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Futurama 4x01 - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
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Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Whoo-hoo! Yeah!
Whoa! Ow!
Schman! The great rad spot is mega-sweet for party boarding.
-Indeed. -Any calls while I was out?
Yeah. You got a telesonic transmission from Kif a couple hours ago.
My Kify called?
-Kif? -Oh, Amy, you're back.
Another hour and I would've thought of hanging up.
Why didn't you leave a message, sweetie?
I've left hundreds of messages with your answering machine...
-...but you never seem to get them. -Bender!
It's not my fault if you don't check me.
Messages erased.
Oh, dearest, this long-distance relationship is too much to bear.
When even an inch separates us, I quiver with misery.
So you can imagine how I feel when it's a billion light years.
Kif, don 't cry, or you'll get a tummy ache.
Lieutenant, some things came off me and clogged the drain, so if you can--
Oh-ho. What's this?
Well, well, well. Do my eyes believe me, or is that my bosomy swan, Leela?
Say again? You're breaking up.
Oh. . . .
Good news, everyone.
You'll be delivering pain medicine to the hive mind of Nigel 7.
Scruffy's rolling out a large pill.
You're going to Nigel 7? Kif's on patrol near there.
-You could drop me off on the way. -We could, but we won't!
It's a spaceship, damn it, not a prom limousine!
Ooh! lf anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.
This is a very long trip.
So we'll all have to go into hibernative naptosis to save oxygen.
I don't even breathe oxygen.
Here I come, Kif.
They jumped right out of their pants.
Oh, what now? Activate glass window.
Kif, I'm sensing a very sensual disturbance in the Force.
-Prepare for ship-to-ship intimacy. -Yes, sir, captain.
How about I help you finish that dream you were having about me?
Okay. I was just at this part:
Let's try that a little lower and lots softer.
Imagine you stowing away and stealing a licensed starship.
Oh, it's so romantic it gives me the shivers.
I don't care how much trouble I get in.
I needed to feel my lips pressed against your lip-less beak.
Oh, Amy, I can't stand having a whole universe between us.
I've been thinking a lot about this, and-- Well, would you move in with me?
Here? But, wouldn't it be crowded?
Oh, no, no. It's really twice the size.
You can use the floor and I'll have the ceiling. See?
Kif, you have so much creativity and niceness.
-But I'm not sure if l-- -Hush.
Before you answer, come thither.
This is the Holo-Shed. It can simulate anything you desire.
And nothing can hurt you, except when it malfunctions. . .
. . .and the holograms become real.
Well, that probably won't happen this time.
I wanted to show you what life could be like if we were together.
Computer, run program Kif One.
This is so beautiful!
Spirit! Kif, that's the pony I always wanted. . .
. . .but my parents said I had too many ponies already.
Yes. I programmed it in for you. Four million lines of BASIC.
And if this isn't the life you want, how about this?
Run program Kif Two.
AMY: Oh, Kif.
We could live here at the shore of the Tranquilibrius Sea, in a time-share.
And I would pluck the moon from the sky just to see you smile.
Almost got it.
Seems to be sort of stuck.
I love you!
Run program Kif-colon- slash-slash-three!
This isn't bad. My aunt had a place like this.
Amy, we could live in a bus station bathroom for all I care.
As long as we're together, it'll feel like a castle to me.
Kif, I'd love to live with you. Someday.
But before then, there's still lots I want to do on my own.
-What was that? -Oh, dear.
I fear the Holo-Shed might be broken again.
Well, as long as we don't cross paths with Attila the--
Look! Spirit!
KIF: And there's Professor Moriarty.
Jack the Ripper!
Evil Lincoln!
Right-o, gents. It's another simulation gone mad.
So murder and mayhem, standard procedure.
Real holographic-simulated Evil Lincoln is back!
The Holo-Shed's on the fritz again. The characters turned real!
Damn! The last time that happened, I got slapped with three paternity suits.
-Oh, my God! -Listen up, history's greatest villains.
Get back into the Holo-Shed before I start blasting.
Stop! No shoot fire-stick in space canoe!
Cause explosive decompression!
Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun.
BENDER: Oh. . . .
BENDER: Hey!
-Kif, hold on! -I totally want to!
-Grab on! -Over here!
Please, hold me!
Have a good one.
-Oh, man! -Whew.
After all that, I could use some relaxation.
I'll be in the Holo-Shed.
Well, except for a few broken bones, some internal hemorrhaging. . .
. . .and a partially barfed up heart, everyone appears fine.
Oh, and Kif is pregnant.
Oh, joy!
Amy, isn't it wonderful? I'm pregnant.
Yes, it's great. A great miracle.
And not one of those bogus everyday miracles, like a sunrise.
-Aren't you a male? -Yeah, what's the deal?
Just when I thought I'd figured out you biological creatures, it's something else!
Let me at him! Get over here, Kif! You're--
Look, I'm sure we're all a little unclear on how anyone gets pregnant.
So, Kif, pray explain, and don't spare the dirty words where appropriate.
Well, it's quite simple really.
When one of my species experiences deep feelings of love. . .
. . .we enter a so-called "receptive state. "
You disgust me. Go on.
At that point, our skin becomes a semipermeable membrane. . .
. . .which allows the passage of genetic material.
I held Amy's hand, and voilŕ!
Well, okay. But that better be all there is.
Oh, Amy, you'll be a mother!
What a wondrous affirmation of our love. And all from the touch of your hand.
Dude, hold up. Remember when Zapp blew a hole in the ship?
-Indeed. FRY: Kif touched everybody there.
-Couldn't any one of us be the mother? -Hey, yeah!
I mean, what about that, Kif?
Well, I suppose I might have gotten pregnant that way.
Or even from a toilet seat.
Though, that's impossible, since I have a private washroom.
My home away from home.
By the way, Kif, your flush seems to be set on stun, not kill.
Look, Kif, I probably am the mother. Although maybe I'm not.
Of course, I hope I am, but just in case I'm not, maybe we should have a test.
A test! I demand a test!
Even I laughed at me when I built this alien cross-species genetic analyzer.
But I guess I showed myself.
Subjects, please enter the chamber.
Now to take a DNA sample.
When I pull this switch, the materni-fuge will spin at 1 0,000 rpm. . .
. . .separating out everyone who isn't the mother--
Father-- Whatever.
Faster! Faster!
Good! Fry's ejection indicates that he is not the man mama.
-Nor is Captain Brannigan. -Oh, thank you, merciful God.
Zoidberg? What the hell were you doing in there?
That's where I live. I have no home.
Amy? But that means. . . .
Leela must have impregnated me when she grabbed my ungloved hand.
That explains the poster in hygiene class: "No glove, no love. "
-Wow, this is all so confusing. -Leela, how could you?
Our love has had to endure your constant hatred, and now this?
-Stop testing our love! -Oh, please, captain.
I thank Leela for the DNA she gave me, but in my species. . .
. . .the true parent is the one who inspired the initial feeling of love.
We call that person the "Smizmarr. " And my Smizmarr is Amy.
So the toilet seat is like the uncle or something?
-Sorry I got your boyfriend pregnant. -That's okay.
At least Kif's baby shower should be fun.
I better put it on my calendar.
Thursday. Baby shower. Enter.
Might as well plan for my new life while I'm at it.
Set motherhood mode.
To motherhood.
BENDER: Zoidberg?
FRY: My face was stuck in a pizza.
-Mom? Dad? I know this is weird, but-- -Yeah, yeah.
We don't care how squishy alien get pregnant.
All we care is that we have grandchild.
-You're very open-minded, Mrs. Wong. -Hey, you call her "Grandma" now.
Call me Grandma like crazy. All the time.
Check it out, y'all. Everyone we invited is here.
-Also Zoidberg. -So let's open the gifts.
-Yeah! -I can't wait.
We'll start with this one from Bender.
It's my booties from when I was a kid.
-Uh, they're already bronzed. -They are bronze.
And this one's from Leela. Oh, I just love the bow.
-I wonder what it is. -Yes, I wonder what we got you.
-It's a basket! For picnics? -It means a lot to me.
It's the basket my parents left me in at the Orphanarium.
You could use it for picnics.
-Here, Amy, we get this one for you. -Is it a new party board?
It's a board, all right. An ironing board.
We had your old party board converted now that you not be partying anymore.
-You trashed my party board? -Damn right. Now you a mom.
The only surfing you'll do is under a big wave of responsibility.
Oh, this is the happiest moment of my life.
You all brought such wonderful gifts.
-But the greatest gift. . . -Mine!
. . .is the bond I share with my Smizmarr, Amy.
For soon, the quivering mass of life within me will depend upon us both.
Even now, I can sense it feeding, squirming, searching, questing.
And shortly, it will rend my loins in twain. . .
. . .burst forth and pull us down, down, down. . .
. . .into the deep, dark waters of commitment.
That's so beautiful.
Yes, it's. . . .
No! I can't do this!
Oh, my God!
Oh, how could Amy leave me?
When will women learn to take responsibility. . .
. . .for the children they've helped create?
The quickening! My time is near.
I must return to my home world to perform the ancient birthing rights.
Let me know how that turns out.
I must now embark on a perilous journey. . .
. . .to give birth in precisely the same swamp in which I was born.
If it's so dangerous, I'd better go with you.
-A gal has to protect her DNA. -No, Leela.
Tradition demands that I make this journey with my Smizmarr.
And since Amy isn't here, I must go it alone.
Farewell, for we may never meet again.
My scrapes feel a little better now.
Hey, what's this fat, ugly thing? A frog? A toad? Or your mama?
It's a poisonous froad! No one move.
I'm back, baby.
The sacred ancestral birthing grounds of my family.
Smells like a jockstrap.
-I am the Grand Midwife. -Hi.
I am Kif, of the clan Kroker, come to bear my young.
Then let the tea of new life be brewed, as it is writ:
"And both shall lift the jug together. "
-Where is your Smizmarr? -She's not with me.
Oh, the sorrow! Oh, the shame!
Sorry, I'm probably just making you feel worse.
As long as Amy is with me in my heart, I will have the strength of two.
Apparently Amy hasn't been working out much lately.
As the tea boils, please join hands with your beloved Smizmarr.
Oh, right. Sorry, but I've memorized the ceremony by rote. It mentions her a lot.
-I'll try to endure. -Good, 'cause I'm not changing it.
Now turn, ye two, and gaze deeply into each other's eyes.
-What are you looking at? -May the love I sense between you. . .
. . .at this moment remain with you both through all your days.
The tea of new life is ready.
Let those whose love created this life speak each other's names, then drink.
-Amy. AMY: Kif!
Amy! ls it you, or have I gone crazy with loneliness?
I still don't know if I'm ready for this, but I do know I love you.
And I want to be here beside you.
Great. Now I lost my place. I'm starting over!
Oh, no time. It has begun.
Oh, my!
-Neat. -You can do it, Kif.
Whoa, Nelly!
Oh, man!
Amy, my love, tell me, are they making it to the water?
Stay away from my babies!
The birthing is complete.
-Oh, thank goodness. -I will now take my leave.
I live here, so I won't actually be going anywhere. . .
. . .but you don't have to talk to me anymore.
-Congratulations. -Way to go, squishy!
LEELA: There goes my DNA.
-What a disgusting and beautiful process. -That's birth for you.
Well, we've given them a great start, Amy.
And in 20 years, they'll sprout legs and crawl back onto land as children.
I'll be ready then.
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Friends - 4x22 - The One With the Worst Best Man Ever
Friends - 4x23 - The One With Rosss Wedding - part 1
Friends - 4x24 - The One With Rosss Wedding - part 2
Friends - 5x01 - The One After Ross Says Rachel
Friends - 5x02 - The One With All the Kissing
Friends - 5x03 - The One Hundreth
Friends - 5x04 - The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS
Friends - 5x05 - The One With the Kips
Friends - 5x06 - The One With the Yeti
Friends - 5x07 - The One Where Ross Moves In
Friends - 5x08 - The One With All the Thanksgivins
Friends - 5x09 - The One With Rosss Sandwich
Friends - 5x10 - The One With the Inappropiate Sister
Friends - 5x11 - The One With All the Resolutions
Friends - 5x12 - The One With Chandlers Work Laugh
Friends - 5x13 - The One With Joeys Bag
Friends - 5x14 - The One Where Everyone Finds Out
Friends - 5x15 - The One With the Girl Who Hits Joey
Friends - 5x16 - The One With the Cop
Friends - 5x17 - The One With Rachels
Friends - 5x18 - The One Where Rachel Smokes
Friends - 5x19 - The One Where Ross Cant Flirt
Friends - 5x20 - The One With the Ride-Along
Friends - 5x21 - The One With the Ball
Friends - 5x22 - The One With Joeys Big Break
Friends - 5x23 - The One in Vegas
Friends - 6x01 - The One After Vegas
Friends - 6x02 - The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel
Friends - 6x03 - The One With Rosss Denial
Friends - 6x04 - The One Where Joey Loses His
Friends - 6x05 - The One With Joeys Porsche
Friends - 6x06 - The One On the Last Night
Friends - 6x07 - The One Where Phoebe Runs
Friends - 6x08 - The One With Rosss Teeth
Friends - 6x15
Friends 7x01 - The One with Monicas Thunder
Friends 7x02 - The One With Rachels Book
Friends 7x03 - The One With Phoebes Cookies
Friends 7x04 - The One With Rachels Assistant
Friends 7x05 - The One With The Engagement Picture
Friends 7x06 - The One With The Nap Partners
Friends 7x07 - The One with Rosss Library Book
Friends 7x08 - The One Where Chandler Doesnt Like Dogs
Friends 7x09 - The One With All the Candy
Friends 7x10 - The One With The Holiday Armadillo
Friends 7x11 - The One With All The Cheesecakes
Friends 7x12 - The One Where They are Up All Night
Friends 7x13 - The One Where Rosita Dies
Friends 7x14 - The One Where They All Turn Thirty
Friends 7x15 - The One With Joeys New Brain
Friends 7x16 - The One With the Truth About London
Friends 7x17 - The One With the Cheap Wedding Dress
Friends 7x18 - The One With Joeys Award
Friends 7x19 - The One With Ross and Monicas Cousin
Friends 7x20 - The One With Rachels Kisses
Friends 7x21 - The One With the Vows
Friends 7x22 - The One With Chandlers Dad
Friends 7x23 - The One With Monica and Chandlers Wedding Part 1
Friends 7x24 - The One With Monica and Chandlers Wedding Part 2
Friends 9x01 - The One Where No One Proposes
Friends 9x02 - The One Where Emma Cries
Friends 9x03 - The One With The Pediatrician
Friends 9x04 - The One With The Sharks
Friends 9x05 - The One With Phoebes Birthday Dinner
Friends 9x06 - The One With The Male Nanny
Friends 9x07 - The One With Rosss Inappropriate Song
Friends 9x08 - The One With Rachels Other Sister
Friends 9x09 - The One With Rachels Phone Number
Friends 9x10 - The One With Christmas In Tulsa
Friends 9x11 - The One Where Rachel Goes Back To Work
Friends 9x12 - The One With Phoebes Rats
Friends 9x13 - The One Where Monica Sings
Friends 9x14 - The One With The Blind Dates
Friends 9x15 - The One With The Mugging
Friends 9x16 - The One With The Boob Job
Friends 9x17 - The One With The Memorial Service
Friends 9x18 - The One With The Lottery
Friends 9x19 - The One With Rachels Dream
Friends 9x20 - The One With The Soap Opera Party
Friends 9x21 - The One With The Fertility Test
Friends 9x22 - The One With The Donor
Friends 9x23-24 - The One In Barbados 1 2)
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From Beijing with love
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 3 The Hangmans Daughter
From Hell
From Justin To Kelly (Special Edition)
Frontera La
Frusta e il corpo La
Fucking Amal
Fudoh The New Generation 1996
Fugitive The - The Chase Continues
Fugitives (2000)
Fukssvansen (Chop Chop)
Full Frontal 2002
Full Metal Jacket
Full Time Killer
Fun Movie (2002 Korean) CD1
Fun Movie (2002 Korean) CD2
Fun in Acapulco (Richard Thorpe 1963)
Funeral Parade of Roses
Funeral in Berlin
Funny Girl
Fuochi dArtifizio
Furia (2002)
Fury The (1978)
Futurama 1x01 - Space Pilot 3000
Futurama 1x02 - The Series Has Landed
Futurama 1x03 - I Roommate
Futurama 1x04 - Loves Labors Lost in Space
Futurama 1x05 - Fear of a Bot Planet
Futurama 1x06 - A Fishful of Dollars
Futurama 1x07 - My Three Suns
Futurama 1x08 - A Big Piece of Garbage
Futurama 1x09 - Hell is Other Robots
Futurama 2x01 - A Flight to Remember
Futurama 2x02 - Mars University
Futurama 2x03 - When Aliens Attack
Futurama 2x04 - Fry and the Slurm Factory
Futurama 3x01 - Amazon Women in the Mood
Futurama 3x02 - Parasites Lost
Futurama 3x03 - A Tale of Two Santas
Futurama 3x04 - The Luck of the Fryrish
Futurama 3x05 - The Birdbot of Ice-catraz
Futurama 3x06 - Bendless Love
Futurama 3x07 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Futurama 3x08 - Thats Lobstertainment
Futurama 3x09 - The Cyber House Rules
Futurama 3x10 - Insane in the Mainframe
Futurama 3x10 - Where The Buggalo Roam
Futurama 3x12 - The Route of All Evil
Futurama 3x13 - Bendin in the Wind
Futurama 3x14 - Time Keeps on Slippin
Futurama 3x15 - I Dated a Robot
Futurama 3x16 - A Leela of Her Own
Futurama 3x17 - A Pharaoh To Remember
Futurama 3x18 - Anthology of Interest Part 2
Futurama 3x19 - Roswell That Ends Well
Futurama 3x20 - Godfellas
Futurama 3x21 - Future Stock
Futurama 3x22 - The 30 Iron Chef
Futurama 4x01 - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Futurama 4x02 - Leelas Homeworld
Futurama 4x03 - Love and Rocket
Futurama 4x04 - Less Than Hero
Futurama 4x05 - A Taste of Freedom
Futurama 4x06 - Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
Futurama 4x07 - Jurassic Bark
Futurama 4x08 - Crimes of the Hot
Futurama 4x09 - Teenage Mutant Leelas Hurdles
Futurama 4x10 - The Why of Fry
Futurama 4x11 - Where no Fan Has Gone Before
Futurama 4x12 - The Sting
Futurama 4x13 - Bend Her
Futurama 4x14 - Obsoletely Fabulous
Futurama 4x15 - The Farnsworth Parabox
Futurama 4x16 - Three Hundred Big Boys
Futurama 4x17 - Spanish Fry
Futurama 4x18 - The Devils Hands are Idle Playthings
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New Work
Along with the new work I posted the other day, there are a few related pieces that I have been working on as well. These two pieces seem to connect the earlier Archival Turn kind of work by using the pine boards for framing and the actual photographs. However they make that step away from archive kinds of objects toward works of art like the large hanging pieces. The prints are small pieces that have been torn down from those sorts of ones in the books, layered and waxed to create a multi-layered piece. The string is meant to suggest the severing of the narrative or contextual ties these images have undergone.
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I have added my Go projects to wercker, which now builds, test and deploys my software. In this post we want to take you through speeding up your build time for golang projects with caching present on wercker.
The build
Here are the steps including their duration from one of the builds:
- get code (0 sec)
- setup environment (15 sec)
- environment variables (0 sec)
- setup golang (0 sec)
- go get (55 sec)
- go build (0 sec)
- go test (1 sec)
- saving build output (0 sec)
Total time: 1 min 14 sec
This means that the
go get step constitutes 75% of my build time.
Wercker cache
Wercker has a per project build cache directory that is shared betweens builds.
A build can update the cache by writing to the
directory. If the build succeeds, this directory is saved for future
builds. We can levarage this to cache for our golang
Go workspace
The golang box that I have
created in order to add Go support to wercker sets up a Go workspace in
$HOME/go. This workspace contains the three required directories at its root:
- src contains Go source files organized into packages (one package per directory),
- pkg contains package objects, and
- bin contains executable commands.
When a build is finished, this workspace is filled with:
- The source code and compiled end result of your project.
- The source code and compiled end result of the dependencies
go get of future builds could be improved if this workspace is shared.
Storing the workspace in cache
I added a script step to the end of my wercker.yml that rsync's the Go full workspace, but excludes the source directory.
- script:
name: Store cache
code: |-
rsync -avzv --exclude "$WERCKER_SOURCE_DIR" "$GOPATH/" "$WERCKER_CACHE_DIR/go-pkg-cache/"
Populate cache
I added a script step that first checks if the cache directory is
present, and if this is the case, it rsync's it into the Go workspace at the
- script:
name: Populate cache
code: |-
if test -d "$WERCKER_CACHE_DIR/go-pkg-cache"; then rsync -avzv --exclude "$WERCKER_SOURCE_DIR" "$WERCKER_CACHE_DIR/go-pkg-cache/" "$GOPATH/" ; fi
The result
go get now has a duration of 0 seconds, the actual time is of
course a handful of milliseconds, but the bottom-line is that we
improved the build time with 55 seconds!
- get code (0 sec)
- setup environment (14 sec)
- environment variables (0 sec)
- setup golang (0 sec)
- go get (0 sec)
- go build (0 sec)
- go test (1 sec)
- saving build output (0 sec)
What is next
Next up is wrapping this logic in wercker steps, which I will release as a part 2 of this post, so stay tuned.


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Re: Taking down DecsMy neighbour still has a rather dead looking holly wreath with bows and baubles on her front door. I think she might be leaving it for next Christmas
Re: Taking down Decs
Re: Taking down DecsI have just spotted a tiny snowman hiding in the bookshelves. Its one of those with lights and a horrible warbley christmas song that gradually gets worse as the batteries die. I might just leave him there tbh, in honour of all the fallen snowmen in the world.
Re: Taking down DecsI like a good bargain.. Our shops all shut in December as part of lockdown.. Now some have been allowed to start webshops or click and collect.. Ive just ordered some new stuff for next Christmas at bargain prices 75% off !
Re: Taking down DecsMine won't be going down until the beginning of January 2022 at least.
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We haven't had trick or treaters here at Glover Gardens for years; our neighborhood doesn't have many families with small children, and its wooded, winding, narrow streets are not conducive to packs of Halloween revelers. Our own little trick or treaters are now out in the big world; one works at SpaceX and the last one is a freshman in college. We still buy candy, though, hopeful each Halloween that we'll see some cute little witches and warlocks – only to end up eating it ourselves in the first few days of November.
This year, I'm rolling the dice and foregoing the purchase of supermarket candy. Five years in a row with no trick or treaters seems like a pattern, don't you think? But we won't be totally bereft of Halloween celebrations, because our friend Amy has gifted us with decorated sugar cookies. Amy, a very wise lady, says, "Cookies are love," and we agree! We're going to enjoy this Halloween love on a plate with a couple of wee drams of single-malt Scotch and dream of the day when we have trick or treaters again.
Halloween: the Empty Nester Version.
Amy uses the Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix and says that it is better than scratch. They taste like homemade-all-the-way. Her icing is powdered sugar and milk.


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Die-hard Nick Cave fans have not been impressed by his transformation from, as one reporter has put it, "miscreant rocker into latterday lounge lizard". It's true that if you preferred the raucous energy of songs such as Deanna and the vicious black humour of Stagger Lee the last two albums – The Boatman Calls and No More Shall We Part – signalled a huge change, with their melancholic and beautiful love songs.
Nocturama takes this metamorphosis one step further. The first three tracks offer more gorgeous melodies and – whisper it – even an optimistic outlook on life. It's a Wonderful Life is a lovely, uplifting song; He Wants You is one of the most romantic ballads Cave has ever written, sounding almost like Van Morrison from the glory days of Astral Weeks. Although Right Out Of Your Hand starts out with some downbeat lyrics – "Poor little girl / with your hand full of snow / poor little girl / had no way to know" – by the time we reach the chorus we know there's going to be a happy ending.
Still in Love is in the mould of As I Sat Sadly By Her Side, with delicate piano like dripping water and the lugubrious violin of Warren Ellis providing a backdrop for Cave's deep baritone, which seems particularly well oiled on this album. Is it my imagination, or just the use of the lyric "you might think I'm crazy", or is he paying homage to Patsy Cline in this track, relating the end of an affair?
The eerie key changes in There Is A Town give it a lovely Portishead atmosphere very well suited to the many talents of the Bad Seeds – more in this vein would be very welcome. Rock Of Gibraltar is, frankly, dire – a mishmash of bad clichés: I just hope it was written tongue in cheek, though it's often difficult to tell with Cave.
Bring it on, which will be the first single from Nocturama, is a terrific song with an unmistakable Bad Seeds bass line intro, and a great chorus featuring a duet with Chris Bailey of Australian punk-rockers the Saints. Could this be Cave's first mainstream hit? (Leaving aside the duet with Kylie – after all, she probably played some part in that success…). That would really worry the fans.
So the big question is, has Nick Cave sold out to the Radio 2 brigade? Has a happy marriage and fatherhood finally killed the rage inside? The good news is, not quite…
Dead Man In My Bed finally gives Blixa Bargeld a chance to let rip in a rollicking song about a woman stuck with a useless partner. The true answer though comes in the last track, the 15-minute epic Babe I'm On Fire. The noise levels are set to raucous, the lyrics are both ridiculous and hilarious, and you just know that if you ever see him sing this live, there will have to be someone on stage holding a crib sheet a la Curse of Millhaven. The last verse says it all: "Warren says it, Blixa says it / the lighting guy and mixer says it / Mick says it, Marty says it / Everyone at the party says / Babe I'm on fire."
Frankly it's not a great song and I get pretty bored with it after five minutes, let alone 15, but if it keeps people happy that's fine. Personally I love the new approach. It may be softer, but Nick Cave still writes some of the most interesting music around. That's not to say I wouldn't welcome new material with the fire of Red Right Hand or Papa Won't Leave You, Henry, but they will come when the time is right – maybe when the kids turn into hellraisers themselves.


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The Future Fuel of M&A? RIA Business Management
RIA M&A started strong in 2022. Fidelity Investments reported that 93 transactions were completed through May, representing a 29% increase over the same period in 2021. Conditions have evolved quickly, and turbulent markets and rising interest rates raise questions about how the industry moves forward. These headwinds spotlight the incumbent acquisition brands that have accounted for more than 69% of transactions over the past few years and the potential impact on buyer and seller preferences moving forward. RIA M&A activity will continue in earnest— the challenge now is standing out from the crowd.
The present RIA M&A market is multi-faceted and built on a foundation built by years of competitive evolution. The influence of institutional capital, absolute growth requirements and the race for unprecedented geographic reach has given rise to the acquisition brand that clarifies how value is created for all stakeholders. The 2022 RIA Deal Room noted that the influence of institutional capital has pushed demand and professionalization in the space. The result is an increased focus on differentiated operating models and effective value creation plans. Financial buyers, platform-driven investors, and integrators have clarified their targets and what they value in a seller. This has led to the rise of the systematic acquirer that balances near-term and future financial outcomes by emphasizing talent, capabilities and geographic expansion.
The RIA seller market developed considerably over the same period. Deal volumes increased, and the tailwinds driving supply remained constant. RIAs seeking growth capital, liquidity and infrastructure resources are testing a competitive market. Increased deal volumes are good for headlines, but they create a more crowded field for potential sellers to stand out.
Business Management: The True Differentiator
RIA M&A started with a small set of acquisition brands with a size advantage and credible access to capital to establish a foothold. Today, access to capital and size are table stakes. With more than 20 acquisition brands completing multiple transactions in 2021, the competitive frontier has shifted to evolved business management practices that support an elevated client experience. Business management best practices are no longer only for those firms aspiring to remain free from outside money or partnership. Success in RIA M&A now depends less on quantitative metrics and more on three critical areas of business management.
- Talent – The ability to find, engage and retain next-generation talent with the right mix of career growth, compensation and ownership opportunities.
- Infrastructure – A history of investing in management, technology and process improvement infrastructure.
- Services and Channel Penetration – A credible track record of expanding end-investor service offerings or access to unique end-investor channels.
These three business management categories primarily point toward a buyer or seller adding measurable organic growth, efficiency and capacity to another organization. These areas also become tangible ways to differentiate the story an RIA tells the market. These areas have also become the difference between standing out from the crowd and not.
Buyers: Systematize Your Story, or Move Out of the Way
Nearly all the buyers surveyed as part of the 2022 RIA Deal Room research indicated they planned to make as many acquisitions as in prior years. The AGS team expects acquisition brands with a systematic approach to remain active because these firms are much more likely to focus on deal structure and growth sharing as a method of balancing risks while executing the business plan. Since 2019, deal structures have reflected a flight to certainty driven by competition, cheap capital and strong market tailwinds. The near future will likely resemble years when deal structures were more balanced, and risk was shared more appropriately.
However, the new M&A foundation includes a highly competitive environment that requires buyers to differentiate. People, process and growth opportunities are at the forefront of the messaging, and systematic integrators highlight their business management depth to win acquisition opportunities. These platforms can highlight how they have implemented compensation, benefits, technology, expanded services and operational process to demonstrate how potential sellers can "skip to the front of the line" and avoid significant time and capital investments. Any firm aspiring to become more than an opportunistic buyer must look inward and systematize its story or risk losing to more developed platforms.
Sellers: Bulletproof Your Positioning, or Accept Average Outcomes
Increased supply is evidenced by the consistent rise in the number of transactions in the RIA space. According to Fidelity Investments, 215 RIA transactions occurred in 2021 versus 131 in 2020. While this number is likely understated due to unreported transactions, it signals that more firms are interested in selling or merging than ever before. Succession, management fatigue and growth channels are all tailwinds driving RIAs to the market, and those tailwinds are primarily agnostic to market fluctuations. This implies that the pool of available sellers is likely to increase or remain steady.
What differentiates your firm from the dozens of other firms that acquisition brands are evaluating? Assuming buyer demand could plateau or at least become measured in current market conditions, differentiation becomes critical to achieving a top outcome. This must come from a combination of next-generation talent, specialized services or unique end-client channel penetration.
The increased demand among buyers and volume among sellers means that business management practices are more critical than ever. A cohesive platform story that includes how a wealth management firm adds value and engages people is required to stand out in a crowded buyer field. Those same business management practices are necessary for sellers to command a premium by showcasing strong talent, unique capabilities or unique growth channels. The M&A foundation has been set in the RIA industry, and the ability to stand out from the crowd will rest squarely on how well RIAs have built a story worth buying.
Brandon Kawal is a principal at Advisor Growth Strategies, a management consulting firm serving the wealth management industry. Follow him at @BKawal_AGS.


text: 8th December 2015 Charles William Holmes – 1 Sunny Bank, East Street Charles William Holmes Charles William Holmes Charles William Holmes was born in October 1895. He was the son of Charles William and Sarah Ann (Rippin). He was an ironmonger's errand boy and his father was an ironmonger's fitter. He had two sisters, Elsie Ann born in 1897 who was a dressmaker's apprentice and Evelyn May born in 1901 still at school. In 1901 they were at 5 Priory Buildings but by 1911 they were living at 1 Sunny Bank, East Street. He enlisted with the 4th Lincolnshire Territorials and was promoted to Lance Corporal – his number 1869. In 1922 he married Norah Kate Betts and in 1939 he was living at 46 New Cross Road. Norah died in 1992.


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Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are similar enough that you can swap them in a pinch, according to guidance from Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).
The federal advisory group has updated its recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines to include advice on Moderna's shot, as well as more detailed information on immunizing people with allergies and other special medical circumstances.
Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use similar mRNA technology, which gives the body genetic instructions to mount an immune response, and both are more than 90% effective after two doses, according to Dr. Caroline Quach of NACI. In a Phase III trial of the Moderna vaccine involving more than 30 000 adults, there were 11 cases of COVID-19 among people who got the vaccine versus 185 among those who did not, and no cases of severe disease versus 30 in the placebo group.
Given a lack of data on the interchangeability of COVID-19 vaccines, NACI recommends that people receive the same vaccine product for both doses. But when that's not an option, patients who receive the Pfizer vaccine first could finish their series with the Moderna product, or vice versa. "Let's say you run out of Pfizer's vaccine because you've administered all your doses, or you don't know what your patient had at first… this eases up the complexity," says Quach.
Are two doses essential?
After one dose, both vaccines are 80%–90% effective, but that protection may only last four to six weeks until a person gets their second dose. While Quach says that's "pretty good," NACI recommends that people complete a two-dose series of either vaccine within 28 days.
The guidance document unpacks ethical considerations for provinces weighing whether they should use their limited supplies of vaccines to give a first dose to as many people as possible right away, or keep half in reserve to ensure that people can get their second dose on time.
According to Quach, "some provinces and territories might want to manage their risk differently," and will need to consider the risks and benefits of wider, immediate protection versus a slower rollout of potentially longer lasting coverage. "We're happy to see that one dose is efficacious in the short term, but we don't know more than that. And we don't even know how long a two-dose series is going to be efficacious, so there's still quite a lot of uncertainty and we have to be transparent about it."
New safety details
Both vaccines are very safe but people who have severe allergies to components of the vaccines or their packaging should not be vaccinated. So far, the United Kingdom and United States have documented a handful of severe allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine. According to Quach, the key allergen in such cases appears to be polyethylene glycol — a stabilizing ingredient in both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that's also used in laxatives, cough syrup, cosmetics and some foods.
However, other people with allergies unrelated to the vaccine packaging or components can safely receive the shots. For example, "being allergic to peanuts is not a risk factor," Quach says. Even if someone does experience an unexpected allergic reaction, the risk of serious harm is low because vaccinations are happening in medical settings where those reactions can be treated immediately, she explains.
Although long-term safety data for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are still pending, complications from immunizations typically develop "within four to six weeks," Quach notes. "We have 14 weeks of follow-up" supporting the safety of the vaccines.
Most people who get the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine will feel some discomfort for one or two days afterwards, which may include "feeling tired, having some pain at the injection site, having a little bit of fever," Quach explains. "You're going to feel it, but it's normal and benign to moderate. You don't have to stay in bed for it."
Pregnancy and autoimmune issues
NACI also updated their guidance for people who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and people who are immunosupressed or have autoimmune diseases. "Some people have decided not to give the [Pfizer] vaccine to these populations because we said it shouldn't be administered routinely. But it's still available on a case by case basis," Quach says.
In the case of pregnant women, NACI has advised against routine vaccination because there is a "complete absence of data" until vaccine trial participants who were pregnant deliver their babies, Quach explains.
However, if a clinician thinks that a pregnant patient would benefit from vaccination against COVID-19 — for example, if she has a high risk of exposure or complications — "you're absolutely able to recommend it," she says. "We don't think there's any particular problem, but we need data before saying it's a strong recommendation."
Likewise, people whose immune systems are suppressed should be considered for COVID-19 vaccines on a case by case basis, pending further evidence. According to Quach, NACI's main concern isn't safety, but that the vaccines won't work for people who are immunocompromised.
There's also a possibility that mRNA technologies may exacerbate inflammation and existing autoimmune disease. NACI's guidance document notes two cases of autoimmune diseases among a total of seven severe adverse events linked to the Moderna vaccine, both in patients with hypothyroidism. While the benefits of vaccination may outweigh the "theoretical risk" for some patients with existing autoimmune issues, "we need to monitor and make sure that's not a real risk," Quach says.
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In 2020, COVID-19 has swept the world, and almost all countries have suffered severe economic recession. In such a bad economic environment, because fireworks are a non-necessity of life, and the governments of many countries have issued regulations banning the sale of fireworks, the fireworks industry has suffered a devastating blow. At the same time, we found an interesting phenomenon, that is, Cat. F1 fireworks products, such as sparklers, party fountains, and small fireworks that can be sold in supermarkets, are very popular in the EU market. When unable to go out due to the epidemic, people can enjoy the joy of fireworks at home.
Champion Fireworks has large fireworks factories, which can produce all kinds of F1 products. Customers are welcome to consult at any time.


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This June 9th, 2019, it will be the second edition of the 10 km Adidas Paris. In fact, these 10 km are the continuation of the races that were called the "10 km de l'Equipe."
This race has the particularity of bringing together a large number of runners, an exceptional number for a 10 km race (more than 17,000 finishes in 2018!). It must be said that the race passes through a spectacular Parisian route, it was the case in 2018: start Concorde, Madeleine, Opéra Garnier, rue de Rivoli, banks of the Seine and finish Eiffel Tower ! The route will soon be announced, it also promises to offer magnificent landscapes.
And why not combine this competition with a sightrunning tour of the city during your stay in Paris by running with authentic Parisian runner guides (warming up some day before the competition or recovering some day after)? Enjoy an original private tour, tailor-made for you:


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Interesting tidings in the media the last 24 hours that suggest a smoldering volcano of Democratic discontent and near panic. The Democratic establishment has cleared the field for Hillary, and she's having trouble putting away Bernie Sanders! If she can't handle Bernie Sanders, how will she match up with a Republican nominee?
Colbert King, a reliable liberal columnist at the Washington Post, sends out the message:
Clinton email scandal: Why it might be time for Democrats to draft Joe Biden
The Hillary Clinton email issue is developing into a real whodunit, complete with Clintonesque legal semantics. "I never sent or received any material marked classified," she said with respect to the discovery of classified information on her private, unclassified email server. That surface denial nearly rivals Bill Clinton's classic: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
But this is no laughing matter. . .
After reviewing how problematic Hillary's account of the matter is, King closes with this:
Just a thought: As a precaution, the manager in the White House dugout might consider telling the bullpen to start warming up Joe Biden.
Hillary is also resisting releasing any texts of her Goldman Sachs speeches, which are bidding to be come the Mitt Romney tax returns of this cycle. From the New York Times:
In response to a question at Thursday night's debate, Hillary Clinton said she would "look into" the possibility of releasing transcripts of her paid remarks to banking, corporate and financial services companies like Goldman Sachs.
But by Friday morning, it did not appear that much looking was underway.
Joel Benenson, Mrs. Clinton's pollster, gave little indication at a Wall Street Journal breakfast with reporters that the transcripts would be forthcoming.
"I don't think voters are interested in the transcripts of her speeches," he said.
Whether they are made public is up to the Clinton campaign. Speaking contracts typically give the speaker the right to decide whether any material from a particular speech can be shared beyond the room. Goldman Sachs, for one, declined to make an on-the-record statement.
I'll bet these speeches include a lot of slobbering from the Dowager Countess of Chappaqua about the greatness and genius of Goldman Sachs. Over to you, Bernie.


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Kristof Van Tomme Co-founder, Pronovix Hungary. email: kristof-at-pronovix.com (1TK4)
Kristof Van Tomme is one of the two founders of Pronovix. He's got a degree in Bio-engineering and gained hands on experience in the Biotech sector as a technology manager at Biopolisz (the tech transfer office of Szeged) and as head of business development at Avicor (a biotech service provider spin-off in Szeged). He is actively involved in the organization of the Central European Drupal community. He teaches an introductory Drupal course at the University of Szeged and was initiator and co-lead for Drupalcon Szeged in 2008. (1TM2)
He is great believer in the power of Semantic technologies as an enabler of richer and more powerful communications. He's got a couple of Blogposts on Semantic technology and how it is/can/could be implemented in Drupal. (--KristofVanTomme / 2009.02.25 14:17 CET) (1TK5)


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I was really looking forward to this piece. Originally, I was to be photographed by Hedi Slimane of Saint Laurent back in January. Due to scheduling conflicts repeatedly and delays, V settled on photographer Mason Poole. I looked at his portfolio and approved the choice though disappointed about the change. In life, you have to roll with the changes, ups and downs. At times, though when situations seem rocky from the start it could be a sign to not do something. After seeing what was done to my face in the summer issue of V, where the article is about the forthcoming "Paradise" – my shock, disappointment and outrage as well as that of my publicist and others on my team sent us all in a tailspin for a few days. Making matters worse was the dismissive response "Sorry you all feel this way, but all of the editors love it." Really? I guess so when it's not their face distorted and looking nothing like themselves. The photographer must also be to blame which is too bad because I walked away feeling really good about the session. I figured they might morph my body into the standard Hollywood size 2, never in my wildest imagine with so many photo sessions and fashion layouts under my belt did I envision this – Jody Watley Cyborg Woman – Someone Else's Face. Needless to say – this is something that I have to love with because it's published and nothing can be done. In the scheme of life and the absurdity of it all – I have to laugh about it…counting blessings and not woes. That said, shame on V and Mason Poole for doing this to me. I get a bit of photoshop and refinement done by experts who know what they are doing. Bad photoshop and misuse of the technology is the worst. People should really learn their craft, not be allowed to make people look unrecognizable – editors are you listening?! Thank you to writer Mark Jacobs for his interview.
Jody Watley Personal Candids from the V Magazine session – glad we took some snaps of our own!
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The Best Of Books, TV, Beer, Booze And Food In May 2015
The Three TV Shows You Need To Start Binge-Watching (According To Parks & Rec's Adam Scott)
Daniel Bettridge gives you all the info you need to be entertained all month by the various screens in your house.
Whether you're into spandex clad superheroes or critically acclaimed dramas, travel documentaries or centuries-old sporting events; there's a smorgasbord of entertainment on offer this month. So to help you work out what's worth watching, here's our guide to the very best TV, movies and sporting events May has to offer.
TVPenny Dreadful – Sunday 10 p.m., May 3 (Showtime)
If you've not yet tuned into British / American horror series Penny Dreadful then you're missing out. Starring a gaggle of big names including Timothy Dalton, Eva Green and Josh Hartnett; the show is set in Victorian-era London, where all manner of weird and wonderful literary characters from Dorian Gray to Frankenstein stalk the streets. It's a fun premise. It's also cushion-clenchingly scary; a hide-behind-the-sofa series that makes a welcome return to the schedules with its second season this May.
Mad Men – Sunday 10 p.m., May 17 (AMC)
After seven seasons of secretaries, scotch and suits so sharp you could cut your finger on them, Mad Men finally bids farewell to the airwaves this month. Matthew Weiner's series has become one of the poster boys for the current Golden Era of great television, but its cultural influence will mean nothing to fans who will be tuning in to find out what happens to Don Draper and co. when the credits roll for the final time.
MoviesThe Avengers: Age of Ultron – May 1
The gang are back together for Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron, the much-anticipated follow up to Marvel's superhero smash hit. Bigger, better and more Avengerier than ever before; the film sees old favorites join forces with some new faces to take on a mechanical menace voiced by James Spader. The end result, if the early reviews are anything to go by, is the Hollywood-equivalent of a home run, and a film that might just be the biggest hit of 2015.
Mad Max: Fury Road – May 15
It's been 30 years since George Miller last brought his Mad Max franchise to the multiplex, so it's easy to understand why fans are so excited to see the post-apocalyptic caper return to the big screen. There have been a few changes in the intervening three decades however. Gone are the likes of Mel Gibson and Tina Turner, in come Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy who are tasked with breathing new life into the iconic Aussie road warrior.
NetflixFruitvale Station – May 12
The brilliant Fruitvale Station finally makes it to Netflix this month. Based on the real life events leading up to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed by a police officer in Oakland; it's terse, heart-wrenching picture that wowed critics upon its release in 2013. Passionate and powerful, the film's a winner from start to finish; however it's undoubted high point is the performance of Michael B. Jordan in the central role. With an on-screen resume that already includes eye catching turns in the likes of Friday Night Lights and Chronicle, Fruitvale Station is another feather in the cap of an actor destined for the A-list.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 4) – May 15
Emmy-award winning former chef / wild child Anthony Bourdain is in his element in his CNN series, the fourth season of which arrives on Netflix this month. Intrepid, open and enthusiastic, whether he's roaming the far-flung reaches of the globe or exploring something a little closer to home, his passion for travel is infectious. That's especially evident in this action-packed fourth season, which features trips from Vietnam to Iran and just about everywhere else in-between.
SportsFloyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao – 9 p.m., May 2 (PPV)
They're already calling it the "fight of the century", and they might just be right. On May 2, 38-year-old American legend Floyd Mayweather will step into the squared circle with Manny Pacquiao for the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles. The bout, which will be held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, will see the pugilists split a purse of $150 million - the richest in boxing history. Beyond the glitz, the glamor and the bundles of cash however is one of the most intriguing boxing matches in recent history; a real water-cooler kind of a bout that you simply wont want to miss.
FA Cup Final - 12:30 p.m., May 30th (FOX Sports 1)
It's the oldest club competition in sport, a soccer spectacle that was first held all the way back in 1871. The intervening 144 years have done nothing to dampen the magic of the cup, which still draws in audiences from around the globe. Even if you're not a fan of the beautiful game, the FA Cup final is one of those matches you simply have to watch. Crammed full of tradition, pageantry and even the odd Royal appearance; it's like nothing you've ever seen before, and that's even before we get to the on-field action.


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Shadow and Light
I get a call from Farrar, Straus & Giroux to design a book jacket for a novel by Jonathan Rabb that is set in Berlin around 1930. The story centers around a detective and a murder at the Ufa movie studios; the legendary director Fritz Lang is a character in the book. The whole thing reeks of German-noir and Ludwig Hohlwein, and the art director is thinking about something with echoes of Lang's Metropolis poster.
Fritz Lang movie posters
I send this sketch, everyone likes it, and we try three or four variations of the guy at the bottom. I like to handle all the typography on a project when I can, and on this jacket, for a little joke, I add a small logo that mimics the Ufa logo and uses the initials of the publisher, FSG.
The design is a wrap-around image that shows nighttime Berlin on the back cover. I send off the file and look forward to seeing the book on the shelves in the spring.
A couple of weeks go by, and I get another call informing me that the editors are uncomfortable with the lettering, and they've decided to go with this version that uses a straight deco-ish font.
I go downstairs and order a gimlet.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Stress and Coping
As she was philosophizing I happened to be patting myself on the back because, I thought, I very rarely ever feel stress. Except for last night of course.
Who knew buying a house could be stressful?
Once I actually tackled the problem this morning (with instrumental help from my Dad) all was right again in the world. Back to relaxed, non-stressy Emily.
Until I got to the barn! Gah! Ellie has developed girl crushes on Polly and Belle in the neighboring stalls. Belle was out in a lesson and Ells was pacing and weaving in her stall.
I found her the same way on Sunday morning when Polly was out in turnout and she was left behind. She was frantically pacing in her stall and when I took her out (right away) she was incredibly anxious and spooky.
I've also noticed that she has been a little "looky" and will shuffle off if something spooks or startles her. Clearly I'm overreacting here. It's not like we're dealing with some tail up bucking Arabian. But up until this week she was completely unfazed by any encounter.
I'm sure she's just getting fitter and brighter- and we should expect some antics. I just worry a bit- Wilbur started off the same way and the next thing I knew he was terrified of flowers.
I just need to take my sister's advice- know that Ellie is in capable hands in her day to day- and not stress out!
Has anyone else dealt with stall separation anxiety?
Our potential house! Fingers crossed all goes smoothly until close!
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Henry used to screeeeeeeaaaaaaam and call when he first came.ReplyDelete
Praise The Lord he is over that!!!
She may just be settling in and finding her place :)Replies
Agree! I know I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and she just needs to settle in!Delete
Ghazal was terrible about being separated at any time. He actually had the nickname of mother hen because he was always trying to figure out where his "chick" were. He never totally got over it but the more I made him work and focus on me the better it got. Lots of ground work making him focus on me really helped.ReplyDelete
The house looks really cool!Replies
Thanks! She does settle down and go right to work- I think she might be suffering from some stall boredom.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2014 at 6:44 AM
House is lovely!! Having a garage makes me a very happy person :)ReplyDelete
For awhile after we moved O she would rear, spook, and be totally obnoxious when taken away from her herd of buddies. Once the newness wore off she returned to her normal self. I'm sure Ellie is just finally fitting in and finding friends, and the exuberance will subside soon!Replies
Totally- I'm sure she'll end up fitting in just fine :)Delete
Haha, I hate to be "that blogger", but given her recent life style changes, you might keep an ulcer preventative in the back of your mind.ReplyDelete
I mean, the behavior doesn't sound that far off normal for a young horse learning to live a new life. Best wishes! The house is cute--can't wait to see what you do with it.Replies
You're totally right- she's just being a baby in a new place. Totally not being "that blogger" at all- I think it's a great suggestion and something to think about if she continues to become more and more anxious!Delete
I'm afraid I'm not much help with the worry thing. I'm a huge stress worrier and trying to get better about it.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm usually not a huge worrier! But when I do I tend to go all out!Delete
- your sage sisterMarch 26, 2014 at 9:28 AM
Ain't nothin' wrong with some girl crushes. I should know! :)ReplyDelete
Ramone is super attached to other horses. I ignore him and tell him to get over himself. But I also used to own a horse that hated everyone which I liked lol. That horse was super secure and confident in himself.. sometimes too much.ReplyDelete
Love the house, beautiful!ReplyDelete
As for the separation anxiety, I was blessed with a very calm "leave me with grass or food and I'm happy" type of horse so I haven't had to deal with it firsthand, but there's a TB mare at my barn that would literally hurt herself, jump fences, run around (once she even fell..hard...) if my horse left her (which made for interesting rides for me, lol) but soon, she settled in and made new friends and was fine. I'm sure she'll get over it!
Fiction gets very anxious when he is in alone and the other horses are out. He will whinny/weave in the crossties. If I ignore him and move slowly, he calms down quite a bit. As long as I continue on as normal, he realizes there is nothing to be concerned about!ReplyDelete
Some Acid FX may help - as per Sprinkler Bandits suggestion. My only comment is that your house is big! Hope you have a cleaning lady heheheReplyDelete


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AMVETS Post 449 held its annual Memorial Day service today to honor veterans from past wars as well as men and women now serving in the military.
They also honored various Amherst veterans who died during the past year.
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Germany will soon be running many of Greece's busiest tourist airports.
Airport operator Fraport, which is controlled by the German state of Hesse and the Frankfurt city utility, is paying 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for a 40-year concession to manage 14 regional Greek airports.
Greece committed to raise 50 billion euros ($55 billion) by selling state assets as one condition of its new 86 billion euro international bailout. The airport deal is the first major transaction under the privatization program.
Fraport said it would spend around 330 million euros upgrading the airports. The Greek government hopes the deal will boost tourism in the regions.
Airports on some of Greece's most visited islands, such as Crete, Corfu, Zakynthos, Rhodes and Santorini, are being privatized.
Greece is one of the most popular destinations for German tourists -- 2.5 million visited the country last year.
Related: Surprise! Greek economy grows
Greece first agreed to sell the airports to Fraport back in November 2014.
But that deal was ditched by the left-wing Syriza government shortly after its election in January. It has been forced to resurrect the sale, and accept tough austerity measures, in return for a third financial rescue by Europe.
Many Greeks are not happy about the prospect of Germans running the airports. Germany is Greece's biggest creditor, and its leader Angela Merkel was often criticized in Greece for her tough stance during negotiations on the new bailout.
Some members of Syriza criticized the deal as hurried, describing it as an "economic crime."
Fraport operates some of the world's major aviation hubs, including Frankfurt Airport and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The 14 Greek airports served around 19 million passengers in 2013, and will generate revenues of more than 180 million euros a year, according to Fraport.
After taking losses in the first three years, Fraport stands to make healthy profits from the deal for the remainder of the concession.
The deal will be finalized in the next few weeks, according to the Greek government.


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Islamic attire for women—the burqa and hijab—are back in the news, though with a twist, as they cause problems and lawsuits in America, where they are legal. In France, however, they have been banned, and Muslim women are happily complying.
There is an instructive reason for this, but first, the stories from this week.
A Muslim-American woman, Kulsoom Abdullah, is trying to change the rules of competitive weightlifting to accommodate her. The rules require arms and legs to be bare so judges can see when elbows and knees are "locked," therefore being able to determine if a lift is successful. Most competitors wear a form-fitting body suit with short sleeves and short pants. Abdullah, however, says that "such exposure would violate her deeply held religious beliefs. But rather than giving up on her dreams of competitive weightlifting, she is pressing for a change in the sport's international rules," including "with the help of a lawyer, Muslim activists and the U.S. Olympic Committee."
And she won. The rules have been changed, in the words of the International Weightlifting Federation, to "promote and enable a more inclusive sport environment and break down barriers to participation."
It was also reported this week that Muslim-American Hani Khan is suing Abercrombie & Fitch, claiming the clothing retailer fired her for refusing to shed the hijab, an experience which in Khan's words "shook my confidence." She would be the third Muslim woman to sue Abercrombie for hijab reasons. But Khan is not trying to get her job back; rather, "her suit seeks to force Abercrombie to change its dress code to loosen restrictions on religious clothing… and is seeking back wages and unspecified damages."
In a statement, Abercrombie said, "We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of religion, race or ethnicity. … We comply with the law regarding reasonable religious accommodation."
Oddly, Khan's lawyer asserted that "Abercrombie prides itself on requiring what it calls 'a natural, classic American style.' But there is nothing American about discriminating against someone because of their religion." Apparently, work dress codes are now tantamount to "discriminating against someone because of their religion."
Meanwhile, in France, where Islamic dress is altogether banned, a new report suggests that Muslim women are happily complying—indeed, more Muslim women are traveling to France than before the ban:
Wealthy Gulf tourists are expected to continue to flock to France this summer in spite of a law that prohibits Muslim women from wearing the burqa, travel agencies said. Travel industry experts had initially feared a decline in Arab tourists after the April ban on full veils but now report no decline in peak-season bookings to France. Hotels.com, the parent company of the online travel website expedia.com, has seen a 219 percent increase in the number of searches for France from its Arabic Middle East site from April 1 to date. Searches for Belgium, which in 2010 passed a bill banning any clothing that would obscure the identity of the wearer, have increased 300 percent the website said.
Lest you think these Gulf women are any less pious than their American counterparts, there is a simple reason for why they are complying:
Islam's doctrine of taysir allows for hiyla, or the relaxation of Islamic law whenever Muslims find it inconvenient to uphold aspects of Sharia law, like when they are under infidel/Western authority. In fact, some of Islam's top leaders, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, for example, are great advocates of taysir, "especially for those Muslim minorities living in Europe and America."
Taysir is like a broader concept of taqiyya, which permits Muslims to lie when circumstances call for it, while taysir only permits Muslims to drop aspects of Sharia law when circumstances call for it.
But there is another distinction. The Gulf women traveling to France are tourists who are not nearly as acquainted with the West as their American counterparts. They naturally assume the West is like the Islamic world—actually tenacious about its customs and laws, hardly to be pushed around by minority groups. (This is precisely why Muslims in the West shamelessly push for the Ground Zero mosque – Muslims in the Middle East can't believe it and think it's a Zionist conspiracy.)
Muslims living in the West, on the other hand, know how easily the West can be pushed into submission, so why settle for the Muslim option of taysir when they can score a victory for Islam—and make some money while at it?


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Plus, could this be the silver lining during this bizarre new normal?
Last Friday my friend's husband came home from his government job with a box of office supplies and papers in hand "ready to work from home for 30 days." When the government, one of the most traditional work-at-a-desk jobs is ordering their teams to WFH, it's a true sign that corporate America is entering in to new territory as a result of this global pandemic. And, as we know, they are not alone. Companies of all sizes and in-office traditions are ordering their teams to set up shop at home and adjust to a new way of work—many with little practice.
For us freelancers and consultants this is our normal way of life.
As someone who comes from more traditional come-to-the-office-everyday companies, I always admired those who had a more flexible work environment (mostly newer startups) and longed for a day when I was not be tied to my desk. Now don't get me wrong, I loved collaborating in person with my colleagues, having someone to get coffee with, and having human interaction. But while it's one way to get business done, it's not the only way and I'm hoping this new pandemic-quarantine-world we are living in brings light to the opportunities and benefits that can exist when you step away from your desk. Perhaps even a new level of trust for employees?
Now, I'm not saying that every company needs to start allowing let their teams work from home all day, every day (post pandemic of course) but with ever-changing technology and a more modern approach to business, perhaps more traditional companies will begin to allow for some flexibility and in turn see happier employees and expand their talent pool.
If you are not accustomed to working from home, here are my tips for getting sh$t done. Freelancers and consultants I'd love to see any other tips you have in the comments.
Schedule your day (including everything from breaks to housework)
Map out your day by blocking of your calendar for pretty much everything. Working from home can create a lot of distractions, especially if you have a partner, roommate, or kids at home as well. Your mind can easily drift to "I need to do laundry" or "the dishwasher needs to be emptied" or "what's on the news now". Block out time to get these things done (even if it's after your "work hours") and include break times, stretch times, and meal times. It's easy to get out of routine when you're at home.
Write clear calendar requests
Video and voice calls get confusing when you are coordinating with a lot of people across multiple timezones. Make sure your calendar requests are clear with very direct call-in information. Is this a video? A voice call? Did you delete the auto conference information Google creates (this always causes confusion)? Did you add a clear description? Be as detailed as you can. I gets more confusing when everyone is remote.
Get the blood flowing
With nearly every fitness outlet closed (depending on what state you're in), it's important to keep your brain and body fresh by getting in some short workout bursts. Truly, take two minutes for burpees, jump squats, push ups, you name it. When I worked at Barry's Bootcamp we would even do these short bursts in office and it made a huge difference. Or set time aside for walk breaks (don't forget to add these to your calendar).
Pick your background noise wisely
I like having background noise every so often as the silence of being in your home can either add to your productivity or completely make you feel like you're in complete solitude confinement. It's easy to be tempted, or sucked in, by the television (sometimes that is my background noise) so make sure and only have it on when you know you can multitask or avoid getting distracted. I always like exploring Spotify's coffee shop playlists and there are so. many. to. choose. from, plus you can transport yourself to France or Korea for a change of culture.
Take advantage of easy-access to healthy meals
This is a great time to eat healthy and make creative lunches, salads, sandwiches, "bowls" —all the things that are difficult to pack when you work in an office everyday. Grab inspiration all over the web or Instagram (sailor_bailey, thecuttingveg, and zestmylemon are all good ones). Grocery shelves can be bare these days, but the produce sections all seem pretty well stocked — so make sure and get your veggies.
Set communication expectations with your colleagues from the get-go
When people work from home they tend to feel the need to "prove" they are working. This could mean everything from cc'ing everyone on every email to over scheduling meetings to trying to answer all your emails within seconds (therefore crushing your ability to do anything else). On the flip side, you can fall in to a trap of under communicating without even knowing it. Set expectations with your leadership and colleagues early on so everyone is on the same page with communication. This includes the use of other tools such as Slack, which can crush productivity if you let it.
Keep the phone at a distance
It's easy to get distracted by that portable digital device that's always by your side, especially in times like this when there is a constant flow of news, group texts, family updates, Instagram, TikTok (I'm too old for this but trying to fit in) and more. Make it a point to hide the phone as much as you can when you are trying to get stuff done and allow yourself to only check it during designated break times (add it to the calendar!).
Know that it's okay to move your office around
There's a lot of people who might disagree with me on this one. Most people will advise work-from-homers to have a designated area for work set up with a desk, a plant, office supplies, and so on. But I'm not sure I 100% agree with that. Part of what I like about working from home is that I can sit outside, drink my coffee, and answer emails or change from my couch to my dining room table to my bar stools if I so desire. If I wanted to be in one spot all day, I'd go to an office. Don't be afraid to switch up your scenery and get outside when the weather allows — it's part of the beauty of it all.
Don't forget to brush your teeth
Seriously though, don't.
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Yesterday we had the first instance of the Julia Paris Meetup. As the name suggests a couple of us Julia enthusiasts in the French capital got together for one evening of talks and chatting about everyone's favourite programming language. It was a great occasion to finally meet some people in person and gather around for some technical chit-chat till the late hours at one of the bars of the 11th arrondissement after the talks.
I myself was pretty excited about the evening and not quite sure what kind of people to expect. Unsurprisingly most people, who turned up had an academic background with focus on number crunching of some sort, mostly high-performance linear algebra or optimisation problems. To my big surprise, the number of people working in a industrial context was a lot larger than I expected, even though most did not use the language to a large extend in their everyday work. Still, after the evening I am yet again convinced that Julia is spreading beyond dusty desks in universities. Certainly, a great part in this plays the dedicated community of people, willing to invest a Sunday evening here and there to work on just the very thing required to advance the language and the Julia ecosystem step by step. Even though this has already been clear to me to some extent before Thursday, actually meeting the community and listening to stories and experiences from the Julia trenches, make the whole impression more vivid. I am already looking forward to the next meeting (details as always on https://julia-users-paris.github.io).
On that note, I was very happy, that I had the chance to play an active part in the evening by being one of the first to present some stories of my own. Naturally I talked about my endeavours with Julia while developing the DFTK code. Since I was not too sure about the audience, I tried to get across what makes Julia an ideal language for our efforts, what things we are currently working on and what will be our focus next and how we expect Julia to help. I'm not going to repeat the details about DFTK here, because these can be found in a previous article. See also the second half of this article. The slides of my talk can be downloaded here as usual:
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Oh happy day, a new nonfiction article by David Foster Wallace! This one's on Roger Federer. "Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war." The footnotes appear on a separate page and almost comprise an article of their own. I love reading his writing about tennis. (thx, stephen)
Update: Here's a short clip of Wallace on NPR talking about Federer. When asked about the similarities between great athletes and great novelists, Wallace suggested that great athletes possess the ability to "empathize without sympathy" with their opponent, something that is useful in fiction writing when putting yourself in the shoes of a character.
Update: This YouTube video shows the Federer/Agassi volley that Wallace describes in the epically long sentence in the second paragraph...look for it starting at 8:10. (thx, marco)


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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Tomato Sandwiches on Rosemary Bread
This is really not a recipe but one of the simple treats of summer.
Sliced Rosemary bread that is broiled and rubbed with cut garlic and smeared with a little mayo.
Sliced tomatoes layered on top with a pinch of kosher salt and fresh ground pepper.
Fresh basil that is torn and sprinkled on top of tomatoes and shredded Parmesan on top of that. Pop it back under the broiler for about a minute and voila, it says summer!
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Your Teen And The Spirit of Giving This Christmas
How to teach your children the true spirit of Christmas? The first tip is to not force the issue. You can always teach your kids about the joy of giving, but you cannot force them to adopt it. Be an example and do something selfless yourself this Christmas.
There is a special joy in giving back during the Christmas season. If you want your kids to join you in your mission, be an example to them. Ask them to accompany you to an old-age home or a children's shelter and make them a part of this special endeavour. When they see you in the act, they will learn about the joy of giving back without holding. Here are some easy ways to inculcate the habit:
Ways to Teach Your Teens about Giving Back for Christmas
1. Lay Low with the Gifts
The holiday season is more or less centred on gifts. However, alter that pattern this year. Ask your child to donate his 'gift' or talent in making the less fortunate happy. By encouraging him to be a little selfless this Christmas, you are kindling the right spirit. Ask him to spend more time with the family. This is the greatest gift of all. It might not be as exciting as getting an X-Box for Christmas, but it is valued more.
2. The Gift of Volunteering
How to teach your kids the real spirit of xmas? Encourage them to start small. Encourage him to visit the nearest old-age home or children's shelter and volunteer for a day. He could always throw a little party for them and share small gifts. Once he agrees to it, the experience will change his perspective. Initially, he may not want to spend his spare time volunteering. However, he will soon come to realise that his selfless deed will make him feel good about himself.
3. Book Drive
If your teen isn't ready for volunteering at shelter homes, you can always encourage him by asking him to donate a few of his old books as Christmas gifts to those who share the same passion for reading. Encourage him to clean his shelf and sort out the books he has no use for anymore. Ask him to wrap them in gift paper and distribute them to those who cannot afford to buy their own.
4. Family Matters
There may be family members who are alone during the holiday season. Ask your teen to go visit them with a cake or a kind message. Not only will they feel good, your child may feel good too. It's always the small things that matter. Therefore, ask your child to take small steps before undertaking charity work. After all, charity does begin at home. This is one of the best ways to teach your kids to give at xmas.
Make it a point to involve the entire family when planning to do something special for the less fortunate during Christmas. When there are elders leading the way, children will learn to follow. Do small selfless acts throughout the season to make your teens understand the true message of Christmas long after it's gone.