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How to get Revit parts to IFC
It's important when you export a Revit model to IFC that the following conditions are met:
- Export with "Current View Only" option
- Parts must be visible in the view
- If the "Split Walls and Columns By Level" option is chosen, then wall parts will be assigned to the appropriate level as determined by their spatial position
Be aware:
Parts import / export done for all categories except Roofs
Parts import from IFC : only geometry is imported not the parts information
I have opened a revit file exported to IFC in Navisworks. You see a part from a wall selected and on the right you see the properties. In the IFC material tab you will see the Revit material back asign to the compound wall in Revit. As stated only the geometry is exported to IFC but the wall openings are missing.
If your interested I can share the revit and IFC model with you.
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R. Hunter Biden, the 38-year-old son of the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., has quit working as a Washington lobbyist, a job that had sparked controversy given Senator Barack Obama's denunciations of influence-peddling in the capital.
Mr. Obama's presidential campaign said Friday that Mr. Biden had stopped lobbying for nine clients shortly after his father was chosen last month as Mr. Obama's running mate. But the campaign did not announce that he had given up lobbying until Friday after reporters asked questions about his recent work for a couple under federal investigation over online gambling.
Federal lobbying records show that Hunter Biden's firm was hired in June by lawyers for J. Russell DeLeon and his wife, Ruth Parasol, billionaire expatriates who founded a Web site called PartyPoker. Their company, PartyGaming P.L.C., which later went public in London, stopped doing business in the United States after President Bush signed a bill into law in 2006 aimed at curbing online gambling.
Wyeth Wiedeman, a lobbyist hired by Mr. DeLeon and Ms. Parasol, said Mr. Biden helped put together a lobbying campaign to persuade Congress to pass a law that would clarify the question about whether online gambling was legal prior to 2006. Mr. Wiedeman said the Justice Department has been examining the couple and others involved with the PartyPoker site.
Mr. Wiedeman said Mr. Biden visited a House member from North Carolina to discuss the issue.
Mr. Wiedeman said other House members later introduced a bill meant to clarify the 2006 law, though no action has been taken on it.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Wiedeman said he also discussed the issue with staff officials of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Biden has long been a member of that committee. But Mr. Wiedeman said he did not talk to the senator about the gambling issues. He also said that Hunter Biden was not involved in any of the lobbying on the Senate side.
Published accounts have said that Ms. Parasol, a lawyer who now lives in Gibraltar, started out as an adviser to her father's telephone sex-chat business and then operated pornographic Web sites before turning to online gambling.
Hunter Biden could not be reached for comment. David Wade, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said Mr. Biden's involvement in the lobbying effort "gives much ado about nothing a whole new meaning." He said Mr. Biden was hired by Mr. DeLeon and Ms. Parasol's law firm, Sharp & Barnes, to provide expert advice because he specialized in electronic commerce and served on a working group on Internet gambling issues when he worked at the Commerce Department in the Clinton administration.
Mr. Wade said that Mr. Biden "worked on the House side to encourage introduction of a bill that would clarify that online gaming sites like those operated by PartyGaming would not have liability for operating prior to the passage" of the 2006 law. "End of story," he added.
Mr. Biden has been a partner at Oldaker, Biden & Belair, a law and lobbying firm, since 2001. He has mostly lobbied for biotechnology companies and for colleges seeking Congressional earmarks, which many critics consider a form of pork-barrel politics.
Mr. Biden, the youngest of the senator's two sons, graduated from Yale Law School in 1996 and was hired later that year by the MBNA Corporation, the financial-services giant then based in the Bidens' home state of Delaware. Mr. Biden quickly rose to be a senior vice president at MBNA before joining the Commerce Department.
After he left the Commerce Department in 2001, he received a consulting contract to work on electronic commerce issues for MBNA. And he formed the law and lobbying firm with William C. Oldaker, a longtime Washington insider who has been a campaign adviser to Senator Biden and other Democratic leaders. Records show that Hunter Biden's clients have paid the firm more than $2.8 million in fees over the last several years.
An article on Saturday about a decision by R. Hunter Biden, a son of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., to quit working as a Washington lobbyist included an incorrect identification from Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the clients of a law firm, Sharp & Barnes, that had hired the senator's son to lobby on an online-gaming issue. The firm's clients are two investors, J. Russell DeLeon and Ruth Parasol not the company PartyGaming P.L.C.

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In 2015, approximately 0.4% of GDP comes from medical tourism business while tourism accounts for around 6%. The number of international patients grows significantly and is expected to reach 3 million medical tourists in 2016. Urbanization and the growth of the middle class has also moved forward internal demand of higher quality medical services These changes are in line with investments in the healthcare market and the upgrading of hospitals and services. In addition, Thailand's increasingly aging population is expected to create large demand for medical devices and services in the next few years.
Thailand's healthcare industry mainly depends on imports, with drugs accounting for over 4.5 billion USD and medical equipment and devices for 1 billion USD in 2015. Thailand's imports of medical devices have been rising significantly since 2001 and the current modernisation of healthcare will represent even further opportunities for companies within medical devices, pharmaceuticals and health management.
Being a cost-effective production hub and having strong logistics infrastructure, Thailand also represents a potential destination for both manufacturers and distributors looking to set up operations to enter other emerging markets in the Mekong region and Southeast Asia.
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Every year, hundreds of Cypriots are being diagnosed with blood cancers like leukaemia and other life-threating illnesses where a bone marrow transplant is the only life-saving option. Finding a compatible donor is often challenging; only people in good health between the ages of 18 to 45 are eligible, and the chances of compatibility are reduced when patients cannot find a donor among close family members. The island's genetically heterogeneous population adds to the challenge of matching patients with donors.
"Because tissue types are inherited, having donors from diverse backgrounds increases the likelihood that the patient will find a life-saving match," says Dr Costeas.
The Karaiskakio Foundation is organising and managing the Cyprus Bone Marrow Donor Registry with the ultimate objective of helping patients – free of charge - in need of a bone marrow donor. To this aim, the Karaiskakio Foundation has received Norwegian funding to upgrade the infrastructure, address technical and operational weaknesses and improve the capacity of the Cyprus Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
The project puts a special emphasis on donor recruitment and reaching out to both communities – the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot. The response has been overwhelming; the ambition was to recruit 2000 young donors, but so far more than 20 000 have signed up. The total number of registered donors is now close to 140 000. This makes the Cyprus Bone Marrow Donor Registry of the Karaiskakio Foundation the largest per capita bone marrow registry in the world.
"The Cypriots have responded massively to the less fortunate and suffering members of society," Dr Costeas states proudly.
Helping both communities
A large number of recruitment events have taken place all over the country in places like shopping malls, universities, clinics and cafés. For a specific Cypriot café chain, the coffee cup campaign "give the baton to life – become a donor in the battle against leukaemia" proved to be a major success.
"The paper cup has become the café's most popular, and will be continued to be used in the promotion of the cause," Dr Costeas tells.
Around 86 % of all donors come from the Greek-Cypriot community and 14% from the Turkish-Cypriot community. Dr Costeas highlights the importance of reaching out to both communities, but concedes that more work needs to be done to bridge the communication gap. For this reason, a Turkish speaking employee was hired under the project to help prepare promotional material in Turkish.
"This has significantly improved the communication with the Turkish-Cypriot community," he explains.
Joint efforts
The creation of a bilingual website and an active presence on social media are among the tools the Karaiskakio Foundation use in order to get their message across to potential bone marrow donors. This has also caught the attention of their European counterparts in the Group of Medium Sized European Registries (GEMS) and it was among the topics when delegates from 23 different countries came together at an international GEMS conference on Cyprus, October 2013. The conference had a broad scope
"We are working together to address recruitment, tissue typing, communication and common challenges for our organisations," Dr Costeas explains.
The conference was organised by Karaiskakio Foundation and the Norwegian Bone Marrow Registry (NBMDR). Dr Torstein Egeland, Head of NBMDR and Chair of GEMS, stresses the need for coordinated efforts and increased cooperation between medium-sized registries:
"Since the members of GEMS are approximately the same size and work within the same European legal framework, it is important that we see what we can achieve together," Dr Egeland says.
Dr Egeland underlines that each bone marrow registry must adapt their recruiting activities to their own strategies and resource situation, but is impressed with what the Karaiskakio Foundation has accomplished.
"They serve as a good example on how to reach out to a wider audience," he says.
Thinking about tomorrow
Dr Costeas is satisfied with the current condition of the registry's infrastructure, although keeping track of fast technological changes and the ageing of the registry remain challenges for the future. He emphasises that a bone marrow donor can make a huge difference:
"A patient could be waiting for someone like you. You could be the one to save a life."
About the project
Norway has provided €681 127 to this project. The project started in February 2013 and is planned to end in July 2015.
Read more about when the project was honoured at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia here
Read more about the project here
Read more about the Norwegian Financial Mechanism programme here


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The electrical system that supplies inhabitants of the town of Hanga Roa with electricity has today collapsed. Luz Zasso Paoa, director of the local electricity provider SASIPA, explains the situation:
This is due to overuse. The capacity of our generators have been reached. We ask the community for comprehension until spare parts are arriving hopefully by next Thursday.
Luz Zasso asks the community to use electricity sparingly for the coming week and a half, until these problems have been fixed.


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The singers use iChat to write a holiday song – and you can see the video first on PEOPLE.com!
Call it a holiday tale for the digital world!
When Sara Bareilles, who was nominated for two Grammys on Wednesday, and Ingrid Michaelson wanted to record a song together, their busy schedules got in the way. So, the singers turned to the video messaging program iChat to compose "Winter Song," the lead track on the new holiday album The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs.
Bareilles and Michaelson went back and forth online, writing and tweaking the song until it was ready to record. Then it ultimately rose to No. 1 on iTunes! Check out the new, winter- and friendship-themed, animated video, only on PEOPLE.com.
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Monday was the last day of our tour. We went first to Lexington, and saw the statue of Captain Parker, the commander of the minutemen at Lexington. Mr. Potter explained the battle of Lexington to us on Lexington Green. He formed us up into a line, and had someone stand where the British did so we could see how the battle looked. Then we ate lunch and boarded the buses for Concord. We drove along the road which the British retreated, and then we came to the bridge of Concord. There we saw the other minuteman statue. On it was part of a poem which was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson which said this:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
We sang this to the tune of "The Old 100th Psalm". After going to Concord we drove to Harvard and spent the rest of the day there. Then we drove back to the hotel and got ready for the closing dinner. Mr. Potter asked history questions and if you got one right you won a prize. Stephen was "right enough" with his answer and won a guide book to Jamestown.
Faith & Freedom Tour Monday
Written by The Horn Family on Wednesday, December 20, 2006
1 comments:
- MJo said...
It sounds like a very interesting vacation. When Terry and I lived there, we went to those places too and learned a lot. Great job with the blog!
- December 26, 2006 6:27 PM


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The Maybelles at Hamilton Arts in the Park
The Hamilton Concerts in the Park continue this Thursday, July 25th at 7 pm with the Americana sounds of The Maybelles! Opening at 6:30 pm is our featured youth artist and Indie songstress, Lauren Mettler originally from Sherburne, NY. The evening will feature sign language interpretation by Aurora of Central New York.
The MAYBELLES are a harmony driven band based in Brooklyn and comprised of guitar, fiddle and upright bass. JAN BELL fronts the band and writes much of their music. She hails from coal mining country in Yorkshire, England. She came to NYC as a student teacher; fell in love with the folk festival realm and life on the American road. Today, she teaches songwriting classes at Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY and has won several Awards in that sphere. Bell's music mines the Appalachian/Celtic/Old time country sound. Festival highlights include Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival NY; The International Bluegrass Music Awards (IBMA); and the Ozark Folk Festival (AR). The 12th Annual Independent Music Awards announces her CD 'Dream of the Miner's Child' is a nominee for BEST CONCEPT ALBUM. More about the Maybelles at http://janbellmusic.com/the_maybelles.html
Hear the Maybelles' on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YochaFgWZAY
LAUREN METTLER'S voice, nuanced and beguiling, captivates her listeners as she leads them through epic romantic ballads, comedic anecdotes, and poignant anthems. A versatile indie songstress, her repertoire displays shades of the blues, world music, and is sprinkled with sweet little ditties reminiscent of favorite jazz classics. More about Lauren: http://laurenmettler.bandcamp.com/
Hear Lauren on You Tube On My Knees
Hear Lauren on You Tube Sacred Ground
The Hamilton Concerts in the Park will continue on August 1st with Woodshed Prophets with Country-rock or "Power Twang" with Anna Judge of Oneida opening at 6:30 pm, Tom Townsley and the Back Sliders will bring the blues on August 8th with Mikey Dufresne of Utica opening at 6:30 pm. On August 15th, Cincinnati Creek shares a deep tradition of bluegrass music with Liz Friedel opening the evening with a Fiddle Styles: From Louisiana to Nova Scotia workshop. Steve Blais'll accompany her on accordion.
The Hamilton Village Music Series runs every Thursday until August 15th. The concerts in the series begin at 6:30 pm on the Hamilton Village Green. Rain Location is the Barge Canal Coffee House. No tickets necessary for this free event. Bring a blanket or lawn chair!
Hamilton Arts in the Park is presented by the Village of Hamilton and co-presented by the Earlville Opera House. The Village of Hamilton is grateful for funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts. For more in depth information about the artists or the Village Series visit our event calendar on the EOH website at www.earlvilleoperahouse.com or call us at (315) 691- 3550.
Notes on awards for the Maybelles:
*Independent Music Awards WINNER Alt. Country Album of the year 2008. People's Choice Award
Other notes:
***Sign Language Interpreter – Contact Maggie Russell of Aurora of Central New York in Syracuse, NY. The Hamilton Arts series has history of maintaining outreach to deaf audiences for two performances a year. See more about Aurora's services at http://www.auroraofcny.org
*Lyrics will be available to accompany sign language interpretation for the Maybelles.


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Written on: Friday February 13th, 2009
A journal entry from: Thailand 2009
Today was a day trip from Bangkok to see WW2 stuff around Kanchanaburi (about 3 hrs away). Kanchanaburi is on the River Kwae, like the movie Bridge on the River Kwai, where a lot of POWs were forced to build the Thai-Burma railway for the Japanese.
Waiting at Khao San Road for the van in the morning, I saw an awkward scene: a Western guy in his late 30s/early 40s escorting a 20ish year old Thai woman (holding/dragging her by the arm) to a cab. The woman didn't want to go/wouldn't get in. When it was clear the guy wasn't interested any more, the woman walked off down the road refusing the guy's money/cab and looking upset (i.e. she wanted more than he did from their "relationship"). The guy walked back to his friends, who wer all laughing/carefree/mentally high-fiving him for it. Gross.
1st stop on the tour was the Allied War Cemetery, possibly the tidiest place in Thailand. My goals were to find someone the same age as me and a Welsh guy - and I found both!
2nd stop was a bizarre museum that we were told was the JEATH museum (Japan/England/Australia/America/Thailand/Holland) - turned out to be a complete fake. E.g. captions have odd wording like "after the bombing, POWs lay higgledy-piggledy over the bridge" Tourists are taken there because it's right next to the famous bridge (two birds with 1 stone). How come the Japs get top-billing when they were the bad guys in JEATH acronym? And Australia and America have to share an initial? Seems pretty lame.
The bridge (re-built after being bombed twice I think) was awesome! I'm afraid of heights/being able to see water running 20 metres beneath where I'm standing - but I made it over and back again. After Wat Pho yesterday I was feeling pretty brave!
The afternoon was lunch on a floating restaurant on the river - nice! Then an annoying 1h40m "wait" at a fake waterfall while lamer tourists went off to have their picture taken with drugged-up tigers at Tiger Temple. I climbed up to the water source of the waterfall only to find an electric pump! After that we got a train ride back on the "death railway" to a herd of vans ready to take us back to Bangkok.
The ride was so annoying! 30 minutes out from Bangkok (at about 6:30pm) the driver stopped for a "rest" stop for everyone for 10 minutes! No one wants a rest stop that close to getting back. Then, when we got back to Bangkok, instead of being taken all the way back to Khao San Road I was just dumped on the side of like a highway off ramp near-ish by. But, it was dark and I didn't know exactly where I was! Luckily, I picked a good random direction to walk back in, and I got back after about 20 min of wandering! At night, Khao San is like a cross between the Ekka and schoolies - incredibly lame.


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photo sensitive cloth, perle cottons, beads
This assignment is a class favorite and wraps up the year for my 3-D beginners.
They were a terrific group with positive attitudes and hard work ethics.
They bought joy and happiness everyday when they came in.
Each child got an 8" by 8" square of photo sensitive fabric.
We used my kiln room as a dark room and
they laid out a variety of goodies on top of their fabrics.
Anything that might block the sun.
Then outside we went to try and get as much sun as we could.
it was overcast that whole week,
so we just stayed outside an additional 5 mins.
The results were extremely pleasing to the eye,
especially if the student planned out their design ahead of time
(which most of them did)
like this lovely one by junior Antoniette Jabat.
She used several resists:
jewelry, washers,buttons,paper cut outs and lace.
And then her backside is as wonderful as her front.
Next up we have sophomore Shreya Seth.
I liked many things about this one
but mostly that it was so different in design from everyone else.
I especially love the pop of red against that wonderful indigo blue.
Shreya used photographs on clear plastic to get her resists.
Windfall works really well in this assignment.
The movement junior Liana Chie has created with diagonals is very pleasing.
and I adore all those little french knots she sprinkled around with the perle cotton.
Senior Sunny Kim went all out on her pillow,
even making her own tassels!
And junior Sara Chea got a really cool effect
with her paper snowflake resist cut from card stock.
I'm pretty sure she lifted the paper off
while she was standing in line waiting to rinse the photographic solution off.
This caused a bit of light to go where her resist was for a few minutes,
causing a very atmospheric effect.
A very pretty piece.
And anything that is solid and heavy work great as resists
like these items from the hardware store for a very masculine design by
junior Chirag Bisht.
I'm loving the added seed beads which give a splash of color,
and I also think it's clever how sophomore Amy Wang
whip stitched on additional pieces of printed fabric,
And last but never least,
is junior William Kim.
I get a real outer space feel from his design.
He told me he used lace pieces for his resists in either corner.
Great work all of you!
This was their 4th quarter final.


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The Serious Crime Bill received Royal Assent on 3 March 2015. Now the Serious Crime Act 2015, it includes amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 ("CMA"). As I reported in August 2014, the amendments are designed to address growing concerns that future cyber-attacks could have very serious consequences and ensure that the perpetrators can be prosecuted and appropriately punished.
The amendments provide for the existence of a new offence in respect of unauthorised acts committed in relation to a computer which cause or create a risk of serious damage of a material kind. Damage of a material kind constitutes damage to human welfare or the environment in any place, or to the economy or national security of any country. Acts cause damage to human welfare only if they cause loss to human life; human illness or injury; disruption of a supply of money, food, water, energy or fuel; disruption of a system of communication; disruption of facilities for transport; or disruption of services relating to health. This offence is punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment (or in some cases, life imprisonment) and/or an uncapped fine.
Some of the amendments were also required to implement the EU Directive on Attacks Against Information Systems (2013/40/EU). These amendments extend the existing CMA provisions in relation to:
- the use of tools to commit offences under Sections 1 and 3 of the CMA; and
- the UK's extra-territorial jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for certain CMA offences.


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The government agency, which has merged its buying contracts with the Department for Transport, said a re-tender of the television and radio contracts would begin this month.
The accounts, currently held by Starcom Mediavest and OMD respectively, were last reviewed in 2000 and a result is expected by March.
COI said the press contract, held by Mediacom, and cinema, held by Universal McCann, will be re-tendered in March 2005.
COI also plans to re-pitch the strategic media-planning roster in July 2005.
The outdoor buying contract was reviewed earlier this year, with Posterscope appointed.
COI said the online planning and buying account, held by I-Level, would not be affected.


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One of the most difficult decisions a teenager has to make is choosing where to go to college. There are a multitude of factors a student takes into account: how much it costs, the location, the size, and if they have the desired major. If you're a student-athlete, you also have to worry about which schools have your sport, which division you want to compete in, and who wants you on their team. And when it comes to transferring, the whole process, for every student, has to be repeated over again.
Transferring is a lot more common than some may think. A report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center concluded that 37.2 percent of college students transfer at least once in a six-year period. Students sometimes even transfer multiple times if they struggle to find the right environment.
For men's ice hockey defenseman John Furgele, softball first baseman Keala Cordeiro and women's track & field thrower Michaela Mendygral, they found new homes at Quinnipiac after transferring from their former schools.
Depending on your sport, you may not have the opportunity to change schools and jump right back into the action. According to the National College Athletic Association rulebook, baseball, basketball, football and men's ice hockey all require a transfer student to sit a year before they start playing again. This rule applied to Furgele, who played his first two years of eligibility at the University of New Hampshire.
"It's a little frustrating because what if you're unhappy with a place and you want to go somewhere else, why should you be punished for that?" John Furgele said. "I do understand it though because otherwise, people would be switching every year."
For Mendygral and Cordeiro, they were able to start playing for their teams as soon as they transferred.
"For eligibility, you only have four years to play a sport. I did my one year at Bucknell University and I've got my other three here," Mendygral said. "When you transfer in, you have a team and it's great because you know all of these people. You get involved really quickly and you're practicing right away and every day, so you get to know each other really fast."
Transferring can be a very long and daunting process. A lot of pressure is put on the student-athletes to repeat the entire college selection process a second time, and hopefully make the right decision. Other times, progress can occur rapidly, and student-athletes can settle in as soon as possible.
"Everything happened really quickly and they were really good about it," Furgele said. "Sitting out last year and not being able to play was pretty tough, but it went by a lot quicker than I thought."
Adjusting to a new school is always an obstacle a student has to overcome. Learning the structure and flow of a brand new campus is confusing in itself. Student-athletes have the extra stress of adapting to an unfamiliar team.
"Making new friends was a challenge because I wasn't living the dorm life," Cordeiro said. "We didn't have that at my other college; we just lived with each other in apartments. Other than that, just adjusting to everything and how people act and how the school works."
If you ask a student exactly why they want to transfer, they will most likely give you various reasons. Each student has a particular argument for their rationale behind switching schools.
"[Bucknell] didn't have my major, and I wanted to do journalism and I knew that since I was a little kid," Mendygral said. "I got there and I was an English major, and I thought it was okay and I enjoyed it. But, I still felt like I wasn't doing what I wanted to do."
Cordeiro, however, didn't necessarily choose to transfer out of her previous school. Gulf Coast State College is only a two-year school, so she needed to make plans to attend and play elsewhere. The NCAA rules do not apply to her, so she was able to get going and acclimate right away, even if it was a struggle at first.
"The environment and the size are just so different from Gulf Coast State, but I have softball to guide me," Cordeiro said. "The girls on my team really helped last year because I did struggle in the beginning trying to adjust. I didn't know a lot of people and I had to see how the team worked, but it was an adjustment I was willing to make."
Although every student holds contrasting lists of reasons for transferring, it all comes down to easily acclimating to the environment. For Wallingford, Connecticut native Michaela Mendygral, relocating to Quinnipiac wasn't her only return home. She found a new home on the field and a new family in her teammates.
"When you transfer in, you have a team and it's great because you know all of these people are on my team and they have to like me no matter what," Mendygral said. "I transferred here, I have my team and they're already my friends. I feel happy, I feel comfortable around these people, and then I was more willing to branch out."


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I started this blog on the 1st of January 2018 as a New Years Resolution. This was to write a blog post once a week for the rest of the year. Some weeks I posted two and had the whole month written in advance. Some weeks my posts would be published at minutes to midnight on a Sunday. Regardless, I managed to stay consistent and stick to my resolution throughout 2018. I have definitely developed as a person this year as has my blog and I am so happy I get to publish these posts every single week and receive views every single day, so to every reader and hair analysis report and every subscriber, THANK YOU!
I think it is really important to set New Years Resolutions and to really do your best to stick to them. Here is how you can create some New Years Resolutions and goals, be it for your hair, your finances, your career, your relationships this year that you can stick to.
For this to be effective, you need to be honest with yourself, our lives are not perfect and there's always room for improvement development and growth. Now that it is the end of the year, it is a great time to sit down and reflect on what you have actually done this year and what you could have done better or what you did amazing. If you created yourself some goals last year, now would be a great time to look at them and see what you have accomplished. If you have accomplished everything on your list maybe you want to make this year's list a bit harder, and if you didn't achieve anything, maybe you want to make you're goals more manageable and realistic.
Your goals do not have to be just one thing or cover one small area. You can establish goals for every single area of your life. You can create goals as big as you want such as 'I want to pay off my mortage', to a small as you want such as 'to eat a piece of fruit everyday'. Always make your goals SMART so that they are effective and something you can actually stick to.
I love to write everything down on a big piece of poster paper, but you can use a diary or just write them on your phone. There are also a tonne of free resources and printables available online so take a look. Once written up, it is really important that you make sure you look at your goals, I would have my goals stuck up on the wall next to my bed so that every morning I would read them to myself before I get up for the day. This helps to reinforce the goal in your mind and can give you purpose and motivation as you go out into your day because you have something to achieve.
Not everything that you've written down on your list, you will 100% be able to achieve and that is okay. Some things are long-term goals and some things you can go complete tomorrow, so organise your objectives. I group mine by category e.g Finance, Relationships, Career, and then I list them by the time it will take to complete the task. If all of your goals are specific and follow the SMART system this should be pretty easy, but feel free to filter out the ones you dont want on your list.
This is the most important step of making goals. It is simply to achieve them. You need to make it a priority to reach these goals. You can't just put them in a drawer and forget about them until next year that's unproductive and simply a waste of time to have even created them. You want to be able to cross them off the list when 2020 rolls around, so make a commitment to yourself to stick to your goals and achieve. Even if you aren't successful with certain goals, failure is when you don't try.
Thank you for this amazing year everyone. You made it extremely special and stay tuned for another year of blogging!
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Title: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Author: Inga Muscio
Published: 1998, revised and updated 2002
Rating: 4 out of 5 fist pumps
This was a reread for me, inspired by Insatiable Booksluts CuntWeek. I seriously had like 5 pages of notes to whittle down into a readable post because I'd forgotten that this book gives me all the feelz so YOU'Re WELCOME!
I first read this book in my early twenties, and as Muscio says herself, "Everybody's perception is in flux and affected by context."
Context: before I read Cunt
I grew up in a house where we never talked about bodies. Never. I learned about menstrual periods from the school film in fourth grade, not from my mother. I discovered in my early teens (probably from a book) that I had accidentally discovered masturbation around age 9 and was shocked to understand that this was a bad thing that girls weren't supposed to do. I still remember with absolute clarity the moment in 6th grade when the realization hit me- while reading a Q&A "If my boyfriend pulls out can I still get pregnant?" in a Seventeen magazine -just exactly what the mechanics of hetero sexual intercourse was.
Yup. You read that right. In the sixth grade. From a magazine.
I also grew up in a town so overwhelmingly conservatively Catholic that the public schools did not serve meat in the cafeteria during Lent.
I had never (to my knowledge) met a lesbian.
We did not have Our Bodies, Ourselves on my school library shelf. (Or Deenie, or Forever)
My health education sex-ed was barely existent and completely abstinence only.
There was no Planned Parenthood within a 100 mile radius.
So suffice it to say that sex positivity was absolutely nowhere on my radar.
I was growing up in the middle of the Third Wave of Feminism yet somehow completely isolated from it.
I'd never heard of Riot Grrrl.
I'd never seen a zine.
I didn't even have the slightest clue about all the things I didn't know.
Not. A. Clue.
Context: reading Cunt the first time.
When I read Cunt the first time, I had moved away from home, left the Mormon church and become heterosexually active, which is to say that I was making progress… I mean relatively speaking. I had friends with positive attitudes toward sex, and studied in a field where women outnumbered men considerably. But I also was surrounded by gay men who were intensely and vocally "grossed out" by cunts and anything related to them, and straight women who were only marginally less grossed out by that part of their own anatomy. To be honest, I was a little grossed out by that part of my own anatomy. It had never occurred to me that I could take Women's Studies classes in college. I'm not even sure they had Women's Studies classes at my college. I mean, they probably did, but I was too preoccupied with surviving a needlessly toxic music program to think about much of anything else.
When I read this book the first time, I was attempting to deal, silently and on my own, with a sexual assault. I read it squashed in between Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic The Mists of Avalon and Anita Diamant's The Red Tent. Two cuntlovin womanifestos if ever any existed. I was sure that no one else on the planet in the history of the world had ever felt as liberated as I did getting in touch with my gender identity for the first time fer realz. I wanted to paint a crescent moon on my forehead and throw myself and all my friends a menarche party.
Cunt was my introduction to feminism.
Like, actual living, breathing feminism and not the caricature of feminism that had been presented to me by men who stood to gain/keep power by persuading a new generation of girls that being a feminist was a bad thing. (The same caricature that I now look at and go WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT ANYWAY?!!)
Cunt, quite simply, blew my freakin mind.
This terrible swear word was a good thing? WHAT!
Men had wrangled themselves into a position to be in power over everything? WHAT!
Female sexuality was good and sacred and important and natural and not dirty? WHAT!
Men are actually scared of us? WHAT!
In spite of blowing my mind, my re-read has highlighted the many many things in the book that didn't stick and I had to relearn again later, but the thing that did stick was the power we hold as consumers. I can't control a lot in the world, but I can control who I give my money to. I can't claim to be completely pure in my consumerism habits, but I try to support local, preferably women owned, businesses and I don't under any circumstances shop at Wal-Mart. We're all works in progress, and I'm doing the best I can.
Context: Re-reading Cunt
As I downloaded a copy (my old one having gotten lost in a move at some point) and sat down to revisit this book, I was keenly aware of how much my context has changed. The big 3-0 approaches on the horizon filling me with equal parts terror and excitement. I've come out to myself and the world in general, changed professions twice, finished three degrees and stopping giving any thought to shaving my legs. (In that sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't and I don't consider either to be a fashion statement, political rebellion or indication of anything other than my general mood while in the shower.)
I've read Judith Butler, bell hooks and Toni Morrison. I've learned a whole new vocabulary that includes 'gender non-conforming,' 'deconstructing,' and 'institutionalized patriarchy."
I have visited and purchased things in sex toy shops, consumed various varieties of pornography and lauded the Diva Cup to my gay boy bestie.
Many things in my life have changed.
So revisiting Cunt was a supremely interesting experience.
There was more of an equal balance in the number of things I rolled my eyes at and the things I pumped my fist to.
- Alternatives to pads and tampons — fist pump. (There are more available now, Laci Green provides a great overview)
- The assertion that becoming one with yourself and with the moon will make your cramps go away and give you clairvoyant dreams when you're premenstrual — skeptical lezbrarian is skeptical.
- Wanting to bring back menarche parties and stop thinking about periods as The Enemy— fist pump.
- The idea that PMS is brought on by a socially constructed hatred of our goddess given cycle and not.. like.. by a natural, but drastic drop in the levels of estrogen in our bloodstream — eye roll, because– science.
- the quote "Moving from phonetics to etymology, "vagina" originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina"(p. 4). — FIST PUMP!!
(because my cunt 'sheathes' noooooo 'swords' ifyaknowwhatimean)
She talks a bit about the history of whores, how it used to be a sacred vocation to initiate men, and women, into the mysteries and awesomeness that is sex. And it made me realize that my first exposure to the portrayal, and really even the concept, of heterosexual sex that was not solely and only focused on the fulfillment of the man; where a male lover was giving and primarily interested in the pleasure of his female partner was– I swear to Sylvia Plath– fanfiction. Like a year ago.
And yes, most fanfiction is highly overly romanticized and so out of the realm of possibility of ever occurring in the real world that it's actually laughable. And yeah there is a lot of fanfiction, and romance novels, that feature rape and are degrading toward women and all kinds of other crap. But I don't read that stuff. The fanfiction I was reading/read when I'm in the mood for it feature scenes where women have at least one orgasm, sometimes several, before the man (or other woman) has one. And I thought– wow, what if that was the first protrayal of sex, the first picture of what sex should be like that we convey to girls? Wouldn't it be amazing if we taught our daughters to EXPECT their lovers to be that giving? To DEMAND that their partners be that considerate? And that no one not willing to be Dan Savage's Three G's (good, giving and game) is worth their time? (also that they should reciprocate… because equality) How would that change the landscape of sexual politics? How would that change the self image of women and girls? I hope we learn the answer to these questions. I really really do.
What saddened me was Muscio's hopeful optimism that post-patriarchal life was hovering on the horizon… in 1998. You don't have to look far to see just how much of a wistful pipe dream that was, and the need for women to band together now more than ever. Muscio calls for women to have each others backs instead of being at each others throats.
And how we can live in a world where I still encounter smart, savvy women who declare themselves "not feminists" I will never know. I stand in the wake of Steubenville and Wendy Davis's filibuster and find myself turning into the archetypal raging angry feminist dyke. And then I realize that the only problem with the caricature that I've become is that men have convinced us all that there is something wrong with that. Which just makes me even madder.
Lastly, I have no recollection of reading Muscio's afterward the first time around… maybe it was just one more mind-blowing revelation than my baby-dyke mind could handle… but I sure appreciated it now that I have a much broader view of gender identities and the fractures in the queer community. Muscio admits to having largely omitted trans*folk from her first edition of Cunt—
" why did I exclude an entire sector of the population when I was supposed to be writing a book about freedom for all?
The answer is, simply, I didn't know.
And why didn't I know? Why did an avid reader like myself never come across references to trans-history?
For the exact same reason that "feminism" and "vegetarianism" were peripheral to my life in Santa Maria, California: it's not— or at least, when I was writing Cunt, it wasn't— a topic that came up much.
It's, uh, excluded.
The identities, realities, experiences, accomplishments and history of transgendered folks are not acknowledged in the marginalized cultures of queers and feminists, and are pathologically feared in the "general" culture of the United States." (pp. 254-255)."
Her honesty is refreshing and reminds me that when I encounter people who ask me why "Queer" is included in the LGBTQ because-isn't-it-redundant-if-it-means-people-who-are-lesbian-gay-or-bi that I need to take a deep breath and instead of screaming at their ignorance remember that it wasn't such a long time ago that I had no idea what trans* was, what people meant by the Waves of feminism or the multi-faceted and intersecting identities of millions and millions of people.
It wasn't such a long time ago that I was paralyzingly uncomfortable discussing periods, masturbation or sex with my closest friends let alone putting this all out there on the internet.
It wasn't such a long time ago that I had no idea how much I enjoyed other women's cunts, that I discovered how much confidence totally owning the power of my own cunt inspired, or even, actually, what the hell a cunt actually was.
So, in conclusion…
go read Cunt.
And then spread the word.


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Just watched the movie that is the namesake of the city I dwell in! Okay, am no patriot of Delhi nor do I believe in patriotism as being a virtue. However, after watching this movie, to say am outraged at the portrayal of Delhi is an understatement. Before going into the gory details and the justification for my outrage, let's simply talk about the movie.
Firstly, there's no story, period. Of course, who said a story is essential to make a good movie; I have seen several riveting and mind-boggling movies that don't necessarily have a consistent storyline. But, this one flouted all the basic rules, if there are any, rules of film making. Was it a documentary on the so-called ridiculous behavior of people in the walled city? Or, was it a tourist flyer promoting tourism, what with the recession and stuff, are we gonna fall back on tourism?
Secondly, the characterization! Who, for example, is Roshan? Just an NRI? That's it? Does it kind of capture the essence of the person? What type of NRI is he? Has he studied anything? Why is everything so damn new to him, especially after being brought by a very religious dadi! Not even one character seems sorted out.
Thirdly, the movie failed utterly in terms keeping the audience engaged! Of course, every second had suspense woven in, because we didn't know when the movie would end; it seemed like it could have ended in at least 10 points; and when it finally ended, the audience were like, "wow, it's over man!" You know, I do enjoy movies that are no-brainers, as long as they are fun to watch. But, movies as these are violating; I was not only bored, but also angry!
Now to the anger part: anyone who has lived in Delhi for at least a year will know about Dilli 6: the walled city. For those of you who don't know about the walled city, here is a small note on the area. It is one of the oldest residential areas of Delhi. It is predominantly a Muslim area, with the Jama Masid at one corner.
It is a heritage site; several years of history is buried in the roads of this unique place. Interestingly, the people and houses there and the way of life (not that it is very different from any other of the middle class areas in the country) is actually history. You must be there to witness or feel what it is to be in the midst of a historic place that is still very much alive. The mode of transport within the city is only by cycle rickshaws because the houses are so closely built that there's hardly any space for any other type of vehicles. And, here, we have our hero sneering at the time it takes to reach his sick grandmom to the hospital on a rickshaw. What is worse is they aren't delayed only by the rickshaw, but by a cow in labor! What a ridiculous idea! And, what's even horrible is that the grandmom gets better when she hears of the cow in labor and goes and touches the cow with so much devotion.
The movie screams of the exotic orient in every damn shot! Guys, didn't things like this get dealt with several years ago with Edward Said and our own Romila Thapar shattering such myths?
Next, this movie hardly explores the real culture of dilli 6. There's this elaborate Ram Lila happening throughout the movie, but nothing on the lovely sweet meats sold around Jama Masid or the famous breaking of the Mohram fast or the famous buff kebabs of dilli 6! Everybody has been ridiculed! The dalit woman is as usual the beedi-smoking, foul-mouthed whore, who dutifully sits outside the temple and worships God! I felt violated as I walked out of the movie hall; my time, my money, and my intellect were insulted!
Just a word for Abhishek Bachan! Do yourself a favor; take a holiday for a year and go faraway; I suggest the Himalayas. And, do some soul-searching. Acting is not for you man; however, you could learn it, and I assure you one thing, your dad can't be your teacher. Buddy, you can do better than this. If only you could find something real and true for yourself. I could see how bored you were; more than anger, I felt sorry for you!
Hello, and thanks a ton for stopping by! Here you'll find the ramblings of a girl err...woman left uninterrupted, or a woman left to her own devices! It's in such moments of uninterrupted ecstasy I find myself, far, far away from the madding crowd, where an Oak tree, shepherds me. ;)
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