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It's always a good idea to help employees stay motivated, and there are many things you can do besides the traditional cash bonus. Here are twelve ideas that cost little yet go a long way with employees, contractors, and other business associates.
1. Compressed workweek.
Employees love getting Friday afternoon off, or even a full day a week. Providing weekday time off cuts absenteeism since the employee has a window to run errands that need to be done during business hours.
2. Social activities.
Create social events that become a tradition in your company. The employees will look forward to them. If you're not sure what to do, consider the hobbies of your employees, plan an event based on a holiday or anniversary, or simply have a meal out.
A business owner who offers training classes can have movie showings in their training rooms complete with popcorn on Wednesday evenings. The cost of the movie and popcorn is minimal compared to the fun everyone will have.
3. Telecommute part-time.
If possible, consider allowing employees to work from home one day a week. They love the flexibility, often get more done without constant interruptions, and save road time.
4. Customized recognition.
Every employee likes to be recognized for a job well done, but each may differ in exactly how the recognition is expressed. Instead of guessing, ask at the time the employee is onboarded whether they prefer gift certificates, time off, sports event tickets, cash, or public recognition.
5. Bring a child to work.
Last-minute emergencies can come up regarding child care, and the question is whether the employer can help out. Create a policy around when employees can bring little ones to work. You might also want to have a list of childcare and/or eldercare referral services handy.
6. Education.
Education is always a great perk. Here are some ideas along those lines:
7. Stress reduction.
Who isn't stressed out? Treat employees to a massage, or bring in an instructor who can teach stress-reduction techniques like meditation.
8. Casual dress.
On days with no client appointments or perhaps every Friday, offer a casual dress day. It cuts down on dry cleaning, and employees are more relaxed.
9. Errand concierge services.
Cut down on absenteeism and long lunch hours by bringing the errands to the employees. I suspect local businesses would love the business. Find a nearby dry cleaner that can pick up onsite and maybe even throw in a discount. Do the same for car wash services, take-home meals from a caterer or local restaurant, prescription refills, postal services, banking, and more.
10. Transportation.
Offer a subsidy for carpooling, public transit subsidy, or purchasing a hybrid car.
11. Discounts on products and services.
Provide discounts on your services or merchandise for employees.
12. Time off.
Offer a creative twist to holiday pay. Instead of the standard holidays, allow employees to have their birthday or job anniversary as paid time off. Consider also providing pay while philanthropic employees volunteer their time and talents to nonprofits.
Try one or more of these twelve employee perks to rev up the motivation on your team.
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The former Italian prime minister agreed to payments totalling €36 million a year (£29.4 million) to Miss Lario but successfully argued against her claims on the bulk of his fortune, including the family property portfolio and his business interests.
The size of the settlement provoked a strong reaction in a country where austerity reforms and a continuing recession have made it harder to make ends meet.
"It is an amount that for us common mortals seems like a joke," said Laura Laurenzi, a society journalist. "Even €1,000 a day is a joke in these times of crisis, not to mention 100 times that.
"On the other hand, it is right that the alimony is proportional to the patrimony of the husband. Everything has a price."
Italy's civil code says that the standard of living shared by the couple before separating must be maintained when there is economic disparity between them.
Mr Berlusconi ranks 169 on the Forbes list of billionaire, with a reported net worth of more than €4 billion.
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Miss Lario, 56, was particularly keen to have Villa Belvedere, the estate near Milan where the couple raised their three children during their 22-year marriage, but the judge ruled it would remain Mr Berlusconi's as their children were no longer minors.
Mr Berlusconi spends an estimated €1.8 million a year to maintain the 120,000 sq ft home, which is worth €78 million. The agreement formally ends the high-profile relationship which began more than three decades ago. The Bologna-born actress caught Mr Berlusconi's eye in 1980 while acting in a play in Milan called The Magnificent Cuckold.
The couple married in 1990 after Mr Berlusconi divorced his first wife, Carla Dall'Oglio, in 1985.
Silvio Berlusconi and his then wife Veronica Lario (EPA)
Over the years, the details of their love affair, seemingly idyllic marriage and painful public separation played out like a national soap opera.
The 76-year-old prime minister's penchant for consorting with young models and showgirls finally became too much for Miss Lario, who accused him of being a sex addict who "is sick and needs help".
In 2007, she wrote a letter which stated that her "dignity as a woman" had been hurt after Mr Berlusconi publicly joked to Mara Carfagna, a showgirl who later become a parliamentarian, that he would run off with her if he were not married.
Silvio Berlusconi speaks with Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna at Parliament in 2010 (AFP)
Miss Lario received a public apology, but when re-elected Mr Berlusconi appointed Miss Carfagna the minister for equal opportunities.
The last straw, however, was the media mogul's decision to attend the 18th birthday party of Noemi Letizia, an aspiring lingerie model, at a disco near Naples. As photographs circulated, Miss Lario said she could no longer bear to be with a man who "mixes with under-age girls".
Revelations of wild "bunga bunga" parties at another home, Villa Arcore, have since dogged the former leader. Mr Berlusconi has been accused by prosecutors of paying for sexual intercourse with an alleged under-age prostitute, a charge he denies, claiming he is being persecuted by politically motivated judges.
Cristina Morelli, Miss Lario's lawyer, did not return phone calls.

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just4yoshi - Sunday 01/08/2010, 04:50
I have never won a DT, nor even come close (top 50 is best). It is simply time. Most of my battles go all 4 rounds and opponents take a while. Is the only way to do it really do 2HKO? Or can someone tell me what the trick is? Thanks in advance.
Blade Demon - Sunday 01/08/2010, 07:42
Titan - TRiNiTY
2 hit Knock-outs aren't necessarily the way to get into the top 10 or win a dt. It mostly depends on what cards you are using and if you are using the rules as to your advantage. For instance:
1) For every life above 12 you earn +2 battle points which is limited to +4 bp per match (or at 14 life).
2) You earn another + 2 battle points for every pill left after the battle, assuming you win, with the limit being +4 bp per match (2pillz)
3) You get a penalty of -2 for every staff elo banned cards...but those cards are extremely powerful so using 1 of them in your deck may not necessarily be a bad thing is you know what you are doing.
4) For every battle you win you get a bonus of 2 pillz (So if you go for the 2 hit KO, you'd only get around a 4 bp bonus resulting in around 12-20 bp if you win (Which can be a good or bad thing if you think your opponent is going to stall).
5) I can't stress this enough USING HIGH LEVEL CARDS IS A BAD THING, you get more battle points if you beat high star cards with lower star cards, vice versa also, you get less battle points if you go around beating 2,3, and 4 star cards with 5 star cards.
Basically those are all the things you need to remember to score high in a match. My recommendation is to try making a good 26-28 star deck which will not be easy at low levels, but is possible. Honestly though, just try to have fun and eventually you'll be raking in enough clintz to to afford all the good cards you want and even win a dt someday!
FAST IS FUN - Sunday 01/08/2010, 07:47
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It depends on what your deck is like. Trying to go 4 rounds with a heavy Uppers build is bad. Trying to go four rounds with Tiny Cuts is . . . necessary. The trick, either way, is to play extremely quickly. Focus on getting your speed up. Even if it means making a few bad moves in the short term, you can reconstruct the battles after the fact and learn for next time.
And learn to lose quickly and gracefully. Overthinking bad games = lost time = lost points. Simply not worth it to spend 20-30 seconds thinking about moves that could get you out of a pickle when, in the same time, you could throw the game and get into a new one.
Rage - Sunday 01/08/2010, 20:20
Titan - Limit Break
There is another way other then 2hko.... however 2hko is the easiest, most efficient and consistent way to win a DT. 17 of my 18 DT wins come from playing quick games in general (2hko or not).
You can also win a dt by playing the long game.
Playing the long game however means that your going for quality over quantity. That means your looking to only lose 1 game in the hour. As others have said, usually time is a huge factor. Ideally your looking at around 25-32 games in the DT hour when your playing 2hko/Quick Games. By playing a lot of matches in the hour, you have a better chance of negating any losses by playing a sheer amount of games.
2hko usually mean your scoring anywhere from 13 pts to 20 points per game.
Quick Games do a bit better, your looking at 22-25 points per game.
(I count these 2 as being nearly the same as your still going for 25+ games per hour)
In long game, your looking at 25-32 points per game. If you play this way you won't get as many DT wins, top 5's, or Top 10 (which to most serious dt players is not worth it). However the one time I won this way I found that I wasn't as "panic"-y as I usually would be when playing 2hko (your very dependent on your opponent on playing fast).
Long game means yoru playing problly 10 cards in your deck, all low stars, usually around 26*. And your playing in Type 2 to take advantage of your low* to high* matchups.
Anyways, know your playing style, strengths, & weaknesses. Test and keep playing. Good luck.
Taking time to try to maximize your wins and the number of points you get per game is generally not as reliable. You may spend five minutes on a game that you end up losing and getting maybe 7-10 points. Going for quick games will net you faster points and usually more. However, if you are stuck against a slow opponent, you could still spend a lot of time on one game and still lose. Both playing styles can win you the tournament or leave you at 151st place.
For fast players, use the time during your opponent's turn to think of possibilities and play your turn as quickly as possible. Sometimes the best thing to do is just toss in a random number of pillz. As long as you don't go about it stupidly, your chances of winning aren't really lower since you don't know how many pillz your opponent will use anyway.
Two hit KO's are fast and effective; sometimes bluffing the second round and KOing the third will do the trick. Playing aggressively and screwing with your opponent's mind can cause them to mess up, but you don't want them taking too long to make a decision.
Also, don't underestimate the power of weak cards. Especially something like Strynge against an attack manipulation clan. Toss in a few extra pillz for some unexpected damage and then go for the two hit KO.


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'Cause that's what 'This Mess' is: perfectly acceptable and brilliantly forgettable dance-floor fodder, like Death From Above 1979 blessed with more limbs but less of a bump 'n' grind attitude, with less of a "You, and me, against that wall, now" mentality. This is a song you won't be making love to 'less your sole position is straightforward missionary all the way to the bank. Which you inevitably reach in under two minutes on most sexual misadventures.
It doesn't matter whose pulling the strings behind the composite on-camera parts of Wolf & Cub – Paul Epworth has come into focus in the past, and Tony Doogan (Mogwai/SFA) has lent a helpful hand – because unless the core protagonists possess ideas beyond ten minutes of Trash output this band ain't goin' anywhere soon. These Australians know a good tune when they hear one, that's not the subject of any doubt; what is, though, is their ability to transform their influences into something other than heard-it-before so what material.
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My son Joseph, who is almost 7, unlike his older brothers Luke and Patric,
was not very interested in baseball when he was small. The older boys had begun
to play ball when they were toddlers, but Joey would just say "No, that ball is
too hard."
However, last spring he decided he wanted to play baseball after all.
Patric's coaches convinced us that he would learn more in coach-pitch than in
Tee Ball, so we signed him up with Patric's Little League team, the Mudcats. The
coaches no doubt thought they were acquiring a valuable player in Patric's
little brother, for my older son's early interest had shaped a skillful
If they were disappointed in Joey the novice they didn't betray it.
For Joseph was afraid of the ball, mostly looking away as he held his glove
in the general direction when it came near him. And he struck out at bat time
after time, even though he crossed himself before the pitch.
At 6, he was the youngest and smallest (and I dare say the cutest) player
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from the ladies in the stands.
I am happy to report that as the summer progressed he got better, and as we
continued to play ball after the Little League season ended he overcame his fear
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Next season looks promising.
It was a very good year: the Mudcats only lost one game all season and made
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My older son, Luke, played for the Aeros, a team that was undefeated until
the final game of the playoffs, which they lost, placing second.
Patric made the All Stars, and that team was undefeated until the final
playoff, which they lost, again finishing in second place.
I was not at all surprised when our favorite Major League team, the Detroit
Tigers, ended up losing the World Series. It was a second place kind of
So, all in all a spectacular season.
But my favorite memory of baseball last year was one of Joseph, playing his
usual field position of Contemplative Field, ie, Right Field.
He looked tiny out there in the vast empty boringness of the loneliest
position in baseball, when he called out to me, sitting in the stands: "Daddy! I
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and "isn't he cute?" from his lady fans.
For though Joey has not always loved baseball, he has always loved
From the time he was a toddler he has been fascinated by them, prevailing
upon us to put up feeders and buy him books. For a couple of years now he has
packed his binoculars and field guide on our car trips. He mostly sees the
common larger birds, of course: various hawks, buzzards and the like, though he
did spot a young bald eagle last fall. And once, driving to Michigan, he said he
saw a fairy fly up from the bushes on the side of the road. I don't know what he
saw; a dragonfly maybe. Or perhaps a hummingbird. Or maybe a fairy.
Michelle, wishing to encourage his interest, got on the mailing list for
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to be a slide presentation called "Woody's Feathered Friends", featuring a local
photographer and bird lover. Figuring that Joey would love it, I decided to take
I know that the National Audubon Society, like the other mainline
conservation groups- the Sierra Club, the Izaak Walton League- was on record
supporting legal abortion, a position arrived at by way of concern for
overpopulation. But I figured a meeting of local birdwatchers would have nothing
to do with the national organization's broader political agenda.
As we drove to the meeting we talked excitedly.
"I wonder if there will be any other children", Joey said.
I said, "I wonder how many people there will be."
Joey said, "I wonder if there will be any sweets."
We arrived at the meeting place, a large Protestant church of the
"progressive" persuasion.
There were numerous meetings and rehearsals being held in the sprawling
complex and it took three or four tries before we found the Audubon meeting, a
group of perhaps thirty people, which had already begun. Joseph and I appeared
to be the only people in the room under the age of 60. We apologized for being
late, introduced ourselves and sat in the front row, so Joey would have a clear
view of the screen. We were warmly welcomed, and everyone seemed delighted to
have such a young bird enthusiast among them.
As the business meeting droned on I began to worry that my son would get
restless, and I was pleased when the moderator said "And finally, one last piece
of business."
My relief was short lived, though, for he proceeded to announce that one of
the members had recently attended a conference on population and the environment
in Washington, D.C.
My heart sunk. Joey would be disappointed if we walked out, and I was
irritated by a world where you take your young bird-loving son to something
called "Woody's Feathered Friends" and you are confronted by the antinatal
globalist agenda.
"Of course, when you say 'population' people immediately think you are
talking about abortion, but that has nothing to do with it", the moderator said, and I
could hear the muttered "No, no"s and "Of course not"s.
The woman who had attended the conference stood up and told us all about
her excellent adventure, how the national organization had flown the delegates
to DC, how they had stayed in a nice hotel, all meals provided. And she gushed
about how wonderful it was to feel like she was doing something to help
bring family planning to developing nations.
When she was done I raised my hand. "But it's not that simple, is it? I
mean isn't someone flying on a jet plane to Washington for a conference doing
more environmental damage than the average third world peasant family does in a
lifetime? For that matter doesn't an affluent American family with two children
consume more than several poor families with six?"
Sitting in the front row I couldn't see the expressions my comment evoked,
but I heard a few chuckles and sounds of assent.
The chairman said that well, that may be so, but surely we needed to think
about ways to address overpopulation.
I granted that there are local instances of population straining resources,
but isn't the problem globally one more of overconsumption by the West and
unjust distribution of resources? After all, there are densely populated
countries- like the Netherlands and Japan- that are neither impoverished nor the
scenes of ecological crisis.
Well that is certainly an interesting perspective, but we, uh, need to get
on with the program.
He proceeded to introduce the presenter, Forrest "Woody" Newport, with a
few words about his background and qualifications.
Woody walked to the front, a bespectacled pleasant looking man in his mid
He started by addressing Joseph, welcoming him and noting that his own
interest in birds and wildlife began when he was a young boy.
He then started the slide show and asked Joey if he could identify the
first striking photo.
"Yes, that is a female cardinal", said Joey to a murmur of approval.
The image, and the ones that followed, were spectacular. I don't know if it
was the act of enlarging the photos to the screen, or the gift of a loving eye,
but Woody Newport's photography vividly revealed the many hued and subtle beauty
of his subjects.
He spoke with contagious reverence and affection for the natural world and
for wild birds. He clearly was a patient and persistent photographer and his
work was outstanding.
Joseph enjoyed himself immensely, and whispered correct identifications for
most of the birds.
Afterwards there were indeed sweets, homemade nut breads and a heavily
sugared fruit drink that left my son's lips bright red.
Many of the people came up, thanked us for coming and invited us back.
Woody encouraged Joey to begin sketching the birds he saw in a special
The woman who had attended the conference did not speak to us.
We were invited to join the club, which we obviously cannot do, though I
plan on taking Joseph to other events that they sponsor, especially the workshop
on hand-feeding chickadees.
This is the dilemma for those of us who revere the natural world and
created things, who don't want to see the fragile and tender beauty at the wild
heart of the world destroyed by bulldozers: the organizations that exist to
protect wildlife do not appear to recognize that human cycles are natural
cycles, too, that the human ecology- the ecology of the microcosm- should no
more be violated than the world ecology, the ecology of the macrocosm.
By chance, though, on the literature table we found a brochure for the Ohio
Ornithological Society, which appears to be more narrowly focused on
birdwatching and protection of habitats, without a broader political
I'll have to investigate further, of course, but if it checks out my son
Joseph may soon become the newest member of the OCC.
There is a photo of Joseph Nichols, about a year and a half ago, on the
bottom of the "About the Iconographer" page on the Eighth Day Icons website
–Daniel Nichols


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Jess Reinhardt will make her second career appearance at the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championship.
Psych Sheet Invited Relays List Official NCAA Release The Liberty swimming & diving team will send four swimmers to compete at the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championship, as announced today. This year's national meet will be contested from March 20-22 at Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Senior Emilie Kaufman and sophomore Jess Reinhardt have both been invited to compete in individual events, while they will be joined by sophomore Kendall Hough and junior Meghan Babcock in the 200 medley relay. Liberty's 200 medley relay earned an NCAA A cut, swimming 1:37.80 at the CCSA Championships. The Lady Flames become the first CCSA team to send a relay to the NCAA Championships. The quartet of Hough, Kaufman, Reinhardt and Babcock has posted the 23rd-fastest 200 medley relay time in the nation to date. Reinhardt will make her second career appearance at the NCAA Championships, after competing in the 100 fly at last year's national meet. She earned an invitation in the 100 and 200 fly, and will also be eligible to swim the 50 free with a B cut swim of 22.76. Reinhardt's CCSA-record 100 fly time of 52.14 has her ranked 17th in the field. She swam a conference-record 1:56.79 to win the CCSA 200 fly title, a time that is seeded 39th. Kaufman swam a conference, meet and program-record 1:00.01 in the 100 breaststroke to win the CCSA championship. Her 1:00.01 clocking is rated 21st overall among those invited to the national meet. She will also swim the 200 IM (2:00.29) and 200 breaststroke (2:12.49), after setting CCSA records in both events at the conference meet. This will be Kaufman's first trip to the national meet. This marks the third straight year that the Lady Flames will be represented at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championship. In 2012, Brye Ravettine competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back at the NCAA national meet, becoming Liberty's first swimming All-American by placing 13th in the 50 free.
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Rewinding the film, the voice of Alan Watts: you can see yourself as existing only now, that's the only "you" there is. The alternative to that, logically, is to see yourself as everything.
Four messages, rescued from oblivion or from white noise.
As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world's order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven's circles.
How can a machine learn to produce music? A concept-album of generative music, a collection of musical monsters exploring sample-by-sample deep learning generative models, inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and used in Jean François Peyret's eponymous theatrical piece.
Concatenations, maps, paths, games, challenges. A work in progress and an attempt to write in the flesh of the world.
A /nu/thing project: the attempt for a truly collective writing. Première in Milano Musica (28 and 29 october 2017)
A trip to abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains may have formed.
True identity must be a collective one. Here's an attempt of depersonalization of musical writing, in 269 (short) steps.
In random order: someone looking from the window of a train; an endless fall; the passage from contour to image; the passage from animation to film. Somehow an exploration of space an time, with no knowledge of where we are going. ("– so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation)
The An Experiment with Time installation "brought to life" by an (amplified and distorted) ensemble. Can installations become live events?
Come un lasciapassare talks about the passage from an acoustic to an electroacoustic world. In counterpoint, Shakespeare's 123th sonnet: "No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change"
Speech becomes sensation, mechanic, material, and a sonorous incarnation; a giant mouth treading along the invisible boundary between installation and live performance.
Could dreams contain references to both past and future? In what proportion? Dreams, cycles and the construction of a time-dilating machine, inspired by John Dunne's "An Experiment with Time".
Time is a scraping engine, and the piece is a loose attempt to put it in motion. Musicians are four old gramophones, constantly in phase, granulating some old stuff. During the journey: the on and off of the light in a grey hospital corridor. And a scent, as of october leaves, as of tempests.
Is there a perspective to understand our universe, in which time, space, ages are somehow less interesting parameters than a network of shared things across geography and history? Is there ever a chance for music to be not "mine" nor "yours", but – in a very deep sense – "ours"?
Sortie, Docili maniere, Finché morte, Benché simili, Mentre gelide, Eccetto Vercurago. As truncated incipits of non-existing poems, these six short piano pieces explore the relationships between extremely simple mechanisms and groundless abysses.
The path from an absence to a presence is a totally absorbing experience, analogous to the one in acousmatic music: imagination is guided by an object, almost magical, which represents its source. Then we see something, and the seen objects become a horde, a tribe of loudspeakers learning how to speak.
A Middle Ages catapulted into a non-place of a deformed imagination, with strange and disturbing interactions between different dimensions that reach the threshold of Chaos. The ghastly and immobile vestiges of the medieval iconography are deformed, transformed and destroyed to finally sprout again. The meeting of three disproportionates human skulls, vanities, triggers perturbation up to chaos. Skeletons dance to announce a cycle of continual construction and deconstruction.
A wager: the orchestration of a purely electroacoustic piece. An attempt: the rapprochement of the electroacoustic and acoustic writing. A game: sounds become words, and words become meta-words, keeping, like a faint shadow, a more or less indelible trace of their previous meaning.
An anthology whose raw material are masterpieces of past and recent history of music (from Ockegem to Grisey). Belonging, universality, authenticity: put these concepts in a composer's hand, and they'll immediately clash against the hermetically sealed compartment of copyrights. Eventually, all music is meta-music.
Luz, ojos, mundo. Light, eyes, world. An intimate exploration of of proximity and distance, through the words of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.
Four Chansons by Ockeghem, four lieder for cello or viola, piano and lo-fi electronic device: "L'autre d'antan", "Presque transi", "Ma bouche rit", "Malor me bat". Distant voices, still lives. Can we sing with someone else's voice?
Always keeping Mahler's eight symphony as a distant mirror, a small fragment from un unknown Schlussszene aus Faust.
A "consertum" and a "certamen", over a magma of underlying scores. Far away, the tip of the iceberg: Tristan.
Electronic sounds are elsewhere, in an unknown land where laws of physics get tricky, in a non-place where everything suddenly becomes possible, where sounds become symbols, and where words and ideas are mingled with the heavy burden of their possible meanings, as phantoms of a young Pessoa, in an dreamlike view.
Loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop. Circularity, recursion, iteration. As Flann O' Brien's fictional De Selby inside its hell, going round and round. But what's the relation between looping and grooving?
A playful attempt to give a semantic value to sounds, taking as starting idea the articulation of the chapters of Lewis Carroll's "Through the looking glass". And as soon as the sounds become words, the words lose their sense, and turn into meta-words, which hold, as a faint shadow, traveling towards the other side of the mirror, a trace of their previous meaning.
Ecume deals with melancholy, as impossibility to come to terms with loss, an everlasting hope, yet constantly deceived.
A desperate cry for help, the frantic monologue of Bernard Marie Koltès in a chamber opera for an actor, two singers, ensemble and electronics.
"How can you read at present? Night is falling." – an epiphany, a nocturne. Roxanne rewinds all the previous events and reads them from a new point of view. Everything changes, but it is too late.
Nietsche, Marinetti, Savinio, Bellezza, Joyce, Apollinaire: each one weaves the net for a criticism of Italian Futurist movement. Just outside the door: telephones, fireworks, megaphones. And right below the surface, between objects and shadows, the reflection of an hommage.
"So that there is no sun and no unveiling / and no host / only I and then the sheet / and bulk dead"
A clarinet player and a narrator face to face in an intimate and passionate journey towards Maurizio Cucchi's unknown lands and marvelous towns.


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Blog Love - local chicks
Today I would like to give some blog love to a few newer local (aka South African) chick blogs that I have recently found:
1. Skinny Bitches in the making - "We're skinny bitches with cute boys, killer heels, dream apartments and size zero waists. Well, we're in the process of it all".
2. Stuff by Emma Jackson - I will admit I really like this blog because i seem to have quite a few things in common with Emma.
3. Being Desi - posts are short and sweet.
4. Story of a girl - lots of honest ramblings from Melisoo
5. Verbal Diarrhoea - rather quirky ramblings :)
I am always on the look out for cool blogs to read and be inspired by......
What new blogs have you been reading lately?
What is your current favourite blog?
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Mucho Gracias Lady B :)ReplyDelete
I reeeeeaaaalllllly appreciate that you take the time to read my random ramblings :)
Quirky ramblings? Read: She thinks I'm weird =) I'm always looking for new South African blogs to read. My favourite? The Canadian firstname.lastname@example.com I love his word doodles/poems ...ReplyDelete
Mellisoo - no problemo :) I like ramblings.ReplyDelete
Sid - ha ha ha! IF your weird, then i dont know what i am :)
hi there,ReplyDelete
Thanx so much for my blog luuuuurve!
I also like ur blog...part of my daily dosis of living like a cup of tea and chocolate!
Have a great day!its ALMOST friday! ;)
I've been reading Sass at http://cybersass.com/ and Helen http://bondingoverlizards.blogspot.com/. One of my favourite South African bloggers is Po (http://southafricanseamonkey.blogspot.com/), even though she's in the UK.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the shoutout! You're making us blush! Thanks for taking to read it. We hope people enjoy reading it as much as we do writing down our ramblings. Cannot wait to check out the other blogs!ReplyDelete
Oooh I will check these out later. My favourite at the moment is Yosh! by Sarah.ReplyDelete
I will def check those out! i am always looking for new interesting blogs :) xxReplyDelete
Great bloggers blog alike!ReplyDelete
I have a daily blog reading list:ReplyDelete
Lucky Pony by Angie Pants
a photo a day by Nicole Velleman
Dooce by Heather B Armstrong
Those three are my absolute fav!!!
new to your blog! love it!!ReplyDelete
My most recent find is Genius Pending. He is hilarious.ReplyDelete
GREAT! Just what I need...more fabulous blogs to read. I think I will quit my job.ReplyDelete
Thanks for pointing out more local girls follow. My fav local is of course Sleepyjane! :)ReplyDelete
My current favorite? I could never choose just one... but The Bloggess has been cracking me up since the dawn of time. Or, yanno, since I started reading blogs.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recs!
- Anonymous7 July 2009 at 17:17
I LOVE finding new blogs! Thanks for the links. :)ReplyDelete
hi...u r in my bloglist ever since i started blogging 3 months ago.ReplyDelete
i like ur blog.
i copy a few of ur widgets in my blog 2.
just to tell you how much i appreciate what u pours into ur blog
Oooh, thanks for giving me a list of new blogs to check out!ReplyDelete
A new blogger, callmedorothy.blogspot.com, has an adorable new blog that I'm eager to keep up with!
You definitely should check out my friend's blog. He's from Arizona but currently living in Italy and blogs about it with amazing beautiful pictures - http://www.jgervase.comReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 January 2010 at 07:10
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 August 2010 at 10:09
Very Interesting!ReplyDelete
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Plum Chicken Wraps
Dinner's a wrap with this easy, nutritious recipe loaded with the fruity flavors of pineapple and plum. It makes a sweet-and-sour chicken handheld that's hard to beat. —Jennifer Michalicek, Phoenix, Arizona
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 can (8 ounces) unsweetened crushed pineapple, drained
- 1/3 cup plum sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/4 cup salted cashews
- 2 medium fresh plums, sliced
- 12 Boston or Bibb lettuce leaves
- In a large saucepan, combine the pineapple, plum sauce, vinegar and oil. Cook and stir over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Stir in the chicken, green onions and cashews; heat through. Remove from the heat; stir in plums. Place 1/3 cup chicken mixture on each lettuce leaf. Fold lettuce over filling.
Nutrition Facts3 each: 298 calories, 8g fat (2g saturated fat), 54mg cholesterol, 237mg sodium, 32g carbohydrate (23g sugars, 2g fiber), 23g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1-1/2 fruit, 1 fat, 1/2 starch.
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I made these when I picked up some juicy looking plums from a farmers market. Don't get me wrong, the recipe was good... but it just wasn't our thing. The flavor was just different enough for my husband to say, "I'll eat this and it's good, but it's not my favorite." But if you're a person who likes sweet and sour, fruit with meat, you'll probably love it, and it's not bad on calories.


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Okay, I am not so happy with the post as I read all the posts a while ago and then again only quickly tonight, so I am not sure about the details. But then, the hobbit is stupid, so if ever you can just blame it on him. I also did not get to talk to Kay, but really wanted to post.
I had planned to write all this much, much earlier.
And I'd like to write rather sooner than later again, the hobbit feels good.
Please, tell me everything that is wrong with that post, I know it must be quite a lot and I'll correct or delete.


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Parraz gets Bisons in ninth
Bisons starter Chris Schwinden used four pitches to strike out Greg Golson in the third inning of Wednesdays game for his 100 punch out of the 2011 season. Schwinden becomes the 16th pitcher in Bisons history to fan 100 plus batters.
"I don't try to be a strike out pitcher, it just seems to happen I guess," Schwinden said.
Schwinden held Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to two-runs through seven innings, and kept the Herd in the game but it wasn't enough in the end as the Jordan Parraz homered in the ninth inning to give the Yankees a 3-2 win at Coca-Cola Field.
John Lujan replaced Schwinden in the eighth inning striking out four of the five batters he faced in the eighth and ninth before being beaten by the sixth batter. Parraz smoked the home run over the netting in left field and onto Oak Street.
"Lujan was dominating on up to that point, had great stuff, he just left a pitch up a little bit. It was a slider that didn't do much and Parraz put a good swing on it," said manager Tim Teufel. "Parraz is a pretty good hitter, makes good contact, knows the strike zone, and he got a pitch he could handle and drove it out of the yard."
The Yankees have out homered the Bisons 15-8 in the 2011 season including the game winner Wednesday. The Bisons fall to 1-5 on the current home stand with two games left before heading on the road.
Before the ninth the game was deadlocked at two-runs apiece. The Yankees got up early on the Bisons after a two-out run scoring double in the second inning and a solo-home run in the fifth. The home run was just the 10th that Schwinden has given up.
"Schwinden threw real well, gave us a chance to win the ball game, he left with the game in a tie and it was a whale of a game for him," said Teufel.
Raul Chavez delivered the tying runs for the herd on a two-out double into the left-center-field gap scoring Josh Satin and Fernando Perez.
Game Notes Chris Schwinden notched his 100th strikeout in the third inning, Schwinden leads the team with 101 strike outs…Schwinden and John Lujan combined to strike out 10 Yankees Wednesday…The Yankees have out homered the Bisons 15-8 in the 2011 season…The Bisons are now 1-5 on the current home stand and 4-7 when playing Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.


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The purpose of this website is to provide accurate and up to date information about the Sudbury Area of Narcotics Anonymous. By making this information available on the internet, we hope to make ourselves more accessible to those with a desire to stop using drugs and to the community as a whole. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. It is not our intention to promote the Narcotics Anonymous program, but it is our hope that those who are attracted to our way of life will be able to find us easily.
Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit, international, community-based organization for recovering addicts active in over 116 countries. Narcotics Anonymous (NA) members learn from one another how to live drug-free and recover from the effects of addiction in their lives.
If you have considered recommending Narcotics Anonymous to someone who has a drug problem, you may have a few questions about our organization. This site is designed to answer those questions.
Who are members of NA?
Anyone who wants to stop using drugs may become a member of Narcotics Anonymous. Membership is not limited to addicts using any particular drug. Those who feel they may have a problem with drugs, legal or illegal, including alcohol, are welcome in NA. Recovery in NA focuses on the problem of addiction, not on any particular drug.
The basic premise of anonymity allows addicts to attend meetings without fear of legal or social repercussions. This is an important consideration for an addict thinking about going to a meeting for the first time. Anonymity also supports an atmosphere of equality in meetings. It helps insure that no individual's personality or circumstance will be considered more important than the message of recovery shared in NA.
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NA's primary approach to recovery is its belief in the therapeutic value of one addict helping another. Members take part in NA meetings by talking about their experiences and recovery from drug addiction. NA meetings are informally structured, held in space rented by the group, and are led by members who take turns opening and closing the meeting. NA meetings and other services are funded entirely from donations by addict members and the sale of recovery literature. Financial contributions from non-members are not accepted.
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Addicts helping each other recover are the foundation of NA. Members meet regularly to talk about their experiences in recovery. More experienced members (known as sponsors) work individually with newer members.
The core of the NA program is the Twelve Steps. These "steps" are a set of guidelines outlining a practical approach to recovery. By following these guidelines and working closely with other members, addicts learn to stop using drugs and face the challenges of daily living.
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Re: Giving away free information in order to get sales?raffledog Oct 22, 2010 12:01 PM (in response to 877.HMA.FITS)Hey thanks for the advice. I definietly agree. I'm going to make my marketing material and then on the back cover give a few tips but not too many. Just enough to help them out a little and get them interested in my services. I think it should be the perfect blend! Thanks!
Re: Giving away free information in order to get sales?Internetannie Nov 17, 2010 7:51 PM (in response to raffledog)Hi,
Yes...giving free stuff is a great idea, and it must be done- or else, how would people know if they like our services or products, if they are not being exposed to them in some way?
So, that said make sure that what you give them IS what they need... and not what you THINK they need.
To find out what they really want, you need to make some market research.
I am not referring to months and months of conducting market research... or spend thousands of dollars doing it...but- do spend some good hours searching and to do this- use internet tools which are free. There you can find what the targeted customer desires, fears and dreams.
Once you do this, you can give the freebies that they are looking for...and will desire to look further into your business.
Why? Because if the freebies have not value in their eyes...then-your service will just be one more of the many that are out there trying to get their attention.
One more note- if you cannot think of ways of doing your market research...just ask me and I will explain further.
Re: Giving away free information in order to get sales?agrimes Dec 2, 2010 9:49 PM (in response to 877.HMA.FITS)It's a great way. In fact most online marketers use some form of free newsletter and/or free video training before they try to land a sale.
Re: Giving away free information in order to get sales?aimtoplease Nov 17, 2010 9:26 PM (in response to raffledog)If you are a new marketing company specializing in social media then that would be the way to market yourself, wouldn't it?
Give away the free information in the form of informative, attention-getting blogs with links back to your more extensive offerings. Link to other similar blogs and they will typically link back to you, increasing your audience. It also increases your potential customer base beyond just locals.
Visit websites like smallbusinessforum or entrepreneur and join in their discussion groups and forums to promote your services via offering free advice.
Giving away free information in order to get sales?raffledog Jan 20, 2011 1:59 PM (in response to aimtoplease)
Hey thanks for all the great information! I actually just created my marketing material (brochure and business cards) and included some free tips on the back cover. It is valuable social media tips that most business could use. I think creating a blog about local social media is a great idea to include on my site. The brochures are still printing so I'll have some time to create this!
My market is any local business (restaurants, small shops) and what they need is to create and/or expand their social network. I think free information on what they can do to improve that would be useful. Maybe a new tip every week on my blog. It took a while for me to develop this whole business and I'm finally at the point where I can go sell my services.
The main way I perform any research is online. Social media for local businesses isn't the most popular subject online but I have found some great information. In the next few months I'm hoping to learn a lot from the companies that use my services and this will translate into information for my blog.
Again thanks for the great answers! If anyone has a storefront and wants to try our campaign we're offering discounts for the next few months.
Giving away free information in order to get sales?dominantapproac Feb 15, 2011 12:37 AM (in response to raffledog)
People like to get free stuff. They are attracted to the magnetic FREE word. It is a common marketing strategy to get people's attention but it is a good one, because both sides get what they want. The one who is offering something free gets his leads and "potential" clients get "free information" that has some value to them.
I thought a creative way to get clients would be to go around and give them some free information. It would be a 10 Steps on Building Traffic Guide Online and Offline type of booklet. The first half would be all the free information and then the last half would be what my company offers and how we can help them. The free information will be valuable so hopefully they will keep around my manual and eventually call about our services.
Would giving away free info like this be a good way to land clients? Thanks for any advice given!


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DON PESCI: With tax increases, does 'no' mean yes?
Governor Malloy has told the Appropriations and Finance, Revenue & Bonding committees through his Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes that he will not resort to tax increases to backfill what Mr. Malloy calls a $365 million "shortfall" in his budget.
Mr. Malloy has been less assertive concerning "a deficit of as much as $1.2 billion projected for the coming fiscal year -- a shortfall of 6 percent -- saying only that he has 'no intention of raising taxes,'" according to a recent story.
During his first budget, Mr. Malloy settled a budget deficit through massive broad based tax increases and anticipated "spending cuts" that fell short of the "shared sacrifice" from state workers that had been a hallmark of his gubernatorial campaign, which hoisted into the gubernatorial office the first Democratic governor since William O'Neill turned over the reins of government to Lowell Weicker, who settled his inherited deficit through the imposition of a state income tax, the second largest tax increase in state history. The Malloy tax increase is larger.
And here we are again - in deficit low dive.
The notion that Connecticut does not have a spending problem but rather a revenue problem that may always be solved through the expedient of tax increases seems now somehow quaint. That notion was, during the past four decades, much on the lips of politicians who did not wish unnecessarily to disturb their tax consuming constituencies, as well as lazy and thoughtless political commentators across the state who thought the good times of budget surpluses would never end, at least not here in Connecticut, in pre-income tax days thought to be one of the richest and most fiscally sound states in the union.
No more.
On a best (1) to worst (54) scale issued by Moody's Analytics, Connecticut is near bottom (45) in economic growth. Connecticut's economy has been flat ever since Mr. Weicker sought to solve the state's revenue problem through a new income tax. The consequent revenue increases during the following decades opened a Pandora's Box of spending.
It has now become settled opinion that Connecticut has a spending problem aggravated by an unwillingness on the part of successive governors and the Democratic dominated General Assembly to recognize the primary reason for the state's woes -- profligate spending -- even after all the red flags have gone up: Connecticut is number one in taxes and number one in pension obligations; the state has lost population from outmigration part of which has been caused by workers seeking employment opportunities in more business friendly states; young people armed with very expensive college educations paid by state taxpayers are taking their diplomas to greener economic pastures. And all this is simply the tip of a spending spree that has frozen the state's forward movement.
It is against this depressing backdrop that Mr. Malloy has declared he "has no intention" of addressing the state's current $365 million "shortfall" by increasing taxes, and it would be a refreshing sign of a return to fiscal sanity to suppose that one governor out of the last three has finally got the message.
State law permits the governor to address a shortfall in the budget by exercising his constitutionally limited rescission authority. Mr. Malloy already has announced that he will use his authority to cut between $150 and $160 million from the $365 million "shortfall," leaving the remaining approximate $215 million balance to be addressed by the Democratic controlled General Assembly. The governor cannot rescission his way out of the deficit. Assuming Mr. Malloy is able to reduce the deficit as he wishes, the projected deficit the General Assembly must address for the coming fiscal year is approximately $1.2 billion plus $215 million - and growing.
The role that will be played by the General Assembly in liquidating the growing deficit introduces an uncertainty principle into Mr. Malloy's repeated avowal that HE has no intention of increasing taxes. The Democratic dominated General Assembly may be of a different mind. Outgoing Speaker of the House Chris Donovan has in the past supported legislation that would increase state revenues by squeezing Gold Coast financial managers, and his successor, Brendan Sharkey, has not sworn off increasing tax rates progressively on the state's entrepreneurial growth engines.
One supposes neither Mr. Malloy nor Mr. Barnes would be anxious to answer the question: Will the governor, who has pledged not to increase taxes, veto tax increase measures passed by his fellow Democrats in the legislature?
Time will tell. And time for the state's recovery is running out.
Don Pesci is a writer who lives in Vernon. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his life.
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None of which is to say that I didn't enjoy Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen. I had two or three later-than-intended nights because of it. But I do kind of wish the blurb had been more up-front about the fact that this was a romance. I kept expecting Miles to show up and there to be some sort of plot somewhere, possibly involving Cetagandans. But Miles didn't appear in the first half of the book at all and when he did come along he was very much a minor character. Which worked quite well in a book about Cordelia and Jole. I think the moral of this story is to not read blurbs when you know you're going to read the book anyway.
One of the more unexpectedly interesting things in this book are the descriptions and encounters with Sergyar fauna and flora (but mostly fauna). As well as Jole himself becoming increasingly interested in the more exotic wildlife, there are several encounters with more mundane species, like the local equivalent of mosquitoes. (Not actually a type of insect and involved in the most memorable line in the book, which involved "flaming snot". There was much laughing on my part.)
This is a book for fans of the Vorkosigan universe and, particularly, fans of Cordelia. I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point for the series, mainly because it isn't all that representative of most of the other books. However, if you have read at least some of the other books (and don't mind spoilers for certain life events of Miles's and Cordelia'a), then this is an enjoyable read. I would generally recommend having read the Cordelia books (Cordelia's Honour, which contains Shards of Honour and Barrayar) and The Vor Game to get the majority of the older references and reminiscences in Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.
4 / 5 stars
First published: February 2016, Baen
Series: Vorkosigan saga, book 16 in both publication and current chronological order
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