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Biometric attendance systems are the kinds of systems that enable effective employee management and prevent any kind of financial loss due to over payments by preventing employees cheating when recording the number of hours they have worked in a particular pay cycle. Such a system is in the form of a clock which records the presence of an employee in the workplace so that their working hours can be monitored. Most of these biometric systems use software and the most modern technology available for fingerprint and face scanning and are therefore 100% reliable and dependable.
How Biometric time keeping software works:
It is important to understand how such software works or operates before getting it installed in your office environment. Read the following points to learn more about the issues concerned:
How Biometric time keeping software works:
It is important to understand how such software works or operates before getting it installed in your office environment. Read the following points to learn more about the issues concerned:
- Once the fingerprint scanning or other biometric system is installed, every employee of the company will be asked to give his/her fingerprint or other recognition data such as eye scan or facial scan etc.
- These prints will be recorded into the system and the system will now create its own database of employees.
- Now whenever a particular employee at the company premises, he/she will be required to get the fingerprint or eye scan matched to clock in.
- Once he/she takes entry into the company, the time clock will start ticking and won't stop until the employee leaves.
- This is how the number of working hours will be recorded each day and the pay will be calculated or salaried hours monitored.
Benefits of Biometric software and time keeping
There are many benefits when using biometric time clocks and employee management systems and the following are the top 5:
- This is a great way to avoid payroll losses and buddy clocking which are the types of fraud most often come across in organisations. The processor fingerprint scanning makes sure that no one but the employee himself will be able to clock and ensures they will not be able to use a proxy.
- Using a biometric option ensures that employees cannot forget their fob, card or badge and then create exceptions when they are not able to clock on and off properly.
- As compared to manual time attendance systems, this method is much more accurate and reliable. It leaves no scope for error and eliminates the worry of paying someone extra or a loss due to miscalculation in their number of working hours.
- Installing these devices can promote money saving as one only has to pay for their installation cost and then there can be substantial savings on HR department employee salaries.
- The best systems are generally cloud based which means that all the information and data is safe and can be accessed easily by supervisors and managers on their computer systems or mobile phones from anywhere in the world.
If you wish to get time keeping software in the form of a biometric attendance system installed at your workplace, you can visit http://www.uattend.co.uk and purchase a system now and have it up and running within 24 hours!


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On our trip to The Galapagos Islands, we stopped at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, to see its most famous resident, Lonesome George. He was a male Pinta Island tortoise(Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii) and the last known individual of the subspecies.
We visited in Mid-May (2012), he passed away June (2012). The Pinta tortoise was pronounced functionally extinct. (update: In November 2012 they found a possible subspecies of George)
He's in the upper right corner of the photo below.

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I've been traveling the last few weeks and loving every second of it. I've seen old friends, clients and students. I've taught in familiar places and some new places. I've searched out my old haunts and just taken some time to be quiet and breathe.
The last six months has been a privilege in that I've had a lot of time to breathe and be quiet. To think about breathing and being quiet, even. It's been six months of reflection and introspection. My friends call it my sabbatical from life. I've parented minimally, lived with friends, read, watched way too much Netflix and indulged in my yoga and meditation practices. But it started with pain. It was the privilege of healing in peace after my life flew apart. It has been six months of change, growth, respite and now in the Spring it has been a time of love, happiness and blossoming.
Yesterday in the air over the Midwest I read Pema Chodron's Living Beautifully and when she described ego clinging I was struck by how she was describing me. Now, I've worked on ego a lot and if you ask me I would say I'm a kind and open person. I go with the flow easily and I don't hang on to any idea too tightly. Except when I do.
My biggest struggle is the idea of One Day. I'm not materialistic enough to believe that One Day I'll have the perfect car/house/timeshare and life will be perfect and I'm not vain enough to believe when I hit the magic numbers on the scale One Day, life will be perfect. I do, however, hold on to the idea that One Day I will have it all together.
I've had this notion forever. I can't remember not thinking it. When I was a kid, it was when I'm a teenager everything will be perfect. As a teenager I thought if I could just make it out of my parents home and on to college everything would be great. In my 20s I thought life would come together in my 30s and I would know the magic answers and when they didn't come I just happened to see an Oprah show where famously successful women recounted how things jelled for them in their forties. So I waited. And here I am almost halfway through and I'm still not sure what together is.
So slowly I'm learning to accept that there is no One Day. There's just now. Logically I've known this for years, but to feel it deeply and surely is work. Over the last few years I've also learned that what looks like chaos from in here probably looks together to someone out there. So I can at least enjoy the facade, but from in here there's always going to be uncertainty. There's always going to be doubt and second guessing and trouble with self-love and forgiveness. Because that's who Melissa is.
This quiet time the last few months has taught me a little bit about embracing the uncertainty and slowly learning to appreciate it. Maybe even have a little gratitude for it. Cause wouldn't life be boring if I knew for certain what the next five years looked like? Or even worse the next 20 or 40 years? I'd just lie down right now and give up.
The toughest part for me is to be still in the moment. Outside of my meditation practice just being still mentally, physically, emotionally is tough. So often I'm planning, planning, planning. I take a walk so I'll feel alert later and maybe my new dress will fit better later. I'm thinking about my mental state, my health, my life in the future. I'm doing things now for later. These last six months I've accepted what is here right now just for the sake of this moment. It's made me appreciate my life and also realize how delicate and precious what I have in this moment is. Six months ago I thought I knew where I stood and where I was going. It was gone in a second.
And that's ok. Really, the universe knew so much better than I did. The universe gave me this gift of complete upheaval and the parts that I've put back together are wondrous in comparison. And somewhere in the dusty corners of my mind I know that's the point. It's the stuff of miracles. It's not about planning and making sure and feeling in control. It's about the magic, the surprises, the happenstance that make our lives wondrous.
Steve Jobs says that things lead you to a place, but you can't possibly connect the dots of the events of your life until you look back. The thing that I keep seeing is a field of dots and 100s or possibly 1000s of different connections creating different paths.
This Melissa has been here some 40 years and none of it has been static and very little of has been known in advance. I'm always, always developing, learning, changing. I sometimes hate to do it publicly and I fear that changing often makes me appear flighty. Today I can embrace that it just makes me human.
So with my new found respect for not knowing and accepting change and uncertainty I'm again changing the blog. I'm posting here very little these days because I've been working on the new blog. It's my attempt at making my work, teachings, writing, ramblings more cohesive It will be about more than just yoga off the mat. This blog will stay live, but I won't be posting from here. Please please come on over. We're going to practice poses, cook some yummies, drink some tea, meditate, breathe and have fun doing it! Comment, share and enjoy. See you there.


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Apple sauce granola
Well either way, I love this new recipe, and another great thing is it uses agave to sweeten it... this seems to have made it a little more susceptible to burning... so watch this batch with a closer eye than normal! John called me and I went gabbing away... when all the sudden I remembered... THE GRANOLA!!! OK honey... gotta go... no not in a second.. NOW! I got it just in the nick of time... another minute and this would have been charcoal! That would have been sad, sad indeed.
I plopped some into a mason jar for pictures... but truthfully this would make a lovely gift... you hear that extended family... guess what you're all getting next year :D (did I mention almost everyone on my christmas list got jam this year?? fun right :) )
OK onto the granola, as always, mix it up with whatever you have on hand, it's more fun that way :)
Apple sauce granola
by steph chows
Toss together in a large bowl:
4 cups old fashion oats
2 cups corn puffs
2 cups kamut puffs (i find the corn and kamut puffs in the organic section of my grocery store)
1 cup sunflower seeds (unsalted)
1 cup shredded coconut
Stir together in a small bowl
2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup apple sauce (all natural)
1/3 cup to 1/2 cup agave nectar
Add wet to dry and toss until everything is coated. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet so there is a thin layer. Bake at 325 and toss around every 10 minutes. If you like larger granola chunks toss more gently and don't break up the chunks... like small chunks... break things up a bit as you toss them around :D Let cool fully and then add in dried fruit to taste.
I normally mix in the dried fruit as I eat it, that way I can change it up depending on how I feel!


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Louisiana has seen large demographic and social changes as a result of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The state's federal workforce has also been in flux during this period with the Federal Emergency Management Agency becoming the state's second largest federal employer behind the Veterans Health Administration. FEMA employs nearly 1,500 in the state followed closely by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has been working to repair the state's flood management system. Another major federal employer is the USDA's National Finance Center which employs over 1,000 at its New Orleans offices.
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My greenhouse has translucent - not transparent - walls resulting in photos that can be rather bland.
This morning, instead of being vexed by the low light I decided to embrace it and just let the photo be what it wants to be.
I'm intrigued by this and want to practice it more.
Meantime, the nasturtiums make me smile whenever I pass by them.
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I found it in Ella Bache Salon today. I thought,
"OMG! I've heard this brand on the net! Didn't know it's here!"
It was just the next level down from where I work... Hahaha... Bad... I was on a break, and I thought I popped in to have a look at Ella Bache but I went out wondering about Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics. And, I just had to, didn't I, I had to do a colour matching... it only took about 5 minutes!! She was spot on straight from the first try! At least I thought so, until 27th/11/09 (see edit below)
Here is the colour chart... Youngblood Minerals Colour Chart
This is what I tried today... The Loose Mineral Foundation in Barely Beige (a tone in the Fair-Medium range, with yellow undertone)
It comes in a tub like this
What I think of it so far...
It was quite a perfect match! Awesome! I liked how my skin looked, it appeared fresh and awake, and the coverage was awesome, my face looks flawless!
However, maybe it wasn't blended properly or she put a little too much, that if I would to look at myself in the mirror maybe about a quarter of a meter distance, I would be able to see the particles or the powders sitting on top of my face, as though they've gathered and not settled yet.
However!! Now that it's been about 8 hours long since application, my face looks flawless and smooth, and not powdery, but due to my face oil, it might look "glowy" but I'd just call it a little "greasy" or "shiney", a little refreshment with the blotting papers and another round of transparent or lucent powder would be all good.
Note to self: Awesome coverage, flawless look.
Here is the makeupalley review on it ... CLICK HERE for the Foundation and CLICK HERE for Mineral Rice Setting Powder
It looks like this
(which I would love to try next... been looking for something like this for some time now, and they have a compact (pressed) for this! Yay!)
I'm sorry there's no photo... of my face with it on. but I couldn't take a photo straight after application because I was at work and I didn't carry my camera around with me.
Alright, I can't say I love this product because I haven't really tried it for long enough period of time. But I'm interested in what you have to say, whether you have tried any Mineral products? Or if you have tried Youngblood? Let me know. I am, to be honest, new to the Mineral Cosmetics line... I'm not even sure if it works for me, but hey, who knows...
PS: My first ever Everyday Minerals order arrived today. So I will talk about that as soon as I have tried it. I got the Flat Top Brush and Try Me Free Foundation in Medium. Stay tuned!!
EDIT 27th/11/09:
I found it at a Beauty Salon called The Beauty Boudoir (Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland) and the Beautician put Neutral (Fair-Medium range, pink-undertone). Now that's interesting, isn't it? Am I really a pink undertone? Or both yellow and pink? Or am I olive? I am confused!!
But, I must say it did look alright on me... Neutral... or am I missing something I should look out for? I mean, my face matched my neck and there wasn't any obvious separation between my face and my neck with Neutral colour on me... so ... what undertone am I!?!??!


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The Fellowship of the Ring
So I've read the Lord of the Rings saga a few times now and every time I realise how much I absolutely love it. JRR Tolkien is without a doubt a master of fantasy. He has created this complete world down to the very minutest detail that just completely astounds me. To think that one man could invent an entire world not just including new characters, settings and creatures but also complete with new animal and plant species as well is just unbelievable. I'm not sure there has been author since to create something so detailed.
All the characters are amazing I especially love all the creatures such as the dwarf's and the elves. If I have one flaw to point out it's that of Frodo's character. Bilbo was a brave, funny and cheeky character in the Hobbit but Frodo just bores me silly, in both the books and the films. In the films I want to kill him but I can tolerate him in the books. However they are still an amazing series of books and are definitely classics!!
The Two Towers
This book is my least favourite of the trilogy. Even though its well written and at times well paced and interesting I find because it has no beginning and no end it can be an extremely difficult book to get through.
The first part when we are following Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli is by far much more exciting and easier to read than the second part concerning Frodo and Sams journey. The second part is so repetitive and drags on and on. Can Frodo bear the ring? Will it become too much of a burden? Will he give up? Blah blah… I love Sam however who is a much more entertaining character than Frodo and provides the much-needed light entertainment in the final part of this book.
A good book, but to me never matches up to the worlds and people created in the first book.
The Return of the King
As much as I adore the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Christ but does he drag out the ending of this book. Most of this book is just as amazing as the previous two installments, I especially loved the main battle chapters as Tolkien just has this amazing ability to draw you so well into the story you can really feel all the emotions!
The chapters with Sam and Frodo once again I found tedious at times and Frodo just gets on my nerves more and more as the story progresses. I love Sam and wish he'd get more credit towards the end as really he was the only reason the ring was eventually destroyed.
The final few chapters I found hard going this time round as I just find at times that a lot of the book could have been shortened as most of the happenings along the road on their journey back to the shire were unneccessary to the actual storyline. Sometimes I wonder was it just filling to bulk the book up a bit compared to the other two.
However despite these few flaws I love LOTR and they will remain always in my top ten favourite books list!
The Films
I just want to say a quick word on the films. I am usually a strong, strong believer that books do not translate well to screen ninety percent of the time. That, of course, you're always going to be missing scenes you wanted to see, that to a reader it will appear jerky and disorganised but the Lord of the Rings trilogy was very different. I'm not sure whether it was to do with Peter Jackson and his love for the books or was it the actors or was its New Zealand's striking similarities to Tolkien's description of Middle Earth but it worked. It worked so well that the Lord of the Rings movies could be argued to be better than the books. I'm not saying they are but even the fact that this point could be argued shows how well they translated to film. These films flowed like I've never seen book adaptations flow. It was probably the first time I sat through a book adaptation of a film and didn't think "Aw, that's not what I imagined at all". Everything was how I imagined it, sometimes even better. I loved the films just as much as the books, maybe, just maybe, a little bit more…


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ClaireLouise and Martin, were recently married at the Dalziel Park Hotel and Country Club, just outside of Motherwell.
The day started out weather wise with a distinct wet theme, but thankfully, the waterworks stopped in time for the all important Bride and Groom images, so it was game on
The stunning dress..
I couldn't resist a smiley face in the jewellery
The Bridesmaids had a silly side to them
Once she was ready, ClaireLouise managed to find 5 minutes to let me create a few gorgeous Bridal shots for her
Yes, I love reflections, and today was no different!
The rain was on at the Church, but look at that smile!!
I'm sure this was Martin trying to decide whether he'd already waited too long
Before he had the chance to change his mind though, his Bride came rushing down the aisle
The exit! .. nice job confetti throwers!
The dance routine was rather involved, and it's fair to say that we were all very impressed!
of course later on, we went back outside for a few J-Sol style shots.. This was just one that we created.
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Hi All
I have just completed another set of 10 Christmas tags commissioned by Lyn ( she loved her last set)
This time she wanted them all different which was quite a challenge, but I am pleased with the outcome.
She will receive them tomorrow I hope she likes them !
I have made these using Deco patch papers, I have also made many Christmas capsules and attached these. I have used vintage lace and buttons for finishing touches.
Here they all are !
Angel tags
Santa Tags
Robin tags
Santa & Angel tag
Santa Tags
I'm glad I managed to get these finished as I feel the baby could be here any day now.


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As I am loathe to just jump in and participate in every goofy popular web/blog trend that rolls thru the internets, I am a fan of the zombie movie stuff, and since Newscoma did alert me that today is "Blog Like It's The End of the World!", then I am in. The premise, begun here, is that folks should blog like a full-blown worldwide zombie apocalypse is underway.
And hey, I've joined in for "Talk Like A Pirate Day" and "Wear a Gorilla Suit Day", so then why not this one?
Here's some things to consider -- at best, both electricity and fuel for vehicles will be utterly unavailable within a matter of hours. If you can find a bookstore to loot, which is likely as zombies don't read much, get yourself a copy of Max Brooks "Zombie Survival Guide". It has plenty of helpful info, but your reading time is gonna be limited. If you are traveling in a group, get one person to read as the rest of you flee for safety.
As Max has noted, one of your best defensive weapons will be a good, hefty axe. They need no ammo at all to work well.
Do not spend too much time bemoaning the fact you haven't already read Max's book, or that you did not join up to promote the Zombie Preparedness Initiative. Too late now.
In a recent interview, Max was asked:
"How can a layperson like myself distinguish between a zombie and a bureaucrat?
Trust me, a bona-fide zombie is not going to require a lot of pondering on the "hey is that a zombie?" issue. You'll know.
As I was thinking about what to write for this BLITEOTW Day, I wondered how the current media might handle the event. For instance:
The story on FOX News: "Well at long last, the Democrats have shown what they really are and what they really want -- they are the Undead and they want to eat you or convert you. These Demo-Zoms are anti-family and anti-American! .... oh wait, holy crap! Is that Ronald Reagan?? Looks like he has decided to rejoin the Democrat Party. And we can confirm that Hillary Clinton is registering the zombies to vote."
The story on CNN: "We have exclusive footage of the Anna Nicole Smith zombie and she's devouring an attorney and a .... hold on, hold on, Paris Hilton has a comment to make ...."
Drudge Report: Zombies eating brains! Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin, have NOT been attacked!
OK, fine, those are the easy jokes.
Now on to the blogging the zombie doom outside my doorway.
Here's how I would cover it:
"Outta here, suggest you do same."
ADDENDUM: A new zombie-comedy movie is set to open in limited release this weekend, called "Fido". A friend sent me a trailer for the movie, which is set in an alternate 1950s America. Some cosmic debris from a passing comet has turned all the dead into zombies, Fortunately, a giant corporation known as ZomCom, has established a method to 'domesticate' them and they are put to work as servants and menial laborers. A young boy named Timmy finally gets one of his own at his idyllic suburban home, who he calls Fido (played by Billy Connolly). Carrie-Anne Moss plays Timmy's mom. It looks pretty funny, so in honor of this day, here's the trailer:


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Gooooood morning!!!
Today is actually a great morning. Ya know why? Because I woke up to some amazing french toast. And, my house smells like pumpkin pie.
Those are two ingredients for a pretty perfect day. The only thing that would make this day better is if it was sunny with a high of some fall weather. Floridians really get the shaft when it comes to the amazingness of fall weather.
Oh well. This french toast is so good that it will make you forget it is still 99 degrees outside and basically still summer.
8 slices cinnamon swirl bread (any bread will work here, I just had some cinnamon bread and thought that would be tasty. GF will work here too!)
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk (I used vanilla soy)
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 Tbl butter (I used Earth Balance)
In a shallow dish, combine milk, eggs, pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice. Whisk until eggs are all broken up and well combined.
Heat a skillet over medium heat and add butter to pan.
Soak bread in pumpkin mixture until the bread is saturated. Allow excess batter to drip off and place into hot pan. Cook on each side for about 3-4 minutes or until browned and egg has cooked. Remove from heat and eat immediately.
Enjoy and happy Sunday!!


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A cosmopolitan genus of herbs found in temperate and cool temperate regions. There are about 130 species, some of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
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An amusing form of local life around the Shyenia resort located on Mar's northern hemisphere. The closest botanical comparison to Earth species is the venus flytrap; however, wrackspurts show much more ambulatory characteristics, possessing the ability to withdraw and expend from their root system at will. Essentially, they will burrow into their root system until they detect vibrations from the surface, then errupt suddenly and stun their prey with their toxic needles. Over the course of a a day to a month, depending on the size of their prey, they shall drain the animal of blood.
This is the art of taking a random-ass word and running with it.


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This time of year it is hard to find a shrub in bloom with sweeter flowers than abutilon. In my gardens it blooms during the cooler months, from the fall to summer, but maybe because it gets more water from the rain during those months. It will survive on moderate water, but likes regular water.
I have it growing in both light shade and sun and it does well either way. It can get a bit scraggly, so keeping it pruned will maintain a full appearance. The foliage is shaped like maple leaves which lends itself to the nickname, 'Flowering Maple'. And if the delicate little hanging flowers weren't enough to make you love it, the hummingbirds are crazy about it too.
This is about life in my gardens. One is an acre on a hillside in Laguna Beach, California and the other is an acre in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Such Sweetness
Posted by Sheila at 1:32 PM
4 comments:
- Pam's English Garden said...
Dear Sheila, This is new to me and absolutely adorable. P. x
- December 4, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- Heather said...
Lovely pictures!
- December 5, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- catharine Howard said...
Dear Sheila I like that abutilon
- December 5, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
Sheila I have picked up on this one from other blogs .. it is a very beautiful plant : )
- December 6, 2010 at 4:49 AM
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Luke Rudkowski interviews British politician George Galloway at an Anti-G8 event about why he is against the G8's policies and his thoughts on the recent Bilderberg meeting.
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Things and shows and stuff to consider:
- Danny Bhoy, although this adorable Scottish comedian may steal your potential date's heart and turn it from a 'maybe date' to a 'let's talk about another man and his positive attributes' sesh. Also this is a long(ish) show at 70 minutes.
- Mark Watson, you risk running the same fate with the falling for the (this time Welsh) cuteness on stage thing but last time I saw him he talked about his wife (but not in a horrible Jeff Green kind of way) so you should be safe.
These two are your best bet as they are safe but a little more interesting lots of the other ones who stand up and tell jokes. But if you can push the time back (or forward? which one is it? I always get confused...I'm trying to say the one that makes the time be earlier) you should just go to Pajama Men or Eddie Perfect at 8.30pm. 'Cause then there'd be little to no awkwardness you might encounter with a show called something like 'What women don't want to hear'* but they'd be radtastic and impressive.


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It is truly depressing and pathetic that murder trials have become so heavily reliant on "motivation" as the single most important determinant for a verdict. Did he kill her on accident, or on purpose? Was it spontaneous, or planned? Was he mentally ill, or sane?
When motivation is a consideration in the courtroom, and even more so when it is the most crucial consideration, the courtroom is reduced to a competition of actors, with the prosecution team claiming the defendant is an evil, cruel, hateful criminal that willfully planned out the brutal murder, and the defense team insisting that the defendant was a poor victim of circumstance, wrong place at the wrong time, unable to adapt properly to a traumatic situation, and often some kind of appeal to mental illness or extenuating circumstances.
Both sides exaggerate and distort the facts, both sides are heavily biased towards their interpretation of the events, but most crucially, neither of them have any idea what the motivations of the defendant really were, nor does the defendant necessarily even understand his own motivations. It's all an act, the theatrical portrayal of hypothetical scenarios masquerading as evidence-backed facts. This kind of nonsense distorts the justice system more than any other factor. Who can put on the most convincing performance becomes the deciding factor of a verdict, with the facts of the matter being relegated to a secondary concern.
But even setting aside the evidence and the theatre, there's another, perhaps bigger problem that is not even recognized as a problem: that killing is killing, rape is rape, theft is theft, suffering is suffering, regardless of the motivations. The concern with the motivation of the one committing the crime, their character, condition, abilities/disabilities, etc., is considered a core determinant of any judgments on whether they were justified in committing the crimes they did.
If a man steals for his children (or claims to), all of a sudden we sympathize with him. If a neighborhood watchman kills a young man because he feels threatened by him, all of a sudden we defend him and say "he had a right to kill him because of a credible threat to his life". We emotionally identify either with the victim or the perpetrator in this fashion, believing that somehow, justice is contingent on motivation. Forget that we don't know their motivations, and are just speculating based on hypothetical scenarios. Forget that regardless of his motivation, The store manager still took losses, and Trayvon Martin is still dead. They had their hearts in the right place, right?
You know what, suppose I agree with you. That would mean that, in all probability, all the major genocides, the Holocaust, not to mention virtually all wars in the world, were justified. Hitler wanted to save the German nation from the Jews and communists, and build a homeland and future for the German people. Stalin wanted to give Russia a great legacy that the world would never forget. Mao wanted to transform China into the most productive and ideal civilization. Even serial killers had good intentions, with Charles Manson wanting to wake up the world to how evil it had become, and Bundy wanting to fully savor the experience of the anatomy of beautiful young women.
There isn't a single evil or wretched person out there who didn't have some kind of good intentions, or tried to do the right thing, or wasn't somehow the victim of circumstances, mentally ill, maladaptive, "at the wrong place at the wrong time", traumatized, etc. We can prescribe a motivation to vindicate any crime in the book, which really goes to show how absurd it is that courts still place so much value in such a speculative and unreliable criterion. Introspection hasn't been considered a real science for over a century now, so why does the law continue to put it on a pedestal. We're not mind readers, we're not fortune tellers, and even if we were, it doesn't make the raped any less traumatized, the burglarized any less poor, or the deceased any less dead.
Never Enough Time
While there are many obstacles to success in life, never have I had to deal with one more challenging than time. There's never enough time to do what I need, much less what I want to do in life. There's got to be hundreds of things that I could be doing right now, yet I have to choose among that myriad of opportunities a select few, and I can never be satisfied with my choices regardless of what they are. No matter what, I need to sacrifice something, which is particularly frustrating because I don't want to give up anything.
Time management helps, and establishing clear priorities and structure are good as well. But I know that such an approach has the bittersweet side-effect of limiting what I am able to do, in order to more effectively do a few things excellently. If I were to constrain myself to a few things, like say 5-10, and discipline myself to focus only on these tasks, I would likely get a lot more accomplished that I have so far. But at the same time, I know I'm going to feel twinges of regret as I realize just how much opportunities I gave up to fully realize a select few.
I know that to be successful, it is absolutely for me to give up the plethora of daily activities I indulge myself in to properly optimize my time to truly excel in everything I do. But, being unwilling to give up anything to excel in life, I have compromised on everything, becoming a "jack of all trades, master of none". This is an even more unsavory situation, since for all my good intentions, my unwillingness to commit to anything in life has produced a well-rounded mediocrity.
Perhaps even a mediocre life by my standards is a life of excellence by the standards of many. But I know better than to judge the quality of my life by comparing it to others- we each have our own individual potential, and it is our responsibility to live life to the fullest. For me to settle for individual mediocrity merely because the rest of the world deems such a life to be "good enough" is not only a waste of potential, but a self-betrayal. I can be so much more than this, yet I am not. This is a tragedy, and cannot be justifiably tolerated.
This may well be just an empty promise, a sincere but unrealistic resolve to correct chronic flaws in my character, thereby finally living life to my potential. But even if such a commitment has no substance in my present state, I am confident that as I continue to mature and build character, it won't be too long before I am the person I need to be to finally follow-through and realize the potential I have been blessed to be born with!
On The Merits of Responsible Living
As most people who know me realize, I have a strong distaste for responsibility. But it's not as though I hate responsibility or don't see any merit to it, it's more an issue of freedom- you see, I've found that the more responsible I become with my life, the more limited I become with what I can do with it. I hate being limited, so I tend to avoid responsibility as if it were a great evil, because up until now, I've seen the "responsible life" as the death of my youth, vitality, and individual freedom. So long as I'm irresponsible, I'm not tied down to any particular direction, and I'm not limited to any given values or priorities. I can do what I want freely and without limitation or structure.
But while this might work well for one who has not found values to embrace, people to love, a future to build on, and indeed I met this criteria perfectly for most of my life, I have come to a point where I have found someone to love and live for, I must embrace the values necessary for her to be happy, and for us to be happy together- and for us to be together, it is necessary to forge a future for us, and build on that foundation until our happiness is complete.
The principle merits of responsible living deal with love, and with building relationships, families, futures, societies on. Whereas freedom is necessary for creativity to spring forth, responsibility is necessary for what is created to be appreciated. It's one thing to create something wonderful, beautiful, amazing– but to make that something productive, appreciable, real— it requires some degree of responsibility, in order that mere expression can be honed and refined into art. Responsibility is the proactive structuring, standardizing, planning, and ritualizing of reality that makes self-actualization possible.
Normally, I tend to do and say everything without thinking, wishing to communicate my raw, unfiltered self without being biased by the real or perceived consequences or my words and actions. While this has worked well when I had nothing and no one to live for, It has become increasingly important (to my surprise) as I find my unfiltered expression threatening the health of my relationships, and particularly that of my love. To preserve the well-being of the values and people I care for, Carefully deciding what to say, how to say it, and who to say it to, must become an important consideration for me.
Prior to my engagement to be married, it didn't matter how much money I made, or the stability of my income, because I knew I would always find a way to subsist regardless. I've been homeless, and lived off of food bank food and soup kitchens, and know how to survive regardless of the circumstances. But now that I have a future wife to support and care for, and ensure her happiness and well-being, things have become a lot more complicated. In the interests of our life together, I need to become financially responsible, get a stable job with enough income for us to live comfortably, learn to budget money reasonably and consistently, and invest my income conservatively and efficiently.
Whereas before I was content with a rather random lifestyle, only doing hygiene, cleaning my room, or caring about my dress when I felt like it, I have recently realized how vital it is for me to live my daily life structured, clean, and disciplined. In order to ensure a healthy equilibrium for our married life, and particularly for our future kids, it is necessary for me to live life more "civilized" and with more self-respect than I'm accustomed to.
Finally, responsibility has become essential for me because without it, I would take the people I love for granted, even the one I love most. When life is a chaotic mess of liberation, sure there's a lot of options to choose from, and everything feels so much more colorful, open-ended and free, but it's difficult to focus and appreciate any of it, or to realize the things and people you care about most. When you limit your range of focus through responsible living, it allows you to zero in on the things, people, and values that really matter to you- that's the real beauty of responsibility!
Spirituality vs. Religion: The Difference is Bigger Than You Think
I criticize religion in general, because it is a system of servitude, either willful (conversion), through family upbringing (indoctrination), or cultural (brainwashing). Moral values and spiritual pathways/beliefs are a wonderful thing, religion is a hateful system that turns wonderful truths into terrible perversions of those truths, exploited by those in power to control the masses.
That being said, even though I might find religion to be an awful, disgusting thing, I respect the opinions of those that adhere to it, and seek to achieve an understanding with them despite any barriers of belief there might be between us.
I think it is good for one to be convicted in their spiritual beliefs/values/etc., what I am against (and thus criticize) is the forced consolidation of beliefs in the form of religion, which is at the core the statism of spirituality. Those who are supportive of libertarian values should understand my disgust of religious institutions on that basis alone.
I understand peoples' choice to consolidate their beliefs into a larger body of like-minded individuals; so long as they don't mind the dogma, doctrine, and patriarchy it comes with. But I believe that one should not have to conform to a religion to benefit from the spirituality/relationships/etc. it entails, not any more than one should have to go to college to gain the recognition of being well-educated.
However, such an idealistic way of thinking isn't particularly practical in an institution-driven world, so I can understand why conformance to religion is natural for so many people.
Debating the motivations and moral justifications of war, and its relationship to society and human nature
(Extracted from a debate thread with Angel Suri)
My original post (for context):
I regularly post anti-war content on Facebook, Google+, twitter, and my blogs, I am always talking to my friends and family about how stupid and unjustified the wars American, Israel, and Palestinian countries are fighting are, and I sign petitions and support politicians committed to bring an end to America's policing the world and building this unsustainable American empire.
I'm a diehard pacifist and debate with people all the time about the problems with war, and convince people all the time that after stripping away all the FUD and propaganda, all of these wars we're fight are completely unjustifiable.
What have YOU done to oppose the warmongering in America and in the world?
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LIKE DRUGS AND GAMBLING: War gives men a justifiable excuse to commit suicide or practice aggression… War is the seeking of pleasure or the justification of an ideal… War like all human experience has a value in that it seeks an end or adds meaning for it has both effect and value to those who engage in it and is seen as absurd by those who abstain… Why would you deny man his natural inclination to kill and die and seek pleasure or ideals in a pragmatic way? It is the way he seeks these things that you object to not that a man or a collection of men seek these things… Would you have us all play chess or some other form of competition and power satiating substitutes for pleasure in risk? Your ideals have no greater value than that of another man or collection of men. Your distaste is all you speak of, a contrary ideal, a different collection of men who share your proclivity for peace. Peace has value only insomuch that it allows another war to break out eventually. Peace is a respite for the men of war to show the men of peace that virility in life can still be had and that the will to power is not an effete thing to be hidden away through living a life of the mind alone. War is evil to the pacifist because it is foreign to their nature and cannot be understood as "just something else to do to pass the time." Pass the time in judgement against or pick up a gun or a needle or a set of dice, but do not spend time in meaningless argumentation about human nature.
War is sanctioned through cooperation of the many (or the powerful few) who agree and not some random act by some lunatic without social value. The only similarity to what you propose is the component of violence and benefit. Otherwise several lunatics are required to start and enact a war. some semblance of sanity is needed to do this successfully. i speak of sane things that by a pacifist is seen as insane ideology. But then again i think a man taking vows of silence and renouncing all pleasure for a life of contemplation is equally insane as what you propose for they accomplish the same thing. You do not need to value war, only understand that there are those that do, and that you have no right or any moral justification to value peace over war where they are concerned. For there are many moralities but there is no Morality. in other words people are going to do whatever the hell they want because they can and there's not a damned thing you can do to stop them from using their power.
That isn't to say I think war is ever justified (it isn't), but this is the best justification I have been able to come up with, as it is rational and universal. The problem of course, is that it involves slaughtering millions to satisfy one's own Ego, which is by definition psychopathic. So yes, there is technically a rational motivation for war, but there is no *morally* justifiable reason for war, other than perhaps self-righteous causes, which are in reality perversions of religious values and moral virtues.
You also speak as if men are animals who are slaves to their cravings, that they cannot help but desire violence, death, conflict, and vice. While this is the case with many men, I believe most men have transcended these cravings, or at least learned to control them. Society would not function if we could not control our cravings and destructive desires, after all. So the fact that society continues to function, despite mankind's destructive desires, is the biggest evidence that no, there is no need for such destructive activities; war is not justified anymore than violence or murder is justified in mainstream society.
The argument that there can only be peace if there is war is an interesting one, but about as rationally sound as saying "there is only more trees cut down if there is more trees standing. You can see the flaw clearly in that analogy- while peace may only be *appreciated* by man if there is *some* war by which to contrast it, there is no necessity for there to be a great deal of war, as there is now. As war is a destructive and savage activity, it should be avoided whenever possible, and treated only as a last resort to *save* lives (i.e. the Holocaust).
"Would you have us all play chess or some other form of competition and power satiating substitutes for pleasure in risk?"
If it meant the bloodshed would stop/be decreased, or that conflict and killing would be minimized? of course I would, and any decent person would agree with me. Incidentally, we have plenty of video games and nonlethal sports that permit people to vent their destructive desires, so there's no real excuse for men to need to *actually* kill their fellow man just to satisfy their destructive drives.
"do not spend time in meaningless argumentation about human nature." How it is meaningless? These are very important issues to address, and the amount of war in the world has decreased a great deal due to efforts by people like myself in informing the public, drawing attention to these issues, and providing solutions to neutralize the causes of war and its underlying drives.
"Otherwise several lunatics are required to start and enact a war. some semblance of sanity is needed to do this successfully. " No actually, there are many mental disorders in which people are warlike and violent, and very intelligent and clever in their planning of things, even for very long term goals, and they are very rational in their motivations. The most common of these mental illnesses are psychopathy and sociopathy. So on the contrary, warmongering by lunatic elites is very possible, and actually the most plausible reason for why there is so much war in the world despite the level of technology and civilization the world has attained.
"you have no right or any moral justification to value peace over war where they are concerned. For there are many moralities but there is no Morality"
On the contrary, that there are many moralities is precisely why I have a right to my own moral justification to value peace over war. values are how we interpret reality- I interpret reality according to the desires of my heart.
Man is aggressive and needs an outlet for this tendency and so he sanctions war as the way because football, boxing, and mma just don't do it for some. All the discussion in the world can't stop a man from justifying whatever activity he thinks will benefit him. We are perverse by nature at times. War is a perverse pleasure. So men will justify perversity. It's a societal thing as old as society itself. We are Sparta… It's an ideology rich in history and tradition. It is a gruesome thing this humanity. Would we prefer it were otherwise if we could play God? Sure why not have world peace instead? But we are in fact doing as biology and society have urged… and we like the urge… not me per se… for of course we can resist our urges and go contrary to our tendencies… or we could allow some yahoos to get together and kill each other to satisfy their urges instead (i only blow things up with my mind and avoid physical combat, but I try to justify the human experience whenever possible so that life doesn't seem so absurd)
I don't know why you think war is a societal thing (especially considering that the more advanced a civilization is, the less war and conflict they tend to have), though even in advanced civilizations, an immature society has more difficulty resisting its perverse impulses, so war, conflict, and other perversions continue to run rampant. To eliminate these vices, we need to build a more mature and virtuous society.
"But we are in fact doing as biology and society have urged" other than this being the appeal to nature fallacy (seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature) society is inherently at odds with biology, as evidenced by the fact that despite the biological drive to do so, we are not raping, pillaging, killing, and taking whatever we want. We live civilized, despite our biologically animalistic nature.
We certainly can do as you suggest and become more civilized… but yet some choose war… and not because we are uneducated about it. and how is war not a societal thing? it is clear a societal function…
My Views About the Space-Time Continuum, and the Relationship Between Time and Existence
Time does exist, otherwise man could not have invented a means to measure time. But the measurement of time isn't real- seconds, minutes, years, days– they might be based on the cycles of the earth, sun, moon, etc.– but they don't have any real existence. When I use the word 'time', it is in the nonlinear sense. Time is basically a collection of data points that divide the patterns of the universe into different states of emanation.
Change can be appreciated through time, because when you "jump" to a different data point (a "moment", what I refer to as a "ripple"), then you appreciate something has changed. Time exists outside of change; even if there was no change, there would still be time, but time guarantees there will be change, by providing the data points by which to emanate too. If you are water, and there are holes in the ground to flow through, do you think that there is anything stopping you from "changing" by flowing into that hole (data point).
Time doesn't exist "in reality", because existence came about as a byproduct of time and space synthesizing as creation. Time doesn't choose what it exists for; rather, time is a bunch of holes in the void that matter flows through. When matter flows through time, creation manifests. In this way, time both exists and doesn't exist.
Here is an example of non-linear time-space: the numbered-dots are "time" (data-points), and the empty pockets of space (represented by the yellow line grid) are "space".
Dominance vs. Submission: What's The Difference?
Confused about the difference between dominance and submission when it comes to kissing/sex? Here's the breakdown:
Dominance is:
1. Initiating the expression (kissing/touching/sex)
2. Usually being on top/above the submissive
3. Doing most of the "work"
4. In charge of deciding what positions to do
5. Is their responsibility to use their power to pleasure the submissive
6. They require the most trust in sex, because they have power whereas the submissive is vulnerable, and having to rely on the dominant to do almost everything, and to not hurt them or displeasure them
Submissive is:
1. Receiving/appreciating the expression (kissing back/touching back/enjoying the sex)
2. Usually being on bottom/below the submissive
3. Is doing almost nothing, just relaxing and enjoying the experience
4. Doesn't make any of the decisions, relies on the dominant to decide everything in the expression for them
5. Is their responsibility to be responsive in their bodies, and show and tell the dominant what they like and what is pleasurable to them, to communicate their sexual needs, and to suggest things
6. They must trust the dominant one completely, because they are giving all the power to the dominant, leaving them completely vulnerable, trusting them to pleasure them and do what they like, and not hurt them
Now you know!


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John Edwards!!!
Edwards Blazed A Progressive Trail
Returning to where he began, former North Carolina senator John Edwards ended his presidential campaign yesterday in New Orleans's Ninth Ward, imploring his supporters to "not give up on the causes that we have fought for" in the effort "to make the two Americas one." During his campaign, Edwards laid out policy areas that will continue to animate the national debate in 2008, calling "for the United States to reduce its troop presence in Iraq" and issuing "a plea for citizen action to combat poverty, global warming and America's reliance on foreign oil." As CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said last night, "John Edwards may have ended his presidential campaign. But what he started isn't over. He and his message have left a lasting impression."
PUTTING POVERTY FIRST: No issue was more important to Edwards than poverty and the plight of economic inequality in America, which he sought to cut by a third in a decade and end within 30 years. In his farewell speech, Edwards said that he had obtained pledges from the remaining Democratic candidates, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), to "make ending poverty and economic inequality central to their presidency." Edwards's efforts to guarantee that "his quest for economic justice would be carried forward" is emblematic of the role he played throughout the campaign, boldly challenging his fellow candidates to take on big issues with progressive policy prescriptions. The Center for American Progress shares Edwards's goals, having offered a plan to cut poverty in half in ten years. Last week, the House of Representatives, without objection, approved a resolution by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), declaring that the House supported the goal of cutting poverty in half in ten years.
GUARANTEEING HEALTH CARE: When Edwards unveiled his health care plan "in early 2007, it won widespread acclaim for proposing" to "cover everybody and make health care, once and for all, a right of citizenship." As The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn notes, it was "something no mainstream...presidential contender had proposed since the early 1990s." Soon after he rolled out his proposal, other candidates followed suit, embracing his ambitious goal. The American Prospect's Ezra Klein writes that "the mixture of a progressive, transformative health care plan and a credible candidate instantly reshaped the politics of health care." By proposing a universal health care plan "long before that of any other major candidate," Edwards changed the debate so that "any politician who proposed an overly cautious or incremental plan would lose voters." As The New York Times's Paul Krugman wrote in Feb. 2007, Edwards's plan addressed "both the problem of the uninsured and the waste and inefficiency of our fragmented insurance system," which forced other candidates to "come up with something comparable."
COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: Declaring that "our generation must be the one that says, 'we must halt global warming,'" Edwards was "the first presidential candidate to call for reducing U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by 2050" and the first to make his "campaign carbon neutral." Following Edwards's lead, both Clinton and Obama made similar commitments to reduce carbon emissions. As he did with health care, Edwards was the first candidate to introduce a detailed energy plan. After Edwards laid out his plan, the League of Conservation Voters applauded it as "the most comprehensive global warming plan of any presidential candidate to date" and encouraged other candidates to follow suit. As The Atlantic's Matthew Yglesias wrote yesterday of Edwards, "his climate change proposal is sweeping enough to meet the standard that scientists tell us is necessary to avert catastrophe," which might sound "bizarre to hail" as an achievement, "but the truth is that" other candidates "weren't on board until Edwards was."
BRINGING TROOPS HOME: In 2002, Edwards voted in the Senate to authorize the use of force against Iraq, a vote that he did not repudiate as both a presidential and vice-presidential candidate in 2004, even though he was a critic of the war. But on Nov. 13, 2005, Edwards penned an op-ed in the Washington Post definitively declaring that "it was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002," saying, "I was wrong." As a presidential candidate, Edwards insisted that "there is no military solution to the chaos in Iraq" and called for "an immediate withdrawal of 40,000-50,000 troops and a complete withdrawal within nine to ten months." Unlike New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Edwards never committed to removing all residual troops from Iraq, but he did take the lead in committing to "withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police." As the Center for American Progress's Brian Katulis and Lawrence Korb have argued, "[T]raining and equipping Iraqi security forces risks making Iraq's civil war even bloodier and more vicious than it already is today."


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I set myself a target of reading 4 books by female Australian authors over the course of the year. Looking back at the halfway stage, I realise I have reached my target! These are the books I have read so far:
Coming of age YA with an intriguing subplot that delves into an interesting piece of Australian history. One of my top ten books of the year so far.
YA set at a Christian summer camp. I had high expectations but was a little bit underwhelmed by this.
Another of my top ten books of the year so far. Great YA with fab male characters.
More coming of age YA - good, but didn't blow me away.
Based on a true story, focusing on the German political resistance in the early 1930s.
I've really enjoyed this challenge so far - the Aussie YA has been strong, and I was excited to read Funder's latest novel. I'm hopeful that I will be able to add to this list by the end of the year, and I'd definitely recommend Gale and Keil's books in particular to any YA fans out there!
Challenge status: Complete.


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There are so many advantages to not being an active Facebook user. Oh, my husband still has a page and I do look at it on a regular basis, but I don't have my own.
For now, the biggest of the advantages for not being an official "FB'er" and for having a very active blog is that I can personally speak to those of you who actually take the time and visit my blog and I can say, with all my heart and soul
Thank you
Thank you to those of you who visit regularly, for just doing that. Thank you to you who tells me that you enjoy the "window into my soul" and for loving me as your friend, no matter what I do or say. Thank you to you who I recently ran into at a very busy gathering and you took the time to say "keep writing". Thank you to you who tells me "you know, I read it every day". Thank you to those of you who tell me that you relate to what I have said in my writing, that I may have touched you in some way, comforted you or perhaps even shocked you. To you who keeps encouraging me, you who I respect so much for your talents and your life experiences, you who takes the time to encourage me to place my stories in another place every year. You got me started and I love you for it. To all of you who are the "stories". Keep them coming. I will. To my dear, sweet husband who lies if he has to, to make every word that I write feel as if I were Shelley or Keats.
And to my muses, especially you, the white seagull that has taken up residence in the middle of the pond, greeting me every morning as you swirl softly in circles. I know it's you Mom. Thanks for coming and for being here throughout the holiday season. You made it just that much easier and while Christmas will never be quite right without your presence, you've given me the opportunity to enjoy a few moments of peace each morning, exactly the way it should be.
Thank you and Merry Christmas to all.


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One of weird things I always think about when I see the new year coming is how I don't view the world in yearly blocks like some people. I look at events in my life and in my world that happen on a different time scale. So... in a lot of ways, this year started about the same time my school started. In Late August my family went to Thailand for a vacation. And, while my parents had a good time, I did not. All my life I've been a introvert and I've never needed much social interaction, but this year I've found, more and more, how I really do enjoy the social interaction that I get and how much I cherish social interaction. I think if I hadn't been homeschooled I would probably enjoy social activities with my friends a lot more than I do.
Anyways... so I didn't enjoy myself because, at nearly 18 we were on holiday at a place in the beginning of the school year for most people my age. Ergo, there was no one but my family and a bunch of little kids or adults (neither of which wanted to spend time with me, really). The vacation wasn't horrible, but it wasn't amazing either. Plus, the hotel we stayed in while in Bangkok was… horrible. Bangkok has the worst spiritual atmosphere I've been in ever I think. Stupid prostitutes ruining my vacation. -_-
Okay… I need to remember to not ramble here… so anyways, from there I went to Texas where I had a WONDERFUL two weeks with my grandparents, dad and aunt. I visited Baylor University and St. Edwards University and made my decision about college (St. Eds here I come. (: ).
Then the school year hit like a bomb. Now, I'm not an idiot or anything, and I do work hard (not hard enough, perhaps, but there is always room for improvement) I've always been satisfied with my grades and yes, there have been many moments when I wanted to scream in frustration, but that's part of life. Well this year school hit me hard. Math is hard. And, for the first time, I realized why I am NOT going to pursue math. I knew I wasn't good in it, but wow… this year has been really hard for me in math. Physics is actually fun, but I'm bad at it. Again, no science for me. Latin and Logic have challenged me, but with hard work I know I can make it up and do good in these classes. I won't be taking latin in College though, I think I'll try an easy language and one that might actually prove useful (well, more useful that Latin), like Spanish. English has been fun, but I wish I could focus more energy into it. With more editing, and more time, I might have been able to swing an A this semester, as it is I'll have to deal with just an 85 average.
Wow… this is long… *sigh* I can't seem to sum things up.
Okay, so, big picture: This year has, in many ways, been a hard year. I'm in a time of transition and that's hard one anybody. I remember four years ago when "college" was some magical land in the distant future. But now it's a stark reality and I have no idea what exactly its going to be like. I'm sure a lot of you know what I mean, being juniors and seniors. I have this sense of dread and excitement. I'm looking forward to America a lot, but at the same time I know I'm going to hate a lot of it. Not one of my friends who have made this transition in the past few years has had a lot of good things to say about America. I know at least one of my friends has really struggled and hates America. I've always tried to have a positive outlook on this transition, but at the same time I'm… afraid (?) that I'll end up hating America and alienating a lot of people because "I'm different". I'm afraid of rejection and I'm afraid that I won't have a place in the world.
Random stuff, right? I mean… come on, I know in the back of my head that I will have a place in the world. God has done so many wonderful things in my life these past few years, preparing me for the future he has planned for me. He's not gonna abandon me all of the sudden. I'm gonna be fine.
But, then, you know this Christmas, for all I know, could have been my last Christmas in Bangladesh. Forever. That scares me. A lot. I came to Bangladesh in 1998 when I was almost 7 years old. Eleven years later I'm 18 and I have had an awesome life in this wonderful (if corrupt, overpopulated, stinky and annoying) country.
I guess I just need to trust God and try and focus on small things, one day, one week, one month at a time. I'm now almost half way done my senior year of High School. In six months I'll be done Highschool. Forever. In 12 months I'll have made a HUGE transition from on continent, one culture, to another. It's a big deal and if I think about it too much (like I am now) I get all nervous.
Annd that was a bad big picture. I'd go back and edit but honestly, I think my thoughts work best just as they are, maybe badly written and a bit confusing, but this is, literally a thought dump, so I think I'll keep it as it is.
That's all for now. I probably won't get another update in until school starts again.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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Yesterday one of my customers (thanks Ruairi! :)) showed me some pictures of his new tattoo that I sketched a few months ago. The tatoo design is inspired by the elbow tattoo of the Arsenal soccer player Cesc Fabregas, and is in a graphical polynesian style.
The original high quality flash design that I made looks like this:
It has a shark tooth, some kind of an eye and other repetitive patterns.
The band wraps around the elbow and connects perfectly on the outside of the arm.
My customer sent me the following photos of elbow:
Any questions? Just let me know
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ETA: I got honorable mention for my Star box seen below - check it out on Nicole's blog !!!! whoo hooo!!!!
I stamped the flower on the text DP and colored it a little with some copics. I added a punched circle and gem to the middle. The sentiment is cut with a petite oval nestability.
My third project (use of stars, summer theme, template) uses Lauren's Captured Card Case template. But I used it for cookies instead of cards! This project uses the PTI stamps "Let Freedom Ring" and "Star Prints"
We have a store called 5 Below in our town - which is like a dollar store only everything is $5 or less - where I found a big bucket of 12 pieces of sidewalk chalk for $2.00 (so I can make 4 of these little holders!) I used the stamp set "Pond Life' for the frog and cute Hippity Hop sentiment (get it? like hop scotch?!) The card stocks are Lemon Tart, Ocean Tides and white - all Papertrey as is the designer paper - TextStyle Polka Dot Parade. The box is wrapped in a piece of acetate as per the template pattern - but you can also make this a closed box using card stock and the base can be an open basket instead of a box with holes on the top. (very versatile huh!?)
I made the hanging tag with oval Nestabilities, a Making Memories square eyelet and a silver chain (Tandy Leather - Michaels). The words are stamped using the PTI Fresh Alphabet set using Ripe Avacodo and Ocean Tides inks. I sponged the edge with avocado.


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The stature of John Youngs aviation art is underlined by the number of prestigious international awards he had received. He has been honoured by many organisations: from the British Guild of Aviation Artists to the American Society of Aviation Artists.
Born in 1930, John Young has been painting the rich pageant of colour and atmosphere which surrounds planes for over forty years. He was fired with enthusiasm as a child by skies filled with the planes of the Second World War. He went to art school and from there into the RAF for National Service. As one might expect from a man who knows aircraft from the inside out and is therefore able to portray them with technical precision, John Young has flown in nearly 60 types of aircraft throughout the world!
John Young has painted professionally since 1950. His work combines a truthful representation of mechanical subjects with sensitivity to the many moods of the sky and land. But his greatest talent lies in his remarkable ability to tell a story through his work.
A widely acclaimed book has been published featuring his painting, which is enduringly popular on both sides of the Atlantic. John Young also worked on the set design for Stanley Kubricks film 2001, and his paintings can be found in the offices of governments, airlines, air forces and aircraft manufacturers across the globe.
Over the years John Young has established himself as one of the most collected and valued aviation and transport artists in the world and 45 of his paintings are held in the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.


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WARNING!! do not read on if you a. think i complain too much. b. take adult sports seriously c. played tennis against me monday night.
So i am in a USTA tennis league. it is all women who work (you can stop laughing i had student teaching!!). anyway we play on sunday but it rained yesterday so i played my make up today. i take tennis about as seriously as i take everything else in my life. aka NOT SERIOUSLY AT ALL.
some women take tennis VERY seriously. i played against one of these bitches last night. you know the type, weather it is at your job, in an adult sports league or anywhere else where you run in to other people. they want to win at all costs. i have never been one of these people. i actually don't give a flying shit if i win. i would rather play good tennis and get annihilated then play shitting tennis against ogars who play mind games. and i would like to find a group of women who enjoy binge drinking after matches, before matches, DURING matches…
anyway this woman i played against really just pissed me off. she called a let when it was my partners call, she called double bounces on me when they were my call and they DID NOT double bounce. i mean seriously why on earth would i lie. i do not lie. EVER. (its on facebook so it HAS TO BE true).
anyway back to this bitch at tennis. she was a real pain and i now loath her. while losing does not really bother me people playing middle school mind games really does. i mean if the only thing you have going for you is winning by cheating at womens tennis then go for it, in the words of lisa "i'll pray for you".
also another thing that really bothers me is keeping the score in tennis. i get stage fright when it is my serve and i always mess up. this really pisses other people off. the thing is i would swear to heaven above i say it right but everyone else tells me i say it wrong. regardless i don't know why you must not only concentrate on serving the ball but also scream out the score. and why everyone has to jump up your ass when you say it wrong.
AGAIN this is adult tennis. there is no money, no college money, no endorsement deals, NOTHING at stake. so back off people.
end of my rant. until sunday…


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1. The opening "connective tissue." I didn't write it--but it's pretty clear what I want to do there ("Hello, this chapter is for cyberpunk, science fiction, or anime games ...")
2. Cyber Weapons. Originally I was going to have a lot of ultra-tech guns (lasers, flechette rounds, etc.) However--it is not clear to me how this is not just a semi-world-specific gear list. The only "cyber weapons" I can think of are cybernetic 'gladitorial' weapons--things no one but a cyborg would carry. Anyone can have a laser (whether it is built-in or not). However having a buzz-saw hand seems fairly cyber-specific.
I don't really plan on putting the entire "high tech gun list" into Archetype book. That can go anywhere else (Have Not, space book, etc.).
3. Super Hacking gear. Cyborg hackers would have a few advantages over non cyber-hackers. In addition to presumably getting pluses due to having "Leet wet-ware gear" they would also, for example, be able to remotely access secure networks and the like.
I have some notes on "Quantum Decrypter" suites of gear that allow the cyborg to bypass ordinary encryption and do things like listen in on cell phones or otherwise bypass a lot of security.
The Big Question
So the big question is: for your X-points where X is like 4 or 8 (a lot for a non-combat power) what exactly are you buying? How does "hacking" work? Here is where we are thus far:
- There are some powers that "make you rich." Things like Clairvoyance + Las Vegas would make most people a lot of money. If you have one of those powers we can just "factor in" the cost of being rich--especially if there is a note or section that talks about money in the game so that the GM and other players realize "if you have this power set you are expected to be using it to make money." So, okay: if super hackers can bring in a haul regularly they either pay for being very rich--or they just have a "decent income" but don't work at it very hard (do a few jobs a year).
- What about secrets? If there are super hackers--even if their gear is prototype and illegal--it would mean that big secrets would not be kept, if possible, in accessible places. So if these guys can penetrate heavy electronic security and get secret information then that will "blow up the world." There are actually several powers that "blow up the world." The ability to bring the dead back to life in anything that doesn't look like AD&D would blow-up-the-world since it would, necessarily, wreak havoc with human ideas of morality and mortality. The same thing goes for reproducible fusion power: the world would not look like we know it to look today. So can super hackers "upset the balance of power?" The easy answer is "No." You can get into -some- places but not -any- place. But if that's true, are they "super hackers" or not?
- Electronic Omniscience. This isn't exactly "hacking" but what if the gear allows things like tapping into traffic cameras and security systems so you can track people. What if you can activate cell phones to listen in at range on private discussions. These techniques exist to a degree today (visitors to China are apparently told to bring disposable devices, throw them away after visiting, and take the batteries out during private meetings--because the cell systems are so compromised). What is this worth? If you can do it easily--whenever you need to--it becomes a potentially huge advantage over your opponents. If you can hear everything they say--or track people from the safety of your apartment then (a) unless they know you can do this, you will dominate them if they have to plan to any degree and (b) if they do know you can do this, their behavior will change a lot. Do we presume that is the case?


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Devil Boys: A breakup over money issues
With a plastic cup of cabernet sauvignon in my hand, I couldn't remember another time I laughed so hard on a Friday night, alone. Well, I wasn't technically alone since I was sitting in a dimly lit room with, say, thirty other people.
But it WAS a Friday night and I had traveled to midtown's New World Stages to witness the wackiness circulating the off-Broadway play "Devil Boys from Beyond."
The hilarious script made its public debut during the previous year's New York International Fringe Festival and broke box office records, despite limited stage props and an inability to pay their talents. But the funny lines and chemistry between those involved kept the show sold out every night as people lined the streets to witness the success of a low budget production.
Then, Buddy Thomas took his science-fiction spoof and collaborated with Kenneth Elliott to produce an even more bizarre script.
Despite a stomach-clenching comedic act that was fresh, unique and everything else you wanted in a performance, the play ended nearly three weeks early for one main reason: money.
Devil Boys' budget was set at a standard (in regards to off-Broadway productions) $100,000 but when the show didn't instantly take off and expenses kept racking up as the weeks continued, the show came to an abrupt end before its time was up.
When I heard of the news, I was heartbroken. Honestly, the play made me laugh, cry and think. But aside from the storyline...it was the chemistry…I could feel the chemistry from my seat in the audience. And if there wasn't chemistry behind the curtains, well, the actors certainly knew how to pretend there was when the spotlight hit them.
"Simply to me, that's what theater is all about – connecting the actors to the audience," said Elliott, director and co-author. "It's how I got my start…doing shows in clubs in the East Village when I moved to New York."
Elliott talked about the good ol' days when he was involved in plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" and the whole performance was acted out in front of a backdrop in some dark club.
With all that said, you must be prepared for operating preview losses associated with off-Broadway productions, Elliott explained.
"Usually it takes a few weeks where there are previews that you have to pay for," he said. "Advertising is extremely expensive...contingency funds… in most theater budgets, there are significant items needed in capitalization."
With all the attention that a big money production can receive before its art is even shared with the world, the low budget entertainment industry – the "underdog" of show business – must take on creative endeavors to fight against the big money.
Top Secret: Facebook Takes Over with New...Phone??
Following Apple's footsteps, word is out that Facebook is building the software and working with a third party to produce the hardware for a new phone.
Currently the number one Web site in the United States (with Google coming in a close second), Facebook has reasons to feel threatened and left behind by the power held by the iPhone and Android. Less than a year ago, news circulated that Google was working on a phone which we now know is the Nexus One. It won't be surprising if Facebook will have their own phone by next year.
And why shouldn't they? Why stay an app when you can etch your name on the entire software? In other words, why rent when you can own? Zuckerberg, the youngest self-made billionaire to-date, has reasons to feel owning a mere app on a smartphone isn't going to cut it in long-term competition.
So what's the phone going to look like? Is it going to be blue? The phone could come out in a number of styles and appearances, but the bottom line here is price. And who's going to buy it?
I'd say, most likely, the phone will be cheap...probably dirt cheap...cheap enough so that more people can afford to buy it. Facebook is free to the public and now it's the number one Web site so why shouldn't the phone be affordable and be the number one phone?
I'd say, most likely, the phone will be cheap...probably dirt cheap...cheap enough so that more people can afford to buy it. Facebook is free to the public and now it's the number one Web site so why shouldn't the phone be affordable and be the number one phone?
Two upper-level employees - Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos - are said to be working on the top secret project. Creating all of Facebook's iPhone web applications and formerly assisting to create the Firefox browser, Hewitt is qualified to work on a new software for a top secret phone. On the same scale, Papakipos is equally qualified as the recent lead developer of the Google Chrome OS project. Interestingly enough, Papakipos left this past June before the project was finished, most likely, for a more "exciting" project speculated to be - that's right - the new Facebook phone.
Officially the word isn't out yet and we don't know when the secret launch date will be. And how the Facebook geniuses will integrate Facebook into the phone will, well, be another blog post.
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There are more reasons than I can count to catch the Miami Book Fair during its Nov. 15 to 22 run. I'll list six here, and maybe I'll see you there during my presentation.
I'm honored to be one of more than 450 authors participating in the Miami Book Fair this year with the event in its 32nd edition. It's the largest book fair in the United States and it has something for everybody, including kids, readers of Spanish and Creole, and comic book fans. For avid book shoppers, the street fair at Miami Dade College's downtown campus on Nov. 20 to 22 is a fantastic opportunity to buy books at a discount.
There will be author presentations both during the street fair and in the week leading up to it. Here are some recommended picks.
An insider's take on the economy
Robert B. Reich, the secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, will discuss his new novel Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few. There's an argument between centrist Democrats and Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders whether capitalism is out of control and working to the advantage of the wealthy.
The news man ditches the teleprompter
I used to watch the evening news all the time. I rarely catch it now, but when I do and I see all the ads for medication, well, that reveals the demographic of who's still tuned in. Tom Brokaw anchored the NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, during a time when it was the main source of news for many people. Not only will he discuss his broadcast journalism career, he'll reflect on his battle with blood cancer as told in A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope.
The architect of Obama's Hope
David Axelrod was the chief campaign adviser to President Obama in 2008 and 2012, so you either love him or you hate him. Either way, it's interesting to hear what he things of the current presidential campaign and whether the Super PACs and their unlimited donations have changed the playbook needed to win. His new book is Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
Women of Science
Three women who wrote science-themed books will share the spotlight. I'm particularly interested in Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk, who started forward-thinking companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Margaret Lazarus Dean wrote Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight - a subject that's depressing for me as an author of science fiction. How did we fall so far behind in space travel and, really, aerospace. Maybe it's because we need more women involved in hard sciences, as Eileen Pollack tackles that subject in The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy's Club.
A Journey to the Dark and Supernatural
Tananarive Due writes novels that are both creepy and touching so I'm eager to hear what she's crafted in her story collection Ghost Summer. I saw her at the Book Fair a few years ago and she was amazing. She'll be joined by Benjamin Percy, author of The Dead Lands, and Jennifer McMahon, author of The Night Sister.
Authors in the Line of Fire
A group of brave authors will take questions before a live audience from New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul. Among my favorite, thriller writer Brad Meltzer. I've interviewed him several times and he has a great sense of humor, so this should be fun.
While you're at the Book Fair be sure to check out my presentation "Murder Most Viral" on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 10 a.m. I'm humbled that they've selected me to speak in a solo gig and that'll be cool because I have a lot to say about how social media is promoting violence. If you haven't heard me read from Famous After Death, you are in for a shock.
Grab your coffee and hit the fair early to beat the traffic.


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Episode: The Return of the Archons – Season 1, Episode 21 (1967)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Teleplay: Boris Sobelman
Story: Gene Roddenberry
The Enterprise drops by Beta III to find out what happened to the Archon, a ship that disappeared in the system almost a century before. Instead, in the tradition of tourists everywhere, Kirk and the gang perpetrate the greatest crime of all: violation of the Prime Directive![1]
The episode opens with Sulu on the surface with Lt. O'Neil (Sean Morgan), running from robed assailants on what looks like an empty Midwestern street. Because that's what you do in a first contact situation: send your helmsman with some panicky NCO. It doesn't take Miss Cleo to predict which one makes it back to the ship.


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Its about time. This has gotten so out of hand it has become ridiculous. The term itself, anti-semitism, has lost all meaning. If someone questioned you as to the meaning of the term, what would be your answer?
From Mondoweiss
May 18, 2015–An open letter signed by over 250 members of the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council asks the U.S. State Department to revise its definition of anti-Semitism in order to prevent the charge of anti-Semitism from being misused to silence critics of Israel.
In light of recent high-profile stories that have conflated the debates over Israel politics on campus with reports of rising anti-Semitism, the letter asserts the crucial need to distinguish criticism of the state of Israel from real anti-Semitism.
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There is so much to love on this new single from Cohen's upcoming record Old Ideas. The song starts with a little something for die hard Cohen fans...a simple nod to his wonderful track, "The Stranger" with a similar guitar plucking and rolling. The guitar eventually interrupts itself and launches into a nice groove complimented by a dry bass and his famous deeper then deeper vocals. If "Darkness" is the tone and feel of Cohen's Old Ideas, my excitement is reaching new heights. Pre-order Old Idea from Cohen's website.
The announcement that the new Magnetic Fields' album, Love At The Bottom Of The Sea, will be the first since the early 00's that featured synths made this release very promising. The band has always been at their best with bouncy synths off set by the morose vocal stylings of Stephin Merritt. "Andrew In Drag" is catchy, smart, and features everything Magnetic Fields' fans love about the band. A limited to 1,000 7" of this song with a non-album B-Side is now available over at Merge Records.
If you pre-ordered the new Of Montreal offering Paralytic Stalks, then Polyvinyl made the entire record available for download. I plan to review the the record in full, but I will just say this is Of Montreal's best offering in years and it's not an easy record...it demands multiple, start to finish, full spins. The band has made available one of my favorite tracks, "Dour Percentage". It's a track rooted in orchestral beauty, funk slickness, and the manic melody cutting that Of Montreal tinkers with at their best. Limited edition wax of this record is still available at Polyvinyl.


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The food we had was absolutely amazing and we made great choices. After all the tables had been called up, it was time for the speeches. We had asked my sister and dad as well as Joe's brother, dad, and best friend to do speeches. Each and every speech was so heartfelt and funny. We flip through all of our pictures of the speeches and Joe and I are laughing the whole entire time. We are so blessed to have such amazing examples of love in our lives. After the speeches it was time to dance!
|GT Grads!
|Proud Uncle
|The Wreck!
|I think we need a bigger dance floor...


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Sunday, May 10, 2009
28th Meet A Rabbit Column Posted!
The 28th Meet A Rabbit Column has been posted! The author of this column is Craig Manson, and you can read the article here. Enjoy!
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I hope you are having a terrific 2017 so far!
I just returned from a couple of days camping on the Califonia Coast.
Had a lovely time with NO CELL RECEPTION!
I meant to share this before I left but ran out off time.
So...I am sharing it today.
I made this simple card with the newest stamp set from The stamps of life.
It's called Succulents2stamp.
This set has lots of cute cacti with super cut sayings to match.
And of course...there are matching dies so I could easily die cut all the pieces and pop it up on the card.
All the papers and ribbons are from the Stamps of life too.
I'll share some more of my creations later in the week!
Thanks for stopping by!


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Is Roi still a valid definition to measure the result of the activity on the Web?
I believe it's not.
We talk about engagement, trust, conversation and still define the return on the investment.
therefore I suggest to use new definition: Return on engagement, Return on trust.
I will talk about it at the first ever conference about Wom in Italy, on April 2/3.
I run the morning workshop about it.
I called it: Roi and his brothers (quote from a famous Luchino Visconti's movie Rocco and his brothers).
The issue of metrics is crucial in developing clients' trust and a bunch of players are throwing in the market their own solution.
But it seems the war of format between Sony and Toshiba: which standard will prevail?
Friday, March 14, 2008
Le Roi est mort
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Someone asked me to make a cake for their birthday. I wanted to create something colorful and fun, so I came across Su-Yin's cake and decided to replicate it. This cake was fun to make. I started by making Mario which I knew would be more difficult than the rest. Once he was made, the rest came about easy.
Double click on the pictures below to enlarge the pictures and see all sides of the cake.
The cake is a marble chocolate-vanilla cake filled and covered with chocolate fudge, then covered with marshmallow fondant (MMF). Mario's body is filled with bread and covered with marshmallow fondant. All decorations are MMF.