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While over the next few months this blog will explore fountains' practical purposes and symbolic meanings throughout time and across cultures, this entry involves two little known fountains less than a mile from my home.
I visited the fountains in Wright Park, a 27-acre urban park in Tacoma's Stadium District, last month. While sitting on the edge of the park's elegant pond I was struck by the simplicity of the fountains' clear geometric forms and assertive, forceful motion. The fountains animate the otherwise tranquil pond, altering the surrounding space with their gravity defying cascade of hail like drops of water. Water bursts into the air, forming an emphatic upside down cone and then falls in splashy and erratic globules that combine to form a frothy ring upon hitting the pond. I wondered at the fountains' somewhat disruptive energy in the otherwise placid surrounding environment.
As I researched the history of and future plans for Wright Park I couldn't find any references to the fountains. Eventually, I emailed Tacoma's Metro Parks office and learned that they are a recent addition, installed in 2010 to cleanse the pond. As Melissa Wright, Metro Parks Historic and Cultural Resources Administrator explains, "The pond was completely dug out, lined with a plastic liner and the aerating fountains installed as a decorative feature as well as a way to keep the pond cleaner."
The twin fountains' simple and forceful blasts of water took on new meaning in light of their practical purpose, conjuring a sense of the focused energy that different forms of purification can require. Now as I amble through the park and encounter each fountain's inverted conical upswell and circular descent I think of the energy involved in personal, collective, and environmental forms of renewal.
Urban renewal was an American aspiration during the development of Wright Park. The park's purpose and timing aligns with the values espoused by the City Beautiful Movement (1890's-1920's), which focused on urban planning, especially the development of inviting and restorative public spaces. This was a pivotal time when urban populations surpassed that of rural communities. Parks were important to this movement which sought to carve out public spaces that would foster health, leisure, and ultimately civic virtues.
A 1909 letter from Tacoma's board of park commissioners articulates Wright Park's role in promoting the above values as:
… the only considerable breathing space reserved to the people thronging the central part of this city…where people can get recreation, where children from the congested districts can congregate without danger, and where mothers, nurses and invalids can find a healthful resort during mid-day without being cramped for space or being menaced by shows and their consequent temptations to spend their spare time within the walls of a packed building rather than in the health-giving environments of trees, plants, and flowers.
Critics of the City Beautiful Movement questioned the ability of aesthetics, e.g., beautiful parks and classically inspired plazas, to foster civic virtues. This campaign strove not only to preserve open spaces but to infuse them with a sense of order and aesthetic sensibilities rooted in European classical traditions. Its mission, fostering civic virtues, raises complex questions about the intersection between aesthetics and ethics:
How does (or perhaps simply does) the appropriation of particular aesthetic sensibilities signal and even promulgate shared values? Can flowers, fountains, and trees cultivate good citizens? What role can shared spaces play in promoting affirmative values? Can spouting water foster a sense of renewal?
Works Cited
Marilyn Symmes, ed. Fountains, Splash and Spectacle - Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present. Thames and Hudson. 1998
Melissa McGinnis, Doreen Beard-Simpkins, and the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma. Images of America: Tacoma's Wright Park. Arcadia Publishing. 2008


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Camp NaNo July – Week 1 recap
Well, it's been a week. Yeah, it surprised me, too. I'm not sure whether to call this one a win or loss.
On one hand, I posted three stories this week (none of them from April Camp), but on the other hand, I haven't done much else. I finished editing one April story ("blood"), and I've been editing another ("inside"). I think I'm going to put it away for now because the words are all starting to blur together. I got a lot done, though.
Unfortunately, a lot of editing doesn't always equal a lot of words. My goal was 100 words each day, and I managed to average 93/day. Sounds great except most days were under 100 words. I'll give myself a C-.
I also missed my mark most days on hours editing. I've only done a full hour a couple times. I've come close a few other times, but I'm always interrupted. Or get distracted by shiny things (Tiny Tower = teh devilz). Despite that, I managed to get six hours of editing in over the course of seven days. So, I'll give myself a B on that.
Averaging them together, I get a C+ for the week. Not bad, but could be better.
Total words this week: 653
Total hours editing this week: ~6
Stories posted:
Home Improvement (Stargate SG-1)
Rockets Red Glare (Red Vs. Blue)
Forty Days to Gone (The 100 (TV))

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Art Project in Response to Campbell's Article: Delusions of Dialogue
Our midterm project for the class: Communication with Hybrid Environments is an art piece responding to Jim Campbell's article, "Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art" (pdf found below). Campbell elaborates on some issues that new media artists face when making digital art. He focuses on the limitations of the medium, that life has to be measured in discrete units for the computer to understand.
"an artist is forced to transform a concept, an emotion or an intuition into a logical representation. This is a difficult thing without trivializing the original concept." (134)
How the program interacts with the viewer provides clues into the program and that it also hints at intelligence. Because programs are invisible, viewers will superimpose behavior, motivations, and a goal. All are human characteristics. Campbell emphasizes that for the viewer to understand the concept the artist must predict all the ways in which the viewer can interact with the piece. It is easier to think of all the measurements the program can take and have the viewer choose which measurement they would like. In that sense, as digital artists we must make all measurements of a type available. The example he uses is if the program prompts a typed response, all possible responses have to be included, not just some of them. Lastly, Campbell talks about computer memory. In this section he brings attention to a computer function that is neglected. Computers are more than calculators or databases with strict "data regurgitation". They also interpret sensory input, save the interpretation, and disregard the original data. This ability is a component that allows for change.
"The possibility exist for works that perceivable never repeat themselves. Works that respond to their environment not just in a short-term way, but in a long-term way, unpredictable and meaningfully." (135)
A computer can operate beyond its human-coded instructions. As digital artists we need to understand all the functions and advantages of working with this medium. The potentials for expression are greater than ever. The reason being that the medium was made with human desires in mind. We live in a mutualistic relationship with this machine. Our art can change over time, it can react to us in real time, we can give it the ability to choose. The range for human expression using the computer has increased exponentially. As digital artists we should know the subtle but immense power is has.
The response project is going to include my two favorite themes: neuro-anatomy and nostalgia. Using a range of sensors (close-capacitance and touch) and data types(images, audio, static shock) the art piece will connect different parts of the brain with different types of generic memories. We will make it so that the responses overlap and also have some random behavior. This aspect mimics the brain's ability to think of two things at once and its ability to recall seemingly random material. Inspiration for this project comes from scientific discoveries in psychology and neurobiology which are making us understand how little we currently know about the mind. It is ironic that despite living in our bodies for our entire life, we are repeatedly amazed with its inner workings. Our life is but a process of self-discovery.


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Many years ago, a friend who is also a physicist like me, visited me and we talked about a few matters. When he told me that he began learning Excel, I knew I could impress him. I told him that I use Excel a lot and added: "Do you want to see how easy it is to create beats with Excel?".
Beats are a dear and well studied subject among physicists, so his answer was the obvious one.
I opened Excel (here I will provide a screenshot using a much newer version of Excel) and created 4 columns. The first column contained the numbers 0, 0.1, 0,2 and so on. The first cell of the second column contained the formula = SIN(A1), which I copied down. The first cell of the third column contained the formula = SIN(A1*0.9), which I copied down. The first cell of the fourth column contained the formula = B1+C1, which I copied down.
I considered the first column as containing the angle in radians. I considered the second column as containing the first sine wave. I considered the third column as containing the second sine wave, with a frequency close to the frequency of the first sine wave. I choose 0.9 as the coefficient. I could have chosen 1.1, or 0.09, or 1.01, etc. I considered the fourth column to be the sum of the two sine waves. So, the fourth column represented a beat, because a beat is the sum of two sine waves that have similar (but not exactly equal) frequencies.
For the coefficient and angle step that I chose, I found that with 2000 rows of data, I could nicely get a few periods of the beat.
I plotted each of the second, third, and forth columns, showing my friend each sine wave and the beat. I also plotted them all three in the same graph. At the end, I plotted the two sine waves together and I plotted the beat using the same scale (graph width) underneath the graph of the sine waves. This demonstrated the beat really nicely:
My friend was impressed.


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Lazy lady snack attack
Well, the slow abandonment of our place downtown didn't happen. The night after I made that statement we started deconstructing furniture, cleaning out cabinets that needed cleaning out two years ago, and cramming the majority of our apartment into as few boxes as we could. Later the next day (after a four hour closing that usually takes 45 minutes) we rented a moving truck, schlepped the poorly packaged contents of our apartment into said truck in the pouring rain, drove across town, and then unloaded everything, assembly line-style, to our new place. Still in the pouring rain. The next morning I was up at 5AM, unpacking boxes as quietly as I could and by nighttime we were settled into a new space that still doesn't feel like home. Which I contribute to the fact that A) the apartment is much larger than we originally thought, meaning we need to acquire more things just to fill it out and B,C,D) there are no photos on the walls, my baking pans are strewn about the spare room, and my weights are still holding down the old fort because I figured if we're going to pay for that place until mid-June, I may as well turn it into a gym with a view.
While I'm here - which seems to be a rarity these days - I feel it's worth mentioning that my distance from this space has been completely intentional based solely on the fact that my writing has bored the shit out of me, lately. If you could see the accumulation of bullshit I've piled into Microsoft Word documents you'd probably cringe at the lackluster reflection, repetitiveness, and overall carelessness of my sentence structure. It's the real reason I put a password on my laptop because I would be truly mortified if anyone got ahold of that thing and read the couple hundred pages of garbage I've got stashed in a folder I recently named Psychobabble. Garbage that, now that I think about it, may have a lot to do with my ratio of read non-fiction:unread fiction because more than a few months ago I replaced Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, and Arundhati Roy with Alan Weisman, Vandana Shiva, and a bunch of other scholarly environmentally-minded folks who, although are influencing and broadening my knowledge surrounding many of the issues I study (issues I don' talk about here because who really wants to listen to me ramble about the demographic transition or carbon sequestration?), do not cover topics that evoke emotions conducive to writing anything heart-felt or poetic. Hashtag-longest-run-on-sentence-ever. My high school English teacher would be proud.
Since I'm lacking confidence in my ability to produce anything even remotely enjoyable (although I'm sure a quick fix would be to reread The Unbearable Lightness of Being), I figured I'd distract you with snacks because snacking is one of my favorite past times. Right behind procrastinating and reorganizing the bookshelf. And running the food processor at 6AM because WAKE UP, THOM! While most pre-made snacks tend to be tooth-achingly sweet, I wanted to throw together a few that aren't completely terrible for you. Ones that also require minimal preparation time because when I want a snack, I wanted it five minutes ago. And you probably did, too.
Notes: If you're going to make both the banana bites and the crunch bark, I recommend just melting the total amount of chocolate together, submerging 3-4 bananas, then using the leftover chocolate to make your bark; two tofurkies with one stone! And if you can save a bit of the chocolate, dipping the bottom of each macaroon would be a really delicious move. If you're making the macaroons and don't have coconut flour, you can use an additional 2/3 cup of shredded coconut but really you should try to get your hands on coconut flour. Try hard. If you'd prefer something a bit more moist, increase the liquid by up to two tablespoons. There are rather dry, but I prefer them that way. And because I think it's totally ok to play favorites: If you've only got time for one of these recipes, I'm on team maple macaroons. Just sayin'.
I made this recipe for eHow a couple of weeks ago and you can find it here. For the toppings I used a combination of toasted buckwheat, coconut (shredded and flaked), cacao nibs, hemp hearts, raw almonds, and goji berries, but I think toasted quinoa or crushed pretzel sticks would also be a delicious addition. My favorite way to eat them is just after the chocolate has set, but just before the bananas have completely frozen because my semi-sensitive teeth are not fans of frozen bananas.
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1/2 cup coconut flour 1 cup raw almonds 1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped Small pinch of fine sea salt 1/4 cup Grade B maple syrup3 tbsp almond milk
Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside. In a food processor fitted with the S blade, blend the shredded coconut, coconut flour, almonds, vanilla bean, and sea salt into a fine meal. Add the maple syrup and almond milk and blend just until mixture starts to come together. Using a 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie scoop, drop the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes. Once firm, transfer macaroons to an air tight container. Cookies will keep frozen for up to six weeks, but I doubt they'll last that long.
Yield: 20-22 macaroons
3 oz good quality dark chocolate 2 tsp unrefined coconut oil 2 tbsp raw pumpkin seeds, divided 2 tbsp toasted buckwheat, divided 1 tbsp goji berries
Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside. In a double-boiler over medium heat (or a microwave, if that's your jam), melt the chocolate and coconut oil. Once melted, stir in 1 tablespoon of the pumpkin seeds and 1 tablespoon of the buckwheat. Pour onto prepared baking sheet and top with remaining pumpkin seeds and buckwheat, as well as the goji berries. Transfer sheet to freezer to set for about 15 minutes. Once frozen, break into pieces and store in the freezer for up to six weeks.
Yield: 4 servings


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Topic Page: Michigan
State in north-central USA, situated in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, consisting of two peninsular masses separated by the Straits of Mackinac; the mitten-shaped, north–south-oriented Lower Peninsula is bordered to the south by Ohio and Indiana, by Lake Michigan to the west, and to the north and east by lakes Huron, Erie, and Saint Clair, and the Detroit and St Clair rivers; the east–west-oriented Upper Peninsula is bordered to the south by Wisconsin, by Lake Superior to the north, by Ontario, Canada, to the northeast, across St Mary's River and by Lake Michigan to the south; area 147,122 sq km/56,804 sq mi; population (2010) 9,883,640 (Michigan was the only state whose population fell 2000–2010); capital Lansing. Michigan's nickname, the Wolverine State, is thought to date back to a land border dispute with Ohio, when Ohioans described Michiganians as 'vicious as wolverines'. It is also called the Great Lakes State, bordering four of the five Great Lakes and home to more than 11,000 inland lakes. During the 20th century Michigan's largest city, Detroit, became the car capital of the world, known as the Motor City, or Motown. The name Motown became synonymous with a distinct rhythm and blues music. Steel production and agriculture, particularly corn and fruit, are also important economically. Other major cities include Grand Rapids, Warren, Flint, Sterling Heights, and Ann Arbor. Before pioneer settlement, Michigan was home to the Algonquian-speaking American Indians and Huron peoples. Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837 as the 26th US state.
Physical Michigan is the 11th largest state in the USA and contains two natural land regions: the Superior Upland, a subsection of the Canadian Shield; and the Central Lowland, a subdivision of the Interior Plains.
The Superior Upland, found in the western half of the Upper Peninsula, is rough and forested, marked by low mountain ranges including the Gogebic, Porcupine, Menominee, and Huron. The state's highest point is Mount Arvon (604 m/1,980 ft) in Baraga County. The region is known for its Precambrian rock, the result of repeated glacial attacks removing sedimentary deposits and leaving exposed ancient granite and metamorphic rock. The Keweenaw Peninsula, jutting northward into Lake Superior, is Michigan's main copper-ore-bearing region.
The Central Lowland region covers the entire Lower Peninsula and the eastern section of the Upper Peninsula. The Upper Peninsula contains vast swamp areas, created by glacier movement that disrupted the land drainage. Sandstone tablelands are found along the Lake Superior shore. The Lower Peninsula is mostly level, with gently rolling hills and further to the north a tableland dotted by hills. The average elevation is 270 m/886 ft above sea level. Along the western shore extends a vast expanse of sand dunes sculpted by punishing winds blowing off Lake Michigan.
One of Michigan's most notable land formations is the Niagara Escarpment, featuring a visible ledge of limestone hills that runs along the southern edge of the Upper Peninsula. Unlike other cliff formations, the Escarpment is a cuesta (a large ridge created by the erosion of dipping sedimentary rocks, with one steep side and one gently sloping side), not a geological fault. The Niagara Escarpment is traceable from the Niagara River to the northern coast of Michigan, forming the spine of Ontario's Bruce Peninsula.
Michigan's rivers are not among the primary rivers in the USA, most being too shallow and narrow to navigate. The Ontonagon River is the largest in the Superior Upland region and empties into Lake Superior. Main rivers on the Lower Peninsula include the Saginaw and Au Sable rivers, which flow into Lake Huron, and the Muskegon, Grand, St Joseph, Kalamazoo, and Manistee rivers, which drain into Lake Michigan. The Detroit, St Clair, and St Mary's rivers provide vital links between lakes Superior, Huron, and Erie.
The climate of the state is influenced by its proximity to the lake shores; the counties closest to the shore have a moderate climate and experience tempering lake winds that warm the winters and cool the summers. Interior counties have a continental climate, characterized by four distinct seasons. Because Michigan extends nearly six latitudinal degrees, the average annual temperature of the Lower Peninsula is ten degrees higher than the Upper Peninsula. The coastal strip along Lake Michigan experiences what is known as the 'lake effect', an unusually large amount of snowfall from westerly storm fronts moving across the water.
Animals indigenous to the area include the black bear, antlered moose, elk, deer, porcupines, opossums, beaver, muskrat, mink, and raccoon. Fish found in the many lakes and rivers include chub, whitefish, salmon, perch, crappie, trout, and herring. The partridge, quail, grouse, and wild turkey are the principal birds in the region.
Features The Upper Peninsula has been connected to the rest of the state since 1957 by the 8-km/5-mi Mackinac Bridge. Located between the peninsulas is Mackinac Island, almost all of which is a state park. Motor vehicles are not allowed on the island and visitors can walk through its Victorian village and explore Old Fort Mackinac, a former British stronghold. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore runs along the shore of Lake Superior for 64 km/40 mi and features waterfalls, colour-drenched sandstone cliffs tinted by the minerals in the water, beaches, dunes, and wildlife. The landscapes in the Porcupine Mountains and the waterfalls of the fast-moving Tahquamenon River are also significant features.
The Keweenaw Peninsula, the source of much of the world's copper from the 1840s until the 1960s, is home to the Arcadian Copper Mine, Delaware Copper Mine, Coppertown USA, and the Victorian town of Callumat. Nearby, the Isle Royale National Park encompasses the largest island in Lake Superior and features a wilderness archipelago 72 km/45 mi long and 14 km/9 mi wide in parts, the North Woods forest, rugged shorelines, historic lighthouses and shipwrecks, and ancient copper-mining sites. Fayette Historic State Park features a restored iron-smelting town (1867–91).
The highest sand dunes outside the Sahara Desert are found at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Saugatuck is an old-fashioned harbour village that has long attracted artists. The Sanilac Petroglyphs in Bad Axe, located on the thumb tip of the Lower Peninsula's mitten, are prehistoric rock drawings etched in sandstone. The sand dunes along Lake Michigan's shoreline contain more than 16,000 sq km/6,000 sq mi of parks, wildlife habitats, and forests.
Michigan's 11,000 lakes range in size from small bodies of water to the largest lake, Houghton. The state also has about 500 islands.
Culture The city of Detroit once dominated the cultural life of Michigan, but much of its cosmopolitan life now extends into the surrounding suburbs. The metropolitan area is home to some of Michigan's most important cultural possessions, including the Detroit Institute of Arts (1885) and the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village at Dearborn. The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Muskegon Museum of Art all own major art collections. The Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing presents the state's history from pre-contact times through the 1970s and is particularly well known for its military and American Indian memorabilia. The SS Keewatin near Saugatuck is a vintage passenger steamboat converted into a maritime museum.
Michigan's population is culturally diverse. The city of Holland celebrates its heritage each spring with the Tulip Time Festival. Major Dutch attractions include Windmill Island's imported Dutch Windmill (dating from 1761), Dutch Village, Veldheer Tulip Gardens, and DeKlomp Wooden Shoe and Delft Factory. The annual Bavarian Festival in Frankenmuth attracts thousands of tourists. Traverse City hosts the National Cherry Festival, while the Interlochen Arts Camp, the world's oldest art camp (1928), is held annually at Interlochen.
Michigan's pubic university system includes the prestigious University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Michigan State University at East Lansing.
Outdoor life dominates the physical culture. Michigan has developed a thriving tourist industry because of its extensive shoreline, lakes, and rugged northern features. Skiing, swimming, hiking, fishing, and hunting are some of the popular activities. The state's professional sports teams include the Tigers (baseball), Pistons (basketball), Lions (American football), and Red Wings (ice hockey).
GovernmentMichigan's state constitution The first constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention of 1835 and ratified by the people later that year. Two subsequent constitutions were ratified in 1850 and 1908. The state constitution was revised in 1964 to streamline procedures and facilitate a more rapid response to economic challenges.
Structure of state government Michigan's legislative powers are vested in a two-chamber full-time legislature, comprising a 38-member Senate, elected to four-year terms, and a 110-member House of Representatives, elected to two-year terms. Population of districts determines representation in the House: representatives are elected from districts with populations of approximately 77,000 to 91,000; senators are elected from districts with populations of approximately 212,000 to 263,500. Michigan sends 14 representatives and two senators to the US Congress and has 16 electoral votes in presidential elections.
Voters elect a governor and lieutenant governor as a team to serve four-year terms, with a two-term limit. Republican Rick Snyder took the governorship in January 2011. A secretary of state and attorney general are also elected to a four-year term. Other appointed statewide officials include the treasurer, auditor general, superintendent of public instruction, and commissioner of insurance. The constitution provides for voter initiatives and referenda. A seven-member supreme court heads the judicial system. Each justice is elected for eight-year terms via popular ballot; one is elected to a two-year term by the court to serve as chief justice. The court of appeals consists of 28 judges elected on a nonpartisan ballot for six-year terms. The state is divided into judicial districts, within which the 57 circuit courts are the courts of general jurisdiction. A statewide system of district courts has replaced justices of the peace and most municipal courts.
The state is divided into 83 counties, each governed by its own board of commissioners. Some towns and cities elect county representatives; others appoint them. Detroit has a mayor and a city council; other cities are governed by city managers.
Economy Early European settlers plied the fur trade by transporting pelts between Great Lakes trading posts and Québec. The furs were exported to Europe, where fur was considered a luxury item. French forts became busy trading centres, exporting animal furs such as beaver, otter, fox, mink, and wolf.
Mining and lumber became the primary state industries during the middle of the 19th century. As the Industrial Revolution took hold, however, the economy of the state became more dependent on the car industry. While at the end of the 20th century the car industry still accounted for one-third of all manufacturing income, the state has continued to expand its manufacturing base to attract high-tech information technology companies and to build its service sector. Other manufactures include electrical machinery, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Michigan has coal, oil, and natural gas resources, while iron ore remains its leading non-fuel mineral commodity by production value. Other important resources are salt, stone, sand and gravel, magnesium compounds, and potash.
The state's fertile soil makes it prime agricultural land. Corn and dry beans are its chief vegetables. The state is well known for its fruits, particularly cherries and apples. Christmas trees are also important to the economy.
Tourism in Michigan is thriving, as is the music industry, particularly in the Detroit area.
HistoryIndigenous inhabitants Michigan's first people were the Paleo-Indian nomadic tribes. Their arrival in the area dates back to 11000 BC when, in search of food, they moved north as the glaciers retreated. Around 4000 BC, the Archaic people mined copper along the Upper Peninsula, and by 2500 BC the Woodland culture had developed elaborate crafts and cultivation techniques.
The American Indian culture that existed when European explorers arrived in the 1600s evolved from these early inhabitants, along with tribes that moved from the North American eastern coast. The Chippewa, the Ottawa, and the Potawatomi were the predominant tribes of the territory, sharing the Algonquian language and a common culture and referring to themselves as the 'Three Fires'.
French exploration and settlement In 1618, the French explorer Etienne Brulé and his team paddled in canoes across Lake Huron and up the St Mary's River until they reached rapids, the present-day Soo Locks near Sault Ste Marie. In 1634, Jean Nicolet was the first European to pass through the Straits of Mackinac. The most famous explorer of the time, Father Jacques Marquette, established the first permanent settlement at Sault Ste Marie in 1668 and another at St Ignace in 1671. During the same year, France proclaimed the sovereignty of King Louis XIV over the area, as part of New France. In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French army officer, convinced Louis XIV that a French settlement at le détroit, the waterway between lakes Saint Clair and Erie, would strengthen France's control over the upper Great Lakes and deter British encroachment in the area. He subsequently built Fort Pontchartrain, which later became known as Detroit. In 1715, Fort Michilimackinac, overlooking the Straits of Mackinac, served as a commercial and military depot. Despite these defences, the French lost the territory to the British during the French and Indian War.
British reign British control of the area created resentment from the American Indian tribes, who preferred the French. Many Americans Indians were forced off their lands as the British moved westward and occupied the territory. In 1763, several tribes united under the leadership of Ottawa Chief Pontiac and attacked British posts from Pennsylvania to Lake Superior, capturing most of them. They kept Detroit under siege for five months but eventually withdrew when the French ceded the territory to the British.
The British, however, failed to hold onto the territory, ceding present-day Michigan to the USA as part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution in 1783. Under the terms of the agreement, a boundary between the USA and Canada was drawn through the middle of the Great Lakes and connecting bodies of water, with the exception of Isle Royale which was awarded to the USA. The British remained in Detroit and Fort Mackinac until the end of the 18th century. The War of 1812 saw more fighting in Michigan, when the two countries fought for possession of Detroit and Fort Mackinac. The territory was restored to the USA under the terms of the Treaty of Ghent (1814).
Political and economic development After the British ceded the territory, Michigan, then known as Wayne County, became part of the Northwest Territory. Settlement gained momentum after the Erie Canal (1825) facilitated westward movement on the Great Lakes. In the 1830s many New Englanders arrived, followed by Europeans, among them Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, and Irish.
By 1834, Michigan's population reached the minimum (60,000) required for statehood. Its request for statehood was delayed by the Toledo War of 1835 and 1836, fought with bordering Ohio residents, in which both states claimed ownership of land around Toledo. Michigan was granted statehood the following year. An Upper Peninsula copper boom (1840s), the growth of the lumber industry, and the opening (1855) of canals at Sault Ste Marie fostered further economic development.
Michigan played an active role for the North in the American Civil War. Many fugitives from the Underground Railroad were harboured there while awaiting freedom in neighbouring Canada. Michigan moved from an agricultural society to an industrial state following the Civil War, upping its manufacturing output by 300% by 1880.
20th-century history The most important single development in Michigan's economic fortune was Henry Ford's establishment of the moving assembly line in 1913–14. This revolutionary process made Detroit the motor-vehicle production capital of the world. Since then the state's fortunes have been closely tied to the fortunes of the motor industry, prospering in the 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s, but badly damaged by the Great Depression of the 1930s and competition from lower-cost manufacturers in Japan and the South since the 1970s.
The state faced several crises in the 1970s and 1980s, with race riots destroying parts of Detroit, crime on the increase, and desegregation in schools bitterly enforced. In 1973, widespread contamination was caused by the inadvertent mixing of PBB (polybrominated biphenyl), a flame-retardant chemical, with livestock feed. In the 1990s, fiscal reforms were introduced that turned the state budget round from a US$2 million deficit to a $1 billion surplus.
21st century The state was hit again by recession in the early years of the century, and in July 2013 the city of Detroit formally filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest municipal collapse in US financial history.
Politically, Democrats have held the upper hand in state politics since the 1930s. In 2003 the state elected its first female governor, the Democrat Jennifer Granholm.
Famous peoplesport George Gipper (1895–1920), American football player; Joe Louis (1914–1981), boxer; Sugar Ray Robinson (1920–1989), boxer; Earvin 'Magic' Johnson (1959– ), basketball player
the arts Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), impressionist painter; Ring Lardner (1885–1933), short-story writer; M F K Fisher (1908–1992), food writer; Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), poet; Charlton Heston (1924–2008), actor; Bill Haley (1925–1981), musician; Philip Levine (1928– ), poet; Berry Gordy (1929– ), record producer; Ellen Burstyn (1932– ), actor; Francis Ford Coppola (1939– ), film director; Diana Ross (1944– ), singer; David Small (1944– ) illustrator; Tom Selleck (1945– ) actor; Stevie Wonder (1950– ), singer and songwriter; Terry McMillan (1951– ), novelist and editor; Madonna (1958– ), pop singer;
science Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), aviator; Glenn Seaborg (1912–1999), Nobel Prize-winning chemist; Claude Shannon (1916–2001), mathematician
society and education Bertha Van Hoosen (1863–1952), cofounder of American Medical Women's Association
economics Henry Ford (1863–1947), car manufacturer; William E Boeing (1881–1956), aircraft company founder; W K Kellogg (1860–1951), food products manufacturer
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With such an intensely exciting week of architecture and design—like being a kid in a candy store—, it's hard to know where to begin.
Dubai Design Week's popular exhibition Abwab showcased entirely new work from designers and studios from Algeria, Bahrain, India, Iraq, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates; an excellent starting point.
Rawan Kashkoush, Creative Director of Abwab stated in a press release: "The Abwab pavilions are a microcosm of diversity each year, showcasing design in a format that brings the region closer together."
Abwab was housed in a pavilion cluster designed by architects Meitha Al Mazrooi, Hatem Hatem and Fortuné Penniman of UAE-based architectural practice A Hypothetical Office. The architects chose to make the pavilions from a re-appropriated greenhouse structure to form a 'housh' or courtyard, a playful nod to Arab neighborhood nostalgia that is both enclosed and permeable.
Named after the Arabic word for 'doors', the Abwab initiative is dedicated to exploring the design narrative of countries within the MENASA region. This year, emerging and established graphic designers, product designers, photographers and architects from above-mentioned countries responded to the theme of 'The Human Senses,' by creating their own individual pavilion.
All six very appealing, but the Palestine pavilion brought reflection on a beloved material. Olive wood carving represents a third of the artisanal industry in Bethlehem, but cheap imports and mass customization are threatening this 16th century tradition. French-Palestinian architects Elias Anastas and Yousef Anastas have created an innovative olive wood structure in the Palestine pavilion that celebrates the imperfections of the olive wood master carvers' craft.
Check out designMENA's exploration of the Abwab pavilions.


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Ok, so it's Thursday, but I have a good one. Especially for you fellow Office fans
Can you tell I love this show? I don't know how I would get through my Thursdays without it.
June 11, 2009
Ok, so it's Thursday, but I have a good one. Especially for you fellow Office fans
Can you tell I love this show? I don't know how I would get through my Thursdays without it.
May 13, 2009
President Obama strikes Hilarious Hump Day yet again!! Only because adults (or really anyone, for that matter) shouldn't use the word "hizzy"–no one talks like that anymore. He gets a pass on the "wazzup," but it's still funny to hear him say it. Oh, Barack, you've made my day! What a breath of fresh air to have an intelligent, young, funny, more than capable man as our president. Check out the video below
May 13, 2009
April 29, 2009
Today marks President Obama's 100th day in office. I don't know why there is so much hype over the first 100 days, but I'm glad he is the one doing the job! Could he be any cooler?
I love it at 0:32 ("Not you!") Lol!
Also, I have some cute pictures of Amber's baby girl, Miss Tuesday (yes Amber, I'm jacking pictures from your blog) She's just too cute to pass up!!
April 15, 2009
The only funny thing about this video is Simon at 4:04
Otherwise, this is inspirational and amazing and I hope she wins!!
Britain's Got Talent
April 8, 2009
Kids = cute.
Kids dancing? = can be pretty cute and funny.
This red-headed kid's moves?! = HILARIOUS!
March 25, 2009
I know it's Hilarious Hump Day, but I don't have any video for today. Send me your favorite funny video and I'll post it.
Not only is it Hilarious Hump Day, but it's my birthday! My co-workers brought in donuts, bagels, cheesecake and ice cream. So basically I'll be on a sugar high all day. Tonight I'm making spaghetti for dinner (my favorite). This weekend, Grant and I might go out with Allison and Dan to celebrate both my birthday and Grant's. Allison has been traveling (she's the head athletic trainer at UVM), and she is finally home this weekend after being away a lot recently and she wants to take us out.
My mom always asks me the same question every year on my birthday: "So, do you feel ____ (however years old I was turning) ?" Some birthdays I did, like the extremely significant ones (16, 18, 21). It doesn't quite feel like my birthday yet because time just seems to be flying by. I can't believe my age sometimes–I still feel like I'm in my early 20s. Geez, I'm not in my early 20s anymore…when did that all happen?? Time really does fly when you're having fun. I may not feel 28, but I do know that this will be a great year. God has truly blessed me in my life: I have a good job, I have the most wonderful man to share my life with, I have great family and friends, and I've never been more confident and comfortable in my own skin. Yup, 28 is going to be a fabulous year!


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Without man, without his presence, the world will not become a landscape, just as space itself is not place, but only becomes it through thought and spirit – i.e. understanding. It is understanding that transforms a space into a place, understanding that permits living, as Heidegger wrote. Landscape is a record of that transformation, of the process of bcoming at home in the world; a record that we have learned to "read".
Today the list of fields that have turned their attention to landscape is a very long one: from geography, art history and photography, and aesthetics, through ecology, landscape architecture and cultural studies, to research into memory, cultural heritage, and even law and economics – which is proof of the success of the recently passed "Landscape Act".
The landscape is the environment of the life and activity of humankind. It is also image, memory, and a way of seeing the world. It is material for art and the substance of memory. In this issue of Herito we want to show the variety of its manifestations and the diversity of considerations in researching it. For it is through thinking that we create landscape.
In the issue:
- Maciej Czerwiński, Juraj Čorba, Uwe Rada, Elżbieta Rybicka, Janusz Sepioł, Tadeusz Sławek, Magdalena Zych look at the changing relations between humans and landscape,
- Monika Rydiger i Łukasz Galusek discuss landscape as an artistic fabric,
- Magdalena Petryna profiles the BWA gallery in Tarnów,
- Łukasz Galusek, Peter Míchalik, Kinga Migalska, Katarzyna Kotyńska, Wojciech Wilczyk, Michał Wiśniewski recommend important books and exhibitions,
- Mileta Prodanović deciphers the palimpsest that is Belgrade's cityscape and the changes to it in the last decade of the 20th century,
- Michał Książek on reading a forest.


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New York Theatre Intensives 2014 Anthology of Short Plays and Monologues
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This collection of monologues and short plays from the 2014 class of NY Theatre Intensives was developed in New York City as part of NYTI's 6-week summer program focusing on new plays and the collaborative process. A perfect volume for students and professionals alike, it features the talents of 13 new writers from across the country.
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"Know thyself," Socrates said. Luckily I do. As far as I can remember, I am what I already am ever since, wherever I am. I have taken several personality tests, DISC included. One thing is common, I belong to the meditative and intuitive types – the people who talk less and think more.
I used to question myself why do certain people dislike me when I even treat them nicely. The answer is simple – sometimes it's not me, it's them; not because they are bad but they just do not quite understand me. At first I took it personally. I kept on asking what must I do to be liked and accepted by many? I envy those bubbly type, those life of the party. But I could not also imagine myself acting the way they do. It's not just me at all. Later, when I had fully soaked up into my deeper self I slowly understood everything. The mistakes I have done in the past concerning my attitudes, fears and performances were mostly due to who I am and not because I was born a failure. I was not that good at everything because I am good at some things that others have the difficulty doing. The catch was, I just have to accept who I am because that is the best of me. Others may not accept me for what I am, but I just have to accept that fact and allow others to be themselves and respect their preferences.
One personality test results say, women of my personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the population. The word rare flattered me. I don't know if it's true. But honestly, I have not found a single friend who has the same interests and likes as me in my forty-one years of existence. It may sound embarrassing, but I do not have that best of buddy whom I can share every single thought I have. I am not selective. Perhaps, I just could not connect that easily with someone. I am married, yes. I go well with my husband. But he could not delve deep into my thoughts and musings no matter how much I try to bring him there. He just accepts me as I am which I am so thankful for.
Have you in your life feel that you are swimming in a deep ocean, so deep no one is there except you because others are swimming on the surface? That is what I feel. I feel I am swimming deep, deep down there, alone. However, in this place I am not lonely. I am at peace. Whether I am alone or not does not matter. I am just me.
When I was perhaps, five years old I loved to look beyond the trees and the clouds and wondered what was beyond there. At night I looked into the dark skies and wondered what's beyond there. In my teens I asked, 'what's beyond the universe? What's beyond God?' One time I asked, 'what if there's nothing beyond earthly life?' That was when I stopped asking those questions because nothingness seemed to hold me breathless.
This is the expanse of my pensive mind. This is the reason why other people find me uninteresting; because an expensive dress for one does not matter a thing for me. I may appreciate but I don't crave.
One time someone commented how boring my life is. Oh, if he just know how beautiful my mind lives. I am not perfect; but my mind opens me to see perfect things that sometimes no one seems to see. My boss considered me passive. If she just know how active my inner world is. It is perhaps, the pensive mind operates in the beyond earth existence, timeless and boundless. If the extroverts are the breathe of life, we are the depth of it.
I am not saying other personality types are less interesting. We are all interesting. We are all created with gifts. It is these gifts that we should lay on the table before we should bid goodbye to this amazing world. No matter what type we are, as long as we accept what we are, and live our best self regardless of people's expectations, we contribute beauty to our amazing planet. Take that from the pensive mind.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission will examine the brokerage industry for potential violations in the way companies handle customer cash after the regulator reached a $415 million settlement with Bank of America. The S.E.C. found the bank's Merrill Lynch to have misused billions of dollars of client money to finance its own trades.
The settlement, announced on Thursday along with an unrelated $10 million disclosure violation, is the second-largest against a Wall Street company after Goldman Sachs paid $550 million in 2010 over the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis. Unlike Goldman Sachs, however, Merrill Lynch admitted to the violations announced on Thursday.
The S.E.C. said Merrill Lynch misused as much as $5 billion in customer cash weekly from 2009 to 2012, making complex options trades that generated $50 million in profits for the company over that period. In the process, the bank failed to safeguard customer assets that could have been jeopardized in the event the company failed.
That is not a minor concern. The activity in question, which began before Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch in January 2009, coincides with the height of the financial crisis. Merrill Lynch's merger with Bank of America came as the bank faced steep losses; Bank of America would eventually receive $45 billion in government bailout money.
The settlement is the largest against a company over the customer protection rule.
The S.E.C. also said on Thursday that Merrill Lynch improperly put as much as $58 billion of customer cash daily into accounts that were subject to liens from clearing banks. That money was also at risk had Merrill Lynch failed. The activity ran from 2009 until last year, when the S.E.C. said it notified the bank of the issue.
"The rules concerning the safety of customer cash and securities are fundamental protections for investors and impose lines that simply can never be crossed," said Andrew J. Ceresney, the S.E.C.'s director of enforcement.
Though customers did not lose money, the enormous exposure to risk brought on such steep penalties, Mr. Ceresney said.
"Merrill Lynch violated these rules, including during the heart of the financial crisis, and the significant relief imposed today reflects the severity of its failures," he said.
Under the customer protection rule, brokerage firms are supposed to hold customer cash in a reserve account, separate from other firm assets. This is an expensive rule for banks because they cannot use that idle money for other activities, but it is in place to protect customer assets and make them accessible to customers in a crisis. Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008 left brokerage customers unable to recover billions of dollars of assets for months if not years.
"While no customers were harmed and no losses were incurred, our responsibility is to protect customer assets and we have dedicated significant resources to reviewing and enhancing our processes," Merrill Lynch said in a statement. "The issues related to our procedures and controls have been corrected. We have cooperated fully with the S.E.C. staff throughout this investigation."
The S.E.C. says Merrill Lynch created complex options trades that lacked economic substance but had the effect of reducing the amount of money it needed to set aside in the customer reserve account. That freed money for the bank in what amounted to interest-free loans from customer funds.
A newly hired executive raised questions about the trades in April 2012, and Merrill Lynch discontinued them after a review, Mr. Ceresney said in a call with reporters on Thursday. But Merrill Lynch did not tell regulators about its decision to stop the trades, a failure of transparency that made its penalties in the case more severe, he said.
The agency will begin a review of other brokerage firms to unearth potential misuses of customer funds, though the S.E.C. says it is encouraging firms to come forward with information by offering leniency.
Merrill Lynch is paying $50 million in disgorgement of the profits from the trades, another $7 million in interest and a $358 million penalty.
The S.E.C. also announced a case against William Tirrell, who was Merrill Lynch's chief of regulatory reporting when the violations occurred. He faces an administrative hearing over accusations that he failed to adequately monitor the trades and provide information about them to regulators.
His lawyer, Steven M. Witzel of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, said in an emailed statement: "While we are disappointed that the S.E.C. filed this action, Mr. Tirrell looks forward to the opportunity to vindicate himself at trial."
Mr. Ceresney would not say how the S.E.C. first discovered Merrill's activities, but a New York lawyer sent out a statement on Thursday saying he represented several former Bank of America employees who had been whistle-blowers in the case.
Separately, Merrill Lynch will pay $10 million to settle S.E.C. claims that it sold complex securities to 4,000 investors in 2010 and 2011 with inadequate disclosures. The bank sold $150 million of the securities, called structured notes. It did not admit to wrongdoing in this case. It paid $5 million to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which helped investigate the case.
In October, the S.E.C. announced its first structured note settlement with UBS, which agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle charges that it made false or misleading statements and omissions in its sale of the products to investors.


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Stay in a traditional home built without nails, and sample Japan's version of moonshine
In the shadow of Mt. Hakusan, Shirakawa-go is rightly famous as one of Gifu's must-visit destinations. Recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, this beautiful traditional village is undoubtedly the definition of picture postcard perfect.
Don't Miss
- Scenery reminiscent of Japan's long history
- The museum dedicated to silk, the area's biggest export
How to Get There
Shirakawa-go is best accessed by bus from JR Takayama.
From Nagoya and Gifu take the JR Takayama Line to Takayama. Buses to Shirakawa-go leave from the Takayama Bus Center and take around 50 minutes.
Start at Ogimachi
The focal point of Shirakawa-go is Ogimachi, a hamlet of gassho-zukuri style houses. Tall and narrow, with thatched roofs that slope steeply to the ground – a necessity during the heavy snowfalls of the winter – the name gassho-zukuri literally means "like praying hands."
Each house is a masterpiece of carpentry. They are built without nails — every beam slots neatly into the next. The structure is so sound that these houses have stood since the 1800s, even in this earthquake-prone nation.
Slip into the past
Many of the buildings have been turned into museums, explaining the history of the region, the special architectural style and features, and some of the key industries of Shirakawa-go. Several of these homes are guesthouses that offer lodging.
Just walking through the streets, breathing in the wood smoke, will transport you back to pre-modern Japan. Climb up to the Shirayama observatory and look out over the village – the view is a window into a disappeared past.
Gassho-zukuri Minkaen
This outdoor museum recreates a village. It features functional buildings such as storerooms and a temple, as well as the ubiquitous houses. Here, you can see demonstrations of local crafts, some of which you can have a go at. There are restaurants and souvenir shops, making it an excellent place to rest weary legs.
Doburoku Festival
Doburoku is the local tipple, a form of sake so popular that the autumn festival is built around it. Doburoku is an unfiltered sake that is a bit like moonshine – a "home" brew that is illegal to produce in all but a few designated special zones.
In mid-October, you can partake of the drink while watching performances of the Shishi-mai lion dance. The rest of the year the Doburoku Matsuri Hall can teach you all you need to know.
Keeping house
Some of the houses are still residences and are therefore understandably closed to the public. Others however are open and are definitely worth checking out.
The Wada House is right by the bus stop, in the centre of Ogimachi, surrounded by a perfect Japanese garden.
The Kanda House is believed to be more than 150 years old and contains writing on the roof frame by the original carpenter from about 1850.
The Nagase House was home to a family of doctors and a display of Edo Period (1603-1867) medical equipment is fascinating and troublesome in equal measure.
Tajima House Museum of Silk Culture
Silk farming was one of the main industries in pre-modern Shirakawa-go and this museum explains the history and process. The Tajima House is actually dedicated to reviving the traditional silk farming industry.
Myozenji Temple Museum
Sadly no longer in use, the monk's residence beside the main temple has been turned into a museum of the temple's history since 1748. The temple itself is home to a large Buddha, and the bell tower and nearby yew tree are redolent of ancient Japan.
Glorious four seasons
Shirakawa-go rewards return visits, as the shifting seasons bring out different aspects of the town. From the bright cherry blossom through the verdant summer, the fiery autumn leaves and the silent, white winter, Shirakawa-go always looks splendid.
You can cover most of Shirakawa-go in a couple of hours, but to really soak in the atmosphere, imagine the timelessness of life in rural Japan, and lose the stress of contemporary living, you will need longer. Staying overnight in one of the lodging houses is highly recommended, but you will need to book in advance.


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Up to this point I have been keeping this site as a blog. I enjoy writing to share with you my thoughts, news, and works in-progress. Now, though, it is time for more and instead of a brooch or an object being the work-in-progress, it this little piece of web space. If you see anything funky, it is me figuring out what will work best, so please hold tight as this transformation unfolds and be sure to visit again soon!
Here is what's to come: - updated 'about' section and contact info - portfolio showcasing lockets, brooches, and objects - photo-documentation project of "The Hand & . . ." - résumé


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Worst Radiohead Songsabcrgb
The Top Ten
At the first time I listen this song, I don't like it. But now, this song is the reason to listen amnesiac album. This song isn't that bad.
This one is actually pretty cool - mtndewlord
Most pretentious song title. Ever.
I completely disagree. This song is full of emotion, and glory. So sad to see that it's number 1.
This song shouldn't be here. I realize this one was slow but come on, we all loved "Nude", so why can't this be just as appreciated.
This song isn't bad at all, doesn't deserve to be this high or even on it at all - Jiorl
Brings down an otherwise perfect album, so terrible and slow, no change in pace or... Anything.6 Comments
None of these songs are that bad, personally,I'm yet to find a "bad" radiohead song. But this one is my least favourite on here.
This is why this website doesn't work - people vote without listening to all the songs in the top 10. If they did this song would easily be number 1 - it's by far their worst song!
On this list, there are good songs, and "Pop Is Dead".
Yes this one is their worst - Jiorl
It's good until that annoying synth comes in. The song was supposed to be fun and groovy but that synth is really creepy and out of place.
I've got to admit that Hail to the Thief has to be their poorest record since Pablo Honey. So I can understand why three tracks of this album are currently in the top 10.
And honestly I do not understand why so many songs of The Bends are in the top 10 now, these (especially (Nice Dream) and Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was) are great!
Finally, the only reason Creep is up here as well is because of the hipsters and elitists. Sure, there may be better records that do not get the recognition the possibly overrated Creep has received, but it is still a killer track and an absolute classic!
I like this song, not one of my favourites, but I have to disagree with the person who said this was one of the poorest since Pablo Honey
Initially I enjoyed this song, but after a few weeks I began to get annoyed and bored with it. For me this was one of those catchy songs, that sounds good quickly and fades out losing it lustre quickly after;for me many songs that I enjoy quickly don't have 'staying power'-this was one of them. - abcrgb
Not bad, just overrated. - Userguy44
I hate how many people only like Creep and Karma Police, (and I hate how they think karma police is a depressing song)
They say I love Radiohead, but only listen to creep!
The only song that is high on both "Best Radiohead songs" and "Worst Radiohead songs"
This is by far my least favorite radiohead song. I am a huge radiohead fan (I have all their albums, yes even horrible Pablo honey) but I hate creep. I do love the message that creep is conveying in its lyrics, but I can't stand the song.7 Comments
What? This song is good, yes it's not their best but it is a very nice song. Far worse songs should be higher than this. There's a song on my iron ling rap called lozenge of love which in my opinion is just boring and doesn't sound too good.
My Iron Lung is one of their best songs. This, on the other hand, is terrible.
More like boring dream? I don't know, just don't like this song much. - abcrgb
This is such an amazing song and so is nice dream
There are songs of this kind that are beautiful, but this is just... boring. I also didn't like House Of Cards at the start, but then I started to pay attention to the constant guitar riff, and I loved it. That's the greatest thing of the song, the guitar. I understand that you may not like it, but there are other songs that are worst. - mattlol
Ok this song is terrible but some of these songs are amazing like the gloaming, I will, nice dream is ok, myxomatosis used to be my favourite song and bullet proof that's probably the most amazing relaxing brilliant awesomest ever song that they have ever made it's the best! I can't believe you put it on the worst list let alone 5th to the worst I am disgraced I thought radiohead fans knew what real music was but clearly not
This is absolutely nothing and hence incredibly tedious. Everything in the top ten except this and Revolving Doors is good. And House of Cards rules.
Not a terrible song, but I find my self bored with it in it's placement in KID A-it's a let down after HtDC, but I suppose that is the purpose of it, but it just doesn't work fully for me. - abcrgb3 Comments
Great song, keep it up.
This is a good song, at least I think so
Seriously, this is the WORST radiohead song ever. followed by pulk pull revolving doors. the first two miniutes are good. then it suddenly becomes extremely lame.
And again... Boring to me - abcrgb
The Contenders
This is... Actually a great song. The lyrics are great and its just so creepy & weird. I like!
The worst song on Radiohead's worst album, still better than a few other's though.
I know it's supposed to be social commentary and all that, but for me all it does is mark the end of the first half of OK Computer. Honestly it feels more pretentious than insightful.
It's not a bad song. The instrumental background and melody are pretty well throughout, but the vocals just ruin it. I'm serious the vocals just give me a head ache, it sounds like a prepubescent robot trying to sing but know they can't
It is just noise, but it probably is their best album, excluding this song it is probably a perfect record.
My opinion for the worst Radiohead song. Extremely slow, boring, and not pretty.
This song actively hurts to listen to.
Not a bad stand alone song by any stretch of the imagination but in it's album it's atrocious, and I don't see a moment where it could have been fine
If it was a b-side I'm sure it would have been praised
I'm sure many will disagree with me on this one, and that is their right, but for me next to HOC this is my least favorite of IR. - abcrgb
This and "My Iron Lung" could be tied for their worst songs. I chose this one because at least with "My Iron Lung" the verse part is good. With this, everything about it is awful. With some of the other songs, you could make the argument that their just boring. This one you can't because it's in your face and obnoxious. The only Radiohead song I know that elicits such a reaction in me.
Again I like this
This is really eerie.
This song isn't that bad, should be a bit lower though. - Mumbizz01
This is not even like them!
I don't think this song is bad. In fact it's not really a song. I see it as an interlude for the Amnesiac album. And even though it has no lyrics, it's a very mellow ambient.
Could have been great with a different arrangement, but this one just ended up sounding like something from a video game.
Best song on Kid A.
This can get annoying after a while, but I don't mind it
I think I'm the only diehard Radiohead fan in the world who doesn't like this song. The drum machines give me a massive headache.
Although I love Amnesiac, if you take alone "Like Spinning Plates" it can be really... well, just bad. Yet this song has been certainly rectified by its live version!
I love this song
What's wrong with this?
Yes you are...
I can't stand this song. It cheesy and generic, and the lyrics are nothing special at all. Even worse than Pop is Dead in my opinion. (Also Pulk/Pull and House of Cards are great, what is wrong with you guys? ) - chevygolderado
Sail to the Moon is amazing! It's one of those songs that you don't like initially, but grow to like later on. The piano in it is beautiful!
Your list is just completely bolloks myxomatosis is my favorite song and house of cards is good too and about the song I think sail to the moon was nice when I started listening to it but then afterwards it was just boring I mean sailed on shooting stars come on radiohead you can do better than that
WHAT?!? This song is beautiful, haunting, and this is one of the better tracks on Halt to the Thief. And who the hell put Idioteque on this list?
Who doesn't like this?
Are you kidding me? At least put Lucky or a song that is actually annoying. This song is probably one of my favourites
NOOO! Please don't hate on this song, or OK Computer for that matter. I'm not saying that you have to like OK Computer, but this is one of the best songs on it!
P.S. In Rainbows and Kid A are my 2nd and 3rd favourite albums by them, but they are still perfect! =)
Nothing off In Rainbows should even be here...
This song is so amazing!
Related ListsTop Ten Best Radiohead Songs Top Ten Most Underrated Radiohead Songs Best Songs From Radiohead's The Bends Top Ten Best Songs on Pablo Honey by Radiohead Top Ten Songs from a Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
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3. Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors
2. Coke Babies
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Two containers have arrived in Syria in recent days. Aid can still get in thanks to some charities and there are many people in camps all over the place, displaced, who can be reached and are in need of aid.
One of the containers was destined for Lebanon but that was diverted to Syria to help in the camps, as Lebanon ministers changed and decided not to allow anymore aid in! In harsh winters the food and clothes and blankets, coats and shoes etc are what help people survive. In the west it may just be 'a coat' over there it is the difference between seeing tomorrow or never waking up again.
Thanks to all who helped from all over the country get aid to us to get on to the CWU and Merseyaid depot


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This time last week we were preparing to have a long, nine-week election between Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May for the next Prime Minister. This week, sees Theresa May installed in Downing Street. They say a week is a long time in politics!
My connection to Theresa May does actually goes back quite a long way – to 2009.
I was on the Conservative Party's candidates list so potentially, could have been an MP in 2010. I wasn't taking up any opportunities however. Theresa called, 'I want to see you in Parliament, how can I support you?'
'If I get to be a Member of Parliament', I said, there is only one place in the whole of the United Kingdom I would run for – my home. And so it was another SIX years before I got my chance! Theresa was very supportive through those years, twice visiting Eastbourne and meeting with many local people and groups including our Street Pastors and Neighbourhood Watch.
Personally I am very pleased that the country now has the opportunity to restore confidence by having clarity on the position of Prime Minister. This is good for business and the markets.
Clearly her priority will be to deliver on Brexit negotiations. But the challenges which hallmarked time before the referendum – the refugee crisis, climate change and economic productivity remain, but first comes a debate and vote on Trident this Monday.
The defense of our nation and the protection of the British people is the very first calling of any government, and I believe it is vital we maintain a continuous independent nuclear deterrent as the ultimate guarantee of our national security. In that light, I will be supporting the vote to commission new submarines.
As I write, David Cameron will be preparing to hold his last Prime Minister's Questions. He has been an excellent PM and I wish he and Samantha well. He has also been a good friend to Eastbourne.
Within 48 hours of the fire on the pier, 2 years ago this month, he came to Eastbourne and pledged £2m to boost tourism in the town. As a result we now have a number of initiatives started, one to put us on the map as a Christmas destination and another to come, investment funds which will see a dazzling new Wish Tower café restored to the seafront!
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1 "The Small Utopia: Ars Multiplicata" (Fondazione Prada, Venice; curated by Germano Celant) This exceptionally rich exploration of the art of multiplicationfrom Sonia Delaunay to Marcel Duchamp to Yoko Ono, and with more than six hundred worksheld my attention and that of my easily bored friends for hours. The disappearance of the auratic original does not make fetishistic obsession obsolete. On the contrary: Some of these multiples are to kill for!
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The size of data sets being collected and analyzed in the
industry for business intelligence is growing rapidly, mak-
ing traditional warehousing solutions prohibitively expen-
sive. Hadoop [3] is a popular open-source map-reduce im-
plementation which is being used as an alternative to store
and process extremely large data sets on commodity hard-
ware. However, the map-reduce programming model is very
low level and requires developers to write custom programs
which are hard to maintain and reuse.
In this paper, we present Hive, an open-source data ware-
On January 8, a Database Column reader asked for our views on new distributed database research efforts, and we'll begin here with our views on MapReduce. This is a good time to discuss it, since the recent trade press has been filled with news of the revolution of so-called "cloud computing." This paradigm entails harnessing large numbers of (low-end) processors working in parallel to solve a computing problem. In effect, this suggests constructing a data center by lining up a large number of "jelly beans" rather than utilizing a much smaller number of high-end servers.
Cloud computing is Internet based system development in which large scalable computing resources
are provided "as a service" over the Internet to users. The concept of cloud computing incorporates
web infrastructure, software as a service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies, and has
attracted more and more attention from industry and research community. In this paper, we describe our
experience and lessons learnt in construction of a cloud computing platform. Specifically, we design a
There is a growing need for ad-hoc analysis of extremely
large data sets, especially at internet companies where inno-
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of data collected every day. Parallel database products, e.g.,
Teradata, offer a solution, but are usually prohibitively ex-
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The Kingdom of Noise
I wish I could capture the sounds I hear on top of Seven Sisters and put them in a bottle to sail across the Atlantic with me. It's the sound of silence. Up here on top of this grassy knoll all is quiet, except for the birdsong and the wind through the trees and the rustling of the grass.
From afar, I can hear the sound of a distant train. I stop running, I still, and sit for a moment in the glory. In the wonder of silence.
I mourn for the time I will no longer be able to climb this hill and hear the sweet song, it's melody lifts my spirit and transports the worries of the day from my mind. All is well when I am here. There is no noise here, no ringing of the phone, no text alerts, no video uploads. Only silence.
Loud Enough
I fear I don't always recognize how Noise itself can be used by the enemy. In the Screwtape Letters, Toadpipe, who is sitting in for Screwtape, advises Wormwood of how the enemy uses noise to further their kingdom. He writes, "Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile ... We will make the whole universe a noise in the end." Lewis actually refers to the devil's kingdom as "The Kingdom of Noise."
It seems like this world keeps getting louder and louder. How loud will be loud enough? How much noise is needed to drown out the beauty of silence? How have I allowed my soul to feel at home in all this noise?
I recently attended a Sunday evening service at our church where Os Guiness was speaking. He urged the family of God to realize that today we are at an Augustinian moment. The 21st century church is at an extraordinary period of transition, marking the end of 500 years of Western dominance. How can we be warmed again?
When I still. When I sit. When I listen. Things look differently. I warm to the beauty of His presence. Wonder fills my spirit as I see things anew through the eyes of a child. Absent are the distractions brought on by all the noise of the day. Might we serve God's purpose in our extraordinary generation by being a people of silence?
The Melody of Heaven
It's in the silence I still and can hear the lyrics of the cross.
In describing Heaven, a writer once penned, "The regions where there is only life and therefore all that is not music is silence." I imagine heaven will be full of melodies, lyrics too sweet for our untrained mortal ears. And where the music is not sifting, silence will ensue. Awe wrapped up in the wonder of Him Whose splintered hands brought all of earth into harmony.
One date night Tim and I and a friend were able to steal away to hear a cellist play Bach's Cello Suite in Oxford's exquisite Sheldonian Theatre. When the cellist entered the Sheldonian Theatre, a stillness breathed over the audience as we anticipated the first notes. It was a magical evening. As I peered out the leaded glass windows at the falling rain, the cello sang its song of wonder, and glory swallowed the noise of the day.
The enemy rages war, making every effort to shout out the melody of heaven. But we will not be a Kingdom of Noise. We will wage war in silence and stillness. The birdsong of hope and cello of praise will accompany our movements. We will sit and listen to the wonder of silence.
And in the silence, we will hear the lyrics of the cross.


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A public procession honoring killed Colorado State Patrol Cpl. Daniel Groves will begin at 8 a.m. Thursday and make its way along Colo. 66 in Longmont, the state patrol announced Tuesday.
Groves, 52, of Johnstown, was killed during the historic Colorado blizzard last week when he was on the side of Interstate 76 in Weld County, helping a motorist. He was struck by another vehicle.
The procession will start at the Park 'n Ride at the southwest corner of Interstate 25 and Colo. 66, the agency said in a news release. The procession will travel west on Colo. 66 for about 7 miles until it reaches LifeBridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont.
From 8-9:30 a.m., drivers will not be able to access intersections on Colo. 66 between I-25 and the church, according to the release.
The funeral service at the church, set to begin at 10 a.m., is open to the public.
Groves' law enforcement career began in 2007 when he joined the Colorado State Patrol in Frisco. He later moved to a new assignment in Denver and then was promoted to corporal in Weld County. Prior to that, he worked in technology services in Chicago, according to his obituary.
CSP asks that donations be made to the Colorado State Patrol Family Foundation, which helps families of troopers who have died or were injured in the line of duty, or to the Rocky Mountain Hyperbaric Association for Brain Injuries.
CSP has asked that drivers move over and drive more carefully near crashes. Groves was the 29th trooper killed in the line of duty in the state patrol's 84-year history and the fourth since 2015. All four of those recent deaths came as troopers worked crashes.
In 2017, the state legislature passed a law requiring motorists to move over to protect law enforcement and highway workers. The law was named in honor of Trooper Cody Donahue, who died in 2016 after being hit by a truck while working a crash on I-25 in Douglas County.


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Happy Easter!/
Hope everyone's making the most of the double weekend (if you get it off, anyway). I've decided to celebrate by posting a few of my many sketches created during the process of writing The Two Empires. Please immediately lower any expectations you may have: these might be the ones I'm most pleased with, but the point remains that much as I'd love to be able to, I can't draw for toffee. Oh, and if you haven't got around to reading it yet, be warned that there may well be spoilers ahead.
With that said, here's my map of Dianthus, Krakenbar and surrounding lands:
This is actually just the most recent of a series of attempts as producing the map (it's still several years old). It's interesting to look back at earlier iterations to see how the geography came together. This is really just an overview of key locations - there's plenty more that could be added, and what's there might not be entirely accurate - but hopefully it should give you some idea of how everything fits together.
Next up, here's a sketch of the skyship Midnight Blade. Fairly pleased with how this turned out. Again, this is several years old. That's not to say that what I could produce today would be any better.
And next is 'The Island Base of the Accolytes of Maar' (you wouldn't believe how hard autocorrect and spellcheck have tried to teach me the the correct spelling of the word 'Acolyte'; I still always think it needs an extra c).
And finally, here's everyone's favourite gnome bard, the one and only Trinkertip, looking as stylish as ever. I'm genuinely expecting a call from Christian Dior once this gets out. This is the most recent one of the bunch - probably last year I think?
I've put together a gallery here. Who knows, maybe I'll add some more stuff later? Maybe I'll even be able to draw something decent one day (maybe not).


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This was one of my favorite stops during our Redwoods road trip, because although the trees are not particularly thick or tall, the ground has the lushest covering of redwood sorrel - it looks straight out of a fairy tale!
Location Info
Trailhead: Google Maps
Cost: Free
Parking: By the side of the highway
Crowds: Empty
The Grove
The turnout can be hard to spot on the north end of the Avenue of the Giants, as the only sign letting you know is the sign naming the grove, and parking is right along the side of the highway.
Once you park, there isn't much of a designated trail to follow as the grove is more of an area to explore. There are multiple paths forking through the grove, and it isn't long before the ground is covered in the sorrel.
This grove was unlike anything I saw on the rest of our redwood roadtrip, so if you are just passing by Humboldt Redwoods State Park, I would say this is a must stop on your way through the Avenue of Giants!
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Forget the Box got a wee bit hacked last week. No cloud being without its smidgen of silver lining however, our website troubles soon led us into an acquaintance with Terry Cutler.
Home » "Forget the Box" gets hacked. Interview with Terry Cutler
Terry Cutler
I'm Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University …That's a system that's been used to help defend corporations and individuals from cyber threats. I'm a government cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the Vice-President of Cyber at SIRCO, an investigations and protections firm in Montréal, Canada. I'm also a frequent contributor to National & Global media reportage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and the real social network dangers that families and individuals face every day.


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State-run carrier Air India today said it has taken the delivery of its 19th Dreamliner aircraft and plans to induct one more this month.
The aircraft, which was delivered to the carrier last week, would cater to the Delhi-Cochin-Dubai route of Air India, a release said.
As a part of its fleet expansion plans, Air India had placed orders for 68 aircraft with Boeing Company in January, 2006, including for 27 Dreamliners and 41 B-777s and B-737-800s. It had taken the delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner in September, 2012.
The delivery of the 20th and 21st Dreamliners are scheduled to take place by end March and in June this year, the airline said.
Air India, which operates across 38 international and 68 domestic airports, is one of the largest Boeing 787-800 operators in the Asia region. It has a fleet of 128 aircraft, including 17 with its international low-cost subsidiary, Air India Express, and nine with regional carrier, Alliance.
The fleet comprises Boeing, Airbus, ATR and RCJ planes.
It said that with the acquisition of the 19th Dreamliner, the average age of the recently acquired fleet has fallen to below five years.
The Dreamliners service both the domestic and international routes of the airline, including the Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi-Chennai and Delhi-Bangalore sectors and the routes to the UK, Europe, Far East, South-East Asia, China, Australasia, Middle East and the Gulf.


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1. Title: GB-EDINBURGH: CIVIL/BUILDING MAINTENANCE & REDECORATION OF HELLIER HOLM LIGHTHOUSE
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4. Description: Refurbishment work. Demolition work. Masonry and bricklaying work. Refurbishment work. The proposed works will consist of minor civil maintenance works that includes repair works to the South landing steps, part demolition of the North landing pier, and crack repairs to the tower external elevation at Helliar Holm Lighthouse, located on the island of Helliar Holm which is approximately 0.6km south of Balfour, Shapinsay. The island is unoccupied, so there are no ferry services. The island is accessed using local boatman from Kirkwall Harbour. Full details for the refurbishment works are detailed within the tender and are available upon request
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