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Perhaps it can be said that nobody is really ever resigned. Everybody fights regardless of the situation or predicament. It's just how it's done, and how the rest of us judge it.
Give a real life loser access to the internet, and he can create a king in cyberspace. That's survival. When we deterioriate in reality, our virtual lives flourish. Identity is still identity regardless of the dimension.
Only that some dimensions are more 'real' than others. 'Better' than others. More 'respectable' than others.
Create more artificial and synthetic channels, worlds and realities as we progress technologically, and prepare to see a decline in the effort to uphold a respectable real life identity. Give people more places to hide away legitimately from our primary reality, and soon there'll be more soulless bodies than we might be comfortable with.
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An Oct. 1 Style profile of E.L. Doctorow gave an incomplete description of his family. In addition to two daughters, he has a son. (Published 10/4/2005)
E.L. Doctorow began his writing career with a spectacular failure. At the time, he was a student at the Bronx High School of Science, where a teacher told Edgar, as he was known back then, to profile a colorful person. Doctorow soon delivered a brief biography of Carl, a doorman at Carnegie Hall who had escaped the Holocaust and came to work every day with a thermos full of tea, which he drank Old-Europe style, through a cube of sugar held between the teeth. The great classical musicians of the day, like Vladimir Horowitz, adored the guy.
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She slashed an F across the story.
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Nobody realized it at the time, but the outlines of Doctorow's future as a novelist were scrawled like body chalk around this failure as a reporter. The impish disregard for the wall between fact and fiction, the cross-thatching of real celebrities and invented characters, a slight sentimental streak -- all of it would turn up in "The Book of Daniel," "Billy Bathgate," "Ragtime" and the other historically based novels that made Doctorow famous.
There have been some commercial and critical flops along the way, like "Big as Life," a sci-fi novel about the sudden arrival of two naked and motionless giants in the middle of New York Harbor. But that was many bestsellers ago. He's also written for the theater and for movies, published collections of essays and collected a whole trophy room of prestigious literary awards. Doctorow now occupies one of the narrowest subsets in American letters -- the million-selling author who is taken seriously.
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His latest, "The March," is an account of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's ruthless slog through the South as the Union razed parts of Georgia and South Carolina to break resistance and end the Civil War. It's a sprawling story -- Doctorow calls it "my Russian novel" because it weaves together so many lives -- and a departure for an author who has focused mainly on New York in the early 20th century. But Sherman and the destructive swath he burned into the ground seemed irresistible.
"He was a brilliant man, a complex man," Doctorow says, sipping a cup of decaf. "The march justified him as a military man, but he had a great deal of guilt about it, and when the war was over he immediately left his troops and went down to do rescue-and-recovery operations. He wanted to rehabilitate the people he'd been destroying and dispossessing."
Doctorow speaks softly and methodically, and has the air of a guy who will indulge your curiosity on a time-limited basis. ("Shall we get down to business?" he asks soon after the opening pleasantries.) He looks eager to return to whatever had his attention before he started publicity rounds for "The March." He is pensive, a bit mischievous and very tweedy, and you can tell there are layers to the man that he isn't going to reveal.
What he gives you is the occasional grin that has a hint of the wry and devious about it. He pauses at length to compose his thoughts, staring into middle distance as though readying a second draft of his next sentence. His characters, you can't help but notice, are vastly more colorful than he is, or at least the version of himself that he presents over this particular cup of coffee. He comes across as refined and somewhat aloof.
"He's a very shy and very private person, but I wouldn't take that as a sign of weakness," says Sidney Lumet, director of "Network" and "Twelve Angry Men," who collaborated with Doctorow on the screen version of "The Book of Daniel."
"He is not a gentle man. He only seems gentle."
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The spark for Doctorow's novels comes from places that are mysterious to him. For "The March," it was an image on a Smithsonian Web site of a Civil War photographer. That led him back to a book he'd read about Sherman 20 years earlier, by the historian Joseph T. Glatthaar.
"Somehow I found myself starting to write and these people appeared to me with no effort on my part," he says. "Why someone says something instead of another thing, who is this person -- I don't know. It just sort of happens. You don't write with a sense of possession. You write with a sense of discovery."
What he discovered in "The March" was a way to turn Sherman's army into a living and lethal animal, a catalyst for history that doubles as a monstrosity with a heartbeat and an appetite. As the army threshes its way through woods and towns and civilians, a surgeon in the novel elaborates on the analogy for a disconsolate Southerner named Emily Thompson:
"Imagine a great segmented body moving in contractions and dilations at a rate of twelve or fifteen miles a day, a creature of a thousand feet. It is tubular in its being and tentacled to the roads and bridges over which it travels. It sends out as antenna its men on horses. It consumes everything in its path."
Sherman hovers over the action, a tortured man who can't sleep and who worries that "victory is a shadowed, ambiguous thing." The general, in a closing reverie, imagines that Southerners will cling to a sense of aggrievement that "will empower them for a century," words intended to be prophetic.
"Think about the history of black people after that war," says Doctorow. "How Reconstruction was sabotaged -- segregation, poll taxes and lynchings -- right up on to the civil rights liberations of the '60s. Reagan and Nixon and the Bushes using subtle race messages to capture the white South. You could make the case that the South won the war."
The Reader, the Writer
Doctorow lives with his wife of more than 50 years and has two daughters. He plays a lot of tennis when he's isn't typing or hawking the hardbacks, and he adheres to a fairly rigorous work schedule: at the desk by 8 a.m., a few hours off in the middle of the day, then an afternoon session that lasts until 7:30 p.m. Everything is revised seven or eight times.
When he isn't touring, his life is pretty anonymous.
"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am," Doctorow says with a shrug. "Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."
He chose writing as a career at the age of about 9, he says, and aside from a two-year stint in the Army and work as a reservations clerk at La Guardia Airport, he's made words a full-time career. Among Doctorow's earliest jobs was reading books for Columbia Pictures, which hired him to unearth novels worth turning into films.
For three years at a book-a-day pace, Doctorow flagged a handful of novels for his bosses, but only one ever led to a deal: a Western called "They Came to Cordura," ultimately turned into the 1959 movie starring an aging Gary Cooper.
"It was one of the worst movies you've ever seen," Doctorow groans. "It was just an embarrassment. And that was the result of my three years of work."
During those script-scouting days, Doctorow realized he could make up stuff just as well as any of the authors he was paid to read. So he wrote "Welcome to Hard Times," a Western about a stranger who terrorizes a small town, later turned into a movie starring Henry Fonda. It was the first of several unhappy experiences with Hollywood. Aside from "The Book of Daniel," Doctorow sounds disappointed with the celluloid renderings of his work, including "Billy Bathgate," which starred Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman, and "Ragtime."
"People have always said my work is cinematic, except the directors I've worked with," Doctorow sighs. "They tell me how difficult it is to translate because so much of my books are interior. So much of the action is in the mind, in the moral realm."
Doctorow started "The Book of Daniel" while toiling as an editor at Dial Press, which he left in 1968 for a teaching job at the University of California at Irvine, where he could spend mornings at his typewriter. He felt like he'd arrived.
His actual arrival date, however, was 1975, when a fictional account of America in the years leading up to World War I was published to raves, eventually selling more than 4.5 million copies. Some critics were troubled by the way "Ragtime" monkeyed with the past -- it imagines a meeting, for instance, between Freud and Jung at Coney Island, sharing a ride through the Tunnel of Love. But Doctorow isn't suggesting that this is the world as it was; this is the world as he's contrived it.
To his fans, these liberties have a larger point. "His big topic is challenging the official version of things," says John G. Parks, a professor at the University of Miami and author of "E.L. Doctorow -- Literature and Life." "Because it's usually the victors who tell the story and he feels that serious authors have a chance to challenge the official version of any story."
Put another way, he makes stuff up to get to the truth. Or to get to his truth, anyway. Doctorow has written publicly and forcefully about his politics, which lean strongly to the left. The war in Iraq had already started by the time he'd begun "The March," though he declines to go into particulars about the links between his latest book and the current fighting overseas. He'll leave that work to readers. But there's no mistaking where he stands on the war, or where he stands on the president and the men and woman shaping the administration. In the middle of this discussion he brings up Karl Rove and the investigation into Rove's role in the Valerie Plame media-leak investigation.
"I'd like to see him get nailed," Doctorow says dryly. "Bad man."


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There will be no semantics.
These are the definitions:
Macro-Evolution: "Broad-scale evolution, also referred to as macroevolution, refers to evolution at a grander scale. It focuses on the progression of species or entire clades from a common ancestor to descendant clades over the course of numerous generations." [1] "Change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift that results in the formation of all living species from single celled organisms due to the increase in genetic information resulting in new genes." (My collation of many definitions, the phrasing differ, but the essence remains)
Fact: 1. Something that actually exists; reality; truth: 2. Something known to exist or to have happened: 3. A truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true: 4. Something said to be true or supposed to have happened: 5. Law . Often, facts. an actual or alleged event or circumstance, as distinguished from its legal effect or consequence. [2]
To reduce ambiguity, I will define several more words found in the definitions themselves.
Reality: 1. the state or quality of being real. 2. Resemblance to what is real. 3. A real thing or fact. 4.Real things, facts, or events taken as a whole; state of affairs. 5. Philosophy. a.Something that exists independently of ideas concerning it. b. Something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive. [3]
Mutations: 2 The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form which may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes: [4]
Natural Selection: The mechanism for evolutionary change in which environmental pressures cause certain genetic combinations in a population to become more abundant; genetic combinations best adapted for present environmental conditions tend to become predominant. [5]
Genetic drift: Random changes (Note: Mutations) in the frequency of alleles from generation to generation; especially in small populations, can lead to the elimination of a particular allele by chance alone. [6]
Clades: A group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, according to the principles of cladistics [7]
Genetic information: The heritable biological information coded in the nucleotide sequences of DNA or RNA. [8]
Genetic code refers to the genetic information stored within the genome. (I do not need to provide a reference for this)
I will just add the definition of correct: Free from error; in accordance with fact or truth. (Google definition)
The BoP is on me to show that Macro-evolution, which I will refer to simply as evolution, is NOT correct. I will have to present arguments against the notion that evolution is a fact, and Pro will present arguments for the notion that evolution is a fact.
1. http://animals.about.com...
2. http://dictionary.reference.com...
3. http://dictionary.reference.com...
4. http://oxforddictionaries.com...
5. http://www.mhhe.com...
6. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu...
7. (Google definition of Clades)
8. http://www.biology-online.org...
I accept this challenge with the definitions that my opponent has set forth. My opponent also has the BOP.
Also, as a side note, it is pertinent to note that proving that macro-evolution is correct is synonymous with proving that the processes that make it up, as my opponent defined, are correct and valid (mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift). The proving of these processes logically follows to prove macro-evolution.
I will make two arguments to show why evolution is not correct. The first would be about genetics, and the second would be about paleontology.
I. Genetics
I.a. Mutations and the evolution connection.
The cause and effect of mutations have been widely studied. I will concentrate mainly on the effects of mutations.
The net effect of all mutations is harmful to an organism"s genetic information. Stanford, J. C. has pointed this out in his book Genetic Entropy and The Mystery of the Genome. He also noted that mutations can be either degenerative or beneficial and that there is no such thing as a "neutral" mutation.
Let me put this in simple English. Suppose the phrase, "Methinks it is a weasel" has a mutation in that one of its letters was changed. The information would still probably be interpretable. If there were more than a few changes, however, the information would not be understood. The situation is clearly more complicated for frameshift mutations, additions, and deletions and I will not go into them, but I think the analogy is sufficient for Pro to understand the concept.
The situation, however, is more complicated than that. The average number of mutations created from generation to generation is around 100-200 [2]. This is reproductive mutations.
Out of every cell division, there is around ~3 mutations per human cell division. This effectively means that within the evolutionary time-scale, we should have been dead 100 times over [3]. Even if, granted, natural selection selected against degradational mutations, there would be almost no beneficial mutations to select for. Sanford has noted that
I.b. "Junk DNA"
Junk DNA is the section of the DNA that does not code for proteins. It was mostly thought of as "useless" portions of the genome. Until very recently, junk DNA theory was upheld, and still is upheld in some circles [4].
Evolution predicts that some portions of the DNA would become useless (Information not from [4]) and therefore the genome would reflect this. Therefore, when scientists first discovered noon-protein DNA codes, they assumed immediately that what they were seeing was the leftovers from evolution.
The ENCODE project has shown this to be false [5]. Junk DNA is actually the regulatory portion of the DNA. Some of the purposes of the regulatory DNA determines the organism"s body plan, how much enzymes are produced, and in what quantity.
There is further evidence that mutations leads to cancers, disease, and other things which I will, hopefully, expand on in the round. The dangers of mutation indicate that species would have died long before they could have evolved sufficiently to create new species. (The giving of a new name to a population of organisms does not mean there is a new species. In fact, wrongly identifying "new" species of dinosaurs seem to be a fad. [6][7] show that half of all the dinosaurs have been wrongly identified and given new names.)
In conclusion for this section. There is simply no evidence from the genome that evolution could have occurred.
II. Paleontology
II.a. The Opisthotonic pose
This pose is illustrated in the picture [8].
In [9], the authors conclude that this could not be the result of postmortem water transport because they did experiments on quail. "It is not postmortem contraction but perimortem muscle spasms resulting from various afflictions of the central nervous system that cause these extreme postures. That is, the opisthotonic posture is the result of "death throes," not postmortem processes, and individuals so afflicted assumed the posture before death, not afterward. The clinical literature has long recognized that such afflicted individuals perish from asphyxiation, lack of nourishment or essential nutrients, environmental toxins, or viral infections, among other causes."
This year, scientists did an experiment by placing chicken in cool fresh water and the chickens exhibited the pose [10]. There is contradiction between the two studies, but salt may have played a role.
Besides all of these, water sediment is almost always found with the fossil [11]. How could there be water sediment if the dinosaurs died from meteor impacts? Evolution is unable to give an answer.
II.b. Transitional fossils
In order not to fall for the fossil gaps fallacy, where after finding one fossil, the skeptic claims, "Aha! Now there are two gaps!" I will note that there is many transitional fossil candidates. The one I see most often is the example of the Tiktaalik.
Tiktaalik is supposed to be the transitional organism between fish and tetrapods. Tiktaalik supposedly came from 375 mya. However, tetrapod tracks from 18 mya before that have been found [12]. This is inexplicable via evolutionary theory.
General Conclusion: I must thus conclude that the facts opposes evolution. If the facts opposes evolution, then evolution is not correct. I await your response.
1. http://www.fallacyfiles.org...
2. http://www.nature.com...
3. http://www.sciencedirect.com...
4. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com... (See here a blog blasting the ENCODE projectand supporting "junk DNA")
5. http://www.genome.gov... (Also see this semi-comprehensive non-technical news article on the subject, http://www.guardian.co.uk..., and a more technical one: http://www.sciencemag.org...)
6. http://www.nature.com...
7. http://www.psjournals.org...
8. http://www.stemftw.com...
9. http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org...
10. http://www.newscientist.com...
11. http://www.jstor.org...
12. http://www.nature.com...
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Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) A new surveillance lab set up by North Carolina University will track and map tropical diseases like malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Steven R. Meshnick, epidemiology professor at the University's School of Public Health and an expert on infectious diseases, will head the new lab.
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Financial advisor Kyle Gearhart along with several associates has left Merrill Lynch for greener pastures at Raymond James.
At Merrill, Gearhart managed more than $300 million in client assets and brought in $2.2 annually in new business. He has joined Raymond James Cincinnati office.
It is a pleasure to welcome Kyle to Raymond James, Tash Elwyn, the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based firms president, said in a statement. He brings a valuable combination of knowledge and experience. His client-first attitude and practice align with our values and culture, and we look forward to providing support to him and his clients.
For his part, Gearhart says there were two main reasons why he chose to join Raymond James. First, there is flexibility. I feel that I can truly do what is right for my clients. Second, there is access not only to outstanding research, but also to senior leadership.
Gearhart worked at Merrill as an advisor for 19 years, and before that at PNC Bank and Central Trust, as an analyst. He has degrees in economics and finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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NEW YORK — Chase Manhattan Corp. reported Monday its second- quarter earnings rose 32 percent. Chase earned $307 million, or $1.46 a share, compared with $233 million, or $1.20 a share, during the same period last year.
Chase, the parent of Bridgeport- based Chase Manhattan Bank of Connecticut, reported fees and commissions from consumer and global corporate banking activities grew 24 percent to $480 million.


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Required Reading: Polygon's Oral History of Final Fantasy 7
An in-depth "Making Of" for one of the most important games ever produced.
An in-depth "Making Of" for one of the most important games ever produced.
I recently replayed Capcom's incredible Onimusha trilogy for the PS2 (we'll pretend that Dawn of Dreams never happened) and their stunningly rendered CG introductions inspired me to dig deep and present to you a list of what I believe are the 10 greatest CG introductions to any games yet made.
When limiting the selections to just 10 entries, naturally some of my favorites were left on the cutting room floor (like the incredible intros for Final Fantasy XII and nearly every single Kingdom Hearts game), but I hope this list accurately conveys some of the videogame industry's finest CG work and perhaps even inspires you to try some games you haven't played before.
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Seminar: Faced with Poverty, what sense of well-being exists for children and their families, and is there solidarity between generations?
Wednesday 6 March 2013
On the occasion of the Intrenational Day of the Rights of the Child, the Seours Catholique, in conjunction With Caritas France, organised an international seminar on child poverty.
Almost 200 participants from thirty countries came together to dicuss education, inter-generational solidarity, migration, trafficking and jsutice with a view to assessing the current state of affairs and adopting recommendations for European institutions.
The working group on trafficking in human beings comprised three sub-groups and reflected on raising awareness, prevention, identification and management of victims. The results of these reflections are available below, in the form of recommendations.
There were submissions by the following people during the institutional portion of the seminar:
Antoniya Tilkova-Genova, of the Aganecy for the Protection of Children in the Bulgarian Council of Ministers
Eric Panloup, Advisor on Trafficking in Human Beings for South-Eastern Europe for the French Minister of European and Foreign Affairs.
Yves Charpenel, Advocate General in the French Court of Appeal
The participants were also gievn the opportunity to visit assiociation memebrs of the Collective such as Hors la Rue, AFJ, and the maternity residence in Lilas, which is run by the Salvation Army.
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Arizona Game and Fish Department will be visiting Ha:san science classes on campus on Wednesday November 4th at 1:00 PM to teach students about Arizona native fish conservation and provide information about recreational fishing in and around Tucson.
Thursday November 5th from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, 50 Ha:san students along with teacher chaperones will drive out to Christopher Columbus Park on Silverbell Road to spend the morning fishing in Silverbell Lake.
We would really really like to invite parents and relatives of our students who would be interested in attending the presentation and field trip for this fun and informative event. Please visit the following website to learn more about the program and please contact the school if you would like to help chaperone the field trip.


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Welcome to Wellington Primary Academy (WPA), part of the Wellington College family of schools.
A Wellington education promotes:
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• Holistic Learning by developing the whole child.
• Innovation in the way we teach and learn.
• Collaboration with parents and carers, the Wellington family, the military community and local primary schools.
At WPA we firmly believe that every child in our care has the right to be truly inspired by an engaging and purposeful curriculum. We have a dedicated staff who are all passionate about providing our children with enriching and exciting experiences so that they can all achieve success in their learning. We actively encourage our children to be enthusiastic, resilient, collaborative and aspirational and believe this supports them on their journey to becoming life-long learners.
We support our children to grow into positive, well rounded citizens and work alongside them to encourage bravery, positivity, respect kindness and honesty. By instilling these values we give children the chance to shine and be proud of all they achieve both academically and personally
We are all very proud of our school and would be delighted to show you around so you can see first-hand what we do best.
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Wellington Primary Academy is part of the Wellington family, as is Eagle House School in Sandhurst, which will have close links to our school. To find out more, visit the Eagle House website.


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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
Also known as "the RCIA", the faith journey of adults to initiation through the unified rites of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, is flexible and ongoing.
Grounded in the four pillars of Word, Liturgy, Community and Mission, adults are provided with a sponsor, meet regularly to learn about Catholicism and become part of the fabric of the Parish prior to initiation.
The faith journey is adapted for children of catechetical age (7-17 years) and adults who are already baptised in another Christian tradition.
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Nearly every week growing up I spent time with my cousins. Whether it was eating Saturday evening supper at Granddaddy and Granny's or going to Sunday School, it was pretty much guaranteed my family would get together with the "Other Kigers" at some point each week. Looking back I am sure my parents, aunt, and uncle had a sweet deal because with one boy and two girls in each family we were evenly matched and entertained ourselves. Susan was the oldest cousin and oldest girl, so what the girls played was typically driven by what Susan wanted to do. If the weather was nice we would head outside to shoot basketball and play a rousing game of "HORSE", but if it was raining we could bet on playing the card game UNO for hours on end. While we were making those lasting memories, the subtle adjustments or adaptations we made to the activities so Susan could participate never crossed our minds. As we got older the difference became a bit more obvious. Eventually, I understood a term I would hear the adults in my life say, "Cerebral Palsy" (CP); however, CP did not define Susan. Throughout my life Susan has inspired me in many aspects of my life, including the career path that I chose.
Today, I have the honor of working for a company whose mission statement is "Improving People's Lives" and individuals with CP are some of the lives we strive to improve. Speaking with firsthand knowledge, I can tell you Sunrise Medical takes that mission statement very seriously. Not only from the innovative products we develop and manufacture such as the recently released MONO™ Backrest System, but also to the initiatives we support.
October 1st is World CP Day and Sunrise Medical is proud to support the vision of this global initiative. World CP Day was launched in 2012 and was the first worldwide campaign developed to empower individuals with CP to change their world. According to the World CP Day organization, there are over 17 million people living with CP throughout the world. We encourage you to visit www.worldcpday.org to learn more about CP and what you can do to change the lives of people with CP. In addition, tune into the Sunrise Medical social media outlets and contact Customer Service to find your local Sunrise representative to learn about how we are giving back to local organizations dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with CP all over the United States throughout the month of October.
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Teddy Boy Original Styling Pomade is setting the standard for a pomade. It has received high praise by many known pomade enthusiast. Reviews on big online pomade stores share the same enthusiasm. From the first touch of the product you are introduced to the world of handcrafted pomade, a quality that is immediately realized. The scent of Bay Rum/Mint that is subtle and last as long as it's hold.
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There is such long time (not even so much, to be honest… approximately 10 years of Social Media impact) the web changing our lives.
We use our smartphone as our best friend, 27/7 addicted and absorbed by the information flux and almost of the time we live inside virtual reality.
Television, newspapers, radio, music changing their aspects and migrated into the web which acts as a large capacitor.
The network is huge and almost pressed to meet and exceed all of our needs: from the basic ones to the more superfluous.
The content creators today are the real stars of this world stage: bloggers, singers, artists, journalists and more.
All in real-time: commens, video, content,tweets, makes headlines.
Who comes from old media seems to struggle to adapt, apart from rare and exceptional cases.
Clearly, the web has its pros and its cons.
The magazines have seen a sharp decline, with regard to the paper version, while the other party online seems to be getting stronger and more focused on what could be called opinion leaders.
There are many talented young people who are moving in this universe, determined to fight the global crisis and they seems to have found a new way of working, by following their passions and their vocations.
The majority of these guys are all graduates with an instruction of all respect, good looking, smart and confident.
Here are the 10 bloggers that make up Net-a-Porter's "Blog Power List" – bookmark these guys if you haven't already! Over at Net-a-Porter, you can shop the blogger's signature look, read quotes from the panel of experts and learn which blogs almost made the cut.
1. Tommy Ton of Jak & Jil
2. Hanneli Mustaparta of Hanneli
3. BryanBoy of Bryan Boy
4. Garance Dore of Garance Dore
5. Susanna Lau of Style Bubble, (Go, Young & Posh!)
6. Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist
7. Imran Amed of Business of Fashion
8. Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie
9. Erin Kleinberg and Stephanie Mark of The Coveteur
10. Julia Frakes of Yes! A Bunny Stream of Conch
Want the scoop on which fashion experts put together this list? Here they are:
Mickey Boardman, Founder, Paper Magazine
Derek Blasberg, Editor-at-Large, Harper's Bazaar and Senior Editor, V Magazine
Grace Lam, Senior Fashion Style Editor, Vogue China
Colin McDowell, Fashion Commentator
Jonny Johansson, Creative Director, ACNE
Anna Laub, Creative Director, Prism
Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, Designers, Peter Pilotto
Richard Nicoll, Founder & Creative Director, Richard Nicoll
Rich Tong, Fashion Director, Tumblr
Mattias Swenson, Founder, Bloglovin'
The television seems to be aimed at an audience more obsolete, that belongs to another generation is not digitized. In fact, even the tv, apart from Pay-per-view, it is rightly moving online.
This also happens with music. The CD has been supplanted by platform as Spotify, Sound Clouds, I tunes, Ping that allow you to download music.. This was a blow that put their backs to the wall to record labels.
Social networks are the new form of communication and entertainment. The network creates the opportunity to zap on what we are interested in, like a stream of consciousness in which every thought is materialized in the virtual world.
The creativity is change:
If you click on the pictures you are automatically redirect to http://www.influencersfilm.com.
I tell you some about the project: INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach."
Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today's pop culture.
Probably today, social media is the cornerstone of your music career. It's what lets you stay in touch with your fans and easily notify them with exciting news. With all the social media guides out there, you'd think no one remembers one of the key behavioral aspects to being human – socializing. I know, it's hard to find a balance between social and promotional – afterall, you still need to sell your show or record. Here's 10 secrets to help you find that social media balance.
In Art: The social media platform is not only launching the career of under-the-radar artists, it is providing the world with an entirely new way to access art. Where artists once had to first get support of the art world elite—critics, galleries and big name collectors, which would eventually lead to museum shows—before reaching the monied masses, today artists use Instagram as their own virtual art gallery, playing both dealer and curator while their fans become critics and collectors, witnessing the creative process in real time.
Standing before Marc Quinn's looming Myth Venus sculpture in front of Christie's Rockefeller headquarters last night was a masked protester holding a large poster that readF*** U. It was a parody of Wase Guyton's 's 2005 Untitled that sold for $3.52 million just hours later at the live-streamed "If I Live I'll See You Tuesday"auction, which included 35 contemporary artworks from blue-chip names such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger and Alex Israel, all handpicked by contemporary art expert Loic Gouzer, with the majority of the production on his—and Christie's—Instagram accounts.
Instagram, makes the art process more easily!
Guyton, who makes his art on inkjet printers and photocopiers, had used his own Instagram account over the weekend in what was quickly interpreted as a subtle threat, rather than just a cheeky response, to the auction by printing and photographing dozens of prints using the same file that produced his original inkjet on linen Untitled. He could flood the market, if he wanted to. But he didn't and the auction, which "witnessed worldwide participation" according to Christie's and surpassed its pre-sale target of $92.9 million to total a record-breaking $134.6 million, saw Israel's Sky Backdrop sell for five times its estimate at $1.25 million in what was the artist's first appearance at auction. Meanwhile Kippenberger'sUntitled sold for the world record price of $18.6 million. "Christie's is taking contemporary art and making it go to prices that it shouldn't," the anonymous protester told the New York Observer. "By the time they're 30, these artists aren't going to have anywhere to go." But if Gouzer's auction has taught us anything, it is that what artists will have is Instagram.
The social media platform is not only launching the career of under-the-radar artists, it is providing the world with an entirely new way to access art. Where artists once had to first get support of the art world elite—critics, galleries and big name collectors, which would eventually lead to museum shows—before reaching the monied masses, today artists use Instagram as their own virtual art gallery, playing both dealer and curator while their fans become critics and collectors, witnessing the creative process in real time.
Digital natives are clearly studying, chatting,have fun, sharing a video with friends and downloading the latest tunes from the Apps, while on the one hand the old world is disappearing and is giving way to the era electricity.
It is not a new story: Silcon Valley that has changed our habits to technology since the launch of the first computer.
Someone said that technology could leading us to isolation, but I think the road is that instead of sharing and growth of the global community.
Probably if the Orwellian vision scares you, try to see the positive side of things, we will have a life controlled but we can have bespoke, tailor-made travel, check our home when we are not in, make targeted purchases, order our favorite foods and have a medicals visits at a distance and so on.
Certainly, media education is crucial for the new digitalised populations especially in early childhood because a responsible use makes the difference.
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Texas Secretary of State reminds Texans September is National Voter Registration Month
Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade has announced September is National Voter Registration Month. Secretary Andrade joins her colleagues with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) in making this important announcement.
"Voting is every Texan's opportunity to make their mark on Texas' future," said Andrade. "Registering is the first step in the voting process. I urge Texans to check their voter registration status at VoteTexas.gov and learn about how, when and where to register and vote."
Oct. 9 is the deadline to register to vote in Texas to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 6 General Election. Texans can verify their voter registration status or find information on how to register to vote at the state's online, one-stop voter resource, www.VoteTexas.gov. They can also find contact information for all local elections administrators or county clerks around Texas. The early voting period in Texas begins Oct. 22 and continues through Nov. 2. The deadline to request a ballot by mail is Oct. 30.
The nation's secretaries of state established September as National Voter Registration Month to encourage voter participation and increase awareness of state requirements and deadlines for voting. Sept. 25 is National Voter Registration Day.
"Secretaries of state want to encourage eligible voters to register and make sure their registration information is up-to-date before deadlines pass," noted NASS President Ross J. Miller, who serves as Nevada Secretary of State. "If your information is outdated or incorrect, or if you aren't sure how to register to vote, there is time to get it straightened out with your state or local election office, so you can cast your vote easily in the Nov. 6 presidential election."
For more information on voter registration options and deadlines in Texas, please visit the state's online, one-stop voter resource, www.VoteTexas.gov.


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Several NEH staff members from across the Endowment's offices and divisions will be attending the 2016 American Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta, from January 7th to January 10th.
We will have an NEH information table in the Atrium Registration 3 area of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Please stop by to say hello to the friendly NEH staff and pick up information about our grant opportunities and professional development programs.
If you would like to schedule a time for an individual consultation, please contact the appropriate program staff member (using the email addresses or appointment scheduler provided in the links below).
Thursday, January 7
1:00 pm- 3:00 pm
NEH Special Initiatives, Program, and Grant Opportunities for Historians, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 5
An opportunity to meet NEH program staff, learn about funding opportunities and special initiatives, and ask questions about the Endowment and all of its programs. We will be discussing several new grant programs offered by the NEH.
Julia Huston Nguyen, Division of Education Programs
Joseph Phelan, EDSITEment
Jennifer Serventi, Office of Digital Humanities
Daniel Sack, Division of Research Programs
Friday, January 8
8:30 am to 10:00 am
Digital Projects Lightning Round, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Ballroom VI
Jennifer Serventi from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities will be participating in the Lightning Round. Her 2-minute presentation is titled "NEH Support for Digital History Projects: What's Available in 2016?"
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The Etruscans: History and Identity in the Ancient World (sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association) Hilton Atlanta Room 212
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A booking form for the DPS@40 evening railtour with D9009 'ALYCIDON' from the Bluebell Railway to the South Coast on Saturday 7th October is now available for download by CLICKING HERE. Bookings are being dealt with by our friends at Avocet Travel Management, who sponsored the repaint of D9009 last year.
The tour is booked to leave East Grinstead around 17.00, calling at Oxted and East Croydon before going on a circular tour of Hampshire, returning to East Grinstead around 22.30. The train will feature both Standard Class and First Class Dining seats, and the requested routing is as follows:
East Grinstead (pu/sd) – Oxted (pu/sd) – East Croydon (pu/sd) then via Clapham Juntion - Kew East Junction – Hounslow – Woking – Andover – Laverstock Chord – Romsey – Southampton – Winchester – Hounslow – Clapham Junction – East Croydon (sd) – Oxted (sd) – East Grinstead (sd).
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A quick stop in Kota Bharu
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Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia
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Planning a new kitchen can be a daunting task; there are countless options to consider which can leave you drowning in design ideas and have no idea where to start.
Well, in the early stages of any kitchen design it is critical to think about functionality by considering what you need from your kitchen, rather than only focusing on the "look". Sometimes the most beautiful kitchens, end up being a design disaster because more focus was put on the facade, and less on the functionality.
The first thing to consider is what works well (and not so much) in your current kitchen, think about how you cook; do you mainly use your cooktop or do you favour your oven? If you favour your cooktop you may want to consider a 900m. How does the rest of the family interact with the kitchen? Is it used as a homework station for the children, if so will you need the sink at one end of the island so that the other end is free for activities?
Location should also be considered in regards to your living and dining areas, as well as your outdoor space. This should be fairly straight forward if you are in the early planning stage of building a new house, but if not and you have the opportunity to re-design the layout of your existing kitchen, spend the time thinking about how you and your family move within the space, and how you can make your life easier when cooking and entertaining.
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Our U21 amalgamation of Patrick Rankins begin this year's campaign with an away game against Grange on Sunday 22nd October with a 12 o'clock throw-in. This is followed up with a home game against Carrickcruppen on 5th November and a final group game at home to Ballyhegan on 12th November.
Minor Boys
It was disappointment for our minor boys' amalgamation of Patrick Rankins on Wednesday night, losing out by nine points to Maghery in the Division 2 championship final in the Athletic Grounds. Played in terrible weather conditions Maghery were the better team throughout the contest and fully deserved their win on a score-line of 2 – 14 to 2 – 5.
Minor Girls
Our minor girls were in shield final action on Sunday evening against Silverbridge in Crossmaglen but the result of the game was unknown at the time of going to press.
Training for all our U6s continues every Tuesday evening in Bessbrook Community Centre from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Everyone please remember to bring water and £1. All new and current U6s are welcome to come along, starting from 3 years old.
Underage Meeting
An underage meeting will take place tomorrow night, Monday 9th October at 8:00 pm in the club. Anyone interested in helping out in any way with any of our underage teams next year is asked to come along and make yourselves available.
Annual Golf Classic
This year's Shane O'Neill's Annual Golf Classic will take place next Saturday 14th October in Cloverhill Golf Club. The tournament will take the format of a 3 Ball Scramble with an entry of £75.00 per 3 ball team. The winners will receive a 1 night's Stay and Play at Slieve Russel Hotel. For further information or to book your place please contact Gareth on 0044 7810 892439.
Congratulations to Aimee Mackin who has recently been nominated for another All-Star award.
Last week's winning lotto numbers were 11, 18, 30 & 32. There were no jackpot winners and 1 x lucky dip winner. The jackpot now stands at a very impressive £6,700 so why not get yourself a ticket…. if you're not in, you can't win.
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In her final column for the term, Online Features Columnist Thea Osborne discusses the current dire state of affairs left behind in Iraq.
Sectarian violence within Iraq is becoming an almost daily event, to the extent where news channels seem to have become desensitised to the latest car bomb or suicide attack. Violence has reached the worst levels it has been in years; the monthly death toll did drop in November but it is still terrifyingly high with 659 dead, at least 80 per cent of whom were civilians. 7,150 civilians have been killed since January this year, the highest annual toll since 2008. On Sunday at least 39 people were reported to have been killed by over nine explosions in and around Baghdad, predominantly in Shia Muslim areas. The bombs targeted crowded commercial areas and marketplaces. The roots of the violence are based along complex sectarian divides and rivalries and are slowly turning the whole of Iraq into a violent crisis zone with little clear leadership and even less everyday safety.
The three largest demographics within Iraq are Arab Sunnis, Arab Shia and the Kurds; each is desperate to stake a claim to the future Iraq and ensure that their interests are considered. The Kurds in the north were brutally oppressed under Saddam Hussein and are now determined to settle for little less than their own autonomous state. The rivalry between the Shia and Sunni is what has been the cause of the majority of the recent violence within the country. Saddam Hussein was a Sunni Muslim and despite only making up 35 per cent of the population favoured fellow Sunnis over the majority Shia population. Perhaps understandably there has been a lot of backlash from the previously suppressed Shia majority since his downfall. This has then created a vicious cycle of attack and counter-attack which has reached particularly awful heights in the last year. The latest ongoing wave of violence started as a response to a crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in April and has reached heights only previously seen when the country teetered on the brinks of civil war in 2007.
The Shia-led Iraqi government is under pressure to restore control and is attempting to bring in new safety measures in order to curtail the rising violence as Iraqi citizens are increasingly concerned that it could spill over into a full blown sectarian conflict. Bombings in crowded areas, particularly cafés, bus stations and restaurants have become part of everyday life – citizens are feeling increasingly unsafe as more and more civilians are randomly targeted. At the beginning of the year attacks were generally focused upon security and military targets but they have become increasingly unpredictable. Responsibility is usually unclaimed for attacks but different methods tend to indicate different groups; suicide bombings are generally being carried out by Al-Qaeda associates and roadside bombings by Shia extremists. Those carrying out the violence and sanctioning such violent methods are clearly small minorities of the Iraqi population but they are managing to slowly drag the entire country back in time to the more brutal times of the Shia-Sunni violence in 2006 and 2007.
It is clear and imminent that whether the world is noticing or not, Iraq is sliding dangerously close to civil war. Government measures, such as the increasing use of sniffer dogs that can smell out car bombs and large helium balloons over Baghdad which use surveillance cameras to track traffic, are generally met with scepticism by the population. The only hope is that the majority of the country is so desperate for peace and the end of sectarian violence that the violence might fizzle out, however, at the moment, it seems to be never-ending.
Thea Osborne, Online Features Columnist
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BOSTON -- When it comes to retirement income, clients are concerned about rising health costs, and they probably also should be concerned about long-term care, said a top executive of Merrill Lynch's Retirement Income Program, in a keynote address here Tuesday at the Retirement Income Industry Association's fall conference.
Bill Hunter, director of Merrill Lynch's Retirement Income Program Management, was discussing some highlights of a 2011 survey his firm had done of clients with annual income of at least $250,000. Though the clients surveyed were affluent, they were still concerned with rising health care costs, Hunter said. In fact, rising health care costs was their number one concern.
However, despite the concern, the clients were not as knowledgeable about all aspects of health care cost management as they believed, Hunter said. For instance, 78% of those surveyed said they believed they were knowledgeable about Medicare. However, a large portion of that same group couldn't correctly identify what's covered by Medicare part A, Hunter said.
Furthermore, more than half the clients surveyed did not have a plan in place to pay for long-term care, Hunter said. "There might be a real need for long-term care," he said.
He told a story about a man in Connecticut who was doing well financially -- well enough to put a few kids through private college and still have enough money to hire a couple of financial advisors. But the financial advisors were focused on things like rare coins and real estate for investment, Hunter said. The advisors never asked questions about the family's health or genetic history, and the man did not have a long-term care plan.
When the man's wife developed Alzheimer's, it was financially devastating. The kicker: the man is Hunter's father-in-law.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd be supporting my father-in-law in retirement," Hunter said. Long-term care -- and retirement health costs in general -- are areas financial advisors really must focus on, and help their clients focus on, he said.
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FREE Langley Photowalk
Second Annual FREE Langley Photowalk
Saturday, October 5, 9:30-11:30am
Photographers of any ability and with any camera are invited to participate in this fun and social photo excursion. Learn from each other and discover the joy of finding hidden and obvious photo treasures in our special Village-By-The-Sea. Please encourage your friends to register, too. Space is limited, so please sign up early!
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