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The future is not somewhere we are going. It is something we are creating. Every day we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.
The average global temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide (one of the major greenhouse gases) have fluctuated on a cycle of hundreds of thousands of years as the Earth's position relative to the sun has varied. As a result, ice ages have come and gone.
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Music, art, books � they all round out a healthy life to make it fulfilled and happy. Here I have a confession to make: When it comes to music, I am outmoded: I prefer classical music.
BUT it is not my fault. Here is how I was brought up and how my tastes were formed:
As a child, my father would sit the kids on the sofa, in a row, and would play endless records for them, mostly Beethoven and Wagner. We children were bored, predictably, and eagerly waited for him to get his fill of rum and milk to fall asleep. He was a brilliant doctor, and a hopeless boozer. At those moments, we children didn�t mind him drinking � we prayed he�d get drunk fast enough so that we could get away and play.
At around twelve � like all teenagers then � I fell in love with Elvis Presley, with Paul Anka, with the Everly Brothers. For my thirteenth birthday, I got a gramophone � the first among my friends; one could play 45er records on it.
But then my parents shipped us off to boarding school; family life had become too unpleasant. The boarding school was housed in an old castle, with bastion, cannons and forgotten towers, and the rules were strict: All music was verboten. No radio, no gramophone � cassettes had not been invented, I think, and CDs were far in the future. For several years I had no access to music � except for my piano lessons by a flamboyant Hungarian teacher who was a sensation in our all-girls boarding school.
Every morning, at assembly, some girl performed a musical piece, on the piano, violin, flute, for the edification of all of us, allowing us to doze a few more minutes. Tchaikovsky was already too modern for the taste of our stern headmistress, which resulted in a bland musical diet of Bach, Pachelbel, Telemann, Monteverdi. You get the idea � no more Everly Brothers.
One teacher had a young wife who was just a bored as we girls were. She invited a few of us over for tea and � gasp! � subversive music; she also owned a gramophone. The music she introduced us to, never had I heard anything that heavenly! It was Mozart�s Kleine Nachtmusik. This music became the battle song of our secret rebellion � those sixteen-year-old girls in their school uniforms, sipping tea, and plotting their future lives. Oh, our lives had to be so different from our parents!
In case you think that the morning assemblies were our only exposure to music � we also had ballroom dancing lessons. Without boys, of course. And what we learned was � foxtrot? No! waltz? No! rumba? No! � we learned quadrille! Quadrille is an old-fashioned dance, slightly more modern than minuet, and actually the forerunner of square dancing. No wonder that the summer I turned seventeen and learned English in Bournemouth/Great Britain, I went out every single night to the Ritz Ballroom and danced rock�n� roll. Except for Sundays, when everything was closed. And I thought it must be awful to be old � like, twenty-five! � and not go rock�n�rolling anymore.
When I came out of jail, uh, boarding school, to my own surprise, I had outgrown Elvis. The world meanwhile was crazy about the Beatles. But I had become jaded; I couldn�t get interested in pop music anymore. Instead I went to endless Wagner operas � they couldn�t be long enough for me - and classical concerts whenever I could afford them.
For fifty bucks I bought an old piano plus a piano stool and a huge heap of ancient sheet music. All classical. Playing piano all night helped me greatly getting over boyfriends that had dumped me.
Fast-forward to my six-year-old son declaring he wanted to learn cello. Nobody in the family had ever thought of cello! In his first Suzuki lesson I fell in love with the sound of the cello (which in itself is another convoluted story). Because I didn�t want to take it away from him, I waited until he turned to acoustic bass in his teens. Then I took up cello lessons � am still taking lessons now, years later. Even as a late starter, I am finally out of being a beginner; I am solidly intermediate now and play my cello every day.
There is a wonderful old book by John Holt: Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story. He took up the cello later in life � a story similar to what I am telling here, only degrees more obsessive!
If you do something only ten minutes every day, you can�t but get better. And: It is never too late.


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As a continually available source of encouragement and direction, we are posting these audio sessions from our Conferences. May the vulnerability of these speakers as they share their personal journeys as well as the wisdom they have gained from their experiences and training help you on your own journey of healing, recovery, and restoration.
Developing Spiritual Intimacy
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Recorded at the 2012 Marriage Redeemed Conference
In this presentation, Dennis & Georgia vulnerably share their hearts…their journey…and discuss the importance of the spiritual side of recovery and the deeper healing that God really wants each of us to have. Dennis: "Learning how to be intimate with God goes hand in hand with learning how to be intimate as a couple. If we do not believe totally 100% that God really does love us (no matter what we've done) and forgives us, then we'll never be free of the shame of our addiction." Georgia: "A lot of us depend on our knowledge of God as a substitute for a heart relationship with Him. Knowing a lot about God is never strong enough or deep enough to sustain us when our world falls apart. Never! We each have to examine ourselves to see if we are pursuing intimacy with God or just more information about Him."
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Months after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's corpse was exhumed over suspicion that he may have been poisoned, Al Jazeera has published what it says is a 108-page report by the team of Swiss scientists who tested the body. The report says that the team's findings "moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210."
But what is polonium, how does it kill and why is it often associated with political assassinations? This video explains all the important details in just three minutes. Fair warning, the quality is a bit poor; it's from 2006, after defected KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London when someone slipped polonium into his tea.
Here are some of the key details:
• Polonium is extremely deadly when ingested in even microscopic amounts, but is relatively harmless outside the body.
• It is 250 billion times as poisonous as cyanide.
• It's typically produced in nuclear reactors through a complex process, which is why it's associated with nuclear-capable governments.
• The symptoms are very painful and similar to other forms of radiation poisoning.
• It looks like a silvery powder.
• One mistake in the video: As the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission explains here, polonium that can be purchased online is in a different form and not deadly.


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Role of Socialization in Forming a Personality
Human is often characterized as a social animal, and it is to a great extent true. Human as a human can only exist among other humans; being deprived of communication with the representatives of his species, he ceases to become a man in a full meaning of this word.
Human is the only being, known to us, that almost completely lacks instinctive behavior. If a puppy is taken from its mother, he would still grow up to be a dog; the same goes for cats, wolves, cows and any other animals, but not human. If a human child is taken from the society before he starts to talk and is given to some animals to raise, he will grow up with the psychology of these animals, without knowing anything about being a man.
Socialization is a key for creating a person. Without communication with other people a human loses his human qualities. That is why it plays such an important role in the life of society – to subject a person to the proper socialization means creating a new personality in a way that would make it possible for this man to exist within the society.
Socialization plays especially important role at the early age; to the extent that a child who is not talked to enough during the first years of his life may be having certain problems with further development. It means that this matter should be treated with great attention, for, perhaps, the whole life of the person may be determined by the way he underwent socialization in his early childhood. And we shouldn't forget that everything that happens in the beginning of life influences it in its entirety.


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Just days after it was revealed that New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt when he was critically injured in a wreck last Thursday night, new reports say the SUV he was a passenger in was doing 91mph in a 65 mph zone just before the crash according to police.
The Associated Press reports that the state trooper who was driving the SUV was wearing a seat belt and received only minor injuries.
The governor was on his way to take part in a meeting between radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's basketball team and was running late.
Corzine suffered multiple broken bones, including a compound fracture to his thigh.
At press time Wednesday, a governor's spokesman said hospital officials would be announcing "positive developments" about his recovery.


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I'll be speaking at the St. Louis .NET User Group tonight. Here's the abstract for the talk:
Introduction to 3D Gaming
Please come out if you're interested in gaming and what it takes to create a blockbuster title.
Thanks for the great turnout everyone. This was one of my most interactive presentations ever!
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You may not be aware of the many services that XL Services a div. of AT Vardi, Inc. provides.
To illustrate the variety of our assignments in just one month, here are some examples of our balanced, real life construction and personal injury expert witness projects so far in October 2014:
- Attend and assist as defense expert in mediation of a multi unit condominium building in El Segundo, California with allegations of construction defects in case involving a roofing client
- Commercial building fire damage cost assessment located in Vernon, California including emergency shoring plans and specifications on behalf of a New York based insurance company. No litigation is involved.
- Attend and assist as plaintiff expert in mediation of Goleta, California single-family residence construction defects with primary focus on framing and stucco issues.
- Provide trial testimony as defense expert witness at Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, California, concerning water damage claim to an apartment and garage and cost of storage.
- Conduct a site inspection in Fullerton, California as a defense expert following an allegation of personal injury by an automobile to a pedestrian at a well-known fast food chain. Inspection followed with a detailed review of public records at the City of Fullerton Planning Department.
- Conduct a site inspection in Burbank, California as a plaintiff expert following a claim of a trip and fall accident in a common area of an apartment building.
- Conduct a site review of a Montecito, California early 1900's mansion on behalf of the property owner as a building consultant in order to provide opinions regarding habitability issues, property damage, and scope of repair. No litigation is involved.
- Conduct a site review of a Malibu, California early 1980's beach front condominium on behalf of the property owner as a building consultant in order to provide opinions regarding water intrusion, roofing, siding and termite issues. No litigation is involved.
- Provide expert opinions involving a personal injury claim at a large retail chain in Riverside, California on behalf of the defense
- Provide additional testimony in deposition on behalf of plaintiff involving a multi-million dollar construction defect claim to a hillside custom single family residence in Los Angeles, California
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The diamond tennis bracelet is one of the most versatile and elegant pieces a woman can own. This sparkling specimen got its name from tennis superstar Chris Evert at the 1987 U.S. Open: When her slim diamond bracelet fell off, officials stopped the match so she could find it and put it on again. Sportscasters referred to it as the "Tennis bracelet incident," and thus, a star was born. Women love the simple lines and clean look of diamond tennis bracelets. It looks equally lovely worn with jeans and a cashmere sweater or with a chic black cocktail dress. It even looks fabulous with a couture evening gown. If you are thinking of treating yourself or someone you love with a gorgeous diamond bracelet, remember these basics:
2-carat bracelet means that the total weight of the diamonds together is 2 carats
bracelet with diamonds cut to match a favorite ring is a stunning combination
tennis bracelet looks best loosely draped over the wrist; choose a size that won't sag over the hand or fit too tightly
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A diamond tennis bracelet will add a touch of elegance to any outfit you wear. Contact us or visit any of our showrooms in Tampa, Clearwater, Savannah or in the Orlando area to see our exquisite collection of diamond bracelets, earrings, rings, pendants, and other fine diamond jewelry. We know you'll find something you love.


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Steps to Use It:
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- Track purchase conversions in real-time
The Dashboard provides you with the knowledge and the power to promote your products and services online. Start out by reading the Marketing Tips section, which includes powerful suggestions on optimizing your site for search engine placement, creating content and navigation that is clear and usable, giving appropriate keywords and meta tag information, and finding the marketing tools that are right for you.
Once your site is ready, you can create affiliate programs and purchase online advertising from any of our partners or your own favorite advertising company. You can also use the built-in tools and directories within the Dashboard to launch direct mail or even television advertising campaigns.
With the Dashboard, you can see real-time campaign performance, click-to-conversion ratio, even your ROI on the entire campaign. Quickly learn where your marketing dollars pay off the most so you can optimize your future advertising budgets!
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Search Engine Submission
Drive traffic to your site by submitting your site to all the major search engines. The Dashboard Marketing Tips section will help you optimize your site so that you get the right traffic to the right pages in your site.
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Advertise Online
The Online Advertising system in the Dashboard takes the mystery out of online advertising and makes it easy for you to advertise online. Learn which methods will work best for your business and view advertisers' pricing in a side by side comparison. Use the Dashboard's quote manager to request quotes automatically from all of our major advertising partners.
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Use the Affiliate Program system within the Dashboard to create pay-per-acquisition programs for your online business! Whether you sell products, memberships, downloads or all of the above, you can create accounts for affiliates, resellers, partners or anyone who wants to sell your products. The Dashboard delivers a monthly commission report that let's you know how much to pay each affiliate. Export reports for use in QuickBooks to completely automate your affiliate program!
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It's your Surrey, have your say!
We recognize it's challenging to keep informed of everything happening in the City of Surrey let alone attend Open Houses or provide your valuable input in other ways. CitySpeaks is a quick and easy way to have your say about decisions important to you.
Join CitySpeaks today! - It only takes about 3 minutes.
CitySpeaks Features
- Get Invited to Online Surveys - Receive email invitations to complete online surveys (no more than 2 per month).
- Choose the Topics that Interest You - Add your opinions and thoughts to those topics of interest to you!
- Stay in the Know & Have Your Say - Influence decisions affecting you and your community.
Survey Results from CitySpeaks
When becoming a member of the CitySpeaks community, we share data results routinely as you participate in future surveys. Data results are shared post-event once compiled and processed by staff as part of future reports. Examples of recent surveys from the past year shared with CitySpeaks members include:
- Smart Cities Challenge Community Engagement
- Homelessness Study
- Member Satisfaction Report
- Electric Vehicle Strategy
As the City conducts 200+ surveys a year, the best way to keep informed on engagement topics and see data is to join CitySpeaks. Beyond the CitySpeaks member panel, the City administers many open invitation surveys to all residents and interested parties to share their opinions on the same topics as addressed in CitySpeaks. We call these either Open Community or Active Surveys. See Surrey Surveys for examples of current open surveys and related results.
When compiling data, the City uses multiple engagement methods to help shape decisions including; open surveys, focus groups, open houses, CitySpeaks surveys, social media, public meetings and steering group meetings. CitySpeaks Surveys are an important data set as the methodology conducted uses scientific research methods to help ensure the results are representative of the entire community. This way City of Surrey planners and decision-makers receive very accurate insights from the community and know the results reflect those of the community.


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A typical non-profit board of directors has a small number of members, some of whom are employees of the non-profit and some of who are not. This mixture of "inside" and "outside" members ensures that the non-profit's management benefits from a wide variety of viewpoints, experiences and knowledge.
Boards can have any number of members, but in practice, most boards have between three and 30 members to ensure decisions can be made quickly, while not allowing too few people control over the entire organization. Boards are usually structured to have an odd number of members to avoid ties or other voting deadlocks.
Most non-profit boards have a chairman of the board who sets priorities and holds the ultimate responsibility for the board's decisions. As in corporate boards, this chairman is often the chief executive of the non-profit.
In addition to the chairman, there are typically several inside directors, generally made up of other high-ranking leaders from within the non-profit. These inside directors are joined by outside directors and individuals who have leadership positions at other non profits (or, less commonly, high-profile celebrities who are associated with the non profit's cause). Together, these directors help make decisions and guide the non-profit as the board of directors.


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Bricknell Cottages
York, Yorkshire
Close to historic York and the bucolic Yorkshire Wolds, five cosy farm cottages with stylish interiors & private courtyards for sunny days
£68 p/n
How to book
If you have any questions or want to enquire about dates, use our form to contact Gerald & Ros Carter or see their website for more information.
From £68 per night
From £475 to £1100 per week
Gerald's beloved cows, 'Ethel', 'Ruby', 'Peach' and 'Roxy', may have moved to pastures new, but the creatively converted stables and milking parlours they once inhabited have been named in their honour. Five lovely red-brick cottages now stand in this peaceful farmyard on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. A couple of Highland cattle remain, but this has been transformed into a bucolic retreat where families and friends can relax in cosy barn conversions with private courtyards. Rustic comfort and style combine, with Shaker kitchens, imaginative furniture crafted from reclaimed wood, and wonderful freestanding baths – some in the bedroom. Ranch-style interiors are an inspiration, and although décor varies, there's an emphasis on relaxed, rural style throughout; cowhide sofas are a jaunty nod to the past, while wood-burners in 'Ruby's Retreat' and 'Ethel's Escape' provide warmth on cold evenings. A brilliant games room is well-stocked with DVDs, table football and a pool table, but if you'd rather head out, there's a pub in the village and wonderful walks from the door. York is a short drive for history and culture.
- Swimming pool
- Hot tub
- Garden
- Open fire / woodburner
- Breakfast included
- Breakfast available
- Meals available
- Oven
- Parking on premises
- Free parking nearby
- Accessible by public transport
- WiFi
- Television
- Central heating
- Limited mobility
- Wheelchair access
- Mobile reception
- Hob
- Barbecue
- Vegetarian meals
- Paid parking nearby
- Air conditioning
- Relaxation areas
- Washing machine
- Tennis court
- Microwave oven
- No smoking
- Credit cards
- Working farm
- Owner has pets
- Electricity included
- Dishwasher
- Pets welcome
Family friendly
- Baby monitor
- Books and toys
- Children welcome
- Babies welcome
- Stair gates
- High chair
- Cot available
- Pub/bar within 3 miles
- Restaurant within 3 miles
- Shop within 3 miles
- Bikes available
- Food courses
- Kayaking
- Other courses
- Sailing
- Surfing
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Booking information
- Booking restrictions
- Minimum stay: 7 nights in high season. Short breaks available.
- Closed
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- Property
- This property is part of a working farm or vineyard.
- Owner has pets
- Animals living on the property
- Nightly price
- from £68
- Weekly price
- from £475
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- From £963 bedrooms
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The neighbourhood
Local points of interest from Gerald & Ros Carter
- The village of Fangfoss is quiet yet has places to visit like the Rocking Horse Shop and Museum, Fangfoss Pottery, a Pine Furniture Maker and of course The Carpenters Arms.
- The pub, The Carpenters Arms, is just a stroll of approximately 200m from the cottages. Recent new owners are proving very popular and we are getting many a mention in our visitors books telling us all how much they enjoyed their time there.
- The children will enjoy a walk down the lane from the cottages, where there is Jubilee Park. Developed for the children of the Fangfoss parish it has proved very popular with visiting children. Slides, swings, Zip wire etc. all free of charge.
- Our Games room is popular with all ages, everyone is an expert at table tennis! We have Air Hockey, a football table and a Snooker table where Billiards and Pool can also be played. It's amazing how children mix together to create their own competitions.
- The fantastic, historic city of York is just 12 miles away, park and ride just 15 minutes from the cottages. Walk the city walls, see the famous Railway Museum or just walk the atmospheric streets, view the architecture and the beautiful York Minster.
- Lovely places to eat surround us, from the Pub at the bottom of the street, to York and the surrounding villages or to sample the famous fish and chips from the Magpie in Whitby.


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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J., Nov. 21 — The man identified in court documents as A. B. does not talk to his neighbors or tarry at the convenience store. Seventy-seven years old, soft-spoken and sometimes confused, he hardly ever leaves the little ranch house he bought in 1969. "People know what's what with me," he said.
What's what with A. B. is that he moved back here last year after serving seven years in prison for sexually molesting two grandchildren and another youngster. And because his home is in a "child safety zone" drawn by the township, he may be forced to leave it.
But the public defender's office in New Jersey, a state government agency, filed suit against the township on his behalf last month, claiming that the ordinance not only violates his right to due process, but also conflicts with a state law requiring that parole officers decide where registered sex offenders live. It is the first such case the agency has taken up, and could herald a curb on the rapidly proliferating local ordinances that threaten to push pedophiles to the fringes of civilization.
Such regulations — more than 100 have been enacted in New Jersey municipalities — are popular around the nation. More than 20 states have broad laws keeping sex offenders from schools, churches, playgrounds and the like. This month 70 percent of California voters approved expanding statewide restrictions to include more sex offenders, and authorized towns to designate even stricter limits.
On Long Island, the East Rockaway Village Board voted on Nov. 13 to add areas in which sex offenders are barred: Now they cannot live within 1,000 feet of day care centers, community centers, places of worship, libraries and recreational facilities. And the Village of Babylon announced Tuesday that it had evicted seven offenders who were violating its residency restrictions.Continue reading the main story
The steady march of more and more restrictive regulations, though, is sending sex offenders into rural territory, which in New Jersey and on Long Island is scarce — or worse, into vagrancy, law enforcement officials say. Now these officials fear that uprooting sex offenders makes them less stable and harder to track.
"It certainly makes our job difficult," said Thomas James, New Jersey's director of parole, explaining that because his officers often have to find housing and social services for offenders, their banishment by local governments is "an ever-increasing problem."
But Michael DiGiorgio, chief of police here in Franklin Township, said, "We're not telling any of these individuals they can't live in Franklin Township; they just can't live where the children are."
"That's the whole purpose of the ordinance," he added. "To protect children."
A. B.'s name is on the state's registry — "I'm broadcast on the Internet," he said — but he was identified by randomly chosen initials in court papers, and granted anonymity for this article, so as not to expose his victims. His lawsuit, filed in State Superior Court in Gloucester County, is one of a handful filed across New Jersey in recent months to overturn the local rules, part of a national wave of litigation that is beginning to follow the multiplying new laws.
An Ohio court ruled in October that the state's buffer-zone law could not be enforced against offenders who lived in such zones before it took effect. Citing several constitutional concerns, a federal judge in California issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the residency restrictions set forth in the state's recent ballot proposition.
In Georgia, plaintiffs in a class-action suit include several offenders who would seem to pose little further threat: an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease and another living in a hospice, along with a woman whose long-ago conviction was for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old boy when she was 17.
"We've represented people on death row, we've represented what I thought were some pretty unpopular people," said Stephen B. Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, which is handling the Georgia case. "I didn't know what unpopular was until we started representing sex offenders."
Professionals who treat sex offenders say those who are forced to move often drop out of treatment programs. Civil liberties advocates say the restrictions unfairly punish people who have already served their sentences. But perhaps the most potent complaint about the ordinances is one articulated in A. B.'s lawsuit: that they impede the state's ability to track the offenders in the first place.
In Florida, which has 1,000-foot buffer zones, a survey of 135 offenders showed that about half had to move after the law was adopted. In New Jersey, officials said they were unsure how many of the state's 12,500 registered offenders had been displaced.
"Do you want to throw them all out of their homes? Where are they going to go?" asked Tom Rosenthal, a spokesman for the state public defender's office. "Law enforcement is already empowered to tell people to move. If they feel someone shouldn't be there, they can tell him to move and he can be gone in an hour."
A. B.'s future is uncertain because his house is half a mile from a lake, a recreation area under the terms of the township ordinance. So are most other houses in this 56-square-mile township of 16,000 people, a rural expanse in South Jersey where communities grew up around lakes, campgrounds and public parks.
A. B. and his wife live on Social Security income of $1,200 a month and have no assets other than the house and a 1996 Ford Taurus. He left school at 16, having completed only the sixth grade. He delivered telegrams for Western Union, later drove a truck and then worked as an office assistant at an appliance business that went bankrupt.
At age 68, A. B. was charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child; he was accused of fondling the genitals of a 3-year-old boy and a 21-month-old girl, and performing oral sex on a 6-year-old girl.
In prison he had a heart attack, and a doctor later told him that in the hospital his heart had stopped. "Maybe they should have left me dead," he said in a recent interview at his kitchen table here.
Since his release from prison, A. B. has mostly stayed home to care for his wife, who is mentally ill and spends her days at an adult-care center in Glassboro, about 10 miles away. The two biggest towns nearby, Vineland and Millville, also have residency restrictions on sex offenders.
"I looked here, looked there," A. B. said of the possibility of having to move, "but the cheapest price for anything decent is $850 a month." A. B. was originally ordered to move by Oct. 25, but the township has agreed to let him stay until the suit is resolved.
The mayor, David Ferrucci, said that Franklin Township, unlike some smaller, more compact towns that effectively zoned out sex offenders entirely, had "a reasonable amount of housing outside the zone."
The ordinance, adopted 13 months ago, applies only to those convicted of sex crimes against minors, and follows the state's three-tier system. High-risk offenders cannot live within 3,000 feet of designated places, including schools, parks, churches, theaters, libraries and convenience stores. The zone extends 2,500 feet for the moderate-risk group and 1,000 feet for low-risk offenders.
The ordinance also prohibits loitering in those areas. A. B., a moderate-risk offender, says that he is afraid to go to church, and that when he buys cigarettes for his wife at the Wawa store a few miles away, he does not talk to anyone. On his parole officer's advice, he said, he avoids public places whenever possible. As required, he goes to group therapy sessions every two weeks.
"I wouldn't do anything out of the law," he said. "I'm scared. I don't want to spend another day of my life in prison."
Experts say at least 90 percent of child molesters, like A. B., abuse relatives or family friends. Yet Charles Onley, a researcher at the Center for Sex Offender Management, a project of the federal Justice Department, said that "most of the laws are passed on the basis of the repulsive-stranger image, when in most cases the offender knows the victim."
Still, parents' demands for reassurance are hard to dismiss, especially as sex offenders are forced out of neighboring towns.
"How could legislation like this be done better?" Mayor Ferrucci said. "Let the state do it. I would be a huge advocate for that. We're all out there as municipalities grasping for opportunities to protect our citizens."
The public defender's office contends that the New Jersey Legislature acted 10 years ago when it adopted Megan's Law, named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old Hamilton Township girl whose murder by a released sex offender prompted extensive restrictions on offenders when they leave prison. They are registered by local police departments, tracked by parole officers and, in many cases, required to report regularly for psychological treatment. Several bills proposing further residency restrictions have been introduced, but the Legislature has not acted on them.
Many other states, though, have enacted buffer-zone legislation since Iowa's law was upheld by a federal appeals court in April 2005; now, the county prosecutors' association is urging repeal of the law as ineffective and unfair to offenders' families.
Some states, including New Jersey, have tried other solutions, including civil confinement of some sex offenders after their prison terms. But last week, New York State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, struck down the practice of confining offenders to psychiatric hospitals after they leave prison and ordered hearings to determine whether those being held should be released.
Gov. George E. Pataki, who last year ordered the confinement of 12 offenders after lawmakers failed to agree on legislation that would have explicitly permitted such detention, said he would call for a special session of the Legislature this week to push for a civil confinement bill.
Even as New Jersey's courts consider possible constitutional problems with local residency restrictions, new ones keep coming.
On Tuesday the City Council in Jersey City enacted an ordinance that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, park, sports facility, theater or convenience store, among other places. The measure exempts offenders who already have established residence in such zones, but bars newly released convicts who want to return home or move in with relatives. Taken together, the zones block out virtually the whole city.Continue reading the main story


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Pentecost Sunday
Reflection 10 for June 8, 2014
Text (Gospel Story) John 20:19-23n 7
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this to them, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."
(Leader) We are temples of the Holy Spirit, carrying within us the power of God, so we pray:
(Together) Spirit of God, show us the way.
(Leader) When we find it hard to forgive others,
(Together) Spirit of God, show us the way.
(Leader) When we search for peace of heart,
(Together) Spirit of God, show us the way.
(Leader) When we meet the broken-hearted,
(Together) Spirit of God, show us the way.
(Together) Amen.
Sharing the Mission
In his last days, Blessed Frederic Ozanam … would lie silent for hours with the Bible open by his side. One evening he lay watching the sun sinking into the blue Mediterranean; his wife had drawn her chair a little behind him … something in the extreme serenity of his countenance prompted her to ask which of all the gifts of God he considered the greatest.
He replied without hesitating … "Peace of heart; without this we may possess everything and yet not be happy; with it we can bear the hardest trials and the approach of death.''
At times your visits and what you encounter can cause some distress. How does your conference support each other through these periods?
Allow yourself some quiet time this week to reflect on your service.


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Midday on Sunday, August 4, a Fairfax man was killed when his car sped out of control and slammed into a T-Mobile store on Fairfax Boulevard.
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The man, 29-year-old Vladislav Bochkov, was traveling eastbound on Route 50 and had stopped at a Fairfax Boulevard light near the Kamp Washington intersection. When the light turned green, his car rapidly accelerated. Crossing three lanes of traffic, the median, and the eastbound lanes of Fairfax Boulevard, Bochkov's 2004 BMW 530I struck the side of a T-Mobile store.
While no patrons or employees of the T-Mobile store were hurt—nor were any other drivers or pedestrians—Bochkov was pronounced dead at Fairfax Hospital. He had not been wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident. No other occupants were in Bochkov's vehicle.
Police are investigating whether excessive speed or alcohol contributed to the crash, but will also investigate whether a medical condition played a part. The City of Fairfax Police Department Crash Reconstruction Team, as well as the Virginia State Police, were at the scene working to determine what was behind the devastating wreck.
Sunday's accident was the year's first fatal crash in the city of Fairfax. The last deadly accident was in August of 2012, when a pedestrian was struck by a car and killed. Residents of the area say that it is particularly challenging to navigate, but law enforcement officials claim that signage is clear.
The Virginia car accident attorneys at Lewis & Tompkins extend their deepest condolences to the family and friends of Vladislav Bochkov.


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"A memoir, viewed through books…"
I've never read a book by an anonymous author before, but the writer here isn't really anonymous, as she's someone I follow on Twitter. @bookcunt caught my eye a while ago, she tweets about books a lot and is quite sweary. If her twitter handle offends you, you're probably not going to like this book, so we'll weed you out right here.
Apart from the title I had no idea what to expect from this book at all. It's actually exactly what the author says, A Fucked Up Life in Books, with each chapter, or story associated to the book she was reading at the time.


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R Anyone reading The Novel Road regularly may have noticed that I have certain opinions when the subject of Literary Agents arises. I have had some of the best agents in the publishing business as guests and they all have one thing in common: Their clients LOVE them! These agents engender loyalty from both successful and debut authors. They are passionate about their clients and their work.
My guest today easily makes my list of "Great Agents", gaining a +++++ score in virtually every category of what to look for in an agent.
Looking for an agent? Put Michelle Wolfson's name very, very high on your list of who to pray will be representing you. Don't believe me? Pop over to Tawna Fenske's site and ask her (remind her for me that August 2nd is just around the corner).
An author should look at a number of things when they start searching for an agent. Their client's opinions (once you know the agent actually represents your genre) is the absolute benchmark, the Holy Grail on which to base your decision. Clients like agents that sell, return phone calls and work with you - not just for you.
In this – Advantage Michelle
Here is a bit about my guest from her website:
"Michelle Wolfson formed Wolfson Literary Agency in 2007 and is actively seeking authors of commercial fiction in the following categories: mainstream, mysteries, thrillers, suspense, chick-lit, romance, women's fiction, and young adult. She is drawn to well written material with strong interesting characters. She is also interested in practical and narrative non-fiction projects, particularly those of interest to women."
"Michelle holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from New York University. Prior to forming her own agency, Michelle spent two years with Artists & Artisans, Inc. and two years with Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd. Before that, she spent several years working outside of publishing, in non-profit and then finance, and she brings the skills she learned there plus a lifetime love of reading to the table as an agent."
I'm pleased to welcome Literary Agent Michelle Wolfson to The Novel Road…
|Michelle Wolfson
Me: The Wolfson Literary Agency has a purposely small list of authors and is garnering a reputation for picking winners. Everything from non-fiction to romance. What is it that gets your attention?
Michelle: I definitely think of myself as someone who falls in love with voice first and foremost. That's what stands out and makes me really fall in love with a book. Although I really love a story that I just can't put down, so maybe a great plot too. Yes, definitely I'm looking for a gripping plot. You know, the kind where I want to go to sleep at night but I keep telling myself one more chapter and the next thing I know it's 3:30 in the morning. But I finished it! Although maybe it was the characters. I guess you could say it's the characters that get my attention. The kind of characters whose stories I don't want to end. The kind where I'm emailing the authors at 3:31 in the morning saying there's a sequel, right?? Please, tell me there's a sequel! That was a clear answer to your question, right?
With non-fiction, I think it's a little different. I am not a big non-fiction reader myself so I approach these a little differently, trying to assess the market for the topic, comparing it to what's out there, and of course, how big the author's platform is. And finally, is it a topic I find interesting. Even in non-fiction, I'm really only interested in representing books that I really love.
Michelle: That book is really incredible, isn't it? I feel so proud to have worked with Tchicaya and Travis on that one. Travis was actually my client first for his fiction, and my relationship with Travis actually could answer so many of your questions in this interview it's crazy. He's unbelievably talented and you'll be hearing from him someday on the fiction front.
In any case, as often happens with agents and authors, someone said to Travis, I have a friend you should meet—he's got a great story to tell. And so Travis met Tchicaya and spent the first of countless hours with him hearing some of Tchicaya's horrifying and awe-inspiring tales. Travis wrote about 40 pages after that meeting and sent them to me and I was hooked. About two months later I was in California and I met with them in person, and once you meet Tchicaya, you're pretty much in it for the long haul.
They were meticulous in their work; Tchicaya basically told Travis his entire life story in interviews and then Travis wrote it and Tchicaya would help clarify details. It was really an incredible process to watch.
Tchicaya makes people feel proud to be American. He makes people appreciate what they have and not take anything for granted. Tchicaya may have been born in the Congo, but in my mind, he's the very embodiment of the American Dream.
Me: What genres do you feel will be selling in 2011 and beyond?
Michelle: Most definitely the ones that people buy.
Me: Is it true that if someone sends a case of Starburst or Tootsie Rolls with their query letter you request a full manuscript?
Michelle: Now that is absolutely not true. You would definitely have to pick out all the yellow Starburst for that.
Me: Your in-house gang, "The Wolf Pack" was recently seen picking on the "Team Team" of Janet Reid. In fact your gang made Sean Ferrell cry, Jeff Somers leave his pants at the scene, Dan Krokos ran home to Cleveland and left Gary Corby chanting "Kri-kee". Any comment?
Michelle: Are you sure they weren't crying because you're referring to them as the "Team Team"?
Me: As a literary agent, you look for what you are passionate about, as well as what will sell. Has there been a time when you found a book you loved, but knew it wouldn't sell?
Michelle: I don't think there has been a book that I loved and knew wouldn't sell. I have had a couple that I've absolutely loved that didn't sell where I really just didn't understand why. The kind where there was brilliance there and people were seeing it but there was something else going on. Those are the ones that kill me. And break my heart. Man, this is kind of a depressing interview. Can we go back to the "Team Team"? Shouldn't we be picking on them or something?
Michelle: So when Travis Sentell, co-author of In the Shadow of Freedom: A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America first sent a query to me (yes, he too was plucked from the slush), he copied and pasted a freelance editor's letter at the bottom of the query. Naturally, the editor gushed about how brilliant Travis's work was etc. And of course I'd never heard of this editor. So when I responded to request pages, I said something along the lines of, "Well, if Mr. XYZ says I'll love it, then I'm sure I will. Why don't you email the first 50 pages." We still joke about it to this day. To me, it feels almost as random as having your mom or your best friend give a reference. Maybe slightly more professional, but bottom line, it doesn't really matter to me what this stranger thinks. You do your work before you send it to me and then I trust my own taste.
If you feel you need an editor before querying, hire one. If not, then don't. But certainly I wouldn't do it with the idea that you are impressing an agent.
FYI, Mr. XYZ's name became something of a joke between me and Travis, so the day eventually came when I received another query telling me—you guessed it—my manuscript has been professionally edited by Mr. XYZ. Despite the fact that the topic was only of marginal interest to me, I felt I had to request pages. A silent homage to Mr. XYZ. Alas, I passed on the manuscript.
I'm not exactly sure what the moral is here. But maybe you can draw some grand conclusions from it. I don't know that big name, freelance editors (if any exist) contribute much to your query. Ultimately I'm going to make my own decision. I think plenty of people get a lot out of critique groups and other forums. But that's a personal decision.
Why are we talking about such a personal topic? Let's move on already.
Me: How high on your list is narrative voice and narrative distance when you are considering a manuscript? The importance of each?
Michelle: Narrative voice is incredibly important to me. If I'm not taken with the voice, I can't fall in love with the manuscript. Although I would describe myself as having commercial taste, which I think means I love a good plot, without the great voice to carry it, I don't think it really has a chance of standing out.
Narrative distance is sort of like POV in my mind. Anything goes and I don't necessarily notice unless I think it's done poorly. I want to get caught up in the story and maybe (maybe), think about these things later. I want it to be so well done that I didn't even realize you were doing it, whatever it is. Go ahead, manipulate my thoughts, manipulate my emotions, just do it well.
Me: I send you a 150,000-word manuscript. It's a mess, the title is even misspelled , but you read the first page and it catches your interest. Do you send it back with a note explaining, "Spell Check", margins and sentence fragments, or do you keep it? What state do you like to see a manuscript in before you work on it?
Michelle: So I once took on a client whose manuscript was a whopping 175,000 words. But nothing else really applied and it was a work of brilliance and one of my most devastating non-sales ever.
But I was also much younger then.
I don't want to be the one to tell you here that your manuscript isn't the exception and you can't have it be 1,000 pages, and have you shout at me well ABC was a huge success and look how long that was. And also 345 agents rejected that. Those kind of discussions exhaust me, quite frankly. If you think you have that exception, I say more power to you. And if you can write a coherent enough query to hook me in a paragraph or two, then fabulous.
Guidelines are just that—guidelines. Same goes for generalizations. But most of the time I find that when a manuscript is way too long, it's not because it just had to be that long to tell the story; it's because there wasn't enough editing.
As for whether it can be a mess and I can mold it into brilliance—well, once again, I've seen it done. I've heard of it being done. I've even worked with agents who have done it. But I'm probably not your gal.
Me: Do you have a character, from a manuscript you have taken on, that has left a mark on you?
Michelle: I don't know if this is cheating, but I will say that Tchicaya Missamou's story in IN THE SHADOW OF FREEDOM, not to mention meeting and working with him in real life, has made a lasting impression on me. I am not even talking about the horrors he witnessed as a child soldier in the Congo, but rather Tchicaya's unbelievable perseverance. Tchicaya has steamrolled through obstacles his entire life to achieve incredible things, and yet remains grateful for the simple freedoms and pleasures that those of us who were born here take for granted every day. I don't know a single person who read his book or who met Tchicaya and did not feel inspired by him and I'm no different.
Me: I've written a post on literary agents, in an ongoing series I call "Writer's Angst". In it, I try to describe how tough the literary agent business can be on each agent as an individual. What would you like every author to know about literary agents?
Michelle: I think it would be great if writers remembered that literary agents are on your side.
Me: The Publishing Industry is facing enormous challenges in the not so distant future. A number of smaller Houses have closed, Literary Agencies are taking on fewer, if not more select clients. Paint us a picture of the Publishing Industry five years from now.
Michelle: I envision a world where publishers call me up every day begging to look at the next manuscript by my clients. They make offers and then before I can respond, they call me back and say, "You know what? We don't think that's enough. Let us offer you some more money and go over our 42 point marketing plan to support the launch of this future best-seller."
I think one of my strengths is strategizing with my clients and helping them achieve their goals. I hope that is something that doesn't change in 5 years or 15 years or 50 years if I'm still agenting when I'm 62.
Me: Is there anything you would like to say to new authors breaking into the business?
Michelle: Hmm, my first three attempts to answer this came out really depressing. I say trust your instincts. And if you love it, then do it. And stick with it until it happens.
Me: I told a new author not to even look the term up "Query Letter" until he's done with his manuscript. I think many would be authors get wound up in writing the perfect query at the cost of their MS. Is this a fair statement?
Michelle: I've never really thought about this to be perfectly honest. I don't know why you would start writing your query letter before your manuscript is done. To me it feels a little like writing a cover letter for a job application before you're even done with college. But I think that while writing, you can/should be educating yourself about the industry, and part of that is querying. I don't think the perfect query letter will get a crappy manuscript published. But likewise, a perfect manuscript may not get published without at least a decent query letter.
What I do think is important is to think about the commercial viability of your work, and I don't mean writing to trends. Again, I mean learning something about the business of publishing. Query letter writing is a part of the business. I think it behooves you to know what it's about. You wouldn't apply for a job after scrawling down your past employment on a bar napkin. Why wouldn't you take the time to research the proper way to approach agents and then spend some time to get it right? When you do it is up to you.
That feels like a depressing and downbeat end to the interview, even though I'm aware that Doug may very well change the order of the questions. But just in case, let me end with saying that it can happen for you. I've seen amazing stories happen. Authors plucked from the slush who have soared to the New York Times bestseller list. I've even had authors who have done that. And it's been a longer, bumpier road for others. But the years are going to pass anyway. You might as well have worked towards what you wanted in the meantime, with the hopes that you'll accomplish something great. I believe you can do it.
|Did you know Michelle is in a band?
I'd like to thank Michelle Wolfson for doing this interview and the very best to you Michelle, always!


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Dune2K-Mod is a not-for-profit fansite devoted to continuing the lifetime of Dune 2000.
Dune 2000 solely remains the copyright property of Electronic Arts.
No part of the game should be sold.
Even after its release in 1998, Dune 2000 had formed a large enough fanbase to keep its legacy going on.
After the launch of D2K+ Toolkit, Dune 2000 resurfaced as an actively modded game.
Our website dedicates ittself to make mods for the game or standalone files of the game for people to enjoy the legacy of Frank Herbert in a new way.
We have begun work on a Dune 2000 Mod called Emperor Chronicles The Rise Of Corrino Empire which will be available as a standalone game rather than a mod file.
Also we are thinking of undertaking further projects for recreating Dune in a new way.


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Our leadership team decided long ago to trust that our employees are capable, competent adults with much to offer, and we base our company and decisions on that premise.
Beloit, Wisconsin (PRWEB) August 23, 2011
FatWallet today announces its recognition as one of the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ in the United States. This annual award recognizes top employers that display leadership and innovation towards engaging their employees.
"We're honored and excited to be named one of the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces," stated April Kunzelman, HR Director. "Our leadership team decided long ago to trust that our employees are capable, competent adults with much to offer, and we base our company culture and decisions on that premise. We believe this philosophy creates high engagement."
The 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ Awards panel of judges evaluated each applicant on how they measured up to other organizations based on the Eight Elements of Employee Engagement™: Communication, Leadership, Culture, Rewards & Recognition, Professional & Personal Growth, Accountability & Performance, Vision & Values and Corporate Social Responsibility.
The panel of judges included Dr. Bob Nelson, PhD, Best Selling Author and President of Nelson
Motivation Inc., Paul Hebert, Managing Director and Lead Consultant of i2i, Stacia Garr, SR Analyst with Bersin & Associates, Debbie McGrath, Founder and Chief Instigator at HR.com and Razor Suleman, Founder & CEO of I Love Rewards.
"More employers are realizing that the most successful organizations are those that invest in employee engagement," said Razor Suleman, CEO and Founder, I Love Rewards. "All of our award winners are ahead of the curve – they should be extremely proud."
FatWallet will be honored alongside other recipients of the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ Award at the awards gala on October 26, 2011 at the W Hotel in San Francisco, California.
About FatWallet:
As the preferred online shopping resource for millions of savvy consumers, FatWallet.com works closely with hundreds of retailers like HP, Newegg, Walmart and Amazon to publish thousands of special offers, discounts, coupon codes and Cash Back rewards to "ready to buy" internet consumers. The much celebrated FatWallet forums represent the pulse of an evolving online marketplace where smart consumers gather to share and learn. Voted "One of the 50 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work for in America" by Great Places To Work®, FatWallet ranks as one of the top 600 internet properties in the nation. (Quantcast)
About I Love Rewards:
I Love Rewards is an employee recognition solution that helps companies recognize brilliant performance and empowers employees to choose their own rewards. Unlike traditional service award programs, I Love Rewards creates authentic moments of recognition that resonate with workers of every generation. I Love Rewards' clients include 3M, Eli Lilly, Marriott, ConAgra Foods and Health Now. On the web at iloverewards.com.
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Gimmicks cause problems for Sunny Drake's No Strings (Attached).
NO STRINGS (ATTACHED) by Sunny Drake (Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander). Runs to March 26. Pwyc-$20. 416-975-8555. See Continuing. Rating: NN
Not every performer can pull off a solo show. The good news is that writer and performer Sunny Drake can - he's a charismatic and instantly likeable performer with energy to spare. The bad news is that he doesn't trust himself to pull it off alone. As a result, in No Strings (Attached), he's forced to contend with an endless parade of pre-recorded video projections, text message conversations and puppet dream ballets that constantly upstage his story.
Drake plays Jimmy, a trans man so in love with love that he's wound up in Romance-aholics Anonymous. Clearly, Jimmy needs someone to talk to: he's fresh from a not-quite-perfect poly relationship and far from over Brian, one of his exes. Over the next hour or so, Jimmy fills us in on his journey beyond the heteronormative and monogamous mechanics of mainstream dating in the hopes of discovering an acceptance of himself and those he loves.
In her program notes, director Gein Wong mentions how rarely we see a story by and about a trans person that doesn't position them and their bodies as spectacle. She's right, unfortunately, and the fact that No Strings (Attached) goes deeper is one of its strengths. Drake has written a piece that feels both personal and political and casts a canny eye on evolving definitions of modern relationships.
Ironic that a show seeking to avoid spectacle has way too much of it. In one sequence, rather than simply recounting a conversation, Jimmy literally jumps back and forth in a tiring and unnecessary he-said, he-said. Another repeated convention imagines Jimmy as a game show contestant (he plays the host, too) only to convey an already interesting story about post-breakup broken hearts.
This may come down to having too many collaborators. The approximately 25 listed in the program include four video designers, two greeters and a ballroom dance consultant. They do some strong work, but I can't help but wonder what No Strings (Attached) would have been like without so much "theatre."
Queer and trans stories have long been asked to adopt sensationalized forms to justify their stage time. They don't need to, and Drake's is no exception. Occasionally, he gives us a moment of real connection. Most of the time, though, we're just watching him talk to himself.


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Belpearl is a family farming business, which has been trading and designing
pearls since 1933. Belpearl is a mix of oriental and occidental designs with lebanese roots,
living between Japan and Hong Kong and farming in the most beautiful places
of Pacific. All ingredients was there to inspire me!
I've discovered with great interest the world of pearls, its history, its
big names, its textures, an absolutely fascinating world.
Belpearl gave me the mission to redefine the contours of their graphic
universe. For me it was a new kind of branding work, out of my comfort
zone. I was more used to dealing with the playful universe.
The Belpearl house developed both, collections of modern baroque jewellery
as well as more sophisticated and modern jewellery. The challenge was to
find a graphic balance between these two universes.
Even though the general aim of the brand is to develop more "modern"
collections, we cannot ignore the baroque heritage of the brand.
Here are the existing graphic elements that the brand has developed in the
We will keep the BP monogram in upper case. However, I expressed
reservations about the dominant use of the navy and the pictogram with the
seahorse shaped shield.
The navy blue does not marry well with the shades of pearl, I have replaced
it with black, which is more elegant but also timeless. I have offered to
develop a range of complementary colours and patterns to illustrate the 4
large pearl collections that the brand is working on.
1. Inspiration
The graphic base language is an accumulation of lines similar to coral
structures.It gives an interesting rhythm, a spontaneous beat, a flow. We
will use these lines on all our patterns.
2. Logo and Monogram
We have retouched the letters from the original logo and added a baseline
as well as a monogram.
Here are the final 2 designs which were chosen.
3. Patterns & Colors
4 complementary patterns and colours for 4 pearl types
This study was the subject of lots of graphic research, here are some
drawings that I've developed but have not been retained because they were
too complicated compared to the minimalist and modern identity that the
brand wishes to follow in the near future.


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Bad money tip #1: "Pay your smallest debt first" When prioritising which debts to pay off fastest, take a look at the interest rate being charged on the loan rather than focussing on the size. It makes sense to make extra payments on a big, high interest credit card debt ahead of a smaller, lower interest personal loan.
Bad money tip #2: "Only focus on spending (not income)" Many tips for improving an individual's financial position focus on where spending can be cut – but look at the other side of the budget ledger as well. Can income be increased? Earning an extra EUR100 a month might take less of a toll on lifestyle than cutting the same amount from spending.
Bad money tip #3: Pensions are for "old people" Time can be a powerful force for long term savings goals, such as retirement, as it allows compound interest and other financial tools to grow money. Getting started early is important, so encourage thinking that pensions and retirement planning are for "young people" too.
Bad money tip #4: You can do it tomorrow Procrastination – or putting off tasks – is a major problem associated with saving. It can tap into our love of instant gratification at a cost to personal finances. Tips to cut procrastination are here.
Bad money tip #5: Only take advice from family and friends Word-of-mouth and recommendations from loved ones are helpful but – remember – they are only part of the picture, and getting financial advice from a range of sources can be a better strategy. As this eZonomics poll analysis explains, parents and grandparents will likely have, for example, lived through different market conditions that might skew their views and experience. Added to that is the tendency to block out bad memories in favour of good ones, which could have unintended consequences.
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Is LeBron James the Best Athlete the NBA Has Ever Seen?March 16, 2013
LeBron James is the most dominant player in the NBA. But is he also the best athlete the league has ever seen?
Before we investigate, it is imperative to first establish what separates one player from the next in an Association filled with the world's best athletes.
In this article, James is being specifically compared to a list of legendary athletes who possessed the rarest combinations of size, speed and leaping ability while also dominating multiple phases of the game.
Meaning—besides rising up and dunking on the heads of their defenders—this list is reserved for those athletes who also excelled in the ability to dribble, pass and shoot.
As a 6'8" point guard, for example, Magic Johnson was a great athlete. But despite the long list of things that Johnson could do, he was never a great leaper.
Shawn Kemp, on the other hand, was one of the NBA's greatest leapers ever in his prime. While Kemp excelled as a scorer and rebounder, however, he never averaged more than 2.6 assists in any season.
Johnson, Kemp and others of the like were omitted from the list of comparable athletes below for those reasons.
To determine whether James is or isn't the best athlete the NBA has ever seen, though, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving and Michael Jordan must all be discussed.
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, NBA Career: 1959-73
During the 1961-62 season with the Philadelphia Warriors, Wilt Chamberlain became the last player in NBA history to average 50 points. He is also the last to average as many as 40 points when he finished the following year at 44.8.
But what's often lost from a career filled with highlights of Chamberlain dominating smaller, less physically gifted athletes than we have in the game today is that he could do much more than simply score.
As a 7'1" center, Chamberlain averaged 8.6 assists during the 1967-68 campaign. He also dished out 4.5 assists or more four other times in his career.
Besides that, though, he also demonstrated a leaping ability that won him the Big Eight high jump competition when he cleared the bar at 6'6" as a junior at Kansas.
Oscar "The Big O" Robertson, NBA Career: 1960-74
Oscar Robertson became the last player in NBA history to average a triple-double. During the 1961-62 campaign, he posted 30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists.
His all-around brilliance—that led to averages of 25.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists for his career—has left Robertson as the player most often compared to LeBron James.
While he played in a different era where dunking was sometimes associated with showing off, Robertson chose not to finish with the same authority that James does now in the spirit of sportsmanship.
As evidenced by this block above, however—one in which Robertson's hand extends to the top of the box on the backboard—he certainly possessed the athleticism to do so if he wanted.
Julius "Dr. J" Erving, NBA Career: 1971-87
Julius Erving left behind a legacy of athletic artistry highlighted by layups like the one above for NBA fans to celebrate forever.
Over a career that spanned five professional seasons with the ABA in combination with 11 more in the NBA, Erving finished with 24.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists total.
Amid the high-flying brilliance, he also dished out at least four assists nine times in his career. He collected seven or more rebounds nine separate times as well.
Besides being one of the greatest pure athletes the game has ever seen, Erving left a lasting legacy.
Michael "Air" Jordan, NBA Career: 1984-2003
As the greatest player in NBA history, Michael Jordan needs no introduction. In saying as much, though, I do feel like we sometimes forget the type of passer that Jordan was.
While he certainly wasn't Magic Johnson by any means, Jordan did use his extreme athleticism to average eight assists during the 1988-89 season while also grabbing eight rebounds and scoring 32.5 points.
This, in addition to dunking on the heads of people like Patrick Ewing in the video above.
At 6'6", despite not quite having the size and strength of LeBron James, Jordan could beat his defender out of a post-up position just as easily as he could off the dribble.
Jordan used his athletic ability to become one of the best defenders in the game during his era as well, finishing with an average of 6.2 rebounds for his career.
LeBron "King" James, NBA Career: 2003-Present
LeBron James recently became the youngest player ever to score 20,000 points. He is leading the league in player efficiency rating for the sixth straight season and on his way to a fourth MVP.
He is also the greatest athlete that I've ever watched break into the league, though I wasn't old enough to remember Jordan until the mid-'90s.
But in saying as much, I am not prepared to call James the greatest athlete the NBA has ever seen.
The Verdict
From David Thompson to Shaquille O'Neal, and Dominique Wilkins to Vince Carter, James is a better overall athlete than any other NBA great I did not highlight above.
I will also concede that he is a bigger, stronger, faster version of Erving, and he's more physically dominant than Jordan from a strength perspective.
But James has not proven to be as versatile of an athlete as Oscar Robertson, nor does he quite possess the size and athleticism of Chamberlain.
Robertson was a walking triple-double who dominated more phases of the NBA game to a larger degree than James has thus far.
While James is yet to average as many as nine rebounds in any one season, Robertson did so five times. He also dished out more than James' career high of 8.6 assists nine times as well.
The explosiveness, vision and quickness that defined Robertson's game would translate to today's NBA in a similar fashion too—just as Chamberlain's freakish athleticism would.
Chamberlain certainly never matched up with a player the size of O'Neal, for instance, but he could run faster, jump higher and do more things on a basketball court than any athlete we've seen since—including James.
It's close, at the moment, but right now I'd answer the question by ranking James third. Just ahead of Jordan at fourth and Erving fifth, with Robertson and Chamberlain at second and first, respectively.
Until James averages a triple-double like Robertson, or becomes a seven-foot high-jumper like Chamberlain, I don't expect that to change.


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"We've just learned that gay marriage supporters in North Carolina have been stockpiling mountains of cash. It's looking almost certain that in the final days before the election, they will launch an all-out air war, blanketing North Carolina TV and radio with ads full of lies and misinformation about the Marriage Protection Amendment - using scare tactics to maximum effect before we have a chance to respond... the only way we can fight back is if we have the resources to get our message out to voters. In a fair fight, the truth will prevail - but without the resources to mount an aggressive ad campaign of our own, it won't be a fair fight."
-- National Organization for Marriage spokesman Brian Brown whining to supporters that they need cash to fight for a marriage amendment in North Carolina. NOM has spent untold millions to fight these battles across the nation thanks to being bankrolled heavily by the Catholic Church and the Mormons - two of the wealthiest churches in America. They're hardly suffering for lack of funds.


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Again and again ads are showing up that use doctored quotes to fool the public into thinking that President Obama said something he didn't say. If the election is won using lies, what will the country be like in a few years?
In Oakland this week President Obama said this about how the Clinton tax plan led to a huge budget surplus,
I'll cut out government spending that's not working, that we can't afford, but I'm also going to ask anybody making over $250,000 a year to go back to the tax rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, back when our economy created 23 million new jobs — (applause) — the biggest budget surplus in history and everybody did well.
Just like we've tried their plan, we tried our plan — and it worked. That's the difference. (Applause.) That's the choice in this election. That's why I'm running for a second term.
So now there is this new Romney campaign ad, editing pieces of what President Obama said in Oakland to falsely claim he said his plan had fixed the unemployment problem:
Last November Mitt Romney ran an ad with a doctored quote, and not only got away with it, he was able to win the Republican nomination. The press gave a pass on the first use, so it happened again. Romney ran an ad that edited audio to completely fabricate a quote, and got away with it. So then another campaign did the same. And now, this.
The press is giving the Romney campaign a pass on lying and fabricating quotes. So it is becoming standard practice to run tens of millions of dollars of ads with fabricated quotes in them.
If the election is won using lies, what will the country be like in a few years?


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Just like mobile casino action, betting on sports is entirely possible using the iPhone, although differently than for Android users. That split has to do with the way Apple products do not support Flash technology for video and gaming. As soon as HTML 5 replaces Flash as our standard game format, this confusing difference will disappear.
For now, iPhone users may need to set up their sports-betting control panels in one of two ways, depending on the host site:
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- Simply point the iPhone's Web browser to the site's mobile URL.
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Top-rated online destinations like 888 Sport offer robust sites that would seem the best way to bet, anyway, even if an iPhone-compatible app were to be available.
NOTE: A mobile app may not offer all the same functionality as the sports-betting website or betting software running on a desktop computer.
There are some sites that have gone out of their way to be Apple-friendly, so they run in the Web browser (i.e., free of Flash), like Unibet and Bet365.
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Goodbye Flash, Hello HTML 5
The newest Windows release, version 8, features support for the post-Flash standard, HTML 5. Google's Android mobile operating system also integrates this technology. Apple was ahead of its time in looking beyond Flash, irking some customers, but the wait for HTML 5 is almost finished.
As soon as the online gaming world switches over the new standard, all mobile phones and tablets, no matter if Apple or Android or otherwise, will run sportsbooks the very same way.
The Best Space for Sports Bets
Now, as far as sport betting itself goes, many deem using a mobile device superior to the old methods of calling-bets by telephone or visiting brick-and-mortar stores to submit slips.
The reason is that sports-betting sites and other online tools for sports fans provide not only a bet portal, but also a rich setting for studying the teams, players and games. You can make better bets if you have the right information, after all.
The other aspect of mobile sports betting is its entertainment value, since some leading sites actually give you live streams of the sporting events themselves. In many cases there is also in-play coverage of the action, too. So what we have here is an enhanced way to enjoy sporting events and test our knowledge — even win a grip of cash!
The Long Wait …
Lastly, a bit of sobering news: betting is by-and-large not permitted by Apple's app store unless you are in a regulated zone like the UK, the EU or perhaps certain American states that have legalized online gambling. Although Android users can find real-cash apps online (even in non-gambling localities), Apple users have been blocked by Apple itself, which controls app distribution.
The bright side is that within the next year, betting on sports with your iPhone will be a snap. Everything will happen inside the Web browser, rather than in native apps that take up space on your phone. These in-browser control panels will offer the complete range of handy online features for mobile betting, so you win more bets.


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Thanks to all who shared their thoughts and recollections about this legendary musicologist.
10 Responses to Remembrances
I had the good fortune to know Dr Tischler in the 1990s while a PhD candidate at Bloomington. Though I do not believe I ever took a seminar with him, I felt his influence and was an admirer of his stamina, dedication, and intellectual curiosity. I also always enjoyed–as a bystander!–the interplay between Dr Tischer and another titanic, much-missed intellect, Professor Thomas Binkley.
Dr Tischler was likewise an avid attendee and probing discussant at the Musicology colloquia. I well remember presenting a paper (on Frank Zappa's Broadway the Hard Way) which I was prepping for AMS national meetings. At the end of that presentation–which provided a semiotic analysis of such Zappa gems as "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" and "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk"–Dr Tischler popped up, as he was wont to do, with the first question.
After expressing his appreciation for a presentation on music he had never heard, he asked, "But I can't help noticing that this music is almost totally devoid of harmonic sophistication–so what is there to study?" Thinking quickly, and wishing both to recognize the good Doctor's contrasting (and vast) musicological experience, but also to frame an argument he would find persuasive, I replied "Well, Dr Tischler, I would agree with you. But the musics upon which these pieces are based don't emphasize complex harmonic practice; instead, their priorities are the sophisticated manipulation of timbre, text, and rhythm."
His expression changed (Dr Tischler had a wonderful "Eureka!" expression) and he said, "Why, that is a very interesting and useful observation; it helps me understand this music. Thank you very much, Mr Smith!"
I was humbled.
He was a brave, kind, challenging man and he taught generations of us to frame our arguments compellingly. May his name be a blessing.
One of my most favorite memories of Hans Tischler was the way he frequently reminded us (his graduate students) that we were not -ologists, that we were music-ologists, along with reminders about all the concerts we could be attending or all the music we could be performing. I frequently saw him at concerts scanning the audience to see which of us were there. Then, he engaged us in conversations about the music the next day in class.
As there is a golden age of singing, there is no less in musicology. Professor Tischler 's profoundly important and lasting research provides full and complete evidence that musicology had its own golden age. From my beginning musical studies in under graduate school at Milton College through my doctoral studies with James Anthony at the University of Arizona, where I earned a minor in musicology, required musicological assigned readings rightly included those of Dr. Tischler. On a more personal level, it was his external letter, supporting enthusiastically my tenure at my former employer, University of Colorado at Boulder, which continues to awe me to this day.
Hans Tischler: a shining beacon of the best, the golden age of teaching, research, and service to the art of music.
I came to IU after Hans had retired, so I did not have the opportunity to study directly with him. But like every student of medieval music, I learned a great deal from him, through his writings and editions. It is a consolation to know that Hans will continue to teach generations of music students through his published works. Hans was a constant presence in the music library at IU. His enthusiasm for learning about music and his genuine interest in what others were studying was a tremendous gift for everyone at IU. I will miss him tremendously and I think it is safe to say that I will hear the echo of his voice in every pun I hear for the rest of my life….
I began my studies at Indiana after Dr. Tischler had retired, but I had the pleasure of being in his company many times. My fondest memories are from 2000, after I had completed my Ph.D. and before I landed my first teaching position. I worked for Dr. Tischler for several months transcribing his manuscripts of trouvère songs using the Finale notation program. I'll always remember sitting at his home waiting nervously for his approval of the work I had done. His scrutiny was meticulous, and his kindness toward me was greatly appreciated, even when it was necessary to revise some of my work. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of these melodies, and I continue trying to emulate his attention to detail.
I knew Hans from the time he first came to Indiana, and was fortunate enough to see him at many, many AMS Midwest meetings. It was always one of the great pleasures of those meetings to see Hans and enjoy his warm greetings — and his proddings for more work! I consider myself especially fortunate to have heard his final presentation at a Midwest meeting in Chicago — one of many I enjoyed over the years — and to have been present at the dinner at the Berghof restaurant afterwards where he was honored. And the last time I was in Bloomington, on a sort of final visit before leaving the Midwest for retirement in the Rockies, I spent a wonderful afternoon with Hans and Alice. It was truly a blessing to have known him, and had the chance to visit with him on these late occasions in his life. His mind remained sharp, even as he lost the ability to distinguish pitches (a particularly harsh fate for a musicologist, of course), but even then he was still the upbeat and engaging Hans we all had known. Such a kind and engaged soul will, I am certain, rest in peace. To Alice, my heartfelt condolences. Hans will be missed in so many places, in so many ways.
I had the pleasure of having studied with Dr. Tishler and to work for him as an graduate assistant some 35 years ago. I admired his profound knowlege of the field, his meticulous scholarly research, and his generosity with his time to assist students. Most of all, I found him to be a genuinely sincere and kind human being. I will
always remember him fondly and thank him, along with many other of my former
I.U. professors, for a solid grounding in doing research and critical thinking which I
still apply today in my present, non-musical, professional career.
I suspect that most of the posts that appear here will from musicologists, which I am definitely not. My studies at Indiana led to a D.M. in Woodwind Performance and Literature (multiple woodwinds) and I was required by that degree to pursue a minor in music history, which I would never have chosen willingly. However, I found that I really enjoyed Dr. Tischler's courses, especially his lectures; there was always a zinger in there, such as "Perotin was the father of the motet, although not by marriage!". Those little jokes always helped me remember things. I really enjoyed studying early music with Tischler, and he encouraged me to use my soprano saxophone in it, which both surprised and encouraged me, as he said that he thought that it was the modern instrument which most closely replicated the sound of the old cornetto. I am also thankful to have know a Holocaust survivor to keep that painful and important memory alive.
I first met Dr. Tischler at the fall musicology picnic just before my first semester of grad school at IU. After the initial pleasantries, he asked me what instrument I played. When I told him I "was" a singer he chastised me (with teasing kindness) for using the past tense, and encouraged me to find opportunities for performance. The last time I saw him was when he was in Meadowood this past spring. True to form, he was curious about what I was working on. I explained that my dissertation was on English opera of the 1830s and 1840s. Since he hadn't heard any of the music from these operas (not many people have!), he asked me to sing something. And so, I sang one of the arias, or at least as much of it as I could remember. It wasn't a stellar performance, but how could I refuse! I did not have much occasion to work professionally with Dr. Tischler, but his enthusiastic support for young scholars was a true inspiration. As a scholar and a mentor, he exemplified what all musicologists *should* be.
I feel quite fortunate to be able to count Hans Tischler as one of the musicology professors I had in classes at the JSOM. When I arrived at IU, Dr. Tischler was already something of an icon – he was known as an erudite scholar, and as an exacting and demanding teacher. Early on, I was Dr. Tischler's assistant for a Medieval-Renaissance class, and then took several classes with him, including medieval notation and chamber music literature. Dr. Tischler's vast knowledge of disparate musical eras was immediately clear, and his mastery of the subtleties of medieval rhythmic patterns was awe-inspiring. His first-hand stories of experiences with musical giants such as Hindemith and Schoenberg made the classroom scintillating and it was apparent that Dr. Tischler's intellectual breadth was unlike anything I had previously encountered. Outside of class, he was equally challenging and at his urging, I joined the local community chamber group (that he founded) and continued to expand my pianistic skills.
The qualities I valued most about Hans Tischler, however, did not stem from these academic experiences; rather, it was his friendship, his sincere and kind demeanor, his constant encouragement, and his gentle, yet brilliant command of humor that left lasting impressions. A visit with Hans always included a conversation about world politics, important musical issues, the classes I was teaching, and questions about my family—and of course, it also included a pun!
Hans' ability to embrace life to the fullest remains with me as an inspiration for the pursuit of a rewarding professional and personal existence.