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These are the types of things that happen at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. But luckily, seeing a hamburger-promoting clown was far from the highlight of my day.
A band called Calliope Musicals was playing outside, so I had a look and was caught off guard by seeing small kids dressed as tigers and unicorns dancing with balloons. It was cute but I wasn't into it and made my way to the convention centre to walk around the trade show for the remainder of the afternoon.
It was pretty tech-driven and there wasn't a lot that interested me, but I was invited to the Canadian Blast stand where the Ontario Media Development Corporation was having a small reception. I caught up with some Canadians I hadn't seen for a long time and chatted with people from Germany and England while having free beer, wine and sandwiches. I also got free beers from the New Zealand, Austin and Denton, Texas stands.
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After the performance I was interviewed by a reporter from Dong-A Ilbo, whose business card said it was South Korea's leading newspaper, about The Barberettes. I'd appreciate it if all of you dedicated Dong-A Ilbo readers would save me a copy of any article you might see my name in.
I paid a visit to the washroom on the way out and Blondie drummer Clem Burke urinated beside me. He's playing with BP Fallon for SXSW and I hope to see him on Sunday.
The Breakout West party featuring bands from Western Canada was held at The Majestic and I arrived in time to see Mise en Scene, a Manitoba act with a female lead singer/guitarist and drummer and a male bassist that played a rootsy and sometimes slightly bluesy version of alternative rock that hit a lot of the right spots.
Free mini bratwursts and nachos were served and I was given four free drink tickets which I converted into a Shiner Bock and a triple rum and Coke, which seemed like a good idea at the time.
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I walked across town to Stephen Easley's condominium, where he was hosting his traditional SXSW kick-off party poolside. The prominent attorney works in the technology and music fields and represents the estate of Buddy Holly as well as current artists, some of whom played this year's party. He's an excellent host and also manages the Mixed Media Mongrels, the softball team I play for in the annual SXSW tournament.
Edison Chair is a young pop-rock quintet from Austin that I can see growing into something more than it is now, which is still pretty good. You wouldn't know that lead singer Rachel Thompson only recently joined the band.
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The Statesboro Revue is another young and very rootsy band that adds touches of country and blues to its rock. Their original material was solid, but their cover of Holly's "Think It Over" left me with the biggest smile.
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I left the party to meet my friend Tom from Seattle, who I hadn't seen in a year-and-a-half, and we walked east to Hotel Vegas where I had hoped to see Protex, The Oh Sees, Paul Collins Beat and The Sloths, but there was a pretty long line and since it was an unofficial SXSW event, our badges wouldn't have got us in any quicker so instead we planted ourselves at a bar across the street where we could see and hear some of what was happening while enjoying some better quality beers than we could have got had we actually made it in to the multi-staged venue.
I didn't see as many acts as I normally would on Tuesday, but I was okay with that since hanging out with friends is another reason why I come to Austin.


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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sea (salt) Turtles
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People can be awful. Just remember there are many people out here who love you and your blog. And love these turtles!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I am sorry others were unkind. I love your turtles. I swam with the turtles in Maui this summer and enjoyed just watching them bob up and down for air. I am going to try the rock salt too!ReplyDeleteReplies
oh gosh, how AWESOME! my son (he's 4) is obsessed with turtles. i mean OBSESSED. i will have to store this in the back of my head for when i make my millions and retire in hawaii. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!Delete
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I'm sorry to hear that anyone would have anything unkind to say. I have recently had some difficult times in my personal life that have left me scattered as an art teacher. This post and the post with your son's dandelions (my own son is blond, 3, and loves visiting Mommy's classroom) are helping me greatly as I recenter and refocus. Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
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i'm an art teacher at a deaf school and i came across your site by way of (you guessed it) pinterest. i wanted to take a moment and say that i'm impressed with what i'm seeing so far and i encourage you to keep doing what you're doing. you're doing a fabulous job.ReplyDelete
as a teacher i often find myself wanting to create a site to show what i'm doing in class. sometimes i feel like...nah, who has the time for that, really? but then i see sites like yours and i realize how much they help me as a teacher with ideas and inspiration. it kind of makes me think i should at least try and do my part to be of some help to whoever might come across my site. so thanks for doing this and...forget about whoever said anything negative about this blog!
and yes, i realize i'm a teacher that doesn't capitalize properly. there's a reason i don't teach english. :)
Why would anyone say anything negative about your posts? You're amazing; your ideas are adorable, fun, and educational. Your blog is our first go to for new ideas when we're feeling lost or unsure about the success of a project. Thank you for all you do!ReplyDelete
P.S. We LOVE these turtles! So cute!
Shame on anyone who would spoil your sharing of such beautiful art. Let me balance that with a positive: I am an elementary music teacher but my principal asked me to get certified in art a couple of years ago. I am learning from lots of sources, but blogs such as yours help me out a lot! I know it is always ideal for a "real art teacher" to be the one teaching art, but I can't tell you how much fun I have had learning along with my students!ReplyDelete
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Want to Successfully Manage Your Emotions? Be Flexible
The right emotion regulation strategy is key to managing emotions
Posted Nov 02, 2011
Life is full of stressful situations, some of which are lower on the totem pole of emotional intensity and some much higher. On the lower end might be a morning drive to work in unexpected traffic or a subtle reminder from your boss about the minor deadline you missed. Seeing the destroyed car (and driver) that caused the traffic jam or your boss questioning your ability to do your job, would likely elicit more extreme emotional reactions.
For several decades, psychologist have been interested in how people successfully control their emotions in stressful situations. The idea is that, if we can understand how healthy people manage their emotions, we may be able to improve the lives of those with depression or anxiety (both of which are characterized by breakdowns in emotional equilibrium). Now, new research published last week in the journal Psychological Science shows that successfully regulating our emotions is not a "one size fits all" endeavor. Rather, it involves bringing the right emotional regulation strategy to bear on the situation. Simply put, different emotional contexts require different regulation processes.
People can regulation their emotions in different ways. On the one hand, incoming emotional information can be regulated by brain processes that prevent the information from capturing too much of our attention to begin with. A distraction strategy, for instance, involves disengaging from negative emotion by producing distracting thoughts that are neutral in nature. These thoughts are designed to prevent our emotional reactions from gaining too much force in our minds. As an example, after your boss questions your ability to do your job, instead of thinking about the fact that you might soon be out of work, you think about what you are going to do this weekend with your friends instead.
Of course, incoming emotional information often does creep into our conscious thoughts, gaining momentum in its severity. Another strategy that can be employed to deal with our emotions once they have captured our attention is reappraisal, which involves thinking about the emotional information in a way that reduces its negative meaning - instead of being upset by getting to work late, you reason that since you are always on time, it's not that big of a deal.
As it happens, healthy individuals manage their emotions by flexibly using reappraisal (which allows for emotional processing) when the intensity of negative emotion is low and there is an opportunity to reframe the situation and distraction (which tends to block emotional processing) when negative emotions run high and there is not enough time to productively deal with the stress.
To demonstrate this flexibility, researchers at Stanford University showed healthy students emotional pictures that varied in intensity (a sad face versus a bloody face). People were allowed to freely chose between using either reappraisal or distraction as an emotion regulation strategy after seeing the pictures. In another experiment, instead of the pictures, folks saw a warning for an electric shock they were about to receive. The warning was for a shock that would be either low or high in its intensity. Again, people were allowed to choose their emotion regulation strategy before their received a little electric stimulation or a lot. In both the picture and shock situations, people overwhelmingly chose distraction to deal with the intense negative emotion-inducing situations and reappraisal for the less-intense ones, suggesting that successful regulation of our emotions is all about picking the right strategy for the right occasion.
Of course, one important unanswered question is how people vary in their ability to apply the appropriate emotional regulation strategy and whether this variability predicts long-term emotional health. However, given that depression is thought to involve an inflexible ruminative engagement with high-intensity negative emotional information and anxiety is thought to involve an inflexible avoidant disengagement (distraction) from low-intensity negative information, the current findings suggest that flexibility may be one key to emotional well-being.
The take home? When it comes to managing our emotions, one size does not fit all. And, fitting the appropriate emotion regulation strategy with the intensity of the stressful situation likely impacts whether we can function at our best when the stress is on.
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I was given this at the Fake Up launch, to mark one year of Hello Flawless foundation.
I use the little brush that comes with it to dust over my foundation and concealer to set it. It's light enough that it's not cakey or drying and doesn't kill the dewy finish of my foundation - but keeps oily sheens at bay.
The colour is a little on the yellow side of neutral - but I use it so sparingly I wouldn't notice
I use the powder puff for on-the go touch-ups - great for covering bags under your eyes after a long day at a computer screen!
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Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008), 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and Mayakovsky's Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co, 2012)He is the recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. His poems have appeared in McSweeny's, Ploughshares, The Believer, The London Review of Books, Esquire Magazine and The New Yorker among others. Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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There is no entrance fee at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac. Picnic tables and parking are available on a first come, first served basis.
Fees for Activities
Most ranger-led programs at the park are free.
Please contact the Columbia Island Marina (202-347-0173) for boat rental, launch, or storage fees.
Permits are required for certain activities within the park such as:
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What I wore: top from Fam Bam Closet| skirt from Cinta Manila| leopard flats
The skater skirt was already popular during the '80s, the era of funky fashion and its name was inspired by figure skaters as it resembles their skimpy outfits. I'm glad skater skirts have been reinvented and introduced to us now. They're my favorite latest fads and I believe I won't just toss them if they turn out to be just a passing craze. They complement most body types as these create illusions of slimmer waist and longer legs. No doubt why I love them so much! Skater skirts are known to be versatile as you can pair them up with any tops. They're also easy to dress up or down as you can either wear them with heels or flats.
More women and even kids continue to embrace this trend and you may already seen a lot who strutted the streets in these hot skirts. Well, trends are supposed to be everywhere and how you're going to wear them without vanishing into the crowd is what makes fashion more challenging and fun. It is what makes your style.
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The Every Child A Library Member project was designed to introduce automatic library membership at key stages throughout the early years. The project was launched in August 2015 by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, with all of Scotland's 32 Local Authorities signing up to take part.
In 2016 £80,000 of Scottish Government Funding was made available through the Public Library Improvement Fund (PLIF) to trial different membership methods. A total of 24 Local Authorities applied and were granted funding through the Scottish Library and Information Council.
Various pilot schemes throughout the country were introduced to encourage automatic library membership for children from birth onwards.
The ECALM project directly links to Strategic Aim 1 of Ambition & Opportunity, the National Strategy for Public Libraries in Scotland.
The aim focuses on the promotion of reading, literacy and learning – ultimately working towards tackling the significant inequalities in Scottish society.
The ECALM project demonstrates that libraries are strategically placed to work with the Scottish Government in closing the attainment gap and promoting the equality of opportunity for every child. It also builds on the Government's existing commitment to encourage reading and improve literacy standards through initiatives like PlayTalkRead and Read, Write, Count.
Local Authorities adopted three main approaches for registering children as library members. These were:
- Registration at birth
- Registration during Early Years
- Registration at Primary School
Most Local Authorities decided to focus on one method however some adopted a combination – targeting a variety of different age groups. Registration at birth utilized a cross government programme known as Tell Us Once. This simple method allowed the opportunity to train Registration Staff on the benefits of library membership and the promotion of library services at the point of registration.
Early Years Registration allowed many Local Authorities to use nurseries as access points. This not only tackled barriers to library membership but created the opportunity to link the ECALM project with other initiatives such as Bookbug and Reading Rainbow.
Other Local Authorities targeted library membership at Primary School using a variety of schemes. This included using active school groups and clubs as well as scheduled library visits. Allowing school children to have direct experience of the library was particularly relevant as it encouraged active membership.
A number of Local Authorities have found collaboration with Registration Services particularly beneficial. In many instances this led to the direct promotion of library services and the removal of unnessesary paperwork.
Partnership working within the community can also help break down barriers to library membership and encourage active participation amongst children and families.
During 2016 an evaluative review of the ECALM project was undertaken by the Department of Information Management at Robert Gordon University. Conducted by Professor Peter Reid and Caroline Hood, the review examined ECALM methods carried out by the 24 Local Authorities who received Scottish Government funding for the project.
You can read the ECALM 2016 review for more details on the methodologies used, recommendations made and challenges faced by the funded Local Authorities.
The launch and subsequent delivery of Every Child A Library Member has been widely supported throughout Scotland's library community. Based on the positive results of the project ECALM is likely to become standard approach to automatic library membership.


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BOSTON — Martin Kelly has been around long enough to recognize opportunity when it presents itself.
Having recovered from the ACL injury that wrecked his 2012-13 season and hampered his progress in 2013-14, Kelly is looking to earn regular playing time for Liverpool FC in 2014-15.
"Physically, I feel the best place I've been throughout my career," Kelly said after Liverpool's practice session Tuesday at Harvard. "I've worked a lot with the rehab and medical fitness staff. I feel really strong. I just need the run of games to keep myself fit."
However, it won't be easy for Kelly to reach his immediate goal. Some players are fixtures on Liverpool's back line, while others seek to displace them.
Kelly, 24, was on the cusp of a breakthrough two years ago — before the injury bug hit — and he understands that he must impress Brendan Rodgers every day this preseason in order to regain the manager's trust.
"You can only play when you get picked, and you've got to be putting in that little extra into training to catch the manager's eye," Kelly said. "I think preseason is a real good opportunity for someone like myself to get these chances to get back up to peak fitness. Once given these chances, you've got to take them. That's football — especially at this elite level.
Kelly believes the upcoming campaign will be pivotal in his career. The versatile defender has played 62 games in seven seasons for Liverpool, and he is confident that he can add to that total this term, as the Reds will be competing on four fronts.
"I think the first goal is definitely to be playing now," Kelly said. "I've had all of last season playing little bits. This season's massive for me in terms of playing week-in, week-out. I've not done that in the past four years. I've played a handful of games, then been unlucky with injuries.
"We've got four competitions. It's good for the likes of me, who hasn't played as much, to be given the opportunities to take with both hands."
Kelly's journey to peak fitness, a place in Rodgers' rotation and a potential return to England's national team continue Wednesday when Liverpool faces AS Roma at Fenway Park. Kelly didn't participate when the teams met at Fenway in 2012, and he's keen to play at the iconic venue for the first time.
"It's my second time coming to Boston," Kelly concluded. "Last time, I arrived a little late after coming back from the Euros (2012 UEFA European Championships), and I didn't get to play at Fenway Park, so I'm looking forward to playing this year. I know it's got massive character and history and character, and it's a great opportunity to play at a top-class stadium."
Despite his age and youthful appearance, Kelly has enough veteran savvy to answer the door when opportunity knocks. And Kelly doesn't mind if the door is in Boston, Liverpool or elsewhere. He has positioned himself next to it and is waiting for the moment.
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One adventure sport that is rapidly gaining popularity, despite its relatively recent introduction, is rafting and kayaking. If you are into water sports check out our bhutan package tour 2019 & 2020 for rafting and kayaking.
It offers an excellent opportunity to explore Bhutan's pristine wilderness from its clean, clear, wild and wondrous river systems.
Bhutan has six major rivers, with numerous tributaries, that flow from the mountain glaciers and all have been scouted for bhutan rafting and kayaking tour. These rivers cut through high valleys and rugged mountain terrain before flowing into the plains of India and joining the mighty Brahmaputra River.
Bhutan's rivers were surveyed for potential waters sports in 1997 by Gerry Mofatt and Peter Knowles, two seasoned rafters and kayakers on the invitation of Bhutan's tourism department. The experts also trained Bhutan's first group of river guides.
Their surveys showed that Bhutan's rivers have a sheer variety of courses that offer something for all visitors, whether novice or professional.
The country's rugged untamed waterways will not disappoint travelers looking for daring adventures in the pure Himalayan waters. Throughout the country, the river systems have plenty of strong currents varying between slow gentle flows to raging torrents.
There are easy and slow routes for beginners and hair raising runs for the veterans. One can use www.bhutantourpackage.com – tours travel company package as they provides with all the safety measures and tools. The best times for rafting and kayaking is in spring (March-April) and in late autumn and winter (November – December).
With safety being a key issue with these water sports, the Tourism Council of Bhutan makes sure that all Bhutanese rafting and kayaking guides are well trained, equipment used are professional and well maintained and there is a safe guide to client ratio.
All the routes have been carefully surveyed and mapped to suit varying client options.
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In the series "it has nothing to do with motorcycles", but because it's fun and even useful, this post about what I think is the best clock ever. Some alarm clock can tell you a lot of things. Time, day, year, temperature…and even when to wake you up. Now, in 2009 it's time (pun intended) for you to say to your clock what you want it to do for you. This clock has a name- "Moshi"- is very pretty to talk to, but please, no touching: this clock is voice activated. You can make many verbal requests: time and date, temperature, to program the time and alarm, to propose a variety of background sounds to please your ears (waterfall, forest, stream), etc. You don't need to look at it. You can even stop the alarm right from your bed. Just say, "alarm off" to be certain to be late at work… $50.00. By the way, I am in love with blue lights (when they are not chasing me). Watch the beautiful demo at Moshi Lifestyle. Now, what about a voice activated motorcycle? Yes, it's possible.
4 Responses to "Best Ever Alarm Clock. Voice Activated."
May 27th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Hey Cyril. Continue to give us some 'non motorcycle stuff" like this. Very entertaining. And useful. Love it.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Watched the demo. Super cool.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Very cool gadget !
Not to mention the low price of 50 dollar !
Peace Gustian
May 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Very cool gadget at a very reasonable price. Great gift idea too.
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Hi all
This is a project we worked at this summer for the county council in Plymouth.
We being ; Joe Lyward, Emma Carlisle, Josh Neal, Tom Venn, Pippa stewart, Jo Larsen Burnet, Bex Edwards, and Jake Rowlinson (google them!) (hope i got the spelling right)
This is on the old woolworths window, if your in plymouth check it out!
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
The Thirsty Crow and Other Tales of Wisdom
One day, I saw a crow pick up a rather dry piece of chapatti in its beak. However, instead of flying away with it thereafter, it hopped over to the bowl of water and dropped the piece in. After having turned it around in the water for a while, so as to soak it well, the crow took off. By the time it returned, the chapatti appeared to have softened quite a bit and the bird proceeded to consume it.
Since then, I have become quite convinced that the story about a thirsty crow must have been based more on fact than fiction.
By the by, the bird in question has become great friends with my mother and she now sets an entire chapatti aside for it every day, while preparing lunch for the family. If she forgets, the crow spots her whenever she steps outside, perches itself on an electrical wire overhead and protests loudly until fed. At times, it even sits on the boundary wall, facing the house, and crows until its daily quota of the unleavened bread is served. In fact, the menu has now been expanded to include biscuits, fruits, and pakoras.
Once, when it was raising such a ruckus, I stepped out to ask what was wrong, since there already was some 'food on the table'. The crow picked up each piece, one by one, and threw it down as if to say, "Do you think I am going to eat this? Hurry along now and get us some fresh ones!"
Its sense of 'ownership' has become so strong that it admonishes us strongly if we try to feed a stray cow or dog, regardless of whether or not it has had lunch.
3 comments:
- bhagwant sidhu said...
very interesting read sidhusaab
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 16:22:00 GMT+5:30
- thiqar said...
Nice article and thank your valuable information and I wish you luck
- Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 11:02:00 GMT+5:30
- Trueman said...
A beautiful write up Sidhu Saaheb. The wonderful world of birds is so sweet, it can be enjoyed only by those who are keen bird watchers. Although myself am not a regular bird watcher, yet I do love to see these small flying objects which is in itself a view worth watching.
Interestingly Sidhu Ji, my wife is also very fond of putting something to birds to eat. Sometimes there is bajra llike your mom does for her share of birds to feast, another time she offers them rice and when she starts preparing a daal dish for the family, its the daal feast that she throws out to her share of flying guests.
It really unfortunate that in this age and race of modernism we are frogetting our ornithological world with its aweet, innocent inhabitants.
Another aspect of what you tell makes me ponder over the possibility that if the leaders of India and Pakistan could demonstrate the sheer wisdom as done by the blackbirds (which perhaps in character are more white than our leaders with white bright clothes but dark, black black minds) the conditions betwee Pakistan and India would have been much better, much friendlier and much luckier than they are now.
- Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 16:40:00 GMT+5:30


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Former West Hollywood Mayor and convicted embezzler Valerie Terrigno spared the organizers of the Gay Pride Parade an uncomfortable decision this week when she opted not to ride in a restaurant-sponsored parade vehicle.
Terrigno, who has spent the last month in a Hollywood community treatment center as part of her sentence for embezzling $6,969 in federal Emergency Management Agency funds, was the winner of a recent "Ms. Gay" contest sponsored by Palms, a West Hollywood restaurant.
The winner of the contest customarily appears in the Gay Pride Parade and rides in a convertible rented by the restaurant.
Instead, said Sue Morris, a bartender at the restaurant, Palms will be represented by Cindy Gettig, a former bartender and one of eight contestants. According to a recent article in The News, a lesbian-oriented publication, the contestants were judged on their personality and poise.


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I also believe that if done correctly resistance exercises can reduce the likelihood of injury.
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Bodyweight calisthenics is something which has been with us since ancient times, even before barbells, free weights and machines were invented. Calisthenics is basically the art of using one's own body for physical development, be it strength, power or endurance.
One of the earliest records of calisthenics training was handed down to us by the historian Herodotus. It is the story of how Xerxes was perplexed when his huge army couldn't defeat the 300 Spartans of Leonidas. Ancient Greeks knew the secrets of calisthenic training unlike the modern 'fitness trainers'. Look at the statues of Greek gods, how perfect their physiques are. They are not like the bloated bodybuilders who we see today. Or even better, take a look at physiques of modern gymnasts. They are perfect. They not only look strong, but also 'are' strong. They could win any strength or bodybuilding contest easily. Their body is in perfect proportion. All they use is their own bodyweight and a set of hanging rings. Training with bodyweight is what mother nature intended.
As the centuries went by, the tradition of calisthenics also vanished. Nowadays, people see calisthenics as some kind of aerobic exercise or maybe some high rep push ups. The last of the breed to appreciate calisthenics was Charles Atlas (with his system of dynamic tension).
The role of gyms today has transformed totally. An average gym goer tries his best to 'look' strong rather than actually 'be' strong. The invention of plate loading barbell and step size dumbell made bodyweight work as a sidetrack. All people know is the basic push up or deep knee bends. They use it as warm ups or to develop light endurance.
Modern day fitness industry, and fitness magazines have brain washed people to believe that they need all flashy equipments, be it for chiseled pecs, for six pack abs or for big biceps. 'To get buff, we need to go to the gym' they say. They even advertise whey proteins and special protein shakes for nutrition. All this is done for one sole reason: money.
I'll discuss some of the advantages of bodyweight training and modern methods for strength development.
Requires very little equipment
All that is required is just your bodyweight and some free floor. The most you'll need is a place to hang from, which you can find easily, maybe stairs, a loft hatch or even tree branches.
But for gyms we need extra weights, which are mostly costly, or expensive machines. These are hard to store at home and can't be used while on the go.
Another big plus is that bodyweight training is free unlike the expensive gm memberships.
Develops useful, functional, atheletic abilities
Calisthenics is the ultimate form of physical funcitonal training. In nature, the human body was meant to move itself around, before being able to move external objects. Some weightlifters may be able to squat hundreds of pounds but may find it difficult to walk up two flights of stairs. Some powerlifters may be able to bench hundreds but may find it difficult to comb their hair properly due to unnatural development of their body. No matter how advanced you get, calisthenics can be made to prove as a challenge to you.
Maximises strength
Modern gyms advice people to isolate their muscles individually and work them out. But calisthenics works the muscles as they were meant to be, in co-ordination with each other. It develops not only their muscles but also their joints, tendons and nervous system.
Another reason is that bodyweight works multiple muscle groups at once. Unlike the machines which isolate the muscles in an artificial way, this kind of training works all muscles together as it is used in everyday life, real movements.
Protects joints and protects them for life
One of the major problem faced in today's 'gym fitness' is that most of the weightlifters and powerlifters have joint problems. When they force their body to hoist huge loads, by wearing straps and applying menthol heat rubs on their joints, the soft tissues of the joints get damaged easily. These very commonly include shoulder, wrists, knees, elbows. This is because the motions performed in gyms are very unnatural, not how the human body was evolved to move.
But bodyweight training ensures that the body moves as desired by each person. It's natural and toally safe. The only weight that the body has to bear is its own. Plus when the joints are trained progessively with bodyweight work, they become stronger day by day.
I conclude saying that bodyweight training is better than training by going to the gym or using free weights, if you want to live a healthy, active life with a supple strong body.
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16 June 2015
Departed Worlds??? (1)
John Eyre Winstanley Wallis, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College in this University, and from 1945 Canon Chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral (d.1957), had begun to compose devotions for use after the Third Collect at Sunday Evensong in his Cathedral. "It seemed to me that the early Sacramentaries supplied the very models that I wanted, Christian but not technical. I set to work first to translate prayers from these, but I was driven in time to write prayers."
And at the beginning of 1957, Wallis proposed to a friend (and undergraduate contemporary), F C Geary, Fellow of Corpus 1928-1952, that he, Geary, provide Latin versions to accompany the English prayers Wallis had been "driven ... to write": "The Latin ... will be used mainly by the Vicar and his educated laity at their prayer desks, where the work of engaging the mind with the heart in its devotions is very greatly assisted by the use of Latin ...". In his Foreward, Geary remarks that Wallis's own English compositions were "based ... on the language and rhythms of the early Sacramentaries, which from long study were familiar to him".
If all that doesn't bring tears to your eyes, O ye hard of heart, nothing will. It conjures up a picture in which the parson knows the Roman Sacramentaries and his 'educated laity' understand how Latin would enrich their life of private prayer; a picture in which gentle and scholarly priests make their way across the Cathedral Close as formidably learned spinster ladies critically dissect last Sunday's sermons after collating manuscripts in the Chapter Library. Whatever happened to all that? Is it not a Departed World??? And, while that world had its lacunae, are we the better off or the worse off for its demise? For those of us with age and memories, it is perhaps suggestive ... and chilling ... to think how different the 1970s were from the 1950s. Yes ... you see what I mean! Just suppose the 1960s had never happened! And Euchologium Anglicanum wasn't the only little book to be published in 1963, was it ... ? But more of that later.
You want to know about F C Geary? You want to read examples of these prayers? And so you shall!
8 comments:
- Joshua said...
It makes one wonder - what would have happened if the liturgical changes that have afflicted nearly all Western Christian bodies had not happened?
- 16 June, 2015
- Elizabeth @ The Garden Window said...
I need to know more, Father!
- 16 June, 2015
- Hierodeacon said...
Father John, I was an Anglo-Catholic youth in America in the 90s when the world you poignantly describe was all but a memory, but still faintly detectible if you knew where to look. (And I did know where to look – but even those places are now all but wiped out twenty years hence.) It fired my imagination and my heart, and is at times sorely missed; but glory to God its demise was, in part, what led me to the Orthodox Church, for which I am infinitely grateful.
- 16 June, 2015
- Francis Arabin said...
Dear Father,
"Devotions" is such a goodly word betokening our vowed attachment to God's service. Devotions thus understood spring from the Divine Office itself. I wonder what has happened to those genuine manuals of devotion...gathering dust at St Philip's store and elsewhere.
- 16 June, 2015
- Joshua said...
I am curious as to why the modifications made in the sixties are alleged to make the Roman Canon no longer the Roman Canon - when just as many words in the Canon were changed in the Missal of the Roman Curia, published in 1474 at Milan (of all places! where they maintain their own Rite to this day), and these changes - but for the addition of eumdem - have been maintained from then until the latest edition of the Roman Missal, both EF and OF.
Changed in 1474 (not to mention the change in 1499 of tibi to tibique and that of 1571, adding ejusdem):
ac < et
circumstantium < circum adstantium
eumdem add.
Amen add.
Amen add.
et add.
deditque < dedit
deditque < dedit
servi tui < tui servi
eumdem add.
Amen add.
eumdem add.
Amen add.
cum om.
By my count, that is six words changed or rearranged, eight added and one omitted, for a total of fifteen.
By contrast, in the sixties (leaving aside the addition by St John XXIII of the name of St Joseph, an addition desired by votaries of the Spouse of the Mother of God since the nineteenth century*), four words were added (quod pro vobis tradetur), two moved (mysterium fidei), five deleted (quotiescumque feceritis and the three eumdem's added in 1474) and four changed (Hæc into Hoc, and mei memoriam facietis into facite and meam commemorationem), for a total of fifteen.
The phrases made optional - parts of the two lists of saints, and four uses of "Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen" - are a different matter, as all right-thinking persons would retain them.
*In any case, many mediæval missals included, after Cosmas and Damian, a further list of saintly confessors: Hilarii, Martini, Ambrosii, Augustini, Gregorii, Hieronymi, Benedicti.
- 17 June, 2015
- Joshua said...
What is most to be desired is the return, in the OF, of the many signs of the cross over the host and chalice during the Canon in the EF; and, to this end, EP II, EP III and EP IV ought have analogous signs of the cross added in also.
I recall my former parish priest (now a bishop) telling of how, when in seminary in the sixties, a visiting Dutch priest (but of course) offered Mass according to the latest fashion, for the first time, in the experience of the staff and seminarians, omitting the signs of the cross during the Canon: their dismay was palpable, if I remember the story correctly.
Herewith, EP II, with suggested crossings added (in the spirit of the 1474 Missal of the Roman Curia), plus a few phrases in bold from EP III and EP IV that enrich this rather too short prayer:
Vere Sanctus es, Domine, fons omnis sanctitatis. Haec er+go dona, quaesumus, Spiritus + tui rore sancti+fica, ut nobis Cor+pus et San+guis fiant Domini nostri Iesu Christi.
Qui cum Passioni voluntarie traderetur, accepit panem et gratias a gens bene+dixit, fregit, deditque discipulis suis, dicens: Accipite et manducate ex hoc omnes: hoc est enim Corpus meum, quod pro vobis tradetur.
Simili modo, postquam cenatum est, accipiens et calicem iterum tibi gratias agens bene+dixit, dedit discipulis suis, dicens: Accipite et bibite ex eo omnes: hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei novi et aeterni testamenti, qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum. Hoc facite in meam commemorationem.
Memores igitur mortis et resurrectionis eius, tibi, Domine, hoc sacri+ficium vi+vum et sanc+tum, panem + vitae et calicem + salutis offerimus, gratias agentes quia nos dignos habuisti astare coram te et tibi ministrare.
Et supplices deprecamur ut Cor+poris et San+guinis Christi participes + a Spiritu Sancto congregemur in unum.
Recordare, Domine, pro quibus tibi hanc oblationem offerimus. Memento Ecclesiae tuae toto orbe diffusae, ut eam in caritate perficias una cum Papa nostro N. et Episcopo nostro N. et universo clero et omni populo sancto tuo.
[Memento famuli tui (famulae tuae) N., quem (quam) (hodie) ad te ex hoc mundo vocasti. Concede, ut, qui (quae) complantatus (complantata) fuit similitudini mortis Filii tui, simul fiat et resurrectionis ipsius.]
Memento etiam fratrum nostrorum, qui in spe resurrectionis dormierunt, omniumque in tua miseratione defunctorum, et eos in lumen vultus tui admitte.
Omnium nostrum, quaesumus, miserere (tunsio pectus), ut cum beata Dei Genetrice Virgine Maria, beato Ioseph, eius Sponso, beatis Apostolis (cum Sancto N.) et omnibus Sanctis, qui tibi a saeculo placuerunt, quorum intercessione perpetuo apud te confidimus adiuvari, aeternae vitae mereamur esse consortes, et te laudemus et glorificemus per Filium tuum Iesum Christum, per quem mundo bona cuncta largiris.
Per ip+sum, et cum ip+so, et in ip+so, est tibi Deo Patri + omnipotenti, in unitate Spiritus + Sancti, omnis honor et gloria per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
- 17 June, 2015
- Jonathan Dandridge said...
Joshua, It could be argued that the change to the Mysterium Fidei, not only moving it out of the Hic Est Enim Calix but also adding the people's memorial acclamation, is a more radical change than just adding/deleting/modifying a couple of words.
- 17 June, 2015
- Joshua said...
When somewhat tongue in cheek I compared the changes of 1474 and 1969 I was, of course, being ironic!
But it remains the case that silly people who say the Canon is not the Canon because of the changes made are being foolish.
The "mysterium fidei" should not have been moved, of course: but it is a phrase, and a very hard phrase to understand in its context, that is found in no other consecration formula, Eastern or Western: its lamentable removal was hardly invalidating nor heretical, though certainly disrespectful and most inadvisable.
The Memorial Acclamation is completely alien to the Roman Rite, and, if to be inserted anywhere, would be better placed after the Anamnesis.
It is much to be desired that, at each elevation, the priest and people cry "Dominus meus et Deus meus", or "Amen" at the least.
And, in the EF, the singing of an elevation motet (if the Sanctus and Benedictus not be polyphonic), such as above all the venerable "Ave verum", but also the "O salutaris hostia" (still used in France), or the "Pie Jesu" at Requiems, would be a marvellous restoration of devout mediæval practice.
- 17 June, 2015


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Monday, September 3, 2012
Sewn {Obsessively}: Zippered Pouches
Nonetheless, I made slow-but-sure progress, assembly-line style, with a dozen zippered pouches.
My present closet is pretty stocked now, wouldn't you say?! When I ordered the 8" zippers for my sons' pencil pouches, I added in ten white 5" zippers to make more of the smaller pouches using that great upholstery cotton, including the purple and green version I bought at the same time I bought the camo fabric for the pencil pouches. The purple and green pencil pouch is mine, for bringing supplies back and forth to the art class I'll be teaching at our homeschool co-op. I'll be making my daughter a pink pencil pouch, with a black zipper, so it wasn't included in this assembly line, which used white thread. Not shown is one more camo pencil pouch, which has already been mailed to my nephew, who had trouble finding non-girly pencil pouches to fulfill his school supply list. But that leaves ten small pouches for the present closet, and I adore them all.
As I said, these were sewn assembly-line style, with the last step being hand-sewing the turning opening in the lining. Up until this point I've just run them through the machine, but I had eleven to do, and my husband and college football were upstairs, while the sewing machine is downstairs. It's been a while since I sat and hand-sewed; it's so enjoyable. I'm feeling the need for some hand-sewing or embroidery projects soon.
I'm not quite sure I'm done with the zippered pouches yet. I'm still not perfect with the zippers. I'm much better at sewing them in, and a top-stitched zipper makes me nearly smug with satisfaction. I don't always sew the sides perfectly evenly though, which leaves a bit of a jog where the zipper ends don't meet quite exactly. So I suppose there is nothing to do but practice some more, yes?!
And...happy September! My anniversary AND my birthday fall in September, which I suppose will (maybe?) help take some of the sting out of the end of summer. It went too fast...
7 comments:
- Jill said...
They're beautiful. And thank you for the pencil pouch. I will look for it. At our mailbox. Two miles down the road. Really.
- September 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- lamina@do a bit said...
Oh dear not a good idea to nap during precious craft time... ha ha ha! The pouches look great! I'm still obsessed with making them... it's so satisfying hey :)
- September 3, 2012 at 11:54 PM
This is why I never took the advice to "sleep while the baby sleeps" - that's my precious craft time!
I can only dream of a well - stocked handmade present box! These are a great addition to it.
- September 5, 2012 at 3:21 AM
- Michelle said...
Cuuuuute!!!! I love them! See, I have had no urge to sew anything whatsoever lately, but now I want a stocked gift closet!
- September 5, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Donna Lee said...
They are perfect. I haven't sewn anything since Christmas. My husband is waiting for the shop apron I promised him but it was too hot all summer to work with the denim and quilting materials. I'll get to it soon.
- September 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- helen said...
i'm gearing up to learn to do this - I bought a pattern earlier in the week with lots of good zipper instruction in it - and I think doing it assembly line style makes such good sense!
I'm waiting for the bus at 7:45am too and HAVE to be showered and dressed as I'm on my way to work. Getting someone other than myself ready by then is just so foreign to me - unless you count all the work I do with the chickens before I leave!!
- September 6, 2012 at 11:32 PM
- Cameron said...
Hey, in my book....those little quirky things about handmade items just makes them all the more special!
Yes, practice will help....but you are not a machine and they will continue to be as unique as you are :)
I love them!
If you ever get a mermaid fabric....I would love to own one!
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That's my kind of card...cute and CAS :0)
The PS leaves look just perfect for your wild creature.
Jenny x
This is absolutely adorable!
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- Preferred payment of dues is by cash, certified cheque, personal cheque, debit or e-Transfer.
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We both get a bit impatient and we put our tomatoe and peppers plants in a raised bed more than a month before the usual last feeezee date.
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In the bed is onions.
In the greenhouse, peppers and more tomatoes are just getting started
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Then we got some rain,
Actually a lot of rain. We didn't have any damage from it and all the plants seem fine now and just enjoying their big drink.


text: As the daughter of a ship's captain, I've been on some strange voyages in my time. But our passage to Misrata in late June had to be the craziest.Cameraman Nick and I had boarded the 60-foot tug boat Ezzarouk with camera kit, flak jackets and plenty of fruit. We were heading to Misrata, where fruit was in short supply, and you've got to get your five-a-day. But fruit was the least of our worries as we rounded the port buildings in Benghazi.There was the ship's crew, loading boxes and boxes of ammunition and weapons, including very dodgy looking homemade RPG launchers. The Ezzarouk was fit to bursting point – a veritable floating munitions dump. Our security consultant took one look at the boat and said with a wry smile, "Do you want me to do a risk assessment of that lot?"This was not a voyage to contemplate what could go wrong. They passed us the crew list to add our names. Nick was number 13. I could see my superstitious father shaking his head in despair. He was once given the number 13 as he waited to sail through the Suez Canal. He insisted they change it to 12b, but the die was cast. He picked up a local pilot who was a little inebriated to navigate them through the Canal, and the ship ran aground. The damage forced them to return to port and head to dry dock for repairs. My father was convinced it was down to the number 13. We cast off and headed west across Sirte Bay. The captain suggested we get comfortable on the deck next to the bridge for the next 20 hours. At least we couldn't see the cargo from that vantage point. Our course took us north of a coastline still in the throes of conflict. Brega, Ras Lanuf and Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte were well over the horizon, but not far from our thoughts. The English-speaking skipper said he had done this voyage more than ten times before. He talked of how Gaddafi's troops had shelled them on an earlier trip, missing the tug by about 10 metres. On another passage, he said, a crew from a NATO warship had boarded them and found their cargo. NATO had tried to turn them back to Benghazi, but after frantic calls to NATO HQ they eventually relented. The Ezzarouk hasn't been stopped since that day.At one point, we hear NATO ships on the radio asking Libyan boats to identify themselves. There may be an international arms embargo, but NATO appears to be giving the rebel gun-running boats safe passage from Benghazi to Misrata. We couldn't have asked for a friendlier crew. We were served pasta for dinner, fresh espresso coffee, fruit juice and biscuits. As darkness fell, I curled up in a sleeping bag on some space at the back of the bridge for a couple of hours, my sleep broken only by sporadic cries of 'Allahu Akbar' from the crew changing watches. I woke to find some kind crewman had placed a blanket over me as I slept. Nick had kipped out on deck – tucked into a blanket with a beanie pulled down low over his head. He'd slept under the stars. It sounds idyllic, but his mattress soaked up plenty of sea-water, so his slumber was a bit damp.The NATO radio traffic got busier as we made out Misrata on the horizon. But the harbour was quiet. Earlier boats had dodged a barrage of Gaddafi artillery, but we were lucky. We eased into the port to the sight of wrecked ships still moored along the quayside and warehouses damaged beyond repair. The captain said goodbye and wished us much luck in his home town. He was heading off to see his family before returning to Benghazi for another shipment – vital supplies if Misrata is to keep pushing Gaddafi's forces away from their city.  Africa


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Tatkal railway tickets are inevitable for very last minute or instant plans. It is the most preferred method of booking tickets for travelling via train. Tatkal Booking begins one day before (reduced from 2 days) exclusive of the day of journey, e.g., for a journey on third of any month, bookings would open at 10 am on second; though the day of journey is definite as the day of chart preparation. For that reason, if the train begins on the 3rd day of any month, and reaches the preferred boarding station on fourth, the Tatkal booking will begin on second and not on third. Also learn about IRCTC Registration procedure here.
The Tatkal Ticket Booking Charges has been fixed as a ratio of fare at the rate of 10% of indispensable fare for second class and 30% of indispensable fare for all other classes subject to minimum and maximum charges.
Tatkal railways tickets are booked by using the government website IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation), or through an agent. Indeed, as per the recent research done by a reputed organization, IRCTC is the top travel e-commerce site in India with the maximum transaction share in the travel group. Presently, it is supposed to sell approximately 40-45,000 Tatkal train tickets between 10 am and 11 am (its 10 and 11, as all tickets are traded in one hour – actually, 45 mins), which it plans to increase up to 60-65,000 by using its new Rs. 10 crore drive for improved and upgraded servers to 64GB RAM.
There are definite things that must be remembered when booking a Tatkal ticket like as there will be a large number of people attempting to book the tickets very last minute. Thus, one must keep their browsers open before the Tatkal ticket timing begins (10 am) in order to get access to the IRCTC website. The IRCTC will be the most slothful and slowest at this time and persistence is key. Other than this, some other specific pointers are – there will be an additional charge on the tickets, an identity evidence is must when booking Tatkal tickets (like voter photo ID card/PAN card released by the Income Tax Department/student ID card released by the college or institution/UID Number or Aadhar card, etc.). One must keep in mind that only limited number of seats can be booked by this process.
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|A more relaxed start to the day for Day 5 of the Great Southern Brevet — with Michael Hoogeveen, Matt Hughes, Wendy Riach, Ian Huntsman and Thierry Jutel in Middlemarch, New Zealand.
|Chomping at the bit to get going. And to take advantage of the change in wind direction. Fingers crossed tailwind (and no rain) all the way to Hyde. — with Michael Hoogeveen, Andrew Scott, Wendy Riach and Ian Huntsman in Middlemarch, New Zealand.


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PH Education Lags Behind Others in Asia/
The Quacquarelli Symonds University ranking released this week shows the Philippines lagging behind other Asian countries in education, reports Manila Standard Today. The country's top five universities managed to be included in the top 300 schools in Asia but fared poorly against many educational institutions in other Asian countries. The University of the Philippines improved to 67th place in 2013 from 68th place in 2012, but Ateneo de Manila University dropped 23 places from 86th in 2012 to 109th in 2013. The University of Santo Tomas fell two places from 148th in 2012 to 150th in 2013.


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Since my class ended things on a somewhat crazy note in December, I've decided bribing my kiddos back into good behavior habits will be a great way to start the new year.
Does that sound good to you, too?
GREAT! I have a FREEBIE For you over on my blog.
I'm looking forward to using New Years and resolutions as a tool to get my kiddos back on board. ;)
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Wishing you all a great weekend and a happy Valentine's day!
I know a lot people think Valentines is silly, Hunter and I won't really be participating because we have friends coming into town and it's his dads birthday. We go on lots of dates normally so I think I'll be ok missing the long waits at restaurants :) We also have our local seafood festival which always proves to be a good time with delicious food! I am definitely excited to get through this workday.
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William Shakespeare is often called the world's greatest playwright. He wrote comedies, tragedies and historical plays in England in the last part of the 16th and the early 17th century.
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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a businessman and the town's mayor. His mother came from a family that owned land near Stratford. William had three younger brothers and two younger sisters.
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Like other boys of middle-class families, William attended a grammar school in Stratford where he got a good education and also learned Latin. When William was 18 he married AnneHathaway. They had three children, first Susanna and then twins, a son named Hamnet and a daughter named Judith. Hamnet died when he was 11. We don't really know what William didduring the following years but in 1592 he went to London to work as a writer and actor. It was a difficult job and only the best found work in London. From 1592 to 1594 the Black Death Spread across England. Many public places were closed and plays couldn't be performed either. Shakespeare spent these years writing sonnets and poems.
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When the theatres opened up again in 1594 Shakespeare joined the best acting company of the country —Lord Chamberlain's Men. It had the best actors, the best writers and the most famous theatre—the Globe. The Globe was a huge amphitheatre without a roof. The seats were curved around a stage that was built on many levels.
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Shakespeare and his fellow actors were responsible for everything in the Globe theatre. They owned the building and the costumes, they wrote the scripts and they also shared the profits that they made. The actors and writers of the theatre worked together successfully for many years.
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In the twenty years that he worked on stage Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.
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- Tragedies are plays that show the downfall of a main character. His most famous tragedies are Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. - Comedies are funny plays that have a happy ending most of the time. A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor are among the most popular. - Historical plays are dramas about the lives of some of England's most powerful kings like Henry IV or Richard II.
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William Shakespeare retired from the theatre in 1610 and went back to his home town Stratford, where he lived until his death in 1616.
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At that time the people of England did not know that their country's greatest poet and playwright had died. They thought of him only as a popular actor and writer.


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text: Loretta K. Valentine, 71, 648 Hickam Drive, Melbourne, died Friday. Born in New York, she moved to Melbourne from Weedsport, N.Y., in 1957. She was a retired registered nurse and was a member of First United Methodist Church, Melbourne. She was a member of Order of the Eastern Star, the American Legion auxiliary, AARP, and South Brevard Senior Citizens Association. Survivors: daughters, Donna Perrin, Joan Payne, both of Atlanta; son, John, Atlanta; sister, Lavonne Shaylor, Middleburgh, N.Y.; six grandchildren. Brownlie & Maxwell Funeral Home, Melbourne.


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Even the smallest indoor gardens can bring life to an apartment - not to mention fresh edible plants. NativeCast offers make-it-yourself planters that let city dwellers flex their DIY muscles (along with their green thumbs). We tried out a heart-shaped kit, which includes everything you need to make your own green concrete planter to grow flourishing herbs!
NativeCast's biodegradable boxes provide everything you need to create your own indoor garden. The boxes are shaped like hearts, squares, and round shapes, and inside you'll find a cement compound, fertilized dirt, a stirring spoon, seeds, and directions for making your own planter.
The first step is to wet the mold box, then the cement pack, which is made from natural sand, coniferous mulch, clam shells and recycled plastic and paving material. Press the wet cement mix inside the lining of the box, then let it dry for at least six hours. Once the cement is dry, you can peel away the cardboard casing.
Next it's time to fill the hardened planter with the provided dirt and mulch, and to plant the packet of thyme seeds. Add your new handmade planter to your window garden and give it plenty of water and sunlight.
In no time, the thyme seeds will begin to sprout, and soon you'll have your own window herb garden!
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New Analytical Model Transforms Business Intelligence
Bangalore: Many business organizations have adopted Business Intelligence to ease up the work. It has been reported that activities that could take up to 18 months to complete, could now be completed in less than two days. Analysts have claimed this to be a dramatic transformation in business intelligence and data analytics practices in many business organizations.
Maryland based CareFirst supplemented its CA Technologies Project Management Product with a technology from Palo Alto, Calif. based QlikTech. This has saved the company a total amount of $10 million in various project costs apart from reducing the number of contractors by 25%.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in its report said "[The] new analytics taps the expertise of the broad business ecosystem to address the lack of responsiveness from central analytics units. " They further added, the new analytics "does that by giving access and tools to those who act on the findings."
Jaikumar Vijayan, in his article on infoworld.com stated that the transformation was initiated by two trends viz. the data explosion caused by cloud computing, mobile computing, and social media. Inexpensive hardware, memory, and storage technologies have made it easy for companies to collect large, varied, and fast-growing data sets and the other trend id the increasing availability of tools that allow companies to more easily aggregate and analyze large data sets.
CareFirst can obtain data from various sources in a fraction of time and run various analyses at a much faster speed which was not possible with a traditional BI approach. Carol Church, director of the project management office at Maryland-based CareFirst said that with the QlikView, analysts can compare data elements and look for associations between them on the fly and on an ad hoc basis.
The CementBloc, an organization that helps drug companies improve their marketing and communication strategies is another business organization that is taking advantage of the capabilities of BI by using the Tibco's Sportfire analytics platform.
Ira Haimowitz, Executive Vice president, Intelligence and Analytics at CementBloc said, "With traditional BI tools, you have to know what you are going to predict. You need to know what you are going to predict by customer segment, or by geography, and map that out to a program, and then you generate queries and reports"
"Twenty years ago, there was this heavy emphasis on requirements-gathering because you wanted to precalculate all the answers. You needed to work with users upfront to get a feel for all the questions they would likely ask. It led to a service-heavy implementation model for BI projects," said Anthony Deighton, CTO at QlikTech.
PwC in its report also noted that the New Analytics "is about detecting opportunities and threats you hadn't anticipated, or finding people you didn't know existed who could be your next customers. It's about learning what's really important, rather than what you thought was important. It's about identifying, committing, and following through on what your enterprise must change most."
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) has postponed a planned recall of its Fiesta ST cars in China, the world's top auto market, due to delays in the delivery of spare parts for repairs, state media Xinhua reported on Friday.
The recall, involving 435 imported cars produced from Feb. 15, 2013 to Nov. 11, 2014, will start on Nov. 20, more than two months behind schedule, it said citing the company.
The vehicles will be pulled from the market due to defects in the engine cooling system, which could lead to leaks of coolant and a risk of engine fire, it said.
While the scale of the recall is small compared with other incidents, the issue is the latest misstep in China by the No. 2 U.S. automaker.
In August, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said Ford would recall 37,734 Explorer SUVs due to steering wheel dust cover problems.
According to the Xinhua report, the company said owners should contact dealers as soon as the recall starts to have the component replaced.
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The St. Margaret's girls' soccer team, which features six players from Newport Beach, won the CIF Southern Section Division VI title Friday and is still alive in the CIF State Division III regional playoffs.
St. Margaret's senior goalie Michelle Lancaster, senior defender Tory Davidson, junior forward Katie Donahue, junior defender Natalie Barbaresi and freshmen forwards Caroline Smith and Alexa Barbaresi all live in Newport Beach or CdM.
They helped the Tartans defeat San Dimas, 2-0, in the Division VI final Friday at Mission Viejo High.
Alexa Barbaresi assisted on the first goal as St. Margaret's won its first CIF title in five years.
The Tartans (27-2-1) haven't lost in 25 games after winning at Central Valley Christian of Visalia, 2-1, in overtime Tuesday in the first round of the Division III regional playoffs.


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To continue on the "Flood" saga.....
We found a house on the East Hill that we liked and put in an offer. It was accepted. Before the economic downturn, I would not have been able to afford this house. But the house is really cool. Not only do I get a gaming room (aka the "Bonus Room"), I also get a workshop along with part of the 3 car garage to put my Radial Arm saw, routing table and other large power tools that will create a lot of wood dust and make it easy to clean up.
The workshop is really nice with a bench with power and shelving already in place. There is a place for my Drill press and other smaller power tools. Once I have everything in place I'll post pictures.
I'm jazzed because I can now, supposedly, have the room and ability to create all the terrain I want and actually have a place to paint mini's etc. This will allow me to finish the mini trays that I had been posting pictures of and I am hoping to actually make a tutorial that I can post on YouTube.
So stay tuned to this space for further updates. (Just an FYI we should be moving over the US Thanksgiving Day Holiday.) I should be posting more frequently (but then don't I always promise that? :D ).
Monday, November 9, 2009
Saga So Far
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A breach of sensitive or proprietary data can have costly legal, financial, and public relations consequences for a company. Unfortunately, due to constantly changing security threats, insulating a company's valuable data from a breach can be extremely challenging. Even popular, new technologies—such as cloud computing—can raise data control and safety concerns.
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|Tuna puff with carrot salad
Food Diary (March 28, 2012)
|Tuna puff with carrot salad
I would totally try that squid sausage. I find squid ink such a novelty :PReplyDelete
I would try it also, for sureDelete
What an interesting ingredient: squid sausage!ReplyDelete
I know, never knew it existedDelete
You're right about tuna and carrot not being a common combination. I've only heard of it from Harumi Kurihara's cookbook which I have and sure enough, Sissi's recipe was an adaptation of her's! :)ReplyDelete
That squid sausage is so striking! :oReplyDelete
That is a very interesting concept with the chickens. I have friends with chickens and they feed them all their scraps and it certainly reduces their waste. Our generation is so wasteful compared with a few generations ago and I think we should go back to how our grandparents lived and (where possible) grow our own fruits, vegetables and keep chickens for eggs. That sausage looks very interesting and nothing like what I see in my butcher's window xxReplyDelete
Feed scraps and get eggs in return. Not a bad deal at all, except for the chicken maintenance bit. But if they get too annoying you just eat them!Delete
Nah, no need to be worried. You just need to get more hobbies :)
That squid sausage looks good, in an arty-farty sort of way. I'm not a fan of squid ink. Had squid ink pasta in Italy and it was just eh.
Chickens eat rubbish? I'd say give them a couple of goats. They'll eat all the tin cans and litter away ... serious rubbish.
Your tuna puff looks excellent, I really must make it one day! I think such situations are simply magical and it always makes me happy (so maybe I should be worried? no!!! I don't think so). The same food preference mood between bloggers ;-) Thanks for the link :-)
The squid sausage looks very appetising! (I'm not joking, I love squid and even the black colour doesn't scare me).
The chicken idea is excellent; but I'm sure some people might eat them shortly after they receive the chickens... Maybe goats would be a better choice? Many people don't like goat meat.
Don't be worried, not now, unless it starts to happen everyday:)
The downside with goats is that they don't lay as many eggs as chicken so the households don't get much in return!
Haha! You are right! Goats don't lay eggs alas.
(By the way, excuse-me my comment above (about H. Kurihara) but I was worried people might think I pretend it's my recipe ;-) )
No problems, no confusion, it was quite clear that it wasn't your recipe
Goats - no eggs but milk. I guess those who want milk can choose goats:)
squid sausage? What! I have got to taste this to believe itReplyDelete


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I originally split bra building into 2 parts because I just did not have enough time to complete it by the post deadline. Well, I still haven't finished it. I had a full Bellydance weekend and time with the Husband Person. Building a bra wasn't exactly my top priority. There is another exciting development happening in my household tomorrow that has kept me busy but I'll won't spoil the surprise for that yet.
Part 2 of Task 2 is covering the bra cups with one (or more) layers of reinforcing fabric to give us a smoother and sturdier surface before covering the bra in base fabric. For this you can use interfacing, buckram, canvas, denim, felt, or an equivalent. I completed 1 of the cups before writing this post and I will complete the second before bed tonight. These photos should give you an idea of my progress thus far.
I used up all of the old shirt fabric in the side straps. To reinforce the cups I used denim from some old jeans. I have extended the bottom piece over the side strap giving the cup-strap connection even more stability.
Bottom of cup covered with denim using simple basting and all-purpose sewing thread.
Instead of using a dart I covered the top of the cup with 2 pieces joined in the middle so there would be no bulk under the seam.
Inside view, I chose not to overlap the cup edge with the denim. Overlapping at this stage is up to you and the type of "interfacing" you use. I will however overlap the edge when I cover the bra with base fabric.
View of cup's upper edge. The waviness will disappear as construction continues.
Stitching along lower edge of cup along underwire.
The covered cup is starting to hold a better shape already.
Supplies needed for Task 3: Cover Bra Base with Fabric (online Sept. 5th)
- Base Fabric
- All purpose sewing thread
- All purpose sewing needle
- Scissors
- Pins
- Tailor's chalk/fabric marker
- Thimble
Want to see ALL of the pictures from my bra build? Check out the slide show below. You can join the Flickr Sew Along group and add your own at http://www.flickr.com/groups/bellydancesewalong/. I am so excited to see imposterpockets has already posted to the group page!
Good luck and have fun!