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As I reflect back on the journey I have been on for a few years now, I am quite amazed with the transformation that I have experienced — almost all of them, in a positive way.
When I was a teenager, still searching for an identity, one of the not-so positive habits I formed was in the choice of music I listened. I started listening to hip-hop music or more specifically, rap music — the kind which used to have a warning on the CD cover of "explicit lyrics."
This practice continued all through high school, university and the first few years after I completed my university studies. This behaviour even reached the point where I was listening to it at 6.00am in the morning driving to work.
I had always told myself that I would stop listening to it after I finished my university studies but that never happened. A couple of events in my life, especially me questioning what type of work I wanted to do, led me on my personal development journey.
At one stage I thought I would just stop listening to rap music because I knew it wasn't supporting me on this new journey I was on. However, that was a real struggle and I totally failed with that. The music was like a drug that I needed to have a dose of every day.
Thankfully, I had enough sense to invest in personal development audio programs and slowly over time, my need to listen to rap music faded away. My desire to learn more via audio programs replaced the need to listen to music and it has reached the stage now where I don't even listen to rap music.
This is a practice that has had a major effect on what I have been able to accomplish because rather than wasting time listening to music, I am using the same amount of time to invest in my own development.
Here are ten proven practices that will help transform your life radically such that when you reflect back on your life years later, you will be astounded with the changes you will experience, if you stay consistent.
- Being grateful daily. Taking just a few minutes to be thankful for what you have in life is a great way to start your day. As the saying goes, "The more you are grateful for, the more you will be given to be grateful for."
- Review each day. Every day, we are given many opportunities to learn lessons and grow as a person. Unless we take the time to review those experiences, chances are we will miss the lessons we need to learn. Journalling is a really powerful way to review your day.
- Celebrate any wins you've had, no matter how small they are. Celebration can be a very powerful motivator for many of us and the more we celebrate, the more we are inclined to continue to get better at what we do or who we are.
- Take care of yourself physically. Our physical health dictates how we think and feel about ourselves, which ultimately affects our actions or behaviours. Regular exercise, proper diet and nutrition all play a key part in maintaining our physical health.
- Say no more often. We all lead busy lives and don't need to add more things to our lives. Learning to say no without offending or making someone else wrong is something is will be highly beneficial in the long run.
- Release or let go of negative emotions. Negative emotions often leads to stress and can result in health-related issues. Being able to let go of past experiences, that we deem to be negative, frees us from the stories or meaning we give to those experiences. When we let go of negative emotions, we always feel this relief, like a weight has been lifted off our shoulders.
- Surround yourself with positive, inspiring people. We are who we surround ourselves with. If we're around negative people most of the time, chances are that we also will have a negative view of the world. Being around forward-thinking, driven people will rub off on us and cause us to also to model their actions or behaviours.
- Read something uplifting daily. One of the best ways to acquire new skills or develop ourselves is through reading books. With technology the way it is today, we can read almost at any time through all the various devices now available. Reading doesn't have to be limited to books. You can read uplifting and inspiring blogs like this one, as an example.
- Forgive yourself. We tend to be our own biggest critic. As we aren't perfect human beings, we ill make mistakes. The key is to be able to forgive ourselves for anything we believe not to be aligned with who we are, learn from it and move on. As the saying goes, "We cannot forgive others if we're unable to forgive ourselves."
- Seek to understand other people's perspectives. We're all different. We have different beliefs, opinions and perspectives. Rather than judge someone for not having the same beliefs or opinions as you, being able to understand where they are coming from first will make such a big difference. If you're able to see things from their perspective, you'll appreciate them for who they are, even if you don't agree with them.
We're all on a journey of discovery and growth. The more things we experience, the more we learn about ourselves, others and the world. Being able to apply some, if not all, of these practices, will assist in making a major difference to the quality of your life. Start with one and add the others over time.
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Every year's Mother Language Day reminds us of the linguistic brutality and suppression of the state against Punjabi
In terms of Punjabi nationality, the literature produced by Punjabis is a multi-linguistic phenomenon; be it in Punjabi, English or any other language. Some of these writers may not identify themselves as Punjabis and this sensibility may be only reflected in their writings.
When Gujranwala born, British Pakistani novelist Nadeem Aslam quotes couplets of a rather unknown rural Punjabi Poet Abid Tamimi in his novel Maps for lost lovers (2004), he is subconsciously establishing his native connectivity. He furthers this theme in his latest novel The Blind Man's Garden (2013) by creating a whole fictional town named Heer (inspired by Waris Shah's legend) and proudly claims that all his future novels will be set in this Punjabi town.
When Los Angeles born, Pakistani American Daniyal Mueenuddin's book of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009) opens with a Punjabi proverb in Punjabi text, he is presumably asserting his Punjabi identity. More so, when one of his short story protagonists on watching a chestnut seller boy in the freezing cold of Paris pulls his American girlfriend closer and whispers: "He is one of mine, from Pakistan, from Punjab."
Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004) was our first global offering. Recipient of the prestigious Lenin Peace Prize, he was co-founder of the Progressive Writers' Movement in the undivided India. He was born in Peshawar to a Sikh mother from Sialkot and a Hindu father from Amritsar. He studied philosophy at Cambridge University where he had gone on the behest of Allama Iqbal and received his PhD from University College London in 1929. He was close friends with George Orwell, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Read and EM Forster. His best-known novel Untouchable (1935) was issued as a Penguin Modern Classic in 1986.
Anand saw himself as a Punjabi citizen of the world. Khushwant Singh once remarked on Anand's English as 'Punjabi English'. In his 1982 interview with Amarjit Chandan, he termed his sense of Punjabiyat as inheritance of Punjabi culture. In response to a question regarding why he opted to write in an acquired language and in which language he thinks, Anand said: "Punjabi is my mother tongue. I frequently use Punjabi vibrations. Vibrations of the characters of my landscape, my region could only express themselves in the versatile movements of the Punjabi speech. I could not perform an operation on my mother's mouth to make her speak like an English woman, as do other writers. I think in Punjabi mostly and transliterate or transcreate in English. At that time [pre-partition] there were no publishers and the books written about India, certainly by me, were banned and there was no way by which even one could express oneself in Punjabi to the people who were around us in the Indian national movement. Even Puran Singh started writing in English first. He was the writer of the Punjab in English language before me if you like."
This brings us to the question of positioning those Punjabis who are writing in Urdu. Urdu is the language that is awfully closer to Punjabi. After Partition, it's Urdu that flourished at the expense of the native languages of the people of the new republic. This hegemonic institutionalisation created a mindset symbolised by academics like Fateh Muhammad Malik and his ilk who not only dismiss Punjabi and other native languages with disgust and hatred but also ridicule one of most respected vice-chancellors of the Punjab University Sir Pirtaul Chandra Chatterji who had officially asked his students and the people of the Punjab to read and write in their mother tongue more than hundred years back.
These Urdu egoistic monopolists historically never raised a single word in support of the native languages for obvious reason of their Sarkaari bread and butter. It shows their intellectual insecurity and inborn self hate. Contrastingly, almost all those writers from the Punjab who opted to write in English always supported the cause of Punjabi language.
Krishan Chander's Punjabi letter to Ahmad Rahi reveals the remorse and sense of loss of a Punjabi who betrayed his mother tongue. Chander is pleading and pointing that a Punjabi magazine must be launched from Lahore immediately. His repeated assertion suggests that perhaps he knew that his friend publisher, himself a Punjabi, will not spend his money on something where returns can't be guaranteed. This letter was published in Daily Imroze on May 23, 1953. Let's read few extracts from that long letter:
"Teri kitab nay mainu majboor kar ditta keh main tainu Punjabi day wich khatt likhaaN. Eih patta nahi Punjabi vi hay keh nahi. Nadeem naal gal baat kar kay Lahore tuN Punjabi Zuban wich ik risaala kaRña Chahi da ay. AssiN saaray rall kay uss day wich likhaaN gay tay aglay panjaaN sãlaaN wich Zuban nu kithay da kithay lay jaaN gay. Eih parcha Nazeer nu keh zaroor kadhay. AssiN saarey Punjabi likhaaN gay. Main ithay saarery adeebaaN nu tayyar kar liya ay. Nazeer nu eih Khat PaRha daiña tay ohnu kehna Punjabi da risaala jaldi kadh. Ohday editor day board wich main apna naa day diyãN ga..hor kee chahi da ay ohnu" (Your book has made me write to you in Punjabi. I don't know what I am writing in is Punjabi or not but that's all what I know. Ask Nadeem [Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi] and plan publication of a Punjabi journal from Lahore. All of us will write for it and in next five years we will bring Punjabi language to a new level. Please insist and make sure that Nazir [Nazir Ahmad Chaudhri of Naya Idara, Publisher] brings out this magazine. All writers here have agreed to contribute. Please read this letter to Nazir and ask him to start this Punjabi magazine as soon as possible. He can use my name in the editorial board, what else he needs?)
Any writer is free to write in any foreign language for global reach, acceptability and other related gains. However, it's also true that in that global space they generally remain 'categorised' and 'compartmentalised' while their original place always remains vacant in the literary countryside of their mother tongues. It will also be pertinent to mention that no linguistic movement should encourage racists, bigots and chauvinists as there is nothing more sacred than humanity. We strongly believe that within one mother tongue are all mother tongues and each one of them is universal. Our main concern is not those other languages but the contagious 'self-hate' virus inherited by most of the 'well educated' Punjabis and its bankrupt elite that has consistently demeaned the linguistic uprising and their own cultural identity.
Ours is a strange country where one can earn a masters and even a PhD in Punjabi but can't study it at the primary school level. The very first mandatory correction in this regard is induction of Punjabi language in the educational system. I have still to come across a single sane argument that can convince me why Punjabi kids can't have their mother tongue part of their curriculum in their own province. This is the language whose classical literature is all inclusive, pro-people, anti-oligarchy and anti-fundamentalism.
Every year's Mother Language Day reminds us of the linguistic brutality and suppression of the state against us Punjabis who are otherwise indiscriminately abused by all other nationalities of being 'powerful'. Look at our power-less-ness that it's our third generation since independence who is being deprived of their native language and identity.
Only when Punjabi language gets its due place in the system that the nascent concept of multi-lingual Punjabi literature would be accepted not only by the writers themselves but by the Punjabi community at large. This recognition is bound to happen as Punjab and Punjabiyat is not a regional phenomenon anymore, it's a trans-national global experience and over the years, it has flourished much beyond the reductionist Wagha borders of our imagination. The only difference is that our lords sitting in the civil secretariats and constituent assemblies are still unaware of this new reality.
If my romanticism is not misplaced and I can ask Sophocles and Seamus Heaney to stay with me then language of Baba Farid, Guru Nanak, Damodar Das and Joshua Fazal Din is destined to flourish: "History says, Don't hope/On this side of the grave,/ But then, once in a lifetime/The longed-for tidal wave/Of justice can rise up/And hope and history rhyme".


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Flourtown, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/07/2012 -- A recent survey by Mashable.com exposed a shocking yet predictable statistic, that the average worker spends almost a third of their working day answering emails. Nobody understands this better than productivity and digital technology expert Bob O'Hare, whose ground-breaking new book could save U.S companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Concern by professionals and management about email overload and productivity loss encouraged Bob to seek a solution for these issues. He researched the field and developed the MasteringEmail™ methodology to help knowledge workers, professionals and managers achieve the benefits of email without the burden. Bob wrote chapter eight of the book especially for upper management, to help them explore the productivity issues which cost corporations millions of dollars annually.
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Last night I went down to the Durham club as we were due to carry out some more map moves in the SYW campaign. It turned out to be quite an interesting evening. In short, the Hannoverians retreated to Munster after their defeat at the hands of the French, who managed to shake off their 'demoralised' status. The Prussians advanced steadily into Austria, capturing the fortress of Brunn ( I think) before investing Vienna. The Austrians in the meantime had stripped their capital's garrison to the bare minimum to have a chance of holding out and combined it with another Austrian field army near Prague. The Prussians failed in their siege attempts, were hit by an epidemic of dysentery and were harassed by Austrian light troops so much that they were cut off out of supply, helped by the handy placement of an Austrian army across their lines of communications. Frederick was not a happy man, brooding over what to do next as a sat on his field potty. In the East the Russians were demonstrating outside of Konigsburg, trying to get the Prussians to face them in open battle. Maybe next month. Meanwhile, the Hannoverians failed to rally from their 'demoralised' status so the French attacked them. Too good an opportunity to miss we thought. Dave threw to see how many of the Hannoverians would be downgraded as a result being demoralised and threw a 9! That's 90% of the enemy army downgraded from line to garrison status. Minuses on shooting, morale, combat and hard to manoeuvre. The armies are quite even numerically. In terms of foot, there is a very slight advantage to the French, but the French have significantly more horse. The Hannoverians were nevertheless up for a fight, which will begin next week. They will be on the defensive and as usual will probably cram all their troops into one half of the table, but if the French can't win this one decisively well...........and the bad timing? Yes, very bad as I am away on holiday for 2 weeks and will miss it all! I expect I shall have to keep in touch via text!
Finally, hello to my 60th follower Neal Croudace and to John the Red who made the trip to the Durham club this week and has been coopted into the French army for next week's game.
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Enjoy your holiday mate!! looking bad timing for me as well as almost certainly going to have to spend Thursday evening in Runcorn. Good to meet up in person and lets home our Armee Francaise can do the business over those cowardly Hanoverians. Hope to be back the following thursday to find out if we did
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'The Judgement of Paris' is one of Etty's most ambitious compositions; it depicts an early scene from the ancient Greek poet Homer's epic tale of the Trojan Wars, The Iliad. The story goes that the Goddess of Discord was annoyed not to be invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and threw into the assembly of Gods at the ceremony a golden apple on which was inscribed 'to the fairest'. All the goddesses claimed the apple as theirs but three of them, Aphrodite, Hera and Athena wished to enter a competition to win the title of beauty. As a result the Gods appointed Paris, the son of Priamus from Troy to make the final decision. The painting shows the moment when, after listening to the Goddesses' promises, Paris decides to award the apple to Aphrodite.
'The Judgement of Paris' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826 under the title 'The Choice of Paris'. It was accompanied by a quotation explaining the story told by Homer.
The picture is distinct for its fine colouring and reflects the influence of Venetian painters such as Titian and Veronese on Etty's work. It was commissioned by John, 4th Earl of Darnley who had admired Etty's painting, 'The Combat' at the Royal Academy Exhibition and wished to acquire a picture by Etty. They agreed on a price of £500, a considerable sum of money in those days.
In the painting, Paris seated under the tree is accompanied by Hermes, messenger of the Gods. Behind them one can see a Satyr, an inhabitant of forests and mountains in ancient Greek mythology. The three Goddess, Aphrodite, Hera and Athena, standing in front of Paris are distinguished by their emblems and accessories or their position in the composition: Athena drawn to herself is wearing a helmet, while in the centre Aphrodite's position is reminiscent of her representation in Renaissance paintings or even ancient Greek statues. Hera has her back turned to the viewer, her facial expression showing her anger at Paris' choice. The Goddesses' varied postures display Etty's skill in drawing the nude and his knowledge of human anatomy.
William Etty was the seventh child of a miller and baker in York. Although he showed an early talent for drawing his poor family circumstances prevented him from training as an artist, instead he was apprenticed as a printer. In 1805 with the financial support of his uncle in London, Etty was able to leave York. He entered the Royal Academy the following year and became a full time student in 1807 where his teacher Thomas Lawrence became a great influence.
With the death of his uncle in 1809, Etty received an inheritance. In 1811 one of his paintings was accepted at the Royal Academy Exhibition and from then on he was able to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy. Etty was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1824 and a year later became a Royal Academician. In that same year the landscape painter John Constable failed to be elected as an Royal Academician.
William Etty is now mostly known as the painter of daring nudes. Although attacked by some critics at the time, his choice of classical themes made nudity more acceptable because his paintings depict actions in the classical past rather than the puritanical present.
Etty travelled on several occasions to France and Italy. In Paris he studied in the Academie and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault the fashionable academic painter and chief rival to Jacques-Louis David. In Italy and particularly in Venice, where he spent nine months Etty made copies of the work of the famous Renaissance Venetian painters, Titian and Veronese. He also visited Belgium and studied the work of Rubens.
During the 1830s and 1840s Etty concentrated on smaller works catering for a new clientele of industrialists, merchants and the nobility. He painted portraits throughout his career and in later years produced landscape paintings. Etty campaigned for the establishment of a School of Design in York in 1842 and advocated the preservation of the city's medieval walls and gateways.
In his 'The Judgement of Paris' Etty draws upon Homer's story from the The Iliad where Discord disrupts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis by throwing into the assembly of Gods a golden apple inscribed 'to the fairest'. Aphrodite, Hera and Athena each claimed the title, so the Gods appointed Paris, the son of Priamus from Troy, to judge the contest. The Goddesses all tried to influence Paris's decision by promising him special gifts: Hera (Juno) guaranteed to make him ruler of all Asia; Athena promised him wisdom and victory in all combats. Finally Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful woman of the world, Helen of Sparta the wife of the King Menelaus. Paris's beauty, enhanced by Aphrodite charmed Helen when they met in Sparta and they fled to Troy together.
Homer's account in The Iliad goes on to describe how the Greeks and Trojans decided to settle the issue between Paris and King Menelaus by single combat, but Aphrodite saved Paris by surrounding him in a thick cloud.
Etty's 'The Judgement of Paris' depicts the moment when, after listening to each of the Goddesses' promises Paris decided to award the apple (and title of 'the fairest') to Aphrodite. Paris seated under the tree is accompanied by Hermes messenger of the Gods and behind them, a Satyr. The three Goddess standing in front of Paris are easily distinguished - Athena in a helmet, Aphrodite's stance is reminiscent of her representation in Renaissance paintings and Hera has her back to the viewer, but shows her anger at Paris' choice in her face.
Etty drew from a number of different sources for this work: the protagonists of the scene and their poses follow the composition of Raphael's 'Judgement of Paris'. For other details such as Athena's helmet and Hera's diadem and straightened right arm, he has drawn from Flaxman's engraving 'Judgement of Paris', one of his illustrations to Homer's Iliad, which Etty probably owned. Rubens also painted 'The Judgement of Paris' (this painting is in the National Gallery in London).
Looking carefully at Etty's painting one notices that despite the brilliant colours and the sensuousness of the nude bodies, the surroundings are incomplete; neither the group of nymphs on the right hand side of the painting, nor the foliage of the trees appear resolved. Lord Darnley continuously asked for changes and the canvas looks as if it was worked on bit by bit. In some areas one can discern changes - Aphrodite's raised arm and the drapery over Athena's shoulder. However the picture was well received when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826 and this may have convinced Etty that he did not need to do any more work on it.
Lord Darnley was not convinced; he only paid a part of the agreed price and only later, in 1831 did he agree to take the work and finally pay the balance. Its sale in 1843 to a private collector for a large sum brought the work back to prominence and may have led to Etty receiving a second commission, this time from Joseph Gillot for the same subject. Lord Leverhulme bought 'The Judgement of Paris' from a private collector in 1911.
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Mr. Obama has yet to make a decision and has other options available to him, but as officials described it, the debate is no longer over whether to send more troops, but how many more will be needed. The question of how much of the country should fall under the direct protection of American and
At the moment, the administration is looking at protecting
But military planners are also pressing for enough troops to safeguard major agricultural areas, like the hotly contested Helmand River valley, as well as regional highways essential to the economy — tasks that would require significantly more reinforcements beyond the 21,000 deployed by Mr. Obama this year.
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Administration and military officials said the strategy would include other elements, like accelerated training of Afghan troops, expanded economic development and reconciliation with less radical members of the Taliban.
But such a strategy would be open to complaints that American and allied forces were in effect giving insurgents free rein across large parts of the nation, allowing the Taliban to establish ministates with training camps that could be used by
"We are not talking about surrendering the rest of the country to the Taliban," a senior administration official said.
Military officers said that they would maintain pressure on insurgents in remote regions by using surveillance drones and reports from people in the field to find pockets of Taliban fighters and to guide attacks, in particular by Special Operations forces.
But a range of officials made the case that many insurgents fighting Americans in distant locations are motivated not by jihadist ideology, but by local grievances, and are not much of a threat to the
At the heart of this strategy is the conclusion that the United States cannot completely eradicate the insurgency in a nation where the Taliban is an indigenous force — nor does it need to in order to protect American national security. Instead, the focus would be on preventing Al Qaeda from returning in force while containing and weakening the Taliban long enough to build Afghan security forces that would eventually take over the mission.
In effect, the approach blends ideas advanced by General McChrystal and by Vice President
General McChrystal has sought at least 40,000 more troops for a counterinsurgency strategy to protect Afghan civilians so they will support the central government. Mr. Biden has opposed a buildup, contending that a bigger military footprint could be counterproductive and that fighting Al Qaeda in
A strategy of protecting major Afghan population centers would be "McChrystal for the city, Biden for the country," as one administration official put it. Officials said Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was playing a crucial role, balancing the case made by commanders with the skepticism of some civilians on Mr. Obama's war council as the debate entered its final days.
A senior military officer said the developing strategy adopted General McChrystal's central tenet. "We are no longer thinking about just destroying the enemy in a conventional way," the officer said. "We must remove the main pressure that civilians live under, which is the constant intimidation and corruption and direct threat from the insurgency."
The officer said General McChrystal wanted the most expansive definition of population centers to include fertile valleys, economic belts and major roadways, in particular the national ring road central for commerce, as well as four or five roadways linking Afghanistan eastward to Pakistan and westward to
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Elements of the strategy are already being carried out. Over the past month, General McChrystal has closed half a dozen isolated military outposts in towns like Wanat, where nine Americans were killed in a vicious firefight in July 2008. The decision to close these bases has allowed the general to shift nearly 1,000 troops to other missions.
Historical analogies are imperfect, but the strategy being put in place can be viewed as a rejection of arguments that individual villages have a strategic importance — a
One possible focus in the administration debate centers on Helmand, a lightly populated farming area and Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. For years, insurgents controlled much of the province, but
Some administration officials ask whether it makes sense for 20 percent of the foreign forces to be protecting 3 percent of the country's population. But others point out that Helmand's fertile valley is important to Afghanistan's economy and that it has become a major source of opium used to finance the insurgency.
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The global ransomware epidemic isn't going to die anytime soon. After WannaCry and Petya, cyber criminals are now spreading an email-based Locky ransomware. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an alert on its website about the new Locky ransomware which spreads through spam emails. Cyber criminals demand payments in cryptocurrency bitcoin like WannaCry did. At the moment, there is no report of how much damage the Locky ransomware has caused in India. So, what is Locky ransomware, how does it spread, and how can we protect our computer from ransomware?
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For a university professor, Francisco J. Ayala spends a lot of time on the road.
An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.
Usually he preaches to the converted. But not always.
As challenges to the teaching of evolution continue to emerge, legislators debate measures equating the teaching of creationism with academic freedom and a new movie links Darwin to evils ranging from the suppression of free speech to the Holocaust, "I get a lot of people who don't know what to think," Dr. Ayala said. "Or they believe in intelligent design but they want to hear."
Dr. Ayala, a former Dominican priest, said he told his audiences not just that evolution is a well-corroborated scientific theory, but also that belief in evolution does not rule out belief in God. In fact, he said, evolution "is more consistent with belief in a personal god than intelligent design. If God has designed organisms, he has a lot to account for."
Consider, he said, that at least 20 percent of pregnancies are known to end in
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For the midges, Dr. Ayala said, "it makes evolutionary sense. If you are a male and you have mated, the best thing you can do for your genes is to be eaten." But if God or some other intelligent agent made things this way on purpose, he said, "then he is a sadist, he certainly does odd things and he is a lousy engineer."
That is also the message of his latest book, "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion" (Joseph Henry Press, 2007). In it, he writes that as a theology student in
"As floods and drought were a necessary consequence of the fabric of the physical world, predators and parasites, dysfunctions and diseases were a consequence of the evolution of life," he writes. "They were not a result of a deficient or malevolent design."
Dr. Ayala gives about 50 talks a year, he said in a recent interview in New York, a day after he delivered the inaugural Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer lecture in
Because of his eminence — he is a member of the
But Dr. Ayala said another proposed engagement, at a conference at the Crystal Cathedral in
Dr. Ayala said the event's organizers wanted him to be introduced by
"I don't mind who introduces me," he said he told them, "but I would not want the film to be part of my presentation. They said they could not meet my conditions."
Despite his heavy travel schedule, he continues to teach and research and publish, and work on Academy committees. He has been an opera lover since childhood, when he saw
But his major outside interest is wine, specifically the vineyards he and his wife, Hana, own in
The couple got into the wine business almost by accident in the 1980s when Dr. Ayala was at the University of California at Davis, near Sacramento. Property he and his wife bought as a weekend getaway turned out to have acres of vines, he said, and over the years they have expanded their holdings to 6,000 acres.
His secret for keeping all these enterprises going is "organization," by which he means hiring what he called "superb" staff members and leaving them alone to get things done. He visits the vineyards perhaps once a month, he said, and stays on top of things by chatting with his manager by cellphone once or twice a week as he walks the mile from his home to his office on the Irvine campus.
His assistant there, Denise Chilcote, runs his professorial life, taking his phone calls, making his appointments and answering his e-mail, often signing his name.
Dr. Ayala, who is 74, was born in Madrid and studied theology at the Pontifical Faculty of San Esteban in Salamanca before coming to the
Dr. Ayala said he remained surprised at how many Americans believe the theory of evolution is contrary to belief in God, or that the theory is erroneous or even fraudulent. (In fact, there is no credible scientific challenge to it as an explanation for the complexity and diversity of life on earth.)
Sometimes, he says, people come to his talks determined to challenge him, usually by citing familiar creationist arguments — that a body part like the bacterial tail, or flagellum, is too complex to have arisen through evolution, or that scientists lied when they demonstrated that moths in
But he said he had yet to encounter a challenge he could not meet. When people ask about the bacterial flagellum, for example, "I bring up that by now it has been worked out in great detail how the basic parts of the bacterial flagellum have evolved independently and exist independently," he said.
As for the moths, he conceded that in famous photographs illustrating the discovery, the dark moths had been glued to the dark trees. But the observation that the moths had darkened along with the trees was real, he said. "To have a nice photograph, we glue them," he said. "That is not falsifying science. That is something for facilitating teaching."
And he dismisses the argument that it is only fair to teach both sides of the evolution/creationism controversy. "We don't teach alchemy along with chemistry," he said. "We don't teach witchcraft along with medicine. We don't teach astrology with astronomy."
He said he was saddened when he saw the embrace of evolution identified with, as he put it, "explicit atheism," as in the books of the evolutionary biologist
Neither the existence nor nonexistence of God is susceptible to scientific proof, Dr. Ayala said, and equating science with the abandonment of religion "fits the prejudices" of advocates of intelligent design and other creationist ideas.
"Science and religion concern nonoverlapping realms of knowledge," he writes in the new book. "It is only when assertions are made beyond their legitimate boundaries that evolutionary theory and religious belief appear to be antithetical."
It is important that Dr. Ayala "is not a religion-basher," Dr. Scott said, "because creationists always showcase the religion-bashers in science as if they speak for all scientists. They clearly do not speak for Francisco and many others."
Nevertheless, Dr. Ayala will not say whether he remains a religious believer.
"I don't want to be tagged," he said. "By one side or the other."
A profile on April 29 about Francisco J. Ayala, a professor who speaks often in defense of the theory of evolution, misstated the location of McGill University, where he gave a recent talk. It is Montreal, not Toronto.


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13. Started the year with a black eye. The American border people still allowed me into their land of roadtrips, and we took the wheel from San Fran to Mexico. In an RV – sleep n ride, baby. I rolled in the rocking chair at City Lights – the Poet's Chair. Stopped at Henry Miller's Memorial Library before some rocks in the road turned us back up the Big Sur to take the wine route into LA. In the desert, we weirdly homed into the place where Gram Parsons died. Other pitstops included the Integratron, Noah Purvifoy's scrap-art graveyard, the Grand Canyon, and Arcosanti – Paolo Soleri's commune. Came back via Vegas. Epic.
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At the Miller Library I picked up Crazy Cock – post-humously published, a brilliant and terrible debut. Reassuring to read ill-kempt, overwrought drafts. Armistead Maupin's taking his 92-year old transgender superstar on an American roadtrip in 2014, The Days of Anna Madrigal in 2014. Also good to hear DBC Pierre's got a new one coming out.
I love discovering new writers: Ben Lerner was my American darling of 2013, like Sam Lypsyte was in 2012. Lerner's Leaving Atocha Station is exactly the self-conscious, post-terrorism era that I'm stoked to leave behind. He's very minimal, like Paul Auster, although a little less parred down, unfortunately. I'd had connections with Madrid whilst reading the British edition, and loved the ballsy biographical flavour.
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Over Christmas I'll switch my iPad on for Damien Barr's memoir Maggie & Me. Next year's salonniere's memoir that I've pitched into, is by Salena Godden. She lived with us in Old Street in the 90s for a short while, and started the Book Club Boutique, where I first read poetry. At the Book Club Boutique's summer party, I met Lemn Sissay and subsequently sought out his witty poem collection. He's working on a biog which'll perhaps open new audiences up to some of the realities of migrancy, not that I believe his route to British shores was traditional in any way, but what journeys are? Rebel Cities by David Harvey was one of my most interesting academic reads. My pal Robert Pereno turned me onto Platform by Michel Houellebecq. Geoff Nicholson has a new book out for pavement pounders, like me, Walking In Ruins.
Photobook-wise, Nick Waplington's Alexander McQueen Working Process features several friends, and captures the genius of a life left too early. Next year, I'm looking forward to Dougie Wallace's book on the Hoxton Mini Press.
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If you want a guy to kiss you, you have to let him know! He might be waiting for you to show your interest or give him the green light. Luckily, it's easy! All you have to do is be yourself, use a few body language cues, and let the kiss happen naturally when the time is right!
Being Direct
1Move in closer. You have to be close to each other to kiss, and the less distance a guy has to travel to kiss you, the easier it is for him to give it a try. So get close. When the moment seems right, put your face close to his and look at him expectantly. You could also try moving in as though you're going to kiss him.[1]
Example: Give him a long, intimate hug. Before unwrapping your arms or pulling your body away, lean your head back. This will give him a chance to move in for the kiss.
2Talk about kissing. If the guy isn't taking your subtle hints, bring up kissing in conversation. If you're watching a movie together and see an on-screen kiss, mention that it's "so romantic" or something to that effect. Alternatively, bring up your first kiss or a silly story about a bad kiss you've had. Then, bring up how much better you've gotten since then. It might be the feeder line he needs to lean in and see for himself.[2]
3Ask him to kiss you. Guys like when their partner is confident and know what they want. If you're too afraid to move in for the kiss, ask him to do it. Say something like, "Will you kiss me?" You can also ask him if he'd like a kiss, by saying something like, "Can I kiss you?" or "I'd love to kiss you right now. Are you into it?"[3]
- If he says no, don't freak out. Stay calm, say, "Okay, no worries," and change the subject. Rejection happens to everyone at some point, so try not to take it personally!
4Kiss him. If you really want to kiss the guy, and you know he's into you, go ahead and do it! Each person in the equation has the same right to make the first move. Don't be self-conscious or stress over the situation too much. Just lean in, kiss him, and enjoy it.[4]
- If you're not sure if the guy is interested or ready to kiss, you should probably wait until you know for sure.
Using Subtle Cues
1Make eye contact. If you're always looking down or away, the guy might think you're not interested. Look him in the eye, especially when you're carrying on a conversation. Smile a lot and laugh at his jokes to let him know you're enjoying his company.[5]
2Be inviting. Guys are often afraid of rejection or unsure if you would appreciate a kiss. Try to make him feel comfortable and confident. Flirt with him and compliment him. If you put him at ease and let him know you are interested, he'll usually find the courage to try to kiss you.[6]
- For example, you could say, "I was at the last gig your band played. You are an amazing drummer! When did you start playing?"
- Alternatively, say something like, "Wanna watch the new Stephen King film? I heard it's terrifying. Will you hold my hand during the scary parts?"
3Break the touch barrier. If he hasn't broken the touch barrier yet, you don't need to wait -- do it yourself! Touch him lightly on the arm or shoulder when you're talking. Just make it a quick, innocent touch and don't make a big deal out of it. Holding hands is also a good way to break the touch barrier. The simple act of touching can strengthen the intimacy between you two.[7]
4Look at his lips. When you're alone with a guy and want to be kissed, make eye contact and then move your gaze briefly down to his lips. Then move your eyes back up to meet his and smile demurely. You don't have to be really obvious about it—just a quick glance down at his lips is better than staring at them for more than a few seconds.[8]
Tip: Only do this once or twice in a conversation. You want it to be subtle, not creepy!
5Linger when saying goodbye. If he's dropping you off after a date, linger for a moment. If you're in the car, don't get out right away. Instead, sit next to him and wait for a few seconds. Unbuckle your seatbelt and look at him expectantly. If he walks you to your door, fiddle with your keys for a couple of seconds. This is a universal sign that you're asking for an after-date kiss. Look up once or twice to give him a chance to lean in.[9]
6Pretend you're cold. Shiver and rub your hands over your arms, or comment on the freezing temperatures. Your guy will likely jump at the chance to get closer to you. If he puts his arms around you or helps you into his jacket, stay close. Make eye contact and say, "Thanks." Smile at him, and he may just move in for a kiss.[10]
7Draw attention to your own lips. Gently run your fingers across your lips periodically to draw his attention in. You can also playfully bite your bottom lip or gently wet your lips with your tongue.[11]
- In moderation, these are good ways to signal to your partner that you'd like a kiss. However, overdoing it will make it look unnatural and can be a huge turn off.
Tip: Focus on physical draws rather than piling on lipgloss or lipstick.
Preparing for a Kiss
1Freshen your breath. Brush your teeth or use mouthwash to freshen your breath. If you're away from home, chew minty gum or use a breath spray. The last thing you want to worry about is bad breath![12]
2Make sure your lips are soft. Apply a lip balm before meeting up with the guy. Avoid using brightly-colored lipstick or lip gloss that is sticky or sparkly. Chances are, he won't want to get it on his own lips, so it could be a turnoff.[13]
3Wait until you have some privacy. Though you may be dying for him to kiss you in the middle of third period, it's probably not the most appropriate time or setting. Ask him to hang out privately, and go for a walk or watch a movie together. When you're alone, he's more likely to move in for that kiss.[14]
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To subtly hint for a kiss from a guy, make eye contact and break the touch barrier by touching him on the shoulder or arm. If he still isn't getting the hint, try looking at his lips once or twice during the conversation - but be careful to not overdo it! At the end of a date, invite a kiss by lingering as you say goodbye. If all else fails, go for it yourself! For more tips and tricks, like how to draw attention to your lips or start a conversation about kissing, read on!
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.rookiemag.com/2013/04/kissing-complete-guide/
- ↑ https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/2015/01/creative-ways-to-ask-to-kiss-or-be-kissed-by-someone/
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ https://theartofcharm.com/dating-tips/body-language-signs-shes-ready-kiss/
- ↑ https://theartofcharm.com/dating-tips/body-language-signs-shes-ready-kiss/
- ↑ https://www.self.com/story/5-ways-decode-flirting
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.study-body-language.com/how-to-kiss.html#sthash.t0WZ7ZQc.dpbs
- ↑ http://www.herinterest.com/how-to-get-a-guy-to-kiss-you/
- ↑ http://www.rookiemag.com/2013/04/kissing-complete-guide/
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Known for its versatility, the wrap dress aims to enhance a woman's bust while minimising the hips. Wrap dresses are available in a wide variety of styles, colours and prints. To complete the look, match a wrap dress with an appropriate pair of shoes. Due to the versatility of the dress, the shoe choices are also extremely versatile. When selecting a shoe to pair with a wrap dress, consider the formality of the situation and the environment.
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When wearing a wrap dress in a formal environment, such as work or a business meeting, opt for a classic pump. You can find pumps with pointed or rounded toes in a wide variety of materials, including leather, patent leather and microfiber. For a formal setting, the heel should be about 2 to 3 or three inches. Select a black or nude pump for a more reserved look, and add a vibrant-coloured pump for a punch of style.
If the environment is less structured, consider an open-toed style. These shoes typically feature a higher heel (3 to 4 inches) and a peep toe. Peep toe heels portray a more stylish and flirty look. When paired with a wrap dress, they are a great option for a party or date. Peep toe heels are available in a variety of colours and patterns; stick with a basic black for a more subdued look, and opt for a bright colour or pattern for extra style.
Although most wrap dresses tend to be somewhat casual, some wrap dresses are extravagant and elegant. If you'll wear the wrap dress to a formal affair, such as a charity ball or fancy party, wear it with a pair of strappy evening shoes. Evening sandals typically feature a high heel (typically 3 to 4 inches) and an open style. Opt for a shoe embellished with rhinestones or ribbons to make a significant fashion statement.
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When wearing the wrap dress for a more casual event, allow your footwear choice to remain casual as well. Strappy sandals are a popular choice for the summer; they add a pop of colour to any style, yet provide significant comfort. When pairing a strappy sandal with a basic wrap dress, opt for a flat sandal in a bright or metallic colour. However, if the wrap dress features a bright colour or bold pattern, choose a flat sandal in a basic black, gold or silver.
For a casual shoe option with a little height, consider pairing your wrap dress with a wedge sandal. These shoes feature a wedge heel, which runs under the entire foot. Wedge heels are available in a variety of heel sizes, although higher heels tend to look more appropriate with a wrap dress. For a more basic look, select a leather wedge heel in a basic colour. For a more interesting look, select a wedge in a bright colour or pattern.
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When wearing a wrap dress during the fall or winter seasons, pair it with tall boots and tights. Leather knee-high boots provide both a polished look and a comfortable fit. You can find boots in a variety of heel sizes, from completely flat to extremely high. When wearing boots with a wrap dress, integrate a pair of thick tights or leggings into the look.
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Kevin Keller was working late toward the end of 2015.
Rain dampened the drive to his home off Dascomb Road, a quick hop off Interstate 93.
But just before his exit, as he was switching lanes to the right, he hit a pool of water that collected in the right-most driving lane and the breakdown lane.
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"Water pools in that spot, about a quarter of a mile south of exit 42 on I-93 northbound at the top of a hill, when it rains hard," Keller said.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation told NBC Boston that it would look into the problem, but declined to make someone available for an interview.
"As I was hydroplaning, perpendicular to the road, seeing headlights coming at me while i was in the drivers seat," Keller said.
After he hit that water back in 2015, he spun across three lanes of Interstate traffic and came to rest against the median guardrail facing oncoming cars.
"It was one of the most frightening things I've ever experienced," he said.
Keller wasn't injured, but another car had hit his rear bumper while he was sliding.
In the months since, Keller has stopped in the breakdown lane — only on weekends, though, because the breakdown lane becomes a travel lane during rush hour — and recorded cars driving through inches of water in the rain.
"Car after car after car hit that water and they were throwing up rooster tails, spray that was eight to 10 feet high consistently," he said.
According to MassDOT crash data, there were 109 crashes at that spot between 2010 and 2014.
The data did not list the causes of those crashes.
Dr. Daniel Dulaski, a civil engineer and professor at Northeastern University who specializes in transportation design and safety, said one of the top jobs of engineers designing a road is to move water.
"As we design a roadway we're trying to get that water out of the travel lane as quickly as possible," he said.
Though he didn't inspect the area himself, Dulaski said a clogged drain on the side of the road would be the first place to check.
"When you think about catch basins, in the fall, especially in New England, you might have twigs or leaves that clog the catch basins," he said.
But water pooling on the side of the road, like in Keller's video, isn't normal.
"There's a fair amount of water that's pooling in the shoulder, and in some instances making it out to the first or rightmost travel lane," he said.
Keller says storms still bring pools on the interstate, followed by MassDOT crews to fix the guardrail.
MassDOT said it has repaired the guardrail in that spot 18 times in the last year and a half.
"It's been an ongoing problem for at least two years and nothing's been done," Keller said.


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For writing multiple capital letters it would be great to have some kind of caps lock to avoid typos. Unless there already is and I just couldn't manage to find it ;)
Caps lock
It would be great to get a caps lock button. Maybe in one of the corners?
I agree with David, the swipe system is really fast and you don't have to swipe a big distance for it to be recognized, same actually with the long press :)
Agree with Alex, for whole words it would be more easy!
my password is a pin consisting 10 BOLD LETTERS! now I can't unlock my phone after using WRIO keyboard </3
Yes caps lock please
CAPS lOCk please. It a real pain having to flick up when your typing an entire sentence.
Swipeup surely is an insanely great way to capitalize a single letter and this is as good as it gets, I guess. But I disagree with those who say Swipeup is as easy as normal tapping. It is just not true :D – Swipeup is a more complex gesture than a Single tap. Both technically (swipe offset etc.) and for the user. Doing many swipeups in a row very often result in small letter exceptions, for me atleas.
My suggestion:
Tap and hold Both Space-keys for 1-2 seconds to enter "CAPSLOCK mode" (and it erases the just inserted space)
Indication for CAPSLOCK mode are uppercase button labels and maybe a visual difference in the space key as indicator that it can be changed back on those keys.
Switching to the second page (special characters) ends the caps lock mode aswell.
Totally agree Rene. Swiping up iz great for 1 letter works, but swiping up for a whole sentence results in small letters here and there. CApS LoCK pLEASE
Why so much resistance to a simple CAPS LOCK button ?
The sensitivity seems ok to me, its just the constant swipe up over and over that causes the errors.
Thanks a lot for your feedback! 😊
Yes, if you want to capitalize whole sentences (but why? 😂) it's probably slower than with a caps lock.
Let's see what other users think
DEfINiTelY it WOuLD BE A GReAT IDEA
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Fred: Have you figured out how to get the coat away from her?
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Ricky: I'm gonna tell her the truth.
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I've decided to go back to MN. My nape and edges seem as if they have thinned from the wearing of my lace front, so enough is enough. I don't want to risk any damage. I am going to try some protective styles on my real hair and wear them from now on. I'm thinking rollersets and afro puffs again =).
Since I am challenged when it comes to styling my own hair, I plan to visit a local salon that specializes in natural hair. I hope they can give me styling choices to look cute with and still look professional and polished!! It will be my first time going to a salon since my last relaxer back in December of 2008. I hope to visit it by the beginning of next week.
I was going to keep this a surprise, but I can't hold it in when I'm this excited. I finally want to color my hair !! I am thinking of getting some highlights only in the front of my hair to start off slowly and gradually lighten as time goes on. I want to monitor my hair to see if it becomes damaged at all. I really don't think it will though. I've been wanting highlights on the top for the longest time now, since I did my BC. I think I'm going to ask the stylist to give me a Keri Hilson -like color service like her hair is here :
.... I really like her color there. I just want something small and subtle, yet cute. This look is perfect to me to achieve those kind of results. I won't be risking too much damage by starting small. Wish me luck !!! =)
**** I don't normally moderate comments, but I understand alot of people are against MN. I don't mind disagreements, but I will monitor this thread in case someone decides to disrespectfully bash my decision !! I know that won't happen though. I Love You all !! Thank you for reading =)
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It was the last year in which finishing at the top of the standings in your league meant an automatic berth in the World Series. It was the year in which Nolan Ryan and Johnny Bench made their baseball card debuts and a year in which the American League batting champ barely hit .300. In 1968, baseball card packs were still a nickel, and while you won't find even … [Read more...]
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Denny McLain's earned run average in 1968 was 1.96. It might have been just a little lower if he hadn't voluntarily surrendered a late-season home run to Mickey Mantle. The story behind the gesture to an aging slugger by baseball's last 30-game winner is playing out in an auction that could result in a record price for a Mickey Mantle jersey. The road grey … [Read more...]
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In many ways the 1970 Topps Baseball card set was both a fun one and a historically significant one. In July 1969, the miracle of man first landing on the moon grabbed worldwide headlines. Only a few short months later another miracle occurred as the Mets shocked the world and won the World Series. This latter "miracle" was commemorated in the 1970 baseball set as card #1, … [Read more...]
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Ryanair is always trying wacky schemes to save money (including skimping on fuel, charging crazy fees, and trying to put pornography on planes), but now it seems that the notoriously stingy airline is also trying to save time, at the expense of safety.
The Daily Mail reports that a Ryanair plane with 141 passengers on board was flying from Manchester to Bavaria when it came within "seconds and feet of disaster." The pilots were reportedly trying to make up for lost time (due to a delay of about 30 minutes in Manchester), and attempted to descend the plane too quickly.
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation looked in to the incident, and found that at one point, the plane was just 450 feet above the ground, while dropping at an unsafe rate of 500 feet per second. The auto-pilot was deactivated, and numerous automated alarms warned the pilots to "pull up, pull up."
The crew then initiated a "go-around" procedure, which involves pulling the plane up sharply, and reattempting the landing, and the flight landed safely.
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There are so many things I wish I could do better. Painting, piano, knitting, singing, speaking foreign languages… the list could go on for some time.
I think out of everything I can do but wish I was great at is playing the piano. I just find it so therapeutic. I played some through my whole pregnancy, so it still seems to calm the beast.
I have never taken formal lessons. My father taught me when I was younger, and I continued to teach myself over the years.
I cannot tell you how much I LOVE my piano. I have a 1910 Wilbur Cabinet Grand. It's not in perfect condition, but it still plays beautifully. I hope one day to have it restored so that my children can play it.
If I had to pick something practical to be great at, it would be speaking foreign languages. I was able to speak more Spanish as a child, not I'm hopeless. I definitely understand more that I speak. I still don't feel comfortable speaking it, so don't plan on ever hearing those words come out of my mouth.
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This dialog box looks pretty familiar to the Firefox users out there — especially if you're running a nightly build. And it hasn't changed a heck of a lot since Firefox 2, nor has the update process itself. Now, however, Mozilla is gearing up to deliver faster, less intrusive Firefox updates.
More than six years ago, the initial bug was filed. Last month, work on a prototype fix finally began on the update annoyance — which was unsurprisingly pinned to a virtual whiteboard called "Chrome Parity." Google Chrome, of course, has pushed its updates silently since late 2008.
Mozilla engineer Ehsan Akhgari has been toiling away at the improved delivery system for Firefox, and it's now ready for testing. Here's how the new Firefox update process works: when an update is detected, Firefox launches the background updater and installs the new files in a separate directory. When Firefox is restarted, it's a simple move and replace operation that occurs — and that's much faster than actually performing the update installation during start-up.
Akhgari has set up a new temporary Firefox channel called Ash for those who are willing to help out with initial testing before the new updater is pushed to the usual Firefox channels. If you'd like to get involved, download and install the Fifrefox Ash build. Akhgari will push several updates per day so that the new system can be thoroughly tested.
With Firefox's release cycle being shortened to keep pace with Chrome (and changes to the Web itself), silent updates are becoming a necessity. An increased number of releases means more users are seeing more update dialogs more often, and that screen has the potential to frustrate. Frustration leads to lost users, and Mozilla can't afford to sit idly by as more and more users flock to Google Chrome.
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One more sleep until I leave for Croatia! I am quite stressed about the whole thing, although I know that I am actually ready for it. There's just something about independant travel that gives you that extra buzz of nerves. I don't know – could be the whole not having booked anywhere to stay and just winging it, not really sure 😉
I'm armed with my Lonely Planet book on Croatia, and having had a brief little visit to the Thorn Tree forum on their site, I do have a bit of an idea of where I'm going, how I'm getting around and how much I can expect to spend (ah crap, just realised I need to transfer some money still…). I'm a big Lonely Planet fan, and between their site, books, blogs and traveller forums, I think that they absolutely provide the best support for independant travel! Maybe one day I will write for them…hmmmm…or photograph for Lonely Planet Images.
I am packed (just about) and ready. Just have to fit this small pile of clothes into a backpack and do some bon voyage kisses.
I'm not taking my Blackberry and am completely removing myself from the world as I know it for 2 weeks. I will probably start having withdrawal symptoms and hunt down an internet cafe every now and then for a quick-fix blog post, so I'm not making any promises just yet!
If I don't come back, please just assume that I have found a beautiful Croatian husband and am sipping cocktails and eating truffles in his seaside villa. Or more likely, I lost a day and missed my flight.