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A somewhat more colourful day than yesterday, and what colour is more suitable for marking that event that yellow? The rose belongs to the municipality of Bergen and has been planted for our enjoyment, but the little one inside is probably there on a business of her own.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
A yellow Sunday
Published by RuneE kl. 17:27
20 comments:
- Louise said...
A beautiful shade of yellow. And a beautiful picture.
- 18:16
- Dick said...
Wow, wonderful color, nice work.
- 18:33
- Denise said...
Wonderful! Still so grey here but we did manage a bike adventure! LOL! We actuallu dodged the downpours!
- 19:22
- Gary said...
Brilliant colour Runee - it seems the only place we see any brightness is on other people's blogs!!!
Love the little fellow pollen collecting - busy bee!
- 19:55
- Sara said...
What a lovely deep shade of yellow, and the bee makes a nice contrast in her black velvet coat.
- 21:10
- Hyde DP said...
Highly colourful - today here was blustery and I think I may have walked a little too much uphill today but I got some great photos.
- 23:35
- ArneA said...
It is when you see a picture like this you can only dream of making the perfect painting. Make a color chart and see how many different colors this socalled yellow photo contains
- 09:26
- Old Wom Tigley said...
That bee as picked a great Rose.. and it was good enough to point it out to you.. :O)
Thanks for all the comments and visits we exchane.. Tom
- 13:15
- Michele (Rocky Mtn.Girl) said...
Incredible shades of yellow... definitely enough to brighten anyone's day regardless of the weather.
Your details are amazing. Very nice.
- 13:37
- Abraham Lincoln said...
That rose is really crisp and nice. The details in the petals are just right.
- 13:51
- Kerri said...
Wow! A beautiful shot! Love that you got the bee in there!!
- 17:33
- Jim said...
I have just opened your E-mails and replied to you.
Beautiful photograph--such lucious yellow and crisp petal edges!
- 20:32
- LUIZ SANTILLI JR. said...
Yellow is one of the my most favorite color!
Beautiful shot!
I'm returning!
- 04:41
- Paulie said...
Neat words to accompany a great photo.
- 05:54
- kRiZ cPEc said...
what a delight! Great.
- 05:56
- Marie said...
Rosa er så vakker at eg får sug i magen!
- 21:12
- Lilli & Nevada said...
wow what a beautiful rose the color is so rich
- 08:52
- Kate said...
Umm! Such a delicious shade of yellow. No wonder that there is an inquisitive visitor.
- 14:09
- bredis said...
En mycket vacker gul ros. Härliga färger. Insekten gör bara att det blir mer liv i bilden
- 18:19
- ChrisJ said...
What a gorgeous color!
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Isoscel-Ease the Drawing Robot
I learned a bit from making the Art-O-Matic swirling-drawing robot. The new Isoscel-Ease drawing robot uses triangular geometry rather than scissor geometry (other drawing robots).
The two arms holding the pen are the same length forming an isosceles triangle. So you can probably figure out why I called this machine Isoscel-Ease.
The arms are belt driven using a linear rail rather than rotary gears like Art-O-Matic. The scissor-rotary system of the Art-O-Matic could not follow all paths on the paper. But the Isoscel-Ease has more freedom to move in any direction at any point on the paper.
The machine came together very well. The linear rail is in compression and the belts and base are in tension so the rigidity seems pretty good. I did add a skirt to the base to increase stiffness.
I decided to start to work on portraits right away so I'm already working in processing.org to do image analysis in order to create pen paths for Isoscel-Ease. I worked on it a few hours last weekend and got pretty far. I should be trying my first portrait pretty soon!
This thing will be fairly portable so I can tote it around and work on the software .
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Effective theories of correlated fermions
J. von Delft, ASC München, K. Efetov, TP Bochum, P. Müller, M München
In this project we study various effective theories for correlated fermion systems. In particular, we will (1) investigate bosonization in arbitrary dimensions as a tool for both analytics and Monte Carlo numerics; (2) develop effective field theories for disordered Luttinger liquids; (3) study transport properties of Josephson junctions and other granular materials; (4) study the behavior of the transmission phase through a quantum dot during the crossover from closed to open dots; (5) conduct a mathematical study of Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe in clean and disordered fermion systems; and (6) extend the Jordan-Wigner transformation from linear structures to star geometries, allowing for an exact mapping of quantum spin chains in a star geometry to quantum impurity models.
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The understanding of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems is one of the main challenges of contemporary physics. Even in those cases where the ground state of such a system is known, we are just beginning to understand their non-linear dynamics. In this project, we study the impact of particle interactions by means of archetypical processes: a) the back-reaction of quantum (or thermal) fluctuations onto the classical mean field and b) the decoherence, equilibration and thermalization dynamics of the system after a departure from the ground (or thermal equilibrium) state. Furthermore, we study the interplay of thermalization and dynamics by investigating the expansion of fermionic atoms in optical lattices where c) the breakdown of hydrodynamics is described by regularized singular diffusion equations.
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"The power chakra is fed by the energy of gratitude, which is a powerful kind of surrender. Gratitude is the opposite of fear and resistance. The heart opens to love, the power chakra responds to gratitude. Most karmic stuff will transmute as soon as you can manage to be genuinely grateful for it. Count your blessings, feed your power chakra."
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My inspiration for class this week came from this quote, which I initially found for my Thanksgiving class last year. My memory being what it is, I had a foggy recollection about gratitude and something about the solar plexus chakra… so, here it is again.
When I dug it up this time, it spoke so powerfully to life at the moment that I decided to take it onto the mat again.
I don't know about you, but things have felt a bit topsy-turvy for me lately. Words like 'turbulent,' 'discombobulated,' and 'chaotic' have been coming up a lot. This Mercury Retrograde period has especially been a challenging one. At present, I'm down a computer, a mobile phone, an iPod, a vacuum, an electric toothbrush, and as of 5 minutes ago, my camera won't turn on. Sooo… that about covers all of my activities in an average day. Honestly, it's left me feeling like I'm not quite sure what to do next. And it could easily lead to an attitude of 'OMG! What next? What else can happen to me?'
But as my amazing friend reminded me yesterday (and others have pointed out often in recent weeks), the time has come for the snake to shed its skin. Everything that came before is falling away to make room for what's now. Maybe everything has to break in order to force a fresh start.
By searching for the bigger picture lessons, I open up room for new (positive) possibilities to move in. I'm co-creating a new reality here. Will I create it from a place of fear or one of gratitude? Will my attitude attract more chaos or more blessings? Will I realize that things are happening for me, not to me? Will I give up resistance and surrender to the truth that everything is happening in perfect timing? These are the challenges that the quote clarified for me this week.
I built my class around the connection the quote makes between gratitude and the solar plexus chakra. Twists are the category of poses associated with the solar plexus, so I dug up twists and twist variations that I hadn't done in years. We twisted our little hearts out- opening, activating, and connecting to the solar plexus chakra and our sense of gratitude.
We also practiced "surrendering" with deep forward bends and hip openers. And as a special treat, we practiced counting our blessings as we held certain poses. That was my personal favorite part of the class this week because it stayed with me off the mat. Counting my blessings with every breath in Pigeon Pose prepared me in a new way to deal with "things" as they are presently. When I found myself resisting an activity or situation, when I felt my inner brattiness stomping its feet at having to do something, I switched to thinking of things I was grateful for at that particular moment.
Try it and see! Sitting in traffic, chopping onions, holding Gomukhasana, whatever… count your blessings and see a whole new world of possibilities open to you.
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Blizzcon Cancelled SHOCK NEWS
It's rare that I have news as amazing as today's. But Blizzard has officially announced that there will be no Blizzcon in 2012.
A spokesman for the company cited the release of three games in this financial year as a reason why the company said they did not have the time for resources to put on a major events such as Blizzcon.
Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria and the new Starcraft game are all being released in the next 8 to 10 months.
Ok so they have a lot to finish and promote, but surely, with a high profile games being released now is exactly the time you would have a major event to promote them, wouldn't you?
An event which guarantees tens of thousands of visitors, a huge boost in publicity and is already established in the calendar of many gamers throughout the world.
Don't forget, taking a break of the year and sometimes completely lose focus, people will find something else to do to that particular week and it may not come back with the same pizzazz as it left with.
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An Unusual Oversold Pattern?
Last Monday, we posted the Banking Index chart and discussed its impending breakout of a triangular pattern.
As you may recall, the implications were for a 10%+ down move if it broke to the downside.
Well, it broke to the downside, but things are never really that simple are they?
Just after the downside breakout, the Banking Index also had a historical oversold pattern show up.
To see the oversold pattern, take notice the Ultimate Oscillator level that I added to the chart. Now, I am not a huge fan of this oscillator, but it can often help identify oversold bottoms quite nicely. For instance, look at labels 1, 2, and 3 where the indicator reached below 32 (it may be hard to see because of the vertical lines).
Each occasion was a bottom for the Banking index and it moved higher from there. I mention this because the Banking Index's Ultimate Oscillator reached a level of 27.9 last Wednesday. If the pattern of the past three occurrences holds, it would infer that the Banking Index has hit a short term bottom and will move up. However, to replicate the previous patterns fully, it needs to continue moving up to over 50 on the scale now.


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Atworth Village Hall was transported back 100 years last Saturday, in a bid to preserve its long-term future.
The first ever Atworth Festival was held to mark the centenary of the hall, formerly known as the Atworth Institute, and to raise funds for its refurbishment.
Parish council chairman Effie Gale-Sides said: "After 100 years, the fabric of the building is good, but the inside is a little dated.
"We had a dog show, dancers, singers and stalls. The hall was set up as an Edwardian tearoom, with bunting and wreaths."
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EMORY –– Galax did what it had to do to move on to the next round. It very nearly made it so that move was a short one.
EMORY – When Chilhowie High School left fielder Ellen Vance settled under a pop fly off the bat of Galax's Ally Bartlett and the ball plunked into her glove, it marked the final out and a first for her team.
Chilhowie claimed the biggest win in the history of the school's softball program – and took home the first title trophy – on Wednesday with a 7-1 victory over Galax in the finals of the Mountain West Conference tournament at Patrick Henry High School.
HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County scored 17 runs in the first two innings and went on to hammer William Fleming 21-0 in five innings Monday in the West Division of the Conference 24 softball quarterfinals.
Carroll County (13-8) will host an East Division opponent in the conference semifinals Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Three more Twin County athletes have made their college choices and have committed to continue their athletic careers as Grayson County's Olivia Wyatt and Carroll County's Seth Burris and Lindsey Brumfield signed with their respective schools recently.
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BLUEFIELD –– Grayson County claimed the inaugural Conference 39 boys' tennis championship Thursday, sweeping Galax 5-0 in the combined 1A/2A conference finals at Bluefield City Park.
HILLSVILLE –– Three weeks after suffering an 18-0 drubbing at Patrick Henry, Carroll County eked out a 3-2 win over the Patriots to close out its inaugural River Ridge District schedule Thursday at Bill Worrell Field.
The Cavaliers (6-14 overall, 3-9 district) rode a complete-game effort by Kenley Meredith, who wriggled out of a seventh-inning jam to snap a seven-game slide against RRD competition.
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Honaker 5, William Campbell 2
Northumberland 12, Auburn 6
Championship at Radford University
Northumberland 9, Honaker 3
Semifinals at Kiwanis Park, Salem
Virginia High 12, Madison County 0
Strasburg 6, Randolph-Henry 0
CHILHOWIE –– Grayson County opened with a bang and held on down the stretch to take an 8-5 win over Chilhowie in a nonconference game Monday afternoon.
The Blue Devils (14-3) scored their first five batters of the game and jumped to a 6-0 lead in the top of the first, taking the lead for good on a two-run single by Brady Cassell. Grace Circle added an RBI double, another run crossed on a fielder's choice and Hayley Lawrence singled to knock in Circle. The sixth run came in on an error before the Warriors finally got out of the inning.
HILLSVILLE –– As a freshman back in November of 2010, Connor Lundy stepped on to the basketball floor as a ninth-grader, playing his first varsity game for Carroll County. He made himself quite at home, knocking down seven 3-pointers and scoring 21 points.
The next stage in his basketball career will have a taste of home as well.
Galax handed George Wythe just its second team loss of the season, winning the Conference 46 girls' tennis championship with a 5-3 win Wednesday at Felts Park.
The Maroon Tide took four of the six singles matches to head into doubles with the advantage. Paige Hanks disposed of Kayla Matheny 6-0, 6-2 at No. 1 singles while Susan Davis rallied from a set down to get past Rebecah Storms 5-7, 6-3, 6-0.
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This cake has been part of our repertoire for more than a decade; I bet I've made it more than 20 times now. It's from an era when I still cooked and baked from recipes, and one of the rare ones I still pull off the shelf. I make other chocolate cakes, of course, but I find myself returning to this one when we want something understated and bittersweet. I made it for a hen's night with friends most recently and we ate it with earl grey ice cream, but my Sweet Boy and I celebrated the end of an era with the last slices, straight from the refrigerator with a glass of cold milk, when he got his driver's license.
We've spent a lot of time together in the car these past 18 years: in car-related antics, in conversation, braving bad weather together, and learning to drive. When he and my Honey Girl were little and my Dear Husband's frequent travel was upsetting to them, we had a set of rituals, for just the three of us, things we would do together only when he was away. It was a way to offset the pain of his departure just a little, and one of the favorites was that during these weeks I would sing ridiculous songs at the top of my lungs in the car as we drove, as many as they requested. Oh how they would giggle in the back seat. We were in a grocery store parking lot one such afternoon and I was singing, in my best Louis Armstrong, "Roll out the Barrel." My Honey Girl and my Sweet Boy were cheering, "Louder! Louder!" and laughing so hard they bucked against the back of the seat and forward until the seat belts caught them; I was surprised they could get the words out. Then I realized that there were pedestrians in the parking lot looking at me rather strangely as they made their way to cars with carts. They had rolled down the windows in the back of the car. Still, at 21 and 18, they'll roll down the windows in the car and ask if I'll do it again. And I'm grateful whenever that happens because it brings us back to that time together, which is ending.
I won't be driving my Sweet Boy anymore. Won't be listening to Wiz Khalifa and Mod Sun and all of his music. And he won't be listening to mine anymore—at least together in this way. I'll go back only in memory now. To the car pranks, to barreling towards the brick wall of the middle school the first day we set out to learn to drive together, to listening to his stories and concerns. He still comes on errands with me sometimes, but our time together in the car is largely over.
Freddy had just turned six when I first made this cake; he had just finished Kindergarten. Now he's 18 and has just graduated from high school. There are other cakes that have become part of the family, but this one feels like his. I've made it with him in mind almost every time it's gone into our oven, even for the hens' night, since I knew he would be here for a slice. This is for you, Freddy. Make it often on your own now, and I'll make it whenever you're home.
*Postscript: I found Annie, our little terrier, in my desk chair, licking the cake plate on my desk with her paw on my keyboard. "Mmmmmmmm," she typed on the recipe. Indeed.


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France's opposition to the Iraq war. This interview was conducted on March 13, 2003.
In terms of the growing drumbeat from the United States on the Iraq threat, what was the first alarm bell for the French?
This real drumbeat on Iraq started around the summer of the year 2002. People here really couldn't [understand] the shift in the Bush administration from war on terrorism now meaning that we have to turn our attention to Baghdad. People here in France just couldn't quite understand what the link was. Secondly, people sort of thought Saddam Hussein and Baghdad was an old problem that had been solved. Sure, the weapons inspectors had been thrown out; that was kind of a big problem. They hadn't disarmed. But nobody thought Saddam Hussein was threatening anyone.
At the same time -- and I think this is really important to keep in mind -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was probably in its hottest moment. I think probably in the States, at least from what I see on television news, it doesn't really get the same kind of attention in the States that it gets here. Every time there is an Israeli raid on a Palestinian refugee camp and Palestinians are killed, that is front-page news here. It is really what people are talking about. It is really seen as a huge, huge problem.
People here really were thinking, why is America suddenly talking about Saddam Hussein as a threat when the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli problem, which is not being solved? That was a huge question mark.
But on Saddam, the great American defense is, "Look, the alternative was containment back in the 1990s. But containment unraveled because of the French."
Well, that's right. The heart of the debate here is, is Saddam Hussein really a threat to anyone now? The French would say after 12 years of on-again, off-again sanctions, and on-again, off-again weapons inspections, his regime is basically bankrupt. They really don't have the capability of hitting anyone with a missile any more. Most of their weapons, if not all, were probably destroyed through the protection and inspection regime, and he's just not really a threat.
So there was really just a lack of comprehension as to why this was seen as suddenly a problem.
Do you remember Dick Cheney's speech on August 26, 2002, where he is sort of attacking the idea of sending weapons inspectors back in and so on? What was the reaction here to that?
That was when you first started to see real hostility developing towards the American position. The thinking was, "Well, wait a minute. Are you talking about a problem of disarmament, of weapons of mass destruction? Or are you talking about trying to change the regime?"
I think it was around that time that we heard the word "regime change." That touched a raw nerve here. The French don't like the idea of going around and picking governments, probably more so than the United States. They always say, "We don't recognize governments; we recognize countries."
I remember they started using this term "rogue states" for certain countries. I remember the then-French foreign minister kind of sneering when I asked him about this, saying, "Oh, we don't say there are any such thing as rogue states. There's either states, or there's not states. But there's no such thing as a rogue state."
So all of a sudden you've got this idea [in the U.S.] that there are certain states out there that we need to change their regime, and that really kind of rankled here. I remember French academics here when I would talk about this, telling me, "We tried that in Africa years ago, when we would go in and try to change regimes. But it doesn't work. You just deal with whoever's there. That's the way the modern world works."
It's kind of a real hardheaded, realpolitik attitude towards the world.
On September 12, 2002, George Bush goes to the U.N. and makes it clear he's going to take a multilateral route. What was the reaction here to that?
That was actually seen here as a victory for the French and a victory for President Jacques Chirac. It was Jacques Chirac who first suggested that there should be a two-step resolution. At first, if you recall, the Americans and the Bush administration were looking for a straight-out U.N. resolution that would say Saddam Hussein hasn't disarmed and we should be able to go to war.
Jacques Chirac gave an interview with The New York Times in which he suggested we should have a two-step approach -- first a resolution with period of time to get the inspectors back, and then a short window, just a few months, to come back again and ascertain whether or not he's cooperating. And it really was a big surprise that that resolution passed unanimously.
But France took credit for it. This is really important. France took credit for getting America back into the multilateral framework again, for getting George Bush to go to the United Nations. It really seemed a big victory here for President Chirac. Suddenly, because of what they considered French diplomacy, they got America back into the U.N. framework, and they got U.N. inspectors back.
I think that's really the basis of the problem now, which is, for the French, getting the inspectors back in was the end of the Iraq problem. For the Americans, it was the beginning of the Iraq problem.
Interesting, because in Britain, they take credit for drawing America into the U.N. process.
That's right. Tony Blair takes credit for being the bridge between the European so-called pacifists and the American so-called warriors. In France, it was really seen as aggressive French diplomacy that got the Americans finger off the trigger [and] saved this whole process from going out of control.
But Resolution 1441 became terribly confusing, of course, because America now uses 1441 as the justification for what's happening now. ...
The problem with 1441 was, it's sort of a little something for everybody. You could tell because of the fact it was passed unanimously. Any time something passes unanimously, it usually means it's so vaguely worded that nobody really knows what it means.
What did 1441 say? It said, "Well, Saddam Hussein has not complied. He's in material breach. He's got some period of time to comply, and if he doesn't, there will be serious consequences." Well, it sounds like it makes perfect sense if you're an American -- "serious consequences" means military action. Well, to the French, "serious consequences" means you go back to the Security Council and they will once again decide what to do. That was the first point of contention.
There are all kinds of other vague points. For example, 1441 said Saddam Hussein had to come up on Dec. 8 with a listing of everything that he had, and anything he didn't declare would constitute another material breach; that automatically would be a trigger for war. The French were saying, "Well, no, that doesn't really mean anything. That only means he has to report."
I remember that being a big issue two weeks after 1441 was passed. If he put in a statement saying he had no weapons of mass destruction, would that automatically mean that he had lied? The Americans said, "Yes, because we have intelligence saying that he does have these weapons," or "He's got stocks of anthrax," etc. The French were saying, "Well, no, just because one member of the Security Council claims he has these things is not proof. This so-called proof has to be put before the council. We have to examine it, and it's up to the weapons inspectors."
So that became another big question -- who decided whether there was a material breach? Who decided whether Saddam Hussein was cooperating? So 1441 was this kind of catch-all -- something for everybody. You could read into it what you will, which is the only reason it passed unanimously.
The American logic is that, to be innocent, Saddam had to admit he was guilty.
Well, the American logic shifted several times. It shifted in President Bush's speeches. It shifted in the statements of Colin Powell at the United Nations.
I was at the French Foreign Ministry when Dominique de Villepin was giving a statement, and I was talking to one of his aides afterwards. This aide said to me, "The problem we have with the American position is that on Monday, it is to disarm Saddam Hussein. On Tuesday, it is because he's linked to Al Qaeda and terrorism. On Wednesday, it's because you want to make Iraq into a democracy. On Thursday, it's because you want to make the entire Middle East into a democracy. On Friday, it's because you want to jumpstart the Arab-Israeli talks, you know."
Where's the consistent logic in all of this? If the real goal was to disarm him and get rid of his weapons, why not stick to the weapons inspection regime? That's the French position. If your real goal was regime change -- and don't forget this is what Dick Cheney was saying before they went to the United Nations -- if your real goal was regime change, then all you're really doing is using the weapons inspections as some kind of a tripwire, an excuse to go in and topple his regime, That means you don't really care about weapons of mass destruction; you're using that as an excuse. So that's the French position -- be consistent in your argument.
Do you think, therefore, with 1441 that the Americans were out-maneuvered then basically by the French?
I don't think they were out-maneuvered. I mean, the Americans would see 1441 as a victory of sorts because of the vagueness of the language. Even to this day to be able to say that 1441 once said, "Saddam Hussein faces serious consequences," to the Americans, that gives them all the opening they need to start a war.
So it was not what they wanted. They wanted one straight-up resolution that says, "Saddam has a deadline to disarm; if not, we can attack." They did not get that. [But] out-maneuvered? I think, at that time, they thought it was probably better.
There's another point, too. Resolution 1441 was passed in November. The Americans didn't mind having this long period of time -- long in their minds -- for the inspectors to come back and give new reports in January, another report in February, because the American troops weren't in the field yet.
Did the Americans miscalculate the French resolve?
I think the Americans miscalculated the French position. But I also think the French position changed. The French position was actually fairly strong in the beginning. I remember when Saddam Hussein put out in December a declaration saying that he didn't really have any weapons; [everything] had already been accounted for. It was the French who came out and said, "That statement is a lie. He's already violated Resolution 1441 because he lied."
This was in December. One month later, in January, I remember President Jacques Chirac reviewed the troops for [New Year's], and he gave a pretty strong speech saying, "You must be ready for any contingency. You might be called upon to go to war, you know. You have to be ready." Around that same time, the aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle was dispatched to the eastern Mediterranean.
France looked like it was about ready to join in American-led coalition, so something changed in the French position. I think the Americans at the time were counting on France to be there along with Britain. France wanted the U.N. resolution. They wanted it to be a U.N. process, not an American unilateral process. But something really started to change in the French position.
Why do you think that was? Why did it happen?
Well, no one is quite sure. It was around the time that the German position became quite hard -- no war at any time -- and around the time of the anniversary, the 40th anniversary of the [Elysee] Treaty. That was basically the treaty between Germany and France at the end of World War Two. Chancellor Schröder of Germany came here and then Jacques Chirac went to Berlin. The two of them gave these kind of rousing pep rallies together, when they started saying, "There's no distance between us. Our positions on Iraq are exactly the same."
Well, that wasn't true; their positions were actually quite different. The Germans were saying "no war under any circumstances," and the French were saying, "Well, let's give this resolution a chance to work and see if Saddam Hussein complies." But it was at that point that the rhetoric kind of overtook the reality.
Around that same time that you have this meeting at the Security Council where Colin Powell was, in the American view, ambushed by de Villepin. ... What happened basically is still a bit of a mystery but de Villepin ... didn't really say anything in the meeting that wasn't already known. But he basically restated the French position -- that we need to wait for the inspectors to finish their course.
The problem came when de Villepin gave a press conference later, and he was quite emotional. He kind of picked up this anti-war rhetoric, or anti-war line, that some of the pacifist Europeans were using at the time. The Americans felt that Colin Powell was really just ambushed. The French position was kind of hardening into an anti-war position, when in fact it was still a bit nuanced at that point.
What do you think is driving the French government's opposition to this war?
It's hard to give you a one-sentence answer, or one answer. There's a list of things and they all kind of coalesce into an anti-war position. First of all, there's a fear of terrorism. Every time I pick up the phone and call a French government official and mention, "Why are you opposing this American-led war against Saddam Hussein?" they said, "It's only going to make terrorism worse." They are really, really fearful -- and I think that's not too strong a word -- of bombs going off on the streets of Paris. They've had this before with Algerian terrorism. They don't like it. They want to keep it away.
Number two, and this is closely linked. There's a very large Muslim population here. Nobody knows the number exactly. But 4 million or 5 million Muslims, mostly from North Africa, live in France, concentrated in the large cities -- Paris, Marseilles. You know they're obviously going to be opposed to a war against a Muslim country, and France is really concerned about this kind of reaction. We saw during the French presidential campaign here, just before the campaign, a lot of anti-Semitic incidents -- bombs, little firebombs thrown at synagogues, Jews being beaten up by North African youth. They really see this kind of exploding if there is a war in the Middle East.
Number three. France has a lot of interest in the Middle East. President Chirac just came back from Algeria. He tours there often, but he's been around for a long time, you know. Chirac's been mayor of Paris, prime minister, foreign minister, since the 1970s. He thinks he knows the Middle East. He's traveled to Baghdad; he's traveled around that region. Also there are links in the Middle East or with the Palestinian side, with the Palestinian Authority.
It's a part of the world he thinks he knows. He's a man now in his seventies, and he thinks he's been dealing with this issue for 25, 30 years. He knows the area. They've got an economic interest there. His question is, "Why are we going to inflame the Middle East by launching what will look like a Christian, Western-led war against a Muslim country? Why should this be containing Saddam Hussein and not trying to overthrow his regime?" So that's a really big worry here.
Another fourth reason: public opinion. You've got 75-80 percent of the French people solidly against the war. In America, it is seen that Chirac and the French government is taking some wacky, off-the-wall position. But really he's actually following what his public opinion is saying. ...
And then you add in sort of this idea that it's a geopolitical idea -- [that] France doesn't like the idea that America is the cowboy in the world calling the shots, being the world's policeman, going around deciding which regimes to overthrow, which regimes to leave in place.
I was talking to a Foreign Ministry official the other day. He said, "We don't give a damn about Iraq; this isn't about Iraq. This is about the post-Cold War order -- who decides what regimes stay in place, who decides who keeps the order. Is it going to be America, acting alone as a superpower, ... or is it going to be the Security Council -- all nations sitting together on the Security Council with five permanent members, deciding?" And don't forget, France is a permanent member. As long as these decisions go through the Security Council, France has a veto power, or at least France has a say. If it's America alone deciding with the coalition of the willing, France could be cut out, France doesn't have so much of a say.
So it's really a battle over what the world's going to look like.
But for Dominique de Villepin, in particular, it becomes almost a romantic vision of a multipolar world, isn't it?
Yes, he is a remarkable man. He's a poet, he's an intellectual man and he really sees this as a battle over what the world is going to look like in the future.
The other thing is, this is a battle over what the Bush administration put out in the international Security Council memorandum, talking about their pre-emptive policy. Wherever they see a threat in the world after Sept. 11, they're not going to wait for the threat to materialize; they're going to go and act, even if means overthrowing a regime.
The French were outraged when this was announced, and this is a battle to stop that from becoming reality. Iraq is really the test case for the Bush administration policy of pre-emption. Will the United States be able to go around the world deciding that a country or countries are a threat, and act against it? Or will they have to go through some kind of a multilateral system?
You know, if you look at it in a broader context, Europe and France have spent the last decade basically giving up some of their sovereignty to this institution called the European Union. The French are being told that their budget's out of line, they've got to get it in line. The French are being told how they have to put their cheese in refrigerators, what kind of products they can sell. They're basically giving away some of their sovereign rights, some of their sovereign decision-making, for this thing called the European Union. They even gave away their French franc, so their financial independence is now being dictated by Brussels really, because they're a member of the Euro zone. So being part of a multilateral structure is something that is now deeply ingrained into the culture here.
America, on the other hand, has this sort of attitude that "We can do what we want." I watched President Bush's press conference recently where he said, "We don't need anybody's permission." That would be a complete anathema to Europeans, who have been getting permission from Brussels to do things in their own countries now for many years.
So it really is like one of the American policy thinkers, Robert Kagan, said recently, "Europeans are from Mars, and Americans are from Venus." They're really seeing things in completely different ways."
There are personal factors as well. Chirac has a view to history, doesn't he?
Chirac has a view to history. I've written a couple of stories about Chirac, trying to understand where his thinking is. He's in his last term as president. He's in his seventies. He's been around for a really long time. Somebody pointed out to me, "You know, Chirac was prime minister when Nixon was president of the United States. He made his first trip to Baghdad around 1974. Chirac's been around before George Bush ever dreamt of going into politics."
So he really sees himself as an elder statesman. To compare him with others in their forties and fifties, Chirac really sees himself as the grand old man; he understands the Middle East; he's been dealing with their leaders for 30 years. I think he really wants to be deferred to on some of these issues.
The other thing is, Germany now is in a pretty weakened position. Their economy is weak. Chancellor Schröder is in a weakened position, so Chirac is the elder statesman in his second term. He's looking to history. He sees himself as a kind of de Gaulle-like figure. He was flattered recently about the comparison to de Gaulle. He really sees himself as somebody who can sort of speak for Europe.
It's been a bit difficult now, because as [U.S. Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld pointed out, Europe has expanded. It's expanding eastwards, and a lot of these new countries look more to America than they look to France and they look to Germany. So that's been a real problem.
There's something else people mention -- the Samuel Huntington thesis on the clash of civilizations. Is that something that comes up when you talk to French people?
It is something that the French have spoken to me about several times. They see this clash of civilizations occurring on French soil. France has a very large Muslim population. Islam is the second largest religion in France and they really, really don't want to see this clash occurring.
One person described Chirac as being obsessed with this thesis.
De Villepin and Chirac are really concerned about the battle between Christianity and Islam. They don't want to see it happen on the streets of Paris. We had a very, very minor taste of it. We saw various incidents occurring here in mosques, and synagogues were being attacked. They don't really want to see this happening, and they see this as a huge problem.
The whole question of admitting Turkey into the European Union has kind of touched on this question -- can Islam be compatible with Christianity in the structure of the European Union? There is a real, real fear here that the European Union will be seen as a Christian fortress, posed against an Islamic world .
What they fear is that this coalition that the Americans are putting together -- America, Britain, Australia, other like-minded countries in Eastern Europe -- will be seen as Western Christian countries attacking a Muslim country. That's why Turkey is really important, That's why I think the Americans would love to have Turkey on board; they would love to be able to use Turkey as part of a coalition because Turkey is a Muslim country. Turkey is a large country; it's in NATO, and that would kind of blank this argument that it's Western Christian countries going against Third World Islamic countries.
Now Richard Perle [former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board] says it's all much simpler than this. France has vested interests in Iraq, it has done its oil deal.
I think that's complete nonsense for a variety of reasons. Number one, America is the largest buyer of Iraqi oil. Number two, which government is it that's surrounded by people from the oil industry? President Bush was in the oil industry. Dick Cheney was in the oil industry.
Thirdly, France's economic interest with Iraq is about 0.01 percent of its economy. Its economic interest with the United States are immeasurable, so why would France risk its economic interest in America for a tiny country about the size of Texas?
Finally, it makes no sense, on its face. If France were only interested in oil contracts, their easiest way of doing that would be to join the American-led coalition, go to war, kick out Saddam Hussein, and then be first in line to get contracts.
Tell me a little bit more about that European summit meeting in Copenhagen and the flap that resulted. Bush called Chirac, wasn't it?
Bush called Chirac. He called the prime minister of Denmark, who was then chairing the summit. He called a couple of leaders, basically pushing the case that Turkey belonged in the European Union. I remember the reaction among the French especially was absolutely livid. They said, "Well, maybe we should call Bush and say that we think Mexico should be a state in the United States. How dare he interfere in something that's no business of the United States, and in a very politically sensitive issue?" Because once President Bush made that call lobbying personally on the behalf of Turkey, it would really raise the hopes of the Turks. It would make the Turks think, "We've got Bush on our side, therefore, we're going to get in." And it would make the blow even harder when they were given a date pretty far in the future.
I remember people were on the record saying, "This is an outrage. It shows the ignorance of America towards the European Union," and off the record, they say even stronger things. One thing that the French pointed out was the European Union is not some club that can let in any member. Members have to subscribe to a certain series of conditions -- economic conditions, human rights conditions, etc. It's a pretty objective criteria that has to be met, and to just say, "Let Turkey in because we like the Turks," just showed, in the view of the French, a complete ignorance of what the European Union is. And it was interfering in the internal affairs of Europe, which presidents really shouldn't do.
Where is this whole crisis, regardless of what happens, going to leave all the great institutions -- NATO, the E.U., and the U.N.?
It is sad to say, but being here in Europe, you're really starting to see a huge split develop. If you'd asked me a year ago, I would say it was all nonsense -- talking about anti-Americanism in Europe. But I'm starting to really see open hostility towards the American government, not American people, and really starting to see a big split develop. It really is as if these institutions are going to be hurt -- I wouldn't say beyond repair, that's a bit strong -- but it's going to take a lot of work.
A lot of it is going to depend on how the Iraq crisis resolves itself. If it's a quick and successful war, a lot of this might be forgotten sooner. If there are big spillover problems in other countries in the Middle East, if there is an increase in terrorism, if France and other countries are hit, they're going to see a lot of hostility towards the United States for opening this Pandora's box.
But at the moment I think this has really damaged the trans-Atlantic relationship. I don't think things are ever going to be the same after this. I think people blame the Bush administration for dragging this dead cat out and throwing it in the middle of the table and forcing people to choose sides. ... You have this tirade by Jacques Chirac against the Eastern European members saying they should learn to shut up; you've had this Group of Eight signing a letter; you've the France-German peace axis; and the European Union is badly, badly split. I think the biggest casualty in all of this is the European Union's attempt to find a common ground in defense policy. That's not going to happen now, and this issue has proven that.
This whole question of Europe, if they form a new constitution that calls for a European president, Tony Blair was in the running for that job. [Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria] Aznar, in his second term, was in the running for that job. Not now. You're talking about leaders who have gone against the opinions of 75 percent, 80 percent of the European population. Their futures in Europe seem over now.
So it really seems that a lot of reputations have been shattered by this. A lot of institutions are going to be weakened by this, all because the Americans have driven this issue just incredibly hard and driven a wedge into a lot of these institutions like NATO and the E.U. It is going to take a long time to repair the damage from this, even if it is a short successful war.
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Abby: Wife wants husband to cross-dress
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Dear Abby:
My husband and I recently watched a comedy that featured men cross-dressing. Ever since, I have had a burning desire to have my husband wear sexy lingerie and makeup.
There is nothing effeminate about him, but I can't get this out of my head. I bought him a lacy bra and panty set, garter belt and stockings, but I haven't had the nerve to ask him to wear them. Am I crazy? Should I try to forget this?
— BURNING DESIREin Nahant, Mass.
Dear Burning:
Human sexuality is complicated. There are many women who help their husbands cross-dress. However, it is my understanding that the initiator is usually the man. I don't think you are crazy, nor do I think you should "forget" something that you describe as a "burning desire."
What I do think you should do is have a frank discussion with your husband and find out how open-minded he is on the subject.
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Dear Abby:
Our family, consisting of our three children, their spouses, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, have occasional gatherings to celebrate special events. My husband's 90th birthday is this summer, and the immediate family will come here, some from faraway locations.
My daughter-in-law "Janie," who lives 2,000 miles away, has felt for years that her children from previous marriages (who do not know any of us) should be included at these events. They live within 100 miles of our home and could attend if invited. Our relationship with Janie has been generally cordial and affectionate.
She will be visiting her children at their homes the week of the birthday.
If we exclude her kids from our celebration, she will feel insulted and resentful.
How obligated should we feel to bow to Janie's demands and include four additional adults and a child to our party? My husband becomes upset and confused by large groups and noisy children.
— CORNEREDon the Eastern Shore
Dear Cornered:
Your husband's comfort must come first. If he becomes agitated by large groups and noisy children, you must explain to Janie why no "strangers" can be introduced into the mix. Do not allow anyone to lay a guilt trip on you. When Janie sees your husband, I am sure she will understand.
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Heres my team:
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Miami Observatory, according to Walter Havighurst, in his book, The Miami Years, 1809-1984, "the remains of which persist on the campus now and occasion surprisingly little wonder," was on the Oxford campus. "A hundred feet from the front door of Bishop Hall is a sandstone pier, three feet high and two feet square," Havighurst explained. "A close look, which few have taken in the past half century, shows it scored with initials of students long gone from Miami and fading inscription: 'Designed in 1834 and erected in 1838 by John Locke, M.D.'" Havighurst said "this is the remnant of the second astronomical observatory in the United States. American astronomy began in 1830 when a scientist at Yale carried a five inch telescope to a college steeple and observed Halley's Comet before word of it came from observatories in Europe. The first observatory in the United States was built at Williams College in 1836, and the next effort came in Ohio. In 1836 John Locke, an ingenious professor in the Cincinnati College of Medicine, designed a stone pier for the mounting of a small transit telescope. This primitive observatory he sold to Miami before the year was over, and Professor Scott set it up on the treeless south campus. The old stone pier still shows one of the iron fastenings which supported the transit. In the spring of 1838 a small frame house was built of the stone pier, but it didn't last. On winter nights when a student's fire was sinking that shed began to go. It was all gone by 1840." Havighurst wrote that "Loomis' Practical Astronomy, published in 1855, the Miami Observatory is listed at Lat. 39 ¡30'N., Long. 84¡ 46' W.-- along with the other observatories of the world." In a 1904 article, Robert White McFarland, a Miami professor and former university president, said "the several changes in the professorship of astronomy here from 1836 to 1848 had an adverse influence on the subject."
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The Nike Missile Site was one of four sites constructed in South Florida during the Cold War. Today it remains the best preserved of the four sites. In 2004 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Comments by Veterans after the reunion:
"Thanks again for everything that all of you did. It's nice to know that A Battery will remain strong with the Park Service." -Gary Smith 1977-1979
"The reunion was even more than I had expected and I actually cried when I saw that missile looking so pretty in the old missile barn. Caught me off guard that it would cause me to have such strong emotion, but I was happy that it did. I can't tell you how much all of us appreciate what you have done." -Rick Roode 1969-1970


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Stella and Combat
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. This BIT examines the interplay between computation and culture in the Atari emulator Stella and the Atari VCS game Combat.
About the Authors
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).
Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).


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Performance Tuning Guide > Monitoring Siebel Application Performance > Converting Siebel ARM Files >
Running User Session Trace
Use the following procedure to obtain user session trace analysis output. Before running this analysis, manually collect Siebel Server and Web server Siebel ARM files and store in a common directory. Use this directory as an argument with the Siebel ARM post-processing tool.
For a description of the user session trace analysis and output, see About User Session Trace Analysis and Data.
TIP: To reduce the amount of data logged, use the time frame parameters (
To run a user session trace analysis
For further information on running the Siebel ARM post-processing tool and running the Siebel ARM post-processing tool for other types of analyses, see Converting Siebel ARM Files.
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Striving to bring agility into the organisation to adapt to changing business conditions is leading people to lose sleep and stretch more than before in some organisations. Agile thought leaders definitely envisioned this and hence recognised sustainability as one of the agile principles.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
To run a long distance you need to find a sustainable pace. But often, companies just don't get this due to various reasons like:
- Pressure from business and management to get most work from least people
- Team not having an option to make their own decisions – command and control culture
- Teams inability to say NO for non-realistic goals. Service industry firms – they just can't say NO to unreasonable client demands
- Utilisation of people – Planning for 100% utilisation. This makes people work for more than required hours and hence getting burnout
- Unable to remove distractions to the team. Lot of unplanned, non-essential meetings taking people's time. Questioning motives and saying NO is essential here.
- Allocating people on multiple projects with allocation distributed 20%,50%,30% etc. This does not work in reality. There is a switching time between two tasks and people take around 15 mins to achieve FLOW (high productive zone)
Sustainable pace is:
- How to achieve this FLOW within the organisation and within your projects. Optimising workflow from concept to cash.
- Keeping right balance between speed, robustness of solution without losing quality of product and quality of life of the people. Interestingly, you can achieve high speed only if you have high quality, if not it will slow you down.
Sustainable pace is not a marathon, but a series of short sprints, where you pause, re-energise yourself, reflect and start new. So definitely you need a slack within the sprint to achieve this. Finishing demos and retros quite early on the last day of the sprint and team having some rest time before starting new sprint is one way of getting some slack time.
Google 80/20 or Atlassian Fedex days are some great examples of introducing slack time to drive innovation.
To attain this sustainable pace, you need to remove lot of waste, non-value added activities which a self-organised team finds and eliminates it.
Does culture play any role to attain this self-organising character and hence sustainable pace?
Nation culture has an impact on the organisation culture too. Geert Hofstede's years of research in this field reveals some interesting insights into this question.
He has defined multiple parameters for us to understand the culture of different countries. One of the parameters of research was PDI (Power Distance Index). It reflects the extent to which less powerful members of a culture accept that power is unequally distributed and they don't resent the authority easily. This index varies across cultures with Denmark showing highest resentment while China the lowest. This stark variation across countries could be a very interesting and revealing study by itself.
A PDI score of 70+ for India clearly indicates that people are far less likely to resist the decisions – whatsoever – done by authority. Not a progressive sign, eh? People are susceptible to command and control managers and may NOT resist their decisions openly. Western clients working with the Indian teams often complain – "I hear only Yes from my team in India. They don't challenge me? ". Good news is it is changing, some entrepreneurs recognise this and working hard to change this culture.
Building an organisation which questions, challenges ideas, shares thoughts openly which eventually helps to build self-organising teams, with absolutely no hierarchical mindset is immensely tough – more so – as it's a constant struggle against our own culture/mind-set.
Keeping this culture while we scale is a battle and hence it is extremely important who we bring on-board at every level and more so at middle to senior management. He/she should be a person who is open to work as servant leaders and a very important factor often ignored in organisations.
Have you dealt with such cultural challenges? I will be eager to hear your experiences in achieving sustainable pace.


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The question demands an answer – has America tossed another vestige of freedom on the scrap heap of history. Watertown, (MA) citizens welcomed armed police and swat teams into their homes during the search for Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. As the linked video confirms, Boston's ersatz storm troopers treated homeowners with scant civility. …
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GCC Countries Adopt Realistic Approach For Relations With Tehran - UAE FM
CAIRO, March 8 (Bernama) -- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have adopted a realistic approach for relations with Iran, said Dr Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
Addressing the 147th session of Arab League's Council meeting in here Wednesday, Dr Gargash said that thanks to the prominent role by Kuwait, the GCC countries have adopted a realistic approach that governed their relations with Iran.
This is based on non-interference in other countries affairs, Tehran's acceptance that the Iranian revolution is an internal matter that is not fit for exporting into Arab countries and acceptance of the principle to base nationality on citizenship, not sectarianism.
"These are the foundations (of the relations) collectively adopted by the GCC countries and until Tehran agrees to them, it remains as a country with intervention and expansion plans that undermine our Arab security and stability," WAM quoted him as saying.
"It is important we bring to the Arab League Council's attention that Iran is still playing a role in undermining the Arab security and stability, which is evident in many crises taking place in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.
"It is unacceptable for us when someone says that they control four or five Arab capitals," DrGargash said.
The UAE's delegation for the meeting, haeded by Dr Gargash, included Juma Mubarak Al Junaibi, UAE Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League, Faris Al Mazrouei, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Security and Military Affairs, Abdul Rahim Yousif Al Awadhi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Legal Affairs and other ministry officials.


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Summer evenings with friends and family – the best chopped salad from leftovers!
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The first one is the oil painting wholesale of the famous masterpiece Starry Night which is the representative of Van Gogh. As the saying of editor from Refine Gallery, this oil painting is now deserved by Museum of Modern Art in New York. The symbolic meaning should be the main feature of this oil painting. The painter used short strokes to form the agitation rotating universe. In this painting, people could find eleven stars are gathering around the moon and the cypress like a torn and burning Gothic church.
The stars and the moon implied relationship between the apostles of Jesus. Some people also thought that the meaning of this picture stand for the final judgment of the solar system. All stars and planets in the universe are spinning and breaking of in the Last Judgment. In fact, this is an illusion of Van Gogh.
The second one should be the oil painting reproduction of world well-known The Gleaners. This painting is the masterpiece of famous painter Jean-Francois Millet of France. By the viewing of this oil painting, people could find that it describe the rural working life with the real and intimate beauty. In autumn, golden yellow field could be seemed endless. After wheat harvest, there are three peasant women who bent down to pick up the lost wheat very carefully. The lost wheat should be supplement to the family¡¯s food. The hill liked wheat stalks behind them has nothing to do with them www.refinegallery.com . Miller expressed deep sympathy for the hard life of these farmers.
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Hat tip to Jan for pointing me to this: A Love Supreme by Thomas Campbell is a skatemovie for NYC's number one skate shop Supreme shot way back in 1995. Lovin' the gritty mid-nineties NYC vibes and the soundtrack courtesy of the mighty Coltrane, possibly, or arguably the best jazz record ever, in my humble opinion, of course. Anyway, sit back, relax and click play as I did:
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Things are back to normal. Thank. God. I can't stand not being on the same page as my B1. It's heartbreaking...
Has the weather been crappy where you are too? Here in Boston, it's been cold and rainy for quite some time now, making it sort of impossible for us to sail. Though the boat's been in the water now for about two weeks, we have yet to actually get out into the harbor. It's been nice to hang out and sleep on the boat, but we'd really love to be out there, racing along the the others, exploring new places. Cross your fingers that this weekend will be nice for us.
I have one month and one week to finish the invitations and then we have to send them. I'm almost there-all of the ribbon is wrapped around the pockets and the little double square closures are also done and attached. I finished those last night while we were watching TV. Today during my lunch break I worked on the knot closures which will be the finishing touch which secures everything in place.
I have to admit that I felt a little creepy pulling this big wad of twine out of my bag today. It felt like I was either collecting hair or making some sort of voodoo doll.
|Twine. Lots and lots of twine...
I managed to tie 26 knots in all during the one hour break I had. Of course this included fiddling with the computer so I could play some tunes and answering a few text messages about flower girl shoes. But I feel good about the fact that I'm on my way to being done with these. I think after the gym tonight, this will be my project. I have 75 to make. If I didn't tell you before, this is the knot we are tying during the ceremony in place of lighting a unity candle. Since we're sailors, we thought it only fitting.
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Yes it is. Husband thinks it a head gasket. It you take off the radiator cap with running it 1/2 hr. Or more it just keeps bubbling?/
code readout from autozone(aa random cylinder misfire detecked.
aa1-fuel system concern
aa2.-Ignition concern
aa3.-MAF sensor faulty
aa4. HO2s/AF (heated oxygen sensor/Air fuel) ratio sensor fail
aa5- blocked intake or exhaust system(this code only came up once? Augh!
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Biju Menon starrer Marubhoomiyile Aana, which was earlier expected to hit the theatres on August 5, 2016 has now got a new release date.
Now, the makers have officially confirmed the release date of the film and the movie would hit the theatres on August 12, 2016.
Marubhoomiyile Aana is one among the most awaited films of this season. The film, which is touted to be an out-out-and entertainer has been directed by V K Prakash. The film has its script written by writer Y V Rajesh.
The trailer and the song of the film, which released on Youtube did open to a grand reception. From the trailer, it seems like Biju Menon is in sublime form and by all means a complete entertainer can be expected. The actor at present is enjoying the success of his recent film Anuraga Karikkin Vellam.
The film releasing on August 12, would be facing stiff competitions from two other Malayalam films, which are scheduled to hit the theatres in the coming week. Actor Jayasurya's two films, Pretham and IDI, would be hitting the screens on the same date. By all means, the coming week would witness a big war at the Kerala box office.
Marubhoomiyile Aana has an ensemble star cast comprising of actors like Krishna Shankar, Balu Varghese, Lalu Alex, Kanaran Harish, Major Ravi etc in important roles.


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This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of 'foregrounding' - the deviation from some norm or convention - in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific 'chunks' of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the 'historic present', a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation.He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view. Over the last 30 years this pioneering series has established an unrivaled reputation for cutting-edge international scholarship in Biblical Studies and has attracted leading authors and editors in the field. The series takes many original and creative approaches to its subjects, including innovative work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and more recent developments in cultural studies and reception history.
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Saturday, 24 November 2012
Schools and Projects
Have been researching about cell line authentication service lately for the fact that my niece needed it for their school project. Beside that, they also required to provide the equipment but really don't know where to get an affordable one. Or maybe there is available for rent out there, if any of you knows please let me know asap. On the other hand, few of my nephews are graduating high schools and that I am proud and happy that they have that determination to complete high school diplomas. I'm excited for them to start college soon and maybe university. With their looks and height, no doubt they can easily hired to any jobs available in the market. So, my wish is for them to carry on and that they won't mix to the lazy asses around who just don't anything apart from waiting to be given food in to their mouth. I'm proud of my family and to the extent my nieces and nephews.
Sick and Jet lags...
Yes, I am back from my Philippine trip but still recovering from jet lag. It is worst coming in than going out because now me and my son both felt really sick and suffered diarrhea since we arrived in Cebu but is worst as we landed here in UK. I don't know what's going on though because back in Cebu my family only drink out of mineral water rather than from the tap. However, we still managed to caught a virus or is it just our weak immune system. After all, it has been 6 years that I haven't had my exposure to the country. And worst, it was my child's first Philippine trip. Anyway, I hope to get better soon as I have so many things to catch-up before my husband will fly away to West Africa for business trip. Luckily, it's weekend so I can rest and get well. Still unsure when my husband is flying though but I'm hoping not straight away because I do need extra time to recover from my trip. On the other hand, I would love to post some of the pictures from my trip as per request.
Wish lists additions
It has been a family talk about getting this terrific banjo at Musicians friend but that will be depend on our budget. I never knew that my family has been long separated from the Church in our town and that they do home church now. With that being said, they needed few music instruments to use during church service. They have guitars and speakers but they haven't had a banjo and organ or keyboard. So, it will be one of my project to provide earlier next year and instead of an endless clothes shopping, I decided to just save it for them. Buying them different music instruments is not a bad idea as kids love musics and in that way it will keep them busy during weekends and as well as help them develop each of their music talents. Another thing in my list is a magic mike and hopefully I will be bless financially to accomplish all these wishes.
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