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VC: "Entrepreneurs have a lot of the power"
Ann Miura-Ko is known for using the term "ninja assassin" in describing the kinds of technology entrepreneurs she likes to invest in as a venture capitalist and co-founder of Silicon Valley's Floodgate Fund. Reuters recently caught up with one of the country's up-and-coming VCs, after Miura-Ko attended at a Washington, D.C. conference addressing financing options for small companies.
Q: You've said you are concerned about impending regulatory restrictions on small investment firms as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act takes effect. Why?
A: This comes out of the result of some bad behavior on the part of investors. But what they're (government is) trying to do is mitigate risk for the whole economy by having smaller investment firms also register with the SEC. As a small fund myself, that doesn't have a lot of overhead, we don't have a lot of back-office people working for us. The amount of reporting that is required relative to the amount of risk it de-risks for the entire economy, I think that the cost benefit doesn't really make sense to me. We as a really small fund would have to start registering with the SEC pretty soon, and the amount of back-office work that would be required is kind of ridiculous.
Q: You're interested in easing residency restrictions for foreign-born entrepreneurs. Why?
A: One of the topics I love to talk a little bit about is the concept of the startup visa, which would enable founders to be able to stay in the United States longer and be able to start their companies here. I recently did a study on some of the top (startup) exits that have happened over the course of the last five years. What's really outstanding is the number of founders who come from outside the United States. I'd like to foster that. I look at fellow graduate students from Stanford and where they ended up. I see really a lot of technical talent staying here even after they get graduate degrees and I think that's also going to work for a competitive advantage.
Q: What is the environment like for early-stage companies seeking funding options?
A: Over the last five or ten years, the amount of information for entrepreneurs on how to work with investors, the amount of information is huge. There are blogs out there now. There are resource centers like Venture Hacks. The transparency in the industry has increased. For entrepreneurs who want to find that information, there is plenty of information to be found. This kind of information didn't exist even three, four, five years ago. I think that's why you find people talking about the democratization of entrepreneurship and innovation. It's really a time in which entrepreneurs have a lot of the power.
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Click on the following link to listen to a talk back with Evan Yankey, Lisa Severino and Joe Salvatore.
Evan Yankey is the New York City Regional Coordinator for the Self-Advocacy Association of New York State, one of the largest grassroots organization controlled entirely by people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. SANYS works with Families, Service Providers, The Office for People with Developmental disabilities, and does community organizing with over 60 self-advocacy groups in the New York City area and over 200 groups statewide to support people with developmental disabilities speaking up for themselves and others.
Lisa Severino is a self-advocate working with the Self-Advocacy Association of New York State for 7 years as a grassroots organizer. She is also a member of the Queens Developmental Disabilities Council Legislative Committee, and is appointed by the Governor's office to the Developmental Disabilities Planning Council where she oversees the awarding of grant funding for innovative services and supports for people with developmental disabilities.
Joe Salvatore is a playwright and director based in New York and a Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Theatre at NYU's Steinhardt School where he teaches courses in acting, directing, Shakespeare, play development, ethnodrama, and applied theatre. His creative work often explores gender, sexuality, and relationship construction, and he has created verbatim interview theatre plays focused on bullying and social combat, class and socioeconomic status, and open relationships. Joe is also the founder and lead team member for Project Pay Attention, an initiative that asks people to pay closer attention to their actions and the words they use, either verbally, in writing, or via social media (www.projectpayattn.com). Joe is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, American Alliance for Theatre and Education, and an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

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"You shouldn't be on that ladder!" The sight of his heavily pregnant wife reaching up to place the fairy on top of the Christmas tree shot Ben across the room, his briefcase falling to the floor unheeded.
The ladder swayed, Ben grabbed it and cursed. The fairy arced into the air and landed at the other side of the room.
"For goodness sake, now look what you've done Ben." Gina cast an exasperated glance down at the shaking man now welded to the ladder. "You startled the life out of me."
"Not half as much as the sight of you about to lose your balance up there scared me, I can tell you! I don't want to spend our first Christmas as a family at the hospital A and E department." He lifted her to safety and lowered her gently to the floor then rested his forehead against hers. It took several moments for his heart rate to drop back to normal. Then with one hand he caressed her swollen abdomen, then cupped her face and drew her in for a kiss. "I know we were married last Christmas, but there's something about being together and knowing our child is a part of it that makes this year special." He glanced at the decorations strewn across the floor and the lights carefully laid along the back of the settee, and let the love surround him.
For the first ten years of his life Christmas was a cold lonely room with little to eat, and for Gina the sights, sounds and stench of surrounding streets and damp cardboard boxes, were reality. He vowed then and there, with Gina snuggled up against his chest, that he'd keep her and his children safe, and wrapped in love.
"You know?" Gina pulled away and smiled up at him, "I find it hard sometimes, to believe we were lucky enough to find each other."
She shook her head; then looked back at the tree.
"Magic! The same magic you find in Christmas. I don't mean the commercialism," she added quickly when Ben snorted. "I'm talking about the basic message of Christmas, the continuity, the trust and belief, the love…" She stopped, thought for a moment then continued. "The kind of love I'm talking about is boundless, has its own energy, finds its own level and destination.
"Contrary to expectations we came together and overcame the odds against us. Christmas reminds us to celebrate each day and the newness of life." Gina's hand curled over Ben's cradling the son their doctor insisted would arrive on Christmas day.
* * * *Sherry Gloag delights in the knowledge her debut novel, The Brat, released in October 2010 by The Wild Rose Press, is 'out there' in time for Christmas. Twice in the past decade fortune tellers told her she would have a book published in 2010. Twice she disbelieved them. Now she blushes with remorse for her cynicism.
When she's not writing, Sherry Gloag enjoys gardening, walking and reading. For relaxation she disappears into her workshop and involves herself in crystal craftwork.


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Fused: Guitarist John McLaughlin (left) and keyboardist Chick Corea team up with Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Vinnie Colaiuta for a night of fusion jazz.
Fusion innovators Chick Corea and John McLaughlin explode into Santa Cruz with their new Five Peace Band.
By Andrew Gilbert
One of the proud pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, Chick Corea has never abandoned the oft-maligned musical genre. Ever since his tenure with Miles Davis in the late 1960s, when he contributed to the trumpeter's seminal plugged-in sessions In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, Corea has pushed the outer aural limits with a battery of state-of-the-art keyboards.
Fresh on the heels of last year's Return to Forever tour, which reunited the turbo-charged band's most prodigious incarnation with guitarist Al DiMeola, bassist Stanley Clark and drummer Lenny White for the first time in more than three decades, Corea is joining forces with fellow fusion explorer John McLaughlin in the Five Peace Band for a 22-city North American tour that hits the Santa Cruz Civic on Monday in a concert produced by Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
"I have to take the blame for being the instigator," says Corea, 67, who recruited powerhouse alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett, the ubiquitous bass master Christian McBride and studio drum icon Vinnie Colaiuta as the other Peaces. "I'd wanted to do a project with John for a long time. My admiration for him is boundless. He's such an incredible creator and musician. I wanted to experience some of that rapport again."
The Five Peace Band, and an upcoming eponymous live recording documenting the recently concluded European tour with drummer Brian Blade, captures a rare convergence of the two peripatetic masters. Corea performed on the guitarist's excellent 1977 Sony album Electric Guitarist, and appears on a badly recorded live 1981 duo session included in the 17-disc Warner Bros. box set John McLaughlin: The Montreux Concerts.
In many ways, Corea and McLaughlin are kindred spirits, restlessly creative artists who have often confounded expectations by breaking up popular combos and striking out in new directions. Like Corea, McLaughlin made his mark with Miles Davis in the late '60s, and went on to found a definitive fusion ensemble, Mahavishnu Orchestra, that won a huge following in the early 1970s with its furious tempos, asymmetric structures and odd-metered tunes. It was an era when fusion combos competed with rock acts for fans and venues, and it wasn't unusual for Mahavishnu and Return to Forever to share the same bill.
"I remember sitting in the audience for a Mahavishnu set," Corea says. "Those were exciting times, man. John started the concert with a minute of silence, and then they just blasted off."
Like RTF, Mahavishnu went through various incarnations (the two bands even shared a member, vocalist/keyboardist Gayle Moran, who later married Corea). When McLaughlin broke up the orchestra for good, he launched the groundbreaking world music group Shakti with tabla master Zakir Hussain, the first of several increasingly persuasive Indian jazz projects.
Over the years, McLaughlin has alternated between electric and acoustic guitar, touring with flamenco master Paco de Lucia, composing concertos for classical guitar and orchestra, and arranging a program of Bill Evans music for guitar quartet. In recent years he's delved back into high-octane fusion, delivering a combustible plugged-in set on 2006's Industrial Zen.
"I'm a Western musician and my discipline is jazz," said McLaughlin, 67. "I want to give testimony to my jazz-rock roots." Not that he's abandoned his love of classical Indian music. The Five Peace Band takes its name from last year's Floating Point, a collaboration with some of the world's finest Indian musicians.
Corea has similarly zigzagged between acoustic and electric contexts, writing chamber music and grandiose sci-fi epics for fusion combo, all the while maintaining his long-running collaborations with vocal wizard Bobby McFerrin and vibraphonist Gary Burton. Indeed, last month Corea and Burton's The New Crystal Silence won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumentalist Album.
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For Corea, the point isn't whether he's playing a Yamaha grand piano or a Moog Voyager; it's the depth of communication he achieves with his band mates, which is why his reunion with McLaughlin holds such promise. "The instruments, whether acoustic or electric, are servants, they're tools to be used to get to the goal, the ideas that we're trying to express," Corea says. "We play everything from very quiet expressions to wild and dense passages. It's a constant mix and experimentation, especially with the electric keyboard. But the instruments should always play a subservient role. The point is communication and rapport, mutual interest and co-creativeness."
CHICK COREA AND JOHN MCLAUGHLIN WITH THE FIVE PEACE BAND perform Monday, March 23, at 8pm at Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. Tickets are $36.75-$68.25 at www.santacruztickets.com or 831.420.5260.
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Applications are currently being accepted from public entities or nonprofit organizations that have developed effective family engagement models that address obstacles faced by low-income families. The foundation is particularly interested in proposals that outline effective teaching strategies, align early childhood systems in their communities, and focus on building family economic security and strong family engagement in education.
Applications must be received no later than September 23, 2013. If selected, applicants will be invited to provide a full proposal in October 2013. Selected grantees will be notified of their awards in December 2013. Grant awards are expected to be up to $500,000 for one to three years.


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There is, obviously, a correct answer.
There is, obviously, a correct answer.
a compass by which to get lost
a collection of facts and amusements
But seriously pirating ebooks is good
stick it to the capitalist bookstores/libraries
i work for a capitalist bookstore
do you want me to starve koto
is that what you want
a compass by which to get lost
a collection of facts and amusements
a compass by which to get lost
a collection of facts and amusements
Going to a library requires me to go outside, and remember to return things.
Linger: Complete. August, 1995. I met him. A branch off Part 3. Mikiya keeps his promise to meet Azaka, and meets again with that mysterious girl he once found in the rain.
Shinkai: Set in the Edo period. DHO-centric. As mysterious figures gather in the city, a young woman unearths the dark secrets of the Asakami family.
The Dollkeeper: A Fate side-story. The memoirs of the last tuner of the Einzberns. A record of the end of a family.
Overcount 2030: Extra x Notes. A girl with no memories is found by a nameless soldier, and wakes up to a world of war.
Eh, all three have their uses. Hardcovers are solid and can be used to murder that damn fly that never leaves you alone, Paperbacks let you buy every Terry Prachett book without using up too much shelf space, and epubs let you read at work without getting greasy fingerprints all over your pristine books.
Atlus: Just Make an Eroge Already.
Gundam-a-thon Status:
0079 Zeta ZZ Char's Counterattck War In the Pocket F91 Stardust Memories Victory G Gundam Wing Endless Waltz 8th MS After War X Turn A SEEDIGLOO 00 Unicorn AGE Reconguista The Orgin ThunderboltS2 IBO
The Manhattan Project: Is it a sin to kill for your country? In an age of nationalism, where do you draw the line between right and wrong? In the 1960s, eight people seek peace amidst war and tragedy.
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
Hardbacks are good for caressing as I admire the mildly higher quality and the inherently superior option unless you just get them in ebook read like a sensible person
wait so what KIND of heretic is Leo?
insert picture of kay from girls und panzer looking at her phone
Paperback I guess.
"We do not know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are.
That's what death is, don't you think?"
Most paperbacks I buy fall apart after a couple years if I read them often.
Kill Em All 2004
I am executor man
I like all sorts of covers but hardcover brings back memories of reading Harry Potter, Narnia, and LOTR late into the night
Also feels nice under the fingers
My attempts at being a (fanfic) writer:
Eclipse - a Saber Alter oneshot
Requiem for a Race - Altrouge and Ortenrosse hunt the TAs ( 1/3 chapters, discontinued )
Memories of a King - a 'Saber Origins' story ( 8/? chapters, discontiuned )
A Small Warmth - a post UBW-Good oneshot, Saber/Rin
Devil's Thrill - Narbareck hunts down a DAA Blackmore ( 10/10 chapters, finished )
Boundary of Loneliness - Ryougi Shiki/Alphard Al-Shua oneshot. Lemon-flavoured


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I made a slap-dash effort at sterilization. Please don't send the food safety police after me. I did wash everything in hot soapy water and then put the glass in the oven at 250 while the jam cooked.
*Cue Space Odyssey theme music* Behold: I have made jam! Okay, I've made it before, whatever. But this is really good jam. It has a good balance of fresh berry and lemon flavor, and big whole berries still in it. I love seeing a chunk of the real stuff in what I'm eating. No baby food, thankyouverymuch, I have teeth and I will use them, even on jam.
Other than the sterilization stuff, the jam making process was pretty easy. Toss it all in a large dutch oven, cook on medium high heat so that it bubbles, stir so it doesn't burn, and cook until thick. I initially used 10 cups of blackberries, 4 cups of sugar, 2 lemons and their zest. For me, it was way cloyingly sweet, so I added one more lemon, juice and zest and 1 cup raspberries, and cooked it a little longer. It was probably 45 minutes in all. I smashed some of the berries with a spoon, but not too much. Carefully! spoon into jars, seal and cool. Good to go.
The flavor was nice, fruity and with fresh flavor from the lemons, but no sourness at all. It was still a little too sweet, though. I'm going to start with less sugar next time and taste and see.


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Thing was never going to sing at the Paris Opera but that wasn't the point; he sang because he liked it. It made him happy. Thing's father was always whistling a tune and he did it so often that most times he didn't seem to notice.
"What's that tune?" Thing would ask.
"Heck, if I know," said his dad.
Thing's mother would also 'tut' at that point because she didn't think that folks should say 'heck'.
Thing's father had told him that the Great Thing in the sky probably put a tune in everyone's heart when they were born and that was the tune they worked by all their lives. It was the one they sang when they were scared, or happy, or in love, or sad or just because they felt like it.
Thing had a song about jumping as high as the clouds and on those days when he was blue or later on when he missed his parents, he would shout it out as loud as he could all around the cave and do you know what? He felt a whole lot better.
Sometimes in town he would sing the song real quite like so the he didn't feel so alone.
Some sunny days in spring, folks would bring their geetars down to the town square and they'd sing about this and that and the other. Big one and small ones would stand and listen and join in -, if the feeling took them. It left everyone humming tunes as they walked home.
Thing wished he could sing just one song that would make folks happy and have them all whistling tunes and perhaps they would stand around and join in.
One day at school his teacher asked each person in the class to stand and do something special, tell a joke, perform a card trick, tell about their grandma – anything that was a little unique to them.
Thing listened in awe at the folks in his class, he laughed, he cried, he applauded and he hollered when the person deserved it - although as Mrs Hills said, 'hollering was for outside'.
Then it was Thing's turn and he stood and he sang his jumping song. I think it was Casey Briggs who shouted 'What cha call that? A thong? He ain't singing he's thinging' and most of the folks in the class began to laugh. Mrs Hills clapped her hands, thanked Thing and asked him to sit again.
For a long time after and a long time after that, folks would shout across the street at him about 'Thing the thinger who sings thongs'. Now I ain't telling you this story about Thing so you'll feel sorry and all – Thing wasn't like that - Thing had a song in his heart which had been placed there by the Great Thing in the sky the day he was born and it was his duty to sing the song if it made him happy.
Thing once asked his Dad, when he'd had a bad day with the folks in school, if maybe the problem was that we all had different songs in our hearts and that some folks didn't want to listen or couldn't hear the other folks' tunes.
"Heck, you just might be right there, little 'un'," said his dad.
His mother gave out another 'tut' because of that word being used again.
Thing realised that the way he heard his song was probably not the way the other folks heard it. It didn't mean anyone was wrong or right. It was just that a tune is a tune and only really exists to make you happy. If the others don't like your tune then you should just sing it to yourself.
So you're already packing up this story and thinking we've arrived at the end of it - but you'd be wrong.
One day when Thing was sitting at the door of his cave, some horses were grazing nearby and just at that point Thing felt the need to sing the tune he'd been given.
One by one the horses came over and stood and listened and shook their heads, they way horses do, and then they rubbed their heads against Thing as a way of thanking him.
You see, you couldn't make everyone like your song - that wasn't why you had been given it - but sometimes when you least expected it your song might seep into someone else's heart and make them feel a whole lot better .
Thing decided you should never let anyone stop you singing your song and never ever change it or you just might miss a friend who likes your tune.
bobby stevenson + THING 2015


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Wednesday, February 6
Samuel Jackson and Wanda Sykes: on immigrants, homophobia and segregation
I t's harder to be gay than to be black... I didn't have to come out black..."
"I didn't had to sit down my parents and tell them about my blackness."
"If someone burgled my house and vacuumed ..." "I would be confused but would not call the cops."
Wanda Sykes
"He, (his grandpa), talked to me a lot, he told me a lot of stories about the south,
he gave me survival tools.
He taught me how to live in a segregated south how to survive in it."
Samuel Jackson at The Actor's Studio
Wanda is very funny at the video explaining to her family that she is black. Take a look.
Come on. Just click and watch! Laziness...
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Rural Carrier(redirected from Rural Carriers)
Rural Carrier
An employee of the United States Postal Service who delivers mail in areas with low population density. Rural carriers were introduced in the 1890s; previously, people who lived in rural areas had to go to the nearest post office to pick up their mail. Unlike other letter deliverers, rural carriers do not wear uniforms. They also have their own labor union.


text: Ok, So i got the PAL version of MGSPW ISO and i ran it on my PSP 2000 with CFW 5.50 Gen-D2 It works up to the part in the prolouge when i go in the warehouse or w/e and a cutscene comes up where snake is hiding behind a wall and there's a guard talking on the radio and snake surprises him and puts a knife to his neck. The problem comes as soon as the guard hangs up and it says "CLICK" in the cutscene It stops and the icon for loading comes up but it stays there. Has anyone had this issue? and was it fixable? Been, trying to play since the morning and i can't find a way


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Friday, December 23, 2016
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Sherry London Prom Dress 2016
Sherry London is a UK based online shop that offers bridesmaid dresses company in custom made, design and sales business. We will render service quickest, most easily and most intimately to serve the fastest and convenient tailored customization in bridesmaid, prom dresses and special occassion dresses.
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I'm sure every prom is an important occassion for girls out there who are finding the perfect prom dress to wear during that night. Here is some of my few favorites 2016 prom dress from Sherry London.
This is one of my favorite, the pleats are just right and the color is just so soft and subtle. (: Sherry London provides the most unique designs you won't be able to find outside. By the way, all their clothes comes with all sorts of sizes from UK4 to UK28.
Imagine all the plus sizes will be able to find their right size
Imagine all the plus sizes will be able to find their right size
This color attracts me. I like blue, alot. plus the details of the top of the dress is a plus point too.
Did i mention that every design of the dress comes with at least 20 different colors ? they have emerald, seaform, dark navy, coral, candy pink, hot coral, aqua, black, anything you can name it .
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Sherry London also provides return policy if you feel there is a problem with the quality.
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Supply Chain Management and the Bullwhip Effect
Your boss was recently reading about supply chain management. During her reading, she came across the term bullwhip effect. She also asked you to put together a presentation about the bullwhip effect so that she could explain it to senior management.
Include the following in your presentation:
How does the bullwhip effect happen?
Why is the effect bad?
What can be done to reduce or eliminate the effect?
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Delphi is one of Greece's most sacred places. It is situated on the slope of Mt. Panassus, where the god Pan and his nymphs were believed to have lived. It was home to the world's most famous oracle and was thought of as the very middle of the world.
Apollo is the god that is most commonly associated with Delphi, though there were others before him, such as Gaea, Themis and Phoebe. According to legend, the monster Python protected the site and Apollo slew him and founded the first temple there. The Pythian games were held first every eight years, and then every four in remembrance of the deed. They eventually became mostly musical performances and the winner was crowned with a laurel wreath, as the Laurel was Apollo's tree.
Delphi was thought of as the center of the world, and that belief is based on the myth that once upon a time, Zeus let his two eagles fly around the world and the place they met was Delphi. A stone called Omphalos, the Navel, was used to mark the spot. It is currently on display in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
Anyone who had enough money could ask the Delphic oracle a question. They had to go through purification rituals and pay a tax, but then they could speak with Pythia, who was a young virgin from a nearby village. Her head was most likely clouded by some kind of narcotic, and she would mumble incomprehensibly and then a priest would relay her message to the visitor. The fortune was always vague, ensuring that the oracle was almost always correct. The sanctuary was a very wealthy one.
An earthquake destroyed a lot of Delphi in 373 BC, including the temple of Apollo. The city-states surrounding it rebuilt it by 323, and it was then that the well-known inscriptions that read "know yourself", "keep the measure" and "E" were made.
The Delphi Archaeological Museum has many amazing finds from the site. I'm looking forward to visiting both the site and the museum, because the place holds many legends and stories of mythology, which are quite interesting to me. This is one of the places I'm most excited to see.


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Hadiqa Kiani is not only an Singer but also a good actress and a beautiful model. Hadiqa works as a model in lot of fashion shows but these collection which i am going to share are one of the best collections of latest jeans, hoods and short shirts. In these fashion dresses mostly hood Shirts are in pink color and can be wear as street fashion.
beautiful stylish Jeans paint with sleeveless short body shirts for casual wears an can also be wear as festive wear.
Pink hoody T-Shirt in pink color looking stunning with ladies jeans paint. This street fashion jeans has lovely style of rough paint where the waist is fit but the ankle area in widely style (Flapper style)
This Hoody style is used in her latest album "Aasmaan" and also worked as a model. In this album hadiqa prefers the hood dresses with jeans. Specially hoody uppers.
Being a street fashion dress this dress can also be wear as casual rainy day dress. The hoody is in shining style with two pockets and looking gorgeous in short sleeve.
It's a Hadiqa's casual street/ road wear fashion dress. you may say that this dress is specially designed for tour parties or picnic party. The white short body ladies shirt is giving stunning impression with white short jeans.
The most favorite dress of Hadiqa Kiyani. This photo shot is taken from her house. The jeans paint is looking beautiful with jeans upper. This dress is casual wear / Holiday wear / morning party wear. Mostly celebrities wear these types of dress when ever goes for shopping.


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Country Cottage / Gite - Camaiore
- Chateau / Country House968 sq. ft.
- Bedrooms3
- People6
- Bathrooms2
- Separate WCs0
- Min. Stay3 nights
Sara Bergamini
- Response rate:
- 100%
- Response time:
- within one hour
- Speaks
- English, Italian
- Calendar last updated:
- 16 Jul 2018
- Internet
- Fireplace
- Satellite or Cable
- Kids Welcome
- Parking
- No Smoking
- Heater
- 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6
- Bedroom 33 Double Bed, 1 Cot
- 2 Bathrooms
- Bathroom 1Bath (no shower)
- Shower room 1Shower Enclosure
Location Type
- rural
- Self-catering
- Iron & Board
- Fan
- Hair Dryer
- Heating
- Internet
- Fireplace
- Linens Provided
- Parking
- Towels Provided
- Washing Machine
- Free Wifi
- 4 Ring Stove
- Coffee Maker
- Dishes & Utensils
- Freezer
- Kettle
- Kitchen
- Oven
- Pantry Items
- Refrigerator
- Toaster
- Child's Highchair
- Dining Area
- comfy seating for 6 people
- Satellite / Cable
- Television
- Toys
- Terrace
- Garden Table & Chairs
- Garden100 sqm / 1076 sqft
- Barbecue
- Parasol
- wheelchair inaccessible
- caves
- churches
- cinemas
- live theatre
- playground
- restaurants
- theme parks
- winery tours
Leisure Activities
- Boating
- Disco club
- horse riding
- Miniature golf
- scenic drives
- walking
- Water sports
Local Services & Businesses
- Babysitter
- groceries
- hospital
Sports & Adventure Activities
- fishing
- freshwater fishing
- mountain biking
- sailing
- caving
- surfing
House Rules
Check-in: 14:00
Check-out: 09:00
Cancellation Policy
100% refund for cancellations more than 60 days before check-in date. 50% refund for cancellations more than 30 days before check-in date. You must contact the owner directly to request cancellation.
31 Reviews
Maison / villa - Camaiore
on est accueilli par un grand sourire chaleureux dans un cadre magnifique!
la maison est bien équipée et les petits déjeuners sur la terrasse sont de vrais moments de plaisir!
quelques mets et boissons sont dans le frigo à notre arrivée: il n'y avait plus qu'à profiter...merci Sara!
Merci Madame Emmanuelle.
Great peacefull place!
A little bit tricky to get to but the views are wonderfull!!! The booking was uncomplicated, and although we arrived at about 10pm at the Pedona, Sara was there waiting for us to give us the keys. Very friendly! This house is very big, nice and clean. It is in a great location, the rooms have a wonderful size and the kitchen is fully functional. Sara had left a fridge stocked with food for us to start our stay, it was very nice!! We travelled a lot (Pisa, Lucca, Florence, La Spezia) and spent much of our time on the beach (Lido di Camaiore - 10 km from the house) or on the patio drinking wine :). The shop in Pedona has all you need and is just a 10 minute walk. In Camaiore there are lots of cafes and restaurants plus a well-stocked supermarket. We recommend this house and very friendly hostess!!! Monika, Radek, Basia, Marek and Maurizio ;)
Hello Monika!
I'm happy that you liked my place.. Yes is a peacefull pace ! Thank you so much for this testimony.
Perfect away-from-it-all house with amazing views.
Tricky to get to but well worth it. The views from every window and the patio/garden are fantastic looking across open countryside to the coast. Sara had left a fridge stocked with food for us to start our stay, including cold beers! We spent much of our time on the patio just relaxing. The shop in Pedona has all you need and is just a 10 minute walk. If you drive down to Camaiore at the bottom of the hill there are lots of cafes and restaurants plus a well-stocked supermarket.
Thank you for your testimony. I'm happy that you like the place. All the best. Sara
The pictures do not do en...
The pictures do not do enough justice to this fantastic property. It is very spacious with a lovely garden / terrace.
Sara is incredibly helpful (brought in washing when it rained, provided home grown fruit/veg and best of all - had enough food for us to make a good meal with when we arrived, including cold beer!!!)
The property is at the top of a steep hill with lots of bends and I wish I had taken my bike so I could join the locals in climbing it. On first arrival it is a bit tricky to find - take the road to Pedona from Camaiore. Go through Pedona and pass two more tight bends. At the very top of the hill take a right turn at a sort of crossroads. The property is found after about 100 metres down there.)
I would recommend the place to anyone who wants a peaceful break in a spacious property with stunning views.
My wife, daughter and I t...
My wife, daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay in this home. The house, located in a quiet small community high up in the mountians of Tuscany, was clean and comfortable. The views from the house and garden, not to mention those you get while driving up the mountain, are spectacular. We never tired of taking pictures! Our host, Sarah, was always nearby but never intrusive and we were pleasantly surprised by the supplies she had on hand for our arrival.
You need a car to enjoy this home. If you are looking for lovely accommodations in a quiet mountain village then you will not be disappointed. The local village (Pedona) restaurant served excellent food and their dining room has an amazing view.
This was one of the best holidays we have ever had.
"We spent one week in thi...
"We spent one week in this very nice house. One of the great things was that the pictures you see here correspond to the reality... so no dissappointment . It is located on top of a mountains in a small village. The view of the Ligure Sea and the sourroundings is incredible. Sarah even purchased some food to help us start the week. Very nice! The house was very clean and very well equiped. This is perfect for people who want to have quite place but access to the beach and other main tourist attactions around. We strongly recommend it!!!"
(Text automatically translated) By car: FROM FLORENCE AND NORTHERN ITALY / EUROPE Coming from the A1 towards Rome, take the A11 in the direction of Florence-Lucca Lucca. Continue to Viareggio. Appene leave the motorway, you will immediately see the signs for Camaiore. You must, however, take the first exit on the right and continue to dritto.Camaiore is a few miles and there you will find the directions to Pedona. FROM ROME AND THE SOUTH ITALY: if you come from the A1 Rome-Florence, exit at Firenze junction with the A11 Firenze-Lucca. Continue to Lucca-Viareggio. The output is Viareggio. Instead if you come from Rome / Italy through the South Tyrrhenian corridor / Aurelia, take the A12 to Rosignano towards Genoa. The output is Viareggio
(Text automatically translated) The nearest restaurant is located in the center of the village, with typical regional cuisine and a delicious pizza to dine-in or take also from away.Posside also free internet access. The house is also close to the most famous cities of art (with their festivals and music festivals) as: Camaiore Lido di Camaiore, Viareggio, Pietrasanta, Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Siena.
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2013 SCVonTOUR Blog: June 7 – June 9
This blog post is coming to you all the way from our new housing site in Tollhouse, CA. About 415 miles south of our last housing site, we are no longer in the shadow of Mount Shasta, but rather at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Our elevation dropped from 3,425 feet to a mere 1919 feet, and we arrived at Sierra High School, home of the Chieftans. This school is an excellent housing site for us, because it offers many rehearsal fields, two gyms, and a pool; all of which will come in handy during our two week stay!
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You may recall the Little Bobtail Lake fire in the Prince George, BC area that burned over 25,000 ha in 2015 (curious to compare 25,000 ha to your area? Check here).
How does it look now? Did the fire burn and kill the entire area? These are some questions that can be explored quite easily now using archived and processed imagery from Astro Digital. I've made an example for the Little Bobtail Lake fire here that compares imagery from before the fire (April 9, 2015) and after the fire (June 28, 2015), and here are the steps I used to do it:
- Sign up for a free Astro Digital account here.
- Sign in and you'll find yourself at "Mission Control".
- Start a new "task".
- Edit the task.
- Select the images you want to process
- Submit the task, choosing web map as the output. I wanted true color (visual), false color (mostly land vs. water differentiation), and NDVI (for vegetation health. Green = healthy vegetation, blue/black = dead/dormant/non-vegetated) images, so I chose all of those options.
- Submit the task and wait for the images to be processed.
- Once the images are ready, follow the instructions for Using Processed Imagery via Mapbox. You need to use Astro Digital's public Mapbox key to access the web map imagery. I believe it would be possible to download the raw imagery from Astro Digital and make tiles yourself to upload to your own Mapbox account, but I have not done that here. The tradeoff is that Astro Digital limits the key to 100 map views/web page, so if this map is unavailable, you can rest assured that it has gone viral (yay me), so try back tomorrow.
- That's it! The map is here. Try it out. Toggle the layers on and off – "on" layers at the top of the list cover up those underneath, so you need to turn off the upper layers to see the lower layers. Try flipping back and forth to see the difference in NDVI layers – notice that before the fire, the Little Bobtail Lake area looked just like the surrounding area (it's dark because the vegetation is still coming online after winter), while after the fire, the results are quite striking. Have fun!
Inspiration: AstroDigital blog, Mapbox examples


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Monday, May 04, 2015
Are Leftists neophiliacs?
Neophilia -- love of the new -- has popped up as a concept on a number of occasions but it mostly seems to occur in a marketing context. Buyers of Apple products (iPhones, iPads etc.) are often branded as neophiliacs, for instance. Apple has made big money out of it, as new Apple products seem to come out all the time and the neophiliac has to have the latest at all times so lines up for every new release.
Since my cellphone is an old push-button one that I bought for $50 some years ago and which has no touch facilities at all, I would appear not to be a neophiliac. I have certainly not contributed to the vast profits of the Apple corporation.
Marketing is, however, only one context in which neophilia has been seen. Wikipedia gives a useful definition based on the "cult" writings of the quite eccentric Robert Anton Wilson, who popularized the term. It is as follows:
"Neophiles/Neophiliacs have the following basic characteristics:
The ability to adapt rapidly to extreme change
A distaste or downright loathing of tradition, repetition, and routine
A tendency to become bored quickly with old things
A desire, bordering on obsession in some cases, to experience novelty
A corresponding and related desire to create novelty by creating or achieving something and/or by stirring social or other forms of unrest.
A neophile is distinct from a revolutionary in that anyone might become a revolutionary if pushed far enough by the reigning authorities or social norms, whereas neophiles are revolutionaries by nature. Their intellectual abhorrence of tradition and repetition usually bemoans a deeper emotional need for constant novelty and change."
Wilson was not however the first to use the term. Christopher Booker attempted to summarize the '60s in a 1969 book called "The neophiliacs". One summary of the book:
"Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream."
And concepts related to neophilia have appeared rather a lot in personality psychology: Sensation-seeking, experience-seeking, openness, tolerance of ambiguity etc.
The most explicit focus on the concept in psychology would appear to be in the work of Robert Cloninger. Of his work we read:
"It's within this context that the personality dimension of novelty-seeking first emerged. In a recent New York Times interview (link is external), Cloninger argues that the quality of novelty-seeking can be one of the brightest spots on our personality horizon. A number of years ago, he identified novelty-seeking as one of four basic "temperaments," meaning that it is an automatic emotional response that primes us to seek out new experiences. The other three temperaments are harm avoidance (aversion to risk), reward dependence (being sensitive to social situations and reinforcement), and persistence (ability to persist in pursuit of a goal). Cloninger believes that these temperaments are largely inherited, meaning that they are built into our biological makeup. Some of us are programmed to embrace the new; others to run as far away from it as possible."
And the work of Jerome Kagan deserves a mention. Of that we read:
"Largely thanks to technological advances, biologically informed research on temperament is providing the best insights into neophilia. In his classic research on boldness and shyness, Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard University, exposed infants and small children to mildly stressful forms of novelty -- noise, sour tastes, unfamiliar objects or people -- while he monitored their behavioral and physiological responses. He found that certain fearless tots, most of them boys, clearly warranted the label of "bold." Their physiological markers are a very low heart rate and a more active left brain. Their active, spontaneous behavior and zestful, bring-it-on attitude toward new things bespeaks the instinctive energy and drive that Freud called "libido.""
Amid all that interest in the concept it seems to me quite strange that its political relevance rarely seems to be explored. Why? Leftists presumably find the concept gets uncomfortably close to the bone and most psychologists are Leftist. Being an inveterate breaker of Leftist taboos, however, I HAVE researched the subject. And I found that, among the general population, Leftists tend to be both sensation seekers generally and even experience seekers -- i.e. lovers of new consumer products. If they ever hear of the latter finding (They'll try not to) they will surely be rather embarrassed, given their frequent condemnation of "consumerism" etc.
But I don't think my research was really needed. Res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. The reason I have put up various excerpts above is to make plain what I think stands out like dog's balls (with apologies for the army expression). Descriptions of neophiliacs could very well be descriptions of Leftists.
So, Yes. Many Leftists are neophiliacs. They want change for change's sake. Mr Obama's 2008 campaign had a very obvious appeal in that regard. He made "change" his theme and offered the absurd but obviously exciting promises that he would make the oceans recede and the planet "heal"
So while the defining characteristic of a Leftist is great dissatisfaction with the status quo, the reason for the dissatisfaction is not always the same. Most Leftists seem to be angry about some aspect of the status quo but the neophiliac is simply bored by it. Whatever the motive, however, sweeping change is advocated. And Obama certainly delivered that, with Obamacare being merely the most obvious example of big and sudden change.
Interestingly, the Italian Fascism of Mussolini was to a considerable degree similarly motivated. He drew heavily on and largely incorporated the "Futurist" movement of the early 20th century. Futurists were very clearly neophiliacs. Of the Italian Futurists we read:
'We shall sing the love of danger, energy and boldness!" the Futurist Manifesto shouted from the rooftops in 1909. "We declare that the world's splendour has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. There is no more beauty except in strife, no masterpiece without aggressiveness, a violent onslaught upon the unknown forces, to force them to bow to the will of man ... "We wish to glorify war -- the only hygiene of the world -- militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the anarchist, the beautiful ideas that kill!"
Much more at the link. Clearly, excitement is what the Futurists craved. Many Leftists of today seem to crave the same. Since modern-day Leftism is a form of Fascism, that is not exactly surprising.
And for young people at least, Nazism seems to have been largely motivated by a hunger for change and excitement and consequent hatred of the status quo. This is reinforced by the now famous account of life in Nazi Germany given by a young "Aryan" who lived through it. Originally written before World War II, Haffner's (2002) account of why Hitler rose to power stresses the boring nature of ordinary German life and observes that the appeal of the Nazis lay in their offering of relief from that:
"The great danger of life in Germany has always been emptiness and boredom ... The menace of monotony hangs, as it has always hung, over the great plains of northern and eastern Germany, with their colorless towns and their all too industrious, efficient, and conscientious business and organizations. With it comes a horror vacui and the yearning for 'salvation': through alcohol, through superstition, or, best of all, through a vast, overpowering, cheap mass intoxication."
So he too saw the primary appeal of Nazism as its offering of change, novelty and excitement. Modern day Leftists sure are in good company.
An Important Lesson from the Baltimore Riots
If you've been watching the Baltimore riots over the past few days, one thing should be perfectly clear: when seconds count, the police are minutes away.
You watched as countless businesses and homes were burned while the police line stayed put a few hundred yards back. Rumor has it that the mayor ordered the police to stand down.
Which begs the question: who can you trust to protect yourself in an emergency?
The answer is you and you alone. We all saw the news reports of Baltimore residents protecting their property with machetes and shotguns. Those were the buildings that were passed over by the mobs.
But in liberal states like Maryland, citizens are being disarmed and prevented from arming at record pace. One of our readers tried to by defensive ammunition at a Walmart and he was greeted by a sign reading,
"Due to the ongoing State of Emergency, ammo will not be available for sale."
Can you imagine trying to buy a gun/ammunition to protect yourself only to be turned away? Meanwhile, the police are being told to stand down and your neighborhood is literally being destroyed right before your eyes.
This isn't unique to Baltimore… it can happen anywhere in this country. Yet the most populous liberal states in this country won't allow citizens to defend themselves!
The Second Amendment was written so that citizens could protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. If the Founders were alive today, they would have expected law-abiding Baltimore residents to be armed to defend their communities.
But many weren't and as a result, their homes and businesses burned.
Yet, Maryland isn't alone. New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia all make it next to impossible for civilians to defend themselves at home and in public. More than 20% of the American people live within these gun control states.
But even in Conservative states like Louisiana, police are trained to seize civilians' weapons when emergencies strike. Just look at what happened during Hurricane Katrina… Instead of protecting the people, the police and National Guard went door-to-door confiscating firearms and leaving residents to fend for themselves.
Today, six in ten Americans agree that owning a firearm makes you safer. Yet all across this country, there are laws on the books that prevent citizens from being able to protect themselves.
These laws are unconstitutional. The only problem is that Barack Obama has packed the courts with liberal activist judges that uphold these abhorrent laws.
Liberal states won't let citizens defend themselves and when push comes to shove, they won't let the police protect the citizens either.
Revealed: Obama's Plan to Transform the Country
This blows the lid off of the entire amnesty movement within the Obama administration.
For years, we've known that the President's amnesty agenda was nothing but an attempt to pad voter rolls with Democrat voters. Until now, we never had the proof.
The Department of Homeland Security is calling it the "Task Force on New Americans." The goal? Get 9 million resident aliens their American citizenship in time to vote by the 2016 election.
This is nothing but a liberal attempt to desperately hold onto power for as long as possible.
We all knew that amnesty was just the beginning. The Left sees every foreigner who enters this country as a potential Democrat voter. And now, they are trying to get as many of these alien residents naturalized as possible naturalized before the 2016 election!
Here's what's even worse: of the 20 states with the highest populations of green card holders, 14 of them are holding Senate elections in 2016. Seven of them are incumbent Republican Senators. These include battleground states like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Add in Hillary Clinton's candidacy and it is clear why DHS is pushing so hard to get as many "New Americans" as possible naturalized before 2016. A couple hundred thousand new Democrats in Ohio and Florida means it's game over for the Republicans.
Let's be clear. That is exactly what is happening. Whistleblowers have called attention to the fact that DHS funds are being redirected to make this liberal pipe dream a reality.
Congress didn't appropriate money for this. The Department of Homeland Security is just making it up as they go along.
If we don't put a stop to this now, then it is over. It's one thing for people to naturally go through the process of getting their citizenship. It is an entirely different situation to have the Federal government pushing the issue with an election year deadline.
If you don't fight back against this one, then be prepared to lose on every other issue you care about. Abortion, gun control… you name it. It's all on the chopping block if the Obama administration is allowed to naturalize 9 million new voters.
We're a nation of immigrants, there's no debating that at all. But never before has the Federal government played politics to this scale with naturalization to achieve a political objective.
As I said, this is it. Nine million new voters in these swing states in such a short time frame would irreversibly swing the tides.
This fight is the gateway to all other policy fights. We need to win this one first before we can secure any others.
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I am sure you have heard kids telling their parents, "I am an adult now, I don't need you/your advice/help/suggestions etc..." And whereas we are all probably guilty of doing or thinking that at some point in our lives it has really been on my mind lately. I have come to the conclusion that in all honesty, we NEVER stop needing our parents.
Here I am 59 years old and more then ever I find myself needing my mom and dad or wanting them close to me. Maybe it comes from the trials and errors we find our children and grandchildren going through as we struggle to find the right words or actions in response to their situations. It would be so nice to have parents to turn to for advice.
Though my parents have been gone for many years, it has not lessened my missing them. I still have moments when I regress and feel like a lost child. But there is something that they have inadvertently instilled in me and will never go away; you see, they are still with me.
Every time I look at myself in the mirror I see my Dad's blue eyes looking back at me, feel his creative genes interacting in my constantly churning mind, his musicality being sung out of my lips and danced out of my feet, his athleticism in my love of sports and competitiveness. His quick wit and laughter that often just slips off my tongue!
My mom's knack for teaching seems to ooze out of me so effortlessly that even I wonder sometimes, if that came out of MY mouth? Her appreciation for the beauty of flowers, the sunset and the little things that often go unnoticed are being seen out of my eyes as I stand amazed at the small miracles in life that God has given us. Her positive outlook, values, morals, and knowing right from wrong which I consciously strive to keep in the forefront of my actions. The greatest gift of all is from both of them- their love of children which I automatically embrace every time I see a child.
How is it that children think they can escape or leave their parents? The very blood that runs through their veins is that of their parents. No wonder there is such a connection even after death. When parents say they understand their child better then you think, it is true; it can't be helped.
I for one, am grateful that this is true as it gives me comfort on the days when I feel like a lonely child. It is then that I am able to just take a good look at myself to find them. They are still here, in me and always with me. For that I am eternally grateful.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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published by Wizards of the Coast
Started: July 16
Finished: July 16
Notes: This is a gaming book for Dungeons & Dragons, basically a collection of seven fan-favorite RPG adventures over the decades. Some of these go back to the late 1970s, while others are only a few years old. All of them were originally made for earlier versions of D&D, but each has been updated for the latest, Fifth, edition. I've read and played a few of these adventures, but the rest are new to me. It should prove interesting to see how the older gaming modules have been updated.
Mini review: This was actually pretty fun, looking back at some old adventurers and seeing how much had been changed (or not) for modern D&D. For those who play the game, there's even an appendix section in the back which provides stats for monsters and magic items which appear in this collection.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Books read in 2017: No. 22 -- Tales from The Yawning Portal
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- Charles Gramlich said...
I should learn more about D & D just so I understand posts like this. :)
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Up for an Oscar, but too darned busy to write your acceptance speech? Have no fear! This handy-dandy interweb doo-dad can do the heavy lifting for you.
The Generator's Acceptance Speech for the Best Complexion in a Documentary Oscar:
Thank you! Oh! Thank you! I can hardly conjugate verbs! I feel so surgically enhanced! And this statue - it's so heavy! Oh, thank you again! I just want everyone to secretly suspect that even in my wildest fits of self-loathing, I never would have frantically prayed that this could ever be so meaningless. And to the other suck-ass nominees, I want each of you to know how totally saddened your fake smiles makes me feel right now!
You know when they first told me I was not the father, I just had to take a Xanax and laugh about how freakish my experiences have been. I guess it all just makes me feel kinda cheap You know, there are so many back-stabbing leeches to thank! First off though, I want to thank the senile old bats of the Academy, who looked deep within their lint-encrusted navels before giving me this fantastic award! Also, I want to thank my guru, for being such a powerful force in my life. And to the hooker with the heart of gold, who taught me to take life by the day. And finally, to all the personal assistants I fired - I couldn't have done it without you!
Thank you America, and good night!
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"Just the three (or four) of us"
New words spread more easily than new ideas. Polyamory is getting noticed far from its centers of activity, but not always with great insight.
Just the three (or four) of us
By Pamela E. Spencer and Damon Smith — McClatchy Newspapers
We can't escape Charlie Sheen lately, which got us wondering. Sheen's got two ladies living with him.
New "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Kendra Wilkerson was once one of three women living with Hugh Hefner.
So is polyamory - being in an intimate relationship where you know you're not the only girlfriend/boyfriend - becoming more accepted? Do these relationships work?
Pamela says: Yeah, polyamory works if you're young or if you're a celebrity living on the wild side. But not for very long.
I'll give you a woman's perspective. When I was in my early 20s, I wasn't thinking long-term when it came to dating. I was having fun. That's what you should do when you're young.
...The Midwest girl in me thinks that eventually, either one or two things happen in a polyamorous relationship: Someone gets tired of partying and leaves willing or he/she gets traded in for a newer model.
Damon says: ...I have no real clue about it, polyamory or open relationships, save for that they are becoming more common every day....
Sure, open relationships can work. I'm certain that they have their benefits - like never running into that issue of being bored with sexing the same person again and again. But really, it's hard enough trying to stay STD-free and maintaining trust in one person. Why in the world would you want to juggle two or more?
Two heads may be better than one, but in this case, three-plus heads - all of which will likely be influenced by feelings - can't possibly be better than two. That's my logic....
Don't forget, folks, cultural context is everything.
(Read the whole article; Mar. 24, 2011.)
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Q. Pat, it has been a busy winter at the test track - do you feel the team is fully prepared for Melbourne?
Pat Symonds: I think we're as prepared as we can be, but with the new testing regime we will arrive in Melbourne with fewer kilometres on the car than we would normally have achieved in previous seasons. The weather has also been quite poor during pre-season testing, which has held us back a little, but when the car has been running it has been working well and I'm not too worried.
Q. What about the drivability of the car? Are the drivers happy with it?
PS: At our first test in Portugal we only had one dry day and initially the car was quite difficult to drive, especially as we were getting used to the new aerodynamic characteristics. But as we've introduced the updates in preparation for Melbourne, we've moved towards a pretty driveable car that both Fernando and Nelson are comfortable with and it's now behaving much more as we want it to.
Q. We have some radical new regulations this season - do you enjoy the challenge this represents?
PS: I certainly enjoy the challenge and I think it's great to have change reasonably regularly - I wouldn't want to rip up the rule book every year, but the regulations had been quite stable for a while so it was time for a change. There are a lot of things to get used to: new aerodynamics, operational restrictions in testing and of course KERS, which is a technology that we've had to learn from scratch.
Initially we may have been sceptical about the ability to get KERS on the car in such a short space of time, but we've managed to get our system working well and that's a credit to all the guys who have worked on our system at Renault.
Q. Is the Australian Grand Prix a popular race with the team?
PS: I enjoy it and I think the whole team does as it's when we get back to racing, which is ultimately what we're all here for. Melbourne is a great city and everybody looks forward to going there, although I suspect we will end up seeing a lot more of the garages in Albert Park than the city itself!
Q. Have you set a target you would like to see the team achieve in the first race?
PS: The target I set at the beginning of the season is always the same: to be winning races and challenging for the championship - it would be wrong to have any other intention.
However, when you start tempering your expectations with reality, you may moderate that target a little bit. Nonetheless, I do believe that we've got a car that is good enough to challenge for wins and when you combine that with our drivers and the team's ability to go racing, I'm fairly confident we can deliver a strong start to the season.
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The January 1st edition of the Washington Post published an Op-Ed titled "The Resurgent Progressives." The writer, E.J. Dionne, claims "the emergence of a Democratic left will be one of the major stories of 2014." The author bemoans the rightward shift in American politics and admits the US "needs a real Left." But do progressive local referendums, the ascendancy of individuals like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and NYC mayor Bill De Blasio represent the "the real Left." Hmm, I don't think so. Once upon a time these figures would have been, at best, referred to as liberals even moderates by some.
Although the terms Left and Right are regularly applied in the white corporate media, they are rarely defined. Throughout most of the twentieth century, particularly the Cold War, "the Left" meant some form of socialism, communism, or anarchism. We should return to this definition. The central unifying factor of the "The Left" should be anti-capitalism. Speaking only of income inequality just. doesn't. quite. cut it. "The Left" must question private ownership itself and demand a complete redistribution of land and wealth including, but not limited to, the nationalization of banks, factories, and communications systems etc.
As previously stated, this was once the criteria. For example, Howard Zinn claims that one hundred years ago in 1914 the Socialist Party USA had over 1200 office-holders in the US. Twenty years later, during the era of the popular front, Robert Cohen in When the Old Left was Young writes that in 1936 half of all college students in this country participated in a one day strike and rally to protest fascism and war. At the height of the anti-war movement in 1970, over 10,000 people gathered in Philadelphia for the Revolutionary People's Convention to write a new US constitution. The keynote speaker was Black revolutionary, Huey Newton. These are examples of a truly insurgent Left.
None of those remarks are meant to belittle the accomplishments, impact, and possibilities of the liberal policy's that have been enacted. A case in point, eighteen states have legalized gay marriage, Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana, and like other municipalities, Washington DC has raised its minimum wage to $11.50. Similar to industrial unionism in the 1930s, if the SEIU and other labor unions commit hundreds, perhaps, thousands of young organizers to organize fast food, low wage workers there could be a strong multi-national labor movement in the US. The beacons of hope for a truly resurgent Left are socialist alternative city council woman Kshama Sawant in Seattle, WA and Revolutionary Black Nationalist Chokwe Lumumba in Jackson, MS. But what does a truly resurgent Left mean for the Black Liberation movement?
In Reluctant Reformers Robert Allen argues that US social reform movements from abolitionism to labor has been sabotaged by racism/white supremacy. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing impact of the southern strategy perfected by Ronald Reagan AND the Democratic party, racism hurts the chances of the success of multi-racial organizations even today. Moreover, it illustrates the continued relevance of Left Nationalist formation(s) (ex: African Blood Brotherhood, Black Panthers, MXGM). Following the strategy laid out in the Jackson Plan of participatory and economic democracy, the election of Chokwe Lumumba offers possibilities and potential lessons for "The Left" generally and the Black Left in particular. With the correct definition and strategy for "The Left" we can organize to smash capitalism and end national oppression, once and for all.
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Anyway, a couple of months ago (I said I was behind) I put together a little bit of a goth/pinup fusion type of look for going out to the new wave club. That is one of the things I love about goth fashion; you can combine goth style elements with other kinds of looks and pretty much do whatever the f**k you want! I found a pinup-ish dress with a touch of goth to it and paired it with some pvc heels, a pvc waist belt, my ribcage necklace, and a hair flower for a pinup touch. I think I was a little too toned down with this look; next time I crack this look out I'm going to wear some dreads and fishnets and boots or something. The goth to pinup ratio is a bit off here and I often don't wear my natural hair when going out. Also, this look could really have used some falsies. If I remember correctly, I got home late after a long commute from the middle of nowhere and didn't have quite enough time to do what I wanted with my appearance.
My makeup was inspired by my dress which has little pink cherries and black and white polka dots all over it. I tried to do something that combined all of these colours in a way that wasn't totally IN YOUR FACE.
(Note: Hereafter, I shall abbreviate Spellbound By Jynx Cosmetics as SBJ)
FACE: MAC Prep and Prime, MAC Studio Fix Fluid Foundation in NC15, MAC Select Sheer Pressed Powder in NC15.
BROWS: MAC Eyebrow Pencil in Stud.
LIPS: Morgana Cryptoria Very Strawberry Lipstick with MAC Dazzleglass Creme in Totally Fab over top.
CHEEKS: Spellbound By Jynx B5. I LOVED THIS COLOUR WITH THIS OUTFIT!
EYES: Base - UDPP and MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre.
Lid - SBJ Impulse
Upper Crease - SBJ Saffy
Under Brow and Inner Corner - SBJ Stardust
Outer V - SBJ Pitch Black (not pictured for some reason)
Upper and Lower Lashlines - Maybelline Black Liquid Eyeliner
Waterline - UD 24/7 Glide-on Pencil in Perversion
Upper and Lower Lashes - Maybelline the Falsies Flared Mascara
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A new report says half of the primates in the world are in danger of extinction. Not surprisingly, human-spurred deforestation is a major factor. Of course, the report will probably be ignored by the primates who are responsible, but it's just another devastating and depressing reminder of the destructive power of unchecked human growth and "development" is having on the rest of the world.


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It has been a weekend for finishes. I completed my April colour challenge top.
The Orca Bay quilt has borders now. That one is finished just in time - Bonnie is taking down the instructions very shortly, so hop over there an download the files, if you want to make this quilt.
The Monday Mystery finally has its borders. I'm second guessing the cornerstone choice, but other than that I think this worked out nicely. And it used up some fabric that's been hanging out in my closet for far too long.
And finally, I made 2 pillow cases for ConKerr Cancer -
which gets them off my UFO list. So, if I don't get to the official
April UFO, I have at least completed one of my outstanding projects. They will be sent off to Arrow Cabinets as part of the Friday Night Sew-in party.
All this work was great for my stash report this week. I used:
5.25 yards for the April colour challenge
1.25 yards for Orca Bay borders
2 yards for pillow cases
.75 yards for Mystery borders
Total out this week - 9.25 yards. And, amazingly, nothing in! I stopped by the fabric shop today, but managed to leave unencumbered by new fabric.
Totals this year:
49 yards out, 75 1/2 yards in
Net for 2012: 26 1/2 yards in
Check out Judy's blog for more stash reports today.
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Stash Report - April 22
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Congrats on all your finishes. I really like your color challenge quilt. Good job.ReplyDelete
Great finishes. They color challenge quilt is over the top! I love it, and your orca bay is so pretty. Love the border you decided on!!ReplyDelete
Wow, you did a fabulous amount of work this past week. I like your Orca Bay borders.ReplyDelete
Beautiful finsihes!ReplyDelete
What great finishes! I really like the first quilt. It looks so complicated.ReplyDelete
I like the quilts - glad you finished the Orca quilt from the retreat. I'm still a bit behind in my project from February, but I have been working in the garden. At least that's my excuse!ReplyDelete
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Yellow blocks for June Rainbow Challenge
D4P, 16 patch, and 4 patches
Label for a Friend
UFO Mystery quilt Blocks
I Spy Baby Quilt Finish
That bee block is way too cute.ReplyDelete
Great projects going on here! The yellow blocks, the mystery block, the bee block, especially the I Spy baby quilt. Thank you for sharing :DReplyDelete
What a lot of fun projects!ReplyDelete
The bee block made me smile - so cute!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! Such fun projects going on here - love that bee!!!ReplyDelete
That bee is just cute as can be, annd I love the I Spy quilt. Great work!ReplyDelete
Everything looks great! I love the bee! :0)ReplyDelete


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Which X-Men Should die or be dead in DOFP?
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Hmmm.. Well if they don't use an alternate future, then Jean and Scott are dead and Xavier could well be kept dead rather than using that braindead twin nonsense!
Here's my thoughts (off the top of my head, while at work)
Storm, Wolverine, Kitty, Colossus, Angel, Nightcrawler, Magneto all appear in future but are gradually killed off (many of them after the time travel), making the time travel more desperate and necessary than ever.
Rogue is sent back in time, having absorbed the powers of some of the dying mutants. She is given a personal stake after seeing her boyfriend Iceman killed.
Already dead in the future - as seen on a huge field of hundreds/thousands of gravestones (camera pans out into the distance to show the huge death toll) - are Beast, Iceman, Banshee, Havok, Mystique, Pyro, Emma Frost, Gambit, Sabretooth, Juggernaut, Multiple Man, and all of the Fantastic Four. (I'd love Kelsey's Beast back but somehow it's doubtful, and killing Iceman would save on special effects as well as give Rogue a reason to travel back in time)
Killed in the past are Riptide, Angel Salvadore.
Not sure about how I'd handle Bishop or Cable. If there is a time machine, then Forge could be included to invent it.
LoL i loved everything you said right here...
regarding Cable, I would actually love it if they made him the time traveller, it kind of puts the audience right there with the guy.
I Would basically have Cable as a freedom fighter of sorts along with his X-Force, who are all dead. He seeks out the X-Men to join them in the battle. He only finds Wolverine, Iceman and Storm, along with random young mutants that they saved. The rest of the X-Men are either captured or dead.
Cable, Wolverine, IceMan and Storm then set out to free the rest of the X-Men, a huge battle then ensues, with Cyclops, Colossus, Rogue, Franklin Richards and Magneto escaping, and the rest dying in this escape.
Cyclops leads the team to a warehouse, where its revealed Prof X, Beast and Bishop have been working on a Time Machine.
unbeknownst to Magneto he was implanted with a chip, and this is how the Sentinels find this hideout. Everybody goes out fighting, but Prof X calls back Cable tells him he has to go back, he has stop this, tells him that world would be different, tells him to kill Magneto.
So when he arrives in the 60's, even though Prof X is in a wheelchair because of Magneto, he still believes in his friend, his not at that point that he feels Erik is pure evil. So where Prof X and His X-Men intend to stop the Brotherhood, Cable seeks to kill them... end it all once and for all.
The Only reason why i would mention X-Force and have that little role for Bishop, is too extend the franchise. If they introduce the idea of X-Force and Cable now as well as Bishop, it makes it so much easier to market these characters after they have already been introduced in DOFP. And Cable is a character that would become a hit with audiences so if they have to GreenLight Cable and his X-Force, im pretty sure People would be eager to see the character that played such a big part in DOFP, and was so awesome! And See what his band of mutts would be like!
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This past weekend, Rachel and I attended our fourth (her fifth) consecutive "Winter Escape," a retreat for like minded Unitarian Universalists in their 20s and 30s around the metropolitan DC area held annually. For the first time, I presented workshops myself. This year, I presented two workshops: one on creativity, and the other on improvisational theatre.
While my improv workshop had a much higher number of participants, I was extremely proud of the creativity work we did. We were housed in a large lodge on the banks of the Potomac, along Virginia's Eastern shore. I began the workshop by bringing my class outside, where we stared at a single object. After staring for a full two minutes, I asked them to close their eyes, and envision the scene, remembering every sense they'd used. We repeated this twice more.
We then came inside, and engaged in a meditation session, accompanied by guided imagery. I've used these strategies, which I learned as an actor, myself, but never with other writers. I then asked them to free-write in response to three prompts:
1. What is joy?
2. Who is joy?
3. Where is joy?
I didn't ask for their writings, but the participants told me they had a wonderful time, and left the session feeling invigorated, and that their creativity had been rekindled. Such compliments made me very happy.


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The following recipe is supposed to be for one person, but when you put a salad on the side, it's for sure for one greedy person (me?).
A tool like this will come in handy, otherwise you have to could the Spätzle from a board into the water.
I borrowed this from a friend, but I am sure you can find something suitable.
2 small onions, cut in rings
2 eggs
Grated cheese (in Germany Bergkäse or Emmentaler would be used)
I told you, it will be very very easy. After all I did it right the first time I tried.
You can already get a pan ready fry off the onions with a knob of butter.
In fact, you can also get your water boiling, really boiling, bubbling away. Usually that takes some time, too.
Now the dough for the Spätzle (noodles). Crack the two eggs into a bowl. Be careful, to break the egg properly. You can use one half of an egg to measure the amount of water you need to add to the dough. So, add half a shell of water to the mixture. A pinch of salt and now we only need flour. Add until the dough stops to be runny, so it will slowly ooze down from a spoon.
When it is like this, you can spoon it on your plate with a hole and scrape the dough through the holes into the boiling water. Otherwise you have to cut small pieces of dough to let them drop into the water.
They will take about two minutes to cook. Then do with them as they were fresh pasta. Rinse off the water.
Afterwards put them into an oven proof dish.
On top of that we add the grated cheese and the onion rings. That goes into the oven to melt away the cheese. Check it!
Maybe you could wait a little longer than I did, but ... hey, I was very hungry. I only had a banana for lunch and ... yes, maybe a cereal bar. Ah, right, not maybe. I indeed have a cereal bar as well, although I could have had some more Engadine Nut Pie.
Anyway, meal is ready. Have a simple salad on the side and ... that is, if you have some wheat beer along. Why not!?
Yes, yes, that was totally delicious and totally simple and ... the salad gives you some alibi to make it all a bit more healthy. After all you don't have to have such a big portions of the Käsespätzle and you don't need to have a bear. Some water will do as well.
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Maybe you know, that Germany won the game against Portugal 4-0 (I didn't even care to watch). Well, I already planned to do this post before I knew, Germany would be winning. That makes four posts in a row for the winning team ...


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
It Never Fails
So you know what this means right???? Oh yeah. I have a kid-free weekend! Booyah!
The super cool man friend had already planned on us going out on a date sometime this weekend. So I have that to look forward to. Plus, I found out yesterday that a band is playing Friday night that I have been wanting to go see but every time they are scheduled, I have my boy. We are definitely gonna go check them out.
BIG PLUS I get to go to my BFF's for her kids birthday party! Cake!! Everything is awesome when cake is involved.
And really, do I have to mention the hours and hours and hours of kid free time that can be spent...um...well, you know...sans clothing? Sexy Adventure Time! OH yeah. It is gonna be one great weekend.
I snorted the other day when the super cool man friend asked if I was off on Monday for President's Day. HA! Just because you run a bank, Mister, does not mean that you can forget that the rest of us peons don't get 400 holidays a year. Although....I think I might call in sick. I mean, I am feeling quite poorly right now...(*cough* *cough*). Hehe.
This morning, in my email, I was enticed by an ad for 5 nights at an All Inclusive Resort in Cozumel, Mexico for only 700.00. Well, until I looked up the trip on some other site and the resort had THE WORST reviews EVER!! I swear, if I won the lottery, I would travel so many times a year it would be pathetic. I love dreaming up all the different trips I could take. Too bad...the money is just not there but if it was...oh mama!
Ok, now I am going to go dream about my weekend. See ya!
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See now you can not cry I am reading and commenting. Dry your tears cupcake.ReplyDelete
Kid free weekends what are those?? No really what are those?
Haha Sexy Adventure time that sounds so piratey. I'll make a Pirate Mix tape for that. I have no idea where I will get songs for that. Don't ask a lot of question OK. It will be VERY different then Justin and Lexie's mix though.
Banks never work. I want to work at a bank, wait I work less than they do at a bank. Well kind of, damn kids always want something except for that.
You sound really sick I can hear it through the interwebs.
I wanna go to Paris, and Greece, and I'm not sure where else but I want to travel. I wanna go back to Disney World though cause I am like 5. When I'm rich baby we'll travel you and me. And Super Cool Man Friend and the kids. Sir! May or may not be coming.


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Hell yeah I am talking about the US Dollar, not the Zimbabwe Dollar.
That is what it says in every US Dollar note in the back side. "In god we trust"
What is this obviously religious slogan doing in a national currency note? What about all the people who don't believe in Christian god? Isn't US supposed to be a multi cultural society?
Maybe this is a good sign to indicate that the Liberal era is over in US.