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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Update on Library of America e-books
The first offering—available in time for the holidays—is The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (*According to Andy Borowitz). It is available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad, and Sony Reader, and will soon be available from Google ebooks and Kobo.
Two additional titles will be available in early 2012: The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It and The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael, followed soon thereafter by Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs, Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, the forthcoming volume The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It, and many others.
The Library of America's goal is to insure that its e-books are as authoritative and reliable as the print versions. To insure quality control, the entire text of each title will receive at least one round (and often several rounds) of additional proofreading to catch any formatting and typographic glitches that are unique to the e-book conversion process.
Update (12/19/11): The Age of Movies is now available for the Kindle and for the Kobo eReader.
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Will Library of America ebooks be available to check out from public libraries via OverDrive?ReplyDelete
Mike: In the short term, no. Until we have a "critical mass" of our books available as e-books, we are unable to make arrangements with OverDrive.ReplyDelete
Once we have several dozen titles to offer, however, we may be able to revisit this question.
Thanks for your answer about libraries and OverDrive. I hope you do consider this soon. I think the library ebook market could supplement your efforts to increase access to these works through nonprofit publishing.ReplyDelete
Would you make available the anthologies or collected works? For example Shirley Jackson's short stories or Vonnegut Jr.'s novels and stories.ReplyDelete
Some author collections will also be made available, but mostly we are limited to writers who are in the public domain (such as the Ambrose Bierce volume mentioned above).ReplyDelete
For authors such as Vonnegut and Jackson, however, the original publishers retain the copyrights and have been (or will be) making their works available as e-books.
In all, we hope eventually to make available as e-books as many as one-third of the volumes in the Library of America.
I should add that, for a few authors still in copyright, where the LOA edition largely consists of items not in print or available elsewhere, we may be able to negotiate the rights to publish the e-book. We're looking into it.ReplyDelete


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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) appears to be stable over a period of 3 years for improving motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease, according to findings from a small investigation. Health-related quality of life improved at 6 months among participants receiving DBS, but the authors noted that improvements diminished over time.
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I know I'm going out on a limb here (not to mention defying the general gay fanboy consensus), but I think I prefer the non-mustache version of Mattel's Masters of the Universe Classics Man-At-Arms to the Tom of Finland hot daddy version. There's just something mysterious, yet youthful about baby-face Duncan. With a handsome, reckless sense of danger and wild abandon, he resembles the Duncan who must have existed before the rule-imposing fuddy duddy of the classic cartoon came along. As a figure in the vintage line, Man-At-Arms debuted long before the MOTU gimmicks really took hold, requiring every figure to have a wacky action feature, with matching name. Man-At-Arms is just a man…at arms. As He-Man's best friend and mentor, he was always more about personality than power.
Mattel continues its winning streak with this line. Duncan's design evokes the classic figure beautifully, while the new articulation and sculpt make him infinitely more interesting and poseable. His detailed armor is similar to the vintage "bra" design, though instead of snapping in the back, a removable backpack joins the arm straps of the armor together. And, in probably the greatest innovation to the character's design ever, the backpack serves as a weapons rack. Yes, Man-At-Arms finally has some arms to be a man of! The cool factor on this particular figure is through the roof. He's just a sexy guy. Older, wiser, ready to teach a certain headstrong prince a lesson or two about discipline, this new Man-At-Arms confidently carries on his legacy in the homoerotic He-Man mythos. My only complaint, really, is that like some previous figures, the paint job on the face is a little sloppy. My Duncan's mustache could have used another coat, or perhaps a more precise application of paint. I don't want to have to retouch a $20 figure. But I will. Because he deserves it. He's that cool.
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Pineapple Bread
Why I Love This Recipe
Ingredients You'll Need
2 Eggs
1/2 C melted butter or margarine
1 C granulated sugar
1 C crushed pineapple
1 t vanilla
2 1/2 C flour
3 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
3/4 t salt
1/2 C chopped walnuts or pecans
Beat eggs slightly. Add butter and sugar and beat until smooth. Stir in pineapple and vanilla.
In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder, soda, salt and nuts and stir well.
Combine pineapple mixture and flour mixture stir to moisten.
Pour into greased loaf pan, bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Test with toothpick.
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As our technological capacity increases, the pace of scientific discovery is accelerating and new products and processes are being invented that will change the world in ways we can scarcely imagine. But as these new applications are put into practice, new questions arise. Today's questions are directing the future of scientific endeavor, and today's science is changing the boundaries and the applications of science for tomorrow.
The College of Science has already built a promising foundation for success. We are preparing our students for productive lives, arming them with skills that will serve them in any field, not just laboratory research. Meanwhile, our researchers are opening up innovative fields of knowledge and making breakthroughs that are raising new and important questions. Our focus on interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving is a considerable asset, and our outstanding faculty members, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students have made us a leader in national research.
The College of Science's plans for the future include improvements for the benefit of our students, faculty members, and community. We will strengthen our graduate program by increasing graduate support. We will raise funds for faculty support, enhancing our teaching capacity and expanding our academic departments. We will strengthen our current programs and launch new endeavors. Additional library support will make sure that scientific resources are being acquired, stored, and preserved properly. We will also improve our facilities to match the sophistication of our research.
Science is the vehicle that will deliver the future, providing us with the tools that will allow us to shape our destiny. Discoveries in the college are making a difference to our society. Imagine what the college can achieve, with your help, in all the years to come. We invite you to become a part of inventing the future in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
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Québec's Maple Spring
From Sept-Îles to Jonquière, the sound of the casseroles (pots and pans) protest is drowning out the political cant of Québec's political class. Night after night, these pot-beating protesters are bearing witness to a population nervous about official efforts to roll back North America's most advanced social sector. The sap of revolt from Québec's 'maple spring' marks the first major rupture with the austerity agenda being imposed by Canada's neoliberal establishment.
It started quietly enough, with student dissent over attempts by Jean Charest's Liberal Party to increase university fees over the next few years. The government hung tough, assuming the students would quieten down and go back to class. They didn't, and the carré rouge (the little red square which has come to depict personal bankruptcy thanks to the French phrase carrement dans le rouge – squarely in the red) popped up more and more on shirts and skirts.
Montréal is the epicentre of the movement. The nightly demos, which involve thousands of students, are being met by increasingly repressive police measures, including kettling and mass arrests – resulting in heavy fines for both young students and their organizations.
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As the size and scope of the protests grew during April and May, Charest responded by bringing in – literally overnight – a draconian law (Bill 78) that severely restricts the right to assemble and express political dissent. This only increased the numbers and militancy of the demonstrations, with the feeling of political estrangement spreading to other sectors of the population.
On 22 May, the carré rouge movement brought out a quarter of a million Québécois on to the streets of Montréal, as trade unions, community groups and pensioners all came together for the common cause. This marked the hundredth day of the ongoing social strike and clearly showed that the movement was about far more than tuition increases.
It is, in effect, the first shot across the bow of a neoliberal establishment led by the conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa. Québec students are looking at a future of marginal employment and high debt – a future that also plagues students in the US and elsewhere in Canada – and they are saying a resounding 'non'.
As grievances build over the collateral damage of the austerity assault – degradation of public services, corporatization of university life, ignored environmental costs of the growth paradigm and a constant gathering of wealth and power by the financial élite – other constituencies are becoming natural allies of this new generation of radicals.
Despite a stream of press invective against the 'spoiled brats', the protests are beginning to spread across Canada. The carré rouge has succeeded in actively mobilizing a movement that shows no sign of letting up.
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The mind can endure an unhealthy and sick body, but it can't run on an optimal level for long during that time.
So why create a challenge for your mind when you don't have to?
To say eating healthy is an important aspect of creating an amazing life, would be an understantment.
It doesn't mean it will make you compassionate, motivated, inspiring, wealthy, live with integrity and know how to deal with your emotions… but it's a great place to start for a solid foundation.
However, there is so much information out there about what is healthy (much of the information even contradictory) that it's tough to really know if what you are eating is serving you.
This week on The School of Greatness we have a "blast from the past" guest who I actually went to high school with. She is a paleo expert and just wrote a book which is all about simplifying the way we see food so that we can eat well without the stress.
Welcome to episode 55 with nutrition and paleo expert, Liz Wolfe.
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"I rely on properly raise meats, veggies, fruits, healthy fats and I'm really happy with that."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- To understand the Paleo diet (and what it really means)
- How important avoiding stress is to living a healthy life
- To break down the myth of "eating meat is unhealthy"
- Vegan, Vegetarian and Meat Eaters (which is right?)
- The most healthy meat to eat
- Synergistic principals of permaculture
- The truth about the health effects of butter
- About the changing landscape of "the Paleo Diet"
- About hilarious tests on the effect of gluten
- Optimal pooping patterns (yes, I said poop)
- Plus much more…
"We're so spoiled by the supermarket culture where we can just go get whatever we want whenever we want."
Continue Seeking Greatness:
- Pick up a Copy of Eat the Yolks by Liz Wolfe
- Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America by Richard Nelson
- Connect with Liz
Real Food Liz | Eat The Yolks | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Music Credit: Come Alive by Mutrix ft. Charity Vance (Trey Lewis Remix)
"When people overhaul their diets from the processed junk that we've been sold as junk food, to something based around whole food, they lose pounds of inflammation."
Did you enjoy the podcast?
What type of nutrition plan are you on? Do you follow the principles from this episode or do you eat differently, and why? In the comments section below let me know what works for you with foods to run at optimal levels all day and what doesn't work.
"Let's cut out the crap and focus on food quality; whatever that food is."


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The losing battle to address affordability
Those on all sides of the housing issue can agree on one thing: California needs more homes that are affordable to rent. University of California, Los Angeles economist Jerry Nickelsburg said last year that about 3 million homes are needed before pricing comes down to a range that's affordable for average Californians.
At the moment, solutions are in short supply — but not for lack of trying. On the state level, lawmakers are pushing to reform the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, which significantly limits rent control statewide. California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants Silicon Valley technology companies to pay for workforce housing. In 2016, voters in the city of Los Angeles agreed to raise their property taxes to pay for the $1.2 billion in bonds that would go toward building housing for the homeless. Still, these measures address only pieces of a far larger problem.
Federal tax policy, local market factors and rent control all affect how much and at what price housing is developed across the state. Here are some facts and figures that illustrate just how bad California's housing crisis is and what's being done about it.
The annual income needed to buy a home at the median sales price in the Los Angeles metropolitan area as of Q1 2019 — $585,000.
The number of bills passed last year by state lawmakers in Sacramento that are intended to spur housing development. Among them was a bill to double the duration of building permits from six to 12 months in order to help developers deal with
delays. Another bill requires local governments to approve supportive housing developments if they meet certain requirements. An additional bill provides local governments with more accurate housing goals.
The number of affordable units developers proposed in the city of Los Angeles through the Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program last year, its first full year in effect. Those units account for 30 percent of all affordable units proposed in the city of L.A. last year, a sign of its popularity among developers. The program allows developers to boost overall unit count, build taller and take advantage of other incentives in exchange for including affordable units in developments near transit. Since TOC took effect in late 2017, one affordable unit is filed for every four market-rate units filed via the program.
The number of Senate committee hearings that San Francisco State Sen. Scott Wiener's SB 827 received before it was killed last year. The bill would have overridden local zoning laws to allow more dense development near transit, much like the TOC program in L.A. The bill received strong criticism from local governments, which argued that it ignored local control over development. Wiener has since scaled back the bill and reintroduced it this year as SB 50. It's gotten a warmer welcome, passing in the Senate Housing Committee in early April, one of many hurdles it will need to leap to become law.
The difference in private equity investment from 2016 to 2018. Last year, private equity investors invested $1 billion less in low-income housing tax credits — $2.6 billion compared to 2016's $3.6 billion. Investors purchase those credits to lower their tax liabilities from banks, which buy them from affordable housing developers, who use the money to build housing. The drop is largely due to the 2017 federal tax overhaul, which reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, lowering the value of these credits.
The percentage of monthly income a typical renter in the Los Angeles metro area pays in rent, according to a Freddie Mac analysis. A renter is considered rent burdened if he or she spent more than 30 percent of pay on rent.
The number of days that went by before Newsom shelved a plan to withhold state funding from cities that fail to meet their state-designated housing production goals. Newsom proposed the hard-nosed policy on his third day in office, but Sacramento Democrats strongly opposed it. Newsom has instead proposed $750 million in funding for new housing statewide and additional funding to cities when work on new housing starts there.
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The amount in low interest loans that Newsom wants large technology firms based in Silicon Valley to lend to developers in order to build so-called workforce housing, which refers to housing that's affordable to those making between 60 and 120 percent of area median Income and is located close to their jobs.


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UPDATE FROM iWeather Online forecaster Peter O'Donnell: After reviewing the most recent GFS weather model output, the only real change to previous forecasts is to upgrade the severity of the outbreak on Friday with a fast-moving reinforcement of the Thursday initial blast. This may give a mechanism for snow showers to reach the east and south at times, rather than keeping most of the initial two days snow potential confined to the west and north.
Beyond that, there is enhanced potential for snowfalls of 5-20 cms through the weekend and Monday.
Our readers in all parts of Ulster, Connacht and parts of West Munster, as well as now north and west Leinster, should be on alert for rapid onset of wintry conditions mid-day Thursday with several waves of heavy snow possible in some areas on strong NW winds.
Don't be caught napping by the direction here, this air is super-cold and can withstand the Atlantic passage. There are sure to be reports of rain and hail at sea level where this sweeps in, but 90% of residents of the affected region are not at sea level, and even those who are may have to drive places.
I envisage a snowfall map by late Friday with 5-10 cms over a large part of inland Connacht, most of Ulster, and pockets of north Leinster, as well as some inland parts of Clare, Kerry and west Cork. Further east in Munster, it may be more hit and miss but these will be powerful streamers with potential to bring some snow almost across the country, and there will also be troughs embedded to promote some convection. Amounts of 2-5 cms could fall almost anywhere.
For Dublin, the most likely amount by late Friday would be 1-3 cms coming from a few passing snow showers. Some places will get no covering but maybe fewer than we were speculating earlier.
Friday night and early Saturday could be bitterly cold with clearing skies following this fresh snow. Then outbreaks of snow appear likely through the weekend and these could even include normally temperate south coast regions because a lot of the emphasis will be on bands coming in from the southeast in association with low pressure circling around the west and later south coasts. But the whole country including the NI portions of Ulster are likely to be significantly affected with considerable snow potential extending across Britain also.
I would say the risk of disruptive amounts of snow is increasing with these model runs trending towards a snowy pattern. Will update my perspective after the 12z runs have come out.
Further updates will be issued throughout the day. Watch for updates on Twitter and Facebook and visit the IWO chatboard. For the weather forecast anywhere in Ireland and the UK visit our local weather page.
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The Small Business Association for International Companies (www.SBAIC.org), hosted its Annual Small Business Networking Reception following the USAID's 12th Annual Small Business Conference on May 14, 2019 at the City Club of Washington. SBAIC also participated in the USAID 12th Annual Small Business Conference as an exhibitor. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth and supported us.
The SBAIC USAID Networking Reception after the conference was well attended and a great opportunity for our SBAIC member small businesses, large primes, and USAID staff to continue networking after a productive day. The event was supported by our fantastic sponsors without whom the event would not have been possible. We want sincerely to thank our Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze sponsors who were major contributors to the success of the SBAIC networking reception.
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Botsa Katara // Prostheses have been known to humanity since antiquity, with their earliest traces found in Ancient Rome and Egypt. But despite their existence for centuries, their evolution has been a slow and steady one.
The change from simple wooden limbs to more aesthetically and technologically enhanced versions was the result of the 19th century industrial revolution and the Civil War, both of which heralded an era of rapid proliferation and development of prostheses. This burst could be attributed to an unprecedented increase in amputations, due to changed working environments at textile mills, paper factories, wind mills etc.; these factories replaced manual labour with complicated machines, which often resulted in accidents that could lead to amputations. On the other hand, the implementation of sophisticated weaponry during the Civil War caused severe injuries; coupled with the threat of likely ensuing infections, medical professionals viewed amputations as preferable to reconstructive surgery. This intimate interaction of man with machine inaugurated expansive vistas for machine, medicine and body collaboration in the medical sciences, consequently metamorphosing simple wooden stumps and peg legs into more technologically enriched prostheses.
As is discernible in the images above, artificial legs function as objects facilitating the concealment of their missing counterpart(s). This is because the nineteenth century prosthesis users/wearers yearned to hide their impairments and escape the social stigma that "disability" enforced upon them. Because it was the "age of appearances," in which people were obsessed with the ideals of organic wholeness, and social acceptance was based on one's external comportment and demeanor, prosthesis was the answer to the compelling demand of concealment and external perfection.
But in the current world, prosthesis has been rendered with a totally different configuration. It not only redresses a lost functionality but also proffers hyper-functionality, machinic perfectionism, corrective curing, and an indomitable fight against mortality and liminality of the human form. These changes have come about due to the emergence of post-humanism, which proposed the precedence of the machinic and technological over biology and human materiality. This misleading narrative has promoted a dialogue that eludes the experience of living with a disability, coupled with the devaluing of one's relationship with one's prosthesis which exceeds the domain of the machinic, mechanic and functional. To bring this to the fore, I would like to recount below–knee amputee Vivian Sobhchack's experience of living with an artificial leg whose otherwise cordial relationship with it falters from time to time:
Although I really never feel as though [my prosthesis] possesses the agency to turn against me, I admit it does have the capacity to become opaque, a hermeneutic object that I have to pay attention to and interpret and do something about (other than transparently walk with it)…. My leg is transformed metonymically at times to another inhuman species or thing … In these moments, it becomes an absolute other. This can happen suddenly- as when I lose a certain amount of suction in the socket that holds my leg in place, and feel (quite literally) a bit detached from the leg … Like the turns and effects of language in use, experience – and view of my leg (and the rest of my body) is not only dynamic and situated but also ambiguous and graded (27).
This affective relationship between prostheses and their users contradicts the assumption that they barely replace the lost body part, or that all one requires is that they perform the job of a hand, or leg. The dominant discursive practices around prosthetics misrepresent the phenomenal struggles that underlie using them. They not only camouflage the inconveniences but also distort the reality by glorifying the picture of disability through advertisements and images like these:
Does the superwoman on the wheelchair do justice to the middle-aged paraplegic Christina Crosby's everyday experience of wheeling herself around and being presumptuously perceived as a man? In her memoir A Body Undone, Crosby recounts her journey with paraplegia, which was resulted from a bike accident that injured her spine. She describes the ordeal that ensues, including her frequent confrontation with the gendered resonances of her wheelchair. She writes:
I no longer have a gender. Rather, I have a wheelchair. I am entirely absorbed in its gestalt. I am now misrecognized as a man more often than ever before, almost every time I go out. I'm not surprised. I know that 82% of spinal cord injuries are suffered by young men, and middle aged butchy women must be statistically negligible in that accounting. Besides, when I'm outside wheeling my chair, I'm belted in… As I sit slumped in the chair, the chair is what you see. That's my distinctive profile. I may have no gender, but the chair does. It's masculine. (61)
The virile masculinity of the wheelchair that un-genders Crosby, unceasingly subjects her sclerotic brother Jeff to near mishaps and blockages. Jeff purchased a forty-thousand dollar chair that was developed by a tech engineer in California. Soon after it came into Jeff's possession, however, the chair started causing problems: "technical failures limited the use of the chair, and the discovery that the signal sent by the mouthpiece interfered with the wireless call system of the hospital strictly limited the hours he could use it anywhere outside his room" (82). Thus stuck in his room, and subjected to the recurring inconveniences of the highly technologized wheelchair, Jeff too could not quite become the fetishized technophilic cyborgian organism, flying high in his superior wheelchair.
On one side of our capitalist society, driven by the wave of super–crip image culture, there is prosthetic supermodel and athlete Aimee Mullins, actively endorsing new and advanced prostheses: "with all this new technology why can't you design a leg that looks—and acts—like a leg? I want to be at the forefront of these possibilities." On the other side stand the likes of Sobhchack whose juxtaposing iteration goes as follows:
My prosthetist proudly showed a video of amputees racing in the Special Olympics. As I sat there, I watched the people around me and knew that all they wanted, as I did, was to be able to walk at work, to the store, may be on a treadmill at the gym. All I want is a leg to stand on, a limb to go out on- so I can get about my world with a minimum of prosthetic thought. In sum, I have no desire for the latest literal or figural body parts. (38)
These contradictory desires and expectations gesture toward the exigent need to create an ethics, a counter culture that bridges the gap between the two opposing streams of thought where neither is fetishized and glorified, nor shamed and disparaged. This is possible only by creating a space in which each and every experience is welcomed, acknowledged, listened to and empathized with.
Works Cited
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Web
Crosby,Christina. A Body Undone. New York and London: New York University
Dave, Lupton, and Colin Hambrook. "Supercrips," Crippen (blog), Disability Arts Online, August 8, 2008. Accessed April 12, 2019. http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/crippen-cartoon-blog?filter_by_month_added=2008-08&item=229
Jensen, Adam." Bionic Arm." Augmented Future," augmentedfuture.com. 20 May 2017. https://www.augmentedfuture.com/us/.
Madan. "Robots and Wearable Technology." damngeeky.com, 5 March 2015. http://www.damngeeky.com/2015/03/18/30235/cyberlegs-amputees-will-walk-again-with-worlds-first-bionic-legs.html
"Super-crip and the opposite." Disability at Davis, Far From Great (Le) Gaspi, 23 April.2010. • https://disabilitiesatdavis.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/super-crip-and-the-opposite/
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge &Amp; Kegan Paul, 1962.
Sobchack, Vivian Carol. Carnal Thoughts : Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Acls Humanities E-Book. Ed. American Council of Learned, Societies. Berkeley Calif. ; London: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004. Print.


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Survey Says: This Is What Dads Really Want For Father's Day
It's all about the experience.
This article was produced with our friends at DEWAR'S, who celebrate the entrepreneurial, adventure-embracing spirit of fathers everywhere.
Dads value presence over presents. Of the more than a thousand fathers who responded to a recent Fatherly survey, an overwhelming majority said they prefer quality time with their children to gifts. That's not to say tie boxes will go unopened this Father's Day, but it does underline that the annual celebration has become the perfect excuse to both celebrate dad and do something different
If Father's Day was once an opportunity to celebrate a provider, it has evolved into a celebration of relationships and the perfect occasion for family members to help an overly scheduled dad get weird.
Delayed Gratification
The vote for experiences over things was a true mandate: Some 81 percent of fathers said they'd forego headphones or new workout gear for a chance to hang out with their loved ones, specifically their partner. The most popular proposed Father's Day plans all involved having a night away from the kids for some adult fun. The idea of seeing a band or a game was slightly more popular than the idea of staying in a hotel suite, which narrowly beat out test driving a racecar and going out for a steak dinner (pro tip: It's all about the sides). Overall, fathers expressed an extreme eagerness to take a break from routine.
For those looking to make dad happy, that represents a bit of a puzzle. It's easy to understand a person's routines and buy gifts accordingly, but difficult to understand how they might choose to deviate. Sure, tickets to a show would be great, but what show? Great question. Don't answer it. The workaround is to embrace the stay-at-home, chill Sunday Father's Day (more than 70 percent of respondents said they'd like to spend part of Father's Day at home) and plan to get the guy to a festival in the not-too-distant future. It's hard to go wrong if you stick to city-centric jams like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, and Made In America in Los Angeles, but there's no need to limit it to the music circuit. The West has rodeos. The Northwest has beer festivals. The Southeast has college football.
There's nothing wrong with giving dad something to look forward to; there's also nothing wrong with giving him a bit of a push? Don't know if he'd be into a hot sauce festival? Well, there's only one way to find out. No one hits a home run with a bat on their shoulder.
Getaway Driver
Given that dads were, broadly speaking, looking to mix it up, it's not surprising that many fathers were down to take a trip. But the strong preference among respondents was to keep it simple. Almost half of the fathers surveyed expressed interest in heading to a cabin in the mountains or the woods. And, fortunately for gift givers and planners alike, those trips have gotten way easier to plan thanks to sites like Airbnb and VRBO as well as less known cabin booking tools like Getaway, which operates modernist retreats at locations within two hours drive of major cities that get revealed on a rolling basis. Will they be busy for Father's Day? Yeah, they're all booked out. But there's wiggle room in August and September. Get it on the calendar.
Alternatively — or additionally for families looking to go big — plenty of car trips would satisfy paternal wanderlust. Some 21 percent expressed interest in scoping out a national landmark while eight percent expressed interest in wandering through a big city. Those can be day trips depending on the nature of that drive (country-to-city or city-to-country), but the critical thing is to have them scheduled so dads can get excited and prepared for a weekend off.
And then there's the small matter of whether or not to bring the kids. That's a case-by-case situation, but it's important to remember that dads are generally eager to take a night off — not more. Those opting to book international trips or, frankly, anything requiring an airport, would do well to plan on bringing the kids.
Go Big and Go Home
When it came to gifts, the minority got even smaller. Only 15 percent of fathers had any interest in a new watch and less than 10 percent said they'd want a new suit or a fresh pair of sneakers. The more popular gifts were the sort of presents that lead to a shared experience. To that end, smart gifters who want to go big would do well to do that in the most literal sense of the word, leaning towards family tents, workout equipment, yard games, and grills.
The biggest big gift this year? That would be stock tank pools. The Instagram-friendly metal cisterns, historically used to keep cattle hydrated, are popping up across the country. Think of them as above-ground pools for people who value a good-looking backyard — and also think of them as a project. Dad and the kids can work on the installation, which is no easy task, together, then spend summer enjoying the fruits of that labor.
It's like a jungle gym, but Dad can use without fear of breakage, splinters or hospitalization.
But just because there's a cool new trend doesn't mean the classics don't play. The classics definitely play. Given a ton of options, some 40 percent of fathers expressed interest in a new grill, grill tools, or a stack of steaks. And it's no wonder why. Taken in aggregate, meat and fire generally mean get-together. And dads dig a low-key party.
Need proof? More than 60 percent of fathers who expressed interest in being given a good bottle of whisky wanted to drink it with loved ones or friends. Dads, it turns out, are excellent at sharing. And they get that sharing is ultimately what Father's Day is about, whether that means sharing the parenting experience with friends, an adventure with the family, or quality time with a partner.
Dads don't drink alone. Cheers.
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Realme GT Neo With MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Teased to Be in the Works
Realme GT Neo will be the latest member in the new series, the company's VP Chase Xu revealed at the Realme GT launch on Thursday. The new smartphone will come with MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. This is unlike the original Realme GT that comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. The Realme GT Neo is also claimed to deliver fast performance. However, detailed specifications of the smartphone are yet to be revealed. Some rumours and teasers are likely to emerge in the coming days, though.
While concluding the Realme GT launch, Realme VP Chase Xu revealed the development of the Realme GT Neo. The executive claimed that the new smartphone would also be very fast and bring surprising performance.
A teaser showcased by Xu highlights the presence of MediaTek Dimensity 1200 on the Realme GT Neo. The flagship chipset was unveiled in January, and Realme was named as one of the first companies set to use it in upcoming phones. The Realme X9 Pro was expected to be one of the first phones to have the Dimensity 1200.
In addition to Realme, Xiaomi brand Redmi is tipped to have a gaming phone in the works with the MediaTek Dimensity 1200. The OnePlus Nord 2 is also rumoured to come in the second quarter with the new chipset.
The MediaTek Dimensity 1200 comes with eight processing cores, including an ARM Cortex-A78 ultra core clocked at up to 3GHz. The chipset also carries ARM Mali-G77 MC9 GPU and supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. It can power a device with a display of up to 2,520x,1080 pixels resolution and 168Hz refresh rate. Furthermore, the Dimensity 1200 comes with 5G support.
Unlike the Realme GT Neo, the Realme GT debuted with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. The phone also comes with up to 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage.
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Paul Cannon Band Accompanies Tristan Prettyman on West Coast Tour
Have you guys been paying attention to the Paul Cannon Band? If not, here's your final "All Aboard!" call before this San Diego-based, postive energy-filled, peace-preaching, life-loving music train leaves the station. As I type, they are finishing up a short West Coast tour supporting Virgin Records recording artist Tristan Prettyman (also a San Diego native). In recent months, their song "Homegrown" began to play in regular rotation on KPRI, and the song was also featured on the station's latest television ad. San Diegans can catch PCB closing out Prettyman's tour Feb 1st and 2nd at Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach (if you're lucky enough to get tickets – both shows are sold out). A new album is also in the works, release date TBD. In the meantime, we'll leave you with a free download and a video from these hometown, homegrown heroes!


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Then and Now:
Once the fourth largest hotel in Wichita, the Coronado stood on the northeast corner of South Main and William, just across the street from City Hall (now the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum). The site was on some of William Griffenstein's former property.
The four story building was officially opened in 1911, with 62 rooms, but it was not finished until 1916, when the Coronado Café was completed on the first floor.
The café was converted into a pharmacy in 1919 when Elric E. Cummings and Arthur Hill bought it. They ran the pharmacy for six years, then sold it to Q.A. Panton. He kept the pharmacy only a year or two and then sold it to Zoe J. Hollabaugh in 1927. Hollabaugh was an Oklahoman, who had opened his first pharmacy in Quinton, Oklahoma. His second was in Ponca City, and it was that pharmacy which he traded for the Coronado Pharmacy.
The renamed Hollabuagh's Drug Store was kept open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and became a very popular gathering place for night shift airplane workers during WWII. A 1940s photo in Wichita Century, by R.M. "Dick" Long, shows a long line of people outside the drugstore with a caption that says, "Sometimes the lines were for scarce food items… Often they were for the city busses… Lines often formed outside Hollabaugh's Drug Store at William and Main for tickets to events at the Forum or Lawrence Stadium."
Since Hollabaugh's "was located across from the Police Station and near both the Eagle and Beacon newspaper offices and the Forum, it became a gathering place for policemen, reporters and entertainers," said Peerless Princess of the Plains.
Hollabuagh had purchased the Coronado Hotel in 1937 and operated both it and the drug store. In 1952 he sold the hotel to Robert S. Brandon, but he continued running the drug store until 1954.
The drug store continued in operation as Hollabaugh's until it was closed by a fire on Oct. 24, 1964. Its owner, Robert S. Brandon, said it might never open again.
In April 1965, the Hollabaugh Drug Store site was sold to the Wichita Perpetual Building and Loan Association, which had occupied the property to the north since 1916.
In October 1974, Perpetual Building and Loan hired the K. L. Bradburn Company to raze the site to make room for customer parking.
And so it goes…
(Notes for the above article were gathered, in part, from the Tihen Notes, Special Collections, WSU.)


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Sam Pierpoint is an artist, illustrator and designer based in Southampton, UK.
Sam explains the work by saying, "Inspired by culture, travel and Mother Nature, a lot of my work encapsulates the beauty and serenity that the natural world and beyond has to offer. My vast landscapes depict scenes from mountain peaks, fairytale wonderland right down to the deepest ocean beds and darkest caves. I specialise in 3d paper illustration so most of my work is built up out of patterned / textured card and paper. I then photograph, edit and arrange the work in photoshop to create the finished piece. Clients include: Nokia, Camp Bestival, Eye Candy Festival, Southampton City Council, UK Sepsis Trust, The Mayflower, Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham Royal Ballet."


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text: Ian Collins is an old man without his son. Patrick Collins is a young boy without his father. On his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And he wants the dusty wooden soldier in Grandfather's attic--the one he is forbidden to touch. Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift is the engaging story of a family in need of forgiveness. With simple grace, it reminds us of the small things that affect powerful change in our hearts--a young boy's prayers, a shoe box of love letters, and even a half-carved soldier, long forgotten. This nostalgic story of reconciliation will touch your heart.


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In between the Grand Rapids and Traverse City stops, we made a whistle stop in Big Rapids. Sadly, I forgot my camera on the bus and didn't get shots of the good folks in Big Rapids, where I led the crowd in an a capella version of God Bless America.
Here are the pics from Traverse City, where a very large crowd assembled on a beautiful Michigan afternoon at the Grand Traverse Civic Center Pavilion.


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Investor visa
Investor migrants and their families may be eligible to apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) (also known as permanent residence or settlement) after five years (or potentially after two or three years under one of the accelerated routes). After remaining in the UK for five years, including at least one year as a permanent resident, Investor migrants and their dependants may qualify for British citizenship.
Who can apply?
The Investor category is available to individuals who have funds of at least £2m (sterling) to invest in the UK. It is the most flexible visa category in that it allows the applicant and their dependants to undertake employment, self-employment, study or be self-sufficient in the UK.
Requirements for an initial application for an Investor visa
Although the application is usually made from overseas, an application can be made in the UK if the applicant is already in the UK and holds a long-term visa valid for over six months. Consequently, visitors cannot apply in the UK and must apply from their country of nationality or a country in which they hold long-term immigration permission.
The basic criteria are:
- the applicant must be at least 18 years of age;
- the applicant must have a minimum of £2m that must;
- be the applicant's own money under their control or money owned by their husband, wife, civil partner, unmarried partner to which they have unrestricted access;
- be held in a regulated financial institution and, if the funds are not already in the UK, transferable and disposable in the UK;
- have been held in a regulated financial institution in cash for at least two years, or have been generated from one of the permitted sources of funds, which include a gift, sale of a business or property, inheritance, divorce settlement or financial award;
- the applicant must have opened a UK regulated bank or investment account; and
the applicant, and their adult dependant partner (if applicable), must obtain a criminal record certificate from any country where they have stayed (cumulatively or continuously) for 12 months or more over the last 10 years.
It is important to note that the UK Home Office is able to refuse a Investor visa application if it has reasonable grounds to believe that:
- the applicant is not in control of the investment funds;
- the funds were obtained unlawfully (or by means which would be unlawful if they happened in the UK); or
- the character, conduct or associations of a party providing the funds mean that approving the application is not conducive to the public good.
Provided the application is successful, the applicant will be granted entry to the UK as a Investor migrant, and their dependants, for three years and four months, or three years if they are applying in the UK.
Requirements for a Investor visa extension
To apply for an extension of the Investor visa, the applicant must:
- continue to have money of their own under their control in the UK amounting to no less than £2m;
- have invested the money in specified ways and maintained the investments correctly (see our separate note "Investor visa: what investments qualify?");
- made the investment within 90 days of either entry into the UK (where there is evidence to establish the date of entry to the UK, that is a passport with a stamped visa on entry to the UK or flight tickets and boarding card), or the date of the grant of the visa; and
- provide a series of portfolio reports certified as correct by a UK regulated financial institution which must meet certain prescriptive and detailed requirements.
Our separate note "Investor visa: what investments qualify?" gives more detail on the types of investments that do and do not qualify.
Provided the applicant meets the above criteria, they, and their dependants (if applicable), should be granted a visa extension for a further two years.
If the applicant invested £2m in the UK, they may be eligible to apply for ILR after five years. Any dependants may also apply for ILR at the same time, provided they obtained their initial immigration permission at the same time as the applicant.
If the applicant invested £5m or £10m in the UK, they may qualify for ILR after three years or two years, respectively. However, their family members would still need to wait five years before they can apply for ILR.
In order to obtain ILR, the applicant must meet the residence requirements, which are that they must not have been outside of the UK for more than 180 days in any rolling 12 month period during the two/three/five year qualifying period for ILR.
It is important to note that dependants who have been granted periods of immigration permission on or after 11 January 2018 will now need to meet the same residence requirements at the ILR stage for any period(s) of leave granted after this date.
The applicant and their dependants over 18 years old will also need to demonstrate that they can communicate in English to the required level and pass the Life in the UK Test in order to qualify for ILR.
Once the applicant has obtained ILR, they may withdraw their investment if they wish to do so.
Naturalisation or registration as a British citizen
If the applicant invested £2m in the UK, they may apply for British citizenship after living in the UK for five years, including at least one year with ILR. This normally means that an applicant will become eligible after six years of living in the UK.
If the applicant invested £5m or £10m in the UK, they may be eligible to apply for British citizenship after five years of living in the UK, provided, again, this includes one year of holding ILR.
Their dependants would be entitled to apply for British citizenship after living in the UK for five years, including at least one year with ILR, which, again, normally means that they will become eligible after six years of living in the UK.
There are stricter residence requirements for British citizenship compared to ILR. The applicant and their dependants must demonstrate that they have not been absent from the UK for more than:
- 450 days in total in the last five years before applying for British citizenship;
- 90 days in the last 12 months before applying for British citizenship; and
- six consecutive months in the last five years before applying for British citizenship.
It is possible for UK Visas and Immigration to waive excess absences in certain circumstances, for example, if absences beyond the prescribed limits were due to business travel for a UK-based employment or self-employment role.
After obtaining British citizenship, the applicant, and their dependants, may subsequently apply for their first British passports.
The Investor visa category is a great route for those that have significant funds to invest in the UK as it is the least restrictive UK immigration route which can lead to ILR and British citizenship.
It is important that applicants wishing to apply under the Investor category engage an experienced immigration practitioner who can advise them on the detailed requirements, the application process and ensure their qualifying investment is made and maintained in line with the criteria for the route.


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Neuware • US • 2013 • BDR
Art Punk / Garage Punk / Killed By Death
14 Track LP + 24 Tracks CD + DVD; Inkl. Beiblatt.
Maximum ArtPunk'n'Roll from the wrong side of the river 1979-1983! MAX LOAD was a band from Belleville, IL, which is just across the Mississippi from St. Louis. They released one single in 1979 on their own 198X Records during their existence. It's considered by many to be a Midwestern Punk classic, and it's been bootlegged on the KILLED BY DEATH compilation series.
This release collects the "X-Rod" 7", 1980 studio demos, 1981-1983 4 track demos and a couple more studio demos from 1981 & 1983. All but the two songs from the single are previously unreleased.
The release is an LP + CD + DVD. The LP has the first fourteen tracks, and the CD contains all 24 tracks. It also comes with a DVD which is a 20 song live set broadcast on cable access TV in 1981. The band plays several songs on the DVD that are not on the LP/CD. An 11"x17" insert is included which features liner notes by band leader Terry Jones as well as several previously unpublished photos and gig posters.
Trackliste / Inhalt:
A2. Magazine Sex 2:27
A3. Va-Va-Va Vicky 2:18
A4. Goin' Out Tonight 2:29
A5. You're A Blur 2:03
A6. Park My Motor 2:10
A7. Change Your Channel/Taking Over The World 4:39
A8. Mini-Fad 0:40
B1. French Maid 3:18
B2. Stereo Vision 3:50
B3. Nothing Box 2:56
B4. Blue Green 2:32
B5. Things Are Different 2:49
B6. Wishing Machine 3:27
CD1. X-Rod 2:00
CD2. Magazine Sex 2:27
CD4. Goin' Out Tonight 2:29
CD5. You're A Blur 2:03
CD6. Park My Motor 2:10
CD7. Change Your Channel/Taking Over The World 4:39
CD8. Mini-Fad 0:40
CD9. French Maid 3:18
CD10. Stereo Vision 3:50
CD11. Nothing Box 2:56
CD12. Blue Green 2:32
CD13. Things Are Different 2:49
CD14. Wishing Machine 3:27
CD15. Rapidly Expanding Universe 3:38
CD16. Hot Rods From Hell 3:09
CD17. I Kiss Your Shadow 3:08
CD18. Machine Man 3:05
CD19. I Become Translucent 2:57
CD20. Cold Blast 2:45
CD21. Monster Disco 3:24
CD22. Zero Zone 2:50
CD23. War In Tokyo 3:22
CD24. Va-Va-Va Vicky (Version 2) 2:32
DVD1. Industrial Action (Incomplete)
DVD2. Brave New Tech
DVD3. Change Your Channel
DVD4. Feeling For Flesh
DVD5. Soviet Spy
DVD6. Park My Motor
DVD7. (La Interviews Max Load)
DVD8. Alternative Girls
DVD9. Beat Safari
DVD10. X-Rod
DVD11. Magazine Sex
DVD12. Graphic
DVD13. Distance
DVD14. Taking Over The World
DVD15. You're A Blur
DVD16. Positively Neutral
DVD17. Section F
DVD18. Competition Zero (Sharp Shooter)
DVD19. She's Sharp
DVD20. All Your Secrets
DVD21. Va-Va-Va-Vicky


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The Adirondacks region, in northern New York state, is a six million-acre pristine wilderness, with mountains, temperate forest, lakes and quaint villages. The Adirondacks is a year-round vacation destination, with alpine ski centers and cross-country trails in winter, white-water rafting on the Hudson River in spring, and a host of recreational activities in summertime, ranging from hiking, cycling and golfing, to soaking up the sun on one of the lovely coastal beaches.
Lake Champlain Beaches
Lake Champlain is 120 miles long from north to south and offers almost 600 miles of shoreline, with unspoiled beaches, historic lighthouses and beautiful scenery. Most beaches are open mid-May to Columbus Day and provide amenities such as pavilions, showers and restrooms, picnic areas and car-top boat launches. Plattsburgh City Beach, a short drive from downtown Plattsburgh, is the largest freshwater beach in the U.S., with great views of the Green Mountains. You can explore the coastline by kayak or take a walk along the nature trails. Ausable Point State Park boasts family-friendly beaches with opportunities for swimming, fishing, paddling and windsurfing, miles of hiking trails and primitive campgrounds. The long sand beach at Cumberland Bay State Park, on the western shore, is handicap accessible and offers a large play area for kids. Point au Roche State Park, just north of Plattsburgh, is a great spot for swimming, fishing and boating.
Lake George Beaches
Lake George is clean, and the shoreline boasts a selection of public beaches. Most are free to use, but you must pay to park. Visitors are not permitted to use inflatables. Million Dollar Beach is a family-friendly, white sand beach, which is patrolled by lifeguards in summertime. Amenities include volleyball courts, changing rooms and lockers. Shepard Park Beach is centrally located near the village of Lake George, so it is close to shops and restaurants. The beach is 350 feet long, with a pier and lakefront walkway, and changing rooms and restrooms are provided. Usher's Park is a quiet, secluded beach with only basic amenities, but the water is shallow and safe for young children.
Lake Luzerne Beaches
Luzerne Heights Beach is the closest beach to Lake Luzerne village. It is a small beach, with limited parking, but it is a good spot for canoeing and kayaking. Wayside Beach is only 10 minutes from Lake George Village. Amenities include a picnic area and restrooms, and a launch spot for canoes. Lake Luzerne's public beaches are free to use, and most are open from June until Labor Day, although Hudson Grove Beach is only open during July and August.
Hudson River Beaches
After a major clean-up program, several beaches along the upper Hudson River have been designated for swimming. Haviland Cove, at Glen Falls, offers a variety of recreational activities, such as camping, bathing, fishing and boating. Amenities include a picnic area, pavilions, playground and restrooms. Moreau Sand Bar Beach, just south of Glen Falls, is open daily from mid-June to early September, and offers a picnic area and pavilion. At the Hudson River Beach in Corinth you can enjoy water-skiing, jet-skiing and swimming, and can charter a variety of boats, including pontoon boats, canoes, kayaks and rowboats. This beach has a large picnic area and a restaurant and ice cream fountain.
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My current favourite salad includes chopped romaine and spinach, lemon dijon chicken, red and green peppers, red and green onion, a large handful of chickpeas, a little crumbled herbed goat cheese and about 4 large crushed pecans topped with a dash of salt and a lot of pepper served with Italian dressing. delicious !
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Friday, 6 May 2011
Prestwick St Nicholas co-hosts the Scottish Area Team Championship
The field will feature 96 of the country's leading amateur players (including internationalists) representing their respective areas. The Ayrshire six man team consists of Scottish and South African Amateur Champion Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck), a trio of Kilmarnock Barassie players - the new Ayrshire Strokeplay Champion Jamie Mackay, 2010 Ayrshire Matchplay winner Euan Brown and Scotland boys international Jack McDonald, and bidding to go one step further than their semi-final appearance last year are Michael Smyth (Royal Troon) and John Haggarty (Loudoun).
The format will see all 16 teams play 36 holes stroke-play on Saturday 14 May (one round over Prestwick and one round over St Nicholas) with the leading 4 teams qualifying for match play on the Sunday to determine the medal positions.
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Photograph of Prestwick St Nicholas would have been more appropriate.
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CV2The Old Testament ends with Israel back in the promised land, but hardly under promising circumstances. The temple was rebuilt, but it did not possess the glory of the house built by Solomon (see Ezra 3:10-13; Haggai 2:1-3). The walls of Jerusalem were rebult, the city of David was not the seat of power it once was. Instead, foreign overlords in places like Persia and Rome controlled the affairs of the nation. And no devout Israelite could imagine that the great promises of Isaiah or Ezekiel had been fulfilled in the returns led by Joshua, Zerubabbel or Nehemiah. Where was God? When would He return and liberate His people?
By the time of the first century, however, the people believed that God was about to act. Based in part on Daniel's vision of the seventy weeks (Daniel 9:24-27), many Jews in the first century possessed a heightened sense of messianic expectation. This is reflected in the questions posed to John the Baptist by the emissaries sent from Jerusalem in John 1:19-23.
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No." So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
No, John says, I am not the Christ, Elijah (see Malachi 4:5) or the Prophet (see Deuteronomy 18:15-18). But I am the one preparing the way for the long-anticipated coming of the Lord to save His people, just as Isaiah promised in Isaiah 40:3.
This is how the fourth gospel sets the stage for the appearance of Christ. In very similar fashion, Mark's gospel also cites the promise of Isaiah 40:3 in connection with the ministry of John the Baptist, moving directly into the story of Jesus' baptism (Mark 1:1-11). Matthew's gospel also draws on this same text from Isaiah 40, and prior to that, Matthew highlights the identity of Jesus as the king who would deliver His people from exile by arranging His genealogy in three groups of 14 (the sum of the numerical value of David's Hebrew name), and by framing the genealogy on the birth of David in 1:6 and the deportation to Babylon in 1:11.
But it is especially in the opening of the Gospel of Luke that the theme of Christus Victor, the conquering Messiah, is most clearly expressed. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah to tell him that he and Elizabeth would have son, he said that this son would "turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared" (Luke 1:16-17).
Later, when Gabriel informed Mary that God had chosen her to bear the one who would reign on the throne of David, she magnified the Lord for acting to deliver His people:
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his offspring forever (Luke 1:54-55).
And when the aged priest's tongue was loosed, Zechariah prophesied this:
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace (Luke 1:68-79).
Incidentally, when you compare the songs of Mary and Zechariah to the traditional "Christmas carols" popular in our culture, two things stand out. First, based on the lyrics of many carols you would never even know Jesus is Jewish, much less that He was Israel's king! Second, you would certainly never get the impression that Jesus came to deliver His people from their enemies, despite the explicit language of these passages.
But two people who did understand these truths about Jesus were Simeon and Anna. Both were aged and devout believers, and each was blessed to see the baby Jesus in the temple. Simeon, we are told, was "waiting for the consolation of Israel" (Luke 2:25). Holding the holy child in his arms, Simeon blessed God and prayed, "Lord, now you are letting your servantdepart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel" (Luke 2:29-32). Likewise, Anna rejoiced at the birth of Jesus and spoke of Him "to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem" (Luke 2:38).
So all four gospels, and especially Luke, portray the coming of Jesus in unmistakable terms. He is the Lord's Messiah, the one who has come to defeat Israel's enemies and redeem the nation from its exile. But who is Israel's true enemy? And how can that enemy be destroyed? Only if we answer that question correctly can we begin to understand the victory Christ came to win.
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A STITCHER'S RETICULE, NEEDLEBOOK, SCISSOR KEEP, SCISSOR FOB, AND THIMBLE PIPKIN Combine soft bronze green with mulberry coloured linen to stitch this lovely Victorian Purse and Smalls! When I first began the design process for this project, it was so delightful to decide on two linens, both added dimension and beauty to the final project. The purse is created with a large selection of delectable silks, and overdyed silk flosses, silk ribbons, pearls, sparkling beads. It is beautifully finished and can be tied together at the top with cording made of the antique mauve pearl cotton. The front, side and back panels are fully hand-stitched and lined with matching dupioni silk, as are all the matching smalls; the scissor fob heart with two linens, the pipkin, and the combination scissorskeep/needlebook. On the front panel of the purse is an English country scene with two ladies in long dresses reaching for the fruit of the 'love' tree in their garden. In the distance is their house on a hill with sheep grazing peacefully in the meadows. Under this graceful scene is a vine with large silk ribbon flowers, decorated with pearls. Then at the bottom is a delicious row of Bargello, incorporating the colours already used in the scene. The back panel shows a monogram of your initials enhanced by a floral vine. You'll need to adjust the vine slightly if your letters are a bit wider than those shown on the back cover! The same silk floral and Bargello rows continue the front design elements to the back. The sides of the purse are stitched on mulberry coloured linen, using satin pins and wave pulled thread stitches entwined with a delicate vine of silk ribbon and flosses. Gorgeous! I hope you'll love the colours of this project as much as I do! Be prepared for a few new stitches, and enjoy the Cross Stitched areas too. The finishing is easy, if you follow Lisa's detailed directions and coloured photos.. In addition to the finishing techniques, you will also find clear and easy instructions and step by step photos to make your own cording and how to attach them to your lovely creations! -Thea
- Purse Front and Back Design Area: 84w x 110h (6" wide x 7.85" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Willow Green:
- Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 9" wide x 11" high for finishing
- Purse Sides Design Area: 24w x 268h (1.7" wide x 19.1" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Mulberry:
- Cut fabric: 5.5" wide x 25" high for finishing
- Needlebook Front and Back Design Area: 38w x 62h (2.7" wide x 4.4" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Mulberry:
- Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 5.5" wide x 7" high
- Scissor Keep Design Area: 17w x 36h (1.2" wide x 2.6" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Mulberry:
- Cut fabric: 4" wide x 6" high
- Pipkin x 3 sides Design Area: 24w x 52h (1.7" wide x 3.7" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Willow Green:
- Cut 3 pieces of fabric: 4.5" wide x 6.5" high for finishing
- Scissor Fob Front Design Area: 19w x 21h (1.35" wide x 1.5" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Mulberry:
- Cut fabric: 4.5" wide x 4.5" high for finishing
- Scissor Fob Back Design Area: 19w x 21h (1.35" wide x 1.5" high)
- Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Willow Green:
- Cut fabric: 4.5" wide x 4.5" high for finishing
Suggested Materials
- DMC #12 Perle Cotton #316 - antique mauve med
- Kreinik #4 Braid #002 - metallic gold
- Access Trebizond (silk thick twist) #515 - rose
- Gloriana silk #045 "Lacquered Gold"
- Gloriana silk #116 "Olive Grove" - olive greens
- Caron Waterlilies #138 "Winter Wheat" - multi purple pink green
- Rainbow Gallery "Wisper" #W88 - white
- Kreinik Mori #0115 - pink (French Knot)
- Kreinik Mori #8050 - black
- Needlepoint Inc. #331 - avocado lt
- Needlepoint Inc. #335 - avocado dk
- Treenway 3.5mm silk ribbon #022 "Ballet Slippers"
- Treenway 3.5mm silk ribbon "Faded Roses" - multi
- Gloriana silk #053 "Granny Smith Green" - greens
- Gloriana silk #172 "Arroyo" - multi grey tans
- Gloriana silk #194 "Flowers of Italy" - multi
- Kreinik Mori #4216 - olive green dk
- Access Au ver a Soie #4626 - garnet vy dk
- Needlepoint Inc. #124 - brick red med
- Needlepoint Inc. #333 - avocado med dk
- Treenway 3.5mm silk ribbon #047 "Cherry Blossom"
- Dinky Dyes 7mm silk ribbon - green
- SJ Designs 2mm pearl beads - pink
- SJ Designs seed bead #462E - rainbow olive
- SJ Designs petite bead #1887 - aspen green
- Mill Hill petite bead #40557 - gold
- Zweigart 28ct Cashel Linen - Willow Green and Mulberry
- #24 tapestry needle
- #10 short beading needle
Suggested Extra Materials for Finishing
- Stitched designs
- 12.5" x 36" - willow green Dupioni Silk (OR cotton - to compliment linen)
- 3" x 4" - Black Wool Felt
- 1/4 yd - Iron-on Interfacing Medium weight
- 1/4 yd - Iron-on Fleece Pellon
- 1 spool - Cotton sewing thread (contrast to backing fabric)
- 1 spool - Cotton sewing thread (match to backing fabric)
- 4 ply Mat Board & 2 ply Mat Board (Acid Free)
- Straight Pins (quilters and silk)
- Aileen's Tacky Glue & Elmer's White Glue
- Freezer Paper
- Rotary cutter, plastic ruler and cutting mat
- Sharp Paper scissors
- Iron
- Sewing Needle
Stitches used in the Victorian Purse and Accessories:
- Cross Stitch
- Back Stitch
- Satin Stitch heart
- French Knot
- Leaf Stitch
- Smyrna Cross
- Loop Stitch
- Japanese Ribbon Stitch
- Lazy Daisy Stitch
- Cross Stitch over ONE fabric thread
- Bargello Wave
- Pulled Satin Stitch Pins
- Pulled Wave Stitch
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I still have friends that complain about product placement in movies. It used to be something that got to me as well but many years ago I kinda just got over it. Why? Because it properly reflects a realistic version of the world we live in.
Look down at your clothes, look at your desk, look out the window. You see product labels over everything. Your shirt might have a huge SUPREME written across it (if you're one of the cool kids that is!). Your pants might have a red Levi's tag sticking out of it. Your shoes mights have the unmistakable 3 stripes that are synonymous with Adidas. Look at your computer/phone/tablet that you are reading this on what logo is staring back at you? You have headphones, eating lunch, putting on nail polish? Almost everything has glaring labels. So why wouldn't the media we take in reflect that?
When people think of product placement they think film and TV but the earliest instances to product placement also include literature and paintings. Examples of this include shipping companies lobbying to be included in the 1873 Jules Verne epic "Around the World in Eighty Days"; the inclusion of distinctive bottles and labels of Bass Beer beside a bar maid in Manet's painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"; and in films produced by the Lumière brothers in 1876 featured Sunlight Soap which may be the first instance of paid product placement.Â
But at that point not everything had big, distinctive labels. This is a combination of things being made by hand/at home and products not yet fighting for market saturation. So having scenes in media not filled with labels made sense.
Since then there had been a steady increase in the inclusion of specific products and names used in media, whether paid or not, to improve the awareness of specific products. In some cases this strategic placement saved companies. One of the most famous cases is RayBan where placement in Tom Cruise movies starting with Risky Business as he wears their now classic wayfarers and then in Top Gun where he sports their aviators is said to have brought the company from the verge of bankruptcy.
But in the 80s and 90s that product placement came to a pinnacle where it was so abundant and obvious that it became a bit of a joke in itself.Â
After that there wasn't really a decrease in product placement but more of a mindful adjustment of how these products are placed in films and on television. They are placed in an environment in such a way that it isn't obvious but at least seen my the audience and when interacted with, they aren't actively focused on.Â
But also to get around product placements some productions went with "faux placements" where they replaced products with fake products/companies created for the show or film. Such as Morley cigarettes in "The X-Files"; Big Kahuna Burger in Tarantino films; Mooby Corporation in Kevin Smith Movies; and there are many more.
But since those initial placements, our world has changed drastically. Films now a days would not look right without product placement. Like I mentioned at the start, our world is littered with labels, product names, and neon signs. Being somewhere or showing a film devoid of that just seems strange. Like trying to be normal, but a bit too normal, and then that just makes it weird.Â
Some films and TV shows are still much more blatant with their product placement and that can be annoying.
We get it! You're driving __________ cars in this movie!
But many have learned to integrate this in a much more natural, realistic way. And really that is just a true reflection of life.


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Winter has arrived and this week you can really feel it.
Our feathered friends need water in these freezing temperatures. Take a small heated container, fill it with tepid water and you will soon see all sorts of birds appear who are unable to resist it.
If your camera is already positioned in the nest box, you can photograph the birds which take refuge there during this harsh winter period. You can also use your nest-box camera to take photos of the birds, pleased to seek shelter there to warm up during this difficult season.


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All my keys were already used :S
Something wrong if you're able to comment on someones keys
Jogge thanks dev, very cool
Dontasciime what are you talking about
~Jogge, that's co's they are the same keys In my original purchased bundle
do you need a screen shot
no fking way, they sent me 3 text files of the keys... and they sent me the same ones?
I got an email today
Otaku Bundle #36 Revokes is now in Payment and Claim
Hey Dontasciime!
Just emailing to let you know that Otaku Bundle #36 Revokes is now in Payment and Claim. Visit https://groupbundl.es/buy/551 for payment information.
-- Gia, your friendly GroupBundl.es robot
clicked link brings to this page
Dontasciime do your keys work or not? this meta-bundle is for distributing the keys that were previously revoked. it's intentional that you're not supposed to pay me for it
I have to retract what I said above they are not the same ones from my origianl purchase i had copied those three keys to a different text doc to compare,
eg I copied them to txt doc to compare to origianl but dummy here compared them to this page. :(
the keys above still don 't work though that is no mistake
OK, mine are, i'll take a look at what keys I got for everyone else and compare to originals. seems i've been #megatrolled
I'm ok if you never get this sorted
These are the same keys that were revoked.. kek.. eh.. not working.
the dev is one massive troll. epic. can't trust anyone anymore
If Otaku are supplying new keys from what was supplied to them originally then according to the dev of these 3 games he said he revoked every single one of the 10,000 keys he sent Otaku.
Otaku didn't supply the keys. I had to contact the dev directly.
For me, don't worry about it I can live without these keys in this instance. Thanks for trying though.
I wasn't sure where you got keys from I thought maybe it was dev but then assumed it was just otaku , either way the dev is not to be trusted and I'm blacklisting his games anyway
New keys are not working for me also but it's no problem for me. Thanks for the trying :)
Yup, exactly the same (invalid) keys as from original bundle.
WFeszter OneLastKiss Milan Jogge I think I may have made a mistake? Let's try these.
Sorry for getting everyone worked up.
All three worked now. Awesome! Thank you Alexandra!
now if you don't mind, I'm going to go drink some gasoline over that mistake
Now are new one, and they are working on top of it ^^ Thanks :)
So you've replaced them again?
Don't see any
So you've replaced them again?
Don't see any
no idea why double post
I can't see game keys due to payment and claim situation.
Edit: Thanks a lot for game keys.
All OK. Thanks
Many thanks Alexandra!
Thanks for chasing these down for us. I appreciate it!


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
BLOGGING: It's Tuesday, Where Are You?
Have you been playing the Bookword Game? We are still taking suggestions here for a word for:
What do you call an author that is one you know you can always count on for a good read? It can be for comfort, excitement, whatever - you know that author will deliver.
Leave your comments on that other post, and Suey will have a poll up around Wednesday, so you still have time to get a suggestion in.
In reading, I am in Biblical times with Biff and Joshua, looking for the Magi. You know Joshua as Jesus, and Biff was the best friend of Josh. Biff has been brought back to life in modern times to write his gospel to be added to the Bible. V. funny stuff here. (Lamb, by Christopher Moore)
Where is reading taking you today? Leave a comment, write a post, spread the word.
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I'm in a graphic novel!!ReplyDelete
Here I am:
I loved "Lamb"! It was funny and surprisingly moving, especially the end.ReplyDelete
I'm in Denver, Colorado
I'm in the Arctic, having recently been turned into a werewolf (Frostbite (on-line), David Wellington, http://www.brokentype.com/frostbite/archives.html)ReplyDelete
I'm also in the Midwest, where a serial killer is snatching kids and a retired cop has the key to solving the mystery, though he doesn't know it. (Black House, Stephen King and Peter Straub)
I'm back in high school.ReplyDelete
My teasers are here.
interesting premise for a book. I'm in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C. If you want to wander down my road I'm home.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I'm all over the world: http://www.newcenturyreading.com/2009/09/its-tuesday-where-are-you.htmlReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I've travelled from london to Cornwall for a job interview.More details here. It's strange, because I did the very same thing in real life a few years ago...ReplyDelete
I am in an Utah hospital tyring to save my comatose sister!ReplyDelete
Teaser Tuesdays: The Sister Pact by Cami Checketts
I've just arrived in Spain. And I just bought a creepy old house, and oh, life is going to get very very interesting. (The Angel's Game)ReplyDelete
I am in Rome...ReplyDelete
Click on my name and you can be in Rome too! :)
I read and reviewed A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and laughed all the way through! A friend told me Lamb was very good, too.ReplyDelete
I'm in Chicago this week, with side trips to Mexico, Thailand, and Canada. Check it out at
I'm in Nevada with a bunch of poker playing druggies.ReplyDelete
I'm in Bakshaar!ReplyDelete
Thanks for commenting, so nice of you to visit.
(I'll try without the letters for a while - so please dont be a spammer! Let's try no anonymous users)