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08:00 – I am awake. My alarm will not snooze any more and I have 15 minutes to shower, get dressed, eat something healthy, do some squats, mentally prepare for the day ahead and then meet my friend to walk into uni.
08:11 – My shower is Katy Perry. Hot and then cold. It is not pleasant.
08:12 – My flatmate fills the kettle to make tea, scorching me to within an inch of my life in the room next door and forcing me out the shower.
08:12 – Shit I'm going to be so late.
08:16 – I am one minute late but I am dressed. I have not eaten yet, I have a large tea bouncing in my hand and my hair is still wet with last nights make up dripping down my face. Am I hungover? I recall the three beers I had last night and consider that I'm maybe just tired.
08:18 – My friend slept in so I head off. I am grumpy and slightly damp. I remember I haven't put deodorant on. The last time I put it on may have been days ago.
08:25 – I also didn't do my squats. I walk a little faster to maybe make up for it but I know it won't make a difference. I dream of cheese twists and Twix's.
08:45 – I arrive at the library and find a computer with the optimum position. I'm right at the wall. There is no one around. I beam triumphantly and then I remember that it's Saturday and of course no one is in. I consider doing squats in the toilet whist I put on deodorant.
09:00 – The cafe opens. I have budgeted £2 for tea today. Fortunately this isn't my first all day library session as a marketing post grad, so I know how to stretch this money. The last time I was home my mother gave be portable shot glasses. I repurposed them into tea carriers.
Oh, you think I'm joking? By taking tea bags and milk like this I can get 8 cups of tea out of my £2. That's right. Eight times more tea than if I hadn't bothered. I am pleased with myself. I am so thrifty. I hate Starbucks.
10:30 – I turn off my phone in an attempt to focus on my dissertation proposal. I'm not one for facebook but I find myself on the weird part of youtube, not concentrating.
11:00 – I check instagram for the 400th time in the past 2 hours and find that I have a new follower. I stalk them, tastefully liking at least two of their recent photos before deciding that it's ok if they follow me but I probably won't return the favour. I feel smug. And powerful. I'm winning at a game that no one else is playing.
12:30 – I realise that I have been staring out of the window for over seven minutes. I think of the game seven minutes in heaven and remember 13 going on 30, the movie with Jennifer Garner. I think of Juno, which Jennifer Garner was also in. I remember that song by Barry Louise Porter, All I want is you. I think about I think of other songs that have the lyric If I were…
13:00 – I'm contemplating how sweet it is that all that Tevye would want is to have a seat by the Eastern wall, if he was a rich man. I'd want a lot more than that. Like a flat in Park Circus that has a mezzanine.
13:01 – I wonder who Yente would choose for me….
13:03 – I search for musicals on Spotify.
13:14 – I get paranoid that people are staring at me sometimes. I know that I'm wearing a men's XXL shirt and leggings but there is a girl in here wearing jodhpurs and a flower crown. I am not the weirdest one here.
13:16 – I can't get over how catchy Rocky Horror's Time warp is! I can't stop seat dancing.
13:16 – I realise why people are staring.
14:00 – My stomach growls loudly enough for the girl next time me to shift her eyes over to me without moving her head from it's resting position on her hand. I have written 1600 words of my proposal. My eyes are sore.
14:05 – I settle down to lunch. It is a disappointing cold fish cake left over from last nights vigorous and spontaneous desire to cook something with substance. I choke down a spoonful of chia seeds in a feeble attempt to trick my body into thinking it's full. For some reason I think they are good for me so I keep shovelling them in. They are tasteless, and lack substance. Much like my proposal…
15:30 – I finally remove the chia seeds from my teeth. My tongue hurts. I should visit the dentist next time I'm home.
16:00 – It's hour seven. I see people just coming into the library and I scoff. Amateurs. The libary madness is setting in. They are at the beginning. I am the end.
16:01 – Isn't that a bible passage? I am the first and the last, the first and the beginning, the alpha and the omega.
16:02 – It is. Corinthians 22:13.
16:02 – So is the love is patient love is kind thing… I thought that was from sex and the city.
16:04 – I feel guilty for not knowing that…. I feel the Catholic guilt.
16:05 – I remember the time I lied to my parents when I was three and a half and feel guilty.
16:10 – I am shame spiralling big time. I'm remembering every stupid thing I have ever done ever. I am so stupid.
16:11 – I thought that the Falkland Islands were where Orkney was.
16:12 – Like, how did I not know that. What have I been doing with my life. Why am I even here.
16:30 – I stare blankly at the screen, the mouse pulsating at the last place I stopped typing. How did I even get into this post grad. I am a fully fledged idiot. I thought that Carrie Bradshaw made up the most prolific love quotation of all time…
16:40 – I snap out of it. I have written 2000 words today. Good job that this thing isn't due in for another 2 days because normally I'm way further behind. That's the spirit.
17:00 – I'm an adult, I whisper, as I order 7 crackle candles from eBay.
17:30 – I wish there was eBay Prime, so I could get my crackley candles tomorrow. I simply cannot wait. I am a millennial. What is waiting…?
18:45 – I'm somehow 1/3rd of the way through Waiting for Godot.
18:46 – I'm Waiting for God-almighty is that the time? It's nearly hour 9. NINE Hours in the libary.
19:00 – To quote Beckett "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh." For each one who begins to enter the library, somewhere else another leaves. I.e. SEE YA BITCHES, I'M OUT.
19:09 – I wish I'd pee'd before my long walk home. 8 large Starbucks teas really take a toll on you.
19:28 – God I'm so healthy. All this walking and good eating. I'm part of the elite.
19:30 – I arrive home and my flatmate is trying to order Dumpling Monkey but her boyfriend isn't up for it…
19:31 – It's actually rude to NOT help her out actually. I'm just being a supportive friend. I'm a saint, really.
20:20 – Dumpling overload. I am queen dumpling. DumpKing. Ok… maybe not.
20:31 – Time for Netflix and beer.
20:32 – Ha! You thought I was gonna say Netflix and Chill. The only thing that's chilling here is my god damn PBR.
22:00 – Ok, this is a reasonable bed time. I'll start to get ready for be- HOLY SHIT DID I SAVE MY PROPOSAL.
23:50 – Just a few tweaks added to it. It's almost perfect now.
00:00 – Too late for a beer? Nah
00:04 – Wow did I really only write 2000 words today? I should get some rest and get up early to work on it tomorrow.
00:30 – Beer break
00:58 – Beer break
01:00 – Beer break
01:30 – There. 1000 extra words of pish make up for it. Tomorrow I can call it editing and it'll seem like I'm doing someth-hick……………


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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
June 7, 1955
$64,000 Question premieres.
The show was a spin-off of radio game show The $64 Question and spun off The $64,000 Challenge. The show started with contestants answering a question worth $64, with each subsequent question worth double the amount of the previous one. The show was an instant hit, knocking I Love Lucy out of first place in the ratings. Rumors of rigging plagued this and other big-money game shows in the mid-1950s causing The $64,000 Question and The $64,000 Challenge to be yanked off the air within three months of the quiz show scandal's eruption. Challenge went first, in September 1958, with Question – once the emperor of Tuesday night television – taking its Sunday night time slot, until it was killed in November, 1958.
Jun 10, 2007
Last episode of The Sopranos airs. Almost 12 million people tune in for the series finale of HBO's critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Mob-family drama.
The mastermind behind The Sopranos was David Chase, a longtime writer, producer and director for TV series such as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure. Chase drew inspiration for his latest series from his Italian-American childhood growing up in New Jersey, when he was fascinated by William Wellman's great 1931 gangster film The Public Enemy, starring Jimmy Cagney. The Sopranos was an immediate hit with critics when it premiered in January 1999. At its center was the New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), whose attacks of anxiety early in the series send him into the office of a therapist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco). It soon becomes clear that Tony has a stressful life managing his family--including his vindictive mother (Nancy Marchand) and uncle (Dominic Chianese), his materialistic but good-hearted wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and his two teenage children, Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and Anthony Jr., or A.J. (Robert Iler)--as well as his crew of lieutenants, notably Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico), Silvio Dante (Steve Van Zandt) and Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli).
The Sopranos brought to television a complex, compassionate vision of Mafia life similar to those previously portrayed on the big screen by directors like Francis Ford Coppola (the three Godfather movies) and Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, Goodfellas). Both The Godfather and Goodfellas were touchstones for Chase (and his characters) throughout the series, as was The Public Enemy, which Tony memorably watches after his mother's death in the show's third season.
According to Alessandra Stanley, writing in the New York Times during the final season of The Sopranos: "The series lowered the bar on permissible violence, sex and profanity at the same time that it elevated viewers' taste, cultivating an appetite for complexity, wit and cinematic stylishness on a serial drama in which psychological themes flickered and built and faded and reappeared. The best episodes had equal amounts of high and low appeal, an alchemy of artistry and gutter-level blood and gore, all of it leavened with humor." As Stanley recounts, critics and pop-culture observers were often hyperbolic in their praise for the show, calling it Dickensian or Shakespearian; the author Norman Mailer, for one, called The Sopranos the closest thing to the Great American Novel in today's culture. Fans loved it as well: The show's audience reached a peak of some 18 million viewers during its fourth season. The show's breakout success, along with that of the comedy series Sex and the City (which debuted six months before The Sopranos), established HBO's reputation as the home of some of TV's most popular original programming.
In the final season of The Sopranos, Tony survives a near-fatal shooting and begins to contemplate his own aging and mortality. Meanwhile, it appears that a full-scale war is brewing between the crime families of New York and New Jersey, as the hated Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent) takes control of New York after former boss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) dies in prison. When Phil goes after Tony and his crew, they react in turn, and the bodies stack up. In the closing scene of the open-ended finale, Tony meets Carmela, Meadow and A.J. in a diner for dinner. As soon as the screen went black, fans immediately began debating what actually happened, and mourning the end of a show that many had considered the best in the history of television.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
Stay Tuned
Tony Figueroa

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PUCL leader Dr Binayak Sen, Maoist idealogue Narayan Sanyal and another person, who were arrested for their alleged links with naxalites, were charge-sheeted under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) एक्ट
Police filed the charge-sheets on Wednesday in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Satyabhama Dubey against Dr Sen, Narayan Sanyal and Piyush Guha, who allegedly acted as a courier for naxalites.
Piyush Guha, who was arrested from Raipur railway station on May 5, told police that he was carrying two letters written by Narayan Sanyal, who is presently in jail, and Dr Sen had handed over these two letters to him.
Police contended that Narayan Sanyal, who is considered a top Maoist idealogue, had handed over these letters to Dr Sen when he visited him in jail. Dr Sen, who met Sanyal 33 times, had recorded in jail records that he was Sanyal's relative.
Subsequently, Dr Sen was arrested on May 14 at Bilaspur and later the police seized a computer processing unit from his residence.
Meanwhile, police had also filed an application under section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeking more time for investigations. The court accepted the plea and directed to produce the accused during next hearing on August 16.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
PUCL leader Binayak Sen charge-sheeted
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If any of you have been in this position, you will know that there comes a time when you realise you cannot go on like this for much longer. For a start, you start to resent doing the same things every day. Secondly, you discover that although you would quite like to get out of the house and do other things, these activities all tend to require money (plus travel expenses) and that you actually have no ability to fund these activities whatsoever.
So then. What have I decided to do?
I've decided to come back to blogging. To blog regularly. To bring some form of structure back into my life!
I hope that you will welcome me back into your lives :)
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Willy Wonka: Don't you know what this is?
Violet Beauregarde: By gum, it's gum.
Willy Wonka: [happily, but sarcastically] Wrong! It's the most amazing, fabulous, sensational gum in the whole world.
Violet Beauregarde: What's so fab about it?
Willy Wonka: This little piece of gum is a three-course dinner.
Mr. Salt: Bull.
Willy Wonka: No, roast beef. But I haven't got it quite right yet.
Stuart, Mel. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Perf. Gene Wilder, Denise Nickerson and Roy Kinnear. David L. Wolper Productions. 1971.
PLACE: The window seat
SUBJECT: Gumball machine
We (DramaQueen and I) did wake up at the
butt crack of dawn and made the trek to the mall for some after-Christmas shopping. We didn't do too much damage; I picked up a couple of ornaments, some T-shirts and pillows for the living room couch. Oh, yes and a festive gold tinsel tree to hold more thrifty ornaments. The tree I bought at Dillard's where people were stinking nuts! They were buying the German ornaments and nutcrackers by the boxful – to resell on eBay later I bet'cha. While I was there, I picked up a couple of 4lb boxes of gumballs to fill our gumball machine. It's been empty since early September. Now MonkeyBoy & StellaDella are scrounging the house for nickels to put in it.


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I hope to write a book, Reinventions, consisting of my ideas for reinventing 30 of society's linchpins.
My agent suggested I first write an article presenting a few of my best ideas. I've done so and thought you might enjoy seeing the article. HERE is the link.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Reinventions: My best ideas on jobs, education, health care, and campaign reform
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There are plenty of overlooks where you can pull off and take in the view.
We love the Skyline Drive as well. Of course, a person (at least a photographer) can never be in a hurry when traveling that route.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful, Linda. What an amazing place.ReplyDelete
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such a gorgeous area...ReplyDelete
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A beautiful reminder of our recent trip. We loved the day spent on the Skyline Drive, and got pix from numerous overlooks. Low cloud moved in and out, alternating with blue sky right in front of us.ReplyDelete
I know if I would stand on that wall... I would fall off. I am such a klutz.ReplyDelete
Wow, just a brief moment here would restore me for the rest of the week! Gorgeous.ReplyDelete
The beauty of those mountains and valleys is so breathtaking. I do miss it a lot. Love to see the photos you always post.ReplyDelete
Amazing views! Takes your breath away to see them in person.ReplyDelete
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Hat tip to Gary Welsh at Advance Indiana for asking the question concerning Todd DeGroff's health and fitness to serve district #30 in the state senate. Advance Indiana tell us that Todd DeGroff was too ill to attend a recent campaigning event in Washington Township and that his wife spoke in his place.
We're not sure what grave illness DeGroff suffers, but his wife said he was hospitalized for an internal "infection" the night she spoke in his place. We've heard from more than one eyewitness that DeGroff was seen with a beeper used by patients awaiting organ transplants, although we've not been able to confirm that DeGroff is on a transplant list.
We reported in late August that incumbent Senator Teresa Lubbers knows of DeGroff's illness and has not publicly disclosed her challenger is too sick to hold office. In fact, she went to DeGroff and begged him to stay in the race instead! Why would Senator Lubbers beg her her ill (now hospitalized) opponent to stay in the race?
The answer is that she fears facing challenger Steve Keltner in a two-way race. So much so, that Teresa Lubbers cancelled a previous pledge to debate.
The third party challenger Steve Keltner plans to back many new winning ideas. He plans to reduce the cost of government by bringing down insurance costs, he will work with other legislators to introduce an innovative gun crime law that has drastically reduced crime in Florida, he will support property tax caps only as a step toward PROPERTY TAX REPEAL, and he will support much needed education reform.
Senate District 30 cannot afford another term with Teresa Lubbers. She has shown herself to be an out-of-touch elitist who serves politics and not the people in her district.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Senate District 30 -- Is the Democrat challenger Todd DeGroff well enough to hold office and why Teresa Lubbers won't debate Steve Keltner
Hat tip to Gary Welsh at Advance Indiana for asking the question concerning Todd DeGroff's health and fitness to serve district #30 in the state senate. Advance Indiana tell us that Todd DeGroff was too ill to attend a recent campaigning event in Washington Township and that his wife spoke in his place.
Posted by M Theory at Monday, October 20, 2008
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Teresa Lubbers was supposed to be at a debate on Sunday Oct 25th moderated by Abdul. She cancelled? For real?
- October 20, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Teresa Lubbers is part of the problem in Indiana. It's time to remove the political class - professional politicians - from office. She must be replaced by Steve Keltner.
- October 20, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Lubbers promised citizen whistleblower, Diane Vice, that she would not allow lobbyists for roofing giant TREMCO to speak to the legislature. TREMCO pays top law firms to bully government into allowing its bidding schemes within school districts to continue.
Lubbers broke her word to the whistleblower, took the side of lobbyists, and set the fight against the bid schemes of the roofing company back months.
Not only that, but Lubbers accepts plenty of money from the spouses of lobbyists so as to not appear that she takes big lobbyist dollars.
She has to go.
- October 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Any truth to this particular nugget I found posted on this blog?
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Lubbers is in big trouble. Neighbors are talking of picketing her house before the election over leaving them out in the cold with their property tax bills.
August 31, 2008 12:27 PM
- October 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM
If indeed Lubbers let her neighbors down with property taxes, they have even more fuel for their fire with her refusal to debate this Sunday.
With so much anti-incumbency in the air since the property tax crisis, WHY WOULD LUBBERS REFUSE TO DEBATE? The only reasonale answer is that she is frightened of her challenger, Steve Keltner.
I watched him testify in a summer legislative session. Keltner is formidable, prepared, and quite knowledgable on Indiana policy and economics.
- October 20, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Taxpayer said...
Perhaps this explains why Todd DeGroff can't be reached by the people he claims to want to represent. There's no e-mail address for him, and the Democratic headquarters never returned an e-mail requesting contact information for him. How can people claim to want to represent me and refuse to talk to me?
Lubbers has GOT TO GO!!!! Perhaps this is the chance we need to get a NON-politician in office.
- October 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM


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text: Ducks' Defeat Is Turco's 200th Win Robidas gets first double goals of career in Dallas' 4-2 vicory By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff Posted Feb 16, 2008 6:04 AM CST 0 comments Comments Anaheim Ducks' Sean O'Donnell, left, trips up Dallas Stars' Mike Ribeiro during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Francis Specker) (Associated Press) View 4 more images (Newser) – Dallas made good use of power plays last night, going 3-for-5 to fuel a 4-2 win over Anaheim. Defenseman Stephane Robidas scored both second-period goals after assisting on another, and Mike Ribeiro added a goal of his own to two assists, reports the Dallas Morning News. The win is Stars goalie Marty Turco's 200th. "It does feel good, no doubt, to see two-zero-zero besides your name. But I'm a guy who wants a lot more," Turco said. His milestone game could have been a cleaner one—the Ducks' Chris Kunitz got a total of 19 penalty minutes for fighting with Steve Ott, and other scuffles led to Dallas' power plays. View 4 more images


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Hey Everyone!! :-)
I promised you a cover reveal for Intrinsic Connections, and here it is! ;-) Julie Nicholls is the artist and she's incredibly talented. Julie not only creates book covers, she's also an author! :-) If you'd like to see more of her fantabulous work, you can check it out here: Julie's Website.
At the moment, I'm working on edits, but I promise I'll keep you posted on how that's going. I really hope it won't take more than a month or two to get this book polished up. In the meantime, here's a little taste. ;-)
Excerpt from Intrinsic Connections:Thoughts and questions spiraled through Petri's head faster than she could register them. She felt like if she could just catch hold of one, the spinning ball would unravel and everything would make sense again. But try as she might, she couldn't seem to follow any one train of thought to its conclusion. Indecision paralyzed her.
She knew what she wanted; to get herself and her friends away from the terrifying alien as quickly as possible without anyone getting hurt. But things had changed too fast for her to process the new situation properly, and she didn't know where to start. All she could do was stand and wonder at the weight of menace such a small, unprepossessing, apparently innocuous creature could convey.
Petri had never seen an Arcanum before. Few had and lived to tell of it. But, in spite of their reclusive nature, every now and again a member of another species would escape with their life from an encounter with the Arcanum. So, there were plenty of tales about what they looked like. And, Petri noted, some of those stories even approached the truth.
On its surface, the Arcanum didn't appear dangerous. It was short, much shorter than even her own four-foot-two-inch height, and exceedingly slender. The creature's arms and legs looked like delicate twigs that could easily be snapped in two by an average-sized human. But its head was enormous, bulbous with large, lidless eyes, slits for a nose, and no mouth. Perched atop its reedy neck, the head had an almost farcical appearance. Like a child's balloon with a face drawn on it.
But, in spite of its almost comical appearance, the Arcanum was shrouded in a miasma of danger. It wasn't hostility so much as supreme indifference. There would be no threat from the Arcanum. It would simply exterminate them. With no more thought than she would give to stepping on a bug.
The alien was cadaverously slender and, since it wore no clothing, Petri could see that it bore no obvious signs of the being's gender. Its skin was pale and sickly looking, like one of the corpses that were pulled from the underworld gutters every morning, and it added to the eerie quality of the creature. A baleful, golden glow smoldered in the Arcanum's eyes. Those glowing eyes were one of the few elements that were consistent between the scattered accounts of encounters with the Arcanum. Petri's own eyes glowed when she was in the grip of strong emotions and when she used her power. That trait was what had betrayed her on Upworld. No other known species had such eyes, and now Petri knew why others found them so memorable. The light in the alien's eyes held her transfixed; as if she were looking into the fabled torment that awaited sinners in every religious mythology anyone had ever tried to sell her. But, unlike those stories, the Arcanum's eyes made her believe.
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Clothes: You are wearing 12 month clothing, some of the pants are 12-18 month but they are a bit big in the waist, you are tall and skinny just like your daddy! You are also still wearing some 9 month clothing, but i just packed up all your summer 9 month clothing and we are going into the warmer weather 12 month clothing! I have also found some super cute clearance summer stuff for next year! I am hoping they will fit you!
Health: You are a great eater and very healthy! You are growing and growing, which makes this mommy's heart sad and happy at the same time! You are just a happy and healthy little girl, that is all we could ask for. You are still tall for your age but your weight is slowly catching up and you also have a perfectly big head haha!
Diet: You eat 3 meals a day and 2 snacks, for the most part you are getting food we are eating, but you still like milk, you are still getting breast milk, but only when we are together, i am no longer pumping at work, i am getting ready to wean you, but you have become attached, so i am thinking it is going to be harder than i think! You love almost all food you have tried, the only thing you don't really like is cottage cheese and hamburger! You still love milk and are getting whole milk and almond milk in your sippy and bottles, we are hoping to have the bottles gone in the next month! So many changes when you turn 1... so sad!
Sleep: You have started to go to sleep a little earlier then normal the last few weeks, usually asleep around 9:30, which is better than your 11:30 the past year, you get up around 8:30 or so in the morning. You are still taking 2 naps a day, usually a morning nap of about 45 minutes and a later afternoon nap for about 90 minutes, i am not sure when they say you drop a nap, but i feel like you still need both naps, you are very busy and get sleepy!
Baby Gear: You still love your play table, books, your pumpkin that you like to put your little blocks in, your purse, you also love your new anywhere chair we got you for your birthday, you love to stand on it and look out the window! You have also seemed to find a liking for Macy's dog toys lately!
Likes: Baths, walking, running away from mommy as I chase you, laughing, trying to catch Macy, splashing in Macy's water dish, drinking out of your sippy cup swinging at the park, sleeping, snuggle time with mommy and daddy, rocking in your rocker, your sister Macy, feeding time, your crib, pacifiers, car rides, listening to music, eating puffs and sharing them with Macy, dancing to music, you love Luke Bryan, shopping with mommy :) you also love stroller rides.
Dislikes: Diaper changes, being hungry, getting into your new big girl car seat, you do not like to be woken up, getting out of the bath and also lately, trying to take a nap you fight it like a ninja!
Dislikes: Diaper changes, being hungry, getting into your new big girl car seat, you do not like to be woken up, getting out of the bath and also lately, trying to take a nap you fight it like a ninja!
You are getting so big, you have 10 teeth and cut 6 in a week i felt terrible for you, you were cutting your 1st year molars and you could tell they were really bothering you. Saying so many words, momma, dada, dog, papa and bob, bye, go dog go and we think you say brown bear! You love big people food and we are so happy that you are eating good, I was worried because I am such a picky eater! you are also still using sign language, which i am so proud of you! You have finally gotten Thank you down which was hard, i sometimes think you like to do it without really saying Thank you, but it is so cute anyway!
We just adore you and can't believe that you are a year old! You have brought your dad and I so much joy, we weren't sure we were going to be able to be parents and this past year has been one of the best years of our lives, you have given us so much more to live for, i love your daddy more than i thought possible! Watching him be a daddy is the greatest thing i have ever seen! I am so overjoyed with happiness and sadness at the same time, this year went way too fast! Please know we love you, can't wait to watch you grow!
Love you to the moon and back Hadley Marie
Love, mommy
It is hard to believe this is the last monthly post big girl! If you follow me on Instagram i will still be posting weekly and more than likely monthly photos haha! I hope you enjoy!


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There are lots of volunteering opportunities at Wenlock Edge and as a volunteer you could get involved with engagement, practical conservation, wildlife surveying and more. We will be at priory hall in Much Wenlock on Tuesday the 20th January from 5pm till 7:30pm to recruit volunteers and to answer questions about volunteering. So if you want to find out how you can help look after and promote Wenlock Edge then please come along and see how you can get involved.
Up to date information about the National Trust owned area of Wenlock Edge, set in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Regular updates from the Rangers regarding ongoing projects and upcoming events.
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Thinning and Wenlock Edge - a Summary
Thinning is a means of manipulating the development of woodlands or plantations, either for quality or quantity of trees. Conifers is usually quantity, broadleaves is usually quality. Traditionally the primary aim is to remove a proportion of the growing/competing trees to concentrate the growth of volume (not height) of the remainder.
Thinning may be selective, where the poorest quality trees are cut to free space for better trees, which are usually the biggest and healthiest anyway, and have the best form. The trees taken might be supressed, diseased, twisted, forked, damaged or leaning. Otherwise, thinning may be systematic, where trees are removed according to a plan devised in advance. This is easier and cheaper but has less control of quality. Thinning can also be used to favour different species, provide an income or increase light to the forest floor, increasing biodiversity. Timing of thinning is also important; leaving the crop too open can result in stress, sun scorch and increase the risk of wind damage, uprooting, snapping or breaking. Thinning too late will result in spindly stems and supressed growth, and could result in inappropriate species dominating.
Conventional forestry thinking was always to produce the most profitable crop but recent woodland management priorities may mean that benefits to nature, conservation and recreation have changed thinning policies. At Wenlock, all the managed woodland was acquired pre-planted or in mid rotation, so all the work has been playing the hand that we bought. All Wenlock thinnings are selective and look to create a balance of some veteran trees, log production, cordwood production, natural regeneration, deadwood, open areas and a healthy understorey. A mix of heights and ages is also desirable. Thinning allows for a gradual transition to this end objective, while retaining woodland cover and avoiding the large visual impact of clear felling and replanting.
Thinning policy has generally been to favour native broadleaves and there has been a general presumption against "exotics" and heavy shade bearers (sitka spruce, norway spruce, western red cedar), particularly on ancient woodland sites. Japanese larch, has not been so much of a problem, until the arrival in the UK of Phytophthora Ramorum (fatal disease). At Wenlock some plantation conifers were unsuited to the site or were poorly maintained allowing local seed bank tree species to take over, producing mixed woodland. With the increasing threats to woodland (disease, climate change) maintaining this diversity is one way of "future proofing" Wenlock woods. However, with the new demand for woodfuel, and the unknown impact of ash die back pending, the rationale behind thinning is constantly evolving.
Thinning at Wenlock is very much a balancing act where priorities often carry different weighting depending on the site, the potential and the practicality. The woods have been actively managed for hundreds of years by patrons who believed their prescriptions were the best – now in the twenty first century we know best – don't we?
By Alistair Heath (Area Ranger at Wenlock Edge)
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Tale of Contour is an epic tale about the creation of the Coca-Cola bottle, as narrated by a big brother to his younger sibling. The bottle travels through distant lands and curious settings, captivating the boy's imagination. It is through this journey that the bottle obtains its unique features - its iconic curves, its flutes and red ribbon - and gets filled with icy-cold Coca-Cola as it ends its ride back in the hands of the refreshed older brother.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Tale of Contour - Coca-Cola
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Lucille White Anderson, 88, died March 27, 2011.
She was born June 9, 1922 in West Bend. She was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ, teaching Sunday school for many years and always reading her Bible through every year. She was a master seamstress, an artist with crochet needles and a magician in the kitchen. She had a special touch for children-they were somehow drawn to her. Independent and living life to the fullest till the end, she spent her final day making banana pudding. She had told her friends on Saturday night that she planned to rise and go to church the next morning but the Lord had another trip planned. She rose and met her Savior, her beloved Cephas and those 4 little boys she lost to miscarriage.
Survivors include one son, Jerry (Mary) Anderson, Jackson; twin sister, Louise (the late Russell) Harvey, Jackson; sisters, Billie (the late Charles) Reid, Coffeeville, Mary (the late Earl) Ownby, Augusta, Ga.; three grandsons, Austin (Wendy) Anderson, Paul (Cindy) Anderson, Jackson, Clint Anderson, Charleston, S.C.; and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank E. and Helen White, West Bend, the love of her life, husband, Cephas; two brothers, John H. (Lillian) White, Los Angeles, Calif., Frank (Hannah) White Jr., West Bend; sisters, Hester (Hoyt) Clardy, and Helen, West Bend and a grandson, Todd Anderson, Jackson.
The service was March 29 at 11 a.m. at Forest Avenue Baptist Church with Rev. Don Rushing officiating. Burial was in Trinity Memorial Gardens in Jackson.
Active pallbearers were Austin Anderson, Paul Anderson, Clint Anderson, Caleb Anderson, John Moore and Howard Harvey.
An online guest book may be signed at www.lathanfuneralhomes.com.
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Who Ate All the Ice Cream?: The Hidden Inflation Factor
Like many Americans, our household enjoys a dish of ice cream now and again, but rising milk fat prices, and the commodity run-up in general has pushed carton prices skyward. We continue to buy the frozen treat, but have adopted the "only on sale" rule.
So, last week, when your Cheap Stocks editor was accused of single handedly devouring an entire container of Edy's, I had to remind my accuser of the following: What used to be the standard half gallon container was downsized a few years ago to 1.75 quarts. Hardly noticeable. But now, it seems as though the standard has shrunken even further, to 1.5 quarts. This, is noticable, at least it is to me. My accuser quickly apologized.
This is perhaps the worst kind of inflation: Inflation by "Deflation". The price stays the same, but the package gets smaller. Have not seen it this bad since the early 1970's.
Ice cream is certainly not the only product undergoing "package resizing". Many economists deny that inflation is back, but in this case, the consumer is the expert.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
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- Doug the Second said...
Hey Clyde, I too have noticed something different about ice cream. Breyer's is my favorite brand of ice cream and about 4-5 weeks ago they downsized their containers. A little discouraging, but perhaps this will help me cut down on the bad habit?
- David Merkel said...
I've seen it too... I was describing the phenomenon with candy bars in the 70s to my kids back in early 2008. Now they get to see it for themselves.
We are cutting back on ice cream from the vendors that are shrinking packaging, because shrinking the package is somewhat deceptive.
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This afternoon I was sitting in the wonderfully rustic Minnekhada Lodge, discussing Formative Assessment with my colleagues for our school based professional development day. And as the day drew to a close, and our pro-d hosts encouraged the "continued discussion" of the day's aims, I thought, "How I wish that everyone at our school used Twitter."
If everyone at my school used Twitter, each of our individual voices could continue to be lent – even with minimal frequency – to the conversation surrounding our staff's development. As classroom educators we are often starved for dialogue with our colleagues, whom we often work within mere meters of and yet never engage with each others' practice. The most valuable members of our learning networks are those with whom we share a personal connection, and this is easily (and perhaps most productively) forged with members of our school and district communities.
And so this afternoon I was happy to begin a week of Twitter education for BC Educators, where 150 of our province's teachers and administrators (and others?) have come together to begin a dialogue uniquely possible through the use of the microblogging tool. The brainchild of James McConville & Grant Potter, the week promises to be an engaging opportunity to expand our local community and its conversation online.


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This article might be more of a PSA than anything helpful, but I hope readers will take the message to heart.
The message is: Protect your hearing!
If you're a musician, it is the single most valuable of the sense you have. It's natural for your hearing to degrade as you get older, but there's no need to accelerate that process by not protecting your ears in loud environments.
One of the worst consequences of damaged hearing is a symptom called tinnitus. As you lose hearing, often in the high frequency range, your ears start to "generate" the missing frequencies to compensate. The result is a constant high pitched ring in your ears that can seriously reduce your quality of life. Apart from that, you'll have difficulty discerning speech because a lot of the consonant sounds of our voice use high frequencies as well.
The first advice I have to offer is to take frequent breaks from noisy environments. This is especially easy to forget when you're in a loud but tolerable environment, such as a bar with loud conversations and music just below conversation levels. I've had nights where my ears would ring slightly even when there was no loud band playing, simply from being in a noisy environment for long enough.
The second advice is to get protection. The best quality ones will cost over $100 and will be custom fitted to your ears. They will come with replaceable filters that can adjust the amount and type of sound filtering to produce a very natural volume reduction. There are cheaper silicon fitted plugs that also do a decent job. The cheapest would probably be foam plugs that are often used for construction labourers but they don't provide a very natural sound. If you're ever in a pinch then you can grab some tissue or napkin and put some pieces in your ears.
Third advice is to just turn it down! It's obvious but so many people are attached to the notion that louder = better. While it's true that louder volumes makes for an energetic experience of music, there is a threshold where the enjoyment is overcome by the discomfort in your ears. I commend venues that make an effort to make hearing protection available at their concerts but it wouldn't be a problem if the volumes were reasonable in the first place. Same goes for bands – don't be afraid to tell your bandmates to turn down. It'll make for a much better performance.
I have a hard time convincing myself to go to a rock show these days for this reason alone. It's an unfortunate trend that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. I even have professional ear plugs but why should I be needing them in the first place? As a musician, I don't want to risk damaging my hearing just for a night out, I need it so that I can keep doing what I want to do. It always blows my mind when my colleagues don't take any measures to protect their hearing at a concert!
Anyway, rant over. Please protect your hearing so you can keep enjoying music for as long as possible!


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|Alan Placek - Security Consultant
"So often we only follow up when we have issues or negative experiences with people/things. Every once in a while we have experiences that warrant pointing out the other end of the extreme - people who go out of their way for you and are exceptional in other ways. The good news is I am writing to you regarding an experience that falls under the latter category.
I have been talking with Alan Placek over the last several weeks to decide which alarm system was the best fit for us. Candidly, not only did I speak with Alan but I also spoke with one of your competitors. We wanted to be sure we were getting the best system for us. Since I am not looking to shed negative light on anyone, I am intentionally not mentioning the other company by name. Regardless, while the representative from the other company was a nice guy, I did not feel that he was as knowledgeable or passionate about the product as I hoped he would be. On the other hand, Alan was able to answer all of our questions (even my tech/geeky questions) and he was able to present all of the pros and cons of each of our options. Most importantly, I felt comfortable with Alan's advice and I felt he was leading us in the right direction. He was an absolute straight shooter and I appreciated that. Not to mention, he was exceptionally passionate about your product.
It was Alan's knowledge, experience, and professionalism that made our decision easy. I want to thank you for having people like Alan and providing excellent service on the sales side. I look forward to the similarly excellent service that I am sure will come with us having our system installed and monitored by you for many years to come."


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|JAWOR: Dolnośląskie
Alternate names: Jawor [Pol], Jauer [Ger],Javory [Czech]. 51°03' N, 16°11' E, In Lower Silesia, 37 miles W of Wrocław (Breslau), 10 miles S of Legnica (Liegnitz). Jewish population: 128 (in 1884), 91 (in 1925). This town in SW Poland with 24,347 inhabitants in 2006 in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975-1998 in the former Legnica Voivodeship) is the seat of Jawor gmina, 61 km (38 mi) Wof the regional capital Wrocław. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, Jawor means sycamore. The Jawor Synagogue built in 1364 is a Catholic church today. TBuilt in shape of an octagon andmost likely built as a church, it was given to the Jews by Duchess Augusta in 1420 and reverted back to a church when the Jews were expelled in 1446. No architectural evidence remains to show that this structure once was a synagogue. [May 2009]
Jewish settlement dates back at least to the beginning of 14th century.In 1364, they already had a synagogue (now the building is the chapel of St.. Adalbert, a baptismal chapel).The Jewish population since the mid-14th century lived between the present streets of Chopina, Klasztorną, Czarnieckiego, and Żeromskiego. In 1420, a ban on the presence of Jews in the city was issued. However, it has not been strictly observed. Only anti-Semitsm in 1435 forced the Jewish population to flee the city. Three years later (1438), the synagogue became a Catholic church. King Frederick William III in 1812 issued an edict that allowed the Jews into the city with rights equal to Christians; Jews began to re-settle in Jawor. Their community was subordinate to Legnicka kahal. In 1869, 110 Jews resided in a general population about 10,000. The Jewish population began to decline until 1924 when only 71 remained. After 1933, they virtually disappeared from the city. After WWII, a small group of Polish Jews settled there. [May 2009]
CEMETERY: The cemetery founded in the mid-19th century now occupies an area approximately 0.2 hectares within a wall of concrete blocks. In site was registered as an historic monument. At the cemetery gate is a signl with the following information: "Jews in Jaworze decided to close [the cemetery] the Regional Office of Wroclaw. From 9.04.1974 onwards (...). prohibited under criminal penalty is devastation and destruction of any object." To date, about forty graves are in the back of the cemetery with the oldest matzevot from 1864. A few post-WWII graves exist. On the front left side is a growing alley of trees that leads into the depths of the cemetery. Overall, the cemetery is kept in fairly good condition, avoiding major devastation. Viewed after lush spring vegetation, a small cemetery as if time had stopped, can be seen as in the good times when the cemetery was surrounded by respect, regardless of the religion of people buried there. Despite the limited symbolic sepulchre art (the best preserved being a candle and an eye in a triangle symboizing God), the original shape of some gravestone, and unique atmosphere merits attention. The cemetery is located at ul. Głuchej. Directions: going to ul. Głuchą from ul. Mickiewicza, turn right before house number 5. Go about 150 meters and turn left. The concrete fence will be a hundred meters to the left. photos and video. [May 2009]
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Tonys: Bryan Cranston, Larry David, Jim Parsons Among Presenters
Neil Patrick Harris, Amanda Seyfried, David Hyde Pierce and Rose Byrne will also present at the June 7 ceremony.
The 2015 Tony Awards has added a slew of stars to its list of presenters.
The Broadway-lauding awards ceremony announced on Thursday that the boldfaces of the current season, as well as the previous and upcoming seasons, will take the Radio City Music Hall stage throughout the CBS broadcast, including Bryan Cranston, Neil Patrick Harris, Jim Parsons, Bradley Cooper, Anna Chlumsky, Larry David, Jason Alexander, David Hyde Pierce, Jennifer Nettles, Rita Wilson, Rose Byrne, Sutton Foster and Taye Diggs.
Additionally, Amanda Seyfried, Joe Manganiello, Kiefer Sutherland, Misty Copeland, Sting, Ashley Tisdale, Corey Stoll, Debra Messing, Marg Helgenberger, Thomas Sadoski, Taylor Schilling, Bobby Cannavale and Tommy Tune, among others, will also present awards.
The show will also feature performances by Vanessa Hudgens, Matthew Morrison, Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe, Kelsey Grammer, Brian D'Arcy James, Christian Borle, Tyne Daly, Chita Rivera and more.
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Brought to you from the green couch on the second floor of the Palm Villas Apartment... it's Vanessa Vann with another Vegas update :)
I now know why I'm supposed to write in this thing on a regular basis... because I've started writing and deleted everything 4 times now. There is just TOO much to say!! So I might as well start from the very beginning. Grab your favorite treat and a comfy blanket cause this post is going to be a bit lengthy!
I now have THE most beautiful new addition to my family! Her name is Clare Jane Jackson and she is the cutest little girl in the world! I was able to take a whole week off of work and fly to N.C. to meet my new niece. It was so exciting to be there for the WHOLE thing (even the false alarm :) ) It was great to see Meliss (who is a ROCK STAR) and LD (who is a stud) especially because it had been so long. Because Clare decided to come in her own perfect time, my trip over lapped my Mom and Dad's too which was perfect!!! The Jackson crew will NOT be coming home for Thanksgiving so we will all have to wait till Christmas to see them! I miss my big sister like crazy!!!!!
Very exciting at work...in just over a month, I've been able to watch 3 SAU employees (Kim Hayworth, Mike England, and Mallary Wiley) go through one of our Leadership Programs at Rapport! It is so fun every time to watch two of my worlds collide with one another. But more importantly, I get the joy of watching so much growth take place before my very eyes! As much as each of them has thanked me for the opportunity I was able to give to them, the amount of growth they provoke in my life as they continue to ask questions and stretch themselves is a blessing to me!
We also just launched our new website that I've been working on since I first got to Rapport. www.RapportEducation.com
One of Melissa's friends from High School got married out here on the Strip so it was lots of fun not only to go to the wedding, but also to see some more familiar faces :)
I've always been told that growin' up ain't easy... and sometimes more than others I realize that! Along with voting...Today I got to go to Court to defend a speeding ticket I received and left feeling like such a grown up :) I walked out with the exact intention I walked in with (in other words... God was completely on my side :) ) I constantly call my Mom and Dad and ask questions, advice, and for prayer... and I think that's how it's supposed to be. And if it's not... well then it is my intention to redefine adulthood :)
I am now a proud member of "The Ladybugs", a group of women that meet once a week for dinner and a Bible Study. There are about 35 women of all ages in the group. I also was able to attend the Hope Women's Retreat at Mt. Zion in St. George Utah. BEAUTIFUL! There were 85 women there, a great speaker, and awesome worship! I also continue to lead a group of eight 12 yr olds in "Refuge" (youth group) once a week. We are having a slumber party at my apartment in a few weeks. Bring on the nail polish, chick flicks, and pizza :) I love being 12!!!
This weekend I will be traveling to Tahoe to host a "Spaghetti Cook Off Fund Raiser Dinner" for work. I believe that's why I like my job so much... i get to do a little bit of everything. Today I was reminded of how absolutely blessed I am to not only have A job, but one that I love and makes an impact on the world. The economy has caused many people to lose jobs and take pay cuts... and as I watch that happen around me I am so humbled. I again go back to having complete confidence that this is the place God has me because this is the place He desires to use me. God's provision continues to astound me every single day!
I am SO very excited to be traveling home for some Turkey this Thanksgiving! I believe Thanksgiving will take on a whole new meaning for me this year as I have arrived at a place in my life that I truly do appreciate family, friends, and faithfulness. Holy smokes...I'm growin' up!
Again, thank you for your prayers!! I feel every single one of them! I look forward to seeing you all on my visit home! Drop me a line to let me know how you are doing: firstname.lastname@example.com.
(Obama JUST became president)
Sending love from Vegas,
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Here are some lovely things I received from my new penfriend Manon. She is also from the Netherlands and it's amazing to see how many things we have in common!
She knows how much I love Christmas so she send me this cute embellishment from snowmans.They are adorable.
And she also send me these 2 lovely doilies.
She also has a lovely blog, you can find it here http://hetlieveheersbeestje.blogspot.com/
I hope that everyone has a lovely weekend.


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Hey y'all!
Now that we've been back for a bit, and our first party is under our belt, we're going to be doing another question round!
It's super easy! Just submit your questions with the form below, and we'll answer all (appropriate) questions soon!
And we also ask that you answer this quick poll. Thanks!
Until next time, thanks!


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No fax payday loans are short-term unsecured loans that do not require the faxing of any documents. They are unsecured, so you do not have to provide any collateral. There is also no credit check required. No fax payday loans are all about providing cash in the fastest possible most convenient ways.
Faxless payday loans are approved on 4 basic requirements:
1. You're at least 18 years old
2. You're employed
3. Your income is more than $1000 a month
4. You have a bank account
No fax payday loans can range from $100 to $1500. Since they are loans against your next paycheck, the payback term will be short, between 2 to 4 weeks. It is possible to request an extension, but they are charged additional fees, so request it only if it is completely necessary.
No fax payday loans interest rates are very high. They can range from 15% to 30% of the amount of the loan, which translates into rates ranging from 390% to 780%, when viewed as an annual percentage rate in the United States. Therefore, you need to compare loan quotes from different online lenders. This can be done quickly and easily online. Loan quotes are provided free of charge. You should be able to find the best deals by shopping around online.
Hopefully you will never be in the need to take out a payday loan, but if you are, no fax payday loans online are the fastest and most convenient way to go. You can compare interest rates and terms of many different faxless payday loan companies on the Internet, so you will hopefully come up with the most reasonable deal as can be expected with these types of loans.


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(This is the speech Tim made at the WinningLabour launch on 9th July) Thank you all for your attendance and for my invite to speak. In opening, it would be foolish of me to ignore last Thursday's events and the action by … Continue reading
WINNING BACK LABOUR'S LOST MILLIONS by Jon Trickett MP
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Pavel Krejci, Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zitna 25, 115 67 Praha 1, Czech Republic, e-mail: email@example.com
Abstract: We propose an extended version of the Kurzweil integral which contains both the Young and the Kurzweil integral as special cases. The construction is based on a reduction of the class of $\delta$-fine partitions by excluding small sets.
Keywords: Kurzweil integral, Young integral
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Roermond, the NetherlandsWhen Pope Paul VI appointed him bishop of Roermond in 1972, his appointment was seen as an attempt to bring the Dutch Church Province, with its image of being rebellious or modernistic, more in line with Rome.[citation needed]
Paul VI himself was the Principal Consecrator in Rome's St. Peter and he urged Cardinal Bernard Alfrink to be present as first Co-Consecrator. To Alfrink this was a personal humiliation, for one year before, in his speech at the ordination of bishop Simonis of Rotterdam (later: cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht Simonis) Alfrink had openly said that such a nomination should never happen again. Alfrink however went to Rome, being afraid that they would be all too willing to accept his resignation.[citation needed]
Bishop Gijsen replaced his staff with solid supporters. Soon, in 1974, Gijsen also opened up his own seminary in Rolduc, that delivered far more priests than all the six other Dutch dioceses and religious orders together. Gijsen was in his diocese and in the country known for his obstinate character.[citation needed]
Gijsen always had serious health problems. In 1993, he finally resigned, being only sixty years. His doctor urged him to do so, fearing for a collapse of his patient's intestines. Not long before his resignation, the seminary in Rolduc, the apple of his eye, was in the middle of a scandal: homosexuality, prostitution - a former and already ordained student told the press what happened inside the walls of the seminary. The professor involved was hastily transferred to a little parish in Austria. Gijsen did not link his resignation to this incident, only to his health.[citation needed]
Reykjavik, IcelandBut after a few years at the titular see as bishop of Maastricht, (Traiectum ad Mosam), Gijsen felt better. In Roermond, he was already succeeded by bishop Frans Wiertz but in Reykjavik, the diocese with its little priests for an enormous area, happened to be vacant for already two years, due to the rather sudden death of the American bishop, Alfred Jolson (aged 65).
Bishop Gijsen moved from the heavily Catholic Dutch diocese to Reykjavik, where the Catholic population is very small and rising solely due to immigration. Gijsen remained bishop in Iceland for another ten years. On October 30, 2007, the Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Diocese of Reykjavík, presented by Joannes Gijsen, in accordance with canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. Since then the bishop lives in Valkenburg (Limburg) as a pastor of the Carmelitan Sisters. In Reykjavik, he was succeeded by the Swiss-born bishop Pierre Bürcher.[1]


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The awards ceremony was at a CASTLE!!! I wish I could have recorded the whole thing to relive the night again and again! As we drove up in the bus we jumped into the scene of Mary Poppins where they are riding the carousel horses that hopped off the ride...then they see the fox running from the dogs and the men on horses following....yeah that happened in real life!!!! (Minus the carousel horses and fox.) But there were riders on horses with 20 hunting dogs running through BEAUTIFUL landscape, leading us up the road to the castle. MAGIC.
As we got off the bus we were then serenaded by bagpipes!! It was beautiful!!
Long hallways, secret rooms, secret passage ways, thousands of bedrooms and creepy old paintings....bout sums the inside up. BUT so cool to experience.
So proud of Scott for working SOOOO hard to be able to get us here!!! He takes his role as provider with utmost importance and he does a swell job. We are so grateful for him! Way to go babe for hitting your first Presidents Club!!!!


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The upper respiratory aggravation caused by the dried debree left over in post Katrina New Orleans. Symptoms include coughing, sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes. Can't be cured with Robitussen
Ever since I moved back to the South Shore I've had that Katrina cough.
by IzzyMargo February 13, 2006
an alleged cluster of respiratory illnesses believed to be caused by the dust and mold kicked up in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans
The existence of the Katrina cough is not agreed upon.
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Mt. Ontake
An active volcano that was a holy mountain and is decorated by jewel-toned lakes and a solemn fall season
Mt. Ontake is on the border between Nagano Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture, standing 3,067 m tall. It has been revered by Japanese people as a religious mountain through the ages. Even now, disciples wearing white clothing (kimono for ascetic training) come and go there. There are various climbing routes, so you can choose a route depending on your schedule and physical strength. Examples include the Kaida-guchi route for peaceful tramping, the Kurosawa-guchi route, with a ropeway up to near the seventh station, the Otaki-guchi route, which you can drive on up to the sixth station, and the Nigorigo-guchi route, which a few climbers use.
The places of interest at Mt. Ontake are the five crater lakes. The lakes were named Ichinoike (first lake), Ninoike (second lake), Sannoike (third lake), etc. in the order of their generation. All of the lakes impress people with the beauty of nature. The water of Ninoike and Sannnoike is emerald green all year and sparkles like jewels. In addition, disciples have called the water of Sannnoike "Goshinsui" (holy water) and believed it is sacred. There are a well-established mountain lodge and a cafe for a rest beside Gonoike (fifth lake), at the lowest altitude among the five lakes. Make sure to go down the mountain safely by taking sufficient rests.
Address: Otakimura, Kiso-gun, Nagano
Phone: 0264-22-4000 (Kiso Town Tourism Association)
Directions: 60 minutes from Kisofukushima Station on the JR Tokai-Chuo Line (1 hour and 30 minutes from Nagoya Station ) by bus. (Car)1 hour and 30 minutes from the Ina Interchange on the Chuo Expressway.


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Last Saturday I was invited to a luxurious dinner on the top floor of a building located right on the Vltava river that runs through Prague. We were escorted up the elevator, our coats were taken at the door and our seats pulled out and gently pushed in as we sat down.
Not until we sat down were we informed that the regular menu would not be available that night, and that an exclusive seven course menu was prepared for everyone. Not only was it seven courses, it was also Asian. We all looked at each other, a little taken back by the news, but we mustered up the courage and stayed. Why not? None of us would probably sign up for the event voluntarily, but not that we were here, we were curious.
Here is what we had to eat over a span of several hours:
Sashimi, foie gras, fress truffle
Tuna tartar, wasabi, quail egg, squid ink toast
Crispy tiger prawns, wasabi sauce, black sesame
Cod in white miso paste
Beef filet, veggies, soy and caramel sauce, ginger shitake
Raspberry sorbet with pandan, white chocolate and black sesame sorbet wrapped in marzipan
Chocolate ball with plum and almond cake and hot surprise
This was absolutely stunning. They brought out the chocolate ball which already looked impressive. Then they started to pour hot chocolate over it and the chocolate ball started to melt and reveal the scoop of ice cream that was hidden inside. What remained was a piece of cake with ice cream and a pool of warm chocolate and bits of coconut that bathed the entire dessert.


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One shipshape mental object is all it takes.
Most empire generate ideas that they never follow up on - every day. What chicago them? Desire, a plan, and famine of sureness.
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It's undemanding advice, but how umpteen have in actual fact improved a more mousetrap? There are pitfalls and self-realization skills you should be alive of when that subsequent cognitive content comes on. Some those give the name them "idears" beside favourable origin. There are four R's in an idea...
1. Record your idea. Whether its script it down, or briskly golf stroke it to an email to yourself or auditory recording, an perception that is gone is one that is never accomplished. With all of the current amenities accessible to us, at hand shouldn't be any foundation you can't takings a few account after all thought forms to record it to something different than your memory. Once recorded, purloin time to analysis them at lowest erstwhile per hebdomad.
2. Research your idea. See if any person else has simply finished it and how you can maybe instrumentation or alter it near your own pilfer. The internet is a comfortable circumstances of hearsay...some good, whichever bad. But at hand are other sources you should besides consider: a snuggled kith and kin member, a trustworthy crony or conglomerate partner, even wide-ranging strangers if you'll discern more than warm beside an unbiased re-examination.Post ads:
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3. Resist criticism. Most thinking ne'er get started out of nervousness of ruin. Don't be on your "support staff" of house and friends to be all that demonstrative of. For several reason, others will go to bargain you out of an belief simply out of their own fears of seeing you neglect and state protective. Some will as well try and have a word you out of a really acute hypothesis explicitly because they impoverishment you to go amiss. For whatever aim (as anyone can see in fashionable culture), citizens like to shred others fuzz reasoning it builds themselves up.
4. Recycle your idea. Once an conception is with authorization acted upon, it oftentimes generates new design and accomplishable changes to the inventive theory. If you've kept a log of ideas, you can use the possibility for analysis as a way to grow and bud that kernel into a tree...and then a tree.
When an opinion is delightedly acted upon next to a kosher thought and a severe hanker after to succeed, the riddle of self-confidence and indecision will go away. One different state of affairs...don't let incomplete nonaccomplishment represent the full legitimacy of the thought. Total happening requires goal-setting, persistence, and longanimity. But the next really terrible view is ready and waiting for causal agent to act on it.
That's merely one neat conception I had.


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Here is little pea with his cousin, D. They have such a sweet connection. The first time Eli met D, his whole face just lit up! And, D is equally enamored with Eli and so super sweet with him. I just love watching the two of them together.
Sitting on Santa's lap!
On Saturday, we ventured out to get our Christmas tree. It was bitter cold and snowing, but what perfect conditions for Christmas tree hunting! Eli LOVED the snow! He was not phased at all by the cold and had so much fun stomping around in his snow boots. He also quickly discovered that snow is edible.
Getting ready to go! Boy, going out into the cold, snowy weather is quite a production these days!
Daddy and pea looking for the perfect tree.
We found it!
Checking out the donkey.
Santa's reindeer.
Sunday was supposed to be our tree decorating party, but we have once again been plagued by the sickies. We just can't seem to get rid of it. Ever since I went back to work and Eli started at the babysitters, we have all been sick with one thing or another. In the last 2 weeks, we have had 3 doctor's visits, one urgent care visit, and loads of antibiotics/steriods. Eli is MUCH better than last week, but this week I got pink eye in both eyes and, to add insult to injury, the flu. Sigh...seriously, this is getting really old. Where can we get some lysol bombs???


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The lyrical pose of James Lee Burke is no less evocative when he writes about the West, where he has lived and taught for many years. Yet I found myself unable to complete Swan Peak, the first time I have not completed a Burke book. My fascination with New Orleans led me to his detective Dave Robicheaux mysteries. The stories he sets anywhere else do not have the same effect on me. How even can the title, Swan Peak, compare with the gleeful rhythms and visions conjured by titles such as
- The Tin Roof Blow Down
- Pegasus Descending
- A Morning for Flamingos
- Jolie Blon's Bounce
- A Stained White Radiance or, my personal all-time favorite,
- In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead.
The dream of New Orleans is so deeply rooted in my soul I cannot trace its sinuous hold. Did it start because I had studied French from first grade until I was 20, and New Orleans is the only French-speaking city in the United States? If so, why did I not fantasize about Quebec, practically next door to my upstate New York hometown?
Was it the novel, Dinner at Antoine's, on the library shelf that hinted at a place in America as foreign as France? By the time I discovered Dr. John in his voodoo chant regalia and the Mardi Gras Indian bands, such as the Wild Tchoupitoulas that were briefly popular in the 1970s, my interest in New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) was cemented.
The first time my marriage broke up, I threw just about all the clothing I owned in the backseat of a beat-up Beetle (what else? in that era), crunched some uppers and drove to New Orleans in 24 hours. My first sight of the antebellum mansions along the Gulf Coast – now swept away by hurricane Katrina – is so strong that I have dared not visit that ravaged area since my last drive there in November 2004.
No wonder I have been drawn to Charlaine Harris' Southern vampire series, with its Louisiana locale. None of the urban fantasy writers I have lately been reading are stylists of Burke's caliber. I would rather read, perhaps, any tale set in the NOLA environs than a lyrical story set in Montana. This set me thinking about the role of place in the urban fantasy genre in particular and in compelling writing in general.
Ilona Andrews' heroine inhabits a parallel Atlanta, a city I know a little after six years at the University of Georgia in nearby Athens. Harry Dresden inhabits Chicago, a city I've visited twice for conventions, backdrop for the V.I. Warshawski mysteries and sometimes seen in films. Kate Morgan, Kim Harrison's witch, lives in Cleveland. Any of these places could be named Anywhere, USA, for all that sense of place matters. They are cities, concrete wastelands that look gray even on a sunny day. Character and plot hold my attention in these stories, not sense of place.
How important is place for a well-told tale? In the hands of a master word slinger, place is another character permeating every action with its history. Could Casablanca happen anywhere else but in the exotic locate of wartime Morocco? No other city but New Orleans has a street or A Streetcar Named Desire, the pulsing sense of place that throbs throughout Tennessee Williams play. The seething undercurrents of race and sex of the old South collide with the weather to create an explosive brew in Williams' The Long Hot Summer. Weather and place also catalyze the drama of the film Key Largo.
Joshua Meyerowitz wrote an important book of media analysis, No Sense of Place. He persuasively argued that television had dissolved social norms between on-stage and back-stage. We have the outworking of this theory in the current craze for reality TV and the plague of social networking, in which nothing is too personal to be made public.
Me, I embrace a sense of place. I love where I live, and I am clinging stubbornly to this toehold in the sun despite the harsh economic climate. I escape into worlds of urban fantasy in which demons are no less dangerous but contained with charms and incantations, circles of salt, blood rituals, and alliances with creates that never were. These are other worlds with a verisimilitude to my own but different enough that it is the world of fantastical beings and events that captures my attention, not details of the cityscape. Harris's Louisiana alone stands out as distinct. I hope that James Lee Burke bring Robicheaux back to Iberia parish and all things Louisiana.


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...which is reasonable enough I suppose, lol.
So here's the December Acolytes.
Thoughts and comments are (as usual) most welcome.
Location of the most recent breach into Malifaux, Latest area to be occupied by the forces of Cryx, Stronghold of the Dark Legion, Homeworld of the 'Night Reapers' Space Marine Chapter, Council of Seven allocated Deadzone and the lair of some opinionated git called GMort who they let hang out with them...when he's not distracted by Steampunk, Gothic culture or Cosplay...
Sorry for asking a question on such an old post but how did you do the icy snow and blood effects?ReplyDelete
The snow is a ground glass product that you can get from several hobby stockists. If I remember correctly this one was from secret weapon miniatures. The blood is one of Games Workshops technical paints called 'Blood for the Blood God' or something similar.Delete
They look great with the bases and greys by the way :)ReplyDelete


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My interest in the Large Hadron Collider has not waned, but only has grown. I feel that this machine and its imminent search to find the God Particle, is indicative of the kind of mindset that God pronounced would permeate the end of days, a replica of an attitude that permeated the beginning of days when He decided to send the Flood. "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord." (Gen 6:5-8). We are told that the end of days would be like the time of Noah, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:37).
To me, the LHC is a situation as in the time of Nimrod when he disobeyed God, made a city, and endeavored to build a tower so he could make a name for himself. The big bang machine under the Alps is not a flashy sign of the times like a volcano eruption or earthquake, nor is it a stressful one like a slow economic crash, but it is like the oil light on your car. It is a small light, easy to overlook, but failure to heed its warning results in total destruction of the car. The scientists who search for the fabric of the universe so they can make a name for themselves, dare to nickname it after the Almighty, while denying His existence are "always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth." It is as exactly Paul warned Timothy of godlessness in the last days (2 Tim 3:7).
"The CERN just tweeted that the LHC is ready to finally do what it is built for after a long series of delays. Tomorrow, March 30th, 8:30am, the LHC will start to colliding particles. The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is set to generate collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). TeV stands for Tera electron volt and is a measure of energy. An eV unit of energy equal to approximately 1.602×10−19 J. More details on Wikipedia. CERN does not know when exactly they will actually detect a collision. As soon as it happens they will hold a media event and offer a live webcast. I am not sure if still some Earthlings believe that this will be the end of the world, but in any case we had a fun ride."
LOL. Of course, the world will not end, but it will be re-created by God, and that will happen in His timing. The Large Hadron Collider particle smashing machine will close down for a lengthy period at the end of next year, but it looks like despite the many delays (signs) they are bulling ahead with their notion that they can (safely) recreate the Big Bang and find the "God particle." I think at some point they will be surprised to actually find God, and He will not be pleased.
Under the Alps, CERN is all a-twitter at their upcoming moment. They have built it, tested, it, overcome delays, and now they are on the verge of the big bang. The scientists are excited at this near-culmination of a long-held dream. I am excited because I can't wait to see what God will do. Either way, it is interesting times!


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I wore this very neutral-colored outfit to watch Sharknado with some friends the other day. It was a gloriously bad movie. My skirt looks shark-colored in these pictures so I guess it was an appropriate outfit. This skirt is really supposed to be an army green color but when it arrived it was more muted grayish green. Oh well. It looked fine with my new black bow blouse.
skirt: boohoo | top: forever 21 | shoes: shoe carnival | bow: euberah | belt: thrifted | bracelet: gift
This skirt is super wrinkly. Sorry. I guess humidity doesn't steam clothes.
Annnd. Emotional head shot. Just kidding. The timer went off before I could smile. But look at my big bow! So cool.
Have a great Wednesday!


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Theosophy and Ethical Psychology
Can Heal the Disease of Disrespect for Life
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
The historical experience of theosophical organizations shows that developing false clairvoyance and performing vain ceremonialism of medieval style, including pseudo-masonry, does not help those who want to seek universal truth.
Instead, the pioneers of a brotherly civilization must study and understand themselves in the first place.
They have to examine their own wisdom and their ignorance, and solve the mystery of human relationships. Psychology, if defined as the knowledge of the soul, is central and decisive to the theosophical effort in the present century. It is correct to paraphrase Terence and say:
"I am a human being, and nothing human is alien to me."
In the 1960s, Transactional Analysis brought common sense to the psychological approach to human relations.
Best-sellers like "I'm OK – You're OK", by Thomas A. Harris, popularized an accurate knowledge of different levels of consciousness in human soul and taught practical ways to find balance and harmony, while promoting sincerity in daily life. Also in the 20th century, Erich Fromm, Viktor Frankl, Karen Horney, Rollo May and others denounced and fought the materialization and "mercantilization" of human life.
More recently, a new wave of psychological awareness discusses the process of dehumanization of relationships. It uses the concept of "bullying", which has been defined as "the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others". Patricia Evans is among the authors of books about verbal abuse.
Indeed, if we look beneath surface, disrespect is not difficult to find in human relations. We are facing a collective crisis of disrespect for life and denial of ethics. Churches and "esoteric" ceremonialism offer no solution. They are part of the problem, in fact, for religious fakeness and pious lies are among the worst forms of abuse. Attachment to mystical frauds is an obstacle to the learning of one's soul. Hypocrisy is a disguised form of aggression and leads to hatred.
People must learn to love truth, and to respect themselves, before they can really respect others. And this depends on expanding their antahkarana, the connection to their own spiritual souls, which has nothing to do with blindly adhering to a creed or belief system.
Self-esteem generates peace, while self-disrespect leads to disrespect for others. Inter-personal verbal abuse is connected with wider forms of abuse that take place on economic and social levels.
Personal disrespect is inseparable from various political, financial, cultural and religious forms of contempt for life. War and terrorism are two forms of contempt for human beings. Whenever bankers and politicians develop occult partnerships with drug-dealers and merchants of weapons, there is a significant crime against humanity.
Down the long line of abuses, a theosophist perhaps secretly envies his fellow truth-seeker. The husband may verbally abuse his wife and vice-versa, or the parents abuse their children, and a child can use of violence against other children.
Such abuses may be ostensible or disguised. They may explode, or they may be subtle and implicit. They all result from ignorance. They come from innerly powerless people who want to make others become what they think they are: blind to truth, and unable to love.
It is the duty of the theosophist to fight such a chain of causation and vicious circle. In order to effectively help mankind, the esoteric movement must see the essential identity among theosophy, ethics and psychology, when psychology is seen as self-knowledge. True knowledge of ourselves implies the knowledge of all human beings.
The wording of esoteric philosophy must be used to attain and share knowledge, not to make propaganda of some corporation and win blind followers.
The irrelevance of many a theosophical association teaches us all a lesson in sincerity. No one is above criticism. Self-responsibility leads to self-knowledge, and self-knowledge brings about brotherhood. Wisdom is associated to a knowledge of the Law of Equilibrium. The esoteric movement must get rid of politics and politicking, and become a federation of researchers who look for truth and do not pay undue attention to mere appearance. For that to take place, students must have the ability to stand alone and transcend organized ignorance.
Confronting Criticism and Ridicule
Right action often seems to be silly, while foolishness uses the most shining garments of wisdom. No pilgrim should expect applause along the path. Wisdom is often perceived as meaningless, and – according to the Mahatma Letters – ridicule must be fearlessly confronted in order for anyone to live up to theosophy. [1]
The daily practices related to self-discipline appear as senseless and foolish to those aspects of oneself who resist wisdom; and to other people as well. In order to follow one's heart, it is necessary to perform actions every day that seem to be idiotic, for selfishness presents itself as morally beautiful, and wise action can be easily described as wrong.
A feeling of unconditional goodwill towards other beings is also inevitable if one is to learn esoteric philosophy indeed. There are reasons to be especially cautious while thinking about the mistakes of our colleagues in the search for truth. In an initial approach, one should mention at least two of them:
1) Our brothers along the path are mirrors which reflect different parts of our being. The aspects of their nature which irritate us surely touch some points in ourselves which need improvement. Otherwise we would feel deep solidarity, instead of anger.
2) As long as our colleagues in study and search are sincerely working for a noble cause, we must remember that, in the alchemical process of the soul's transmutation, all the inner failures (either real or potential) become visible. They are even exaggerated, like in a fever, at the same time as their roots get invisibly eliminated in the soul of the learner.
Let us be cautious, then.
Let us think the best about the others. Let us take their higher selves and spiritual souls into consideration. Let us support those who have visible limitations and are trying to improve themselves while helping an altruistic cause.
Let us try to correct our own mistakes. Perhaps our inner shortcomings are not so few, and not so small as we would like them to be. We can always improve.
[1] "The Mahatma Letters", TUP edition, Pasadena, Letter LXII, pp. 351-352.
The above article updates and combines three notes published in the May 2015 edition of "The Aquarian Theosophist", with no indication as to the name of the author: "How Kindness Defeats Aggression" (pp. 4-5), "Confronting Criticism and Ridicule" (pp. 1-2), and "Respect for One's Fellow-Pilgrims"(p. 6).
On Psychology and Theosophy, see also the article "The Theosophy of Namaste", by Carlos Cardoso Aveline. The text is available in our websites.
In September 2016, after a careful analysis of the state of the esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to form the Independent Lodge of Theosophists, whose priorities include the building of a better future in the different dimensions of life.
E-Theosophy e-group offers a regular study of the classic, intercultural theosophy taught by Helena P. Blavatsky (photo).
Those who want to join E-Theosophy e-group at YahooGroups can do that by visiting https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/E-Theosophy/info.


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Monday, December 26, 2016
(1) Home For Christmas – N'SYNC
The lyric "You can light the fire
I'm sending out this wire (sendin' a wiii-yahhh)"
… was the point for me where this horrid excuse for a song spun into the wall of tires at Joe's Tire Shop, sending warm fragments of Goodyears all over the place. Oh, and if any tinpot has been 'boyband' actually tried to light an open fire they would not find it easy. You can not just casually farm this out to someone through the medium of a crap ballad, that's for certain. And it's not like they offered to lob in a few dried twigs or lighter fluid, either…
Throw this one on the fire.
(2) This Christmas – Christina Aguilera
Before being royally stitched up by Maroon 5, any song involving Christina Aguilera used to always share exactly the same overriding theme – i.e. how great Christina Aguilera is, from the perspective of Christina Aguilera. Nowadays, however, musical wallpaper Adam Levine has the distinction of being the first ever musical collaborator to quash Aguilera's trademark vocal into such indistinguishable middle-of-the-road mulch that you just have to take their word for it that she is on the recording at all. Maybe she helped them shift their stuff round the studio or something, or provided essential "vibes" throughout the recording. Anyway, This Christmas, surprisingly, is going to be a special Christmas for – wait for it – Christina Aguilera. From the point-of-view of Christina Aguilera, at any rate…
(3) Christmas in the Caribbean – Jimmy Buffett
Ah, here's a promising concept. Hopefully the songwriter has immersed himself into island culture and really tried to imagine the festive season through the eyes of the people who live their lives in the Caribbean day-to-day, as opposed to, say, chucking together a bunch of pernicious clichés about their perceived easy-going approach to life, nice weather, and how everyone's always happy all the time…
[3 minutes and 8 seconds later]
No. Didn't think so.
(4) Eight Days of Christmas – Destiny's Child
A pair of Chloe shades, a diamond belly ring, a nice back rub, some massaged feet (own), a crap jacket, some dirty denim jeans, a poem, a candlelit dinner, a gift certificate, the keys to a CLK Mercedes, and some quality t-i-m-e (basically, all the t-i-m-e outside the realms of this particular three-and-a-half minutes)…
Meanwhile, Kelly Rowland had to make do with some used Lego and a penny whistle, whilst Michelle Someone-or-other just got a hastily-written card bought from a gas station…
(5) Santa Baby – Madonna
When I first heard this one, I assumed it was just a bit of drunken piano-leaning from a long-forgotten eighties shlockmonger such as Bette Midler or Cyndi Lauper. I mean, this doesn't even sound like … this … just sounds weird…
Madonna may have had some kind of bet on as to what she could release that Gwen Stefani wouldn't immediately pilfer? You know, sort of a musical equivalent of the time Bill Hicks famously gave up smoking just to see if Denis Leary would follow suit?
Anyway throw this in the rubbish heap and never darken my ears with this again.
(6) My Grown Up Christmas List – Barbara Streisand
Ah, Barbara Streisand. She's got a nose for a good tune. I'm sorry.
(7) Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Michael Bolton
Basically, any attempt to make a recording of Michael Bolton is a complete waste of recording equipment, studio time, electricity and oxygen. Oh, and in this case, saxophones and pianos that go "ker-plink-a-plinkity-plinkity-plinkity-plonk-plonk-plonk-plonk"…kill me now.
(8) All I Want For Christmas is a Real Good Tan – Kenny Chesney
That's coincidental, actually, because all I want for Christmas is a condescending, cliché-ridden country track whose trite lyricism makes 3 Blind Mice seem like a Bob Dylan masterpiece.
And Chesney doesn't disappoint on that front, either – check out THIS howler:
"Well if you're thinkin' 'bout gettin' me a present this year
Let me put a bug in your cute little ear…"
Yes, it does, doesn't it? Worse than sundried vomit combined with fresh dogshit, in fact. And if you think THAT'S bad, take a look at Exhibit B:
"Don't worry, baby, we'll celebrate plenty
I'll buy you some shades and a brand new bikini…"
Alright, he got all the way up to the word "plenty" and thought "Oh fuck, there's no word that rhymes with 'plenty' and, not wishing to ruin any of his previous hard work, simply fudged the next line hoping no-one would notice. But he's right. There is no word which rhymes with "plenty". The nearest I can think up off-hand is "anal-entry", so maybe Kenny can work his lyrical magic on that one next time…
And THIS…
"Rockin' to and fro with the rhythm of the ocean
Singin' Silent Night with the palm trees blowin'…"
… will probably just get you committed if you hear it more than once.
(9) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jimmy Boyd
Interestingly, this is the 2nd track on this 10-song list by a person called Jimmy, meaning that, statistically, if you're born in the US and called Jimmy/James, you are 20% likely to feature in a shit Christmas song! And that's undeniable scientific FACT, ladies and gentlemen … *needlessly slams fist on desk*.
And you can't argue with cold, hard logic at the end of the day…
(10) The Christmas Shoes – Newsong
I don't want to sound heartless or anything, but did the kid really have to leave it until Christmas Eve to buy those shoes? And the man out of Newsong, he's not much better, either. I mean, a kid with an ill mum is one thing, but what excuse has a fully-grown adult man got for doing his Christmas shopping on Chrimbo Eve? And he was in the line BEHIND the boy, meaning, if anything, he'd left it that much later than that poor, blameless little scamp with the ill mum. Actually, kid, you're off the hook as far as I'm concerned – go and be with your mother – she's lucky to have a son like you. Not like THIS knobhead who stood behind you – come on, Newsong man, let's at least see what you're buying…
*peers inside bag*
What's this? Some sunglasses and … a bikini … do you KNOW what time of year it … hey, hang on a minute…
2 comments:
- Alison Watson said...
Brilliant Ben, people have been singing and writing shit songs for Christmas since time immemorial and some of these schmucks don't even merit a decent burial!
Looking at the 'older' Christmas hits, I think the award for the most 'I want to slit my wrists in the middle of a baseball park at maximum spectator capacity' must be 'In The Deep Midwinter' which was played on Christmas Day in the hotel where me and my Mum were having a lovely meal.
Frosty winds didn't make moan outside and neither did snow fall snow on snow but I wish they had committed this song to the trashcan and not let it spoil my buttersquash soup!
- December 26, 2016 at 5:16 PM
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Find Your Voice: Roger Ebert Hits The Oprah Set
Ebert debuted his "new voice" on Tuesday's Oprah show--a company in Scotland was able to use the movie critic's film commentaries from old DVDs to create a computerized version of his speech that sounds an awful lot like him. Watching him and his wife Chaz listen to Ebert talk was unbelievable. Imagine not hearing yourself for years...and then suddenly your voice is back in a whole new way. It made me think of the expression so often repeated in writing classes..."Find your voice." This man's life proves it can be found in the most profound of ways.
Watch a clip of this amazing moment here. It will make you think about how strong you are, how blessed, and how truly capable you are of doing more than you think you can.
I'll leave you today with these words from Roger...
"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and I am happy that I lived long enough to find it out."
Let me know what you think...feel free to leave a comment!
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So today was my play date with God! And I oh so missed out! Or did I really?
I did enjoy watching from the warmth of my living room the rain, the frozen rain then the snow fall lightly to the ground. As I was tucked safely in my home. I watched the little finches feed from our feeders out the living room window. I quietly sat and enjoyed the company of my hubby and my CK girl. Thought of all that had to be done. That did not get done. I reviewed my notes for the evening speaking engagement.
How could I miss my play date with God? Or did I really miss out at all?
Maybe He just wanted me to rest and be refreshed for the events of the evening. So I might be relaxed and refreshed in Him as I shared on Customer Service. Or maybe it was time to just allow Him to minister to me in the stillness of my home as I rested and listened and watched all that was around me. Seeing His richness of beauty in all that surrounded me in the stillness and quietness of my day. The beauty of the Winter storm that blankets all the earth as it prepares to spring forth new life in the Spring of renewal. The preparations of the new life that is to come. Did I really miss this play date with God? Or was this His divine plan?
Exodus 33:14
The Lord replied. "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
|A Winter's Kiss
Do you ever feel you missed the mark?