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Salah's return to top form is key to Liverpool's growing Premier League title hopes
It was Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who claimed that "form is temporary and class is permanent," but it is a statement that could have been dreamed up by Jurgen Klopp to describe Mohamed Salah.
The Liverpool forward has not had a bad season at Anfield by any means, but he was so exceptionally good during his first campaign at the club, in 2017-18, that he was always going to be measured to an impossible standard this time around. That has proven to be the case. Nobody has been talking up Salah's performance this season; instead, the narrative has been about him searching for last year's form, with the shoulder injury sustained in the Champions League final against Real Madrid often cited as a factor in his slow start.
Yet as Liverpool walked off the rain-soaked pitch at Molineux on Friday, after ensuring Liverpool retained top spot in the Premier League on Christmas Day by virtue of their 2-0 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Salah had also secured the distinction of becoming the league's leading scorer this season. His 11th goal of the campaign opened the scoring en route to a confident away win.
Salah is having such a disappointing season that he is only one goal clear of the pack in the race for the Premier League Golden Boot, so he clearly needs to raise his game! Just for good measure, his assist for Virgil van Dijk's second-half goal, which confirmed all three points, was his fifth in the league.
Last season, Salah scored 32 league goals and registered 10 assists but by this stage of last term, he had scored 14 goals, meaning he's not too far behind his rate of progress 12 months ago. But what happened next is why Salah is now having to produce almost superhuman displays simply to live up to sky-high expectations.
In the second half of last season, the former Chelsea forward accelerated away from the rest by scoring 18 league goals, but Liverpool still only finished fourth. Now, however, they are top of the tree at Christmas and it might require another Salah surge in the second half of the campaign to keep them ahead of champions Manchester City long enough for Liverpool to win their first league title since 1990.
Only twice in the past 10 years has the leader on Christmas Day failed to win the title, but the bad news for Liverpool is that on those two occasions, in 2008-09 and 2013-14, it was the Reds who were unable to see it through and finish on top.
If Klopp's Liverpool are to buck that trend, they will need Salah -- and van Dijk -- to stay fit and perform to their best in the second half of the season. Salah has perhaps already started to move into top gear.
By his standards, the 26-year-old did make a slow start to the season and the shoulder injury, which severely hampered his World Cup with Egypt, was serious enough to require time for him to make a full recovery. But he has now scored six goals in his last seven league games and the wheels are clearly beginning to turn freely again.
His goal at Molineux was a majestic finish that only a confident, world-class forward could score. Having raced to the edge of the 6-yard box to latch on to Fabinho's pass, Salah then sent a sublime strike past goalkeeper Rui Patricio with the outside of his left foot. It was the kind of finish that only the likes of Lionel Messi can produce on a regular basis, but Salah made it look easy.
His cross to van Dijk for the Dutch defender's goal was also the work of a master craftsman, with Salah taking one cushioned touch to kill a loose Wolves clearance before finding his teammate with his second touch.
Klopp is now deploying Salah as a central striker and he's thriving in the role, with his pace and movement proving too much for Wolves. But the key to Liverpool's title hopes is Salah remaining fit and in form and he could strike a crucial blow for their prospects over the Festive period, with games against Arsenal and Manchester City between now and the FA Cup third-round return to Molineux.
If Salah can continue his current hot streak by scoring against both those teams, Liverpool will back their much-improved defence to make any advantage pay. But make no mistake: Whatever happens, Salah is back. His form and class are there for all to see.
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A signature bond has a cash value but does not require an accused to pay a fee unless he fails to show up for any future court dates.
The purpose of bail is to make sure that someone released from custody before the trial and sentencing process is complete returns for all future court hearings. Depending on the severity of the charge -- as well as the accused's character, community ties, financial resources and prior criminal history -- a judge can deny bail, set a cash, property or bail bond, or set an unsecured appearance bond, also known as a signature bond.
A signature bond is common in cases where a defendant has no prior criminal history, is not considered a flight risk and has committed a minor or non-violent misdemeanor crime. Crimes that may fall into this category include vandalism, possession of small amounts of drugs, trespassing or driving under the influence.
Recognizance Bond vs. Signature Bond
Even though some people use the terms signature bond and recognizance bond interchangeably, these are actually two different things. According to BailBondsman.org, a recognizance bond refers to an accused who uses his own resources to pay a cash or property bail bond and is therefore released to his own authority.
In contrast, a signature bond usually has a monetary value attached to it, but does not require the accused to pay in advance. Instead, the amount represents the amount the accused will forfeit if the judge issues a warrant for missing any court dates.
Terms and Conditions
Although the monetary amount attached to a signature bond varies, most are for relatively small amounts. A judge often will refer to a predetermined bond schedule in setting the amount.
There also may be specific conditions of release attached to the signature bond. Some of the most common are a curfew, a sobriety order, restrictions on travel and refraining from possessing firearms.

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By MICHAEL LETENDRE
BRISTOL – The Naugatuck Valley League – in terms of girls tennis at least – has its collective hands full in terms of the squad from St. Paul High School.
And on Monday, April 14, the squad from Wilby of Waterbury was the next team to pay the proverbial price against the Falcons in a contest played from Peck Park in Bristol.
In the end, St. Paul wrangled up a 7-0 win and once again, all the stars were out to sink Wilby.
The team from Waterbury scored just a total of nine points in the match and eight of those came in one of the showdowns in doubles action.
St. Paul had three shutouts in its four singles' bouts and once again, Emily Lindsley led the charge in the number one position. Lindsley turned away Kathrine Gomez (8-0) while Laura Giuffrida defeated Rolanje Puello by the same score. Jill Murray sank Giselle Tito, 8-1, while Megan Howell defeated Tiana Thurma in an 8-0 blanking to take all the singles events.
In doubles' action, the Falcons did not disappoint either.
The duo of Brittany Kennedy and Isabella Sabino easily defeated Kianna Quinones and Noslen Negron, 8-1, while St. Paul's team of Kelly Frascona and Brianna Rogers won via default.
Finally, the combination of Selena Xiang and Victoria Hatzisavvas snuck past Luznelly Torres and Ashley Vazquez in a 9-7, overtime affair.
Other than the No. 3 doubles event, Wilby didn't put up too much resistance.
And then this past Wednesday, it was Seymour's turn to fall to the Falcons in Bristol.
St. Paul won another match and downed Seymour, 5-2, from Peck Park.
Lindsley was once again sharp and zipped up a 8-0 win while Meghan Collins did the same in a shutout victory as well. Laura Giuffrida was also an 8-0 winner for St. Paul.
In doubles action, the Falcons earned victories from the duo of Frascona and Rogers (8-3); while Maddie Gerrity and Alyssa Yum won their match as well behind a 9-8 effort.
To complete the week's sweep in Bristol, the Falcons turned away Sacred Heart 6-1 to move to a perfect 5-0 on the season.
To end April, the Falcons travel to Ansonia this Friday at 4 p.m.; while on Monday, April 28, St. Paul duels Naugatuck on the road at 3:45 p.m.
Comments? Email mletendre@BristolObserver. com.


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Friday, March 06, 2009
Matter by Iain M. Banks
I've enjoyed some of Banks's novels and disliked others, but the more of him I read the less significant the differences in my reactions--and in the books themselves--seem when held up against the uniform feeling of ambivalence I get whenever I turn the last page--a mixture of admiration and dissatisfaction. I've been reading and writing about Iain M. Banks for three years, and the only conclusions I've come to about him is that he's almost certainly got a great novel in him, and that he's almost certainly never going to write it. Those books of his that I've liked--The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn, Use of Weapons and now Matter--are the ones that made me want to run out and pick up another one of his novels as soon as I finished them, not because the books themselves were so good but because they came so close to goodness that surely the perfect Banks novel was just over that next hill. The ones I've disliked--Consider Phlebas and Excession--are the ones that had me swearing him off for good, not because they were terrible but because clearly he is never going to get his act completely together.
All of which is to say that saying that I liked Matter is perhaps not quite the compliment it might seem to be. It displays the standard Banks-ian strengths--it is an enjoyable, funny, not unintelligent space opera which utilizes Banks's powers of SFnal invention to great effect--and his traditional weaknesses--it is overlong, episodic, rather weak fare as far as its political component is concerned, and somewhat cowardly in its ending. In other words, it's an Iain M. Banks novel. Still, if Banks's novels seem to fail and succeed in entirely predictable ways, he has at least never written the same book twice. Like the other Culture novels, Matter is an attempt to wrestle with the contradictions and difficulties inherent in that fantasy of an ultra-liberal, post-scarcity, self-righteous socialist utopia, but each takes a slightly different approach to the question. Consider Phlebas laid the groundwork when it established that the only need the Culture couldn't answer within itself was its citizens' need for purpose and meaning in their lives, hence its dedication to remaking the galaxy in its own egalitarian, tolerant, peaceful image, using any means necessary. Use of Weapons and Excession are complementary pieces which deal with cost of such a policy--in lives, in honesty, and in the souls of the people who implement it. Matter views the Culture not simply from the outside but from below--through the eyes of individuals whose societies are on the lower rungs of the developmental ladder, being shepherded and guided upwards by the Culture and civilizations like it.
Matter is told through the eyes of three siblings who grew up in such a society. In one plotline, Ferbin, the foppish heir of a warrior king, is surveying the field of his father's latest and most decisive battle when his escort is attacked and killed and he's forced to flee for his life. Taking shelter nearby, he witnesses the murder of his father by his most trusted adviser, Loesp, who thinks Ferbin dead and announces his plans to rule as regent until he can do away with Ferbin's younger brother Oramen. Lacking the power base to challenge Loesp directly, Ferbin, with the help of his servant Holse, tries to make his way off-world in the hopes of amassing it and returning to claim his throne. A second plotline follows Oramen in the weeks and months after his father's death as he steps into the spotlight as heir to the throne and begins to realize that there may be a plot against him. In the third storyline, Ferbin and Oramen's sister Djan, who was talent-scouted by the Culture as a teenager and now works for Special Circumstances, receives news of her father and brother's deaths and makes her way home to pay her respects, along the way learning both the truth about Loesp's actions and that there may be greater issues at stake than one throne. These are highlighted in the chapters told from the point of view of Loesp, who like his former master is solidifying his position and winning his war with the help of a more powerful alien race, whose ulterior motives he is aware of but can't puzzle out.
A great deal of ink has been spilled in praise of Banks's powers of invention--the species, histories, power structures, customs, languages, struggles and wars with which he peoples his galaxy. Reading Matter, it occurred to me that though Banks is imaginative, he isn't wildly imaginative. Though his SFnal invention is a chaotic patchwork, constantly slapping another species, another Big Dumb Object, another bit of arcane history, onto the gigantic mural that is his future galaxy, in his best novels he avoids the temptation of spinning neatness for its own sake, and his feats of imagination act in service of plot and theme (meanwhile, my chief complaint against Consider Phlebas and Excession is that both read more like travel guides than novels). Without being either orderly or planned out, his inventiveness is tightly controlled. Even more impressive is Banks's ability to scale that inventiveness--to write about individual characters and their immediate surrounding, then pull back and view them from the perspective of an older, more advanced civilization, then pull back again and view that society from the point of view of one that dwarfs it, without losing sight of the complexity of any of them. Banks's novels frequently set individuals against landscapes, edifices, or organizations gargantuan in their size and complexity, and it is perhaps his greatest achievement as a writer that he can make both believable, both important and influential players in his plots.
Scale, in fact, is an important theme in Matter, and the constant shifts in it a method of bringing the novel's point across. Matter begins in a very tight focus on Ferbin, describing mainly his emotions and attitudes and only briefly illuminating his locale through his impressions of it. It takes some time, therefore, for us to realize that Ferbin's home isn't your bog standard planet, for the cryptic allusions to towers, rollstars, or the fact that he refers to his home as Eighth and that of his father's enemies as Ninth, to pile up and become sufficiently disorienting for us to wonder just where we are. At that point, the novel literally zooms out, and gives us a view of Ferbin's home, the shellworld Sursamen, a megalithic structure of ancient origins and unknown purpose made up of spheres within spheres, each terraformed and populated by a different species or nation. This is a brilliant choice on Banks's part, as it highlights the smallness of Ferbin and his nation against their surroundings in a way that a natural environment never could. We're used to the hugeness of planets, but the fact that the landscape Ferbin moves in is constructed, that he and millions of others can live their lives inside the chinks of a machine somehow makes the differences in scale between individuals and their environment more glaring. (Banks has used this device before in Feersum Endjinn, which took place in a castle built on a gigantic scale, whose inhabitants divided themselves into tribes according to whether they lived in the chapel or the throne-room.)
The shellworld is also a rather blatant metaphor for the novel's obsession with hierarchy. Each time we zoom away from Ferbin we become aware of another level of control and influence over his life. His people, the Sarl, were relocated to Sursamen by an alien race called the Oct, who control some of the shellworld's levels and vie for control of others with a race called the Aultridia. Sursamen itself is under the control of the Nariscene, who in turn are part of the Morthanveld empire, a civilization on roughly the same level of advancement and influence as the Culture. At each of these levels, we encounter examples, both benevolent and malevolent, of interference in the affairs of the people in the levels below. The Oct manipulate Ferbin's people and the inhabitants of Sursamen's ninth level for their own ends, going so far as to instigate a war between them. The Nariscene have hired a former Special Circumstances operative to orchestrate a war for their amusement. The Culture has been meddling on all levels, introducing Ferbin's father to modern theories of warfare, dispatching Djan back to Sursamen after the Oct's activities become suspicious, and none-too-subtly nudging the Morthanveld towards Culture-like values and institutions. At the same time, non-interference also has its costs--Sarlian society is deeply class-conscious, and the induced advancement of their military might has the effect of making it more egalitarian, as skill and intelligence become prized over noble birth, and when Ferbin reaches Sursamen's surface and asks a Morthanveld official for help or at least to send a warning to Oramen, she refuses, citing Prime Directive-like laws against such an act.
This is the question that all Culture novels boil down to--is interference in the affairs of less developed nations imperative, or imperialistic?--but Matter further complicates it by constantly moving up and down its nested spheres of influence and highlighting how what looks like an injustice on one level seems right and proper on another, and vice versa. Banks keeps this effect of perspective shift constantly in the readers' minds by having his characters repeatedly discuss the scalability of attitudes, relationships, and social constructs as one moves up and down the civilizational ladder, but it is also a prominent aspect of Ferbin's plot arc. Ferbin repeatedly refers to his father's murder as an abominable, unconscionable betrayal (though it's never explicitly stated, one gets the impression he views regicide as more serious than any other kind of murder), but the further from home he gets the less persuasive his protestations are.
"I would have thought that the brutal and disgraceful murder of an honourable man--a king to whom all in his realm save a few jealous, treacherous, murderous wretches paid grateful, loving homage--would seize at the heart of any creature, no matter how many layers and levels distant from such humble being as ourselves they might be" Ferbin stiffly announces to the Morthanveld official when she refuses to help him, but he is repeatedly proved wrong in this assumption, not only because to beings on other planets the king's murder is a distant and academic fact, but because the injustice of it begins to seem less clear-cut the further one gets from Sarl and Sursamen. As Djan realizes once her Culture education gives her a broader historical perspective, her father was "just another strong man, in one of those societies, at one of those stages, in which it was easier to be the strong man than it was to be truly courageous." The further one gets from Ferbin's frame of reference, the more it seems that his father lived by the sword and, however regrettably, died by it, and that this is no great tragedy when compared to the deaths he himself caused or the vast amounts of injustice and cruelty in the galaxy.
Ferbin himself, however, never changes his frame of reference. No matter how far he comes from his home, how much he sees, and how much he changes, he never loses his fundamental assumptions about how the world works--that it is in the interests of justice and morality that his father's murder be avenged, that he has the right to claim his father's throne, that he is inherently superior to his subjects and servants. This is because, in addition to scaling between different levels of civilizational development, Matter scales between genres. Above and beyond the fact that space opera shares many similarities with that subgenre, the Sursamen-set scenes in Matter read like an epic fantasy, and the three main characters' plotlines--the prince forced to flee the scheming of the evil vizier and fight to reclaim his throne, the young monarch plotted against by his guardian, the unappreciated princess who discovers that she possesses great power--are staples of YA fantasy (this is now the second time, after Neal Stephenson's Anathem, that I've noticed an ostensibly SFnal novel luxuriating in the tropes of YA and epic fantasy). Sarl itself is a medieval fantasyland only just beginning its journey towards modernism--though the Sarlian army uses artillery and projectile weapons, some of the more rustic noblemen still show up to battles in chain mail, and lament the lost romance of the battles of old, which were fought on flying steeds--and its inhabitants speak in a highfalutin' poetic manner completely at odds with the more naturalistic speech prevalent outside Sursamen.
Once the narrative leaves Sursamen, however, Matter's world becomes SFnal, and the underlying assumptions of epic fantasy and the fantastic bildungsroman no longer hold true. When Ferbin leaves the shellworld, the genre of his life changes, which he never notices. Far more observant is his servant Holse, whose eyes and mind are opened as he gains greater understanding of the forces controlling his life, and who over the course of the novel grows from a man content to waste his skills and intelligence in the service of a less worthy aristocrat to a man willing to claim his own share of destiny. In her review of Matter, Gwyneth Jones calls the relationship between Ferbin and Holse Frodo-and-Sam-ish and the fantastic segments of the novel a jab at Tolkien, and though she's probably going a bit far with this--as several commenters point out, Ferbin and Holse map just as well if not better to other airheaded aristocrat/cunning servant duos such as Jeeves and Wooster or Don Quixote and Sancho Panza--there's no doubt that both the epilogue and the appendix which close the novel are blatant Lord of the Rings references. In Banks's hands, however, the departure of wonder with which the novel ends is the departure of the monarchic system, as all three heirs to the Sarlian throne are disposed of and the Culture steps in to guide the nation towards a more egalitarian system of government.
What makes this victory of socialism unsatisfying is first the way in which it is brought about. For most of its 600 pages, Matter is a meditative, meandering story whose plot is largely a justification for giving its characters room to pontificate, to muse about their pasts, the societies they grew up in and the ones they've visited, and the power dynamics that are the novel's ultimate subject, while simultaneously learning about themselves and figuring out what they want from life (which, for the three Sarlian heirs, means deciding whether they want to be king and how they might go about ruling). It's not terribly exciting stuff, but it is funny and engaging, succeeds in raising some interesting questions, and the characters are, for the most part, appealing enough that their social studies-like internal monologues don't grate too much (there is, of course, some variance on this front--Ferbin, Oramen and Holse are extremely likable, but Djan is a little flat, too much the perfect and omni-competent Special Circumstances agent, and though Loesp starts the novel with some intimations that he might have had complicated reasons for betraying his king, he soon devolves into a stock villain). Then, less than a hundred pages from the novel's end, a Big SFnal Menace is revealed, paving the way to a tense, race against the clock finale with the fate of Sursamen itself at stake. It's a fun ending, but it doesn't belong to the novel preceding it, and it's hard to escape the conclusion that it comes instead of a more thought-provoking, less clear-cut ending that Banks was either incapable or uninterested in writing.
It is by making Matter's ending so clear-cut that Banks once again manages to miss out on writing a great novel. Though its beginning and middle raise questions about the rightness of the Culture's actions and its right to meddle with less developed societies, these are steamrolled by its ending, in which the Culture's willingness to meddle and its operatives' willingness to lay down their lives saves the day while the Oct, the Nariscene, and the Morthanveld either stand idly by or actively make matters worse. And if the class-bound structure of Sarlian society is meant to map onto the nested spheres of influences outside Sursamen, then surely the fact that Matter ends with the Culture taking the first steps towards eliminating that structure in Sarl is an indication that its actions outside Sursamen are also justified, and ultimately in service of bringing about a more just, more peaceful way of life. I don't necessarily object to Banks coming down, ultimately, on the Culture's side, nor do I entirely disagree with this conclusion (while still feeling that the near-infallibility of the Culture renders it useless as a metaphor for corresponding behavior in the real world), but the manner in which he reaches that conclusion, and tries to take his readers there, feels dishonest. We're supposed to root for the culture not because we've come to an ethical decision that its actions, however imperfect, are preferable to inaction, but because its representatives beat the evil alien.
The impression I got while reading Matter was that Banks not only recognizes but is playfully referencing the sameness of his novels, their repeated reliance on the same questions, situations and plot tokens, such as when Djan expresses irritation at the whimsical names Culture ships give themselves, or when her drone partner is refused entrance into Morthanveld space because "SC agent + combat drone was a combination that was well known far beyond the Culture." Which to me suggests that he's found his comfort zone and isn't too interested in exploring the realms beyond it, and that, however enjoyable, however clever and funny and thoughtful, his novels will never amount to more than admirable yet unsatisfying. It is perhaps admirable in itself that a writer who has yet to provide me with a single great reading experience, whose finest achievements are the components of his work--a scene here, an alien species there, a clever observation about human nature followed by a good joke over here--rather than the work itself, as well as a fresh and perhaps unique spin on space opera which he has nevertheless consistently failed to fully develop, is still so fascinating to me, and his work still so appealing. Even now, realizing that I will probably never truly love any of Banks's novels, I'm tempted to pick up another one. Not because I'd like to categorize his remaining novels into good and bad, but because I'm hoping that one more dip into his bibliography will finally help me to decide whether Iain M. Banks is a good or a bad writer.
12 comments:
- Athena said...
I share your frustration with Banks. I was spoiled by reading Use of Weapons first. I thought he would achieve escape velocity from there, but he's been circling his own gravity well.
- March 06, 2009 2:43 PM
- Tim Walters said...
You should try his M-less non-SF, which is much more varied than his SF, and often less shaggy (although, unlike in SF, he also has some complete duds).
The Wasp Factory is generally considered his masterpiece, and certainly anyone interested in Banks should read it. The Crow Road and Espedair Street are much sunnier, and highly enjoyable. Walking On Glass is very strange, but it works.
Avoid Complicity, Song Of Stone, Dead Air, and (I'm told) Canal Dreams.
- March 06, 2009 7:50 PM
- Matt said...
Although I prefer Use of Weapons, I think the most common favorite Banks novel is Player of Games. It's been a while since I read it but it doesn't have most of the weaknesses you refer to. In theme and plot it's by far his most cohesive SF novel.
Although Matter is one of Banks' most inventive novels, in the end it is standard Banks: fun and at times exciting, interesting ideas that are introduced but not really explored with any depth, and then a hugely depressing ending.
- March 06, 2009 8:09 PM
- Athena Andreadis said...
Tim and Matt, I agree about Wasp Factory, Espedair Street and Player of Games. In those he's nimbler and lighter without losing depth. No infodumps, no ponderosity, no long irritating convolutions.
- March 07, 2009 3:19 AM
Enjoyed Matter a lot, and know what you mean about liking some, not others (I couldn't read Fearsum Endjinn because of the dialect). But I don't think you can isolate any of the series. It's *not* a template series. It's a series of philosophical discussions with each novel trying to tackle it from a different point of view, just as Mahler's symphonies have to be considered as a whole because they are each tackling the purpose of life from different points of view.
Charles N. Brown
- March 17, 2009 1:46 AM
You can't give up on Banks before reading The Wasp Factory.
It's easy to lose respect for authors and artists whose first work remains their best, but their first work is still their best.
- July 23, 2009 11:53 PM
- Hawk said...
To me, Banks' stength is his use of language, not his story-telling. His stories, while fine, are not what makes him a great writer. It is how he tell his stories. Whether or not you like his plotting, chacacters or themes, I think the shear pwer of his words is what makes him fascinating. For thsi reason, I actually enjoy his non-science fiction more because plot, theme and character take a back seat to language. Further, I think "Inversions" is his best sciecne fiction for the same reason.
- August 17, 2009 6:19 AM
Thank you for writing this review! Exactly what I was looking for! I'll probably try reading another one...
- December 22, 2010 9:40 PM
Did the ending of Matter bother anyone else? It jumps right into an Epilogue that deals with Holse, but says absolutely nothing about his certain debriefing by the Culture, future relations with the Morthenveld and Oct, or Djan's resurrection from her backup and learning that she had successfully saved Sursamen. I would have much rather seen those loose ends tied up.
- May 19, 2011 8:49 AM
- Hendos said...
Whilst I am a fan of Iain Banks, I found the conclusion of this novel extremely disappointing. Within the first perhaps 150 pages of this book, which is, in my opinion, filled with what I can only describe as descriptive padding, we are introduced to the Shellworlds, fascinating, ancient, mysterious planets constructed for reasons unknown by the Veil and systematically destroyed by the Iln for reasons the author leads us to believe will be explained. The main characters of the book are all children of this world, with its unexplained purpose and uncertain fate and with these questions raised we have some 450 pages of the novel left to read. It would be fair to assume that there will be, in addition to the perhaps 30 to 50 pages of description of the attributes of the Shellworlds that follow, some meaning or purpose given to these enormous and ancient structures which are after all the focus of this novel. What do we get? Well, disappointingly, we get very little. We are left, perhaps 500 pages into the novel, with a rather clumsily portrayed "evil" Iln machine simply emerging from the Eigth level of Sursamen and killing everything in sight. Why? It almost seems as though the author has got bored of the book and can not be bothered to explain or has run out of ideas. A battle insues and basically the world of Sursamen is saved, though we know not from what, or why, there are no twists to the plot, the characters reveal nothing new or unexpected about themselves and these worlds, their people and therefore the point of the book are left entirely unexplained. It is undoubtedly the case that a book of this nature benefits from having some unresolved questions however the lack of any sort of explation of the purpose ofm these worlds or their context left me feeling that the whole book was somwhat pointless.
- January 29, 2012 3:24 PM
- Martijn / biggiesmartypants said...
+Hendos: the Iln machine emerged from the *ninth* level; clearly you misunderstood the novel.
- July 25, 2016 3:58 AM
- Martijn / biggiesmartypants said...
+Hendos: the Iln machine emerged from the *ninth* level; clearly you misunderstood the novel.
- July 25, 2016 3:59 AM


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Follow Me
A man came into church the other day asking for gasoline money. When I told him we couldn't help, he looked like I'd run over his dog, "I'm shocked," he said, "but aren't you the church?" For the poor and needy doesn't it feel like the church has become a sort of ATM machine. Ask and you expect to receive. Our elected officials don't help. They love to offer "thoughts and prayers" but little else. "Don't worry," they say as they ignore vital social issues, "the churches will take care of it." And we just sit back and put up with it.
Our image as church is taking a hit in other areas, too. The other day I left Grace Episcopal Church after a rousing counter event to Franklin Graham featuring, among others, your co-pastor Stephen Marsh, and ran right into some 20-somethings fresh from their own protest of Graham's brand of Christian hate. Not the least bit interested in us church folk; these young adults were part of the Freedom from Religion Coalition. The Christian brand gets damaged every time Christ is equated with some hate-filled Bible-preacher or some Congressman spilling vitriol 'cus her Bible told her so. For the unchurched or the "hurt by church" "Christian" has become generic, like Kleenex® or Xerox®. These young people want to make a difference, and for them religion's the last place to look for it. To them, our Jesus is nothing but a hammer and they're tired of feeling like nails. Today, following Jesus is hard, and sadly American Christianity isn't doing a whole lot to help.
These readings warn us to beware of our polite and safe faith expression. When our God calls us to turn toward the Jerusalems of our time, do we dare? Many can come to church; fewer can pick up the mantle and be the church. Elisha not only takes up the challenge, but asks for a double dose of determination in order to stay the course. Jesus for his part says a bunch of things that sound pretty harsh. Why can't we bury our family member first before we follow? Why is it so wrong to want to say "Goodbye" to home and family before we take up the call? Jesus tells us: If we aren't ready to put our hand to the plow and work the field to the end, He says, "Don't bother to start"; because come harvest time we can't be counted on. Faith talk is cheap; just ask this generation. Being the church takes more than Sunday attendance and financial support. It takes a depth commitment; putting our full weight into the task. It's got to matter. Young people want to take a stand against greed, racial, social, environmental and economic justice. When they don't see it in us, when the only public faces of faith they do see and voices they hear are spewing hate and greed – "No thank you, very much."
All of us can easily fall prey to our own righteousness. Like the Jewish leadership of Elijah and Jesus' time, we can get lured into a sort of "check box" theology: Polite church attendance – check; following the rules – check; pledging – check; a few charitable acts – check and double-check.
Luke Chapter 9 begins with Jesus sending the disciples into ministry. The rest of the chapter is a critique about how to improve. By chapter's end, Jesus has set his sights on Jerusalem and the cross, and says, "Come on." On the way a village of unwelcoming Samaritans; since Samaritans and Jews were enemies, this lack of hospitality isn't a shock. Jesus' disciples want to call down fire to smite these unbelievers like Elijah did. Jesus scolds them, "Enough!" "An eye for and eye," Gandhi says, "makes the whole world blind." And Gandhi learned this in part from Jesus. "Love your enemies. Show kindness to those who hate you. Do right to those who wish you harm." But a nation who so loves to quote Scripture, wants to take a pass on this Gospel and the thousands other Bible passages decrying the love of money and disregard for the weak and poor. Our nation used to export justice and generosity, and offer a safe haven for the stranger. Today, we export violence and import hatred … and none of it's at a living wage.
Jesus calls us to embrace the foreigner and show kindness, love, and friendship to the other. Can we do that? Perhaps not today. Will we commit to the work of discipleship so in time we can? That's the difference between going to church and being the church. Anyone can come to worship on Sunday, fewer can commit to forming themselves in the faith and acting on what it teaches the other six days.
Jesus calls: "Follow me. But don't pick up that mantle unless you're serious; serious about loving God with everything you've got, and loving your neighbor as yourself." And who is neighbor? Our neighbor's white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, male, female, and transgender, gay, and straight, young and old, well-to-do, and poor. The Bible tells us our neighbor's everyone.
"Pick that up, put it on, and then follow me."
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The Egyptian Minister of antiques Khaled al-Anany has announced the unveiling of Ramses II statue after restoration on Friday April 20th 2018.
The revelation will be held in the facade of Luxor temple.
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Winter Whale Watching, The Tubes, Natural History of the Anza-Borrego Region
Events December 19-December 25, 2019
Various Authors noon, Dec. 14
San Diego Although the Chargers' fortunes are sinking, stadium expansion costs continue to rise. The city council says it's trying to pinch pennies by using volunteers to paint the place, but expenses are rapidly mounting elsewhere. Handicapped advocates have sued the city, charging that the stadium upgrade was unfriendly to the disabled. Nobody's yet saying what the ultimate cost of fixing problems with seating and access might turn out to be, but informed sources say it could be millions. An early harbinger: last week the city manager added another $6000 to an earlier $15,000 contract with Dealy Development, the consultant retained to review as-yet-unpublicized reconstruction plans. Meanwhile, costs for the city's controversial sewer-treatment expansion program also continue to rise. Insiders say that the hikes are so steep, the city is running out of construction cash and may soon have to issue more debt. "The reason the public doesn't know about it is that the city council doesn't want them to know," says a city source. "They are deliberately keeping the major contracts and decisions to spend more money off the docket so they don't have to discuss it out in the open."
Pound of horse flesh
Indicted Del Mar Turf Club regular Donald Bickerstaff is reportedly selling off his racehorses in England, where the several hundred thousand dollars in proceeds can be stashed away from angry U.S. creditors. Bickerstaff, who until September operated an investment advisory business out of offices in Rancho Bernardo, stands accused of 40 federal felony counts in connection with a scheme to bilk 75 clients out of at least $15 million, which was then allegedly squandered on horses, fast cars, jewelry, and a lavishly appointed Poway estate. The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that many of Bickerstaff's alleged victims were from the horse racing world. "He ripped me off on the horses, threatening my livelihood, and stole my life's savings," the paper quoted trainer Jeff Bonde as saying. "Now he'll be a good little prisoner for three to five years and then go back to England and have a little nest egg waiting for him. It's very frustrating." A pretrial conference for Bickerstaff is set for next week.
Friend of Jack
The late Morris Shenker, whom Life magazine once called "Lawyer to the Mob," died at age 82 in 1989 owing the irs $55 million and bequeathing to his heirs a tangle of real estate deals in Nevada and California. During the 1960s Shenker, who represented the likes of Jimmy Hoffa, was buddies with JFK, and once owned the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, was a partner with Irvin J. Kahn in the sprawling Peñasquitos development, which was backed by loans from the mob-infested Teamsters' pension fund. The pair also owned a 451-unit apartment complex in Point Loma, called Loma Palisades, along with millions of dollars' worth of other land holdings around the country. Shenker died bankrupt, but he didn't die penniless. After years of wrangling, his daughter Patty, who lives in Malibu, reportedly established control of what remained of the empire. Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported her latest coup, the sale for $8 million of 750 acres on the south shore of the Lake of the Ozarks to developers Dale Perkinson and Thomas Biggs. "Morris bought the land in 1979, and it was Patty's Loma Palisades Inc. of San Diego that sold it," the paper quoted a real estate broker as saying.
Zap, you're dead
A San Diego researcher has been granted the first patent for an honest-to-goodness phaser, a weapon that fires electric current down the path of a laser beam, says the British magazine New Scientist. Inventor Hans Eric Herr devised the ray gun, which is powerful enough to stun or even cause a heart attack in its victims ... The trial of David Craig Pettit, the ex-San Diegan accused of shaking his three-month-old daughter to death, began last week in Moscow, Idaho, with his wife testifying he had called the child "a parasite" ... Forget trying to get a reservation at Yosemite. Everything is first-come, first-served until a replacement can be found for Destinet, that San Diego reservations agency fired by the Park Service for allegedly failing to turn over fees to the government.
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Watching wordpress.tv videos always fills me up with joy and excitement about my future of my WordPress career.
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In Qualcomm's 4G/5G Summit currently being held in Hongkong, the company has announced that it is releasing three new Snapdragon CPUs. All of three CPU are the successor of the company's popular mid-range chipsets.
These three new CPUs are Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427. In addition to these processors, Qualcomm has also announced to enable Quick Charge 3.0 to every new CPU coming on the board. Soon, we'll be able to see mid-range smartphones enabled with quick charge capabilities.
All three new Snapdragon will also sport the company's Quick Charge 3.0 as well as dual-camera support. The new CPUs also include better support for VoLTE and Ultra HD Voice with a new X9 LTE modem on board. The X9 LTE modem is an improvement over the X8 LTE modem which was used in predecessors of these CPUs.
The Snapdragon 653 and 626 will be commercially available by the end of this year, and the 427 will be available in early next year. That means we'll be able to get our hands on the devices powered by these new processors in the first quarter of 2017.
Apart from these processors, the company also announced its big plans for future with cross-platform camera hardware. With this platform, the company is planning to go beyond the smartphone camera and work on emerging camera spaces like 360/VR, IP security cameras, dashcams, bodycams and action/sports cameras.


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Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact
Also available through Amazon and Deseret Book.
"Men need to read this book as much as the women." — The Exponent
"This book gives me a lot of reasons for hope." — FairMormon
"A fuller personification of the expansive LDS doctrine of women's potential." — Mormon Times
"A monumental piece of work that comes at a time when it is sorely needed." — This Week in Mormons
"Read it yourself, then give a copy to your mom, your husband, your bishop, your Relief Society president, and your best girlfriends." — Segullah
Preview the volume here.
Available in ebook for Kindle, Apple, Nook, and Kobo.
Book Description:
Women at Church is a practical and faithful guide to improving the way men and women work together at church. Looking at current administrative and cultural practices, the author explains why some women struggle with the gendered divisions of labor. She then examines ample real-life examples that are currently happening in local settings around the country that expand and reimagine gendered practices. Readers will understand how to evaluate possible pain points in current practices and propose solutions that continue to uphold all mandated church policies. Readers will be equipped with the tools they need to have respectful, empathetic and productive conversations about gendered practices in Church administration and culture.
All royalties from this book go to supporting the Mormon Women Project.
Also, please visit the companion website, womenatchurch.com, to share your own experiences and read about others who have found success in bettering the lives of Mormon women.
Praise for Women at Church:
"Such a timely, faithful, and practical book! I suggest ordering this book in bulk to give to your bishopric, stake presidency, and all your local leadership to start a conversation on changing Church culture for women by letting our doctrine suggest creative local adaptations—Neylan McBaine shows the way!" — Valerie Hudson Cassler, author of Women in Eternity, Women of Zion
"A pivotal work replete with wisdom and insight. Neylan McBaine deftly outlines a workable programme for facilitating movement in the direction of the 'privileges and powers' promised the nascent Female Relief Society of Nauvoo." — Fiona Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
"With her keen insights, Neylan McBaine has emerged as a leading voice in a necessary conversation. Women at Church brings attention to gender issues while offering innovative solutions. A truly remarkable resource that belongs in every Latter-day Saint home!" — Juliann Reynolds, co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of FairMormon
"Neylan McBaine's voice is uniquely important. She speaks as a unifier, knowledgeable of gender issues and attentive to all perspectives. I particularly like her questions—some paradoxical ("How do we respect the traditions, practices, and truths of our earliest progenitors, while holding sacred the rebel explosion of the Restoration?); some rhetorical ("How can we dismiss others' pain simply because we do not feel it ourselves?"); some inviting introspection in all of our conversations about gender ("Who will feel closer to God if my ideas are implemented?"). Women at Church invites respect of all for all, and particularly for any woman who identifies herself as a member of the 'armies of SHElaman' , standing as a witness for Christ in any circumstance and transcending argument with love." — Margaret Blair Young, co-author of Standing on the Promises
"Considered, sensitive, important. Neylan's exceptional ability as a writer has provided us with an in-depth look at issues which will surely open positive avenues for dialogue." — Beverly Campbell, author of Eve and the Choice Made in Eden
"In her timely and brilliant findings, Neylan McBaine issues a gracious invitation to rethink our assumptions about women's public Church service. Well researched, authentic, and respectful of the current Church administrative structure, McBaine shares exciting and practical ideas that address diverse needs and involve all members in the meaningful work of the Church." — Camille Fronk Olson, author of Women of the Old Testament and Women of the New Testament
"Smart, aware and concerned, Neylan McBaine provides thought-provoking stories and ideas about giving more prominence to LDS women's voices. We hope this book will also prompt LDS couples to discuss their Priesthood partnerships." — Linda and Richard Eyre, authors of The Turning: Why the State of the Family Matters and What the World Can Do about It
"Neylan compellingly describes how LDS women do find, and might expand, their personal, spiritual, and organizational empowerment in the LDS Church as it functions in local wards and stakes—where women serve as leaders who supervise and preach, teach, and minister to fellow church members." — Maxine Hanks, editor of Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
"In Women at Church, Neylan McBaine artfully addresses the perception of Mormon feminism from the perspective of an orthodox believer; weaving their stories in with those who have traditionally been maligned for identifying concerns surrounding the position of women in the LDS Church. Rather than pose church members as opposing factions, Neylan draws us closer together in a narrative that highlights our potentially common goals. The book is accessible and offers a way forward for faithful seekers to highlight the contributions of women in the Church and empower all people in the spirit of equity in the Gospel of Christ." — Lindsay Hansen Park, founder of the Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast
"Neylan McBaine has a wonderful mind! What I love about it is her ability to focus on the important, essential questions, without getting distracted by instant solutions. Good questions are the only way to finding good answers." — Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Power of Everyday Missionaries
"Her approach is one of consensus building, while taking into account the very real differences that occur among members. She is hopeful, and calls for ways of staying within the church in order to improve it for everybody. I like her approach. I find her hope infectious. . . . Upon finishing, I handed this book to my husband. If we are going to talk about gender issues at church, men need to read this book as much as the women who might be confused or suffering. I hope many local leaders take the time to listen, whether to McBaine or to the men and women who might approach them with concerns and suggestions." — Emily January Petersen, The Exponent
"This book gives me a lot of reasons for hope." — S. Hales Swift, FairMormon
"I thank God for people like Neylan, speaking from a place of faithfulness and rootedness in the Mormon tradition." — Jana Reiss, Flunking Sainthood
"Women at Church engenders true empathy and inspires faithful action—a potent combination for those who wish to enrich the experiences of LDS women at church." — Blair Hodges, By Common Consent
"Those looking for a book of principles for addressing gender concerns . . . may find much in Women at Church to help LDS women have broader impact, less frustration and a fuller personification of the expansive LDS doctrine of women's potential." — Wendy Ulrich, Mormon Times
"This is a monumental piece of work that comes at a time when it is sorely needed. . . . . Neylan McBaine makes an excellent case for healing and pushing forward as a unified front in Women at Church." — Geoff Openshaw, This Week in Mormons
"I wholeheartedly recommend Women at Church. Read it yourself, then give a copy to your mom, your husband, your bishop, your Relief Society president, and your best girlfriends." — Shelah, Segullah
"I greatly enjoyed this book . . . There is work to be done in Zion, the good work of loving The Lord and loving each other." — Emmett O. Rabs, Approaching Justice
"What Neylan does, and does at a much-needed time, is allow the discussion of the roles and experiences of women and the church to be presented in a non-threatening manner." - Brandt Malone, The Cultural Hall Podcast
Podcasts and Interviews:
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In November 2011, in the wake of Austria's failure to qualify for UEFA EURO 2012, Marcel Koller took over as head coach with a brief to restore the Alpine nation's languishing footballing fortunes. The decision to appoint a coach from neighbouring Switzerland was not without its detractors. The media and a handful of commentators were noisily sceptical, but seven months down the line, association president Leo Windtner's controversial choice appears vindicated.
The nation which finished third at the FIFA World Cup™ way back in 1954 have just posted their best-ever placing since the introduction of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, rising from 73rd all the way to 58th. A leap of 15 places means the Austrians are the fourth-best climbers in June 2012, beaten only by Benin (52 places), the Central African Republic and New Zealand (30 places each).
Much of the credit for the Austrian revival lies with Koller. After a two-year break from the game, the former Cologne and Bochum boss chose to take up this new challenge in the full knowledge that expectations would be running high. After just two weeks in the job, he led his new charges for the first time in a friendly against UEFA EURO 2012 co-hosts Ukraine. Koller's team fell to an unfortunate 2-1 defeat, but even at that early stage, there were signs of a revolution in the offing.
Austria have remained undefeated in the time since, beating Finland 3-1 back in February, and taking revenge on Ukraine by a 3-2 margin in early June. "This win was eminently important, because the team saw that it's worth working hard. But it's equally important not to read too much into the result," said the Swiss native, praising and admonishing his men in the same breath. A goalless draw a few days later against Romania, currently 52nd in the rankings, rated as another creditable result for the young Austrian team.
It's like a young plant, which we want to keep on watering.
Koller knows that his job consists of taking one small step at a time, as reflected in his own assessment of the situation: "It's like a young plant, which we want to keep on watering." The tender care and careful nurture has led to an early summer blossoming, as Austria are coming along extremely well. Their 524 ranking points mean they are a whisker away from a place in the European top 30.
Koller has been fortunate to inherit a side containing a pair of truly promising young players. David Alaba, described as Austria's "footballing gem" by distinguished former international Andreas Herzog, is rapidly assuming significant responsibility in the ranks of the men in red and white.
The 19-year-old Bayern Munich utility man rates as his country's most talented young player and became the youngest ever Austrian Footballer of the Year in 2011. "He's just great to watch," Koller said admiringly. "Alaba is so much at home in midfield. That's his position, where he's in the thick of the action. He's young, dynamic and keen to kick on."
Many hopes also ride on enfant terrible Marko Arnautovic, scorer of a stunning winning goal in the 3-2 victory over Ukraine. The national coach appreciates the difficulty of getting the best out of the talented but combustive Werder Bremen star. "I'm convinced Austria will never have many players of his quality," commented Koller, "but I give him plenty of criticism, although never in public. He gets what's coming to him. Arnautovic is a long way off being the finished product."
As are the current Austrian national team, whose next important target is a berth at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. Before the start of qualifying in September with a classic duel against neighbouring Germany, Koller has a few months to work his squad into optimal shape. The process has been set in motion, but all parties will now need to pull in the same direction to maintain their recent resurgence.


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|Ripberger, J., C. Silva, H Jenkins-Smith and M. James. 2015. "The Influence of Consequence–Based Messages on Public Responses to Tornado Warnings". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(4): 577-590.
|Ripberger, J. C. Silva, H. Jenkins-Smith, D. Carlson, M. James and K. Herron. 2015. "False Alarms and Missed Events: The Impact and Origins of Perceived Inaccuracy in Tornado Warning Systems." Risk Analysis, 35(1): 44-56.
|Kahan, Dan M. and Hank Jenkins-Smith, Tor Tarantola, Carol L Silva, and Donald Braman. 2015. "Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication." Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Sci. v. 658: 192-222.
|Carlson, D., Ripberger, J., Jenkins-Smith, H., Silva, C., Gupta, K., Berrens, R., & Jones, B. A. 2016 (forthcoming). "Contingent valuation and the policymaking process: An application to used nuclear fuel in the United States". Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
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|Waterman, Richard, Carol Silva and Hank Jenkins-Smith. 2014. The Presidential Expectations Gap: Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
|Jenkins-Smith, Hank, Carol Silva, Kerry Herron, Sarah Trousset, and Rob Rechard. 2012. "Enhancing Acceptability and Credibility of a Repository for the Management of Used Nuclear Fuel." National Academy of Engineering: The Bridge 42(2): 49-58.
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|Moynihan, Donald P., and Carol Silva. 2008. "The Administrators of Democracy: A Research Note on Local Election Officials." Public Administration Review 68 (5): 816-827.
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I'm a little late. But this is in response to Cee's Share Your World Monday prompts. Looking at the questions this week, they are a little harder to answer, requiring a deeper thought/humanity on my part.
What is your most vivid memory of the kitchen in your childhood?
My most vivid memory is actually not a good one. But it is coming home from daycare one day, my dad had picked me up. At eight, my dad did not pick me up, that was my biological mother's job. But that day, I walked up to the kitchen from the garage and found the microwave gone. Not on its stand. I remember my dad hugging my sister and I, he cried I don't know if I did. All I remember is that woman chose to take the microwave and leave me behind.
As a child, who was your favorite relative?
Oh that is and easy one. My Aunt Birdie (not her real name but that is what we called her forever, until my stepmother had a cow). She was a school teacher and her and my uncle lived on a farm. But she always had art supplies and food and school supplies. It was a good place to be.
What did you or did most like about the first apartment you ever rented?
It was 400 square feet. Tiny. But I got to decorate it and clutter it and yes sadly clean it. But when I had it to myself it was just the right size. The worst thing about it? I shared it with my ex. lol
What kind of TV commercial would you like to make? Describe it.
I get to be completely narcissistic here. But it would be for a promo about a movie based on a novel I will someday right. I can dream can't I?
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful that Twitch worked and I was able to see some awesome highlights from a channel because I missed the stream on Sunday due to life. (life!!) I am grateful that my phone and my computer have figured themselves out and that my mother will not be making anymore surprise visits at the house. (cross my fingers)
The week coming up? Well I hope I get some writing done. 😀


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The drama was over and done with, but what did the confrontation mean in the longer life run? The drawn out debate wasn't pointless, but I learned how to handle it better next time. If someone has a personal problem with me I will try to keep it private, publically stating this of course and hopefully comeing to a resonable discussion off the flame war board.
I meditated on the point of me being a warrior for Luna and recieved a question back, "What are you fighting for?" This question made me aware about how lost I was about where I need to be. I can't just pick useless fights, I need to do something with my fighting spirit to help the community, not add fire to the drama.
People in general are drawn to drama, but what is the Pagan community fighting for. PCP points out how Pagans hang on the tail ends of any universal ideal important to us; gay rights, religious rights, employment rights just to name a few. The Pagan community cannot just take a backseat in other's protests, letting them do all the work while we cheer at the victory.
I'm not saying there aren't Pagans out there who don't stand up and take a frontal position in social protecting, but I'm concerned the larger community is complacent in preforming their occult practices behind closed doors.
However, if Pagans stay behind closed doors public pagan figures like Fiona Horne, Silver Ravenworlf, Edain McCoy and others will continue to sell a false history and money hungry image. Even if you want to stay in the broom closet, like me, there are ways to take a stand in the Pagan community. I write a blog, Brook Stargazer has a podcast and even just talking to individuals about your fatih can help bring about a change in perception about Pagans.
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Carl Andre (b. 1935)
14 Rack Row
steel, in 14 units
each: 1/3 x 9½ x 18 7/8 in. (1 x 24 x 48 cm.)
overall: 1/3 x 133 x 18 7/8 in. (1 x 336 x 48 cm.)
Executed in 1968.
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P. de Jonge, ed., Carl Andre, exh. cat., Haags Gemeentemuseum den Haag and Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, January-March 1987, p. 30, no. 20.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
An excellent and rare example of Andre's early work, 14 Rack Row cuts through the space that contains it. Blazing a path in fourteen units of rolled-steel, 14 Rack Row is a geographic terrain that captures Andre's assertion, "Most of my works-- certainly the successful ones-- have been ones that are in a way causeways-- they cause you to make your way along them or around them or to move the spectator over them. They're like roads, but certainly not fixed point vistas. I think that sculpture should have an infinite point of view. There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be" (C. Andre, quoted in A. Bourdon, A Redefinition of Sculpture, exh. cat., New York, 1978, p. 27).
Myriad influences are combined and distilled into Carl Andre's breakthrough minimalist works like 14 Rack Row. From the sea harbors and quarries of his childhood surroundings, to his teenage visit to Stonehenge; from sharing studio space with Frank Stella to his work on the railroads during the early 1960s - these influences all converged and collided to allow for Andre's introduction of novel ideas of space, sculptural form and material.
Always concerned with placement, Andre's pieces consciously articulate the space in which they are situated. Departing from the tradition of chiseling and cutting away at matter to create sculpture, Andre decided that "rather than cut into the material," he would "use the material as the cut in space." He developed a mathematical grammar that takes nothing away from the material itself, but works like Brancusi's Endless Column , through simple permutations in space. Andre's sculptures are nonetheless paradoxical: they are usually made up of a substantial mass of material that clearly asserts its physical presence but yet has no significant volume.
Andre's floor pieces are flat, modular, and made of ordinary materials; they thus challenge all traditional preconceptions of sculpture as a three-dimensional object executed in marble or bronze. Their flatness, however, by no means diminishes their presence. As the artist states: "I don't think of them as being flat at all. I think in a sense, that each piece supports a column of air that extends to the top of the atmosphere. They're zones." (C. Andre, quoted in R. Lauter, Carle Andre, Extraneous Roots, Frankfurt-on-main, 1991, p. 17). For this reason Andre describes these works as "plains" (rather than "planes") to call attention to their role in creating a place that can, in fact, be entered.
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I wanted to show all the pictures I took in Japan but I can't of course (how badly I ever want to) because 500 pictures just won't fit on the site. Therefore I've tried to do some collages to show off the best stuff in one picture.
The pictures are a little bit messy, everyone ain't from the exacly same place and time. I mixed them for more effect and variarity.
Anyway, we "climbed" a mountain (with ropeway) to get a view of Mt. Fuji. Yes, we were too lazy to climb the actuall mountain, let us! We had walked two days before in rain to visit a cave and the Premium Outlet so we were kind of tired and sore and an easy trip was nice. The mounain has this kind of story that I told about before. About a racoon who kills the rabbits friends wife and as revenge the rabbit put the racoon on fire and made him run all way down to the water were the rabbit made him drown. Nice little story, huh?
We saw Tokyo from both top and below, their high buildings are really cool! Walking around in the crazy heat in Tokyo we visit every big shopping center we could find. Their aircondition was very welcoming and it was fun to find stuff to good prices. If you are a tourist, you have to tour. We walked to different temples in Kyoto and we even found scouts from other parts of the world.
Problably the most important part. The Jamboreen camp! We went on different activities each day like Science where we got to drive a solar panel driven car, Culture where we got to try typical things from different countries, go to the beach at the water activity, visit Hiroshima and hear about the tragedy at the peace program and much more! Beside that we got to visit other camps and meet people all around the world! It was really something never to forget. All these expressions from everywhere you could think of, not only Japan! Now afterwards I can tell I was right about that I wouldn't miss a single thing. Sounds strange but everything that happened is a part of the adventure and experience.
I hope I get to go on the next Jamboreen in USA, 2019!


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That's why L&Q is an Investors in People Gold standard employer. We want to employ and retain great people by helping them develop their skills and capabilities. Our investment in learning and development is among the highest in our sector.
We offer our staff:
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It feels almost un-American to admit that there's no bottle of ketchup in my refrigerator. Certainly I was raised to believe there ought to be, along with a bottle of slightly thicker so-called "chili sauce." Cocktail sauce, made the Midwestern way, combined the two in equal parts, along with a dab of horseradish. And cocktail sauce was the only thing to serve with cold, boiled shrimp, even in fancy restaurants.
The trouble is, shrimp cocktail ought to taste better than it does. I always want the sauce to be zippier, and the shrimp to be freshly cooked and tender, not rubbery.
Given a choice, I'd really rather be eating a Mexican cóctel de mariscos, a tall glass filled with seafood and topped up with an extraordinary tomato salsa spiked with jalapeños and serranos, chopped onion and fresh lime juice. Whenever my travels in Mexico take me to coastal regions, I always stop by at least one beach restaurant to indulge in this stellar concoction. It is known there, aptly, as vuelve a la vida, or "return to life," whether for a diner in need of restoration or as a morning-after hangover cure.
Despite my nostalgia, I have noticed that even in Mexico, would-be modern cooks are now using ketchup instead of real tomatoes, and Worcestershire and Tabasco for seasoning. To get an authentic seafood cóctel, you are better off making it at home. It's not that difficult, and this dish really is all about the sauce.
To make the tomato salsa, the tomatoes and jalapeños are first charred and blackened over a hot grill, then whizzed unpeeled in a blender with a splash of water and a little salt. The resulting rustic, slightly smoky salsa has a surprising depth and liveliness for such little effort. It's important to thin the salsa (with clam juice or water) to a soupy consistency.
As for seafood, it's nice to have a mixture. You'll want sweet wild shrimp, but also clams, mussels and crab meat. Some people add raw oysters, chunks of lime-marinated fish or lightly cooked squid. Your choice. Layer the chilled salsa and seafood into tall, thick-walled glasses.
Now for the important finishing touches. Be generous with the crisp chopped onion and slivered serrano chiles, and especially so with the final squeeze of lime.