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Dairy Free Rice Pudding is easy to make and tastes unbelievable! Just use Silk Coconutmilk to make this indulgent vegan dessert.
Rice pudding needs to be thick, sweet and creamy. This can be done without using cream or milk.
I use Silk Coconutmilk. This Dairy Free Rice Pudding is creamy with a mild coconut flavor. It is also a vegan recipe!
Silk Coconutmilk is one of my favorite ingredients. You can always find a carton in my refrigerator. I love to use Silk instead of regular milk to create healthier, dairy free versions of my family's favorite recipes.
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I infused this rice pudding with fresh mint flavor. It would also be fantastic with vanilla or cinnamon instead.
The mint and fresh raspberries, along with the mild coconut flavor was a nice change from traditional rice pudding.
This Dairy Free Rice Pudding is super simple to make. It's as easy as . . . well, cooking rice.
Just cook white rice in Silk Coconutmilk. Add a couple mint leaves while cooking to infuse the unique flavor.
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Connect to outputs from another system (EXAMPLE: a CNC, a PLC, or devices like a proximity sensor). Scytec DataXchange reads all inputs of status to help users create a better understanding of their machines.
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So...I've been wanted to do a "Real Life Post" for a long time now. I chose today...just a normal everyday Tuesday...so here goes.
630am...I crawl out of bed. I am NOT a morning person and usually hate the world in the mornings. I think of every reason I can to stay in bed. (the kids can have lunchables, I did not wash my hair the night before=less time to fix now, or I am NOT ironing clothes today)
I always start getting myself ready 1st and usually Keegan comes in pretty quickly. I do LOVE this time. His face is so sleepy and he is carrying his blue "Linus" blanket and will let me hold him and cuddle. He wants breakfast usually after about 2 minutes.
645am...we are off to the kitchen....Binks (our monster cat) is meowing like crazy and SO LOUD. (He usually has a bowl of some food, but thinks he wants fresh.
I get K 2 honey buns and some choc. milk (I know...1st class breakfast). He sits at his spot and Max and Ruby is ALWAYS his choice for a show:))
650am...Josh joins and will cuddle for a bit, I at least get a hug, and then he wants cereal. Right now he is on Captain Crunch. The kids sit together and eat while I make lunches.
Today they had Spag 0's - so that took a little time on my part...heating them and putting them in thermos'.
After Bfast they play, watch a show, and then eventually get ready for school:)
Krys has usually made it up by now and is in the shower.
By 7am I am back in the bathroom finishing up and trying to book it out the door...lots of kisses and hugs and I'm off to school by 720ish. Krys gets J on the bus and K to Ashley.{Honestly...this is some cherished time for me...ALONE time:))}
Keegan goes to school every Tues/Thurs and stays with Ms. Ashley on the other days.
Josh and I, of course, go everyday.
My days in my classroom can be challenging. It has definitely been a "learning" kind of year for me.
3:25pm can usually never make it here fast enough:)))
At that time J comes to my room and we stay till usually 415...just getting things ready for the next day. J runs the school like he owns the place...I try not to let him be that obnoxios teacher's kid!
420...we are picking up Keegan and visiting for just a bit with our besties.
435...we pull in the drive. (Keegan usually drives us home - in my lap)
K always wants to get the mail and I have to warn him everyday about being in the road. Today however, I gave this job to Joshua...Keegan did not have a great day:(
438...we are in the house...and Keegan is off to time out for a lot of talking back. Lots of crying and yelling.
440...J turns on a show and I start to clean up from the morning tornado. I always clean the laundry room because Binks has made a mess with his litter box. I also get some laundry going and work in the kitchen. Sometimes...I take a much needed computer break:))))
445pm...K is out of time out and watching a show with J ( I know...world class mom again, but I LOVE TV and my kids are NOT couch potatoes, and it gives me sanity!!)
On pretty days like yesterday, we go outside to play (trampoline or front yard on bikes), but today it was raining so we stayed in and watched the tube:)
I had supper going by 510ish (frito pie) and put dishes away while it was cooking.
We ate by 530. K did not care for dinner, so he had a banana and was done. J had 3 plates:)))
Bath is ALWAYS after dinner....they are usually a sticky, dirty, mess!
At bath (600ish) they usually fight about whose turn it will be to sit in the front ( I bathe them together for my convenience:) )
And once the water is drawn I will leave them unattended to usually switch laundry or lay out clothes for the next day. This is always kind of risky....usually ends with water ALL over the bathroom floor and one upset mama.
620ish...I'll let them play while I clean up dishes, counter, and table (and the wet bathroom).
700...J goes to his room to read and do spelling homework (sometime with my help and sometimes on his own).
K will lay on the couch and watch, yet another Max and Ruby....{singing the song....}
Today Keegan was in bed asleep by about 730ish (I LOVE school days...he won't take a nap there, so he is always tired at bedtime here).
Krys was home just in time to put him to bed tonight...I know...home at 730 - and this was an EARLY night.
J finished homework and was in bed by 8.
I finished laundry and here I sit at 834 blogging:)))
(Krys did all the dishes tonight...he can be a good boy:))
I know I will be curious about all this in my later life, or even a new stage in my life and I will be SO happy to look back.
I know one day my children will be grown and will be parenting their kiddos.
So this is our story...just for our records:)))


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In newer web application development we are more and more diving into client side scripts. Slowly AJAX calls are completely or at least mostly replacing regular post backs for rich user experience. Somewhere we are dealing HTMLs returns or just interacting with model but with time we are ending up writing lot of JavaScript on pages or dedicated JavaScript files.
After starting project, in short of span of time we are ending up with lot of scripts. Writing those script itself is problematic process as we do not get any type safety and on execution only we can know we have missed typed or added some variable in place of some other type. Mostly through comments only we are understanding the code association with pages unless we put JavaScript in respective pages or with naming JS according to respective page names. I know we can use some OOPS concept or JS framework like Backbone, Knockout etc. to manage things through MVC or MVVM approach. Those are really good way to handle JavaScript but we do not get any type safety as it is JavaScript.
I am a really great fan of OOPS concept but have never tried on JavaScript. May be I do not understand JavaScript much or too lazy to write extra script to manage it. I was looking for solution for easy and happy scripting then I come to know TypeScript.
What is TypeScript?
TypeScript is an open source scripting language and super-set of JavaScript with type safety. That means whatever JavaScript script code we have written till now is TypeScript only. Oh! what is the point then if it is TypeScript and how that type safety works. JavaScript is subset of TypeScript, where all JavaScript code will workout without doing anything extra but for taking advantage of TypeScript we can follow there guideline.
What are guidelines of TypeScript and how to code?
It is more of like JScript .NET or could be related with C#. It is pretty simple to catch up with TypeScript if we have worked on any OOP languages. It is having classes, interfaces, modules (namespace), generics, type declaration, most lovely compile time checks etc.
For getting started with we can look into http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground
How it works?
TypeScript helping tools
For taking advantage of various JavaScript libraries, it is having huge list of type definition which could be found on https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped.
By importing those we can have type safety checks. Ex: jQuery has lot of functionality with various types declared in it. By importing the definition we can have intellisense with type checks.
Web Essential is an extension of Visual Studio through which we can have JavaScript file generation at a time of writing only, which you might have seen from Playground link.
TypeLITE is a tool to generate up TypeScript interfaces according to server side classes or models.


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Commentary: Time to end South China Sea arbitration farce
The South China Sea arbitration came to an end with an arbitral tribunal in The Hague issuing an award on Tuesday, but the verdict is null and void and only serves to complicate the situation in the region.
With obvious loopholes and deliberate proceedings circumventing regular arbitration rules, the tribunal undermines international law and sets a bad example for settling sovereign disputes.
China has reiterated its stance of non-participation in and non-acceptance of the arbitration. To fully respect international law and justice, China will never recognize the verdict and never be "forced" into accepting it.
The former Philippine government and the United States behind it have conspired for a long time to blackmail China regarding its historic rights to the South China Sea, but to do it through a tribunal that tramples on international justice goes too far.
For starters, Manila broke its own commitment made in the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea in 2002, which was signed between China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to settle disputes through consultation and negotiation.
Without consulting with China over the means of dispute settlement, the former Philippine government unilaterally filed a compulsory arbitration against China in 2013.
Despite Manila's claim to seek a verdict over the status and maritime entitlements of relevant features in the Nansha Islands, the subject matter regards sovereignty and delimitation issues clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal.
To make matters worse, some countries outside the region have been making waves to serve their own interests.
The United States has been attempting to "fish in troubled waters" while instigating the Philippines to act on the so-called legal front. Sending warships and warplanes and holding military maneuvers, the United States has spared no efforts to stir up the waters of the South China Sea with its so-called "Pivot to Asia" strategy.
Meanwhile, Japan is an accomplice that attempted to hijack the Group of Seven meeting in April with the South China Sea issue as part of its efforts to serve its audacious ambitions.
The arbitration has only escalated tensions in the region and by no means helps to solve the disputes. The undermining of international law and the repercussions of a law-abusing arbitration are even more worrying than the dispute itself.
The new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed the desire to engage in dialogue with China on the South China Sea issue, which is a welcomed sign.
Under the dual-track approach initially proposed by ASEAN, China and the Philippines could negotiate in line with international law and get bilateral ties back on track.
It's high time to put an end to this farce that has dragged on for too long.
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Thursday night of last week was a great night. I was off work that day, and we decided it would be a perfect evening for a little Christmas treat that we had planned for the boys. We had decided to take Dane and Aidan to Build-a-Bear, and let them make a special gift for one another for Christmas. Dane would make Aidan the animal he wanted, and Aidan would make one for Dane. On the way, we decided to make a stop at my Uncle Tom and Aunt Carol's house to let Harper talk to this guy for a little while:
Harper has now been enlightened on all things related to the economy, FoxNews, suspense fiction novels, and Blue Bell ice cream.
And Build-a-Bear? Build-a-Bear was a hit. We weren't planning to let the boys get clothes for their animals, but then (1) the boys spied the Star Wars costumes for the animals and (2) Brandon and I realized that we could use $15 worth of coupons on our little excursion.
I don't know what Aidan enjoyed more: the bear-making or the cute bear-maker.After the animals are selected, stuffed, stitched, brushed, and clothed, Dane and Aidan got to select a name and print their birth certificates. Dane's Darth Vader bear (who wears white undies to sleep in after he takes off his Darth Vader costume) is named "Chris" and cannot wait to make his Christmas Day debut. And Aidan's puppy (dressed as a clone trooper with green boxer shorts underneath for bedtime) was promptly named "Chris Anderson". I have no. idea. why they came up with these names for their animals.
We finished off the evening with dinner at Los Cucos (spanish for "Our fajitas our great, but we won't bring you a plate to eat them off of no matter how many times you have asked for one".) and wondered again how Aidan manages to outgrow his blue jeans despite only consuming rice and tortillas.
All in all, a great evening. I love this time of year, and look forward to more fun nights with my little family.


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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Edo State government have reaffirmed commitment to work together to improve access to telecoms infrastructure and provide citizens of the state with telecoms and information communications technology (ICT) facilities.
This commitment was made during a meeting between the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and the NCC, led by its Executive Commissioner for Stakeholder Management, Mr Sunday Dare at NCC headquarters, Abuja.
Mr. Dare commended the forward-looking policies of the governor and assured him of NCC's readiness to support the achievement of the ICT aspirations of the state through the deployment of fiber infrastructure under the Commission's InfraCo project and interventions by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF).
He noted that the NCC is aggressively driving accessibility to telecoms networks at all nooks and crannies of the country. He however regretted that situation with multiple taxation and regulation in some states is counter-productive for the states – this is because they end up losing substantial revenues and developmental opportunities which could have been stimulated with the presence of telecoms infrastructure.
He assured the governor that NCC is keen to partner the state to achieve win-win solutions in the overall interests of the good people of Edo.
In his remarks, Obaseki said the state government is focused on exploring non-oil resources and has therefore articulated developmental priorities. This focuses on creating a sense of order, security, safety and stability necessary to attract investments to develop the state.
Since its developmental goals relies on the seamless availability of telecoms/ICT infrastructure, Edo State is passionate about the need to attract robust telecoms infrastructure to drive manufacturing, education and other socio-economic activities. As an example of the State's forward-looking approach, the Governor noted that Edo State has always made provision for shared fiber ducts in its road projects and looks forward to engaging with NCC and operators to agree on fiber deployment projects and routes as necessary.
During the meeting, the Executive Secretary of the USPF, Mr Ayuba Shuaibu confirmed that the USPF has evaluated and agreed to support the College of Education in Benin City and the Institute of Continuing Education in Abudu, Edo State with a grant to establish a computer laboratory and provide Optic Fiber Connectivity to the institutions.


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On Nov. 18, President-elect Donald J. Trump named three individuals to top posts in his upcoming administration, including Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Almost immediately, the press criticized his selection of Sessions and stated he may not be confirmed since he had made racist remarks in the past, including the use of the word "boy." The U.S. Senate previously withheld its consent of Sessions to assume a federal judgeship for which he had been nominated by President Ronald Reagan for virtually the same reason. In my opinion, such criticism is an outrage. Self-righteous politicians in the U.S. Senate, no less, who'll vote against Sessions' confirmation have probably called opponents and perceived enemies far worse names. I think it's high time we stop this nonsense as we have all used words and said things we have regretted. Those who say they haven't are lying to themselves and/or to others. If perfection is going to be the standard by which the U.S. Senate judges the nominees of any president, then we're all in trouble. I suggest a more enlightened approach by paraphrasing Jesus, i.e., let he or she (in the U.S. Senate) who is without sin, cast the first stone (vote).
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Since I am in serious decorating mode these days, I have been combing through my magazine pull-outs that are organized in portfolio books. For years, I have been yanking things out of house magazines and organizing them and then putting them into Itoya books that sit on the bookshelves, ready to pull out when necessary. Now...Pinterest has almost erased the need for all that hassle! You can literally catalog all your magazine pull-outs online and even search for specific things. I am obsessed with this new website and have had the best time organizing my boards and pins. Need to find pictures of blue and white Chinese porcelain used in decoarating???? These amazing pictures are all on Pinterest. If you haven't checked it out..you don't know what you are missing!!!!
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Warren Buffett's New Tattoo?
The Fool's Matt Koppenheffer doesn't think Warren Buffett rides a Hog, but he certainly had some good things to say about Harley-Davidson at the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. What do biker tattoos have to with investing, and what kind of ink does Buffett sport?
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Thanks to the savvy of investing legend Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's book value per share has grown a mind-blowing 586,817% over the past 48 years. But with Buffett aging and Berkshire rapidly evolving, is this insurance conglomerate still a buy today? In The Motley Fool's premium report on the company, Berkshire expert Joe Magyer provides investors with key reasons to buy as well as important risks to watch out for. Click here now for instant access to Joe's take on Berkshire!
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Many California residents may not be aware that when they are injured on the job and they are covered under workers' compensation insurance, a workers' compensation claim is their sole remedy for their injuries. An injured employee cannot sue their employer for a work-related injury in any other way. Many may find this system restrictive, as a personal injury lawsuit is probably going to get more compensation for an injured person, but there are certain benefits to pursuing a workers' compensation claim.
What is employer retaliation?
Many people may hesitate from filing a workers' compensation claim after they have been injured in a workplace accident because they fear they will lose their job or other work-related benefits. However, under California law, it is illegal to discriminate against workers who are injured in the course and scope of their employment.
Learn about your legal options after a workplace injury
Even though most California residents spend more time at work than they do at home, they rarely consider the fact that they might get injured in the workplace. Whether working in an office or at a construction site, hazards of various types exist in the workplace and it is an employer's duty to ensure their workplace is either free from risks or that employees are aware of those dangers and how to avoid them.


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NUST is one of best university of Pakistan, 9 out of ten students dream to get admission in NUST those who get admission in NUST are the luckiest students consider. National University of Sciences and Technology Islamabad admission 2017 are announced from first march. NUST is a only university which offers admissions more then twice in a year in different series and gapsto their students.
If you have not taken admission in fall semester than now you should not miss this fall semester opportunity. Apply now and be Numlian and join NUML as engineering degree from NUML has the value which may not other university have in Islamabad. NUST is a top university in engineering fields.
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Bethlehem Alemu company's goal is to completely redefine the seed-to-cup coffee journey by promoting what she calls "Origin Trade."
By Nick Brown (Daily Coffee News) |
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu — the pioneering and enterprising creator of the SoleRebels footwear brand — believes the future of a truly sustainable specialty coffee market can be found in coffee's birthplace, her native Ethiopia.
After more than a decade of building SoleRebels into a global footwear and leather goods brand that combines traditional Ethiopian craftsmanship and materials with fresh new designs while also paying top dollar throughout the supply chain, Bethlehem Alemu late last year launched an equally ambitious coffee venture called Garden of Coffee.
The company has just opened its first branded roastery café in the Bole area of Addis Ababa, occupying approximately 10,000 square feet that serve as something of an immersive shrine to Ethiopian coffee culture and craft. Bethlehem Alemu described the facility as far more than merely a new retail storefront; her company's goal is to completely redefine the seed-to-cup coffee journey by promoting what she calls "Origin Trade."
"It goes way beyond commodity pricing , Fair Trade or direct trade. It's a total realignment of the value chain," Bethlehem Alemu told Daily Coffee News. "If ever there was a category ripe for a radical realignment and, yes, disruption, the coffee market is it. Does it make sense for Ethiopia, the producer and in fact the originator of the finest, most legendary Arabicas on the planet, to ship our magical raw green beans thousands of miles for roasting when we can produce the absolute finest roasts right here using our own talented roasting artisans? We think everyone would agree it does not."
Continue reading this story on Daily Coffee News
See also:
- Ethiopians Desperate to Keep Their Coffee Fix
- Ethiopia Plans Becoming World's Second Largest Coffee Producer
- SoleRebels' Founder Is Taking Ethiopian Entrepreneurship to the World
- Ethiopia's soleRebels Shoe Founder Hopes for Repeat Success with Coffee, Launched "Garden of Coffee"
- Ventures Africa Features Sara Menker and Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu in Its "42 African Innovators to Watch, 2016"


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Sources of personal information
In my piece in the January Oldie, I mentioned that there are some easily available sources of personal information - all legal, all in the Public Domain. Here are a few - if you can add any, please feel free to do so. I'll add more as I think of them.
This is the biggest and widest collection of links and information. Not everything it supplies is free, but from it you can find, amongst other things:
Electoral Roll 2002-2007
Directory Enquiries
Births, Marriages, Deaths (and hence mother's maiden names...)
Census Records
Company Reports
Director Reports
This site will allow you to see what prices houses in your area (or any other area have recently sold for - culled from the Land Registry. There is also a lot of other statistical information about your area, like population, local income and so forth.
Here you can check if a car in which you have a legitimate interest has a valid MOT Certificate.
Companies House
From here you can download all the public information about any Limited or Public Limited Company, including Directors and Shareholder details.
The London Gazette
The Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom. Information is grouped into the following categories: State, Parliament, Ecclesiastical, Public Finance, Transport, Planning, Health, Environment, Water, Agriculture & Fisheries, Energy, Post & Telecom, Competition, Corporate Insolvency, Personal Insolvency, Companies & Financial Regulations, Partnerships, Societies Regulation, Personal Legal.
Each category contains a number of sub-categories, which may then be broken down into notice types to enable users to find the information they need. Please see Browse Notices for more information.
A number of supplements are published; the best-known are:
Honours and Awards supplements (including the Queen's Birthday and New Year Honours and awards for valour),
Ministry of Defence Supplement (officer's appointments, promotions and similar within the Services),
Queen's Awards for Enterprise and Voluntary Service.
The weekly Company Law Official Notifications (best known for striking off and dissolutions),
The annual Premium Bond Unclaimed Prizes Supplement.
Court Lists
Find out what is going on (and who is appearing) in your local Courts.


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Alexei Kosut writes: > We have discussed recently, and there has been sufficient interested in, > including modified versions of mod_rewrite and mod_xinclude in Apache 1.2. > The authors of those modules agreed to rewrite the modules as neccessary. > I was wondering if we could get a status report from them? August 11, > which I gave as the "stop adding stuff to Apache 1.2" date a couple weeks > ago, is only ten days away. I'm going to work on mod_xinclude this weekend after what should be some simple paying stuff. More tomorrow. (BTW, the machine I'm on was off the air for 30 hours on Wed and Thur. If anyone posted changes to ssi during that period, please forward them to me. Everything disappeared.) -- Howard Fear email1: email@example.com email2: firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.pageplus.com/~hsf/
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Bayshore Estates,Living room with TV left to mount on the wall
Bayshore Estates Mom in the living room
Bayshore Estates- Living room/Kitchen
Bayshore Estates-Family collage
Bayshore Estates-Kitchen
Bayshore Estates-Sitting area in the bedroom
Bayshore Estates- Bedroom
Bayshore Estates-Hallway
Bayshore Estates- Family quilt
Bayshore Estates-Bathroom
Bayshore Estates, the living room, door to the corridor on the right
Bayshore Estates, the living room with its small window, picture not hung yet.
Bayshore Estates, the kitchen/dining room, ugly black cupboards, or dark brown?
Bayshore Estates, the huge bedroom, the best feature of the suite
Bayshore Estates, Pictures and mirror still not hung
Bayshore Estates. Hallway from the bedroom. The walls are not this dark, no flash was used, just natural light, so discoloured. All the walls are the same colour.


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Dear XXXX XXXXXXX on Facebook, I want to publicly apologize to you. I don't even know you, but yesterday I saw that one of my facebook friends commented on your status update that said:
"BMW 750Li or Mercedes S55, which would you go with?"
From the comments (yours and others) that followed, I decided this wasn't a fun hypothetical question, but that you were truly asking which you should buy.
I'm not proud of this, but when I realized that, something came over me. Something ugly and mean. Something unbecoming of a Utah County resident, shark advocate, and father of two. Before I knew what was happening to me I had commented on your thread:
"It's my wife's birthday and I'm trying to decide if I should buy her an aircraft carrier or Disney World (leaning toward the carrier, because I could take the 4,500 orphans I've adopted on cruises). Please advise. Also, I'm a Ralph Lauren model, so keep that in mind. And I was voted coolest person on Earth (see PimpDaddy Magazine, July, 2007). Anyway, just sincerely looking for some advice. Thanks."
I felt justified. After all, you asked for it, I told myself. Begged for it. Practically held a gun to my head for it. You deserved to be banished to a lifetime of strong, toothless women and strong, cold winds in Evanston, Wyoming for your shameless, shameful bragging. At least that's how I felt for the 30-second period after reading your update; adrenaline—the mean kind of adrenaline—coursing through my veins.
But then I examined my motives. Was I jealous because I couldn't afford a BMW 750Li or Mercedes S55? Probably. But even if I did have that kind of green I would have the sense not to spend it on a fancy car. I would get a jaguar. The jungle predator, not the car. Do you know how many leopards or lemurs you can buy for eighty thousand dollars on Miami's black market? About 3 of the former, or 482 of the latter. What's that? You say you're into speed? Ever heard of something called a cheetah? Cheetahs do 76 mph. How about your S55? That's what I thought.
But I realized my core motive was that you wrote something that annoyed me and I wanted to make you feel badly about it. But after the mean adrenaline pooled back into my feet (which is where, according to the latest scientific journals, the human body's mean adrenaline is stored). I started feeling bad. "You're crazy. You don't even know this guy. You've never left a mean comment on any of the other crazy Facebook updates you've seen. You're not a mean person. You don't do stuff like this. How awful that you want to embarrass this person in front of his friends and family and make him feel sad."
Then I felt sad. And I deleted my comment. At least no one saw it, probably. Then 10 minutes later I got an automatic email delivering a comment that someone left on a different thread that I had commented on earlier. It occurred to me that this might be an automatic feature, and that all 26 people who commented on your update before me got an email with my comment sent to them. Then I felt very bad. Hopefully they simply think what I think whenever I see a mean comment on the Internet: "This person is obviously nutty, insecure, and has nothing better to do with their time. Give them a one-way ticket on the next ferry to Perv Island."
So please accept my apology. Sincerely. That was weird and crazy of me. I'll be on the midnight ferry.
This guy in the happy Easter Bunny costume will be on the ferry too.


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"The Tea Party can go to Hell"? And you're going to help the Tea Party go to Hell? Really, Maxine? Thank you for the invitation, Maxine, but I wouldn't feel comfortable in your house.
The Tea Party is evil? Why? Because we love this country and believe it's exceptional? Because we want our country to live within it's means? Because we want our government to abide by the Constitution? We want the Rule of Law enforced? Because we want the country our forefathers designed for us? Their design providing the freedom for us to create a country so attractive that millions of people flee other countries to come here and enjoy the same freedom. Immigrants fled the very things you are trying to impose on us.
We're the evil ones, Maxine? How so? Because we would like some of your massive social welfare programs cut? How have they help your constituants? The districts represented by the members of the Black Caucus have poverty rates nearly 50% higher than the national average. Why is that? If you are so concerned with the welfare of the black community, why has black umemployment increased from 12% when Bush left office to 16% under Obama. Why are 72% of black children born out of wedlock? Why are most black children raised in fatherless homes? Why do most drop out of school? This is in YOUR districts. Tea Party had nothing to do with the plight of the black communities. But you do. You and the Democrats have been in the majority since 2007. How has the black community improved during that time? The Stimulus Bill you voted for only saved state employee union jobs, and at about $250,000 a piece. The Stimulus Bill didn't create any jobs in the private sector. But you want to spend more money. How will bankrupting the country improve the lives of black citizens? You said that companies are not hiring and are hording money. Why would they do that, Maxine? Maybe because of the burden of ObamaCare, Dodd/Frank, EPA regulations that will drive energy prices through the roof, and what else you plan to shove down our throats. Businesses can't hire unless there is an increased demand for what they do. When we have to pay twice as much for energy, food, etc, and you want to increase taxes (and so do States) we can't spend and businesses can't hire.
We believe blacks are as capable as anyone of achieving success. Do you? Your actions don't reflect it. You support every program that treats blacks as if they are incapable of succeeding without your help. You support every welfare program that keeps the dollars coming as long as black women have no job or husband. You do everything possible to keep racism in the forefront. You might be surprised to know we don't think about race until you bring it up. And that there are black Tea Party members, lots of them. We welcome anyone who shares our values and belief in the greatness of this country as designed by our forefathers.
Have you noticed what is going on in Greece and England recently? France and Portugal? As Margaret Thatcher predicted, they have run out of other people's money. Their citizens are protesting. They are telling their governments they haven't done enough and demanding they do more. Those countries have made promises they can't possibly honor. Democrats in this country ignore this and are doing the same. We, Tea Partiers have gone to the streets to protest too, however, not to demand our government do more, but to tell them we can do it OURSELVES! To get off our backs and out of our pockets. What we earn is OURS, not yours. We earned it, you didn't.
Tea Party members are the least scary people you can find. We are your neighbors, we're Moms and Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas, doctors and teachers, etc. We are the people who believe citizenship is a responsibility. We worked hard, started businesses, raised our children to be responsible adults. We never believed in our wildest dreams that our country could be so easily lost. We want to perserve the chance this country has given everyone, the chance to succeed.
If what we believe causes you to damn us to Hell, so be it.


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I am ten years old and in the sixth grade this October of 1948. I have always loved October because of the beautiful leaves. I told Grammy Martin that Rowes Ledge looks like one of her patchwork quilts with all the different colors. Twitchell Pond does not look quite as beautiful blue as it did in the warmer months, with its tinge of gray.
Some mornings there is frost on my attic window when I wake and I know it won't be long before the sun will not be strong enough to melt it during the day as it does in October.
Grammy asks me to mow her lawn one last time for the year. She always tries to give me a dime, but we do not take money for helping her. If Grampa gives us a nickel during the summer for picking potato bugs, then Dad says it is ok because that is hot, dirty work.
Dad has been cutting some pine boughs from trees on Pine Mountain right behind our house and aptly named, because that is all a person seems to see..pines everywhere! He will use the boughs at the end of the month to bank up the house for winter. Then by Thanksgiving, when we have snow, he will shovel that up around the base of the house with the help of Roland and Rex. The house seems much warmer, once it is banked. Our only source of heat in the winter is our kitchen wood stove.
I said that we have mostly pine trees, but Dad points out the spruce trees. He takes his jack knife out of his pants pocket and slices something off the side of the spruce and hands it to me. "Here, try this, Muff, you'll like it." Well, I usually like most things Dad has me try, but there have been exceptions ( like the time he shot the bear and that meat was plain awful). "Spruce gum, Muff. Chew on it. Good stuff." Well, it really isn't too bad and since we don't get to stores too often for the store bought kind, this is pretty good.
Ma said Dad and I were disgusting once because we tried some coon meat. I don't know where it came from, but Dad said it couldn't be bad. I thought it tasted like chicken and Dad said the same, but Ma just harummphed around the stove . He shoots rabbits sometimes, but all I can think of are pictures of bunnies in some of Curt's story books and I don't like to eat them. Dad does shoot quite a few partridges, but Ma says it takes at least two to feed our family of six. He pronounces it "patridge".
With the cold mornings, Ma checks last winter's supply of hats and mittens and says she hopes we have enough left to last til Grammy knits us more at Christmas. Every kid in school has mis-matched mittens at the beginning of cold weather so no one notices. We usually start wearing them the first of November first thing in the morning waiting for the bus.
A few days ago I helped Gram slop the pig. She has a big , big place for their pig to wander around on the side of the barn. He is huge and makes a big snorting sound. I don't care much for pigs, and I think Gram knows it because after we carried the "swill" she picked up a handful of pretty leaves and told me how she saves them by ironing them on to waxed paper..but only the good leaves ..no holes. Then after that, we went in to her kitchen and she gave me one of her gigantic raisin filled cookies. I can't describe how good they are. She says she stands over the stove and makes the filling and lets it cool. Then she makes the dough and plops a bit in the middle and covers it with more dough. Sounds like a lot of work to me.
Uncle Louis has pulled his boat out of the pond for another year and it rests upside down in the field. Before he launches it next spring, he will give it a new coat of green paint, getting into every corner until there is not one inch of old paint showing. He is very proud of his boat and keeps it so nice. We borrow it on the Fourth of July and Ma makes sure we do not leave one scrap of waste or dirt clump in the boat, since he is so good to let us use it.
It is very quiet in October. The summer folks are gone and their cottages closed for the season. The plumbers have all come and shut their water off and cleared the pipes for winter. I walk down behind Wagner's camp once more to sit on the rock where I fish before they arrive in the spring. It's a good thinking rock.
Ma is pondering whether we should get another charge of her worm medicine, brewed from the poplar bark, but usually we can talk her out of that til spring. She checks her can on the shelf in the alcove under the stairs to make sure she has enough lard saved to warm up and put on Rex's chest when he has croup. He always has croup every winter and whoops all night. Ma always has bricks on hand she has warmed in the oven for our feet and pieces of flannel saved and stacked near the can of lard for the croup boy.
I think October is my favorite month because it is so pretty everywhere and there is a nice smell in the air. The summer heat has been pushed away and it is like a newness has washed over the little hamlet. Soon the colors will be gone and skeletal trees will stand against the grayness of the sky.
I won't think of that now. I shall live in the moment.


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News of the Moment
May 27, 2002
Slate had two interesting WTC-related stories...one is that the idea that Zacarias Moussaoui asked for flying lessons, but without the takeoffs and landings is an urban legend. The other is that last weekend's spate of Terrorist Threat reminders may have been a response to 9/11 recriminations, i.e. a Bush and company smokescreen. Not that there isn't an ongoing level of threat, but it's a little reassuring as we finish up the holiday weekend.
Last night NPR had some interesting audio footage (is that the term?) from the broadcasting career of Robert Trout, who was one of the first big well known radio news broadcasters. He covered things ranging from FDR's 4 inaaugarations to the moon landing. They had a large number of clips from World War 2. I think, even in this anxious day and age, we don't realize how scary that war was, even for the folks at home, that the outcome was not always clear.
Pirated Episode 3 Dialog of the Moment
"I dub thee... Darth--"
"Darth Wizard!"
"Uh, no, I dub thee Da--"
"Darth Laser Sword!"
"NO! I dub thee Darth... Vader!"
"But I kinda like Darth Wiz--"
"...Yes, my master."
--Kentaro P Maeda, in this thread (in response to an idea that Anakin should have rolled his eyes and sarcastically said "Yippee" at some point in 2 or 3, in couterpoint to his exclamation in The Phantom Menace.)


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Dear Friends,
In these urgent times, and to honor Howard Brookner's legacy and all those lost to the AIDS epidemic, we are launching the largest-ever theatrical AIDS fundraiser all over the United States with our film UNCLE HOWARD.
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Winter Retreat
Led by Vajrashura, Prajnagita, Jnanadhara & Pavara.
Retreats gives you a chance to put aside the concerns and demands of your everyday routine, and instead dedicate a chunk of time to your meditation and Buddhist practice.
Our Winter Retreat is a special retreat - it's a chance to be off in the beautiful Cavan countryside to see the old year out and the new year in.
This retreat is open to anyone who has done a weekend retreat with the DBC or in another Triratna Centre before.
Contact the centre or email us to book on.
This retreat will take place in Sandville House, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan.
Cost: €360 waged / €315 low-waged / €250 unwaged or student.


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The City Council gave its blessing for a 41-acre College of Southern Nevada campus in northwest Las Vegas.
The council adopted a development agreement Wednesday with the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of CSN, to allow the long-proposed new campus at Elkhorn Road and Grand Montecito Avenue to proceed.
The council action cleared another hurdle, but no timeline has been set for construction to begin.
"I've been working on this for 12 years," said Councilman Steve Ross, who represents that part of the city.
Contact Jamie Munks at firstname.lastname@example.com or 702-383-0340. Follow @JamieMunksRJ on Twitter.


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This Shabbat we begin to read from a new book, Bamidbar. How is parashat Bamidbar like the game of Monopoly? We'll get to that soon. Bamidbar means "in the wilderness." The name of the book in English is "Numbers," because the book opens with God's command to Moses to "take a census," literally, "lift the heads," of the Israelites. And virtually the entirety of the first chapter pertains to taking this census.
Then at the end of Chapter 1 we learn that the Israelites are to set up their camp according to a specific plan.
The Israelites shall encamp troop by troop, each man with his division and each under his standard. (Num. 1:52)
This is further elaborated upon at the beginning of the next chapter.
The Israelites shall camp each with his standard [diglo], under the banners [b'otot] of their ancestral house; they shall camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance. (2:2)
Then the text specifies the exact placement of each of the tribes, which are arrayed around the mishkan in a square with three tribes on each side. Each tribe displays its standard, degel (diglo means "his standard"), and banner. According to the Targum Yonatan, the tribes on each side of the mishkan displayed a flag of a specific color with text and a device (a symbol) that represented that tribe. According to the Midrash Tanchuma, the colors that were chosen for the tribes were based upon the colors of the stones that represented them in the High Priest's breastplate.
Rashi commented on the banners and their devices, basically agreeing with the ideas expressed in the Midrash Tanchuma.
Each banner shall have [as] its insignia a colored cloth hanging from it. Each one's color was not like the other's; each color corresponded with the hue of its gem set in the [high priest's] breastplate. Thusly, everyone could recognize his banner. Another interpretation [of] "with the insignia of their fathers' houses": By the sign their forefather Yaakov gave them when they carried him from Egypt [for burial in Canaan], as it is said, "And his sons did to him just as he had commanded them" [Gen. 50:12]. "Yehudah, Yissachar, and Zevulun shall carry him from the east, Reuven, Shimon, and Gad from the south; etc.," as stated by Tanchuma to this portion. (Commentary on Bamidbar)
The midrash Shemot Rabbah (15:7) uses the term diglo to refer to military units (hosts), but it is still clear from the use of the word b'otot, "with the signs," that the text specifies that the tribes of the encampment displayed special signs.
In a mental picture of this arrangement I cannot help but visualize the Monopoly game board! With its four sides and color-coded properties arrayed around the board, the similarities are hard to miss. But Monopoly only has two sets of colors—properties per side, not three, so the analogy is not exact (so sue me).
All of these arrangements are preparatory to setting out on the journey to Canaan. Ever since their arrival at Mt. Sinai in the middle of the book of Exodus, the Israelites have been camped near or not very far from Sinai. All the events that occurred after the debacle of the golden calf through the building and dedication of the mishkan and the discussion of the laws in Leviticus, occur in the vicinity of Mt. Sinai. Now that the tribes are gearing up to begin their travels, and since this travel is to move through territories occupied by unfriendly nations, the tribes must be organized to travel and camp in a military fashion.
It is quite clear that the organization of the camp is military in structure. The first clue may be found in the census itself. The census had included only men "from the age of twenty years up," and concerns "all those in Israel who are able to bear arms" (Num. 1:3). According to Rashbam,
For now they were supposed to enter Eretz Yisrael, and twenty-year-olds are suitable for military service. (Commentary, 1:2)
Second, the tribes are encamped in a vast ring; at the center of the camp is the mishkan, the headquarters, itself ringed by the encampment of the Levites. The fact that this is a military camp is further emphasized by the wording used in describing each tribe's camp. As an example, take the description of Judah's camp:
…the standard (degel) of Judah's camp, according to their hosts (l'tzivotam). Nahshon ben Amminadab and his host (tzevao). (2:3–4)
This formula is repeated for each of the tribes in the description of their camp. Let's focus on the word "degel" again. In warfare, then as now, communication is absolutely essential. A commander who loses his communications is certain to lose his battle. In ancient warfare communication was both aural (trumpets) and visual (banners). These ancient communication techniques are recognized in modern times in military units by traditional bugle calls and unit flags (the unit's "colors"). The banners and the devices they bore served, in ancient warfare, as signals of the commander's intentions to the troops and, not incidentally, his location in the field for rallying and support. The special devices on the banners let the individual soldier know where his particular unit was if he became separated in the confusion of battle.
A description of the devices drawn on the banners that the tribes used can be found in a midrash in Bamidbar Rabbah 2:7. This midrash was amplified and altered slightly by Ibn Ezra, who wrote,
Our early sages taught that the banner of Reuven featured the figure of a man, symbolizing the deeper meaning of the dudaim [mandrakes]; the flag of Yehuda had the picture of a lion, for that was the image that Yaakov used to describe him; the flag of Efraim showed an ox, since he was the "eldest of an ox"; and the flag of Dan was decorated with the picture of an eagle. Thus they appeared like the keruvim [cherubim] seen by the prophet Ezekiel.
Ibn Ezra added the last line of the above quotation to the midrash, taking the description from the first chapter of Ezekiel, where the four creatures that accompanied the Divine chariot are mentioned.
As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man [Reuven's banner]; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side [Yehuda's banner]; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side [Efraim's banner]; they four had also the face of an eagle [Dan's banner]. (Ezek. 1:10)
There are several very interesting parallels that can be drawn between Ezekiel's description of his vision of the celestial chariot and the events that occurred during the Israelites' stay near Mt. Sinai. These parallels drew Ibn Ezra's attention, since he links the Israelites' camps around the four sides of the mishkan to the position of the four creatures accompanying the chariot.
Ezekiel's description of the chariot's first appearance,
And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a blazing fire (eish mitlakachat)… (Ezek. 1:4)
is parallel to the description of the appearance of the Shekhinah to the people:
For the cloud of the Lord was upon the mishkan by day, and there was fire upon it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. (Ex. 40:38)
And just for fun, look at the following verses, the description of the seventh plague, from Exodus:
…and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth; and the Lord caused it to hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail and blazing fire (v'eish mitlakachat) amidst the hail, very heavy [grievous]. (Ex. 9:23–24)
These are the only two occurrences of this term, v'eish mitlakachat, in the Tanakh. Is it just a coincidence that the haftarah for the first day of Shavuot (which always falls during the week that follows the reading of Bamidbar) is Ezekiel 1:1–28 and 3:12, which includes this verse?
Other parallels lie in the function of the guarding of the chariot by Ezekiel's creatures and the guarding of the mishkan by the tribes' encampment; and in the manner of the travel by both:
And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went. (Ezek. 1:12)
...as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards. (Num. 2:17)
The overall parallel that we may discern from Ibn Ezra's commentary is that the guardianship of the Shekhinah in the mishkan was achieved by the surrounding encampment of the Israelites, but after the destruction of the Temple and the departure of the Shekhinah from earth, this guardianship was assumed by the creatures of Ezekiel's vision.
Shabbat shalom.
May 2015
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We knew it was going to be a long day. We had to go up to Kulthi and start the documentation work for a women self-help group . Then we were supposed to come back with them to Gushaini where the training for felt bags would be conducted for the women of Kulthi and Tinder. We were to expect atleast twenty women in the office. We planned the entire day in great detail and made sure that there was something happening each moment.
The meeting was supposed to start in Kulthi at 12 noon so we took a taxi for the village as we had gotten a little late in starting. We reached there to find only one woman present. The others were coming. We had been told that there would be atleast 10 women here and many new faces. So we waited, and then, we waited.
Slowly the women started appearing and there was only one new face among them. In total, there were five women present. As per plan, the President of the co-operative-Keshav bhaiya joined the meeting. He is a very influential man in the area and we could clearly see the positive impact his presence created.
We started the meeting and decided on the group name to "Bhairadu Mahila Samuh" (bhairadu is the name of a god from the region).
Things then started getting pretty intense and upon being pushed, three out of the five women admitted to being a part of another women self-help group organization that functions in a not so nice manner in the region. When we asked them why they hadn't informed us about this before, they just tried to quote some random political reasons. Keshav bhaiya did not like the excuses he heard and so he did not invite them to the training. Anyhow, we came back to find no woman in the office. It was only the same old fellow interns sitting and working there. Wow. We had been told they were waiting for us and there was no one here. So, we called our contact, Vandana. In two minutes, a few women from Tinder were at the doorstep. They had simply stepped out for some tea. Keshav bhaiya began the training. He is an expert when it comes to working with felt. I also found out the use of that uber tempting roll of bubble wrap in the office now. Refraining playing with it was going to take all the self-control I that I possibly could exercise.
. That went very well, the women were all very interested and participated with a lot of enthusiasm. During the training, Keshav bhaiya told them how he trained women from a lot of villages last year for felt work, jams, pickles etc. but it had all gone to waste as none of them tried to do anything with what they learned. Now, these ones here had an amazing reaction to it. They said that they would make the most that they could of what they learnt, that they would teach other women in their village and put in as much effort as their busy schedules allowed. It was as if Keshav bhaiya's words had been a sort of challenge for them. We invited them to come to the office the next day as well and they promised that they would. They sure had a good spirit.
.After the women went Killian, Yohan, Poonam and I sat down with Keshavi bhaiya to discuss a few things. The discussion took an interesting turn and we got to learn a lot about the place. He told us about how deep rooted the caste system is here and how the people here believe it to be the will of god. He told us about all the myths that exist in association with the system. He told us about how a lot of people here perceive things and of many other interesting beliefs and systems of the region. This was valuable knowledge about the place and people we were working with. We ran for the customary chai after the discussion, we were starving. We had been up and working since the morning.
The women from Tinder were coming back to the office tomorrow.


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LP Hartley famously wrote in Cider with Rosie, with a palpable sense of longing and regret, that 'the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there'. Hartley spoke of this 'foreignness' in terms which were personal rather than collective yet this same sentiment is certainly more widely applicable than initially intended, even to the level of a nation's history. For if perhaps we do not now live in times where our collective past is totally alien to us, we certainly live in an age increasingly dismissive of that past; of the morals, people and customs to be found in that 'foreign country' beyond living memory. This is almost certainly a phenomena directly related to the Enlightenment. It is a truism to say that we are all children of the Enlightenment. And this same Enlightenment was nothing if not an expression of the cult of progress and a rejection of all former modes of 'being' which have sustained human societies for millennia. Yet it is a bitter irony that this very rejection of the old order in the name of the goodness of the new has produced nothing so novel as the great slaughters of the Twentieth Century. Every nation which has rejected its monarch has gnawed itself half to death in civil war and mass purges. The very movement which promised absolute freedom, the movement which promised to make every peasant a king, instead made him a slave. Yet the tide appears to be turning. The old certainties of the Enlightenment begin to lose their grip on the popular imagination, even as they are reaching their post-modernist apogee in the university. In the light of this epochal shift, this article aims to offer a viable third way between populist nationalism and authoritarian internationalism: monarchism. It is the central point of this article that by returning to noble traditions we may so arm ourselves to face the uncertainties of the future. By looking backward, we may find a path forward.
Modernity and Monarchy
All the forms of government considered by the masses and the intellectual establishment to be 'modern' (that is, acceptable, commonsensical and eminently moral) are mere extensions of the Enlightenment, and though it is not our purpose here to write the biography of the Enlightenment it may be our incidental purpose to write its obituary. This great endeavour which went so awry; this temper which seized Europe for two hundred years, which began in high ideals and ended in the lowest barbarism – is now dead. The spirit which gave it life – the spirit that indulged in the worship of man – strangled it. Of course, we know the year it perished: 1968. For it was on the barricades of Paris, to the exultant animalistic wailing of the soixante-huitards, that Monarchism arose from its age-old slumber to claim its place as the most natural form of government. The 68'ers had no cause but disorder, no aim beyond rebellion. They did not reject a system, they rejected all systems; all attempts to define, explain or categorise reality within a meaningful (and thus usable) framework. By implication, however, they rejected their own system of rejection. They rebelled against all the old institutions and yet sowed the seeds for a revival – one might even say a resurrection – of the most primal institution known to man. This post-modern pessimistic antagonism, based on a profoundly atheistic and adolescent rejection of order in every sphere, actually created the narrative space for a return to Tradition. We see this across the world in the rejection of Enlightenment thinking and its destructive children: Marxism, Fascism and Liberalism. It is obvious that the great mass of the people, despite the vain urging of their respective elites, desire a return to the certainty and continuity that was the birthright of their forebears. It is demonstrably true that modern solutions to collective problems fail to satisfy the nature of man; they starve when they ought to feed, they feast when they ought to fast. Slowly, a significant minority of citizens in countries which were once monarchical are realising, perhaps reluctantly, that a system once dismissed as outdated may in fact hold the key to true civic order. There are even a number of countries in which the clamour for a return to a monarchical system is growing louder: in Brazil, Russia, Georgia, Serbia, and Romania. When polled, two-thirds of Brazilians would like to see an end to the current presidential system and a return to the monarchy of the past. Or let us put it another way: some of the most successful nations in the world (especially when this success is measured in terms of social solidarity) are monarchies. Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Liechtenstien, Luxembourg and of course the United Kingdom.
From Europe to South America, the clamour for the return of the king rings out, echoing loudly among the hollow platitudes of our post-Enlightenment age. This revival could not come at a more important or interesting time. For, one by one, the old ideologies and the structures built on them are crumbling and the question every thinking man ought to ask is 'what shall replace them?' This is the great debate of our times; for it is certain that we stand at a crossroads, with a stark and uncomfortable choice before us. We might return to the ideological warfare of the Twentieth Century – at the time of writing this is not so far-fetched since on campuses across the West a new authoritarianism grows like a cancer, as 'tyrannical mothers' (in the guise of lecturers and other so-called public servants) hell-bent on enforcing a labyrinthine code of 'niceness'. These priests and priestesses of the New Religion increasingly serve only a narrow ideology which by its very nature seeks the destruction of western culture and learning. These same heavy-handed 'intellectuals' seek to destroy the freedom of speech that should be their watch word and impose a new censorship based on a morality devoid of any metaphysical underpinning. In Britain and America this has even spread beyond the campuses and into the mainstream of politics. Simultaneously, the ageing liberal democracies, like so many tired old women, fall to the populist-nationalist tide and ape the demagoguery of the third-world countries they once so loudly condemned. A people tired of politics, and politicking in general, increasingly turns to men and women with easy answers, easy smiles and easy morals. So, we might on the one hand turn to an authoritarianism of the left – of censorship and the Mother-state – or we might turn to the populist nationalism of (predominantly) the right. The sort of nationalism that can envision only difference and conflict and has no appeal to universality; a secular nationalism devoid of spiritual nourishment – a sort of golden calf demanding the sacrifice of whole nations as burnt offerings. Given the results of such a poor choice in the previous century, results which were counted in hundreds of millions of corpses, this choice is not an attractive one.
Yet happily, another way is open to us, a way of stability, of natural hierarchies that retain flexibility yet do not bend with the whims of the age, the choice of an order which engages the affections and emotions of the people without whipping them into a frenzy of nationalist hysteria. This is the way of the constitutional monarchies. It's important to note that I'm not arguing here for a fruitless return to the absolute monarchies of the past, nor for some blasphemous notion of the 'Divine Right of Kings'; I am arguing for limited constitutional monarchy, for a monarch unconstrained by politics yet restrained by law. The constitutional monarch transcends power through authority. HM Queen Elizabeth II has plenty of authority, but very little real power. Thus, no matter the scandals that engulf her governments, no matter the cynicism towards politicians which is typical of the average subject in her kingdom, her authority remains unsullied. The modern monarch survives by powerlessness, in the case of the British system a powerlessness more or less cultivated by succeeding generations of royals since the time of the Glorious Revolution.
Nationalism and Monarchy
The monarch moderates and limits nationalism, purifying it of its Enlightenment poison. By occupying the chief position of the state, by romanticising a hierarchical structure fundamentally at odds with any notion of 'equality', the monarch generally offers a defence against rampant nationalism. You might say that a single king prevents a thousand tyrants. Indeed, so long as the parliament restrains the monarch and the monarch restrains the parliament, their can be no descent into the terror of authoritarianism of previous centuries. So, it is that an institution, the institution of the constitutional monarch, which came about by pure accident, constitutes the main hope of happiness and stability in the civil order. As the nation is an 'imagined community' so the monarch is the representative embodiment of this emotional and intellectual invention. At his best the monarch personifies not the will of the people, as does the State, but rather he represents the twin hopes of civil order and civil authority, the former deriving from the latter. National assemblies and all the various organs of the modern democratic state embody the 'will' of the people (or, more accurately, some of the people, some of the time) but nothing therefore remains superior to this will, no institution exists to temper and restrain it. The State unleashes the fervent passions of the people but does not contain within its own assumed metaphysical reality the means to control it. This stately embodiment of the collective will quickly and repeatedly magnifies into the most outrageous violence, as any person with even a passing acquaintance with modern history should know.
Similarly, a democratically elected head of state must be one of two things: partisan or impartial. If partisan, then the head of state has politicised what ought to be a source of unity, they have made a focus of communal strength a wellspring of division. For if the head of state – the highest representative of the nation and its values – stands firmly in one political square, then all those in the country who do not share their political persuasion are made traitors in spirit. If, on the other hand, the head of state is an elected politician who is nevertheless bound to be impartial, then they are denied their motive power, for a politician is person who thrives on controversy. A monarch suffers no such loss of vitality, since they are not in the first instance motivated or fed by politics and personal ambition. Whereas a politician, once elevated or elected to the position of head of state would be effectively castrated by their impartiality, a monarch is empowered by it. From impartiality the monarch gains the virtue of public dignity, a dignity which ennobles the sphere of politics and has a tendency to limit the bounds of political discourse, so that non-political institutions remain relatively free of political wrangling.
Monarchy and the Family
A monarch does not stand alone. No, a monarch always has a family of one size or another and this is yet another great advantage accorded to the monarchies. Since the sovereign's position is hereditary, the increase of life is absolutely ingrained in the institution itself. A monarch has always relied on his or her ability to produce an heir to guarantee their succession, the stability of their kingdom and even, to a certain extent, their own legitimacy while they are still living. In certain ages this has been a weakness, yet now, amidst catastrophic population collapse across Europe, this may provide a model for wider society. Amidst a growing 'carpe diem' culture that worships death, this sign of contradiction provided in the most personal and emotive way possible – a family whose privacy is public, whose every birth and death is a subject of national affection and comment, shows clearly the importance of family as a public good. For even as a family makes possible the only real liberty possible in our hyper-organised societies, so it is right that all these little republics should be headed and represented by a chief family that enshrines the foundational principle of existence – namely, the protection and increase of life.
The monarchy is an old institution. There is no escaping that obvious fact, especially in a society that regards anything that preceded the 1960's with, at best. a sense of ambivalence and at worst, outright hostility bordering on pathological hatred. Yet old though it may be, tradition is the repository of collective wisdom and though it requires constant pruning lest it become a tyrannical master rather than a helpful guide, it still offers the best defence against mere forgetfulness and anarchy. A society without tradition is the same as a man without memories; a child easily misled into any new foolishness. Certain practices and institutions may indeed merit total abandonment, but monarchy is no such institution. Monarchy may offer us a viable solution to our modern malaise, to this quagmire of hopelessness that has one by one swallowed all the institutions that the Enlightenment created. We may go backward and we may find it surprisingly amenable, for we may find that by going backward we were really going forward.


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In preparation for our move to Japan, the movers came to pack up our furniture. Even though we've still got a few weeks before we leave Jersey, we wanted our furniture to get a head start.
This means that our house is pretty bare now; we're living out of suitcases and sleeping on Coleman air mattresses (which are quite nice, by the way … Much better than military cots or sleeping bags under MRAPS.)
Of course, I kept the Wi-Fi router. (Priorities, people … priorities.)


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Thursday, February 2, 2012
2 comments:
- pam said...
Your tiger moth is so beautiful! You could even just make a whole series of butterflies and moths. they would be beautiful printed and cut out and used as decorations on wreaths or in a picture.
I am going to use this one as inspiration to create a new tin butterfly!
I and so glad to have you back.
- February 3, 2012 at 2:50 AM
- ☆sapphire said...
Love this tiger moth! It is stunningly impressive!
- February 9, 2012 at 7:46 AM
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hi All,
I have been looking through the transmission dirs and settings, and cant find anything referencing the error page that you get if you hit 'cancel' when logging in:
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Does anyone know how to modify this, or where it is actually pointing too?
Thanks in advance!
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