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Not quite ready for world domination yet then: North Korea launches long-range rocket... but it blows up 90 SECONDS after take-off (so what went wrong?)
- Embarrassing moment for North Korea as long-range rocket shatters minutes after launch
- Leader Kim Jong-Un defiant as he unveils of statue of his father intended to cap 'triumph' of rocket launch
- Cost of the operation was estimated at $850million, enough to buy 2.5million tonnes of corn and 1.4million tonnes of rice
- White House described launch as 'provocative'
- Fears rogue nation will now push ahead with nuclear tests
- The U.S. and South Korea believe the launch may be a cover for testing a long-range ballistic missile
- New video emerges believed to show wreckage of crashed rocket
North Korea's rocket scientists have been forced to hang their heads in collective shame following the spectacular failure of their latest long-range missile which blew up moments after launch.
Military leaders had hoped to show off their nation's technological prowess by blasting a satellite into orbit in what the West had called a covert test of missile technology and a flagrant violation of international resolutions.
But in deeply embarrassing episode for the communist country and its new leader Kim Jong-Un, the Unha-3, or 'Milky Way', rocket exploded 90 seconds after blast off and came crashing down into the Yellow Sea.
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Pyongyang we have a problem: North Korea's Unha-3 long-range rocket, blew up within minutes of launch
Nerve centre: North Korean technicians man computer terminals at North Korea's space agency's General Launch Command Center on the outskirts of Pyongyang
Damp squib: The Unha-3, or 'Milky Way', rocket exploded 90 seconds after blast off and came crashing down into the Yellow Sea
In a rare admission of failure, state television reported within hours of the launch that the satellite had failed to reach orbit.
According to U.S. defence officials, the rocket flared brightly and apparently exploded about 90 seconds into flight.
In the past North Korea have always declared their launches successful despite evidence to the contrary from the international community.
But there are expected to be severe repercussions following the failure of the mission which was supposed to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of national founder Kim Il-sung.
'This is the first crisis for the new leader that has just taken over,' said Lee Jong-won, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo.
'It is inevitable that they will look to find who is responsible for the failure, and I wonder what the treatment will be for those in the military and the hard-line officers who have pressed for the launch.'
Upset: Kim Jong Un attends the Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea prior to the launch yesterday
This is what it should have looked like: A South Korean woman watches a TV news report showing a computer generated image of the rocket blasting off successfully
North Korea had planned to make 2012 the year in which it became a 'strong and prosperous nation' and the launch was part of a programme to burnish its credentials.
It even, unusually, invited foreign media in to cover the birthday celebrations and showed them the launch site.
Kim was named First Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea on Wednesday, as he accumulates titles and posts similar to those held by his father, Kim Jong-il who died in December.
The country is one of the most tightly controlled states on earth, with no free media and a tight grip on its population.
Worryingly some spectators have suggested the failure will prompt North Korea to press ahead with its third nuclear test to show its military strength.
A senior South Korean defence ministry official told a parliamentary hearing: 'The possibility of an additional long-range rocket launch or a nuclear test, as well as a military provocation to strengthen internal solidarity is very high.
'The two Koreas are divided by the world's most militarised border and remain technically at war after an armistice ended the Korean War in 1953.'
Defiant: Kim Jong-Un went ahead with the unveiling of a statue of his father Kin Jong-Il intended to cap 'triumph' of rocket launch
Pride: Worryingly some spectators have suggested the failure will prompt North Korea to press ahead with its third nuclear test to show its military strength
Noisy neighbours: South Koreans look towards the North Korean side for any signs of the launch with binoculars at the Unification Observatory, near the demilitarized zone
The launch came just weeks after a 'Leap Year' deal that saw Washington agree to provide food aid. Among the promises Pyongyang made in return was not to launch any long range rocket or undertake nuclear tests.
In response to the launch the United States has now cancelled a planned food aid deal with the rogue state.
A White House official, aboard Air Force One, told reporters: 'We are not going forward with any agreement to provide them with assistance.'
There is likely to be pressure from leading countries to impose more sanctions on the North. But it poses difficulties for China which will likely resist further sanctions even though its own diplomacy failed to stop the rocket launch.
'After giving so much aid to North Korea, it still did not listen to China, and this hurt China-North Korea relations and erodes domestic support in its continued support of North Korea,' said Shen Dingli, a professor and regional security expert at Shanghai's Fudan University.
'This also undermines confidence in the U.S.-China relationship, and whether China had done enough to persuade the North. So, China is also a loser, but not as big a loser as if North Korea succeeded in its launch,' he said.
A tough push for sanctions, which Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged, could lead a show of defiance from the North such as a nuclear test, or an attack like the one in 2010 that saw it shell a South Korean island, killing civilians.
Keeping a close eye: A United States reconnaissance aircraft touches down after a flight to monitor the failed launch
Controversial move: A North Korean soldier stands in front of the country's Unha-3 rocket
Liftoff: A South Korean man watches file video of North Korea's missile launch in Seoul. North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure early Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea
'Rather than any conventional provocation, I think North Korea will watch what U.S. and South Korea are doing and prepare for a nuclear test,' said Chung Young-chul, a professor at Sogang University's Graduate School of Public Policy.
The United States and Japan said the rocket, which they claimed was a disguised missile test and the North said was to put a satellite into orbit, crashed into the sea after travelling a much shorter distance than a previous North Korean launch.
Its failure immediately raised questions over the impoverished North's reclusive leadership which maintains one of the world's largest standing armies but which cannot feed its people without outside aid, largely from its solitary powerful backer, China.
'There is no question that the failed launch turns speculation toward the ramifications for the leadership in Pyongyang: a fireworks display gone bad on the biggest day of the year,' said Scott Snyder of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hub: Experts on space science and technology and media from different countries visiting the General Satellite Control and Command Center in Pyongyang, North Korea yesterday
On display: The Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite as it was unveiled to foreign journalists by North Korean officials
In a highly unusual move, the North, which still claims success with a 2009 satellite that others say failed, admitted in a state television broadcast seen by its 23 million people that the latest satellite had not made it into orbit.
The failure is the first major and very public challenge for the third of the Kim dynasty to rule North Korea just months into the leadership of a man believed to be in his late 20s.
'It could be indication of subtle change in the North Korean leadership in how they handle these things, something that may be different from the past,' said Baek Seung-joo of the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses a thinktank affiliated with South Korean Defence Ministry.
'I mean it would have been unthinkable for them to admit this kind of failure in the past, something that could be seen as an international humiliation. The decision to have come out with the admission had to come from Kim Jong-un.'
Early morning fog: The rocket launch can barely be seen through the morning mists
View from the top: A satellite image from April 11 shows the Tongchang-ri Launch Facility
Embarrassingly, the rocket flew for just a few minutes covering a little over 100km to explode over a sea separating the Korean peninsula and China, far less than the last rocket in 2009 that travelled 3,800km, alarming Japan which it over-flew.
The launch is in breach of United Nations Security Council sanctions and drew condemnation from the United States, Russia, South Korea and Japan and threats to tighten already harsh sanctions aimed at stopping Pyongyang developing nuclear weapons.
The concern is that North Korea is using launches to perfect the kind of technology that would enable it to build a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the United States.
North Korea has repeatedly defended its right to launch rockets for what it says are peaceful purposes and may have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the failed launch.
Taking action: Hillary Clinton said Thursday, 'Pyongyang has a clear choice: It can pursue peace and reap the benefits of closer ties with the international community, including the United States; or it can continue to face pressure and isolation'
China, the North's main backer, again appealed for 'calm', although its failure to dissuade Pyongyang from undertaking the launch despite propping up the ailing and impoverished state, showed the limitations of its diplomacy, analysts said.
'Despite the failure of its attempted missile launch, North Korea's provocative action threatens regional security, violates international law and contravenes its own recent commitments,' White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.
Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations condemned the launch as in breach of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, said the first stage fell into the sea west of South Korea, and the remainder was deemed to have failed.
'No debris fell on land,' NORAD said. 'At no time were the missile or the resultant debris a threat.
Defence: Patriot Advanced Capability-3 land-to-air missile units in Tokyo were ready to shoot down the North Korean launch if it crossed Japanese airspace
At the ready: A South Korean soldier rides on a self-propelled artillery vehicle during a military exercise against North Korea's possible attack DMZ
The U.N. Security Council will meet to discuss a possible response to North Korea's rocket launch today, said council diplomats.
Earlier this week U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the 15-nation council should 'respond credibly' to a North Korean missile launch.
Western diplomats say that the most China, a permanent veto-wielding council member and North Korea's protector, would accept is a rebuke of Pyongyang.
New sanctions, they said on condition of anonymity, are out of the question.
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Candy Cigarettes Meet Sugar Pills…
Remember candy cigarettes? Big league chew? Both candy designed to look like your favorite movie star or baseball player by smoking or chewing tobacco. I especially liked the paper wrapped gum that had sugar in the middle of it so when you blew on it, actual smoke came out from the end.
I read about how Acetaminophen is the best kind of placebo for back pain and that's what got me thinking. Sugar pills that trick your body and mind into feeling better. Seems like something that could have came from 80's. Candy cigarettes, and sugar pills look like prescription pills that taste like sweet tarts!
From Willy Wonka... brand-new Placebo Poppers!
(there's a better name out there. I just gave you the idea, you run with the rest of it)

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Andrew Budning, MD,CM, MSc. FRCS(C)
The Hospital for Sick Children
Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
University of Toronto
Associate Professor
Ophthamology and Vision Sciences
Phone: 416-813-7403
Fax: 416-813-7040
Email: email@example.com
Brief Biography
Dr. Budning is a paediatric ophthalmologist who spends part of his time at his private clinic and Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, specializing in paediatric ophthalmology and paediatric and adult strabismus. The remainder of his time is spent at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) where he focuses on the treatment of retinoblastoma and Coats' disease. In addition, Dr. Budning teaches at the University of Toronto and plays an active role in patient advocacy.
Dr. Budning has authored numerous papers in paediatric ophthalmology with special interest in retinoblastoma and Coats' disease and strabismus. In addition, Dr. Budning plays an important role in helping to guide technology in the Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Budning is a past chair of the Section on Ophthalmology OMA, and past member of the board of directors and chair for the Council of Provincial Affairs for the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. He is an active member of the Eye Health Council of Ontario, among other organizations and a strong advocate for ophthalmology, paediatric ophthalmology and eye care in North America.
Areas of Specialty
- Strabismus (paediatric and adult)
- Amblyopia
- Retinoblastoma


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I wrote a post a little while ago called Life Is Funny. Now, I want to tell you, Words Are Funny. I can string words along to make a thought and you can follow along and understand where my mind is coming from.
Or, I can say, stop sign, diamond ring, old blue truck, time, letters, words, thoughts, actions and deeds. Him and her, dancing in space and time. That first sentence has no context. It's words, but together they make no sense. Now, him and her, dancing in space and time. That is beautiful and makes my soul sing.
Words only make sense when they are put together correctly. Words are funny that way to me.


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Kenneth Higney interview
What do you consider to be your first real exposure to music?
I don't know what my first influence was but I do remember my first realization of music. It occurred when I was about five years old or so and driving with my mom and dad and older brother and sister. The radio was playing and I was in the back seat unaware that I was tapping my foot until my dad asked "who is doing that"? My mom said it was me and said something like "I guess he likes the music." Yeah, I guess I did. My parents and siblings were always playing music in the house – mom loved Dean Martin, Perry Como ("the epitome of manhood"), Jack Jones and the like and dad loved The Mills Brothers, Jerry Vale and such. They both loved songs – always singing (mom better than dad but dad always did it anyway). My older siblings loved everything from Wilson Pickett and the other soul stars to Johnny and The Hurricanes to Ronnie Dove. They both had wide ranging tastes in music so I imagine hearing it all from my parents and siblings was very influential. Loved music for as long as I can remember, especially "songs" and their lyrics.
Were you in any bands?
Never in any bands – only releases I put out were "Attic D." and the single of "I Wanna Be The King" b/w "Funky Kinky" until years later when I released the albums "American Dirt" and "Ambulance Driver". Matter of fact, getting ready to go in again and start work on the next collection.
Your album Attic Demonstration was privately released in 1976.
Well, it was not originally planned as a record – they were just song demos I had made in the hopes of getting some artists to record them. The reason they were pressed onto vinyl was because I figured it was easier than constantly making up cassette tapes to send out. When I got the album finished, I figured I would try to get some reviews. Not many came about but "Trouser Press" said something like "When he stumbles into chaos and dissonance, he sounds like Lou Reed and Neil Young without the aid of melody" – not the best thing to read but, hey, Lou and Neil and me in the same sentence – that was a bit of cool. The recordings were basically my friend Gordon Gaines and me mucking about without any rehearsals and all in one take with overdubs also "one takes". When I finally decided to do a "proper" recording, I brought in a full four piece band and got a more polished sound on the single of "I Wanna Be The King" and "Funky Kinky". Since then, with "American Dirt" and "Ambulance Driver", I have continued to bring in musicians as needed for each song – working with a core band whose anchor is the amazing Jack Pearson. I still do most of it – at least my parts – in "one take" to keep the spontaneity but the all around sound is much more produced than "A. Demo" was.
What are your strongest memories from the recording session and the production of the LP?
I don't know – we just went in and did it. I do remember the first time I sat behind the mic with my guitar and basically couldn't sing (people say I still can't sing and I never argue that point). The engineer asked if I wanted "some Scotch" but I figured I would just push through without any "help". Figured I was there and had to either give it a shot or never write again and I knew I would always write and the only way the songs were getting out was if, at the least, I did the demos. No time for choking up then. My other vivid memory was seeing a synthesizer for the first time and watching the genius of Gordon Gaines messing with it a few minutes and then, basically, mastering it. I knew he was brilliant but that moment solidified his genius for me. The world has no idea what it missed by not embracing him. Miss and love him to this day.
Did you play any shows after releasing your album?
No shows at all – I am a shy clown. One day for sure – but not back then.
How many copies were pressed?
I pressed up 500 copies and gave (for no money at all) the right to press up another 500 copies to some guy who loved the album. Figured if he was paying for them, might as well get them out. I recently signed an agreement (this time for money) to have it reissued on vinyl (500 copies again) and I also reissued it – with "King" and "Funky Kinky – on cd a few years back. 3,000 cd's were made and they sold very well. Kebrutney was originally set up to release "Demonstration" simply to have a name on the label. Since then I have released the "King"/"Kinky" single, a single by the amazing Jerry Rooth ("But You'll Try… Again" b/w "But You Loved Me Anyway"), a promo compilation titled "Single N Independent" (lots of indie acts). They were all released over 25 years ago. Recently I released an album by Joe Bendik ("The King Of Anti Folk" as he is known), Ashley Turba (which I co-produced with Jack Pearson and which contains four of my songs), the soundtrack to an indie film on which I was the music supervisor and which has gained a bit of notoriety because of a scandal in the New York City pension fund office. The film was "Chooch" – feel free to Google "Chooch and New York Pension Fund" – you should get some interesting results. The last two things released were "American Dirt" and "Ambulance Driver". At this point the label is basically an outlet for my cd's but I may put some more things on there. We will see. I like the idea of having "physical" copies of everything although I have to admit – the download life is here and I have to get the music out there that way also.
Were the songs written specifically for the project?
None of the songs were written specifically for the album – they were all written beforehand and all were written – as mentioned above – with the hope of having them "covered". The "band", such as it was, had no hand in the writing of any of the songs. All were completely written before we entered the studio. A practice I still do today – write the songs alone – work out the arrangement – go into the studio and listen for "the magic".
Where did you get the inspiration to write songs like "Night Rider", "Children of Sound" and "No Heavy Trucking", which I absolutely love!
Thanks for "loving" the song. I don't like to talk about the "inspiration" but in this case, I will tell you what I remember about the three songs you mentioned. "Night Rider" was written after I read a book about the Ku Klux Klan. I never knew they were called "Night Riders" and liked the name. The song is a simple condemnation of the Klan – "Trying to frighten like a man who's not around" refers to the Klan's fear mongering – much like the man who's not around (Hitler). "Children Of Sound" – I have no idea where that idea came from – not a clue. "No Heavy Trucking" came from a sign I always saw when I was a truck driver. Meant I (and no one else) could not drive a truck down some roads. Yeah, I didn't pay much attention to the signs at the time except to write the song. I like that one a lot.
Could you say something about the cover design?
It was a quick photo shoot by my then girlfriend. We took it in Jersey City behind the now demolished "Roosevelt Stadium" and in the background you can see the Bayonne Bridge which connects Bayonne (where I was living at the time) and the city of Newark. Not much to say about the "design" except that I wanted the lyrics on the back cover so as to make it easy for anyone who might want to record a song or two. Black and white was decided upon – I think – simply because we liked the photo.
What happened next? I know you recorded single "I Wanna Be the King / Funky Kinky" in 1980.
Yeah, the Funky King single was released (1,000 copies pressed). Copies are around – gets played a bit here and there and is on the cd reissue of "Attic Demonstration".
What were you doing in the 80's, and what in the 90's?
I was doing what I continue to do. Live as well as I can, stay happy and healthy and write. Was always writing and continue to do so. "Ambulance Driver" has songs on it dating back to the "A. Demo" days as well as ones written in the 80's and 90's and onto songs written last year. I have lots of songs – all great I must say – and will hopefully get them all out as the years tumble down.
In 2009 you released a new album called American Dirt.
I love "American Dirt" – it was, as someone said, as if I had been given money by a label to do a "proper" recording after the label folk had heard "A. Demo" "Dirt" is more fully produced and contains many songs from the "Demo" days. This is what I wanted to achieve with my recordings after I decided to be the "artist" as well as the writer. "A. Demo" was not meant as a recording – they were all demos – but everything since then (The "King" single and "Dirt" and "Ambulance Driver") was and is conceived as a "recording" as well as a "song". It was recorded in a town called Murfreesboro in Tennessee and was done with me, Jack Pearson, a drummer and bass player laying down basic tracks (with my one, two or three take vocal) and then "layering" the recording as needed. Some of the songs are basic and bare and others have more layers. Whatever I felt the song called for was put on each one individually.
Well, I have to say many thanks for making this interview with me.
Thanks for the interview – it was fun and much appreciated. Future plans are to continue to write, record and unleash the monsters upon the world. Hopefully I'll start doing some live gigs and see lots more of the world.
How do you feel about the fact, that young people from other parts of the world listen to your music?
I love that anyone at all finds something of interest in any of my songs. That has always been the reason. Never been about "making millions" – it is what runs through me and very few things give me equal pleasure. I love writing and have done it without making any money from it and will continue to write (and record) until the dark comes and takes me to hang with the others. It would be so cool to have "young people from other parts of the world" cover some of the songs so I can hear the interpretations but, if that never happens, it is still cool that "the world" has heard some of the songs and enjoyed them.
Thank you again for your time and effort, Kenneth. Would you like to share anything else that I didn't ask?
No, sir, I think we "shared" enough – just be happy and enjoy life and treat each other with respect. Thanks so much for this – stay well.
To purchase any of Kenneth Higney's cd's please go to www.kebrutney.com
– Klemen Breznikar


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Invermark Guest House sleeping up to 0 guests
About this property
Invermark House is a family run Guest House, professionally run, offering our guests first class accommodation with an emphasis on personal attention in a relaxed and homely environment.
Invermark House is an elegant, detached Victorian Villa set in its own spacious, peaceful and pleasant grounds. The property was built in 1856 at the time of the Jute Mill boom when it is claimed that Broughty Ferry was one of the wealthiest suburbs in Europe. We are listed in the Michelin Guide.
We are situated within 10 minutes drive from Carnoustie and offer excellent packages for golfers visiting Scotland. The town centre of Broughty Ferry , only 5 minutes walk away, offers a wide and varied range of shops, restaurants and pubs.
Breakfast is server in our attractive spacious,open dining room with pleasant views towards our garden s at the front and rear of the property. Breakfast is served between 7 am and 9 am Monday to Friday and 8.30 am to 9.30 am Saturday and Sunday. We cater for vegetarians and those with special dietary needs.
If you are leaving earlier than these times please contact us and we will arrange either an earlier breakfast time or a cold breakfast tray for you. If you would like to try our local Arbroath Smokies we would be delighted to oblige provided the request is made the day before.
We offer a choice of Double, Twin, Single and Family rooms. All our rooms are tastefully decorated, furnished and spacious. Additionally two of our rooms also feature a bath.
After your stay at the Invermark Hotel you will not be able to forget your experience. With exceptional golf, hospitality that is second to none and some of the finest restaurants Scotland has to offer, you will be booking your next trip as soon as you get home.
Directions to Invermark Guest House
Our Guest House is situated on the A930. If arriving from Dundee Train station, Take the A92 towards Broughty Ferry then the A930. We are on Monifieth Road in Broughty Ferry.
If arriving by bus, the No.73 stops right outside our door. If you require any further directions, just give us a call on 01382 739430 and we will help you.
Check in and check out times
You can check in from 12:00. You need to check out by 11:00.
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Morning everyone, I hope you've had a lovely week. As things are still a little at sixes and sevens here in English Wedding Towers* I'm sharing another treat from the English Wedding Showcase blog with you today. This is Louise and Will's wedding – or a part of it.
My fabulous friends and sponsors McAvoy Wedding Photography have been writing up their real weddings as little mini-series over the last few weeks, which I love! It means the English Wedding Showcase is a thriving and busy blog full of real weddings. This is part four (count 'em!) of Louise and Will's wedding entitled "In The City" – with my favourite pictures from their day.
"Last month we had a fab time photographing Louise and Will's lovely Midland Hotel wedding. It was a gorgeous blend of luxury and handmade personal details with a pink and rock music theme. Today is all about Louise and Will-taking a stroll in the city, toasting their wedding in the intimacy of the honeymoon suite and sharing their love on the dancefloor.
Proof that Manchester rain will not spoil a bridal party shoot 🙂
Louise looks super chic as she strolls through the city
Will looks relaxed as he takes shelter under the arches
The spiral staircase of the Midland Hotel looks fab in this image.
A lovely set of relaxed intimate honeymoon suite images
Love is in the air as the dancing begins
For more gorgeous Manchester images and adorable dancing toddlers please visit our blog at http://www.mcavoyphotography.co.uk/blog/a-midland-hotel-wedding-chic-in-the-city/
See more of Louise and Will's Midland Hotel wedding on the English Wedding Showcase here:
- Part one – girly pink rock chick!
- Part two – with Father Dennis
- Part three – pretty bubbles everywhere
Thanks to Jenny and Keith for sharing so much of their work on the English Wedding Showcase. See all of their latest posts via this quick link http://english-wedding-showcase.com/author/jennyandkeithmcavoy/ or visit their official website at www.mcavoyweddings.co.uk
*I don't have Towers at English Wedding. I stole the name from Tiararama… so glam!
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Cle Elum, Washington (PRWEB) September 19, 2014
Realogics Sotheby's International Realty, the Pacific Northwest's largest affiliate for the global real estate network, announced today a private, closed bid auction of twenty remaining, fully-serviced lots surrounding the popular Sun Country Golf Course in Cle Elem, just 75 minutes east of Seattle off Interstate 90 (14 miles from Suncadia Resort). With minimum bid prices being accepted from just $39,000 to $79,000 depending on the lot, the home sites represent a potential savings of more than 75% off original listed prices. Prospective buyers and brokers are required to select their lot and submit their bid by October 31 and be prepared to close by November 30 in order to qualify for the private offering. Brokers require proof of financing to be supplied prior to the October 31 deadline. Call for more details.
"The developer has decided to reduce his land portfolio by liquidating the lots that surround the Sun Country Golf Course," says Brad Vancour, the listing broker with Realogics Sotheby's International Realty. "This home site selloff presents a compelling opportunity to build and own a mountain home at a fraction of the cost of nearby resorts."
Perfectly centered between the thriving metropolises of Seattle, Bellevue and Eastern Washington's fertile farmlands and wine country lies the Cascade Mountain Range – home to world-class, all-season recreation and the Sun Country Golf Course and home sites. Spectacular by nature, the 18-hole, manicured fairways and greens comprise 5,715 yards and features more than 200 feet of elevation changes between the Yakima River and the ridge affording dramatic vistas. Beyond golfing at Sun Country or nearby courses at the renowned Suncadia Resort, residents of Sun Country are afforded immediate access to the endless hiking, fly-fishing, watersports and an abundance of nature basking in 300 days of annual sunshine. During the winter months, the golf course is a popular destination for all winter sports including cross-country skiing and tobogganing. Prospective buyers are also only 17 miles from the Snoqualmie Pass downhill ski resorts.
"Our residents truly prefer the relaxed and approachable lifestyle offered by the Sun Country Golf Course and community instead of the high-priced resort alternatives," adds Vancour. "Beyond the affordability, we enjoy the freedom to build what we want without design restrictions or high maintenance fees found elsewhere. Likewise, residents are permitted to explore the area with off road vehicles and snowmobiles, which are prohibited in other nearby communities. And with all the savings on the land, our homebuyers can prioritize their lifestyle instead of their mortgage payments."
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IE Delays and Lack of Communication Making Press
Todd Bishop at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a Monday column there called, "Software Notebook," in the Business section of the paper. He is also one of the people in the local Seattle press that has a blog on Microsoft issues and regularly covers Microsoft.
In this week's column, he focuses Internet Explorer and the lack of information about IE8, the general lack of communication concerning IE, its schedule, and plans, and the frustrations outside of Microsoft about this:
After taking five years to come out with the current Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft offered a mea culpa and said it was aiming for a new release every 12 to 18 months. But so far there has been little information about Internet Explorer 8, and no public schedule for releasing preliminary and final versions. It now appears that a gap of two years or more between IE releases might be more realistic, say analysts and others in a position to assess the situation. That kind of time frame wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for Internet Explorer users, one analyst says. But a couple of former members of the Internet Explorer team say they wish the company was being more clear about what the next Internet Explorer will entail.
After exchanging a bit of e-mail, Todd and I spoke on the phone last week. I am quoted for the piece, along with IE alumnus, Dave Massy.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft has a response to this and, perhaps, if it prompts the IE team to be a slight bit more public (like saying anything at all really).
Update: There is more on this topic on Todd Bishop's blog today as well.


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This might be my favorite Curvy Kate soft bra. It wrinkles a little bit, but you know, you can't have it all. I will have to alter the band since it is a bit stretched out, but otherwise it is a solid bra.
This bra is not owned any more
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January 1, 1295
Priest Guyart des Moulins completes the Bible Historiale, the most popular French translation of the medieval period. Because Guyart's work did not include the full Bible, book shops would append books from alternate translations.
- The Bible Historiale – The History of Bible Translation
- Bible Historiale – Wikipedia
Further Reading
- Manuscript Portal – Bible Historiale


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I finished Chapter 11 and wrote 1166 words tonight (cuz i finshd d gray c u 2mrrw).
I had made a stop to Bath and Body Works this evening and, since I always park near where the Gamestop is at the mall, I couldn't help but stop a moment and came out with the first Rock Band game, which enabled me to cross another item off the "Stuff I Want" list. Game in hand, I desired nothing more than to come home and play.
Instead of going straight home to play my game, I remembered that I was nearly out of my daily steamer meals that I eat for lunch and since time has taught me that the moment I run out of food, I run straight for the junk in the cafeteria, I did the adult thing and went grocery shopping.
After shopping for only what I needed, I went home and even played an iPhone game for ten minutes, before putting away all my groceries and admiring my new BBW purchases, all with the full intent of playing Rock Band for the rest of the evening. There was just one caveat tonight…I knew I had to make a post before midnight.
Any other night like tonight, where I went about my life, pretending to be an adult, it would not have mattered if I was seven words from completing the chapter, everything else that happened this evening would have taken over my mind and kept me from writing. I would have spent too long in the grocery store making plans to cook all these recipes that I would never get around to making or gone to Macy's as well and dropped another 2-400 on stuff I don't really need or bought three or four games that I had perused, but hadn't put on the list and then gone home to play all of them well into the night. I had so many viable distractions tonight and yet…I finished Chapter 11.
I've heard it said that it takes 21 days to make a habit and I've proven that wrong many, many times as I get to day 23 or 25 and completely lose it. With this blog, however, I've grounded myself into something that keeps me accountable to me and the progress I've made just astounds me.
I completed "the heavy notes" for Damen just after my birthday in 2009 and I spent the vast majority of 2010 trying to accomplish what seemed fairly simple at the time; just write. But, I went from October 2009 through November 2010 with only getting through 3.5 chapters of the whole book. I look back on the progress I've made since December 2010 and I smile…wide.
I've completed nine chapters in four months, when it took me more than nine months to get to four chapters last year. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This blog keeps me honest.


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'The near invisibility, online as well as off, of writer Duncan Smith (1954-1991) is a stark reminder of how thoroughly information can go missing, or never emerge at all. The barely visible traces left by Smith, who published little during his lifetime, can be easily and briefly enumerated: The Age of Oil, his 1987 book of essays, long out of print and extremely rare; a few articles in the back issues of Flash Art, Artforum, Semiotext(e) and Art & Text (most of which were reprinted in The Age of Oil); a catalogue essay for a show of graffiti art at a Munich gallery; a contribution to a book on painter Alain Jacquet, and the text (partly co-authored with Diego Cortez) for a book of photographs of Elvis Presley during his Army years in Germany. The only examples of his writing currently online are two brief essays and his translation of a text by Friedrich Schlegel on the website of Bomb Magazine, which published him while he was alive.
'Oddly, Smith may be best known not for his writing but for his appearance in Eric Mitchell's film Kidnapped (1978), an hour-long Super-8 document of No Wave Cinema viewable on YouTube. Yet even here his presence is elusive. The author of a recent article on Kidnapped is at a loss to identify Smith beyond his name: "It's a hangout movie with Mitchell, actress and No Wave fixture Patti Astor, Mudd Club co-founder and James Chance (of The Contortions) manager Anya Phillips, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks bass player Gordon Stevenson, and the mysterious Duncan Smith." In other discussions of Kidnapped and the downtown scene, people who are apparently unfamiliar with his writings often misidentify Smith as an artist.
'None of this would be worth commenting on—after all, history, even recent history, is full of forgotten authors, obscure bohemians and marginal cultural figures—were it not for the fact that Smith was a writer and theorist of striking originality. Valuable in their own right, his experiments with language paralleled and very likely influenced the work of important visual artists of the 1980s. Smith was also a candid chronicler of New York City gay life, pre and post AIDS, and a sharp-eyed observer of American popular culture. Wielding a self-invented style that pushed the strategies of post-structuralism into the realm of experimental literature, Smith mined Freud, Lacan and Derrida to pursue his own obsessive theories of language and society. Beginning in the late 1970s, long before Chris Kraus's I Love Dick, he dared to mix confession and critical theory in a radical manner that is as close to his literary contemporaries such as Kathy Acker as to any postmodern art theorist.
'Typically, Smith's essays begin with a fragment extracted from everyday existence—a common phrase, an object, an encounter—which he then subjects to a series of variations and deformations that draw on classical rhetoric and psychoanalysis. The departure point for "Reflection on Rhetoric in Bars" is Smith and a friend being pushed out of a bar at closing time. "Why Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" unpacks the clichéd phrase of the title. The brief text "On Wit" meditates on the significance of the popping of a champagne cork." Smith's most favored source, however, is the entertainment industry. The first essay in The Age of Oil, for instance, offers an explanation of Elvis Presley's propensity to give away expensive cars, which Smith traces back to the singer's obsession with his mother and his twin brother who died at birth. As in much of Smith's writing, "An Interpretation of Elvis's Car Giving" hinges on proper names, and frequently resorts to italics. …
'Over the next three and a half pages—this is one of his shorter pieces—we learn how the name "Cadillac" can be read as "a virtual rebus of events in Elvis's life" as Smith uses the brand's three syllables ("cad" "ill" and "lac") to uncover the rock 'n' roller's hidden motivations. Elvis's choice of Cadillacs as gifts is, in Smith's account, over-determined. His mother, it appears, fell in love with Cadillacs when she saw a "fine lady" drive up to a hospital in one. "This very hospital," Smith observes, "with its doctors and sophisticated medical technology could have relieved her of the death of Jesse Garon." With his first paycheck from Colonel Parker, Elvis bought his mother a Cadillac, a car whose name, says Smith, "echoes the name Garon whose bereavement would last all the Presleys' lives." For Elvis, Smith speculates, the first syllable of "Cadillac" mirrors his propensity for misbehaving, sparked by his guilt for being the surviving twin: "With cad one is first struck by the association with a cad, a bad boy, a jilter. The radical innocence of a dead infant perpetually stipulated that the evils of Elvis would prove him a cad, a bad boy." After spinning phrases around "ill" and "lac" Smith arrives, in the penultimate paragraph, at the word "car": "This car was made possible by Colonel Parker's deal with RCA, Elvis's new record company. Car and RCA are anagrams. The car/Cadillac was also the RCA/Cadillac that would be able to buy his mother gifts that filled the lack of Garon." …
'There is so much more to be said about Duncan Smith, both his writings and his place in and influence on the New York artworld. I haven't mentioned his activity as a poet, nor his involvement with the music scene, nor even touched on Days in the Clouds, an unpublished collection of his essays from 1987 to 1991 in which he writes at length, and heartbreakingly, about his battle with AIDS, his experiences as a gay man in New York, and his departure from the city, initially for Cornell to work on his Ph.D, then to Portland, Oregon, where he died. For now, more than a quarter century after his death, it is perhaps enough to break, if only slightly, the silence that has far too long enveloped him and his writing.' — Raphael Rubinstein
Duncan Smith by Raphael Rubinstein
Everybody Wants Exposure by Duncan Smith
Schlegel on Wit by Duncan Smith
Why Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend by Duncan Smith
'The Age of Oil' is out of print, but …
Kidnapped [Eric Mitchell, 1978] Featuring Duncan Smith, Patti Astor, Anya Phillips, Gordon Stevenson.
Duncan Smith The Age of Oil
Slate Press
'A key figure in the Downtown art, film and music scenes of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Smith, who died of AIDS in 1991, forged a unique style, a distinctive interpretative apparatus, that pushed techniques borrowed from psychoanalysis and post-structuralism into the realm of avant-garde writing. He was also—though not in this particular essay—a memoirist of heartbreaking effect. In his brief life (he was 36 when he died), Smith had a significant though as yet unacknowledged influence on the course of contemporary art, most notably via dialogues with his friends Jean-Michel Basquiat and Rammellezee, whose art is pervaded by radical wordplay very close to Smith's); his own work, beyond his writings, includes collages, collaborative projects such as an unpublished photo-text book about the movie Sunset Boulevard created with artist Seth Tillett, and roles in legendary underground films such as Eric Mitchell's Kidnapped and Underground USA.' — Raphael Rubinstein
from On the Current Symbolic Status of Oil
Cars, as everyone knows, are powered by oil, a condition that powerful interests have aligned Western countries, America in particular, to for many decades. Oil is the law for a car's operation, and the law, or as the French would say, la loi, is oil. The loi/law of oil is thus necessary for the American car to go anywhere. And where will the ego goe without oil, without a car? Heretofore the loi has always been cars driven by oil. This is witnessed by the failure of steam driven and electrically powered cars to have any success on the internal combustion machine market, the present-day oil powered cars made in Detroit. Without the loi of oil (conditioned by car companies and oil companies), there would be the likehood of no oil, no oil for egos to goe on. This is the supreme threat to America's ego for without it nothing will goe, unless America's interests liquidate the aggressive, oil-hoarding counterpart. Goe over there…
Within the car there is a radio, and within the word car there is the anagram RCA. Originally a company aligned to the technical innovation of transmitting sound over distances, RCA became equatable with the radio. And nearly every car has a radio or RCA (letterally) within it.
Cars and radios are thus in intimate connection, rhetorically a metonymic one. What is interesting is that cars are powered by oil just as radios, in association, are powered by oil. Both are in conjunction with oil, cars burn oil while radios play oil, that is, records, made of oil or vinyl, are played over the apparatus of a radio. The car that burns oil reproduces the radio that plays oil, here records, an oil-derived product. Even the word radio has two essential letters for car.
Again without oil our cars or RCA could not goe. The loss of oil to power our cars is as threatening as the loss of oil/vinyl/records for our RCA, our popular music, played over the car radio, the radio cryptically echoing the car it is contained in. We hear the radio with our cars, noting another similarity between car and ear. Ears hear the car radio. Also, ear is within hear. Since we have ended up identifying with our cars so much, we've also ended up identifying with the stars our ears hear, our popular musicians heard on music stations over the radio. Elvis Presley loved cars, which is inevitable since he was signed over to the record company RCA. America loves cars and loves to hear Elvis Presley. The lack of oil will then make loving cars and hearing rock stars an impossibility (since their voices are on an oil/vinyl record).
Ears have wax in them. Wax too is synonymous with oil, as demonstrated by the title for a hit record called Hot Wax, now transformable into Hot Oil. There is already oil in our ears, the wax, enforced by the idea that there is oil in our cars, in our radios. To be close to the music played over the radio seems to be a condition we have already met up with because the wax/oil makes the distantly playing record much more interior and proximate. Popular music resolves this distance by using words in songs that are exchangeable with its listeners. We then presume the sung material to be our very own, our "feelings." Singing the record to oneself is an introjection, an interiorization of the distant singer. The singer is brought closer to ourselves, just as the unconscious idea is one of already possessing that record inside our ears, but as ear wax or ear oil.
Around the time that cars and radios were assuming their egological power over American citizens, UFO's were being cited in great numbers. You could surmise this bit of common knowledge to be widespread around the beginning of the 1950s, the beginning of a wide scale introjection of records played on car radios. UFO's, or flying saucers, were also often cited from people's ears. Around the time that cars and radios were assuming their egological power over American citizens, UFO's were being cited in great numbers. You could surmise this bit of common knowledge to be widespread around the beginning of the 1950s, the beginning of a wide scale introjection of records played on car radios. UFO's, or flying saucers, were also often cited from people's ears. I'll venture a correspondence that might illuminate these mutual car/radio/UFO phenomena. A flying saucer is a disco, the Spanish word for saucer or disc. A UFO is often described as a disc-like object, resembling in many instances, a record. Since a record playing on the radio cannot be seen, a UFO can, though very rarely. To see a UFO, to be the lucky person, is also the desire, the delusion to see the disco, disc or record that we never see in a car when the radio plays that record/music we enjoy so much. And that playing record is a burning one, a condensation that accounts for the reported brilliance of UFO's, the UFO's that are brightly lit, lit as if on fire or burning. Granted the accounts of people who might have truly seen a saucer, it also bespeaks a delirious curiosity, at heart a desire to see as opposed to hear what those purely heard saucers look like. And their appearance is conditioned by the confusion of burning and playing, transforming the UFO disc into a bright, fiery object.
Furthermore when a radio plays a song, we have no visual equivalent as to how that sound reached the ear, the car's radio or the radios in our homes. A flying saucer, seen by someone, is the visual transmission of a purely auditory stimulus. And with our reflexes reduced to staring (while driving) so much, the mysterious radio sound is perforce given its sheer visual support, a record that flies into our car. The quickness of the radio signal is also in relation to the UFO, that ultra-fast disc. Crazy as this idea might seem, it fits in with the craziness of the teenagers then who loved to listen to car radios as were those people called "crazy" if they saw a UFO, or fou, the French word for mad or crazy. People who hear pop music go crazy like the people who see UFO discs. A record, a piece of wax, a waxen disc, flies into my ear, a nonidentifiable object, a nonvisual object, the sound. Already crazy with a nonscopic sound in my ear, the record/wax sound makes me crazier and the record/wax/disco/UFO makes me the craziest, since I'm really seeing what I can only hear. Incidentally, a major record and stereo equipment entrepreneur goes by the name "Crazy Eddie."
When cars goe or drive on tar, they drive over the asphalt on such roads. Without asphalt or tar, there would be no surface for a car to drive on, no tar or oil for a car to drive with and no tar or sound from the records heard over the car radio to listen to. A car travels along a road, a path, a trail. These are the "grooves" on a road, associative with the "grooves" on a record. Road equals record, since both are derived from oil, roads being made of asphalt and records composed of vinyl, derived as asphalt is, of oil products.
The stylus that plays the record is the car that drives along the road. A record's turning motion allows the stylus to move. The turntable is powered by electricity, often a transformation of energy from oil. A stylus, besides being a writing instrument, is also related to a ship's prow, the edge that cuts through water. Every car has a hood, a "prow" of sorts. Ships travel as do cars, one on water, the other on land. Both are called "she." The car/ship has a stylus, podium, prow that cuts along a path, and thus its mark or trail is made. The wake of churned-up water is the ship's path as the drippings of oil is the car's path. The oil drippings of cars are the indicia of a car's path (not to mention its tire marks). The record's sound from an LP is the index of a stylus' path. Sound travels on tar/oil/vinyl records as cars travel on tar/oil/asphalt. Thus a stylus traveling down a record groove is an allegory of a car traveling down a road.
In another vein, without oil there would be no art. In art, there's the word tar, an anagram. Tar is derived from oil. Painters, of course, use oil to make their art. There are many kinds of oil, or many tars: vinyl, records, acrylic, etc. Artists need tar. Artist-musicians need tar/oil, the same kind of tar that's involved in the manufacture of records. Painters and musicians employ different art forms or they use different tar forms. Some of them can become a star after becoming successful with their art made of tar, such tar allowing them to goe far. The anagrams arts/tars/star are crucial to the symbols that determine an identification in our culture.
With stars on tars doing arts, the lack of oil threatens their activity too. No oil means no arts, not a single star because of the lack of tars. Again without art or tars or star(s), what will that do to star(ing), what will happen to our sight, since no arts/star(s) will be able to be looked at? What films will we see and what car windows will we look through? As well, no ear wax/oil/tars/arts/star(s) over the car's radio also means an imminent crisis for our hearing. No records played or burned, no RCA and no car, means no sound heard as it means no oil for cars to drive on. Not being able to see and hear, taken in their sense as drives, is also a lack of the energy or oil to keep those drives goeing. The other drives, the oral and anal, also derive from this collapse of culturally shared images, pleasurewords, mythologies and lois. Thus an ego will then not goe without being driven by the four-wheeled drives of the apertures of our bodies, our bodies that have energy or oil along with the rims or sources from which to discharge that energy: the ears, the eyes, the mouth and the anus. Egos go(es) to drive with oil and aim at oil. Oil drives us from one state of oil to another state/taste of oil.
To taste oil introduces oil's relation to the third gear of the oral drive, noting another phonic resemblance. America's addiction to tar is as bad as its addiction to the tar in cigarettes. Even low-tar or ultra low-tar cigarettes resonate with the desire to move away from tar, too much tar, too much oil. Low-mileage cars are really low in tar as some cigarettes are. Low-tar cigarettes are a "rationing" of tar, like the inevitable "rationing" of oil when supplies get low. The oral drive, exemplified by smoking, is also present in the repetitive and pleasurable activity in listening to songs over the radio, on the jukebox, on one's stereo. Both smoking and listening involve tar/ art and oil/vinyl records. Both are an inhalation, since with smoking one interiorizes tar and in the other, in listening, one can interiorize via the mouth the record's voice. Resinging a popular song that is played on oil is inhaling a cigarette that has "tar" in it. Introjection is an oral affair, and the record assures us of oral stimulation by the silent, but still vocalized, activity under-goeing when we listen, when we hear the wax in our car that we cannot see. True, the ear wax is invisible, the partition between seeing the ear's contents and the eye that is to accomplish that act is permanent, unless you were enterprising enough to have a photograph taken of it. Oil is not only in our cars, but in our ears, in our eyes (our stares), and in our mouths. A cigarette, believe it or not, is a small car, an i caret get, an I get(te) a car, or simplified, an I get car. Car's rhyme with tar could mean I get tar for cigarette, "I smoke cigarettes" can translate into either "I smoke I get cars" or " I smoke I get tars." With smoking, the cigarette's smoke is similar to the exhaust that comes from a car, the remains of burnt-up car oil are also the remains of burnt-up tar. But is the cigarette filter's passage of smoke the only "exhaust" when we, as smokers, exhale the "exhaust" from our mouth? The exhaust of a car resembles either the cigarette smoke that then passes through the lungs, throat and mouth, as an exhalation, as exhaust. Smoking a cigarette is then an allegory of a car burning oil as both of them spew forth "exhaust."
Another attenuation of the oral/oil drive. The LP for a vinyl record could bear an i between the letters 1 and p, producing lip. LPs are sung on our lips, our singing reproduces the singing on the record. Lip synch is LP synch, a truism to the argument that our culture is heavily involved in the introjection, the filling of an oral void, of records and oil.
Also, introjecting oil is implicated in the confusion as to whether oil is water or not. Oil is not water, but then water is a liquid, just as oil is.
The fourth gear in the "drive" is the anal drive.
Oil companies have a lot of gold from all the money they've made. Gold and oil are nearly synonymous, since their prices affect the status of the world market so radically. Oil is precious, but more precious in its refined state. Black, crude, "dirty," the oil is originally shitty. Refined, made clean by oil refinery, sewage system plants, the oil loses its shittiness and becomes more valuable, like gold, and circulatable, rather than in its less valuable, "dirty," crude state.
But if oil is shitty in its crude state and then valuable in its refined state, a hit record, or one of the hits, here was once shit, since shit and hits are anagrams of each other. From crude oil equals shit to refined oil or vinyl equals hits as in the phrase "Top 40 Hits" (Shit), oil will always bear the meaning of its excremental status. Records, as texts, are involved in the problematic of being "extrinsic excrement" or "intrinsic ideality" (Derrida). Oil pollutes too, as in oil slicks or massive refinery plant fires. The dead remnants of prehistoric forests left their rich deposits behind so as to fuel our possessions. Oil is the manure of ancient forests just as it is a manure when "crude" or "dirty" before it is cleaned and refined into the Top 40 Hits (Shit) vinyl LPs. The anal drive completes oil's four-wheel drive that helps the American (to) drive.
Also the anality of oil is prefigured in the means to mine it. Drilling into the earth to yield the riches (Atlantic Richfield ) withheld by resistant layers of crust obeys sadistic, coprophagic ideas. (Coprophagia is "feeding off dung.") For the earth to withhold its riches is much like the constipated retention of faeces that enemas or in similar fashion oil rigs relieve.
Oil is gold and gold is shit. Thus oil is shit, either because it resembles shit (dark, untouchable, nauseating, hidden from view) or because its extremely valued state allows us to compare it with what is the least valued as gold is with shit. Gifts, and the symbology derived from them, obey oblative, anal drive ideas. Oil companies and
oil rich countries give us oil, or they, in their withholding, retain the precious gift. This is sadism in its truest sense. Furthermore, concern over the profits oil companies make propels moral ideas as to a more proper distribution, another facet of the ablative character of the anal drive. The shit/oil/gold should be circulated in equivalent amounts, otherwise retention forces those lacking into accusations of hoarding, another anal motif.
America's desire to ration its oil supplies demonstrates what attenuations the anal drive can goe to. Frugality and judicious use of oil are not without their sadistic connotations, a sodomy done to all, while elsewhere lurks the greater sadists, Arabia and the large oil companies.
The unseen character of oil, its abstractness, after all this gross materiality, and its transformation into fire, energy, combustion, etc. is another important idea. I've already tried to explain that with records/oil played/burned on an RCA/car, the unseen disc of vinyl returns in the form of a flying saucer. Oil's invisibility returns in the form of a disco/disc/vinyl record that flies into the car/RCA burning or playing the music. This music is the beat that goes/egos on, drives egos on. Oil is usually the fuel that our eyes do not see. Oftentimes it is a simple mathematical quota in terms of the car's registration that the fuel is low. It can also be the rapid calculation of gallons and fractions of gallons seen at the gas pump along with its calculation into a price at another adjacent window on the pump. Its abstract character is further testified by its facilitation of general movement from one place to another. Oil is simply energy, and that energy makes things happen, but energy is not the thing, the idea, it simply allows the thing or idea or event to take place. Like the crucial distinction in psychoanalysis between idea and instinct, oil is instinct, the drive to which the idea is "soldered." (Although Freud distinguished the two.) Oil determines the drive's energy as well as the object of the drive, the oil-related product. The record's idea, its music, is made possible by its oil/vinyl as are the housewife's errands made possible by car fuel. Oil drives the car just as ideas are aligned to drives, the economic factors that account for the ideas' repetition, their persistence. There can be no idea without its concomitant energetic investment, no idea without the pressure that realizes it. Conversely there can be no energy without an idea attached to such a quantity-ridden abstraction, a notion prey to alinguistic, transcendental assertions. Oil neither escapes its idea, its conceptual, linguistic, presentational status nor does it escape its energetic quanta, its reducibility to simple distributions of affects. The word oil is just as important as its unseen combustions, its mysterious pervasiveness that organizes things while at the same time remains invisible to them.
There is the vulgarity of those who stress pure, nonverbal ascensions into absolute energy, vibration, impulse, quanta, etc. They are at once giving an idea to a sensation (a sign too), this distribution of pressures that is never independent of representation, language, speaking subjects, discourse.
The fad of jogging is a near mystical embrace of this idea of pure energy, but why would they be jogging but in a time-bound situation where the deprivation of oil or energy insists that they have vitality, a lot of energy or oil? Joggers presume their freedom from oil at the very moment when their livelihoods are threatened by its absence. The fastest jogger inversely affirms a slowing down of the I go in cars. One reminder: race and car. Eliminate the e in race and permute the rest of the letters into car. Joggers are in a race, a strange car race. Even the ger in jogger echoes car (c and g arc both velar stops). Mania, here in the jogger, is close to mourning, where the oil-ideal (usually an ego-ideal) is now about to become lost forever to the historical specificity of driving oil-powered automobiles.
Other movement manias, the discomania and the roller skating mania, are close to the problem of the disappearance of oil. Dancing in discos and roller skating obey the general idea of movement and lots of it. Disco music is the music that is in our ears whose ear wax is also the oil that constitutes the records played over sound systems. Hearing oil is also moving to it and being driven by it. Dancing and its euphonic embrace, this mania for the ego in perfect self-presentation, is only about to mourn the loss of what makes the dancers goe so energetically, the oil record or the car/ear oil/wax under question. When we dance our cars are driven by oil and when we drive our cars are driven by oil.
Oil as instinct will probably find its greatest threat in the future when no oil makes impossible libidinal contact with others. The freedom for a young man and woman in a car, flaunting parental admonitions against sex, to have that pleasure (and the car/RCA/radio music that serves to express that impulse) is threatened by no more oil. Goeing elsewhere for sex is becoming an archaism, at least when fuel, energy, oil is involved. Granted there will always be libido, drives and instincts, it's just that oil has tyrannized ourselves, our autos to the point where its exclusion would result in the deprivation of key ideas governing so much human intercourse. No energy (oil) is no sex, a thought related to Ernest Jones's observation that what the subject fears most is the loss of libido, aphanisis, an idea more threatening than the irreducibility of castration. Will no oil castrate the Western/ American subject so radically as to force libidinal contact into retreat? Will the lack of oil dismiss representation altogether? An impossibility, despite the intimate congruence between its manufacture and the significations surrounding it. No sex, no art, no stars, no records, along with the absence of their energetic foundations, shows the profound anxiety we're goeing through. Its resolution appears to be intractably elusive, considering oil's complex impregnation into our culture's discourse, our intramental and socially exterior selves, our autos. How can our auto/ego let goe of oil?
Some further points.
Having used the phrase "our oil" throughout the text, it appears to be a cryptic device since it works on a variety of registers. America's oil, the country's oil, or "our oil" works on a phonic level with the l and r substitutive with each other. Some people have difficulty learning the interval r, since both l and r are liquids. Our oil can reverse into oul oir in light of the transposability of the liquids, thus proving the word our's proximity to oil. On the semantic level, our oil makes the phonic connection even more binding since we do believe that oil is essential to our selves, our autos, our properties, our cars, our records, stars, arts, etc.
Iran anagrammatizes into rain. Rain is from the air, whereas oil is from the ground or oils are from the soil. But Iran is in a desert where there is little rain. Oil's difference to water is also implicated in the question whether the Persian Gulf has water, drinkable or nondrinkable, or oil within the waters of the gulf. Is the Persian Gulf made up of oil? Since, empirically, it's saltwater, our desire believes the Persian Gulf (as in the Gulf Oil Company) to be composed of oil, an immediate explanation for its oil-rich status. But Iran and its Persian Gulf neighbors are in an arid, desert-ridden land. They only have oil and saltwater, and none of them are drinkable. America, however, has water, fresh, drinkable water in great quantities but none of the great quantities of Persian Gulf oil, made into an even greater quantity because of the equation of the gulf's waters with the wealth of the oil near its shores. The rain or water in Iran is its oil that does not come from the air but from the ground, even in our delusion from the oil-rich Persian Gulf itself, the sea, the saltwater. Saltwater already has a mineral in it just as it could possess oil: oilwater for saltwater shows a mixture of mineral with water.
I wrote this essay during the hostage crisis in Iran. Then, in 1980, nearly every American politician ran for office. "I ran" is a conceivable phrase to have been uttered by a presidential candidate in the '80s elections. "I ran against Iran" forms a neat cryptophor in the narration of a campaigning ego. And that ego will have to goe far on oil in a car to assert why Iran is something he (in specular opposition) is running against. "I go" becomes the same as "I ran" (aren't some candidates joggers, an " I ran"?), but with Iran being the aggressively counterposed party , the I go/ego/I ran of an American presidential candidate will have to outdistance Iranian policy, a difficulty since the politics of oil make that running, going and driving a tremendous problem.
Iran's oil anagrammatizes into the opposition no Israil. Either America gets Iran's oil at the expense of Israil/lsrael or refuses Iran for the sake of Israel.
The Arab oil cartel is a cryptophor working against those cultures that have lots of cars but no oil. A cartel of oil rich countries makes Americans in particular angry over what will not let car(s) run on their needed fuel.
America's president, (Jimmy) Carter, remixes into car tar, another cryptophor that would explain our current repetition of an oil-based economy. (His predecessor was car-related: Gerald Ford.) Carter/car tar cryptically advocates cars powered by tar, even though this man set up a Department of Energy. Its secretary, Mr. Schlesinger, is from the army; from the occupying forces to the question of "force" or energy in general, he is still in the same role. For force to be used against the cartel that will not let our cars goe needs someone intimate with force, energy, drives in general. If we were to "occupy" or to "besetzen" Iran, for example, it would be true to the Freudian idea of economy, the economic factor in his metapsychology. To occupy Iran is the very thing that determines occupation, Besetzung, mistranslated by James Strachey as "cathexis." The cathexis of oil in our daily lives shows how much oil is on our minds. Our occupation with oil will lead us to occupy oil, to occupy the countries that have oil. The occupation of Iran is only the intramental equivalent of an occupation, a hyper-occupation (Überbesetzung), the same kind of energy that makes joggers and disco dancers goe so fast. James Schlesinger's position in the Energy Department makes him the Defense Department's chairman all over again, simply because he will advocate "occupation," or oil, America's energy that is now about to loose occupations, to loose peace, to loose a machinery of signs, all to countries that America has to occupy for its occupation to continue. A beaten Iran will be occupied and the beat will run on and the occupation will continue its simultaneously pleasurable and unpleasurable drive.
p.s. Hey. If you haven't heard and/or care, John Waters has picked PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT as one of the 10 best films of 2018 (!), and here's the evidence. ** David Ehrenstein, Yes, the secret of the buche. And, yes, it was as intense here on Saturday as it looked on the news, if not more so. And I live in the war zone. There were smashed store windows and burning cars, etc. on my street and all around me. It was wild to say the least, the most violent, damage-causing insurgency since '68. The protesters, the 'yellow vests', or the real ones, were not the violent ones. It was a lot of Far Right infiltrators and restless kids from the suburbs who snuck in and went crazy. Not sure what's going to happen. Macron realises he can't keep blowing the protests off, and there are supposed to be public meetings to find a solution. And there's the real possibility of martial law being imposed. We'll see. It was fucking nuts. ** H, Hi! I'm good. Yes, the two-part white 'levitating' on is on my 'probably but view in person' list. My weekend was riotous, literally. I hope yours was less so, not that it wasn't interesting. ** JM, Hi, man! Ouch and quadruple ouch, but, yeah, whew too. I guess you can think and type at least. Speedy recovery. Half-Japanese, Half-French patisseries are the best. My fave Parisian patisserie, Sadaharu Aoki, is precisely that. And they're so cool that they don't even do a buche. I return your hi to head, heart, and almost all of your organs. ** Misanthrope, Hi. Get one. You're a buche traditionalist with flair. I can do that too. Ah, like Tekashi69, jeez, well, that's promising … not. He may just have to crash and hopefully not burn at this rate. Or outgrow it, but he'd better get a move on if that's the way. ** Christian Füllemann, Hi, Christian! Welcome to here! Thanks a ton for coming in. Thanks about the post, and especially about 'God Jr'. Very kind. I've only been able to glance at your drawings so far due to the speed with which I need to do the p.s,., but they look fantastic, kudos(!), and I'll go look more closely when I'm through here. I like your English. Obviously, please hang out here any time. It would be a pleasure. ** Keatwa, Wise words. I think you may be the first I've ever known who likes fruitcake. I can not deal. The fruitcake-y buches, and there are a bunch, get my pass. Epcot is terrible, very depressing. Or maybe cool because it's so depressing? Oh, yeah, Kiss is doing a farewell tour, right? I never saw them. I think I was too old for them or too snooty or something. Did writing start? ** Bill, Hi. The Hatsune Miku concert was really good, really odd, strangely very touching. Huge crowd, extremely into 'her' and committed, waving flashlights over their heads that changed color depending on her outfit. Pretty great. And with a weird edge because it happened at the same time the riot was going on. I had to walk for almost an hour through trashed streets and burning cars to find an open metro station to get there. Did you see Maggi Payne? ** Steve Erickson, Having listened to most of the 1975 album once, what it reminds me of most is Super Furry Animals' great 'Rings Around the World' album, but not as cogent and interesting thus far to me. Anyway, I'll go read what you think of it. Everyone. Mr. Erickson has reviewed what seems to be the cool, buzz-outputting rock platter du jour, The 1975's A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS, so go check his opinion here. ** Kat, Kat! Whoa! How incredibly awesome to see you, my old pal! I'm good, busy with interesting projects, doing fine. And you? I can't remember exactly where you live now — Canada? — but we might be showing PGL in Toronto at some point if that's at all accessible. So great to see you!!!!!!!!!! Lots of love, me. ** Nik, Hi, N. The red panda buche definitely seems to be the popular choice. Interesting. It's not one of my faves, but I will rethink that now. Thus far, I'm definitely getting the one at the top of the post. That's my fave, hands down. The other picks are still cloudy. I do like the snowy landscape/floating cloud one. I'll see what I can find about New Saloon. Thanks! Yes, it's a tricky balance: outline vs. writing. I never pre-plan character and plot and stuff like that, only formal ideas. If I don't have a ton of room to move when I'm writing, I can't write, basically. Even with the George Miles Cycle books, which were extremely planned out, I gave myself huge room to play, diverge, break my own rules and so on. For me, it's really almost all about the editing. I let myself do whatever is necessary to get a draft down and trust that I can shape and finesse it later, which has pretty much always worked. One of the huge pains of this TV script is that I can't work that way. Yes, I think the way you're thinking about your writing is sensible and could definitely work. It doesn't sound so far off from how I approach mine really. Is it getting any easier? ** HaveANiceLife, Hi! No, your earlier comment didn't register as far as I can tell. Oh, wow, okay … absolutely off the top of my head, some particular films by female directors that I really like are, hm, … Michelle Memran 'The Rest I Make Up', Lucrecia Martel 'The Headless Woman', Marie Menken 'Go Go Go', Barbara Hammer 'Optic Nerve', Maya Deren 'Ritual in Transfigured Time', Angela Schanelec 'The Dreamed Path', Catherine Breillat '36 fillette', Marguerite Duras 'Destroy She Said', Leslie Thornton 'Peggy and Fred in Hell', Ulrike Ottinger 'Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press', Peggy Ahwesh 'Strange Weather' … I just ran out brain gas. But there would be a lot of others. Does that help? ** Damien Ark, Hi, Damien. Hm, well, … I think you know what I'm going to say. If you want to be a writer of difficult, unusual fiction, you need to have a lot of belief in what you're doing, because, yeah, it's hard, and I, and every writer, I guess, started as nobodies. 'Closer' went through many, many rejections before it found a home. I believed in it. and I kept searching, and if I hadn't found a publisher, I would have found a way to get it out there myself. And the only reason I wasn't a total nobody when it was being submitted is because I self-published my own books at the beginning and gained a tiny name that way. I don't believe in the idea that the only way forward as a writer, especially if what you're writing dooms itself to some degree by its uniqueness, is by the usual publishing route or by predetermining what your work's path will be and then quitting if it doesn't take that path you expected. You really can't know in advance what will happen to your work — who'll want to publish it, who'll read it, etc., etc. If your work is unusual, it will need to find an audience by an unusual method. So, really, it's about how much you believe in what you're doing and how much you're willing to fight the conventions that run the world to get it out there and to the readers you believe will want it. It's very tough. Many, probably most writers give up. That's one way to go. It's really about how committed you are to what you're doing. That's my thought about your situation at the moment. ** Wolf, Wolfie! The buches howled your name! Oh my god, your awesome reviews! Thank you from the totality of my heart. Ha ha, the bear, yeah, that makes sense, and it seems to be the by far popular choice amongst the readers here. Strangely, I guess, it doesn't do that much for me, although I am now rethinking it. For me the 'for sure', definite one is the one at the top. That's locked in. After that … I'm into the cloud/landscape one, but I want to see it in person. I'm a bit suspicious. The last one is by this chef guy who is kind of great genius of pastries in Paris right now, so I think that one is pretty definite, although the very bottom one you like is only edible in a restaurant, and that's a problem, but the other one by him, the homelier one, can be bought, and I think that one will make the cut. I'm still debating about the others. Come over here and eat some with us! Thanks about the John Waters thing,. Yeah, we're thrilled. Speaking of, Zac and I will be back in London before long because the ICA is going to show PGL, I think in early January (?), it's not set yet, and I want to see that show at Cabinet that has my gif novels in it, so, long story short, hopefully you'll be there and free for some hanging out. I'll let you know the scoop. Big love from the war zone that is the 8th arr. of Paris at the moment. ** Sypha, Yep, Xmas is inevitable now. The winter landscape one is on my to-see and possibly buy list. Ooh, I'll go check MISTY THULE. Awesome, thank you. Okay, ha ha, a big classic Sypha post sounds great. Just hit me up with it when the time feels right. Thanks, James. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Yeah, the panda is the star. Odd that I'm not so excited by it, but I'm going to look at it in the store window and see if that wakes me up. ** Kyler, Hi. I live in the middle of where the action was taking place, but I'm fine. Apart from cars and buildings being set on fire, the violence was all between the police and the extremists among the protesters. Crazy, crazy stuff. ** Okay. Why am I spotlighting a book that's extremely out of print and all but forgotten and very pricey to get hold of? Because it's a crazy, great, funny, weird, brilliant, addictive book that — rumors have it — Semiotext(e) might be republishing at some point. Give it a look. See you tomorrow.


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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - One in seven people with HIV doesn't know they have it. That's why the Bay County Department of Health says it's crucial to get tested.
The Florida Department of Health in Bay County held free HIV testing to commemorate the day on Thursday. (WJHG/WECP)
Thursday was National HIV Testing Day. To commemorate it, the Bay County Department of Health offered free testing all day.
The CDC recommends that everyone gets tested at least once in their lifetime.
Thursday patients could learn their HIV status in as little as 20 minutes. In addition to testing, the department offered other resources and prevention tools for those who may be at risk.
Heather Kretzer, Public Information Officer at the Florida Department of Health in Bay County, said, "Most people who end up contracting HIV probably thought it would never happen to them. So that's why it's so important to know your status and to take those extra steps to protect yourself."
The department also offers free, confidential HIV testing every Tuesday from 7:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.Murasaki Shikibu
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"Murasaki Shikibu" (c. 978 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, Japanese poetry#Age of Nyobo or court ladies/poet and lady-in-waiting at the Emperor of Japan/Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese language/Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown, but she may have been "Fujiwara Takako", who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Murasaki Shikibu on Wikipedia.


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PROVINCETOWN — The Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for the 80-year-old diver who never resurfaced from a dive off Long Point on Wednesday morning.
Several local, county, state and federal agencies, dive team members from nine towns and good Samaritan vessels assisted in the search for the man, who had more than 50 years of diving experience, according to a statement from the Coast Guard.
The man was reported missing when a crew member aboard a 16-foot Boston Whaler dive boat contacted the Coast Guard for help shortly before noon Wednesday. The man had begun his dive at 11 a.m. and shortly afterward someone aboard the boat noticed he was no longer attached to his dive flag.
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Diversity Star Killed In Car Accident In Canada
Former member of dance group Diversity Robert Anker has died aged 27.
The Essex native was killed in a horror car crash in Canada, his family say.
Robert had moved to Canada to live with his fiancee.
He auditioned with the group on Britain's Got Talent, eventually winning in 2009.
His cousin Rochelle Hanson said:
The family are devastated.
He only just got married in September 2016 to a lovely Canadian girl and they were starting their new life out there.
He's been in Diversity, the West End show Thriller and various TV shows and music videos as well as be part of the new Bring It On film.
He was an amazing and talented dancer.
We are raising funds for his family don't worry or stress about money at this time.
We would love to ensure that his family don't worry or stress about money at this time.
Robert also appeared on other ITV shows the X Factor and Take Me Out, as well as appearing in music videos with Paloma Faith and Peter Andre.
Oritse Williams' girlfriend Aimee Azari paid her own tribute, saying:
Wow what a sad day! Another life gone too soon. My thoughts are with your wife, your family and your friends. RIP Rob Anker.
Choreographer Dean Lee wrote:
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Aim-listed Galileo Resources has raised £500 000 through the placing of 100-million new shares at a price of 0.5p a share.
The proceeds will be used for general working capital, as well as for advancing its Star Zinc project, in Zambia. Specifically, the company plans to use the proceeds to produce an independent ore resource estimate for the project, complete a preliminary pit design and apply for a small-scale mining permit.
"Following the positive drill results and significant conceptual grade tonnage estimate for Star Zinc, the company has completed a placing to enable it to do all things necessary . . . to advance and add further value to what is undoubtedly a significant project with potential for early production. The directors believe the potential ore at Star Zinc lends itself to a simple trucking operation for parties looking to enhance their feedstock with high-grade zinc ore and early-stage discussions have started with potential offtake partners," chairperson Colin Bird said on Wednesday.
As part of the placing, Bird has subscribed for six-million placing shares. He will hold 13.07% of Galileo's enlarged issued share capital following the placing.
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With campuses in Keilor and Taylors Lake, Overnewton Anglican Community College (OACC) strives to cultivate a community of forward-thinking, independent learners who not only embrace the future, but are better equipped to tackle and make the most of future opportunities. OACC is dedicated in creating a respectful, empowering environment where students and staff work together in achieving excellence in all aspects of their education.
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