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Most of the Excavating Contractors you know probably work well away from the shore or ocean. Why would they need something called Inland Marine insurance? The name of the policy may be a little strange but the coverage is really necessary. Now that Pennsylvania has agreed to allow insurance companies to pay dividends on premiums on coverage through LICA, this much needed insurance can become a reality.
The basic inland marine policy covers property and equipment that isn't covered by another source of insurance. For instance, a contractor may have a construction trailer on site. A storm may come through and damage the structure but it may be covered under a different policy. If it is not, the inland marine clause would cover it.
Inland marine will also cover any computer equipment, software and data that may have been damaged in the construction trailer. This insurance also covers materials, supplies, equipment, machinery and fixtures that are owned by the contractor, or for which he is legally liable, that are to be installed while the property is at a construction site, in transit, or at a temporary storage site. This can be a tremendous relief for owners who must transport heavy machinery from one location to another, or who need to leave the machinery on-site for a lengthy period of time while the project is underway.
There is also the option of adding personalized coverage. This policy is called a "Contractor's Equipment Program". This coverage is for the contractor's equipment, as well as equipment in his care, custody and control. It applies to all equipment, whether owned, rented or borrowed, rather than only equipment listed in the policy. Contractors Equipment Program even includes rental reimbursement coverage, which pays part of the cost of renting substitute equipment when covered property has been put out of service by a covered loss, subject to policy conditions. In addition, it includes coverage extensions for debris removal; equipment leased, rented or loaned to others; and construction trailers
Members of PALICA can have this insurance written this brand new program. If a contractor is not a member, a look at the website is a good idea. You will be able to see all the features and benefits at http://www.pennsylvanialica.com/.
LICA members have access to the LICA Contractor Safety Management Plan. The purpose of this comprehensive safety manual is to provide LICA members with recommended safe operating procedures and to outline techniques that are essential for the protection of the industry's greatest asset "its people and equipment." It is designed to be your individual company safety program or supplement to your existing program. It contains toolbox talks, equipment and jobsite inspection forms and much more. For your convenience a complete CD of the manual is included. This manual is worth thousands of dollars and is free to every contractor member.
For members who have college age children, LICA also has a scholarship program for active LICA Contractor members. The National LICA Education Committee awards several annual scholarships that are available to LICA members, spouses, children and grandchildren.


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by Sebastian Wöber | 13th May 2011
This is not a videolog pick and usually I don't post soemthing that's not vimeo or YouTube (Sorry on this one iPhone people), but it's something I find so worth posting that I decided to disregard these guidelines.
The above clip is a short 15 minute documentary about former Shooto heavyweight champion Enson Inoue's efforts to help Japenese people in the aftermath of the catastrophy. It's also a very good example of a documentary shot on DSLR and how these cameras can level up a production like this.
Eventually I would also like to point out how this is a good example of how well made movies are amazing powerful tools that can not only entertain us, but also do good in this world:
This one helps spread the word about things we humans are fond of locking away in our hearts, but Enson found it. He talks about the fire in his heart and how he spends his last savings on helping these people but still, in return he gets something that's worth much much more.
The filmmaker behind the camera is sports videographer Daniel Herbertson.
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Chen Shen
Vice President, Senior Curator of Chinese Art and Cultures
Area: World Cultures, Ancient Cultures, World Art & Culture
Interests: Palaeolithic Archaeology and Human Origins; Art and Archaeology of Early China; Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
Exhibitions & Galleries: Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China; Gallery of Korea; Prince Takamado Gallery of Japan; Gallery of Chinese Architectures
B.A., Archaeology, Wuhan University, China, 1987
M.A., Archaeology, University of Tulsa, OK, 1992
Ph.D., Anthropological Archaeology, University of Toronto, 1997
Dr. Shen joined the ROM in 1997 as the first Bishop White Curator of East Asian Archaeology, an endowed curatorship, and began his Canadian-Chinese collaborative archaeological fieldwork in China. Currently, Dr. Shen is leading several projects in Pleistocene archaeology in Northern China - Nihewan, Luonan, and Shandong projects. His research focuses on human origins and lithic technology development in East Asia. These projects are supported by research grants from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanity Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (U.S.), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ROM Governors. The work of Dr. Shen's team in East Asia has revealed the earliest hominid site, approximately 1.66 million years old. Since 2009, in collaboration with scientists from Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shen's fieldwork involves excavations at the Zhoukoudian site, renowned for the discovery of the Peking Man fossils in the early 20th century as well as being a central location for the study of human evolution.
Dr. Shen is responsible for the development of the ROM's Chinese galleries, exhibitions, and collection management. His research focuses on the study of prehistoric stone tools and pottery, Bronze-Age archaeological materials including bone, jade and bronze artifacts, as well as coin and mirror collections. Dr. Shen has curated numerous exhibitions at the ROM, including the critically acclaimed Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan (2002), and The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army (2010). Dr. Shen has also been integral in fostering working relationships between the ROM and numerous renowned museums in China, including the Palace Museum and the National Museum of China (both in Beijing), and Nanjing Museum (Jiangsu Province).
Currently, he is involved in organizing workshops and symposiums on cultural heritage management and preservation in China. Dr. Shen is an Academic Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America. Dr. Shen is a professor at the Anthropology Centre of the Eastern Asian Study Department at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in Art and Archaeology of Early China, and Technology and Material Culture in Ancient China. He is the author of Anyang and Sanxingdui: Unveiling the Mysterious of Ancient Chinese Civilizations and the senior editor of Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology. Dr. Shen has published many academic papers in both English and Chinese languages.
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|"L'estremo Oriente fra il Pleistocene e la transizione all'Olocen. Preistoria e origini della civiltà cinese : A cura di Roberto Ciarla e Maurizio Scarpari." Giulio Einaudi Editore, 7-47.
|Huayu Lu, Hongyan Zhang, Shejiang Wang, Richard Cosgrove, Xuefeng Sun, Jun Zhao, Donghuai Sun, Cunfa Zhao, Ming Wei and. "Multiphase timing of hominin occupations and the paleoenvironment in Luonan Basin, Central China." Quaternary Research (76)
|"Dating a lower Palaeolithic site in the Luonan Basin and Implications for Palaeoenvironment of homini occupations in North China." Quaternary Research SAR TT-OSL
|Li Z Y. "Use-wear analysis confirms the use of Palaeolithic bone tools by the Lingjing Xuchang early human." Chinese Science Bulletin
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During the Han Dynasty, stone and brick tombs of the wealthy were subterranean residences adorned with decorated walls and furnished with everything the occupant might n
Upper Palaeolithic microblade technology
Lower Palaeolithic settlement of the Middle Pleistocene
The Early Pleistocene hominid occupations in East Asia (1.8 – 1 million years ago)
The ROM is one of few museums in the world with a collection of comprehensive Chinese coins.
The James Menzies Chinese Research Fellowship was established in 2009 to promote scholarly research as it relates to the Royal Ontario Museum's Chinese collection, with particular emphasis on t
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Freezing in Detroit!
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When will Detroit Michigan ever decide its weather pattern? I swear one week it's nice enough to take the furry nooboo outside (Simlish for precious kitty) and watch him have it with the squirrel, the next day I get up for work and it's only like 38 degrees tops. Now, it wasn't like it was exactly shorts and tank top weather, far from it! But it was still decent enough weather for him to explore outside. What can I say, he's Persian, so that means extra thick fluffy coat of fur! Poor little guy. He had such a great adventure outside and it's prob his last for the year.
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
Favorite Bicycle-related Magazines
On Twitter I asked folks this question:
"What is your favorite bicycle-related magazine and why?"
Now this is in no way a scientific survey, vast swaths of people aren't on Twitter and only a tiny fraction of the millions of Twitter users bother themselves with following the 140 character texts from some bike mechanic in Issaquah. By the same token, most of the users of the internet never cross paths with this blog. Given those limitations, however, I found the results to be an interesting look at the kind of folks who actually do read my stuff.
The most-mentioned magazine was Jan Heine's excellent Bicycle Quarterly. Bicycle Quarterly got raves for its technical articles, real world tests, historical perspective and as one person noted "Jan Heine knows more about bicycles and cycling than I ever will. The ads are cool, too."
The next most oft-mentioned magazines were Momentum and Bicycle Times. As my friend Barb listed these two magazines as a tie for her pick of a favorite citing "reviews of bikes/gear I might actually buy and non-racers profiled." Scott enjoys Bicycle Times' back page "How We Roll" feature and his wife calls it her "get-your-stoke-on" magazine. Momentum got various positive comments for featuring good articles with basic info, lots of images and content for and about women.
Another magazine getting multiple mentions was Dirt Rag. Cited for its nice graphics and punkish attitude, it was also noted that the magazine is "fun to read." I'd add that Dirt Rag also has better depth to its reviews than many of the glossier mags and I love its annual literature contest.
Before I mention my personal favorite magazine, I'd like to call attention to some other excellent, but perhaps less well-known magazines that were mentioned by Twitter folks. Although they are zines and not really magazines (no ads, no gloss, no BS) several people made sure to mention the works of Elly Blue. Elly's zines are little books on a given theme are always nicely done with that indy, DIY, you can do it vibe to them. Go to http://takingthelane.com/ and check out her stuff.
Grant Petersen's Rivendell Reader can be had in electronic form and some back print issues can be found at: http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/rr.htm Again, interesting stuff for folks interested in the non-racing aspects of bicycles.
By the way, there is certainly nothing wrong with racing bikes but my own interests and those of most folks answering my question tended more towards other aspects of cycling. Of the zippier magazines, Peloton, Switchback, and Pavedmag were cited as having a "not just racing" approach. Rouleur was also called "glorious" and since it features the writing of Paul Fournel, I would have to agree. The racing classic Velonews is still loved as the go to source for racing coverage.
My friend Davey recommends two magazines called Boneshaker, one from the US and one from the UK citing their "beauty in bicycling" and "thrill of words." I tend to trust Davey's judgement in these matters. For those of you looking for a more urban bike vibe, check out Urban Velo, the product of a couple of good ex-DirtRag dudes. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, COG is another nice city-focused magazine.
But my personal favorite magazine, the one that Christine and I both devour as soon as it comes in the door, is one you won't find at your local newstand. It's Adventure Cyclist and you get it as one of the many benefits of membership in the Adventure Cycling Association. This magazine is not about bicycles, it's about traveling by bicycle and nobody combines great writing, wonderful pictures, solid information quite as well as these folks. This is the magazine that will inspire you to see the world from the seat of a bicycle. If you are not a member of Adventure Cycling, you're missing out on some of the best travel tales available.
OK, I'm sure there are other great magazines out there. If you know of something great that shouldn't be missed, please add a comment.
Keep 'em rolling,
Kent "Mountain Turtle" Peterson
Issaquah, WA USA
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These are the first pictures of some of 227 passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
They include Canadians Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, and his wife, Xiaomo Bai, 37, and Catherine and Robert Lawton, both thought to be in their 50s, from Brisbane.
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Tien is here in Toronto for the week for work and we've been geeking out on our old photos and analyzing the way we have been learning photography – which more or less has been trial by fire. One of my goals in the next coming while is to actually curate the photos that we have taken and actually make a nice viewable and breathable page out of it rather than a cluster of photos all together. With that in mind, I have remove the photo section of this site so Tien and I can get our hands dirty in the next month or so and pretty much go through our bazillion on edited photos and try to find some decent ones to showcase. This is gonna suck (read: time suck) but sometimes you gotta get make a mess to motivate yourself to actually clean it up.
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Life had become mundane and far too routine. Just for fun and to spice up her marriage, a woman in her 30's began to write down the naughty dreams and deliciously devious tales she had kept hidden like so many people around the world.
Those fantasies morphed from a secret shared only with her husband into a self publishing hobby that brought them into the light of day for all the world to see…
Now three years after I began this quest to dodge the boredom of routine, with an imagination brewing sinful conquests of wanton lust, I enjoy bringing you stories from the thoughts no one knows you have
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I prefer short works that strike a spark of lust and desire, able to be read completely during those brief moments of pause in life.
Grab your tablet, smart phone or computer and delve into a fantasy while the world around you continues to spin wildly, with no clue of the naughty thoughts you wish to explore!


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In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste Martin O'Malley is the latest flat earth gun control supporter calling for another "assault" weapon ban…again. How does that saying go it is like deja vu all over again. Apparently this clown doesn't even read his own adoring paper the New York Times, which also admitted that the "assault" weapon ban enacted from 1994 to 2004 didn't make any difference. Why? Because the vast amount of thugs killing people do NOT use modern sporting rifles, which 2nd Amendment hating, flat earth supporters, like O'Malley call "assault" weapons. The term is a completely and carefully poll tested word used by freedom hating POS like O'Malley to remove rights from us.
It is interesting that he is using the latest crisis in South Carolina to call for this ban. First, the shooting itself was NOT done with a modern sporting rifle. Not that this should make a difference, but it does show how these freedom hating thugs call for any and all types of gun control every time an event like this occurs. Second, the issue in South Carolina was more about mental illness than guns. If we fix the mental illness issue in this country people like this guy in South Carolina should be able to get the treatment he obviously needs.
2nd Amendment hating, anti freedom and anti civil liberties people like O'Malley will never understand the real issue and quite frankly don't want to. They are more interested in striping freedom from private citizens than actually solving problems, which is what the entire gun control industry is based on.
The formula is always the same. First, wait for "crisis" that involves a gun. Second, don't wait for the facts and start dancing in the blood of the victims and calling for "common sense" gun laws. Next, try and find a way to work in the words "assault" weapon into every news report the group does on national media, even if the perp uses a knife it becomes a conversation about "assault" weapons. Pull out a long wish list of gun ban laws that are always ready to go in their desk drawer and propose it as THE solution to THIS problem even though they are always the same tired ideas which have been pitched for years. Lastly when you don't gain traction, blame it your lack of progress on the powerful "gun lobby" and NRA. Rinse and repeat.
In the case of O'Malley work a little fund raising in the issue as well. No point in not squeezing your supporters for a few bucks for your personal coffers at the same time. These guys will never understand we have 20,000 gun laws on the books right now. We don't need any more "common sense" solutions, which only make it harder for private, law abiding, citizens to exercise their rights and won't even slow a criminal down. But again, it isn't about real solutions. It is about control.
The real solution to this latest shooting is two fold. First, fix the mental health system in this country. Of course that is hard and expensive and time consuming so it is easier to just call for some more "common sense", but useless gun control law and call it a day. Second, eliminate the criminal protection zones like this church was. Gun free zones don't work and never have. A thug bent on murder isn't going to change his plans because you put your stupid little no guns sign up. It isn't like garlic to a vampire, it doesn't repel criminals. If you really want to stop mass shootings stop creating victim zones where law abiding citizens can't carry and protect themselves and become prey for thugs like this guy. If anyone in that room besides the killer had a firearm they may have ended this before it became a mass shooting, but hey, let's just propose another "common sense" gun control law because they always work; full sarcasm intended.
The bottom line is I don't care how many politicians use the word "common sense" and talk about how this never happens in more enlightened countries like Australia. As a 2nd Amendment supporter I am not giving up one more right for a useless law that won't solve a damn thing. Not one more inch.


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The Stirling area offers a variety of opportunities for mountain biking and we have more information available on how to take access in the area. There are exciting and dedicated trails at nearby Carron Valley or lots of natural trails to explore in the local area. DMBIS can help you find out what's happening in Scottish mountain biking as well as find the best local trails.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives the right of responsible non motorised access (but allows for mobility scooters) to most land and inland water in Scotland. This responsible right of access extends to mountain biking.
The Scottish Outdoor Access Code explains how you can take responsible access when you're out mountain biking. It gives useful advice and guidance on how to act when faced with different situations.
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The Buckeye State's new A-F report card is a wonderful opportunity for parents to gain a better appreciation of how their child's school is doing, and to take action if necessary. This August, Ohio switched to a conventional A-F letter grading system to report (public) school and district performance. The A-F grades provide a clear and transparent way of reporting whether a school is academically strong, weak, or somewhere in between.
But with nine (!) indicators of school performance in play (and more to come), parents also need to know which of the letter grades are the most crucial to understand, and how they ought to interpret them. (Ohio will not issue an "overall" A-F letter grade to schools and districts until August 2015.)
So, how is a parent to understand the state's new school report cards? To start, let's begin with the two big questions that parents likely want to know about their child's school (or potential school).
1.) Is the typical student in my child's school achieving at a high-level?
2.) Is my child's school helping students learn?
There are two key A-F letter grades that answer these questions.
To answer question one, parents should look towards a school's performance index A-F rating. The performance index letter grade indicates how well a school's students perform on Ohio's standardized exams. Hence, this is the key gauge of raw student achievement within a school.
By looking at the performance index rating, parents can gain a sense of whether their child's classmates are generally doing well, middling, or struggling academically. A school rated an "A," for example, is a place with many high achieving students, while an "F"-rated school has many students whose academic achievement is low.
To answer question two, parents should look towards a school's overall value-added A-F rating. This is the key indicators of whether a school is contributing to student learning progress. Value-added based on a statistical model that gets at whether a school is helping the typical student attain more, less, or the expected amount of knowledge that can be reasonably expected of her during a school year.
In short, this letter grade allows parents to know whether their child's school is "doing its job" or "being effective." Under value-added, an "A"-rated school is helping students make atypically large learning gains over the course of a school year, whereas an "F"-rated school is having a relatively weak impact on student learning.
Many of Ohio's schools do well on both the performance index ("achievement") and the overall value-added ("progress") indicators. For example, nearly half of Ohio's school districts (290 out of 610) earned a "B" or above on both key dimensions of school performance. If your child attends a school or district that has earned an A or B letter grade on both indicators, rest assured, the quality of your child's school is fairly good on the whole.
However, if you are a parent—perhaps a parent in an urban or rural area—you may find "mixed" ratings. What if your child's school is rated a "D" on the "performance index" indicator, but an "A" on the "value-added"?
Foremost, you should understand that the achievement level in your school is dismal, even unacceptable. If you have the means to transfer your child to a higher-rated "performance index" school, by all means, it is advisable to switch. But, if you cannot switch or if you have no better schooling option in your vicinity, you should recognize that your child's school is making a noble effort to help children learn.
Now, if your child attends a school with a low rating on both indicators ("D's" and "F's"), the school is failing academically. If you care about your child's academic success, it may be the time for a switch. Ohio provides scholarships for eligible children to attend a private school. If that doesn't appeal, there may be a high-performing charter school, or a magnet program or an "alternative" (i.e., lottery-based admissions) school within your district in which you could enroll your child.
Finally, parents should be aware that Ohio's new school report cards include ratings for three student "subgroups": students with disabilities, gifted students, and very low-achieving students. Parents who have a child with a special need (a mental or physical handicap), a child who has been identified as "gifted," or a child who struggles academically, should pay attention to a school's A-F letter grades for these subgroups.
In Fordham's recent report What Parents Want, we found that parents' main concern is whether their child's school is academically "good." And, Ohio's new A-F school report cards give parents just what they want, in terms of academic information. By examining a school's performance index and overall value-added A-F letter grades, parents can gain a clearer understanding about whether their child is in a school with high-achievers (or not) and whether their child's school is making progress (or not) in helping kids learn.
Every parent-child-school situation is different, of course. Selecting the right school for a child sometimes goes beyond academics (e.g., sports, friendships, after-school programs, etc.). Nevertheless, in general, for parents of children who attend a great academic school, they ought to celebrate their school's success (if not their own child's success). For parents in failing schools, we hope Ohio's new A-F report cards will motivate them to explore better schooling opportunities.
For a detailed analysis of Ohio's new report cards, see our publication Parsing Performance: Analysis of Ohio's New A-F School Report Cards.
A version of this blog can also be found at School Choice Ohio's website.
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Gavin McDonnell held on to his British super bantamweight title by the narrowest of margins following a split decision draw against Josh Wale.
McDonnell had edged a close decision when the pair met last September and, in his first defence since claiming the title, was again taken the distance by his Yorkshire rival at a packed Leeds Arena.
It was a relentless, brutal contest with Wale continuously marching forward and appearing to have the greater success in the earlier rounds.
Both men marked up badly as the action continued apace into the later stages, each man responding when the other looked to be getting on top.
But McDonnell managed to find some reserves to finish the contest slightly the better of the two and his work obviously caught the eye of the judges.
In the end, one judge scored it 115-114 either way, with the third card reading 114-114 to ensure McDonnell clung on to his belt, although the champion was quick to promise his valiant opponent another shot.
"I knew it was close, I thought I won the majority of the first six and the last couple, so I thought I'd just won it, but I knew it was close," McDonnell told Sky Sports afterwards.
"I'll happily fight my next fight in a rematch, he can have it. It was a good fight, everyone enjoyed it and I have no problems doing it again."


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First pic from Fast Six features The Rock and Gina Carano just hanging out and looking bad ass
The Fast and the Furious franchise is alive and kicking with no further proof needed than this Twitpic of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Gina Carano on the set of the FAST SIX, both looking like a couple of bad ass cops ready to take down some bad ass car thiefs. Well, they steal more than cars now, but still...
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The FF franchise had a fun start and then kind of just clunked along until the fourth film, which reunited the cast with veteran stars Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez. Since then the title has shrank, but the action has grown, with FAST FIVE taking the cake as the best of the series. With a planned number of sequels to follow FAST SIX, it doesn't look like the series will be hitting the brakes anytiime soon. And that's okay, as long as they continue to bring the mindless fun and frenetic action, I'm down.
FAST SIX, starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Gina Carano, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Joe Taslim (THE RAID), and possibly Rihanna (unconfirmed) is puts the pedal to the metal on May 24, 2013.
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|I was really impressed with Carano in Haywire, which is an underrated flick in my opinion. It was a lot of fun and showed off Carano's charisma and presence. I look forward to what she brings to the table with her upcoming projects.


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My report tonight is about federal workers abusing the system by upgrading flights improperly at taxpayer expense.
Who wouldn't want to fly first class or business instead of coach? While I can empathize with the desire to have the space and the pampering of so-called "premium" class flights, it's a hugely expensive luxury, one that federal rules say taxpayers should not ordinarily be financing. Under federal rules, because taxpayer funds are not unlimited, agencies are required to do what they can to operate as efficiently and prudently as possible. That means strict limits on premium class flights. They're allowed only under special circumstances: certain flights over 14 hours, medical exceptions, etc.
What General Accountability Office investigators found when they probed this issue was one federal agency after another is flouting the rules. The blatant disregard is evident in trips whereby officials are having their secretaries or other subordinates "authorize" the upgrades, medical notes are signed by co-workers instead of a real doctor and aren't current, and more.
It all adds up. Premium flights are five to ten times more expensive than coach, and the GAO says one year's worth of abuse alone added up to $146 million.
Watch for that to change now that the GAO is issuing its findings. When Senator Norm Coleman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations asked the GAO to track down travel abuse in the Defense Department in 2003, the Pentagon managed to reduce the amount of tax dollars pent on premium class flights by two-thirds.
I asked investigators whether federal workers who took the unauthorized upgrades could be forced to pay back the money. The answer is: yes. For example, the Agriculture Department employee who should've flown coach to Switzerland for $900, but took a business class seat for $7,500, could be told to repay $6,600. But don't hold your breath. Here's why. The agencies themselves have been allowing the widespread abuse, including by some executives, and aren't likely to hold the workers accountable. And if Congress tried to do so, Senators and Representatives know they would be making immediate enemies of tens of thousands of high-flying federal workers, and their spouses and families. Lots of the abusers would have trouble coming up with thousands of dollars -- in some cases TENS of thousands of dollars to pay back the government.


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Precious jewellery should be looked after, especially if you have just spent a small fortune on something special. Over time your jewellery can get damaged, chipped, marked or even break. To make sure this does not happen there are a few simple steps you can take to avoid this.
1. Inspect your jewellery on a regular basis.
2. Look closely at the claws if you have a diamond ring. These can loosen over time and make your diamond vulnerable to falling out.
3. Wear your jewellery appropriately. You might want to consider taking off your ring or jewellery item when playing sports, gardening or anything else that could cause the jewellery to get knocked or damaged.
4. Store your jewellery correctly. Don't bunch your jewellery together as this will scratch and wear the metal. It's a good idea to store the jewellery in the original box. It can also be a good idea to lay your necklaces and bracelets flat as the metal can slightly stretch over time.
5. Keep your jewellery in a clean dry place as the moister in the air can also damage your jewellery.
6 Never wear your jewellery while swimming or in a spa. The chlorine in the water is very corrosive and will tarnish the metal.
7. Try and avoid general house hold chemicals when cleaning. Cleaning agents like bleach are also very harmful to Gold, Silver Platinum and Palladium.
8. Try and seek a professional jewellery cleaner at least once every year, especially if your wearing jewellery all the time. White gold for example may need to be rhodium plated so the white gold is protected.
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Passionate Art Enthusiast
Redefining the Definition of an Art Enthusiast
American Hardball
In the 21st century there are many buzzwords or acronyms for this or that. However, I have not happed upon any new buzzwords or acronyms for the art community and the art enthusiasts, who lends its' financial support. It is also safe to say that the average American art enthusiast usually has large amounts of discretionary income at their disposal. Generally the stereotypical art enthusiast is an elitist of some sort. These elitist come in many different shape and sizes, but with one thing in common..., CASH and lots of it too. Nevertheless, it is these people who end up representing the vast majority of art patrons, simply because they can afford to spend cold hard cash at an art gallery opening, Sotheby's auction, or buy through private dealer. The rest of us non elitist art patrons, are the ones braving the wintery mix to sneak a peek through an art gallery window or pay a fee to visit a local museum.
It is also worth noting that if someone were to read the high society section of a late eighteenth century newspaper or magazine article, one would agree that the overall autonomy of the eighteenth century definition of an art enthusiast, fits the twenty-first century's art enthusiast description perfectly. Unfortunately there has been very little change. It appears that the definition stranglehold, on the artistic community, has remained the proverbial constant. It is as if they are still warning artists, who attempt to seek out middle and lower class patrons, selling their renderings to this crowd of people, is a worthless venue. Simply put, artist of this nature become outcasts of the art world, and their art deemed unworthy by the corporate American snobs. I really find this to be a disgusting part of being a passionate art enthusiast.
Get Rid of the Over Inflated Art Critics in NYC
Black Parallels
I ask, can 2 black parallel lines really be considered art? I do not think so..., and why? It is my non elitist opinion that there is only so much, a person can do with two black paralleling lines. High society socialites aka "art enthusiasts" actually cast a black cloud on artistic merit. Therefore, there is only so much of this kind of mundane art one can take. Needless to say, that doesn't seem to matter. What matters is what the critics think, and how deep the pockets are of an unassuming art collector. The analyzing measure system of art, has always been at the mercy of snobbish critical reviews, which answer directly to those who are the who's who for the time being. It is this very reason that so much of the art world's underground is increasingly being lost on Americans.
Artistic merit appears to no longer be awarded off artistic talent. But rather, what some guy likes just because he writes for the New York Times. Please, enough already. I like the Futurists' approach to critical reviews, which was they hate them. Afterall a critical review is nothing more than someone's dislike or like, which is then very well written. These days, an artist's work is rewarded based off the critics and gallery houses opinions and they all answer to the highest bidders. No wonder funding for the American arts has been drastically cut, and endowments are at an all time low. Stop rewarding the highest creativity honors, to painters who only paint two black lines. That's not art, that is call drafting.
Time and time again, in gallery houses all over America, canvases adoring the most simplistic, straight, black lines, wins the convened spotlight, verses a richly detailed piece that captures a viewer's imagination. People want to be swallowed up by a painting, not made to feel like it is another road map. What happened to feeding a person's soul?
I fully realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder however, in the art world, the beholder with the deepest pocket book, proclaims the beauty for us all. As an art enthusiast, I freely declare, "Enough already!" There is so much more to art, than the ordinary, hierarchy definitions that have plagued the cultural embodiments, which have now in turned engulfed the art world of today. Urgh...
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Pure Passionists Only
Since the beginning of time, art has defined the human race. It is the one thing that truly separates us from other species on earth. It is a consuming influence that teaches people direction. Art provides humans with explosive Haute Couture to clothe us. Art can shields us from the elements, and it can take us to any part of the world. Artistic expression is a discretion, in which a person can be inclined to express themselves. When I look out a window and onto the horizon, I see art everywhere. I am definitely an art enthusiast, but not based off its current day definition, because I can not really afford to be one.
However, one only has to gaze upon the historical reference of Van Gogh, to know that he was one such artist, which broke the barriers between the enthusiast of the high society and the enthusiast of the lower middle class. Van Gogh never achieved, critical affirmation, until many years after his death. However for today's youth, Van Gogh has definitely brought out the Passionist, in college students across America. Adorning college dormitory walls across America, are prints of Van Gogh's masterpieces, pinned next to the latest Hooter's calendar or poster of the this years hottest female and male calendar models.
Art enthusiasts today have all but forgotten the little people that made Van Gogh, into the icon that he is today. Average everyday workers could buy his paintings for pennies on the dollar and they did. When the art world shunned him, there were patrons standing on the sidelines waiting, needing, and craving his artwork. It was the art patrons of the lower and middle class societies, which brought about Van Gogh's fame. Therefore, in middle class homes throughout America, Van Gogh's "coffee table" books are an iconic, decoration staple. With that said, once someone starts participating in the art world, is can be a mind-blowing experience. Subject, materials, dates, events, movements, and historical importance break down each dimensional element. One simply cannot say they are an "art enthusiast" without being hounded by art snobs asking who, what, when or why. Nevertheless, if someone were to say, "I consider myself to be an 'artistic Passionist ." Really, what more could the art snobs say, other than thank you?
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"Art Passionists," "Art Enthusiasts," "Art Lovers;" to most, I feel, the terms are nearly interchangeable and each person describes him/herself as one or another not mentioned.
Just remember what the great 20th Century philosopher, Will Rogers is quoted as saying: "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like." (No high-falutin title for him)
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Great hub!
RK, you have a lovely and passionate side. I love the portraits here and truly Art is Passion for they complete one another. Great Hub dear.
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Another great art hub! Yes Van Gogh has inspired the expression of passion and he's up there among my gods!
And yes, be true to what your passion is - love the art that makes your soul soar. That's what should matter and not what the rich art patron says :D
Always groovy, RK...
"...an useless..." while u is a vow, and you're supposed to use "an," it doesn't always work well. I advise removing the n...but that's just me. =)
I like this stuff, RK. However, perhaps when you have more free time go back and utilize the underscore and the bold and all that stuff. Learn to speak with it, and even mold your text around it--it'll give you a new layer of communicating your emotions with your audience.
I love art. I make about...oh, actually, lets just say its way less than 20,000 latinum a year. I love music, photography, paintings, books, comics, you name it--I love it. Art is but a name to a cause, and that cause is recontextualizing humanity in a compelling way.
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- A Lesson from the Lumber Yard: Middle District of Florida Raises Particularity Requirement for Trustee Standing in § 549 Avoidance Actions
- May 8, 2013 | Authors: Scott St. Amand; J. Ellsworth Summers
- Law Firm: Rogers Towers, P.A. - Jacksonville Office
One of the primary roles of a Chapter 7 trustee is to ensure that the bankruptcy estate is preserved prior to liquidation. It is no wonder, then, that the Trustee's avoidance powers are well defined by the Bankruptcy Code. Nevertheless, a string of recent cases out of the Middle District of Florida has illustrated that a trustee is not given carte blanche to avoid all transfers that diminish the estate without first establishing that it has standing to bring the avoidance action.
Under § 549 of the Bankruptcy Code, a trustee may avoid a postpetition transfer that is authorized by the Bankruptcy Code or Court. To do so, the trustee must establish that the transfer actually injured or diminished the bankruptcy estate. Establishing a causal relationship between an unauthorized postpetition transfer and a diminution of the estate does not, at first blush, seem too onerous of a task. However, a string of recent decisions out of the Middle District of Florida in the Wood Treaters case have illustrated that even if the trustee can establish that the transfer was unauthorized, it still bears a significant burden to connect the individual transfer to a direct depletion of the estate.
In Wood Treaters, the debtor filed a Chapter 11 petition and was granted conditional permission to use cash collateral to make postpetition transfers. After the case was converted to Chapter 7, the trustee sought to avoid a number of the debtor's transfers because they had not been made in strict accordance with the cash collateral order.
Though not condoning the debtor's unauthorized transfers, Judge Paul M. Glenn found that the trustee had failed to establish that the bankruptcy estate suffered a direct injury as a result of any particular transfer. Specifically, Judge Glenn held that the trustee failed to establish that the goods purchased in any specific transaction (i) were not fair value for the purchase price, or (ii) were re-sold at a loss by the Debtor or the liquidator. This particularity requirement was especially vexing for the trustee, because the trustee did, in fact, introduce evidence that the aggregate effect of the transfers diminished the overall value of the bankruptcy estate.
Judge Glenn's strict interpretation of § 549 is not universally accepted, although the preliminary holding in Wood Treaters has already been adopted by the Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appeals Panel, as well as two lower federal courts. The effect of holding that a showing of aggregate harm will not suffice to carry the jurisdictional burden in a § 549 avoidance action may be chilling to present avoidance actions, but establishing that the estate suffered a loss as a direct result of a particular transfer is certainly not outside the trustees' collective wheelhouse. Because trustees must now scrutinize each postpetition transfer with greater specificity, Wood Treaters should ultimately prove positive for lenders and other creditors.


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The merits of Amazon, online shopping, and e-books certainly deserves debate and consideration. How does an e-book differ from paper in how we perceive and appreciate a book? And will paper bookstores eventually die out under pressure from giants like Amazon? All good questions, but for me, here, now, it's a lifesaver. Instead of the serendipity of the bookshelf, a computer algorithm led me to this and many other books. "R.G. Collingwood" as a search subject gave me not only Collingwood's works but this biography as well. Also, while I could not browse the whole thing, I did download the sample and learn that the work intrigued me. Ah, not-so-dumb luck is my friend!
Inglis, a fellow Brit academic with a wide array of interests and publications, proves himself an excellent biographer of the elusive figure of R.G. Collingwood. As befits Collingwood, Inglis eschews a cut-and-paste biography, opting instead to comment upon Collingwood's work, thought, and intellectual progeny in addition to recounting the events of his life. The outline of Collingwood's life is relatively simple, although his youth already raises possibilities. His parents were disciples of their Lake District neighbor, John Ruskin. Collingwood grew up with a musician mother and an artist father who pursued archeology, writing, and folklore. As a youth, Collingwood was off to Rugby school and then Oxford. Following the tradition of the time, he was immersed in the classics of Greece and Rome and the Western tradition as a whole. He graduated before the outbreak of the War, and (happily for him and us), he served in Naval Intelligence in London rather than in the trenches. After the War, he returned to Oxford and served as a professor of philosophy. He remained (broadly speaking) within the British idealist tradition, seemingly out of step with the likes of Russell, Wittgenstein (at least of the Tractatus), Ayer, and the logical positivists. Despite his relative isolation, and his devotion to archeology—he was active in excavating Roman ruins in Britain and elsewhere—he received an endowed chair at Oxford in the early 30s.
While at the peak of his powers, Collingwood began suffering severe health problems caused foremost by uncontrolled high blood pressure. He became aware that he'd not lead a long life. This, along with the unfolding events in Europe (Nazism, Fascism, and Communism), and a breakdown of his marriage, led him to become as a man possessed, going on a writing and publishing frenzy before his death in January 1943. Alas, he was not able to bring his greatest work (or certainly most influential) work to publication, The Idea of History, but it did get published in 1946. It was but one part of his large output in the last decade of his life.
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Inglis takes us through these events, almost making the transformation of the man appear before our very eyes. In the early years, Collingwood comes across as unexceptional, almost bland. But then he brings forth a torrent of unique and invaluable thoughts on history, art, and Nature, as well as on current events. One of my few complaints is that Inglis, probably from a lack of access to more personal sources, doesn't delve deeply into the breakdown of his first marriage and subsequent marriage and fatherhood (again) on what was, as he knew, very near his deathbed. I can't help but wonder about this, not as a matter of prurient interest, but as to how a man of deep and profound thought (his chair was in moral philosophy) thought (or didn't) through these issues. But this is a minor issue because Inglis does more than justice to Collingwood's professional life and publications.
For anyone interested in or wondering about Collingwood, I can't imagine a better place to start. Collingwood isn't a rock star of philosophy like Russell, Wittgenstein, or Ayer, to name but three fellow British academics, but his influence, especially in the realm of history, has been significant indeed. Inglis explores his influence on Charles Taylor, Peter Winch, Quentin Skinner, and Alastair McIntyre, among others. (I'd add Owen Barfield and John Lukacs). In doing so, Inglis provides a running commentary not only on Collingwood but also in his thought's relation to the world around us that I appreciated and enjoyed very much.
Following are quotes that I excerpted from the book, a Cliff Notes of sorts of important points that I took from this most engaging book about this rather extraordinary man.
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The moral point of a biography is not to add a figure to some gallery of model lives for imitation, but to take from the bequests of the past lines of force for transformation.
Inglis, Fred (2009-07-06). History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood (p. 62). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition, citing Perry Anderson, Arguments within English Marxism (London: Verso, 1980), 98.
There is never much point, whether in aesthetic or philosophic criticism, in arguing for coherent patterns of thought in the life's work of a thinker or a poet. The history of all thought is broken up into new starts, blind alleys, reactionary retreats, fake advances, whether in one person's work or in a collective movement. Yet in a life, as in an epoch, we search out form and direction. A biography is an attempt to place a life against a moral horizon, to frame it with its recognisable landmarks and pathways.
Id. p. 81
My plan was to concentrate on the question, "What is Aristotle saying and what does he mean by it?" and to forgo, however alluring it might be, the further question "Is it true?"
Id. 86, quoting Collingwood, Autobiography [A] (27)
[Y]ou cannot find out what a man means by simply studying his spoken or written statements, even though he has spoken or written with perfect command of language and perfectly truthful intention. In order to find out his meaning you must also know what the question was (a question in his own mind, and presumed by him to be in yours) to which the thing he has said or written was meant as an answer. It must be understood that question and answer, as I conceived them, were strictly correlative. A proposition was not an answer, or at any rate could not be the right answer, to any question which might have been answered otherwise. . . . "you cannot tell what a proposition means unless you know what question it is meant to answer. . . . No two propositions . . . can contradict one another unless they are answers to the same question."
Id. 88-89, quoting RGC
If we do not learn from the past—" and we cannot otherwise learn at all"—we merely practise what Collingwood called "pseudo-history," a wandering narrative in which there is no conception of purpose, and therefore no exercise of mind.
Id. 155, quoting Skinner, Visions of Politics, vol. 1, 89.
[I]n his best-known aphorism "all history is the history of thought," which he took to mean that political theory is not an interminable anecdote summarising a sequence of remarks on politics made by consecutive theorists— by seven league boots from Plato to Nato, as the old joke has it— but is "the thought which occupies the mind of a man engaged in political work: the formation of a policy, the planning of means to execute it, the attempt to carry it into effect, the discovery that others are hostile to it, the devising of ways to overcome their hostility, and so forth."
Id. 155, quoting RGC
For Churchill's rhetoric in the House of Commons in 1940 turned precisely on the uncertain morale of his listeners, in the House and in the nation. That rhetoric was inseparable from the reasons for his policies. Reason and rhetoric were at one.
Id. 155-156
Knowledge for the historian is not the ordering and verification of propositions and statements, but the derivation of these from questions to which they serve as answers.
Id. 156
[W]hat Collingwood commends is not so much a method or a technique for the historian of thought to follow as it is an understanding he or she will command of the constitution of the knowledge arrived at. What we know is constitutive of ourselves: historical self-knowledge (the construction of the Roman wall, the construction of Marx's Capital, the decline and fall of the British Empire) goes towards the statutes of the human constitution.
Id. 157
The history of art, the history of metaphysics, the history of the Roman wall are the same kinds of intellectual venture , and we shall only summon up the temerity to face down Collingwood's terrific disdain when we add to the question-and-answer complex the necessity to determine enough of what the original agents felt as part of their thought. For it will become a premise of our revisions of Collingwood that all history is the history of thought inseparable from the moral sentiments that give it form.
Id. 158
Fifteen or so years later and after Collingwood's death, eighty miles east of Oxford, Wittgenstein was inaugurating his revolution in philosophy from a bare room above Trinity Street, Cambridge . His racy, conversational wisdom matches with a startling likeness Collingwood's ideas couched in such a very different idiom, though by a not dissimilar man.. " So you are saying that human agreement decides what is true and what is false"— It is what human beings say that is true and false; and they agree in the language they use. That is not agreement in opinions but in form of life.. If language is to be a means of communication there must be agreement not only in definitions but also (queer as this may sound) in judgements. This seems to abolish logic but does not do so. It is one thing to describe methods of measurement, and another to obtain and state results of measurement. Hence the sociability of inquiry, the congeniality of judgement, the intractability of truth.
Id. 158-159
It is a point to labour, as being the very purpose of writing a fully historical biography; one, that is, that manages to re-create how a life was lived and then takes its moral measure again, two generations later. The mind searches for a style (in Nietzsche's usage), shaped and reshaped by certain passions, which it struggles to make congenial to thought, and applies this style to the comprehension of its experience and the knowledge it will yield.
Id. 192
"History . . . cannot avoid the character of thought," the inevitability of human judgement turns the mere succession of events into a world, and not only a world in implying a narrative, "but a world of ideas." Oakeshott's historian is a scholar rather than a plain person, a scholar putting herself or himself under the stern discipline never to suppose that the past is like the present, but one for whom the knowability of the past moves it into the present, renders it mobile and changeable, varying as the evidence for it increases, obliging us to interpret and believe it differently.
Id. 194
Id. 209
A principle, rather, is an originary bearing provided for the mind; it is a primary orientation for thought; it is formative of the faculty of reasoning on a particular subject and as such will vary from time to time. Insofar as a body of principles provides a foundation for coherent thinking, it is not a foundation one can get to the bottom of ("After that, it is elephants all the way down"). The absoluteness of its presupposition is shadowy and guarded.In the play of principles, the passions form and inform the understanding. Passion has always been a difficulty for philosophers, and even Descartes' great essay on The Passions of the Soul while paying homage to their power, leaves him with the old dualism, passion and reason.
As the image of a personal God recedes from the Western academies, so too does the feasibility , let alone the desirability, of the "view from nowhere." If all moral and intellectual meditation and judgement must take place somewhere, and that somewhere is the spot on which the thinker lives and thinks, then having thought (including the re-enactment of the thoughts of others) sufficient unto the day will not be best accomplished by trying to expunge all feeling. It will be a matter of having the feelings best suited to the occasion in which one finds oneself. The hermeneutician seeks for those feelings that best enfold or comprehend the (historical) experience in view. Right feeling and just interpretation unite in a single action of mind.
Id. 209
The historian's picture of his subject, whether that subject be a sequence of events or a past state of things, thus appears as a web of imaginative construction stretched between certain fixed points provided by the statements of his authorities; and if these points are frequent enough and the threads spun from each to the next are constructed with due care, always by the a priori imagination and never by merely arbitrary fancy, the whole picture is constantly verified by appeal to these data, and runs little risk of losing touch with the reality which it represents.
Id. 211, quoting Collingwood, The Idea of History [IH], 241-242
The good historian and the fictional detective think alike. From indications of the most suggestive kind— not so much the given as the found— each constructs an imaginary picture of what happened, an event conceived as the expression of the thoughts of those who acted it out. The facts, such as they are, are placed in an interpretative order by historian or detective. Their validation is consequence of the narrator's plausibility and imaginative forcefulness. The sources, the facts, or— such a final-sounding word— the data are only as good as the historical hermeneutician can make them. "The a priori imagination which does the work of historical construction supplies the means of historical criticism as well." [IH 245] Thus the usual opposition between criticism and creation is dissolved. As imaginative works of art, novel and history are indistinguishable. As a mode of thought with its own principles, however, the history must be truthful, and its story must be true.Id. 212
The historian . . . is investigating not mere events (where by a mere event I mean one which has only an outside and no inside) but actions . . . his main task is to think himself into this action, to discern the thought of its agent. . . . For history, the object to be discovered is not the mere event, but the thought expressed in it. To discover that thought is already to understand it. . . . The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. . . . It is not a passive surrender to the spell of another's mind; it is a labour of active and therefore critical thinking. The historian not only re-enacts past thought, he re-enacts it in the context of his own knowledge and therefore, in re-enacting it, criticises it, forms his own judgement of its value, corrects whatever errors he can discern in it."
Id. 213-216
So it is, I remind my readers, that a biography is always in danger of becoming mere description, of forgetting the old saw of creative writing classes, "show, don't tell," of failing Henry James's injunction, "dramatise, dramatise." Expression in the art of biography, as in all the other arts, individualises; in our master's voice, "Expression is an activity of which there can be no technique" (my italics), hence it is not an activity in the service of truth and truthfulness, it is those qualities actualised, individualised.
Id. 235"A true consciousness is the confession to ourselves of our feelings; a false consciousness would be disowning them . . . soon we learn to bolster up this self-deceit by attributing the disowned experience to other people." 59 Spinoza is his master here, for whom the problem of ethics was the mastery of one's feelings such that passio (undergoing things) is transformed into actio (doing things). Once a passion is clearly understood it ceases to be a passion.Id. 235
Its [Principles of Art] tests of truthfulness in consciousness apply as much to politics and history as to art; if corruption of consciousness is widespread (it was then, it is now), "Intellect can build nothing firm. Moral ideals are castles in the air. Political and economic systems are mere cobwebs. Even common sanity and bodily health are no longer secure. But corruption of consciousness is the same thing as bad art."
Id. 236-237, quoting Collingwood, Principles of Art [PA], 265
[A]ny one who is reasonably well acquainted with historical work knows that there is no such thing as an historical fact which is not at the same time a complex of historical facts. Such a complex of historical facts I call a "constellation." If every historical fact is a constellation, the answer to the question "What is it that such and such a person was absolutely presupposing in such and such a piece of thinking?" can never be given by reference to one single absolute presupposition, it must always be given by reference to a constellation of them.
Id. 260, quoting Collingwood, Essay on Metaphysics [EM], 66
[G]ood historians . . . ask questions which they see their way to answering. It was a correct understanding of the same truth that led Monsieur Hercule Poirot to pour scorn on the "human blood-hound" who crawls about the floor trying to collect everything, no matter what, which might conceivably turn out to be a clue [as police searches unfailingly do]; and to insist that the secret of detection was to use what, with possibly wearisome iteration, he called "the little grey cells." You can't collect your evidence before you begin thinking, he meant: because thinking means asking questions (logicians, please note), and nothing is evidence except in relation to some definite question.
Id. 266, quoting Collingwood, Principles of History [PH] 37
Action expresses itself in language (including gesture— Res Gestae as he says), and "the business of language is to reveal thought." 37 For "That great and golden-mouthed philosopher, Samuel Alexander . . . wished philosophers to learn . . . the all-importance of time, 'the timefulness of things.'
Id. 266, quoting PH, 56
[R]e-enactment (to use once again the confounded term left unused throughout The Principles of History) is a matter of matching thought to feeling and vice versa, each as formative as the other. The interpretative task is to bring the play of thought and feeling into an inferred pattern; the historian replays feeling and thought (much as a musician replays a score) within as large a comprehending framework of human sympathy as he or she is capable of.
Id. 267
What man, at any stage of history, thinks of himself as dealing with, when we say that he is dealing with nature, is never nature as it is in itself but always nature as at that stage of history he conceives it. All history is the history of thought: and wherever in history anything called nature appears, either this name stands not for nature in itself but for man's thought about nature, or else history has forgotten that it has come of age, and has fallen back into its old state of pupilage to natural science.
Id. 268, quoting PH, 98
Collingwood mounts . . . one of the most pungent of the critiques of modern utilitarianism, pursuing the infinite regress of the utility test (this is useful because it leads to that which is useful, which leads to that which is useful . . . and so on). 60 Sooner or later, something is worthwhile for its own sake.
Id. 281
[H]is firm little lesson to his shipmate students brings out happily for my purposes just why and how the story of a thinker's thought may be read in his brief friendship with an Orthodox priest to whom he spoke classical Greek, and in his admonitions to the young men— admonitions that Ruskin and T. S. Eliot would have endorsed— to dissolve secularism and utilitarianism into a love of the past -in-the-present and to envision the common good as a web of many significances.
Id. 281
Probably there is never any point in contriving a perfect projection of the order of the books for the sake of biographical shapeliness. The unity he sought and I aim to reconstruct is the unity of his character in life and work, its style (in Nietzsche's strong sense), and that way of thinking and feeling he worked at constructing on the page, and which could then bring together the man and his history such that each comprehended the other. It is a colossal ambition, of course, and in the end it breaks your heart. But not always the spirit. If that survives, the work and the man who made it live on in the lives and thought of those who follow. Which strong-sounding chord is not a finale; it merely returns us to that crux in the bequest of his thinking that he called "re-enactment": the re-enacting of past thoughts (in this case his) in a different present. A properly historical biography will so re-enact the thoughts that we understand what he meant then, when he said it; thereafter the right biography will make it possible to turn those thoughts, resurrected from so different a moment, into something practical and rational now.
Id. 284
Re-enactment is a matter of understanding the conventions of an historical argument in such a way as to recover the intentions of the writer. Those intentions will be apparent and re-creatable insofar as the writer writes well; well-made art, whether in prose, paint, or music, speaks with certitude.
Id. 286-287
The past makes the present. As Louis Mink puts it in a neat little saw, we must understand backwards in order to think [or plan] forwards. Re-enactment is no more than thinking what has been thought exactly as it was thought then, so that the historical past can yield its lessons of difference, contrast, comparison, and does so as its differently ground optics show us contrastive and contradictory signification. Hobbes's liberty is not ours, nor Cromwell's pacification, whether of the Irish or the Levellers. Yet both have deposited their residue in our political formation. Our applications of the science of human affairs starts with a sufficiency of these reenactments, faithfully performed. This is the first form of the new science, history its content. Of itself, of course, it runs practice into theory. For history, the paramount form of theoretical knowledge, teaches understanding of how matters came to be the way they are. Duty, its corollary as dominant form of practical knowledge, teaches us freely to will what must be done.
Id. 287
But it may be doubted whether the author of The Essay on Metaphysics and New Leviathan would have so disapproved of the Philosophical Investigations. They shared a joint conviction that propositions have no common essence and doubted that truth is a correspondence between proposition and fact. They were at one in rejecting an account of knowledge as a blank apprehension of the facts . They both argued that inner states were only knowable, by oneself and others, by the making of outer expression. And they both thought that to demand something called "proof" for everything one believes is to sentence oneself to sterility.
Id. 295-296
"A man's duty on a given occasion is the act which for him is both possible and necessary: the act which at that moment character and circumstance combine to make it inevitable , if he has a free will, that he should freely will to do."
Id. 298-299, quoting Collingwood, New Leviathan [NL], 124
To have rendered these things on the page is not to have expounded a thinker's thoughts but to have dramatised a life. A biography— this biography—then attains the condition of art and further aspires to the condition of history . It is not likely that I have brought this off, but this is my ambition.
Id. 313
In unacknowledged tandem with Wittgenstein, John Austin was, as his famous book puts it, teaching How to Do Things with Words, and dividing the practices (rather than the functions) of language into three: the locutionary (propositional), perlocutionary (performative), and illocutionary (effective).
Id. 319
Adding J. L. Austin to Collingwood, [Quentin Skinner] wished to pursue not only what they said, but what they were doing as they said it. Were they persuading, affirming, subverting, or revising, when they rehearsed their doctrines to decidedly touchy and unpredictable princes? Hobbes's truculence, More's innocence, Machiavelli's moral revisionism were all intentional devices purporting to win the intellectual day for their side. This goes deep. For once you radically historicise author and argument in this way, you hit hard against their sheer incommensurability with contemporary certainties about what really matters. Skinner returns to the arguments of the past in order to bring back to the present disconcerting truths (true, that is, as being part of a factual historical record) about the way, for example, people in the Italian city-states of the early Renaissance thought about what is right rather than about rights, about the common good rather than private pleasure, about their duty to maintain the conditions of liberty rather than about their licence to do what they liked.
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There are two things you can be sure of in today's mobile world: Social media is booming, and most people use more than one device to browse the web.
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Social sites are dominating the time spent on mobile devices, and they can be used for far more than just being social. Many retailers are using social media to engage with customers and showcase their products. With highly anticipated call-to-action buttons now widely available, social media is also going commercial.
Picture this: You're hungry and craving some pizza right outside eZanga headquarters in Middletown, Delaware. So, you pick up your phone, search for "pizza in Middletown," and hit enter. To your delight, the top ad listed is for one of your favorite pizza chains, which you didn't know had come to Delaware.
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Kim wants to purchase a crib for her newborn daughter. She works a lot, so she's dreading being shown model after model by an overeager salesperson at the store. To save time, Kim figures she'll pick out the crib on her own.
Today's customers aren't only smartphone or only desktop people; they're multi-device people.
These days, pretty much everyone is on social media. 73% of Americans have a social network profile. There are many people who find social media to be the easiest way to contact a company or service. In 2013, more than 67% of respondents to a survey said they'd contacted a company through social media for support.
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To get an idea of how people have already responded to the brief, I thought it would be beneficial to look at some of the entries already submitted. This was quite frustrating, as most of the people entering the competition already had a Brompton bike, and therefore they had extra points, as it was a lot easier to film.
However, I did manage to find some interesting responses that were created from an artists perspective, such as the videos below.
I particularly liked this one, as it's very colourful and the music fits really well with the style. I think the illustration could've been a little more interesting, as this particular video didn't really have a clear concept other than the concept already given by the competition. The actual execution of this animation is really interesting, however, and it would be incredible to be able to do this. However, I myself don't actually have any knowledge of how to go about making an animation, so I can't really respond in this style. This is something I would love to learn, and it's something I plan on exploring over summer and I will hopefully teach myself how to create beautiful illustrative animations.
This is another entry where the final video isn't created using a real Brompton Bike. I think this video response is really artistic and expressive of the city, as the paintings used are all very colourful, and it's very intricate as it's also created using paper folding techniques. I think using paper is definitely an area I want to explore with this project, as I think it's quite accessible to me, however it will be very time consuming.


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Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan & Aaron Lopresti - Planet Hulk
- Henry Northmore
- 5 June 2008
We reviewed World War Hulk in issue 599 (•••) but let's go back to the story that launched Hulk on his revenge fuelled tirade against planet earth. The Illuminati (a secretive cabal of superheroes that includes Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Dr Strange and Black Bolt) have come to the conclusion that there is no real solution to 'the Hulk problem' so blast him into space.
Hulk crash lands on the planet of Sakaar, a brutal world ruled via gladiatorial combat by the ruthless Red King. It's a grand sci-fi yarn of warring alien races and slave rebellions, not your usual Hulk tale but a Star Wars-esque space epic.


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**Post gold repair and installation**
Mouth gold is connected by two pairs of screws, although the goods before we will tighten the screws, but in the course of the use, there may be because of personal habits, mouth gold times and other factors, resulting in loosening or falling off the situation The But do not worry, the probability of this situation is relatively small, if it really happened this situation, their installation of gold is also very simple. Then let us introduce the installation method.
1. Please first find the screws. We will send an additional set of spare screws, to keep good, if you really fall off, spare screws can come in handy.
2. Put one of the smooth screws from the outside through the gold hole.
3. Tighten the other screw assembly from the inside.
4. Finally with a screwdriver tighten, usually use for some time, you can also use a screwdriver twist to check whether there is loose.
1. Material selection
"Cut line to send" the current selection of all the leather from the Italian A-level fattened vegetable tanned leather. Because it is natural material, and leather processing plant is the use of small cortical damage to the plant tanning process, so the leather surface inevitably a small amount of "scar" and "wrinkles" and "blood tendons" and so on. When we open the material, we will try to avoid, or put these parts on the product is not obvious or non-stressed part.
Pure hand stitching
We do not use sewing machines to make our products, all products are hand-sewn out of the hand. Before sewing, you need to use a special cut in the leather knock on the suture hole, the only way to sew out the beautiful wave suture effect, which is the biggest difference between the machine and the suture. Although this will greatly increase the production time of leather goods, but this is also the leather craftsmen to give the leather soul and warm hands of the important steps.
3. pure hand-edge grinding.
The final product came out before the last step is to paint the edge of the edge of the edge. In order to make the skin edge look smooth, round, natural. "Cut line" has its own set of edge method. First with the sandpaper to the leather edge of the sharp polished repeatedly, and then coated with a layer of sealing liquid to make the skin edge looks flat, repeat 2-3 times, and then coated with a layer of edge wax, and finally polished with polished polished Until the leather side looks smooth so far.
4. hand leather
"Cut line faction" hand-dyed products, the current use of the United States imported Fiebing's leather alcohol dyes. In order to stain evenly and naturally, we need to use water to wet the leather surface, and then sponge coated with the dye again and again, from shallow to deep, until we want to achieve the color so far. Dry after a layer of fixing agent, increase color fastness. Finally, use the water on the surface of the skin smear, wipe the surface of the dust and make the color more uniform.
Because it is purely hand-dyed, so the color of each bag has a subtle product, each is unique.
Origin / manufacturing method
Origin of China handmade


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This little cutie is a Mandarin fish, hes about the size of your little finger and lives on specific shallow inshore reefs in the Pacific. They are named after the robes of an Imperial Chinese Officer- or Mandarin. You may note he is one of the few marine fish with no scales, he is apparently protected by a mucous coated slimy skin.
They are very shy but at sundown dart out into the open to meet and mate within the dizzing space of a few minutes(!) They join together, rise up together for about a metre (see pic 4) before releasing sperm and a cloud of eggs & thats it. Au revoir.
I was able to use the in-camera flash on the Powershot S100 to photograph them, it didnt seem to disturb them but strobe lights would have been too much.
Photographed in Yap, Micronesia.
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 1 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 2 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 3 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 4 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]


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