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Do you know why AM radio was invented? Do people even listen to the AM frequency of radio anymore? Of course, we all know that people still do but on the one setting that barely is clear most of the time, a movement against free thinking America has brewed and is now out of control. This new and first entry to American Opiate might only talk of one all-talk and no action jackass, but the point of the entry can be extended to all of them.
Rush Limbaugh: A notable and well known pundit that has made a career of putting his opinion on the air waves for over 2 decades. First glances he may appear to be your typical run of the mill fat-ass loudmouth and you would be right. The best part about unbearable conservatives, one can totally judge a book by its cover (example being Ann Coulter totally looking like a bitch and acting the look perfectly), no one embodies the symbol and appearance of the overpaid, overfed, no working, criminal for a profit stereotype quite like him.
His contributions to the right have been more than just shaking the hive of already pissed off Americans that don't make nearly as much financially as he does, he also has spawned other imitators like the aforementioned Coulter. Meanwhile, he laughs his way to the bank while Americans buy his books, listen to his show, or do whatever his bidding may be while their own lives continue to circle the drain. Big businesses sponsor his show and it doesn't matter to him whether the product matters to him or not. Its like listening to an abusive husband read the paper for the Sleep Number bed he got for free.
I would hope that most of the American public is aware that this guy, Limbaugh, isn't for real. He isn't a good conservative nor a good American. He has lied to his followers that religiously listen to his Excellence in Broadcasting show by being completely hypocritical to everything he says. This first entry to American Opiate is here to serve the reader by reminding you that many of these pundit heroes (mainly conservative) don't care about the crumbling state of the union, they just want your money. I'm not here to be a pundit hero; I am here to ask the question of whether or not we should put our country into the hands of people that hate freedom and love rules instead.
Rush has an entire executive profile of hypocritical sins that he would totally toast a liberal for without forethought. It seems he follows the Richard Nixon way of life in that if HE does something bad than its not illegal. The worst of it, his loyal listeners just take it and never make him answer for these crimes.
Let me paint you a picture: You: an average Joe Plumber, Joe Sixpack, or Joe Whatever-else-you-do-on-sunday-besides-beat-your-kid, illegally obtain oxycontin pain pills and you have an uncontrollable addiction to them, you're sick and have a problem. This is a case of similar proportions to being a heroin addict or a crack whore; you are under the influence of a drug and you cannot kick it on your own. You don't deserve jail time just for buying and doing the drugs, you need to be rehabilitated because you are killing yourself. Suicidal people get similar treatment, stand at the ledge of a building and you'll see. But don't tell that to Rush, he'll make an entire broadcast about how you need to be shipped away or thrown in jail, perhaps even sent out of the country. If you don't want to believe me or don't remember because you are still a member of his herd- read on:
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too" (Oct. 5, 1995, The Rush Limbaugh Show transcript).
Rush, stick to your guns or give the people who paid you their money back.
The Limbaugh argument for stricter drug laws became totally void in 2003 when he announced that he was being sent off to rehab for being a pillhead. It gets worse. His housekeeper was helping him by exchanging cigar boxes full of cash for cigar boxes full of pills. I guess in the world of rich-dick conservatives, this is like blowing guys behind dumpsters for crack rocks.
If there is another thing that Rush is most notable for it is talking shit and then apologizing. This isn't of course because he regrets saying what he said, its because he doesn't want to lose sponsors. He apologized for calling Sandra Fluke a "Slut" on live radio when she made the argument for contraception. When the shit hit the fan , he pulled back and said he was sorry. It is obvious that he wasn't really sorry, but when money is on the line there is no integrity to his mantra and the almighty dollar is all the God this man needs.
In 2008 Barack Obama became the first Black America President and this made him upset. Upset enough to conjure rumors of Obama's birthplace and agenda. Since Rush is living high on the hog, he fears the higher taxes he may have to pay that he can easily afford. He ruined McCain's chances of course by not helping the campaign against Barack and kept his conspiracies to himself while Obama won the election. With the newly elected president, Rush went right to work in stirring the ant bed of angry people. This means more listeners, a longer time on air, and more ka-ching! Typical business ethics of a money hungry businessman and not a of a good American.
Behold! The face of a fail.
His values don't seem to add up with all the talk. He will, of course, continue his war path and thanks to the millions that people pay him his heart will keep on ticking until something else kills him. He was very quick to throw Obama's healthcare plan under the bus after his heart gave out and his deep pockets paid for the whole treatment with no delay or red tape.
You'll never read this but its worth telling you anyways...
Yes Rush, your heart might be in the clear but I doubt the people who listen to you can be so fortunate. Maybe you should support Obamacare just a little more since the longer those people live, the more you can hobble to the bank.


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Charles Lindbergh tears into Roosevelt and the War Party in this audio clip:
They smeared him of being a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite, traitor, and more. But he was the son of Charles Lindbergh Sr., a senator who fought with a fierce dedication against the elite manipulators that enticed the USA into World War One and World War Two.
Before WW2, Americans hated the prospect of war. You can hear it in the reactions to Lindbergh's speech. He also spoke at that speech about the way newspapers "lost all objectivity" and enthusiastically supported the war propaganda.
In school they taught us that this was "isolationism". Nothing is further from the truth because Americans were already engaging in enthusiastic trade with nations around the world, except where governments had proscribed it. Roosevelt's compliant sycophants in Congress went along with the embargo against Japan. Roosevelt was the isolationist.
And Rand Paul is right to say that those who want to continue the embargo against Cuba are the ones who are "isolationists".
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(CCM) — Microsoft has launched Photos Companion, an app for Android and iOS that aims to facilitate the transfer of photos from a smartphone to a Windows 10-enabled PC.
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Olimpia's Coach Quits
Following a 4-1 home loss to MLS side DC United, Nahúm Espinoza quit as head coach of the club today.
I don't speak Spanish, nor can I read it, but from what I have been told of the translation, he blames his players for being slow and not executing.
Last night's match seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Olimpia have been having a sub standard season when compared to previous seasons. As the defending champions, Olimpia currently reside 7th in the league.
Wonder who will be the boss when they play at RFK next week?
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The Purdy show at the Red Rattler was a killer.
The band was too much, the audience was adorable
With support from the wonderful Melodie Nelson and Sir Robbo the night was a triumph!
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Kees Christiaanse
Kees Christiaanse is Chair of Architecture & Urbanism in the Institute for Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
He is an architect, lecturer and researcher, and was previously a professor of architecture and urbanism at the Berlin University of Technology.
His work mainly focuses on the interface of architecture and urbanism, and on urban assignments in complex situations and guiding urban processes.
Since 2011 Kees Christiaanse is Programme Leader of the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and Principal Investigator as well as Module Leader for Module IV "Urban Design Strategies and Resources".
He studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, graduating together with Art Zaaijer in 1988. His graduation project "Kavel 25" was realized as part of his urban plan for the housing festival in The Hague, a project for which he was awarded the Berlage Flag.
Between 1980 and 1989, Kees Christiaanse worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, becoming a partner in 1983. In 1989, he started his own firm in Rotterdam, renamed KCAP Architects & Planners in 2002, which expanded to Shanghai and Zurich. In 1990 he founded ASTOC Architects & Planners in Cologne.
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Bristol Palin and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer engaged
(CNN) — Wedding bells are on the horizon for Bristol Palin and 2011 Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.
Meyer, 26, received the nation's highest military honor for braving enemy fire in 2009 to recover 36 American and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. He was the third living recipient — and the first Marine — to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Meyer and Palin, the oldest daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, began sharing images of themselves together in recently weeks on social media .
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Idomeneo isn't an easy opera but I wonder if it has to be as difficult and unpleasant as Martin Kušej's irritating production of it at the ROH made it. I saw it on 6th November – there was no booing but I don't think that the audience felt that it was one the house's great evenings.
Kušej wants to make a political point of the opera and he does so by changing the plot and telling you about this through the surtitles. There is no god, Neptune. Only a false cult led be a pantomime villain of a High Priest. Apparently, that High Priest "forces" Idomeneo to promise to kill his son because the priest is offended by the release of the Trojan slaves. The cult forces the chorus to praise Neptune and, it would, appear, a giant rubber shark. Idomeneo, apparently, is a totalitarian ruler, though there is no particular evidence of this in acting. I've no idea what the sea monster was or how Idamante killed it – the surtitles suggested that he "fell upon this plague". On hearing this, the chorus take out red cloaks and these people, led by "The Voice" (so it says in the programme), depose Idomeneo. He is seen, apparently imprisoned and, I think, blinded. The ballet music is played, but there is no ballet. The front cloth falls and has some words projected on to it – some about regimes remaining the same. It rises and the stage slowly revolves and there is enough to suggest that Ilia and Idamante do not solve the problems of Crete.
Did it work? Let's leave aside the question of whether or not its legitimate to use the surtitles to explain what's going on – I'm not suggesting that it can never work. Here it didn't. I found myself confused by what was going on and often had problems working out who the chorus and actors were representing at any particular time and why it mattered. The scene of Idomeneo's arrival and, apparent discussion with the High Priest was mimed and, I thought, confusing. I wasn't sure why Elettra had a group of white-clad schoolchildren unless they were to set up the ballet picture of them all toting guns. The whole staging of the last part of Act III seemed confusing to me while the staging of the ballet music screamed that here was a director who had lost a battle over the cuts with the conductor and was taking revenge.
It's in modern dress. The set – a sort of revolving maze would serve very well for a number of other operas and did well enough here about from a quite badly executed bank of mud, blood and clothes for Act III. There were a lot of distracting rain effects early on. There was the odd touch of interest: Elettra was an extremely attracting woman and there was an obvious attraction between her and Idamante. Kušej suggested a really interesting portrayal of Arbace as a Thersites-type clown or outsider without it really contributing anything to the story. Most of the other direction of the characters would not have looked out of place in the most traditional production you could imagine.
Part of this is to do with what I think about Idoemeno. For me, one of the important things about the opera is the impotence of individuals against the will of the gods and how things they cannot control affect their decisions and relationships. There is an element of politics in and about how decisions of rulers affect the people but this seems to me to be compromised when there are people themselves intervening. All the successful productions that I've seen have managed to get across a reality involving implacable, uncontrollable gods and events. I didn't get that here and Kušej's replacement vision simply wasn't well enough executed to work.
Musically, it had a lot going for it. Not everyone has praised Marc Minkowski's production but, apart from an uncomfortably fast tempo for Zeffiretti lusinghieri and an irritatingly intrusive fortepiano, I thought that he provided very strong leadership. He couldn't make a strong case for the ballet music, partly because of the production, but mostly because its inclusion strikes me as completely incompatible with modern taste. Mozart wrote it because it was required in Munich at the time (though, as the programme pointed out, he could easily have delegated it to someone else) and he'd surely have been only too happy to cut it if he felt that it wouldn't go down well. Here, I felt the overwhelming feeling of being kept in after school and all the boredom and irritation that goes with that – and the only thing I'd done wrong was buy a ticket! Otherwise, the music sounded alert and dramatic but with enough relaxation for us to enjoy the textures and colours of the score. I thought the orchestra and chorus absolutely first rate and it reminded me of a what a wonderful score this is.
Matthew Polenzani made a young Idomeneo. I thought his singing excellent. What I missed was a level of anguish and intensity that you might expect from a man who is desperately trying to find a way of breaking a promise and then seeing the result – a tension that Philip Langridge used to manage wonderfully. I doubt that he had much help from the director.
Franco Fagioli was a counter tenor Idamante. He looked handsome and acted the role well enough. Vocally, I wasn't sure whether he was quite right. He could clearly manage the notes and got quantities of passion and bravura into the music. On the other hand, the words weren't clear and it struck me that this was a style of singing that might work for music of half a century earlier but which might not be clean enough for Mozart.
Malin Byström struck me as a marvellous Elettra. As I've suggested, she was a hugely attractive woman and sang her arias really beautifully – though there is a terrifying madness in her last number which she didn't quite get. Sophie Bevan, perhaps a tad young, sang very nicely indeed as Ilia – she made it sound as fluent and easy as you'd hope. As I've suggested, Kušej had come up with a fascinating concept for Arbace and Stanislas de Barbeyrac executed it brilliantly and sang really well – he made you regret that the role is so small and suggested all kinds about the man that you'd never get from the opera. I'm still not sure what it had to do with Idomeneo but I'd really like to see him again – he strikes me as an important singing actor. Krystian Adam made a suitably vicious High Priest.
I've a very soft spot for this opera and try to get to see it whenever it's done. This performance renewed my love for the music and admiration for an opera where you suddenly feel that Mozart is engaging with the form and able to get towards his ambitions in a way that simply doesn't happen in, say Finta giardiniera. I simply felt irritated at a production that didn't help the piece or bring out its strengths. It's 25 years since it was last done at the ROH. I can't see this one coming back and hope we'll get a different production in less time than that.


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Forest, Fog, Dog
My back was stiff today, so I wanted to stretch my legs after a few hours of writing. I also wanted to procrastinate. I didn't know if the trails would be muddy, or if it would rain on me, but it seemed worth it.
Shockingly, I found myself on the Wildwood Trail off Germantown Road. I linked that with Firelane 10 and the Keyser Trail to make a loop. At one point the sky seemed sunny, near the high point, where I saw one of the two people I encountered in an hour. The temperature was almost perfect.
As I descended to a low point on the firelane, the fog was almost surreal. The trail was a little slick in spots, so I had to be careful. Jackie was good about staying with me, seemingly wondering what the deal was with the fog. Making the turn and heading back up the firelane, the going got tough, but the hardest part may have been crossing back over the road. Traffic on Germantown is relatively heavy for a windy road. Hikers and dogs beware.
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This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue. The author examines why Moscow and Brussels have failed to cooperate in this crucial area of interdependence. By invoking constructivism and Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogue, and drawing on dozens of interviews with Russian and European officials, Talseth argues that the Energy Dialogue was unsuccessful because its interlocutors failed to come up with a common narrative for cooperation. Evidence suggests that the collapse of the Energy Dialogue was not pre-determined and initially there was a great deal of optimism and goodwill. Ultimately, the outcome of the Energy Dialogue was shaped by the unfolding time-space of Russo-European relations.
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State Politics
Chhattisgarh govt decides to ply air conditioned buses on 18 routes
Chhattisgarh government has decided to start air conditioned buses on 18 routes of the state. The decision was given approval in cabinet meeting on Saturday. Amongst the other decisions, KR Pisda and Dr Motilal Bachkar have been appointed as chief and member of Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission. Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh chaired the meeting at his official residence.
The routes finalized for air conditioned buses include Raipur-Ambikapur, Raipur-Baikunthpur, Raipur-Korba, Raipur-Bilaspur, Raipur-Mahasamund, Raipur-Gariaband, Raipur-Dhamtari, Raipur-Kanker, Raipur-Durg, Raipur-Jagdalpur, Raipur-Bemetara, Raipur-Kawardha, Raipur-Mungeli and Raipur-Balod.


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BIND 10 DHCP Roadmap
Current Development
The current set of developments will add:
- V6 Relays-connected clients
- V4 Direct-connected clients
- Hook engine
A release of Kea 1.0 will be made towards the end of the year.
Future Developments
Additional features were discussed and categorised as:
- base - these will be in the free version of BIND 10 DHCP
- subscription - available to customers purchasing a subscription
Base Features
The following features (when implemented) will be in the base version of BIND 10 DHCP:
- Prefix Delegation
- Temporary and non-temporary addresses
- Support for non-Linux operating systems
- Ping in V4
- Host reservation (might be part of the hooks engine)
- Statistics
- Additional database backends:
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Memfile
- IP:MAC correspondence for V6
- Hook SDKs
- Bash
- Python
Subscription Features
The following features (when implemented) will be in the subscription version of BIND 10 DHCP:
- Classification of clients
- V4 failover
- V6 failover
- LDAP support
- Multicore support
- Monitoring
- Additional database backends:
- Oracle
During the marketing discussion, a number of questions/qualifications were raised.
- Classification (subscription feature): it would be useful to know who is asking for this feature.
- Supported operating systems: this has been raised before but little progress has been made. As a company we should come up with a list of operating systems and versions that we can say our products are supported on.
- IP:MAC parity - knowing what MAC address has which IPv6 address. This is a legal requirement in some countries.
- Is there a market for window version for DHCP servers vs Window built-in DHCP?
- For the DHCP4 to Kea transition we need:
- Configuration file examples
- A guide on how to write configuration files and hooks
Not Discussed
Some features were not considered at the meeting but have been discussed since. They are recorded here for completeness.
- Windows version of the server
- DHCP client
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Neutral thoughts
11.11.2005A few more thoughts about internet neutrality. This issue, which is undoubtedly raging through the blogosphere right now (of course cleverly instigated by Google's own propaganda machine), is perhaps the biggest one facing the shape of the internet today, and our own social communications more generally. How these issues are decided will determine the future of the online world.
One of the things that set the debate off recently was SBC CEO Ed Whitacre's remarks about Google 'using thier pipes for free' in a recent interview:
How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google (GOOG ), MSN, Vonage, and others?
How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?
The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO ) or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts!
To anyone who uses the internet with any regularity, this statement feels horribly backwards and ignorant to the point of being dangerous. First off, Google pays its bandwidth bills, as do every user of SBC's services. Everything going through SBC's pipes has been paid for. What he is complaining about, however, is that Google's services are only possible through the network infrastructure that SBC have invested a lot of money in.
Its as if SBC built a bridge connecting Google on the one side, and its users on the other, and tolls each as they cross. But then it realizes that the bridge it built is the only way customers can go back and forth to Google, and Google keeps making lots of money on SBC's initial investment- so SBC decides to charge Google again for each customer it serves.
Now, if just SBC were of this mindset it wouldn't be a huge problem: users would stop using SBC's pipes, and SBC would suffer because of it. You can't limit Google from your users without expecting some backlash. But this is just the iceberg in a general attack on internet neutrality across the board.
From ars technica: Monitoring traffic to nickel and dime you
I've seen the future, and it's a tad bit scary. Here's what in the works: networking analysis technology that "knows" what kind of content is being passed on a network, and can act appropriately. Perhaps it will block the traffic. Or, maybe you'll be charged for it. The future, in some places, is now.
Could it happen in the US? Yes and no. The US already has laws on the books that would make it illegal for a carrier to block traffic from a competitor, but don't worry, Narus' president of marketing Jay Thomas has it all figured out. Prepare to be incensed.
"But there's nothing that keeps a carrier in the United States from introducing jitter, so the quality of the conversation isn't good," Thomas says. "So the user will either pay for the carrier's voice-over-Internet application, which brings revenue to the carrier, or pay the carrier for a premium service that allows Skype use to continue. You can deteriorate the service, introduce latency [audible delays in hearing the other end of the line], and also offer a premium to improve it."
These attempts to centralize control over the internet are exactly what Vint Cerf was arguing against in the House Commerce and Energy hearings. The fact of the matter is that keeping internet neutrality is beneficial to both the consumer and the businesses, provided that their business model is geared towards a neutral internet, as Google's is; and Google is fighting for regulation to maintain that neutrality. It just so happens that Google's interests coincide with our own, but thats not merely a happy coincidence- Google's entire business model rests on its users and contributors for content and information. Google needs us as much as we need it. But the older, more established telecom companies, like SBC, who have a top-down model of their consumers, sees neutrality as a threat to their centralized control over the internet, and it is a threat being launched on the infrastructure that they built.
Any way you slice it, it doesn't look like it will be a nice, neat battle. And there is a lot at stake. Hopefully this starts to get more media coverage in the near future.
For more information, ars technica linked to a paper (PDF) by Barbara van Schewick that is worth reading.


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So I just received a couple of newish one sheets I have had my eye on for a while.
I open the tube and taped to the package was Certificate of Authenticity for each poster.
When did this become a thing for movie posters????
I feel sorry for dealers if this is what they now have to resort to, to make buyers happy!
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The Best Pizza In Nevada Actually Comes From A Small Town Gas Station
Gas station food doesn't really have the best reputation, so it might be hard to believe that some of Nevada's best pizza is hiding in a small town fuel station. You're probably thinking we've gone nuts, but it's true. This 76 station in Fernley, Nevada is a popular spot during lunch time. They're renowned for having hands down the best pizza in town, but some may argue that it's the best in the whole state. Check it out.
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Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
David A. Crocker
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Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development studies, policy-making, and practice, David A. Crocker analyzes and evaluates Amartya Sen's philosophy of development in relation to alternative ethical outlooks. He argues that Sen's turn to robust ideals of human agency and democracy improves on both Sen's earlier emphasis on 'capabilities and functionings' and Martha Nussbaum's version of the capability orientation. This agency-focused capability approach is then extended and strengthened by applying it to the challenges of consumerism and hunger, the development responsibilities of affluent individuals and nations, and the dilemmas of globalization. Throughout the book the author argues for the importance of more inclusive and deliberative democratic institutions.
influence on decisions. Can and should citizens be involved in some ways in the making of decisions as well as deliberating about them and influencing those who decide in their stead? Moreover, I am not clear about the kinds of claims that Cortina views as appropriate in democratic deliberation. Does she admit expression of self‐ and group interest as well as proposals for the common good? Does she think that venues for public deliberation should be capacious enough to include professions of
agreement about their goals, values, policies, and actions. As a result, deliberative democracy publicly "transforms" rather than merely aggregates preferences.66 Or, more accurately, in order to solve a common and practical problem, group members together make and rationally scrutinize competing proposals for policies and respectfully hammer out mutually acceptable intentions for action. Rather than presupposing a preexisting agreement, deliberative democracy assumes that citizens disagree –
a society is just or law‐abiding. Asymmetries of power can be just as inimical to the rule of philosophers or the rule of law as it is to rule by the people. Second, I fully endorse Nussbaum's challenge to democracies to "do a better job." But one way to do so is by becoming more robust democracies, ones that are more inclusive, that tackle rather than duck important issues, and both offer opportunities for and promote a higher quality of citizen participation. It is not quite right to say that
be seen, in this perspective, as being actively involved – given the opportunity – in shaping their own destiny, and not just as passive recipients of the fruits of cunning development programs.37 Such an "agency‐centered" development perspective implies, I argue in Part IV, a deepening and broadening of democracy that includes but goes well beyond a universal franchise coupled with free and competitive elections. Crucially important is the engendering of venues – within both government and
East Asia," a paper presented to the workshop "Memory, Reconciliation and Security in the Asia‐Pacific Region: Implications for Japan–US Relations," Hyogo, Japan, December 15–17, 2006. 48. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). 49. Commission on Human Security, Human Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People (New York: Communications Development, 2003). See also Nigel Dower, "Development, Violence, and Peace: A


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One for sorrow, two for joy
My wife and I went to our first Counting Crows concert. I love the band not only because of their crowish nature, but because I have been listening to them for many years. At the beginning of the concert, my mind was concerned with other things. I was very worried about some personal issues that have arisen lately. The opening band was okay, but I was sure that my mind would be so preoccupied with my life, that I would not manage to enjoy the concert at all.
When the Crows came on stage, my brain was still busy spinning phantoms, but as the music began to fill the small venue, something began to shift within me, Little by little I began to enjoy myself. I no longer cared about my problems, and the songs became everything. I remembered my teenage years, and the many times I listened to them as me and my friends drove to downtown in order to consume large amounts of coffee–which I no longer drink–I remembered the liberating expansion of the chest the first time I fell in love, and how hard it was to be away from my wife when we were engaged but not yet together. We lived in the opposite sides of the country. I smiled at my own sentimentalism, and held her tight. I was there, just loving her and loving life, and listening to Mr. Jones.
It was a wonderful night. I think one of the great things about bands like Cowning Cows is that their lyrics are charged with mythical imagery, and their music requires mastery beyond being able to play a few chords. There is harmony and skill in what they do. Thanks to their skill, I was able to escape away from my concerns.
Occasionally, when I can't shut my brain up, I listen to music, or read a book. If they are good enough, I leave them feeling refreshed and ready to face the day, as if I had just woken up from a great dream.
I wonder if I could become as skillful at living in the present as Counting Crows are at playing music. That is not to say that doing so will take my problems away, because one can only face one's problems by dealing with them, but I find that it is useful to let them go when there isn't a thing we can do about them. Just make a list of what we can do, resolve to do it, and try to come to terms. In fact, many psychologists suggest that distracting oneself is a great way to deal with the things we cannot control. It takes mastery to be in the present, some times our own–as in zen, or other kinds of meditation– some times the one of a great master like Counting Crows.
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Music can solve just about any problem.
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I've done a few "Look Like a Princess But Don't Act Like One" segments now. And this month, I've concluded that I would be Belle from Beauty and the Beast if I had to choose a "Disney princess" to be. I admittedly do a good number of my postings on book reviews too. And who doesn't want a sexy beast?
Click here to read the film review I wrote on Beauty and the Beast in April
I've been raving to my friends about my recent purchase of forks and knives after I realized that I was down to just one fork (I only started out with two when I moved into my current apartment to start a new life two and a half years ago). And the one and only fork left had a bent tip. Voila, the fork and knives I got from Paris at Pylones (where I stumbled upon during my Paris trip in 2015):
The knives are male and the forks are female. If you take a closer look they all have faces (and booties when you flip them over on the back!) And the knives have a slight bulge for a package. Gosh, it all made me laugh so much!
As some of you also may recall, from that first visit to Pylones I also fell in love with the 58Products Tassen collection and have their tea set and bowls. I mentioned in my book that I would like to eventually collect all of them! This is a portion of my growing collection:
As you can see from the photo above, I'm also a big fan of having silicone lids for my tea cups. Pylones does usually have a number of choices in stock but I've also been fortunate enough to stumble upon on them in other places now too:
Click here to buy the Bumble Bee, the Kitty Cat, or the Bunny Rabbit ones I found!
Eating and tea time should be a joyous time and it certainly has become so for me. As cliché as it sounds, sometimes it's the small things that make all the difference.


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Homeschooling for Middle School: It's Not Just for the Little Ones
Would you love to homeschool your middle-schooler but the thought of trying to teach somebody approaching their teenage years is making you cower in fear?
This guide will help you through this. Whether you are a homeschool veteran nervous about making the leap to middle school or somebody just starting to consider homeschooling for the first time, this guide will show you that teaching your middle-schooler is not only possible but can also be fun.
Table of Contents
Homeschooling: A Brief History
Standard Homeschool Curricula
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Being with the department only a few months and having minimal training I found myself pulling a shift with my dad. My dad had been with the department since I was four and was the Lieutenant of his shift, kind of a grizzled old fire dog if you know what I mean. I don't really remember any other calls that day, before or after, all I can remember is that Buick Skylark with fifteen foot flames.
We were sitting around the station talking and the tones went off for a car fire not too far away. My heart did a somersault and I ran to the apparatus bay to don my bunker gear. It seemed like I couldn't get dressed quick enough. My suspenders got caught on my boot, I accidentally kicked a glove under the engine, forgot to put on my flash hood. The whole time my dad was laughing while he geared up.
We hopped into the engine, dad in the officer seat, the medic driving and me in the attack line seat. I put my pack on, they were mounted in the seats, and tried to slow my hyperventilation some.
Those days everything was still so new that speeding down the road in the engine, lights flashing, growler winding up, cars pulling over, put a huge grin on my 19y/o face.
We pulled on scene to see a Buick Skylark fully involved. This was the biggest fire I had seen up close to this point in my life, I thought everyone must be able to hear my heart doing double back flips. The flames were fifteen to twenty feet in the air, black smoke broiling up with incredible heat emanating from the car.
Dad gave a quick size up and ordered me to pull the driver's side preconnect. I did it just how I was trained. Reached up and shoulder loaded the top 100 feet of hose while pulling the bottom 100 off the bed. I zigzagged towards the car flaking hose out so it wouldn't kink. Got to the nozzle and turned giving the ready for water signal while shouting for it. Water snaked down the line making it heavier, I opened the bail a crack and adjusted my stream and looked back for my dad.
I didn't have to look far, he was packed up running right at me, he grabbed the line behind me and said,"OPEN THAT SUCKER UP!! GET THAT FIRE SON!!!"
I opened nozzle and started flowing water from about ten feet away, I heard dad laugh and say, "Not like that, like this!" And he pushed me right into the fire.
There was fire blowing around my SCBA mask, I could hear the crackling and popping, suddenly everything was very warm and my interest in putting out the fire became very vested in the fact that I now needed to get it out or burn(that's what I thought). I had the bail wide open and anti-aircrafted the inside of the car. The heat diminished drastically and the fire darkened down. Behind me I could hear my dad laughing maniacally, I was pretty sure he'd lost his marbles. After a couple minutes the fire was out, I picked up hose while my dad talked to the owners and filled out a report. I was energized, it was amazing.
Back at the station everyone was laughing listening to my dad telling the story, "You should have seen the look on his face when I pushed him right into it! I thought he'd pooped his bunker gear! Kept looking back at me like I was crazy."
But more then that, under the laughing and joking and poking fun, I could hear my dad's meaning. He was proud of his son and wanted everyone to know it.
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Skip to comments.KC of Sunshine Band Falls from stage (or 'I wanna take off ma ma ma ma ma Boogie Shoes!')
Posted on 05/09/2005 8:28:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9
"NEW YORK -- For KC of KC and the Sunshine Band, falling off the stage during a concert is definitely not the way he likes it. Uh huh, uh huh.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
The band was two songs into its set when Casey took the tumble, just as "Boogie Shoes" was beginning.
"I left my shoes at the hotel and had to perform in a new pair," Casey, who is recovering at his Miami home, said in a statement Monday. "I picked the wrong pair of Boogie Shoes!"
Casey nevertheless resumed his performance and went to a local hospital afterward.
KC and the Sunshine Band's `70s disco hits include "(That's the Way) I Like It," "Get Down Tonight" and "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty."
They will continue with shows in Winter Haven, Fla., on Friday and in Atlanta on Saturday".
Ouch Kc. Now I know why HipHop artists wears sneaks.
It's the end of times no doubt!
They kept on going though. The power of disco.
"I'm Your Boogie Man" is a far better song. I hope he was able to get that in.
Disco still sucks.
Did he smash a hip?
I love KC and the Sunshine Band. I love all of disco.
Disco is an abomination.
You misspelled "Rap."
"disco still sucks"
I was a latecomer to the disco scene back in the SEventies.True,a lot of it sounded the same and could be monotonous.Yet there was some great disco songs.To name a few-Shame by Evelyn King,Disco Nights by GQ,Good Times by Chic,If You Think I'm SExy by Rod Stewart,Disco Inferno by the Trammps,Night Fever and You Should be Dancing by the Bee Gees,Off the Wall and Rock With You by the once great Michael Jackson and Boogie Ooogie Ooogie by Taste of Honey.
I can't stand heavy metal or punk rock.Very grating and disturbing music.Yet the real old rock and roll like Berry,Little Richard,Jerry Lee Lewis,etc still rocks the house likle nothing else.
Did he forget to take his Geritol spiked with Vitamin E, Centrum Silver and Sawtooth Palmetto?
you have way too much time on your hands.
"Do a little dance. Make a little love. Fall down tonight! Fall down tonight!"
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, he likes it. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
LOL. Beat me to it.
Me too baby...those were fun times!
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Electrical Grids of the future: GIS-integrated Power-flow as an Online Service
Authors: Dr. Joymala Moirangthem, Mr. Krishnanand K.R., Prof. S.K. Panda, and Prof. Gehan Amaratunga
An electric power system is an interconnected network to carry electric power from points of production to points of consumption. The electrical grid is often represented as a graph with nodes and branches, and their physical interconnection implies that a local change could have non-local impacts. The modelling of the grid using electrical quantities produces nonlinear equations, the solutions of which inform us about the state of the grid. The basic task in the power-flow analyses is to find the mathematical solutions to those equations while ensuring their viability in the physical world. The modernization of the grids through changes in physical infrastructure and the objective of having smarter grids – both of them place new expectations on this indispensable solution-finding step.
The electrical grids of the future are going to be inevitably more complex than what they have been till now. The simple and necessary change of accommodating renewable sources of energy will have not so simple changes in structure and corresponding operations of the grid. Change in power-flow within the grid is one of the prime items of interest for confident expansion and predictable grid-behaviour, especially when parts of it are intermittent. What changes in the system states do the changes in structure of an electrical grid entail? Is the grid stable? How far away is it from instability? What are the permissible changes for the next hour? What are the expected voltages at the nodes within a grid if the solar irradiance for a particular area decreases for a few minutes? What are the optimal power-flow scenarios possible for a given grid, so that it requires minimum operating costs and the carbon emissions are within acceptable limits? There are many questions that require power-flow analyses to answer.
Solar energy, which is the choice renewable energy of Singapore, when accessed through photovoltaic conversion brings higher and faster variability in power than before. Also, the mechanism of distributed generation rather than having a centralized renewable energy source would mean that the grid would become less radial and more meshed. The paradigm change in the way power-flow would require faster and error-free solutions that facilitate practical decision-making, especially for a computer loaded with algorithms whose operations are contingent on the power-flow solution. The combination of these requirements point at having a power-flow method that is fast for a given precision, works for grids with time-varying dimensions, makes the grid more analysable, and is accessible even at the distribution level by a prosumer. Along with distributed power-flow, the idea of having power-flow as a near-real-time online service has its own appeal in the above described scenario; with advances in reliable connectivity and faster communication speeds being supporting factors.
In this context, we identify Holomorphic Embedded Power Flow (HEPF) proposed by Antonio Trias, Aplicaciones en Informatica Avanzada S.A. to have both mathematical and computational merit to realize such a service. This power-flow method is non-iterative and fast, unlike the conventional Newton-Raphson based power-flow or other gradient-based search methods. HEPF reliably constructs the solution in terms of a power-series after embedding a complex variable 's' to the power-flow formulation, instead of performing a search which is prone to failure. A Geographic Information System (GIS) integrated automation of HEPF, with Singapore's Jurong Island as the location, has been tested for validating the idea of online power-flow. This scheme enables easier optimization of power-flow problems with ad-hoc AC network structures and ad-hoc objectives, especially if evolutionary algorithms which are parallelizable are used. While the power-flow method acts as the core of the online service, it is the union of it with various sub-technologies (such as GIS libraries, evolutionary algorithms, GPU-based processing, interpreted languages, run-time code-generation, machine-learning, etc.) that empower the service to have expandable smartness. The sum would be then greater than its parts.
Joymala Moirangthem, Krishnanand K. R., S. K. Panda, and Gehan Amaratunga. "GIS integrated automation of a near real-time power-flow service for electrical grids." In Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET), 2016 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 48-53. IEEE, 2016. (https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811755)


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My neighbors had their first child almost 10 months ago, and I've had the pleasure of taking her photograph through various stages of her first year. Yesterday, we went to a nearby park to do a 9-month shoot of cute little Josie. What a fun age! She sat nicely, didn't try to escape, and gave us some great facial expressions.
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I went to Stow this weekend. As Brandi and I were both in the process of getting over colds, we didn't do much. Therefore, instead of boring you with a blow-by-blow account of the whole weekend, I thought I'd just hit some of the high points.
First off, I'm feeling almost back to normal now, with just a little weirdness left over in the back of my throat. I'm sure that's due to how much we slept this weekend. We slept past noon on both days, and even found time to nap on Sunday. It was lovely. Even when I'm totally healthy, I love a laid-back weekend where I can sleep a lot.
The highlight of Friday came toward the end of the evening. Brandi and I were laying on the floor together while I sang along with a CD I made for her a while ago. As much as I love music, I can't sing to save my life, and I'm sure that having a headcold made me sound even worse than usual (I wouldn't know--mercifully, my ears were plugged). I love to sing, though, and Brandi humors me from time to time. She even claims to enjoy it, which really just makes me think she's a glutton for punishment.
On Saturday we thought briefly about going to see a movie. We thought about Troy, but we didn't feel like hacking and coughing in a theater for nearly three full hours. We decided on Mean Girls, but we were caught between showings and didn't feel like waiting. So we ended up going to the video store instead, where we rented School of Rock. Good movie. It's not an all-time classic or anything, but it was good for about two hours of entertainment.
On Sunday we found ourselves without a whole lot to do, so we went to the mall in Cuyahoga Falls and walked around for a little bit. I bought a shirt and a pair of shorts. Later that night we ordered pizza and watched Finding Nemo for the hundredth time.
Now I'm back at work. I'm still catching up a little bit after taking last Thursday off sick, but I'll be there soon enough. Once I am, it may get exceptionally boring around here. Then again, what else is new?


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White Oleander (2002)
Main Menu Introduction
Main Menu Audio & Animation
Menu Audio
Audio Commentary-Filmmakers And Author
Featurette-Behind The Scenes
Theatrical Trailer
Interviews-Cast & Crew
|Year Of Production
|Running Time
|104:51 (Case: 110)
|RSDL / Flipper
|Cast & Crew
|Start Up
|Region Coding
|Directed By
|Peter Kosminsky
Magna Home Entertainment
Amy Aquino
John Billingsley
Elisa Bocanegra
Darlene Bohorquez
Solomon Burke Jr.
Scott Allan Campbell
Sam Catlin
Debra Christofferson
Billy Connolly
Marc Donato
Svetlana Efremova
Patrick Fugit
Vernon Haas
|Amaray-Transparent-Secure Clip
Thomas Newman
Earl Rose
|Pan & Scan/Full Frame
English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s)
English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
|Widescreen Aspect Ratio
|16x9 Enhancement
|Video Format
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|Original Aspect Ratio
|Jacket Pictures
|Annoying Product Placement
|Action In or After Credits
Mommy Dearest has just been reincarnated, and her new name is Ingrid Magnussen. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the horror mother from hell in this slick but ultimately unsatisfying piece of Hollywood glitz. Ingrid is a "free spirit" - whatever that really means - an artist whose all-consuming love for her daughter, Astrid (Alison Lohman), follows no conventional maternal bounds. Young Astrid has learned to survive and even feel safe within the perils of her mother's mercurial and possessive "love," but when Ingrid is arrested for murdering her lover (played almost in truncated mime by Billy Connolly), Astrid finds herself on a treadmill of foster homes and foster "care".
The one survival technique Astrid knows is to assimilate to survive, and so she undergoes metamorphoses at the hands of every foster environment in which she finds herself. She becomes white trailer trash when cared for by the born-again ex-stripper Starr (Robin Wright-Penn), then morphs into a Beverly Hills WASP princess when under the roof of failing actress Claire Richards (Renée Zellweger). When transported to a juvenile facility, Astrid assumes the jagged edged persona of youth on the edge, and in her final placing, under the tutelage of the ultra-capitalist, Rena (Svetlana Efremova), she discovers her gothic expression.
Throughout these many faces of Astrid is the all-consuming hand of Ingrid who, even in prison, reaches out to infiltrate and poison the lives of not only Astrid, but those who have taken her under their care. For poor little Astrid, the principle of survival is all-encompassing and devastating. In the desperate attempt to fulfil her needs she is thwarted, and the toxic elements of her upbringing wreak devastation upon her own and other's heads. In one telling scene of confrontation with her mother she declares "They are not the enemy Mother, we are." Well said that girl.
The only solace that Astrid can find amongst the chaos is the gentle and non judgemental Paul (Patrick Fugit), whose similarly tragic background gives her a point of refuge. But can they both escape their pasts in order to take on their futures?
I found this much touted film somewhat formulaic, trite and non-engaging. My argument is not with the performances, which are generally very good, with exceptional mentions due to Pfeiffer and Lohman. But overall, it's a slick piece of nothing. Toxic parenting is not a new theme, and director Peter Kosminsky brings no new insights or interest to this archetype. The story moves in a methodical, workmanlike and, in my opinion, very ordinary way. The characters overall feel like stereotypes and are bland.
The screenplay is adapted from the novel by Janet Fitch who, thanks to her endorsement by Oprah Winfrey, enjoyed tremendous success with the publication of her work. For those who have read the book (I haven't), it is apparently reasonably faithful in principle to its story and Fitch herself claims to be delighted with the cinematic product. For me, it was a stylish piece of nothing. Good enough to fill in an idle couple of hours, but not ground breaking or particularly memorable.
The transfer is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 16x9 enhanced.
Having seen rave reviews of the quality of the R1 version, I was expecting great things. Yet it seemed to me that there was almost a masque over much of the film, making everything appear a little flat and lifeless. The picture was a tad soft with some evidence of low level noise.
This film has a strongly blue cast which I found annoying and artificial. Although skin tones were generally acceptable, the overall impression was of a film that had been heavily polarised, which I found quite distracting.
There was minor evidence of aliasing and occasional motion blur, but generally the film was free of major MPEG or film artefacts.
There were no subtitles available on this release.
This disc is an RSDL disc, with the layer change placed at 78:05. The change is not at all distracting.
|Shadow Detail
|Film-To-Video Artefacts
|Film Artefacts
There are three audio tracks on this DVD. The default is an English Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. There is also a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack and an English Audio Commentary track, with Dolby Digital 2.0 surround-encoded sound. I listened to all available tracks, and they are all of a high standard.
Dialogue never presented a difficulty with this film. It was always clean, clear and easy to understand. Audio sync also presented no problems.
There's virtually nothing to say about the musical score. It was there. It served its purpose, but it was pretty much unremarkable in any discernible way.
The use of both surround sound and subwoofer was very appropriate. The surround channels gave a good depth to the film, and, although sparingly used, the subwoofer had occasional, appropriate moments of glory.
|Audio Sync
|Surround Channel Use
The menu design is themed around the movie. It features a promotional still and Dolby Digital 2.0 surround-encoded audio.
A mix of deleted scenes, out-takes and on-set behind the camera action. It is palpably clear that poor old Billy Connolly suffered some serious falls to the cutting room floor, and it was an interesting insight into the ambience on set.
Some good insights available here, with the only worrying concern being that it almost takes listening to the commentary to get the subtleties of parts of the text, like (for example) how Ingrid actually managed to pop off Barry. This revelation made some sense out of the scene of Ingrid and Astrid driving to Mexico. Call me churlish, but I don't think we should have to rely on a commentary to "get" key story elements.
A series of interviews with key players, namely:
Alison Lohman (3:59), Robin Wright-Penn (3:28), Michelle Pfeiffer (3:27), Reneé Zellweger (3:24), Patrick Fugit (1:48), Noah Wylie (2:18), Peter Kosminsky (3:27), John Wells (2:59), Hunt Lowry (Producer) (1:36), Janet Fitch (2:27). They all say very nice things about each other, pretty much exactly the same way as the interviewee before them. Ho-hum.
NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
The packaging appears identical, but I've heard rave reports about the quality of the R1 version. This is only hearsay of course, but that's the word on the subether waves.
The Region 4 version of this disc misses out on:
The Region 1 version of this disc misses out on:
If you feel the need for more enthrallment, perhaps R1 is for you. Given the rave reviews about its quality, perhaps R1 is the natural born winner, since our version seems to have been under the ultraviolet lamp for a bit too long.
It passes the time, and the acting's quite good, but ultimately, it adds up to nothing really special.
|Review Equipment
|Singer SGD-001, using S-Video output
|Teac 76cm Widescreen. Calibrated with Video Essentials. This display device is 16x9 capable.
|Audio Decoder
|Built in to amplifier/receiver. Calibrated with Video Essentials.
|Teac 5.1 integrated system
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Smiling isn't *THAT* hard, I don't know why your writing is so depressing.
I, for one, have a bad habit of making the happiest thing depressing once I've written it down. My main character tends to be a depressing person, and that could totally take part in it, too. But the next part in my story is a wedding. I'm dreading it. My character will have to happy, and I'm so unused to having her being happy. It just isn't..... normal. 8O {That's supposed to be a face}
The question is {and what's the post is really about....}:
How do I make a part happy?
There are actually a few good reasons that your writing may be coming out looking like a pug's face {in other words, squished and slightly weird {and applying only to your writing: ugly}}/ you're making a happy part sad.
1. A lot of it has to do about you. I am not kidding. Please don't tell me that out of all of your characters, you're most like somebody other than the main character. Frankly, I don't quite see how that is possible and I'd deem you a liar if you told me that. Even if it is just a speck, our main characters are based upon us. Now, I am not depressed most of the time. So, Alissa is obviously based a little less than whole upon me. But I can still see character traits we share.
The fact is, if you're not happy, your main character isn't, either. The feeling you have while writing is how your character is, too. So, in order for your character to be happy, you have to, too. Of course, it's easier to get into character with some moods better than others. It's extremely easy for me to write about Alissa's burning anger at person-unknown because it's not hard for me to get into that character mood, while writing about being happy is harder. For some of us, it's extremely easy to write about being happy and hard to write about depressing feelings. That's okay, because we're all different.
2. Smile. Really, smile. For no reason, right now. I'm waiting. Still.... Waiting.... okay. :) Smiling or laughing for no reason will make you happy, as I've just proved my point above. If you need help getting into a happy character mood, just do that.
I hope I've given you some good pointers. :) Now I'm ready to tackle that wedding, because writing about being happy to you has actually made me.... happy. :)
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I totally know what you mean. A lot of books now days are depressing. Of course, they can't be happy all the time, but if you have a lot of pain and the some happiness, the happy parts are all that much more happy. And you feel like you've earned it. Hope that made sense!! =DReplyDelete
Yes, that makes sense. I think lately the popular books {not necessarily Christian, but popular} have been ''gritty'' if you know what I mean. Or, in other words, they just been ''popular'' from a non-Christian point of view. But I like that female power seems to be coming back into books {Bella from Twilight is excluded from that group.}Delete
~Madeline :)
Exactly! About the girl tough thing, I think about it this way: I need to be able to take care of myself, but I don't have to prove it and show off, especially in front of guys. I'm not going to be a weakling, but I'm going to let the guys do their job. =D But it is so much fun to have a character who isn't afraid and does cool things!! I love those kind! Adventure! So much fun!Delete
Yes, I understand you! We shouldn't have to be dependent on guys but we should still be okay with letting them do small polite things for us like opening doors {which is especially nice when it's a stranger. :)}.Delete
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The HLC team had reviewed the school's assurance argument and evidence file over the past four years prior to conducting an evaluation visit last October. While on campus, commission officials met with students, faculty, and staff.
The report from the commission indicates that Missouri State has met all criteria and core components for re-accreditation, and states that no interim monitoring is required. The report also emphasized how MSU functions with integrity, carries out its public affairs mission, and performs in an ethical and responsible way.
There was also a separate review of Missouri State's recently approved Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program, which HLC found needed no interim monitoring.
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OMG I can hardly believe I have been blogging at BFFF since 2011 and NEVER introduced my dad over here. 6 years later, I think it's FINALLY time – don't you?! I am the youngest of my siblings and the only girl! ;) My dad had me later in life. He was 46 when I was born and things never slowed down since! ;) Because my dad had me in his mid-forties, it felt like he lived a WHOLE entire lifetime before I was born. It's hard to believe there are so many things about his life that I still do not know. ;)
I always knew that my dad was in the military, but I really had no idea exactly what he did or the details of his experience. My dad's military past wasn't something that was mentioned often, but we ALL knew he was a veteran. When Folgers® and Walmart asked me if I had a veteran in my life, I raised both hands and told them about my dad, my father in-law, and my grandpa too! As I was explaining more in-depth about my dad, I began to feel sad because I didn't know the fine details of what he did….
I always say time is the very best gift you can give someone, so I invited my parents to come alllll the way over to my house (they live an entire 2 minute drive from us). ;) I brewed a fresh pot of Folgers Classic Roast and alongside a few muffins, ended up asking my dad a million questions about his life that were years overdue. I made a joke to my parents (who have been married for 43 years) to wear pink and they actually did! I was cracking up!
Over coffee, my dad told me all about his experiences while serving in the military from 1958-1961. He was only 18 years old. He served as a Diplomatic Courier. He made $98.00 a month for being on duty 24/7. He carried secret documents. So secret, they actually had handcuffs attached to his wrist so no one could take the briefcase with the secret documents from him. Can you imagine?
My dad shared with me how when you enter the service, they give you many aptitude tests to identify your strengths. After completion, my dad was paged to report to the auditorium. There were twenty-five guys seated in the room. After much apprehension, the instructor announced, "Everyone in this room is qualified to do counterintelligence CIA work. You will be wearing suits instead of army fatigues. It's not for everyone, but it's very rewarding." Next the instructor said, "Anyone who is NOT interested in this line of work, you may leave." My dad was the only person out of twenty-five people who left. He was intimidated to wear a suit. To this day, my dad is truly a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy at heart. Even as a successful business-owner, I don't remember my dad EVER once in a suit. He has always been very down to earth.
After my dad left the first orientation, he was called to a second orientation where he was offered a position as a Diplomatic Courier. He accepted the challenge and served Secret Service documents all over Germany. He had his own driver who chauffeured him around. From Frankfurt to Baumgarten, and anywhere else in Germany where there were military posts, my dad traveled all around the country.
Naturally, I was so curious what kind of food he ate while in the military. My mind is ALWAYS thinking about food! :) He ate hot dogs every single day. Another classic my dad loved was a recipe called "SOS." Apparently, most of the guys didn't really like it, but my dad on the other hand said he could not get enough of it. It was a cream sauce mixed with hamburger meat. Sometimes he would eat 6-7 plates because everyone would give him their leftovers. Can you imagine?! And if he had any room for dessert, he would eat pies, cakes, and chocolate bars!!! Now I am so hungry I cannot stand it as I am typing on my laptop from my living room sofa. ;)
So my dad ended up serving in the military for three years. He actually ended up staying for an additional three months and ten days after his exit date because the Berlin Wall was built and they predicted there was going to be a war so everyone served longer than what they initially planned to. Because of the delay, he was excused from Reserve meetings which you usually have to attend seven years after being in the military.
My dad told me that the military made him more responsible and he met some wonderful friends. I have no doubt my dad's military experiences have molded him to be the smart and responsible entrepreneur and dad he is today! I can now piece together some of those wonderful qualities that have passed on to me too! ;)
The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to ask my parents about life before 'me,' as one day they may not be here to talk about the things that molded them into the amazing people I love. I am so thankful for this opportunity as I learned SO much about my dad, and I feel even closer to him. =)


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Sept 14 (Reuters) - Dollarama Inc (DOL.TO), Canada's largest operator of dollar stores, reported a 21 percent drop in quarterly profit on higher expenses.
For the second quarter ended Aug. 1, net income fell to C$21.0 million ($20.45 million), or 28 Canadian cents a share, from C$26.6 million, or 61 Canadian cents a share, a year ago. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 37 Canadian cents a share.
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