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GEOGRAPHIC NOTES PEARL AND TURTLE FARMS IN JAPAN O NE of the most interesting ad dresses before the recent Con gress of Arts and Sciences was made by Prof. K. Mitsukuri, of the University of Tokyo, on "'TheCultivation of Ma rine and Fresh Water Animals in Ja pan." The time is fast approaching when the increase of population on the earth and the question of food supply, which must arise as a consequence, will compel us to pay most serious attention to the utilization for this purpose of what has been termed the "watery waste."' For man to overfish and then to wait for the bounty of nature to replenish, or, failing that, to seek new fishing grounds, is an act to be put in the same category with the doings of nomadic people wandering from place to place in search of pasturage. America has fore seen this and is ahead of other nations with her efficient fish commission. Nor is it from the utilitarian point only that more attention is likely to be paid in future to the cultivation of aquatic or ganisms. We have been apt to forget that animals are living entities and not simply a collection of dead tissues. But we are beginning to realize that animals must be studied living in order to arrive at the correct interpretation of many biological phenomena. The speaker described the methods of cultivation of various marine and fresh-water organisms practiced in Ja pan. He first described the successful cultivation of the snapping turtle, which takes in Japan the place occupied by the terrapin in American gastronomy. Tur tle farms in Tokyo and elsewhere are now able to raise tens of thousands of these luscious reptiles and to keep the supply constant. Methods and plans of turtle farms were described. The speaker next described the cultivation of the goldfish, which are wonderful, not only for their beauty, but are a source of endless surprises to the scien tist. Various breeds were described and their extraordinary peculiarities. The pearl-oyster farm was also de scribed. In 1890 the speaker suggested to a Mr Mikimoto the desirability of cultivating the pearl-oyster, and also pointed out the possibility of making the pearl-oyster produce pearls by giv ing artificial stimuli. The idea was taken up with enthusiasm, and the re sults are beyond expectations. Today the pearl-oyster farm, put on a commer cial basis, has millions of pearl-oysters living on the culture grounds, and is able to place annually a large crop of what has been termed " culture pearls " on the market. THE ZIEGLER POLAR EXPEDITION THE auxiliary steamer Frithjof, of the Ziegler Polar Expedition, in command of W. S. Champ, has returned to Norway after two unsuccessful at tempts to reach Franz Josef Land, owing to the almost unprecedented heaviness of the ice. Mr Champ saw no traces of Captain Fiala's party. The latter are amply supplied with provisions, etc.; so that no anxiety is felt on their being compelled to spend a second winter in the north. The Frithjof reached lati tude 79 degrees i i seconds, which is within 40 miles of Cape Flora. Mr Champ says in a letter to the National Geographic Society, which it will be remembered has a special representative with the expedition in the person of W. J. Peters, of the U. S. Geological Survey, who is second in command and director of the scientific work of the party : " In accordance with the plan of the expedition, Mr Fiala was to put down signals for us at this cape (Flora) on his northward voyage last year and again this past spring. It was also included in the plan to send down a light sled
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We are happy to be sharing a fun and interesting experience together with Gio and Joey, our two new volunteers from England and Australia, respectively.
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Lügenkriegsakademie: The Donald and Corey Lewandowski 1, United States Naval War on Trump College Prof. Tom Nichols and 'Tweeps' 0/
"The Russians aren't going to do a damned thing. The Russians not only will not go to war over Assad, they can't." - Tom Nichols, United States Naval War College Professor, "The realities of the coming Syria war", August 28, 2013. We would like to see every single academic invited to debate Nichols on the BBC or any other forum henceforth bringing up this quote immediately to remind the audience of Prof. Nichols' track record on Mideast and Russian affairs. - JWS
(Tom Nichols photo taken from Choices.edu, reproduced here without alteration for purposes of comment or criticism under Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law)
Rogue Money interview with former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, 03/28/2016
WARNING: The following post contains brutal sarcasm, psychological nudity, strong language, and the roasting of notorious Twitter blowhards with a 1,000 degree fact-fueled flamethrower. Reader discretion is advised.
Your Tax Dollars at 'Work':
Tom Nichols Knows What's Work, He Likes to Tweet #NeverTrump All Day
TomNichols is a professor at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, a five time Jeapardy! champion, and an enthusiastic fiftysomething Fallout first person shooter gamer. He's also one of the leading critics on social media, at least among those on the U.S. Department of Defense payroll, of Donald J. Trump and the billionaire real estate mogul's campaign for President of the United States.
Just like other Americans, Department of Defense personnel have the right to vote and to express their opinions -- so long as they're not doing it in uniform or on the government's time. However, Nichols tweets obsessively enough to make one wonder if he's not doing it from his U.S.-taxpayer funded computer and offices at the USNWC campus in Newport. When looking at the stream of insults and abuse Nichols spews almost daily at millions of Trump supporting taxpayers who pay his DoD salary -- including Nichols' enthusiastic endorsement of National Review cuckservative fanatic Kevin D. Williamson's 'arguments' that white working class American communities 'deserve to die' -- an observer could be forgiven for wondering when Nichols finds the time to actually teach. Or how the thin-skinned Tom Nichols handles tough questions from his military students in a real live classroom where unlike Twitter, there's no instant 'block' button to avoid #crimethink and criticism of his ideas.
Share a few thoughts with @RadioFreeTom, and he'll Block you.@20committee@email@example.com/NPeTPa2wZ0
— I Aver (@i_aver) March 14, 2016
@RadioFreeTom and Zombie-Like Followers on Twitter Are Part of a Troubling Trend:
Big Government is Paying Trolls Including Foreigners to Insult Trump Voters 24/7
When viewed from the perspective of alternative or new media, Nichols' trolling campaign against Trump, like the #TeamNSA Twitter warrior-ing of his ex-colleague John Schindler before him, fits in with the troubling pattern of the federal government directly propagandizing American citizens at taxpayer expense since the 2013 repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act. Even worse, when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine and the new Cold War underway, Americans are increasingly paying with their tax dollars to be insulted and berated online as 'Kremlin trolls' by foreigners who are likely Kiev or NATO employed social media warriors.
When the Russia Analyst for example, leaves a comment below articles in various venues such as YouTube written in clear native English speaker syntax questioning American foreign policy, we find our statement swarmed by trolls whose English is poor but whose timing suggests a an Eastern European time stamp, consistent with places like Kiev or NATO's 'Center for Information Excellence' in Riga. There are also armies of pro-Syrian jihadi trolls who may or may not be on Saudi Arabia or Doha, Qatar time.
Ironically, these trolls accuse us and any other American or European who challenges them, even without any hallmarks of 'Rusglish' or 'Ukro-glish' (like not knowing where to put the article 'the'), of being part of the Kremlin's dreaded St. Petersburg troll army.
The same goes for the #MH17 hash tag on Twitter, which is guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week by trolls who will furiously attack anyone who suggests the Malaysian Airliner was shot down by the Ukrainian military and this is why the US government will NEVER release any satellite photographs of the alleged Russian BUK that did it (see our post, "Lowdown Dirty Psyops, Part 2: With the Death of Late Empire Expertise, Three Letter Agencies Turn to Social Media Cult Leaders"). As @RadioFreeTom tweeted in recent days, every Trumpkin he encounters on Twitter is either stupid (including US Navy veterans who politely disagree with him) or a Russian troll pretending to be an American supporter of Donald Trump.
All true Trump-troll fighters shift their schedule to St Petersburg time.#NeverTrump
— Richard5832 (@richard5832) March 30, 2016
In the Twitter exchange below, Tom Nichols insults a U.S. Navy veteran. Nichols' bosses at the USNWC must be so proud, because 'academic freedom' = right to be a punk towards vets
If @RadioFreeTom is the best we can get to teach at @NavalWarCollege I fear for our nation.@misscherryjonespic.twitter.com/O4h5F1XFfQ
— Free Speech (@x05_org) April 14, 2016
Attention easily triggered @RadioFreeTom Twitter followers: posting the video above is NOT an endorsement of everything RamzPaul says, but we agree 100% with his point here: if God forbid, there's a real shooting war on Russia's doorstep that National Review and the neocons are so hot to get started, it ain't gonna be THEIR kids dying under fire from T90 tanks and Urugan MLRS cluster bomb rockets on the front lines...
Talking Turkey, NATO and Cuckservative 'Russia is Pure Evil' Foreign Policy
This is what the Russia Analyst referred to late last year as the 'trans-nationalization' of politics, whereby if Donald J. Trump questions the relevancy or future of NATO, the Alliance's employees increasingly meddle directly in American politics, previously a no-no for diplomats. and international bureaucrats who get paid by U.S. or EU taxpayers.
I mean, since when did budding neo-Ottoman Islamist ruled Turkey's air space start getting described as 'NATO airspace' Americans are sworn to defend, even if Erdogan is an ISIS and Al-Nusra sponsoring thug who shot down a Russian jet well inside Syrian airspace? When did NATO morph from an alliance of nominally sovereign nations focused on territorial defense of Western Europe to a transnational military empire, a Pax Americana commanded from Washington?
This is another example of the gulf between ordinary people on both sides of the Atlantic and their elites when it comes to foreign policy 'experts' like Tom Nichols would rather ignore or chalk up to the stupidity of the masses. In fact, during his advocacy for the U.S. bombing Syria following the Turkish-Saudi arranged false flag chemical attack near Damascus in August 2013, Tom Nichols wrote that President Obama should have basically ignored Congress and public opinion calling for the U.S. to stay out of yet another Mideast war.
"Give em' hell, Pat...."
2016: The Year Atlanticists Unmasked and Went Full Globalist in their #StopTrump Zeal
Attacks in taxpayer-funded media like RFE/RL on #Brexit campaigners or op-ed 'advice' that Brussels to ignore the will of Dutch voters who rejected an EU association agreement with Ukraine last week is another example of this pattern. Washington claims the EU brings with it democracy, accountability, and the rule of law in former parts of the Soviet Union like Ukraine and Moldova that need these things, but the EU itself remains a bureaucratic superstate whose 'European Parliament' is little more than a sideshow debating society while unelected, appointed commissioners make all the actual decisions.
It's for this reason, among many others, tha the EU is detested by millions of Europeans including British patriots like UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage. Nonetheless, we're hectored by the Anne Applebaums and Ben Nimmos of NATO and its affiliated think tank the Atlantic Council that the supposed alternative to the failing EU is 'a Europe dominated by Putin's Russia'. Now that this creeping globalism and imperialization of trans-Atlantic elites is so 'in your face' and supportive of population replacement levels of mass immigration in both Europe and North America, is it any wonder that 'a nationalist international' with heroes like Farage, Marie Le Pen, Viktor Orban, and Donald Trump has arisen to counter it?
"Get em' while they're hot."
LePen, Trump, Putin
Not the flagbearers you were expecting pic.twitter.com/s0FFU5kHuH
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) December 7, 2015
If the media falsely characterizes Trump and Putin at the hip simply because they exchanged some personal pleasantries (not all that different from those between Reagan and Gorbachev, or Nixon and Brezhnev) or because 'getting along with Putin' to avoid nuclear war with Russia is (gasp!) popular outside the Beltway bubble, is it any wonder that both the Donald and Putin will become anti-heroes to those who detest their governments and globalism across the former 'West'? To the point that EU and NATO paid trolls like those at the @EUvsDisinfo project spend a huge amount of time not attacking the Kremlin or Russian media, but Westerners who watch RT or read Sputnik International?
Did the U.S. government even bother attacking Americans who read Pravda or tuned in via shortwave to Radio Moscow during the Evil Empire days? Didn't we insist that as a free society we were the ones who had no need, unlike the Soviets, to jam signals or block media bureaucrats didn't control? But now you tell us RT and Sputnik are so heinous, compared to Radio Moscow, we've got to shut em' down, expel Russian or even British journalists from the Baltics, and censor speech critical of the U.S. government or NATO/EU online because freedumb?
@KevinNR@JPaulOsborne Yeah, but kevin that doesn't explain the race hatred. You said the deserve to die. That isn't analysis. That's fight.
— Owen Peacock (@owenlpeacock) March 17, 2016
Looks like @KevinNR blames Leftism for Detroit but blames Whitey for East Kentucky. So why the double standard? https://t.co/TcZ2NFHQeM
— College Boy (@EricJohnson1375) March 13, 2016
"Behold, the maturity and erudition of Tom Nichols' hero Kevin D. Williamson. The late WFB would be so proud, right Buckley avatar guy at @DemsRRealRacist?
"I DEMAND YOU DENOUNCE THE NEGROES!" https://t.co/SmKQSQIafe
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) March 13, 2016
If millions of Americans have started to hear the message of Kevin Williamsons loud and clear that their communities (but not Detroit) 'deserve to die' because they're too old, too white and too de-industrialized, is it any wonder the response is 'screw you cucks, I'm voting for Trump -- let the GOP burn if you cheat him out of the nomination' or 'if ya'll say Putin is the Antichrist, he must not be that bad of a guy -- since you lie about everything else".
When you get right down to it, lying is what we're talking about here. Which brings us to the heart of this post: Tom Nichols and his 'tweeps' lies to themselves and their supporters about Donald J. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, now painfully exposed by this week's events.
Everyone's Entitled to Their Own Opinions, But Not to Their Own (Made Up) Facts:
The #NeverTrump Crowd Lied About Michelle Fields and Supported Her Lies
Tom Nichols' brief Twitter-clash Wednesday with a Harvard Law school grad Trump supporter, A.J. Delgado, prompted by Russia's Top Gun-style 'circus stunt flyby' of a U.S. warship drew our attention...just hours before news broke that would appear to invalidate one of the central planks of Prof. Nichols, and his #NeverTrump 'tweeps' claims made over the last several weeks. That is, Politico reported Thursday evening that Donald Trump's campaign manager, 42-year-old Corey Lewandowski, will NOT face charges over an incident that allegedly took place on March 10.
Old and busted: Lewandowski assaulted Fields.
The new hotness: Lewandowski DEFAMED Fields by dismissing her absurd accusations in public.
— Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) April 14, 2016
On that day Lewandowski is alleged to have brutally grabbed then Breitbart reporter Michele Fields by her arm, throwing her to the ground to make way for Trumpand his Secret Service detail.
Politico of course, does its best to put a positive spin on this humiliation for the legion of #NeverTrump tweeters, neocons and Establishment hacks who insisted anyone who questioned Fields' story or her history of unsubstantiated allegations involving the NYPD during Occupy protests or Congressman Allen West was a misogynist or in the tank for Trump. But the facts are the facts, not only does Fields have no criminal case against Lewandwoski for battery, but multiple plaintiffs lawyers who know the Florida code have said any defamation lawsuit by Fields against Lewandowski for tweet-dismissing her sob story will get laughed out of court:
No charges! We exposed this hoax and saved an innocent man. Be proud. https://t.co/ybl0FeR4nupic.twitter.com/rqcejmD6Zm
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 13, 2016
Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes-nothing there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2016
If Prof. Nichols Jumped on the Fields Sob Story Bandwagon Out of Spite and Ideological Animus Toward Trump, What Else Is He Lying To Himself and YOU About?
@20committee@Ricky_Vaughn99@RadioFreeTom Hey Tom-Where is the video evidence from the many cameras in that room? pic.twitter.com/Cyc1RhpBl1
— Monticello Blair (@MonticelloBlair) March 10, 2016
That the footage in question shows Lewandowski reaching for someone NEAR where Fields was moving is not in dispute, but just about everything else in that throwaway line from Politico covering Establishment D.C.'s fat rear end is. The (Hillary Clinton-camp linked) Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg's announcement Thursday that he had no case against Lewandowski vindicates the 42-year-old and his defenders, who claim Fields just made the alleged battering up. Even if there was some sort of incidental contact in a scrum of people, Fields' critics argued the bruise on her arm was not consistent with where Lewandowski may have touched her.
The important thing to remember is that somehow, some way Michelle Fields is still the victim in all this. pic.twitter.com/GJk35KSBFl
— Conservative Pundit (@DemsRRealRacist) April 14, 2016
Mike Cernovich, a blogger and author, noted that the single white knight witness who came forward to substantiate Fields' allegation, Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, would've been questioned by defense attorneys as to why he ordered a WaPost photographer to destroy visual evidence of what happened immediately after the incident. The possibility of Ferris or Fields herself having to take the stand and having their story (including the staged 'Oh my God, he [Lewandowski] threw me down' audio recorded by Fields after the incident) torn to shreds under cross examination would deter any competent prosecutor from pursuing the case. Yes, even for a Democrat Party hack linked to the Clintons like Aronberg!
NEW VIDEO of incident between Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and reporter Michelle Fields. pic.twitter.com/M1zbtJzTDC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 14, 2016
Nonetheless, we aren't going to hold our breath that Tom Nichols or his 'tweep' the Rubio campaign-paid RINO operative Rick Wilson are going to tweet or speak the words, "I was wrong/jumped the gun about Lewandowski".
Why should they, when nobody in the respectable mainstream media challenges them on far more serious matters? Like Tom Nichols being spectacularly wrong in his prediction that Russia would not intervene to support Assad in Syria? When has @TheRickWilson been razzed on cable TV about his predictions that the Marco Rubio campaign was gonna win it all or about 'the thing' (aka #CruzSexScandal) involving Texas Sen. Lyin' Ted Cruz's alleged mistresses?
@exjon@TheRickWilson Sleazebag Rick Wilson on the cover of The American Cuckservative pic.twitter.com/ycSMxyQpJi
— Gerry Dolan (@dolan712) September 3, 2015
"You stay classy, Tom Nichols and tweep @TheRickWilson"
People write the damnedest things to try to wiggle out of an embarrassing error. https://t.co/jb86tziynb
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) April 16, 2016
"I know right Kevin? Especially you and your fanboys."
Much Higher Stakes Than Run of the Mill Campaign Trail Smears:
When an Incompetent Establishment Believing Its Own BS Wages 'Hybrid War'
No sir, they're going to go on pretending they didn't lie or support a lie, and double down. While Nichols' support of lies about Lewandowski may seem like a trivial point given the soap opera that is this presidential campaign, the stakes are much higher if we're talking about the legitimacy of stealing hundreds of delegates pledged to Donald Trump by the voters, and instead destroying the Republican Party for a generation at the upcoming Cleveland convention. For that matter, the stakes are much higher, even nuclear, if the woman that Nichols said he would vote for over Trump gets the Democratic nomination -- Hillary Rodham Clinton.
'@RadioFreeTom@dangainor@davidharsanyi best shot at survival is with Trump. if contested convention, Trump goes 3rd Party, GOP goes Whig
— Fed Up American (@bradley_reza) March 17, 2016
In that case, buying into one's own BS and guzzling what retired Army Col. Patrick Lang calls 'the Borg's' koolaid might result in a real war. Or at least, escalated hybrid war, of the type film director Oliver Stone recently warned about in a Huffington Post column explaining why he was supporting Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over warmongering neocon Hillary Clinton. In his column, Stone said he feared Hillary's election would mean escalated hybrid war, if not an actual shooting war with Russia.
Above: this is how Russia tells the U.S. Navy the USS Donald Cook is a hell of a long way from home, 70 miles from Russian soil, and if this were a shooting war with hypersonic or supersonic missiles...it's not gonna be fun.
In part 2 of our article on deception, neocon hackery, and .mil trolling on the taxpayers' time and dime at the U.S. Naval War College, we'll take a closer look at the lies Tom Nichols and his supporters tell themselves about Ukraine, Russia, and the brittleness of NATO and the European Union. For now though, we'd just like to say, the vile faceless minions™ of the lizard avatar wearing Trump trolls on Twitter were right about Corey Lewandowski and Michelle Fields. Tom Nichols the once respected PhD scholar of U.S. and Russian nuclear strategery, almost the entire mainstream lügenpresse and the totally cucked 'movement conservatives' were all wrong.
Again, if they lied to you about these small issues and threatened an innocent man's livelihood and freedom, what else are they lying to you about?
Face it Prof. Nichols, if hell's gonna freeze over before the CIA/National Reconaissance Office release their satellite photos of BUK missile launchers in Donbass on July 17, 2014, it's because they were UKRAINIAN manned by UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS.


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It's always a good sign when the people in power enact reasonable limits on that power, all by themselves. It shows that they have respect for voters and democracy.
That seems to the attitude in Rhode Island, where Representative William J. Murphy, a member of the Rhode Island House who is about to become Speaker, is working with four other leaders to limit the terms of legislative leaders. And they don't want to do it by gentleman's agreement or easily rescinded statute, either. They want a constitutional amendment.
Murphy says he does not want to serve the same decade-long stint as Speaker that his predecessor served. He believes that eight consecutive years as House Speaker or Senate President should be the limit. His goal is to "help restore the confidence of the people of Rhode Island in the legislature and its leadership."
Rhode Islanders have been critical of apparent abuse among legislative leaders in recent years which included an attempt to cover up allegations of abuse of power by a previous speaker.
Murphy says, "My most important priority as speaker will be to remove that siege and restore the confidence of the people of Rhode Island in the General Assembly and in its leaders. If I cannot accomplish that goal, I will consider my time as speaker of the House a failure.
"Term limits for the principal leader of each chamber is one of several legislative reform initiatives that I will be proposing."
Great start on a great idea. Next, how about term-limiting all the members of the Rhode Island Legislature?
This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.


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The Mummies
This particular exhibit began in 2004 when 20 human mummies were found in a vault at a museum in Germany. The mummy collection that had been purchased by the museum in 1917 from a private collector was thought to have been lost during World War II. The most interesting and touching part of the exhibit was a little 10 month old baby that was found in Peru. It is over 6,000 years old, more than 3,000 years older than King Tut. It is an example of a "natural" mummy. The most amazing part of seeing this little mummified baby was how closely he resembled my own little 10 month old. Most of the other mummies were dried out and looked like skin stretched over bone, but this little one still had his sweet baby chub on his little face, hands, and feet. His sweet little chubby hands were clenched into fists, and you could see his little toenails and his head full of hair. Even 6,000 years ago, I can imagine the devastation his parents must have felt to have lost this precious child. Through the various technologies of today, scientists were able to determine the little child probably died of a heart defect.
Another heartfelt exhibit was of a mother, father, and little one-year old boy who were found in a crypt in Hungary. Through MRI, CT scanning, and even DNA testing, the scientists were able to determine that the family like many in their town died of the horrible Tuberculosis disease.
Enjoying the Museum
Evan had to have some ice cream before going in, and of course, Grandma obliged.
Evan conducts an experiment and watches these balls "float."
He loved shooting his ball high into the air.
He made Mommy lie on a bed of nails!
Grandma enjoyed a fun weekend with her boys.
Evan loved this little rain forest!
And walking on this rope bridge.
Evan loved the aquariums.
And Brody loved the pretty fishies!
Tap Tap..."Hi, fishies!"
"Wake up, fishies!"
Saying hello to his bear friends.
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Ken's Best of 2007
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Bruce Springsteen – Magic
Led Zeppelin – Mothership
Only one real contender for me for my album of the year. Wilco's new one is still by far my favourite Wilco album, and as they are by some distance, my favourite (current) band, it was no contest. Just a perfect album, leaving behind the slight excesses of its two fine but ambitious predecessors. This is much more rootsy, very country soul in style, with the White Album era Lennon fixation of the Ghost is Born album still in evidence. But it all comes down to the tunes really, and have Wilco ever given us a finer set? Highlights are hard to pick, but Hate it Here, Side with the Seeds, Impossible Germany spring to mind.
Bruces' album is also excellent. Very breezy and catchy, despite some heavy lyrical concerns. Well produced as ever, and benefiting from a slightly more natural sound than The Rising. Pretty much four classics in a row now from the Boss (Rising, Devils & Dust, Seeger Sessions, Magic) – and apparently he's currently writing for a solo album.
The only other album I've enjoyed almost as much is the Led Zep compilation. It just sounds so good. I don't have anything new to say about the music itself really.
There were a lot of other decent new studio releases in 2007, all of which have great moments and are very enjoyable, but to a man, are either somewhat over rated, or a bit of a dip in form. These include;
Neil Young, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams (his best since Gold admittedly), Plant/Krauss, Arcade Fire, Ray Davies.
The Amy Winehouse album is pretty good, and I haven't heard the new Levon Helm yet.
Bob Dylan – Birmingham
Bruce Springsteen – Belfast
Wilco – Vicar Street 2nd night
REM – Olympia 4th night
Gillian Welch – Midlands Festival
Rolling Stones – Slane
Ray Davies – Vicar St
Camille O'Sullivan – Olympia
Patti Smith – Vicar St
The Waterboys – The Point
Another phenomenal year for gigs. Really hard to pick my favourite, but Dylan's Modern Times jaunt reached a serious peak in Birmingham. Capping off a fine UK tour, with excellent renditions of the new songs and one of his best bands ever, a return to the old man playing guitar, and some great setlist choices (House of the Rising Son in Newcastle and Working Mans Blues in Birmingham).
But, Wilco came very close. I saw 3 – Shepherds Bush (1st night) and 2 unbelievable nights in Vicar Street, of which perhaps the 2nd was the best. Great setlists, Tweedy in fine form, and the best band of the last 15 years at their peak, touring their best album. What more could you ask for?
Well, how about Bruce and the E Street Band, at (arguably) a peak of their own. I caught the Belfast show, and if I see anything better in 2008, I'll be very lucky. Funny, emotional, entertaining, swinging –all attributes of the Sessions Band a year earlier, but a more rocked-up E Street Band had all these too, in spades.
Lots of other good stuff too, that in an ordinary year would be gig of the year contenders – fine performances from Gillian and Dave, The Stones, REMs new adventures in the Olympia, a cracking Ray Davies set in Vicar St, and the bones of a musically fascinating new show from Camille in Bray and its continuation in the Olympia. Patti Smith played a blinder too and I also enjoyed Duke Special (boy is that guy talented?), Arctic Monkeys (almost as good as the hype), Manic Street Preachers, John Prine (despite sound problems) and the ever rollicking Old Crow Medicine Show. Classically, Sarah Chang with the English Chamber Orchestra was good and the only other thing I remember was a Sibelius symphony coupled with a very enjoyable performance of Elgar's violin concerto.
Happy Days. Or, should I say, nights.
Pans Labyrinth
I'm Not There
Lives of Others
The Counterfeiters
Bourne Supremacy
I didn't see too many this year, so this is pretty much my top few, in order. I think I need to see some comedies in 2008!
Atonement more than surpassed my expectations, and easily lived up to the book. Fine performances from Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, not to mention the young Irish girl, Soirse Ronan, this is a measured quiet film to watch again and again.
I can't overstate how good I thought Pans Labyrinth was. But it's easily my favourite fantasy film of the last few years, not to mention my favourite Spanish civil war film! If you missed it, get the dvd. Guillermo del Toro is extremely creative; it was an awful pity he turned down the Narnia film.
I'm Not There is also very creative. Definitely an arthouse film, this is not going to trouble the multiplexes. Not all of it works, but no argument that the music does as it is impeccably placed and ties it all together, where the lack of narrative doesn't. The 6 Bob Dylans don't all work either, but Cate is sublime (is there anything or anyone this actress can't play?). Heath Ledger also good. Visually, it is a fascinating film, well edited and for anyone with an interest in Dylan or the 1960s it's worth a look.
Lives of Others was stunning. Low key and well scripted and acted. A very sad film, it tells a great story and tells it very well.
Stardust is a superb fantasy, extremely entertaining.
The Counterfeiters is another good German language film. Not as good as Lives of Others though. But, it's a nice quirky take on a little known yet true concentration camp story from WW2.
The Bourne Supremacy was better than the 2nd one and almost as good as the 1st one. As good as thriller as you'll see. Even better than last year's back on form Bond film.
Apocalypto was also a thriller of sorts, kind of a period chase movie, set in the jungle, and highly enjoyable.
The Golden Compass was a decent effort, much better than the reviews said, the young girl lead was especially good.
Nothing too extraordinary for me this year.
A nice new run of Uncle Vanya in the Gate, the Brian Friel adaptation. Catherine Walker really impressed in this one.
Anna Karenina was also very good earlier in the year, bookended by a terrific version of Philadelphia Here I come in early December by 2nd Age Theatre company.
Having exhausted the likes of Wilde and Maugham in recent years, the Gate's summer show in 2007 was Noel Cowards Private Lives, which was as funny as expected. The standout in this was a fantastic comic performance by Stephen Brennan.
I suppose the most notable thing I saw this year was Long Days Journey into Night in the Gaiety as part of the theatre festival. Notable not only for the excruciating length at 4.5 hours, it is a riveting play as you watch this family fall apart. James Cromwell was as good as I had hoped.
Theme Time
Really only one thing – Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, which continues to amaze and amuse. Nice to see it syndicated on Irish radio, Sunday nights' on Phantom 105.2
I also enjoyed the JK Ensemble, Jazz Alley and Green Room Cinema show on Lyric FM. Pretty much everything on Lyric is good. I must be getting old.
One thing – Harrington winning the British Open. Very emotional, and not just for him. 1947 was a long time ago.
The best exhibition I saw was the down and dirty yet moving Hogarth in the Tate, closely followed by his more polished contemporary Canaletto, in Dulwich. Very enjoyable too was the exhibition at The Queens Gallery in Buckingham Palace. The old lady certainly has an art collection to be proud of – e.g. some fantastic Caravaggios. I also enjoyed the current Polish one at our own National Gallery, as it had 6 or 7 paintings that I really liked.
My Boy Jack
Room with a View
The Ruby in the Smoke
TV was pretty good this year. Not much good comedy (Extras and Peep Show is about all that springs to mind). Some great period dramas. I thought Cranford was going to be too twee, but it turned out to be in parts, hilarious and heart breaking. Best acting of the year by far.
My Boy Jack was a near perfect 2 hour TV film about Kipling's son going to the trenches in WW1. The standout performances I thought were actually David Haig and Carey Mulligan, rather than the slightly over feted Kim Catrall and Daniel Radcliffe.
Room with a View was a more than decent new version, with a great breakthrough performance by Elaine Cassidy from Co Wicklow.
Ruby in the Smoke was a drama packed adaptation of a Philip Pullman period yarn.
The final few episodes of the Sopranos maintained the high level of the programme at it's best. Personally, I liked the ending.
I saw some of the new Poliakoff dramas, and enjoyed them to different extents. My favourite one was the very original Capturing Mary. Ruth Wilson was amazing as usual. Ditto Maggie Smith, and I never knew David Walliams was such a good actor.
Other things worth a mention were;
Extras, Old Curiosity Shop (although it was a bit underwhelming) and Life on Mars.
Again, I seem to get bogged down in newspapers, music mags and old stuff. I hope to read more fiction in 2008. But here are some things I enjoyed in 2007;
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks – one of my favourite books now for sure, a wide ranging story, but its depiction of the misery of the trenches is the strongest part.
Atonement by Ian McEwan - best to read it before the film, a fine book.
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman – also known as the Golden Compass, very enjoyable fantasy fare.
I read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier for the first time recently, a surprising page-turner, very atmospheric.
A new Agatha Christie biography by Laura Thompson is pretty good.
..and I'm halfway through the very inventive Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
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My undergraduate degree is in economics though my graduate degree is in theology. I imagine it's a rare combination. Economics has been called the 'dismal science' and is boring to most people. However, I have found that the kinds of analyses that economists use can be useful to gain a better understanding of issues that face Christians today.
I recall years ago reading some material regarding what is called "Liberation Theology". Now it sounds very good and has seduced some who care deeply for the poor, but it is basically Marxism in Christian garb. I immediately recognized the Marxist social and economic themes that dominate this false theology.
Now most of us are not going to fall for that sort of thing, but there are some more subtle things that Christians do fall for some times. One of them is confusing intrinsic worth of something (or someone) with its value in the marketplace. When someone is paid, say, $10.00 per hour to do some job, the employer is not saying that that is what this person is worth as a person. They are saying what the job they are performing is worth. No employer could possibly pay someone what they were worth as a person. (Only Jesus could do that.)
Let's look at some of the distinctions that economists make to help us understand this better. Aristotle (who might be considered the world's first economist) made the distinction between value-in-use and value-in-exchange. The classic example of these two things is diamonds and water. The value-in-exchange (price) of a diamond is much higher than that of water. I get water to the faucets of my house for about $25 per month and I use thousands of gallons a month. That is cheap. Can you imagine what the cost of that would be if it were diamonds? It would be astronomical because the value-in-exchange of diamonds is many times that of water.
But what about value-in-use? Which one is greater? Water is much more useful than diamonds. You can live without diamonds but you cannot live without water. This does not mean, however, that water ought to cost more than diamonds. Indeed, it is very good thing that water does not cost more than diamonds. We need more of the things that have a high value-in-use. The fact that diamonds cost more is irrelevant to the value we place on water.
Well, so what? Too dismal for you?
Have you ever heard someone say something like this: "We pay pro basketball players millions of dollars a year and we pay our school teachers only a fraction of that. Doesn't that show that our society places a much lower value on teachers than it does basketball players?" No, it does not! What we pay basketball players has no bearing on the value we place on school teachers.
Let's break this down. There are about 400 NBA players and millions of fans. But there are hundreds of thousands of school teachers with millions of students. We actually pay more in total to school teachers than we do to basketball players, but there are far fewer players so each player gets more.
Let's pose a hypothetical. Let's pay an NBA player $1 per fan per game at the arena. There are 82 games per year and let's say that attendance averages 15,000 per game. 82 times 15,000 equals $1.23 million per year. We have not included advertising and TV revenues here and we are only paying the player a dollar per person!
Now for our hypothetical school teacher. Let's pay the teacher $1 per student in a class. The teacher teaches 25 students per class and teaches 6 classes a day. There are 180 school days. 25 times 6 times 180 equals $27,000 per year.
It is easy to see that the teacher is paid much less than the basketball player, but can we really say that the basketball player is overpaid? Not really. His income, by this analysis, seems quite reasonable. Each fan is only paying a dollar to see him play. Is the teacher underpaid? Perhaps so, but it has nothing to do with the basketball player.
Also, and more importantly, I have no doubt that if you asked the most rabid basketball fan if he would rather have teachers or the NBA that he would choose the teachers. In other words, the teachers have a higher value-in-use. The price of a basketball player is much higher than that of a school teacher, but that is a good thing. If we paid teachers like basketball players it would bankrupt all of us. It is not possible. So why begrudge a basketball player his money? It has nothing to do with the 'value' we place on teachers. Teachers are like water - cheap, abundant and valuable. Basketball players are like diamonds - rare, expensive, entertaining and expendable.
Now back to our original subject.
The value of something in the marketplace is not how that society determines its intrinsic value. That is because prices and wages are determined by the laws of supply and demand and not by some sort of evaluation of its intrinsic worth. In fact, the things with the most intrinsic worth (water, for example) are cheaper because they are abundant. Where it is not abundant it becomes very expensive and that is a bad thing. We need things of high intrinsic value (water, food, clothing) to be abundant and cheap, that is, affordable to all.
You might be saying that this is all very interesting but what does it have to do with being a Christian. First of all, I have heard Christians talk about things like this in the pulpit and in Sunday Schools, etc. They make the same mistakes that the world does about these things. Except that they are worse. I have heard Christians condemn the supposedly higher value that we place on entertainers than we do on more necessary things. Now that may be true but the examples used are fallacious.
What a basketball player or movie star is paid has to do with the demand for their services and what price the market will bear. But this is not really the issue at all. The issue, if there is one, is the amount of attention we may pay to these things to the detriment of our spiritual lives. That is a real issue. What someone is paid is not really an issue at all. Too often we focus on the material side of something instead of the real, spiritual issues.


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So, what's this post all about? Well, my wonderful author friend Cheryse Durrant asked me if I wanted to take part in something called 'The Next Big Thing' - "What's that?" I hear you ask. I'll tell you...
The author answers 10 questions about their new/next/most recent novel/novella/collection/
So I guess that means it's time for me to come out of the woodwork and actually talk about my WIP. Until recently, it's been a closely guarded secret as I have not long started writing it, even though I have been thinking about it for a while.
1) What is the working title of your next book?
Well, it's actually my first book and it's called Stolen.
2) Where did the idea come from for the book?
I've been playing around with the idea for months. Jotting things down in my notebook, you know; character descriptions and stuff.
I am, as a lot of people will know, mainly a YA reviewer. So when it comes to my story idea, it's because I hadn't seen any other books on the market that were about the same kind of thing.
3) What genre does your book fall under?
It's a Paranormal Romance.
4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Well, that's a bit of a tough question. Ideally...
Roshanna would be played by Nina Dobrev. She's gorgeous and is the face I see when I write Shanna's character.
Bodhi would be played by Chris Hemsworth. He's a little old for the part I guess, but then no younger people I've seen have the look that fits. Chris is who I imagine as I write Bodhi.
Marissa would be played by Rachelle Lafevre. Though I suppose she's a touch old for the role because Marissa is only 16. The reason I think of her when I write Issa is because of the flame red hair Rachelle had in Twilight. Issa dyes her curly hair a flame red.
And Uncle Joe would be played by someone like Jeremy Irons. I don't have a clear picture of Joe in my head yet as his character is still taking shape.
5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
I really don't know how to answer in one sentence, but I'll give you a little of what it's about:
When Roshanna's parents are murdered, she has to go and live with her only relative; Uncle Joe. That means moving from the small town of Cypress Hill where she has lived all her life, across the country to Round Rock, Texas. She knows no-one there and hasn't even seen Uncle Joe in 6 years; but Bodhi -Uncle Joe's chauffeur -becomes someone on which she can rely.
When it comes to venturing on a journey to retrieve her parents stolen souls; Bodhi accompanies Roshanna. What starts as friendship between them has the potential to blossom into more... if only Roshanna can achieve her goal of obtaining Veronica and Leonard's souls and setting them free...
6) Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
I have chosen to self-publish rather than face potential rejection by publishing houses. I haven't got the greatest self-esteem and couldn't handle the knock-backs very well. Though having said that, I have been in contact with someone who is forming an independent publishers who she said she likes the sound of my book and I should approach her when I am finished so we'll see.
7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I haven't finished my first draft yet, I'm not even halfway through.
8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Honestly, I don't know. There are possibly some out there, but I have yet to come across any personally.
9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Being a reviewer is possibly what inspired me the most. No, I don't think that just because I read and review books that I can write one; I just mean that reviewing is what's launched me into the world of YA reading.
I now have many author and blogger friends who inspire me each and every day.
I wrote the first 6 chapters and sent it out to a few people who agreed to BETA read for me. They said they loved it and so I was inspired further to keep going.
10) What else about the book might pique the reader's interest?
Well, there's murder, mystery, friendship and romance. I think those ingredients might make readers want to pick up my book.
I have decided to ask these authors to participate in The Next Big Thing...
Kelly Hashway; where to find Kelly: kellyhashwayblogspot.com
Rachael Wade; where to find Rachael: RachaelWade.com
Author D X Luc; where to find De: The Island of D X Luc
Joanne Cattell; where to find Jo: Dreams Are What Make Writing Happen
So thank you all for coming by today. I hope you enjoyed reading my answers. Thank you Cher for asking me to participate and for forcing me out of the darkness to talk about my book.
I hope everyone enjoyed learning about The Next Big Thing and that you'll visit each authors blog for their answers and maybe even visit the blogs of their nominations too!


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| The Golem can break down to two Golemites to continue the job.
You have the Baby Dragon for splash damage and support
You also have Arrows against swarm.
The Lightning can also take care of any average HP units trying to counter your Golem.
| Lightning for average HP units.
Mini P.E.K.K.A and Goblins for tanks.
Mega Minion for aerials.
Baby Dragon for swarms.
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Ground Swarms
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Offensive Cards:
These are the cards you use for offensive pushes or offensive attacks:
- Note - Start with the Elixir Collector to gain an elixir advantage over time. Once you already have a feel for your opponent's deck, place the Golem behind your King Tower. Follow him with your Baby Dragon and ready your Lightning. The Lightning will take care of any average HP units up to their defensive building.
Win Conditions:
These cards can let you win the game or beat a tower when ignored by the enemy:
You use the spell for attacking, defending, or countering:
Defensive Cards:
These are the cards you use for defending or supporting your pushes:
- Note - These cards can both cover air and ground units.
- Note - Helps you gain an elixir advantage over time.
Anti- Air:
These are the cards against flying units:
- Note - Use your Baby D as your aerial tank and finish with the Mega Minion
Elixir Collector Counter:
These are the cards you can use against the Elixir Collector:
Three Musketeers Response:
The Three Musketeers can beat towers when left alone. Here's what you should use:
Note - A good Lightning can finish the 3M.
These are the cards that are normally played together:
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Card Counter Sheet:
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Aerial Swarms
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Skeleton Army
Goblin Gang
Ground Swarms
Aerial Swarms
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Tower Locking Troops
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The Log
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Inferno Dragon
High DPS Units
Ground Swarms
Aerial Swarms
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Aerial Units
Crown Tower
| Balloon
Lava Hound
Baby Dragon
Ground Units
Aerial Units
Flying Machine
Inferno Dragon
Ranged Units
| Giant
Hog Rider
Royal Giant
Single Target Units
|Ground Swarms
Aerial Swarms
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The Need To Identify A Good Singapore Wedding Photographer
Your wedding is beyond any doubt the most important event that you would like to proceed smoothly whereby you would want every element of it to be taken care of professionally in order for things to proceed smoothly for you. But perhaps one of the most important elements for you to consider would be the wedding videographer that you end up hiring to cover the event in question. If you hire the right videographer that specializes in wedding photography in Singapore then you would obviously have a smooth experience which would work in your best interest.
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The World's FT Comp, by a worlds virgin.
If you were a good amateur footballer, you'd be quite shocked if one day you wereasked to play for England & in the World Cup final, wouldn't you? But, would yousay yes?Well I was shocked when I was asked earlier in the year if I wanted to take place asnumber 8 in the England FT squad to go to Ebern Germany this year. I was proud tobe asked and I was proud to answer yes but the chances of shooting as well as the restof the venerated squad such as John Costello (winner only dropping 6 out of 150targets), Andy Calpin, Simon Ayers, Jack Harris & my own club mate member CraigMcDonald; was slim, and I knew this. But in ones mind there's always the chance ofpulling a good one out the bag and then one also had 4 months to practise!I'd not had good consistent results throughout the year, but I'd had a couple ofblinders with a winter league clearance and a 45 at GP9 2012, & a 46 at the Essex 50.What one cannot know as a Worlds Virgin is what the course will be like, I've done afew tough ones at Anston & Millride but you know if it's the Worlds surely it has tobe the toughest? Other compatriots' plant rumours in your head of 25 mil satnders at32 yards or full size at 45 yards. I knew in my own game my main weakness werestanders, so after buying a new shooting jacket, I worked on them down at the club!As the adventure took off from Stanstead with our SEFTA posse which inc. Dan Eley,Cliff Church, John & Robert Walker, Craig & Barry McDonald I felt impendingdoom & that wasn't down to Easyjet! On day 2 we arrived amongst hundreds ofothers all mingling & me feeling a bit solo, the idea was to get air, plink & check allwas ok after the flight, all seemed ok after 30/40 shots so I put all away to have a lookaround, the general mood seemed to be all were happy to be there and to see eachother again. The reception that night was fun & traditional and generallymisunderstood by most but a beer or two was quaffed down. Home, sleep, thentomorrow!Up early, great breakfast & off we went, we wanted to be there for 8am for 9am topark & plink. I was on the red course day 1 starting at lane 5 with a Russian girlGalina, a South African Gerhard, & Thomas from Germany, all were in the nationalteams as I was. Getting on to the course was a bit of a mountain goat job with a holein the fence and a real clamber up through recently carved forest up to the main trackwhich was hard to do with both hands occupied! We got to the track on the Blackcourse then had a 15 min walk up the track to the red course then lane 5 where I wasto meet the opposition who would turn out to be friends by the end of the comp.Imagine a sharp slope a few hundred feet high with a forest on it with a straight flatgravelled track driven through it half way up, to your left is sharp down, right sharpup, so it was roughly 25 targets down & 25 up & many to that extreme! There was adistinct lack of wind, but there was a mild stir here & there, trick was spotting it at all.I started well and had only dropped 2 in the first 14 or so, the difficulties here seemedto be either the track bevel down into the abyss with a near target 20 feet below andnot sliding in, plus it would also be a 15 mill & the face plate is not facing up towardsyou, or it's long in the foliage and it's dark as a Butlins Holiday! The wheels began to
come off on the 2nd 25 of the day on the way back, shooting up hill.
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Land. Also congrats to my club matey Craig McDonald who came 8th & shot in a


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i think i have been visiting in somewhere similar when i was a child, i wish i could remember it again. there is something magical about lighthouse, especially how people used to live there. Maybe i am thinking Moomins too :-). hugs.
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When I was young I met Stepan in his home. It was an amazing house on a hill, I remember the painted bathroom outside the house into the bush! He was very kindly and show to me and my sister, his school of illustration for young. We were confused because of our future, so distant to reality and now, Stepan isn't there but in the sky and I would like to tell him "thank you for your idea of freedom".
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"Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." (Mitch Radcliffe)
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PM World Collection grows to 757 project management articles, papers & other works by 413 different authors in 54 different countries
13 April 2014 – Dallas, London, Sydney – PM World has announced that 36 new articles, papers, reports and other original works about program and project management (P/PM) were added to the PM World Library (PMWL) in April. These contributions by 41 different authors in 16 different countries were published in the April 2014 edition of the PM World Journal (PMWJ). They can now be found among the most recent papers, articles and book reports on the PMWL home page at www.pmworldlibrary.net.
The new additions bring the total in the PM World Collection to 757 original works by 413 different authors from 54 different countries. The collection is growing each month by approximately 30-40 new works by many different authors. Of the 41 authors in April, 15 authors were new to both the PMWJ and PMWL. All works in the PMWL can be accessed at http://pmworldlibrary.net/pm-world-collection/. Profiles of all authors in the PMWL, along with access to their works, can be found in the Author Showcase at http://pmworldlibrary.net/author-showcase/.
According to PMWL Director David Pells (pictured), who is also the managing editor of the PMWJ, "We are excited to be adding so much new content to the library each month. The number of authors is also increasing rapidly, partially due to more papers having multiple authors which is more common for academic papers. The upshot is that we are attracting more research papers by scholars, which is significant."
"The PM World Library is being upgraded as we speak," Pells adds. "For example, now we are adding all breaking news articles that have been posted in the PMWJ since July 2012, approximately 850 stories. These will all soon be available in the BN Archives page in the P/PM news section of the library."
New authors in March include Mauricio Lopes (Brazil); Monica Gutierrez (Colombia); Richard Amponsah and Bernardine Gatete (Ghana); Ogun Ohgenekevwe, Ogunsina Olusola and Ugochukwu Stanley Chukwudi (Nigeria); Krystyna Linkowska (Poland); and Karen Kostelnik, Ralph Mauelshagen, Diane Johnson Morris, Francisco Ortiz, Mary Jane Quandt, Dr. Richa Uppal and Paula Wenger (USA). New works from 26 authors already included in the library were also added.
The PM World Library (PMWL) is a global resource for continuous learning in portfolio, program and project management (P/PM). The PMWL is produced and maintained by PM World that also publishes the monthly PM World Journal (PMWJ), a web-based monthly publication featuring dozens of articles, papers and news stories about projects and project management around the world. To see the latest edition of the PMWJ, visit www.pmworldjournal.net; to learn more, visit www.pmworldlibrary.net.


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A baby was born. That baby is being breastfed. The family is happy and healthy. And that should be enough. It should be what we see and appreciate. But it's not. Our society is uptight. Some see breastfeeding in public as obscene. Others oppose the right for two people in love to marry. Some have strict definitions of what family is. Family, to me, is love and support and care. Family is Trevor and Ian MacDonald and their two children. Trevor is a transgender breastfeeding dad.
Trevor was born a female. He still has female parts and he was pregnant and gave birth to both his babies, and because he is able to lactate, he also breastfeeds. Breastfeeding moms have a hard enough time being accepted when nursing in public. Can you imagine what Trevor goes through? The sight of a man breastfeeding is enough to make people explode in tirades of hate and disgust.
Breastfeeding moms: Can you imagine Trevor being told to go into the men's room to breastfeed?! As much as I wish it wasn't true, that could be a dangerous place for man to breastfeed his baby if there were close-minded men who happened to be in the bathroom at the same time.
More From The Stir: Forget the Pregnant Man: Now There's a Breastfeeding Dad!
Since news of the "breastfeeding dad" broke, there's been a lot of controversy. One commenter on an article about Trevor breastfeeding said: "Nothing says 'attention whore' like a transgender dad who breastfeeds."
Some people cannot accept those who aren't like them. Ignorance is rampant. Prejudice is everywhere. This isn't about being an attention whore in the negative sense. This is really about bringing attention to something beautiful -- a man doing the best he can for his child.
More From The Stir: Pregnant Man Plans on Having a Fourth Child With New Girlfriend
There is of course the dichotomy. Women are the only ones able to breastfeed; we are the only ones able to bear children. And here is a man doing what women's bodies are only able to do. This is a lesson in acceptance. In love. In seeing that we are all different and we have different lifestyles, and this is about looking beyond what you might not typically see and see what is really there. Moms, we need to stand with this this dad.
We shouldn't see a man or a woman; we should see a parent doing the best they can for their child. I see Trevor as an inspiration -- for any person wanting to have a baby, for transfamilies, blended families, gay families, for FAMILY, which to me means people who love, support, and care for each other. He is a champion for breastfeeding rights and an advocate for nursing baby whenever and wherever she is hungry. He knows that nothing is better than breast milk and that's what he wants for his children. He is able to give that to them, so why wouldn't he? If a parent is able to give their best to their kids, they aren't going to pass that opportunity up. No one should.
I want to celebrate this transgender breastfeeding dad. He is an example of love and truth and exemplary parenting. Thank you Trevor for being brave, for being open and honest, for bringing light to the topics that mean so much to so many.
What do you think of the breastfeeding dad?
*Trevor uses his real first name, but he uses pseudonyms for his last name MacDonald and his husband Ian.
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The thing is, whoever's talking to Lily doesn't even seem to know she's doing it. If she's a ghost, she's not a very good one. And there's something about her that Lily finds awfully, spine-tinglingly familiar. . .
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Winter winds are blowing. They were howling down the tight Toronto streets this week. I'm not surprised. I mean, it is Toronto, not like we're in sunny southern California or anything. It's just that we've been so spoiled this fall, it felt like the winter would never get here.
But it is here. And we need to deal. Here are my thoughts on making that happen.
Lets start with some details. Ties get a little chunkier and heartier this time of year. I'm always on board for something knit, like these great pastels above, but layer them and then layer them again.
This heartier look carries over onto other accessories as well. I love this bag, straight from the artist's studio. Its tough and durable, like we need to be during a Canadian winter, but its got a great touch of style contrasted against the dark coat.
And what guy can go anywhere without a great scarf this winter?
Two really great sweaters to show you here. Above is your classic winter sweater. Winter pattern, reindeer and the right colours. Below is all class. Fitted, great colour, elbow patches. All in the details.
Outerwear, from formal to casual. Texture in everything. Naturals, grey's and neutrals are big. The Marc Jacobs double breasted beauty here has it all. Amazing texture, fitted detail, great colour, oozing style.
These two overcoats offer very different options. I'm a bit of a sucker for the HBC print on anything, and this peacoat will get some looks, but comfort, warmth and cool are worth all of the looks in the world. The camel coloured comparison piece has a great warm feeling, a luxurious texture and I like the ticket pocket too.
I've saved these last two images for quite a while now, direct from The Sartorialist. They're from the Prada Fall/Winter 2012 show from early 2012. The whole ensemble here is what sets the look off. The confidence of the models (both well known actors), just great fit. Something to emulate here.


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