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This past weekend I had a dream where I traveled in time back to some tropical island volcano in 1989 with Prince Charles and some random royal young person. In my half sleep, half awake ether at the end of the dream, I started to think about what I would tell my nine year old self since that's who I was in 1989.
Hey Pants!
This has been an… interesting year so far for you, hasn't it? Got a bike for your birthday, fell off it a couple of days later, your appendix burst a week later, you spent 2 weeks in the hospital and another 2 weeks at home recovering and you got a sweet new daybed rom Jerome's out of the moms-guilt. You are going to start 5th grade at a new school with new people. That's going to be an interesting one too, but you're going to love Mr. Hutchinson. Needless to say, this is a pretty important time for you developmentally in every way. And because I couldn't give a flying funt about the butterfly effect or space time disturbances or whatever, I'm going to tell you what's what and give a little guidance on what to do about it to help, maybe, make your life rad because it's not too rad now in 33-land.
1. Don't stop riding your bike. I know the moms took it away after the appendectomy but that bike was not the cause of your hospital stay. Sometimes stuff just happens (to you, it happens a LOT) and this was just something that happened. Get your bike back or get another one, even if it's a shrimpy BMX so you're sitting back and your feet can hit the ground, and pedal your heart out because this is your freedom until you turn 16. Just make sure it has a basket of some kind on it. Talk to Muggy about it – she'll totally back you up and she'll probably even get one herself and ride around with you.
2. Speaking of Muggy: your Muggy and your Grandpa are the only two people around you now who know what's what. The parents have no clue and, I'm sad to say, they never will so just nod and smile when they say something then go back to your room and do what you were going to do anyway. We both know that this episode with the appendix wasn't the first time they let you down and it definitely won't be the last. But your Muggy is your strongest, staunchest supporter. Give her lots of hugs – she needs them way more than you know. One day you're going to be her strength in a way you won't even realize when you're doing it.
3. Meat and vegetables and fruit. You really like these, eat them as much as you can for meals. I know the parents don't believe in vegetables or cooking or dining together (you have a pool table but not a kitchen or dining table, really?) but you need to start insisting on these. Apples: the green ones, not the red ones. Vegetables come in frozen bags, make them get them for you and learn how to make them. You know how to make mac 'n' cheese, cereal, peanut butter and jelly mixed together and sandwiches, learning how to get the frozen vegetables unfrozen won't be that hard for you. Oh, and you love cabbage. Raw. With a little lemon. For real.
4. I know you read a lot already but read more. MORE. Anything you can get your hands on. Those Collier Encyclopedias? Read 'em. Get on your bike and go to the library. It's not more than a 20 minute bike ride away. There's no such thing as a kid's book and an adult book – they're all for you to read. There's going to be a time soon when the parents stuff you into a car every weekend for a "speed run" to Vegas or state line – bring 2 big books with you every time and bring a dictionary. Pocket your arcade money for #5 and read at the pool. The library is your friend.
5. Save your money. Christmas, birthdays (because we both already know that they have given up on trying to figure out what you would like and give you $20 instead) and the guilt/arcade money you get from the parents when they schlepp you to Vegas/State Line. The money you get for working for them: save it. More specifically, save 80% of it in a box or envelope or piggy bank or something else. When you have $500 saved, talk to Grandpa and ask him to buy you shares of stock in Apple Computers. You know, the IIe+ that you play your Oregon Trail and Number Munchers on? That company. Then save $1000 and take it to Grandpa and tell him $500 is for more shares and the other $500 is for a CD. And keep on doing that. Stop buying shares in the first quarter of 2003 and sell it all in September of 2012.
The other 20%, spend on music. Fuck what the parents say, you are allowed to love the crap out of Bruce Springsteen. When you and Muggy go to Sam Goody to get Heart and Queen tapes, get yourself ALL of the Bruce Springsteen tapes you can lay your hands on. Also, the Replacements. They are going to change your life. So will lots of other people who make music who are still brewing right now but will amaze you very soon.
6. Insist on swim camp. Insist so much that they don't send you to Alabama that they have no choice but to cave in to your demand – tantrums yo, they'll work. Make them send you to swim camp. Because, just like bicycling, you need to keep swimming. And you need community. Badly.
7. You need to make your own structure – your own life structure on a daily basis, a loose routine. You need to guide yourself because the parents aren't going to do it for you. Don't wait for them to support something, anything (even college), you want to do because they won't. They won't deter you but they definitely aren't going to help you. They are ambivalent (dictionary) and unaware. They don't have plans or ideas for you or what you can do in this world, you have to come up with them on your own. And then get on your bike and do them. You don't need stuff, you need experiences which the parents don't understand so they don't know what to do with you. So go out on your bike and experience on your own. They won't notice. Trust me.
8. Things come easily to you and you let this make you lazy (mainly because you need structure) – only superficially curious. Find something, anything, to dive deeper into. Know that you are going to majorly suck at it at first but you'll get better. A lot better. Computer programming (because you're good with number patterns), history, science, extra-curricular writing, machine/car repair (because you like working with your hands and you'd be amazing at it), karate/martial arts (because a ninja you would be MIND BLOWINGLY AWESOME), dancing, knitting, anything. But you have to find it and make the decision because no one is going to guide you to it. And you have to persist through the beginner "I'm horrible at this" phase. No matter what it is, this will be one of the best things you could ever do for yourself. **Note: I place my vote for ninja now because that would be uber-rad.**
9. Make this boy your penpal: B.T.C. Cumberbatch. He's just now starting at Harrow School in England. The address there is 5 High St, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP, United Kingdom. Write to him. Anything and everything. Stories, happenings, feelings, just keep writing. This achieves two things: 1. you're consistently writing. Don't ever let anyone – teachers or otherwise – tell you that the way you write is wrong because it's not, it's YOUR way of writing. 2. That boy is amazing now and will be even more so later, it'll be totally worth it. Let yourself expand with it. Maybe you don't always send letters, maybe make it drawings or paintings or collages or something.
10. There are quite a few people in your life who are around your age who are unnecessarily cruel. Jessica, Jennifer, Kellie Scott, etc. Fuck them all. Don't listen or take to heart one word that they say to you because everything that comes out of their mouths is spiteful drivel and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. All three of them end up pregnant and on drugs by 18. For real. And, let's be honest here, in a year or two, you'll be coming up on a time in your life where 99% of the people your age who are around you are just bitches. Boys, girls, teachers, idiots all of them. There are a select few individuals who aren't assholes but the rest are and it's because there's stuff going on inside and outside of their bodies that they just don't understand so a lot of them get angry or hateful or controlling over something or someone outside of them to help them rationalize what's going on inside of them. The biggest chunk of this period will be about 6-8 years, but there are some people who hold onto it for their whole lives. Remember this: anything that anyone ever says about you that's negative is not about you at all, it's about themselves. Because you are amazing and smart and beautiful and you grow up to have really awesome boobies. But this is the reason for a majority of my suggestions: bicycling to other places, swimming, reading, penpal, karate (hopefully?) will all be things that you can find solace in when these people get you down. They'll be distractions for you, they'll be outlets, they'll be what gets you through.
Finally, not that your saying anything will be able to help this, but if you can, find a way to make it so the pops doesn't quit the Navy. The reason he quits is noble but dumb in the long run because he loses his whole sense of self and ends up going back in 11 years anyway. He starts to resent everything surrounding the decision because he doesn't really know how to fully exist without the structure that the Navy gave him.
Final instructions: read this letter every day for the first year. Read it every month for the following 6 years. Read it yearly and otherwise as desired or required after that. Remember that no one is going to do it (whatever it may be) for you, so go and get it or do it yourself. Also, don't get that perm when you're 13 – that's bad juju yo.
Kisses! The 33 year old you.
Monday, July 22, 2013
a letter to the 9 year old me
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I just have the feeling that we tend to label deadly sinkholes, collapsing mountains, dieing bees, mudslides, massive rainfalls with floodings etc etc as "normal" just b/c we become indifferent by the massive quantities of disasters going on everywhere. I mean, if we look back at history there was never a period of that many simultaneous and never "heard-of-before" catastrophes arriving at the same time. Plus we have like boiling armed conflicts and potential global diseases coming at us with an intensity never seen before.
All of this happens while people´s faith in Gods have weakened to the point that it is almost extinguished. Actually the timing of all this is just like what is said in prophecies about people becoming worse and worse before the end, while natural and manmade disasters increase all the time. Some people might say this is just "normal" but if they look back at our 5 000 years of civilization there never was a time like this before. It is unique in terms of science, atheism, climate, divcorces, natural disasters etc.
Just wanted to remind everyone that these times are unique and in unique times there is bound to be unique events happening.

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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand IPA: [fʀɑ̃ˈswa mɔˈʀis mitɛˈʀɑ̃] (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) served as President of France and co-prince of Andorra from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of state since 1957. He was re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995, before dying of prostate cancer the following year. During each of his two terms, he dissolved the Parliament after his election to have a majority during the first five years of his term, and then each time his party lost the next legislative elections. He was consequently forced to "cohabit" during the two last years of each of his terms with conservative cabinets. They were led by Jacques Chirac from 1986 until 1988, and Édouard Balladur from 1993 to 1995.
As of 2007 he holds the record of longest serving (14 years) President of France. He is also the oldest President of the Fifth Republic, leaving office at 78. He died on January 8, 1996, shortly after returning from a Christmas holiday in Egypt.
Early Life
Further information: World War II
Mitterrand enlisted in the French army during World War II. He fought as an infantry sergeant, was wounded and was taken prisoner of war (POW) in 1940. His political views evolved as he met POWs from all kinds of social backgrounds. He escaped from German captivity 6 times within 18 months, arriving home (which was in the zone not occupied by the German forces, but rather in the zone of the French collaborationist Vichy government) in December 1941. He then became a mid-level functionary of the Vichy government, in the POW welcome service, which was very unusual for an escaped prisoner, but served as a spy for the Free French Forces.
In 1943 he received the Francisque, the honorific distinction of the Vichy regime. When Mitterrand's Vichy past was exposed in the 1950s, he initially denied having received the Francisque.
In autumn 1942 the non-occupied zone was invaded by Germans. Then, in January 1943, Mitterrand left Vichy after the dismissal of Maurice Pinot, the leader of its service. When Germany began losing the war, Mitterrand set about building up a resistance network, composed mainly of former POWs like himself. The POWs National Rally (Rassemblement national des prisonniers de guerre or RNPG) was affiliated with General Henri Giraud, a former POW who had escaped from a German prison and made his way across Germany back to the Allied forces.
Giraud was then contesting the leadership of the French Resistance with General de Gaulle. Mitterrand himself clashed with Michel Cailliau (aka "Charette"), de Gaulle's nephew who led another former POWs network.
In November 1943 the Gestapo raided a flat in Vichy where they hoped to arrest a resister called François Morland. "Morland" was Mitterrand's cover name. The man they arrested was Pol Pilven, a resister who was to survive the war in a concentration camp. Mitterrand was in Paris at the time. Warned by his friends, he escaped to London aboard a Lysander plane.
From there he went to Algiers, where he met Charles de Gaulle, who was now the uncontested leader of the Free French. The two men did not get along; Mitterrand refused to merge his group with other POW movements if Cailliau was to be the leader.
He later returned to France via England by boat. In Paris, the three Resistance groups made up of POWs (communists, gaullists, RNPG) finally merged as the POWs and Deportees National Movement (Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et déportés or MNPGD). Mitterrand took the lead.
When de Gaulle entered Paris following the Liberation, he was introduced to various men who were to be part of the provisional government. Among them was Mitterrand, as secretary general of POWs. When they came face to face, de Gaulle is said to have muttered: "You again!" Mitterrand was dismissed 15 days later.
Second World War
Further information: Fourth Republic
After the war he quickly moved back into politics. In 1946 he was elected as a Deputy for the Nièvre département and in 1947 joined a centerist grouping, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance or UDSR). He held various offices in the Fourth Republic as a Deputy and as a Minister (holding eleven different portfolios in total).
In May 1948 Mitterrand participated together with Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, Paul-Henri Spaak, Albert Coppé and Altiero Spinelli, in the Congress of The Hague, which originated the European Movement.
As Overseas Minister (1950-1951), he opposed the colonial lobby to propose reforms programme. He connected with the left when he resigned from the cabinet after the arrest of Marocco's sultan (1953). Leader of the progressive wing of the UDSR, he took the head of the party in 1953, replacing the conservative René Pleven.
As Interior Minister in Pierre Mendès-France's cabinet (1954-1955), he was faced with the launching of the Algerian War of Independence. He claimed: "Algeria is France." He was also suspected to be the informer of the Communist Party in the cabinet. This rumour was spread by the former Paris police prefect, who had been dismissed by him. The suspicions were dismissed by the investigations.
The UDSR integrated the Republican Front, a center-left coalition which won the 1956 legislative election. As Justice Minister (1956-1957), he allowed the expansion of martial law in the Algerian conflict. Unlike other ministers (including Mendès-France), who criticized the repressive policy in Algeria, he remained in Guy Mollet's cabinet until its end.
As Minister of Justice he was an official representative of France during wedding Prince of Monaco Rainier III and actress Grace Kelly.
Under the Fourth Republic he was representative of a generation of young ambitious politicians. He appeared like a possible future Prime Minister.
Fourth Republic
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In 1958, he was one of the few to object to the nomination of Charles de Gaulle as head of government, and de Gaulle's plan for a French Fifth Republic. He justified his opposition by the circumstances of de Gaulle's comeback: the 13 May 1958 riot and the military pressure. In September 1958, determinedly opposed to Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand made an appeal to vote "no" in the referendum over the Constitution, which was nevertheless adopted on 4 October 1958.
This attitude may have been a factor in Mitterrand's losing his seat in the 1958 elections, beginning a long "crossing of the desert" (this term is usually applied to de Gaulle's decline in influence for a similar period). Mitterrand was elected to represent Nièvre in the Senate in 1959, where he was part of the Group of the Democratic Left. He re-conquered his seat of deputy in 1962.
Also in that same year, on the Avenue de l'Observatoire in Paris, Mitterrand claimed to have escaped an assassin's bullet by diving behind a hedge. The incident brought him a great deal of publicity, boosting his political ambitions. Some of his critics claim that he had staged the incident himself. He said he was victim of a plot and accused Prime Minister Michel Debré to be its instigator. Prosecution was initiated against Mitterrand but was later dropped.
In 1964, he became President (chairman) of the General Council of Nièvre. While the opposition to De Gaulle organized in clubs, he founded his own group, the Convention of the Republican Institutions (Convention des institutions républicaines or CIR). He reinforced his position as a left-wing opponent to Charles de Gaulle in publishing Le Coup d'Etat permanent (The permanent coup).
Fifth Republic and opposition to de Gaulle
In 1965, he was the first left-wing politician who saw the presidential election by universal suffrage as a way to defeat the opposition leadership. Not a member of any specific political party, his candidacy for presidency was accepted by all left-wing parties (SFIO, PCF, PR, PSU). De Gaulle was expected to win in the first round, but Mitterand got 31.72% of the vote, denying De Gaulle a first round victory. Mitterand was supported by the left and other anti-Gaullists: centrist Jean Monnet, moderate conservative Paul Reynaud and Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, an extreme right-winger, who defended Raoul Salan, one of the four Generals who had organized the 1961 Algiers putsch during the Algerian War.
Mitterrand gained 44.8% of votes in the second round and De Gaulle was thus elected for another term, but this defeat was regarded as honourable, for no one was expected to beat De Gaulle. He took the lead of a center-left alliance: the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste or FGDS).
In the legislative election of March 1967, the system where all candidates who failed to pass a 10% threshold in the first round were eliminated from the second round favored the pro-Gaullist majority, which faced a split opposition (PC, PS and centrists of Jacques Duhamel). Nevertheless, the parties of the left managed to gain 63 seats more than before for a total of 194. The Communists remained the largest left-wing group with 22.5% of votes. The governing coalition won with its majority reduced by only one seat (247 seats out of 487).
In Paris, the Left (FGDS, PSU, PC) managed to win more votes in the first round than the two governing parties (46% against 42.6%) while the Democratic Center of Duhamel got 7% of votes. But with 38% of votes, DeGaulle's Union for the Fifth Republic remained the leading French party (René Rémond, Notre siècle, 1988, Fayard, p.664 ff.).
During the May 1968 crisis, Mitterand held a press conference to announce his candidacy if a new presidential election was held. But de Gaulle called for a legislative election instead. As a result of this election, the Right won the biggest majority since Bloc National in 1919.
Mitterrand was accused of being responsible for this defeat and the FGDS split. In 1969, he could not run for the presidency: Guy Mollet refused to give him the support of the SFIO. The Left was eliminated in the first round, and Georges Pompidou faced centrist Alain Poher in the second round.
1965 presidential election and aftermath
After the FGDS implosion, he turned to the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS). Indeed, in June 1971, at the time of the Epinay Congress, CIR joined the PS (as SFIO was called beginning with 1969). The executive of the PS was always dominated by Guy Mollet's friends. They proposed an "ideological dialogue" with the Communists. For Mitterrand, an electoral alliance was necessary to rise to power. With this project, he was elected first secretary of the PS.
In June 1972 he signed the Common Programme of Government with the Communist Georges Marchais and the Left Radical Robert Fabre.
Mitterrand obtained 43.20% of the vote on May 19, 1974 as common candidate of the Left. He then faced Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the second round of presidential election. During the TV debate, Giscard d'Estaing criticized him as being "a man of the past", due to his long political career. Mitterrand was defeated in a near tie by Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterrand scoring (49.19%) and Giscard (50.81%).
Interestingly, the Soviet ambassador to Paris and the director of L'Humanité did not hide their satisfaction with the defeat. According to Jean Lacouture, Raymond Aron and Mitterrand himself, the Soviet government and the French communist leaders had done everything to prevent Mitterrand from being elected: they regarded him as too anti-communist and too skillful in his strategy of rebalancing the Left at Communists' expense.
In 1977, the Communist and Socialist parties failed to update the Common Programme, then lost the 1978 legislative election. If the Socialists took the leading role in the left, in obtaining more votes than the Communists for the first time since 1936, the leadership of Mitterrand was challenged by an internal opposition led by Michel Rocard who criticized the programme of PS for being "archaic" and "unrealistic". The polls indicated Rocard was more popular than Mitterrand. Nevertheless, Mitterrand won the Metz Congress (1979) and Rocard renounced his candidacy for the 1981 presidential election.
For his third candidacy for presidency, Mitterrand proposed a reassuring image with the slogan "the quiet force". He campaigned for "another policy" and denounced the results of the incumbent president. Furthemore, he benefited from the conflict in the right-wing majority. He obtained 25,85% of votes in the first round then defeated President Giscard d'Estaing in the second round, with 51,76%. He is the first left-wing politician elected President of France by the universal suffrage.
Socialist Party leader
Home policy
In the French Presidential Election of 1981 he became the first socialist President of the Fifth Republic, and his government the first left-wing government in 23 years. He named Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister and organized a new legislative election. The Socialists obtained an absolute parliamentary majority. Four Communists joined the cabinet.
The beginning of his first term was marked by left-wing economic policy, prepared by the 110 Propositions for France and the 1972 Common Program between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Left Radical Party. This included several nationalizations, a 10% increase of the minimum wages (SMIC), a 39 hours workweek, a 56 day week on holiday, the creation of the solidarity tax on wealth, an increase of social benefits, the reform of the social dialogue (Auroux Act). The objective was to boost economic demand and thus economic activity (Keynesianism). But unemployment continued to grow and three devaluations of the Franc were decided upon. This policy more or less came to an end with the March 1983 liberal turn. Priority was given to the struggle against inflation in order to remain competitive in the European Monetary System.
With respect to social and cultural policies, he abrogated the death penalty as soon as he took office (Badinter Act), as well as the "anti-casseurs Act" which instituted collective responsibility for acts of violence during demonstrations. He also dissolved the Cour de sûreté, a special high court and enacted a massive regularization of illegal aliens. He passed the first decentralizations laws (Defferre Act) and liberalized the media, created the CSA media organism, and authorized pirate radios and the first private TV (Canal+), giving rise to the private radios sector.
The Left lost the 1983 municipal elections and the 1984 European Parliament election. In the same time, the Savary Bill to limit the financing of private schools by local communities, caused a political crisis. It was abandoned and Mauroy resigned in July 1984. Laurent Fabius succeeded him. The Communists left the cabinet.
In Summer 1985, Defense Minister Charles Hernu was forced to resign after the discovery of the French implication in the attack against the Rainbow Warrior, a boat of Greenpeace association.
Before the 1986 legislative campaign, proportional representation was instituted in accordance with the 110 Propositions. It did not prevent, however, the victory of the RPR/UDF coalition. Mitterrand thus named the RPR leader Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister. This period of government, with a President and a Prime Minister who came from two opposite coalitions, was the first time that such a combination had occurred under the Fifth Republic, and came to be known as "Cohabitation".
Chirac handled mostly internal politics while Mitterrand concentrated on his "reserved domain": foreign affairs and defense. However, several conflicts opposed the two heads of the executive power. In this, Mitterrand refused to sign decrees of liberalization, obligating Chirac to pass by the parliamentary way. He supported covertly the social movements, notably the student revolt against the university reform (Devaquet Bill) . Benefiting from the difficulties of Chirac's cabinet, his popularity increased.
The polls being positive for him, he announced his candidacy in the 1988 presidential election. He proposed a moderate program (neither nationalizations nor liberalization) and advocated the "united France". He obtained 34% of votes in the first round, then was opposed to Chirac in the second, and was re-elected with 54% of votes. Mitterrand was the first President two times elected by the universal suffrage.
First term
After his re-election, he named Michel Rocard as Prime Minister, in despite of their poor relations. Rocard led the moderate wing of the PS and he was the most popular of the Socialist politicians. Mitterrand decided to organize a new legislative election. The PS obtained a relative parliamentary majority. Four center-right politicians joined the cabinet.
The second term was marked by the Matignon accords concerning New Caledonia, the creation of the Insertion Minimum Revenue (RMI), which insures a minimum level of income to those deprived of any other form of income, the restoring of the solidarity tax on wealth, which had been abolished by Chirac's cabinet, the instauration of the Generalized social tax, the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, the 1990 Gayssot Act on negationism, the Arpaillange Act on the financing of political parties, the reform of the penal code, the Evin Act on cigarette in public places. Besides, several large architectural works were engaged with the building of the Louvre Pyramid, the Channel Tunnel, the Grande Arche of the Defense, the Bastille Opera, the Finance Ministry in Bercy, the National Library of France.
But the second term was also marked by the rivalries in the PS and the split of the Mitterrandist group (Rennes Congress), the scandals about financing of the party, the contaminated blood scandal which implicated Laurent Fabius and former ministers Georgina Dufoix and Emond Hervé, the Elysée wiretaps affairs.
Disappointed with Rocard's failure to enact the socialist's program , Mitterand dismissed Rocard in 1991 and appointed Edith Cresson to replace him. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister in France, but was forced to resign after the disaster of the 1992 regional elections. Her successor, Pierre Bérégovoy promised to fight unemployment and corruption but he could not prevent the catastrophic defeat of the left in the 1993 legislative election. He committed suicide on May 1, 1993.
On 16 February 1993, president Mitterrand inaugurated in Fréjus a Memorial of Wars in Indochina.
Mitterrand named the former RPR Finance Minister Edouard Balladur as Prime Minister. The second "Cohabitation" was less conflicting than the first, because the two men knew they were not rivals for the next presidential election. Mitterrand was weakened by his cancer, the scandal about his past in Vichy, and the suicide of his friend François de Grossouvre. His second and last term ended in French presidential election, 1995 In May 1995 with the election of Jacques Chirac. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 79.
Second term
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Saturday, 4 February 2012
Gulls Galore
Spent the morning looking at Gulls around the Rhyl area - mindboggling! Looking forward to seeing a picture of a bird taken by one of Alan's clients which was a 'yellow legged gull' type. Unfortunately I missed it by a minute but the pics on the back of the camera look interesting (it was at Horton's Nose where 10 Snow Bunts were showing).
No real gulls of note, however lots to look at with some potential 1st year 'argentatus' Herrings amongst the local birds, while some big dark mantled adult birds were in with the big gull roost at Colwyn Bay sea development site this evening. A few Lesser black backed Gulls arriving too. Good views of birds are to be had at Rhyl Brickwork pools with several Common Gulls, BHGs and Herring Gulls, including the striking white headed bird above.
With several Iceland Gulls in the North West, I was hoping for a white winger but had no luck -I'm sure well have more before the winter's out. Looking forward to see Rob and Pete's picture of their 2nd winter Iceland Gull on here soon. They found a very smart bird in fields at PenyGroes, Gwynedd this morning.
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I'm a big fan of loyalty cards as regular readers will know, My purse houses a fine collection, all of which are put to good use. But as with everything in life, there is always room for improvement as I have discovered.
Recently, I've started buying the larger part of my food shopping in Sainsburys, following the discovery of several products and prices that I prefer to those at Tesco – my previous store of choice. When my Nectar card is swiped, I'm invariably presented with a selection of vouchers printed at the till point, my favourite being those giving me extra points on or money off my entire shop. However, there is a drawback with these, and that is the expiry date.
Suppose I shop on a Wednesday one week, the vouchers issued (with the exception of those for specific products) expire the following Wednesday. Now that's fine if I want to shop the same day the following week, or even a day of two before, but not if that week I would like to do my shopping on, say, Thursday.
Surely the point of a loyalty card or vouchers is that they are to thank you for your loyal custom. Therefore, if I'm buying a trolley full of shopping each week in Sainsburys, I should be rewarded whatever day of the week I shop. The answer would be to ensure that the vouchers in question are issued with the end date of the following week, meaning they are valid for your shopping on any day in that week.
I'm not of my mother's generation where I have set days for things. I like to vary my shopping day in line with whatever else I may need to do, but don't expect to lose out on an offer just because one week I shop on a Tuesday and the next a Wednesday. So come on Sainsburys, review this dating policy!
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by Sergio Rodrigues, 1962
Limited Edition of 40
• Base structure made of freijó natural or stained freijó wood
• Upholstery offered in a variety of leather
• Made to order
In 2008, Sergio Rodrigues had the idea of re•editing it once called to restore the 1962 chair. Its limited, numbered series was then relaunched in 2009 at Espasso, where the late Sergio Rodrigues had a solo exhibition.
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From what I've seen over my years as a mom, there are two things most teachers love - coffee and gift cards! The Happy Handle Coffee Cozy combines those two, with a special handmade touch to show your gratitude for all their hard work.
Of course, it isn't just teachers who like coffee - this cozy is great to gift to anyone who loves a beverage to go… including yourself! It's quick to whip up and fun to use and give. The handle is just the right size for slipping in a gift card to their favorite coffee shop - and for holding onto your favorite cuppa morning (or afternoon) goodness!
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The Bag Lady @ The Cart Sale
On one side of the cart, you will find a selection of handbags, perfect accessories for your favorite casual outfits and one for all your beach combing needs.
And on the other side of her cart, you'll find a selection of animated sets. I was thinking while I was gardening that these jeans would be hard to get clean but oh how therapeutic the gardening can be!
After working out in the garden, it's time to sit at the desk and pay... gulp... bills. Or... daydream. Bills can wait...
In late summer and early fall, it's so difficult to stay indoors, isn't it? This patio set comes with several options for arrangement. I found myself outside, and still daydreaming!
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Todays' little excursion is
short but jam packed with just about something for everyone! Yes it's true
we have it all. Starting at a reasonable time, some very interesting and
clubbie friendly roads, a visit to the Vintage Motor Garage with Jon
Houston, a choice of two lunch spots, four ways to choose to come home and
there are even arts and crafts up here!
Jon and his team have an
international reputation for restoration of motor vehicles both new and old.
Please take the time to visit VMG website and to watch some of the u tube
clips they have posted.
http://vintagemotorgarage.com/ This run is a must do if you're into
Todays' run will be at about
the speed limit…these roads are policed on weekends!!
After our visit to
VMG there will be a choice of either the following: head home
head to Peats Ridge for lunch at the old Oak milk bar or head up to
Kulnura which is just 8ks up the road and the sweepers are fun in a
clubbie. We can lunch at Jerrys.
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It is Sunday again and that means it's time for another Cover Characteristic meme post. This meme was created by Sugar and Snark. Every week a characteristic is chosen and we post 5 book covers with that weeks characteristic on it.
5. How it feels to fly by Kathryn Holmes
4. Breaking Lauren by Jordan Deen
3. I'll have who she's having byLiz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
2. Disneylanders by Kate Abbott
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The Wrong Girl by Zoë Foster
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First of all, sadly, the Blog Obituaries;
Farewell Captain Ranty**. Farewell for now. You'll be missed and you'll be back.
Farewell to The Talking Clock. Farewell for now. You'll be missed and you'll be back.
** Please go back to the good Captains site, read the guest post and sign the proffered petition.
Right, back to the usual rubbish here.
Whilst meandering round the shelves of one of they cheap supermarkets I spotted, very colourfully boxed, a pair of pocket binoculars, X12, for a very slack two handfuls of Pounds. Instant reaction? Man, that's a giveaway! Couple of minutes of reasoned thought reaction? Man, they're going to be rubbish!
Not to be outsmarted or thwarted by reasoned thought, I bought a pair. Perfect to throw in the glove box of the car for those times you need to see far away. At traffic junctions, motorway direction signs, roundabouts an' such.
Once home I excitedly un-packaged the binoculars from the colourful box, the value of which was probably marginally more than the contents, and skipped into the garden to give 'em a go.
As earlier reasoned thought suggested, they're total rubbish. They really are rubbish, I mean stuff looks far, far closer without them! How can that be? Oh, wait a minute, before I bin 'em, let's try looking down the other end. Hay that's, like, soooo much better and, for pennies, for occasional use, they aint too bad after all, although I still feel the colourful box is of greater value.
Quote; Roger Tory Peterson.
"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."


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Asking what women want when it comes to sex and sexuality is a loaded question, really. What do women want from sex? Is it all about intimacy? Do some women just want the physical pleasure of it, without the relationship? Or do we want it all – a sexually satisfying relationship that includes an emotional connection?
There is no clear answer. Based on our readership opinions and desires, most women do want more than just their physical needs met. Another good thing about women nowadays is that they are out and loud about their need for physical satisfaction, rather than playing the passive woman who has sex out of duty, rather than desire. This has led to some really interesting "modern" women portrayals in the media.
We see the women of Sex and the City living luxury lives (with little work involved, aside from Miranda's character) filled with sex. Good sex (Samantha), infertile sex (Charlotte), over-analyzed sex (Carrie) and what sex? (Miranda) These women were open, honest and sometimes brutal about sex and love. And they weren't always successful in their sexual pursuits.
The women of Big Love share one man and the L Word followed the lives of a group of gay women living in America's new millennium. And let's not forget all the sitcom women, the hot, smart wives with overweight, slightly dumb husbands. Lastly, we have the usually orange-colored Real Housewives, living glamorous sexy lives that we envy, along with successful and suave husbands - until we later find out that divorces are pending and they're all broke and if we're honest, we know we're all thrilled to see the mighty fall.
But what do real women want? You know, Mary in the cubicle down the hall, Rhona down the street and Anna who checks out our groceries? According to EmpowHER's members, they want sex. Good sex. They want loyalty and friendship and orgasms. They want to please their man but they want to be pleased too. They are not afraid to please themselves - with sex toy parties, a bedside table filled with goodies and finally – some open talk amongst themselves that shows it's not all perfect in the bedroom but feeling relief that it's okay to say it.
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Day 6 of Thanksgiving is on TOOLS:
~On day 6 I am thankful for tools. The tools I speak of are not the ones we use daily to build things or fix things; but to either provide for us or to ease the pain during the trials we go through. Currently I asked for prayers for my back. I was overwhelmed with the response and love all of you for taking the time to lift me up in your prayers. God revealed to me that he is the ultimate physician, however, as I wait for his timing He will provide tools for me to ease the pain. A few things I am trying and all of these things I am using collectively is making a difference and allowing me to have some comfort.
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~God also gives us tools to help us battle these trials that we go through.. I found a great website that says it best.. (BELOW)
2 Thessalonians 1:2-12 MSG
"2 Our God gives you everything you need, makes you everything you're to be.
3 You need to know, friends, that thanking God over and over for you is not only a pleasure; it's a must. We have to do it. Your faith is growing phenomenally; your love for each other is developing wonderfully. Why, it's only right that we give thanks.
4 We're so proud of you; you're so steady and determined in your faith despite all the hard times that have come down on you. We tell everyone we meet in the churches all about you.
5 All this trouble is a clear sign that God has decided to make you fit for the kingdom. You're suffering now,
6 but justice is on the way. When the Master Jesus appears out of heaven in a blaze of fire with his strong angels, he'll even up the score by settling accounts with those who gave you such a bad time.
7 His coming will be the break we've been waiting for.
8 Those who refuse to know God and refuse to obey the Message will pay for what they've done.
9 Eternal exile from the presence of the Master and his splendid power is their sentence.
10But on that very same day when he comes, he will be exalted by his followers and celebrated by all who believe - and all because you believed what we told you.
11 Because we know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we pray for you all the time - pray that our God will make you fit for what he's called you to be, pray that he'll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something.
12 If your life honors the name of Jesus, he will honor you. Grace is behind and through all of this, our God giving himself freely, the Master, Jesus Christ, giving himself freely."
"There are five basic tools that God has given us to cope with difficulty situations: prayer, Bible study, fasting, meditation and fellowship. All these tools can be used in a constructive manner toward success. The following are just some of the ways that these tools can be applied in your life"
Tool #1: prayer
God sees all and knows what's going on in our life. We don't pray to Him to let Him know what's going on in our lives, but to build a relationship with Him. It's also important to remember that God wants us to ask Him for the things we need in life. In Matthew 7:7-8 Jesus encourages, "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened."
Tool #2: Bible study
Perhaps the reason we're going through a certain trial is because there's something God wants us to learn or something we need to change in our lives.
Tool #3: fasting
Some trials can't be solved by prayer alone, but require a greater sacrifice on our part. The attitude necessary for effective fasting is explained by God in Isaiah 58:3-12. If our focus is on others instead of ourselves, "then you shall call, and the LORD will answer" (verse 9).
Tool #4: meditation
Often during a trial we become so stressed and worried about the situation that we forget to just stop, take a deep breath and a good look at the situation. When we meditate on God's Word and apply it to our situation, many times we can find the answer is right in front of our nose.
Tool #5: fellowship
Iron sharpens iron, so why not talk with your close fellow brethren about an issue they may have insight on? Hebrews 10:24-25 emphasizes the necessity of spending time with the rest of God's people. Perhaps they have advice for you; or perhaps they can pray, maybe even fast, for you. Simply being around other members can take a load off your shoulders.
So you see, trials are beneficial, whether we feel it when going through one or not. Trials will help us grow in godly character if we learn to use the tools our Father has provided us to have successful lives. We go through trials because God loves us. He wants us to come to Him and put our trust and problems in His hands.
Day 7 of Thanksgiving is P.O.P........................
~I am Thankful for the Power of Prayer. It has gotten me through such tough times. It has helped me when I have been on "mountain tops". It has helped me when I have been "in the valley". It has shown me how to shut up and not speak in certain situations. It has fight battles for me that I couldn't have imagined fighting on my own. It has reconciled our marriage. It has helped transformed my mind. It is powerful & effective......
"The Word of God is full of accounts describing the power of prayer in various situations. The power of prayer has overcome enemies (Psalm 6:9-10), conquered death (2 Kings 4:3-36), brought healing (James 5:14-15), and defeated demons (Mark 9:29). God, through prayer, opens eyes, changes hearts, heals wounds, and grants wisdom (James 1:5). The power of prayer should never be underestimated because it draws on the glory and might of the infinitely powerful God of the universe! Daniel 4:35 proclaims, "All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: 'What have you done?'"


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Milk Goes Outdoor.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Got Milk?
No, this isn't the got milk campaign. As you can see, this is done by Daisy, a brand of milk in Singapore. I think the idea to use that portion of the escalator is really good, I'm just not sure whether the idea itself is good enough.
Ribena advertised in the same area once. I THINK it won some kind of a advertising/marketing award for that campaign. They made use of the gradient and the shape of
Oh, this escalator is the one at bugis.
Please excuse the poor quality of the photos. I was taking it with my trusty K750i. =)


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Best-Ever IGCSE Results: Congratulations to the GOS Graduates of 2017
It is with great pleasure and pride that we are able to announce another record breaking year at Green Oasis School at IGCSE level. 90.9% of the students have left GOS with 5A*-C grades which is the gold standard schools are marked against across the world. This is 6.5% higher than last year's record. It is testament to the dedication and hard work of our exceptional students, and also the energy of the teaching staff at Green Oasis who continually strive to raise standards year upon year.
60.2% of exams taken were graded in the A*-A grade bracket.
Congratulations to our Year 10 students who achieved outstanding results in IGCSE Mathematics.
Congratulations also to our Class of 2017 who have achieved something special this year, with outstanding achievements from the following:
|Peter Li: 8A* grades
|Candy Deng: 7A* grades
|Kenny Li: 5A* grades
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Somerset School Board held a special meeting Thursday to vote on Act 72 legislation.
This was the first every split decision with this board, according to board president John Coleman, which yielded a 5 to 4 vote to opt in.
As with all school districts across Pennsylvania the clock is ticking and the pressure in on to make a decision.
According to the Pennsylvania School Board Association, 85 school districts have opted in and 269 school districts opted out as of 4 p.m. today.
"I know changes are hard to accept but I support Act 72. I don't know if we are going to get the gambling, but the idea of being able to do more for education and building, I vote to opt in," said Ruby Miller, board member.


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Since releasing their first record back in 2012, Lillie Lemon and Erica Wobbles have always believed in fantasy and fun. Determined to be true to themselves and to ensure that the music world they've always loved remains vibrant and energetic, they inject some child-like wonder into everything they create and, as a result, produce tracks that stand out for all the right reasons.
As they continue to impress fans and critics alike and with their career showing no sign of slowing down any-time soon, as they continue touring and promoting their latest track "Burning Bridges", Lemon and Wobbles took time out of their busy schedules and kindly agreed to this interview with our staff writer Rebecca.
PW: Please sum yourself up in five words.
Lillie Lemon: Synthpop with a sour twist.
PW: When did you first realise that you wanted to be a part of the music industry?
LL: Music didn't start to percolate as a career option for me until I started working with Erica Wobbles. I was an operations coordinator for the NSA at the time, and had just been promoted from a position with DHS. But I was never suited for it - I needed a creative outlet more and more as our project began to take hold, and eventually I realized I needed to take things to the next level.
Erica Wobbles: There was a point I hit in my teenage years when I realised that I would be playing music for the rest of my life. It was the one thing I was best at. It took me several years to figure out where I fit into the business, and I feel like even that is something that is constantly changing. I held down several church, wedding, and weekly nightclub gigs in my home-town before going on the road with Lillie in September. There was a point where I had a different gig every night, and even four in one day. Very much a working musician. Now we spend most of our time traveling to shows.
PW: Was there any one band/artist or song you heard growing up that made you go 'Yeah, I want to do that?'
EW: I remember one of my turning points: a college musician friend of mine introduced me to some electronic bands and DJ duos, and I realised I wanted to be able to do that. I was intrigued by any sort of electronic music with live musicianship. It seemed like an undeveloped field where you can make your own rules.
PW: Which bands and artists would you say you're most influenced by and sound similar to?
LL: I find myself influenced by the Mountain Goats when it comes to song-writing, though we definitely have that Passion Pit / CHVRCHES feel to our music.
PW: Can you remember the first concert you attended and record you bought? What impact did they have on you musically, artistically and personally?
LL: The first record I bought was Third Eye Blind's self-titled album. I listened to it constantly. I was raised in a community that listened to a lot of country music and Christian rock - but when I first heard the funky pop rock 90s sound of Third Eye Blind, I realized it was the first band whose music had ever made me 'feel' anything at all. It made me branch away from what everyone else was listening to and lead me through a whole smorgasbord of music with genres I didn't even know existed. I think in the end, it's the band that brought me to alternative music.
PW: Is there a story behind your latest track "Burning Bridges"?
LL: This track was inspired by the East Tennessee bridge burnings of the Civil War. It's a tragic story about the futility of the burnings themselves, and how so many families metaphorically burned bridges between one another during that time in our history.
PW: Which of your songs would you say you're most proud of and why?
LL: I'm really proud of the way "Sinking" came together on the EP. I feel like the track really stuck well to the original intentions of the song and it conveys a feeling that most people who hear it can appreciate.
EW: I remember for the third track on the EP, "Can't Get Home", Lillie wanted to add a jam section to the arrangement. We'd already been doing the song a certain way live, but I immediately knew what to do and we fleshed out a really cool wandering jam section. It's definitely an understated track, and I doubt it'll ever become a single, but it's still a favorite.
PW: Where do you find inspiration for your songs?
LL: I don't actively search for inspiration - most of my songs occur to me as a matter of grace. Usually, I'll be plunking around on a guitar and a piano and some kind of vocal line will apparate, and I'll build a song around it, but it's rarely forced and I don't find myself editing lyrics often, if at all.
EW: I'm still figuring that one out. We seem to write in spurts. Often I'll search for a new chord progression or a new piece of gear to inspire me. I'll usually create some sort of jam, and we might write something to that. Or sometimes we work the other way - usually just piano and vocals, and then arranging something more electronic out of it.
PW: Is there any one song you wish you'd written? If so, which is it and why?
LL: Lyrically, I would have to go with "Autoclave" by the Mountain Goats. It's got one of the best, self-deprecating choruses I've ever heard: "I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam/And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home/My heart's an autoclave."
PW: What to you, makes a perfect song?
LL: It's a combination of lyrical content and clever composition to compliment the lyrics. It's hard to come up with examples of this - but the one that comes to mind right away is Sufjan Stevens, Casimir Pulaski Day. It has a bit of everything - a slow build throughout the song, brilliant instrumentation to compliment powerful lyrics.
PW: I'd like you to put together your dream show line up - yourself and three others bands or artists who can be living or dead. Who would you choose and why?
LL: The pressure is to pick someone dead so we can give the world the gift of one more live show with them, but I find that kind of thing to be sort of selfish - if I were dead, and had one more day on earth, I definitely wouldn't want to spend it playing with some low-level act and not spending time with my loved ones, so I'm going to have to turn down the option of picking a dead artist, for their sake.
Instead, I'm going to pick my current heroes - the Mountain Goats because I completely adore John Darnielle's songwriting; CHVRCHES because we'd be an awesome match-up, and Prince because - well, he's Prince for crying out loud!
PW: How important are reviews and such like to you? Do you care what the press think?
EW: I think reviews are important inasmuch as they make people aware that our music exists, meaning that they're important when they draw any sort of attention to us at this level.
PW: How has social media helped you in terms of getting your name and music out to an audience?
LL: If it weren't for social media, I feel like a lot of our shows would go unattended. It's expensive to keep up with printing hundreds of fliers, tough to paint a town with ads when you've never been there yourself. It gives us the opportunity to build our brand from behind our computers, and share our music with the world with immediacy. It's also frustrating, however, because we have to compete with so many artists that have the same tools that we do.
Would you agree that bands and artists need to be socially interactive in order to get ahead?
LL: Absolutely. I find it naive to think that social media doesn't matter in getting your music out there. Some of the biggest current stars made their start on YouTube - Justin Bieber is only one example of this - and interacting with your audience is a great way to get feedback and increase turnout to shows.
The social dynamic between fans and artists is paramount now; you can't really get away with being a self-absorbed rock-star anymore. Fans crave these connections, and I think it's healthy for the artists as well, because touring can easily lead to having a secluded life. I think if your newest songs have all turned into songs about touring and life on the road, it means that you're losing the ability to communicate on the same level as your audience.
PW: Could you choose the best show you've played in your career so far?
LL: Our first album launch was probably the most memorable for both of us. The entire Monterey CA community came out in support of the event, including local papers and radio. We felt truly loved by our community that night.
What are your future tour plans? Would you like to get overseas in the near future?
LL: We're currently on tour until December, and our next one is starting up again around April 2016. We would love to go overseas, and we're most interested in European countries at the moment - especially Germany, as we both have a lot of friends there now through Couchsurfing.
You get to play in one venue for the rest of your career, anywhere in the world. Which do you choose and why?
LL: For me, it's definitely Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Some of my favorite acts have performed there and the location is stunning.
PW: Finally then, Where would you like to see yourself five years from now? What's your ultimate ambition?
LL: In five years, I'd like to see us touring internationally with the help of a label. Ultimately, a consistent, long-term performance and recording cycle would be ideal.
The goal for me has always been to be able to live comfortably playing the music I want to play. I think any big-time goals beyond that should come from a natural place of loving what you do, and of other people loving your art enough to support you on whatever level you may be at.
To keep up to date with Lillie Lemon, check out their website, Facebook and Twitter. Their music is available on itunes.


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A couple weeks back I had lunch with P. She is currently working, but is also devising an exit strategy for leaving corporate life behind and finding work that is more in tune with her environmental values.
Among other things, we discussed possible points of conflict between idealism and reality. Two potential areas that I see are personal finance/income (unsurprisingly) and internal politics/bureaucracy within a non-profit.
We also talked about a couple of annual events that might educate us further about the non-profit sector: CompassPoint Nonprofit Day on July 12 in San Francisco, and the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp on August 18 in Berkeley.
We also threw around the idea of making a field trip to the Ecology Center in Berkeley.
P. has already done some research into the non-profit sector as well as some informational interviews. I'd like to pick her brain in the future about what she learned and what kind of questions she asked.
One big benefit of broadcasting my plans to everyone I know is that I find other birds-of-a-feather who have similar plans, like P. Often, these people might be at a slightly different stage of the journey, and it's fun and informative to compare notes and give and receive advice about the lessons learned on the way. It's also reassuring to know that I'm not the only one travelling this road. It would be neat to start a Silicon Valley Escapees Directory for networking with people who have made or want to make the transition from corporate high-tech into whatever life/career path they find more meaningful and balanced. But I guess I'll put that project somewhere on my list of 10,000 Projects That Would Be Neat To Do :)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Comparing notes with others on The Great Escape
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Rare Dropping Hints of Upcoming Sequels?
If you've been playing through Rare's new Banjo Kazooie game for the Xbox 360, you might have found yourself in front of this screen, watching this game of Pong, reading this easter egg:
ZEGADS! New Battletoads, new Jet Force Gemini, and new Killer Instinct games in the works? Definitely a trifecta of games any gamer would love to play. Oh yeah, and even Ghouls 2!
I'm especially stoked for another Killer Instict. C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!


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NOTE: The macro was created by Jared Schwede (student working for SML Acquisitions) in 2004 and rev. and re-named by Eric Friede in 2006 to account for changes in Voyager 5.0.
BACKGROUND. When cataloging copy is not available at the time of receipt, SML Acquisitions staff route items without copy to the Frontlog, a caged area in the SML basement containing some 100,000+ items. For status tracking purposes, the physical item is associated on Orbis with an item record, and the item record is associated with a 14 digit barcode number, e.g. 39002059419508.The barcode itself is affixed to the book (or other physical item equivalent) and charged to a dummy Orbis patron, e.g. frontlg245.
Although there is a maximum number of potential charges to a frontlog patron, that number is large enough to warrant further subarrangement to facilitate retrieval due to patron requests. The subarrangement is based on an additional 6 digit barcode number printed on a slip kept with the book. The "Frontlog number" always begins with UNCAT followed by 6 digits, e.g. UNCAT225565. This number is used to shelve the book in the FRONTLOG area in the SML basement. In order for Circulation staff to find the book for a patron request, the number is entered in the Orbis MFHD record field 852 $h. This requires SML Acquisitions staff to change the MFHD 852 $h from this:
‡b sml ‡h In Process
to this:
‡b sml ‡h UNCAT225565
OPERATION (General). The user sets up by opening the Cataloging and Circulation modules. From the Circulation module, the user opens the Charge window and enters the dummy patron name. If any windows are open in the Cataloging module, the macro is started from Cataloging to ensure that all Cataloging module windows are closed. (??)The user then turns on the macro, usually mapped to CTRL+f.
- The macro first prompts the user for the barcode number with a dialog box.
- When the barcode number is entered, the macro charges the item to the Frontlog status (the macro will override any intervening Circulation windows to do this).
- The macro then switches Orbis from the Circulation module to the Cataloging module,
- retrieves the item record via the item barcode number,
- opens the associated MFHD record,
- selects the In Process text in 852 $h, and
- opens a dialog box prompting the user for the frontlog barcode number.
- When the user wands the barcode number from the slip, the selected In Process text is replaced by the barcode number.
- The macro then switches Orbis from the Cataloging Module back to the Circulation and
- opens the dialog box prompting the user for the next item barcode number.
1. Macro Playback speed: Normal. Because this is a complicated macro, the Macro Playback speed is included to allow the option of a slower playback if the macro needs to be tweaked.
To set Playback Speed:
- Select Timing from the Commands window,
- Double-click on Macro Speed to open the Speed dialog box,
- Click on the Macro Speed button,
- Enter Playback Factor 1 for normal playback speed.
- The macro script line should read: Macro Playback Speed: Normal Speed
2. If condition. The macro is intended to work with no record windows open in the Cataloging module, so this series of commands is intended to ensure that all record windows in the Cataloging module are closed. This is especially important since the macro needs to open some Cataloging windows later in the sequence, and these windows need to be closed before the macro can repeat. (??) If no Cataloging module windows are open, the macro will ignore this sequence (2.) and go on to 3 (but you don't need to specify this in the macro script).
- Select Logic from the Commands window,
- Double-click on the If Window option to open the If Window dialog box,
- From the Commands list in the If Window dialog box, click on the radio button If Window on Top
- In the same If Window dialog box, find below the Commands options list the Window Title: prompt slot, and enter the text: Voyager Cataloging - [
- Leave the Partial Match radio button selected
- Click OK button
- The macro script line should read: If Window Title "Voyager Cataloging - [" is on top
Comment: The window title Voyager Cataloging - [ ensures that the series of commands operates only if the Voyager Cataloging window is open. The Partial Match option means that the commands will work even if a specific record number and title are displaying after the initial Voyager Cataloging - [ on the title bar of the Cataloging Module window, e.g. Voyager Cataloging - [Bib 6018213 : Sobre o vale do mosteiro / Eugenio Mendes Pinto.]
- Select Text from the Commands window,
- Double-click on the Text Type option to open the Text Type window
- Below the blank Keystrokes space, several columns of function/command keys are listed. Select (single-click) Control in this list, which will cause the text <CONTROL> to appear In the Keystrokes space.
- Type the letter q after <CONTROL>; the keystroke sequence is now: <CONTROL>q
- Click the OK button
- The macro script line should read: Text type: <ctrl>q
Comment: In Voyager, the key sequence <ctrl>q saves the record. The following macro command sequence accounts for the dialog box that follows a save (<ctrl>q) command in Voyager, requiring the user to press ENTER to complete the save, followed immediately by the command sequence to close all open windows.
- Select Timing in the Commands window,
- Double-click on Wait Window Lose Focus to open the Timing Commands dialog box, where that option will have been selected,
- In the Window Title prompt slot, enter Voyager Cataloging - [ (or use the browser [ellipses] button to find & select the title),
- Click on the Wait a Maximum of: radio button (the current macro uses 10 minutes), and,
- Click OK
- The macro script line should read: Wait Window Lose Focus: "Voyager Cataloging - ["
- Select Text from the Commands window,
- Double-click on Text Type option to open the Text Type window
- From the command keys list under the blank Keystrokes space, click on Enter to select the <ENTER> key, then click on Alt to select the <ALT> key, then
- Type fo; the line should now read: <ENTER><ALT>fo
- Click OK
- The macro script line should read: Text Type: <ENTER><ALT>fo
Comment: <ALT>f opens the Voyager File menu; o selects the Close All command from the menu. The "if" situation where all Cataloging module windows need to be closed is now completed. However, Macro Express requires you to indicate that the "if" sequence is over, so:
- Select Logic from the Commands window,
- Double-click on the End If option (End If will appear as the last line of the macro script If sequence)
3. Now that all the windows in the Cataloging module are closed, the macro needs to activate the Circulation module window. Before this is done, the Circulation window is maximized.
- Select Windows/Programs from the Commands window.
- Double-click on Windows Maximize to open the Windows Commands dialog box; the Maximize Windows radio button should be pre-selected under the Commands options.
- Under the Window options, click on the Specific Window radio button to select that option and typeVoyager Circulation in the option slot
- The macro script line should read: Window Maximize: "Voyager Circulation"
Comment: Maximizing the Circulation window may no longer be necessary. The original version of this macro depended on mouse positioning, which worked more effectively with the Circulation module window maximized. Macros based on mouse positions are high-maintenance, since the positions need to be recalculated for different workstations or after software upgrades. The current version is based on key sequences (keyboard shortcuts). Key sequences don't change from workstation to workstation, and usually the only problem is if a key sequence or the screen layout changes after a software upgrade (as has been the case at times with Voyager 5.0).
4. Now the Circulation window must be activated, since you want to perform a function (charging the item barcode) in the Circulation module:
- Select Windows/Programs from the Commands window.
- Double-click on Window Activate to open an abbreviated version of the Activate/Launch Programdialog box. The Activate Window radio button should be pre-selected under the Activate/Launch Program Commands.
- In the Activate Window option slot, type Voyager Circulation, then click OK.
- The macro script should read: Activate Window: "Voyager Circulation"
5. At this point, we want the macro to open a dialog box to prompt the user to wand in the item barcode number. The prompt dialog box will look like this:
As an insurance measure, just to make sure that another variable has not been stored in the memory, a line of code is entered to clear variables before the prompt dialog box is evoked.
- Select Variables from the Commands window.
- Double-click on Clear Variables; the defaults should be Variable Type to Clear: Text Variables with radio button Clear All selected.
- Click OK; the macro script line should read Clear Text Variables: All
To create the prompt dialog box:
- Select Variables from the Commands window.
- Double-click on the Variable Set String option to open the Set Text String Variables dialog box.
- Under Commands in this dialog box, click on the radio button Prompt for Value.
- Variable Name T1 is the default, which is OK since this will be the first text variable in this macro.
- The Prompt Text field will open within the Set Text String dialog box. Type in: Please enter item barcode
- The center/center default positioning of the prompt box is OK to leave as is.
- Click OK; the macro script should read: Variable Set String %T1% from Prompt
6. The expected response to Please enter item barcode is for the user to wand the item barcode (i.e., the T1 variable text string). A delay of 100 milliseconds is added to the script to provide sufficient time for the macro to tell the computer to read and record in memory the wanded item barcode number and close the Please enter item barcode prompt window. With the Circulation module Charge Window now on top, the macro is then instructed to type the T1 variable (the item barcode number it has just read); the only space available for the number to be typed is the BARCODE slot.
7. With the item barcode number now typed into the BARCODE slot, the macro can now ENTER the number (text) string. A delay of 100 milliseconds is added to give Orbis time to bring up the Item Blocks and Information Window, an unfortunate extra step built into the Voyager technical services charging procedure whenever a new item barcode number is entered in a Tech. Services charge. The macro runs the key sequence <ALT>o to override the window. Depending on the workstation, another Item Blocks window may open, so another If condition sequence is added. The item is now charged to the Frontlog dummy patron.
8. The Circulation window is now minimized and the Cataloging module window is activated. In the Cataloging module, the Retrieve an Item Record (<ALT>rb) prompt window is opened. A delay of 100 milliseconds is entered to give the window time to open. The item barcode number (T1 variable) is typed in by the macro, with another 100 millisecond delay for the number to be read by Voyager. The Text Type <ENTER> (the equivalent of pressing the ENTER key) tells Voyager to retrieve the item record. Another delay is added to the script to give Orbis time to retrieve the item record. <maybe not necessary, since it's followed by the Wait for Window>
9. The Wait for Window Title accounts for different response times. A key sequence <ALT>rg is used to open the MFHD associated with the item record retrieved at 8. Another delay is written in (again the Wait for Window ought to take care of variations in response time). The clear variable command must be re-executed to clear out the T1 variable (the item barcode) so it can be replaced by the T2 variable, the frontlog barcode, or, alternatively, letters to initiate one of two If conditional sequences.
10. The prompt for the T2 variable is created. The T2 can be either the frontlog barcode number or a letter to initiate one of two sub-macros for lnb and art. If the location is sml, the frontlog barcode is wanded and the process continues.
11. If the letter "l" or "a" is entered, different sub-macros are run. This requires 2 If condition sequences to cover backlog locations lnb and art, initiated by a prompted letter "l" or letter "a" requested by the prompt. If a sub-macro is run, it loops back to the original prompt at which point the user is prompted to wand in the frontlog barcode only.
12. With the frontlog barcode=T2 based on 10. or 11., another sub-macro is inserted into the script, GOTO 852 in MFHD. The function of this macro is to align the cursor with the selection bar for the 852 field in the MFHD.
13. From the selection bar, a key sequence of TABS and <CTRLD><ARROW LEFT/RIGHTs> are used to select the In Process text in 852 $h, which is then copied to the clipboard and replaced with the T2 variable text, i.e. the frontlog barcode number. <BUT WHERE IS IT PASTED INTO THE MFHD???>
14. To account for situations where there is no In Process text or the macro did not successfully copy the text into the clipboard, an If conditional is added to halt the macro under any condition where the text is not In Process.
15. The macro is nested to allow indefinite repetition.


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December 11, 2008
Since TIH and Britney Have Made Me Feel So Guilty...
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Oh my yes!!! I love patent leather! Today I have on a pair of hot pink and black striped BCBG paten leather heels (they aren't as wild as they sound). I have have a pair of black peep toe ankle strap patent leather pumps by Nine West, a pair of steel gray platform peep toe pumps by BCBG, a pair or red suede and patent leather platforms by Nine West, and a pair of chocolate brown peep toe ankle strap platform pumps by Ann Taylor. I agree, patent leather is our friend and can be worn all season long with the right tights (winter), slacks, skirts, dresses and jeans. Yay for patent leather!ReplyDelete
TBS I love that you challenged yourself to find a cheaper pair of patent leather shoes. Micheal Kors is still lovely. But can I point out that you are messing with a girls heart because the posted shoe picture is the fabulous CHANEL! Now Chanel is a way to break a houslehold income.ReplyDelete
Nope...these are MICHAEL by Michael Kors. My heart is not strong enough to tease about Chanel.
Phew! ok the MICHEAL by Micheal Kors are hot too! I actually like them better then the Choos (oops did I just speak blasphemy)!!ReplyDelete
- BritneyDecember 12, 2008 at 3:11 PM
The shoes are beautiful! I think I might need to buy them:) I love patent leather. I made my bridesmaids wear them at my wedding. It added a touch of class to their J.Crew dresses.ReplyDelete


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Review of The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 1
SF Scope – The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 1 story by Kaoru Kurimoto, illustrated by Kazuaki Yanagisawa
Vertical, $12.95, 164pp, tp, 9781932234800. Fantasy graphic novel.
As the publicity material with the books tells us, this is volume one in a three-volume story which is the manga version of the first book of the 116-volume series of bestselling Japanese novels. Which is a round-about way of saying: this book is not a complete story. It's a pretty good story, based on an interesting concept, to wit: a feudal era king's head has been replaced with that of a leopard. He knows it, but he's still the same person he's always been (strong, heroic, and wise). He doesn't know why he's now the leopard-head king, but there it is.
The story starting in this volume tells of a terrible plague afflicting his kingdom, and his quest to discover its source. The story didn't hold me rapt (there were too many confusing flashbacks and scene jumps), but I imagine reading the entire story as one piece might improve it.
The artwork, however, is amazing. The first four color pages aren't much, but after that, the book is all black-and-white pen-and-ink work, and it's fantastic. I was very taken with it; very impressed by it.
I'll pick up the next volume when it's out, to see where the story goes (will Queen Sylvia stay with King Guin? What about the dancing girl Valusa? And was it really Guin who brought the plague on his own people?).


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Pages, Poetry nights
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Fern Poetry is an arts organization that uses poetry to create awareness on human trafficking among other social ills amongst students in primary and secondary schools. In partnership with The Kenya Blue Heart Grassroots Initiative, Sanaelimu Art Ensemble, Consolation East Africa and KARDS, we have visited Braeburn Schools, Top Mark High School, St Hannah's Girls School, Precious Blood Primary School (Amani) among many other schools as well as performed at the Kenya National Theatre. We also use motivational poetry to empower students to believe in themselves, in their abilities and to reach for and fulfill their dreams and heart's desires. It is in this light that we want to engage your students and teachers in motivational sessions. The sessions are facilitated by Poet Viona Wamuyu as well as myself along with a guest motivational speaker. Each session will last an hour and will include poetry performances by Viona Wamuyu and a motivational talk by the guest speaker. For each session, we are asking the school to invest Ksh. 15,000 in the welfare of its students. When students are motivated, they easily pass their exams and parents want to take their children to a school where students pass their exams. Give us a date with your students and see them soar higher and higher.
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3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Bungalow
Listing Details
Additional Documents
$35,000 Suggested Opening Bid
3 Bedroom ◆ 2 Bath
Sale On Premises
At 5000 Midwood Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21212
NOTE: The information contained herein has been obtained from sources deemed reliable and is believed to be accurate. However, no express or implied warranty is made or may be inferred from any such representation. Dimensions, square footage and acreage contained herein are more or less. Prospective purchasers are encouraged to perform their own due diligence, in advance of the auction, regarding the permitted uses of the property.
816 Winston Avenue is located three blocks east of the 5000 block of York Road (MD-45) in northern Baltimore City. The neighborhood is a mixture of single family detached and attached homes, situated along tree-lined streets. Neighborhood homes are owner and tenant occupied. Neighborhood shopping and MTA bus service are located along York Road, a short walk from the home.
Rectangular lot 100' x 150', elevated above street level
All public utilities are available
Zoning R-1, residential
One and One-Half Story Vinyl Sided Bungalow - according to public tax records, the home was constructed in 1920 and contains 1,697 square feet of living area and 1,015 square feet of basement space.
Vinyl siding
Enclosed front porch
Composition shingle roof with aluminum rainspouts
Stone foundation
First Floor
- Open Concept Living/Dining/Kitchen - vinyl flooring
- Master Bedroom - carpeting, walk-in closet
- En-Suite Full Master Bath - ceramic tile
- Bedroom #2 - carpeting
- Hall Bath - ceramic tile
Second Floor
- Bedroom #3 - carpeting, walk-in closet
- Loft/Study - carpeting
Unfinished, concrete floor, outside exit
Gas, forced air heat
Central air conditioning
Electric water heater
Circuit breakers
The property is in fee simple and sold free and clear of liens. Deed Liber 12863, folio 168.
Published annual real estate taxes for 2014 are $2,883.14, based on a full value assessment of $126,100.
The home may be inspected 45 minutes before the auction or by appointment with the Auctioneers.
A $3,000 deposit, payable by cashier's check, will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. The deposit shall be increased to 10% of the purchase price within 24 hours at the Auctioneer's office. Balance to be paid in cash at settlement, which shall take place within 45 days. If payment of the deposit or balance does not take place within the specified time, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property may be resold at the risk and expense of the purchaser. Interest to be charged on the unpaid purchase money, at the rate of 12% per annum, from date of sale to date of settlement. All adjustments, including taxes, all other public charges and assessments payable on a monthly or annual basis, and sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if any, to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. The property will be sold in "AS IS" condition, and subject to easements, agreements, restrictions or covenants of record affecting same, if any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The purchaser agrees to waive the right of inspection for lead paint, as provided under current Federal and State law. If the Seller is unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit. Upon refund of the deposit this sale shall be null and void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Seller or Auctioneers. Recordation costs, transfer taxes and all costs incidental to settlement to be paid by the purchaser except where otherwise mandated by local, State or Federal law. Time is of the essence.
No buyer's premium.