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Saturday, May 31
Announcement for All Caledonians...
I've been working double shifts treating people for mushroom poisoning since those things popped up!
all for a children's crusade
Never to be discouraged, they are feverishly building a celebration of their own! I do look forward to seeing what they come up with. Please lend them your support if you can. Their progress is being recorded at http://kids5b.blogspot.com
I'll not go into the heavy debate on the proper places of the Naughty and Nice factions of child avatars on the Grid. I will only state my personal opinion once and be done with it: what adult players do in their skyboxen is none of my business.
Now I will state the policy of the Caledon Red Cross. We are bound by Honor and Duty to help any avatar who seeks our aid to the best of our ability.
I must also reiterate that Caledon Regency Hospital is not a venue for Naughty Nurses or any other medical cliche found in those dirty pictures. This includes the Hysterical Paroxysm Generator. (And no, I don't know where you can find one.) I have already expelled one member of the staff who was obsessed with creating inappropriate situations within the facility. Luckily, this person's plans were thwarted before they were carried out.
And finally, as a Spark and Maker of constructs, I am skilled at repairing Doll avatars and will aid any who seek my help, the same as any other avatar.
Friday, May 30
we have the technology
Thursday, May 29
Launch the Borkotron!
I am sorry. I cannot tell you yet.
The Foundation was built in defiance of the Founder, to find a cure for his curse on my family line, and to rid this world of his corruption forever.
The price was so very high...but I...we...have succeeded on both fronts.
I hereby declare both chapters, the ancient House Bloodwing and the modern Bloodwing Foundation, officially disbanded.
Our age still needs a place for adventurous souls to rally. Both the Foundation and the Risen Demons fulfilled this role, but both are gone.
I will contribute what I can to what follows, but I cannot be the center. I will lead by example, not by birthright.
Ladies, Gentlemen and Constructs, may I have the honor of introducing you to the High Tea & High Adventure Society.
Tuesday, May 27
The Dilemna
Her strain of undeath seems to be resistant to my reanimation serum. In fact I nearly succumbed to it! I fear it more than likely she will return to contagious state tonight and attack more innocent people.
My heart is heavy. My oath as a Doctor and my duty as a Defender against the Darkness are in conflict. If the Foundation still stood I could at least place her in suspended animation until I could improve my reanimation formula. But as dangerous as she is (to say nothing of the pack she runs with), she is still a child.
G_d forgive me for what I must do.
Monday, May 26
My initial attempts at galvanic enervation did not produce,immediate results. After they soiled my labcoat I soon heard the ominous drone of "BRAIIIIINS".
Luckily there was a kitchen nearby where I was able to find them an alternative source of protein. What group of children, undead or alive, can resist a tall glass of milk? (Especially when laced with reanimation fluid?) The girl soon took on a healthy living complexion. The two boys wandered off to play, but I suspect they turned human by the time the sun rose.
Having been splashed with biohazardous waste, I immediately slipped to Port Babbage where Mrs. Merryman happily provided some extra-strong lye soap from her factory. It is a wonder of modern engineering, and definitely worth seeing.
Is it no surprise that Mr. And Mrs. Merryman, being so skilled, would try their hand at robot creation?
Hmmm. It says MADE IN CANADA.
Thursday, May 22
Rabble in the Alleys, Mad Science in the Parlour
Of particular interest to my medical associates is a Gentleman I welcomed there last night, a Dr. Laird Laszlo, a graduate of Cambridge. He is building a Sanitarium across the street from Novem. Tricky words these are...Sanitorium and Sanitarium. He describes his project as something of a health spa, as opposed to Dr. Fourway's Sanitorium where avatars who have proven dangerous to themselves and others are restrained as they are treated for their maladies.
Dr. Fourway and I are already investigating a Magic Lantern therapy to be administered at the Sanitorium, based off of the training exercises the Sheriff and I underwent as members of the Capper Brigade. The cinematic presentations of dubious quality lift the patients' spirits and stimulate the brain centers for humour, irony and sarcasm, which are essential traits in a thriving mind.
Of interest to my fellow scientist (Herr Baron) is Dr. Laszlo's cautious steps into the field of reanimation, as we non-Europans are used to calling it. In fact the Doctor and I were so involved in our whispered "Sparkspeak" that was elbowed by the manager at least once to change the subject.
Like myself, he has had difficulty finding a lab assistant in these endeavors. (Despite the Frau's humility, I insist that she is no mere Minion but a full-fledged Spark and Builder in her own right!) If we can but find a suitable surgical theatre, I would love to build him one while demonstrating the techniques I have developed in the creation of construct servants.
In my efforts to be a good Host for a smaller audience, where for once the music was not center of the evenings activities, and not everyone in the crowd appreciated a discource on regenerative techniques for the central nervous system, I related my struggle with the Founder's legacy. How naive the applying entertainer was that she had never even beheld the Supernatural before! And again, Miss Vivian rolled her eyes. I think she might have heard the story before while passing through Steelhead. But as a fellow Spark, Dr. Laszlo understood all too well the struggles of carrying a powerful yet dangerous force barely contained within you.
All and all, it was an interesting night.
~Dr. Mason
Tuesday, May 20
don't struggle like that i will only love you more
"Wormwood...fear the sky...one chance..."
The generator I had jury-rigged into a powerful but bulky energy weapon rested on the sand beside me. I needed both my hands free to force the mechanisms. My surgical prosthesis had a blade and a needle I could rotate to improvise as as lockpicks. However it, lacked a grip for holding the weapon. It was yet another disadvantage that would have slowed the retrieval and readying of the weapon. It turned around slowly.
I had already seen humanoid and feline Steel units. Now I was facing down a swarm of arachnoid Steels. From the waist up they resembled the humanoids, but below that were rows of legs positioned to suspend massive bodies bristling with weaponry. I felt the heat of their optical laser enhancements measuring my biometrics. They were trailing down from the ancient stucco walls and spiralling down from the intricate columns. Some of them silently descended from cables woven by their bodies that somehow attached to the vaulted ceilings above.
"Your vocalizations gave your positions away!" I barked. "I designed you for stealth, not gossip!"
The Steels froze. My ruse seemed to have caught them off guard. The pinpoints of the red lights converged on my mechanical arm. This would be a hole in my deception.
I raised the limb triumphantly. "This! This is a trophy of the capture of my errant clone! You do recognize the ruler of New Erebus, do you not?"
The arachnoids bent their human torsos as they dipped their front legs in a sign of obedience.
"Now...I need to make some...adjustments...to the current power configuration..."
I tapped the energy projector with my bare foot.
"Now...open this door!"
They seemed to vibrate as they whispered to each other, just below my threshold of hearing. Then their voices quickly rose into terrifying shrieks.
The Steel closest to me sprung into the air, the light of the artificial sun was blocked by her shadow as it bore down on me with an array of sharpened limbs, ready to descend for a fatal, treasonous blow.
Monday, May 19
The Cavalry Arrives
Thursday, May 15
Quite Enough Future Shock for One Day
And then we have swarming robots. The Steel units want to keep them as pets and dress them in little bows and fuzzy pink sweaters.
What's in a Name?
The Sheriff was the first to tap me on the shoulder to suggest a new name. While I admit it is tempting to resurrect (pardon the pun) the Capper Brigade (or the Captioneers as they were first called), it implies that our primary mission would again involve psychological warfare. Our activities may certainly involve such, it won't be the focus of our mission.
Not to say Neo-Victoria couldn't use their services again. I'd enthusiastically help revive it as a seperate entity. I still hope against hope that meQal Anna would come out of retirement to join us again, or that Cappers who stuck their toes in the Grid's reflecting pool before like Shadarus would give this world another try. And I still think a Glitterdome sim would be a catalyst for may interesting, if not slightly "funky" adventures.
One point I raised is that since the physical Foundation was levelled (I'll never get over that blunder) there isn't an over powering need to tack the word Foundation at the end. Fuzz had some other ideas, but they were already Taken.
Some brainstorming:
- The League of Extraordinary Avatars
- The Futurian League
- The Aethernaut Society
- Ths Society of Steam & Sorcery
- The Stalwart Companions
- The High Tea & High Adventure Society
- Torchwood (no, that's taken)
- The Heterodyne (ah... that's taken too)
Wednesday, May 14
we need a new name
What to call this drama factory? Mason Foundation doesn't have that ring to it. And people might assume we're the ones with the secret handshakes and lambskin loincloths. But we need to call it something. Anything but...
His name is whispered in dread by many and in reverence by a few.
I have to let him go. I leave him to feed upon the few who still invite him to their dreams.
He has hurt too many people. He has driven a wedge between me and the community I did my best to support. He threatens my sanity. He has almost destroyed my family. Trust is gone. I must try to rebuild it. If things don't change Love will soon wither as well.
I'm not the only one who's felt the need to step back lately. Admitting it is the first step.
The goal was to be self-sufficient in SL. It used to be easy to keep up with one-and-a-half properties by hosting. Even when his skin switched from pale kabuki to fiery red people still told me he is the "pervect av". He's the one people pay to see. Arrogant nobility with a razorsharp wit, cut with a dash of self-deprecating humor, all steeped in burning libido.
Then those three f*cking words ruined everything. All because somebody didn't read the memo that his brother had left Steelhead behind to go fight Orks in another Grid.
I had to choose between keeping a Foundation without a Founder, or keep the CRC going. I made my choice. The other half of the Hospital could no longer contribute (get well soon, Doctor) and the deed was always in my name. Why not take the top floor for myself?
I tried ripping him out of me before. He just takes a new body. He's been banished before. He just makes a new roost. And still people want to hire him on the spot. He's lead me to places I should never have gone. Putting him in entirely among his own kind just made things worse.
It has to be different this time.
At the end of the Legion of Steel storyline, I must relegate him to NPC status, if any status at all.
I still love Steelhead. I want to be able to explore the harbors and mineshafts as the territory expands. Maybe someday I'll feel like I belong there again. I love Caledon...I even wrote a song about it. The twisting alleys of Babbage I am still getting to know. And as mean as the polluted streets are they're packed with innovations and defiantly cheerful urchins and the occasional reincarnated philanthropist. And every week it seems someone else opens a new sim to put a new twist on the theme.
This is where I belong. Not in the Underworld. Not in the streets of a dying Future.
The key to me keeping my Family and Home and Health intact while still sharing this wondrous New Victorian Age with all of you is so simple and yet so difficult. By admitting my faults, perhaps I can get closer to the vision of a Proper Victorian Gentleman.
The bartender does not drink on duty. I cannot mix work with pleasure. A smile and a wink, but no further. I beg of you...Lead me not into temptation.
Tuesday, May 13
Wanted: Angry Natives
While the Guvnah was busy tidying up the sand of Saint Kitt Island, he was surprised by the sole surviving...er...remaining aboriginal inhabitant, Dr. Oogah Boogah, of the Witch variety. Judging from his bleached bones that rose from the depth of the lagoon, Dr. Boogah had been waiting a long time for visitors indeed.
It took a bit to overcome the language barrier and dispensing of the traditional threats and demand for sacrifices to throw in the Volcano. The arrival of Mr. Hassanov ("the machete-skin kettle man")quickly convinced him to take a more diplomatic tack. Dr. Boogah settled for a crate of Caledonian Tea and ceramic teapot, as well as a crate of ice-packed Kintyre Chocolate.
Guvnah Shang graciously granted Dr. Boogah the title of Regional Guvnah. Dr. Boogah in turn gave the Guvnah a very long ceremonial title roughly translating to "Nice White Chief Who Dresses Too Hot With Sheep Hair Around Torso and Dead Sea Snake Around Neck."
The Guvnah suggested Dr. Boogah "dig up" some more natives to add local color to the expanding crown colony. He would even supply a stake and cauldron for Caledonians wishing to experience an authentic Crown Native Greeting and Feast. All Dr. Boogah managed to recover at the time were a few moai.
Having experience with Angry Natives myself of the torch-and-pitchfork-wielding variety I was a bit unnerved to learn of this proposal, but I do agree it's good for Tourism. We could export them, dress them in grass skirts and trade the pitchforks for machetes. We would need a name for this group. Caledon Angry Native Mob?
~Dr. Mason
Monday, May 12
A Warning from the Abyss
Do you dare to think you can destroy me, Darien? I am eternal. Even the Deva cannot follow me to the realms of Dream where I am summoned. I am no longer the pale faced clown diluted by your mortal shell. I have no need for a legacy in the Age of Steam, in Steelhead nor any other land. I need not a sanctuary with the Brood in the Dark Future. I am in all of these places as I speak, where my name is whispered in fear, in adoration, and even disgust.
Finish your quest, Darien. Slay the one who crafted you in his image. But his soul is mine. As is yours. Do not think you can hide from me behind your faith. You were claimed before you were conceived, as are all my kin. If you stare full into the blinding light of your Spark or the deepest Shadow of your Magick, you will find me laughing back at you. Keep fighting your Madness and your Corruption, but you know you shall lose. Only the Vampire has escaped my grasp thus far. But not even the Undead can evade Final Death forever.
My daughters shall be as Princesses in Erebus. The Vortex awaits glory in his Mother's realm. Tumim may grow from my bones as Qlippothic grew from Azazel's, and find his Destiny. Jerimiah shall be punished for mocking my Grand Designs.
But you, Darien...you shall wear the fool's cap!
When you return to Caledon, Darien...take down my banner. You are not worthy to fly it. Rename your Foundation. You are not worthy to carry my name.
My legacy passes to my Children. Let them fight for my Gifts. Only one shall triumph.
Friday, May 9
The Brass Rat
The air here is warm, almost stagnant...except for the sandstorm. I was blacted from every direction. I did find a corner to hide in but it did rip the false skin off the arm. It nearly ripped my mustache off. I can only presume there is a perfectly hidden ventilation system that spread the force storm through all levels of the ship.
One huge complication: I am now leaving footprints in the light layer of sand on the floor. I must hurry.
There. That must be it. Multiple combination locks of immense size. It looks like it's meant to be opened by a Legacy Guardian Unit.
Do I blast my way through? Smash the engine so we float away in the aether as the atmosphere rips away? What if I destroy the soul that was my son in the process? Or wait for the Steel Units to finish me off as I blother? G_d help me! I'm losing my MIND!!
*heard from behind*
...Fear the sky...
Thursday, May 8
Touring the Facilities
The front yard is pleasant enough. The luxurious bed on the main level so close to the front door did confuse me. Perhaps it was a display, in which case it did not match the more spartan setup I found upstairs.
There were about a dozen single beds, adequate for a minor outbreak in Caledon. More beds will be needed if there is ever a pandemic like the dreaded One-Point-Nine disease that paralyzed the Mainlanders in compromising positions years ago. There was also an examination table and a padded room with restraints for patients that may pose a danger to themselves or others.
Afterwards, I paid a visit to Babbage Pallisades. Sadly I had missed the Grand Opening, but Mr. and Mrs. Dagger were eager to discuss business with me. While we had never much interaction before Mr. Dagger was aware of my reputation as a Doctor as well as a Host. Mrs. Dagger realized a Master of Ceremonies was required from the joyous chaos of the Grand Opening and inquired as to he conventions of such a position. She was amenable to my standard rates, and promised to conact me after consulting with her sister who is the other half of the management, besides herself.
The facilities reminded me of the old Jardin, but with a more muted palate of dark greens. The grand staircase was elegant, but difficult to manage. Some poor absynthe-muddled fellow could easily snap his neck falling down. I would suggest installing a steam-powered lift.
And, there was the discussion of medical services. I reiterated that I have treated all manner of ailments that arise form such an establishment as hers. I do believe I can retool one of my prosthetics for the calming of nerves. And let us not forget the Hypnotic Inducer...
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 6
I received an invitation from Mr. Jakeups to survey the renovations to the Sanitarium in Tam, but I was delightfully sidetracked. Perhaps tomorrow.
Monday, May 5
The Shadow and the Spark, The Genius and the Servant
The story is not done, but the aftermath has begun. I became that which I despised the most. The restored memories won't let me keep an Angel Heart. I have seen the symptoms before in the wake of battle. The tremors and the white hot tears. The explosive outbursts. Always they whispered if I could do it over again. But for me it was why did I let it happen again. Even for a moment if I were still possessed...
IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! I cried as I slammed the door never to see him again, and I knew he was right.
I had not been to the Supportforhealing sim in at least a year. The cherry petals floated in the warm breeze on a palate of fragrance. The shining idol of the Reclining Buddha watched the circling swans from over my shoulder. The unmanned kiosk offered a yellow ribbon as a lifeline to every passerby.
Desperately striving to save her kin even as they begged me for an end to it all. I only conceded when the snakes hatched.
Exactly the same events, from two vantage points. Two Dariens. One young, one old. One innocent, one scarred. One struggling with his destiny, one fatelocked. One master and one heir...and one neko. And the secret suffering patients. So many victims. One tormentor.
I missed her so. Now she's mine again. But I never wanted her like this.
It's enough to drive one mad.
Jealous of myself. Jealous of myself.
Concerned friends prodded me. I was not in a talkative mood. But I was being honored in SteamSkyCity as a Misunderstood Genius along with Caledon's other resident Sparks and their loyal servants. The Vaudeville Villain. The Enlightened Dictator. The Scheming Kitten. And yet more examples of Darkness harnessed and embraced. It was a chance to revel in what I had become.
They kept a safe distance as I danced with my sharp prosthesis. Except for the damaged Doll with the intriguing arm and intricate designs, a Minion who sought a new Genius to serve. Protected but underutilized. Over absinthe we only barely began to discuss the Paths of Genius and the anguish of being a labelled a Doll.
Doll: Noun. 1) A child's toy in the shape of a person or baby. 2) A woman or girl who is pleasant to look at. 3) A nice or helpful person.
The description is so dangerously vague. Of all the constructs that have sought me for repairs and advice and sympathy, I have seen the entire range. Built to be pretty? Built to be adored? Built to model? Built to serve? Built to satisfy unspeakable urges? Indeed...the word is as dangerously vague as...Genius.
I will see if I can help. I will see if she can help.
Thursday, May 1
OOC: The Fires Lit
The deva was complaining bitterly about a failed event the demon had hosted, when I should have been sent to Caledon to watch the Beltane fires. So much had changed since the last Spring rite.
I had just been freed of the demon's possession. I danced shirtless with Nurse Christensen, ecstatic in my liberation. The Founder's markings had not yet faded from my skin. Qlippothic..."Qli-1" as I posthumously refer to her now...was revelling in a new magickal form of lust and lava swirling in wings of flame. Sharing hushed laughter and sighs with her closest companions. Koen, who had just become my apprentice, made an appearance. Even my clockwork daughter ARI showed up to leap into my arms. It was a time of such hope and happiness...
Now that hope is tinged with bitterness and loss. The shadow of Doom overtakes my family like gathering stormclouds. And the lightning will strike more than once.
This year I stood guard at midnight beside Frau Lowey, guarding the revelers against unknown dangers from the West. We breezed by a circle of standing stones to greet some friends I have seen far too rarely as of late. We then converged at the Consulate for the Germanic Spring festival, Walpurgisnacht. The facade of a mountain with lit campfires along the peak's silhouette made the bonfire on the front lawn seem gigantic. I felt the presence of my friends, but could not identify them beneath the masques.
Dancing around a campfire is a rare event for me. Sadly it was not in the cards this holiday as the energies were rising just as my deva's spirit was sliding into troubled sleep.
Yet still it was a marvelous sight to behold. And being surrounded by friends old and new left me with a shining sliver of hope to pierce the dark clouds as my adventures continue.
~Dr. Mason
OOC: The Most Difficult Farewell
I am not privy to the specifices of her deva's situation, but I do know the anguish of having to ponder the decision to let go of this Virtual World and all the joys and wonders contained therein.
I will fire your Chimney Sweep Cannon in a 21-gun salute in your honour, Madam! Bloodwing has guaranteed you a safe trip across the Styx, should your trail wander in that direction. And as my daughter Qli-3 told you, should you ever wish to reincarnate or be re-animated in any form, my ouija board is always open.
On behalf of the entire Bloodwing Foundation I convey our most solemn respects.
~Dr. Darien Mason


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Have you ever thought to yourself "damn I don't wanna do this sh*t"? If you're a wife or a spouse in general…I'm sure you have. Sometimes I hate having to be supportive. That's right…I said it! And don't get judgy on me my dear because you were thinking it or have thought it! In feeling this way, I have come to realize that if we as wives/spouses were to EVER decided we were over being supportive…sh*t would get real. Here is my theory.
My husband is a JC Football coach. He does football 6 days a week. This means that I am the support system for football…for 6 days a week. This support includes but is not limited to:
- Going to games
- Occasionally going to practice
- Commenting on games and practice (which means actually paying attention)
- Dealing with him being out late on work weeks (and by late I mean 8/9pm)
- Having to fit in "US" time around his schedule (he does film analysis at home too)
- Having to fit in "ME" time around his schedule (and yes I think that's some f*ckery)
- Trying to plan family things around games and practice
- Dealing with my son constantly asking "where daddy mommy" or "I want my daddy."
The list of things goes on and on, but those are the primary support needs of my husband and his football life. I love my husband. I love football. I love that he loves coaching football. However…I do not love having to adjust my whole f*cking life around his love just so that I can be supportive! Let me tell you about my dream.
My dream is that my husband, who is very supportive of me, will be supportive of me not wanting to support him. Or better yet be, be supportive of me wanting to do things JUST FOR ME more often. Now please don't misinterpret this as me saying my husband is selfish, he is definitely NOT that. But what I am saying is that men tend to get way more wrapped up in what they want to do, that they don't realize their other half isn't getting to do things for them as often.I want to be able to go out with the girls on a
I want to be able to go out with the girls on short notice WITHOUT having to arrange things with him or for the baby. I find that it is easier for my husband to go out and do what he wants to do at the last-minute than it is for me to do it. He just automatically assumes that I will handle everything because he knows I'm his support system. To that I say bullsh*t! I am tired of being the go to and the fallback plan. I wanna be the spur of the moment one in my marriage. And I'm not asking for much. just a week to a month of me not having to worry about all the details or scheduling and just do/go. But alas… I know that probably won't happen, as I have already set a precedent in my relationship that I am the support system. what the f*ck was I thinking? LOL
Are you the support system for your spouse? Are you tired of it? Feel free to leave why you are, or in some cases maybe aren't, tired of it in the comments below.

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Who is Adorno?
Adorno's Beleifs
Adorno believes that capitalism encourages people to consume pointless text from the 'Culture Industry" so the audience are passively satisfied and so that they have no interest in politics. Adorno has similar views to Karl Marx but Marx was more focused on the the economic aspect of capitalism. Adorno focused on how culture played its part in keeping the status quo ( keeping things the way they are) so people don't try and go against the capitalist system .
Commodity Fetishism
A commodity is an item thats produced to satisfy someones needs.
Fetishism is where someone has a blind devotion to something.( Fetishism also has more than one meaning)
This theory is about how we enjoy and take pride in products more if it is expensive. This means that our social relations and cultural experiences are objectified in terms of money.
For example we would take more pride in driving in a sports car rather than driving in an average car.
Culture industries
Adorno states that the culture industries mass produce low quality meaningless products, instead of products that challenge peoples views on life. Culture industries incorporate false needs into us. These needs are manufactured by capitalist and benefit the capitalist system. These false needs replace our true needs of things like creativity, freedom and transparency.
Postman and Adorno on passive audience
Theodor W. Adorno was a German, sociologist, philosopher and musicologist. He had strong Views on Fascism and the so called "Culture industry". He wrote the books "Dialectic of Enlightenment", "Minima Moralia" and "Negative Dialectics" which which has influenced new left wing views.
Adorno believes that popular media text especially music products are standardized, this means that they all follow a certain formula. He believes every artist of every genre follows a certain formula to produce their music,this means that all artist basically make the same music as other artist in their genre, this also means that music artist continuously produce the same music. Adorno also says that they will be the odd artist that tries to make their music seem unique and different when its not really, this is psuedo individualisation.
To sum up he's theory. He argues that media and TV in particular guides people away from talking to each other or questioning the oppression occurring in their lives. He thinks people just passively consumes the rubbish that's in the media everyday ,
Adorno's theory is quite old and media, especially music have change since he's made this theory so it can be quite con traversal and hard to apply it to modern times.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Movie Nights @ Frisky Rooftop Bar, Yap Kwan Seng
14 comments:
This is certainly a 'different' drinks and popcorn experience! ;D What happens when it rains midway? Haha! :DReplyDeleteReplies
Contact.ewew: heh, yeah, and i like their choice of movies too - no robots-vs-robots CGI blockbusters ;) i'm assuming there'll be some form of shade protection provided, but i actually have no idea, heh ;)Delete
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I like that! Frisky! I hope you kept your hands to yourself. Hehehehehe!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Suituapui: haha, I am as always the perfect gentleman (ahem) :)Delete
That's a nice movie experience. Sure beats being in a dark cinema.ReplyDeleteReplies
Phong Hong: I used to be a major movie-goer when I was younger, but now i haven't stepped into a multiplex in quite a number of weeks ;)Delete
Ohh interesting!ReplyDelete
I just went to their FB page to chk out the schedule for the next one which is tmw and I'm thinking of heading there! :D
Rebecca: tomorrow's movie (phoenix) has gotten quite good reviews from the critics! "The National Board of Review named Phoenix as one of the Top 5 Foreign Language Films of 2015" :)Delete
What a special movie experience but it really depends on the weather >_<ReplyDeleteReplies
Choi Yen: ya, the best nights are when it's cool and breezy but not rainy! ;)Delete
Interesting experience, if our weather is cooler will be even better. :DReplyDeleteReplies
CK: definitely - if only the weather was five or six degrees lower, heh ;)Delete
Lol think we were there on the same night, boss. "Tangerine" was a weird movie tho, quite jarring tbh haha.ReplyDeleteReplies
Aaron: heh, I kinda liked how it was mostly unpredictable, the way the plot unfolded ... Though it lost me a bit near the end when when everyone ended up in the same shop and started shouting and arguing with each other ;)Delete


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Employer: University of Pittsburgh - School of Education - Psychology in Education
Job Category: Research
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The School of Education, Department of Psychology, and Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at University of Pittsburgh is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in child/adolescent development with an emphasis on motivation, non-cognitive skills, intervention, and learning. The initial appointment will be one year with the possibility of renewal for a second year. The position involves work on several research projects exploring how sociocultural contexts and psychological beliefs influence academic, behavioral, and socioemotional development of children and youth from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. See http://wangresearch.pitt.edu/index.php for a description of current projects.
Applicants must have a PhD and a track record of publication in psychology or education, substantive knowledge and background in the field of developmental psychology, child/adolescent development, risk and resilience, achievement motivation and learning, and excellent academic writing and interpersonal skills. Strong quantitative skills (e.g., HLM, SEM, and growth modeling) and experience with large-scale longitudinal datasets are preferred.
The work takes an interdisciplinary approach and applies questions and methods from psychological and education science to elementary and secondary school settings. The fellow will receive strong mentoring with a well-established scholar focused on the demanding aspects of producing high quality scholarship. The fellow will be expected to build a research program by formulating research questions, generating research designs, writing grants, conducting analysis, writing and presenting findings.
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Transcribo importante información de actualizaciones de SharePoint desde el blog de Stefan Goßner:
Yesterday the product group released the February 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The Februray 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 will be released in a couple of days.
The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded.
As soon as the KB articles are live they can be found at the following locations:
- (delayed) - SharePoint Foundation 2010
- (delayed) - SharePoint Server 2010
- (delayed) - SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server
As you see there is a separate Full Server Package for SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server which simplifies patching of this common installation.
The Full Server Packages for December 2010 CU can be downloaded here:
- Download WSS 3.0 December 2010 CU
- Download MOSS 2007 December 2010 CU
- Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 December 2010 CU (delayed)
- Download SharePoint Server 2010 December 2010 CU (delayed)
- Download SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server December 2010 CU (delayed)
After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.
For the 2010 Server Products it is sufficient to install the SharePoint Server 2010 package as it includes the SharePoint Foundation package.
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Basically, I swing a machete around willy nilly, slashing comments that I think are in poor taste or include unwarranted personal attacks on people. If the commenters are anonymous, I put very little thought into the process. If you're anonymous, I figure you might be a troll living in your mother's basement in Philadelphia with no connection whatsoever to Humboldt, so why respect your anonymous drivel? And even if you live in Humboldt, why worry about someone who doesn't put their real name on their comments?
On the other hand, if you're a real person and you use your real name, then you deserve an explanation as to why your comments were slashed. I feel I should, at the very least, justify by actions. Send me an email and I'll be happy to explain why I cut your comment. We can discuss it. Maybe you'll be able to show me the error of my ways, and I'll change my mind and allow your comments.
In a matter of weeks this entire blog will redirect you to a new, kick-ass McK Press website with all sorts of news content. So stay tuned!


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Welcome to Roses & Thorns. All books receive honest reviews, regardless of our sources. We are no longer accepting submissions. While the blog will remain live, I cannot continue reviewing books. My own writing is suffering from keeping up with two blogs. I will post my last review on May 29, 2017. Thank you Rose and Donna for your help, authors for the (mostly) great reading, and readers for following us.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
An Elfy on the Loose by Barb Caffrey
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- AnonymousMarch 30, 2015 at 11:34 PM
Thank you for your review, Donna. It was the publisher's decision to split up ELFY (one book, originally) into the ELFY duology. I'm currently writing a new first chapter to get everyone back into the second half of the original novel...the second half is called A LITTLE ELFY IN BIG TROUBLE and should be out in a few months.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I thank you for your kind words about my writing. I do appreciate it.
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WATCH: #TCCXC recaps the FSU Invitational
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (October 6, 2017) – Tallahassee Community College's cross country team returned to Apalachee Regional Park early Friday morning for the annual FSU Invitational.
The Eagles got their first experience at the ARP on September 2 in the Big Bend XC Invite. Friday's event was a significant step up in competition for both teams, and for the Eagle men, it was their first 8000-meter run on the course.
The men ran to a 10th-place finish in the College Division, finishing with 298 points in the scoring.
Joshua Guest led the Tallahassee quintet, finishing 67th out of 91 runners in the College Division and 108th out of 139 male runners overall. His time of 29:42.7 bettered Gatlin Nennstiel's previous school record in the 8000-meter by four seconds.
All five male runners lowered their time from the previous 8000-meter race at the Mountain Dew Invitational on September 23.
Kelvin Brown saw the biggest improvement, shaving more than four minutes from his previous time to run a 34:59.1, fourth-best among the Eagles' runners on Friday.
Travis Parks followed Guest across the finish line, running a 30:42.0, a 1:07 improvement. Tunde Azikwe finished in 32:56.1, an improvement of 2:08, and Louis Cordero ran a 35:00.1, bettering his time by 1:36.
For the Tallahassee women, Friday was another opportunity to run against Region 8 foes Pasco-Hernando State College, Florida State College at Jacksonville and Chipola College.
The Eagles finished second among the two-year programs and 12th overall in the College division with 351 points.
Meagan Giddens was the team's top runner on Friday, finishing the 5000-meter race in 20:46.5. Though two seconds off her season-best time, it was 26 seconds faster than when she ran the course on September 2.
Giddens placed 41st out of 116 runners in the College Division and 90th overall out of 190 participants.
Three of Tallahassee's five runners posted season-best times and all four who ran the September 2 event saw improvement on the clock.
Olnick Duverge was the next Eagle to cross the line, finishing in a season-best 23:05.8, an improvement of 2:23 from September 2.
Rachel Williams also posted her fastest time of the season, a 24:39.3, 28 seconds faster than her previous best and 2:56 faster than September 2.
Alexis McElroy crossed the finish line immediately behind Williams with a time of 24:43.7. She did not run on September 2.
Ashley Maxwell's time of 28:14.6 was 1:44 better than September 2.


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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Our Little Get-Away...
Over Labor Day, we went down to the SE corner of the state to a state park that apparently no one ever goes to, except for people out of state. We had a wonderful time, just camping and being together as the 5 of us. We left early on Friday morning, as the campsites are first come, first serve, and we wanted to be sure and get a good one. We ended up not 50 yards from the river - perfect! The kids loved being able to go throw rocks any time they wanted, plus we always had visitors - the river flowed down to us from the boat shack upstream. I lost count on how many tubers/canoers/kayaks we saw.
The weather was great the whole time we were there too - got a little chilly at night, but nothing to worry about. The water in the river was another matter - we tried to go to the swimming beach and lasted less than 30 minutes. That was COLD! We had a few storms pop up that got close, but managed to swing around us and not interrupt our activities. The great thing was that where we were staying was a river just below another state park where the dam was, creating a huge lake. The list of things to do were endless!
We drove around one day and looked at the lay of everything, and got out to walk around at some interesting spots. We also hiked up a mountain one afternoon - not quite our intention when we started out, but we thought the trail looked fun. After following all the blue diamonds outlined in white on the trees, it ended up being a 5-mile trail from start to finish. Everyone finished it, which was fun, but tiring. We did get a great picture up at the top though!
It was such a nice time, just to be together and outdoors in God's world as a family. The only real world thing we did was to watch The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe outside on the big screen with the ranger one night. The kids had never seen it, and AZ3 and I had worked on reading it together over the summer, so that was fun. Plus, they had a huge nice grassy area for us to stretch out on next to the office. It was fun sitting there, counting lightning bugs while we waited, and we could hear the owls in the cages near the office (they are all for educational classes and are injured) hooting to the wild owls in the forests nearby.
On Sunday, we drove into Arkansas and up to Ft. Smith. We stayed one night and had a blast there too. The kids really enjoyed looking at all of the historical buildings and recreations and exhibits around there - I was impressed. I think they would enjoy a trip like that to the East Coast sometime also - seeing Revolutionary and Civil War places. The most moving part for my husband and I was the national cemetary there - it is 1 of only 2 in the nation to have Confederate and Union soldiers in the same cemetary. We were very moved to see those graves, plus the most recent ones from soldiers giving their all in the current wars, plus the WWI and WWII markers. A good reminder that Freedom is not free.
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- cmjj said...
Yes! You need to come to the East Coast!!!!! We live 20 minutes from the place where Washington crossed the Delaware.....not to mention a million other battlegrounds that have been made into memorials. It's great!!!
- 8:39 PM, January 09, 2010
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The other day we heard about the president of Carbine Studios, Jeremy Gaffney stepping down. We all know Carbine just released the subscription based MMORPG Wildstar. Jeremy has been fighting a deadly skin cancer for a long time. His family has had several members die of cancer. To help Wildstar release smoothly, Gaffney sacrificed himself for the game, company, fans, and his own personal reasons I can't understand. He helped keep continuity in the company during its most difficult time knowing that sacrifice could kill him. After the game released and it had several updates, he finally had time to take a breath and look at his own life. He stepped down to live another day.
Some of the gaming community saw this as the death of Wildstar. They "knew" this was going to happen and they "know" the next step for the game, death. Possibly the game is doing bad. Maybe, one of the reasons he stepped down was because of the stress of the game failing. No matter what the all his reasons were, he has cancer. He has a deadly disease that could kill him. For the rest of his life he has to try to live longer in fear of cancer. Fuck the game! His life is more important than a game. He is a living breathing human that had the compassion enough to chip away at his life day by day to produce a fun game for the world. Unfortunately, some people lack the empathy to realize his sacrifice. It's sad.
This is nothing new though. The lack of empathy in some is the cancer of humanity and the Internet is the harmful UV rays magnifying it. It's always been there, it's just mutating the rest of us faster and faster until we all die inside. It's spreading fast and we're not getting treatment for it. What can we do though? Am I going to try to cure the lack of empathy in the world? I don't know how and it's too bad for me to do it. Like Jeremy, I'm not going to give up fighting for what is right. I will not let humanity's cancer kill me. I've fought this my whole life and I'm not going to stop now. I'll tell you my story no matter how personal it is, I need to help others understand why I have unwavering empathy.
I grew up with the blood of other people on my hands. I don't know how many times my fist smashed into another kids face. I don't know how many kids I kicked in the gut with anger. I was constantly at war growing up because my mother was a lesbian. Nowadays gay people are more accepted, but back in the 70's and 80's it was not. Luckily, genetically I'm not to be fucked with. Not to mention my father grew up in Brooklyn in the 50's. A white boy in Brooklyn had to fight to survive.
After awhile, word got around I wasn't an easy target and it probably wasn't a good idea to pick on me. By 9th grade I didn't have to fight anymore. Well accept smashing a yard stick over another kid's face in English class when I was in 10th grade. The main reason I fought so much was the lack of empathy kids had towards my family. Their church going family couldn't fathom a sinning, happy family. Even though we tried to go to church and we're asked to leave, we still held tightly on the teachings of the Bible. We knew the real meaning was empathy, compassion, and live towards all living things.
The sad thing is, we kill each other over the same thing written by someone else. The Bible, the Tanakh, the Quran, the Pali Canon or Chinese Tripitaka, are all books teaching people religion to teach them how to be compassionate, loving, and how to be empathetic towards others. They're all connected, but still we kill over their words. We have lost their meaning for our own pride and our own ideas. We constantly strive to be the right ones and force others to believe what we believe or we will burn in hell. My mother is going to burn in hell from the hate of what people think the Bible tells them. It tells them to judge, force, kill, rule, and spread like a cancer until we are all dead to live happy the way we want to.
Over the years I've been proven wrong. I've fought with "Bible bashers" over living life happy in the words of God. I'm done fighting because I accept theirs and my own lack of empathy. I grew up fighting to save my mother from hell so when she dies and I die, we can be together as a family. I've chosen to go to hell with her because I love her. I've chosen to listen to what people say and have empathy and compassion for them. I radiate love to strangers in hope I can push back the disease that's spreading through humanity.
We've lost the true meaning of what it is to live life happy and understand why other people feel the way they do. Just look at Ferguson Missouri. A black boy was shot by a police officer and his body sat rotting in the sun for 4 hours while the people protecting and serving the community thinking they were doing the right thing by the law, lost their compassion and were blind as to doing the right thing as a loving human. What if it was their boy laying dead on the pavement? The police believed they were doing the right thing based on their Bible of laws. They still do. We've all forgotten how to do the right thing without laws or God telling us what to do.
No matter how or why, humans were given empathy, compassion, love, self awareness, egos, and a way to over think every damn thing. Sooner or later we're going to kill ourselves and become extinct like the other animals we killed off over the years doing what we thought was right.
Yesterday when I ranted about this I wanted to do something I have no idea how to do or start. How do I instill empathy into other people? How do I cure this cancer that is spreading? They say, "do not feed the trolls". That is correct you don't want to help the disease spread, but we need to cure it because it spreads no matter what. I was told, "you first". Like growing up, I'm not afraid to get blood on my hands. I don't want to beat the shit out of anybody, but when it comes to doing what's right, I will stand my ground and fight.
This probably won't change anything, but I have to try. I'm sick of seeing people say horrible things. "Well, don't read it!" Yeah, I could lock myself in the closet like my mother had to do for 30 years, but that will only hurt me by being ignorant. I need to read about things like Robin Williams' death even though some of the comments on articles seam like they came from robotic serial killers. I man devoted his life to making people laugh and sacrificed his own happiness by bottling up his depression until it killed him. He knew their was no hope in making people laugh anymore. We judge people with depression, anxiety, or mental illness like evil sinners. We lock them in the closet like the gays until they die. All because it's too hard to have a little empathy.
I will fight this hate not based on a book written thousands of years ago, but with my own love and compassion. My common sense. Everyday I'm surrounded by hateful people hiding behind books preaching what is right. They openly say, "gay people are like sterile cattle, you just need to put a bullet in their head and burn their bodies because the meat is worthless too. They're a waste of life with no purpose... Praise God Amen!"
I've heard this and had to put my hands in my pockets and think of where they were coming from. To me they were wrong. They misunderstand the teachings of the books. I have to think I'm wrong too. I have to accept I'm going to hell. I have to have empathy towards them even if I don't want to. I understand them and I don't hate them for thinking that way. It's hard on me, but I have to stand strong for what I think humanity should be like with these gifts we've been give.
In closing I want to say thank you to you all for reading this. I want to thank Jeremy Gaffney for staying strong and helping make Wildstar. I only wish the best for the game even though I've stopped playing it for now. I know it's hard to read those bad comments, but their are great people in the world that can help push humanities cancer back into remission. Please take the time to have a little empathy, compassion, and love towards others. That is the only cure.


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The White House has endorsed a plan Senate Democrats proposed to offset the sequester with more tax revenues, insisting House Republicans adopt it as well.
On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama just wants "more stimulus spending that we know doesen't create jobs."
"If the president wants more tax hikes that destroy jobs, then his Democrat allies in the Senate ought to take it up," Boehner said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said he hoped "Congressional Republicans back off their insistence of" more spending cuts and insisted "the American people overwhelmingly support" the Senate plan.
Democrats claim the Senate plan "would offset the sequester with a $110 billion plan split evenly between spending cuts and the elimination of tax loopholes."
The Senate plan also "includes a variation of the so-called Buffett Rule, which would set a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent for those making more than $2 million annually."


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Clouds don't have to be gloomy...
It's a nice change from the clouds I usually have to look at. (I need sunshine... Srsly.)
Go here for some fun of your own! (With many thanks to Margene and kmkat for pointing the way.)
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- margene said...
Sending you sunshine! We finally have sun here.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM
- Cookie said...
Very nice and much better than the clouds we've been having.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Bullwinkle said...
You (and kmkat) are such enablers. (That site is a time suck. And I need to play with it more.)
- April 15, 2010 at 5:17 AM
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
- The audience for my media product will span over a wide range of people. The site is appealing in ways such as it being interesting and a certain amount of appeal visually, therefore being appealing to those older and younger. The main target audience will be those who care for animals and can feel sympathy for them.
I'm hoping to use the information in 2 different ways on the site. Information for those people who may not know anything about what the Pick up a penguin charity do and also informing where the money that is donated will be going to and what it will be used for. I didn't want to create a site where everything available to view was negative trying to beg sympathy out of the viewer so I used positive pictures all over. I want the pictures used to show what peoples own money can do for the penguins.
How did you attract/address your audience?
- As soon as you enter the website you are overwhelmed by colours and straight to the point telling of what the site is about and what we want you to do. I found this would be one of the main aspects of attracting an audience. With the use of simple language and the layout being quite user friendly, I wanted to make sure the site attracted various users of all ages, through not being overly complicated to get around for those who may not be so "up to date" with technology. As far as gender is concerned, I didn't really have a specific target. Really gender was not a set criteria. Using this same idea the sentences used are short to be easily memorable so as readers read through the sites content, they do not feel like they are going over and over irrelevant information. I thought the general attraction of the phrase pick up a penguin was quite good as it's easy to remember and the whole point of the website is pretty much in the title.
The site is consists of all good news. I thought that although showing people the reality of where some penguins come from using a sympathy idea, I wanted to express to people what their own money can do for the penguins, seeing how their money can have a positive effect on the animals lives.
Does your media product represent a particular social group?
The site wasn't really designed to attract or represent a particular social group, the only criteria possibly being animal lovers. But i'm sure in most cases you don't need to be an animal lover to feel sympathy or feel a slight love for the penguins pictured on the site. As I already mentioned I am not aiming for particular ages to target or genders.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My site uses basic editing (iweb) therefore not being able to consist of maybe some features that I may have liked to, such as, PHP or Java Script. My site uses quite a common webpage layout, with the title featured at the top, with the tabs horizontally just underneath.
Each page on the site all use the same layout just with different content in each one. I thought this would be useful as it would be easier for people who may not be as "skillful" with computers than others. I thought it would also look more professional using advertisement links to other animal campaign websites. My site has a very similar layout to the RSPCA site. I thought this would be a good idea to incorporate as the RSPCA are hugely successful.
Similar to my site, the RSPCA use a logo featured top left of the page, with a horizontal navigation bar. The company logo is located just underneath the title. To create the site logo, I was aware that well esablished campaigns would create their own logo from scratch. Due to short time I had to try and improvise. My old site logo was just some simple Photoshop standard brushes dotted about. I saved the file as a Photoshop image so it slowed the site down a lot, but I wasn't aware why at the time. Through changing the site logo I downloaded some photoshop brushes trying to find something similar to a water splash, the nearest i could find was paint flicks. Saving the image as a png allowed the site to work much faster all round, loading quicker and responding quicker.
There are 4 main links on each page all leading to each other. These links are "Home" " News" "About Us" & "Contact us". Each of the 4 links stay in one place at all times as they are part of the stable layout. The only other links that are available on the site are "more info" links on the side bar for News. I thought it would look more professional to have small insites to the pages, News especially because this would be updated regularly.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this production?
iWeb has taught me quite a lot about web design. It is a web hosting speciaised company that produce standard software for Mac's. I thought considering the program is made for basic web design, when effort is put down to it, you can really makesomething basic look like a professional job. Other website builders do not allow you to create such high quality websites with such little knowledge. iweb was slightly confusing at first, but once you have the basic idea of the tools, you can build up the knowledge yourself. The only downside to iweb that I came across was the use of basic tools that were not there, things such as hit counter.
I found photoshop quite easy to get around for the tasks that needed to be put into place. Seeing as CS4 was very similar to other older photoshops it wasn't hard to get used to and with the help of having used photoshop at home for general usage before, using some simple blending options and cutting out photos wasn't too hard. The only problem I came across was creating a picture with a transparent background. After trial and error I found out the picture was just being saved in the wrong format. Some tools that i could have used to make my site appear better I simply couldn't due to lack of knowledge and time. Photoshop on the whole was the hardest program to get around especially when some things would take time and patience.
Picture taking at first came across as a big problem. Seeing as I had made 2 sites i had decided to scrap my first one half way through the making. I knew where there was a penguin sanctuary so I went there with a group of friends one day and took all my pictures there. Most of the pictures were quite successful and to take them I used a 12 mega-pixel Sony camera. One of the pictures that came in most useful I felt was one that was just water. I ended using the picture for the header of the homepage.
I thought it looked good and the quality of the pictures was very high, with no blur so I felt it was ideal.
To create my site I used an Apple Macbook. I have a Macbook myself so it wasn't a problem to adapt to using an iMac at all. I find them better seeing as the applications they support are much better and of a higher quality. iweb for example, a free application that comes installed on all macs when bought, is of a high enough quality to create a fully functioning website as good as top of the line sites, using animation and video.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think the idea of an animal campaign would appeal to a lot of institutions as its showing a sense of all round goodness for their company. I think pick up a penguin would be quite a memorable phrase due to its catchiness. People generally like these kind of things and I would hope that awareness would get around fast as it is something a bit different to all other animal campaigns you hear about. Although on the other hand I think it may have its problems seeing as not everyone cares about animals as much as others, let alone penguins. I think institutions such as the RSPCA would be one of the best companies to advertise my site because most people who are generally giving donations to animal campaign sites, the RSPCA would be one of the first on mind.
I think it would be quite hard to advertise or promote the campaign on tv and radio, seeing as it would cost a lot of money to do and with only a small amount of people being moved or concerned about the idea it wouldn't be worth the cost, yet on the other hand the promotion side, raising awareness of the problem of endangered penguins, maybe not even getting people to donate but it would still cause concern.
I think the best option to promote would be through posters. Its cheap and with good software a high quality poster can be made standing out amongst others, then if people want to visit the site and read about what goes on, then they can. The other option would be promoting on other animal campaign sites. The people that will be seeing the promotion are people that care about animals, obviously because they are already on a campaign site and with the variation of the campaign being quite unique could lure more people into the idea.
I think on a whole the idea of helping penguins may not be on every-bodies mind, but with advertisement it would maybe get around, then if it were more established other companies may look into investing.
Monday, 14 December 2009
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New Research Reveals Trends in Cloud Storage and Services in Advance of 2015 International CES
DALLAS, TX – Dec 31, 2014 — /BackupReview.info/ — New research from Parks Associates reveals 62% of U.S. broadband households never back up their data to an online storage service, despite options available from companies such as Carbonite, Acronis, and Backblaze. This finding reveals a huge addressable market for cloud-based storage in 2015, as consumer consumption of digital content is on the rise. Smartphone users in U.S. broadband households spend 18 minutes on average per session when using streaming music apps, which exceeds time spent on gaming, social media, or video apps.
"As the connected consumer achieves greater mobility, device storage becomes a limiting factor for consumer content, prompting a shift to cloud-enabled storage and access," said Glenn Hower, Research Analyst, Parks Associates. "Starting at CES and throughout 2015, we will see CE makers and online technology companies leverage cloud-based storage as a value-added feature. CE companies and cloud-based storage providers are struggling to differentiate in the market, prompting device and service providers like Amazon, with its Fire Phone, and Kodak, with its upcoming Android devices, to rely on cloud-enabled storage and functionality to attract new customers."
The new research report Converging Clouds: The Next Step for the Personal Cloud identifies trends and changes in the different areas of the personal cloud. It details current challenges facing players in the personal cloud industry and areas of convergence that have created hybrid functions.
"Connected devices are increasingly reliant on cloud-based features to enable enhanced consumer experiences and features that are unavailable in non-connected products," Hower said. "In 2015, consumers will expect CE devices to have a measure of connectability, and they will place high value on cloud-based functionality."
Parks Associates analysts report wearables are poised to form a large chunk of the personal cloud in the new year as consumers store their health and fitness data in the cloud. The research firm reported wearables such as smart watches would be popular holiday gifts in 2014, and as more consumers adopt these devices, developers will need the software and storage in place to accommodate the growing influx of user data.
Converging Clouds: The Next Step for the Personal Cloud also provides a five-year global forecast of the number of consumers using cloud services on their entertainment devices.
Parks Associates will address the connected home and digital media markets at CONNECTIONS™ Summit: Monetizing Smart Home Solutions and Connected Devices, January 6, on the first day of CES. The session "Consumer Demand for Next-Gen TV Services" features speakers from Verizon Digital Media Services, Gracenote, BrightLine, DivX, ThinkAnalytics, and Cisco. More information can be found at www.connectionssummit.com.
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I find it hard to describe how delicious these figs were this morning, just take it from me - they were!
Cox's Orange Pippins are my favourite apples and we can only buy them for a few weeks each year. Cooked or raw they are pretty well perfect to me.
All this and much more at our excellent local Farmers Market and all grown within a few kms of the market.


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Sunday, July 23, 2006
I started this blog soon after an Awayweek with a group of Directors from a range of literature development organisations who had met together and found they had lots to discuss. That week was life changing for me, an amazing opportunity to think around work with a supportive and stimulating group who faced similar issues. A year later and we've a) been awarded Arts Council funding as part of their cultural leadership programme and b) our second awayweek, at Cumberland Lodge this time, and involving members of our teams in day sessions on marketing, strategy and 'thinking big', has been as thought provoking and battery recharging as the first. The group currently called Friendly Literature Organisations (FLO for short) includes Chris Hollifield of the Poetry Book Society, Emma Hewett of Spread the Word, Stephanie Anderson of the Arvon Foundation, Geraldine Collinge of Apples & Snakes, Jules Mann of the Poetry Society and Ruth Borthwick, Head of Literature and Talks at the South Bank Centre.
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[W.H.Auden (1907-1973]
Allen, continuing with his "Basic Poetics" class at Naropa - January 7, 1980
AG: So Auden - W.H.Auden, the… who, incidentally, it was his anthology that I was reading from originally - the... it's the first thing in his five-volume anthology of English poetry, poetry of the English language (which we've talked about before) also, in the (19)40's, during World War II, wrote a very great poem called "Age of Anxiety" in old Germanic and Anglo-Saxon alliterative meters. So I thought I would read some of that (and there's one copy that I got out of the Boulder library which I'll put in our own (Naropa) library for a couple of weeks, and then I have my own copy here, so if anybody wants to take a look at this at leisure, do so). It's called "Age of Anxiety". I think it came out in… wait a minute, let's see..(19)44 maybe?.. [Editorial note - it was 1947] - It was a big deal. Auden around about that time was a really great poet and is, remains, a great poet. I remember, at the time, I was living with (Jack) Kerouac and with (William) Burroughs near Columbia University on 115th Street. Burroughs had known..Bill Gilmore, who was a.. stayed with Auden in a house in Brooklyn Heights in (19)39 when Auden first came over from England, and there was a brilliant, eccentric, strange guy named Alan Ansen, who, at the time.. was a big queer, who lived out in Woodmere, New York, and had huge learned correspondence with Thomas Mann about the prosody in Wagner's Ring operas (because Wagner was into prosody, as was Auden, as was Stravinsky, as was Chester Kallman, as was Alan Ansen), prosody, like the measurement of word and music together, or the music of the language or the measure of the language, the measure of the line. And Alan Ansen, who was a friend of (Jack) Kerouac's and mine, and Neal Cassady, was Auden's secretary when he wrote this huge epic poem. "Age of Anxiety" in alliterative meters. And I was.. So we were all very familiar with it, back in the (19)40's - mid-'Forties and late-'Forties and some early (19)50's - and I haven't looked at it since, until today - again - (I) went over to the Boulder Library and picked up a copy (because I remembered it was written in the alliterative meter) and it really is great. So I picked out some passages that I remember from the (19)40's - to the (19)80's [present], that almost thirty-five years have stuck in my mind, so I guess they still are good.
[William Burroughs and Alan Ansen - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg]
Later, I think, Williams sent me to see Auden. The discussion was over prosody and meter between us, open-form prosody, and.. despite the fact that Auden was using older English forms and strict counted meter, he thought, every single line of Auden was different at least, it wasn't as if they were metronomic and repetitive and boring. There was a real ear at work. So, he gave me a little note to go visit Auden, and I went to see him. Also I'd known Chester Kallman, his boyfriend, and Alan Ansen, his secretary. So Ansen typed up "Age of Anxiety" - and one of the people we're going to be trying to get here [Naropa} teaching sooner or later is Alan Ansen, because Peter saw him… [to Peter Orlovsky] - You saw him this summer?
PO: Yes, I spent (five days…)
AG: What's he doing? What's he doing now?
PO: He's teaching at the American Center college in Athens. He brings about forty books to class. It meets about two hours, once a week - makes fifty dollars, and he's teaching (Ezra) Pound, (T.S.) Eliot..
AG: Auden
PO: Auden too
AG: Any language?
PO: Well, I only went to one class, but..
AG: He's been studying Hebrew and Arabic and Persian and Sanskrit. He knew German well in those days (and) French well enough to do… he did.. his big thesis was a thesis on the prosody, the metrical schemes and the prosody, related to music in theWagner Ring cycle. So, maybe we'll get him here sooner or later. Anyway, this ["Age of Anxiety"] is what he typed up
So it's Malin, Emble, Quant and Rosetta - various people. So they're all sitting along by the bar, thinking their own thoughts. War news on the radio. They happen to get together and start talking. They have a good time together, get a little drunk, kind of a little paradise between them that night, a "moment in eternity". They all go to Rosetta's house to have a drink. She falls in.. she has a crush on the young soldier (so has one of the guys) but she makes out with him (or thinks she's going to). They all drink to their delightful night. The two other older guys go home and leave them together. She sees them to the door, comes back and finds the young soldier drunk and asleep on her bed, (he) can't do anything! (She) has a long soliloquy over his.. corpse! (which I'll read also) - All done in this alliterative meter.
So, Emble was thinking.. (they haven't met yet - it's just, what are they thinking about, sitting alone) - Emble was thinking.. "Estranged.." (this is the young soldier) - "Estranged, aloof,/They brood over being till the bars close,/The malcontented who might have been/The creative odd ones the average need/To suggest new goals. Self-judged they sit,/Sad haunters of Perhaps who after years/To grasp and gaze in get no further/Than their first beholding, phantoms who try/Through much drink by magic to restore/The primitive pact with pure feeling,/Their flesh as it flt before sex was /(The archaic calm without cultural sin/Which her Adam is till her Eve does),/Eyeing the door, for ever expecting/Night after night the Nameless One, the/Smiling sea-god who shall safely land/Shy and broad-shouldered on the shore at last,/Enthusiastic, of their convenient/Abd dangerous dream; while days away in/Prairie places where no person asks/What is suffered in ships, small tradesmen,/Wry relatives in rocking-chairs in/Moss-grown mansions, mothers whose causes/For right and wrong are unreal to them,/ Grieve vaguely over theirs: their vision shrinks/As their dreams darken; with dulling voice/Each calls across a colder water,/Tense, optative, interrogating/Some sighing several who sadly fades."
"But now the radio, suddenly breaking in with its banal noises upon their separate senses of themselves, by compelling them to pay attention to a common world of great slaughter and much sorrow, began, without their knowledge, to draw these four strangers closer to each other. For in response to its official doctored message:
"Now the news. Night raids on/Five cities. Fires started/Pressure applied by pincer movement/In threatening thrust. Third Division/Enlarges beachhead. Lucky charm/Saves sniper. Sabotage hinted/In steel-mill stoppage. Strong point held/By fanatical Nazis. Canal crossed/By heroic marines.Rochester barber/Fools foe. Finns ignore/Peace feeler. Pope condems/Axis excesses. Underground/Blows up bridge. Thibetan prayer wheels/Revolve for victory. Vital crossroads/Taken by tanks. Trend to the left/Forecast by Congressman. Cruiser sunk/In Valdivian Deep. Doomed sailors/Play poker.Reporter killed." -
[ "Reporter killed" - That's pretty good, using that old Anglo-Saxon thing for the news broadcast - You can see how it... you know, you can get a funny staccato power.
Then Rosetta muses on politics:
"… I think too of/ The conquered condition, countries where/ Arrogant oficers, armed in cars - [Well you get the.. you get the basic alliterative scheme - "Arrogant officers, armed in cars" - so "ah", "ah" - caesura - then the first accented consonant word begins with the same sound - "Arrogant officers, armed in cars". And there's some kind of cross-reference sound - "armed in cars" - "arrogant", "cars" - "Arrogant officers, armed in cars". So the sort of "arrogant, cars" rhyme is what is called.. the what? - assonance, I believe. Assonance. Asymmetrical sound. Asymmetrical sound - Assonance. You know the phrase? - It's like "Him the Almighty Power/ Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky" - [Allen quotes John Milton from the opening of his Paradise Lost here] - Assonance is like the vowelic, vowelic flow, the mirror reflection of the vowels, one to another, or the leading from vowel to vowel, aiou (A-I-O-U), but using it, and then you've got the consonants cutting it through - "Arrogant officers, armed in cars". Anyway.. See, alliteration and assonance here, right? - Assonance - the inward-rhyming of the vowels, or the correlation between the vowels, the hollowness of the vowels, the howl of the vowels ("howl of the vowels - assonance) and Alliteration - the pattern of repetition of the consonants. Yeah, actually assonance and alliteration are the two big wheels of poetic power, because, you know, one deals with the consonants ("constant consonants, clanging curiously") - and the other is - ("open vowels, howling horrificly") -You got it? - So one's the vowels and one's the consonants. So this is… Of course, you've got lots of assonantial vowels in here but you've got mainly consonants - pom pom pom-pa-ta - Bom bom bom-pa-di - Cut-cut-cat-wap - Hic-hac-haec-hoc - You got it? Is that clear? - Hic-hac-haec- the oak? - Hic-hac-haec- the oak? - "Arrogant officers, armed in cars,/ Go roaring down roads on the wrong side" - It's really funny - if it wasn't so smart]
"Arrogant officers, armed in cars Go roaring down roads on the wrong side/Courts martial meet at midnight with drums,/ And pudgy persons pace unsmiling/The quays and stations or cruise the nights/In vans for victims, to investigate/In sound-proof cells the Sense of Honor./While in turkish baths with towels round them/Imperilled plotters plan in outline/Definitions and norms for new lives,/Half-truths for their times. As tense as these,/Four who are famous confer in a schloss/At night on nations. They are not equal:/Three stand thoughtful on a thick carpet/Awaiting the Fourth who wills they shall/Till suddenly entering through a side-door/Quick, quiet, unquestionable as death,/Grief or guilt, he greets them and sits down./Lord of this life. He looks natural,/Hr smiles well, he smells of the future/Odorless ages, an ordered world/Of planned pleasures and passport control,/Sentry-go, sedatives, soft drinks and/Managed money, a moral planet/Tamed by terror: his telegram sets/Grey masses moving as the mud dries./Many have perished. More will." - [ So he gets really serious, prophetic - 1944. Of course, he was then talking about the image of Roosevelt-Churchill… Roosevelt, Churchill - Yalta, Roosevelt and Stalin, De Gaulle.
[Audio from the above can be heard here, beginning at approximately seventy-two-and-a-half minutes in and concluding at approximately eighty-seven-and-a-half minutes in]
Class concludes with brief outline of future classes, re-iteration of assignments
and brief further announcement
AG: (We) got any more time? - No, not very much but maybe..I think, maybe I'll continue with this, reading next time, read some more of the Auden . Then we'll go on to (William) Dunbar, (John) Skelton - Skelton, Dunbar, okay, just great sound, but Skelton - Skeltonics. That is to say, Skelton is the guy who wrote a certain kind of short-line poetry that jiggles, that jiggles and rhymes and it is imitatable - Skeltonics. So that's worth checking out too.
So we'll have Dunbar, Skelton, and then go on to.whatever ballads you might look through in the Norton Anthology - and I'll bring in some books of ballads to supplement the ballads we have here. So, okay, our assignments so far - one litttle poem "that falleth as the dew", like "I Sing of A Mayden", one little poem, one imitation - [turns to Student - You were not here for.. okay..well, when you get the anthology, "I Sing of A Mayden", what's the title of that poem?
Student: : "I Sing of A Mayden" , page fifty-seven
AG: Page fifty-seven - "I Sing of A Mayden" - We've still got half a minute - Don't move - Fifty-seven. Well, she wasn't here when we did it, so why don't we do that again (because Peter (Orlovsky) didn't hear that (either)) - Get your fifty-seven out -"I Sing of A Mayden" - Before we go -Page fifty-seven - One more song before we leave - To imitate this poem, m'am, is the assignment [Allen concludes the class by leading a group reading of the poem, the entire poem] - still sounds good - maybe next time, we ought to do a reading of "This Ae Night.." (Lyke Wake Dirge). (Perhaps) we'll get that going next time. Yeah, look it over again, we'll do that, and then we'll get on to the alliterative…and one copy of the Auden will be in the library….


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There have been concerns about the health of government revenues given that land sales are expected to slow down after policymakers intervened to cool the property market. Taxation and fiscal revenues will provide the buffer, according to Zhu. Goldman Sachs estimates that total government revenue will continue to grow to Rmb16 trillion ($2.5 trillion) by 2015, up from the current Rmb12 trillion ($1.9 trillion), with the contribution from land sales declining to 10% in 2015 from 23% this year.
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The Dark Knight
This past Wednesday Flashpoint Academy was one of the sponsors of the Chicago premiere of The Dark Knight. The film was shot in Chicago last summer and the premiere was held at the Navy Pier Imax theater.
As one of the sponsors Flashpoint was allowed to be on the red carpet, in the screening and at the party afterwards. I was elected to be the person interviewing the stars on the red carpet. We were able to get a couple of students out there with me- this is Matt and Joe, as well as our in-house producer Paul Matian. We interviewed Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, producer Charles Roven and others and our students got to meet and speak with director Christopher Nolan. A great time was had by all, and just another way Flashpoint is different from other film schools.
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