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Discussing the topic of Apple VS Android got me thinking, haven't I had this talk 1000 times before? The answer is yes, yes I have, I even wrote a blog post on it last year, which you can view here. But the real question is, how has my opinion changed over the last year?
Firstly I have not upgraded my phone at all so I am still sitting with the iPhone 4s, but this time with the added iOS 7 software, which one could argue is strangely similar to the android system.
Without personally owning and using an Android powered phone, I am unable to sway the comfort and simplicity that the iPhone brings. However, I have noticed quiet a drastic change in opinions on both the iPhone (iOS) and android.
What was once the coolest toy on the market Apple's iphone is slowly getting pushed out by Android as it gets more popular as Apple's sparkle wears off. As shown in the graph below this year alone shows Android's growing popularity as it exceeds Apple.
But what makes Android so fantastic in comparison to Apple? Well this article lists 25 things that make the iPhone look like a piece of crap when you compare it to the newer Androids. But what it all comes down to is the fact that Android is a generative platform, allowing users to have much more control over their device than those that operate on a locked platform such as the iPhone. The open technology of the Android makes almost anything possible, you can even use your phone as a security camera and access the live stream online or even run a web server. While these are both simple ideas the uses for Android phones are practically endless and if you have the knowledge and time you can do pretty much anything. However if you have an iPhone I am sorry to say that your dreams of programming it to do your every whim end here as Apple's locked system doesn't allow for any programming or alteration to their software.
However as mentioned in my previous Apple VS Android post this phone programming is not for everyone. If you're buying your 80 year old Grandmother an Android phone in hopes that she will discover a passion for phone programming you're probably on the wrong track. And while I don't normally like to compare myself to Grandmothers in this case we are almost exactly alike in our phone programming skills, and I am sure there are many people closer to my age who are less than enticed by the generative platform of the Android. Fortunately, for Apple this is a massive market that they have the ability to take control of.
Overall, the decision between Apple and Android will always be a hard one for me, as well as many other people; it does however seems that Apple is on the decline as Android races to pick up those who have fallen from the Apple bandwagon. Lastly I'll throw a question out to you guys, what type of phone do you use and why?
Haselton, T. 2013. Top 5 Android Smartphones (October 2013). TechnoBuffalo, (online) 11/10/2013, available at: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/10/11/top-5-android-smartphones-october-2013/ (accessed: 20/10/2013)


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ISSN 0165-0203 (Print); ISSN 1477-8947 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Putting the cart before the horse: Water governance and IWRM
pp. 1-8(8)
Lautze, Jonathan; de Silva, Sanjiv; Giordano, Mark; Sanford, Luke
Marine gold and atoll livelihoods: The rise and fall of the bêche-de-mer trade on Ontong Java, Solomon Islands
pp. 9-20(12)
Christensen, Andreas Egelund
Eco-efficiency, self-sufficiency and sustainability in transport: The limits for Brazilian sugarcane ethanol policy
pp. 21-31(11)
Wells, Peter; Faro, Thaisa
Sustainability under siege: Transport costs and corruption on West Africa's trade corridors
pp. 32-48(17)
Bromley, Daniel; Foltz, Jeremy
Projections of highway vehicle population, energy demand, and CO2 emissions in India to 2040
pp. 49-62(14)
Arora, Salil; Vyas, Anant; Johnson, Larry R.
"Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing policy discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development?"
pp. 63-72(10)
Fulai, Sheng; Flomenhoft, Gary; Downs, Timothy J.; Grande-Ortiz, MaÁngeles; Graef, Dana; Scholtens, Bert; Mol, Arthur P.J.; Sonnenfeld, David A.; Spaargaren, Gert; Goel, Rajeev K.; Hsieh, Edward W.T.; Scrieciu, Serban; Steurer, Reinhard; Polzin, Christine; Kostka, Genia; Ancev, Tiho; Pirgmaier, Elke; Boons, Frank; Robèrt, Karl-Henrik; Bryant, Christopher; Zhou, Ke; Acharya, Surya Raj; Huberman, David; Sonwa, Denis J.; Mycoo, Michelle; Guan, Dabo; Hubacek, Klaus; Sumaila, U. Rashid; Lopez-Ruiz, Hector G.; Jolley, G. Jason; Dougherty, Michael L.; Pilon, André Francisco; Prakash, Ravi; Tambunan, Tulus; Hermann, Sebastian
Markets, Marketing and Developing Countries: Where We Stand and Where We are Heading – Edited by Hans van Trijp and Paul Ingenbleek
pp. 73-74(2)
Yujuico, Emmanuel
Water Policy in the Netherlands: Integrated Management in a Densely Populated Delta – Edited by Stijn Reinhard and Henk Folmer
pp. 74-75(2)
Mostert, Erik
Call for Papers
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We have a gaming site where the node creation date is irrelevant to the user as they only see it once it is published by our moderators.
Surprisingly, there is no "published on" date in the original Drupal database, so the Views can only sort by the mysterious "created on" date.
As I didn't want to hammer this problemmette away with the formidable Scheduler module, here's a quick fix.
Get the Rules module and add this triggered rule:
- After updating existing content
- Conditions: updated content type fits, NEGATE "unchanged content is published", "changed content is published"
- Custom PHP action:
$node->created = time();
return array("node" => $node);
Seems to work just fine.
Now I can use the "posted on" date in Views to display the games in a logical manner. Too bad there is no way to do this retroactively.
Here's my Rules screen shot:
And a related article: http://drupal.org/nyobserver.


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Olympic Torch passed by this morning…
The Olympic torch ran right outside of our house this morning (down the Huntingdon Road in Cambridge). Was all a quick blur and to be honest really not worth getting up for at 7am. It all felt very corporate and really just an excuse to promote Coke and Samsung. There were so many support vehicles. I hate to think how much that is costing and how much pollution that is being unnecessarily produced… but here is the torch..
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The Soupista, Week 1: Pumpkin Soup
My friend Jen is a world-traveling, ethnography-studying, Chinese-speaking, event-planning guru. She helps out in my office and helps keep me sane. She also happens to be an amazing cook who is good at feeding hordes of hungry grad students. I'm often lucky enough to be the recipient of her baking prowess (e.g., spice bread, a peanut butter-chocolate concoction called something like gobbeldy gook). But her skills extend far beyond baking: combining her master-level organizing ability with her love of cooking, she's put together a rotating dinner club that has been feeding hungry grad students for over a year. This autumn, she's given herself the challenge of creating a soup a week. We'll be lucky enough to read about the process, and acquire some delicious recipes perfectly suited for the crisper weather that's approaching.
The Soupista:
Even though we Chicagoans fought so hard for summer this year, the leaves are turning. The air is crisping up. Hats are emerging from their closet hibernation. It seems Old Humbug Autumn has finally picked his front and center seat at bingo and is staying there, dammit. As much as the autumn makes us Windy City wayfarers wary of the crippling weather to come, along with the begrudgingly conceding sigh of fall also comes the best of the season's edible bounty.
Tart, orchard-fresh apples. Lumpy little pumpkins. Squash, gourds, the beginning of winter greens. Soup. Ah, soup. There are so many reasons for loving soup. And if you, reader, are a frequenter of this or any food blog, then there is no reason for me to stew about this oh-so-beloved food form. But do let me, in my best Campbell's impression, condense it for you: Soup can be reasonably healthy, seasonal, filling, and cheap.
I live in an apartment with four other people. We're graduate students, so naturally we're poor and starving. We originally met when I organized a dinner club with about ten other people. After some very humble beginnings and a nightly charge of making enough food for a hungry dozen, we're now down to five in an off-campus apartment. We've cooked together almost every day for a year now. Aw. Since our group's inception, friendships and an even deeper love of food have blossomed. And the stakes, I admit it, have been raised. We take turns cooking each night. I do Mondays and have decided to throw down my gazpacho soaked gauntlet (aka my oven mitt) and challenge myself to a quarter-long weekly souping; that is ten weeks of creating one concoction that is made with fresh, inexpensive ingredients; stands alone as the main part of a complete meal; and doesn't make roommates so ticked off at "Soup? AGAIN?" that they bludgeon this aspiring soupista to death with her own ladle.
My main goals are to keep the quality up and the price down—under $20 for the total meal per week. This really isn't too hard to do. Thankfully, I live near an (amazing and) cheap produce store and luckily don't have a taste for things like truffle oil or diamond paste, or whatever the kids are rubbing on their solid gold lobsters these days.
In honor of fall and leaves and all that crap, I decided to start this week with Pumpkin Soup. We all went to an orchard over the weekend and hand-picked apples—one of which is used in this recipe. We also got, like, literally two dozen pumpkin donuts—only one of which is still hanging around.
Anyway. This simple soup is pulverized with an immersion blender until smooth and is only made more delicious with the addition of heavy cream. Yum. It was great because I got to throw in the orchard apple and bought the most adorable little pumpkin that I had ever seen…which I then hacked into bits.
I served this with crusty sourdough and a herb/green salad. Everyone liked it. And if not, they were good friends and kept their mouths shut.
Pumpkin Soup
Adapted from an allrecipes.com post 2
1 lb. baking pumpkin, peeled seeded and cubed *don't forget to save, clean, and roast the seeds for snacks and garnish!
1.5 c. coarsely chopped carrots
1 lg. onion, cut into large pieces
1 lg. or 2 sm. tart apples
1 lg. potato, peeled and cut into bit-sized pieces
3 lg. garlic cloves, rougly chopped
4 c. chicken or veggie stock
1 c. heavy cream
1 1/2 tsp. nutmeg or allspice salt, garam masala, black pepper, and/or cayenne to taste
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place cut up vegetables in baking dish. Sprinkle with garam masala or allspice. Pour in about ¼ C chicken stock and stir with spoon to evenly coat vegetables with spices. Roast, covered, for 20-30 minutes until carrot and potato are tender, but not blackened.
Transfer vegetables to dutch oven or large soup pot. Pour in remainder of chicken stock. Pulverzie with an immersion hand blender (or food processor) until thick and smooth. Stir in spices to taste. Let simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes. Add cream, stir, and let simmer for 5 more minutes. Serve with a dollop of extra cream and roasted seeds for garnish. Enjoy!


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CLDP to Support MEDT Delegation to the GPA Committee Meeting in Geneva
CLDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine and the Ministry of Agriculture, supported the travel of the Government of Ukraine (GOU) delegation to the GPA Committee Meeting took place on June 19-21, 2017, at WTO Secretariat, Geneva. The GOU delegation consisted of two Ministry of Economic Development and Trade officials. They attended the GPA Committee meeting and participate in bilateral negotiations with the U.S. and other delegations.
The GOU participation in the GPA Committee Meeting will ensure Ukraine has a more active role on issues critical to Ukraine's trade sector; it effectively accomplishes the procedural requirements, carries out the negotiations, and provides answers to questions posed by GPA Committee members, including the United States.


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Here are my blocks for this week. I chose the appliqué the melons on both square blocks. There has been some discussion on quiltingboard.com about using reverse appliqué, but for these blocks I do not prefer it. The main reason is that the elements are designed to touch. When using reverse appliqué I would need to leave a bridge between each melon to allow for the turned under seam allowance. The points could never match like they do in these pictures, at least the way I execute the technique.
I chose to modify my triangle from the published pattern. The original Jane quilt has a skinny border around the edge of this tri. I decided to eliminate it and extend the seams a tad to compensate and get size. Since I plan to use solid white tris between each pieced one, I did not need the visual boundary and eliminated a few pieces. As I look at the quilt, I anticipate doing this to suit my design/assembly style, and I am ok to not create a faithful reproduction.
Tomorrow is the next release of JT2 which will coincide with my trip to the local courthouse for jury duty. I know I cannot work on pieces in the jury box, but I really want to have something to occupy my hands for the down times. The timing of the release could not be better. I have sew all my kitted Jane blocks, so I hope to cut a batch while cutting JT2.
In the meantime, I have started hand quilting the baby top I referenced two weeks ago. But that update is for another post.


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Walk don't jig – Tallis Steelyard
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Come to grief – Tallis Steelyard
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spirituality, communality, lets look and see the words that be. come to thee, from thee. out to thee.
Kabuki dance Kabuki sing, drama queen or reality in between. Dance Drama Dance.
Sing drama sing. Thoughts in between. Smile forrrr me. Let me be. Thou shaw see.
lets enjoy this, lets celebrate this. commonalty and sensuality.
no religion needs to be, just celebration of the spiritual essence inside of thee. LET IT SHINE! KNOW THAT IT IS MINE! it is yours, it is ours. Nothing belongs to everyone, everyone belongs to nothing. Truth is here always and forever. Your It, Your It. Sing it proudly know it loudly, let the thoughts be, accept that which you see know it is not thee. Pointing back to source you are, to allow your selves to see that mystery that rests within thee. MANIFEST REALITY, HERE NOW , HERE NOW, HERE NOW, HERE NOW BE HERE NOW. CRY THE TEARS!!! CRY THE TEARS! release the emotion, release the unneeded allow that which you are to be. Let the words point. Don't define them, dont let them define you.
STS9 until the end of time, resonating that in you which is eternally divine. Know within yourself tree of of life, flower of life. YOUR IT YOUR IT. allow it allow it allow it. DONT LISTEN TO THE WORDS< LET THEM POINT ! let them point let them be....
Reality doesn't sleep. Always in motions, yes that of the ocean, but not of water you see. The eternal energy that is you and me. Not resting to take time, but creating in energetic intertwine, potentiality... is this real or just consciousness all over again ? So real, it is you that is the only real thing, but thing you are not. everything/nothing perfect balance. Who am I? what is this? who cares. It LOVES ITSELF UNCONDITIONALLY. I LOVE YOU, for you are me. That which is you i see in me. Know this journey will always be, until truth be told and set you free. Jesus, Samadhi, Krishna, Maharaji. Buddha, Ghandi all in the same family, here for humanity, CANT YOU SEE.!! no separation, not crazy just out of mind where one should be!. lets be lets be always in this reality. I'm done, will never be done. Always creating the reality that which will always be. Help me raise the frequency. So our family and friends can come with us to the next reality! noone left behind NOONE LEFT BEHIND!!!!! : ( turn it up side down : ) paradigm shift. HERE NOW.
I love you, eternally grateful for being, here now. to give life to itself. that which has always done, been, and forever will be. .
Thank you for seeing yourself in me. Thank you for allowing this reality to be.
Here for me? only selfishly. no desire for me can you see? all about you and this divine reality.
Namaste...... What is Love >Your It> This Us.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Transiton Here Now
as I gaze into Maya
I feel Life itself.
The presence of God
shines light upon the unknown
Feel it, Breath it in.
as I gaze into Maya
I feel Life itself.
The presence of God
shines light upon the unknown
Feel it, Breath it in.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
STS9 has announced the new tour dates, and look like we've got ourselves a lil run : )
Music Farm
Charleston, SC
Music Farm
Charleston, SC
The Fillmore
Charlotte, NC
The Fillmore
Charlotte, NC
The NorVa
Norfolk, VA
The NorVa
Norfolk, VA
The National
Richmond, VA
The National
Richmond, VA
9:30 Club
Washington, DC
9:30 Club
Washington, DC
Not to mention their celebrating 1.01.11 after the 3 night new years run... :)
Yeup, shits gettin real... REALLY Real. : ) Mmmmmmmm
the universe is universing the way as it should..
I never lost hope, never will. Namaste
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
As telecommunications companies bundle services, work from home can become more complicated
Many employers offer work-from-home arrangements which may involve some mix of using equipment or laptop computers offered by the employer, in combination with the worker's home utility arrangement. Security and compatibility issues may become more complicated.
The most efficient method of online access for an employer to offer now may well be cellular wireless. A laptop so equipped generally won't be able to pick up other MiFi or home wireless signals, which may be required for security. If, however, for some reason the cellular service fails, the employer might expect to be able to use the employee's own cable or broadband, without wireless. Many providers are converting customers to home wireless networks. However, I am told that a home wireless router like Netgear may still be plugged in to the Ethernet port on the work laptop, simulating direct cable access without wireless, without disrupting the home Internet connection.
Many telecommunications companies are offering digital voice phone, which must go through the same modem (for example Arris) that provides Internet access. (In addition, the modem needs to be hooked up correctly with any home security system with external monitoring, as by ADT.) Generally, if the employer wants to use old-style "90s" 56-K telephone modem (as used to be used for AOL) as a backup, I'm told that will no longer work.
Companies like Alpine and LiveOps, which require employees or contractors to provide their own computers, say that digital voice phones at home are OK, but not Skype. Some companies say that Voice over Internet Protocol is not acceptable whereas Digital Voice is, which sounds like a contradiction (Wkipedia describes them as the same). In any case, the employee would have to provide modems compatible with her service. The employee is required to maintain anti-virus software and at least Windows Firewall. Some anti-virus packages can be prone to problems that may be beyond the ability of the employee to fix.
Employers using employee computers and Internet connections need to be mindful of requirements to protect customer PII (Personal Identifying Information), which is becoming more complicated with changing legislation or legal requirements, and technological complexity. But employers need to take heed that more telecommunications companies are bundling all services for lower prices, removing redundancies which may have provided more security and alternative operating environments in the past. For example, a digital phone depends on a modem having power, where as a conventional old phone line doesn't.
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Two photograph albums of N.R.R., containing photographs of scenes in England and Europe, late 19th century.
Given to the Library in 1966.Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 54224-5.
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Revisited – The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War in Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth, by William Clark, updated: Jan 2004
My God, why hasn't his been fully reported in the mainstream media, and why do I have to keep stumbling on this stuff with random clicking of links.
I fully blame the demise of any real Current Affair reporting, it's all tabloid journalism about unemployed welfare welchers and pregnant drug addicts, or feuding neighbours. What happened to real investigative journalism?


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Learning and Teaching Investment Fund 2013
Project Title
Indigenous Health: Respect for culture, responding to needs, readiness of engagement
Project Leader
Ms Sonja Cleary
Project Team
- Professor Eleanor Holroyd
- Dr Heather R Pisani
- Associate Professor Andrea Chester
- Ngemba Elder's Uncle Paul Gordon
- Dr Dein Vindigni
Project Summary
RMIT has an established commitment to the recognition of the first Australians and their contribution to the culture of the Australian nation. The School of Health Sciences has developed in 2012, a course in Indigenous Health to be introduced across the university commencing semester 2. 2013.
This project aims to develop a complementary Indigenous elective course based around a WIL cultural experience in Indigenous health. The team will investigate, develop and pilot an elective WIL experience course for a small number of health students in an indigenous community. This experience will support RMIT health students in their cultural awareness and sensitivities to the first Australians. This project will develop an opportunity for students to work with these indigenous communities to achieve their community and national health care goals. This project is in line with the RMIT mission of "work ready" graduates who can positively contribute to meeting the health needs of all Australians.


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The year was 2014. I was traveling with my family after vacations from Mumbai to Delhi. For the journey, my mom had purchased a packet of chips that looked something like this except that it was puffed up-
Mid-air, when we felt hungry, my mom asked me to open that packet. I tried with all my might yet could not open it. So, using my IQ, I approximated both the corners of the packet &
The packet opened up with such a loud sound that all the passengers were staring at me. My mom couldn't control her laughter and my bro started behaving as if he didn't know me. The guy sitting in front of me remarked
Boy was I embarrassed.
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The Loss of Camelot
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Friday will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As President, JFK brought to the United States a sense of hope we had never experienced before. Think about it. Up and until he took office the U.S. for generations had been in a battle to survive. From the depths of the depression in the 30's, World War in the 40's and recovery under President General Dwight D. Eisenhower, we the people had been tested in heat of adversity and pain.
We had proven ourselves the stronger for it. Coming together during WWII and assembling the finest war machine ever assembled. One, that not only beat Hitler, but also the Italian fascists and Japan. We did it with sure determination, sacrifice and grit. Kennedy symbolized the coming golden age of America. Camelot.
JFK appealed to all people. His youth, charm and good looks assured us that the ideal still existed and could be attained. He became our dream. Tall and rich he had a perfect wife and children. He was what the rest of us wanted to be. So we collectively dreamed through him much like a parent who sacrifices for their children lives through them.
Then the unthinkable happened. Within a few seconds our dream was taken from us causing a nation to mourn. That happened 50 years ago and we are still suffering from the effects. That one single event took the fairly tale kingdom of Camelot from a deserving people and smashed it in the dirt of reality. What happened next is still with us today.
We became cynics. We became fearful. After all if one lone gunman can take down the leader of the free world, who, if any of us was safe. We began locking our doors and our hearts. We became suspicious or everyone and the Cold War didn't help. We were told to rat out our neighbor's if they seemed "odd." We were told that the enemy was among us and to constantly be on guard and to not trust anyone. We experienced once again war, terrorist acts, hijackings, and more assassinations of our leaders. It was and still is a dark time for us. In one well place rifle shot, Lee Harvey Oswald did what the axis powers of WWII couldn't do. He broke our spirit as a nation.
Yet there still is hope. There is always hope. It lays with us the individual. We can turn the nation around by not being cynics any more. We can turn the corner by not participating in the division that is going on in this country today. We can change our attitude and how we treat one another. We have the control; we just need to take it. Much like our parents and grandparents before us we can face the enemy and conquer it. That enemy is cynicism.
John F. Kennedy had a lot of hope for this nation. He gave his life for his ideals. He had the vision of Camelot, of a nation at peace with not only the world but with itself. We too can have that vision and share it with one another once again. We can do whatever it takes to achieve that vision in our lifetime. We can do it from the bottom up. But we first have to look within ourselves and change who we are. From negative and fearful to positive and hopeful. Let your light shine and see what happens.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." JFK inaugural speech 1961
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Planning an orchard from square one is rather daunting as I look at the field today. I am not a farmer. I didn't grow up on a farm. I like eating good things. I appreciate fields. I am a writer. I grew up in a family that certainly read. My father wrote columns for various newspapers in Colorado under the pen name "Big Mama World". That's as close as I come to a genetic understanding of writing. It wasn't really the formation of a writer who would naturally choose to envision a huge project.
As I research the metaphor of planting peaches I discover clues that might help me to write a project that will have a life of its own. Apparently, starting an orchard requires as much planning as writing a screenplay, or a series of screenplays require. I'm intimidated, but curious about both. Remembering this is likely a mistake, that will become a brick on my yellow brick road is tentatively soothing.
One thing that most new screenwriters fall into thinking is that they'll write a script in a few weeks, send it off and it will be bought, of course, and be in the movie theaters next year. Error! At least, I've been in the business long enough to understand that writing a script itself takes a year, and seeing it become an actual film can take a minimum of three years, and as many as ten years, if ever at all. Turns out, the same thing with orchards! So you have to have in place a long-term plan where you can survive the interim years while the orchard is maturing to a state of fruition.
For me, the comfortable amount of time to develop the kinds of stories I want to develop and write them and see them bear fruit feels like a decade. A decade??? Geez. How can that be? But, it is true. I don't really expect to see the fullness of my work expressed for 10 years. There may be initial crops in three to five years, but the full production of what I envision will take a decade at least. And, when I envision where I want to be in a decade, sitting in a mature orchard seems right.
The things I will look at in my long-term, decade long plan, are:
What is the market these days for both publishing and the movie industry? (If there is no market for fruit, guess what the farmer has to do? EAT IT!)
Who are my consumers? What are they interested in?
What can I do to improve the conditions of my fields (my creative quotient, my space, my time) so that the orchard (the new franchise) has the best possibility of growing?
How are my finances situated to support a long-term endeavor like this? What can I do to shore that up without endangering the entire project?
How can I get better equipment (new laptop, new printer, new software) to work this orchard?
Then eventually I have to look at the trees that I'll plant and their needs. I'll need to understand varieties and rootstocks that are available to me as a writer.
For writing the pollination of a project is getting it from manuscript/script form to published and produced. I don't want to plant show trees, that bloom and bloom and never produce the messy fruit. I want the messy fruit, and so I will need collaborators including agent(s), lawyers, editor(s), proofreader(s) and even mentor(s) who have some experience with this kind of project. Lots of busy bees to at some point add to the solitary writer's life.
I'll be picking these details apart in the next few months I imagine. Stay tuned if you're interested in the process...;)


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It felt like summer when I left my house in Houston. I don't like it when it feels like summer in the middle of February, but that's what I get for living in Houston. I was happy to be off to Calgary, a little taste of winter for my 20 hours in the land of Canada. In the real summer, I escape to South America for their winter. Snow birds leave the cold of the northern part of America and head south. I'm Penguin. I enjoy going north for the cold. For just a bit, any way.
The first thing I
noticed about the tall young man walking down the aisle was that he
was wearing shorts. He was in his twenties, handsome round face under
what could have been a military hair cut, those little athletic socks
that are barely visible inside his sports shoes and a nice gray
sweater. As I said hello to him, he stopped and asked me about first
class. He noticed there were a few open seats and had hoped to get an
upgrade. I had a strong suspicion that he was not high enough up on
that list to get one of the open seats. I reminded him that we were
still boarding (in fact, we were still quite early in the boarding
process) and that the agent would come upgrade anyone who was already
seated in the back. For good measure, I asked where he was seated,
just in case (wink, wink).
|Penguin free-falling
As it turned out, he was seated in the very last row. I always hate to see the taller ones getting seats in the last row. The seats don't recline much and in the back of the plane there are a few inches less between the seats than in the front of the plane which makes it tough on long legs, and one thing you don't want is to have a pushy flight attendant driving home the fact that the aisle space is ours and the seat space is yours, 'so stay out of our space!' It happens. Were there open seats, I'd consider asking if he'd like to upgrade.
I used one of my favorite lines when hearing that someone is in the last row, "If you were any further back we'd have to put you to work!" He laughed and thanked me for all the information on first class and sulked to the rear of the plane.
Later, he wondered how long I had been flying. I answered and asked if he was interested in working for the airlines. He informed me that he used to be a customer service agent for a Canadian airline and that he still had a few friends who were flight attendants. We struck up a conversation and I got a thrill from hearing that he had sponsors for his skydiving!
|Suiting up with my instructor
"Oh, I LOVE to skydive. Well, it's been about 16 years since I've done so, but I've done it a couple of times and it was one of the greatest thrills of my life," I told him.
I'll never forget the experience. I had driven out to Delaware with a customer friend from the Harley-Davidson dealership I managed. After a quick class, we took off in an airplane and leveled off around 9,000 feet. People often tell me they would never jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I respond with, "You didn't see the airplane from which I jumped!" It was a perfectly fine plane, but it was older, stripped of any seats and had seen many flights. Most people would have been leery to take off in that plane.
As we climbed, the instructor got ready and directed me to stoop in front of him. He connected our harnesses and together we scooted to the door. When it opened, I was just a few inches from the edge. I looked down at the ground. A sudden thought came to mind...there is nothing between me and the ground but 9,000 feet of air. I should be terrified, but I wasn't. There was very little time to obsess over the situation. I felt the tap on my right shoulder; the one that meant it was time to leave the airplane.
I tumbled out and we rolled a few times. I went into the free fall position I had been instructed to go into; legs spread with my soles to the sky, arms out and elbows at 90 degrees like I was being arrested, back arched, head down. Down we went. I was in love. I had expected to feel much like one does when on a roller coaster and the stomach drops. There was none of that. It was just a roll out of the plane and a feeling of weightlessness. Save the intense rush of air that flapped the skin on my face like a flag, there was no sensation of falling. I was flying!
All too soon, I received the second tap and the parachute opened up above us. Now there was silence as we gracefully floated towards the airport from which we had alighted just a few minutes prior. My instructor was a humorous man with white hair and he made a few jokes and then informed me that one of his 'things' was to serenade his students. He sang a song that thankfully only lasted a few seconds. For the most part, he just let me enjoy the fall, with the ruffling of the nylon chute over head. I...was...in...heaven!
Landing was simple and disappointing, that my time in the air was over. I loved the fall; so much so that I repeated the experience a few months later in Maryland from 11,000 feet. This instructor let me pull the chord to release the chute, which is supposedly a big deal.
My new friend in the last row going to Canada introduced himself to me; Eric. He showed me a video on his phone of a jump he had made with a few friends. It was a great video and showed them floating through clouds on their way to the ground, grabbing the feet of the their friends, and falling feet first instead of stomach first. Eric eventually wants to train for BASE jumping and will soon begin training for a flight suit. If only I were I young again!
For me, the chance to go skydiving was one of the greatest thrills I have enjoyed in life. There is nothing to compare with falling free and then floating under canopy. If you ever get the chance, don't miss out.
As the passengers began to gather their belongings and enter the Calgary terminal, my flying partner asked me if it was cold outside. "Well, judging from Eric's shorts, I'd say no." He looked over and laughed and told me his girlfriend would be waiting outside with the car warmed up for him. Good thing, as a blast of cold air hit as we left the airport and I was happy to have my warm clothes...and my memories of falling from he sky.


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This is on Arches 300gm (good old 300gm) Cold Pressed and is 380 x 560mm.
Well no one can accuse me of not practicing. I have 11 points to get through and have them typed up – though some are still too sketchy and I kind of waffled a bit in places. It is very hard to focus on drawing and talk about the similarity between a value sketch and a plan. But I did a little value sketch and I did the drawing on paper as I spoke and I stopped to consult my notes.
And the whole presentation took 1 hour 9 minutes and 23 seconds – from "Good Evening…" to "Thank you and good night".
Don't you love the sky? And see how I have simplified the sea?
But it is quite tense. I have to fill out my notes and make them a whole lot easier to read while I do the practices.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y -- Several students in the White Plains Central School District were honored in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition.
The program recognizes individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
Madeleine Beck and Andrew Smiley were named Semifinalists.
Approximately 16,000 semifinalists were named nationally -- less than one percent of U. S. high school seniors – who will continue in the competition to advance to finalist level and compete for about 8,300 scholarships worth a total of more than $34 million.
Commended Students are Gabriella Alexandrou, Isabelle Hofgaertner, Raina Kadavil, Michelle Krug, Robert Lovitch and Jarrett Sannerud.
In the National Achievement Scholarship Program, which provides recognition for outstanding black American high school students, Kayla Smith was named a semifinalist and Olivia Powell was named Outstanding Participant.
Three students were named National Hispanic Recognition Scholars: Juan Rodas, Liliana Santizo DeLeon and Fernando Villagra.
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Hi there
Last weekend we were at Liberty in Avondale. Trent had asked Rob to come and share the message "The Power of Honour". This is a key message for this time in our nation.
It was a great time with many people being ministered to deeply for wounds relating to not being honoured but it was also a time where God challenged us all to honour our leaders – parents, pastors (past & present) as honour carries with it a blessing – to live a long and healthy life.
Dishonour on the other hand always leads to disillusionment and a bitter root planting itself in our life. This is particularly important when it comes to authority figures. If we dishonour one leader (without dealing with it) it automatically says to our heart that every other leader we come across is open for dishonour too. And it won't be long before we dishonour them as well. (It might not happen overnight but it will happen). How do I know this? Because I've done it of course and had to repent, forgive, get healing and deliverance.
But it will also set you up to dishonour God. And when we dishonour God he cannot be to us who we need him to be. At a time when the church in our nation is crying out for God to be God in our midst so often he cannot. Why? Because our personal life and our corporate life as a church has not given him the honour he deserves and so he cannot be God to us like we cry out for. You see honour releases someone to "be all they are" to you (in context of your relationship with them). Dishonour shuts that down.
It's time to repent church for the way we have dishonoured God whether willingly or unknowingly by just going with the flow. We get upset when we talk about the way the Germans dishonoured the Jews and what that led to but we don't realise that our dishonouring of God has had the same effect. We have unwittingly allowed his presence to be wiped out in many of our churches across the nation.
I remember not so long ago talking to a man (in leadership) from a church here in Auck. He was saying that it really saddened him that his child was twelve and had never seen the manifest presence of God in their church. Like the Germans he gave up trying to say anything – it was easier not to- and so now there is very little evidence on a Sunday in the meetings of the presence of God. The meetings run smoothly though like a well oiled clock, everything is in it's place and on time. And a child grows up not knowing the real God his parents serve, just a church moulded copy of the real thing.
Of course that says nothing about their home life which could be entirely different but I somehow wonder whether that would be the case or not.
And all the time the world is waiting for the church to truly be the representatives of God we claim to be. Let's sort it out Church there is work for us to do hand in hand with the Father whose love is waiting to be poured out on a hurting world. Let's get out there and show them who God really is and the place to start is by giving Him the honour he so richly deserves.
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The Postgrad Agenda lives on! My six month hiatus was the result of a summer jam-packed with preparations for graduate school, (which began in August), and school itself (which initially consumed me). My life since then has been a series of new and exciting experiences, and I do not doubt that more await!
…and so begins season two of The Postgrad Agenda.
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Vektor is on the short list of up-and-coming Phoenix metal bands, and they totally deserve the recognition they've received. Their sound can be described as technical/progressive thrash metal with loads of old-school influence. But listening to it is a lot more fun than piling genre tags together to describe it. The one thing that might throw a new listener are the vocals. Give them a while and you might start to appreciate them. If nothing else, just listen to Forests of Legend for its sheer musicianship. It's solid gold (hidden in a magical cauldron in a land of mist and shadows)!
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Psalm 55:22, "Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you"
The author of this song, I have chosen for you today, is Luther B. Bridgers, born February 14, 1884, in Margaretville, North Carolina. He attended Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky and was ordained a Methodist minister. Wherever the Lord led him, since the age of seventeen, he had been a zealous preacher of the gospel, calling others to put their faith in Christ. He fell in love with a very beautiful Kentucky girl and after a romantic courtship, they married. As the years flowed by, God gave the happy couple three little boys. One morning in 1910, Luther Bridgers left home to conduct some gospel meetings in another town. Looking back over his shoulder, he saw his wife standing at the gate with the baby in her arms and a boy on each side. All were blowing kisses to Daddy as he headed for the train. Two weeks later he was awakened by a phone call and was informed that his house caught fire and his wife and three children died in the fire. He stood in shattered silence, holding the receiver.
He said it seemed to him the devil was laughing at him and saying, "God doesn't love you. Are you going to worship a God like that?" But Pastor Bridgers dropped to his knees by the telephone and prayed, "Lord, I have preached the gospel to other people, and told them it would comfort them in every hour of sorrow. Grant that this same gospel may comfort me." And the Lord answered his prayer. God gave a new song called "He Keeps Me Singing", born out of a deeper love for the Lord. Pastor Bridgers served as an evangelist in the American South and in mission work in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. He pastored in Georgia and North Carolina before retiring in 1945 in Gainesville, Georgia. He died on May 27, 1948, and is buried in the Alta Vista cemetery, Gainesville, Georgia. My brethren, I sincerely trust you will thoroughly enjoy and digest the words to yet another great hymn which is seldom sung in churches today:
He Keeps Me Singing
There's within my heart a melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low,
Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still,
In all of life's ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife,
Discord filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings,
Stirred the slumb'ring chords again.
Feasting on the riches of His grace,
Resting 'neath His shelt'ring wing,
Always looking on His smiling face,
That is why I shout and sing.
Though sometimes He leads through waters deep,
Trials fall across the way,
Though sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
See His footprints all the way.
Soon He's coming back to welcome me,
Far beyond the starry sky;
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown,
I shall reign with Him on high.
Further reflection:
God's love for us is so deep that we have a hard time comprehending it. It reaches down to us through the darkness of this sinful world, even though we are hopelessly undeserving. The Bible says that before God created our planet, He had decided to display the depth of His love for us through His Son's death on the cross (1 Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:8). Because of God's great love, the Son came to earth and was slain. On Calvary He died to pay the penalty for our sins. In John 3:16 we read, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." I will conclude with these sobering questions:
(1) What is your response to God's love?
(2) Have you confessed your sin and accepted His forgiveness?
(3) If you have, are you living in thankful obedience to Him?
Remember that eternal life is only made possible by God's Eternal Love.


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Ok, you maybe noticed that I use too much the word 'efficient'.
What tool is efficient?
The one what does the job within your and your client's specifications the most effectively.
And here we go again: which car is better?
A Porsche or a Hummer?
On the asphalt or in the desert?
Should we count in the price of the fuel?
And the insurance and taxes?
The survival rate in case of an accident?
And so on…
This is why I try to specify the 'effectiveness' of a tool within limits, within a specific work-flow and for a specific task.
Lets take a look on a typical archviz work-flow for rendered stills:
1. Planning & Preparing
(estimating required time, tools, recognizing 'hidden' relations, guessing the optimal work-flow in mind,
setting up the 'real' pipeline, converting input files, etc.)
2. Modeling
(creating the objects, UV mapping, setting up the scene geometry, etc.)
3. Assigning materials/shaders and setting up lighting
4. Rendering
5. Post-processing rendered images if needed
(compositing, color adjustments, etc).
6. Archiving
Of course it is a flexible work-flow and sometimes the order of the steps not just could be, but must be changed.
Most of the times the architects or the agencies asking for 'draft' versions of the images or a 'mass' model of the 3D scene.
Sometimes they need 2D floor plans or CAD data files of the model, too.
The only reason I wrote it down to make it clear: efficiency means the overall speed of the work-flow in archviz, what results the expected quality.
So looking for the 'optimal' is not always easy.
Maybe using package 'A' cause a 20% efficiency loss in modeling and texturing compared to package 'B', but when it comes to rendering, it works 10 times faster than package 'B'.
So the overall efficiency is better.
So what is the solution?
The 'standard' solution is mixing tools in the pipeline.
Of course it results a performance loss overall (importing/exporting/adaptation time of the users, price factor of multiple apps), but at the end it is more efficient than the single package work-flow, so it wins.
Is it the optimal solution?
Definitely not.
The optimal solution is integrating the best implementations of the tools into one, very powerful package.
So why developers don't do this?
It has multiple reasons:
1. 'Intellectual property' problems
(In general the handling of intellectual property sucks in capitalism and it is also contra-productive, especially in the USA.)
2. Fear from loosing actual user base
(really stupid way of thinking; people adapt to better solutions really fast)
3. Maximizing profit
(they don't want to spend money on developers if it is not a need. Look at small app developers: in their cases the next version of an app contains more useful new features, not just bugfixing and marketing features)
4. Face loosing – Coorporate pride
(in a world where everyone states that his product is the best, implementing a better solution what comes from others is a proof for being wrong formerly or for a lie. Actually, this point always reminds me for Steve Ballmer from Microsoft 🙂
5. Hidden relations
(it is both true for free projects and for companies like Apple: people are emotionally related to their tools (even if they are far not the bests), because it gives them the feeling: 'we are different')
So, the first step to make the ultimate tool for the ultimate work-flow is to learn more tools, identify the expectations and get someone to integrate it.
Because I'm not a programmer, I try to help Blender community in the first 2 points, just like I did it formerly for various developers.


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The Finance Industry Continues the Push to the Cloud
Gartner recently surveyed over 400 global senior financial executives between January and March 2017 and asked about their technology priorities, relationship with IT, and future investments. The survey revealed that by 2020 over a third (36%) of companies will use the cloud to support over half of their transactional systems of record. Further, according to Goldman Sachs, both machine learning and AI will drive $34 — $43B annually of "cost savings and new revenue opportunities" by 2025 across the financial sector. These new technologies will help to optimize trade opportunities, reduce credit risk and lower overall compliance and regulatory costs.
But what do we mean when we say the "cloud?" The cloud, much like the finance industry at times, can seem abstract, as there is often no tangible product. The cloud as we look at it can be public (essentially the Internet – and those providers include AWS, Google, Azure, etc.); private (those cloud architectures typically owned by enterprise clients to leverage the capabilities of the cloud while maintaining control); hybrid (using private for the most part but extending to the public cloud if peak demand requires it); or multi-cloud (today this typically refers to using both an AWS and Azure for example to avoid downtime or data loss). Financial organizations typically use private clouds to ensure security but reap the benefits of the cloud such as flexibility in deploying an application, scalability and provisioning. Working with SoftwareONE many financial organizations are able to avoid purchasing additional servers, networking equipment, and storage and instead focus on developing applications to be deployed to the cloud that helps their clients, their employees and the bottom line of the organization. In addition, the cloud helps to level the playing field for everyone, including the finance industry.
What does the cloud bring to most industries?
The cloud brings to most industries:
- The lack of barriers – globalization becomes more of a realization when infrastructure is no longer an obstacle
- Automation – what you once needed industry expertise for can now be shifted to those more strategic projects while the traditional IT systems can now be monitored via applications
- Cost savings – once you have the tools in place to monitor how the cloud is being utilized it can bring cost savings to nearly every organization. No longer beholden to lengthy contracts you can pay as you go (but monitoring this is a must)
What should organizations be aware of when instituting a cloud strategy?
The cloud is not going away, it is only becoming more prevalent. However, there are factors that organizations need to be aware of when instituting a cloud strategy, including:
- Becoming even more cognizant of security. Whether, private, public or somewhere in between, the cloud needs to be monitored as closely, if not more so, than on-premises. However, the fine line is that one cannot have this security at the expense of the consumer experience. Big banks, hedge funds, and asset management firms, obviously need to secure customer data, but not at the expense of the customer experience.
- Cost – yes, there are cost savings when moving part or all of your IT strategy to the cloud, however, there is also the chance for rogue IT as well. Heads of various departments with a business reason, access to a company credit card and the knowledge to try a certain cloud application to make their life, and their department's life, easier is not an uncommon scenario. The fine print typically however outlines overages, additional charges, etc. that may not be 100% transparent. The culture needs to remain open so that departments feel new technology is possible if the cost and budget align.
The finance industry is beginning to embrace the cloud and we are all curious to see where such an innovative industry will take the cloud next.


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- Make and post a timeline working out: what time dishes need to come out of the fridge, go into the oven, etc.
- Plan on offering some appetizers, especially ones that don't require heating. This may keep folks out of the kitchen while you're putting the final touches on everything. Pita Chips with Sweet Potato Mash and Smoked Almonds is a good choice.
Or, enlist a helper to assemble Prosciutto, Brie and Apricot Wraps.
- Green vegetables should make several appearances on your menu. Here are a few of our favorites: Thanksgiving Green Salad Swiss Chard with Shallots Warm Millet Salad with Brussels Sprouts, Creamed Mushrooms and Sage
- Looking for a change from your usual mashed potatoes or candied sweet potatoes? Consider one of these variations: Creamy Mashed Potatoes and Parsnips Celery Root and Potato Gratin Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Macadamia Nuts Coconut Marshmallow Spiced Sweet Potatoes
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Easy Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
Buttermilk Pull-Apart Rolls
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Pumpkin Apple Pie
Jasmine Tea Poached Pears
Maple and Walnut Applesauce Cake
- Be sure to check out our collection of how-to videos for quick tips on roasting the turkey, carving, making perfect gravy and more.


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I need to break this habit of booking shows without reading what they are actually about. I guess I'm slightly uneducated in the theatre department, but I enjoy the unexpected and hate researching before reviewing. This was the first time I've heard about David Lindsay-Abaire and his play called Rabbit Hole. This was also my first visit to the Hampstead Theatre so I was a big kid again and hopped, skipped and jumped into this beauty…
Rabbit Hole was no great ball of fluff, but an emotional trap. Teased with carrots of comedy, it was a pretty grim tale. Wanting to pull out my witty rabbit quotes, "Eh, What's up Doc?" seems slightly inappropriate here. Rabbit Hole was about a grieving mother, Becca, and father, Howie, barely coping with the death of their young son. Danny chased the family dog across the road and was hit by a car. The teenaged driver, Jason, contacts the family in hope to dedicate his writing to Danny's memory, but digs himself a deeper hole.
Claire Skinner has the gift for working the stage as if it is her home. She gives Becca an innocent and vulnerable humour, delivered so effortlessly. She's a totally believable wife as her domestic flusters over the housework. Becca is also a grieving mother and her shaky mannerisms suggest she's feeling the strain. She responds to her sister's pregnancy news with happiness, but you wince at her forced smile. She tidies the last remains of her son, including his clothes, toys and paintings on the fridge. With the permission from her husband, she and her mother tackle Danny's bedroom with charity bags and boxes. It looks like a normal call to duty, but the scene twitches the eyes and nips the lips.
"Grieving people don't wring their hands and sob every second. Sometimes they just have to do the dishes, or chat with the mailman"
Quote from The Will Mortimer Interview with David Lindsay-Abaire
There's only one brief weep for her son as Becca and Jason meet. Jason (Sean Delaney) treads extremely carefully with Becca, eating her lemon squares and drinking a glass of unwanted milk. His vulnerability and hand fiddling nervousness suggests his 'innocent' victim, but his minor speeding claims fires up the blame game. Listening to his future university plans, the scene screams awkward and you beg for the fast forward button.
Rabbit Hole is burrowed into the bonding of women: Becca, her sister Izzy (Georgina Rich) and mother Nat (Penny Downie). The dynamics of this trio provide great comedy relief within tragedy. Izzy is the woman who takes Rabbit Hole for a youthful comical run and bunny hops her unexpected pregnancy into the family mix. Breeding like rabbits, Izzy knows her situation should be downplayed for her sister's sake. Cue Nat, the mother who can't shut up during those tense family discussions. Unafraid to discuss death and stir in drama, Nat becomes a soundboard for Becca, including explaining her first hand experience with grief.
Outnumbered by the ladies, Tom Goodman-Hill plays Howie with an interesting dominant grip on hardcore emotions. Normally, we see men stone-faced whilst women weep in these situations, but Tom's performance breaks this stereotypical cycle. Howie watches family videos like a nighttime vigil, attends support classes despite his wife's absence and likes the visual reminders of his son around the house. You support his calm exterior, praise his efforts to regain a sense of normality and humour, and egg on his wife to Let's Marvin Gay and Get It On….or Netflix and chill with him.
There's plenty of light and shade to Howie though. His sister-in-law, Izzy, accuses him of flirting with another woman from the support class, stamping a big fat question mark under the modern rug. Thanks to Jason's appearance, Howie's cool calm guy is suddenly snapped. The flash of caveman anger explodes, skinning away his composure and revealing the raw meat of Rabbit Hole: Grief. Demanding "I want the dog back", Tom Goodman-Hill's heart breaking delivery of "I miss him", leaves you clueless – is he talking about the family dog or their son?
"When I was a student at Juilliard, my teacher, Marsha Norman, said to us once, 'if you want to write a good play, write about the thing that frightens you most in the world. Really think about that fear, and try to dramatize it'…Then a few years later I became a dad, and when my son Nicholas was three I heard in quick succession two of three stories about friends of friends who had children die very suddenly and unexpectedly"
Quote from The Will Mortimer Interview with David Lindsay-Abaire
Like grief, Rabbit Hole's ending has no closure, just Becca and Howie sitting on the sofa, holding hands. It feels wrong to say I enjoyed this play, but Rabbit Hole has heart. David Lindsay-Abaire chases our ghouls of death and grief, forces them into the spotlight and then buries them into Rabbit Hole. Nat explains to Becca that grief is like carrying a brick in your pocket. You adapt to the weight of it, can be heavier or lighter, sometimes you'll forget it's even there, but the loss will never go away. Battling the lumps in our throats, there was an united silence across the auditorium. The coughs, sneezes and mutters stopped. At this moment, I'm sure every audience member pictured their loved one….
Leaving the Hampstead Theatre, I came away with a spring in my step. Rabbit Hole gave me their first dose of real theatre goodness. On the staircase to Swiss Cottage tube station, I watched a mother zip up her young son's coat through wet eyes. You know when a play is really good when your view is completely altered and you treat children like angels even when they kick your seat on the way home…
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
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The TDIPT Mercantile has updated for the 1st of the month.Please take a moment,and stop by,to see all of the wonderful items for sale,from so many talented artists!
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Easter Day In Review 2009
Our Easter Day was sort weird this year. My husband was getting over a stomach bug so he stayed home in bed and I took the kids to church. That was certainly different not being together in church on Easter morning! When we got home I didn't want him cooking since he had been sick So he decorated eggs with the kids while I cooked! That is totally backwards at our house since I love to do crafty things and he loves to cook. (This was the first time I have ever cooked a whole holiday meal on my own!) Then to top things off it was raining, so we had to have our Easter egg hunt inside! LOL It was just one of those years!
My sleepy heads waking up to their baskets.
My big boy checking out the movie he got.
Mt little man showing off one of his treats!
I wish I could keep a shirt on this boy!
My daughter was excited over her new movie!
Here are the kids decorating eggs with dad.
I am glad he hasn't outgrown having fun!
Dad dying an egg. :^)
My little man having fun!
My funny bunny girl!
The finished products…
Here are the littles about to bust waiting to be let into the schoolroom for the egg hunt!
Searching together…
This years Easter bunny!
He did such a good job hiding the eggs that we still can't find one of them! LOL
She found one!
He found one!
Here is my gang bravely sitting down to an entire Easter meal cooked by mom! LOL
Oh, except for the bread! My 14 year old baked the fresh loaf of bread for us. Dad taught him how to bake bread when he was 9. He is a very good bread baker all these years and many loafs later!
Last, but not least, the littles and I made a bunny cake! I have been making this cake for Easter since I was about 8 years old! :^)
This year I let the littles pretty much do all the decorating themselves.
They were pretty happy with the results and it was yummy!
All in all it was a good Easter. It was different than we are use to, but at the end of the day my daughter climbed up in my lap and whispered in my ear "Today was a good day!" What more can I ask for?
Happy Homeschooling,
2 Comments
http://fourlittlepenguins.blogspot.com said,
I read your blog regularly, and I seldom comment, but I just had to share that I LOL at the picture of your Easter meal, since, apparently, you gave your sons each their own bottle of wine. 🙂 What an Easter treat!
jaminacema said,
Hey, if you are going to eat food that I make you may need a little wine to get it down! hehehe
Actually it is Sparkling Apple Cider.
Thanks for the laugh though.


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Jameer Nelson Contract Update + Adonal Foyle Address GM Interview Rumor
There have been a couple of new updates to push out regarding rumors surrounding the Orlando Magic.
First off, Jameer Nelson actually has until June 15 to make a decision on his player option for next season. It was originally reported by multiple outlets, citing the Orlando Magic, that he had three days from the last playoff game to make a decision.
Via Joshua Robbins of The Orlando Sentinel:
The Magic have issued a correction to what their GM said Wednesday. Jameer actually has until June 15 to exercise his option.
The other update is regarding the Magic interviewing Adonal Foyle, current Director of Player Development. Foyle took to Twitter on Wednesday to set the record straight:
Let me be abundantly clear I have never been interviewed for a GM job with the Orlando Magic.
Further Otis is my friend and mentor and I would never disrespect him in this manner.As Dir. of Player Dev – I have lots of work to do yet.
It seems as though we've had yet another rumor shot down by the actual truth, shocker. Jarrod Rudolph, who first reported the story, said he stands by his word, and said he wrote in the piece that Foyle denied the interview.
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- Yahoo! Sports is Reporting Ryan Anderson Will Likely Be Moved in a Sign-and-Trade
Posted on May 10, 2012, in Sports, Thee Cody Taylor and tagged Adonal Foyle, Jameer Nelson, Jameer Nelson Contract, Magic GM, Orlando Magic. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.