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Fictional birthdays aside, that was a nice introduction into a post that's mostly Potter. Okay, all Potter.
I visited the Exhibition yesterday. It was incredible. But no pictures, sorry, so I'll just link to the website and be done with that. But you should go if you get the chance. Sets, costumes, WANDS- it's all very exciting for a Potterhead.
Okay, next thing. Pottermore. It's opening this week, starting today (for a very good reason- see above), for a very few lucky people who can follow certain clues. These people will help lay the foundations of the fan-driven experience on the website, as far as I can tell from that short video on the site.
I think I said the word "site" way too much there. Huh.
Anyway, I'm thinking I'll just wait till October, when Pottermore is opened to the MASSES.
Come faster, October!
In the meantime, we can all enjoy The Potter Games, which I don't think I've mentioned here yet. I'll put a link in the sidebar under COOL LINKS. It's like the Hunger Games, but with all Harry Potter characters.
In other words, my kind of thing.
Sorry this post was so short/pointless. I'll put up something longer when I get the time.
Happy reading!
UPDATE: I KNEW there was something wrong with the title. Fixed it! Even book nerds make mistakes sometimes!


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Sorry, but I'm not a weeaboo.
Nothing here has anything to do with being a
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Yeah that was a little much, but I don't do all but like two or three of these.
Nope I've never felt like that
Not at all like that.
Step 1: Pick one.
Step 2: Watch it.
Step 3: Choose whether you hate it or like it.
Step 4: Notice either the misandry or misogyny aspects present in the series. Whether it be through constant double standards of female abuse on male or females being overly sexualized and with bland as hell archetypes.
Step 5: Find a new one in between the weeks.
Step 6: Rinse and repeat.
Step 7: Finish one, move on to the other.
Step 8: Choose which character you might want to cosplay as.
A piece of salmon is not worth another mans life...
People who use the word weaboo tend to be dumb if you ask me. The term is more often use to denote people who have "shit" taste rather than excessive fans of the Japanese.
Here's my cycle.
1.I pick an obscure anime that has been overlooked.
2.Watch it, being relatively ambivalent to all that has happened. Not really hating, but not liking either.
3.Look for negative reviews about the show on MAL.
4.Realize what a piece of shit it was and write a negative review on Crunchyroll or MAL.
In my opinion.
Yeah, that's pretty much right.
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1. see what's available this month/season.
2. pick the ones that seem most appealling to at least" yeah, I could kinda watch that" base on descriptions
3. add them to my queues
4. watch various other shows (including american tv, and anime that i missed or time wasting but not in the "complete lack of interest" category) and movies till the episodes start to build up to a decent sized chunk.
5. watch a number of episodes.
6. repeat 4&5 while also doing 1-3 until various series are done
7. go on living my life.
The cycle for me is more along the lines of:
1. Pick up loads of things at the begining of the season
2. Realise that it's basically all the same as what I watched last season
3. Look down on people who abondon their waifus for "seasonal waifu"
4. Feel bad because the shows I like wont get a season 2 because bad sales
5. Repeat the never ending cycle.
Sounds more like the 13 steps of being a shipper.
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Holiday E-Commerce Lookin' Good
Online sales for the holiday season are already up 14 percent over last year.
Online sales for the holiday season are already up 14 percent over last year.
Online sales for the 2011 holiday season are already up 14 percent year-over-year, according to comScore.
Today, comScore reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 20 days of November at $9.7 billion. Wednesday, November 16, saw the biggest splurge this year, with $688 million flowing through digital channels.
Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman, opined in the press release that consumers are turning to online shopping because of the convenience and lower prices.
The digital measurement and analytics company forecasts that online retail spending for November and December will reach $37.6 billion, a 15 percent gain over last year. Holiday retail spending online in 2010 increased 12 percent over 2009.
ComScore also released results of a survey of 1,000 consumers. Asked about early holiday promotions, 33 percent said they were seeing more discounts, sales and promotions than last year.
Showing that free shipping has become more of a consumer demand than a special promotion, 47 percent of consumers surveyed said they'd abandon their shopping carts if they got to checkout to find that they had to pay for shipping; 76 percent said that free shipping was important.
Shopatron, an e-commerce platform provider, says its testing shows that free shipping can increase online sales by as much as 30 percent. Displaying free shipping messaging on every page resulted in increases in actual sales of between 10 and 30 percent for the brands it tested.
Last year, comScore found that the biggest increase in sales came on the free shipping day, Dec. 17, 2010, when sales climbed 61 percent.


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I need to clear my mind a bit. Last days I have stayed in Resistencia, Argentina, writing other posts. The more official ones. So now I don't feel like writing anything official. I will just empty my head from the last two weeks.
The decision to visit Paraguay was absolutely a good one. If I had headed from Brazil straight to Argentina, I would've missed so much. Paraguay has been so far one of the best countries I've cycled, definitely the best in South America.
Paraguay was cheap, traffic mild, all the paved roads were good, people were nice and the landscapes pretty nice as well.
But above all, I felt like exploring something new, because there were basically no Tourists in Paraguay.
I cycled 600km from Ciudad Del Este to Pilar in six days, and four days I just relaxed at American peace corps volunteers/ couchsurfers.
Last day I broke 15 000km , but I couldn't celebrate that much as I had a stomache ache from some bad street food I had eaten the previous day.
Did something interesting happen during those ten days?
Well, as I was afraid of, those tent eating ants made a small hole into my tent during one night, so that was the last time I am making crumbs in the tent. It is very unpleasant to wake up in a itchy feeling on your calf.
Another interesting act took place, when I wanted to cross the river Paraguay from Pilar to Argentina. It was hot and sunny Sunday afternoon, and no official ferries were available. The lady at the immigration office (with her child or grand child) told me that I should wait until Monday, because the road on Argentinian side is flooded. My Spanish has improved slightly, so this part I understood. I decided to pay a private boat anyways, because I thought what difference would one day do to a road. A grumpy man came with his motor boat to pick me up, and took me to the other side of the river. Two men at the frontier stamped my passport and told me that the road is partially bad, but if I can carry my cycle for fifteen metres, I can do it. Luckily I wasn't able to pay the skipper straight away, so we had to find someone else to brake my bills. The frontier was nothing but lots of water and a house , but one older man jumped out of it when he heard I want to cycle this way. He was looking at me like I had no brain, telling me something in Spanish. What I could understood of his half speech, half pantomime performance was, that he tried to cross the road the day before with a horse. The tone of his voice turned slowly into shouting, and words like agua, ruta feo and mosquito popped up. But it was his body signs which I was impressed by. First he showed the water was until his neck, then he showed his hand full of mosquito bites and finally, and I swear this happened, he turned over, lowered his pants and showed his bare ass to me. I guess he wanted to show me his blisters from the saddle or maybe he was asking me to go into it. All I knew, that this man was dead serious, because half of the time talking he was standing in a horse shit.
Well, I stamped my passport again (second time I did a twenty minute visit to Argentina), took a ferry back to Paraguay and paid ten dollars to the grumpy skipper. Next day I came to the port at 6.30 a.m, and learned that the official boat is actually going 30km more south to another border city. From there the road was supposed to be much better. And it was.
As I mentioned, now I'm in Argentina and tomorrow I will continue from Resistencia towards Salta. It is 830km long trip, so lets hope I make it in a week.
ps. My German friend Herbert Born is leaving in three days for his Cologne-Singapore bike tour. Follow his trip here.


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America and Japan Must Team Up to Stop China
After a period of strategic drift, the U.S.-Japan alliance has been reconfirmed as the cornerstone of regional security under an Abe administration committed to moving Japan to the front of the global stage. This reinforcing of the alliance, exemplified by the revision of the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines, is boosted by an array of Japanese national-security reforms that include reinterpretation of the constitution to allow for collective self-defense and the removal of the longstanding arms-export ban. While such developments reflect the ideological bent of the Abe government, they are rooted in a competitive security environment and, in particular, the rise of China.
The challenge of China's rise to Asia's security has been most evident in the maritime sphere. Japan has had to bear much of the burden in responding to growing Chinese assertiveness in the East China Sea, culminating in Beijing's declaration of an Air-Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over Japan's territorial waters. Ultimately, however, the contest in the East China Sea has demonstrated the significance of Asia's most important alliance, as exemplified by Beijing's apparent moderation following President Obama's commitment to defend the Senkaku Islands.
The relative deterrent success of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the East China Sea has, in relief, made clear the difficulty of arresting Chinese assertiveness in the more actively contested and less effectively defended South China Sea. Despite efforts by claimant states to utilize all of the national-security tools at their disposal, from increased defense spending to international arbitration, China's regional rivals have not arrested Beijing's efforts to turn Southeast Asian waters into a Chinese lake.
National Interests and Regional Problem Solving
Although a Chinese victory in the South China Sea would be a clear existential threat to the claimant states, it is also a significant strategic threat to both the United States and Japan. Both states have demonstrated their recognition of this through words as well as actions, such as the United States' freedom-of-navigation operations (FONOP) and Japanese military-exercise participation. And while U.S. involvement in the disputed waters is largely taken for granted given its status as the region's principal security guarantor, there has been active speculation that a more liberated Japan might take on a bigger role in bolstering Southeast Asian maritime security.
In this regard, maritime security experts have called for Japan to join the U.S. FONOP effort. Ultimately, however, even with Asia's most proficient native navy and loosened constitutional restraints, the involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the South China Sea remains limited by already overstretched resources. Furthermore, many in the Japanese policy community believe that, "Actively challenging China's questionable territorial claims in the South China Sea will likely cause an increase in aggressive Chinese naval activity against the Japan's Senkaku Islands . . . and would thus prove counterproductive to Japan's security interests."
Cooperative Capacity-Building Capability
This does not mean, however, that Tokyo will, or should, be a bystander in addressing Asia's most pressing problem. The best way that Tokyo can support the development of security in the volatile South China Sea is through capacity building. Such an effort responds to the Southeast Asian maritime states' limitations in monitoring and defending their sovereign territory and exclusive economic zones.
Japan has already made a significant effort toward accomplishing this goal. In addition to engaging in exercises with regional states, Japan has established a Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) to enhance regional antipiracy efforts and has taken a lead role in bringing regional coast guards together. Tokyo has also signed strategic partnership agreements with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, and agreed to provide patrol ships and aircraft to these nations as well. Furthermore, Japan is an active provider of strategic official development assistance (ODA) that links aid and security interests; Japanese funding for power grids, airports and port facilities has the potential to serve as dual economic and defense infrastructure, supplementing Japanese arms transfers, coordination and training for Southeast Asian maritime states.
Such activity buttresses the United States' effort to foster regional security, including its own capacity-building endeavors. In this regard, it should be noted that despite developments such as the loosening of arms export restrictions on Vietnam and the negotiation of an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Philippines, the United States continues to spend what has been described as "budget dust" to assist Southeast Asian partners. While the Senate Armed Services Committee has sought to respond to this weakness through the Southeast Asia Maritime Security Initiative designed to provide $425 million in training, infrastructure construction and vessels for Southeast Asian partners, Congress has thus far only authorized $50 million for FY 2016, rather than the entire five-year program.
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Ryan Burgess: Remembering our Fallen Heroes
Published 5:30 am, Sunday, May 25, 2014
Memorial Day is a time to reflect on our nation's fallen heroes. On Dec. 21, 2006, our nation lost 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Ryan J. Burgess. His name is on the Midland County Veteran's Memorial downtown. A graduate of Meridian High School who went on to become a Marine, he was killed in combat while serving in Iraq.
Thanks to his older sister, Lindsey Burgess, we have the honor of learning something about him today.
"I am super lucky," said Lindsey during a recent interview. "I got to play with Ryan, walk him to school and watch him grow up to become an outstanding citizen. I also have the opportunity to share his story with others. Knowing him helped me to see how trivial I am in the big scheme of things. When I have spoken about his life both privately and in front of groups, I tell everyone that Ryan was an everyday person who lived, played and worked right here in this community. I tell them that, like Ryan, they can decide to do something meaningful with their lives."
Lindsey served on a committee to preserve the downtown Veteran's Memorial that was refurbished and formally dedicated last fall. This endeavor, she said, is meant to provide Midland with a sense of community and also remind current and upcoming generations that we are all ultimately a very tiny part of an infinite universe.
"We don't get reminded enough of how lucky we are. America has flaws, but we have it made. Our youth were not around to see how significant historical events such as Vietnam or World War II changed and shaped our country."
She also said that it is beneficial for youth to be mindful of the relevance of history and to know that they currently enjoy privileges, such as education and technology, because they are standing on the shoulders of elders who made sacrifices in order to cultivate a safe and prosperous future. Although Lindsey describes the Burgess family as not being very political, she says that they believe in the unique system of checks and balances our country provides and also hold that every citizen has a duty to contribute in a positive way. Although they miss Ryan every day, they are proud of him and his service to his country.
"Ryan was a 'boy's boy.' He was playful, comical and did not like the physical confinement of school. Like so many, he liked to test the rules as an adolescent. When he applied himself, he did well. When he graduated, he enrolled in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning program and became the leader in his class. I noticed an even bigger transformation when he became a Marine."
Whenever she and mother Kim Burgess came to visit, for example, he insisted on carrying their bags and always opened doors for them. When he came home, he opened doors for all women and even called every female cashier "mam."
He took very seriously the concept of carrying his weight and making right decisions. One Marine who served with him told the Burgess family about a time when enemy bullets were being fired in a busy street in Iraq. Civilians and soldiers alike quickly scattered. One little girl was parted from her caregiver and sat crying in the middle of the street. Shots were still being fired, and most were hiding and too afraid to do anything.
Ryan took it upon himself to run out of hiding, scoop the girl up and place her in a bullet-proof hummer. He later took the time to search throughout the community to reunite the girl with her parents.
Re-entering civilian life after being in combat had its challenges. For example, Lindsey remembered one time that her brother was driving on a highway and saw a car stalled on the side of the road. Knowing that this was a military tactic the enemy often used to ignite a bomb in public, Ryan instinctively drove across the central median to keep his family safe. Lindsey, who had a limited understanding about what her brother was up against on a daily basis, worked with her family to help him reintegrate into civilian culture.
When Ryan was brought home for his funeral, many Marines flew from across the country to pay their respects and tell the family about heroic and kind things that he had done. One touching memory Lindsey has of the wake is watching many veterans from various generations enter the funeral home and stand in line simply to salute Ryan. Many did so without even signing the guest register or attempting to get acknowledgement from the family. She believes that they simply wanted to pay their respects for a fallen brother.
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Season 3 begins at last. The night we've all been waiting for, even before we knew the actual date. With 3 hours of new Chuck in only two days we're bound to have a lot to talk about Monday and Tuesday. So before we get swamped we here at Chuck This thought we'd do a combined post with each of the contributors contributing their views as they see fit on what we should watch for in the first three episodes, or season 3 in general. This could get slightly spoilerish so read the rest after the jump.
Ernie Davis has opinions. Will wonders never cease?
Don't Freak Out
It sounds like Chuck and Sarah are due to break up. Both fake break up their pretend relationship and actually admit that they have enough of a relationship outside the cover to break up. Don't worry, it never lasts. I expect that as usual Chuck will be the one in pursuit, again, but for a change it will be Sarah that breaks it off. This is actually progress, albeit of the two steps forward one step back variety. Remember that in season 2 Chuck and Sarah never seemed quite so close as when they broke up. I think we'll get a pretty quick upgrade of Chuck and Sarah to a new level of understanding their mutual feelings, then a breakup, and for the rest of the season the dance continues, two steps forward, two steps back, just like last season. Standing in for Chuck's status as Sarah's asset keeping Chuck and Sarah apart and leading to other PLIs will be Sarah's effect on Chuck's ability to use the intersect. Wow, what a leap of originality. They can't be together because Chuck is the intersect. Way to think outside the box guys. Sorry shippers, TPTB just seem too in love with polygons and angst to make it easy on us, but I look for the end of the front 13 episodes to have a Colonel like game changer, without the re-wind this time. Our reward will come in the back 6. I'd love to be proved wrong. Courage.
Carmichael. Charles Carmichael.
As in season 2 we're due for an upgraded Chuck. In the words of Josh Schwartz season 2 was about the boy in season 1 becoming a man. Season 3 will be about the man becoming a spy. The previews show an even more mature Chuck far more involved in the running, jumping, shooting part of the spy world. We all want him to still be Chuck, not Bryce Larkin. The pre-screeners largely agree that is the case. The action and spy stuff is bound to play a bigger part of this season now that the title character's growth is so tied to that aspect. But how far from the lovable nerd we met will he stray? Can he become too confident? Too much of a spy? Can he get one more make-out session with yet another petite brunette before Sarah reels him in? Look for a lot more physical comedy from Zach. I am actually pretty psyched about this part of the new season. Chuck has often been a bit of a doormat, mostly because he didn't see himself as the equal of either Casey or Sarah. A new badass Chuck will likely shake up team B a bit and allow for some great drama and comedy scenarios. Also shaking up Chuck and Team B will be Shaw. I'm taking a modified wait and see approach on that aspect of the new Chuck.
You don't bring a gun on a real date.
I love Sarah. We all love Sarah. But come on, the girl has got to speak up every so often. If she really wants Chuck all she has to do is say so. Is that so hard? Apparently. So it's about time to start explaining why. From pre-screeners it seems that Sarah finally has a little more background filled in and maybe a few things are explained a bit further. We all know she is not good at relationships, but if she ever wants one there was never a better time for a crash course. In addition it sounds like Sarah finally finds her voice regarding Chuck. Sounds like Yvonne is going to have plenty to sink her teeth into this season. My only wish, maybe a few comedic moments? And for god's sake can she be happy for an episode or two? Unless it's with Shaw.
I don't like feeling like Team Chuck's little fat kid!
That's Mr. Morgan Grimes, if you're nasty.
We all know by now from the spoilers another of Chuck's friends, family or co-workers learns of his double life. My money is on Morgan. If you follow twitter David Coleman aka kentuckysocal who is both a friend of Zach Levi and a prop-master for Chuck posted this little gem. So Casey is a spy, Awesome knows Chuck is a spy, and Morgan, well I think this is pretty good proof that Morgan gets dragged into the spy world. This is also one of those things that leads me to believe Casey gets the boot at some point and is reduced to spying with these guys. In addition I think it's pretty evident from some set photos and previews that Morgan is once again ass-man, but to Big Mike this time. It will be fun to see the demise of Emmet. I think.
Family Time (AKA Dave's paltry addition)
No spoilers here, just a simple hope we see more family and friends moments. We saw these quite often in S1, more rarely in S2. Some of that is bound to be deliberate. As Chuck is more committed to the spy life, and especially more involved with Sarah, his time with Ellie and Morgan will, and should shrink. But it really shrunk a lot in S2, I hope to see more in S3. We do know we'll see more of Chuck and Morgan together, but sadly that isn't what I mean. I hope we get the extended gatherings, with everyone having fun. As mentioned above, Sarah in particular is too serious, too often; let's see her (and the whole gang) laugh and have a good time together. It will be too long if we have to wait for another wedding to see it.
Joe Adds
I've found it hard to list things to watch for. So much news, so much speculation and so many spoilers have come out that my biggest hope is that I'll be surprised!
Still, there are a number of things that I want to see addressed, and things I'll be looking for. Here's a partial list:
- Things that were "dropped on the floor" in S2 may be picked up in S3; Most notably, the RIOS "virus" that Roark released into the wild, and the bracelet. My prediction is that both will return.
- Answers to questions that were raised in S2. What happens in the Buy More shake-up? What happens to the idea of the store closing? What happens to Big Mike and Morgan's mother? What about Emmett? We know Anna won't be there, but is her absence explained? I confidently predict that Big Mike is going to have a brand new relationship – with Morgan! I not-so-confidently predict that Anna will return, but not in the first 13 episodes of S3. Emmett is toast!
- Two words – Omaha and Prague. We know Prague figures early in S3. Omaha? Not so much.
- Stephen was lost. Stephen was found. Is Stephen going to be forgotten, or is he just deep in the background? I predict that he remains in the background for now; mentioned occasionally, but unseen.
- We have threads that have never been followed. Will they be in S3? In there any news on the missing mothers? I predict that there will not.
- Ever since S1, we've wanted to know more about Carina and her history with Sarah. Is she Sarah's friend, or Sarah's sister? I predict that Chuck will discover a major secret about Carina, but not that she's Sarah's sister. Did I word that subtly enuf for ya?
- Zac reminded us in an interview that Awesome knows he's a spy and that "We shall have another." Whom might that be? I predict, based on no information at all, that it will be Ellie.
- In Dream Job, Chuck found out that he has some ability to force a flash. Does this carry on with the intersect 2.0? Is it enhanced by the upgrade? Is his learning to control the flashes something important in S3, or merely tangential, compared to the other spy skills he must learn? I predict that, yes, Chuck can now force a flash, but not completely reliably, and that this new ability is something of importance in S3 in making him a spy. But it is not as important as his Chuckiness.
- We know Chuck's new abilities are affected by his emotions. But are the new flashes caused or inhibited by them? I predict that we'll find out Sunday that the only answer is "both".
- More popular culture references. I predict that by the end of the first 13 episode, we'll see a side of Chuck that reminds us of Robert Downey's sardonic portrayal of Tony Stark, the Iron Man, and before long we'll see references to scenes from that movie.
- Sarah told Chuck at the high point of S2 that "It is real." Is it? My prediction is yes, yes it is.
Watch for Sarah and Chuck to tell Casey to "Stay in the car!" I want to guarantee that!
I'll be looking for a deepening relationship between Chuck and Sarah, but not finality. I don't expect to see the last chapter written about their "courtship" in S3, or not at least in the first 13 episodes. Josh Schwartz and NBC like shows with evolving story lines, and Chuck will continue to evolve faster – and more – than most any other show on television. For me this means that someday we may indeed see Chuck and Sarah as a committed couple fighting The Ring, and probably General Bechman, together (as if this wasn't their best description already). But this part of their journey is just too good to let go of just yet. Soon, but not yet.


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For the past 22 years, Lupe Zeragoza has had the largest head in the world. "What's it like to hold such an unusual record?" we asked her. "If you imagine what the largest head in the world might look like, you would still be surprised when you saw this one," she boasted. When she's not busy, Lupe enjoys exploring the rugged mountains near her home in South America. It was on one of these hikes that she found the head. "It was so big it took us three days to get it down the mountain."


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I've been going through a very hectic schedule in my work as a result I could not post anything here. As I have finished most of the critical parts of my work hopefully I'll be able to spend some time here. But before anything I would like to read my feeds, which I've missed due to the schedule.
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|Dec 6 2016, 01:09 AM Post #1
A Delicate Machine
((Cass nodded.))
"They couldn't have picked a better place to throw us, really."
So in the end, they had fled back to the asylum after all, compelled by the already encroaching night. Cass couldn't stand the thought of it, of choosing to stay behind in a place that by all rights should have stank like death; even if those tragedies were long since faded like the memories of those who had "lived" in those sterile halls. It spoke to some sense of rightness that it had fallen into such disrepair, but Cass was hesitant to call it a victory without knowing its history. In all likelihood, it had simply stopped being profitable. They wondered what became of the patients who had seen the fall of their prison. Had they been returned to their families, to find understanding and healing elsewhere? A hopeful thought, at least until you considered who had committed them in the first place. Had they simply been shunted to another corner of the world, the only difference the alien soil they were eventually buried in?
The room they were finding brief requiem in had been someone's world, once; and Cass felt strangely like an intruder. They appreciated it when Trav turned the picture out of view, and hoped that none of its subjects had lingered on in the asylum. It was not a place to spend one's eternity.
They would have preferred the roof, but Irene and Wade wouldn't have understood; their one missing day of shared history a wide schism between them. Cass could have borne their return to the asylum if that was where they had ultimately set up camp, but they couldn't find any words to explain their feelings that sounded more than just pitiful sentiment. Nothing important, nothing worth anyone else hearing. Trav would have understood, but he didn't seem to care that much about their locale, either. They could only hope that this wasn't where they would die, hidden away from the sun and moon.
Cass turned to face their new companions. "So, uh... how are you guys holding up?"
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|Dec 14 2016, 11:49 PM Post #2
A Delicate Machine
Wade wanted answers, results, a bullet-point list explaining how exactly they all intended to survive in their new corner. Cass sympathized, but they couldn't help. If he truly favored action over reaction, proactive planning over a wait-and-see until the roof collapse on their heads; he had chosen to hang out with the wrong people. Cass hoped, for his sake, that he could calm down. For the moment, all they could do was echo Trav's shrug. "Stay here, I guess. Try to get some bad sleep."
At least the addition of two new watchmen meant they could all spend a little more time lying down and failing to rest. It would have been nice if the bed frame had been supporting an accompanying mattress, but after years of disuse Cass wouldn't have been able to trust it to not contain more than the preferable amount of insects, anyways. Thinking of Mother Nature reclaiming her ground was only wonderful until you woke up with a cockroach on your face. At least the floor here was dry.
None of that mattered as much as Irene's question, though. Now there was something that warranted more than question marks and helpless apathy. She looked rattled, desperate for comfortable affirmation. Cass wished that they could have given it, but it would be doing the dead and dying a disservice.
"It's, uh, not really that simple," Cass hesitantly started. "I mean, what happened to Jane - that isn't right. That was deliberate, and I don't think that sorta malice just pops up overnight. But everyone else? Does panicking because you woke up in every high-schooler's nightmare make you a bad person?"
They pointed at Irene's shotgun. Illustratively, not accusingly. "You've obviously been responsible with that, but what if it was someone else holding it right now? Like, if they saw one of their friends getting attacked and tried to save them, or they just got startled or something, made the worst possible split-second decision, does that mean they'd be evil?"
Cass glanced at Trav, then looked back at Irene. "I'm not trying to single you out or anything. Like, me and Trav? Literally nothing has happened to us yet. Are we good people just because we've been lucky enough to stay out of the way of anyone who'd wanna hurt us? Because we haven't even had the chance to make any mistakes, yet? I don't know, and I don't really see the point in trying to figure that stuff out. We're all falling apart. If you gotta blame someone, blame the bastards who put us here in the first place."
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|Dec 19 2016, 04:17 AM Post #3
A Delicate Machine
Cass should've let the issue die with Trav. He was calm as ever, doing an admirable job at defusing the argument. Practically speaking, Cass agreed with him, too. All they would have had to do was nod like usually, mumble some vague affirmation and be content with that. However, for the first time in a long while, Cass felt irritated. Not the usual fear, or resignation, or self hatred; just a simple conviction that what had already been said couldn't simply be ignored and implicitly accepted.
They weren't even sure what it was that set them off. Maybe it was Irene's implication that Cass was anything other than totally aware of the reality of their situation. Maybe it was Wade's continual insistence to adhere to some sort of plan. Digging deeper, maybe it was the way both of them had already decided to start thinking in categories, not individual people.
"What's the point, Irene?" Cass snapped, instantly regretting their outburst but unable to stop themself. "Why do you want to think of people as evil? Like, humans are pretty shitty! I get that! But, okay, lemme follow you for a second. We're gonna listen to a guy who might as well have just blown our bus up and trust that he's telling the truth about everything. We'll take the names that he gives us and try to draw up a list of 'evil' people. The fuck happens then? Do we just assume the worst and shove a gun in their face because it's the easiest way to keep ourselves safe? Are we supposed to be judging people?"
Cass was trembling, now; with adrenaline and rage and no small amount of fear for what the immediate aftermath would be. Their eyes flickered back and forth between Irene and Wade, Irene and Wade, desperately shooting an apologetic glance at Trav and hoping he'd realize that this wasn't his fault, Wade and Irene, and thus Cass continued to rant, carried by momentum alone, voice raising to just below a shout.
"And - and what's the fucking point of planning all the time, Wade? You know there's only one way this is gonna end, right? You're not trying to be the last man standing, right? You do realize that if you wanna live, we're all gonna have to die, right? Then why are we sitting around and trying to guess what the fuck's gonna happen to us like there are any good answers? Why the fuck we trying to figure out how to stay alive when no one deserves to live any less than we do? When - we're going to fucking die, what's the point in taking it all out on the people who didn't have anything to do with why we're here? What, is it - is it just 'cause we can shoot them but we can't shoot the terrorists? Because it's easier that way?" By the end, Cass's voice was starting to falter and fade as the enormity of what they had just done caught up to them.
They looked around the room. Weren't sure what they saw on everyone's faces. Weren't sure what they wanted to see. They wanted to die. They wanted to run away and find somewhere where they wouldn't trouble anyone and shut their stupid mouth forever and just be forgotten, entirely. They hated that they were crying, now, collapsing back down to their knees, violently clutching their arms. Unforgivable. They didn't deserve to show any weakness, didn't deserve to be viewed with anything other than justifiable hatred. Didn't deserve to have any hope of being worried about when they were the one who exploded in the first place.
"What the fuck is the point?" Their voice was barely a whisper.
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|Jan 1 2017, 09:33 PM Post #4
A Delicate Machine
No retribution came for Cass, trembling and sniffling and making themself small. Only halfhearted voices refusing to resign themselves to doing nothing without offering any real alternatives. Cass caught their tone, but couldn't pay much attention to their words; still sobbing quietly to themself. No one seemed to notice or particularly care, which was for the best. What made Cass deserve compassion over everyone else in the room, all equally blameless? What part of Cass's blessedly quiet existence on the island gave them the right to break down out in the open, to expect concern or attention or even just a single fucking hug? When Irene was also slumping down in front of them, cracking voice sounding lost, all attempts at painting a target simply a desperate attempt to cope? When all of Wade's plans and strategies simply boiled down to the fact that he didn't want to die? Cass hadn't lost anyone, not like Irene. They hadn't even been shouted at this time, no screaming Vanessa on the roof, no, they had been the instigator this time; so that meant the fault was entirely theirs, right? They deserved to be an alienated island, isolated from everyone who could help, so barren and ugly that not even the carrion eaters would debase themselves to land long enough to eat the carcasses that would wash ashore, a speck of rocky gray in the ocean no cartographer wroth their salt would waste a drop of ink on, fundamentally and irrevocably useless, useless, useless
"Yeah," Cass said to no one in particular, looking down and wiping away their tears before anyone could notice; hoping everyone would just move on.
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|Jan 12 2017, 01:13 AM Post #5
A Delicate Machine
Cass still wasn't okay, but they were starting to approach functional again. "It's alright," they said to Irene, still staring at the floor. "You didn't do anything wrong." She should have never had to waste her guilt on Cass, forcing apologies from her lips out of some twisted obligation to give comfort to the bomb that had exploded in her face. Their face flushed red with shame, intensified as they felt Wade's silent gaze.
There was no sympathy there, refreshingly enough. Cass was glad to know that they had managed to avoid dragging at least one person down with them into the perpetual churning cesspit of negative emotion. Still, they didn't understand why he was paying so much attention to them, and shifted uncomfortably in place as Wade shifted closer to them. He looked detached, analytical; a judge or a labcoat studying a particularly ugly specimen to figure out just what the fuck was wrong with them.
They were all too glad to accept Trav's offer of sanctuary, a brief respite from hurt and indifference. If he had been anyone else, Cass would have been sure that they had only disappointed him by falling apart again; but he was, as ever, collected. Trav held an admirable self-confidence, being unarrogantly secure enough in himself to be able to extend that feeling of safety to everyone around him. Despite everything, they found themself idly regretting that they'd never get the chance to paint him. Regardless, Cass shakily got to their feet, still avoiding looking at the others.
Both of them walked down the corridor, Cass trailing a few steps behind Trav. Once they were a safe distance from the room, Cass quietly said "Sorry... about, well. Everything."
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|Jan 20 2017, 12:41 AM Post #6
A Delicate Machine
"Thanks," Cass said, awkwardly rubbing the back of their neck. They didn't have the energy or the inclination to try to correct Trav's misplaced sympathy. They still reluctantly appreciated the sentiment, even if it tasted sour. It was hard to understand why he cared, but it had gotten through even Cass's self-defeating skull that he genuinely still did.
They couldn't help but smile at his plan, though. It wasn't a strategy. It wasn't a solution. It was more beautiful than all that - something to live for, even for just a while longer. "We signed up for a trip to a museum, and what did we see? We saw the sea."
As they walked, Cass saw Wade following them out of the corner of their eye and did their best to ignore him. They didn't dislike his presence and could understand his silence, but something about him was still discomforting. They pictured him with a labcoat and clipboard, furtively peeking behind corners. Subject has run away from another conflict instead of resolving anything. Subject is now making a pathetic attempt to socialize. Subject is beginning to become self-aware. Will observe until its status changes.
When they all returned to their room, it was a guilty relief to find that Irene was gone. Another person forced out of another safe haven just because Cass couldn't handle a little bit of stress. Worse yet, this time they had actively strung them along with their initial invitation of being good company. Still, their dynamic couldn't have gone on existing as it had been. For her sake, Cass hoped that Irene could find good, like-minded people; do something constructive with her ideals and injustice-fueled drive.
((Cass knew they wouldn't.))
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After about forty years of artistic research that have, in a rapid series of language modifications, de-connoted and re-connoted the very nature of art, in its functioning and its form, it seems to me that there is now an opening up, at least for those like me who believe in language being an instrument for the fulfillment of Style, to a new terrain non-connoted by closed ideologies or fixed patterns of research. Here, the creation of a language of art is returning to questions relevant to the values of form, of meaning and of space, seen as true elements of artistic work, re-acquiring their key role.
A sensation….
We are in the very fortunate position of living the present with a new maturity and complexity, even, we could say with a 'virgin' view, and thanks to our past experiences, which, of course, we cannot return to, our perceptions are sharper and deeper.
Never before has the "memory of the past" forced us to come to terms with ourselves and, at the same time, offered us the conditions for the creation of a free artistic thinking, of a higher dimension of art. By being released from the social ties, where artistic thinking had appeared to be reduced to a slavish recorder of reality, and by unburdening itself of the constant apprehension of having to "deny" (still another time!), it has returned to going beyond the immediate circumstances. We could even say "beyond the parts", reacquiring a universal sphere and, consequently, a meaning of timeless permeability. I would call this, the New Classicism.
Some points of reference…
The historical antecedents of this New Classicism are, in my opinion, traceable not only to some of the great European artists of the beginning of the last century, and before all, I would place Costantin Brancusi (but, also not forgetting the work of Piet Mondrian!) – but also, to a study of the Italian scenario, in the wholly Italian sensitivity of how to represent space and create an image.
I believe this particular sensitivity is generally recognizable in Italian art, also in the more recent art, and its capacity for insight is such as to become a telling trait, a true Linguistic system.
The hypothesis…
My hypothesis, it being understood that from these antecedents only two starting points clearly remain, is that from the meeting and contamination of a classical influence, at times strong and at times quite latent, present in Italian and European art of the this century – and I'm not only thinking of the work of the old Brancusi followers, but also, for example, of some of the extraordinary sculptures of Tony Cragg, and the avant-garde experiences of recent years, particularly American Minimal Art and our Arte Povera, and as well, the usual creative adventurousness of artists such as Lucio Fontana, and I see not only "Tagli", but also "Nature" scattered across the grass from this meeting – there could arise a fertile terrain of work based not on the progressive impoverishment of the language but on enriching it, on the development of the image, on a re-found linguistic complexity and (why not?) on a new modulation of style.
Consequently, archetypical forms and old dormant materials from over the centuries, full of past memories and evocations, could find themselves projected into those spaces, more imaginary than physical, that contemporary research and aesthetics have discovered as new places of art, new environments where art manifests itself and is received. And, obviously, the opposite is also possible, where very modern materials can re-create and re-interpret artistic dimensions that were present in the long distant past – the temples, the history of humankind.
The ideality…
Only a strongly inspired creative project, of deep idealism, where the elements and times of our history merge with each other, instead of being dispersed or eliminated, can produce a solid creative thinking, firm in the face of artistic events that follow on from each other very rapidly, one after the other, and that witness, today, the extremely monotonous reiteration of what has already been said or done yesterday or before yesterday, recycled, and what's more in quite modest and home-made versions.
My idea of classicism lies in the notion of strengthening the language of art seen in its constituent elements and fundamentals of form, material, and space, filtered, however, by the scheme of an existential awareness arising from contemporary thinking and from the new knowledge that people have acquired about themselves in the world.
This awareness that has produced the zeroing and redefining of the language of art, today, must take us beyond and further.
Time… a time…
There is " the Time" for classicism and there is "a Time" for tradition.
Classicism and traditionalism seem, in the current interpretation, to be tied to a guiding idea, as if one implicates, in some way, the other.
However, if we, at least once, shift our point of view, moving from the usual interpretation to a philosophical one, we then realize, that the conceptions of time found in the two terms, are very different and, therefore, "Classical" and "Traditional" do not mean the same thing or explain the same event.
There is a Classical Line in art that transversally cuts across the whole of art history, returning from one period to another, dialoguing between the past, the present and the future.
The Time of Classicism, with neither the before nor the after, is the non-time, that which allows us today, but also allowed us yesterday, and will allow us tomorrow, to enter into the same type of interior syntony involving works belonging to different time periods in the history of art. A Time of Tradition is "a time", precise and singular, made up of separate times as points, that as a whole create a particular culture and not another – it is a relative time, recording the past but not linking it with other dimensions.
I would say, stressing this point, that what has been defined as "traditional" has no link with Art and whoever, today, uses this term as a label to classify a work of art or a thinking about art, does not help in clarifying the diversity among the existing artistic options. Maybe, they simplify it, but this, today, is not enough. The place of discernment can be found elsewhere.
The interior journey…
In Art, Classicism, as I see it and live it, is not only a poetic choice. It corresponds more to an interior dimension, to an idealism inherent in humans themselves, with no specific language or set tendency.
The signs, on a poetic and language level, are a direct consequence of a prior thinking, determining one's attitude and sensitivity compared to what is the reality.
So, the artist that sets off on this path, this interior and deep journey,where you can still "feel" the World in its entirety and uniqueness, should not expect to be rewarded with great gratification. They will occupy, intrinsically, a position of marginality.
A marginality, relative to the tempo of daily life, always searching for a focal catalyzer, that is the last to arrive, but waiting for others to arrive. However, the same condition of "laterality" inscribed in the patient annals of History, has become an exclusive condition, and has allowed those who experience it, to detach and to distance themselves, and its permanence in time still generates History.
Lucilla Catania
Written by Lucilla Catania, published in "Titolo", Year II , n. 7, Winter 1991/92


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Before I even drop in on the music here, I've got a confession to make – I was almost immediately predisposed to enjoying Das Modell before I'd even heard a note of their self-titled debut album. (Granted, I'm almost always in the mood to give a band styled as post-hardcore a chance, especially one from France.) But Das Modell aren't from Paris or somewhere you may expect – instead, they're from Besançon in the far east of France near the border of Switzerland. It's about 250 km (that's 150ish miles, Yanks!) from Strasbourg, one of my favorite places in the world – I've had quite a few glasses of afternoon Gewürtztraminer there. Besançon is also the capital of the Franche-Comté region. If you've never had Comté cheese in your life, you are missing out. Severely. In fact, I want some right this second. Comté me, somebody! I want to be embalmed with Comté and buried in a wine cellar. Afterlife, I'm good to go.
This has apparently turned into a travel blog. OK, wine and cheese rant over.
Das Modell make some decidedly non-French music, and that's fine by me. In fact, I'm always curious – mainly because of my soft spot for the French – to see what sort of American music has crept into the record collections of and influenced French bands. Das Modell, a trio consisting of, simply, Camille, Julien, and Sylvain, have certainly snapped up their fair share of Dischord releases, and Fugazi is an obvious influence, but at least one of them clearly got his or her hands on Yank Crime, Drive Like Jehu's masterpiece and a seminal post-hardcore album for any burgeoning guitar thrasher. Add to the mix the taut and thin axe-strangling of the Blood Brothers and you've got yourself a recipe for action. Pissed off action. All the words are "fighting words" now – shout 'em!
Still, it takes a fabulous guitar buildup before any words are even spewed on the album, as "Produits en série" ("products in series") ratchets up tension for half its three-minute runtime. The vocals are brief and bellicose, and have the effect of a hammer to the face. (That's "martelerà la face" in case that didn't translate.) "Don't Walk" is similar in that it lets the thrash do the talking, punctuated only intermittently by a shredded snarl. (I'm not sure which male sings lead, but he's definitely from the Ian MacKaye school of barkage.)
"Bike Looser" (sic, maybe?) reigns in the band a little bit, and, along with "Verdun," allows the listener a slight breather. I emphasize "slight," because every single sound that Das Modell makes is through gritted teeth and clenched fists – the tempo is just a hair slower. "Bike Looser" is about calling the dude who stole your bike a loser. I think, again, because of the song title. Whatevs! Still pissed, I'm sure. I even think they're shouting "I'm gonna kick your ass!" on "See You on the Track," another breakneck anthem on an album full of breakneck anthems.
I love the French. I love post-hardcore filtered through a Drive Like Jehu lens. Das Modell satisfies both cravings to great effect. And, as I'm fond, an album of this type doesn't need to overstay its welcome, and Das Modell certainly does not – it's in and out in less than thirty minutes, and it's only nine songs long. But that doesn't mean it's slight, either – it's actually quite beefy, substantial in a uniquely flavorful French way. Mmm … beef and Comté and Gewürtztraminer. I know what I'm having for dinner.
RIYL: Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Mayors of Miyazaki, Blood Brothers, Jawbox


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The Ukrainian Champions Dynamo Kiev before the close of the winter transfer window to sign a Latin American striker.
The Chilean press, referring to the Croatian newspaper "Sportske Novosti" reports about the interest of Kiev "Dynamo" to the 28-year-old forward of "Dinamo" of Zagreb's Junior Fernandes.
The source claims that representatives of the Ukrainian club has already contacted the Croatian colleagues for the transfer of Fernandez. Dinamo Zagreb wants to sell the player due to his high wage – in the capital of Croatia Chilean annually receives 900 thousand euros.
In addition to the Dynamo interest in the forward of the national team of Chile has a "Dynamo" from Moscow, however, Fernandez is unlikely to agree to go to the club not who plays in the elite division.
Fernandez in July 2012, over seven million euros transferred from "Universidad de Chile" in Leverkusen, but the German club played only 13 games, scoring one goal. In 2013, the year Bayer sent the Chilean to rent in Zagreb, and a year later the local "Dynamo" took the option of the buyout and signed with the Fernandez contract until 2020.
Junior Fernandes played in the Croatian Grand 147 matches (47 goals and 19 assists). Portal "Transfermarket" evaluates the player of 3.5 million euros.
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All the Monies to arise by Sale of the said Rents, . . . F1, under and by virtue of this Act, shall be paid into the Hands of the Receiver-general of the Revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster for the Time being, and his Successors; and that the Purchasers shall not be liable to fee to the Application thereof, but that the Receipts and Acquittances of the said Receiver-general for the said Monies, shall be a full Discharge to the Purchasers for the same; and the said Monies shall from Time to Time, as the same shall be paid in and received, be laid out, by the Order of the said Chancellor and Council, in the Purchase of three per Centum Bank Consolidated Annuities, or in any of the public Funds, transferrable at the Bank of England, in the Name of the Duchy of Lancaster;in which Name the Governor and Company of the Bank of England are hereby authorised and required to permit Transfers to be made of the said Annuities, Funds, or Stock, so purchased, and such Transfers to be accepted by the Receiver-general of the Revenues of the said Duchy for the Time being, who is hereby required to accept the same accordingly; and that all and every the Annuities, Fund, or Stock, to be so purchased and accepted, shall remain invested in the Name of the Duchy of Lancaster, and shall not be transferred, or transferrable, without the Authority of Parliament; but all the Interest of the said Annuities, Funds, and Stock, shall be from Time to Time paid, by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, unto the Receiver-general of the said Duchy for the Time being, and his Successors (whose Receipts shall be a sufficient Discharge for the same), as Parcel of the Revenues of the said Duchy, and shall be charged upon, and be answered and accounted for by him to the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, accordingly, subject to all such Charges, Incumbrances, and Outgoings, if any such there be (Taxes only excepted), as the said Rents now are, or would have been chargeable with or subject unto in case this Act had not been made.
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Bourdain travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals. Known for his curiosity, candor, and acerbic wit, Bourdain takes viewers off the beaten path of tourist destinations – including some war-torn parts of the world – and meets with a variety of local citizens to offer a window into their lifestyles, and occasionally communes with an internationally lauded chef on his journeys.
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Psychic medium Amy Allan and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi investigate locations that are reported to be haunted.
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I just saw my probation officer at the CCH and it's all good. She's supporting my petition for early release. She was kind of horrified by the place but I pointed out that for the first time in years I'm sleeping 8-10 hours a night which is awesome. There has been no discernible movement on any of my housing applications. I've been recommended for a peer counselor position at the clinic which would, if hired, allow me to get an apartment sometime in April.
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One of my most thoughtful and conscientious former students asked me what makes my parenting style unusual. We stumbled backward into what is known as attachment parenting, which is becoming less hippie and more hip, even though it is still counter-cultural in many parts of the US. Where we live in a blue-collar industrial region makes us even more unusual. We live this way because it is less about stuff and more about time and connection with the family. I've gone whole pregnancies without so much as a trip to Babies R Us or Motherhood Maternity, despite the way that magazines portray the bearing of children without these stores as near barbarism ;).
The most distilled explanation of our parenting philosophy is at this link. It's just brilliant and concise. The best point is that AP is not a rigid set of rules to follow or you'll screw up your kid. Instead, it is a starting place that each family can customize according to the needs of parents and children. I've seen people dive into every fringe aspect of AP/natural parenting wholeheartedly, only to burn out later.
I think it's best to start out with the 7 baby b's and add other holistic parenting elements as parents feel comfortable. Example: as much as they're good things on their own, it's probably not practical to simultaneously do ecological breastfeeding, elimination communication, co-sleeping with a whole family, all homemade meals from one's organic garden, line-drying all clothing, homeschooling for each child in the family and to expect to have a larger family. There has to be time that a mother does not have to live on high alert and have a child perpetually on her body, and she needs to maintain a loving relationship with her husband if they are to remain an effective team. I've seen mothers get very depressed or more than a little crazy trying to be Supermom, and that leads to a lot of unhealthy isolation. There's a lot of fear at the margins, both for attachment/natural parents and for their more mainstream fellow parents. These fears lead to irrational and unbalanced parenting, rather than a relaxed enjoyment of the blessings of home and family.
Here's how we got to be Attachment Parents---
Having been raised in a pretty authoritarian church environment, my husband and I had gotten the impression that babies were manipulative and sinful creatures, and parents needed to show them who was in charge.
However, every authoritarian/Babywise-type method we tried (briefly) felt like a betrayal of our little baby. We were naturally attachment parents without knowing it. When we moved to Notre Dame, we were suddenly in a Mecca for natural and attachment parenting. I spent time with moms who seemed comfortable in their own skin and avoided those who were critical or who knew how everyone else should raise their kids. We had another baby 18 months after the first, and our attachment parenting instincts were cemented, particularly after a very positive birth experience and an easier time nursing.
As the older two grew, I became more concerned about their diet and ours. Our scant food budget plus our health drove me toward bulk shopping and cooking from scratch. I learned about the health issues caused by many common food additives, and I resolved to do what I could to eliminate them. We also had some food allergies that made careful label reading essential.
By the time our daughter came, we were managing some behavior issues with our sons by diet, but we had a lot of work to do. I was blessed with an easy birth and great nursing with her. She was the only one so far who never slept in our bed or even in our room, which was a surprising adjustment for us. We added cloth diapering with her, which necessitated using biodegradable detergents and the elimination of fabric softener and dryer sheets. We began researching natural cleaning in an effort to get more toxins out of our home.
We continued to puzzle through the behavioral issues of our boys, which changed as they developed and grew, eventually figuring out that they do struggle with attention and impulsivity issues a bit more than is typical for little boys. Because we have tried to parent peacefully, we've kept communication open with them and are able to help them manage their behavioral concerns with diet and behavioral modification.
Now that we're welcoming #4, adding one more seems like no big deal. We probably won't try for any more, but we do feel that we have a responsibility to respect life and to honor God's sovereignty.
Most of our conclusions for our family are a reaction to the consumerist / medical / easy-fix ideas that are part of modern mainstream parenting culture, much of which is based on either an appeal to fear or to laziness. We refuse to be corporate sheep because we've seen corporations not take human health and safety seriously.
Disposable diapers contain toxins, formula can be tainted and can cause long-term health problems, baby containment systems (playpens) stunt emotional and intellectual growth, food additives exacerbate behavioral issues and cause immunity problems, chemical birth control harms our bodies and our shared water systems, and materialism teaches our children the wrong values. We have found that the most natural methods of living are the ones that work best for our family.
Although we can now afford to do more and spend more money, we generally choose not to. We don't want to be trapped by our possessions or to shuttle our children from place to place out of fear that they won't have as fun a childhood as their peers. We do what we can, take their input seriously, and make the most of our time together.
There's always someone underfoot in the crowded kitchen! Jedis, Nubby, Baby E, and the pitifully foolish Mutt keep life entertaining. Herein lies the chronicle of our life, at least what I can hastily thumb-type on my iPod while someone empties the toilet onto the floor. It's crunchy here, but mostly about having fun and being okay with not being perfect. God loves me anyway!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Attachment parenting post for someone who would be good at it!
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all right, there's my freak flag flying!ReplyDelete
Kelly, I learned lots of the good stuff from you!ReplyDelete
don't worry, there are plenty of us around here :) you're in good company as one of the local weirdos :)ReplyDelete
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and DeLuca discuss the videotaped decapitation of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl
as a synecdoche for the larger intersection of terrorism, nationalist
discourse, human bodies, and global media. The authors begin by discussing the
rhetorical features of terrorism, emphasizing first the way in which terrorism
is an interpretative term: "one person's terrorist is another's
freedom fighter, as the saying goes" (p. 307). In this section, the authors
argue that terrorism -- despite passing the threshold of violence -- is rhetorical
because of its staging of spectacles to generate publicity. Departing
from the overview of this article, I propose that we think carefully about whether
terrorism should be considered rhetorical and not simply symbolic. Either
way, the killing of Daniel Pearl resulted in a spectacle whose
reverberations continued long past his life.
Grindstaff and DeLuca then turn to an analysis of the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistan Sovereignty (NMRPS) whose members chose to murder Pearl after forcing him to "confess" to his Jewish ancestry. The authors write, "Pearl's confession announces the transformation of his body from an agent to a signifier of power" (p. 308). At this point, Grindstaff and DeLuca shift their focus to Pakistani media responses to the murder of an American Jew on their soil, noting how some newspapers condemned the killing without necessarily condemning the cause by which Pearl died.
The authors change course once more to discuss how Pearl's body became rearticulated in the United States. After all, "The agency that has been repeatedly stripped from the Pearl body must be re-invented and re-inscribed upon the body itself" (p. 312). Here, the authors cite articles and letters that defined Pearl as both an innocent in the vein of those who died in the 9/11 attacks and as a hero whose courage may be compared to that of firefighters or even soldiers. At once, Pearl -- who avoided polemics, according to Grindstaff and DeLuca -- becomes a symbol of American identity and a justification for vengeance.
The essay continues by noting how Pakistan also confronted challenges to its national identity in the wake of Pearl's murder. This raised many questions, including whether Pakistan should try the killers upon their capture or extradite them to the United States. In a larger sense, the uproar raised anew the question of whether Pakistan should serve as an ally in the U.S.-led War on Terror. Of particular note is the fact that two Pakistani children were murdered in the United States within days of Pearl's killing, with little apparent notice in our country: "The terrorizing of these Pakistani bodies . . . and their invisibility on the American and international public screens, exacerbates Pakistani anti-Americanism and complicates Pakistani national identity" (p. 316). Of course, Pakistan is not alone is seeking to define itself in light of tragic deaths.
Therefore, Grindstaff and DeLuca focus their last section on American nationalism following Pearl's murder, focusing on depictions of the killing. Questions raised include: Should the U.S. media guard the "border" of American popular culture by choosing not to show the video? Or should the media broadcast the video as a symbol of the difference between us and them? With these questions -- and the full essay -- the authors reveal how the human body can become a complex and contested terrain of meaning when it becomes distilled into a video image.
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Angel Affects Shining Bells Silks!
Angel Affects is a great store that pushes the edges of creativity with their fun and unique designs! Sure not everything is Gor-ish, but we find that most people that play in Gor, also play in other rp's! And if you're anything like me, I'm just addicted to my silks, so I wear them everywhere!! The Shining Bells silk features a pretty wrapped top, matching panty, and hip slung silk skirt with silver chain detail! The top also features a cute little string of silver slave bells! This is a very simple and pretty set. You won't be overwhelmed with accessories on this one, which makes plenty of room for all those cool little slave accessories that you have hiding in the bottom of your inventory! Colors available include: White, Red (pictured), and Black! L$450 per color set! And don't forget, they're rip scripted for added rp goodness!
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Great Northern Diary
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Late start
My first walk round Cuerden for the year was on Jan 10 a damp cloudy day. First check Scramble track Long tailed tits and fieldfare with the occasional crow and nearby in W13 siskin and goldfinch. Just across the path in Sue Ryder's field were 32 Canada geese and single white one. We then went to the lake which still had lots of ice. It didn't stop a male and female goosander fishing in the NE part, scores of mallard, a few coot, moorhen and a single Canada goose. A buzzard flew over which annoyed a great spotted woodpecker. Several molehills showed that at least one mammal is surviving the cold weather. A very quiet day
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Did you know that one camel dies from mistreatment and malnutrition every 7 seconds*? Did you know that by the time you finish reading this sentence, another camel will have perished at the hands of cruel camel captors? Did you know that dromedary camels are extinct in the wild?
The only camels left are used for transportation and entertainment.
Camels are made fun of. Laughed at. Spit at. Unrepresented. I was in a zoo gift shop the other day with a friend, browsing for camel-related items, and we could find nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was like camels didn't exist. Is it because camels smell bad**? Because they aren't marketable? Because they aren't conventionally beautiful?
This has to stop.
They deserve to be equal with the rest of the animal kingdom. This is the 21st century, for heaven's sake. They deserve to be adored, like penguins and tigers and pandas. If you have even the smallest amount of compassion, fight for camels. Fight for their right to be represented. Fight for their right to be loved.
Fight, and never stop fighting.
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A trainee of the American security company FireEye is suspected by the US government to develop and distribute Android malware. The 20-year-old man Dendroid the malware could have developed. With this malware, it is possible to infect Android devices and to control remotely. According to the indictment , the trainee would Dendroid-malware offered by the Darkode Forum, yesterday by the FBI offline was extracted.
The man is studying at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and was twice an intern at FireEye. There he was engaged in researching Android malware. In a statement to CNN FireEye confirms that the trainee is indeed indicted by US authorities and that his training has been discontinued for the time being. There is now an investigation into the activities of the man's place. According to CNN, there are concerns that the intern has compromised software FireEye and has the knowledge and tools of the company used to commit cyber crime.
Anti-virus firms Symantec and Trend Micro warned in the past for the Dendroid malware, which attackers full access to can get an Android device. Then data from the device can be stolen and it is possible to listen in on calls and take pictures.Dendroid was for a sum of $ 300 on forums offered for cyber criminals.