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Sunday, August 8, 2010
F**k It!
So I guess you fellers are wonderin' why ol' Moondog placed asterisks in the mid section of one of Dudeism's holy passwords. Well, this is how it happened...
The usual suspects and I were trying to figure out what not to do next at the Duder the other day when this sympatico looking young lady saunters in, sits down at the bar and orders a double White Russian. Well, that got our attention, and as Louise sprang into action to mix up the requested beverage, this young lady flashes a bright smile all around, reaches into her bag and pulls out a book which she slides down the bar to me. The title of the book and the feller's name who wrote it rang a bell... F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way by John C. Parkin. I inspected the tome, reminded myself that I had seen it before, thought it useful at the time, then said "fuck it" before taking proper note of its importance.
At this point...and I acknowledge the fortuitous intervention of our double White Russian drinking lady dude...I think it only fitting to pass the info regarding the book's provenance along to fellow travelers who may not be aware of it or its slow steppin' author, who introduces his deep and profound take on things in this short video...
Not much more to report at this stage of the game...don't want to clutter up such a refined message with a lot of unnecessary strands and convolutions. I'll pass along more details about the double White Russian drinking lady philosopher dude and her inneresting concepts and pronouncements at a later date...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Dude Be Dude Be Dude
Well...what can I say? Haven't been DOING...make that writing...much lately...a condition of which I am reminded repeatedly by my compatriots at the Duder. Especially Louise as she mixes one after another...
Its one of those crazy, lazy, hazy days...nights...of summer hereabouts. 'Round Midnight on the sound system...the usual diehards at the bar...Letterman on the TV above the bar...sound turned off...
(Please let play while you read the rest of the piece.)
Ron wanders in and sits down next to me as Louise pushes a Caucasian across the bar to him. He looks around the room then over at me.
"What's doin' Moondog?
"Well not much Ron...what would you have us DO? Are you aware of some situation that needs to be attended to that we here at the bar have somehow missed?"
"Little snarky Moondog? Too much pressure to demonstrate a deep and profound chill all the time?"
I make a show of exuding a huffy demeanor.
"Yeah...right. Do I look like I am succumbing to the unrelenting coercion coming from..."
"This direction..."
Louise slides another one over then continues.
"...You know what the bumper sticker says...'What would Ernest Tubb have done?'..."
"I expect Ernest would have said, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'...sort of like the way things are around here most of the time...take now..."
Ron grins at my hackneyed axiom before he speaks.
"Yeah...guess if you're not DOING something you're just not worth a shit...huh?"
Someone down the bar chimes in.
Louise fumbles under the bar and finally pulls out two wrinkled rolls of paper which she ceremoniously unrolls and holds up.
"Guess I'm going to have to put this back up...or maybe this..."
I genuinely relax as the obvious sinks in...as it always does eventually (usually).
"Yeah...good old Lao Tzu...and the good old Dude too, man. Remember The Dude! We should make up a bumper sticker that says that. That's all you gotta do, man...Remember The Dude...when things get really shitty...Remember The Dude. When things are great...Remember the Dude. Why that's what this whole thing we're doing here is all about, man. Not to get preachy on you, man...but..."
Everyone in the bar looks at me in silence for a long moment...then the normal buzz resumes.
I give some thought as to why I was a little out of sorts earlier. Too much conversation, too much thought...too much dissection sometimes of the whole philosophico, religio, psycologico, analytico...hey, man...you know what I'm trying to say. Too many strands and what-have-yous crisscrossing that way and this...too many idiotic questions about the meaning of it all...too much endless rationale for espousals regarding lazy wisdom, hazy wisdom, the implications of the fathomless chill, etc., etc., etc...
...when all anybody really needs to do is Remember the Dude!...and the K.I.S.S. principle...man...
The Dude: Yeah, well. The Dude abides.
The Stranger: The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
I'm at the Ol' Duder Bar, as usual...not much doing at the Duder this afternoon...even lazier than "normal", if that's possible. Louise slides another one across the bar...then comes the REmark that I know is way past due.
"Boy...you're sure the guy to be writing about lazy wisdom lately Moondog. Do you claim to be getting wiser as you get lazier?"
I just look up at her and grin.
"You gotta get hip to the subtleties of Lazy Wisdom Practice Louise...chill Lou. Exude laziness until a palpable atmosphere...a deep silent pool...of laziness appears...and wisdom will show up to backstroke in it's depths..."
"Your cockeyed take on 'build it and they will come', huh?"
"The irresistible vortex of Dudely Wisdom..."
This street performer in a court jester's costume roams in and looks around. He bows with a sweep of his arms and introduces himself.
"Good day my good people...Quodudeian at your service! May I offer a few edifying quotations from a selection showcasing orators much wiser than myself in barter for a delicious libation?"
Louise is flabbergasted.
"Well I'll be damned Moondog...here we go again..."
"Why endure the drudgery of all that reading and thinking and such to garner the sagacity of the ages when all you have to do is sit back and let yourself go...let enlightenment wash over you...a veritable river of erudition from my silver tongue..."
"See Louise. What could be lazier...huh? Just sit back and take in a string of one liners from our stand-up philosopher here. What'll it be Quodudeian?"
"Shot and a beer. Any requests?"
Louise shoves a double shot of Jack and an oat soda across the bar to the jester. He downs the shot then take a long pull on the beer.
"You pick 'em Mr. Q. Better have some hot stuff...playing to a strange and jaded crowd here."
Several other Duder regulars from the other end of the bar and the pool table move closer and wait expectantly for the first wise utterance.
Quodudeian speaks. The tongue is indeed silver...mesmerizing...
"After all...all he did was string together a lot of old, well known quotations. H.L. Mencken said that about William Shakespeare.."
He pauses. Deadly silence. He continues.
"O.K. then...just a reminder...I tell you we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
There is a brief pause...then the audience unclogs as the well known Vonnegut-ism sinks in. Everybody cheers. Quodudeian relaxes and begins to move and snap his fingers to jazz that only he can hear. Louise picks of the bottle of Jack.
"Does the Pope shit in the woods? The Dude"
The crowd cheers louder. Quodudeian continues...bebopping...pausing for just the right amount of time between quotes.
"Think off-center. George Carlin"
"He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass. Howard Kandel"
Lots of applause to that one.
"The taste for quotations...and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations...is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag"
"Time is bunk. Douglas Adams"
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner"
"Buy the ticket take the Ride. Hunter Thompson"
"Walter, he peed on my rug! The Dude"
More wild applause.
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen"
"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Orson Welles"
More people arrive. The word is out. Quodudeian knocks back Jack after Jack. Jumps up on the bar.
"Always do whatever's next. George Carlin"
"A good traveller is one who does not know the destination, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. Lin Yutang"
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger. Mark Twain"
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein"
"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams"
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia"
The crowd bravos and begins to chant...
"QuoDUDEian...QuoDUDEian ...QuoDUDEian..."
Louise looks over at me and winks as Quodudeian motions for the customers to quiet down.
"To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. Kurt the Man said that."
He pauses, then continues...
"And now...the last words of Robert Anton Wilson...KEEP THE LASAGNA FLYING!"
There is a long silence...then someone from the audience yells out...
"Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here! The Dude"
...cheers and applause. Someone in the back answers...
"Who gives a shit about the fucking marmot! The Dude"
...more applause...and then...
"Is this a... what day is this? The Dude"
"Mind if I do a J? The Dude"
Whistles and hooting...as the late spring afternoon softly turns into evening...
"Not if anything to say about it I have. Yoda"
And finally...
"I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused. Dennis Hopper"
R.I.P. dude...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
I am sitting at the bar sipping a Caucasian and trying to concentrate on the laptop. Louise, the bartender, mixes one for herself eyes me with dudely amusement.
"Still trying to come up with something to write about the supposium on lazy wisdom Moondog?"
"Supposium? What the fuck is a supposium Louise?"
"You say symposium...I say supposium. Supposing...what iffing...is what's been going on around here lately with all this deep philosophizing about your Lazy Wisdom...capital 'l' capital 'w'. Why don't you just stop thinking about it and let stuff happen...then sit back and dig it as it goes down...Moondog? That's my way of not doing lazy wisdom...little 'l' little 'w'."
Finally, my fingers begin to type and words begin to appear on the screen.
In the last dispatch from these regions I promised to fill everybody in on the doings and insights of the Duder Bar supposium on lazy wisdom, but I got distracted and didn't get very far...so here we go again...
As usual, just as I am about to elucidate a significant new strand and what have you, something happens...
This Armani suited stock broker looking guy glides through the door snapping his fingers and bobbing his head to music only he can hear. Everyone at the bar looks at him as he slowly intones...
"Dude be slow steppin', mang...threw away my 3G, multi-tasking smart phone, mang...don't want to talk to you while I'm downloading and gaming and trading at the same time no more, bub...smashed that fucking thing, Maurice..."
He slowly spins and, in a leisurely fashion, syncopates back out into the street.
I type some more...
Unbelievable! Louise was right...I'll get into what Louise said later. Synchronicity strikes again! Is Carl Jung hanging out around here somewhere? Slow dancing at high noon...stop thinking about it and lazy wisdom just dances through the door...
"Hey Moondog..."
Here comes Nancy walking down the bar from the back carrying a brown paper bag.
"Is this yours? Found it in the back booth where you were 'entertaining' last night."
She hands me the bag. I have never seen it before. I reach inside and pull out a book. Look at it in rapt wonder. Everybody at the bar cranes their neck to see.
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers,Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America
By Tom Lutz
An advertising flier for the book for the book flutters out of the bag onto the floor. I pick it up and read it out loud to the congregation.
"Lutz eases readers into this sparkling cultural history of stylish American torpor with an anecdote about his 18-year-old son, Cody, moving into his house and bivouacking on the couch—perhaps indefinitely. Lutz himself spent a decade before college "wandering here and abroad," so his intense anger at Cody surprised him—and inspired him to write this book about the crashing fault lines between Anglo-America's vaunted Calvinist work ethic and its skulking, shrugging love of idling. An English professor who admits to being personally caught between these warring impulses, Lutz (Crying) has a gimlet eye for the ironies of modern loafing: that the "flaming youth" of the 1920s were intensely industrious; that our most celebrated slackers (Jack Kerouac, Richard Linklater) have been closet workaholics; that our most outspoken Puritans (Benjamin Franklin, George W. Bush) have been notorious layabouts. Lutz's diligent research on a range of lazy and slovenly subjects, from French flâneurs to New York bohos, ultimately leads him to side with the bums. Flying in the face of yuppie values and critics of the welfare state, his "slacker ethic" emerges over the course of this history as both a necessary corrective to—and an inevitable outgrowth of—the 80-hour work week."
"What the fuck!"
Louise is pointing up at the TV above the bar. She turns up the volume as everyone present does a double take in unison then stares at the TV.
Just as Bing and his motley crue are winding up their observations on the nature of things, John Lennon's voice rings out from somewhere down the bar...
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans...Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans..."
It is the ringtone on somebody's cell phone. Sheepishly, Doris, a newcomer to the Duder, answers her phone and hurries to the back of the bar so as not to disturb the proceedings at hand.
Now...at this juncture I think it only fitting to take a step back so as to be able to see the forest and not get lost in the trees...as they say. Obviously, The Duder Bar Supposium on Lazy Wisdom seems to be composing itself. The old Trickster is cracking the cosmic joke once again...reminding me who's who and what's what...and I might as well fuggetaboutit as far as trying to theorize and expound upon those matters "myself". The universe is doing me, I am clearly not doing it...life is living me...I'm not...well shush...you get the picture. During the past brief bit of time here at the humble ol' Duder Bar the DUDE himself is playfully wagging his finger at us sinners and saying...
"Chill...there's NOTHING to do...there's nothing you CAN do, really...when you take a giant step back and have a good look at the whole durn thing. Let go dudes! Chill...deeply...lazy wisdom... abide man..."
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
We Dudeists here at the old Duder Bar have been incommunicado for awhile because of all the mulling about and intense ruminating that has gone into our latest project, a small booklet entitled LAZY WISDOM: PROCRASTINATION AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, but I'm going to wait to elaborate further on that until a little later on. First, I want to bring to light a couple of fellers you may have heard about but, if not, will probably get a kick out of...natural born Dudeists both, and both probably sympathetic with our current frenzied quest for the key to profound procrastination.
The first, Wes "Scoop" Nisker, is a writer, radio personality, Buddhist meditation teacher and stand-up philosopher who, years ago, came up with the challenge, "If you don't like the news go out and make some of you own." Interesting concept. Anyhow among the books old "Scoop" is notorious for are CRAZY WISDOM, THE ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM, and, most recently, CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN! Here's a quote from this last tome that speaks directly to our current cogitations as well as to the Dudeist modus operandi in general.
"If I were in the department of wisdom, I would call for an immediate moratorium on progress, to last at least a half-century. We had a whole lot of progress in the last couple of centuries, and although it brought us pain-killing drugs, space telescopes, and Velcro®, it appears we can no longer keep up with our own ingenuity. We now race madly around in our individual boxes of steel, chasing after satisfaction, and in the process we are throwing the atmosphere out of whack by burning up two or three geological epochs worth of the sun's stored energy in one great choking bonfire of the vanities. We have spent the better part of our genius figuring out new ways to blow each other up or learning how to go faster, and in our fear and haste we forgot about who we are and where we are going. We need to relax, deeply, and let our hearts and minds catch up with out tool-making ability, which ha gotten way "out of hand." What we need is a century of less doing and more "being." The next revolution is a big slowdown."
"I also have some broad suggestions on how we might help heal our sick civilization and the ailing planet, based on the understanding of crazy wisdom, a long-running tradition of tricksters, saints, philosophers, self-proclaimed fools, and other disreputable characters, Rather than practical solutions, crazy wisdom offers a stance, an attitude to carry us as we proceed through these ominous days."
Just think of The Dude as a Crazy Wisdom/Lazy Wisdom master and things begin to fall...some sooner...some later...into place.
The other feller I want to call your attention to, name of Thaddeus Golas, wrote a 79 page book back in the late 60's called THE LAZY MAN'S GUIDE TO ENLIGHTENMENT which was an instant hit at that time. Here's what Amazon has to say...
"Originally published by the author in 1972, the underground classic Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment teaches how to improve the quality of life, to feel good, and to determine what's real."
And from an Amazon reviewer...
"I've never been interested in having a guru, and Thaddeus Golas was never interested in being one. He wasn't looking for converts, followers, or even agreement, and I've always felt free to disagree with the way he makes this or that point. So this book has long been perfectly suited to me and my somewhat iconoclastic/refractory temperament."
"This little book is one of a very small handful that I regard as the absolute cream of 'hippie spirituality'. Stephen Gaskin's 'This Season's People' is that literature's Diamond Sutra and Paul Williams's 'Das Energi' is its Tao Te Ching. Golas's slim volume comes very close to Gaskin's in its adamantine wisdom and so ranks as a close second in diamond-sutrahood, but I think of it as something like the Dhammapada."
"Its message is so easy to put across that, technically, you already know everything it says. The heart of the matter is: relax; just love as much as you can from wherever you are. When you come right down to it, you're already 'enlightened' and you don't have anything to prove."
"But somehow, the 'way' Golas puts this message (and the bit about "love as much as you can" is a direct quotation) has some major mojo in it, enough to knock your mind loose from your brain."
If you're interested you can read the entire book online HERE. Or...if you're even lazier...just keep reading...
A selection of reminders from the text (abbreviated):
No resistance.
Whether I am conscious of it or not, I am one with the cause of all that exists.
Enlightenment doesn't care how you get there.
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it.
There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.
This, too, can be experienced with a completely expanded awareness.
I wouldn't deny this experience to the One Mind.
And on abiding...maybe...
When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
And so fellow pilgrims, enough of homage...time to move on down the line toward LAZY WISDOM: PROCRASTINATION AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE...or...
DOING NOT DOING...heh, heh, heh...
But first...before we expose the secret keys to the treasure chest containing our sacred doings and elaborations...I would like to share with you some other folk's pronouncements on the subject...
"Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast. "
Ellen DeGeneres
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain
"I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by."
Douglas Adams
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis
"Procrastinators: Leaders of Tomorrow"
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
Robert Benchley
"The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow."
"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
Mignon McLaughlin
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
C. Northcote Parkinson
"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday."
You know what? I think that by now...if you've gotten this far...that you all figure that you've read enough of my scribbling for one day, so I'm going to hold off on presenting any more from the Duder Bar Symposium on Lazy Wisdom till next time.
As the sign on Ken Kesey's magic bus said...FURTHER...LATER (my addition)...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Tao Soda, Man...
Ron and Nancy asked me to close up since the old Duder Bar had pretty well cleared out some time before I got back from seeing CRAZY HEART and they wanted to go home. I said OK and am now behind the empty bar looking at the clock...1:30AM...about that time. The door opens and this cowboy looking guy wanders in...somewhat dazed...and sits down. Maybe its late and maybe I've had a few too many and maybe I'm still under the influence of the movie, but I swear to god this guy looks just like Bad Blake as stunningly portrayed by Jeff Bridges. He squints at the bottles in front of the mirror behind the bar and points...not at a bottle, but at the mirror.
"I'll have one of them Tao Sodas, man," he drawls.
"Tao Soda?"
"Yep...one of them you got avvertised there..."
He points again. I look at the mirror and see what he is talking about...the reflection of the Oat Soda Brewery sign on the wall opposite the bar.
"Oh...OK...you mean you want an Oat Soda, huh?"
He laughs a friendly laugh.
"Yeah...if you say so bud...I guess Tao is just Oat spelled backwards ain't it?
"Never thought of it that way, but yeah...".
Whole new realms of odd philosophical inquiry suddenly open up. Who is this guy anyhow. I open an Oat Soda and give it to him. He reaches in his jeans for some money.
"Its on the house...er...mind if I ask you your name? You sure do remind me of somebody..."
"What if I told you my name is BAD?" He laughs as he drains the beer. "Since that damned movie came out I get stopped on the street every five minutes...people thinking I'm Jeff Bridges and wanting my autograph."
"Well, you might say you're his spittin' image."
"Yeah...I get that a lot..."
I look at him closely.
"Man, I could swear..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah...I look like the older country cousin of the Dude, right? I went into a bowling alley the other night and got that one for the millionth time."
"Well, Bad Blake's first gig in CRAZY HEART is in a fucking bowling alley and he DOES look like the older country cousin of the Dude in that scene. How do you account for that Mr....?"
"Mr. was my father...just call me...just call me..." The grins a mischievous grin. "Aw shush...jus call me that weird Stranger who came into your bar and wanted a drink of Tao..."
Things were getting weird all right. I look around...has the old Duder Bar slipped into the twilight zone...or worse...some Candid Camera ripoff reality show? I open another Oat Soda, look at the label then pass it to the Stranger.
"You know in CRAZY HEART Bad Blake asks Robert Duvall for a "barley pop". Sort of like calling a beer an oat soda but not quite. Do you think that's a reference to The Big Lebowski?"
"Do I look like a goddamed movie writer to you friend?" the Stranger slowly replies. "Why I haven't even seen CRAZY HEART. Feel sort of close to it though. Hear in the end old Bad sobers up and goes back to using his given name...Otis..."
The Stranger stands and finishes his beer. He grins that grin once again. as he leaves me with the evening's parting words of wisdom.
"Otis...Oat is...get it?"
There is a long pause. He laughs at his own stretched reference. A palpable volume of potential insight hangs in the air between us. He finally continues...
"Bad Blake abides, man. He almost dies of drink. He fucks up his relationship with the love of his life. He chews it up and spits it out as a hit song. He STAYS sober...walks away with that slight smile on his face...abides, man. Helluva movie..."
The Stranger wanders out the door of the Duder Bar and into the night.
I lock the front door and turn out the lights.
Outside, the Stranger's voice echoes down the empty street...
"One helluva movie folks! Golden Globes for Best Song...and...AND...the Jeffer wins for Best Actor, man...FINALLY, man..."
THE WEARY KIND begins to play somewhere in the distance...
"...abide, man...the Dude abides..."
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A rare watercolour by Admiral Sir George Back shows HMS Terror anchored near a cathedral-like iceberg in the waters around Baffin Island, while a smaller boat is rowed nearby. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Canadian Museum of Civilization (Gatineau, QC)
The second ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located.
"I can confirm it has been found," Aleta Brooke of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, said Monday.
Few details were immediately available about the discovery of the remaining vessel from Franklin's 1845 quest for the passage.
Parks Canada's mission brief for this year's search says a small flotilla of ships sailed for the Arctic at the end of August and were to return by mid-September. The search vessels included the Canadian Coast Guard's icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Shawinigan, the Arctic Research Foundation's Martin Bergmann and Parks Canada's Investigator.
The wreck of Franklin's other ship, the Erebus, was found in 2014 about 11 metres below the surface in the Queen Maud Gulf, along the central Arctic coastline.
The Erebus appeared to be well-preserved. A sonar image projected at a media conference after the discovery showed the ship five metres off the sea floor in the bow and four metres in the stern.
The ship was found off the Adelaide Peninsula on the central Arctic coastline, southwest of the community of Gjoa Haven.
The mission brief said this year's search for the Terror was to focus on the waters of Victoria Strait — further north than the Erebus's tomb between Victoria and King William Islands.
Franklin and his entire crew of 129 men disappeared during an 1845 quest for the passage. The mystery gave rise to many searches throughout the 19th century.
The story of Franklin has inspired generations of Canadian artists and writers: from songwriter Stan Rogers to novelist Mordecai Richler.
Beginning in 2008, Parks Canada has led numerous expeditions to find the ships.
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Every word in The English Language, Part Two. Participation welcome, and for any languages. Tag your files with "EWIEL" (Every Word in Every Language).
Great idea. Lovely sound. Intend to use in a track.
Here is what I used a few minutes of your sample in http://chrisvaisvil.com/i-awoke-into-a-dream/
Hi stomachache,
it's ready now. http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/155529/ have fun and I will listen to your progression in Bossche Dutch ;-0 your pronunciation is fine as I have heared..
Maybe I will do Dutch next time!
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By KAISA PUHAKKA, professor in the Clinical Psychology Department at CIIS
Psychodynamic practice is making a comeback thanks to a recent surge in empirical research supporting it (see for example Jonathan Shedler's 2010 article in APA's The American Psychologist). But far-reaching developments in the field have been quietly happening long before they caught the public eye.
Psychodynamic therapy today is indeed very different from what it was in Freud's time. In a forthcoming book, "That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy," Shedler details recent changes in the field. To me the most fascinating developments are the active presence of the "unconscious" and the shift from authoritarian delivery of interpretations by therapist to patient to a more collaborative work between the two as practiced in contemporary relational psychodynamic approaches. These developments open a meeting ground for psychodynamic and other holistic approaches such as existential and phenomenological psychotherapies, which rejected the Freudian theory of the unconscious. They also open the door for exchanges with spiritual traditions such as Buddhism and its sophisticated meditative techniques for deepening access to the unconscious.
Now what is it that psychodynamic therapists do? Freud used to call ours an "impossible profession," and certainly it is impossible to answer this question briefly. Just for starters, they do a lot of deep listening, which is an extraordinary skill that's being honed throughout the training of psychodynamic therapists and usually keeps developing in depth and refinement even after formal training. It takes more than the ordinary ear to listen deeply, which is why Theodore Reik long ago named it "listening with the third ear." Deep listening tunes not just into what the person knows about themselves but also what they don't know and perhaps don't want to know about themselves. The latter especially is important because very likely nobody ever listened to it before. It may be communicated by words not intended, by gestures and body language, and by something even more subtle and difficult to name that therapists sense to the extent that they are open to sensing it.
This takes me back to the importance of training and cultivation of the extraordinary skill of listening. For this skill to deepen, the therapists in training need to turn their "third ear" toward their own interior to learn to sense in the moment what otherwise would pass unnoticed in their response to the patient. In contemporary psychodynamic therapy, the boundary between the conscious and the unconscious is permeable, and some of what happens in the process between therapist and patient is communicated directly without conscious verbal mediation. Buddhist meditative practices, such as mindfulness-based stress-reduction, have been adapted as simple techniques for the benefit of patients in mainstream symptom reduction approaches. In psychodynamic therapy, it is first and foremost the therapists who benefit from Buddhist meditation in deepening their attunement to their own as well as the patient's interior processes.


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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Agni sAma Project
......it is lovely to know as I write these words that they will be read by very very very ah so very very few......that thought gives me a big thrill right now, right in this very moment.........so I hope to finish the first segment of my Agni sAma project by July 2012 - moving on into the second segment is a process already somewhat haltingly begun........communication has as of late been gathering a sort of accumulated strenuosity about it of my own design no doubt.......and so silence has been imposed upon the word.......but upon the word alone.........the rule of silence has a place within but does not reign in the realm of music.........so might Schubert have sung..........singing singing singing.........the song from the New Moon........and yet they could pass by, how could they have passed by? yet they did pass by Death And The Maiden - let the mystery of it be..............
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Body And Soul
It is necessary to come into one's own in full possession of body and soul.
This is an accomplishment. It may or may not entail some arduous labour -
The accomplishment, or-one might say-the accomplished fact consists in an embrace of the mortal flesh while at the same time residing in the everlasting soul.
We use words which do not penetrate the ground beneath us, where the reality of our being must stand and so we rob ourselves of more than joy - Ah -
We must come to grips with the starkest aspects of our reality.
And then each must choose the path, the technique, the application best suited to his makeup.
No one can do this for you.
This is where you must stand up for yourself.
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Can Dogs Eat Cat Food?
by Michael
(London, UK)
No! The answer is in the evolution of cats and dogs and the divergence of their "evolutionary paths" some 30 million years ago.
Both are scientifically classified within the class Mammalia and within the order Carnivora. The divergence in evolution resulted in dogs becoming members of the Canoidea superfamily and cats becoming members of the Feloidea superfamily1.
The Canoidea includes species "with very diverse dietary habits"1 while Feloidea includes species that have evolved as "strict carnivores".
There would seem to be some debate as to whether the dog is carnivorous. Incidentally species in the order Carnivora are not necessarily carnivorous. "Most species of Carnivora are, to some degree, omnivorous, except the Felidae (cats)"2.
Linda P Case in her book1 says that dogs are omnivorous while other authors say that they are carnivorous3. Dogs are said to be adaptable carnivores4.
It probably doesn't matter. What matters is that the cat is a strict or obligate carnivore while the dog is more flexible.
The ancestors to the domestic cat, the African wildcat and the European wildcat both feed entirely on small animals such rodents.
The cat has stuck to the strictly carnivorous diet even in domestication (perhaps, however, in 1000 or more years time the domestic cat will be less strict about what it needs to eat?). This has resulted in specific physiological and metabolic adaptations. In other words the cat's digestive tract and chemistry has evolved to accept animal tissue and almost nothing else. There are minor exceptions. Cats do eat grass and one big cat, the snow leopard deliberately eats vegetation to enhance its absorption of oxygen as it lives at high altitude.
The cat then has "peculiarities in nutritional requirements"1taurine, arginine, arachidoonic acid and preformed vitamin A, for instance. See also Taurine Deficiency in Cats. Or how rice in cat food can affect taurine. Do Bengal cats need more taurine?
For a domestic cat, a diet without animal tissue would require supplementary additives.
A dog eating cat food would find it too rich it is said and it might cause diarrhea and obesity. One commentator said that a dog on a long term cat food diet might lose its eyesight5. I don't know if this is true.
Dogs like the taste of cat food because it is rich in protein (higher protein content than dog food5) but can dogs eat cat food? Yes in small doses and occasionally but NO as a long term diet.
Associated page:
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Can Dogs Eat Cat Food? – Notes:
1. The Cat, Its Behavior, Nutrition & Health by Linda P Case.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore
4. http://www.rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html
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Sunday 06/01/2013, 06:40
This is a place of gathering for Clint City's creatures of the night. Although players of all clans are welcome the general theme of the guild is inspired by the Nightmare clan.
So, if you need a place to hang out until the sun sets come join the guild. We are dying to have you!
***All levels are welcome***
***English language only***
***Must be mature and respectful of others***
You will enjoy:
***Clan based/story driven guild only events with prizes!***
***Occasional incentive and random giveaways***
***Guild lottery***
***A dynamic and creative environment with input from all***
So come join and surrender to your inner most evil and you will understand
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This guild is Super Active and Fun Come and Join, don't be shy say hi! A lot of fun activities and chances to earn $$$ We like to have fun and great discussions are involved. Join the new hit guild!!
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Sunday 13/01/2013, 16:09
There is plenty of room in the graveyard mansion so dust off the cob webs, slap on the shades and embrace your destiny. Players of all clans are welcome!
The guild lottery is open and our first guild competition has kicked off.
Come join House of Ielena...........The mistress is waiting.
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Thursday 17/01/2013, 03:26
Looking for a new home? Want to get in early on something that's ready to explode?
Come join House of Ielena! The Guild is Nightmare themed but players of all clans and all levels are welcome!
Surrender your will to the Mistress of the Dark. She will accept no refusal!!
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Saturday 19/01/2013, 20:35
The Guild Lottery is open........
Guild competition is underway.......
The first Guild event is in the works........
And best of all, you will gain the grace of Ielena!
Open recruitment for mature players of all clans and levels!
Boris Unbound Titan
Sunday 20/01/2013, 22:46
The moon shines high in the sky and Clint City's lunatics begin their nightly promenade through the outskirts of the city.
One such lost soul makes his way near the graveyard and stops DEAD in his tracks. The old mansion on the hill is illuminated
by the moon's soothing rays, as if it's a beacon....calling to him....seducing him. He cannot resist and makes his way through the tombstones. As he approaches he sees light through the windows.....a few passing shadows......he is compelled to enter.
Come join House of Ielena! The mistress is still searching for more disciples to do her bidding, as there is much more work to be done. Special incentive for the next 5 new members. Take a look!
Boris Unbound Titan
Tuesday 22/01/2013, 14:21
New requirements have been added:
**Minimum player level 15**
**A fair play rating**
Remember that players of all clans are welcome!
Join now People We are a fun and active guild and when you join I'll make you a free avatar! What an insane deal!! Lots of events to come in our guild all are welcome who are Level 15+ and are super active. guild:1886330 We are the real Deal!
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Sunday 27/01/2013, 04:26
Join now and get in early on something that is soon to explode!! Many events are in the planning. Guild competition and Lottery are open! Players of all clans who are level 15+ with a fair play rating are welcome!
Boris Unbound Titan
Tuesday 29/01/2013, 04:28
Serious long term players are highly encouraged to join. We have some very good things in the works.
Boris Unbound Titan
Sunday 03/02/2013, 00:34
The mansion still has plenty of space. Join now and you can still get in on "Sargh's Superbowl Giveaway" with a chance to win rare cards, and even a complete Nightmare deck!
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- Kim Alston said...
They look great on you Lorena! They are most popular right now!
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- E said...
These earrings are so fun! I love how they brighten up a classic outfit like your jeans and button-down!
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- May 10, 2017, 11:57:00 AM
- Sheila said...
Those buses are awesome! I wish our buses here looked like that.
Love the earrings - I did not know pom-poms were a thing.
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- Beauty Unearthly said...
Gorgeous! You look lovely dear!
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- Mica T said...
What a fun bus! Maybe it's because I didn't grow up with it but I think it's really fun!
I like your pom pom earrings too, a nice pop of colour with the white shirt.
Hope you are having a lovely week so far :)
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- May 10, 2017, 4:22:00 PM
- Meyrilu Rodríguez said...
Hey! Qué bonitos aretes, eran algo así como los querías no? Se ven divinos! Y de dónde eres? Siempre creí que eras de España pero ese autobús luce justo como el transporte de aquí de México jejeje :P
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- Elegance and Mommyhood said...
Funny story about the buses. But I love pom poms and this Spring I bought my first pom-pom earrings (the bauble bar ones you linked in your post). I even have them on, now.
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Work on jealousy
Stakes are higher now and friendships become more complex. Your child may grapple with competing emotions: wanting friends to celebrate her successes while sometimes feeling envious of theirs.
The good news? Kids this age become better at seeing situations from other people's perspective. And that means you can help her learn what's reasonable to expect from others — and how to handle it when those expectations aren't met.
How You Can Help
Show him how to swap places. If your child is having trouble being empathetic, ask him: "If you were going to Alaska, would you want to hear Gus complain?" That way, he can practice thinking in advance about how his actions affect others.
Get her to move on. Say your girl is upset because her pal skipped a sleepover to go hang with another classmate. First, let her know it's okay to be disappointed. Then ask if she wants to hash it out with her friend or do something else to feel better. Just don't let her hold a grudge since it may set her up to overreact to small setbacks, says Asher. The message to send: Friendships are valuable and a good pal shouldn't get the boot because she slipped up.
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For a huge majority of our population, background checks and registry for gun purchases make sense to the extent of being no-brainers. Closing loopholes for purchases at gun shows also makes complete sense. But when our elected officials are asked to consider these issues with a vote, it becomes clear that many of those we have elected to represent us are much more interested in representing their own selfish interests.
In Connecticut on Monday, President Barack Obama said that background checks are not political. What he should have said is that the issue should not be political. For some in Congress, most of them Republican, everything about President Obama is political and negative. Even some who are thought to be future presidential contenders, like Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul, are determined to block a background check vote.


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From Interstate 35 Frontage Road and Teasley Lane, Denton, Texas, drive west on I-35 Frontage Road toward Centre Pl Drive. Make a right turn onto Fort Worth Drive. Continue onto Carroll Boulevard. Make a U-turn at W Prairie St. Gazebo Apartments will be on the right.
Gazebo Apartments are located on South Carroll Boulevard in Denton, Texas. There are 144 rental units within the 2 story complex. Spacious and competitively priced one and two bedroom floor plans are available to meet your living needs. Each unit features a balcony or patio, a walk in closet, mini blinds, and is fully carpeted. Kitchens are equipped with a refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, and garbage disposal.Community amenities include a swimming pool, an on-site laundry facility, and parking is provided. The pet policy permits cats.Gazebo Apartments provides residents easy access to I-35E and public transportation. There are many other residential building complexes nearby. Right down road, you can find a number of higher education institutions such as the University of North Texas, Texas Woman's University, and Toulouse Graduate School. The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital at Denton is also nearby. If you are looking to live in the eccentric city of Denton for a reasonable price, consider looking at Gazebo Apartments.


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Miami was once a city best known for its celebrated beaches, but in recent years a sophisticated arts and design scene has caused a quiet revolution on the other side of the causeway.
While the beautiful people bronzed on South Beach, a Design District of galleries, architecture showrooms, interior design stores and creative agencies was forged out of an area north of Midtown that had fallen into urban decay. At the same time, the derelict warehouses of once-industrial Wynwood to the south were being reborn as blank canvases.
Unsurprisingly, the renaissance fueled a vibrant creative arts community which is pulling in locals and in-the-know tourists in bigger numbers than ever, and a blossoming restaurant, bar and food truck scene only adds to the buzz.
One of the most popular attractions is Wynwood Walls, a permanent outdoor exhibition of murals featuring some of the world's most famous streets artists which we previously wrote about in our post on seeing Miami's street art by Vespa. Wynwood also hosts a monthly Second Saturday Gallery Night, where each venue offers entertainment and refreshments and opens their doors till late.
A winter of art
Miami's biggest art event – which is also the most important contemporary art fair in the Americas – is Art Basel Miami Beach, held every year in December with hundreds of galleries from around the world taking part. The main exhibition space at the Miami Beach Convention Center is primarily aimed at dealers and collectors, but other satellite events are held in art galleries throughout Wynwood and the Design District, and in co-ordination with some of Miami's major cultural venues such as the Miami Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Gusman Theater.
December is also the best time of year to experience free public art, with large exhibitions on display throughout the beaches and parks of Miami's South Beach neighbourhood and in Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. Nearly all galleries and art-related venues in the area host some kind of special event or show during this period, to take advantage of the inpouring of extra art-loving visitors.
Some of the additional events taking place include the Focus Miami Photo Fair devoted to both vintage and contemporary photography, and an installation of seven citywide pianos from Pop-up Piano Miami. This year also sees the fifth edition of Art Asia which highlights the works of emerging Asian artists, along with a focus on west coast artists at Aqua 12 at the Aqua Hotel. Tribal art and jewellery from Africa, Oceania and the Americas is on display at Tribal Art Miami and there'll be a host of multimedia exhibits and immersive environments at Context. Most satellite and other events take place during Miami's 'Art Week', 3-9 December. Art Basel itself takes place from 6-9 December. Visit the website for more information and tickets.
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A trip to the zoo enchants children time and time again. Why? It's a fascinating, close-up, real-life encounter with amazing creatures they seldom get to see!
Africa is an exciting place full of all kinds of history, geography, and remarkably interesting animals. Most young children have been introduced to the enormous elephants, the desert plain, and Egyptian pyramids, but you'll be surprised by the variety of information and topics your kids will explore during the course of this study!
You might want to combine your zoo field trip with this unit for a wild animal/cultural extravaganza!
Now they can head out on an adventure of epic proportions: an African safari!
Day 1: Where on Earth Is Africa?
Day 2: Some of the Special Places in Africa
Day 3: A Bit of History
Day 4: Cool Things to Know About Africa
Day 5: Fun and Games in Africa
Your child will embark on an irresistible journey, researching favorite zoo animals,climbing the mountains, trudging through the deserts, speaking a foreign language, and taking a close look at some favorite Bible characters and special visitors.
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Shoes really are a woman's best friend, so when it comes to special occasions, what better gift could there possibly be? It goes without saying that everyone has their own individual style when it comes to fashion and footwear choices.
That said, there are a few styles of shoe that should feature in every woman's wardrobe. Having a range of shoe styles will provide any woman with the perfect footwear for every outfit, so why not help her on her way by giving her one of the following…
Barely There Heels
Adding instant length to your legs, barely there heels look amazing with literally any going out attire. They are also the perfect accompaniment to the "jeans and a nice top" combo, or for dressing up a slightly more casual ensemble.
Their simple structure is minimal with just a strap or two holding your foot in position, meaning they look great but also take a back seat and allow the rest of your outfit to shine. This versatile barely there style of heel is both timeless and elegant, so even if you're not really that into heels but decide to invest in just one pair, let it be these.
Ballet Flats
There are so many different styles of ballet flats, with unlimited choice of colours, shape and material. Not only are these types of shoe super comfortable and kind to your feet, but they are suitable for almost any outfit or occasion.
Depending on the style you choose they can look elegant and professional, ideal for wearing to work or the perfect alternative to heels. On the other hand, they can be fun and feminine for a more chilled day to day look.
Heeled Boots
The heeled boot has now established itself as a staple, and should definitely feature in every woman's wardrobe. A good pair of boots are just what you need to give your outfit a stylish edge, but without going overboard.
Since there are so many different types available, such as block heel ankle boots, knee high riding boots, and sexy thigh highs, you'll be spoilt for choice. Depending on the style you go for, heeled boots can be the perfect accessory to complete almost any outfit.
Strappy Sandals
Especially as summer draws closer, every woman needs to make sure they have at least one cute pair of sandals. They're perfect for those sunny days when it's too hot for a full shoe, but you want to look a little more put together than slinging on a pair of flip flops.
From gladiators and boholaceups to slides and thong sandals, there's endless styles and something for everyone, meaning you can leave your flip flops at the beach.
Stylish Sneakers
Although a trusty pair of gym trainers are essential for working out, it's also a good idea to have a pair of more trendy trainers for when you're out of the gym.
Whether you're going for a summer stroll in the park or a heavy shopping spree, you'll want to wear a comfy pair of shoes but still look stylish at the same time, so you can't go wrong with a pair of sneakers.
To Conclude
Let's face it – women love shoes! Giving shoes as a gift can be a fab idea because a lot of women won't be expecting it. It's a step outside the box from the usual chocolates or jewellery, and you can find the perfect pair for her personality. Whether is sneakers or sandals, make your next women's gift a fresh pair of shoes – you won't regret it!


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Research into privatisation… boils down to one key finding: the only way Branson and the vast majority of train barons make their profits is through handouts from the taxpayer.
Your Views
Railways are good for the environment. We need an efficient, affordable service to get people out of their cars and onto the trains.
I sign because this is the only way forward.
East Coast is far superior to other lines. Privatisation has failed for the many.
The last few times I used a train to Cardiff from Pyle it was standing room only. I travel by car now.
Britain's railways open so many gateways to employment, relieve the strain on the roads, helped build this country and should be in the hands of the public purse.
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It's the same old story of privatisation: prices going up, services getting worse. Bring Back British Rail! ...
Passengers face fare rises despite waves of train cancellationsSeason ticket prices could increase by hundreds of pounds as consumer satisfaction slumps
Good old thatcherism how many fell for her lies and greed
When our crowded little island needs a credible, reliable alternative to the car, especially in urban areas, we have the shambles of the current rail network. Motorways almost gridlocked daily, it seems almost beyond those tasked to run them, despite all the knowledge and technology, we cannot run a decent network. Let railway men run the railways.
My favourite comment from, I think the chief exec of Southern?? in response to fare rises on top of the massive amount of disruption caused by the timetable fiasco was "We are operating within the parameters of our contract". I'm paraphrasing, but that's near enough.
People should just start jumping barriers. Fuck all they can do.
We have too many tickets barriers in most stations now while on holiday in Swiss they dnt have ticket barriers ! And my friend told me that there is no ticket barriers in Germany and Prague !
all run for profits & bonuses, not as a transport system. This Govt , the one before it & the one before that have all colluded to make that happen.
Competition was healthy pre grouping(no government funding, foreign nations building rolling stock to our country, infrastructure and leasing) /big 4 era. Gotta admit privatisation is now showing cracks and pricing people off the railway. Bet one day most of the well off people can only afford standard class or travel weekends more rarerly. What if the railways were renationalised, but have ultra high income tax (from the current 45pc to 60pc) and for the super wealthy making railways free all the time and whenever
I hope the oyster fares don't rise much as I use my oyster on rail journeys within greater London.
GTR have no right to put up fares as cuts at my local station Norwood junction is still happening.
Same old whinging every year, slagging off rail and mainly not slagging off the real reasons behind it....inherited from Government policy 25 years ago.
We in this country have a great rail system more investment than there has ever been,every are getting new trains even my area E Anglia, the main problem is that it's run by organisations that only see profit before passengers.
I remember when it was British Railways, apart from all the national strikes, they sometimes ran on time...
If you vote Tory and use a train , then you got what you deserve,
The train companies are happy to take our money especially season tickets but they don't want to provide the service, and this is so wrong, it's dishonest. Why don't they just admit that they're no longer capable of providing the train services they promised? Northern Trains should have their franchise revoked.
rail companies always blame someone else or something else it's never their fault, give themselves a bad name and they like wondering why it is, stupid
And the same old shit will be. We need the increase to make a safe and reliable service. The tossers.
is it a rumour or have the tax payers ie network rail taken the blame for all cancelled trains and delays on the timetable change and all railway companys will be compinsated fully ?
It's time for a change. We have had eneough of the privatised shambles.
Selfservatives said" more for less". You pay more. You get less.
No worries everything will be wonderful post Brexit
Rhys Lloyd-Jones 😂
Government ministers all have too much cash tied up to deal with this!
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Privatisation isn't working. ...
Let's fix that. 🛠
& 98% of the public will probably never use it so we pay for something we will not use that makes sense it is being built for the rich & the executives to save themselves about 20 minutes travel time let them pay for it if they want it
It took me 6 hours to travel 70 miles from London to Suffolk today. So perhaps sort out existing network before destroying countryside to gain minutes on a journey for people who are already privileged 😡
There is absolutely no justification whatsoever for HS2. And what can we, the people, do about it? Sod all, apparently.
For a country that invented the railway, the lack of good infrastructure is disgraceful. This line should have been built 30 years ago. Electrification has been stalled with the need for new trains to be dual powered thereby increasing weight and unreliability. Absolutely pathetic.
This would cut through, I mean destroy, some of the most Beautiful Countryside in Britain, and for what?
Grrrr! Spread the money throughout the regions to improve rail travel for everyone.
Reopen the Great central railway south section of 72 miles or so would solve some problems
Scrap hs2. Put the money into rolling stock on existing networks. 8 carriages not 2.. pay the guards out of it
It's a vanity project which seems out of control. No one I know wants it.
What a waste of government money and public taxes ! It should have gone into the NHS instead ! Its just the government ministers that want this darn thing built no-one else ! Normal people won't be able to afford to pay the ticket prices anyway ! Sad state of British Government. They've got their priorities all wrong !! :(
i dont think anything can be done....your dealing with people that are high end. its like the whole oil crap...who owns that ???, oil tycoons and bankers..... why are we still on petrol....that thing that was chased around lakenheath with venom aircraft in 1956 didnt run on conventional fuel....reason we are still using petrol is....the powers that are, say you are....and thats rockefellar (ran the 5412 project) and rothschilds...who are best pals with rockefellar, and in my research into CIA leaks, i found that rothshild was involved in MI5, then involved with thatcher.....them folk have your arses....you want to get anywhere then expose THEM for what they are. motto of that story is, in my 5 year research on the govt, the people with money get what they want, they own our arses.
A complete white elephant and total waste of time and money. The current infrastructure needs to be updated and improved and taken back into public ownership. HS2 IS NOT NEEDED ANY MORE THAN ANOTHER BLOODY RUNWAY AT HEATHROW!!!!!
So many better ways to spend the money. Better roads, cross- pennine routes, electrification on N W.
Brown envelopes all round, methinks 😣
Stop spending money on projects that are not fit for purposr5!
One great huge expensive white elephant
Amazing how so many of us wanted the money to Improve the infrastructure and yet the government was sold a dodgy dream.
They will sell it to private investors once we've paid for it. Of course they will make sure they have invested in the company they sell it to.
Very little is, in fact " Britain by and large is not working.
That and the fact the trains are old, dirty, overcrowded, and over price. Oh and they rarely run on time!
Of course it isnt .....all the money gets spunged up by the shareholders and not put back into the system.....the prices they charge we should have the best train service in the world.....
Pull down all the HS2 signs then they'll forget where they are supposed to be taking this line. If they put them back pull them down again. Put them outside council offices. Someone will get fed up though I doubt it will be those that have the most to lose.
Down here in New Zealand, the Loonies pulled up our Passenger Rail service in the small country towns...we have gone backwards 200 years
Travelling by train anywhere shows why it's not working. In fact looking at the ticket prices does before that
That's unfair. It is working for the fat cats who make money from it. It just doesn't work for travellers.
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We all experience "the madness of the privatised, disaggregated rail system" through relentless frustrations in our individual lives. We must unite to fight for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit. Bring Back British Rail! ...
The answer's easy - nationalise the railways.
Many people said the railway was a mess under BR. The privatised railway is an even bigger mess that is slowly becoming unusable with out a fight or disruption. You can't get a seat even if the train turns up. Its the most uncomfortable way to travel. I can't go in the car either as taking the car anywhere is a hassle. Not only is the railway in a mess. The whole country is.
In the days of br, staff got free unlimited rail travel when working. Unfortunately these days tocs don't give staff free travel just reduced
This government can't be blind to the will of the people... they must know that the general feeling is that the private operators are not wanted on Britain's railways so there must be some kind of fraud going on between the Tory/Dup Government and these companies.... Britain's railways must be made public simple
We drove back home to the north west yesterday after a weekend in Brighton, left at 7pm, arrived home at 4am, this journey took 4 hours longer than it should have because the M6 past Birmingham was reduced to a single lane past Birmingham and there was a diversion around Stafford: I thought the story wouldn't have been any better if we had gone by train, with cancellations due to driver shortages and the weather, etc! Transport policy in this country is appalling, it's so haphazard and disorganised, we are like a "third world" country now!
The utter stupidity of UK train travel in the 21st century.
Add buses to this. BBBR, what's the plan if sanity prevails and rail is renationalised? What will it cost, who will pay and how do we sell the benefits to the shires? These are hard questions but answering them grounds the campaign. Am I totally off on this? Enthusiasm and high minded rhetoric is chaotic. See the "Leave" campaign as an example of a nasty but effective application of focus. Focus works. It works when the facts are right or wrong. That moral high ground I alluded to is real and a hard sell. But it's our Island, ironically a message of "Leave". Ours is inclusive.
Trains were not a mess under BR. But the national system collapsed a few years after privatisation, with disasters such as Potters Bar.
With NO financial compensation, but subject to proven need.
Where I live, we need railways and trains before we start to worry about tickets!
A ticket should be valid on whatever train comes along. Telling people they can't use a ticket because it's a different company is an abomination.
Jonny Butler
I was a train driver untill the late 90,s based at selhurst deport ,I left just after connex took over ,i worked long and hard 2 yrs training to be exact before i was allowed to drive a train unaccompained ,copleating many test during this time ,this changed under privitisation to just 30 weeks ,as a driver proud of my job i felt safety standards had droped too much ,as standards droped prices increased ,now 2018 we are over charged to travel on a service which is unsafe and underfunded rant over
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Privatisation has failed. It's time to Bring Back British Rail! ...
It was all obvious from the beginning this would happen. Who'd ever heard of a fair capitalist lol
The Tories did not fail with privatisation; some of them made a fortune.
And the rest of the geese that laid the golden eggs ,that used to put money in The treasury BT,CEGB,WaterBoards ,BP,Gas etc
AYE and NOT JUST BRITISH RAIL but "ALL" BRITISH INSTITUTIONS. NEITHER OF WHICH WERE governments TO SELL. THESE INSTITUTIONS BELONGED TO THE NATION ( THE BRITISH GENERAL PUBLIC). IT IS TIME WE GENERAL PUBLIC RECLAIMED OUR PROPERTY.
And the rest of the geese that laid the golden eggs ,that used to put money in The treasury BT,CEGB,WaterBoards ,BP,Gas etc
Even harold macmilan said we are selling the family silver at the time !yet some people still actualy think that thatcher was good !and had all britains interest at heart ? We are paying through the nose for her lies
Everything should come back to state control, it's an expensive shambles
BR was profitable after sectorisation in the 1980s so why do the politics have to make life harder with the failed privatisation?
Loving the sentiment of the posts above,makes me feel folk are starting to wake up. We've been civilly obedient for far too long!
Sadly, so many daft and greedy Gadarene swine succumbed to the bribes of instant profits from the share give-aways for the utilities. I wonder if any of them has ever regretted this?
They paid off Sid a long time ago. He has a regular gig talking at rail industry conferences now. Seriously, sniping at this rubbish is below you.
The profits are just a different kind of tax that goes into private hands instead of being re-invested.
All one rotten fiddle and some fools couldnt see it
Carol Sid!
A government of crooks and scammers and still the same - it stinks.
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"The project to privatise Britain's railways has failed... We want to see the creation of a National Transport Service to oversee the integration of all forms of public transport... Our long term vision is to build a connected nationwide system which is free at the point of use and available to everyone." We ❤ this charter from our friends at NOR4NOR. Please share!The NOR4NOR Charter: Our vision for a railway to serve us all. ...
You could have had it decades ago with an integrated road rail system(BRS and BR) but the Tories destroyed all that in the fifties and sixties,
Apart from the fact that this is Norfolk-based, the National version is what I've been saying since the 1960's, (except possibly the bit about "free at the point of use", apart from for holders of travel passes, such as senior citizens etc.).
Abolish bike reservation mumbo jumbo and ticket restrictions. In fact if railways were renationalised, all fares should be always be the price of off peak and maybe bigger discounts on railcards than the current 1/3 atm
There is no concise transport policy in this country apart from provide the absolute base minimum or less and hope everybody buys a car. Now we have climate change, the internal combustion engine is out, the roads are utterly clogged and we know electric cars are not going to cut it. So suddenly, we need real reliable mass transportation. We've needed it for 60 years, but they've fobbed us off.
I want the win every lottery jackpot for the next week,and there's more chance of that happening
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State Sen. Mike Noland (D-Elgin) picked up the endorsement of AFSCME Local 31 Tuesday afternoon in his race for Congress.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is closing in on former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to new polls.
Progressive lawmakers from 10 U.S. states, including Illinois, have rolled out a legislative campaign in support of debt-free college.
On a Monday conference call organized by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), 10 Democratic state legislators said they will introduce non-binding resolutions in their respective assemblies backing debt-free public higher education. The aim is to spark a larger conversation about debt-free college and make it a key 2016 election issue, according to the lawmakers.
Debt-free college resolutions will be introduced in the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina plus Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
"(Monday's) announcement is part of a larger progressive strategy for 2016, ensuring that the entire Democratic Party, from the top to the bottom of the ticket, is unified behind a big, bold economic populist agenda -- an agenda that motivates people to get to the polls, and it would be a game-changer in the lives of millions," said Kayla Wingbermuehle, PCCC's debt-free college campaign director.
SEIU* endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday, with the labor union's leaders saying she "has proven she will fight, deliver and win for working families."
Two Chicago-area elected officials are working to help legal immigrants in Illinois apply for citizenship ahead of next year's general election.
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL,4) and Chicago Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) hosted a daylong workshop in the city Monday, during which immigrants could get assistance with citizenship and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications.
Gutierrez -- who has spearheaded other citizenship workshops this year and a cross-country tour educating the immigrant community about President Barack Obama's pending executive actions on immigration -- said Monday's event was part of a nationwide effort by immigrant advocates "to help hundreds of thousands of people become American citizens."
"And they'll be ready for the next election," he said.
Hundreds of low-wage Chicago workers and their allies hit the city's downtown streets Tuesday evening to call for a $15 an hour minimum wage, union recognition and other items on their new "voter agenda."
The protest, which started at the Thompson Center and ended with a march to a nearby McDonald's at Clark and Lake streets, was one among many Fight for $15 actions happening Tuesday in 500 U.S. cities.
Fast food and other low-wage workers chanted, "What do we want? $15! When do we want it? Now!"
The Chicago Teachers Union's (CTU) Political Action and Legislative Committee has released their early endorsements for the March primary elections.
Low-wages workers with the Fight for $15 campaign went on strike Tuesday in 270 cities, including Chicago. Progress Illinois provides highlights from the morning Fight for $15 protests in Chicago.
Low-wage workers and their allies staged a Fight for $15 protest Monday in support of immigration reform outside the Trump Tower Chicago. There, they slammed GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump over his anti-immigrant comments and hard-line policy proposals.


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US Manufacturing Expansion Remains Weak in August
The Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) continued to signal only a modest improvement in U.S. manufacturing business conditions in August.
The preliminary 'flash' PMI reading which is based on around 85% of usual monthly replies rose slightly from 51.4 in July to 51.9 and was the third-lowest since the manufacturing recovery was first indicated by the headline index in October 2009.
PMI index readings above 50.0 signal an increase or improvement on the prior month, while readings below 50.0 indicate a decrease. Manufacturing production rose further in August, taking the current sequence of growth to 35 months.
Although having strengthened since July, the latest expansion was only modest and the second-weakest in over a year.
The volume of new orders received by manufacturers also grew over the month, with a number of surveyed firms attributing this to increased marketing and the release of new contracts. However, the overall rise in new work intakes masked a further reduction in new export orders. New work from export markets fell for the third consecutive month, with the rate of contraction broadly unchanged from July.
Reflective of the increase in new orders, backlogs of work rose for the first time in three months during August. Stocks of finished goods meanwhile were depleted, in contrast to the accumulation reported one month previously.
Employment in the manufacturing sector rose further in August, but the rate of job creation slowed for the fifth month running to the weakest since December 2010.
Both average input costs and output prices fell for the third consecutive month in August, albeit marginally. Panellists particularly mentioned paying lower prices for petroleum, electronic parts and metals such as steel, as they were generally in a better position to negotiate with suppliers due to improved
goods availability.
Concurrently, suppliers' delivery times lengthened only slightly over the month, with the latest deterioration in vendor performance the weakest in over three years.
Manufacturers bought a larger quantity of purchases and depleted their input inventories in August, generally citing larger output requirements. Nonetheless, the latest rise in buying activity was the weakest in 19 months.
Rob Dobson, Senior Economist at Markit said: "The U.S. manufacturing sector continued to grow only modestly in August, with the overall expansion for the third quarter set to be at a recovery-low.
"Although latest survey data pointed to a slightly better performance than that registered in July, it nonetheless suggested that manufacturing continued to take a hit from weak economic conditions in key export markets. Higher domestic new orders, in part due to increased marketing and lower selling prices, was partly offset by a further reduction in new export work.
"On a more positive note, the weakness in the manufacturing sector has alleviated some supplyside pressures and contributed to a third successive monthly fall in input prices."


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NEW ORLEANS — California "ecological artists" Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien say that the sculptures they leave behind in locations around the country are functional, thought-provoking and intended to engage the community in solving environmental challenges.
McCormick and O'Brien spent the past six weeks as artists in residency at A Studio In The Woods on the lower coast of Algiers.
While planning their sculptures, a large part of what they call their remedial environmental art is researching and talking to local residents with the intent of "influencing the balance of compromised environments," O'Brien said.
Rather than take a photo and walk away, O'Brien said they try to leave behind a catalyst for restoration with cost-effective, site-specific technologies and create awareness.
Their latest installation, a 20-minute boat ride to the west of Venice, protects newly planted bald cypress trees from the voracious nutrias that munch on the roots.
Constructed out of recycled crab pot wire, McCormick and O'Brien installed 50 protective cages around 2-year-old cypress saplings. The cages are anchored into the silt with tall poles, topped with flags bearing a "no nutria" symbol, which also alert boaters to the baby trees.
The installation is called "Line of Defense: A sculptural solution to an ecological problem."
Their stay in Algiers was part of Tulane University's Ebb & Flow Residency Program. The pair said that their project came from learning that when trees are planted, in an effort to restore the state's best protection from storm surge, many of them are quickly killed by nutria.
"They plant 1,000 trees and lose 700 or 800 to nutria," McCormick said — accomplishing, more than anything, to "feed nutria."
Nutria were brought to Louisiana from Argentina in the 1930s for their pelts and now are an extremely damaging invasive species considered a major culprit in wetland loss.
McCormick noted the role humans played in introducing the rodents to Louisiana. An alternative to mink, the hats made from nutrias were in part symbols of status, McCormick said, as humans unknowingly brought in a highly destructive force to nature.
To say they "breed like rabbits" is an understatement. The rat-like creatures with long orange front teeth and an insatiable appetite for marsh grass and other vegetation can have up to 13 litters each year. Currently, there's a $5 bounty for each tail brought to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The artists said one of the most interesting things they found about the area was the "cultural and moral dichotomy" between the forces playing a part in eroding the land — oil exploration and production — and efforts to save the quickly disappearing coast.
They said they met one man who said he "sells his soul" working on oil rigs all week while planting trees on the weekend, a reality not uncommon in a region where the oil industry provides the best job opportunities. And McCormick acknowledged that the same dichotomy "applies to us all," in that would be extremely rare to find someone whose life does not include the use of and dependence upon petroleum products in one form or another.
McCormick and O'Brien said that their projects don't provide answers but create inquiries into solutions and connections between the human culture and the environment. "It would be hubris to think there is a solution to the fix we are in," McCormick said.
"It becomes hubris if we don't work with the environment and work to lean away from an anthropocentric view," O'Brien said.
Working in watersheds in the Carolinas and sustaining salmon populations in the northeast, the artists said the complexity of the issues facing coastal Louisiana was particularly eye-opening.
There are so many factors, McCormick said, with political and cultural influences in addition to scientific ones.
But when undertaking projects like planting trees, O'Brien emphasized that "individual efforts should not be underestimated."


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Note that the object is of fixed size, and you can't change the pens, line types, fills etc. This means that whenever it is placed, it will use the settings you used when you drew it. Which is generally a big time saver.
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Louise Dunlap found two vocations during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964—writing teacher and community activist. Always seeking to combine them, she taught writing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, during its founding years as an urban campus and then in graduate planning and environmental programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tufts University, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, and many others. She has taught writing to city workers, foundation staff, environmental professionals, and adult education students. She offers workshops for citizen activists in the labor, women's rights, peace, racial justice, and environmental movements around the United States and in South Africa. Dunlap is currently lecturer in urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University.
Louise Dunlap received her doctorate in English literature from UC Berkeley in 1976, and has since lived in the Boston area without losing touch with her roots in Northern California. She has shared struggles for justice with activists from many movements, serving on the Cambridge Peace Commission and a co-operative housing board, and participating in peace walks and civil action on nuclear weapons, climate change, slavery and racism, the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the Shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes and photographs on social and environmental issues and teaches yoga and Buddhist meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.


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Clarkson gushed about the reception Sunday, taking to her Facebook page to talk about her friends.
"So I went to Miranda and Blake Shelton's wedding last night and it was the greatest wedding/reception I've ever been to," the 29-year-old singer wrote.
Lambert, 27, wore her mother's wedding dress as she walked down the aisle to marry Shelton, 34.
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Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
She is the daughter of Glenn and Michele Mack of Windywood Acres, Poultney.
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