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(PRWEB) November 09, 2011
One of the most helpful sources of great content for writers and speakers – and for anyone who enjoys reading about language and quotations – is now a free electronic publication.
It's The "Quote…Unquote" Newsletter, published quarterly since 1992 by Nigel Rees, Britain's leading authority on colloquial language, author of over 50 books on quotations and language, and the originator and host of the long-running "Quote…Unquote" celebrity panel program on BBC radio. See http://www.qunl.com for additional information.
The print version was $40/year. It's been converted to an electronic format and the subscription fee has been dropped (a one-time $5 sign-up fee applies – see the website for details).
The newsletter includes background articles on the origins of quotations and serves as an international forum for solving quotation queries submitted by subscribers. More than just listing quotations, the newsletter includes engaging background information that writers and speakers can use in weaving the quotations into their articles and speeches.
A recent issue provided information and insights on lines like these:
"I never arrive late – I'm not important enough."
"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever"
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"I think I will not hang myself today"
"My work here is done."
"Play it again Sam."
"Cities should be built for the convenience and satisfaction of those that live in it, and to the great surprise of strangers"
Particularly important for professional speakers and writers is the extensive background information provided for the quotations. More often than we like to admit, speakers and writers risk or loose their credibility by using unattributed or poorly-attributed material. "Quote ... Unquote", with its insistence on carefully documented attribution, can help bulletproof the quotations in your writing and speeches (See the interview with Mr. Rees in Forbes that details examples of mis-attributions at http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/12/nigel-rees-misquotes-opinions-rees.html or Google on the terms "Forbes Rees Policing Word Abuse".)
One of the longest-running unsolved queries on the list is an observation about sex, usually attributed to Lord Chesterfield:
"The pleasure is momentary, the position is ridiculous, and the expense is damnable."
The earliest citation so far is in—of all places—a report on the Labour Party Annual Conference at Blackpool in 1901: a speaker referred to someone's "description of the act of human love-making in which he said that the satisfaction was fleeting, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable". The query was initially published in the first edition of the newsletter in 1992.
In view of the extended election season now under way in the U.S., here are examples of articles from past issues of the newsletter concerning politics and politicians :
One includes details on the origins of one of the enduring truths about the political class:
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought".
According to Rees, "The Yale Book of Quotations states: '[This] is often attributed to Simon Cameron. However, Erwin S. Bradley in Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War (1966) states that "apparently there is no basis for the definition of an honest politician commonly attributed to him."'
"Instead," notes Rees, "this is found in Mark Twain's Notebook for 1890-1:
'Bill Styles … spoke of the low grade of legislative morals. Kind of discouraging. You see, it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.'"
And Rees cautions readers to note that "… this is Twain quoting another, not writing it himself."
Additional political insights from recent issues of the newsletter include this one on statistics, planning and free-market policies:
[Telling Milton Friedman, in 1963, why he kept no statistics] "If I let them compute those statistics, they'll only use them for planning." – (Sir) John Cowperthwaite (1915-2006). Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, quoted in his Times obituary (3 February 2006). The obit. noted that, "His introduction of free market economic policies is widely credited with turning post-war Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre." Also: "He trod a thin line between positive non-intervention and simply doing nothing."
The newsletter also researched the origins of another observation on the subject of statistics, the one suggesting that you can employ the most sophisticated methodology but "it all comes down to the village postmaster filling in the forms and putting anything he damn well pleases."
Something like one of those early and enduring computer laws: "Garbage in, garbage out."
- Apropos the extremely low ratings given members of Congress is this caption from a 1940s cartoon that shows railway workers standing near a steam engine. One is saying to the others:
"There was only one man who entered Parliament with good intentions – Guy Fawkes."
Rees's research led him to the British soldier and politician Lieut-Col. A.D. Wintle MC (1897-1966), who fought in both world wars and who ran for Parliament in 1945. Wintle's posthumously-published memoir, The Last Englishman (1968) included this comment: "My slogan was this: 'The last person who went into the House with any good intentions was Guy Fawkes.' It's time they had another, like me, with explosive ideas."
Pushing back further in time, Rees tracked down this version, attributed to Philip Hoffman MP in the House of Commons in a debate on February 20, 1924:
"[I heard] the other day that no one goes into this House on good intentions, or, at least that only one person had ever got into this House with good intentions, and that was Guy Fawkes."
And the search goes on …
A famous parliamentary jibe of the last century came about in a speech to the House of Commons on June 14, 1978, when Denis Healey, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, on being attacked by Sir Geoffrey Howe in a debate over his budget proposals, said:
"That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep."
In 1989 Healey revealed in his memoirs that "the phrase came to me while I was actually on my feet: it was an adaptation of Churchill's remark that an attack by Attlee was 'like being savaged by a pet lamb.' Such banter can often enliven a dull afternoon."
Rees notes, however, that "I have not encountered anyone else who remembers the Churchill version, but he was noted for his Attlee jokes (and busily denied that he had ever said most of them). In 1990, the victim of Healey's phrase, Geoffey Howe, also claimed that it wasn't original: 'It came from a play,' he said sheepishly.")
Meanwhile, the newsletter is looking for a source for the anecdote about Lord Palmerston saying (to Queen Victoria?):
"Change, change, all this talk about change. Things are quite bad enough already!"
Finally, a cautionary note on careful research and attribution: Several years ago the newsletter awarded its Misattributing Something to Mark Twain Award to Al Gore:
"Claire Johnson told me that in his film An Inconvenient Truth, the former Vice-President attributes to the Sage of Hartford: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it is what you know for sure jus tain't so." Surely, Gore has access to a copy of the Library of Congress's excellent work Respectfully Quoted? I can but reproduce its entry No. 966 in its entirety:
"'The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so' – Attributed to JOSH BILLINGS (Henry Wheeler Shaw) by The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed. (1979). Not verified in his writings, although some similar ideas are found in Everybody's Friend, or Josh Billings' Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (1874). Original spelling is corrected: 'What little I do know I hope I am certain of' (p.502). 'Wisdom don't consist in knowing more that is new, but in knowing less that is false' (p.430). 'I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so' (p.286). Walter Mondale echoed the words above in his first debate with President Ronald Reagan, October 7, 1984, in Louisville, Kentucky: 'I'm reminded a little bit of what Will Rogers once said of Hoover. He said it's not what he doesn't know that bothers me, it's what he knows for sure just ain't so.' – Transcript, The New York Times, October 8, 1984. This has not been found in Rogers's work."
To join this quarterly celebration of language, go to http://www.qunl.com and sign up and download your first issue. If you're interested we can also send back issues. You'll find yourself enjoying the unique talent and style of a writer and broadcasting personality who has been called "Britain's leading expert on colloquial language." (by Sir David Frost); "The BBC's quotation guru." (The Sunday Times), and "Britain's most popular lexicographer – the lineal successor to Eric Partridge and, like him, he makes etymology fun." (The Spectator).
One more thing: Rees has also begun publishing ebook versions of some of his most popular collections of quotations. Go to amazon.com and look up Kindle versions of The Best Guide to Humorous Quotations, The Best Guide to Movie Quotes, and The Golden Age of Graffiti. These are expanded versions of earlier print collections that sold in the $20 -$40 range for paperback books and are now available at Kindle prices (for example, $7.99 for the humor collection, plus you get the handy Kindle search capabilities.)


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Monday, February 6, 2012
Big Hugs Oma Linda And Ry ;o)
First I would like to show the pictures Ry made for me ;o)
Here is "The Pirate". I love his moustache ;o)
And, of course "The Pirate" has a treasure map ;o)
Next, is the skeleton couple! I love this couple! Don't they look great dancing ;o)
And, the skeleton couple looked so good together dancing, that they decided to get married ;o) Aren't they a great looking couple? Ry, you are very artistic!
Now I would like to show you, what Oma Linda made me ;o) A special skeleton heart for Valentines Day ;o) I love it! It sparkles and it is filled with lavender ;o)
Big Hugs Everyone ;o) May your week be filled with special surprises ;o)
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super gifts, Stacy from super people!ReplyDelete
That is so great, Stacy! You see, get back what you give ~ Terrific!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 11:19 PM
such treasures, great artist as well,ReplyDelete
Wow Stacy, what a lovely are package they sent you. They are both very talented!ReplyDelete
Oh goodness that Ry has so much talent, love it all, call me a romantic though, I ESPECIALLY love the Bride & Groom (Stacy does he know something we don't? LOL) you are very lucky to be given such beautiful artwork!!! Oma Linda's gift is a wonderful piece to hang somewhere special too, it's so cute - talent runs in the family... & so does their thoughtfulness :)ReplyDelete
I am absolutely jealous of your skeleton couple and your pirate. How absolutely adorable!ReplyDelete
And your heart is beyond beautiful. And I know what I'm talking about; I have one, too ;-)
You are such a kind and caring person!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful surprise! I love the dancing skeletons and the heart is exquisite! ( love the heart eyes!)You radiate love Stacy, that's why people send you such nice surprises!Hugs, DebReplyDelete
Wonderful gifts.ReplyDelete
woundrous gifts...ReplyDelete
Beautiful gifts from a very talented little artist. The Pirate is my favorite & I love the treasure map! Beautiful heart for a beautiful heart!ReplyDelete
Surprises are the best and these are really lovely! Love Mr Skeletons dance moves xReplyDelete
Ooooh! Ry's drawings are sooooooo special! What a clever, creative, imaginative and talented young lad!ReplyDelete
And Oma Linda's gift to you is so very special and priceless! (Course so are You!)
Big hugs Stacy ... and may your week be filled with love and more wonderful surprises!
ARRRRRRrrrrr LOVE LOVE the pirate. Tee hee. Wishing you a super, wonderful week! HUgsReplyDelete
How sweet Stacey! What a nice surprise!ReplyDelete
No wonder you got such lovely art!! You give so much to all of us!! I love that heart, Stacy!!! Big hugs!!ReplyDelete
What a talented family that is!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Everyone ;o) I am happy you loved my treasures, as much as I did ;o)ReplyDelete
Ry's drawings are terrific! Lavender is supposed to be very relaxing, great surprise gifts!ReplyDelete
i love the dancing picture best of all. she swaying her arms, him with them behind his back. and the detail on the hat and dress. impressive!ReplyDelete
AWww..This is so super sweet!! beautiful treasures!!! and the heart by Linda..gorgeous..she is fab!!Beautiful enjoy!!ReplyDelete
Oh Stacy, how adorable! Ry is such a little darling and what an amazing artist. Wouldn't you just love to cuddle him and plant kisses on his precious face? Congratulations on these lovely gifts.ReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I'm very grateful! Your words are very special to me! Big Hugs!


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We've had two weeks of Chuck Norris "Expendables" action to chew on in a row, and it looks like the powers that be wish to continue spoiling us with goodies from the upcoming all-star action flick.
A brand new "Expendables 2" trailer is about to arrive — on Thursday (May 3), to be precise — and you can catch an early look at new footage over at IGN… though the words "early footage" don't exactly measure up to what you'll see.
No, "endless explosions" is probably the more appropriate term. Or, "endless explosions and endless Terry Crews shouting in your face," to be even more precise. That's pretty much what you get in the trailer teaser, as Crews gets into pitchman mode and shouts at the viewer to head back to IGN on Thursday for the full trailer. We'll do exactly that, Terry — assuming Chuck's along for the ride!
With a new "Expendables" trailer on the way, the week is only becoming more awesome for movie trailers. Already the new "Dark Knight Rises" trailer has dropped, with an all-new "Amazing Spider-Man" trailer swinging in later as well. Combine these three with the coming arrival of "Marvel's The Avengers," and it's safe to say that the summer movie season is officially on.
"The Expendables 2" stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Yu Nan, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean Claude Van Damme and, of course, Chuck Norris. It blows up movie theaters everywhere on August 17.
What do you think of the "Expendables 2" trailer announcement? Let us know in the comments section or hit us up on Twitter!


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I grew up in a developing country. The old term was "third world". It was different to America in that supermarkets had a lot fewer choices of cheese, you needed a mortgage for a car and an overseas trip was a once in a lifetime experience.
There were much the same kinds of businesses there, except it was what clients were prepared to pay for that differed. In these kinds of places, there could be no justification for spending even a cent on anything that could not be applied to a guaranteed return.
For example, you would have a hard time selling an immersive 360° photography technology to real estate company to help them sell houses online, no matter how breathtaking or useful it was, because it would be perceived as an expensive nice-to-have, and not something that could be tied immediately back to conversion.
The impetus would fall onto entrepreneurs and businesses to provide services that could deliver real results, or bust. This thinking has been ingrained in me ever since, even as I approach my 15th year living and working in more developed markets.
But now it's coming in real handy. That's because the exit wounds from the financial crisis of 2008 are still open and bleeding and this ROI-driven mentality is becoming the new normal in America now too. In advertising, Outdoor media is a channel that has the most to lose from this shift in psychology – the obvious reason being that it has been the hardest to measure.
A banner can be clicked, lead to a web page and ultimately to a sale – the whole journey from start to finish fully tracked and optimized for the best return. While advertisers know that Outdoor media is effective, its measurement challenges mean that it is usually the first to be cut from the plan when budgets are inevitably constrained.
But sometimes great evolutionary progress comes about not from within, but by the fusion of once entirely separate actors. Big data has emerged that grafts the world of Outdoor and Mobile into each other so rigidly that they become practically indistinguishable from their original forms – much like Sodium and Chlorine coming together to form the ubiquitous table salt.
We have a new hybrid channel that really does allow a billboard to be clicked – and I mean really clicked, not in the metaphorical sense as with proximity enablers like NFC or Beacons that still have a big hill to climb toward genuine scale and ROI.
How, you ask, can a consumer click a billboard without an incredibly long arm and a button of some sort embedded into the canvas?
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Direct to Home television service or direct broadcast satellite service has been noticed there are a number of advantages over regular cable television operation as it brings number of interactive elements in it. As the DTH service is based on satellite there is no boundary of area within the country. With DTH service anybody can get high quality digital signal on the television with no requirement of wires signal like cable TV connection.
Eminence in Quality
The set top box provided by the DTH companies has very good quality of both the firmware & hardware and comes with a 1 year warranty while The set top box of the cable TV operators are not of such a good quality. DTH service providers ensure superior picture quality and its resolution are also fantastic this high-class picture quality cannot be expected from regular cable signal.
Services and Response
DTH companies provide several services and responses to customer problems & grievances like 24/7 customer cares, toll free customer number, online customer services, direct services to most of the problem within 24hrs. On the other hand, the quality/effectiveness of service & response time varies from one DTH company to another. While the cable TV operators lack such organized service.
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For those who stay out from their native place DTH pays way for them to watch their regional channels from where they are. DTH provide several provincial channels through subscription. Cable TV operators also provide different regional channels but they are most likely to beam on the local regional channels.
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DTH Still a Favorable One
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With DTH one can still be able to watch TV even at the time of power cut. DTH service providers beam pictures every sixties in an hour with the help of generators and inverters.
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DEDHAM – The revitalization of East Dedham went under the microscope of a recent Planning Board meeting after a group of Northeastern University graduate students talked about the East Dedham Village Charrette Action Plan.
Developed by the students, the project aims at creating an economically thriving and vibrant East Dedham neighborhood, from Sawmill Lane to Bussey, Milton and High Streets.
But, with the number of youth declining and the number of seniors increasing, students say attracting younger folks is key to invigorate the neighborhood and the town as a whole.
"The town of Dedham, especially East Dedham, has a lot of older residents and bringing in a more mixed demographic into this area will allow that vibrancy," Winthrop Roosevelt, a public policy student, said April 17.
The town's population grew rapidly between 1940 and 1970, but then it began to decline, according to a recent study from the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.
Dedham's population is expected to continue to grow slowly, but age rapidly, the survey says.
According to the 2010 Census, 21.7 percent of Dedham residents were 62 years old or older. In order to revitalize East Dedham, students recommended:
The creation of an independent East Dedham nonprofit, similar to Dedham Square Circle, to advocate for community revitalization and economic growth.Approval of Town Meeting Warrant Articles 28 and 29, which would create an arts overlay district in East Dedham.The development of a visually attractive public realm with a system of connected open space amenities that maximizes connections to the Mother Brook.Marketing East Dedham as a regional center for creative economy workers and businesses.
"We think it would be a great start to get the ball rolling on implementing the (plan)," Noah Hodgetts, one of the graduate students, said of the arts overlay district.
Selectman Michael Butler, however, raised concerns regarding the overlay district, the town's aging housing complexes and the assessed value of properties if general commercial zoning requirements are expanded.
"In and around Dedham Square in the past seven or eight years, there have been several unutilized commercial properties that were purchased and redeveloped," Butler said." If you compare the assessed value after construction with before construction, it's pretty much multiple of ten."
Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said the project would bring new taxes and new businesses.
"We're going to need to have those young people here for new businesses that come in and new starters to expand that space," Bluestone said. "If you're successful at doing this you need to be working on that housing issue, developing that kind of housing that is not only going to be for seniors who will be indeed downsizing … as well as housing that young people will want and can afford."
According to Bluestone, Cambridge, Somerville and Boston experienced a similar situation about 15 years ago, with an increasing older population, and youth who couldn't afford housing in those cities and were looking for jobs elsewhere. He said younger population increased in all three cities after they addressed economic development.
"In the year 2000, 34 percent of that population was between the ages of 20 to 34," he said. "But, for the first time, nearly three quarters of the net increase population of those three cities since 2000 have been young people, 20 to 34."
The students also recommended that the town utilize East Dedham's recreational spaces by creating walkways throughout the Mother Brook area; organizing public art projects, like custom made benches and sidewalks; hosting art fairs, music events and movie nights at, for example, Condon Park; and developing arts education/classes in parks along the Mother Brook, such as painting and sketching.
"It really has to be a grassroots thing, and so it's important to support our board and the Board of Selectmen to really engage our neighborhood," Joe Heisler, chairman of the Mother Brook Community Group, said, adding that there are emerging organizations that could advocate for the community's revitalization and economic growth.
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The expectations built up around weddings seem to get more intense with every passing year. Most brides-to-be are under enormous pressure to make the day as perfect as humanly possible, and when they crack under the unbearable weight, we laugh and call them "bridezillas," a special kind of gendered insult that both dismisses the real stress such women are under and mocks their overwhelming need for the flowers to be the precise correct shade of aubergine, or whatever.
It's always struck me that planning a large traditional wedding is sort of like filming a movie -- it doesn't matter what goes on behind the scenes, any sacrifice is worth it so long as the resulting pageant appears superficially perfect, such that newly married wives can look back on it for the rest of their lives with only the best moments documented. And, of course, to remember the one day they felt the most perfectly beautiful ever.
This is what is supposed to happen, anyway -- how often it all works out that way is a mystery to me.
I don't remember when I got engaged. I know that's a strange thing to admit, but I don't. The idea of marriage just sort of evolved in my relationship with my eventual husband, growing like a persistent weed, albeit a pleasant sort of weed, like a dandelion. I don't even remember announcing it to our families. I would have called my folks -- individually -- and said, "Hey, so I'm probably gonna get married, I guess," and that would have been that.
We were engaged for what seemed like a long time; a couple of years, I think. Every time I began planning a small family wedding, my would-be husband had strong opinions about venue, cuisine, and so forth. Whereas I just wanted to find a vaguely interesting place to get it done.
Eventually I realized I simply didn't care enough to come to a consensus about these issues. I realized, with enormous relief, that I did not give even a fraction of a fuck about having a wedding, and that I could just accept that about myself and not feel guilty about it.
So, on August 1, 2003, my husband and I got married on a rainy, warm and impossibly humid day at our local city hall, where we climbed the stairs with the JP to the old city council chamber. The vast room was furnished with rows of dark wood benches, and had vaguely art-nouveau-ish stained glass windows along the wall facing over the main street of the town.
The space was strangely silent without anyone else in it. I recall thinking it felt churchlike, not that I had any desire to be married in a church. Old buildings feel like that sometimes, and this building was constructed at the very end of the 19th century, with seemingly little done to improve it since. For example, it lacked air conditioning, and in the closed-up chamber it was so muggy and oppressive that the air itself felt heavy on my skin.
The JP handed us papers with the vows on them, photocopies of what was evidently a very old and spotty typewritten original. We had a really hard time getting through the vows without crying, my husband and I. Given my blasé feelings about marriage up until that point, this reaction surprised me. Who knew this would be so emotional, dang!
One picture exists from that day, taken on a crap digital camera I happened to have in my bag. In it, my husband and I are smiling happily, but we're also both obviously drenched in sweat from the overbearing heat. It's not a great picture, of either of us, and the only known copy is currently in my father's possession. If it were lost forever tomorrow, I wouldn't really mourn. My own memories of the experience are sharper and more vivid than any photograph could have been.
That picture really only serves to remind me of what I wore, which was nothing special. It doesn't capture the feelings I felt, or the experience as I remember it. It just shows me what I was wearing. Which, in the end, is all wedding photos really do -- they capture the visual moment, often at the expense of the experience of that moment as it actually happens.
My adventure in city hall marriage is the extreme opposite from what the majority of women expect -- or are expected to expect -- on their wedding day. For many women, the photos are everything. Indeed, to listen to some brides talk, the success of the photos is as important as the day itself being a good time, if not more so.
I feel really confident wearing a jetpack. BUT I don't rely on jetpacks to make me feel confident all the time.
Over at the Daily Mail, there's a bit of manufactured handwringing going on over the increased practice of something called "bridalplasty," which sounds like it should be a procedure in which women are having their inner brides removed, but in truth is just a clever media term for when women use impending weddings as an excuse to get plastic surgery. And it's not just quick-fix procedures like Botox, either.
One recent survey revealed that 10 per cent of brides now undergo surgery or injections of Botox and fillers before their weddings.[...] 'We have seen a 13 per cent rise year-on-year in bookings for pre-wedding surgical treatments,' says Riccardo Frati, consultant plastic surgeon at the Harley Medical Group, adding that the most popular techniques are liposuction and breast augmentation.
For Alice, feeling confident that her wedding photos would be faultless meant her nose job — or rhinoplasty — was worth every penny. 'As I posed for photo after photo, feeling relaxed and happy, I knew the surgery had been vital to my confidence,' she says. [...] 'The problem with a less than perfect nose is there's nothing you can do to conceal it,' she says. 'You can pad out small breasts. You can dress to conceal excess weight, but you just have to live with your nose — or have it fixed. I couldn't face spending my big day stressing about how the pictures would turn out.'
Really, this seems like an inevitable extension of all the bridal weight-loss pressure that's been around for decades. It's not that big a deal, and articles like this just further pathologize the obsessive-to-the-point-of-madness bridezilla caricature. Lots of people will use a big event as an excuse to buy a new dress or pair of shoes, and this just seems like a slightly more invasive alternative.
What fascinates me most about the individual brides' stories in this Daily Mail piece, as well as other such narratives I've been noticing for awhile now, is the overwhelming fear of bad wedding photos. Most of the women quoted cite the inevitable wedding photography as their primary motivator -- the fear that they will be forced to look upon unflattering renditions of themselves for the rest of their married lives, as though those pictures represent some kind of objective truth.
The other big keyword in these narratives is "confidence" -- altered brides are all about feeling confident on their wedding day. A bit of surgery now can evidently save some women a lot of camera-related stress at the main event, or at least that's what the doctors selling these procedures would like them to believe.
One surgeon in the Daily Mail article suggests that most of his bridal patients are coming in to address physical "problems" they've had their whole lives, and that the wedding -- with all of its emphasis on achieving perfection in every detail, from the reception-dinner centerpieces to the bride's bust line -- is giving them a justifiable impetus to address them. More than one bride talks about finding the "perfect dress" first and then having the surgery to do the clothing justice.
I'm not into plastic surgery for myself -- and I prefer more therapeutic means of dealing with a camera phobia -- but I am also not about to tell anyone what they ought to do with their body. To the brides of the world pondering this sort of thing, if you want plastic surgery, that's your deal and I respect your right to do it.
Because I'm sort of annoying, though, I would also warn against the inclination to adjust a body to fit a dress and not the other way around. The dress doesn't rule you, and the dress is not a magical garment that will render you temporarily amazing. Odds are good you are already amazing, and the person you're marrying knows that. A gorgeous dress can amplify your amazingness, but it can't create it out of whole cloth. Neither can a surgeon. Neither, really, can a diet.


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Wednesday August 1
Starlight Girls are saved from sounding too twee by the dark surf-rock organ looming over each track, adding just the right amount of menace to their near-cutesy singing.
Check them out with some of the city's best comics — Janeane Garofalo, Todd Barry and Wyatt Cenac — at The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Thursday August 2nd
One of the better post-punk/new wave influenced indie groups of the past decade, The xx have been able to create their own down-tempo, atmospheric sound. They have a new album coming out on Sept. 11, so you'll be sure to hear some of the new tracks when they play Terminal 5.
Friday August 3rd
RJD2 is one of the master trip-hop samplers, creating brilliant multi-layered, genre fusing sounds. In 2007 he tried his hand at more traditional pop music, singing and playing live instruments. It should also be noted that the Mad Men theme is from his song "A Beautiful Mine."
Check him out at Webster Hall for what's sure to be a wide array of sounds.
Also playing on Aug. 3 at the Prospect Park Bandshell: Wild Flag, which is fronted by former Sleater-Kinney guitarist and current "Portlandia" co-star Carrie Brownstein. The band also features fellow female guitar hero Mary Timony, earning it a "super group" moniker.
See if they live up to the hype with post-punk legends Mission of Burma and Ted Leo.
Saturday August 4th
Fusing disparate elements like hip-hop, post-punk and '80s R&B, Brooklyn's Theophilus London defies easy categorization. He's already rubbing elbows with people like Jay-Z at Cannes, so why not check him out at Central Park SummerStage Saturday afternoon for free so you can brag about seeing him before he became a household name?
Sunday August 5th
The Internet is not only that magical universe through which you are reading this, it's also a side project by Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians of LA's hip-hop enfant terribles Odd Future.
The sound is more electro R&B than hip-hop and definitely worth checking out at The Bowery Ballroom.
Monday August 6
Urban cowboys can check out alt-country pioneer Lucinda Williams at The Bowery Ballroom. She'll be sure to play songs from her 2011's Grammy nominated album "Blessed."
Tuesday August 7
Bloc Party's first album since 2008's "Intimacy" is set to drop on August 20. They posted a preview video of the album "Four" on YouTube. The snippets on there vacillate between dreamy and anthemic — in other words, it sounds very promising. Their first of three shows at Terminal 5 will be a hot ticket.
Also playing that night at the Prospect Park Bandshell: Indie rock stalwarts Yo La Tengo, who formed in Hoboken in the mid-80s and are still going strong, will be with singer-songwriter M. Ward.


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Re: Much slower DBI on RHEL6by erix (Parson)
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Are the database tables the same size?
Do the database tables have the exact same data?
Do the database tables have the same indexes?
Perhaps one machine (wisely) chooses to scan the table because the search conditions are not specific enough for an index (which they were on the other machine).
In short, there isn't really enough information...
update: In general, it's a shame that database questions tend to talk of "meh, slow...", "fast!", "yippee, much faster!!" but omit to post timings and/or pertinent database plans (EXPLAIN PLAN variants). Also, or even especially, when the case is solved.
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Category: Process and Materials
15 Second Studio Tour: House Numbers and Log Cabin Mirror
Wordless Wednesday: Chakras in Progress
15 Second Studio Tour: House Numbers In Progress
Our Aesthetic Sense Can be a Wise Guide to Our Work
Part of being an artist is being surrounded by my materials, and my art unfolding from their inspiration. Our surroundings may bear the imprint of our aesthetic passions. A friend, Ivan Chan, once shared a photo of a chest of drawers he described as part card catalog, part Chinese apothecary cabinet, which caught my eye. Perhaps part of my attraction to the librarian profession was my love of libraries as a place, and the fantastic furniture of knowledge embodied in a card catalog. At University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the main library card catalog lined the hallways. The drawers glided out, and with the right motion could be unhooked and rested on a sliding panel tucked into the center of each cabinet.
My Tower of Tesserae has pleasing drawers that glide out.
Ivan is an artist and a psychotherapist, and a print of his, Here Kitty, watches over my studio. The aesthetics of a psychotherapist office having a role in guiding him to the profession echoes what I felt about libraries and now with my studio. The time I spent in such offices contributed to the possibility of creating art, to taking my love of color and creation seriously.
What surroundings are you drawn to? Is your profession or passion connected to a certain place and aesthetic?
Wordless Wednesday: Piece in the Studio
Pencil Crayon Love: From Laurentians to Prismacolors
Due to the kindness of family birthday gift certificates, Stratoz broke open a box of 150 Prismacolors, and also did an inventory of the ones he already had, in various states of stubbiness. The smallest ones, often consisting mostly of the color name and nothing more, will go to the school with him for student drawing. The new ones have both English and French color/colour names, and a friend noted that the French names will be the last remaining ones after sharpening, and very elegant. There are a few new oranges, which pleased me: Cadmium Orange Hue, Deco Peach, and Neon Orange.
When I met Stratoz, he was already a doodler, and Prismacolors became an important part of his designs, with their blend-able nature. Several years later, I took a workshop on drawing mandalas on black paper with white and colored pencils, and was pleased to get my own set. When I was in junior high, I remember getting a booklet promoting a contest by Canada's Laurentian pencil crayons, with elaborate example drawings. I would study it, imagining what I could draw, though I never did enter the contest. I had decided I wasn't an artist.
I looked up Laurentian, and was sad to see they were bought up in some pencil crayon merger of the Century, first to Sanford(who makes Prismacolors!) and then Newell-Rubbermaid, who appeared to discontinue or change the formula. The internet is echoes with the refrains of those who are looking for Laurentians[edited to add that the original post is now for invited readers only] (or Laurentiens as they were later spelled). I also discovered that "pencil crayon" is a remnant of my Canadian past, and in the US the "colored pencil" is more common. Stratoz calls them "art pencils" which indeed they are.
What is your favorite color pencil?
How Prismacolors are Made(I've got to love a "pencil sandwich"!)
Red Dwarfs, Nanoparticles and the Colors of Glass: Guest Post by Michelle Francl-Donnay of Quantum Theology
Today I am sharing blog space with Michelle Francl-Donnay. Michelle found Stratoz's blog, because she too was going to Wernersville Jesuit Center for a silent retreat. I met Michelle in 2008, when she came to one of our craft shows. She wanted to meet us, and ended up smitten with my Spiral Mandala, and purchased it for her prayer space. She is a delightful combination of Ignatian spirituality, thoughtful writing, and Professor of Chemistry. Be sure to check her out at Quantum Theology, and see the pure awesomeness of her photo mosaic of Marie Curie, composed of 270 female scientists.
Red Dwarfs
I want to thank Margaret for her invitation to visit her blog and talk
about chemistry and color. I have a gorgeous mosaic by Margaret
hanging on my wall — deep blues and golds spiraling inward. I
love Margaret's art, but I also enjoy her poetry. She's writing about
Marie Curie, in poetry and prose over at my blog today. Do come
visit Marie and Margaret there!
If you see a colored compound in chemistry, you can almost bet that it
will contain a transition metal. Though we think of metals as being a
shiny grey hue (with a few exceptions, gold being one), metals are key
to color, particulary in art. The visible frequencies of light are
relatively low in energy, and correspond to the small gaps in energy
that electrons can leap in metals (what chemists call d to d
transitions). Cobalt blue, one of my favorite hues, is (as its name
suggests) a cobalt salt: CoAl2O4.
To get different colors, you have to use different metal salts. You can get
a brilliant yellow using lead chromate, the same chrome
yellow that Vincent Van Gogh used. Tweaking colors to get
slightly different hues requires either mixing materials or finding a
different salt altogether, the gaps that the electrons leap over when
they absorb light aren't adjustable.
But there are other ways to create color using metals. Red stained
glass has been made for centuries by adding gold to molten glass and
carefully controlling the temperature. The gold clusters together in
small particles which then become evenly distributed and suspended in
the glass.
These tiny clusters are called nanoparticles, because they are 100
nanometers or less in size. One nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter,
the period in this sentence is about a million nanometers across, the
little gold balls in red glass are about 25 nanometers in diameter.
The prefix nano, comes from the Greek word for "dwarf," hence the
title of this post. Nanoscience is older than you think!
The gold nanoparticles are not dissolved in the glass, but form a
colloid. And one property of colloids is that they scatter light.
Different frequencies of light scatter differently, which is why the
sky is blue, though the scattering of light by a colloid is a slightly
different process. (Scattering isn't the only process involved in the
color, but unless you really want to fly off the math cliff with me,
let's leave talk of quantum dots and wavefunctions to another day.)
The color of light that a colloid scatters depends on the size and
shapes of the particles dispersed. It turns out just by varying the
size and shape of the particles involved you can tune your gold
nanoparticles to be red, red-violet or even green and many colors in
If you are interested in knowing more about the history and chemistry
of color, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip
Ball is a terrific introduction. For a readable introduction to
nanoparticles, quantum dots and color, try this
article in the NY Times.
photo is from Wikimedia and used under a Creative Commons license.
More Marie:
X is for X-Ray and Marie Curie's Quest to Help the Wounded in WWI
Wordless Wednesday: Say Grout!
A to Z Challenge 2012: G is for Grout & A Grout Monster
Grout is the mysterious element of making mosaics. Grout can unite the pieces or make them stand apart. The word Grout may come from the Old English "gruta" meaning coarse meal, a kind of porridge. Grout fills in the spaces, as if a sustaining porridge, yet has no adhesive quality in and of itself. Grout obscures the surface when applied, but then helps reveal the ultimate beauty of the glass. Grout is why I spend so much time in hardware stores. Grout is the fuel of my friend Joanne, The Grout Monster, who loves to grout as a healing process of playing in the mud. Joanne is in the middle of her 2012 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County program, and for the month of April, National Poetry Month, I give a shout out to Joanne Leva, Grout Monster and poet extraordinaire.


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Dress - Kirstin's closet sale
Tights - We Love Colors (similar)
Shoes, bangles - Target
Belt - Ann Taylor (similar)
Turban - Red Velvet (similar)
Nail polish - Urban Outfitters (similar)
Fringed cuff - InPink (similar)
Leather bracelet - Austin craft show
First off, I just realized that the building in these photos says 420 above me. Awesome. Secondly, I'm pretty sure LA is behind when it comes to seasons. This city is always ahead of the trends, but as far as temps go, we're a little slow. Summer feels like spring, fall feels like summer, and winter feels like fall. Didn't you know I'm an expert on the four seasons? After all, I'm from the Midwest. I mean, Northeast. Whatever.
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Unigraphic Inc. : Widening the (Digital) Gap
Grand-format printing has received a boost at UniGraphic with its new Inca Onset S40 inkjet printer from Fujifilm.
UniGraphic employee tends to the company's new EFI VUTEk GS3250LX wide-format press with LED technology.
UniGraphic press operators scans a press sheet from the shop's newer seven-color, 40˝ KBA Rapida 105 hybrid sheetfed offset UV press.
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Breakfast Salon
The free hot American breakfast is served daily from 7 to 10 a.m. in the newly renovated Breakfast Salon. A light lunch menu is available in the restaurant or poolside, where there is also a swim-up bar.
Crusoe's Garden Restaurant
Located by the pool, this casual indoor/outdoor restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Guests will also find a swim-up bar at the pool, which is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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Luis Aviles-Ortiz. Dublin based photographer since 2000 as part of a long life dream to be able to put in picture format thoughts, feeling and experiences. A free spirit with an incredible desire of capturing life as seen. His technique remains simple as as raw as possible without the aid of mastery of software. his approach to photography is almost as if being observed by innocent eyes.
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Editor's Note: Google Reader is being shut down on July 1, 2013. Users are encouraged to use Google Takeout in order to transfer their accounts to other RSS feeds. This article was orginally published in 2008 and has been archived but left up for informational purposes.
Now that you have set up Google Reader and added some feeds, you will probably find some items you'd like to share with friends. Sharing items is easy with Google Reader. There are multiple features to help you customize your sharing experience. If you haven't added any friends yet, you should do that first.
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Adding Friends
From your Google Reader Home > Sharing Settings. From the Sharing Settings page, you can add friends. Default Google Reader is set to share with Gmail chat contacts. If you don't use Gmail or would like to add friends outside of your chat contacts click Change. Select share with friends and save. If you have Gmail Chat contacts and select this option, a screen will pop up allowing you to check which contacts you'd like to share with. Below Share With More People, type in the email addresses of all friends and family that you want to see your shared items, then Send Invites.
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Share Invites
When you receive an invite, a yellow box will show up under Friends' Shared Items in your left side navigation menu. If you see that box on Homepage, click View. You can now choose to allow the person to share with you. If you want to share with them, select the box next to Also share my stuff with, then click Allow. You can ignore an invite by clicking ignore.
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Share with Friends
You've got a good feel for the Sharing Settings menus. You've added feeds and friends. You know how to share. Now customize who you share with. Enabling the share with friends setting gives you added ability to control who will see your shared items. You can remove individuals from sharing, without removing them as your Gmail Chat contacts. If you leave the default setting to share with only Gmail Chat contacts, then you don't have the option to remove individual contacts.
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Hide Contacts
If you have a friend that likes to share too many items, you can hide them in Google Reader. They will still be sharing with you and vice versa, but you won't be pestered by their new shared items. Go to Sharing Settings > contact > Hide. They won't know you've hidden them. The link to their items will be gone from you navigation menu. Toggle the setting between Hide and Show in your contacts. If you accidentally remove someone from people you share with, hide then show them. This will bring up the yellow invite box so you can add them back to your sharing list.
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Manage a Contact
Click one of your contacts' names in the navigation menu. You will see their Google profile information, all the feeds they're sharing with you, and a few options. You can view their full profile, report their profile, or hide the contact. The grey pull down menu at the top right of your screen has options you can apply to this contact. Sort their feeds from newest to oldest or vice versa. Add their shared items to an existing folder or create a folder to add them to. This option is great to separate professional and personal contacts' shared items. For example, create a Fun folder, then add your personal contacts' shared feeds to that folder. Do the same with a Work folder.
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Other Settings
While viewing shared items, you can toggle between list view and expended view by clicking the corresponding tabs at the top right. You can mark all shared items as read. You can click the gray arrow button to open the full article in a new window. The toolbar at the bottom of each item is the same as for your other feeds, including buttons for: Add Star, Share, Share with Note, Email, Keep Unread, and Add Tags. While viewing people you're sharing with, you can hover over one name. If they're a Google contact, their Google profile information will come up.
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You can add a note to a shared item by selecting share with note. This option allows your sharing contacts to see the item and your comment when they view it. An article devoted to notes is coming soon.
Google Reader
- Adding RSS Feeds to Google Reader
- Google Reader for Sharing News With and Without a Gmail Account
- Managing Google Reader Sharing Features
- Take Notes in Google Reader
- Using Google Reader Offline
- Going Mobile with Google Reader
- Google Widget to Display Shared Items on Your Blog
- Themes Change the Look of Google Reader
- How to Turn Google Reader Subscriptions into a Blogroll


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Help for GEFS
Batch Scan Mode
ARRANGE DOCUMENTS TO BE SCANNED. Scan documents together that relate to a single deposit. Scan documents for each deposit in the following order: deposit slip, checks, and related documents. The capacity of your scanner will dictate the number of documents that may be scanned in a batch and whether or not different-sized documents may be scanned at the same time.
PLACE DOCUMENTS IN SCANNER following the manufacturer's instructions.
Click on BATCH SCAN (1). The scanner will automatically feed and scan documents.
AFTER SCANNING IS COMPLETED, an image of a scanned document will appear on the screen as shown below. Examine the document and determine whether it is a DEPOSIT SLIP, CHECK, OR RELATED DOCUMENT. For each image on the screen, use the radio buttons at the bottom, left (1), of the screen to select the correct DOCUMENT TYPE.
Click SAVE (2). The next document will appear in the screen. Repeat the process for each scanned image that appears on the screen by selecting the document type using the radio buttons. If necessary, use the ROTATE buttons (3) to turn the image. Click on SAVE after each document.
If you close the scanning session before assigning a document type to each image, you may use RESUME (4) to continue. When you have completed the batch scanning session, click CLOSE (5).


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Angled Avocados
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Author Notes: This plant-based recipes is so close in taste to Deviled Eggs that it's almost creepy.
I used to love Deviled Eggs when I was vegetarian. I decided to make something similar that would satisfy my craving for them. This did it and then some.
I believe it is the mustard that is the star of this dish. Without it, it would not work. —Bold Vegan // Molly Patrick
Serves: 2-4
1 1/2
cups Cooked garbanzo beans
teaspoon yellow mustard
tablespoons nutritional yeast
teaspoon sea salt
Paprika for dusting
- Place the garbanzo beans, mustard, nutritional yeast and sea salt in a food processor and process until creamy and smooth.
- Place in the fridge and chill for at least 30 minutes.
- When you are ready to assemble, there are two ways you can do it:
- You can either cut open the avocado, remove the pit and scoop the garbanzo mixture directly into the avocado halves and eat it just like that.
- Alternatively, you can cut the avocado in half, take out the pit and then cut into slices. Next, scoop out the slices and cut them in half. Arrange the avocado pieces on a plate and top each one with the garbanzo mixture. Use this method if you want to serve as an hor d'oeuvre.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Mustard
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After a little break
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- Anónimo31 de julio de 2012, 7:26
Lanzarote is so beautiful and your pics really show that :)ResponderEliminar
qué belleza de sitio debiste visitar! me encantan tus fotos y tu forma de describir el lugar... todo un poema!ResponderEliminar
un beso!!
I hope you had a lovely week! It looks like a beautiful island! It is always good to take a break and get lost somewhere lovely!ResponderEliminar
Amazing!I guess you had a smashing time.ResponderEliminar
beautiful photos and words to go with them. it's good to get lost now and then :)ResponderEliminar
ha! lanzarote! yes, i was slowly beginning to think along those lines.. the isle is a dream of mine to go visit. you have just reminded me of that dream. now i see prooved it is that poetic, i must simply try to go.ResponderEliminar
lucky you!!ResponderEliminar
You found such beauty and wonders!!ResponderEliminar
Oh, beautiful!! I've never been to Lanzarote, hopefully some day we'll get a chance. I'm glad you had some time off work, and were able to relax and reload your batteries. Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!ResponderEliminar
A nice break!!!!ResponderEliminar
A new address to visit me : http://monddo.blogspot.com
Read you soon?
oh Lanzarote! I have been there only once, but immediately fell in love with the landscape. Could imagine to live there. Hope you enjoyed itResponderEliminar


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MakerBot Unveils a 3-D Printer Nearer to $1,000
MakerBot may have moved one step closer to putting 3-D printers in every home.
The company that helped make 3-D printing a tech buzzword on Monday unveiled its most aggressively priced printer to date, the MakerBot mini, which it says will cost $1,375 when it arrives in the spring.
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Survey your home for common kitty household hazards, including dangling electrical cords, poisonous plants, garbage disposal switches, drapery cords, open clothes dryers, ripped screen doors and breakables to ensure that your cat is truly safe.read more
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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday backed out of planned talks between the secessionist group and the South-East Governors Forum.
The IPOB leader had met with the governors at the Enugu State Government House on August 30, and both parties agreed to hold further talks to seek an amicable resolution of issues raised by the pro-Biafra group.
Another meeting was scheduled to hold between Kanu and the governors on Friday, September 15, but, in a statement he personally signed, which was made available to journalists, the IPOB leader said he would no longer continue with the talks.
He blamed the development on an alleged plot by soldiers to assassinate him while on his way to the meeting with the governors.
He also disclosed that he was currently attending to his injured, and bereaved, followers, who had fallen victim to attacks by the military in the course of the ongoing 'Operation Python Dance 2', launched by the Nigerian Army in the South-East.
Kanu, in the statement, hinted that the leaders of the IPOB intend to meet to vote on whether to drop their non-violent approach and instead, use force to confront the Nigerian army.
Parts of the statement read, "Before now, prominent leaders and groups had insisted that I tow the line of peaceful dialogue and meet with the governors to find a lasting solution to our grievances.
"I conceded to that request which led to the 30th of August 2017 meeting with the South-East Governors Forum at the Government House in Enugu, in the company of the very eminent Prof. Ben Nwabueze and Evangelist Elliott Ugochukwu-Ukoh.
"In view of the concerted effort by the oppressive Nigerian state to shatter the peace and tranquility of the South-East and the rest of Biafraland through military intimidation, it has become necessary for me to clarify why, regrettably, I may not be able to attend Friday's meeting with the South-East governors as earlier agreed, for three main reasons.
"1.) We are currently busy attending to our dead and injured from this latest round of unprovoked military onslaught against innocent civilians in our own land. All the casualties so far were shot by men of the Nigerian Army deployed to my house and those stationed along motor ways leading into Umuahia my hometown.
"2.) I have been reliably informed also, that a detachment of this same soldiers responsible for the murder of innocent unarmed IPOB family members have now been stationed near Enugu to ambush and assassinate me on my way to the meeting with the governors on Friday.
"3.) On that same Friday the 15th of September 2017, the leadership of IPOB through the instrumentality of the Directorate of State (DOS) headquartered in Germany, will be meeting to vote on the viability or otherwise of continuing our struggle in this non-violent manner. There is urgent need to begin the process of defending ourselves in the face of relentless murderous attacks from the Nigerian state." THINK YOUR FRIEND WOULD BE INTRESTED? SHARE THIS STORY USING ANY OF THE SHARE BUTTON BELOW ⬇ PLACE YOUR TEXT ADVERT BELOW:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


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Apollo 18 + 20 Has Been Released!
March 27, 2012 § 2 Comments
The very first interactive fiction tribute album, curated by Kevin Jackson-Mead, and hosted by the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction has finally been released.
Check it out here! Almost all of the Chicago Interactive Fiction Group is represented within, with a staggering five games by our own Andrew Schultz.
In other Chicago-IF news, Peter Nepstad and Ed Blair raised $300 for 826CHI's Clandestine Quest, and came in third place out of 37 teams. Read more about that here!
We're still having meetings at Filter at 8 pm, generally on the second Thursday of every month. We'll do our best to keep this page more current.
August Meetup (final update)
July 26, 2011 § Leave a comment
The Chicago IF Group is planning to meet at the Google office in downtown Chicago on Thursday, August 11. We're planning to play Hoist Sail for The Heliopause and Home by Andrew Plotkin. The meeting is scheduled for 7pm at the Google office at 20 West Kinzie. Please send an RSVP by commenting on this post or if you get to Google late, have the desk contact Ben Collins-Sussman for you. Ben will get you upstairs.
July Meetup
July 6, 2011 § Leave a comment
Our next meetup is on July 14th at Filter on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, Chicago at 8pm. If you're not familiar with Filter, it is an internet cafe that serves breakfast, coffee, and snacks with many couches and small tables. Internet access is free with a purchase. We plan to talk about IntroComp and probably IF comp works in progress. There should also be a demonstration of Zifmia in Beta form.
March Meeting
February 27, 2011 § Leave a comment
March meeting will be March 17th, as always, at FILTER at 7 pm.
In other news, the XYZZY awards were announced today. Our own Ben Collins-Sussman(and his writing partner Jack Welch, honorary Chi-IF group member) were up for a number of awards for their one-room IF "Hoosegow". Did they take home the gold? I won't spoil the surprise.
February Meeting
February 17, 2011 § 2 Comments
Is Thursday the 17th at Filter on Milwaukee Avenue at 7pm. I (David) will be there at 7 while Ed and Ben will show up later. I assume Peter will be there.
I plan to show off the beginnings of a working Zifmia site as well as actually working on the site intended for the IF Demo Fair at PAX in Boston.
Anyone and everyone is welcome.
January Meeting
January 20, 2011 § Leave a comment
We will once again be braving the Chicago winter and meeting at Filter (1585 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622) on Thursday, January 27th at 7:00pm.
We'll probably talk about PAX East, but also continue discussing ways to expand our group with more local IF fans.
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us.


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The new, cautious face of Pakistan cricket
They call it "tuk tuk" in Pakistan. The reference is not to an auto-rickshaw, but to painfully cautious batting, mocking the dull thud of an innocuous delivery being met with a flat blade and a dour posture. For better or worse, the term has stuck to Misbah-ul Haq. It is not intended as a compliment, and it may be harsh, if not entirely undeserved, but it confirms that Misbah's air of defensiveness - which colours not just his batting but his captaincy too - isn't sitting well with the fans.
The issue has become such a talking point that Misbah was recently forced to explain himself, and the coach, Mohsin Khan, felt compelled to come out in support. Misbah confirmed that he would rather draw a match by being defensive than risk losing through aggression. In backing Misbah, Mohsin implied that the defensiveness needed to be understood as a fear of failure.
Considering the turmoil that Pakistan cricket has suffered over the last few years, a fear of failure is not merely understandable, it is welcome. Importantly, the approach has yielded dividends, with Pakistan enjoying a string of successes through 2011 and boosting their ranking in all three formats. Yet the fans want more. They want their team to win, of course, but they would much prefer if it was done in style.
This is probably the result of an appetite spoiled by a relentless diet of instant cricket, and a team historically known for its panache. "We want a thrill at every step," says Sikander Bakht, the former Pakistan seamer, who has also served stints as the team's assistant coach, and now anchors a popular television sports show. Sikander agrees that the topic of defensiveness is on people's minds, but he thinks the public reaction is misplaced. "Misbah has got it right," he argues. "He may be risk-averse by nature, but he has managed to translate that into a cohesive unit that is showing results. That is a remarkable achievement."
Pakistan were not always an exciting team. In the mid-1970s, when Mushtaq Mohammad took over the captaincy, his tactical aggression was a revolution. It unleashed a uniquely exhilarating style and approach in Pakistan cricket that continued under later captains, including Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, and their protégés, and became an international brand of its own. In some ways Misbah's placid approach is a throwback to the decades before Mushtaq, when the team held opponents to draw after draw, especially on home pitches. Yet Misbah is held to a higher standard, and appropriately so, because he has greater resources at his disposal.
There is no denying that Misbah can be cautious to a fault. Mention his innings in last year's World Cup semi-final against India, and it still draws sneers and jeers. Coming in at 103 for 3, with Pakistan needing another 158 at about a run a ball, Misbah did not score his first boundary until he had played out 42 deliveries, including 27 dot balls that drove Pakistan's enormous television audience up the wall.
His captaincy posture hasn't been all that different. In a move so defensive that it almost seems an apology, he has invited the opposition to bat on six out of seven occasions when he has won the toss in a Test match. There is also the 2010 Test against South Africa in Dubai (Misbah's first Test as captain), when Pakistan worked themselves into a strong position chasing 451, but failed to go for the kill despite having gone past 300 with only three wickets down.
Interestingly, this restrained attitude does not extend to bowling, Pakistan's traditional strength. Over the period of Misbah's captaincy, which began in November 2010, Pakistan have conceded the fewest runs per over (2.92) and taken the most wickets per Test (18.42) than any other team. Even England, conceding 3.18 runs per over, have been a touch more expensive than Pakistan, and also a touch less destructive, picking up 18.17 wickets per Test. Pakistan's bowling aggression makes sense, because it is imperative for a winning record, especially if your team is defensive about batting.
When batting, however, the rest of the team seems to have moulded itself in Misbah's image. Under his captaincy, Pakistan's Test run rate is 2.86, which ranks ninth among the ten Test nations over the same period, better only than Zimbabwe's. While run rate may not be the most critical variable in Test cricket, it cannot be overlooked. The great teams of history - Australia under Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting is perhaps the best example - have shown the merits of scoring quickly in Tests. It stamps authority, creates openings, and maximises advantage.
Ramiz Raja, a former Pakistan captain and now a leading commentator, agrees that Misbah has been too defensive. "This approach was fine with Sri Lanka," he says, "but we should have been more attacking against Bangladesh." Ramiz thinks it is not a lack of talent but a mindset that is behind this approach. The implication is that it is fine to go for safety, but Misbah seeks a very wide margin, perhaps unnecessarily so. Against England, particularly, this attitude is likely to come under strain. "It is important to work yourself into a secure position," Ramiz says, "but you also have to constantly keep looking for openings. More nimbleness is needed."
While cautiousness may be part of Misbah's innate make-up, it has almost certainly been compounded by the scars of his career. Despite making his international debut in 2001, he remained out of the side for two lengthy periods, during which it seemed he would never again play for Pakistan. The captaincy came to him through a combination of accident and default, after Salman Butt was ensnared in spot-fixing at a time when other credible leadership options, such as Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik, had already been exhausted.
At 37, Misbah understands the twilight opportunity that has now come his way is prized and precious, and he seems to be being extra careful with it. You can't argue with the outcomes he has engineered, winning six Tests and losing only one, winning 13 ODIs out of 14, and winning all five of his T20 matches. He has shown command, authority, maturity, confidence and poise. He has displayed an extraordinary ability to absorb pressure. And he has shown great responsibility, lifting his batting average to 75.76 in 12 Tests as captain, compared to 33.60 in his 19 other Tests.
It is tempting to see Misbah's mandate as an uphill climb, in which his guarded approach reflects a respect for the steepness of the terrain. Taking charge of the team in the wake of an unprecedented crisis was nothing short of having to scale a mountain. Misbah considered his options, and proceeded to shift into low gear, which is the right way to tackle a sharp gradient. But after a winning year and a bump in the rankings, the slope has eased off, and with top-ranked England as the next obstacle, the lay of the land is altogether different. For Misbah and his team, the time to move into high gear has arrived.
Saad Shafqat is a writer based in Karachi


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text: The Accidental Hillel Professional by Rachel Giattino |Jul 28, 2014|Comments I'm an accidental Hillel professional. Growing up, my family celebrated Chanukah next to our Christmas tree, attended synagogue just long enough for my siblings and I to get Bar and Bat Mitzvahed, and loved bacon on our breakfast sandwiches. During college, I studied international relations to prepare for my future career as a diplomat. By chance, I met one of the founders of Gather the Jews at a Shabbat dinner near the end of my senior year, and I decided to apply for the Director position on a whim. Gather the Jews (GTJ) is a start-up project in Washington, D.C. that helps young professionals connect to the D.C. Jewish community. I joined GTJ as its first ever employee, and in April 2013, GTJ officially became a project of Hillel at The George Washington University. While I was still working with young professionals, I began working from the Hillel building and became a member of the staff. Although I was now a Hillel employee, I was not working directly with students. Despite my young professional role, I found myself beginning to build relationships with the students who came through our door, and they started to tell me their stories. Our Executive Director joked that there were more students hanging out in my office than all the others and it was not even my role. I was asked to staff the winter Taglit-Birthright Israel trip, which I happily agreed to. I thought the trip would be a cool way to get to know more students, and a fun way to get back to Israel, but it turned out to be so much more. I got to know the students, but I also got to encounter Israel through their eyes as they experienced it for the first time. I helped them explore, learn, grow, and connect with each other, and in return I also grew and connected with them. For the few months prior to the trip, I had been feeling like GTJ was not the right professional fit for me; leading the Taglit-Birthright Israel trip made me realize how much I wanted to be working with students every day. I returned home, and shared my realization with my co-workers. I am now GW Hillel's Senior Associate for Programming and Engagement and a member of the inaugural cohort of the Engage2Educate Fellowship. I am so excited to learn and grow in this new role and with my E2E peers! Rachel Giattino is the Senior Associate for Programming and Engagement at GW Hillel, and an Engage2Educate Fellow. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 2012, Rachel spent the past two years running Gather the Jews. Back to Top Tags: Taglit-Birthright Israel Hillel professionals GW Hillel Engage2Educate Fellowship Rachel Giattino Gather the Jews {{Title}} [x] Add or, Select from existing Opening existing... Close existing Most popular tags Click to select: Show all2440Tags Show only most popular Opening all... {{Title}} ({{ItemsCount}})


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10′ x 12′ / Approx 120 sq. ft.
Small bedroom or utility shed
A 10' x 12' is comparable to a small bedroom and can handle the contents of a typical two bedroom apartment. These units are great to declutter your home or garage.