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I have always loved France, ever since my youth! I studied French at school to matriculation level, by which time I had started to automatically think in French! I loved the lyrical flow of the language and translating 'La Gloire de Mon Père' by Marcel Pagnol. This autobiography was later made into a film by Yves Robert called 'My Father's Glory', along with its sequel, 'My Mother's Castle' , both very romantic movies, which showcase Provence through the eyes of a child. See : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099669/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099266/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt .
We love French films – their beauty, sensitivity and humour – and really enjoyed our visits to the French Film festival every year in Melbourne. Another two lovely French children's films are 'The Fox and the Child', set in the beautiful countryside of the Jura Mountains in Eastern France (see trailer at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyqq87u4GPw ) and the magical 'La Clé des Champs' with a wonderful soundtrack by Bruno Coulais. You can see the film trailer at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU-X_DCCoQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1TlwvS1mPc . The film makers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou also made 'Genesis' and 'Microcosmos'.
Some of my favourite artists are also French. I love the light-filled joyous art work of the Impressionists, which we viewed at Jeu de Paume in Paris, on my first overseas trip. We loved every single painting! We visited Monet's home in Giverny on our second trip to France ten years later – such a spectacular garden ! We loved all the roses and of course, the famous Waterlily pond. See : http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htmI also adore Renoir's sumptuous women and would love to visit his home and garden, 'Les Collettes', at Cagnes-sur-Mer in the South-East France one day. See : http://www.amb-cotedazur.com/renoir-museum-cagnes-sur-mer/. The recent film about his later years, titled 'Renoir' is another beautiful romantic movie, set in the Domaine du Rayol. The trailer can be viewed here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTiQ_quEPA.
There are some wonderful French gardens from artistic potagers to medieval herb and physic gardens and of course, roses!!! The French have a long history of rose breeding and appreciation.
Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon I, adored roses. Between 1804-1814, she amassed the greatest and largest rose collection in the world at her Château de Malmaison. The collection was made up of about 250 species and varieties, including 167 Gallicas, 27 Centifolias, 22 Chinas, 9 Damasks, 8 Albas, 4 Spinosissimas, 3 Luteas, R. moschata, R. carolina, and R. setigera. During the Napoleonic wars, the French Navy was enlisted to confiscate any plants or rose seeds from ships at sea and her large purchases from the British nursery, Kennedy and Lee, were permitted safe passage through the naval blockade. She commissioned artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté to paint all the roses in her collection and he produced 3 beautiful volumes with 170 watercolour plates, 'Les Roses', which were published from 1817-1824. Josephine's contribution to rose history is remembered in the names of 2 Old Roses : a Gallica called 'Empress Josephine' and one of my favourite Bourbons, 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' (2nd photo). The 1st photo is a Moss rose called Chapeau de Napoléon, with its buds shaped like his three cornered cockade hat.France has produced a number of very famous rose breeders and growers from Josephine's gardener, André Dupont, to Jacques-Louis Descamet, who produced 200 new varieties of roses between 1804-1814; Jean-Pierre Vibert, the first French rose-breeder, who bought Descemet's nursery in 1815 and produced more than 600 new varieties and Alexandre Hardy, who was the chief horticulturalist at Luxembourg Gardens in Paris from 1817 to 1859 and left more than 80 cultivars with China genes in them, including the Damask rose in the photo below named after his wife, Mme Hardy. Her blooms each have a beautiful green eye and smell superb.
There are some very famous rose breeding families in France :
- Brothers Philippe and Louis Noisette launched the Noisette rose group in Europe.
- The Guillot family (with 6 generations involved) are famous for producing the first Hybrid Tea, La France, in 1867.
- The Pernet-Ducher family produced the first yellow Hybrid Tea 'Soleil d'Or' in 1900 and also boast 6 generations of rose breeders.
- The Delbard family has operated a rose nursery in Allier for over 75 years and
- The Meilland Family are also very famous, especially with their breeding of the Hybrid Tea, 'Peace', released in 1945 . Its story is recounted in that delightfully charming book : 'For Love of a Rose' by Antonia Ridge. Peace is photographed below and also goes by the name of 'Madame A. Meilland' (the name of the breeder's deceased mother), Gioia (Italy) and Gloria Dei (Germany).
Other well-known French rose breeders include :
- Réné Barbier, who developed the Wichuriana ramblers;
- Gilbert Nabonnand, who bred a number of Chinas and Teas;
- Jules Gravereaux, who developed Roseraie de l'Hay, the first garden devoted exclusively to roses;
- Jean Deprez, who bred one of my favourite Noisettes: Deprez à Fleurs Jaunes, featured on the top of my blog page and in the photo below and
- André Eve, a passionate collector and disseminator of Old Roses.
If we are ever lucky enough to travel overseas and visit France again, I would dearly love to visit 'La Bonne Maison', Lyons, the wonderful rose garden developed by Old Rose expert, Odile Masquelier. My daughter acted as proxy on her overseas trip a few years ago and returned with Odile's book about the development of her garden, unfortunately written in French! I spent a lovely dreamy week translating her book and hope I did it justice!!! You can view her website here : http://www.labonnemaison.org/ . These are a few of my daughter's photos in tulip time, unfortunately a little too early for the roses!
I would also love to visit Eléonore Cruse's amazing rose garden 'Roseraie de Berty' at Largentière, Ardeche. See http://www.roseraie-de-berty.com/ and for an English version : http://roseraiedeberty.free.fr/english_catalogues.html .
As well as Roseraie de l'Hay, les Jardins de l'Imaginaire, Les Chemins de la Rose in Doué la Fontaine, Château de Miromesnil, Coulommiers Medieval Garden, Jardin aux Plantes parfumées la Bouichère, Terre Vivante and Jardin le Vasterival to name a few….
For a taster, see : http://www.french-gardens.com/gardens/gardenstovisit.php
and http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens/in/france .
The French Motorways are lined with huge hedges of Rugosa roses : Rugosa Alba (white) and Scabrosa (purple).
Also read any books by Louisa Jones : Gardens of the French Riviera 1992; The Art of French Vegetable Gardening 1995; Kitchen Gardens of France 1999; Provence : A Country Almanac 1999; The French Country Garden : Where the Past Flourishes in the Present 2000; Gardens in Provence 2001; and The French Country Garden 2006 or
Mirabel Osler : The Secret Gardens of France 1993; A Spoon with Every Course: In Search of the Legendary Food of France 1996; and The Elusive Truffle: Travels in Search of the Legendary Food of France 2000)
One garden we did visit on our second trip was Château de Villandry, an amazing potager with wonderful abstract patterns created by clipped box hedges . See : http://www.chateauvillandry.fr/en/ .We have so many wonderful memories of our two trips to France. Some of the highlights included :
My 35th birthday at a private château near Limoges;
My infant daughter's first totally independent hike for 11 km in the Pyrenees;The flamingoes in the Camargue;The wonderful artist villages like Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in the photos below;The 20,000 year old prehistoric cave art in the Dordogne. This photo is a bas relief of aurochs from Forneau du Diable, Bordeilles;The Cathar ruins : Roquefixade in the top photo; Montesegur in the 2nd photo.The Standing Stones of Carnac;And the beautiful countryside, wild flowers and poppies in wheat fields, rustic villages and the generosity of the French people, who love children and opened their homes and hearts to us!Mean time, we enjoy our little corner of France in our Candelo garden at 'Maison Rose' and enjoy the beautiful fragrant blooms of roses with French names : Mme Alfred Carrière (1st photo), Mme Isaac Péreire (2nd and 3rd photo), Lamarque (4th photo), Gloire de Dijon, Chapeau de Napoleon, Madame Louis Lévêque, Aimée Vibert, Mme Hardy, Mme Georges Bruant, Roseraie de l'Hay…!!!And there is always the annual pilgrimage to Werribee Mansion, Melbourne (photos below), or St. John's College, Sydney in January, to enjoy the wonderful music, French food and champagne and French fashions at 'So Frenchy So Chic' (http://www.sofrenchysochic.com.au/).
Or 'Paris to Provence' at Como House every November (http://www.paristoprovence.com.au/) . Both are wonderful days out and incredibly civilized!!!
I believe there is also a very active Alliance Francaise community in Canberra, our closest city (http://www.afcanberra.com.au/culture-and-events/events-to-experience-french-culture/), so we look forward to fuelling our passion further in the years to come! Vive la France!!!


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Mike Michalowicz and Donna Leyens founded Provendus Group with YOU in mind
As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know the struggles that founders and small business owners face. We also understand the huge potential that business ownership offers those who are brave (and let's face it, a little crazy) enough to forge their own path.
You started your business because you have a BIG dream –
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What would our lives be like without small businesses?
We started Provendus Group because we believe to our core that small businesses like yours are essential to our communities and our lives. We do not want to see a world where our only choice is to do business with chain stores and huge, faceless conglomerates where you can't get a live person on the phone (and they torture you with bad muzak while you're trying).
If small businesses are going to thrive, then dedicated entrepreneurs like you need and deserve support. You deserve support in both growing your business, and living the lifestyle that you dreamed of when you started on your entrepreneurial journey. Whether that means being home for dinner every night, attending your kids' soccer games and dance recitals, enjoying real unplugged vacations, or all of the above, we want you to have the time and financial freedom to create your ideal life.
This is why we developed The Pumpkin Plan Action Guide Program, based on the strategies that Mike wrote about in his book The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field. And it's why we brought together a team of highly skilled Business Growth Strategists to help guide you through the process.
What business and pumpkins have in common
The strategies in The Pumpkin Plan came out of Mike Michalowicz's own experience founding, growing and ultimately selling two multi-million dollar companies. If you are wondering about the title, let's just say that Mike had an "aha" moment where he realized that the process for growing a giant one ton pumpkin (you know, the kind that wins awards) also works for growing a giant, extraordinary business.
When Mike started receiving emails and reviews from readers telling him that the strategies in The Pumpkin Plan transformed their businesses and changed their lives, he knew that he had to share this knowledge with as many entrepreneurs as possible. When he also started receiving requests for help implementing those strategies, he knew what he had to do.
An exceptional combination
Mike Michalowicz came together with Donna Leyens, a successful entrepreneur turned kick-ass business coach, to convert these strategies into a process that any business owner could replicate and apply to grow their own "giant pumpkin." They next recruited exceptional business coaches and experts who were aligned with the Provendus mission, to become certified as Provendus Growth Strategists.
Each and every Provendus Stategist is passionate about supporting small business owners like you to grow and thrive in your business and your life
It is our mission to spread these highly effective strategies throughout the world, enabling small business owners like you to build healthy, growing, profitable businesses that make our lives better by offering us choice, variety and new and innovative products and services.
Entrepreneurs Rock – thank you for being one!
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This toy is loud and only has one setting.
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Dear Monster,
I don't want to start this letter by complaining about how fast time flies. But I will.
Three months away from your second birthday & I'm still thinking back to the first one. You could barely walk then, only said Mama & Dada & pointed at things that interested you.
Today, you run around like a monkey, talk our ears off with a big vocabulary & even throw tantrums. Well, as if that wasn't expected. It is what it is, Terrible Two's are here. Tantrums, throwing objects, whining, crying, driving Mama insane. I won't lie, some days I want to lock myself in my room, with a tablespoon dipped in to chocolate spread, telling myself repeatedly, "It will get better."
I've been having very little sleep lately. You're so prone to picking up a cough from another kid at school that you're literally on cough medication every two-three weeks. Humidifier and Karvol are my friends. I just wish you could get better for a little longer than a month. Mama doesn't sleep a lot during the night in fear of you having cough fits. I can't imagine what it is like to be so small & not able to explain what you are feeling & what is wrong. I can imagine the frustration. That's probably why children cry & scream because they have no other way to communicate their needs. If only it was the first thing we parents thought of when handling the situations.
I do hope you get better soon. Mama needs some rest.
Love you always,


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'I'm Cecilia Espejo. It is not easy to describe who I am. Basically, I am what I do. I am a restless entrepreneur, multidisciplinary artist, producer of multidisciplinary performances and installations of art, playwright, project maker, photographer, producer of short films and change-maker. My work experience is multidisciplinary and mostly produced collectively. I believe in art as a great agent of change and in my productions I try to raise awareness about the need for an Artistic Social Responsibility and the introduction of designers and artists in the management of social change. My productions and projects in which I collaborate have a social and environmental base trying to find solutions to the different existing problems. My latest project focuses on the introduction of active and responsible creation workshops in creation spaces and companies, in order to enhance this mission among creators and lovers of creation. This was the incentive to create Craft House Lab. In parallel I am in the flat development of a project with which to look for solutions to eliminate the plastic, like garbage, in the world. '
Cecilia Espejo, with her spirit of co-creation, belongs to two other groups of creation:
Moving Rhizomes e.V. heterogeneous group of multidisciplinary artists, who join forces to create art, dance, music and design projects.
UNITED PLASTIC NATIONS, a concept that they want to introduce and expand in all communities. They consider that the change in the approach to the problem of plastic is imminent. For this change to occur, they are working on creating call-to-action campaigns and mobile recycling units with which to tour all possible cities.
More information on her website: http://ceciliaespejo.com/


text: I love working with clients who like to put a little spin on their interiors. This one in particular took a summer bungalow, added a second floor and modernized the space in an unexpected way. Though the house has a traditional appeal from the street with a farmer's porch and a shingled gray exterior, the inside has a completely different feel. From the floating staircase, to the slate wall, to the contemporary lighting choices, to the custom cabinetry and finish stain on the floors, this house hits it out of the park. It really is a great example of how you can have the best of both worlds.


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Kingdoms of the Yoruba
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 174 sivua
This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography.
The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are descriptions by visitors and from the nineteenth century there are abundant official reports from administrators and missionaries.
Yoruba sculpture in stone, metal, ivory, and wood is famous. Less well-known are the elaborate and carefully designed constitutional forms which were evolved in the separate kingdoms, the methods of warfare and diplomacy, the oral literature, and the religion based on the worship of a "high god" surrounded by a pantheon of more accessible deities. Many of these aspects are shown in the drawings and photographs which have been used—for the first time—to illustrate this distinguished work.
Mitä ihmiset sanovat - Kirjoita arvostelu
Yhtään arvostelua ei löytynyt.
The Primacy of Ife
The Rise of Oyo
Ijesha Ekiti Igbomina Owo and Ondo
Ketu Shabe and Dassa
Ijebu Egba Egbado and Lagos
Part II
An Oba and his People
The Decline and Fall of Old Oyo
The Wars and the New States
On the Threshold of Nigeria
Crowned Oba
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Abeokuta Abiodun Afonja Ajayi and Smith ajele Akinjogbin Akure Alafin Alake army Atiba Awori Awujale Badagry Bashorun Benin Bini Biobaku Borgu British bronzes capital cavalry centre chiefs claim Clapperton coast crown Dahomeans Dahomey described dynasty Egba Egbado Egharevba eighteenth century Ekiti established European example firearms forest Fulani Gaha Gbagura Hausa historian Ibadan Igbo Igboho Igbomina Ijaye Ijebu Ode Ijesha Ilorin important Johnson Kakamfo Ketu king kingship known lagoon Lagos land Lander later legend miles military missionaries Modakeke Morton-Williams neighbours Niger Nigeria nineteenth century northern Nupe Oduduwa Ogun Old Oyo Ondo Oranyan origin Oyo kingdom Oyo's palace passim political Porto Novo probably provinces reign River royal rule ruler seems Shabe slaves Snelgrave suggests terracotta territory throne tion town trade tradition tribute walls warriors West Africa Willett Yoruba kingdoms Yorubaland


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X Factor auditions coming to Lincoln this month
Talent scouts from popular ITV show the X Factor will be coming to Lincoln later this month as part of their 2017 audition tour.
Auditions will take place on Monday, March 13 at the Waterside Shopping Centre from 11am-5pm.
The will also be auditions in Skegness on Saturday, March 11 at Hildreds Shopping Centre from 10am-5pm.
For anyone who isn't able to make it to any of the cities, hopefuls can also send in their own video auditions via the official X Factor website.
If hopefuls impress the X Factor team with their vocals, they will then be in with a chance of auditioning in front of the X Factor judges, when the judges' auditions take place in summer.
Presenter Dermot O'Leary said: "2016 was a fantastic year for The X Factor and now we're about to kick start the auditions for 2017!
"We found some incredible talent and some amazing voices last year and now it could be your turn.
"Just one audition could change your life so if you think you've got what it takes then why don't you apply?"
Acts are advised to turn up early to be sure to grab a slot as the mobile auditions are on a first come, first served basis.


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Palin's overzealous fact checkers and a Mea Culpa (apologies to Oprah and Palin)
Much has been made by conservatives about The Associated Press assigning 11 fact checkers to parse Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue."
The typical rhetorical question, "Where was the venerable AP when Barack Obama wrote his books?", came with the implied or stated assertion that the press is staffed mostly by Obama-loving liberals who hate everything about Palin.
Here's an interesting counterpoint to that assertion. Greg Marx, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, which is highly respected by journalists, faults the AP for its work on the Palin book. And he does so in no uncertain terms.
(This is a few days late, I admit, but I came across it late.)
Asking whether the fact check delivered, Marx writes: "Not so much – at least not if the phrase 'fact check' is to have any meaning."
He adds: "(E)ven accepting all of the AP's claims, several of the cases it mentions are as much matters of interpretation and analysis as factual accuracy. And in some, the Palin statements that it scrutinizes don't even make factual claims – meaning that there's not much to 'check.'"
Marx then goes on to dissect several of the AP's checks that don't check out.
Mea-Culpa time.
As a result of all the hoopla surrounding Palin's tour, I find myself once again ashamed of how the former VP candidate is criticized.
I have said many times in these postings that I think Palin's enemies too often resort to sexist remarks and class warfare to undermine her credibility.
They do so to their peril, as those kinds of attacks alienate middle-American voters who feel scorched by the heat.
Surely more intelligent criticisms are available.
But in a rush of giddiness after hearing Palin would conduct her first TV interview about "Going Rogue" with Oprah Winfrey, I hastily posted a blog that made fun of the interview using exactly the kind of sexist and class-warfare jokes I have written against.
I did so by comparing the then-expected interview to the silly celebrity-boxing match between Paula Corbin Jones (trying to protect her nose job) and Tonya Harding (flailing away with her boob job).
Shame on me.
Oprah and Palin deserve better.
I shouldn't have made the joke, and I regret the gaffe.


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Someone over at a discussion forum I participate in asked who were the best skeptics of the twentieth century. I replied with some of the ones I thought were best - people who started out as skeptics but changed their views when they examined the evidence. I also included some of the individuals who I thought were the worst skeptics - skeptics who were embarrassingly wrong or who engaged in misleading behavior in the pursuit of perpetuating skeptical myths. This is not a complete list of either:
Linus Pauling (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry) said, "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." However, he was proved embarrassingly wrong when in 2011 Dan Shectman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals.
Best (The best skeptic is an ex-skeptic!):
Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander: Alexander started out as a skeptic but after his near death experience he said, "consciousness outside of the brain is a fact. It's an established fact".
In an interview at skeptiko.com, Alexander said:
Coming from a neurosurgeon who, before my coma, thought I was quite certain how the brain and the mind interacted and it was clear to me that there were many things I could do or see done on my patients and it would eliminate consciousness. It was very clear in that realm that the brain gives you consciousness and everything else and when the brain dies there goes consciousness, soul, mind—it's all gone. And it was clear.
Now, having been through my coma, I can tell you that's exactly wrong and that in fact the mind and consciousness are independent of the brain. It's very hard to explain that, certainly if you're limiting yourself to that reductive materialist view.
... consciousness outside of the brain is a fact. It's an established fact.
Dr. Charles Robert Richet (1850–1935, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine). Richet initially scoffed at psychical research but after thirty years of his own investigations he came to believe in telepathy, precognition, ectoplasm, and cryptesthesia (the ability of mediums to obtain information about spirits).
Richet admitted that in the 1870s, he dismissed and even scoffed at parapsychology research being carried out by prominent scientists like Frederic Myers and William Crookes.
(From: When skeptics become believers at netplaces.com/evidence-of-the-afterlife)
Later Richet wrote in his book Thirty Years of Psychical Research:
Perhaps-and I admit it-the innumerable experiments published by eminent men of science would not have convinced me, had I not been a witness of the four fundamental facts of metapsychics. I was an unwilling witness, in no way enthusiastic, very critical, extremely distrustful of the facts that forced themselves upon me. I was able to verify, under unexceptionable conditions
and despite my desire to disprove them, the four essential facts of metapsychics.
These four personal experiences, all four of which carry obvious proof, determined my belief, and that not at once, but after long consideration, meditation, and repetition.
A. Cryptesthesia. Stella, in presence of G., whose family she does not and cannot have known, gave the first names of his son, of his wife, of a deceased brother, of a living brother, of his father-in-law, and of the locality where he lived as a child.
B. Telekinesis. While Eusapia's head and hands were held, a large melon weighing six pounds was moved from the sideboard to the table, the distance between them being over a yard.
C. Ectoplasms. Eusapia was in half light, her left hand in my right and her right in my left tightly held, and before Lodge, Myers, and Ochorowicz, a third hand stroked my face, pinched my nose, pulled my hair, and gave a smack on my shoulder heard by Ochorowicz, Myers, and Lodge.
D. Premonitions. Alice, at 2 P.M. told me, for the first and only time, that I should soon give way to violent anger before one, two, three persons whom she designated with her hand as if she saw them. At G P.M. the unlikely and unforeseeable impertinence of a person absolutely unknown to Alice provoked me to one of the strongest and most justifiable fits of anger of my whole life before two other persons, an anger that led to my receiving a challenge to a duel, the only one I have ever received.
Richard Hodgson:
Richard Hodgson was a skeptic. He had investigated Madam Blavatsky and exposed her as a fraud. Hodgson's investigation of Mrs. Piper proved she was psychic.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851–1940). Lodge started out as a skeptic but after attending sessions with mediums, he came to believe they could communicate with spirits. He eventually published a book of communications from is deceased son Raymond.
(From: When skeptics become believers at netplaces.com/evidence-of-the-afterlife.)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was a prominent British physicist and mathematician credited with significant contributions in the fields of thermal conductivity, thermo-electricity, and electricity. He was the first to transmit a radio signal, even before Marconi, and was also the developer of the Lodge spark plug. Just like other scientists of his time, Lodge did not believe in the possibility of communicating with an afterlife.
In 1883, he came across stage performer Irving Bishop and was impressed and intrigued by the idea of thought transference and telepathy. He began thinking of the possibilities that can arise from the concept of dislocation between body and mind. He stated, "I began to feel that there was a possibility of the survival of personality." Lodge later went on to study the American medium Leonora Piper in 1889, followed by other investigations and research into methods of different popular mediums of the time. He also wrote a book on communication with the spirit of his son who died in a battle. The book was published in 1916 and was called Raymond, or Life After Death.
Sir William Crookes: 1832-1919. Crookes started out as a hostile doubter but later came to believe that Daniel D. Home demonstrated psychokinesis.
Crookes first began his investigations into 'psychic' phenomena in 1869 as a hostile doubter. In his article, 'Spiritualism Viewed by the Light of Modern Science' he declared:
"The increased employment of scientific methods will produce a race of observers who will drive the worthless residuum of spiritualism hence into the unknown limbo of magic and necromancy."
Crookes' experiments with Daniel D. Home demonstrated the existence of a 'psychic force' wholly ignored by science.
Crookes stated:
"Of all persons endowed with a powerful development of this Psychic Force, Mr. Daniel Dunglas Home is the most remarkable and it is mainly owing to the many opportunities I have had of carrying on my investigation in his presence that I am enabled to affirm so conclusively the existence of this force."
Skeptical Investigations explains how the skeptical organization CSICOP while trying to debunk astrology, actually found evidence supporting astrology and "In order to get the result they wanted, ... had to commit a total of six statistical blunders...".
The statistician and psychologist Michael Gauquelin had done a statistical analysis providing evidence that astrology might have some basis in fact. His analysis showed a correlation between the position of Mars in the sky at the time of birth and the odds of a person becoming a sports champion...
In 1976, in an attempt to make this embarrassment go away once and for all, Harvard professor of biostatistics and CSICOP fellow Marvin Zelen proposed a simplified version of the original Gauquelin study which he subsequently performed with the assistance of CSICOP chairman and professor of philosophy Paul Kurtz and George Abell, a UCLA astronomer. In order to get the result they wanted, the trio had to commit a total of six statistical blunders, which are discussed in detail in the article The True Disbelievers: Mars Effect Drives Skeptics to Irrationality by former CSICOP fellow Richard Kammann. Proper analysis showed that the new study actually supported the Gauquelin effect.
Lots more worst skeptics here.
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This year has been off to a terrible start. My financial aid got suspended (something stupid that only community colleges are subject to), and I had to appeal it. On top of that, they decided to add a 2 week delay to all financial aid. I almost became homeless as a result (I couldn't find a place to rent either). On top of that, my mother found out in mid January that she has leukemia. She was given a months worth of trial chemo pills, which are normally $10,000 a month. She was waiting to hear back on an application to get it at a reduced price. She ran out of medication waiting for this application to go through. This past week they finally approved the application. Things have been really stressful. All three problems have now been resolved, but man… what a shitty start to a new year. I'm hoping to regain some measure of focus and order in my life now. Whew. When it rains, it pours? Maybe.
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As an anonymous lurker coming from time to time to read the blog, i feel saddened by such news. My best thoughts to your mother and to you! Life is wonderful but it's also sometimes a damn roller-coaster. Don't give up!
Oh that's are bad news man 😦 , for you and your mom .
I hope you find a quick solution to your housing problem, and your mom health problems can be resolved, I am wholeheartedly with you.
Take care, and put everything else aside.
Really sorry to hear of your woes. I lost my dad a couple weeks back to lung cancer, so I feel your pain. I hope her finances come through and keep coming through.
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MURATA, Celina; MALLMANN, Felipe; YAMAZAKI, Ester and CAMPOS, Mauro. Anterior ocular segment study with the Scheimpflug rotational camera in refractive surgery candidates. Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. [online]. 2007, vol.70, n.4, pp.619-624. ISSN 0004-2749. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-27492007000400012.
PURPOSE: To analyze the anterior segment of refractive surgery candidates and establish the variability pattern in this population regarding corneal volume, anterior chamber volume and depth and corneal thickness, using the noncontact three dimensional analyzer Pentacam®. METHODS: A retrospective study of 297 eyes of 149 patients was conducted using Pentacam®. According to the spherical equivalent value two groups were created, myopia (n=242 eyes) and hyperopia (n=55 eyes), to analyze the variables of corneal volume, anterior chamber volume and depth and corneal thickness. RESULTS: The mean values of the myopia group were: corneal total volume 59.37 ± 3.51mm3, corneal volume at 3 mm 3.87 ± 0.23 mm3, at 5 mm 11.31 ± 0.67 mm3, and at 7 mm 24.30 ± 1.43 mm3, anterior chamber volume 198.74 ± 32.40 mm3, anterior chamber depth 3.19 ± 0.28 mm and corneal thickness 533.33 ± 33.47 mm. In the hyperopia group, the mean total corneal volume was 60.77 ± 3.31 mm3, corneal volume at 3 mm from the apex was 4.01 ± 0.20 mm3, at 5 mm was 11.73 ± 0.58 mm3, and at 7 mm was 25.09 ± 1.21 mm3, the anterior chamber volume was 146.61 ± 32.86 mm3, the anterior chamber depth was 2.76 ± 0.38 mm and the corneal thickness was 550.52 ± 29.49 mm. The difference between the groups was significant for all variables (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: We observed in this study that patients with myopia had lesser mean corneal volume and pachymetry, and greater anterior chamber depth and volume compared with hyperopic patients.
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Prof. Somenath Ganguly
Publications done by Prof. Somenath Ganguly
Publications: 2015 - 2016
- Double layer capacitance for different thicknesses of carbon overlay and types of electrolytes: A circuit analogue approach. by S. Singh, Supriya S., S.K.A. Rakib, M.P. Chavhan, S.Ganguly Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, DOI: 10.1002/apj.196 (2016)
- Diffusion in and around alginate and chitosan films with embedded sub-millimeter voids by Patra S., Bal D.K., Ganguly S. Materials Science & Engineering C, 59 Page 61-6 (2016)
- Effectiveness of foam-gel formulation in homogenizing the CO2 front during subsurface sequestration by Bal D.K., Patra S., Ganguly S. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 27(2) Pages 994-1004 (2015)
- Preferential displacement of the lighter components of crude oil by injection of hot inert gas by Ruidas B.C., Ganguly S. Heat and Mass Transfer, 52(5) Page 1071-1080 (2016)
- Bubble pinch-off in a cross flowing biopolymer stream by Patra S., Ganguly S. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 19(4) Pages 767-776 (2015)
Publications: 2014 - 2015
- Bubble formation in complex fluids using an orifice in throat arrangement. by Patra S., Bal D.K., Ganguly S. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 64: 62-69 (2015)
- Diffusion of moisture from hydrogel scaffold with induced porosity from self-assembled bubbles. by Patra S., Bal D.K., Ganguly S. Drying Technology, 33(3): 336-345 (2015)
- Enhancement of solute release from chitosan scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids by Jagadeesh A., Chaudhari G.G., Bal D.K., Patra S., Ganguly S. . Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, 64(3): 134-139 (2015)
- Steam reforming of methane and methanol in simulated macro & micro-scale membrane reactors: Selective separation of hydrogen for optimum conversion by Singh A.P., Singh S., Ganguly S., Patwardhan A.V.P. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 18: 286-295 (2014)
- Use of orifice-in-throat device to make alginate scaffolds with embedded voids of sub-millimeter tunable dimensions by Bal, D.K., Patra, S., Ganguly, S. Microsystem Technologies, 20(7): 1359-1364 (2014)
Publications: 2013 - 2014
- Progression of a thermal front in porous media of finite length due to the injection of an inert gas by Ruidas B.C., Ganguly S Journal of Porous Media, 17(2) 179-184 (2014)
- Drying characteristics and evolution of the pore space in alginate scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids. by Bal, D.K., Patra, S., Ganguly, S Journal of Sol Gel Science and Technology, 68(2) 254-260 (2013)
- Enhancement of solute release from alginate scaffold with embedded sub-millimeter voids. by Bal, D.K., Ganguly, S Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, 25(1) 51-60 (2014)
- Effect of heat diffusion in the burden on the dissociation of methane in a hydrate bearing formation. by Vinaykumar B.G., Singh A.P., Ganguly S Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 16, 70-76 (2014)
- Effect of pressure pulsing on concentration boundary layer over membrane - a numerical investigation. by Lalrinsanga, R.K., Bejgam, N.B., Ganguly, S. Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 8(4) 519-526 (2013)
Publications: 2012 - 2013
Passive mixing of co-flowing slugs in grooved microchannels. by Hasnain, S., Kumar, A., Ganguly, S. Microsystem Technologies, 19:17-24 (2013)
Publications: 2011 - 2012
- Effect of pressure gradient on the flow of oil and water in gel-filled pore. by Ganguly S. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 89(11) 2380-2388 (2011)
- Effect of structural, thermal and flow parameters on steam reforming of methane in a catalytic microreactor. by Patil R.A., Patnaik A., Ganguly S., Patwardhan, A.V Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 89(10) 2159-2167 (2011)
Publications: 2010 - 2011
- Displacement of Cr(III) – partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide gelling solution in a fracture in porous media by Somenath Ganguly Transport in Porous Media, 84, 201-218 (2010)
- Use of fracture as a planar source of flow to determine the effect of stagnant zone on the dilution of a front by Somenath Ganguly Journal of Porous Media, 14 (2011)
Publications: 2009 - 2010
Leak-off during placement of Cr(III)-partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide gelling solution in fractured porous media by Ganguly S. Transport in Porous Media, 81:443-460 (2010)
Publications: 2008 - 2009
Rupture of polyacrylamide gel in a tube in response to aqueous pressure gradients by Ganguly S. Soft Materials, 7(1): 37-53 (2009)
Publications: 2007 - 2008
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How come every index search I try for genealogy on the Internet leads to a page asking for my credit card information? Shouldn't information be free?
and then,
How can I decide what I should pay for? I don't want to pay for something that's free elsewhere or that I won't really use.
So I sometimes include a session focused on these questions.
Lately I've noticed several magazine articles on 'free genealogy' and some forum discussions too, so this seems a timely topic.
I do feel that much of the very best information for genealogy and family history on the Internet has always been free and I am happy to recommend these sources - RootsWeb.com for example, and FamilySearch.org. Then there are the specialized reference websites, like the Canadian Genealogy Centre for Canadian genealogy and family history and Genuki.org.uk for British. Even the standard version of my favourite genealogy software is free to download - Legacy at Legacyfamilytree.com.
Nothing is really altogether 'free' though - after all, someone is paying the expenses involved in gathering information, compiling indexes and databases and programming and maintaining computers and websites. It might be with volunteer donations, it might be government, or it could be a commercial company like Ancestry.com (for RootsWeb) or Millennia Corporation (for Legacy) paying. We need to let them know how much we appreciate their efforts. (Thank you to all the above from me! )
I believe it's important to emphasize that putting information and services on the Internet does cost money. Genealogy and family history societies, for instance, need to generate some income from their indexes and publications, so that new ones can be developed or older ones updated. Individual genealogists too may be paying all the cost themselves - doing it 'for love'. Here's an article by Lorelle on WordPress that outlines the costs for a genealogy blog, for instance, The Blog Budget. (Sometimes you do see a 'donate please' button on an individual or group's genealogy site. Please consider 'clicking' if you found the website or service helpful.)
Even with all volunteer labour, there are always bills to pay. Sometimes, in the heat of discussion, this is forgotten. I do love getting information for free, but I hope I won't ever begrudge paying for services, publications, or access to indexes, etc. that are worthwhile to me.
Here are some of the questions I ask, and some things I consider when choosing how I will spend my 'on-line genealogy' dollars to purchase genealogy and family history services, subscriptions, etc.
#1. What kinds of research are you doing right now or planning to do very soon? Consider: geography, time periods, the types of records you need.
#1. What kinds of research are you doing right now or planning to do very soon? Consider: geography, time periods, the types of records you need.
Write up a new research plan for each on-going or future project. (Here's an article by Kimberly Powell about genealogy research plans with an example: Think Like a Detective - Developing a Genealogy Research Plan.)
Can you 'save up' research to make a short term subscription 'pay'? This is what I often do for my on-line Swedish research - which still necessitates using pay sites. After all, a subscription is much cheaper than a trip to Sweden. And when I do get there, I'll be visiting the 'right' places and ready to do more research - parts that can't be done on the Internet or at home.
What services or tools do you feel would be helpful to you?
Do you have any time restrictions? Are you preparing for a reunion or a genealogy trip, perhaps, and need or want to do all you can from home first?
How important is convenience to you right now; how much time do you have (and when)? How important is ease of use; and accessibility. If you have time during the week to visit a library or Family History Center, for example, you may be able to use commercial databases there, but if your genealogy time is 'middle of the night', personal subscriptions make sense.
What type of computer, browser, firewall, etc. do you use? How comfortable are you with computers and the Internet? Do you have a technology 'guru' of your own? (Some sites require you to use specialized software, for example. More on this later.)
#2. What's your $ genealogy budget? Be realistic here :-)
#2. What's your $ genealogy budget? Be realistic here :-)
Be sure to think about both on-line and off-line genealogy. Do you plan to order a number of English marriage certificates, soon, for instance, or is there a genealogy seminar or conference coming up? Would you like to take a special class in the fall? Or are you determined to have an autosomal DNA test done?
Think about adding in at least a small $ cushion for those unexpected opportunities, maybe that hard to find book that pops up in an e-Bay listing.
You'll notice that I put the $ question second. That's because I feel if you don't have a research plan, and haven't thought about your own research preferences and restrictions, then no matter how many dollars you have, you won't get the best results.
This is Part 1 of 3. Part 2 - how to find genealogical recommendations and reviews - is coming very soon. I'll be very interested in your comments and ideas about genealogy budgeting.
This post was written for the 93rd Carnival of Genealogy! Hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene.


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The ABC's of Me
A- Age: 54... when did I get so OLD?
B- Bed size: King made for three! Me, hubby and my Westie Yogi
C- Chore you hate: cleaning the bathroom ... eeeeww...yuck!
D- Dog's name: Yogi (AKA- Yogster, Yogurt, Yoginess, The King)
E- Essential food/item: cream for coffee... no skim milk allowed
F- Favorite color: periwinkle blue
G- Gold or silver: gold wedding rings, but silver everywhere else
H- Height: 5'7"...but may be shrinking now...
I- I am: sooooooo DONE with snow!! :-(
J- Job: special education /assistive technology teacher
K- Kids: 2 boys...now men, not yet married
L- Living arrangements: northern VA (suburb of D.C), home in a nice neighborhood
M-Mom's name: Gladys.... a truly beautiful woman!
N- Nickname: You have to ASK with a name like Polly????
O- Overnight hospital stay: 2 C-sections, hysterectomy, all years ago
P- Pet peeve: people who don't pick up after themselves
Q- Quote from a movie: "There's no place like home."
R- Right or left handed: all righty then
S- Siblings: 3 sisters...we are all 4 years apart...I am the baby
T- Time you wake up: for work- 6:15am... otherwise about 8:00ish
U- Unique thing about your car: it can be an automatic or you can shift it! (Rogue)
V- Vegetable you hate: all beans, collards, turnips, brussel sprouts...
W- Ways you run late: waiting for the husband and/or sons... grrrr!
X- X-rays you've had: not very many...been lucky!
Y- Yummy food you make: meatballs, Chicken Parm and Piccata
Z- Zoo favorite: otters...so graceful and playful
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The Football Association today launched an investigation into the crowd trouble which marred the derby clash between Aston Villa and Birmingham.
Spokesman Adrian Bevington said the FA were "taking seriously" the events at Villa Park with an ill-tempered affair boiling over in the second half.
Fans came on to the pitch, with one spectator confronting City midfielder Robbie Savage, while Villa followers tried to attack Blues supporters situated in the Doug Ellis Stand after the second goal from Geoff Horsfield secured victory for Steve Bruce's side.
It was a throwback to the first meeting between the clubs in September when a Blues fan - later jailed for four months - ran on to the St Andrews pitch and taunted Villa keeper Peter Enckelman after his bizarre own goal.
FA spokesman Adrian Bevington said: "We are already in the process of communicating with Aston Villa following events at last night's match.
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"We're not pre-judging Aston Villa at this stage. Clubs in England go to great lengths to prevent misconduct by spectators in the stadium."
Birmingham boss Steve Bruce said: "It is great for us that we've got three teams in Birmingham in the Premiership this season but unfortunately these two derbies have been marred by crowd trouble.
"We've seen all that nonsense over the last 20 years and we thought it had disappeared and unfortunately it crept back in last night.
"There were bits and signs where you did worry what might happen although the vast majority behaved impeccably.
"We all know it is difficult to take, being beaten by your rivals, but the one thing we don't want are the ugly scenes which are going to be today's headlines rather than our victory."
Bruce confirmed: "I was hit by a coin before the game. Thankfully I've got a hard head. It was one individual out of nearly 43,000 people but again it's sad because I'm talking about that because we've beaten Villa 5-0 on aggregate over two matches this season."
Villa fell apart once the normally ice cool Dublin had made a crude-looking challenge on Savage and then headbutted him after the Welsh international had jumped to his feet.
Meanwhile, City keeper Nico Vaesen will be out for the rest of the season after suffering damaged knee ligaments when with barely two minutes remaining his leg became caught in the Villa Park turf, after he had cleared a back pass upfield.


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In all of these programs, Pitt Law's essential mission is to help lawyers and legal institutions to meet the demands of a rapidly changing legal and professional environment. JD graduates can pursue diverse paths, from tech start-ups to prosecuting cyberfraud, from big law to criminal defense, from championing the environment to interpreting health care reform.
The program's first-year curriculum offers a solid foundation in legal analysis and reasoning through courses in subject areas traditionally viewed as basic for legal education.
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Some Pitt Law courses incorporate multiple disciplines, such as Law & Human Behavior and Law & Economics Seminar , or are jointly taught by law faculty and faculty from other disciplines to classes comprising both law and other graduate/professional students — for example, Commercializing New Technologies.
Pitt Law joint degree programs enable students to earn the JD as well as a master's degree in another discipline through an integrated program, more quickly than earning the two degrees separately.
The Pitt Law curriculum emphasizes these learning outcomes:
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The Last Days of the Spanish Republic
On 5 March 1939, Colonel Segismundo Casado launched a coup against Juan Negrin's Republican government, which he falsely accused of being a puppet of the Communists. Although the defeat of the Republic was already in sight, Casado's decision destroyed any chance of a negotiated peace ending the Spanish Civil War, and it was to cause a massive loss of life. Here a leading historian of 20th-century Spain gives the first detailed account in English of this shocking – and avoidable – tragedy.


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Ok, Stella Is Going To Have Fits
Pamela from Atlas Shrugged has a post linking to all of the posts she has written on Obama's massive campaign fraud.
A commenter to the post says among other things -
"Little children sing about Obama. Little children sing about Barney..they don't know any better."
The commenter is referencing the creepy video where the children sing for "The One".
Come on buddy! Remember -
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- Stella said...
But of course everyone deserves a puppy and a rainbow, Silly Maggie. LOL at these links (my tummy hurts...)
Funny, though, I was thinking of sending you some Ayn Rand quotes on Capitalism when we were "discussing" Capitalism vs. Socialism. Her perspective does not jibe with today's version.
Wait? Did Ayn Rand just turn over in her grave? Of Jewish descent, she advocated rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism [libertarianism], categorically rejecting socialism, altruism, and religion. The Atlas Shrugged link does not coincide with her beliefs.
Comment: His endorsements by the most radical Jew-annihilationist elements of the Muslim world. Obama's stated belief that Jew annihilationist terror organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, "have legitimate grievances."
WTF? That's laughable, Maggie. Since we're on the subject of Obama's anti-semitism, I'm gonna let 'er rip...
Sarah Palin had her Reverend Wright moment.
... [Palin] sat in church two weeks ago while her preacher, Larry Kroon, invited a guest - David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus - to spew anti-semitic hatred. [I always found this "Jews for Jesus" a stupid idea: a Jew for Jesus is a Christian, right?]
Here's what Brickner said: Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. That's shameful. He represents himself as a "man of God?" His rhetoric is anti-Biblical: Judge ye not, lest ye be judged.
And Pardon moi? Was not their savior Jewish? This is ignorance of the worst kind. Have you seen Jews For Obama?
He's no better than the Fat Toad. [You're starting to get the "real" me...] McCain endorser John Hagee says Jews have dead souls. And ya know what else, Maggie, Hagee stated: "those who live by the Quran have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... there are no moderate Islamic people..." This is the same guy that calls the Catholic Church "The Great Whore of Babylon." How disgusting. This is a man of God?
I would recommend the National Geographics documentary on the Qu'ran. If people are intent on using religion to motivate terror or violence, they'll find an excuse there no matter what the actual text says... most holy scriptures are filled with stories of war and warriors, and these images have been used throughout history by some members of every faith to justify bloodshed. That's a brilliant comment. Maybe Fat Toad could learn something.
There's also a documentary from 2008 as well. I hope you will try and see them. I know this is a challenging and charged topic, so please understand I present these ideas from an intellectual and academic perspective. I have always been a student of comparative religious beliefs.
Damn! I was so determined not to have fits!
Fit over. I actually stopped by because I wanted to share something great with you. I watched part of 14 Women last night concerning the 14 female state senators. [We should have 50, don't you think?] I hope you can see the documentary.
These women, both Democrats and Republican, have a monthly meeting where they all share their political concerns. I was thinking, "Why didn't McCain choose Elizabeth Dole or Kaye Bailey Hutchinson as VP nominees." You can read more about this documentary at the Washington Post Blog.
Great quote: ...Also noteworthy in the [documentary] is... the only male senator who is interviewed. Ostensibly, [he] was chosen to talk about his role in recruiting women to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings. But... winds up playing the male feminist, talking throughout the movie about the wonders of women and how well they work with each other and how he hopes to see more of them in the Senate—and, wow, women, they are just so neat!
Oh, of course. You want his name. Joe Biden.
Seriously, Maggie, the movie is wonderful. I was reminded of our long comments to each other when I saw how these 14 wonderful women came together in a bipartisan manner to share their thoughts and ideas for our nation.
Are you still *snickering* at me? Good. "Health, Wealth, and Merriment are the best medicine." (Jonathan Swift)
- 29 October, 2008 21:45
- BostonMaggie said...
Stella, you are almost as funny as the picture!
I have to go to bed, but I can't pass up a few quick answers.
Which one do you prefer? Apples or oranges? Or can't you decide because you've always got both.
Brickner isn't Palin's pastor.
Two weeks isn't twenty years.
Even Oprah took a while to leave Rev. Wright.
Hagee was never more than a photo op to McCain and to even bring it up is a classic red herring since I know you know that's a fact....from your beloved FactCheck.
the point of the Atlas Shrugged links isn't to debate Ayn Rand, it's to say that she and the right blogosphere have been doing a ton of leg work on the phony donation business and finally, finally the MSM is picking up on it.
There was a movie where Joe Biden (or any Senator) schmoozed? I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
- 29 October, 2008 22:37
- Stella said...
After I got through LMAO... And, gee, I thought it was your beloved Fact Check, too. Maggie, I swear: 14 Women is a wonderful documentary. As strong and as smart as you are, I think you'll appreciate the film.
Yes, about Ayn Rand: but teasing you about her was irresistible.
As concerns Biden, I'm going to out myself right here on a conservative blog. (Deep breath.) Here goes.
I remember watching the Anita Hill trials and the only Senator on the Judicial Committee who treated her with any respect was Biden. No, I don't care if you agree.
So, I've always been a bit of a Biden fan. However, he did help Sen. Feinstein get on the Intelligence Committee and has done a lot to help women gain power in the Senate. Not schmoozing in this case (but it is in some cases). He demonstrated genuine effort to help women get ahead. I like Railroad Joe.
I'm blogged out, but I'm going to eat my apple and an orange. We grow them both here in the West, so I don't have to decide. Maybe I'll have a red herring with my dinner: you know how I love Scandinavia.
Hope you sleep well, Maggie. Best always.
- 29 October, 2008 23:16
- Stella said...
And your response on Palin's "Reverend Wright Moment?"
- 30 October, 2008 11:14
- BostonMaggie said...
lol, I left it above.
Brickner isn't Palin's pastor.
Two weeks isn't twenty years.
Even Oprah took a while to leave Rev. Wright.
- 30 October, 2008 11:31
- Stella said...
Maggie, you rock. Palin's been going to this church for a looooooong time.
Be well.
- 30 October, 2008 17:15


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The internet was well a truly fooled by a pic of Ricci dressed as Morticia Addams.
We all so badly wanted to believe it was real, but sadly the picture of Christina Ricci dressed as Morticia Addams has been revealed to be a fake. The pic spread like wildfire across the internet on Monday, with excited fans getting all emotional over Ricci channeling her onscreen mom.
Christina Ricci who played Wednesday Addams in "The Addams Family" dressed up as Morticia Addams for this photo. pic.twitter.com/SLa4Y9BB5h— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) September 22, 2015
Continue reading: Sorry Internet But The Christina Ricci Morticia Addams Photo Is A Fake
The 34 year-old actress, and her husband James Heerdegen, are set to become parents for the very first time.
Christina Ricci is set to become a mother for the first time.
The 34 year-old actress is pregnant with her, and husband James Heerdegen's, first child.
Ricci has managed to keep a tight lid on the exciting news, but her rather large baby bump was clearly on display when she arrived at LAX this past Friday (May 23rd).
Continue reading: Christina Ricci Is Pregnant With First Child
There are some great animated movies due to come out in the future, but could Christina Ricci's 'The Hero of Color City' possibly be the best kids' movie of 2014?
There's a whole lot of upcoming animated movies which we're excited about. The Incredibles 2, Cars 3 and Finding Dory are just a selection looming on the animation horizon that have got us more excited than kids at Christmas, but it just feels like the release dates are soooo long away. We need some kind of animated fix, stat!
'The Hero of Color City' is due out in October 2014
Fortunately, we've just seen the trailer for 'Hero of Color City', starring Christina Ricci and Rosie Perez, and it looks like it could help us to pass the time. You know what, scrap that, it looks like it may even be the best kids' movie of the entire year! It looks freakin' ace! Basically, each night when Ben goes to sleep his crayons burst into life in their very own city of color. But when Ben turns off the light without finishing his night time artwork, the unfinished drawing threatens to block the source of their color meaning the crayons must set out to save their city before it fades into colorless obscurity.
Continue reading: Will 'The Hero Of Color City' Be The Best Children's Movie Of 2014?
Forget 'Toy Story': prepare to emit a hearty bellow of "Hurrah" as your real childhood friends are brought to life.
Ever seen a crayon with eyelashes? You will have after you've watched the brand new trailer for kids animation The Hero of Color City, a hot new movie with a rather unique premise. The visual equivalent to giving your kids E-numbers, the imaginative and - some might say - psychedelic action adventure is drawing (sorry) steadily nearer to its official release in fall.
You Can't Afford To Miss '...Color City': The Breakout Children's Film Of 2014.
Dubbed "An unforgettable adventure about finding your true color," the film follows a pack of crayons who leap out of their box when little Ben is asleep and head through a magic portal to the wondrous City of Color. There, they socialise with other colors and revel in the unending, multi-hued joy of their existence.
Continue reading: 'The Hero Of Color City': Prepare For A Whirlwind Ride Into The Artbox Of Your Dreams [Trailer + Pictures]
Ben is a young boy who, like any other kid his age, loves to spend his time coloring his carefully constructed crayon drawings. However, much unlike any other's crayons, Ben's come to life every night when he's asleep and venture into their crayon box world of rainbows and vibrant adventures. One night, their multihued fun is threatened by two brutal unfinished drawings named King Scrawl and Gnat, who plan to drain the color from the city by blocking their rainbow waterfall. Determined to stay bright, the crayons embark on a mission to save themselves from a lifetime of black and white - the only problem is, they have to rectify the blockage before Ben wakes up in just a few hours' time. Can the crayons restore their chances of staying colorful in time? Or will they be doomed to dullness forever?
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Christina Ricci - 9th Annual Snowflake Ball held at Cipriani Wall Street - Arrivals - New York City, New York, United States - Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Ricci transforms into the infamous killer for Lifetime's made-for-TV film.
"Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one."
And so goes the famous skipping rhyme about the girl who allegedly slaughtered both of her parents. Quite a grim tale to turn into a movie, you might say, but with Christina Ricci playing the infamous Lizzie Borden, this might just be something worth watching.
Christina Ricci Will Play Lizzie Borden In A New Lifetime TV Movie.
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Sleepy Hollow, the latest adaptation of Washington Irving's classic tale, aired on Fox last night. The pilot episode saw the story transported from the 18th century to the 21st, where Ichabod Crane wakes after two centuries.
Sleepy Hollow's pilot appears to be a success, despite some critics' grumblings. The episode aired last night, Monday 16th September, on Fox.
Tom Mison stars in Sleepy Hollow as Ichabod Crane.
In Fox's new take on Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane awakes after two hundred years to find the town of Sleepy Hollow facing the same headless horseman he encountered centuries before. Crane teams up with police officer Abbie Mills in order to solve, what the police assume are, a series of grisly murders and not the work of one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. From the trailer it appears to be the majority of the humour is based on Crane catching up with two centuries of technological and cultural changes.
Continue reading: 'Sleepy Hollow' Pilot Airs On Fox - Landing Headless Horseman In 21st Century
The Smurfs are back in a brilliant movie sequel that sees them take on evil magician Gargamel for a second time as he makes another attempt at harnessing the blue power of the Smurf people. This time, he has successfully created a group of similar creatures called Naughties, which he has plans to use to lure the impressionable Smurfette to him in order to finally win their potent magic. Aware of the kidnapping, the rest of the Smurfs band together on a rescue mission alongside their human acquaintances Patrick and Grace Winslow who agree to help them get to Smurfette and convince her that she belongs at home.
Right Said Fred, the nineties duo responsible for the number one 1991 hit 'I'm Too Sexy', has got involved in the promotions for the new film, marking the celebrations of Global Smurfs Day on June 22nd 2013, the day after 'The Smurfs 2' is released on the 21st. They have recorded a brand new track called 'I'm Too Smurfy', which isn't too dissimilar from their debut hit as you'd imagine, in a video featuring people in Smurf costumes getting funky and the duo painting their faces blue in honour of the Smurfs' return.
The Smurfs return following a harrowing experience lost in New York while being pursued by the evil wannabe wizard Gargamel in 'The Smurfs'. Their plight is not over, however, as Gargamel will stop at nothing to harness the power of the blue creatures. Currently an icon of sorcery in Paris, he creates two Smurf-like creatures called Naughties who he uses to tempt the impressionable Smurfette in a life of mischief as she holds the valuable secret of the spell to turn the Naughties into real Smurfs. After she is kidnapped, her family and friends embark on a mission to save her, whether she wants to be or not, and enlists the help of their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow to take down Gargamel once and for all and lead Smurfette back on the straight and narrow.
Continue: The Smurfs 2 Trailer
The Marc Jacobs Autumn/Winter 2013 fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week saw a number of celebs arriving including former 'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus, 'Sleepy Hollow' star Christina Ricci, Blondie's Debbie Harry, 'Lost In Translation' screenwriter Sofia Coppola, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe with her husband Rodger Berman.
Continue: Video - Miley Cyrus And Christina Ricci Among The Marc Jacobs Show Arrivals During NY Fashion Week
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- Social Media Strategy and Implementation
- Corporate and Personal Branding
- LinkedIn Profile and Company Page Optimization
- Product Marketing
- Content Marketing and Blogging
- Market Research and Analysis
- Project Management
- Social Recruiting
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- Leverage LinkedIn Company Pages to build corporate awareness
- Optimize individual LinkedIn profiles to maximize personal branding
- Train and advise staff on maximizing their use of LinkedIn
- Develop high level social media strategy
- Provide hands-on implementation of social media programs and campaigns
- Produce web content, sales collateral and sales tools to drive sales
- Implement content management and blogging programs
- Manage and grow communities of users, customers and employees
- Write customer success stories
- Serve as evangelist and corporate resource for social media and marketing programs
- Create and manage social media and marketing dashboards
- Interact with and respond to customers through social media channels, including Yelp
LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Yelp | Slideshare | Pinterest | Blogging | Tumblr | YouTube | Glassdoor | Email Contact Platforms
Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss your needs and how I can help you and your company meet your goals.
The LinkedIn Company Page I managed and curated for AppleOne was named one of the top 10 LinkedIn Company Pages for 2013.
Social Media Background – At AppleOne, I was responsible for expanding and protecting the customer relationships with an emphasis on participating in social media and digital marketing platforms. I connected with candidates and clients on the AppleOne social media properties on:
- Facebook (www.facebook.com/AppleOneCareers)
- LinkedIn Company Page
- Twitter (@AppleOneWorks and @AppleOneHires)
- Pinterest (www.Pinterest.com/AppleOneCareers)
- Tumblr (www.appleonecareers.tumblr.com/)
- Google+
- Yelp
- AppleOne blog
I created the initial social media strategy of building brand awareness – and then continued to implement the strategy by posting daily to the AppleOne Facebook and LinkedIn company pages, and tweeted 6 times per day on two different Twitter accounts. The AppleOne LinkedIn Company Page was recognized as one of the Top 10 LinkedIn Company Pages for 2013.
Since March 2012, I dramatically increased the performance in the Facebook. LinkedIn and Twitter accounts:
- Facebook – increased likes by over 2.6x and average monthly impressions by 10x
- LinkedIn – increased followers by over 7x and average more than 400k impressions per month
- Twitter – launched @appleoneworks Twitter account that now has a Klout score of 56 and posted more than 3,000 tweets
In addition, I developed the social recruiting e-learning training program, created social media cheat sheets and other tools to improve social media usage by associates, wrote the new Media Policy Guide for all employees and served as social recruiting ambassador and evangelist for the entire company.
From a customer service standpoint, I monitored all mentions of the company on the Internet, answered all inquiries that came in via our website and engaged with all users who posted reviews on Yelp.
Consulting Background – As a consultant focused on helping businesses and individuals improve their use of marketing and social media. My specialties include marketing, product marketing, product strategy, community strategy and community management.
At the end of 2009, I was also identified as one of 54 social media strategists to watch in 2010 by 451 Marketing.
I am an innovative and well-rounded executive with unique blend of business, strategic, technical, quantitative and analytical savvy – which includes the ability to see the "big picture" while not being afraid to roll up my sleeves.
For more on my background in social media and details on social media consulting, check out this interview that I had with Tony Karrer. If you want to learn more about me personally, check out my 25 things you didn't know about me blog post or things that "I Prize".
My recent projects included:
- Managed a major re-launch of website and content re-write for high tech company
- Launched an online product and related online community support site
- Developed the social media strategy for a 40-location casual dining restaurant chain
- Managed the day-to-day activities for all of the social media properties of a 40-location casual dining chain (including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Foursquare, Google, Slideshare, Youtube, etc.)
- Wrote requirements, developed community strategy and completed a beta launch for a start-up professional community
- Devised the social media strategy for a leading visionary in the insurance
- Providing community strategy for a professional community start-up
- Serving as community manager for small professional community
- Created marketing materials for services company
- Managing the re-launch of a marketing website
- Developing social media strategies for an advertising agency
- Created and grew a niche B2B community from 0 to 4,000 members in 15 months while generating and sourcing the majority of the community content including personally authoring 105 blog posts
- Developed programs to drive 75,000 community visits and 320,000 pageviews
- Wrote more than 75 corporate blog posts in the last year in role as lead corporate blogger, which represented nearly 5% of overall website traffic
- Managed successful B2B user-generated content contest that generated 44 entries and more than 25,000 total hits on YouTube
My Community Background – I was the community manager for Catalyze Community from its initial spark of an idea in August 2006 through the public launch in June 2007 until it hit the 4,000 member mark in July 2008. Catalyze is a B2B community for professionals who define and design software applications and websites, and is sponsored by iRise. I was responsible for community strategy, day-to-day operational management, content generation, blogging, member communication, marketing, evangelism, business development and vendor management. During the first 13 months of operation, Catalyze had nearly 75,000 visitors who viewed more than 320,000 pages.
I also wrote the specifications and helped on the strategy for a professional community in the pension governance space, and I launched a product support community for a cloud computing company.
Social Media for CPAs Article – I co-wrote an article with my friend Michael Allmon for the California Society of CPAs. The article appeared in the 2011 Technology and Business Guide issue as the cover story.
Community article and interview in KM World – View the May 2008 article from KM World, Social Networking: KM and Beyond by Judith Lamont where I shared my views on community.


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I used those two products religiously considering they were the first few makeup products in my arsenal. That beauty kit has now changed and expanded but my love for Rimmel stays constant. I particularly love their eye shadows, eyeliners and lipsticks (although I'm a matte fan, I can do with a little shine and gloss every now and then). And of course, no eye look is complete without a mascara.
To celebrate the launch of their latest Scandaleyes Reloaded mascara, they tapped into the girl who brought back strong eyebrows, Cara Delevingne. I love this girl's unique look and so thankful that she was brave enough to walk around with power eyebrows. She makes a fitting choice as Rimmel's brand ambassador!
The mascara's tube is quite chunky (most of Rimmel's mascaras are) but the best part about this mascara is the bristles. They feature a perfect shape and the formula will work best for women who have thinner lashes as opposed to those that sport naturally lush ones (it will work perfectly fine for the latter, just that they wont require as many coats).
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True to its word, Scandaleyes Reloaded delivers a clump-free and fall-out free result and will leave your peepers looking glamorous. The bonus? It contains keratin to strengthen the lashes and collagen for the extra boost.
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Update July 25, 2016
As of July 25, 2016, the Commission has received a total of 444 cases. Of these, 238 cases have been reviewed. Individual applicants who contacted the Commission totalled 97 and 40 of these were seeking counselling. In addition, 77 individuals who have contacted the Motherisk Commission on their own were seeking a legal review as well.
The Commissioner, along with her Counsel on Indigenous Issues, Marian Jacko, recently made presentations about the Motherisk Commission at a number of Indigenous events. They travelled to Wahta First Nation to speak at the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians Assembly. The same week, they addressed the Anishnawbek Nation Grand Council Assembly on the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation on Manitoulin Island. The Commissioner is seeking the advice and assistance of the First Nation leadership to bring information about the mandate of the Commission to members of Indigenous communities who may have been affected by the Motherisk laboratory testing. The Commissioner then travelled to North Bay, Ontario, where she and Lead Counsel, Lorne Glass, presented at the bi-annual conference of the Counsel for Children's Aid Societies.