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Homily: How Authoritarians are Made (plus Tweets)
One of the tweets I posted here recently was one of my own. It was a Big Think video entitled 'The Chronology of Crazy in the USA' featuring Kurt Anderson.
I often wonder about the various ways the minds of different people work. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert (I'm not), but at the moment I feel like I'm getting a bit of an insight into the reason some people are authoritarian and others aren't. (Personally, I fall so low on the Authoritarian Scale, the statistical chances are most of you are more authoritarian than me! And I doubt that most of you are very authoritarian either.) The reason I'm feeling slightly more knowledgeable is a link Linda Calhoun sent me a few days ago.
It's to a book by Associate Professor of Psychology Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarians (pdf at link). I'm about halfway through, and it's fascinating. If I still had the physical capacity to read as much as I want to, I would have finished it the day Linda sent the link. I don't want to put it down.
Some of the things I'm learning I'd worked out for myself, but now I better understand them and the reasons why they are true.
I've just been reading about the creation of authoritarians. The book explains how our life experiences shape us more than anything else. Although it doesn't explicitly state it, to me it explains why people in the cities of the US are less likely to be right-wing authoritarians than those is rural areas.
I'll use homophobia to make my point. (Being anti-LGBT people is a characteristic of right-wing authoritarians in the US.)
You all probably know the following things are true without me having to provide the proof, though I can of course:
1. Younger people are more accepting of LBGT people than older people.
2. People in cities are less likely to be anti-LGBT than people in rural areas.
This is all explained by the psychology of authoritarianism, and how our life experiences are so important. I'll take the two points in order.
1. Younger people are more accepting of LBGT people than older people because in the last fifty years, LGBT people have become more and more open about their identity. Therefore, younger people are more likely to know an LGBT person.
2. People in cities tend to meet people from a much greater range of backgrounds than those in rural areas. Therefore, if you live, or have lived, in a big city, or attended some form of tertiary education, the chances are you've got to know LGBT people.
This comes back to another data point that most of you will also be aware of:
People who know LGBT people are less likely to be anti-LGBT people as they know from their own experience that they're no different from anyone else
Thus even if you grew up thinking LGBT people were "bad" in some way, your personal experience has taught you otherwise. You know they're just like everyone else except for their sexuality.
On the other hand, conservative religion still dominates many rural areas in the US, and LGBT people often feel they have to stay in the closet. People in those areas therefore (think they) don't know any LBGT people and continue with their anti-LGBT attitudes.
It's one of the reasons I decided to be so open about being an atheist. Initially that was on Twitter, and now it's on my own website. Many other have also made the same decision. That seems to be paying off. Older people still hate atheists more than any other group in the US, but younger people don't see them as any different than any other demographic group. It's become acceptable to be an atheist because more people know they know atheists – fewer of us are in the closet. As a result, most people are realizing we're just like everyone else.
One of the ways to reduce the number of authoritarians is to increase the variety of people they get to know. There are many others of course.
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(A majority of the tweets below are from yesterday.)
Political Tweets
The bird knew.
(Via Ann German.)
We really should have paid attention to this omen. pic.twitter.com/Glw9Hh0LB3
— Peter Ω (@Pajjr2016) January 13, 2018
Talk about propaganda! Does anyone really believe that Paul Ryan goes around gazing at Dr King's statue, rocking this pose, while there's a photographer about, whether he admires him or not? Is the fact it's a black and white picture code? 😀
(Via Ann German.)
That's not Paul Ryan contemplating Dr. King's work. That's Paul Ryan measuring the space for a statue of Ayn Rand. pic.twitter.com/SxLNV9EBGU
— Richard Kadrey (@Richard_Kadrey) January 15, 2018
Go Cory Booker!
Senator @CoryBooker blasted a govt official when she claimed to not remember Trump's comments on "sh*thole" countries. pic.twitter.com/NFhLj6luqj
— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 17, 2018
Pre-Mueller Time Tweets
Another shoe dropping?
(Via Ann German.)
BREAKING: #Haiti held emergency high court session that resulted in an agreement to unseal and release information within ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's indictments relating to #MoneyLaundering via Trump Tower condo.
More background here → https://t.co/Wb4iLQMgm9 https://t.co/I1TU2uMBqE
— Bandit Aléatoire (@BanditRandom) January 15, 2018
Human Rights Tweets
I've mentioned this before – the girl who took off her hijab and waved it in the air during the Iran protests has gone missing. Please consider re-tweeting this if you are able.
#WhiteWednesdays : We are asking all peoples of the world to participate in our Tweet storm on Wednesday both to oppose compulsory veil and to ask for the whereabouts of that girl who was waving a white scarf attached to a stick. #Where_is_She pic.twitter.com/ilMzP8zzgL
— My Stealthy Freedom (@masihpooyan) January 16, 2018
From the Time article in the tweet below (my emphasis):
State Department of Education records show the home's address is the same as the Sandcastle Day School, where David Turpin is listed as principal. In the 2016-17 school year it had an enrollment of six with one student each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.
Fellows told reporters there is no indication any student other than the couple's children were enrolled there. He said six of those children are under 18.
No state agency regulates or oversees private schools in California, and they are not licensed by the state Education Department.
This is why schools should all be government regulated.
13 siblings found malnourished and shackled to beds in a California home https://t.co/NJ2oTJLjV2
— TIME (@TIME) January 17, 2018
Space Tweets
Wow! Amazing!
(Via Amy Carparelli.)
#HubbleCastLight Flying through the Orion Nebula#MomentsFromSpace https://t.co/23ug1lGCbi pic.twitter.com/xXaQQIpIny
— HUBBLE (@HUBBLE_space) January 15, 2018
Environmental Tweets
Scary! MIT are projecting temperatures could rise 5 degrees by the end of the century. The problem is, the article doesn't say whether that's celsius or farenheit. It makes a big difference!
(Via Ann German.)
Global warming's worst-case projections look increasingly likely. https://t.co/WzYWPTZ7C1
— MIT Tech Review (@techreview) January 15, 2018
History Tweets
Very interesting! I've thought for years (and others have too) that plague was likely spread by humans as well as rats. It spread too fast and in such a way that it was unlikely to be rats alone. Now it looks like that was wrong too – it was mostly or all humans.
(Via Ann German.)
Black Death 'spread by humans not rats' https://t.co/gNRZ4eQDfW
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 15, 2018
Science Tweets
Very cool!
Shape shifting Paper Puzzle Developed By Harvard Researchers pic.twitter.com/MfzifmdDqf
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) January 17, 2018
Paleontology Tweets
The American mastodon in London's Natural History Museum. This museum is near the top of my bucket list!
The making of an American mastodon:
With @NHM_London #NHM_Shorts #Science #Nature @Heather Hastie @alberti saurus @susan ewington @Stephen Parry80 @Marvth3 mart1an @1972 magpie @andre pellerin
Article: https://t.co/i2Dw2ddbp7
— Amy Carparelli (@Amy Amy lou 1993) January 15, 2018
Scenic Tweets
Cool pic from a Danish railway station.
(Via Ann German.)
Night at the Denmark train station by photographer Michael Knudsen looks like the lost Terminator episode of Thomas the Tank Engine https://t.co/zUTPwyV88p pic.twitter.com/X76RAbtSkR
— Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) January 13, 2018
Just showing off! Wellington is #1, and Auckland is #11.
(Via Ken.)
The 26 major cities with the highest quality of life in the world. #1 is in NZ, and NZ has two in the top 15! https://t.co/SzwlRlc0R0
— Heather's Homilies (@HeatherHastie) January 14, 2018
Beautiful Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 pic.twitter.com/7PJg8oTqQa
— Earth Pic (@Earthplaces1) January 16, 2018
Lovely winter scene in Austria.
Traditional Alpine houses in Hallstatt / Photo by @mehmetsert pic.twitter.com/Bb4O17Ja0l
— Earth Pic (@Earthplaces1) January 12, 2018
Environmental Tweets
Cley Marshes nature reserve in Norfolk.
WildNorfolk Pt6: Cley Marshes
with @SupportNWT #LivingLandscape #Nature #Wild_Norfolk @HeatherHastie @albertisaurus @susanewington @XAndrewww @StephenParry80
— Amy Carparelli (@Amy Amy lou 1993) January 16, 2018
Weather Tweets
It's cold in upstate New York.
Icy windshield art pic.twitter.com/ZHFgB02a7n
— Hunter of Cute (@jennan doah) January 15, 2018
Marine Tweets
This is so cool! I love octopuses! (You already know that.) Look at that camouflage!
(Via Ann German.)
Mind-Blowing Octopus color change 🐙
by IG@rubergnick pic.twitter.com/a5vVSMlBn2
— Nature is Amazing 🌿 (@AMAZlNG NATURE) January 14, 2018
Creepy-Crawlies Tweets
Snails are quite cute really.
🐛🐛🦋❤🕷🦋🐚 pic.twitter.com/KzIyUr5PQC
— A Bugz Wife (@A Bugz Wife) January 16, 2018
Other Animals Tweets
Poor hedgehog!
(Via Ann German.)
🦔 I hope this hat trick & a cute little #hedhehog make you smile on #BlueMonday & #NationalHatDay 🦔 #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/AUc6V6amT3
— ❣🍌ℓυι🍌❣ (@L i love bananas 76) January 15, 2018
This video is over seven minutes long and more than two years old, BUT it's cute wee hoglets feeding. One is even given a blanket bath!
3 abandoned hedgehog hoglets being cared for at Pricklepad Hedgehog Hospital '12-10-2015′:
thanks to Pricklepad Hedgehog Hospital #Nature #RatedAwww
Website: https://t.co/FPmEimqKzF
— Amy Carparelli (@Amy Amy lou 1993) January 14, 2018
This is another longish one, but it's worth it. Red squirrels are another one of my faves, and Scotland is my ancestral home, so this one means a lot to me.
Red Squirrel Project:
with @treesforlifeuk #RedSquirrelProjectScotland #Nature #RatedAwww @HeatherHastie @albertisaurus @susanewington @LauraHouston27 @StephenParry80 @XAndrewww
Link: https://t.co/YmohALNQGB
— Amy Carparelli (@Amy Amy lou 1993) January 14, 2018
Polar bears playing soccer!
Polar Bear Football!!!
From 'Polar Bear – Spy on the Ice'#Nature
— Amy Carparelli (@Amy Amy lou 1993) January 16, 2018
Bird Tweets
Penguins are cool. (I think I've said that before.)
(Via Ann German.)
WEIGH-IN: Staffers at the Milwaukee County Zoo use fish to entice penguins to hop on the scale. https://t.co/HIc4fdD4En pic.twitter.com/C4LEpWXRjw
— ABC News (@ABC) January 13, 2018
Some tweets about New Zealand's kakapo.
Reading Richard Henry provides devastating insight into how much wildlife #NZ has lost so quickly. In 1890s he bemoans 'only' catching 12 #kakapo in 2 days here at Green Pt in #Fiordland. They're long extinct here. pic.twitter.com/6nu30HVFx2
— Dr Andrew Digby (@takapo digs) January 16, 2018
Catching 6 #kakapo a day is a big effort for us on current islands. So in #Fiordland #kākāpō density was greater than now on Whenua Hou. Yet only 1 #Fiordland #kākāpō survived: named Richard Henry (here with the late, great Don Merton). Pic: DOC pic.twitter.com/XmUsbhoaul
— Dr Andrew Digby (@takapo digs) January 16, 2018
Richard Henry the #kakapo died in 2010. He produced 3 offspring with his valuable #Fiordland #genes (including Sinbad seen here). Now there are 7 #kākāpō of Fiordland descent, after Kuia had 4 chicks in 2016. #conservation pic.twitter.com/w0BZ7Zm0V2
— Dr Andrew Digby (@takapo digs) January 16, 2018
And the New Zealand fairy tern/tara-iti.
The first fairy tern/tara-iti chick of the season has fledged! This is big news as there are less than 50 of these rare native shorebirds left. We are expecting four more to fledge very soon. pic.twitter.com/7UTrKrSpLQ
— Dept of Conservation (@doc govt nz) January 16, 2018
Dog Tweets
What's that stall selling? No wonder he's sitting!
A good boy who sits pic.twitter.com/sN2x2lXnGC
— Hunter of Cute (@jennan doah) January 15, 2018
A very patient mother !! 🐶💕🤗 pic.twitter.com/Djvq50QSDG
— Stefano S. Magi (@Stefano doc SM) January 16, 2018
Cat Tweets
Very cool!
Wаlt Disney explains Mickey Mouse to a cat, 1931. pic.twitter.com/5E9h4p1LaK
— History Lovers Club (@history lvrs club) January 17, 2018
Poor Albert!
Pets Who Just Came Back From The Vet: Their Expressions Say It All https://t.co/Oe0EIkfKv4
— Life on Earth (@planet epics) January 17, 2018
What a cutie!
This kitten runs to her crib when she wants her bottle just like a real baby pic.twitter.com/stkjyq2xIl
— Cutest Animals Ever (@CUTEST_ANlMALS) January 17, 2018
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49 Responses to "Homily: How Authoritarians are Made (plus Tweets)"
"Personally, I fall so low on the Authoritarian Scale, the statistical chances are most of you are more authoritarian than me!"
"This is why schools should all be government regulated."
Yes, Heather went to government regulated schools and turned out to be a non-authoritarian progressive.
Much better, in your view, to have the "freedom" to keep your kids in chains and starve them. Is this really your idea of a better world? (Oh, I forgot. The "better world", for you, only comes after you die, and then only if you did the right hocus-pocus.)
Seven of those kids are legal adults. Which begs the question, in your world of greater "freedom", who gets to keep the keys to the padlocks?
You haven't even a small clue as to what she wrote about it appears. She was advocating for more oversight, not less.
And I'm reasonably certain that the afterlife is not one of Heather's driving forces.
Would you care to explain in what sense existing law was in any way inadequate to deal with this horrific situation? From news accounts, the authorities acted swiftly and decisively. The victims are safe and the victimizers are being dealt with.
Do you have any actual evidence to suggest that existing law is inadequate to deal with any future incidents of abuse? Do you have any evidence to suggest a significantly greater incidence of abuse in private schools, compared with other variables? Since the "school" in this case was atypical in the extreme, what is to be gained by increasing the burden on the thousands of innocent others?
I'd say a knee-jerk impulse to react to every tragedy by passing a law, or to respond to every real or imagined problem by chipping away at innocent people's civil liberties — without any rational basis whatsoever — qualifies as textbook authoritarianism (or "progressivism").
In any event, it is flatly wrong to suggest that private schools are not already regulated. In fact, it takes 345 pages just to summarize these regulations.
"Would you care to explain in what sense existing law was in any way inadequate to deal with this horrific situation?"
California has no laws to inspect private schools.
And, I don't know if California is one of the 28 US States that exempt religious people from child abuse laws, but if it is, the charges that will stick with these people are for false imprisonment of their adult children.
And, while it's your opinion that the problem is "being dealt with", that is clearly after the fact. In no sense is there any prevention. I'm glad you think that this is a solution, but if you are one of their children, especially the older ones, recovery is going to be a really iffy proposition.
And, why do you characterize passing preventative laws as a "knee-jerk reaction? It's possible that laws that are passed are well-considered.
You might be interested in these links to things Altemeyer has written on Trump
and https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/03/02/1494504/-A-word-from-Dr-Bob-Altemeyer-on-Donald-Trump-and-Authoritarian-Followers — this linked from the above article
I've read a lot of Altemeyer, both his popular stuff and his articles in professional journals.
He's always so right on, and his research is elegant and impeccable.
I recently was browsing a far-right-wing site. One of Altemeyer's defining characteristics really jumped out at me. He says that RWAs strongly overestimate the number of people who agree with them because they don't spend much time around anyone who's different from them. I was really struck by how many of them expressed the belief that they were a strong majority, and that progressive viewpoints were just going to fade away due to their unpopularity.
Of course, this view does not comport with their strong need to suppress differing views. You'd think that if they really believed that people were coming around in droves to their views, that they wouldn't be so adamant about shutting us up.
Which brings us to another of Altemeyer's traits, that they are highly compartmentalized, and don't have any trouble with inherent contradictions between the various of their beliefs.
Just, wow.
RWA? Ready, Willing and Available? Risk Weighted Assets? or Republican Wealthy Authoritarians? I guess the latter.
Note, it mirrors the echo-chambres of the regressive leftists, clearly also Authoritarians.
Yeah, that's a pretty common human foible. A famous example is the lefty film reviewer Pauline Kael. When President Nixon carried 49 states to win re-election in a landslide, she said, "That can't be — nobody voted for him!"
(The actual quote was creepier: "I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.")
You should also check out the professor's follow up on the Tea Party and a couple others. Available at his web site:
From the link:
The paper, published on Wednesday in Nature, found that global temperatures could rise nearly 5 °C by the end of the century under the the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's steepest prediction for greenhouse-gas concentrations.
Sorry Heather, seems clear to me.
Where is that 'Authoritarian Scale' test?
I fancy myself to be not authoritarian, but I'm sure my young kids will not agree.
In the workplace some would disagree too, although many consider me a softy (I think so myself), others think I'm too impatient. I basically never get angry, but sarcasm is highly feared in my workplace. On occasion I can't help myself.
Well, yes, I have no patience with deliberate slacking and not taking responsibility.
[The reverse side of the 'delegating medal' is that the delegated to (always willingly) should take responsibility. And in the end it still is my responsibility, so a lack thereof shows I delegated wrongly, and I get the flak. Note, these things are extremely rare and do not entice me to tarnish my idea that people grow if you give them the means. Generally it works well, sometimes in an unexpectedly greatway.]
Let's not pathologize differences of opinion. Attacking character and personality, rather than debating the substance of an issue, is a sure sign of a weak case.
Cephalopods, and octopuses in particular, are masters in changing colours fast. Contrary to chameleons they do use it mainly for camouflage. Octopuses can also change the texture of their skin in the blink of an eye, real masters of that art.
Curiously -since they give colourful signals- it was thought they were colourblind since they have only one type of photoreceptor. I aways found that extremely weird, but not impossible (there were some hypotheses). We have three colour receptors (blue, green and yellow -not red), birds and most reptiles have four, while the mantis-shrimps have more than a dozen. But poor octopus was stuck with only one.
Turns out that they do not use pigments with different absorption maxima, but chromatic aberration, and by moving their retinas slightly they are pretty good at distinguishing wavelengths. Completely different mechanism, same result. Can we still call that convergent evolution?
Octopuses (locally known as sea-cats here) are also considered the most intelligent, moody and temperamental of all invertebrates.
The Crown of Creation, or rather the Apex of Evolution? 🙂
"I'm for preventing non-citizens from voting. I'm for preventing the deceased from voting. I'm for preventing non-humans (including, but not limited to, cartoon characters and companion animals) from voting. I'm for preventing people from voting more than once, or in a jurisdiction where they are ineligible. I'm for making every valid vote count."
All those things have probably happened, but they don't happen in any quantity. "Voter fraud" is a right-wing canard.
Have you ever noticed that when right wingers scream about "voter fraud", it's when they've lost? They never consider the possibility that there could be voter fraud when they've won.
And, many states have Republican Secretaries of State. Are you accusing them, too?
Exhaustive investigations of voter fraud usually turn up a few isolated cases. Some of those are perpetrated by Republicans, who are not exactly the picture of innocence.
OTOH, we also have situations as in Alabama, where Dept. of Motor Vehicle IDs are required, and the State closed 31 of those offices, all in majority black districts. We have situations where voters are given ballots from the wrong district, which then have to be thrown out. We have gerrymandering. We have purges based on misidentification of someone's common name. We are on the verge of having purges based on non-voting. Tell me, would you support suspension of someone's Second Amendment rights because they have not recently purchased a gun?
Hey, don't tell me, tell your lefty comrade Nicky, who says rampant voter fraud is responsible for MAGA.


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Sometimes it's important to take a break from talking about gentrification and overpriced lattes to remind ourselves that North Brooklyn is home to both the very rich and the very poor. This short documentary sheds light on a corner in South Williamsburg (Division and Marcy) where female immigrants from Latin countries like Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic wait each morning, in hopes that they will be picked up for work by Hassidic Jewish customers that come to find cheap domestic help.
Usually the work these woman are picked up for involves cleaning homes and offices for around $10 per hour, but as the women in the video explain, sometimes they are asked to perform tasks that cross the line to sexual harassment, from bending over while cleaning (and being filmed) to giving massages to male homeowners. Continue reading

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1 1/2 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
dash of salt
1/2 C sugar (or honey or sorghum or whatever natural sweetener you prefer)
1 egg
1/3 C oil
1/3ish C milk (not an exact amount, I know -- but you'll see why later)
1 tsp vanilla
1 C cranberries, roughly chopped
1/4 C white chips or almond slivers (or both!)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Measure dry ingredients into mixing bowl.
Into a measuring cup, pour in the 1/3 C oil. Add the egg, then fill with milk to the 1 cup line. Beat mixture, then add vanilla and sweetener (if using honey) and pour in with the dry ingredients. Stir just until moistened. DON'T OVER MIX.
Add 3/4 C of the cranberries and chips or nuts. Mix, then pour into greased or lined muffins tins. Sprinkle the remaining cranberry pieces on top. Bake in oven for 8-12 minutes or until deliciously golden and the house smells amazing.
Oh -- and the muffin-liner will come off easier if you let them slightly cool before eating. [smile]
And like I mentioned previously, these adapt super well to whatever you have on hand or is in season. I've listed below the things that I've tried and had great success with:
- 1 C blueberries
- 3/4 C peaches & dash of cinnamon/nutmeg
- 3/4 C chopped strawberries & handful of butterscotch chips (Not to downplay how amazing these muffins are with cranberries, but seriously -- go buy strawberries and butterscotch chips and try this combination. I'm not sure what gave me the idea to try them together to begin with, but they are a raving success and oh, so delicious!)
- 1 large or two small smashed bananas & handful of chocolate chips/nuts


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I am a Year 8 student at Pt England School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 2 and my teacher is Miss Clark.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sophie and the giant were in the BFG's Frobscottle cave, filled with stones, and weird, secret things. "Here we are in my special cave." said the BFG as he was showing Sophie around. He got out a bottle. Sophie said worringly "What is that?". The BFG was going to drink the Frobscottle while ignoring Sophie. Then the BFG asked Sophie "Do you want some scrumdidliumptious Frobscottle?"
Sophie replied, "No thanks, I'm good."
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Our freinds From Wake Forest University
At Pt England school, we had 9 students from Wake Forest University. They came here to learn a bit more about how to be a teacher and they came here to learn what we are doing at Pt England school. We had a Wake forest student come in our class and her name was Meagan. Meagan is really quite and really nice to little kids like us.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Adding detail to sentences
Adding detail to sentences is really really cool because you can learn better and you can be clever.
Today we learned how to add detail to the front of the sentence and to the back, we had to add great beginnings to the front and great detailed endings to the back.
1. The man who invented the spaceship was Jack.
2. The alien invented the spaceship to fly to mars.
3. The space monkey invented the spaceship so he can be better at flying it.
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So, my dad's on his way. He was supposed to come tomorrow but plans changed and we have to really get moving on the chores to be ready. I'm fighting allergies from what I did yesterday; thank goodness I have some help today!
Started spinning the Shetland/mohair roving. I love it! The Shetland has more loft than the rambouillet did and it's making a much softer yarn. The mohair shine is still apparent and the colors are bright. I'll post a picture soon!
Yesterday was all about cleaning house with a quick trip to the antique shop to fill in for a short time. The wind howled all day and there was ice in the cat's water bowls. But the sun was shining and it warmed up, despite the wind. It didn't get cold enough to freeze water bottles, although my hands were numb by the time I finished chores in the morning!


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Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster pictured with HRH Princess Haya in Dubai. The Minister was in UAE for a trade mission, during which she supported NI companies in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Oman.
Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster has announced a significant export success in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Lurgan company, CUBIS Industries.
Speaking from Oman at the end of a trade mission to the Middle East, the Minister welcomed the company's six-figure contract in Abu Dhabi which will see it provide systems to be used in the revamp of the telecommunications network.
Arlene Foster said: "This is an immensely important contract which will allow CUBIS to make a substantial contribution to a project to develop a new and highly sophisticated telecoms system in the UAE.
"The contract is also a tremendous boost for manufacturing in Northern Ireland and puts this progressive company in a strong position to secure further business in other parts of the Emirates as the new telecoms system is rolled out in Abu Dhabi and across the region.
"It's also in a new business sector for the company, which in the past has supplied products for irrigation systems in Dubai and to the oil industry in neighbouring Oman. The new contract is a further example of the scale of business opportunities in the UAE for Northern Ireland companies prepared to invest in growth in global markets."
Cian Cantwell, CUBIS Director of International Sales, said: "This is tremendously encouraging business for us in a different sector. The business was secured following our participation with Invest NI at the GITEX 2014 technology trade show in Dubai last October.
"It was an immensely positive show for us. We benefited enormously from the advice, experience and very practical support from the Invest NI team in Dubai before, during and in the months following the exhibition. Interest that the Invest NI team helped generate meant that we were exceptionally busy during the show.
"We see the new business as an important reference site for our products, experience and expertise for other potential clients in the UAE and many other international markets," he added.


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Even with the snow on the ground, we are actively planning the 2017 ISC Canada East Qualifier for Innerkip June 16-18.
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The Outdoor Show with DMM
18th Feb 2014
Iv'e just spent four days down at The Outdoor Show at The Excel Centre in London. It's my fourth year now representing DMM and it's always good fun. I do a mixture of masterclasses and helping out on the DMM stand, signing posters and general chat about DMM products. I like the fact you meet so many different people and what is interesting is that my classes are always full of a mix of people from contrasting countries and cultures. It really highlights the difference between living in London and Sheffield.
Every year there is a different wall provided for the classes and this year Rokt brought their unique hexagon systems. They were fun and had some good problems on them but it was always a bit tricky because so many kids wanted to have a go. And I felt a bit bad telling them they had to stop climbing but there were two boulders, so they always had the other one to go at and it was always crawling with people.There didn't seem to be such a big showing from outdoor retailers/manufacturers this year but that was ok for us as we were the only stand selling climbing gear and as ever, it was at bargain prices. I think there were quite a few people taking the opportunity to buy complete trad racks and make their rucksacks even heavier for the walk in to the crag.
(Image left) My poster is the one on the right. It's an image of me climbing Finger Knacker Crack E3 6a at Caley in Yorkshire; a very testing route!
The other thing that was great was catching up with the DMM team- although with out the lovely Libby Peter, who couldn't make it down due to illness. But there were 10-15 of us and it was really good chatting to people about their plans and aspirations and generally hearing what people are up to. It actually helped my winter blues and I have come back to Sheff feeling a bit more positive about things and psyched for going away and getting some good stuff done this year. After three days of climbing at Excel, I even went to The Edge and did some bouldering, I felt really tired (as I'd had a little bout of insomnia at the hotel) but was pleased that I still wanted to go. Unfortunately my enthusiasm went a little overboard and I ended up trying a hard undercut move a couple of times and my operated shoulder really didn't like that and today is now quite painful.
Look what I saw on the walk home from the train station!
So the lesson is...don't go crazy and maybe routes would be a better choice to ease myself back into it. I should probably do some weights, as I have now lost a serious amount of muscle. I kind've got away with it last year because even though I wasn't climbing much, I was doing quite a physical roped access job for the majority of the time. Well that ended nearly six months ago, so the muscles now need some proper work to be able to do what I'm going to ask of them...back to the gym!
So, now I hope to be doing more climbing; I'm still trying to get my annoying weird arm injury better- that's still niggling away but with the longer evenings I can feel the winter gloom lifting. Bring on the sun! In fact we've been trying to get out and make the most of any good weather for some climbing pics and we managed to grab a lovely shot last week at Stanage while there was a little covering of snow- it really was beautiful. See below...
While down at The Excel, I treated myself to a pair of Vibram Fivefinger Spyridons. I've been starting to get back into a bit of running and am very intrigued about the whole barefoot idea, so on impulse bought some shoes. I'm not sure how well they (and me!) will cope out in the peak but I will try them on some forest trails and work up. I've heard some stories about people breaking their bodies by getting a bit too enthusiastic and running their normal runs too soon in the shoes. So I'm going to be good and try to employ some caution so that I can make the most of these things and hopefully reap the benefits (less injuries) and not end up giving them away in disgust. I'll let you know how that goes...
Tim and I have also been working on some interesting environmental portraits in Sheff, which has been different and creative. It's been good to get stuck into something where I feel I can learn. So I've been wrestling with light stands, soft boxes and umbrellas, quite fun. Although the 5am start to get the the artisan bakers wasn't too fun, although it was lovely when we were there as it was warm and smelt of delicious fresh bread, yum.
Cheerio for now!
In between the showers, I managed to get a nice shot of Tim at Higgar Tor on my iphone...the calm before the storm.


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Faith, Fiorenzo's secretary, is to accompany Fiorenzo to a party as his date. Fiorenzo is a five-time world-title holder in cycling and also manages a bike company. Furthermore, he is a globe-trotting playboy. In contrast, she is very plain and doesn't think that they are a good match. She also doesn't really know much about high society, or want to draw any attention to herself. With little confidence, Faith allows Fiorenzo to take her to a beauty parlor and boutique. To give her the appearance of a date worthy of him, they dress her up gorgeously. He's so taken with her transformation that he kisses her!
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Red Ink Theatre's iAlone remounted at The Artistic Home
Nathan Stone, Erin Lane, Brian Bush, and Anna Schlegel of Red Ink Theatre reprise these actor-written monologues, which met with success during their first performances at The Spot in 2008 and again at the Abbie Hoffman Festival at the Mary Arrchie Theatre. While self-exposure is very much the name of the game in iAlone, rigorous artistic discipline prevents these young monologists from spiraling into navel gazing and self-pity. The best monologs are lively, descriptive, full of youthful yearning, while at the same time maintain an unsentimental clarity about those tendencies that lead to self-victimization.
"Eating 4 One" by Erin Lane is the most powerful and unforgettable monolog of the bunch. Following on the heels of "Dave," a monolog about Lane's downwardly mobile boyfriend, "Eating 4 One" relates her accidental pregnancy, resulting from their last evening of sexual intercourse before the breakup. In this era of dangerous abortion politics, who would dare expect in the theater an admission of an abortion being practically therapeutic in the life of a young woman? Yet Lane's progress from being wronged by her boyfriend and betrayed by contraception, to self-assertion and self-preservation defies expectations. Even though, by the end of the abortion, the relationship with Dave clearly is on its last legs, the audience knows she will survive anything.
Nathan Stoner brings the greatest whimsy and playfulness to the stage with "Hide and Seek" and "My Boys;" the first being a meditation on the power of pop tunes to inform any romance with wistful, dreamlike qualities, and the second reveals the homoerotic awakening of a 12 year-old boy in a hot tub with his brother's straight friends. Stoner adds much needed levity to this production, since the other monologists produce material that is much heavier in style and substance.
With "Enlightenment," Anna Schlegel exposes so much of her own erotic intensity, and its capacity to make her betray herself, that one fears for her, until "Burn One Down" reveals her own happy ending—a lover who appreciates all her aspects, from lust for life, to sloppy slouching around on weekend mornings.
Of all the monologs on addiction, Brian Bush's "Tiny Hooks" stands out. It seems the perfect climax for a guy that has sought out emotionally unattached sexual encounters and now finds himself used by them. He both desperately needs, yet desperately dreads his weekly encounters with a prostitute and her tiny hooks.
Set design for this production is rudimentary at best and might serve more as a distraction than fulfillment the original premise. The premise being that both audience and performers, sitting together on the el, are distracted and distanced from one another by iPod usage—yet everyone has their untold stories and secret burdens. The seats for the "el" are the crudest plywood; the "el" doors opening and shutting remind one of the cheap, makeshift set of the first Star Trek series. But I hope the performers know that their monologs are strong enough to stand alone, without this conceit. Or that the same effect might be achieved with lighting and sound alone—something to consider when weighing the costs of production for a small theater company.
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Dates: May 28th – June 27th
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Maybe you are a scion of DGAF-ness, and maybe you've responded to an authority figure with more attitude than meekly bowing your head and responding, "Please, sir, may I have another?" If that's the case, then you'll be pleasantly surprised by a New York ruling which declares that flipping the bird at a police officer is a protected right, not something that said-officer can use as pretext for throwing you in the clink. John Swartz, a Vietnam veteran, was riding in a car in upstate New York when he saw a cop using a radar gun on the side of the road; displeased because of what he saw as departmental inefficiency, he rolled down the window to throw up the universally recognized sign of "fuck youuuuuuu."
Because cops are quick to rise, the officer took pursuit and, after pulling him over, eventually arrested Swartz on a charge of disorderly conduct. The officer claimed that he thought Swartz was merely trying to pull him over and ask for help, but the judge declared that to be a giant load given that everyone, from the young to the infirm, knows what flipping the bird signifies. Now, Swartz will be allowed to pursue a civil suit and fight for everyone's right to get mad at a cop—which, ha, good luck to the non-whites out there, but it's still a noble cause.


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KeeKee likes to sit on the end of the porch to watch the wild birds as they consume and drink and take a quick bath in the bird bath. He watches as the Redbirds (Cardinals) Doves, (Mourning Doves) and Turtle Doves, Sparrows, Chick-a-Dees, Blue Jays, Black Birds eat and drink their fill. And, sometimes Baby Crow comes for a slice of bread. We have so several we take care of and we really like them all.
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Jean Carla Costas | Bolivia Site Director
For the last 16 years, Ms. Costas has managed hundreds of volunteers throughout Bolivia as Amizade's Bolivia Site Director. She has worked on community development projects ranging from direct-services with at-risk youth to overseeing construction projects in schools. She holds a degree in business from the Universidad Mayor de San Simon, has studied entrepreneurship at Boston University, and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Jean Carla resides with her children in Cochabamba, Bolivia. When she is not organizing community development projects for Amizade, she can be found enjoying music and dance in the streets of Cochabamba.


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Tarantula seller Sok Khun takes a dainty bite of one of the deep-fried tarantulas that she sells at a roadside market, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia.(Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 48. See also cover of book) .
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Designer/Graphic Artist Ed Fella's Letters On America....His Polaroid collections of found type (often hand-drawn signs and notices) show his interest in the flouting of rules and strictures, when it comes to typographic and graphic design, that is so evident in his own work. However the book has a very simple grid system into which each Polaroid is given space.
Designer/Graphic Artist Alan Fletcher's workspace reveals a very ordered and spatially considered approach to displaying stuff that matters to him. He was an ardent collector of stuff...Found ephemera, found letters cutout from cardboard boxes, different used pencils, inspirational quotes, postcards, newspaper cuttings, etc, all catalogued and stored in an aesthetically pleasing manner. They were the inspiration for his inspiration-inducing books The Art of Looking Sideways, and Picturing and Poeting.
Paul Elliman's Bits...A typeface derived from the collection of parts and utensils that interested him
Daniel Spoerri, whose collections find their way into his work in seemingly allegorical combinations in their display.
Joseph Cornell's "Object (Roses des Vents)". This took him nearly ten years to make and contained images and objects that represented all the voyages that he never took but clearly fantasised about.
Annette Messager's work often uses newspaper cutouts, illustrations and found and handcrafted objects, and collages them into installations reminiscent of taxidermy or specimen display, depicting such themes as self-identity, sexuality and the body, explorations of life and death, good and evil, human and animal.
Eduardo Paolozzi's work ... referencing the objects he was an avid collector of, and classifying and ordering them in their appearance in his innovations in collage, silkscreen and sculpture that made him so influential.
Peter Blake, pop art legend and avid collector, also drew on his collections as constant sources for his work.
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Saturday, 8 October 2011
Approaches for Perform brief
Whilst these are all filmed, they have real time movement and employ imagemaking and atmosphere making techniques that are within your grasp in a live performance. Many also have a the sense of a static viewpoint, much the same as you will likely be dealing with with an audience watching you perform within a certain space.
PANDA BEAR "Surfer's Hymn" from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo. Clever use of darkness and projections and high contrast black and white.
The Paper Cinema. Nic Beard, the creator, came to talk to our first year a couple of years ago. He is an avid location sketcher and is able to capture so much character in his static imagery that when combined with the movement of the images on batons in layers in front of a camera, you almost forget that this is not animation in the conventional sense.
Bad Things That Could Happen from This Is It on Vimeo. Playful use of scale and movement, and ingenuity in creating illusions of things such as fire and written words, all using simple materials with clever attention to detail and strong aesthetic cohesion.
Assemblage Boy - By Michael Swaney and Simon Williams ©2010 from Michael Swaney on Vimeo. Employing abstract "seeing sound" approach to surreally amusing effect.
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When the year of 2016 started I set myself a goal. No longer would I sit and mindlessly indulge on the admittedly good shows offered on Netflix. I told myself that no longer would I see a movie that seemed interesting on Netflix and add it to my queue, telling myself a phrase I am sure many of us are familiar with, "oh I will watch that when I get a chance". But as I am sure many of us already know that "chance" never seemed to quite roll around when another season of "Portlandia" was added or "American Horror Story" or "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". The list of amazing shows on Netflix goes on and on, but that's not what I set out to find. To find more amazing shows on Netflix all I have to do is go to my Facebook feed and I am sure that within a half scroll of the mouse one or more of my friends will be talking about some show "I have to watch".
No, instead I decided I would set out to find some amazing works of film. I have always enjoyed watching movies (haven't we all) but found that over the years I was making less and less time to actually sit down and watch them. Hundreds of amazing films were passing me by, films I intended to watch, but at the back of my mind I knew I would never get around to. So to rectify this personal problem I set a goal for myself, watch three hundred and sixty six new movies before the final day of the year, that's one a day thanks to the leap year. I knew this would not be an easy task, trying to watch make time for a movie while still working full time would mean cutting out the binge watching of shows I used to commit myself to. I am glad to say though that so far I have been going strong, even staying ahead of schedule by a few days most of the time.
Along the way I started to write reviews of some of the films that stood out to me. If a movie was particularly good, particularly bad, or just had something unique/intriguing about it I would write a review and post it to Facebook for my friends to see. Eventually I started to store them on a blog, mostly so I would have some way of cataloging them, not really so they could get out there and get noticed. Finally, they seem to have found a home here at Rockably.
I hope you enjoy reading the reviews I write, if people like them I may go back and write some reviews for some of my favorite movies that were not a part of this 366 movie challenge. While not every movie I watch will be from Netflix streaming, quite a few will be. I will let you know where you can watch each of the movies I review near the end of each review.


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Ciudad Juarez sees dramatic decrease in murders
Experts: End of war between two cartels partially contributes to fewer killings
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Mayor Héctor ¨Teto¨ Murguía Lardizábal, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, will tell nearly anyone who asks that his city has seen a 40 percent decrease in murders this year.
Still, the city of over a million in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua has had nearly 700 murders in 2012, but the decrease is significant.
"It is because we have strengthened our municipal police force and our social services," said Murguía Lardizábal, in broken English.
He wouldn't expand on that, however, and the lack of substantive proof for his claim leaves room for other opinions.
Most Mexican violence experts in the US, both in academia and the law enforcement communities, feel the drop in crime can be attributed to one thing—a brutal turf war between rival cartels coming to an end.
Levels of violence began spiking in 2008, when Chapo Guzman and his Sinaloa drug cartel began contesting existing drug smuggling routes, vying with the well-established Juarez cartel for control.
The confrontation escalated quickly, as both sides vied for control of smuggling routes worth billions of dollars.
Murders in the city reached their peak in 2010, when 3,115 people were killed. But since then, the numbers have gone down each year.
"The victory of the Chapo Guzman cartel over the Juarez cartel essentially lets one organized crime group run the city," said Dr. Howard Campbell, a cartel expert at the University of Texas at El Paso, just across the border from Ciudad Juarez.
The end result is a smaller body count, although public corruption and poverty still run rampant, said Campbell.
Campbell also argued parallels can be drawn between the course of events in Ciudad Juarez, and what is only just beginning in Nuevo Laredo, a border town just a few hours south of San Antonio.
"As the Zeta cartel is weakening there, due to the capture of killing of their leadership, the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels will be muscling in," said Campbell. "Typically when that happens, the body count begins to rise, and in the short term I believe that is what will happen in Nuevo Laredo."
Dozens of bodies have been found over the last several months, including some hung from a bridge.
Campbell said the violence in Nuevo Laredo might persist until one of the combatants prevail. The government, he said, is neither very willing nor very capable to change that.
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Arab Opinion Divided on Mubarak Verdict
Residents in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq voice mixed feelings on the verdict and sentencing of Egypt's former leader Hosni Mubarak. Video: Reuters/Photo: AP
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Councillor Andy Cartwright (Lab) is hoping that Longbridge residents will attend a regular public meeting next week to make their views known, especially on three issues which are affecting a lot of residents:
The regular ward committee meeting is held within the ward with councillors and council officials discussing local issues. The meeting are open to the public who have the opportunity to ask questions or make their views known.
Councillor Cartwright said that there will be several representatives that people may wish to hear from and speak to about these issues at the meeting next Tuesday.
On the refuse issue, operations manager of fleet and waste management will be there to discuss recent changes and problems with collections and to listen to your views. Residents are still complaining of problems, with missed collections in Frankley yesterday and of not being informed of changed collection days.
Ian Tovey said on Twitter: "don't supose anyone knows why rubbish wasn't collected in frankley today??" and Karen Howells said: "our refuge collecting day changed and we didn't receive a leaflet informing us"
Northfield council candidate Brett O'Reilly will be present – he has been campaigning with long suffering residents around Longbridge about the long standing parking issues that have only been worsened since the opening of Bournville College. Cllr Cartwright said that he understands that a 100 space park and ride car park will be being provided later in the development. He is concerned this won't be enough as, as well as the many cars still parked in local streets, one resident told him that he had counted 287 cars on the temporary car park opposite the college one day. Although much of the Longbridge development actually falls within Northfield ward, it borders on and affects Longbridge Ward too.
Cllr Cartwright has previously highlighted and taken action on the state of Longbridge Station and has arranged for representatives from London Midland and Centro to come along and update residents.
Youth officer Jan Collymore from Birmingham Youth Service will be there to talk about 'The Factory', the new MySpace youth centre.
Fellow Longbridge councillors Ian Cruise (Lab) And Ken Wood (Con) will also be present.
The ward committee meeting will be held:
At : Colmers Farm Leisure Centre, Bristol Road South, Longbridge
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Vermont State Police are investigating a shooting in St. Johnsbury.
On May 10, police responded to 53 Caledonia Street for the report of two men who had forced their way into an apartment. Police say one of the suspects shot one of the occupants in the face with a pellet gun.
One of the suspects, Gregory Gosselin, was arrested on May 19. The second assailant, Derek Hackett, was arrested on May 22. He is charged with burglary, unlawful trespass, aggravated assault, and false information to law enforcement.
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I have just read the translation of a recipe. It was from Bulgarian to English via the translate button. When I read the ingredients I thought I probably knew what to do, however, this is what Google demands.
'Nuts are put to soak in a cup milk for 10-15 minutes. Mix and stir the flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder. These nuts are added to milk. Then oil, beaten eggs and mashed bananas. Finally, the vanilla extract. Everything is stirred. Seal suck up with oil and sprinkle a little flour. Fill with the mixture of two thirds of their volume. Print in a preheated 180 degrees oven for about 25-30 minutes. The mixture came to me for eleven shapes. Once baked, chilled and well removed from Seal, beating cream cream with remaining milk and make decorations (for this purpose I used a simple plastic bag) with the format of your choice. Finally, sprinkle with sugar sticks. Of course, the decoration on top can be whatever you want. And can not even put decorations'
I'm going to give it a go, but I'll use my initiative. The original recipe is here, thanks to Rois.


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Monday – Friday 9am: Morning Prayer
Monday – Thursday 5pm: Evening Prayer
Wednesday 11am: Holy Communion BCP
Thursday 7:30am: Eucharist
Short services of Bible readings and prayers, lasting roughly 20 minutes.
A said service of Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer.
An early morning celebration of the Eucharist according to Common Worship.


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We Produce Wood Conserving The Forests
Around 300 to 350 children from Iñapari, learn with "Tronquito" the benefits of sustainable logging. On January 5, 2016, the loggers and insiders of the forestry sector agreed to join forces to convey a better message about their work to the children of Iñapari, Madre De Dios. With no name of companies, political parties, or institutions, all together and typically dressed like a carpenter, talked to more than 300 children that were attending the activity named "We Produce Wood Conserving the Forests".
The kids enjoyed a delicious hot chocolate, panettones and received gifts. The particularity was the presentation of "Tronquito", this character is a children's friend and forest's, and was who taught them the benefits of sustainable logging.
"Tablita en mi Familia"
Besides the character, we created a children's story titled "Tablita en mi Familia", in which we explain that to cut down the trees is not bad for forests, since wood becomes furniture that becomes part of our lives and our families.