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Backpacking from Cape Town to Addis Ababa
Valerie Bowden is from Indiana in the United States. She recently graduated from Barry University and after a brief visit to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia she saved enough money to backpack from Capetown to Addis Abba using public transport only. At SA - the Good News we will feature regular blogs on her travels, treats, troubles and travails. We wish her a safe, intriguing and fulfilling journey.
Why backpack through Africa? by Valerie Bowden
Stepping off the airplane in Cape Town International Airport, my excitement builds as each step brings me closer into the city. After an exhausting twelve hour flight I may not have been the only one relieved to land, but most certainly had anticipated this moment for longer than any other passenger.
For exactly one year now, I have worked at a job with the intent of saving enough money to backpack from Capetown to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With my bags packed, a one way ticket booked, and a promise to my parents I would be home by Christmas, I said goodbye to seat 26A and a big hello to my long awaited African adventure.
This is not my first solo trip though. Back in 2010 I boarded a plane to Ethiopia and stayed in Addis Ababa for three months. To be honest, although I had a general idea where Ethiopia was, if someone told me to point to it on an unmarked map, my finger would have embarrassingly landed inches away.
Prior to my trip, Africa had been unknown territory to me. A group of countries I too often lumped together and only heard about on the news - when death, disaster, disease and despair were mentioned.
After arriving in Ethiopia, I realized quickly my ideas were misguided, completely skewed even. For nowhere had I heard about the remarkable beauty of the land and the people - extraordinarily hospitable, intelligent, capable, and remarkable. With a Master degree in social work I became fascinated by the evolving African story - growing economies and increasingly innovative social and environmental solutions.
My insatiable desire to better understand these amazing countries, so often short-sided by the media, could not be filled by just reading about them.
I needed to go back.
My journey begins
After spending some time in Capetown, I have begun slowly traveling down the coast and will eventually continue on through Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia where from there I will configure the rest of my route for my remaining time.
My intent is to gather a greater understanding of what is happening in each of these countries, their challenges and their potential, including their unique vibrancy and special character.
One side
Admittedly my first few days in Cape Town astonished me. After leaving a snowy Chicago and arriving in warm sunshine, the smell of the ocean, and towering mountains I quickly became enamored. Capetown is more than just a 2010 host city! Walking down the streets in a place so far from my own I already feel comfortable and at ease. Staying at a backpackers resort close to the Greenpoint stadium, I set off to explore the nearby area.
Following the spacious sidewalks lined with palm trees down a hill, I discover a joggers paradise as I turn and begin walking directly beside the sea. Passing playful children in the parks and a group of families playing Putt Putt Golf, I chuckle that some back home feared so much for my comfort and safety. Continuing down the road I am in awe of the impressively clean streets as my eyes strained to spot even one piece of misplaced garbage.
After a day of wandering around and checking out chic new bistros and cozy cafes I am convinced that Capetown offers some of the best international cuisine available anywhere. Even later that night after visiting the infamous Long Street and walking back to my place, I feel strongly that individuals from anywhere in the world would feel not only incredibly safe but also warmly welcomed here.
Awakening the next morning I am overwhelmed with all the city offers. Narrowing down the options is like eliminating either coffee or chocolate from my diet, neither of which I am willing to give up. The choices have to be made, however, and I decide to gather a broader idea of what the overall city looks like while also stopping at some main key points. When I began driving around I was not expecting to pass so many beautifully intriguing statues and structures. In my previous travels I became accustomed to expecting such artistic creations in European cities, but was pleasantly surprised to see such added ambiance here as well.
The other side
After a full day of seeing the sights, I am unbelievably in awe of the vast amount to do. The city is a mecca for the adventurous backpacker, family focused, or business-minded individual. One thing that struck me as surprising throughout the day though was when I entered one of the townships. After viewing the Cape's most proud amusements, I then walk though a shanty neighborhood crammed with nearly 25,000 people living in tin shacks. Confused that the city would even offer a tour through this area, yet oddly curious I wandered through the dirt paths.
Although valid arguments against the township tours undoubtedly exist ('poverty tourism' as some will have it), I did find it admirable that South Africa does not try to hide these areas from outside visitors. Instead of detouring tourists down 'posh' streets they offer an open invitation to 'poor' streets. Although poverty prevails in these neighborhoods, the most outstanding feature foreigners are sure to find are people with smiling faces and young children reading books in the local library. When I asked the guide if those living here feel there is a way out and an opportunity to join the rest of the country's positive growth trend, he replied without hesitation. Stating firmly, "People are living with hope. Believe that. Hope makes people live."
My side
As I headed home, invigorated with the experiences and memories of the day, I thought about what the guide said. I could not help but agree. For I too have hope in South Africa's continual growth and the role it will play in creating international solutions, products, and ideas. I also have hope for my trip. A firm and confident belief that I will personally witness and attest to the undeniable truth that South Africa, along with the several other African countries, are capable, resourceful, and innovative global leaders.
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Snow Art By Simon Beck
Paul Frade | Apr 12, 2012
We have already seen how artists can use snow as a blank canvas and do some amazing things (see Snow Circles By Sonja Hinrichsen). These giant artworks below have been created by Simon Beck, an artist born in Southern England with most of his works being done in Savoie, France. On average one of these pieces takes roughly 10 hours to complete. He creates these by setting out points with a handheld orienteering compass and distance determination using pace counting or measuring tape. Simon is very active on Facebook and you can view more of his work here.
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On Friday, Nathan Yau at FlowingData posted about an MIT Media Lab experiment called Immersion, which describes itself as offering 'a people-centric view of your email life using only your metadata'.
Immersion is a web-app that scrapes metadata from your Gmail account and visualises your relationships with the people you e-mail. You can see who you e-mail most and thanks to an analysis of CC and BCC metadata, make connections between your contacts. So if you sent an e-mail to all your family members, they are all shown as linked; if you organised an office party, the coworkers you sent the invites to are placed in a cluster.
It's a neat little insight that might throw up the odd surprise as to how you are connected with people, but the timing of its arrival is particularly interesting. Edward Snowden's revelations concerning the USA's National Security Agency's PRISM programme showed us that the collection of e-mail metadata was a key surveillance activity:
One 2008 document, signed by the US defense secretary and attorney general, states that the collection and subsequent analysis included "the information appearing on the 'to,' 'from' or 'bcc' lines of a standard email or other electronic communication" from Americans. (Glenn Greenwald, 'NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama', The Guardian, 28 June 2013)
Sounds a lot like what Immersion can do! (Except that it does it after you ask it to…)
If you're using Gmail, plugging yourself into Immersion will quickly show you the kind of basic understanding of your connections with other people an analysis of your metadata can provide. It is probably already enough to seem rather creepy — those clusters of your family members or work colleagues are instantly clear, now imagine you're a member of a protest group or political organisation being monitored: from e-mails exchanged you'd show up immediately as connected. And if a new member joined, they'd show up within days as part of that corner of your life.
However this is just a first superficial analysis. Glenn Greenwald, points out a policy of 'contact chaining':
One function of this internet record collection is what is commonly referred to as "data mining", and which the NSA calls "contact chaining". The agency "analyzed networks with two degrees of separation (two hops) from the target", the report says. In other words, the NSA studied the online records of people who communicated with people who communicated with targeted individuals. (Ibid.)
In the analysis Immersion shows you, your connection with a person X is established by the fact you e-mailed them or they e-mailed you (including via CC etc.):
Once you log in, Immersion will use only the From, To, Cc and Timestamp fields of the emails in the account you are signing in with. It will not access the subject or the body content of any of your emails. →
That's more or less exactly what the NSA was able to do with harvested metadata (plus they were gathering IP addresses). Let's say you regularly e-mail a person X and a person Y, but have never e-mailed both in one e-mail, the analysis Immersion can show you (based entirely on the metadata of your account) will not link the two. However, thanks to 'contact chaining', a targeted individual's contacts are immediately also fair game for analysis by the NSA: both X's and Y's metadata should also be analysed and pulled into a pooled analysis involving metadata from all three e-mail accounts. So if X and Y have exchanged e-mails, even though you have never contacted them together — and so Immersion shows them as unconnected — it is immediately possible to see that contacts X and Y are in fact related. Indeed, the agency 'analyzed networks with two degrees of separation from the target', which means that yet a third layer of data is then added to the analysis of your network.
Obviously this returns a much higher resolution network than that you see in Immersion. If looking through what Immersion shows you seems scarily precise but with the odd blip, it's safe to say that those blips would rapidly vanish after 'contact chaining'.
Imagining how that expands to yet more terrifying proportions isn't difficult. Add further layers of intelligence obtained from other sources and these clusters become more powerful. Add some basic automatic analysis and a software programme could probably quickly guess the nature of a cluster's relationship to you. Analysis of the domains that e-mail accounts are attached to could reveal a fair bit and automated, cross-referenced searches for the people in a cluster would almost certainly throw up fairly certain guesses at the relationship's nature. And all of this within minutes.
US Deputy attorney general James Cole testified with regard to the metadata attached to phone calls that
phone records like this, that don't include any content, are not covered by the fourth amendment because people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in who they called and when they called […] That's something you show to the phone company. That's something you show to many, many people within the phone company on a regular basis. (Congressional Hearing on the NSA, 18 June 2013)
This logic has been applied to e-mail metadata: it's OK, because it is 'contentless', the monitoring is not of what is being communicated but who is communicating. However the argument is facetious. A basic analytical tool such as Immersion clearly demonstrates that while an isolated data point (i.e. one e-mail sent from X to Y) is in some vague sense relatively meaningless, the fact that this data basically only exists as a multitude of data points (to date, my account contains 16,911 e-mails for example) renders it content-rich.
Inadvertently — though the creators of Immersion were definitely aware of the problematic abundance of metadata and it's potential for meaning — Immersion offers you the chance to see exactly how powerful and dangerous this data is. If anyone ever tries to suggest that metadata surveillance doesn't violate your privacy, Immersion is the perfectly elegant way to give the lie to that argument.
On 28 February I saw musikFabrik perform a short all Georg Friedrich Haas programme at the Luxembourg Philharmonie — three works for soprano (Sarah Wegener) plus ensemble or piano. This is rather tangentially related: by rights I ought to have written about contemporary vocal writing or the problems of soloist-to-ensemble relationships, but instead what follows are some sketched out thoughts regarding time and the relationship of musical material to time sparked during and after the concert.
I've given this the half-baked title of 'Temporal Aesthetics', because the core of my thoughts — especially during the first work of the evening, …wie stille brannte das Licht for soprano and 16 instruments — related to the idea that how a composer chooses to use time itself is perhaps the key aesthetic choice available. The 'use of time' is not a unidimensional pastime though: our perception of time is so wrapped up with the-things-themselves-that-are-being-in-time that what this means is how a composer decides to sustain and vary their material in time, how repetition, development, stasis, etc. manifest are perhaps more important than the specific material a composer chooses. (Caveat emptor: material and time are not in fact separable as such, but the temporal parameters of a material can be varied, are open to decisions, perhaps that's a better way of putting it.)
Perhaps this is somewhat similar to saying that the key aesthetic decision to be made is one of form — they're pretty closely related no doubt — but I think there is nevertheless a difference.
So, why did this Haas work — …wie stille brannte das Licht — prompt these thoughts? I think because it's a song cycle, which is episodic in construction. The selected texts follow one another, each text has its own associated material/soundworld, and these are linked together into some kind of "logical", continuous flow. The framing or restriction of the musical material by the semantic flow of text — and, I felt, the idea that this was a song cycle, so we had better move on to the next song right about now — left me occasionally frustrated.[1]
In particular, there is a moment where a wonderful situation emerges in one of the instrumental interludes: a vicious, bright, high-pitched texture of piccolo, strings, metallic percussion and piano is grounded on a low, grinding bass in a way that has a kind of crystalline ferocity. But the tragedy is that this is precisely an interlude. So though this brilliant moment arrives, it is too soon felt to be time to move on. It was here that I really started to think about what can be transmitted aesthetically simply by use of time. We talk often of sound — new sounds, "extended" technique, orchestration, voicing, blending, coherence, Klangtypen usw. — but it is rather different to offer an audience access to a sound situation for 2 seconds, 2 minutes, 20 minutes or an hour. What I really wanted here was to hear that texture achieve absolute obstinacy, its brittle ferocity continuing and continuing until we felt we had encountered a wall — a sound situation that decided it wouldn't let us past until we had really had to face up to what it was (to give the sound a psychology).
Rather than this, I realised that temporally the Haas is perhaps miniaturised Mahler. There is a great care taken for "sound" as an imaginary momentary, quasi-photographic phenomenon, as there is for colour and harmony. The materials come by in episodes, rub against each other briefly, in safe-sized chunks. One thing is never permitted to have an awkward presence in the memory's landscape, take up too much room or indeed not enough.
This is not a criticism per se, but I think it reveals some important things about the aesthetic intentions of the composer. And it perhaps reminds us of the weirdness that we should be quicker to recognise in any talk of sound as a disembodied entity. Also, more excitingly, this seems to offer some pretty clear possibilities in terms of how exploit time in different ways.
To fill this out with a few more examples, consider the flute works of Salvatore Sciarrino. They are contemporary classics and popular amongst flautists and composers alike. They are often lauded for their use/discovery of new sounds on the flute, but I would argue what makes them most inimitably Sciarrino — and what unifies them — is the use of these small sound cells in time: the repetition and games with expectation. Another example: Gérard Grisey is not the composer so many respect because of a spectral chord, rather it is the dilation of time, the stretching of material, the formal control which marks certain works out and has them holding listeners' attentions. Another: Helmut Lachenmann, while undoubtedly a master of combining sounds that are not immediately obvious as music material into an exhilarating landscape, has for me created beautiful music not simply thanks to that facility but mainly because of the gripping way he propels you through pieces like Gran Torso, Ausklang or Concertini. James Tenney's In a large open space? About time as much as about space. Morton Feldman? Etc.…
Here's a recent favourite example, Piaras Hoban's stamme : nahuskild : 존재감, which includes an almost 4-minute-long "stasis", where the music appears to become stuck, two cymbals grinding forcefully — almost plaintively — unable to move on for a time which at first glance might seem inappropriate and certainly not obvious for a work of this length, but is in fact deeply impactful.
I guess this isn't to argue one way or the other that way X of using time is better than way Y (thankfully these things are probably not so easily categorised), but rather that they have to be considered fundamentally as part of the composition process. Not just, 'what sounds am I using'? But what colour of time? What shades of waiting and language of change? All tied up with memory, memorability, speed, and — fundamentally — it's an aesthetic choice.
[1] • Update, 17/03/2013, 21:39 • In relationship to the idea of the song cycle, it occurs to me that this genre is tied in some way to various cultural concepts of collecting: selections of texts, musical vignettes, libraries, the Victorian museum, glass cases, oddities, the flea market at St Ouen — all of these submit to an overarching idea, items are grouped, each is half symbol rather than real and its brevity or superficiality is justified by the containing frame. This relates also to the musical treatment of such a situation: if the concept of 'song cycle' is itself tied to a notion of framing and collection, it is unsurprising to find materials cornered and restricted.
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Eternity is not much longer than life (René Char)
'The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. The one esteems nature as rooted and fast; the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon. To him, the refractory world is ductile and flexible; he invests dust and stones with humanity, and makes them the words of the Reason. The Imagination may be defined to be the use which the Reason makes of the material world.'
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, p. 36
Woody Guthrie's letter to John Cage.
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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
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On Not Choosing The #2 Homestuck Winner
I'm getting a lot of dissapointment that I didn't choose the #2 winner, which was Rex Duodecim Angelus. Here's why I couldn't choose it:
Each week I have 7 days to arrange a song for you. If I spend 3 days on waiting to hear back from the song's composers, then that severely cuts into my deadline to arrange the song.
Looking at the copyright info of Rex Duodecim Angelus, it says by Malcolm Brown (features themes from the album 'Alternia' by Toby "Radiation" Fox and Horschestra by Alexander Rosetti.
So that's 3 separate composers involved, which is the same problem I'm having with Cascade. Simply put: the more parties that are involved, the longer things take to get situated.
So Fuschia Ruler is the song that I've heard back from the composer, and since I'm on a tight deadline to please your Homestuck desires (and since I only have 7 days and can't wait around forever), I decided it's better to arrange Fuschia Ruler now, than to wait indefinitely for another song.
I'm considering perhaps maybe even doing a Homestuck-themed month: 1 arrangement per week. Is that something exciting you'd want?
But rest assured, you voted for Cascade, and that's the winner fair and square. Feel free to message me, let me know your thoughts, if I'm doing a bad job (or a good job), or whatever. "For Orchestra" is my dream, and I'm glad you enjoy my work. I'm trying my best, and I need to hear your feedback so I can improve and keep making your favorite songs come alive :)
I hope to arrange Cascade tho soon, but it may be a few weeks until everything is in place and I can get started on that.
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- jaegerleesi said: a Homestuck month sounds great! i love your compositions and Homestuck. i can't wait to hear everything!! and the thing with Cascade is totally understandable, it's huge. i'm really excited for Fuchsia Ruler!
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- pbhead said: au contraire. I am sorry I was not specific as i should have been. I realized Rex had the same problems of cascade, which should have left the third option, S Jungle. The FPTP note was to suggest a second vote, allowing you time and fans second pick.
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I saw Black Swan and thought it was pretty tops. The movie is based around a young ballerina who is dancing the lead in Swan Lake. The story behind this ballet is pretty simple. A young prince runs away from his kingdom to escape an arranged marriage. In search of love he comes upon a lake full of swans and is startled by featheredish girl (paging Kanye West), Odette. Turns out, Odette was a princess who was turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart and the lake is actually made of her parents' tears, way harsh Tai. Long story short, to break the curse the prince must marry Odette. Fearful he might lose control over his prisoner, Von Rothbart disguises his daughter Odile as a black swan who tricks the prince into marriage. Forlorn with heartbreak despite the apologies of her prince, Odette jumps to her death and drowns in her lake. I think that's how it goes anyway, my ballet knowledge is a little rusty.
1. I'm a Man Repeller, look at my feathers.
Top by Nina Ricci, skirt by Dolce & Gabbana, shoes by Erdem
Dress by Alexander McQueen, shoes by Chanel
3. I don't want no scrubs.
Dress by Valentino, shoes by Alexander McQueen
Oh, also…there's a Black Swan meme on memegenerator.net…I mean…get into it.
You should also know, Swan Lake is loosely based on my life.
All images from Vogue UK.
I am so frightfully tired this morning and I have no idea why. I need to get it together because tonight is the most important night of my life thus far, the premiere of Deathly Hallows. Today, let's take a look at quarter Veela Fleur Delacour. We're first presented with the Beauxbatons student in The Goblet of Fire but she comes back strong towards the end of the series after marrying Ron's brother, Bill. Now, since she's basically part nymph and one of Beauxbatons' brightest students you know she'd have some killer style. Enjoy it, y'all.
1. That vampire from Twilight wouldn't take me to the Yule Ball.
Dress by Erdem, shoes by Peter Pilotto
2. Whatever, I'm marrying Bill Weasley, my favorite Ginger
Dress by Stella McCartney, shoes by Valentino
3. Welcome to Shell Cottage
Dress by Valentino, shoes by Nina Ricci
All images from Vogue UK.
As you well know, I am a huge fan of the Harry Potter books & films. With the impending release of Deathly Hallows, I've decided to dedicate this week to our favorite Harry Potter characters. Many of them have made appearances before, including my all time favorite post, Luna Lovegood. Today, I tried my hand at Hermione Granger. Hermione was exceedingly difficult because the runways of Paris, Milan, London and New York don't really cater to the denim and striped sweater wearing Witch we've all come to love. So imagine this as a "high fashion Hermione," lame I know but whatever. Enjoy.
1. "We've looked a hundred times!" "Not in the restricted section…"
Suit by Proenza Schouler, coat and clutch by Michael Kors, shoes by Dries Van Noten
2. "Is that Hermione Granger? With Viktor Krum?"
Dress by Jason Wu, shoes by Nina Ricci
3. Casting a Confundus Charm on Cormac at Quidditch Trials
Coat by Derek Lam, dress by Jonathan Saunders, shoes by Paul Smith
Any suggestions for the next character?
All images from Vogue UK.
You see this? You see this right here? This is Queen Elizabeth I. She was pretty much the most badass monarch to grace England…right up there with Eleanor of Aquitane and Queen Vicky (Victoria and I were on a nickname basis.) I'm sure you all know her well from your high school history classes and various wikipedia adventures so I won't get into it. But let's just say if you ascend the throne only to become a patron of the arts and fearless leader you'd probably have some pretty sick style.
1. An Armada? Please Phillip, this is so childish.
Dress by Christopher Kane, shoes by Dries van Noten
2. You know what, we're gonna call this "The Golden Age."
Dress by Giambattista Valli, shoes by Alexander McQueen
3. Seriously? I'm Henry VIII's daughter, you have no idea who you're messing with.
Dress by Oscar de la Renta, jacket by Marc Jacobs, shoes by Nina Ricci
All images from Vogue UK.
Everybody knows the story of My Fair Lady. Two bored aristocrats happen upon a girl who might be a little down on her luck but because of the grit of the street they can't see how pretty she is. They decide to take her under their wing as some kind of game or sport. A few scenes later they throw her in a nice dress and suddenly they fall in love because she's beautiful. Rags to riches, blah blah blah. Maybe that was a little harsh, but that's the basic story. Let's watch Eliza's transformation through the story, shall we?
1. I'm poor, buy flowers from me.
Skirt by Rodarte, shirt by Jil Sander, shoes by Chloe
2. Now I'm going to the embassy ball, yay!
Dress by Oscar de la Renta, shoes by Nina Ricci
3. I could have danced all night
Dress by Chloe, shoes by Dries Van Noten.
sidenote: these are out of order. but it looks better with the odlr in the middle, sue me.
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In what is the biggest surprise of the day among cuts announced so far by the Green Bay Packers – quarterback Graham Harrell will be looking for a new home, meaning the Packers, at least at this time, have decided to go with just Aaron Rodgers and Matt Flynn as their quarterbacks.
It's somewhat surprising given the success Harrell has had this preseason. Many, including lombardiave, considered him a lock to make the team, not only because he has shown promise, but because in this age of the quarterback, how could a team go with just two? The Packers seem pretty confident in Rodgers and Flynn staying healthy.
According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, the Packers have at this point about 3:30 p.m., announced the release of 12 players, including Harrell. Rookie defensive end Lawrence Guy was also released, signed an agreement that would bring him back to the team with the stipulation he be place on the injured reserve list. That means the team thinks highly enough of Guy that they are willing to cut a deal like this.
Another surprise has been the announcement that safety M.D. Jennings has reportedly made the team. Jennings, as you might remember, made big special teams plays the final two preseason games – recovering two onside kicks, the first successfully completed by the Packers that led to the game-winning field goal by Mason Crosby and the send last week when he recovered the onside kick attempted by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Joby Branion, the agent who represents both Graham Harrell and rookie tight end Ryan Taylor, has told the Green Bay Press Gazette that Taylor has made the team – not a huge surprise given Taylor's large presence on special teams and his skills in catching the football.
According to the Press Gazette, here's a running list of the players the Packers have cut so far:
* FB Jon Hoese
* WR Kerry Taylor
* WR Chastin West
* S Anthony Bratton
* S Brandon Underwood
* G Caleb Schlauderaff
* NT Jay Ross
* DE Lawrence Guy, injury settlement, plan to bring him to IR and develop him in the offseason
* CB Brandain Ross
* WR Tori Gurley
* QB Graham Harrell
* C/G Nick McDonald
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The Dolphins and Whales are helping to birth a new Higher Consciousness within all of Humanity.
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Thank you to all of the gifted presenters and open-hearted participants and volunteers who made the first Cetacean Summit a huge success!
2nd Cetacean Summit September 15-19, 2015
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The Cetacean Summit is a monumental gathering and celebration of people who have a deep Spiritual connection to Dolphins and
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Frances May's Patchwork Nursery
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Baby's Name: Frances May, 10 months
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Room Size: 4 meters x 4 meters
"Distinctively sweet, luxurious, beautiful and somewhat quirky" is how Kathryn, a.k.a Lady Bird, describes the bespoke quilts she sews for her business, Maggie and Sparrow. It's no surprise, then, that the nursery she created for her most recent baby bird, Frances, has the same qualities. The room contains a mix of pieces that are vintage and modern, smooth and textured, sophisticated and sweet. And from this eclectic patchwork comes the warm, soft feeling of a much loved quilt.
What was your inspiration in designing this room?
Creating a calm and neutral space with vintage, modern and quirky pieces. I was particularly drawn to duck egg blue and used this as my base colour. The eclectic collection of deer's, rabbits and birds is somewhat accidental. I guess I was drawn to them and I love what they represent. The deer represents gentleness, caring and kindness, rabbits adventure and birds freedom and these are quality's I hope are important to Frances too.
What is your favorite element?
The "art" wall as they are pieces I collected through out the pregnancy and they all have their own special meaning, story and emotion attached to them. They set the tone of the room and no matter what time of night or how many times I was getting up as soon as I entered her room I felt the magic that had been created.
What was your biggest challenge?
I didn't really have one. Frances room evolved over time. I didn't have a clear vision of how I wanted it too look. I just found pieces by looking through second hand stores and spending to many hours on etsy, I just bought pieces I loved and it all seemed to work together. An eclectic / patchwork of old meets new!
Please tell us about the pieces you made in this room.
There are many handmade pieces in her room as this is my preference when shopping. I made the patchwork quilt of course. I love it as I was able to include all my favourite fabrics. I also did little things like painting frames white and I also had the rug dyed as it was originally cream but had collected a few stains over the years but was a too good a rug to throw away!
What was your biggest indulgence?
The vintage timber dresser. I have wanted one for ever, and when I saw this one I new it would be perfect in the nursery to hide all those things you don't want people to see!
Any resources/stores you'd like to share with us?
A huge thank you to Kathryn, and please be sure to have a look at her beautiful online shop, Maggie and Sparrow, to see her gorgeous handmade quilts. They are truly works of art.
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Where did you get that super cute bassinet? I love it and want to find one.
I am in LOVE with that dresser! Is it purchasable somewhere or was it a thrift/antique find? LOVE it...need something like it...
Thanks so much for this gorgeous tour - I'm so glad we get to see more than just a few shots.
I'd love to know about the Moses Basket - it's so difficult to find plain ones!
tiny globe bookends? I love it.
What lovely old-world charm for a new babes!
gorgeous room
Gorgeous!!!!!.... and the dresser....oh! the dresser.....
love the room - fantastic! Question - where did you get the wicker chair? wonderful shape
I love this child's mobile! Pleasa tell where you found it?
love the rug! Where did you find it?
Absolutely beautiful! I love the collage above the bed--charming!
This is probably the loveliest nursery ever on this site. So subtle, so calm, so beautiful ! I'm jealous...
I love this room! That dresser is amazing, and I love the little touches too.
The dresser to me looks like an antique Hoosier cabinet, probably used in a general store. I wouldn't be surprised if the cupboards were lined with metal.
gorgeous room... and (I can't believe no one has said this yet) the best part is that adorable baby!
@kellystokes... have you tried Seed's Pod? It's really plain, and it's lovely! We had it for our youngest and loved it. http://www.babykingdom.com.au/Seed+Organic+Pod_1389_sec4.html
Such a lovely nursery, and always love seeing Australian homes featured!
I love the dresser and the old baby shoes on the wall. The general calmness of this nursery is amazing. Lovely!
That Hoosier cabinet is pretty awesome.
I saw Frances's nursery in Little One magazine. Still as gorgeous the second time around. Especially love the beautiful quilt.
This really is my favorite nursery by far and a great source for my future plans... Would love to know where the Happy letters are from and the Noah's ark?
Very nice! I love the bassinet/moses basket- could you please tell us who makes it?
Google is your friend mlw1975.
Pretty sure it's http://www.funkykids.com.au/detprod-259/furniture/beds/gertie-me-moses-basket.html and also pretty sure it's not sold anymore nor available in US.
This room is just elegant!
lovely :)
just a thought though- is that crib from ikea?... if so, it looks like the one that has been recalled...
Thanks everyone for all your kind comments. This room brings me so much joy. And I loved creating every aspect of it. To answer some questions I will be quick and Brief....
The Bassinet was bought from an Australian company www.gertieandme.com.au
The dresser was a thrift find I belive it originally belonged in the kitchen.
The wicker chair was bought from my Fave second hand dealer "Coastal Trader" her in Victoria, Australia.
I custom make and sell the mobiles.
The rug was bought years ago from a local carpet shop.
The "Happy" Letters were bought from www.memidesigns.com
The Noahs ark was a gift I received from a dear friend when Frances was born. I know she bought it from www.ballyhooart.com.au
and yes the cot is from Ikea however to the best of my knowledge it has not been recalled here in Australia. But I would like to know why if you care to share.
Thanks again for sharing you comments xx
Beautiful, eclectic, relaxed...exactly what I would want for a baby's room. What is the wall color?
Thanks for sharing!
Only cribs made and sold between certain dates were recalled. Owners could either get rid of the crib or update certain pieces to make the crib safe. You can find more (official) information here: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml11/11135.html
Love the moses, chair and little shoes hanging! Beautiful job...very soothing look!
So tasteful!! I'm loving those little 'Happy' letters!
I love this room! What is the paint color on the walls? I have been looking for something like this.


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Nazeem Muhajarine, assistant professor of community health and epidemiology, will receive a $250,000 National Health Research Scholar Award from Health Canada, one of only three awarded nationally.
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Barack Obama was flat.
A surprisingly long parade of Democrats and media commentators described the speech less as a failure than a fizzle--an oddly missed opportunity to frame his presidency or the nation's choice in a fresh or inspirational light.
Even those who liked the president's performance generally went no further than saying that he was effective in doing a job that needed to be done, in a tough-minded if prosaic style.
(Also on POLITICO: TV pundits split on Obama speech)
These shoulder-shrug reactions confront Obama with a question no one expected to be asking when the week in Charlotte began: How did a president for whom stirring speeches were the engine of his rise to power manage to give, at best, only the third-most compelling speech at a convention devoted to his own re-election?
The answer is not simply that Michelle Obama's and Bill Clinton's performances were especially strong.
It is that Obama made a seemingly deliberate choice to keep his remarks chained tightly to the politics of 2012--a race that has been defined by relentless, almost mechanical efforts to motivate voters with narrow appeals to specific constituencies and to destroy the opposition as a credible alternative.
The performance underscored the limits of Obama's oratorical skills in the context of a grind-it-out campaign strategy.
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In a sign that Obama's high command recognized that were doubts about just how helpful the speech was, though, a senior aide went to reporters on Air Force One Friday to reveal the results of their focus groups on the address - something the campaign rarely does publicly and surely wouldn't have felt the need to do if the speech had been received as a home run.
According to the pool report, the official said the campaign conducted research on the various speeches "and I think the American people responded very well to the president's speech."
"They first of all found it to be optimistic, they found it to be credible in terms of his ideas and goals that would help the economy," said the Obama adviser, adding that their research indicated positive reaction on Obama's discussion of foreign policy.
The reaction among even many progressive commentators was less effusive.
"Let's be blunt. Barack Obama gave a dull and pedestrian speech tonight, with nary an interesting thematic device, policy detail, or even one turn of phrase," wrote Michael Tomasky, the editor of the progressive journal Democracy, at The Daily Beast, in a line that was representative of other commentary.
James Carville, who wanted something bolder, was disappointed. "Certainly not the best speech of this convention," Carville tweeted minutes after Obama left the podium with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia.
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The speech "got the job done. But I didn't feel any real passion in the delivery. It felt more like an actor soldiering through his lines," wrote Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. "There was nothing memorable, nothing forward looking, and nothing that drew a contrast with Romney in sharp, gut-level strokes. Obama was, to be charitable, no more than the third best of the Democratic convention's prime time speakers in 2012."
"Safe speech," one underwhelmed Democratic strategist told POLITICO. "It's kind of like you ask someone out on a date, and [at the end] they say, 'Oh, he's nice.'"
Obama himself struck a defensive note even as he began speaking, seeming to acknowledge his own disdain for the 2012 campaign.
"Trivial things become big distractions," the president said. "Serious issues become sound bites. The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. And if you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me, so am I."
Yet Obama then went about reprising some of the same attacks that have become background noise on TV sets in swing states across the country.
He mocked Romney for gaffes, insulting the Brits before their Olympics, and went about touching the various Democratic constituencies - gays, abortion-rights supporters, Hispanics - in the same fashion his party had all week in Charlotte.
It was a long ways from Obama's original convention speech in which he attempted to bridge division, not stoke differences for his own gain.
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"He's got to win," responded former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis when asked on his way out of Charlotte why Obama seems resigned to playing by rules he purports to disdain. "He's got to win this thing and then he's going to come back to [Republicans] and say,' I won, we got four years so let's be constructive."
A senior Obama official, when posed with the same question, said much the same when speaking without attribution.
"How would a speech like the one you claim to want help him win the election?" asked the official. "Think about what we need to do to win, motivate our supporters and communicate to swing voters the choice between competing visions for the economy. The speech was designed to meet those goals and did so incredibly effectively."
Two Democrats with close ties to the Obama campaign, who were familiar with the thinking that went into the address, said the goal was essentially to bring Obama back to earth in terms of how he's viewed by voters. The Democrats said the campaign believed Obama would get hit hard if he looked to score rhetorical points and so the president instead went more for pragmatism. The campaign is feeling, despite the criticisms, pretty good about the outcome, said the Democrats.
The sources argued that it was wrong to compare the speech to a keynote address and to historic speeches in 2008, noting that the Thursday night address has never been a benchmark that Chicago has pointed to as an inflection point, as opposed to Mitt Romney's convention speech, which Republicans had focused on for months as an opportunity for the GOP nominee.
Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) on Friday called it an "appropriate" speech for the moment and said Obama was "very clear about his accomplishments, major challenges and the contrast" with the GOP. "He ended on a very high note," she added.
Had Obama gone for soaring, Schwartz said, he would have run the risk of failing to connect with the real difficulties some voters still face and missed the opportunity to explain the steps he took to stabilize and strengthen the economy.
Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) said Obama didn't need to fly high. "I just thought it was somewhere in the middle of his speeches. On a scale of 1 to 10, it was a 6 or 7," Clay said. That was reflective, he said, of "maturity and statesmanship" on the part of the president.
Nathan Daschle, the former executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, suggested this appraisal was a rationalization, and that "soaring rhetoric" and a vision for the future "aren't mutually exclusive."
"Disappointed," Daschle concluded, asked for his reaction to the speech in a POLITICO interview. "It was sort of a metaphor for his entire first term. There was an opportunity to lay out a vision for the country, where we are going, how we are going to get there, and why. The why is important. The why is his economic theory that ties together raising some people's taxes while spending more on certain domestic programs. Does he believe government spending leads to economic growth and more jobs?"
Rather than explaining the connections between policy positions and a larger direction for the country--something many people said Clinton did well in his ebullient, conversational Wednesday speech--Daschle said, "He mostly strung together a bunch of electoral pressure points. He's a great speaker, but last night was not a great speech."
Some suggested that Obama's tone reflected the particular challenges of incumbency.
"Clinton sounded more like Obama in 2008, looking to heal the nation. And Obama sounded more like Clinton in 1996, seeking to divide the country," said former George W. Bush strategist Mark McKinnon.
If Democrats were a bit disappointed, many conservative commentators were far more withering.
"I was stunned. This is a man who gave one of the great speeches of our time in 2004, and he gave one of the emptiest speeches I have ever heard on a national stage," said Charles Krauthammer on Fox News Thursday night. "This is a man who believes that government can and should do a lot. There is nothing in here that tells us how he's going to go from today to tomorrow. For any of the so called goals and what government is going to do, what is he going to enact?"
"In the shadow of Clinton's performance, the president often felt flat, rote, and unconvincing -- almost as though he wasn't quite convinced by his own arguments and promises, and felt a little awkward selling them to us," wrote the New York Times' Ross Douthat.
"His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There's too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat. He was somber, and his message was essentially banal," wrote Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal. "It was stale and empty. He's out of juice."
Even more sympathetic observers said the lofty rhetoric of Obama's 2008 convention speech was replaced with slimmed-down ambition and goals appropriately reflecting the president's acquaintance with presidential power and its limits.
"[T]his was a modest speech. It was a more humble vision," wrote Ezra Klein at The Washington Post. "And so it didn't ask you to believe that Obama could accomplish miracles. It didn't ask you to believe he could change Washington or stop the oceans from rising. The promises were more modest, the president explicit about how often he had been humbled, and the agenda was meant to make voters feel safer with the Democrat they know than the Republican they don't."
"It's a more dignified speech, but he's scarred. He's more mature and he's not promising as much," said CNN's David Gergen on Thursday evening. "There is very little here in the way of promises about jobs in terms of where we're going on this, how much we're going to get the deficit down quickly. I thought he lowered the bar in terms of what he was trying to achieve."
"The speech was dominated by unexplained goals that were often worthy, but also familiar, modest and incommensurate with the problems at hand," wrote New York Times columnist David Brooks. "[C]hange is still the issue, and the focus of his solid but not extraordinary speech was incremental improvement."
The modest goals were accompanied by a lack of specificity, which commentators dug into as well.
"I went into the speech looking for a very specific agenda about what this president wanted to pursue if he was reelected. You're in Congress. I didn't get that from last night. I still don't know in January what he's going to tell you guys in Congress to do. He talked about some goals, in terms of manufacturing jobs and the deficit, but what is this president's legislative agenda?" said The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza on CNN's "Starting Point" Friday morning.
While many commentators agreed that Obama fell short of his own high bar for speeches, it's even hard to make the case his address was appreciably better than Romney's. In both cases, it was a strong finish, punctuated by a thundering response inside the arena, that redeemed the speeches.
It is fitting that neither Obama nor Romney did anything to clarify the race - they entered tied, performed at similar levels, and likely left Florida and North Carolina tied.
Jim VandeHei, Maggie Haberman and Tim Mak contributed to this story.


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