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Change is good...
Ok, ready for this? Here it is!
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I about fell off my chair laughing my butt off when I first saw this stamp set! The inside sentiment is from Unity's March KOM. I really took it out of context...and love it! LOL!
Here's the sketch. I followed it pretty closely.
The paper is from Graphic 45's Olde Curiosity Shoppe collection. I even used the very last page in the collection (the beige card stock - hey, it matched perfectly!) I used G45 because they have an old world charm to their collections, "old" being the key word with this card (hee hee)
Well, I'm off to start scraping paint. The honey-do list never ends! Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!
Chris ☺
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Very cute!ReplyDelete
This is super adorable! I love the colors you used and that fabulous layout. Great card. :)ReplyDelete
Wow, who would have thought you could make a pair of underwear look sophisticated? The card is fabulous.ReplyDelete
Very funny card for the right person.ReplyDelete
Awesome. I wasn't sure tighty whiteys could ever look that good :)ReplyDelete
I crack up every time I see this set used. It is such a good men's choice!ReplyDelete
This is awesome! I love this set too!!!ReplyDelete
I know those are guy undies but I know plenty of women who love them so I think I'll give this a go in pink and orange! Very CUTE!ReplyDelete
This is just too darn cute! Love the undies and the sentiment. I personally think it fits!ReplyDelete
Awesome card and I love the sentiment you paired it with inside!ReplyDelete
So cute!!! How funny!ReplyDelete
Super cute! Love it!ReplyDelete
LOVE this card!! The stamped image is so funny. Your design is so Gorgeous, and I love the papers you used.ReplyDelete
Well that is pretty darn funny. Good combination on the sentiments!ReplyDelete
Wait...you're not a dude, what are you doing with a HONEY DO list. As WIVES, I think we are nothing but DO DO DO!!ReplyDelete
Love the inside sentiment. Very fitting.
And yes, I love this stamp too. HUMOR is a good thing and I'm always happy with funny (and even those that cross the line to the WRONG side) stamps!Replies
Since I'm a SAHM, I don't mind doing more work around the house. (Seriously, I paint way better than the hubby! Must be the artist in me! LOL!) And I agree with humor being a good thing, and more off color humor is even better!Delete
LOL, I've always liked this stamp set! great job on the sketchReplyDelete
So funny! Great card!ReplyDelete
I laugh everytime I see this stamp. You did it very well.ReplyDelete
Awesome card!!! This stamp makes me giggle too :) Your choice of papers is fantatsic! Good luck with your project!ReplyDelete
Ha ha...this stamp always cracks me up! Super cute card!ReplyDelete
LOL, this stamp set cracks me up! LOVE this! Thanks for using this week's Deconstructed Sketch!ReplyDelete


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Your homeowner's insurance is there to help you in case anything goes wrong in your home. That being said, 5.3% of homeowners filed an insurance claim last year. Insurance claims can raise your rates, unfortunately.
And while there are countless ways to raise your insurance premiums, most people have no clue how they can lower their homeowner's insurance rates.
There are some things you can do to bring your rates back down, though.
Raise your deductible
Your deductible is the amount of money you will have to pay towards a loss before your insurance company will start to pay for the claim according to the terms on your policy. If you can afford to, you should raise your deductible. You can save as much as 25% on your premiums because the higher your deductible, the more money you can save.
Bundle your home and auto insurance
You can't go without home insurance, and you can't go without car insurance. The good news is that you can get those insurance policies from the same company and save some money. If you bundle your homeowner's policy with your auto and liability coverage, it will take 5% to 15% off of your premium.
When your insurance policy is up for renewal, consider bundling the policies within a single company that offers better combined rates.
Improve your home security
If someone breaks into your home, you'll often have to file an insurance claim, and your rates are likely to go up. However, if you can install a burglar alarm or a more sophisticated home security system that contacts the police, your insurance policy should go down. You can get a discount of 2% to 6% with a functioning residential security system installed on the premises.
Get a generator
Finally, you can get a generator for your home to help bring down your insurance rates. A working generator help ensures that your home's systems and appliances that rely on electricity to function will continue to operate during a power outage. This means your home won't flood because your sump pump isn't running, your refrigerator will still work, etc. Depending on your insurance company, you can get a discount of 4% to 10% on your policy.
If you want to lower your homeowner's insurance, try some of these simple tricks. You can also call your insurance company and see if they are offering any discounts or if there's anything else you can do to bring your rates down. Many homeowner's insurance companies offer discounts for veterans and other special groups, but you won't know for sure unless you take the time to find out.
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Licensed psychotherapist Mary K. Tatum, MS, LMHC, serves the communities in and around Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at her practice, Tranquil Soul Counseling. With over a decade of experience, Mary K. helps patients address mental health issues and resolve problems ranging from anxiety and depression to trauma and the other challenges presented by life.
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25 April 1945
"Citizens, workers! General strike against the German occupation, against the fascism war, for the salvation of our land, our homes, our workshops. As in Genoa and Turin, place the Germans faced with the dilemma: to surrender or perish."
With These words Sandro Pertini the 25th of April 1945 announcing the seizure of power by the CLNAI (National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy ) and the death sentence for all fascist leaders that included Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later.
The 25th of April is also the end of 595 day of résistance against the nazi-facist domain. In April 1946 Alcide De Gasperi , and Umberto II, declared that 25th of April is National holiday to Celebrate the Total liberation of Italy.
Since then, annually in all Italian cities – especially those decorated for military valor for the war of liberation – are organized public events in memory.
Italy's Liberation Day is strongly felt by the citizens and considered one of the most important day in our recent history, seeing huge participation during the official celebration of a wide range of population.
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Anti-Doping Fundamentals Course
Comprehensive anti-doping education designed for all athletes and support personnel participating in competitive sport.
Webinar: The What, Why and How Behind Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport
Presented by Lisa Purves, Sport Integrity Australia's Director Safeguarding, this webinar is aimed at all participants and members of sport across all levels including administrators, volunteers and parents.
Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport Induction
This course is designed to help you understand Safeguarding Children and Young People in your sport, including the Children and Young People Safe Practices, and how to recognise and respond to possible breaches.
The course is now delivered in a modular format and features two parts. Part one focuses on helping you understand Safeguarding Children and Young People in your sport. Part two is an optional Recruitment and Screening module designed for those involved in the recruitment of staff and volunteers in sport. The Recruitment and Screening module will become available after completing the Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport Induction.
National Integrity Framework
This course provides sport administrators with background on Sport Integrity Australia, the development of the National Integrity Framework, and why it was developed including an overview of each Policy.
Decision Making in Sport
This course poses challenging questions based on real-life predicaments faced by sportspeople at all levels. Learn how to apply your personal values and principles to the ethical dilemmas of the sporting world.
Annual Update 2023
This course is for athletes and support personnel who need to stay up to date on the latest integrity information. This course is updated annually to reflect current trends in anti-doping and broader integrity issues. A badge is issued upon completion and expires on 2nd March each year.
A pre-requisite for this course is the successful completion of Anti-Doping Fundamentals course.
If you have just completed Anti-Doping Fundamentals and are unable to enroll, please allow 15 minutes for the system to recognise your completion and try again.
Parents' Guide to Clean Sport
Designed to teach parents of young athletes about the Anti-Doping rules, doping risks, healthy sport culture, nutrition and the risks of supplement use.
Cyber Safety and Security for Sports
Designed for anyone working in a sporting organisation, this course covers the potential cyber threats faced by sporting organisations, and equips employees with the tools to make their organisations more resilient to cyber attacks.
PBTR - Member Protection Information Officer (MPIO)
MPIO training is provided in two parts: the online course and the local face to face training.
The PBTR MPIO online course is tailored towards those seeking to become recognised MPIO officers in their State, covering the MPIO role, complaint resolution procedures, member protection and the law, child protection, harassment and discrimination, and ethical and practical considerations.
To become a fully accredited MPIO, as well as completing the online course, you must also undertake local face to face training via your state/territory MPIO training provider. To access provider contacts please click here: Member Protection Information Officer training - Play by the Rules - Making Sport inclusive, safe and fair
Introduction to Illicit Drugs in Sport
This course follows the story of four athletes who have it all in front of them.
Find out how they get on, and what decisions they could have made to turn the situation around.
PBTR - Child Protection and Safeguarding
The PBTR Child Protection and Safeguarding course is designed to help users: Recognise the Child Safe Standards and find relevant Child Protection Legislation; Identify your role in child protection and safeguarding and work through what to do if child abuse occurs in your sport or club; Define the types, signs, risk factors and impacts of child abuse in a sport or club setting; and Identify steps to create a child safe environment in your sport or club.
PBTR - Harassment and Discrimination
The PBTR Harassment and Discrimination online course is an interactive course that provides an introduction to discrimination law and discusses the implications of discrimination and harassment on sports clubs and associations. It provides users with an understanding of discrimination and harassment and what to do if an incident occurs.
PBTR - Complaint Handling
The PBTR Complaint Handling course is designed to help users understand strategies around how to handle complaints appropriately and efficiently. Participants are encouraged to complete both the Child Protection and the Harassment and Discrimination courses prior to this course.
PBTR - Inclusive Coaching
The PBTR Inclusive Coaching course provides an opportunity for community coaches to develop their own approach and strategies for inclusion. It includes practical case studies and examples of what it means to be inclusive of all people, what inclusion and diversity means for your sport, and what discrimination means under the law.
PBTRs - Mini Course - Walking the Talk
The PBTR Walking the Talk mini-course introduces three case studies based on situations participants might face in community sport. It is designed to encourage participants to think about how integrity can be recognised and improved in a community sport setting.
Competition Manipulation and Sports Betting
This e-learning program is designed to help you understand what Competition Manipulation and Sports Betting is, its consequences, how to recognise it and report it.
PBTRs - Ethics and Ethical Decision Making in Sport
The PBTRs - Ethics and Ethical Decision Making in Sport provides an introduction to ethics, and an ethical decision making framework that participants can use to assist decision making. Participants will learn what ethics are and how they relate to values, principles, and morals, and how to apply the ethical decision making framework in a sporting context.
PBTR Mini Course - Let Kids be Kids
The PBTR Let Kids be Kids mini-course addresses poor sideline behaviour at junior sport. Participants will learn what motivates children to participate in sport, how to identify and address poor adult behaviour in a sporting context, and how to take into consideration the views and opinions of children and young people.
PBTRs - Introduction to the Integrity of Sport
The PBTRs Introduction to the Integrity of Sport provides an overview of integrity issues in sport, including how and why integrity issues occur, and what has been done to address them. This course is the recommended starting point for the Integrity in Sport series of mini-courses.
PBTR - LGBTI+ Inclusive Club
The PBTR LGBTI+ course is designed to help sporting organisations adopt a culture that is inclusive of LGBTI+ people. This course will assist participants to define the LGBTI+ inclusion, adopt inclusive language, and address barriers to inclusion in the future.
Medical Practitioners Course
This course is for medical practitioners and athlete medical support personnel.
Coaches Course
Anti-Doping knowledge tailored to the important role coaches play in their athletes' lives. To enrol in this course, you must first complete Anti-Doping Fundamentals.
Classification Fundamentals
Comprehensive education about classification in Para-sport. Designed for all athletes and support personnel participating in competitive sport.
Clean Sport 101
An introduction to Anti-Doping rules written in plain English. Designed for pathway athletes early in their careers, unlikely to be tested, and community/grassroots levels.


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Normally I would just post this on the Guitar Moderne Facebook page, but it is so, well, fanasticos! that I had to give it a real post. Modern sounds and looping with a CRT screen based guitar? WTF! From the Japan based Electronicos Fantasticos! website: "Electronicos Fantasticos! (aka: Nikos), led by artist/musician Ei Wada, revives electrical appliances that have finished their roles into new 'electromagnetic musical instruments' while involving everyone. This project gradually shapes the orchestra."
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FruitDay Strengthens O2O Strategy
On the afternoon of August 19, FruitDay held a press conference in Beijing with the theme of "Taste a Fresh World" to allow participants an up-close opportunity to understand the supply chain and the online produce supplier. At the press conference, founder Wang Wei gave a keynote speech, addressing the extent of change in online produce suppliers and consumption patterns. He also officially announced that FruitDay has begun an expanded Online-to-Offline (O2O) product strategy.
FruitDay O2O services target white-collar business hours so that customers can order fruit at any time, making it possible to have a "meal delivery" style of ordering fruit while at the office. FruitDay uses brick-and-mortar stores within major distribution areas and employs self-built logistics so that the customer can simply use FruitDay's app to quickly place an order. As long as their delivery address is within the distribution range, they will receive orders of small packaged fruits, juices, and other products within two hours.
Concerning O2O strategic goals, Wang explained, "FruitDay's B2C (business-to-consumer) + O2O business model uses different scenarios to meet consumer needs, providing consumers with more convenience, and a higher quality of life. Allowing people all over the country to eat good fruit was the heart of why FruitDay was founded. With the development of a deeply integrated supply chain over the past six years, the B2C model has achieved good results, and now the B2C + O2O business model will further meet the needs of users in different situations, providing more convenience, and a 'fresher', better life."
With an integrated supply chain and a user-demand-driven business advantage, FruitDay is expected to maintain an average performance increase of 150% per year. In 2014, sales reached RMB 500 million, and in 2015, annual sales are expected to exceed RMB 1 billion.
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A collection of reviews of films from off the beaten path; a travel guide for those who love the cinematic world and want more than the mainstream releases.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Daddy And The Warlord (2019) DOC NYC 2019
Moody and atmospheric meditation on how the children view the sins of the our parents keep raises all sorts of questions most of us have never truly come to terms with. How well do we really know our parents, more to the point do most of us really want to know what they were/are like when we are not there? While the mystery at the heart of the tale is not one most of us can relate to, we have not been in a country at war, the issues surrounding it can't help but echo in out head. Worth a look.
DADDY AND THE WARLORD plays with the gut punch short The Mortician of Manila on November 13th at DOC NYC. For more information and tickets go here
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Guidance System in Lithuania
Career guidance covers information, counselling, and guidance services that help persons in different age categories choose their own pursuits in the areas of education, training, and employment, and to undertake active roles in the development of their career management skills. Career guidance in Lithuania follows the same trends that prevail in Europe: career guidance is being organized as a basic element of the Lifelong Learning Strategy and as a fundamental part of employment policy.
The formation and development of the career guidance system in Lithuania is the responsibility of three executive authority institutions of the Republic of Lithuania – the Ministry of Education and Science (career guidance policy related to the provision of quality career education, information, and counselling services for pupils, students, adult learners, etc.), the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (career guidance policy related to the provision of quality career information and counselling services for job-seekers (youth and adults), including NEETs) and the Ministry of Economy (career guidance policy related to organising forecasts on human resource demand in the labour market). In the education sector, career guidance (i.e. career education, information, and counselling services) is provided by general education schools and VET schools. In the employment sector, career guidance services (i.e. information and counselling) for job-seekers (adults and youth) are provided by territorial labour exchanges and their structural divisions – youth job centres. Associations and NGO's of people with disabilities or any other special educational needs provide specific career guidance to their target groups. The range of offered services varies and depends on the type and priorities of each NGO. Some organisations offer employment mediation and various training programmes (building confidence and motivation, developing career planning skills, etc.) for persons of disadvantaged groups (including persons with disabilities).
To ensure the accessibility of career information and counselling services, a special focus is put on career guidance information systems. In 2008, the Ministry of Education and Science developed a national database of learning opportunities titled AIKOS (Atviro informavimo, konsultavimo ir orientavimo sistema – Open Information, Consultation and Orientation System), which makes data on education, statistics, and labour registers available to a wide range of customers and offers relevant information to career guidance service providers.
Funding for career guidance services comes from diverse resources: the state budget, ESF funds, and funds from Active Labour Market Resources and the Youth Guarantee Intiative.
"Career guidance counsellor" is not a state-regulated occupation, thus professionals in guidance are recruited according to separate sectorial/corporate standards and requirements.
Requirements for school career coordinators and career counsellors, as well as their functions, are defined in their job descriptions.
School career coordinators who work within the school level are required to: have a higher education degree; have at least three months of work experience with tasks related to activities with school students or counselling; be aware of career education-related legislation; have a good command of ICT related to guidance tasks; be aware of the basics of document-processing and record-keeping; be fluent in the Lithuanian language; have at least a B2-level command of any foreign language, preferably English, French or German.
School career counsellors, who coordinate groups of assigned school career coordinators, are required to: have a higher education degree; have at least one year of work experience with tasks of counselling or consulting activities; have a good knowledge of national guidance policies, systems, and legislation; have some experience in performing management tasks; have a good knowledge of pedagogy and andragogy and the ability to use them in practical work; be aware of the basics of document-processing and record-keeping; have a basic computer literacy qualification according to national standards; be fluent in the Lithuanian language; have at least a B2-level command of any foreign language, preferably English, French or German.
Requirements for counsellors of territorial labour exchanges and their youth job centres are as follows: a degree of higher or equivalent education; at least one year of work experience in the field of employment policy; knowledge of relevant legislation; information management and analytical skills; skills of written and verbal communication; ability to produce official documentation; good command of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet Explorer; and C2-level knowledge of a foreign language (English, German or French).
Country-specific research on different aspects of career guidance is commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science and Euroguidance LT, but does not constitute regular practice and heavily depends on available funding.
Examples could be provided from the two universities in Lithuania:
- Vilnius University research is focused on the psychological aspect of career guidance and an individual's career implications, attitudes, and decisions, as well as counselling methodologies.
- Vytautas Magnus University in 2012 established the Quality of Studies and Career Research Group (liet. Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, Studijų kokybės ir karjeros tyrimų grupė). This group publishes the international journal "Career Designing: Research and Counselling" (liet. Karjeros projektavimas: tyrimai ir konsultavimas) in Lithuanian and English. This journal is meant to be a forum for diverse and competing philosophies and practices of career designing and counselling. It offers publications of both theoretical and empirical research about career designing and invites researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to join international discussions aimed at resolving issues and problems in career education (choosing professions) and planning (further career development).
Ethical principles, guidelines, and occupational descriptions for career guidance staff acting in general education and VET sectors were developed in 2008. The standards used by the practitioners are: validity, professional image, respect, objectiveness, and relevance. The Principles for Ethics in Career Guidance are a part of the Qualification Standard of career specialists, which was prepared through the ESF project, "Designing and development of the national career guidance system" (2008).
HE institutions follow the Framework of Quality Assurance of Career Management Services for Students (2012). The Framework encompasses descriptions of principles for ensuring the quality of career resources, career practitioners, code of ethics, etc.
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Thelema Rabelais 2014
Rabelais is a blend of the best Bordeaux components from our Thelema range from the 2014 vintage. The wine shows concentrated aromas of dark berries, hints of mocha and cedar wood on the nose. The palate has lovely sweet fruit notes, polished tannins and a long, refined finish.
The carefully selected components of this wine lend themselves perfectly to long term cellaring, 10 – 15 years.
Food Pairing
This complex and full-bodied wine complements beef and game dishes.
Winemaker's Comments
During our annual vintage review individual barrels are identified and earmarked for the Rabelais blend. Concentrated aromas of dark berries and cedar wood on the nose are complemented by lovely sweet fruit and polished tannins on the palate. The wine finishes long and firm and will reward cellaring.
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Tasting Notes
Viticultural Practices
|Cabernet Sauvignon - CS 338C / Petit Verdot - Clone PV 219A
|Root stock
|101-14 and R99
|Soil type
|Hutton – decomposed granite
|Age of vines
|Planted 2002/2003 & 1988
|Plant density
|2000 and 2110 vines per hectare respectively
|Vertical hedge
|2-bud spurs every 12cm
|6-7 tons/ha (Cabernet), 6 tons/ha (PV),
|Supplementary drip
|Cool start to season delaying harvest by a week or so leading to an exceptional vintage with red wines of great purity, elegance and concentration.
|Picking date
|13th March (Cabernet Sauvignon), 20th March (PV)
|Grape sugar
|25.5 °B (Cabernet), 25.0 °B (PV)
|5.16 g/l (Cabernet), 7.0 g/l (PV)
|pH at harvest
|3.50 (Cabernet), 3.40 (PV)
Winemaking Practices
|Natural occurring yeasts
|Fermentation temp
|De-stalked, hand sorted, crushed, pumped into stainless steel fermentation tanks, cold soak for two days, and pumped over twice a day for 5 days. After fermentation the wine is left on the skins for 2 days before pressing, once pressed wine is racked to barrel for malolactic fermentation.
|Wood Maturation
|20 months in 100% new 225 L French oak barrels
Wine Details
|Residual Sugar
|1.8 g/l
|Total acid
|5.2 g/l
|14.5 %
|Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot
|2017 – 2032
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Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group in Brussels and GROHE Group, the world's leading provider of sanitary fittings, convened a one-day workshop at GROHE headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany, to bring together, for the first time, partners from hospitality, sanitary fittings, technical systems, architecture and building design to holistically examine how water is used in the hotel industry. Participants of the first holistic Water in Hospitality workshop included Carlson Rezidor, GROHE, Grundfos, Purcell Miller Tritton and Studiebureau Boydens.
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource globally, not least in emerging markets where Carlson Rezidor continues to grow rapidly. All involved partners of the workshop share the same goal to use water responsibly and to look at a hotel as a system to identify best practice and synergies.
The workshop looked at the challenges of water sustainability, current and future innovative technology solutions and, above all, ways to enrich the guest experience while minimizing the water footprint of the products and services offered. Discussions focused on three main areas: design for sustainability in new builds, retrofitting to optimize existing property, and changing behavior and consumer expectations.
After a day of exploring this complex subject, all partners agreed that it is vital to celebrate water and to work together to put water sustainability center stage. Cooperation and co-creation in design will be paramount in this process.
"There are numerous new technologies which contribute to sustainability and by engaging in this cross-industry exchange, we can learn best practice from each other," said Michael Rauterkus, GROHE, chief sales officer, EMEA and Americas.
Moving forward, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group and its partners will create an interconnecting Water Task Force to enable holistic auditing of hotels to minimize water use while maximizing guest comfort. The Task Force will investigate the potential to maximize water sustainability in selected hotels looking at all elements from the room and building design, to the bathroom fixtures, kitchen, pumps and maintenance of the systems.
On this common journey, the group will also work with other partners to define an ideal vision of water sustainability in hotels, drawing on all expertise to define together a best practice for water in hospitality.
"We want to be recognized as the most innovative and responsible hotel company," said Olivier Harnisch, chief operating officer of the Rezidor Hotel Group. "This Water Workshop brings together the best minds in business to innovate the top solutions in water sustainability. We look forward to working together with our partners to deliver the finest guest experience in the most responsible manner. The Water Workshop will continue to evolve with more influential partners and stakeholders coming on-board to join our shared vision of saving water in hospitality."


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Almost $5000 worth of powder fentanyl seized by London police
CTV London Published Friday, February 3, 2017 3:34PM EST Last Updated Friday, February 3, 2017 3:35PM EST
Two London residents are facing drug possession and trafficking charges following a seizure by police.
On Thursday, officers raided a home on Moffat Avenue and recovered 12 grams of fentanyl powder worth $4800.
Also seized was 14 grams marijuana worth $ 140, $5000 in cash and a vehicle worth $3000.
A 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been charged.


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Here's the latest entry in the list of things that make me go DEAR GOD WHY: Earlier this month, 31-year-old rock climber Alex Honnold became the first athlete ever to climb up El Capitan, one of Yosemite's 3,000-foot vertical rock formations, using only his hands and feet, and no other climbing equipment. The feat, which Honnold described as "walking up glass," took him just under four hours to accomplish. And while no one has ever died climbing El Capitan, several other climbers have perished by attempting to climb other mountains without the use of equipment, making Honnold's feat all the more stupid. I mean, um, extraordinary.
Especially in recent years, an increasing number of athletes have competed in death-defying stunts involving parkour, BASE jumping, and cave diving, always acutely aware of their dangers but excited about the challenge. Extreme sports like these baffle me, and I'm apparently not alone in this. In a new study, published in Psychology of Consciousness, researchers from Australia and the UK set out to find what motivates these athletes, and their findings defy the stereotype of the thrill-seeker with a death wish.
"Our research has shown people who engage in extreme sports are anything but irresponsible risk-takers with a death wish," study co-author Robert Schweitzer, a psychology professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, said in a statement. "They are highly-trained individuals with a deep knowledge of themselves … who do it to have an experience that is life-enhancing and life-changing." For some, it's even akin to a spiritual experience: Time slows down, they seem to become one with their surroundings.
Schweitzer likened the sensation to one that may be a little easier for the rest of us to understand: "The experience is very hard to describe in the same way that love is hard to describe," he said. "It makes the participant feel very alive where all senses seem to be working better than in everyday life." For example, "extreme climbers feel like they are floating and dancing with the rock," while "BASE jumpers talk about seeing all the nooks and crannies of the rock as they zoom past." You just can't get that kind of feeling on the golf course.


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Some days ago I heard a man interviewed on the radio describe himself "first as a Christian, second as an American and third as a Democrat." Just like that I understood a lot about him. In one sentence!
In a sense, values come first before anything else. A person's values determine their behavior. If you know their values you can often predict their behavior.
Some years ago I saw Kinky Friedman, the musician and author, describe himself first as "a Texan and second as a Jew." He was dressed as the stereotypical Texan - black cowboy hat, black clothes, a string tie and cowboy boots. I smiled over that one (I didn't see his pants but I figured he was wearing black denim).
I have described myself to people a "liberal conservative radical." That says a lot about me. All my friends are the same way - and people hang out with people who share the same values. To quote an Aesop's Fable, "Equals make the best friends."
Everyone seeks meaning, importance and community - and those are values. It's why I and many other people knew that groups of leftists - a community - were going to engage in violent protests at the Trump inauguration. It's how they get meaning and importance in their lives.
I once met a man who entire head was covered with colorful tattoos (he had to shave his head every day). I figured he was pretty much nuts (I also wondered if he had any friends). I also wondered how he got meaning and importance out of what he had done to himself. Attention, maybe?
I've always been amused by people like the "evolutionist" Richard Dawkins, who says there is no meaning to life, yet he gets his meaning and importance from saying those things in public and refuses to debate anyone who disagrees with him because he doesn't want them part of his community.
I've also mentioned I knew a rabidly anti-Catholic loon who thought the Pope had sent had assassins to kill him to stop him from writing a book exposing the Catholic church and used to call churches to get the priests admit they were trying to rub him out. And he used to try to convert people to his beliefs so he would have a community.
If you understand how people seek meaning, importance and community through their values then you understand them. Even the fanatics and the nuts.


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Abdel Hameed Alyousef lost both his children and his wife in the suspected chemical attack on the small Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province earlier this week.
Alyousef's 9-month-old twins Aya and Ahmed and his wife Dalal were among the 72 people who were killed following reports of repeated airstrikes on the town on Tuesday.
Pictures of Alyousef desperately cradling the bodies of his lifeless children have been widely shared since they were published on Wednesday. On Thursday, a video posted online showed Alyousef grieving and in shock after he buried his children.
"My blonde baby, I will never leave you," he cries at the grave of his twins. Alyousef's friends and family try to pick him up and carry him from the cemetery.
In an interview with a local journalist, the 29-year-old shopkeeper described leaving the house with his wife and children on the day of the attack. But he told them to go back as they started to sense a "nasty smell."
"I was right beside them and I carried them outside the house with their mother," he told the Associated Press. "They were conscious at first, but 10 minutes later we could smell the odor."
Alyousef, who in the video can be seen having trouble breathing, went back into the town to help rescue other members of the family. "People were falling down on the road and I didn't know the reason," he said, describing being affected by the gas himself.
By the time he had got back to his wife and children, they were dead. "God wanted them by his side," Alyousef said. "I couldn't save anyone. They're all dead now."
"I saw Ahmed and Aya and I carried them close to my heart," he said. "I took Ahmed and Aya and buried them with my siblings. I buried my own children."
The video, taken by Alyousef's cousin Alaa, has been widely shared. "Abdel Hameed is in very bad shape," Alaa told the AP, saying he was being treated for exposure to the gas. "But he's especially broken down over his massive loss."


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The Great British Bake Off 2023: Show set to undergo huge format change - when does GBBO 2023 start?
The upcoming season of The Great British Bake Off is to undergo huge format change off of the back of criticism released last year
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The Great British Bake Off is undergoing a format change this year that has left fans divided. The popular baking show is scrapping its national-themed challenges after receiving criticism from some viewers.
This comes as The Great British Bake Off is to return to Channel 4 later this month. And, scrapping its national-challenged themes isn't the only change with Alison Hammond set to join Paul Hollywood and co with the show rumoured to start on September 12.
Hammond, who has featured as a regular on ITV's flagship show This Morning, is to join Bake Off veterans Noel Fielding, as well Dame Prue Leith and Hollywood, who are returning as judges.
The show had a Japan week in 2020, a German week in 2021, and faced some high profile backlash after Mexican week last year. The complaints related to casual racism and stereotypes because the hosts wore sombreros, used maracas and spoke in accents. There were also complaints that some featured dishes were not authentic.
Following the backlash the episode received, Hollywood said he was 'gutted'. He said: "I'd literally come back from Mexico about three weeks before we filmed the episode. I was all over the place, and we set the challenges based on what I'd seen there. The challenges were very good, and everyone did a good job."
Dame Prue said they had no intentions to be controversial, adding: "The thing about Bake Off is that it absolutely represents inclusivity and diversity and tolerance and togetherness. So the idea that we were set out to insult anybody is ridiculous."
Speaking on the issue, executive producer Kieran Smith told the Guardian: "We didn't want to offend anyone but the world has changed and the joke fell flat. We're not doing any national themes this year."


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Chinx Shot and Killed in New York
The hip-hop community has lost one of its own today. Rapper Chinx, formerly known as Chinx Drugz, was murdered in Queens, N.Y. early this morning (May 17).
The Far Rockaway, N.Y. native, born Lionel Pickens, was shot and killed inside a vehicle while driving on Queens Boulevard at around 4 a.m. According to police, the "Feelings" rapper was driving a Porsche Panamera 4 at 84th Drive in Briarwood when a second vehicle being driven by an unidentified person approached him and another man and began to open fire.
Both Chinx and the other man were shot after the assailant sprayed bullets multiple times in their direction. At least seven bullets were seen piercing through the side of the MC's Porsche.
Unfortunately, Chinx, 31, was the target in the fatal shooting, his management states. REVOLT reports that a New York Police Department spokesperson revealed a 32-year-old man is deceased and a second man, 27, is in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital. However, it appears the NYPD initially got his age wrong.
Before his untimely death, which has sent shock waves throughout the entertainment industry, Chinx was doing a hosting gig at Red Wolf nightclub in Brooklyn. He shared an image of himself and friends at the venue on Instagram hours before his passing.
A member of French Montana's Coke Boys team, Chinx was a dear friend of French and came up under his wing after meeting him years ago at Max B's home in Yonkers before he got sentenced to prison.
Before linking with French, Chinx got his start rapping in the 8th grade and joined forces with the late Stack Bundles, who was also from his Edgemere Projects neighborhood. The rapper later formed the Riot Squad and made a name for himself in the New York City rap game through songs like "I'm a Coke Boy" and "Feelings." He even dropped the "Drugz" from his moniker to expand his horizons beyond street rap.
Rest in peace, Chinx.
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John Bidwell (1819-1900). Born in New York, he emigrated to California in 1841 in the Bartleson-Bidwell party. He discovered gold on the Feather River and later served in the California Senate.
Herbert Ingram Priestly (1875-1944). Born in Michigan, he moved to California in 1889. In 1912, he became the Assistant Curator of the Bancroft Library and held the post of Librarian from 1920-1940.
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Don't know about you, but I'm enjoying Heather Green and Stephen Baker's blogging at Business Week. Heather did something too few bloggers yet have the courage to do, calling up Jeff Jarvis and asking him about his leap into the moonlight. Well-timed soundings along the fault-line of change are fun. Let's all do it more! (In a month it will be interesting to see how well Heather and Steve's blogging maps to (or disrupts) their normal editorial schedule… maybe I'll do that interview.)
Meanwhile, some miles back from the battle front (or ahead of it?) NYT just announced "targeted staff reductions" of 190 staff. Roughly 20 of those jobs will be in the newsroom. In editor Bill Keller's odd phrasing, "In each of these cases, the position would disappear with the person." Suggests a chilling trajectory for the whole industry?


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Topic category: Mod ideas exchange
Today, i want to create a mod customized. For this, I need a lot of ideas for the title, mobs, items, tools, recipes, foods…
So, go write your ideas of the theme "Horror" for create the biggest Survival Horror Mod of Minecraft!
"Strange Dagger"
Lore: A strange dagger tainted with dry blood. You feel a chill run down your spine as a vengeful spirit awakens.
It is a powerful weapon with 16+ attack damage and 600 durability.
When you kill something with it, you get blindness, weakness, nausea, and slowness for a few seconds, and a 1 in 20 chance of spawning a Vengeful Spirit.
Maybe you can find in some kind of structure.
"Vengeful Spirit"
An aggressive mob with a lot of health, spawns holding an iron sword.
It is a ghostly figure of a human with a stab wound in it's chest.
It would use the Wither sound effects.
"The ever watching eye" would be a (floating) mob that always watches the player and cannot be killed(each time it is attacked it restores it's health(it requires the 1.8.0 update))
Also the creepiest dimension I can think of is dark, overworld-like generated, has black fog everywhere and soulsand as floor. Here you can spawn all of your mobs.
I will also place a blood bar, history of make than player must don't have a lot of damages by seconds…
I will make a Horror Mod, and i will recover your ideas. Thanks you a lot (After a year).
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Underwood, "Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)"
Philosophy and Culture
"Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)"
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois
The premise of historical continuity plays a slightly awkward role in literary studies. Not that many scholars are now challenging the idea of continuity as directly as Michel Foucault challenged it in the 1970s. The majority of recent books on literary history seem to assume, in practice, that it is possible to trace one discourse or ideology as it gradually metamorphoses into another. But although we haven't transcended the premise of continuity as it once seemed we might, it remains a principle of good scholarly manners to write as though we had transcended it. Words that explicitly foreground assumptions about continuity—words like "tradition," "origin," and "development"—retain a distinctly ham-handed sound. As graduate students, we learn to master a set of euphemisms that allow us to make the same assumptions more discreetly: one talks about the "provenance" of an idea, for instance, rather than its "source," and about a "practice" rather than a "tradition."
No apology is necessary, on the other hand, for structuring an argument around the juxtaposition of discontinuous historical moments. Well-known works like James Chandler's England in 1819 (1998) and Ian Baucom's Specters of the Atlantic (2005) have illuminated present-day concerns by connecting them directly to Romantic-era antecedents, while scrupulously resisting the temptation to connect a series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dots that would link the two periods under discussion. Friedrich Kittler's Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1985) announced a similar project in its title, and the reader may have noticed that the title of the present article (to compare small things with great) leaps without explanation from unspecified contexts of the 1840s to Michel Foucault.
Of course, all of these works also reason about influence and development. Continuity and discontinuity are both necessarily involved in any attempt to understand change; as Zeno's paradox demonstrates, one gets nowhere by treating them as absolutes. Moreover, as Chandler himself suggests, both concepts are relative to the scale of analysis: the same evidence that counts as continuous "explanation" in a year-by-year narrative might become discontinuous "information" in a more coarsely-grained study (51-74). But however complementary continuity and discontinuity may be in principle, literary historians do invoke one of these principles with more fanfare than the other, and although our preference has become especially marked in recent years, it is not an artifact of recent cultural theory. Source-study and influence-peddling were already disreputable at the beginning of the twentieth century; even a literary historian like Edwin Greenlaw, who defended the utility of source study in 1931, did so with a profusion of apologies (107-09). The surprising juxtaposition of remote eras, on the other hand, had already become standard procedure for cultural critics in the early nineteenth century (Carlyle, Pugin). This article will examine the academic study of English literature in the second quarter of the nineteenth century in order to suggest that literary scholars' preference for metaphors of discontinuity is rooted in long-standing educational practices that have given the concept of literary culture its institutional form. But since Michel Foucault did make an argument about history that is now widely understood as a rationale for our resistance to the vocabulary of continuity, it makes sense to begin by looking at his argument.
The critique of continuity remained central to Foucault's definition of his own historical method whether he was calling that method "archaeology" or "genealogy." His strategy also remained fairly consistent: he attacked the premise of continuity by reading it as a symptom of historians' investment in the stability and permanence of subjectivity. In a 1968 article, "On the Archaeology of the Sciences," Foucault remarks,
[I]f history could remain the chain of uninterrupted continuities . . . it would be a privileged shelter for consciousness: what it takes away from the latter by bringing to light material determinations, inert practices, unconscious processes . . . it would restore in the form of a spontaneous synthesis; or rather, it would allow it [consciousness] to pick up once again all the threads that had escaped it, to reanimate all those dead activities, and to become once again the sovereign subject in a new or restored light. Continuous history is the correlate of consciousness. (300-301)In "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (1971), Foucault pushes this symptomatic reading a step further, arguing that continuous history attempts to establish not only the stability of "the sovereign subject" but "the immortality of the soul" (379). By contrast, Foucauldian genealogy is devoted to "the systematic dissociation of our identity." Foucault explicates this contrast in a passage studded with quotations from Nietzsche:
For this rather weak identity, which we attempt to support and unify under a mask, is in itself only a parody: it is plural; countless souls dispute its possession; numerous systems intersect and dominate one another. The study of history makes one "happy, unlike the metaphysicians, to possess in oneself not an immortal soul but many mortal ones." And in each of these souls, history will discover not a forgotten identity, eager to be reborn, but a complex system of distinct and multiple elements, unable to be mastered by the powers of synthesis: "It is a sign of superior culture to maintain, in a fully conscious way, certain phases of its evolution which lesser men pass through without thought" (386, quoting Nietzsche 4.3 no. 17 and 4.2 "Vermischte Meinungen" no. 274).For Foucault, in short, the choice between different ways of writing history is a choice between different models of immortality. In place of the old model of a single immortal soul, he offers a loose compound of distinct historical elements, each of which is in one sense dated and in another sense timeless. He also quotes, with apparent approval, Nietzsche's view that this dissociation of identity is a paradoxical form of personal cultivation. By separating out the diverse cultures that compose the self one becomes a man of "superior culture."
Throughout "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," Foucault's reliance on quotations from Nietzsche playfully dramatizes the dissociation of his own identity. The historical method he calls "genealogy" turns out to be built with materials borrowed from a nineteenth-century philosopher's critique of historians. So it would hardly have surprised Foucault that this essay's argument against metaphors of continuity has some connection to nineteenth-century ideas. But the connection may be stronger and broader than the essay recognizes, because the passages that Foucault borrows from Nietzsche are in fact quite typical of a certain late-nineteenth-century discourse about history. Nietzsche may criticize the aspirations of "scientific" historians, but he does so in large part by embracing another use of the past that already dominated histories of literature and art. The decentered immortality that Nietzsche attributes to the man of "superior culture"—who preserves in his own body fragments of a vanished past—closely resembles the immortality that Walter Pater, for instance, famously attributed to La Gioconda:
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern philosophy has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life. (Pater 129)The cultivation of the Paterian aesthete, like the experience contained in this mysterious visage, comes from unsystematic browsing rather than continuous narrative. La Gioconda has found herself immersed in widely-differing "modes of thought and life," and she is said to sum them all up in herself. But she "sums things up" more as a collector does than as dialectical reason does. By reducing incongruent mythologies to "the sound of lyres and flutes," she strips away the vectors of causality and change that would otherwise be implicit in Pater's catalogue, replacing them with the sort of non-linear synthesis embodied in weary and delicately-tinged eyelids.
Pater was by no means the first writer to suggest that personal cultivation requires internalizing history's contradictions and fractures rather than its unity. As it became clear that even basic assumptions could change from one era to another, a certain number of eighteenth-century readers embraced contingency and mutability themselves as the best available symbols of collective permanence. The ghosts of James Macpherson's Ossian poems, for instance, embodied readers' aspirations to a kind of immortality produced not by fame, or the continuity of tradition, but by difference and datedness (Underwood 237-242). Culture (in the normative sense) comes to depend on the incommensurable multiplicity of cultures (in the descriptive sense). In these circumstances, the instability of national identity could become a cultural advantage. Ina Ferris has recently suggested that the protagonists of Lady Morgan's later national tales construct their identities through role-playing that dramatizes conflicting versions of Irish history and even conflicting models of time; personal Bildung depends on what Ferris calls "hyper-hybridity" rather than on the unity of national culture (81, 84). By the early nineteenth century, in short, cultivated readers began to feel that they possessed something that was timeless, not because it was unchanging, but because it transgressed the ordinary laws of temporal connection. Culture was a mode of historical déjà vu.
Sometimes I feel I have known Shakespeare, wept with Tasso, and journeyed through heaven and hell with Dante. A name from ancient times awakens emotions in me that resemble memories, as certain perfumes from exotic plants recall the land that produced them. (Sand 71)In this description of a historically-refracted self (from George Sand's 1833 novel Lélia), the names of Shakespeare, Tasso, and Dante are admittedly connected by the tacit hypothesis that great authors from different nations and periods all feed into a single "European" culture. Lélia's mysterious "emotions . . . that resemble memories" are subjective correlates for the power of that cultural patrimony. The discontinuity dramatized by historical déjà vu thus often depends, in practice, on a suppressed premise of continuity. But some sort of continuity always has to be posited to make discontinuity rhetorically interesting. Foucault does the same thing: his epistemic shifts, however abrupt, take place against the implicit background of a European unity that makes it meaningful to contrast Bentham's Panopticon against, say, an execution in Paris in 1757. It is nevertheless fair to observe that the rhetorical emphasis falls, in Pater and Sand as in Foucault, on the differences and gaps that separate the radically disparate parts of this hypothetical unity.
For Pater, then, the cultural purpose of history (at least the history of art and literature) was not to emphasize continuities, but to form a mind capable of embracing disparity and difference. "He will remember always that beauty exists in many forms. To him all periods, types, schools of taste, are in themselves equal" (xii). I have suggested that this strategy of mapping historical discontinuity onto cultivated "immortality" articulates a consensus that was dominant by the later nineteenth century—a consensus that Nietzsche and Foucault later reproduced, having mistaken it for a rebellion against nineteenth-century history. But George Sand and Walter Pater don't in themselves constitute a representative sample of nineteenth-century writers; how can we know whether their cultural investment in discontinuity was typical or idiosyncratic?
Institutional history makes it easier to locate the moment when literary cultivation began to depend on the idea of discontinuity, because the number of educational institutions that taught vernacular literary history in the nineteenth century was much smaller than the number of authors who wrote about it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, vernacular literature was still taught under the aegis of rhetoric at all levels of the educational system; texts were usually organized by genre or by audience rather than by period. This first began to change in the second quarter of the nineteenth century at the new London universities: the institutions we know today as King's College and University College, London hired professors of "English Language and Literature" rather than "Rhetoric and Belles Lettres," and encouraged them to combine the teaching of literature with the study of history (Court 87-88).
But the nature of the connection between literature and history changed significantly and rapidly in the early stages of this project. Through the 1830s, syllabi and exams at both institutions emphasized connected and continuous development. The whole story of English literary history was invariably compressed into a single term. Courses were also structured to foreground the progressive development of both language and literature. Thomas Dale, for instance, taught literary history at both London institutions at different points in the 1830s. A summary of his literary history course has been preserved at the back of a catalog; subheadings like "Incipient English" and "Imperfect but Progressive English" speak eloquently about his emphasis on gradual progress (King's College Calendar 1835-36, 49-51). Dale's exams, preserved in the same catalog, similarly emphasize connection and development. Students are asked, for instance, to "give some account of the Mysteries, or Miracle-Plays; and show in what manner they operated to prepare the minds of the people for the Reformation" (King's College Calendar 1835-36, 182).
That emphasis on connected progress began to change in the 1840s, when the study of literary history at King's College was reorganized around courses that spent a whole term surveying an isolated period. These were the first "period survey" courses offered in Britain, and, as far as I can tell, in any Anglophone context. (The teaching of English literature may have developed precociously in India and America in other respects, but it doesn't seem to have anticipated this development.) The change took place first at King's College, I believe, because Dale was replaced by someone who had already worked out a new theory about the role history should play in personal cultivation. Frederick Denison Maurice later became well known as a theologian and Christian-socialist educational reformer. Hired at King's College in 1840, he began by spending a term on the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the following eight years he taught courses on, for instance, the Elizabethan period, Jacobean literature, and the reign of George III. This marked contraction of the syllabus was accompanied by a change in the historical content of courses, as revealed in Maurice's final exams. Teaching Jacobean literature in 1842 Maurice asks, "In what respect do the writings of Ben Jonson bear the impress of this period?" (Calendar 1842-43, item 6) Teaching the Tudors he asks, "Write an essay on the connection between the politics and the literature of Queen Elizabeth's reign" (Calendar 1848-49, 247). Maurice consistently asks students to grasp the social specificity of a period. Teaching Chaucer, for instance, he asks his class to explain the words "Knight," "Courtesie," and "Chevalrie" (Calendar 1840-41, item 7). The emphasis of that question doesn't fall on Chaucer's contribution to the development of English; instead, Maurice is using Chaucer's language to reveal differences that separate his social world from everyday life in the nineteenth century.
This was a dramatic change not just from Dale's practice but from the practice of other professors at King's and University College in the 1830s. Moreover, Maurice didn't have additional staff until very late in the 1840s, when he did get to hire one assistant. For most of the decade it was still a one-man show, and (since he also had to teach composition) focusing on one period a semester compelled Maurice to abandon the goal of producing a connected narrative of literary history. He seems to have abandoned that goal rather blithely, since he made no effort to offer his period courses in anything like a chronological sequence. But how was it possible for Maurice to justify this departure from existing practice? What did he think he was accomplishing by focusing on literary periods in isolation?
Fortunately for us, Maurice had already written extensively on education, and in particular on the importance of historical education. Has the Church, or the State, the Power to Educate the Nation? (1839) intervenes in a debate about state-supported education, and does so from a distinctly Anglican perspective. But it also contains a striking and precocious manifesto about the social function of English literary history. Maurice argues that the English middle classes need instruction in literature in order to counteract a modern tendency for middle-class interests to contract to the domain of immediate, personal, commercial gain. In this respect, Maurice prefigures an argument that would be made twenty years later and more famously by Matthew Arnold. But where Arnold is notoriously vague about the effects he expects literary culture to produce on the middle classes ("sweetness and light"), Maurice is extremely frank. The middle classes are hungry for a sort of distinction founded in collective permanence rather than private property. They need something equivalent to aristocratic pride in the antiquity of family. Lacking "ancient halls" and "venerable trees," they will need to find permanence in literature—and more specifically, in literary history (203). But the permanence they find there will paradoxically depend on the particularity of isolated moments. "The facts of a particular history are those which awaken the historical feeling, are those which make a boy feel that he is connected with acts and events which passed hundreds of years ago, thousands of miles away. The spirit of a particular poem, is that which awakens the poetical spirit in answer to it" (58).
This is a different kind of relationship to history than Thomas Dale had envisioned. Dale thought literary history mattered mainly as a connected narrative of improvement, and he accordingly asked students to explain causal connections in that narrative. What aspects of medieval drama operated to prepare the minds of the people for the Reformation? Maurice's reasons for teaching literary history, by contrast, didn't necessarily require a student to grasp the whole story.
[T]he moment you bring the townsman of one age to feel himself connected with the townsman of another . . . that moment this meanness and narrowness disappear. The busy member of the particular corporation . . . belongs to burghers of another day, his corporation takes its place in the history of corporations, and bears upon the life of the nation. (205)The goal was simply to "bring the townsman of one age to feel himself connected with the townsman of another," through a point-to-point connection that leapt over the intervening centuries. The intellectual effort required to bring this about is not the effort of comprehending a causal process. It's rather an exercise of historical imagination, analogous to the sort of exercise Walter Scott demanded of his readers. Students are asked to imagine how the ordinary social life of another era differed from their own, while remaining conscious that it was inhabited by flesh-and-blood creatures like themselves—and specifically like themselves as middle-class Englishmen.
This model of historical experience—history as an imaginative connection with another age, founded on a simultaneous consciousness of difference and of similarity—had become widely diffused by the 1830s. As I have hinted, it closely resembles the way Scott described his own practice, and Maurice acknowledges Scott's example. He believes that his proposal improves on Scott by exploring the antiquity of a "commercial hall" and not just a "baronial castle" (203-204, 206), but this means only that Maurice had probably read Ivanhoe more recently than The Antiquary.The latter novel contains an important dream that brings the "townsman of one age" face-to-face with "the townsman of another" precisely as Maurice would desire (74-80). Many of Scott's other novels are designed to operate in an analogous fashion on their middle-class readers. There is an even closer precedent for Maurice's project in the 1828 historical lectures of François Guizot, which confer new dignity on the middle classes by sending a nineteenth-century bourgeois back to confront the armed camp that was a twelfth-century urban commune. In short, Maurice didn't invent the theory of cultivation by discontinuous historical imagination that he advanced in his 1839 lectures. But he did invent an institution that gave that theory an enduring social presence: the period survey course, which even today guarantees that cultural credentials are distributed only to students who have studied the distinctive character of isolated segments of time.
This pedagogical experiment was not notably successful with its immediate classroom audience. Looking back as adults, Maurice's students invariably remembered his passion for literary history. But many of them also remembered profound confusion about the reason for that passion (Court 94, Brose 159). Maurice's period surveys nevertheless took root; the professors who followed him at King's College sustained the curricular structure he had created, and it was imitated by English professors at University College in the 1860s. Meanwhile a period-centered approach to the teaching of history itself had become established at University College in the 1840s, and was adopted at Oxford by 1872 (Murray 536). When Oxford and Cambridge established their own English schools toward the end of the century, they also created curricula that focused on the quiddity of individual periods rather than the cumulative logic of development—an approach to literary history that by century's end had come to seem self-evident. By that point, the same approach also held sway in the United States.
Since late-nineteenth-century English departments were no longer limited to one or two instructors, they could pursue a period-centered approach without entirely sacrificing the idea of development. It was possible to require students to take period courses in a chronological sequence, for instance, or to devote the first term (or year) of instruction to a general survey that would then be followed by courses on individual periods. Both patterns were common at U.S. universities in the 1890s (Graff 101-02). But the compromise implied by this curricular structure was an unequal one. Where comprehensive survey courses were taught, they were always scheduled early in the major. In the 1890s, and for that matter where they still exist today, these courses are understood as an orientation that prepares students for the real work of literary study, not as a capstone or summation of the major. This positioning is not self-evidently necessary: it is possible to imagine a pedagogy that would begin with case studies and move toward broader conclusions. But the discipline of literary history has not (since the first half of the nineteenth century) felt that broad historical conclusions were really its raison d'être.
Whatever prestige attached to continuous evolution in society at large, the competitive advantage of literary history has seemed to lie in emphasizing the radical differences between past and present. "Thoughts, fashions, ideals change," as one frequently-reprinted manual for early-twentieth-century British students put it; "the fashion of their utterance changes likewise; chasms yawn between us and bye-gone generations; and many a book which once held its readers spellbound seems a vapid and futile thing to us who belong to another age, and are touched by other modes of passion and other manners of speech." Only by acknowledging this chasm, and emphasizing the "relativity of literature" to its age, do we "gain a point of view from which every aspect of literary art becomes quickened for us into fresh significance." The dated book becomes a living thing again "as a record of what men once found potent to move, charm, console, inspire"—or in other words, as a symbol of the timeless life contained in cultural discontinuity (Hudson 54-55).
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I don't want to understate Michael Foucault's importance, either as a historian or as a philosophical ironist. My own work has been substantially indebted to him. But I think Foucault's reflections on historical method itself are not the occasions for his most original contributions—certainly not, at any rate, to the discipline of literary history. One has to go back to the 1830s to find a moment when the model of continuity criticized by Foucault was actually central to the study of literature. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, literary history has tended to emphasize instead its special relationship to relativity and discontinuity. The concept of the literary "period" has provided a way to validate the contingency that historicism recognizes in all collective life, and even a way to find a kind of timelessness in that mutability. The institution of the period survey has ensured that this concept remains central to the distribution of cultural credentials, and literary cultivation has frequently been represented as Foucault represents genealogy: as a historical refraction of the self that locates a paradoxical sort of immortality in dispersion. In short, Foucault's "genealogical" method has never posed a fundamental challenge to our discipline's historical assumptions. On the contrary, it supports a prevailing disciplinary logic; it gives literary historians a new way to explain why they emphasize case studies and surprising contrasts—as we have, for about a century and a half, preferred to do.
But enough criticism; what positive conclusions, if any, follow from my argument? Since this article itself trades on a few surprising juxtapositions, I am evidently not suggesting that literary historians ought to renounce the sinister pleasures of discontinuity, or the cultural profits they return. But I suppose I am hinting that it would do us little harm to relax our vigilance against the language of continuity. There are certainly ways of misusing that language. I think it's accurate to say that F. D. Maurice designed the first courses that focus on a single period of literary history. If I added that the period survey is thus "in origin" an Anglican idea, I would be sidling toward the sort of fallacy that assumes that the persistence of one thing also implies the persistence of anything associated with it. Where fallacies of this kind are at issue, we have good reason to be wary of words like "origin" and the continuities they posit. But the point of this wariness is to discern real continuity and real change, not to avert the idea of continuity itself. Our disciplinary rhetoric doesn't always facilitate that distinction. I at least have often found myself erasing "origin" or "tradition" and typing "provenance" or "practice" in contexts where it made no substantive difference, out of a hazy recollection that the concept of origin is supposed to be a shelter for the sovereign subject. In these situations I suspect I have neither avoided a fallacy, nor decentered subjectivity. I have merely affirmed my discipline's long-standing belief that questions about causation and gradual change are not as properly literary as questions about the unrepeatable singularity of each historical moment.
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The 17 days wildlife Uganda holiday tour Safari takes you through a culture safari, a Uganda tour holiday authentic with all nature offering from wildlife game Safaris, BigFive Africa Safaris, Hiking Safari to the golden insights recommended for all holiday takers. You visit Uganda's top destinations inclusive of sipi falls, source of the Nile, Ziwa Rhino sanctuary Murchison falls, kibale National Park, and semuliki National Park, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Lake Bunyonyi, Lake Mburo National Park, boat rides on Kazinga channel and Nile. These are the large basins of Africa that regrows an absorbing experience.
17 days Uganda Safari Trip highlights. On foot Rhino tracking at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary, Game drives in National Parkse, Chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National forest, Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable forest National Park, Canoeing boat ride on Lake Bunyonyi, Boat cruise at the source of the Nile, Hiking Sezibwa falls, Visiting Mabira falls, Hiking to the summit of the falls
Day 1: Arrive at Entebbe international airport
Our esteemed staff will be excited and pleased to pick you up in a corporate tour Safari Vehicle for your 17 days Uganda Safari Uganda, Well the dreams come to reality, and the feeling is spectacular when you have your first step in Uganda Africa. The climate is soothing and gives a shape to the mind.
Our staff will hold no delays but rather transporting you to the dedicated schedules with a fully detailed review of your whole itinerary. Of course depending on your arrival time, you will prior be briefed and get highlights of this mind blowing adventure.
Your arrival time shall determine the order of the itinerary however, normally our clients tend to arrive late evenings and we prepare for them gripping and well deserving hotels like Boma hotel, Cassia lodge. The choice lies in your hands.
Day 2: Drive to Murchison falls national park for the epic 17 days Uganda Safari
Catch up your cool morning with a warm cup of tea or coffee, then, our staff/Driver will pick you up at 6:00am, for the efficiency and time management, this early morning drive enables you to reach early and also to catch up with the park activities. Drive to Murchison falls National park, the oldest National park in Uganda covered on a total surface area of 5000sqkm.
This road drive takes us through the Luwero Triangle, a city remembered for the Brutal war that brought the ruling government on power. At least our staff will share with you about the fate that befell in this region, Hundreds of innocent souls lost their breath in the struggle to create the today's Compelling Uganda.
Furthermore as we drive, have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary to trek the white southern Rhinos, after we have our delicious lunch at Kabalega dinner and we proceed to Murchison falls. We shall reach late evening, so check in, relax, and have dinner and an overnight in these optional hotels. Your choice is our demand. Meal plan: dinner. Accommodation (option) Paara safari lodge, Chobe safari Lodge, Red chill safari lodge
Day 3: Murchison falls National Park Game Drive – 17 Days wildlife Safari
After an early morning breakfast at 6am, proceed on your 17 days Uganda Safari, the morning game drive gives aunthentic views to the hundreds of Uganda wildlife animals in the Savannah with a chance to spot out animals before retreating to their hideouts including the Hippos, lions, leopards, big cats, giraffes, this park protects over 79 wild species, as well as the hundreds of bird species.
Drive to the park delta to have a chance to spot out a number of bird species, the game drive takes 4 hours. Return to the lodge for lunch, relax and wait to have a boat ride at 2:30pm. This enables us to view the busking crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes, antelopes, zebras, elephants taking water and a number of birds at the river bank get. Feel the adventure in its blue by stepping off the boat for a 45minutes walk to the top of the falls on rock hills, have a chance to spot different parts of the falls as well as taking some epic pictures for your memories. Later on, our guide/driver will be ready to drive you back to the lodge.
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Accommodation (option) Paara safari lodge, Chobe safari Lodge, Red chill safari lodge
Day 4: Transfer to Kibale National Park for chimpanzee tracking
Early morning after a cup of coffee or tea, we drive to Kibale national park via Lake Albert escarpment, enjoy the view of the lake then continue with the journey and have a stopover at kolping Hotel for lunch. Later proceed and pass across river Nkutsi- the river joining Victoria Nile through Kagadi village as you experience the beautifully sceneries of rolling hills. Approach the foot hills of Rwenzori Mountain and the tea plantation region. Check in at the lodge relax and enjoy your dinner.
Meal plan: dinner. Accommodations (option), Primate Lodge, Kibale safari lodge, Kanyanchu river camp, Chimps nest.
Day 5: chimpanzee trekking experience – 17 Days wildlife
After your early morning breakfast, our guide will drive you to the park headquarters for a short briefing about chimpanzee trekking at 7am. The trek takes 30minutes-4hours depending on the location of the chimpanzees and how faster the trekkers are.
Trek through the thick Bamboo forest you might spot out a number of bird species, trees, when you finally locate the chimpanzees , experience their day to day life how they nest, display their nests, feed ,play, groom, swing hard on trees it's such a thrilling moment to encounter with the cousin of man. You're allowed to spend 1 hour in the forest to have your packed lunch. Our guide will be waiting for you at the park headquarters to drive you back to the lodge, relax dinner.
Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.Accommodation (option) Primate Lodge,Kibale safari lodge, Kanyanchu river camp, Chimps nest.
Day 6: Transfer to Semuliki national park. The richest area of floral and faunal diversity in Africa
After your early morning breakfast, prepare, Checkout and drive to Semuliki National park western Uganda in the natural habitat of the Albertine Rift. Arrive and check in, enjoy your lunch and get ready for an evening game drive with chances of sighting the antelopes.
Well, this undulating feature is one of the smallest and newest national parks in Uganda created in October 1993. Explore hot-springs like Mumbuga that resembles a geyser, it's a source of salt to many wild animals and also attracts numerous shorebirds. After this tremendous moment. Return back to your lodge for Overnight at Semuliki safari lodge
Day 7: Relocate to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Wake up for a cup of tea or coffee, get ready to trail the hot springs, have a chance to experience the natural hot springs. Check out and drive to Queen Elizabeth national park with great views of Rwenzori Mountain, drive through Kasese city to Kyambura Game lodge for lunch, get ready for an evening game drive with chances of spoting many birds, lions, antelopes, hippos, crocodiles, leopards. Meal plan: dinner. Accommodation (option) Kasenyi safari camp, Ihamba safari lodge, Mweya safari lodge, Pumba safari lodge, Katara lodge
Day 8: Queen Elizabeth National park Game Drive
After your early morning breakfast, head out to have a chance to spot out a number of animals including hippos, Buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, warthogs, kobs. Return to the lodge for lunch and later have an evening encounter at Katwe salt mining with the local people. Return to the lodge for dinner. See how is extracted from the lake katwe by hard working men and ladies using their hands to collect salt plates from water while standing in the salty waters. It's risky for ladies due to the related outcomes but necessity obeys no law, harsh demands deserve harsh measures.
Call it a day and return to hotel for your dinner, relaxation and an overnight. Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Accommodation (option) Ihamba safari lodge, Mweya safari lodge, Pumba safari lodge, Katara lodge.
Day 9: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable forest Home of Gorillas
Wake up early morning after your breakfast we have a short trip to Lake Munyanyanga for a great chance of flamingos and then we proceed to Bwindi national park via ishasha sector where you might spot out the tree climbing lions on your lucky day as we drive to Bwindi, remember Bwindi has four Gorilla sectors your permits determines where you to trek.
Have Lunch at savanna Resort Hotel arrive at Bwindi forest. Meal plan: dinner. Accommodation (option) Buhoma community lodge, Gorilla havens lodge, Gorilla safari lodge, Ruhija community rest camp
Day 10: Uganda wildlife Gorilla experience, Gorilla trekking Safari
Wakeup our guide will drive you to the park headquarters for a short briefing about Gorilla trekking stepping at least 7 metres away a few meters away to have an encounter with these gent apes. Meal plan: breakfast, lunch dinner. Accommodation (options) Buhoma community lodge, Gorilla havens lodge, Gorilla safari lodge, Ruhija community rest camp.
Day 11: Transfer to the Deepest Lake Bunyonyi
After your early morning breakfast check out and drive to Lake Bunyonyi a local name meaning a place of many birds drive as you experience beautifully sceneries of the rolling hills and steep mountains enjoy a canoe ride in the afternoon. Meal plan: lunch, dinner. Accommodation (options) Overland lodge, Bird nest lodge
Day 12: Transfer to lake Mburo 17 Days wildlife
After breakfast check out drive from lake Bunyonyi to lake Mburo arrive and continue with the game drive through the trails with great chances of seeing antelopes, zebras, giraffes, elands, toppis, impalas.
Lunch break at the lodge as we prepare for the evening boat ride to have a chance to spot out the hippos, Nile crocodiles, and a number of birds beautifully sceneries. Overnight. Accommodation (option): Mburo safari Lodge, Mihingo safari lodge, Eagles nest safari lodge
Day 13: Lake Mburo National Park Nature walks, Transfer to Kampala City
After your early breakfast enjoy a nature walk in Rubanga forest while you spot bird species, trees, species and some primates check out have lunch and drive back to Kampala option for a stopover at the Equator. Arrive before 6pm in the evening overnight at cassia lodge which located on top hills enjoy the good views of Kampala city.
Day 14: Gorilla Trekking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Wake up early morning for a heavy breakfast check out, the guide will pick you up at 6am to drive to jinja. This early morning drive enables us not to encounter with the traffic jam and also to catch up with the park activities, we drive and have a stopover at Mabira forest and Sezibwa falls for birding and nature trails we continue past tea and sugar plantation. We have lunch in Jinja and have an evening city tour overnight at source of smile jinja, Jinja Nile resort, Paradis hotel.
Day 15: Transfer to sipi falls in Mbale, Nature walks
Breakfast visit the source of the Nile, continue to sipi falls through Mbale have lunch and continue for an afternoon walk overnight at sipi river lodge. Sipi falls forms a trinquility of beautifully landscape vegetation pillowed by a series of three waterfalls in Eastern Uganda, this plistone magical point is the main starting point for most of the Mountain Elgon hiking Safari.
Day 16: Visit the 3 falls, Local Encounters, karamoja plains
After breakfast with a guided walk visit the 3 pounding local waterfalls, the hiking takes 7km nearly 4hours to the falls, very worthy of a Tour depending on your ability to reach the falls ,enjoy the water breeze ,feel the cool weather after your long hike, sightsee the Karamoja plains with your eyes stretching beyond the smoky native plains, have a chance to interact with the locals, learn and participate in daily life activities like cooking etc.
Day 17: Departure| Retreat from 17 Days wildlife
After your early morning breakfast we depart to Kampala, have a stopover at Rain forest lodge in mabira then proceed to Kampala option for a city tour check in at your hotel or departure.
Whats included on 17 days wildlife Uganda safari
- All Park entry fees
- All activities (unless labeled as optional)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- All taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking Bottled water
Whats excluded, 17 days birding Uganda Safari
- International flights (from/to home)
- Mountain Gorilla Permits
- Additional accommodation before and at end of the tour, if needed
- Tips/ Tipping locals or guide
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees


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Pagan Portals - The Morrigan
On shadowed wings and in raven's call, meet the ancient Irish goddess of war, battle, prophecy, death, sovereignty, and magic. This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It combines solid academic information with personal experience in a way that is intended to dispel the confusion that often surrounds who this goddess was and is. The Morrigan is as active in the world today as she ever was in the past but answering her call means answering the challenge of finding her history and myth in a sea of misinformation, supposition, and hard-to-find ancient texts. Here in one place, all of her basic information has been collected along with personal experiences and advice from a long-time priestess dedicated to a goddess who bears the title Morrigan.