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Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
University of California Press, May 2003. Paper Back. Used - Good. Item #295237
The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period-from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries c.e.-the volume includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal, as well as less well known but highly relevant and intriguing texts such as graffiti, comic fragments, magical papyri, medical treatises, and selected artistic evidence. These fluently translated texts, together with Thomas K. Hubbard's valuable introductions, clearly show that there was in fact no more consensus about homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome than there is today.
The material is organized by period and by genre, allowing readers to consider chronological developments in both Greece and Rome. Individual texts each are presented with a short introduction contextualizing them by date and, where necessary, discussing their place within a larger work. Chapter introductions discuss questions of genre and the ideological significance of the texts, while Hubbard's general introduction to the volume addresses issues such as sexual orientation in antiquity, moral judgments, class and ideology, and lesbianism. With its broad, unexpurgated, and thoroughly informed presentation, this unique anthology gives an essential perspective on homosexuality in classical antiquity.
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NOTTINGHAM, England, May 31 (UPI) -- Drunk drivers who are female are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, researchers in Britain say.
Professor Mary McMurran of the Institute of Mental Health at The University of Nottingham and colleagues conducted a systematic review of 26 world-wide studies and found emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offenses committed by women.
They also said alcohol rehabilitation programs that force women to face the consequences of their crime can intensify their feelings of guilt and shame, leading them to turn to alcohol and increasing the risk that they will re-offend.
"The profile of women drink-driving offenders is of being divorced, widowed or separated and having fewer previous convictions than their male counterparts. Thus, it may be that these women are distressed by their situation and are turning to drink for solace," McMurran says in a statement.
"Treatment programs that induce negative emotions may actually increase emotional distress, which may increase drinking and, in turn, increase the likelihood of alcohol-related offending."
The study, published in Clinical Psychology Review, also said women were less likely to drink and drive than men and less likely to be repeat offenders; women drunk drivers were older than men, better educated but had a lower incomes; and women drunk drivers were more likely to have parents and partners who abused alcohol.

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The role of the Chief Lighting Technician, or Gaffer, on a motion picture, is a balance of creativity and technical knowledge. I have had the privilege of collaborating with some very talented Directors of Photography throughout my career and the most rewarding jobs to me, are the ones where I can contribute my lighting aesthetic to the look of the film."Inception" proved to have many challenges throughout the prep and shooting. For starters, filming would take place in 6 different countries, so the logistics of planning rigs for stages and locations was achieved through many emails and diagrams that I created after I had scouted each country. I become more of an Executive Gaffer on pictures of this scope, managing separate shooting and rigging crews around the world to help unify the look of the movie.
There is a hotel hallway in the story where the characters are to be seen floating in zero G conditions and also fighting as the hallway rotates 360 degrees. The hallway was built within a structure fabricated by the Special Effects Department which designed to spin the set continuously when called for. There was track designed within the carpet so the camera could move up and down the hallway and be operated remotely while the set was spinning. We designed the lighting in the hallway to also be completely self illuminating. There was no way to have traditional movie lights rigged inside the set to safely allow the actors and cameras to move about and achieve the shots that needed to be photographed. There were 6 soffits built into the ceiling, which had a milkplexi retaining wall all the way around the edge of each soffit. 12- 1k Atlas (Broad Light) fixtures were rigged to illuminate the milkplexi of each soffit, so 12k x 6= 72,000 watts. Hanging within each soffit section was a practical fixture housing 6 x 150watt photoflood globes, which were coated in teflon as a safety precaution for all of the stunt work involved. Lastly, Art Department installed wall sconces on either side of the hallway, globed with 100watt globes, which were also safety coated. All of this lighting was wired back to dimmer packs which were installed on board the rotating set. They were placed very carefully so as to not throw off the balance of the set. Powering all of this was another challenge because the set needed to be able to turn freely and continuously for as long as it took to achieve a take. We could not simply backwind a bunch of cable and then reset it each time. We decided that a system of brushes would have to be employed to transfer a significant amount of power from the hard mounted structure holding the set to the rotating part of the set in the same manner as a merry go round. This device is called a "Slip Ring" and we had one custom made to fulfill our amperage and installation requirements. The dimmer packs were controlled by a wireless DMX signal. All of these solutions were worked out months in advance by working closely with the Art Department and Special Effects team. These preparations are essential to avoid any issues on the shooting days when any problem can lead to very costly delays.
Finding creative and practical solutions for unusual challenges is the most rewarding part of my career as a CLT.Return to Musings


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Following a long list of flashy buzzword predecessors: low-fat, antioxidant-rich, whole grain, sugar-free, and now it's all about that protein (yes plain 'ol protein!) has been thrust into the media as the uncontested, current "it" word in the wild world of food marketing.
Greek yogurt has more protein than regular yogurt and it's successfully marketed toward women, men, and even children (though the fact that it's Greek yogurt–not just yogurt with "2X the protein"–isn't obvious at first glance). dairy product—as a source of protein is a bad idea. Talk about draining your Energy in an attempt to build a better, more toned body. Doing so will have adverse affects for your digestion (like cause inflammation of your body) and imbalance your whole body, which is an interconnected system. In the end you won't get the lasting, excellent results of what you were going for.
More Isn't Better
There is currently a super scary "more is better" mentality associated with the macronutrient or protein. Processed, protein-laden snacks, meal replacements, and sometimes even meals themselves, like certain breakfast cereals, are viewed as healthy choices. In reality, they're far from it. Besides, girls and women ages 14-70+ only need about 46 grams of protein per day and men need 52 to 56 grams, according to the Institute of Medicine. By embracing the protein trend and picking up bars, cereals, shakes, and other products that contain extra protein, there's a good chance you'll get too much protein in your diet.
If you're following a lifestyle that has a variety of fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and whole grains, you don't really need the extra grams of protein to have a lean body or to feel full, and you definitely don't need the types they're usually offering. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, "eating a good variety of plant-based protein throughout the day will provide all of the essential amino acids your body needs." The added protein in these could actually have negative effects on your health- including leave acidic residue that ages and weighs down your body and digestion.
Soy protein is plant-based, yes, but it's still far from good. Soy is one of the top allergenic foods in the country and tends to be heavily sprayed with pesticides. Not only that, but most soy in the United States is genetically modified, which devastates any level of nutrients the soy may have had in the first place. Soy contains trypsin inhibitors which make it harder for you to digest protein and reduce amino acid uptake. The phytic acid found in soy prevents your body from absorbing minerals, and the phytoestrogens can cause hormonal problems. Soy protein isolate products are highly processed, and I consider them a disaster. Sorry to be harsh, but I simply am with this stuff. I care too much. By consuming packaged products that contain it, you're wreaking havoc on your body.
The Dangers of Consuming Too Much Protein
When you stock up on those pre-packaged products with extra protein added, you can quickly surpass your daily protein needs by quite a bit. That puts you at risk for reduced kidney function if you have pre-existing kidney problems. According to Medline Plus, too much protein can also contribute to severe liver problems, like hepatic encephalopathy, which reduces the liver's ability to transform the ammonia released as a byproduct of protein digestion into a harmless substance. When the kidneys and liver can't function smoothly, that contributes to even more toxicity in the body, and ultimately more sickness.
Too much protein, especially when that amount includes animal and dairy protein, is also extremely acidic and has an aging effect on the body. This is what I see people time and time again not really understanding…you don't have to overeat any one macronutrient to look good! In fact, it has quite a detrimental effect. I see lots of people that look older than their chronological age, and I know it doesn't have to be that way. Balance is the key. And it can be reversed, in many cases, when you change your diet. I've seen people's skin and bodies become soft and healthy.
Metabolizing animal products creates acidity, and in an effort to neutralize itself, the body begins taking calcium compounds from the bones. There's nothing sexy or strong about osteoporosis. Other possible complications with a high-protein diet include: constipation, bad breath, headaches, heart arrhythmias and more.
When you eat a balanced, whole-food diet, there's no need to succumb to the marketing hype regarding high-protein foods, especially not when the protein comes from processed, highly refined soy or dairy and is delivered via processed foods. Stop eating that crap.
There are just Some Foods that contain substantial amounts of protein include:
-Raw nuts and seeds, including almonds, Brazil nuts, chia seeds, walnuts, sunflower seeds & sesame seeds
-Chlorella and spirulina (good for athletes!)
-Legumes and beans
-Broccoli (11.2 grams per 100 calories)
Romaine lettuce (11.6 grams per 100 calories)
-Kale, spinach and all greens
-All Sprouts (example sunflower Sprouts, pea Sprouts, wheatgrass, lentil Sprouts, alfalfa sprouts)
-Hemp seeds: averaging 11 grams of protein per three tablespoons, you'll get an omega-6 called gamma-linoleic acid (GLA), which promotes a healthy metabolism, burns fat, and helps you get that toned, beautiful body most people are after when they consume products that advertise extra protein. Hemp seeds also balance the hormones, promote healthy skin, hair and nails, and act as an anti-inflammatory.
Don't fall for the hype. Leave those chalky and acid-forming products on the shelf and enjoy a delicious diet of real food, filled with just the right amount of protein that nature intended.


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Monday, December 8, 2014
CASEing Genius: Deepti Malik
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Incredible. Both your work and the work of Deepti. Your talents are amazing!ReplyDelete
I found Dee's blog quite recently and adore her work too! She is soooo talented! Love the cards she shared today and yours is gorgeous too, Kelly! ♥ReplyDelete
Wow!!! This is incredible! Love your take!ReplyDelete
So nice to get to know Dee through you, Kelly! I love her cards you've featured and your take on them is just beautiful! I will be checking out her blog now.ReplyDelete
So fun to get to know Deepti a little more and see some of her favourite cards! And your CASE is fabulous, Kelly! Beautiful card!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much Kelly for your kind words and for this feature. I was so excited to see what u will make and as always I am in awe by the beauty of ur card, u r such a master crafter :) Love itReplyDelete
Wow! What a delightful post ! It was great knowing the talented Deepti more and seeing few of her gorgeous cards. And Kelly, your card is so, so beautiful.ReplyDelete
This is just absolutely STUNNING, Kelly! Just Stunning! Wow!ReplyDelete
Cards from Deepti I knew always stunning adorable and AMAZINGReplyDelete
but your card CASE ing her card wooowwwww amazing stunning and I in love with the colors..
BOTH OF YOU ARE SUPER TALENTED lady I ever know..
Are you okay Kelly...I have never seen you again on my blog hope all is ok with you and your little MONSTER (LOL) and hubby.
Hugs, Monika
Awesome card Kelly and a great post :)ReplyDelete
I also LOVE Deepti's work!ReplyDelete
You did a fabulous job with the CASE!
I agree with you, Kelly - Deepti's work is absolutely stunning! Love your CASE cardReplyDelete
I enjoy studying Dee's artful work!ReplyDelete
Your lilies and sketchy lines in the background are perfect!
Beautiful CASE of Deepti's style, Kelly! I'm a huge fan of CB too, and you have really made those flowers sing, girl!ReplyDelete
I was so happy to see that you chose my sweet friend for this weeks' feature! You are right about about her too...she is the sweetest and most incredibly talented paper crafter around! I love everything about her!
Wonderful post. I so enjoyed learning more about Deepti--I think she is one of the most talented crafters out there, and also so kind and generous with her comments. And, your CASE of her is equally stunning. You really captured the 'Dee Look'ReplyDelete
Such a fun feature. Deepti is so incredibly talented.ReplyDelete
I am a huge fan of Deepti....but Kelly your CASE is incredible! You are just as talented as she is!! Honestly a huge fan too!ReplyDelete
I agree Deepti is just sooo amazing! love your beautiful card too ;) Viv xxReplyDelete


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Download and install MIUI 8 on Tecno W4 (MIUI 8.1.1): If you are a Tecno W4 user, attention, please! Did you know that a rooted device has the potential to be 10 times more powerful than the same unrooted device? It's unbelievable, right? But it is in fact true. Rooting gives your device an array of options to tinker with the settings, make changes to the interface, play with the menu, delete the bloatware, and most importantly to install custom ROMs. Today, in this post, we will be discussing MIUI 8 and how you can easily install this firmware on your Tecno W4. Installing a custom ROM makes your device much more reliable, powerful, and efficient while giving you total control over your device.
The Tecno W4 was released in April 2016. It is a dual sim smartphone which accepts Dual Micro-SIM. The device comes equipped with a large 5.0 inch HD touchscreen with 16M colours having Resolution of 1280 x 780 pixels. It runs Android v6.0 (Marshmallow) out of the box. The device is powered by a MediaTek Quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU coupled with 16 GB ROM and 1 GB RAM. It sports an 8 MP main rear side camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera for selfies lovers. It houses a Non-removable Li-Ion 2500 mAh battery. It is available in Gold, Dark Grey and White colour variants.
If you are a Tecno W4 user who is tired of looking for the perfect guide that will help you root your device and install a custom ROM, then this is the post you had been looking for. Here, in this post, we are going to give you all the basic details regarding rooting, custom ROMs, the benefits, and more. After that, we will give you a step-by-step guide to help you install the custom ROM within no time.
What is Custom ROMs On Android?
Custom ROMs are based on Official Android source codes which are customized or developed by developers or a community of developers. Custom ROMs come with loads of extra customizations which makes them unique and popular among the android lovers. Remember, Custom ROMs are not provided by Google or other mobile vendors but are developed and maintained by the community and its contributors.
Some example: Lineage OS (Previously known as CyanogenMod), Paranoid Android etc.
Benefits Of Custom ROMs
1) Vanilla Android (Pixel Style)
Most Of the AOSP Based Custom ROMs are bloatware free and have very close to the stock look and feel which makes them super snappy. These ROMs are very optimized for battery and performance.
2) Root Access
Most of the Custom ROMs are pre-rooted. The process of gaining full admin control of the Android device is called Rooting On Android. It's similar to running programs as administrators in Windows.
After rooting your device you can install different MODs, kernel, ROMs on your device. You can install latest Android updates (like the Android 8.0 Oreo) On old device by installing third-party ROMs like MIUI 8 or 15. You can overclock the CPU and GPU of your device to get the best performance. You can hibernate any app you want. You can underclock the CPU to get better battery life.
For more information about Android rooting, check out our detailed post here > What Is Rooting Android Phone? Advantages And Disadvantages
3) Regular Updates
Most of the Android smartphone manufacturer provides 2-year software support and after that, the devices won't get any official update. In that case, users have to fully depend on Custom ROMs to test the latest Android on their devices.
Most of the developers of the Custom ROMs provide a 4)regular update which is one of the best things about Custom ROMs.
4) Customization
Android is famous for Customization and Custom ROMs take this to another level. Unlike Stock vanilla android Custom ROMs come with various customization options. We are sharing few of them below
- Users can enable or disable navigation bar
- Users can customize navigation bar and Status bar icons
- Some Custom ROMs come with different MODs
- Some Custom ROMs come with Custom Kernels which allow users to Overclock or underclock the CPU and GPU.
- Some Custom ROMs come with support for Third party themes
5) Battery and Performance
Most Of the Custom ROMs are very close to stock vanilla android in look. The Custom ROMs are very optimized which results in better battery life and smooth performance.
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- Make sure the bootloader on your device is unlocked and your device is rooted and you have a custom recovery installed.
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- First, download the files from the above link.
- Now transfer the downloaded files to the internal storage of your device.
- Now reboot to the TWRP recovery by holding your Armor and volume down buttons together for a few seconds.
- Take a backup by selecting the option from the home screen and then your data and cache from the recovery menu.
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"Everyone remember," says the organizer with the megaphone, "follow the Abominable Snowman!"
That's when 500 Santas on bikes turn onto North Avenue in a western Milwaukee suburb, forming a mass of red echoing with cheers and clanging bells as it rolls along. Since 2000, the Santa Cycle Rampage has drawn cyclists clad as St. Nick, plus, this year, a peddling yeti leading the crowd to a craft brewery. In a city where bars are rumored to outnumber grocery stores, straggling Santas find plenty of distractions en route.
In the onetime brewing capital, small revivals scatter across neighborhoods sprouting eclectic restaurants and shops. The throwback glitz at Christmas remains, too, as a German market at the old Pabst brewery sells ornaments and Glühwein (hot spiced wine) and the Miller Valley neighborhood decks out in lights. In December, it's a city you can't beeline through. Something always prompts you to park, step out and explore.
Tree-lighting in the Historic Third Ward
Historic Third Ward
"I want to thank Santa Claus for making an appearance," Mayor Tom Barrett says from beneath a 30-foot tree. "Mostly, I want to thank all of you for coming into this neighborhood, because it really is a neighborhood now."
The Historic Third Ward stretches in every direction just south of downtown, with block after block of old warehouses reborn as apartments, boutiques and brewpubs. Each year, people gather on an open square to light the tree and watch fireworks, and each year the area's list of things to do grows longer.
Christmas shoppers take to Broadway, a street flanked with eye-catching shops. They pore over crisp stationery and designer notebooks at Broadway Paper and snack on dark chocolate with peppermint crumbles at Red Elephant Chocolate Café. On North Water Street, Hot Pop gallery and art shop sells pop-culture-infused works and tongue-in-cheek gifts like a whiskey flask that reads "GREAT EXPECTATIONS."
A Christmas tree looms over the stalls at the Milwaukee Public Market, the foodie magnet at the Ward's northern end. Holiday delights include hand-dipped chocolates at Kehr's Candies and winter-ready reds at the Thief Wine Shop and Bar. At C. Adam's Bakery, you could (and should) split the Nutter Butter cookie the size of a smartphone between friends.
Milwaukee Public Market
Brady Street
It's said Oscar Wilde once strolled this corridor on the Lower East Side, concluding, "If what you want isn't on Brady Street, you probably don't need it." The statement still stands in this old Italian neighborhood packed with bars and late-night amusements.
Just off Brady Street sits the fun and funky Red Light Ramen. Chef-owner Justin Carlisle, who also owns Ardent next door, launched Red Light Ramen after experimenting with a single dish— Tonkotsu ramen—served after midnight on weekends at the more formal Ardent. "We wanted a place for us in the service industry to eat and drink after work," Justin says. "Until then, bar food meant frozen pizza." There's nothing frozen about this bowl brimming with noodles, pork and broth—a comfort food up to the challenge of December cold. It's satisfying, savory and made memorable by creamy boiled eggs soaked in soy sauce. To drink? Wisconsin's famed old fashioneds served in slushy form.
Red Light Ramen
East Town
The Burke Brise Soleil looks like a futurist's vision of a giant, abstract dove atop the Milwaukee Art Museum on Lake Michigan. The structure, which slowly opens its wings each day at 10 a.m., provides one of Milwaukee's signature photo ops. Inside the newly renovated museum, winter exhibits include Typewriter Eraser, a 1976 sculpture by Claes Oldenburg modeled after one of the artist's favorite boyhood playthings in his father's office.
The soul of a Milwaukee Christmas just might rest five blocks west of the museum at the Pfister Hotel. In a grand, gold-trimmed lobby decked with evergreens, wreaths hang from second-floor railings above an 18-foot tree. A fireplace crackles next to the bar in the lobby's lounge, where guests slink deep into leather chairs and sip Sazeracs (whiskey, absinthe, sugar and lemon peel) as a pianist softly plays carols nearby. It's all the pizzazz of a big-city Christmas distilled in a single, cozy room.
Milwaukee Art Museum
Bay View
The younger residents settling this southside neighborhood in recent years helped turn an already charming area into a creative hotbed replete with some of Milwaukee's best restaurants and bars.
The words on the windows of one such spot make clear its focus: "Sausage. Spirits. Beer." The bratwurst, a Milwaukee staple, takes a global tour with high-end ingredients at The Vanguard. In a corner kitchenette, two cooks hustle to grill up dishes like the Thai Breaker, a lemongrass pork sausage with ginger and peanut sauce, and Duck BLT, made with duck, bacon and sun-dried tomatoes with shredded lettuce and hollandaise aioli. The gravy-soaked poutine gets downright decadent, pairing fried cheese curds with maple syrup-braised duck.
Above the bar, two flat-screens play reruns from an '80s pro wrestling league. The patrons crowding the bar below seem transfixed, including two beer-sipping Santas fresh off the day's bike tour. At December in Milwaukee, Christmas comes in ways both familiar and unexpected.
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What do you make of being able to turn on your water faucet with your elbow? Yea that's how creative Delta is. The brand has a habit of producing stylish and well-crafted plumbing fittings that will make your kitchen and bathroom stand out. The company has carved a niche for itself in the world market by producing some jaw-dropping innovative designs.
Delta has incorporated an advanced technology and a high level of art in to all their products. You will be surprised by how your ordinary routines can become more fun and enjoyable through the Delta magic.
From residential to commercial fittings, Delta produces flawless products that will improve your water experience. The simple solutions and innovations of the brand like Touch2O, MagnaTite Docking and H2Okinetic are magnificent works of art that will turn your boring chores to interesting adventures.
Just as it sounds, Trenchless Sewer repair can be wonderful. It can be quite expensive and difficult repairing sewer pipes located underground. Imagine tearing up your beautiful and well maintained lawn due to a leaky sewer line. The time and the investment that goes into it can be on the high side. This is where trenchless sewer repair comes in, no need tearing down any property or making a mess out of that lawn you are proud of. With the best of techniques at the disposal of our professional plumbers, you are sure of the beautiful status of your lawn and property.
Why You'll Need Trenchless Sewer Repair
Knowingly or unknowingly, sewer lines might have been laid underneath a building, landscape and other existing structures. When there's a need for any repair, there's a need to correct it without denting any property or landscape.
As said, trenchless sewer repair becomes unavoidable when you are experiencing a messing situation due to leakages or backups of liquids. If it's ascertained that this is as a result of piping done under an existing structure, trenchless sewer repair is the most preferred non-invasive alternative.
In the event that you need to carry out new piping due to expansion on an existing structure, trenchless sewer repair is definitely the most preferred alternative.
There are obvious signs you'll see when there's an urgent need for a trenchless sewer repair;
1. Slow draining of water.
2. Displacement of lawn patches or noticeable sinking of other areas on the property.
3. Unrelenting sewage odor.
Any commercial building that dates back to the 80s will usually be in need of a trenchless sewer repair. These problems can only be fixed by a competent plumbing professional. This is the more reason why you should consult our trenchless sewer repair professionals.


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The Arduino grblShield is a complete hardware solution for Dank's CNC motion control system called grbl. The gbrlShield interprets a subset of rs274/ngc standard gcode and its streaming via console removes the need for a legacy parallel-port. 🙂
More information on the grblShield can be found in the grblShield Wiki and the grblShield product page. Don't forget you can pickup your Uno and/or Mega from the Adafruit store.


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By Karl Frederick M. Castro
LANGUAGE English
Tina Castro, Head of Editing and Production
Ateneo de Manila University Press
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In 1582 Domingo de Salazar, the first bishop of the Philippines, alarmed by reports from Filipinos themselves on the abuses they were suffering at the hands of Spanish officials and soldiers, convoked what has come to be known as the first Synod of Manila. The assembly identified all the different ways Filipinos were being oppressed and determined the cases in which restitution had to be made and how much. All this was set down in a handbook for confessors. The publication of the handbook was delayed, and Salazar's death in 1594 meant the indefinite suspension of all publication plans. Some ten years later these plans were revived, and annotations were made to the original manuscript. Publication, however, was once again thwarted by a calamity that destroyed almost half the manuscript. Sometime in the middle of the seventeenth century, a clean copy was made of the surviving chapters of the handbook, with the scribes incorporating the early seventeenth-century annotations haphazardly into the main text of the handbook. The present work is an English translation of the clean copy and attempts to disentangle the annotations and to reconstruct the original text itself in some places dubiously copied.The handbook for confessors of the Synod of Manila of 1582 is not only the unintended witness to early Spanish abuses that it describes in appalling detail; it is also a vivid portrait of the Lascacian generation of missionaries who defended native rights and human dignity. It is the only surviving document produced by the assembly that influenced Spanish colonial policy in the Philippines crucially for at least the next two centuries.


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"I love swearing!" Sub Pop CEO Megan Jasper tells KEXP. "I love it so fucking much I can't even goddamn, motherfucking handle any other goddamn shit that comes my way."
Jasper's vernacular is appropo of just how fucking cool she is and the punk rock spirit with which she currently leads Sub Pop, one of the world's most renown independent labels. Sub Pop's legacy is in many ways inseparable from Jasper's entire ethos. She started at the label as an intern stuffing Cat Butt records and worked her way up to running the whole goddamn label. Famously, she once duped a little rag called the New York Times with an interview on fake grunge slang, including phrases like "swingin' on the flippity-flop" and "wack slacks." Her amazing sense of humor has become iconic in her tenure at Sub Pop, but when you dig into it, it's really her heart and passion for the artists that's helped turn the label into the cultural juggernaut that its become today.
Tomorrow, Sub Pop will celebrate it's 30th anniversary with a giant party at Alki Beach. But before you put on your fuzz and plats and head down to catch the shoes, take some time to get to know one of the key figures in the story. In our conversation, Jasper covers everything from her early days as a punk rock kid with a radio show and a probation officer to pulling pranks at the Sub Pop offices. Sub Pop is known for calling themselves and their artists "Losers," which is ironic because Jasper seems like she's come out winning in the end – swears and all.
What do people say about you Megan Jasper that makes you most proud?
You know, that's a hard question. So if I deal with somebody and I hear back through somebody else that they felt happy or comfortable or that they had a good experience just hanging or being themselves or whatever. That makes me feel proud. Yeah that might be it. You know, I guess like maybe the deeper thing beyond that is, what's the impact that you want to have in the world. And as cheesy and fucking goofy as it sounds, if I am able to allow for someone to have the space to be happy or feel comfortable or to feel like themselves in that moment. I am perfectly fine, with that being my purpose.
Is that your leadership style, if indeed you even have a leadership style? Or if that is something that matters to you rethink that way.
Well, you know, I think, I'm not even sure what my leadership style is. Because I think so much of it is about being able to listen and being able to hear people and then how do you put them in a position where they can put their best foot forward, because it's not the same for every single person. So I think maybe my style varies from person to person and then in a group setting, we all just have to be comfortable with the fact that we're all just weirdos trying to make it work. So I just hope that I'm clear or articulate or... or that I am making sense.
Did you have to learn how to listen? That's a hard thing to do. Most conversations are about saying what you want to say before hearing what the other person says. It drives me crazy. If you read the "seven most something habits of highly successful people kind of cheesy book," it talks about listening.
Yeah, I think that I learned how to listen when I was a kid because I grew up in a home that, although we all loved each other, I mean, we were all fucking nut jobs. And in my home I had to know kind of what was happening when I walked in, and so I had to learn how to sense things and that means trusting your gut, thin sliced thinking and listening. So I think it came from that.
KEXP: So what do you mean you had to listen before you came into your house? Excuse me if this is personal and you don't wanna talk about it, but what was happening there?
Well there were times when I feel like we had harmony as a family and then there were times when we would fight a lot as a family. It was good to know if the fighting was happening, what you were walking into before you walked too far in. So it was that, it was just understanding a setting or a place so that you could be equipped to just know your place in it or to just back the fuck off and go hang out someplace else.
Does that inform how you are a CEO of Sub Pop records?
Well without the fighting part. Wedon't totally fight a whole lot at work.
I meant more like sensing what's happening in the place when you're either entering or... you get what I'm saying.
I would say I use that all the time, not just with my job but in any situation.
That's a crazy superpower!
I believe that nothing is all good or all bad and I think that you can take any situation and find the gifts within it. And I would say that was the gift that my childhood gave me.
Yeah that's fascinating. I'm 50. I don't think ever – well I could work on it but I'm not always so great at that. I'm more of like a snowball going down the hill just taking things with me.
That's very efficient.
So this is a question that Morgan asked and I love it. So DJ Morgan Chosnyk asks, "As a woman, what does a CEO do?" What she meant by that, is literally the nuts and bolts of it but also what does she need to learn to be the next Megan Jasper next? Morgan Jasper, as it were.
I'd be so psyched if she was Morgan Jasper. She could be my lady spouse. So wait a minute, what's the question again? What do you have to do?
Yeah like what are what are the building blocks to become a CEO, essentially.
Well you have to be willing to work someplace for 30 years and to start as an intern.
Let me rephrase, I should say I think this is important here actually, a female CEO actually.
So, for real, what I would say is, I think that there are no limitations or restrictions on anybody. So maybe the most important thing is to know that and to believe that. And in those times when it's hard to believe anything – because we all have moments that are hard or wear down or we don't have the confidence that we wish we had. I think I'm not saying you fake it but I'm saying, those are the moments when maybe there are things that are smarter than you that you can put to work. So something as simple as body language. In those moments hold your fucking head up high. Just hold it up high, keep your chin up. That's why people say keep your chin up. Do that. Do those body language things because it will change your headspace or it will at least allow for you to get through a moment and not be down, at least you can have some feeling of strength. I think whatever your job, whether you're a CEO or whether you are an intern at a company, I have done both. You know we're just human beings and so and everyone has their moments when they doubt themselves. But I think it's a matter of putting yourself in a position, even if it's physically a position of strength.
So hold your head up trust in yourself and know that everyone is in the same boat and there are days when you're just going to have bad days, they won't be as good. You won't perform as well. That's totally ok. Just go home, take care of yourself, and tomorrow is going to be a better day. The other thing is show the fuck up. You have to show up. You have to do time and be present and understand that not everything falls on you. Everything falls on us. And so, if you aren't in the best place that day, if you are able to assemble a really great awesome strong team, you are all carrying that weight together. And you know what else? Everything is so much more fun when you're inclusive and when it's "us." Ya know, I would love to take credit for all of the good things Sub Pop has done but I would be such a fucking asshole to do that and it wouldn't be true. It's a killer team of people. We're all in it together. We're fortunate to have one another and we're only as strong as the person next to us.
So to recap what I'm hearing is, you would say fake it till you make?
Kind of. But do the little things that you can do to feel OK in that moment, to get yourself through it. And even when you are feeling good, don't think it's just you. You are part of a group of people who are all in it together and we're all carrying the weight together.
So, as a guy, I'm kind of uncomfortable talking about this stuff because I feel like I'm out of my depth, actually. But it seems like you said that there is no glass ceiling. I don't know that most women would agree with you actually but do you believe that?
I think that, for me, that's been my experience. I think overall, that sometimes what happens with women in the workplace, is they do really well, they do really well, they do really well and then it's time to start a family and they need to. And it's what we would hope anyone would do. They need to duck out of the workplace for a bit and they need to remove themselves from work so that they can give everything possible for this baby or this child to have the best start that they can. And what makes me insane is that while that's happening over here to the side, this workplace continues and this is why there are so few women in upper management and executive positions everywhere. Because while they're doing this and they're expending that energy nurturing at home instead of in the workplace, their male counterparts are climbing in the company and what happens if the woman comes back in and re-enters that world, they don't come at the same place that their male counterparts are. If they're lucky they get the same position they had before and what grosses me out about this is that it doesn't take into consideration that what this woman is bringing back with her. It's not the same place, it's a totally different place where her head is at, how her mind works, how she's able to be efficient. This woman will multitask probably better than anyone else in your company and that woman is going to be able to read people and situations and she's going to have to work so efficiently, that she actually should come up and be in a different place. But I feel like those skills are not valued or acknowledged and it's a different kind of intelligence that she can bring to a work environment and that's not practice. So I hope that changes but I think, coming back to the glass ceiling thing, I know that's not everybody's reality. I'm fortunate that I've had my own journey and I hope things change and I hope people think more about a woman's experience in the workplace.
I think if you believe in a glass ceiling you're essentially giving yourself hopelessness and that's a terrible place to be and I don't know how you feel about that.
I totally agree with you. So one of the reasons why I love doing triathlons is, aside from the fact that there are curveballs – you can't do three sports and not have a curve ball in the day – you kind of have to learn just how to deal with shit that is going to happen that you're not prepared for. Whether it's a flat tire or whether it's missing gear, whatever it is there are things that you need to figure out right in the moment. The other thing I love is when you're training to do something that you hope to do in the future that you wouldn't be able to do right now in the moment, without extreme pain or suffering you have to train for it, and when you're training to do something that is beyond what your ability is today or yesterday, it puts you in a different headspace of understanding that you can do whatever you want. It's just that you may have to do it slowly or with great purpose or strategically. You have to be really mindful of how you're going to get from point A to point B. But the reality is you're in a headspace where anything is possible because what was impossible yesterday just became possible, right now during the practice.
Doesn't that then change how you conduct yourself? I think it does. If you if you come off as positive that makes you more likable. That makes people want to be around you.
Yeah. No one wants to hang out with someone who's a fucking bummer. I mean it's draining.
That's it. That's a title your book by the way, that's your self-help book right there.
But if you are positive and if you're striving for new things and adventures, that's exciting.
Are there important eras or errors in your career that really informed who you are now as the CEO of the coolest record label in the face of the planet.
You know... yeah but instead of like an era there are different areas that are totally defining for a lot of reasons. Like actually working with Jonathan Poneman… working with him is like one of the greatest experiences anyone can have. I also feel like I've learned a lot about myself and the world just from him, but as far as fuckups go how much time do we have because there are so fucking many. We've learned some of our greatest lessons by fucking up. Whether that's been not using budgets as a company early on. We never made budgets for anything. Whether it was spending too much because we didn't have a fucking budget and not earning enough to make back that money. Yeah, we've had a lot of fuckups. One day Jonathan and I sat and kind of just made a list of some of the biggest mistakes we've ever hated. It was really fun. It was a good exercise.
Is there a prank that you pulled on someone that is really hilarious story?
We have so many pranks and I have one that flashed into my head so I'm going to share this one. There are so many though and there are also – just so you know – there's a great list of stories that stem from the bathroom in one of our offices. This is one of them. So our old co-worker Zach Kawi, who is just the he is the sweetest kid. He's amazing. He lives in L.A. now. Zach used to get packages sent from his mom and his grandmother when he first moved to Seattle from Chicago. And we would all get really excited when a huge care package showed up because it was going to just be filled with snacks. One of those snacks was those gross pre-packaged brownies that maybe you could get at like gas stations or something. It was like a whole lot of those. And so we unwrapped some of the brownies and it looked like shit. So we took the brownies and shape them like feces and then we went into the bathroom which we shared at the time with the uptown café on Fifth Avenue or Fourth Avenue, and we had these Brownie feces draped from the bowl, over the seat and then down around the bowl. We were laughing and laughing. We could not wait for someone to go into the bathroom. Well then one of my co-workers, we saw her like, "I have to go to the bathroom" and she ran in and we were dying. We couldn't wait to see her come back. She walks in. She was totally white and she goes you will never imagine what is in that bathroom right now. I threw up. She said I have to go home. So she split and went home and we were all so psyched. Everyone high fives each other because it looked so real that we made a pretty bright person far fall over it. So that was one.
You didn't tell her?
No, she was way too upset in the moment and then she was a little bit scary on top of it.
When did you tell her?
She dosen't know?
No! She might find out if she hears this.
So can we say her name?
OK. Does well, did anyone ever clean up the prank?
Uh, I don't think so.
You're saying there's a bathroom shared with a restaurant? A public bathroom?
Yeah it was. It was a weird setup.
That customers would use?
Uh huh. And not only that but one time, when it was early in the morning, someone went to go to the bathroom and the door was locked and there was someone banging from inside. The door was locked so no one could get it open. We knew there was one person in there. We at Sub Pop ended up going into some meetings. I'm not kidding you, like two hours later the person was still locked in there. They brought a locksmith. That person couldn't make it work and then our publicist Jed decided that he was going to call some local news places and he was on the phone going. "Oh this is Jed calling from Sub Pop home of Soundgarden Nirvana, a lot of other great bands. Anyway we've got a baby Jessica type situation in the bathroom here. Could make a killer news story." And one of the stations said, "Well ,we do have room for a human interest story right now. Keep us up to speed with what's happening over there." Well a couple hours later, someone actually got the door open and this poor man he just looked so beaten up. He just, walked out he had his head down. He had his cell phone, but there was no service in there. So he couldn't tell his work he wasn't showing up. He couldn't call his family. He just like put his head down, he had a Stranger in his hand and he put his head down and just walked out the bathroom and out the front door. I felt so bad for him.
Did you get your start in music as a DJ at an NPR station at the age of 15 in Worcester?
I did. WICN.
What did radio mean to you then? Being able to present your ideas in a public forum like that.
Well it meant a few things. It meant that I was someplace that I loved around the things that I loved and not stuck at home. I was just like in this place… I just felt magical and that was maybe even best part about having a radio show was just, being in this space that was all music and not even thinking about the poor listeners who had to tolerate us. The fact that we were able to play music that was really meaningful to us and we felt it was music that was changing our lives at the time and looking back it absolutely was. To be able to share that with people. That's a pretty cool privilege.
It was a hardcore show, right?
Yeah, hardcore, punk, new wave. It was an overnight shift so it was very forgiving with genres.
So what was a setlist like?
There was a lot of like Discharge, UK Subs, GBH, Anti Nowhere League. So a lot of like British punk stuff and then a whole lot of stuff like Toxic Reasons, Circle Jerks, Boston Punk, SST control, Gang Green, the Proletariat. All sorts of shit that we loved. Then you know you need the Wipers you need, Mission of Burma, you need X and the Adolescents and all sorts of shit. It was so fucking fun. While the music was airing, we would just blast it in the studio and dance and scream and we had super thick Worcester accents. So then afterwards you'd have the song finish you'll be like "damn that was Discharge. Check out the guitar! Ah man that was cool." I think people used to listen to it, not because it was such a rad show but because we were such fuckin weird pip squeaks with fucked up accents that it was like it was probably unintentional comedy.
What was the name of the show?
I don't think we had a name, it was just the overnight shift.
Who did you do the show with?
With my friend Judy and my sister Maura.
How did it come, how did you guys find the show. How did this happen?
Judy's sister Joanne introduced us to a lot of great music and she had a shift and then she introduced us to the music director and programmer at the time Uncle Mark – Mark Lynch –who still lives in Worcester and is just contributes immensely to that city. I think he was humored by us and so he decided to give it a shot. So long as we were able to do it and we showed up every week on time and it was like the best moment of the week. We would never have been late for that.
You know, what the funny thing is, the record station was in this building on Grove Street in Worcester. Also in that same building was D.Y.S. – The Department of Youth Services – which D.Y.S was also a Boston hardcore band but we used to have to go to fucking D.Y.S., me and my sister, because we had a probation officer. I mean we didn't fuck up like in that kind of way but in Massachusetts there's the Wayward Child Act, where if you have kids that you think are up to no good or they're fucking up and getting in trouble, you can take them into the court system. So we were taken in because we were fucking weird looking, shit-bags who were busy doing our own thing all the time and we didn't look like anyone else. We looked like weird crusty punks in the 80s. So we would go there into the same building once a week to meet the probation officer and then we would go in on Friday nights for our radio show.
So what were the meetings like with the probation officer? You must've been a nice kid who just had a mohawk right?
Yeah I was super nice but I didn't want people to know I was nice. So I would sit with him and I tried to be as despondent as I could. I used to go in with my sister, that was the only saving grace was at least we could suffer through it together. So his name was Skip and he said, "Maura, I think you're good, I think we're done. I don't think you need to be here," etc. And I'm like "Am I good too?" And then he told me he wanted me to keep showing up because I had been despondent. And I sat there for the rest of the session. I just flip them off and I wouldn't put my hand down even when it was tired. I was so pissed off I went for another year.
You really were punk rock!
Well, I just was shitty, pissy and there was nowhere else I needed to be. I mean, I clearly wasn't working that day.
Why do you think you were that way?
Well I think that it was at a time in my life when I didn't totally know... Actually, you know, it's not that I didn't know who I was because I had an understanding of who I was, but I just never felt like I fit in anywhere. I felt like a total fucking misfit my entire life. In school, I felt like a misfit. At home, I felt like a misfit. When I had to go to church, I felt like a total misfit. I felt like a misfit everywhere. I think I was just struggling to understand where my place was and it's hard to have those kinds of coping skills when you're that old, you know? So you show yourself and communicate in whatever way you know how and the only way I knew how it was with a mohawk and my middle finger.
You're a walking middle finger. Was music a connector for you then?
Oh for sure. Being in a space filled with music, whether it was the radio station or whether it was an all ages show in Boston or Worcester or whether it was on the road with Dinosaur Jr. Those are the moments when I truly felt like myself and I had never experienced that before.
For those who don't know, what was your role with Dinosaur Jr.?
Well, early on in college, actually my first role was I think for two weeks. I was their manager. I was their second manager and I said to [J. Mascis] "So tell me what you need me to do," and he said, "Just get us a show in Boston." So I got them their first Boston show at The Rat and they played and got shut down because they were so loud.
They were loud.
They were loud. So my managerial days were done.
Wait hang on! So The Rat was ostensibly known as the punk rock place in Boston right? They were so fucking loud they got shut out of the punk rock place?!
Yeah. They were loud.
Why were they so loud?
Well I think… you know how Jay has a reputation for just being quiet? I think he's not quiet, but when he was quiet maybe he just expressed himself through his music. For as quiet as he was, his music was super loud. He had a lot to say. He just wasn't saying it with real words. He was saying it with music. And it was way cooler to be loud than soft. So I did that and then I would go on the road with them or go to shows with them and sell merch or change guitar strings, whatever they needed. Set up the drums break down the drums.
Were you a guitar player?
No, but that's what Jay needed. So I was like "I can change your guitar string" and he showed me how, so I did that.
Do you recall the sights the smells the sounds, the moment you first stepped into Sub Pop Records? What that was like and how you felt?
I'll even start before I went in there because it was my first day in Seattle and I remember there was a flyer on a post that was for a Love Battery show and I looked at it and, as goofy as it sounds, I knew that this was my destiny. I knew, I just knew it in my gut that this was something that was going to impact my life and I was supposed to follow it. So I went into the offices, Bruce [Pavitt] and Jon [Poneman] I'd met on n the Dinosaur tour earlier in the spring and they said "pop on by when you're in Seattle," so I popped by. They had just had this massive delivery of vinyl. And the offices were really fucking small, so it was just chaos inside. With like four or five people on the phone walking around giving orders to each other, it was like just complete chaos. And then Bruce said "Is it possible for you to just come back tomorrow?" Partially I was like "uh yes" because it was so weird that I wanted to leave, but it was also so exciting I didn't want to leave. So I split and had a great day in Seattle and I went back the next day and they said, "So we got all these Cat Butt records in, you want to just stuff them and send them off to radio stations?" And I said yes. I remember all of it. I remember Erica Hunter that I told you about, Erica Manhunter. That's how she would get people to call her back. She'd say "It's Erika from Sub Pop calling about Mudhoney. Yes. Erica Hunter. Erica Hunter, as in Manhunter." She is still one of the funniest people I've ever known.
So you were let go from the label because of money woes. You didn't do anything wrong, it's just they ran out of cash.
They ran out of cash. I still say I was fired.
It sounds better!
I guess fired sounds better, especially from your position.
It sounds more punk.
So then you return to the label. What were the lessons that you brought with you from your time away?
When I was gone I worked for distribution companies and so I felt like I was able to bring something of value back because I understood the world of distribution and how it worked and what was valuable. I also knew what I needed to be armed with as a sales person in order to seal the deal. Because sales… that's the last step in the business. It's like you want to sell something. So you can market it and promote it and you need to set it up, have a story and build everything and you hope that all of that shit that translates to a sale. So I knew what I needed to walk in with in order to secure a sale. And I thought I need to make sure that all of that shit is there for every salesperson. So it was just a perspective that I maybe was able to carry back. I think also because I was close enough to Sub Pop and I was selling their stuff, I knew everyone who worked there, I knew the bands they were working with, I knew the records they were putting out but I was working for a different company out of my apartment. So I didn't have any of the scar tissue that a lot of folks at Sub Pop had developed at that time, meaning I have my own baggage, but I didn't have any of their baggage. That's kind of a fucked up way to put it maybe. I think the fact that I was just a little bit removed was good for me.
Describe your ears and how you know when you hear something is artistically important and musically meaningful. That sounds pretentious.
So I believe with any kind of art that you don't need to be an expert in it, it's just a matter of what resonates for you. Because honestly I don't know that I'm the person who can pick out a hit. I think that collectively at work we can sit around and talk about music. And if a lot of us like something or feel really strongly about something that probably means that other people in the world will have that same experience. So we can sort of use ourselves like guinea pigs and just listen to the music and see if it works for us because we're no different than anyone else who loves music. So for me, all I know is what speaks to me and you know I am a misfit in the world still. But I don't feel like I'm a misfit in the world of music and I feel like I am with my people when in this community. So if it resonates with me it may also resonate with somebody else.
KEXP will be live streaming video from Sub Pop's SPF30 event all day tomorrow, Aug. 10, from Alki Beach. Find more details on the schedule, our Sub Pop count-up, and more here.
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The Mother-In-Law has been an avid viewer of As The World Turns for fifty years. On September 17th the soap aired it's final episode. The Mother-In-Law sits down to watch and ... the cable goes out. That really sucks! Since the outage was local, the cable company would not re-air it.
The Wife told me about what happened and asked if there was something I could do. I did a little sleuthing. You can stream the episode but the Mother-In-Law in on dial-up so it would probably be a painful experience. I dug a little deeper into the dark recesses of the intertubes and managed to download a copy of the finale.
So, to the Mother-In-Law, a DVD with the finale of As The World Turns will be in the mail tomorrow and you should have it soon. Enjoy.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Well ... That Sucks!
Posted by Bruce H. at 6:12 PM
Labels: D'Oh, Family, Television
5 comments:
There you go again, ruining the reputations of son-in-laws for everyone. ;)ReplyDelete
I think you should get a prize or something!ReplyDelete
GH: It's mothers-in-law with the bad rep. Us son-in-laws can do no wrong. I also have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to get off my hands.ReplyDelete
Miss McC: Mu mom-in-law makes me Jell-O when I visit. That's prize enough.
- just a girlThursday, September 30, 2010 9:13:00 AM
That's one of those small sweet things that just mean so much. HD, the good guy :)ReplyDelete
JaG: *Blush* Shucks.ReplyDelete
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What a wonderful round up and I know your heart is happy with all the boys coming home! That gray tray was a fab find - love Amazon. How cute are you in that pink sweater, now that is totally my jam! Gimme all the bright colors! But that tree is so super pretty, can't wait to see the rest!!!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm on Sunday at the game!
I so love pink and leopard too! That pink sweater is EVERYTHING. Now I am off to buy those Hot Cocoa Kisses! Hockey Guy loves hot chocolate and Kisses! Enjoy this time with your boys!ReplyDelete
Your tree looks fabulous and I'm glad they are going to fix the issue for you....next year haha! Love that hot pink sweater on you and I also bought those Hershey kisses and they are so good!!! Have a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
Sarah at MeetTheShaneyfelts
LOVE that pink sweater- I may need to snag it- my favorite color- and I love how you paired it with leopard pumps- your outfits are always on point- LOVE the Starbucks story too- you have inspired me to do the same this week- have a great weekend Andrea!ReplyDelete
Have fun with the boys home!!! (I know you will!) And have a blast at the game. We went to a game at Soldier Field a few years back, but it was in September and hotter than hot. I got a bit of a burn, but it was still worth it! Enjoy! xoxoReplyDelete
I SAW those Hersey Kisses in Target last night, but Alise wanted the Santa Hat ones more, so I got those instead. I am planning on ordering that pink sweater later this evening (I've got to get off this computer and get ready for work!). I LOVE it!! I am totally in to sweaters this year and usually, that's not me. Thank you again so much for my gift! I just absolutely love it! And I love you and hope that you are not frozen to death on Sunday night!!ReplyDelete
Yay for paying it forward. What a warm festive tree!! Happy weekending, gorgeous!ReplyDelete
SO many fun things again this week! I hope you have the best time at the game! The SNF games are late but enjoy!! Love the bright pink sweater, I'm with you I don't bring out my brights as much but I kind of want to now. Love the grey tray too! Your tree looks beautiful with those colors. Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
Amanda @ Cupcake N Dreams
Your tree is beautiful! I might need that bright pink sweater! Layer up for the game this weekend and have the best time!ReplyDelete
Jill - Doused in Pink
So cool you got in a line of paying it forward at Starbucks! Enjoy your time with your college kids and try to stay warm at the game!ReplyDelete
Well, first, love your philosospy and totally agree! Your tree is just beautiful and I'm thinking of going for a Balsam Hill after Christmas this year. I hear they are just the best. Enjoy your time in the windy city and bundle up and stay warm and I know you know how to do that. Happy weekend and yea for the boys coming home. Let the cooking begin!ReplyDelete
Another fabulous round of outfits this week! You always look so cute. And I love your Starbucks story! Sounds like you live in a really great community!ReplyDelete
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Oh how I love your outfits. I am going to have to keep my eyes open for those kisses. I love the Starbucks story and enjoy the football game!ReplyDelete
SO many things to love about this post!! How exciting your boys are all coming home for Thanksgiving! You tree looks amazing and you look beautiful in your vibrant oink sweater.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend in Chicago, Gorgeous. Make sure you layer up!!
xx, Elise
The best thing about being an older parent is being excited when your kids come home for the holidays. Mine don't come home till tuesday and wednesday. I'm literally counting down the minutes! You are so in the holiday spirit. Love your Starbucks story and all your outfits.ReplyDelete
So much to love in this post! Yay for boys home, football and Christmas trees! I love your starbucks story! I go to the Cc's (our local one) once a week and sadly I'm always the only one in line, I need to do that though! Enjoy your weekend and stay warm!ReplyDelete
So many great things in the post! Yay for one of your boys being home for 11 days!!! That's awesome! And for the other to be coming home soon, too! Those Kisses look delicious - I bet if you popped on in a mug of hot chocolate it would be extra yummy. That door mat is precious, and you gotta love those feel good pay it forward stories.ReplyDelete
I am loving the holiday cups this year! That gray tray is awesome!! That doormat is super cute & I need those kisses in my life! Happy Friday!!ReplyDelete
Yep, that gray tray is a winner. I have a white (chippyish) one in our guest room too. Love that. The pink sweater is beyond cute. OK, Balsam Hill is going to send a replacement section?! That is awesome. I bought a tree one year from Garden Ridge (now the Home Store) and when I got it out of the box one section wouldn't light up. I called the manufacturer and their solution was to send me lights...TO PUT ON MYSELF. UMMM NO THANKS. Why do you think I bought a pre-lit tree. Back in the box and back to the store it went. Took me about 7 more years to find one I liked. Those BH trees are high, but knowing they stand behind their product is awesome. Wow, I guess you struck a nerve. LOL. Don't freeze at the ballgame cutie!!! Happy weekend. XOXOReplyDelete
Your tree looks fabulous, Andrea!!!!I will get mine up this weekend! I cannot wait! Love ya!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend, love!
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Love love love the colors of your tree. O bummer about the lights- glad they can ship you a new one even if it's next year hahah. Your pink sweater is the cutest and I'm loving that tray set up. Great idea. The Starbucks story sooooo sweet. Love a good pay it forward! Enjoy your boys being home and stay warm at the game!ReplyDelete
You're going to have the best time with the boys at home and how fun to go to the game this weekend! I hope you can stay warm. What a great find on that try and I love that you can use it all year. You look so pretty in that pink sweater! What a great Starbucks story! I love how the pay it forward kept going. Sierra Beautifully CandidReplyDelete
I'm working on wearing more brights and colors this winter...I feel like we need that even more when it's cold and dreary outside!!ReplyDelete
You look so good in pink! I nearly put my tree up but Cammy B stopped me and said, "No mom, that's for Thanksgiving!" I digressed. Enjoy your game, brrrrrr! Drink warm drinks! xoReplyDelete
That tree is gorgeous! We're only putting up a baby tree this year since we're spending the holidays back East, but goodness, trees are my favorite, too! And yay for the pay-it-forward spirit at Starbucks! Someone paid mine the other day, and it so made my day :) happy Friday, Andrea!ReplyDelete
I love the holiday spirit. Paying it forward for Starbucks is such a great idea!!! I adore that pink sweater!!! I hope you have a great Friday and an amazing weekend!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, I love that tray! it's so beautiful! The color is just perfect and everything is just so festive!ReplyDelete
Ahhhh - I have no doubts you have paid for many in line at Starbucks & so glad you got blessed yourself!!!! & love when the RAOK keeps going. I was in McDonalds one morning & that happened & I paid for the person behind me & the cashier said, "This has been going on for 14 cars now" - HOW FUN IS THAT!!!!!ReplyDelete
I know you're going to love the next few days with your boys! Soak up every minute!!!
Yay for the boys coming home ! And.... envy over here!!!! I love football and the Bears are my favorite NFL team ! Have fun and too bad they moved it to later that's near my bedtime too ! Andrea, our tree has been up for over a week and I'm addicted to trees too ! Lol love yours friend ! Happy weekend !ReplyDelete
Your tree turned out great despite the set backs. Very beautiful!ReplyDelete
I have been looking high and low for those cocoa kisses; I know my middle son is just going to devour them. He tells me daily that his cocoa is like grammy's coffee; you just can't start the day without it.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad someone bought your Starbucks drink for you. What comes around, goes around, right? I'll be looking for those special Kisses. Have a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
Your tree looks so pretty!ReplyDelete
I love that you are in the Christmas spirit already. Enjoy your family and stay warm (and beautiful) in Chicago.ReplyDelete
Your blog just made me SO happy today! I love all the Christmas cheer in your decor and thank you for sharing that awesome Starbucks story!! Oh, and I just ordered that pink sweater thanks to you!! It had been in my cart and now I'm pulling the trigger!ReplyDelete
How sweet about your Starbucks order and the fact that you passed it on! I can tell from reading your blog what a good heart you have! Love that pink sweater and your fab tree!!ReplyDelete
You already have a tree? And not one but three? Fabulous! I can only Imagine how good you decorated your home! Hope to see you on my Fancy Friday linkup party!ReplyDelete
I need that tray. And those kisses!!! You have looked so cute in all your sweaters all week! Tis the season! I hope you have a fabulous weekend!ReplyDelete
Aww, what a great pay it forward story! You are a genuinely sweet person...your mama raised you right! xoxoReplyDelete
You always look so darling and model-y, now wonder Draper James took notice of you. Such a sweet Starbucks story <3. I may have to try those Hershey kisses, usually I stay away from the speciality flavors.ReplyDelete
I just pinned that grey tray, cuz I may need it eventually! Ha!! Aww! We just had our drinks paid for in the Starbucks line the other day and paid for the car behind us. I need to go back to 1 Starbucks a week, I took a week off from being good and went a little overboard with the holiday Starbucks selection! Ha, ha! I need to try those kisses!ReplyDelete
Your blog is definitely THE place to be for trees at Christmas! Lovely post flowing over with lovelyness. And coffee. What a lovely thought that is, maybe I should start going out for coffees and start the idea here. sReplyDelete
Hugs my festive friend, x.
Pay It Forward stories make my heart happy. Your tree is beautiful. I'll have to look for those Cocoa Kisses in the store.ReplyDelete
Great roundup dear! Your Christmas tree is sooo adorable!ReplyDelete
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June 17, 2019
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Asian Rumaki Recipe
Rumaki is a popular appetizer that is perfect for a Chinese themed cocktail party! Real rumaki consists of a piece of bacon wrapped around a piece of chicken liver along with a half of a water chestnut. Today most people choose to leave out the chicken liver due to taste preferences and nutritional concerns. In the recipe below I've incorporated something new. Instead of using chicken livers, I use pieces of chicken breast that are wrapped in the bacon along with the half of water chestnut. This makes for a healthy and tasty alternative to the original version of this recipe. Enjoy!
To watch a video for these instructions click here
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
8oz can sliced water chestnuts
1 package of center cut bacon
35 toothpicks
¼ cup soy
2 tbsp sherry
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp jarred pre-chopped garlic
½ tsp ground ginger
To watch a video for these instructions click here
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
8oz can sliced water chestnuts
1 package of center cut bacon
35 toothpicks
¼ cup soy
2 tbsp sherry
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp jarred pre-chopped garlic
½ tsp ground ginger
- Remove all of the fat from the chicken and cut each breast into small ½ to ¾ inch pieces and then set them aside.
- Take the slices of bacon and cut them in half. The center cut bacon works best for this recipe because it has less fat than the other cuts of bacon. After cutting them in half, set them aside.
- Open and drain the can of water chestnuts and set them aside.
- Next you want to set up a work area where you can assemble the rumaki. Have the chicken, bacon, water chestnuts and toothpicks at arms length. Place a plate in front of you on which you can put the rumaki together. You will also need a large container with a tight fitting lid in which you will place the rumaki to be marinated.
- Begin assembling the rumaki. Take a piece of the cut bacon and lay it out on the plate. Place a water chestnut in the center and a piece of chicken on top of the water chestnut. Wrap up the sides of the bacon around the chicken and chestnut, and secure with a toothpick. Then place the rumaki in the marinating container.
- Once all of the rumaki have been assembled and placed into the container, take a separate bowl or cup and mix together the soy, sherry, brown sugar, garlic, and ginger. Stir thoroughly, and then slowly pour the mixture over the rumaki, making sure to hit each piece. Gently toss the rumaki to coat.
- Marinate for an hour.
- Completely drain the marinade from the rumaki and place the rumaki on a non-stick baking sheet. Broil the rumaki about 5 inches from the broiler on high for about 10 minutes, turning every so often. You want the bacon to be brown and crisp, and the chicken to be cooked through. Check a piece after the bacon has browned by opening it up and testing the chicken. If the chicken is cooked through, then they are done.
- Makes about 35.
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George Michael
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 , by James Smith
George Michael was an incredibly talented musician as well as a very generous person.
From huge success with Wham! while still a teenager, he went on to enormous success as a solo artist.Can you believe that his musical career spanned 4 decades!
Club Tropicana, Young Guns, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Freedom, Careless Whisper, Faith, Jesus to a Child.. the list goes on and on.
I was particularly impressed by how articulate, and intelligent George Michael was when he gave interviews. Truly an incredible talent, and such a pity that he did not live longer. He would have been a great singer and entertainer for the next 20 or 30 years if he had wanted.
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All of the items and services we provide to missionaries come from YOU. Please consider donating goods or volunteering your time.
The missionaries who visit our Missionary Care Center are special people. In order to serve them as unto the Lord, we ask that all items be clean and free of stains, tears, rips and holes. Please make sure clothing is stylish and sized properly by attaching a note indicating the size (especially for men's suits).
Small appliances should be in good working order. Please do not bring furniture to the center, as we do not have storage space. However, if you have furniture you wish to donate, please call the World Missions Ministry at 770-234-8236 or the Missionary Care Center at 770-234-8441 for current needs.
Contributions may be brought to the Missionary Care Center located at the Grand Hallway East entrance (this is the North Peachtree Road side) Sunday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. If you desire a receipt, please leave your name and address attached to your contributions. For more information, call 770-234-8443.
Please, only donate items that are new or in excellent condition.
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I think my game could use a visit from Fathers Merrin and Karras.
Unless it's a warning of an imminent visit from old Saint Nick.
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I think my game could use a visit from Fathers Merrin and Karras.
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In all things give thanks.
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I made a maple syrup pie today. If I were Kassie, I'd post the recipe. But alas, I'm CJ.
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On my third trip today, as I was driving down Hennepin Avenue downtown, my bus let loose with the most horrible, shrill racket I think I've ever heard a bus make.
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12/13/8 - 3/6/9:
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I drive one trip every week on the 554, which, in the morning, starts in south Bloomington and runs like an 18 up Nicollet to Diamond Lake Road, where it gets on 35W and goes downtown.
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A bad day for the Gipper: Reaganomics runs its course, by Steve Berg on MinnPost.
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Wyatt invented a cocktail for this evening's festivities. He won't get to have another for awhile, but I'm home and I'm enjoying one now. It's called the Baracktail.
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This whole post is a spoiler for the ending of the first episode of Mr. Robot, which broadcast last night on the USA Network. You've been warned.
In the Mr. Robot double-header debut, the hacker crew F Society uses ransomware to dupe the show's villain, Evil Corp, into convincing the public that it doesn't need money from the government. Here in the real world, there's a bit of ransomware going around that will happily take your bitcoin, but it never returns your files (it can't because it didn't encrypt them—it deleted them).
So in the real world, there's ransomware that takes your money but won't do anything for you. On the show, the ransomware was never really after money.
The second season of Mr. Robot opens onto a world where Evil Corp has been trying to reconstruct as much of its lost data as it can (destroyed in season one), begging the government for cash as it does so. There's a scene where we see an Evil Corp employee tell a former customer that paper records can be forged, then the company gets hit with a systemwide ransomware attack, illustrating how electronic records have their own shortcomings.
What is ransomware?
First of all, it is very real (back up your files). Ransomware uses encryption to make all of the files on a computer or even a whole server unreadable. The files are all still there, but they have been encoded with a secret key. Without that key, they can't be read (and forget about your IT wizards breaking the encryption, because they can't).
If you want to actually see encryption in action, learn to use PGP for email. You'll send people messages that look like gobbledygook, but they will be able to unlock them with their own key. It's fun.
See also: Edward Snowden visited Manhattan through a robot to advocate for privacy
So when a computer gets hit by ransomware, the infected user gets instructions for how to pay the ransom, which is typically by sending a certain amount of bitcoin to a bitcoin wallet. Once that wallet gets the requested bitcoin, it sends out the code to unlock the encrypted data.
Weirdly, ransomware hackers take customer service very seriously. Or they did. The honor among this particular breed of thieves appears to be fraying. Ranscam, the real world ransomware that just deletes files and lies, is giving attackers a bad reputation.
How does ransomware infect computers?
Hackers use a trick called "phishing" to get access to people or company's computers. They don't "break in" to computers using coding genius. Instead, they trick people who are already inside secure systems to open files that they shouldn't, usually via email.
Just before the ransomware hits Evil Corp, we see Darlene release the hack on the company. She's running something called the "Social-Engineer Toolkit."
Judging by most of the hacks in season one of the show, F Society favors exploiting people's weaknesses to break systems. The "Social-Engineer Toolkit" is probably the director's cinematic shorthand for some kind of "spear phishing" campaign. Regular phishing works like spam. Hackers just send out loads and loads of email to millions of addresses, hoping for any sucker anywhere.
With spear phishing, an adversary studies specific people in an organization carefully, then crafts emails or websites designed just for them. This makes the messages seem more credible.
In other words, Darlene probably found someone inside Evil Corp, learned a lot about them, sent them some emails and got access to the company's systems after the target fell for one of them.
That's why the best defense against phishing is smarter humans.
Do F Society's demands resemble real world ransoms?
No. I have never heard of an instance where real hackers demanded that the ransom be burned in a public place.
IRL, victims are asked to convert their money to bitcoin and send it to the attacker. They never ask for an in person hand off. If bitcoin hadn't made it feasible to exchange money anonymously online, ransomware probably wouldn't exist. It would be too risky.
Security pros have argued for a long time that if everyone would just quit paying hackers, they would stop phishing for ransomware. On the show, though, we see the Chief Counsel at Evil Corp argue that what the hackers demand essentially amounts to chump change for the company, far less than what they would lose if they tried to fix the problem themselves. So she makes the same argument that lots of executives in the real world also make: that they should just pay it. The trick for making money on this kind of attack is asking little enough that it's hardly worth it for the victim not to pay.
Because the show goes out of its way to depict hacking realistically, though, it's a little disappointing that the Chief Technology Officer of Evil Corp didn't at least say something to the effect of, "There's something very weird about demanding we drop this money in person."
He doesn't, though. He just goes to Battery Park with two gigantic bags of cash and stands there. That's when F Society sends a courier to give him the order to burn the money, knowing that people will capture him doing it on social media. Evil Corp had been trying to strong arm the US Government into a bailout, but it's going to have a hard time arguing for that helping hand with one of its executives on video burning money in public.
In the very first episode, Eliot said "I don't give a shit about money." True to its founder, F Society ransomed Evil Corp to make a point, not to get paid.


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Alcoholic Architecture
Monastic-themed bar and hosts uniforms designed for Bompas & Parr's Alcoholic Architecture project in Borough Market, July – December 2015. The bar features a walk-in cloud of breathable cocktail.
The underground bar sits next to the UK's earliest gothic cathedral and on the site of an ancient monastery. The bar staff mix drinks from spirits and beers created by monks: potions such as Chartreuse, Benedictine, Trappist beer and the notorious Buckfast.


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The boss of Electronic Arts' games labels admits the company has sent vague, if not conflicting messages about its intentions on the Wii U, but with the BBC he wasn't going to be more specific about what games, if any, they'd be making for the console in the future.
"We didn't make it easy for the market to figure out our stance on the Wii U, that's for sure," Frank Gibeau told the BBC in this interview.
That's putting it mildly.
Two years ago, then-CEO John Riccitiello took the stage to declare an "unprecedented partnership" with Nintendo at E3 2011. That statement has been mocked and made into a meme since, as Electronic Arts has apparently ceased all development for the Wii U. A statement from the company's top spokesman in mid-May said as much, though later EA's chief operating officer moved the company's posture away from that claim, saying there were titles in development. Meantime, Tweets from an EA Sports software engineer that the console was "crap" and Nintendo is "walking dead" proved unhelpful.
To this ferment, Gibeau now adds that "Do we have developers inside Electronic Arts that are watching the Wii U and understanding how it's developing? Yes, we're absolutely doing that. Do we have active development of Wii U titles that we're ready to publicly announce right now? No we do not."
What's been most curious to me about this posture is not so much the conflicting statements, nor the fact EA Sports—joined by NBA 2K14 and Pro Evolution Soccer 14—will have no offerings for the console. It's that EA Sports, in this statement on Monday, said it is making a version of FIFA 14 for everything but the Wii U—the Wii included. And that's after last year's Wii version, which was just about the worst thing a sports video game could be—a reconditioned roster update.
At any rate, action—or in this case, inaction—speaks louder than words.
Electronic Arts: Video games firm wants to stop being 'hated' [BBC]


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James Patterson is a prolific writer having written 147 novels in his career and selling more than 300 million books. Though it may seem almost impossible to believe, he holds the New York Times record for the most number 1 New York Times Best sellers by an author – an incredible 67. A total of 114 of his novels have actually been in the list.
He has sold more novels than Dan Brown, Stephen King and John Grisham – all top authors in their own right.
Patterson was awarded the Literarian Award in 2015 by the National Book Foundation for his philanthropy in relation to books and reading.
James Patterson regularly works with highly respected co-authors such as Ashwin Sanghi, Candice Fox, Maxine Paetro, Andrew Gross, Mark Sullivan, Peter de Jonge and Michael Ledwidge and. He even co-authored with former U.S. President Bill Clinton writing the novel, The President Is Missing.
The 18th Abduction is another in the Women's Murder Club series.
In San Francisco three schoolteachers disappear, all women. Soon the investigation becomes one of murder.
Detective Lindsay Boxer is under great pressure. Her husband, Joe Molinari, gets involved with a woman who has a startling revelation. She came from Eastern Europe and she says that she saw a high-profile war criminal from there in San Francisco.
The journalist, Cindy Thomas, researches the missing women and their backgrounds with startling discoveries. The woman who spoke to Joe unexpectedly disappears adding to the intrigue.
The threads of the mystery begin to merge and Lindsay, her husband Joe and the Women's Murder Club combine their efforts to expose the vicious international criminals at the root.
Believable, frightening and very readable.
The 18th Abduction by James Patterson is available to buy from Penguin books or Amazon. Between James Patterson and Maxine Paetro they have created a masterpiece in this fiction novel.


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