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Pointless Story
A few years ago one of our cars died. In the UK it is perfectly legal for one car to tow another on a rope so after much "lively debate" about who was to be in which vehicle, my husband and I set off for the local wreckers yard. He was tow-er, I was towee.
The car we were scrapping was a dreadful thing. Bought in a desperate panic for very little money it was a testament to why you should NEVER buy a car for either of those reasons. It was an old VW Golf, hideous green, clunky and basic in the extreme. It had no way of winding down the windows, it shook like crazy, misfired and required revving up at every stop. In short we were very glad to see the back of it. My husband has a habit of hoarding and that was the only thing I can ever remember him gladly getting rid of.
We set off at snail's pace (well he said it was snail's pace - to me it felt like mach 3). When we approached a roundabout and he slowed to a halt I put my foot on the brake. Absolutely nothing happened. I stamped on that brake pedal with all my might and the result? Nothing. My horrible heavy Golf rammed into the back of his little car and shoved him out directly in the line of oncoming traffic. Understandably outraged he got out of his car and approached me yelling things I won't repeat. I managed to calm him down and apologized repeatedly. I had done my best to brake after all! It simply didn't work. He fiddled with stuff a bit and suggested swapping cars but I hate to tow other cars and I refused. He said we would keep going but he would take it easy (a mere mach 2).
That journey, every terrifying inch of it, is etched in my mind forever. It was awful. We drove up the highway - busy at the best of times and I continued to attempt to brake even though I knew it was pointless. Every time we stopped I nudged his rear bumper fiercely.
At some point I looked down - desperate to find some cause for the brake not working. Apparently I was stamping on the accelerator rather than the brake. I discovered this just as we approached the long, winding hill which led to the scrap yard. It wasn't particularly steep - but it was looooooong.
Appalled at my own stupidity (and for some reason surprised by it) I decided that - since he'd been SO cross and I'd INSISTED it was the brake that didn't work, I would cover my tracks and continue the deception. So all the way down that loooooong hill, every now and again, I would nudge him gently from behind to show that the brakes still didn't work and it still wasn't my fault.
Unfortunately I started to laugh. Once I'd started I couldn't stop. I don't remember ever laughing that much before or since. Eventually I simply couldn't see through the tears and I had to beep and tell him to stop. This time - yet again - I bumped into his vehicle but now it was because I didn't have the strength in my body to press the pedal - AND I was planning to continue with the lie. After a while I had calmed myself sufficiently to explain what was so funny. Chris' jaw became set, his face darkened and he returned to his car after saying one word - "Hilarious".
I would like to have been a passer-by. Seeing one guy driving with stony faced fury followed (too closely) by a woman shrieking and crying with uncontrollable laughter. The journey home was interesting. There was probably an uncomfortable silence of which I was blissfully unaware as I continued to shake with silent laughter.
I wish there was a moral or a nice little tie-up "Jesus loves you" type comment to end this with but no, I can't think of anything. Ah well.
Enjoy your weekend and don't get blown away! I'm going home to find out what battens are in preparation for the stormy weekend.


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|Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen
|Former concert hall of the Danish Radio
|Launy Grøndahl associated from 1925-56
|Grøndahl's Trombone Concerto (1924)
|Composed for Vilhelm Aarkrogh, trombonist of the Royal Danish Orchestra
|Editions of the Concerto
Jesper Juul, professor and head of brass at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, goes through the historic background of the Launy Grøndahl trombone concerto. A presentation of each of the three movements of the concerto is also also available here at MUSAiC.
Launy Grøndahl
Recorded Date: 01-11-2017
Jesper Juul Windahl is a significant performer with an extensive work as an orchestral musician, soloist and chamber musician at the international level as well as teaching experience from several music academies and a parallel career as a conductor.
Jesper Juul Windahl was born in 1973. After matriculation from Thisted Gymnasium, he trained as a trombonist at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, followed by studies in Paris, Chicago and London and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he made his debut concert in 1998. As only 23, he was hired as the principal solo trombonist in DR Symphony Orchestra. For several years he was also a member of Athelas Sinfonietta, and he has been very active as a chamber musician in various contexts. Among other things, He has been the initiator of ensembles such as The Danish Trombone Quartet and Danish Brass Quintet.
Jesper Juul Windahl has won several international competitions and was made DR P2 Artist of the Year 2000-2001. He has also been a soloist in many contexts, including concerts with international orchestras such as Südwestrundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and the Suisse Romande Orchestra. As a soloist he has recorded several CDs, including Romantic Trombone Concertos with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Finally, he has been very active in creating new Danish trombone literature and premiered a large number of works for trombone.
Jesper Juul Windahl has taught at the music academies in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Esbjerg and Malmö. He was also trained as a conductor at the Academy and in recent years he has had assignments with Danish National chamber Orchestra, Athelas Sinfonietta, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the regional orchestras. In 2009-2012 he was chief conductor of the Prince's Band.

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Vitamin A is effective for treating a deficiency, but does vitamin A work for other uses as well? Many studies suggest that the vitamin can treat or prevent a variety of problems in people with vitamin A deficiencies (including measles or malaria), but this does not imply that it is beneficial for those without nutritional deficiencies.
Vitamin A is claimed to work for a wide variety of conditions, often with little scientific evidence to back up such claims. This article will address the effectiveness of vitamin A for several uses.
Does It Work for a Vitamin A Deficiency?As you might guess, taking vitamin A is effective for treating a deficiency. It is also effective for preventing it in people at high risk for such problems. However, it should be noted that vitamin A deficiency is rare in developed countries; most people get plenty of vitamin A from their diet.
You should not self-diagnose and/or self-treat a vitamin A deficiency. Laboratory tests are necessary to diagnose this problem, and many of the symptoms (such as poor night vision) are common in healthy people without any nutritional deficiencies whatsoever. Taking too much vitamin A can be dangerous and may result in vitamin A toxicity.
Does Vitamin A Work for Other Uses?Some studies suggest that a high dietary intake of vitamin A may decrease the risk of breast cancer or cataracts. However, this does not necessarily mean that taking supplements also provides such benefits. Many studies suggest that vitamin A can treat or prevent a variety of different problems in people with a deficiency, such as malaria, measles, or pregnancy complications. However, these studies do not imply that vitamin A can treat or prevent such problems in people without nutritional deficiencies.
There is little evidence to suggest that vitamin A really works for any other uses. In fact, studies suggest that it does not work for the following uses:
- Treating anemia
- Preventing digestive side effects of chemotherapy (such as nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea)
- Preventing death of fetuses or newborns (when taken by pregnant women)
- Reducing the transmission of HIV from mother to baby during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding
- Treating pneumonia
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Natural oak leaf escort cards for an eco-chic autumn wedding
I do so love this idea for transforming real oak leaves (or any leaf you wish) into escort cards. Yes, these oak leaves are still green, but you could use all manner of autumnal leaves in a variety of colours. What I really like about this idea is that not only will it be functional (telling your guests which table they're sitting at) but it will also look lovely, and very fitting for an autumn wedding.
For tips on how to preserve leaves so they don't go crispy and risk them crumbling when you hang them up, check out this post.
All this week I'm celebrating autumn weddings with lots of ideas and inspiration – so check out all the ideas in my natural autumn wedding special.
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SALT LAKE CITY IN THE 1960S was no hotbed of comic anarchy. But that never discouraged vacuum-cleaner salesman Jerry Barr and his madcap family from trying to shake things up. One of their favorite stunts was to don Wild West-style bandannas and "rob" the local grocer. While his wife, Helen, kept the Chevy revved up, Jerry and their children, Roseanne, Geraldine, Ben and Stephanie, would ransack the aisles in a hail of cap-gun fire, then make their getaway, usually speeding off for a picnic in the park. Later, Helen would always return to pay the tolerant proprietor, so no one saw any jail time. "Cheap entertainment," recalls Geraldine Barr, now 37. "I thought it was tremendous fun."
Good, clean fun—well, sometimes. Such was the childhood Barr portrays in My Sister Roseanne: The True Story of Roseanne Barr Arnold (written with Ted Schwarz), a memoir of life in the ample shadow of her celebrated, and now estranged, older sibling. No scenes of Mom pressing a pillow to baby Rosey's face. No sign of Dad menacing his eldest daughter with handfuls of his own excrement. In short, none of the ghastly abuse that Roseanne, 42, claims came rushing back to her three years ago in a flood of long-repressed memory. Says Geraldine: "I don't think there's ever been any other sexual object for my father except my mother."
My Sister Roseanne is considerably more than a rebuttal of what Geraldine calls "the incest s—t." The book also charts the sisters' once symbiotic relationship as they grew up Jewish in the seat of Mormonism and imagined Roseanne's unlikely ascent. "She would be a famous performer," recalls Geraldine, "and I would be the rich, behind-the-scenes producer." Half that dream had been realized by 1990, when Roseanne, by then the toast of the tube, unceremoniously fired Geraldine as her business manager. Three weeks later, the star hired herself a producer—one Tom Arnold. Says Geraldine of her ex-brother-in-law: "He is an evil man."
Barr might, of course, be vulnerable to charges that her book is just another mercenary tell-all. But in fact, her initial payments totaled less than $10,000. "It. wasn't about the money," she says in the amiably cluttered San Francisco flat she shares with psychotherapist Maxine Epstein, 37, her lover of eight years. "It was an opportunity to tell my family's story from my point of view." And as far as her family is concerned, she got it right. Helen, 60, calls My Sister Roseanne "an accurate and revealing description" of life with the Barrs. "We laughed and we cried," adds Jerry, 65. "Her sense of honesty and humor are clearly evident."
In the Barr household, as Geraldine remembers it, comedy was king. A devotee of Johnny Carson's, her father would shout. "Comedian!" whenever a Redd Foxx or a Joan Rivers burst through the Tonight Show curtain, whereupon the family would race to the living room and watch "enraptured." Geraldine writes that Jerry, himself a frustrated comic, "loved to gross us out with body-function jokes." He also did visuals. "Dad sat around the house in his underwear, completely covered, yet looking like a slob," she reports. "Every once in a while, he would scratch his crotch." Such displays, Geraldine maintains, profoundly influenced her sister's comedy, which is rife with raunchy physical material. "Roseanne had become just like our Dad," she writes. "She was doing Jerry Barr shtick."
As children, Roseanne and Geraldine were inseparable. "I adored Rosey" Geraldine writes. "She dominated my world and could get me to do anything she desired"—that is, make beds, do dishes and perform any other tedious chores. Foreshadowing their future, the girls put on neighborhood variety shows, with Rosey lip-synching Beatles tunes and Geraldine orchestrating the stage effects.
In 1968, Geraldine says, their lives changed forever. Roseanne was struck by a car while crossing the street and nearly died from internal bleeding and injuries to her head. Thereafter, Rosey seemed to spin out of control, experimenting with a hippie lifestyle and bearing an illegitimate daughter, Brandi, whom she gave up for adoption. Roseanne also spent several months in a psychiatric hospital (whether voluntarily or not is a matter of some dispute), and Geraldine went on to study accounting and anthropology at the University of Utah.
The sisters hooked up again in the late '70s in Denver, where Roseanne was living in a trailer with her first husband, motel clerk Bill Pentland. It was in Denver that Roseanne and Geraldine became habitués of the feminist Woman to Woman Bookshop and of the local comedy clubs where Geraldine says they shaped Roseanne's profane "domestic goddess" persona. Then began a "10-year plan" that would carry Roseanne to the Carson show, an HBO special and Roseanne. "I believed we would create this dynasty," says Geraldine, who served as her sister's "booking agent, contact person, marketer, chauffeur, navigator, hand holder and critic" and also claims to have written much of Roseanne's material. "The whole career," Geraldine says, "was time frame, goals, objectives—boom, boom, boom."
Then along came Tom Arnold. "The most ambitious man I have ever met," Geraldine says. "Roseanne is very smart, very strategic—but there's part of her that's easily manipulated." After being fired, Geraldine appealed to Roseanne to honor what she claims was a verbal agreement to split all profits generated from the "domestic goddess" character. "Sorry, you don't get any money," she quotes Rosey as replying. Her big sister then took Geraldine for a spin in her new $75,000 Mercedes. "We drive around and people see her and are waving and she makes everybody happy," Geraldine remembers. "[Then] she takes me back to the hotel, and I, like, vomit for two hours. I go, 'Oh, my God, I am going to have to sue her.' "
In 1992, Geraldine filed an unsuccessful $70.3 million breach-of-contract suit against her big sister. "When you're dealing with a bully," Geraldine says, "you have to stand up." The sisters haven't spoken in four years, and now Geraldine follows Rosey's turbulent life only through the media. "I'm watching this woman I knew and love," she says. "And all of a sudden she gets her breasts cut off. Then she gets her nose cut off. And I'm like, 'Oh, this is so scary to see.' "
Since leaving Roseanne, Geraldine has worked at various jobs but has largely been supported by Epstein, whom she met at summer camp at age 12 and saw occasionally over the years. "It's more emotional than sexual with Maxine—though she'll kick my ass for saying this!" laughs Geraldine, who adds that she has had many "sexually fulfilling" encounters with men. At first, says Geraldine, the liaison aroused jealousy in Roseanne, who at the time, she adds, was extremely dependent on her sister. "We never clicked," says Epstein of the TV star. "I knew her to be gracious, and then other times I knew her to be cruel."
By far Rosey's crudest cuts, in Geraldine's view, were the incest allegations. "Her words," Barr writes in My Sister Roseanne, "were like knives meant to maim for life." Jerry Barr, now retired and ailing, "is devastated—I don't think he's going to be able to go beyond it." Helen, meanwhile, takes solace in prayer. "But we've still maintained a sense of humor," says Geraldine, who tells her parents, " 'I know it sucks, there's no justice, but you are VIPs—very important pedophiles.' " Sometimes they still muster a laugh.
In the dedication to My Life as a Woman, her first autobiography, Roseanne wrote "For my Sister, Geraldine…for creating a large part of me, my career, the world. Where do you end, where do I begin?…Many of the words in this book come from you, and I look forward to your book, your film…"
Geraldine looks on that passage wistfully now. "Truth is, I miss the wonderful aspects of our relationship," she says. "The part of her that's endearing and charming and great fun to be with."
KAREN BRAILSIFORD in San Francisco


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System Administration
This document provides a set of best practices to help ensure an acceptable level of security across campus in terms of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and mutual authentication.
Throughout this document the term "server" is used to mean a combination of the hardware, operating system, network service, application software, and network connection.
Learn about your system
- Read appropriate security bulletins available from the vendors
- Subscribe for security bulletins from vendors and security advisories
- Understand each security issue with relevance to your configuration and environment
- Routinely monitor the IT website for updates and announcements
Define critical hosts
A critical host is a machine which, if compromised, could significantly harm the University including, but not limited to: reputation damage, interruption of a critical task, disclosure of confidential information, and legal liability. For example, any machine that may contain confidential data, medical records, payroll information, students transcripts, social security numbers, etc. "What are you trying to protect?" is a good question to ask before defining critical hosts.
Update anti-virus software
Anti-virus software is available to University faculty, staff, and students at no cost. It is important to develop appropriate virus detection and eliminate the threat for servers.
Automatic updates to anti-virus software is essential to ensure new viruses are caught in a timely systematic fashion. It is a systems administrator's responsibility to ensure anti-virus definitions are up to date.
ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is a tool from McAfee allowing centralized management of antivirus software. Antivirus packages for desktops and servers can be installed and updated remotely, virus definition files updated on demand, routine or emergency virus scans scheduled, and security settings adjusted from a single location. ePO works with the McAfee corporate antivirus packages as well as those from Symantec. A small software package is installed on client machines, and those clients then contact an ePO server for antivirus software and updates.
IT Services maintains a central ePO server on campus. Departments can request access to that server, and use it to maintain antivirus packages on their department-owned machines. There is no charge for this service at this time. Alternatively, the ePO software is available to departments through the Iowa State/McAfee site license.
For more information on ePolicy Orchestrator, including setting up a departmental site on the IT Services ePO server, contact email@example.com.
Protect passwords
- Use lengthy smart passwords (minimum length enforced)
- Make it for you to remember and hard for others to guess
- Use non-dictionary words
- Never store password as plain text or write it down on a paper
- Configure password-aging feature
- Use shadow password feature
Configure only essential services
- Maintain your servers with the minimum necessary services and packages
- Install only essential components, which are required for running the services and applications
- Remove any extra service running on your server
- Offer only essential network services and operating system services on the server machine
- Close unused TCP/UDP ports
- "Deny first, then allow"
- Remove old accounts
- Do not provide more access to system resources than the user needs
Update your systems
- Patch, patch and re-patch
- Learn about the patches before applying them
- Remember to patch after a rebuild
- Apply the latest service packs
- Install latest updates and vulnerability hotfixes
- Make sure to update applications, not only operating systems
Protect your systems from spyware
Spyware and adware pose security, privacy and productivity risks. It is important to keep your system protected from such malicious programs and protect your servers (where possible) with appropriate anti-spyware tools.
Use a firewall
A firewall is considered a high-risk network device. It helps you govern the network traffic to and from your network, needs monitoring in real time, and serves as a primary line of defense against external threats. Make sure to document any change made to the firewall configuration.
Define secure access policy
- Configure computers for user authentication
- Configure servers with appropriate object, device and file access controls
- Configure server for secure remote administration (VPN providing encryption and secure authentication)
Physically protect your servers
- Allow only appropriate physical access to computers
- Do not leave console logged in at any point of time
- Configure "time out" feature on your console system
- When you are away, system administrator console should be locked
Ensure data security and integrity
- Encrypt sensitive data where possible and needed
- Replace insecure programs with secure ones
- Avoid storing clear text passwords and private keys
- Securely remove data from storage media
Monitor your system
- Read your log files (hackers read them too)
- Use Log Analyzer
- Scan your systems periodically using appropriate tools (scan, evaluate, update, correct, and re-scan)
- Enforce access control rules for users / user restrictions
- Remove old accounts from machines
Document configurations and disaster recovery
- Document any changes in the system configuration
- Document (in steps) a disaster recovery plan and share it with your IT staff
Have a backup plan
- Make sure you have a tested backup strategy
- Keep your plan up to date by at least annual evaluation
- Train operators that work with you (if any)
- Plan for the worst, this should be part of disaster recovery plan
- Test the backup media, replace it if it needs replacement and don't take risks
- Identify what data needs to be backed-up (prioritize the data)
- Data should be backed up at least once a day, other data might need more frequent back-ups per day
- Backup media should be kept in a secure locked storage to prevent theft or tampering with stored data


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Cole Slaw
- ½ cup plain, organic yogurt (use DF yogurt if needed)
- 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
- Hot sauce to taste
- 1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- 3 cups pre-packaged slaw
- 1 tbsp. green onions, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Add yogurt, mustard, hot sauce, vinegar, and a splash of water to a bowl and stir. Add slaw mix and green onions. Stir well. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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The LiveGirl Pledge
I promise to live brave, live kind, live my power, and live my true self. I will love my perfectly imperfect self and know that I am special. I will embrace diversity. I will help other young women, especially those who need me most, to realize their full potential.


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Living room design Thursday, January 04th 2018.
Add subtle hints of elegance with pattern and shapes that are defined and regal. This living room space has beautiful and dramatic drapes. They are a light, neutral colour in design with a paisley type pattern which looks royal. The sitting chair flows well with the drapes, dramatic in itself with is unique, elegant design. The throw pillow on the chair continues the same pattern as the drapes, and the unique rounded design seems to add a touch of class itself.
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January 2010
top 15ish albums + etc. of the y2k+1
this is my best of the y2k+1 list. it's a big gruesome mess + i don't mind. these are the best of the best. mwah:
** leigh's top 1 **
radiohead - amnesiac
** leigh's top 15 after radiohead **
death cab for cutie - the photo album
the dismemberment plan - change
hayden - skyscraper national park
the lucksmiths - why that doesn't surprise me
rainer maria - a better version of me
dashboard confessional - the places you have come to fear the most
superchunk - here's to shutting up
bjork - vespertine
the strokes - is this it
son, ambulance - euphemystic
trembling blue stars - alive to every smile
mogwai - rock action
beulah - the coast is never clear
sparklehorse - it's a wonderful life ++
super furry animals - rings around the world ++
[i never fully got the time to appreciate the new sparklehorse or sfa or else they'd be way higher on my list, i'm sure]
okay i give up: i'm adding maserati - 37:29:24.
** single/ep **
desaparecidos - the happiest place on earth (cd-s)
hood - home is where it hurts (cdep)
trembling blue stars - ghost of an unkissed kiss
beauty pill - the cigarette girl from the future
** live **
radiohead - i might be wrong
** re-issue **
** my friends are rockstars **
the starve [tape]
adam richman - two
metropolitan - down for you is up
pocket rockets - ?
that is all for now. coming soon: best live shows of the y2k+1. now = jeremiah time. bye!
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After my dog, Marley's, last vet visit I was informed that he's gained about 7 pounds since his adoption a year ago. Poor guy! So the vet put him on a diet and since then my entire household has been put on a more portioned and realistic food lifestyle, including the binge eating cats. Marley is a pit bull beagle mix…I think. He might be a bulldog beagle mix, but I'm not sure and it doesn't much matter. The fact of the matter is, he's now 6 years old and needs a little less weight on his bones so that he can get around until he's 11 or 12!! I like dirty old men, so I need him around for ages.
With that being said, I searched high and low for some great alternatives for treats for my husky pup (we don't fat shame in this house!!). I went straight to Pinterest <—click there for my page- and searched for something that would include more healthy fruits and veggies to include in my dude's diet. I was surprised with some of the complicated recipes I found and then astonished by the really easy ones that seemed too easy to be good, but then again, he eats cat poop, how good do they have to be? I found the most wonderful recipe for peanut butter banana flax seed dog biscuits from Lola The Pitty and Marley is a HUGE fan. I didn't try them, but I think he might like them better than cat shit!
Look how simple these ingredients are! I was lucky enough to have all of these on hand any way, but really they're easy peasy. Disregard my awesome photo set up or vinegar, progesterone cream, and butter…life is messy and so am I.
Lola The Pitty used dog bone shaped cookie cutters, but I didn't have one and these are for his healthy heart so it worked out. How freaking cute are these? I mean, they smell so yummy and Marley LOVES peanut butter. We have so much in common, he and I. PB & love of cuddling is on my long list.
OKAY, so here we go with the making of these scrumptious dog biscuits.
First off, gather your ingredients. I find this to be important no matter if you're cooking for a dog or human.
What you'll need:
Time…again, that pesky time necessity. Super lame, but needed to complete.
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 banana, mashed – I might have used a little more than half
1/3 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp ground flax seed – I'm a slacker and didn't grind them
1/4 cup almond milk (unsweetened) <—–because your pup is already the sweetest little sweety on the block
Oh and a rolling pin and cookie cutter of your choice. Originally I was going to pick a star or pumpkin (I have mini cutters for every holiday from pampered chef) and a proper working space. My tiny kitchen is always an ordeal to cook in, but I love it, so whatevs. Don't forget to see the original recipe at Lola The Pitty, I just can't give them enough praise.
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F
2. Combine all of your ingredients into a medium or large mixing bowl
3. Make sure everything is thoroughly mixed together
4. Roll out that goodness on a floured surface for about 1/4 inch of dough. Use your cookie cutter to cut out desired shapes. I used every last bit of the dough to make a bunch of biscuits. I got more than Lola's 24 because my cutter was smaller-okay with me-grumbled over by Marley the starving dog
5. Put your cut out pieces on a nonstick baking sheet and bake for about 20 minutes. I have an apartment sized oven in my house, so sometimes things don't take quite as long as the recipe calls for.


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2015 Asian Cup Final | Saturday 31 January | Sydney | 11:00
The 2015 Asian Cup in Australia reaches its finale as hosts Australia take on South Korea in the final on Saturday. South Korea and Australia booked their places in the final after respectively beating Iraq and United Arab Emirates in their semi-final ties.
These sides were in the same group during the round robin stages with South Korea beating the Aussies 1-0, just two weeks back. South Korea won the first two editions of the Asian Cup, in 1956 and 1960.
Australia are yet to win the tournament after joining the Asian Federation just eight years ago but were finalists in the last edition in 2011.
To Win (90mins)
South Korea 28/10
Draw 19/10
Australia 21/20
South Korea remain in the hunt for their first Asian Cup trophy since 1960 after overcoming Iraq with a comfortable 2-0 victory during the first semi-final.
Goals from Lee Jeong-hyeop and Kim Young-gwon early in each half in Sydney quelled any Iraqi hopes of reliving their 2007 Asian Cup success.
The Taegeuk Warriors finished top of Group A, winning all three games, despite being drawn in the same group as the hosts. Their defensive capabilities have been the backbone for their great run, having not conceded a single goal in the tournament thus far.
All three group wins were 1-0 victories while their knockout wins over Uzbekistan (went into extra-time) and Iraq finished in 2-0 scorelines.
They have failed to fulfil their potential in recent years but there is a growing confidence in the current camp and rightly so. The first two wins against Oman and Kuwait were unconvincing but doing the same against Australia in Brisbane really lifted spirits and belief.
Swansea's Ki Sung-Yueng pulls the strings for South Korea, operating from deep in the midfield. His calm, reassuring presence in defensive midfield and his near perfect passing helps initiate Korean attacks, and he is a threat to score from long-range.
Australia booked their place in the Asian Cup final with a 2-0 victory over United Arab Emirates, who shocked favourites Japan in their previous round.
Australia stunned UAE with two goals in the first 14 minutes with defenders Trent Sainsbury and Jason Davidson claiming the early goals to take the Socceroos to their second successive Asian Cup final.
The Aussies lost to Japan in the final four years ago but now have another chance to claim their first continental title at their third attempt.
Putting their 1-0 loss to South Korea aside, Australia performed emphatically to win their other two group games with a 4-0 victory over Kuwait followed by a 4-0 thrashing of Oman.
Tim Cahill has netted three times at this year's Asian Cup, including an overhead kick in his quarter-final brace against China, and his experience in the final will be key. The ex-Everton and current Red Bulls attacking midfielder is a player for the big occasion and a win here will cap his international career off in perfect style.
Betting Verdict: DRAW 19/10
While South Korea have looked superior in defence, Australia have only conceded two goals in their five games – one against Oman in a 4-1 victory and the other in their 1-0 loss to South Korea. In attack South Korea have fallen short compared to their opponents who have scored 12 goals, seven more than the Koreans have if you exclude their two extra-time goals. However, after such brave displays to get to the final South Korea will look to keep their defensive discipline and the draw looks the most likely outcome over 90 minutes.
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Step under one of the sprawling livestock tents just behind the Graham Building during the N.C. State Fair, and you're likely to see CALS student Rachel Brown hard at work.
The sophomore ag education major is already living her dream, teaching her nine "Lil' Aggies" students (ages 4 to 12) the ins and outs of animal agriculture.
On this particular day, she helps one student shear his lamb, gives a lively pep talk to another who's about to enter the show ring and deftly handles a last-minute "sheep-mergency" before judging begins. All while keeping her cool. Not to mention a smile on her face.
While an excellent teacher, Rachel is also an outstanding student, having won several scholarships: the A. Tab Williams Jr. Endowed Scholarship, W.B. "Bob' Jenkins Ag Scholarship, and Winslow Foundation Scholarship.
Read on — and check out our video — to learn more about Rachel and get a peek behind the scenes of the State Fair Youth Livestock Show.
Why did you choose CALS?
What do you hope to do with your degree?
Tell us about what you do as a 4-H youth livestock program assistant. Why do you enjoy it?
What other activities are you involved in?
What have you learned in CALS that you'll take with you when you graduate?
I could write a book on the things I've learned here since I started a year ago that I plan to take with me after I graduate, simply because as a future educator, even if the class material doesn't pertain to agriculture, I can learn from how the teacher teaches. One of my favorite things I look forward to taking with me into my classroom is from my gamebird management class, where I learned how to raise and process poultry.


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Voluntary Community Sector services for adults
Leicester City Council has undertaken a review of its adult social care voluntary community sector preventative services.
These are non-statutory services which play a role in delaying or preventing people from needing long term adult social care support.
62 services have been reviewed which provide a range of support for vulnerable adults including older people; carers, people with mental health needs; people with physical and sensory disabilities and people with learning disabilities.
As part of the review the Council looked at what is needed in the City to ensure the funding is spent on services which meet these needs and to provide the best outcome for people who use them.
The Council is committed to maintaining its investment in the voluntary sector at this time. However, it is recommending some changes in how this money is spent in order to best deliver the services that are needed and support its priorities. This affects advocacy and counselling.
We are proposing to make changes to the way both advocacy and counselling services are provided. This is what we would like to hear you views on.
We want to find out what people think about the proposed change to the counselling services provided by the Voluntary Community Sector, currently funded by adult social care.
Following a review of services we are proposing to change the way the council spends its money on preventative services.
The current position
Adult social care currently funds two counselling organisations: Leicester Relate which provides relationship counselling and Leicester Counselling Centre which provides general counselling on behalf of the council.
The consultation proposal
The proposal is to stop funding the current counselling services: Leicester Relate and Leicester Counselling Centre. The money will be reinvested into other wellbeing services.
The council wants to use its limited resources more effectively to help prevent people needing statutory adult social care services. It is the council's intention to direct those who need counselling to other services which are available in Leicester.
If you require any further information, please read the service user leaflet below.
To take part in this consultation, please click on the Online Survey link below.
Consultation exercise with current providers and service users
In addition to this opportunity to have your say on this proposal, we will also run an engagement exercise with current providers and service users of the services, to communicate the outcome of the review and seek their views and opinions on the proposals.


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Steven M. Berry, Vico's Prescient Evolutionary Model for Homer
1. Prophet of Modern Oral-Evolutionary Theories
2. Vico's Homeric Ékphrasis
3. Book III: Vico's "Empirical" Homer(s)
4. Evolutionary Models Resist Literary Bias
5. Vico's Homer Makes the Greco-Roman Continuum Possible
6. Is There a Latent Jurisprudential Paradigm in Vico's Homer?
7. Two Conclusions
2. Vico's Homeric Ékphrasis
What, exactly, is Vico hoping to accomplish by including his perspective on the Homeric Question in his historical argument in the Scienza Nuova? At first blush, the subject of Homer does not fit that naturally within his greater forensic framework (cf. Aristotle's ideal, as he expresses it in the opening of the Poetics, 1447a10: legômen … kata phusin, "let us discourse … in accordance with nature"). That this component does not appear until Book III, after he has put forward other major parts of his theory, surprises the reader; it seems like an anomaly, despite references to Homer that Vico makes in the preliminary "Principles" section. In Books I and II, he has already established a Weltanschauung predicated on certain ideas that do not depend at all on "re-evaluating" Homer per se.
To explore this problem, I now consider the Scienza Nuova's ecphrastic "trigger," to invoke Penelope Wilson's metaphor. She uses this term, to characterize the (ostensibly) unenthusiastic reaction that early eighteenth-century English audiences had to Pope's rendition of the Iliad. She contends that Pope's seeming to ignore the Greek and, as it were, to paraphrase Homer produced a generally unfavorable reception:Pope's crisis becomes Vico's opportunity. His "new science" is bundled up within gradual "improvements" to his ur-text, the 1725 edition. Pope the professional poet had made the decision to "Englysshe" Homer to the tastes of the general reading public, forgoing scrupulous attention to the Greek, of he which he did not have a true philologist's command. [2]
It is an oddity of literary history that in giving voice so consummately in some ways to the "group-consciousness of an age" [quoting E. M. W. Tilyard] Pope's version of Homer quickly becomes a trigger for its own stylistic rejection, and for a movement variously back to the Greek (for those who could manage it), to the literal, or to Chapman. [1]
Vico the historian (who was also ostensibly ignorant of Greek—see below) seeks to establish a basis for asserting the historical existence of a heretofore legendary bard. In other words, this is Vico's opportunity to establish a reputation in the European scientific community. His "trigger" is his argument for a historical carattere, a pan-European bardic type.
Ékphrasis plays a key role in Vico's evolving paradigm from the beginning. Donald Phillip Verene starts us off in 1717:
To show qualification for … [the vacant chair in civil law at the University of Naples,] Vico conceived of a multi-part work on universal law … Although written in Latin, Vico called this multi-part work by the Italian title Il dirítto universal … [In the last part] there is a chapter entitled 'Nova scientia tentatur' ('A new science is essayed') in which, Vico says, he began to reduce philology to scientific principles … It is Vico's first sketch of his idea of a 'new science.' [3]
Vico did not get the position; nonetheless, the proto-form of the Scienza Nuova persisted. Verene comments:Homer remained integral when Vico altered the thrust of his system to de-emphasize law and refocus on European cultural history. He commissioned an engraving for the dipintura of the 1725 edition, which he hoped would establish the scope of his argument before he elaborated it. As a precedent, he cited an ancient text:Superficially, Vico is establishing that his work will set out in a carefully rationalistic form the history of, in his parlance, "gentile" social practices. Vico makes use of a double entente, since "table" (tavola) can also be translated by the French cognate tableau, in the sense of "picture." Giuseppe Mazzotta has noted that, as innovative as the device may seem, it has substantial precedents:To interpret the iconography justly, one should supplement Mazzotta's reference to Vico's awareness of the emblematic "convention" with the observation that the frontispiece and its accompanying explanation represent Vico's effort to show that he was familiar with the new instruments archeology and textual criticism (philology) that were revolutionizing classical scholarship; as Joseph Levine comments:The frontispiece represents more than an attempt to link it with late Renaissance philosophy. Vico also has created a propaedeutic vehicle from which he can perform an ékphrasis—i.e., an aetiological narrative of an ad hoc yet nominally familiar set of icons. The obvious fons et origo of this device is Homer's own ékphrasis: Achilles' Shield at Iliad 18.410–617. But one must not stop here, for, true to his habitual simultaneous dependence on the modes of antiquity and involvement in the Quarrel, Vico's referential strategy places him in the mainstream that began with late Renaissance aesthetics, and serves as a springboard for his goal of developing a Scienza Nuova. Homer's own central importance in this ékphrasis is plain. Vico states:Vico minces no words about his low opinion of Homer's heroes. That he was, in this particular, a child of the same epistēmē [7] as Pope is brought home by the criticism made commonly in Pope's own day that his Iliad translation was too polished. At all events, the progression Vico is trying to make from the "torpid and stupid" Homeric characters to the "theological poets" is, by contrast, quite obscure at this point.
When Vico had finished and sent off for review [to Jean le Clerc] the copies of the first two books, he proceeded to write a third book, which, among other things, applied the principles of philology and mythology he had formulated in the first two books to a reading of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He published this in 1722 as Notae in duos libros, appended to the first two books of his theory of universal law. A copy of this was also sent to le Clerc, but Vico received no reply. This appendix (Dissertationes) is a precursor to Vico's 'search for the true Homer' in the New Science. [4]
Quale Cebete tebano fece delle morali, tale noi qui diamo a vedere una Tavola delle cose civili, la quale serva al leggitore per concepire l'idea di quest'opera avanti di leggerla, e per ridurla più facilmente a memoria, con tal aiuto che gli somministri la fantasia, dopo di averla letta.
§1. As Cebes the Theban made a table of moral institutions, we offer here one of civil institutions. We hope it may serve to give the reader some conception of the work before he reads it, and, with such aid as imagination may afford, to call it back to mind after he has read it.
The centrality of Homer to his science was unequivocally foreshadowed by the allegorical emblem featured on the frontispiece. The emblem, which is a figurative technique even in philosophical texts (see Hobbes's Leviathan, Bacon's Instauratio Magna and Sylva Sylvarum, Alciati's Emblemata, etc.) presents a visual resumé of the themes which are at the fulcrum of the New Science. [5]
While the French moderns were upbraiding Homer for his faults, scholars throughout Europe were studying the historical and critical problems that still obscured the text. Who in fact was Homer? When had the Iliad and the Odyssey been written and the Trojan War been fought? How reliable were the manuscripts, and what was the meaning of their more obscure passages? Little by little philologists increased their learning, delved into language and customs of early Greece, collated the texts and tried to fathom their meaning. Whole treatises were written to treat the finer points; the poems were edited and reedited and the commentary grew steadily more voluminous. Meanwhile, antiquaries added their efforts. Asia Minor was too remote to investigate directly, but a number of monuments came to light and were examined minutely: a bust and a sculptured apotheosis of Homer, as well as some early medals and inscriptions. [6]
Lo stesso raggio si risparge da petto della metafisica nella statua d'Omero, primo autore della gentilità che ci sia pervenuto, perché, in forza della metafisica (la quale si è fatta da capo sopra una storia dell'idee umane, da che cominciaron tal'uomini a umanamente pensare), si è da noi finalmente disceso nelle menti balorde de' primi fondatori delle nazioni gentili, tutti robustissimi sensi e vastissime fantasie; e—per questo istesso che non avevan altro che la sola facultà, e pur tutta stordita e stupida, di poter usare l'umana mente e ragione—da quelli che se ne sono finor pensati si truovano tutti contrari, nonché diversi, i princìpi della poesia dentro i finora, per quest'istesse cagioni, nascosti principi della sapienza poetica, o sia la scienza de' poeti teologi, la quale senza contrasto fu la prima sapienza del mondo per gli gentili.
§6. The same ray [that is, the all-illuminating ray of Providence] is reflected from the breast of metaphysic onto the statue of Homer, the first pagan [gentile] author who has come down to us. For metaphysic, which has been formed from the beginning according to a history of human ideas from the commencing of truly human thinking among the pagans [gentili], has enabled us finally to descend into the crude minds of the first founders of the pagan nations, all robust sense and vast imagination [fantasie]. They had only the bare potentiality, and that torpid and stupid, of using the human mind and reason. From that very cause the beginnings of poetry, not only different from but contrary to those which have been hitherto imagined, are found to lie in the beginnings of poetic wisdom, which have from that same cause been hitherto hidden from us. This poetic wisdom, the knowledge of the theological poets, was unquestionably the first wisdom of the world for the pagans.
Possibly the most meaningful (and, to my mind, the funniest) detail in the engraving is the cracked base, which Vico explains thus:In this little narrative, Vico at one stroke hits upon both the linguistic and the "found object" aspects of the Homeric Question. He makes Homer integral to the "evolutionary model" that serves as the foundation for his theory of history. The connection is sealed at the section's end when Vico drops a clue to his ulterior purpose, introducing the "three ages," through which his arguments eventually became so thoroughly cannibalized by more than a few literati not known for their philosophical acumen, e.g., Hugo and Joyce:Even now, Vico does not wish to stray far from firmly established modes of explication, as his Varro reference reflects. Until recently, I had accepted the consensus of Vichian scholarship that this ékphrasis represented a thoroughly original stroke of genius in which Vico seized upon a worn device and applied it to a purpose that was wholly unique at the time. The particular detail that reinforced this conception was the cracked base of Homer's statue in the engraving, which I had been interpreting as Vico's sēma indicating that the general view of who Homer was had hitherto been defective. Then I encountered this comment by Levine:Two thoughts come to mind here. The first is that the impetus of this comment was an archaeological find. Such representations were only now becoming available; further "concretization" of Homer that occurred with the discoveries of, e.g., Robert Wood and Heinrich Schliemann, would cause the focus of the Homeric Question to shift from whether Homer was superior to the Moderns to issues of facticity. As it was, these new ecphrastic mimēsēs were widely put to use as historical proof. Levine writes in a footnote concerning the Fabretti tabula iliaca: "[Such bas-reliefs] were pictorial representations of the Trojan War probably devised in antiquity for the use of schoolboys." [10] Such connection between illustration and the education of youth is especially relevant to understanding Vico, given his great passion for maintaining high standards in teaching.
… E la statua d'Omero sopra una rovinosa base vuol dire la Discoverta del Vero Omero; che nella Scienza Nuova la prima volta stampata si era da noi sentita ma non intesa, e in questi Libri riflettuta, pienamente si è dimostrata; il quale, non saputosi finora, ci ha tenuto nascoste le cose vere del Tempo Favoloso delle Nazioni, e molto più le già da tutti disperate a sapersi del Tempo Oscuro, e 'n conseguenza le prime vere origini delle cose del Tempo Storico: [8]
§6 … The statue of Homer on a cracked base signifies the discovery [discoverta, here clearly indicating a revelation] of the true Homer. (In the first edition of the New Science … we sensed it but did not understand it. In the present edition it is fully set forth after due consideration …) Unknown until now, he has held hidden from us the true institutions of the fabulous time among the nations, and much more so those out of the dark time that all had despaired of knowing, [cf. Pope's characterization of Homeric language, "if there be sometimes a Darkness"] and consequently the first true origins of the institutions of the historic time.
… [S]ono gli tre tempi del mondo, che Marco Terenzio Varrone ci lasciò scritto (lo più dotto scrittore delle romane antichità) nella sua grand'opera intitolata Rerum divinarum et humanarum, che si è perduta.
§6 … These are the three times of the world that Marcus Terentius Varro, the most learned writer on Roman antiquities, recorded for us in his great work entitled [The Antiquities] of Divine and Human Institutions …, which has been lost. [Scienza Nuova, 5–6]
[Madame Anne Lefèvre Dacier (1651?–1720)] turned to the archaeological evidence that proclaimed Homer's reputation in antiquity: some ancient medals, a tabula iliaca recently described by Raffaele Fabretti, … and most important, the Apotheosis of Homer, a marble relief discovered in the seventeenth century, now in the British Museum. She was especially pleased with the latter…, which she had engraved as an illustration, though she left off Zeus and the muses. On the whole she was content to follow the recent explication of the figures by Gisbertus Cuperus, a Dutchman who had identified most of the figures, except that she questioned his reading of the two little animals at the base of Homer's Throne, which Cuperus thought must be the mice of the Batrachomyomachia … Madame Dacier preferred to believe that they were really two rats gnawing away at Homer's reputation: "those vile Authors, who must not be able to attain any Reputation themselves, have endeavor'd to revenge that Contempt upon such Works as are in greatest Esteem, and who, whilst Time and the Whole Earth are crowning Homer, have made it their Business to cry him down (Iliad, 1.29)" [Quoted from L'Iliade d'Homère traduite en français, avec des remarques (Paris, 1711), trans. J. Ozell, The Iliad of Homer, 5 vols. (London, 1712)]. Madame Dacier did not like to mince words; her life of Homer concluded with several more pages of invective against those who had presumed to challenge the verdict of the ages. [9]
The rhetorical similarity between Dacier's gnawing rats and Vico's cracked base is too glaring to ignore. Yet Vico's disinterest in making much of a formal discursive reference to "the Quarrel" per se creates the impression that he sees himself as moving beyond it. It is not, I think, unfair to conclude that the frontispiece to Scienza Nuovais is ultimately derivative rather than innovative.
Still referring to his frontispiece, Vico gets around to what I contend is one of his most momentous assertions about Homer:I believe that this fragment of Vico's ékphrasis is central for understanding the complexities of his concept of Homer in relation to his larger historical perspective. To start with, his anxiety concerning his Continental reputation determines the flow of his rhetoric. Thus he demonstrates right away that he knows the Kadmos mu ̄ thos and its relation to the development of Greek literacy. [11] We are struck, however, by his subsequent abandonment of the alphabetic issue. His real purpose in this entry seems to be to emphasize that the need for an alphabet developed only gradually. In the engraving there are few letters because they do not apply to an oral poet; after all, "Homer left none of his poems in writing." I suggest that Vico is referring in §23 to two Homeric "states-of-affairs," one corresponding to Nagy's Periods 1 and 2, and the other a transition in the direction of Period 3. This passage is strong evidence that Vico's occasional "Homer wrote" is best interpreted as more than a lapsus calami. Rather, I argue, it reflects his belief in an evolution of "Homer" from a social functionary in "the obscure period which all had despaired of knowing" (§6) to a context corresponding (temporally, that is) with Nagy's Periods 1 and 2, to an indispensable historical resource with the cohesion and auctoritas "Homer" enjoyed in Periods 4–5, and in post-classical Europe.
§23. The table ["tablet" is better] shows only the first letters of the alphabet and lies facing the statue of Homer. For the letters, as Greek tradition tells us of Greek letters, were not all invented at one time; at least they cannot all have been invented by Homer's time, for we know that he left none of his poems in writing.
Here, a slight qualification will allow me to bring things together. At the very same time as §23 supports the idea that Vico possessed an intuitive general grasp of the mechanics of oral-evolutionary epic transmission, it also exposes how covertly dependent he is on "evidence" from the classical corpus. I quote from the opening of the polemical Against Apion (1.2.2) by the first-century CE Roman Josephus, who, like the Roman Plutarch, wrote in Greek:I say "polemical" because the aitía—the rhetorical "cause"—of this piece is that Josephus is answering the Egyptian Apion by making the case that Jewish culture is older than Hellenic culture as a component of his larger argument that Jewish culture is not inferior to Egyptian culture. And in Book II, Vico acknowledges that his own source for Homer's original illiteracy was the Hebrew historian Josephus:Vico's citation of Josephus (not to mention Aristotle) shows his typical confidence in auctoritas. One can take the analytical perspective that in outline Josephus' version of history is commendably accurate. It is true, for example, that scholars have scant concrete evidence that the Kadmos mu ̄ thos (etiological narrative) refers to an actual Hellenic adaptation of a Phoenician (i.e., Semitic) sign-system, despite the high probability that this mu ̄ thos "compresses" a very early systemic contact between the Phoenicians and the Hellenes. Note, as well, that modern knowledge supports Josephus' assertion that the first Hellenic sign-system was not an alphabet but a Mycenaean syllabary, and is found on clay tablets (cf. Vico's "tavola" at §1, cited above) preserved by conflagration rather than on "temples or monuments." It is also true that the first remaining extended examples of the use of the Greek alphabet are the Iliad and the Odyssey; this seems to be the basis of Barry F. Powell's hypothesis that some "Adapter" created the Greek alphabet, on the spot, alone, expressly to record the Homeric poems (see my discussion of Powell below).
It was ... late, and with difficulty, that they [= the Greeks] came to know the letters they now use; for those who would advance their use of these letters to the greatest antiquity pretend that they learned them from the Phoenicians and from Cadmus; yet is nobody able to demonstrate that they have any writing preserved from that time, neither in their temples, nor in any other public monuments. This appears, because the time when those lived who went to the Trojan war, so many years afterward, is in great doubt, and great inquiry is made, whether the Greeks used their letters at that time; and the most prevailing opinion, and that nearest the truth, is, that their present way of using those letters was unknown at that time. However, there is not any writing which the Greeks agree to be genuine among them ancienter than Homer's Poems, who must plainly be confessed later than the siege of Troy; nay, the report goes, that even he did not leave his poems in writing, but that their memory was preserved in songs, and they were put together afterward, and that this is the reason of such a number of variations as are found in them. [trans. Whiston]
§429. But the difficulty as to the manner of their origin was created by the scholars themselves, all of whom regarded the origin of letters as a separate question from that of the origin of languages, whereas the two were by nature conjoined. And they should have made out as much from the words for grammar and for characters. From the former, because grammar is defined as the art of speaking, yet grammata are letters, so that grammar should have been defined as the art of writing. So, indeed, it was defined by Aristotle, and so in fact it originally was; for, as will here be shown, all nations began to speak by writing, since all were originally mute. The word character, on the other hand, means idea, form, model, and certainly poetic characters came before those of articulate sounds. Josephus stoutly maintains, against the Greek grammarian Apion, that at the time of Homer the so-called vulgar letters had not yet been invented. Moreover, if these letters had been forms representing articulated sounds instead of being arbitrary signs, they would have been uniform among all nations, as the articulated sounds themselves are. But, giving up hope of knowing how languages and letters began, scholars have failed to learn that the first nations thought in poetic characters, spoke in fables, and wrote in hieroglyphics. These should have been the principles, which must by their nature be most certain, of philosophy in its study of human ideas and of philology in its study of human words.
The ultimate Vichian "modernity" of Josephus' analysis is yet more evidence that mitigates any impression that no palpable or durable consciousness of an evolutionary cultural flow from "the oral" to "the written" exists in antiquity. Since my concomitant purpose is to demonstrate that just such a consciousness also survived during the Quarrel as an inheritance from antiquity, I now feel justified in coming back to Vico by observing that one core idea from Josephus that happens to be highly congenial to one of Vico's own core understandings in the Scienza Nuova is that in the flux of history the Hebrews are superior to the vagaries of gentile European culture ab initio. This affinity in turn explains why Vico at §23 sounds almost exactly like Josephus at 2.2.1:Here, Vico reenacts (in Nagy's Aristotelian understanding of mimēsis) Josephus'Collectively, the texts from antiquity that Vico incorporates into his Book III Discoverta, represent a muliggjørelse, a "making possible" of the Homeric mūthos that resembles the one operating within the relationship between Lucian's carattere of Homer and Vico's proto-"oral-evolutionary" Homer as described in §877–§878. In both cases, the "singing Homers" must be "unearthed" from beneath mounds of textuality and auctoritas. At the same time, the question they both beg remains: if Vico's main source is the classical corpus, how "real" is his anticipation of current Homeric paradigms for which we now credit him?
for the letters, as Greek tradition tells us of Greek letters, were not all invented at one time; at least they cannot all have been invented by Homer's time, for we know that he left none of his poems in writing.
there is not any writing which the Greeks agree to be genuine among them ancienter than Homer's Poems, who must plainly be confessed later than the siege of Troy; nay, the report goes, that even he did not leave his poems in writing, but that their memory was preserved in songs.
[ back ] 1. P. Wilson, "Homer and English Epic," in Fowler, Cambridge Companion (Chapter 1, n. 14 above), 284.
[ back ] 2. It remains unclear exactly how Pope learned to read Homer in Greek. Since he was Catholic, he could not go to University. The usual story is that he learned Latin from his mother and aunt and Greek from "local priests." If we are to believe the poet ipse, he basically taught himself the language, just as he did French and Italian. In a relatively late (1737) autobiographical couplet imitating lines from Horace's Epistle 2.2, Pope identifies with his Roman precursor:
Bred up at home, full early I begunHorace's lines are:
To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus' son.
To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus' son.
Romae nutriri mihi contigit atque doceri
iratus Grais quantum nocuisset Achilles.
"It was my lot to be brought up at Rome and to be taught
How much harm irate Achilles did to the Greeks."
iratus Grais quantum nocuisset Achilles.
"It was my lot to be brought up at Rome and to be taught
How much harm irate Achilles did to the Greeks."
[ back ] 3. D. P. Verene, The New Art of Autobiography: An Essay on the Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself (Oxford, 1991), 18.
[ back ] 4. Verene, New Art (n. 3 above), 19.
[ back ] 5. G. Mazzotta, A New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (Princeton, 2014), 143.
[ back ] 6. J. Levine, The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon (Chicago, 1999), 79.
[ back ] 7. This word is arguably most closely associated with Michel Foucault as a redefinition of the Greek term. Elliptically, he writes: "… [L]'archéologie, s'adressant à l'espace générale du savoir, à ses configurations et au mode d'être des choses, définit des systèmes de simultanéité, ainsi que la série de mutations nécessaires et suffisantes pour circonscrire le seuil d'une positivité nouvelle" (Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines [Paris, 1966], 14). I translate: "… [A]rchaeology, as addressing the general field of knowledge [wisdom], its configurations, and the ontological forms of things, defines systems of simultaneity, as well as the series of mutations necessary and sufficient to constitute the threshold of a new phenomenological reality [i.e., a "positivity" in the sense construed by Auguste Compte]."
The Scienza Nuova, as most Vichian specialists have interpreted it, would seem very much to anticipate Foucault's "archeology of knowledge" projects. I have supplied an alternative translation for Foucault's savoir as "wisdom" to suggest an affinity with the subject of Book II of the Scienza Nuova, "The Wisdom [sapienza] of the Ancients."
[ back ] 8. G. Vico, Opere di Giambattista Vico. Vol. 5: Principj di una scienza nuova d'intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni (Naples, 1859), 11.
[ back ] 9. Levine, Autonomy of History (n. 6 above), 138.
[ back ] 10. Levine, Autonomy of History, 86.
[ back ] 11. Vico possibly refers to this account in Herodotus:
[O]riginally the Greeks shaped their letters exactly like all the other Phoenicians, but afterwards, in the course of time, they changed by degrees their language [my emphasis], and together with it the form likewise of their characters (Histories 5.58).


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- Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has released a draft of the new National Policy for Women
- The previous policy has been in effect since 2001
- The policy takes a non-parochial view towards women - aiding their growth in the sectors they\'re already in
- Importantly, it addresses the issue of crimes against women, especially the increasing instances of cyber crime
- Salient features of the draft policy
- How the public can share its views with the govt on the policy
The National Policy for Women is getting a revamp. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday, 17 May, released the draft of the 2016 policy, which will replace the one we've had since 2001.
It is a proposal to address the various concerns women in India have, including the need for better education, healthcare, job generation, etc.
Gandhi, while releasing the draft policy said: "This policy is coming after 15 years. In these years, many things have changed, and the most important of them is women's attitude towards challenges."
She stressed that women are now far more aware of their rights, and so the policy too must change to accommodate that understanding.
Career-oriented policy
The 2016 draft is career-oriented, much like the Indian woman of today.
While suggesting ways to encourage female employment in varied sectors, including agriculture, IT and law, it also stresses upon the need to educate. It highlights the need for increased enrollment of girls in schools by making necessary provisions, like transport facilities, sanitation, higher female staff, etc.
Also read: A mandatory course on gender sensitisation? Telangana, you surprised us all!
"The draft has been made in consultation with a lot of women - lawyers, journalists, bureaucrats and non-working women - to see what we can do in terms of defining government action in the next 15-20 years," Gandhi said.
Once all the stakeholders, including NGOs and members of the civil society, are consulted with, the policy can be brought into effect.
Crimes against women
On the issue of crimes against women, a whole range of measures have been suggested.
Interestingly, the draft also factors in the need for a redressal system against cyber crime, a sort of crime that's only growing, and more so against women. Given a climate where the physical threat felt by women is reported widely, cyber bullies use their hidden-behind-the-keyboard status to perpetrate their crimes.
"With technology advancements, there have been incidents of fraud and misuse of information uploaded on the cyberspace... The regulatory frameworks are not in pace with the growth in technology as yet.... hence, there is a need for developing protecting measures for citizens keeping in view that the victims of such frauds are largely women," the draft reads.
Focus on youth
Beyond the obvious connection between the youth and technology, the draft also considers the young women who make up a large part of the workforce.
"In the coming years, India is expected to gain significantly from its 'demographic dividend' as the share of its potential productive workforce will increase in numbers as compared to the aging population of other countries. To what extent the country can seize this dividend and benefit from it will largely depend on how women exercise their rights and entitlements and contribute to the development process," the draft reads.
This is to say that because India is an increasingly young country, it would be completely myopic of the system to not ensure that half the potential workforce, i.e. women, are not provided the aid necessary for them to work at par with their male counterparts. And this provision would only help the GDP and the economy. So win-win, basically.
Women in male-dominated fields
"Recognising that trade agreements are not gender neutral and that differential impact of trade policies on gender exists, especially for women working in agriculture, food processing, textiles etc., a full review of all existing trade treaties and agreements from a gender equity dimension will be made," reads one of the pointers from the draft.
First off, recognising the female farmer, labourer and trader is a huge shift in women-related policy. While this draft has the usual care-giving provisions like maternity aid, healthcare benefits, girl child education, etc., it actually views women in functional roles, wherein they simply require some assistance to perform their best.
It also unpatronisingly aims to pull more qualified women into the field. Without offering jobs like candy, the policy wants women to get more high-paying jobs and break the glass ceiling, especially in the service sector.
It reads: "The service sector will encourage equal employment opportunity through jobs/enterprises for women, especially in high-paid jobs, to post-graduates and professionally-qualified women."
Women in sports, especially in India, are not the best placed. Barring cricket, which is basically a religion, women's teams in other sports get little or no attention. This despite the many laurels they win for the country.
So for this draft to address their woes is fairly urgent.
"Conscious efforts will be made to ensure gender parity in the induction of trainees, trainers, recruitment of coaches under various schemes of Sports Authority of India (SAI)," reads the draft.
And women in non male-dominted fields
The media is seen as a fairly respectable field as far as gender ratios in newsrooms and other places go. However, what about the portrayal of women in media?
The policy aims to not just help young girls gain access to jobs in the media, but also ensure a gender-sensitised working environment, where the content mirrors the job situation.
"Gender sensitisation and non-discrimination in portrayal of women in all forms of media and use of gender sensitive language will be advocated to ensure that women are not represented in a demeaning or stereotypical manner. Private sector media networks will be sensitised and encouraged to portray empowering images of women with self regulatory mechanisms."
Of course, what may comprise "empowering images" is debatable.
Two-way street
The ministry also promises an advisory council for women to approach the government with regards to entrepreneurial ventures. This, of course, is to make matters less 'male-dominated'. The council would be called 'Women Entrepreneur Council'.
Not just that, the ministry, in a fairly democratic move, is welcoming suggestions regarding the draft from all inclined to do so. All suggestions can be directed here
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Can CBD oil help manage period induced anxiety?
Early one Saturday morning I found myself in Grass Roots, a marijuana dispensary on Polk Street in San Francisco. I am not a person well-versed in the area, so I was feeling out of my comfort zone. However, I'd been hearing a lot of talk in the health space about CBD oil and I was intrigued; could there really be something out there that's plant-based, 'safe' and helpful in those moments when anxiety rears its ugly head?
Before I went to purchase my own little bottle of magic I wanted to do some research on what CBD oil actually is. Cannabidiol (CBD) oil comes from the Cannabis plant but, more importantly, it is very different from the substance that Cannabis is famous for - THC (or delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol). Cannabis plants can be grown in different ways to produce more or less THC and CBD. Marijuana is a form of the Cannabis plant that has been grown with high concentrations of THC, whereas Hemp has lower concentrations of THC and is used to make CBD oil. Although Cannabis is the source of both compounds, CBD and THC are very different in the effects that they have on the body. THC activates the brain's reward systems and produces the "high" that Marijuana is known for. This is not true of CBD, which is non-psychoactive or mind-altering. The crucial difference between CBD and THC is that CBD does not get you high, but THC does.
However, studies are beginning to show there may be a number of medicinal benefits to taking CBD, including the treatment of chronic pain, withdrawal from cigarettes and addictive drugs and even the treatment of cancer. Researchers have found that CBD appears to help relieve certain types of anxiety including General Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks. The science here is still very early and more studies would need to be done to confirm these initial findings, however, the results look promising. With interest in the product doubling in the last two years it's likely we will start seeing more research into the potential benefits.
It's worth noting that CBD oil is currently legal in California but is not legal in all 50 states of the US. It is possible to get CBD oil with different concentrations of THC and you can opt to have no THC at all. It's important to note that CBD oil that does contains small amounts of THC would show up on a drug test, so it's worth checking with the supplier and reading the concentration details on the bottle if this is a concern.
I've had my bottle of CBD oil for a few weeks now and so far the results have been good. The weekend I bought it, I was eager to try it so started on half a dropper worth in my tea, which contains about 2.5mg of CBD. I wasn't suffering any anxiety symptoms at that point and was already feeling relaxed. After about 10 minutes I felt an urge to lie down and then had an hour-long afternoon nap and woke up feeling calm and refreshed. A week later and a more testing situation; my period came and with it the inconvenience of hormonal acne on my chin. I had a first date scheduled and was feeling the familiar pull of anxiety and self-doubt. I took a dropper (5mg of CBD) before I walked out the door and by the time I arrived 10 mins later I felt notably more calm and confident as well as alert. The final test, an all-day birthday party with lots of people I don't know. As someone who leans towards introversion, these events can be nerve-wracking so I was grateful to turn to CBD for a boost. Again, I felt a wave of ease wash over me after a few minutes. In all three situations, I experienced no high, no external symptoms and I felt that my mental functioning was completely normal.
A question I've considered - is this just the placebo effect? My view is, placebo or not, CBD oil has helped me to feel my best self in moments when I was grateful for an extra boost. Personally, I don't feel like I need to use CBD every day but I will keep it as part of my self-care toolbox for added support in those SOS moments of anxiety.
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Plans for 1,000 New Homes Near Barton
Oxford City Council wants people living in Barton to help them with the planning of a new community.
A masterplan's being developed for 1,000 new homes, primary school, food store and park on land to the west of Barton.
A series of public meetings are being held to give people an opportunity to discuss the plans and share ideas, with one being held at New Marston Primary School between 4pm and 7pm tonight (July 12).
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OBJECT Horizon Nuclear Power (Miss Sarah Fox)
It is not clear what requirement this policy imposes on developers in relation to the "Potential Options". For example, do all options need to be considered and at least one implemented or is it permissible for no options to be implemented if evidence is presented showing that none of the options is feasible? It would be beneficial to reword this policy so that the particular obligation(s) are identified more clearly.
OBJECT Llywodraeth Cymru (Mr Mark Newey)
The renewable energy assessment could be used to improve the policy wording for PS6 and PCYFF4, as these stand they lack clarity. The energy assessment could make it clear what is expected and to what scale/ type of development the policies apply.
OBJECT Bourne Leisure Ltd represented by Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners (Mr Arwel Evans)
Bourne Leisure comments however that sustainable design and construction should be primarily sought via Building Regulations. However, the Company also notes that the initial design of a building in the planning process will need to consider the ability to meet Building Regulations' requirements in the future. This point of principle should be set out in the LDP, to ensure that no confusion arises. It is therefore unnecessary for the LDP to make reference to energy efficiency features and measures.
SUPPORT Cyngor Tref Ffestiniog (Mrs Ann Coxon)
Ffestiniog Town Council supports this important policy to control carbon. Exciting plans to build housing and facilities that address the needs of the future should be supported.
OBJECT Mon a Gwynedd Friends of the Earth (Mr Richard Mills)
There appears to have been a failure to identify any strategic sites where energy efficiency measures should exceed the regulatory building standard. Planning Policy Wales, edn. 5, paras. 6.6 and 6.7 is relevant in this respect, as is the letter from Carl Sargeant, dated 5 June 2014, which states that "In formulating their Local Development Plans, LPAs should continue to assess their strategic sites to identify opportunities to require higher than regulatory (sustainable building) standards". We therefore consider that, with regard to housing/energy efficiency, the Deposit JLDP fails consistency test C2 and coherence and effectiveness test CE2.
SUPPORT Adran Cynllunio a Thai, Cyngor Sir Ddinbych (Angela Loftus)
Support this detailed and workable policy.


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