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Lowe's grant funds Agricultural & Culinary Garden for NAHS
This summer, the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education received a $2,125.00 Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant for an Agricultural & Culinary Garden.
Lowe's awarded the funding during the summer and the school hosted their kick-off project on Wednesday, September 20.
The grant application was based on the goal of establishing raised bed gardens for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for hands-on classroom instruction for the Culinary Arts and Agricultural Sciences programs, as well as providing activities for interest groups during Vision Time.
Grant funds were used to purchase building materials, mulch, and fertilizer to construct the raised beds for the school garden, as well as hoses, tools, plants, and seeds for continual work in the garden.
New Albany FFA members, under the direction of Agricultural Instructor Bert Anderson, were involved in the design and building of the raised bed gardens during the summer.
On September 20, the "Dirt to Dishes" Vision interest group and the "Envirothon" Vision interest group planted their first fall and winter garden, with the assistance of Lowe's employee Chris Bishop. The kick-off event was planned by Culinary Instructor Anita Alef.
Alef and Anderson will work together throughout the school year to provide hands-on, real work experiences for their Culinary Arts and Agricultural students.
"Our school and community will greatly benefit from this grant. We wish to thank Lowe's for generously supporting this important project," said Lance Evans, Superintendent of New Albany Schools.


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Episode 031 of Subsonication: mark5 throws down some Hard Hits before taking off for Holiday Hiatus Part 1 (no shows on the 19th or 26th, Subsonication will resume on December 3rd).
HTIDUSA coverage playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr9PE5k_0bs1yU6y4aC2BNwGlPHvr4PcY
the fourth secret studio session: http://www.mark5.us/podcast/the-fourth-secret-studio-session/
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Why is it that you can spend a crap-load in Ikea but still not get the actual piece you specifically visited to buy? Then finding out that the reason that bookshelf is not in stock is because it is actually being discontinued worldwide (the Expedit - we didn't want green though!) is just so annoying. Major first world drama, I really do know it is, but still so very deflating. Expedit fans around the world are distressed, Google tells me.
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With all the festival reviews and announcements from up North, we didn't want to skip out on others elsewhere. During this years SDCC while the nerd orgasms were in full effect the horror recieved a great bit of news on the latest film from Ryuhei Kitamura. The feature is called DOWNRANGE which follows a group on the road being stalked by mad gunman. Eleven Arts plans to release the films next year and all the details can be found ahead.
ELEVEN ARTS is proud to announce DOWNRANGE, the terrifying new thriller from acclaimed director Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train, Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars). Produced by Kitamura and ELEVEN ARTS' Ko Mori (Lords of Chaos, Man From Reno, Uzumasa Limelight), the film is executive produced by Taro Maki (In This Corner of the World). Screenplay is by Joey O'Bryan (Motorway, Fulltime Killer), with story by O'Bryan and Kitamura.
In the film, six college students are carpooling cross-country when one of their tires blows out on a desolate stretch of country road. Getting out to fix the flat, they quickly discover that this was no accident. The tire was shot out. With their vehicle incapacitated, the group is pinned down and mercilessly attacked by an unseen assailant as they desperately attempt to find a way to escape.
Producer Mori states, "It's an honor and privilege to partner with a director as visionary as Ryuhei Kitamura, whose art has thrilled genre audiences for over fifteen years since first shocking the world with his debut feature Versus. Our longtime friendship has culminated in this exciting collaboration, and Ryuhei's dedication to horror, action, and thrillers makes him the perfect fit to helm a film like DOWNRANGE – which is nonstop tension from its opening frame."
Adds director Kitamura, "While I've created single location films in the past, DOWNRANGE marks a new style of storytelling for me, wherein sustained, breathless terror in a singular location is what drives the entire plot. We've crafted a film in which is fueled by relentless dread, and are very excited to share it with horror and suspense fans around the world."
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When the city of Toronto completed work on the Luminous Veil that hems the Bloor Viaduct and held the event's official lighting, the 2015 PanAm Games were finally ready to begin. In fact, it worked as a sort of unofficial opening ceremonies. Toronto's mayor, John Tory – the one that came after the crack-smoking one – was, of course, in attendance. He ended up giving a speech that took a backhanded yet relatively unnoteworthy jab at Torontonians' propensity to complain. "Toronto, on a regular basis," Tory said only days later "would be qualifying for a gold medal in (moaning and groaning)." Somewhat anecdotally – or perhaps more to the point – the Toronto Blue Jays were in fourth place at the time, and three games back of the first-place New York Yankees.
Whether or not you agree with Mr. Tory, this, above all else, is what sets us apart as a baseball city. As you know, the 29 other teams are located in a different country. Canadians – the collective 'we' – like to think of ourselves as different. We've only got one team, and the entire country rallied behind it for two fantastic months at the end of last summer. We like to think what makes us different is our apologetic behaviour, which has seemingly become reflexive, or that we put an extra 'u' in some words because we didn't overthrow our ties to the commonwealth. Maybe it's our spelling of 'defence.'
But it isn't. What makes Canadians different is our ability to look on the other side of the fence and see that the grass on our side has been turf all along. It's the Canadian condition. What we self-identify as humility actually comes off as an aversion to nationalism. We're proud of a nation that takes as little pride in itself as possible. Now, none of this is to paint all Canadians with the same pessimistic brush. In fact, I believe many of us to be very optimistic. But our ability to complain while still staying positive is what sets us apart.
It surfaces in the most sublime ways. Take, for instance, the fact that a fan called in to Blue Jays Talk hosted by Mike Wilner on the day the Blue Jays clinched a postseason berth – their first after a two decade drought– to express his displeasure that Melky Cabrera wasn't on the team anymore. The caller wasn't upset; they just expressed empathy that Cabrera wouldn't get to enjoy this.
If you need further proof, consider the fact that we joke about how much we hate the turf here, but then also defend it when other teams threaten to protest. We dislike ourselves, our city, our team insofar as nobody else agrees. If anyone else dislikes us, then we unite in our disdain for them.
But nothing epitomizes this better than the fallout of this past offseason. For the uninitiated, the abridged version: Rogers, the corporation that owns the Blue Jays, had tried for a couple of seasons to replace team president, Paul Beeston. It's worth noting that, when this process began nearly two years prior, Rogers contacted Kenny Williams about potentially taking over as Beeston's replacement. That news went up to White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who just so happened to be Beeston's best friend in all of baseball. As a result, Beeston – the Blue Jays' first employee – found out for the first time that his bosses were trying to replace him from somebody outside the organization.
Last August 31, it was made official that Mark Shapiro would be taking over the role of team president. By this time, the Blue Jays had rocketed to first place. Somewhat hilariously, David Price was actually dinged with the 'L' that evening against Shapiro's old team, the Cleveland Indians. After the move was announced, there was a lot of speculation about what may have happened behind closed doors after the move. There was one report that Shapiro scolded Alex Anthopoulos for trading so many top prospects. Regardless of the 'how' it happened, it all culminated in Anthopoulos deciding to turn down a contract extension to stay on as general manager. To be clear, that's all we know. Shapiro got hired; Anthopoulos left. Maybe if Shapiro didn't get hired, the Blue Jays would still have Anthopoulos. Maybe he would be in Los Angeles regardless. Whichever parts of the story seem to piece together for you are, predominantly, irrelevant.
All we have are optics. And we have a specifically strange lens through which to look. The day Anthopoulos announced he was stepping away from the Blue Jays, was the same day The Sporting News announced that he had been named MLB's Executive of the Year. Obviously, that was less than desirable. 'We' had our 'guy' and he turned out to be the best in the league for one year and now he's gone because some other guy may or may not have been able to work with him amicably.
Conversely however, our 'guy' did trade away a lot of top prospects. And while it brought the Blue Jays a division title – the goal of all executives – if Shapiro did in fact bring that up in a meeting, it wouldn't have been fallacious. And don't forget, Anthopoulos also traded away Noah Syndergaard and Travis d'Arnaud – the New York Mets battery for game 3 of the World Series.
The fact is, some Canadians will choose not to like Shapiro. Even further, some may choose to actively dislike Shapiro – to request his dismissal. And they need to know how weird that is, and how distinctly Canadian it is; to dislike a man because he isn't named 'Anthopoulos.' If you Google search 'fire' with any other MLB executive's name – even the seemingly bad ones – you won't find a petition for their dismissal.
Nobody outside of team ownership really knows what makes an above average MLB executive, just as they don't know what truly happened that caused Anthopoulos' to depart. Now that the dust has settled, I'd be willing to bet it has more to do with upward mobility than anything else. There is nothing that makes Shapiro measurably worse than Beeston. There is nothing any fan can point out that makes Ross Atkins more or less qualified than Anthopoulos.
Even when things are going well in Toronto, we will find ways to gripe. So don't pretend that Anthopoulos should be sainted. And don't pretend that Shapiro and Atkins are Satan and Mephistopheles. It defies logic to look at the Blue Jays roster – which is still excellent – and grumble about the team's upper management.
My only solace is that, the next time anyone located beneath the 49th parallel takes issue with our infield – which is dirt now – or our MVP or our ability to catch foul balls, I know that we'll unite in our ire against those foes. Similarly, if this team goes on to win for the next few years, Shapiro and Atkins will have helped that happen. There is, then, a conceivable way that both Shapiro and Atkins become very well-liked executives in this city; this country. So maybe we should appreciate what we have. Maybe we should embrace what makes us different; some of us just need better ways to express it.
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Falling in love with a book is a wonderful sensation. That first flush of connection, that giddiness every time I pick it up and spend more time with it, that high tinged with bittersweet once I finish it and know it's over. I fell hard for this book. Here's what I knew about it going in: it had 80s and 90s pop culture references and fans of Rainbow Rowell would love it. That's it. I didn't even really know what it was about. Actually, reading the synopsis doesn't do it justice.
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She Drunk A Cup Of Baking Soda Daily, After A Month Her Body Was Unrecognizable
You probably have at least one box of baking soda in your home right now.
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Baking soda has endless beneficial uses, from baking goods to medical and beauty purposes. Furthermore, the combination of baking soda and water can help you solve many everyday issues.
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EFI™ has just unveiled the EFI Cretaprint® C3 printer with the Fiery® proServer for Cretaprint, the world's first digital front end dedicated for the growing ceramic imaging market. The multipurpose digital ceramic decoration printer has taken five years of research and development work which included a significant amount of customer feedback from this market sector.
The first EFI Cretaprint C3 press was installed at El Barco Spain which specialises in decorative tiles. "EFI Cretaprint's next-generation C3 inkjet press gives us the highest quality ceramic printing experience available," said Jose Carlos Fernandez, chief technology officer at El Barco. "With more intense colours, more flexibility, higher yield, and a great user interface, this latest inkjet technology helps our business be more productive, more profitable, and helps us grow by exceeding the expectations of our customers."
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The Cretaprint C3 features a single chassis able to accommodate up to eight print bars, which are easy to access due to a new slide-bar design, and can be independently configured for printing and special decoration effects. The multipurpose system offers over 1,000 customisable settings, from print width and speed to printer direction and ink discharge, and allows working with different print heads in the same machine - some for printing and others with stronger ink discharge to apply special decoration effects. Of particular note is its compact design and footprint which EFI say allows it to be easily incorporated into an existing ceramic tile production line. Visit http://youtu.be/yHHeabm84Usfor a video overview.
EFI's Cretaprint C3 comes with an optional Fiery proServer, which the company maintains is the first dedicated colour management solution for the ceramic market enabling predictable, controllable and automated results. It added that the workflow reduces waste, increases productivity, and boosts profitability through measurement-based processes that eliminate the trial-and-error approach to colour management.
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Goodbye to the myth of Iran's "Mad Mullahs"?
Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
After years of portraying Iran's leaders as irrational actors driven by religious zeal, American neo-conservatives and their Israeli allies appear to be shelving the "mad mullah" argument used to underline the danger of Iran getting nuclear weapons. The mullahs are now seen as shrewd calculators of risk.
The change of tone was reflected in a report on Iran and the bomb by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Washington-based conservative think tank whose hawkish views influenced the decision-making on going to war in Iraq.
The report, published this week, is based on the assumption that sanctions and sabotage will fail and Iran will have a nuclear weapon by the time the next U.S. president takes office in 2013.
And how, according to AEI, has Iran behaved on the road to the nuclear club? "There is a clear pattern … Far from being hothead provocateurs, Iran's leaders – including both Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei and President (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad – often play a shrewd, long game … The nuclear program is a case in point. Each escalation – conversion, enrichment, installation of advanced centrifuges, higher enrichment – has been dribbled out."
"Iranian leaders have rarely been willing to provoke a crisis merely to shift the ground inexorably toward a particular goal. Nor is this an aberration. Historically, the Islamic Republic has handled trouble well and it has often emerged with its goals achieved at the end of each crisis." In a passage on Afghanistan, the study notes that "Iran has pursued a pragmatic, cautious policy to exert influence."
Shrewd, cautious pragmatists? That's a long way from a string of assertions by American hawks and Israeli leaders that Iran was working on a nuclear bomb with the express purpose of dropping it on Israel, in the full knowledge that doing so would be tantamount to national suicide given Israel's unacknowledged nuclear arsenal and second-strike capability. Irrational behavior taken to extremes.
The loudest warnings have come from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who told a meeting of American Jews in 2006, when he was still leader of the Likud opposition, that "It's 1938 (the year before World War II began) and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs (and) is preparing another holocaust for the Jewish people."
The real concern, as the AEI report makes clear, is not that Iran would attack Israel but that a nuclear-armed Iran would profoundly change the balance of power in the Persian Gulf and the greater Middle East. That is "the real prize," in the words of Thomas Donnelly, one of the authors of the report. It stresses that U.S. national security strategy for the past six decades has rested on the premise that for the United States, the Middle East is a critical region that must not be dominated by a hostile hegemon.
Containing a nuclear Iran the way the United States contained the Soviet Union during the Cold War would be difficult and costly, according to the report, and require more U.S. troops in the region than there are now.
Aspiring to domination is a perfectly rational aim for Iran, the most populous country in the region (78 million) and achieving that aim has been brought closer by U.S. policies – first by knocking out Iran's main rival, Iraq, and then by handing over Iraq to a government run by a prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, who is much closer to Tehran than to Washington.
How to deny the prize of regional dominance to Iran, with or without nuclear weapons, is a problem whose solution has so far eluded the United States, its western allies and Israel. Ever tightening sanctions for the better part of a quarter century have failed to curb Iran's ambitions. So has, more recently, a covert campaign of sabotage and assassinations.
How close Iran is to getting a bomb, or the capability to build one at short notice, has long been a matter of dispute between experts. Warnings of an imminent nuclear "breakout" go back to 1984. In the latest round of the nuclear guessing game, the shortest time line is six months, forecast this week by the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
Part of the uncertainty stems from the fact that Iran, which denies working on nuclear weapons, has mimicked the way Israel went about building its own nuclear arsenal in the 1960s, with a mixture of secrecy, denial and ambiguity. It is also uncertain whether there has been a political decision by Ayatollah Khameini to go ahead and make a bomb.
"The United States and the international community are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," President Barack Obama has said repeatedly, calling a nuclear-armed Iran "unacceptable." That goes along with the assertion that "all options are on the table," short-hand for a preventive military strike on nuclear installations.
It's a message that would have more weight if it were not complemented by public comments about the inadvisability of military action. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, for example, laid out in detail this month why he thought that an attack would do no more than set back the nuclear program for a year or two but result in a conflagration that would consume the Middle East.
His reasoning is sound but it results in a mixed signal from Washington. At times, silence is golden.
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The most likely use Iran will make of its new nuclear capability would be not to start a nuclear war but rather to carefully provide a nuclear umbrella to its allies Hezbollah and Hamas.
This sounds cautious and pragmatic, but in reality Hezbollah and Hamas are already able to fire missiles into downtown Tel Aviv and in the case of Hezbollah these missiles are quite heavy. So this situation will be unacceptable to Israel thus excluding a peaceful outcome.
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Iran will have nuclear weapons technology thanks in part to bomb plans provided to the former Shah's goverment courtesy of the Eisenhower Administration. And Iran now has the means of developing advanced stealth drone delivery technology obtained through that nation's advanced Keylogger virus technology.
As for the US, it can only lay claim to a feeble Stuxnet virus, and corrupted weapons development contracting system, and a congress too distracted with winning back the White House to be bothered with the real world.
"a covert campaign of sabotage and assassinations."
By governments that claim they are respecters of human rights and adhere to the rule of law and legal process.
I remember that China built the A and H bombs when they were still overtly hostile to western capitalism but about a decade before the rhetoric got even nastier during the Cultural Revolution. But I don't recall that there were any assassinations of leading Chinese or even Russian scientists who were suspected of working on either country's nuclear programs.
Are the "operatives" who do the new dirty work people who loved spy novels and the thrill of the chase? Or are they crazier and less responsible than they were over 50 years ago?
The way the Security Council is structured; having the bomb(s) gets the large countries the veto power. About 230 countries would like that system changed.
Iran wouldn't have achieved anything without the assistance of the us indirectly so quit the bullshit , and if you say Iran is so bad why are you supporting its followers in Bahrain who are trying to create an islamic repablic that follows and belongs and financed by the Iranian regiem and why are you not doing anything to the Syrian regime who is killing his people on daily basis with the help and assistance of all the evil regiems in the middle east (Iran – hizbulla – muqtada alsadar of Iraqi shiaat militia , while you take the excuse of democracy in Bahrain – i would ask you to compare the damage caused by alwefaq group who follow the radicals iranian mullahs the bahraini people socially , economicly , and the greave they put us in by closing roads , burning tyres on the highway , threatning people and attacking sunnis and sunni mousques ,why are you still supporting them , have you watched the vedios of thier subotage on youtube ,instead of praising alwefaq who are the arm of hizbulla in bahrain , go and save the helpless people who have been butchered for the past 8 months
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Iran will be around in 50 years no matter what. Persia has been around for 3000 years. Israel on the other hand is symbolic cross roads that has changed hands many many times. Unlike other historical powers in the area it's culture does not derive from an area of intense agricultural output (usually the hallmark of centuries old civilizations that maintain increasing population) but through human capital and trade.
Therefore it will always be Israel that will be at risk compared to Egypt, Iraq or Iran. You might beat them once but they will still be there.
So whatever is done should be done for a long term goal. Attack Iran now and you actually get the population to hate Israel and become a much worse problem in 30 years. Right now, traveling around Iran I can tell you one thing for sure – the average Iranian does not like Israel but they certainly dont have enough energy to hate them or do away with their country.
the clock is ticking for Iran
"Goodbye to the myth of Iran's 'Mad Mullahs."
Hello to the reality of it. No disrespect, but come on. You call yourself a "Grand Ayatollah" and it pretty much becomes the duty of normal people to take you down a notch. So here it is: Anyone calling himself "Grand" or "Supreme"….. or letting other people say it for him…. is a blasphemous idiot.
The "mad mullah" theory was stress tested 30 years ago when the Revolution was at its bloodiest period and Saddam Hussein launched a massive unprovoked attack on Iran, with active support, or at least benign neutrality, of the rest of the world. Rats are at their most insane when they are backed into a corner, yet Iran's leaders exhibited almost supernaturally cool decisionmaking throughout the course of the 20th century's longest hot war, an existential conflict for Iran. Despite having its tankers and main oil terminal attacked by freshly acquired French jets and missiles, despite having one of its civilian flights shot down by the US Navy, despite having its infantry subjected to poison gas (to the eerie silence of world opinion), Iran never resorted to the "mad mullah" options at its disposal: closing off Hormuz, responding with its own poison gas, 9/11-styled stunts, etc. Subsequent events–Saddam's desperate invasion of Kuwait as he turned his fangs on his Gulf paymasters, ten years of Iraqi sanctions and no-fly zones, and then his final humiliating removal at the hands of the US–all served to vindicate the coolheaded patience of Iran's rulers. The "mad mullah" brand was always intended for the consumption of those ignorant of recent Persian Gulf history.
Hillary will claim that this is a provocation for war, because Iran has a US military radio controlled air plane. Ironically it was captured in Iranian territory. What is up with the US wagging covert war all over the middle east? Maybe all the killing and destruction to innocent people in the middle east turns Americans on, sure isn't saving the economy. I wish the US would make a peaceful foreign policy before provocation of WW3.
"The "mad mullah" brand was always intended for the consumption of those ignorant of recent Persian Gulf history"
Yes, 99.9% of Americans.
The image of Iran perpetuated in the main stream media is a desert wasteland populated by savages.
Textbook propaganda from the playbook of Goebbels.
Never give the enemy a human face.
The average Joe might think twice before calling for Iran to be "nuked back to the stone age" or "turned into a glass car park" if he realized the modern Iranian lives a life very similar to his own.
So, to follow Benjamin Netanyahu's logic (2006=1938) we are now in 1944. Just a few months more and the war will be over. Reconstruction will begin. One hopes that it will include the reconstruction of damaged minds.
When you have the NYT claiming unequivocally, even after re-examination of the evidence [wikipedia: wipe off the map], that Ahmadinejad wished to wipe Israel off the face of the map, that is, nuke it, you know that they are simply liars, just as in the lead up to the Iraq war. Just evil, unfeeling, detached purveyors of war. After that, you can't believe any critical information concerning the ME which NYT provides. Most of their opinion, and even news writers, are just propagandists, evidently in service of the Israeli enterprise.
Regarding Panetta: "His reasoning is sound but it results in a mixed signal from Washington. At times, silence is golden." Actually, Panetta's cautions to Israel against bombing Iran, suggest to me that Israel, and its supporters, have become so insane with their own propaganda, that they are actually seriously thinking of carrying out this possibly world war/world depression provoking attack. That possibly being the case, it is best, to put it mildly, that Panetta speak up.
I was reading some specialists article, he was advising like "do not wait hit nuclear weapon over Iran, then all problems will be disappear within so short." here is similar type columnist advising (almost!) " more recently, a covert campaign of sabotage and assassinations." The problem is US and allied are thinking one sided, But I don't think they are so unwise. This is not human rights or anything else just business of US and allied to protect their Establishment in Mid-east for long run. whatever, this is very good topic to observe as a observers, how every parties handle time.
Your r right!!!!!!
The so Called "Mad Mullah" by Western media, That "Mad Mullah & Army", is enough to retaliate any awkward action from USA & Puppet European Allies ruler under the Influence of Zionist, The Best Instance we know "US DRONE CAPTURE BY THE IRANIAN FORCES",The Myth of Mullah are not going to end, They will rule the entire world………………
A nuclear Iran – if we are to abide by post Cold War era thinking, the world would have been a better world today. Sadly, the reality is otherwise.
The US is the most powerful nation on earth – no serious challenger can come close. Fringe players like Iran and North Korea take upon themselves, to chisel at the fringe. You may want to disagree on their right to so do, but fact is, with tenacity and cool calculations, they have chiselled and about to arm themselves with nuclear capabilities. The doctrine of containment used in the last decades failed.
Essentially, there was no resolve and gross miscalculations on the part of the US – it has underestimated its own ability to strike. US failure is Iran's and North Korea's gain – that's the maths of defense detente. Its a weakness that the Ayatollahs have calculated extremely precise and Iran's progam, is irreversible. The world will have to live with this fact and stop believing Iran is that stupid. If it can land a US R170 Sentinel, then I think, the US is being stupid in allowing this to happen – there is no margin for error in the business of stealth. The Ayatollahs being astute mathematicians, have proven they can calculate.
I am still amazed at the arguments of the Israel and America regarding a nuclear armed Iran. That the world isn't safe with a nuclear armed Iran, but the historical facts show that it is a nuclear armed America that keeps the world unsafe. America is the only nation that has actually used nuclear weapons on INNOCENT PEOPLE. The US has over 20,000 nuclear warheads, but are striking up a fear campaign against a peaceful nation. War mongers. Here we go again. I say that the Nobel Peace prize should be revoked from Pres Obama, because it's now obvious that he is no better than Pres Bush
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The rhetoric US and Israel have had and continue to have is to serve the interests of xenophobic Israel.
There are better ways to live in peace than biblical destruction of all and every might-be-enemies.
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Debusmann's definition of sanity is laughable. The Mad Mullahs are "mad". Is it sane to repeatedly threaten to murder the entire Jewish population of Israel? The President of Iran admits he has had hallucinations telling him the "Mahdi" will return very soon. Reuter's has clearly shows their anti-Israel bias. All the Jew haters who minimized Iran's threats in their comments only show their hatred clouds their rationality as does the author. They act as if the very insane President of Iran has never threatened to wipe out the "Zionist" entity. To the Jew haters, threats of genocide are acceptable when they are made against Jews.Iran has murdered innocent Jews in other countries such as Argentina. But it is not 1939 and the Jews will not suffer the same fate which occurred at the hands of the author's countrymen during WW II. They have their own country, 300-400 nukes and the second best ground forces and Air Force in the world. Albert Einstein told David Ben Gurion Israel must have nuclear weapons and never sign the nuclear non proliferation pact which would eventually result in Israel losing the protection of their nuclear weapons. He knew the Jewish people must always be able to defeat any enemy or face extinction. The comments made here prove him correct.
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Thomas Charles Connors will be officially remembered tonight in Peterborough, Ont., where he was dubbed "Stompin' Tom" in 1967. And for all the tributes that have poured in since his passing a week ago, it is not clear that Canadians fully appreciate what they have lost. At the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the Maple Leafs honoured Mr. Connors with a scoreboard tribute and the playing of "The Hockey Song. There was, at best, polite applause.
In a way, it's understandable: For many Canadians who grew up in the 1980s and later — especially if they grew up in the big city — Mr. Connors might seem like a novelty act, with his goofy lyrics, unabashed nationalism and cowboy hat. Many may only have heard The Hockey Song or Sudbury Saturday Night (not that these wouldn't have made him a legend on their own).
But that persona wasn't shtick. Stompin' Tom was one of the great Canadian story-tellers, and a uniquely collegial one as well. The proper venue for a Gordon Lightfoot performance is a concert hall, where the audience connects silently and contemplatively. The proper venue for Mr. Connors was a smoky bar room where people connected by slamming their beer mugs together, hopefully obliterating whatever differences existed between them.
The pan-Canadian stories Mr. Connors told, and the characters he created, are part of a small but important artistic canon that binds together the towns, cities and landscapes across Canada into a manageable collective mythology: The hospitality and bemused good cheer Reggie and Margie encounter as they haul their cow from the hinterlands to Toronto in hopes of selling its droppings; the herculean feats of Big Joe Mufferaw; the back-breaking labour of tobacco-picking; the 1972 bush plane crash in the Northwest Territories and the heroism of 14-year-old David Kootook; and the simple act of carting another big load o' potatoes from Prince Edward Island to market.
He sang of a nation without politics, to its proud history, and to its better angels. His songs remind us that Canada matters — that we've built something amazing here, and must not take it for granted.
Musician and National Post contributor Dave Bidini put it nicely in his 1998 book, On a Cold Road: "To a 22-year-old kid unsure of his character, Tom's voice — a hoser's cocktail of Hank Williams and Popeye — was a reminder that I wasn't born yesterday, and that I lived somewhere, too."
Stompin' Tom is gone. But the Gumboot Cloggeroo will live on forever, thank goodness, through our speakers.


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In this floating monstrosity tiny pieces of plastic are floating about with an array of larger discards. Filter feeder fish, such as jelly fish, take these plastics into their systems. Well, we all know how the food chain works. Big fish eats little fish, which is then eaten by a bigger fish, and another until it makes it on our dining room table.
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Until yesterday I didn't know Felix Bühler but their clothing collections are gorgeous. All the pieces are very simple but the colors and the discrete details make them stand out!
There is another thing that caught my attention: the prices! Everything seems to have a great quality, their design is super stylish and...the products are affordable!
Here are my favourites:
Can you guess the price? Ok, I am shocked, it costs about 60€! Why didn't I find this brand sooner?!
Different colours, same price! Love the pink detail, can you tell I am really girly? :)
You can't see but the buttons are made of strass. My favourite is the navy one.
I love this jacket! I mean, don't get me wrong, I hate Winter but the jacket could make the difference... :) I think the first and the third could be mine!
5. Clara Sweat
Another love, I could have one of each colour without any problem! This jacket isn't as useful as the previous one though.
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Late to the early 2017 new hero train is better than never, and today Stunlock announced plans for a new melee hero: Raigon.
|On Wednesday 15th February, Stunlock Studios releases an additional new champion to their popular arena brawler, Battlerite. Raigon is a flexible melee character, skilled in two-handed swordsmanship and martial arts. He was a well-respected figure among the kingdom's warriors, until he was exiled due to the manipulations of Pestilus. For now, the arena serves as a decent place to find work and set the wheels in motion for his retaliation.
Also, mark your calendars for the biggest Battlerite tournament to date, Enter the Arena, with qualifiers on Feb. 19th and a tournament the weekend of Feb. 25th:
"Enter The Arena is the perfect event for kicking off the competitive scene and showing off the game's potential in Esports. We're hoping to not only offer an entertaining broadcast, but to also introduce the game's intricacies to fresh audiences, newer players as well as esports fans." says Alexander Hermansson, Head of Esports at Stunlock Studios.
Onslaught eSports recently announced the signing of a currently top-ranked Battlerite squad who will compete in "Enter The Arena" under the Onslaught banner. The team members Connor "Averse" Shacklady, Alvin "Ninjas" Xu and Dominic "Arakune" Valentino are all on the global top-10 ranking, with Averse set as the best individual Battlerite player in the world. Here is an overview of all the invited teams:
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I've never been to a better concert! Neko was everything I thought she would be and more. First Avenue was packed. Neko came on stage and the crowd went wild. She has an awesome band most of whom are Canadian. Her steel guitar/banjo player is from AZ and he was incredibly talented. Her on stage performance sounds just like her albums - that is the amazing thing. Many performers that you see live lack the talent to sound right on stage but not Neko, her voice is as crisp and clear and genuine as you hear it on her CDs. "I'll Be Around" sounded amazing live, it was the last song she did and left me with goosebumps.
I have great admiration for her. She promotes animal adoption and visited the Minneapolis Humane Society while she was here. In between songs she spoke of various cats and dogs that were up for adoption, dedicating her songs to each of them and she went.
Neko reminds me a lot of a variety of other woman singers of the '40's -'60's. Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson, and Peggy Lee were woman in charge with sultry voices.
"Is That All There Is" is one of my favorite Peggy Lee songs. Check out this psychedelic video probably from the '60's.
Now, my good friend The Potter has been having people vote on singers and actors. It seems to be a very effective tool to get people to comment on your blog. I will do the same and see what happens.
So, who would you pick from the gals of the past...Peggy Lee or Patsy Cline. I'll just go with those two and see what we get. Have FUN!
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Educating with the Heart of Don Bosco
ALAFUA: 8th February — As part of their Staff Conference to commence the 2010 school year the staff of Don Bosco Technical Centre, Alafua, Samoa, spent time coming to know Don Bosco and his Preventive System more deeply and reflecting on their role as Salesian Educators. The event took place towards the end of January.
Fr Bernie Graham sdb, Delegate for Youth Ministry for the Australia-Pacific province, provided input and led the reflection process over three extended sessions, one each day, under the theme "Educating with the Heart of Don Bosco". The three sessions were:
1. Don Bosco and the Preventive System
2. The Preventive System and the Gospels
3. A Salesian Educational Vision for Samoa
The conference also included the Celebration of Eucharist each day and Morning and Evening Prayer utilising the beauties of both the Samoan and English languages and styles of liturgy.
About 25 staff participated in the seminar including Fr Petelo Vito Pau sdb, Rector and Principal, Sr Monika Viapuna RNDM, Deputy Principal, and Salesians on staff, Frs Sefo Mulipola, Falani Felise and Aleki Piula.
The staff were encouraged and challenged to begin interpreting the Preventive System and Don Bosco's vision for the education and evangelisation of the young into the Samoan culture and context and into the specific context of the Technical Centre.


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The Pantomime - The Life of a Hotel Doctor
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"Ah! El Medico! Buenos dias!"
I entered the room and listened as she explained her problem in Spanish. Most Latin Americans speak enough English to get along; in any case they travel in groups, and there's usually someone to interpret.
"It sounds like you have a cough. What are your other symptoms?...."
She waved her hand to indicate noncomprehension and continued her recital. She was elderly and alone, a bad sign. Most people hate to stumble along in a foreign language. If I'm patient they often reveal some facility, but this lady stuck to Spanish, performing the usual pantomime, pointing to her throat and head, waving a bottle of medication under my nose.
"How many days have you been sick….?"
Another wave. What to do…. I could call her travel insurer, but interpreting over the phone is tedious. I could phone the front desk. The clerk would cheerfully agree to send up a Spanish-speaking employee, but he or she might not appear for fifteen minutes or half an hour if at all. I looked out the door, hoping to spy a housekeeper but no luck.
My spirits rose when a middle-aged lady arrived, but she merely joined the pantomime, tapping various parts of her companion's body. Finally, an adolescent girl appeared. She had undoubtedly paid little attention during English class but had no objection to trying her hand. Her English was terrible but good enough for my purposes, and everything worked out.
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Five Surefire Ways to Make Your Enterprise DevOps Initiative Fail Miserably
By Dalibor Siroky
2014 was the year that DevOps arrived in large enterprises, and we're seeing several large corporations moving to more agile software delivery and more frequent releases. We've helped many companies move toward DevOps practices using Plutora to provide necessary transparency to manage risk and track agile software development efforts, and over the past few years we've come to understand what makes a DevOps initiative succeed and what makes it fail.
In this post we focus on some of the factors that can contribute to a failed DevOps initiative - a DevOps initiative that often ends up being either abandoned or one that ultimately ends up recreating the same messy bureaucracy it was supposed to replace.
Failure #1: Fail to define what DevOps means to your organization
The term DevOps is not well defined, and you'd be hard pressed to get the same definition of "DevOps" from everyone you ask in your enterprise. Developers in your organization may equate DevOps with a specific approach to software builds and the use of popular tools such as Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Git, and Docker. IT management might see DevOps as a continuation of existing processes with an emphasis on faster time to market and lightweight release procedures.
Without a common definition of the term you'll have teams arguing over what is DevOps and what is not DevOps. If your software releases still involve the use of a change management tool such as BMC's Remedy is it really DevOps? If the build takes an hour to deploy a QA build is it really DevOps? The reality of Enterprise DevOps is that every organization's answers to these question will vary. Enterprise DevOps is compromise between self-service, rapid-fire agility and the ability to manage the risks that accompany mission-critical builds.
Some of our customers are launching rockets and running economies, "DevOps" means something very different to these clients than it means to a startup.
Before you start introducing technology and process under a DevOps initiative make sure to define a baseline for your DevOps initiative:
- What is your definition of DevOps?
- What are you trying to accomplish? And, most importantly,
- Where do you draw the boundaries between DevOps and more structured approaches to IT service management.
Fail to do this and you'll see teams arguing over what DevOps "is."
Failure #2: Focus on tools and techniques, forget about people.
The mistake many enterprises make is to elevate technology as the primary driver of DevOps at the expense of some of the difficult yet necessary processes that ensure that quality software that meets customer expectations. It isn't enough to hire a few release engineers, give them a bunch of VMs, and permission to install Jenkins and Puppet. You can't just hire a bunch of "DevOps People" put them in a room and step away expecting them to work "Magic" and make everything more efficient.
Instead what you need to ensure in any DevOps initiative is that you are taking human-driven processes in account. You need to align any existing teams such a quality assurance and release management with DevOps initiatives to avoid the common mistake of failing to adapt an existing enterprise release management process to a new approach to software delivery and service management.
You can always create more environments by throwing servers at the problem, but it's unrealistic to expect your teams to scale overnight. Occasionally, your QA team needs to sleep.
We've seen a number of companies adopt DevOps, move to faster, more frequent releases driven by the needs of individual projects only to realize that an increase cadence of software delivery can lead to QA and release management burnout. If you are introducing more automation to speed time to market make sure you also think of the impact any DevOps initiative is going to have on people.
Failure #3: Ignore governance entirely.
A lot of the rhetoric in favor of DevOps is rooted in the idea that developers need to take a proactive approach to "route around" change-averse administrators. DevOps in the enterprise tends to emerge from one or two group deciding to stage a revolution against an ineffective IT organization, and a number of us have participated in these transitions over the last decade. You work for a company that has huge system, intractable releases that take months, and, eventually, you just lose patience with the process and one or two teams decide that they are going to break the mold and move quickly.
The first DevOps were breaking the rules by design. They were comprised of independent teams "free to innovate" outside of centralized IT structures. This approach works in smaller startups, but it is a non-starter in most enterprises.
An enterprise without common standards for software architecture, release management, and environment management isn't an enterprise at all - it's an awful mess.
An organization with dozens of independent teams creating novel continuous deployment pipelines sounds good in a work of DevOps fiction, but it never works in practice. When we work with the largest companies in the industry they want to enable teams to work faster, but they also understand that DevOps isn't about reducing the number of governance gates. On the contrary, if anything DevOps enables more effective, more frequent governance gates if you use a tool like Plutora to shine a light on complex release orchestration challenges.
Failure #4: Fail to account for risk.
More frequent releases, self-service provisioning of infrastructure, infrastructure automation, continuous delivery pipelines: all of these common factors of DevOps initiatives lead to faster time to market, but at the tail end of a release process the business risks remain unchanged. Changes to production facing systems still require rigorous change management and when multiple teams feel empowered to push to production every weeks (or every day) you still need some release management function tracking conflicts and risk.
Many companies dive head first into DevOps without a full understanding of how DevOps will affect risks associated with software releases. When a company transitions from a slower, ITIL-focused process to a more agile, DevOps-focused reality release managers are often expected to "wing it" toward the end of the release cycle. They are asked to put governance gates atop a fast moving, constantly evolving process that is driven by development teams eager to release.
When organizations adopt DevOps they often lose the built-in "checks and balances" that came with ITIL. Software can be delivered faster, but the enterprise still require governance gates.
With Plutora you can let application development teams move quickly, you can allow teams to conduct multiple simultaneous release, and at the tail end of the process you can integrate with existing ITIL tools that operations expects to have in place to track and manage risk. If you just throw developers at your production servers you'll learn first-hand how reliable production is when no one factors risk in decisions about production.
Failure #5: Run DevOps without metrics.
DevOps teams start out very eager to make large changes to an enterprise's infrastructure and release process, but they also tend to bite off a bit more than they can chew. The smart enterprise understands that no initiative can interfere with ongoing software development and release management and they will manage the slow transition to DevOps tools and techniques over several quarters. While you DevOps teams will want to reinvent your release process overnight you release and IT managers should define metrics to evaluate whether DevOps initiatives are a success.
Enterprises expect to see hard data to back up staffing and infrastructure decisions. If you are invested in the success of a DevOps initiative make sure that you are collecting statistics that justify your investment.
If you stand up a DevOps team ask them to define roles and responsibilities. Hold them accountable for bringing greater efficiency to the organization. Regularly check in with developers and system administrators not on the team and objectively assess the results. Keep track of release and environment metrics with Plutora for teams that are involved with DevOps and teams not involved with DevOps and use the data Plutora provides to make informed decisions to dial up or dial down particular initiatives from your DevOps teams.
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GRIMMELSHAUSEN, HANS JAKOB CHRISTOFFEL VON (c. 1625-1676), German author, was born at Gelnhausen in or about 1625. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War. At its close, Grimmelshausen entered the service of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, bishop of Strassburg and in 1665 was made Schultheiss (magistrate) at Renchen in Baden. On obtaining this appointment, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and in 1669 published Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens eines seltsamen Vaganten, genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim, the greatest German novel of the 17th century. For this work he took as his model the picaresque romances of Spain, already to some extent known in Germany. Simplicissimus is in great measure its author's autobiography; he begins with the childhood of his hero, and describes the latter's adventures amid the stirring scenes of the Thirty Years' War. The realistic detail with which these pictures are presented makes the book one of the most valuable documents of its time. In the later parts Grimmelshausen, however, over-indulges in allegory, and finally loses himself in a Robinson Crusoe story. Among his other works the most important are the so-called Simplicianische Schriften: Die Erzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche (c. 1669); Der seltsame Springinsfeld (1670) and Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest (1672). His satires, such as Der teutsche Michel (1670), and "gallant" novels, like Dietwald und Amelinde (1670) are of inferior interest. He died at Renchen on the 17th of August 1676, where a monument was erected to him in 1879.
been published by A. von Keller (1854), H. Kurz (1863-1864), J. Tittmann (1877) and F. Bobertag (1882). A reprint of the first edition of the novel was edited by R. Kögel for the series of Neudrucke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (1880). See the introductions to these editions; also F. Antoine, Étude sur le Simplicissimus de Grimmelshausen(1882) and E. Schmidt in his Charakteristiken, vol. i. (1886).


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Ask any financial expert and they'll tell you that the one financial habit that always works like a charm is saving money. If you know how to save consistently, you're on track to financial success. Most, if not all, multi-millionaires have mastered the art of saving. So if you want to follow in their footsteps, it's time, no matter your age or financial circumstance, to start saving today.
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If you want to get out of debt, you'd want to start saving money first. You need to have that emergency fund handy for emergencies. Otherwise, you'll only end up in more debt. You'll only keep using you credit cards for emergencies unless you have savings allotted especially for unexpected expenses. Once you have sufficient cash stashed away, that's when you can start strategizing the getting out of debt plan.
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If you want to buy your first home, you will need sufficient savings for your down payment. This is another important reason why saving really is the best financial habit to master. Unless you have sufficient savings on hand, the bank will never lend you money so you can buy your first home. In general, you need to save at least 5% of the home's purchase price so your bank can lend you the rest of the money to complete the transaction.
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If you're also planning to buy a new car, the same thing applies as with buying a home. You need sufficient savings for the down payment so the bank can shoulder the rest. Without any money saved, you'll have no other choice but purchase the car with cash. But then again, since you don't have any savings, how can you possibly afford to pay in cash?
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Do you want that weekend getaway to a tropical island? Then you should start saving now. Saving money is not all serious and hard work. Once you're free of debt and has enough savings for emergencies, you can set aside some of your money for fun. After all the hard work, you've definitely earned to have a little or make that a lot of fun.


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While American Chinese food generally tends to revolve around four or five generic dish preparations — sweet and sour, sesame, stir-fried, etc. — there is, in fact, a robust and delicious variety of foods from the Middle Kingdom.
In honor of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse), we present you with a couple of menu items you've probably overlooked but should be ordering.
Since some of these items are a little off the beaten path and might not be on every menu, we provided the Chinese name and characters as well as the English name, so you can show your favorite local spot that you are in the know.
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It was a few weeks ago that I stole a few minutes out of my busy time and visited the Louis Vuitton boutique at Harrods to have my Sarah Damier Ebene canvas wallet monogrammed with my Greek initials. This is one of my favorite boutiques in the store as I always receive exceptional service (and it is not because I am lovely - which I am by the way, the people who work there are really great!).
Once the question came down to which color I will choose for my initials how could I not choose green? Sometimes I am a bit excessive with the color I have to admit. A few weeks ago, I was walking down Kings Road on my way to Saatchi Gallery and I was spotted carrying a green bag, wearing a green coat and my "I will be there for you" green pair of glasses. Ooops!
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I started this blog in March of 2011, right around the time of the earthquakes and tsunami in Northern Japan, and posted the photo below of how a tsunami — originating 5,000 miles away — affected our own local harbors.
The damage to the Santa Cruz harbor reportedly approached $30 million, and damage to wave-battered boats totaled more than $5 million.
It turns out there is a reason why the Santa Cruz harbor suffered damages, and not the Moss Landing or Monterey harbors. Read the recent article by Meghan D. Rosen of the Santa Cruz Sentinel titled Moss Landing marine researchers track tsunami wave heights inside Monterey Bay for more on the tsunami's behavior. Excerpt below:
After a nearly 5,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, the waves from the March 2011 tsunami had shed most of their energy when they approached the Central Coast, but they grew three times in size as they rocked back and forth inside the bay.
"The bay acts like a bathtub," said Laurence Breaker, an oceanographer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. If you push down on one end of the tub, he said, the water sloshes from side to side, and the waves get larger. "That's what happens when tsunami waves enter an enclosed or semi-enclosed body of water – they jostle around."
Because the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor is more enclosed than the Moss Landing or Monterey harbors, tsunami damage in Santa Cruz was the most extensive.
"In Moss Landing and Monterey harbors, there are plenty of places for water to go – like Elkhorn Slough," Breaker said. "But Santa Cruz was different because all the water came in and there was no outlet. So it did a lot of damage."
"It's our fond hope to get to the point where we could warn people exactly when a wave was going to arrive, how large it would be and who would be affected inside of the Bay," Breaker said.
The article is based on research by Laurence Breaker, oceanographer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, along with researchers at the University of Ottawa in Canada and the Naval Research Laboratory in Mississippi. Visit www.tsunamisociety.org for more information.


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Hello and welcome everybody!
I recently received my parcel from my first beauty products swap and I'm so happy about it! The swap was between me and the sweet girl from cookingchinchillas . Check out her blog, she blogs about makeup, nail art, DIY, cooking (along with mouthwatering photos!) and more.
Here's a photo of all the things she sent me
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-Christian Dior No 986, which is an warm tome purple with shimmer
-Erre Due No 195, which is a cool tone purple with kind of metallic finish. I already have this on my nails, swatches to come
-Erre Due exclusive, I don't know the number because the tab is missing but the colour is a brick red
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-lipgloss from trend edition Fairytale in 03 Pixie Dust, which is nude/light pink with multicolour glitter
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-a DIY hand and nail lotion, which I cannot wait to use
-a very pretty summer necklace, I cannot wait to wear this! (summer is not far away!)
Thank you again sooo much for this swap girl, I love all the goodies you sent me!
Swatches and reviews to come...
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A Sense of Place:
Daniel Alarcón on His New Book, At Night We Walk in Circles
Daniel Alarcón says it took him roughly five years to write At Night We Walk in Circles (Riverhead)—it was in 2008 that his protagonist, a young actor named Nelson, walked onto the page and never left. Set in a Latin American country distinctly familiar to Alarcón's native Peru (the writer was born in Lima but moved to the United States when he was a child), the novel tells the story of Nelson's involvement with a revived tour of a politically contentious play called The Idiot President, written by one of Nelson's heroes, Henry Nuñez. Nelson's father has passed away; the woman he loves is living with another man; and his brother lives in the United States. So when the opportunity arrives for Nelson to travel the provinces to revive The Idiot President with Nuñez and his colleague Patalarga, he doesn't hesitate. From there, the story of Nelson unfolds dramatically. Vogue.com caught up with Alarcón the other day.
The Idiot President was performed by a theater troupe named Diciembre. You've said elsewhere it's based on a play by a friend of yours—is that true?
It's based on a play by a friend of mine named Walter Ventocia—he lives in New York. Though I haven't talked in him in awhile. He was a founding member of a theater troupe called Septiembre. His experiences in Septiembre helped create my fictional Diciembre. We share a good friend, a man named Gustavo, and Gustavo and I traveled around the provinces in 1999 for about a month; he told me all kinds of stories about the plays that he had performed in the middle of nowhere. At the time, I had no idea it was going to be part of the novel. But yeah, in the fervor of the seventies and the eighties, that did happen—there was this tradition of people's theater and street theater. I don't know if you're familiar with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, but it's very much like that, except in a more tumultuous context.
It's interesting that your novel is set in a country that is very similar to Peru though it's never explicitly named. Why did you choose to do that?
What's funny—I didn't even notice this until I saw the finished book—but Jon Lee Anderson blurbed my book and he wrote "a group of Peruvian actors," even though the book never says it is Peru. I find it really interesting that no one noticed this—not me, not our copy editor, not the editorial team at Riverhead. It's confusing enough to be interesting. He's not wrong. Of course, it's based on Peru. It's not not Peru. It's also easier to not focus on defining place exactly so that I can focus more on story and molding history as I needed it to be molded. In a way, that nagging sort of doubt about getting it right is averted.
But the idea of Peru is important to you?
Oddly, by rejecting a defined place on the map with a set of borders, it frees you up to create a textured and deeply imagined world. I think place is very important in my work, even more so in my first novel Lost City Radio and War by Candlelight. When I wrote War By Candlelight, there was a guy at a reading I did who was Pakistani, and he said, "I've never been to Lima but it sounds like Karachi." That statement gratified my decision to erase the geographical place, to not call it Lima. There are a lot of shared experiences in these urban centers. It's not even just the global south, you see some Lima in L.A. and New York and Miami and Chicago. It's there.
What does the title, At Night We Walk in Circles, mean?
Literally, it refers to what the men do in the prison yard after dark. Figuratively, it comes from Guy Debord. I read his book The Society of the Spectacle and I felt it had a lot say about Nelson as an actor and as a member of the generation who interprets himself through mediated versions of art. At the end, he's no longer able to see himself as himself. He only understands himself through the spectacle. That's one of the points of Guy Debord's book. The full quote from Debord is, "At night we walk in circles and are consumed by fire." I liked the phrase so much, and I liked having a shout-out to Guy Debord, that I just kept it.
Your character Henry is arrested and accused of terrorism for his play. He spends a few harrowing months in a prison referred to as Collectors. Why did you decide to include this detail?
I stumbled into an invitation to talk about my last book with prison inmates who were incarcerated for terrorism. I was thrilled to have that opportunity. It gave me such a unique perspective. I ended up working with a guy who helped me get into the prisons, including the large prison that Collectors is based on. And it really is that—it's massive, it's overcrowded, it's dangerous and it's self-governed; the inmates run the show. It is its own reality, you know? And I started spending a lot of time there talking to inmates. I taught a workshop there in 2009; I even spent the night inside for a piece I was writing for Harper's. So it was an accident that it ended up in my novel—I hadn't yet been inside the prison when I first starting writing this book. But the more I learned about a place like Collectors, the more I felt that I was able to imagine a world beyond what I could see. In other words, I couldn't have written the book I started. I had to write another book and throw it out, and in the process I've learned so much more.
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Protecting People and Their Pets
Almost a year old, but new to me, was this episode of NPR's Justice Talking program on protecting pets. Always interesting, this particular program features segments from law professor David Favre from Michigan State University's College of law, and many other venerable guests. It's available for download as an mp3 as well.
MORE: I may have sold the episode of JT (which is always worth listening to no matter what the topic) a little short by mentioning that it was from a year ago. There's a great debate between Laura Brown from PETA and Ledy VanKavage from the ASPCA on the merits of breed bans. Given the glut of dog fighting stories to hit the news as of late, the debate about the effectiveness of breed bans is still very timely. Also, there's an interview with Geordie Duckler who heads The Animal Law Practice, a private law practice in Portland, Oregon. JT mentions that it's "one of handful" of animal law boutique firms around the country.
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