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05 June 2009
Art and Emotion
However, there's one thing in the article that really caught my attention - mostly because I disagree with it. Funny how things we disagree with tend to catch our eye like that, isn't it? *grin*
So, what was it that I felt strongly enough about to write a response post? This:
"Art that moves the soul toward feelings of beauty, serenity, or reverence is of greater intrinsic worth to humanity than art which moves the soul toward feelings of sorrow, anger, or horror. Art which may incite the soul toward wickedness has no value whatsoever."
It's an interesting idea, but in my opinion, it's not actually true.
You see, human seem to have this bias towards emotion - and, in fact, to life in general. We tend to harbour this perception that anything that feeling uncomfortable or unhappy must be wrong, bad, and somehow less than worthy.
And you know what? I disagree. There are two emotions in particular that leap to mind when I think of the poor-little-orphaned-emotions-nobody-loves, and I think both of them are very much misunderstood - which is something that we, as writers, cannot afford. We're supposed to deal with the entirety of the human experience, remember? At least, I believe we are ;) That counts for something, since it's my blog, right? O:) But seriously, it's about that weird principle 'honesty' again; not to mention the fact that conflict is the lifeblood of fiction.
The first emotion is sadness. Generally, people don't enjoy being sad. Funny that o.O But think about it for a second: just because we don't necessarily enjoy the feeling - does that make it bad? (And is anyone else thinking of the blatantly obvious vegetable analogy here? As in, I know you don't like your greens but they're good for you...)
Sorrow has a place. Sorrow functions not only as the opposite of happiness, an emotion that serves as a counterpoint and makes the sweet all that sweeter - it's also a necessary and appropriate response to certain situations. I think we'd all agree that someone who felt no sorrow at the death of a loved one was somewhat lacking in the humanity department. Sorrow is part of us, and part of who we are. It's part of life - and it's human. How can we say, then, that a story which moves one to sorrow is somehow of less value than one which moves one to joy? Is not the understanding and realisation of the natural sorrow of life, the tragedy to which we are all born, just as poignant and beautiful as a realisation of the beauty of life? Life is happiness and sadness, not merely one or the other. They're two sides to the coin of existence, both equally necessary. How then can we say that art that evokes one is better than art that evokes the other?
The other emotion that comes to mind in all of this is anger. Anger is a much maligned emotion, even more so than sorrow, despite the fact that it's not nearly as uncomfortable to experience - although to experience another's anger can be quite uncomfortable ;) But here's the question: why?
Ultimately, I think it's because a lot of the anger we see in every day life is misplaced; but because people waste an emotion on pettiness, does this mean it has no place in life? I think not. I would very much hope that anyone, confronted by the harsh reality of the sexual exploitation and abuse of very young children in many countries around the world, but most especially in poverty-stricken areas, would feel some modicum of revulsion and, I hope, anger. How can it be that things like this are allowed to exist in our world? Why? (Rhetorical questions. I know there are (partial) answers to these questions; that's not the point).
Anger, like sorrow - and like happiness, joy, love, peace, and all those other myriad feelings to which human beings are subject - has a place. And art, as well as simply being 'pretty', has a job to do, and part of that job is to both reflect and build up humanity - and any kind of 'building up' which is not grounded firmly in reality and truth is going to be a very shallow building up indeed. If art is to raise the collective spirit of humanity to a higher ideal, it must also seek to confront and overcome the things that hold us back - things to which our natural response must often be sorrow, anger, and regret.
Art does not exist just to make us feel good. It exists to move us, to challenge us, in whatever ways it can - and whatever ways are necessary. It is my hope that one day my stories will do the same.
So, question for you: Are there any works of art (in any medium, including writing) which evoke a traditionally negative emotion in the viewer, but which you particularly love? Marley and Me is probably the most recent book I've read that I loved, but hated at the same time because it was so sad. But despite the fact that I bawled my way through the last three chapters, and that it makes me uneasy and uncomfortable - I love this book. It's beautiful, and it's true. It's honest. So - what about you?
5 comments:
- beth said...
Hmmmm....I just finished reading this on Glam's blog (I'm behind, obvs), and for some reason I didn't notice this part.
You make an interesting point. I've written something three different times and deleted it, so I'll just say...hmmmmmm..... I need to think on that some more!
- June 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- ElanaJ said...
I definitely think these emotions are the most powerful. They are the hardest to write, and the ones that most people identify most strongly with. Everyone has experienced loss and sorrow and anger (misplaced or not).
And good art is anything that can evoke an emotion in a person and make them feel something. Because it's better to feel something than nothing at all.
- June 6, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Yunaleska said...
Inky, my mother's reading that right now!
(ignores current topic of post - sorry none spring to mind for me)
- June 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM
- Danyelle said...
I agree--the purpose of art is to evoke an emotion in a person. To make them feel something and see the world with new eyes. I think purpose is an important part of that.
- June 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Lady Glamis said...
Thank you for your thoughts, Inky! Taken in the context you have put it, I agree somewhat with you in your opinions.
Sorrow often moves me, even more than any other emotion. But that is because it makes me more aware of beauty and the other more positive emotions. It is a touchstone.
I don't if that makes sense to you, but I think what you quoted from the essay is getting at the point that although those more negative emotions are valuable and not worth valuing less, their value is in helping us as humanity in getting to the more positive emotions that inherently make us happy.
- June 7, 2009 at 4:03 AM


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I wanted to post an extract from one of Dickens' novels yesterday, but drew a blank on which one, and went with the Chesterton instead; then today this one came to mind. It comes from chapter 28 of Little Dorrit, about a third of the way through the novel, and concerns the parting of the hero, Arthur Clennam, from the woman with whom he has been secretly in love, because she is about to marry another man. It's a beautiful, subtle, gentle scene - qualities people don't usually associate with Dickens.
The only backstory you need to know is this: Arthur loves Minnie ('Pet', as her parents call her), who is much younger than him, and he knows that their different lives make any return of his love impossible. This is how he thinks it over to himself at the end of chapter 16:
'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right--suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
He softly opened his window, and looked out upon the serene river. Year after year so much allowance for the drifting of the ferry-boat, so many miles an hour the flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet.
Why should he be vexed or sore at heart? It was not his weakness that he had imagined. It was nobody's, nobody's within his knowledge; why should it trouble him? And yet it did trouble him. And he thought--who has not thought for a moment, sometimes?--that it might be better to flow away monotonously, like the river, and to compound for its insensibility to happiness with its insensibility to pain.
He makes a resolution to conquer his feelings, and the narrator maintains the conceit that it is not Arthur but 'nobody' who is in love with Pet. His feelings remain unspoken, half-repressed, acknowledged only through reference to this 'nobody' who is Arthur's hazy hypothetical double - the person he would be if he were not himself (Pet has her own shadowy double in the twin sister who died when they were children, mentioned, significantly, in this scene).
Pet falls in love with someone else and marries him and (spoiler!) so does Arthur, so in the end it doesn't really matter (though maybe Dickens didn't know that when he was writing this chapter); but as a depiction of the ending of a dream this scene nonetheless has power even out of context. It's all about what isn't said.
Clennam had stopped, not for the first time by many times, to look about him and suffer what he saw to sink into his soul, as the shadows, looked at, seemed to sink deeper and deeper into the water. He was slowly resuming his way, when he saw a figure in the path before him which he had, perhaps, already associated with the evening and its impressions.
Minnie was there, alone. She had some roses in her hand, and seemed to have stood still on seeing him, waiting for him. Her face was towards him, and she appeared to have been coming from the opposite direction. There was a flutter in her manner, which Clennam had never seen in it before; and as he came near her, it entered his mind all at once that she was there of a set purpose to speak to him.
She gave him her hand, and said, 'You wonder to see me here by myself? But the evening is so lovely, I have strolled further than I meant at first. I thought it likely I might meet you, and that made me more confident. You always come this way, do you not?'
As Clennam said that it was his favourite way, he felt her hand falter on his arm, and saw the roses shake.
'Will you let me give you one, Mr Clennam? I gathered them as I came out of the garden. Indeed, I almost gathered them for you, thinking it so likely I might meet you. Mr Doyce arrived more than an hour ago, and told us you were walking down.'
His own hand shook, as he accepted a rose or two from hers and thanked her. They were now by an avenue of trees. Whether they turned into it on his movement or on hers matters little. He never knew how that was.
'It is very grave here,' said Clennam, 'but very pleasant at this hour. Passing along this deep shade, and out at that arch of light at the other end, we come upon the ferry and the cottage by the best approach, I think.'
In her simple garden-hat and her light summer dress, with her rich brown hair naturally clustering about her, and her wonderful eyes raised to his for a moment with a look in which regard for him and trustfulness in him were strikingly blended with a kind of timid sorrow for him, she was so beautiful that it was well for his peace--or ill for his peace, he did not quite know which--that he had made that vigorous resolution he had so often thought about.
She broke a momentary silence by inquiring if he knew that papa had been thinking of another tour abroad? He said he had heard it mentioned. She broke another momentary silence by adding, with some hesitation, that papa had abandoned the idea.
At this, he thought directly, 'they are to be married.'
'Mr Clennam,' she said, hesitating more timidly yet, and speaking so low that he bent his head to hear her. 'I should very much like to give you my confidence, if you would not mind having the goodness to receive it. I should have very much liked to have given it to you long ago, because--I felt that you were becoming so much our friend.'
'How can I be otherwise than proud of it at any time! Pray give it to me. Pray trust me.'
'I could never have been afraid of trusting you,' she returned, raising her eyes frankly to his face. 'I think I would have done so some time ago, if I had known how. But I scarcely know how, even now.'
'Mr Gowan,' said Arthur Clennam, 'has reason to be very happy. God bless his wife and him!'
She wept, as she tried to thank him. He reassured her, took her hand as it lay with the trembling roses in it on his arm, took the remaining roses from it, and put it to his lips. At that time, it seemed to him, he first finally resigned the dying hope that had flickered in nobody's heart so much to its pain and trouble; and from that time he became in his own eyes, as to any similar hope or prospect, a very much older man who had done with that part of life.
He put the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while, slowly and silently, under the umbrageous trees. Then he asked her, in a voice of cheerful kindness, was there anything else that she would say to him as her friend and her father's friend, many years older than herself; was there any trust she would repose in him, any service she would ask of him, any little aid to her happiness that she could give him the lasting gratification of believing it was in his power to render?
She was going to answer, when she was so touched by some little hidden sorrow or sympathy--what could it have been?--that she said, bursting into tears again: 'O Mr Clennam! Good, generous, Mr Clennam, pray tell me you do not blame me.'
'I blame you?' said Clennam. 'My dearest girl! I blame you? No!'
After clasping both her hands upon his arm, and looking confidentially up into his face, with some hurried words to the effect that she thanked him from her heart (as she did, if it be the source of earnestness), she gradually composed herself, with now and then a word of encouragement from him, as they walked on slowly and almost silently under the darkening trees.
'And, now, Minnie Gowan,' at length said Clennam, smiling; 'will you ask me nothing?'
'Oh! I have very much to ask of you.'
'That's well! I hope so; I am not disappointed.'
'You know how I am loved at home, and how I love home. You can hardly think it perhaps, dear Mr Clennam,' she spoke with great agitation, 'seeing me going from it of my own free will and choice, but I do so dearly love it!'
'I am sure of that,' said Clennam. 'Can you suppose I doubt it?'
'No, no. But it is strange, even to me, that loving it so much and being so much beloved in it, I can bear to cast it away. It seems so neglectful of it, so unthankful.'
'My dear girl,' said Clennam, 'it is in the natural progress and change of time. All homes are left so.'
'Yes, I know; but all homes are not left with such a blank in them as there will be in mine when I am gone. Not that there is any scarcity of far better and more endearing and more accomplished girls than I am; not that I am much, but that they have made so much of me!'
Pet's affectionate heart was overcharged, and she sobbed while she pictured what would happen.
'I know what a change papa will feel at first, and I know that at first I cannot be to him anything like what I have been these many years. And it is then, Mr Clennam, then more than at any time, that I beg and entreat you to remember him, and sometimes to keep him company when you can spare a little while; and to tell him that you know I was fonder of him when I left him, than I ever was in all my life. For there is nobody--he told me so himself when he talked to me this very day--there is nobody he likes so well as you, or trusts so much.'
A clue to what had passed between the father and daughter dropped like a heavy stone into the well of Clennam's heart, and swelled the water to his eyes. He said, cheerily, but not quite so cheerily as he tried to say, that it should be done--that he gave her his faithful promise.
'If I do not speak of mama,' said Pet, more moved by, and more pretty in, her innocent grief, than Clennam could trust himself even to consider--for which reason he counted the trees between them and the fading light as they slowly diminished in number--'it is because mama will understand me better in this action, and will feel my loss in a different way, and will look forward in a different manner. But you know what a dear, devoted mother she is, and you will remember her too; will you not?'
Let Minnie trust him, Clennam said, let Minnie trust him to do all she wished.
'And, dear Mr Clennam,' said Minnie, 'because papa and one whom I need not name, do not fully appreciate and understand one another yet, as they will by-and-by; and because it will be the duty, and the pride, and pleasure of my new life, to draw them to a better knowledge of one another, and to be a happiness to one another, and to be proud of one another, and to love one another, both loving me so dearly; oh, as you are a kind, true man! when I am first separated from home (I am going a long distance away), try to reconcile papa to him a little more, and use your great influence to keep him before papa's mind free from prejudice and in his real form. Will you do this for me, as you are a noble-hearted friend?'
Poor Pet! Self-deceived, mistaken child! When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected! It has been tried many times by other daughters, Minnie; it has never succeeded; nothing has ever come of it but failure.
So Clennam thought. So he did not say; it was too late. He bound himself to do all she asked, and she knew full well that he would do it.
They were now at the last tree in the avenue. She stopped, and withdrew her arm. Speaking to him with her eyes lifted up to his, and with the hand that had lately rested on his sleeve trembling by touching one of the roses in his breast as an additional appeal to him, she said:
'Dear Mr Clennam, in my happiness--for I am happy, though you have seen me crying--I cannot bear to leave any cloud between us. If you have anything to forgive me (not anything that I have wilfully done, but any trouble I may have caused you without meaning it, or having it in my power to help it), forgive me to-night out of your noble heart!'
He stooped to meet the guileless face that met his without shrinking. He kissed it, and answered, Heaven knew that he had nothing to forgive. As he stooped to meet the innocent face once again, she whispered, 'Good-bye!' and he repeated it. It was taking leave of all his old hopes--all nobody's old restless doubts. They came out of the avenue next moment, arm-in-arm as they had entered it: and the trees seemed to close up behind them in the darkness, like their own perspective of the past.
The voices of Mr and Mrs Meagles and Doyce were audible directly, speaking near the garden gate. Hearing Pet's name among them, Clennam called out, 'She is here, with me.' There was some little wondering and laughing until they came up; but as soon as they had all come together, it ceased, and Pet glided away.
Mr Meagles, Doyce, and Clennam, without speaking, walked up and down on the brink of the river, in the light of the rising moon, for a few minutes; and then Doyce lingered behind, and went into the house. Mr Meagles and Clennam walked up and down together for a few minutes more without speaking, until at length the former broke silence.
'Arthur,' said he, using that familiar address for the first time in their communication, 'do you remember my telling you, as we walked up and down one hot morning, looking over the harbour at Marseilles, that Pet's baby sister who was dead seemed to Mother and me to have grown as she had grown, and changed as she had changed?'
'Very well.'
'You remember my saying that our thoughts had never been able to separate those twin sisters, and that, in our fancy, whatever Pet was, the other was?'
'Yes, very well.'
'Arthur,' said Mr Meagles, much subdued, 'I carry that fancy further to-night. I feel to-night, my dear fellow, as if you had loved my dead child very tenderly, and had lost her when she was like what Pet is now.'
'Thank you!' murmured Clennam, 'thank you!' And pressed his hand.
'Will you come in?' said Mr Meagles, presently.
'In a little while.'
Mr Meagles fell away, and he was left alone. When he had walked on the river's brink in the peaceful moonlight for some half an hour, he put his hand in his breast and tenderly took out the handful of roses. Perhaps he put them to his heart, perhaps he put them to his lips, but certainly he bent down on the shore and gently launched them on the flowing river. Pale and unreal in the moonlight, the river floated them away.
The lights were bright within doors when he entered, and the faces on which they shone, his own face not excepted, were soon quietly cheerful. They talked of many subjects (his partner never had had such a ready store to draw upon for the beguiling of the time), and so to bed, and to sleep. While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal seas.

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1/2 Cup sugar
3/4 Cup boiling water
1 Cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (6-7 lemons)
2 Cups cranapple juice
Grated peel of 1/2 lemon
In a small saucepan, dissolve the sugar in boiling water. Pour mixture into a glass pitcher or small punch bowl. Add the lemon peel and fruit juices. Cover and chill until serving time. Garnish, if desired, with lemon peel.
Makes about 4 cups.
Fresh Lemon Meringue Pie
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
3 egg yolks, well beaten
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups boiling water
Grated peel of 1/2 lemon
2 to 3 drops yellow food coloring (optional)
1(9-inch) baked pie crust
Three-Egg Meringue (recipe follows)
In saucepan, thoroughly combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Gradually blend in cold water and lemon juice. Stir in egg yolks. Add butter and boiling water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium and boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in lemon peel and food coloring. Pour into baked pie crust. Top with Three-Egg Meringue, sealing well at edges. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool for 2 hours before serving.
Makes 6 servings.
Three-Egg Meringue: In bowl, with electric mixer, beat 3 egg whites with 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar until foamy. Gradually add 6 tablespoons sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
Zesty Fresh Lemon Nut Bars
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
grated peel of 1 lemon
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Lemon Glaze (below)
To make crust, in bowl cream together butter, granulated sugar and 1/2 of lemon peel. Gradually stir in 1 1/4 cups flour to form soft crumbly dough. Press evenly into bottom of 13- by 9- by 2-inch baking pan. Bake at 350°F. for 15 minutes. Meanwhile to prepare filling, in bowl, combine brown sugar, walnuts, eggs, baking powder, remaining 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 lemon peel. Spread over baked crust. Bake for 20 minutes longer. Remove from oven; thinly spread with Lemon Glaze while still hot. Cool; cut into 36 pieces.
Makes 3 dozen bar cookies.
Lemon Glaze
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
In bowl, gradually blend a small amount of sugar into softened butter. Add lemon juice and remaining sugar; stir to blend well.
Savor the flavor of the most moist and succulent bird youąve ever tasted!
Use lemons when baking any whole poultry item - they moisten the bird from the inside out.
To prepare, simply season with salt, pepper and fresh herbs, such as rosemary. Pierce lemon 3-4 times with a fork. Place lemon in cavity of bird. Use one lemon for a 3-5 pound chicken. Use 2-3 lemons for a 12-15 pound turkey, depending on space in the cavity. Roast in oven until internal temperature reaches 185° and thermometer pops out.
6 lemons
12 cups cold water
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 3/4 cups boiling water
Wash fruit; score peel into lengthwise quarters. Remove sections of peel; cut into uniform strips about 3/8-inch wide (about 3 cups peel). Bring 6 cups cold water and peel to a boil; boil 10 minutes. Drain and rinse. Repeat process with 6 cups fresh water. In large saucepan, bring to boil 1 1/2 cups sugar, honey and boiling water; boil 1 minute. Add peel and briskly simmer 40 to 45 minutes; stir frequently to avoid sticking. Drain well.
In large bowl, toss drained peel with remaining 1/2 cup sugar to coat well. Spread on wire racks over wax paper to dry. (May need to re-dip in sugar as peel dries.) Store in tightly covered container.
Makes about 1 pound.
Fresh Lemon Sunshine Cake
6 eggs, separated
1 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
Grated peel and juice of 1 lemon (3 tablespoons juice)
5 tablespoons water
Fresh Lemon Glaze (optional, recipe follows)
Place egg whites in large glass or metal bowl and egg yolks in medium bowl. Measure sifted flour, then sift again with salt. With electric mixer, beat whites until foamy; add cream of tartar and beat at high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time; continue beating until stiff peaks form. Set aside. Beat yolks 2 minutes, until thick and light in color. Very gradually add remaining 1 cup sugar; continue beating at high speed until very thick and sugar is dissolved. Beat in lemon juice and water, blending until smooth; stir in lemon peel. Add flour all at once; gently fold, then stir to blend well. Gently fold egg yolk mixture into beaten egg whites.
Pour into ungreased 10-inch tube pan; cut through batter with knife to remove any large air bubbles. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit about 1 hour, or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Immediately invert cake in pan; let cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours. Carefully loosen cake from pan with narrow spatula; invert onto cake plate. Serve plain, sprinkle with confectionerąs sugar or glaze top with Fresh Lemon Glaze, allowing some to drizzle over edges.
Makes 12 to 16 servings.
Fresh Lemon Glaze: Blend together until smooth 1 1/2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar and 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice.
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London Evening Standard and NOOK® form partnership to support Get London Reading initiative
London Evening Standard and NOOK®form partnership to support Get London Reading initiative
Barnes & Noble to donate 1,000 of its NOOK eReaders to Get London Reading campaign for use by "Beanstalk" reading helpers in schools
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Sunday's AdvoCare 500 continues a Labor Day tradition reaching into NASCAR's formative years.
Great racing and legendary winners have ushered out summer and – in recent seasons – solidified the lineup for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™.
This weekend figures to be no different as the series heads to the penultimate race of the regular season.
Three Chase spots have been claimed leaving nine positions to be determined, either on Atlanta's 1.54-mile asphalt or next week at Richmond International Raceway.
Sunday's race (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN, Performance Racing Network Radio, Sirius XM Radio) may be more about who doesn't have provisional Chase standing than those who may punch their tickets for NASCAR's post season.
Look no further than three former series champions whose title hopes could soar or be dashed over 501 miles of high-speed competition under the lights.
Reigning champion Brad Keselowski enters the regular season's next-to-final race ranked 11th, four points out of the top 10. Kurt Busch, the 2004 titleholder, stands 12th (-six) and four-time champion Jeff Gordon is 13th (-11).
None of the three has won in 2013. A victory certainly would push each into the top 10 – and also provide potential Chase Wild Card, available to the two highest-ranked drivers 11th through 20th in points.
Keselowski finished third in last year's Atlanta race. He has two top-10 finishes but has led just two laps in four starts.
"I'm not going to be out of the worried zone unless I make it (the Chase) or it's over," Keselowski said recently. "We've got two races left. I think they'll be good race tracks for us."
Busch is responsible for making the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet a Chase contender fashioning, six top-five and 11 top-10 finishes and a pole. Earlier this week he announced a switch to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014, joining new boss Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick and Danica Patrick.
"My focus still remains on the present and trying to achieve our Chase goal in the No. 78," said Busch, a two-time Atlanta winner whose most recent victory came in 2010.
A year ago, Gordon finished second in Atlanta and Richmond to claim a Wild Card. Gordon's most recent of five Atlanta victories came in 2011. He has finished on the lead lap in 13 consecutive races.
"We just need to do our job and get the best results possible these next two races and see how things shake out," Gordon said.
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Rent: £62pppw – Available: September 2019 – letslivehere are delighted to offer this three bedroom upper floor flat on King John Terrace, Heaton. With excellent amenities and transport links nearby, the property would ideal suit a group of students or young professionals.
The property throughout boasts modern décor and furniture with fresh, bright walls and solid wood flooring.
The kitchen and living space are open plan creating a great, welcoming space for socialising and entertaining. The kitchen includes white high gloss units with sleek chrome bar handles, a contrasting black high shine floor, washing machine, fridge freezer, fan assisted oven and four burner gas hob.
The living area includes two, brown leather couches, coffee table and the bonus of a glass dining table with black chairs and can be moved around to suit.
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Fantasy Baseball Drafts – The Case for #2
It's pretty common knowledge that Hanley Ramírez is going to be the #1 pick. What's not to like about him? He has 30/30 potential at the shallow Shortstop position. Once he's plucked out of the draft pool, the question is what do you do with the second pick? Not long ago, before a steroid scandal, a bad hip, an affair with an aging Pop star, a link to an infamous madam, the list goes on, that answer would have been simple. Now that A-Rod and his tarnished image is on the shelf, three other names (Albert Pujols, José Reyes, David Wright) rise to the surface.
Naturally Albert Pujols is going to generate some heavy consideration. Why not? The dude can mash. He shrugged off an elbow scare last year to put up another monster year (.357, 100 R, 37 HR, 116 RBI). His 1.115 OPS was the highest of his career. While his numbers are amazing, his Run, HR, and RBI totals of the past two seasons make up the worst two-season stretch in his career. He's getting walked more. He had a career high 104 BBs last year, which was up five from his previous career high set in 2007. Aside from a minor dip in his production, the other main reason to pass on Pujols in the two-hole is his position. He's easily the best First Baseman in the league, but he isn't ahead of his competition by leaps and bounds. You have Lance Berkman, Mark Teixeira, Ryan Howard, Miguel Cabrera, Adrián González, Justin Morneau, and Prince Fielder to name a few. While they aren't Prince Albert, they're close.
That leads me to José Reyes. He is part of a Big Three Shortstop group of the aforementioned Hanley Ramírez and Jimmy Rollins. Reyes is rock solid, but he leaves you hanging in the HR, RBI, and Batting Average departments compared to Pujols and teammate David Wright. He scores a lot of Runs, but he gets little (if any) separation from Pujols and Wright there. He swipes a ton of bases, but I contend that they can be made up later. I'd love to have Reyes on my fantasy team, but not before Pujols and Wright come off the board.
That leads me to David Wright. He has averaged 106 Runs, 29 HRs, 112 RBI, 22 SBs, and .311 over the past four seasons. His numbers have looked even better the past two years (114 R, 32 HRs, 116 RBI, 25 SBs, .313). He has topped Pujols in Runs, RBI, and SBs without losing much in HRs or Average. He has topped Reyes in HRs, RBI, and Average without losing much in Runs. He doesn't touch Reyes SBs, but he's pretty good for a Third Basemen. Which brings me to the second part of my argument. With A-Rod hurt and Miguel Cabrera switching to 1B, Wright doesn't really have any peers. Kevin Youkilis and Aubrey Huff had great seasons, but I see them taking a step back. Chipper Jones is solid, but he'll turn 37 in a month and he hasn't played 150 games since 2003. Aramis Ramírez is real good, but he doesn't score Runs or steal bases like Wright, and his HR, RBI, and BA numbers are slightly lower. Evan Longoria has the potential to make the leap, but I see much lower R, SB, and BA for him.
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Just discontinued in favour of the new 16yo- 40%
My Tasting Notes:
Nose: Vanilla, citrus fruit, cloves, slightly maritime and a bit herbal
Palate: Herbal attack giving way to vanilla, caramel and nuts, slightly spicy
Finish: Medium long, vanilla
Overall: A bit too "plain" for my taste. I can't stop thinking that there is something missing in this whisky.
Score: 73/100 – Price Tag $$$$$ – Value for your Money $$$$$


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Healthcare and Medical Devices - Information Security Masterclass
Ascensys Medical Limited
Wednesday, 15 March 2017 from 09:00 to 17:00 (GMT)
Event Details
Information security in healthcare is being taken more seriously by legislators with more stringent requirements and severe penalties which can run into many millions of Euros/Dollars for breaches. For medical device manufacturers, the risk of hazards that may arise as a result of even unintentional corruption of data must be made as low as possible, which in practice means applying information security controls which are state of the art and in line with harmonised standards. This is compounded by increasing use of data in healthcare settings and greater complexity of data systems resulting from opportunities offered by cloud service providers for cost effective and scalable data solutions.
New EU legislation, which comes into effect in 2018, mandates, amongst other things, privacy by design and many medical device manufacturers systems are non-compliant and may take significant development effort of both hardware and software components to achieve compliance.
Medical devices, like other computer systems, can be vulnerable to security breaches, potentially impacting the safety and effectiveness of the device. This vulnerability increases as medical devices are increasingly "connected" to the Internet, hospital networks, and to other medical devices.
In a recent study, it was found that a variety of medical devices and healthcare related IT systems currently in use in hospitals had serious security vulnerabilities that could be relatively easily exploited. These included drug infusion pumps (devices used for a variety of purposes including delivering anaesthetics, chemotherapy and life supporting drugs) that could be remotely manipulated to change the dose delivered to patients; Wireless implanted cardioverter-defibrillators that could be maliciously programmed to deliver unnecessary and potentially fatal shocks to a patient's heart or to prevent a shock from occurring when it was needed; temperature settings on blood storage refrigerators that could be reset; and electronic health records that could be altered to potentially cause doctors to misdiagnose conditions and prescribe the wrong treatments.
What you will learn
This advanced training event will highlight the sources and scope of the threats and identify the common vulnerabilities. It will present practical, best practice guidelines that work within the framework of medical device software development standards including:
Legal Requirements
- Technical Requirements
- Administrative Requirements
- Physical Requirements
EU General Data Protection Legislation
- Health Data Scope
- Security Requirements
- Data Portability
- Right to be forgotten
- Export of Data
- Informed Consent
- Profiling Requirements
- Impact Assessment
- ISO/IEC 27001 — Information technology - Security Techniques - Information security management systems — Requirements.
- ISO/IEC 27002 — Code of practice for information security management.
- ISO/IEC 27003 — Information security management system implementation guidance.
- ISO/IEC 27004 — Information security management — Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation.
- ISO/IEC 27005 — Information security risk management.
- Risk Management: What are the threats, how might they arise and what tools and technologies might they use.
- Development planning: How to incorporate effective strategies throughout development to deal with cybersecurity threats including correct resources required, expertise and verification and verification planning.
- Requirements Management: How and what to specify in Software Requirements Specifications.
- Architectural Design: How to create inherently secure software architectures.
- Detailed Design and Coding: How to design for security and eliminate coding errors that lead to vulnerabilities.
- Verification and Validation: How to test for security.
- Post Market Surveillance: What to include in PMS activities.
- Regulatory Submissions: What to include in regulatory submissions in the EU and US about cybersecurity.
Who should attend
- Medical Device Manufacturers: CEOs, COOs, Heads of Regulatory Affairs, Heads of QA, R&D Managers, Software Managers, Architects and Engineers;
- Healthcare Providers: IT Systems Managers, Purchasing Specialists
Our location in the heart of the city means that IET Birmingham: Austin Court is fully accessible by all major transport links across the Midlands and is conveniently located seconds from the National Indoor Arena.
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Peter Brady is a healthcare and medical devices software and systems specialist with deep understanding of software development and international regulation and standards. Key skills in software development, safety risk management and information security with experience ranging from low cost embedded solutions to complex systems running on multi-core parallel processors. He has wide experience in healthcare sectors including oncology, proton therapy, imaging, implantable devices, renal therapy, diabetes management, vascular therapy, minimally invasive surgical devices, pressure area care, point-of-care diagnostics and drug delivery. He has worked as an engineer, manager and director and is also an approved EU Notified Body assessor for software submissions. He has successfully developed both Quality Management Systems and Information Security Systems for leading medical device manufacturers.
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IET Birmingham: Austin Court
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Wednesday, 15 March 2017 from 09:00 to 17:00 (GMT)
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Ascensys Medical is a specialist consulting firm focussed on medical device software, connected "smart" devices and software security in healthcare applications.


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Backbone.js apps with Authentication Tutorial
At my current company I am working on my first large-scale production backbone.js app and I couldn't be happier. After using backbone.js for a few months I have caught the vision and I am becoming more and more proficient. But every once and a while I still run into problems I would consider basic, but I can't seem to find much help on the interwebs. Authentication with backbone.js apps was one of those problems. So I am posting the solution I came up with in hopes it will benefit someone else, and hopefully will garner some feedback or potentially better ways to solve authentication with Backbone.js.


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Sunday, 24 February 2013
Decorating a shared bedroom
Jasmine and Sonny currently share a bedroom. I say currently because that isn't the long-term plan, but it suits us for now. They settle well together and enjoy the company. One problem I have come across, however, is the issue of decoration.
Now, the room desperately needs decorating (and I mean desperately!), so the issue has become rather pressing. How do we cater for the tastes of two children within one space? Or, more precisely, how do we cater for two children of different genders within one space?
I've Googled it and marvelled at the creativity of others (I love the room pictured above, for example), but I'm having trouble marrying what I find with what my children like.
Sonny wants Thomas trains.
Jasmine wants Hello Kitty.
Hubby says split it right down the middle, absolutely 50/50. Paint half pink and half blue, give them a curtain each, their own carpet and shelves etc. Like two completely separate rooms.
I see where he's coming from, but I'd still quite like there to be a neutral, shared theme.
Right now, I'm thinking neutral carpet, pastel curtains, pale yellow walls, BUT give them one wall each. One wall that can be any colour they choose, can have posters on, drawings, stickers, trains, anything. Their own shelves, their name stencilled on, whatever they decide. Thereby giving them a sense of their own space within a shared room.
But that's just me. What would you do?
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Sanandaj, Kurdestan prov, Sept 8, IRNA-Director general of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of Kurdestan province, Mohammad-Ibrahim Zareie, referred to the province as a significant national hub, given the diversity of its tourist attractions.
He told IRNA that in today's world tourism is considered as a profitable industry and that it earns the second largest revenue after the oil industry.
"The province contains 218 tourist sites including natural, cultural, historical, religious, trade and recreational attractions as well as marvelous villages.
"Zarivar in the town of Marivan, Karaftu Cave, historical monuments, bazaars and bridges in the provincial capital of Sanandaj and Palangan village are some provincial attractions among others," he added.
He noted that lack of proper and standard connecting roads, railway lines, continuous flights, reluctance of the private sector to make investment, lack of accommodations and involvement of unskilled manpower in the tourist industry are the most serious obstacles hindering the promotion of tourism.
"The provincial tourist sites were visited by more than 300,000 domestic and 2,000 foreign tourists last Iranian year (ended March 20)," he added.
The province has been enjoying a unique brilliant civilizational and cultural background in the course of human history. Besides, its climatic features, particular geographical position, exquisite vegetation and forests, wild life and numerous hunting grounds account for its role as a unique national tourist hub.
Zarivar lake, a unique natural phenomenon and the most important provincial marshland, is situated two kms to the west of Marivan at a height of 1,285 meters above the sea level.
Its water boiling from springs at the bottom of the sea smells like natural water and its color is usually greenish.
A variety of aquatic birds spend most of the year at Zarivar lake, given it is a suitable habitat.
With an area measuring 850-900 hectares and depth ranging between a maximum of five and minimum of two meters, the lake is quite appropriate for boating and water skiing.
Provincial governor-general, Asadollah Razani, speaking at a meeting of Marivan tourist officials, said that as the most important tourist attraction in western Iran Zarivar lake deserves special attention.
The longest provincial river called Qezel-Uzun originates from Sanandaj's Chehel-Cheshmeh heights as well as Hezarkanian and Divan-Darreh's Saral mountains.
The water of hot spring of Baba Gargar is known to cure digestive problems and rashitism.
Sultan Sorajeddin heights between Kamyaran and Sanandaj, Nekeh-Ruz mountain to the southwest of Saqqez, Sheida mountain in Qorveh, Salan heights to the southeast of Marivan and Arbaba in Baneh are a few of most charming mountain ranges of the province.
Karaftu Cave in the town of Divandarreh 72 kms to the east of Saqqez made of layers of lime has been subject to constant change in the course of history as human residence. The cave has been engraved into the depth of mountain and is featured by its stone architectural structure built in four stories.
The historical cave has been visited by many outstanding Iranologists and researchers such as De Morgan and various maps of it have been drawn.
Reference to a Greek tablet installed above the door of a room on the third floor of the cave has been made in several essays written and printed by various researchers.
According to the available articles, the cave has been named after the Greek mythological hero Hercules mentioned in the tablet.
Sanandaj's old bazaar is one of the remaining major economic hubs of Safavid era, whose architecture has been inspried by the market surrounding Isfahan Naqsh-e Jahan Square.
The archaic bazaar dating back to the lifetime of Soleyman Khan Ardalan, who was appointed as Kurdestan governor by Safavid kings in 1046 AH.
Several ancient bridges prove the area's unique status as an economic and tourist hub in the past.
Asef Divan monument dating back to Safavid period is one of the most significant relics of the area known for its exclusive architecture, which is now called "Kurd House".
The brickwork of its front view has been built under the impression of Baroque era. The building has been elaborately decorated with plasterworks, mirrorworks and woodworks.
Another ancient monument called Khosrowabad dates back to the lifetime of Khosrow Khan Ardalan, a contemporary to Karim Khan Zand and son of Amanollah Khan Ardalan, the powerful governor of Kurdestan.
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Lev Tanju, the driving force between London skateboard company Palace, has created a unique set of decks inspired by art on show at Tate Britain
This is gross and shameful. Nike next?
Gross and shameful? Stop being such a snob. It may not be the fine art painting you were looking for but working with a British skater owned and run company to produce some interesting boards is not shameful in the slightest. And don't try compare a small independently run company like Palace to a multibillion dollar company like Nike..


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My dearest and closest friend passed away this week. She had been sick for a long time and this is a blessing. But the pain is still there. I will miss her greatly she taught me how to work hard at the things I love. I was able to share my talent with other because of her, she gave me the courage to things I never thought I could.
While she was sick she came across this poem "The Dash" by Linda Ellis
I was asked to read it at the funeral, what an honor.
So this weeks Typography is "Live Your Dash"
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Scratch that. Actually we had a fairly typical-for-the-midwest 4th of July; we packed the pups in the car, headed up north to the in-laws' lake house, and lazed around on a pontoon boat.
The night of the 4th, we discovered poor Miss Addie-Pants is not a fan of firework any more than Mac is, and so instead of watching our lake-neighbors attempt to blow off all their fingers by lighting off crappy roman candles, we had a movie marathon with the dogs all snuggled up next to us. Went to bed somewhere around midnight. Yeah, we party hard.
But around 1:30AM on the 5th of July. Well, that's when it got weird.
The in-laws' lake house is located at the end of a street. Meaning if you keep driving down that street past our house, you end up in the lake. Generally speaking, if a car pulls up that road, it's probably someone we know coming to visit. We weren't expecting anyone at 1:30AM, so when we could see the headlights and heard a car engine working really hard, we knew something was up.
The Mister and I trotted downstairs and went outside to investigate. Turned out a nice, elderly man had come down our road, saw he had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and when he tried to u-turn, had ended up putting his van half-way in the ditch that runs along either side of the road. It's a narrow road, and in the dark, The Mister and I could both see how easy it would be to make such a mistake.
Unfortunately, this ditch is a drainage ditch, so it's too swampy at the bottom to be able to stand in there and push a car or a van back out. This gentleman needed a tow truck. For the sake of the story, let's call him Fred.
We offered to call one for him, as Fred and his walking-cane wandered around the van in disbelief, apologizing for ruining the grass in the ditch (we were not upset about the grass). He asked instead of a truck, if we could call his friends - who he had been trying to drive out and visit when he ended up stuck in our front yard. The Mister obliged, and ended up talking to the man's friends on the phone, trying to give directions on how best to take the side country roads out to where we were located. The friend asked The Mister "has he been drinking?"
Hey there, red flag, how's it going.
And thus started the downward spiral of bad news/ red flags for this gentleman who wound up in our ditch. Or I guess maybe it started when he got stuck in the ditch. But up until that point, the Mister and I just thought this was going to be a quick conversation with a tow truck and then we could go back to bed.
Two minutes after we called Fred's friends (who said they were on their way), two squad cars showed up. We still don't know who called the police. They asked if Fred had been drinking. Fred replied that he'd had just one beer.
I know working as a college administrator does not qualify me as a cop, but I do know from that experience, when someone tells you they've only had just one beer, they've actually had at least eight, and are just hoping you believe the one beer story when you smell it on their breath instead of asking them to walk a straight line.
So The Mister and I walked back to the front of the house in order to give the cops some space and let them do their thing. Fred was super cooperative as they lead him away from his van to the squad car, and gave him a breathalyzer (he blew a .17). They loaded him in the car, explained that his van was getting towed, and he was being taken to the nearest hospital for a blood test to confirm the breathalyzer results. Fred remained cooperative and apologetic about the whole thing.
The tow truck arrived a few moments after Fred was whisked away to the hospital, and that's when Fred's downward spiral got down-right STEEP. (The Mister has some photos on his phone. When he gets home tonight I'll ask him to send them to me, so I can share here.)
I don't know how to format this in story-form without it getting very long-winded, so here's what happened:
- Fred had taken his van's keys with him to the hospital, so the tow truck driver had to try and pull the van out of the ditch while the van was in park. With the van unable to turn it's wheels, he tore up the grass/ rocks in the ditch something awful (we started to care a little bit about the grass then), but more importantly, he DESTROYED the bottom of that van. It's driving approximately nowhere for a looong time.
- The police ended up having to go and fetch the keys from Fred at the hospital, because without them the van's wheels were angled in such a way that the winch on the back of the truck was pulling the tow truck into the ditch with the van instead of pulling the van out. All of this extra time and effort resulted in the tow truck cost coming out to exactly six dollars more than Fred had given his friends to pay out. So the van was getting impounded.
Which ended up not mattering, because when the keys showed up, they also came with some information...
- Fred had a warrant out for his arrest in the next county over. He skipped a court appearance in regards to his involvement in a whole bunch of larceny.
- Fred's van was not... Fred's van.
- The plates on the van that was not Fred's, didn't match up to any vehicle. Anywhere.
- And the icing on the cake that's going to land Fred in prison for a VERY long time - Fred had a bottle of yellow nail polish in his van, which he had used to paint over the "year" sticker on the license plate to make it look like it was not expired. Fun fact: that's a felony


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Farm Market & Craft Fair
September 14, 2010 by Judy Trull
It's true, who can believe that fall is here already. It seems that just yesterday we were celebrating the beginning of summer, however time certainly marches on thru the change of seasons. Cooler days and nights, sleeping with the windows open and yes even pulling back out the cooler weather duds. Here in Central Wisconsin it is festival time, all different sorts. In Manawa you know that fall has arrived not only due to the cooler weather and the changing leaves but it is the Farm Market and Craft Fair, held the third Saturday in September each year. In year's past we have had alot of fun with the pie eating contest, too funny to see people digging into pies face first and showing their enthusiasm for all things pie. This year we will mark the day with our first annual chili cook-off, a way to showcase all the different and delectable ways that chili can be made. I have encountered people who are big fans of noodles in their chili, you have the standard chili lovers, and then those who like to crank up the heat factor. We hope to have all different genres of chili competing at our chili cook-off. The entrants will be vying for a $100 first prize, $75 second prize and $50 third prize all paid in Chamber Bucks, as to support local businesses. After the judging, we will be selling the chili for $1 per bowl and the proceeds will be donated to the Manawa Food Pantry. There is no charge to enter as this is our first year of holding the chili cook-off. It is a good warm up (pardon the pun) or practice run if you will, to also compete in the annual chili cook-off held at the Zion Lutheran Church here in Manawa, it is their major fund raiser that they hold each year. They serve other food along with the chili and it is one price to sample all of the different chili's that they have entered each year. So come on out to the Farm Market & Craft Fair this Saturday September 18th, there will be a variety of vendors, pumpkin bowling for the kids and much more. On 2nd Street in Manawa. Come out and enjoy the beautiful fall here in Central Wisconsin.


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Monday, July 14, 2014
The Evolution of Nothing
One might think this speculative absence of everything would be the purest nothing to which both atheists and theists could agree, but of course it's not. Modern physics has shown that quantum fluctuations can spawn temporary virtual particles out of even this "nothing." There is no particle or field or dimension or anything to exclude at this point. It is entirely nothing, then something, then nothing again. The only way an apologist, motivated to believe in a nothing in which God is the only creative power, can define nothing at this point is arbitrarily. Nothing, to them, is that without the natural potential for something. A baseless, speculative meaning only used by a minority that special pleads in order to create the illusion that the arguments they insert this term into is valid.
"That without the nature potential for something." The special pleading is apparent with the qualifier of "natural." It allows for another baseless and speculative category of the supernatural which isn't only without scientific evidence, but conveniently beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. Something coming from nothing in our reality is only permissible, in their minds, through magic in which the spell caster is their deity of choice and only their deity. This "nothing" is just another example of a term in the apologetic handbook that when applied to the handbook's official syllogisms, makes them entirely fallacious.
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This is a very timely piece, I was just thinking about this today as well. Its amazing how the only way some theists can defend their already already absurd claim is by creating another absurd claim about what nothing is. Its as if two absurds make a truth.ReplyDelete
While the folk definition of "nothing" might have changed as you described, this has not been the case with regards to philosphers. Most philosophers down throughtout the centuries have understood "nothing" to simply mean the complete absence of anything, at all. That is, a complete lack of any existents.ReplyDelete
And as it turns out, it is naturalists who have attempted to beg the question in their definition of nothing. When Krauss was told that his idea of "nothing" was completely fallacious, his reply was that "science changes the meaning of things."
Moreover, this Quantaum vacuum is not "nothing". It has been described as having an explicit wave function, as being unstable, has physical quantities, and contains the laws of Quantum Mechanics. This is obviously not "nothing", it is something.Replies
This is exactly why many scientists today are questioning if philosophy has any value when it comes to the real world. Philosophers can define terms however they want, but if those terms have no real-world application, they are meaningless. It doesn't matter what apologists and philosophers say "nothing" means, if it cannot be demonstrated to actually exist, just like God, it's a nonsensical argument.Delete
The only thing that matters is reality. Making up nonsense and pontificating on it is meaningless.
Even if a particle comes into existence in our realm (our something), it may not have come from "nothing" but from another realm (some other "something"). So I have to agree with Steven Jake.ReplyDelete
But your point for the desperation to make "out of nothing was the world created" work, is well taken. But the desperation of those who try to make this impossible is also obvious to me.


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Lots has been said already about how the
President's Cup ended but we think it was an
honorable and great way to end a competition.
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I'm going out on a limb here to say I cannot believe Jodi Picoult's "The Storyteller" is a best seller. I know this opinion is not a popular one if you look at her reviews on Amazon. "The Storyteller" is currently #1 on New York Time's best seller list for hardcover fiction. I read this book and I'm surprised it is doing as well as it is. I physically cringed as I read reviews proclaiming "The Storyteller" is the best book ever. I am going to break my thoughts up into 4 smaller blogs (mainly because everyone is so busy and I like reading shorter blogs).
Let me first tell you where I get my viewpoint on this book. I studied the aftermath of WWII and the holocaust for a semester and at the end of the semester we went to Germany and Poland for 2 weeks. During those 2 weeks we stood in the redwood forests in Poland where Jews were murdered, we were led through Auschwitz-Birkenau by a man who survived Auschwitz as a child, we stood in the gas chambers and saw the scratches in the concrete from fingernails as people tried to claw themselves out, we walked through the ghettos and saw evidence of what transpired there not so long ago. There is still a presence there that is difficult to describe. It gives me chills to this day.
I read "The Storyteller" for a book club. I thought it sounded interesting as I have vast knowledge on the subject, however, I do not claim I'm an expert. Some of my book club went and saw Jodi Picoult at a reading and she spoke about how it became the book it is. She interviewed several holocaust survivors and a few other people. She spent 9 months doing research and writing this book. She said something that took me off guard and aback. She mentioned she was a cash cow and couldn't go wrong. And that, my friend, is where she initially went wrong. In my opinion she is banking on her name to sell books. I got the feeling she thinks she can do some research and throw something together and call it good. People will buy it because her name is on it. Mind you, I know it isn't easy to research and write a book, but if you are going to take on a topic like the holocaust you had better invest your time in extensive research and get it right. I know it's not always possible to travel to the locations you write about. However, in this case, she should have traveled to Poland to experience Auschwitz before she wrote this book. She tweeted a couple of hours ago that her publisher took her to Auschwitz TODAY! "The Storyteller" was released February 26, 2013. She missed the mark here. I am going to walk you through the different areas in this book I think went wrong, areas she got right, and what she could have done to make it better; to give the reader the emotional draw that should have been there. Each person reads a book differently based on personal beliefs, experiences, and knowledge base. Yes, people can come to the same conclusion that a book is fabulous or horrid, but their reasons for making that claim differs based on what they personally brought to the table. Stop back to read the rest of the four-part series and if you have read the book, put your own two cents in.


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Iain kindly sent me this pic of his Sikh War figures, which he converted, painted and based recently, wish I had his talent, Sikhs from Newline Design, cavalry from Tumbling Dice Crimean range. First pic is of Iain's Newline Designs Companions
Finally recovered from boys visit, great time with old pals (and I do mean old!!), excellent food, many beers, a few hours playing cards ( yet again we all covered B's travelling costs), discussion on the merits of various authors, Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, Simon Scarrow, tales of grandkids exploits, Vic presented me with a dozen Zvedva GNW Swedes that he's been painting for me (nicely done) over past few years, E has started a new tradition involving a bucket and peculiar sounds at 5.30 a.m. T tried to get him to bathroom but inside door handle spring broke so both trapped until I heard T calling "HELP" , luckily I had left a bucket by E's bed as he wasn't too well on last visit, (new door handles fitted yesterday), KJPS again last to surface Sunday morning muttering "Cawfee, Cawfee", I fed and watered them all with multiple cuppas and toasted doorsteps ( translation, very thick slices of toasted bread with lashings of butter and marmalade), had a very relaxed morning due typical Welsh rain, they left around midday heading for their usual watering hole near Corwen for lunch on the way home, leaving me with the washing up again!! Roll on next visit sometime in the Spring when hopefully the missing campadre Joe can make it over from Crete ( brand new grand-daughter ) so then the "Magnificent Seven " will ride again !!


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I got NYC Pumpkin for Halloween manis. Its a true orange with a shimmer. When I was applying it, I was reminded of China Glaze Riveting from the Hunger Games series. So I grabbed the Hunger Games bottle. OK it looked different, but I decided to apply CG to my other hand to compare. As you can see the nails on one hand are nubbins. :( I actually after this manicure decided to do a 1 week nail therapy. I did take before pics of the nails so we can compare, and that is as much info as you will get out of me. I was silly and didn't think to queue up posts, so you will get stash shots or manicures on my toddlers.
Anyway back to the polish. This is a shiny almost metallic orange. This is with 2 coats and on camera you can see a little visible nail line, but not bad. It was pretty easy application, no streaking and dried evenly, just not opaque.
This could go well as the base to pumpkin nail art if you were so inclined. But for less than $2, its great. I can't remember if this was in the $1.49 or $0.99 colors at walmart, but let's just say its some nice cheap thrills.
Now the comparison.
I ended up applying several coats of Wet N Wild glow that I won in a giveaway in the dark to the Pumpkin and going out to a Trunk or Treat for our church. It didn't last the 20 minutes we were walking around. :-/ And I didn't take photos of it before. So no pics of that. I do think a big problem was the fact that you can't have a top coat with glow in the dark so one collision with a plastic pumpkin bucket and you are doomed.. But next time I will take photos before heading out. It did glow pretty well with the recommended 3 coats.
China Glaze retails for $7.99 and can be found various places online and in beauty stores. Last I knew this line was $1.50 at Sally's beauty supply (it was a spring collection). NYC varies in price depending on the color/finish, but its between $0.99 and $1.99 at places like Walmart and drug stores. All polish was bought by me and all opinions are my own!


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It's a Myth That Younger Siblings Get Neglected
At this very moment, there are approximately a million and a half articles floating around on the Internet all about having your first kid versus your second or your third or your fourth of your fifteenth.
OK, maybe not as many on having your fifteenth, but you get the drift. They're all along the similar lines of, "First kid: eats only organic, pureed vegetables while Bach plays softly in the background. Third kid: eats dirt with a side of dust bunnies."
And while I can certainly chuckle along with the rest of the moms-of-more-than-one-child at the sentiment that things are definitely not as they always were with the first kid, I am also here to bust down the myth that younger siblings get neglected.
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I just delivered my fourth baby in six years about two months ago and I will be completely honest with you — a lot of things have changed. My first daughter really only did eat organic vegetables, and although I'm not going to sweat it as much if I gave my last daughter fruit first, it's not like I'm pureeing up French fries either.
We joke about the later siblings getting neglected, but honestly, I'm not always laughing about it. I'm very sensitive to the fact that middle children especially can feel "left out" and feel like they are outsiders within their own families, and I think it's largely due to the fact that we have this acceptance for younger kids to get the shaft a bit in the parenting department.
As a mom, I've worried that my younger kids will somehow be scarred for life with less attention from me or if I will be stretched too thin trying to care for them. We have this stereotype that younger kids will somehow get lost in the shuffle and that's OK, because, hey! It happens.
But I've been surprised to discover that contrary to popular belief, younger siblings actually get more attention in the household.
She is loved so much more, simply because there are more of us here to love her.
Of course, so much about my parenting has changed and I simply have less time during my day with four children, but in no way do I think that younger siblings come out with the short end of the stick. Instead, they get tons of extra attention from their big siblings. I mean, think about it — when my first daughter was a baby, all she had was my ugly mug to stare at during the day. How incredibly boring. But my fourth baby? She has endless possibilities during the day: her big sisters, her big brother, the 15,000 toys they will fling about, the kids at school pick-up. Her day is so much more interesting than the first baby's ever was.
I know now that I shouldn't have worried. I am just as excited to fill out my fourth baby's book as I was my first, and in many ways, I treasure the moments of her babyhood even more because experience has taught me how fleeting those moments really are. She is loved so much more, simply because there are more of us here to love her.
So to any of the moms out there who are worried that bringing another baby into the family means that he or she won't get the attention and the love that your first baby got, or that somehow you will be forced to fail as a parent simply because you won't have the time — fear not. You will change and grow as a parent. You will make mistakes along the way and you will most definitely not treat every child the same way. But even if you don't do things as "perfectly" with the children who follow your first, you will still be exactly the kind of parent they need.
Your next baby may not eat all organic vegetables, but they will eat their vegetables, because you are now a savvy parent who knows how to get the job done.
Your next baby may not have you all to herself, but she will have more arms to hold her — and more hearts to love her.
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