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Here's our first video blog for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. It features a bunch of our cast and crew, including Anja Parish and Jocelyn Duford. Check it out and let us know what you think! We're hoping to have tickets available for purchase within a week or so. In addition, we'll be offering VIP tickets for our Saturday evening show (January 21st) which includes gifts and admission to an after-party with a punk band from Boston and the cast and crew! Keep checking back for more fun. Photos soon too. 🙂 LbO1EoTWLSc
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First video blog of the new season is up!Posted: December 6, 2011 by jamiefeinberg in Upcoming Musical Theater Performance, Upcoming Performances
Tags: anja parish, bloody bloody andrew jackson, jocelyn duford, Not Your Moms Musical Theater, punk, rock, video blog, VIP
Not Your Mom's Sushi: A Rockin' Christmas Spectacular!Posted: October 12, 2010 by jamiefeinberg in Uncategorized, Upcoming Musical Theater Performance
Tags: band, Christmas, holiday, music, Neptune Sushi Productions, Not Your Mom's Sushi, Not Your Mom's Sushi: A Rockin' Christmas Spectacular, Not Your Moms Musical Theater, rock
NYMMT is pleased to announce auditions for Not Your Mom's Sushi: A Rockin' Christmas Spectacular. The show is a fundraiser for both Not Your Mom's Musical Theater and Neptune Sushi Productions. Mark your calendars for December 2nd and stay tuned for all the details. If you'd like to audition, please see the Auditions tab of our page. Thanks!


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Almond milk is a fantastic alternative to dairy, regardless of your dietary requirements. We were pretty excited to hear that Starbucks will soon be including almond milk as an option on their menu and just when we thought our almond milk dreams had come true, we came across this make your own almond milk hack, which also apparently makes the milk taste better. The thing is, almond milk can be very expensive to buy and making it at home can be a bloody pain in the a**.
But thankfully, Laura Wright, vegan blogger and author of First Mess Cookbook has found the answer to all our problems with her recipe for Fresh Instant Almond Milk.
Laura gave Metro.co.uk this additional tip, 'Since it doesn't contain any gums or stabilizers, this milk will separate as it sits, so just remember to shake it vigorously before serving. Both roasted and raw almond butter will work for this recipe, but roasted almond butter will offer a more pronounced nutty flavour.'
Fresh, Instant Almond Milk
Makes 1 cups (400 mL)
Many big brand-name almond milks contain a whole lot of water, some thickeners, and sugar in place of the actual almonds. I have a high-speed blender, so the ability to make fresh milk from raw almonds is within reach, but I rarely have the headspace to think about soaking the almonds overnight. Now, I keep a jar of raw almond butter on hand and I never go without fresh almond milk. Once you've measured the ingredients, the work is done.
3 tablespoons (45 mL) raw almond butter
11⁄2 cups (375 mL) filtered water
teaspoon (0.5 mL) sea salt
2 teaspoons (10 mL) pure maple syrup (optional)
1⁄4 teaspoon (1 mL) pure vanilla extract (optional)
Combine the almond butter, water, sea salt, maple syrup, if using, and vanilla, if using, in a blender, and whiz on high until smooth and creamy. You can fine strain the milk if you like, but it isn't necessary. Almond milk will keep in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Shake well before serving.
H/T: Food 52

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The Matthew Nicholls Foundation recently approached us to suggest we try out a found sound project with secondary school students in these unprecedented times. The Matthew Nicholls Foundation supported our Electric Storm 50 creative residency at Loreto College last year and loved the found sound/sampling element of the music production approach we use inspired by Delia Derbyshire and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop's musique concrete composition methods.
Intended as a fun, creative and educational activity in these more homebound times, we have cooked up an exploratory project with One Education Music. We will make 3 new music tracks using found sounds – objects from around the house – and voice samples/words.
We are therefore inviting music students and creative young minds (via social media and word of mouth) to send us sounds. We are interested to see what people want to do and can manage whilst at home.
This project is also funded by a donation from Wormhole Records, who recently released a compilation inspired by Delia Derbyshire and other key electronic music pioneers such as Wendy Carlos.
We hope we will receive some inspired contributions and present the 3 crowd sourced tracks in August.


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Week 3 once again
Today I restarted week 3 of the 100 pushup challenge – again. Lately it seems that every time I try to restart this whole thing we get busy, have nights out and I just can't find the time to get my workouts in. I think I may start having to get up earlier so that I can exercise in the A.M.
Week 3 day 1 Column 2
Once again I started with 20. No problem. Powered through.
the two sets of 15 weren't too bad, maybe the rest I've had actually helped? The 13 and was harder, but overly hard.
For the last set I made it to 20, and it wasn't as much of a struggle as it was last time. So Wedensday I move on to day two again.
Looks to be a little harder, but do-able.
How's your pushup challenge going? Have you given up yet? Still giving it your all? Doing it half-way? Let me know in the comments!
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Well-patinated old mahogany through amber to a trace of green at the rim, legs.
You can tell straight away that this is old; it is perfectly harmonious and fragrant with lots of toasted nuts, the slightest bitter, mineral edge and a delightful implied sweetness with a phenolic oak note from the wood and traces of spice like cinnamon and sandalwood to balance. It is elegant and serious at the same time.
There is quite an impact on the palate from its concentration, but as that subsides, all its complexity comes through. The nuts have changed into walnuts and have been joined by exotic woods,leather and a slight trace of cinder toffee. It is remarkably dry for a Medium, but between 5 and 115 grams/litre is classified as Medium, so there must be some (but barely perceptible) PX in there to balance the phenolics. The flavour lingers on and on. Delicious.
Some Palos Cortados veer slightly towards Amontillado and some towards Oloroso. This superb wine is right down the middle and is the very definition of the style with lots of Amontillado on the nose and lots of Oloroso on the palate. It is a blend of wines from soleras as old as 1909 with about 10% PX and won everything possible at the International Wine Competition 2016. It shows that it is not only Bristol Cream in those bodegas; there are some real treasures.
Around 25 euros per 50cl bottle from La Vinoteria, Jerez


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Urban sustainability library
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Working Design
Our Purpose
- To help make it easier for people and organizations to make more sustainable choices.
Our Role
We serve a number of functions:
- We are the first responders to requests that come in, whether they come from e-mail, phone calls, Facebook or Twitter, or in person. We send them off to the appropriate person, and sometimes provide the answers ourselves.
- We provide an informational role. We are responsible for updating the website, all of the social media, and production of photos and videos. We do research on various sustainability-related topics in response to requests from the in-residence businesses or the public. We update the outside kiosk. We also manage our lending library. For a list of our books, see our reading material page.
- We are responsible for archival work. For example, our One Earth Patterns pages are summaries of the design work that took place from 2008-2009 in preparation for the construction of our building. The As Built pages that are currently being written detail the final construction design of the building.
- We participate in business incubation meetings, provide summaries of material discussed and contribute our research services.
- Every week we conduct tours of the building and do interviews on request.
Our Beliefs
We believe that ...
- everyone has a right to the information needed to make these more sustainable choices
- that making more sustainable choices is fundamentally a learning process
- choosing more sustainable ways of living is more likely to be successful when the person is connected to an encouraging community
- each person's journey into a deeper understanding of sustainability is unique and they know best what's sustainable for them.
- we are one of many resources people have available to them to help them make more sustainable choices.
USL Principles
Urban Sustainability Library Principles
The USL has four "energy centers," activities rooted in our core beliefs that help facilitate sustainability knowledge creation in the Green Garage and Midtown communities. These interrelated activities are Encouraging, Creating, Learning, and Sharing.
Encouraging: We believe that choosing more sustainable ways of living is more likely to be successful when the person is connected to an encouraging community. We encourage community members by having conversations, listening, relating our own experience or the experience of others we know, modeling sustainable practices, and clearly communicating our values. We encourage by learning, creating, and sharing.
Creating: As new librarians and active participants in the contemporary information ecosystem, we believe that we must create valuable information, not just collect & disseminate it, and encourage members of our communities to do the same. We create information in the form of blog posts/articles, Wiki pages, photographs, maps, and videos, and we also seek out new kinds of information to create. When we enter into a relationship with a community member or organization, we encourage them to create information about their experience. (See Sharing.)
Learning: We believe that making more sustainable choices is fundamentally a learning process, and that our responsibility to people who want to live or work more sustainably is to help them learn. As librarians and members of the Green Garage community, we are also active learners, continually gaining new understandings about our communities, sustainability, and new librarianship. We encourage learning by referring people to diverse sources of information relevant to their request and position on the change curve, including experts, companions, websites, books, etc., and by encouraging them to create information.
Sharing: We believe that the information we and our community members create must enter into the knowledge commons to reach others and encourage others to live and work more sustainably. We share via our wiki and our social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr), and we work to encourage people we help to share their own stories once they have taken steps (successful or not) on their sustainability journey.
USL Request Process
I. Welcome/Greeting/Introduction
- Could be in the library, at Friday lunch, over email or SNS, on the bus, at a party...
II. How can we help?
- Conversation (as opposed to interview)
- What's the story?
III. Assessing position on change curve
- Awareness > Understanding > Trial > Adoption
IV. Tailoring resources/services to get a great answer. Refer to:
- Our wiki
- Other info online
- Expert
- Contractors
- Companion
- Books
- Other organizations
- Social networks
V. Solicit feedback
- Was the info helpful? Why/why not?
- Did community member obtain info from other sources? What was it?
- We then assess whether or not we should also make that other info
- Mine the valuable information from exchange in order to put it in the commons, to "grow"
or "refuel" the community
VII. Publish
- Make that valuable information publicly accessible
- via Wiki, Wikipedia, SNS, blog, more?
- Encourage community member to do same/tell story
- SNS, blog, video, radio, etc.
VIII. Follow-up
- As necessary for requests about long-term projects
Change Curve
The process of learning about sustainability and applying sustainable principles to one's daily life can be represented as a change curve, through which people move over time from awareness of a particular principle in sustainability to its adoption, passing through the understanding and trial phases in between. (Though the process will not necessarily be linear, and people may slip back down the curve based on life circumstances.)
Green Garage librarians assess a requestor's position on the change curve and offer a different (and growing) set of information services based on their position. They are:
Book clubs
How-to videos
Businesses in residence
Maintaining an Information Commons
- Community member pulls information out of commons
- Community member is empowered, energized, creates information to put back in
- This process builds community
- Commons is enhanced
Scope of the Sustainable Library Services
- Is to connect people and organizations to the information and people with expertise who can help them successfully make these more sustainable choices. It is not within the scope of the library to design the sustainable solution for the person or business.
- Specific services are:
- sustainability consultations
- community education sessions
- sustainability blog / e-newsletter
- Areas of learning where we can help make it easier:
- water
- energy
- waste
- garden habitat
- food
- transportation
- materials
- Who are our clients?
- Anyone interested in taking the next step in making their lives or businesses more sustainable. These include:
- Tenants of the Green Garage
- Our immediate local community - Detroit area
- Anyone in the world
- Anyone interested in taking the next step in making their lives or businesses more sustainable. These include:
- Scope of service platforms for the library
- Virtual platforms
- website, blog, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
- email, chat
- Physical platform in GG
- desk with computer
- shelves: books, periodicals(?), computers, archived posters.
- kiosk
- Virtual platforms
Social Media
- Website
- Green Garage Blog
- Flickr account for photos
- YouTube account for videos
- Facebook account (Green Garage Detroit)
- Twitter account (Green Garage Detroit)
- In-house book collection
- Locally-focused, researched and developed by members of the Green Garage community
- Building design pages
- Describing the as-built environment of the Green Garage


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The Zemaitis Guitar Owners Club was formed in 1996 with the full approval of Tony Zemaitis. With the proliferation of counterfeit instruments appearing there was a need to establish a safe trading area and a means of distributing information on the various instruments created by Tony.
The club magazine is called The Z GAZETTE and features articles written by Tony. He very kindly wrote many pages of articles for the club (enough material to last for years to come). Since Tony's passing the magazine still features his articles, alongside pages from Tony Zemaitis Junior and Danny O'Brien.
The Zemaitis Guitar Owners Club has helped auction houses and musicians with queries regarding Zemaitis instruments. We can also advise on restoration of your Zemaitis and there is a FOR SALE section in The Z GAZETTE.
PLEASE NOTE: The Zemaitis Guitar Owners Club is not taking any new members
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Qazvin Distances
Qazvin city is located in Iran at the 36.2688, 50.0041 coordinates. Distance from Qazvin to cities are listed below, also there are 1 sub cities within Qazvin, click on the city name to find distance between. Distance from Qazvin to Tehran 143 km, to Mashhad 857 km, to Isfahan 430 km. The green marker indicates the location of Qazvin.
Distance Between Qazvin and Cities
List of distances from Qazvin to Iran cities.
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|Qazvin to Tehran
|143 km
|Mashhad to Qazvin
|857 km
|Isfahan to Qazvin
|430 km
|Karaj to Qazvin
|101 km
|Qazvin to Tabriz
|386 km
|Qazvin to Shiraz
|777 km
|Qazvin to Qom
|198 km
|Ahvaz to Qazvin
|564 km
|Kermanshah to Qazvin
|344 km
|Qazvin to Rasht
|119 km
|Kerman to Qazvin
|935 km
|Orumiyeh to Qazvin
|461 km
|Zahedan to Qazvin
|1262 km
|Hamadan to Qazvin
|212 km
|Arak to Qazvin
|244 km
|Qazvin to Yazd
|630 km
|Ardabil to Qazvin
|267 km
|Qazvin to Zanjan
|144 km
|Bandar 'Abbas to Qazvin
|1171 km
|Qazvin to Sanandaj
|291 km
|Khorramabad to Qazvin
|344 km
|Qazvin to Sari
|275 km
|Gorgan to Qazvin
|402 km
|Birjand to Qazvin
|924 km
|Bojnurd to Qazvin
|665 km
|Bandar-e Bushehr to Qazvin
|815 km
|Ilam to Qazvin
|438 km
|Qazvin to Shahrekord
|446 km
|Qazvin to Semnan
|315 km
|Qazvin to Yasuj
|640 km
Cities in Qazvin
List of distances from Qazvin to sub cities (sub divisions).
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Distance from Qazvin to Foreign Cities
Choose a city to calculate distance from Qazvin to major cities in the world.
- Karachi to Qazvin
- Qazvin to Cairo
- Qazvin to Baghdad
- Riyadh to Qazvin
- Ankara to Qazvin
- Qazvin to Kabul
- Jeddah to Qazvin
- Kiev to Qazvin
- Qazvin to Al Basrah
- Qazvin to Al Jizah
- Qazvin to Al Mawsil al Jadidah
- Qazvin to Al Basrat al Qadimah
- Tashkent to Qazvin
- Beirut to Qazvin
- Qazvin to Mosul
- Aleppo to Qazvin
- Damascus to Qazvin
- Kharkiv to Qazvin
- Hyderabad to Qazvin
- Mecca to Qazvin
- Medina to Qazvin


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Noel Nix (MURP '10) is now an outreach coordinator for the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities. He will be providing public outreach support to the Metropolitan Transportation Services division of the Metropolitan Council which is responsible for the transportation planning functions in the Twin Cities.
Connect with Noel on LinkedIn.


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United States Steel Corporation Announces Pricing of Senior Notes Offering
/EIN News/ -- PITTSBURGH, March 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X) (the "Company" or "U. S. Steel") today announced the pricing of its $650 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Notes"). The Notes were issued at a price equal to 100% of their face value. The Notes will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year beginning on September 15, 2018, and will mature on March 15, 2026, unless earlier redeemed or repurchased.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering, together with cash on hand, to fund a tender offer for, or the redemption of, all of its outstanding 8.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2021 and the payment of related fees and expenses.
J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Wells Fargo Securities, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are acting as joint book-running managers for the Notes offering.
The Notes are being offered pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement that became effective upon filing with the SEC on March 3, 2016. Before making an investment in the Notes, potential investors should read the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus for more complete information about U. S. Steel and the offering. Potential investors may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, potential investors can obtain copies of these documents from: J.P. Morgan, 383 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10179, Attn: Syndicate Desk, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-800-245-8812 (toll free); BofA Merrill Lynch, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, email@example.com, 1-800-294-1322 (toll free); Barclays, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions; 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-888-603-5847 (toll free); Wells Fargo Securities, 608 2nd Ave S, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer Service, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-800-645-3751 Opt 5; Credit Suisse, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, Attention: Prospectus Department, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-800-221-1037 (toll free); Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-800-831-9146 (toll free); Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Prospectus Department, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-866-471-2526 (toll free); Morgan Stanley, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Prospectus Department, firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-866-718-1649 (toll free).
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any offer or sale of the Notes will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement relating to the offering of the Notes and the accompanying prospectus.
This press release does not constitute an offer to purchase any of the Company's 8.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2021. Any such offer will be made exclusively pursuant to the terms of, and subject to the conditions set forth in, an offer to purchase related to such tender offer.
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History of the Mastiff http://www.av.qnet.com/~norona33/history.htm
Rules of Renaissance Coursing http://www.gulfcoastgreyhounds.org/course-rules.html
SCA COURSING HOMEPAGE http://www.sca-coursing.freeservers.com/
History of the Irish Wolfhound http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/history.htm
These should narrow it down a bit for you, I also have a multitude of books on my shelf (most out of print unfortunately) because like I said animals are my thing
That's a lot of interesting articles! But most of them look like they're about Stone Age cultures or North American finds, which isn't much use for us in the SCA.Could you narrow the list down a bit?Which of them cover the uses of dogs in SCA period/cultures?SofyaOn Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Victoria G Money <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
maybe some of these will helpOn Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Lisa Kies <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It's the specific details that are really interesting. Saying that people in the Middle Ages used dogs in every walk of life is like saying people in the Middle Ages ate all sorts of foods and prepared them in various ways.And if we're going to create/re-create canine games and activities, the more specifically we can understand exactly how dogs were used in period, the better.Sofya


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Remember writing out your Christmas wish list as a kid?
We'd always start about mid to late October, when the first Christmas catalogs began to arrive in the mail… my favorites were the Fingerhut Christmas catalog, the Sears Wishbook, and the JC Penney Big Book. Every day, after school, we'd pore over those shiny pages…there were thousands and thousands of wonderful things, and we dreamed which ones we'd find under the tree on Christmas morning.
Things haven't really changed all that much since then, have they? Kids still have their wish lists, it's just that the Christmas catalogs are now online, and most of us don't have a lot of money to spend around the holidays, either. But you can still make your kids' Christmas wishes come true, this year and every year, with Fingerhut!
That's right, Fingerhut is still around. In fact, you'd be amazed at how well Fingerhut has kept up with the times:
- Fingerhut carries a lot more name brand items than the Fingerhut of yesteryear! Want a certain pair of shoes? A certain game console? A certain appliance? You'll find all of them and much more at Fingerhut!
- Fingerhut shows you the monthly payment up front, when you're considering buying something, so there are no nasty surprises when you get that first bill. You can pay as little as the minimum payment or you can pay in full, or anywhere in between! And Fingerhut's individual, cash price compares favorably to most other sites, so you're not paying too much!
- Fingerhut has a very competitive interest rate these days – in fact, the interest rate for Fingerhut purchases is usually lower than many credit card interest rates.
- Fingerhut extends credit to nearly everyone who applies. Most people who apply are approved instantly, even those with bad credit.
Think Fingerhut might be the answer to your Christmas shopping needs?
Apply for your Fingerhut Credit Account issued by WebBank here!
Psst… Apply before November 16, 2016, and use the promo code NEW50 to get $50.00 of your first order of $200 or more!


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You Are Next
November 18 is the special day for all Latvians. It is our independence day. This year(2017) we celebrated 99th and Latvian community in Berlin organized a very nice party with a variety of musical performances. The club was quite small, there was almost no backstage, in-between performances singers were among the listeners. I was holding up my 4yo that she can better see the stage. At one moment she turned to me and said to me: "you are going up next, right?"
Amazing how simple is 4yo life… If you know what you do (I was singing along whole night) and like what you do, you go up on the stage and do it there.
Why am I tell you this story?
At conferences, I meet a lot of amazing people and we share a bunch of stories. Many people, who I met, shared their secret – they would like to share their stories from the stage, but think that no one will be interested. My answer to this is: "do not decide for me".
If you need help to find your topic, prepare your abstract or presentation, then mentors and team behind SpeakEasy will help you. I know, because I was SpeakEasy mentee myself. Now I am helping to match mentees and mentors. Do not let your fear limit your potential.
You are next, right?


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2010 elections
A quick list of sources:
State & SETX Results – FOX 4 (updated)
Breaking: Jefferson County, Texas 10:00 pm – With 29% precincts reporting, Republican red shift in Jefferson Co. for the first time in at least a century.
Harris County, TX – (updated)
KTRH Houston Radio Live Election Coverage
PJM: The Tea Party Patriots Live – H/T TCOTS
Gateway Pundit– H/T TCOTS
American Power– H/T TCOTS
I'll quit stealing Bob's links now. If you want more, head over to his place. I'm going to find a nice pub to watch the red wave stream across America.
Just remember, don't get cocky. There's a lot of work left to do. This is only the beginning.
Pub Update 1:
Frugal Cafe – Ongoing coverage
PJTV – Live Streaming Instapundit, Bill Whittle, Sonja Schmidt, Joe Hicks, Danika Quinn, and a host of others.
The Silent Majority – Across the board coverage
Quote Worthy:
— Michelle Obama
You got that right. ~'bot
From the O'Donnell campaign:
Wilmington, DE – An Election Eve television outreach by Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell was not aired as scheduled, even though the campaign paid for the advertising last week. O'Donnell campaign spokesman Doug Sachtleben offered the following statement:
"It's still unclear as to why the local cable channel failed to air the half-hour long special. Our hope is that this is not another case of the liberal media or political dirty tricks trying to silence Christine's message to the voters of Delaware.
"Christine announced the broadcast during yesterday's rally in Wilmington, and it was scheduled to run at 11:30 p.m. Sunday and again at 10 a.m. today. But, the channel did not air the powerful ad at either scheduled time. We are very disappointed that an ad, which the campaign paid for last week, was not aired as scheduled.â€
Washington Post article: O'Donnell has trouble airing 30-minute TV ad in Delaware
Here is the ad:
We the People of the First State from Friends of Christine O'Donnell on Vimeo.
I missed the Peter Morrison Report in my inbox Friday.That's OK though, it's not too late, because there are still some excellent points Peter asks us to remember as we go to the polls tomorrow. You are going to vote tomorrow, aren't you?
In case you're not acquainted with Mr. Morrison, he writes a newsletter concerning National, Texas State and southeast Texas issues from a conservative / libertarian perspective. If you haven't signed up for his newsletter, I highly recommend it.
Here is The Peter Morrison Report:
Will 2010 Elections Be a Repeat of 1994?â€
Election Day is fast approaching, and if the long lines for early
voting here in my hometown of Lumberton are any indication, big
changes are coming. It appears that the Republican party is almost
certainly going to win back control of the US House of
Representatives. There is even a slight possibility that they will
also win control of the Senate (although that is less likely). You
don't have to be a prophet to see that this election is going to be
a major setback for Barack Obama and the Democrats. All the polls
point to major gains for the GOP. Republicans need to take at
least 39 seats currently held by Democrats to become the House
majority party. Five Thirty Eight, the website which was amazingly
accurate in its predictions for the 2008 elections, is currently
projecting that the GOP will pick up 61 seats.
Some pollsters are projecting lower numbers, but still enough to
control the House, while others are saying that the GOP could even
pick up 70 seats. Peter Hart, a well known Democratic pollster,
stated bluntly: "It's hard to say that the Democrats are facing
anything less that a Category 4 hurricane."
Of course, anything can happen between now and November 2nd, but
barring some sort of shocking development, it seems pretty clear
that the anger and energy we've seen expressed over the past couple
of years at town hall meetings and Tea Party rallies is still going
strong, and Democrats are going to be held accountable at the
ballot box for signing on to Obama's radical leftist agenda. This
is certainly good news, and it shows what conservatives can
accomplish when we work hard and refuse to give up the fight.
However, if we're not careful, a massive GOP victory could actually
be a setback in the long run. Many conservatives will be lulled
into a false sense of complacency if the GOP takes control of one
or both houses of Congress. Far too many people are locked into a
"Democrats bad, Republicans good" worldview; they assume that with
Republicans in place to oppose Obama, there's nothing to worry
about. This attitude is widespread, and it has been one of the
main reasons conservatives have seen our agenda remain unfulfilled.
In 1994 a very similar realignment occurred. Voter anger at Bill
and Hillary's left wing activism–NAFTA, ordering the military to
stop discharging homosexuals, and attempting to socialize health
care (not to mention the Waco massacre)–led to the so called
Republican Revolution, when the GOP took control of the House and
Senate for the first time in 40 years. For all the talk of
revolution, very little came of it. Which should have been no
surprise as the first thing the GOP majorities did was elect Newt
Gingrich Speaker of the House, and Bob Dole Senate Majority Leader.
Gingrich, for all his conservative bluster, has always been most
interested in advancing his own career, not pursuing an authentic
conservative agenda. Bob Dole was a McCain style Republican, a
"moderate" who prided himself on being able to compromise with the
Both Gingrich and Dole (and most other Congressional Republicans)
had helped Bill Clinton pass the disastrous NAFTA "free trade"
agreement prior to the 1994 election. After the "revolution", they
then helped Clinton secure Congress's approval of GATT/WTO.
Together these trade treaties have nearly wiped out America's
manufacturing base, and led to increasing economic dependency on
Communist China. In spite of all these betrayals (and many more),
conservatives became complacent after the 1994 election, simply
because they assumed that with Republicans in charge, everything
would be fine.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and by now it should be
crystal clear that the words "Republican" and "conservative" don't
have the same meanings, and that the problem isn't just limited to
Gingrich and Dole. Look at how George Bush treated us. He teamed
up with Ted Kennedy to give us No Child Left Behind, the expensive
folly that won't do a thing to close the achievement gap, but will
fill decent public schools with bad students after their own
schools have been shut down by NCLB. He pushed banks to lower
lending standards for minorities, leading directly to the mortgage
crisis. He bailed out Wall Street to the tune of 700 billion
dollars. In 2004 he mobilized Christians and conservatives to
rally to the polls to re-elect him by talking tough on gay
marriage, but after he won re-election he never mentioned the
subject again. He and the GOP Congress gave us the prescription
drug bill, which is projected to cost America trillions in the
future. They also did nothing as millions of illegal aliens poured
into America under Bush's watch.
Goes to the blogger known as Editor, who operates the blog Spellchek. Editor has written a very good piece in which he asks us to compare liberty as it existed in 1776 to the "liberty" we experience in America today.
An excerpt:
By any measure, we now live under a shadow of what liberty once was. Everything is relative and we accept a much lower standard to still call us free. The Constitution is now called outdated. We are told our society has evolved and that the principles outlined in the Constitution no longer apply to a modern society. All of these scenarios were pre-warned by the Founders. They wrote it down. They relayed it in speeches. This is why many are so incredulous that this is happening to our country today. The warnings were issued and history has shown us that the template has been followed to a tee. Of course, today we have an astounding wealth of information at our fingertips about the subject, yet it is still a debate.
How is it that we still debate the definition of liberty? Our government and educational system have done us all a grave disservice by ceasing to teach the principles upon which this country was founded. Yet there are still those who understand what true liberty means and the threats it must endure.
Liberty will never exist unmolested. The more free we are, the more some will want to take it away. It was never a matter of declaring it and just being done with it. So many of us have no concept of what true liberty is or ever was…
Editor then explores a short scenario of what it may take to regain the liberty as defined by the Founders in our Constitution. An excellent read indeed. But don't take my word for it.
See for yourself. Spellchek: Liberty 1776 vs. 2010
What is it with Joy? Has she none? First I hear of her calling Sharron Angle a B*I*T*C*H, then Sharron kindly turns the other cheek, and chooses to send Mzzzz. Behar a bouquet of flowers!
What does Joy do? Does she have a change of heart? Does she laugh about what an arrogant little snob she was? No. She doubles down on the bitchitude. Not very lady like at all, really.
I'm sure Miss Angle will respond with the class she has already shown to Mzzz. Beehair. It could be that was Joy's ploy all along. She wanted more flowers! Yea, that must be it.
Ahem. Joy, hon, you get more flies with honey, honey. But in your case, I'm not so sure.
Anyhoo, I've created a little game we can all play while we wait fir the next salvo. Rules are prescribed below. En-joy.
Enough for a roundup, unfortunately.
Instapundit and more on Harris County, TX
Michelle Malkin – Vote Twice! Update: Whitewash!
Nice Deb – Has an excellent Ongoing Roundup
Gateway Pundit and on AZ Proof of Citizenship and in Nevada
Red State – Steal it!
Red State on the SEIU
NRO – Vote Buying H/T ToM
Obi's Sister – Freedom Works Suffers Cyber Attack
Human Events – October Surprise – – H/T ToM
Red State – Warning to the cheaters
An iPhone App to report voter Fraud
This post will be updated as more instances will undoubtedly surface.
Be vigilant folks!
UPDATE: Stole this pic from Michelle Malkin.
UPDATE: Conservative Hideout – Problems already emerging with voting.
UPDATE: TCOTS –Everything You Need To Know About Voter Fraud
American Thinker – The Democrats' Final Recourse: Massive Voter Fraud
Moonbattery – Ninth Circus Facilitates Voting by Illegal Aliens
Weasel Zippers – Illinois: Thanks to Obama's DOJ – Criminals Can Vote, US Soldiers Can't
Investor's Business Daily – Don't Ask, Don't Vote
Stars and Stripes – They protect democracy. Let's protect their votes
Here's a FOX interview with Beverly Perlson of Band of Mothers on the Military Ballot issue.
Pajamas Media – DOJ Voting Section Deputy Chief Misled Civil Rights Commission on Black Panthers Case [Who'd a thunk it? ~bot]
American Perspective – Assignment: Prove Voter Fraud
Pajamas Media – Voter Fraud Watch Video Exclusive: Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston
John Lott – "Voter Fraud In CA: Giving Ballots To Door-To-Door Solicitors"
And while we're linking John Lott, let's go whole hog with the key words – Vote Fraud
Big Government – Poll Watcher Intimidation in Houston
Fox Voter Fraud Watch – California joins the list of absentee ballot abusers
Gateway Pundit – Unreal. Sheila Jackson Lee Wants Eric Holder to Save Voters From Tea Partiers at Polling Stations
Liberty Pundits – Houston Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Electioneering And Harassing Poll Watchers H/T GWP
Red White Blue News – Democrats killing our liberty; Massive voter fraud reported in 8 states(Video) [Tons of updates and info here]
RWBN – Wake the kids and phone the neighbors; We have Democrats arrested for ballot fraud
Harvesting some links from TCOTS post entitled "Notes From The Campaign Trail: 01 November 2010 A.D."
Pirates Cove – Voter Fraud Allegations Continue In North Carolina
NRO – The Justice Department Goes to Alaska
Conservative Hideout – Voter Fraud: Are the Levels Unprecedented?
King Shamus – Voter Fraud? Nooooooooooooooooo, really?
King Shamus has the money quote:
This election isn't just about getting a GOP majority. This is about showing the Democrats the massive suicidal error of their ways. How? By taking back seats from Democrats, of course. But you also score a victory by taking districts you should win by massive margins.
So yeah, if you want, you can let the promise of voter fraud fuck with your decision cycle. Or you can do your best to overcome it. The choice is yours.
Just remember this: If it ain't close, they can't cheat.
Be The Wave.
AMEN Brother.
Three Beers Later – More ways to report election fraud: Report Prog Election Fraud, Citizens!


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Oklahoma LB Evans grows after rough film session with dad
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) It's one thing to have a bad game and have to discuss it with dad.
It's another when your father was a three-time all-conference defensive lineman at Oklahoma, the very school whose defense you anchored - or in Jordan Evans' case, didn't anchor against Texas Tech. The Sooners gave up 854 yards in a 66-59 victory on Oct. 22, and Scott Evans wasn't happy about Jordan's performance at inside linebacker.
Father and son watched film together and it was a rough session.
''Probably one of the hardest things I've had to do was just with my dad watching that,'' Jordan Evans said. ''It was time to reflect on who I was as a person on and off the field. I realized I was the one hurting the team, and I feel like when you can actually look at yourself in the mirror and know that, it makes it really easy to make a change.''
Evans took out his earrings and shaved off his tight braids, suggestions from dad. He focused more during practice.
He also noticed that teammates such as defensive linemen Charles Walker and Matt Dimon , linebacker Tay Evans and running back Daniel Brooks are no longer playing for the Sooners, with medical reasons affecting each case. He realized he was wasting his privilege.
''My mentality of the game definitely changed out there,'' he said. ''Time's ticking, you know. You're not promised tomorrow in life, and you're also not promised another game. So you've got to play like it's your last. Just kind of seeing some of the stuff that's happened to some of my teammates, seeing that I'm blessed enough that I can keep going - might as well make it worthwhile.''
The results have been stunning. Against Kansas, he had 10 tackles and returned an interception 33 yards for a touchdown. Against Baylor, he had nine tackles, two interceptions and two sacks, and was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week. Against West Virginia, he returned an interception 80 yards for a touchdown. He's ready for one more big home game on Senior Day, when the seventh-ranked Sooners play Oklahoma State for the Big 12 title on Saturday.
''He's just preparing like a professional now,'' Oklahoma linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo said. ''He's really out there making all the checks, putting everybody in the right spot. He's stepped up. You all have seen all the sacks and interceptions, but there's way more that goes into that.''
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops made it clear that Jordan Evans has been a good player for a long time, and he figured he'd snap out of his struggles.
''In the end, he's definitely been highly productive in the last several weeks and whatever that game was, that's an aberration,'' Stoops said. ''That hasn't been how he's played for a long time here. He's really been a spark for us here these last few weeks.''
Evans suffered a leg strain on the interception return against West Virginia that put the Sooners up 41-7 early in the third quarter, and the Sooners gave up 21 points without him in the 56-28 victory.
''Really hurt us when he left the game,'' Stoops said. ''With all the pieces we've had missing, he's really been kind of the glue. When he went down, it was tougher to manage we held it together in the fourth quarter toward the end.''
Evans practiced in a limited capacity on Monday and Tuesday and is expected to play in the Bedlam game against the rival Cowboys.
''We want to make sure we're cautious with him,'' defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. ''He's played more football than anybody on our team. He understands the game plan and what Oklahoma State is all about. We've just got to make sure we're cautious with him and get him on the field. He'll be ready to go.''
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Long before the towel is thrown in on a marriage, the couple should seek marital counseling. There are professional counselors - for a fee - as well as those provided through churches, local government (usually health departments) or other organizations for little or no charge. It is always wise to deal with competence - i.e., formal training when considering counseling. If the couple have children then the parents, responsibility to save the marriage is even greater. However, there are some things which are simply inexcusable and are justifiable for divorce: (1) Addictions for which the addicted will not accept responsibility and treatment; (2) Adultery; (3) Abuse - physical or severe mental; and (4) failure to provide support.
Only one spouse needs to file for a divorce. Utah is a no-fault divorce state, meaning divorce can be granted without proving who is guilty. Although, if there is serious fault by one spouse that evidence can be used to affect the ultimate judgment, such as in alimony awards or property divisions. If there is no significant disputes about property, alimony or children then a couple can file for a "do-it-yourself" divorce. Simplified forms are available from "kiosks" located in some libraries and courthouses or on line at http://courtlink.utcourts.gov - then follow the links. However, you are cautioned that if there are children, notable assets including retirement accounts or real estate or issues providing conflict it is wise to have an attorney review the documents.
Under Utah law, the lesser income producer, generally the wife, is entitled to support (alimony) for the same number of years as the couple was married. The amount of alimony is generally calculated so as to result in both spouses having about the same disposable income.
Custody is frequently a difficult issue. There is an unwritten presumption that wives have the edge in obtaining residential custody. However, there are a large number of fathers with custody. The court looks to what is in the children's best interests. Often a professional will be required to make a recommendation after home visits and psychiatric studies of the parents. The courts are usually willing to accommodate any reasonable arrangement to which the parties agree. In the event of disagreement, Utah has a schedule of "standard visitation" which the courts will enforce to grant minimal visitation to a spouse. However, the children should have more than minimum visitation - they are generally the big losers in the marriage breakup and the little solace they get comes from more frequent visits with estranged parents - so long as those visits are for the benefit of the children and not for the venting of a parent's hostilities.
Marital property, defined as the property acquired by the couple during the marriage is divided equally. Property includes retirement accounts, equity in homes, businesses or investments and all of the furniture and other property accumulated. Marital property does not include property owned before the marriage or obtain as an inheritance or gift. (Although the appreciation in value of the marital residence, investment or business may become marital property.) The children's personal property is usually left with the custodial parent, or separated for the use of the children in some fair manner. Likewise the marital debts are shared, generally in relation to the ability to pay.
Child support is an obligation of both parents. It is calculated from a schedule established by the Utah Supreme Court, based on the income of both parents, the number of children and other relevant factors. Each parent pays a percent of the total child support figure from the tables based on that parent,s income.
Any of these arrangements can be modified by agreement. However, the court will usually review all such arrangements to make sure that one person does not take unfair advantage of the other.
Is a lawyer necessary? No - especially if there are no children or significant property, or if the couple are reasonable and cooperate in settlement. However, most marriages do not end with reasonable people. It is a very emotional event. If there are disputes about custody, visitation, or property it is wise to use a lawyer. It is rarely wise for both to use the same lawyer. The lawyer may have a conflict of interest unless the parties are very cooperative.
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This is an interesting collection of eleven essays, written by ten authors, a little more than half of whom are academic philosophers, while the others are other scholars of the humanities. The two editors, Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey have collaborated on an introductory essay, and each of them has written a separate piece. The other authors are Charles Altieri, P. M. S. Hacker, Oswald Hanfling, John Hyman, Graham McFee, Louis A. Sass, Severin Schroeder, and Ben R. Tilghman. There is not space in this review to discuss all eleven essays, and so the review discusses only those essays the reviewer thought he might have something useful to say about.
When a contemporary philosopher, especially one of an analytical persuasion, writes about other philosophers, he is likely to do one of two things: If the subject is another contemporary philosopher, especially one still living, the philosopher is apt to be critical, perhaps even concluding that the subject-philosopher has made errors. If the subject is a philosopher from times gone by, then the contemporary philosopher is apt to engage in exegesis, regarding the older text almost as a scripture, something to be pondered, interpreted, and absorbed, but not as a philosophical treatise awaiting possible refutation. Wittgenstein has long since become something of an icon, and the arguments stirred by his writing are, typically, arguments over how to interpret him, and seldom over whether he was correct in what he wrote. None of the eleven essays in this collection is much concerned to argue against Wittgenstein; their task, rather, is to apply Wittgenstein's philosophy. In their introductory essay the editors say, plainly:
To date, Wittgenstein's later philosophy has had little if any lasting influence on humanistic disciplines that study the arts….
The primary goal of this volume of essays is to help in the task of rectifying this situation by making Wittgenstein's later philosophy better known and understood to scholars in these disciplines. (p. 1)
The idea of applying Wittgenstein to the arts can seem anomalous, for Wittgenstein does not seem to have a system or a theory that might be deployed here and there; and in fact the presumably Wittgensteinian idea that no system or theory should be deployed is, perhaps, the leading claim of this collection, one embodied in many of the individual essays. As the editors see it, Wittgenstein is against theory, and when his influence is brought to bear on the arts, it will militate against theories.
The background for this collection is set in the editors' introductory essay, "Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy: a Prophylaxis against Theory," and in P. M. S. Hacker's "Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding." A leading idea of these essays is that Wittgenstein recommends leaving things as they are, appreciating them as they are, and not disfiguring them by trying to understand them in terms of any would-be theory that will misconstrue them in the interest of some allegedly deeper analysis. Thus if there is some relevant Wittgensteinian theory, it is the thesis that in these matters, at least, theory is inappropriate and misguided.
There are various ways in which one might bring Wittgenstein to bear on questions in the arts and the humanities. One might enunciate putative theses of Wittgenstein's, and then apply them; or one might gather Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about works of art, and try to make them cohere. But another thing one might do is to write about the arts, as it were, in the spirit of Wittgenstein, as if one had embodied Wittgenstein's sensibility and commitments. Two of the collection's essays attempt this. Especially welcome is Ben R. Tilghman's "Language and Painting, Border Wars and Pipe Dreams." In "Wittgensteinian" prose reminiscent of O. K. Bowsma, Tilghman takes on the idea, common in current writing, that painting is, or is in, a language. In his clear, level-headed, and acute examination, Tilghman argues that language is language, painting is painting, and that it can be profoundly misleading to reconstrue paintings as if they were words. This is a brief, efficient, and incisive essay that should be confronted by anyone who is comfortable speaking of the "language of painting." Tilghman does not address the possibility of arguing as Nelson Goodman did, that both words and paintings are embedded in what Goodman called 'symbol systems', and Tilghman himself notes this, but it is clear that any Goodmanian thesis must deal with Tilghman's observations.
In a similar vein, arguing that things are just what they are, Severin Schroeder, in "The Coded-Message Model of Literature," mounts a withering attack on the structuralist-poststructuralist-deconstructionist conviction that literary works have hidden, concealed, oblique "meanings," distinguishable from what they seem, in themselves to mean. As is well known, there have come to be, first in literary studies, then in art history and music, profound-looking efforts at what is called 'theory'. Schroeder's short essay is an excellent corrective, in my opinion, getting right to the point and showing, first, how unmotivated such "theory" is, and, second, how implausible its results can be.
The most curious essay is Turvey's "Is Scepticism a 'Natural Possibility' of Language? Reasons to be Sceptical of Cavell's Wittgenstein." It appears, I think, because although Allen and Turvey have said that Wittgenstein's work has had little influence on studies of the arts, in fact Cavell has been engaged in exactly that kind of study for more than 30 years. He is, thus, a counterexample to their assessment, and he is their chief competitor in undertaking such studies.
Turvey argues that Cavell is mistaken to concentrate so much on Wittgenstein's relevance to the general question of scepticism, accusing Cavell of having a kind of grand idea which he imposes on Wittgenstein's text. This seems to me to misunderstand, or at best to distort, both Wittgenstein and Cavell. Suppose it is true that, among other things, and perhaps above all the rest, Wittgenstein is an opponent of theory. At the time of Wittgenstein's writing, both in epistemology and the philosophy of language, very many of the theories abroad were either advancing or attacking scepticism in one form or another. If scepticism, in some form or other, has been a feature of ordinary human life, at least for three centuries, as Cavell has been arguing, then why not take Wittgenstein to be trying to establish that human fact against philosophical, theoretical attempts either to restate it, or to defeat it?
The volume exhibits one striking omission. Despite the editors' conviction that Wittgenstein's writing has had little influence in the philosophy of art, not long after the publication of the Philosophical Investigations, Morris Weitz published his prize-winning essay, "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics," in which he explicitly invoked an argument of Wittgenstein's in order to attempt a wholesale reconfiguration of the philosophy of art. By now, half a century later, Weitz' essay may seem somewhat crude, or at least naïve, but there have been and continue to be countless responses to that essay. Weitz took Wittgenstein to be suggesting, by implication, that the diverse things called works of art be left as they are, and not forced into an artificial category in the interest of a "theory of art." He went on to explore the concept of art, as he saw it, doing his best to describe the concept as it is used in practice and without regard to philosophical urges to generalize. Weitz' distinctions between descriptive and evaluative uses of the concept, and his observations concerning what is being done when someone asserts or denies that an object is a work of art have been discussed in detail, and often contested, but they seem to me to remain one of the first and most useful attempts at Wittgensteinian philosophy of art. The influential work of Arthur Danto and George Dickie can be read, naturally enough, as responses to Weitz. The volume's neglect of Weitz and the enormous literature his essay led to seems to me an unfortunate feature of the book. (Danto and Dickie are mentioned once each, in Graham McFee's essay.)
The idea of Wittgenstein as an anti-theorist stands behind much of the volume. The editors make much of Wittgenstein's objection to the deployment of an Urphänomen. The idea comes from Goethe, according to the editors, and it is "…a preconceived idea that becomes a model or prototype to be used in the description of all phenomena," the kind of thesis-before-the-facts that Wittgenstein finds in Freud (p. 19). And it is just this that Turvey objects to in Cavell, insisting that Cavell's ubiquitous attention to scepticism in Wittgenstein's writing is just that kind of "all-encompassing imperiousness." One wonders whether Wittgenstein himself, at least as the editors understand him, has not deployed such a master idea himself, namely the idea that there are no master ideas. This is reminiscent of a strand in Dewey's philosophy, namely the crusade against distinctions. Dewey's enormous corpus is permeated with its objections to the fact/value distinction, the distinction between means and ends, the separation of the necessary from the contingent, and so on. Of course we should want to recognize "myths" as such when they occur in philosophy and elsewhere, and we are prudent to beware of them, but myth-detection can itself be a kind of philosophical crusade, and sometimes the crusade is unaccountably selective. Here is a possible example from Hacker's background essay:
Hacker says,
Understanding the expressions of a language is mastery of the rule-governed techniques of their use. The attempt to reduce understanding to stimulus-response correlations [sic] cannot account for what is understood, or for the ability that is acquired when the meaning of an expression is mastered.…Similarly, cognitive scientists' attempt to explain the institution of language by reference to a 'language of thought' which the brain 'knows' and Chomskian theoretical linguists' attempt to explain language acquisition by reference to prelinguistic 'cognizing' of a universal grammar of all humanly possible languages are equally incoherent.
Perhaps Hacker is right about this. But he himself says this:
'Following according to a rule' is fundamental to the institution of language. To learn a language is to master the rule-governed techniques of the uses of its expressions. To understand the meaning of an expression is to be able to use it correctly. One cannot follow a rule which one does not know or understand. Hence the rules which determine and are constitutive of the meanings of expressions cannot be unknown, awaiting future discovery. [The quotations of Hacker are from pp. 60-62.]
Suppose we asked a perfectly competent speaker, say, of English, when it is appropriate to say 'I apologize', when 'I'm sorry', when to tell a joke (and how to tell it), when to speak ironically or metaphorically. No doubt all these things are parts of "language games" and "forms of life" (whatever, exactly, Wittgenstein meant by those terms), but it seems to me extremely unlikely that the speaker could give anything like a comprehensive articulation of what "rules" he is following when he does these things. What, then, does it mean to say that he knows and understands those rules? I am myself an inveterate joke-teller, and sometimes I go wrong in supposing that the time is appropriate for telling a joke, or for telling a particular joke. When I have such a misfire, have I somehow broken a "rule" that is known to me?
When people succeed in acting together, when they communicate, when they engage in any number of activities requiring some measure of mutuality, some coordination, there is a strong temptation to suppose that this can be explained only on the assumption that those people are following some mutually-understood rules. And it is yet a further assumption that the participants know these rules, in some strong sense of the word 'know'. Thus the uses of language are thought to be like moves in games we might engage in, as if making a joke or speaking ironically were like playing chess or baseball. In the first place, it isn't at all obvious that all the games we play require and exemplify rules, in any univocal sense of 'rule', and in the second place, it is even less obvious that using language is like that. One might say, echoing Wittgenstein: don't just assume this business about known rules, but look and see.
The confident assertion that there must be known rules underlying our manifold uses of language sounds uncomfortably like the deployment of a master idea, an idea to which the facts must be made to conform. It sounds like an Urphänomen.
All the essays in this collection are worth reading, and there is no space to discuss more than a few. One exceptionally subtle essay, which I can mention only in passing, is Louis A. Sass' "Wittgenstein, Freud and the Nature of Psychoanalytic Explanation." Wittgenstein's opinion of Freud's project, and his ambivalent attitude toward Freud in general are subtle and complicated matters. Sass understands that Wittgenstein himself had a project, just as much as did Freud, even if Wittgenstein's project was to undercut ones like Freud's, and Sass' articulation of the differences and similarities between Wittgenstein and Freud are instructive.
A final crabby note: $75 seems far too much for this volume, especially given the shoddy editorial work and proofreading which have left the text marred by misprints, unsecured bibliographic references, and annoying and misleading redundancies.


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The last time I wore this Zara dress I paired it with knee socks. This time I drew on the military feel of the epaulettes on the shoulders by pairing it with this great vintage Chanel belt. I'm really loving how the bold red lipstick I wore looked against the black and gold of the outfit. Recently, it seems like I can't get enough of red lipstick. For the longest time, I rarely wore lipstick except to complete an evening look. Now I'll even rock a red lip to school. Two shades that I find work wonderfully for day and night are NARS 'Manhunt' and MAC 'Ruby Woo.' Any favorite beauty products your loving right now darlings?
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Tights: Hue
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Resources in Project Management
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Resources are an important aspect of everyday life. It is what you have available to complete a task and get an output. In a project management perspective, it can be anything from time, money, people, facilities and equipment. Proper resource management is important in this matter, as it ensures that individuals are not overloaded with work, and that time is effectively utilized, as well as the final budget must be within or under budget. Often in resource planning, the challenge is to find a baseline and complete the projects on time and to budget. Statistics, however, shows that one in every three projects have no baseline[1] and less than one-third of projects are completed on time and on budget[2]. These are just a few examples of how difficult resource management planning can be. Resource management planning could for instance help project- managers and teams to answer questions like the following:
- Do we have enough space on our budget for new equipment and experts handling these products? What if not?
- Is there anyone who is overloaded with work and is there anyone who has not sufficient amount of work?
- Is there any worker available to work in the Christmas holidays?
- How will adding another project affect the existing projects?
- Is the project on time?
To make sure the right resources are available for the project managers and project team at the right time, there has been developed some project resource management processes/tools[3], to identify, acquire and manage the resources for a successful completed project. The processes are the following:
- Plan Resource Management
- Estimating Activity Resources
- Acquire Resources
- Develop Team
- Manage Team
- Control Resources
In this article, the focus will be on the process of Plan Resource Management
Plan Resource Management
Plan Resource Management[3] is a process to estimate, acquire, manage, and use team and physical resources. The key benefit of this process is that it establishes the approach and level of management effort needed for managing project resources based on the type and complexity of the project.
Plan Resource management is used to ensure that the resources are sufficient and available during the project time and thereby making sure that there is successful completion of the project. Those resources can be found internally and also outside of the organization through a procurement process. In this article, there will be looked at how the elements inside the boxes: Inputs, Tool & Techniques and Outputs are defined.
Project Charter
Defining a project charter[3] is probably one of the most confusing times in the project step because it begins prior to a project is launched, and in that way is very open-minded, to begin with. It is also argued that is the most important part of the project, as it outlines the whole project and more or less will choose the outcome of the project. It is an agreement between the different parts of the negotiation. In the project charter, the project name is identified. There is outlined that It's a formal authorization document for the description of the project. So the description of the project states the need, that this project is going to provide a solution for the organization. It states the organization, the need that the organization has, and the solution that this project is deemed to fit. The project charter also includes key stakeholder list, summary milestones, costs, pre-approved financial resources and also the risk assessment which is attached to the project which is vital for the survival of the project. A Project charter should include, according to PMO at least these topics:
- Requirements
- Business Needs
- Summary Schedule
- Assumptions and constraints
- Business case, including return on investment
Project Management Plan
The Project management plan consists of two elements: Quality management plan and scope baseline. These will now be described further.
Quality Management Plan
Project management quality plan is implemented to ensure that acceptance of quality is agreed upon prior to project start[4], and to set a set of standards defined by the customers and stakeholders, and it describes how the project will make sure to live up to these standards agreed upon. Quality management makes the possibility of meeting the required standards more realistic and makes sure that:
- Product is built upon prior agreements about the standards and expectation.
- Work efficiency is going as planned and there is no delay
- If there is a conflict there will be taken action and the problem will be solved immediately
Normally in the project management quality plan, the project manager, project team, customer and stakeholders are involved. According to PMO, the quality management plan can be divided into three processes.
These topics are already discussed in several wiki-articles. Press the link beside the bullet points for more information on these topics.
Scop Baseline
A scope baseline used to measure, manage, assessing and controlling the project scope[3]. Scope baseline is an actual component of the project management plan. Scope baseline can be changed only through formal control procedures. It contains three elements of approved project documents:
- WBS[5] (Work Breakdown Structure):
- WBS Dictionary
- Detailed Project scope statement
The detailed project scope statement includes the description of the project scope, deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.
To make a picture of what the tool WBS is intuitively, one could take as an example: that you can't eat an elephant at once alone. One has to divide it up in pieces and eat one piece at the time to complete the task. Another example could be when cleaning a room you have to make it in parts, maybe first clean up the floor and then wash it and afterward vacuum the floor. So the concept behind WBS is very simple and is that every complex project task can be broken down to smaller task until you meet a point where it is not possible anymore. WBS works the same way for companies. The work breakdown structure helps to visually see all the components that make up the task and ultimately make up the entire project. A typical WBS has around 3-6 levels.
The WBS dictionary is a more detailed part of the WBS about every element it may describe. It describes milestones, costs, deliverables, acceptance criteria, schedule etc. While WBS could be used for a higher level manager, a WBS dictionary is more for the people involved in a certain sub-division area of the WBS like middle/project managers to see a more detailed project plan.
Project Documents
The project document is an overview of the whole project. That is the time schedule, the risk associated with different parts of the projects, who are the stakeholders and what influence do they have on the project and who is responsible for what, so that the project can succeed.
Project Schedule
The project schedule shows how the activities are linked with planned dates, durations, milestones and resources. All project schedules have a start date and an end date. To control these companies and project teams are most often using Gantt Charts to represent schedule. To read more about Gantt charts press here: Gantt Chart
Risk Register
Risk is a very important element in project management as it mostly ensures that the projects starts up on the right foot and that it is vital to the degree of quality. Also it makes sure that all the barriers which could interrupt the project phase are identified. To get an overview of what the risks are with the different parts of the project a risk-analysis is performed.[6]. The risk in this tool is based on two parameters, they are consequences and probability.
From the figure above there can be seen that a risk-analysis is a function of consequences. The risk-analysis is made in the following way:
- Brainstorming: What can go wrong?
- Asses the consequences high to low.
- Asses the probability that a certain part may happen.
- Calculate the final risk (probability x consequence).
- Come up with solutions that can reduce probability and consequences
Stakeholder Analysis
To identify the important stakeholders and their influence and interest in the project a stakeholder analysis can be used.[7]. Stakeholder analysis is a strong tool and is applied for getting more information about the stakeholder environment and to prioritize management resources. Stakeholders are the resources. Product, services we are delivering or people delivering to us, these are all stakeholders and by making a stakeholder analysis it is possible to align the stakeholders and make assessments.
The first step is for the management to identify the stakeholders. After all the stakeholders are listed they need to be listed in terms of power and interest. This for getting information about the influence the stakeholder has on the project. The influence/interest table can be listed in 4 boxed and are described in the following:
- Manage closely : These stakeholders have high interest and influence. These are the most important stakeholders. It is extremely important to keep them satisfied. Keep them updated all the time, make them involved in decisions and always find out what is important to them and help them out.
- Keep them satisfied: These stakeholders have high power but very little interest. As these stakeholders are very powerful the main goal is to increase their interest by inviting them for meeting and asking them all the time. They can cancel resources at any time, so they need to be under the monitor all the time and try to move them to the box "Manage Closely".
- Keep an eye: These stakeholders are not that powerful and have little or no interest in the company. The goal is, therefore, to keep an eye on them and try to increase their interest in the project as they could move to another position in the future.
- Keep them informed: These stakeholders are mostly external. These people have very low power and very high interest in the project. This group should always be informed as these stakeholders often can be very helpful with consultancy for the project.
Responsibility Chart
To transform input to an output, there must some tools/equipment for helping to make sure the different tasks are being implemented and on schedule. To do this, a selected person to a specific task must carry the responsibility to carry out the project. The Responsibility chart[3] is a useful tool to divide the responsibility up. In the responsibility chart, there is mentioned who has the responsibility task. To each task, there are 4 persons involved and these have the following responsibility roles:
- Responsible: The one who is completing and delivering the task. This person may get assisted during the process.
- Accountable: This person is the authority aspect of the project. The main goal is to approve the work the responsible has done. Only one accountable can be set for each action
- Consulted: These are the consultants. These are often specialized people and experts who know a lot about one thing and are consulted before taking a decision. Input from these people is necessary. This is mostly a two-way communication system.
- Informed: These are people who need to be informed when a decision is taken. This is mostly a one-way communication
Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF) and Organizational Process Assets (OPA)
Enterprise Environmental Factors
The environment is basically always fluctuating.[3] The environment can be defined as anything which belongs to the natural world and is more or less uncontrollable. EEF is a condition that controls the project but as a project manager, you don't have control over the EEF. The environment does affect a project both positively and negatively. In an environment, one can distinguish between external and internal environment.
- Government regulation
- Market conditions
- External political Condition
- Organizational culture
- Types of organizational structure
- Internal political conditions
- Available resources
- Infrastructure
Above are some examples of the internal and external points. For instance, in the external point, the government can increase the taxes and it would make the project team forced to revise their project plan, budget etc. Market conditions could also happen if a new threatening competitor enters the market.
Some example of internal environment could be the organizational culture. The company has a vision and a mission strategy as well as values, beliefs, norms, leadership style, ethics, religion etc. Resource availability is also another good example of the internal environment. All in all, there are a lot of environmental parameters to consider and to cope with this the whole unit, company, consultant etc have to take into account how to cope with these problems and opportunities.
Organizational Process Assets
Assets can be defined as something you own or control and helps you achieve goals. For instance, you use your vehicle to get to work. The same way organizations also use assets to move from A to b to achieve their goals. These are called Organizational process assets[3].
The OPA's can be sorted into two groups according to PMO. The first one is
- Policies
- Procedures
- Standard template
- General guidelines
These points are quite general and do not belong to project work. These could, for instance, be that you must use intranet policy at work, or you must fill out a certain template and also general guidelines like time reporting, Human resource rules etc.
The second one is based on knowledge basis, also known as historical data:
- Risk Register
- Lessons from previous times
- Techniques
- Historical information
It is thereby understandable that with knowledge basis from the previous year will save a lot of time. Many things are not made from scratch. The methods, contacts, procedures etc are already there. It is therefore important to look at what the unit learned from the past and what mistakes they did, so they don't use unnecessary valuable time at the start of the project.
Team Charter
With the previously mentioned information, a team charter[3] can be established. A team charter is simply a document where the project team has written information about how they are going to carry out the project. It is a summation of all the inputs and tools, in the resource management plan, that is used and shortly summarises those. The team charter could have the following points:
- Mission & Objectives: What is the purpose, goal, and mission of the team? Why are we doing this?
- Scope: What do the stakeholders expect? What is the timeline of deliverables? what is the cost?
- Team Members: What roles do our team members have? What are their unique skills? What is their decision making authority?
- Resources and support: Are we going to support the team with training and mentoring programmes? Upper management support?
- Communication guidelines: How often will we meet? how are we going to communicate? is the meeting going to be in person or through skype?
It can be seen that those points are a "follow up" on the Plan Resource Management model. It describes how the inputs are handled with some tools and is an overview of what has been discussed. For instance, the project charter could be set into mission & objectives, while stakeholder analysis is more in the scope. .
Conclusion and limitations
During this article, the focus has been on the process in resource project management called Resource Management Plan. For many of the input bullet points, there has been proposed a tool to make it possible to get output and to help identify different parameters such as stakeholders, responsibility issues, risk, WBS, etc, which all are important for the outcome of the project. There has also been discussed about the importance to keep an eye on what happens in the environment and how project work gets easier when it is "Learn from the past", that is having old procedures which you can use again, there is no need to re-invent the wheel. If this is the case the project management team does not have to start from scratch. During this article, there could have been proposed even more
Summary of the tools which were used tools which were used are:
- WBS: a tool which divides the project down in smaller elements
- WBS dictionary: The same as WBS just more detailed
- Risk-analysis: A tool used for setting different
- Responsibility Chart: Who is responsible for what, who approves, who do we consult and who do we inform about the project progresses?
- Stakeholder mapping: Identifying very important stakeholders and less important.
There will always be limitations regarding a theory. Theory and practice sometimes do not result as expected.
The tools presented in this article are not always the most optimal. They are just one of many tools developed and used for the different input points. Also, we cannot assume a stable working environment, things change.
Scope: Not sticking to the original scope can change everything. Because of many change requests, this may add up on delayed projects or over-budget projects.
Stakeholder analysis: To identify stakeholder the stakeholder analysis tool should be sufficient enough. But the model could maybe be expanded to boxes within the boxes where there could be addressed what is important to the stakeholder and what strategy is going to be taken into account to keep this stakeholder, or for increasing the power and influence for the stakeholder. This for getting more information on the stakeholder and with the extra information, a solution could be proposed on how to keep the stakeholder satisfied on a long term.[8]
Conflicts: Humans do not enjoy the company with all people and each individual has its own opinion. This may lead to conflicts between different parts and this could affect the project as well, just like the scope. It is therefore very important to have a clear communication guideline and be a good listener.
Risk: Risk is always an uncertain process as this is all based on probability and mostly on the external environment.
Environmental: The environment can change any model in the article. We are not lords of the environment and therefore a project can go fatal without even the project managers doing a bad job. It is therefore very important to keep an eye on environmental factors, for example, the political situation in the belonging country.
Annotated bibliography
- ↑[Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (6'th edition] is used throughout the article. The book contains several topics on project management. In this section, the focus has been on chapter 9.1. The book describes how resources are defined in a project management perspective. All the Plan Resource management model is based on this book and some extra information is inspired from other books. The book shows systematically how Plan Resource Management model is working.
- ↑ Stakeholders: Theory and Practice, A. Friedman and S. Miles, 2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford: This book contributed with a lot of theory about what stakeholders are and different approaches on how they can be found.
- ↑ Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (2006): A PMI guide on how to use a WBS-structure. Used this book to get some information about the work breakdown structure. The book describes how a project manager can define project deliverables and manage this successfully
Annotated figures
- Figure 1: The figure is made by Hedin Gunnarsstein Poulsen with inspiration from PMI book.
- Figure 2 is from the PMI book.
- Figure 3: The figure is made by Hedin Gunnarsstein Poulsen with inspiration from PMI book.
- Figure 4: The figure is made by Hedin Gunnarsstein Poulsen with inspiration from PMI book.
- Figure 5: The figure is made by Hedin Gunnarsstein Poulsen with inspiration from "Stakeholder theory and practice" book.
- ↑ [The State of Project Management, Annual Survey 2016, APM PMO specific group, page 7']
- ↑ [CHAOS MANIFESTO 2013, Think big, Act small, page 1']
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Project Management Institute. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Sixth Edition; 2017
- ↑ [Patterson, J. L. (1983). Quality management: the project managers [sic] perspective. Project Management Quarterly, 14(1), 33–38.']
- ↑ [Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (2006),PMI']
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lavanya, N. & Malarvizhi, T. (2008). Risk analysis and management: a vital key to effective project management. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 ''Stakeholders: Theory and Practice, A. Friedman and S. Miles, 2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford
- ↑ [Smith, L. W. (2000). Stakeholder analysis: a pivotal practice of successful projects. Paper presented at Project Management Institute Annual Seminars & Symposium, Houston, TX. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.']


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All 193 Member States participated in the first round of the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), including South Sudan, the most recent nation to join the UN.
Describing the UPR as unique, Council President, Laura Dupuy Lasserre says the Review provides "a comprehensive map on human rights situations around the globe."
In 2006 when the UN General Assembly established the Human Rights Council it resolved that the human rights records of Member States should be regularly reviewed with the full involvement of individual governments and supported by expert assistance from the Human Rights Council.
Each State is assessed every four years by a working group which is made up of representatives from all 47 member states of the Council. The outcome reports are subsequently presented to the Human Rights Council for further discussion, if necessary, and adoption.
The Human Rights office acts as the secretariat to the Review and, when invited by governments, provides technical support and assistance to enable implementation and compliance with the provisions of the UN human rights treaties.
In her opening address to the March session of the Council, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay said the success of the UPR was a "significant achievement" which had led to positive legislative and policy change.
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Italian marble is in great demand. Previously, only the royal families used to use it. But nowadays, it gained immense popularity. People love the style, and so they are ready to afford it. If you decorate your entire house by using this marble, then it will look incredible. It is indeed a little costly, but you have to admit that you have to invest more if you want to create a royal feeling.


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This is the time of year to think about how you're going to fix turkey. It's going to happen on Thanksgiving, and may happen again on Christmas. But it is going to happen.
The question is… How?
I've cooked turkeys several ways. I've roasted them in the oven. I've grilled them after spatchcocking the. I've smoked them, and I've fried them. There are good things about every method.
How about a mix of them? Smoking takes a long time (half an hour per pound). Frying burns down houses and pretty much ruins holiday seasons. Plus, it involves a bunch of expensive oil, and it's easy to overheat the oil. I'm pretty good with outdoor cooking devices, but 11 years ago, my dad almost burned our new house down by letting the oil get over the side of the pot… 12′ flame, but, fortunately, not under the deck!
There is an alternative, and it's a great one. I don't say that because I got a Char-Broil Big Easy given to me (I did), but because it's really that good. It combines several things I love about turkey: quick cooking using an infrared chamber that also produces crisp skin; juicy turkey thanks to the infrared advantage of not needing to move air past the meat and the ability to add some smoke flavor just by putting some wood chips in the bottom of the cooker. Oh, I forgot one… Using a drip pan, I can still catch the drippings to make fantastic gravy!
I don't know a lot about how this works, but I do know a bit… The unit looks like a fryer; it's basically an upright cylinder that hooks onto a propane tank. It's fairly light, with an inner 'sleeve' that converts the propane heat to infrared. Infrared is great, as it heats without needing air movement. My first time using it, I was skeptical. It does take just a bit longer than using oil, but you don't have all the time of heating up the oil, so it works out. It's about 10 minutes per pound, and holds up to a 14 pound turkey.
I was gearing up for Thanksgiving again, testing with a chicken. Chicken takes a bit longer than turkey, about 15 minutes a pound. Char-Broil offers a bunch of accessories for the Big-Easy, too, from drumstick older to 2-tier baskets, and, soon (I hope), a jerky maker, too. I've tried veggies, potatoes, beef, chicken, and everything has been very good. Adding some wood ships gets some smoke flavor, and the infrared gets skin crisp by adding just a bit of olive oil to birds. Beef gets a nice sear on the outside, and, unlike a fryer, rubs and spices stay on the surface of food. It's a lot more versatile than my old fryer (which I got rid of after getting this). It's high-tech in how the heat works, but low-tech in operation. It's a simple propane heat source that's started with a dial that creates a spark… no batteries, no fancy stuff to malfunction. It works over and over again.
So this sounds like a Big Easy commercial. It's really not. I just like this thing that much. It's soooo easy to use, and it makes great food. And it's just so much safer to use than an oil fryer. My wife loves that part! Me? a 12′ flame that's safely away from everything can be kind of fun… But the explosion of the propane tank, not so much.
Will this replace my grills and smokers? No, but it has a spot in my outdoor kitchen because of the quality of the food overall, but the ease of use sure helps. I can put a turkey in it and not even look at it until I think it's done… and it's typically just about right on time.


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Russian Vine cuttings
By Mookins
Norfolk, United Kingdom
Mother in laws neighbour has asked me to ask how she can do cuttings of russian vine for pots?
On plant Russian vine
- 18 Sep, 2009
I suppose cuttings could be an option but layering might be easier. Bring a shoot down to the ground burying part of the stem and putting a brick or stone on top. The growing end of the shoot should of course re-emerge out the other side and be tied to a cane placed nearby. Don't bury the entire stem lol!
After a year, it should have rooted and can be cut free.
18 Sep, 2009
If they have an established plant you will find many pieces that have come down to ground level are rooted. October is the best time to cut them off to make new plants.
18 Sep, 2009
thank you very much both of you
will pass this info on
x x x
18 Sep, 2009
As Russian Vine is such a vigorous grower I would no be surprised if ypu could not just push a few new shoots into the soil and leave them to get on with it.
18 Sep, 2009
I thought the same thing Bulbaholic.
19 Sep, 2009
how far from the plant she wants to take cutings from to were she wants to plant one ' I need to know this so that I can work out how longe it will be befor the oridgnal plant comes it's self, it could be quicker they don't call it mile a minuate plant for nothing.
19 Sep, 2009
It's a good plant to cover an ugly wall, hideous fence etc. otherwise it's too intrusive.
Nice one, Cliffo, my sentiment exactly.
19 Sep, 2009
Cliffo and Stjohntongue, the question was how does she take cuttings to plant in pots.
20 Sep, 2009
Hi' Dr Bob, the question was answared befor Stjohntonque and I put our twopenath in,and what we said was a worning, haveing said that , I did plant a cream one under a 25ft hawthorn hedge to grow as it was intended in the wild , the result was that you never noticed it untill the flowers on the hedge died off because shortly after the top of the hedge was coverd in even better flowers,and was a lovly sight that everyone admired, but that was in a big garden and the hedge was part of a wild life corador, I wonder how far it has gone now as that was 6years ago.
20 Sep, 2009
Hi Cliffo, I didn't mean any offence by my comment, hope none taken. 6 years eh! that's going to have wandered a fair way by now.
20 Sep, 2009
No offence taken Drbob.
With Mookins being new to gardening, both Cliffo and I were trying to get across how prolific and vigorous this plant can grow.
I was also trying to convey how there are many more climbers and vine type plants that are a lot better looking, produce prettier blooms and easier to manage ;-)
20 Sep, 2009
Hey doc none taken , I live 20 miles away, it must have gon the other way lol.
20 Sep, 2009
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