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Once after church on a Sunday in the 70s, my dad took my sister and me to a party of some sort for children at what seemed to be a pizza parlor or a theater. It was an unexpected L.A. outing for the two of us. The place was dark. There were picnic tables set up where we ate cake with a couple of dozen other kids. There was entertainment. One of the entertainers came out, dressed in a coat and a cravat. He stared at us. Then he played the "Mighty Mouse" cartoon theme song from a record on a little turntable next to him. He sang only "Here I come to save the day!" Yes, you know who it was. None of the children laughed. I recall feeling confused and uncomfortable, but it stood out in my memory. Someone thought it would be great for kids. In the early 90s, when I finally watched an Andy Kaufman special on VHS cassette in which he performed the same routine, I was floored. By that time, I found it hilarious.
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February 24, 2015
BERNARD WELLS, III, Petitioner,v.STU SHERMAN, WARDEN, Respondent.
MICHAEL J. SENG, Magistrate Judge.
Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Respondent, Stu Sherman, Warden of California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility ("CSATF") and State Prison, Corcoran, is hereby substituted as the proper named respondent pursuant to Rule 25(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Petitioner is currently in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation following his December 2, 2008 conviction of second degree burglary. (See Answer Ex. 1, ECF No. 12.) Petitioner is currently serving his resulting sentence of seven years in prison. (Id.)
On August 11, 2012, Correctional Officer Panduro observed Petitioner physically assault Petitioner's fiance and 14 year old daughter during a prison visitation. (Answer, Ex. 2 at 35-36.) At the disciplinary proceeding on September 14, 2012, Petitioner was found guilty of committing battery on a non-inmate and minor child, and assessed a 150 day forfeiture of good conduct time. (Id. at 40-45.) Petitioner alleges that the disciplinary decision was based on insufficient evidence and that it violated his due process rights under the 6th and 14th amendments. (Pet. at 1-6.)
On July 9, 2013, Petitioner filed a habeas petition in the Imperial County Superior Court. The petition was denied in a reasoned decision on August 12, 2013. (Answer, Exs. 2-3.)
On October 4, 2013, Petitioner filed a habeas petition in the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District. The appellate court denied the petition in a reasoned decision on October 24, 2013. (Answer, Exs. 4-5.)
Petitioner filed a habeas petition to the California Supreme Court on November 18, 2013. The petition was summarily denied on February 11, 2014. (Answer, Exs. 6-7.)
Petitioner filed the instant federal habeas petition on March 26, 2014. Respondent filed an answer to the petition on June 23, 2014. (See generally Answer, ECF No. 12.) Petitioner did not file a traverse within thirty days of the service of the answer. Accordingly the matter stands ready for adjudication.
On August 11, 2012, Correctional Officer Panduro observed Petitioner physically assault Petitioner's fiance and 14 year old daughter who were visiting him in prison. (Answer, Ex. 2 at 35-36.) The officer ended the visit because of Petitioner's aggressive behavior towards his visitors. (Id.) Petitioner was charged with violating CCR § 3005(d)(1): "battery of a non-inmate" and minor child. (Id. at 38.) Petitioner was provided a rules violation report on August 24, 2012. (Id.) Petitioner did not provide a statement upon receiving the report, but did request others be interviewed. (Id.)
Petitioner appeared at the disciplinary hearing on September 14, 2012. (Answer, Ex. 2. at 40.) In his defense, Petitioner claimed he was not guilty of the charges and requested witness testimony from his fiance and minor daughter. (Id. at 41.) The Senior Hearing Officer ("SHO"), Lieutenant P. Zills, determined that additional witness testimony was not required as the events were clearly documented in multiple officer reports and further supported by videotape evidence. (Id. at 42.)
After considering all of the relevant evidence, the SHO found that the greater weight of the evidence supported the finding that Petitioner committed the prohibited act of battery on a non-inmate and minor child. (Answer, Ex. 2 at 43.) The prison disciplinary decision was based on a report of the officer who observed the incident and the video of the incident captured on the visiting room security camera. (Id.) A sanction of disallowance of 150 days good conduct time was imposed. (Id.)
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A DNA test of herbal products has found that most of them contained cheaper fillers and plant ingredients not listed on the label, some of which pose "serious health risks."
Researchers at the University of Guelph used DNA barcode testing to test 44 herbal products from 12 companies.DNA barcoding uses a short sequence of DNA from a standard segment in plants to identify the species rapidly and accurately.
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Following his investigations in THE HOLY THIEF, which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated and hailed as an example to all Soviet workers. But Korolev lives in an uneasy peace – his new-found knowledge is dangerous, and if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to the frozen camps of the far north. But when the knock on the door comes, in the dead of night, it is not Siberia Korolev is destined for. Instead, Colonel Rodinov of the NKVD security service asks the detective to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman: Maria Alexandovna Lenskaya – Masha, a model citizen. Korolev is unnerved to learn that Masha had been of interest to Ezhov, the feared Commissar for State Security. Ezhov himself wants to matter looked into. And when the detective arrives on the set for Bloody Meadow, in the bleak, battle-scarred Ukraine, he soon discovers that there is more to Masha's death than meets the eye …Incidentally, I particularly enjoyed the New York Times review of THE HOLY THIEF in which the reviewer criticised Ryan's work on the basis that Korolev, a red-blooded Russian, doesn't scoff enough vodka, even though said Korolev was half-mangled for the duration. Hopefully Korolev will be downing pints of the stuff in THE BLOODY MEADOW, to the point where he's so bladdered even a reviewer can't fail to notice. It's the little things, hic, that matter, see …
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William Ryan's debut, THE HOLY THIEF, was very well received indeed, and was nominated for a CWA gong. Those who enjoyed Ryan's exploration of Stalinist Russia won't have long to wait for the follow-up: Captain Alexei Korolev returns in September, in THE BLOODY MEADOW. Quoth the blurb elves:
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Revolutionary Gaze
Mark Elvin
- China Diary by Stephen Spender and David Hockney
Thames and Hudson, 200 pp, £10.00, November 1982, ISBN 0 500 01290 3
I remember very clearly a visit to the art college in Nanking in April 1976. The suffocating presence of Jiang Qing (Mao's wife and aesthetic dictator of the day) could be felt almost everywhere. Even so, there was quite a variety of work on show: some stiff, hieratic seal-style calligraphy, and experiments in inking landscapes on soft absorbent paper in unusual ways, as well as the endless, predictable sunlit parade of pictures on the approved themes of Maoist revolutionary romanticism – stage lighting, theatrical poses, crowds contrasting with lone figures frozen in the 'revolutionary gaze'(as we called it), half-defiant, half-messianic, eyes fixed at 45 degrees on some distant future. Occasionally there was the odd piece that came to life in spite of it all. I recall a small lithograph (I think it was) where a cool jet of irrigation water arched across the deep dark green of an upland valley, while the sun shone yellow on a plain far below, sparkling with pylons.
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Data lakes may be controversial among technologists, but for many companies, they solve a pressing technology problem: bad data integration.
Andrew Oliver, president and founder of Open Software Integrators, has helped large companies build data lakes. While there is debate about what data lakes are and whether they're even practical at this point — Gartner, in particular, has spoken against the data lake hype (see Oliver's rebuttal)— in practice, data lakes are typically Hadoop clusters that draw data from multiple sources, Oliver said.
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Leigh was more than her looks though, and despite an extremely privileged upbringing and glamorous lifestyle, including the infamous affair and marriage to Laurence Olivier, she was an incredibly talented actress. She was also haunted by her own demons, suffering from returning episodes of depression throughout her life and was also dogged by ill heath for much of her adult life.
The photographs on display at the National Portrait Gallery span her acting career from its roots in British theatre through to Hollywood blockbuster films and beyond and are a mix of studio shots and stills from the films themselves. It is the studio shots which really romanticise and immortalise Vivien Leigh. Many show how similar poses were repeated in order to show the actress at her most ravishing, while some of the film stills
capture Leigh's mix of emotional determination and coquettishness. These photographs capture a lost era when the private lives of film stars were closely guarded secrets. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Leigh was the Queen of British Film. She captured the heart of many fashionable photographers and the results of the their adoration of Leigh are fabulously apparent in the images chosen here.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Hero Hostess and Friends : )
Hero Arts is such a generous company and I love the fantastic quality and amazing range of their images\products. Nearly everything I've learned about card making has been through the artists on the Hero Arts blog and the members of the Hero Arts Flickr group. As well as learning and enjoying the fun aspects of the blog and group, one of the brilliant and unexpected benefits for me in joining the group has been the wonderful friends I've made within the group. I know a lot of other great friendships have also been formed because of the group. My good friend Linda donned her apron yesterday and I'm so happy we'll be sharing this great adventure together. I can't wait till you "meet" the rest of the hostesses during the week – you'll love them!
Stamps (Hero Arts) - Scattered Leaves, Antique Engravings, Clouds Background, Big and Small Flowers, Music Background, Tree Birds and Messages
Tami from Hero Arts gave us the great theme of friendship to work with for our cards for the blog this week. The blocks on my card represent some of the wonderful friends I've made in the group and have had great chats and laughs with. A detailed description of how I made the card can be found here on the Hero Arts website, but here is a brief description. I applied various distress inks (Shabby Shutters, Mustard Seed, Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans and Barn Door) to panels of white card and spritzed some with water. Using the same inks I stamped the images on each panel, the exception being where I used white ink for the Music Background. The sentiment was embossed in white and the completed panels were then machine stitched to the card base.
To make the flowers I stamped a piece of red fabric and a piece of yellow fabric with the small flower from the Big and Small Flowers set. Then I put together three layers - a piece of unstamped fabric on the bottom, wadding in the middle and on the top the piece of stamped fabric face up. Using a tiny stitch setting on my sewing machine, I stitched all the layers together by stitching the outlines of the petals. The smaller details were hand stitched and I sewed some beads to the centre. Then I cut out the flowers trimming close to the stitched edge without cutting through the stitches.
21 comments:
- Barb said...
Congratulations, Heather! Her Arts sure picked the perfect hostess! You are going to have such fun! I'm so happy for you and your card is just beautiful! Love all the stitched blocks, representing Flickr friendships! Brilliant idea! Enjoy these next three months. . .they go by so quickly! Doin' the happy dance for you this morning! YAY!!:)
- February 1, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Suzanne C said...
Whoo Hoo! Congrats my friend. This is a beautiful card and love all the colors and images you used! Wonderful!
- February 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- Sarah said...
Congrats, Heather! Well deserved! LOVE your card!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Nancy said...
YEAH! Congratulations Heather! You are going to be the BEST hostess, and as usual, this is a gorgeous card!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Lin said...
SO happy for you to join the sisterhood of the Apron!! YAY!!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Rosemary said...
huge, huge congrats to you heather! i was hoping they would pick you as a hostess! i know you will be wowing us continually with your talent!!
- February 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Maureen Morton said...
Heather - I am sooo excited for you! You are so sweet and so talented - they are luck to have tagged you for this great job. You are most amazing. Love this card, too! Hugs, Maureen
- February 1, 2011 at 3:11 PM
- Isha said...
Yay!!!! Congrats Heather...you surely deserved it. I am so so happy for you, wish you could see my big smile:))
Cant wait to see your creations.
- February 1, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Virginia L. said...
This card truly shows off your BIG talent---distressing, stitching, patching all into one! CONGRATS, Heather! I knew this day would come...you are going to be a FABULOUS hostess!
- February 1, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- CinnamonSally said...
Congratulations Heather your card is truely stunning, I love how you use your sewing machine, so inspiring. (I have been inspired to do a Adult Ed class this weekend on patchwork and I am really looking forward to it). Love your new buddy icon!!
- February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM
- Julie M said...
Congrats, Heather - they couldn't have picked a more talented crafter!!!
- February 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- AnitaRex said...
Heather I am so happy for you becoming a hostess! You will do so well! Love your card it's soo pretty! :>
- February 1, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Deirdre said...
So thrilled for you, am loving the green apron.
- February 1, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Sue McRae said...
Love your colourful card Heather and congrats on donning the apron!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- Brenda said...
I am so thrilled for you Heather! Congratulations! I have always admired your work on the HA Flickr site! Love your beautiful card today! Such warm colours!
- February 2, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...
Big congrats, Heather! Love your wonderful friendship card and I'm so happy to share hostess duties with you!!
- February 2, 2011 at 1:15 AM
- Trinh said...
I was really hoping you would be picked and I know you will be awesome! Your card is gorgeous and shows off so many of the details that I love about your cards.
- February 2, 2011 at 3:47 AM
- Patricia said...
Congratulations Heather so glad for you =P Your card is amazing =P
- February 2, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- Dawn said...
Congratulations Heather.... well deserved!!!!! Your work is outstanding and you will be so inspiring to us all...
- February 2, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Nancy said...
I'm so happy for you, Heather! And I'm so happy for the whole Flickr group, what a treat it will be to have you as a Hostess. Enjoy!
I am so loving your fabulous friendship card, every detail is so perfect, so you....I'm looking forward to seeing all of your inspiring work!
- February 2, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- dustypenny (Joy) said...
Congrats, Heather! So happy for you!
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This is the 4th or 5th time I've started a blog. It's starting to get ridiculous. Chances are this will fall through the gaps like so many other blogs before it. I think this is because my inspirations and cravings to write are inconsistent; by the time I get another urge to write it will have been weeks or months and I'll start anew. I tout myself as being stable, consistent in though, solid in life philosophy. The truth is probably much more believable, I find myself content in the moment, subject to the whims of the future. That's not to say that certain things remain constant. I'm comfortable with who I am, I understand who I am (to the best of my ability), I've resigned myself to the fact that tomorrow I will be someone different. That's the excitement of it. Is this was what makes life worth living, the understanding that each day brings new challenges, new influences, knew outrage and new hope? Yes. It's one of the things in any event.
Of late I've become, dare I say, obsessed with humanism. My interest and goals in anthropology have always hinted at it, a genuine concern with humanity, an understanding of (rather than devotion to) the supernatural, confusion and criticism to all things good and bad. (I live a life of contradiction, where my only certainty lies in my inability to accept anything at face value.) I started with atheism, a distrust of religion brought on by a catholic upbringing. I moved on to socialism, perhaps a futile political association, but one that makes the best sense all the same. Finally, deeply embedded in academia, thought and liberalism I find humanism in Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His novels are the only thing that I have read and understood in a subconscious way that allowed me to accept them. I finished Slaughterhouse 5 for the second time and it nearly changed my life. Perhaps the fact that I finished it while living in a rural town in western Kenya, isolated from the capitalist and busy world at home had something to do with it. Perhaps the fact that I have surrounded myself with thoughtful and confused company helped as well.
"Well. Here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why." There is no why, only now. Only what I can do now, only what I can think now, only who I know now. Is why a silly question? No. Without asking why one is stuck. Imagine just living in the amber of the moment, unaware of the why. Maybe it's there maybe it's not, you don't know, you haven't asked. There's an easy answer to the why; someone put me here. It's an easy answer, a comforting one, it gives purpose. But it still leaves open the path to ask why again. Here is where faith and reality split. Some say, if I ask why the only answer I'm prepared to accept is the answer I already know, that someone put me here. So I won't ask why, I'll just have faith in what I already know. Others, continue asking why. We find that we're led around in circles, why's lead to more why's lead to more why's. We realize that there are a plethora of co-existing why's, individual why's. There is no great why, no final why, only the why's that surround us in the moment. There are plenty of them, enough to go around.
Each one of us is why really. Within ourselves, our humanity, the only thing that is shared universally.
I think I'm confusing myself. It happens. Why? There is no why, only the moment. If only I could come unstuck in time.
In the end there really is no figuring it out, no final answer, no concrete identity. There is only the comfort and ability to accept that we are one thing today, another tomorrow, and that's okay.
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Fante's Dust, their name liberally taken from a combination of the Los Angeles author John Fante's name and his most famous book "Ask the Dust", are a noise rock band working out of Germany.
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Buzz Rodeo is an Art Punk/Noise Rock Trio from Germany whose latest release "Sports" could easily fit in well on the Touch and Go label. This three piece wears its influences on its sleeves. Very familiar without being obvious. Elements of Man or Astroman, Shellac, and Arcwelder abound on "Sports", simultaneously pointing back toward the sound of "Entertainment" era Gang of Four and yet moving forward to add something new and vital.
Sonically speaking this is a really tight record. This is apparent right from the get go. On the opener "Arkansas" the drums sound like they were recorded in a nice sized room with a descent set of overheads and some well placed pzm's to catch the hits as they reflected off the walls. Nice and open without losing any of the definition.
The bass has a nice tight midrange tone that compliments the lows. Not always easy to do with any kind of fuzz involved, but here it's captured nicely. As if a buzzsaw is cutting through a hard wood, like maple or oak. Listen to the tracks "Sound of the Universe" and "The Gap" and tell me you don't hear it. Seriously.
The guitars are suitably jagged and bright, falling right into place with the rhythm section when necessary and floating atop of it or stepping aside just as deftly when required. Witness this tightrope walking on songs like "Pop", "Movie Star", and "Station 41".
The album as a whole clocks in at 30 minutes and the songs mostly hover around the 3 minute mark. Each song leaves you wanting more and when the album ended I felt as if there had to be one more track. Just one more taste, as it were. Each song has its own feel without drifting so far out that you would guess it was another band. There are no stand out tracks on Sports because there are no bad tracks.
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Kowloon Walled City's "Grievances" is one I discovered through an NPR countdown of the 100 best metal records released in 2015 http://apps.npr.org/best-songs-2015/#. It was one of a handful on the list that grabbed my ear. I admit that I've lost my patience with most of what passes for metal these days, but curiosity got the better of me. I"m glad it did simply for turning me onto this band.
I Shall Die Here is the fourth studio album by American sludge metal band The Body. Released on April 1, 2014 through RVNG Intl. record label, the album was produced by British electronic musician The Haxan Cloak.
It's rare sometimes that a recording comes along that won't allow you to skip tracks. This is one such record. From the opening pummel of "To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me" to the final track "Darkness Surrounds Us" with it's reverb drenched violin dancing thru the stereo field nothing feels like filler. The album feels like a post apocalyptic statement on the cruelty of life itself, and is breathtakingly intense and dynamic.
I'm in awe of The Haxen Cloak on any given day, but the production here is impeccable. If this band collaborated with him again I would buy that record without a second thought nor a need to hear it first.
This album begs for a good set of headphones, a single lit candle, and a thunderstorm off in the distance.
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The Astros' Josh Reddick will probably call dibs on the package that's headed Houston's way from Stamford, Connecticut.
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World Wrestling Entertainment is sending the Houston Astros a custom WWE championship belt in honor of their first World Series in franchise history. WWE's Triple H congratulated the Astros on Thursday and shared a picture of the custom title:
Congrats to the @Astros on an amazing #WorldSeries win. @WWE looks forward to celebrating with Houston at #SurvivorSeries. Bring this along! pic.twitter.com/VXELr5V8k3
— Triple H (@TripleH) November 2, 2017
Reddick is no stranger to championship titles. During his brief stint in Los Angeles last season, the outfielder started a tradition of presenting a blue Dodgers championship belt to the player of the game. When he signed with the Astros in the offseason, Reddick decided to order a custom Astros belt and kept the tradition going with his new teammates.
Reddick even wrote about his WWE fandom on The Players' Tribune in 2015, and how he's developed a friendship with Triple H over the years:
Eventually, Triple H found out I used his music and invited me to meet him. He gave me his phone number and said if I ever needed anything, don't hesitate to call. I didn't know how to handle that. I definitely wanted tickets, but didn't want to be "that guy" and mooch for everything I possibly could. So I just shot him a text message. He was real nice about it. "Don't hesitate," he said. "Every time you want something, give a heads up. Just make sure you give me a two-week advance."
Now, when I go to an event, it's backstage passes, front-row seats and I get to hang out with all the wrestlers. They'll just let me go back there to eat their food, drink their Cokes and waters and hang out with the guys. It's incredible. Triple H and I have actually become pretty good buddies. I call him Hunter most of the time (Triple H is an abbreviation of his character's name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley) because it's kind of weird to call him by his actual name (Paul).
The Astros' new championship title could be on display on Nov. 19 when the WWE heads to Houston for their "Survivor Series" pay-per-view. There's still time to book one last Dodgers-Astros showdown, but this time in the wrestling ring.


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- The Institute Alliance Française
- It's an UES mainstay for French classes, film screenings, performances, and more.
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- Only one thing stands between Alain Ducasse and world domination: New York.
- Paris Matched
- A guide to living la belle vie in New York.
- One Man's Frites
- As long as Keith McNally keeps re-creating his dream bistro, we'll always have Paris.
- From Paris With Love
- Nicolas Ghesquière's New York boutique is a fashion force to be reckoned with.
- The 25th Hour of Florent
- As a city mourns the closing of a legendary diner, owner Florent Morellet ne regrette rien.
- The Runway Report: Paris 2008
- Complete coverage of the fall and spring catwalks, with runway collections, news, trends, and more.
- Right Bank–Style Boutiques
- Five stores offering up some of that Eighth Arrondissement glamour on this side of the Atlantic.
- Fashion Rules by Carine Roitfeld
- The French Vogue editor is the antidote to certain powerful fashion editors across the Atlantic.
- The Show of the Season: Spring 2008
- Alber Elbaz thinks past the models on the runway to his actual customers.
- Bistros, Brasseries, and Cafés
- Find the perfect banquette for two without leaving the city limits.
- Make It at Home
- Top toques share recipes for old favorites like cheese gougères and new ones like black-truffle crushed potatoes.
- New York's Best Baguette
- A Cornell professor with a bread fetish comes to town and separates the wheat from the chaff.
- A French Thanksgiving
- Make your turkey a guinea hen instead and upgrade apple pie to flognarde. Serve with wine, lots of it.
- The Parisian Restaurant Scene
- Some are run by Michelin-star bearers, while others are simply cheap(ish) and friendly.
- Where Fashion Eats
- A guide to where the fashionistas flock on their twice-yearly trips.
- Say Fromage
- Skip the monument marathon and give yourself time to stop and smell the farmhouse cheeses.
- Best Bets Goes to Paris
- A sampling of instant heirlooms you might find as you stroll along the Right Bank.
- Track Down Vintage Fashion
- In the City of Light, yesterday's couture is still in vogueand for sale.
- Cool-Hunting the Flea Market
- Most journey to France for art and pastry, but insiders know treasures can be found in the jumbled stalls at the city's open-air markets.
- Weekend Wardrobe Getaway
- Having style issues? Take that most decadent of all retail adventures: the Paris shopping weekend.
- A Walking Tour of Disneyland Resort Paris
- Skip the rides. See the architecture instead.
- The Art Scene
- Olivier Zahm's Purple and La Force de L'Art are just two of the genre-bending art happenings that have shaken up Paris.
- The Everything Haute Guide
- In Paris, eternal pleasures endure even as the next new thing gets ready to burst on the scene.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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This post comes to us from Dave Lyons, ILN Ambassador to China.
I am a librarian who does not work in a library – in fact, I only did once for about a year, cutting my teeth on Cutter numbers and spine labels. My job title, Data Integration Architect, requires explanation sometimes even within the software development community. My boss and I routinely try to think of something less opaque. I am seriously considering changing it to Data Plumber, because that analogy seems more accurate and straightforward: I find sources of data, I build pipes and storage and filters, and I make sure the caches flush. Civilians don't see the connection to libraries, but in many ways I am a type of serial librarian. All the data I work with is related in some way to scientific journals, such as ISSNs, DOIs, ORCID IDs, impact factors, altmetrics, classifications, abstracts, and citations.
It's commonplace now to talk about libraries being at risk, and in terms of budgets for brick-and-mortar institutions this is in many cases true. But while we debate the future of libraries, whether they are now to become community centers, cafes, and even bars based on their long-standing role as a "third place", or transform into archives dedicated to preservation rather than user services, it doesn't follow that librarians are anachronistic or obsolete. To the contrary, our mission remains as it ever was, to "ensure access to information for all", and our profession core competencies – reference, user services, cataloging, metadata, indexing, classification – are extremely relevant and sorely needed in the digital world we now inhabit.
How I ended up working software development has a lot to do with why I went to library school. I had originally planned to pursue an advanced degree studying the history of Xinjiang, a far western province of China. The best resources are scattered in libraries and archives around the world, from Japan to Russia to Sweden to the United States. A complete history would draw on primary and secondary sources in dozens of languages, some dead or nearly so. For any given place or person or thing there could names in a dozen languages, each with their own variations in spelling or phonetic system, and I would Google these things and wonder if someone collected those sorts of synonyms and put them in a search engine. Soon enough I was more interested in information seeking than the information itself, specifically metadata. The sort of data I wanted to work with was curated and authoritative, and that was the purview of librarians, not computer scientists.
Software doesn't do anything without data, whether an external input or generated by the software itself. Finding, evaluating, and cleaning data is a practically a full-time job for data scientists (I've dabbled in data science but I wouldn't call myself one without a strong background in statistics, which I don't have. Yet.) Data scientists sometimes call this "data janitorial work". Designing seemingly simple data structures can be surprisingly complex, and programmers regularly stumble into problems that any cataloger will recognize. There's a whole series of articles online titled "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About…" names, addresses, time, and geography, which raise issues that ought to be familiar to anyone who has looked at AACR2 or RDA. Software is basically lists of instructions according to lists of rules being carried out on lists of stuff, making more lists of more stuff and more lists of instructions. It's lists, not turtles, all the way down. We know lists.
Librarians who work in software development are a growing community, gathering in groups like Code4Lib and DST4L, and interviewed by podcasts like Beyond The Stacks.
Increasingly, development works like lego building blocks and for very little money you can tinker with building a wide variety of fun and interesting things with barely any coding. Spin up a server on Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean, or Docker Cloud, pull a Docker container for a Github project you like, and in 5 minutes you can build a website, an ILS, an academic social networking site, an academic journal, or a really impressive PDF to HTML converter (seriously, check out the Bible de Genève example). Play around on the free tiers of Heroku, Pantheon, Koding, Sandstorm, or Import.io.
Want to learn to code? Codecademy is great free place to start. There are others that offer initial free classes for Data Science or MongoDB. Coursera is packed with courses and specializations related to data, computer science, UI design, and more. Learn in tandem with your patrons.
It's not so much that I think all librarians need to learn to code, rather I think that there's always been a substantial amount of overlap between us and computer scientists and we haven't always remembered that. More and more, software development requires roles like taxonomists (Amazon employs quite a few librarians that way) and metadata specialists, people who not only know how to find the data, but can understand the uses, limitations, and structure of that information.
While libraries may once again be transforming as physical institutions – taxpayer-supported public libraries are historically a rather new phenomenon – librarians and their unique set of skills are more relevant than ever for emerging new roles and opportunities in the rapidly expanding world of data around us.
–Dave Lyons, ILN Ambassador to China


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The Coke VS. Pepsi: The Cola Wars infographic from cnntees.com. Which side are you on?
For over a century Coke and Pepsi have been at each other's throats in a constant struggle for a bigger piece of the billion-dollar soda market.
Along the way the companies have picked up a slew of loyalists and fans, adamant that their cola reigns supreme. While there are countless spots online to check out the history of either company we decided to put together an interactive infographic, putting all cola war highlights together in one spot.
This is a really fascinating experiment with infographic design. Although it appears to be a static infographic, it's actually interactive. If you look closely, there are two videos built directly into the middle of the infographic that play when clicked. The growth chart at the top is also interactive. Click on a decade, and then choose the specific year, and it displays events in each companies history related to that time period.
The interactivity is so subtle though, most people will probably miss it without me spelling it out in the title and here in the commentary.
The financial stats section is a really poor use of pie charts in the bottle caps. The logo images work, but pie charts are for visualizing percentages. Here, they forced the data into the cute visual, but it makes the data confusing and hard to understand. Are the charts visualizing the percentages of each expense related to total revenue, or just arbitrarily visualizing the values to represent the comparison between the two companies? No percentages are shown, and no values are shown for the values of the total pie. This is forcing a round peg into a square hole.
At the bottom, it's missing a URL to the original blog post (so readers that find this on the Internet can find the original high-resolution infographic), a copyright statement, a trademark statement and a credit to the designer.
Thanks to Ron for sending in the link!
Quick follow-up, for those readers on iPads, the infographic won't display in the Flipboard reader, but the infographic and all of the interactivity works nicely in the Safari browser.


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The wealthiest team in history has yielded one of the richest bacterial cultures in the CDC record books. Usually in yankee lore the records were for homeruns, pennants and world series. But since the Steingrabber twins fired Joe Torre,a malaise has set upon the team.
Typical of superstitious baseballers, a psychiatrist, a hypnotist and a tax attorney have been brought in to seek a cure. No luck...they even temporarily hired fucking Bucky Dent as a motivational speaker but no one knew who he was or what he did. Finally the club physician ordered STD tests for the Bronx Bummers and sure enough there were more positive tests than in a Nevada whore house.
Plenty of HIV, syphillis and chlamydia but the dominant bacterial strain was a pus causing, itchy mama of an infection called Girardi Vaginalis. Antibiotics have been added to the water cooler and a penicillin swab has replaced the pine tar rag. the center for Disease Control is looking into the root cause of the infection that has crippled the once dominant Yanks, staring with the manager's locker and ending with his foreskin.


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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Topshop Shoe Heaven
Price: £60.00
MEMORY Floral Boots
Price: £35.00
PARA Metal Toecap Boots
Price: £120.00
SAKURA Glitter Platform Shoes
Price: £62.00
STUDIO TMLS Delia Lace Sandals
Price: £155.00
I was browsing around the Topshop website the other day and landed upon the shoes section. Here are some of my favourites! Unfortunalty I can't afford any of them as to me, they are pretty expensive (some more than others)! But I always love looking and thought it would be nice to share some with you guys. Each shoe title has a link to where to buy the shoe so just hover over & click to do that!
It's unfortunate because the Topshop where I live is farely small so they don't even have most of the shoes shown aboth. I can rely on the London (my proper hometown<3) ones for everything though ;)
OXFORD STREET - enough said.
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- Anonymous2 November 2010 at 19:53
ooo i love the last ones :DReplyDelete
I love the brogues and the last pair of shoes xoxReplyDelete
I love the floral one soooo much, it is beautiful. Where is it from?ReplyDelete
They are all from Topshop :)ReplyDelete
those floral shoes are completely amazing.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 November 2010 at 08:59
Great selection of shoes! Love the brogues and the floral booties xxxReplyDelete
Yeah, I wish I bought the floral boots when I had the chance because now I don't think the Topshop in my town have them anymore. Don't like buying shoes online because, obviously, you can't try them on. GAH.ReplyDelete
Anyways, thanks for the comments everyone <3 :)
LOVE THESE PICTURES! I'LL TAKE EVERY PAIR PLEASE!ReplyDelete
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Aww, thank you so much! <3
J'adore yours too!
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ALL OF THEM ARE VERY UNIQUE. NICE POST!ReplyDelete
love the brogues- perfect for english weather=]ReplyDelete
I lllloooovvveee Topshop, I long to go there someday! lovely selection :)ReplyDelete
cute shoes :)ReplyDelete
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Very true! They're real practical :)
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Topshop is Godly! You've never been?!
Thank you :)
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Aren't they just :)
like the first ones!!! xxReplyDelete
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By: Allison Annala, IATG Contributor February 15, 2016
As a former gymnast, and now gymnastics coach, I take a lot of long bus rides. My team travels all around the country, and over the last 10 years I've spent many hours on a dark bus riding off into the night.
This is where I do my best thinking. When I plug in my headphones, stare out the window and zone out on reality. I stare at my reflection in the tinted window, listen to music that moves my soul, and completely dissect my world.
During those nights, looking out that window and gazing at the stars would bring me so much peace, and at the same time I felt like each night I was opening old wounds, trying to uncover where the road ahead was going to lead me.
But looking forward is hard to do when you're still clinging to your past.
You see, I've never felt like I was exactly where I was supposed to be. As an athlete, I struggled significantly with feeling adequate. I never felt good enough, strong enough, pretty enough, did I say good enough? I always dreamt of being the hero, the girl everyone could rely on, the rock, the "All American." I never felt like I truly accomplished that as a gymnast. As a coach, I've always tried to channel those insecurities into helping others accomplish their goals. But somewhere, deep down, that unsure athlete still seems to reside.
"I'm not enough. I will never be enough. I can't give my team what they need from me. I'm too broken to do this. I don't deserve to find success in this."
These are thoughts that would ravage my mind on those long bus rides home. It was an onslaught of negative self-talk that I couldn't avoid, like a reflex. I would blame my twice torn ACL on everything. All of my fears and all of my inadequacies, everything was the fault of that darn knee. There had been so much pain-so much pain. I assumed the knee was punishment for not being good enough, that it signified I was not worthy enough to carry the weight of my team. Something I wanted desperately to be able to do.
After the eating disorder began this all got worse, of course. Now, it was an all-encompassing fear of failure. I couldn't control my life so I tried, in vain, to control what I could: my food. It was a disaster. No one could understand the hurt that was happening inside of me, let alone talk me out of my despair.
On the bus though, in the darkness, my loneliness had company as I rode off into the seemingly endless night staring at the familiar face in the window. Only she was aware of the war that was going on inside of me.
I've spent the past year looking forward. I've met people who have changed my perspective, enhanced my outlook, and reminded me that I am 100% enough, regardless of where I've been or where I'm going. When there is a long road behind you and a lot of road ahead of you, the only thing that really matters is that you recognize where you're at along the journey and to appreciate that in that moment you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
At a certain point along this path to self-discovery, I looked out the window and saw someone else. The person staring back at me didn't reflect the brokenness I had once felt. She looked brave and beautiful and so happy. The cracks seemed to have mended and the light from the stars glistened so beautifully on the snow, giving me the warmest feeling of love. It was like seeing your best friend for the first time after spending years away. She was there; she was ready to embrace me, and she was proud.
That got me thinking that sometimes we need to look past the cracks. Maybe they're only on the surface, maybe they're a little deeper. Who knows, maybe it was never me that was broken, maybe it was the glass.
Let's Chat!
Where and how do you do your best reflecting? Why is it important to slow down and pause deeply? Write a love note to your past self telling her how proud you are of how she's grown.
About Allison
Allison is a huge advocate for girls and women, particularly when it comes to body image and self-worth! She coaches gymnastics and teaches at her Alma Matter, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Visit her blog www.allison-lifeisbeautiful.blogspot.com.
Every girl is a work in progress. If you need more help, click here.
Allison Annala commented 2016-03-14 11:53:32 -0700Theresa,
First of all, CONGRATULATIONS on your new baby! What a miraculous thing you have done in giving new life to that amazing little human! I have not yet had the privilege of becoming a mom, or a fiancee for that matter (congrats on that, too!), but I do know that childbirth can be very challenging for both your physical and emotional self. The changes associated with bringing a new baby into the family effect all members. And the transition period from pre-baby life to post-baby life can be challenging. Know that you are not alone in your situation. There are so many women going through similar things. I'd love to encourage you to reach out to some of the resources below, for more help in this subject. I'm not expert, I'm just a woman; who wants to see you become whole, healthy and exactly who you deserve to be! Please don't hesitate to contact one of our incredible resources below!!! Sending love and endless light,
Allison Annala commented 2016-02-16 11:07:59 -0800Stephanie,
I love journaling!! It's such a great way to get in touch with yourself and really understand your feelings! It sounds like you're putting a little bit of pressure on yourself though. The path to self-discovery is not one that ends with an all encompassing realization of "THIS IS WHO I AM!" So don't feel like you're behind the times or anything… you are a work in progress (as I am), and the journey to uncovering bits and pieces of who you are is a miraculous thing! Enjoy the journey, and know that who you are today is different from who you'll be in 10 years, and that version of you will be different than the girl in the mirror in 40 years. Life is all about the journey… appreciate the minute to minute, and don't forget to look back at that journal to remember who you once were! Because I bet in 10 years, you'll appreciate this version of yourself, too! :) xoxo
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In 1864 the Bushong farm became a battleground where three generations took shelter in the basement of their home.
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Homefront Heroes, a local military/veteran support nonprofit, is joining forces with Avalanche Harley Davidson (8000 W. Colfax Ave. in Lakewood) for a drive to benefit those connected to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma who lost everything in two recent tornadoes. According to Steven Auld of the Tinker Readiness Fund, these families are in need of prepaid gift cards to purchase items for daily living such as gas and prescriptions, and to make up the difference between what their insurance will cover and the cost of repairs and replacing other lost items. Homefront Heroes will be at Avalanche Harley Davidson from noon to 5 p.m. June 29. All donations are tax-deductible. For more information, call Sarah Oakley, event coordinator/Avalanche Harley Davidson at 303-238-0425, or Linda Olson Ferguson with Homefront Heroes at 303-523-2971 or e-mail email@example.com.
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A gem of a weekend
The Southern Teller County Focus Group presents Victor's inaugural Gem & Mineral Show on Saturday and Sunday in downtown historic Victor. Vendors from across the state offer Colorado minerals, gems, mining antiques, jewelry, handcrafted furniture and more. Admission is free. Children can try their hand at gold and gem panning at the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum (for a small fee). Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. 719-689-2675, VictorColorado.com


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Super Discount 2, The Sage Gateshead, Friday 11 February 2005
The sight of three balding producers bobbing their heads up and down as their fingers manipulate mixing keyboards, desk and computers to work up a breathtaking house-music storm may not be the most enticing proposition to many people. But for anyone who followed the late-Nineties French dance-music scene (or French Touch, as it was popularly known) the Super Discount live experience is exciting, as it is long overdue.
Why the excitement? Arguably, without the arrival of Etienne de Crecy's Super Discount concept in 1996, Air and Daft Punk might never have enjoyed the same degree of success. It was through the 1997 Super Discount album that the UK's dance-music media woke up to the concept of French dance music.
That album became the must-have house collection of the year, spearheading a musical revolution among the Parisian house cognoscenti that would not only spawn numerous Top 10 hits, but even alter the musical direction of Madonna. Her album Music was heavily reliant on the French Touch sound.
Despite Super Discount's subsequent influence on global dance music, the second instalment arrived only last month. Super Discount 2 was no less inspirational, but where its predecessor was all about defining new ground, this set was defined by its search for authenticity.
It is this same search that underlines the Super Discount 2 live show. Augmented by his fellow Parisian producers Alex Gopher (who was once in a band with the Air duo) and Julien Delfaud, De Crecy appears intent on reclaiming the spirit of house and techno from the cheesy sounds that masquerade as "dance music" these days. The band offer up an obsessive's brew of tweaking acid house, deep, pulsating Detroit techno and raw-edged Chicago house, all orbiting the relentless simplicity of Kraftwerk and absorbed through the rushing peaks and subliminal beats of the best club tracks.
Playing to a capacity crowd, Super Discount 2 deliver a series of stunning overtures that range from the twisted bleeps of "Poisoned" to the bass- driven hypnosis of "Overnet". The highlight of the set comes in "Fast Track", an adrenalised Formula One soundtrack with a bassline lifted from the vaults of New Order and injected with the deepest of house grooves.
While pundits everywhere are quick to write off electronic music, Super Discount 2 recaptures the essence of house culture at its rough-and-ready best. Vintage stuff, perhaps, but also a timely reminder of how potent a force this music has been for the past 20 years.


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Prosecutors in the Tony Day double-murder case received authorization Monday from Tenth Judicial District Judge Albert Mitchell for 90 minutes more of an examination of Day by a forensic psychiatrist.
Day, 15, is accused in the Nov. 26, 2012, slayings of his adoptive mother Sue Day, and Day's daughter Sherry Folts in Tucumcari.
Tenth Judicial District Attorney Tim Rose said Elizabeth Dinsmore, a forensic psychologist who specializes in children's cases, was granted the 90 minutes of additional time to meet with Day as part of her examination.
A hearing on whether Tony Day would respond well to behavioral health treatment, which both the district attorney's office and defense counsel Jeffrey Buckels agree is critical to the case's progress, is scheduled for July 23 to July 25.At Monday's status hearing, Buckels objected to granting Dinsmore extra time, since the tests she would conduct with Day would repeat those already performed by state Children, Youth and Families Department psychologists.


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So, for us, this is big exciting news.
After running Fable at Summerhall over August, we have been invited out to New York. We have an off-Broadway transfer to the Soho Playhouse from the 20th-31st October. We're working with Greenwich Theatre in London as producing partners for our stateside debut.
We have never taken work to New York before. This is a great chance for us to perform Fable in the States. It's also a good time for us to try and meet and chat to as many industry folks as we can. We want to start conversations and relationships which we can carry on in to the future. It's great to be able to do this on the ground with a show in the city.
We have worked with such brilliant people over these last years - and now we get to take their work to a new audience and a new bunch of industry. Jim (composer) and Veronica (perfomer) will be touring the Scottish Highlands with Fable as well - so Henry Bird and Calire Curtis Ward are taking up the reigns in The Big Apple.
And we'd like to ask for your help - we want to meet people. Whether that's folks that will put us up whilst we're there, folks that will come see the show, folks that we can have a beer with, folks who work in the arts who we could chat with...we'd like to meet them all!
We're also raising some money here - this is quite simply to afford to spend the time there. We're not planning anything fancy - just your basic living costs. We want to use our time wisely, meet as many industry as we can and start to lay some foundation for the future. So, for us, this is a real opportunity to make sure we can be in the city and have those face to face conversations. If you're able to help us do that, we'd be oh so grateful.
Fable plays as part of this season.
Thanks for reading and any sharing, helping or support for a next step in a big adventure.
Much love
The Flanagans