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Usually our Amazon Product du Jour is a t-shirt or bumper sticker
containing sentiments
with which I broadly agree. Today is an exception; it's instead
meant to illustrate the mentality described in J.D. Tuccille's
recent Reason article:
Taxes Are Getting Weaponized for Partisan Purposes.
Government agencies and laws have devolved into weapons to be wielded against political opponents in this country. Why wouldn't taxes follow?
Too many Americans promote taxes as a means of hurting people they dislike, putting the raising of revenue as a secondary consideration—or dropping it entirely.
Given the destructive nature of taxation, it's a potentially effective strategy, at least for a while. But it may also totally delegitimize the tax system in the eyes of the people who are supposed to pay the bills.
Democrat-backed proposals are Tuccille's main examples, but Trump's unbaked threats against corporations that don't toe his nationalistic line are mentioned as well.
There was a time when politicians were concerned with equity, right? Making sure that people in similar situations were treated equally? Yeah, that's over.
At National Review, Robert Bryce
Major Problems with a Carbon Tax. What, just three? Well,
they're bad enough:
Proponents claim that a carbon tax would be the most cost-effective way to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. But the carbon tax keeps running aground. There are three big problems with the concept: It would disproportionately hurt low-income consumers, it would inevitably be watered down by special interests, and it would have to be imposed on our trading partners.
As a low-income consumer myself, I'm especially wary of that first one.
Another mental disease on the upswing amongst our political class:
assuming they can deliver advice to companies on how to run their
businesses more wisely. The latest culprits are Senators Chuck
Schumer and Bernie Sanders. At AEI, James Pethokoukis reveals
The new Democratic plan to tell American companies how to invest makes no sense.
In a New York Times op-ed, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders argue that Congress should limit corporate stock buybacks — and maybe dividends, too. And what is the compelling reason for such government intervention? American capitalism is broken — or, rather, still broken. Schumer and Sanders contend that Corporate America — for "decades … obsessed with maximizing only shareholder earnings" — has been putting its cash to use in ways that hurt both workers and the long-term strength of their companies.
As near as I can tell, Chuck has never held a job in the private sector, let alone run an enterprise. Bernie (on the other hand) rattled around with a "variety of jobs": Head Start teacher, psychiatric aide, carpenter, filmmaker, writer. Not exactly CEO-level resumes in either case.
The Schumer/Sanders op-ed (link above) drew some (probably paywalled) attention from the WSJ's James Freeman too. He asks, wistfully: Remember When Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders Loved Business? He concentrates on their dewy-eyed opening paragraphs:
From the mid-20th century until the 1970s, American corporations shared a belief that they had a duty not only to their shareholders but to their workers, their communities and the country that created the economic conditions and legal protections for them to thrive. It created an extremely prosperous America for working people and the broad middle of the country.
But over the past several decades, corporate boardrooms have become obsessed with maximizing only shareholder earnings to the detriment of workers and the long-term strength of their companies, helping to create the worst level of income inequality in decades.
Freeman calls these "perhaps the two least honest paragraphs in American newspapers today". That's a high bar.
In claiming that U.S. corporations have somehow become selfish weapons of mass economic destruction, Messrs. Sanders and Schumer encourage readers to look back to those good old days of the 1960s when American businesses were the engines of broad prosperity. The two men remember those times well, and clearly they were highly impressed. That's why as young men they became stalwart champions of the free enterprise system.
Just kidding. That was the era when Chuck Schumer was becoming active in Harvard's Young Democrats club before volunteering for the left-wing presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Later, after graduating from Harvard's law school, he made a name for himself in the New York state assembly by attacking asphalt companies and commercial real estate operators, among others.
Mr. Sanders for his part kept busy attacking not just particular businesses, but business itself. In the early 1960s he joined the Young People's Socialist League and seems never to have lost that old time non-religion.
Say what you will about Howard Schultz and Mike Bloomberg, but at least they've run something other than their mouths.


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They say music is the best medicine and that's a truth that will be forever told. When this joint popped up on my commute to work this morning, it was an instant lift of life, joy, and overall gratitude. The track "Divine Sorrow" was originally co-written last Winter by Wyclef Jean and Avicii, and later distributed by Bono's (RED) initiative that raises funds to fight AIDS. Let's just say there's nothing better than music for a good cause. Now the fun loving South African duo Goldfish have turned the single it into a beautiful piano driven rendition. What amazes me is that is has barely been picked up and i'm hoping that changes.
Dominic Peters, one half of the duo, remarks that they intended to make an emotional interpretation of the song, "something that did justice to the lyrics and vocals. Even though it has a 4/4 kick, it's beyond just a dance track." And they did just that. Give it a spin and kick off your Tunesday feeling grateful that such beautiful music can come freely into your life and give back so much without asking for anything in return. Except maybe that you go download the track here, all proceeds go towards RED! The world needs more of that. Enjoy!
"Divine Sorrow" By Wyclef Jean Ft. Avicii
(Goldfish Remix)
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INAUGURATION Ceremony of IEEE – Power and Energy Society MUET Chapter
12/02/2013 - 11:57pm
Jamshoro (PR): Inauguration ceremony of IEEE Inc USA – Power and Energy Society MUET Chapter was held at Mehran University Auditorium, MUET Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakisan. Pro Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Uqaili was the chief guest on this occasion. He said, Mehran University is committed for providing quality education to the students. Our faculty members are highly qualified from universities of national and international repute. They are utilizing their best potentials for the improvements of curricular and co-curricular activities. In this regard, IEEE PES will provide a platform for improving the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) of both students professionals and the students of the electrical engineering. He further said, Mehran university will provide their full support in terms of funds and university facilities for newly inaugurated society.
Dean FEECE and IEEE PES Branch Councellor IEEE PES, Prof. Dr. B.S. Chowdhry said, that the chapter of IEEE PES has been started first in the Sindh province for the Professional development of Engineers. He further said, this chapter will conduct short courses, student seminars and conferences, mini project and ethics competitions and many more. Moreover, the final year students will also be encouraged for their Research projects and IEEE- PES will provide funding to the best projects.
The Chairman, department of Electrical engineering briefed the participants about the highly equipped laboratories of electrical department. He further said that IEEE PES chapter will benefit the students in their academic education. He assured his full support from the department.
Branch Advisor IEEE PES, Engr. Mansoor A. Soomro briefed the participants about the objectives of the chapter. He also announced the members of organizing body, think tank and media coordinators. He further said that in the era of evolution, IEEE PES is the need of the hour. In this regard, every initiative will be taken for the betterment of the students and professionals of the electrical engineering.
During the session a video of INNAUGURATION and virtual tour of electrical department was also shown to the participants. A technical session on SMART GRID AND ITS APPLICATIONS was also conducted. Ph. D scholar Engr. Irfan Ahmed Halepoto delivered his lecture. The participants enthusiastically listened the lecture. A large number of participants including faculty members and students of faculty of electrical, electronics and computer engineering (FEECE) attended the event.
(Top) L to R : Prof Dr MA Uqaili, Prof Dr BS Chowdhry, Prof Dr AS Larik
(Bottom) L to R: Engr Mansoor Soomro, Mr Abid Hussain Soomro, Engr. Irfan A Halepoto
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Hello I am working with digital Shoreline Analysis System software developed by usgs for coastal zone analysis. When I try to generate the statistics, I get the following error message: Shoreline layer "all-coastlines" has some record (s) that do not have a valid date specified in date field "date_". - I check: the date setting of my Date_ filed (MM/DD/YYYY), the dates are in this same format in my "all-coasltines" file too. - I tried to remove the "0" before the figure of the month (4/03/1989 instead of 04/03/1989) but no success.- The field "date_" is in text format, with 10 characters. I also tried different options with 22 length by adding times but no success.
Has anyone come across this problem?


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Kenya's dairy sector: the potential for policy change?
With more than two-thirds of the dairy cattle in eastern and southern Africa found in Kenya, and per capita production levels double those found anywhere else on the African continent, Kenyan milk consumption is amongst the highest in the world. On average, each Kenyan drinks four times the average (25kg/yr) for sub-Saharan Africa. And, despite strong marketing within the formal sector, informal milk sales account for more than three-quarters of the milk market; buying raw milk, direct from farmers or local hawkers, is convenient even for wealthier households, and the high butterfat content is particularly valued for its taste and nutritional value. But with increasing pressure for regulation of the informal sector, can Kenya lead the way in reforming its dairy policies whilst maintaining the growth in smallholder production?
More than 600,000 smallholders, with between one and three cows, currently produce 80 per cent of Kenya's milk. Most dairy consumption is as liquid milk, and the preference for raw milk is high even in urban areas; the exception is Nairobi, where consumers drink more pasteurised milk. But, although milk consumption increases with income, latest research by the DFID-funded Smallholder Dairy Project shows that an increase in raw milk prices is unlikely to dissuade poor people from buying raw milk or to reduce their consumption. However, a price increase in pasteurised milk would result in lower-income groups buying less milk and could seriously affect levels of household malnutrition, particularly amongst children, if the alternative raw milk market were not available. Consumer demand for raw milk therefore plays a significant part in the continuation of the informal sector and it is unlikely that, in the immediate future, consumption levels of raw milk will decline even as incomes increase.
Outdated policies and regulations
The growth in Kenya's dairy sector has been heralded as a great success story, and yet further gains in dairy production and marketing are constrained by a wide range of problems. These include poor quality feed, barriers to animal health services, slow development of breeding services and poor access to credit and milk markets. Many existing dairy policies pre-date independence and tend to be discriminative, with standards biased towards the formal sector. However, due to a lack of capacity and resources, implementation of legislation and regulations is generally poor. For instance, a recent survey has found that very little difference exists in milk quality (based on coliform counts) between licensed and unlicensed traders, which rather invalidates current official unwillingness to license small traders with no fixed premises. Road infrastructure also remains poor, and it is estimated that for every kilometre of poor feeder road farm-gate milk prices are reduced by three per cent. Yet, none of the cess levied on milk is currently used to improve roads.
Despite current constraints, the smallholder dairy sector in Kenya remains competitive, providing good returns. Smallholders have long characterised the Kenyan dairy industry and it is essential that the smallholder sector continues to be incorporated into economic recovery plans for Kenya. "Large commercial dairy farmers need to develop an outgrower mentality," stated Professor Anyang Nyongo, the Minister for Planning and National Development at the Dairy Policy Forum held in Nairobi in May 2004. "It has happened in the flower, sugar and vegetable oil industries in Kenya and it should be able to happen in the dairy sector." It is estimated that 12 per cent (365,000 jobs) of the national agricultural workforce is employed for on-farm dairy activities and, given the rapid growth of the sector, it is believed that investment in dairying would create more employment than in most other agricultural sectors.
A new dairy policy?
The first formulation of the Dairy Development Policy for Kenya began in 1993 after liberalisation in the dairy industry earlier the same year. The policy was later revised in 1997 and again in 2000. And yet, even after wide stakeholder consultations in 2000, the pace of policy revision has been slow and the proposed Dairy Act remains unresolved. To help guide the debate for policy reform and implementation, a consortium* of partners has been formed including the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, national and international research organisations, the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), the Kenya Dairy Board, and several NGOs. Latest research findings and policy recommendations from the Smallholder Dairy Project and IPAR were presented at the recent Dairy Policy Forum, and it is hoped that the NGOs in particular will use their lobbying and advocacy roles to push forward the agenda for dairy reform.
The passing of a new Dairy Industry Act by the Tanzanian Parliament in April 2004 has rather pre-empted any attempts for Kenya to lead the way in policy revision within the region. However, it is still hoped that similar reform will be achieved in Kenya, particularly as the Tanzanian bill includes provision for smallholder representation through a newly established Tanzania Dairy Industry Board. "We wish to make appropriate recommendations without compromising the informal sector," said Honorable J Munyao, the Kenyan Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Development in his opening statement at the Dairy Policy Forum. "But we have to consider the issues presented to us with an open mind."
The growth in Kenya's dairy industry has been impressive but the time of deliberation for its future should be coming to an end. The potential for further gains to be achieved is possible but only if the promise of reform can be realised.
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OMG - What should we think about this? This is our Medicare dollar at work!
Well, I'm delighted that Steve is working on his "Bed Skills!" He's making progress!
Here's the story: when Steve came home from the hospital in 7/2010, he had to be moved from bed to wheelchair via Hoyer lift. He couldn't transfer himself in any way. He really couldn't sit up by himself. He couldn't turn over, or scoot up in bed. He was fully disabled with "Critical Illness Myopathy," - a little known and less understood phenomenon which impacts people after severe illnesses. It hits people who've been on a ventilator for a while, those who've had a major surgery, those with sepsis, those with serious cardiac or renal disease. Check all of the above.
Steve wasn't paralyzed; just exceedingly week. And it wasn't a matter of volition; his body just couldn't do the things he asked.
Steve was further impacted by a fistula surgery which compromised the blood flow to his hand and resulted in a median nerve injury. His left hand became practically useless.
Our bedroom is functional - but it is really more like a dorm room. Steve's in a hospital bed, and I'm in a daybed. This is very useful for the nursing tasks we must perform many times a day.
While I know this sounds like an utter luxury given the overall scope of troubles in the world, I'd really like to sleep with my husband. And two big people in a single hospital bed isn't very comfortable.
When Steve acquires "bed skills," i.e. scooting, rolling over (like a four-month-old does), we can bring in the big bed from the garage and sleep like a couple.
We haven't done this since Steve went into the hospital on March 2 - just about a year ago. A year ago, when all of our lives sommersaulted into such chaos and uncertainty. When Steve's dying would have been the assumed and logical outcome of his continuing series of nightmares.
But Steve didn't die. He's coming along, little by little. And while I've been told that "you get what you're going to get back after a year of Critical Illness Myopathy," I've got my money on him yet.
In spite of everything, Steve's mind is still exceptionally sharp - probably a mixed blessing. My son Tim - who serves as one of Steve's caregivers - bought a new Trivial Pursuit game. And Steve can beat us all!
But then, Steve could have lost a few hundred thousand neurons in all his events and still have plenty to spare! Amazing.
Take care,
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The recently-issued advice from the UK about a no-deal Brexit has referred to British expatriates' UK bank accounts saying Britons in the EU "may lose the ability to access existing lending and deposit services." We sought to clarify the meaning of this with the UK's Treasury but it was unable to give further information on what it means in concrete terms.
The recently-issued advice from the UK about a no-deal Brexit has referred to British expatriates' UK bank accounts saying Britons in the EU "may lose the ability to access existing lending and deposit services." We sought to clarify the meaning of this with the UK's Treasury but it was unable to give further information on what it means in concrete terms.
The statement from the UK government came as part of a first batch of contingency planning papers for a potential 'no deal Brexit' that were released yesterday, in a paper called Banking, insurance and other financial services if there is no Brexit deal.
The wording referring to bank accounts is mixed in with references to potential problems with pay-outs from UK-based insurance policies and certain kinds of private pension annuity. This aspect is not new - Connexion initially covered it in November last year after the chairwoman of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, Nicky Morgan, wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer about "the possibility that UK providers may not be legally able to pay out pensions or insurance contracts to citizens in the EU – including UK expats... a stark example of the consequences of a cliff-edge Brexit".
At the time the Association of British Insurers told us: "If nothing is fixed, this would potentially affect a very large number of private pensions. For a pension provider to make payments on a pension they need to be regulated in the country where they are making the payments. They are currently regulated under EU rules and, if alternative regulation is not in place, firms risk either breaking the law or not fulfilling a contract to a customer, which is of great concern."
The problem arises due to the UK's loss of so-called financial passporting rights if it leaves the EU and no agreement is made replacing them. If there is a withdrawal agreement between the UK and EU this will allow a transition period to the end of 2020 to potentially resolve such matters; this would not apply of there is 'no deal'.
As we reported last month there have since been moves on the UK side to reassure citizens of other EU states living in the UK that they will be able to receive their private pensions from outside the UK after Brexit, however there has so far been no guarantee from the EU or EU states that the same applies to British expatriates receiving payments from the UK (we are seeking clarification from the French Finance Ministry with regard to French residents with UK private pensions and insurance policies).
Experts previously told Connexion that a potential solution after Brexit, if French residents are affected, would be to have private pensions or insurance pay-outs from UK providers paid into a UK bank account for transferral to a French one. It is an EU-wide right to be able to open a basic bank account in an EU state outside the one in which you live and this currently applies to residents of France who want to open a UK account.
However due to the UK leaving the EU's SEPA banking zone, which makes transfers between EU states similar in cost and speed to domestic ones, transfers between the UK and France would be likely to take longer and cost more after Brexit. This is referred to in the UK's banking paper but was predictable (we mention it in our helpguide to Brexit and Britons in France). The UK's paper also notes that using credit cards between the UK and EU is likely to cost more, such as if using a British card to make purchases in France.
More unexpectedly, the paper raises concerns over bank accounts themselves linked to the lost passporting rights. Sources told Connexion it would be highly unlikely that expatriates would be forced to close their UK bank accounts but it is possible that making use of them, including for new deposits, could, in ways that are unclear, become more difficult. The UK's paper implies that the problems could be eased by action on the side of the EU.
Lacking further practical clarification from the UK government, here is what its passage actually says:
".. in the absence of action from the EU, EEA-based customers of UK firms currently passporting into the EEA, including UK citizens living in the EEA, may lose the ability to access existing lending and deposit services, insurance contracts (such as a life insurance contracts and annuities) due to UK firms losing their rights to passport into the EEA, affecting the ability of their EEA customers to continue accessing their services. This could impact these firms' ability to continue to service their existing products."
We will be following this up in our September edition, on sale at the end of next week.
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Why not make the most of your trip to Croke Park by staying at Citywest Hotel and enjoy the championship ambiance. We are offering:
Rooms from €79 B&B including Family room (2adults, 2 children).
On match days there will be buses going from Citywest to Croke Park to supporters who are staying in the hotel.
There will be live entertainment in the hotel on the night before the games.
Guests at the Hotel will have full use of Leisure facilities.
GAA pitch on site available for leisure activities
Various dining & bar options are available on site
Citywest is located on the N7 outside Dublin city which makes locating the hotel very convenient to people travelling up to Dublin and saves the inconvenience of city traffic.
To reserve your booking please contact the hotel on
01-4010500 or visit our website at www.citywesthotel.com for more information.


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I actually accomplished something I pinned-which is pretty cool!!! The inspiration came from this pin:
(Click the pic to head to the tutorial)
So I've never really been a painter, but I'm obsessed with anything rainbow colored so I had to give it a shot! My favorite part was mixing all the colors!
The tutorial was fairly easy to follow which made me think I could actually accomplish this. She has some other great paintings on her site too with a similar style.
So I'm sure you're wondering.....how did mine turn out? Did she really get it done? Well wait no longer....:
TA-DA!!!!!!!!! What do you think? If I can do it....anyone can!!!
I tried to do a little more close-up. Mine has some differences with the tree a little lighter and my circles a little less defined but I'm happy with how it turned out.
I hope you add this to your summer bucket list...it's fun I promise :) I'd be happy to answer any questions you have as well, about the process!
Once camping starts I'll have more teaching stuff I promise....I just thankfully have some down time to be creative right now (thank goodness!)


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Gilles Pinson (Science Po Bordeaux)
8 March 2018 @ 14:00
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"Beyond neoliberal imposition: State-local cooperation and the blending of social and economic objectives in French urban development corporations"
For more than 15 years, the French central State created Etablissements publics d'aménagement in a series of major cities. These EPAs are in charge of large urban development projects mixing infrastructure, office development and housing projects and have been given formal authority over land use regulation. The similarities between French EPAs and British Urban Development Corporations created in the 1980s are striking. In many ways, the case of the EPA fits with the neoliberalisation framework provided by radical geographers. Nevertheless, this case also shows limits to the generalization of this theoretical framework. Firstly, the distinction between two clearly distinct periods characterised by different agendas, policy instruments and systems of relations between actors and levels is far from convincing in the French case. Secondly, evolutions that could be attributed to neoliberal urbanism are rather the result of processes of rationalisation within organisations or professions which may have little to do with neoliberalism, or the result of a transformation of the welfare State and the reassessment of ways of producing social justice. On this basis, we argue for theoretical frameworks that put neoliberalisation at its right place and allow its articulation with other trends of change such as rationalisation and the refinement of Welfare mechanisms.


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|Click on the picture (or here) to see my beauty vlog!
My Most Used Beauty Products
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Yay on your vlog! You are so brave, I did one once and deleted it. I am just not there yet. Thanks for sharing your favorites, I'm a product junkie so now you've given me more ideas.ReplyDelete
Great job! I think I've only ever done one or two vlogs, and I was terrified the entire time. You looked great, and sounded great, too! Plus, I'm jealous of your hairstyle. So pretty!ReplyDelete
I can't do the video as of yet. I think I would be comfortable after we have stepped up our game some for the magazine. Great job for you though going over to check out the video now.ReplyDelete
I've heard of that Vaseline Spray and have been meaning to try it, I will definitely pick it up...I have very dry skin as wellReplyDelete
You're so brave! I'm not quite ready to put myself in front the camera in a vlog yet!ReplyDelete
Congrats on conquering your anxiety and doing your vlog! I love natural hair and beauty vloggers! I've been wanting to step into the vlog world, I guess I better get over my fears too! Im on my way to check it out!ReplyDelete


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Run Rheban Run 28th April – Entries Closing Soon
We'd really hate that you were thinking of entering but you got distracted at the last moment and then you missed out - So here is your final reminder that entries will close for the Rheban event on Monday evening, 23rd of April. Entries close just a few days before the event date, so we won't be accepting any late entries. This is shaping up to be a great event in a very scenic area. If you are thinking of entering please do so soon at https://www.rt.asn.au/events/upcoming-events/rheban-6hr-and-12-hr-rogaine
If you are looking for a team mate, then please use our FaceBook group or write to
November 2018 Rogaine
We are in the early stages of planning for a bush and farm event in the south of Tassie, tentatively to be held on November 24th. We have an area in mind and setters organised – but we could do with some help with vetting. Contact
2018 Australasian Champs
A reminder that the Australasian Rogaining Championships this year are being held near Gympie Qld on August 25 and 26th. Early bird entry fees are available until May 1st. The event website now has lots of details and some photos of the terrain. http://www.qldrogaine.asn.au/qraonline/html/wp/
Intervarsity Champs Funding
The 2018 Intervarsity Rogaining Championships will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Rogaining Championships. The Nigel Aylott Memorial Sports Foundation (NAMSF) supports university students to travel to the event. NAMSF was set up in memory of Nigel Aylott, a keen adventure racer and rogainer, to encourage engagement in these outdoor sports.
The Intervarsity Rogaining Championships is open to all university students (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, or post-graduate). Students in a team must be from the same university. In awarding the travel subsidy, preference is given to undergraduate teams.
More details can be read at http://www.qldrogaine.asn.au/qraonline/html/wp/2018-intervarsity-championships
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So we made two stops this weekend.
Now remember, today is only the 8th of July, so we're talking about the 5th and 6th.
The first stop was Wal-Mart, where we had to get my son's glasses adjusted. If you didn't know, glasses are a horrible invention for an 8 year old. Sure, they help with things like vision and headaches and concentration at school, but really, with all of our amazing technology and the most recent breakthroughs in alloys and engineering, can't we come up with something a bit more durable?
An eight year old should never be trusted with something that costs upwards of $100 and goes on their face. Have you seen an eight year old? They are walking catastrophes. Mine in particular, thinks that using his head means banging the door open with his cranium. The boy is a walking tornado, and by the time he gets to be a teenager we will own our own wing at the local hospital.
Anyway, we walked into the eyeglass showroom. I turned around to glance back into the store and noticed this:
Really? It's June, dude. I mean I'm excited for fall. I love fall. It is my favorite time of year. This year I am even planning the obligatory Halloween countdown on this site. But seriously, are you trying to get me to put my kids on Prozac? Thoughts of returning to the cranium grinder house in the midst of summer freedom is enough to put any child into specialized therapy sessions with a psychiatrist named Dr. Gugemsquirtz.
If that wasn't bad enough, I visited my local Kroger store right afterwards, and saw this:
Can you see the clearance 4th of July stuff getting kicked out on its patriotic little hiney to make room for the opposite of Independence? Cheese-Louise, this is getting out of hand. If we are not gonna have fall leaves yet, don't give my kids heart palpitations by making them remember that this season of humid freedom will not last indefinitely. They should still be thinking about catching snakes, and building a treehouse, and jumpin' into the ol' swimmin' hole.
I was just at Target and saw this:
The worker bees are buzzing along, getting everything ready to crush as many school kid dreams as possible in a Tidal Wave of red, white, and #2 pencil.


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It is absolutely no secret that I have gained weight in the last year. At the start of 2016 I weighed roughly 11st, maybe slightly less. I had abs. Today I weigh 12.5st. The biggest I have been for a long long time. I don't have abs.
It would be very easy to say I'm ok with the weight gain, that I 'needed' to put weight on. Yes, I concede that at some point during 2015 I got very very little. I needed to gain some weight for sure. But that doesn't necessarily mean I am happy with where I am now, far from it in fact. I am the heaviest and the most out of shape I have been for years, and I know exactly why – alcohol.
There are a lot of reasons I have tried to blame for losing definition and gaining fat this year;
1. I've only done cardio. I've got cardio bloat. I'm eating loads due to cardio training. I've lifted no weight. (All plausible reasons)
2. I'm eating more. Ok, true. I didn't eat carbs in 2015. At all. Not even the 'good' ones. No wonder I was skinny.
3. I'm drinking. In 2015 I drunk alcohol maybe 4 times? In 2016 there has been maybe 14 days I've not drunk alcohol. I'm not dependent on it, and in fact I don't even like alcohol. I hate being drunk. I hate the shit sleep I get when I've been drinking, and a hangover is my worst nightmare. But that bit between being sober and being drunk? Well. I like being there. It's nice there, stress doesn't exist there, I'm happier, life is easier, it's a slightly easier to handle 5 drinks in.
Number 3 is the reason for the weight gain without a shadow of a doubt.
Except life isn't easier to handle 5 drinks in. It's not. I've gained 18lbs. And I'm miserable. I hate being out of shape and not being able to run as fast as I know I can. I'm not sleeping well and actually life is much more stressful when I'm 'drinking' as to when I'm not. Life isn't easier because I'm annoyed at myself for drinking instead of just living.
So, for 2017 I'm going to be sober. Completely. Yes, I had a drink today. We had a New Years party and the prosecco flowed and the beer was in abundance and it was relaxed and fun and whatever. But I'm done.
I'm done having things to use as excuses to why I'm not performing well. This year is about big BIG changes to my training and racing regime and I've just not got any time to accommodate alcohol. I'm either a sober or a 'whole bottle' girl so for 2017 I'm going to be sober.
And of course I expect to lose all 18lbs within a week.
I'll keep you posted…


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Lienhard 9
two kinds of consequences of technological change:
the other things that are needed to make this technological
work--necessary consequences
unintended consequences
(not necessarily unpredictable, but side effects)
the consequences in turn lead to impacts on society
one of the consequences of the automobile was that it was easier for people to take longer trips
that led for the need for places for people to stay that were not just in cities, leading to the development of motels
also made it possible for people to visit tourist attractions away from cities
changed the experience of staying overnight during a trip
led to the expansion of the national park system--an impact on society
Unintended Consequences:
Some consequences of a new technology are predictable.
The impact of technology on society is often unexpected--technologies have
unintended consequences
(and sometimes we just don't stop to consider the whole system)
different ways automobile affected society, both intended and unintended:
* you need the infrastructure to support it eg. gas stations, roads, service stations
* people can live further away from their work or their families
* new area of entertainment--racing, etc.
* new kinds of restaurants, lodging, ...
* new kind of architecture
* road trips, family vacations, national parks
* advertising
* did the automobile cause the sexual revolution?
* how did the automobile change the way we see the world
* how did the automobile change or reinforce American values
One technology leads to another, but also those technologies change what is possible and the ways we experience the world. Historical examples can help us think about present day examples.
Technologies change what is possible but society makes choices among the new possibilities, based on our values (both what we value in a practical way and by our moral standards)
Does technology have some inevitable effect on our values?
Or is it that we choose whatever technology suits our values?
Or use technologies in ways that affect our values?
Or do we make choices that are influenced by the technologies available?
roads and the road network
road conditions in 1920s
roads had begun to be improved for bicycles, but the automobile represented the need for a fundamental shift--
In 1907 only 7 percent of the roads in the U.S. had any surfacing at all, and that was usually just gravel. In 1916 Congress approved some federal funding for improving post roads, then in 1921 matching grants for interstate roads (like Route 1). (credit Robert C. Post)
automobiles couldn't become popular without somewhat decent roads
in 1919 the average car traveled 4,500 miles a year, 10 years later that had almost doubled (
Conflict between the needs of horses and automobiles--there was a sudden spurt in horseshoe patents to provide horseshoes that would help horses manage paved roads.
road maps
(and street names) were a consequence of the automobile--the first national road atlas was published in 1927
property maps were most common before the automobile
city maps for railroad travelers?
the automobile led to the development of road maps
streets were given names (
difference between a street, a road and an avenue
more modern example--911 systems that told the dispatcher your address
a lot of streets had to be given names
this makes people more visible to the government
For the history of licensing drivers see:
Licensing Cars and Drivers
New York required cars to to be registered in 1901 and issued driver's certificates in 1903. In 1919 everyone who drove more than 10 days a year in New York City was required to have a license and in 1924 New York state required all drivers to be licensed
New Jersey required a written exam and road test to get a license starting in 1913
registration of cars was required in most states by 1918
licensing drivers came later--required in only 39 states in 1935, mostly without any test.
South Dakota did not require drivers licenses until 1954
the first gas station was opened by Standard Oil in 1912 (
gas station museum
). From 1921 to 1929, the number of gasoline stations increased from 12,000 to 143,000 (
The first
drive-in movie
opened in 1933 in New Jersey--by the early 1950s there were 4,000 of them.
Road trip culture:
Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles opened in 1926 (but it was not limited access)
the automobile trip culture had developed by the 1920s--
all kinds of new businesses and patterns of life
, campgrounds
root beer stands 1919
Burma Shave signs
The first drive-in restaurant was either Bob's Boy in 1936 or Royce Hailey's
Pig Stand
in Dallas Texas in the early 1940s (by the 1960s these were haunts for rowdy teenagers and families were looking for another alternative--the chain fast-food restaurant)
roadside architecture
roadside stores with giant cows
world's largest sixpack
, and of course our very own
Visits to national parks increased 4-fold during the 1920s. "See America First"
Disneyland opened in 1955--the model for a new generation of amusement parks linked to highways rather than streetcars or trains.
The interstate highway system
California opened its first freeway in 1940. In 1947 the state passed a law that expanded the 19 miles of freeway to 300 miles ten years later--by 1980 there were 12,500 miles. 54% of the funding came from the state gasoline tax.
Began as a cold war idea, with the idea that federal funding was needed to have a system that would allow easy movement of troops. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 committed the country to spending $50 billion to construct 41,000 miles of interstate highways. Good deal for the states--the federal gov't paid 90% of the costs. By 1973 82% had been constructed.
engineering marvels of the interstate highway system
Chain motels displaced the old local motor courts--the first
Holiday Inn
was opened in 1952.
the big duck
The Gas Station & Auto Service Collectibles Web Site
1930s Shell Gas Station
Gasoline (
petroleum history sites
Automobiles run on gasoline, a relatively light
fraction of crude oil
. Diesel fuel (which is essentially the same as home heating oil) is a relatively heavy fraction. So oil is the general term, gasoline is one product that can be refined from oil.
The heaviest fractions (bitumen or rock asphalt) had been used for centuries for waterproofing and after 1800 for roads. Kerosene was used in lamps from the 1850s.
In 1859 an American industrialist,
George H. Bissell
began a deliberate search for oil. They chose a site in Pennsylvania, drilled through 70 feet of bedrock, and used the oil from the well for illuminating gas, lubricating oil, and an excellent lamp oil. Within 15 years production in the Pennsylvania field had reached 10 million (360 lb) barrels a year.
John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870. By building a pipeline system he soon gained control of 90% of a rapidly-growing industry and became for a while the richest person in the world.
Beginnings of the Petroleum Industry
early oil refinery
The oil was distilled to separate the fractions--first gasoline (1.5 to 15 percent, depending on the crude), which at first was a nuisance because it was highly inflammable and had no use, then kerosene, and then lubricating oil. For a good explanation of refining see
Modern Refining
With the popularity of the automobile suddenly gasoline was in greater demand than the other fractions, and cracking was invented by William Burton at Standard Oil in 1913. Heavier fractions are converted into lighter ones by subjecting them to high temperature and pressure to break down the chains of carbon atoms into shorter ones. Industrial research labs competed to find
more efficient ways
of doing this, most important catalytic cracking with a platinum catalyst in the 1920s.
problem of engine knock arose just before WWI as refineries tried to widen the cut. Solved by the 1922
introduction of tetraethyl lead
as a fuel additive. To prevent lead from fouling the engine ethylene dibromide was added to react with the lead residue and make sure it was funneled out of the exhaust system into the atmosphere (at the time the only questions raised were about hazards of the lead to refinery workers).
leaded gasoline was
phased out
starting in the 1970s because the lead that got into the atmosphere and fell into the soil in heavily traveled areas was identified as a significant cause of lead poisoning. Automobiles had to change as a result.
Oil prices:
Have we already hit the peak of oil production?
not in terms of possible supply
How stable are oil prices?
Is it a matter of supply and
world use of oil is increasing
can the supply of oil keep up with increasing demand?
do we want to leave oil in the ground because burning it releases carbon dioxide that increases global warming
oil prices and supply
involve many other factors
were running out of oil that was easy to extract, but new methods of extraction have postponed the problem
how much more oil is there to find and how much can we develop
new extraction methods
(at what cost) to extract oil found in more difficult situations?
tar sands
how much environmental damage are we willing to do?
Will something else replace gasoline during your lifetimes?
the oil/automobile system is a classic case of technological momentum--so much is invested in one system that it is hard to change
but an
electric car costs
much less for fuel: you can travel 36 miles for $1 of charge, vs. a gasoline car that would take you about 18 miles for a dollar (costs vary widely:
calculate your own figures
to get more and more oil we will need to do more and more environmental damage. When do we say too much?
how much oil shale are we willing to mine:
however we extract the oil, burning it still adds to the carbon in the atmosphere (because we are releasing carbon that has been locked up in the earth for geological ages). The
latest figures
show global warming progressing more rapidly than expected and says we have 12 years before catastrophic change cannot be stopped
how much can we change the situation by improving efficiency?
are we at the end of the fossil fuel based economy that started with the industrial revolution?
will new technology solve the problem without us having to change the way we do things?
will we need to change our lifestyles? Do you really want a bigger and bigger house?
This page written and copyright
Pamela E. Mack
last updated 10/9/19


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- Chicago protest trump, Bernie sanders walks through unnoticed.
- Salute #chicago students. A mix diverse group of protesters mostly bernie sanders supporters #feelthebern #berniesanders
- I looked at the replies to what's happening in Chicago and most of the people were blaming Bernie Sanders.
- Tras fuertes discusiones de simpatizantes, Donald Trump cancela mitin en Chicago, algunos dicen que se infiltraron seguidores de B. Sanders.
- Live blog: Trump, Sanders, Cruz in Chicago area http://dlvr.it/Km0DTW #eatwell
- Think just about every lefty group was there-and the Sanders rally is packed too. #Chicago
- What we are seeing in Chicago is unification (Sanders) vs. Xenophobia and ignorance (Trump).
- Trump rally postponed due to Sanders protesters in Chicago
- Soros paid protesters force cancelation of Trump rally. Pile of Socialist for Bernie Sanders also there. Chicago is for Socialist/Communist.
- Black Protestors and White Trump Supports clash inside Chicago Trump Rally; Rev. Jamal Bryant reportedly set endorse Senator Bernie Sanders.
- @realDonaldTrump Bernie Sanders socialists and communist were the protesters in Chicago tonight very dim-witted people
- Idiots in Chicago! Pissing on Democracy! They are the new Brown shirts. Bernie Sanders supporters. Sad, Sad day!
- I'm slowly siding more with Ted Cruz lately as a candidate. Trump and Sanders supporters at that rally in Chicago seem crazy.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Chicago protest trump, Bernie sanders walks through unnoticed. most people blaming #Sanders.
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So as a back up plan, I reached for my jar of trusty Cajun Dry Rub. I make this recipe in HUGE batches and jar them for use down the road. To get that really fine blend, I like using my mortar and pestle. When you are done blending these, you will have a great dry rub that's perfect for chicken, pork or any kind of seafood you like. Be warned...this dry rub is HOT! Not "Oh...that has a little kick to it"...this is mouth-scorching hot! Use sparingly if you are not looking for a fire. Here is the recipe in a slightly more manageable form.
1 teaspoon ground white pepper
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves, crushed
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground Cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
Blend all ingredients together. Transfer to mortar and pestle and grind until a fine powder remains. Jar for future use.
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The year is 2050, and genetic enchancement is now commonplace in society. People can currently opt to improve their bodies through the form of gene packages. These are geared towards increasing certain traits, such as strength, speed, hand-eye coordination, eyesight, etc, by manipulating certain genes in their biological makeup. An individual can pay for one package, or several to be implemented incrementally, with expense and quality being varied.
These changes don't take affect immediately, as the body needs time to adjust to these enchancements. It can take a period of five years for the results of the gene therapy to take place in a person's body. This creates a problem when it comes to sports, as you would have certain people adapting to the changes quicker than others, or benefit from simply having had more enchancements than others, or having paid for higher quality enchancement. This can lead to an unbalanced playing field in various sports, like football, boxing, basketball, and others.
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Mixing vocals can be both an exciting stage of getting to hear your song finally nearing completion and a complex mixing challenge. By the time you get to the vocals, you've already spent many hours tweaking, finessing, adjusting, and re-thinking all of your choices about the music bed and how best to blend the instrumentation. Finally, it's the finishing piece of the puzzle, and it can be easy to lose focus or feel over-eager to get to the end.
Even though the finish line is in sight, though, don't rush down that final stretch. The voice is the element that most of your audience will connect with first, so it deserves as much respect and attention as you've given each of the other individual pieces in your mix. As long as you understand that a vocal track in rock or pop music is typically the most important—and therefore should be the loudest—you'll find it easy to maintain the instruments around it in a way where everything gets to shine.
Unless you're mixing the next great instrumental jazz record, the lead vocal is usually what everybody will focus on when they hear the song. A well-tracked and well-performed vocal may need little processing. On the other hand, a vocal that's poorly performed or recorded may require the audio equivalent of serious open-heart surgery.
There could be many processors used to construct the complex vocal chains you build within your mixing software, each doing a distinct bit of work to shape or correct the sound. Here are a few of the most common that you're likely to call into service:
Background vocals vary wildly depending on the genre and production choices of a song, but there are usually two types: vocals that harmonize and share lyrical content with the lead vocal line, and vocals that act as pads, such as "oohs" and "ahhs."
For harmony lines, there are some subjective and stylistic choices to be made as you mix. Harmony vocals could be high in the mix and acting almost as a dual lead vocal. Or, they could they be lower in the mix as a support for the lead. This is a choice that can affect the power of the vocals and the overall blend of the track. If you push the backing vocals high in the mix, you may have to adjust the levels of some of the supporting instrumentation to accommodate. Try not to become too precious with the choices you made earlier in the mixing process, and instead let everything sit in service of the vocals. Your listeners will thank you later.
For pad vocals, try compressing them slightly more, using a more extreme high-pass filter, and drenching them in reverb for added dramatic effect. These types of vocals can vary in how widely they are panned. Sometimes if they are double tracked, panning them hard left and right will be very effective. In recent years, though, these types of vocals have had a much tighter panning in mixes to leave more room for guitars and keyboard pads to be panned wider.
The voice is a huge part of what connects us with other human beings, and in most music it delivers the main message, the thing you want your audience to think about and feel as a result of spending their time listening to your song. Learn how to use your tools, and pay close attention to what works for your voice and the other voices you get to mix.
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The Mystery of the Great Piero
Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man
Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion
Scholarly spats are the salt of art history, lending it savor. The pettier, one may feel, the more piquant. Readers of these pages will have enjoyed the recent review by Sanford Schwartz of a little exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, "Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters." The show brought together five small panels by the quattrocento master, including a newly restored Saint Jerome and a Supplicant from the Accademia in Venice. The "supplicant"—and presumably the panel's commissioner—that Piero portrays here in profile is a man of affairs in a costly red gown. He has a cocksure demeanor, that of a man who expects prompt service wherever he goes. Indeed, as Schwartz suggested, there is implicit comedy in his eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with the wiry and irascible Saint Jerome, who is fully his equal in his disdain for time wasters. Spiritual succour, as of the mid-fifteenth century, has become a matter for curt, cold business appointments.
Where the grandee kneels, on the gray-brown ground beneath his robe's red folds and trailing ribbon of office, stands an inscription in Roman letters: HIER. AMADI AVG F. The Met's curator of European paintings, Keith Christiansen, spells out for us this identification of the patron: "Girolamo Amadi, son of Agostino."1 The Amadi family, he tells us in the exhibition's elegant little catalog, were merchants in Venice—where the small panel was first inventoried, some four centuries after its creation, in 1850. And although little can be ascertained about this particular member, Christiansen's catalog includes a thirteen-page history of the Amadi by an Italian scholar, exploring their dealings in textiles, their villas and palazzi, their international connections, their patronage of churches and humanists, and so on.
All effort in vain, if we are to believe James R. Banker, an eminent Piero scholar who has summarized some three decades of research in a carefully written account, Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man, just published. The panel from the Accademia, as accounted for by Banker, portrays not a Venetian but Jacopo Anastagi, a contemporary of Piero's from his own small country town of Sansepolcro. This is why, Banker argues, the towers of Sansepolcro appear behind Saint Jerome's shoulders, seen across the valley of the upper Tiber with the Umbrian hills behind. Anastagi, a lawyer who rose to riches in the service of the warlords of Rimini, was a big wheel among Sansepolcro's four-thousand populace and, Banker's study proposes, a crucial patron for his schoolfellow.
Banker finds his likeness in several other relics of the artist's time-depleted oeuvre. There Anastagi kneels, dressed in the same red gown, as one of the eight representative Sansepolcrans gathered under the cloak of the Madonna della Misericordia, that lofty, sheltering woman-tree. He is spotted again as a counselor to the Queen of Sheba in The Legend of the True Cross, the…
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Entrepreneur, Pratima Aravabhoomi, Featured on CBS
Pratima Aravabhoomi, Founder and CEO of Craft Street Desgin, was recently seen on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox network affiliates around the country as a guest on Times Square Today
Cupertino, CA – February 12, 2018 – Pratima Aravabhoomi, Entrepreneur, was recently a featured guest on Times Square Today. The show, which filmed in New York City overlooking Times Square by an Emmy Award winning crew, included guests from around the country who shared their expertise and stories of their success. Pratime Aravabhoomi was one of the guests on the show, discussing how just one quote can change a life.
Aravabhoomi's expertise in inspirational products led to an invite to the set of Times Square Today to help the viewers. Her work has changed the lives of her customers by helping them to feel the love, encouragement and happiness they deserve through her designs. Her feature has been seen by viewers across the country, and has undoubtedly inspired many.
Times Square Today, filmed in New York City, is produced by Emmy® Award-winning Director and Producer, Nick Nanton, Esq. and Emmy® Award winning Producer, JW Dicks, Esq., Co-Founders of America's PremierExperts® and The Dicks and Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency®. The episode featuring Aravabhoomi recently aired on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates across the country.
Watch Aravabhoomi's appearance on Times Square Today here: https://craftstreetdesign.com/pages/press
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Pratima Aravabhoomi is the founder of Craft Street Design. She was inspired to establish the company based on her own experiences in turning her life around from the brink of suicide, and has since become a successful consultant and business owner.
She shares, " If not for the words on my kitchen wall which said, 'Darkest hour is before dawn, I might have ended my own life."
She has since completely transformed that life achieving many of her goals.
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For example, your predilection toward doggy style indicates that you "have a real disdain toward women, and you try and degrade them any chance you get" — an assessment that is really kind of degrading to both men and women in and of itself.
Sure, it's a joke. But it's a joke that supports the very worst, most harmful assumptions about men's sexuality. I could go on and on about the ways in which such a joke shames both men and women for having the kind of sex they want to have, not to mention the fact that some of the most loving, connected sex I've had in my life has been in the canine position — but I would l probably only be written off as a wet blanket by the ranks of bro–dom.
So, rather, I'd like to provide an alternative. Here's the breakdown of what I think your favorite way to do it really says about who you are.
Doggy Style: You're not afraid of your wilder nature.
Cowgirl: On top — You're comfortable with yourself.
On the bottom — You like to see everything for yourself.
Reverse Cowgirl: On the top — You're free–spirited.
On the bottom — You're a dude.
Spooning: You flourish when you feel secure.
Seated: On top — Just because you're open emotionally doesn't mean you're needy.
On the bottom — Just because you think you deserve to be treated like a king doesn't mean you can't be vulnerable.
Standing in the Shower: Just because you're efficient doesn't mean you're boring.
"The Piledriver": You. Get. Sh*t. Done.
Receiving Oral: You have no problem being taken care of.
Giving Oral: You're a hero.
Anal: If you're the giver — You think you deserve all of the the best that life has to offer.
If you're the receiver — you're kind of intense.
Double Penetration: You don't really tend to do anything half–assed, do you?
69: You have a strong sense of justice.
Standing: You're willing to work hard to get what you want.
Up Against The Wall: You're into instant gratification.
Missionary: You're a serial monogamist.


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Our mythos has lots of blogs. It can be hard to know where to start. In an effort to help this, various members have pitched in with advice and recommendations!
LizardBite's Guide (2012)
Looking to get started on The Fear Mythos, but not sure where to begin? Not a problem. This guide is meant to help newcomers be introduced to the Mythos, and ease their way in.
First off, it should be noted that the guide assumes the reader already has some prior knowledge of the Slender Man mythos, from which the Fear Mythos is an off-shoot of.
The Fear Mythos began as a project on the forum of tvtropes.org. A number of different members, fans of the Slender Man Mythos, felt that the current mythos had grown stale. To help this, they decided to introduce new monsters to the mythos, and began creating the Fears. The Archangel, The Dying Man, and The Cold Boy were the first Fears to be created and introduced, and many of the other Fears were soon to follow.
Within the first year, the Fear Mythos had already grown into a number of different stories by a number of different writers, and had gained a bit of recognition within the mainstream Slender Man Mythos community.
Starting Blogs
Below are a list of different blogs that may be useful for newcomers and can serve as a starting point.
The Informational Blogs
These blogs are meant to give a general overview of different elements of the mythos
- The Fear Mythos series bible (http://thefearmythos.wordpress.com/) is a recommended read for all newcomers, explaining the concepts of the mythos itself.
- Channel Fear (http://channelfear.blogspot.com/) centers around a man who, with the help of numerous contacts, gathers information about the Fears
- The Archive (http://scribesigma.blogspot.com/) centers around the eponymous Archive, a cult of the Blind Man dedicated to gathering information.
The Big Three
These three blogs were among the earliest in the mythos and were specifically written to serve as introductions to the concept. They have also had a great deal of influence over subsequent blogs.
- brighter than a spoon (http://nihilartikelling.blogspot.com/) tells the story of Tav Lowe, and introduces the Cold Boy and the concept of Receivers.
- Eccentrically Bored (http://eccentricallybored.blogspot.com/) is the first blog of Joseph Steward. It is responsible for introducing the Archangel and the Great Game. Its story was continued in Hidden in the Trees, which introduced a number of other elements to the Mythos.
- Jordan Eats Normally Now (http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/) tells the story of Jordan Dooling. It introduced EAT and the Camper to the Mythos. The Topography Genera blogs continue the story.
Other Beginner Blogs
These are blogs that introduced many other elements to the mythos and serve as good starting points for beginners.
- Ontological (http://hellisaplacewherenothingeverhappens.blogspot.com/) centers around the Empty City and the Nightlanders.
- Debasing the Beef Canoe (http://debasethebeefcanoe.blogspot.com/) introduced the Wooden Girl.
- Angels From The Grave (http://acuteobtuseequilateral.blogspot.com/) centers around the Archangel and ties into the Dying Man Verse.
- Moonlit Whispers (http://dancingwiththemoonlightknight.blogspot.com/) is a short blog centering around the Rake.
- Faces, Strange and Secret (http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/) is a collection of creepypasta set in the Fear Mythos universe.
- The Fear Mythos (http://insertmythoshere.blogspot.com/) is a blog centered around the author of a Fear Mythos blog, who discovers that his "creations" are very much real.
Intermediate Blogs
These are blogs that require some extra background knowledge and/or are more complex than other Fearblogs, and yet are still recommended for newcomers.
- OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING (http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/) is an apocalyptic story featuring most of the Fears and the protagonist of Jordan Eats Normally Now.
- The Most Dangerous Game (http://the-most-dangerous-game.blogspot.com/) is the story of "proxiehunter", a man who hunts down the Servants of the Fears.
- Closest To The Sun (http://amercurialsmile.blogspot.com/) is the blog of "Achromatic Morality," a young woman who is hunted by a number of Fears.
- A Realm of Emptiness (http://thefuturehasbeenhereforever.blogspot.com/) tells the story of a number of people who have been trapped within the Empty City.
AC11's Guides (2014)
Blog Recommendations
- The Topography Genera Saga (http://sorrowboats.blogspot.com/): Which codified the dangerous aspects of EAT, as well as offering the perspective of an organization devoted to studying the Fears, also introduced the eponymous research center.
- City of Sinopia (http://cityofsinopia.blogspot.ca/): which introduced the Red Cap, a complex network of servants (The Scarlet Marked and the Blood Vessels), and laid the theory of two distinct Fears being connected to one another (Dying Man and Red Cap.)
- The Jeanette Experience (http://jeanetteisalive.blogspot.com/): Introduced the Smiling Man, and started as an independent blog rather than a Mythos work.
- The Amalgam Saga: which introduced the Brute, showed how combat-oriented Proxies of different Fears can be, and began the trend of creating alternate pantheons other than the Fears (The Ne Ti Mu and the Amalgam)
Writer's Guide
AC11 also wrote a comprehensive guide giving advice for writers, which can be found here.
Assorted Recommendations
People were asked to give reading material suggestions for newcomers, and this is what they said!
- Faces, Strange and Secret (http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/) is a good place to start. Anthology optional.
- I generally suggest reading as many alliterator blogs as you can (Check this list and CTRL+F for his name). I know there's literally over 80 of them, but the more you read the more you know our mythos. Every idea you can imagine, he's done it first, and he's pulled it off. I guarantee you.
- A good way to see our mythos's open-source nature in action is to read lots of different verses or canons. You tend to see some pretty different styles and portrayals through those, sometimes giving you an almost.. parallax-like view of the same concepts from different writers. Some canons to suggest: CuteWithoutThe's The Devil And God Are series, or as much as is up at the moment (right now I think it's only The Shower Scene); LizardBite's Great Game Verse is good for an idea of the most influential canon we've had; TheSomnambulist's Amalgam Saga; alliterator and I have two canon-specific stories we work on together (Topography Genera and Nine is God), and I'm told either one would suffice for an introduction.
- RedRockingHood's City of Sinopia (http://cityofsinopia.blogspot.ca/), shows how blogs are often focused on characters and how that can be done well, also shows how the focus isn't even on how new the Fear is
- The Writerer Chronicles (http://ohmygoditswriterer.blogspot.co.uk/). I also recommend reading about Writerer's Joke Fear pantheon. That guy had some good comedy.
- tgecko's Penny Dropped (http://dropped-penny.blogspot.com/). I love this portrayal of The Plague Doctor. It's similar to the portrayal in Squeek's Pulling Off Masks, so really I'd suggest reading either one (or both), it all depends on whether you prefer Blogger or Tumblr.
- Similarly, Squeek's Tea Time with the Traitor (http://thegeneralministry.tumblr.com/) has some great bureaucratic comedy.
- Staccato's Convention of the 24 (http://conventionofthe24.blogspot.co.uk/) and Moments of a Visionary (http://movementsofavisionary1.blogspot.it/). His blogs are short and powerful. You never want them to end.
- Lia's I Can't Escape (http://theabysslookingback.blogspot.com/). It's short, it's gripping, I won't spoil the Fear, it's one of the best pieces of writing in our entire mythos. If you want raw horror in your blogs, check it out.
- DarkShadows's Twelve Days (http://whereallmydemonshide.blogspot.com/). People are mixed on the ending, but the rest of the blog is substantially fantastic. It's a good blog that covers a lot of Fears without going off the rails or anything, keeping it all thematically concise and consistent.
- Omega's High School Never Ends (http://fearmythoshigh.blogspot.com/). 'Cause neither do the fucking laughs. (And his newly-released Burn the Sky? Quality, serious quality. Omega's one of my favourite writers and the only reason I'm not recommending Mephi is because he took it down.)
- Archangard's I am Not Who I Am (http://tosavetheancestralcityandhimself.blogspot.com/). I won't ruin the punchline. But it's a blog that's so funny it makes me cry.
- To Light a Candle (http://tolightacandle.blogspot.com/): Shows how our Mythos can be used with outer ideas.
- OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING (http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/contents): Shows how many vastly different ways you can go with the elements of the Mythos.
- The Shower Scene (http://thedevilandgodare.blogspot.co.uk/): A little bit of history of the Mythos combined with fiction, and introduces some ways Fears, characters, and blogs in general can be used.
- B-Movie Monsters (http://bmoviemonsters.blogspot.com/): Shows ways multiple fears can be used in action and introduces some of the more bizarre aspects in the mythos near the end. Definitely shows the definitive lack of canon.
I'd like to suggest Squeek's Pulling Off Masks (http://pullingoffmasks.tumblr.com/). That's pretty much the one that made me, as a writer, think "hey, this Fear Mythos thing has a lot of potential."
Recommended blogs for newcomers (in no order):
- Fearblog of Fear, Dreams and Sleep and Fear (http://curseofklopmansdiamond.blogspot.com/): if one is looking for a good laugh.
- brighter than a spoon (http://nihilartikelling.blogspot.com/)
- Call The Schoolmaster (http://calltheschoolmaster.blogspot.com/)
- Cumulonimbusaurus Rex (http://stormcloudsanddinosaurs.blogspot.be/)
- Eye for an eye (http://eye-for-an-eye-by-pyrogothnerd.tumblr.com/)
- Chain of Command (http://chainofcommand00500.blogspot.com/)
- Then after a couple blogs I always recommend Rapture.


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Published: "Vastarien: A Literary Journal" – Vol. 1, No. 1
To quote someone or other: It is finished. After three years of planning, preparation, and intensive editorial work by Jon Padgett and me (and a handful of additional key individuals), the first issue of Vastarien is now available. Early responses from readers are enthusiastically positive. Both print and Kindle editions can be purchased through Amazon.
As previously announced here, the journal is framed as a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. Its spirit is captured by a key passage from Ligotti's classic short story "Vastarien," telling of a special book that embodies an impossible otherworld,
a place where everything was transfixed in the order of the unreal. . . . Each passage he entered in the book both enchanted and appalled him with images and incidents so freakish and chaotic that his usual sense of these terms disintegrated along with everything else. Rampant oddity seemed to be the rule of the realm; imperfection became the source of the miraculous — wonders of deformity and marvels of miscreation. There was horror, undoubtedly. But it was a horror uncompromised by any feeling of lost joy or thwarted redemption; rather, it was a deliverance by damnation. And if Vastarien was a nightmare, it was a nightmare transformed in spirit by the utter absence of refuge: nightmare made normal.
The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork, and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Public interest and support have proved to be intense and widespread: Our Kickstarter campaign earlier this year blew the roof off by bringing in more than three times our stated funding goal. This has enabled us to pay pro rates to our contributors for the first three issues. The second and third of these issues are currently in the works. Not incidentally, Vastarien is the flagship project of Grimscribe Press, founded and operated by Jon.
Here's the TOC for the first issue. Also be sure to see our website. And again, you can purchase the first issue at Amazon.
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
Volume 1, Number 1
Foreword to the Polish edition of Teatro Grottesco (Okultura, 2014)
(Previously unpublished in English)
Thomas Ligotti
The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking
Kurt Fawver
The Nightmare of His Art: The Horrific Power of the Imagination in "The Troubles of Dr. Thoss" and "Gas Station Carnivals"
W. Silverwood
Affirmation of the Spirit: Consciousness, Transformation, and the Fourth World in Film
Christopher Slatsky
Try the Veal
Robert Beveridge
How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh
Michael Uhall
"Eccentric to the Healthy Social Order": Inversions of Family, Community, and Religion in Thomas Ligotti's "The Last Feast of Harlequin"
Michael J. Abolafia
"They say I should kill myself and not try to spoil their enjoyment in being alive": An Interview with Thomas Ligotti
(Previously unpublished in English)
Wojciech Gunia
Wade German
Eraserhead as Antinatalist Allegory
Colby Smith
The Theatre of Ovid
Aaron Worth
The Alienation of the Self: Marx, Polanyi, and Ligottian Horror
S. L. Edwards
Strange Bird
Ian Mullins
Solar Flare
Paul L. Bates
Night Walks: The Films of Val Lewton
Michael Penkas
Infinite Light, Infinite Darkness
Martin Rose
Nervous Wares & Abnormal Stares
Devin Goff
My Time at the Drake Clinic
Jordan Krall
Notes on a Horror
Dr. Raymond Thoss
Singing the Song of My Unmaking
Christopher Ropes
Kickstarter campaign for "Vastarien: A Literary Journal"
Some time ago here at The Teeming Brain, I announced the birth of a new literary journal titled Vastarien, to be edited by Jon Padgett and me, and to be framed as "a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas." We launched a website, www.vastarien-journal.com, where we published submission guidelines and started receiving stories, poems, articles, essays, and artwork. Jon and I then spent many months and countless hours responding to these submissions and crafting the first issue. Jon also retained the services of artist Dave Felton and designer Anna Trueman to create a stunning cover.
Yesterday we launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover the costs of the first three issues. It reached its funding goal today, in a total of 27 hours. In fact, we have now surpassed that funding goal, and we will soon be announcing some stretch goals. This is a wonderfully affirming response that shows what a high level of interest and excitement there really is for such a publication.
The Kickstarter campaign has nearly a month left. This means you can still become one of our backers. We have created an attractive set of rewards for different pledge levels. At the campaign page you can also read the full table of contents for Volume 1, Issue 1. Consider yourself invited:
Kickstarter – Vastarien: A Literary Journal
(BONUS NOTE: We're also now accepting submissions for issues 2 and 3. The submission period will close on March 1.)


text: How Severe Weather Can Lead to an AC Repair Posted August 11, 2017 While your air conditioner was designed to endure all of the crazy weather in Elmhurst, sometimes severe weather can lead to an AC repair. As an example, bad weather oftentimes corresponds with power surges. Since your AC is electronic, and power surges and electronics are not compatible, you'll want to make an effort to protect your AC. It's most appropriate to turn your system off using your thermostat and turn off the circuit breaker to enhance protection during stormy weather. A lot of people worry about too much water getting on their air conditioner and elect to cover it with a tarp or cover. This does not help, and could essentially damage your AC if you neglect to remove the covering before you run it again. Your AC was built to handle rain and snow, so hold onto your money and avert a potential AC repair by not covering your unit. However, if you find your unit is in standing water after a storm, you'll want to call Alan Heating Air Conditioning, Inc. before you turn it back on. Another danger to your AC during severe weather is falling (or flying) objects. This is a little hard to prevent, but keeping loose outdoor items restrained can help minimize your risk. Once the storm passes, make sure to clean up any debris that may have collected around your unit. If debris does hit and damage your unit, Alan Heating Air Conditioning, Inc. can inspect it and perform an AC repair if it's needed. In addition to storms, summer is known for its blazing heat. Just like it was made to withstand water, your AC was made to handle lots of heat from the sun. But, the hotter the sun, the harder your AC has to run to cool your home. You can help prevent some wear and tear by keeping your home's temperature setting a little higher on these days. The closer your indoor temperature is to the outdoor temperature, the simpler the work is for your AC. Many people are still comfortable with their thermostats set to roughly 78 degrees Fahrenheit on extremely hot days. Note that the older your AC is, the more it may struggle in hotter weather. If you have any questions about the effects of severe weather on your air conditioner, or think you are in need of an AC repair, call Alan Heating Air Conditioning, Inc.. We can be available at 630-833-1100. Back To Blog


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[Description: A brief goodbye to one's beloved princess.]
[SFX: Walking footsteps.]
It's time, isn't it?
I'm glad to have been able to meet you.
In the future, surely I'll end up wanting to meet you again.
But… my princess isn't from this world. Right?
So, now you need to return.
Let go of my hand…
That's right… Now, please go.
Goodbye… my princess.


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|Vegân Crâck Broccoli Tâcos
- 1 Heâd Broccoli (smâllish)
- 1 C. Âlmond milk or other non dâiry milk
- 2 tsp. Âpple cider vinegâr
- 1 C. Âll purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. Sâlt
- 1/4 tsp. Blâck pepper
- 1 C. Pânko breâd crumbs
- 1/2 C. BBQ sâuce of choice
- 1/4 C. Brown sugâr or coconut sugâr
- 1 tsp. Gârlic powder
- Juice of 1 lime
- Tortillâs
- Cilântro
- Câbbâge
- Vegân green goddess dressing, I used Trâder Joe's
- Preheât oven to 425 degrees
- Then cut the heâd of broccoli into smâll florets. Set âside.
- Now using 3 different smâll mixing bowls, âdd the âlmond milk ând âpple cider vinegâr to one, whisk. Then the flour, sâlt ând pepper to ânother, whisk. Then the pânko to the third bowl.
- Next, tâke â broccoli floret. Dip into the âlmond milk mixture, into the flour, coât completely, shâke off the âccess, then bâck into the âlmond milk, then into the pânko. Coâting completely in pânko.
- Sprây â bâking sheet with non stick sprây, then plâce the broccoli on the bâking sheet. Repeât with âll the broccoli, now sprây the tops of the broccoli with more non stick sprây.
- Bâke ât 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes, or until the broccoli is âll nice ând brown ând crispy. Flip hâlf wây through the bâking process.
- While the broccoli is bâking, mâke the sâuce. In â smâll sâuce pân, heât the BBQ sâuce, sugâr, gârlic powder ând lime juice on medium low. Whisk together, bring to â simmer, reduce heât to low ând simmer for â minute until âll the sugâr hâs dissolved. Remove from heât.
- Once the broccoli is done, toss the broccoli in the sâuce coâting completely. Then âssemble the tâcos. Broccoli, cilântro, câbbâge, dressing âll in â tortillâ.
- Full Recipe>>@-rabbitandwolves.com


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Super Bowl Sunday is just days away and Super Bowl food is as much a ritual as watching the game itself.
Here at Indigo Jones, we thought we would publish an "Unrecipe Mash-up" of some of the recipes we have posted previously, as an upgrade to the junk food that is usually served at these gatherings.
Here we go….
If you like chips and dip, why not try Hot Artichoke Dip with Garlic Pita Toasts? (1/22/10)
Don't wait for cold soggy pizza to be delivered, when you can be enjoying Mini Puffed Pastry Pizzettes with Tomatoes and Goat Cheese. (12/26/09)
Instead of peanuts, how about delicious Spiced Nuts? (11/11/09)
Why eat Buffalo wings with creamy blue cheese dressing, when you can enjoy baked chicken wings with Chinese BBQ Sauce? (10/13/09)
It's all easy to prepare, yummy to eat, and better for you than the greasy processed foods they replace. Just add beer and enjoy!
photo: Glasshouse Images
Tags: beer, buffalo wings, chinese bbq sauce, chips and dip, garlic pita toasts, hot artichoke spread, junk food, peanuts, pizza, pizzettes, spiced nuts, super bowl, upgrade traditional snacks


text: The Nintendo DS is all about the remakes, and who else deserves one more than Kirby? This loveable marshmallow puff was first seen in 1992 when he didn't even have color yet. Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of Kirby Super Star, which was released back in 1996 on the Super Nintendo as a collection of minigames and platform games. The DS version also includes a variety of games, but we only had a chance to take a look at a few: Spring Breeze, Kirby Card Swipe, Kirby on the Draw, and Snack Tracks.


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