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I'm not one to just "meet" someone. I experience them, and allow them the opportunity to do the same with me, if they so wish. Such was the case with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Company.
Jenny, along with her husband Ron, were at the Sizzix booth at QuiltCon in Pasadena this weekend. Though I don't consider myself a "fangirl" type of person, I definitely felt my heart skip a whole lotta beats when I spied her gentle face and open smile. You see, along with my daughter Katie, I see Jenny as a savior of sorts…If you've listened to our podcasts, you know that a year ago, I was simply getting through my days sitting, eating and watching television. Though a quiet and thoughtful existence, I didn't recognize that I was, in fact, in a severe depression.
At that time, Katie invited me to podcast with her on one of our mutual interests, books. I accepted, and we found that we enjoyed the process, as well as the gift of spending time together in our mutual world of crafting, hobbies and handwork.
Hobbies Up To Here was born in April, 2015, from that simple invitation.
Katie's love for quilting sparked an old flame that was still burning quietly inside me. I had no idea where to start cultivating the skills I would need to begin creating again. I turned to YouTube, typing in "quilting" and waited hopefully for instructional videos to pop up on my screen.
Enter Jenny Doan, and her fun, inspiring and anyone-can-do-this tutorials!
I had never heard of precuts, and that first video used a "layer cake". With a few cuts and a huge amount of enthusiastic, happy instruction, Jenny showed me how I could make a quilt in very little time at all. I was HOOKED! From that first video called Double Slice Layer Cake Tutorial, I actually made my first quilted quilt (I had made tie quilts in the 80's) for my son Mike's 30th birthday. Whoo hoo!
So, when I got the chance to meet her, I folded her up in a hug, and whispered in her ear.
"You saved my life."
I meant every word.
Now, she could have patted me on the head, said gee that's nice, and sent me on my way. She stopped her world and took the time to engage me, to share with me, to connect with me and to thank me. It must have been nice to hear that she had made a difference in my life, not just as a quilter, but as a human being. Our moment was touching and life affirming. When Katie joined us a few minutes later, she took one look at me and quipped, "Are you crying??? Geez Mom, I can't take you anywhere!" Jenny and I simply laughed, hugged again, and I set her free to see to her other admirers.
You see? There's a difference between meeting someone, and experiencing them; I received a genuine gift on Friday, that, I hope, cultivated a lasting memory between the two of us. Even if it's only one moment…being present, awake and aware, can be magical.
It was for me.
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FRANCES FISHER (Bev) was born in Milford On-Sea, England, Frances Fisher's itinerant childhood living in the UK, Columbia, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, Italy, Iowa and Texas undoubtedly provided fodder for her thespian career. Ms. Fisher started her career at the Barter Theatre in Virginia and has starred in over 30 theatrical productions (experimental, touring, Regional, off-off Broadway, off-Broadway,) including Elia Kazan's The Chain; Hay Fever; 1984; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Arthur Miller's last play Finishing The Picture; Three More Sleepless Nights (Drama League Award) & The Taper's The Cherry Orchard. Ms. Fisher is a member of the Actors Studio, and her first acting teacher was Stella Adler.
Ms. Fisher is perhaps best known for her performance as Kate Winslet's mother in Titanic, which garnered her a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast. The film went on to receive 11 Academy Awards. Additionally, her numerous film credits include the Oscar-winning Unforgiven; True Crime; The Big Tease; The Rising Place; The Kingdom; House of Sand & Fog; Wild America; In The Valley Of Elah; Jolene; The Perfect Game; The Lincoln Lawyer; The Host; Woman in Gold. Ms. Fisher's work in television started on The Edge of Night, and has spanned from critically acclaimed TV Movies such as Lucille Ball in Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter; The Audrey Hepburn Story; Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; many Hallmark movies, (the latest being Unleashing Mr. Darcy), to recurring/guest star roles including The Shield; Eureka; Torchwood; Touch; The Killing; Masters of Sex; Law & Order; Roseanne; The Mentalist; Two and a Half Men; Sons of Anarchy; ER; Grey's Anatomy; Children's Hospital; Private Practice; CSI; Castle & The Expanse. She also starred on ABC's critically acclaimed series, Resurrection. Frances' latest film, JT Mollner's Outlaws and Angels (Sundance 2016 Critics' Pick, co-starring with her daughter, Francesca Eastwood) opens in July. Ms. Fisher recently teamed with Ed Asner on the docu-drama Titanic: Sinking of the Myths and just wrapped an exciting arc on Criminal Minds.

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In a letter to a reader of Protect the Pope concerned about his meeting with Quest and Terence Weldon of Queering the Church Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton argued that the Gospel has little to say about sexual behaviour, as if that justified his meetings with homosexual Catholics who advocate dissent from the Church's teaching.
The reader of Protect the Pope wrote:
With regards to Mr Weldon and Quest. Quest was banned from being included in the Catholic Directory by Cardinal Hume. (I was in error in my last letter in stating it was Cardinal Heenan who banned them). They were also banned from describing themselves as a Catholic organisation. This was due to their promotion of homosexual sex, which is contrary to Church teaching. I would respectfully suggest that Your Lordship might have better access to further
information on this than I do.
I did not suggest in any letter that people who suffer with same-sex attraction should be discriminated against. In fact I agree with you completely that is against Church teaching. Being "homosexual" is not sinful, engaging in homosexual sexual practices is sinful. Pope Francis confirmed this in the same conversation that you referred to: "The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalised because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society"
I was quite hurt that Your Lordship would suggest I wanted to discriminate. May I make it very clear that my concern is not with people sinning – it is with people rejecting the Magisterium and leading souls astray. All people have a right to free association in this country, that isn't in doubt. People don't have a right to hold meetings on Church property with the blessing of the Church. I have no objection should Quest wish to hold meetings in any secular locations.
My concern is that Your Lordship is giving approval to these groups. This is going to cause confusion among the faithful and lead those in your charge to occasions of sin. Can you please remove any confusion for me and clarify whether "A Call To Action" and/or "Quest" have been approved to hold meetings within the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton.'
Bishop Conry replied:
'I am also troubled that some people seem to regard sexual morality as a priority and ignore the more basic demands of the gospel. The gospel has little to say about sexual behaviour and a lot more to say about justice and charity. Yet these words appear very rarely in the letters of complaint that I receive.'
Protect the Pope comment: Apart from the fact that the Catholic Church holds that we receive the Gospel from Scripture and Tradition (CCC 82), safeguarded by the Magisterium, Bishop Conry is wrong when he writes that the gospel has little to say about sexual behaviour. In fact the gospel has quite specific things to say about homosexual acts in particular.
Romans 1:24-27
Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.26Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,27and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.x28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.
I Corinthians 6: 9-11
Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes, nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.11That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
I Timothy 1:8-11
We know that the law is good, provided that one uses it as law,9with the understanding that law is meant not for a righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,10the unchaste, sodomites,* kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching,11according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
Bishop Conry would do well to remind himself of the following:
"It is clear therefore that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church are so connected and associated that one of them cannot stand without the others. Working together, each in its own way, under the action of the one Holy Spirit, they all contribute effectively to the salvation of souls." (CCC 95).


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It'll take a big effort from the Golden Bears, who like many other schools, lost a lot of players to graduation, specifically veteran leaders Nick Wegmann, Zach Cook and Pat Carlin. While Anderson says you can never replace guys like them, there's always guys called upon to step up. The Bears offense will rely on junior quarterback Nick Davis, wide receiver O'Hara and Justin Dennis, and a few players coming up from JV's last year that are sure to turn some heads.
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This may be the best political ad ever.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is up for reelection this year as his party faces an upcoming election. While Netanyahu won't be elected directly, if his party can win the most seats to Parliament, he'll be a shoe-in for a new term as Prime Minister.
If his latest political ad is any indication, he's pushing hard to make sure his party (Likud) comes out on top on Election Day!


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Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees…Hebrews 12:11
I truly believe that one day I will have to resign myself to these assistive devices and, hopefully, accept and appreciate them gracefully, but that day is not today! I want to begin a training program for a 62-year-old diabetic, back issued, recliner-hugger that will prepare me for the next season of my life...entering my seventies (70's)! I want to reverse my diabetes, lose weight, strengthen my back, legs, hips, and arms and be more limber and agile. I want to challenge myself, first to be smart enough to involve others who can help and then follow their directives in becoming faster, stronger, and healthier. I want to honor God with my body and I want to put on my own socks! "Let the games begin!"


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Recap: Author Bill Bryson's Book Reading At Sixth And I
Fans of Bill Bryson's gentle and insightful sense of humor filled every seat in the Sixth and I sanctuary the evening of October 17th.
Many people fall in love with Bryson's work through his travel books and I am no exception. The first book I read from his work, Neither Here Nor There reflects the kind of travel style that I could not only relate to, but wish I could share. The rambling, easy-going, serendipitous experiences he describes is the kind of trip that most of us wish we could take but never make the time to make it happen.
Bryson reflected on the large crowd he had drawn saying that his first reading many years ago was in a Barnes and Noble in Scranton, Pennsylvania and five people came to hear him. Two were his parents' friends and another attendee was a man who was also named Bill Bryson and had come just to meet someone else with his name.
He didn't have to be so self-effacing. He kept his audience laughing out loud with the his rare kind of story telling. His writing and speaking style is a mixture of little-know historical detail, real life experiences, and bitingly funny observances of human behavior.
Bryson read from several of his books including African Diary, a chronicle of his travels through Kenya. All of the proceeds and royalties from this book are donated to CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world.
Bryson engages with his unique view point and wry sense of humor in recounting some of the dangers he faced during this trip. He offered a sharply observed and hilarious recounting of a white knuckle flight he and his hosts took on a small plane through an intense rain storm during which they discovered that their plane had no windshield wipers.
He also read from one of his newest books, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, a reminiscence of growing up in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1950s ("A terrible time to be hungry," he explained poking gentle fun at his mother's cooking skills).
The occasion of this reading was in part a celebration of the paperback release of his book, At Home, a short history of private life, and a personal compendium of facts suggesting how the history of houses and domesticity has shaped our lives, language and ideas.
Bryson explained that his inspiration in writing this book came from his desire to explore things we take for granted in everyday life, such as why salt and pepper is on every table instead of some other condiment pairing. He explains, "These are things we take for granted and don't question when we encounter them in everyday life."
At the end of the hour, Bryson generously answered his fans' questions. He said he likes to write books about things that make him curious. His ritual habit when he is writing is to sit down early in the morning with a second cup of coffee in hand and fire up his computer. He describes the first twenty minutes of this experience as filled with dread…but that after 20-30 minutes he has made the transition and is immersed in his task, under his own spell. He explained that while he bases his stories on reality, it is his own version of that reality.
For Bryson fans, his version is one that makes us laugh and recognize the warm connective threads that link us together as fallible beings trying to make sense of our world and experiences.


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A Review of the Numbers: Discretionary Spending Levels, the Budget Control Act, and the Sequester
The long-running debate over discretionary (annually appropriated) spending levels has become immensely confusing. There have been so many different plans and figures thrown around over the past several months that it has been easy to lose track?even for close watchers of the federal budget.
For that reason, we present spending levels set by the Budget Control Act (both the original caps and the post-sequester caps) and compare them to spending under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013; the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 proposals in President Obama's budget; the Senate-passed budget authored by Chairman Murray; the House-passed budget written by Chairman Ryan (R-WI); and the levels of the 2013continuing resolution (CR) levels.
Although various elements of the president's budget and the Senate-passed budget differ, they share the same overall funding levels for defense, non-defense, and total discretionary spending?so they are considered as one element for the purposes of this comparison. The figures below for the CR are annualized levels.1
For defense spending, the proposed deal falls slightly above the full-year CR (and far above the sequester cap), but well below both the original Senate and House proposals for defense spending.
For non-defense discretionary spending, the proposed deal is below the Senate Democrats' plan and above both the CR and the House Republicans' plan.
Note that the full-year CR would meet the sequester's FY 2014 requirement for non-defense spending, but would put defense spending approximately $20 billion above the level allowed by the sequester.2 Therefore, a full-year CR with no modification of the sequester caps would mean no additional cuts to non-defense spending, but would require another $20 billion across-the-board cut from defense discretionary spending in FY 2014.
The Senate budget returns total spending to pre-sequester levels. The House plan, alternatively, keeps total discretionary spending at the reduced sequester level (but brings defense spending back up to the level of its pre-sequester BCA cap by moving about $54 billion from non-defense to defense spending). The Bipartisan Budget Act falls roughly halfway between these levels.
The Bipartisan Budget Act marks a compromise between the spending levels proposed in the House and Senate budgets. The spending increases relative to the sequester will be paid for by a variety of fees and reductions in mandatory spending that we will analyze in the near future.
This post has been updated since its original publication on December 9, 2013.
Alex Gold contributed to this post.
1 This means that if spending continued at the same rate for all of FY 2014 as it has since the October agreement to reopen the government, the figures presented above are the full-year spending levels that would result. The current CR expires on January 15, 2014.
2 The FY 2013 full-year appropriations, passed in March, bumped up defense discretionary spending by nearly $10 billion at the expense of non-defense discretionary spending. (Total discretionary spending subject to the caps for FY 2013 remained at the sequester level.) Since FY 2013 funding levels were extended for the beginning of FY 2014 with the October CR ? defense spending is over its cap from the Budget Control Act while non-defense is already under.
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Month: February 2018
Genadendal Mission Museum revisited
Last year we visited the Genadendal Mission Museum for the first time. Time was too short but earlier this week we went again with guests and took half a day for it and honestly; also that is too short. It's one of the best living museums in South Africa; in 50 years time build up by Isaac Balie with the help of some others. The collection is astonishing and provides the visitors a good insight of how village life was in the old days of Genadendal. President Nelson Mandela visited the museum and I guess he got the same guided tour of Isaac Balie as we experienced. Daughter Judith gave us a brief introduction and there we went with Isaac; going from one surprise to the other. Exploring 'secret' corners such as the pharmacy, the collection of old photo cameras including a 'camera obscura', the watermill, the organ collection including the oldest pipe organ of South Africa, etc. etc. Here are about 40 pictures that give you an impression but better is to visit…
BTW (for the tourists from abroad) No water shortage in the Overberg …
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Was very privileged yesterday by meeting Danish top chef Thomas Rode Andersen plus that he created a multitude of courses for me and a few others ( 😉 ). With the help of kitchen staff of Creation and paired with the different Creation wines.
(Creation Wines is in the 'Hemel en Aarde Vallei' between Hermanus/Sandbaai and Caledon).


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Miami's new quarterback will have plenty of receiver talent
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Miami wanted speed in this recruiting class, and got plenty of it - on both sides of the ball.
Wide receivers Jeff Thomas and Mike Harley Jr. were among the top gets for the Hurricanes on Wednesday, along with junior-college cornerback Jhavonte Dean and freshman Trajan Bandy. Miami also added plenty of help on the offensive line, and picked up two quarterbacks in Cade Weldon and N'Kosi Perry.
Cade Weldon's father Casey Weldon played at Florida State under Miami coach Mark Richt, when Richt was the offensive coordinator for the Seminoles.
Miami signed 24 players Wednesday, which leaves the Hurricanes room to add a few more - possibly as many as four - through transfers.
Other things to know: TE David Njoku left early for the NFL; his brother Evidence Njoku signed Wednesday with the Hurricanes. And the Hurricanes got a legacy recruit as well, with punter Zach Feagles - the son of Miami alum and 22-year NFL veteran Jeff Feagles - set to arrive and possibly take over the spot right away this fall.
Top 25 Class: Yes
Best in class: Jeff Thomas, WR, East Saint Louis, Illinois.
Best of the rest: D.J. Johnson, DE, Sacramento, California.; Navaughn Donaldson, OL, Miami; N'Kosi Perry, QB, Ocala, Florida.; DeeJay Dallas, ATH, Brunswick, Georgia.; Jhavonte Dean, CB, Homestead, Florida.
Late addition: Mike Harley Jr., WR, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
One that got away: Trevon Grimes, WR, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (chose Ohio State).
How they'll fit in: The Hurricanes' roster took serious hits after last season. QB Brad Kaaya left early for the NFL, backup running backs Joe Yearby (NFL) and Gus Edwards (transferring) are gone and defensive back Corn Elder provided the leadership on that side of the ball. Cade Weldon or N'Kosi Perry - both freshman quarterbacks - may be the pick to replace Kaaya, and Weldon being an early enrollee may help his chances.
For the full list: http://www.miamisquad17.com/
More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 .


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This is one of 150 locations throughout Hawaii joining the America Needs Fatima Rosary Crusade to pray for our country who is in great need of prayer, repentance and conversion. ALL ARE WELCOME! Third Order of Mary members are encouraged to attend.
Another prayer location is at Mary, Star of the Sea Parking Lot. Those who wish to join this group, please meet at the Church Parking Lot at 11:45 a.m. Bring your own chairs and umbrellas.


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It's been a long day, but not as long for most as it has been for some of the people staffing the "Ve y Vota" call center at the South L.A. headquarters of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, where calls from voters have been coming in since 3 a.m.
The phone bank, one of several around the country put together by the same team of advocacy and media groups as part of a voter outreach campaign, has been fielding calls as simple as "Where do I vote?" to calls about voter intimidation and rude poll workers, with complaints referred to volunteer attorneys.
So far, the complaints coming in to this particular call center - which has been taking calls from around the country (with some phone staffers in since before dawn) and will be open until midnight - have been relatively minimal, with the most excitement surrounding media reports of Spanish-language "robocalls" and mailers advising recipients to vote a day late. So far, the only thing confirmed by staffers has been a bilingual flyer in New York state with a Nov. 3 date in the Spanish translation, said Gladys Negrete, a data analyst with the NALEO Educational Fund.
There have been reports of aggressive electioneering, including one from Arizona where voters were shouted at and called names, but no physical altercations have yet been reported to the center. Most interesting, however, has been the nature of some of the questions.
"Callers have been asking more about the propositions, the judges," Negrete said. "Before it was more like, 'Am I registered?' I've only seen this in this election cycle."
One reason might be the growing influence and reach of Spanish-language media outlets, who have greatly expanded their coverage this election season. Workers at the call center can't offer advice on how to vote, but have been explaining the measures from the information in voter pamphlets, she said.
The call center is one of several around the country put together by NALEO and its partners in the long-running "Ya Es Hora" (Now is the Time) national voter outreach campaign, which includes advocacy groups such as the National Council of La Raza and media companies like the Univision network and ImpreMedia, which operates La Opinión.


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New Light on Orwell's Lost Youth, by William Hunt
First published by FinlayPublisher July – September 2010
The most dramatic revelation in Peter Davison's new edition of Orwell's correspondence is a recently discovered letter from Jacintha Buddicom, Eric Blair's childhood friend and, as we have lately learned, his adolescent sweetheart.1
As readers of this Forum know, her memoir, Eric & Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell was republished in 2006 with a postscript by her cousin Dione Venables. The Venables Postscript, based on conversations with Jacintha in later life, disclosed that she had severely censored her own story.
She had concealed both Eric's offer of marriage on the eve of his departure for Burma, and her reason for rejecting him: in the late summer of 1921, Eric had tried to force himself sexually upon her.
This new letter, written to Jacintha's cousin June Finlay, and dated May 4, 1972, confirms and amplifies the account given by Mrs. Venables. The tone of the letter enhances its credibility: Jacintha was attempting to console her cousin, despondent over a broken love affair, by confiding her own sense of loss. The letter is more explicit than anything Jacintha told Dione Venables. Jacintha had just begun work on Eric & Us. She was writing her memoir, as she explained to her cousin, "in the hope of ridding myself of a lifetime of ghosts and regret at turning away the only man who ever really appealed on all levels…
How I wish I had been ready for betrothal when Eric asked me to marry him on his return from Burma. He had ruined what had been such a close and fulfilling relationship by trying to take us the whole way before I was anywhere near ready for that. It had taken her literally years," the letter continues, to realize that we are all imperfect creatures but that Eric was less imperfect than anyone else I ever met…Memories of the joys and fun that Eric and I shared, knowing each other's minds so totally, assured that I would never marry unless that "oneness" could be found again.
It never was, and she never did. Yet in Eric & Us she wrote, "Sex for us was like the seacoast of Bohemia: there wasn't any." In public interviews she repeatedly insisted that she had had no romantic feelings for Eric whatever. ―"He never made any attempt to seduce me!" she assured Steven Wadhams of the CBC, with a chuckle. ―He probably hadn't developed in that way at all."2 Only once did she let any hint of her "ghosts and regret" emerge in public. During this same interview, she broke – very briefly – into tears, while admitting "I never did seem to treat Eric as perhaps I might have done." She swiftly recovered her composure, however, and Wadhams omitted the outburst from the published transcript.
In a previous essay for the Forum I discussed the implications of the Venables Postscript for our understanding of how Eric Blair became George Orwell. I argued that Eric's attempted assault on September 4, 1921- at Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire, where the Blair and Buddicom families were sharing a holiday home – caused him to abandon whatever hopes he had entertained of going to Oxford. It would probably be unfair to accuse Eric of an attempted rape. Consider the circumstances: they were alone in the countryside; Eric was well over six feet tall, Jacintha barely five. A determined assault would have succeeded. But, as Jacintha testified to June Finlay, it "ruined" their "close and fulfilling relationship", and thus destroyed Eric's strongest motive for wishing to remain in England.
He resigned himself to the prospect of spending at least the minimum three-year tour of duty in Burma, although he asked Jacintha to marry him on his return. The June Finlay letter strengthens my case; I invite readers to revisit my essay with the new evidence in mind.
We cannot know for certain when Eric made his final proposal, but the June Finlay letter implies that this occurred after the assault at Rickmansworth. (Jacintha declares that she refused him because "he had [ie already] ruined" their relationship.) Placing the final proposal after September 4, 1921, enables us to decode a cryptic reference in Eric & Us. In December, the Buddicoms had rented a house called Oldfields in the town of Harrow. "Looking back," Jacintha wrote, I think Eric must have come to stay at least twice on short visits to Oldfield House.
During one of those visits there occurred the only private encounter that Jacintha describes after the Rickmansworth disaster. From internal evidence this can be dated between mid-May and the end of June 1922. She remembered walking with Eric past a particularly attractive house called The Orchard. It was a long walk, and we had a long conversation through the walking. A long walk was about the only way you could have any sort of private conversation at Oldfield House, which was always full of people.3
She gives no inkling of the subject of this long, private conversation, but it is not hard to guess. Shortly thereafter, probably in early July, the Buddicom family retired to Ticklerton for seven weeks, taking with them "a rather nice French boy named André" who was staying with them to learn English. Eric was not invited to accompany them, as he had so often done in the past. 4
Eric gradually fades from Jacintha's narrative after the summer of 1921; her recollections of him become hazy and insignificant. In 1971 Jacintha told her local newspaper that Eric "spent his last Christmas with our family in 1921, before he went, very reluctantly, to Burma." This was an interesting lapse of memory. Eric did not spend Christmas with the Buddicom family in 1921.
The only time he did so was in 1918, when he wrote a love poem to her entitled "Our Minds Are Married", envisioning a serenely conjugal old age.5
Jacintha seems to have subconsciously transposed her memory of Christmas 1918 to the end of their relationship, thereby eclipsing the episode at Rickmansworth. She corrected the mistake in Eric & Us. She now claimed to have forgotten the occasion when she saw him last, though she vividly remembered their first encounter in early September, 1914.6
We can sketch the following tentative scenario. Sometime in the late spring or early summer of 1922, probably at Oldfield House in Harrow, Eric formally asked Jacintha to marry him when he came back from Burma. Eric presumably intended to return as soon as legally feasible: he could not have expected Jacintha to wait for him into middle age. He cannot, therefore, have been intending to make a career in the Burma Police. She turned him down, however, and she had hammered home the rejection by excluding him from their forthcoming stay at Ticklerton, supplanting him – or so it must have seemed – with a "rather nice French boy". This cascade of humiliations may explain why Eric, at precisely this moment, sent a dead rat to a local official who had annoyed him.
The story came to light in 1972, in a letter written by one R. G. Sharp to Orwell's biographer, Bernard Crick. Sharp had been a fellow student at Craighurst, the coaching school or "crammers" in Southwold that Eric Blair attended in the first half of 1922 to prepare for Indian Office examinations. Sharp wrote that "Towards the end of summer term of 1922," [i.e. just as the Buddicoms were packing to go to Ticklerton without him], Blair and a rather wild young man who had, I think, been expelled from Malvern, somehow fell foul of the Borough Surveyor, Mr. Hurst by name, and, I don't know how, found out the date of his birthday. By way of a present they sent him a dead rat with birthday greetings and signing their names.
In consequence, both Eric and the "wild young man" were expelled from Craighurst. But according to Sharp "this didn't worry Blair at all: he was living at home, had passed his exam, and was just ticking over; till term ended."7 It was strange behaviour for a young man about to join the Imperial Police, and surely indicates something about Eric's state of mind in the summer of 1922. One wonders how much of the malice directed toward Mr. Hurst had been displaced from Jacintha. Eric's mode of vengeance is ominous. Many years later, at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston's horror of rats would drive him to betray his lover – and that episode, as we shall see, would distress Jacintha severely.
Orwell began the autobiographical section of The Road to Wigan Pier, by observing that "The road from Mandalay to Wigan is long one, and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear.8 ‖8
The same might be said of the road from Lower Shiplake, Eric's boyhood home, to Mandalay. Eric Blair sailed for Burma in October 1922, probably still hoping that after a few years in exile Jacintha might take him back. He became yet another young gentleman seeking to expiate his disgrace through service in the colonies: it was a long tradition.
In 1936, reviewing a reprint of E. M. Forster's Passage to India, Orwell wrote, "It is only by some improbable accident that anyone capable of writing a decent novel can be got to stay in India long enough to absorb the atmosphere.‖9 He gave no clue as to what "improbable accident" had empowered Orwell himself to write Burmese Days. In later years, Orwell's friends often asked him why he had gone East rather than to university. He gave various answers, none of them persuasive. He once told Tosco Fyvel, one of his closest friends during the 1940s, that it was because he had not wanted to be "among people richer than himself." But Fyvel thought "this sounded not very convincing."10
Eric would have known that there were many scholarship students at Oxbridge poorer than himself. Orwell gave a more credible, if inconclusive response to Sonia, his beautiful and much younger second wife. Shortly before his death she asked him, "George, why not Oxbridge? Why the Burma Police?" Orwell answered that it was "a long and complicated story and he would tell her some time. But he never got around to it.11" One can guess why Eric wrote Jacintha from Burma complaining that he hated the place.
She answered the first of his letters, but then broke off the correspondence, which may explain why Eric remained in Burma for five years, two years longer than he had probably intended. Eric must have concluded from her silence that Jacintha had drifted up and away from him socially, into the orbit of her brother's friends at Oxford – as in fact she had. One of Prosper's college friends deflowered and impregnated her, and when her condition became evident, fled abroad with a homosexual lover.
Eric had not, however, given up on Jacintha. On his return from Burma, he went immediately to the Buddicom estate at Ticklerton in Shropshire in hopes of seeing her. There he found Prosper and Guinever, along with their Aunt Lillian, but no Jacintha, and no excuse for her absence.
When it became evident that she would not appear, Eric became sullen and withdrawn. Aunt Lillian told wrote her that Eric was "not at all what he used to be, and I don't think you'd like him much now." 12
It was not lingering anger that kept Jacintha from meeting Eric, however. Two months earlier, she had given birth to an illegitimate daughter. She was giving the infant up for adoption, in an agony of guilt, to her aunt and uncle, who would pose to the child as her biological parents. She had no strength for more turmoil.13
Eric never learned the truth. He wrote Jacintha a bitter and melodramatic letter, in care of Prosper, complaining that he "couldn't get her out of his system." Apparently, he made some histrionic declarations, which distressed her. Aunt Lillian's diary mentions her own dismay at this "terrible situation". When Jacintha did not reply, Eric went off to Cornwall on holiday with his family, telling them that he never wanted to hear the name Buddicom again, a request that his family honoured. 14
There is a further bit of evidence – inconclusive but tantalizing – relating to Eric's visit to Ticklerton. Among Orwell's books at UCL is a volume of Charles Dickens's Christmas Stories, published in 1927. This was a collection of lesser-known works, excluding classics like A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth, which Eric and Jacintha had read together as children.
Since this edition was new and the stories relatively unfamiliar, it was the kind of book Eric Blair might have bought on his return to London, to present to Jacintha at Ticklerton. The upper right corner of the first page has been diagonally scissored off, as if a dedication had been sliced away.
There is plenty of evidence in Orwell's fiction, however, that he never succeeded in getting Jacintha – out of his system.
The novels are littered with encrypted allusions to their relationship which only she could have grasped. I shall confine myself here to those allusions Orwell acknowledged and Jacintha herself perceived. In 1949, when Jacintha briefly re-established contact with him in the Cranham Sanitorium, Orwell admitted to Jacintha that he had used "different aspects of how he remembered her" in his novels.15
"Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four is clearly Jacintha, of that I feel certain," she wrote June Finlay. It was an over-simplification, but it was not unfounded. With needless and irrelevant precision, Orwell specifies that Winston's first tryst with Julia takes place on the second of May. Orwell told Jacintha that he had chosen this date because he thought it was her birthday, and was "quite put out" to learn that her birthday was actually May 10th.16
In Nineteen Eighty-Four (though not in 1984) May second falls on a Sunday, and in England the first Sunday in May is known as Bluebell Sunday. The bluebell was Jacintha's favorite flower, and since "Jacintha derives from "hyacinth", the species to which bluebells belong, it was her name flower as well. While waiting for Julia, Winston gathers a bouquet of bluebells for her, which they later crush beneath them while making love. Jacintha, as she explained to June Finlay, recognized the setting: We always wandered off to our special place when we were at Ticklerton which was full of bluebells. They die so quickly if you pick them so we never did but lay amongst them and adored their heavy pungent scent.
That very bluebell dell is described in his book.
Orwell, as she must have realized, was consummating their affair in fantasy. At Tickleton, however, Eric and Jacintha had refrained from picking the bluebells because "they die so quickly". Winston's violation of this taboo, and his intercourse with Julia among the "fallen bluebells" are portents of doom, although only Jacintha would have recognized them as such.17
Whereas Eric and Jacintha had adored the "heavy pungent scent" of the bluebells, Winston, awaiting Julia, in contrast, finds them "faint and sickly".‖18
Again, no-one but Eric and Jacintha would grasp the ominous implications of these details. Jacintha was horrified by the denouement of Nineteen Eighty-Four. She interpreted Julia's fate as an act of vengeance directed at herself. "In the end," she complained to June Finlay, "he absolutely destroys me, like a man in hobnailed boots stamping on a spider. It hurt my mother so much when she read that book that we always thought it brought on her final heart attack a few days later. Be glad that you have not been torn limb from limb in public."19
One wonders what cold comfort this thought afforded the distraught June Finlay. Jacintha seems here to suffer from what psychiatrists call a delusion of reference. No one except her closest relatives could have connected her with Julia at all. Nor is it clear why she felt so wounded. Most women, one assumes, would be flattered to recognize themselves in the heroine of a famous novel, even one as insipid as Julia. (Julia, to be sure, is fervidly promiscuous before meeting Winston, but thereafter becomes implausibly monogamous.) In any case, Julia is not "torn limb from limb". Nor is she fed to the rats, despite Winston's pleas for O'Brien to "do it to Julia!" The only purpose of the final torture scene is the moral annihilation of Winston himself.
The clue to Jacintha's grievance may lie in her reference to "a lifetime of ghosts and regret at turning away the only man who ever really appealed on all levels". Her claim that Orwell had destroyed her "in the end" suggests that what bothered her most was Winston's ultimate betrayal of Julia. Winston, of course, is insane with terror when he screams for O'Brien to "Do it to Julia…Tear her face off, strip her to the bones!"20 But Orwell was not, presumably, insane with terror when he imagined this scene.
Jacintha knew all about Eric's obsession with rats. She knew that he loathed and feared them as a child, and that in adolescence he found them morbidly fascinating. She was appalled by the sadistic delight he took in killing them.21 When she scolded Eric for the relish with which he and Prosper slaughtered rats, he reportedly replied, "It's either them or me". He told her how as a baby in India, according to his mother, he had been menaced by rats in his cradle.22
Jacintha presumably never learned of the dead rat sent to the Borough Surveyor of Southold – but knowing Eric's dark side as she did, she might not have been surprised.
In Winston's betrayal of Julia, Jacintha may have suspected a subliminal fantasy of revenge against herself. She may have wondered whether Winston's nightmare, like his earlier "beautiful vivid hallucination" of slitting Julia's throat "at the moment of climax," was inspired by Eric's sadistic dreams. 23 Had she really wounded him that deeply? Probably not. Nothing in Orwell's letters or phone calls to Jacintha in 1949 suggests resentment, let alone rage.
Winston's misery is caused by guilt, rather than grievance, and Orwell no doubt felt guiltier toward his dead wife than towards Jacintha. But Jacintha may have grasped something that most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four seem to have missed: there is far more anguish in Winston's world than can fairly be blamed on Big Brother.
Since the publication of Orwell: A Life in Letters, another letter from Jacintha Buddicom has come to light in which she reminisces – albeit obliquely – about Eric Blair. In a letter written in 1970 to her cousin, she wrote, without revealing his identity, of "someone I knew a long time ago" who delivered casual quips with a "serious innocent face" while his eyes were ―dancing with suppressed humor." Those "long ago dancing blue eyes," she admitted, "would make me catch my breath."
D. J. Taylor reviewing Orwell: A Life in Letters for the Saturday Times (17 April 2010), acknowledged that the newly discovered letter to June Finlay "redefines his relationship with his adolescent sweetheart, Jacintha Buddicom, now revealed as a very serious business indeed." Taylor provides the "essentially tragic" explanation of Jacintha's refusal to see Eric on his return from Burma (she had just given birth out of wedlock), but unfortunately fails to credit his source – Dione Venables's Postscript to the second edition of Eric & Us, published in 2006. The question is not whether Julia "is" Jacintha. Characters on the page never "are" flesh and blood people, not even in non-fiction. At issue is whether Orwell was thinking about Jacintha when writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. And the answer looks obvious. Orwell surely had her in mind when imagining Winston and Julia among the bluebells.
1. Peter Davison, Orwell: A Life in Letters (London: Harvill Secker, 2010).
2. Jacintha Buddicom, Eric & Us: Postscript Edition (Chichester, England: Finlay Publisher, 2006), 130; Stephen Wadhams, ed. Remembering Orwell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), 15.
3. Buddicom, 144.
4. Buddicom, 145.
5. Eric & Us makes this clear: the Buddicom family were not together at Christmas in 1919 or 1921, and that Eric was not with them in 1920. See Buddicom, 97, 110, 141-2.
6. Buddicom, 11. Jacintha and her siblings saw Eric doing a headstand in the neighbouring field. When asked why he was doing so, he replied "You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right way up." It is one of the most charming anecdotes in Eric & Us, and she recalled it in minute detail.
7. Coppard and Crick, 61.
8. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1958), 121.
9. Orwell, CW, X, 499.
10. T.R. Fyvel, George Orwell: A Personal Memoir (London: Hutchinson, 1982), 36.
11. Ibid.
12. Wadhams, 25.
13. Jacintha Buddicom, letter to June Finlay, 4 May 1972.
14. Personal communication from Dione Venables, diary of Lillian Buddicom in possession of Lady Jennifer Brown. I am grateful to Lady Brown for permission to examine it.
15. Personal communication from Dione Venables, based on her diary.
16. Dione Venables, unpublished diary entry, 22 May 1982. Orwell's remark no doubt strengthened Jacintha's implausibly egocentric belief she alone had been the model for Julia. See below.
17. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 125, 132.
18. Ibid., 124.
19. Jacintha Buddicom, letter to June Finlay, 4 May 1972.
20. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 300.
21. Once again, I am grateful to Dione Venables for this information
22. Communication from Dione Venables, based on conversation with Jacintha Buddicom. It is a great pity this anecdote did not appear in Eric & Us.
23. Ibid., 17. My thanks again to Dione Venables for some suggestions on this point, in an e-mail of 1 February, 2010.


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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Michael Raphael and Gabriel
Archangels —messengers from God—appear frequently in Scripture, but only Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are named.
Michael appears in Daniel's vision as "the great prince" who defends Israel against its enemies; in the Book of Revelation, he leads God's armies to final victory over the forces of evil. Devotion to Michael is the oldest angelic devotion, rising in the East in the fourth century. The Church in the West began to observe a feast honoring Michael and the angels in the fifth century.
Gabriel also makes an appearance in Daniel's visions, announcing Michael's role in God's plan. His best-known appearance is an encounter with a young Jewish girl named Mary, who consents to bear the Messiah.
Raphael's activity is confined to the Old Testament story of Tobit. There he appears to guide Tobit's son Tobiah through a series of fantastic adventures which lead to a threefold happy ending: Tobiah's marriage to Sarah, the healing of Tobit's blindness and the restoration of the family fortune.


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Peter Jackson has selected Andy Serkis to shoot second unit footage, including both performance capture and live action material, for The Hobbit.
When we say second unit, we might mean third, or fourth. Or fifth. Or probably anything up to nine or so. Like The Lord of the Rings before it, The Hobbit is an epic undertaking and I'm sure there will be a whole array of units shooting simultaneously.
So, it's a big responsibility for Serkis, who has not directed anything in live action or any material for a feature film before. Is there anything that he's worried about? He told The Hollywood Reporter:
The learning curve is The Hobbit is being shot in 3D. [We're using it] dramatically, to give a point of view.
The THR article states that Serkis has already completed recording his appearance as Gollum. Crikey. They've only just got going down there and he's done with the bug-eyed one already? And there I was thinking they'd beef his part up a bit.
Meanwhile, Andrew Lesnie, Jackson's returning Middle Earth cinematographer of choice, has given some details to IF about his kit. The big surprise is that he's shooting the film at something like twice the standard cinematic framerate, opting for 47.96fps.
Higher framerates do indeed appear to be the future of cinema, with James Cameron pledging to shoot Avatars 2 and 3 in at least 48fps. If you're not sure why this the big thing right now, Douglas Trumbull and co. can help you understand:


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What is Portable Software
Now that you're aware that usb flash drives aren't just for transferring and storing data, there's a whole new world out there for you to explore.
Your usb can be a life savior in a time of need (when your pc breaks down) or even a source of fun. The way to do it, is by using portable versions of your favorite software. If you don't know what that is, get ready to get your mind blown away.
Portable software gives you all the fun, without the trouble of installing it. You can run any program you want, anywhere you want. You can clean your virus infected pc directly from your usb, use your internet browser with all your bookmarks anywhere you are, or run the program you want in a pc you don't have administration rights (like at work or at school).
The process is really simple. Just find the portable version of the software you want and download it. Run the setup in the directory you want and you're good to go. Even though there's a setup installer, nothing actually's getting installed in your pc's registry. It just creates a folder and runs from it. That way, you can transfer the entire program from one folder to another just by copying and pasting it. Also, once you decide you don't need them anymore, there's no need for uninstalling. Just, delete the file and you're done. It's that simple!
But, the flexibility of portable applications doesn't stop here. You can run your favorite software everywhere you go without even carrying a usb stick. Provided that you have Internet access, you can store your portable software in a cloud and access it from anywhere you are. The process is the same. Just download the portable version of the program you want and store it in your cloud service (e.g. dropbox, Google Drive). However, you have to be super careful you don't mess up the syncing when updating your files. It is advised to turn off the cloud's sync and turn it on again when you're done with the changes. Of course, this option comes with some limitations, such as speed and the occasional crash. Overall, it's not the best practice since online storage clouds aren't build to run software. So maybe, it's best to stick to the usb or external hard disk option.
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On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 17:38 +0100, Guus Schreiber wrote: > See > > http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2012.03.07 I wonder if there's any more we can do to get Turtle to Last Call as soon as possible. (like addressing Henry's comment about dots in names). And anything else (like .genid) that's pretty much done. The Graphs discussion only endangers the group if we let it outside of its joyful little box. -- Sandro > Note for your agenda: the telecons of March 14 & 21 will be one hour > earlier for Europeans, due to the start of DST in the US. > > Guus > >Received on Wednesday, 7 March 2012 03:40:12 UTC
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
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Found On The Net: A Photo of an English Angora in 1945
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Is That Alvin Again?
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Josh is Running for ARBA President
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Zeeva Wins All Breed Best In Show in Oregon
|Judge Rusty flew in from TN; while he is examining Zeeva, the Britiannia Petite is clowning for attention.
Monday, March 05, 2012
Bobbianna Wins All Breed Reserve In Show in Oregon
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Scenes and People at CA State Convention
|The convention was very well attended; this is a part of the show room.
|More scenes in the show room. There is another room for cavies and another building for youth activities.
|Jersey Wooly breeder Amber is holding a junior English Angora.
|Jennifer is in charge of the youth activities at the other building; she takes a break and visits the rabbit show room with her new English Bulldog.
|Kate attends a rabbit show for the first time, she is interested in spinning and raising Angora goats and rabbits.
|Betty's yarns could be very colorful; here are some of the skeins that she made.


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Blog posts for July 2015
XWiki 7.2 Milestone 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 7.2 Milestone 1. The main focus of this milestone is the introduction of support for Nested Documents in XWiki's UI together with an important amount of changes in the platform and default extensions to better support this. Additionally, an experimental script rights was introduced to control which users are allowed to execute the scripts they write inside a wiki page. ...


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Among the first responsibilities of moving to a new location is changing information with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). According to state law, officially moving to a new address requires a resident to update his/her information in 30 days or less. Registering a car is important among these responsibilities, including cars that are new.
According to Virginia DMV, a vehicle must be titled upon moving to Virginia, be registered and acquire license plates, and obtain a sticker or decal from your locality.
"A vehicle must be titled before it is registered," said Bill Foy, public relations manager at DMV.
GETTING A vehicle titled requires filling out the Application for Title (VSA 17A) and Registration (VSA 14), proof of registration, proof of purchase price, and if the vehicle was previously registered out of state, a title or registration card from the previous state of residence, Foy said.
"A vehicle can be titled at the dealership or people can bring the information that is necessary to a customer service center," said Foy. "It cannot be titled online."
DMV also requires a $10 titling fee, along with a 3 percent motor vehicle sales and use tax based on the vehicles sale price or $35, whichever is greater. The next step is recording the odometer reading. Lastly, the owner must select between a paper title and an electronic title to ensure the safety of their title, according to the DMV Web site.
Aside from completing the application for titling (VSA 17A), owners must provide English translations of all documents in a foreign language and must provide one of the required customs document with the original stamp and signature of the inspector, Foy said.
The next step, registration, requires a fee that is determined by the empty weight or gross weight of your vehicles, the type of license plate that is purchased and the period of time Ñ one or two years Ñ that the vehicle will be registered.
The fees for passenger vehicles are $29.50 for vehicles 4,000 pounds or less and $34.50 for vehicles more than 4,001 pounds; a pickup truck weighing 6,501 to 7,500 is $40.50; a motorcycle is $27.50, Foy said.
Both steps must be completed within 30 days of moving and must be done in person so that the DMV can obtain the proper documents, said Foy. A resident new to Virginia must get a driver's license within 60 days. New cars must be registered right away and obtain proper tags. It is also important to register a vehicle in Loudoun as well as the DMV, said Robert S. Wertz, commissioner of the revenue for Loudoun County.
THE LAST STEP for registering a car in Virginia is obtaining a sticker from your locality.
According to Wertz, purchasing a decal must be done within 60 days of moving the vehicle to the county. New residents are required to file a personal property return with the Commissioner of the Revenue and then obtain the decal. Residents can obtain the decal in person at the treasurer's office or online at www.loudoun.gov/cor. The fee for the decal is $25.
In some Virginia counties, decals will no longer have to be issued. Starting July 1, Fairfax County will no longer require them, Wertz said, however, Loudoun County residents are still required to have them. Decals must be purchased annually and be displayed on vehicles by Nov. 15. New Decals are available July 1, Wertz said.
Those who are new to Virginia must obtain a Virginia driver's license, obtain a vehicle safety inspection sticker to ensure safety, and meet Virginia's emission standards and insurance standards before titling their vehicles or getting their car registered. The minimum insurance coverage in Virginia is $25,000 for bodily injury or death of one person; $50,000 for bodily injury or death of two or more people; and $20,000 for property damage, according the DMV Web site.


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Not only does the Foundation help children develop their musical abilities, but it also opens up more doors to life-changing opportunities. For instance, S-One's goal with this year's Rock for a Cause is to send five Foundation students to Berklee College of Music Summer Programs. Foundation star and Bradenton-native Sam Woolf, who was a finalist on the 2014 season of American Idol, got his chance to audition for the show while attending a summer program at Berklee.
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The Cool Wall is Back
For those of you who are fans of the BBC show Top Gear, you may remember the Cool Wall, and now you can get your very own Cool Wall along with the launch of IE9 beta and BBC's Top Gear site.
I have been very fortunate to be a member in the team within UK MCS to develop and deliver this site. For this blog post I would like to point out some of the key features of the site and a little about the technologies used.
The Cool Wall allows you to view and rate a selection of cars including high resolution images, stats about the car and videos from the show. Then share your cool wall with your friends via Facebook.
When you get to the site you see one of the first cool features of IE9 and HTML 5, which is the embedded video. This comes out of the box with IE9, and does not require any other addins such as Silverlight or Flash to play. The second cool thing is the HTML 5 canvas, it isn't obvious here what we are using the canvas for, but one thing it allows is transforms of visuals. What we are doing here is projecting our html video onto a canvas which will render the images, but also add a rotate transform to it. While this is quite a subtle change, the application of filters and other transforms allows very powerful modifications which would only be possible in Silverlight or Flash based sites which, again would require an addin.
As we move on to create our Cool Wall, we are presented with a list of cars we can choose to place onto the wall, we have added some transforms and animations to show the names and a slightly bigger image of the cars. We have also added some rotation on these cards of the cars to make it look more like the actual Cool Wall from the show. The hardware graphics acceleration of IE9 also allows a much smoother animation of the car positions when clicking between "My Wall" the "Community" wall and the "TG Rating" or Top Gear wall. The other cool feature of IE9 and HTML 5 is Local Storage; when a user has created a Cool Wall, and they go away from the site, they would expect the Cool Wall to be how they left it when they return. By utilizing the local storage aspect of IE9 we are able to easily convert the positions of the cars into a JSON format for storage and then read it back from Local Storage when we come back to the site.
By clicking on a car a flyout with more car details appears detailing some car stats, such as price range, acceleration, maximum speed, miles per miles per gallon, the rating of the car from the show and a quote from the show about the car. We have also added the JavaScript DeepZoom control which allows you to examine the high resolution image of each car in great detail, there are also some hotspots at the bottom right of the DeepZoom picture which shows some interesting parts of the cars. Another note here is the speed in which IE9 is able to render the Deep Zoom images, and this is especially noticeable when the control is in "Full Page" mode by clicking the fourth button on the bottom right inside the image.
Another feature of the flyout is a video from the show, like the Cool Wall video at the start of the page, this uses the inbuilt video player with the IE9 tags, so again no addin's are required to view these videos, another plus point is all the controls on these videos come out of the box with IE9, so you don't have to spend time designing and developing a custom video player for your site.
One of the main things about the cool wall is the differences of opinions, which is why it is possible to share your Cool Wall via Facebook. By clicking on the Connect button with the Facebook logo.
When you are signed into Facebook, you will be able to share your wall with your friends, and see any friends who already have walls.
Being signed in means that you will also be adding your opinion to the community wall, which takes an average of the user's ratings of cars. The final tab along the top is the TG Rating, or Top Gear Wall. This relates directly to the rating given from the show and the TG Rating shown on the car's flyout.
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You can get the beta of IE9 from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com to try out today, and you can create your own Cool Wall at http://www.topgear.com/coolwall
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One of the most remarkable parts of the Reddit story is how quickly the site was sold — launched in 2005 by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, and acquired the next year by Conde Nast.
And it has only continued to grow in prominence and size since then, becoming a go-to site for user discussions with everyone from Bill Gates to Barack Obama.
Given everything that has happened since the acquisition, does Ohanian have any regrets about selling Reddit so quickly?
That's one of the questions I was able to ask him during a recent discussion on stage at Seattle's Town Hall, as part of Ohanian's tour promoting his book, Without Their Permission. This week on the GeekWire radio show, we're listening back to some of the best moments from the talk.
Listen to the show via audio player below or this MP3 file.
Here's more from the Town Hall interview talk and Ohanian's book.
- Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian: 'I'm cautiously optimistic about Bitcoin'
- Reddit's Alexis Ohanian cracks the startup code in 'Without Their Permission'
- Reddit co-founder wants to reach profitability with membership program, not ads
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"Looking Outward Together"
In Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry writes,
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It's an idea that's echoed in Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, an allegory of love masquerading as a children's book. A wedge-shaped character, the eponymous missing piece, is "waiting for someone to come along and take it somewhere".
After several unsuitable candidates pass by, he eventually finds a circle with a hole that he fits perfectly, and for a time the two roll on together. But the piece continues to grow, whereas the circle does not, and before long the two no longer fit. Brain Pickings' Maria Popova makes the obvious inference:
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"I think you are the one I have been waiting for," said the missing piece. "Maybe I am your missing piece."
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"That is too bad," said the missing piece. "I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you…"
"You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself."
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It's then that the Big O returns, and at the end of the book the two are seen rolling in the same direction, side by side.
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This definition sheds light on why marriages succeed or fail. To the extent that the two (a) share the same life goals and (b) remain focused on those mutual goals, they have a high chance of a long-term stable happy marriage. The opposite is also true.
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In this view, marriage is more durable when it's about cementing Saint-Exupéry's idea of love rather than the traditional romantic ideal. Far easier to accommodate separate rates of growth when you're rolling side by side than when you're snugly interlocked.


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Clutter releases a special give away through his favourite net label Electronic Musik to celebrate the coming of 2012 – The year when linear time stops, when The End Times begin etc, etc…. Not sure if I believe in any of it but it does make you think about time and what it all means, or not, but I thought it might be fun to do some music that is about time.
The starting point is to jump unashamedly on the extreme slow-mo bandwagon and see what that throws up….I came up with the following:
Anulled Days – a reworking of Auld Land Syne by Bobby Darin
Delay Land Sun – a reworking of Auld Land Syne by Elvis Presley
All End Sunday – a reworking of Auld Land Syne by Julie Andrews
No Cut Down – a reworking of The Countdown Theme
I do love extreme slow-mo tracks they bring out some wonderful music from the originals – I didn't have a way of doing a really smooth version like some I've heard so have played with the results to make them more listen-able – as always a generous amount of reverb helped.
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Lately I've been thinking about the life cycle of a palm branch.
Just under a year ago, I purchased hundreds of palm branches from a florist down the street, and spent the afternoon trimming them down so that the following Sunday – Palm Sunday – my congregation could wave them around and mark the beginning of Holy Week in style. These leaves were vibrant and fresh, recently plucked from a tree in some perpetually lush part of the world.
The leftover branches ended up on the floor of my office next to my desk. They sat there unnoticed for the better part of a year. And they died: they gradually lost their color and their moisture, turning into crunchy, pasty-yellow things.
Last week, I snapped them into pieces, threw them into a basin, and tossed a match in. They were quick to catch, and the flames – coupled with dense, white smoke – were surprisingly lively. It died down as fast as it started, and all that was left were ashes.
It's a somber life cycle if you think about it: vibrance and celebration, gradual decline, and brief, fiery destruction.
What I'm looking forward to today – Ash Wednesday – is to see those palm branches in their final act, when the ashes are used to visibly mark hundreds of people, united in sin and redemption.
Another thing I'm looking forward to is returning to that flower shop in a few weeks to buy more palm branches, thus re-starting this tragic and beautiful life cycle.
Palms and ashes and palms again are little but robust symbols of the seasonal cycle that the church holds dear. Fast – feast – fast – feast. Repentance – grace – repentance – grace. Over and over again ad infinitum, because the story that we are a part of does not end in fiery destruction. It does not end at all.
There's beauty in the monotony, knowing that each year we come to Ash Wednesday and Lent a little different than the year before. Maybe a little wiser, or more tattered, or braver, or more distant. But we always come back with the same need for grace that we've always had (whether we've known it or not) and put in our place:
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
By the way, this Lent I'll be working my way through the Lent Prayerbook put together by the good folks at Liberti Church and Restoration Living. It's a wonderful (and free!) resource, and it can be all yours by just clicking here.


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