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An Ermine has been touring Scotland for the last couple of weeks, seeking out wild places and fellow mustelids. It's been a time of reflection and inqusitiveness – up in the wilds of the north it has been good to get away from the virtual and into the real. I did have a computer to transfer pictures and sounds but connectivity was ratty and very low speed – even the weather forecast was iffy at times. But I got to stay by the side of lovely lakes and see hawks circling over mountainsides.
It surprised me how remote some parts of Scotland still are – I had somehow expected the tentacles of the mobile phone networks and suchlike to have penetrated far more than they did. Because of its open spaces Scotland shares an enlightened approach to wild camping with places like Scandinavia. Most of the interesting places and creatures are in the remoter unenclosed regions, though I am a slack bastard and use a camper van. Campsites often don't work for me, because they cost more than I typically use in fuel in a day, they cluster around 'attractions' and they also often discourage movement between 7pm and 7am – some of the best light and interesting sounds are to be heard in that period.
There seems to be an election going on and everyone is talking tactical details and nobody is talking strategy…
It's odd hearing the odd snippets after the weather forecast on the radio – with time to reflect it seems increasingly bizarre. The airwaves are full of micromanagement and pork-barrel politics. A lot of energy is being wasted on the micro and not enough focused on the macro. So here's some of the big picture things an Ermine would like to see getting attention. Most of them seem to theme around a rapid loss of diversity in may ways of organising human affairs:
Improved communications and lower cost of transportation is decreasing homogeneity and leading to concentrations of people and job opportunities. It's not what we expected to happen – the idea of the freelancer able to access the world from a laptop in one of those wild places (or even a market town in the north of the country) was part of the early promise. Didn't work out that way, so we have London with shitloads of jobs and sky-high prices of housing and other cost of living bits, and a lot of the rest of the country bombed out. Is this a problem, and if so is there anything that can be done to alleviate the human suffering?
Along with the geographic inhomogeneity the improved communications are creating winner-takes-all effects in big parts of life. Internet services – for many people Facebook/twitter ≡ the Internet, and we are losing diversity in many network services not through standardisation but through de-facto sole suppliers and network effects.
The distribution of money/resources is also becoming more unequal – capital is winning the fight against labour, a little because of globalisation but more largely automation seems to be developing apace. There's nothing wrong with humans doing less work – it's a trend that has been going on since the Industrial Revolution. But if fewer and fewer people are getting to keep the spoils of war then it seems a tough deal – what makes them so special apart from being in the right place at the right time.
Why do we have this Calvinist fetishisation of work as being noble? It's being used to spoil a lot of little people's days, because They Must Work It is Good For Their Soul. I can see the problems of money for nothing, but benefit scroungers pale into insignificance compared to welfare for well-funded lobby groups. That seems to be an odd perversion of free market principles in industries like farming and banking. George Monbiot took the battle to the enemy in terms of farming subsidies of £3bn p.a.
Why do we permit lobbyists at all? Why do we not debar any minister in an department connected with an industry from working in or having worked in that industry for two years either side of their term of office. I get the argument that it's good to have domain knowledge, but I am reminded of Adam Smith's observation
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices…. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Never mind the assemblies, let's keep these dudes out of assembling within the flippin' government where they get to make the rules to featherbed their conspiracies… Caroline Spelman, she of ex GM lobbyists Cormack Spelman and associates was Environment Minister for a couple of years, obviously there was no conflict of interests.
The game of tag 'twixt Greeks and Germans is still going on
I guess if you've been doing something for two years now then why change a winning formula, strange how little seems to have changed over a few weeks, still the same people calling each other names. Oh well. Despite this
the markets are in serious nose-bleed territory
UTMT observed this a while back and it's still going on – indeed having come back I need to get in and sell my CGT limit of The Firm. But what to buy in it's place. In general WTF is going on, everybody seems to be having a touch of the vapours, even the Russkies aren't as much down shit street as they used to be. This ain't real, guys. Has that ugly sucker Putin stopped being nasty to people? Surely not – the twisted wreckage of his psyche would take more than the collected shrinks of New York and California to iron out into something approaching normally convoluted grey matter. This really can't carry on like this.
Of legacy, and an odd glimpse of the bizarre inequity of children inheriting wealth…
Forty years ago I came here as a teenager and took a similar picture of this lovely lake with its enigmatic island topped by a castle, though the teenage Ermine took that picture in the light of the noonday sun because that's when we were there. It's in the relict part of the ancient Caledonian forest, and part of the Rothiemurchus Estate. It so happens that the current head honcho, Johnnie Grant, happens to be a decent sort of egg, but I kinda took a double-take with this part of the guidemap.
There's a teeny bit of sense of entitlement here, Johnnie. Now Britain does have an extensive history of aristocratic ownership of land, and indeed the aristocracy did do a lot to advance knowledge, particularly from the Enlightenment onwards. Charles Darwin was an aristocrat – like an Ermine after 30 years of work, Darwin could afford to pursue his own interests, but he didn't need the 30 years of work. The British aristocracy were the main body of people who had the time to pursue non-pecuniary interests in those times.
The conjunction of a lot of this with Britain holding a large empire did throw up some valuable additions to the body of knowledge – the Victorian expeditions around the Empire bringing back specimens are one of the reasons the Natural History Museum is one of the key plant archives of the world and there is such a vibrant gardening and plant-breeding tradition in the UK. Britain also has more veteran trees than typical for this part of Europe, partly because of that tradition. Just as well all this plant collecting came back to an established and fairly robust natural environment and not too many of the alien species caused trouble here, eh 😉 We could have done without Japanese knotweed and grey squirrels, but it didn't turn out too terribly.
However, in a different universe, Johnnie could be a hedonistic twat keen on yachts and fine living, in which case the stewardship of the estate could be a very different matter. One of the things that an Ermine occasionally gives thought to is that perhaps I may not run down all my capital – it depends on the kindness with which Fate graces the older Ermine, and to that effect I reflect on where I would want to aim the residue of my estate. One of the things that did concern me in some of the obvious diretcions is that I am not sure that having large tracts of Britain in the hands to the likes of the RSPB and the National Trust would necessarily be kind to future generations of Britons. These would not be my children because I am child-free but despite a common stereotype I do have compassion for the future population of this country, and concentration of ownership is one thing that seems universally bad in human affairs. Until I read Johnnie Grant's little missive – which brought home to me that I've grown up in a Britain where huge parts of the land have been in the ownership of individual families for years – and to be honest I'd rather than conservation charities in charge of these now, because any one of Johnnie's three kids could be a spendthrift wastrel. There is a lot wrong with charities – in particular how much of the money seems to walk out of the door in executive 'cos we're worth it' salaries, but there's even more wrong with ancestral wealth.
Even Johnnie agreed, when he sold a lot of forest to the Forestry Commission, although that's not exactly a safe home either. Not only did that incompetent nincompoop Caroline Spelman try and flog this off to the highest bidder until it was halted by the outrage of half a million of the UK's good men and true.
As well as being sell-offable by newbies the Forestry Commission also gives us harsh and blasted moonscapes like this, with their homogeneous monocultures suitable for 25-year clear-felling, compared with the antiquity of some of that ancient Caledonian forest
So all in all I feel better about the RSPB owning big chunks of the land than the laird. Mind you, the long arm of the aristocracy did make sure that embedded into the Constitution of the RSPB was the following, hamstringing the nascent society from taking a general view of the welfare of birds:
The Society shall take no part in the question of the killing of game birds and legitimate sport of that character except when such practices have an impact on the Objects.
Obviously game birds aren't birds, 'cos the toffs wanted to carry on blowing the suckers out of the sky when this was enacted in 1957[ref]I have never, ever, seen grouse on sale to eat, which would at least be less wasteful of life. I don't even know if you can eat grouse. The market value of pheasant is low, basically because too much is shot as sport for the demand as food, so a lot of this is wantonly buried[/ref]. It was okay for the little ladies to set things up to prevent egrets being killed for their white feathers used in the millinery trade, when when it comes to the man's business of massively breeding game birds and getting your serfs to beat the suckers in the air and shoot one of the many young birds driven into the sky to show what a hard man you are and how skilled a shot you are by aiming somewhere into the air then that's a different matter and Must Not Be Touched. Thus the RSPB is officially neutral on shooting game birds.
The aristocracy did historically do some good stuff, but they did also have it in them to treat people like shit. They came to the conclusion it was cheaper to raise sheep in the Highlands. There was one small problem – there were too many people on the land to make this work. One Sheep farmer, Patrick Sellar, delivered himself thusly
"Lord and Lady Stafford were pleased humanely to order the new arrangement of this country. That the interior should be possessed by Cheviot shepherds, and the people brought down to the coast and placed in lots of less than three acres, sufficient for the maintenance of an industrious family, pinched enough to cause them to turn their attention to the fishing.
A most benevolent action, to put these barbarous Highlanders into a position where they could better associate together, apply themselves to industry, educate their children, and advance in civilisation."
He hard a charming habit of roasting people alive in their houses if they wouldn't move first. Which is why you see so many abandoned cottages in Sutherland. The time of ancestral wealth and using agricultural land a a store of dynastic capital is for the chop in the modern world IMO. Indeed, the whole inheritance thang and the way people get het up about it is bizarre. For starters, if you truly love your children and have raised them right then you can give your entire estate to them free of tax – just do it while you are alive and survive seven years – stand by your principles. If you don't trust the blighters not to turn you out of your ancestral pile when you go ga-ga then a) you should have dragged them up properly and b) why should future generations of Britons be subject the the boot of these ne'er-do-wells just because they were related to you. If you can't trust them with power why should the rest of us have to deal with them empowered by capital they didn't earn?
The current threshold of IHT is also unreasonably and recent-historically high. The aristocracy held a stranglehold on land capital until the wars, when the reforming governments saw that the little people who had been slaughtered in their millions for King and Country did deserve a little bit more of this green and pleasant land than they used to have – for instance the plot of land their small hovels stood on. It still took time – in 1969 my parents bought a house in London. A house, mind you, a suburban semi, not a caravan on wheels, but they didn't get to buy the land it stood on (freehold possession, in modern parlance). They had to buy it leasehold, because if there's one thing that old money doesn't do – it doesn't sell off the capital, and so many of the houses built in the post war era were sold on long leases of 99 years. Ten years later they took up the opportunity to buy the freehold for about 5k in today's money, presumably the estate that wanted to hold onto the land was skint due to paying IHT. Inheritance tax was an equitable way of breaking up these historical accumulations of wealth – in the end we all inherit the earth from previous generations and yield it to future ones. Of course what you accumulate through a working life should be inalienably yours[ref]subject to the usual rules of the land and taxation[/ref], but if you believe that you have a problem with Taxes after you've succumbed to Death then you've not used your time on earth well to familiarise yourself with its ways… The dead really do pay no taxes. It's your grasping children who will pay the taxes. Since it's a windfall for them anyway, easy come easy go…
If you own your house freehold you have IHT to thank for it prising the land rights out of the cold dead hands of the aristocracy gifted it by William the Conqueror[ref]history buffs will gripe over running roughshod over the details[/ref]. What goes around comes around – what makes your progeny so damned entitled to free money so they can stamp all over their peer group who aren't so fortunately endowed? If you want to give them your money, show 'em the love – do it when you're alive and trust to the upstanding personal character you have instilled in them to look after you. You should at least share some of the risk with the rest of us if you want to disadvantage others and featherbed the fruit of your loins beyond the grave.
An encounter with the Weasel of the Trees and other mustelids
Not only did I see a fine male Stoat crossing the road on my travels, but thanks to Johnnie Grant's tree-hugging tendencies I got to say hello to the Tree-Weasel of old – the noble pine marten, once persecuted by gamekeepers (a lot to answer for, these grouse estates!). I can't claim talented fieldcraft and stalking skills here, I took the easy way out and paid Speyside Wildlife £25 to sit in their pine marten lodge and look for one taking the peanuts laid out for them
The trouble with mammals is that many of them are nocturnal, and they have way better senses that we do. I could actually still see in colour to take this picture because they have low floodlighting. It was a tough picture, throwing everything I had – f5.6, ISO 1600 this was still a 1 sec exposure, which is why the picture is so bad. The marten could probably still see the hairs in her fur clearly. So you need edge to see nocturnal mammals, £25 in this case. With badgers thrown in too.
The pine marten has an interesting service to offer us, too. They have a penchant for eating squirrels, but in a curious twist of fate they are a friend of the smaller red squirrel. Pine martens chase squirrels into the trees and follow them along the branches, but the red squirrel can go further out on the branches that can support its lighter weight but not that of the marten. Not so the grey squirrel. As Monbiot describes, once the Irish stopped killing pine martens, the martens have been driving grey squirrels out of the west of Ireland – and now they have hemmed them in east of the Shannon river, and presumably as the martens build their ranks they will eventually drive the greys into the Irish Sea.
The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind of Owen Paterson
Owen Paterson, a Tory gent with a penchant for the politics of Enoch Powell, believes shooting greys will be effective. Even allowing for the fact that Owen seems to be a bit on the dim side with an antipathy for science unless it suits his ends (Climate change bad, well, simply non-existent in that spotless mind, culling and shooting good even if it doesn't work and blame the bloody badgers for moving the goalposts) he's clearly not been familiarised with r/K selection.
You have a decent chance of killing off a species that reproduces slowly but occupies its ecological niche at carrying capacity by culling. Pine martens, humans, African big game, yup, you could clear an area of these species that way. Grey squirrels breed twice a year so fall into a r-selection pattern- you need to carpet-bomb the place and then secure the perimeter to be sure of killing off enough of them that they don't simply renew their ranks. Or set the pine martens on them 😉 The difference between the pine martens and the shooters is that the pine martens keep on coming, whereas the shooting stops when the Government sponsorship runs out, whereupon the skwerls repopulate the joint. Quickly – and you're back to square one.
Paterson is a odd fellow, aristocrat by marriage, a chap who when faced with the right answer to something and the wrong answer to it, unflinchingly chooses the wrong answer particularly if it benefits his rich countryside buddies. For example, this Soviet-style special interest pleading:
Andrew George (St Ives) (LD): It is, of course, right that public money should be spent on public goods. At a time of severe austerity, what public good is there in spending hundreds of thousands of pounds—indeed, £1 million cheques—on large landowners who do not need the money?
Mr Paterson: I thank my hon. Friend for that question. The fact is that we are going from 7 billion to 9 billion people. There has been complacency in this country over recent years, because there was unlimited, safe and easily accessible food to be bought abroad. We want to make sure that we have an extremely efficient, high-tech agricultural sector producing food. I take food security extremely seriously and welcome large, efficient farmers.
Dear Owen, you are so full of shit. Food security may be an issue one day, but the security bit comes to play when the global system is stressed, and in that case we want a resilient and lower-tech system that isn't all interlinked with just-in-time connections. High-tech food production has massive sprawling inter-country supply chains as evidenced in the horse for beef scandal.
Alternatively, if we want cheap food then here's a radical idea. You know that thing called the free market? Howsabout it – get your damned Government pork out of our food system, stop picking bloody winners like your aristocratic buddies in their huge estates leased out to contract farmers to whom you piss in huge amounts of the proletariat's VAT taxpayer money as subsides. While proles claiming benefits are of course labelled lowlife scum, the rich storing their ancestral wealth while sucking loudly at the Government teat of ag subsidies is noble policy and an essential bulwark against Britain being starved out of the future, because of course the history of central planning in food production has such an illustrious history, eh?
Let's take a look and what this highly complex subsidised high-tech system has brought us in recent years. There's the whole GM thing which seems to be forced upon us despite European customers being rich enough to say we don't like the idea of that – a free market without Monsanto and Syngenta etc pulling the strings would give us the choice in the same way as if you want something without nuts or organic you can go get that, clearly labelled.
We have horse in our beef, we are all becoming fat bastards and now the WHO tells us that the magic Roundup which is what this whole GM stuff is designed to promote isn't good for us either. Maybe the place for Government in this area is regulation and monitoring (like when it sez beef it is beef) rather than spraying taxpayer's cash around to rich people and their buddies to maximise profits, minimise resilience and charge every UK household about £250 p.a. to keep them in the style they're accustomed to.
If GM really is more profitable without subsidy, then drop the objections to labelling the stuff as such, FFS, and let the market decide. In the battle between cheap and good, the evidence is overwhelmingly that the punters will go for the cheap.


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Our Great Black Friday Deals Are Going Fast! Don't Miss Out...You Need to Know This…Are Your Sure Your Email Hasn't Been Hacked?.... You Are Missing Out! Sign Up for A Free Account and Win an iPad!....You Are Absolutely, Definitely Missing Out on the Deal of a Lifetime!!!
So it goes in a day in the life of Erika Morphy's email inbox, who, for various reasons, keeps her filters set on low (Reason No. 1: I once lost out on a work opportunity because an email from a new sender was unceremoniously dumped into the spam box).
But do these subject lines work? Especially during these precious five days, when every retailer and marketer is vying for attention from shoppers?
Name Then Reframe
Some just might—at least as far as getting people to click on the email--according to one study by Dariusz Dolinski and Katarzyna Szczucka of Warsaw School of Social Services and Humanities in Poland that was recently published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
The researchers developed a social influence theory, which they called disrupt-then-reframe. As the study's abstract explains "the person, hearing simple argumentation during the short state of her or his cognitive disorganization, becomes more inclined to fulfill the requests made of her or him."
The study used experiments to induce a "fear-then-relief" state in the consumer--at which point, the retailer is able to move in to make the sale.
One experiment, according to a Harvard Business Review blog, found that people who were momentarily rattled by finding what they believed to be a parking ticket on their windshield were subsequently 1.65 times more likely to comply with a street vendor's request to purchase aromatic Indian sticks. In another experiment, people were more likely to answer a questionnaire if the surveyor first asked if the person had lost his or her wallet. These experiments "demonstrate that the "emotional disorganization" following apprehension and relief makes people more likely to comply with a request," according to the blog.
These findings are not news to marketers, although they probably like having the quantifiable research to back up their instincts.
"Marketers know that dissonance can create compliance, and that's exactly what this study proves," says Kim Ann King, chief marketing officer of site optimization firm SiteSpect, which among other things, conducts testing to see which email subject line is most likely to be opened.
"The more you can shake someone up--either positively or negatively--the more likely it is that they will take action," she says. "So it's no surprise that scary subject lines work."
Use the Power Wisely
That said, marketers need to be careful when using this technique to make sure that the subject line is relevant to the email, King adds. "I received an email today with the subject line 'Employee Concerns' but the email itself was trying to sell me website design services." Did it work? Well, King opened the email, but she didn't buy the services, which ultimately is the point for retailers, both legitimate and sleazy. (I am not addressing here a common ploy by malware creators to write a compelling head and email to get people to click on a link. That is a different subject all together).
Indeed misleading email subject lines--Your account might have been hacked! Call us!--royally piss people off. They might get the initial open, but they are certainly don't lead to a sale (that example is a real one, sent from a company marketing antivirus software).

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East Central European Cities in Comparative Perspective
This course uses readings from cultural history and urban sociology, literature, film, and the arts to shed light on the East-Central European urban experience from the early nineteenth century to the present. Cities in this region share a common experience of transformation of urban space from modernization in the late nineteenth century (mostly under foreign rule), independence and further development between the wars, rebuilding and expansion under state socialism and Soviet hegemony after WWII and new kinds of rebuilding and expansion since 1989. Though the nations in this region have frequently thought of themselves as emerging from rural "peasant" cultures, that identity is usually defined from cities – whether through government, the social sciences, or the arts. The language of course readings will be English, although those with other language skills will be encouraged to explore sources in their original language.


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Teens blase about risky drinking
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Victorian teenagers appear to be becoming more blase in their attitudes to risky drinking.
In 1996, 42 per cent of 12 to 15-year-olds thought that drinking four or five alcoholic drinks almost every day was "very dangerous". By 2002, that figure had dropped to 37 per cent. Among 16 and 17-year-olds, 20 per cent agreed with the statement in 1996, falling to 15 per cent in 2002, according to Department of Human Services figures from Victorian secondary school students' surveys.
When asked in 1996 whether they thought having five or more drinks in a row was very dangerous, 70 per cent of 12 to 15-year-olds agreed, but by 2002, that had fallen to 63 per cent. Similarly, 16 to 17-year-olds appeared less troubled by drinking that amount, falling from 65 per cent in 1996 to 57 per cent in 2002.
Rob Moodie, chairman of the Premier's Drug Prevention Council, said drinking, particularly harmful drinking, had become normal for young people. "To drink as much as you like is becoming more OK than it was before," he said.


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NEW CASTLE – Members of the Craig County High School Class of 2014 took the first steps into their future on June 6.
It was a beautiful Friday evening when the 54 graduates received their diplomas from Principal Robert "Rowdy" Stump and Assistant Principal Marion Trumbo in ceremonies on the CCHS field. Graduates included Stump's son, Matthew Caleb Stump, who was one of the members of the Beta Club identified by their gold tassels.
Former acting school superintendent Chip Gray was the guest speaker. Class President Haley Burger welcomed the crowd before Valedictorian Levi Helm and Salutatorian Elizabeth Surface addressed their fellow students.
Helm quoted favorite children's author Dr. Seuss, who wrote "Oh, the places you will go!"
Class of 2014 members Hannah Blevins, Caitlin Reynolds and Helm also performed a short music piece for the assembled students, families and friends.
Craig County School Superintendent Kelly Wilmore confirmed the students as new graduates of CCHS, as they turned their tassels to the other sides of their caps.
Teacher Jeanne Guthrie played the music for students to process into the stadium and to recess out of it.
Graduates' future plans range from attending community college, such as Gina Bellassai, who will study at New River Community College, to Helm who plans to pursue biology or environmental studies at the University of Virginia. Others plan to start work right away.
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The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast has opened the Gulf Coast Center for Child Development in Pass Christian to serve as a state-of-the-art learning facility and child care program for children age eight weeks through five years.
Primarily serving as a teaching and research facility for university faculty and students, the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Center for Child Development provides interactive experiences to students majoring in Child and Family Studies. For the community, the center serves as a full-day early care and education program for children on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
"Southern Miss Gulf Coast has provided our students with a quality education for many years," said Dr. Frances Lucas, vice president and campus executive officer at Southern Miss Gulf Coast. "We are very excited for the opportunity to enhance our resources by offering a unique learning environment to our students in the College of Education and Psychology."
This is the second child development center operated by Southern Miss. The first center, located on the university's Hattiesburg campus, is accredited by the National Academy for the Education of Young Children and features a five-star rating with the state's quality rating and improvement system. Only seven other schools statewide have achieved five stars, the highest possible rating.
"Our goal for the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Center for Child Development is to become an exemplar model of child care and education for the children who attend, as well as our university students," said program director Rose Jenkins. "We would like to assure our community, that through our strategic planning and implementation of this program, our number one priority will always be the well-being and safety of all children who attend our center."
Constructed four years ago by the Pass Christian School District, the $1.5 million facility is located at 205 Leovy Avenue near Pass Christian Elementary School. The center, which accommodates up to 75 students, features 5 classrooms and an enclosed playground.
"We are excited about the wonderful opportunities that this partnership provides for our children and for the community," said Beth John, superintendent of the Pass Christian School District. "Southern Miss has demonstrated that they share the Pass Christian School District's vision of commitment to excellence and we look forward to a long partnership."
The center offers quality programming for children achieved through the initiation of developmentally effective activities and positive child guidance techniques. Jeff Leffler, executive director for the Gulf Coast Center for Child Development, says the center demonstrates a model classroom and features teachers who have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.
The tuition rate for infants and toddlers is $615 per month and tuition for children attending pre-school is $525 per month. The center accepts the subsidized childcare assistance DECCD, or Division of Early Childhood Care and Development.
The Gulf Coast Center for Child Development, open Monday through Friday 6:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., operates year round and follows the university's holiday schedule for closings. For more information, visit www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/child-development.


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New York
Price realised USD 56,250
PARIS 1617 -- DURAND, Etienne (1590-1618). Discours au vray du ballet dansé par le Roy, le dimanche XXIXe iour de ianvier. M. VI.c XVII. Avec les desseins, tant des machines & apparences differentes, que de tous les habits des Masques. Paris: Pierre Ballard, Imprimeur de la Musique du Roy, 1617.
4o (223 x 167 mm). Collation: A-H4 I2. With 13 full-page etchings of ballet scenes, printer's woodcut device, initials, head- and tail-pieces; 12 pages of typographic musical notation. Jansenist citron morocco, gilt rolls and fillets on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, bound by ÉMILE MERCIER, successor to Francisque Cuzin. Provenance: Alfred Cortot (1877-1962, French pianist and conductor, collector of autograph and printed music; bookplate and green collector's stamp); Otto Haas (sold to Gourary 1975).
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of the celebrated French court ballet, La Délivrance de Renaud, which was based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, with KING LOUIS XIII (as the Demon of Fire) and CHARLES D'ALBERT, DUC DE LUYNES (as Rinaldo) dancing the lead roles. The ballet was conceived by Durand, with music and verse by René Bordier, Pierre Guédron, Antoine Boësset (1585-1643) and others. "The King and his suite entered the Louvre's Salle Bourbon around eleven at night. There were maddening delays. He started the performance at two-thirty a.m.; it lasted until five in the morning. The big room was hazy with drifting smoke from lamps and torches, which added a fortuitous magic to fresh paint, embroidery, and gilding, on scenery, armor, and fountains... Costumes were heavily embroidered, brocaded, padded -- unsuitable for quick movement. Renaud was notable for its new system of changing scenery: painted panels were moved onto a fixed frame in slots; the central unit revolved on a small turntable" (Lincoln Kirstein, Four Centuries of Ballet. Fifty Masterworks, Dover 1984, p. 63).
The fine etchings follow the performance with much detail. The political implications of the ballet, however, have been variously interpreted, from the young king's assertion of independence and authority to a political identity of ambiguity and contradiction. RISM Recueils imprimés (1960) p. 459 records 3 copies in Paris (BnF, Conservatoire, Institut de France), one in Troyes, and one in the Houghton Library at Harvard, to which a copy may be added in the Staatliche Bibliothek des Kunstgewerbemuseums (Berlin 4111). No auction records. Margaret McGowan, L'Art du ballet de cour en France (CNRS 1963) ch. VI.
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by Bram Stoker
Year published: 1897
Category: classic thriller
Jonathon Harker, a proper English businessman, travels to remote Transylvania to conduct a transaction and finds himself a prisoner of the world's greatest fiend. Escape from the castle, however, does not free him from the nightmare which follows him home…
Wow. There are reasons why a hundred years later, the classic vampire tale still resonates so strongly with so many people.
The original Dracula story is more gripping, more horrifying, than you might expect. Using contemporary Christian ideas about a fate truly worse than death, Bram Stoker raises the stakes for his characters to a gut-wrenching level. One scene in particular (involving a stake through a woman's heart inside a wretched tomb) gets my vote as the single MOST AMAZING scene in all thriller history.
On the bummer side, Dracula was written a long time ago and the old writing style is a real stumbling block for modern readers. You will need some discipline to immerse yourself in the dated, formal language, and to get used to the odd device the author used of telling the entire story as a series of journal entries written by the characters, a patently ridiculous and unbelievable device in the context of the fast, emotionally-charged action. Your effort will be well-paid, however. You may think you know Dracula, but few of the modern plot distillations and scene excerpts do justice to the intensity of the original. Bram Stoker knew how to write scenes that you won't forget.
SPOILER ALERT: Plot summary to follow.
Harker escapes back to London but loses his mind and must be nursed back to health by his devoted wife, Mina. Mina's dear friend Lucy, who is beloved by three heroic men (the successful suitor, Lord Godalming; the Texan, Mr. Morris; the psychiatrist, Dr. Seward) is preyed upon by some mysterious wasting disease. Van Helsing, an elderly Dutch physician, is called upon to study the case. He knows that vampires are real but keeps his secrets until late in the story. They mystery of Lucy's blood loss allows dramatic scenes in which each of her suitors give her transfusions of their own blood. Dracula contains so many iconic scenes: the arrival of the vampire's ship in a storm, the dead captain chained to the wheel with a rosary in his hand, and a wolf leaping ashore; the madman Renfield in Seward's asylum who eats life (flies then spiders then bird then cat…) and has a special connection to Dracula; the perfection of the slain woman contrasted with the scenes when they find her undead and attacking children, then the huge scene at her grave. Mina Harker, the ideal woman, is portrayed as strong and smart. As a 19th century female she must also be vulnerable, yet the men's attempts to shield her backfire. The scene where Mina is rendered utterly unclean and destined to undeath is SO good. The stakes are now raised higher than imaginable: she MUST NOT die for she will lose her soul. Interestingly, she develops a weak psychic connection to Dracula, and can see and hear what he does (in the fashion of Harry Potter!). A strong heroine, she proves herself as capable and brave as the men, who track down the locations of all of Dracula's coffins but one, setting up a desperate international chase that leads back to where the story began.
Chosen by International Thriller Writers as one of the Top 100 Thrillers of all time.
If you can handle the writing in this book, test your mettle with: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


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I was a very dramatic child. Here is a poem I wrote approaching my thirteenth birthday. It's called 'life is shit'
A teenage life can be glum
You're growing bigger, so is your tum
I'm sure my parents would think me right,
All that chocolate and sunny delight
School is lousy, a horrible place
My life got worse with my train track brace
Metal mouth, tin grin, that's what they said
'Twas that type of feeling, you know, when you wish you were dead.
Got over that, home at last
When all of a sudden in my face, a blast
The parents of course, how could I forget
'Do this, tidy your room, go walk the pet'
It's not over yet, best friend moves away
I wonder, will I see him some other day?
I think about the friendship we had
And how it went just like that
Mum's leaving her job and Dad's is looking down
We all come home with a miserable frown.
Been ill for two days, caught a really bad cough
Don't tell me, I know, you've heard enough.
And my team lost the cup final- that'll get me stick
The defence running round like a headless chick
I wish I could bury my past in a pit
So I guess that this tells you
My life's pretty shit.


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As fall approaches, many area kids look forward to back-to-school shopping sprees, but many more will go without. In partnership with the United Way, Belk is giving back to local students in need.
Starting this Friday, August 1 and continuing through Sunday, August 3, Belk at Galleria Dallas will collect gently used jeans for the United Way. In exchange, shoppers who give back will receive a $5 coupon to be used toward a new pair of juniors jeans. All donations will be distributed to local students, just in time for the new school year.
Belk is located at 13350 Dallas Parkway at Alpha Road. For location and parking details, visit GalleriaDallas.com.


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Unknown to many people, the mouth is an organ of the digestive system that portrays the overall health of the body. Studies show that a healthy mouth decreases the risk of health conditions like diabetes and heart attack. Regular visits to a dentist curbs the occurrence of such problems that are costly and need prolonged treatments. To get a better view of why you should choose the best dentist, check out this best Dentist in Logan. Therefore choosing the best dentist is vital. This article will give you a guide to selecting the right dentist for you.
Things to consider when choosing the best dentist
Read reviews from the internet
As much as this is a common point to consider, it is the most important. Reviews will give you information about certain dentists. People give the first-hand experience of their dental visits in reviews. By looking at comments made by individuals who have used services of particular dentists, you get to know whether they are professional or not, whether they are friendly or not and whether the deliver quality services.
Look for many reviews and do not trust one review as people can be biased. However similar comments whether negative or positive can help you identify the right dentist.
Certification and experience
An experienced dentist is well equipped with knowledge in various fields of dentistry. The best dentist specializes in various aspects of dentistry. The advantage is that you stick to one dentist who will be able to handle any dental health problem instead of going to other dentists for different problems.Choose a dentist who specializes in different aspects of dentistry. This way you can stay with the same dentist instead of seeing a separate specialist.
Make sure to look out for the certifications and licensing to avoid frauds. These documents are usually displayed in their offices.
The dentist should keep up with technology
Technology changes every day to deal with problems that come up. How will you know that the dentist is keeping up with technology? Check out if he or she is practicing latest dentistry procedures. Check out if he or she is using the advanced medical equipment. If you have a problem in identifying such details, research for clarity on such issues.
A dentist who is up-to-date with everything will only perform the necessary procedures and will not be stuck with old technology.
Choose a dental service according to your budget
You may dwell too much on searching for the best traits in a dentist and forget to work with your budget. Some dentists charge highly regarding cost for the same service other dentists offer. Choose a dentist who will provide quality service along with minimum expenses.…


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TE12000 Pump System
Availability: In Stock
By checking the ASME option above you are converting your Non ASME TE12000 pkg into a ASME Coded System that is certified in CO and WA.
We do not recommend any pumps for a pump based system. However if you live in a country or area of the world that has no restrictions and you want to save money by purchasing less tanks that require a pump to run we have included an optional lower cost pump model here. If a pump is used please use it outdoors in an open area.
Since you will have the larger tanks you can avoid looping allowing all the controls during extracting as long as you are not tempted to use less solvent and loop it back through. If you do loop you will be restricted to a single solvent that will require ultra cold temperatures to avoid the undesirable dark waxy extracts due to the added contact time encountered when looping.
Pump System Information:
- 1 Solvent Recovery Tanks.
One acts as a Solvent Delivery Tank and serves as a Second Recovery Tank when emptied.
- 1 Wide Super Fast Extractor Tank
- 1 Buchner Column with removable Buchner Performation Plate and bolt on Lid
- All the Lines, Heaters, Gauges, and fittings to complete the system.
- All the tanks are prefitted with the nozzles for future automation.
- Heating System and Controller for RC Tank, Column and Extractor Tank is provided.
Tamisium TE-12000 4 kilo Capacity Pump Version comes with Quick Change Column with Rapid Solvent Recovery Extractor Tank, Expanded Advanced High Wattage Silicone Heating System with 3 Heaters and 2 controllers all Assembled and Tested.
You can upgrade to a pump free model later by adding the additional recovery tank, wafer valve and sucker tank with clear and stainless pressure lid. ASME option can be certified in WA and CO.
Now with sight glass and threaded drain plug and boosted wattage for faster extraction and recovery!
ASME coded - means these System Tanks were built using a Nationally Recognized American Standard Mechanical Engineering Process.
The Tanks do not need to be Re Reviewed by another engineer. Our process and other components are already approved and certified.
ALL other optional valves and fittings are also safety marked with Nationally Recognized Stamps and are rated for the pressures and solvents the system is designed to use. Letters and cutsheets are provided for certification in all states.
Shown here is the TE-12000 4 kilo capacity column with 48 Liter Extractor Tank and 48 liter RC Tank. Both have a 20% added head space so solvents can expand safely when using the heating system designed for this process.
48 liters is used to extract from 12 liters of plant material because that is what it takes to perform a complete extraction. It is not magic. It is what is required. There is no secret way around it. I know because I hold the patent on this process.
The first 12 liters hydrates the plant matter and is held in by absorbtion. It wets it. Rags dont drain dry. The rest of the solvent comes in and mixes with the first 12 liters as it washes the plant clean. It is known through 1000s of experiments with 100s of different plants with many solvents that by the time the thrid 12 liters enters the plant most if not all the compounds have been dissolved and washed out. The last 4th volume of 12 liters is absorbed and therefore held in the plant and is recoverd from that position. It is not magic. It is just the way it works.
Systems that use less than 4x solvent than the plant column.holds in plant matter are recovering that solvent as it passes out and looping it back through. Looping adds extreme contact time and allows the solvent enough time to dissolve heavy waxes and other dark compounds. This forces those system and their operators to add ultra cold temperatures to disable the solvent's ability to dissolve these heavy dark lipids. Just like sugar does not dissolve well in cold water. Well, neither does it dissolve in room temp water if it is not in contact very long. Reduce time instead and increase production. Those little tanks only save them money. Not you. You will be forced to buy pumps and dry ice for the life of the machine. Dealing with the noise limitations and hazards.
In addition to saving money time and labor by using a correctly designed system you will have a correct volume of solvent that can be passed through the plant matter as fast as you want at any temperature with any combination of solvents. Looping processes only recovery one solvent at a time, disabling you from using co solvents to extract things that butane alone wont dissolve and extract out. Also you cannot control or even add temperature because the solvent may be recovering from the column while it is extracting sending the solvent into gas phase. Last time I checked it took a lot longer to use air to heat and cool than liquid because when the molecules of solvent are touching each other in liquid phase versus spaced apart in gas phase, they transfer BTUs of heat and cold 20x faster.
Shown in the picture above are the heating jackets for each tank with dual independent 220 volt controllers capable of 1/10 degree accuracy. Not visible is the Extractor Tank Heater affixed to the bottom of the Extractor Tank with included Wafer Valve attached.
Optional Sleeves are available for the Solvent Delivery tanks so that you can use a liquid chiller/heater which is recommended for cooling.
Shown in the photo is one of the included Solvent Delivery Tanks, Extractor Tank and 4 kilo Column. Second included Recovery Tank and Dryer tank not shown.
Adding the accessories below will convert your pump system into a pump free model.
OPTIONAL Wafer Valve shown attached to top of Extractor Tank.
The Wafer Valve is a low profile Ball Valve that allows you to seal off the bottom Extractor Tank to safely and quickly remove and replace the column with a optional pre loaded column. You do not have to expose your extractor tank volatile vapors to the atmosphere to change your column or access your extract. Your extract is drained into the Sucker Tank where it can be dried and further prepared using a safer lower volume portable solution. Your extractor tank is left spotless clean and requires no cleaning. We may mention that there are no valves or lines to clean when using the wafer valve. A truly self cleaning system.
If you purchased a Activated Charcoal Canister Filter that we designed for this system and properly named Channel Filter, it would be placed in between the Wafer Valve and Extractor Tank.The Channel Filter for the TE12000 forces your diluted extract to travel over 15 feet through activated charcoal. For AC to work effectively you need this distance and contact time.
There are about 100 different types of Activated Charcoal. Each type filters out different things from liquid extracts. To be able to use AC to filter your extract inline while still diluted by Butane and just after the solid to liquid phase extraction process completes saves time and money and allows access to more isolation and cleaning. All without any volatile compounds lost because you do not have to use a less volatile solvent in a open system filter which would have to be removed using higher boiling points later.
OPTIONAL Sucker/Dryer Tank Below holds near 5 gallons on the TE12000 system and comes with a stainless Pressure Lid for holding pressure when receiving extract from the extractor tank as well as a Heating Pad and Controller to target evaporation of various compounds based on their boiling points.
Also called the Dryer Tank when used to evaporate and recover all remaining solvents and compounds during the drying process. This is when you could add the Lexan Lid for pulling a vacuum so you can dry with less heat. Once your volatile compounds are removed you can go up to 212F to targer even harder to remove compounds if heat is allowed after removing and condensing your aromatics or lower boiling point extracts.
Using a tank like this, in conjuction with a vacuum oven or to replace it, allows you to have more control over the process while also allowing you to attach other apparatus such as a clevenger condenser so that those compounds evaporating away are not lost forever. Keep in mind condensing compounds is one method of obtaining the most pure isolations.
We have a few other tricks that will have your competition wondering how you do it. We will inform you of those after purchase and will share future developments with you as we progress with more efficient equipment and ingenious designs.
Take a look on the inside of the ASME Coded dryer/sucker tank. This tank is created using 8 different machined parts and then the welds are removed for a smooth finish facilitating easy removal of the most difficult extractions while providing a food grade surface you could cook on. After machining them out they are welded together and then machined again to form a perfect shape to ensure a perfect seal. Welding causes metal to warp. Machining the sealing surface after the parts are welded together corrects any misalignment issues. After the tank is welded and machined, we then remove any weld marks. With every weld, the part is surrounded with Argon Gas to prevent oxidation during the welding process. This is necessary if you want a food grade product that will not trap bacteria or corrode. With food grade parts you cannot have areas for food particles to deposit where bacteria can grow. The surface has to be polished and free of pitting cracks and crevices. It is a required expensive process.
States that do not understand all these requirements will learn the hardway at your expense and the expense of your end consumer.
On the top of this short cylindrical tank a o-ring groove is cut into the surface which seals against a flat Pressure Lid with various fittings. Also included is a resealing pressure relief valve for safety. These fittings allow you to monitor extract inside while you add more extract or solvent or dry it out for final preparation.
You can compile multiple extractions into this tank which allows you to vacuum dry out the extract from multiple runs in a single instance. A heating pad with a temp controller accompanies this very important piece of equipment. Maintaining a constant predetermined temperature to counter any cooling effect from evaporation ensures complete removal of a specific solvent during drying phase. As little as 2 ppm butane can be achieved.
You can also use this tank to steam distill any essential oils from your higher viscosity extracts with the addition of a simple condenser connected to the output. Now you can make expensive more isolated essential oils based on their varying boiling points for less money and have a edge on your competition with this unique draining, drying, steam distillation process.
Here is a closer look at the Solvent Delivery Tank and Recovery Tank.
The TE12k or 12000 has a ASME coded threaded on cap with a siphon tube allowing you simply set your solvent tank on the floor versus inverting it to get the solvent out. A simple tank that is not so simple.
Machined from 10 separate parts and assembled like the sucker tank described above in a specific order that allows us to remove the welds as we go. This unique design allows us to focus temperature transfer in all the right places with carefully engineered ratios of thickness, volume dimensions and HW ratios. You see here 4 connections strategically placed in various locations. One is for receiving vapors. One is for monitoring with the accessories that are included and one additional is for attaching 2 RC tanks together for Rapid Recoveyr of Solvent. On the automatable systems we added 3 more fittings for sensors.
There is another fitting which holds a very special safety relief valve that vents unsafe pressures from the tank and reseals after safe pressures have been reached. Dont be misled.
All tanks that hold volatile liquids will expand and could blow up the tank if this VRVI valve is not present. This relief valve can be set up to vent into the atmosphere or the venting can be directed to another safe location. There is a final valve in the center. This unique carefully designed proprietary fitting allows you to convert your RC Tank into a siphon tank or remove the lid for adding co solvents.
It is self sealing and requires a signle oring seal. When a siphon tube is used you can draw liquid from the bottom while the tank is still setting upright. For people that either lack the mobility or the strength to maneuver this tank onto the column, they now have another option and we will tell you how to do it using nothing more than small pressure differentials created by solvent.
For a size reference, my son Rhett Robert McGhee stands next to the TE12000 Extractor Tank while he gives it the final Seal of Approval during pressure testing to 120 psi for 24 hours.
TE12000 Packed and Crated on Pallet going out to the Customer. It takes a long time to build these systems in the manner we build them in. Most of the time they are sold before we receive them.
Dont get caught waiting in line. Order today and start creating more products while saving money and extracting safely.
We do offer a pump system TE12k that can cut your initial cost by as much as half. Later you can evolve into a pump free process by simply adding the omitted parts.
Below I have outlined the features and benefits of the now regularly stocked TE-12000 Commercial Tamisium System.
1. With the TE-12000, our newest Production Commercial System, you can extract from +- 4 kilos of plant material and recover the solvent in between 4-8 hours with the standard system included. Faster recovery times can be achieved with our proprietary Rapid Solvent Evaporating and Recovery Process.
Note: When extracting out volatile oils and chemicals, any rapid evaporating processes should be avoided. Excessive wattage for heating and cooling is required for this process and you run the risk of evaporating out components that have low boiling points. In this tested and proven process we have optimized the recovery speed in our base design to facilitate the highest yield possible when extracting out volatile oil/chemical components with low boiling points. Consider the fact that all Tamisium Extractors are by design a Volatile Oil Extraction Apparatus. It can do both components with high and low boiling points however it really shines when extracting oils, aromas, fragrances and flavors. Delicate or Aggressive in one system!
Rapid Recovery is an option that we can provide only if you are not worried about evaporating away volatile oils such as in the case when your only target/s are chemicals with high boiling points. You can always run a volatile oil extraction first (defat), remove the finished product, then run the system again targeting other compounds where a rapid recovery process can be useful in saving time.
TE-12000 system is comprised of 2 RC Tanks. 4 silicone heaters, 2 heat controllers, Sucker/Dryer Tank with stainless lid with its own heating pad and digital controller with clear Lexan Lid.
For a short time a Free $2500 TE12K Wafer Valve will be included.
Assembled Pressure checked and tested.
- You get a 12000 ml column which holds 8-12 pounds of plant material.
- 48 liter (12 gallon) Extractor Tank with Wide mouth access and bottom drain access. Comes with a High Wattage permanent bonded Silicone Heating Pad on tank bottom controlled by a dual zone controller accurate to .1 degree
- 48 liter Solvent Delivery Tank / Solvent Recovery Tank with Heating Jacket controlled by a dual zone controller accurate to .1 degree.
- Extra 12,000 ml Solvent Delivery Tank / Solvent Recovery Tank to cut recovery times in half and recover solvent simultaneously while extracting.
- 10 liter (3 gallon) Solvent Dryer / Evaporator Tank / Catch Tank wiith wide mouth access and heating pad with temperature controller. A Stainless Lid and a See Thru Lexan Lid. Collect multiple extractions into one easy access tank that is designed for easy refinement and cleaning extracts of solvents with a vacuum pump.
- Over $4,000 of Stainless Safety Connections and Stainless Steel Braided Caustic Chemical High Pressure Lines. You get a separate set for all liquid or vapor transfers for each process.
- Safety inline Relief Valves with pre set Crack Pressures on every tank.
- All Accessories needed to monitor and control your extraction parameters so you can repeat the process over and over to ensure you get the same quality out every time.
- Multiple connections of various sizes on every tank for easy accessory hook up and monitoring while liquid and vapor transfers are taking place.
- Removable Lids with Liquid Siphon tubes for both Recovery and Solvent Delivery Tanks. This siphon connections gives you the ability to take iquid from the tank without inverting the tank.
- Complimentary $2595 TE12K Wafer Valve for a short time.
What can this extractor do for your business?
- All test have shown results to be superior to any other oil extraction process.
- Cost to operate is a fraction compared to high temp and high pressure systems.
- Safety is paramount and is the reason behind the conception of the original system. Safety Redundancy in place.
- Bio Fuel and some Medicine production that was cost prohibitive can now be cost effective.
- Extracts Slow, Fast, Hot, Sub Freezing, With multiple polarity solvents so you can target one specific component in a plant in a zero pressure or higher system for the first time ever with Zero Negative Reaction.
- Consumes the lowest wattage of any extractor or solvent recovery system ever created. Now a cost effective bio fuel extractor is a reality. Can create fuel with a negative loss for the first time. Better than cost effective. It is now profitable.
- Extracts and recovers the solvent in one cycle. No need to set to extract and then again to recover the solvent. Set it up, Leave it overnight and come back to a finished product.
- No compressors or pumps or any of the problems associated with their use are necessary anymore. When extracting chemicals with high boiling points you can accomplish even faster recovery times than with commercial recovery machines, hassle and worry free, with our proven system of recovery. With volatile oils with lower boiling points requiring slower solvent recovery you still have that option. The best of both worlds.
If you are interested in having your own 2 pound or larger oil extractor, contact Tamisium Extractors Inc. by email to discuss options for purchase or call direct at 817-726-7525.
Please remember that most solvents are flammable. When opening and closing any of the extractors, please safely purge the units and do so in a well ventilated, spark free environment. The smaller units can be taken outside. Know the properties of the solvents being used for any process of any extraction with any apparatus. Accessory Safety Purge lines are available for each extractor.
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Capture for iPhone Puts Johnny a Little Closer to the Spot
Aug 2, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Capture, an app from Sky Balloon, is available for 99 US cents at the App Store.
Depending on how often you find yourself in bizarre, hilarious or thrilling situations, many events in life deserve to be caught on video. But the unexpected moments tend to pass right by, undocumented, simply because it's usually pretty cumbersome to whip out a video cam and get it going in time. Unless you've already got a camera in your hand with your thumb on the Rec button, that ridiculous person / automotive near miss / crook (or cop) behaving badly will never be digitally immortalized.
Consider the steps you have to go through to start recording video on an iPhone:
- Bring up the lock screen.
- Slide to unlock.
- Passcode, if applicable.
- Find the Camera app.
- Wait for the camera app to pull itself out of a coma.
- Switch to video.
- Wait for the app to slap the video recorder awake.
- Hit record.
If whatever spontaneous thing you wanted to record is still going on, there's a very good possibility that the best part is now over. So what are you going to do? Just remember it with your own squishy little brain? Pah! Nobody will believe it. Vids or it didn't happen.
Short of implanting CCTVs in our eye sockets, there are ways to be a little more on the ball when it comes to fast-draw videography. One is an app called "Capture."
Roll Tape
A few months ago I looked at an app called "Precorder." Essentially it's an app that constantly keeps a buffer of whatever went on in the previous few seconds. Cue up the app, point it at something that might be worth looking at soon, and when something happens, hit Record. The recording that's created actually begins several seconds before you hit the button.
It's basically just a way to avoid filling your phone with useless footage. Because it just uses buffering rather than certifiable magic, Precorder can't actually record events that happen when the phone's in your pocket (I mean, it can, I guess, but it'll just record them from the point of view of the inside of your pocket).
Capture doesn't do magic tricks either, but it does get to the business of recording much faster than Precorder or the iPhone's own Camera app. The idea is dead simple: When you launch Capture, it starts rolling video. There's no fooling with buttons, no having to tell it whether you want this kind of image or that, no waiting for a virtual iris to open up. It just starts recording. A one-second lag is the longest I've had to deal with so far.
And when you close the app with the Home button, it stops. The video is sent to your Camera Roll immediately, and it comes through in 720p, 29 frames per second.
Austere Interface
Obviously, this doesn't eliminate all of the steps outlined above, but it will take care of steps 5, 6 and 7. If you opt not to lock your phone with a passcode, 3 is eliminated. And if you absolutely, positively must have a hair trigger on your video cam, you can give Capture a place of honor on your iPhone's bottom dock, eliminating step 4. There, now an eight-step process has been whittled down to three, and maybe you were able to catch the action while all those watermelons were actually exploding, rather than the grisly aftermath. Worth a buck to you?
Capture may be simple, but it does allow for a few settings and adjustments. In the app itself you have the option of turning the LED flash on and off (iPhone 4 only). And you can manually stop and resume recording without exiting the app.
That about takes care of it for the main interface. In the iPhone's top-level Settings menu, other options are present. You can turn off the Record on Launch option (though that would kind of defeat the purpose), toggle the default orientation (autodetect or any of the four main orientations), and pick which camera to use (front or rear-facing). You can also toggle autofocus and grid lines, and opt to save to Camera Roll or to the app's own memory (in which case you'll offload videos through iTunes).
Bottom Line
Capture doesn't add special features to the iPhone's video camera or offer creative filters or image enhancements. It just makes quick-draw videography that much easier.
You never really know when something amazing's going to happen right in front of you that you'll want to have on video. But if you put yourself in a situation in which the odds are raised significantly (concerts, big events, the championship "parades" that happen each and every time the Lakers win the big one), then consider loading your phone up with Capture and giving it a seat on the main dock -- at least temporarily.


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The new Beithíoch release Summoning the Past is now out and can now be downloaded in one of two ways.
1. A shortened version free from hiarctow.com in mediocre quality mp3 format.
2. An extended version (with an additional 18 minutes of all new never before-heard music) in various high quality formats from the Beithíoch bandcamp page - for a mere 2.50 euro.
Summoning the Past is largely made up of tracks originally released on other albums/demos/etc, here finally brought to a more 'definitive' level of completion. Summoning the Past is also intended to presage the next Beithíoch album, showcasing how the project has matured stylistically over the years, and to give a bit of a sense of what can be expected from new material.
Síol Na Gréine Maeror Tri Biosphere Beethoven Bach Demilich Burzum Dead Can Dance Averse SefiraImmolationIncantationJesuRevengeAnton…


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The speaker this past Sunday morning came as close as anyone ever does in our quiet Italian-Brethren church to thundering from the pulpit. My ears, grown allergic over the decades to Preacher Voice, clamped down in a protective gesture around my mind so that I only caught snatches. Something about how the people sitting in the back were showing indifference to God. Something about the proper protocol for coming to meet with the King. Something about all those noisy children, the heads of households not taking enough control.
I didn't hear any more; I just saw. White, then red, then white again. The speaker's words had flown direct as an arrow from his front-row domain to my pew in the family section at the back and pierced old wounds of mine with uncanny precision. I might have gotten up and walked out if that wouldn't have seemed to reinforce his point. Besides, far too much attention was already being directed to the back, to We The Young Parents, to we the irrelevant and the irreverent. The last thing I wanted was additional scrutiny. I just wanted the Sunday morning spotlight to lose its fixation on me.
For a university writing class nearly ten years ago, I wrote a poem called Preacher's Kid. I cringe now at how one-dimensional and bitter it comes across, but the creative exercise provided relief that I dearly needed at the time. In it, I strung together the many dos and don'ts that had dictated my childhood behavior at church. Clothing, facial expressions, speech, movements—every last detail of appearance was accounted for and regimented under the eyes of God. If I didn't wear a frilly enough dress or if I ran in the hallway or if I didn't sit close enough to the front or if my younger siblings made noise while in my care, it was counted unto me as unrighteousness, a personal affront to the King we had come to impress.
No matter how many times I heard 1 Samuel 16:7—"Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart"—I sensed that it didn't hold any water inside our church doors. Appearance was everything when it came to communal encounters with God. Wear the wrong thing or use the wrong jargon or lift your hands during the wrong song, and you could dismantle the painstakingly curated spiritual atmosphere in one fell swoop. And we children, with our high energy levels and short attention spans, were the worst offenders. At least, that's how I understood things. It's hard to sort out in retrospect which guiding principles of my childhood were church policy, which were merely the opinions of church members, which were unique to my fundamentalist family, and which were constructs of my own vivid imagination. The result was the same however: I felt welcome in church only if my appearance fit a particular mold.
Do you know what that kind of thinking can do to a young girl? How deeply it can lodge the barbs of conditional love into her frame of reference? How much anxiety and shame it can infuse into her perception of God?
I could recite dozens of New Testament passages from memory as a girl, but only as an adult did I start to catch sight of their protagonist. Jesus, teaching his followers to approach God with as much simplicity and honesty as they could muster. Jesus, holding up the disruptive children his helpers had shooed away as examples for the adults to follow. Jesus, scandalizing the religious community by choosing people over protocol. Jesus, encouraging soul-thirsty crowds to stop worrying about what to wear.
The Jesus I found in adulthood gave me permission to unlearn all those crushing childhood lessons about God and love and religious etiquette. Still, old habits die hard, and I've never stopped having to consciously shrug off appearance anxiety when I walk into a church. Sometimes, fellow churchgoers help me shed that burden more easily with their wide-flung smiles, the way they dote on my girls, or their delighted off-pitch singing. Other times, well-meaning congregants can make things worse, such as when they pointedly insist that I study up on Christian modesty or when they rate my devotion to God by my proximity to the stage.
In my six years here, I can't recall seeing Sunday morning's speaker ever sit in the section of the auditorium that has him so fired up… but I have logged plenty of services in those back few pews, and when I look around me, this is what I see:
I see babies—fussy babies, giggling babies, babies trying to share slobbery bites of cookie with each other, babies shrieking with the joy or indignation of any given moment, babies missing their naptimes, babies who want more than anything in the world to try out their awesome new walking skills on the center aisle. (Every once in a blue moon, I'll even catch a baby sleeping. Their heads of household always look distinctly relieved.)
I see children intent at work on coloring books, children singing along to hymns they only half know, children like my serious-minded eight-year-old absorbed in storybooks, and children like my energetic five–year-old dropping Zoobles under the pews and occasionally forgetting to whisper. I see children quietly snuggling with their parents and children vibrating with pent-up enthusiasm. I see children who picked out their own outfits for church.
I see their parents—moms rocking spit-up stains on their sweaters, dads trying desperately to guess which toy their baby is squawking for, couples who were twenty minutes late getting out the door but came anyway. I see the sleep-deprivation pouches under their eyes, the ripples of annoyance that our church has no nursery, the complete adoration they feel for the small squirming humans next to them, the effort that goes into managing their children's church experience while trying to have one of their own.
And I see myself, a girl who spent years sitting in the front rows for all to see and to evaluate, a woman who now clings to the truth of unconditional acceptance even when it goes against policy, a mom who is unwilling to perpetuate the same cycle of legalism with her own children, and a church member who sees Jesus most clearly in the merry disruption of the back pews.
We don't come to church to "meet the King," a phrase implying pomp and ceremony and a discouraging sense of rarity. Neither do we come to church to shine spotlights on each other's weary heads. Instead, we come to church the way families come together for Thanksgiving dinner, a welcome reunion of relatives who wouldn't necessarily want to live together but are nonetheless united in their enjoyment of the feast.
That's how I got through Sunday's sermon in the end. I stopped picturing the speaker as legalism's bowman and instead thought of him as an eccentric great uncle who is so far removed from childhood that he can no longer remember why we allow children at the table. Maybe pomp and ceremony are what get him out of bed on Sunday mornings, and those of us with our focus ping-ponging between devotion and dropped Cheerios tarnish some of the glitter for him. Maybe he has the same allergic reaction to crying babies that I have to Preacher Voice. Maybe the spotlight has too often lingered on him and he felt he needed to redirect the flow of criticism. Whatever the case, he was simply trying to promote the conditions that help him best enjoy the feast. He wasn't purposefully seeking to hurt or alienate anyone.
So there we were on Sunday morning—the squealing babies, the rambunctious kids, the distracted parents, and the irritated great uncle—gathered around a common table to savor different elements of the same celebration. My ears stayed closed (sometimes keeping the peace requires turning down one's hearing aid for a while), but my eyes stayed open, and you can't continue seeing red for long when you choose to focus on family resemblance instead.


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February 2016 - Norwegian Sky to Caribbean - Bahamas
My husband and I were very much looking forward to a little R&R. This cruise was anything BUT rest and relaxation. We should have known that the great prices were "too good to be true." We were very disappointed to find that about 75-80% of our cruise-mates were college students on Spring Break. It was four days filled with streaking, foul language, noise, drinking games and debauchery. If I knew then what I know now, I NEVER would have booked this cruise for our long-anticipated vacation. When we returned home, I found the cruise was being booked on "collegeparty." I wish I had known about this!!


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March 2014 - Star Princess to Hawaii
Princess inept transfer service caused miising sailing
After Star Princess left without us aboard at LA on March 5, 2014 due to their Transfer representative errors, We flew to Hilo , Hawaii to catch Star Princess at Hilo on March 10,2014. Once aboard the ship it was fine but we are still waiting to be reimbursed for the flight to Hawaii to catch up the ship. When they picked us up at the LAX airport the driver of the Taxi that Princess representative picked did not know how to get to the pier. The taxi got lost causing us to miss the sailing. If we had been able to pick our own shuttle we would have gotten to the pier in ample time before saling.


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Manhood Crisis At The Heart of The Newtown Tragedy: Part I
As Mizzo always says, "Change the Narrative." The Starting Five takes a critical look at the Newtown, Conn. shootings and how gender affects complex social problems. – CA
Newtown Bee/ZUMA Press
The tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut shocked America to its core. On Friday Dec. 14, Adam Lanza, 20, of Newtown killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, 52, before carrying out a horrific shooting rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He forced his way into the school wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying three semi-automatic weapons. Lanza walked into a classroom, killing 20 children and six teachers and administrators, and turned the gun on himself.
The question on everyone's minds is why did Lanza do this? People want to see action to prevent mass shootings. The common suggestions are: stricter gun control, greater mental health evaluation and treatment, enhanced school security, or even arming school administrators.
But an overlooked aspect in the discussion is gender. When one looks at past mass shootings, the majority, if not all of them, are committed by men. So why is gender, more specifically men's actions, not being examined? Jackson Katz, a leading anti-sexist activist and scholar of violence, has been asking this question for years.
Katz is involved in gender violence prevention and has worked extensively with men and boys in sports culture, the military, and in schools. He has pioneered work in critical media literacy and is the creator and co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), the first program in the sexual and domestic violence prevention field to advocate a 'bystander approach' to prevention.
He is the creator and co-creator of three documentary videos. They are Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering with Sut Jhally, and Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies, and Alcohol, with Jean Kilbourne. These films are widely used as educational tools in the U.S. and around the world. He is also the author of two books, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, and Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood.
I caught up with Katz and we discussed how gender, manhood and masculinity shaped the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut.
Jackson Katz
You've been saying for years that mass shootings have a lot to do with masculinity. Why is this a problem and why does it persist?
There's long been a reluctance — in the mainstream media and even in the progressive media and blogosphere – to critically examine power. Whether it's whiteness, masculinity or heteronormativity, it's much easier to talk about the victims of violence than it is to examine illegitimate exercises of power by the dominant group.
When gender is talked about, it's almost always talked about as a women's issue or concern, as opposed to its being about the dominant gender, men. This invisibility of the dominant group is one of the ways that dominance functions.
Getting people in mainstream media to talk about white masculinity — which is the central factor in this as in so many other rampage killings — is difficult because so many people are uncomfortable talking about this. In some cases they don't even have the language to talk about it. That's not unexpected; it's how power works. We often lack the very language to uncover the mechanisms by which dominance functions.
Based on what you've seen and what you've read so far, how is masculinity playing out in regards to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings?
First, I would say it's the most important factor in virtually all rampage killings. I'm not saying other factors aren't important (such as mental illness, access to guns, drug and alcohol abuse, etc.) but they are secondary. The first line of inquiry needs to be about gender – specifically (white) masculinity.
But most people don't think about masculinity when they hear the word gender. Since they think "gender" equals "women," many people assume that when you're talking about Newtown and gender, you must mean it has to do with the fact that he killed his mother, or because many of the victims were girls and the psychologist and principal were women.
They don't get that what you mean is that the young man who committed the shooting is a gendered being, and that his gender is arguably the single most important factor in his perpetration.
Right, mass shootings in Paducah, Kentucky; Bart Township, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Oregon; Columbine High School; Virginia Tech; Sikh Temple of Wisconsin; Aurora, Colo. and Newtown, Conn. were all committed by men.
For decades, the experts who get called on to explain these mass killings say the same things over and over again. They de-gender the conversation and miss the main point.
I just listened to Dave Cullen, author of Columbine on Rachel Maddow a couple of nights ago. I did not hear him say one thing about gender. He ran through a set of psychological profiles for school shooters without mentioning that they're virtually all boys and men, most of them white.
A widely circulated Mother Jones piece documented 62 mass killings over the past thirty years. All but one were done by a man, but there was no discussion of gender in the piece. I've been saying this for a long time, but you would think that someone would look into this as a meaningful statistic, not just some ancillary point. Imagine if 61 out of 62 mass killings were done by women. Would people just dismiss that and say, "Oh, that's interesting," and move on? No, it would be the first thing people were talking about. Everyone would say "Why are women doing this? What's going on for women? What is it about women's life experiences that would lead them to do something like this?"
But when 61 out of 62 incidents are perpetrated by men, it's all about mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse problems, brain injuries, etc. Gender is barely on the radar screen.
How does masculinity drive men to do these kinds of acts? Especially toward children?
I'm sad to say this … but I think those children were props in Adam Lanza's performance of his aggrieved manhood in some sort of revenge fantasy he plotted and enacted. I'm only speculating, of course, because we don't yet know enough about his psyche. But I think the children were used more as props than as targets.
It's similar with the shooting at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee. So much of the media conversation was about racism, ethnocentrism, resentment toward foreigners. My thought from the beginning was that it wasn't fundamentally about those people. It was about the white male shooter – his anxieties, fears, perhaps self-hatred. Once again, the victims were props in his performance of his angry white manhood. I think when the facts come out we'll see this is true of Adam Lanza.
Killing innocent, defenseless children was his way of making an even stronger statement. He may have thought (and I'm speculating):
"I'm going to kill children so the world can see how much pain I'm experiencing" or "I'm so angry that I'm going to break this taboo and actually kill children so you can see how angry I am. And you're going to suffer like I have."
That's one of the gendered aspects of these types of killings: men's externalization of their internal pain. They're making a statement. Instead of turning the gun on themselves and internalizing their pain, they turn it outward. That's the gender piece. Plenty of girls and women feel despondent, frustrated, said, helpless or emotionally in turmoil. But very few externalize the way men do. It's like:
"I'm feeling badly about myself … I'm feeling helpless or hopeless and I'm going to take it out on somebody else. It's somebody else's fault … it's the world's fault … my mother's fault … and I'm going to externalize my feelings of inadequacy and shame by taking it out on someone else."
And then they kill themselves, or arrange it so the police shoot them.
What is the allure of guns to men and how is it connected with masculinity? Why is this a concern we should be aware about?
Guns are an instrument of violence that can be used against another person or against oneself. They certainly make the externalization of violence much easier. They are easily available and their power is seductive because it is so tangible and immediate.
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: it's really a contest of meanings about manhood. I talk about this in my new book Leading Men. The NRA and the right-wing understand this. Of course there are women who own and love guns; Adam Lanza's mother was one of them. But the right is skilled at framing the gun as a symbol of men's potency and freedom: the freedom to defend themselves and protect their families.
One of the things I noticed about Adam Lanza was how he was armed. He wore a bullet proof vest and carried three semi-automatic weapons: a Glock 9-mm handgun, Sig Sauer 9-mm handgun and Bushmaster rifle. What would drive a man to go to that extreme? How does masculinity explain his whole appearance when he committed the killings?
I think that's part of what's going on here. Doug Kellner, a colleague of mine who's at UCLA, writes a lot about these types of events in terms of media spectacle. Adam Lanza in a sense created a movie in which he had the starring role. Whether it's a flak jacket or guns blazing, Lanza was engaged in a performance of his manhood. That's what it appears he was going for. His transgression of the taboo of killing children – in a public space sure to be heavily covered by media — was how he was going to reclaim his manhood.
James Gilligan wrote a couple of very important books called Violence and Preventing Violence. One of the many great insights he shares is that a huge percentage of what is called "senseless violence" is not senseless at all if you're the shooter. There is an internal logic to their actions that makes sense. In a huge percentage of cases where men commit heinous acts of violence you see they've experienced shame in a profound way. The way the culture helps to shape their response to these feelings of shame is to create and even glamorize narratives for how they can externalize their pain and reclaim their manhood.
The story in many of these men's heads goes something like this: someone has taken something from me, so I'm going to take it back. The victims of that "taking back" aren't necessarily the original perpetrators or bullies of these guys. As I've said they're merely props in a gendered enactment of revenge. But people don't want to face this uncomfortable fact. Better to put it in a category of "mental illness" and not delve too much further into it. He just snapped, and so on.
But James Gilligan, a psychiatrist who worked with really violent men for many years, says it's not true. It's not how it works. These guys aren't detached from reality and unaware of what's going on around them. They're intentional with what they're doing and why.
This makes people very uneasy. They're more comfortable with the idea that he's a sociopath, or he just went off.
End of Part I


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People who use Paav Bhaaji masala are very particular about the brand that they use. Most food bloggers swear by Nupur's approved Everest Paav Bhaji masala brand. In a recent Facebook discussion people had few other recommendations. I am yet to try the Everest brand as I have heard raving reviews about it. I am hoping to try most recommended brands in the near future. I have started with the Baadshah brand and so far, I am loving the taste of this masala.
I have made Paav Bhaaji with it, the Tawa Pulao and also add it to regular sabzis.And boy does it change the character and flavor of the sabzi ! (in a good way).
If you prefer this version of Cauliflower sabzi which has minimal spices then you may want to try jazzing it up a little by adding some paav bhaji masala.
This goes well with Daal rice, rotis, Pooris or chapathi.
Serves: 4-5
- 1 small cauliflower
- 1 big potato
- 1 small onion
- 2-3 medium tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tsp paav bhaaji masala ( I used this)
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 1" ginger
- Handful of chopped Coriander leaves
- ½ tsp jeera seeds/cumin
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- Oil
- Salt to taste
- Cut the cauliflower into florets (remove the stems) and wash them thoroughly.
- Peel the potato and dice it into small cubes.
- Chop the onions and tomatoes into small pieces and keep aside. Grate the garlic and ginger and keep separate.
- Take a big skillet; add about 2 Tbsps of oil. Add jeera seeds, mustard seeds and allow it splutter.
- Add grated garlic, ginger, mix it well and cook. Then add the diced onions.
- After the onions are sautéed add salt and chilli powder and mix well.
- Add the tomatoes and sauté well until the tomatoes are slightly cooked.
- Next add the chopped potato to this and mix well. Sprinkle little water and cover with lid and let it cook. Stir in between.
- After the potatoes are ¾ way cooked, add the chopped cauliflower florets and toss them together.
- Sprinkle water and cover with lid on medium and allow it to cook.
- After it is cooked add the paav bhaji masala, little oil, salt, chilli powder (if required). Stir well and let the masala blend it with the vegetables. Cover or few minutes and cook.
- Lastly garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Serve with Rotis/ phulkas or with Rice.