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Circumvention of ignition interlock and driving in violation of license restriction, suspension, or revocation
A sheriff's deputy reported that an unidentified person operated a vehicle without a required ignition interlock in violation of license restrictions, suspension, or revocation at 5:31 p.m. June 27 at 6th and Doyle streets in Florence. No further information was released. No record of any arrest corresponding to this incident was released.
Felony theft
Vaughn Brandon Matz, 50, of Arvada, Colo., reported theft of a Coleman generator worth $681 from a temporary structure along 210th Road near Hillsboro at 6 a.m. June 28.


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About Burkina FasoBurkina Faso is a small landlocked country in West Africa. Burkina Faso budget travel offers a wealth of attractions and adventures to enjoy, with rich cultural and natural resources.
Burkina Faso Budget Travel
Below is a list of Burkina Faso's top destinations, click on the link to view all details and tours.
Fast Facts
Communaute Financier Africaine Franc (CFA)
Dialing Code
Burkina Faso HIV/AIDS is a major health threat, with about 1.6% of the population infected or at risk. There are some recent efforts to educate and inform the public about HIV and AIDS, however the country's extreme poverty and lack of basic healthcare facilities in rural areas add to the spread of the epidemic.
Burkina Faso's major airports are:
• Ouagadougou International Airport
• Bobo Dioulasso Airport
Burkina Faso birdlife is fairly diverse, with a large number of endemic and non-endemic species to be found across the country. The country has a number of bee-eater species, as well as a large number of birds of prey and king fisher. Owls are also a common sight, as well as a number of water birds and desert dwelling birds.
Burkina Faso conservation plays an essential role in the country, balancing the devastating effects that land abuse, pollution, deforestation and desertification has left on Burkina's natural habitats. Key wildlife protection and conservation efforts are also implemented to conserve the country's endangered and vulnerable species and forests and other threatened habitats are protected through designated areas.
Burkina Faso cultures include the following:
• Traditional masks are an important art form for many tribal groups
• Literature and story-telling play an important role in Burkinabe culture
• Film is a growing aspect of Burkina culture
• Performing arts are also a key aspect of culture in the country
• Cultural traditions include respect and etiquette when visiting the country
Burkina Faso customs allows free import of the following for travelers over 15 years old:
• 200 cigarettes, 25 cigars, 100 cigarillos or 250g of tobacco
• 0.75l of spirits and 0.75l of wine
• 500ml of eau de toilette and 250ml of perfume
Burkina Faso health issues range from malaria to other risks such as yellow fever, rabies and polluted water. Medical facilities are not always top standard even in the bigger cities, and in rural areas there are very little facilities. You will need to follow basic health precautions in Burkina Faso to ensure a safe and healthy travel experience.
The following vaccinations are required when visiting Burkina Faso:
• Hepatitis A & B
• Yellow Fever
• Rabies
• Typhoid
• Polio
Burkina Faso languages include:
• French (official language)
• Moe 4 million speakers
• Dyula 1 million speakers
• Fulani 800,000 speakers
• Gurma 500,000 speakers
• Senufo 500,000 speakers
• Tuareg/Talmashek 300,000 speakers
Benin malaria medication includes the following:
• Mefloquine (Lariam)
• Doxycycline
• Atovaquone/proguanil (Malarone)
Burkina Faso money and banking information is as follows:
• Credit cards are hardly ever accepted but can sometimes be used at ATMs in the big cities
• Visa cards are generally the only cards accepted by ATMs
• Travellers checks can sometimes be cashed in the cities, but can have high costs
• Euros are generally easier to exchange than dollars
Burkina Faso people includes the following groups:
• Mossi 48%
• Bobo 9%
• Mande 7%
• Fulani 7%
• Gourma 7%
• Bisa-Samo 6%
• Senoufu 6%
• Gourounsi 6%
• Lobi-Dagari 4%
Burkina Faso local phrases include the following:
• Thank you - Merci (French)
• Hello - Bonjour (French)
• Goodbye - Au revoir (French)
• Good morning - Ne y beogo (More)
• How are you? - Laafi beme? (More)
• Fine, thank you - Laafi bala (More)
Burkina plant life mostly consist of savanna and grasslands, and much of the country's natural habitats have been lost through deforestation and land abuse. Plant species range from shrub and grasslands to thorny bushes, trees, medicinal and edible plant life, woodlands and even some remaining forests along river areas and wetlands.
A July 2006 UN estimate puts the population at 13,925,313.
Burkina Faso religion includes the following:
• Islam 50%
• Traditional religions 40%
• Christianity 10%
Safety Tips
Burkina Faso safety tips include the following:
• Burkina is safe and friendly, but take normal precautions when travelling
• Avoid crowded places during protests or demonstrations
• Keep valuables safe and out of sight when walking around
• Roads can sometimes be bad, so be careful when travelling by car
Burkina Faso local transport options include:
• Bus
• Car
• Motorcycle
Travel Books
Recommended Burkina Faso travel books include the following:
• Burkina Faso: The Bradt Travel Guide by Katrina Manson
• Burkina Faso: New Life for the Sahel? by Robin Sharp
• Burkina Faso Country by Ibp Usa
Visa Requirements
Visa requirements for Burkina Faso include the following:
• Passport which is valid for six months at least
• ID or green card
• 2 Visa Application Forms
• 2 Passport photographs
• Copy of airline tickets or itinerary
What To Buy
What to buy for Burkina Faso safaris:
• Basic luggage, backpack and money bag
• Malaria medication and vitamins
• Bottled water
• Plug adapter (US and UK travelers especially)
• French phrase book and Burkina Faso guide book
What To Pack
What to pack for Burkina Faso safaris:
• Loose, lightweight clothing with long sleeves
• Warm jacket for chilly evenings
• Sunglasses, sunscreen and sunhat
• Sleeping bag and camping mattress as well as a torch
• Camera and binoculars (plus spare batteries and film or memory)
When To Go
When to go to Burkina Faso:
• Burkina Faso is at its best from mid-October to December
• June and September are the wettest and most humid months
• December to February has dusty harmattan winds
• The hot season is from March to early June
Burkina Faso wildlife is relatively rich, with a number of game parks and reserves to be found throughout the country. There are a number of mammals, amphibians and reptiles situated through the country, including some endangered species like wild dog and chimpanzee, as well as some vulnerable species like cheetah.
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— Anne B (27) from Ireland
The trip was great! A very relaxed ride in a mokoro, followed by camping in the Okavango Delta and watching the animals on the islands was awesome!
— Michael & Silke from Germany
I loved every millisecond of the entire trip... Guess what I did in Swakopmund? I skydived out of a plane - woohoo was that AWESOME :-)
— JoJo E (61) from Switzerland
Finally home and had a great time…. I loved the shark diving, Sossusvlei and Himba people. Saw Lions, a Leopard, Elephants, Giraffes, everything really! Thanks for…
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I did not believe in god till i visited Chobe National Park.
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The reason this recipe is called Christmas pasta is, in Rachael's words, "For Italians, after all those fishes on Christmas Eve, this dish, with four different meats in it, is especially nice on Christmas Night".
Kevin did the same thing that I am sure many of you did when you first read the recipe title...
K: But it's not Christmas.
B: Yes, yes, I know honey, this isn't JUST for Christmas, it is just the name of the recipe.
K: Well if it isn't JUST for Christmas why is it called Christmas Pasta.
B: Rachael explains in the recipe that it was just her way of getting "meat" in a meal after all the fish Italians eat on Christmas Eve.
K: Well I still think she should have named it something else.
B: Maybe you are right....now can we cook?
When you first look at this recipe it seems like a lot of ingredients and well, it is a lot of ingredients, but not a big hassle to make. Rachael mentions that she has used this recipe in several of her books and is constantly redoing it to make it quicker and easier. I think it is just fine the way it is.
Oh and Kevin decided he loved this. He is the one that looks at a meal I might be making and the first thing he asks "Is there meat?". I will never sneak vegetarian food in on him that is for sure. I am walking a fine line when I make Pasta Carbonara! He still doesn't like the name of the recipe though. Oh well, as long as they eat it right?
I am not Italian, but I can tell you that this was a BIG bowl of Merry Christmas to ME!
The picture does not do this meal justice, I am sorry!
Christmas Pasta
1 pound rigatoni2 tablespoons EVOO
1/4 pound pancetta, chopped
1/4 pound bulk hot Italian sausage (No bulk? Split a link open)
1/4 pound bulk sweet Italian sausage
1/2 pound lean ground beef
1/2 pound ground veal
1/2 teaspoon allspice, eyeball it in your palm
Course black pepper
1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped
1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1/2 cup dry red wine, a couple of glugs
1 cup beef stock
1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves (a generous handful), finely chopped
1/2 cup grated Romano cheese (a couple of handfuls), plus some to pass at the table
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it. Add the pasta and cook to al dente, with a bite to it.
While the water and pasta work, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon EVOO. Add the pancetta to one half of the pan, the sausage, both hot and sweet, to the other. Break up the sausage into bits and brown while the pancetta renders, then combine and cook together another minute of so. Remove to a plate with a slotted spoon. Add the remaining tablespoon of EVOO, then the beef and veal. Brown and crumble all of the meat into tiny bits and season with allspice, salt, and pepper. Add the carrots, onions, and garlic and cook another 5 to 6 minutes to soften the vegetables, then add the sausage and pancetta back into the pan. Deglaze the pan with the red wine, scraping up all of the browned bits from the bottom. Stir in the stock, then the tomatoes. Check the seasoning. Simmer over low heat until ready to serve, at least 10 minutes.
Drain the pasta and add back to the hot pot. Ladle a few spoonfuls of the sauce over the pasta, and add a couple of handfuls of cheese to the pot. Stir to coat the pasta evenly. Transfer to a large serving dish or individual bowls and top with the remaining sauce and parsley. Pass plenty of extra cheese at the table.
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Looking for a quiet spot to drop a line or take the canoe or kayak out for a spin? Fish where the locals fish and visit Savages Crossing. Located along Banks Creek Rd, its just a short five minute drive from the township of Fernvale. The crossing is a beautiful spot where you can get back to nature and unwind in this tranquil creek setting. Catch a fish or go for a paddle in your kayak or canoe, you won't be disappointed!


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www.yourmexicandoctor.com is a website in Grand Theft Auto IV. The site sells drugs cheaper than what the suppliers normally price them at. The site's taglines are "Prescription drugs without the prescription" and "Controlled substances without the controls".
The site accepts all major credit cards; however, purchases are not refundable and the site denies all liability for the use (or rather, abuse) of the drugs advertised. The player cannot purchase anything from the website; however, Niko occasionally receives spam from yourmexicandoctor. Two of the drugs, Giggle Cream and Sooth, were previously advertised in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, respectively.
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- Debonaire
- Ampheterate
- Bubox
- The Black Pill
- Giggle Cream
- Sooth
- Grin
- Lipurgex
- Alad-in
- Hingmyralgan
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- Yourmexicandoctor.com may be based on the notorious My Canadian Pharmacy and other so-called "Canadian Pharmacy" pharmacy scams selling fake drugs such as Viagra, etc.


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"What happens in the vast, deep ocean, out of sight and beyond the reach of sunlight and satellites?" asks chief scientist Chris German. He is on a mission, with his team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to find out. They developed Sentry, a robotic underwater vehicle used for exploring the deep ocean.
(CNN) -- Despite most humans' land-centric view, Earth is an ocean planet. The global ocean covers more than two-thirds of our planet's surface and makes life as we know it possible: it produces half of the oxygen we breathe, helps regulate our climate and provides the single largest habitat for life on Earth. Yet, with nearly 2 miles or 3,000 meters of water covering more than half the surface of our planet, much of this vast realm remains unexplored and unexamined. But not unconsidered.
Indeed, our progress is not limited by scientists' and engineers' imaginations, but rather by the rate and cost of development of technologies suitable to pursue the cause. Advances in satellite technology provide us with global coverage in the study of Earth's atmosphere. But in the case of the ocean, that approach quite literally only grazes the surface. "To truly explore ocean trenches, scientists need to study them methodically which requires routine access to emerging technologies
What happens in the vast, deep ocean, out of sight and beyond the reach of sunlight and satellites? Here's one example why we should care: in 1977, diving in the human occupied vehicle Alvin, scientists investigating a volcanic ridge 2500 m (1.5 miles) below sea-level found something totally unexpected -- lush ecosystems thriving at hydrothermal vents fueled by chemical energy released from the Earth's interior.
This discovery, made just three years after new technology first enabled Alvin to reach these depths, changed our understanding of how life can function here on Earth, and opened entirely new fields of research. We now know that the hot-springs that sustain these "vent" ecosystems occur in every ocean basin and are host to hundreds of previously unknown animal species.
In the past 30 years, those new species have been discovered at a rate of about one every two weeks -- and we still have more than 75% of this 55,000-kilometer (>34,000-mile) volcanic ridge system to explore. These same sites also host large metal deposits, which could become essential mineral resources for us in the future and some of these same systems may even reveal how life first originated -- on Earth and beyond.
Given all the discoveries that we have made from an up-close investigation of these ocean ridges, we can't help but wonder what we might find at the far end of the same plate tectonic cycle where seafloor is drawn back into the Earth's interior at deep-ocean trenches.
To date, only three humans have ever ventured to these deepest parts of the ocean -- the 1960 dive of Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the Bathyscaphe Trieste went unmatched until James Cameron's dive in his Deepsea Challenger last year. These were pioneering dives that took great courage.
But to truly explore ocean trenches, scientists need to study them methodically which requires routine access to emerging technologies such as the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle Nereus, which dove to the Challenger Deep in 2009, to the Cayman Trough in 2010 and will return there this summer, and to the Pacific in 2014.
If our study of trenches progresses at the same rate as our past exploration of ocean ridges, however, another 30 years may pass before we've explored even one-fifth of them. And it's not just the trenches that need to be explored but the vast ocean volumes themselves.
Despite a decade of internationally-coordinated global investigation through the Census of Marine Life, for example, Earth's largest ocean basin, the South Pacific, also remains its least understood. We believe the deep Pacific, for now, remains relatively untouched by the atmospheric pollutants (bomb-test radionuclides, chlorofluorocarbons) that are already penetrating deep into the Atlantic. But how to characterize its pristine state before it is too late?
Put simply, we need to innovate beyond the conventional ways of doing our work.
In addition to direct human exploration of the seafloor, we need to mobilize a new generation of collaborative self-powering robots that can explore the oceans, top to bottom, while maintaining communication to shore-based scientists at all times. These robotic systems must be programmed with enough decision-making autonomy to know when to diverge from a mission to follow something important and unexpected that they have encountered, and to know when to alert a scientist on shore to solicit input on what they should do next.
The development of these kinds of vehicles and systems is already underway, through partnerships between leading robotics laboratories and deep ocean engineers, in efforts such as the new Center for Marine Robotics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, but we need to turbo charge that effort. As the technology expands and improves, we will also need to find new, more effective ways for humans and robotic systems to interact over the vast and remote distances involved.
The technologies we need for this comprehensive exploration and understanding are within our grasp. And we'll need the knowledge that results to cope with the many challenges we face—climate change, food and resource depletion, pollution. Understanding our Earth's oceans has never been more crucial: they aren't just a defining feature of our planet; they're our life support system.
External link: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/tech/oceans-woods-hole-oped/
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Hello world!
Welcome to Mirth and Motivation! This is a Lifestyle/Motivational blog offering an eclectic mix of mirthful and motivational pieces: Life Tips / Advice, Affirmations/Wellness, Women's Lives, Food, Travel, Interviews, Inspirational posts, Reviews, Peace, AND Social Media ruminations on people, places, and events that shape our lives. I invite you to stay awhile, read some posts, and share your thoughts with this growing online blog community.
One of the fundamental rules of blogging is to make connections with others by adding value through our message/content, comments, and social interactions. I hope you'll share your comments and expertise with me. If you'd like to write a Guest post, offer a sponsorship or PR opportunity, send me a message with your inquiry by email at: contact(@)mirthandmotivation(.)com or contact(@)positivekismet(.)com Thank you!
Something I know for sure is that we all want to be heard, appreciated and respected; I know that sincere, positive, and empowering messages are far more appealing than incendiary angling for blog attention. If your blogosphere surfing brings you here, relax, kick back, and share a positive tidbit on your worldview.
So, How should we handle the global economic shift? How do we stay mirthful and motivated?
I like the idea of seeking meaningful solutions to problems rather than waiting to salvage the remains of a problem gone awry. I am being more mindful of household spending and of my mental chatter; I'm especially vigilant about the type of chatter that fixates on the "what ifs" of global financial doom. I believe when we wake up each morning, we should remember to express gratitude and joy for the good in the world, and stay motivated by honoring our responsibilities.
Students of the I Ching understand the message of Hexagram 41 – "Decrease" which when interpreted carefully, speaks to the cycle of life; it highlights the ebb/decrease and flow/increase of conditions. A time of decrease teaches us to manage our resources, seek new opportunities, regroup, and then prepare for and appreciate the subsequent increase that comes. I am fully aware of this cyclical nature of life, and of business; particularly in our current real estate marketplace.
If each of us can manage what we currently have with a spirit of gratitude, remember to share some of our largess with the poor, and feed the body, mind and spirit a diet of uplifting foods/thoughts/actions, the doors we open in the coming months will reveal great gifts.
While I stay informed of current affairs through the mass media, I am re-reading my collection of books (Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl is one), enjoying great music and art, and watching movies that nurture my spirit and warm my heart. I would recommend seeing Slumdog Millionaire if you have not done so!
Remember to do things now and do them well because Tempus Fugit-Carpe Diem!
Some Important Blog Topics/Terms: Motivation
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Some Food for Thought: How do you stay mirthful and motivated? What impact has the current global economic shift had on your life?
I would love to hear from you: Please leave me a comment on any of my recent blog posts below or email me at: Contact(@)mirthandmotivation(.)com. Thank You!
Until Next Time…
Ask. Believe. Receive. ©
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29/11/2008 11:26 pm
Hi, this is a comment. I do appreciate comments from all!
Please keep them clean as I do have the option to edit or delete them.
Allegra permalink30/11/2008 4:51 pm
Hey! You took that comment out! Yay. Good stuff.
Goz permalink07/12/2008 10:41 am
Interesting…hmm! Never looked at it that way…
25/05/2009 2:03 am
I'm also a believer of the cyclical nature of business and life.
We in recent years seem to have a want for more than we need.
i do not recall being this way when i was growing up.
thank you for making me think about all this. all the best!
Flowerluver permalink28/09/2009 6:22 pm
I have been taking it one day at a time and just not spending like I use to.
I have also found that I have to put off paying certain bills until I get my next pay check.
Leigh permalink07/10/2009 9:36 am
I was referred to your blog by Deana Martina. I found it inspirational and relaxing. Your mention of tempus fugit reminded that it was one of my mother's many sayings. Putting that saying to practical use, I made an online library reservation of the film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. Thanks for the recommendation.
Eliz says: Thank you Leigh for your visit and thoughtful comments. They are apprecaited. Do let me know how you enjoyed the movie and stop in with suggestions or tips. Cheers!
31/03/2010 10:27 am
Hi E! Thanks for visiting my site. Apparently, Im from blogpost, so i wont be able to follow you thru Google connect. But i will definitely bookmark your site.
How do I handle the effects of global economic shift? Well lemme say it in a simple way, I adjust and accept whatever it's happening today, but at least make ends meet and find a way to survive. I adjust and accept – I dont shop much anymore, getting frugal in a lot ways, because this is the reality, we have to practical… Hope I could read more motivational articles like this. I really need this. Thanks
01/04/2010 12:00 am
Thanks for stopping by… Yes, practicality is the goal of late. Staying prayerful that we can all hold on till the winds shift again… I have a blogspot blog too so we can connect there as well. The URL is http://positivekismet.blogspot.com/ 🙂
11/04/2010 10:26 am
Man's Search For Meaning is a great book and one that could be re-read many times, such a powerful message. I feel like that my husband and I have not been over affected by the global economic decline. We stay grateful by always recognizing the love we have in our lives. We try to remember that while we have challenges and growth to do, we are so lucky to be in the place we are. Love the blog!
24/04/2010 6:57 pm
Thank you for visiting 504 Main on my SITS day. I am quite intrigued with your blog. I have a hard time finding that peace inside and settling into a peaceful place. I am working on it. My Mother in Law is very spiritual and travels the world, especially to India and Malaysia and shares many of her insights. The current economic shift has not affected my life much at this point…but it is a reminder you never know what is coming next.
504 Main
30/04/2010 11:46 am
Thanks for visiting me from SITS! Very interesting blog. I think we all need to step back and realize what is important. Very good message.
03/05/2010 5:25 am
enjoyed the site- and the content, hope to see you on mine and facebook fan page too.
16/05/2010 10:46 pm
I have quite an optimistic nature and I've been careful over the years to try and maintain a happy outlook – it's easy to get sucked into pessimism and I can't imagine it's ever productive to see the worst in things.
22/05/2010 4:09 am
I stay mirthful by eating chocolate and drinking cafe!. 🙂
Visiting from SITS
24/05/2010 11:15 am
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I appreciate it! 🙂
I stay mirthful and motivated from my doula work – Helping women and lifelong learning!
01/06/2010 5:03 am
Thank you for visiting my blog!
*Be Blissful Always*
12/08/2010 4:09 am
One should always look at things in a positive light, no matter how hard it gets. Staying at peace with mind and body.
Terry Conti
JDaniel4's Mom permalink14/08/2010 3:42 am
Stopping from Mom Loop! I pray to stay mirthful.
18/08/2010 2:06 pm
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I still need to see the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Good reminder. I'll be following your blog. 🙂
22/09/2010 12:54 pm
Daily walks help me stay mirthful and motivated. Afternoon naps. Reading. Writing. You reminded me that I haven't finished Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Got as far as page 53 and quit. Will start again tonight. I like the message of your blog. Thanks for sharing. By the way, I found your site on The Blog Farm. My blog is there, too. It's great what they're doing for our "Growing Blog Community.
23/09/2010 12:09 pm
Thank you Margaret,
I'm glad someone else loves that book. I could use a 2nd read myself.
Thanks again for stopping by. I clicked on your name but was informed that your blog is private.
I will check it out when I next log unto the BlogFarm site. 🙂
28/09/2010 1:25 pm
You're so right about choosing to be happy and think good thoughts. It just feels better, doesn't it?
And I loved Slumdog Millionaire.
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Sensational Saturday/Sunday Social!
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Tuff Country # 65280 SX5000 Ford F150 steering stabilizers are designed to improve handling characteristics and reduce steering shimmy. Most applications will mount one end to the axle or frame and the other to the stock tie-rod. This will dampen many of the steering effects associated with larger tires especially on lifted trucks or suvs.
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Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill - National Trust
A passion for tradition and impressing guests inspired one man to transform a run-down country house and desolate landscape.
At the age of 30, the future Lord Fairhaven began to create his first home. Wanting to inspire and surprise visitors, he created a spectacular garden with planting for all seasons and a cosy house in which to entertain. Life revolved around horse racing and shooting, and guests enjoyed 1930s luxury.
Inside, fine furnishings, books, paintings, silver and rare clocks give a feeling of opulence.
Outside, 46 hectares (114 acres) offer vibrant colour, delicious scents and the simple pleasures of nature.
Visit our Inspiration Station for family activities. Catch the chime of one of our 37 rare clocks. Transform yourself into a country gentleman with our dressing-up clothes. Be wowed by the Himalayan silver birches. Spot nature from the dizzy heights of our tree house. Unwind with a peaceful stroll through the glorious gardens.
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Historic house or home, Garden, parklands or rural site, Sacred space
Please check the National Trust website before visiting.
Gift Aid
Whole property
Adult: £11.00
Child: £5.50
Family: £27.50
Family (1 adult): £16.50
Group: n/a
Garden and mill only
Adult: £6.55
Child: £3.25
Family: £16.35
Family (1 adult): £9.80
Group: n/a
Whole property
Adult: £10.00
Child: £5.00
Family: £25.00
Family (1 adult): £15.00
Group: £9.35
Garden and mill only
Adult: £5.95
Child: £2.95
Family: £14.85
Family (1 adult): £8.90
Group: £5.55
Reduced rate when arriving by cycle, on foot or public transport
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Haven't seen that Real Steel flick yet but I know one thing that would make it better: ninjas. Also if the robots wielded huge swords and competed in a large gladitorial arena where they staved off waves of enemies. Well if you like the second idea, then a new indie title called Unleashed UDK will be right up your alley.
You take the role of a sword wielding robot as it takes on waves of enemies, similar to the horde mode in Gears of War. You've only got a single main attack but your robot has some extra abilities as well as a rune slot that give it a stats boost. After defeating each wave you can level your robot up to gain new abilities and buffs.
The game plays like a combo of third person action and MMO combat. I found myself using the ranged Kinect cannon more and more when I got surrounded by enemies, rather than using the weak sword attacks. Still, the game is free and is available for download on PC and Mac now.
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As you work toward managing your allergies, continue ongoing communication with your doctor. Make sure you understand what your treatment options are. If you have questions, don't be afraid to ask them!
Keep a symptom diary, or at least try to remember when your allergies get worse. Together, you and your doctor can determine what works.
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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY BUREAU — About a week ago, ESPN.com put a poll up on its SportsNation site, asking readers to vote for the best point guard in the NBA.
The choices: Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo, Derrick Rose and … Jeremy Lin.
Somebody call Big Bird, because one of these things is not like the others.
Now, Lin has been a revelation for the New York Knicks over the last two and a half weeks … but putting him in a "best point guard" poll after a handful of games as a starter is just ludicrous, especially when you don't include that guy wearing No. 8 across the river.
Yes, Deron Williams had last night's game at Madison Square Garden circled on his calendar. Lin began his amazing run against Williams' Nets just 16 days earlier and D-Will has been hearing and reading about Linsanity ever since. Hype like that will obviously get under the skin of a prideful All-Star.
Midway through the third quarter, as Williams was raining a career-high eight threes on the Knicks, I tweeted how his performance reminded me of Jason Kidd tearing up Stephon Marbury and the Knicks at the Garden in Kidd's days with the Nets. With Kidd in uniform, New Jersey went 14-2 (including 2-0 in the playoffs) at MSG.
I wasn't the only one who was thinking about Kidd last night, as Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! writes…
Some Nets officials were reminded of a trip across the Hudson River seven years ago with Jason Kidd. Back then, Stephon Marbury had sniffed over suggestions that Kidd was a superior player, and Marbury declared himself the best point guard in the NBA on the eve of a Nets-Knicks game. "You couldn't even talk to Jason that day," one official said. "Seven hours before the game, and J-Kidd was in a full rage. You knew what was coming that night."
Last night, the Knicks knew what was coming. Steve Popper of The Record has the postgame quotes…
"It started on me," Williams said. "We definitely had this one circled — the whole team did. I know I did. I had this on my mind. It started on me.
"I don't watch SportsCenter, but I do see Twitter and every third tweet was about how Jeremy Lin destroys Deron Williams. I took offense to that. … I'm a competitor. So when somebody says they destroyed you, and you watch the tape and you don't feel like you got destroyed, you circle those types of games."
The Knicks saw it coming, too.
"No doubt," Amar'e Stoudemire said.
"Of course," Carmelo Anthony said. "We're competitors. I know I would. I saw it in him at the captains' meeting at halfcourt. You could just look at him and tell he was ready, ready for this game tonight."
The Nets are 6 1/2 games behind the Knicks in the standings, but Williams made a statement about where he and Lin stand in the point guard hierarchy on Monday. And with Kris Humphries getting into it with Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and the Knicks' fans, it's clear that the standings don't matter much when these two teams get together.
Now, imagine Dwight Howard joining Williams with the Nets next month or in July. The intensity felt every time the Nets and Knicks get together at the Garden and at Barclays Center in Brooklyn just might exceed this month's Linsanity.


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The 'Ring has a new FWD record…
Renault has unveiled the most hardcore RenaultSport Megane yet, the Trophy-R, and celebrated in style: by setting a new lap record at the Nurburgring. James will not be happy.
The FWD battle has hotted up in recent times. The Trophy-R lapped the German track in a total time of 7min 54secs, smashing the previous front-wheel drive record of 7m58s set by a Seat Leon Cupra. Not half bad for a "family hatch", albeit one that costs almost £10,000 more than the Leon.
And let's face it, this new Trophy-R isn't really a family hatch anymore - it doesn't have any rear seats for starters. Renault has put the Megane on the most extreme weight loss regime since Christian Bale slimmed down for the Machinist. There's no rear windscreen wiper – saving one whole kilogram – no radio, no air con, no noise insulation, and the wheels are lighter, as are the seats. All in, the Trophy-R is nearly 100kg lighter than the normal Megane RS, no slouch itself.
But that's not all. Power from the 2.0-litre turbo engine has been increased to 271bhp, torque remains at 266lb ft, and it's been fitted with a titanium Akrapovic exhaust (saving yet more weight). There are adjustable Ohlins dampers – you can tweak them from inside the cabin – as well as Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tyres.
Safe to say that all this is squarely aimed at the track day enthusiast. Like the Toyota GT86, there's even enough room in the boot for four spare tyres, and you can get special wheel covers so you don't get the boot mucky.
None of this comes cheap, though, and as ever with these sort of track day specials, Renault charges more for less. The Trophy-R is £36,430, a steep increase of £7,500 on the normal Trophy. Good value for a record-breaker?
What do you think?
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Experiencing Indiana: Wabash's Answer to Brain Drainby Jim Amidon • May 26, 2005 Share:
Wabash College students from outside Indiana's borders have never tasted a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. Many members of the Wabash faculty haven't ever seen a livestock show at a county fair. Almost no Wabash students realize Parke County is home to more covered bridges than the famed "Madison County." Virtually no member of the Wabash community knows the history of New Harmony, Indiana, Dillinger's Woods, or why socialites and celebrities from around the world came to French Lick after the turn of the last century.
That's about to change.
Thanks to a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., Wabash College will allow students, faculty, and staff to experience the state of Indiana unlike ever before. The grant comes from Lilly's Initiative to Recruit and Retain Intellectual Capital for Indiana Higher Education Institutions. Wabash's creative approach, dubbed Quality of Life in Indiana, will help the college community experience and understand Indiana's rich culture.
One part of Wabash's grant will fund weekly trips around the state to cultural events, and will bring Indiana artists and scholars to campus. History students may visit French Lick or the State Museum; philosophy and religion students are likely to travel to New Harmony or to the Amish and Mennonite settlements at Nappanee; art students can take trips to see the work of Hoosier School artists like T.C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams; and economics students could see the economic impact of the Covered Bridge Festival in Parke County or visit revitalized small towns like Madison, Indiana.
"This approach takes advantage of our independence and the Endowment's willingness to allow us to take a non-traditional approach to attracting intellectual capital to Indiana," says Mauri Ditzler, Dean of the College at Wabash. "This is an educational grant to remind all of us that every place and every people have a culture and there is a richness to it—intellectual, artistic, and religious, for example—that can be easily overlooked because it's close by or in front of us all the time."
Potential students and faculty from outside Indiana often fail to give Indiana a chance, Ditzler suggests. They see it as agricultural or industrial and not a place with rich history and resources.
The grant will allow Wabash to look closely at Indiana's culture. Ditzler says it will help students and faculty better understand an Indiana way of life; the way Hoosiers engage issues and solve problems.
Wabash's four-year program has thee parts: Experience Indiana, Know Indiana, and Present Indiana. It's Ditzler's hope that members of the Wabash community will move from doubters to consumers of local culture; then from consumers of the culture to experts on life in Indiana; and finally, from knowledgeable specialists to advocates for Hoosier culture.
When recruiting students to Wabash, College officials rely on current students to be advocates. "Students see the all-male environment as an asset," says Ditzler, "and they tell prospective students just that. What we hope is that they'll also sell Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, and all of Indiana as a similar asset in their intellectual development."
Ditzler hopes that by traveling the state with students to learn more about Indiana—tasting its food, attending its festival, and celebrating its arts culture—that students will want to live their lives here, thus slowing Indiana's "brain drain." He also hopes the same holds true for faculty who come to Wabash.
"We've hired a good number of tenure track faculty in the last eight years," says Ditzler. "I think these young faculty members will lead happier and richer lives if they take the time to understand the state of Indiana. And given the number of our students who are Midwesterners, we especially need to do a better job of understanding their values so that we reinforce the strong aspects of a student's heritage before teaching them new things.
"A people's culture is their treasure; their strength and character is shaped by that culture."
Given the richness of Indiana history and culture, the possibilities of Experience Indiana are as boundless as the imagination and enthusiasm of Wabash students and faculty. Travel destinations are limited only by the state's borders.
"Where we go and what we do are not as important as developing a fundamental understanding and respect for a way of life; for understanding the beauty of Indiana's natural resources, its agriculture, and the aesthetics of our state," says Ditzler, himself a native Hoosier.
Know Indiana is the more intellectual and educational aspect of the grant, and provides students and faculty opportunities to study a culture that is now local to them. Research grants will be available for faculty who wish to gain a stronger understanding of an aspect of Indiana culture, resources, or people in preparing first-year or upper-level courses.
Know Indiana will also fund course-based excursions to Indiana study sites. Wabash has fully embraced embedding travel into many of its courses, but few immersion trips have taken place in Indiana. Know Indiana will also support student projects, research, and internships within the state.
Ditzler says Present Indiana should produce two distinct outcomes: Wabash will become a community of "enthusiastic epistles" for life in Indiana, and Wabash will create positive impressions for visitors to the state, such as international college students, personnel directors and business leaders, and newly relocated employees of Indiana firms.
"We're a liberal arts college and we're counter-intuitive," Ditzler says. "We're audacious, and we believe in finding ways for small groups of individuals with good ideas to have an enormous impact on society. We certainly can't solve any of Indiana's problems by mass; we're small, and we hope that in our own unique way, we can create positive impressions of Indiana for students, faculty, staff, and visitors."
The "Quality of Life in Indiana" grant will be administered by the Dean of the College and a steering committee, comprising students, faculty, staff, and alumni. A partnership with the Arts Council of Indianapolis will aid in identifying travel destinations. Wabash's Center for Academic Enrichment will manage the logistics of the grant.
"What would be perfect is if individuals and groups from across Indiana would work with us to identify what some of the most unique and educational aspects are," adds Ditzler. "It would be great if we got calls from all over the state with people on the other end saying, 'Hey, we've got something here your students have to experience.' When that happens, we'll feel like we've taken a big step."


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Little Falls teen cousins shot to death are mourned; alleged gunman faces arraignment
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. – Two teenagers shot and killed in a home near Little Falls have been identified.
School officials say the victims were cousins, 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nicholas Brady. The alleged shooter, 64-year-old Byron David Smith, of Little Falls, is being held for second-degree murder and is likely to be charged Monday.
Kifer was a senior at Little Falls High School. Superintendent Stephen Jones said Sunday he was notified of her death by investigators. Brady was a student at Pillager High School. The Star Tribune identified him after interviewing his principal.
Morrison County deputies went to Smith's house Friday on a suspicious activity call. They say he confessed to shooting the teenagers a day earlier after they broke into his house, but Sheriff Michel Wetzel says investigators believe he exceeded self-defense.


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A lawmaker proposed a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to leave a dog restrained in Texas.
House Bill 1156 was read before the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday, March 14. It suggests that it should be unlawful to restrain a dog on a chain, rope, tether, leash, cable or any other device that attaches the dog to a stationary object or trolley system without shelter, shade or drinking water. The dog must also be able to avoid standing water.
The bill also asks that dog owners not be allowed to restrain dogs with chains or anything with weights attached or shorter in length than five times the dog's length. Restraints also must not cause injury to the dog, the bill states.
There are a few exceptions to the bill, including campgrounds and recreational areas and activities related to herding cattle or livestock.
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Tech Training Program Gets $23 Million From Homeland Security
SOCORRO, N.M. November 6, 2009 – The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $23 million to New Mexico Tech to continue operating the All Hazards Response Training Program.
|First responders from every state and territory have enrolled in incident response training classes through Tech's research division, Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center. EMRTC photo
The award represents a $1 million increase over 2009 funding. The Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center conducts the training program, which has hosted more than 50,000 students in Socorro and educated more than 300,000 first responders across the nation.
"We've expanded this program every year since we started in 1998," university Vice President of Research Dr. Van Romero said. "We are considered an integral part of Department of Homeland Security training activity."
The program was originally designed to train first responders about reacting to terrorist incidents. In recent years, the program has been expanded to include response to natural hazards, like floods, earthquakes and hurricanes, Romero said.
"First and foremost, this is a continuation of a very important, very critical program that benefits every state in the union and all U.S. territories," EMRTC director Dr. John Meason said. "No. 2 , it keeps a lot of people employed and salaries paid and keeps funding coming in to the university."
Meason said the funding increase will allow the university to train more students in 2010. He said EMRTC has sufficient capacity and infrastructure to accommodate more first responders without investing in new facilities.
|In addition to classroom work, first responders get extensive field training exercises through EMRTC's incident response courses. EMRTC file photo
"The Department of Homeland Security looks at the demand and our waiting list," Meason said. "They realize that with a bit more money, we can add significantly to our training schedule, particularly because the additional funding goes into training and none into infrastructure development."
The terrorism response training and all-hazards training are very popular with first responders. Meason said the weeklong course provide eye-opening experiences for students.
"Very few people have ever seen explosions and fewer have seen large explosions," he said. "Seeing a car bomb gives them a real feeling about what they might face. They understand after they complete the course that they have to do everything right or their lives – and the lives of others – are in jeopardy."
New Mexico Tech is one of several training centers for first responders, which includes police, firefighters, military and other emergency personnel. Nationwide, more than 1.6 million people have received training through the Homeland Security-sanctioned programs.
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My original proposal is to allow Hugin to take into account camera shifts between shots. However, I am open to modify the scope of my proposal as the community sees fit. We have been discussing this on hugin-ptx, so this page will be updated to reflect the final agreement.
After playing around with Hugin's various tools trying to conceptualize how my code may work, it seemed to me that there is room for improvement in Hugin's preview rendering. Keeping up with my original concept of accounting for camera movements, I would like to suggest the following idea:
Hugin is currently efficient in detecting stitching points (and allowing for control points to be manually tuned) between multiple photos. They are, however, all displayed in 2D and then transformed to a panorama. What we could do to simplify stitching photos taken from different points (or just to make it easier to visualize current control points) is to render the images in 3D space instead. One photo will be used as an anchor and its orientation is specified, each of the remaining photos will be represented by a quad in space, with its stitching points identified by Hugin, we can orient each of these quad so that it is displayed in its expected position (for example above the anchor and tilted 20 degrees to match its next neighboring photo). This would allow us to estimate the spatial configuration of the different photos or, if there is no sufficient overlap, allow the user to define how the photos relate to one another in space.
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Ham Radio Operators To Hold Field Day, June 20, 2008
by Dave Finley, N1IRZ
SOCORRO, N.M., June 20, 2008 -- Socorro's amateur radio operators will be among thousands showing off their emergency capabilities June 28-29. Over the past months, ham radio operators have provided critical communications in emergencies world-wide. During the recent tornadoes and in Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio was often the only way remaining by which people could communicate.
When trouble is brewing, ham radio operators are often the first to provide critical information and communications.
On the weekend of June 28-29, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with these ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historic Morse code, hams from across the USA will hold public demonstrations of their
emergency communications abilities.
The Socorro Amateur Radio Association (SARA) and the Tech Amateur Radio Association (TARA) will set up portable radio stations at Socorro's Plaza and at the Datil Well Campground in Catron County, then make two-way contacts with other participating stations throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The operation will run from noon Saturday to noon Sunday.
The public is invited to visit and learn about amateur radio and the ability of amateur operators to quickly establish local, national and international communications during and after emergencies.
At the Socorro Plaza site, the hams will operate from a travel trailer they converted into a mobile emergency communications center to serve local government agencies.
The trailer was donated to Socorro County in 2004 by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Since then, the hams have refurbished it and equipped it with radios, antennas and other equipment.
"We hope that people will come and see for themselves that this is not your grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL, the national association for amateur radio.
"The communications networks that ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives in the past months when other systems failed or were overloaded."
During this weekend's event, known as Field Day, ham operators, using only generators, batteries or solar power, construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country to test their skills under all situations. Their slogan, "When all else fails..." is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis.
More than 34,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. There are 654,000 Amateur Radio operators in the U.S., and more than 2.5 million around the world. Ham volunteers provide emergency communications for the DHS Citizens' Corps, Salvation Army, FEMA and hundreds of state and local agencies, all for free.
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You could have definitively won the village the game by getting yourself godkilled in the last phase as it would have eliminated any uncertainty about who the last mafian was by proving your allegiance.row101 wrote:Impressed that I managed to win by literally doing nothing aside from a few claims.MintChocChip wrote:Hello row101,
Wheezy is an innocent rubber toy penguin with a red bowtie who squeaks when you squeeze him. He often sings in a deep, celebratory voice to all his friends, and is also a nervous wreck.
You are the Silent One. You may not post in the thread until somebody directly mentions your full name - row101, but you may talk in PM. Once your name has been mentioned, you may post, but only by quoting song lyrics. Please include references to the lyrics you are quoting. You will be godkilled if you do not follow this post restriction.
You are aligned with the town, and win when all threats are killed.
Good luck.
Thing is, it had to be my full username that was mentioned, and I couldn't think of a way to manipulate people into posting it without it being too blatant and against the rules. I was considering trying to get someone to lynch me but probably would have been too risky.
I did like the song lyric idea though, would have been fun if I got to use it.
New page new me.


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- Researchers found that guilt-prone individuals are rated as better leaders than others
- Guilt-prone people feel a great deal of responsibility to those around them, says study
- Guilt-prone individuals may take on more work than others, but they are not more stressed
If you've got a guilty conscience, there's nothing to be ashamed of -- you're simply displaying the hallmarks of a natural leader, according to new research.
Research carried out by Becky Schaumberg and her colleague Professor Francis Flynn, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, began with the observation that within organizations there are always some people willing to take on the tasks that others won't, or take charge of groups that no one else will.
"We started to wonder 'who are these people that rise to the challenge and take responsibility for the group, and why do they do it?'" said Schaumberg.
To find out what motivates these types of individuals they conducted a series of personality tests that measured traits such as guilt proneness, shame proneness, and extraversion, among others.
Even though guilt and shame may seem similar to most people, psychologists argue that there is a crucial distinction between the two.
"Shame often makes people shy away from problems, whereas guilt makes people approach them," said Schaumberg.
"Shame can also lead to anger and blaming others for problems, whereas guilt leads people to take personal responsibility for problems," she added. "It's these differences that lead us to expect that a proneness to guilt would make people good leaders, but that a proneness to shame wouldn't."
During one of the personality tests researchers tried to measure the level of guilt-proneness in individuals when faced with tricky dilemmas and scenarios that were likely to elicit feelings of guilt -- such as receiving too much change at a store and deciding to keep it.
The researchers also put the volunteers through a series of group exercises, after which each person was asked to rate their fellow group members on a variety of leadership criteria, such as leading the conversation and taking charge of the task.
"We found that guilt-prone group members were rated as having engaged in more leader-like behavior in the group exercises than the less guilt-prone members," said Schaumberg.
In their final study the researchers found similar results for actual employees when they asked former colleagues, clients, and managers of current MBA students to rate them on their leadership ability.
"We found that the more guilt-prone students were rated as better leaders than the less guilt-prone students, even when controlling for other important variables such as intelligence and extraversion," said Schaumberg.
In this study they also uncovered one of the reasons guilt proneness is related positively to leadership.
"Guilt-prone students felt a great deal of responsibility to those around them. This sense of responsibility, in turn, made people see them as better leaders," said Schaumberg.
But this sense of responsibility towards others does not just limit itself to people. Guilt-prone workers also feel guilty towards their organizations when, for instance, they fail to live up to either their implicit or explicit expectations of their behavior.
The researchers found that guilt-prone individuals had a greater sensitivity to their obligations to their employer than less guilt-prone individuals. This strong sense of obligation, in turn, made them more supportive of layoffs as a cost-cutting strategy than less guilt-prone employees.
"We think this shows that guilt-prone individuals have a strong sense of duty and loyalty to their groups, and are willing to be good soldiers and go along with what benefits the collective, even if that means some individuals may be harmed," said Schaumberg.
But isn't there a risk that the pressures of leadership could cause a guilty type to end up consumed by guilt, turning them into a nervous wreck?
"Because guilt-prone people feel a great sense of responsibility to others, they may end up taking on more than their fair share of the task," Schaumberg conceded.
"But even though evidence in some of our other research shows that these individuals work harder than less guilt-prone individuals, they are not less happy or more stressed," she added. "In fact, we find that they have more positive feelings and sense of attachment to their organization than less guilt-prone employees."


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Okay, so I am a chick and no matter how much I try to suppress it, I have a girly girl side. So, yesterday, I'm tweeting my own business and Melisa is tweeting about work, in the salon, and pedicures (that mean more to me than cheesecake) and I tweet back about how nice that would feel. Then she tweeted about being 10 minutes away.
I looked at Mr. Weasel (who refused to make eye contact) and said "can I go?" ~I totally do not ask permission, but with him being ,
an out of work bum and all, I can't just spend willy nilly.
"Ummmm, how much?"
"well, way more than I usually spend, but Melisa has coupons for me"
"Ummmm, Mr. Weasel??????"
"Well, one part of me says save the money. The other part of me wants to indulge my wife".
"Let me talk to the 2nd guy".
"Okay go"
I shaved my legs and was out of there in record time. I had to split before the Jedi mind trick wore off. I was so excited. Melisa and I have never met in person. I needed a little pampering love and some Mommy Time.
So I get to the salon,
before Mr. Weasel can put a hold on my Visa, and there she is.......Mrs. Suburban Scrawl herself, in all her beautiful glory, being just as wonderful in person as she is in cyberspace. Then again, I would say that about almost anybody who hands me a glass of wine while someone else is massaging my feet.I had some chocolates, a freshly heated neck wrap(courtesy of Melisa) a little more wine and tootsies in heaven. You guys so don't get that, but I don't care! This is as close to being Cleopatra that we chicks ever get. I got my manicure too, so I just feel pretty all over and can ignore my muffin top until another day.
Afterward, Melisa was getting off work, and we met for some coffee. We talked about the Blogher Convention in CHICAGO this coming summer and came up with a plan to bring down our own stockpile of liquor to sell to all the
lushes attendees. We talked about all the bloggers that we want to meet (yes, you made the list) and how much we want the guys to crash too. We don't think you will, but a girl can dream. We laughed ~ mostly about you ~ and laughed and had a great, although short time together. Melisa really knows how to show a girl a great time. Fabulous, just fabulous!
UPDATE ~ And now Melisa has given me this! I feel special!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Okay, so I am a chick and no matter how much I try to suppress it, I have a girly girl side. So, yesterday, I'm tweeting my own business and Melisa is tweeting about work, in the salon, and pedicures (that mean more to me than cheesecake) and I tweet back about how nice that would feel. Then she tweeted about being 10 minutes away.
19 comments:
- Kat said...
Congratulations on getting pampered and on getting the chance to meet Melisa. She totally rocks and I speak from experience though sadly I've never met her in person (yet).
Not that I'm some creepy stalker. LOL
- December 3, 2008 at 4:15 AM
- Melisa said...
I thought you shaved your pits.
And that plan regarding BlogHer? Ahem. We would NEVER do anything like that; that would wreck the integrity of the agreement BlogHer has with the hotel, in case anyone from BlogHer is reading your blog. That would undermine the profits of the hotel. I am frankly shocked that you would even....ah, forget it. It's a funny plan.
Fun time yesterday! My post is up too! And you've got an award waiting for you! (and I'm not just luring you over there for nothing this time!)
Ha ha: my word verification is "in gin". hee hee
- December 3, 2008 at 4:22 AM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Kat ~You are so right on the money. Melisa totally rocks!
@ Melisa ~ I actually shaved both for you. Doesn't that make you feel special? We so do not want to cast a shadow on the integrity of BlogHer. There will definitely be no M&W Discount Liquors Kiosk to be found in our rooms ~okay ladies, just knock 3x and say the password~ We are way too upstanding bloggers to pay for the convention itself that way.
You sure do know how to show a girl a great time!
- December 3, 2008 at 4:52 AM
- Tom said...
I'm pretty sure I know one guy blogger who'll crash the party. I would myself, but Michael's Mommy would have my stuff out on the front porch and the locks changed when I got home.
- December 3, 2008 at 8:41 AM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Tom ~ That's why you bring her with!
Which guy is going to come? We so need a little testosterone sprinkled around.
- December 3, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Melissa said...
Wow, wine and chocolates? At least Melisa fed you! :)
We'll have to figure out a time for all of us Chicago bloggers to get together preferably before BlogHer..though it might take that long for our schedules to match up!
I'm glad your hair free and feeling pretty...all you need is a tiara...hang around with Melisa long enough and you will get a REAL one! :)
- December 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Manic Mom said...
You shaved...You are so good. I always worry should I shave right before or is that trying to hard. Then I shave. I'm so happy you had a lovely time. You soooooooooo deserve it!!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 1:54 PM
- Mike said...
You midwest girls know how to party. Pedicures and tiaras, what a combination...
- December 3, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- The Microblogologist said...
Excellent, another serial killer in the serial killer alliance, no one will ever suspect us now!
- December 3, 2008 at 3:19 PM
- Michelle said...
Wait wait wait, her salon gives out WINE? Dude, I am NOT that far and my place does not give out wine. Ummm Melisa, I need to find out some more from you here.... I'll be popping over to chat.
And good to know that I'm not the only one who shaves before going to get a pedicure... nor apparently the only one who needs to make a POINT of having to shave before going to get a pedicure ;)
- December 3, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- Bad Momma said...
Oh man! I am soooo jealous! I've could use a good pedicure & a massage right now!
Good thing you guys aren't in Ohio or I'd be stalking you right now!
- December 3, 2008 at 6:17 PM
- Claire said...
Came by for a visit from Terri Terri - great blog - I love pedicures - just started getting them this year and it is the best!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- OhCaptain said...
It's cool you got pampered...what ever that means. So glad you shaved. Hairy weasels are...wait. Weasels are hairy...never mind.
- December 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM
- Karen said...
Pedicures are such a great invention. Getting one makes me feel so pampered and special, like nothing else in the world.
- December 3, 2008 at 10:04 PM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Melissa ~ She's a pretty classy date.
@ Manic ~ it's all part of the 'I feel Pretty' kind of day.
@ Mike ~ You should come with us some time. We'll lend you a tiara and you can pick your own polish color! LOL
@ Micro ~ yeah, the alliance is growing!
@ Bad Momma ~ We'd so love to have you!
@ Claire ~ Welcome and thanks for coming by. I can't offer you a pedicure, but feel free to come by and put your feet up anytime!
@ Captain ~ Your cracking me up!
@ Karen ~ Welcome. I've seen you lurking around Michael's Daddy and am glad you came by. Put your feet up and well, get yourself a pedicure. They are dreamy.
- December 4, 2008 at 7:32 AM
- Daddy Dan said...
Hi WeaselMomma,
Did you ever get that muffin top taken care of? How much does that run at the salon?
- December 4, 2008 at 6:01 PM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Daddy Dan ~ It would have cost me not having the wine or the chocolates.
- December 5, 2008 at 3:33 AM
- Mrs4444 said...
Well, job or no job; a girl has to have priorities! You go, Girl! :)
- December 8, 2008 at 3:27 PM
- Debbie said...
That does sound like a wonderful time. Good for you. But more than cheesecake? Are you sure? Because that just sounds all sorts of wrong to me.
- December 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM


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WHAT IS IT? The Hinson Single Spring (SS) clutch is exactly what it says it is—a 2009-2011 Honda CRF450 clutch that uses one spring.
WHAT'S IT COST? $599.99 (inner hub, pressure plate and Belleville spring), $99.99 (Hinson clutch plates), $159.99 (Hinson clutch cover).
CONTACT? www.hinsonracing.com or (909) 946-2942.
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here's a list of things that stand out with the Hinson SS CRF450 clutch. (1) The problem. The four-spring clutch on the 2009-2011 Honda CRF450 is wholly inadequate for the job. The four springs do not provide enough pressure on the clutch pack to stop it from slipping. The slipping creates heat, which causes the plates to swell. The swelling introduces plate-to-plate drag, and the end result is that halfway through a hard moto the clutch won't disengage, and after that it won't engage. Not a pretty picture. ( 2) The solution. If six springs are better than four, then how can one spring be up to the task? That's easy. Hinson uses a special oversized cupped washer as a spring. Called a Belleville washer, it distributes the load evenly around its circumference. As a result, it can stand up to substantial loads and is highly useful in areas subject to thermal expansion, vibration and high-bolt loads—all of which describe a motorcycle clutch. ( 3) Installation. The $599.99 Hinson SS clutch kit consists of a Belleville washer-equipped inner hub and a special pressure plate. To install it, you swap out the stock pressure plate and inner hub for Hinson's SS components. The job takes about 20 minutes.
( 4) Performance. The spring pressure on the stock four-spring CRF450 clutch is approximately 275 psi. The Hinson SS clutch ups that to 300 psi. The extra bite of the stiffer Belleville washer is enough to extend the life span of the stock CRF450 plates immensely. Most MXA test riders can't keep the stock CRF450 clutch alive for more than four motos; with the SS clutch, we could go for months. ( 5) Feel. In back-to-back tests, the Hinson SS clutch delivered an accurate, hooked-up feel that was in stark contrast to the sloppy, vague feel of the stock Honda clutch. It should be noted that the engagement zone of the SS clutch was very precise. Even though it releases over a small range of movement, that movement is far enough out on the lever travel that you don't have to pull the clutch all the way in to guarantee disengagement (which is common on the stocker). The pull of the Hinson SS clutch is firm because of the stiffer spring rate, but once test riders pulled the clutch through the firm spot, it got easier in the second half of travel.
WHAT'S THE SQUAWK? MXA had two complaints: (1) Although Hinson isn't to blame for the shortcomings of Honda's actuation lever arm, it hinders both the stock and SS clutches alike. ( 2) The price is fair for Hinson's billet T- 6, akadized aluminum parts, but the price comes on top of the initial $8250 investment. We'd give it five stars if the operating win- dow was a little broader. As is, it works much better than stock. You gotta go forward to win...and you can't do that with a clutch that slips.


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Sprint has released its financial report for Q1 2014, which boasts a record operating income of $420 million, the company's best in over seven years. That's where the good news comes to an end as the company's report also highlights a loss of $151 million in the quarter alone, but compared to Q1 2013 this is at least a substantial improvement. The carrier is still experiencing issues with 4G LTE upgrades, more affordable plans launched and customers switching providers.
The report also states the carrier had a net loss of 231,000 postpaid customers during the quarter, which was down to network outages associated with the company's network upgrades. The prepaid sector of the business posted a net loss of 364,000 customers, which was primarily caused by alterations made to the Lifeline program recertification process, impacting customers subscribed to Assurance Wireless. This was offset by the addition of 121,000 wholesale and affiliate customers in Q1.
The report closed with the announcement that almost 3 million customers are subscribed to the Sprint Framily plan. Things aren't looking too bright for the carrier, but we'll have to see how reports shape up once network upgrades have been completed.
Source: Sprint
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A History Of The Title Sequence
designer: From Form • 1 comment
What do I have to do to become a title designer? It's a question we're often asked. I always tell young designers to do what Jurjen Versteeg did, and just make a title sequence, for an imaginary or existing movie. In 2009, Versteeg created an unofficial title sequence for Sean Penn's Into the Wild, and was subsequently asked to design the titles for an American feature film. In 2011, Versteeg made the title sequence for an imaginary documentary about title design, A History Of The Title Sequence, in which he cleverly re-imagines the work of eight influential designers that changed the course of title design history. It won him A Vimeo Award in the motion graphics
Says Versteeg, "My dissertation project is sort of like a title sequence about title sequences. You could perceive this film as a possible title sequence for a documentary about the history of title design."
"This title sequence provides an overview of the history of title design. The names of the most influential title designers are mentioned, all of whom have had a big influence on the development and history of title design. Each designer's name refers to the revolutionary titles they designed. The cut-up typography of Saul Bass' name, for example, refers to titles for Psycho, and the colored circles refer to Maurice Binder's titles for Dr. No. In this way, I've tried to characterize each name. My aim was to give these characteristics, which were added in the post-production stage, as much of an analogue feel as possible. I wanted the visual effects to be in line with the live action footage."
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Why did you choose these particular designers? Who did you leave out?
The film is called "A History Of The Title Sequence," with an emphasis on "A," because it's an expression of my own perception of history. The selection and editing process was incredibly difficult, as I wanted to keep it to the point without leaving out any important designers. This turned out to be more difficult than I expected. Some designers are more suitable to link to a specific characteristic in comparison to others. I regret that Godard didn't make it to the final edit. Even on set I tried to sketch a sequence, but unfortunately I wasn't able to condense his titles to one specific aspect. Perhaps that was the strenght of his designs."
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Take us through the production process
"After the first sketches I created an animatic, which I presented to my teachers as my graduation project. The film was shot during five evenings. I specifically wanted to use sunset light, so my time was limited. I did not use a single light, so it came down to tight planning and storyboarding. I shot on a Canon 5D using 28mm and 50mm lenses, and I used a crane for the tabletop shots. After I made the final edit, I composited the names. This took about a week. Lea Jurida composed the music and provided the sound design."
What are you taking with you from this project?
"It seems like the film industry needed fifty years to realise the importance and effect of a good title sequence. The fact that the curtains in most cinemas were closed during the title sequence, signifies how much of an underestimated medium it was. Then you start to realize the impact that designers such as Saul Bass have had. Seeing his work in this context made me appreciate his titles even more."
What's in store for you in the near future. More title sequences?
"For sure, I'd love to design more titles! I hope this project and Into The Wild will create some opportunities for me. At the moment I am involved in the final stages of a title design project for an American movie. And I will continue to work on freelance projects and develop my own work in my studio in Rotterdam."
A History of the Title Sequence refers to the following designers and their titles:
~ Georges Méliès - Un Voyage Dans La Lune
~ Saul Bass - Psycho
~ Maurice Binder - Dr. No
~ Stephen Frankfurt - To Kill A Mockingbird (watch at Art of the Title)
~ Pablo Ferro - Dr. Strangelove
~ Richard Greenberg - Alien
~ Kyle Cooper - Se7en
~ Danny Yount - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Sherlock Holmes (watch at Art of the Title)
More Making of photos on Synple @Flickr
Production stills
Jurjen Versteeg's alternative title sequence for Into The Wild.
Kris Klarkin made a title sequence for the imaginary movie Kill Your Friends as part of his master thesis.
Article: Remco Vlaanderen, © Submarine Channel 21 July, 2011. Last update: 11 June, 2012
All images © Synple, used with kind permission
Year of production
Title designer
About From Form
From Form
From Form is a design studio based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, founded 2012 by Jurjen Versteeg and Ashley Govers. The studio focuses on (the combination of) film, motion graphics and title design. Projects often combine analogue and digital techniques. Jurjen Versteeg studied Interactive Multimedia and Audiovisual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Versteeg met fellow student Ashley Govers, who studied Interior Architecture at the same school. Here they are, posing in their studio's workshop in what will eventually be the set of the OFFF 2013 Main Titles.
From Form's Ashley Govers and Jurjen Versteeg presenting at OFFF Barcelona 2013, with Wouter Keijzer and Ben Lukas Boysen. Photos by JM-Joseph.com
Full credits
Direction and Animation
Jurjen Versteeg/Synple
Music and sound design
Lea Jurida
Jurjen Versteeg
Audio designer Lea Jurida
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24 Aug 11 • by: Joe Woolworth
Amazing video and inspiring story of making his dream happen. Bold move. I featured this video in my blog http://marketingjesus.net/a-history-of-the-title-sequence/


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Pfeiffer is leading after 18 holes with a combined score of 316 and is followed by
On the men's side of the course, Coker took a three shot lead after the completion of the 27 holes. The Cobras shot a combined 429 and are closely followed by
Limestone's Paul Butler is the overall leader, after a superb 18 hole 66 and a nine hole 35, he is seven under. Dion Sirianni of Lees-McRae is only a shot back of
The 2006 CVAC Golf Championships continue tomorrow, with the men playing 27 holes and the women playing 18 at the Hartsville Country Club. Teams tee off starting at 8:30 a.m.
Following the first day of play the CVAC held its annual Golf Awards Banquet, at which the following awards were given.
Women's Golf Award Winners:
Player of the Year: Liz Cortez –
Men's Golf Award Winners:
Player of the Year: Ian Kentwright – Pfeiffer; Freshman of the Year: Adam Sheriff – Anderson; Coach of the Year: Doug Ehmann – Belmont Abbey; All-CVAC First Team: Dion Siriannia – Lees-McRae, Vincent Dumouchel – Coker, Kasey Timms – Belmont Abbey, Ian Kentwright – Pfeiffer, Adam Sheriff – Anderson; All-CVAC Second Team: Mick Moberg – Mount Olive, Eric Forsman – Pfeiffer, David Harris – Pfeiffer, Johary Raveloarison – Coker, Kent Cherry – Belmont Abbey; All-CVAC Honorable Mention: Paul Butler – Limestone, Ian Hall – Queens, Nick Nosewicz – Barton, Matt Short – Lees-McRae, Alvin Yeung – St. Andrews.
Women's Round One Results;
Fin. Top 20 Teams Scores
4 Queens Univ of Charl 350
Men's Day One Results
1 Coker 429
2 Pfeiffer 432
4 Limestone 436
5 Barton 441
6 Queens 447
10 Lees-McRae 470


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Monday, September 23, 2013
Rodon Watch now Rodon Warning
With six games remaining, the Astros hold a six-game lead over Miami for the 2014 #1 overall pick. The Astros are officially on the clock.
(Artwork by Ryan Dunsmore, writer for the Crawfish Boxes)
3 comments:
Even if Houston should win the last 6 games and Miami loses the last 6 games, creating a tie in records, Houston due to their position last year would get the number one pick. It will be interesting to see who they pick especially with two other picks probably in the top 40.
- September 23, 2013 at 9:59 AM
If you search Carlos Rodon on google, the picture that comes up on the top right profile summary is....Jeff Luhnow.
- September 23, 2013 at 5:30 PM
I tried it and you are right on! Luhnow's picture on Rodon's search page.
- September 23, 2013 at 10:32 PM
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Okay, so here's the thing. I'm at home in Glasgow now (for a week) and my old Scanner just doesn't want to play ball with me. The only thing I could do to make this work today was take a photograph of today's Spineless Wonders and post it online. Hence, it isn't a proper rectangle… Oh well…
Nice story: I got up early for a dental appointment and when I opened up our storm door I saw this little snail shell on the middle of the top step. I took that as a nice welcoming sign. After I had moved the little critter out onto the wall he poked his head out to say hello… Had I rushed back in for my camera, I would have been late for the dentist which, of course, is a big no-no!
Er, should I mention that this cartoon was drawn very quickly last night after having had half a bottle of Champagne and 3 generous shots of Blueberry Vodka (Thanks, Ma!)…?
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Luis Camnitzer:
Introduction by Jane Farver
I started making prints, about thirty years ago, as a consequence of
my belief that art should be a common rather than a private good. The
choice of the medium was a political one, even if it had aesthetic consequences.
With this choice I committed two involuntary errors. The first error was
to believe that art made in editions could democratize art. The second
error was to allow the medium to stimulate my expressionist tendencies.
It took me time to correct both.
My first editions were "infinite" in size. Eventually I realized that
''infinite'' is a relative concept. In my particular situation it signified
a variable number placed somewhere between five and ten. In the art market,
however, it meant well over one thousand. Translated into the realm of
economics, I found myself selling my work at one percent or less of a
fair market price. The difference was my subsidy to the buyer, a buyer
which, in spite of my fantasies, was not a derelict bypassed by cultural
processes and possibilities of income. On the way to my disappointment
I also realized that with my prints I wasn't creating a body of common
goods. I was organizing buyers as a group of stockholders of my work.
The second error, about expressionism, was a more personal one. About
1965 I had lost any sense of risk when making prints. To compensate for
boredom I had let the work grow to absurd dimensions, woodcuts beyond
four square meters, and still I was unable to capture the unpredictable.
Making prints had become a form of self-therapy. After a small crisis
I decided that I preferred to be am intellectual exhibitionist rather
than an emotional one. To work with ideas would allow me to approach mystery
in a more lucid and transmittable manner, with results which might be
both less authoritarian and less narcissistic. Instead of delivering results
to the viewer, I could deliver processes. I could allow the viewer to
become the producer of the results. Borderlines between creation and pedagogy
would be erased. Material possession of art would lose its meaning since
possession would take place through reading. The ideal was the newspaper
headline: a simple reading allowed appropriation which then unleashed
imagery within the viewer.
Consistent with this utopia I began to work on texts without images like
This is a mirror. You are a written sentence. (1966). Having
some difficulty in exhibiting these pieces, I started to make mail exhibits
and to affix stickers in elevators and bathrooms.(l967). The work with
words made me look at their relation to their meanings. A scientist friend
led me to hypnosis. My visual descriptions could be illustrated under
a state of heightened concentration ruling out spurious associations.
With a statistical quantity of illustrations, deviations from the text
would become apparent and allow me a more precise rewrite of my text.
I could achieve a perfect text, an equivalent of a photographic record
of an idea. In 1966 a dentist in New Jersey, who used hypnotism for anesthesia,
offered his services and a twelve year old patient as the illustrator.
My subsequent move to New York unfortunately aborted the project.
The research of words took me into many predictable directions. One was
Envelope (1967), a constant image which by means of the change
of titles alters its dimensions and the relative position of the viewer
("envelope" vs. "tunnel" vs. "chimney"). The arbitrariness of meanings
became obvious and, with it, the right and ability to see things any way
one pleases.
In 1968 I constructed a model of a living/dining room solely using the
words needed for the nomenclature of the parts; The following year I exhibited
it in full size in the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas. I was proud that,
without instructions, people walked over the words describing the rug,
but walked around the ones designating the fully set dining table.
I discovered that logic carried to the extreme of its possibilities could
lead to something akin to magic. To inhabit an architectural floor plan
could provide a deeper experience than to inhabit architecture. The Caracas
environment led to a recreation of the Massacre of Puerto Montt in
the Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago. The massacre consisted of the killing
of peasants who occupied unworked land. They first had been gathered by
the army in a central place for "negotiations". It took place early 1969
under the government of Frei in Chile. Words were used to place port-holes,
information about soldiers manning them, arms used in the operation and
dotted lines marking the trajectory of the bullets.
A subsequent exhibit in New York (Paula Cooper Gallery, 1970), expanded
the subject to repression in Latin America. Inventories of weapons were
added to a wall constructed with numbered boxes wrapped in bloody gauze.
Form became a pure and secondary product of content, inevitably existing
for presentation, but without really influencing it.
At the same time, under the fashionable influence of semiology and structuralism,
I was also interested in tautological, self referential, metaphoric statements
and other grammatical issues. I produced descriptive and evocative phrases
and sentences which by some were seen as invading the, for me, alien field
of poetry. The categorization never preoccupied me too much. I am more
concerned with what I do than with how I do it. The "how" is the technique
and, as such, it always reduces intentions and ideas to a partial and
fictitious semblance. Technical virtuosity consists of convincing the
viewer that the work of art is the perfect incarnation of an intention.
This is so even when in fact the work of art is no more than an approximation
formed by an accumulation of errors wisely administered.
I stopped being a "printmaker", a "sculptor" or a "technician," to become
an "artist" or a "cultural worker." It is sad that these new answers to
the question: "What do you do?" sound more pedantic and presumptuous than
the technical ones. Regardless, it became clear that I was working with
ideas. Ideas allowed me, with a modest investment of energy, to change
and reorganize the universe according to my own wishes and design. The
true answer to "What do you do?" really was: "I am omnipotent and I do
whatever I fancy.", though I never dared to use it. I discovered (1971)
that if I made a minimal mark on a piece of paper, I irrevocably altered
the order of the universe. Any new order would have to include my mark.
My action conditioned any new definition of order. Thus, to change the
universe wasn't that difficult and anybody could do it. It was more difficult
to convince the art market of the fact that the alteration had taken place.
A mixture of omnipotence, politics and philosophy led me to sell my signature
by the inch ($2.73 per centimeter, in 1971). The same mixture also gave
me the insight that any future buyer of my art was working with my money
during the time lapsed between the dates of production and of purchase.
I therefore proceeded to add accumulated interest to the price of those
The story of the sale of my signature invariably elicited smiles. Later,
in 1978, this reaction made me return to hypnosis. This time I became
the subject. I wanted to find out if my signature pieces were truly art
or if I had, unconsciously, designed them as some kind of a joke. The
hypnotist (this time a psychiatrist) projected me into important ages
in my life (six, fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-one, sixty-five
and seventy- five). Except for the age of fourteen, where the question
of my signature taking the place of a work of art seemed incomprehensible,
my answer was consistently positive in regard to the seriousness of the
enterprise. There were more works of mine, indecisive between revelation
and banality, but I didn't pursue the search for their truth.
Politically explicit work became secondary for a while. This was not
because of any lack of interest on my part, but due to frustration. I
felt unable to produce a big enough body of ideas combining both artistic
and political weight to make me feel like a productive artist. In 1973,
however, I became aware that my work was extremely disorganized and, if
there was any common thread uniting it, it was beyond my grasp. My pieces
were like loose pages which belonged to different books and the solution
to the problem was not to be found in bookbinding. I needed a general
matrix, a grid into which work could be organized and where irrelevant
pieces would automatically be excluded. I found the answer in works from
1967 and 1968, a series of dictionary pages. They belonged to an image-language
dictionary, where any image could accept all the meanings attributed by
myself or by the public.
The newly found matrix allowed me to design a format for the work before
dealing with the particular pieces. Once the relation between image and
text was laid out, the content of either one became unimportant. Any room
for aesthetic speculation was eliminated for myself and for the viewer.
Communication became immediate. It was resolved in a form of packaging.
The matrix functioned for many years and is probably still guiding me
today. The most elegant and disconcerting example (1979) was a random
combination of twenty objects with twenty titles written in advance which,
together, produced an apparently coherent narrative totality. While I
was offering chaos, a planned story was received thanks to the viewer's
power of organization. I had discovered evocation.
The following piece, also in 1979, was The Archaeology of a Spell.
The evoking process was organized around a tenuous argument line,
only known to myself and inaccessible to the viewer. Fragments of a
Novel (1980) carried the same principle through thirteen sequential
pieces, again having a story narrated in the viewer's mind. Once it became
clear that it was possible to convey the conditions for an argument without
defining the argument itself, I was ready to reintroduce politics into
my work. I now could bypass both pamphlet and description. The pamphlet
alienates and description is banal. Through controlled ambiguity I could
try to generate the terror of things. The spectator then could take authorship
of that terror instead of just remaining a consumer. Hopefully this would
produce a perceptual and political awakening of the viewer and, some day,
release me from art to do other things.
Approximately 0.5 Cubic Meters of Air Stretched into a Prism, 1967
Envelope, 1967


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