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Where on earth? Key West is a city, and island, that is at the southernmost tip of the United States. Surrounded by the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, it's only 90 miles from Cuba. This 125 mile long chain of islets known as the Florida Keys could also be called 'The Maldives of the U.S.' as there are literally dozens if not hundreds of these tiny tropical islands. Many of these romantic hideaways are uninhabited but can be explored and are linked via bridges.
Where to get married? For couples getting hitched, the sky's the limit. There are 'tall ships at sea' or 'glass bottom boat' weddings. Or you could exchange vows amid clouds of exotic butterflies at the Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory. For literary aficionados, tying the knot under the arch in the intimate gardens of the former residence of Ernest Hemingway could provide the perfect place. And for dive-lovers, you can even get married underwater near the amazing coral reef.
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Things to do? On the Atlantic Ocean side of the Florida Keys, the sea is calm and protected by a spectacular coral reef and so is unrivalled for scuba diving and snorkelling. As well as diving, there is an endless list of things of outdoor things to do here. Active types enjoy yachting, sailing, deep sea fishing, jet skiing and, on shore, bicycling or horse-riding. Kayaking in the cool mangrove swamps of Key West's back country with Key West Eco Tours and guide Tortuga Jack is a great experience for nature lovers.
Where to unwind? Get that all important holiday mani and pedi at the Key West Hyatt . If you enjoy a massage, soothe those achy muscles at the Spa al Mare and Massage Studio at the Casa Marina Resort, where couples massages are also on offer. You deserve a treat after a long day baking in the hot Florida sun.
Where to party? Night life in Key West is pretty spectacular and it's a chance to dress to the hilt or go resort casual, whichever your preference. One of the oldest saloons in Florida, Captain Tony's Saloon boasts the city's former hanging tree…smack in the middle of the premises. The building was Key West's original ice house and also morgue. There is a guitar playing singer/musician (girls watch out for his amazing blue eyes!) who rocks out with the guests after sundown. Around the corner on Duval Street is world famous Sloppy Joe's, while just a block away on Caroline Street, romance is in the air at The Porch, housed in an old plantation property and surrounded by lush tropical gardens. Opposite that is the open air Bull Bar which is another of Key West's trendy hang outs.
Where to eat? When hunger strikes, head out to the Half Shell Raw Bar for fantastic fresh seafood. Right on the boardwalk on the historic waterfront, this is a relaxing place with good food, a casual atmosphere and gorgeous sunsets to get couples in the mood for love! The Conch Republic Seafood Company is another great seafood option on the waterfront, Amigos Bar is great for tacos and B O's Fish Wagon on Caroline St. is a casual, fun, slightly scruffy outdoor eatery specialising in Key West pink shrimp, seafood platters and cracked conch. .
Don't leave without...topping off the day with a romantic wine tasting sunset cruise. There are loads of tour operators offering this but Danger Charters is one of the best. The two hour sailing expedition means you get the best possible view of the sunset.
Go there! The romantic and historic Cypress House Hotel is priced at $179 to $369 per night plus tax for a room with a queen bed, or $199 to $389 per night plus tax for a room with a king bed. Continental breakfast and Wifi access included, Historic Key West Inns. For more information about the Florida Keys visit fla-keys.


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This lovely lady is Florence who is a 7-8 years old. Florence came into another rescue having been picked up as a stray on the streets of London so her history is unknown.
Now in foster with us, Florence is very well behaved but will need owners used to the breed as she does need to be introduced to new dogs and new people correctly. However she has been very friendly with other dogs she has met but can be a little pushy at times.
A gentle girl who has been very calm and easy and loves a fuss, she has had some lumps and bumps removed and is sensitive around her ears which have been treated and clear at present.
Would prefer a quieter life without young children. Would live with another dog but middle aged upwards.
This is what her foster mum has to say about her:
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Like many Pearly Queens, Flo has experienced life, motherhood & is very street wise, knowing its a bit late in life for a boob job! Flo knows her way round the kitchen & likes a sneak peak inside the fridge to see if there are moorish morsels just for her. Flo enjoys her food, waiting patiently for it to be served & chicken & cheese are her favourite treats. She can be very gentle.
Flo does not know how to play, & runs away from a ball as if its going to hurt her, perhaps things have be thrown at her rather than to or for her in the past. Her foster family are working with her to find toys she can enjoy. So far Eden, her foster sister is her favourite, & Flo licks & mothers her frequently.
Flo is learning about spacial awareness with her 2 sisters, & after a good clean of Eden's chops, Flo is very happy to take herself off to her bed for a quiet napp in the afternoon, knowing all is in order.
Flo does have a bark, more of a deep rasping (40 cigarettes a day) sound, & she will let you know when you have visitors. Flo likes watching out the windows for entertainment, running squirrels being her particular interest to study.
Flo has BIG dreams & is optimistic that there is a special couple, who live in a country mansion, will let her sleep on their cashmere throws & feed her steak for breakfast & supper & go with her to check out the acres on their estate at least a couple of times a day. Flo certainly knows what she wants!! In reality, to be safe, loved & cherished in a stress free home would suit Flo as she really is a true Pearly Queen, happy with what life throws her way & ever hopeful.
Oh Flo asks one last thing – please don't scratch her ears they remind her of the pain from neglect, but do tickle her tummy, she enjoys a vigorous belly rub.
Dates with Flo can be arranged – just let this Pearly Queen know when to get her glad rags out!!"
Flo's foster family couldn't let her go!!
The lovely Flo hhas gone to Rainbow Bridge having had nearly 3 wonderful years with her forever family.

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For what seemed like a millennium, New Zealand beer was brown fizzy stuff that tasted of, well, nothing. But no longer. Instead tasty beer, made by sometimes tiny local breweries, is causing all the fizz. Greg Dixon discovers why we've fallen in love with a thing called 'craft' beer.
Decisions, decisions. Should I risk a "Pernicious Weed", chance a "Trip Hop" or get involved in the "Dark Arts"? Or maybe I'm a "BitterBitch" man, or a "DeadCanary" or a "Bloodhound"? Oh God, was it really possible there could be such a thing as too many different kinds of beer?
Under the stands at Wellington's Westpac Stadium, I stood absolutely still, riven by indecision. I was only an hour into the first session at my first Beervana - Wellington's fabulous annual beer festival - and my power to choose what to drink next was already buckling under the strain.
There were exactly 271 varieties of the amber liquid available at this year's festival, all but 20 or so of them brewed right here in New Zealand.
From the 12 Gauge Strong Lager from Leigh Sawmill Brewery north of Auckland, to the Smokin' Bishop from Invercargill Brewery in the deep south, there were hundreds of beers from dozens of breweries at scores of taps at a dozen booths scattered under the stadium's stands. It was as exhausting as it was exciting.
So, after that first hour, it was already quite clear to me that my ambition to sample as many of the 271 as I could was no match for the sheer scale of Beervana, nor the crowds (more than 8000 people, the "grogniscenti" as someone called them, attended over the two days) not to mention that my logistical and decision-making powers (and my bladder) were not up to the job. Fortunately, a few ales took the edge off the disappointment ...
But another thing occurred to me as I stood riven to the spot, vacillating: if there was any doubt about the rise and rise of New Zealand "craft" beer (explanation below) then Beervana is a solid gold assurance that the country has entered what might be called an amber age of brewing.
No wonder the brewers were toasting each other with such (I won't use the word gay) abandon at the Brewers Guild Awards the night before.
Over a few hours and more than a few ales, a few hundred of our brewing industry's elite gathered inside an unlovely, high-studded, concrete foyer named the Renouf Room at Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre to celebrate and recognise the best beer made in the last year.
They're an interesting lot, brewers, though you'd hardly know it to look at them. A few had classic brewers' droops (sadly I spotted just one mullet, though pleasingly it was ginger) but most looked like fit, conservative provincial blokes out for a night on the town - jeans with a dress shirt untucked and opened necked.
To these blokes, scores of gold, silver and bronze medals were handed out, while overall winners were announced for 15 beer and cider categories, from lager to ales to cask-conditioned beers to packaging. There was of course excitement among the winners, but there also seemed to be, surprisingly for an industry awards ceremony, a genuine warmth, enthusiasm and excitement from non-winners for those awarded medals and gongs.
Naturally, the night's most prestigious award, the 2012 New Zealand champion brewery, was left until last and went to, drum roll please, Christchurch's Harrington's Brewery. (Haven't heard of it? Well there's part of the answer to the question about what exactly constitutes a craft beer: in many cases, it's strongly regional).
Over a quick beer at Beervana the following afternoon, Carl Harrington - formerly a gruff West Coaster, now a gruff Cantabrian and son of the probably gruff brewery founder "Big" John Harrington - is still frothing like a European-style lager about the win.
"It probably still hasn't really sunk in," he growled, happily as he repeatedly clicked a pen. "It's quite prestigious; the previous winners are 8-Wired, Tuatara, DB, Emerson's, now us ... I think over all the years of us brewing it's built up to this, you know. It's a pinnacle for us, it's excellent."
In New Zealand brewing, Harring-ton's, along with a few others, including Mac's, Rapaura's Pink Elephant Brewery and Emerson's in Dunedin, are what might be called the craft beer originals. And, in the two decades since Harrington's started making beer at "a price to suit the working person's pocket", Harrington has seen craft grow exponentially. "Go back 10 years even, the majority of people would have a sip of their DB or Lion Brown, which hasn't got a lot of character or a lot of anything going on. People now [thanks to craft breweries] have been opened up to Pale Ale or extra special bitter that's got a lot of hops, a lot of aromas, and I think that's where it kind of took off."
Harrington isn't wrong. In a country that for most of the 20th century was dominated by two large brewing companies - DB and Lion - there is now a fast growing number of small and medium ones as well. Brewers Guild figures released in August show the number of breweries has increased by 42 per cent over the four years to December 2011. In 2008 there were 48, now there are 68. In that period the number of small craft breweries (the guild defines these as those brewing under 40,000 litres a year) has doubled from 15 to 30.
The growth in craft beer-makers is a response to consumer demand; while the consumption of beer as a category has mostly dropped year by year in New Zealand since the 1980s, craft beer sales have defied gravity, particularly in recent years and particularly in Wellington, which styles itself as our "craft beer capital". Indeed, the most recent figure available showed the New Zealand craft beer market had grown a stonking 14 per cent.
The question, of course, is what makes craft beer the exception?
They don't just drink beer at Wellington's annual beer festival, they talk about it too. Beervana's owner David Cryer - a former guild chairman who bought the festival from the guild two years ago - has a clear agenda: he wants his festival to be the best in the country. So, as well as the enormous variety of beer, Cryer's ballyhoo had great food provided by some of Wellington's best restaurants, and included seminars on everything from matching beer with food to the history of brewing in New Zealand.
One seminar I wandered into, billed, punfully, "Where to from beer?", proved most illuminating. While Jos Ruffel from hip Wellington microbrewery The Garage Project and craft beer legend Richard Emerson talked, respectively, about the difficulties of setting up a small brewery (bloody councils) and the future of New Zealand beer (more variety, hopefully more hand-pumped beer), it was Debra Green, Lion's director of planning and insight, who provided some, well, insight into the New Zealand drinker's growing infatuation with craft beer.
Green's research put the romanticism I'd heard at Beervana and the guild awards - she called it our "love affair" with craft - through the lens of international and local consumer trends. New Zealand, she said, was joining a global infatuation. The United States and Britain had also seen craft beer sales rise, even though overall beer consumption had gone into decline in those countries too.
There were, worldwide, several reasons for this, not least of which the general belief that big (say, enormous multi-national breweries) is bad, and small (say, microbreweries making craft) is good.
However, enthusiasm for craft beer was also a part of wider consumer trends, particularly for Generation Y, that have seen an increasing desire to experiment and to have a product be more than just a product - to have it be an "experience" too.
Moderation is also at play, she said. Certainly the trend toward healthy lifestyle choices meant smart drinkers are drinking less and therefore want to imbibe something decent (and like meat, cheese and most other consumables, they were keen on knowing its provenance too). But Green also talked about moderation in terms of spending, which seemed a little counterintuitive given that craft beer is typically more expensive than mainstream brews. "Rather than going out for the big meal, we actually say 'I'm going to get myself a nice bottle of wine or nice beer and sit at home and savour it'. When we think about rewarding ourselves with food and drink, it is typically with something you want to enjoy ... and savour. And craft really talks to that."
But there's something else at play too. Green didn't call it a sort of beer snobbery, but I will. "There is also generally this desire for us all to know more," she said, "just to know more about stuff - to be a connoisseur of something. It's been around in wine for a long time. You get it in whisky, you get it in other food categories and it is becoming much more prevalent for craft beer. So now you will go to a barbecue and there is a real pride in chatting with your mates about how much you know about the beers that you are drinking."
And there is actually plenty to talk about, not least about the thing that was so long absent from New Zealand beer: flavour.
Ralph Bungard, the guild president and co-owner of Three Boys Brewery in Christchurch, says the variety of New Zealand beer now available to the discerning local drinker is nothing short of remarkable.
"I think suddenly people have realised that there is not just one flavour of beer. Some of that has been from people travelling overseas and tasting something different and coming back and thinking the brown fizzy stuff that we've been calling beer isn't the only thing about beer. I think some of it is about a backlash against the incredibly restrictive beer market we had for a lot of years ... There was no choice. I think it's almost an epiphany that you can get more than one beer and an excitement has just sort of come with that."
Now for the reality check. Craft beer might well be hailed by its devotees as the future, but it is, for now, just 2 per cent of all the beer consumed in New Zealand. The two major breweries, Lion and DB, still own the beer market, as they have done since at least the mid-1970s.
It wasn't always so. At a Beervana seminar about the history of local brewing (and in his new, excellent and highly readable book Beer Nation) journalist Michael Donaldson pointed out that in the late 19th century New Zealand had more than 100 breweries.
By 1976, it was down to just the big two, and it took ex-All Black Terry McCashin, setting up his Mac's Brewery in Stoke near Nelson in 1981, to break the duopoly - though Mac's was eventually bought by Lion in 1999.
New Zealand's beer history is actually rather sad. During the course of the 20th century, industry intransigence, stupid laws, even stupider politicians, Morton Coutts' unique and revolutionary continuous brewing process, the temperance movement, two World Wars and 6 o'clock closing combined to create an infernal machine that produced a weak, watery brew which, no matter what its advertising suggested, was as boring as it was low in alcohol.
And there it might have stayed but for McCashin, though Donaldson reports that DB and Lion did their best to make it difficult for him to get up and running. Emerson's, Harrington's and others followed McCashin a decade or so later, and in the last 10 years dozens of others have joined them.
Competition with the big two can still be intense. In 2008 DB took small Dunedin craft brewery, Green Man, to court to protect its (DB) trademark on the term "radler" (internationally it's a generic name for a shandy), a case that dragged on until last year. Also last year, craft brewer Moa and DB's Monteith's had a spat over which would be the first beer to be sold duty-free.
However, Cryer, who also owns a malt company that sells to breweries big and small, says the only real tension between the big two and craft brewers is for the taps in pubs.
"I think Lion and DB really understand that craft is really good for the market because for its size - 2 per cent - it makes so much noise. That Moa thing [with Monteith's] is exactly an example. Okay, it may be a slightly negative thing that they're talking about but at least they're talking about beer. And if you're talking about beer, people are going to go 'beer ... maybe I'll try one'."
Certainly the big two recognised some time ago that drinkers' - or at least some drinkers' - tastes have changed and responded by establishing their own craft ranges through Monteith's, Mac's and Speight's. Even Independent Liquor, which mainly hogs the ready-to-drink market with grog like Woodstock, has its own craft beer range, Boundary Rd.
Rather than the big boys, it actually turns out the biggest hazard for the nascent craft industry is the risk of boom and bust.
Guild president Ralph Bungard was worried enough about this to raise the issue in his speech at the guild awards.
"We're a very small country of 4.4 million - that's roughly the population of Melbourne - and we've got 60 breweries," he tells me later. "So we've gone from one extreme to the other in a very short space of time. Even over the last couple years the number of breweries [making less than] 40,000 litres a year has doubled. Whether they are going to be able to make a living out of it is going to be relatively tricky. Like all businesses in New Zealand, it will come down to whether they haven't over-extended themselves on capital and they can make a product that people continuously come back to and buy ... and they'll have to be relatively small breweries. We can't have 62 Tuataras, 62 Emerson's, or 62 Three Boys for that matter. It won't economically work."
Novelty, Bungard concedes, remains a bigger driver for craft beer, particularly in Wellington. But the future, he believes, should be fine as long craft brewers deliver great go-to beers consistently.
It would be no bad thing if Aucklanders started drinking more craft beer too. Cryer believes Auckland is about three years behind Wellington; we northerners are still locked into drinking - label out of course - boring lager from green bottles.
However that, too, is changing. There is good beer brewed in the region, including Hallertau's, and, while the Shakespeare and Galbraith's pubs have long made their own craft beer, Cryer is encouraged by the increasing number of other inner city Auckland bars offering and, in some cases, specialising in craft.
"Auckland's catching up" Cryer says. "I've been doing this for 20 years and for a while there I wondered if it would ever happen. Of course, Aucklanders are very badge-conscious and they like to have that beer that everyone else is drinking, that says something about them. But now having a beer brand that nobody knows about is suddenly cool."
The art of craft
What makes a beer a craft beer? Tricky question, this, and no one Canvas spoke to could define it exactly. Possibly it is easier to say what it isn't: something like Heineken. Beervana's David Cryer reckons craft is indefinable but gave it a crack: "I call it Mac's and Monteith's, minus Mac's Gold and Monteith's Original - which is
really confusing - and then it's everything else."
Brewers Guild president Ralph Bungard suggests provenance is hugely important: "You would like to think it's a beer that is made in one place. You can go to where that beer is made. If you pick up a Three Boys pilsner in Auckland, you know that it is made on our site right here in Christchurch. You don't have to debate whether it was made in Auckland, Wellington or overseas."
Debra Green, Lion's director of planning and insight, says it's open to interpretation. "Certainly, yes, craft's smaller, yes there is a personality, etc. But typically there is not a clear definition.
But what we're seeing is that craft beer drinkers just love to be challenged; that they really want those challenging liquids and they are really interested in how it is made, the history and what-have-you - and that's great."
Hmm, so it's as clear as a dark heavy in other words.
What I'd say is, if you can identify exactly where it was brewed, name the brewer and it has great aromas and good strong flavours (and perhaps a silly name), it's probably craft beer. Cheers.


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today I was going through a big pile of stuff that i found in a box in a mess, lol, and I saw a little thank you note from my gramma for a gift I gave her. there was a letter inside the card but I couldn't handle reading it.
the main point of this is the card itself. it's just a piece of folded watercolor paper. but my gramma was a professional painter, so I knew it was an exciting find. she had written,on the back, in perfect printing, "original watercolor by Ruth Mabie" the title is, "spotted adder's tongue."
the painting is a delicate yellow flower with beautifully shaded leaves and stem. it was cool to find the painting, but to see it again now that I can paint, is pretty amazing.
I can understand how she made this part or that. I can understand why the composition is the way it is, and I can identify the colors…
I can remember eating my gramma's berry pie (omg) and watching her paint.
good times.


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The far left Washington Post dared to stare into the navel of darkness. A phone call from Mujahideen Mateen in the middle of his queer killing rampage.
The shock hits the Ace Reporter like a letter to the editor he doesn't agree with. He's taken aback. His safe space in the newsroom had its pretty panties yanked down over the phone, and what happened next – only a licensed otolaryngologist or speech pathologist will ever know:
And he was speaking it very quickly. And that is when I said to him, 'Sir. Please. Speak in English, please.'"
"I did it for ISIS," the caller said, according to Gentili, "I did it for the Islamic State."
Clearly confused by Madeen's admission of being an ISIS supporting jihadi, the audial rorschach of his keenly honed journalistic training took over:
Ace Reporter: Sir, I don't understand. Did you say you're a Trump loving, gayhating, Christian bigot?
The gentle refugee, seemingly more incensed in a fit a righteous rightwing rage continued…
Mateen: In shallah, with Allah as my witness, we are taking the fight to the great Satan America, and I have hostages in the bathroom of the club Pulse.
Ace Reporter:. Let me write this down…you plan on making America great again by locking the LGBT community out of a public bathroom. Is that what this is about?
Mateen:. For fuck's sake, are you listening to me? My father is an inspiration and who has spoken with John Kerry and Charles Rangel personally about becoming the rightful president of Afghanistan and I am going to take my MCX rifle and exact divine justice on the amyl popping infidels!
Ace Reporter: You said Trump's speech in Florida inspired you to buy a fully automatic AR-15 machine gun because of same sex bathrooms?
Mateen:. Are you using a Boost Mobile or some shit? I'm going to hang up and kill these fucking ankle grabbing rump rangers now. Your time will come.
And with that, my ear cried in awareness of the diversity being silenced by the consequence of Republican intolerance. Another AR-15, the deadliest, most high powered weapon conceived, weapon of choice that was only meant for the battlefield was in the hands of another bitter clinging NRA supporter.
If I had something to pray to, I'd do it. Hopefully, a cop not beating an innocent, unarmed African-American bound for college could use his gun to persuade this wayward son of climate change refugees out of the Faux News echo chamber of homphobic hate.
Or, an offering to Gaia to balm the feelings of shame I feel as an American college graduate, at all those Christian bakers cheering in the streets for cakes not being delivered to same sex marriage ceremonies. Now their ovens of hate will stay as cold as their bigoted hearts. As cold…as the graves.


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Good news, you jewelry-loving thrill seekers! Diana Kirkpatrick is back and Amapola Gallery has her!
Fresh from a stint with her husband as full-time RVers, the sadder but wiser ex-road warrior has returned to New Mexico. In her home without wheels she is again creating her sophisticated sterling, stone and glass wearable art.
Texture is a fundamental element in Diana's work. A silversmith, many of Diana's designs are done in silver or gold with pearls or other gemstone elements added in. Each piece is hand-constructed, a work of art designed to bring enjoyment to the wearer. Diana says she views creativity as a lifelong journey.
Diana rejoins Jack Boglioli, Brenda Bowman, Michele McMillan, Mary Ellen Merrigan, Joyance, and new guest member Sally Rugala in a seven jeweler splash. What a lineup! Read more Amapola's jeweler's here.
Come look us over at our all-New Mexico artists' stunning co-op gallery in historic Romero House, on the Plaza at 205 Romero, NW, in Albuquerque's Old Town.
Open 10 to 5 daily.
After a lifetime batting words around like shuttlecocks in an endless game of badminton, it is a pleasure to use them to promote Old Town and my fellow artists at Amapola Gallery. –Kristin Parrott, carver, painter and acorn stuffer


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"Why is it that so many foreigners want to learn Korean?"
My girlfriend's question struck me as a tad silly. I mean, it's her damn country, shouldn't we be learning her language?
"Well, many of them are interested in living here," I said. "Not just for a short period or for study, but actually residing here for a long time."
"Why?" She was incredulous.
Indeed, why?
Ironically, the answer was right in front of me, between the pages of the magazines that lay on the coffee shop table. You see, go into just about any chain coffee shop in Korea and you'll find well thumbed stacks of magazines showcasing the best that money can buy. For pure material indulgence, there's Luxury and Muine, for your international hipster fashions there's Cracker, but those are only worthwhile for showcasing Koreans' avarice for anything foreign, without regard for taste, worth, or restraint. The real evidence for my argument lay in magazines like M25 and, most of all, The Bling.
Thumb through the pages of the latter magazine in particular and you'll see loads of pictures from the hottest clubs and the latest DJs spinning in Seoul and perhaps a couple of other places around the peninsula, as well as a spotlight on some other Asian venue. Many of those in the photos could have been modeling for the other magazines: Muine if you're an upmarket-oriented 된장녀 looking to hook the whisky-swilling sugar daddy at the corner booth or Cracker if you're a bobbing and weaving student in over-priced vintage clothes and tattoos of ligament-wrapped skeletons. But there are a lot of young, especially Western, foreigners in those pictures. A lot. All are partying it up and clearly loving the attention the photographers are lavishing upon them.
Now perhaps the photographers, because of their focus on capturing foreigners on film, distort the actual number of foreigners present relative to their numbers in the general population of Korea. But, in a certain sense, the numbers themselves, or the perception of the numbers, is irrelevant. Regardless of actually how many foreigners like myself there are clubbing it every weekend in Hongdae, Gangnam, or Sinchon, their very centralness to the reporting on the club scene is indicative of how they perceive themselves, which is inextricably linked to what Koreans expect of a good club.
Koreans value greatly the blue-chip credibility of foreign endorsement; I don't think I need to write any long exposition on that subject. Thus it makes sense that Korean media would want to emphasize the presence of foreigners at an event, for it makes a strong appeal to the 20s and 30s Korean globally-conscious set. Yet that also makes foreigners think that this is their scene, that they are an integral part of it, that it exists in part for them. I don't know how many expats here actually read The Bling or similar publications, so it's hard to gauge how much the magazines themselves influence foreigner perceptions. But the act of the photographers seeking out foreigners themselves in the clubs, to take their picture in sexy poses or wielding a bottle of Jaegermeister like a stick grenade, makes it clear that they are valued. Adjacent Koreans jump in and throw up a two-fingered peace sign or perhaps copy their foreign photo buddy and give the camera The Shocker. It doesn't even matter if the photo makes copy in the magazine — the very act of capturing the subject creates a (false) sense of worth.
That feeling of being up on a pedestal combines with the effects of absorbing aspects of Korean culture, whether one intends to or not. Even most intransigent foreign transients who are not interested in assimilating end up appreciating some parts of Korea — bulgogi barbecue, K-pop, whatever. I hear foreigners all the time spice up their own language with Korean — it's not because they are really multilingual and can't divide the two tongues in their brain, but rather because they think it's cute or endearing, like it makes them a part of a club without having the pay the dues. But they do pay dues, whether they realize it or not. Many of them succumb to the Korean notion that there is only the top or the bottom, that there is no acceptable middle ground. I noticed this when my girlfriend either spoke constantly of being 'rich' or 'poor.' There was no idea of being satisified with a middle-class stature. That's just a stopping point on your way up or down. Many foreigners end up adopting, even if only slightly, this Korean habit of viewing everything as a win-lose, zero-sum game through osmosis totally unaware. They start thinking, "I've got to be on top. I've got to be at the best clubs, on the best days of the month. I've got to look the best, have the best time, and hook up with the best people at the end of the night." They feel the need to establish themselves in the hierarchy of foreigners here, as the ones who have figured out this strange land, mastered it, made it their own.
That effort is nothing short of pathetic. It mimics the Korean trait of exalting the place at the top of the pyramid, but in a different fashion. Koreans climb the pyramid to finding prestige and security within their own hierarchical society, for those are advantages easily passed on to one's family or social hangers-on, thereby further increasing one's worth and especially material well-being in old age. But foreigners exist outside that hierarchy. Despite the constant grumblings and rantings by long-term expats, Korea is not going to become an open-to-all, multicultural society, where everyone from anywhere can lounge about in a paradise of Western values. Nor should it. So foreigners, cut out of following the normal avenues, must gauge themselves by a totally different standard.
That standard is a combination of both the expat society, existing in large part parallel to Korean society, as well as the society which each expat left in their home country. Air travel and digital communications has transformed not only the ability for people to go anywhere or experience anything from a distance, but also enabled them to do so without actually giving up anything about where they came from. You can live in Korea and, through Facebook, Skype, your RSS blogfeed, etc, continue to participate in your own culture almost as if nothing had happened. So, for a foreigner here, if you can't join Korean society, you'll just judge yourself in comparison to a) other foreigners here and b) your own culture and relations in your homeland.
Thus you go out to the clubs, pushing yourself to get a more 'authentic' 'Korean' club experience than those other foreign schmucks you work with. And you imagine you are at the top when some skinny Korean dude with a V-neck undershirt, a Mets cap, and gauged earrings, brandishing a Nikon for the club's PR department, seeks you out and snaps pictures of you grinding on some random Australian chick in red pleather go-go boots.
But the picture is only complete (and, in circuitous fashion, I return to my initial point) when you make these habits a qualitative judgement upon the culture across the ocean that you never really left. You say, "Oh, I'm so glad I didn't get stuck in Atlanta/Auckland/Hamburg/Lyon/Manchester/Melbourne. Seoul is just so happening . . . like, even more than Tokyo. It's a great lifestyle."
Lifestyle. That's all that it comes down to. Not a better life, mind you — we're not talking about Sierra Leone refugees finding some haven where people won't chop off their hands; Korea actually admits very, very few people into political asylum — but a lifestyle. Tens of thousands of people moving across the globe not in search of liberty, freedom of conscience, or religious practice, but for their own personal indulgence. There is no deprivation for these foreigners who come from developed countries. They could find a club in Atlanta or Melbourne, but choose not to. The club, party, dining scene is 'better' here and they have travelled far to get it. They ensconce themselves in it, think they have found authenticity in what is virtually the same as what they left, and, through their perceived mastery of a new life, establish themselves as superior to all their friends back at home who must toil on, 'stuck' in their hometown and all its terrible deprivation.
Thus the foreigner across from us cuts his hair like a Korean, dresses like a Korean, and studies the Korean language, because he thinks that all this is his, that he can enter into it. For, coming from a Western country, he operates under the illusion of equality, that all things are open to him because, well, they should be. He thinks that skin color, facial structure, blood, culture, history, language are all malleable constructs, that he can transcend them. He thinks that this land can be his, that he has a right to be here because he chooses to be here, as though the choice was his all along, a pure act of will on his part.
He and his kind are not colonialist, though many of their attitudes are unconsciously the White Man's Burden mashed several times through a progressivist strainer. Rather, they are merely existential geese. They flit about, migrating from one little spot to another, honking to each other about which pond is bigger or better, never remaining but always thinking that wherever they touch down is theirs, claimed by nothing more than frantically paddling feet and nasally squawks.


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The three-storey building in Tama city was near completion before the blaze.
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Others were feared trapped inside the building. More than 70 ambulances and fire engines were sent to the scene.
Fire officials said more than 20 people were seriously injured.
The three-storey building in Tama city, which also has three underground floors, was near completion.
About 300 workers were at the site at the time of the fire. Television footage showed dozens of workers taking refuge in a nearby car park.
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Deadly Bullet isn't an ordinary shooter game. Yes, in general this game is include in shooter category but it's bit different. May be, there's already similar game like this outside there which I didn't know, but come on friends... just forget it for a while and let's see what's inside this game.
In short story, you worked in organization called Deadly Bullet. This isn't a superhero story who looking for justice, help some people, or something. However, in here your main goal is to eliminate all of the enemies without exception. You will play as a single bullet, walk? ehmm.. no. You will fly through the enemies and killed them. For the first time playing, you might need to adapt with the control.
If you're not a patient enough, you'll be think if the control of this game was so horrible and hard to be used. For me, I needed about 15 minutes to adapt with the control and I believe you're better than me ;). Like what I've said before, you need to eliminate all of the enemies here. There's a requirement about how much enemies do you need to eliminate. In the standard mode, there're 3 bullets to be used (counted as lives).
When you hit the wall or got bomb, you'll be die. Feels not challenging enough? Don't worry, everytime you lost your bullet, your enemies also be reset. In other word, if you've killed 7 out of 8 enemies, and suddenly you hit the wall and died, you need to start it again from the beginning. Sounds huh? Haha... that's the point bro.
Wait... why I said you need to adapt with the control? There's no joystick here. Tap on the right side to make the bullet rotates clockwise, and tap on the left for did the opposite. Easy right ;)? There's two types of scoring here, XP for killed the enemies and XP for hit the obstacles. Enemies will have pink circle around, whereas the obstacles have blue circle arround.
There're 2 game mode, Standard and Score Attack. There're 3 main locations, each location contains of 3 levels. If you get game over, you need to re-play it again from the beginning. Collect XP to level up and gain a point. This point will be used to unlock the next location, buy power ups or more slots. Some power ups will be useful to make the game easier to be played.
For the score attack, it's same like a survival mode. Play as long as you can and gain score as high as possible. However, you can't get any point from here. You can get the point from standard mode only by levelling up. Deadly Bullet is available for free without any ads nor IAP on the AppStore and Google Play. The game supports Everyplay too, where you can record your gameplay and share it to your friends. Interested?
Graphic/ Sound: 4 of 5
Gameplay: 4.5 of 5
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Democrats in the House introduced legislation that would nullify voter ID laws by allowing voters to sign an affidavit certifying their identity instead of showing identification.
According to The Hill, Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) authored the legislation modeled after the way his home state runs elections. In Washington state, voters vote via mail-in ballots, and voters sign affidavits attesting to their identity.
Democrats have claimed voter ID laws are designed to prevent seniors and minorities from voting and alleged voter fraud does not exist even after people have been convicted for committing voter fraud in numerous states, most recently in Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
"These laws are designed, in my view, to intimidate and prevent U.S. citizens from casting legitimate ballots," Larsen said. "The story of our country is one of extending the right to vote irrespective of race or gender. I don't think we should allow the U.S. to move backward to our past history of voter intimidation and suppression."
Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.) said voter ID laws "definitely have the potential to change the outcome of the presidential election by suppressing the votes of the elderly, poor young students and people of color" and said "intimidation is a major part of this."
However, in May, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said "voter ID is not a problem" and "everybody that goes to vote shows some form of ID" when commenting on a bill Democrats introduced then that would allow universal online and same-day voter registration.
Both bills will not pass in the Republican-controlled House.
Voter ID has been a contentious issue this election cycle. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said the state's photo ID law cannot stand unless the lower court finds that Pennsylvania residents can access IDs without too many burdens. Texas will appeal a Federal court ruling that struck down its photo ID law. The Justice Department, though, did approve Virginia's voter ID law, which allows voters to sign an affidavit in lieu of identification and expanded the forms of identification voters could use to vote to include bank statements, college ID cards, and utility bills.


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Can anyone make this picture of Rowdy and Dave Matthews look decent? The camera that Rowdy had went wacko and the lens was smeared. HELP!
He ate some of Rowdy's dried fruit from his business Pro-Use Produce and liked it!
I wish I could. I know nothing about such things.
It's stil cool, though!
That is so cool! I can try to fix it but don't get your hopes up. I'm not sure I can do it. If you want to email me the picture, I'll do what I can.
I did what I could :)


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I left them on the doorstep for a good while.
That'd show them what it was like to live slow.
Then I let them in. Didn't offer them tea.
'Haven't played tag since primary school'
didn't go down well with the burly one.
Worth a try. Miserable gits, both.
I stuck my leg up on the coffee table.
Had borrowed a pair of Dad's old flares.
Looked a right knob. But needs must.
'Must've been a nasty injury, that,'
said the thin one, tapping the bandage.
I winced a bit. Always liked Drama.
He unzipped a rucksack, full of tags
for lads not going out tonight.
Lads with both legs. Ha ha ha.
'Tag's not too tight, is it?' said Fat Bloke.
I nearly lost it then, I'm telling you.
'Can't feel a thing.' It was the truth.
'That'll keep you out of trouble,' they said.
I watched them walk down the road.
That'd be Kane, then. At number 33.
I left the leg in a corner, home alone,
And practised with my crutches in the alley.
Been a while. Lump in the throat.
No one at the pub had a better story.
Still came home without a girl
but, hey. As days go, fair enough.
© Fran Hill
G4S sacks pair who tagged offender's false leg
Fran lives in the West Midlands (UK). She teaches English in a local secondary school, writes, performs, blogs, tweets and tries to resist chocolate.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Night Out
Posted by Poetry24 at 07:01
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I expected this to be funny. Which is was, kind of, but sad as well. Splendid, Fran.ReplyDelete
Came home without a girl? Surely he could have got a leg over?ReplyDelete
Isabelle - good - it did its funny/sad job, then. Glad to know it came over that way.ReplyDelete
Steve - I'll know where to come for sympathy if I'm ever severely disabled.....
Ever thought of auditioning for Saturday Live? If it helps, I can introduce you to Rev'd Richard Coles. He sang at my wedding. But not 'Don't leave me this way...'ReplyDelete
The Dotterel - thanks for your comment. Have dropped you an email.ReplyDelete
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Glenn Morton wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Walter Hicks [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:54 PM
> >To: Glenn Morton
> >Cc: Asa@Calvin. Edu
> >Subject: Re: Black Sea Flood
> >
> >
> >I don't want to sound critical Glenn, but it will be hard not to come
> >across that way given my question.
> >
> >I have read number of your posts and your articles. In just about every
> >one there is a discrediting of many beliefs that people extract from the
> >Bible -- all in the name of science , of course. Yet I know that you are
> >a sincere Christian and I wonder if any of web pages are written with a
> >positive outlook towards the "history" of the Bible.
> >
> >I have a Jewish friend, for example, who does a lot of archaeology (As a
> >hobby.) he talks repeatedly about aspects where the Bible is shown to be
> >accurate in terms of ancient settlements, idols, etc. Don't you have
> >anything along these lines?
> YEs, but no one likes it. http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/synop.htm
> The reason I spend a bunch of time correcting errors is precisely because of
> the attitude presented here. Rather than looking for the truth, we want
> people to tell us we are right. And because of this, we fall prey to
> charlatans who tell us we are right using absolutely false data. Looking
> back on my YEC experience, I had lots of people telling me we Christians
> were correct. Henry Morris, Duane Gish, Jody Dillow, etc ad nauseum. The
> problem was that they were not telling me anything containing truth about
> the natural world--not a single thing they told me which at the same time
> disagreed with conventional intepretation turned out to be true. I have
> cited this poll before but I once tracked down most of the Christian
> Heritage College graduates who had gone into the oil industry about 10 years
> after they entered the business. Christian Heritage is a college associated
> with the INstitute for Creation REsearch. I asked them one single question:
> Is there anything you were taught at CHC which differs from modern geology
> that you still consider to be true? Not a single one could name a single
> fact that fit this description.
> So, the question is, what are we doing in apologetics? Telling the truth or
> telling ourselves that we are 'correct' when that means using false data,
> and fooling ourselves into blissful ignorance. We are like Ahab:
> 2 Chr. 18: 5So the king of Israel brought together the prophetsŰfour hundred
> menŰand asked them, ĎShall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I
> refrain?Ó
> ĎGo,Ó they answered, Ďfor God will give it into the kingĚs hand.Ó
> 6But Jehoshaphat asked, ĎIs there not a prophet of the LORD here whom we can
> inquire of?Ó
> 7The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, ĎThere is still one man through
> whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies
> anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.Ó
> Ahab felt much better with what the other prophets were telling him just as
> you are much more comfortable with people who tell you you are correct.
> Thus, I will tell you, you are correct! Feel better?
I'm loathe to enter into another round of debates with Glenn on this,
but have to note that almost everybody involved in all these discussions about
Genesis is trapped within a general concordist paradigm. For some the
constriction is much narrower than others. Glenn has gathered a great deal of
useful geological & anthropological data & we all should admire his insistence
on honesty in dealing with the scientific and historical material.
But while he
plays the role of Miciah ben Imlah very well with this material, he is not
willing to go on to question the concordist paradigm itself.
Well, not entirely. He recognizes that Genesis 1 is a
different kind of
critter & doesn't try to force it into aritificial agreement with Genesis 2.
Thus he avoids the error of, e.g., Dick Fischer who, in his desire to harmonize
1 & 2, creates serious problems with the NT's _theological_ (N.B.)
of Adam.
There are two problems with this whole concordist approach. First, it
assumes that texts can be true & authoritative only if they are accurate
historical &/or scientific accounts. Secondly, they start in the wrong place -
the OT, & Genesis in particular, rather than the NT & Christ. The OT is
important - nay, indispensable. But it's to be read in the light of
the NT, not
vice versa. If you start either systematic theology or apologetics
with Genesis
then your theological framework has already been solidified before you get to
any explicit mention of Christ.
I have said a great deal about all of this in the past & will
not rehash
it all now. But I wish that those who think that the crucial questions about
_how_ to concordize would step back a bit and think about the possibility that
one need not concordize in order to maintain the truth & authority of
George L. Murphy
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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We definitely got our money's worth {well, dad did}.
Monday, March 11, 2013
a roadie weekend
We definitely got our money's worth {well, dad did}.
12 comments:
- Sarah said...
Ah it looks like you had such a fab time! Such a rockstar :) My mom is DYING to see bon jovi when he comes to STL!! AND UH Steel Magnolias, LOVE LOVE LOVE them :)
Glad to see you had such a great weekend :)
- March 11, 2013 at 4:37 PM
- Kait said...
Thank you so so so much for all the shoutouts and for participating in my giveaway! You're the sweetest :)
- March 11, 2013 at 4:42 PM
- Amanda said...
I saw bon jovi in Columbus last night, so amazing and he is so flipping hot!!!! I took my mom for her birthday which was in December we have seen them four times :)
- March 11, 2013 at 4:44 PM
- callie ;) said...
mike said, "it's so awesome when a concert really lives up to the hype." he also said, "tell holly's dad to adopt me." ;)
- March 11, 2013 at 4:45 PM
- Candis said...
Sounds awesome!! There's nothing like live music!!
- March 11, 2013 at 5:28 PM
LOVE Steel Magnolia.
- March 11, 2013 at 5:33 PM
- My-cliffnotes said...
Is it bad I haven't heard of the first band? They sound good though!
- March 12, 2013 at 7:14 AM
Sounds like a funnnn weekend! You're totally a rockstar roadie! :)
- March 12, 2013 at 8:51 AM
- Jacqueline said...
That's awesome that you got to hang out with Steel Magnolia. I love them.
And isn't the Bluestone cool? We went there for the Columbus Arts Ball and it was such a cool venue. I think it'd be awesome to see a concert there.
You and your sisters look so much alike! One wouldn't even know that my brother and I are related!
- March 12, 2013 at 10:55 AM
- Agnes Mayer said...
Love Bon Jovi and i adore your outfit.
- March 12, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Super jealous that you saw Bon Jovi!
- March 12, 2013 at 11:20 AM
- Betsy Lynn said...
Love Steel Magnolia!! And I would totally marry Jon Bon Jovi ;)
- March 12, 2013 at 5:15 PM


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It's not something I'm uttering because I might've eaten an olive from the olive bar at the grocery store today. Nor, is the title indicative of the fact that I drove 37 in a 35 yesterday, and got away with it, to the chagrin of hapless coppers.
When I say, "here's to crime", I say it as a toast. A toast to this man:
That's my grandpa, Louis F. Herrig, who finally decided that he'd done all he could do in this life, after a tidy little run of 103 years. He passed last Thursday, leaving a legacy untouched by any family member I've ever known, along with the template for long life:
– The daily Vodka Martini (Gramps was never much of a wine guy, save the splash of dry vermouth in his martini)
– Red meat, pan fried in butter
– An occasional cigar
– Hard Work
– Faith, and Family
– Humor, in every situation
All of it, as he prescribed, in moderation. Seems to have served him well. I was also taught by Grandpa- along with the moderation thing- not to let anything cause stress in my life. Admittedly, I can occasionally stray from the principles of Moderation. However, I'm not going to allow my deviations to stress me out. Perhaps Grandpa'd be proud of my loophole.
While it's easy to say that sadness is not protocol for those mourning someone who had lived so fully, the fact of the matter is we were given that much longer to get to know him. Hence, the loss is so greatly significant. His loved ones had become accustomed to Grandpa always being around; his gruff and self-effacing exterior merely shrouding tenderness and a fierce love for his family.
However, my title for this post does not insinuate that his leaving us was a crime. Grandpa stole not a single one of those 103 years. He lived each and every one with purpose: causing us to laugh ourselves dizzy, imparting unparalleled wisdom, making new friends, and outliving his enemies (if any).
Rather, "here's to crime" is a toast Grandpa used to pronounce to us when glasses were raised. Quite simply, during Prohibition, it was the jovial and defiant salute given by patrons of the speakeasys.
Something about that always made me smile. And though Louie has left us for the great Unknown, the stories and the memories will always remain. They- themselves- will be shared, passed on, toasted, and embellished upon…
…in moderation, of course.
There are ideas and things that need to be said rattling (or sloshing) around in my cranium.
Unfortunately, I've been covered up trying to preach the goodness of the grape to your neighborhood drinking establishments.
I recorded a live session at a sales call today. It's in black and white because we're behind places like Seattle and San Francisco down here in the South, and we've yet to discover Technicolor and such:


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Vision Statement
Camp Michawana, "Where Christ is First" is where youth, young adults, adults and community members can discover and develop lasting, personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the summer camp program, Michawana retreats, and guest groups.
Core Values
- Bible Based Evangelism and Discipleship – A passion for guests to have the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and to continually know Him more deeply. Philippians 3:10-11
- Christ-like Service – Maintaining a Christ-like attitude; looking to the interests of others, in humility considering them better than ourselves in order to facilitate the work of God in their lives. Philippians 2:3-5
- Genuine Hospitality – Visitors to Michawana are guests in our home and should, at all times, feel welcomed and loved. Romans 12:12-13
- God-Honoring Relevance – A plan for continuous improvement in facilities and programs. 1 Corinthians 9:22-23
- Unified Teamwork – A commitment of high levels of involvement and ownership by all staff, guests and supporters of Michawana. Teamwork is the process and the product. Romans 12:4-6, Ephesians 4:1-3
- Uncompromising Integrity – A mandate to accept and promote integrity and ethics in everything we do and are, because that is what God expects of us. Mt 5:37, James 1:22-25
- Good Stewardship – A constant awareness that those things which have been entrusted to us by God – our natural environment, facilities and grounds, our finances and our staff – and, as such, should be treated with utmost care and consideration. Psalm 24:1
- Personal Relationships - Michawana is defined by our relationships. They are the core of who we are – first to God, then to family, to others, and to nature around us. 1 Thessalonians 2:8
The Gospel
Central to everything we do is the GOOD NEWS that God sent His Son to be the Savior! We teach campers the gospel and how to share it using bracelets with these 5 colors, an easy way to remember and share the gospel!
Do you know where you will go when you die? We want to share with you how you can be sure that you are going to Heaven! God sent His Son, Jesus, to take the punishment for your sins. Anyone who accepts Jesus' gift will NOT perish but will have eternal life! Our greatest joy would be to talk to you about Jesus, whether or not you ever come to Camp Michawana. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like someone to pray for you.


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G. M. Wahlgren (Lund Univ.), I. Ilyin (Oulu Univ.), O. Kochukhov (Uppsala Univ.)
The detection of spectral line profile variability for stars of the HgMn class of chemical peculiarity has been poorly documented in the literature yet holds a special significance for understanding relationships between observed spectral anomalies, stellar surface structure, and magnetic fields. The HgMn stars have until now not been confirmed to vary in their light or spectral characteristics in ways unattributable to binarity, as opposed to the classical Ap stars for which such variations are explainable by the magnetic oblique rotator model.
Alpha And (V = 2.1 mag, B8IVp HgMn) is a bright, prototypical HgMn star in a binary system of orbital period 96.8 days. Several authors have singled out this star as having line profile variations, but most of these reports are purely suggestive. We have made spectral observations of \alpha And during the observing seasons 1999, 2000, and 2001. The spectra were taken using resolving powers of R = 25000 and 80000, and were especially directed toward detection of variations in the line Hg II 3984 Å, for which Ryabchikova et al. (1999) note a possible variation. Radial velocity measurements of our data were used to enhance the binary orbital solution. From a periodogram of this Hg II line in our data a consistent peak is evident for a period of approximately 2.38 days, which we interpret to be the rotational period of the primary star. When all high resolution spectra are binned by phase according to this period the Hg II line profile displays an undulating nature with the line width at the continuum level not varying. Results from our Doppler image mapping show surface structures of a similar nature to those observed for magnetic Ap stars. We continue to analyse the spectra in a search for variability of other spectral lines, the direct determination of a magnetic field, and the characterization of the surface distribution of the elements.
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I'm Barry Morris and I've been writing all of my life.
I started as a child entertainer, a ventriloquist. I traveled throughout the Midwest performing original material I both wrote and performed with my partner, Tommy Wood. This was more than a hobby. I earned enough to pay for six years of college including a Master of Arts degree in Communications.
Today Tommy resides at Vent Haven, the world's only museum dedicated to ventriloquism.
Even in the military my writing skills were honed. In the US Army I started and was editor of a post newspaper for a small outpost in Turkey. I wrote a successful grant application for funds to build a landline radio station for that isolated post.
Then the corporate television bug bit me. I wrote and produced specialized television programs on site for the medical industry. The principal product was a meeting-based newscast for medical specialty conventions. Clients included the American Diabetes Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and more than a dozen other high-profile medical specialty associations.


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CHAMPIONSHIP leaders Brighton & Hove Albion were denied all three points by an injury-time equaliser away to Bolton Wanderers this afternoon.
Gary Madine headed home four minutes into stoppage time to make the final score 2-2, after Albion had led 2-0.
Dale Stephens fired home Brighton's opener on 31 minutes, before Jamie Murphy added a second from Liam Rosenior's low cross from close range four minutes later.
Neil Danns pulled a goal back on 41 minutes, before Albion had Murphy red-carded for a challenge on Danns with 15 minutes to go.
Madine then headed home deep in injury-time to earn the hosts a point.
Brighton now lead second-placed Middlesbrough, who play their game in hand tomorrow, by four points. The draw increased their unbeaten run to nine games - their best to start a league season.
Speaking to www.seagulls.co.uk, Albion boss Chris Hughton said: "My first impression from 50 to 60 yards away was that he (Murphy) slipped and that he swept the lads feet away from him.
"We were in a position last week at Wolves where a lad got sent off and his feet were off the ground, studs showing and he caught Liam Rosenior – that is my definition of dangerous play. Today, Jamie slipped and swept the lad's feet away from him.
"The reaction of the player may have made the referee choose a red card instead of a yellow card. My opinion hasn't changed; it is an awful decision and there is no doubt it has changed the game.
"They got the equalising goal from putting pressure on us and putting balls into the box and that wouldn't have been the case if we had 11 players on the pitch, as we would have been able to put a little bit of pressure on them and the keep the ball further up the pitch. "
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- 5 Motor driver channels
- 2 EMG channels
- 5 Servo headers for tactile feedback
- 2 servo headers for thumb and wrist movement.
- Battery level display/clock face with RTC IC.
My supervisor had a license for Proteus PCB design tool so for the project I used it's design tool. To make this project properly available, I need to port the design over to Eagle or a similar open platform.
Due to the size/volume limits within the arm, I decided to go with a 4 stacked 2 layer boards. The top board is simply the display board and RTC circuit. For the display, i went with a clock face layout with 12 RGB LED's. The LED's I chose are those found in the Neopixel products from Adafruit. These addressable LEDs need only power ground and a single data in as they are daisy chained together. A 13th LED acts as a temperature sensor. The top corner of the PCB contains the RTC IC and crystal. The reverse side has the backup battery. A 6 pin header (Vcc, Gnd, LED, SCL, SDA, SW) connects the display to the next board.
The next board is the microcontroller board. I went with an ATMega 2560 for simplicity of programming since I was already familiar with the Arduino IDE. I started by copying necessary parts of the Arduino Mega 2560 schematic into the Proteus sorfware. After the ICSP and filtering had been sorted I broke out all the necessary pins. I went with a single row of headers along the top side of the board for all the ADC channels on the ATMega. 10 are needed but since there are 14 total, i decided to break them all out. Along the bottom edge of the board I put a double row of headers for all the drive control signals. Each channel takes two signals and an enable line is shared between each pair of channels. This makes 12 PWM control channels ( 6 channels) and 3 enable lines so a 8x2 header. 7 servo headers were placed along the right border of the board along with some large electrolytic caps. Finally, 8 GPIO pins were broken out on the board for any additional peripherals I could think of. A divider circuit to the controller board for battery level monitoring was also added. In hindsight, I should have placed a power-on led and general indicator LEDs on this board, along with a 5 pin header for a USB to FTDI dongle.
The next layer down contains one driver IC and the two EMG sensors. The EMG sensors are based on the EMG sensors of Advancer Technologies with the addition of a -5v supply to create a bipolar supply for the amps. A 5 pin header is used to connect to the electrodes ( 1 GND and 2 per channel) The 2 filtered, rectified and amplified signals are passed the the ADC header along the top edge of the board. The driver IC I chose is the L6205 by STMicroelectronics which is a dual channel full bridge driver capable of 2A per channel. Stall current for the chosen motors is 2.1A. I replicated the test circuit that's in the datasheet, including the bootstrap circuit. I added low side current shunts to the ground path of each driver with a fixed gain Allegro current amplifier. With this circuit drawn, it was just a case of copy and paste for the bottom board.
The PCB were manufactured by Seeedstudio and I had them back in hand within 10 days, which was great. Assembly was straightforward and everything was working fine except the EMG. after some probing with a multimeter and poring over the schematic, I realized that first of all, the -5v converter was going nuts and secondly, i'd grounded the -5v inputs on the op-amps meaning they weren't receiving the -5v supply. I tried fixing the issue with some angle wires and trace cutting but it still didn't work. I think with all the desoldering and resoldering damaged the traces beyond repair. With time running out, I bought a second dev board from Advancer (Had one for prototyping) and placed both of them under in the PCB with a separate -5V battery.
|Boards back from Seeedstudio
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The Royal Mail Hotel Nagambie, locally known as The Top Pub has a great main bar with 5 CUB beers and 1 Cider on tap. Soon to have an additional 4 beers on tap including International beer!
The Bar has seating for approx 20 guests
The Club Lounge can seat approx 40 guests, we have a pool table and also a perfect wood fire heater in the middle of the Lounge!


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How To Go About Interior Design
Guide On How To Go About Interior Design At Home
What's great about interior design is that there is no right or wrong way to approach the subject. With so many designs and styles available under the sun, you can find inspiration just about anywhere. The tips in the article below can help you look at new interior design ideas or just supplement what you may already know.
When redesigning a room, work to make the color scheme in the room cohesive. Having a wide variety of clashing colors will create an unpleasant feeling, and having a dull, bland palette will do the same. Use both bold and neutral colors, and work to integrate them together to create a more pleasing space.
Placing all the artwork in the room at eye level allows it to be shown to its best effect. Hanging your art too low or high can really disrupt the look of a room, and can even give the appearance of a smaller room.
If you are framing a picture, use creativity and imagination. They can be used to add some style to a room, also. They do not all need to be properly lined up with one another. Use geometric designs as you hang them. The contrast of these items to surrounding white space is often enough to change a room's mood.
A great interior design tip is to start going hunting for antiques. You don't have to pay a fortune to get some interesting antiques. You can always go to local stores and try to barter with them. Who knows, you might end up with something that will spark many conversations.
Use many levels of lighting. By utilizing lighting in your design you can accomplish multiple looks in one room. An overhead light is typically necessary, but try installing a dimmer switch so you can vary the level and create ambiance in the evening. Install accent lighting to bring focus to art pieces. Task lighting is also important for reading nooks or kitchen prep areas. Multi-level lighting will allow you to create many vibes with one design.
Be sure to design your space how you want it to look. While it is great to design a space that welcomes friends and family, remember that you will be spending the most time there. If you desire a certain type of pillow for your room, purchase it to individualize your area. Even if you change your mind, you can just change what has been done and start again.
Don't be afraid in getting creative when you are painting a room. There are a lot of different places you can go online to teach you how to create some wonderful designs in the home. Adding an extra special touch while painting can give your space just the extra edge that it needs to stand out from the crowd.
If your living and dining areas are in the same room and you would like to redesign the space to separate them, consider different flooring options. A carpet in one room and wood in another will really distinguish the two rooms with elegance. Also, a tall, free-standing screen can make a very stylish room divider in this area.
Install more cabinets. Cabinets can be worked into just about any room. They are a handy fixture to have around the house. More cabinet space cuts down on clutter, and unlike more shelf space, it keeps your things out of sight. More storage space is always a handy thing to have.
The article above has hopefully helped you see that there are many aspects to interior design, but no really wrong or right way to approach it. Take notes and don't let yourself get overwhelmed with all of the information you have just read. Apply the tips to your designs and you are sure to see a more put together home.
How To Go About Interior Design – Now you know!


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For the past two years, Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force has been something I quite looked forward to on Wednesdays. At a time when many of my favorite superhero comics were not that great or being canceled, Uncanny X-Force was a consistently good title and filled that superhero space in my heart. So, when the opportunity... Continue Reading →
G3 Review: Uncanny X-Force #9
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What is the Viral Pool at ViralAdBuilder? It is basically an advertising coop, but it I made it to be so much more. In fact, it is very unique, unlike any other site, except for vTrafficRush.com, where I originally developed this unique system.
An advertising coop at it's core is where people purchase advertising and everyone who is in it gets whatever they are promoting shown across a network of sites that the owner purchases bulk advertising in. But when I developed the VIral Pool at VAB, as well as at vTrafficRush.com, I designed it with far more in mind.
Because free members at VAB only get their ads shown down to the number 3 spot on their downline's pages, the other spots, where a free member may be assigned, will show an ad from a member who is in the VIral Pool.
In addition, as has always been the design, when members become inactive, their ads will not be shown, which means, as more members become inactive, the Viral Pool becomes more powerful and valuable, something many do not realize, and others have forgotten. This is by design since the very beginning! The more people become in active, the more powerful the Viral Pool becomes because as members become inactive, more and more ad spots open up in the Viral Pool!
At this time there are only 9 members with a total of 35 ads that are in the Viral Pool! That means that those 9 people are getting the bulk of ads being shown, getting the lion's share of nearly 500,000 ads per day being seen worldwide!
On top of that, any member who is in the Viral Pool, gets their Viral BTC Collection Tool page put into rotation at my expense, having their VAB page seen across a network of sites I advertise at. Unlike most site owners who will shamelessly promote their own sites using their own personal link, I promote the links of those in the Viral Pool, not just members of VAB, but at all my sites, vTrafficRush.com, BucketsOfBanners,com, as well as State-Of-The-Art-Mailer.com where Brad Webb and I just recently celebrated the fact that SOTAM has now sent out over 1 Billion emails!
To take advantage of my personal advertising dollars at VTR and VAB, simply be in the Viral Pool. At BucketsOfBanners.com, simply be a Club BoB member. At State-Of-The-Art-Mailer, be a Viralist member.
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Google's resident rock star, Matt Cutts, has posted that a little Google Dance is underway again. Google probably doesn't derive any pleasure from sending the ranks of SEO and SEM pros hustling to tweak hundreds of web sites for better placement each time they update the index.
Keeping the index relevant and effective for its search users does mean updates are necessary.
"(W)e are constantly working to improve our algorithms and scoring," Matt Cutts posted on his blog. If you're reading this article and wondering who Matt Cutts might be, he was one of Google's first search advertising engineers.
Now, he is discussing the latest update, one in the ongoing series of mini-updates that the search engine performs from time to time. At one time Google could do one big update of everything, but the search engine has had to switch to the more frequent, smaller updates it performs now.
The latest version may include an update to PageRank, as Cutts noted:
Just to give you a heads-up, I think a new set of backlinks (and possibly PageRank) will probably be visible relatively soon; I'm guessing within the next few days. I still expect some flux after that though, just to let you know.
Google updates the index for reasons beyond page rank. Cutts wrote about some of those other reasons:
Some changes are hardly noticed at all. Some changes (e.g. user interface improvements) are more visible. Some changes have nothing to do with spam, such as the changes for Chinese and Europe…. Some changes do try to decrease spam or increase core quality.
Keep an eye on those Google search results. It may be time to update your site again.
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Highest GPA in UI Vocational program during three semester
Dea Amelia
Master of Ceremonies and Public Relations
- Jakarta Indonesia
- 081219640083
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I am currently studying Public Relations at Universitas Indonesia's vocational communication program. I was student trainee at Ministry of Tourism during 15th of June till 19th of August, 2015 as Law and Public Communications Division member. I received 2013 vocational student with highest GPA award and also being appointed as UI representative in PERHUMAS Indonesia forum, held at CIMB Niaga tower on March, 2015. My organizational skill mainly being developed through a national scope event: CLORINE (Color Run for a New Hope).
Highest GPA in UI Vocational program during three semester
Participant of the biggest marketing event in Indonesia. The event consist of national seminar, conference, and training, regarding the updated issue about marketing world
Participants of the basic knowledge in table manners & ettiquette in a formal setting
Vocational Program is a program of education at the college level that aim to prepare workers who can apply their expertise and skills in the field, ready to work and are able to compete globally
Maintaining media relations, analyzing news, providing information, managing schedule Head of Law & Public Communications, held press conferences, become part of team Crisis Center Raung Mountain
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|Olimpiade Vokasi 2014
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|MIRAKEL (Misi Bermain dan Belajar di Kukel)
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Athletic Eligibility
Athletic Forms
All student athletes must have their Athletic Medical Release and Code of Conduct on file with the Athletics Office to participate on a GRACE athletic team. Forms are valid for one calendar year. All athletics forms may be accessed via GRACEAthletics.net.
Maintaining Athletic Eligibility
The GRACE Athletic Department has a program designed to support our student athletes in academics by helping them be successful in the classroom as well as in the athletic arena. The program is in place for all athletes and is a supportive system.
Athletes are expected to put forth their personal best in the classroom, maintaining no less than a 2.0 GPA with no F's. At the end of first semester, eligibility will be assessed on second quarter grades, or first semester grades, whichever is the highest score. Grade checks will be made each Friday at 8:00 a.m. starting the Friday after 10 days of school. At the beginning of a new quarter, only ineligible students will be checked on the first Friday. Athletes who fall below a 2.0 GPA or have an F will be on academic probation the first offense and if next grade check shows failing grades, the athlete will be placed on ineligibility. See academic probation and ineligibility details below.
A student-athlete will not be penalized for being late or missing practice if they are in an academic help session.
Academic Probation
- A student will be put on probation if failing one or more classes
- Probation length shall be one week following grade check, the athlete can still participate in practices and scheduled competitions
- If Friday grade check shows no failing grades, student is off probation
- If grade check shows failing grades, the athlete is ineligible (see ineligibility)
- Ineligibility begins the Friday following the first week of probation if grade check still shows failing grades
- Students cannot participate in practice, travel, or in athletic contests for one full week and until Friday grade check reveals no failing grades
- Students on ineligibility are required to attend two help sessions per week
- Once the student has attended two help sessions and has received two signatures confirming help session attendance, they may be eligible to play if the Friday grade check shows no failing grades in any class
- Students will continue the two help sessions followed by a grade check for each week they remain ineligible until no more failing grades appear on the grade check
- Students may be ineligible only three times per sport before they must forfeit their participation on the team for the season
For students participating in the LEAP program, if the student qualifies for a modified level of instruction or modified curriculum and has no outstanding assignments, an exception may be made. Athletic Directors will discuss individual cases with the LD specialist and school principals.


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In this episode of our Wireless interview series, Philadelphia-based electronic music producer and DJ Starkey a.k.a. Paul J. Geissinger sits down with Dubspot instructor Raz Mesinai for an interview and a brief music production demo using Apple's Logic Pro and reFX's Vanguard.
In the interview Starkey talks to Raz about his early influences living in London in 2001 and listening to UK garage and grime pioneers So Solid Crew, and connecting with fellow Philadelphia DJ / producer Dev79 to form Seclusiasis and Slit Jockey Records, known for their "street bass" sound (an amalgam of bass music styles with an emphasis on the use of vocal samples). He also talks about using electronic experimentation and other compositional techniques in his creative process, getting into boutique sample libraries, and building Reaktor patches.
Starkey's latest single "DPMO" b/w "Poison" is out now on Slit Jockey / Seclusiasis.