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"Tweet journalists but don't be too pushy."
This quote is buried in the middle of my interview with Lucy Jones, Deputy Editor of NME.com, but brings a smile to my face. Mainly because I'm intrigued whether this is advice Lucy thinks I need, or that I have already followed.
To explain, October 2012 saw Radiohead play a hotly anticipated three-date only UK tour, and I was lucky enough to be at the first gig in Manchester. Being aware that the majority of the pro music writers out there would be attending the two London dates several days later, I saw an opportunity to get an early review written and out there.
I had it ready the following morning and sent my review to several writers on Twitter, one of whom was Lucy, who deemed it worthy to retweet for her followers.
Cool - Radiohead played You and Whose Army and Planet Telex last night. Good roundup here from @timmarklew goo.gl/V9dnN
— Lucy Jones (@lucyjones) October 7, 2012
I got a bunch of views and even connected with plenty of Radiohead fans in the process. Job done, thanks Lucy! But I didn't stop there, and was cheeky enough to ask her for an interview, which she graciously agreed to. But, the best laid schemes and all that, coupled with a new job at the NME, and it subsequently took me two months to nail her down. Tweeting and emailing enough to remind her, while hopefully staying on the right side of her advice on persistence.
Fortunately, persistence is something Lucy knows a bit about too.
"After school I moved to Honduras for 6 months to work on a newspaper for free," she tells me of the geographically-unusual start of her route into journalism.
"It was an awesome experience and I got a taste for the exciting side of journalism, I spent my time interviewing gangsters and reviewing 5 star hotels in the Bay Islands. It was insane. Then, after doing a degree in English Lit at UCL, I worked somewhere a little less exotic, the Maidenhead Advertiser."
And while this move may have lacked the glamour of Central American gangsters, it was a vital step in establishing herself as a serious journalist.
"I loved writing about village life, but I also reviewed albums and films when I was there and realised I was much more interested in that side of things than straight news. After six months the paper sent me to do an NCTJ course. It was helpful to learn media law and shorthand, and it's a good qualification for any journalist to have on their CV.
"After that I started doing evening shifts at the Telegraph on the Comment desk, and a staff job followed a few months later."
So, varied experience - check, qualifications - check. But what else does Lucy have that sets her apart in the desperately overcrowded music journalism job market?
"Eek. Um. That's a hard question. I'm passionate about music and committed to creating content that's going to entertain and inform. I've also studied music and learnt quite a few instruments, so I have quite a lot of knowledge on music theory, genres and instruments, which maybe makes it easier to deconstruct stuff. My skin's pretty tough as well so it doesn't knock me if pitches are rejected or someone writes that I'm a ruby-lipped monkey whore on the internet."
Lucy preempts a later question by directly addressing the trolls, and the less said about them the better. So, other than being called a ruby-lipped monkey whore, what have been the highlights of Lucy's career to date? And is the music journalism game all it's cracked up to be?
"Getting a job at NME was pretty cool. I've also loved covering SXSW in Austin for the last couple of years. Interviewing Bryan Harvey? Just kidding. Tori Amos, E from Eels, Bjork, Bobby Womack and Graham Coxon have all been cool interviewees.
"Interviewing musicians and artists I was in awe of and spending my time listening to music and going to gigs rocks. Also I love the idea of introducing a song or artist to someone that'll flip their wig."
Despite Lucy's nonchalant "pretty cool" remark about her move to the NME in 2012, and my previous interviewee and former NME writer Laura Snapes' branding of it as a "normal place", the fanboy in me has to ask what the move there was like.
"I try not to think ahead as much as possible, so I'm not sure I had expectations really. I didn't expect to walk in and see Liam and Noel and people shooting up in the stationary cupboard. It's been amazing working with a team who just absolutely love music and are excited about it. It's a really nice vibe, there are a lot of LOLs. It's also nice to write for a massive readership who really care about new music."
Lucy's favourite song of 2012
So, having made the "pretty cool" move to the NME, what else does someone who tries not to think ahead still want to achieve?
"I'd like to write a book. Maybe fictional, maybe about a band I like. I want to travel and study more too, and possibly move to the States for a bit. And to meet my dream interviewee, Prince."
For those who haven't been with this blog from the start, the reason I started interviewing writers whilst still at university was not only to tell their great untold stories, but to get their advice too. Lucy's advice? Be polite. Be bold. Be yourself.
"Write to everyone you want to work for and send them an article tailored to their style. Stop waffling. Cut your prose down by at least half. Wake up every morning at 6am to write. Read all the books about music you can find. Make notes and keep them. Read other books too. Go to gigs even if you don't know who's playing. Crate-dig. Put your best work on a blog. Tweet journalists but don't be too pushy. Get an NCTJ or masters if you can. Work for a local paper. Look for local papers that offer scholarships for training. And don't be offended if someone says your writing needs a lot of work."
Tweet but don't be too pushy. Lucy subsequently assures me that was not an answer tailored for me, but I will now remember it nonetheless. Thanks to Lucy for her time, and for sharing her story. She can be found in the links throughout this blog, and on NME.com.


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I created this blog in conjunction with a website that I maintain for the purpose of teaching and presentations, as well as to use for my own research: "Bobbie's Genealogy Classroom."
Who is Bobbie? I sometimes go by the name Bobbie, sometimes Barbara. It all started when I took a new job and shared an office with another Barbara. To avoid confusion, I suggested they use a nickname for me. My family and friends had never heard of "Bobbie," but I kind of liked it. At first it was no problem — I was Barbara in my home life and Bobbie in my work life. But then a person I worked with introduced me to genealogy — and to other people as Bobbie. And one of my friends started working where I do and began calling me Bobbie. Over time it became a wuzzle. What should I be called? Frankly, I don't care. I answer to either and encourage people to use whatever feels "right" to them.
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On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, Rick Santorum officially announced that he will be suspending his nomination the GOP presidential race.
At a speech given in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Santorum states,"We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting . We will continue to fight for those voices for those Americans who stood up and gave us that air under our wings."
Over the weekend, Rick Santorum's 3-yr-old daughter, Bella was hospitalized. Bella suffers from chromosomal disorder called Trisomy 18. Bella is the youngest of Santorum's seven children. Due to Bella's current condition Santorum used the weekend as a "time of thought and prayer".
Santorum's campaign advisor also states that the "financial state of the campaign" is another reason why the candidate is pulling out from the race. Last month Santorum's campaign reported they are 1 million dollars in debt and would have been forced to use all the money in order to keep up with Mitt Romney's campaign.
Mitt Romney had more money and more organization. He is closer to the delegate count than Santorum. It would been impossible for Santorum to collect all 1,144 delegates needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination. However, Santorum is holding on to his 400 delegates and where will he place them?
Mitt Romney responded to Rick Santorum leaving the GOP race: "This has been a good day for me. Senator Santorum has decided not to proceed with his campaign, and I had the chance to speak with him this morning. We exchanged our thoughts about going forward, and we both have a great deal of interest in seeing the country taken on a very different path. He has made an important contribution to the political process."
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Elle Goes Artsy
I'm going to share a little secret with you. Shhh – don't tell anyone. See, I've always wanted to be a visual artist. Not instead of being a verbal artist. Oh, no. I want to be an artist with many hats, a modern-day da Vinci, if you will. (Well, minus the science and anatomy stuff. And the scruffy beard, of course.) Thing is, I don't have a lot of visual-artistry talent. My latest theory is that my mother only had so many artistic genes. She gave half of the writing ones to my oldest sister, half to me, and she tossed all the visual ones at my younger sister.*
So, no drawing, painting, sculpting, or other fun visual artistry in my future. However, I've often wondered if, buried deep within my psyche, lurks a talent for pointing, shooting, and Photoshopping. I have no evidence to back me up, but in this realm, and much like Nicolas Cage and acting, I refuse to let lack of talent hold me back.
Given my secret desire to be the next Annie Leibovitz, you can understand my excitement when I heard my editor and friend, Frannie Zellman, say we needed pictures for the cover of our forthcoming poetry anthology, Fat Poets Speak II. (The first edition, Fat Poets Speak, is available and chock-full of awesome, body-celebrating poetry. You know it's a quality selection when it features seven or eight of my poems in there.) :) I'm currently on vacation in Florida and North Carolina, but I shoved aside sorta-in-laws, teaching duties, and romantic obligations, grabbed a cheap-but-usable digital camera, and started snapping shots like a boss. I manipulated lighting, I used angles, I tried to leave lots of blank space or pack it full of diagonals. I mean, hey, two years ago, I totally dated a photographer for a month. I must have picked up some moves, right?
Whether or not we fat poets use any of the pictures I shot and edited in very basic photo software, I had a blast doing it. I may not be exceedingly talented, but why let that stop me? And if I also get to share my attempts with the world, how much of a bonus is that?
Oh, and before you ask, no, I am not the model in the pictures; I'm not even remotely adept at taking time-delayed shots. No, I am the creative madwoman behind the camera.
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Still sporting a hopeful "now hiring" sign, the Detroit Lakes Kmart announced Wednesday that it is closing after nearly 26 years in business, leaving the employees it already has without a job and some area shoppers at a loss.
"It's probably my favorite place to shop," said Joyce Grieger, a Detroit Lakes local who has frequented the store for many years. "This is where I get my 'scripts filled, where I buy a lot of my grandkids clothes...I always find good sales here."
Grieger says she prefers shopping at Kmart because it has a more "relaxed atmosphere" than its competitors-but it's that very low-key shopping experience that's doing them in.
"Many of these stores have struggled with their financial performance for years," read a Sears holdings statement, which lists all of the Kmart and Sears stores in the nation that have announced closures in the last couple of weeks: on Jan. 4, 78 Kmart stores and 26 Sears stores announced they would be closing, and on Dec. 27, 30 Kmart stores and 16 Sears stores announced closures effective this spring. (The Detroit Lakes Sears is not part of the closures.)
But closing stores isn't new for the company.
Peggy Kephart, a Hines, Minn., resident who stopped into the Detroit Lakes Kmart looking for Christmas sales Thursday morning as she was passing through town, said she used to shop at the Kmart in Bemidji before it closed a few years ago, but now she has to get her Kmart fix on trips, wherever she can find one-she just prefers it to other competitors.
"I hate going to Walmart," Kephart said.
As for the employees, they are unable to comment on the closure. Deferring to media relations, the company has tailored a statement, which reads in part, "The decision to close stores is a difficult but necessary step as we take actions to strengthen the company's operations and fund its transformation...But in order to meet our objective of returning to profitability, we have to make tough decisions and will continue to do so, which will give our better performing stores a chance at success."
The company is working to compensate "eligible employees" with severance packages and allowing others the chance to apply for jobs at other Kmart locations; however, a dying breed, there are only six stores left in the state, the closest being an hour and 45 minutes away in Thief River Falls.
But the closure isn't just affecting the employees and local shoppers. As a corporation with many moving parts, a ripple effect unfolds.
Rodney Sumpter, who has been a custodian at Kmart since 2006 through a contracted maintenance company, says he's not sure what's going to happen to his job, or that of the three other custodians he works with-but he's hopeful.
"We're kind of hoping whoever comes in here will consider us taking over, since we already know the store," said Sumpter. "They're going to need a cleaning crew."
It wasn't always like this, though. Kmart had it's day. Dubbed "the city's largest retail establishment," the store had shoppers swarming on its opening day, Thursday, Jan. 31, 1991.
In fact, Kmart's first customer was former Mayor Larry Buboltz himself with a purchase of $6.11.
As for who will be the store's final customer, that tidbit is unknown until April 1, when the store officially ends its liquidation sale.


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A Heart Overwhelmed/
I have an affliction. It's a good one I think. I am not sure what to call it or why I have it. Maybe you have it too. I've caught a glimpse of it from time to time in conversation with other ladies over the years.
Sometimes, My heart hurts, and it's a good hurt. It's a deep "moved" feeling. Ya know, like when you hear someone say "I was deeply moved" ? It will be a seemingly insignificant thing that prompts it. Yesterday it was the sound of my Harmonic Wind Chimes blowing in the gentle breeze as I gazed out at the beauty of the deep magenta colored Cosmos growing in the garden. I suddenly was overwhelmed by that moment. Overcome with gratefulness and wonder. And then it was there, like a deep ache of emotion for this moment. You find yourself wondering, does anyone else see this ? Hey, can you hear that ?
I wonder about the catch phrase of our day "be present in the moment". Is that what this is ? Or, is it my lack of hormones ? Or, is it what the scriptures call "A heart of thanksgiving"? Remembering back to the phrases of my youth like, "Stop and smell the roses". Whatever the label, whatever it is, I am enjoying it.
Today, take a small space of time and allow yourself to really "drink in" a moment. A child's laughter, a garden, the sound of water, a beautiful painting. Beauty is all around us. It's delicious!! Be "present" to be "moved deeply" as you "stop and smell the roses" with a "thankful heart" and lots of "TOWANDATUDE!"
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Customs and Border Protection expects the Importer Security Filing (ISF) Mitigation Guidelines to be published in the Federal Register on July 17, 2009. In its continuing partnership with the NCBFAA, CBP has briefed the Association on the contents of the mitigation guidelines to ensure that the membership is fully aware of the newest ISF developments.
Circumstances Initiating a Liquidated Damages Case:
- There are four situations that may initiate the issuance of liquidated damages: the importers' failure to file an ISF as required by law; a late submission; and inaccurate submission; and the failure to withdraw a filing. Where law enforcement goals are clearly compromised, such as smuggling attempts, fraudulent activities, terrorist activities, and other actions clearly contrary to law, importers can expect to receive no consideration of circumstances for mitigation.
Failure to File an ISF:
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An inaccurate submission of information on an ISF:
- A liquidated damages case will be issued in the amount of $5,000.
- In this area CBP has clearly attempted to allay fears by indicating that they will take into consideration how and from whom the ISF Importer obtained the information for use in the ISF and the Importer's ability to commercially verify the information received. CBP will continue to allow parties to present information that they believe to be reasonably true at the time of filing, and will continue to be flexible as long as the Importer is able to demonstrate that it has taken measure to verify the information to the extent commercially possible. Additionally, CBP acknowledges that some data is beyond the control of the Importer, such as rolled bookings and vessel diversions. In those cases CBP will take these factors into account when issuing Liquidated Damage Cases.
- If there are successive filings of the ISF Date to perfect or correct the data transmitted, CBP will consider only the filing closest to the allowed filing timeframe, which is typically the last ISF filed, for the purposes of issuance of Liquidated Damages. This clearly indicates that there will not be a per transmission penalty issuance. CBP also acknowledges that Data may change somewhat during the transaction itself, and that the correction process is designed to allow for reporting of changed information prior to arrival in the U.S.
A late submission of an ISF:
- A Liquidated Damages Case will be issued in the amount of $5,000.
- As CBP expected, the phase-in period has demonstrated several commercial challenges in obtaining all of the information required in a timely manner. CBP indicates that they will be fair in evaluating the timeliness of the filing and will continue to work with those parties who have participated in the process to date. The filing of provisional data is always an option for importers and by only utilizing the filing closest to the timeline of filing for the issuance of Liquidated Dames, CBP encourages all Importers to file data based on that which is commercially available to meet timelines.
The failure to withdraw a filing:
- A Liquidated Damages Case will be issued in the amount of $5,000.
- CBP has indicated that it is important that Importers and Filers withdraw an ISF when it is known to be invalid. This may be a result of the cancellation of an order, the discovery of a significant change in the information necessitating a new ISF Filing, a complete change in routing, or for other commercial reasons.
Mitigation Amounts:
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Mitigation Factors:
- CBP will outline six mitigation factors for use in determining cancellation of Liquidated Damages Cases. A summary is provided below:
- Evidence of Progress in implementing ISF compliance during the Phase-In period.
- The number of ISFs compared with the number of violations.
- C-TPAT Tier 3 and Tier 2 importers will receive consideration of up to 50 percent mitigation for violations.
- The importer has demonstrated that remedial actions have been taken to address the circumstances surrounding the violation.
- Inaccurate filings due to circumstances beyond the importer's control, such as vessel diversions and rolling bookings completely due to carrier actions
- Receiving incorrect information from another party in the supply chain, if this information is found to be incorrect at a date later than allowed under the correction timeline. Under certain circumstances the Liquidated Damages may be canceled without payment.
Aggravating Factors:
There are for Aggravating Factors that will be outlined in the Guidelines. A summary is provided below:
- The lack of Cooperation with CBP.
- Smuggling attempts and other actions contrary to law in association with the shipment.
- Multiple errors on one ISF.
- A rising error rate calculated over all ISFs.
Bond Guidelines Due
- Bond guidelines are still being worked on internally at CBP and are expected to be issued a few weeks after the mitigation guidelines. While the mitigation guidelines do spell out a likely limit of liability in that there is a possible total of $10,000 in Liquidated Damages that may be issued, the single transaction bond process and the ISF stand alone continuous bond limit of Liability is expected to be fully outlined in the bond guidelines.
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Maceo Parker
Referencing Shakespeare, Parker joked: "I always thought the question was to be or not to be... funky!" For Parker, there's no doubt that the answer was, is, and will always be positive: he's made a career out of being just about the funkiest cat around.
Many musicians come and go on the popular music scene, but few are still kicking strong at the age of senior citizenship. At 65, though, saxman Maceo Parker is no mere musician. He's been one of the planet's greatest ambassadors of funk for more than four decades and -- if his recent Fillmore show was any indication -- shows no sign of slowing down in 2008. Parker and his band, aka "the tightest little funk orchestra on Earth," rolled into San Francisco for a triumphant show that proved age has little to do with the ability to conjure a groove. Parker hit the stage to deliver a performance that easily stood in vitality alongside those of musicians still wombside when he first began funking it up. The vibe at a Maceo show is something special, likely because those present understand how privileged they are to witness this American civic treasure do his thing. Parker is without doubt one of the most influential players in modern music history. He was a stalwart with James Brown in the '60s, helped catalyze the Mothership Connection with George Clinton in the '70s, and has collaborated with the likes of Bootsy Collins, Ray Charles, Prince, Keith Richards, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Mathews, Ani Difranco, and more. That Parker is still around to help music fans get their groove on is nothing short of a blessing from the music gods. Artists with a jazz background generally don't tour behind albums like rock bands do, so despite the fact that his latest album, Roots and Grooves, is a big band-style tribute to Ray Charles, this show remained about "2 percent jazz, 98 percent funky stuff." Parker did don some shades for a tribute to Charles that slowed things down a bit to give fans a slight breather. But for the most part, he and his band laid down one funky groove after another during a dance party that had the crowd moving all night. Although the average age of the crowd was a bit older than a typical Saturday night at the Fillmore, there was still a wide range. Younger gals shared grooves with older pals, and no one blinked an eye -- the funk is, of course, a cross-generational phenomenon. Parker was on top of his game throughout the evening, spicing up the show with little stories and anecdotes about -- what else -- the funk. "It's all about the funk, all night," Parker proclaimed early on to mass approval. Later, he referenced Shakespeare's famous "to be or not to be" question. "I always thought the question was to be or not to be... funky!" For Parker, there's no doubt that the answer was, is, and always will be positive: he's made a career out of being just about the funkiest cat around. With a little help from his superb band, of course, who made sure the funk stayed strong throughout the show. Bassist Rodney "Skeet" Curtis laid down some compelling low-end during an early bass solo and kept it thumping all night. Trombonist Dennis Rollins and trumpet player Ron Tooley joined with Parker throughout the night to form a stellar three-piece horn section that covered all kinds of musical ground. Guitarist Bruno Speight frequently used a nifty, neck-picking style for extra slinky funk vamps; that same style exploded late in the show in a sizzling guitar solo that showed his chops were only on hold in service of (what else?) the funk. The band threw in memorable teases throughout the night of songs like "Iko Iko", "Hey Pocky Way", and "Atomic Dog", with Parker even singing a line of "bow wow wow yippy yo yai ay." At the end of the show, the band returned for a high-energy romp through the classic funk anthem "Pass the Peas", during which Parker displayed just as much vitality as earlier in the show. Available evidence would seem to indicate that the funk works as some kind of fountain of youth: Maceo Parker is 65 and still in his prime.


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We show for the first time the dynamical relationship between the generation of magnetic field-aligned electric field and the temporal changes and spatial gradients of magnetic and velocity shears, and the plasma density in the Earth's magnetosphere. We predict that the signatures of reconnection and auroral particle acceleration should have a correlation with low plasma density; and a localized voltage drop should often be associated with a localized magnetic stress concentration. Previous interpretations of the E||-generation are mostly based on the generalized Ohm's law, causing serious confusion in understanding the nature of reconnection and auroral acceleration.


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So, I've had a few days off the past couple of weeks...ah, the unpredictable life of a freelancer... I've actually kept pretty busy, but the last couple days I've gotten a bit stir crazy. That's when a friend reminded me that the Stanley Kubrick exhibit was ending soon! So I decided to rush over to LACMA yesterday to see it before it closed.
Go NOW--it closes after June 30th.
But, if you don't have time to go, at least you can see a little of it here on the blog.
I have only seen a couple of Kubrick's films (I love The Shining ), and I think the exhibit would resonate better with people who have seen more of his work. I definitely want to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove now. I still appreciated seeing all the behind-the-scenes elements about him as a director and filmmaker.
Spartacus, a letter to Kubrick from Kirk Douglas
Clockwork Orange, original costume
2001: A Space Odyssey, miniature set replica
The Shining , my favorite! So fun to see so many original props.
Did you feel like you were just watching the movie? Oops, spoiler alert!
They also had scripts for several of the films where he had made notes upon reading it for the first time. Pretty cool.
My main takeaway was: Kubrick was a weirdo. But I guess geniuses usually do have a screw loose somewhere.
- Buy your tickets NOW! they were sold out for the day when i got there, but luckily i'd bought them ahead of time online HERE
- Carpool! parking at LACMA is $10, eesh
- Give yourself at least 2-3 hours. You'll want to check out other parts of LACMA, including a Picasso wing and a Matisse special exhibit.
In other news...who wants to buy me a Rothko? ;)


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Memorial Day Weekend Fashion Picks
Summer's unofficial kick-off is finally here. Hit the road in style with our easy, fashionable weekend picks.
1) This light, feminine dress will be a go-to all summer. Tory Burch.
2) Clip on tassel earrings, Tuckernuck
3) Versatile nude strappy sandals go anywhere, with anything. Splendid.
4) A quick fix for dry, pasty stems that haven't seen the light of day for months. Caudelie Divine Legs is an ultralight tinted body lotion that gives legs an instant glow. BONUS: no parabens, sulfates or phthalates. Sephora.
5) Cozy hand crochet cotton sweater keeps the evening chill at bay. Calypso St. Barth.
6) Top it all off (and hide frizz) with an iconic and chic panama hat. J. Crew.
7) Keep the make up bag light and easy with products that multitask. Charlotte Tilbury Beach Stick in Moon Beach can be applied to eyes, chicks and lips for an all over dewy glow. La Roche-Posay tinted moisterizer is a revolutionary product widely recognized as the best in the category.
8) You need a bag...so it might as well be pretty. Blu Kicks carry-all tote.
9) Cute pops of color flamingos make this cut out one-piece stand out. Solid and Striped + Poppy Delavingne.


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Monday, February 8, 2010
First glimpse of Eclipse
Bitten by Ginger @ GReads! at 2:53 PM
Labels: Eclipse Movie
14 enjoyed the bouquet.:
- alison said...
yawn. wheres jake?
- February 8, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Ginger said...
He's building a tent somewhere.
(I was about to say "pitching a tent" no joke! haha)
- February 8, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- alison said...
I'm sure thats also accurate,Ginger ;)
- February 8, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Jes said...
I like the colors! and so happy to see Edward in a bright happy color after NM and his horrid wardrobe... began reading Breaking Dawn again this week on a whim...love Edward so much.
- February 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Sheri said...
Oh I love it! :)
- February 8, 2010 at 3:58 PM
- Tricia said...
LOVE it! I can hardly wait until June 30th!
- February 8, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- Kari said...
This is so exciting! <3!
- February 8, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Jenny said...
for once they have him looking good!
- February 8, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Corinne said...
Why is her hair so greasy? Blech.
I really wan to be in that meadow right now, not this 10 inch snow...
- February 8, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- debra-- said...
These pictures are good :) but what is with Bella.?
I normally like her but she seems so butchy with her weird wig hair.'
I hope they bring out more!
- February 8, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- heatheryruth said...
LOVE THEM! Although I agree Bella is looking kinda Butch. Edward looks great!
I look forward to more glimpses and I also hope we see a trailer soon! I have to say I'm a little worried that these will be the "lightest" glimpses we get. I hear D.S. is known for darker and Scarier stuff. I never get that "feeling" when I read Eclipse. I really hope he does it well cuz it's by FAR my Fave book!
- February 9, 2010 at 8:04 AM
- Jes said...
it totally looks like Bella had her arm amputated in the bottom pic.
- February 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- debra-- said...
HAHAHA it does too!!
- February 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM
- Ginger said...
omg HAHAHA Jes, it does.
- February 10, 2010 at 9:42 AM


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Franus Architectural Associates, Inc. is a western Pennsylvania-based architectural firm specializing in renovation and new construction design, construction management, and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) design for commercial, municipal, and residential projects. The firm began as a solo endeavor of Architect Daniel Franus and has expanded to a staff of experienced professionals and boasts more than 800 projects successfully completed.
Over the course of the firm's 25+ years, we have developed a collaborative approach to working with our clients.
We don't begin a project with assumptions. We don't try to categorize or pigeon-hole a client or project. Each client is unique. Each project is unique. Therefore, each design is unique. A careful process is followed for us to get to know each client and what their goals and wish lists are for their project. We will offer suggestions based on our experience -- and local building codes -- but we will never force a design through for the sake of a particular look or trend. We have come up with some distinctive solutions to
out-of-the-ordinary situations. Ultimately, we offer user-friendly designs that fit within budget.
We know every project site is dynamic and things don't always go according to plan. That's why we do all we can to be responsive to questions and concerns that arise during the project. Our office staff answers phone calls personally, e-mails are responded to, questions do not go unanswered and concerns are not brushed off. This is standard not just for our clients, but for the engineers and contractors involved on projects, as well.
We design in detail -- lots and lots of detail. Our clients' projects are planned, designed, and drawn with meticulous attention to detail. Our drafters take the time at the beginning of a project to produce a highly-detailed set of drawings so that the majority of material and labor costs can be determined up front with a high degree of accuracy. We also shy-away from using custom-building material. As long as we can use standard, easy-to-find material that is attractive and appropriate for a project, we feel that is the best use of funds. Practical planning and the level of detail in the drawings eliminate the guess work and minimize questions throughout the course of the project.
At Franus Architectural Associates, Inc. we stand by our mission statement:
Franus Architectural Associates, Inc. strives to develop innovative designs that meet the demands of the real world by utilizing our team's extensive experience, talents, and open communication style and by providing our clients with the personalized attention they deserve. Our collaborative approach to building design allows us to work hand-in-hand with clients and contractors by developing creative solutions and highly-detailed plans that bring projects to completion as close as possible to established schedules and budgets. This results in our clients' dreams being realized in the form of attractive, easy-to-maintain, and energy-efficient buildings.


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IN writing a suicide note, as in all other forms of social observance, the highest achievement is in giving the appearance of simplicity, naturalness, and joie de vivre. Foolhardy is the despondent correspondent who presupposes that imminent offing renders such appearance negligible. Quite the contrary: the last impression is of even greater consequence than the first!
Sadly, the art of suicide note–writing in the present day is shrinking to the point that the note itself threatens to become an e-mail, a text, a tweeted string of weeping cat emojis. There are of course those determined depressives who continue to pen suicide notes—employing a fresh turn of phrase here, a delightful keenness of observation there—but the point is that the practice demands effort, which is precisely the thing the melancholic Millennial seems to consider it wholly unreasonable to expend.
For these lazy lachrymose youths, some frankness: If subject-verb agreement brings you to tears, if you'd rather die than piece together a coherent paragraph, if the whole epistolary enterprise seems hopeless and you simply cannot write a suicide note to save your life: then don't. It is far from certain that friends, family, and the relevant authorities would not rather have nothing in lieu of a suicide note all too obviously displaying the meagerness of its message in out-to-lunch orthography and slapdash semantics!
I. Improving the Suicide Note's Appearance
The suicide note is a reflection of taste and character, and a "sloppy" note badly worded and spelled, with unmatched paper and envelope, reeking of vodka and scrawled in blood reflects not some enticing insouciance but disinterest, disdain, and disregard—assuredly not the impression one wishes to leave directly before self-shuffling off this mortal coil!
While it is permissible to produce a suicide note with word processer and printer, it is the handwritten note on fine stationery that truly registers. One must take care to write neatly and legibly even while wailing, and to choose a tasteful paper. Mailing the note is not compulsory but, when appropriate, can be a thoughtful touch—though visits to the post office can be difficult for the woebegone wordsmith, already so sorrow-sodden and frustration-full.
II. Beginning the Suicide Note
For those peering over the precipice of personally performed dispatch, beginning the suicide note is far and away the most arduous step of the whole undertaking. Pitfalls are plentiful. Here is an example of how not to begin a suicide note:
March 31, 2015
Oh CRUEL World!!!!!!!
Well I tried and tried but you just wouldn't listen so now here we are. Happy?????
This is most certainly improper, starting with the form of address, which manages to be vague, pretentious, pejorative, sensational, and ungrammatical all at once. One should avoid random capitalization and repetitive punctuation, which is not merely tacky but also indicates insanity, and one must always ensure the subject to whom the suicide note is directed is made eminently clear, e.g.:
Dear God Who Does Not Exist
Dear Messrs. Thanatos & Reaper
Dear Martian in My Head
The above opening line ("Well I tried and tried . . . ") is also much too egotistical, accusatory, redundant, gloomy, and plain boring. Far better to open a suicide note with an acute observation, or with an intriguing and humorous anecdote; one should endeavor in the first several lines to both engage the reader and tactfully display one's own erudition and wit. And don't skimp on that joie de vivre! E.g.:
Camus once wrote that it was in the depths of winter when he found, within himself, an invincible summer. To which I say, Good for Camus!
Not long ago, on a visit to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, I happened upon a stirring painting, a Lichtenstein. It was titled Hopeless. I got to thinking . . .
III. The Middle Part
An acquaintance was recently in receipt of a suicide note that contained the following passage:
And anyway, it won't be long now before I'm floating along the River Styx—if I can afford the ferry, I guess (ha ha). We all know making money's never been my strong suit, right Dolores? Not to mention I don't do well on boats.
Fully dreadful! Irredeemably self-pitying and dreary. For composing the middle of a suicide note the instruction is straightforward and of a piece: be friendly, be jaunty, be fulsome with compliments, and don't neglect to note things like pertinent passwords, when the Times subscription expires, and where you stored the cheese slate. E.g.:
Which is all to say that night on Capri was a gas and to thank you for introducing us to Paolo, who remains a dear friend. Speaking of Paolo, have you heard he's been named the Teatro di Tagliatelle's undersecretary for internal pipe organs? Marvelous, isn't it? Oh, please do make sure Eleanor receives my chartreuse tassel loafers (which are behind the sofa, inside the cat)—she does adore them so.
Miss Marzipan, I must confess an abiding admiration for your intelligence, quick laugh, and shapely ear lobes; it was a pleasure to know you as my pet skink. And Thomas, trusty greengrocer! I've always loved you! My tuning fork is hidden beneath the Dutch oven.
IV. Ending the Suicide Note
An intimate letter has no end at all, but a suicide note is an end in itself. A smart suicide note closes without histrionics; contra Mr. Dylan Thomas, going gentle into that good night is precisely what we're after. One should be pithy, be bright, and under no circumstances include a severed ear. Don't neglect the abundantly aforementioned joie de vivre, of course. And, mostly, just get it over with.


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30 Apr 2012
Color Rangers Enter the Velociraptor StageSubmitted by Mike
The Color Rangers have entered tween/teen age. ...or as I like to call it, "The Velociraptor Stage". If you ignore the whole 'wing' thing, they do look like depictions of various types dinoaurs. My daughter says that chickens go from ugly (freshly hatched), to cute (fluffy chicks), to ugly (Velociraptor), to cute (adult chicken). ...I deffer the judgement of cuteness to the expert.


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Galbiati Group will participate as an exhibitor at the next MDA- Motion & Drive Automation, HANNOVER MESSE 2017 fair, which will take place from the 24th to the 28th April in 2017. The MDA in Hannover is one of the most important trade fairs in our field worldwide. It is the industry's largest marketplace and the perfect venue to meet decision-makers in mechanical construction and power transmission challenges, to set guidelines for the industry and discover new market trends and scopes.
The last 2015 edition was therefore a great success: with 6.500 exhibitors coming from more than 70 countries and 220,000 visitors with 70,000 coming from outside Germany. The show placed a major emphasis on the digitization of manufacturing, Industry 4.0 which will be the key point of even '2017 edition. Digital integration is becoming a key aspect of modern manufacturing and this trend is set to continue at a rapid pace.
Galbiati will attend the Fair, as a company internationally recognized for the engineering and manufacturing of its mechanical constructions and medium and large size power transmission gearboxes.
Come and visit us at pavilion 25, stand D33/1… We look forward to meeting you!


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Tower Paddle Boards is the premiere direct to customer wholesale manufacturer. They made a major splash in the paddle board market when they entered the Shark Tank and were able to get buy in from Mark Cuban.
|Overall Rating
|Tower 14' Xplorer
|Tower Adventurer 9'10"
|Tower Fit 9'10"
|All-Around/Light Surf
|Tower G-SUP 10'6"
Today they remain one of the elite SUP manufacturers offering iSUP's, solid construction and exotic material construction. They're best known for their iSUP series which remains one of the best value buys in the SUP market.
Tower's marketing pitch is they're the manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer, which means you'll save $500 or more on the purchase of a new paddle board. They're certainly one of the cheapest high end manufacturers on the market, but $500 might be a bit of a stretch.
Tower Paddle Board Products
Inflatable SUPs
Tower 14′ Xplorer
Tower's Xplorer is their 14′ touring/racing iSUP. It's pretty unique in that there are very few manufacturers producing 14′ inflatables. BOTE, makes a 14′ board, Valhalla – it's sexy as hell but it's also $2300. That's a professional racing board and really not ideal for the average paddler.
You're not going to see this board dominate the pro tour (you'll never see an iSUP used in races) but it does move around pretty well for an inflatable stand up paddle board. A great option for someone who wants a board for shorter tours!
The adventurer may be the best beginner board on the market. It's cheap, it's incredibly rigid, it is easy to store, easy to travel with and it can carry a rider up to 400lbs.
Yes 400lbs, pretty slick for a tandem paddle cruise.
The other main selling feature is how durable it is. I was always very careful with my inflatables paddle boards. After I saw the way my buddy thrashed his Adventurer around I went out and picked one up. You can throw this iSUP around and you're not going to find a hole the next time you go for a paddle. After all, what good is "portable" if it's not durable?
There is a reason that the Adventurer is currently the number one selling, paddle board in the world. This is a world class board for a very reasonable price. For anyone looking for a flat water board this is the one I recommend every time.
Solid Construction
Tower Fit 9'10"
The 9'10" Fit is another great entry level board. If you plan on eventually progressing your SUP skills to the surf you'll want to start by looking for a solid construction board as opposed to a an iSUP.
This board is beautifully designed and shaped for maximum stability, while keeping relatively short. The Fit achieves this by creating a wider than normal board. Creating a wider board allows you to reduce the length, while actually achieving slightly better stability. The one drawback is it doesn't maneuver as effortlessly as other sub 10' boards. Its great for smaller waves, but once you get over a few feet you'll want a skinnier, more mobile board.
If you've ever had a paddle board crack before this might be the replacement you're looking for. The G-SUP may be the most durable board on the market and it's sold at a very reasonable price.
Aside from the durability, the G-SUP is a fairly standard all-around board. It's 10'6" weighs, 30lbs and can hold a 250lb rider. Overall, this is a terrific board if you're prone to beating the piss out of your SUPs.


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Literally my favourite sort of wedding - an intimate gathering in a private home with all the little personal touches that make a wedding day special and memorable. I was thrilled when Leo asked me to be her wedding photographer. We've been working together for the last three and a half years professionally in her roles in PR and more recently at Pernod Ricard. It probably felt a little strange for her to be the subject of my lens for a change!
Three days before the wedding I had a call from Leo suggesting that I pack my wellies - the wedding venue (a beautiful house in Somerset previously owned by her grandmother and now on generous loan for the wedding day) had a river running through it - through the field and through the marquee. All hands on deck meant a pipe was laid and the flooring laid out to dry but alternatives were already being considered.... but as the day dawned it could not have been more perfect for a summer garden party. Bright sunshine, blue skies, lovely sunset and guests enjoying the beautiful gardens. Hours of lawn games, champagne and cake followed by delicious bbq lamb and salads all danced off with a very lively ceilidh at sunset.
Please get in touch if you would like to talk to me about your wedding photography.
The suppliers who made it happen:
Bridesmaids dresses, Monsoon / Caterers, Charlotte Archer in Bruton / Wedding Dress, second hand through Louise Selby who did the alterations / Hair, Louise Alway / Make up, Jenny Dayton, Flowers, Windmill Farm Flowers, Kate Gibbins / Cake, baked by their friend Fran / Ceilidh band, Csus4 / Marquee, Affordable Marquees / Loos, West Country Water Closets who also helped to pump out the marquee when it flooded!


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In front of a rapt audience in a Los Angeles film lot, Krepo hooks an enemy with his scythe and harvests virtual souls with a signature move called a "death sentence."
The grim scene played out time and again as Krepo and his Evil Geniuses team battled to victory in a League of Legends computer game match broadcast to viewers around the world.
After the triumph, Krepo — a 23-year-old Belgian whose real name is Mitch Voorspoels and plays the game as the dreaded character "Thresh" — was swarmed by fans hungry for autographs and photographs.
Welcome to the booming world of "eSports," where seemingly sun-starved players compete with their wits and a few mouse clicks.
"Professional gaming has been trying for years and years to catch on and now it is suddenly spreading like wildfire," said long-time game analyst Scott Steinberg, now general manager of Phoenix Online Publishing.
"League of Legends draws a die-hard crowd, constantly hungry to learn more," he said.
League play with characters such as mages, assassins and marksmen is so visually compelling and action-packed that it is a natural for online viewing, according to Steinberg.
League of Legends is the king of the hot trend in videogame play as a spectator sport, complete with sold-out stadiums and fans camping all night for tickets to matches.
"Playing League has earned us a bit of celebrity status," Voorspoels said after stepping away from a sea of adorers. "I don't think that is something any pro player dreamed of at the start."
Voorspoels began playing League while at university in Belgium because it is free, and online bouts — in which teams of five players each battle to capture opponents' bases — last about as long as a decent study break.
"Basically, it is a 30-to-40-minute slaughter of people trying to kill each other to get to the other base," Voorspoels said.
"On the best level, it becomes a chess match — you want to outsmart your opponents," he added.
The diversion from studying engineering became a priority. Voorspoels quit school to play League for a living.
His team's sponsors include Monster Energy drinks and high-performance computer gear maker Razer.
Coca-Cola recently became a backer of the League championship series run by Riot Games, the company behind the eSport sensation.
"Some games are like movies, and some are like amusement parks," Riot Games co-founder and chief Brandon Beck said in a statement. "League of Legends is like a sport."
Last year, the US Department of State began letting League players train and compete in the US under the same type of work visas provided to athletes in soccer, baseball and other pro sports.
Voorspoels' international team lives in a house on the Los Angeles coast, not far from the headquarters of Riot Games. A live-in coach keeps them battle-ready.
"The first years, it was rough, a risk, but as time has gone by it has exploded," Voorspoels said of going pro.
League seasons culminate with top teams from North America, Europe and Asia fighting for the crown and a top prize of US$1 million.
Players and fans depict the South Korean teams the best at eSports.


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The Chronicles of David [Part 8]--"What Fear Will Make You Do"
Introduction One of the greatest enemies to the child of God, is the enemy called Fear. Fear will make the believer act out of character, misbehave, not trust God, make decisions that are not godly and most of all run from what the Lord has called them to do. Fear has been known to cause some people to quit serving the lord, quit trusting the lord and quit believing in...Keep Reading


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DAY 1 - Early morning, transfer to airport to board a plane for Sandakan (via MH2042
ETD0700hrs). Meet and greet at the airport and transfer to jetty. At 9:30 AM, boat departs to Turtle Island. It takes about an hour to reach Selingan Island which lies 40km north of Sandakan in the Sulu Sea off Sabah's east coast. Selingan Island is the main nesting area for the green turtles. A day of relaxation for you to swim or snorkel at the island. After dinner, prepare to wait for the Park Ranger to inform us of the sighting of a turtle laying eggs. Learn about the conservation of these turtles; witness the collecting of eggs from the nesting site, planting them in the hatchery and see baby turtles scrambling to the open sea upon released on the shore. Overnight stay at the island chalet, room with attached bathroom.
Meals Included: Lunch/Dinner
DAY 2 – 06:30 AM check out and have breakfast and thereafter embark for the boat trip back to
the mainland Sandakan. Proceed to drive for about half an hour to Sepilok Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre where orphaned and injured Orang-Utan brought to Sepilok to be rehabilitated to return and fend for themselves back to the wild. Sepilok is a primary lowland forest; a fine showcase of Borneo's remaining rainforest. Witness the feeding of Orang-Utan from a platform in the forest and later watch the 25 minutes scheduled video documentary show. Return to Sandakan, stop for lunch at local restaurant.
At 2:00 PM after lunch proceed for a city tour and explore the various landmarks of Sandakan which may include Central Market, the most amazing variety of fresh seafood and agricultural products, Sim-Sim Water Village where houses are all built close to the water surface while observing the fascinating view of the sea, visit Puh Jih Syh Buddhist Temple which offers a panoramic view of Sandakan Bay situated on the hilltop of Tanah Merah. After tour, transfer to airport for your evening flight (MH3094 ETD1810hrs) back to Kota Kinabalu.
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text: Rio de Janeiro: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has called for revamping of the world anti-doping system in the wake of the revelations of widespread abuse in Russian sports. While addressing his colleagues at the 129th IOC session on Tuesday, Bach said the uncovering of Russia's doping incidents had exposed deficiencies in the current system run by the World Anti-Doping Agency. "Recent developments have shown that we need a full review of the WADA anti-doping system," Bach said. "The IOC is calling for a more robust and efficient anti-doping system. This requires clear responsibilities, more transparency, more independence and better worldwide harmonisation." Anti-doping bodies called on the IOC to exclude the entire Russian team from the Rio Olympics, which will begin on Friday, after the WADA last month released a report that accused Russia of "state-sponsored" doping, reports Xinhua. But the IOC ruled out a blanket ban on the Russian athletes and asked international federations to decide which athletes can compete. Bach defended the IOC's decision, describing the blanket ban as a "nuclear option". "Let us just for a moment consider the consequences of a 'nuclear option'," he said. "The result is death and devastation. This is not what the Olympic Movement stands for." Bach also stressed the IOC should not be blamed for the chaos coming so close to the Rio Olympics. "It is not the IOC that is responsible for the accreditation and supervision of anti-doping laboratories. It is not the IOC which can be held responsible for all alleged corruption between the leadership of an international federation and a national member federation to cover up doing," said Bach. "The IOC has no authority to declare any organization non-compliant with the WADA code. The IOC has no authority over the testing program of athletes outside the Olympic Games. The IOC has no authority to follow up on information about the failings of the testing system." Bach's comments were echoed by many of the IOC members. "I think it's not the reputation of the IOC that has to be restored, it's the reputation of WADA," said Israeli member Alex Gilady. "The failure to investigate serious and credible allegations more swiftly has left the sports movement ... in a very difficult position facing incredibly difficult decisions in an impossible timeframe," said Argentina's IOC member Gerardo Werthein. But WADA President Craig Reedie, who is also a vice president of the IOC, did not respond immediately at the session. IANS


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I'd started to believe I would never know my MA marks; and a bit of me preferred it that way – with Schrödinger's Cat and the flask of cyanide snugly boxed up I could imagine whatever I like.
And what I like to imagine is that I've been awarded a distinction.
I could have tried to discover the marks – I could have contacted the person who will know or the administrators who frighten me – but that was daunting, and a bit like temping providence.
Then – one Tuesday afternoon five weeks ago – I was in the library and I happened upon the person who will know.
I have been in a dark funk since that day. I saw the term 'dark funk' in an article and it is a perfect description of the way I feel; a sad mix of gloom and craven passivity.
One darkening Tuesday afternoon, five weeks ago, I meet the person who will know my MA marks in the library.
It is impossible (for me at least) to ignore the bulky cat-box on the floor between us. So, when we have established how well we both look, I ask the question. I ask the person who will know when we might find out about our marks.
'The Board met last week,' the person who will know says, 'your dissertation is with the administrators who frighten you and ready to collect.' (she doesn't actually call them that – I've never admitted to the person who will know that I am afraid of the administrators, although she might easily have guessed).
So I walk - limping slightly; the limp returns for the walk - very, very slowly, across the winter concourse that separates the library and the student centre, where the dissertation is ready to collect. The distance is about two hundred yards and the journey takes at least two hundred years. The student centre is jolly with light. Students and tutors, bathed in radiance from the windows, crisscross my path. They are chatting, and frowning and smiling and behaving as if nothing is odd.
I am waiting for the dissertation to be retrieved and there is a tap on my shoulder. It is the person who will know, again.
'I just thought I would come across and tell you…'
I nod.
'…we discussed your mark profile at the Board…'
I watch her mouth.
'…and we decided to award you…'
I wait. It is like the ticking tense pause they do to be cruel on talent shows.
'…a merit…'
And the cat is on its sad side at our feet. Its eyes are part open but milky-glazed and its body is a stiff as a branch.
'…well done!'
'Thank you.'
She speaks on, saying encouraging things about not letting the writing go and about not being disheartened by rejections.
I wonder – 'Is merit what they call a distinction at this university?' I wonder if the cat is merely in a black catty-funk, which would be understandable after being closed up in that nasty box for all those months.
The administrator who frightens me hands me the dissertation and I dare to touch the cat lightly with the toe of my shoe.
'erm… So – does it go Pass, Merit, Distinction?' I ask the person who will know.
'That's right.'
And there was really no need to check, we all already knew that the poor catty-sod had gone - you have been weighed and proclaimed kind-of ordinary.
I take the dissertation and sit in the disabled toilet and I look at my mark and I try to read the comments. 70%. I clawed my way to a 70% with the dissertation but it wasn't enough to raise the mark profile.
70% is good. I have done nicely. I should be proud.
I stare at the comments with milky glazed eyes and I ask my self what did I expect.
What did you expect?
A spectacular dissertation mark to raise your mark profile?
An invite from the external examiner to meet his literary agent?
A handwritten request to join a prestigious writers' group?
A special prize?
A big clock?
Well no. Well yes. I don't know – not the clock anyway, that'd just be ridiculous.
Aren't you grateful to have passed? To start with you didn't even know if you would pass.
I was being disingenuous when I thought that - I always knew I'd pass, I always knew I could get a distinction.
And how wrong you were. Why did you think you'd deserve such an accolade, why did you think you'd earned a distinction?
Because I worked a lot, because I tried so hard, because I wanted it – very much.
Ah! So. How do you think it all went wrong? Why do you think you weren't awarded a distinction?
I don't know. Maybe because I make fun of people to get cheap laughs?
Maybe because I don't recycle plastic bottles if they're oily and difficult to wash out?
Maybe because I added an espresso to my latte without telling the lady at the till?
It's none of those things, is it?
What about you weren't awarded a distinction because of these things:
You didn't make yourself write when you reckoned you were in pain; too weary; you needed to tidy drawers out, urgently?
You sometimes wrote lazy self-indulgent drivel rather than answering the question?
You sometimes cited smartass paragraphs from hard books pretending you'd read the whole smartass book?
Could be... But still, I really did want it – very much.
The person who will know makes such a point of how nicely I have done that, after a day or two, I am able to bask in the assurance that at least no one will have a better mark profile than mine.
Then – I meet the friend whose dissertation mark is so spectacular that it qualifies her for the big clock (were such a thing not ridiculous). And, with a sickening sickness, I realise that there are people with much better mark profiles than mine; that the person who will know followed me from the library to the student centre to save me from myself, to save me from my own stubborn delusions.
The person who will know knows me too well. She realised that when I saw my 70% dissertation mark I would continue to nurse vain hope until the official results were posted. The person who will know opened the cat box and showed me the merit to stop me making any more of a fool of myself. Better for me to be in a dark funk than for students and tutors to see me cutting a confident swath across the light-drenched concourse between the student centre and the library pulling a branch-stiff dead cat lashed to a set of old pram wheels.
I have friends with distinctions and I must be glad for them. I am glad for them, but I wish it was me. And it will always be this other thing now – on the record, on the lips, in the mind, until I am gone. No, even after when I am gone.
So, 70% for the dissertation is good. I have done nicely. I should be proud of myself.
But that is not how it felt on the day that I discovered that I didn't have a distinction.
ps my friend, Valerie, did her MA at Manchester was awarded a distinction and I am very, very proud and pleased for her!
pps The official results have just been posted and my overall average (by my calculation) is 69.11111111 (the 1s go on for ever). A number that has a spectacular quality all of its own.
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"Pakistani authorities have long denounced the strikes, out of concern that civilian deaths caused by drone strikes inflame the local population, bolster militant groups and violate Pakistan's sovereignty." -- CNN, July 26
"Analysts said the administration was still grappling with the fact that drones remained the crucial instrument for going after terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan -- yet speaking about them publicly could generate a backlash in those countries because of issues like civilian casualties." -- The New York Times, Aug. 2
Oh, the serious news! I read it with ever-fresh incredulity. It's written for gamers. It reduces us to gamers as it updates us on the latest bends and twists in the geopolitical scene. We're still playing War on Terror, the aim of which is to kill as many insurgents as possible; when they're all dead, we win (apparently). The trick is to avoid inflaming the locals, who then transition out of passive irrelevance and join the insurgency. They get inflamed when we kill civilians, such as their children.
This is the news: without moral depth or even curiosity. America is carrying out "targeted killings," over and over and over. The government has determined that doing so is necessary to keep us safe and that's all that matters. The mainstream media purvey the data to Spectator Nation, otherwise known as the American public, which goes on about its business. The disconnect seems almost total.
"But because the drone program remains classified, administration officials are loath to discuss it in any detail... "
This is the Times again. Same story. The facts just sit there, objective, shallow, unquestioned. Reading the news from an "of the people, by the people and for the people" perspective is excruciating. I believe, with a burning impatience, that if we had a truly independent media in this country -- a courageous and angry media, which revered the planet and human life and the concept of democracy -- we wouldn't be mired in our present wars and would, in fact, be deeply challenging the institutions that perpetuate war itself.
In point of fact, we the people are not at war. The militarized government and the corporatocracy are at war, and they own the media, which, in its reportage, assumes and thus continually strengthens the illusion that the government is a separate, independent entity, empowered to pursue its interests -- which are the same as our interests -- however it sees fit. And the peace movement, in all its multiple manifestations, remains on the social margins.
There is a serious yearning in this country and around the world to end war, and this yearning has become increasingly organized. But I don't know how it can gain sufficient political and social clout to influence national policy without the media on its side -- or rather, without a media grown up enough to articulate its vision. The Obama presidency, which successfully gamed this yearning for votes, has shown us how easily it can be ignored.
Even the best of the mainstream is boxed in by censorship and self-censorship. For instance, Mark Weisbrot writes this week in The Guardian/UK about a powerful, Peabody Award-winning episode of NPR's "This American Life," which aired a year ago. The reporting is sterling, except for one small detail.
The show revisited the village of Dos Erres, Guatemala, where a ghastly massacre took place in 1982, with government troops, under the regime of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, savagely murdering more than 200 people, including many women and children, and burying them in a mass grave. The hellish incident was part of the genocide against indigenous peoples the government of Guatemala carried out in the '80s, in which over 180,000 died or disappeared.
The missing detail: Ríos Montt was an ally of the United States. We supported him with arms, money and love. President Reagan called him "a man of great personal integrity and commitment," Weisbrot noted. Central America was then the central battleground of the Cold War and ruthless right-wing dictators there were our hedge against Communism.
The U.S. mainstream media ignored the atrocities being committed in our name at the time and, three decades later, still can't face our complicity in them. "For a program broadcast in English throughout the U.S., this is arguably the most important thing Americans need to know about the genocide," Weisbrot wrote.
I would second that. Something has to give in the Great American Consensus. We will never get to the business of choosing a peaceful future until we declare war obsolete, and that will never happen until we are able to look squarely at what we ourselves have done as a nation over the years, and what we're doing right now.
And we have to do so not as spectators but as participants.
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Distributed seismic monitoring for geological carbon sequestration
This collaborative project seeks to develop and demonstrate distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology applied to geological carbon sequestration. Field tests will be performed at the Gundih CCS Pilot Project, Indonesia and the CaMi Field Research Station (FRS), Canada.
By combining DAS data acquired from buried fibre cables and borehole fibre cables during multi-source seismic excitation experiments, and passive long term monitoring of the injection process, DAS has the potential to reveal information that could be used for optimising the injection process and validating well and geological formation integrity. The combination of DAS data with complementary data from EM -wave, conventional seismic, and gravimetric methods may provide further enhanced capability. DAS is a low-cost technique that fits well into the portfolio of monitoring techniques needed to secure safe injection and containment of CO2.
A cOTDR interrogation unit with software for controlling the unit and recording data will be designed and made. The unit will be verified by comparison tests with conventional geophone technology(WP1).
WP2 will focus on the design of the microseismic and 3D VSP field experiments. The design work will take into account geological data and geophysical models. This ensures best experiment geometry at surface and depth for the buried fibre, as well as best configuration for the combination of acoustic source and the fibre cable.
Full stack seismic data from base and monitor surveys will be analysed. Difference techniques will be used to identify anomalies. VSP data from DAS systems will be used to calibrate seismic data and rock physics models for supercritical CO2 will be used to model and help the interpretation. Further will time-lapse AVO methods be tested.
Visualization techniques to enhanced seismic volumetric imaging will be provided and geo-modelling and flow simulations of the interpreted seismic data will be performed (WP3).
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