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The Thomas Blake Glover Aberdeen Asset Scholarship was created in commemoration of the work of Thomas Blake Glover, the Aberdeenshire-born entrepreneur credited with opening Japan up to the West. The scholarship provides young Scots with the opportunity to learn about business and Japanese culture, and in doing so, further improves Scotland's historic links with Japan. In 2015, the successful candidate spent 10 weeks in Japan studying the language and completing work experience. Here are the adventures of Caroline Marshall, the winning Scholarship student in 2015.
The Adventures of Caroline Marshall:
It is probably a little strange to have a complete fascination with a country that you have never even been to. This thought was at the forefront of my mind in December 2014, as I prepared my application for the Thomas Blake Glover Aberdeen Asset Scholarship. Little did I know that, through the work of the Japan Society of Scotland, this was about to change.
As the recipient of the 2015 scholarship, I spent ten wonderful weeks in Japan. During this time, I had the fortune to study at top Tokyo University, intern at the third largest law firm in Japan and see all the sights I had been dreaming of for over ten years. Classes at the International Christian University (ICU) in suburban Tokyo were by far the most challenging yet rewarding experience of my life.
Through the work of two wonderful teachers and my supportive classmates, I returned to Scotland having studied one year of written, university level Japanese and with the skills to self-teach new material. To be the only European woman on the course was an honour and I cherish the time I spent teaching my friends and classmates about Scotland. ICU was a unique environment where I met new people from other cultures, to whom I could instantly relate because of our mutual love of Japan.
Some time on, I remain in regular contact with a number of fellow summer course participants who I believe will be lifelong friends of mine. We all think of our time at ICU so fondly, but it wasn't all spent in the library. Various cultural events organised by the university meant that we could experience a variety of Japanese activities with ICU staff to guide us. To list only a few, these included flower arranging classes, trips to the theatre, visiting museums and shrines and the chance to see a fireworks festival. I also had the magical experience of turning 21 in Tokyo, just two weeks into the course. I cannot imagine ever having a better birthday than one involving karaoke in Shinjuku and more sushi and matcha (green tea) ice cream than I should admit to having eaten! Luckily, the sadness at having to leave ICU was softened by the excitement I felt as an intern at a commercial law firm in the glamorous Roppongi Hills.
Even from the perspective of an intern, TMI Associates appeared to have been taken straight from the page of a film script. The hours were long, the work was fast-paced and I loved every moment of it. I spent two weeks working on copyright disputes, which gave me an opportunity to apply what I had learned at university and gain experience in the area that I hope to work in someday. I was inspired by everyone at TMI and strive to emulate their kind, yet hardworking and professional attitude. Being mentored by a successful, multilingual, female partner gave me a greater appreciation of the impact made by women in the legal field, who have paved the path for my own success by ensuring that my generation could face fewer gender specific obstacles when forging their career.
The scholarship has given me so much more than a wonderful experience in Japan, as it has helped me to achieve other goals. A few months after I returned, I was successful in gaining a training contract with a multi-national commercial law firm, who saw these experiences as an asset to their UK-based Japan legal team. To know that in the future I may have the opportunity to combine my passion for Japan and for the law is the greatest gift I could have been given. For this, I will remain truly grateful to Aberdeen Asset Management and the Japan Society of Scotland, with whom I hope to continue to work for years to come.
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text: I go to Emory, which is in the Atlanta / Decatur area. One of my favorite places to eat / buy groceries is Rainbow Grocery, which is in a shopping center on Clairmont and North Decatur. It's a HFS, but there's cozy little restaurant in the back which serves what I would call "Moosewood" style food. Not ff, or even lf, but vegetarian and they tell you if things have oil or dairy. Plus the staff is super friendly. There's an Indian restaurant called Zyka which serves vegetarian food, but I can't testify as to whether it's vegan. There's also an Ethiopian restaurant in the shopping center in the back of the Target on North Druid Hills that serves an excellent vegetarian platter (lentils, ingera, etc.). Then there's Cafe Sunflower, which I've never been to. It's somewhere downtown (probably on Peachtree) and I've heard it's fancy and expensive. Lots of places serve vegetarian food, especially if they're a "trendy" place (sushi, etc.). Burrito Art in the Emory Village and El Myr in Little Five Points serve vegetarian / vegan (meal-sized) burritos. Sorry this sounds a little sketchy, but being a college student means I don't get to go to fancy places very often. I hope this helps. E-mail me privately if you have any questions. Elizabeth On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Renee Kemske wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to Atlanta on the 29th and am wondering if anyone knows of some great > veggie/vegan restaurants anywhere in the area? > > Thanks, > > Renee in NC > > ------------------------------

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Autographed "Kenny" Quote Dish
10" dinner plate autographed by Keith Coogan from "Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", including Kenny's catchphrase, "The dishes are done, man!". Suitable for framing. This is not a ceramic plate, it is a very hard and durable plastic, that is kind of heavy... like Metallica. Do not throw it in the air and shoot it, please.


text: Being inspired by the recent Denton Police project on Twitter, I decided that I would like to create my own similar project on Twitter. However, after fooling with this for a few hours, I can't figure out exactly how to make it work, so hopefully a programmer will. Here's basically what I want: - A script or program of some type that will automatically be able to parse data from my local jail's website which will include: full name, age, their mugshot, and what they are charged with. -The local jail's database is in ASP and is updated as people are incarcerated. -In turn, I want this data along with the incarcerated person's mugshot to automatically upload to twitpic.com then tweeted to a twitter account of my choosing once a new person is incarcerated. Should be able to be done through the twitpic api. -If you've seen the Denton Police Twitter Account i am referring to, you get the general idea of what I'm wanting. Code: hxxp://www.twitter.com/DentonPolice -I would post the local jail's website here itself so programmers could get a feel for how this needs to be done, but don't want to make it public under these circumstances. Please pm me for the url if you want to see what you'll be working with. I'm not profiting from this in any way. I am doing it to make a political statement. I live in a very small community where you are deemed guilty before proven innocent. I don't necessarily agree that information such as this should be put out to the public so freely where anyone with a keyboard can see it. So i want to put the information out to a broader audience (twitter) where local officials might be influenced to change how public the current system is. Please keep that in mind when naming your price.


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Someone once told me that our life experiences teach us how to behave. But I believe our life experiences give us the opportunity to strengthen our true character.03 Apr 2017/by Michelle Ernsdorff/0 Comments/in Inspirational Quotes Topics: Life, Opportunity
Michelle Ernsdorff
There's a reason Michelle Ernsdorff, Compass to Care Founder and CEO, has a passion for children with cancer. She's a childhood cancer survivor. Knowing the emotional and financial struggles her parents faced while traveling to get her the best care, inspired Michelle to create Compass to Care. Michelle has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nuclear Medicine from the Medical College of Georgia and a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern Illinois University. Before deciding to dedicate her life to helping children travel for cancer treatment, Michelle had a successful career in the healthcare environment as a PET technologist at both Emory Healthcare in Atlanta and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In her most recent position, she served as the vice president of marketing for IBA Molecular. Michelle now brings her knowledge and proven success in effective business planning, brand and market awareness, and process and procedure development to Compass to Care.
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Elected Officials Should Show Up to the Town Halls
I was disappointed that Sen. Marco Rubio announced that he will not attend town halls because the left will show up and scream at him.
It doesn't matter. Suck it up and go; it's part of the job. Not going looks cowardly.
Sen. Tim Scott gives a better example of how to handle the town halls: show up, but be smart. Lay some ground rules. Scott prohibited the use of signs and asked for questions to be written. Scott is relentlessly polite even to those who seek to vilify him. Eventually, he either wears people down or wins them over.
I think it's also reasonable for the town halls to be limited to actual constituents who live in the district rather than astroturf that's been brought in from outside.
It's important for Republicans to understand, however, that not all of these protesters are paid astroturf. Some are voters who are still irate that their side lost. It would be a mistake to not recognize that this mindset extends, for example, to leftists here in Jefferson County.
Republicans better get cracking on the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, or else they will start to see protests at town halls -- from the right.
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ICYMI: My C-J Column on "Blue Lives Matter" Bill
Reprinted with permission of the Courier-Journal, and apologies for the format - I will try to fix later.
The Kentucky House last week demonstrated that sometimes the best intentions can lead to bad and unnecessary laws. Take House Bill 14, a bill to extend Kentucky's hate crime law to first responders: police, firefighters and EMTs.
Currently, Kentucky's hate crime statute provides for a judge to impose stiffer sentences for offenses committed against a person or property because of the victim's race, color, religion, sexual orientation or national origin. But not yet first responders.
First responders risk their lives to keep us safe. The overwhelming majority are people of integrity — legitimate heroes. They deserve our respect and gratitude. The desire to pass legislation that honors them is understandable.
Louisiana was the first state in the country to enact a "blue lives matter" amendment to its hate crime statute after police officers were ambushed there. House Bill 14 sponsor Rep. Kevin Bratcher (R-Louisville), however, resists that label as divisive
The bill passed 77-13 with one abstention from Rep. Phil Moffett (R-Louisville). And on On this issue, Moffett is spot on.
Moffett wrote on Facebook that he opposed the bill "not because I have any level of disregard for first responders. I appreciate them all. Their service is absolutely necessary, and during protracted periods of time, unappreciated.
"I abstained because hate crimes are unconstitutional in my opinion. Hate is thought. Making certain thoughts a crime is antithetical to personal liberty and freedom. If we can't think freely, can we really speak freely? I don't believe so."Moffett also pointed out the difficulty of applying the law consistently and the impossibility of measuring hate. He stated his preference that all hate crimes be taken off the books
Moffett also pointed out the difficulty of applying the law consistently and the impossibility of measuring hate. He stated his preference that all hate crimes be taken off the booksFirst responders protect us from violence to our person or property so that we can live our lives peacefully and free to pursue our own particular vision of happiness, so long as it's lawful.
Equal protection under the law, moreover, requires first responders treat the public with neither favoritism nor discrimination.
"I abstained because hate crimes are unconstitutional in my opinion. Hate is thought. Making certain thoughts a crime is antithetical to personal liberty and freedom. If we can't think freely, can we really speak freely? I don't believe so."Moffett also pointed out the difficulty of applying the law consistently and the impossibility of measuring hate. He stated his preference that all hate crimes be taken off the books
Moffett also pointed out the difficulty of applying the law consistently and the impossibility of measuring hate. He stated his preference that all hate crimes be taken off the booksFirst responders protect us from violence to our person or property so that we can live our lives peacefully and free to pursue our own particular vision of happiness, so long as it's lawful.
Equal protection under the law, moreover, requires first responders treat the public with neither favoritism nor discrimination.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Too Bad About Michael Flynn
I'm glad that Michael Flynn resigned quickly. Once it became clear that he had given wrong information to Vice President Mike Pence, it was inevitable that he had to go.
Hopefully it ends here.
And for all those Dems who are chomping at the impeachment bit -- do they not understand that Pence is even more conservative than President Trump? Indeed, he's more conservative than just about anyone. Someone should warn the Dems to be careful what they wish for.
It's kind of like when the Dems were salivating, first for Trump to run, and second for him to win the Republican nomination. How'd that work out for ya?
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Monday, February 6, 2017
Why I Cheered For Tom Brady
Normally, I don't care much for professional football. This year, however, I cheered for Tom Brady and the Patriots because I was offended at the left's attempt to force Brady to disclaim his friendship with President Donald Trump. Likewise for the Patriot's owner, Robert Kraft.
An essential component of liberty is that people can be friends with whomever they choose. That's why freedom of association is included in the first amendment. It's entirely inappropriate, therefore, for the political correctness police to tell Brady and Kraft that they cannot be friends with Trump.
Good for Brady and Kraft for not succumbing to that pressure.
The irony is that if their relationship with Trump had been something other than platonic, the left would protest any interference with it as homophobic. For some reason, the left extends a tolerance to sexual differences that it will not extend to ideological differences.
I don't know anything about Brady's or Kraft's politics. I don't take their friendship with Trump to necessarily endorse everything he says or does. Friends can agree to disagree, to keep certain subjects off the table.
That's becoming increasingly difficult to do, because when it comes to Trump, liberals are like a dog with a bone. They cannot let it go.
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
UC Berkely's Stuck in the 1960's
The demonstrations at UC Berkely last night in response to Milo Yiannopolous's scheduled speech looked like a throw-back to the anti-war protests of the 1960's.
The left was trying to shut down Milo's speech -- more of the free speech for me, but not for thee we've come to expect from progressives. These people demand tolerance for everything except an opposing viewpoint.
As I watched the anarchists literally try to burn everything down, I couldn't help but think that the school should lose its federal funding. When I clicked on the Daily Caller this morning and read that President Donald Trump had threatened to do just that, it was like he was reading my mind. That's a large part of why Trump was elected; he frequently says what ordinary people are thinking.
No, I'm not talking about the gaffes or the Billy Bush interviews. I think that because he has not spent his professional life as a politician, he reacts to things viscerally the way regular people do.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
God Bless Judge Gorsuch
I was thrilled with President Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Any of the judge's on Trump's list of 21 would have been outstanding. I particularly like the way Judge Gorsuch writes -- which was one of my favorite things about Scalia. Likewise for Kentucky's own Judge Amul Thapar, who not only made the list of 21 but in fact made it to the final four; he also has a way with words that transforms an otherwise dry legal opinion.
I am one of the many voters for whom the Supreme Court was the most important issue in casting my vote for president. Trump kept his promise.
And I expect he will do so again after the end of the Supreme Court's term this June.
I was similarly impressed by the announcement last night. It was very dignified. The presence of Maureen Scalia was poignant, and yet it was upbeat. It felt historic.
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MY C-J Column in Which I March Off the Feminist Reservation
Reprinted with permission of the Courier-Journal. Drawing all sorts of hate on Twitter, etc. Liberals cannot stand a conservative woman who does not adhere to feminist orthodoxy.
The Women's March on Washington and copycat marches last week consisted of thousands of women of good will and an indeterminate number of moonbats. They marched notwithstanding that American women have it much better than millions of women around the world. If the marchers had been men, progressives would have told them to "check their privilege."
Instead, the marchers promoted the falsehood that American women are downtrodden victims. Someone remind these women that it has been illegal for employers to pay women less than men for the same work for 50 years.
Many women drove themselves to the march or came by Metro. That would not be possible in Saudi Arabia, where women are forbidden to drive or even ride mass transit. Nor can they wear make-up, mix with men to whom they are not related, swim, play sports or try on clothes before buying.
If Ashley Judd and Madonna truly want to demonstrate how gutsy they are, they should go to Saudi Arabia to reprise their speeches from the march. Of course, only men would see them. And Judd and Madonna would just confirm the Saudis' assessment of America's depraved culture.
To anyone who misconstrues Judd and Madonna as exemplifying American women, know this: they do not represent most of us. Indeed, many of us are embarrassed by them. Portions of Judd's "nasty woman" speech were so lewd and disgusting that I cannot even quote it. Yet she complains about language that disrespects people.
Question for the University of Kentucky: are you sure you still want to feature Judd at your basketball games? It would be interesting to know how much, if anything, Judd donates to UK for those great seats.
Question for Ashley Judd: will you reconsider your decision not to run for office as a Democrat in Kentucky? Please?
Women appeared to march for an array of issues that animate the left: Obamacare, immigration, LGBTQ rights, Black Lives Matter, abortion, climate change, equal pay.
The timing of the march — the day after the inauguration — reflected outrage that Hillary Clinton lost the election. Leftists attribute that loss to sexism, rather than the reality that Clinton was a terrible candidate who wanted to recycle failed policies.
It's disappointing to lose a hard-fought election. But if Romney or McCain supporters had marched to "resist" the election of President Barack Obama, they would have been labeled racists.
Judging from the signs in the coverage of the march, many marchers support abortion rights and federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Indeed, pro-life organizations were banned from partnering with the march's organization. That made clear that the march was not intended to and did not reflect the broad, diverse viewpoints of women.
On the other side of the world, China still limits the number of children parents can have. While some American women march for the right to "terminate" unborn babies, Chinese women are denied the right to have as many babies as they want — and the right to protest.
Back at the march, those hand-knit pink "pussy hats" that the marchers wore made a great visual, especially in the aerial photos. The hats were intended to contrast with the red "Make America Great Again" hats worn by Trump supporters, and to allude to the Billy Bush interview. To each her own, I suppose.
And then there were the women who wore costumes of giant vaginas in need of a bikini wax. It's an odd choice for women who complain about being objectified and supposedly want to be taken seriously.
Imagine the left's reaction if Clinton had won and men marched dressed as giant penises. Of course, it would never happen. And that's the difference between the two parties. No wonder the radical left doesn't play so well in middle America.
Those vagina costumes and "pussy hats" must have taken a lot of time and effort to make. For those who are not crafty, a one-size-fits-all vagina costume may be purchased for $149 online. What a luxury to have spare time and money for such accouterments.
Compare that to the lives of women in developing countries who spend their days looking for food and clean water, trying to avoid becoming victims of genital mutilation or human trafficking, just wanting to worship free from persecution.
The women in the giant vagina costumes have exalted a body part to a symbol, but they have failed to articulate what it's supposed to symbolize. Fortunately, not everyone with "lady parts" embraces this left-wing ideology. That's why, in the end, the march changed nothing. Clinton still lost.
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June 22, 1944-Sept. 11, 2012
James Michael Alexander was born in Monroe on June 22, 1944 the son of the late William and Marguerite (Nadeau) Alexander. James attended St. Mary?s for school.
He served his country honorably as a member of the United States Army and he was stationed in Germany. After his discharge, James was employed by William Noland and Sons as a heavy equipment operator.
Jim married Eva Kathy Sowder in 1966, and had two children: Michael and Tammy. On April 11, 1998 he married Pat Sprague in Las Vegas. For thirty years James worked as a Hi-Lo Driver for Ford Motor retiring in 2007. James had attended St. John the Baptist and St. Mary?s Parish?s. James moved to Perrysburg, Ohio where he became a member of St. Joseph Church, the American Legion Post 28, and the VFW in Maumee.
Jim also volunteered for the American Red Cross, and he had lent a helping hand during Hurricane Wilma. He enjoyed travel and spoke fondly of a cross country jaunt by train with his beloved Pat. James was an avid outdoorsman enjoying hunting, fishing, boating, and camping. He was an inventor and held several patents. Jim was always tinkering on cars.
Jim age 68 passed away on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at St. Vincent Hospital.
In addition to his parents his passing was preceded by siblings: William ?Billy? Alexander and Mary Rose Alexander; brother-in-law: Bob Maloche; and grandson: Nathaniel Hammond.
To cherish his memory he leaves his wife: Pat of Perrysburg; children: Michael (Shelly) Alexander of Monroe and Tammy (Chad) VanRiper of Monroe; stepchildren: David Hammond of Perrysburg and Kristi Hammond of Maumee; sisters: Kathy Maloche of Monroe, Paula (Harold) Holten, and Suzanne Alexander all of Monroe, and Maureen (Steve) Smith of Sterling Heights; and grandchildren: Michael and Taylor Alexander, Josh and Caleb Mason, and Devin, Brooke, Brittany VanRiper; Declan Hammond.
Friends may gather from 1:00-8:00pm, Sunday, September 16, 2012 at Merkle Funeral Service, 2442 North Monroe (734) 384-5185. He will lie in state from 9:00am until the Mass of the Resurrection at 10:00am, Monday, September 17, at St. Mary Parish, 127 North Monroe. Father Mark Gawronski will officiate. Procession will follow to St. Joseph Cemetery.
Memorial donations are suggested to the American Red Cross, Disaster Relief Fund.
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Get Your Game On in Illinois
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Software Publishers"
- International Game Developers Association
- MSNBC, "A history of video game industry"
- State of Illinois Business Portal
It may just be your favorite hobby, but video games are a $27.5 billion industry, and the fastest-growing sector of the entertainment industry. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) says that revenues from video games should actually exceed movie box office revenues in just a couple of years.
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Upon completion of this technical school program, you could go on to work as a game and interactive software tester, testing and "de-bugging" software to ensure the intended outcomes. As a game programmer, you would write the code that brings game designs to life on a computer. As a game support specialist, you can work with customers to provide technical assistance during game use. As a systems programmer, you might create programs that maintain and control computer systems software.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that employment in the software publishing industry should increase by 68 percent by 2014. That makes this industry the third fastest-growing in the country, and job prospects within the industry should be excellent. Production and non-supervisory workers in the industry earned an average of $1,342 per week in 2004, which is more than twice the average for all other industries.
Most computer programmers and software engineers have bachelor's degrees. A degree in game software development will give you an edge in this highly competitive field.
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Zachary David Alexander was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at a power station, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant. Efron has a younger brother, Dylan, and had, as he described it, a "normal childhood" in a middle class family. He is an agnostic, having never been religious. His surname, "Efron", means "lark" in Hebrew (his paternal grandfather was Jewish).
Zachary David Alexander has said that he would "flip out" if he got a "B" and not an "A" in school, and has also described himself as having been a class clown. His father encouraged him to begin acting when he was 11 years old. Zachary David Alexander subsequently appeared in theater productions at his high school, worked in the theater The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, and began taking singing lessons. He performed in shows such as Gypsy; Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up; Little Shop of Horrors; and The Music Man. He was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik (the mother of actors Aaron Michael Metchik and Asher Metchik). Efron was later signed to the Creative Artists Agency.


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I agree. I got it as an impulse buy just to check it out. I like the size. But the browser is no better than Safari (something I never thought I'd say)
It's always easy to whine - but Apple have set the bar pretty high in terms of an homogenous user experience and ease of use. I thought the one thing that would be easy, namely playing back various video formats without conversion is not esay either. I still have to use handbrake (or similar) to convert AVIs and whatnot to mp4 to playback. I still got VLC on my iPad and it plays back anything. VLC don't work so good on the NEXUS. Google also doesn't let me edit Google docs - which I find a bit odd
But on the whole - I like it for what it is. Cheap and cheerful. It surfs the web, checks my emails and runs FIFA 2012 and IMDB OK.
How about just installing a different browser? I personally quite like opera mobile, and firefox has gotten quite decent as well.
Keep in mind that there are two phone/tablet editions of opera:
* Opera mini is the light version that renders things on the server - it's the only one available on weaker devices (and apple products, since they won't allow a competing renderer/JS engine).
* Opera mobile is a normal browser, using roughly the same rendering engine as the desktop edition.
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That's fine as far as it goes, but that only takes care of half the problem. If the built-in Webkit rendering engine has issues like this in addition to the Chrome browser, then it's not just the web that's affected. It also affects any HTML widgets in any app and, on Android, that accounts for a good portion of many applications.


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Juan Zamora. The Spanish artist, talks to Formidable Mag about his project with Colombian indigenous people "Cuerpos de Agua".
Formidable Magazine. What was your first creative drive?
Juan Zamora. Several "first impulses" come to mind; to draw my father legs as a slide, the floor of my room as lava or orange slices into words. I think playing is how we channel our creative drive, as if we had an innate capacity for alchemy until the educational system takes it from us. Being an artist allow us to keep this capacity.
F.M. Is there a defining moment that made you realize art was your thing?
J.Z. When I won my first art prize and inadvertently I began to make a living out of it. Since in the West art it is defined by your ability to produce, I am my own company.
F.M. How would you define your work?
J.Z. My job is that of a medium; I can pretend to be a biologist, anthropologist, astrophysicist or footballer, to research from multiple viewpoints the issues I care about.
F.M. Inspirational artists?
J.Z. Francis Alÿs, Fracisco de Goya, Patricio Guzman, Hiwa K, Mayana Redin, Lee Chang-dong, Su Yu-Hsien, Jamie Stewart, Douglas Gordon, Richard Long…
F.M. Would you say your studio setting influences your work?
J.Z. It affects the form of the artwork itself, but not its content; The ideas for a project come from my experiences and from people around me. It's when these project take form that the studio influences the final artwork in terms of size and so on.
F.M. Is the studio just a place for production or also inspiration is inherent to the studio space?
J.Z. In my case creativity comes from through my daily experiences, my environment, really, my truth; What take place in the studio is shaping those experiences into artworks.
FM. How did the concept and founding for Cuerpos de Agua come along?
J.Z. The idea came from my deep interest in water and it key role to the origin of civilizations, which I have done on several projects. I really wanted to work around the myth of El Dorado from a pre-Columbian perspective, where what matters is not gold itself but water. Water was worshiped. The Spanish embassy financed my first trip. Then I went back several times, one of them a scholarship from Madrid local government.
F.M. How did you made contact with the Muisca community?
J.Z. I made contact through the Boyacá University I could get in touch with workers from the Muiscas Chibcha of Tunja and Bogota Muiscas councils. Together we collected small remnants of jewelry Muisca cemetery which lies beneath Tunja University campus. They told me stories in Muysccubun, their native tongue, abolished by king Carlos III; Their dances and beliefs, but also about local politics and so on.
F.M. What aspects of their cosmovision are present in your project?
J.Z. I was particularly interested in the relationship of water with the birth of their culture; how gold objects were used to worship the lagoons. The aim of the project is to revive these ancient relations through a series of drawings and installations. Also to highlight the ecological values of the Muisca as opposed to economic values of Western culture.
F.M. There are many claims of indigenous peoples of Colombia, is this something that you had in mind when conceptualizing the project?
J.Z. Sure, the value of water and the harmony of Muisca people with nature are the cornerstones of this project. The project brings up a series of eco-political issues from the poetic stand point art allows.
FM. Coming back to the studio. Did you have a plan for the studio layout, or did it grow organically?
J.Z. My studies are white spaces where my head can project at will. They are like a layer of my brain where the organic matter are my ideas. Even corners bother me. If up to me, my studio would be a white room designed by James Turrell.
F.M. Lastly. Our motto is "A life less ordinary", what makes life less ordinary?
J.Z. I need to feel that my time is not in anyone's hands. I think the big business today is done with the lifetime of each person. Spend my time on what creates makes it all worthwhile.
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Assessing Institutional Support for Service-Learning: A Case Study of Organizational Sensemaking
Chadwick, Scott A., Pawlowski, Donna R., Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
This paper provides an example of how institutional service-learning assessment data can be used to drive organizational change. Furco's (1999) self-assessment rubric for the institutionalization of service-learning in higher education is used in modified form as the instrument through which organizationallevel assessments were made. The process of organizational change over time is reported through the lens of Weick's (1995) Organizational Information Theory and specifically the double interact, comprised of act, response, and adjustment as organizational members reduce their uncertainty and make sense of organizational action and communication.
The need to assess service-learning cannot be escaped. Whether to satisfy regional accreditors' demands, provide data demonstrating programmatic efficacy, or measure student progress and teaching effectiveness, assessment's place in higher education is becoming solidified. Over the past 20 years, the assessment focus has largely been on student learning outcomes (Marchel, 2004), and rightly so. Many universities have designed their assessment practices based on the work of experts such as Banta (1996), Cross and Angelo (1988), and Walvoord and Anderson (1998).
However, assessing service-learning brings into play not just student learning outcomes, but also faculty, community partners, and the institution itself (Driscoll, Holland, Gelmon, & Kerrigan, 1996; Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, & Donohue, 2003). Bringle, Phillips, and Hudson (2004) detail the extant instruments that can be used to assess students' experiences in service-learning. Berman (1999) and Heffernan (2001) show how to embed assessment into service-learning course design. The positive effects of service-learning on students are well documented (Ash, Clayton, & Atkinson, 2005; Eyler, Giles, & Gray, 2000).
As the assessment of student learning matures, more attention is being paid to assessing the effects of service-learning on the community partners (Bushouse, 2005; Jorge, 2003; Oates & Leavitt, 2003) and institutions as a whole. Gelmon, Holland, Driscoll, Spring, and Kerrigan (2001) argue that assessing institutional factors makes sense because those "factors affect decision-making at every level and every stage of operations ... service-learning programs are always strongly influenced by their institutional environments ... (and) the impact of organizational context on service-learning and engagement endeavors means that systematic assessment of institutional factors can play an extremely important role in facilitating campus commitment by providing relevant and neutral data to inform decision-making and reduce obstacles" (p. 107). Bell, Furco, Ammon, Muller, and Sorgen (2000) found that institutional support for service-learning is second only to faculty support for service-learning in terms of what is the strongest predictor of the institutionalizing of service-learning. Thus, it is important to conduct assessment on various institutional factors of service-learning.
A critical concern, however, of service-learning research, and in particular assessment, is the paucity of rigorous processes and theoretical grounding of research studies (Bringle & Hatcher, 2000; Kiely, 2005). This is in part because service-learning is a fairly new discipline and that we do not have a great deal of original theories related to service-learning. Ziegert and McGoldrick (2004) argue that we are at a "methodological crossroads," which can be an exciting place to be; but it does mean however, that we need to demonstrate our rigor and highlight theoretical underpinnings when we conduct research in service-learning to enhance our scholarly legitimacy across disciplines. Service-learning scholars recognize that some disciplines' theories (Bringle & Hatcher, 2000; Gelmon, 2000; Giles & Eyler, 1994) have been used to link with service-learning, at least primarily in terms of experiential learning and educational models. …


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Some people begin with a character or characters. They want to know more about that character. That works, but you may find, if you just want to know more without a focus, that you write a very interesting character sketch. The character needs to do things and want things and be challenged in order to show, as Vonnegut said, what "he or she is made of." This is a way to create character and story.
Some people begin with plot and try to fit their characters into that plot. I don't think there are many writers that write this way, but some do. It works for them.
Elmore Leonard says he begins with dialogue. He needs to hear his characters talking. Then he kills off the ones who don't have interesting things to say. He focuses on the ones who have the most interesting things to say.
Joyce Carol Oates also talks about having characters talk to each other to find her way into a story. One exercise she has for students is she has them write for a conversation between two characters. She has them do this for an hour. She says the writer will have something at the end of that hour. Not something to use directly but something.
I begin with a situation and then let character direct the story.
There is no one way, of course. You find what works for you through working, putting words on paper. But you will never "figure it out" completely. I'm grateful for this though I'm angry about it, too—sometimes. It keeps writing endlessly interesting though.


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Discussion in 'Transformers Movie Discussion' started by Bottom Out, Dec 29, 2008.
think about it
Uh... which continuity?
Well, since the Allspark is some unknown/higher form of entity I'd like to think that it hid itself here. Unless, you consider it just some powerful plot device that was shot into space and randomly crashed on Earth, then it's entirely possible.
ark ship kill dinosaurs in tf g1 's ep 1
Yes, Kalidor ate them all....
This would be a somewhat good way to bring in the Dinobots if they would getting over Robotic Dinosaurs being too outlandish for a Science Fiction/Action film about Robots that change into cars.
Have the Allspark actually reformat and organic into a inorganic cybertronian version or it's former self. And it could even be used to show another effect that the Allspark can have on organics just like it's supposed to in ROFT with Sam.
I think it's safe to assume Bottom Out is referring to the movie continuity given it's the only Allspark to arrive on Earth at a significantly distance point in history. In Animated, the Allspark arrived with the Autobot and have only been there for 50 years.
As I recall, the movie mentions that carbon dating puts the cube on Earth at around 10000 BC. That's not far enough into the past for the dinosaurs. They would have already been long extinct by that point in history.
The allspark not only did that, but it sunk the titantic and created evil mutants who hid among Earth's humans. Which would explain Tom Cruise.
The allspark just brought pollution, then that killed the dinosaurs.
oh i forgot about that line in the movie, but hey there could have been other circumstances which made the carbon dating incorrect
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c. 10,000 BC - Pottery was first produced in Japan.[2][1]
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Maybe the allspark couldnt have killed the dinosaurs but it could have possibly sank Atlantis or killed the ice age
Plus, it created a riff between dimensions, allowing Mario and Luigi to defeat Koopa in '93...That is one magic cube...
There's only 2 continuities with an "All Spark" on earth and TFA's definitly wasnt on earth that long.
But if I'm right the movie continuity has the All Spark crash landing at the start of the last "Ice Age" which would be way after the mass extintion of the Dino's.
Go back to school because your miss-informed.
The Autobot ship crash landed 4 million years ago.
The Dino's were wiped out 65 million years ago.
There's no way the Ark could have been involved in the extinction of the Dinos.
^so the government says
So the government says about what??????
That the dinos went extincted 65 million years ago........thats not the government thats science.
Or that the Cube landed arount the start of the last Ice age....thats not the government thats the script.
lol, it was just a joke
Did I sound too serious????
That wasnt my intent.
The allspark has only been on the earth for 10,000 years, as someone said. Not nearly far enough to kill any dinosaurs.
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10 Best Rock Songs About Getting Back Together
Ever wonder which 10 best rock songs about getting back together are still played? Starting over again can be better than the first time. If you have realized how much you need and want that certain person in your life again these rock songs about getting back together will be the beginning point.
- "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb. Off the "2 Hot" album, this song describes a person realizing they let go of someone dear to them. "Reunited" has been a favorite make up song for many couples since its release in 1978, making this the oldest rock song about getting back together to make our list.
- "Dying" by Five For Fighting. AKA John Ondrasik or Vladimir John Ondrasik. Dying comes from the 2004 album titled "The Battle For Everything". "Dying" is a rock song about parting ways and one hoping to get back together.
- "Get Back Together" by Everything But The Girl. From their fifth album titled, "The Language of Life", Get Back Together (released in 1990) takes a unique third person perspective to convincing a person to go back to an ex lover.
- "Over and Over Again" by Nelly and Garth Brooks. Off of Nelly's fourth album, "Suit" which was released in 2004. This duet is about a mans view on not being able to get a love out of his mind.
- "Just Once" by James Ingram. Off of the 1981 "Dude" album (Quincy Jones), "Just Once" is a song that speaks of love that keeps trying. James Ingram never recorded this song on any of his own works.
- "Far Away" by Nickelback. Off of the "All The Right Reasons" album (2005), "Far Away" is a song about not giving up on being together again after a time apart. This best rock song about getting back together has a must see video to accompany the music .
- "We Belong" by Pat Benetar. In 1984, from the "Tropico" album Pat released "We Belong". The song describes feeling that two people are meant to be together despite a woman feeling like she is being treated badly.
- "Right Now" by Van Halen. With Sammy Hagar on vocals on the "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" album. Right now talks about living in the moment and forgetting the past. Right now has been used in soft drink commercials making this the most advertised rock song about getting back together.
- "Forever" by Kiss. Released in 1989, "Forever" is a man, who for a long time thought he would never love, realizing he needs the woman in his life. "Forever" can be found on the "Hot in The Shade" album.
- "Open Arms" by Journey. Released in 1982, the song is about a couple trying to get back together. From the "Escape" album, "Open Arms" still is a best rock song about getting back together.
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I'm wearing this dress so much lately, it is actually all I wear whenever I'm not wearing some skinnies combined with a jumper. This dress is perfect. I really wish for another one in black or an autumn colour. I'm a lot out of outfit inspiration lately (I hope to do some shopping soon, got some things in mind I would love to have). That's not the case with this dress, but this can't be all I wear all week. Anyways there had to be another outfit post with this one. The other post with this dress was from Italy, this one is a bit more autumn proof. I love that autumn is arriving, I can't wait for the trees to colour their leaves.
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Lucchetti and WSJ's "Sick Sigma"
On 4/20/06, the same day that NYX reported impressive numbers, WSJ's Aaron Lucchetti continued to showcase his propensity to speculate as well as his seeming reluctance to report factual information.
Today, The London Stock Exchange said it had not been approached by NYX about a possible offer. This report contradicts recent speculation by the WSJ that NYX was in talks with LSE about striking a deal.
In fact, LSE said it was responding to press speculation and said "it has not received an approach from the New York Stock Exchange about a possible offer" (source: WSJ, 4/24/06).
"They [NYX shareholders] know they'll get at least a stake in the biggest stock exchange in the world, a small business in stock options and a budding effort in bond trading. But they may also be getting a piece of a business that could look substantially different in the months and years ahead: The NYSE has talked to London Stock Exchange PLC and European exchange operator Euronext NV in recent weeks about possible deals or alliances. And Mr. Thain has also made clear that he's interested in buying a U.S. derivatives (or futures or options) operation."
To be sure, NYX is smart and methodical. In due course, facts will prevail. If you're new to NYX please refer to some of the archives on this blog to see for yourself just how often the same reporters and analysts are wrong about their speculation about NYX.
At what point do reporters and analysts that are consistantly wrong stop getting handed the megaphone?
Reg FD requires that material information about a public company be communicated to all investors at the same time. Certainly, speculation can create drama. And, drama certainly helps sell papers. Thing is, the reputation of a paper relies on the quality of its reporting. Not naming sources, reporting information that is simply not true, and consistantly being wrong with your commentary has an impact on the quality variable.
It's odd that in today's WSJ piece about the LSE announcement that they'd allude to an article that Lucchetti wrote on 4/16/06 that cited a couple of lines from a recent NYX filing regarding the upcoming secondary as the catalyst for speculating that NYX and LSE were in talks. It's odd because on 4/20/06 Lucchetti reported that "the NYSE has talked to the London Stock Exchange PLC." This assertion by Lucchetti, as we've now learned, was purely speculation and not rooted in fact. Here's what WSJ writer David Weidner wrote as he tries to do some damage control:
"The Wall Street Journal reported April 16 that NYSE is in talks, presumably with the LSE The Journal cited a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the NYSE that read: "We are currently engaged in discussions with certain participants, although no definitive terms have been discussed or agreements reached." The report also cited anonymous sources saying the exchanges were conducting informal talks."
If Lucchetti's quality controls are any indication, one might classify WSJ's style of QA, or lack thereof, as "Sick Sigma."


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The City That Dares Not Sleep release and new merchandise
Aug 31st
The final episode is upon us, ready for you to download and consume like a maniac. For those who have already purchased the season, head over to Your Games page and click that shiny download button. If you've not yet invested in The Devil's Playhouse, run to the Telltale Store and pick it up now for the limited price of $19.95.
Telltale also announced that the free season DVD can be ordered right here. On top of that, a five set of poster prints each based around an episode are purchasable here, with the 'Finale' art forming the cover for the DVD and available separately signed by Steve Purcell. Also, for $24.95, you can get the long, long, loooooong awaited Symbiote figurines from Symbiote Studios. Merchandise heaven!
New shirt and sales in the Telltale store
Jul 22nd
To celebrate the San Diego Comic-Con taking place this week, Telltale have created a special section in their store to offer discounts on certain items; of note are all the Sam and Max seasons and the paperback version of Surfin' the Highway. Everything has two dollar signs so you know it's a bargain.
There is also a brand new shirt, "featuring your favorite dog and lagomorph crimefighting team during their salad days", for the sale price of $15.16. Members of the cotton fanclub can also be satisfied with the 100% dominance they hold in the shirt's materials.
What do you think of the new shirt? I'd personally like to see Telltale try something a bit more abstract with their designs – something that a non-Sam and Max fan could appreciate while at the same time allowing us obsessives to pick up on the reference to the series.
New merchandise from Telltale
Apr 16th
Have you ever wanted to glug down a liquid of your choice in a shot glass with Max's flaming face on, wear Max Imp printed on a shirt or pin five Devil Playhouse buttons on your clothes or bag? Of course you have.
Telltale have come to your aid. These three new pieces of merchandise – a shot glass, shirt and button set – are purchasable from their store, totalling $37.85 if you decide to splash out and buy them all. Will you be adding these to your Sam & Max collection?


text: UK TF Movie Release Date DEFINITELY July 27th Paramount UK have confirmed to TF@TM that the Release date for Transformers The Movie in the UK is 100% definatly July 27th - nearly a month after everywhere else! This contradicts the UK version of TransformersMovie.com which lists the release date as the 29th June. This sucks!


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"Glastonbury - Another Stage" is a glossy coffee-table/tent floor book full of portraits of festival goers and artists, combined with scenic shots of Worthy Farm by photographer Venetia Dearden. Mulberry HQ - keen Glasto-goers themselves because of the Somerset connection - was so taken with Dearden's work that they have sponsored the publication of this, her latest book.
Mulberry's slogan for festival season is Peace, Love and Mud and they are offering anyone spending over £500 online a pack of postcards from the book, a bunch of badges and a sheet of stickers.
"Glastonbury - Another Stage" is £30 and comes with a limited edition Mulberry hemp bag for your gig essentials. Well, it saves the Alexa from the elements...
Click here to see Mulberry's spring summer collection


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Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleason) is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) assigned to the case.
Actors:Brendan Gleeson,Mark Strong,David Wilmot,Don Cheadle,Rory Keenan,Liam Cunningham
Description:THE GUARD is a comedic, fish out of water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption, and the two cops who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang, an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent.


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I don't know if you've seen the film Gravity (or been into space yourself) but there's an amazing bit in the film when the astronauts lose contact with mission control for a period of time. This is possibly due to being on the wrong side of the earth or something. Regardless of the silence the astronauts talk away as if someone is listening, as a record of events, and maybe as a means to stay focused. So that's what I'm doing. Yes, it's all gone quiet. Dan said it would.
But he's out there somewhere in the wilderness, not quite outer space, but somewhere pretty remote. And he's not alone. I assume Dan finished today, I assume the tracker ran out of juice. I assume we'll see that reassuring little No 1 flag pop up somewhere near Kinloch Hourn in the morning. I bet you can't wait?
The great news is that after yesterday's plea it seems we have some decent support for Dan on Cuillin. Matt Reedy has made himself available for Thursday if Dan is on schedule (Matt and Jane Reedy were with Dan and Bilbo last time he did the ridge - it was Matt's birthday treat!). If necessary John Fleetwood might be able to make it north on Friday to Skye if Dan is running behind. Either way we know he'll be well looked after.
Tomorrow Sue and Phil Clark head north to take over as support crew in the motorhome. I'm assuming Aled is heading home and maybe Graham at some point soon. This is especially poignant as the Clarks were part of the team that supported Hugh some years ago now when he completed the trip. They even got their names in his book. In many ways that's the whole reason I'm busy writing this blog, to guarantee a name check, and even a payment for author's rights when they want to use sections of my eloquent prose to replace Dan's own incoherent ramblings. We'll see.
Simon Stainer and Chris Lumb head north on Thursday as well, let's hope they can find him. Houston, over and out.


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Dear Dr....
I've been HIV+ for 6 years, VL undetectable, t-cells=190 in November. My mom was just diagnosed with shingles. Is it ok for me to be around her or should I stay away until her shingles go away? Thanks in advance for your advice.
Missing Mom
Response from Dr. Feinberg
If you've had chicken pox in the past, it's OK to visit because you're already infected with the virus that causes shingles. If you and your mom can't remember whether you've had chicken pox, then stay away until all her sores have crusted over (shouldn't take more than 7-10 days).
Shingles SUCK
back to back shingles!!!!! ouch
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Yes, that Jean Michel Jarre. When I tweeted a photo of the Aerosystem One dock at the launch event last night, I was met with replies from "it looks like a cheesegrater," to a patio-heater, to "a free-standing ashtray," to an "exhaust stack on a 16 wheel lorry." And that's before I've even told you of the various sex-toy jokes.
You're planning some festivities you say? Not so much a party as a BASH? The dinky rechargeable battery dock in your room is not going to cut it. You need something so big and heavy it needs a retractable handle and wheels.
The new Samsung DA-E750 speaker dock does two things that other docks don't. First, it plays with both your iOS devices or your Galaxy S. The dock has also been outfitted with a hybrid vacuum tube system that Samsung says will put some audiophile muster behind your tunes.
Yamaha makes some pretty awesome audio equipment, even if it often ranges on the pricey side. So there's reason to be excited for their new PDX-11 iPod dock, especially considering the four-inch woofer, distinctive looks and low low pricetag.
I've thought it was a bit odd that Logitech, who has made some of my favorite iPod docks, had yet to produce an AirPlay speaker by now. That seems like it's gonna change soon if this Amazon listing (now pulled) is any indication.
Seeing the success B&W's had with the Zeppelin and Zeppelin Air, another British hi-fi company wants in on that lucrative iPod dock money-maker. Monitor Audio's i-Deck 200 is a dead ringer for the first Zep, with cool curves and audiophile aspirations, albeit without the Wi-Fi and at a lower price.


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Smoke enough cigarettes in any day, complement that with at least three cups of coffee (I limit it to three and a half, though I'm positive we have six and seven and eight cuppers out there), and you just won't be too hungry. There will come a time when you will begin to shake and you realize you need to satisfy that dull grumbling in your stomach, silenced with the seventh cigarette at three in the afternoon; so you'll grab a croissant or something small that sounds like it'd go well with—wait for it—coffee. Sweets normally won't do it, you know you need fats so you smear some mayonnaise and or hot sauce on that croissant (we love hot sauce because it loosens up the face). Smoke a nice spliff with a beer after that commute home from work or after that last three hour Wednesday night class that you're already sick of after two weeks, and you won't need to eat again before passing out to sleep. Get up early, run and have a yoga sesh by 9:30 in the morning, make a healthy, hearty breakfast, and start all over. Hello weight loss.
This is coming from a fairly inexperienced cigarette smoker; I've been a true smoker for around eight months now. I started smoking near the end of my year in Europe, when I would just WANT to smoke. In a lifestyle with no work and little school, I can honestly admit that I'm surprised it didn't come sooner with the amount of smoke ever-present around me.
On January 1, 2008 France passed a law prohibiting smoke inside restaurants or bars or tabacs. I saw this as a great thing (what a perfect word- thing) for nonsmokers who went out to clubs, as we could hardly keep our eyes open in the stinging heat of the smoky dance floors. As far as cafes and tabacs went, however, even as a nonsmoker I wasn't too thrilled about that (side note: in France, a tabac is basically a tobacco store; all with the same red sign hanging outside, they sell all sorts of smokables from cigarettes to rolling papers. Some of them are purely walk in, buy and leave; while others are actually little cafes where you can get a coffee or beer). One thing I remember the most about those first few weeks of culture shock was the smoking inside these social places, where all sorts of people would stop in their local tabac for a quick espresso and a smoke while chatting with the owner and whoever else may have been inside. I remember not having the gall to sit inside after I'd picked up George R.R. Martin's illustrated novel and wanted to sit somewhere and read it—maybe because I didn't smoke, maybe because I didn't speak French; who knows, at this point?
So come April one morning after a night of drinking [quality, healthy beer] I awoke around nine in the morning, comme d'habitude and I just wanted to smoke. I'd already began puffing away here and there while away in other Western European countries (smoked my first Lucky Strike in Spain—almost threw up. Bought Marlboro lights in Stockholm to get me through my ennui, and on top of all this I had begun rolling spliffs about a month prior with whatever tobacco I could get my hands on from a neighbor, a roommate, or someone on the street), but it was still more of a drunk thing (that's how we all start in college, isn't it?). My problem was the minimal Bukowski I'd read at the time, paired with the French lifestyle [of coffee, croissant, and cigarettes until lunch] that I'd witnessed day after day, on top of the fact that I was still very concerned with my physical appearance (that's a story for another post). So I walked to my local tabac, bought some Camel rolling tobacco and papers and filters, and walked home. I sat at my kitchen table rolling for about twenty minutes before producing a smokable result, and since the roommates weren't home I sparked it right there.
The thing about smoking rolled cigarettes, even with a filter, is that it's a stronger tobacco rush. Until you've been doing it for a month, at least, when someone teaches you how to wrap your fingers around it well enough to make it a tight smoke that doesn't destroy you with tobacco rush, and not so tight that you can't smoke it. The art furthers when you work on rolling marijuana into these rolled cigarettes with papers twice as long: that's called a spliff. In either case, your goal is to make the paper tight and taught around whatever's inside, and but not so tight you get a headrush by trying to inhale. Europeans have some natural instinct that makes them master rollers of any sort; it's almost freaky. One handed, backwards, inverted… I'll go out on a limb by calling it the most unappreciated yet most celebrated art in Western culture.
So I'm sitting there sucking on my rolled cigarette and drinking dark coffee with a little half and half, feeling like tough shit there in my dumpy little flat in Aix-en-Provence overhanging a street drenched in the smell of scooter exhaust, when the first headrush comes. I sat there still, trying to hold myself from throwing up like after that first spliff I'd ever smoked (note to self: write about this). I had to light it again after I'd waited for it to wear off, and by four puffs into it, needing to relight its poorly rolled infrastructure every minute, I realized I needed a lot of practice: but I WANTED to roll my cigarettes (healthier + cheaper, what better excuse would a wannabe smoker need?), so I would keep it going. This marks the beginning of my smoker-dom.
Stay tuned for part two…


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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Wednesday Work in Progress is all about Granny
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This is going to be AMAZING - I think I like the left hand side layout better but the other would work too! Lucky you to have a design wall :)ReplyDelete
Your design wall looks great! I definitely need one, but just don't have the space! They say that a little bit of yellow goes a long way! Your grannies don't seem to be suffering because of the lack of it!ReplyDelete
I'm going to *stagger* my vote ;) I think you should call that quilt Patience - it must have taken a boatload of it to work with all of those tiny pretty little jewels of fabric! I love all the colours :)ReplyDelete
It's going to be a beautiful time treasured quilt. I'm going to weigh in for the staggered layout.ReplyDelete
It looks very pretty, I like the layout!ReplyDelete
Those grannies are so cute. I like them both, but I like how different the staggered layout is. I think it depends on how you want to quilt it.ReplyDelete
Oh, now this is sweet! I love your mini Grannies and their rainbow of colours! Both layouts are great, but I think the staggered rows are more interesting... Then again, you could do them on point, too!ReplyDelete
The first words that came to mind when I saw your quilt was "Simply Stunning!!!". You definitely have patience and it shows in the piecing. I agree with the previous comment that the layout should be decided by the way you decide to quilt it.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness this is amazing, Katherine!!! The colors are beautiful and the layout is just perfect! Can't wait!ReplyDelete
Although you made me chuckle when you mentioned about the color yellow = McDonald's!? Too funny! :D
Great blocks Katherine....anxious to see it quilted...beautifulReplyDelete
So many granny squares! I personally like the staggered squares the best... but I'd hate to cut those granny squares in half. Either way, I'm sure it will come out amazing.ReplyDelete
1.5 inch squares--very impressive and very lovely. A real work of art!ReplyDelete
This quilt is going to be gorgeous once it's finished! I'll bet it feels really good to get to this point of getting ready to sew all those blocks together.ReplyDelete
Those are brilliant!! I love them.ReplyDelete
Wow! All those little blocks! You must be so excited to be putting all those beautiful, detailed blocks together!ReplyDelete
Popped over to "bee social" and am delighted to see your grannies on the wall! Super fun quilt.ReplyDelete
Carole @ Fresh off the Frame
What a great idea to use your designwall like this. I even don't have one!!!!! I lay my fabric on the ground but at night i have to jump in my bed sometimes'........ReplyDelete
WOW!! This is going to be an awesome quilt!!ReplyDelete
They are beautiful. Not sure which layout I'd pick! Either way it is a winner!ReplyDelete
so absolutely fabulous!!ReplyDelete
Love your grannie squares - the colors are so vibrant! Beautiful work. I like the layout on your design wall and look forward to seeing it put together.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful quilt! Definitely a treasure!!ReplyDelete
Soooooo pretty! I wish I had a design wall, oh well, the floor will have to do :-(ReplyDelete
I look at this and... words fail me! What a swooning quilt this is going to be! I am enchanted and simply have to pin!ReplyDelete
The is an amazing amount of blocks! How long have you been making them? I like both layouts but the staggered one really speaks to me.ReplyDelete
LOVE the staggered layout!! I haven't seen one like it, and I feel it's unique in a very good way!ReplyDelete
Looks really good in this layout. Yeah, your favourite colours are red, and a reddish orange by any chance?ReplyDelete
It's a proverbial old folks home ;o) Those are wonderful blocks and the colour distribution is great. You're not wrong about yellow being a tricky colour to use. I tell my students to use it with care because it is just bright...doesn't matter about the shade you will always notice it.ReplyDelete
While I'm here...I wanted to ask you about the Singer machine in that first picture...I've been toying with the idea of getting a Vintage Singer either the 15K or the 201 model for free motion quilting because of the large harp...Just wonder what your model was and if you have tried that?
Go ahead...say something! Got a question for me? Ask it! I can't wait to hear from you... so start writing... and thanks in advance for letting me know you're sharing in my online adventures. Hugs and happiness to you!


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The Role of Livestock in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction
This paper reviews the diverse and changing roles of livestock as they relate to the process of economic development and poverty reduction, departing from the premise that livestock production plays an important role in contributing to the livelihoods of most of the world's poor and in meeting the fast growing demand for livestock products in the developing countries. It is argued that investment in livestock raises farm production by extending the area of land utilised, diversifying productive activity for crop cultivators or intensifying production, and that changes from grassland-based systems to mixed farming systems and thence to landless production systems represent stages of increasing intensity.
The author draws on New Institutional Economics concepts such as property rights, transaction costs and agency theory to provide insights into the institutions affecting livestock development. Thus, patterns of land tenure, intra-household rights and gender issues, credit provision, contractual arrangements, animal health services and their change over time are examined. The lack of circulating capital is recognized as a major constraint for smallholder livestock development.
The development of world trade in livestock and livestock products is analysed. Despite expanding markets for livestock products the developing countries as a group have recently switched from being net exporters and become net importers of livestock products. Although patterns of trade depend on differences in comparative advantage between countries they are also influenced by trade regulations. Domestic producer protection by the European Union, the USA and Japan in particular is identified as destabilising world prices and imposing cheap priced competition on developing country producers. Nevertheless, the overall gains from trade liberalisation for developing countries are expected to be small.
The paper concludes by stressing the need for increased investment in livestock production, given the rapidly growing demand for animal products and the important contribution of livestock to the incomes and welfare of the rural poor and outlines policy options that could be pursued by developing country governments as well as by the donor community.
A six page executive summary is also available in addition to this paper.
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