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Monday, December 18, 2006
FLASH! Dembski Will be Paid for his Expert Advice in Dover
I'm not making this up. Denyse O'Leary announces that the Thomas More Law Center will pay Bill Dembski for over 100 hours of expert advice on the Kitzmiller case in Dover PA.
Discerning readers might recall that this is the case where the IDiots were blown out of the water. Not a single one of their points was accepted by the judge. I wonder what the going rate is for IDiotic experts?
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- Mustafa Mond, FCDMonday, December 18, 2006 3:18:00 PM
The original article is dated June 25, 2005. I take it the 'Update' part is the undated first paragraph, in parentheses? O'Leary says, He and the Thomas More Law Center, which fired him as an expert witness, appear to have resolved their differences. If she says so. Whether TMLC fired Dembski, or whether he withdrew is a distinction I do not have the information to resolve, but Dembski's "expert report" was withdrawn from the trial and he did not testify.ReplyDelete
I wonder if doing voice-overs and farting noises for animation pays better than writing expert reports?
- Mustafa Mond, FCDMonday, December 18, 2006 3:31:00 PM
In O'Leary's original article, she claims, "Discovery Institute, of which Bill Dembski is a fellow, does not support teaching intelligent design theory at the schools level. That's part of the background to this dispute. In Discovery's view, ID theory is in an early stage of development and properly belongs in university common rooms, defenses of theses, journals, et cetera. The science information that gave rise to it only emerged in the last thirty years, and was stalled by narrow Darwinism."ReplyDelete
This is not so. As Ken Miller points out in a recent e-mail response to Dembski, "Or, even better, your own DC spokesman for the Discovery Institute (Mark Ryland) claiming that the DI had "never" advocated the teaching of ID in schools, followed by Richard Thompson, in his own voice, waving a copy of Steve Meyer's book which advocated exactly that? I've got that last one on a DVD if you like. You'd love it, Bill - Richard brought down the house at the American Enterprise Institute with that one."
Yeah, the update isn't new, it was from June or July 2005. But it's still durn funny.ReplyDelete
- Steve LaBonneTuesday, December 19, 2006 2:40:00 PM
Nothing new there, some of the hired liars retained by criminal defense attorneys to attack DNA evidence are every bit as well-informed and effective as Billy boy, but they also make out like bandits. A few particularly dishonest and prolific ones make a good deal more in "expert" witness fees than they do from their academic salaries. And the dumbass lawyers keep paying them no matter how often they're shot down in court.ReplyDelete


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Brown, Jennfier. Hate List. Little Brown Books for Young Readers. 2009. ISBN 0316041440
Reader's Annotation: Five months after Valerie's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire in their school cafeteria Valerie must now return to school. She's haunted by the guilt of the part she played in the tragedy and can she overcome it to move on with her life?
Plot Summary: Valerie and her boyfriend Nick made a list, a hate list, of people they hated but Valerie never expected things to go beyond that. Then Nick opens fire one day in the school cafeteria using the hate list to pick his targets. After a summer away from school Valerie must return to school for her senior year and face those who blamed her for playing a part in this tragedy. Can Valerie find a way to make amends and move on with her life?
Critical Evaluation
Upon finishing this book I sat there feeling stunned by how disturbing this book was and yet how touching it was. Each chapter of the book opens with pieces of news articles talking about the shooting and the reader has to put together these pieces to figure out what happens. At the same time we read about Valerie's recovery from being shot while trying to stop Nick during his shooting spree. It's heartbreaking reading about how Valerie was picked on and teased to the point where she made this list with Nick. I know there are many teens out there who live in this situation almost every day. They are the outcasts, the nerds, the rejects, etc. This story shows that these teens have feelings to and other teens need to realize this when they choose to bully or ridicule someone else.
The reactions of those around Valerie are frustrating because we see what Valerie is feeling and yet it's so realistic that you can see why they behave that way. The mix of feelings the book evokes will leave you feeling like you have been on an emotional roller coaster but I feel like the message this book delivers is so important.
About the author
Jennifer used to write a weekly humor column in The Kansas City Star for over four years until she quit to focus on writing full time. Hate List was Jennifer's debut book and was a big hit. It was chosen for ALA's Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA "Perfect Ten" book and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Jennifer's second book, Bitter End, that came out in 2011 deals with another difficult issue about a young girl and her abusive and controlling boyfriend. It also received many positive reviews and made the YALSA's 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list.
Curriculum Ties
Book talking idea
Have you ever said something hurtful to someone else that you regretted afterwards? Did you ever approach them to say you were sorry?
Reading level
Ages 14 and up.
Challenge Issues
Why did I include this book?
Shootings in school are unfortunately becoming much more common these days and often time boil down to the shooters feeling alienated, bullied or relentlessly teased by their classmates. I felt like this book would make a great read to see the consequences and reactions on all sides to such an emotional event.


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He's Here
Posted September 24, 2013 by Sarah in Uncategorized. Tagged: alone, Comfort, depression, dread, fear, hurt, Jesus, lonely, Love, Pain, redemption, sickness, sin. 5 Comments
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Posted by Redneck Garage on September 24, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Graphic but really drives home the point (no pun intended) what Jesus did for us through his suffering and dying on the cross. But this picture only shows the physical suffering. I know how I feel when I have done something wrong. How it stays on my conscience until the sin is forgiven and out of my life. All of those feeling of guilt for all of humanity past, present, and future were on the mind of Jesus during his emotional suffering on the cross. That is a huge burden to bear…
Posted by Sarah on September 24, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Amen, brother. It's beyond comprehension, how deeply He knows and loves us..then and now. I wasn't originally going for such a graphic picture, but when I saw that one, I felt it was right. And to think, in reality, He was unrecognizable. This picture doesn't even show the half of it. What He went through for us keeps me in constant awe.
Always wonderful to hear from you.
Posted by journeyofjoy on September 26, 2013 at 7:53 am
How humbling to think that (we) were the joy that was set before Him as He hung upon that cross. We who at times forget just how much He endured that we may always be with Him!
Posted by Sarah on September 26, 2013 at 8:33 am
Sending love to you and yours :0)
Posted by journeyofjoy on September 26, 2013 at 11:38 am
Right back at you Sarah 🙂


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At the office, my friend Mike was ranting about his weekend trip to Wal-Mart.
"I got behind this guy at the self-checkout who had two carriages full of stuff. The idiot even had produce! Who does that? Who goes to the self-checkout with that many groceries? Who tries to ring up their own produce?"
"Oh, that would be me," I stammered, raising my hand sheepishly and stifling a nervous giggle.
"ARE YOU KIDDING?" Mike bellowed, and he's not usually one to bellow. "You're not really one of those people are you?" he asked. "Please tell me you don't ring up your own produce and try to shovel cartloads of groceries through the self-checkout."
"Sorry, Mike. I am one of those people. But, I'm really good at it, honest. I can do it really quickly."
"Hmmm," Mike said skeptically. "The guy in front of me wasn't very good at it at all."
He was so slow, in fact, Mike thought he might witness the first murder ever at a Wal-Mart self-checkout counter. The customer who was next in line was getting very antsy as "the checkout king" used the scanner to look up the price of every piece of produce in his cart from bananas to kiwi. And apparently, though crazy, the check-out genius was a very healthy eater with a voracious appetite for fruits and vegetables. The wait was excruciating.
I felt the need to defend myself and others skilled in the art of the self-checkout system. "I am fast. I know you wouldn't find it a problem if I were in front of you in line. I can do the lookup function very quickly," I bragged.
"But why do you do it? Why don't you just let one of the cashiers take care of a big order? Mike said, gritting his teeth.
"Hmmm. I don't know. The cashiers are so slow, I can't stand to wait," I said.
And that's when it hit me. I hadn't really thought about it before, but in today's fast-paced world, service has become a thing of the past. The truth is, Mike is right. It's not really faster and it's not better than having someone do it for you, but we are all willing to scan our own groceries. The stores love it because they don't have to hire very many cashiers, which saves them money.
And, if I spend a couple of hundred dollars on groceries, enough to fill two carts, the store may or may not want to help me bring one of the carts to the car. More than likely, I'll have to haul both carts out myself. I'm 5 feet, 3 inches tall. One cart dwarfs me, let alone two. So it's a struggle to do it all by myself.
When I was a kid, my mother often shopped at Dan's Star Market. Self-checkouts hadn't been invented yet and the cashier always had a bag boy to carefully pack all of our groceries into thick brown paper grocery bags. The bag boy double bagged all the cold items like meat and cheese and put the ice cream in special freezer bags. When the bags were back in the cart, the bag boy would bring our groceries to the car and unload them for us. Those were the days.
Now, in addition to scanning my own produce and hauling two cartloads of groceries at a time, I must also pump my own ultraexpensive gasoline, check my own oil and clean my own windshield. Whatever happened to that guy in the gray jumpsuit and cap at the friendly neighborhood Texaco station who would fill the tank, check the oil and scrub the bugs off the windshield? He tipped his cap and called my mother "Ma'am." He wanted to know how else he could help us. Where is he these days?
Now I'm doing his job without getting paid. My teeth chatter on cold winter days as I stand outside and pump my own gasoline at the self-service island. I don't know why service stations even go to the trouble of labeling the self-service islands because they are all self-service.
And the do-it-all-yourself trend doesn't stop at the grocery store or filling station.
That's why Home Depot and Lowe's are raking in so much money. Everyone renovates their own homes. Suddenly we've all become painters, finish carpenters, plumbers, electricians and tile experts. The results aren't usually up to professional standards and take double the amount of time a real craftsman would spend, but consumers, desperate to save a buck, keep trying to do it all.
My husband, Dan, spent the better part of two days recently installing a new storm door on our house. The door cost $215, but the human toll was much greater. I figure it cost Dan at least an additional $300 in blood (he opened up a nasty gash on his finger), sweat and tears.
After all was said and done, the door still doesn't close the way it should, but the stockholders at Home Depot are ecstatic.
And the real kicker to the Home Depot tale is how we bought the door. You guessed it. Like a couple of sheep, we went straight through the self-checkout.
Mary Pat Rowland is the managing editor of Foster's Daily Democrat. Her column appears every other Sunday in the Homelife section. Her e-mail address is mprowlandfosters.com.
Self-checkout a modern form of torture
At the office, my friend Mike was ranting about his weekend trip to Wal-Mart.


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Rhody Starters
Perez, Dale, Moffitt, Jones, Motrechuk
Massachusetts Starters
Hampton-Bey, Soysal, George, Perry, Leidel
How It Happened
A late rally came up just short as Rhode Island fell, 57-53, to Massachusetts in the regular season finale for both teams Saturday afternoon.
The Rams (8-20, 3-13 Atlantic 10) trailed by as many as 16 points in the third quarter before they began chipping away. The shooting of guard Elemy Colome helped get the Rams back within striking distance. Colome scored 12 of her game-high 16 points after halftime to spark the rally.
Twice in the fourth quarter Rhode Island was able to make it a one-possession game. A Colome 3-pointer made the score 52-49 UMass (15-15, 7-9 A-10). The visitors pushed their lead back to seven points at 56-49, but layups by Nicole Jorgensen and Davida Dale cut the deficit back to three points. Rhody had two possessions with a chance to tie, but it was unable to get the equalizer.
Inside the Box Score
- Redshirt junior Elemy Colome scored a game-high 16 points and five assists.
- Redshirt junior Davida Dale added 10 points, nine rebounds and four steals.
- Senior Dina Motrechuk had six points, five rebounds and five blocked shots. With the five blocked shots, Motrechuk moved into third place in program history with 133 career blocks.
- Junior Nicole Jorgensen had nine points and six rebounds off the bench.
- Rhode Island had a 10-2 advantage in second-chance points.
What's Next
The loss, combined with La Salle's win over George Mason, means Rhode Island will be the No. 14 seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship. The Rams will play at No. 3 Duquesne Tuesday night.


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Mauritania is an important but little-known country located in north-west Africa. It bridges the gap between Arab Maghreb and Western Sub-Saharan Africa, a geo-politically sensitive region. It is a large ethnically-diverse and resource-rich country nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and four neighbours – Senegal, Western Sahara, Algeria and Mali. Its two major cities, Nouakchott the capital and Nouadhibou, are situated along the coastline. Nouakchott, a former fishing settlement, has a population of 709,000 and Nouadhibou, infamous for being a key exit point for migrants fleeing the region in often desperate attempts to reach Europe, has a population of 80,000. Mauritania's domestic political scene has been anything but stable since independence from France in 1960. Eleven coups have taken place since then, the most recent in 2008, when democratically-elected Sidi Ould Chiekh Abdallahi was ousted and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was installed as President. Elections were held later that year and Aziz emerged victorious with 52% of the overall vote. Critics have accused the post-2008 government of being a military regime masquerading as a democracy. Ethnicity plays a problematic and often divisive role in the country's rigid social structures. Islam is the main religion, underpinning many of the country's laws including the practise of Shari'a.
From the 3rd to 7th centuries, Berbers involved in the caravan trade traversed south and settled amongst the Bafour people. They were a hunting, pastoral and fishing people and the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania. A second wave of migration took place when black populations from the southern kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai expanded north. A third wave, again from the north, saw various Arab groups infiltrating southward pushing the Berbers and Africans before them. Portuguese and Spanish traders involved in the gum arabic trade first arrived in the 15th century. French traders followed, creating settlements along the Senegal River and later gaining control of the coastal region. Under France's growing regional influence, Mauritania was assimilated and became a protectorate in 1904 and later a colony in 1920. Moktar Ould Daddah became the first President. He ruled from 1960 to 1978.
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Visitor centre
The modern visitor centre by the 'Gärten der Welt' welcomes its guests as a place of encounters, conference venue and information point and 'has been built in flow with nature' according to the architects in charge of the project at the firm ww+ from Luxembourg. ww+ convinced the judges in an international architecture competition with a design in which the architecture of the building and the design of the outdoor facilities consistently stem from the existing natural space.
The building blends seamlessly into the landscape. Extensive glazing creates a bright, friendly atmosphere and provides numerous opportunities to look in as well as out. Expansive architecture has been eschewed in favour of the green and open spaces. Even inside the compact building the architects opted for green – the open, green inner courtyard is both imposing and inviting and draws visitors in as a central meeting place.
From here, visitors can get to the information point, exhibition area and shop. The visitor centre also has a restaurant with an outdoor area and an event room featuring a diverse programme.
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ww+ s.a.r.l., Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
This project has been financed by the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises with federal and state funding as part of the joint task aimed at improving the regional economic structure and co-financed by the Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.
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Neudesic Introduces Neuron-ESB 3.1 for Improved Microsoft .NET Developer Productivity
14 Mar, 2014, 09:00 GMT
-- Neuron-ESB 3.1 Enterprise Service Bus Boasts Significant Enhancements to UX, Performance, Connectivity and Scalability
IRVINE, California, March 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Neudesic today announced the release of Neuron-ESB 3.1 application and web services integration software. Neuron-ESB is Neudesic's Enterprise Service Bus that extends the Microsoft platform by providing real-time reliability, durable messaging, application integration, business processing and web services management.
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Version 3.1 builds on Neuron's agility, ease of use and operational efficiency, adding new capabilities designed to improve developer productivity. Neuron-ESB 3.1 introduces real-time debugging support at design time, so developers can quickly test, diagnose and fix business processes during development. The business process debugging experience within Neuron-ESB 3.1 is similar to the experience provided by Microsoft Visual Studio for debugging .NET applications.
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Under a blanket of clouds, which surround the rocky peaks of the Dolomites, the world is emerald green. Even the air, full of moisture after many days of rain, has a different texture, pale blue, like the mist rising from the trees. Pine and larch forests cover the mountainsides. Along the way, the scent of the undergrowth is intoxicating. I'm walking in the rain, in Trentino. And I feel like I've stepped into a parallel world, a magical forest where fairies live. I arrived in Val di Fassa, precisely in Pozzo di Fassa, three days ago, under a stormy sky.
Merenda in Val di Fassa
The streets were empty when I left the car and bags at the Valacia Hotel, a wooden building at the end of the village. It is warm and cozy, with a stunning view of the mountains. I walked along the creek, listening to its noise. I reached the town center, where the shops were closed even though it was 5 pm. Then, finally, a light. I find an open shop packed with local products. It's called La Casa del Formaggio, The House of Cheese. I buy a slice of Linzer torte, made with almond flour and redcurrant jam, and organic yogurt. Sitting on the wooden bench under the shed, watching the cloudy landscape, I enjoy my Linzer and smile. No matter if the weather is gloomy. I've found my favourite merenda (afternoon snack) in Trentino. And do not tell me that good food is not comforting.
Green World, Mysterious Trails
I quickly get accustomed to this green world that smells of musk and wet earth. I've always had a difficult relationship with the mountains. But the need for nature that rises in every person who is forced to live in a big, crowded, polluted city has taught me to appreciate the simplicity of this quiet, slow lifestyle. In the morning, spotting a patch of blue among the clouds, we decide to take a path in the forest, one of the many that depart from the town. It soon becomes clear that there's something special about these trails. The trees are thicker, their trunks lumpy. I can hear birds chirping in the distance and the wind singing through the leaves. Suddenly we come across the wooden statues of two women. One is young, beautiful and melancholic, the other is a hump witch with a horrible grin on her face.
A wooden "page" of a fairytale book informs us that once upon a time there lived a girl in this valley, who was turned into a statue by the local hag. Yet she found some comfort in the wonderful view of the Dolomites before her stone eyes. We keep stepping over the roots until we get to the next wooden sculptures, a girl with a heavy necklace and a sad-looking knight await the pilgrims. The necklace was the knight's gift to his beloved one, before going to war. While he was away, the girl was pursued by another man, a prince who wanted to marry her. But the knight's gift seemed to be stuck around the girl's neck. The prince, frightened by this unusual phenomenon, thought she was cursed and canceled the wedding. Trust and love were broken though, and when the knight came home, he didn't forgive the girl for betraying him. He lived hidden in the woods forever, leaving the girl alone with her memories.
Driving through the Sella Pass
More legends await along the winding path that leads to a malga (Alpine hut) overlooking the valley. The peaks of the Dolomites are right in front of us. We take the road back to the village then, with the distinct feeling that the fairies' path has left a trail of magic. In fact there are patches of blue in the the cloudy sky now, and so we decide to take the car and drive up to Passo Sella. A series of hairpin turns climb up the mountainside, and the view is spectacular. At over 2,000 meters, the woods give way to meadows and rocks, partly still covered in snow. The air is cold, the silence is broken only by the sound of the wind. It is easy to let my imagination run wild in places like this. I imagine to spend the night in the hut listening to old tales and uncanny stories. Ahead, the road climbs down towards Sella di Val Gardena and then Ortisei.
A visit to Ortisei
The town of Ortisei is a popular holiday destination in the Dolomites and the place of work of a considerable number of wood carvers. In fact there are many shops selling handicrafts, wooden items and souvenirs in the main street, along with hotels and restaurants. The rain starts falling again, but not for long. When it finally stops, we pay a visit to the church of San Udalrico and the historic Adler Hotel, before taking the road back home. We briefly stop in Canazei to see the typical pastel coloured houses along the creek. The balconies and windows are decorated with floral motives and beautiful carvings.
Strudel, Zelten and other treats: where to eat in Pozza
Back in Pozza, we get ready for dinner at El Filo, a small and quiet restaurant. Pasta is organic, bread is homemade, and desserts are modern versions of traditional Trentino cakes: strudel and zelten, made with dried fruit and honey.
Le Giare, on the other side of the creek, is just as good. The wood-covered interiors remind of a Tyrolean chalet and the menu features salads made with local ingredients, fresh goat cheese, stuffed dumplings, local meat, and even pizza made with organic flour.
Eating in Trentino is an intense pleasure, almost like admiring the Dolomites. Talking with local people, who are dedicated to farming, milking, and cheese and honey production, make us understand why all the products are so good here. Vegetarians will enjoy the taste of fresh milk, yogurt, cheese and eggs, embracing this simple, genuine lifestyle.
The small, lively town of Moena
South of Pozza, Moena is a lovely town located on a creek. Colorful houses overlook the main square, the Gothic church of San Vigilio protects the town. Several paths lead to farms and shelters, through meadows and woods. Eager to explore the surroundings, we drive along the road that climbs up to Passo San Pellegrino, where many testimonies of the First World War are preserved. A path takes to Rifugio Fuciade (Fuciade Hut), in the Costabella Group, a typical log cabin surrounded by a snowy landscape in winter and bright green meadows during the summer. It is still closed now. Anyways, the rain that starts to fall again forces us to return quickly to the parking lot.
We make a brief stop in Vigo di Fassa to visit the Gothic church of San Giovanni. In summertime, it's worth taking the cableway to the Ciampedie and then the walking path to the Rifugio Vajolet, a guesthouse among the rocks. No wonder that the people of Ladinia, as this region is called, believed their mountains were populated by mythical creatures. During the long winters, families spent a lot of time around the fire. As women spun wool and men carved wood, they told stories of orcs, dwarves and beautiful girls. One is the Moon's daughter, who married the local prince. She missed home so much that she signed a deal with the Salvans, the ancient inhabitants who knew the secrets of nature. In exchange for a safe haven in the mountains, the Salvans wove a silver mantle to give the landscape a lunar color. Since then, the Dolomites are known as the Pale Mountains.
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Suomen Voima is building a solar power plant in connection with the Mðkelðnkangas wind park. The power plant is composed of 2784 solar panels with a combined output of approx. 745 kW and an annual energy output of approx. 680 000 kWh. The power plant is planned to commence production in April 2016.
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Date and Time: February 12, 2012 – 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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The Law of Subtraction
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I'd imagine most of the people reading this probably think I've only been using the written word as a means of embarrassing myself in public for as long as I've had access to the Internet.
How I wish that were true.
Actually, I've been embarrassing myself in public since I learned to write, and as proof of that, today I present to you Forever Amber: The Early Years. Yes, way back in the mists of time my school required its young students to keep what they called a "News Book" but which was actually just a personal journal – an early "blog", if you will. Every few days we would write an entry in our "News Book/Early Blog" detailing what had been happening in our lives, and every single time I would write something so toe-curlingly embarrassing my parents would have to call the school and make excuses for me. I'm not joking.
Witness, for instance, an entry I wrote when I was six, concerning a movie my parents had borrowed from a friend of theirs which turned out to have a little "surprise" on the end of the tape (in those days we used video cassettes, as well as writing things on "paper" rather than on the Internet. Quaint!) …
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"Monday 9th May
I have got a video and I have seen star wars four times and I have seen Bugsy malone twelve and a half times Jennifer has taped Bugsy Malone aswell one night when my mum and dad were watching a film on the video when it was finished a blue moovy came on my mum and dad did not like it and my mum was frightened to get another tape ancase there was another blue moovy on it"
Just in case my parents' apparent porn consumption* required further clarification, of course, I provided a handy illustration of the events outlined above, so the school would know whether or not they should be calling social services about this:
Luckily when the teacher asked me what a "blue moovy" was, I was quickly able to explain that it is a "moovy" in which everything is coloured blue. Obviously. And when my parents visited the school for parents evening that term, they were able to further clarify (at their own insistence, I have to add – the teacher by this point thought it was hilarious) that this "blue movie" had been as much of a surprise to them as it probably had been to my teacher, and that although the illustration suggests that I had been present during the screening of the infamous moovy (it almost feels like you're there now, doesn't it, so masterful was my command of the blue crayon…), I had, in fact, only found out about it because I overheard my mum telling my gran the story. Which I faithfully committed to writing in what I now think of as the very first version of this here blog, a document I spent most of Saturday re-reading and laughing until I cried.
In the years that followed, you'll be glad to know that I learned how to punctuate a little better. I never did learn to stop embarrassing myself in public, though…
* My mum says she will ground me if I don't explain that they had borrowed a film someone had recorded from the TV, had watched it, and when it ended, had discovered that it had apparently been recorded over the top of something a little more adult than the film they had borrowed. She would also probably like me to clarify that my parents DID try to teach me that there are some things in life you just don't share, but given that I've already told the Internet all about my knickers and how I keep on dyeing them grey, it doesn't look like that lesson sunk in particularly well…
FOREVER AMBER: THE EARLY YEARS – Parts 2 and 3


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A few days ago, ISS President Michael O'Hara brought to my attention an article in The New York Times with an unlikely connection between Star Wars and Shaw.
The article in question describes the natural beauty of one of Ireland's "most mystical places," Skellig Michael (Sceilg Mhichíl). The article also describes a recent visit to the site by Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy. Both Hamill and the author (Lucinda Hahn) seem to have fallen in love with the place and, to add another preacher to the choir, Hahn quotes Shaw's description of Skellig Michael:
No wonder George Bernard Shaw, following a visit in 1910, described Skellig Michael this way: "I hardly feel real again … I tell you, the thing does not belong to any world that you and I have lived and worked in: It is part of our dream world."
Of course, nobody ever thinks of poor people who cannot sleep a wink if they cannot source their Shaw quotations - and alas, no source is provided. Luckily for me, it didn't take long to find the source.
The fragments Hahn quotes belong to a letter Shaw sent to Frederick Jackson (18th Sept., 1910). The letter has been published in Dan H. Laurence's edited collection of Shaw's correspondence (Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 941-943).
However, the article in the NY Times fails to mention that the two excerpts they quote appear in reverse order in Shaw's letter, and that they are also separated by quite a few lines.
For those of you who may not have a copy of Laurence's Collected Letters at hand, I am glad to inform you that Kay Li (the leader of the Shaw-Sagittarius project, one of the Sagittarius Literature Digitizing Projects) has shared with us an online version of the letter, which you can read in its entirety. The text is an exact copy of the original letter as published.
Apart from the beauty of the place, the words "dream world" have certainly drawn the attention of many Shaw critics who have chosen this letter to illustrate their appraisal of, for example, Shaw's views about Ireland. Let us look at some of them, in no particular order.
Sally Peters, in her Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman (p. 27-28), reminds us that Shaw was visiting his homeland and felt "besieged by a strong sense of his own mortality." Peters also finds reminiscences of "the hold of this fantastic rock on Shaw's imagination" in the "strange outcroppings that surface in the settings for Too True to Be Good (1931) and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934)."
Michael Holroyd's Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition also delves on the emotional dimension of this excursion, which probably brought back fond memories of childhood days for Shaw. In Holroyd's words (p. 364)
"Upon this cathedral of the sea, the man who generally seemed a stranger on the planet felt at home. Standing in the graveyards at the Skellig summit, he recalled the summers of his early years when Sonny roamed over the rocks and goat-paths of Dalkey, and gazed across the blue waters to Howth Head; or had lain on the grassy top of the hill above the bay - then raced down to the shore known as White Rock and plunged into the waves. Sonny had been a product of Dalkey's outlook: there was little place for him in the bustling world where G.B.S. moved. But he breathed again in the magic climate of this island."
A. M. Gibbs's A Bernard Shaw Chronology does not provide us with any critical commentary, but reminds us that the famous rowboat trip was only a consequence of having "failed to reach them [the Skelligs] by yatch on the 16th." In addition, in Bernard Shaw: A Life (by the same author) reference is made to an earlier letter addressed to Mabel Fitzgerald, wife of the Sinn Féin MP Desmond Fitzgerald. In it, Shaw remarks (p. 250-251) that "the magic of Ireland is very strong for me when I see a beehive dwelling. Did you ever make the pilgrimage to Skellig Michael? If not, you have not yet seen Ireland." A few lines later, Gibbs quotes the letter to Frederick Jackson (apparently still quoted in tourist information), and argues that "this 'dream world' of ancient religious traditions and haunting beauty was an essential component in the multifaceted Shavian image of lreland."
I must agree with Gibbs. After all, we learn from Shaw himself that "an Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination" - or his dreams.


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Chicken preparation:
Kill the chicken with a single stroke so it won't know what hit it.
Suspend it by its legs above some ground, so that all the blood flows out and onto the ground.
After a while, take it down.
Slit the skin, and remove. Then there's no need to pluck it.
Wash off the blood and then cut it into bite-size pieces.
In a deep non-stick frying-pan (or an iron-skillet – just heat it real hot when it's washed and clean and empty. When it's really, really hot, pour in some oil and swirl it all around. That will fill up all the pores of the iron that would have opened when the iron pan was heated. The oil then fills it up, so nothing else will, and voila! it is non-stick).
Pour in some oil to fry the bite-size pieces.
When the oil is hot, place the chicken pieces in. Sauté on high heat, without anything.
Whole spices:
Mustard – when the chicken-pieces are cooked, move 'em to a side and in the oil that is left behind, put in the whole mustard seeds and hear them crackle. When they've spluttered and then fall silent, add in whole jeera seeds and saunf seeds, and sauté awhile.
Powdered ingredients:
Kashmiri red-chilly-powder or any red-chilly-powder of your choice according to your heat-index. If you like it bland, try Kashmiri-red-chilli-powder. If you like it hot or real hot, try whatever red-chilly you usually use.
Dry ginger powder
Jeera powder
Coriander powder
Turmeric powder.
Salt to taste
- Mix all the powder together in a bowl, in a ratio of 2:1: 2: 4 : 2, or any ratio you choose - it will turn out well. Don't you worry, the ingredients are good, so it will just taste different, but it will be good.
Into the spluttered mustard seeds and other seeds, add in the powdered ingredients, and fry on low heat.
When the bubbling of the spices subsides, mix in the chicken pieces and coat awhile.
When the spices are well stuck on the chicken-pieces, remove and serve with a smile.
Serving suggestion:
Slice whole red tomatoes (with the skin).
Place all around the plate and in the centre.
Sprinkle salt on it.
Mix some sliced onion, vinegar and salt. Mix and then squeeze out the extra vinegar and place on top, of the tomatoes, maybe just in the centre, or maybe all around.
Place the Spiced-Chicken-Pieces on the onions and the garnish with coriander leaves.
The plate is now ready to serve. What you do with it is up to you.
I eat most of it, and then give some away, and then give the rest to the cats.


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someones breaking bottles again
with precision
it brings me back
come back motherfucker
sweep this glass up
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there's no other way
a soft bed forever
a blanket for now
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I make my bow to the Moon. I saw her in the full and over my left shoulder. Great, therefore, shall be my luck this month. Frankly, I am delighted that we are going to have a comic paper of our own. Life is such a biting, sneering little rat of a paper at all things concerning our British Empire, our flag, ourselves, that I am glad to see we are starting a "comic" of our own, and as the Moon is so very far above Life, she can see all the joke of it, the folly, the satire, the melodrama of the little anthill called earth. Again, my bow to you, O Moon, also one small subscription, for, to tell the truth I am a trifle afraid of you. The paper is a capital one and spares nobody - while it is genial in its satire. All the same, I tell you a snowball from the Moon is calculated to give us a shock now and then. Did you see the Magnates on the first page? If not, why not?
-- Kit. (Review in the Mail and Empire newspaper.)
Chic cartoon from "The Moon," [Toronto: Moon Publishing Co. v.1-3 [no. 1-54] May 28, 1902 - July 18, 1903] a magazine which boasted the best Canadian cartoonists and illustrators of the period. "Chic" hid the identity of Arthur G. Racey -- a Quebec born cartoonist from the good side of the tracks who had an international reputation. His works were reprinted in Life, the [English] Review of Reviews, Le Monde Illustre, and even the venerable Punch. His home base for many years was the Montreal Star and he was heavily influenced by Opper and Frost. His cartoons were very popular in Japan. Biography HERE.


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Walter Lindner is the German ambassador to South Africa. But there is more to his life than diplomacy. He is an active musician, music arranger and producer with several CDs on the market.
Having majored in music at university, Lindner is passionate about African tunes.
Lindner previously served as the spokesperson of the German Foreign Minister, Germany's Ambassador to Kenya, director for Sub-Saharan Africa in the German Foreign Office and until recently as the Special Representative of Chancellor Merkel for the Ebola Crisis.
And this man of many talents is multilingual! Other than German, he speaks English, French, Spanish, Turkish fluently.
Listen to Lindner throwing forward to his #FridayStand-In show below. There will be a surprise guest in his line-up.
WATCH the video about Walter Lindner below...
WATCH the ambassador live hosting the Redi Tlhabi show below...


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The top picture is from some cupcakes I made a few weeks ago. I planned to make a rose for each cupcake, but I just got exhausted from all the work. The bottom picture is a rough draft of a fucshia peony I'm making for one of my best friends.
The top picture is from some cupcakes I made a few weeks ago. I planned to make a rose for each cupcake, but I just got exhausted from all the work. The bottom picture is a rough draft of a fucshia peony I'm making for one of my best friends.
Just some snapshots from my recent weekend trip to Boston last month.
This is my first attempt at making a gum paste peony. Not too bad, eh? I finally got dying gum paste down, as you can see in this pretty peachy pink shade. Constructing peonies is definitely much more time consuming than roses or any other flowers, in my opinion. The process took about two nights since there is a lot of drying time required to get the shape of each petal down.
Why make one big cake when you can make several miniature cakes in different ways…
These aren't perfect, but they're a good start. I used varying sizes of cookie cutters to cut the cake and layered each piece with buttercream frosting. A good tip I learned that was very helpful is to bake the actual cake the night before and refrigerate. This helps prevent crumbs. I can't even imagine the mess I would've caused if I didn't start the night before.
My rose formation progress is coming along slowly. I finally got around to trying pre-made gum paste, which is typically recommended for flowers, but I actually prefer working with rolled fondant. Fondant stays moist way longer than gum paste, which means I can take my time and not rush. That was until I made my own gum paste mix. Gum paste, whether you mix it yourself or not, still dries out pretty fast. What helps is if you lay each petal (as soon as it's cut with a cutter) on plate covered in plastic wrap.
I purchased pink pearl dust at the arts & crafts store, and I love it! I realized after the first few minutes to use very little dust as a little goes a long way. It really reminds me of eyeshadow. I can't wait to get other colors.
After the flower pictured above, I made a two-layer vanilla "petal cake" with buttercream frosting. I made most of the petals the night before, so that they could dry and be painted the morning after. And yes, it is as time consuming as it looks, but the outcome is so pretty! Each petal is different from the shape to the colors. As you can see, I went a little heavy on yellow luster dust on some of the petals.


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WASHINGTON, D.C.- A few turnovers down the stretch doomed the Eagles on the road at Catholic as they lost, 61-53, Wednesday evening at Franny Murray Court.
The first four minutes of the game saw both teams play suffocating defense as neither team managed to score until the Cardinals drilled a three. Catholic built a 7-0 lead nearly seven minutes into the game until Marcus Hall (York, Pa. / Trinity) made a free throw to get the Eagles on the board. Nicholas Albert (Herndon, Va. / Westfield High) made a jumper. A minute later which made it 9-3 Catholic. A steal by Nate DaCanal (Johnsonburg, Pa. / Elk County Catholic) resulted in a layup by Hall of a pass from Albert to cut the deficit to four, 11-7. Albert continued to put his imprint on the game as he stole ball and found Paul Martello (York, Pa. / York Catholic) for a three. After Albert stole the ball, he rebounded his own miss on the other end and laid it in to cut the Catholic lead to one, 13-12, with under nine minutes to go in the half. after another JC stop Martello found Albert for a layup to give the Eagles their first lead.
Catholic momentarily retook the lead with a three before Brandon Martinazzi (Cresson, Pa. / Bishop Carroll) nailed a jumper with just over six minutes to go to make it 16-16. The teams went back and forth over the final few minutes, with Martinazzi making another jumper off pass from Jake Holsopple (Duncansville, Pa. / Hollidaysburg) with 55 seconds to go in the half. The Cardinals made two foul shots for the final two shots of the half as the teams headed to locker rooms knotted at 24-24.
Martello converted a layup while being fouled and tacked on the free throw to put the Eagles up one in the first minute. It was a fast and furious nine minutes as the teams went back and forth. The Cardinals built a seven-point lead, 38-31 but the Eagles quickly responded. Cameron Keck (Waynesboro, Pa. / Waynesboro) rattled home a three and two possessions later scored inside while being fouled. Following his free throw the Eagles only trailed by two, 42-40, with a little under 11 minutes to go.
The Cardinals scored the next four points to make it 46- 40 before another JC surge. DaCanal found Hall for a layup, Martinazzi scored from the midrange on back to back possessions to make it 46-46.
Later, trailing by one 49-48 with just under six minutes left, Albert stole the ball again and this time it resulted in a Martinazzi three off a find from Keck. Catholic scored on one end with a layup, and nine seconds later Albert was laying it on the other end to make it 53-51 with just under five minutes to go in the game.
The Cardinals closed the contest on a 12-0 run to earn the victory.
The Eagles will return to action this Saturday at Scranton. Tipoff is at 4:00.


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"As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think about your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey." (Marjorie Pay Hinckley)
Wow, do I ever love this quote.
In summary: Have joy, Be grateful, don't be distracted.
I gotta run, folks. The internet is distracting me.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Quickie for a Monday
Posted by Morgan Hagey at 2:24 PM
2 comments:
- Alisa and Jared said...
The internet is distracting me, and...that "100% Free Penny Stock Investing Video Training Series" ad that popped up immediately under your blog post on "Bloglines"...
- February 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM
but i cant help but be sucked in.. especially when i got little sleep last night.. hope you enjoy not being sucked in today.
- February 1, 2010 at 3:51 PM
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"I Enjoyed my Epidural!" I want a tee shirt with this on it.
One of my ex-corporate girlfriends said this after giving birth. It was her response to the tut-tutting from the legions of corporate-girl-gone-feral workmates who were determined to get through their home water births with nothing more than some aura patting from their partners and a cup of weak peppermint tea.
Irritated by the 'Birth Reich' who are usually either from that happy model of woman who can spit a baby out while hanging out the washing and then ride a horse to the neighbours with a newly made fruitcake, or who are as yet childless and therefore clueless as to the vagaries of birth, she made a point of telling everyone of the benefits of modern drugs. The more the merrier! OK – so asking for fashion mags and champagne before the child was actually born may have shown a certain lack of engagement with the birth process but I admired her courage of conviction.
There has become a 'good' and a 'bad' way to 'give light to a child' as the Spanish put it, and we're surprisingly quick to judge each other based on this very small part of life.
There seems little middle ground between the bath in the bush hanging onto a rope attached to your partner's testes crowd and the 'lets book the caesarean between the manicure and closing the takeover bid' girls.
The corporate chicks quietly snigger at what a natural birth is going to do to all your girly bits and hence your love life and the home birth crowd point the finger and question the ability of a woman to mother adequately if she can't find the time to wait for the baby to be born on its own terms.
Another tee-shirt I am unlikely to see anytime soon is 'I had a home birth. And died!" This of course is the normal course of events in many developing countries but in the luxury of the West the words 'medical' and 'intervention' have become a synonym for the misogynist malice of evil medical practitioners in some circles. Personally I'm a big fan.
Medical intervention… newsflash! … was invented to stop people dying.
I have burned in my memory a conversation in Argentina with a friend about not making it to a charity fundraiser the night before, not knowing at that stage she was living in a shanty town. In my stupidity I hinted that she'd ditched her date with me for some bloke. She'd spent the night it transpired, caring for a friend with a local midwife at home, things went wrong – fast, and her friend, an illegal Bolivian immigrant who hadn't wanted to be taken to the hospital for fear of losing her job and getting sent back to even worse poverty than she was already enduring, died. "That's life." she said shrugging.
Later, with colleagues the general consensus was that the departed was uneducated and hadn't had the foresight to get medical insurance. In short she was judged, as were her 'choices' for being poor.
There was no judgement on the father who had helped to create the circumstances of her death nor on the conveniently ignored system of encouraging illegal immigrants into a country to do menial tasks for next to nothing and then turning their backs on them when they needed help. Each woman in that room could stay at their well-paid job thanks to the work of the barely paid Bolivian maids they had at home.
In all honesty I can't see much difference between the nameless Bolivian immigrant and Rachida Dati the French Minister of Justice who has gone back to work just 5 days after giving birth. Although she could afford the best medical intervention on the planet and the Corporate French world are hailing her decision, French mothers are hating her because of the unrealistic example she's holding up.
Again, no one has made a judgement on the father or questioned why he is not at home holding the baby or questioned the pressure that is on women in top jobs to pretend they don't have families. I think she's an educated single Mum and was just scared stiff she'd lose her job if she missed one beat.
It may look great on the productivity charts but where is the real choice in that?
I enjoyed my Epidural
"I Enjoyed my Epidural!" I want a tee shirt with this on it.


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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and
USC Polish Music Center present
Polish Composer and Holocaust Survivor
Roman Ryterband was born in Lodz, Poland in 1914. Touring in France when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the talented young composer was able to board the last train to Switzerland before the border was closed. Except for his sister and her son, his entire family perished in the Holocaust.
A master of the chamber ensemble, Roman Ryterband lived and worked in Switzerland, Montreal, and Chicago before settling in Palm Springs. In 2016, his family donated an extensive collection of his personal correspondence and musical manuscripts to the USC Polish Music Center.
Nic Gerpe, piano Chandler Yu, violin
Kirsten Ashley Wiest, soprano
Ko Ni Choi, harp
Deux Images (Two Images) (1943)
Ko Ni Choi, harp
Trois Ballades Hebraiques (Three Hebrew Ballades) (1946)
Z Polskich Niw (Song of the Plains of Poland) (1944)
Chandler Yu, violin, and Nic Gerpe, piano
Three Hebrew Songs (1938)
Two American Songs (undated)
Spring of Love - Concerto Waltz (undated)
Kirsten Ashley Wiest, soprano, and Nic Gerpe, piano


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Let's be honest, it's not easy being a fat gay man these days. Especially not when the media and society dictates that you should look a certain way, with perfect abs, a gorgeous smile, and a head of hair enviable of pretty much everyone. That you're supposed to look like some Ken doll-like underwear model, and any deviation from that stereotype is considered social suicide.
What a load of bullshit, huh? If everyone was meant to look alike, then we'd all be boring drones with nothing to do or say to one another.
But the crap thing is we've bought into this mind set and we spend our lives criticising others based on their appearance, be it friends or strangers. And as much as you might say you don't do it, you probably do it more than you realise.
I recently read an article on Buzzfeed via Facebook about this exact same topic. About how if you're fat and gay, you're less likely to be included by the other gays, and you'll probably be made fun of or made to feel bad about yourself regardless of how you look after yourself.
Click HERE to read the original article
The article was mostly about how degrading it is when people criticise you about your weight, as it if it's such an easy thing to change. And about how society seems to have accepted that it's okay to criticise an overweight person, as if it's helpful instead of hurtful.
But when you wonder out loud why I can't just lose some weight, you're looking out for me. At least, that's the perception. The hurtful degradation becomes socially sanctioned, because being fat is considered to be innately wrong. And suddenly, otherwise good people feel no shame in condemning us fatties. It's not bigotry if we deserve it.
Just like the author, I too have had people comment about my weight in regards to my looks. That if I just 'lost a few pounds' or 'tried a little harder' then I would be so much better looking, or that it would be so much easier to find a boyfriend. Of course these people generally know nothing about my life or eating habits, so really have no right to make these comments.
And when you've grown up being the fat kid with low self-esteem who's been working hard as an adult to become more confident and comfortable in your own skin, that really hurts. As if your looks are the only thing that matters when it comes to finding friends or partners. As if you'll only be successful in life if you're fit and good looking.
And it's hard not to buy into that mentality sometimes..
Unfortunately, as interesting and insightful as the author was trying to be, it ended up coming across as a bit too whiney and I'm not writing about this to have a whinge myself. As a friend pointed out when I posted the article link on Facebook:
'..you make the best of it, you don't wallow and go "wah none of the cool kids will touch me", you realise the "cool" kids are arseholes and go find a circle of friends who like you for you..'
And that's the whole point, right? Finding and surrounding yourself with people who accept you for being you, without it being all about how you look or if you fit into a certain stereotype.
And yeah, there are men out there who do like bigger guys, almost to a point where it's a fetish, so perhaps there is some hope in the end. Although if you ask me, I'd rather someone was with me (either as friends or otherwise) because I'm me, not because of my big belly or chunky butt.. but I suppose I'll take what I can get.
As long as they like me for being me. 😀


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I'm a member of various Facebook groups (God knows what information they are collecting about me) and I notice lots of writers asking about joining critique groups and how they work.
Keren David and I ran a Writing for Teens course at City Lit a while ago and developed some critiquing rules together for the workshop section of our first class. They must have worked because, two years down the line, that first group is still meeting. It helps that they are talented and dedicated of course.
Anyway, I use the rules with all the writing workshops and mentor groups I run, including the Writing For Children workshop at City Uni. These are for people meeting face to face. I'm interested to know what rules have worked for groups that communicate mostly online.
'Rules' seems a strong word – but that's what they are. It helps if everyone knows what's expected of them. But if one of them wasn't working with a particular group, I would change it. The group dynamic is what matters.
Here are the 12. Let me know if you have different critique group rules of your own.
- Two, or max three, people get to share each time. Any more and the session is too long. Someone (me!) manages the rota to make sure everyone has a go.
- The word limit for a piece is 1500, but often it's a bit less. If someone wants to share a longer scene or chapter in its entirety for a particular reason, they ask first and we see how the time goes. But 1500 words is a lot when you're critiquing!
- We each have a printed copy in front of us. It varies as to who's responsible for printing. Sometimes they've been circulated first and sometimes that's not possible.
- Someone other than the writer reads out the piece. This was Keren's idea and it's my favourite one. The writer picks whoever they would like to do it, or someone volunteers. I think if you do nothing else, do this. As the writer, you learn as much from hearing your work read out by someone else as you do from all the comments. You can see what's unintentionally confusing, and hear whether the rhythm and the structure works. You are forced to listen to it in one go (it's not that bad, don't worry!) without being able to tweak as you go – as you can with editing, so you get the chance to hear your writing voice properly. It's a great discipline.
- There is a pause afterwards while everyone makes notes.
- We go round the group and everyone who wants to gets the chance to critique. If you don't have anything to add, you can just say as much. Believe me that speeds things up and is so much better than simply repeating what's already been said.
- Start with the positive, then move on to the bits you think can be improved. Really try to find that positive. We're all sensitive artists, desperate for approval. We tried hard. We need it. Equally, there's no point in just patting each other on the back. We're there to get better, so insightful criticisms are useful. But try to limit it to three or four max. Nobody will remember a long list. Be brief, and make it count.
- Express your critique as your personal opinion and immediate reaction – which is what it is. Not 'this is what is right and wrong and I'm giving you the benefit of my vast knowledge'. That just makes you seem patronising and lots of the group might be privately disagreeing with you. Unless you're Stephen King or Neil Gaiman – in which case, fair enough. Probably.
- The tutor or mentor, if there is one, goes last. Which gives the opportunity to add things or if (as is often the case) the group has done a really good job of self-critiquing, we can merely highlight what we most agree with.
- Everyone, including the tutor, as an equal opinion. This is important too. There is no hierarchy of contributions. What matters is what inspires the writer to see what needs changing, and possibly how to do it. That could come from anyone.
- Equally, the writer does not have to take any of the opinions on board. He or she must listen, but that doesn't mean he or she must act. You can quietly decide the group is mad and you hate all their ideas. But it's funny what hits you later as more perceptive than it first appeared. For this reason, writers might comment on what really appealed to them if they like, but they can politely ignore what they don't. There is no need to get defensive or argue. Just ignore and move on.
- The writer cannot say anything at all until everyone else (who wants to) has commented. This can feel extremely frustrating but it's good discipline! It forces you to listen and not get into defensive mode. It helps you to see when someone didn't understand your intentions, for example, and rather than simply explaining them then and there you can make a mental note to make them clearer in your writing. However, you can say whatever you need to at the end.
Happy writing! The best advice of all is just to keep doing it. Get a 'dirty draft' out there and then you can work on it. Don't let perfectionism stop you. Writing is damn difficult, but just write …


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Saturday, 10th November 2012 | 7:00 pm
Come and witness the splendor of rhythms from all over the subcontinent as Ustad Khurshid Hussain lets his fingers do the talking. This is a rare opportunity to listen to a tradition that started in Delhi several centuries ago and spread to all corners of South Asia.
Ustad Khurshid Hussain
One of the few doyens of tabla that remain in Pakistan today, Ustad Khurshid Hussain hails from a family of musicians. His father, Mehboob Hussain, was a sarangi player and entrusted his friend, the great Ustad Habib Khan (also known as Baba Bibia Khan) to teach his son the art of tabla playing. Although Ustad Khurshid Hussain's blood line is from the Ajrada Gharana, he learned tabla primarily from Ustad Habib Khan who was well versed with all the gharanas' styles and compositions. Khurshid Saheb has been an employee of Radio Pakistan and has performed live with some of the greatest musicians that Pakistan has witnessed including Ustad Kabir Khan, Ustad Sharif Khan Poonchwaley, Ustad Ghulab Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Rais Khan, Mehdi Hassan, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, and Sajid Hussain. He is also the accompanist of choice for visiting artistes from India.
All the proceeds from this benefit concert will be presented to Ustad Khurshid Hussain. Please consider making a larger contribution than the suggested minimum to support Khurshid Saheb.
Photo Credit: Sadaf Junaid Zuberi
Date: Saturday, 10th November, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Minimum Donation: Rs. 300
Venue: PeaceNiche | T2F
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Words with Brad Cohen (Artistic Director of WA Opera)
"You could also think of opera as blue cheese - after all, they're both forms of culture! You can talk about blue cheese all you like and you can present it to people while declaring it's really fantastic. However, while some people will fall in love with it on their first taste, others will take some time to acquire the palate, and others will just always hate it." Brad Cohen talks to Samuel J. Cox about his journey, vision and role as WA Opera's new Artistic Director.


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Funny how a country with such great markets can be so prehistoric in its marketing mentality. That the French have had to borrow the term from l'américaine is no accident. Americans breathe marketing, whereas the French have to learn it.
A pair of seemingly petty incidents this week got my culturally inculcated feathers all ruffled. Here they go.
Incident one. I walked into my neighborhood wine shop for a quick fix – a bottle of something red and corsé to wash down the ugly rooster (coq au vin) that I'd left simmering in the cocotte. The middle-aged husband and wife team scurried around the cluttered shop hunting down favorite côtes, proposing various millésimes, and mildly contradicting each other like real professionals. Collectively, we settled on a little-known but supposedly remarkable, although not too cheap, Côte de Roussillon for the "foul" occasion. I consented to two bottles and added a Côte du Rhône as a backup. When you add a dash of service to a product of quality, shoppers are happy, and the First American Law of Marketing is that happiness is a condition of spending.
In any case, how delightful it felt to have enthusiastic sommeliers at my corner package store. What true added value! (Not TVA.) Moments like these – I reflected as I watched the pride on my wine merchant's face as she dusted the bordeaux shoulders, lips bunched up in that particularly French way implying approval and certainty – reaffirm why we love so much this life of self-exile. No money-back guarantee but delight. Imagine asking Vinnie at 4th Street Spirits if he could suggest something sympa for potted cock!
As an afterthought I remembered that some beer was in order so I asked for six bottles of Heineken. At least one Rolling Rock expat guzzler was expected for chow. A battery of dusty singles sat warmly on a lower shelf. It was already past 7 and there wouldn't be time to get these suckers chilled down in time for apéro hour. (We know better than to think ICE in France.)
"Do you have a few bottles au frais?"
Madame scurried away to a back room and returned triumphantly with two chilled ones. But just then a serious glare conquered her mood as she approached the cluttered caisse. "I'm going to have to charge you 50 centimes extra for these."
And that's when the experience turned from the quaint to the maddening. Anglo-Saxons, particularly Americans, don't like being charged for nothing, even if it's a question of pennies. Americans hate being "nickeled and dimed." Our PR-imbibing minds shout "Build it in, man!" A premium for chilled beer in a liquor store just doesn't cut it in Peoria, Princeton or Paris. It's a matter of principle!
I gave her one of those ironic Jack Nicholson smiles. She didn't understand and proceeded to explain that it costs to keep the refrigerator plugged in. On another occasion I might have been raring to bag the wine for the sake of the greater principle and march over to the Monoprix, but time was of the essence and principle this time, I rationalized, was merely a cultural nuance. Steer wide, I thought. Lighten up.
I remembered Rule Two in the manual: If you want to win in France, graciously show total willingness to lose. He who can manipulate his subservience rules. Not only is the customer not king, he or she must demonstrate cowardice. Humiliate yourself and a local honor code may kick in. Just as I was getting lost in my own reveries, my dear wine merchant announced that she'd yield the 1F surcharge "this time," a gesture that the American in me wanted to understand as commercial smarts, but no, she had made the exception because she knew me. It was an act of copinage, the French version of insider trading. She made it crystal clear that no one else during the day would get away without paying the chill fee, that she couldn't afford not to charge extra. People would be trailing into the shop non-stop, she complained. Isn't that what a merchant wants? I thought. Paying customers? The first shop in Paris that loudly announces on its storefront window COLD DRINKS (the cold part is FREE) will understand something profoundly American and deserve to make a killing.
The cold beer story spills out into lots of others. Why not advertise that the pickle on your sandwich is FREE? Why not give the dear customer a usable bag for lugging away his or her groceries?
With the wine in hand I headed into the boulangerie. Of course I'd just missed the last baguette and we all know the choices left on those late last-minute bread jaunts. If you're lucky you can buy broken pieces of bâtard or else a demi-Viennoise. I took a pain complet, but in the wake of the chilled beer episode fell into my own trap and asked for my loaf sliced.
"That's 2 francs extra."
Now, I don't care how long you've lived abroad, paying for the slicing of bread is an act of commercial heresy that will never go down easily. Charge what you like for the damn bread – yes we know it's good – but for Heaven's sake, don't charge us to slice it.
This isn't nitpicking; these aren't just petty annoyances; they're commercial signposts for larger avenues of cultural rules. Each of us gathers our own little lists; it's one way we preserve our cultural identity.


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Little Black Party Dress
Every girl should have a little black dress and this dress is a fun find! There is nothing like tulle to make you feel like a princess, but in black, it can be sexy too! You can bejewel your neckline with tons of bobbles or leave it plain with large glitzy earrings. Throw a shawl over your shoulders or perhaps you have a vintage fur wrap. This dress can be dolled up many ways and there is no risk because it is black!


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Winter Commencement Exercises are Dec. 14 at the RiverCenter, Davenport, Iowa.
St. Ambrose will close for the Christmas holiday at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 20. Regular hours of operation will resume when the university re-opens Jan. 2, 2020.
Christmas Eve Mass is at 5 p.m. in Christ the King Chapel
For young professionals in the Quad Cities.
This year's event includes science, technology, engineering, art (new in 2019!), and math and to explore how those subjects relate to each another. For girls in grades 2-8.
Leaders and entrepreneurs of small businesses should attend this series of lunches about methods to launch or grow your business.
Mexico Beyond Mariachi will be premiering "Sugar Skull."
Learn fundamental skills such as networking, managing up and professional goal setting while enjoying a catered lunch with us.
April 17-19 | Dancing at Lughnasa is a melancholy memory play that intertwines the past with the present and the living with the dead.


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Fundraise for a Change
Any qualified U.S. based 501 (c)(3) charitable organizations can raise funds through Shopping for a Change® when their supporters shop our site, and choose their respective organization from the dropdown menu at checkout. Nonprofit partners receive 50% of the net proceeds from their supporters' purchases. To become a nonprofit partner, apply here.
When you go Shopping for a Change, you have the opportunity to direct 50% of the net proceeds from your purchase to any of the following U.S.-based nonprofit organizations during the checkout process:
Boys and Girls Clubs of America offers programs and services that promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, and belonging in them.
Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation is one of the largest patient-founded, patient-focused, and patient driven philanthropies geared toward educating patients, funding cutting-edge research, building strategic collaborations and raising public awareness. Their goal is to transform lung cancer into a chronically managed disease within 10 years and ultimately to find a cure, turning lung cancer into a chronically managed disease by 2023.
Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through direct service and advocacy. Our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent.
Dress for Success is a global organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantages women by providing professional attire, a network of support and career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. They now work in 140 cities in 19 countries and have helped more than 850,000 women work towards self-sufficiency.
Feed the Children's domestic food program delivers food to American children across all 50 states throughout the year. By partnering with local food pantries, agencies and churches they are able to make certain the food gets to needy families and children. In addition, their Summer Food & Education Program provides meals to children who normally receive food them through their public school programs.
Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Through a nationwide network of member food banks, Feeding America is able to provide nutritious, fresh foods to Americans struggling with hunger; safe and nurturing places for children to have a meal; emergency assistance for disaster victims; as well as a chance at self-sufficiency for adults trying to break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
Kehillah Jewish High School is a distinguished small private, Jewish High School that blends an exceptional academic environment with traditions, and the best of the Silicon Valley, CA mindset.
Founded in 1990, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is a social change organization dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists. NNEDV offers a range of programs and initiatives to address the complex causes and far-reaching consequences of domestic violence. They offer support to victims of domestic violence who are escaping abusive relationships, and empowers survivors to build new lives, work closely with its members to understand the ongoing and emerging needs of domestic violence victims and advocacy programs, and provide state coalitions with critical information and resources.
Peninsula Humane Society-SPCA is a private, independent, non-profit, whose scope of services goes beyond that of a so-called no-kill, or limited admission, facility. As an open-door shelter, PHS/SPCA accepts all animals brought to them, regardless of age, breed or size, and have rehomed 100% of the healthy dogs and cats in their care since 2003 and promise to do this going forward.
Ronald McDonald House Charities provides a "home-away-from-home" for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost. Houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child-not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest.
Shriner's Hospitals for Children has the vision of becoming the best at transforming children's lives by providing exceptional healthcare through innovative research, in a patient and family centered environment. With a focus in children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs, they care for them.


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#GPnews: Internet reacts to Hunt reappointment
Top stories
Vulnerable GP practices no longer have to match bailout cash from NHS England
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt pleased to remain in 'best job'
16:41 Some potentially good news here. This afternoon, Pulse can exclusively report that NHS England bosses have relaxed the requirements for vulnerable GP practices wanting to access emergency support, after reports that practices were being put off for asking for help from the scheme.
16:30 Intense fitness regimes have led to a rise in knee, hip and back problems among young people, reports the Telegraph.
Dr Gorav Datta, an orthopaedic surgeon at Southampton General Hospital, told the newspaper that high-intensity workout regimes had contributed to a four-fold increase in damage to bones and joints in the under-30s.
He warned especially about 'explosive' exercise programmes designed for maximum effect in as short a time possible, often adopted by busy young professionals.
Dr Datta said: 'Over the past few years there has been a real expansion in the fitness market designed to meet the needs of young people with many conflicting priorities.
'Cult fitness regimes and the use of over-zealous personal trainers, all of which emphasise high-intensity, high-impact work, appeal to those who want to cram exercise into their hectic daily lives.'
But he said the problem with these 'short and intense bursts and repetitions' is that they 'can wreak havoc with joints and, longer-term, lead to the need for surgery'.
14:39 Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told he is 'the only one who is thrilled' at his reappointment, reports the Express.
The paper has covered some of the Twitter reaction as Mr Hunt was yesterday reported to have been sacked, then reposted elsewhere in the Cabinet, but finally retained in the health secretary role.
The paper reports that 'thousands of people took to Twitter to vent their frustration, many using an expletive based on his surname, in response to the news'.
Elsewhere, the Telegraph says in a comment piece that keeping Mr Hunt on was 'the boldest move in this reshuffle'.
Mr Hunt has made himself especially unpopular with junior doctors who are opposing his decision to impose a new contract, despite a majority of doctors rejecting it.
11:55 Women with secondary breast cancer are being 'ignored' by medics and face long referral waits, according to a damning report.
The report compiled by Breast Cancer Care said thousands of women were being 'failed' by the NHS because the symptoms their cancer has come back and spread are being missed, reports the Mirror.
A survey found one in ten women with secondary breast cancer were diagnosed in A&E rather than at a breast clinic, and one in five said they had to wait eight weeks or more for a secondary care appointment after raising concerns with their GP.
09:40 The zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to rage for another two or three years then naturally die down because people cannot catch the mosquito-born virus twice, reports BBC News.
Referred to as 'herd immunity' this simply means there are no more people to infect.
Although symptoms are non-existent or mild in most people, it has been declared a public health emergency because of the risk it poses in causing babies to be born with microcephaly (under-sized heads).
But Imperial College London researchers advised against trying to contain the virus, as this could actually prolong the epidemic. They also said it would not be effective to try to target the type of mosquito that is spreading the virus.
Lead author Professor Neil Ferguson said: 'Slowing transmission between people means the population will take longer to reach the level of herd immunity needed for transmission to stop.
'It might also mean that the window between epidemics could actually get shorter.'


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Brunel's Restaurant
"Good food comes from the heart". That is the creed of Brunel's head chef, Paul Cunningham, and a byline for this young, but innovative restaurant based above the Anchor Bar in Newcastle, in the shadow of the Mountains Of Mourne.
With a focus on bold and creative dishes full of texture and flavour, Brunel's uses only the freshest in regionally sourced ingredients. An avid forager, Paul has an extremely naturalistic approach to his cooking, reflected in such rich and earthy dishes such as the Rump of Mourne Lamb and Confit Trout dish. Menus change completely on a seasonal basis, with the focus constantly shifting to spotlight what produce is currently just right to eat.
Although it's only been open since February 2014, Brunel's has already earned itself a reputation for superb food in a relaxed, informal setting. Behind the red door, you will find professional but friendly staff. Paul's food has earned him extensive critical acclaim and awards over the years, so there's no better time to discover this "hidden gem" in the Mournes to find out what all the fuss is about!
Booking recommended, especially for weekends. Available for small- medium size private parties.
Opening Hours
Lunch and dinner Wednesday to Saturday (last orders 9.30pm)
Traditional Sunday Roast menu, midday – 8pm.
Early Bird 6 – 7.30pm, Wednesday – Friday.