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Reflecting on the failure of the socialist dream people like his own communist parents had subscribed to, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg wrote in a 1994 poem [1] that 'Research has shown Socialism to be a universal failure wherever practiced by secret police'.
This, to me, is at the nub of the problem with 20th Century socialism.
Now, however, at the juncture of the greatest crises of capitalism since the Great Depression, is it time for communism to rehabilitate itself?
The best example for us in the West of the dream gone sour is that of the former GDR (DDR or East Germany) – the Soviet satellite that found itself the frontier of the Cold War, both on its border (with West Germany) and in its capital, Berlin – divided geographically and ideologically.
In the last decade there have been a number of examples that have shown us an East Germany shaped only by the Stasi. Works like 'The Death of Lenin' or 'The Lives of Others', both brilliant movies, but both pedalling only a single thread of the wider story that was day-to-day life in the GDR. Then there have been journalistic forays into a state held captive in both Anna Funder's 'Stasiland' and even the BBC's own 'Lost World of Communism'. All these rightfully question the role of the state and the individual, and offer many cases of terrible injustice and oppression. But I feel the idea of an ideology in crisis is not explored. The examples merely qualify the statement I cited earlier from Ginsberg. Those works don't widen the debate.
Other publications, like 'Stasi Hell or Workers' Paradise? Socialism in the German Democratic Republic – What Can We Learn from It?' and the Stasi Museum's own 'GDR Guide', give fuller examples of everyday life for quiet conformists. They offer a narrative that living in a police state was not actually the main experience of life for the overwhelming majority, even if the culture it bred created its framework. This is not to revise, forgive or ignore those state crimes but we must be mindful that we witness the GDR from a purely Western perspective.
I am also mindful, however, of Rowan Williams' Easter address this April where he picked up on the point that life can be richer than material wealth. A clear admission, perhaps, that the basis of socialism is still a natural human desire for many people, though they'd never call it that.
And Rowan Williams isn't the first man of faith to recognise our principles…
Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned only with gain and profitability. Marxism is concerned with the distribution of wealth on an equal basis and the equitable utilization of the means of production. It is also concerned with the fate of the working classes–that is, the majority–as well as with the fate of those who are underprivileged and in need, and Marxism cares about the victims of minority-imposed exploitation.
…says the Dalai Lama [2]. It might be a bit strange for a Marxist to cite religious leaders, but what I am doing here is trying to highlight the universality of the basis of socialism.
I am not for a second suggesting that everyday life in a police state is better than today's relative affluence. But following the most recent banking crisis and with public services sliding away from us only to build more profit for the powerful few, the desire for something more humane is widespread. So, I contest we might to do better than to gloat at the dubious humanity of capitalism's triumph over the Soviet Union, asking of ourselves instead whether can socialism mean more than totalitarianism?
Of course it can.
Show me where the great British socialists William Morris, Engels or Marx even suggest the formation of a police state or the summary arrest of ordinary citizens. You can't because it doesn't exist.
The basic premise of socialism is our most precious principle: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". But even that can only be built on solid ground. The opening remarks of many a revolutionary tract is the need for freedom from our oppressors. Not the freedom to oppress others.
I share the analysis of philosopher (and incumbent International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London), Slavoj Žižek, that the time for the rehabilitation of communism is now. In my opinion, the most important means to achieve this is to publicly denounce the legacy of totalitarianism and divorce it from our own modern British programmes. We have nothing in common with the dictatorships of China or North Korea, though we have everything in common with its people. That seems a good place to start.
Two fundamental aspects of Marx I find lacking in the conduct of socialism are the most important checks that have never been served well by its executors. Firstly, that Marx clearly makes a case for analysing reality in its current context – that things move in struggle and it is only in our understanding of that struggle in its current place in time that we can hope to address it; that means we cannot use early 20th Century revolutionary means to overthrow the capitalist state of today. But that does not mean the goal has moved but rather that we actively revise Marxist thinking for our own age.
Secondly, and to complement the first point is the issue of self-criticism within the current context. If only Mao had read Orwell's 1984, then I'd rather think the Cultural Revolution would be one less shame laid erroneously at our door.
Žižek picks up on Lenin's point [3] that sometimes it is ok to start-over. The road to revolution is not always best achieved from starting from where we left off the last time we had to abandon that road – this leads us only to misinterpret the failure and, ignoring history, repeat the mistakes for generation after generation. If we re-boot from the ground up then we build a new solution from outset in today's context based on today's analysis. That might sound like the road to Pol Pot's year zero but hear me out – I cannot think of any philosopher or scientist worth listening to today who doesn't see the education of our children as the best way to change the world for the better.
In post-war East Germany, the Soviet's built up a youth movement to create great patriots of the Soviet. The terrible reality, however, was that, apart from the colour of their neck-ties, its members looked exactly like the Hitler Youth. It seems to me that the issue here is fear: fear of losing popular support. The need to force an ideology on citizens shows a fear that, perhaps, the ideology is not really up to the job of human civility.
I don't think this is true. I think that if we truly believe in the power of socialism – and in particular our fundamental basis of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" – then its greatest asset is in its freedom to stand proud against the immoral basis of capitalism, and to stand up to scrutiny from our own, let alone our enemies.
A socialist state built by popular support is the true expression of this project we call 'civilisation'.
The task now is to find a home from which we can build a movement. The 'British Road to Socialism' – the programme of the Communist Party of Britain – unlike its less mature SP and SWP programmes, seeks this home in the Labour Party and Trade Union movement. It is under no illusion of power, but it is a compelling reminder that – if we're honest with ourselves – for the left and true Marxists who can see the job at hand, in its current context, there is only one true place for British socialists.
[1] from 'Cosmopolitan Greetings' by Allen Ginsberg (Penguin, 1994)
[2] http://hhdl.dharmakara.net/hhdlquotes1.html#marxism
[3] In his 'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce' (Verso, 2009)


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This is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here. The book I chose for August 2011 was: Favorite Folktales from Around the World, by Jane Yolen.
Why I chose this Book:
No, this isn't a technical book or even a business work, but I believe that being able to tell a story is at the heart of almost everything I do in my career. From explaining technology to a broad audience to getting the point of a use-case across during an architectural design review, a story is a succinct way of ensuring that the germ of an idea is passed from the speaker to the listener.
This book has a short introduction to each block of stories, gathered from cultures around the world as the title suggests. My thought was that studying stories would help me create my own.
What I learned:
Being from the South of the U.S., I grew up in a culture of storytelling. Everyone I knew told stories for just about everything, so analogies and so on come naturally to me. But I have never stopped and actually dissected a story, to find out why it worked, and why I chose a particular story or story style for a given situation.
I have a little confession here - I rarely just read the books I'm listing here on my blog without adding other references to them. I keep a dictionary handy in case I want to know the etymology of a word, since I believe word choices are important. I read other reviews on the work. And I try and find similar works to read at the same time to get a different perspective. While there are lots of anthologies of stories, I found a lack of quality work on using storytelling in the way I'm thinking. I was actually surprised at that. I only found a few books on storytelling, and most had to do with how you use a story, not how to tell or create one. It's as if folks thing you already know how to fashion a story that will resonate, and you just need to know how to use them. Or they think you're only telling stories to small children, but I think everyone loves a good story. Perhaps one day I'll research this more and write my own book on how to tell a story.
The book itself is arranged in groups of types of stories, such as "magical beings", "truths and lies", "smart and ignorant", "the powerful and the weak" and so on. The author gives a short (too short, in my mind - would LOVE to hear more of what she thought) introduction to the type of story, and then multiple stories on that genre followed. Some are short, others are much longer, but all deal with the same topic, which at times made for repetitive reading. Did you know, for instance, that there are probably thousands of versions of "Cinderella"? You'll read several in this book.
As I read I learned that many stories have the same structure, that is, introduction and development of character, a "stressor" (situation or person) and a resolution. Even cultures that are comfortable with duality (like China and India) have a resolution to the story, whether positive or negative. This is interesting, because it seems a story should always be "round", or complete. It sounds pat, or trite, but it's just true. The main character can't disappear from the storyline, the plot can't change to something else entirely and so on. That, of course, deals with short stories - ones you can remember and tell again, not written, longer stories.
I'll end this review with one of my favorite stories from the book. Most are at least a couple of pages long, but this one struck me because it's touted as the world's shortest horror story - and that succinctness really resonates. See if you agree:
"He awoke with a start, and reached for the lamp - and it was placed into his hand."
Raw Notes:
I take notes as I read, calling that process "reading with a pencil". I find that when I do that I pay attention better, and record some things that I need to know later. I'll take these notes, categorize them into a OneNote notebook that I synchronize in my Live.com account, and that way I can search them from anywhere. I can even read them on the web, since the Live.com has a OneNote program built in. I took a TON of notes during this reading, but I don't think it makes sense to post them this time. There were so many, and due to the structure of the book they were so random, that I don't think reading through them would help much past what I've posted in the "What I learned" section. I'll see if the raw notes from the next work are the same or if it makes sense to add them here.

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"These days, everyone comes perfectly out of a box, complete with a stylist and a makeup artist," Shirley Manson once told me of our current roster of pop phenomena. "Nobody is stumbling about, making mistakes and doing ridiculous things like we did in the 1990s." She's right; the period during which Manson rose to fame – alongside women like Gwen Stefani, Björk and Fiona Apple – saw a particular and charmingly haphazard type of raver dress descend down MTV's red carpets: sarongs paired with sportswear, and club makeup preferred over contouring. "Looking back at the pictures now, it's patently obvious that we did it ourselves, but there was a certain uniqueness about each person as a result."
This complete eclecticism and easy eccentricity is notably what marked Miu Miu's Croisière 2017 collection, which came complete with the woven flatforms and hippy embellishments that decorated those women. It was 90s to the max – clearly, that era is where Mrs Prada's attentions are lingering at the moment – but rather than bearing any particular parity to the pensive collection that she presented a few weeks ago, this felt like an irreverent celebration of that pop-culture period of freedom and feminine strength. After all, Miu Miu is Prada's teenage daughter and, just two weeks after a cerebral Prada show that meditated on the same era, it seemed that Mrs Prada was cementing that difference.
The Miu Miu Club
Before anything else, it would be oblique not to mention the setting within which Miu Miu elected to present this season's Croisière: an opulent member's club stationed on the Champs-Élysées, once a home away from home for aristocratic travellers. Of course, cruise collections have recently become a way for various brands to flex their creative (and commercial) muscle – Louis Vuitton flying everyone over to Rio, Christian Dior holding court at Blenheim Palace, Gucci renting out Westminister Abbey (did anyone even know you could do that?) – and, in their own way, Miu Miu was doing the same. But the first Miu Miu Club was held in London in 2012, to such resounding success than every fashion week someone seems to longingly mention its name (it was a three-day women's members club held at The Café Royale featuring Michelin-starred meals available at all hours, floor after floor of cocktails and canapés, and the most beautiful seafood bar outside of J Sheekey) – and this was its resurrection.
There were gaming tables and champagne cocktails, a buffet courtesy of Margot Henderson and a four-piece string orchestra (later, Kate Moss and Paul Simonon arrived to DJ and various TV screens started playing the football, and the atmosphere somewhat shifted), but most of all there were lots of Miu Miu women, from Stacy Martin to Amber Valletta and Soko, having quite a fabulous time. "It feels like being at home," remarked Adwoa Aboah, who was stationed with her sisters and Snapchatting with Marc Jacobs and Hamish Bowles from a four-poster bed. And, come 11pm – with half the guests dancing to Katy Perry like it was 1999, and half sitting upon chaise-longues watching Iceland v France, it really did: like being at the most fabulous house party imaginable.
The Mannequins
Once you ascended the giant staircase formed of yellow onyx, and navigated past the string quartet, you arrived within a room hosted by the series of 40 fibreglass mannequins sprawling across sofas and unnervingly huddling in imagined conversations. These were the women who formed the static presentation of Croisière and their somewhat sinister, shimmering faces came courtesy of Matty Bovan: the young, London-based artist who stylist Katie Grand has commissioned only days before to create them.
"I was originally meant to be coming to the party as a guest," he explained, "but then Katie asked me to send some proposals and then three days ago I came to Paris, to the studio here, and got going!" Thus, these "chic but weird" figures were born, their faces decorated with acetate and Croisière's embellishments, their hair made from strings of melted plastic and clay, and the reworking of a surreal nineties, DIY ebullience through the lens of Parisian opulence was visually complete.
The Clothes
While these mannequins were determinedly naïve (at least, in the painterly sense), the clothes felt similarly and intentionally so: there were the sorts of crop-tops one might have found in Camden Market elevated through their perfect mohair fabrication, and anoraks and low-slung shorts made of doppio satin – the super-luxe sort rarely found outside of the Vatican. Plastic bangles and beaded necklaces of the type familiar to those with a jewellery kit were positively piled on with brilliant exuberance – but, upon closer inspection, there was all the refinement one would, of course, expect from the brand.
Pretty sequinned tea dresses lay underneath shimmering gilets, opulent diamante stilettoes appeared beneath sprouting, multicoloured feathers, richly embroidered Indian embellishments decorated raver hats, and there was a black satin, thoroughly nineties two-piece that was completely covetable both then and now. Those ballerina pumps and fluffy sandals that have seemingly become an immediate Miu Miu staple became rubber-soled platforms and even fluffier sandals respectively. "Fun," said Mrs Prada, "Energetic. Positive" – and it certainly was, that positive energy that she expressed through Prada S/S17 seen through the lens of the Miu Miu girl. Once you saw the clothes worn by Adwoa, or her sisters, or any of the custom-dressed starlets mingling throughout the club, they became wonderfully real: a positive assertion of independence, irreverence and individuality. It's that same style that women like Manson and Stefani pioneered in their time, that good vibes approach to fashion which celebrates the unconventional and the kaleidoscopic. It's that message that saturated everything at The Miu Miu Club, from the oyster bar to the football screens: the Miu Miu girl does what she likes, and she does it with glee. And that was refreshing, to say the least.


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Dr. Bernie Siegel discusses the importance of our thoughts and feelings to our health
March 1, 2013
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In honor of Alison's recently released book What If There's Nothing Wrong which discusses the power of the subtle energies of the mind-body-spirit connection, Alison has asked one of the pioneers in Western medicine aware of this connection to come on her show. For many, Dr. Bernard Siegel—or Bernie, as he prefers to be called—needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over the Planet. In 1978, he reached a national and then international audience when he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our Society grapples with today. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet.
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Intrigue Inside The Senate Parlor: Countdown To Property Rights ShowdownFeb 16, 2011
Just beginning to explain the twists and turns of what is happening in the Virginia Senate over property rights would rival War and Peace. Forget about the whole story. So much to say, so much to keep confidential. Maybe a book, one day, is in the offing, or a screenplay. Okay, maybe an op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. You have to have goals. Suffice it to say, the situation is fluid. I would hazard a guess that no one will know the outcome until Lt. Governor Bill Bolling announces the words, "The clerk will open the rolls. The senators will vote. ..." I think some will hesitate and see what it going to happen, who is voting which way and what the count is. On the other hand, maybe a deal will be struck ahead of time. I've learned, when dealing with issues like this, as much of a cliche as it is, anything can — and usually — does happen. Nothing will surprise me. It is, after all, an election year.
Right now it's close. By the vote, maybe not — in either direction. (In 2007, the eminent domain reform statute barely escaped the House and Senate, but the conference report blasted through!) One thing that's not good: A tie vote kills the resolution. A constitutional amendment must receive at least 21 votes of senators. The LG cannot break the tie. Another note: There's a good chance the vote will be put off until Friday. But leave nothing to chance: Contact your senator now!
Here's the breakdown: There's slightly less than the 21 needed for the tougher language. There is probably enough for less strong, but very good language. Here's the problem: There may be a few, who don't get the version they want, who may scuttle the other, leaving us with neither version! Then, there are the out-and-out liberals who don't believe in property right and are going to aid and abet which ever side it needs to accomodate that scuttle.
Does the extra day help or hurt one side or the other? It may slow down the momentum from yesterday's dramatic doubleheader sub- and committee sweep (see Disrupt The Narrative). Yet, it may give the grassroots more time to pound senators' offices. The utilities don't need that kind of time. They just need the army of lobbyists they can deploy to cajole and, shall we say, persuade. It doesn't take a lot of time to do that with the personnel and money they have at their disposal.
We, the people, the grassroots, the ones whose rights are affected by these special-interest laden decisions, have a say. It's not too late by any stretch. Things change on a dime here at Mr. Jefferson's capitol. Do your part!
Contact your senator and urge him or her to vote for HJ 693, (Delegate Johnny Joannou, D-Portsmouth) to support your property protections from big government and big corporations: by e-mail; by General Assemby office phone. Limiting government's power of eminent domain limits government growth and intrusiveness, and secures our liberties. Don't know your senator? Look him or her up here.


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Hey, it's Tuesday, and I'm taking over the Jaded Blossom Blog with...
a Birthday Treat that will brighten any birthday!!!
a Birthday Treat that will brighten any birthday!!!
I have used the Lollipop Die, Stitched Square Dies, Label Shape Dies, and Super Hero 2.
I cut out all the dies using paper from Doodlebug Design and some white cardstock. I ran the Stitched Square Die through my machine with an embossing folder to give it the looks of bricks. I then applied some Spun Sugar Distress Ink to it before cutting the square in half. I positioned both sides of the square on my Lollipop Holder the way I wanted them and added the Label Shape Dies over them to cover where I cut the square in half.
Instead of adding a lollipop, I added some candies to a bag and stapled the bag to the inside and then used the closure to hold it shut.
I love the bright Doodlebug papers for this project and hope you have enjoyed it too.
There is an awesome sale going on at Jaded Blossom until July 24th, so you'll want to head over to the store and check it out. There are some stamps as low as 50% off.
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cute-ify your lunch with these adorable rice husk fiber bento boxes! this 100% biodegradable bento box will break down in approximately 90 days when buried in a landfill, as opposed to plastic, which lingers and pollutes the environment for hundreds of years. the bento box is airtight, ensuring that food and snacks stay fresh.
includes a removable divider to give you options when arranging your lunch, and an elastic strap to keep the lid extra secure.
the bento boxes are dishwasher safe, but it is recommended to handwash them - this will preserve the cute print on the lid for longer :D
PVC, BPA, phthalate, and lead free! exceeds EU and US food safety regulations. your childƒ??s food is safe in there!
not suitable for microwave due to organic content of material, the microwave will break it down.
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Chinese people are known for their cultural belief to appease the spirits of the dead, which is done through various ceremonies and measures. The Chinese people have a lot of respect for the dead, and they believe that the dead cannot rest until their final demands and quests on earth are met. Appeasing the dead can be done through many ways, e.g. through cremation, revenge, and achieving what the dead had left unaccomplished. The cultural belief in taking revenge for the dead has been passed from generation to generation. The urge to revenge for the dead has seen the Chinese people move from nothing to something. The urge is so strong that the Chinese people are at times willing to sacrifice everything to achieve this quest.
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Revenge is not an easy thing, especially when it becomes a passion. However, people who are able to control their hatred during the revenge live happily even after the consequences that befall them. Revenge for the dead can sometimes be used for a legitimate purpose such as accomplishing a mission that the dead had never accomplished. The mission can be building a house or buying some assets. Such urge to accomplish the mission unfinished by the deceased always ends in peace for both the living and the dead. On the other hand, joy is also achieved, when someone takes revenge for a dead victim.
For instance, if a person was killed by a known assailant and the law was not applied against the murderer, such a crime is punishable by death in many ocial settings. It leaves a large scar in the victim's family to know that a murderer for their loved one is on loose in the society. For the Chinese beliefs, the dead victim's soul will not rest in peace if the murderer is not punished. All Chinese people are supposed to revenge for the dead. It is the duty of the victim's family to take revenge on behalf of the dead and appease them. Therefore, any member of the victim's family is to take revenge by punishing the murderer in any form.
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Taking revenge as a cultural belief is acceptable in many other communities and even justified by some laws. However, popular culture does not recognize the validity of appeasing the dead as a reasonable idea for taking revenge. The popular cultural belief is that revenging is for one's own benefit. In traditional cultural belief, the entity of respecting the dead's wishes is put before everything else. Due to a generational change, it has become exceedingly hard to accept that the issue of revenge is connected directly to the dead. The popular cultural belief on revenge has been influenced by the generational change and challenges. The challenges include exposure to other cultural beliefs and the rampant cultural declination due to intermarriages and work-related ethics.
I was born a Chinese and have been watching in person the application of the cultural belief about taking revenge to appease the dead. At some point in life, the idea of appeasing the dead has undoubtedly helped me.
I have seen the widespread relations between the traditional Chinese beliefs and the more recent upcoming popular culture, such as Taoism. I have grown to take a firm belief that there is a continuing life after death. As a Chinese, I believe that the soul of a departed person is made up of yin and yang mechanism called Hun and Po. Stories have been passed from generation to generation about the importance of giving the dead their due respect. I have heard the famous story of King Xuan (827-783 BC). The Chinese records and stories say that King Xuan executed his minister on false charges. Three years later the ghost of the minister Tu Po came back to seek revenge after no one sought revenge. This is clear evidence that there is life after death. Personally, I have come in a close encounter with the afterlife ghosts. My uncle was a talented man who could adapt to any life situation. However, before he could make his biggest achievement he died. Each day I get visions of my uncle in my dreams telling me to move on with life and achieve his unfulfilled dream. These visions provide me with the absolute confidence and motivation to achieve what my uncle did not.
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It is my duty as a relative of my late uncle to achieve what the gods had promised to our family lineage. The pressure to achieve gives me the motivation to move forward in life and always work hard. I believe that if I fulfill my uncle's unaccomplished mission, I will appease my uncle and the living members of my family.
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In Sunday's Radio 4's Something Understood programme, Mark Tully asked if climate change offers an opportunity for us to improve our lives. The cartoonist Pettit lists some of the consequences of moving to green policies and technologies:
He believes that not only would this lead to consuming less and respecting nature more, but also to finding a deeper relationship with nature and each other – as Helena Norberg-Hodge stresses in her talks about global localisation (eg TedX here).
Mark referred to The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life, by Paul Wachtel, in which he suggested that our commitment to consumption is in fact an increasingly desperate attempt to replace the sense of community that our very growth has torn apart.
Selecting the industrial revolution as a starting point, as Christine Parkinson does in her forthcoming book, Three Generations Left? Mark discusses the prevailing economic wisdom of ever increasing growth, and ever increasing demand to feed that growth, with leading Indian economist Rajiv Kumar who referred to the consequences of all adopting the American way of life. In similar vein, the late Winin Pereira used to confound doubters by asking what would happen if every adult Indian acquired a car. Rajiv Kumar believes that economics can and must change to reduce our impact on the climate.
In 1998 I recorded Mark's words in a broadcast which was part of the Independence Day celebrations: "It seems to me that India should have gone the way advocated by Gandhi – retaining and promoting rural self-sufficiency. 80% of its people live in rural areas – there are still 110 million peasant households".
Mark acknowledges the benefits of human ingenuity which has led to so many technological advances and enhanced our lives. He considers how a move towards a new way of life might be evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, while reminding us of a Native American Cree proverb that "only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will man finally realise we can't eat money".
His programme may be heard on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0783m43 for 29 days.


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Explore Gimghoul and Battle Park on this year's Holiday House Tour. The tour takes place Saturday, December 6th, 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Battle Park is a 93-acre tract of forest nestled between the Gimghoul and Chapel Hill National Register Historic Districts. The neighborhoods were built to compliment the forest park, employing concepts of the City Beautiful Movement including neoclassical architecture, orderly planned neighborhoods, and respect to the natural features of the landscape. The park is named for Kemp Plummer Battle, a prominent University figure, lawyer, and historian. The centerpiece of the park is Forest Theatre, a stone amphitheater built into the hillside at the direction of botany professor William Coker. Frederick Koch, founder of Playmakers, later made the theater a more permanent site, and in the 1940s, the theater was rebuilt with funds from the Works Progress Administration. In 2004, the NC Botanical Garden assumed responsibility for the park. The park now includes nearly three miles of trails and the theater is still home to a number of outdoor performances each year.
Another landmark of Battle Park is the Gimghoul Castle. The castle serves as the lodge for members of The Order of the Gimghoul, a secret society of the University. To fund its construction, the Order purchased and developed the land that is now the Gimghoul neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s. The Gimghoul Neighborhood is one of the first planned subdivisions in Chapel Hill, when growth of the University in the early 20th century brought with it more faculty families and the need for more housing adjacent to the University. The Gimghoul neighborhood was designated as a National Historic District in 1993.


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Micromax Canvas Laptab LT777 Launched at Rs 17,999 Specs Features Where to Buy :- Leading Indian mobile brand Micromax has unveiled its new 2 in 1 tablet today on 9 October 2015 called Canvas Laptab LT777 which is the successor of Laptab LT666 which was being launched earlier this year. In this report we are going to give you the compete technical details of Canvas Laptab LT777 and also we will provide you information from where you can buy this device.
Micromax used Intel Atom 4th Gen chipset in this new 2 in 1 tablet. It has integrated 1.88GHz Quad Core processor and Intel HD graphics graphics processing unit. The dedicated GPU can enhance your video watching and gaming performance. The tablet has 2 GB RAM for process acceleration. It can simplify your multi tasking.
Packed with 2GB of RAM Micromax Canvas Laptab LT777 supports a 11.6-inch IPS (1280×800 pixels) display, Windows 10 operating system, 32GB internal memory (expandable up to 64GB via microSD card), 2 mega pixel camera on front and back and a 9000mAh battery which will give you a lot of backup and is much larger as compared to its predecessor.
Micromax Canvas Laptab LT777 Technical Specifications
- 2 in one laptop (Can be used as a tablet or laptop).
- 11.6 inch IPS display with 1280 x 800 pixels screen resolution.
- 2GB RAM, 32GB inbuilt flash memory and expandable up to
- 64GB with microSD card slot.
- Intel 4th Gen Atom Quad Core processor up to 1.83GHz.
- Detachable Chiclet Keyboard.
- 2 USB Slots (1 Micro USB & 1 USB slot, HDMI port.
- Inbuilt SIM slot for 3G.
- WiFi – Yes, Bluetooth – Yes.
- Weight: 1.5Kg
- 9000mAh Battery claiming to provide 10 hours of mixed usage.
- Windows 10 operating system.
- 2MP Rear Fixed Focus camera + 2MP front fixed focus camera.
You can buy Micromax Canvas Laptab LT777 from online retail store Amazon.in exclusively from 13 October 2015
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Have you heard the fuss? There are so many New Yorkers who are now addicted to New York chiropractic! The busy streets of New York is indeed a place where plenty of people experience back pain, headache, neck pain and other musculoskeletal ailments because of their everyday activities. And now,…More


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NetApp Snapshots are however available to OpenStack administrators to do administrative backups, create and/or modify data protection policies, etc. This is because a Cinder user requests that a Snapshot be taken of a particular Cinder volume, not the containing FlexVol volume. Because a Cinder volume is represented as either a file in the NFS or as a LUN (in the case of iSCSI or Fibre Channel), Cinder snapshots can be created by using FlexClone, which allows you to create many thousands of Cinder snapshots of a single Cinder volume. NetApp Snapshots are taken at the FlexVol level, so they cannot be directly leveraged within an OpenStack user context.
L'afflux croissant des data IoT, la prolifération des données multimédia non structurées, ainsi que les pics d'accès liés à l'actualité, notamment sur les mobiles, posent question : comment gérer le caractère imprévisible du trafic sur les réseaux. Quelles réponses apportent les services "On Demand" des opérateurs télécoms.
Each Cisco UCS chassis is equipped with a pair of Cisco UCS Fabric Extenders. There are two different IOMs, each providing a different number of interfaces, 2208XP and 2204XP. Cisco UCS Fabric Extender also knows as IO Modules operates as a remote line card to the Fabric Interconnect. Cisco UCS 2208XP has eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE-capable ports that connect the blade chassis to the fabric interconnect. All interfaces are 10Gb DCE (Datacenter Ethernet). Each Cisco UCS 2208XP has thirty-two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports connected through the mid-plane to the eight half-width slots (4 per slot) in the chassis, while the 2204XP has 16 such ports (2 per slot). The IO-Module has Network facing interfaces (NIF), which connect the IOM to the Fabric Interconnect, and host facing interfaces (HIF), which connect the IOM to the adapters on the blades. The Cisco UCS 2204 has four external ports with identical characteristics to connect to the fabric interconnect.
Disk space for Swift object data, and optionally the operating system itself, is supplied by the E-Series storage array. · Reduced Swift node hardware requirements. Internal drive requirements for storage nodes are reduced, and only operating system storage is required.
And finally, Red Hat has upgraded its popular Distributed Continuous Integration (DCI) to automatically deliver actionable logs to its quality engineering teams, reducing the amount of time it takes to identify, patch, and introduce fixes back into the upstream community.
In the SANtricity OS architecture, all data is accessed through individual LUNs exposed to hosts that are backed by DDPs through one of the following – Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), iSCSI, SAS, or Infiniband. It is a NetApp best practice to have one DDP per host that communicates with the storage system. The OpenStack Object Storage Service (Swift) is the exclusive consumer of the storage provided by the NetApp E5560.
In addition, the Cisco Nexus 9000 series features virtual PortChannel (vPC) capabilities. 3ad standard Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). VPC addresses aggregate bandwidth, link, and device resiliency. Port channeling is a link aggregation technique offering link fault tolerance and traffic distribution (load balancing) for improved aggregate bandwidth across member ports. VPC allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus 9000 Series devices to appear as a single "logical" port channel to a third device, essentially offering device fault tolerance. As illustrated in Figure 23 , link aggregation technologies play an important role, providing improved aggregate bandwidth and link resiliency across the solution stack. The NetApp storage controllers, Cisco Unified Computing System, and Cisco Nexus 9000 platforms support active port channeling using 802. The Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and NetApp FAS controllers benefit from the Cisco Nexus vPC abstraction, gaining link and device resiliency as well as full utilization of a non-blocking Ethernet fabric.
Enabling jumbo frames allows the FlexPod environment to optimize throughput between devices while simultaneously reducing the consumption of CPU resources. In this validation effort the FlexPod was configured to support jumbo frames with an MTU size of 9000. Cisco Unified Computing System and Nexus QoS system classes and policies deliver this functionality. ) and is capable of absorbing traffic spikes and protect against traffic loss. FlexPod accommodates a myriad of traffic types (iSCSI, NFS, VM traffic, etc.
· Four HIC ports are used for Ethernet data across both controllers. This design leverages ports that not only encompass both controllers, but different ASICs on the controllers themselves. They are Controller A, HIC1, Port 1, Controller A, HIC1, Port3, Controller B, HIC1, Port1, and Controller B, HIC1, Port3.
All of the resulting UCS blades that are provisioned with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The NetApp Unified Driver for clustered Data ONTAP with NFS is a driver interface from OpenStack block storage to a Data ONTAP cluster system. This software provisions and manages OpenStack volumes on NFS exports provided by the Data ONTAP cluster system. 1 or Parallelized NFS [pNFS]). 1 mount the appropriately designated NetApp FlexVols on the FAS8040 at the highest protocol level possible for the instance volumes (NFS version 4. The NetApp Unified Driver for the Data ONTAP cluster does not require any additional management software to achieve the desired functionality because it uses NetApp APIs to interact with the Data ONTAP cluster. In this Cisco Validated Design, we take advantage of the NetApp Unified Driver using the NetApp driver backend through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer. It also does not require additional configuration in addition to selecting NetApp during an OpenStack Deployment in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform installer.
1Q VLAN tagged interfaces to support NFS and iSCSI traffic. · Ethernet ports e0e and e0g on each node are members of a multimode LACP interface group (a0a) for Ethernet data. This design leverages an interface group that has LIFs associated with it on 802.
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I've done this sort of post once before, and I find it a decent way of talking about a handful of different products at one time. I don't tend to devote an entire post to one pack of cleansing towelettes because my analysis of them is pretty simple, but because they're useful for spot-cleaning brushes, wiping off swatches, cleaning up eye shadow fallout, and removing makeup at the end of the day, I use them quite a bit. Here are five that I've tried recently: Aveeno Ultra-Calming Makeup Removing Wipes, Trader Joe's Miceller Cleanser and Makeup Remover, L'Oreal Ideal Clean Makeup Removing Towelettes, Olay Fresh Effects Refreshing Makeup Removal Cloths, and BH Cosmetics Makeup Remover Towelettes.
A few things I look for in my makeup removing cloths are an attractive price tag, a gentle formula free of alcohol, and effective makeup removal. I'd prefer a residue-free formula, too, but I can be a little flexible because I don't solely rely on them to clean my face. I simply use them for makeup removal and follow up with a gentle facial cleanser. Here we go!
Aveeno Ultra-Calming Makeup Removing Wipes … $6.99 for 25 cloths
I thought that these wipes from Aveeno were really nice. You get large, soft sheets and the formula feels soothing and moisturizing. They're sufficiently wet but don't leave any suds or residue on skin. I'd prefer a fresher scent, personally, but I don't mind this one, it's light. These aren't the absolute cheapest drugstore option (like other Aveeno skincare products), but are very reasonable when on sale.
Ingredients: Water, Isononyl Isononanoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Isostearyl Palmitate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Hexylene Glycol, PEG-6, Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Phenoxyethanol, Sucrose Cocoate, Fragrance, Carbomer, PEG-4 Laurate, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzoic Acid, Dehydroacetic Acid, Chrysanthemum Parthenium(Feverfew) Flower/Leaf/Stem Juice, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Glycerin, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract.
Trader Joe's Miceller Cleanser and Makeup Remover … $3.99 for 20 cloths
We started shopping occasionally at Trader Joe's in the past few months, and I was pretty excited to try their makeup removing cloths. They're very cheap, the package is pretty, and they do have a gentle formula. Sadly, these really aren't very effective. I wanted to like them, but if they don't really do their job of removing makeup then their other attractive qualities can't redeem them.
L'Oreal Ideal Clean Makeup Removing Towelettes … $4.99 for 25 cloths
I haven't seen these everywhere, but I found mine at Target. I was intrigued by an alcohol-free offering from L'Oreal as well as the low price tag. I think these are pretty good. The only issue I found was that they might be a little bit drying as part of a double-cleanse routine, but they do work and leave skin feeling very clean and would be a nice one-step option while traveling. There's a light, clean scent.
Ingredients: 690057/4 AQUA/WATER • GLYCERIN • ISOPRO- PYL PALMITATE • PENTYLENE GLYCOL • PEG- 100 STEARATE • GLYCERYL STEARATE • CETYL ALCOHOL • CARBOMER • TRIETHANOLAMINE • DISODIUM EDTA • PANTHENOL • DISODIUM COCOAMPHODIACETATE • XANTHAN GUM • METHYLPARABEN • QUATERNIUM-15 • PARFUM/FRAGRANCE • HEXYL CINNAMAL • LINALOOL • BUTYLPHENYL METHYLPROPIONAL• LIMONENE • F.I.L. # B11353/1
Olay Fresh Effects Refreshing Makeup Removal Cloths … $5.49 for 20 cloths
I liked these alright, but they're nothing to write home about. I actually find the formula to be a little slippery, making gripping and wiping the towelettes against skin strangely difficult. The cloths don't leave a greasy residue on skin, though. Something that I find kind of interesting is how short the ingredients list is.
Ingredients: WATER/EAU, glycerin, dimethicone, dimethiconol, tocopheryl acetate, POLYSORBATE 20, HEXYLENE GLYCOL, ACRYLATES/VINYL ISODECANOATE CROSSPOLYMER, DISODIUM EDTA, DMDM HYDANTOIN, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, FRAGRANCE/PARFUM, IODOPROPYNYL BUTYLCARBAMATE.
BH Cosmetics Makeup Remover Towelettes … $5.95 for 30 cloths
I bought these for a very low sale price when I was purchasing the BH Cosmetics Galaxy Chic eye shadow palette (review). If memory serves, they were marked down to $2.95, and they come with 30 sheets so they can be a really great deal. These are very wet and sudsy, and have a soapy smell to them. I noticed towards the end of the pack that they were maybe a little bit drying, but they really work and I liked them. BH advertises the formula as including green tea, aloe vera, cucumber and ginkgo extract.
Ingredients: aqua, glycerin, dipropylene, glycol, butylene glycol, propylene glycol, panthenol, polysorbate 20, peg-7 glyceryl, cocoate, peg-60 hydrogenated castor oil, portulaca oleracea extract, aloe barbadensis leaf, exact echinacea pallida extract, chamomilla recutita (matricaria) flower extract, propylparaben, chlorphenesin, phenoxyethanol, iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, tocopheryl acetate, citric acid, vitamin E
Out of these five, the ones I'd repurchase would be the Aveeno, L'Oreal, and BH Cosmetics. I don't know if I've hit any long-term favorites here, but they're definitely worth their price tags. Do you like to use cleansing towelettes? Are there any that you've been loving lately?


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The 127 Corridor Sale bills itself as the World's Longest Yard Sale. Officials in Kentucky and Tennessee started the annual sale in 1987 to promote attractions along the back roads of the two states. The yard sale event now spans six states and stretches for 690 miles. It starts on the first Thursday of August each year.
Whether you make it a long weekend and travel the entire route or go treasure hunting just on the stretch nearest to you, you can tailor your itinerary at the World's Longest Yard Sale.
Pick through a hodgepodge of closet-clearing junk, household items of varying vintage, and genuine antiques from individuals and professional dealers. Up to 5,000 vendors set up shop along the route. The event organizers discourage them from selling used clothing (though it's not prohibited), and instead try to promote "antiques and oddities." In some places along the route, there's the air of a church rummage sale; in others, it feels more like an antique roadshow—occasionally with prices to match.
The Route
The World's Longest Yard Sale begins in Michigan and extends 690 miles to Alabama. If you travel the entire route, you pass through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
From its start near Addison, Michigan, to the stretch near Chattanooga, Tennessee, the World's Longest Yard Sale follows US Route 127. It continues on past Chattanooga to the finish line in Alabama on Lookout Mountain Parkway, often touted as the most scenic portion of the drive.
Dates and Times
The yard sale takes place annually, starting on the first Thursday of August and extending through Sunday. For the 30th anniversary year in 2017, the sale takes place August 3 through 6. Vendors set their own hours, but generally, start at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. and continue into the early afternoon and in some cases, the evening.
Along the Way
Enjoy arts and crafts booths and food vendors along the way, in addition to all the yard sales. Chambers of commerce and tourist bureaus in the surrounding communities take advantage of the traffic to promote other attractions in their regions, so you can pursue diverse interests alongside the yard sale extravaganza. The trip takes you on a journey through rural Americana, where you can explore country culture, music, recreation, and cuisine.
Highway 127 Corridor Sale Tips
- Book lodging as far ahead as possible, but at least one month in advance.
- Carry cash in small denominations.
- Watch for clustered sales in vacant lots, fields, and parks.
- Follow these top 10 yard sale shopping tips to score a brag-worthy find.
- Expect heavy traffic and narrow roads. Though it's called the Highway 127 Sale, it takes place along a scenic two-lane back road for much of the way. Be cautious when parking and pulling on and off the road. And respect No Trespassing signs.
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Wow, what an adventure.
I made a joke to Darren as I was leaving Sydney, that I was about to get on the plane and disappear from the world for two days. "Two days to go back to Manila? That's crazy talk," he responds.
Funny how things can come true sometimes.
My flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur was supposed to take off at 10:40. 10:40 rolls around, and nobody has boarded the plane yet. Turns out there's an engineering problem, and the guys just finished working on the issue. Unfortunately, it's now almost 11 pm, and Sydney has this flight curfew. No flights out of the area after 11. Yikes!
Well, the flight got delayed. We are to stay overnight in Sydney, and take the next plane out of the city, which is 12:30 pm next day. OK, guess that's not so bad. Other passengers, however, seem to be freaking out. Asking all sorts of questions, making demands. Popping my headphones on and turning on the tunes, I remember what Donna in Brisbane said. Those people with road rage? Yeah, they don't have good music, that's all. Life isn't so bad with good tunes.
The hotel isn't bad, in fact it's pretty nice. Includes breakfast. Can't say no to a free breakfast and a good clean room and bed!
Getting up in the morning, I mozy my way over to the airport and find out... after arriving in Kuala Lumpur, I'm to overnight again for the next flight to Manila from there isn't until the morning of the 2nd. Sigh. In the line, I chat up these two people speaking an interesting language. Turns out they're Italian and also got stuck on the same flight heading to Kuala Lumpur. It's funny but, when I hear Italians speaking to each other, it always sounds like they're mad at one another. Bla bla blah INO! Yakka yak GONZA! Blady blah CCHINI! Que puzza!
Eventually I learned that they're brother and sister and (like my original idea) the sister frequently gets mad at the brother. And because of that, I thought they were 'together' HAHAHA.
Anyway, one longass flight later, I arrive in Kuala Lumpur. It feels like the Philippines. One thousand percent humidity. Sweat condensing on the skin, constantly. Thankfully, my hotel is right next to the airport (free electric kart shuttle! Whee!), the room is super nice, and I get free dinner and breakfast.
Hey, while I'm here, might as well see the city a bit. Why yes, I'll tour a bit of KL on Malaysia Air's dollar. Why not?
Sometimes the choice without form is good. Very good.
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Tonight the Euro lottery has a jackpot of £154 million! I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to win that much money although some of us at work are buying a ticket just in case 🙂
We talked about what we would do if we won that much money and were divided between giving up full time work or carrying on. personally I'd give it up and take time to travel and write. If I won the jackpot here's what I would spend it on:
– A house – it would be big with a lovely garden maybe a swimming pool and definitely a cinema room. I'd probably have my main house in England but would be tempted to get somewhere in the sun too.
– a car – I'm not a massive car fan but I would splash out on something cool.
– Some super holidays. Places I'd like to visit are: Florida, LA, Canada, South of France, Italy, Hawaii, Caribbean as well as going back to NYC and Vegas. And I'd go first class five * all the way! Right now I'd like to go somewhere like this:
– Shopping – I would of course splash out on some goodies, I wouldn't be able to resist!
– And to start with I'd have a few glasses of this (and probably faint!):
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Have you ever come across a blog without pictures? How was it? It must have been very boring indeed. As a blogger, images are an important part of your content. As the wise men put it, "a picture conveys more than a thousand words." The same principle applies to blog writing. For your blog to be attractive, you must mix texts with relevant images or photos.
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Flickr is one of the leading photography websites. The site houses more than 13 billion photos. Also, it is affiliated to Yahoo making it a reliable source of images. This aspect enhances the possibility of better search engine ranking for your website. However, not all photos in Flickr are free to use. Some of them require you to pay some loyalty fee.
In this regard, you have to key in images with a creative commons license on the search button. With this search result, you can select free images for commercial use in your blog posts.
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A reclaimed metal shop signage letter F.
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By Jemima Kelly and Patrick Graham
LONDON Britain's battered pound recovered half a percent against the dollar on Wednesday, propped up by corporate demand as investors looked for bargains after it hit two-month lows the previous day. The pound has lost almost a fifth of its value versus the greenback since last June's vote to leave the European Union, with currency traders concerned that the foreign flows of capital that Britain relies on just to fund its gaping current account deficit will dry up. It skidded to as little as $1.2110 on Tuesday, its lowest since Jan. 17, hit by fears of prolonged political jousting over the terms of Brexit.But it bounced back to as high as $1.2258 in early trading in Europe on Wednesday, before easing off to trade at $1.2217 by 1620 GMT, still up half a percent on the day. Against the euro, sterling climbed 0.3 percent to hit 87.02 pence.
"There is uncertainty out there about how much of the Brexit effect is priced in – clearly we've had huge movements in sterling since June and when we do see these sharp falls there are people around looking for bargains," said Rabobank currency strategist Jane Foley.Dealers said orders had been pushed through at the start of European trade, before labour market data at 0930 GMT. But sterling more than halved those gains in the hour after the numbers, which showed a dip in wages growth. Traders said it looked as if there had been a build up of corporate demand for sterling between $1.2150 and $1.22 that blocked further falls.
Most analysts say that the roughly 20 percent fall against the dollar and 13 percent loss against the euro since the Brexit vote has left sterling looking undervalued from a longer-term perspective. But a number of leading banks have also forecast it to fall further as negotiations on the terms of Britain's exit from the EU begin in the weeks ahead.
The pound's fall to its lowest since mid-January on Tuesday came after Prime Minister Theresa May won the last of the votes in parliament required to start the Brexit process."With the ongoing Brexit woes effectively strengthening the relationship between uncertainty and sterling, further downside losses should be expected," wrote FXTM Research Analyst Lukman Otunuga.Sterling inched up about 10 ticks in afternoon trading in Europe, after a Survation poll found a majority of voters still oppose Scottish independence and believe that a second referendum on the issue should not be held before Britain leaves the European Union."Perhaps for international investors who don't have a real handle on these issues, you could imagine there was relief that those who want to leave are in the minority still, even if it's close," said Foley. (Editing by Ken Ferris)
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Cal Poly
Wagman, Mustangs roll over UCSB
Brian Mundell launched a missile over the center field fence. Nick Torres rocketed a shot of his own out of Baggett Stadium just an inning later.
But as monstrous as the two home runs were for the Cal Poly baseball team in Friday night's 7-0 nonconference victor y over UC Santa Barbara, none seemed as powerful as the cannon that shot pitcher Joey Wagman back into the dugout after a bases-loaded double play to end the seventh inning.
Already the Big West Conference strikeout leader coming into the game, Wagman struck out 11 and had a no-hitter going into the seventh to lower his season ERA to 2.70 and improve to 5-1.
But after that no-hitter was lost, and the Gauchos (11-9) loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, the 4-0 lead Mustangs' (16-4) didn't seem so secure.
Then UCSB catcher Jackson Morrow hit a nubber in front of the plate that looked like it might score a run. Wagman fielded the ball, quickly flipped it to catcher Chris Hoo, and Hoo fired it to first to get Morrow and end the inning.
Wagman blasted toward the dugout like a bottle rocket, going airborne as he crossed the third-base line and was on the bench before any of his teammates had time to leave the infield.
"Plenty of guys in the dugout told me I got up there a little bit," Wagman said of his hearty leap.
"I didn't think we were going to get him, and I saw where the runner was and we got the double play. It fired me up a lot, and we got out of the inning.
"It was just out of excitement and part of the moment."
It was the crowning moment in a feel-good bounceback game for No. 25 Cal Poly, which lost its first series of the season dropping two of three games to visiting Notre Dame last weekend .
The Mustangs remain on a mission to prove their early season success was not fool's gold.
"For us to come out here and put up some runs," Torres said, "it just shows that nobody's going to take away our confidence."
A sophomore right-fielder, Torres had his first career 4-for-4 game, knocking in two with a two-run home run in the third and hitting his sixth double of the season.
Mundell, a freshman designated hitter and reigning Big West Player of the Week, was 1 for 4 but creamed the first pitch he saw, sending it over the 405-foot sign on the center field wall for a two-run lead in the second inning.
Senior second baseman Denver Chavez was 2 for 3 with two runs to up his team-leading batting average to .372, and Jordan Ellis was 2 for 2 with a walk.
Torres also pushed his career-long hitting streak to 14 games. He reached on hard-hit grounder that toed the line between a hit and an error in the second inning, but left no doubt with his home run to left in the third.
"The reason it's stayed alive is because I haven't thought about the hit streak at all," Torres said. "If I was thinking about that, I'd probably press in a lot of my atbats."
Third baseman Jimmy Allen saw an eight game hit streak end with a 0-for-4 night at the plate.
Wagman continued a torrid tear for Mustangs pitchers, who lead the Big West with 186 strikeouts as a staff.
Star ting with a careerbest 12-strikeout performance in a 6-2 win over the Fighting Irish last week, Cal Poly pitchers have 49 strikeouts in the past four games.
Wagman had nine in just four innings against the Gauchos. He ended up walking five and giving up another free pass on a bean ball but did not allow a hit until the seventh, when Woody Woodward broke up the no-hitter with a hit-andrun single through the left side.
Cameron Newell singled through the right side to load the bases before the double play.
Wagman came out to the mound for the eighth inning, but left after walking the first two hitters, and closer Reed Reilly came on to retire the side.
But the team still fed off Wagman's steady outing.
"It's good to see that he's feeling it again, to know that he's got a lot of confidence out on the mound," Torres said, "because when he's confident, we're going to be confident."


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A fiber-optic cable holds multiple strands of fiber in order to transfer data. Each fiber is made of flexible glass or plastic and transmits light signals. This technology provides homes and businesses with phone, Internet and TV services. Because fiber-optic cables use light, they can transmit more data, farther and in less time than other mediums.
What makes up a fiber-optic cable?
A fiber is made up of a core, a cladding and a plastic buffer. The core, like the name implies, is at the very center of the fiber. This is made from very thin plastic or glass. Surrounding the core is the cladding, where the light is reflected into. This is made of an optical material. The plastic buffer then surrounds both the core and the cladding to protect the materials from any damage.
Once multiple fibers are put together and covered, they create a fiber-optic cable. The cables deliver the signal to a "node," which is a type of network box. From the node, the signal can travel to one of two places – to a curb within 1,000 feet of a home or business, or directly to a building or house.
How does fiber optic work?
Laser-generated pulses of light are transmitted by fiber-optic phone lines and cables to provide phone, Internet and TV services to homes and businesses. The data is converted from light to electricity so it can be understood on the receiving end.
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There are two main types of fiber-optic cables. A multimode fiber uses multiple light sources to transmit several data streams. Because of its small core, a single-mode fiber can carry more bandwidth over a long distance. However, it only allows one data stream to travel.
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Porcelain Laminate Veneers are the most popular modem of Cosmetic dentistry, to create spectacular smiles in the most conservative way .This technique mastered by Dr. Turners Cosmetic And Restorative Centers have created smiles for people of all ages and also the Bollywood stars and starlets. Dr.Turner in all his presentations wherever he travels urges the need for conservative Ceramic veneer preparations , because a veneer bonded to minimally touched enamel has a bond that will last you a lifetime. Infact studies have shown that when a veneer is bonded to enamel the bond is as strong as your natural, enamel to dentin bond and in some cases it even strengthens the tooth.
Porcelain veneers at Dr. Turners Aesthetic Dental Centers are artistically crafted ultra-thin shells that are bonded to the fronts of your teeth in order to create your perfect smile. Dr.Turner has churned out over a whopping 10,000 veneers from their Dental Cosmetic Centers. Each veneer case is unique and their passion to perfect your look goes a long way in the outcome of your final smile. We put a lot of time, effort, and artistic talent into designing porcelain veneers that are durable and look naturally brilliant.
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Animal Crossing and football season
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Now that football season is upon us i thought it would be a fun time to put together some animal crossing football shirts of our favorite teams.
Since the Patriots are my favorite team and *ahem* the best football team out there i went and made my first pro design of a Tom Brady jersey and thought it turned out pretty decent. I'd love to make some for other teams if anyone has any requests, also feel free to post your own that you've made or improvements on preexisting ones! If i end up making more or other people have some really awesome ones i'll add them to this post so everyone can get in on the team spirit.
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is an international Catholic charity under papal jurisdiction, which yearly offers financial support to more than 10,000 projects worldwide. ACN supports the poor and persecuted churches with prayer, pastoral relief and material assistance. Help is given to refugees of all denominations.
In order to fulfil this mission, the organisation has established certain priorities for its work. They are:
• Training of seminarians (ACN currently supports the training of 19,000 seminarians worldwide)
• Training of catechists
• Charitable help for refugees
• Translation, printing and dispatch of Bibles, catechisms, prayer books and other religious literature.
• Publication of the Child's Bible. To date 36 million copies have been distributed in over 120 languages.
• The building and renovation of churches, convents, seminaries and catechesis centres
• Production and broadcasting of religious radio programmes to the former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and many Third World countries
• Purchase of vehicles to enable priests and pastoral workers to care for their widely scattered parishes
• Basic support for priests and religious
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October 6, 2016
Seiko Celebrates Grand Opening of Miami Boutique
October 3, 2016 (Mahwah, NJ) – It is with great excitement that Seiko opened its second Seiko boutique to enter the United States at 130 NE 40th Street Suite 11 in Miami's Design District. The opening event was held at Michael's Genuine in Miami, hosted by Seiko Corporation of America Chairman Akio Naito, and attended by over 100 industry and Miami influencers.
Photo Credit: © Robin Hill Photography
Surrounded by the world's most iconic brands in the Design District, the Miami Seiko boutique is primarily
dedicated to Seiko's prestigious collections, including Grand Seiko, Astron and Credor. It will also unveil collections never before sold in the US, including Presage, and various boutique exclusives within the US, including the Prospex collection. This venture continues to showcase Seiko's progressive philosophy of presenting paramount design, quality and precision in each new project brought to the US fine timepiece market.
"The opening of our Miami Seiko Boutique truly signifies the beginnings of Seiko's position as a permanent global leader in the timepiece industry. This boutique is a showcase of Seiko's craftsmanship and technologies in watchmaking," says Mr. Naito. "Following the standards from boutiques in Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Cairo, New York City, Sydney and Dubai, the Miami Design District will add a new and continued superior level of exposure of the ever-growing U.S. and global presence. Seiko will continue to seek the most ideal locations to spotlight our product, catering to our luxury timepieces, including Grand Seiko, Astron and Credor."
The Miami Seiko boutique boasts a design that expresses Seiko's brand vision, "Moving ahead, touching hearts," with an emphasis on innovation and refinement as well as its core value of being the only watch manufacturer with every watchmaking expertise. Seiko's brand elements of history, technology, luxury and craftsmanship are found throughout the boutique, focusing on a modern yet sophisticated style.
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McFadden, 25, signed a three-and-a-half year deal when he joined from Everton in January and insists he would not seek a quick exit if Blues suffer the drop. Alex McLeish´s men must pick up at least a point against Blackburn and better both Fulham and Reading´s results this weekend to retain their top flight status.
McFadden said: "I haven´t really given my own situation much thought, although there is obviously a good chance we could go down. I have only just arrived at the club and I´m not looking to leave in a hurry."
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