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Chinese property and entertainment giant Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to buy Swiss sports marketing company Infront Sports & Media AG for 1.05 billion euros (US$1.19 billion).
The acquisition will help the company's presence in sports in China and bolster its influence in global sports, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the company's statement in a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.
Infront, based in Zug, Switzerland, handles media and marketing rights for international sports events and organizations. It has held production rights for the World Cup, represents some Olympic winter-sport federations and does media and marketing for the Chinese Basketball Association.
Infront president and chief executive Philippe Blatter, who is the nephew of FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, said Wanda's investment will help his company improve its offerings in sports.
The deal follows Wanda's acquisition of a 20 percent stake in Spanish soccer club Atlético Madrid for 45 million euros late last month. The company is also investing 20 million euros annually over the next two years to support the development of 180 young Chinese soccer players in Spain.
Infront is the exclusive sales representative for distribution of broadcast rights to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, the newspaper said, citing information on the company's website.
It also has sales-representative rights for FIFA events in 26 Asian territories, including China and India, from 2015 to 2022.
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John T. Woeste had barely joined his local 4-H Club in rural Kentucky when he gained one of the most important lessons he took away from his 47-year involvement with the 4-H program.
"We lived out on the countryside and didn't have many people come visit us," said Woeste. "Right after I joined 4-H, the extension agent came by our house and visited with my family and me and I've never forgotten the feeling that gave me. The message really came through to me that 'somebody thinks you're important.' That set the tone for my 4-H career."
Woeste spent eleven years with his 4-H club in Alexandria where he had the opportunity to participate on several judging teams. It was through these experiences that he met state level extension professionals who strongly influenced the choices Woeste made in his academic and professional pursuits.
"4-H was my guiding path to go to college," said Woeste. "Neither of my parents went to college. In my graduating class of 87 only three of us went on to college. It wasn't expected of us, but because I was able to get to the university with 4-H a time or two, it opened my eyes to that opportunity. With the direction of extension agents I was able to get a 4-H scholarship that made a college education possible for me."
Upon graduating, Woeste went to work as an associate county extension agent through the University of Kentucky. One day while in this position Woeste's supervisor approached him.
"Well it's time for you to go back to school and get your master's," Woeste's supervisor told him. "I said, 'Well, OK, how exactly do I do that? I don't have any money to do that.'"
Woeste was sent to Lexington to visit with a faculty member named Dr. Perry, who told him all about the Kellogg Center in Wisconsin, which at that time ran a national training program for extension professionals.
"Up to that point the notion of graduate school was the furthest thing from my mind," said Woeste. "But I went and visited with Dr. Perry who helped me fill out my forms and I was admitted. I moved my family to Wisconsin so I could work on my master's degree."
While finishing up at the University of Wisconsin, Woeste was approached once again by a faculty member who guided him into a Ph.D program.
"At that point I had four children and I was real interested in keeping my job in Kentucky - but all these people rallied on my behalf to make a Ph.D happen," said Woeste. "In each step of my education and career there has been someone reaching out into the community to help someone. 4-H taught me the value of education and taught me to recognize a good opportunity when I saw one. Luck is preparedness meeting opportunity."
4-H has been a family affair for the entire Woeste family. While in Wisconsin, Woeste and his wife volunteered as 4-H club leaders for three years. They also worked as club leaders for three additional years while at the University of Florida. His own children have all participated in the program.
"My oldest daughter has said that some of her best leadership experiences came as a camp counselor in Wisconsin," said Woeste. "As Dean I always supported the camping program - sometimes under duress. Philosophically, it was the kind of program that appealed to me. I believed in supporting adults and youth coming together and learning and enjoying things in a group setting. I value adults out there serving as role models to these young people. A lot of times, these adults can and do have a lot more influence on young people than their own parents."
At a relatively young age Woeste was appointed dean and director of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Florida. As dean and director, he oversaw all 4-H programs statewide. He remained in tat position for ninteen years until his retirement.
"John Woeste has made a tremendous impact on Extension at the state, regional and national levels throughout an illustrious career," said "Dr. Myron Johnsrud, executive director of the Extension Committee on Policy (ECOP). "As agent, district administrator, assistant director and dean and director, he has given his time and talent in addressing significant issues affecting the Extension System and its educational mission."
Woeste says he's enjoyed his many years of 4-H interaction and values what the program offers youth and families today.
"Some of the activities have changed and that's appropriate because the interest of people have changed," said Woeste. "I know in terms of 4-H programs, nationally and even within the state, there has been some debate, but I think even though there have been some slight deviations, the leadership has maintained the basic philosophy of adults and youth working together, learning by doing and creating a sense of community. I recognize that the setting has changed some, but from my perspective, I think 4-H has been pretty true to its roots and that's good and why I continue to support it."


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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Perfect By Now: The Unofficial Guide to Sweet Valley High
Robin Hardwick
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The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
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The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World: How to Turn Your Good Intentions into Actions that Make a Difference
8:00 pm 14 December 2011
I'm writing this review late, but better late than never. :D
Anyway, let me just say that I got this book at the dollar store, but I would have gladly paid more for it because it is useful and encouraging. I'm a believer in life being more than just for yourself. I believe that everyone should engage in community service of some sort because there is a lot of work to be done in this planet. Though globalization is supposed to help out many and it has made progress in a lot of aspects, I also believe that it has become damaging as well. Not believe I know actually, from things that I've read and learned. Think about these two things for example. 20% of the world consumes 86% of all goods and services, while the poorest consume 14%. The cattle that are raised specifically to be used for consumption, consume more than one third of the world's grain.
Isn't that insane? There is a lot of poverty and inequality in this world. A lot of the progress made is measured in economical terms and though a lot of money is being made, it doesn't mean it is being spread throughout equally. It's sometimes hard to remember, but for those of us living in the U.S, our lifestyle is not a common one. We are the minority in the world. Even for those of us who don't have that much money, we are most likely still better off than a lot of people in the world. Therefore, I believe, because we are better off, we should be helping people more. Our world is a mess and though things will never be perfect I think at least something can be done. And I think the best way to begin is to start small, like volunteering around your community, then expanding and seeing if you can volunteer in other countries. The book doesn't tell you, you should take this path, this is just my own personal vision.
What is great about this book that not only does it give you suggestions at the different types of community service that can be done, but it gives you different options. Like it mentions how some people may not want to do hands on volunteer work, like working at a soup kitchen, but this does not mean that they aren't valuable. This book places equal importance in those who, for example, are board members or people who make fliers for organization or people who donate money. This book lets you know that anyone can find something to do for any organization, you just have to look. And any help you give is going to most likely be useful.
What I also liked was that it was realistic on people's expectations and what actually happens. For example, some people like working with teenagers and they want to be a hero to them. This doesn't really happen that much and some people might not even say thank you for your help. The book let's you know that and advises you to help younger kids instead because they are more prone to seeing you as a "hero." It was also realistic in the sense that it acknowledged that some people do volunteer work to enhance their resumes or other things like that. And that's perfectly ok. After all, everyone needs to do things for themselves as well. And anyway, you are still helping. Work is still being done.
I really enjoyed this book and even though I've been doing volunteer work for some time now I learned new things. I recommend this book to everyone because like I said I'm a believer in everyone helping out.
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Wow, given that I lost interest in Tomb Raider after the 2nd outing, I never thought I'd write a single blog post about Lara Croft, let alone two within a few months of each other. The first one was simply incidental because the game played into my topic, but I had no plan for a repeat Lara Croft cameo. That is, until I saw this article on Kotaku the other day entitled You'll 'Want To Protect' The New, Less Curvy Lara Croft and found myself simply appalled.
Essentially, in the article, Crystal Dynamics executive producer Ron Rosenberg was explaining how the Lara Croft we see in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot will be different from the Lara Croft we're accustomed to. As the article states:
In the past, Lara Croft didn't need protecting. She was a fearless daredevil, a crack shot in short shorts with enough attitude to scare off a pack of bloodthirsty gorillas. But in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, things will be different. She hasn't become that woman yet.
As anyone who has played a Tomb Raider game knows, and as Mr. Rosenberg himself states in the quote above, Lara Croft has always been a very empowered female lead, facing down wolves, bats, crocodiles, thugs and even T-Rexes without batting an eyelash. She's fearless, tenacious, confident and highly skilled. She's essentially the female equivalent of Indiana Jones, only with less bullwhip and underage womanizing. Lara Croft has never needed a man on her adventures to protect her or get her out of a jam; if anything it's the other way around when a male character is involved.


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It's the size of a cassette tape, has buttons and pots so you can play it as a handheld instrument, it's open and hackable – and it sounds like 8-bit mayhem.Read more
Artist Ewa Justka has built a drum/bass machine that's as chaotic as our times – a dirty, feature-packed, mayhem generator. And you can buy or build one for yourself, too.
The golden age of the recorded album may be long past, but the golden age of the album-as-instrument may be just getting started. Captain Credible is the latest artist to embrace the idea of releasing his music as circuit board and interactive musical instrument and not just a set of tracks you can hear (erm, […]
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Oatmeal has always been a staple in our household. We use it in smoothies, dinner recipes, and obviously enjoy it solo. The benefits of oats are overwhelming and I encourage you to try them in your different recipes. They never alter the taste, provide consistency, and give your body a healthy carb to run on all.day.long!
As the weather gets cooler, steaming hot, hearty breakfasts are common place in a lot of kitchens. Bacon, omelets, buttered toast, biscuits and sausage gravy, you name it, I enjoy it. But, as I continue to try healthier options, I wanted to incorporate a new spin on oatmeal that still gave that warm, cozy feeling, but is quick, healthy, and easy on the grocery budget. Enter: Blueberry Pie Oatmeal.
The ingredients here are things I always, and I mean always have in my kitchen. The newest member welcomed to my pantry is the Organic Coconut Palm Sugar. I picked this up after hearing some Vegetarian food bloggers rave about it being a fabulous substitute for processed sugar. When I first opened the bag, I was a bit skeptical. It has a super grainy consistency and feels like brown sugar, slightly sticky. It is a bit bitter and doesn't smell nice. Well, if I'm being honest, I think it stinks. But, incorporated as a sugar substitute, I'm hooked! I'll probably never use processed sugar again. It is sweet, blends nicely, and tastes yummy in the dishes I've tried it in.
So, enough of the sugar babble, let's talk about creating this recipe. Total time is about 10 minutes from putting the pan on the stove top to plating. The list below is for 1 serving (which I devoured).
- Begin boiling 1 and 3/4 cup of water in a pot.
- When the water begins boiling, add 1 cup of oatmeal.
- When the water returns to a boil, add 1 heaping teaspoon of Organic Coconut Palm Sugar, 1 teaspoon of Chia Seeds (super food that has no taste and you won't even know it is there), and 1 cup of frozen blueberries (I've used fresh apples, cored and chopped in this same recipe and it.is.fabulous!!! Do try!). Mix well and reduce heat to a simmer.
- While simmering for roughly 5 minutes, stir occassionally. As the water begins to evaporate, you don't want the blueberries to burn to the pot. You'll notice the oats turning purple as the blueberries heat up and thaw. If this color turns your tummy, try adding the blueberries at the very end. They won't be warmed, but it will still be satisfying.
- When cooked, plate, and enjoy! I add a side of sliced banana (or what was salvageable from my super brown nanner). To add a bit more sweetness, you could sprinkle some more Coconut Palm Sugar on top, or some brown sugar if you're feeling "sweet".
I hope you try this out in your kitchen, whether with blueberries or fresh apples. Both are super delicious and feel like dessert for breakfast!
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The all new line of Trail Master bumpers and armor available for the 1984-2001 Jeep Cherokee was engineered to provide maximum clearance for rock crawling. Each bumper has high degree approach angles & raised corners for maximum ground clearance. Manufactured out of 3/16" cold rolled steel that is robotically welded to exact specifications.
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Doe-eyed Malavika Mohanan made her debut in 2013 with Pattam Pole opposite Dulquer Salmaan. Directed by renowned cinematographer Alagappan, the film won her notice. Few would know that films actually happened to her by chance. "My dad (cinematographer K U Mohanan) was shooting an ad with Mammootty. I went to meet my
Five days before the shoot began for Beyond The Clouds, the team was still casting. Honey Trehan, the casting director, called Malavika to his office and told her that he was casting for a Majid Majidi film.
What did Majidi notice in Malavika that he signed her on? "Much later, he told me that he saw the character in me. That's what it should be about and that's what I respect him for. It's a norm to run behind big star names, which is fair because that's how the money comes in for most films. But he didn't have the pressure of having to cast a star. He was free to choose and he believed that I fit the character." As mentioned, she plays Tara, a young girl from the slums of Mumbai, whose world comes crashing down when she is accused of attempted murder and is separated from her younger brother, played by Ishaan Khatter. The
Speaking about her experience working with the legendary Majidi, she shares that the genius filmmaker doesn't speak Hindi or English. "All communication between the
Malavika's mighty impressed by her co-star, Ishan Khatter. "Actually, I'm jealous of him because he's too good for his first film. He's so committed that even if it was my close- up shot, and he was nowhere in the frame, he'd still stand there and emote just as dedicatedly. It helped me perform better. He's so talented. I kept telling him, 'You're too good for your first film, don't do this to the rest of us," laughs Malavika. Also, being
A lot has changed for her after working on Beyond The Clouds. She confides, "I've got a taste of the best now. Anything after this will be a


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This interactive graphic illustrates patterns of dissent in the 112th Congress on so-called party unity votes — those where a majority of Democrats oppose a majority of Republicans.
The "members" view ranks senators and House members by how frequently they vote against their party's majority. That view can show all votes or be filtered to show only votes in a specific subject area. Picking individual lawmakers shows how often they dissent by subject.
The "votes" view lists all party unity roll calls in each chamber where at least one party had dissenters. For each vote, the graphic shows a description of what was at issue, the party breakdown and a list of dissenters from both parties. The "votes" view can also be filtered by subject.
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We are located near center street of Akakura Onsen.
In spring to autumn, there are many golf course, beautiful mountain view spots, famous waterfall, flower, alpine plant, colored leaves... and various tour bus in our area.
In winter, it takes about 3 minutes to nearest ski slope on foot.
The bath in this inn features cascading water from a sodium bicarbonate spring that will make your skin beautiful. "Korin no Yu", bath room with two different style of a cypress bath and an outdoor bath are located while the "Koun no Yu" bath offers unparalleled views of the scenery, from Mt. Kurohime to the Shiga highlands. Enjoy the seasonal beauty of the mountains and watch the sun rise at dawn.
(Address) 481 Akakura, Myoko City (Tel) 0255-87-2006 (FAX) 0255-87-2641 (URL) http://www.kounkaku.com/english.html (Language) English
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And here is a fresh example of how great of an idea it is to let vox populi supersede that of experts.
In Solzhenitsyn's First Circle, there is an autobiographical character who is a very bright, well-read young man and who always wanted to meet the common folks he idolized and imbibe from the fount of their eternal wisdom. Then he was jailed and sent to a concentration camp where he finally met common folks. To his great surprise, he discovered that said folks possessed no eternal wisdom and laughed at him when he asked them to reveal it to him.


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Oversized proportions and waves of nylon and down quilting give life to this splendid design by Moncler Simone Rocha, collection nº4 of the Moncler Genius project. A skirt in pastel pink tones, an expression of a woman from another era that can pair sophistication with an underground style. Voluminous and deconstructed silhouettes that fuse the taste for the ornate with Moncler's high-performance quality.
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Believe it or not, I've been trying to do this blog post for weeks! Mostly because everyone keeps asking me for nursery photos, but also because I just wanted to be FINISHED with all baby things well before baby arrives. Well, best laid plans? I wound up not really finishing until this week. And of course, it's been so cloudy and dreary. I kept waiting for a day when the sun would light the room up all pretty like, but that just never happened and I grew impatient haha. That's my subtle way of saying I don't think my photos do the room justice! ;)
There have been a lot of steps in this process! Sadly, I don't think I ever took a photo of what this room USED to look like. But my sister-in-law who lived in it all last summer can attest, it was kind of a disaster dumping ground. When we moved into our house, it was good timing for us and Erik's mom and stepdad, who had recently married and combined households... it meant we got a lot of leftover furniture! A surprising amount of our four bedroom house was fully furnished from the day we moved in. Willow's room, then the "bunk bed room," had:
One set of bunk beds
One computer desk and chair
One big wooden toy box
One tall wooden dresser
One wooden bookshelf
All this in addition to the little tiny things that accumulate over time... every book Erik has ever owned in his life seemed to wind up in this room. Every poem I ever wrote or photo I ever printed. It even hosted a huge punching bag and a ferret tether ball toy at one point haha. The closet was packed full of.... I don't even know. Just SO MUCH STUFF. Lots of childhood things that you wind up holding onto and not knowing why. Erik and I spent many hours in the past few months looking at things like our soccer and swimming trophies and thinking "why on earth would we keep this stuff?" So we didn't. And while at first it felt weird to toss things we'd had for over 20 years into the trash, it turned into a liberating release of STUFF. I'm still amazed at how good it feels even thinking about all the junk we purged these past few months. It's liberating.
This really all started during the master bedroom makeover in January. In all the reorganizing and shuffling things around, the entire house got a purge as I prepared to make our bedroom more functional and peaceful, to make my home office efficient, my camera equipment ALL IN ONE PLACE (seriously, I used to keep my equipment in our bedroom, the cases and boxes in the bunk bed room, my large portrait samples in the main guest room, the small samples in the dining room china cabinet, and even a bunch of stuff in my car trunk... it was ridiculous!).
So back to Willow's room. What I know you're really interested in haha... it was during the master bedroom makeover that I told Erik it was his mission to get the bunk beds out of that room. Everything else I could deal with. I decided the book shelf and toy chest were things that could stay for Willow, but wasn't a fan of their scratched up, light wooden color. I mean, this is furniture Erik and his siblings grew up with, so it's seem some stuff. We moved the dresser into our master bedroom closet since Erik's been wanting a place to put folded clothes that's closer to where he actually gets dressed in the morning (first world problems, walking all the way from your master bath/walk in closet into your bedroom for a T-shirt! Ugh! haha!). I sold the desk and chair on Craigslist (I sold a LOT on Craigslist actually... and donated almost everything else to Goodwill).
It was March before this room was really empty-ish. That's when Erik painted the room green for me. And while he did that, my best friend since childhood, Kristen, helped me sand and spray paint Erik's old toy box. It was pretty hilarious seeing his reaction to that toy box... "It's just weird seeing something you used to store action figures in suddenly be bright pink." I took pictures of all this and I can't find them! I'm sure there's a memory card somewhere with them, but alas, I guess they'll turn up in September some time ;)
My mom and I made a trip to IKEA during all this, mostly for my new home office desk, but while we were there we figured we'd get a dresser and night stand for Willow. Well, when I got home and opened the box to assemble Willow's dresser (which was weeks after we bought it of course), it was the wrong color! I'd had this weird feeling in the store that that could happen because the nice man helping my mom and I load heavy stuff onto our cart was a little HURRIED to say the least. He reassured me he'd gotten the right one, but I should have ripped that sucker open in the parking lot. Luckily, my sweet mother-in-law lives a good two hours closer to IKEA than I do and returned the dresser for me and picked up the right one! She brought it down to us and she and I spent a day putting that monstrosity together.
This whole room is such a group effort. I can't believe how much I'm writing about a room makeover, but it's seriously been such a process. From the clearing out, to all the painting of walls and furniture and little things, to the endless furniture assembly. I mean, my mother-in-law MADE the curtains... she MADE the crib sheets and the beautiful matching quilt, and even the cover for the changing pad! If it's fabric, she probably made it. The cube shelf only exists because somehow two people at my baby shower had the same idea to wrap their baby gift with the exact same floral fabric drawer! I mean, I went on Target's website and there were like 30 fabric drawer colors they could have chosen, but they both had this idea on their own and picked the exact same drawer. How crazy? And it coincidentally matched all the spray paint I'd already bought. It's just weird how much of this nursery was not planned and wound up coming together... despite my only guidelines for people about my nursery plans being that the walls would be green and the furniture white. That's basically all I knew haha.
Okay, I'm going to stop telling you the life story of this room and just show you the part that everyone wants to see, which are the pictures! Starting with the only real "before" pictures I bothered to take... what a blogging failure I am haha but know that all the painted furniture basically looked like this beforehand!
Erik didn't even recognize the bookshelf... haha, which is kind of amazing since he's the one who carried it up and down the stairs for me but uh anyway... ;)
There's something about my brain that can't create interesting collage arrangements like the one on this wall. I know I LIKE them and want them, but my brain just says "SYMMETRY" and "RULE OF THIRDS" and my spatial awareness stops there. So Erik is the designer behind all these things haha. Those frames are all just leftover frames from around the house. Almost all of them were black and I just used leftover spray paint from the furniture to jazz them up. And the gorgeous "W" is made from perfectly wrapped yarn by Kristen! It was one of her many gifts to little Will.
Night stand from IKEA and the lamp is from Target.
My parents bought this crib for us... it's from Amazon. I think Davinci is the brand. The artwork on the walls is some of the only decorative stuff I actually BOUGHT for this room. The gold willow tree print is from Etsy (yeah, I had to do at least one tree thing, it was impossible not to... I almost did willow branches everywhere). The quote prints were digital downloads from Etsy that cost about $5 and I had printed by my photo lab.
And of course, again, all the crib linens were made by my mother in law. Can you spot the narwhals in the quilt? ;)
You know "Paint Nite" events? Where you go and drink wine and learn to paint something cool? Well, I've done a couple with my mom, but let's be real, I don't love my paintings haha. So I decided to use my leftover spray paint to paint over these canvases I had lying around instead of tossing them out. I wrapped some string around them to try and create a cool design. It wasn't quite as effective as I hoped. The paint definitely got under the string, but hey, it's still some color for the wall.
That IKEA dresser absolutely rocks. So much storage. I was really adamant about NOT wanting a changing table that I'd be trying to pawn off on someone in a couple years. This dresser I'm confident will be usable for many years to come.
The fabric board is another old canvas I had lying around but not in use. I bought one yard of pretty fabric and stapled it with some padding over the canvas and wrapped the ribbon around it. I'm anticipating one day storing all of Willow's hair ties and girly things in it. This was obviously something I saw on Pinterest, it totally screams PINTEREST PROJECT. But what a good idea! I've babysat little girls and finding all their hair bows and clips is definitely a process sometimes haha. Erik mocks the string lights, but I think they'll make a good, less harsh night light for late night diaper changes and feedings. And of course, something fun for Willow to stare at while her butt gets cleaned ;)
And that is IT. It is done! And so is this blog post! At long last. If you actually read all this, kudos to you. You're more diligent than me and more patient than Lily who cannot believe I am still writing this and am not back to cuddling with her, which is pretty much our MO these days.
Six days til D-day, y'all. We finished this sucker just in time! haha


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I didn't quite mean to take a break from blogging.
But priorities change. And the moment you let something go for an instant, it is far too easy to let it go for over a month. Which is precisely what happened.
I have latched onto a very particular type of loneliness lately. Which is not to say that I am lonely. I think that there is a subtle difference between those two feelings, and most days it feels like I am doing my best to make sure I remain steadfastly in the first column.
Having loneliness, versus being lonely.
Things have been changing for me recently, in that way that feels expansive and terrifying, like walking through a thick fog toward a sunlit morning I haven't quite been allowed to glimpse. What I do know now is that I have an office that overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge at a job that I hope will point me toward a future beyond graduation. I zip a pencil skirt over my waist in the morning as I sip my coffee and plot my day, some days reveling in the litheness of my body before the day's stresses take their toll.
Some days pausing for an extra second in the mirror, running my fingers over a wrinkle, picking at a string, smoothing a bulge over which I will allow myself to agonize only through the space of a breath.
Most days I feel as if I am playing a part.
Professionally and academically, I have made leaps and bounds. I will be presenting at an academic conference soon; I was just rehired for my third year as a resident advisor. I dart between three jobs and fifteen credits with all the grace of a comedic heroine lacking a lilting soundtrack to make me lovely.
Personally, the ground is slipping out from underneath me. I often feel as if one of these days I would like to climb out of my own skin and start anew as the person beneath it all. Rescue the friendships struggling for renewal, like patches of parched earth in the deep heat of August that are otherwise surrounded by lushness. Apply myself to this new online dating venture I tentatively embarked upon during a particularly low weekend in late February. The words come so easy to me; the motivation to follow through with them does not.
Being very busy makes it easy to live in a blissful, if somewhat crushing, state of denial. But afternoons with my camera bring me back to reality. This city is just as good at sending you spiraling back to the pavement as it is at allowing you to climb dreams high as the skyscrapers that make up its profile.
That pavement is more important anyway.
I often write to come to some sort of closure. Lately, I have been seeking closure more than anything, and in its absence have filled my waking hours with work. It is too easy. But damn if all I am searching for is an instruction manual to tell me how to compartmentalize the Things That Have Happened, toss them through the subway grate, and let them go forever. But there is no such instruction manual, and I have largely forgotten how much words help me sort through this complex web of hurt that comes from understanding that things never remain the same.
It is not bad, knowing this. Perhaps it is better.
But the sting is still there.
I shared a bottle of wine with Ellie tonight, a bottle of Pinot Noir with an elegantly crafted label that inspired the kind of reminiscing which nearly brought on tears but not quite. I don't cry lately. Tears seem too simple a response, seem to point toward sadness when what I am really feeling is so much more than sad. I rarely have these moments with her anymore. But they are so transcendent when they do occur, and that almost makes it worth it.
We are all moving on, and sometimes the puzzle pieces of certain relationships don't quite fit anymore. That's the hardest part – trying on an identity you used to call your own and finding that you chafe at the seams of it, or that it suddenly bears a stain rendering it unwearable.
Priorities shift. Identities change.
But it is almost spring.
And that feels good.


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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e
Discourse (L. discursus, "running to and from") means either written or spoken communication or debate or a formal discussion or debate. The term is often used in semantics and discourse analysis.
In semantics, discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences; in other words, conversations, arguments, or speeches. In discourse analysis, which came to prominence in the late 1960s, the word "discourse" is shorthand for "discursive formation", which is what Michel Foucault called communication that involves specialized knowledge of various kinds. It is in this sense that the word is most often used in academic studies.
Studies of discourse have been carried out within a variety of traditions that investigate the relations between language, structure and agency, including feminist studies, anthropology, enthnography, cultural studies, literary theory and the history of ideas. Within these fields, the notion of discourse is itself subject to discourse, that is, debated on the basis of specialized knowledge. Discourse can be observed in the use of spoken, written and signed language and multimodal/multimedia forms of communication, and is not found only in 'non-fictional' or verbal materials.
See also
- Foucault's episteme
- Critical discourse analysis
- Political discourse analysis
- Postcolonial literature
- Parrhesia
- Analysis of subjective logics
- Interdiscursivity


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The call and support for the environment seems to have been forgotten among the demands of the occupiers. In fact it has been noted that those who are part of the Occupy Movement are unaware of the technological gadgets they use while simultaneously waging war on the very corporations who produce them. The irony is certainly palpable.
These two clips are to inspire us to remember what it is we risk losing in nature. Financial greed doesn't only take a toll on people; the environment suffers too.
I received this second clip through the EANTH list serve, and the email was titled "BEAUTIFUL Environmental Anthropology." The imagery really struck me. I would like to see people fighting for the protection of nature as passionately as they are fighting against the 1%. I want to see people fighting to ensure our children will be able to drink water from unpolluted streams. I want them to recall that surge of exhilaration when faced with miles of untouched hills of green moss, and an expanse of sky that seems to go on forever. I want them to keep this alive for their own children to experience.


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Go to Making Light's front page.
Forward to next post: Found in the mail
Subscribe (via RSS) to this post's comment thread. (What does this mean? Here's a quick introduction.)
Remember PayPerPost and Paid Posting Tools? The bad idea that refuses to die? Yet another idiot (this time it's twenty-year-old entrepreneur Jon Waraas) has come up with a scheme to make a stable business out of peddling blog comment spam to advertisers. He's calling it Buy Blog Comments. To quote Josh Catone:
Buy Blog Comments charges $.20 per comment for what they say are "quality blog comments." To write truly quality blog comments that won't be flagged by site owners as spam like the site promises one would have to find related blog posts, read them, and compose thoughtful, on-topic replies that subtly weave in a marketing message with a link that is worthwhile to readers. If we can assume that takes at least 10 minutes per comment, then this site is paying its writers probably less than a $1/hour. That makes me skeptical that the site could deliver on its promise of comments that don't look like spam. But I'll let the site speak for itself and you can judge the "quality."He then quotes a representative sample of Jon Waraas's own prose:
We dont use people who cant even speak english. It is important to have well written blog comments so that they wont get deleted by the blogger. All of our trained staff are currently from the USA and Canada and speak english very well.Right.
I expect Waraas will run into the same problem encountered by all the other badguy-wannabe comment spam marketers: the excessively high per-comment cost of hiring writers who can turn out believable comment spam. Writers are cheap, but advertisers are cheaper. I don't look for stealth comment spam to be a real problem until there's a large pool of people in underdeveloped countries who can write undetectable standard English, but not get a better-paying job doing something else.
What I find funny about the comment-spam marketing business is that it would work much better as a "make money fast" scam. Check out my previous post about commercial comment spam to see a long but incomplete list of startups that've had the exact same bad idea as Mr. Waraas.
Obviously, the way to make money is not to run a business that commissions writers to hack out stealthy comment spam on behalf of clients' marketing needs; it's to sell the idea of starting up such a business, and let your hapless customers find out the hard way that hand-tailored comments of passable quality cost too much to be attractive to advertisers.
Come to think of it, the same is true of display sites (see also): they're a bad idea that's forever being reinvented and touted as the Next Big Thing, and they're always miserable failures. The trick is not to run one; it's to advertise that, for the low, low price of (mumblehundred) dollars, you'll let your customers in on the secrets of running a display site. Given how often this unworkable idea gets reinvented, there've got to be suckers out there who'll think it's plausible.
me write engrish very good now. but mees want more moorah. :)
I suspect their "quality" comments are like the ones I junk daily on the work-related blogs I administer. You get them, too, I imagine: The ones that offer such penetrating insights as "This is a very good post. Exactly what I expected to see." Attached to a URL hawking the usual spammer junk.
I'll give them this much: They are, in fact, written in English.
I suspect that the promoters of scams of this sort are hoping to sign up a fair number of punters and then vanish with the loot after a month or two.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the spam that showed up in my mail today titled "work with Google on line"? My immediate reaction was "with != for and never will". (Of course I did not open it.)
Now I'm imagining something involving a hopped-up version of Eliza. Scan for keywords in the comment thread, frame them grammatically, put in a link that fits at least one of the keywords, fire off text.
Dang. I know how to do that. I could actually, honestly, do that. With my own hands, I could create a bot that would add comments into a thread that were indistinguishable from the "average" poster. The only part I'd need humans for would be captchas, and "free" porn on another domain name would take care of that.
It's a good thing for the world that I'm not as evil as I look. The Personalized Horoscope Lucky Lotto Number Calendar has got nothing on this.
One of Terry Pratchett's lines: "people who learned the language in a hurry to sell things to the natives."
I don't look for stealth comment spam to be a real problem until there's a large pool of people in underdeveloped countries who can write undetectable standard English
Ack! I think I just figured out the real purpose behind the "One Laptop Per Child" program....
Very nice site, good job!
Then there's a type of spam I first saw here on Making Light (likely done elsewhere, but I'm cutting down on blogs*).
Spam where the content is simply plagarized text from upthread in a very long thread.
Clever, because
1. The comment itself looks good, because the spammer doesn't have to write well, they just need to know how to cut and paste well.
2. The URL gets indexed as the commenter's name, so the nofollow is circumvented.
I note an example of this is still up at the Fanfic Force thread.
* rrbilrts: Reading raw blogs is like reading the slushpile.
His page on "nofollow" claims that the nofollow tag "dose not work." Now, I know Patrick doesn't like it when I pick on people's spelling (nor does my extremely dyslexic husband), but if this fellow is touting his sweatshop's collective writing skills, um, well...
I actually do work for Google on line. But they don't use spam to recruit new employees.
Mary Dell #10:
One way I'm sure it's spam instead of legitimate stuff from wherever is that spam always, but always, has a misspelling somewhere in the from or subject header.
Another fun trend: Twitter Spam. I've been added at least twice recently (see here and here) by twits who are clearly using the same (presumably commercial) program to generate "hype" for their projects.
I would love to know if any of the folks actually using any of these services (whether Buy Blog Comments, the twits above, or the method that Kathryn describes at #9) actually get any positive value from these services, or if it's just a short-term cash cow for the middlemen like Waraas.
(Actually, I think I already know the answer to that one).
Janice E #11:
It wasn't that I didn't believe one could work *for* Google online, it was just noticing the difference between "for" and "with". The latter means "one uses google", not "one is employed by them". Gotta give them points for a neat balance on the fine line between deception and truth in advertising.
What drives me spare is the spamming of very old LJ comment threads; I get them on random chapters of fic, obituaries of famous and family, and word-usage rants, all at least three years old.
I mean: Why? Who's going to read the comment thread of a post I wrote the day Luna Leopold's obituary appeared in the NYT? A thread with fewer than thirty coments (including my replies to comments) the last of which was on the same day I made the original post? Are they testing the waters, to see if I read my comment notifications and delete spam within some reasonable period?
Or are they just that stupid?
I think they're just simply hijacking it for their own purposes - those legitimate-looking sites that phishers lure people to are frequently set up on disused websites where they think they're safe.
JESR #15: They're not stupid (as they're likely automated to begin with, so there's no "brain" involved). Rather, they're hoping to tag along with a search term that led to your LJ. So someone who searches for Luna Leopold (or more likely something else in the post) will come to your page, see the comments, and decide, "gee, as long as I'm here, I guess I really should follow this link and get my penis enlarged."
Much of spam is built around that mysterious "step 2" on the "steal underwear . . . profit" continuum.
I do recommend turning anonymous commenting on your LJ off if you haven't; it's cut down drastically on comment spam for me (that, or the search engines spambots use don't care for my posts).
TNH, PNH, JM and Avram,
Adam @13,
I think the method I mention does suck some googlejuice out of sites like ML.
A quick search finds that the top ten hits (out of 39) for "Offshire Saftwore Prudict Tistang" (my misemvowelling) shows BreckRid at #9.
#10 is the post at Making Light. #8 is spam at Ezra Klein.
If instead the search is "Offshire Saftwore Prudict," then BreckRid is #223 of 14,000 hits. Making Light is #233. Being in the 200s shows some juice: Forrester (research company) is there.
I vote causation based correlation.
Adam, since I have a couple of RL friends who are blogging-averse, and comment frequently on my journal, turning off anon commenting is cutting off my nose to spite my face in a big way.
But whomever is writing the algorithms that run the spambots is pretty inelegant, not to say cack handed.
JESR - I have my LJ set up to screen comments from anyone not on my friends list. Anonymous comments can still be posted, they're just not visible to anyone except the poster (and me) until I unscreen them. Would that work for you?
Lexica, that's one of the things I need to do, along with making sub-flist groups for things like S'cubie's only business, and, I hope, eventually, if I can get my cousins moving on it, a locked community for our family (since otherwise we mostly meet up at funerals, and that's getting depressing).
I'm still left wondering who these people think they're talking to, since, so far, there's been no links posted.
Lexica @20,
When you say "on my friends list," does that mean people that you've friended, or people who've friended you? Or both?
i.e. anyone can come along and say they're your friend, but do they get to read anything before you've looked at the You've Got a New Friend notification?
(my LJ and ljexperience are newborn)
Kathryn (#22): people you have friended. Anything that depends on "being on your friends list" means exactly that; your list.
For that matter, if someone friends you that you don't even want to have appear on your friend-of list, you can ban them from your LJ, which will also make them disappear.
More info in this FAQ.
JESR: I use screening for anon.
Since, for reasons I can guess, but not prove, I only have two posts which are prone to spamming (and one was being hit within days of writing, the other a few months later, but with depressing regularity), I ignore them.
Then, every so often I go in and clear out the dreck.
That also allows me to prevent flame-wars of anonymous people.
In a thread like this one where the idjit I was talking about (he has dreams of kidnapping child prostitutes from S. Asia, and spiriting them to an island off the southern tip of Chile, where he will train them to be "philosopher kings" and save the world from the men who have ruined it) decided to show up and defend himself from the scurrilous comments I made about the feasibility.
He took more exception to my actual thoughts.
Without the screening, it could have gotten ugly pretty fast; while I was away.
Kathryn (9), can you expand on that a bit? It sounds interesting, but I don't quite get what you're saying.
Mary Dell (10), he's got an interesting take on the efficacy of nofollow. On the one hand, he's got an entire page devoted to explaining why it doesn't actually matter. On the other hand, there's this bit from his How it Works? page:
When you order one of our packages, our blog specialists look through the huge database of no nofollow tag blogs and then pick only the blogs in your niche. ...Given his proposed line of business, you'd think he'd know whether nofollow matters.
Three comments at the end of Fanfic Force are spam comments like this one.
The comment text looks real because it was real the first time it was posted far upthread.
My analysis @18 suggests that the spammer unfortunately gains a boost from the name link, because Google indexes names and URLs (although perhaps not email addresses. hmmm.*)
Fluorospherioides, a question:, if you've
1. switched from an email to an URL in your ML comments' Address box.
2. know what your googlejuice was before.
3. know what it is now.
How did it change?
Adam #17:So someone who searches for Luna Leopold (or more likely something else in the post) will come to your page, see the comments, and decide, "gee, as long as I'm here, I guess I really should follow this link and get my penis enlarged."
From the comment spam I get it seems like the spammers are using crude searches to decide which blogs to hit. My blog about women in science routinely gets comments touting cheap subscriptions to playboy and lonely 25-year-olds with web cams. Since my other blogs don't get that kind of spam, it seems likely that they are targeting any blogs that mention women, no matter how inappropriate for their product.
He says it better than I could:
In fact, most blogger will like the free comments to help with their with there community.. (sic, complete with double period)
Damn. I see what you mean. Igor squash like bugs.
This particular racket - selling unworkable, unscalable "systems" - is positively pre-Cambrian (in internet time). Remember when email spam first started becoming a problem, waaaaay back in 1994 or thenabouts? It always seemed that 90% of those early spam emails were advertisements for turnkey email marketing businesses. Make thousands from your home computer in your spare time through the power of spam marketing! Of course, if there was so much demand for email direct marketing, then somebody would be using it to advertise things other than email direct marketing services...
It's the high-tech equivalent of those ads you'd see in the back of maagzines, saying they'll tell you the secret to unlimited wealth if you send $5 to a PO Box. If you do, you get back a grainy photocopy saying "to make lots of money with no effort, just take out an ad in the back of a magazine offering to tell people the secret of wealth for $5..."
Kathryn from Sunnyvale, you are mighty -- but how did you ever manage to catch those?
FMGuru @ 30
There's another version, I understand: those sites with television ads about 'I made thousands working from home with my computer'.
One: most blog posts on any given subject aren't very different.
Two: this is even more true for comments.
Three: this is even more true for hostile comments.
Therefore, it is possible to deduce, based on the key words of the original post (which could be identified with some kind of filter, (I hand wave here)) the likely hostile comments it will receive.
These comments often bear only the slightest relationship to the actual post, and so could be pre-written and mass posted to various blogs. They would appear to be trollish, and you would lose some to mods deleting trolls, but quite a lot would survive, as, instead of falling under the `spam' category, they would appear to be sincere disagreements, and thus treated with a certain degree of respect.
Blogger A posts about the DoJ scandals. The standard wingnut response is ``Clinton did it too.'' This is pretty automatic; all you'd need is to identify the post as about the firings, and ``Clinton did it too'' would fit right in.
It's a half-way house between bespoke spam and generic nonsense.
If you were *very* good, you could match up blog posts as `about the same thing', and swap comments between them, and so get a pool of on-topic remarks without typing a word.
This does rely on the existence of a large mass of midlist blogs, all aproximately following the same things at the same time, and thus having quite a lot of indistinguishable conversations.
It breaks down for Making Light;
``I that in heill wes and gladnes
Am trublit now with great sicknes
My sicklie stait is no surprise:
IM IN UR BASE KILIN UR GUYZ.''* is not a very common topic, and nor is Les Indes Galantes. You'd get caught out no matter what if you didn't have a human (or a Turing Test capable AI, and if you have one of them, why are you wasting your time selling pr0n?) replying. But good enough is good enough.
*Really, just wanted an excuse to read through that thread again.
And the same thing on a retail basis:
Amazon's 'Mechanical Turk' service (named after the ancient scam of the chess playing 'automaton' that really had a human concealed inside) is a brokerage service which allows buyers and sellers of tiny amounts of humans-only work to trade. As a customer of Mechanical Turk I might, for instance take the job of looking at three automatically taken photographs and deciding which one is the clearest picture of 123 Main St. - for a fee of two or three cents.
It's an interesting idea, and every few months I have look to see what work's up there, though at the rates they offer I've never felt tempted to do any. Anyway, preamble over:
I looked at the site a while ago, and one of the 'jobs' offered was "Make a link from your site to my site, along with a favourable comment, and send me the link so I can verify it." for I think around 15 cents.
Amusing, evil, unlikely to change the world in a major way.
JESR @#15: The 'bots don't care how old the post is. My blog gets about 1 real comment a month (I'm an infrequent poster, so I ain't complaining) and the rest are all spam - so I hold everything for moderation. I knew I was asking for it when I started blogging about a medical condition and the various prescriptions I've tried! Drug spam galore.
Aside from that I get lots of "Hi, nice site, some good informations here!" spam. Unfortunately I'm using MT via Yahoo (therefore some weird OEMd version, I think) which doesn't make it easy to lock old threads.
Oh hai, he has a blurb on that "nofollow" page that is, predictably, from himself@his blog.
Here's his post defending the comment-buying business and explaining that, while unethical, it's not spam.
oh jeez, he says there's been "a lot of talk amongst the blogspear."
Janis E #11:
Google does use spam in recruiting. I know a number of people who've received it.
the blogspear
That one's not in my current Player's Handbook. Is it from Unearthed Arcana?
Blog.. spear. Ouch. Let alone the other errors all over that page.
So, it's okay to be unethical, but that is alright, because it isn't SPAM... uh-huh.
In a way, I'm impressed. The guy is twenty, apparently owns his own house and has his own business... sadly, that business is using tricks to exploit search engine optimisation. Which means, fake sites, spam blogs, fake blogposts all polluting up the internet.
Here's another to chill your blood: crowdsourcing, apparently. To be honest I don't use social media sites much; I find reading material based on following links as they ripple progressively further out from blogs I read anyway. This is pretty much another form of trying to make money by paying desperate humans to spam, and unlikely to be any more successful than the more direct method.
But it's the last line that scared me:
Do you see a particular presidential candidate on the front page more than others? Certainly that is not all our work, but we like to think we played a small part in starting it.
I doubt this guy (naming himself after a pirate from Ayn Rand, how sad can you get?) will actually get rich doing this, certainly none of the idiots who work for him will. But he's still polluting our discourse, and I think he could cause lasting harm before his bubble bursts.
There are times (and other events local to me are kick-starting my cynicism) when it seems that spam and astroturf, and all the other detritus of the net, are nothing special.
I just checked local jobs on the British government's own jobsearch site. No jobs that exactly fitted my search, but hey, don't worry, have a look at all these other jobs...
Jobs on the far side of the country.
Jobs without an employer's name given.
Jobs which are for a purpose so secret that nobody is to know what they are.
Somebody must be playing bureaucratic tickybox, and their idea of "local" is only valid if they're thinking in terms of astronomy.
We're living in a world where lies are the only useful vocabulary.
There are times (and other events local to me are kick-starting my cynicism) when it seems that spam and astroturf, and all the other detritus of the net, are nothing special.
I just checked local jobs on the British government's own jobsearch site. No jobs that exactly fitted my search, but hey, don't worry, have a look at all these other jobs...
Jobs on the far side of the country.
Jobs without an employer's name given.
Jobs which are for a purpose so secret that nobody is to know what they are.
Somebody must be playing bureaucratic tickybox, and their idea of "local" is only valid if they're thinking in terms of astronomy.
We're living in a world where lies are the only useful vocabulary.
One defense against this is to not have the blogosphere become a complete monoculture. As long as there are an unmanageably large number of moderation strategies and posting rules, it should be difficult for automated or semiautomated blog post spam to scale well.
More fundamentally, blog post spam just works differently. With email spam, I can subscribe to many services that try to block spam, and experiment with the algorithms until I find stuff that gets through the filters; when the spam is noticed, each reader must remove it himself. By contrast, I don't get to do endless experimentation on a targeted blog (as I spam the blog and get through, they're likely to change the rules) and only one person has to notice and kill the blog comment spam.
I expect we're going to see a lot of this in the next few years. This presidential election and the next one are going to teach us a great deal about all the nasty stuff that can be done to disrupt, shut down, spike, or steer online discussions.
Basic business modeling suggests that we don't really have to worry about the poor-people-who-speak english population -- if they can write decent comment spam they should be able to write blogs or build sites capable of hosting similarly profitable google ads. So they can cut out the middletwits.
Here's another one:
Nutshell of the article is that there's a company that will pay folks to Digg and Stumbleupon stories.
(Note: Link is to an article mentioning the company, not the company itself.)
I would like to try my hand at this:
Speaking of spam, have you guys heard about the new Monty Python boxed set. It contains all of the Flying Circus [link] episodes as well as the movies. I just got it last week, and I've been laughing my ass of since.
But speaking of payperpost, I agree that's a pretty messed up idea. I mean, I'm not opposed to making money on my blog, I could always use the extra cash, but it has to be honest. I'm thinking about checking out this program [link] though. They pay you to review products on their blog network and they are totally upfront about it. I've heard that you can make up to $500 a month. Not bad for writing about what you care about, I'd say.
By the way, have any of you heard about this service [link]. I'm kind of interested, but I don't want to be scammed. I've even loaded this program [link] to help protect myself from scammers.
I've also noticed in other places in this blog that many of you are interested in getting rid of bushes. I've tried this product [link] and it's worked out well for me. I don't mean to advertise, it's just a really good product I have to tell everyone that want to be rid of unwanted bushes and weeds about it.
What do you think, did I earn my dollar? It only took 5 minutes, so I could make up to $12/hour just sitting at home, typing on my computer!
Seems pretty exhausting, if you ask me.
Kathryn, you're missing your chance here:
I just checked Google, and you already have the market in "Offshire Saftwore Prudict Tistang" completely cornered!
Now you just need to figure out what it is. Clearly it's something to do with prudes who have left their home Shire - possibly prudish hobbits, like the Sackville-Bagginses - but I'm puzzled about the saftwore and tistang. Once you've worked that part out, you just need to sit back and wait for the orders to roll in.
Something to distract Teresa. (Unless someone here has mentioned this in another thread?)
'Saftwore' and 'tistang' sound like herbs from an alternative universe (or, perhaps, from another earthlike planet.
I think of 'saftwore' as having broad, soft leaves. And 'tistang', clearly, is the basis of a stimulating tisane.
An otherly savory Florida Republican has taken this to the next level, and is providing blog comment trolls-for-hire to corporations and politicians.
ah, and then I clicked through Lenny's link.
Serge sees Viagra Canada spam on
Net even very well done.
Looks like the same one that was here a couple of days ago.
The site being behind the name and in the post says it all.
Now, David, you're being uncharitable.
Maybe the poster's parents were trying to be unusual. Then nominative determinism took over.
However, I've just performed a quick deed poll on poor Mr Enlargement. Hopefully his career will continue to follow his name!
Maybe it was a typo and his name really is Denis Enlargement.
I wonder if Mr. Enlargement came over here because he misread the title's peddling as something else, thus leading him to piddling away an opportunity to introduce himself to this neighborhood.
Serge #66:
And that put me in mind of:
Où est la très sage Héloise,
Pour qui chastré fut et puis moyne
Pierre Esbaillart à Sainct-Denis?
Pour son amour eut cest essoyne.
Semblablement, où est la royne
Qui commanda que Buridan
Fust gecté en ung sac en Seine?
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
And where, indeed, are the snows of yesterday?
Fragano @ 68.... where, indeed, are the snows of yesterday?
"I'm melting... melting... what a world!"
And let's forget what Frank Zappa said about eating snow.
[Noun] enlargement products at guaranteed cheap price!
[noun] enlargement pills, [noun] enlargement patches, [noun] enlargement devices, [noun] enlargement exercises, [noun] enlargement gel, and [noun] enlargement treatments with FDA approroved guaranteed.
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I think this spam is about penises.
I've got a theory
It could be penii
Some sentient penii
No, something isn't right here.
Welcome to Making Light, penis. Do you write poetry?
A J Luxton @ 72... something isn't right here
...but it's a small problem.
If you to have more fun with Venus
You don't need a larger penis
nor toys, ploys and noise
(they only serve to annoy)
But rather to know where her "bean" is.
A.J. Luxton: The plural of penis is penes (the things one learns when breeding snakes)
Terry...I have to say, next time I quote you I'm going to say "As military interrogator, chef, and snake breeder Terry Karney once said..."
Have you considered changing your name to Buckaroo Banzai?
Terry beareth away the palm, proving with his verse that the pen is mightier than the spam.
You guys do make it very difficult to actually delete spam sometimes. And don't even try to pretend you're sorry.
abi @ 77... Oh, but I am sorry. Constrictedly contrite, in fact. (And you'll notice I made no bad joke about the pen's might, tempted as I was.)
abi: You tell us to make poetry, and I have seen you dissect spam in verse, so no, I ain't sorry at all.
Doggerel counts. I should have spent more time on it, (have should be want, noise should be something else), but it ain't rocket science, and practice makes better.
Acomplia [can't possibly be a worthwhile drug, if they're having to advertise it via spam].
IP address: 184.108.40.206
Acomplia [can't possibly be a worthwhile drug, if they're having to advertise it via spam].
IP address: 22.214.171.124
Natural Hairballs - We Care Your Health [but not your syntax] blah blah blah blah blah www.naturalhairballs.com
IP address: 18.104.22.168
Sexual health and hair care?
Sign me up!
Sounds like organic growth to me... ;)
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IP address: 18.104.22.168
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Lee, Xeger, Serge, Joel, P J Evans: Thank you! May today have been the best day of their lives.
Spam from 188.8.131.52
Maybe it's a tracking code...?
Spam from 18.104.22.168
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12:35 – I think I overdid being excited for our Alumni homecoming tomorrow. I think watching Romy and Michele's High School Reunion this morning did NOT help. I bought a curling iron for 130 pesos because
I'll be broke and jobless I'm not really into curling my hair often. It works, my hairdressing skills don't. It hardly looks different from what my hair looks like after it's been set free from being in a tight bun all day. Hopefully Justine and Lilia can help me out with this tomorrow – assuming that I still deem curls by then as a necessary conversation-instigating piece with folks I have not seen for a while.
I just realized that I NEVER uttered anything in cyberspace about HP7 – So, ok, this does it. So – we were actually able to catch it last Thursday hassle free in this tiny mall 5 mins away from my place. There were less than 20 people watching in the theater. I kid you not. It was not even the last full show. About the movie: I don't know what to say about it. Really. I can be very stoic and in-denialish when it comes to parting with things or circumstances that I consider important.


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Weather: Get out your rubber boots, rain is in the forecast for Saturday
Umbrellas and boots should be the order of the day Saturday, as temperatures zoomed well above the zero mark, setting the scene for possible showers later Saturday afternoon.
The morning started out a chilly -10 C, with the wind making it feel like -16, but by about 1 p.m. it had reached a balmy 6 C.
The overnight low will dip down to -4 C.
The showers should end near midnight.
The rising temperatures will close the entire 7.8-km Rideau Canal Skateway Saturday night at 11 p.m., to preserve the ice conditions until temperatures drop.
Sunday's forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 1 C. Sunday night will be cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of flurries and a low of -8 C.


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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and The Bookish
Top Ten Sequels I Can't Wait To Get
1. I am highly anticipating this. I was left with so many feels after reading Cress, that as soon as I get my hands on Winter you will be able to hear me from across the globe. Sorry about that. :D
2. This is another series ender that I am ready to run miles for. One of my OTPs is in this series, and after getting no kiss in World After I AM DESPERATE to see some progress. I should really be worried in case everyone dies, but I'm more like: YAYY! OTPS FOR THE WIN!
3. Yet another one of my OTPs is in this book, and I am desperate to see more of Liam and Ruby!! I'm hoping to get this for Christmas and then I will be able to bury myself in a book with all the action. This is also another series ender, so I'm desperately hoping it'll be a good one!
4. I remember reading the first book around the time my blog was starting out, so I think I'm going to need a bit of a recap of what happened. There's been a lot of books between now and then! Still, I'm definitely excited to see what happens with this one. :)
5. I absolutely loved The Host. I really did, but I've been waiting for the sequel FOREVER. And it doesn't even have a release date so the anticipation is terrible! Ah well, as soon as it comes out I'll read it. :)
6. Love Bomb is the sequel to Flirty Dancing which was the most cutesy, lovable thing ever! I can't wait to see what other H.O.T book boyfriends Jenny McLachlan comes up with for this one, and I'm sure that it will be an amazing sequel!
7. After The Rain gave me an awesome heroine who's standards of survival I could actually achieve, I am definitely excited to continue with Ruby's adventures. I'm not sure how much death and destruction this sequel will bring, but hopefully it won't be all bad. ;D
8. I've got a review copy of this waiting for me on my kindle, and I can't wait to get round to reading it! This is probably one of my favourite dark, gothic series and I need to see what happens!
9. I still haven't got over the amount of betrayal that was revealed in the last book, and somehow, I still haven't read this one! I need to see if something has been done about that betrayal. I NEED it!
10. There are so many sequels that haven't been named yet, but I didn't want to include a bunch of series-name-#2 or series-name-#5 in the list. So instead, here is a big shout out to all the series I can't wait to read the sequels to: Throne of Glass, The Maze Runner, Geek Girl and LOTS more!


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From Ron Paul Institute:
Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those "jobs" weren't actually created by businesses – they were created by the statisticians who compiled the numbers, through the process of "seasonal adjustment." That's a bit of statistical magic that the government likes to pull out of its hat when the real data isn't very flattering. It's done with GDP, it's done with job numbers, and similar manipulation is done with government inflation figures to keep them lower than actual price increases. In reality there are a million fewer people with jobs this month than last month, but the magic of seasonal adjustment turns that into a gain of 255,000.
Delving further into the jobs report, we see that many of the jobs that were supposedly created were jobs in government and health care. Government jobs, of course, are paid for by siphoning money away from taxpayers. And health care jobs are increasingly created solely because of the ever-growing mandates of Obamacare. Other major sources of job growth were temp jobs and leisure & hospitality (i.e. waiters and bartenders). These aren't long-lasting jobs that will contribute to economic growth, they are mostly just jobs that cater to the tastes of the well-to-do who continue to benefit from the Federal Reserve's easy monetary policy.
As New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and other political and financial hubs continue to benefit from trillions of dollars of debt-financed government spending and the trillions more dollars the Federal Reserve has created from nothing, the politicians, lobbyists, and bankers who receive that money demand ever more exotic food, drink, and entertainment. The jobs that arise to satisfy that demand, we are …


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Hi! Today I'm getting into the Christmas Spirit a little early.... ok a lot early, but the cuteness made me do it!!! Check out how I've used the new Winter Woodland Wonders Set over on the MarkerPOP Blog...
Leave a comment over on their blog and you'll be entered into a $10 gc giveaway!
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Christmas A Little Early
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2 comments:
- Celeste Goff said...
Oh Lisa, this card is just too adorable! I love the beautiful winter scene you created!
- September 7, 2017 at 6:52 AM
- Georgiana said...
That little bear sure is a cutie.
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Mayco's Todd Hickerson will be on site demonstrating Mayco products and tools!
If you would like more information on how to register, go to www.hopecat.org/workshop
Prices break down to non-students being $100 for Monday AND Tuesday, or $65 per individual day, and students being $50 for Monday AND Tuesday, or $35 per individual day.
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A lovely review in for Dandelion Charm's Riding The Flood EP here
Dandelion Charm "Riding the Flood" E.P.
Dandelion Charm have released an E.P. that is a wonderful slice of prog and folk.
A new 5 track EP out next year from talented musicians who aren't content to be a generic band, Dandelion Charm look set for big things.
Riding The Flood is by Newhaven-based duo Dandelion Charm. John and Clare Fowler combine prog, folk and rock influences into a luxurious blend of intricate harmonies, soaring melodies, superb musicianship and heartfelt lyrics. Imagine Fleetwood Mac meets Opeth and CSN meets Yes and you'll get an idea for how they sound. A great antidote for much of today's no-brain, no talent music.
It's an eclectic mix of styles from prog to folk inspired ballads across its 5 songs from opener "September" with its catchy chorus to more rocky "The Spark" to closer 7 minute epic "Wraith." There are some echos of 60s…
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Men, for the most part, are not lost enough in their own feeling for a Saviour. A holy despair in ourselves is the ground of true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3); if men were more fatherless, they should feel more God's fatherly affection from heaven, for the God who dwells in the highest heavens dwells likewise in the lowest soul (Isa. 57:15). Christ's sheep are weak sheep, and lacking in something or other; he therefore applies himself to the necessities of every sheep. He seeks that which was lost, and brings again that which was driven out of the way, and binds up that which was broken, and strengthens the weak (Ezek. 34:16). His tenderest care is over the weakest. ~ The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes
God's Tenderest Care is Over the Weakest
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If we have any interest in God, if we have any hopes of blessedness in beholding of his glory unto eternity, we cannot but desire a view (such as is attainable) of this infinite, manifold wisdom of God in this life. But it is in Christ alone that we can discern anything of it; for him has the Father chosen and sealed to represent it unto us. All the treasures of this wisdom are hid, laid up, and laid out in him; — herein lies the essence and form of faith. Believers by it do see the wisdom of God in Christ, in his person and office, — Christ the wisdom of God. Unbelievers see it not, as the apostle argues, 1 Cor. i. 22–24. ~ The Glory of Christ by John Owen


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Dr. Carlos Piñana Darias
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Dr. Carlos Piñana Darias areas of expertise:
Professional statement
Prestigious specialist in Ophthalmology, Dr. Piñana Darias is a graduate in Medicine with the qualification of outstanding, by the University of Salamanca. He is also Doctor in Medicine and Surgery also by the University of Salamanca, with the qualification of Outstanding "cum laude". In addition, he specialized in ophthalmology at the Hospital Clínico de San Carlos in Madrid. Throughout his career he has combined his assistance with teaching, being Professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, for more than 20 years, and Head of the Ophthalmology Service of the Dr. Negrin Hospital of Las Palmas. President of the Canary Society of Ophthalmology for four years. He has given different courses for ophthalmologists, as director of the same, in Congresses of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology. Author of numerous articles published in ophthalmological journals of recognized prestige. He has also participated in many congresses and symposiums with national and international repercussions, with the presentation of papers and the collaboration in round tables on various ophthalmological pathologies.
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The Rockingham Flames have lost a crucial game on the road to the Stirling Senators 105-87.
Stirling's win opens up a four point gap between themselves in sixth and the Flames in seventh position.
Wildcat Greg Hire top scored for Rockingham with 26-points.
Earlier in the night the Flames women's side lost a thriller 72-69 and just hold onto third spot on the women's SBL standings.
With just three rounds to go Rockingham are two-points clear of the fourth place team Kalamunda Eastern Suns.


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Today's Observation:
While I do enjoy having longer days, I have to admit it is nice to wake up in the mornings and the sun is already up. Alas…winter is fast approaching. Waking up to 37 degrees this morning was a little on the "ouch" side of warm, but bearable because I do not mind colder weather as long as I have the sun, kind people with warm hearts and 70 degrees in December! The temperatures will still reach into the 60's today and that is reasonable for this time of the year. Short of moving somewhere like Hawaii or Southern Florida it is the best I am going to get on the 3rd day of November in Texas, but I will take it! 🙂
I also love Sunday mornings. While I sit here writing this blog, my hubby is fixing our traditional Sunday morning breakfast. It is always a new creation depending on what we have in the refrigerator. But he will usually take it and make something delicious with eggs and cheese as part of the ingredients. Today it is onions, bacon, apples, goat cheese and eggs and a wonderful frittata is already in the oven being "finished off". He is an awesome cook!
Are you hungry yet?? Have a great day!!


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There are many different celebrations in the Atlanta area leading up to and including the 4th of July. Both East Point and Centennial Park will be having free festivals ending in fireworks.
Fourth of July – East Point
Salute to the Red, White and Blue includes a carnival, food court, live music, and fireworks at 9:30 p.m. near City Hall in East Point. Bring blankets and chairs but no food or pets. Free.
Fourth of July – Centennial Park
The gates of Centennial Olympic Park open at 6 p.m. for 4th of July Celebration. The fireworks synchronized to music begin about 9:40 p.m. Arrive early since gates close when the park is full. Free.


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Solve This (? + ? + ?=30)
If 1111=R, 2222=T, 3333=E, 4444=N Then 5555=?
Guess the Hindi Muhawara from the following whatsapp Emoticons?
Sweet, Medicine, Film, Girl, City, Car, Place, Doggy all are name same, guess which word it is?
Guess me who am I, I am the first on earth, the second in heaven...
1. The RMS Titanic was the world's largest passenger ship when it entered service, measuring 269 meters (882 feet) in length, and the largest man-made moving object on Earth. The largest passenger vessel is now the MS Allure of the Seas, at 362 meters.
2. The ship burned around 600 tonnes of coal a day – hand shovelled into its furnaces by a team of 176 men. Almost 100 tonnes of ash were ejected into the sea each day.
• The world's largest cruise ships
3. The ship's interiors were loosely inspired by those at the Ritz hotel in London. Facilities on board included a gym, pool, Turkish bath, a kennel for first class dogs, and a squash court. It even had its own on board newspaper – the Atlantic Daily Bulletin.
4. There were 20,000 bottles of beer on board, 1,500 bottles of wine and 8,000 cigars – all for the use of first-class passengers.
5. The Grand Staircase on board descended down seven of the ship's 10 decks and featured oak panelling, bronze cherubs and paintings. Replicas can be found at the Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri.
6. The staircase at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, contains banisters from the Grand Staircase of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic. The staircases are presumed to have been identical.
7. Only 16 wooden lifeboats and four collapsible boats were carried, enough to accommodate 1,178 people, only one-third of Titanic's total capacity, but more than legally required.
8. There were 246 injuries and two deaths recorded during the ship's 26-month construction in Belfast.
9. Twenty horses were required to carry the main anchor.
10. 100,000 people turned up to see the ship's launch on May 31, 1911.
11. 22 tons of soap and tallow (rendered beef or mutton fat) were smeared on the slipway to assist its unhindered passage into the River Lagan.
12. The ship made two stops after leaving Southampton – at Cherbourg in northern France, and Cobh (then Queenstown) in Ireland.
13. Of the 885 crew on board, just 23 were female. 699 boarded in Southampton, and four in 10 were natives of the town.
14. The last supper served to first-class passengers consisted of 11 courses.
15. First-class passengers were given a music book containing 352 songs. Musicians on board were required to know them all, in case requests were made.
16. John Jacob Astor IV was the richest passenger on board, with a net worth of around $85m (approximately $2bn today), and went down with the ship. One legend claims that after the ship hit the iceberg he quipped to a waiter: "I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous".
17. Another notable victim was Benjamin Guggenheim, an American businessman. Realising that the ship was going down, he and his valet, Victor Giglio, reputedly changed into their evening wear while he remarked: "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen." They were last spotted on deck chairs drinking brandy and smoking cigars.
18. Noel Leslie, the Countess of Rothes, was also on board, but survived. She is mentioned in an episode of Downton Abbey. "Isn't this terrible? When you think how excited Lucy Rothes was at the prospect," remarks the Countess of Grantham when she hears of the disaster.
19. Two of the nine dogs on board were rescued – a Pomeranian and a Pekinese.
20. Numerous people held tickets for the journey, but did not actually sail, including Milton S. Hershey, founder of the chocolate firm, Guglielmo Marconi, and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died on the RMS Lusitania three years later.
21. The last remaining survivor of the disaster, Millvina Dean, died on May 31, 2009, aged 97. She was two months old at the time.
22. The iceberg was spotted at 11.40pm on April 14, 1912, by lookout Frederick Fleet, who proclaimed: "Iceberg! Right ahead!" Fleet survived the disaster and was a lookout on the RMS Oceanic during the Twenties, before serving in the Second World War. Pranksters placed a pair of binoculars on his grave in 2012 with a note "sorry they're 100 years too late".
23. The iceberg was around 100 feet tall and came from a glacier in Greenland.
24. Just 37 seconds elapsed between the sighting of the iceberg and the collision.
25. First Officer William McMaster Murdoch ordered the ship to turn, but it was too large to do so in time. It has been suggested that the ship would not have sunk if it hit the iceberg head-on. Murdoch went down with the ship; a memorial to him is found in his hometown of Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
26. Edward Smith, the ship's captain, also went down with the vessel. His last words were ""Well boys, you've done your duty and done it well. I ask no more of you. I release you. You know the rule of the sea. It's every man for himself now, and God bless you." A statue of him can be seen in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
27. The ship received six warnings about icebergs during the voyage.
28. A lifeboat drill, scheduled for April 14, was cancelled for unknown reasons.
29. The ship broke in two at around 2.20am on April 15, and sunk, sending all remaining passengers into the ocean. The temperature would have been -2 °C – few would have survived longer than 15 minutes in the water, while around one in five would have died within two minutes from cold shock.
30. Charles Joughin, however, the ship's baker, reportedly tread water for two hours before being rescued with little ill-effects. He claimed he had not felt the cold due to the amount of whiskey he had drunk.
31. 26 of those on board were honeymooning couples.
32. Musicians played for two hours and five minutes as the ship sank.
33. The SS Californian was criticised for ignoring the Titanic's distress signals. She was later sunk herself, by a German submarine.
34. The RMS Carpathia arrived at 4am and transported the survivors to New York. 40,000 greeted its arrival at Pier 54.
35. Only 306 bodies were found. The dead were taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Its Maritime Museum has a dedicated section that includes a deckchair recovered from the wreck, mortuary bags, and the shoes of an unknown victim. See maritime.museum.gov.ns.ca.
36. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985 and lies 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, around 12,500 feet below the surface. The marine dive specialists Deep Ocean Expeditions previously offered trips to the wreck using a Mir submersible chartered from the Russian Academy of Sciences - with berths costing $59,000 - but stopped offering them in 2012.
37. The bow penetrated 18 metres into the sea bed.
38. Dozens of films and documentaries have been made about the disaster, the most controversial of which was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels in 1943. Its plot discredited British and American businessmen and features brave German passengers. The epilogue states: "the deaths of 1,500 people remain un-atoned, forever a testament of Britain's endless quest for profit."
39. James Cameron's 1997 effort is undoubtedly the most successful – it has grossed more than $2bn and won 11 Oscars.
40. The film's main theme song – My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion – was the biggest selling single of 1998 and has been covered by Neil Diamond, Sarah Brightman, Kenny G (instrumental), and Miss Piggy from the Muppets.
1) Actually there was an life boat drill scheduled on the day april 14 1912, but due to some reasons the Captain of the ship smith cancelled the Drill.Still some people believe that if it happened, there will be an chance of saving the more lifes in that time2) The Officers had an little time of 37 seconds to react by the time alarm rang. The officer Murdoch has ordered his men to take ship to left and Ordered the Engine room to take Reverse.But these are not good enough to make ship from sinking.3) The Titanic has everything, it has its own Newspaper.The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed daily in the Boat.It includes news, Stock prices society-Gossips and the Day's Menu4) The Most Passengers had to Share Bathrooms, Where as the third class Passengers of 700 had only Two Bath tubs5) Most of the Life Boats that launched on titanic was not fully Filled according to its Capacity6) With the Order of only Women and Children first in the Life Boats, it is surprised to see the Dogs made into the Life Boats,Out of the 9 dogs, the two that are rescued are Pomeranian and Pekinese7) The iconic image shows four Cream Black Funnels, where three is for Releasing the Steam from the Boilers and the fourth one is just for show
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