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American Gothic
A saucy lampoon of Grant Wood's iconic portrait. Shelby & Eaton take the downtrodden Depression-Era couple off the canvas and on to the stage!
Set to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' modern hit, "Home."
Winner of Best Ensemble: Texas Burlesque Festival
Featured in the Burlesque Hall of Fame 'Movers, Shakers, and Innovators' Showcase
The Gardener And The Tree
Eaton finds unexpected love while on gardening duty! Shelby is a flirtatious and sneaky tree who wants a good "trimming" from Eaton.
Set to a classic bump & grind track.
Winner of Most Original: Texas Burlesque Festival
Winner of Best Duet: Southern Fried Burlesque Festival
Winner of Audience Choice: Southern Fried Burlesque Festival
Doctor My Eyes
Eaton anticipates a simple examination at the optometrist's office, but with Shelby as his doctor, he gets more than an eyeful!
Set to Jackson Browne's classic 1970s hit.
Winner of Best Duet: San Antonio Burlesque Festival
Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Shelby is visiting massage therapist, Eaton, and is convinced he can rub her the right way. Find out if there's a happy ending.
Set to Joan Jett & The Blackhearts "Do You Wanna Touch Me".
Winner of Best Duet/Group: San Antonio Burlesque Festival
Close to You
Eaton's job as an elevator operator has its ups and downs… but with Shelby as his passenger, things these days are just looking up!
Set to The Carpenters "Close to You".
A 1960s space-themed romance! Will astronaut Eaton find love with alien Shelby when he crash-lands on her planet?
Set to Combustible Edison's spacey song, "Utopia."
Eaton has a relaxing day of hunting planned in the woods. Shelby is a deer with plans of her own – she has her "sights" set on Eaton!
A consistent fan-favorite.
Set to La Roux's "endeering" song.
The VVitch
Only Eaton and Shelby could turn ritual sacrifice into an adorable love story. Loosely based on the 2015 film, The VVitch.
Set to Frank Sinatra's song, "Witchcraft."
Turtle Doves
Eaton & Shelby shake their tail feathers, find true love, and mate for life – as turtle doves do!
Originally conceived for a "12 Days of Christmas" themed show, this number works in and out of a holiday-themed context.
Set to The Monkees' song, "I'm a Believer."
In addition to their dazzling duets, Eaton and Shelby also have a repertoire of solo acts they would be thrilled to share with you. Eaton performs solo acts as a jukebox drag king with no striptease/reveals. Shelby has a variety of comedic burlesque solos.
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I wanted to talk about one of my least favorite words today – can't. It's such a small, seemingly harmless word. We use it all the time. And yet, it can be an incredibly debilitating word. It's one of those words – like fail and hate – that we adults, sadly, teach our kids. It can be a dream killer. It's also one of those words that directly gets in the way of change.
Can't and I go way back. I've heard this word a lot in my life, though thankfully almost never from my parents. "You can't get into Stanford." "You can't get a graduate Biology degree without doing 'wet' biology." "You can't get an internship at Microsoft your first year here [in a graduate design program]." (In fairness, the latter was an example of can't's close relative, you won't be able to. And so on. These were all statements from folks like high school principals, department chairs, and deans.
Fortunately, can't is a word that has the power to motivate me beyond almost any other. I've never accepted the power of its hold. It's something I'd like to help our young adults learn. Like many people though, I need to do a better job myself using it.
There are really two ways to look at can't. One is with the meaning you are not able to. It's the dangerous one I point to above. The other is I don't want you to. For example, "You can't go out until your homework is done."
I have to admit that I use the latter form fairly often. The problem with this is that it gets the word can't into frequent use. Even in this context, I think I tend to overuse it. If I truly want to treat my young adults as adults, I should let them have the choice about when they do their homework, right? We try to do this as much as possible with Aidan and Nev. It mostly works. Mostly.
It's the first version of can't though that really irks me. If you watch most younger kids, they seem to have an immunity to can't. They'll keep trying something until they figure it out. Sure, there's frustration at times. But I don't think that the frustration stems from an innate belief that the kids truly would not be able to do what they are trying. They just want it to happen quickly, but that's another story.
If someone else, especially an adult, tells them that they can't do it, that's where can't can become disempowering. In a way, it gives someone permission to stop trying and give up. And then they start using can't themselves and come to believe that they really can't do something. What an insidious cycle.
I started thinking about can't recently because I've been hearing it a lot at work. Too much. We are going through a transition involving a lot of necessary change. As I mentioned in my last post, most people really dislike change. That's when I started realizing the broader impact of can't.
When people start saying that they can't do something, they (perhaps unintentionally) give others permission to not try. And when you are collectively going through a process of difficult change, can't makes it easy to not try. It helps people resist change. And that can be infectious.
Conversely, I didn't hear can't very much in the startups I worked in, at least not in terms of our ability to do something. In fact, if it wasn't possible to do something, we'd often just find a different way. Startups are the children of the corporate world. Anything is possible. Somewhere along the line, established companies, like many adults, seem to lose that.
Change needs a fertile environment of the possible, much like startups. Can't gets in the way. You don't hear dreamers and visionaries using the word very much.
The destructive power of can't on the process of change is a newly-found realization for me. Maybe change can be helped along a bit with the elimination of a single word. I'll give it a try. It's a nicely "off path" strategy. Pura vida.


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Village Dump in Paje. The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar banned plastic bags in 2005. Tanzania introduced a nationwide ban on plastic bags in 2006. Still pollution is a big issue.
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Very interesting information!Perfect just what I was looking for! "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." by Thomas Jefferson.


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For someone who generally despises hair washing and the palaver that comes with it, this haul might seem a bit excessive. But, I've recently acquired the motivation to find the products that work for me and have come to the realisation that salon brands work better. I've been toying with the idea of getting a Brazilian blow dry, but the costs and the possible long term issues have put me off. Just a little context before you start reading: my hair naturally sits somewhere between a 3a and 3b curl (if this means nothing to you, you have probably been blessed with hair that's a lot easier to handle), however I never wear it curly. It gets the GHD treatment after every single wash, which probably explains the split ends. It's naturally very dry (it takes A LOT of oily product before it even begins to look greasy), prone to frizz and quite brittle. So, all in all, pretty shitty hair. I'm currently trying to grow it, and probably haven't had a cut in around 2 years. I know I should get the ends chopped off, but I'm hoping to find a way to stop any more breakage before making a trip to the hairdresser.
So, after much research, I armed myself with a list and whipped out my credit card. I'll be doing a review on any of these that particularly stand out (which better be all of them after the silly amount of cash I spent) or God forbid, any that are disappointing. I tried to choose something for each step of the washing/styling process, so here's what I picked up.
The scalp and hair cleanser: Kerastase Chronologiste Revitalizing Exfoliating Care
Inspired by skincare, this golden baby contains actual beads like you'd find in a face exfoliator, which work to physically scrub the scalp and hair roots. Because of all the serums and oils I have to use, I get a lot of build up which shampoo alone doesn't seem to completely get rid of. I'm genuinely excited about trying this.
The pre-shampoo treatment: Philip Kingsley Elasticizer Extreme
This is the only item that I have used before, and I'm not really sure why I stopped. It's pretty unique to anything else on the market, and aims to strengthen, soften and nourish and it genuinely does what it claims. I do however think you need to keep using it for the benefits to hang around.
The shampoo: Philip Kingsley Moisture Extreme Shampoo
I am a shampoo floozy and don't really stick to one particular brand but I picked this up as it was aimed at coarse and Afro-Caribbean hair (my hair more Afro European, for reference). I always choose something moisturising, so I was pretty keen to see what Mr Kingsley has to offer.
The conditioner: Philip Kingsley Moisture Extreme Conditioner
Same reasons as above – I just feel like there is more scientific basis to PK products, so I have high hopes for this one.
The hair mask: Redken All Soft Heavy Cream Super Treatment
I've wanted to try this for years so I thought now would be a good time to try it. Like I said, nothing is too much for my hair, so the words 'soft', 'heavy' and 'cream' are music to my ears. It claims to target brittle hair from the inside out, so hopefully it will reduce my never-ending breakage.
The heat protector: Kerastase Nutritive Nectar Thermique
I have had a quick go with this, and I can confirm I LOVE it, and it is SO MUCH MORE than a simple heat protector. Unlike the L'Oreal Elvive Extraordinary Oil Oil-in-Cream treatment that I often bang on about, this keeps my hair soft, supple, shiny and moisturised, even overnight, meaning I don't have to faff with my frizz in the morning, which honestly buys me an extra half hour in bed. And I've since found out that this is Kate Middleton's pre-blowdry cream of choice, which explains why her hair always looks bloody flawless.
The split end treatment: GHD Advanced Split End Therapy
Like I say, I have no intention of braving the hairdresser anytime soon, so this split end fixer will hopefully be my saviour. It claims to seal split ends as you straighten, while also helping to prevent any more splitting.
The hair serum: Ojon Damage Reverse Instant Restorative Hair Serum
I needed to run some moisture through my hair when I was out and about the other evening, so nipped into Boots to pick this up. It's pretty rich, and does a nice job of moisturising and softening the ends of my hair. But even for my barnet, a little goes a long way, especially when you move away from the ends.
The overnight moisturiser: Mizani H2O Intense Night-Time Treatment
I've noticed Mizani being used when I've been to hairdressers who cater for non-Caucasian hair which is why I wanted to try something for myself. As I mentioned before, my hair really dries out overnight and I usually wake up to a bit of bird's nest requiring a lot more than a quick brush. I figured a night cream for hair would be a good option – I mean we moiturise our skin before bed so why not our hair?
So that brings us to the end of my massive high end hair haul. I feel a bit giddy and a bit sick looking at how much I've bought but also excited in equal measure. I'll be sure to report back soon! And do let me know if anyone has ever tried any of these products!


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The buyback is expected to be executed in October and with the share price briefly crossing the Rs 335 threshold last Thursday, analysts are not ruling out the possibility of the stock price surpassing the buyback offer price by then.
Two weeks ago, the company's board approved a proposal to buyback 10.89 crore shares, which is 1.72% of the state-run miner's shares, for Rs 335 each at a total of Rs 3,650 crore.
"The offer price has been decided after consultation with the government and the amount of money the company can spare for the buyback. This amount or the share buyback price will not be changed even if the stock price at the bourses is higher," a senior coal ministry official said.
As per the buyback regulations, a company cannot withdraw the offer to buy back after the draft letter of the offer is filed with the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) or a public announcement is made.
"Assuming Coal India does not change its offer price and the ruling stock price at bourses is more than the offer price of Rs 335 at the time of the buyback, possibility of general public and financial institutions participating in the buyback offer reduces," said an analyst with one of the Big Four accounting firms. "In such a scenario, the government is likely to only participate in the buyback offer. In such case, the government will earn the entire Rs 3,650 crore earmarked for the offer."
A Mumbai-based analyst said: "Coal India's stock price has been inching upwards primarily because of the temporary bounce in all PSU and commodity stocks". The government holds 79.65% in Coal India. If it subscribes to the entire offer of 1.72% buyback, its stake will decline to 77.93%.
According to sources, the buyback will be followed by an additional divestment that would bring down the government's stake in the company to below 75% and help the behemoth adhere to the Sebi norm of at least 25% public holding in listed companies.
The deadline for at least 25% public holding in all listed PSUs is August 2017.


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Get Redirections of a URL using Apache HttpComponents HttpClient
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Many websites use URL redirection technique to forward the original request from one location to another several times for different reasons (Domain forwarding, URL shortening, Privacy protection, Maintaining similar domain names referring single website, etc.). In this post, I'll try to demonstrate how to get all the redirections of a URL using Apache HttpComponents HttpClient. A live demo will be a bonus here.


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Parish Pump Autumn 2016 edition now available
The autumn 2016 edition of the Henlow Parish Pump is now available. Click here. If you know anyone who lives in Henlow and does not have access to a computer, you can contact the Clerk to receive a paper copy on 01462 811800.


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SpaceX had a good day today: their launch's primary mission, deliver the Jason 3 Satellite was successful. Their secondary mission, landing the first stage on a barge, didn't quite land as expected.
We'll update as we get more information.
The company had been streaming the launch and experienced loss of signal from the first stage, leaving everyone with a bit of a cliffhanger as to the stage's fate.
Standing by for status of stage one. Second stage and Jason-3 now in nominal coast phase.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 17, 2016
The live stream just came back, noting that the first stage came in "on target", but that it came in harder than expected. They noted that one of the struts seems to have broken, and it's not standing upright on the barge.
First stage on target at droneship but looks like hard landing; broke landing leg. Primary mission remains nominal → https://t.co/tdni53IviI
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 17, 2016
As our very own Maddie Stone noted on twitter, an ocean landing is incredibly hard to accomplish. Even though SpaceX landed one of their rockets last month, they did so on solid ground.
Meanwhile in space, the Jason 3 satellite made it into orbit, and it's coasting for a short while before its second stage restarts.
The 2nd stage engine has cut off #Jason3 is now coasting in an intermediate orbit until 2nd stage re-start in 46min pic.twitter.com/138TNvEiYi
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I am currently writing a book about how austerity became the policy response to the crisis. One of the questions I struggle with in writing this book is how simple can you make the story without it becoming a children's fable. In order to find out, I decided to write it up as a children's fable (See below). I think it shows that when you strip it down to its essentials, it's a pretty simple story, even if it's a rather GRIMM (sic) tale.
The Global Crisis as a (Brothers) Grimm Story
Once upon a time in the land of US, the 'job creators' decided to send as many of the jobs they created as possible to THEM. THEM would make cheaper stuff to send back to US to buy, so more profits and cheaper stuff for US. Everyone wins! Yippee! So THEM made lots of stuff for US, and US sent THEM lots of cash to pay for the stuff they made.
But rather than spend the cash US sent THEM, THEM decided to give it back to US so US could buy even more stuff from THEM. THEM made even more money doing so, and sent it back to US!
But there was a problem in this magical world. It presumed that the people of US would always have enough money to buy stuff from THEM, because someone else would always pay the people of US enough wages to buy the stuff from THEM. But having sent all the good jobs to THEM, there was no money left in US to buy stuff from THEM, or anyone else.
Meanwhile, in another far off land called EURO, people who laughed at what was going on in the land of US bought lots of bits of paper from some PIGS. This gave the PIGS lots of money to buy stuff from EURO. EURO took that money and gave it back to the PIGS, just like THEM gave it back to US. And so long as the PIGS kept paying EURO with the money EURO had given them, all was well, and as so long as THEM gave it back to US, all was well…But all was not well.
It turned out that one of the PIGS had been especially greedy and now its bits of paper were worthless. EURO wondered if all the other bits of paper were worthless too? Now all the people who were happy because they bought bits of paper from the PIGS were now sad. And that meant they were sad with EURO too.
EURO didn't like this and got very angry. Euro blamed the PIGS for being fat and greedy. EURO told the PIGS to stop spending, forgetting entirely that what PIGS bought was all the stuff EURO made with the money EURO had given them. Silly EURO! And now EURO wanted everyone else to pay for their mistake…silly, silly Euro.
But a silly EURO makes everyone sad, because if EURO can't sort this mess out it will be bad for US. It will make US even poorer than the 46 million of US who are really very poor thanks in part to their jobs being sent to THEM. And for THEM this is bad news too since US will be unable to buy more stuff from THEM! Oh what are we to do?
So to make everything better THEM has decided to give EURO the money they made from US to bail EURO out, in exchange for the chance to wipe out all EURO's manufacturing industries. That way THEM can worry less about US, since they will make more money from EURO, and THEM can send that money back to US, so that US can buy more goods from THEM. The magic circle is then complete. And in the end they all died, except the Swedes and the Swiss, who lived happily ever after, despite paying an awful lot of taxes. THE END.


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Many have condemned the tragic lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Uttar Pradesh late last month, but few have used the term 'policy diversion' to decry it. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said exactly that, talking on the incident in New York recently.
Jaitley has raised alarm in the past over how different unfortunate incidents have diverted the attention away from his government's policy work. But India's political discourse has rarely ever been known to stick to policy talk. In the present run-up to the state elections in Bihar for example, much of the talk has been based on caste identity and communal politics - not farmer welfare or social development. This, in a state that has grown increasingly infamous for its deeply entrenched poverty and issues of law and order.
One could dismiss the electoral campaigning in Bihar as 'politicking'. Many assume that the common man is more easily drawn by rallies that call on his identity rather than by furious debates over wonky policy talk. But even parliamentary discourse is often overshadowed by politicking. In the latest session of Parliament this monsoon season, the Rajya Sabha recorded a productivity of just nine percent. Even in the Lok Sabha, where the BJP has a majority on its own, productivity stood at 48%. Countless sittings were adjourned amidst sloganeering from the opposition, many calling the session a 'washout'.
Fiery sloganeering against the government might make for good television, but it doesn't help in enforcing accountability on the government for its primary job of governance. What India needs is a coherent and informative voice from the opposition in Parliament on issues of policy and governance. The answer: a shadow cabinet.
"A shadow cabinet would help pin responsibility on individuals more accurately and point out the slackers in government."
Shadow cabinets are cabinets run by the opposition, consisting of opposition leaders who individually keep track of the activities of individual ministers in the actual government. Shadow cabinets are a feature of parliamentary government in countries such as Britain, Canada, and Australia. Yet, while India chose to adopt many of its governmental practices from Great Britain, it curiously chose to leave out the concept of a 'shadow cabinet'. If anything, shadow cabinets are particularly relevant to India's form of government - one of large ministries with multiple departments and overlapping responsibilities. Ever so often, decision and policy making on any given issue involves multiple ministries and departments, thereby making it difficult for the public (and parliamentarians) to evaluate the performance of individual ministers, or see the exact role that they play. A shadow cabinet would help pin responsibility on individuals more accurately and point out the slackers in government. In addition, they would help streamline parliamentary opposition to specific issues of governance and, in turn, refine political discourse.
Critics might point out that the parliamentary opposition is often heterogeneous and might not concur enough in order to create a shadow cabinet. But that is true of coalition governments too. If governments have a responsibility to put up a united voice, oppositions too are more effective when they are united. A better-organized opposition, in fact, would lend greater legitimacy to the Leader of Opposition, making him more accountable to other members in the opposition regardless of their party. Plus, it would also help voters evaluate the work of the opposition more meaningfully.
Prime Minister Modi has repeatedly asserted the need to keep the spotlight on his government's development agenda. Jaitley has often concurred, bemoaning 'policy diversions'. Both of them have a point. Maybe it's time for the opposition to experiment with a reform that could add value to political discourse in India. It might not make for good television, but it'll certainly help make a good government.
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id int,name varchar(50),salary int, [monthname] varchar(50),[year] varchar(50)
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insert into #salary values(2,'john',11000,'February','2016')
insert into #salary values(3,'john',12000,'March','2016')
insert into #salary values(4,'john',10000,'April','2016')
insert into #salary values(5,'john',13000,'May','2016')
insert into #salary values(6,'john',11000,'June','2016')
insert into #salary values(7,'john',10000,'July','2016')
insert into #salary values(9,'john',10000,'August','2016')
insert into #salary values(10,'john',15000,'September','2016')
insert into #salary values(11,'john',15000,'November','2016')
insert into #salary values(12,'john',20000,'December','2016')
insert into #salary values(13,'john',20000,'January','2017')
insert into #salary values(14,'john',20000,'February','2017')
insert into #salary values(15,'john',20000,'March','2017')
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Law Code of Hammurabi
The "Law Code of Hammurabi" is a Stele that was erected by the King of Babylon in the 18th century BC. It is a work of art, it is history, and it is literature, it is a complete law code from Antiquity that pre-dates Biblical laws. A stele is a vertical stone monument or marker inscribed with text or with relief carving. This particular example which is nearly 4,000 years old, looks like the shape of a huge index finger with a nail and imperfect symmetry.
The Law Code of Hammurabi stele is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length to be discovered. The Law Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of 282 rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi who reign 1792-1750 B.C.
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved law code of ancient Mesopotamia and has been found on many stele and clay tablets from the period. The Law is set out in graded punishments. For example, the law: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," depends on social status, of slave versus free man. "If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one breaks a man's bone, they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a freeman or break the bone of a freeman, he shall pay one gold mina. If one destroy the eye of a man's slave or break a bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half his price."
Approximately one-half of the code deals with matters of contract law. A third of the code deals with families and relationships such as inheritance, divorce, and sexual behavior. Other laws are related to military service or the penalties for a judge who issues incorrect decisions. Examples include:
- "If a herdsman, to whose care cattle or sheep have been entrusted, be guilty of fraud and make false returns of the natural increase, or sell them for money, then shall he be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss."
- "If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death."
- "If a merchant gives an agent corn, wool, oil, or any other goods to transport, the agent shall give a receipt for the amount, and compensate the merchant. Then he shall obtain a receipt from the merchant for the money that he gives the merchant."
- "If a woman quarrels with her husband, and say: "You are not congenial to me," the reasons for her prejudice must be presented. If she is guiltless, and there is no fault on her part, but he leaves and neglects her, then no guilt is attached to this woman, she shall take her dowry and go back to her father's house."
The code is inscribed in the Akkadian language, using cuneiform script carved into the stele. The Script can be found in the front and the back. The stele was found at the site of Susa, in modern-day Iran. Historians believe that it was brought to Susa in the 12th century B.C. by an Elamite ruler who conquered Babylon and then who erased a portion of the text in preparation for creating his inscriptions.
The sculpted scene at the top of the stele represents the King with his hand raised in front of his mouth, a traditional gesture of devotion, worshipping the sun-god. Note the flames are bursting forth from his shoulders of the sun-god, Shamash. The sun-god is presenting the King with the symbols of kingship.
Some scholars had suggested that Moses, when he wrote the Laws of Israel, nearly a century and a half later, borrowed or was influenced by the Code of Hammurabi, which symbolized the Mesopotamian civilization. Some of the laws, such as the law of retaliation, 'An eye for an eye,' is similar to the principles set out by Moses. A fundamental difference is that the Ten Commandments highlighted the worship of God, where the Code of Hammurabi is specifically interested in secular issues and in glorifying the King and serving his political interests.
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Law Code of Hammurabi
- Title: Law Code of Hammurabi
- Created: c 1750 BC
- Material: Basalt rock
- Author: Hammurabi
- Purpose: Law code
- Discovered: 1901
- Height: 2.25 m (7.4 ft)
- Museum: The Louvre
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This is based on a true story. Its about finding love unexpectedly. Its written in third person, so events and names can be changed slightly and I think it reads better. Although to be honest the events are pretty much as they happened. I decided to write it, because this week is an anniversary of it happening.
She threw her arms up in disgust, turned her back and danced as wildly as she could that night, because she no longer cared. At that specific moment, she decided that she was perfectly happy being single and, while the moment had had a bumpy ride in coming, when it finally struck, it was decisive and confident. Mary did not want, or need, a man in her life and her wild exuberant dance was a physical fingers up to all the available men, lining the edge of the bar and watching the dance floor like emasculated hyenas.
Mary's mental stereotype of single, available men had been well and truly solidified. She was done with the whole lot of them. Refusing to play the game any longer, she danced. She danced a dance of freedom from looking, from hoping and from the oppressive feeling that somehow she was missing out on life.
That Saturday night, Mary had been dragged, cajoled and persuaded by her very good friend, Naomi, to attend a singles night. Groups of unattached men and women, well outside the twenty something bracket, were to be provided with the opportunity to socialise, have dinner and dance in an up market hotel in Yorkshire. At the time of the invitation, Mary was skeptical, but a small section of her heart quivered with excitement at the possibility of putting on a posh dress, having dinner and dancing with a man – or several of them, if truth be told.
As the two friends drove up the tree-lined entrance to the country hotel that early summer evening, Naomi finally let the cat slide out of the bag. It was a 'Christian' singles night. Oh good grief! Mary thought to herself. Life and experience had taught her that slapping the word 'Christian' on anything, seemed to give the excuse to create a ghetto: a somewhere or something that was perceived as safe or superior: a little bit like the label 'low fat'. Yet read the labels, dig a bit deeper and the product could well contain hidden sugar or very bad things that cause cancer. Mary knew that labels guaranteed nothing, unless a look was taken more deeply… at the heart!
At the door of the hotel, Naomi stopped and began surreptitiously pointing out several people she already knew, including someone who had been part of a church work that her and her ex husband had been involved with twenty years ago. As Mary headed for her table, Naomi's parting shot was to avoid him at all costs.
The large function room had been set out with tastefully decorated circular tables and each setting had a delicately written place name, waiting to receive its lonely heart. Despite her reservations, Mary found her seat and glanced around the table with a flutter of excited anticipation. It was clear that an attempt had been made by the organisers to evenly distribute the single men and women around the room. However, it was also distinctly clear that the ratio of men to women was significantly imbalanced. Four ladies and two gentlemen looked back. The rising anticipation faltered slightly.
Very quickly, one of the gentlemen at the table declared his position. The lady to his left was his newly engaged finance. The couple had met at just such an event two years prior – a shining trophy of all that the organisers aspired to achieve. The anticipation Mary had felt on arrival slunk away to get its coat and Mary thinking that the evening could not get any worse, quickly found she was sadly wrong.
The two ladies at the opposite site of the table began to engage in sisterly small talk. While Mary, sandwiched between the happy couple and the only available man left, turned to introduce herself to the very gentleman Naomi had warned her to avoid. Mary frantically looked across the room trying to catch the eye of her friend, but Naomi was far too engaged in a lively conversation with a gaggle of ladies at her own table. Mary soldiered on.
She did try her best to find some common ground with the aforementioned single gentleman, but very quickly came to understand why he probably remained single. Immediately after the meal had finished and whether it was polite to leave the table in such haste or not, Mary headed to the dance floor for her dance of defiant relief. It was over! The event confirmed everything she did not wish to be or have and she was gloriously content.
The following week, Mary headed out on a photography assignment with Robert, a man she had met the previous year on a business course. The course had been a change of direction for both and a mutual respect for skills and talents had formed. When Robert arrived that Saturday morning and all the photography equipment was checked and loaded, Mary had little expectation that this was anything more than the opportunity to take good images. Except something happened as she got into the car that day and headed out to the location. A conversation started – an easy, rich, engaging conversation that seemed to have no end. Mary found a man to dance with and it would take her a lifetime to learn the steps.


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Oh my gosh! I'm in Japan with Sakuras all around!
Check out the beautiful Sakuras! Don't you wish you were here?
They're everywhere!!!
What do you mean you don't believe I'm in Japan and the Sakuras are fake?
The Sakuras are disappearing?
I've got Sakura all over me?
What? Pfffft.
You mean like this?
Okay fine… I wasn't in Japan and the Sakuras weren't real. They were an image I took off Google Images, bah!
But but but but, you know what?
I am heading to Japan! Like now, right now, as you're reading this, I'm on the flight there (or am already there)!
No kidding! I even painted my nails proper for this!
Nails featured on Instagram here.
So bye peeps! I'll let my blog take a break from the churning for a bit and I'll check back with you when I'm back (on 13th April)!
Though meanwhile, if you'd like to follow my adventures in Japan (somewhat), you can find me on Instagram at @icyabstract! I'll be tuning in when I get wifi hot spots or spamming once I get back to the hotel, I believe. I haven't decided if I wanted to get any form of data on-the-go or a wifi router yet.
If I do, I do, but otherwise it's nice to go offline and just soak in the atmosphere of being in such a beautiful city with such a rich history.
Btw, did I mention it's my first time in the land of the rising sun? Yippee!
So stoked! I'll catch you guys around!
Thanks for reading this semi-craycray post!


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Russian metro bombing puts Putin's Syria policy to the test
Islamist militants have targeted Russia many times before but Monday's bombing of a metro train in St Petersburg was, for President Vladimir Putin, personal: it happened in his native city on a day he was making a visit back home.
The attack, which killed 14 people and wounded 50, is also a test for one of Putin's most contentious policies – his decision to launch a military intervention in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
Kremlin-watchers say the risk is that Russian voters could decide, after seeing the destruction in St Petersburg, that the Syrian operation is making them more vulnerable to such attacks – not safer as Putin promised. That would be problematic for Putin, who faced a new wave of anti-corruption protests last month, before a presidential election next year when he is expected to seek a fourth term.
The main suspect in the blast, Akbarzhon Jalilov, is a Russian citizen from mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan. No group has said it was behind the attack but in the past Islamic State has threatened to avenge Syria. It already said it was responsible for bringing down a planeload of Russian tourists over Egypt's Sinai peninsula in 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
If the St Petersburg bombing turns out to be Islamic State's response to Russia's operation in support of Assad, "that would signify the complete failure of Putin's gambit in Syria", said Alfred Kokh, a former deputy prime minister under the late president Boris Yeltsin.
"If you add to the mix the air disaster over Sinai ... then the picture is looking very grim for the author of Russia's participation in the Syria conflict," said Kokh.
However, it was not clear that ordinary Russian voters would view it as a Putin failure. Opinion polls give him a high level of support and there was no discernible damage to his standing after the plane bombing over Egypt.
"Now we feel a blow, trauma, but actually with us trauma passes quite quickly," Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin adviser, told Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station. "In a week's time it will be clear which way people are inclining – towards what in the past was a customary demand for more repression, or towards fatigue over this perpetual situation where we are being sold security under various guises, but we still don't have security."
Early indications are that the Kremlin will respond by arguing that the St Petersburg attack underlines the importance of the operation in Syria, which Russia says is primarily aimed at crushing Islamist militants. Another response may be to tighten security inside Russia and launch a crackdown on all manifestations of hardline Islam. That would make sense from the practical point of view of stopping further attacks.
But the bombing could produce a side benefit for the Kremlin. Russian officials were taken unawares last month when thousands of people turned out in cities across Russia to protest against alleged official corruption.
The organisers of the protests said they would intensify their activity as the 2018 election approaches.
"Will the security threat be mobilised as a pretext to ban demonstrations (in the interests of public safety, of course), or more broadly as a reason to say 'now is not the time for division'?" Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security, wrote in business publication bne IntelliNews. (Reuters)
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Tour this island prison that's also prime nesting habitat.
Part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Alcatraz Island is one of San Francisco's (and California's) most famous landmarks. Rich in history, Alcatraz is home to the famous prison that once housed the likes of Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Alcatraz also features a lighthouse and a historic U.S. military fort, plus one of the best views in the Bay Area–if it's not foggy. Catch a ride on Alcatraz Cruises and learn all about the Rock's famous residents. You'll also find rotating exhibits, including information on historic events such as the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz in the 1970s, fascinating military history, and stories about the island's challenging living conditions. Audio tours are excellent.
The island is also an incredible spot to view nesting seabirds, allowing visitors a chance to see these beautiful birds much closer than normal. Be sure to bring your binoculars and peer at cormorants, pigeon guillemots, snowy egrets, gulls, and black-crowned night herons
Visit: www.nps.gov/alcatraz


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Black Community Must Press for Reforms, Black Scholars Assert
Washington--A group of prominent black scholars has challenged the black community to act in concert to exert pressure on the public schools to meet the needs of black children, particularly those from economically deprived environments.
"The improvement of public education must be the principal objective of the black community in the next decade," the scholars argue in an essay entitled "Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling." The document was released last week at a press conference here.
"We can meet the challenge of ensuring a world-class education for our children only through political activism," the authors say. "All segments of the black community must demand that the schools have the staff, policies, and resources necessary to their tasks."
The report draws upon recent research to chronicle the current failings of the public schools and to illustrate concrete ways that positive changes can be accomplished.
The essay was issued by the Committee on Policy for Racial Justice, a group of 29 black scholars that includes Derrick Bell, professor of law at Harvard University; Mary Frances Berry, professor of American social thought and history at the University of Pennsylvania; James P. Comer, professor of child psychiatry at Yale University; Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund; and Eleanor Holmes Norton, professor of law at Georgetown University.
The panel was led by John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Duke University.
It was convened seven years ago by the Joint Center for Political Studies, a research group focusing on black issues; it has issued two previous reports on racial justice and the relationship between blacks and the federal government.
The current national debate on education prompted the new report, its authors said.
"I have a sense that the conversation about education is becoming more relevant to the needs of poor black kids, but it's happening much too slowly," said Roger Wilkins, a committee member who is professor of American history and culture at George Mason University.
"Only a generation ago we were talking about integration to the exclusion of almost everything else," he said.
The new report is a significant step, he said, because it demonstrates that "we are moving from broad, general theories to some fairly concrete ideas about how to educate children."
Schools Must 'Shift Focus'
"For far too long, excuses have been made by educators and others to justify the failure of educational institutions to take children as it finds them and to educate them," said Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, the primary author of the report, in remarks at the press conference. Ms. Lightfoot is a professor of education at Harvard University.
"We believe it is the school's responsibility to overcome social barriers that limit academic progress," she said. "What we demand is this: that the schools shift their focus from the supposed deficiencies of the black child and the alleged inadequacies of black family life to the elimination of the barriers that stand in the way of academic success among these and other children."
Among the barriers to black student achievement cited by the essay is the continued use of inflexible tracking systems to place a disproportionate number of black children in classes that fail to challenge them to achieve.
The research literature, it says, reveals "strikingly little" evidence to support the popular notions that ability grouping reduces competitive stresses among students or makes teaching and learning easier.
"In fact," the essay states, tracking "is one of the major reasons that many black students fall further and further behind their peers academically as they advance through the grades."
The prevalence of standardized testing, particularly when it is linked directly to grade promotion or the availability of academic opportunities, also raises a barrier to the achievement of black students, the report says.
"Serious questions must be raised about the validity of standardized testing and its effects not only upon black and minority children but upon quality education for all," it says.
"Contrary to the longstanding view that intelligence is a unitary phenomenon measurable by a single test, we believe--and recent research confirms--that all people are blessed with multiple intelligences, which can be tapped only through a variety of teaching methods."
'Human Relationships'
The report differs from other recent critiques of public education in its emphasis on what it calls "the centrality of human relationships" in education.
"Although society has grown increasingly complex, young children are no more innately intelligent or socially developed than they ever have been," it says. "They still need consistent relationships with supportive adults to help them mediate their experiences and thus learn how to understand and to control the world around them."
But many black children lack these supportive relationships because of a variety of social and economic forces that have left them increasingly isolated in ghetto neighborhoods, it says.
"We call upon all black people to apply their skills and abilities aggressively on behalf of our youth," the essay says, noting that decreased residential segregation and increased economic opportunities have created a black middle class that has become removed from the greater black community.
"Middle-class black role models are still needed as positive role models for less fortunate black youth," it states.
"The hard part is that when middle-class blacks come out of schools these days, they tend to go into fast-track, mainstream professional lives," Mr. Wilkins said.
"Their concerns are very much like those of their white colleagues--geting a partnership or promotion--and they too are caught up in the American values of consumerism and self-involvement," he said.
Problem of 'Expectations'
The essay also takes teachers to task for accepting mistaken notions about low-income people and their lifestyles.
"Research has revealed that teachers have negative, inaccurate, and inflexible expectations based on such attributes as the race and perceived social status of their pupils," it says.
"These expectations result in different treatment of white and minority students and affect minority students' self-concept, academic motivation, and level of aspiration as they conform, over time, more and more closely to what is expected of them."
The dwindling numbers of blacks entering the teaching profession contributes to this phenomenon, it says, as does the teacher burnout caused by isolation, routine, and stress.
"Teachers can spark a spirit of inquiry in students only when they themselves feel a spirit of inquiry and development," the essay states. "Schools need to provide collaborative environments that support the intellectual development of teachers as well as students."
Parental Collaboration
Black parents too, must play a greater role in ensuring that their children receive the support they need to strive for academic excellence.
The report cites Mr. Comer's School Development Program, which was initated at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, as an example of how school administrators, teachers, parents, and specialists in child and adolescent development can work collaboratively to create the supportive environments that economically deprived children need to succeed.
Making black parents partners in the education of their children is difficult, it says, because "distrust often runs high between families and the schools that serve low-income and minority children, with charges and countercharges sending a mixed message to our youth: school is hope, school is the enemy."
"Yet the New Haven experience has demonstrated," the authors write, "that when parents participate in the schools in meaningful, well-conceived, and structured ways, they come to identify with the school's academic concerns."
"Parents also begin to develop a sense of ownership of the school and feelings of responsibility for academic success," they say, and often "decide to reinvest in their own educations."
The report also calls for more funding for programs such as Head Start and Chapter 1, for the development of multicultural curricula that reflect the interests and contributions of blacks, and for stronger cooperative links between schools and other social-service agencies.
"We are not naive about the complex processes that successfully improve schools," the authors state. "Surmounting the institutionalized patterns of beliefs and behaviors that have, on the whole, thwarted the education of black youth requires a collaborative, evolutionary perspective."
"We must all search for the common ground on which to build an academic foundation for this generation of black youngsters," they conclude.
Copies of the report are available for $9 each from: Order Department, Joint Center for Political Studies Press, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Md. 20706; (301) 459-3366.
Also on the panel were:
Bernard E. Anderson, managing partner, The Urban Affairs Partnership, Philadelphia; Haywood Burns, dean of the law school, City University of New York; Lisle C. Carter Jr., general counsel, United Way of America; Jewel Plummer Cobb, president, California State University at Fullerton; Drew S. Days 3rd, professor, Yale University School of Law; Christopher Edley Jr., professor, Harvard University Law School; James Lowell Gibbs Jr., chairman, anthropology department, Stanford University; Charles J. Hamilton Jr., lawyer, Battle, Fowler, Jaffin, Pierce & Keel, New York; Matthew Holden Jr., Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor of Government & Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia; and Joyce A. Hughes, professor, Northwestern University Law School.
Also, Walter J. Leonard, executive assistant to the Governor, Secretary to the Cabinet, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Sir Arthur Lewis, James S. McDonald Distinguished Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University; David L. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers University; Milton D. Morris, director of research, Joint Center for Political Studies; William Shack, professor of anthropology, University of California at Berkeley; Elliot P. Skinner, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University; The Hon. Mable Smythe-Haith, Washington; Howard Stanback, commissioner, department of aviation, City of Chicago; Eddie N. Williams, president, Joint Center for Political Studies; and William J. Wilson, Lucy Flower Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Chicago.
Vol. 08, Issue 36
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