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Something i have been thinking about recently (don't ask me why) is the fundamental flaw in the classic game 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Now i understand why Rock beats Scissors; if you tried to cut a Rock with Scissors they would become hideously blunt, rendering them essentially useless. Rock Wins. And Scissors beating Paper is clearly a no brainer. But why, oh why does paper beat Rock? It makes no sense to me whatsoever. Paper supposedly covers Rock…so what? The Rock can still blunt the Scissors if it's covered in Paper. If you through a Paper covered Rock at someone it would still hurt. In my opinion the whole Paper 'covering' Rock rule is rubbish. In fact Rock should win in this scenario, or has everybody forgotten about paperweights?
Obviosuly we can't just scrap the game entirely, it's an essential arguement solver. How do you choose who gets the last rolo without it? But it definately needs a revamp!
The Big Bang Theory has done this with it's new version of the game…Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. Whilst amusing and adding drama with a greater number of outcomes, it still doesn't adress the simple fact that Paper sucks, and in no way, shape or form does it beat Rock.
I think we need to step away from the original three components and start somwhere completely new; the problem i've encounted is that it's difficult to come up with 3 equal footed contenders. I always end up with one that lets the side down! The closest i've come up with so far is Condom Sperm Baby. Condom blocks Sperm: Condom Wins. Sperm creates Baby: Sperm wins. Fear of Baby creates need for Condoms, marring the sexual experience for all. Baby wins. But it still doesn't feel quite right.
Some of you may be thinking that i've given this far too much thought, and you'd have a valid point. But, whilst looking for links to illustrate my point i came across numerous websites that have gone into far greater geeky depth than i! Did you know for example that there is a 'World Rock Paper Scissors Society'? The winner of their annual competitions gets $50k! With that amount of money at stake it's no wonder that people take this game a little too seriously. There are a plethara of online 'how to win every time' guides as well as seriously in depth studies of the psycological and statistical aspects of the game.
But despite the massive amount of geeky man hours that have gone into all this research, there is still one question that remains unanswered. Why the fuck does Paper beat Rock?


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How long does it take for an investment to double in value? You can get a pretty good idea by using the "Rule of 72."
Divide 72 by the total return your investment is earning. For example, if you invest $1,000 in a certificate of deposit earning 5 percent, you would have $2,000 in 14.4 years. (72 divided by 5 equals 14.4.)
Warning: This rule works only if the annualized return remains stable for the life of your investment and you reinvest your earnings.


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It's easy to roll over a 401k to gold or silver, as long as the 401k in question meets specific eligibility requirements. In most cases, for example, the 401k needs to be inactive. This means that the investor has separated from the company sponsoring the 401k, and is no longer contributing to the 401k. Two exceptions to this general rule are the following:
- The company sponsoring the 401k allows employees to make "in-service" 401k rollovers, meaning current employees can roll over their respective 401k plans to other retirement account providers.
- The owner of the 401k is also the owner of the company that sponsors the plan (this would allow the company's owner to liquidate the 401k entirely).
In recent years, a growing number of investors have converted their respective 401k plans to physical gold and silver to combat inflation and fiscal irresponsibility in Washington. These same investors believe that rising government debt levels and interest rates that are near historic lows could hurt retirement savings that are tied up in traditional 401k investments, like stocks and bonds.
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If your 401k is eligible for a rollover to gold and silver, and you think owning some gold or silver might be a good long-term investment strategy, take the following 3 steps to make the conversion from paper-based investments to hard assets:
- Fill out the 401k rollover forms sent to you by your 401k rollover provider, as well as any investment direction forms required by your 401k administrator.
- Wait for the funds to be placed in your new Precious Metal IRA account. Make sure you choose a retirement account company that supports physical gold and silver investments. If possible, have the funds sent directly to your Precious Metal IRA custodian instead of having a check or wire sent to you; this way, you can avoid a lot of paperwork when tax time comes.
- Tell your gold or silver dealer which items you'd like to buy with your 401k's savings. Your bars and coins will be stored in a depository for you until you ask for a liquidation. In some cases, you also have the option of requesting physical delivery of your precious metals.
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A-League club Wellington Phoenix have secured the services of Australian wingback Jimmy Downer.
The 23-year old is set to land at the New Zealand outfit from Dutch Eerste Divisie club Sparta Rotterdam in the coming weeks but details of the deal are as yet unclear.
Downey kicked off his professional career with Perth Glory in 2007 before moving to Townsville where he spent six months with the now-defunct North Queensland Fury. He then travelled to Europe to sign a contract with Sparta for whom he made two appearances this season before coming back to Australia to play in the Victorian Premier League.
The Gympie-born Downey is a former Australia U20 international, making nine appearances for the Young Socceroos in 2006.


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Mexican Army releases statement about journalist's death
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:53:49 GMT —
The Mexican Army has broken the silence on a gun battle that left a Matamoros journalist and at least one soldier dead.
Matamoros endured a series of gun battles that terrorized residents all day Friday.
Mexico's Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported it all started at 11 a.m. Friday when an Army patrol came across a convoy of eight vehicles.
The incident took place in the Fraccionamiento Victoria in the southern area of the city.
SEDENA officials reported that the men in the convoy opened fire on soldiers resulting in a gun battle that left one soldier dead and two wounded.
The wounded soldiers were taken to local hospitals for treatment.
When the smoke cleared, authorities discovered El Expreso reporter Carlos Alberto Guajardo-Romero had been killed in the crossfire.
SEDENA officials reported that Army officials and Tamaulipas State Police conducted a joint investigation but it's not clear if Guajardo-Romero was killed by bullets from soldiers or the gunmen.
released the following statement about Guajardo's death:
"Generals, chiefs, army officers and air force personnel, together express their condolences of our supreme citizen commander Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of the Republic, towards the families of our fellow soldier and the journalist Carlos Guajardo-Romero, who both lost their lives in the line of duty."
The gun battle where Guajardo-Romero's was killed was followed by more violence and a series of other gun battles that rocked Matamoros.
SEDENA officials reported that soldiers helped Mexican Navy Marines in several gun battles thoughout the city.
By the end time night fell, the Gulf Cartel's top leader Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas-Guillen and three of his gunmen had been killed in the violence.
Two marines were killed in the battle with Cardenas-Guillen and his men.
There are no official figures as to the number of civilians killed or wounded in the violence.


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We are just coming out of the time of year when three of the four Gilberts have birthdays. Stella turned 1 in Feb, making her debut as a toddler with some flare. I discovered I've been on Vine for nearly as long as Stella has been existing in the world of man, so below are my favorite Stella vines:
My little man has turned 4, which is our unofficial cross from "toddler" into "kid" territory. It occurred to me recently that Cole has been "Superman" in nearly every country he has visited. One thing that you learn traveling the world as Superman, is that EVERYONE knows the name Superman. It doesn't matter what language you speak. Superman is universal.
So for his birthday, we beat the crap out of Superman.
It took four kids about three rounds to finally do the deed. Much candy was had by all. Much sugar was consumed that day, and in the days that followed.
Christine had her birthday the day after Stella. It's the two months of the year we get to be the same age before I have to fully plunge into "late 30's" We adults don't do a whole lot for our own birthdays typically, but I think we are going to need to get better at it now that Cole is at an age where we do want him to be psyched about upcoming birthdays. He and I made a card for mama, but other than that, her birthday got rolled in with Stella's. Not something I want to make a habit of.
Before Christine and I started with the baby making we felt certain that the kids and I would conspire to play pranks and pull stunts on poor, unsuspecting mama, but so far, it's been exactly the opposite. As it turns out, I'm not the fun one of the two of us. I'm looking forward to turning that on it's head this time next year when Cole will be big enough to be in on the joke
Next year, Christine. Next year.
The photo of Cole in Mexico is from the fabulous Pam MacNaughtan, the (better than my shots) photo of Lego Superman comes from the incomparable Snaps and Blabs. Go say hello from me.


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I am Beautiful
Yesterday I posted a very personal post, in Hebrew, sharing something special that happened to me. Although I had debated whether to put it out there, the post actually sparked the most amazing, loving reactions. I was asked to translate it, and decided to do so.
If it helps even one woman, mother, daughter…then it was definitely worth the effort.
The incident took place over the past weekend. Yet when I think back, to connect the dots, I realized it actually started some decades ago, back in my own pre-adolescent years.
(Pre-adolescence. Good times.)
Part One
This past Friday, one of our older daughters came home in a bad mood. This itself is not out of the ordinary; she's been showing signs of pre-adolescence herself for some time. We usually just give her space and she eventually snaps out of it.
That day though, our other daughter hinted to us that apparently something had happened at school.
It was a typical Friday. In between the whirlwind of meals-cooking-cleaning-laundry-showering-packing-driving to where we would be spending the Sabbath, we tried to coax the issue out of sulky daughter. But she refused to open up. After a while, it seemed to have blown over and we forgot about the issue.
Part Two
Saturday night. I attended a women's lecture in Herzliya by the stunning Marina Gurovich, entitled "Whole but not Perfect."
She spoke about the connection between your self-image, self-confidence and your looks, trying to release us from the imaginary beauty ideal sold to us by the media. She presented 100 years of "perfect women," each representing the "ideal woman"- the definition of which changed just about every decade.
And of course the message we get from the media is that every woman should dream and aspire to look like this imaginary "ideal woman." (By the way, we all know that today this ideal is far from any semblance of reality - it's one big Photoshop fantasy).
Marina spoke of a simple idea that resonated with me deeply.
She said: there is NO SUCH THING as "ideal beauty."
There is no such thing as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
There is only: "I AM BEAUTIFUL."
That's it, the secret of beauty. That's all, folks. A woman who feels she is beautiful - is really beautiful. True beauty emanates from the inside out.
Part Three
On Sunday our little moper came back from school and immediately went to lay down on the couch. This time, her sister told us what had happened: it turns out that there were girls in the class calling our daughter fat.
When I heard that, the world went black. My heart fell to the floor.
Racing before my eyes were 20 years of mostly self-inflicted trauma. Years that to this day I have not totally recovered from. Years of dieting - calorie counting - weight loss - weight gain - dieticians - portion control - hunger - eating disorders - an endless cycle of shame - depression - self hatred - and more.
God, I said to myself.
What do I DO? How do I save my sweet, beautiful, innocent daughter from this soul-sucking vortex? Is she, too, doomed to endless years of suffering?? I wanted to cry.
I have sensed for many years that weight gain at its core is not related to food consumption. It has nothing to do with counting calories or portion control. Weight gain is a direct result of an INTERNAL struggle. I somehow knew that to start a discussion about "fat," "diet," "calories," etc. would be very, very wrong and destructive.
Some instinct inside me knew this. But on the surface, I felt I did not have the tools to handle the problem, and I had no idea how to address this situation. To save my daughters. My beautiful, perfect daughters.
I was so scared.
And suddenly - out of the darkness - I saw the answer.
All at once. Clear as day. Sparked by this situation, through my daughter, through HER struggle.
Suddenly, I remembered Marina's message.
Like a bolt of lightning, I realized a deep truth:
Mothers who talk to their children about diets, even with the best intentions, trying to help their them be "normal," be popular, stop the teasing etc. - what message are they conveying? What does the CHILD hear?? She hears ONE message, loud and clear. She hears one of the most destructive messages a young girl could hear. "Only when you're thin will you be beautiful, will you be loved, will you be accepted, will you be worth anything."
From there it's a short hop, skip and a jump into the vast world of eating disorders. Girls will do anything, ANYTHING to be loved, accepted, valued.
I suddenly realized that I was holding a great treasure. I was holding the answer that I had been looking for most of my life.
I realized I now HAD the tools. I could right the wrongs. I could start something new and end this destructive cycle of diet obsession.
I called my two girls over for a talk and told them about Marina's lecture. Then I gave them two messages. One to give them inner, deep, everlasting, unshakable self-love. And one to give them tools of confidence for life. I repeated these messages with them 10 times, explaining them in different ways. And, please God, I will continue to drill them into their heads, until they become second nature.
Message One:
All women, without exception, ALL women are beautiful. Every woman in the world. Every. Single. Woman. In the world.
Deeper still: You are only really beautiful if YOU think you're beautiful. If deep down you think you're ugly, then even if you're a supermodel, you'll still project that you're ugly.
Message Two
A person who mocks others is inherently flawed. There is some hurt inside of them. There is something wrong with them. You have to feel sorry for them, you have to feel compassion and try to help them if possible.
My dear daughters, you are PRINCESSES. You are the daughters of the King of the universe, of the Creator and Ruler of the world. You have inherent perfection, you are inherently loved.
If someone were to laugh at you saying your nose is green - would you be hurt? Would you be offended and sad? Of course not. You would think there's something a bit cuckoo about that person. You'd feel sorry for them. And that's how you should react if you're called any form of ugly.
Rinse and repeat, repeat again and again, and with the help of God, I wish for my children that I am able to help them reach a point where their immediate association is this: if someone is cruel to them, instead of being hurt, they will see that there before them stands a flawed and vulnerable human being. And my children will reach out to help. THEM.
This is what I said. Teaching them, loving them, lifting them up.
Suddenly, she smiled. My sweet, sweet daughter.
And I saw, clear as day.
I saw it on her face. I saw that she GOT it.
I saw that she felt, from within herself.
She felt. Beautiful.


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Taipei: Taiwan's already frosty relations with Beijing are set to cool further after the appointment of a controversial diplomat to handle cross-strait ties sparked a backlash.
Beijing still sees self-ruling Taiwan as part of its territory and has been piling pressure on new president Tsai Ing-wen to acknowledge that there is only "one China".
It deeply mistrusts Tsai, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is traditionally pro-independence. Beijing has cut official communications with Tsai, who took office in May and has not backed the "one China" concept — unlike her Beijing-friendly predecessor Ma Ying-Jeou.
In an act seen by critics as further agitating Beijing, Tsai's office announced late on Wednesday that Tien Hung-mao, who is known for his pro-independence stance, will head the key Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF).
SEF and its Chinese counterpart The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits are semi-official bodies set up to deal with issues too legally or politically delicate to be handled through official government channels.
Following the appointment, the top Chinese official in charge of Taiwan ties urged the SEF to recognise that there is only one China.
"The key to the question is the political basis that authorises negotiations," Zhang Zhijun, head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said in a statement. The appointment of Tien could push cross-strait ties into a "dead-end alley", the Taipei-based China Times newspaper quoted unnamed sources in China as warning.
There was also a domestic backlash against Tien's appointment - one senior SEF advisor tendered his resignation on Thursday in protest. Tien served as foreign minister under former DPP president Chen Shui-bian, who oversaw mounting tensions with Beijing during his 2000-2008 term over his policies promoting the island's independence.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war but Beijing has repeatedly warned Taipei against seeking a formal breakaway.
Taiwan's minister on China affairs defended Tien's appointment. "We are showing goodwill to mainland China as Tien is very familiar with China affairs. He is pragmatic and rational," said Chang Hsiao-yueh, chairwoman of the Mainland Affairs Council.
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tampa bay rays advisor and baseball lifer don zimmer passed away in june of 2014, and the rays quickly added a 'zim' patch to their jerseys in tribute. here's a look at the patch on kevin kiermaier's 2014 topps update card
this 2015 topps evan longoria card is another good example
zim had been a coach turned advisor for the rays since 2004, but that was just the last in a long string of baseball roles that he filled. after signing with the dodgers as a player in 1949, zimmer made it to the big leagues in 1954 (after surviving a horrific beaning in the minor leagues in 1953). in addition to the dodgers (twice), zimmer played for the cubs, reds, mets, and senators, and he also spent a season in japan. following his playing days, he coached for the expos, padres, red sox (twice), yankees (three times), cubs, giants, rockies, and rays, and he also managed the padres, red sox, rangers, and cubs.
zimmer won two world series rings as a player with the dodgers (1955 and 1959), plus a few more as joe torre's bench coach with the yankees. he was also named the national league manager of the year in 1989 when he led the cubbies to the nl east title. zimmer was 83 when he died, having spent 65 of those years in professional baseball.


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Cornyn's measure to grant Purple Hearts
Special to the Courier
On Thursday, May 8, United States Senator John Cornyn announced that the House Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved including his legislation to honor and support the victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting and make them eligible for benefits in the fiscal year 2015 Defense Authorization Bill.
"I applaud members of the committee for their leadership in approving this important piece of legislation for Fort Hood and the surrounding community," said Cornyn. "The 2009 Fort Hood victims should be eligible for all the honors and benefits available to US troops who fall victim to an international terrorist attack, especially Purple Heart medals. This inclusion would make that a reality."
Currently, the victims of the Fort Hood terrorist attack have not received the same awards and benefits as their counterparts who are wounded or killed either through enemy action or a terrorist attack. This was because the perpetrator - former US Army Major Nidal Hasan - did not fit the Pentagon's definition of an "international terrorist."
In 2013, Cornyn introduced the Honoring the Fort Hood Heroes Act to correct this inequity and provide these benefits to the Fort Hood victims.
Texas US Representatives John R. Carter and Roger Williams introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. Texas US Rep. Mike Conaway sponsored the legislation as an amendment to the FY2015 Defense Authorization Bill, which the committee passed unanimously the night of May 7.
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Posts Tagged 'Fake Yo-Yo Expert'
Best Links of the Week
Some amazing long exposure photographs.
The never ending march of larger government, less privacy, and less freedom continues with the forthcoming 2,000 page bank bill. As best I understand this article, under this bank bill the government would have an itemized list of all of your electronic purchases. This is highly problematic on several levels… at least cash is still anonymous.
Hilarious fake Yo-Yo expert dupes several TV stations across the Midwest.
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Hungry pooch
A stray dog rummages for food among debris in La Pintada, state of Guerrero, Mexico, on September 19, 2013 as heavy rains hit the country. Deaths from floods and landslides battering Mexico neared 100 on Thursday as a fresh hurricane hit the northwest and rescuers faced a risky mission in a village buried in mud.
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We are truly sorry to read of your Mother's passing. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Jewell (Judy) Fronterhouse
Jewell (Judy) Fronterhouse passed away on December 17, 2016 in Wichita, KS. She was preceded in death by her husband Jess Fronterhouse. She is survived by her daughter Judy Baldridge and her husband George; grandchildren; Jason Baldridge and his wife Janice, and Rebeccer Turgen and her husband Dan, great grandchildren; Aaliyah Baldridge, Abby Baldridge, Brandon Cheney, Jayden Adams, and Jessica Crabtree.
Family requests memorial donations be made to the Pink Ladies at OU Medical Center of Edmond.
Funeral services for Jewell are set for Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 10 am at Matthews Funeral Home. Interment to follow at Marlow Cemetery in Marlow, OK.
We are truly sorry to read of your Mother's passing. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
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Shibani Kashyap: Singer Shibani Kashyap walked the ramp in a black sequined sari designed by Neeta Lulla.
Hrishita Bhat: She may be off the limelight, but actress Hrishita Bhat did her bit.
Manjari Phadnis: B-town actress Manjari Phadnis was also part of the fashion show that was held for a cause.
Raageshwari Loomba: Former VJ and singer Raageshwari Loomba wore a beautiful outfit at the fashion show.
Sania Mirza: Tennis star Sania Mirza was surely stole the limelight – she wore a lovely white salwar kameez.
Vivek Oberoi: Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi, who was spotted with wife Priyanka at the peace walkathon, also walked the ramp for Neeta Lulla in a heavy sherwani.
Shazahn Padamsee: Also seen was Shazahn Padamsee showing her support at the peace initiative.
Ragini Khanna: TV actress Ragini Khanna looked cheerful walking the ramp in a black sari.
It's not every day we see celebrities come out and support a noble cause. The Global Peace Initiative saw celebrities from Tinsel Town commemorate the victims of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks recently. The initiative also witnessed a fashion show where a few celebrities walked the ramp for designer Neeta Lulla. Here are snapshots from the event.


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Theodore Roszak is a maverick historian capable of distinguishing running tides from the froth that rides the waves. For the last two decades he has astutely monitored American popular culture, from war protests to the women's movement, from CB radios to punk rock, and managed to separate the hucksters and hokum from genuine trends and seeds of new social orders.
Roszak first made his reputation reading the pulse of America in the '60s through his books "The Making of a Counter Culture" and "Where the Wasteland Ends" -- both of which were nominated for the National Book Award. He argued that student rebellion was not a historical aberration or momentary catharsis, but part of the constant undertow of the human spirit's resistance to technological excesses and bigness. Roszak believes the counterculture has now moved off campus, taken on new forms, and graduated into the culture at large. He interprests the general unrest of the '70s over Watergate, corporate scandals , inflation, energy, the deterioration of the cities, as the troubled birth of a major cultural transformation, a spiritual awakening in this country.Roszak is neither starry-eyed futurist nor bemoaner of contemporary society. Rather he attempts to offer alternatives and values to break the cultural momentum he denigrates. His most recent book, "Person/Planet," explores the interplay between global ecology and the individual's search for identity.
Roszak, raised in Chicago and educated at UCLA and Princeton University, is a professor of history and chairman of General Studies at California State University, Hayward. He lives in Berkeley, California, where he recently spoke with Stewart McBride.
As we enter the '80s, what sorts of excess baggage would you like to see us discard? I'm thinking of cherished assumptions, myths, and wants.
Some things are being discarded very widely -- the myth of endless material progress and unlimited economic growth, for example. We've got to get beyond the intoxication of industrial production and begin to think about other values in life.
The poet Rilke said that we will not have the answers to our questions until we're able to live the answers. And until then we shouldn't be afraid to live the questions. I wonder if this period of uncertainty is really us living the questions?
Two sets of needs are imposing themselves upon us at the same time. One from within, one from without. The needs that speak from within us for personal autonomy and fulfillment are simply a different expression of the same needs of the environment around us for respect and moderation.
Some people think this has a nebulous, mystic sound. It doesn't seem that way to me at all. The needs of the planet demand the same prescription to scale things down, slow them, democratize and decentralize them.
You're talking about a new definition of power?
In some respects, yes. We're used to power being grounded in masses or in classes. All the politics of reform and revolution of the last two centuries have taken the form of mass actions in which classifications were assigned. The trouble with such politics is that it has no deep respect for people as persons. It treats them as a power base. I'm talking about a politics that is committed to dealing with the genuine personal uniqueness of human beings in all their variety. We live in a society which is committed on all fronts to the massification of people -- as nations, markets. But there is a spontaneous rebellion growing up in Western society, people determined to express their uniqueness.
What do you say to the social critics, like Christopher Lasch, who look at the same symptoms and say the search for self-discovery is really "pathological narcissism," "self-indulgence," the "Me decade"?
There's nothing pathological about the struggle for people to find themselves. We have a whole body of literature in the last century devoted to this. Take James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" -- the struggle of a young man against the identities assigned him by nation, church, family. It's not self-indulgence to strike out in the direction of establishing your own identity. IT takes courage. It takes courage for a woman to stand up against the prevalent stereotypes and say, "That's not for me." She pays a price for it. It takes courage for a handicapped person to come onto the street and say, "I'm not going to hide in my house anymore. I'm going to come out and claim full access to the world around me." If you want to interpret all this in the most tawdry was possible then of course you can mock it and reject it, just as you can anything else. But that's interpreting things in the lowest possible terms and why do that? Unless, of course, what you want to do is crush, discourrage, defeat them. In what way is it self-indulgent for someone to say, "I won't betray my own identity"? It's one of the strongest, most powerful movements in the whole industrial world. And there is no way to deny people their rights without being cruelly oppresive.What I think we're involved with here is something that is as deeply serious as the struggle for equality which began two centuries ago, and which was outrageous and incomprehensible to many people at that time. In what sense did the poor, the nonwhile, the nonmale of the world claim equality? Now it's just gone a bit further. The demand is not simply for equality, but for uniqueness.
There are people who don't understand this. It threatens the power base of social movements, because those movements have again and again betrayed the aspirations of people, by treating them as things, as collectiveness.
How does the present political climate in this country, vis-a-vis the draft, arms race, renewal of the cold war, reflect broader trends?
You have a lot of old values that still come into play essentially born of fear and anger and hatred. There are still buttons like "patriotism" that can be pushed and there are politicians who will push them. Some of the narcissist critics cannot really believe that this value of personhood is accessible to so-called "ordinary" people. They always focus their criticism on rather odd, unique, upper-middle-class types. But when you go out and talk to waitresses, steelworkers, or so-called ordinary people, they all tell the same story -- this job makes me feel like a robot -- it won't let me be myself. They feel no conscience toward the job and they walk off the assembly line. The job violates -- what? Their sense of personhood.Everybody in the corporate community knows that the reason productivity is dropping, not only in out society but in all industrial societies, is because there's no work ethic left. And there's no work ethic left because people have been profoundly alienated.
Is our culture acquiring a new morality?
Yes, insofar as the assertion of a "moral good" means the right to be a person. This is a new morality -- for people to be assertive. Societies have always assigned roles -- that women would be women, that men would be men, that old folks would be old folks, that kids be kids, and the handicapped stay out of sight. Everybody has his place in the social system. That's what makes it a system. But People don't play those games anymore. Neither little ones or big ones. Television situation comedy over the last 10 or 15 years has radically changed. Series after series has been based on people fighting social stereotypes. There's not going to be a neat, efficient, rapid soution -- but at least it's in the open.
Ever since Henry Adams wrote "The Dynamo and the Virgin," a number of social critics have suggested the need for traditionally "feminine" virtues of compassion, sensitivity, intuition, to balance out the excesses of the industrial age. In that sense, do you consider yourself a feminist?
I certainly subscribe to feminist values -- which is simply the right of women to define their identity.
In "Person/Planet" you said that at this juncture in history, for all of us who are sunk in the Frankensteinian culture of masculine dominance, the road to wholeness leads through the feminine. What led you to that conclusion?
That's part of the argument about the changing vision of nature, the earth, the planet. Western science has from the very beginning been deeply imbued with compulsive, stereotypic masculine values. At the point where all of that begins to break down and change, you expect to find a greater openness to a very different vision of nature. In the ecology movement, people are beginning to think of the planet in much more sensitive, personal, generous, reverent terms. One of the signs of the times is an attempt to restore the lost feminine nature to our science. To the degree that there is an imbalance in the masculine direction, it could be corrected by introducing a greater feminine sensivity. Beyond that lies the possibility of transcending these categories entirely and recognizing that we have merely universal qualities. I try not to push the terms "masculine" and "feminine" too hard because they are part of the unfortunate division that I think needs to be transcended for the sake of achieving one's own uniqueness.
If, in fact, nature is somewhat of a mirror for us, in exploring the earth and the universe, to what extent are we simply exploring categoies of human consciousness?
I think I could reply to that, but it's such a big question that I don't know if I should start going in that direction. There is a delicate balance between the way the mind reflects the world and the way the world is. It's very tricky interplay.
What are your feminist intuitions about the "man-made" environment? What bothers you most about cities?
I think our science and our technology have had the stereotypic masculine bias that needs to be corrected. Out of that science and technology in the last century has arisen an imperialism of the cities. This has blanketed growth and is now beginning to close out every other form of culture. The only culture left will be that of urban industrialism. In fact, we're very close to that now. The whole world is now governed by the city-mind. There's a sense in which the city doesn't leave off and rural wilderness begin. There is no authentic rural society left. There is no authentic wilderness left in the world.
What about Alaska?
What happens to Alaska is going to be determined in Fairbanks and in Washington, D.C. The wilderness is not going to determine whether the caribou live or die -- it's no longer capable of defending itself, because human beings penetrate and dominate it and there are no people in that land capable of defending it. Wilderness these days means some kind of national park which can be torn down and torn up if the nearest metropolis sees fit. Jacques Cousteau has pointed out that the high, wild seas of the world -- everywhere -- are now covered with tar and petroleum, as if the outreach of the city in industrial society is just everywhere. It's hard to grasp the fact that this condition is less than a century old. Anything that happens on that rapid scale is ecologically unbalanced. We've not recognized yet that the whole imperialist economy of cities is tormenting the planet beyond tolerance. It means we need to scale the cities down. There are many alternatives to city life. There is small-town life. There is village life. There is family farm life. It is absurd, frankly, to say that after a little more than a century of intensive urbanization, it has been decided that all these other things are undesirable and impossible.
How do we go about dismantling the modern city?
The first thing you have to recognize is that most people who are in cities don't want to be there. It that weren't true, there would be no hope of dismantling the urban empire. But most people are in cities because they've been driven into cities by work, by the fact that cities have come to dominate the culture. Cities alone look like places where life can be affluent, secure, exciting.
But there are people like you and me who are born, bred and live in cities, and are still living in a city. Even you openly confessed in "Person/Planet" that you wouldn't choose to move to a small family farm.
That's true. Clearly there are "citified" people. But traditionally -- which means to go back five to seven thousand years -- the citified people, those who authentically choose to live in cities, have been a strict minority of the human race. I suspect they still are.
The other thing that you have to bear in mind is that what most of us are now forced to think of as urban is really suburban -- vast, swollen suburbs which only exist because people want to get as far away from the urban center as possible. The key to this, is hardheaded political terms, is land reform. If people are going to live any place but in high-rise buildings you have to ask, where else can they live?
What land is available? Once you start asking that, you discover that we have been connived into these urban areas by the land policies of our society over the last century which have allowed the land to be bought up and used for various economic purposes. This has taken people off the land; this has made small family farming insupportable as a way of life. This didn't happen as a matter of technology or of natural fact, or of scientific law, but as a matter of tax policy. Small family farms can be enormously productive. They can be the richest sustaining way of life, but notm if you surround them with land and tax policies that kill them. My approach to this problem is to connect deurbanization with land reform.
Most people would say that's a Third World solution to a First-World problem.
No. Land reform is a universal need. To pretend that land reform is an issue only of the Third World is a propagandistic trick. Land reform starts at home. Right here. All the economic interests in our society are tied up in the land division system.
Is that not a Thoreauvian, pastoral view of life which could simply become as extension of the old escape of the suburbs?
The best you can provide under prevailing economic and social conditions is various illusions. And so you give people suburbs that are called something like "Rural Village" or "Oakdale" or shopping centers that look like big red barns. You give them illusions. What I'm saying is, if there is a case for that and a desire for that, make it real. Give people the realm choice. And see what happens.
The most culturally productive cities we knew in the historical past were small towns. A city does not have to have millions of people to be a cultural powerhouse. Athens in the Golden Age was about 100,000 people. Renaissance Rome was about 45,000 people. Cities of that size created the culture of nations. Now we have cities all over the world that count 8, 10, million in their populations. They are notm cultural powerhouses.
Would you agree with William Irwin Thompson that cities will be as obsolete to the next civilization as the Sphinx is to ours?
No, I don't entirely agree with that. I think that the urban option is one option that's important to keep. There arem citified people. There have always been merchants, artisans, intellectuals, who gravitated to cities. They're the authentic urban population. The best image is to see the true city as a cultural laboratory where we experiment with new ideas and values and life styles. That's what makes cities exciting.
Right? But a laboratory should never be as big as the whole planet. Because if it goes wrong, the whole planet is destroyed. We're turning the whole planet into an empire of cities. And that is ecological unsound. The city has to be retained as one option, but it must be an authentic city, not crowded with millions of people.


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Samuels on the Block?
By: Mark Solway
Posted: 2004-04-12
Category: Washington Redskins News
Samuels has three years remaining on his contract and he has approximately $9 million in signing bonus money that is still owed to him. The latest rumor has Chris heading to Oakland along with Washington's fifth pick in the draft. In exchange, the Redskins would receive Oakland's second overall pick. All of this movement to supposedly land Robert Gallery, a stud left tackle that now many are projecting to go first overall.
So how does a pro bowl player and community leader like Samuels find himself in this predicament?
His agent.
With a 2004 cap hit of $8.75 M, the Redskins would love to restructure Chris' contract. He is the highest cap hit on the team and considering the past two year's performance, he's probably overpaid. His cap hit only gets worse in 2005 and 2006 too when his annual hit rises to over $10 M. Washington would like to renegotiate the contract so that they can free up some extra cap space this year by deferring upcoming annual salary into bonus money (that can be spread out across the remainder of the new contract). There's just one small problem -- Jimmy Sexton -- Samuels' agent.
Sexton seems to think that now is the time to proverbially 'flex his muscles'. The agent thought that it would be prudent to hold Samuels' contract over the Skins head when the team negotiated to bring Mark Brunell in to compete for the starting QB position. At the time he threatened that if the Skins brought in Brunell, his other Redskin client, Patrick Ramsey, would lose the potential to earn his incentives, and therefore, Sexton would not be a part of helping the Redskins gain valuable cap space by reworking the deal of Sexton's other client -- Chris Samuels.
Bush league tactics. It doesn't appear to have worked, though rumors like the Samuels-Gallery one are proof that it did have an effect.
So let's examine the one fact that makes this trade a rumor, more than a possibility... the acceleration of the signing bonus due to a trade. Part of the collective bargaining agreement is the pro-ration of the signing bonus. A player can be signed to a long term contract and even though a team throws a chunk of money at him right off the bat for a signing bonus, the NFL allows the team to pro-rate the cost of that bonus over the term of the contract. So if a player signs a 5-year contract with a $5 M signing bonus... then the team's salary cap will be impacted by $1M of that bonus per year. However, if a player is CUT or TRADED, that entire signing bonus needs to be applied to THIS year's cap figure. Compound that with the fact that Washington would be forced to sign Gallery to a contract that would be very similar to what it would cost to keep Samuels anyway. Then add to that, the fact that NOBODY will trade up to the number 2 spot to get Gallery until draft day. What's the point when someone can still take the stud tackle at the number 1 slot?
Samuels has an annual salary of $5.132M in 2004, plus the pro-rated version of his signing bonus is an additional $2.932M... he also has a roster bonus totaling 686K for a grand total of an $8.75M cap hit in 2004. So as it stands, it will cost the Redskins just a shade under $9M to have Samuels play for Washington this year. However, if the Redskins were to trade Samuels, they would have to eat all of his remaining bonus in 2004... almost $9M ($2.932M x 3). A cap savings of absolutely nothing. In fact, it will cost a few hundred thousand more to NOT have Samuels play. When looked at logically, it just makes too much sense to not even consider Samuels situation until after this season. By next season, the cap hit for cutting Samuels becomes tolerable. There would only be $6M in bonus money left, meaning that if the Skins were to cut him after June 1 in 2005, the cap hit would be less than $3M in each of the 2005 and 2006 seasons -- a much more palatable figure.
Look at the big picture and ask yourself if it makes sense. There have been comments made to the effect that cutting Jeremiah Trotter is equally economically irresponsible, and the Redskins still appear willing to do that if they cannot trade him. So what's the difference?
Now it just remain to be seen if Samuels can do what he needs to, in order to remain a Redskin for years to come... recognize that Sexton's power-trip didn't work, recognize that he has the chance to be a part of something special with Gibbs' return, fire Sexton, and re-do that contract. Otherwise, Samuels may find himself outside the Redskins box looking in.
But not until 2005.
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For shippers, surcharges without explanation
Shippers from all over the world are now confronted with extra surcharges, longer lead times and changed cut-off times imposed by other stakeholders in the maritime supply chain. These charges are applied without any sensible explanation and regardless of shippers being compliant before or since July 1st or being not compliant at all.
The Global Shippers Alliance (GSA), representing the logistic interests of manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers from Asia, the European Union and the United States, regrets that regulations and related investments that contribute to a safer and more secured supply chain are now being misused by some partners for their own benefit.
GSA is asking all stakeholders concerned to withdraw any unjustifiable charges immediately and to use the three month grace period, as requested by IMO, to refine all procedures and communications regarding the VGM. Based on the guidelines issued by European members of GSA, together with other associations, shippers have been successful in aligning the implementation of the weighing of containers regulation across several countries in North America, Asia and Europe. These efforts contributed to the fact that the transition to the new container weighing resolutions went, contrary to the expectations, smoothly.
Industrials not only have taken a cooperative approach to these VGM-regulations but also have undertaken all necessary actions and investments to provide carriers with the accurate verified gross mass. Undoubtedly, the other stakeholders in the chain had to do exactly the same. However, GSA sees no justification for these stakeholders to look for return on their investment by applying any VGM-charge for complying shippers. First of all, the objective of the new regulation was put in place to decrease risk with respect to safety in maritime shipping. Increasing the cost of the supply chain, on top of the investments already done by the shippers, is not the purpose. Second, with the implementation date already known long time ago it is not acceptable that justifiable charges (if any) are made known after July 1st. Unless shippers want to see their supply chain disrupted, they have no other choice than to accept these tangible and intangible charges.
This article was posted on July 19th, 2016 by ESC under News


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Cystic Fibrosis: Sample Menu
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I think you would agree with me when I say that it can be hard for people to think about what to do after an auto accident. Not to mention what things they should do in order to protect their auto accident claim.
We often do things that shouldn't be done under such circumstances. Perhaps you are confused and shaken by the car accident, and your judgment is clouded as a result.
The good news is that you can arm yourself with the knowledge of the common mistakes people make after an accident so you can avoid them. Such knowledge will help keep your presence of mind under such circumstances so you do not end up making an error in judgment when trying to file your auto accident claim.
In this post, we will discuss the most common mistakes people make after an accident and also provide tips on what you should do otherwise. This information is very useful so you should read till the end.
Never Admit Fault in a Motor Accident
You may feel confident that you were responsible for the accident, but there's still a procedure for determining fault, and it is best to allow the experts to figure things out first before you make any confessions. If the other party is mad and accuses you of being responsible for what happened, you must find a way to prevent them from making further accusations against you.
Just because another party is certain that you're responsible for what happened does not necessarily make it so. You just won't do yourself any good by admitting it. There may be instances that would seem rather obvious to you, but that's still no reason to accept the liability at the scene of the accident.
If you're giving a statement to the authorities about the accident, then the same principle applies. Just inform the officer of what transpired during the accident, according to how you remembered it and don't acknowledge any fault.
Stick to the truth and let the auto insurance adjusters and the police review the incident and determine who is at fault. Disclosure, especially when it comes to responsibility, could be quite troublesome to you, especially if the other party chooses to sue for damages.
Not quite what you expected? Here's another tip…
Do not Negotiate with the Other Party
In a small accident where nobody is harmed, and the damage seems to be minor, it can be enticing to keep things off the record. Perhaps, you find yourself in a place where the other party would like to handle the damage without talking to the insurance company and avoid any increase in the rate.
It may look like a good notion on the surface, but the results could be unfavorable to you at the end of the day. In numerous instances, individuals who are unprepared for such situations make common errors in dealing with the accident. These mistakes can be expensive and could damage a victim's chances of being compensated.
Negotiating with the other party to choose who should answer for damages and whether the case should be taken to the automobile insurance company could put you in a tough position later on if the accident becomes more serious than it looks on the surface; or if it happens that the other party wants to submit a fraudulent claim against you once you have already decided to pay for a particular damage.
Don't Let Your Insurance Auto Accident Claim Expire
Insurance companies have a particular window in which you can file an accident claim. When that window passes, they may decide to deny you with financial coverage for the accident. So if that driver reconsiders bringing a claim against you (they have enough time to carry this one out legally), you may find yourself paying out-of-pocket on a claim for an injury that is only revealed after the incident.
Even more worrisome is the likelihood that you may become an insurance fraud victim because you didn't get the facts immediately on record, running the risk of having the other party raise their claim.
In an automobile accident, let the experts and investigators do their jobs at the scene
Do Not Leave the Scene of the Accident Until Everything is Settled
This may look obvious, but your wish to simply go home and ease off the tension can backfire. Do not leave the scene until you have obtained all of the details needed from the other party and have made the necessary consultations with the police.
If the other party is pushing to exchange contact information and work everything out afterward, it should serve as a bad warning for you. Make sure that you have the other driver's full contact details, including their insurance information as well as the contact information of any witnesses before leaving the scene.
If there are injuries or if the damage is severe, contact the police and remain at the scene of the accident without changing or doing anything until they turn up. By waiting a little bit longer and ensuring that everything has been noted correctly, you will avoid possible issues that may come with your claim.
To protect yourself after a car accident, the safest thing you can do is to allow the experts to handle the specifics. Be respectful to the other party and check if anybody is hurt, and then avoid discussing what just happened.
Contact the police if you think that anything is strange at the accident scene, even though the damage is minor. Inform your auto insurance company immediately and allow them to decide who bears the responsibility. In the end, that's why you have insurance.
By this time, you have 3 great tips in your pocket already. Keep reading because we will give you more…
Additional Auto Accident Tips
The article Top 5 Mistakes Made After A Car Accident by Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C. lists these errors in an excerpt below:
- Not Filing A Police Report – A police report is an objective record of what took place, and it may end up being a vital piece of evidence toward proving what happened.
- Not Exchanging Information – Always exchange information with all parties involved in an accident, as well as any witnesses. This includes contact information, driver's license number and license plate, insurance company and policy number, and the make and model of the vehicle.
- Not Seeking Timely Medical Treatment – Seeking timely medical treatment is important for both your health and your future claim. If you feel pain, prompt medical attention is crucial. Even if you don't feel pain right after the accident, it's important to have a physician properly assess you, as pain and injuries may not manifest until hours later or the following day.
- Trusting the Insurance Company – Insurance companies are in business to collect premiums, not pay out claims to victims. Because they have an interest in protecting their bottom lines, insurers devote a lot of resources and effort toward minimizing or denying claims. This means they'll often try to quickly settle for less than victims deserve, or look for ways to avoid paying anything at all.
- Not Working With an Attorney – One of the biggest mistakes victims make is attempting to handle their claims on their own. While there is no requirement to have a lawyer, having an experienced legal representative who is familiar with the process and how to produce the best results can make the difference between full compensation and less compensation than you need, or even none at all.
Some mistakes are not included in this post, but the article Ten Biggest Mistakes After an Accident by Console and Hollawell PC supplements the errors in a detailed manner, but a list is provided below:
- Mistake #1: Underestimating Your Injuries
- Mistake #2: Waiting Too Long to Act
- Mistake #3: Giving Too Much Information to the Insurance Company
- Mistake #4: Failing to Call the Police
- Mistake #5: Admitting Fault
- Mistake #6: Failing to Gather Evidence
- Mistake #7: Accepting a Quick Settlement
- Mistake 8: Signing Anything from the Insurance Company
- Mistake #9: Using Facebook and Other Social Media Sites
- Mistake #10: Failing to Call, an Attorney
If you are involved in a car accident, you can use the information in this post as your guide in determining what errors to avoid. It will also help make the process of making a claim smoother and more guaranteed for you.
To dig deeper into the details of these mistakes, it would be best to consult a personal injury lawyer who specializes in automobile accidents. Should you run into any problems along the way, your lawyer will help you overcome it.
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15 Ways to Deal with High Gas Prices
The price of gas is already high and it's probably just going to keep climbing with time. If you don't want to keep contributing to the problem (and having your savings eaten away in the process) then you should start thinking now about making some serious life changes that will reduce the amount of money that you spend on fueling up your car. The major key is to reduce the amount of gas that you are using by opting for alternatives to driving. However, you can also choose smarter cars and smarter fuel sources to increase the amount of driving time you get from your gas tank.
Here are fifteen basic ways to lower the monthly amount that you're spending on gas:
1. Get a bike and use it at least five days a week.
2. Get a gas rewards card. These credit cards give you up to 6% cash back on your gas purchases if you use them in a smart way.
3. Invest in a car with better gas mileage.
4. Walk to any destinations that are less than one mile away.
5. Combine all of your errands into one trip (daily if need be but weekly is better). Map out the trip to make sure you do as little driving as possible.
6. Take the bus. That means the city bus in your town and it also means the Greyhound when traveling.
7. Learn about alternative fuels. You can run a car on cooking oil.
8. Cap yourself. Decide that you're only going to spend $X on gas each month. You'll find creative ways to use less gas if you think that you have to.
9. Carpool everywhere that you can. There shouldn't be an empty seat in the car. Offer to drive others and make them pitch in for gas when you do.
10. Move to a city where you don't need a car. In San Francisco, you never need to buy gas.
11. Go down to one car in your household and split the cost of gas.
12. Be nice to your car. Cars get better gas mileage when they're in good condition.
13. Do one no-car day per week. Stay home, walk, take public transportation or whatever you need to do.
14. Use online services that will seek out the cheapest gas for you by zip code.
15. Get political. Stay aware of the global issues that are driving up gas prices and vote accordingly to stop the problem.
You don't have to spend as much money as you're spending on gas right now. You can cut a few corners here and there. You can spend a chunk of change to move to a car-free city or buy a car with better gas mileage to save costs over time. And you can take advantage of gas rewards to get some of your gas money back. Start doing these things now so that you can get in good habits before the price of fuel really gets out of control!
- How to Save Money on Gas - wikiHow
- Top 15 ways to save money on gas
- Saving Money at the Gas Pump - Tips from the Federal Trade Commission
- How to Save Money on Gas - 29 Tips | Open Travel Info
- 62 gas pump tips: cheap gasoline
- 13 Easy Ways To Save Money on Gas
- 13 Ways To Significantly Reduce Your Gas Costs
- How To Save Gas and Money
I have read everything I could get my hands on to educate myself on this HOO phenomenon and found this actually works. I can't wait until we can break our dependance on oil.
Another tip is to plan your trip so that you make more right turns than left hand turns.
With right turns you usually never have to wait, but if your making left hand turns, you usually do have to wait. It may not seem like your saving gas, but you not only save gas but also time.
I'm all in favour of cutting back on fuel usage, but why are you Americans getting in such a panic? I have just calculated that the average price paid per US gallon at UK petrol stations, converted to dollars at the current rate, is $8.16. And somehow we still manage to get on with our lives!


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I had expected to hate it. The way it was described conjured up the Royal Opera's truly horrendous production of Rusalka, or the dull and pretentious Idomeneo. Both of those were in a league apart in terms of clumsy over-conceptual plot-handling and poor visuals. The atmosphere of Tell was well-established by the mud floor and general air of bleak oppression (however difficult it is to project a voice over so unreverberant a surface). On the night I had placed it in that miserable indefinably-somewhere-between-50s-and-70s period, but in fact it was set around World War 1, so my programme tells me. Chairs in abundance, against which much violence was wrought. Visible, hung strip-lighting as well. Baddies in combats wielding guns. It was not entirely cliché-free.
The act of uprooting a small sapling, the solitary bit of greenery, before the shooting of Melchtal at the close of the first act, was the trigger for the remaining acts to be dominated by an enormous, dramatically lit dead tree, handily on a revolve, and around which succeeding scenes unfolded. Video projections of Jemmy playing with soldiers and reading a comic book worked at the outset, and failed notably on their return in the last act. Much of the lighting seemed half-hearted as though it couldn't quite make the effect it was striving for. The 'olde worlde' William Tell character, who engineered much of the action involving arrows, did rather outstay his welcome. The exception, I thought, was the scene that involves the massacre of the occupying soldiers, where he delivered an arrow, stabbed one after the other into the banqueting table in front of each army officer, and which brought about the death of each in turn. The thrusting action was mirrored by the entire chorus of Swiss peasantry, as though they were drawing on their shared myths to power forward their revenge.
This had followed the by-now infamous sexual assault scene which had, apparently, been 'toned down' with the addition of a tablecloth with which the victim of the assault could cover herself, and removal of the reference to penetration with the barrel of a gun. The tension in the room as the scene approached was a remarkable piece of theatre in itself, and despite it being the telecast, there was no interruption, save one moron in the Amphi shouting 'No!' half way through. It was a disturbing scene, undoubtedly, and far better integrated into the drama than a number of the howling complainants would have you believe. Occupying soldiers, laughing and drinking, first taunt, then go on to sexually humiliate the woman at a banquet. The ballet music to which the scene is set actually drove the escalation of their crimes to good effect, and Tell's intervention at the close, to break up the 'revel' and to comfort the girl was powerful indeed. I would say, however, that if the full nudity had been maintained I think that I would have found it uncomfortably gratuitous. It was sufficiently powerful in its current form, and the decision of the Director, with the Royal Opera's blessing, to make that amendment is a reasonable one.
The close of the work was remarkable, in essence because Rossini wrote such a remarkable scene of hushed, steadily-building redemption, almost prefiguring Parsifal in its transcendence. Again, this was nicely shadowed in the production as the harsh full stage lights came up and the chorus trod steadily forward to build the crescendo. It crowned an evening that was far from perfect, indeed quite uneven, but which was an intelligent response to an unwieldy Romantic work which, much like the myth itself, could so easily tip over into the saccharine – when the story it truly tells is anything but.
But the music, oh how wonderful was the music. Pappano led a 'meaty' account of the score, without loss of Rossinian detail, starting with an overture robustly on the front foot: a wealth of orchestral detail and nicely negotiated dynamics brought to life a piece that can so easily be deadened by over-familiarity. The chorus were on committed form, adding conviction to the dramatic presentation alongside singing both beautiful and threatening, as demanded.
All soloists were excellent: Gerald Finley crowned the cast with his glorious, rich, secure voice and attention to text – both when demonstrative and introspective he commanded the stage. As his wife, Hedwige, Enkelejda Shkosa was in resonant voice; the Jemmy of Sofia Fomina was of brilliant clarity, and she acted the male youth with fantastic energy. John Osborn delivered Arnold with nicely conveyed anguish, secure from bottom to mightily impressive top of the range. As the love interest, Mathilde, Malin Byström is far from the conventional Rossini sound, but what was missing in coloratura 'ping' was amply compensated for in the fascinating complexity – and beauty – of her sound, as well as a good dramatic sense. Eric Halfvarson conveyed the paternal authority of Melcthal. All other roles were well taken, notably Nicolas Courjal injecting a touch of camp to the war-criminal Governor.
I was so glad to make the acquaintance of Guillaume Tell and, far from expecting to come away irritated at having encountered this relative rarity in a wayward production, I actually came away energised by amazing singing throughout an intense evening of theatre that gave much to think about. If I could snag a ticket for one of the remaining performances that I can make, and at a reasonable price, I most definitely would.


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So I have a lot I want to share with you - the two days in Iceland, different things I've done in Sweden so far, a tour of my dorm room, etc. Hell, I even wanted to post a few recipes that worked really well during my LID thing and the tiny house I stayed in in Colorado.
Problem is I'm still in the crazy busy phase, so I'm going to slowly roll out the posts over the next few weeks as I get more time...which is probably better anyway, since there's a ton of really interesting things to share right now and it's going to taper pretty quickly. (Homework assignments are probably not that fascinating for you.)
So for this first post, I'm going with a quick batch of some pictures from around campus and my walk to it, to give you a little something. (It's also the quickest thing I can put together, and I know it's been a couple of days already.)
I like to call these, "Look, I'm in Europe." :)
|The building where we did all the stuff on Arrival Day.
That's right, it looks like a frickin' castle.
|The building we had our General Information Meeting in.
|The LUCSUS building, where my classes will be.
|Fountain in front of the above building. In case covered in ivy
wasn't enough pizzazz and old-world charm for you.
That's just a few of them; you can look at the entire album here if you're so inclined. :)


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Diary of a writing, reading, animal loving, travelling Penguin and his mate who love collecting Penguin books, taking photographs and talking to people about Tasmania, Australia
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Library Loot-- Well Sort Of
I have been in a reading slump. That's not to say I haven't been reading. I have, but I seem to get about 1/3 to 1/2 into a book and then lose interest. Nothing is really grabbing me. No idea why but we all do this from time to time.
I was walking into the library to pick up the DVD of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I really want to see this as the short story by James Thurber has always been a favourite. I can't believe it is anywhere near as good as the short story.
I had a brain wave so to speak. My brain waves are rather innocuous so I don't get too excited about them. They can occur anywhere and usually don't amount to a lot but the idea did involve the library and I was there so why not.
I decided I would walk the stacks and pick the five slimmest volumes I could find. I knew I could finish them, I knew I'd have no idea about any of the books chosen and I knew they would vary by degree in how good, well written, interesting they are.
This is what I found as I walked up and down the aisles of fiction.
1. The Betrayers by Robert Morrison. An uncle and nephew go to Bangkok to visit the sister who has been arrested for drug trafficking. They see her and she looks emaciated with circles under eyes and dark as bruises and the skin of her face stretch tight over her cheekbones.(from back cover.) Their father was an Australian artist who committed suicide not long before and the experience in Bangkok draws them all together. (Inside front cover of DJ) We'll see. 139 pages.
2. Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived in her neighbourhood. In particular, one of the obsessions of her youth-Gilberto Owen- an obscure Mexican poet of the 1920's, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a busker on Manhattan's subway platforms, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca. Somehow as she writes the two lives connect across the decades. 148 pages.
3. The Embassy of Cambodia by Sadie Smith. Now I have certainly heard of this author but not this book. Inside cover of DJ states "A rare and brilliant story from Zadie Smith taking us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another." Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia which happens to be located in London. It is a story of how small things in an ordinary life always raise larger more extraordinary questions. Hmmm. 69 pages
4. Quantum of Tweed by Conn Iggulden. (From back cover) Albert Rossi has many talents. He can spot a cheap polyester at a 100 paces. He knows the value of a good pair of brogues. He is in fact the person you would have on speed dial for any tailoring crisis. When Albert accidentally runs over a pedestrian, he is launched into the murky world of murder for hire. Instead of a knock on the door from the police, he receives a phone call from a man who sounds surprisingly like Stephen Hawking. At that moment Albert Rossi decides to change careers. His life is about to get a whole lot more interesting. This is a Quick Reads book which makes me think it must be one of those high interest low reading books. It is from England and at only 74 pages I am bound to finish it.
5. Secrets by Patricia Scanlan. Published by New Island Public Door Ireland. It states- Kate is finding it hard to come to terms with her husband's unemployment. She and Bill are struggling to pay the bills. They don't have enough money for the children's Christmas presents. And having a boastful next door neighbour isn't helping either. Then Kate's old friend Carmel phones to say that she'll be visiting soon. Carmel is glamorous and rich- she seems to have it all. What will Kate do? She hasn't told Carmel about Bill's job loss and she's too proud to admit that they're in trouble. But Carmel has a secret of her own. 76 pages
There you have it. I have 3 weeks to finish these five little books before they are due and then I plan to review all of them. I'm hoping to kickstart my reading habit again, gain more enthusiasm in what is still a chilly winter and at the end of those three weeks begin on my enormous TBR pile. Wish me luck.
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That's an interesting way to break a reading slump! I usually stick to magazines when I can't focus on books, but I might try your way next time I'm stuck.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Lisa, I went through my magazine mood. Got tired of them so now hoping to get back into books. Need to get off social media! Such a time waster when I am tired.Delete
That is a brilliant idea. I find myself revisiting old-friend-authors with a bit of a fear of the new at the moment, and stacks of books I feel a lack of commitment to open. I should do this using my own shelves!ReplyDeleteReplies
I was also thinking of doing that next. It's silly to get so many library books when I have so many on my shelves but I just felt like something totally different. I will really have to get into my thousands of TBR books.Delete


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DSOGaming writes: "Ubisoft has revealed some of the graphical features that will be featured in the PC version of Watch Dogs (and most probably in the next-gen console version of it)."
I will pass on this game for the xbox one. The ps4 version will have all the perks and dlc while the xbox one version will look better but will be gimped of all dlc and perks. Why spend 60:00 on a game that jhave zero replay valoe.
Pre-order my copy from newegg a few weeks ago. PC of course :)


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How do I enroll my child in the school?
Dates and locations for upcoming Enrollment Information Sessions are posted on this website as well as advertised throughout the Haverhill community via a number of media outlets. In order to place a child's name on the enrollment list at least one parent or caregiver needs to attend, sign-in and receive an enrollment packet at an enrollment information session.These sessions are designed to inform interested families about the Montessori philosophy, give facts about charter schools and specifics about HVM school life and culture. Enrollment Forms are only available at these sessions.
How do I get involved?
HVM welcomes parent and community involvement! Volunteers are needed in many areas. To volunteer, call, write or email, regardless of your experience in this type of project. Please note that children of volunteers (including Founders and Trustees) do not receive preference for enrollment in any way.
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Further information can be found on this school web site or, by calling or emailing.
How long will my child be able to attend HVM?
Students will be able to remain at HVM until they graduate 8th grade.
Is this kind of school good for my child?
Montessori schools work well for a variety of children because they provide a non-competitive environment where each student learns at his/her own pace. The decision to attend HVM depends on the particular child and family; some find a Montessori setting to be a perfect match while others prefer a more traditional learning environment.
What is a charter school?
A charter school is a tuition-free public school that is governed by a Board of Trustees functioning under the supervision of the Massachusetts Department of Education.
What is Montessori education?
Students work in mixed-age classes and stay in the same classroom for three years. Students are taught individually or in small groups and are allowed to learn at their own pace. The daily schedule incorporates a long uninterrupted work period. During this time, students receive individual instruction from the teacher, work with groups or partners on projects, or work alone practicing and progressing with their skills. The environment is non-competitive and fosters children's self-esteem and self-confidence.
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The school is located at 75 Foundation Avenue in the Ward Hill Business Park, Haverhill MA.
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During a recent webinar I heard the presenter say that "when people talk about big data what they really mean is Hadoop." I'm not sure that is entirely accurate but I do understand where the presenter was coming from - most big data projects are utilizing Hadoop in some capacity. We see that here at Unicon in our Learning Analytics practice as well. All of our large scale learning analytics projects are using Hadoop or Hadoop ecosystem components.
Of course there is a reason people are using Hadoop for big data projects. Generally speaking, for a wide variety of use cases, Hadoop is the right tool for the job. However, all of the processing capabilities and tooling that comes with Hadoop is not free; it comes at the cost of administration and support. Hadoop, as they say, is a fickle beast. Running your own Hadoop cluster, whether on-premise or in the cloud, is a challenge and you'll need people with a wide range of skills to meet that challenge.
As usage of Hadoop has grown, finding people with the necessary skills to run a Hadoop cluster has become increasingly more difficult. This is especially true in academic environments where resources are already constrained. Due to those constraints we often see software developers or LMS administrators tapped to manage a Hadoop cluster on top of their existing workload. This strategy may work in the short term but as usage of the cluster grows maintenance and administration tasks begins to resemble something closer to a full time job. Eventually organizations are left with solid technical infrastructure but not enough resources to support it.
As organizations try to find ways to leverage the power of Hadoop in a resource constrained environment a trend that we see emerging is a move toward Hadoop "on-demand" or Hadoop-as-a-service offerings such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that is a core component of Amazon Web Service's Big Data product suite. When paired with other AWS services such as Data Pipeline and S3, EMR allows you to create workflows that can dynamically provision a Hadoop cluster, execute your Hadoop workload and terminate the cluster as needed. Having this kind of flexibility allows you to reduce (but not eliminate) the maintenance and administration costs of your Hadoop infrastructure when compared to running your own Hadoop cluster 24/7. In addition to the potential for fewer maintenance and administration headaches, here are some other reasons to consider a move to Hadoop-as-a-service with Amazon EMR:
- Underutilization: In cases where a cluster is underutilized (maybe you are running a job or two a day or even a week) Amazon EMR makes sense because it allows you to pay only for the capacity and resources that you are using.
- Tight integration with other AWS offerings: If you are already "all-in" on AWS using EMR allows you to easily integrate with other AWS services you are likely already using. EMR is tightly integrated and specially tuned to work with S3 through AWS-proprietary libraries. EMR also works seamlessly with other Amazon services including Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Kinesis.
- Auto-scaling: Instances in an EMR cluster are categorized into two subtypes – Core Nodes and Task nodes. As the name implies, Task nodes are used as processors of your Hadoop workloads and can be easily added or removed as the demand for processing power changes. You can also benefit from cost savings by using the spot instance for Task nodes.
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As that webinar presenter suggested, if you are thinking about big data projects you are probably also thinking about Hadoop. Hopefully this blog post gave you some insight into whether the Hadoop-as-a-service option is right for you. If you would like a partner to help you determine if AWS EMR is right for you or if you have other Amazon Web Service questions, Unicon can help. Contact us to setup a discussion with one of our AWS technologists.


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Live updates
HMS Illustrious personnel help repair school
Personnel from HMS Illustrious have enabled 450 children in the Philippines to return to school after repairing the building as part of their ongoing humanitarian mission.
Royal Navy Merlin, Sea King and Army Lynx helicopters from Illustrious are sweeping the region to identify the worst hit areas before teams are despatched to help people to recover from the effects of Typhoon Haiyan.
One such recent mission was the repair of the school on the island of Calagnaan to the north east of Panay. A specialist team of twenty men and women were deployed to carry out the work. The efforts of the team will allow 450 children to return to the school.
British medics save lives of typhoon children
British medics aboard HMS Illustrious have carried out life-saving operations on two children left with infected limbs in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has told MPs.
Ms Greening told the Commons that along with the medical success stories, around 800,000 people in the Philippines are thought to have received help from the UK aid effort.
"This military support has been crucial in delivering relief to the more remote islands, including the provision of emergency medical assistance through the UK international trauma team," she said.
HMS Illustrious delivers aid to Philippine islands
Helicopters from HMS Illustrious have begun to deliver aid, people and equipment to small Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan over a fortnight ago.
The Portsmouth-based helicopter and commando carrier arrived in the region to the north of Panay on Monday and immediately began surveying nearby islands to assess their needs.
Recce teams were sent to three islands – Calagnaan, Canas and Bayas – and found extensive damage to homes and local infrastructure with little in the way of long term food supplies.
Local politics stopping aid getting to Typhoon victims
Royal navy teams have begun delivering humanitarian aid provided by the UK.
But on a helicopter flight from HMS Illustrious our correspondent Dan Rivers visited one fishing village where local politics are stopping aid getting through.
Crew of HMS Illustrious delivers aid to Typhoon victims
ITV's correspondent Dan Rivers is with the crew of HMS Illustrious in the Philippines. The helicopter and commando carrier is delivering humanitarian aid provided by the UK.
Watch Dan Rivers' report on ITV News at Ten.
HMS Illustrious arrives in the Philippines to deliver aid
HMS Illustrious has arrived in the Philippines to begin to deliver humanitarian aid provided by the UK.
The helicopter and commando carrier takes over from HMS Daring which has been distributing aid and assisting villagers in remote communities on islands to the north east of Panay for the past week.
HMS Illustrious is carrying around 500 tonnes of UK aid which includes 12,500 blankets, 20,000 candles, 30,000 rice bags and 1,900 water carriers.
From our correspondent on board: Crew of HMS Illustrious prepare to mount huge aid effort
- ITV Report
Crew of HMS Illustrious prepare to mount huge aid effort
The seven helicopters aboard HMS Illustrious are being loaded up with aid packages as the Royal Navy carrier arrives in the Philippines.Read the full story ›
British aid for typhoon victims set to arrive in Philippines
British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious is set to arrive in the Philippines today to deliver much-needed aid to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
The ship is transporting 500 tonnes of supplies, including equipment that can turn sea water in to drinking water - something that is in very short supply in the worst hit areas.
HMS Illustrious crew en route to give aid to Philippines
A British aircraft carrier loaded with disaster relief supplies is within 24 hours of arriving in the Philippines.
Many of the crew on board HMS Illustrious have given up being at home with their families this Christmas, to help with the much-needed aid effort.
ITV News correspondent Dan Rivers reports from on board the Illustrious:
Justine Greening observes UK medics in the Philippines
International Development Secretary Justine Greening has joined UK and Australian medics in Tacloban, one of the worst affected areas in the Philippines typhoon, ahead of more supplies being brought by HMS Illustrious.
Ms Greening posted on Twitter: "Medics [are] doing amazing work treating people hurt by Typhoon Haiyan".