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I am a witness to the groundswell of alleged irregularities that characterized the April 2011 governorship election in Abia State and therefore I decided to watch proceedings at the election petitions' Tribunal to see what will come out of the spate of petitions filed by politicians who alleged electoral malpractices against the current holder of the office of the Governor of Abia State. But my attention at the election petition Tribunal has suffered spectacular distraction because of the series of dramatic and self inflicted political battles ignited by the political administration in Abia State.
I must confess that my heart, mind/Soul is in Abia because Aba City in Abia State is a spiritual home of all the Igbo speaking people all over the world because of the undeniable fact that all Igbo families are represented in the diverse entrepreneurial activities going on in that gravely neglected commercial town. I weep on daily basis for Aba, a city seen by even we 'non-indigenes' as our spiritual home.
Even the old Boys of the National High School Aba, Abia State in the Guardian of October 28th, 2011 described the bad situation of things currently in Aba thus; "Aba is currently held hostage by poverty, unemployment, kidnapping and crime-very low levels for a town once seen as Nigeria's hope to join the league of industrial nations".
Even while we bemoan the unfortunate situation of gross underdevelopment in Abia State, the government of the day is busy churning out illegal and laughable policies. One of the most atrocious discriminatory policies ever experimented by any political entity in Nigeria is the current policy by Governor Orji of Abia to compulsorily disengage the state civil servants who are not from Abia State originally.
What this bad policy implies is that even former products of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) who secured automatic employment previously by the virtue of their excellent performance while serving Abia state have now been shown red cards to quit the Abia state civil service.
What this policy of disengagement of non-indigenes from Abia state civil service imply is that even male workers who are originally not from Abia state but are happily married to Abia state daughters have now lost their civil service positions going by the new draconian and apartheid policy of the state government.
Another dangerous implication of this primitive unconstitutional policy is that non-indigenes who have been in the state civil service for over two decades or as long as the state has been, will now be flush out even if they have few years to retire happily and secure their legal entitlements and benefits. Mr. Tu face Idibia the irrepressible entertainer and musician recently released a wonderful album he aptly titled 'implication'. The apartheid policy in Abia indeed has several implications.
Keen observers of development in Abia would have noticed that several newspaper advertisements costing the tax payers' several millions of naira have been placed in strategic national newspapers all in an attempt to wage media war of attrition against right thinking Nigerians who have raised their rational voices against this unusual policy.
Although some of these aides of governor Orji that I know have privately expressed their well considered opinion particularly against this anti-Igbo, anti-people and anti-progress policy, but the greater majority of the assistants of the governor have now found a way of justifying their huge salaries by dishing out illogical publications to justify some of the bad policies of their boss.
I have tried without success to locate genuine reason for Abia state government to implement this policy of targeted annihilation of non-indigenes from Abia civil service and I find it extremely difficult to believe that the current National minimum wage Act which specifies payment of at least N18,000 to civil servants as possible logical background.
Why is the Abia state government so adept at generating needless controversies?
A friend told me in Umuahia that probably the state government has decided to use one of the 48 laws of power which is 'consistent attack' of your opponents as a weapon of mass destruction to cover up their track since no meaningful governance and infrastructural development is going on in Abia state.
The Catholic Church has spoken out against this bad policy in the same way that several legal scholars have indeed sounded notes of warning that the policy of disengagement of non-indigenes from Abia state civil service is unconstitutional.
The Catholic Bishop of Umuahia Diocese, Lucius Ugorji, says the disengagement of non-indigenes from the Abia civil service is ill-conceived and unconstitutional.
In a statement he issued recently the cleric described the action as "discriminatory and a serious contravention of section 42(1), (2), and (3) of the 1999 Constitution of the country."
The state government had on August 25th; issued a circular signed by Godswill Adiele, head of service, transferring non-indigenes to their states of origin with effect from October 1st 2011.
A professional colleague called to inform me that he suspects that the Abia state governor may be playing the scripts of those who never wish that any Nigerian from the South East should emerge as president come 2015 when President Goodluck has announced as his Presidential terminal date.
But I ask, what will it profit Governor Orji, of Abia state if he actively undermines the aspiration of his ethnic nationality to produce the civilian president of Nigeria in 2015 for the first time in the political annals of Nigeria?
Does Governor Orji not know that a kingdom that fights against itself can not and will not stand as the Holy Bible teaches us?
Another dimension of the political absurdities in Abia state is the decision of the state government to use the instrumentality of coercion, threats and physical violence unleashed by the Nigeria police force, Abia state command against ordinary women who have tried to protest the prolonged institutional silence to bring to justice the five male students that gang raped a teenage female student of the Abia state university.
· Emmanuel Onwubiko heads HUMAN Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria and can be reached on email@example.com; www.huriwa.com; www.huriwa.blogspot.com


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Wolf told me that I must have done something wrong and that I had to keep my mouth open and breathe normally. I told him I did. He told me I had to breathe normally and keep my mouth open. I told him I did. He told me… well you get the idea, he just didn't believe that I could be doing it right and not getting the results they said I would. So what results did I get other than the urge to get my lungs pumped? I got a lovely breezy feeling in my sinus cavities and my sense of smell back for a few hours!!!! That's right, I could smell!! It's weird, when you first blow all the water back out of your nose (and hack up all the fluid from your lungs) it's like someone is blowing fresh mountain air straight up your nostrils. Well the one that was working anyway. I did get a trickle of flow happening when I went through the blocked side, and the rest went to my lungs, but going via the clear side it all hit the blockage in the other nostril and went down my throat. But I could smell, I smelt the lovely dinner that was cooked for me by some lovely ladies at our church (thanks J & D), I smelt the body wash that I bought months ago and have just recently discovered that it doesn't smell real nice and I wont be buying it again, Ditto for the hair spray stuff I have been using. And then it left. Half way through dinner I lost my sense of smell. I think that was because I lost my one clear nostril too due to being allergic to one of the drinks that was served.
I wasn't planning on being this open with the ins and outs of the neti pot but you asked so I have delivered. My thoughts thus far… I can see how it can be good… I won't give up on it just yet… I'm not exactly eager to give it another go though… but I will.
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Okay, so here's what I don't understand. How is this piece of equipment supposed so clear out your nose & sinuses if you can't use it when your nose is blocked? If that's the case, I would not ever be able to use one, because I always have either one or the other nostril (or both) blocked.ReplyDelete
Also, do you find that when you get that 'breezy' feeling through the sinuses you actually start sneezing again because your nose is so unused to feeling like that?
(I used to have a prescription nasal spray which dried my nose up SO much that it got all itchy and made be wish I had a bit of runny stuff happening - either that or I wished I could snort moisturiser.)
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Christine Ferriter, 73, of Miller Memorial Community, Meriden, formerly of Whitney Avenue, Hamden, died Wednesday (April 1, 1998) at Miller Memorial. Miss Ferriter was born in Holyoke, MA, December 21, 1924, a daughter of the late Maurice J. and Mary E. Long Ferriter, and had been a Hamden resident for 37 years until moving to Meriden two years ago. A registered nurse, she was a graduate of the Burbank School of Nursing in Framingham, MA; and held a masters degree in nursing from Boston College. She had been Director of Nursing at Yale-New Haven Hospital for many years, where she had also been a supervisor of the Emergency Department, Ambulatory Services and the Psychiatric Department. She was a parishioner of the Church of Saint Rita in Hamden. She is survived by her sister, Elizabeth A. Ferriter of Meriden; her brother and sisters-in-law, Maurice J. and Penny Ferriter of West LaFayette, IN, and Medora (Mrs. Thomas J.) Ferriter of Randolph, VT, and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. She was predeceased by her twin brother, Thomas J. Ferriter, who died Monday, March 30, 1998, and three sisters, Katherine M. Ferriter, M. Madeline Ferriter, and Agnes M. Ferriter. Her family will receive relatives and friends at The Wallingford Funeral Home, 809 North Main St. Ext., Wallingford, Sunday, April 5, from 2-6 p.m.. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. from The Wallingford Funeral Home, when the funeral cortege will proceed to Most Holy Trinity Church, 84 North Colony St., Wallingford, where a mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Services of Interment will be Monday at 1 p.m. at St. Michael Cemetery, Springfield, MA.


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On a personal note…I now have a MacBook!! I'm very happy about this…literally screaming the computer shop down when they put it in my hand kinda happy…:-) So from now on, I'll be twittering to you on a different laptop, now I can record videos and post them up here and all that.
Top of my head; Outspoken Dance at Sadler's Wells on the 8th July; massive dance show with some poets in between; it's its third or fourth year now. I have the honour of having done it every year :o)
20th July I'm doing a pre-recorded interview for Premier Radio
The Annual Lupus Charity Dance on the 14th August. This should be grand; I'll be with my band!
KICC 'Da X' Youth Conference; I know a lot of lovely people that go here so I'm really looking forward to this. Dunno what they want me to do yet though. It's between (or every day of) the 24th to 29th August
Can't remember no more!
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Kabuenga ceremonies, traditions find a mate, in the Wakatobi Islands, Southeast Sulawesi. This tradition continues to be preserved Wakatobi community.
Traditions that are regularly held in the Wakatobi archipelago each year was held in the open field and followed by all citizens who have grown-up Wakatobi both female and male. In this tradition every man and woman who claimed intend to live together juxtaposed in such a swing in the middle of the field open for all to see.
This process begins with prepare the population swings in the middle of the open field as a medium for meeting men and women who will find a mate to say the pledge to live together. In this kabuenga tradition, the women who will seek a mate gathered circle swing by wearing traditional clothes and carrying Wakatobi traditional foods of all kinds and are usually brightly colored and arranged in such a way that looks interesting. Then these women to dance a dance called pajoge dances to the accompaniment of drums and gongs sound as an opening this sacred procession. When the dance is being played by the women before the men are welcome to give money to the woman.
Philosophical meaning of this dance tells about the customs of some men of Wakatobi which has always been foreigners in the country. And when in these overseas promised that if returned to Wakatobi will be set aside part of their income to give to the dancers who welcomed his return. To accompany this procession kabuenga, indigenous stakeholders and then walked around with a steady swing kabuenga earlier traditional chants.
After completing the strains of traditional stakeholders kidungnya followed by women who also had a swing around as much as 7 times as he also sang traditional songs Wakatobi with a soft drink in the future will be given to the man she loved. Yng Women are in a row is called a group kadandio.
When running this procession of women who are members of the group are required to behave kadandio courtesy to a man who would be given a drink offering was for the man to be impressed and willing to accept a drink of the woman. The procession of this drink called a custom pasombui.
After the women finished now turn to the man doing the same thing that swing around as much as 7 times. But, unlike the woman who brought a soft drink then the man while chanting rhymes bring a kind of parcel that contains a variety of everyday needs ranging from food to clothing.
What's interesting about this procession is that after the man handed over the goods brought to the women, followed by unrequited rhyme. In this poem reverberate rhyme-rhyme that was sung by both parties (male and female) contained about expressions of love to their partners until then they vowed to live together lively semati.
After both vowed then was escorted by the stakeholders, both indigenous to the swing kabuenga. Every couple who sat on the swing was then rocked by the indigenous stakeholders before he sung poetry rhythm and rhyme.
And after going through this procession each pair then split up and return home to their respective homes while waiting for the talks between the two families to then toward the altar.


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I had no intentions of taking part in this social media trend as doing so meant I had to face the demons once again. However, comments made on some #MeToo posts ripped me to the core.
Those participating in #MeToo have suffered at the hands of someone who felt the need to be more superior, powerful; who felt privileged. True, not everyone is honest about their experiences, however, based on those I've experienced, I suspect the falsities to be very small.
In 10th grade, a male student, maybe a year younger than me, began groping at my butt and breasts at any opportunity in which no one could witness. I reported it to the Vice Principal on at least three occasions, only to be told "we'll take care of it." I don't know if anyone ever spoke to this young man, as the sexual harassment continued … until the day it didn't.
I was released from gym class a bit early, and, apparently, this young man was in the empty hallways as well. He groped me for the final time. At this point, I grabbed him by his shirt collar and slammed him against the lockers. I don't recall if I ever spoke any words to him, but I do recall the class release bell rang and students began flowing into the hallways. A group of young black women gathered around us and began screaming at me to let him go. The young man was black. Ultimately, this did not become a sexual harassment issue, but a racist issue. I was disciplined for my behavior. However, the young stayed clear of me from then on.
During senior year I was working part-time for a chain grocery store. After graduating high school, the store manager approached me one day to share how impressed he was with me as an employee and asked me to work for him when he opened a new store in town. More money. Flexible hours for attending business school. Wow! Of course! No brainer!
All was good until the sexual harassment began. He would whisper in my ear the things he wanted to do with/to me. He would touch me and I would cringe. How do I get out of this? Small town. I need to pay for school. Then there are thoughts of explaining this to my family … "What did YOU do to cause this?" As I rejected him, work became only more intolerable. My only solution was to quit.
At age 19 I moved from Long Island to Ft Lauderdale, shortly after completing business school. Got a great job at STP. First big job, away from home, first apartment, an old friend and many new friends. Life was good! We went clubbing. A guy asked me to dance – how flattering! However, my agreeing to dance with him somehow gave him the idea that he had the right to grope me on the dance floor.
Age 26. I was on leave, traveling between military schools. A friend in Atlanta, offered me her place to stay overnight while she was out-of-town and I was traveling north. A knock on the door. It's her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend. He's drunk. We chat at the door; I attempt to send him away. I'm overpowered. Me – the girl who had beaten up her brothers when deemed necessary. The girl who slammed the high school guy into the lockers. I lost this time.
I was pregnant. I shared this with only one person. She was my confidant. I chose to abort as I couldn't bear the thought of being discharged from the military, disappointing my parents, nor hearing about how I could have prevented the rape.
I publicly shared the rape experience with a local news reporter in 2015 when interviewed about the nonprofit I founded in 2010 – a nonprofit promoting awareness around intimate partner violence, teen dating violence and sexual assault impacting all races, genders, religions and ethnicities. The interviewer asked me if the rape experience caused me to be promiscuous. At the moment, without thinking about it, I said "no." I've since reflected, and, if asked again, I would say "yes". I didn't feel I deserved to be loved. I was damaged goods.
Has this lead me to hate men? No, I love men. I love being cherished, appreciated, intimate. I love their company and their different perspectives on life. I'll admit, though, the negative encounters haunt me and trust issues linger.
I'm a mother of two daughters now. I'd shared my story with them in hopes that somehow raising their awareness would prevent such experiences from happening to them. Wrong. One daughter shared with me of how she wanted to leave her boyfriend's residence to come home one evening, however, he, drunk at the time, did not want her to leave. He blocked her departure. He choked her. He was in charge.
Yes, males also go thru some of these same experiences – sexual assault by a man or a woman, and typically when they are young, as well as in prison. There is no denying it. In fact, I've read requests on Facebook that men post #MeToo if they were a survivor of these atrocities, as well. And if you read Alyssa Milano's exact Tweet of Sunday evening, she wrote "If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet." Non-gender specific! By Monday, "#MeToo wasn't just mushrooming on Twitter—when I checked Facebook Monday morning, my feed was filled with friends and acquaintances acknowledging publicly that they, too, had experienced harassment or assault. Some shared their stories, some simply posted the hashtag to add their voices to the fray. And it wasn't just women: Men also spoke up about their experiences with assault."
Our justice system is screwed up all around. Our society is screwed up, even more so under the current leadership – a leader who, himself, has admitted to sexually assaulting women. However, this does not warrent commenting on someone's #MeToo post with unrelated injustices. Doing so invalidates their traumatic experience, just as much as "What did you do to cause this to happen?" or "What were you wearing?" does.
If my child came to me and shared that they had been raped, and my reply was, "Did you know our neighbor was unjustly imprisoned", what have I taught them? If they came to me, crying, and sharing that they were groped at work by their boss and I responded with, "Well, my coworker lost their child custody battle to their incompetent spouse", what have I taught them? I've invalidated their very personal, traumatic experience. I've shamed them into thinking their experience is insignificant. Nullified. Negligible. Or it was their fault.
We each have our own causes of which others may not agree. That is our right. However, to demean someone's personal, heinous experience by brandishing other atrocities in their face is simply uncivil and lacking in any compassion.
In these times in which our own goverment seems to be turning us against each other, please pause for a moment and consider your words and on what forum or platform you are using them.
One more thought … A few years ago I expressed to one daughter, of whom I understood and supported her cause and her passion, but of whom choose to express those feelings in such a way that it offended many (including myself – I actually unfriended her on FB at the time) vs drawing us in and leading us to understand her cause, "you'll catch more flys with honey than vinegar."


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RUNNING TIME: 147 minutes
RELEASE: Madman
VIGGO Mortensen of The Lord of the Rings fame returns to costume drama in what is largely a "spaghetti western" for a new century.
Like Clint Eastwood many years ago, American Mortensen has gone to Spain but, the differences are, it is also set in Spain, there is no English dubbing and the main character wields a sword and not blazing six guns.
Having read the first book in Perez-Reverte's Alatriste series, I can report that the early part of this film stays largely true to the tale of a loyal 17th Century Spanish soldier who, while not off fighting the heretics in Flanders, earns a living by selling his sword.
If a hapless nobleman has a duel to fight and doesn't have the skills, a few coins will see the self-appointed "captain" take his place.
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Being thankful–Day 19
Well my mood is just slightly better. I've got some posts brewing in the hopes that blogging it all out will help. Today I'm thankful for being able to get out of the house and get to work. As much as I love my girls, putting on real clothes and talk to other adults sure is nice, even if it is just for 2 two hour chunks throughout the day.
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We did not send a dog to the Eukanuba this year. We were invited with two dogs, but this year the show wasn't an invitational. It was open to all comers, from puppies to specials. When the judging panel came up we hoped for judges who would be good for us, but that was not to be. Eva has seen and been seen coast to coat in the three years she has been showing and we were beyond taking an 1100 mile journey to watch the locals and some well-known handlers vie for what was probably decided when the panel came out. Another year to work the AKC's agenda.
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The atmosphere was once again tense among members of the Northwest Civic Association board of trustees at a Sept. 6 meeting when former board of directors President John Ehlers sought to pin down the others on how they would decide zoning matters.
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Alyson Miles, who agreed to take over as board secretary at the meeting, asked Cipiti to request that Ehlers get back to the agenda item of the Bethel Road proposal update.
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Cipiti again asked Ehlers to finish his presentation about zoning.
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Alyson at terribleknitknit has compiled a fabulous list of (mostly free) patterns for socks, lace and small amount of wool needed projects here.
On the topic of knitting, my weekend away involved a lot of knitting. I am really sick of double rib now - the whole baby jumper is double rib. It's actually a cardigan, with a crossover front, and is knit in one piece. I've done both one sleeve, the crossovers, and am moving towards the second sleeve. I'm keen to be finished, so I can start the next holiday project - Haiku , which is worked mainly in garter stitch. I'm also keen to start because the next project is to be knitted in a yarn made of wool and silk, which feels great. The current cardigan is a wool acrylic fuzzy blend.


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Museums are Meccas for the forgotten. Sure, their historical relevance can be monumental, but connections for the masses are tenuous at best. Sadly, artifacts lack footholds in this short-attention-span-addled society.
The same could be argued about Western Carolina University's current exhibit, The Crafting of Mountain Music. The gallery owns displays of mountain instruments (donated mainly by collectors) that paved the way for bluegrass music, country music, and a regional personality that's unique to the Appalachians.
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The mountain dulcimer evolved from the scheitholt, an instrument of German origin brought over to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century. The scheitholt's rectangular body seems ill-fitted for long sits on the thigh. Regimentally rectangular, it looks more suited to be a sturdy table leg.
And then there's the "swinette," a replica of the first German scheitholt, and a creation of Junior Davis, the last traditional scheitholt maker in America when he died in 1998.
"This old sow would rub her hind end on this splinter and would make a noise," Davis writes by way of explanation, in an essay that hangs alongside his contraption. "Hearing that noise, father said to me, 'Don't you hear my swinette?'"
The dulcimer, finally, is the scheitholt's more free-spirited cousin. Its various boat-like and hourglass shapes defy the conservative posture of the scheitholt. However, prior to the folk revival, the mountain dulcimer lacked mass-market appeal.
"The instrument arrived into the light of the 20th Century virtually without a written record," writes Ralph Lee Smith in The Appalachia Dulcimer's History: On the Trail of the Mountains' Secrets. "Unlike other stringed instruments that were and are popular in the mountains, you couldn't buy a dulcimer from the Sears Roebuck catalog, or in stores. There was no printed music and there were no instruction manuals."
The instrument could have perished in a wayward cabin, but its unlikely ascension provides a healthy circulation for the body of mountain culture.
Purity isn't everything
Still, some folks argue that preservation efforts don't matter much — because the purity of the music itself is forsaken. Traditional theories lament the loss of the isolated mountain player whose music was never tainted by the outside world.
Looking at some of the old photos and handbills in the gallery, it's not hard to concede that gloss has vanquished quality. But Hornbostel and assistant curator Suzanne McDowell disagree.
"It was never as isolated as most people think," says McDowell. "A book on the Carter family talked about how musicians have always traded tunes in ways of doing things. Versions that we may consider pure may not be at all."
"Ralph Lee Smith's books are the opposite of non-researched romantic stereotypes like thinking everyone in the old days used to play/build the same," adds Hornbostel. "That you had to live in a 'holler' to do it right, and the only valid music to play on the instrument is from a certain few decades back in the 1800s.
"By continuing a tradition, you don't forget about the good things that went before," she concludes. "You preserve them.
"And you continue to let the tradition evolve — to keep it alive."
Viewers of the WCU exhibit are certainly doing their part in that capacity. Due to demand, curators recently extended the show's length from its initial end date of Jan. 5.
It will now run through June.


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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *This was a great email I received from a student:
Hi Professor,
I have to share this story with you because I owe you for sharing your knowledge.
I just about had a heart attack this evening when I realized that I left my thumb drive in a school computer today. I was worried because of course all my school documents and research papers that I have accumulated during the school year are on this drive. I had not bothered to back it up recently, and I just finished working on a 7 page essay which was only stored on this drive.
Thankfully, when I went back to school it was still in the computer in the Writing Center. The first thing I did when I got home was create a folder in Dropbox and synced everything and now it's in "the cloud".
I can't thank you enough for introducing this service to me for I had no idea it existed until you assigned it as a project.
Those are the ones you look forward to!


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May 1, 2009
Transformers 2 gets another new trailer
-I'm almost convinced this will be decent...an improvent over the original at least...thoughts?
7 comments:
- AnonymousMay 1, 2009 at 2:30 AM
I like that its darker, as a lot of action franchise sequels are, and that they are actually attempting to have a story instead of a simple cash-in sequel.ReplyDelete
Also, thank god they brought back Megatron, and thank god they gave Star scream a larger role, as well as overall giving the robots more to do, now that they have a bigger budget to use more CGI fr more robots and more robot screen time.
Admittedly though, right now I am lookign forward to Public Enemies, Harry Potter, and Terminator Salvation more than Transformers 2.
Transformers is one of those films where you leave your brain at the door, and just watch it for the fun of it. It's Michael Bay doing what he does best: SFX.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
it looks fun enoughReplyDelete
the talking car bugs me still, but I'm liking this a bit...especially the college partReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM
lol Joey, it's transformers, all the cars talk. :PReplyDelete
indeed, i meant Bumblebee doing the musical talk, but yes, logic here is not a good ideaReplyDelete
I am prepared to leave my brain at the door. Looks entertaining.ReplyDelete


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The shop owner Hassan Mahmoud laid out his heaps of dried fruits and nuts at a multicoloured Ramadan tent in the Egyptian capital to catch shoppers' eyes for the holiday, like he does every year. Only this time, he said, "people aren't buying."
"Things get more expensive every year but this time it's even worse because the dollar is higher," Mr Mahmoud said as he stood on a street full of similar stands bedecked with lanterns.
Annual inflation hit 12.23 per cent in May – the highest level in seven years – driven partly by dollar appreciation. The economy has yet to recover from the 2011 uprising that toppled the longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, and the man charged with fixing it – president Abdel Fattah El Sissi – has shown little tolerance for criticism.
In an attempt to soften the impact of the price hikes on low-income families, the government has opened new, mobile markets offering basic products at discount prices, and the army has fed and distributed basic goods to the poor in highly publicised events. Mr El Sissi and other officials have meanwhile tried to deflect some blame about higher costs toward alleged manipulation by dishonest traders.
"Although giving out bags of basic goods is good and it helps, it cannot be a solution," said economist Omar El Shenety of the Cairo investment bank Multiples Group, adding that inflation has more "chronic" causes. Egypt's imports are more than double its exports and include essential basic goods such as wheat, which must be bought in dollars.
In March, Egypt's central bank devalued the Egyptian pound by more than 14 per cent, setting the dollar at 8.85 pounds compared to 7.73 previously. On the black market, traders are paying up to 11 pounds per dollar.
In an attempt to shift demand inwards, the government has raised import duties on several products, especially those it labels as luxury goods – including nuts and fruits frequently sold in Ramadan markets. It has also restricted some imports, which Mr El Shenety says exacerbates the problem. "The resulting lack of goods raises prices even more," he said.
Electricity and water bills are also rising, fuel is more expensive, and pharmacies are running out of some medications, fuelling anger on social media.
Mr El Sissi has called on Egyptians to "be patient" and urged them to donate to a fund created in 2014 called "Long Live Egypt." He has also defended his decision to slash energy subsidies that year – a step long urged by international lenders but which his predecessors had not dared to enact for fear of a backlash. The move was welcomed by economists, who said the funds would be better spent elsewhere, but the higher costs have contributed to inflation.
May's inflation was also influenced by a health ministry decision last month to increase prices of some locally manufactured drugs by 20 per cent, said the economist Mohamed Abu Basha of EFG-Hermes.
The ministry said local manufacturers had been suffering from high raw material costs since the vast majority is imported and priced in dollars, forcing some to shut down and leaving Egyptians with only imported alternatives that cost four to five times as much. Pharmacists say the drug shortages over the past two years have worsened with the pound devaluation.
With parliament set to pass a value-added tax later this year, prices are expected to rise even more.
"Egypt's lower classes are already facing a real problem, but the purchase powers of the country's middle class are also being eroded," Mr El Shenety said.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Who cares about church style if you don't care about church, period
All of that may be true, but I think it may miss the main point. In a response to a similar column by Evans two years ago, David Hayward said that the millennials he knows just don't care about church--it does not appear in the scope of their needs. I think he's on to something.
I used to be a fan of The West Wing, a TV show which gave viewers a behind the scenes look at the presidency of fictional president Jeb Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen. In an episode during Bartlet's reelection campaign, one of Bartlet's consultants urged him to support a constitutional amendment against flag burning. The consultant was convinced that such a stance would garner Bartlett a lot of votes because polling indicated that an overwhelming percentage of Americans supported an amendment against flag burning.
Later in the episode, however, another consultant revealed that, in addition to measuring support for a flag burning amendment, she had also measured the passion of respondents concerning the issue. It turned out that most Americans surveyed would claim support for an amendment against flag burning but few really cared one way or the other about the issue.
I suspect the same may be true with the research that Evans cites. Most millennials may say to a pollster that they prefer a "classic" church to a "trendy" church. But my sense is that most of that majority doesn't care much about any church of any persuasion. If such a large majority of millennials are so enamored with classic/traditional churches, then why aren't they packing the pews of such churches (because, in most cases, they aren't)?
Of course, we must not paint with too broad a brush. Many millennials care deeply about the church. Many millennials returned to church specifically because they found a trendy church that they like. Many millennials don't have to return to church because they never left.
While millennials aren't a monolithic lot, there's lots of research suggesting they are are leaving the church in large numbers. Church "style" considerations are not inconsequential in responding to this concern. But maybe a higher priority involves more conversations with millennials about the fundamental nature of the church.
Have we forgotten how radical and exciting the body of Christ is in its essence? That's a good subject for another blog entry or maybe two. Meanwhile, should we expect millennials (or anyone else) to care about the style of the meetings of a body that they don't really care about in the first place?
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- Cynthia said...
I think this perspective misses the idea that millennial's are seeking a new kind of church. They are connected to aspects of traditional church with modern preaching/bible study. Most contemporary or "trendy "churches have life application sermons and Bible studies that connect scripture to every day living. While not all but most traditional services tend to have sermons that are still lecture based with a more educational approach. It may still have meaning to everyday life but the connection is harder to make. Often the traditional church hasn't made efforts to engaged
the younger generation through modern forms of speaking, study, music, video etc. Our school system has made better use of modern technology to teach and engage, yet the traditional church wants to stay the same saying style and format don't matter. Why does it have to be the millennial is the one with the issue rather than the church?
I think millennial's do want a radical and exciting church, but the traditional church isn't giving it to them so they end up in trendy style churches that have excitement and zest and passion. On top of that, when they are told their music preference. preference for life application study or style means they are worshiping God incorrectly, they feel shamed, disconnect or move on. Worship is a verb… It's an act of loving, praising, glorifying, serving and honoring our God. It comes in many different forms, styles and preferences all on one pew.
Just my two cents.
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Lord Bingley of Derbyshire, originally uploaded by Mrs Flower.
We brought this little hedgehog home with us when we visited Matlock Bath and Chatsworth in Derbyshire last year... he is gorgeous! His name of course comes from Jane Austen's novel, Pride & Prejuidce... there is a Bingley in the story... plus the Hollywood version of P&P was filmed in Chatsworth House (Mr Darcy's 'Pemberley'!).., so we thought it apt!


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It's a beautiful Sunday in Berry,the weathers fine like a summers day and it's the middle of winter.
It's the first Sunday of the month so its Berry Market Day woohoo!
One of my favourite stores Cushy Monsters.
Handmade characters.....Super kawaii
So many cute handmade treasures and vintage finds.
Vintage wonderlands.
Live music.
Interesting things to see and wonderful people to meet.
Its a fabulous day out and its dog friendly of course Xx
The Berry Market is the first Sunday of the month at the berry showground.


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Very nice pictures. Rain is so gorgeous looking! I am happy he had a chance to vacation and get some rest. I always wonder what do Rain listen to. Is he listening to his own songs or other artists.
Damn..he look cute but cool too…
I like the first pic the best but what's he saying in Tweet?
Rain, OMG! you are so damned HOT and GORGEOUS!!!


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Covergirl Bombshell Volume Mascara Review
From the Brand:
Mega volume and dark intensity in one mascara for an over the top bombshell look from Cover Girl. Step 1 volumize - load on for unbelievably big volume - Step 2 - intensify - seal in with one coat for an intense, dark all day finish. Beautifully separated lashes.
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My Thoughts: This mascara lasts forever. Like seriously, for-ev-er. It's not even waterproof. I can put it on in the morning, and even if my eyes water or it's super humid out (as it's prone to be here in northern Virginia) this won't budge, smudge, or flake. You can check out my video review below for what a difference it makes on my lashes, too!
Side 1 is the volumizing side, and it's definitely a "lash blast" mascara with the shape of the wand and the consistency of the mascara itself. It's very similar to my LashBlast Fusion Mascara I reviewed back in September. {Check out that review here.} The major difference though is this mascara has a second side that adds another layer of intense color, and I'm convinced is what makes it last so long.
Side 2 is a generic mascara wand, and I don't think it's very useful in separating my lashes or adding any length. The first side adds all the volume, and it would be nice if this one had a comb or at the very least long spikey spokes to help separate the lashes. I have to stop in between the steps and get a metal lash comb to keep my lashes from clumping.
It's a little higher priced for a drugstore mascara being $11.99, since most I purchase are around $8.99 or so, but it's worth the few extra dollars. I've found myself using drugstore mascara all the time now rather than my higher end brands. I can two or three tubes for what I'd pay for a prestige brand, and even if I have to layer them I'm still getting more for my buck.
Final Verdict: A new Holy Grail Mascara? I'd say so! I hope and pray Covergirl keeps this one around!
Want to see this in action? Check out my video review!


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After our fun pitstop in Paris we took a short flight to the Verona airport where my brother in-law Matteo were picking us up. When we landed around 10:30 in the morning, we couldn't believe how hot it was already! Our drive to my hometown Arco wasn't long. However, I was so anxious to see my family that I didn't see in over a year and to finally meet my niece Marika who was now 11 months, that that time in the car seemed endless. When we finally arrived, it was so incredible to see my sister and my parents and to finally squeeze and kiss Marika. She is such a good baby and even though she never really saw me (few times on skype) it seemed like she knew me forever. That was the best feeling!
After a delicious typical "Mamma Gianna" (my mom=) lunch Dustin, my sister Samanta, Marika and I went to pick up my other niece Elena who was in pre-school. At first she was acting shy but then oh boy save us from that little hyper damon=)
We hung around at the school playground and let Elena have her "merenda" (snack) outside!
I love this girl!
It was such a gorgeous day out! Marika doesn't walk yet but I have a feeling she will be soon as she always wants to be on her little legs and move them!
On Thursday we went to my brother's Michele house and he made us delicious home made pizza!!! My two brothers, Giuseppe and Michele, live right next to each other and they have a big outside area where they usually hang in the summer.
My oldest brother have two kids, Patrick the geek one and Davide the crazy active and adventures one!
Michele's son Federico has an amazing personality, he never stops, and has the cutest dimples ever!
After a fun day and evening I went home with my sister and give Marika and Elena their evening bath.
Oh Marika, I love that little precious girl!
I love how flexible babies are. Marika is not different!
Both Elena & Marika have a not so good habit…can you guess what it is?
On Friday we had plan to go meet our american friends Ted & Emily, that causality were visiting Italy. We met them in Sirmione that stands on a peninsula with a minimum broadness of 120 meters which stretches out for about 4 km in Lake Garda from the southern shore. The view is pretty stunning there but unfortunately it was a very gloomy and rainy day that we had to cut the visit short. We had launch & gelato while walking around a little. It was so great to see the Ted & Emily, two amazing people!
In Sirmione, Dustin started to feel not so good. He was pretty warm but he drove anyway all the way home. When we arrive at my mom's house, we took his temperature and found out he was pretty sick. The thermometer signed over 102° F…ouch poor baby! He had high fever and cough all weekend long and on the fourth day I took him to my doctor who gave him all kind of meds. Apparently he had some sort of bronchitis=(
So I was still feeling good then so I was just having fun with my iphone and taking picture with the sick patient;-)
However, the day after I woke up with some fever too and had cough and a bad cold for almost the rest of the trip! Of course my mom, that she is as Italian mom as can be, she took really good care of us (mostly Dustin cause he was really sick).
On Sunday Italy was playing in the European Championship, so my brothers had a all day planned for us at my dad's camp in Laghel which is this isolated and peaceful valley just behind the town of Arco, immersed in olive trees and woods.
In Laghel my dad has his loyal German Shepard Asso.
The very demanding horse Stella.
My brothers made sure to have Dustin's favorite, la Carne Salata!
My dad is a very good cook and he built a big stone grill outside!
After launch poor Dustin wasn't feeling really good so he took a nap.
I capture my nieces and nephews while they were playing.
Elena & Federico cuddling in Marika's stroller.
And the game was on!
We usually spend our morning at my sister and she cooks delicious launches for all of us.
My mom would come too, they only live 5 minutes drive from each other!
Appetizer with grana and prosciutto.
When it was nice weather we ate our launch outside on the balcony.
After the second day that Dustin started to take his meds, he was finally feeling better and of course Elena & Marika took advantage of that!
Although he took nice naps with Marika.
One day Dustin and I drove abut 15 minutes up the mountain to visit the medieval village Canale di Tenno.
The view from up there was breathtaking!
Canale is a stone village between a lake and a mountain!
Canale di Tenno is a medieval rural village (1211) which has survived almost intact to the present day. The village is appreciated for its typical architecture made up of barrel vaults, underpasses, alleys and galleries.
The name Canale, waterway, seems to derive from the wealth of water in the place where it was built in the early Middle Ages.
The medieval village Canale di Tenno has recently been included in the list of the most beautiful villages in Italy, and I can see why! The best thing was that it was very quiet up there, not many tourists knows about this hidden spot!
On our way down to Riva del Garda we stopped to enjoy a different view where we could see Arco and the Castle.
We played around a little with the camera=)
On the last Saturday we were there we had plan to all go to the Dolomites, but Elena and Marika ended to get sick so my sister and family couldn't come. Dustin and I were in the car with my oldest brother Giuseppe and wife Agnese and my younger brother Michele was driving his car with his wife Aneta, Federico, Patrick and Davide as passengers. But this post is for another time!


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Have you ever read another's diary? You sure have.
My house mate got a copy of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower only since a word is out that its upcoming movie adaptation will star Emma Watson. I got interested in the book for the same reason but having got much time to kill from being still jobless as a more weighty reason, I sat and read and finished without the least struggle (which seldom happens because I am not big on books, not yet).
I disliked feeling like one with the writer almost all the way, having to agree with much of what he's said. Throughout the novel, I went 'hey, I've thought about these things too' too many times. But the thing is, I haven't cared to write them down. And suppose I did, maybe I would not have published most of them thinking they're an unintended product of my overthinking cynic psyche no one would dare read, hence, is better off kept in my journal.
Stephen Chbosky wrote the novel by way of compiling letters (which are of the dear-diary type which makes them quite intimate) which ran for over a year addressed to a total stranger to talk about his bore of a life as a high school crybaby who thinks things through so much that he can only watch them happen around him – school and home, and choose not to participate in them though he understands them, or in psychiatric terms is being "passive aggressive", or in a literary sense is becoming a "wallflower" which I think is a little gay.
So I must be a little gay to feel like a wallflower at times. At times when I only shrug my shoulders in response to somebody's (or even my own) question, sit in silence through a discussion of interest, or not pass around some juicy gossip. But I would like to think that, in more ways, I actually "participate" as when I sing along to Bustin Jieber's Baby, raise a brow on the church's opposition to the RH bill, or say 'yes' to dates (though it's often half-meant). Now that's a tight spot. It's timidity versus boldness. It's niggling to resolve where the lines overlap but I feel droopier by the minute to fathom further.
Even with this novel being a very easy read as relative to having read it next to a Swedish crime novel, it still did engross me enough to make me want to add the books it mentioned to my reading list, as well as the songs which made the main characters feel "infinite" to my iPod playlist. I got myself a copy of Catcher in the Rye just the other day to begin with. Soon enough, I will let The Smiths' Asleep to rock-a-bye-baby me.
It's my favorite book until I get to read another one. The movie starts to tape today, by the way.
And one last thing, reading another's diary is a crime punishable by law.


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Principal cast announced for Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games
Michael Flatley's West End dance show will feature runners up from Over the Rainbow and The Voice UK
Sophie Evans and Rachael O'Connor have both been announced as part of the principal cast for Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games.
Evans and O'Connor will share the role of Erin the Goddess. Evans was a runner up in the BBC's Over the Rainbow in 2010 and then played Dorothy in selected performances of The Wizard of Oz at the Palladium in 2011. O'Connor was in Kylie Minogue's group in series three of The Voice UK and starred in Lord of the Dance in 2014.
The role of Lord of the Dance will be played by James Keegan, Morgan Corner and brothers Cathal and Fergal Keaney. Each of the performers have won World Irish Dancing Championships titles.
The show is staged by Irish-American dancer Flatley, who originally wanted to create an Irish dance piece for big arenas. The story focuses on a Lord of the Dance who has to fight against a dark lord, trying to take over Planet Ireland. The show features holographs, dancing robots, acrobats and has a score composed by Gerard Fahy.
Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games opens at the Playhouse Theatre from 10 October 2015 until 3 January 2016.