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Shale gas energy challenges
By Drs. Robert & Sonia Vogl
President and Vice President, Illinois Renewable Energy Association
The arrival of cheap natural gas has adversely affected some plans to expand electrical production from renewable sources and undermines efforts to cut energy consumption in buildings.
The promise of cheap natural gas far into the future appears dubious from a historical perspective. Its prices and availability have varied substantially over the years.
The claim of a 100-year supply of natural gas is dependent on its rate of consumption. Until the 1970s, we were energy independent, but those supplies were consumed to maximize short-term profits while failing to address concerns over conservation, efficiency, renewable energy, energy security and future needs. Is the same process about to be repeated?
At the federal level, a debate has broken out over the extent to which we should be exporting natural gas, as it could increase the cost of both natural gas and electricity while increasing the production of natural gas from fracking.
The U.S. Department of Energy has declared that exporting natural gas is in the public interest, and it is up to project opponents to demonstrate to the agency that it is not. The exports add to the gross domestic product and support our global political interests.
To export natural gas, it is first liquefied to reduce its volume. It is an expensive and energy-intensive process that adds about 15 percent to its price. Shipping costs add to price, depending on the distance it is shipped. Even with the added costs, exporting is profitable.
Seventy percent of the exports would come from new production from fracking, increasing methane and carbon dioxide releases while intensifying adverse environmental and health impacts. The remaining 30 percent of gas would be diverted from existing U.S. consumption.
Using low-priced natural gas has benefited chemical, fertilizer, steel and paper manufacturers and the electric power industry while expanding job opportunities within the country.
Eastern states import natural gas from other countries and would benefit from a regional pipeline system built to serve their energy needs from U.S. supplies. Increased natural gas consumption is integral to New York City's plans to reduce air pollution from oil heating systems.
A study sponsored by Dow Chemical suggests natural gas prices could rise as much as much 41 percent by 2035 based on prices projected for 2020. Studies by export advocates project 20 percent lower prices by 2035. Unlimited exports are viewed by advocates as providing the greatest economic benefits because of the higher prices available in international markets.
Under some scenarios of a renewable energy future, natural gas serves to supplement the intermittent output of renewable sources until an adequate storage system is fully developed.
Beyond the question of whether it is in our best national economic interest to consume our energy supplies within the United States or ship them to international markets is whether increased consumption of fossil fuels in any form should be dramatically expanded when faced with the anticipated global impacts of climate change.
Perhaps a sign of the future is that a Minnesota judge ruled in favor of the installation of 20 large solar arrays over the installation of new natural gas generators by Xcel Energy.
Drs. Robert and Sonia Vogl are founders and officers of the Illinois Renewable Energy Association (IREA) and coordinate the annual Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair. email@example.com.
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Lost Weekend, The
Billy Wilder's classic noir "Double Indemnity" was nominated in seven categories at the 17th Academy Awards in 1945, but didn't win in any of them. Indeed, Wilder claims to have mischievously stuck out a foot to deliberately trip up Leo McCarey, the man who beat him in the best director category, as he bounded up to the stage to receive his Oscar for the now little remembered Bing Crosby musical "Going My Way". The following year though, Wilder's follow-up, "The Lost Weekend", helped correct this typically perverse (but not uncommon) oversight by the Academy membership; its four major category wins (best picture, best director, best actor and best screenplay) were perhaps all the more appropriate given that the film also saw Wilder collaborating with "Double Indemnity's" brilliant cinematographer John F. Seitz to equally flawless effect, as well as composer Miklós Rózsa (although Seitz lost out once again, this time to Harry Stradling, and Rózsa's theremin-tinged score was beaten by that which belonged to Hitchcock's "Spellbound" – which was probably not quite such a blow to the Hungarian-born composer, since he had written both of them) whose atmospheric music charts newcomer-to-hard-drama Ray Milland's portrayal of a would-be writer's struggle with alcoholism across one booze and whisky-soaked binge-weekend in New York city as it takes him to the very edge of the abyss.
Today, few people would probably think of "The Lost Weekend" as existing alongside "Double Indemnity" as an example of Film Noir, although it is interesting to note that Nino Frank, the French film critic who first coined the term after the war, included it as one of five films he grouped together as being indicative of the category. Only later did Film Noir become more strongly associated with the hard boiled thriller tropes that almost exclusively define the term today. But Wilder's adaptation of Charles R. Jackson's autobiographical novel -- which saw him collaborating once again with his screenwriting partner Charles Brackett (who'd refused to have anything to do with "Double Indemnity", as he considered it beneath his talents) -- shares another connection with his previous dark and cynical crime thriller: Wilder adapted Charles M. Cain's serialised novella with the help of crime writer Raymond Chandler, but the collaboration was not an easy one (despite its artistic success) and Chandler's relationship with alcohol was a major spur in Wilder's deciding to take up "The Lost Weekend" as his next project, since he wanted, as Wilder put it 'to explain Chandler to himself'.
Structured brilliantly as an in-depth character study, the film takes an unsparingly unflattering view of its main subject -- university dropout and failed writer Don Birnam (Milland), chronicling his increasingly desperate need for alcohol and the feelings of inadequacy behind it, as well as the cunningness and the manipulativeness that are born of such chronic addiction, as Birnam goes about attempting to further his quest to obtain his next drink, despite the well-meaning interventions in his journey of self-destruction by his brother (Phillip Terry) and high class girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman), who has devoted herself to trying to straighten him out for the last three years. Wilder and Bracket's screenplay spirals and circles in on itself like one of the circular rings left by the whisky glasses that stain the varnished bar-top of Birnam's favourite drinking hole; like them the film has 'no beginning and no end' and the passing of time spent by Birnam in an alcoholic fuzz is denoted by their multiplication through frequent lap-dissolves, the film concluding with a sequence that sees the narrative itself coming full circle to end as it began -- with a reverse shot of the film's opening, which pans along the Manhattan skyline before nosing into Birnam's Upper East Side apartment. The apparently inescapable spiral into oblivion experienced by the alcoholic, inspires a metaphor which recalls the 'trolley car' speech from "Double Indemnity" as a drunken but garrulous Birnam regales the barman with his alkie's manifesto: 'you're on that merry-go-round and you gotta ride it all the way. Round and round till the blasted music wears itself out, and the thing dies down and grinds to a stop.'
Immediately we are presented with a sequence that perfectly encapsulates the relationship between the three leads: Birnam's brother and Helen are planning a weekend in the country, their latest optimistic idea for helping Don recover after the 'ordeal' of being on the wagon for the last ten days; but Don's mind is all the while fixed on the concealed whisky bottle that's hanging outside his window by a piece of thin cord. As the sequence goes on, Don attempts to persuade the two that they should make use of the free theatre ticket Helen has been given by the magazine she works for, assuring them that he is completely cured and willing to put back the train trip to the country by a few hours just to accommodate them. His carers know him all too well though; they become suspicious of his motives and his brother discovers the bottle by chance while flicking his cigarette from the upper window. He empties what turns out to have been the last of Don's concealed bottles down the sink (all the others have previously been discovered and removed from heating grills and from behind couches etc.), leaving Don frustrated and alone at the apartment with no money to pursue his desired course of action, which is to get plastered.
A chance discovery of ten dollars in the sugar bowl, intended to pay the cleaner later in the week, is enough to precipitate the ensuing sojourn among Third Avenue's rows of saloons, holdout drinking dens and liquor stores, where we discover that Don's brother has attempted to persuade all of the local salesmen (who know Don on sight) to refuse Birnam's custom, and the proprietor of his favourite Bar, Nats (Howard Da Silva), to try to convince him to go home should he materialise. But Birnam is equally crafty -- even topping up his paper bag, containing the two bottles of rye whisky he's managed to procure, with some apples, in a futile attempt to prevent passers-by informing on him to Helen and his brother. He misses the train he was meant to catch, and sneaks back to his rooms through a back door while Helen paces out front waiting for him. He then hides one of the bottles in the lamp shade under the light fitting; but after finishing off the other bottle in one sitting (the camera signals the ensuing blackout by appearing to actually descend into the shot glass as the image dissolves amid the jet black liquor) and another jaunt to Nat's bar, he forgets where he actually put it!
Ray Milland's striking central performance dominates proceedings but is rendered all the more effective by its being framed through the prism of John F. Seitz's earthy photographic portrait of 1940s New York, which takes a photo-realist montage approach to the city's depiction -- Wilder even resorting to the use of hidden cameras (one of the first instances of such a device in mainstream film) to shoot Milland stumbling around the streets of Manhattan from a bakery van, while real members of the public hurry past all around -- although the use of back projection during some sequences only just survives dating the film thanks to its ability to be viewed as an visualisation of the drunkard's dissociative state. This material makes the movie seem as compelling a social document as it is drama: such a grim and gritty approach, with unvarnished real-life store fronts and sundry New York Streets vying with authentic-looking drinking establishments for our attention, effectively contextualises Don Birnam's descent into an increasingly nightmarish delirium, marked by its frequent recourse to chronic self-deception (he tries to persuade himself that he only needs a bottle with him in order to provide himself with reassurance, rather than for it to be consumed) and, eventually, the beginnings of moral degeneracy. After drinking away the money he stole from his brother, he first attempts to pawn his own typewriter after writers' block yet again curtails his efforts to start on his much vaunted novel (a 'confessions of a booze addict-style' fictional memoir entitled 'The Bottle'); so wracked by withdrawal symptoms is he that he can barely walk upright, yet, in one of the film's several painfully effective depictions of addiction withdrawal, he manages to stumble through town to a succession of pawn shops only to find each of them shuttered and closed. Fearing it might be a Sunday (for so disorientated is he that he no longer knows for sure what the day is) he eventually learns that they are all shut for Yom Kippur – even the non-Jewish ones -- because of an informal agreement between the various chains to observe each-others' religious holidays.
One of the most skilfully realised sequences sees Birnam gate-crashing a sophisticated cocktail bar and being discovered attempting to lift the handbag of the woman seated next to him. Eventually he manages to appeal to the pity of a sympathetic acquaintance -- a call girl who frequents Nat's Bar -- the willowy brunette Gloria (notably played by Doris Dowling, who followed up this debut 'tart with a heart' role with an appearance in the classic George Marshall Film Noir "The Blue Dalia" opposite Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake) who has something of crush on him but only ever sees him merry and drunk in the full flow of his alcohol induced loquaciousness. He stumbles on the stairs to her apartment after tapping her for money and wakes up in the alcoholics' ward of Bellevue Hospital, where he witnesses patients in the terrifying throes of their delirium tremens. This is where the movie most resembles the classic Noir thrillers we associate the term with today: indeed, this section of the film plays like a Val Lewton terror picture -- full of striking shadow-laced imagery as the sinister nurse who calls himself Bim (Frank Faylen) taunts Birnam in a manner that suggests he derives enjoyment from seeing these helpless cases destroy themselves, and assuring Birnam, as he leads him among the wards while gleefully recounting case after case of hopeless horrors, that he'll be back among them before too long. Escaping the ominous hospital, penniless in the middle of the night, Birnam then threatens a liquor store owner opposite a church until he hands over a bottle of rye for free lest Birnam turn violent. Then, even more nightmarish, is his own subsequent descent into delirium, when he experiences surreal hallucinations inside his darkened flat (some have compared the style of this horrific sequence to "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski) in which a squeaking dormouse appears to emerge from a previously unseen hole in his apartment wall, only to be pounced upon by a phantasmagorical bat that swoops down from the ceiling, whereupon blood splutters out of the gap in the plaster and oozes horribly down the wall!
Birnam's drink-fuelled excesses play like an increasingly desperate picaresque of mishap, self-pity and forgetfulness, but Wilder and Brackett punctuate the woozy descent with several lengthy flashback sequences, recalled by the boozy Birnam at Nat's Bar, which take us back to three years before the present events to his first meeting with his devoted girlfriend Helen, and the key developments that subsequently come to define their relationship. This meeting, ironically enough, occurs after a staging of Verdi's opera La Traviata, when Birnam becomes so distracted by the onstage bibulousness taking place during the famous Libiamo ne'lieti calici (or Drinking Song) that he starts imagining the performers as a collection of disembodied raincoats -- their pockets bulging with whisky bottles. His attempt to leave the performance early is thwarted by a mix up over coat-tickets that results in him being left in the possession of a woman's leopard-skin print coat rather than his own mac (which contains the bottle he was reminded off constantly during the performance). He has to wait until the end of the show in order to exchange coats with the true owner – which turns out to be Helen.
Despite his initial rudeness (Birnam is of course anxious to get away and consume his concealed bottle of rye) he decides to accompany her to a cocktail reception (after his bulky whisky Bottle falls out of his pocket and smashes on the sidewalk) and the relationship develops as Birnam at first manages to persuade himself that love has overcome his addiction. Soon though, the pressure of trying to live up to the expectations of Helen's wealthy and socially conscious parents re-awaken his old preoccupation with the bottle and he runs out on a planned dinner with her folks to get drunk at his apartment. We learn that up till now, Birnam's brother Wick has always tried to cover for him; indeed, he attempts to concoct a tall tale to explain to Helen why Don couldn't show up for dinner with her parents, even claiming that the empty whisky bottles secreted around the apartment are his own. When Helen discovers the truth, though, it's telling that she becomes even more enamoured of Don, and resolves to make it her life's mission to help him cure himself.
In the short video introduction Alex Cox provides as an extra for this Blu-ray release, he points out how, to a modern audience, Helen and Wick come across as what in contemporary parlance are termed 'enablers', protecting Don from the consequences of his actions and unwittingly allowing them to continue, indulging his addiction through constantly attempting to cover up for him, even as they try to encourage him to give up the booze. Helen in particular seems to derive great satisfaction from the maternal nature of her role, which their relationship seems to engender. It wasn't picked up on in many reviews at the time, which saw the film purely as a hard hitting expose of a great social problem, but it's typical of the cynical attitude so often expressed in Wilder's cinema, especially coming straight after a movie like "Double Indemnity". Jane Wyman is a deeply likable presence in the picture even if her role becomes ambiguous as the film reaches the highly unconvincing final act during which Don sobers up enough to plan his suicide, but is talked out of it at the last moment by Helen, who then comes up with the idea of Don turning their story into the subject matter of his much-talked-about-but-never-started novel. Thus the movie's striking circular structure, as we realise that we've just been watching an account of the very piece that Don, now hopeful and sober again, is about to write in order to free himself of his demons.
Of course, this being Wilder, we might well consider if this apparently happy ending is as straightforward as it at first appears, since we have no reason to believe that this attempt at an escape into art will be any more successful than any of Don's previous attempts at writing, and the pronounced circular structure of the movie, which ends with the camera exiting from the very same apartment window it first entered, and panning back along the same Manhattan skyline on which the film opened, suggests that merry-go-round cycle of addiction and recovery continuing to revolve without apparent end, until the gun hidden in the sink one day really does cause it to 'die down and grind to a stop' for good.
"The Lost Weekend" looks simply stunning in HD, with a superb high contrast transfer and beautifully rendered detail bringing renewed appreciation for John F. Seitz's superb black & white photography. The disc comes with English subtitles for the hard of hearing, a short video appreciation by filmmaker Alex Cox, a trailer and a three hour (yes … three hours!!) documentary, "Billy … How Did You Do It" which was screened for the BBC in three parts as part of its ARENA arts strand in 1992. It features Berlin-based filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, director of "The Tin Drum", in extended conversation with Wilder as he covers every stage of his Hollywood career up to "The Apartment". This excellent disc also comes with the usual high quality Masters of Cinema booklet featuring an erudite review by screenwriter Chris Cairns; "Delirium Tremens: Novel, Screenplay, Film" which examines Ray Milland's hallucination sequence in its various forms to tease out the creative input Wilder and Brackett brought to it in their adaptation from the original novel. Finally, a 'damage limitation' advertising campaign from the time, sponsored by Seagrams in response to the film's depiction of alcoholism, is reproduced.
Milland's truthful portrait of the deception and cunning involved in alcohol addiction continues to resonate, even if the film is more stylised through its Noir associations than we would expect of such subject matter today. Wilder's direction is superlative though and the literate screenplay, once again, word perfect. This is another highly recommended release, which also makes for a perfect companion to Eureka's "Double Indemnity" Blu-ray. Buy them both!


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Miriam A. Day, 65, of 1226 Gordon St., Allentown, died Wednesday in her home after a lengthy illness.
She was a garment worker for the O & H Manufacturing Co., Allentown, for 38 years before retiring in 1982.
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Greenwood County will kick off its Celebrate Safe Communities events with National Night Out on Tuesday, October 4. Thirty to forty individual neighborhood events will take place that evening. On Monday, October 10, neighborhood leaders will gather for an informative session on drugs, alcohol, and crime prevention strategies. On Tuesday, October 11, Healthy Greenwood Neighborhoods, Inc. will partner with local fire departments to celebrate National Fire Prevention Week.
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Even before the first fall turkey there�s a man in a red furry suit in New Bern asking �Have you been good this year?�
Even before the first fall turkey there�s a man in a red furry suit in New Bern asking �Have you been good this year?�
Some little children at New Bern Mall on Saturday got an early start on making known their wish list for the Christmas season with a pre-Thanksgiving talk with Santa, who arrived at noon.
They know he�s the real thing because his sleigh with lighted reindeer is there packed with presents amidst a snowy scene with glittering trees.
Some traditional toy favorites help decorate and tempt with reproductions of the little red riding fire truck, airplane, tricycle, sled and a rocking horse in the scene set by Vista Photography�s Diane Williams of Kinston and her daughter Lisa Williams.
Havelock McIlnay sisters Marie, 6, and Sarah, 7, came in with grandparents Larry and Rhodora Brock, and sat on Santa�s knees at the same time. Each asked for a doll, a new Barbie for Sarah and a Skids, the Transformer.
Ten-month-old Robert Hutter Jr. saw Santa for the first time with his father and sister Madaline, 5, a student at Calvary Baptist. He wasn�t talking but his sister, shy to everyone else but talking to Santa, said she told him she wants a golden retriever puppy.
Father Robert Hutter Sr., a sales rep for Joseph A. Bank and sometimes seen in the mall as McGruff - The Crime Dog, said that could be a wishy-washy request and he�s sure Santa will be tuned in to any change.
Kelly Hill, 4, of New Bern, wasn�t shy about her wishes. She wants moving vehicles � a bike, a motorcycle or a train.
Williams is a 20-year personal friend of the man sitting in for Santa, a man with a calling for and in keeping with family tradition and his spirit of goodwill.
Tom Brouhard of New Bern is the chubby, white-haired man now but his father wore the suit for many years and his brother in Nebraska is also playing the happy holiday role.
Brouhard manages the CarolinaEast biomedical department, spending a lot of his life tuned into the technology of health care. But for 41 years he has used the Christmas holidays to get close to people, especially the little ones, and is a Babe Ruth League girls� softball umpire.
He�ll be talking with a few thousand kids before Dec. 25. The scene is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays and from 10 am. to 6 p.m. Christmas Eve.


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Journey to Munich : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.
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Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue--the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall Street Journal). It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie--who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter--to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich. The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie's travel plans. Her nemesis--the man she holds responsible for her husband's death--has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers--and finds herself questioning whether it's time to return to the work she loved. But the Secret Service may have other ideas. ...
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When you sit down to do a marginals polls one consideration is where you draw the line: what is a marginal? The thing you want to avoid is under or overshooting the real battleground – the risk is that you poll lots of seats that need a swing of up to 5% and find a swing of 10%, enough to win lots of seats you didn't bother polling.
That's the sort of thing that's happened in the third of Lord Ashcroft's three sets of marginal polls – full details here. He polled the four most marginal LD -v- Lab seats, Norwich South, Bradford East, Brent Central and Manchester Withington. These need a swing of up to 2.1% to go from LD to Lab, which unsurprisingly Labour get easily. The average LD => Lab swing in these seats was 15%, confirming that the Lib Dems are doing much worse where they are up against Labour and easily enough to unseat almost all Lib Dem MPs with Labour in second place. In practice of course we can't actually be that confident that voters in a tight LD-Lab marginal will behave the same way as in a seat where the Lib Dems have a 20% majority, so it's a bit of a shame Ashcroft didn't include some more challenging LD-Lab fights like Cambridge, Hornsey & Wood Green or Bermondsey.
An interesting thing to note is that the Greens are doing notably well in a couple of these seats. In Norwich South they are in second place on 20%, but that was one of their target seats anyway, they are also doing well in Manchester Withington, up 8 points on 10%.
While it's hardly a LD-Lab battle, Lord Ashcroft also polled Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas's seat. Voting intentions there with changes from the general election are CON 18%(-6), LAB 33%(+4), LDEM 5%(-9), GREEN 32%(+1), suggesting an extremely tight race between Labour and the Green party.
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Alec says – 'There is something fundamentally wrong with UK football and UK footballers which renders us incapable of being adequately competitive on a global scale.'
And if you could bottle it you would have to register it as a weapon of mass destruction.
I think you summed it up well in five or six posts.
Its like moaning that Arse haven't won the Prem for a while and disregarding the fact that half a dozen seriously excellent teams are trying to do just the same.
Three fit Arsenal players would have made a diff though – Theo, Alex and Wor Jackie.
I really think we should return to talking about something more on topic…
Such as why the Boston Red Sox always slump in summer. My opinion is they always fail to have enough depth in the bullpen that allows other teams to give their best pitchers rest while getting new pitchers some major league experience.
"My opinion is they always fail to have enough depth in the bullpen"
That's utter crap.
I remember wor Jackie, R&D. Scored a great goal in the 1955 cup final.
C2802: "So if they haven't published the wording then the question…"
Presumably because the Holyrood VI results didn't feature in the poll results reported by the Sunday Times (though I don't know this because I don't have a subscription) – which is what I think is what the code means by "entered the public domain"?
The rule provides a cross check on reporting of headline results based on skewed questions.
So mt guess is that the question was asked. It's just not included in the tables.
"Median real terms household income before housing costs remained unchanged at £440 a week in 2012-13 after two years of falls. After housing costs, median incomes fell for a third consecutive year, from £377 a week to £374 a week."
Department of Work and Pensions
"The large post-recession falls in incomes followed a period of slow income growth that began in the early 2000s, far pre-dating the recession" and
. "The net result is that the official measure shows both measures of average income no higher in 2012–13 than in 2001–02."
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And has continued into 2014, as far as anyone can judge.
This is a trend that started first in the US and the UK is following the same pattern and looking at the poor ratings of our political class, voters do not think anybody has the answers, perhaps there are none.
But living standards can't fall forever, so in the end something has to change.
@Muddy Waters
Thanks I was really confused.
"I remember wor Jackie, R&D. Scored a great goal in the 1955 cup final. "
Ah divvent mean yor Jackie, ah mean WOR Jackie – frae the Gunnahs, bonny lad man Norbold.
Anyway I was in Gibraltar in 1955 and they didn't have cup finals there.
I do understand that no-one can 'actively vote for a coalition' and, in fact, that was my point. Polling asks what electors will do and, at the same time, it is asking what they can do – i.e. vote for particular parties. What it doesn't ask (because there's no point I suppose) is what they would like to do – I was positing that perhaps many electors actually like the idea of coalition but no polling shows that up however, if it is true, it might explain some of the oddities in the polling.
I'm sorry I'm so far down the thread but, despite the fact that all my students have gone, I'm still at work!
Often seems that an issue with football here has been too much suspicion of "flair" players, starting at school. And when they do make it to the national team, instead of building a team around their talents we shove them into positions where they have less chance of influencing a game…
R&D and CB11
Had Harry been appointed as England coach we would have had Peter (on me head) Crouch as striker alongside Sturridge. In order of strike rate in international matches, Crouchy comes second after Lineker, with Rooney at the bottom of the top six strikers.
Lineker 48 goals in 80 matches: Goals per match 0.6
Crouch 22 goals in 42 matches: Goals per match 0..52
Shearer 30 goals in 63 matches: Goals per match 0.48
Charlton 49 goals in 106 matches: Goals per match 0.46
Owen 40 goals in 89 matches: Goals per match 0.45 Rooney 39 goals in 92 matches: Goals per match 0.42
"I really think we should return to talking about something more on topic"
I agree epically when we are talking about the performance of the current England football team.
Before I was shunted north of the border I played for Wokingham & Emmbrook Youth Football Club when I was 8 and was heart broken I never received a call up to play for England at this World Cup.
"Anyway I was in Gibraltar in 1955 and they didn't have cup finals there"
Did someone not mistaken you for a Gibraltarian Neanderthal?
Okay back to politics.
"An interesting thing to note is that the Greens are doing notably well in a couple of these seats. In Norwich South they are in second place on 20%, but that was one of their target seats anyway, they are also doing well in Manchester Withington, up 8 points on 10%"
With polling like that I'm sure the other political parties will be Green with envy.. ;-)
I can't see them making much headway if I'm being honest.
^ I predict Greens will win zero seats at the next election. I see them as a bit like UKIP, in that when they reach a certain level in the polls, that will bring more detail and scrutiny on many policies that frankly are incredulous.
"Did someone not mistaken you for a Gibraltarian Neanderthal?"
Sorry Al, I can't read such appalling grammar.
"I agree epically "
Allan: to be honest you can't write grammatically, never mind epically.
Try smaller words.
"Often seems that an issue with football here has been too much suspicion of "flair" players,"
We think that that is what is holding Daisie back – that and the fact fact that she's
Owr Rosie can run with a full size Arsenal football in her mouth [and she's OANY LITTUL !]
There's nothing in the rules that says you can't, so again we think its suspicion of flair and innovation.
She does suffer from the ole Suarez tendency and to be fair that probably counts against her.
Plus she's OANY TOO !!.
I have returned from the zoo and to my surprise this has become UK Phootball Report.
^ I predict Greens will win zero seats at the next election. I see them as a bit like UKIP, in that when they reach a certain level in the polls, that will bring more detail and scrutiny on many policies that frankly are incredulous.
Is that incredulous in a non-partisan way?
@ Mr. Nameless,
Look at it this way: at least it hasn't become a zoo.
Although if more people's pets start posting all bets are off.
Can policies be incredulous?
I hope you're not taking lessons from Allan.
YouGov tonight:
Another hint that we are trending back to smaller leads after the regular four and five pointers of the past few weeks. Still, all within margin of error.
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight – Labour lead back down to two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%
Junker surge continues. Cameron is the new Farage!
Can policies be incredulous?
Yes, if they contradict even the most basic laws of economics. Seriously one thing that disappoints me about the greens is I can rarely find much on the environment in their policies. It's all anti-austerity, cut bankers bonuses etc etc. Seems to me they look a bit more like a socialist workers party. Filling a Labour Party vacuum? I think so…
"Owr Rosie can run with a full size Arsenal football in her mouth [and she's OANY LITTUL !]"
Owr Jess points out that any dog can run with a football in its mouth so long as the football's dead. And owr Jess should know 'cos she's on the cusp of selection for the Wolves Bitches in view of her skill at controlling footballs by killing (=puncturing) them.
Look on the GP site and you will find literally thousands of words on the environment. I won't insult your intelligence any further.
You may have noticed that the GP isn't just about the 'environment' – as per the old stereo type.
Of course I know that you know that as well.
Good Evening All.
Lansbury resigned before the 1935 GE, after Bevin's assault on him over Mussolini.
I wonder if anyone would do that to Ed M; this might affect the poll VI, to the benefit of Labour.
Can policies be incredulous?"
Or, to put it another way, No – they can't. They can be incredible or unbelievable and that may make you incredulous. But policies themselves rarely show any emotion at all.
The buggers.
I append a dictionary deffo for you >>>>>>>>
"incredulous (?n?kr?dj?l?s)
1. (often foll by of) not prepared or willing to believe (something); unbelieving
in?credulously adv in?credulousness "
Rose grips tight enough to hold it but gently enough not to puncture.
She only bites if you try to nick it from her….. and even then, not the ball.
@Rich: "…that will bring more detail and scrutiny on many policies that frankly are incredulous."
Leaving aside the inability of a policy to be incredulous, how is it that Greens get elected elsewhere under fairer voting systems?
Presumably because their voters are credulous?
"Presumably because their voters are credulous?"
Their voting system makes them more credulous?
Changing el subject, I've gotta new metronome.
Its incredulous …… er….. I mean its jolly good.
Ticks in time and everything and its loud enough so that I can hear it, which is a bit of a bonus I feel.
I was pursuing the vocabulary-related theme in a slightly smart-alecky way, not really making a serious comment. Sorry for injecting confusion.
"I have returned from the zoo and to my surprise this has become UK Phootball Report."
Of course it hasn't. The salience of the England team selection to VI, which, as the intellectual you are now showing signs of becoming, you really need to recognise, is the basis of both in statistical analysis.
If only we had an explanation of leader preference at the level of the following
– http://www.ongoalsscored.com/2011/08/07/the-peter-crouch-myth/.
The demonstration that Crouchy's strike rate is 0.92 per 90 minutes playing time, tells you a lot about the institutional prejudice against weirdos which persists across the whole spectrum of English public life..
Yes, the fact that your dog can run with the ball in its mouth is not really compelling evidence against the "flair" argument. Still, a spirited effort at trying to get the "oany won" thing to catch on though!!…
Chris Lane
Do you really think attacking Ed M over his attitude towards Mussolini would get him to resign ? Maybe his flagrant appeasement of Napoleon would do the trick…
the fact that your dog can run with the ball in its mouth is not really compelling evidence against the "flair" argument."
Can you do it?
And I bet you're not just two years old.
I can't say I've ever tried it. I can see why it might interest you given the knee thing…
Envy is a terrible thing carfrew
Projection is worse.


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Oh, mercy! We've been looking forward to this for quite a while. The original Freedom Force is still one of our favorite games. In anticipation of the March 8 release of the final game, the gang at Irrational have released the demo exclusively on FilePlanet. The demo includes one campaign mission, one multiplayer mode, one origin story movie and one Rumble Room mode. We've had a chance to play through the demo already and it's only made us hungrier for the full game.
The single campaign mission takes place in Berlin in 1942. The overbearing opera star Fortissimo is watching over a book burning being held by the Nazis. The Freedom Force is tasked with rescuing three priceless books from being destroyed -- the Guttenberg Bible, the Summa Theologica and Shakespeare's First Folio. I won't spoil the mission for those of you who plan to play the demo yourself but I will say that your heroes will have to race to take out Nazi Riflemen and Fortissimo and his lackeys before they can toss the books onto the large fires burning in the streets and parks of Berlin.
Six new heroes supplement the Freedom Force this time around. We've already had the chance to play around with Sky King and Quetzalcoatl in a previous hands-on update. This time around, we get to play around with three new members of the team: Green Genie, Black Jack and Tombstone.
The new characters each have their own cool origin stories as well. The demo opens with Tombstone's origin story which we originally saw at E3 last year. The character viewer also offers a short description of the other characters' origins. Green Genie, the carpet riding "giggling glamour girl," is really Jani Al-Hajani. She was brought to Patriot City to fulfill an arranged marriage. She was struck by an energy bolt and given mysterious powers. The super agent known as Black Jack was originally known as Jack St. John Spade. He worked at the mysterious "Institute" until he was forced to kill his friend and mentor to preserve war secrets.
Though the origins are cool, you'll spend most of your time focusing on the new powers. Green Genie is a nice support character. She can dish out some electrical damage against enemies and has an awesome power called Sow the Wind that launches nearby enemies up into the air. While these powers are definitely effective, Green Genie can do so much more to help the other members of the team. Her Doppleganger power turns one friendly hero into another, random hero for a short time while her Speeding Frenzy adds a nice speed boost to an ally. In terms of dealing with enemies, she can either take control of them directly or simply turn them into a harmless flowerpot.
Black Jack's powers are oriented more towards direct combat. In addition to a variety of punch and gun powers, he can also whip acid-tipped playing cards at enemies. His Fawkes' Flashers grenades emit a bright burst of light that confuses enemies. To further confuse his enemies, Black Jack can use Limey Lure to create a fake double of himself. At higher levels Black Jack can inspire panic in or even completely paralyze his enemies.
Tombstone is probably my favorite of the new heroes. Like Black Jack he has a couple of punching powers. His basic punch does additional cold damage while his more powerful Dead Reckoning attack is a series of three, energy-enhanced punches. His twin pistols also fire electrical bolts (powered by his execution no less). By using Dancing Dead, Tombstone can revive a fallen ally for a short time. Due to his, um, living challenged state, he can take possession of an enemy or become insubstantial so that physical attacks pass right through him. Once he reaches higher levels, Tombstone can negate an enemy's power entirely or make use of the mysterious Shadow Shift power.


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Heroin use increased more than 80 percent nationwide from 2007 to 2012, driven by ample supply and a crackdown on prescription narcotics, mayors and policy leaders from across the country were told Sunday.
The leaders attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Dallas were also told that physicians in the U.S. prescribe enough painkillers to medicate everyone in the country 24 hours a day for a month.
Nationally, the number of heroin users rose from about 373,000 to 669,000 in 2012, according to surveys from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The increase is "fueled by a growing supply from South America and the crackdown on prescription drug narcotics that has pushed addicts to seek old-fashioned alternatives," said Mayor Ashley Swearengin of Fresno, Calif., who was chairwoman of a panel at the conference.
Fort Worth also has seen an increase, said Sgt. Lacroix , a Fort Worth police narcotics officer who asked that his first name not be used. He said heroin is popular here because it is cheaper than other drugs and and is similar to prescription opiates.
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Michael Botticelli, acting director of National Drug Control Policy for the White House, told the mayors that 80 percent of heroin users start with prescription drugs.
He recommended that communities and law enforcers work with the public health sector and insurance companies to treat addicts: "We cannot arrest, prosecute or incarcerate addiction out of people."
Prescription drugs are the most common cause of overdoses in the U.S. — 60 percent of the 38,329 overdose deaths in 2010 were caused by pharmaceuticals, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In comparison, 3,094 people died of heroin overdoses that year.
Botticelli said the Obama administration's response to prescription drug use focuses on education, improving prescription drug monitoring, proper medication disposal and enforcement.
He said education includes training physicians, adding that doctors are prescribing enough painkillers to keep everyone in the country medicated 24/7 for a month.
Education is the solution for law enforcement as well, said Ronald Davis, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in the Justice Department.
"We can't arrest our way out of it, but there also has to be an accountability measure. So we can't avoid that road and we should not," Davis said. "But it should be fair. It should be balanced."
Another speaker, a former heroin dealer who started selling when he was 16, said a key way to prevent drug abuse is to give kids facts about the dangers of drugs and provide positive mentors.
"We are all faced with that question in our lives, and when we are armed with better information, we can make a better decision," said Kevin Shird, president and co-founder of the Mario Do Right Foundation, who served 12 years in prison for drug trafficking. "And so our kids have to be armed with the same information to make a better decision."
A local effort includes "Take Back Drugs" boxes at several police locations, including headquarters, for residents to drop off unused prescriptions. The program is part of the Police Department's work with the Fort Worth Safe Communities Coalition.
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Part II in a series on investments that will help rebuild the middle class and put Washington state on a stronger path to prosperity.
Washington state's weak economy requires greater investment in programs that help people find or keep a job, and help mitigate the impact of poverty on kids. As the Legislature debates a new budget, the focus should be on strengthening WorkFirst, our state's main program to help children and families during tough times.
During the 2012 legislative session the single largest cut to the state budget was to the WorkFirst program, in which seven of every 10 recipients is a child. The cut weakened a program proven to help parents find or keep a job and meet their children's basic needs.
As a result of cuts to WorkFirst:
- Cash assistance has declined. Today, a family of three can receive a maximum of $478 per month to make ends meet. That is only one-quarter of the amount needed to cover a family's basic needs, like food, housing, clothing, and school supplies (see graph). Cash assistance is not adjusted for inflation. When combined with a 15 percent cut in 2010, the value of the grant has declined by 40 percent since 1996.
- Cuts to a critical lifeline of support. Washington state is enforcing a harsh 60-month lifetime limit on WorkFirst benefits, which has forced 27,000 people off the program even though unemployment remains exceedingly high, especially in rural parts of the state. Two of every three kicked off the program is a child, and time limits drastically reduces their access to resources that mitigate the impact of poverty. (see graph).
In a tough economy, programs that help people work should be strengthened, not cut. When more families are able to achieve economic security, children are more likely to thrive and the economy will grow.
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Keynote speaker Sally Mann, known for her evocative work with portraiture and landscapes, will give a presentation with a selected reading from her forthcoming memoir, If Memory Serves. Following the presentation, Mann will be signing copies of her books, The Flesh and the Spirit (Aperture 2010), Immediate Family (Aperture 2005), Proud Flesh (Aperture 2009) and Still Time (Aperture 2008).
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Tokyo: Crowd favourite Kei Nishikori and two-time finalist Milos Raonic both hammered out straight-sets wins on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open.
Nishikori, last week`s champion in Kuala Lumpur a fortnight after playing the US Open final, claimed his seventh straight victory with his 6-4, 6-2 defeat of France`s Jeremy Chardy.
Canadian third seed Raonic overcame a slow start and needed to win an hour-long first set before beating Uzbek Denis Istomin 7-6 (10/8), 6-3.
Against Chardy, Nishikori bounced straight back from an early break for 0-2, quickly returning to 1-2 to get it back on serve.
A sellout crowd of more than 10,000 fans watched their hero break again for 5-4 before serving out the opening set on his second chance.
In the second set, Nishikori began with a break, raced to 4-1 before a medical timeout for lower back treatment, and finished off victory in just under 90 minutes as Chardy returned a serve long.
Nishikori is bidding to win his home event for the second time in three years.
He now plays a semi-final against German Benjamin Becker, who defeated Jack Sock 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Fourth seed Nishikori admitted he was tired, but added: "You are never in perfect condition. But my back should be OK for the rest of the week.
"Conditions for the match were tough with some wind, this was also my first match this week with the roof open. I had to get used to that.
"He played very aggressively, I had to adjust. But I hung in and made things happen, I`m very glad to get through in two sets."
Raonic`s win puts him into provisional eighth place in the points race to next month`s eight-man World Tour Finals in London. Nishikori, who would become the first Japanese to play the year-ender, stands sixth.
Five spots will be decided over the next four weeks of ATP play.
Raonic takes on Gilles Simon in the semis after the French player powered into his first ATP semi-final since the spring with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-1 defeat of American Steve Johnson.
Simon, 29, earned victory at the Ariake Coliseum with seven aces and conversions on three of nine break points.
"I`m feeling physically good, and that`s important for my game," said Simon, who has been frequently injured. "I had to fight in my first two matches this week but I got through them."
The French player has never been past the second round in two previous appearances in the Japanese capital.


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Imagine the surprise of those who thought that when Matt and I waited seven years before having kids. It wasn't that we didn't want kids; we were just having fun being married and spending time together. Uninterrupted. And, sleeping in. Of course we got many questions and odd looks over the years. I know people assumed all sorts of reasons as to why we hadn't become parents yet, but the truth was we were just taking our sweet time before starting our family.
Recently, I had the chance to review Chaunie Marie Brusie's book "Tiny Blue Lines: Reclaiming Your Life, Preparing for Your Baby and Moving Forward with Faith in an Unplanned Pregnancy." Chaunie's experience was quite different from mine. Her senior year of college, she became pregnant. While she and her boyfriend had talked about marriage, they didn't plan to become parents so soon. Throughout the book, Chaunie speaks with honesty about what it was like coming to terms with an unplanned pregnancy. She not only shares her own story, but the stories of others who have also experienced unplanned pregnancies at an early age.
What she discovered was that she had few places to turn to for help and support:
"I sought desperately to find others like me out there. I didn't fit in with the older soccer mom crowd, and I wasn't exactly teenage mom material, either. As an independent young woman in college, my needs and experiences were different. But I couldn't find anything relating to women like me. The unspoken consensus surrounding unplanned pregnancy for college-age women seemed to be that we should just deal with it—or get rid of it." [1]
Throughout her book, Chaunie shares advice and tips for women who find themselves in a similar situation. She explores topics that I never had to deal with or consider. After all, my pregnancy was planned, I had a husband, we were well out of college and we fit the mold of a "typical" family. I have to admit that I was astonished at some of the looks, comments and judgements that Chaunie had to deal with.
"As a young mom, you will have to deal with rude people. It's practically a law. If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how old I was or muttered a 'babies-having-babies' comment under his or her breath, you had better believe I'd be sockpiling diapers like they were going out of style." [79]
Even though I couldn't relate to all of Chaunie's experiences, pregnancy and motherhood are so universal that I felt myself nodding right along with some of her revelations:
"In the end, I have realized that motherhood has not taken away my sense of self—it has only transformed it. The key to motherhood is realizing that I am not made up of fluid boundaries; instead of fighting to keep separate my 'mom' and 'non-mom' roles, I let them move in and out of each other, interchanging and shifting, like a shimmering, permeable membrane. … The very thing I feared most has actually become the key to unlocking all my heart's desires." [75-76]
So, whether you are a young mom who is experiencing an unplanned pregnancy or an "older" mother who waited years before becoming a mother, "Tiny Blue Lines" offers stories and advice that unifies us all as mothers. If there is one thing that this book has reminded me of, it's that motherhood isn't easy and, though our journeys may look different, we are not alone.
To purchase the book, visit Amazon. To learn more, visit TinyBlueLines.com.
And, to win a copy, simply enter below! Chaunie graciously gave me a book to pass along to one lucky reader. Whether it's for you, a friend or an acquaintance, don't miss the deadline! Enter today and good luck!!
{Please note: I did receive this book for free to review. This is not a sponsored post, though I do receive a portion of each purchase made via the Amazon associate links. Thanks for your support!}


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By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
October 6, 2004
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND--Job-seekers who are blind or partially-sighted now have an ally in ScottishJobs.com, Scotland's leading independent recruitment website.
According to a Scottish Jobs press release, the site has built new features and functionality that allows users to search online for jobs, and access career advice, using assistive technology. Advanced screen readers that read the information out loud and refreshable Braille displays have also been added to the site.
The site meets or exceeds Double-A standards of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and was rigorously tested by blind Internet users.
The upgrades and accessibility features came online at the end of last month just as the final phase of the country's Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came into force. Under the DDA, all employers must now make "reasonable adjustments" to their workplaces so people with disabilities have equal access.
"In recognising our unique position in being so close to a large number of recruiters and jobseekers on a daily basis we developed a special programme of initiatives," said ScottishJobs.com managing director Pat Kelly. "The program aims to facilitate and support the meeting of jobseekers with disabilities and recruiters through the website."
"In so doing we hope to significantly raise awareness and to encourage people with a disability to pursue work in their chosen careers. As there are more than 10 million disabled people in Britain it also makes good business sense for employers to tap into this pool of talent."
According to figures from the European Union, people with disabilities throughout Europe are two to three times more likely to be unemployed than people without disabilities. In some parts of the United Kingdom, up to 70 percent of people with a disability are in long-term unemployment.
ScottishJobs.com plans in the coming months to develop a comprehensive online resource for job-seekers with disabilities, including a guide to the supports, technologies, and strategies to help them compete in the job market.
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Now it's really time to leave and to head home! So, bye, bye, Day of DH… see you next year.
Author: Ulrike Henny
Testing HeidelTime
How to differentiate novelistic subgenres? In my dissertation, I want to find out how different types of novels cluster together when they are analyzed in terms of their topics and other textual and stylistic features. As a starting point, I try to identify what feature characteristics are typical for a certain kind of subgenre. One such feature are temporal expressions. Do dates, for example, occur more often in historical novels compared to other types of texts?
HeidelTime (@ Github) is a "multilingual and cross-domain temporal tagger" developed at the Heidelberg University and I would like to test it with the novels I am interested in. Luckily, there is an online demo of HeidelTime, so the first test is to run the demo with two text files: one is the text of a historical novel, the other one of a non-historical novel.The output are nice XML (TimeML) files. Here is a snippet of the historical novel El falso Inca by Roberto Payró:
<TimeML> Dos viajeros, un hombre y una mujer, indígenas a juzgar por su
aspecto y traje, cruzaban al caer <TIMEX3 tid="t4" type="TIME"
value="XXXX-XX-XXTAF">la tarde</TIMEX3> de <TIMEX3 tid="t5"
type="DURATION" value="P1D">un tibio día</TIMEX3> de <TIMEX3 tid="t3"
type="DATE" value="1656-05">mayo de 1656</TIMEX3>, el amplio valle de
The second novel is La navidad en las montañas by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.
I make a test with this XPath expression: //TIMEX3[@type="DATE"]. How many temporal expressions of the type "date" are there?
- 69 in the historical novel
- 68 in the non-historical novel
What kind of temporal expressions are those? Among others, I see: "este día", "pronto", "hoy", "ahora"…
Next try: //TIMEX3[@type="DATE"][matches(@value,"\d+")]. How many temporal expressions of the type "date" are there whose value attribute contains digits, i. e., that could be identified as a specific date?
- 23 in the historical novel
- 4 in the non-historical novel
That looks interesting! Apparently, the details matter.
As a next step, I would like to set up a HeidelTime workflow on my own computer. I hope that I can find out how to do that.
time for chocolate…
& time for a selfie to document this year's outward appearance
Next post…
… on the CLiGS blog: OCRing Spanish American texts
The afterlife of the "Book of the Dead"
The "Book of the Dead" was a research project of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, concerned with the collection of metadata and images of objects (mainly papyri) bearing spells which were part of the Egyptian book of the dead.
From 2011 to 2012 a digital project was brought into being at the Cologne Center for eHumanities, accompanying the main project during its remaining life span. Now it is the year 2016!
Both projects have ended officially, people have moved on, but the website, technical system behind it and contents are still there. And people are still interested in the site, now and then egyptologists from around the world write an email and ask for small updates of the content.
Who cares about the "remains"? (A typical question for DH projects?)
During the last half our, I participated in a meeting discussing that question. My warning bells rang: "I cannot, may not, should not invest any time here" (and I will not in the near future because I am doing my PhD in Würzburg). But as I was responsible for the programming back then, the least I can do is to be available for questions about the system which a new staff member of the Center has who tries to make overdue updates…
By the way, this same meeting has been documented by Patrick Sahle in this post: http://dayofdh2016.linhd.es/patrick/2016/04/08/meetings/
Coffee Break…
… with the DH people from Cologne at the locally famous "Pizzabude"…
Who do you recognize?
And what happened before the coffee break? See Patrick Sahle's post on the Mensa Express!
Today, I received three emails from the University of Würzburg and am now officially enrolled as a PhD student! Yay! It is fascinating that there was almost no real paperwork (the one which has to do with the raw material made of fibers) and no physical visit of administrative buildings involved. There is an electronic system where one can apply, and now I am following the instructions I got via email to finish the enrollment – a video tutorial.
Is the IDE around?
The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is a group of DH researchers who are especially interested in the application of digital methods to historical documents. The institute exists since 2006. Among other activities, it organizes schools on methods and technologies for the creation of digital scholarly editions. The next summer school will be in Graz in September. Check out the IDE website, if you are interested!
I am a member of the IDE since 2011. Who else is around here today?
Where are all the others???
Hello Day of DH 2016!
Here again, after participating last year and in 2012. Last year I was in the office in Würzburg, today I am in Cologne. I work at the University of Würzburg as a member of the CLiGS group (see our group's blog, as well, where my colleague José Calvo already did some posting!). I left the CCeH officially last year at the end of July which still feels strange after having been there for four years. But as I continue to live in Cologne (my 2-person-family is based here), when not staying in the cosy little room in Gerbrunn, my former colleagues still tolerate me in their 'DH castle' when I am here. Thank you! The room is another one, but the plants are still there, just like in 2012. One is new, the orchid.


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OUT of town 'til Saturday, the 9th
Adam and I are off to NYC tomorrow for an early 25th b-day vacation. YAY!!! I am WAY too pumped. And so SO sad. I'll probably cry about two days into it just dying without "the boy". 😦
Ariel will be answering emails and manning the phone as best as she can. Please be patient with her, as I know she'll be working hard to keep this up, while also getting ready for her finals (end of this week)!
Parker update!
Tags: babies, Lake Charles, Lake Charles photography, Lindsey Janies, Parker
When everyone told me the infamous line, "They grow up so fast", I believed them! But NEVER thought it would happen this fast! I came across his little onsie he wore in the hospital and couldn't believe he was that tiny only a few months ago! 😦 My big boy.
We're heading out the door to go clothes shopping for "Mommy". 😐 Not very excited. (It always seems exciting and fun when you think about it, but once you're in the dressing room with one hook full of 15 things that look TERRIBLE, and another empty "thumbs up" hook, you realize this stinks!) Well, I've lost an amazing TWENTY FOUR POUNDS since February. Everyone "claimed" you couldn't even TELL I was at 160 then, but I definately could! I gained a whopping 50 total lbs from being preggo, and thankfully I'm only 7 pounds away from my original pre-preggo weight! So, with Adam and I spending a week in NYC (leaving in SEVEN DAYS – omg.), I knew I've put off clothes shopping long enough. Today's the day.
And just incase you forgot how tiny "da boy" was, here's a reminder. (@ 18 days)
And as a bonus, I grabbed the "real" camera (instead of the iphone) last night for a few minutes to get some precious pics of "the boy" playing in his Bumbo. He loves that thing! And I love it too – he'll be sitting up in no time. 🙂
Playing with a new toy him and Mommy picked out the other day. 🙂
Curious about the "clicking" sound of the shutter. So cute.
That's my boy.
And lastly, playing with his little piggie toy – it's a constant goal of his to get it to the back of his mouth. Thankfully, he has lost every time (so far)!
And lastly – do not EVER say "my living room won't look like THAT when I have kids!" Believe me. You will be eating your words when your time comes. lol (And it's actually pretty simple to pick up – swing and jumpy thing collapse and slide under beds and we just put all his toys in his Bumbo and cap it with the tray. Slide that sucker right under the coffee table and VOILA! You can see the rug again!)
By the way…
Just a note: If you've called or emailed me sometime in the past week or so, or placed an order and haven't received an invoice back yet, please know it's not you; it's me. lol
It seems like the past three weeks have just been terrible. Three weeks ago, we experienced Parker's first earache & sinus infection, which gave me a week straight of sleepless three-hour nights & 10 hour workdays, doctor appointments, and sticky "pink medicine" strewn all over the kitchen floor. Only four days after that cleared up, I found myself feeling half dead with something that felt like the flu. Unable to re-schedule anything (due to our busy schedules and the brides' upcoming wedding dates), I never stopped shooting, which only made me worse off at the end of the day. To make up for it, after I'd get Parker & Adam out the door in the morning, I HAD to crawl back in bed and DIE for a few more hours before getting up enough energy to shoot & work a little in the afternoons. To make matters worse, by the time I had time to go to the doctor (Good Friday morning, how bad is that?!), I thought all I needed was some Amoxicillian and I'd be better in no time! Well, a viral upper respiratory infection doesn't work that way. 😐 (And I've already had my steroid shot the LAST time I was sick like this in Feb.) "You'll just have to wait it out.", he said. omg.
So, I stayed completely gross and miserable for NINE days, and was almost in tears Easter Sunday – I hadn't really played with or held Parker in days in fear he'd end up with RSV.
This past Tuesday, I woke up for the first time feeling like I didn't need a roll of tp tied around my neck. It was finally passing. Thank you, God.
Wednesday morning, Parker was back at the doctor for his 4 month shots (late by a few weeks due to the s.i.). I kissed that baby so much that morning (we finally had a little mommy/baby time) and he handled his shots like a trooper – one little cry for each leg and that was it! I brought him to daycare right after & gave him to his favorite teacher, only for her to hand him back when she found out he'd just had his vaccines. 😐 It was only 9:15 and I was already WAY passed the point of stressed out now – Ariel & I had an entire day scheduled at the downtown office with meetings & appts. omg. It had taken packing & organizing 'til 1:00 a.m. Tuesday night & getting up at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning for me to have everything I needed to look half decent, bring 1/2 the studio to LC, and pack up a baby, so that I could have everything I'd need to be gone 'til 6 that night. ONLY to turn around and drive BACK in S-town to bring "the boy" to Mom for a surprise baby-sitting day. (Thank the good Lord she was off for spring break.)
Thursday, Parker's at daycare & I'm in Orange shooting Racheal's amazing bridal session. My phone kept blowing up in my back pocket halfway through the session when I finally looked down to see Tiny Steps & Adam had been calling. Parker had 102 degree fever and needed to get to the doctor ASAP. I cried. With my iphone in one hand and camera in the other, and a bride & her mother standing there for their long-awaited session, I cried. Out of guilt for not thinking to look at my phone. Guilt for not being there for my baby. And knowing I couldn't leave, but had to keep shooting and trust God he would be okay. They tried to assure me they were doing everything they could to break it – he was stripped down and they were wiping him down with cold rags until ANYONE could get there to pick him up. I cried again.
By 7:00 Thursday night, he was in my arms & I didn't want him out of my sight. He's such a good baby. My mom said despite his high temp, he was smiling at all the nurses and the doctor. In ONE DAY, he'd gained five ounces to hit a whopping 17 lbs! My big boy. Thursday night was another sleepless night, which brought on a Friday of aches for me (I think the U.R.I. is making a comeback) and Parker came to work with Mommy in the morning downtown – THANK YOU ARIEL – you are THE best. Friday afternoon, we both napped at home and his fever finally subsided last night.
It's been nuts. I feel like I can't seem to catch a break. At THE busiest time of the year, I'm having to learn a hard lesson about FAMILY FIRST; business second. The stress & pressures on my shoulders to keep my deadlines & orders doesn't seem to get to me TOO badly, until I blink and it's been a week since anything's been fulfilled. But in the end, it's about the baby first; me second; work third. It's a hard lesson I'm just now truly learning, after SIX fulfilling years in business, but my FIRST year as a mom.
Please bear with me, everyone, as I get back on track and get the balance of life evened out once more.
Thank you, all, for listening to my rant. 🙂 More posts coming soon.
Closed Good Friday – Monday after Easter
Just a quick note (as I'm sitting here in the waiting room of Urgent Care):
We ARE closed today, Good Friday, and Monday, the 13th, for Easter. Now that we have Parker, the studio will have to be closed on the same days as Tiny Steps Daycare! Lol. 🙂 I hope everyone has a great Easter holiday! (I'm just hoping I can get out of the doctor's office soon enough to join Parker and the whole fam for Good Friday fun!)
sick as a dog.
I found this sick puppy shot from yahoo images; I look about like that, only worse. lol And I have more tissues than that.
Man, I was feeling fine Tuesday morning & by that night, I was achey, sneezing my head off, and feeling horrible! I only got worse yesterday – it feel like the flu, but in April?! Weird, I know. Spending yesterday afternoon in the wind on a ranch had me so worn out by last night, I was in bed sleeping for over 12 hours & I STILL feel like I haven't rested or sleep in about a week. 😦 By last night when I laid down, the chills had set in & that was about all I could take before just crapping out and calling it a day. Thankfully, I have a great husband who took on Baby Duty for the rest of the night & this morning.
It's quite a site watching me move around the house, with a box of Kleenex in one hand and a can of Lysol in the other! (God help us if Parker would get sick again – he's still recovering from his sinus infection & earache from last week.) I'm just hoping all the medicine I've been taking for the past two days will help to rid me of this before tomorrow when we have a Good Friday get together with the fam!
My goal for today is just to survive the engagement session we have this afternoon with all this wind! Our cute couple has driven in from New Orleans for their session, so there no turning back or re-scheduling. Thankfully, they are VERY understanding & SUPER sweet, so we're just going out to see how much we can get before I keel over & die. 😉
Happy Mardi Gras!
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Happy "Fat Tuesday" everyone!
Adam has work, but Parker and I have plans to spend the day with his "Gammi" & "PawPaw" camping on the lake! (Same thing we did on Sunday, but we just can't get enough of this amazing weather!!!)
Ariel and I had our first wedding this past Saturday and I wanted to pull one for the blog. LOVE it. This was a very small little country wedding, and the daisies that welcomed guests at the front door entrance made a perfect backdrop for their rings!
More to come soon! Twins will be posted sometime on Tuesday, I'm sure. Everyone have fun and BE SAFE!
And (I'm so sorry to bore you all) but I just HAD to share this picture of Parker from Sunday morning when he woke up from his nap! He's getting WAY too big too fast! 14 lbs 5 oz, 25″ long (He's had two Dr appointments within 2 1/2 weeks – grew 2 1/2″, gained 2 lbs, 1 oz, and even his HEAD grew a 1/2″!!! Dr. Maust says he's off the charts for his age – he's going to be very tall just like his great Uncle Ricky and Great Grandpa Janies! He's in six and NINE month outfits right now. Unbelievable. But he's still my little doodle. 😉


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You'd think with a name like Speedy that Ollie would've seen that drug thing coming. :)
"For the audience, the answer is: WRITERS & EDITORS"
Definitely on a lower tier than Kirby or Ditko, but okay.
3, Who else makes your grandmasters list? Just comic book guys? I don't want to include Eisner, figure he's something altogether different. Al Williamson?


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