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Not many people can say they've made their childhood dreams come true, but, then again, not many people have the same dogged passion as lawyer Rachel Rodgers.
"I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was like, 8-years-old," Rodgers says. "My mom was really into crime dramas and used to watch movies that had courtroom scenes. I was always taken by the lawyers; I saw them as representing the little guy."
While her career today bears little resemblance to a tension-filled, "A Few Good Men"-style courtroom procedural, Rodgers has made a name for herself fighting for another type of underdog: small-business owners. Founded in 2010, her virtual law practice Rachel Rodgers Law Office has become a source of both emotional ("I have a lot of clients [who] call me for motivational speeches," she says) and legal support for her clients, mostly young entrepreneurs under the age of 45.
"I like being a lawyer, but I don't want to work in a firm where it's uncomfortable for me as a woman, or as a minority, or as a parent—and then there's no room for free time," she says.
Free time and flexibility are perks she values as wife to Dediako Rodgers, mother to Riley (2) and Jackson (7 months), and a stepmother to her husband's daughter Fatia (14). Helping other entrepreneurs achieve balance between their work and personal lives became especially important.
What has been the biggest challenge you've faced as a mom?
My second pregnancy with my son Jackson, which was more difficult than my first pregnancy with my daughter Riley. I found out I was pregnant again the day before my daughter's first birthday. When the baby was 20 weeks along, my husband and I went in for a routine sonogram to find out the sex, but the person that was doing it had a concern and wanted the doctor to review the results. After half an hour of being super excited that we were having a boy, the doctor told us there was a very high risk of him being born very early and not making it. I had an "incompetent cervix." The cervix thins out for birth but at that point in my pregnancy I was supposed to have three or four inches left; I had about an inch. Although the doctors said it was a common problem and that the vast majority of women who have this problem go on to have healthy babies, I had to have surgery to sew up my cervix as much as possible. After that, it was just me trying to hold onto Jackson for as long as possible and researching if he was born early, how many complications he could have.
I was put on bed rest. I literally could only get up to go to the bathroom, and that was it. I was still trying to run my business which, at that point was starting to thrive and get really busy. I had figured out some of my operational issues and had a lot of clients, and I was getting paid pretty well for the work that I was doing—and I was running it all from bed. The only time I could leave the house was for doctor's visits, so my husband took over. He took my daughter to child care, made all of my meals, and basically took care of me constantly. He had to rush me to the emergency room multiple times during the pregnancy because I started having contractions and the doctors had to stop them.
That was the biggest challenge I've faced as a mother so far. Just the worry. I was really concerned and would break down every now and then. I tried to stay strong and be really positive because I tend to be a positive person anyway, but it was tough. I was on a forum with other mothers who were on bed rest and had similar issues, and I'd read stories about their babies being born really early. So I dealt with it by trying to find as much information as possible. I felt like if I let my imagination go then I'd imagine the worst, so I wanted to look up actual statistics and articles from medical journals. In some ways it was comforting, and in other ways it was stressful.
Read more of Rachel's story and meet these other amazing mothers at matermea.com.
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Last Nov. 10, three UCLA Bruins were caught shoplifting sunglasses during the basketball team's trip to China. The criticism of those kids came hard and fast, always underscored by a seemingly simple question: How could they be so stupid?
I knew, however, that the question was not so simple. That's because 22 years ago, I did something stupid. And I knew exactly what those kids were feeling, because I will never forget how I felt when I got that fateful phone call exposing what I had done for all the world to see.
It was June 1996. I was back home in Orange, Calif., having recently completed a freshman season at Notre Dame that, all things considered, had gone pretty darn well. I had started all but four games and led the team in assists, steals and minutes. Still, for a variety of reasons, I was thinking about a transfer. Apparently word got out because my coach, John MacLeod, called to report he had heard rumors I might want to leave. I told him I wasn't sure yet, but yes, I was thinking about it. He was understanding but said I needed to let him know one way or another in a week so he could recruit another point guard if I was not coming back.
Two days later, Coach MacLeod called again. This time, he was bearing bad news. "Dougie, I don't know if it's just innuendo," he said. "But I am hearing some accusations about you using other students' credit cards."
My heart sank. I had been caught.
Coach Mac never asked if it was true, but I had to tell my father it was. Facing him was brutal. Bob Gottlieb was a basketball lifer who spent seven years as a Division I head coach, 19 years as an assistant and had become a prominent AAU coach who ran a basketball academy and a recruiting placement service. Even though I was 20, I feared his reaction. My dad was old-school, and he had a temper. I was his pride and joy, but I got into trouble a lot when I was a kid. He smacked me around when I deserved it. But he didn't raise a hand when I told him. He simply said, "You are going to have to fix this."
After considering a transfer, I now wanted to return to Notre Dame and make things right. Over the next week I called all three kids I had stolen from. I apologized profusely and offered to pay them back. I also begged them not to report what I had done to the school's honor code committee. I had appeared before the committee three months before on charges of plagiarism. I got off with a slap on the wrist, but I knew this would be grounds for expulsion. Two of the students I spoke with agreed not to report me. The third did not.
A few days later, Coach MacLeod called again. "Dougie, I have some tough news," he said. "We love you, we know this is not who you are, but this is just not something I can fix. So we are going to say you are transferring because you are homesick, and that we wish you the best."
I hung up the phone and looked around my bedroom, the 9-by-12 foot space where I nurtured all of my dreams of becoming a great basketball player, someone who could make his family proud. There were four posters on the walls. Michael Jordan's "Wings." A Larry Bird poster that read, "It makes me sick when I see a guy just watch it go out of bounds." The "Best on Earth, Best on Mars" poster by Nike, featuring Jordan and Spike Lee posing as Mars Blackmon. And a John Stockton poster. I looked at all of the trophies, the scholar-athlete awards, the pictures from the day I signed with Notre Dame, the boxes of letters from schools who recruited me.
It dawned on me that this could mean the end of my basketball career, that no one would ever want me to play for them. All those dreams, all those plans, gone in an instant. Worst of all, there was no one to blame. I had done this to myself, all by myself. I was tormented by that one overriding question: How could I be so stupid?
The last thing I want is to do is sound like I'm making excuses. The hard truth is, there are none. But over the years, I've thought about why I made those bad decisions. My understanding has helped me process what I did, forgive myself and eventually move on, even if there are a lot of folks who won't let me.
I was the ultimate gym rat growing up. As a senior at Tustin High School, I was named the Player of the Year by the Orange County Register. I was recruited by a lot of big-time schools, including UCLA, Michigan State, Florida and UConn. Coach MacLeod reached out as well, but I wasn't really interested in playing for Notre Dame. However, I was a huge college football fan, so I told him I wanted to see the campus and go to a game.
I visited on a beautiful September weekend. The campus was amazing. Michigan beat Notre Dame on a last-second field goal, and students were crying as they left the stadium. I was blown away by their passion. I also bonded with MacLeod's assistant, Fran McCaffrey, who is now the coach at Iowa. When MacLeod called and told me that Notre Dame was joining the Big East, I was sold. I was a Jewish point guard from California headed to the ultimate Catholic school to play point guard in the Big East. Ain't that America!
When I arrived in South Bend in August 1995, I thought I had found nirvana. Then October came, and the weather turned. I was a California kid who grew up 20 minutes from the beach. I owned exactly one pair of jeans. (Guess jeans, of course.) My daily attire consisted of basketball shorts, flip flops and a sweatshirt I shed at 10 a.m. I had never experienced cold like that. The lack of sun got to me. I think I needed Vitamin D.
Practice started on Oct. 15. I had arrived at 160 pounds and bulked up as fast as I could to about 177, thanks to Creatine, which was all the rage. The added muscle made me look like a beast, but it hurt my shooting. I was not physically ready. I got my ass kicked often in practice. Like most freshman, I felt lost.
Within three weeks, I was a mess. I wasn't comfortable running MacLeod's halfcourt motion offense. I felt like I couldn't make a play. Plus, I lacked a personal connection with my coach. Looking back, I would guess that I was clinically depressed. I walked into McCaffrey's office, and tears came pouring out. I said all the stupid things you say when you lose your mind. I wanted to go home. I missed my dog. I hated the offense. It was cold. I was failing at least three courses. I'll never play, I can't shoot, I'm slow. Why did you recruit me?
Fran heard me out, gave me a hug and told me everything would be different when the games started. And with that he sent me back to my dormitory, Dillon Hall.
In many ways, McCaffrey was right, but even when I played well, my depression came and went. I loved my teammates, but I had never been on a losing team. When the season ended, I got to enjoy campus life a little. I was the PA announcer for a student basketball tournament. I dated around after a girl I was seeing dumped me. I felt my high school girlfriend pulling away. I felt alone.
I was not myself. Rather, my makeup was a volatile mixture of entitlement, depression and a need for attention. I shaved my head. I wasn't a big drinker, but I drank heavily at some weekend dorm parties and a bar called The Backer. My bike was stolen. Instead of feeling like an idiot for not locking it up, I harbored anger that other people were doing me wrong, even though I was too hammered to remember exactly where I had left the bike.
One night I was writing a paper on a computer that belonged to a guy in my dorm. No one was around. I was looking for a calculator, and when I opened the drawer I saw a credit card. I didn't have one of my own. I looked at it, thought about it, closed the drawer. The next night I returned to use the computer again. This time I went for it. I didn't have a plan. I just thought I'd use it and put it back. Who was going to know?
I went to the mall and bought a pair of size 12 Nike "Pippen's." They were dope. Here I was, with hundreds of free sneakers in my closet, and it wasn't enough. The next night, I worked on the computer again and put the card back. Simple – or so I thought.
About a week went by, and I was working on another computer. This time I spotted a wallet. I took the first card I found, bought some Tommy Hilfiger shirts and returned the card the next day.
One week later, same deal, different dorm room. It was easy. At that time it seemed that everyone had rope chains and woven gold bracelets, so I bought one. I thought it looked cool with the Hilfiger shirts. All in all, I spent about $900 for shoes, shirts and a bracelet. I put the credit card back, but later I stole a gas card that I did not return.
I wasn't done. During the last week of school, I returned my textbooks to the campus bookstore and was paid cash for them. Later that week, I was sitting in a study lounge and spotted some books that didn't belong to me. I took them to the store and got money for them as well. This happened about five times over the course of a week. I was living a total lie. I had new gear, a flashy bracelet, new kicks, and now I had a couple hundred bucks in my pocket. The school year ended, and I was ready to head home. I thought no one would ever know.
As I look back, I am appalled at my behavior. Why did I do it? I can blame depression or whatever else was bothering me about Notre Dame, but here's the real reason: I thought I could get away with it. I felt invincible. I had cheated on tests and been caught a few times, but I was always let off the hook. Besides, I rationalized that I was stealing from kids who had rich parents. I never stole from my roommate, partly because I knew his family didn't have a lot of money. I also never stole from my teammates. All of that just rationalized my selfish behavior. None of it makes what I did OK. I was a thief. Period.
Even though I was devastated at the way my Notre Dame career came to an end, I was grateful that Coach McLeod offered to cover for me. In August, the student newspaper published a story about my departure under the headline, "Why?" My explanation for leaving was that I was homesick.
The students I stole from were not pleased, so they reached out to the local NBC television station and outed me. It became a big story nationally. Major media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, ESPN and Sports Illustrated followed up with reports of their own.
The agreement with the school was that no charges would be filed, but after it became public, they had no choice. I had to go back to South Bend for a hearing. It is the only time I have been to Notre Dame since I left. I pleaded guilty to a Class C misdemeanor. I had to pay a $500 fine, restitution for the items I stole (2½ times the purchase price), which amounted to about $2,500, plus another $5,000 in court and legal fees. I also had to agree to see a therapist back home in California. That turned out to be a great thing for me.
I enrolled at Golden West College in Huntington Beach. My first high school coach, Tom McCluskey, was the coach. He let me practice with the team — I was an assistant coach during games — but I didn't play in games because I didn't want to lose a year of eligibility. The athletes at GWC tended to sit together outside the food court. I will never forget the stares I got when I walked by them the day the story broke. I felt like a loser. The only comparable feeling was the day I went back to South Bend for my court hearing and got fingerprinted at the county jail.
As I explored my options, I got excited about the prospect of playing for Georgia Tech. Bobby Cremins wanted me, and his program was known for churning out great point guards — Mark Price, Kenny Anderson and Stephon Marbury. I thought it was all but done until Cremins called and said he was getting pushback from his administration because of what I had done at Notre Dame. He pulled the offer. I was crushed.
Fortunately, I had an amazing opportunity to play for another coaching legend, Eddie Sutton, at Oklahoma State. When I got to campus in the fall of 1997, I was relieved to discover that barely anyone outside of the coaches knew about what I had done at Notre Dame. It was a fresh start. I had a terrific career in Stillwater. As everyone knows, I was not a good shooter. (OK, I was a terrible shooter: For my career I shot 37 percent from the floor, 24 percent from 3-point range and 46 percent from the line.) But in my junior year I led the nation in assists, at 8.5 per game, and I was second in the country the next year with an 8.6 average. OSU went 17-15 in each of the two years before I got there. During my three years in Stillwater, we went to the NCAA Tournament three times, and in my senior year we lost in the Elite Eight. I tried to enter a game against Kansas with my shorts on backwards. That's another boneheaded mistake I will never live down.
Most important, I met my wife, Angie, at Oklahoma State. Today we live in southern California and have three amazing children: twins Harper and Grace, 11; and Hayes, who's 8. A few years ago, Hayes came home from school and told me that one of his friends had looked me up on the Internet and learned that I had gotten kicked out of Notre Dame. Hayes told him it wasn't true because he didn't even know I had been at Notre Dame. I had to tell him that yes, it is true. He asked me what happened. "I took somebody's stuff without asking," I said. "So remember, if you're ever going to take someone's stuff, make sure you ask first. You have to have permission."
"Or you will go to the principal's office?" Hayes asked.
"Worse," I replied.
I live a pretty public life. I host a nationally syndicated radio show, I'm on various TV shows and I call college basketball games on radio and television. I am also active on social media. Not a week goes by that someone doesn't send me a tweet or a message calling me a credit card thief.
I'd be lying if I said I loved it. I did a lot of stuff before, and I've done a lot of stuff since. I don't understand how some people can live so far in the past, especially when it's not their past. It's been 22 years. Whatever the statute of limitations is on college-age stupidity, I believe I have exceeded it. But I understand there are many people who will never let me forget. That's reality.
On the other hand, going through this has made me a better person, a better dad. I can tell my kids from experience that it's important to know right from wrong, that if you do the wrong thing, you're probably going to get caught, and there's a good chance that because of social media it will follow you forever.
I would also like to use what happened to teach my children the value of persistence. I am very proud of what I've accomplished as a broadcaster despite all of this. I look at my job the same way I do my playing career. Think about it – I could not shoot. How much better did I have to be as a defender, a passer and a leader to play at the level I did? How good do I have to be at hosting a radio show or calling a basketball game to have the career I've had despite being kicked out of Notre Dame? Not to mention that if that hadn't happened, I never would have ended up at Oklahoma State and met Angie. I've never liked "things happen for a reason" statements, especially when the reason was my own doing, but I truly believe I was meant to be a Cowboy. Stillwater spoke to me, and it changed me in so many good ways. I tell people all the time: I was born in Milwaukee and raised in Orange County, but I grew up in Stillwater, Okla.
I still have some guilt. Three years after I left Notre Dame, Coach MacLeod was fired. I have to live knowing that maybe that wouldn't have happened if not for what I did. Mostly, I hate what I did to my parents' name. I think that's why I worked so hard to build my career as a broadcaster. I wanted to make them proud. My dad died of cancer in 2014. He would have been 78 on Jan. 20. He came from a generation where you didn't talk about your feelings. I don't remember ever talking with him about all of this once we got past the original incident. We didn't talk about a lot of stuff, actually. I regret that. But mostly, I regret he was associated with my actions, which were counter to everything he ever taught me.
So if I could talk to those UCLA kids who got caught shoplifting in China, I would say this: Do the right thing, bide your time and try to leave what happened behind. There's no point trying to forget, because the world will never let you. But hopefully, your mistake will change you for the better, just as mine did.
More than two decades later, I have kept just one item from those trips to the mall – the gold bracelet. It resides in the top drawer of my nightstand, next to my bed. Angie has never asked me about its meaning. I have only worn it once, when I covered the 2013 Final Four for CBS. As I sat on that set, I could look down at the bracelet and remind myself of how far I had come, and how much I had overcome. And if you think it's wrong that I kept something that I didn't pay for, I respectfully disagree. Remember, I had to give the money back at 2½ times the original price. Then there were the other costs: my scholarship, my career, my reputation, the diminished respect of my teammates, friends and family.
So yeah, I paid for that bracelet. I'm still paying for it.
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Texprint 2012: weave wizards
9 January 2013 by TexSelect in Fashion, Home, Interiors & Auto
Proof if needed that the ancient craft of weaving is in the ascendant: Texprint 2012 weave designers couple patience and precision with a love for the physicality and excitement of creating fabric from scratch, and their work is being snapped up by international fashion and interiors companies.
Lisa Bloomer is passionate about colour and sustainable practices, and is continually exploring new ways to succeed in her "fight against the geometric." Inspired by looking through windows at ever changing sky and cloud patterns above the city's high-rise buildings, Lisa focuses on capturing transitory movement in her work. This spontaneity is tangible in all her designs, she uses colour in a fresh and dynamic way and achieves many unique effects by first hand painting on the warp.
Lisa's jacquard designs are woven bespoke by Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen the only Irish linen damask weaver still remaining in Ireland. She aims to source local fibres such as European hemp, linen and British wool.
Textile: ©Dominique Caplan
Dominique Caplan creates quirky and energetic concepts for menswear. Fascinated by the technical process of weaving, her primary research involved creating characters and models for games to develop her ideas of fun and fantasy. By working in monochrome with added shots of bright colour, Dominique quietly references Bridget Riley's black and white optical illusion patterns.
Textile: ©Sophia Fenlon
Sophia Fenlon's work is inspired by ornate ecclesiastical decoration and stained glass. Catholic traditions and the Renaissance are references for Sophia's work created for both fashion and interiors. Sophia says, she is "intrigued by the weird and wonderful, and the exploration of extreme extra weft patterning, which gives rise to intricately constructed woven designs."
Textile: ©Jacquie Lefferts
Inspired by Indian maharajahs, brocades and heavy military embroidery, Jacquie Lefferts creates opulent fabrics using metallic yarns. Jacquie has also re-created lace effects using a Leno weave technique to great effect. Having studied at FIT in New York for two years, Jacquie then completed her BA at Chelsea College of Art & Design before being selected for Texprint.
Fantasy and surrealism are aspects that inspired Alix Massieux's fabric collection. Although a weave specialist, Alix is driven to mix techniques and experiment with embroidery. To read more, click here.
Textile: ©Sophie Manners
Sophie Manners, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, was selected as winner of the second Woolmark Texprint Award in support of the Campaign for Wool Indigo/Première Vision in September. Sophie won the prize for her superb woven textile designs developed with 60% or more Merino wool. Sophie loves colour and texture and being playful with these two elements. It was her reinvented traditional woven pieces on the theme of hair and fur, and her experimental approach to constructing fabrics with often unexpectedly tactile surfaces, that caught the judges' attention. In November Sophie completed a seven-week internship with Taroni in Como, a unique opportunity to experience working in textiles in Italy.
Textile: ©Sophie Reeves
Finally, captivated by the physicality of creating woven fabrics and inspired by 1930's fabric design and Russian Constructivism, Sophie Reeves loves to mix graphic pattern with "random outbursts" of additions such as applied crystal decoration. In November Sophie finished a seven-week internship with Luigi Verga, Como – while there with five other Texprint designers, enjoying an invaluable experience gathering visit to the Missoni and Ermenegildo Zegna headquarters.
Sophie is one of two designers selected by Lululemon Athletica as winners of the inaugural Lululemon Texprint Award, winning not only £1,000 but also a three-month paid internship at Lululemon headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, starting this month (the other winner is Manri Kishimoto).


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Clean your house dude. Dirty grapes are no joke.dave wrote:me: you want some more grapes, bud?
nils: no. Kuh-buzz iss doughty
(because it's dirty)
he said that about everything for about six months.
steelopus wrote:Wiki is updated, too.
Thanks Dave. This has been great fun.
dave wrote:ansible wrote:
dinner's on the table
your mother's at the door
kids are watching TV
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Dear Community Members,
As many of you are aware of, the British Society will be hosting the British Classic Car Show on the next 12th August at Box54 (https://www.box54.com.br).
All the revenue from these tickets will be donated to the programas we carry out with the elderly.
The British Classic Car Show, as its name states, will be an event with classic and vintage cars produced by British companies.
Over 60 classic cars from automakers such as Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mini, Austin Healey, Sunbeam, MG, Triumph, Rover and HRG will be exposed by its owners, who will also be there to chat and tell the stories of those precious vehicles.
The event will also have many other attactions in addition to the vintage cars:
- The Beatles Abbey Road, which is not just a cover, but a real spectacle that recreates The Beatles history. They already performed on the Beatles International Week in Liverpool and faithfully reproduce their behavior on stage;
- Access to Box54's Collection of Classic Cars, one of the greatest classic cars collections in Brazil;
- Drive4Fun, which enables rides on classic cars like Rolls-Royce or Sports cars like Ferrari, Porsche and Mustang with a personal guide and very affordable prices;
- Food trucks;
- Pazzo Ice Creams, the original ice cream supplier of Paris6;
- Lounges from sponsors and partners, such as Land Rover, Collectania, and Camden House Pub. The sponsors will also be providing prizes to be given away at the event;
- British Classic Car Show Store, with many official items of the event.
If you are a member of the British Community, please send us information about your event and we'll be pleased to include in our calendar!
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The 2019 Western art and antiques season kicks-off with Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction, January 25-27, 2019 in Mesa, AZ, featuring over 180 weekend show dealers, and an exciting two-night live auction event with over $6 million in auction estimates.
Mesa, AZ – Brian Lebel's Old West Events presents the 29th annual Mesa Old West Show & Auction (formerly the High Noon Show & Auction) at the Mesa Convention Center and adjacent Delta Marriott Mesa, January 25-27th, 2019. The weekend Old West Show hosts over 180 dealers in authentic cowboy, Western and Native American art, antiques and design; the Old West Auction will see 775 lots cross the block with the auction of the Robert G. McCubbin Collection on Friday night, and the 29th annual Mesa Old West Auction on Saturday night. The annual three-day event is regarded as the premiere event in the Western collecting industry and is attended by collectors and enthusiasts from around the world.
The Mesa Old West Show will feature over 180 national dealers of authentic western art, antiques, apparel, décor, jewelry, collectibles, antique firearms, Native American arts and artifacts, photography, boots, books and other fine western merchandise in all price ranges. Held at the Mesa Convention Center, 9-4 on Saturday and 9-3 on Sunday, January 26-27, 2019. General admission is $10/day, kids under 12 are free, and discount general admission tickets may be purchased online. A Friday "VIP early buy-in" is available for $100, allowing collectors access to the show during all vendor hours, beginning at 8:00 am on Friday morning at the start of dealer set-up.
This year's Mesa Auction will include a special Friday night sale in addition to the usual Saturday evening auction. The Robert G. McCubbin Old West Photography Collection will be sold exclusively on Friday, January 25th, and includes numerous rare and collectable photographs. Historic artifacts and ephemera from the McCubbin Collection will be offered on Saturday night, January 26th, as part of the annual, multi-consignor Mesa Old West Auction. At over 1,500 total pieces (to be sold individually and in lots), the McCubbin Photography and Artifact Collection is the largest and most extensive of its kind in public hands, and the first to come available for public sale. The most highly anticipated auction lot of the weekend is the Billy the Kid knife, estimated to sell for between $800,000-1.2 million.
Both the Robert G. McCubbin Photography Auction and the 29th Annual Mesa Old West Auction will be held at the Delta Marriott Mesa, January 25-26th, 2019 beginning both nights at 5:00 pm. All lots may be previewed on-site, and the auctions are free and open to the public. Bidder registration is free and bidding may be done live, online, mobile, by phone or absentee. Catalogs are available for purchase, or may be viewed online at https://auctions.oldwestevents.com.
More information on both the show and the auctions is available at www.oldwestevents.com or by calling 480-779-9378. Even more of Old West Events can be found on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, #MesaOldWest.
Mesa Old West Show General Admission Schedule:
Saturday, January 26: 9am - 4pm
Sunday, January 27: 9am - 3pm
$10/day, under 12 free.
Dealer set-up: Friday, January 25, 8am - 5pm. Early entry tickets available for $100.
Mesa Old West Auction Schedule:
The Robert G. McCubbin Photography Collection - Friday, January 25: 5:00 pm
The 29th Annual Old West Auction - Saturday, January 26: 23: 5:00 pm
Preview: Friday, June 22, 9am - 5pm & Saturday, June 23 9am - 4:30pm
Auctions and previews are both free and open to the public.


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Otkrijte najbolje što grad nudi po preporuci lokalaca. Pronađite najzanimljivije aktivnosti, mjesta za jesti i saznajte dragocjene preporuke lokalnih stanovnika.
"One of the most beautiful and oldest parks of Bucharest, located very close to the city centre. Perfect for a relaxing stroll, for jogging or a ride with a small rowboat on the lake."
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Capitol Building
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Romanian Restaurant
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Trgovački centar
"The most beautiful mall in Bucharest, AFI Palace Cotroceni, at 15 minutes walking distance."
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Koncertna dvorana
"The Romanian Athenaeum (Ateneul Român) is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest and a landmark of the Romanian capital city."
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"It filled its four different venues with what Romanian private collectors and the Romanian state deemed to be the best in visual arts over time."
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History Museum
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noćni klub
"This is Hipster Central. If you intended to hit the hipster mother-load, this is the spot."
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"The Romanian National History Museum continues to be one of the representative institutions of Romanian culture, holding a very valuable fund of mobile heritage assets illustrating all the significant periods in the past of the Romanian people and the civilizations that existed in the past territory of our country. The rich heritage includes over 650,000 pieces (a number that increases annually and among which are remarkable objects), organized in the following collections: ceramics, lapidarium-tegularium, numismatics, philately, medal-sigilography, thesaurus, manuscripts, prints, decorative, historical photobook, stamps, maps, metal, weapons and equipment, textiles and furniture."
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Trgovački centar
"At Unirea Shopping City you can do a little shopping when the weather is bad. You can find brands like ZARA, Bershka or Pull&Bear and many more. "
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"Great place if you want to get a glimpse into how life was for romanians peasants."
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Trgovački centar
"Big shopping mall North of the city. Has a large cinema and lots of stores."
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"It exhibits old traditional Romanian houses from the villages. It is great if you want to know more about the Romanian folklore and traditions"
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Romanian Restaurant
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WHAT: Somerset Valley Players Next Production Is "Calendar Girls" Based on True Story of Housewives Pin Ups
WHERE: 689 Amwell Road (Route 514) Hillsborough, NJ 08844
The next production of the Somerset Valley Players, Hillsborough's award-winning, nonprofit community theatre, is the comedy Calendar Girls, opening on Friday, April 20.
Directed by Darren Nye, Calendar Girls is based on the true story of small town British housewives who posed naked for a pin up calendar to raise money to support families of cancer patients. In the process, they became international media sensations. The play, written by Tim Firth, is an adaptation of the 2003 hit film of the same name.
Produced by Michael A. Muller, stage managed by CJ Miller, the show is sponsored by the Robert W. Pittenger Family.
Calendar Girls runs April 20 – May 6, at the Somerset Valley Players theater on 689 Amwell Road (Rout 514) in Hillsborough. The theater is air conditioned, barrier free and wheelchair accessible.
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Niels ramblings about SQL Server and perhaps other stuff as well
As good as SQL
2005 was (well, still are), one disappointment was that you needed
Visual Studio if you wanted to debug your stored procedures. Seriously,
what was MS thinking when they did that, especially as in SQL 2000,
Query Analyzer had debug capabilities?!!
Anyway, today I am playing around,
errm - doing serious stuff in the RC0 release of SQL Server 2008, and
just by coincidence notice that there is a debug menu entry in the
toolbar(how blind can one be - I must have been looking at that toolbar
quite a few times). So I wrote some T-SQL code, put in a couple of
breakpoint and hit Alt + F5, and lo and behold - my bp's were hit and I
could step through the code. I then wrote a very basic stored proc,
wrote some code that called the proc, put a bp at the call into the
proc and executed. When the execution stopped at the bp I hit F11 and I
stepped into the proc - WoHoo!!! Call me sad, but stuff like this make
me happy!!
Now, let's hope that MS will keep this feature in and not pull it at
the last minute - anyone remember the XQuery designer in one of the
very early SQL 2005 beta's??


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I mentioned the other day that Bathsheba should be hitting stores a little before March 1 - at least that's the hope and what I've heard from the grapevine. If you want to read the first scene of the story, it's posted in Notes on Bathsheba's Facebook Page. The first chapter will soon be up - along with the rest of Bathsheba's page (with Bible Study and Book Club Discussion Questions) on The Wives of King David website - soon! Though there is a year between each of my books, I may be juggling two stories at once or doing marketing for one while researching another and filling out questionnaires for a third. So right now, Bathsheba is due to release, Sarai's story is in house waiting to go through its processes, and I'm researching Isaac and Rebekah's tale.
In thinking about Isaac and Rebekah and their relationship with their kids, I've been pondering how difficult and complex interpersonal relationships can be. One Jewish commentator suggested that Rebekah was a strong, independent woman and that Isaac was more passive because of what he went through when his father obeyed God and willingly offered him (almost succeeding) as a sacrifice. Esau was a man's man, a hunter, a bit on the wild side like his uncle Ishmael. Perhaps Esau was everything Isaac was not, and this is why he favored that son. Rebekah, on the other hand, was possibly a bit of a control freak. (Somebody had to be if Isaac wasn't very strong.) And if one thing is true about controlling people is they want others to do as they say - to shape them into what they want them to be. Jacob was probably a compliant guy, staying among the tents, not straying far from his mom.
The problem with controlling people is they like to control people. And when they do that, they don't allow the compliant person, the person willing to be controlled, to figure out who they are or make decisions on their own. If that compliant person ends up wanting relationships of their own, away from their parents, for instance, the break can be heart wrenching.
I suspect Isaac and Rebekah gravitated to the child that was their opposite. Perhaps Esau was more like Rebekah than she cared to admit. But wouldn't she have a bit of wild adventure in her spirit too? She did leave home to travel across the miles to marry a man she didn't know. Takes a bit of guts, in any case.
While this is only one person's opinion of these biblical characters, I can see how much like us they were. I think we all know people who love control. I probably fall into that category myself too often. But people who want to control their world are usually doing so out of fear. At the very least, if we can control the things around us, we have no one else to blame. But when we try to make other people do our bidding and they don't, we have to decide whether to: 1). trust that God knows best and in His time things will work out, 2). nag other people do to what we want them to do, or 3). do it ourselves.
I've been known to do all three. But if we want to keep good relationships with people, we have to work at it. And sometimes that means sacrificing control to them.


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The last thing you'd expect to happen at your workplace is to suffer a life-altering injury. The unfortunate truth is that work-related injuries are common and can happen without warning. Employers across Texas have a responsibility to maintain a safe working environment for all employees. This includes their duty to provide functional equipment and reliable safety measures. Oftentimes, however, employers will fail to meet these requirements, thereby placing their employees at risk for injury.
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Q & A: Act Breaks
On the subject of structure, I've just finished the first draft of a feature screenplay and I'm struggling with act structure: when the act should end as concerns page count. This draft runs 130 pages -- yes, too long.Okay. I don't think I've ever written about this directly before. But one thing I have written about is that I'm not someone who believes in arbitrary rules of screenwriting. When I read a screenplay, I'm only occasionally even conscious of the page number I'm on, so I certainly wouldn't be checking to see if your Act break took place on a specific page or not. In fact, if I'm reading for a company (as opposed to when I read to give feedback to a writer), I don't even usually take note of the Act breaks themselves.
Lew Hunter is a stickler for precise act breaks: Act 1 should end on page 17, etc. Other script gurus take a more organic approach, saying the story should dictate the structure as long as there is rising action and it grips the audience.
My Act 1 runs 35 pages and I'm really trying to avoid "killing my babies" because what happens there is crucial to the rest of the story -- bet you've heard that one before. I can blame trying to make the script vertical for adding 5 or so pages to that act. The rest I can blame on me not being able to find a more succinct way to set up my protagonist's journey into Act 2.
I know there are certain screenplay conventions I have to follow. I also know that there are writers out there such as Charlie Kaufman, Paul Haggis and Christopher Nolan who push the envelope. I'm just trying to tell a linear story but I am concerned that I may be blurring the rules.
What are your thoughts on this and how do you deal with it?
But at the same time, I feel all of these things intuitively. If an Act break comes in too late, the script will feel like it "takes a long time to get started." If it comes too early (and I'm actually somewhat surprised that Hunter says page 17, because that actually seems early to me), the film will often feel like it needs more development, or more likely (in weaker scripts) will bog down in the second act.
How do you know if your Act break comes too late? Either read it with an open mind, or get others to read it for you. Don't be concerned with whether they mention your Act breaks or not. Instead pay attention to any other comments they make about pacing, and translate those comments yourself to relate to Act breaks.
Also, be aware that page numbers as points for act breaks are somewhat artificial in their own right. They are set in relation to a 120-page script, but some of that will need to be adjusted when your script is another length. I typically find 120-page scripts that I read to have been forced into that length. In fact, I feel the ideal length for a spec submission is somewhere between 101 and 115 pages, depending on the genre. 90 feels too short and skimpy. 120 feels too "by the book." 120-130 is acceptable, though there had better be a good reason. Anything over 130 and it better be one kick-ass perfect screenplay at that length.
So, in terms of your own screenplay, page 35 does sound a bit late. Typically, I'd say anything in the 20-30 range can work well, if done properly. And that is the key phrase. It is more important whether it works in your screenplay than if it matches a specific page number. I'm sure there are some script readers out there who check page numbers incessantly. We call them anal retentive. They are unlikely to be in the majority, and probably are also less experienced with the job.
Don't worry about a specific page number, but use it as a guide. The page numbers for Act breaks are there because they work there. And if you stray too far, it will probably be noticed. One thing you might consider trying, if you don't want to "kill your babies" too much (though you'll probably have to kill some to shorten the script overall) is consider pushing some of your Act I info into Act II. Do we need to know all of this up front, or could we (and perhaps would we be better off) with some of that info held back for a later part of the film?
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Pre-call for applications for "Marie Skłodowska- Curie actions-Individual Fellowships'
The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) <http://www.eliamep.gr/en> invites pre-applications from scholars who wish to spend 12-24 months at ELIAMEP as part of the "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship" Programme (MSCA-IF-2016 https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2226-msca-if-2016.html ), funded by the European Commission. Scholars accepted for this scheme will devote their time to conducting research, preparing publications, engaging in knowledge transfer, and developing their professional networks.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree or at least four years' full-time research experience by the time of the call deadline. Applicants can be of any nationality but they must not have spent more than 12 months in the last 3 years in Greece (mobility rule).
Fellowships take form of European Fellowships or Global Fellowships.
- European Fellowships are open to researchers either coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The researcher must comply with the rules of mobility.
- Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host. The researcher must comply with the rules of mobility in the country where the Global Fellowship secondment takes place, not for the country of the return phase.
ELIAMEP welcomes project proposals from all areas of social and economic sciences. However, priority will be given to those projects that fit best with ELIAMEP's existing research interests and orientations and gain the support of at least one ELIAMEP senior researcher. The project proposal will be submitted jointly by the researcher and ELIAMEP.
Researchers who wish to cooperate with ELIAMEP for the submission of a proposal should check that they fulfill the respective eligibility criteria and then send an expression of interest, consisting of a short CV and a two-page summary presentation of their research proposal, to
Proposals will be pre-selected on the basis of internal evaluation and the availability of suitable supervision. Candidates will be informed of the results of the pre-selection well before the call deadline.
Expressions of interest may be submitted to ELIAMEP up to 10 August 2016.
Further information on the call "Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions - Individual Fellowships" :


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This commentary describes human factors, usability, and informatics recommendations for electronic health records in pediatrics to improve their usefulness and reduce the risk of errors.


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Let's Inspect Your New Home
Purchasing or selling a home is an exciting time! But there is always some uncertainty that can go along with the process. You want to know that the home is safe and in good condition. With the help of Pinnacle Inspections, you can gain valuable insights about the home's past and its future needs, so you're not blindsided by unexpected concerns.
Our #1 Objective Is To Make Sure You Are Safe and Informed.
Don't think that you've "seen everything" when you toured the home. Most buyers spend only 30-60 minutes in the home before writing an offer, and they naturally are focused on function and cosmetics of the home; Pinnacle looks deeper. With the typical home, we are on-site for 3-4 hours; some even longer depending on its size! We literally review "Hundreds" of Structural, Mechanical, and Safety components while we are at the home, and put more work into our detailed report.
Here's a Checklist of the Areas (and Components) That Are Reviewed:
Structural Components
Framing Members/Foundation/Joist Systems
Mechanical Components
Plumbing/Electrical/Heating and AC Components/Carbon Monoxide Testing
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Ceilings, Walls, and Floors/Doors and Windows
Appliances (built-in) will be tested if remaining in the house
How to Hire a Certified Home Inspector
You get to choose who is going to assist you during your home search, and the inspection. Often, your realtor is able to provide names of a few inspectors, which most buyers appreciate. You should take the time to talk with a couple different inspectors, visit their websites, and view a sample of their report. Make sure you know what you will be getting for your money. You need to be comfortable with your decision.
Below is an actual email from a past Pinnacle client going through the hiring process again:
"Thank you for reminding me that you are out there. My wife and I bought a home in Apple Valley, last June, and I had every intention of hiring you to perform the inspection. My realtor talked me into having his inspector do the tour. His name is XXXXXXXXXXXX, the inspector that does the XXXXXXXX show from time to time. Worse decision that I ever made. It turns out he is horrible at this job. Nowhere near as detailed as you are. Had I had you do the job, I doubt that I would have bought the house as I am finding issues right and left. With that boat having already sailed, I am thinking of having you out, in the spring, to do an inspection so that I know exactly what issues I will be tackling in the future. You did a tremendous job for us on the St. Paul home and I only wished I had you this job. I will contact you once the snow melts." - J.G.
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Podiatry is one of the clinical services delivered from within Compass Health. The service aims to develop and provide a patient centred integrated model of care for the prevention and treatment of at risk/high risk foot problems in community and hospital settings. This service also supports the diabetes treatment plan agreed by the patient and their primary/secondary provider.
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Today's blog post is going to be a little different in that the topic will focus more on martial arts than Chinese medicine, although a lot of the ideas may cross boundaries, as boundaries between these two are sometimes fuzzy. As many know I am an avid martial arts practitioner, and it was martial arts that led me into Chinese medicine. I started learning Okinawan Karate back in 1982. In 1993 I spent 6 months in Osaka, Japan where I trained Shorinji-ryu, and in 1995-1996 I lived in Okinawa, where I continued my martial arts training in Kobayashi-ryu. Over the last decade or so I've dedicated myself to the practice of Hunyuan Chen Taiji (T'ai Chi), especially after it was a major factor in saving me from a severe bout of Lyme disease.
In this post I want to explore some of the mythology of Taiji's origin, which ties into lore and history of Chinese martial arts in general. After reading some fantastic blog posts about the legendary Taiji master Sun Lutang, I went back to my bookshelf to read some of his writing again for myself. Here is a long quotation from the introduction to his text on Taiji that was originally published in 1921:
"Qian and Kun are the original creative principles. The original qi (元氣) flows as stillness and movement exchange to gradually produce the Ten Thousand Things. Things take form in their post-heaven states. The pre-haven original qi becomes the intrinsic essence of the post-heaven manifestations that have shape. These manifestations all include the pre-heaven original qi. Therefore, human form and life is the result of the unification of both pre-heaven essence and post-heaven form. People naturally have wisdom and emotion, and a combination of both yin and yang. The pre-heaven original qi slowly dissipates as the post-heaven qi slowly increases. The result is a weakening of the yang and a strengthening of the yin. This is the state that allows the invasion of the six types of qi [i.e., the Six Evils of wind, cold, heat, damp, dryness and summerheat]. The weakening of the yang and strengthening of the yin also results in the disturbance of the seven emotions. In this state, the body grows weaker by day and the hundred illnesses invade. The ancients were concerned about this. They tried to consume medicines in the hopes of curing illness. They say in meditation in order to cultivate the heart. Unfortunately, they were not able to make use of methods that involved both stillness and motion simultaneously. In order to fill this need the martial arts were created. They sought to recover the insubstantial qi [虛靈之氣; i.e., the pre-heaven source/original qi]."
Mythology versus History
The origins of Taiji have been attributed to Daoist immortals such as Zhang San Feng, or to the Daoists of Wu Dang Mountain. These theories are quite modern, dating back to only the 19th century, and have been debunked by more than one historian. Western scholars such as Douglas Wile have written extensively on the origins of Taiji and other internal martial arts, none of which contain reference to Daoist immortals or priests on cloud capped mountains. Furthermore, Taiji's origins date only to less than 400 years ago at best, and it originated with a retired military officer. The statement from Sun Lutang above that martial arts were created by the ancients to explore the combination of stillness and motion is clearly then a myth.
It is true that some in China did practice martial arts as a type of self-cultivation going back to the Ming period, and this is well documented in places such as the Shaolin Temple (for those interested in this history Professor Shahar's work is required reading). Yet, this use of the martial arts seems to be a minor trend until the 19th century when martial arts, including Taiji, took on other meanings as an exercise in culture, health, and national identity. Originally the martial arts' primary purpose was self-defense, and they were taught in places such as the military for the preparation of soldiers. In this context weapons practice was much more important than empty hand work as during warfare being without a weapon on the battlefield was, to put it mildly, not a good situation to be in.
Most likely Sun was aware of most of these facts. He was no stranger to the practical aspects of martial arts, in his lifetime fighting in challenge matches. He was at one point in his life employed to teach martial arts in the Presidential Palace of early Republican China, and he held the rank of Lieutenant in the Nationalist military. Yet, Sun was also deeply steeped in Daoist religious theory and cultivation techniques, and did famously tell his students that if they really wanted to fight they should get a gun. So, while martial arts were something quite practical, Sun felt that they were based on deeper principles that let it be more than just the one thing (i.e., self-defense) that they were originally created for.
So, now we come back to Sun's preface. As I already mentioned, it seems clear to me that this is a type of myth. To a big extent, I think mythology is something important to us as humans, and we can and should be comfortable living simultaneously with both myth and actual history (as much as we can know history as a collection of verifiable 'facts'). What a myth does is exemplify the unfolding worldview of a people, in this case those who practiced martial arts in the last few centuries. While martial arts were originally for military preparedness training, or personal self-defense, at some point they evolved to be something different and bigger. It seems to me that what is important is not that the ancients used martial arts as a way to explore self-cultivation that involved stillness and motion, but rather that today martial arts can serve this purpose, depending on the practitioner and their own goals for training. Indeed the martial arts for me are a way I stay healthy, a treatment for my own disease, and fundamentally a way of life (when I was younger living in Japan I practiced full-contact Karate, but I've aged out of that type of purpose to my practice!). I think it is pretty great that something that was once used only for the purpose of violence is now big enough to contain a lot: self-defense (it still works for that), health promotion, marker of cultural identity and aspiration, and practice of self-discipline and cultivation.
For me, contemporary Chinese internal martial arts are an offshoot of Chinese longevity techniques, as at some point in the last few centuries they started incorporating practices that came from Daoist methods of Yang Sheng. While not something they contained from time immemorial, internal martial arts are now a type of physical culture that allows the practitioner to embody, in a very real and tangible way, the core theories on which Chinese medicine are built. The mythology we have created surrounding them tells us not what they originally were in an historical sense, but what they have become and what our own aspirations as practitioners have turned to.
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The Smiths (Northern Dour Sound Men)
Smith! A name to feel! Post-punk intimates, the inventors of new, strengthened, renewed forms of the industries of pop music and pop punk revival. With a Smith, free time is good or bad. The last of the famous synth, guitar-driven rockers of England's 80s and 90s, in the genre of Wave Rock, but who eventually became a British indie rock band from England, due to their play with many three-minute pop songs musically in hand. However, an increasing scope required wider bandwidth. Of their more famous members, singer and guitarist Johnny Marr and dancer Morrissey captivated all but especially groups of girls who have a love of the pop punk rock DIY ethic; Morris dancing Latino toughs; and the whole Smith business has become one of the most important in the history of Keith "Cliff" Richards' traditionalist slow rock. Also they played Height Smith Rock - a carefully-stitched quilt of guitar punishment in the studio. At the same time, however, was self-punk, a completely different punishment; a new generation of disappointing young rituals. Morris or traditional stone and celibacy dancing followed their official announcements. Sad, selfish and cribbing Oscar Wilde (or Kiss) poetry, romantic songs to a poor mistress gave little friction; and always Jim Morrison's premature death was referenced. Marr bought for Smith a rock guitar of the next wave of singles and albums of the decade for the last three years, despite Colombia.
Smith! Johnny Marr (John Aherm, October 31, 1963), when young, dressed as nurses and "Ray", in fantasy games and on location in Paris. Then, in a Manchester of strange rock-and-roll play, how - we do not explain - he made a fast team of tough love with Nick "in the production of working" Morrissey (born Steven Patrice Morrissey, May 22, 1959). According to a friend of mine, he suffered from a bloody nose and hated dogs in particular. His desire for bequiffed Mexican rockers led to his founding the contact mag Melody Maker. At the end of one tribute to James Dean, he died and wrote another book, which appeared in the New York Whistle Test. In a change of career, he was president of FC New York Dolls while looking for an English module (later West Ham United). Nick and Johnny finally found a songwriting drummer, Simon Wolstencroft ("The name of the game", so imprinted were his beats on the genre); the bottom-end virus known as Andy Rourke; and then one Mike Joyce slipped in, via his contacts in Suede, to usurp Wolstencroft on a day off.
Limpit Smike: I feel the pain of Morrissey. I know how much pain he feels. I have felt his pain. His painful feelings are shared. In fact they are intensified, as he radiates pain to his listeners. I feel not only Morrissey's pain, but my own pain, which is doubly painful. In this I feel a true understanding to Morrissey. I have written about how my pain is double that of Morrissey in my latest volume, (Sniiiip! Ed.)
In late 1982 and early 1983, Smith had a lengthy first concert in the group's small hometown. However, loyal Manchester and London began its journey towards that hometown. Factory band Rough Trade offered a "heads-up" sign for any who refused. Homosexuality was the theme of "Hand In Hand", a feeling of England's number and which won the praise of seven tribute songs referring to the British Independents, Smith. Morrissey's concert stage soon became known as a mobile phone and it seemed he could place flowers in your back pocket. Often, strong opinions and feelings were media drugs. "The Man Is A Complete" was released at the end of 1983, with the debate over Smith "coils of origin" represented in hot conference. An interview with BBC Radio led to suspected plagiarism of children's songs. This was accepted literally, and due to the lyrics of Morrissey, people could not go wrong for the first time.
Singles like "This Dark Elegiac House" (1983) made a madman of speed Tamla, and thieves and atonal counterpoint haunt happy life rabbit jangly folk-rock. "Alt Fall is fast", Morrissey said in a veiled dig at Mark E Smith's "noir" stories (1983). What mattered was the almost solid singer playing air guitar Chuck Berry. "William Is Nothing" (1984) was born of frantic fingers and contains a collection of Kenco coffee rhythms.
At the top of the charts in the UK, "this is unbelievable, up in the shop" quipped the fizzing Andy Rourke. When luxury 12" records were refused by trading cartel the Love Initiative, first time fans coursed through other parts of the synth new wave racks, bending the corners of New Order and scratch-handling Yazoo. Was this merely the '70s? By the '80s, Smith began again in the spring of 1984, with sales and widespread criticism - later, the foot singer Sandie Shaw deflected anger in a "heads up" public praise article -"my version reached the Top 40". "God Only Knows Now Poor" was released in the middle of a great storm, and lawsuits from the surviving Beach Boys. Meanwhile, the tabloid discussions were all of hearing aids and Band Aid. But the popularity of this band was not affected by the appearance of R.E.Smith, a cribbing rock quartet that was touching popularity; and in a new bottle, the group came out of hiding to college radio, in part because it does not scale. The end of a collection of passive LPs, "Hove Will Soon Have A Hive" contained 20 holes, a nightmare for stylus-conservers. BBC sessions poisoned "William Is Nothing" until they never touched the song again.
A lasting monument, the Smith masterpiece, "A Lot Of Time" (1984) was - how far? - a Bo Diddley-introduced ritual, with guitars and atmospheric psychedelic movement accompanied threefold (indebted to Chris Isaac).
While Smith assessed all the meat killed in February 1985, under the order of the British charts, murder showed the Thatcher government into political debate. Morris dancing was just the beginning, and its purpose. Fruitarian bands Smith and others were photographed eating meat. But still, "we avoid predators". Marr was working hard on a rock and roll lifestyle. "He looks like a cross between Keith Richards and William Hill" spat Mark E Smith. A split LP with nascent feminists Shakespear's Sister brought the spring of 1985 to life. Smith, for Spring 1985, was the total support. Morris men were becoming all men. But media attention was on comedy Smith, while the "not funny" "New Man's Madrigals" gave us, yelping in shock, the light at the end of the room.
It was in 1985 they determined the fate of the death of the Queen of the islands. "Opposition Boi", a new version of their third album, met with praise from the real Queen and others in English rock band Queen. Their fan base expanded with death, confirmed after the 48-page spring brochure from 1986, "The United States Is Almost Dead", and a lightning creative period of more than 100 albums, breaking hired low guitarist Craig Ganning, who retreated to Aztec Camera and the kindness of strangers. Now a media monkey, in criticizing space-trading game Elite, Morrissey admitted he didn't even speak computer. The song "Terrorism" damaged our disclaimer against guitar voice choirs in 1986. "Hang disco DJ burn ..." he wrote at the end of 11 reps (this his songwriting routine; Morrissey was now a fitness junkie). We understand the band suffered from a collective sleep disorder only settled by installing Pete Burns on a nightly timer.
Parties can not leave me, but they leave Smith. With mini concert piano and voice, before beginning a beloved flute supermarket, sure it sounds a little universe. "Coma" (including orchestral movements) depressed brides and pushed ordinary people living in my dream. Noisy doors rolled, afraid to relate. Hard rock riffs, rhythm and blues, and even Morrissey's "dark" broken horn screaming. In good faith, I hear disco rhythms; closed, dark images and metaphysics of the band's career. The official perfection was achieved when a denim Morrissey appeared jiving on a postbox in the Shakin' Stevens Christmas video 1987. A post-breakup EP, "Bow Little Man For Master Díldo", failed to chart due to compromised data, and another band had shunned the arias. Rhino footprints appear today.
Entry text: Adrian Darvell
Editor-in-Chief: Winston Obogu
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Business Africa
Senegal economic situation
Recent statistics released by the Senegalese office of economic planning, policies and finance revealed the national revenue is in surplus with over 560 billion CFA.
This figure doesn't however reflect the current defects of the Senegal's economy whose current GDP deficit is projected this year at 7 percent , against 5.7% last year.
Prof Cherif Salif Sy, a specialist on economic matters joined us on the show from Dakar, Senegal.


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Compassion Fashion Designs!
I have some very excited news to share with you my dear readers. After years of talking the talk with ethical fashion it's time to see if I can walk the walk. Ya girl is going to design her very own ethically-made line of clothes.WUT.
You must be wondering how the heck is this happening, and to be honest, I'm still floored that it is! I'm thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with designer Jeilyne Santana to co-create a collection that will be sold on 19th Amendment!
This whole story really starts all the way back in 2013 when designer and ultra-forward thinking lady Amanda Curtis founded 19th Amendment, a designer-direct platform. 19th Amendment gives emerging designers a place to pre-sell their collections and it gives those of us that love discovering the latest and greatest fashions a chance to find the hottest up and coming designers. My favorite part of this whole enterprise though is its approach to sustainability. First, 19th amendment ensures that everything on its site is made ethically and sustainably. Secondly, because all items are pre-purchased there's no inventory waste. It's a win win!
A couple of months ago 19th Amendment approached me to see if I'd like to be paired with one of their designers and I couldn't say yes fast enough. Design something myself???? This is literally a childhood dream come true. The very first designer they suggested was Jeilyne Santana and a quick glance at her previous collection was enough for me to know we'd be a good fit. Originally from Puerto Rico, Jeilyne's work is colorful and flowy. It's the kind of clothing that makes you feel beautiful and playful at the same time. I couldn't be happier to work with her.
I can't wait to get this collaboration going (we have a FaceTime meeting scheduled tomorrow!), and I'd like to bring you along for the ride. Every other week I'll fill you in on how the process is going (don't worry you'll still get my regular blog posts as well). What's it like finding the right eco-friendly fabrics? Am I going to have to compromise my ideals to get a design I love? Just how hard is it to have a sustainable collection? They say it's easier said than done and I'm excited to put my ethical and sustainable requirements to the test . You can also follow along in real time on my Instagram, just look for the highlight on my page labeled "Design Collab".
Wish me luck!


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Volume I 1872 and Volume II 1874. Two volumes, complete. Two huge leather bound volumes. Morocco boards with banded spines, stamped gilt titles, all edges gilt, leather is heavily scuffed and worn along extremities, wearing through at corners, marbled end papers, large damp stain to top edge of Vol I front free end paper and subsequent three pages affecting margin of Niagra Falls engraving, pages are toned, bindings firm and sound. Profusely illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts, with both plates and in-text illustrations. Huge, heavy volumes, each weighing more than 10 pounds. Each book measures about 10 x 13 inches. A two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, published 1872 and 1874. It was edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
Title: Picturesque America or, the Land We Live In: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists
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A journal of a British explorer and big game hunter. Chapter subjects include: The Nubian Desert: Egypt's Rule of the Soudan; The Arabs' Exodus; Wives Among the Arabs; On the Abyssinian border; Sacred shrines and epidemics; The Hamran elephant-hunters; Abyssinian slave-girls; The Soudan under Egyptian rule; and more.
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In March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope of meeting the East African expedition of Captains Speke and Grant, that had been sent by the English Government from the South via Zanzibar, for the same object. I had not the presumption to publish my intention, as the sources of the Nile had hitherto defied all explorers, but I had inwardly determined to accomplish this difficult task or to die in the attempt. From my youth I had been inured to hardships and endurance in wild sports in tropical climates, and when I gazed upon the map of Africa I had a wild hope, mingled with humility, that, even as the insignificant worm bores through the hardest oak, I might by perseverance reach the heart of Africa.
I could not conceive that anything in this world has power to resist a determined will, so long as health and life remain. The failure of every former attempt to reach the Nile source did not astonish me, as the expeditions had consisted of parties, which, when difficulties occur, generally end in difference of opinion and in retreat; I therefore determined to proceed alone, trusting in the guidance of a Divine Providence and the good fortune that sometimes attends a tenacity of purpose. I weighed carefully the chances of the undertaking. Before me, untrodden Africa; against me, the obstacles that had defeated the world since its creation; on my side, a somewhat tough constitution, perfect independence, a long experience in savage life, and both time and means, which I intended to devote to the object without limit.
England had never sent an expedition to the Nile sources previous to that under the command of Speke and Grant. Bruce, ninety years before, had succeeded in tracing the source of the Blue or Lesser Nile; thus the honor of that discovery belonged to Great Britain. Speke was on his road from the South, and I felt confident that my gallant friend would leave his bones upon the path rather than submit to failure. I trusted that England would not be beaten, and although I hardly dared to hope that I could succeed where others greater than I had failed, I determined to sacrifice all in the attempt.
Had I been alone, it would have been no hard lot to die upon the untrodden path before me; but there was one who, although my greatest comfort, was also my greatest care, one whose life yet dawned at so early an age that womanhood was still a future. I shuddered at the prospect for her, should she be left alone in savage lands at my death; and gladly would I have left her in the luxuries of home instead of exposing her to the miseries of Africa. It was in vain that I implored her to remain, and that I painted the difficulties and perils still blacker than I supposed they really would be. She was resolved, with woman's constancy and devotion, to share all dangers and to follow me through each rough footstep of the wild life before me. "And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."
Thus accompanied by my wife, on the 15th of April, 1861, I sailed up the Nile from Cairo. The wind blew fair and strong from the north, and we flew toward the south against the stream, watching those mysterious waters with a firm resolve to track them to their distant fountain.
I had a firman from the Viceroy, a cook, and a dragoman. Thus my impedimenta were not numerous. The firman was an order to all Egyptian officials for assistance; the cook was dirty and incapable; and the interpreter was nearly ignorant of English, although a professed polyglot. With this small beginning, Africa was before me, and thus I commenced the search for the sources of the Nile.
On arrival at Korosko, twenty-six days from Cairo, we started across the Nubian Desert. During the cool months, from November until February, the desert journey is not disagreeable; but the vast area of glowing sand exposed to the scorching sun of summer, in addition to the withering breath of the simoom, renders the forced march of two hundred and thirty miles in seven days, at two and a half miles per hour, one of the most fatiguing journeys that can be endured.
We entered a dead level plain of orange-colored sand, surrounded by pyramidical hills. The surface was strewn with objects resembling cannon shot and grape of all sizes from a 32-pounder downward, and looked like the old battle-field of some infernal region—rocks glowing with heat, not a vestige of vegetation, barren, withering desolation. The slow rocking step of the camels was most irksome, and, despite the heat, I dismounted to examine the Satanic bombs and cannon shot. Many of them were as perfectly round as though cast in a mould, others were egg-shaped, and all were hollow. With some difficulty I broke them, and found them to contain a bright red sand. They were, in fact, volcanic bombs that had been formed by the ejection of molten lava to a great height from active volcanoes; these had become globular in falling, and, having cooled before they reached the earth, they retained their forms as hard spherical bodies, precisely resembling cannon shot. The exterior was brown, and appeared to be rich in iron. The smaller specimens were the more perfect spheres, as they cooled quickly; but many of the heavier masses had evidently reached the earth when only half solidified, and had collapsed upon falling. The sandy plain was covered with such vestiges of volcanic action, and the infernal bombs lay as imperishable relics of a hailstorm such as may have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
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The Sisters stars Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Beulah Bondi, Donald Crisp, and Henry Travers in this 1938 melodrama, directed by Anatole Litvak. The film is about three sisters, who meet and fall in love with three very different men. Eldest sister Louise(Davis) meets sports writer, Frank Medlin(Flynn) who at first glance, seems like a very charming fellow, until his demons(his alcoholism and not being able to support Louise) get in the way of their happiness. Middle sister, Helen(Louise) marries a man, she does not love, only to feel free from her parents but in the end, what she gets, is too many marriages under her belt. And the youngest and last sister, Grace(Bryan) marries Tom Knivel(Foran), a man who was hopelessly in love with Louise but finds second chances with Grace. The film is far too dramatic for my liking. I would have loved, if there was a little bit of humor in the film, to relax some of the scenes but alas it didn't have them. Henry Travers and Beulah Bondi were wonderful as the parents of the three girls and I think, out of the all characters, they were my favorites. I felt that Bette and Errol were a bit mismatched but they did have some chemistry. I was rather disappointed to find such a small role for Patric Knowles. You hardly even know, he's in the film!
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Sermon on the Mount…
I've been studying the Sermon on the Mount with some regularity for quite a few months. I spoke at a camp this summer, August, and shared some of my initial thoughts on the Sermon on the Mount. Specifically I shared thoughts on the beatitudes, and what it means to be salt and light. I confessed to my congregation (the camp) that these were initial thoughts and that the Sermon on the Mount was really working me over and giving me a hard time.
I continue to study it. Currently I am reading some of St. Augustine's thought and some his old sermons on our Lord's sermon. I'm reading some studies by John Scott and still thinking HEAVILY about the words offered to me by Dallas Willard, NT Wright and Brain McLaren.
BUT STILL… The Sermon on the Mount is hard! It's been hard to study, it's been hard to land on an idea, a theology, a simple reading that I feel confident in when it comes to The Sermon on the Mount.
So I continue to study, read and now, listen to thoughts on The Sermon on the Mount.
I say, "and now listen" because just this past weekend I listened to a couple sermons from Mars Hill Bible Church on The Sermon on the Mount. First Rob Bell on "Blessed are the poor in spirit" and "Blessed are the meek". And also Father Sirico who preached on "Blessed are those who mourn" which he cleverly entitled "Whistling past the grace".
The messages were REALLY good. REALLY encouraging. And really on (if you ask me). Maybe not conventional readings, interpretations, or messages on this famous message of Jesus but very good in my opinion.
And to me very affirming.
I preached a message on what it means to be "blessed" (which I previously blogged about). I made the point that I think blessing (largely based on Jesus' usage of the word) might be more about God's presence than it is about God's gifts. Rob, in quoting Fredrick Dale Bruner says, "To understand blessed it to understand a divine 'I am with you'" and in his message Rob translates the term "fortunate" instead of blessed. I love it!
Well I would encourage you to listen to a few of these messages. Be encouraged that even at your lowest God is with you, i.e. you are blessed!
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