a little cake first. For this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says, 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.'"
And the kind widow woman lit her fire. She mixed her dough, and baked a little cake of bread. She gave it to Elijah, and lo! in the barrel there was still a handful of flour, and in the jar there was still a little olive oil. She was able to mix a cake for her little boy and herself to eat, and even yet there was more.
She let Elijah, who was God's servant, stay at her house, and she gave him food. While he was there the barrel of flour never became empty, neither did the jar of olive oil fail. There was always enough for her, her son, and for Elijah.
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text: Rose Doran lay as naked as a peach on top of her bed and watched the moth that fluttered its dark and dusty wings down the wall. Maybe, she thought, Paedric will hear its whispery strumming between her room and his and think of her before sleep takes over. She closed her eyes and imagined the moth's lips brushing like velvet along her flesh. The Vinegar Jar by Berlie Doherty: kindle editionThe Vinegar Jar is my second novel for adults and is probably the most adventurous book I've written, in that its subject is the power of the imagination, the dangerous liaison between story and the truth. The central character Rose Doran uses story to transcend the unspeakable tedium of her life, and finds that she can enter into the imaginings of her strange neighbour, Paedric. Together they create an imaginary child, but the consequences are untenable. The dark journeys of fairy stories were certainly my inspiration for this novel.


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Courtesy of Tyler Durden
Remember when the president uttered the magic words back in March 2009, when he said that "profit and earning ratios [whatever the hell those are] are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long-term perspective on it" giving the green light for the 2 year bear market rally? Well, if that was global market Risk On, Janet Yellen just gave the Risk Off command. To wit: "forward price-to-earnings ratios in the stock market fall within the ranges prevailing in recent decades, and are well below the early-2000 peak, although corresponding measures for small-cap equities (not shown) appear somewhat elevated.…special questions included in the March 2011 SCOOS suggest an increase in the use of leverage by some traditionally unlevered investors (such as pension funds and insurance companies) as well as hedge funds during the previous six months. " Yup: small caps, aka the Russell 2000, aka the Economy according to the Fed's third mandate. Ironically, the Fed realizes the Catch 22 it is caught in, which we noted earlier, namely that stocks are pricing in QE 3, but for QE 3 to happen stocks have to drop 20% from here. Well, this may be the last warning from the Fed.
Full Yellen speech at the 2011 International Conference: Real and Financial Linkage and Monetary Policy, Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
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text: Share: Comments Print August 21, 2014 at 4:07 PM Jack White brings his unmistakable sound to Paramount | Concert preview Posted by Chris Kornelis There may not yet be a clear winner for "song of the summer," but 2014 has not been wanting for entire albums with a definitive sound. From chart-topping LPs like Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" to indie concerns such as Dum Dum Girls' "Too True" (and, come to that, most of the band's Sub Pop label mates' 2014 efforts), artists have been creating albums that are defined more by an aesthetic they can swim in than by individual melodies they serve up a la carte. This is nothing new for Jack White, who plays the Paramount Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 25-26. You need not see the credits on the "Beck Song Reader" to know that Jack White is taking his turn on "I'm Down." From the White Stripes to the Raconteurs to the Dead Weather and his solo projects, White's is one of the most identifiable sounds in the industry. It's fitting that White teased his latest solo LP, "Lazaretto," with an instrumental jam, "High Ball Stepper." There are no vocals, but it is unmistakably White: the fuzz and pull of the guitar, the cannonballs of reverberation and full-fisted smacks on the snare drum. There's more nuance on "Lazaretto" than on the aforementioned 2014 sound experiments. That is because White draws from a wider palette than Lana Del Rey or Dum Dum Girls, bookending the album with a guitar-based blues howler, "Three Women," and the melancholy, piano-driven "Want and Able." But the point remains the same: The melodies aren't the centerpiece, they merely exist as a vehicle for the White treatment. You don't come away from it thinking about a song, you think about the sound: the bombast, the creaky purrs and the well-placed strings. "Lazaretto" and White's previous solo installment, 2012's "Blunderbuss," demonstrate how much he is uplifted by his collaborators. White's at his best when he's working his signature stomp and buzz alongside friends and colleagues — culminating with the Raconteurs, where he was complemented by co-vocalist Brendan Benson. One of the best Jack White records isn't even a Jack White album, it's Wanda Jackson's "The Party Ain't Over," the 2011 release from the gravel-voiced rockabilly legend that prominently features his production thumbprint. Like fellow producers Danger Mouse and Chris Walla (who recently announced he is leaving Death Cab for Cutie), White has the ability to rub his aesthetic off on other artists at will. And like his peers in the production booth, his sound can feel a bit overexposed when left unchecked, but it's unmistakable and bankable nonetheless. Jack White 7:30 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Aug. 25-26, Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St, Seattle; $45.75, all ages (206-682-1414 or stgpresents.org). Comments | More in Rock/Pop | Topics: Concert Preview, Jack White, Lazaretto


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My life
Isn't it amusing when others point at you and tell you what you should be doing with your own life? I find it amusing. It does make you wonder though, what are these finger-pointers avoiding in their own? Why are they so concerned with how I live my life?
It's not as if they can know what I've done in the past, what my aspirations of the future are, or where I believe I should be heading. At least, unless they ask me. Even then, it's not etched in stone. A girl has the prerogative to change her mind. Reminds me of my third grade teacher Mrs. Turk, who would ask: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" She wasn't referring to an occupation, that's something you do, she was referring to what you wanted to become in your adult years. She was a favorite teacher of mine when I was a child, she was kind, and very thought provoking. She didn't treat us like we were children; she treated us like we were aspiring adults. And I loved her for it.
Some finger-pointers are even so bold as to state that I'm wasting my time. How can they know that my time is being wasted if they don't know what my goals and aspirations are? I find that odd.
I manage my time and have plenty of it for all the things I enjoy. Whether that be writing, my artwork, or projects I'm involved in. I suppose next they will be telling me to get new hobbies? If you find that as weird as I do… Keep reading.
I'm 38 years old, but I feel as though I've lived an extra decade as an adult. I was emancipated as a minor, had my first paying job when I was 14 and have been completely independent since I was 17 years old. I look at my own son, who will be 17 in barely a week and I think to myself: "I am over joyed that he is enjoying his childhood." Teens get anxious to be on their own, get jobs, a car, and all the responsibility that goes along with it; and as parents it's our duty to give them the reality of the weight of it all. I think it's admirable that my son wants to help out around the house, and even contribute money of his own to buying our needs. I tell him it's not needed, I got this. I tell him that his money should be used for things he enjoys, or taking his girlfriend out on a date. I tell him that after he graduates High School and wants to pitch in on expenses if he chooses to live on at home that is fine, it's responsible of him to do so. He is holding himself accountable, and I know that my guidance has fostered that in him without me having to remind him of responsibility and accountability. That makes me proud.
I don't tell my son what he should be doing with his life; I ask him what he wants to do living it. He's young, and so he has a million ideas and possibilities and I explore them with him. I want him to be happy, but I know that there will be times when he's not. I want him to make good decisions, but I know he will make mistakes like the rest of us. I want a lot of things for my child, and all of them good things, but I know he's his own person. I respect his individuality, his own mind, and feelings. Even when he doesn't always respect mine. I'm his mother. I can take it; it's all part of parenting. He's growing, he's enjoying the last part of his childhood and it's almost over. Soon, he'll be a man in his 20's in the blink of an eye, and I'll be looking back at baby pictures wondering how the time went by so fast.
For me? I'm raising my son. I do the things I love. I am driven by what I'm passionate about, and what makes me feel alive. I am living. When I ask these finger pointers what I should be doing with my life, they offer that I should live like they do. That's absurd. I am not a clone. I am an individual. Why not let me worry about my own life, and you worry about yours. If we meet some place in this small world, we can connect, and then sever ties. There are thousands of people I've met in my life, some for a reason or a season. It doesn't mean I have to become them. I have my own life. Just as you have yours. I wouldn't demand that you think like me, live like me, love the things I love, or be just like me. That's absurd. I enjoy the diversity and differences we all have, and often find our similarities. That too is part of life.
Some finger pointers presume to appoint me a guru. I am not your guru. Hell, I'm not even your leader. Some choose to follow me because they enjoy my thoughts, ideas, or are interested in my personal projects. It doesn't make them my clones, my drones, or sheep in my flock. That's even more absurd. I too find inspiration in colorful people who think critically, create prolifically, and I consider them my muses. I enjoy our musings immensely, as they always offer me something I can benefit from.
Some finger pointers are parasitic and cannibalistic, they want something from me, and because they believe they are entitled to it. For those, there's the whip of my tongue to be finished off with the heel of my boot. This is My Life, and I decide whether you are entitled to any part of it. You have to earn it. I don't just give it away, although I may offer you a glimpse into my world.
My life is not for the faint-of-heart, or those that seek comfort. I will disturb you. I mean to disturb you. Any person that has passed through the Halls of SIN will know they have been there. They may run away kicking or screaming, or pass on through again for its temptations. In no uncertain terms is it a tourist attraction. I have no need for tourists. Tourists are often finger pointers.
Keep all extremities inside while you pass on through, or you might pull back a nub. It's just how I roll.
This is My Life.
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PicsArt Now Available on App Bazaar
Indus OS has taken huge strides and is well poised to be a key player in the regional smartphone market. Today, the company announces its partnership with the makers of the San Francisco-based sensational photo-editing app – PicsArt. While Indus OS delivers on all regional language operating system front with its many patented features, App Bazaar is another key focus for the team. Indus OS aims to bring on board many global and local app developers/companies to allow Indus OS users to make the most of their smartphone capabilities.
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PicsArt Now Available on App Bazaar – 4.5 Million Indus OS users can download PicsArt to make amazing images
PicsArt is free, offers more creativity tools than any other app and is now available in 12 Indian Languages on Indus OS' App Bazaar
Indus OS, world's first regional operating system, and India's #2 OS is partnering with PicsArt, a powerful photo editing, drawing and collage making an app to make it available in twelve regional languages. PicsArt, the world's #1 photo editing, and sharing app will be available to more than 4.5 million Indus OS users through Indus OS' app marketplace App Bazaar, the world's fastest growing regional app marketplace.
"Our vision is to create a localized smartphone ecosystem of choice for the next 1 billion smartphone users. It is imperative that we make the best of apps available to our users in their preferred languages. We are excited to have PicsArt on board with us. Indus OS users can now edit their photos to truly express their personal style," said Rakesh Deshmukh, CEO, Indus OS.
PicsArt has more than 300-million downloads and 75-million monthly active users, who use the app to make awesome images and share them with the world. PicsArt just raised $20M funding to expand their reach across Asia and the partnership with Indus OS helps them achieve that goal. Additionally, PicsArt will introduce localized content for App Bazaar such as fun clip art, fonts and other creative tools specifically catering to the Asia market.
"Localization of our product and partnerships are key to expand our reach in the Asian markets. We are very happy to be on board with App Bazaar and to make PicsArt available to people in their preferred language and smartphone ecosystem," saidWilson Kriegel, CBO, of PicsArt.
In an effort to encourage localized apps and increase discoverability, the latest version of App Bazaar comes with a strong recommendation engine for providing personalized app suggestions in regional languages. It will also have a superior user interface to aid search & discovery of apps while maintaining its simple and intuitive user experience.
The next 300 million smartphone users in India who will use a smartphone for the first time in the next 3 years will be native language users. This coupled with the fact that India's regional language internet users are growing at an enormous rate of 47% year-on-year bodes well for the Indus OS – PicsArt partnership.
India's email ID and credit card penetration are amongst the lowest in the world. Unlike other popular app stores, App Bazaar does not require email ID or credit card information to download apps.
About IndusOS
Indus OS's team has developed the World's First Regional Operating System. We are the first to meet the real needs of the emerging market's regional language speaking citizens through innovation, simplification, and content. Indus OS is now the second most popular OS in India overtaking global giants such as Apple's iOS & Microsoft's Windows.
Indus OS' vision is to digitally connect the next 1 billion people in the emerging markets with a smartphone ecosystem of their choice. Indus OS also has its very own app marketplace called App Bazaar available in English & 12 regional languages. Indus OS recently raised $5 million series A funding led by Omidyar Network and angel funded by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal from Snapdeal, Amit Gupta and Naveen Tiwari from InMobi and Pranay Chulet from Quikr.
About PicsArt
PicsArt has 300 million installs and, with 75 million monthly active users, is quickly becoming the most popular mobile creativity app in the world. PicsArt is a new kind of photo editing experience that combines thousands of powerful photo editing, collage and drawing tools with a vibrant creative community where you can find inspiration, discover creative trends, collaborate and learn. PicsArt was named one of the top 5 "Hottest Startups of 2015" by Forbes and Google Play ranked PicsArt as one of the "Best Apps of 2015." For more information, please visit website


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|Regular ol' chocolate cuppies...no liquor here, boohoo!
Tonight's flavors?
Bailey's Irish Cream: Chocolate cupcake, Bailey's Chocolate Ganache center, Bailey's whipped cream.
Rooty Toot Toot: Rootbeer cupcake soaked with spiced rum and topped with spiced rum frosting and a dash of nutmeg.
Leap Year Lemon Passionfruit Fizz: Lemon cupcake soaked with vodka, lemon passionfruit curd center, and lemon icing.
|Bailey's Irish Cream Cupcake
|Why choose just one?
Or the promising Snowball?
You may guess from the photos what I had for dinner. And while it's not the first time I've had nothing but dessert for a main course, it is a rare treat to have a cocktail and cupcake together in one lovely package. Happy Hour lasts until 8p.m., so stop by if you're near Davis Square!


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One City One Book Author Cory Doctorow at SF Main Library, Oct. 2
This year's selection is Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
To highlight this year's One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program, acclaimed author Cory Doctorow will be featured at the San Francisco Main Library on Oct. 2, speaking about his prescient and timely novel, Little Brother. Doctorow will be in conversation with security expert Nico Sell. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco.
Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema and Little Brother and novels for adults like Rapture of the Nerds and Makers. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Nico Sell, a security expert and longtime organizer for Defcon, is the cofounder of Wickr, a free app that provides military-grade encryption of text, picture, audio and video messages and the best available privacy, anonymity and secure file shredding features.
Book sales and signings will follow the talk.
About the Book:
Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only 17 years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
Little Brother is available at all San Francisco Public Libraries and also can be downloaded for FREE: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/


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In Vino English is a free, weekly event proudly offered by Hawkins English Services. At IVE, participants have the opportunity to practice speaking English in a friendly, informal, yet private environment. HES understands that there are few opportunities in the region to practice English for free with native speakers present, and so IVE was created in 2017 to fill that need. The event is open to the public. Participants are encouraged to bring friends and colleagues!
In brief, IVE participants enjoy local wines, as they regularly bring a bottle to share with the group, while meeting new people, expanding their social and professional network, and speaking in English with the help of Brian Hawkins, HES founder and manager. We request that participants make a reservation before coming to the event as spaces are limited. The event takes place on a private terrace, not a public bar or other public venue.
You can also check out the IVE Facebook and Instagram pages to get a proper idea of what the event looks like, and contact us there as well! The full address for the event will be automatically emailed to you once you have made your reservation here on Eventbrite. Hope to see you on the terrace soon!