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A Television Review by Akash Singh
There's a quiet catharsis to this week's episode of Star Wars Rebels that simmers throughout, from the first glances at a morbidly empty Geonosis to the warm meteor that provides any semblance of warmth to its two humanoid inhabitants. The Honorable Ones is possibly the most thematically and character-rich episode the show has ever done and it even surpasses last week's stupendous installment as further proof that this half of the season largely knows what it's doing and how to do it well. As the episode's title suggests, The Honorable Ones is quite concerned about the concept of honor itself. More immediately in place in a show like Game of Thrones, here the concept is much more muted and that works to the episode's effect quite well. Kallus, in by far his best appearance on the show yet, has his own code of honor and unsurprisingly it's a rigid, militaristic one. The Empire is not the evil force that took over the Republic in his mind, but simply a new government that's been around long enough for it to be the only one he really knows (the stupid 19-year gap is by far Star Wars's most idiotic timeline, but whatever). He simply took up training and arms within this structure and the honor code of the Imperial forces became his own. There were rules that must be followed. Those rules help craft an orderly and peaceful society. Those who rebel are breaking that stability and cause chaos and at a certain point, they go from being an annoyance and transform into a true menace. It's an honor code that makes sense in a very narrow perspective, but if that narrow perspective has been one's entire existence, than it becomes much easier to see how Kallus became the man he is at the moment when him and Zeb crash into a cave on one of Geonosis's moons.
The opening shots of Geonosis are as sharp as the landscape animation has become in recent episodes, the show taking full advantage of moving away from the dreary grass plains of Lothal (the shots of the same planet from the surface of the moon, however, are even more so stunning). As the Ghost crew approach the site where the Clone Wars officially began, there's an eerie presence across the massive building site sprawled out vastly before Genesis's planetary rings. Anyone who has gone arduously through the Star Wars fan experience recognizes that the vestiges are those of the Death Star. Rex, having had some experience of his own on the desert planet, has the crew conduct a scan but everything comes up empty. There was not a single beating heart down on that massive planet. The implication of what had happened was loud and clear, yet that same implication comes forward under a varying perspective and it's illuminating in more ways than one. The Ghost crew and the audience, even if this is an individual's first foray into the Star Wars universe, understand quite succinctly that a genocide had taken place. It's not a novel move by any means (removing the workers who make the super weapon has been a villainous move in countless narratives), but it's indicative of the most ruthless lengths the Empire will go to eradicate anyone they perceive as a threat and in this case it was less knowledge than the fact there were Geonosians who knew about the weapon. It is difficult to believe in any logical frame that every single one of the Geonosians were involved with the construction of the Death Star or were even aware of a massive weapon that size existing in the first place (not that there's a single sympathetic Geonosian character in Star Wars). It is not difficult to imagine, however, that they were all brutally killed simply for knowing or existing at the wrong time in history.
Kallus and Zeb's journey in the cave begins simply enough, with the two of them crashing after a space battle, their animosities oozing through effortlessly. From the moment the two walk into the frigid opening of the cave, the simmering tensions joined in the genocide of the Lassat burst in several ways. Kallus, for all of his bravado, is sure that he will breathe his last on the moon while Zeb is wholeheartedly convinced that his friends would come and rescue him as they have always done. If the Empire somehow found them first, Kallus assures Zeb that if he cooperated, he would get a fair trial. His naiveté is hilarious to Zeb, who knows a thing or two about Imperial justice. But that comment also reveals the extent to which Kallus is enshrined in the privilege of his system, that he simply cannot fathom as a reality the Empire committing an act of injustice. His ethical code of "the strong will survive and the weak will perish" fits right within the Empire and every moral conundrum he may have ever had is convenient wiped away by it. Kallus is also fairly cavalier about the Rebels as a whole, which is surprising considering how often he's been bested by them. At every turn, the Ghost crew manages a miraculous escape and I'm often left wondering at how it is that Kallus still has a job when Imperial officers who have arguably committed less gargantuan errors were gutted by the Grand Inquisitor at Tarkin's behest. Kallus nevertheless believes that his ethical code of the strong surviving means the Empire will inevitably win in the end and it's hard to completely argue with that perspective. The Rebellion, for its minor victories at this point, seems inconsequential next to the might of the Empire, which seems infinite. For someone like Kallus and indeed probably any officer of his rank or otherwise, the Rebellion is simply a minor annoyance that would get stomped out sooner or later.
Zeb knows this, but he also knows the fight the Rebellion has and the loyalty that it inspires. The Empire simply doesn't have that. Sure, loyalty seems irrelevant next to a Death Star (whose copycats need no longer be featured in upcoming Star Wars projects, thank you very much), but it is an extremely powerful force that can bind together courage unlike anything else. Kallus feels loyalty to the Empire but he also felt loyalty to his squadron that was deployed to Onderon to keep the peace. Each of his fellow soldiers were picked off by a Lassat mercenary who worked for Saw Guerrera. The gun Kallus carries was not a trophy of the Lassat genocide but a marker for his comrades that he had lost. Zeb's expression immediately disquiets as he notes that Kallus couldn't judge all Lassat by the actions of one. "Does that sentiment apply to Imperials?" Kallus asks in a quiet response and Zeb doesn't have an answer. It's a valid point to raise and one that Star Wars often doesn't raise. I've said this all along, that the original trilogy may be greater in execution, but it is lacking thematically compared to the prequels, where the moral complexities felt like true conundrums in spite of the overall writing quality. The audience is almost always resolutely on the side of the Rebellion, but the rebels have committed acts of terror themselves and the moral quandaries around that are often brushed aside. This by no means is the crafting of an equivalency between the Rebellion and the Empire or an excusing of Kallus's lack of awareness of what the government he serves is truly capable of and under his own nose. It's a simple recognition that such conflicts are extremely messy. Kallus drops a bombshell into this mix, noting quietly that the Lassat massacre was never supposed to be one and he simply took credit for it after the fact, to raise his Imperial profile, no doubt. It's another wrinkle in this complex relationship, one that sinks in but has yet to reveal how far it truly goes. But as their arduous entrapment comes to an end and the two choose to save each other, the episode wins on a marker of the strength of conscience over that of animosity. I don't expect an immediate friendship by any means, there is simply too much bitterness there for that to happen, but that this conflict could be rendered with such moral complexity and understanding is the series's most definitive accomplishment to date.
Great/Not So Great Moments Not Mentioned Above:
+"In case things go like they usually do?"
+David Oyelowo and Steve Blum really knocked it out of the park this week
+"I never asked questions."
+"I didn't take it as a trophy."
+"I was only doing my duty."
+Name dropping of Saw Guerrera from Season 5 of The Clone Wars
+So is Kallus defecting or committing a heroic act of self-sacrifice? Him witnessing Zeb's enthusiastic and warm welcome from the Ghost crew contrasts sharply with the cold, detached isolation he garners in his Imperial quarters. That he keeps the rock Zeb gave him to keep him warm is a vital note of symbolism that ought to garner significant fruits down the road.
Episode Title: The Honorable Ones
Written by: Kevin Hopps
Directed by: Brad Rau
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Monday, August 20, 2007
The Historical Undertow of Constitutional Envy
One wonders what, aside from sheer ignorance, animates people to adopt doctrinaire leftist ideas when they have proven time and again to not only be ineffective, but to generally make matters worse. At a certain point, you have to begin wondering whether there is actually an unconscious desire to do just that -- perhaps something reflecting Freud's idea of a death instinct in human beings.
In taking the long view of history, it is almost necessary to posit such a soph-defeating anti-evolutionary or anti-divine force in the world, if for no other reason than to have an explanatory "place holder" until we discover what this force actually is. It's the same with the notion of satan, or the old Zoroastrian idea that cosmic history is a battle between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, or light and dark respectively. If it's not, then it might as well be.
Even Democrats used to see things this way. For example, President Truman once remarked that "God has created [the United States] and brought us to our present position of power and strength" in order to defend "spiritual values -- the moral code -- against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them."
The war against Islamic jihad is nothing other than a struggle against pure, unalloyed evil. But what if you are too sophisticated to believe in the primitive idea of evil? Then you are probably too sophisticated to survive your own magical ideology. In naively embracing "peace" you are ensuring your own doom, which frankly wouldn't bother me if I and my friends and family and beloved cosmonauts didn't have to go down with you.
It's too bad we can't conduct a controlled experiment between Red America and Blue America. Then, once and for all, we could have a true test of which ideas are the more functional and create more economic prosperity and moral goodness.
In Blue America they would have high taxes, a mammoth, intrusive federal government, economically crippling Kyoto-style restrictions, government enforced racial discrimination, open borders (except into our country -- to preserve the integrity of the experiment we'd have to have a big fence to keep the Blue meanies from escaping into our beautiful Red America), a permanent ban on vouchers to ensure the stranglehold the Teachers Union has on education, a religious test to keep people of faith out of public life, no guns, no smoking, lots of abortions, inefficient and insanely expensive "free" healthcare, even more special rights and protections for criminals and terrorists, a ban on evil places like Walmart which provide vital goods to people of modest means at rock bottom prices, college at someone else's expense for everyone, no matter how stupid, and a high minimum wage to suppress employment and spur inflation.
As I mentioned a couple of posts back, if your conception of human nature is faulty, then your political philosophy is going to be dysfunctional. One of the reasons leftism is so inherently dysfunctional is that it revolves around the appeasement of perhaps the single most spiritually destructive human emotion of them all, constitutional envy. In the formulation of the brilliant psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, envy is the primary mode of expression of the death instinct. It is present in everyone, but can be exacerbated by early childhood experiences so that later in life it becomes a crippling barrier to psychological health and happiness. For envy prevents one from appreciating what one has. It can only attack the person or system believed to possess what one lacks. In this regard, it is the polar opposite of gratitude, which is one of the prerequisites of human happiness. As a matter of fact, Klein's most famous book is entitled Envy and Gratitude.
At the heart of leftism is envy. Now, I am not a libertarian. I do not believe we should rid ourselves of all leftist ideas even if we could. But this is not because I believe leftist ideas work. Rather, it is because I believe that the force of envy is so strong in human beings, that the culture must have some means to channel it in an officially sanctioned way, or the society will implode from within. But the question is, how much should we appease envy? Because if you go too far, as they have in Europe, then you will reach that tipping point where the society begins to spiritually rot from within, because envy is an intrinsically sick and unhealthy beast that can never be made healthy.
In America we try to appease envy by tolerating such odious things as trial lawyers, overtaxing the wealthy and productive, racial quotas, and a general relaxing of standards in every arena so that people might feel "special." The problem is, none of these things work to eliminate envy, for the simple reason that you cannot eliminate envy. The leftist thinks that the solution is to further appease envy, which simply leads to a vicious cycle of more and more envy, until no one is allowed to have any more than anyone else.
This, of course, was the ideal of communism, which ended up creating the most petty and envious population you could imagine. It wasn't just in the Soviet Union, but even in the idealistic socialist experiments of the early Zionists. They had the idea -- contrary to all scripture and all understanding of human nature -- that the kibbutzim would eliminate the problem of envy and create heaven on earth. But the opposite happened. Envy could not be appeased, and found ever more minute and destructive ways to express itself. Today very few kibbutzim remain, as Israel eventually adopted American ideals of free market capitalism, which unleashed tremendous creativity, innovation and economic growth because it tapped into its most critical natural resource: Jewish culture.
Since leftism is a magical belief system that is no more effective in the long run than a kooky religion that keeps predicting the second coming or the landing of aliens, one must conclude that its benefits are mainly psychological and emotional. Based on my past flirtation with leftism, I think this is pretty much on the mark. It is also no coincidence that I wasn't particularly spiritual back then, so it obviously tapped into that archetypal dimension that was going unused at the time. In other words, leftism rides piggyback on properly religious impulses from which it derives so much of its energy and fervor. Leftist ideas may be ineffective in the world, but they are highly effective (in a perverse way) in transforming the psyche of the person who believes them, and that is the point.
A religious person knows that the world is corrupt and fallen. In fact, this banality falls under the heading of something one cannot not know. However, depending upon whether or not one is religious, one will respond very differently to this realization. For the leftist, it means that the present social arrangement (not man as such) is corrupt to the core and must be torn down -- with extreme revolutionary prejudice if necessary.
It is no accident that leftists believe that there is some unique "culture of corruption" among conservatives, when the most generous analysis will demonstrate that the corruption is spread about equally between left and right, because the problem is within the human heart, not with ideology per se. But I'm pretty sure that if you conducted just a little investigative research, you would find that the corruption is much more common and pervasive on the left. People must have very short memories, because the Clinton administration was possibly the most corrupt in history.
Let's look at a recent example of corruption, Mark Foley, who was denounced by Republicans and forced into retirement as soon as his naughty IMs became known. But Democrat Gerry Studds, who actually raped (assuming the age of consent was 18) an underage male page? Here's how the liberal media eulogized him last year. See if you notice any difference in treatment of the two cases:
"Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress and a demanding advocate for New England fishermen and for gay rights, died early Saturday at Boston University Medical Center, his husband (sic) said....
"[H]e was also a leading critic of President Ronald Reagan's clandestine support of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. He staunchly opposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, which Studds once described as 'the Edsel of the 1980s' -- overpriced and oversold.
"His homosexuality was revealed through scandal. In 1983, he was censured by the House of Representatives for having had an affair 10 years earlier with a 17-year-old congressional page. For Mr. Studds, formal and dignified, a model of old New England reserve, the discovery sparked intense anguish, friends said.
"Once outed, however, Mr. Studds refused to buckle to conservative pressure to resign.... [H]e never apologized. He defended the relationship as consensual and condemned the investigation, saying it had invaded his privacy....
"And in addition to speaking on the House floor on behalf of same-sex marriage, he set an example. In 2004, he and his longtime partner, Dean Hara, became one of the first couples to marry under a Massachusetts law allowing same-sex marriage.
"Though his name had barely been mentioned in Washington since he retired, the resignation late last month of Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., revived interest in Mr. Studds' dalliance with a teenage page in 1983."
So let's get this right. Foley is a vicious homosexual pervert and child predator that corrupt Republicans knew about and condoned merely because they wanted to hold on to political power. But Studds was a courageous openly gay congressman who was outed and persecuted by Sandinista-hating conservatives who invaded his privacy merely because of a dalliance with an underage page.
I think I get it. If a Republican homosexual asks a page for a photograph, he's a pervert and a pedophile. But if a Democratic homosexual rapes an underage page, he's a champion of gay rights. Any questions?
To be continued tomorrow.
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I would like to see the experiment of splitting the country into red/blue (this sounds familiar, wasn't that tried in 1860 something and some bad guys won. Oh well) I would have to move to a red state but on the plus side we could pick up all the blue states for 10 cents on the dollar in about 30 years, or less.
- River Cocytus said...
Bob, since the core of Sanctification is Transcending (and not eliminating) the passions, flaws, etc, which is to say - cleaning the mirror - what would you say is the Transcendent form of Envy? For instance, the transcendent form of 'sexuality' is marriage. Or if you will, lust is a a perversion of sexuality, which is transcended through marriage.
Perhaps we're talking about Gratitude? But then, is Envy a perversion of Ownership?
the lefties are masters of spin. I suggest we get wise too.
- walt said...
"Get wise" goes together pretty well with the word "master" -- not so much with "masters of spin."
- Smoov said...
This experiment already exists. It's called "Canada".
Canada enjoys a standard of living which is lower than that in the US more or less in direct correlation to the degree to which socialism has been implemented to a greater degree.
Don't be misled though. It is a question of degree. The US has far too much socialism, and Canada is at the end of the day primarily a free-market democracy not unlike the US.
Canadians have a lower standard of living but they don't know this--or at best dimly apprehend it--because of that other aspect of leftist power: censorship, propaganda and control over the mainstream media. Of course it helps little that most of the mainstream US media reinforces these same myths. Canadians hear from the likes of Michael Moore and CNN how wonderful their "superior" health care system is. Counter-evidence is ruthlessly suppressed.
The US too can ratchet down standard of living. The problem is that it will be even harder for Americans to know this is happening since there is literally nobody to compare yourself to. At least Canadians can actually compare themselves to Americans with a little perseverance and effort (why does the same car cost 35% more 10 miles across the border?). If Americans succumb to the Big Sleep of leftism it will be more like the frog in the slowly heated pan of water--they won't realize it is happening and will have no yardstick to measure their regress against.
I read somewhere that leftism has already reduced the standard of living in the US over the past 50 years by some 40% against what it hypothetically could have been.
Americans are not resisting leftism strenuously enough. It is time that the terms "socialist", "anarchist" and "communist" carry the same opprobium that the terms "racist", "Nazi", and "KKK" do. Only when people are ashamed to call themselves socialists publicly will the tide begin to turn...
- juliec said...
might the transcended form of envy be, in a sense, capitalism? By which I mean, when it's working well we may look at what our neighbor has and say "I want that," but what we generally mean is "I want to get my own version," which entails figuring out how to earn the money so you can go out and buy whatever it is for yourself (assuming "it" is a thing and not a person). In other words, for instance "I want an iPhone"* as opposed to "I want JoeBob's iPhone, and besides it's not fair if he has one and I don't, so really it's okay if I take his, or at least make it so he can't have one either."
*and no, I actually don't want an iPhone, it's just the first thing people have wanted lately that came to mind.
- NoMo said...
River - According to the Apostle Paul, love (agape) does not envy (I Cor 13). Therefore, the act of envy only exists apart from the act of agape. I'm not sure there is a "transcendent form of envy."
- Smoov said...
Envy is indeed a soul-corrupting force that explains much on the Left. I don't think we ever entirely lose these negative emotions. Personally I still feel pangs of envy quite regularly. However I am attuned to these now and I am adept and using "spiritual judo" to recognize such feelings and defuse them harmlessly into the ether. At least most of the time. Seriously though, I'm far less envious of others than I once was--something that can only be achieved through the desire to live a life which is laid bare before God.
If you refine River's proposed model, Capitalism : greed :: marriage : lust. These social patterns harness, channel, and transform many free-floating and destructive aspects to add virtue and value beyond measure.
The transcendent form of sexuality is the Beatific Vision and the Unitive state, full-blown "knowledge" in conformity to the mind of God.
The Orthodox do not find much use for the passions, including zeal (or in the Roman Church's parallel view, "enthusiasm.") Passions are to holiness as disease is to bodily health. "...the healing of the passions of our souls and the diseases of our bodies." -- Kontakion to St. Timothy
The kind of hysteria frequently parsed by Dr. Sanity is in this sense passion squared or to even higher mathematical powers. There is no transcendent possibility there, but to back away slowly into the sunlight.
Or to sum it up in eloquent academic Swedish -- Glofkkj, Syskon, glofkkj!
The point is not to be right, or to have the truth, or anything like that.
The point is to be in power and to call the shots.
Construct your ideology accordingly.
- Robin Starfish said...
On An Island
upon reflection
building a city of light
is not done by hand
- Van said...
stan keho Scrotch said... "The point is not to be right, or to have the truth, or anything like that.
The point is to be in power and to call the shots. Capish? Construct your ideology accordingly."
Thank you Thracymacus. Tell me, which flavor do you prefer, the new Legions, new Caliphate or new Reich?
wv:inhqyqw - in headquarters, why question? So your head isn't lost to unseen quarters.
- juliec said...
"Passions are to holiness as disease is to bodily health."
I have to wonder about that one, Dilys; are there not rather healthy passions and unhealthy ones? There is a difference between zealotry and honest joy in worship. And frankly, the thought of a marriage without passion sounds very cold and depressing, and to my admittedly poor eyes it sounds less than Beatific.
It's fair to say that Jesus had moments of passion (or so it seems to me - He certainly didn't come across as detached when He drove out the moneychangers). Then there was that passage in Revelation about not being lukewarm.
I think that, for some people, especially those who choose a life of holy solitude, there is a great deal of virtue in subduing ones own passions to better attune the self to God. For most people, though, that type of detachment might actually be detrimental.
I may very well be in the wrong here; perhaps there is something I am missing. I just can't get behind the idea that all passions are wrong, but if I've misunderstood somehow then my apologies.
- juliec said...
Those were some good links, by the way, Dilys. Thanks.
- Ricky Raccoon said...
RE envy, healthy passions and unhealthy ones, I think it may be important to check for a difference between:
Envy – which is a resenting of what another person has, as in, you really don't want them to have it anymore,
Desire – which is to long for something that someone else may have, but completely unrelated I think to whether the other person will have theirs anymore if you get yours.
The former being at the heart of leftism and the latter at capitalism.
- Smoov said...
By the way, "Capitalism" is a term that was coined by Karl Marx. It is not a "system" so much as the absence of system.
What we refer to as "capitalism" is more accurately called economic freedom. Free-market economies emerge naturally and spontaneously when the shackles of systematic, top-down control (of which socialism is the prime exmplar) are removed.
Most evil in the world is caused by lack of freedom, and the Left is the cause of most of it.
"Or to sum it up in eloquent academic Swedish -- Glofkkj, Syskon, glofkkj!"
Aha! Just look at that spelling.
wv must be Swedish!
- Mizz E said...
It makes little sense to me to be given passions to deny them... while I would counsel restraint and temperance with respect to desires, we can rationally choose to use them to propel and navigate with upward toward higher consciousness or full-blown "knowledge" in conformity to the mind of God.
- USS Ben USN (Ret) said...
I believe, irt passion, we are all talkin' about the same thing, but perhaps in different context.
Dilys, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you are speaking about the negative context of passions.
Whereas Julie is talkin' about the positive aspect, or positive form of passions.
For instance, in marriage, the passions of the man and woman for each other is a form of celebration and communion of love...and occurs righteously.
However, if that passion were to go astray; directed in a harmful direction, within and without, say in a fantasies of someone other than your wife/husband, then that passion takes the form of lust and adultery, rather than love.
So we must, as Bob has mentioned many times, strive to master our passions and funnel them, in a dispassionate way, in a just and honorable way; honest passion aligned with the Good, True and Beautiful.
That doesn't diminish passion, it fulfills it properly, for passion is a double-edged sword, and we must resist the temptation to allow fleshly passion to control our spirit.
Easier said than done, and sex is only one example.
God demonstrates passion in a consistently Godly way, and it's always Righteous.
That's a high bar to shoot for, but we gno it's possible to get there. :^)
I hope that wasn't as confusing as it sounds...
- USS Ben USN (Ret) said...
y"Even Democrats used to see things this way. For example, President Truman once remarked that "God has created [the United States] and brought us to our present position of power and strength" in order to defend "spiritual values -- the moral code -- against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them."
The last Democratic President who "got it."
"As I mentioned a couple of posts back, if your conception of human nature is faulty, then your political philosophy is going to be dysfunctional."
As well said as I ever heard!
"At the heart of leftism is envy."
Bingo! Rebellion and envy. Couldn't be any clearer.
"A religious person knows that the world is corrupt and fallen. In fact, this banality falls under the heading of something one cannot not know. However, depending upon whether or not one is religious, one will respond very differently to this realization. For the leftist, it means that the present social arrangement (not man as such) is corrupt to the core and must be torn down -- with extreme revolutionary prejudice if necessary."
And therein lies the rub.
Communism is just as evil as the islamofascists, and, ironically, actually enables the jihadists in a sick, perverted way.
You know, that's what I fought against as a US Navy Sailor, and that's what I still fight against today, as all you Raccoons do, in your own, unique way.
Evil is Evil, no matter how you frickin' slice it; be it insidious (the left) or perfidious (islamic jihadist mofo's).
They work well together, don't they?
Well...we ain't gonna let that happen, now are we?
Until the Remnant is gone, and that ain't gonna happen, at least, if I read Revelations right; then no, Evil will not win.
But it requires, nay, it demands, that we make a stand against all odds!
Sure, it looks like we're outnumbered, but we are not.
Was gideon outnumbered?
Was General Washington outnumbered?
If you ask the losers, then yeah, he was.
But that wasn't the case, now was it?
Or, rather, it didn't matter!
And so we find ourselves in the same situation today.
Look around...we're not outnumbered.
Not in God's eyes.
And in the end...that's what counts!
But we all must do our part.
- NoMo said...
Ben - Thanks for laying it out so simple and clear! I appreciate it.
(as opposed to wv: smrkmsej ???)
- Susannah said...
"However, if that passion were to go astray; directed in a harmful direction, within and without, say in a fantasies of someone other than your wife/husband, then that passion takes the form of lust and adultery, rather than love."
I remember somebody (I think it was Richard Exley) defining sin as a legitimate desire met illegitimately.


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In Mayor's Plan, the Plastic Bag Will Carry a Fee
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In its struggle to make New York more green, the Bloomberg administration has tried discouraging people from using plastic bags. It has taken out ads beseeching residents to use cloth bags and set up recycling bins for plastic bags at supermarkets.
But now the carrots have been put away, and the stick is out: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called for charging shoppers 6 cents for every plastic bag needed at the register.
If the proposal passes, New York City would follow the lead of many European countries and become one of the first places in the United States to assess a so-called plastic bag tax.
Seattle voters will weigh in on a similar measure next year, and other places, like Los Angeles and Dallas, have studied the idea.
City officials estimate that the fee could generate $16 million a year, a figure that Mr. Bloomberg would no doubt appreciate, given the lingering and concussive effects of the global economic crisis on the city's economy.
But while the fee would burnish Mr. Bloomberg's environmental record, it might not be a lasting source of revenue. Just a few weeks after Ireland adopted a similar, though much heftier tax in 2002 — charging shoppers 33 cents a bag — plastic bag use dropped 94 percent, and within a year, nearly everyone in that country had purchased reusable cloth bags. Still, the mayor believes that the 6-cent fee would have a major impact on consumers' behavior.
Environmentalists like the sound of Mr. Bloomberg's idea. But from the corner deli to the high-end grocery store, other New Yorkers are not so sure.
At the 2000 N.Y. Deli on Second Avenue at 103rd Street in East Harlem, the owner, Sammy Ali, 30, said his customers would balk at paying for plastic. "No way," Mr. Ali said on Thursday. "They ask us for plastic bags for free as it is. When we say no, they curse us out. They demand a bag for a 25-cent bag of chips."
At Citarella on the Upper West Side, a customer, Anita Ramautar, said she would begrudgingly change her behavior, if only to deny the city the pleasure of collecting the money. "I'll bring my own bag," she said. "Why would I give them 5 cents?"
Ah, but remembering to bring that bag is another matter altogether. After all, New York is a place where people are almost programmed to do things impulsively, because it is so easy to just hop into a bodega or a deli or a 99-cent store to buy anything, anytime, no forethought required.
"You have to get used to using these," said Lauren Robertson, 54, an occupational therapist who lives in Washington Heights, who was loading groceries in canvas bags into her car in the Fairway parking lot on 130th Street near the Hudson River on Thursday morning. "So many times I'd get into the store and realize I forgot my bags in the car."
Bloomberg officials say the proposal remains a work in progress. But for now, the plan is to charge customers 6 cents a bag at the point of sale, with 1 cent going to the store owner as an incentive to comply, said Marc La Vorgna, a Bloomberg spokesman. The officials did not elaborate on the mechanics of how the money would be remitted to the city, or how the law would be enforced.
It sounds like a tax, but officials call it a fee. The distinction is important: A fee requires approval only from the City Council, while a tax requires approval from the State Legislature.
Unlike a number of ideas that seem to have been inspired by experiments in other countries (such as exploring wind power, based on windmills which Mr. Bloomberg saw off the coast of England, or temporarily closing off streets to cars, based on a program in Bogotá, Colombia, that the mayor had heard about), this one, city officials say, was hatched in the mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.
The idea is not totally foreign to the metropolitan area. The Ikea furniture chain, which opened its first New York City store in June, on the Brooklyn waterfront in Red Hook, began charging customers 5 cents for each plastic bag in 2007; since then, the store says, plastic bag use has been cut in half. Several large supermarket chains in the region, like Whole Foods Markets, offer refunds when customers bring reusable bags.
Eric A. Goldstein, a senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that he was encouraged by the idea.
"It's simple, it's streamlined, it advances environmental objectives and it generates some funds," he said.
And one environmentally conscious resident who applauded the idea was Richard Marshall, a retired opera director, who was shopping outside a Key Food supermarket in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday.
"I think Bloomberg should start charging a dollar a bag," he said, clutching two reusable bags. "All this waste. All these millions and millions of bags. They don't decompose, and they use all this oil to make them."
Several City Council members said they were intrigued, but needed to see more details. Several did note, however, that it was only a few months ago that the Council passed — with the help of environmentalists and plastic bag manufacturers — a law requiring all stores that provide plastic bags to accept plastic bags for recycling, with some exceptions. And during the lengthy public debate over that bill, council members heard speakers testify that fees of at least 25 cents a bag needed to be imposed to get consumers to change their behavior.
Another concern is whether the tax would hurt poor residents, as well as small businesses, disproportionately — a concern mentioned by council members, environmentalists and manufacturers alike.
"A tax on plastic shopping bags would be regressive, with the most severe impacts on those who are least able to absorb them," said Keith Christman, senior director of packaging for the American Chemistry Council, a manufacturers' lobby. "There are better ways to protect the environment, to encourage sustainable choices and to support recycling without making it harder for those who are already struggling to make ends meet in a difficult economy."
Some residents, meanwhile, complained that the timing of the plan could not have been any worse, given that the mayor recently announced plans to raise property taxes earlier than expected, cut financing for a host of programs and possibly raise the sales or income tax.
"We're paying taxes on everything else; why not bags, right?" Juana Perez, 25, of East Harlem, said with a sigh. "How many other taxes is he going to raise?"
"These people," she continued, indicating the neighborhood at large, "they already pay so much for rent and food."
"New York City," she said, shaking her head.
By DAVID W. CHEN
New York Times
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Are you up for creating something unique for LL Spirits?The winning mix will be featured at LL Spirits, and the winner will walk away with $250 in cold, hard cash! Second place receives $100 and third place receives $50.
Local celebrities will do the judging, and the mix will be judged based on taste, look and flexibility. People's Choice contest will take place at LL Spirits the weekend following the original competition.
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Over the week-end my daughter Tiffany and I started making the invitations for her 9th birthday which is on 27 March. She's decided on a Hello Kitty themed party and lucky for me, my HK Cricut cartridge arrived just two week before this BIG decision regarding a party theme. At the moment our guest lists is already at 16 little divas to descend on us on 27 March. I am thinking of including a Hello Kitty craft, so if anybody out there has any ideas - they will be welcomed. Nine year olds gets 'bored' easily so I need to fill three hours constructively. Since we live in the Western Cape, weather is a big factor as it is very unpredictable. Right now we're experiencing a heat wave of up to 40 degrees C over a few days, but come the 27th, it might just rain, so the pool is then out of the question - as you can pretty much keep them in the water for three hours strait, with a bit of snacks thrown in her and there.
I am certainly very pleased about how the invitations came out. I'm also planning a banner for her name with 2 Kitty's on each sides and them I have already cut out - so they are ready for the banner.
I hope you enjoy looking at my Kitty's as much as I do.
PS: One day I will get it right ... beatiful bright photos!! Bought a Nikon D3000, but just can't get it right.


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Every creative soul out there knows how hard it is to keep their craft area tidy. I spent 10 HOURS cleaning my lab this weekend! Take a peek while it's clean because it won't last long.
Monday, February 14, 2011
My Creative Laboratory
Posted by Tina Marie Capriotti at 11:01 AM
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Oh my....gorgeous!
- February 14, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- VERBENA.... NESTED TREASURES said...
hi Tina OMG this is amazing... should be in a book or magazine!!!! xo Laura
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The Belt works by shocking your muscles — automatically toning and reducing them, I suppose. It's been touted in various national magazines who have yet to get on board with corset waist training, and how effective and simple that is, requiring only a bit of effort and focus. But we continue to want 'mommie belt' or 'daddie surgery' to do it all for us. I can't help but wonder how healthy it is to subject our muscles to electrical shocks on a regular basis. Anyone care to speculate?
Our current waist training student Cat, reported in yesterday upon beginning her 10th week of training. I measured her up and she has dropped 3 1/4″ off her waistline and 16 pounds in nine weeks. She has three more weeks to train in her 12-week program, and our San Francisco (Fairmont Hotel) Nov. 22 Corset Soiree graduation party to look forward to. http://romantasyweb.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=R&Category_Code=se
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Last week I had my very first practical assessment. 3hrs, 3 dishes plus 3 sauces. and I aced it!!!! So proud of myself. I learnt so much and heaps of room for improvement but I passed the whole lot. Only three of us in the whole class of 20+ don't have to resit. I truly didn't think I could do it especially so well. And having my hubby, kids n mama proud made it all worth it.
The next day we got our 400+ book of culinary terms to learn. Heaps in French. That night hubby n I went through all of them I'm surprised how much I already know. It was the best study session. Having laughs. Just spending time with sailor and his encouragement keeps boosting me up. And my boy got the highest marks for his maths exam an excellence.
Wednesday I was in class and got a text through. I immediately went to make a call. To my mama, she had surgery about 3 weeks ago for breast cancer having both removed. Everyone blew me away from her strength and positive mindframe, hubbys endless support. The kids coping well, other support from family. She's had just been back to the surgeon. To be told the surgery was a complete success. She is officially CANCER FREE!!! that's right no more cancer. I got back to class and just lost it, my class was incredibly supportive and sent me out for some time to process. Then as a class went to dinner and one shouted me a beer to celebrate.
The rest of the week has been about family since were all on school holidays. Hubby treated me to lots of cooking goodies and then since I'm entering a cooking comp soon. He got all the ingredients for me to practice plus a bottle of wine. I've love cooking for everyone, dinner together. Easter goodies. Plus our pinic with our extended family. The first since me and sailor have been back in contact felt like a huge milestone. Oh and then we had a cyclone. I was scared especially when my hubby had to drive back to his place in the middle of it, but by morning we had clear skies.
I feel like I've had a small break through today. My Anxiety's been pretty high.I've felt unorganised, overwhelmed. In a sense out of control. My girls been playing up but thanks to my hubby chatting to her she's turned a corner. He also did such a amazing job working on our yard its lookkng massive. I hung out with my boy today and best mate. Then tonight cooked a massive healthy meal, cleaned, and sorted my diary and to do list for school. I've had a chance to stop now and have realised a few things
That I can have positives without waiting for the ball to drop. I need to focus on the positives more then my fears. Like hubby working on his recovery and doing so well. He's making me so proud. Just to hear him laugh is magic. That even with the ups n downs I am a good mum raising great kids. With the last four months surrounded by sickness and the fear of losing two of my best friends, I've realised I need to look at life not death. Im grateful to be on holidays, I also am facing triggers which is going to help me in the long term. I start counciling in a few days I've been more anxious then I realised about it. Telling another person my story. Having to trust someone new. The biggest having to face some of the situations from the past 4 months I'd rather not. But for myself and my family I'll do it. I'll battle on I'll keep myself mentally well. And I'll focus on the positives that are happening instead of the negative. Sorry for the novel bloggers time for bed. Have a great week


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Police responded to a crash late Thursday morning in which a vehicle ended up on the sidewalk.
First responders were called to the scene of the crash around 11:30 a.m. where they found a gray Oldsmobile on the sidewalk on North Hanover Street between King and High streets with the vehicle's back end against Hanover Street Laundry.
The vehicle appeared to have damage to its passenger side and was resting on top of a street sign.
Although two Goodwill ambulances responded to the scene, it could not be determined if anyone was injured in the crash.
Reports from the scene indicated that the Oldsmobile struck the back of a fire truck and somehow ended up on the sidewalk, eventually backing into the laundromat. Police have not yet confirmed the reports and said they were unable to immediately provide information on the crash.
Officers are continuing to investigate.
Police shut down North Hanover Street between High Street and King Street for more than an hour.
Responding to the scene in addition to Pottstown Police were Pottstown Fire Department, West End Fire Police and Goodwill Ambulance.


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The chicks had since been relocated. But snakey here didn't get the memo. For scaring me out of ten years, he doomed himself to death.
Side Note: Iko has since been forgiven for his many crimes against innocent furniture and rugs while he was a puppy. For saving me last night, he's earned Special Dispensation.


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Yesterday, which is on September 5, 2006, Ayaan turned 1 year old. He can stand and walk a few steps on his own. He has got 8 teeth and bites fingers real hard. He speaks his own language and understands some of ours too. Like most kids, he seeks people's attention wherever he goes and he really gets their attention and affection.
Happy Birthday, Ayaan !!
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Sabrina is a lot of fun to teach. She is normally quite obedient and compliant. But lately she has been exerting a new found assertiveness in the silliest ways.
I gave Sabrina a worksheet with sets of objects. Her task was to count the objects and write the number corresponding to the set next to it. She correctly counted that there were eight items, but wrote the digit "8" sideways, instead of upright. I asked her why she wrote her 8 sideways. She said it was laying down because it was tired. I told her that she has to write the 8 standing up, or else it would not be a correct 8.
Sabrina argued with me and with a stern, mad expression on her face she screamed "I want to do it the way I want to!" I had to smile. Then I reiterated that she cannot be creative when writing numbers, that there is only one way to write an "8." She hated my response and began to cry.
Nearly every day my kids say something which completely shocks me, something which I never expected them to say. I never would have thought about whether a number would get tired and want to lay down. I guess I do not think like a four year old.
I had no idea what to say, but fortunately my years of litigation experience taught me to think on my feet. So, I suggested that when we do art class in the afternoon she can draw or paint 8's any way she wants. But with math worksheets she has to write it the correct way. She seemed OK with this option. I want to encourage her creative and independent spirit, but of course she has to learn to write numbers correctly. Alas, the "how to write a number 8" debate is over in our house. For now.


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116 min., 2013
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan/Drew Goddard/Damon Lindelof
Directed by Marc Forster
Language: English
My rating: ★
The ultimate "foreshadowing" movie.
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I just want to start by saying that I watched the theatrical cut of the movie and not the unrated. It seems that you have to get the Blu-ray version I order to get both (now I could be wrong, but that's what I saw) and I didn't want to go that far. So many of my problems can be because of that but then again if this is what they showed in theaters I'm scared how much more crap and foreshadowing they could cram into extra minutes.
So the movie begins with father Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos), sleeping when their two kids, Rachel (Abigail Hargrove) and Constacne (Sterling Jerins), come into the room and wake them up. They are next in the kitchen and we learn that Rachel has asthma and that they are about to go to school. Next we see Gerry and Karin taking the girls to school, but they are caught in traffic. That's when Gerry notices something strange is going on. There is an explosion and then a truck comes slamming through the traffic and Gerry decides to follow. They have to change cars and steal an RV and start driving, and that's when Rachel has her asthma attack (didn't see that coming at all). Blah, blah, blah. Gerry then gets a call from an old friend, from when he worked for the UN as an investigator, Thierry Umutoni (Fana Mokoena). They send a chopper to get Gerry and his family and then they take them to an aircraft carrier. It turns out that they want Gerry to head out and try and find patient zero and try to find a cure. Will he find a cure or should you even care if he ever does?
The acting is just really flat throughout the movie. Normally I actually do like Brad Pitt and his acting but this time around it seems that he was just going through the motions with no real emotions behind anything he did. The worst of the bunch had to be Mireille Enos. She just didn't seem to know how to handle the emotions that the character was feeling. She just seemed to be waiting for each take to be over with so she can run from the set. Even the appearance of Peter Capaldi, who I am actually a really big fan of, really didn't do anything for me. All he did was say the same things over and over again (and no it wasn't fuck). He had emotion, but it just seems like his heart wasn't in it.
The effects were actually pretty good, but the only problem is that they were never on the screen long enough to really take them in and truly enjoy them. Most of the time the camera was wobbling so much that you couldn't make out anything and that I think is the new way to make people feel uncomfortable, but I actually think it is pretty lame. You can't see anything except maybe a foot or a neck.
In the end this movie is just really stupid and that's how they treat the audience as well. The whole time you are given a bunch of foreshadowing that normally would make for some great scenes if you were given time to forget them, but this movie shows you something and then within minutes they show the outcome of the foreshadowing. There were some really great opportunities for some real tension or surprises, but they never gave you time forget anything. On the other hand the use of the zombies was actually pretty good. Instead of making them very human in their actions, they made them very much a force of nature. The way they moved, especially when they were running in a giant group, it was more like water or an attacking group of ants.
Just avoid this movie.Have You Read...?


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Village Life 2
Deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, village life can be very different from those near the coast (see Village Life 1). The jungle exerts a stronger influence on the life of the villagers in these parts on a day-to-day basis. Sago, their staple food, is a product of the jungle and so with meat from any animals they can hunt ranging from small birds to cassowaries, crocodiles and deer. "Bush materials" comprise most of the houses. Those near the Fly River network in the Western Province are fortunate to have an additional food source and a more convenient transportation network. Villages affected by mining operations upstream, including those near the Kiunga–Tabubil road, enjoy socio-economic benefits through cash and development assistance from mining operators as compensation for the adverse environmental effects of the mining operation. But does it really make their lives better? I wonder.
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So today is Christmas, so this post might be coming a little bit late for some of you. But for the procrastinators out there, those who will celebrate Christmas later, or even for those of you already planning for next year, here's some fun ideas for your book-loving friends and family!
1. Jane Austen leggings: Found Here or a Tale of Two Cities scarf! Found here
2. A book lovers mug! This one and more found here
3. A honest swater! Found here Or this one! Found here
4. A sign showing that you're busy: Found here
5. A book rest lamp! Found here
6. Or maybe a candle that smells like books! Found here
7. Fill the house with books from floor to ceiling with curtains! Found here
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I wish I could get back the handful of minutes that I've wasted desperately trying to figure out how to install a Bump-it in my hair.
Something way more user friendly than my Christmas Tree Shop brand knock-off Bump-it are teasing brushes. This one is from Sally's Beauty Supply for $4.99. If you're unsure how to use it, watch this video…
…wait, wait! I'm just kidding. The video is 9 straight minutes of watching this girl severely damage her hair. What I do suggest is you put it on and then fast forward to every minute point and just watch the evolution of NathalieDoll's locks. I'd also like you to watch her technique so you know what not to do. Some other video highlights to look out for: when she puts body lotion in her hair and the photo montage at the end. I'll wait right here for you.
How was it? Terrifying, right!? Every time she grabbed her hair and started teasing from the middle I clenched my bum! I'm not making fun of this girl, I'm just concerned!
Also, now that I've let the shock settle of watching her put body lotion in her hair, I feel like it might be a good-ish idea. It seems to be like when you put toothpaste on a zit. It's probably better to just buy Clearasil or anti-frizz serum, but ya know, in a pinch.
Excuse me while I spend the rest of my day watching all of NathalieDoll's videos.


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All the pecan picking of this season is about to come to a close because we have two huge batches to bag up and share. Stuarts will be roasted, for my part. The little ones are nice to grind up because they're sweeter. I may not be a lot of things, but my Mama raised me to be a kick ass cook. And polite to a fault. Being assertive is something I had to learn in therapy. Always the good girl little southern girl.
I was only 14 when Woodstock happened which put me as a hippie wanna be. I ran around with lots of older folks who were into the culture and the first doobie I ever smoked was with a guy named Jimmy who is long gone. First time I got drunk was on Old Charter and I can't even stand to see a bottle to this day. I snuck out of the house to meet a guy and got caught. There was a divine being following me at all times because I could have had some really bad luck as naive as I was. There's always that to be thankful for.'
The fuller Trump's cabinet gets the more I see how terribly screwed we are. Not only do we have the two military guys in place but also Mitch McConnell's freakin' wife. Sweet baby Jesus, hold me now.
If anybody out there in Facebookland has some mistletoe you could shoot down and send to me I'd be much obliged. Merry and bright, ya know?


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We are traveling with family members this week. One of them is eight years old and full of energy. Every now and then she bursts into a portion of the Halleluiah course. After a few times, I found myself doing the same thing.
The best days are those when I wake up with a song in my heart. I'm no musician, but the Lord often does this because it is part of what it means to be filled with His Spirit. When that happens, I have assurance of a good day with Him --- as long as I don't tip over into sin.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" (Psalm 118:14–16)
Relying on God means that He is my strength, my total resource. He lives in me and gives me whatever I need to do whatever He wants me to do.
He is also my song. That is, when the joy of the Lord fills me (it is His joy), it often expresses itself in music. Again, I am not musical, but He is, and the songs of praise are from His Spirit.
I'm not sure of the spiritual state of the eight-year-old. She has heard the gospel and is happy all the time. Perhaps this is the Holy Spirit bursting out of her. All that I know for certain is that her singing is contagious. This is a good reason for me to focus on the Lord, rely on His strength, and let Him do the singing.
Lord, may this day be a day of praise from the heart. Yes, I know I have a choice to make for that to happen, but You are my song. Praise flows most easily when I am filled with Your Spirit and the glad songs of salvation come from simply being delighted with You.


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Eventhough it has been a while after raya, xkira nk post gak post nih..haha
I've got tonnes of asgnmnts during the raya break. But managed to complete none of them..hahaha. (really need to get rid of my bad habit *lazy* fast!)
However, i still celebrated raya happily, regardless of the assignments. Yeah, me during asasi is quite different from the me in degree. Somehow i become more lazy..but don't feel guilty for my bad behaviour. Really, when there is not much competition in class, my spirit to fight will not be there too. thus making it hard for me to concentrate on my work. True, i have nini,tun, sinah, and kak ita (my classmates)whch all display good learning habits as well as struggle very hard every day to achieve more than others. But still, my enthusiasm is just not there.. waaaa!!
Ok, enough of that. My raya was wonderful but not as fun compared to when i was a kid. Actually many things have changed since i made the decision to skip standard 4. I have 3 cousins amir, amirul, and hizami who are the same age of me. And suddenly i become a year advanced than them which cause the gap between us to widen. PLUS, we rarely see each other which resulted in the awkwardness among us. We used to play a lot together when we were little. Now just bcoz i'm a girl, i feel quite left out.
standing from left: me, atiya, ahyad,nawfal
sitting from left: abah, tokwan, opah, mama, ayman.
i love raya!!
~meeting all relatives (the chance only comes once a year)
~eating cookies and good food =) that i can hardly get at puncak
~and seeking 4 forgiveness without having people looking suspiciously at me.
(hehe..it's raya man..that's why i apologise, not that i really have done something wrong to you! *wink!*)
my only sister! btw, if u dont know, i'm the eldest in my family..but i think the most immature one after ayman. wee~
Alia, grow up!


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Things are really happening at the new house these days. In addition to the renovations in the kitchen/dining room, we're having the roof replaced, and we finally had the carpet installed in our "everything" room! Recall that the original space had old unevenly faded yellow carpet and beige walls:
Once we finally got our hands on the space we got to painting it a nice light blue and ripped out the icky old carpet:
We selected a light neutral beige carpet to keep with the light and airy feel of this light-filled second floor room. We had to wait a little while to actually have it installed though because of all the other work going on downstairs. But the wait is over, and now we are thrilled with our newly carpeted family room/guest room/office/playroom space!
Of course there's still plenty to to (especially noticeable is that we still need baseboards, but those will go in soon!). I'm also excited to get my hands on that yellow light fixture and give it a good coat of spray paint. But it is just nice to have room where Sydney can run around without too many things she's not supposed to touch as is the case on the main floor where most of the reno is happening. Plus the carpet feels super nice on our feet and we've all taken to just plopping down on the floor for some impromptu play time. The nice thing too is that now that the carpet is in, there aren't any really major things that remain to do in the room so we can start to move stuff into the space now. Even though we don't plan to move for another month or so, it will be really nice to have a room that is more finished that we can hang out it while we finish moving in downstairs.


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The Dark Knight (followup)
All the predictions of success seem to have been right on the money. The new Batman film broke records for the first weekend's box office receipts. Here's the story on CNN.
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Local government embraces social media frontierPosted: March 22, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Facebook me.
It's not a phrase you would expect to hear from your county government, but as Athens-Clarke County officials experiment with social media like Facebook and Twitter, it just might become more prevalent.
Public Information Officer Sandi Turner created an official Twitter account for Athens-Clarke County six months ago. Twitter is a social networking tool that sends short, 140-character messages to a user's Twitter connections. So far the county's account, @accgov, has 48 followers and is used to send out information about special events and general announcements. Turner was most recently commended on the Twitter coverage of leaf and limb pick-up changes after the snowstorm damage two weeks ago.
Turner said she and other officials have turned to social media because it targets a very specific demographic- those living in the county who are interested in receiving updates- and is done in an interactive way that engages users. Twitter and Facebook are more user-friendly than tedious .gov Web sites.
Denise Plemmons, special projects manager for the Athens Area Humane Society, said she created a Facebook group for the animal shelter three years ago because it is an inexpensive way to communicate with locals. She is joined by Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services, public safety officials, political candidates, and other local civic organizations hoping to use Facebook's cheap promotion.
Support Athens Area Humane Society, which has a whopping membership of 809, features adoption photos, event information, and a discussion board. Postings on the board suggest many have made themselves at home on the site, posting personal stories and advice about pet ownership. Members post links to information and videos about cats and dogs, inquiries about lost pets, and impassioned pleas to get more people involved in countless events and organizations benefiting animals.
Plemmons said the Facebook group is used by members to make contacts, post messages about animal concerns and provide feedback to the shelter.
"We can also quickly get information out to hundreds of people at one time," Plemmons said.
Kristine Kobylus, the program education specialist in the Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division, started a Facebook group in mid-January that has garnished over 100 members in just two months. The group, simply titled Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division, offers photos, a plethora of event information, an informational video, and a selection of recycling articles that might be of interest to members.
"We recently found that ages 24 to 35 are our target market because they recycle the least," Kobylus said. "Facebook is a way to reach those people and to reach those who might be a few years younger so we can catch them earlier."
She checks the discussion board and message inbox daily to read feedback on what locals want from their recycling program.
Dr. Karen Russell, associate professor of public relations at the University of Georgia who includes social media topics in her courses, said the ability to target makes social media particularly appealing to any organization.
"People sign themselves up, so you reach the people most interested," said Russell. "Animal control is going to reach people who love dogs and they can be influential because they care the most."
She believes consumers will like the fact that government organizations are "twittering." They can receive all the information they are interested in at one central location without having to actively search for it or wait for a newspaper or neighborhood newsletter to publish it.
According to http://www.compete.com, which compiles data on Web site traffic, Twitter had nearly 8 million unique visitors in February of 2009, while Facebook had more than 73 million.
Their popularity is clearly on an incline, so it is no surprise that Athens-Clarke County is not the first, and certainly won't be the last, to jump on the networks.
Several branches and officials in the national government have been on social networks for years. Twitterers can follow the Environmental Protection Agency (@greenversations), the White House (@TheWhiteHouse), The Food and Drug Administration (@foodrecalls), NASA (@NASA), Barack Obama (@BarackObama) and hundreds other elected officials. Fulton County also has an account (@FultonInfo), as well as the Atlanta Journal Constitution (@ajc).
The police department in Scottsdale, Arizona, has even begun using Twitter to alert citizens of emergencies. According to The Arizona Republic, officials "tweet" news about crime, road closures, and immediate notices about safety issues.
Turner said Athens-Clarke County is far from using Twitter to alert of emergencies.
"We see it as an exciting possibility, but entering the issue very cautiously," Turner said. "There are a lot of issues to consider: who is legally qualified to release emergency information on Twitter? Do we change the message as the situation changes? We don't want to cause panic or give a false sense of security."
She said they are still in the learning stages and want to move slowly.
So far, they have chosen not to participate in Facebook because of the lack of control over pop-up ads. According to "Tweets Fly Over Web Plan," an online article at www.nytimes.com, there was a debate last July in the House of Representatives over the issue of censorship of House members on social media sites. Some believe politicians should be restricted in the use of the networks because of advertising. They argue political messages could seem like endorsements and say officials could inadvertently be placed next to ads for Viagra. As of now, the restrictions are few.
Russell added that having a presence of government on these sites may actually provide incentive for people to post more negative things than they otherwise would. An organization could end up with an overall poor online image.
Although no one can predict where local and national governments will take social media, it is certain that their presence will have an impact.
"We will all have to watch and see where it goes," Russell said.
Twitter is a social networking and bloggling site birthed in 2006 that enables users to send and read other users' updates, 140-character bits known as "tweets." The tweets of an account a user is "following" are posted to the home page of the user, so he or she can follow the updates of multiple accounts. To signify an account name, the @ symbol is placed before the username, for example, the Army's account is @USArmy, and the state of Georgia is @Georgia.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website launched in February of 2004. It has been hugely popular boasting tens of millions of users. Members can join groups, post and view photos, download and create a variety of applications, and communicate through discussion boards and private messages.


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Spacious 4 Bedroom home situated in heart of South Wentworthville. With a large living area, backyard Great for entertainment with the added benefit of a Semi above ground pool fenced off. Double lock up garage with automatic gates, with an extended driveway leading to the rear.
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- 2 Bathrooms, toilet & shower
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