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Back in the year 1887, Sir Halford J. Mackinder published, for the benefit of the Royal Geographical Society, a motivating article entitled On the Scope and Methods of Geography. The issue that Mackinder wished to raise was of fundamental importance for the future and purposes of the very knowledge and teaching of the science of geography. He purely asked himself and his audience what is, in fact, geography and whether it could have been rendered a proper discipline rather than just being a mere body of information. To answer these questions the best thing was primarily to understand which were, and still are, the true scopes and methods of the geographic science. With his article, Mackinder tries to demonstrate that not only geography is a proper discipline, but also it is necessary for the natural evolution and speculation of many others.
Mackinder begins his dissertation describing the role that geographical societies had, especially during the nineteenth century, in actively promoting the exploration of the world. Thanks to the helpful support of these societies, explorers, merchants and travellers had been able to discover, for the profit of all humankind, an increasing number of new lands and countries. The result had been that the world was already almost wholly unveiled, thus becoming a closed geographical – and political – system. When the article appeared, the only lands that needed to be more thoroughly explored were yet the Polar regions, as well as some areas in New Guinea, Central Africa, Central Asia, and in the Tibetan peaks. Being so things, this continuous work of the geographic societies and of the pioneers of world explorations would alone suffice for admitting the value of geographic research and discipline.
|The Royal Geographical Society of London
The second issue that Mackinder rises refers to the nature of geographical studies. He questions whether geography should be considered as one single subject or rather as the addition of several. In other words, should political geography and physical geography be considered as separate or combined? Moreover, should they be considered as self-existing and self-sufficient or merely some appendices of history and geology respectively? Mackinder answers arguing, as other geographers had already stated, that men are the creatures of their environment, and thus people and territory combine into one single, self-sustainable, subject known broadly as geography. This does not mean that within the geographic studies several branches exist, that partition the subject in smaller disciplines: this fact, however, does not interfere with the general acknowledgment of geography as one coherent philosophical and epistemological system. Each sector of the entire geographical scheme deals with a specific matter. For instance, the function of physical geography is to trace the interaction between humankind and natural environment. In fact, it is a specific characteristic of geography to suggest the influence of locality, or best to say, the change of anthropological variations in contact with environmental diversities. If physical geography fails in doing so, then it turns into mere physiography: a sub-subject of geography itself.
The definition that Mackinder gives to geography is the following: the science whose main function is to depict the interaction of man in society and so much of his environment as varies locally. This explanation allows us to comprehend the general definition that may be given, instead, to geopolitics, that of "expression of political power over landscape". As we can see, the elements that interact here are two:
1) The varying natural environment.
2) The communities of men that struggle for existence more or less favoured by their several environments.
As for political geography, it cannot exist if it is not built upon and subsequent to physical geography. The function of political geography is to detect and demonstrate how much does the natural environment interfere in forging the destinies of an entire nation or race of human beings, and how relevant it is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a country. What counts above all else is to stop considering physical geography as a younger sister, if not a maiden, of geology, and political geography of history. Mackinder perceives clearly the huge gap that still lay between the natural and social sciences and suggested that the geographer, being the master of a half-humanistic and half-scientific subject, could build the bridge over such abyss, linking together the two branches of knowledge. As we have seen, geography itself too divides in several sub-categories, though it ought to be studied and considered as a whole. The distinction, in Mackinder's overview, between geology and geography is that the geologist looks at the present in order to interpret the past, and the geographer looks at the past that he may interpret the present. Physiography asks for a given feature, "Why is it?"; topography, "Where is it?"; physical geography, "Why is it there?": political geography, "How does it act on man in society, and how does it react on it?".
Howsoever, natural environment is influenced, according to Mackinder, by three elements:
1) The configuration of the earth's surface.
2) Meteorology and climate.
3) The outputs that countries offer to human industry.
To understand fully how environment affects the history of civilization and political destiny of a race of men, Mackinder offers the example of the influence of England's south-eastern physical geography in moulding the English historical character. With accurate descriptions, following the historical periods of the Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon rule over Britain, the English geographer exposes exhaustively how geography influences greatly human settlements and history. The results of these geographical studies are that "from a consideration of the folding of the chalk and of his hardness as compared with the strata above and below it, may be demonstrated the causes of the two great promontories, the two great inlets, and the three great upland openings which have determined the positions, the number and the importance of the chief cities [including London] and divisions of South-eastern England". Indeed, the same methodological approach could be applied for describing any other geographical region and historical evolution.
Geography, Mackinder continues, must benefit of a separate sphere of work from other subjects, although some may closely be linked to it. In fact, all other subjects involved in a geographical reasoning should be analysed in order to understand whether they truly are pertinent to the main line of geographical argument. It is true, however, that the bounds of all sciences must naturally be compromises, especially when considering geography, which includes features belonging to the subjects of geology, palaeontology, zoology, botany, meteorology, anthropology, history, demography and sociology. As Mackinder said, "knowledge is one, but its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness"!
As for the relations of geography with history, the geographer must turn to history for verifying the relations that he suggests. The historian finds full occupation in the critical and comparative study of original documents, having no time – or will – left to scan science for himself with an holistic view to selecting facts and ideas which he requires: and this is, in fact, the geographer's own duty.
As above mentioned, environment and community are the two main topics to consider, and to blend, when studying geography. What definitions can we give of them?
- "Environment": the term means a natural, exclusive and locked, region. The smaller the area included the greater tends to the number of conditions uniform or nearly uniform throughout the area. Thus, we have environments of different orders, whose extension and intension vary inversely.
- "Community": the term means a group of men bearing certain characteristics in common. The smaller the community the greater tends to be the number of common characteristics. Community are of different orders and species: races, nations, provinces, towns.
Geography should then question what the effects would be of exposing, for instance, two communities to one environment (think of two different ethnic groups dwelling within the same land) or one community to two environments (think of the English race into the three different environments of Britain, America and Australia). Indeed, everywhere, at all latitudes and in all ages, all political questions will depend as the result of physical-geographical inquiry. It has been shown and demonstrated that certain conditions of climate and soil are needed for the aggregation of dense populations. A certain density of population seems necessary to the development of civilization. Wide plains, for instance, seem especially favourable to the development of homogeneous races, whereas a heterogeneous landscape tends to encourage a variegated racial offspring. The course of history at every given moment, whether in politics and economics or in any other sphere of human activity, is the result of the interaction between natural environment and human society. Furthermore, as to set an example, it has been detected that two environmental conditions favourable to the development of civilisation are somewhat the density of population and the ease of communication, like in the Ganges valley for instance. Of course, a wealthy civilised country is a regional temptation for a conqueror, be it a land or a sea conqueror: this one too is a geographical constant. "Geographical selection", as interesting as it can be, leads statesmen and peoples to choose the best geographical locations to build harbours, commercial warehouses, cities, metropolises, fortresses, and so forth: it bears exactly the same meaning that "natural selection" enjoys in biology.
Finally, with this article Mackinder helped the mindful men of his time to render to geography its honourable merit. Its chief value and achievement is its inherent and holistic breadth: "geography satisfies at once the practical requirements of the statesman and merchant, the theoretical requirements of the historian and scientist, and the intellectual requirements of the teacher". In Mackinder's final remarks we may read: "Without geography, the student, the scientist and the historian would lose their common platform". All of this to make understand how important this discipline is.
H. J. Mackinder, On the Scope and Methods of Geography, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Vol. 9, No. 3, March 1887.


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"Be a simple kind of man, Be something you love and understand, Be a simple kind of man." -Lynyrd Skynyrd
Tony was known by many names to many people; but they all loved and cared for him. He was known as tacklebox (because of his piercing), Shorty (because of his height), Miguel, Mike, BooBoo Bear (by his mom, after Yogi's sidekick) and Tony to all his family. Whatever he was called he was a very special person with a huge heart. He care deeply for the people in his life and would do anything for them. The reason for the song Simple Man, was only known to close family. This is a secret that he only shared with people he trusted, and I would like to share this with you. When he heard the song for the first time, it reminded him of his relationship with his mother. If you listen to the song you will understand, his mother was his mentor; which he looked up too. As far as his famous saying of Peace, Love and Chicken grease; your guess is as good as ours. But every time that he was going out he would say his key phase. It's fitting that he use it in his last song he wrote. I would like to take this space to thank an important person in Mike's life, we want you to know that we are thinking of you; Tihana. Thanks for all the wonderful pictures of you and Mike.
The follow poem was sent in by Tammy Collins
You didn't see me…
I saw you hug your purse closer to you in the grocery store line.
But you didn't see me put an extra $10.00 in the collection plate last Sunday.
I saw you pull your child closer when we passed each other on the sidewalk.
But you didn't see me playing Santa at the local mall.
I saw you change your mind about going into the restaurant.
But you didn't see me attending a meeting to raise more money for the hurricane relief.
I saw you roll up your window and shake your head when I drove by.
But you didn't see me driving behind you when you flicked your cigarette butt out the car window.
I saw you frown at me when I smiled at your children.
But you didn 't see me when I took time off from work to run toys to the homeless.
I saw you stare at my long hair.
But you didn't see me and my friends cut ten inches off for Locks of Love.
I saw you roll your eyes at our leather coats and gloves.
But you didn't see me and my brothers donate our old coats and gloves to those that had none.
I saw you look in fright at my tattoos.
But you didn't see me cry as my children where born and have their name written over and in my heart.
I saw you change lanes while rushing off to go somewhere.
But you didn't see me going home to be with my family.
I saw you complain about how loud and noisy our bikes can be.
But you didn't see me when you were changing the CD and drifted into my lane.
I saw you yelling at your kids in the car.
But you didn't see me pat my child's hands, knowing he was safe behind me.
I saw you reading the newspaper or map as you drove down the road.
But you didn't see me squeeze my wife's leg when she told me to take the next turn.
I saw you race down the road in the rain.
But you didn't see me get soaked to the skin so my son could have the car to go on his date.
I saw you run the yellow light just to save a few minutes of time.
But you didn't see me trying to turn right
I saw you cut me off because you needed to be in the lane I was in.
But you didn't see me leave the road.
I saw you waiting impatiently for my friends to pass.
But you didn't see me. I wasn't there.
I saw you go home to your family.
But you didn't see me. Because, I died that day you cut me off.
I WAS JUST A BIKER. A person with friends and a family. But you didn't see me.


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I found out the hard way there are doctors MRMC advertised to be on the hospital the staff of MRMC, who will not see a patient if they have been previously seen by another doctor for the same condition. This seems quite out of the ordinary. I know there are doctors who may not take new patients if their practice is full and this is understandable. What happens when a patient is seen by another doctor in another city for the same condition but can't get back to see that doctor. Trouble.
Having spent a great portion of my life as a Medicare auditor and managing the Medicare "B" program for Wisconsin, plus hospital administration, this doctors' approach is quite strange. I guess if MRMC is telling us that a doctor they are advertising as one of their specialists, really isn't.
When a patient has been seen or had surgery by a physician in a distant city and now needs a local physician, apparently MRMC gives their doctors the leeway to accept or not accept a patient even when they are covered by Medicare and secondary insurance. Apparently MRMC doesn't need the money and neither does the doctor. Having spent most of my life in medicine and Oh Yes, I have a doctor in the family, and we both see something strange about this selectivity.
So folks out there, it would be well to see a physician in a private practice rather than an MRMC employed physician. It can save you a lot of heartache in the long run.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography. I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide. – Philip Roth
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography. I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide. – Philip Roth
This year I've been actively seeking out novels written in dialogue so it was only a matter of time before I got to Philip Roth's 1990 novella Deception. Having read several books by him—Indignation, The Prague Orgy, Nemesis, The Ghost Writer, The Dying Animal, The Humbling and Everyman—I thought I had a pretty good idea what to expect here but this was something very different.
I've never been one of those writers who plunders his real life for ideas. Whenever I think about it I reflect on the scene in Hannah and her Sisters where Hannah gets upset with Holly because it's obvious that Holly's book is all about her family and contains things about Hannah's marriage that Holly really shouldn't have been privy to:
Hannah: I'm upset about what you wrote.
Holly: My script?
Hannah: It's based on Elliot and me.
Holly: Loosely.
Hannah: Not loosely. Real specifically. Is that how you see us? Can I not accept gestures and feelings from people? Do I put people off?
Holly: It's a made-up story.
Hannah: No, it's exact. The situations, the dialogue, everything. It's full of details about Elliot and me... which I don't see how you could know about.
A writer's just asking for trouble when he does that. And yet so many of us do. Even great writers like Philip Roth apparently. Or do they? On the surface the male protagonist in this book appears to be a thinly-disguised version of Roth. He's even called Philip and this 'Philip' is the author of books where the main character is a certain Nathan Zuckerman. That really should settle it: this is biography, or—let's do the man a favour—semi-autobiography. Roth opens his actual autobiography The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography as follows:
Dear Zuckerman,
In the past, as you know, the facts have always been notebook jottings, my way of springing into fiction. For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, the ideological, or the abstract. Yet, to my surprise, I now appear to have gone about writing a book absolutely backward, taking what I have already imagined and, as it were, desiccating it, so as to restore my experience to the original, prefictionalised factuality. Why? To prove that there is a significant gap between the autobiographical writer that I am thought to be and the autobiographical writer that I am? To prove that the information that I drew from my life was, in the fiction, incomplete? If that was all, I don't think I would have gone to the trouble, since thoughtful readers, if they were interested enough to care, could have figured as much for themselves.
The reality of Deception is that Roth did work in a studio flat in London's Notting Hill. At the time of writing the book Roth was in a long-term relationship with the British actress Claire Bloom (they first met in 1966) who he ended up marrying (in 1990 shortly after he finished Deception—notably Bloom proposed to Roth). They also ended up divorcing most acrimoniously a few years later. In the book there's a conversation between the writer 'Philip' and his wife (who, in early drafts had been named 'Claire') where she's discovered his notebook and questions him regarding the contents: just how fictional was his fiction? It's a good question and one that hovers over this book. The wife accuses him of having an affair. She's read the novel he's been working on (which is 'Philip's' version of Roth's The Counterfile) and feels she knows the Englishwoman there but, she says, "this is not that English woman, this is not the model for that English woman, this is the real woman! Don't pretend they are one and the same." 'Philip' says he doesn't:
One is a figure sketched in conversation in a notebook, the other is a major character entangled in a plot of an intricate book. I have been imagining myself, outside of my novel, having a love affair with a character inside my novel.
This, of course, is not dissimilar to the defence provide by Humbert Humbert in Lolita when Charlotte Haze finds his journal in which he's recorded his feelings for her daughter:
Let us be civilized people. It is all your hallucination. You are crazy, Charlotte. The notes you found were fragments of a novel. Your name and hers were put in by mere chance. Just because they came handy. Think it over. I shall bring you a drink.
Roth's autobiography (written in 1988 by the way) is interesting because as you might've noticed a) it's addressed to a fictional character, his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, but also because b) we get to read Zuckerman's critique of Roth's book. He says:
Dear Roth,
I've read the manuscript twice. Here is the candour you ask for: Don't publish—you are far better off writing about me than "accurately" reporting your own life. Could it be that you've turned yourself into a subject not only because you're tired of me but because you believe I am no longer someone through whom you can detach yourself from your biography at the same time that you exploit its crises, themes, tensions, and surprises? Well, on the evidence of what I've just read, I'd say you're still as much in need of me as I of you—and that I need you is indisputable.
What you choose to tell in fiction is different from what you're permitted to tell when nothing's being fictionalized, and in this book you are not permitted to tell what it is you tell best: kind, discreet, careful—changing people's names because you're worried about hurting their feelings—no, this isn't you at your most interesting. In the fiction you can be so much more truthful without worrying all the time about causing direct pain.
Odd that after writing this book he would then produce a novella like Deception. Or maybe not so odd. Supposedly the first step to recovery for an addict is admitting to themselves (as well as others) that they're an addict. But that admission isn't a cure-all in itself because there are plenty of addicts who know they're addicts but just keep right on flushing their lives down the pan. Roth acknowledges in his biography what he's like and then keeps right on doing it. And one can't say that Bloom didn't know what she was getting into. Her first letter to Roth included praise for his novel My Life as a Man, a warts and all account of his what Morris Dickstein in his review for the New York Times calls Roth's "operatically unhappy" first marriage. It was clearly only a matter of time before Roth turned his talent on her. In her own kiss-and-tell autobiography, Leaving a Doll's House, Bloom writes:
Almost immediately I came upon a passage about the self-hating Anglo-Jewish family with whom he lives in England. Oh well, I thought, he doesn't like my family. There was a description of his working studio in London, letter-perfect and precise. Then I reached the depictions of all the girls who come over to have sex with him—in the most convoluted positions, preferably on the floor. As Philip always insisted that the critics were unable to distinguish his self-invention from his true self, I mindfully accepted these Eastern European seductresses as part of his "performance" as a writer; but I was not so certain. Finally, I arrived at the chapter about his remarkably uninteresting, middle-aged wife, who, as described, is nothing better than an ever-spouting fountain of tears constantly bemoaning the fact that his other women are so young. She is an actress by profession, and—as if hazarding a guess would spoil the incipient surprise lying in store—her name is Claire.
As it is she actually gets off fairly light. The character of the wife only appears in one chapter of the book where she challenges him after flicking though his notebook and 'Philip' ends up storming out of the house. "The only woman in my studio," asserts 'Philip', "is the woman in my novel. It would be nicer with company but it doesn't work that way." The wife isn't convinced:
'How can she be imaginary when she knows all these things you couldn't possibly know? She is someone who comes to your studio and she is why you have been so distracted and totally uninterested in me now for months.'
The defence calls James Ellroy (from an interview with Chris Harvey):
Ellroy, one suspects, is just glad to be back with the characters he loves: "I wanted to know these people again, because they're so stunningly real to me, and with all but a few cases in my personal life, maybe just one case in Helen Knode, they're more real to me than the real people I've known." He slips into an imagined reunion with them: "I've missed ya. Hey. I love ya. I'm back. You're doing this crazy s--- at the beginning of World War II. Hey, Dudley, you're an opium addict, bet you didn't know that, hey Dud? Hey, but you f--- Bette Davis, how bad can it be?" [bold mine]
Try typing into Google "more real to me than" and see how many writers have said something similar to the above.
Going back to My Life as a Man it's worth looking at how it's structured. As Wikipedia puts it:
The work is split into two sections: the first section, "Useful Fictions," consisting of two short stories about a character named Nathan Zuckerman, and the second section, "My True Story," which takes the form of a first-person memoir by Peter Tarnopol, a Jewish writer who authored the two stories in the first section.
Deception isn't nearly as complex but we're still faced with the ethical issue: what right does an author have to cannibalise the lives of his family and friends? At one point his (fictitious?) ex-lover says to 'Philip': "All the time I thought you loved me for my body when in fact it was only for my sentences." This is some time after this 'Philip' has published his version of Deception (although the book is never named) and she's calmed down enough to phone him. She's been mad with him—furious—and so Roth would've known how Bloom would've been likely to react when he finally handed her the manuscript of Deception to read. Perhaps this is why he (uncharacteristically, apparently) waited several weeks to show it her. Interestingly the e-book I read doesn't have the usually disclaimer saying all the characters contained within are works of fictions and any similarities to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Fiction is deception. Writers are liars. For some perverse reason we think telling lies is a way to get to the truth while it's got its knickers down and Roth is no exception. Metafiction is deception squared. And one of the primary goals of metafiction is to look at the craft of the writer. I wrote a poem once called 'Salome':
"I thought you'd be pleased," she said
when she presented me
with the typescript of our conversation.
Well I was, in a way, flattered at least,
but I'd never intended
what I'd said to have such permanence.
Better such things to be viewed
through the veil of memory.
29 October 1989
and when I showed it to the girl who'd inspired it—unusually I hadn't dedicated the poem to her which is odd because I was quite besotted by her—she was appalled at the thought that I might've recorded the things we'd shared, not flattered, not in the least. I can only imagine her face if I ever did choose to write about our relationship because we haven't spoken in almost twenty-five years.
Poets especially suffer from readers' inability to distinguish between fact and fiction. As soon as you put 'I' in a poem then immediately the poem's all about you and they feel cheated—lied to and not in a good way—if they learn you made the whole thing up. This is what Roth says in The Counterlife:
It's all impersonation—in the absence of a self, one impersonates selves, and after a while impersonates the best the self that best gets one through... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself—a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required, an ever-evolving stock of pieces and parts that forms my repertoire... I am a theatre, nothing more than a theatre.
In his biography, again, Roth writes (well, Zuckerman responds):
What one chooses to reveal in fiction is governed by a motive fundamentally aesthetic; we judge the author of a novel by how well he or she tells the story. But we judge morally the author of an autobiography, whose governing motive is primarily ethical as against aesthetic. How close is the narration to the truth? Is the author hiding his or her motives, presenting his or her actions and thoughts to lay bare the essential nature of conditions or trying to hide something, telling in order not to tell? In a way we always tell in order also not to tell, but the personal historian is expected to resist to the utmost the ordinary impulse to falsify, distort, and deny. Is this really "you" or is it what you want to look like to your readers at the age of fifty-five? You tell me in your letter that the book feels like the first thing you have ever written "unconsciously." Do you mean that The Facts is an unconscious work of fiction? Are you not aware yourself of its fiction-making tricks?
Did Philip Roth have an affair with an English woman over a period of several years? Does it matter? Come to think of it did the conversations with the two Czechoslovakian women, the Polish woman and the male Czech expatriate take place exactly as recorded in the book? Or at all? Are they more or less likely to be fiction? And what about the ex-mistress with cancer, or the other ex-mistress (and ex-student) who has had shock treatment? I assumed these were the Englishwoman—I was deceived—but apparently not.
That Deception might feel more like notes for a novel rather than a finished novel is, I'm sure, no coincidence. That his partner would get upset by what she read in the novel comes as no surprise since his character's wife gets upset by what she reads in his notebook; this is life imitating art. I wonder if Roth would've been disappointed, felt he'd somehow failed, if Claire Bloom hadn't batted an eye when she read his book? So what is it? A novel pretending to be a notebook or a notebook pretending to be a novel?
The final chapter of this book poses a problem. If 'Philip's' notebook comprises the chapters preceding the one where his wife confronts him then what's happening in the final chapter? I can see two ways of reading this, either the Englishwoman was real and this is a final conversation or, inspired by his wife's reaction to the notebook, this is a final chapter imagining a pleasanter encounter with the Englishwoman after she has read about herself in the novel 'Philip's' written.
One of the big problems with a dialogue novel is how to distinguish who is talking. In Me & You Powell presents us with two interchangeable characters—it doesn't matter which one's which—and in Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Eggers changes location—Buildings 52, 53 and so on—and we quickly learn who's chained up in each building but in Deception Roth shows little regard for his readers and I was lost at the start of every chapter and I was not alone (see Fay Weldon's comments in the next paragraph). I'd assumed that the book would only contain two people—I was expecting a version of Nicholson Baker's Vox—but, no, there're all these Czechs popping up; there's a whole chunk in fact that reads like an outtake from The Prague Orgy. But think about it, if this is a notebook then it would be confusing to anyone other than the note taker. All I have to do is look at some of the notes I've written—which immediately jog my memory—but anyone else would struggle to make any sense out of them if they ever could. They're not deliberately cryptic. They're just a kind of shorthand. Which is what we have here. No exposition, no description, just what was (or might have been) said.
In her review in The New York Times Fay Weldon described this as a "swift, elegant, disturbing novel … that reads like a brilliant radio play for a minority (that is to say, brilliant) audience." She admits Roth's thrown down a gauntlet:
[T]his literary navel-gazing is a risky occupation. Is this novel a portrait of Roth or non-Roth in hateful literary London, having it off with the wives of his friends? What conceit, to think we're interested. Yet he gets away with it even as he angers us. […] Who is this Olina, who is referred to all of a sudden in the dialogue, with no introduction? Male, female? Who's talking anyway? Do I have to go back yet again and count up—he, she, he, she—to find out? Why doesn't this author turn up and help?
There is no question here: Roth pulls no punches. As his alter ego yells out towards the end of his row with his wife, "I write what I write the way I write it. … I will publish what I publish however I want to publish." And we readers be damned? Yes, so it seems.
The actual conversations are interesting. The book begins, for example, in media res. It's as if we've sat down on the bus or train and there's this couple behind us chattering away and it's impossible not to take an interest in what they're saying. And that probably is the real attraction here. Writers are voyeurs but then so are their readers. A brief exchange:
'Did you listen to that record I gave you?'
'No. I had to hide it.'
'Why do you have to hide it?'
'Because it would be unusual for me to buy a record. I don't often do it.'
'What are you going to do with it?'
'Well I'll play it in the evening when I'm alone.'
'What are you going to do if it's found? Salt and pepper it and eat it?'
'I did buy records, but I did get so upset for a while that—well, that's history.'
'What? Did you have fights about that too?'
This isn't the best Roth I've read but, as I've said, I've focused on his later novellas, none of the famous stuff although I did watch the film adaptation of Portnoy's Complaint and can't say I'm desperate to read the book now. I should probably read Operation Shylock. It's supposed to be his masterpiece. Deception isn't. It's an experimental novel and as I'm always quick to point out, most experiments fail but that doesn't mean they're not worthwhile ventures; it's how we learn. And what I learned from this book is that an author needs to have a little more respect for his readers than Roth's shown here. We don't need to be spoon-fed but as most of us aren't that brilliant a little help here and there would be appreciated.
I know a lot of people don't care much for Roth—my wife is one of them—and there are good reasons from what I hear and maybe if I had read all the famous books I wouldn't care much for him either—I was certainly not impressed by the way he treated Claire Bloom when they parted company—but for a book about a love affair the one thing there's very little of (or even talk of) is sex. That doesn't mean that 'Philip' is not sexist because he is, and manipulative and full of himself. But clearly he's also capable of attracting women. As was Roth. Roth and Bloom were a couple for years. He must've been doing something right. That 'Philip' treats women as fodder sounds bad—they're something to be recorded and studied—but he's a writer: that's what we do. Witness for the defence, Randy Murray:
A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no harm, but what you know and what you've done is unavoidably fascinating to us. Being friends with a writer is a bit like trying to keep a bear as a pet. They're wonderful, friendly creatures, but they play rough and they don't know their own strength or remember that they have claws. Choose the stories you tell to your writer friends carefully.
What's interesting about 'Philip' and the Englishwoman is that over the years the sex dries up and all they have is the conversation but it seems enough. Better than sex? Better than the wrong kind of sex perhaps. A far cry from Portnoy. Or maybe not:
What I'm saying, Doctor, is that I don't seem to stick my dick up these girls, as much as I stick it up their backgrounds—as though through fucking I will discover America. Conquer America—maybe that's more like it. Columbus, Captain Smith, Governor Winthorp, General Washington—now Portnoy.
If Portnoy was Roth in his youth then why shouldn't 'Philip' be a middle-aged Roth not entirely disinterested in sex but more interested in other kinds of intimacies? Indeed the subject matter covered in this little book is broad: sex, infidelity, family and work, psychotherapy, politics, sleeplessness, divorce lawyers, the anti-Semitism of the English, and how far a writer should be allowed to go for his craft.
The chapters with the Czechs seem out of place at first but Hermione Lee in an article in The Independent suggested that Deception is "also about obstacles to freedom, which is why the novel has other voices cutting across the lovers' voices of Roth's obstructed Eastern European characters." It's a thought. 'Philip' basically hides himself away in his flat and blames it on the locals' attitudes towards Jews. One thing I haven't mentioned and really should is the humour in the book. Although it's far from being a comedy there are a few moments that made me smile, particularly this one in which the Englishwoman has taken on the role of female prosecutor and 'Philip' that of the accused writer:
'The women in your work are all vicious stereotypes. Was that your aim as a writer?'
'Many people have read the work otherwise.'
'Why did you portray Mrs. Portnoy as a hysteric? Why did you portray Lucy Nelson as a psychopath? Why did you portray Maureen Tarnopol as a liar and a cheat? Does this not defame and denigrate women? Why do you depict women as shrews, if not to malign them?'
'Why did Shakespeare? You refer to women as though every woman is a person to be extolled.'
'You dare to compare yourself to Shakespeare?'
'I am only—'
''Next you will be comparing yourself to Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker!'
Is this Roth answering his critics? Who knows? All the above taken into consideration I have to say I did actually like this book. Now, after doing some research, I've a better idea what's going on and who's who I think I could relax into it a second time but I'm not in any great rush to read it again. Too many other books crying out for attention.
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, which became the scene for his early novels. His father was an insurance salesman of Austro-Hungarian stock. Roth attended Rutgers University for a year before transferring to Bucknell University. He studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in English. In 1955 Roth joined the army but was discharged after an injury during basic training period. Roth continued his studies in Chicago, and worked from 1955 to 1957 as an English teacher. He dropped out of the Ph.D. program in 1959 and started to write film reviews for the New Republic.
Roth, known to be both literary troublemaker and (arguably) the greatest living American writer, has been praised time and time again for his works of literature, beginning in 1959 when he won the National Book Award for his novel Goodbye, Columbus. Ten years later appeared Portnoy's Complaint, a "masturbation story" about young man's search for freedom using forbidden sex as his way of escape. The book gained a great international success and ended up being translated into several languages.
Roth has a well-known style for his use of exploration of American identity that often gets tied together with sexual and familial love. We often see parallels between his novels and his own life, and although his novels do seem eerily biographical, he has sworn up and down that they are, in fact, not.
Philip Roth has had three of his novels made into movies, including Goodbye, Columbus, The Human Stain, Portnoy's Complaint; Battle of Blood Island was adapted from the short story 'Expect the Vandals'. Roth has also won over twenty awards for his novels, including two National Book Awards and the Man Booker International Prize. Somehow the Nobel Prize keeps eluding him though.


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See for yourself, though the Human was too slow on the draw to get the really good parts. Still, it's 0:11 of delicate and satisfying action.
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See for yourself, though the Human was too slow on the draw to get the really good parts. Still, it's 0:11 of delicate and satisfying action.
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Did you see the size of that tongue? You could lick for the USA in the Olympics, Spitty!
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Spitty, I'm a big fan of butter too. It's delectable! ~WallyReplyDelete
Did you eat any of the corn or just lick the butter. I don't like human food that isn't meat.ReplyDelete
Butter yep, grilled meats too.ReplyDelete
Sparkle used to love buttered corn on the cob! I don't think my human has had any since I've come to live her... or if she has, she has been holding out on me!ReplyDelete
Thin end of the wedge -you'll be eating her sandwiches next. And why not ?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2016 at 2:36 AM
Oh yes!! Pools of butter and the occasional kernel of corn (or any other butter-soaked veg) is a lovely and enjoyable snack. I'm a fan also.ReplyDelete
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See, humans have SOME things you might like! Worth getting pet and snuggled once in a while, right? Smooches!ReplyDelete
Gee Spitty, when you eat corn does it give you,um, the poots?ReplyDelete
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Mom's Robin ate scrambled eggs. Had her own dish of them, and corn and peas too. A wee serving of those two. But she loved them. Taco chips were a fave too.ReplyDelete
You can keep the corn, but we'll take the butter!ReplyDelete
I heard you lick, lick, licking, Spitty!ReplyDelete
So cute! Thanks for the share.ReplyDelete
dood...forgetz that corn...just go for de butter...eye em tellin ya;ReplyDelete
best stuff invented.....EVER !
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I'm not partial to corn, myself, but butter? I'm totally in agreement on that!ReplyDelete
Very cute video. My Sammy loves corn on the cob and we don't even use butter on it.ReplyDelete
Mmmm, butters and King Spitty tongue. SQUEEE!ReplyDelete
Spitty I love a good lick of butter too! Nothing wrong with that, especially when it has been sweetened by some corn :)ReplyDelete
You were going to town on those corns and butters, Spitty! NOM NOM NOM!ReplyDelete
Our humans eat that this time of year, but we have never been allowed to try it. We know another cat who loves corn on the cob: Sammy Pilch from 15 and Meowing! XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista JoReplyDelete


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About Ferlyn F.Close
My Teaching Credits:
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CSU, Los Angeles
My Training Credits:
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About Ferlyn
"Everyone is capable of dancing, playing an instrument, and understanding music & art performance; it is the desire, drive, determination, dedication and discipline instilled within a person and the guidance of my company's methodology that will bring these abilities to light." - Ferlyn
I believe each and every person has a unique brand of movement, understanding of music, and learning style for any dance form or instrument. Whether it is hip hop, breaking, ballet, jazz, tap, ballroom, dancing for a wedding, birthday, or flash mob, playing the piano, singing or even learning the theory of music or dance, I make sure to bring out the best quality within your learning, expand that knowledge and encourage you to become your fullest potential as my student. I bring a different light to each lesson of dance, piano a
My Biography:
I started at the age of 5 with the desire to perform and entertain. With the drive of a freestyle & street dancer, I emulated Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Michael Jackson as a few of my dance inspirations. I also grew up driven into the background of piano, having trained in various methods such as Alfred, Bastien, Faber, Carr-Glover & Glover, Thompson and Schuam, expanding my knowledge and range as a pianist of 25 years.
In Los Angeles, I was determined to make dance my professional career and earned my Baccalaureate in Dance at California State University, Los Angeles. I learned alongside notable and popular mentors and instructors, training in modern, hip hop, breaking, popping, locking, house, tap, jazz and ballet. I choreographed for weddings, birthdays, within multiple shows, as well as became an advanced member of Cal State LA Jazz Tap Corps and the campus' hip hop crew, Team Flight.
Under much dedication for my professional career, my experiences exponentially grew after college as the Dance Choreographer & Director for Crenshaw Arts/Tech Charter High School's dance troupe, CATCH Kids, a troupe renowned for being featured on the Tyra Banks Show and catching the eyes of a few known performers such as Tommy The Clown, Debbie Allen, and Janet Jackson. I was a Dance Instructor in various studios such as the American Vive Dance Foundation, King's Dance Center, Expressions Dance and Movement Center, and Kruciaal Element's The Dancehouse. I worked with Kruciaal Element Dance Company as the previous Assistant Director and part of their freestyle dance crew, Stylematix, and performed in shows and events across San Diego County and Los Angeles County, including Monster Bash San Diego, Mardi Gras in The Gaslamp District, Dancescape, The Hot Spot Alhambra and The Moxie Showcase.
My current disciplines are focused and centered around Southern California as the CEO & Director of a Dance Company. I aim at providing a unique family of dancers and training musicians to be at their best. I am working on several upcoming pieces and providing a dance company that integrates dance community and dance industry knowledge, with a side of the 3 Heart-"Be3ts". Additionally, I have extensive knowledge and experience in Filipino traditional dance, ballroom, social and line dancing, as well as a background in stage management, set design, and vocal training. My personal goals are to continue to express my passions, develop my talents, and especially motivate others to find their own true inner self, dancer, choreographer, musician, performer, entertainer and/or artist.
For a more accurate look into my experience and resume, please refer to my profile. Also, any advanced, duet, group, weddings, birthdays, or any special occasion will differ than the usual lesson rate.
*** Lesson Details ***
At the instructor's HQ site, we have an amazing speaker system, wood laminate floors, and surrounding mirrors!
All lessons are provided via movement.
I will provide a speaker system and the dance lessons for On-Site (Traveling) Lessons.
It is necessary to provide at least an 8 foot by 8 foot clearance of open space and a floor of concrete, wood, vinyl or laminate flooring.
If open space is away from an outlet, please provide an extension cord.
Dancer must have ready the following for class:
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- Water
- Comfortable Clothing
- Appropriate Shoes:
----For Tap Dance Classes: Hard-Soled Shoes are recommended for Concrete and Vinyl (outside) flooring.
----For Wood and Laminate flooring: Please make sure all screw-in taps (not bolted) are in the toe and heel of taps on Tap Shoes.
[Dance shoes and outfits are not included in cost of lessons; however, I will recommend places to buy these items.]
For a more accurate look into my experience and resume, please refer to my profile. Also, any advanced, duet, group, weddings, birthdays, or any special occasion will differ than the usual lesson rate.
At the instructor's In-Studio site, we have a Full 88-Key Digital Piano, Upright Piano and Baby Grand Piano for all piano lessons!
I will provide the piano.
I WILL NOT have a digital piano provided for On-Site (Travel) Lessons. Please have an upright, grand or digital piano ready (76 keys or more is ok; a Full 88-key Keyboard or Piano is recommended).
For Advanced Piano Lessons: A Full 88-key Keyboard or Piano is required.
[Piano books, notebooks and supplementary materials are not included in cost of lessons; however, I will recommend places to buy these items.]
For a more accurate look into my experience and resume, please refer to my profile. Also, any advanced, duet, group, weddings, birthdays, or any special occasion will differ than the usual lesson rate.
*** Specialties ***
Hip Hop, Breaking, Popping, Locking, Whacking, House, Bebop Tap, Contemporary, Modern, Jazz and Ballet.
Over 15 years of experience and training.
Taught various dance genres officially since 2005.
Classical Pianist for over 25+ years.
Taught Piano for over 10 years.
For a more accurate look into my experience and resume, please refer to my profile. Also, any advanced, duet, group, weddings, birthdays, or any special occasion will differ than the usual lesson rate.
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I arranged piano lessons with Ferlyn for my mother.
Her first lesson (for which I was present) was fine.
I then found out that at their second lesson, Ferlyn showed up very sick. This was quite concerning, especially given my mother's age. Ferlyn definitely should have canceled that second lesson and not showed up so sick.
Then, only two hours (!) before my mother's scheduled third lesson, I receive a text message from Ferlyn stating the following:
"Hi Dominique, wanted to let you and your mom that piano lessons will be cancelled today because it is my Birthday! I will see her next week. :)"
This was incredible. This was a cancellation only two hours prior, not due to some emergency or even due to her illness which should have caused a cancelation the week before! This was because it was her birthday. Something that would have been understandable, were she to have let us know well in advance. I am sure she knew in advance when her birthday is.
This does not reflect on TakeLessons, as I have had great experiences with other teachers.
But this degree of inconsiderateness, first with regard to the illness and then with regard to the manner of cancellation, is appalling.
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Her choreography includes works for Kruciaal Element, San Diego Civic Dance Association, Candy Inc., X-Force Dance Company, Coronado School of the Arts, Los Willows Resort, Fall and Spring concerts for Mesa and Southwestern Community College, A Fundamental Change Musical, Generation F, and for vocal artists such as Abrina, who opened up for Bow Wow, Paul Wall, and Lil' Rob, La Rain, Jacqueline Grace, Tawny Heath, who opened for Sean Kingston and Baby Bash, and Jason Brown, who performed with Stevie Wonder and John Legend. Aside from dancing, Mrs. W. has over 10 years experience in social services where she has worked with youths from 2-18, adults with both physical and developmental disabilities, and seniors. Mrs. W. is incredibly grateful for her wonderfully unique family and friends who have always loved and supported her; they have taught her optimism and laughter. Her belief and faith in God has allowed her to stay focused on her purpose in life: "inspire." She hopes to spread her love for God, life, and dance to as many people as she can!
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Creating a Network to Support the LGBT Community – Department of State
|This one-time grant will provide technical and technological support for the development of a nationwide network focused on supporting the LGBT community. A national mechanism will support organizations from different parts of the country in working together on access issues related to education, employment, or health care. Objective 1: Create a national network focused on LGBT issues in India. o Activity 1.1: Leadership development programs for existing LGBT organizations with the goal of providing them the tools to establish capabilities to advance LGBT access to services available to all Indian citizens including health care and government public services. Intended Result: A nationwide network of LGBT organizations focused on achieving greater awareness and acceptance of LGBT community. o Activity 1.2 : Implementing partner will conduct regularized and organized community-led awareness campaigns and related media advocacy to raise the national visibility of the LGBT issues in India. Intended Result: Changed public perception of LGBT Indians. Activity 1.3: Increase capacity of LGBT organizations to participate in organized, collaborative, networking efforts that will increase discourse between citizens and local officials about the needs of all citizens. Examples of similar efforts have included, a Transgender Board in the state of Tamil Nadu that examines "various problems faced by the community and to formulate and execute welfare schemes for the betterment" of LGBT citizens. Intended Result: LGBT community better able to promote dialogue with diverse stakeholders, such as faith leaders, local and national authorities, and others.
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|Embassy Website
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|If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
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|Creating a Network to Support the LGBT Community
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|Community Development
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|19.345 — International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
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Posted Date:Aug 10, 2015
Creation Date:Aug 10, 2015
Original Closing Date for Applications:Sep 4, 2015
Current Closing Date for Applications:Sep 4, 2015
Archive Date:Oct 4, 2015
Estimated Total Program Funding:$49,083
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Obama's Iowa Victory Fits Democratic Trend
According to conventional wisdom, front-runners win presidential nominations. Democrats and Republicans who start the race for a presidential nomination with the largest amount of money and the best poll numbers are supposed to be the ones most likely to walk away with victory months later.
The conventional wisdom took a battering last week when neither the Democratic nor the Republican national front-runner won the Iowa caucuses. Hillary Rodham Clinton came in third, and Rudy Giuliani ignored the race altogether.
But the victories of an African American barely two years removed from the Illinois state Senate and a virtually unknown Arkansas governor conceal the deeper patterns that govern the nomination process -- a pattern that portends fresh surprises in New Hampshire and beyond.
Barack Obama's win and Clinton's poor showing in Iowa are not so much surprises as much as confirmation of the trends that govern the race for Democratic nominees, said political scientist D. Jason Berggren. But, he said Mike Huckabee's win in Iowa was deeply at odds with historical trends.
Berggren, a political scientist at the University of Georgia, has found that the conventional wisdom about front-runners is true, but only for Republicans -- GOP candidates who start the nomination race with the best numbers and the most cash usually win.
The pattern reverses itself among Democrats. From Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton and John Kerry, Democrats who win their party's nomination are often candidates that few people take seriously a year before the Iowa caucuses. To put it another way, if you look at polling data a year before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic nominees going back more than 30 years rarely had national name recognition, let alone national support.
The eventual Republican nominee usually had national name recognition, blood ties to former Republican presidents or nominees, or was an early front-runner.
"Republicans tend to go with the early front-runners whereas Democratic front-runners, barring vice presidents like [Walter] Mondale and [Al] Gore, tend to fall by the wayside" in nomination races, said Berggren, who published his findings about the patterns in Democratic and Republican primaries in Presidential Studies Quarterly. "Since 1952 to 2004, with the exception of 1964, Republicans have had a Nixon, a Dole or a Bush on their national ticket."
From this point of view, Hillary Clinton's poor showing in Iowa is merely more of the same: "For someone with all these credentials to possibly lose Iowa and possibly New Hampshire says a lot about the Democratic Party and the nature of the Democratic Party," Berggren said before the Iowa caucuses. "They like to shake things up."
Political scientist Wayne Steger at DePaul University agreed that the instability of the GOP race was surprising by historical patterns, but he said the Democratic race this year has also been unusual. Clinton has been a solid front-runner from the start, and Obama has been a strong contender for months -- whereas the Democratic field is typically less stable.
Steger said Democrats generally tend to be more divided, because the party includes many constituencies. The GOP instability this year, he argued, suggests a similar dynamic unfolding among Republicans, with social conservatives clashing with economic conservatives and the party establishment.
Berggren said that in as much as historical patterns are guides to future behavior, his analysis suggested the GOP nomination would eventually go to Mitt Romney, the son of a Republican governor and presidential candidate, or John McCain, the early front-runner in the race for the 2008 nomination.
Besides the GOP passion for Nixons, Doles and Bushes, Berggren identified another curious pattern that might help McCain: In part because they tend to go with familiar choices rather than dark-horse candidates, Republicans regularly nominate presidential candidates who came in second in the last open nomination race -- that is, in the last race without an incumbent Republican president.
Ronald Reagan finished second in the 1976 GOP primary and won the nomination in 1980. George H.W. Bush came in second in 1980 and won in 1988. Bob Dole came in second in 1988 and won the nomination in 1996. McCain came in second to George W. Bush in 2000.
While Huckabee's victory in Iowa would be predictable if he were a Democrat, Berggren argued that the former Arkansas governor is the kind of candidate likely to face stiff winds in New Hampshire and beyond -- an insurgent from a small state who runs into the GOP predilection for blue blood.
While Obama's chances of winning the Democratic nomination might have the winds of history at his back -- especially given the role of momentum in a front-loaded nomination race -- Steger cautioned the nomination was not a done deal. The same Democratic predilection for underdogs that contributed to Obama's win in Iowa could pose problems if he should be anointed the front-runner.
Columnist Shankar Vedantam and political scientist Jason Berggren will discuss voting behavior today at noon. Go tohttp:/


text: Thanks Steve, The PC is Xpsp2. I am rebuilding one now. If RDP is corrupting the GPMC driver does it make sense that it happened on two different machines with-in a short period of time? I'm wondering now if it is some patch that got installed. When someone needs the console and someone else is logged into it; we send an email asking them to log out when they're done, so the one logon rule is being followed. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll report back if it works. Mary Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:28:18 -0400 From: Steven <usersend@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [gptalk] Re: GPMC PC hanging w/error Mary, The fact that you moved to a different machine and the problem re-occurred eventually makes me think that the problem is not at the workstation but rather on the focused DC. However, I did run into this problem once before but error message was slight different. My problem was that the drivers for the GPMC (SP1) where being corrupted by an RDP session. I never found an explanation for this but I rebuilt the PC and the problem never showed up again. Also, you mentioned that the machine where you are storing your ADM's was remoted into. Was this a WinXP or server? If it was XP, there is only one logon of RDP allowed. So, when you logged onto the console that should gracefully log off the other user. if this is the case, is is possible that the other user was/is not being logged off correctly (ie. not releasing registry hive)? If this is a server, are you running Terminal Services or just using RDP for management? Could you post a log entry or two? preferably from System and Application? Thanks. I have been having a problem with the PCs that I install the GPMCsp1 onto. We keep one PC for the console so that all policy settings come from the same place. At first I thought that the error I was getting was due to the fact that I was using a Dell GX270 PC with a capacitor problem on the motherboard. The board was replaced and I went for a week or so before I got the error again. "Error connecting to existing session for UserID (Id0) a device attached to the system is not functioning." I then installed the GPMCsp1 and transferred all my ADMs to an HP D530. That was about a week and a half ago. I just got the error message again. This error usually occurs when someone is remoted into the PC; it freezes up. The only way to get the PC workable is to hard boot it. A few weeks ago this caused corruption because a GPO was open for editing at the time. I looked at the MS site to see if there was a new version of GPMC and found none, our servers have recently been updated to Windows2003sp2. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Is there a GPMC sp2 and I'm just not seeing it? Thanks for any help you can offer. Mary Collingwood We Energies - IT Services Client Device Integration


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Open Thread: It Happened to You
This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
I've killed one mammal in my entire life. It was a mouse in my kitchen, in my Montreal apartment in the winter of 2010.
As a lifelong New Yorker, I have always been repulsed by rodents in the backs of restaurants or in subway sewers, but facing the reality of actually taking one's life was a bit too real for me.
But it was struggling in a trap and I had to put it out of its misery. A few friends made fun of how much this experience affected me -- I cried after it happened.
In a bizarre twist, I was hospitalized with meningitis a few weeks later. What I had assumed to be a particularly strong migraine turned out to be a potentially deadly infection of my brain and spinal fluid. After a spinal tap and several terrifying weeks in the hospital, the doctors concluded that my illness came, most likely, from a rodent.
My recovery was haunted by thoughts of rats and mice. A scratch in the walls (unavoidable in old Montreal apartments) put me on the verge of tears. I couldn't sleep.
Every night, I dreamed of mice running all over me. In my dream, I'd pick them up and throw them down the long hallway leading out of my bedroom, but they'd always come back.
I couldn't live like this. My near-death experience was traumatic enough, I didn't need fear-insomnia on top of it.
On one of my short daily walks (being outdoors was intimidating after such a long stint in the hospital, and I was pretty frail), I stepped into the pet store. There was a glass cage full of baby rats, and to my surprise, they were sort of cute.
Innocent. Not deadly. Destined to be snake food, as the clerk informed me.
Looking at these cute little baby rats, there was only one way of going forward that my post-traumatic logic could muster: I'd take one of them home.
Saving the life of the thing that (symbolically) tried to kill me, I figured, would somehow break the cycle. So I bought a cage, some bedding and brought the little shaking creature home. I named her Amos, after my favorite book in kindergarten.
Here are some facts about rats you might not be aware of: They're extremely affectionate: They laugh when they're having fun, and they'll be excited to see you when you get home. I fell in love with Amos immediately — when she fell asleep in my pocket minutes after we got home. For months after, she greeted me every day, hanging on her cage waiting to get out, run up my sleeve and sit on the nape of my neck.
They're empathetic, kind animals: They'll even save their friends from drowning. Amos showed the sort of affection and sensitivity I expect from dogs, not rodents. We'd play together, or hang out while I read. I'd let her explore around my apartment, and she came when I called her.
They're geniuses: With a little work, they're easy to train. My boyfriend taught Amos to fetch. Some are saving the world by using their strong sense of smell to detect mines and diagnose diseases.
I know my story about getting sick terrifies some people, and makes them even more repulsed by rats and mice. To be clear, I'm not suggesting you attempt to domesticate the rat in your stairwell.
But my experience with Amos has given so much more dimension to my understanding of rats, and rodents in general. They're complex, intelligent animals. Their adaptability, and ability to thrive in unfriendly urban environments like New York City is worthy of respect. Read Robert Sullivan's Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants to have your mind blown.
Pop culture is slowly moving towards a rehabilitation of rats' bad rep — they're getting a sort of pit bull treatment, showing up in music videos and fashion shoots as "edgy" pets. It's my hope that they'll become increasingly mainstream and appreciated for the great animals they are.
As my contribution, here's a cute rat dispelling myths.


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Number 9 on the Bucket List was checked off tonight.
Oh yes happy people, tonight…I met Alton Brown. He signed my book, we spoke and there was a photo op moment. It was awesome. Our "conversation" was even more awesome as it went something like this:
Me: Ummm, you're on my list….
AB: what list (with the same raised eyebrow you see on the show)
Me: …the list of people I want to meet before I die
AB: Do you currently have a life threatening illness?
Me: Nope, totally healthy
Yep. I told him he was on my bucket list, and he had a snarky response! AMAZING! His lecture was also awesome. In included such gems like "how do you make kids eat? DON'T GIVE IN TO THE LITTLE TERRORISTS," the concept that chickens don't have fingers, that China should not make canned chili for the USA, how people should take more the 5mins to eat cause no other wolf is going to come steal your food, and the following slides:
All ending with this quirky Food Network star of Good Eats
All in all, it was a wonderful night. Lecture, meeting AB and a fantabulous episode of the ever so ridiculous Glee, which I must say as crazy as it is…it may have used one of my not-admitted-favorites tonight. So to end on a great reminder in the midst of my up and down sanity and many mental changes in life, I give you…wait for it…Keep Holding On, by the one and only Avril Lavigne:
There's nothing you could say/Nothing you could do/There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through/we'll make it through


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The R data.table package is rapidly making its name as the number one choice for handling large datasets in R. This online data.table tutorial will bring you from data.table novice to expert in no time. Once you are introduced to the general form of a data.table query, you will learn the techniques to subset your data.table, how to update by reference and how you can use data.table's set()-family in your workflow. The course finishes with more complex concepts such as indexing, keys and fast ordered joins. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to use data.table in R for a more efficient manipulation and analysis process. Enjoy!
Introduction on what exactly a data.table is, how it differs from the traditional data.frame in R, and understanding the general form of a data.table query.
Learn how to do multiple operations on the same data.table in one single statement, how to easily take a subset of your data, update by reference, and work with the data.table set()-family.
Discover the potential behind indexing, followed by generating and using keys. The final part focuses on fast ordered joins.


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Werner Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN), a premier transportation and logistics provider, has been awarded the 2012 Logistics Management Quest for Quality award in the Dry Freight Carriers category, which the Company is a multiple winner of. Additionally, Werner Global Logistics (WGL), a subsidiary of Werner Enterprises, is a first-time recipient of this prestigious award in the 3PL Providers category. Werner Enterprises was evaluated on five critical areas, including performances, value, information technology, customer service and equipment and operations. To win, the Company's total weighted score had to exceed the average weighted score for all companies. "Werner Enterprises is honored to receive two Quest for Quality awards," said Derek Leathers, president and chief operating officer of Werner Enterprises. "These awards are a testament to both our asset-backed portfolio of services, as well as our logistic capabilities. We will continue to expand and enhance both to provide our customers with best-in-class solutions worldwide." The Quest for Quality is the most extensive market research study conducted in the logistics industry. Each year the study evaluates and measures transportation service providers, determines relevant criteria when selecting a provider and examines performance measurements and expectations of providers. Werner Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is a premier transportation and logistics company, with coverage throughout North America, Asia, Europe, South America, Africa and Australia. Werner maintains its global headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, and maintains offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China and Australia. Werner is among the five largest truckload carriers in the United States, with a diversified portfolio of transportation services that includes dedicated van, temperature-controlled and flatbed; medium-to-long-haul, regional and local van; and expedited services. Werner's Value Added Services portfolio includes freight management, truck brokerage, intermodal, and international services. International services are provided through Werner's domestic and global subsidiary companies and include ocean, air and ground transportation; freight forwarding; and customs brokerage.
Werner Enterprises, Inc.'s common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market SM under the symbol "WERN." For further information about Werner, visit the company's website at www.werner.com.


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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Art Deco Rhinestone Necklace
This is a statement necklace made up of a vintage shoe clip and rhinestone brooch. The chain in also vintage and has a 15 inch length and works for both day/night use. The base is a steel cut buckle from the Victorian era and the brooch is most likely from the forties and paste metal and rhinestone. A unique pendant and very lovely.
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- Jackie Paul said...
Lovely Vintage Assembalge brooch and shoe buckle circa 1930's!
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Trails 2018 – Coastal
Venture out of Brighton to the rural calm of the Coastal Trail, combining venues in Rottingdean, Saltdean and South Heighton. Great quality art, easy parking and a warm welcome at all the venues.
Travel Information
Walking The undercliff walk from Brighton Marina gives access to Greeenways and Rottingdean.
Bus Rottingdean 2/2A, 12/12A/12X, 14/14B/14C, 27, 27A, 47,
(57 Sun only). Woodingdean 2, 22 & 52. For Newhaven, take the
12 Brighton to Eastbourne bus. Ask for Denton Corner for South Heighton. www.buses.co.uk
Rail Trains from Brighton and Lewes to Newhaven Town.
Car From Brighton follow the A259 to, Rottingdean and Newhaven. From the A23, take the A27 towards Lewes,
exit at Sussex University on the B2123 to Woodingdean
and Rottingdean.