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Incidentally, the picture associated with this blog is of an EDL march that took place in Dewsbury in June 2012. When I typed "The Real Dewsbury News" into Google, the first two links Google threw back were the twitter account and facebook page of The Real Dewsbury News… the third was the facebook page associated with the EDL. The picture used by The "Real" Dewsbury News on the article in question can be found at the bottom of this page.
NOTE: As an aside to the contributors and editors of the aforementioned publication, I could have embedded hyperlinks on the big words, since your grasp of the English language is, at best, around the Primary School level, but I just didn't have time, so I suggest you take your time and purchase a dictionary before you read this. I also note that you are unable to understand grammar, so you just ignore the squiggly lines that sometimes accompany a word and we can cover that another day, yeah? Amusing, is it not dear readers, that these so called writers of the news cannot get to grips with their mother tongue and yet expect us to be dictated to by them on the subject of international politics?
You may be wondering why I am attacking, and rather rudely at that, such an insignificant independent organisation*. The reason is because I am absolutely fucking livid at the authors. It has taken me a week to calm down, although the break has allowed me some reflection and has given me time to resist the urge to simply blurt out something along the lines of: "Boycott The Real Dewsbury News – for it is misinformed, biased sensationalism put about by ignorant, grammatically incorrect cunts!" I wouldn't want to make such bold, crude statements without qualifying myself and name-calling isn't going to get us to the root of the problem, now is it? So I will not call them boorish twats and similar vulgarities, for that is mere opinion; but I will say this as fact: they censored me. And I didn't like it. Not one bit.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
The other day, while blundering around facebook**, I came across what I believed to be a something posted by a friend. I was curious; it appeared that the friend was under the impression that a Muslim holy day was somehow about him. In fact, not just about him: about all of the non-Muslim community in Dewsbury. Which struck me as a rather odd point of view. Why on earth would any Muslim on a holy day give a flying fuck what a non-Muslim was up to? So I commented that Muhammad's Birthday, for that was the holy day in question, was probably just like Christmas except that they were only closing one road in Dewsbury for a couple of hours rather than taking over every bloody shop on the high street for six weeks. I also made the point that it was unlikely the march down said road in Dewsbury was a direct threat, and was more feasibly an excuse to have a bit of a street party and enjoy whatever respite from work Muslims may be awarded for such celebrations. You know, like we (as in the friend and I) would have done a few weeks earlier with our respective families. On Christmas Eve, for example, were we quaffing beer and mumbling and grumbling in the pub about how we would show those pesky Muslim with our bucks fizz and brightly wrapped gifts? Were we bollocks! We couldn't have given two shits about what the Muslim community was up to as long as it wasn't about to start trying to convert us or attempting to harm us in any way. Even less dramatic than not caring: we were completely indifferent to it. And I'm willing to bet that the Muslim community was as equally apathetic about us.
My friend saw it as a march against the non-Muslims, but I could honestly see no reason for that assumption, given that the march wasn't a march of protest, but a march of faith. He had absolutely nothing but a gut feeling to go on, which I wasn't prepared to trust as gospel. I like my facts to be cold and steely and hard… and maybe a bit minty.
I was called naïve, which seemed a bit superfluous to the argument and gave me no further insight into why my friend (and, it seemed, quite a few others) believed that the celebration of a Muslim holy day was a direct threat to their safety. I conceded that I might be naïve and that he was entitled to that opinion (not that it had ever been expressed about me before), but then endeavoured to get the conversation back on track. I said that I could possibly be wrong of course, but that it was a bit extreme to assume that we were under attack without further information than: a road in Dewsbury will be closed for a couple of hours for a march. In addition to the march, the road was also closing for waterworks and a 10k race, but that wasn't at all the focus; apparently fun runners and Yorkshire water are less scary than people with different beliefs.
I informed the group that I worked with some Muslims, considered them friends and was pretty sure they didn't have any desire to do me ill. I also said that if, when the march ended, war was declared against the non-Muslims then I would most definitely reconsider my stance on the issue; but having nothing to go on other than the bare bones of the thing, I wasn't about to make scare-mongering assumptions about something of which I knew next to nothing.
Then a brown face appeared next to a comment and I thought: "Huzzah! For we have our v.own Muslim right here to ask. Now we're cooking with gas." His comment was simply: "Great day :)"
Immediately, that comment was deleted.
I commented: "Um… you deleted the Asian guy's comment. Couldn't you just have asked him what it all means to him?"
The next time I checked back to see what the response was, my comments had gone too, and there was a warning from The "Real" Dewsbury News saying that we had to "keep it clean," because people were going onto the site to take screen shots of our conversation. I'm still not entirely sure why screen shots would be a problem – I was having a conversation in an open forum, after all. They could screen shot away, as far as I was concerned. In fact, here you are (please note that my comments are no longer there).
Now, as you are probably aware, I swear like a sodding trooper, and if you have a problem with that, then you can sod off! But, at that moment in time, I was v.calm; I had been on my best behaviour because I hadn't known the friend with whom I was conversing on the matter v.long, he's one of my partner's best friends, and I was genuinely not riled until this point. What I didn't know until yesterday, was that the The "Real" Dewsbury News contacted this friend in a bid to keep me quite, which enraged me all over again.
I was rather taken aback by my censorship at first. I wondered briefly whether some of the longer words had confused the editors and they'd been under the impression that I was insulting them because they'd been unable to understand plain English.
Of course, this wasn't the case. I had been excised, as in some Orwellian nightmare. Except that this was a public facebook page in the year 2013; we don't live in a police state or a dystopian future-world where history is rewritten willy nilly and people are punished for speaking out. I was also blocked from making further comments. So, the comments ran as The "Real" Dewsbury News wanted them to – people winding each other into that mob-mentality because there was no room for mediation or debate. With no alternative way of thinking to diffuse situations like this, people can create a buttress for whatever method of ethnic culling they believe is somehow necessary. Whether you're fighting others for a religion or a race, it's all the same – it's pure hatred channelled into a weak excuse to fight, and the opposition could be anyone. If you're an angry person and you have to blame others for it, then you will – whether that censure is violent, verbal or internal – and it doesn't matter who is on the receiving end as long as you can bally well hate them. It's Pakistani Muslims at the minute; it might be the Chinese next decade, or the Sikhs, or whoever is being surreptitiously portrayed as the "baddie" through certain media vents and channelled into our systems by media osmosis. As in the novel, 1984, the masses are controlled by what they see on a screen – one day being told that they are at war with one country, and the next believing themselves to have always been at war with another. They love Big Brother (they have to love him) and hate Goldstein; daily screaming hatred at the image of this man whom they have never met and have been told to hate. The hatred is no less real for being subliminally implanted in their minds. But I digress; the media portrayals are just one aspect of it. Having one-sided reports and articles on your side only makes you blameless, in your eyes. But in reality it doesn't make you blameless: it makes you blind and obtuse, and your subconscious should keep you awake at night.
Now, I had had an inkling, because I wasn't born yesterday, that this paper may have a bias towards the white majority. It does, after all, advertise itself as the paper for the English community of Dewsbury (I believe that they specifically meant the white English community, given that we have rather a lot of English Muslims in this day and age). I had also had a hunch that what I was saying wasn't going to be particularly popular. But, as I said: nothing I wrote was offensive; it was clean, succinct and open minded. I can't prove it to you because I was deleted, but you can make your own mind up – I'm not the one trying to quash the opinions of others. In addition, nothing that I wrote was pro-Islam. It certainly wasn't anti-Islam, but all I had actually asked was why the people making comments had seen fit to go into panic mode about something that would be over and done with in a couple of hours and would only affect them if they happened to be driving down that particular street at that particular time and didn't have the brain capacity to take an alternative route.
The friend went on to say, because funnily enough he hadn't been blocked, that he wouldn't have asked the Muslim guy (also blocked) what the holy day meant to him because of all the corruption in the Islamic faith. Which was also a bizarre thing to say, because unless he knew something that I didn't about the Asian guy who made the comment, then that Asian guy was just an average bloke. And unless you're someone way up at the crooked top, you are also the victim of corrupt society. We all are. Show me organised religion and / or politics and I'll show you corruption.
Oh, you want examples? Ok:
1. Catholic Church. The pope covered up the fact that several hundred priests had been tearing little boys' arseholes apart. Are you going to tar everyone of the Catholic faith with that brush? Vast swathes of the Irish are Catholic, for a start, so if you applied the same logic that these troglodytes apply to Muslims, the implication would be that Ireland is populated by nonces because some sick fuck kept his gob shut instead of doing the decent thing.
2. The Media. Phone hacking.
3. Church of England. Do I even need to start? A religion that was pushed to the forefront so that some fat, horny king could divorce his older wife and fuck a younger one.
4. The Conservative Party. Sir Peter Viggers spent taxpayers' money on a duck house not so long ago. I've never been a fan of the conservatives, but I'm not going to immediately spurn someone just for voting for the right wing prats. I'm pretty sure some of my friends vote conservative; we may be on disparate sides of the middle, but I love my friends all the same.
5. The Labour Party. Received a million pound donation from the Formula One driver, Bernie Eccleston, then the Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco producers. The money was sheepishly returned when all this was found out. I know that at least one of my friends is all about Labour, and she's as straight up as they come. Just because she votes Labour does not make her approve of the sleaze aspect, and it certainly doesn't make her sleazy herself.
The average person cannot be judged on the scumminess of those who represent the culture in which they live, because that average person hates the corruption as much as the people outside of that society. I'm willing to bet that your average, hard-working, decent Muslim detests the extreme beardy-weirdies giving them a bad name as much as your average, hard-working, decent non-Muslim hates the violent, extreme opinions of the intellectually repressed. Or as much as your average feminist resents the extreme opinions of a woman who calls herself a feminist merely because she hates men (which, incidentally, makes her just as bad as any woman-hating man and makes feminism look like a hate crime). Or your average, hard-working Brit who likes a drink, but abhors the pissed-up groups of hooligans that stalk the city streets at night terrorising others. And just as your average, civilised Catholic finds the acts of the IRA insufferable.
Muslims don't kill people – extremists do. An extremist in any regard is a scary person, because an extremist believes that there is one way of life and that that way is their way and if you don't agree, if you are not exactly like them, they will harm you whether you impinge upon their existence or not. The IRA and Al Qaeda are official terrorist groups that would, given the chance, silence everyone who doesn't hold the same values. The BNP is a terrorist group posing as a political party (believe me: I have known some BNP voters and what they like to do for fun) and if placed in a position of power would happily go to work to create a police state.
Muslims are not just Muslims; they're people: they are fathers and mothers and artists and comedians and fashion victims and depressives and optimists and so many other things besides. I am an atheist, but I am not just an atheist. I am working class, but I am not just working class. I am a feminist, but I am not just a feminist. Nobody is ever defined by one belief or act.
One of the Muslim girls I work with has the most amazing, dry sense of humour imaginable; she cracks me up whenever I talk to her. She is also exceptionally intelligent, quick-witted and beautiful.
One of my Muslim mates will shag anything in a skirt and has a backlog of anecdotes that could entertain you for hours. Every single time he comes back from visiting family in Pakistan, he is interrogated in the airport and worries because he has to say he's going to Leeds… "I was like: 'Ohhhhhh fuck: it's where the suicide bombers were from'." He was the one to stand up to a colleague who thrust his face into the breasts of another colleague at the Christmas party and expertly diffuse the situation without causing violence or embarrassment. He is a wicked cricketer and footballer and will do anything for anyone.
Another Muslim colleague of mine will not use his real name and goes by a western one instead. He is the laddiest lad I've ever met, which irritates the life out of me, but he's only young, bless his cottons. He gets wasted, he throws himself around dance floors, he bangs on about which chicks he wants to bone, he does everything he can to fit in with western society. And yet a few months ago, on a night out in London with mates he had his head kicked in by a gang of yobs. He has had extensive corrective surgery on his face and needs to go back for more, and there was a v.strong possibility that he would lose the sight in one eye, which, thankfully, has returned. He is twenty two years old.
I have to mention, having gleaned more info this v.day, that the lad in the above scenario is actually Hindi. I did think it was odd that a guy with Indian parents would be Muslim, but since you do get a few Muslims in India, I didn't really question it. However, I doubt the fact that he is a Hindu would stop a white supremacist from beating ten shades of shit out of him.
Here's the rub: I am not pro-Islam. I am not in favour of any religion***. I don't like the racism that religion breeds, or the misogyny, or the cliques, or the general bigotry and hatred. But I do not think that anyone should be persecuted for having a religion. As long as you're doing others no harm and not foisting it on me, you can go ahead and believe in your imaginary friends and everything that pertains thereto. Knock yourself out. I won't be bothering you about your beliefs as long as you don't bother me with them. You can reiki the shit out of yourself, if you like, just as long as you don't intend to hurt anyone with it. You just pop your homeopathic cure into your mouth and feel better for it, if it works for you; it doesn't work for me, but who am I to judge? Confess every time you have a bad thought, if you must, but don't expect judgement from me. Don't want to eat bacon because you believe it to be dirty? All the more of the yummy pig-meat for me. I confess that I'm tremendously upset by automatic genital mutilation to male (and particularly female) children, but if you must, do not touch me or mine†.
There are, of course, cultural differences that need to be addressed. As in the case of Adil Rashid, the eighteen year old who was recently allowed a reprieve from a prison sentence because he "didn't know it was illegal to have sex with a thirteen year old girl." He had been taught that women had "no more worth than a lollipop dropped on the ground" in a strict Islamic school. Naturally, this gets my goat. I don't like that it happens in other countries, but I am v.lucky to live in this country, where women are allowed their freedom and basic human rights… now. So when that sort of thing happens here, it enrages me that it was allowed to happen. I absolutely agree that Muslim parents should have the right to bring their kids up as Muslim themselves, but those kids should also be taught to conform to British basic human laws and to understand the worth that the British law places on our women (even if it is severely lacking in some regards). It is the responsibility of our school boards to ensure that our schools teach children appropriately, and it is the responsibility of Muslim parents and Imams to ensure that their children obey the rules of this country if they are to reside here. It is also the responsibility of the immigration officials to make sure that people taught abroad understand our laws and ethics before allowing them into the country. I'm not talking about us being pussies here; I'm not saying that England should be a free-for-all playground for people to use and abuse; I'm just suggesting that we conduct ourselves with decorum and compassion, like the civilised people we should all be.
Currently, the Muslim integration into British society is not without its pitfalls: the frequency of trafficking of white girls by groups of Muslim men, for example, which has recently come to light. I heard a young, English Muslim speaking on Radio 4 recently who said that the opinion amongst some of the older Muslims is that "white women are asking to be raped" where the majority of the younger Muslims don't believe this at all. This put me in mind of our older generations who verbally persecute someone for being black or gay or female or Asian, and constantly rile the younger generations with their prejudice; like I said, Muslims are just human beings like any other when it boils down to it. To have the discriminatory opinion is intolerant; but it is one thing to believe something and quite another to act upon it. As with the issue of the equality of women: it is not yet ideal, but it is slowly improving all the time, generation upon generation. The traffickers in question should be severely punished. All human traffickers should be severely punished, and now that it has come to light, it is up to the decent members of society, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to prevent this from ever happening again by teaching children from a young age how to act accordingly.
But back to the spark that conjured my wrath. Editor of The "Real" Dewsbury News facebook page – you silence anyone who questions you wherever you can and I can only assume that your ideology would be a police state run by your most like-minded and blondest friends. But we have freedom of speech and equal rights here, and those are among the many things that make this country great. It goes hand in hand with our ability to adapt, our humanity and our multiculturalism. It's the backward ignoramuses that slow our cerebral evolution as a society that scare me more than anything. With your childishly simplistic, black and white views on which you will allow no further comment or no room for improvement you are inciting hatred, and that makes you no better than the Islamic extremists who hate you. And dude – Dewsbury is the home of hundreds of Muslims, so to exclude their voices from your articles makes The "Real" Dewsbury News, not really real in any regard.
Do you know, I wrote a little song the other day. I feel that song coming on now, although I know it to be clichéd… ahem ahem…
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitleeeeeeerrrrrrr,
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hit…
… lerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr was a fascist wanker!
Oh, I beg your pardon – that came from out of the blue.
Guys, I implore you to comment on what I've written. I appreciate that I may have allowed some grammatical or lexical errors to leak through, in which case please do let me know so that I can learn from, or learn of, the mistake and correct it.
Please do let me know if there is any aspect that you agree or disagree with. In the same vein as my typing skills, my opinions are not complete because I have in no way stopped growing and learning, or honing my views. I hope I never lose the ability to consider a contrary argument, appreciate it and perhaps, after careful consideration, absorb some of its elements. But be aware that simple name-calling will just mean that I ignore the comment… not delete it because I am not a total fucking moronic bell-end.
I hope that I haven't offended anyone (who isn't the editor, contributor or writer of The "Real" Dewsbury News) – my comments on religion should be taken with a pinch of salt††. I have no faith, but I appreciate that others do and I appreciate the importance of those beliefs to the faithful.
Did you say encore? Yes, it is a catchy tune, isn't it? Ok then… ahem ahem…
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitleeeeeeerrrrrrr,
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hit…
… lerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr was a fascist wanker!
* I may be wrong, but in the short time since being made aware of the existence of The Real Dewsbury News, I have been unable to find a hard copy of the "newspaper." I believe it to be web-based only, although I do apologise profusely if I am mistaken. I didn't realise just how insignificant this publication was either until I began to do some digging, but I've started now, so I'll finish.
** Bloody facebook!
*** Except maybe Hindu because if you're going to make some stories up about some magic people in the sky, they may as well have eight arms! That's one amazingly imaginative religion. In the Hindu religion, a cow gave birth to the world. A cow! I love it! I honestly love it. I have also adored every single Hindu I've ever met, although I haven't met many, I grant you. Lovely, gentle people, as far as I'm aware. I could be wrong, but I like to think not.
† Or I will rip your fucking heart out!
†† Apart from my comments about the pope, because, as Tim Minchin says: "… the fact remains that if you protect a single kiddie fucker / Then pope or prince or plumber, you're a fucking motherfucker." But then that is a comment on the individual, not on every catholic. In the same way that I believe Osama Bin Laden to be (to have been?) a total goddamn cock of the highest order, but don't believe that of all Muslims.
The picture that accompanied the article in question. I'm pretty sure that's not Dewsbury either. I actually couldn't find any pictures at all of the march in Dewsbury in respect of Muhammad's birthday.
On the other hand, this is another picture of an EDL march in Dewsbury…
Oh, and another. Classy…!


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Videos are easy to embed -or link. Sometimes you opt for one, and sometimes the other. I perfer to embed since it's easier for your blog followers to view it. It also adds visual interest to the blog. If there are firewall and "Net Nanny "issues a link it best, otherwise there will be this big blank space in the middle of your blog. Below are examples of Linking and Embedding.
Much to my amazement I've become a Lady Gaga fan. Granted, I am I old enough to be mother - she is younger than my daughters but I do enjoy her music. It makes me get up and move. Moving is good.
The woman excells at using Social Media and I think her commerical for Google Chrome is a masterpiece.
In where I muse & comment on on my daily life, with bits of philosphy and wry observations thrown in for good measure.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tool 3 - Embedding Videos
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Love it!! I am coming Wednesday to Panera bread for help so I can complete these. I have to bring my little monsters! See you then.
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Love it!! I am coning to Panera bread Wednesday for help with completeing these tools. I want to be done! I am bringing my little monsters. I hope they are well behaved. :)See you then.
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Monday, October 15, 2012
The Channapatna Swirl: Varnam.
5 comments:
- Дизайнер Одесса said...
Excellent selection of accessories!
- October 16, 2012 at 2:36 AM
- Deepa said...
thanks for sharing archana!
channapatna crafts are so fun and whimsical !
I have been inspired by your blog for a long time now and finally decided to take the plunge with my friend supriya into launching our own home decor blog..
wanted to leave our url here for you and your readers..
do check us out at http://aalayaminspiration.blogspot.com
- October 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM
- ASunnyYellowWindow said...
Love varnam for wonderful product design retaining that country charm. The kuruvi series is especially endearing!
- October 16, 2012 at 11:18 PM
- Miss Frangipani said...
Love Varnam's beautiful products. I really applaud people and organisations that take dying crafts and give them a new lease of life. The new products that Varnam comes up with are a testimony to the creativity and skill of the traditional workers. And it is up to us, gawkers and admirers, to put our money when our pins are are help these crafts survive. Love that piggy holder. Gorgeous!
- October 17, 2012 at 2:32 AM
These are so beautiful and whimsical. I used to have colorful toys made in Channapatna when I was a little girl. We also had Navaratri dolls from there. I do often stop by that place whenever I visit India and I am especially looking forward to visiting Varnam.
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Say what? For those unfamiliar with the word (yes, that included us), it means to outline something "in clear sharp detail." And for Kakutani, it appears to be a critical part of good writing. Though perhaps in her own work, she might consider using it a tad less?
Entire lives:
- Amit Chaudhuri "limns the trajectory of an entire life in a handful of pages."
- Alice Munro "has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages."
- Robert Olen Butler "draws upon [the] ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages."
Inner lives:
- Gish Jen "limns the inner lives of her heroes and heroines with authority and aplomb."
- Oscar Hijuelos's A Simple Habana Melody "showcases his ability . . . to limn [his characters'] inner lives with insight."
- H. W. Brands "never penetrates [Benjamin] Franklin's placid demeanor to limn his inner life."
- "None of [Nicholson] Baker's considerable talents as a writer, his ability to reinvent the mundane rituals of daily life or limn the inner lives of his characters, are on display" in The Fermata.
- Ann Beattie's early works showed her "ability to limn her characters' inner lives with the same authority she brought to descriptions of their daily routines."
- "The Whale Hunters" by Sebastian Junger "deftly limns the brutal, perilous and harrowing art of killing a 40-ton creature with a hand-thrown weapon."


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A portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was shut down for several hours Tuesday following a tractor trailer accident in Bedford County.
According to Cpl. Michael Price of the Pennsylvania State police stationed at the Bedford Turnpike Barracks, traffic was halted after a magnesium agent the driver was hauling ignited.
"The crash happened at about 7 a.m. this morning," he said Tuesday. "Then, around 11 a.m., the truck caught on fire."
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posted by:Julia Ladouceur // 09:41 AM // June 20, 2007 // Student I
The Student "I": A student conference on privacy and identity
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
October 25, 2007
Graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract for The Student "I", a student conference on October 25, 2007 at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Preceding the Revealed "I" conference hosted by researchers from On the Identity Trail, this day long student conference brings together students from around the world, selected through a peer-review process, to present research relating to identity, privacy, anonymity, technology, surveillance, and other related topics engaged by the On the Identity Trail project.
Abstracts should not exceed 1,000 words (including notes and citations). Successful abstracts will seek to make an original contribution. Inter-disciplinary submissions are encouraged. Abstracts should be accompanied with a short bio, which should include the student's program and institution of study, and an email address for correspondence. The deadline for abstracts is July 1, 2007. Send to:
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Successful applicants will be notified at the email address provided no later than August 1, 2007. Successful applicants who are unable to obtain funding from their home institution may apply for a student bursary to cover expenses relating to travel and accommodation.


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Tom Kennedy Releases "Just Play!"
Tom Kennedy newest acoustic CD, Just Play is out today. Bringing together many of the people Kennedy has performed with over the years, the album has a truly all-star cast of musicians. The core band is Renee Rosnes, Dave Weckl and George Garzone along with guests Mike Stern, Tim Hagens, Lee Ritenour, John Allred and Steve Wirts.
The CD's nine tracks feature mostly classic jazz standards, with Mike Stern's 1996 tune "One Liners" also in the mix.
Just Play! is out now on CD. Digital formats are expected to be released soon.
Here's the album's fifth track, "One Liners" – a Mike Stern tune:
Just Play! Track List
- Airegin
- Moanin'
- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Ceora
- One Liners
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Bolivia
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- What Is This Thing Called Love


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Whether you're considering selling your home or just looking to make your home more comfortable and attractive, replacing your roof is one of your best renovation options. According to the 2016 Cost vs. Value Report, replacing your roof is one of the best upgrades you can make to your home, with an expected ROI 71.7%. Depending on the type of roofing you choose (and whether or not you choose to add solar features), that ROI might increase, as prospective homebuyers are more likely to pay a premium for features like stylish metal roofing, long-lasting slate roofing or clay tile roofing, or eco-friendly solar panels.
A new roof can also provide an added level of thermal insulation to your home, easing the burden on your HVAC system (and your wallet), and keeping your home cool and comfortable throughout the year. Roofing systems like clay tiles are particularly effective at standing up to hot weather and harsh UV rays as they are created under intense heat in a kiln. Rubber roofing is another great option because of its natural ability to conduct heat. Whichever system you end up choosing, and the options are plentiful–asphalt shingles, cedar shake, spray foam roofing, metal, and rubber roofing, and more–make sure you take your local climate into account to ensure you get the maximum durability and lifespan from your roof.
Tampa Climate and your Roof
Residents of Tampa enjoy 246 sunny days a year. The Tampa Bay area has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and frequent thunderstorms. Winters are mild with freezing temperatures occurring every 2–3 years. The Tampa Bay area experiences a significant summer wet season, with nearly two-thirds of the annual precipitation (47 inches annually) falling from June through September. Tampa's proximity to two large bodies of water, Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico makes the area very humid.
Considering Tampa's year-round warm weather and propensity for severe weather, you'll want a roofing system that provides excellent protection against heavy rainfall, while also providing the best insulation possible to keep your home cool during hot Tampa summers. One great option might be a foam roof. When sprayed on a roof deck, foam roofing creates a seamless roof, leaving no room for air to escape or water to leak.
Enhance Your New Tampa Roof with a Solar Energy System
With year-round sunshine, Tampa is a prime location for solar systems. Installing solar panels or solar roof shingles on your new roof can help reduce, and possibly eliminate your monthly energy bill, all while helping you to lead a more sustainable life. Now is also a great time to invest in solar as prices have plummeted 70% since 1998. The average residential solar system in Florida costs between $15,000-25,000. Factor the price of running your home with fossil-fuel based energy over the next 25 years, and you'll find that a solar energy system provides a considerable return on your investment.
If the start-up cost of a solar energy system is still overwhelming, there may be some rebates and incentives available to make your system more affordable. For instance, you can receive a federal tax credit for your solar system–up to 30% of the cost of your system with no maximum. These credits expire on December 31, 2016 so you have to act quickly. Work with a licensed solar installer to ensure that you maximize all available rebates and incentives to get your system at the best price possible.
Roofing Permitting Process in Tampa Bay
The City of Tampa's Construction Services Division provides a one-stop shop for all construction permit and inspection needs. The division reviews construction plans, issues permits, and performs inspections to ensure building projects are built safely and in compliance with state and local codes and regulations. Through an online portal, residents can apply for permits, schedule inspections, check the status of projects in real time, and pay fees. A construction permit can be obtained for re-roofing, re-covering, or repair where the roof installation is 500 square feet or less. If the roof project is greater than 500 square feet, a construction permit, along with an owner permit affidavit (if the owner is applying) must be completed.
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Well, fortunately, Judge Brack has secured the most favourable terms for me, so he said in a letter to Hedda.
Yes, don't be uneasy, my dear boy. — Besides, I have given security for the furniture and all the carpets.
Security? You? My dear Aunt Julia — what sort of security could you give?
I have given a mortgage on our annuity.
[Jumps up.] What! On your — and Aunt Rina's annuity!
Yes, I knew of no other plan, you see.
[Placing himself before her.] Have you gone out of your senses, Auntie? Your annuity — it's all that you and Aunt Rina have to live upon.
Well well — don't get so excited about it. It's only a matter of form you know — Judge Brack assured me of that. It was he that was kind enough to arrange the whole affair for me. A mere matter of form, he said.
Yes, that may be all very well. But nevertheless — -
You will have your own salary to depend upon now. And, good heavens, even if we did have to pay up a little — -! To eke things out a bit at the start — -! Why, it would be nothing but a pleasure to us.
Oh Auntie — will you never be tired of making sacrifices for me!
[Rises and lays her hand on his shoulders.] Have I any other happiness in this world except to smooth your way for you, my dear boy. You, who have had neither father nor mother to depend on. And now we have reached the goal, George! Things have looked black enough for us, sometimes; but, thank heaven, now you have nothing to fear.
Yes, it is really marvellous how every thing has turned out for the best.
And the people who opposed you — who wanted to bar the way for you — now you have them at your feet. They have fallen, George. Your most dangerous rival — his fall was the worst. — And now he has to lie on the bed he has made for himself — poor misguided creature.
Have you heard anything of Eilert? Since I went away, I mean.
Only that he is said to have published a new book.
What! Eilert Lovborg! Recently — eh?
Yes, so they say. Heaven knows whether it can be worth anything! Ah, when your new book appears — that will be another story, George! What is it to be about?
It will deal with the domestic industries of Brabant during the Middle Ages.
Fancy — to be able to write on such a subject as that!
However, it may be some time before the book is ready. I have all these collections to arrange first, you see.
Yes, collecting and arranging — no one can beat you at that. There you are my poor brother's own son.
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I try to stay away from sweets so I don't allow myself to bake these often, but when I do, it is always happily welcomed by family and friends.
The recipe is easy and quick to make. Here is what you need to make these:
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter (approx. 170 gr.)
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup hazelnut, chopped
1/2 cup pecan, chopped
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided (1/2 cup for dough +1/2 for topping)
Preheat oven to 350'F. Melt butter in microwave and mix with sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt, eggs and vanilla. Stir with spoon until butter is well blended and smooth. Stir in nuts and 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
Spray a rectangular baking dish with a non-stick cooking spray (mine is about 13"by 9" and about 2" tall). Spread the butter in the dish and sprinkle evenly with 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. Bake 30 to 35 minutes.
Let it cool and cut into rectangular pieces as desired. Dust it with powdered sugar.
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Kate Moss revived the "waif" look in the 1990's. She basically popularized what we have come to know today as the heroin chic look. Kate Moss is an international fashion icon. In recent years she has popularized denim cut off shorts, ballet flats, Vivienne Westwood pirate boots, ans the ever so fabulous skinny jeans. She has also been know to frequently sport that bohemian chic look we all love so much.
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In a cosy pub opposite Westminster Palace I had the pleasure of interviewing Sue Sanders, the founder of LGBT History Month.
LGBT history Month is celebrated in February and was founded by the charity SchoolsOUT. Sue Sanders is an "out and proud" lesbian, a British LGBT rights activist and founder of LGBT History Month. In 2015 she was made Emeritus Professor of the Harvey Milk Institute.
"So, we are here opposite the Houses of Parliament, what are you here for today?"
"I will be speaking at an event organised by the Met Police and ParliOut to mark LGBT History Month and to discuss what we can be doing moving forward. We were also here just last week at the Labour Party LGBT History Month Reception."
"Fantastic, its clearly a very busy month for you. Just to start, could you tell me about the founding of SchoolsOut and what LGBT activism was like when you first got involved?"
"SchoolsOut started way back in 1974, I wasn't there then. But it was a bunch of gay teachers, called the Gay Teachers' Group. It was basically a social group, but very soon it became political because one of their members, John Warburton, got sacked because he came out to his students. Some students saw him at an early gay pride march and said "are you gay sir?" on the Monday morning and he said "yes".
I linked up with Paul Patrick and, with the arrival of the internet, we got a little website and began to get the word out by making resources. The thing that really moved us up a big notch was Section 28. What was interesting was that we didn't have a clue how parliament worked. It was an eye opener to me that we really had to know this stuff. We did masses of work when Section 28 came along, we were on television, raised lots of awareness and produced lots of resources. I worked with Ian Mckellen and Micheal Cashman who went on to found Stonewall.
The Daily Mail was profoundly good at getting everyone's knickers in a twist. If you look at the stuff going on it was horrific. Some of it is coming all over again but against the trans community now. In 2003 we lost Section 28 and the Labour party started working on the Equality Act and the Public Duty Act. The Public Duty Act expected people to be proactive about equality, but where we they going to get the information from?"
"And why did Schools Out start LGBT History Month?"
"We saw how Black History Month had had an amazing effects and we thought about what we could do. Now LGBT History Month has a website with an interactive calendar with over 1000 events this month. The month has grown organically, the website grew and we attended lots of events organised by others. Then in 2010, in the run-up to the olympics, we came up with the idea of having a theme. We've done lots of themes and try to make the venues link with the theme. Our 10th year is when we thought about an LGBT History festival. This year we are in 15 hubs, the National Archives, Imperial War museum, British Museum, Shrewsbury, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester to name a few. We are just growing. The work that we have been doing since 2005 has been a real driving force."
"On university campuses nowadays, students generally know that February is LGBT History Month, how have universities contributed over the years?"
"It is a joy to know most universities are doing something. But I still talk to tutors in universities who say they are too frightened to come out to their students. That's frightening. The whole non-platforming debate is very worrying. There is something very worrying about some of the students' narrowness of thinking. What we should be doing is coming together and fighting the very real enemies that are out there, especially now with the right nipping at our heels."
"As part of LGBT History Month the Debating Society held an event, debating whether the trans movement should be separate to the L, the G and the B. They suggested that recent successes in marriage equality and hate crime legislation has led to a shift in focus, whereas the trans movement still struggle with more blatant from of discrimination. Where do you stand on this?"
"I can make a case for both and to me the important thing is trans people need to lead and say what they want and we will be there supporting it. We have consistently always been trans inclusive. I lose my cool when people call it 'gay history month'. There will be all sorts of ways that trans people will want to do things, I totally respect the trans people that want to work away from us and I totally respect the trans people that want to work with us. One cannot say that one way is right and one way is wrong. It is crucial that both are enabled."
"Last year the IOE merged with UCL, so there are now over a thousand trainee teachers every year at UCL. What would be your biggest piece of advice for teachers entering the classroom?"
"They need training. It is outrageous that compulsory equality training is given to the criminal justice system and not to all teachers. Let's train them. The other thing is, let's give them resources. After LGBT History Month we set up The Classroom. There we produce lesson plans which usualise LGBT people and are completely free and available for teachers to use.
One of the things I would say to teachers, find ways to educate youngsters to use appropriate language. Don't tell them off when they say "that's so gay", but find ways of explaining and unpacking language. Language is a subtle thing but it can make a difference."
"Thinking back to when you were younger, did you ever imagine that marriage equality would be passed in the UK?"
"Never. As a feminist it's not something I particularly want to do. However, having marriage equality has made a phenomenal difference. It's not an institution of which I am particularly fond. But Stuart Milk points out that when people who are not comfortable around gay people, go to a gay wedding, their minds get changed and they see that it all about love. Politically, it has made a massive difference."
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Two men who were arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Cranwell Village on Friday (October 30) have been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
The men, aged 20 and 28, were said by police to be from the local area. Both were held in custody for questioning.
A police spokesman said the investigation continues after appealing for witnesses following a report of a man carrying a 'knife-type weapon' entering Cranwell Convenience Store on College Road in the village.
The spokesman said police received the report at 10.40am. The man demanded money from a female member of staff, which was handed over.
He is believed to have then left the premises and headed in the direction of RAF Cranwell.
Anyone who may have seen or heard anything in connection with the incident, is asked to call Lincolnshire Police on 101 quoting incident 100 of October 30, 2015.
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The announcement by the West Germans that they will afford the Soviet Union billions of dollars in trade credits should be recognized by all as a significant historical event. For the Soviets, it is the latest in a series of dramatic actions directed at stimulating the Soviet economy; for the Western world it should be marked as the end of the cold war and the beginning of the "green war"--an era in which world politics are driven less by military strength than by economics.
Actually, the green war has been under way for some time. The Japanese have achieved a decisive victory over the U.S. in the early going, and it is not likely that we will ever recover. They have purchased a controlling interest in the U.S. debt, and, while playing by their own trade rules they have rendered America largely dependent upon them for manufactured goods. The U.S., with a very myopic view of world economics, has all but laid down its economic guard. The Reagan Administration has mortgaged our future and created a false sense of economic prosperity.
While the U.S. hurls empty political charges at the Soviets (such as technical breaches of arms treaties) and follows U.S.-Soviet foreign policy guidelines worthy of the 1950s, the Soviets have found that they can achieve their most important objectives with immunity to U.S. interference. By reaching economic accord with other Western powers, they attack their critical domestic problems and at the same time achieve new political alliances.


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Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB
August 6, 2018
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B - August 12th, 2018
I have always loved reading the Elijah cycle in the Book of Kings. The first book, Chapter 18, portrays Elijah as an invincible prophet who fearlessly stands up to king and prophets, but he remains so extremely human in the process! Today's first reading from 1 Kings 19 presents us with the great prophet who is vulnerable and subject to discouragement and fear.
Let us situate today's story in 1 Kings. In Chapter 19 we have the aftermath of Elijah's brilliant victory in the contest with Jezebel and the priests of Baal atop Mount Carmel. Just when Elijah should have been triumphant, he receives a message telling him of Jezebel's murderous intentions, and he is "afraid" (v. 3). Elijah is persecuted for his faithfulness and for demanding total obedience to one God because such loyalty threatens the powers that be who have their own ideas about whom or what people should worship.
Israel's fiery prophet immediately flees south into the wilderness of the Negev Desert. His mood is one of defeat and desolation. After all he had done for the God of Israel, his victory now seems vitiated. He has not been given the divine protection he was promised, and he only wants to die: "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." There, in the barren desert, Elijah lies down under "a solitary broom tree" and asks God to take his life, claiming that he is no better than his fathers. Elijah bemoans his discouragement at his lack of success in encouraging the Israelites to be faithful.
Energy from above
Suddenly, a messenger (angel) of the Lord awakens him and tells him to eat and drink. Whereas the wicked Jezebel sends a messenger of death to Elijah, the Lord God of Israel sends him a messenger of life, who serves Elijah food and water, two essentials for survival in the harsh wilderness.
Elijah eats, drinks, but then falls asleep again, indicating that he has not yet recovered from his lethargy or depression. The messenger wakes Elijah again and urges him to eat and drink, this time providing a reason, "or the journey will be too much for you" (19:7).
What can we learn from Elijah in the desert wilderness? Here is a man who has given his life totally in faithfulness to the God of Israel. He has been totally "zealous for the Lord." His desperate cry, "I am no better than my ancestors" reveals a man who no longer believes in himself. He had believed himself to be a spectacularly exemplary servant of God. No one could outdo him in his zealousness. Now he believes it has been all in vain!
Dark night of the soul
Yet the God of Israel does not give up on Elijah. God's teaching moment begins when Elijah's famed resourcefulness runs out. Angels from God are needed to feed him in his weakness. Then God leads him through a time of reflection in the wilderness.
His journeying through the Negev wilderness lasts for the significant time of forty days and forty nights. As the Hebrews wandered earlier in the wilderness in search of God, this most zealous prophet and servant of the Lord is led on a similar journey. Eventually, Elijah comes to the sacred mountain of Horeb, where he spends the night in a dark cave. The dark cave and the dark night are reflective of his "dark night of the soul."
Mount Horeb is in some Old Testament traditions the name for Mount Sinai, the mountain associated with God's appearance. Forty days and nights in connection with Mount Sinai recalls the two sojourns of Moses on Sinai for forty days and nights (Exodus 24:18; 34:28).
The point of this moving story is not just that Elijah makes a physical trip to Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai but rather something much more significant. In an act of sheer grace, God intervenes, provides the prophet with life-giving food and water, and suggests a pilgrimage to a mountain that is the place forever associated with the source and essence of Israelite faith.
The Elijah story speaks powerfully to those who are worn-out, fearful, or in need of renewal and recommitment to their original call. The story suggests a way forward -- eat and drink of God's life-giving sustenance, return to the core of faith, listen for God's still small voice. That may be the way to find new energy, new vision, and a new sense of purpose. Elijah must learn that God is not encountered in the sound and fury of loud and spectacular events. God will not be conjured up by the zealous or boisterous activity of the prophet who now stands quiet and broken atop the Lord's mountain.
Elijah discovers that God is encountered when the activity ceases and the words stop, when the heart is sad and the stomach is filled with pangs of hunger. When Elijah's mind and heart are finally empty of ambition and self-promotion, God is ultimately heard.
Bread of Life
For Elijah, for Jesus, and for us, bread is fundamental to life. Bread stands at the center of life. Bread is life. And in today's Gospel (John 6:41-51) we hear about Jesus, who is the Bread of Life. Christ is life: He is the bread of life. To eat Jesus' body and to drink his blood means more than just to believe in him. The image of Jesus as the "bread of life" is at the heart of what renewal in the mystery of Christ is about.
When Jesus says that he is "the bread of life," his emphasis is not on the bread as such but on himself as the "I" who declares it. Jesus is saying that what we long for to nourish our hungers is found in himself, the "I" who identifies his life with the bread he gives (cf. John 6:51). Jesus is more than mere bread for our bodily hunger. He is more than love to satisfy our emotional needs. He is the word that will satisfy our hunger for truth. He is bread for life itself: the total satisfaction for all our human hungers.
For all baptized believers the Eucharist is the primary way of celebrating and sustaining contact with the risen Lord. Let us consider for a moment the highly symbolic actions of Jesus as he gives us the living bread from heaven. Jesus took the bread. He has taken the bread of our lives and joined it with his own. Jesus blessed the bread. He has blessed us with his life. Baptism was the first moment of that blessing. Every other moment of contact with Jesus Christ is a deepening of that blessing.
Jesus broke the bread. Like Jesus, there are moments in our lives when we feel hurt, broken, lost, discouraged, disillusioned, empty, rejected, and without energy and hope. We are like Elijah under the broom tree, waiting for our life to end. Yet even in these fractured moments, the Lord Jesus is present to us.
Jesus gave the bread. He gave of his time and his touch. He gave encouragement but also his challenge. He gave both word and bread to feed and nourish. He gave most fully in giving himself. He gave till there was no more to give, declaring his life and work complete with the words, "It is finished" (John 19:30). Then bowing his head, he handed over his spirit, the same spirit he gave us when he appeared risen from the dead (cf. John 20:22).
In life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has given us a profound example and challenges us to do the same. "Go and do likewise" is both a challenge and a commission. It is the commission to live the mystery of being bread blessed and broken for others. When life seems to be breaking apart, we should not forget the lesson of the bread broken for us. It cannot be broken without being firmly held in both hands. When it comes to the breaking of bread, or of our lives, both hold the challenge of the mystery of faith.
Let us pray that our sharing in the Eucharistic bread and wine may transform us more and more into what we eat and drink, and that we might truly become living bread, broken and shared with all people.
[The readings for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time are:
1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; and John 6:41-51
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Fr. Thomas Rosica
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Three months after being diagnosed with cancer for the second time, I am healthier than I've ever been. Though it seems a bit strange, cancer has once again been the catalyst for some amazing changes in my life. I don't need to continue having this "teacher" in my life (thank you very much for the lessons, but you have overstayed your welcome), but I can appreciate the upside nonetheless.
Though I was a dutiful patient the first time around, following the prescribed "standard of care," and completing six rounds of chemotherapy, the benefit of four years and lots of good reading led me down a different path this time. I chose not to put more toxic (and cancer-causing) chemicals into my body, and I'm following a natural healing path instead. That's right! Did you know that chemo and radiation, standard cancer treatments, can actually cause secondary cancers down the road? I didn't until recently.
I am grateful to authors like Hollie Quinn, Kris Carr, and Andrew Weil for helping me see a different possibility for myself, and I'm grateful for fantastic researchers like David Servan-Schreiber, and T. Colin Campbell for providing great information in their books, and for my naturopath and oncologist for being enthusiastic and supportive of my choice.
Cancer is rising at a dramatic rate, and more and more young people are being diagnosed every year. No doubt, it is because of the toxic soup we drink, breathe, and eat every day, the chemicals and artificial colors and fragrances in our personal-care products and our general environment. Flame retardant, pesticides, and weed killer aren't just tough on fire, bugs, and weeds! Despite supposed increases in survival rates with conventional therapies, the books have been cooked. Touted success stories are based on a five-year survival rate. And even those rates haven't increased dramatically, and not for most cancers. Five years! I don't know about you, but five years ain't much to my way of thinking.
My treatment plan consists of a healthy whole food, vegan diet, some natural supplements to balance out my hormones and ph levels, juicing veggies and drinking protein smoothies, controlling my stress through meditation and yoga, and getting moderate amounts of exercise at least three to four times a week. Dean Ornish has been using this type of holistic plan on patients with heart disease for years, and turns out it can help cancer patients as well. Sure it took a big C wake-up call for me to change my ways, but this lifestyle is healthy for anyone, and recommended if you want to avoid serious health issues in the first place.
Want to know the biggest surprise of all? It has been way easier than I anticipated. For four years since my first diagnosis, I have been aware of the tremendous health benefits of this type of lifestyle, but I wrote it off as impractical. I decided I couldn't do it before I even tried! Now that I'm actually doing it, I can report two things for sure: 1. It does take some adjustment and time to figure out how to live this way and 2. It is absolutely possible for anyone to do it. The big-time upside is that I look and feel great. My skin is amazing, I've lost twenty pounds, I have more energy, my fingernails are three times stronger, and I just feel good.
I was so worried about all the things I would have to "give up," in order to be healthy. Dairy? Really is it that bad for you? After reading The China Study, I now have no doubt. No more ice cream or cheese? I have found great dairy-free ice cream alternatives (made with coconut), and haven't missed cheese nearly as much as I thought I would, though I admit to cheating a few times on that one (though with just a small serving each time). I have been really shocked that I don't seem to crave the bad things very often. I just made it through the holiday season, complete with my mom's fantastic Christmas cookies, and while I did have a few of them, and some organic free-range turkey too, I didn't need huge helpings of former favorites to feel satisfied. There were times I decided to give myself a treat—pumpkin pie or a frosted gingerbread man, and decided I didn't want them after all, sometimes after a single bite or just a longing gaze.
A bit more challenging has been figuring out what to eat instead of the former convenient fare I would grab or nuke. The biggest assist in this quest came from my sister's awesome menu planning/shopping list. Plan a week's worth of meals and shop for just what I need rather than just throwing a bunch of stuff in the cart and figuring it out later? (And throwing lots of food away after it spoiled from sitting in the fridge too long.) What a concept! We also put together a great binder full of yummy veggie recipes that I turn to regularly, along with some fave websites, for inspiration.
I have never been a great cook, and I didn't particularly enjoy it. Cooking for one has been a challenge for me, and I would get tired of the leftovers long before they were gone. In addition to the ease of giving up the bad stuff, I have been surprised by how much I've enjoyed my new lifestyle. I don't dread meal planning, shopping and food prep anymore. I kind of like it. Perhaps it's the simplicity of a whole foods diet. I mostly shop in the produce section now and don't have to tool around the whole store for tons of items or processed ingredients because I rarely use them now. And I don't make complicated sauces and numerous dishes now—just a mix of good fresh veggies either cooked or raw that typically go together pretty quickly. Steaming takes just minutes and my meals are generally ready much sooner without so many elements to time just right so everything is done at once.
I know, I know, we are a nation on the go, in love with our convenience and fast-food options, and happy to pop a pill to cure our ills rather than change our lifestyle. I have zero interest in trying to convince anyone else to eat this way, but I have been amazed at the fascination and questions people have about this diet. I was drawn to a healthier way of life before cancer forced my hand as well, but don't think I ever would have pursued it without a significant motivation. Now that I feel so great and am not enduring round two of toxic chemicals causing hair loss, nausea, body aches and other maladies (the cure is worse than the disease), I am pretty dang happy with my choice. I've included a lots of links to resources that helped guide me in case you're interested. If you're not, that's perfectly fine too.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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PARK RIDGE, Ill. (WLS) --Park Ridge police said two juveniles were arrested Monday for posting threats against their school on social media.
Police said early Monday morning they received a tip about a 15-year-old boy and 12-year-old boy who had posted threatening messages on social media. Police said the messages showed the two juveniles holding a firearm and talking about using that firearm at Maine South High School summer classes.
Maine South's policy on guns is clear before you even enter: there are no guns allowed in the building. That made the threats by the students especially alarming, police said.
"Anything regarding a school with a picture of a handgun in it brings our senses up a bit and we wanted to take this as serious as we could, get to the bottom of it as quickly as we could before school started," said Commander Jason Leavitt, Park Ridge Police Department.
Police quickly identified the students and took them in for questioning before the beginning of the school day. Officers also seized three firearms from the home of the 12-year-old, police said. At least one of those firearms was confirmed as being used in the social media posts.
"I was frankly concerned the building wasn't locked down given that this took place at 6:30 a.m., and I believe summer school starts around 7:45 or 8 o'clock," said Rick Biagi, parent.
School District 207 alerted parents of the incident Monday afternoon with a statement that said in part, "...school officials were confident that the situation was isolated and that there was no additional threat to any Maine South student or staff member, and classes were conducted as scheduled."
Both students have been charged with one count of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of disorderly conduction, both felonies.
The students will be transferred to the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center pending a custody hearing. Police do not believe any other people were involved in the incident.
Police said quick action ensured students safety. Now police are trying to determine who owns the guns they recovered in their investigation.


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A licensee of insurance software did not hold any of the exclusive rights enumerated under the Copyright Act and thus did not have standing to bring an infringement claim against another licensee that had allegedly exceeded the scope of its license, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Jan. 19 (Hyperquest Inc. v. N'Site Solutions Inc., 7th Cir., No. 08-2257, 1/19/11).
Affirming a federal district court's dismissal of a copyright infringement claim, the court looked to the Supreme Court's Muchnick to determine that standing in this case was an issue of failure to state a claim under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), rather than an Article III standing issue.
Quivox Systems is a software developer whose markets include a program called eDoc, which is used to help health care providers process insurance claims. In 2001, N'Site Solutions Inc. entered into an agreement with Quivox and acquired a non-exclusive license for eDoc granting it rights to use and develop the software. The agreement provided for N'Site to use the software in-house, and granted no rights to modify eDoc or to sell it.
Safelite Group Inc. purchased Quivox's assets, including its copyright interest in eDoc. In 2004, HyperQuest Inc. acquired rights in eDoc from Safelite through a license that granted it exclusive rights to use the software in source code form and to modify it to serve its provision of its services. The license did not allow HyperQuest to sell the software. The contract included a provision acknowledging N'Site's license and that Safelite and N'Site would negotiate a revised license; however, such negotiations were unsuccessful.
In 2006, N'Site made certain modifications to the software and then sold the source code to Unitrin Direct Insurance Co. Safelite registered its copyright interest in 2006, and in 2008, HyperQuest sued N'Site and Unitrin, alleging copyright infringement based on allegations that N'Site had exceeded the scope of its license in several ways, including installing the software outside its own facility, modifying and creating derivative works (N'Solutions and ClaimHub), and selling the software to a third party.
Judge Milton I. Shadur of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that HyperQuest, as holder of a non-exclusive license in eDoc, did not have standing to bring a copyright infringement claim, and dismissed the lawsuit. The district court awarded attorneys' fees and costs of $135,000 to N'Site and Unitrin, an amount less than that requested.
HyperQuest appealed the dismissal of its claims. Unitrin cross appealed, objecting to the lowered award.
Judge Diane P. Wood began by noting that under 17 U.S.C. §501(b), an infringement action may be brought by a party that holds an exclusive right under the Copyright Act. The court then noted a subtle semantic distinction between considering the question as a constitutional standing issue or whether it is a question of who is the real party in interest. The court said:
Some courts … have seen this as a limitation derived from Article III's standing requirement …, but we believe that it is preferable to be more precise in our language. Many parties who have not crossed the "T's" and dotted the "i's" in their copyright licenses would have no trouble demonstrating injury in fact, causation, and redressability--the three indispensable requirements for constitutional standing, … but their efforts to sue will nonetheless be thwarted by the statutory requirement. Another possibility, closer to the mark, is that the Copyright Act establishes criteria for the real party in interest, …. Or one could keep it simple and say that the Copyright Act spells out who has enforceable rights under the statute; someone who does may sue, and someone who does not has failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.
According to the court, the Supreme Court's ruling in Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, 130 S. Ct. 1237, 93 USPQ2d 1719 (2010) (79 PTCJ 497, 3/5/10), suggests that "the last of these approaches is the correct one." Indeed, this is the analysis that was applied at the trial level, the court said.
Furthermore, the court said, if the dismissal had been based on a question of Article III standing, then the dismissal would have been without prejudice. However, in this case the dismissal was with prejudice, as consistent with a dismissal for failure to state a claim under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).
Therefore, according to the court, the question upon appeal was whether the district court had erred in its conclusion that HyperQuest held no exclusive right among the rights enumerated in 17 U.S.C. §106.
HyperQuest held some rights with respect to eDoc, specifically those related to the right to prepare derivative works, the right to distribute copies to the public, and the right to make copies. Looking to the language of the licensing contract between Safelite and HyperQuest, the court first rejected the argument that the mere inclusion of the phrase "exclusive license" could support a conclusion that HyperQuest actually held any exclusive rights.
"At first blush, it seems apparent that HyperQuest has never been the sole holder of any of the three exclusive rights that it has identified--reproduction, derivative works, or distribution," the court said. The court noted that it was possible for an exclusive right to be subdivided into smaller exclusive rights, such as hardcover and softcover publishing rights for a book, or geographic distribution rights. However, "it appears that these subdivisions must be done cleanly, so that the limits of each holder's rights can be defined."
Specifically, the court noted that the agreement reserved significant rights to Safelite, including certain use rights and licensing rights to further develop the software.
And the court found a "gaping hole" in HyperQuest's rights created by the provision acknowledging N'Site's current license and Safelite's right to renegotiate the license, which the court referred to as an "open-ended new license."
"HyperQuest retained to right to veto any terms that might have appeared in that license," the court noted. "All it got, essentially, was the right to a seat at the table if the eventual planned license deviated materially from the version that HyperQuest had already seen."
Furthermore, there was another provision that specified that Safelite retained all intellectual property rights with respect to the software and that it would hold rights in any modification to be created.
"[W]hen all is said and done, we cannot find in this license the kind of clearly delineated exclusivity over at least one strand of the bundle of rights that would permit HyperQuest to sue for infringement," the court found.
However, the court emphasized that it did not endorse the argument "that a copyright owner's retention of ownership rights renders all subsequent licenses non-exclusive." Such a principle would not allow for divisibility of exclusive rights, the court noted.
The court thus found no error in the district court's ruling on the issue of standing.
Finally, turning to the issue of the award of attorneys' fees, the court found no abuse of discretion in the district court's ruling.
The court's opinion was joined by Judges Joel M. Flaum and Terence T. Evans.
HyperQuest was represented by Deborah R. Hogan of Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago. N'Site and Unitrin were represented by Paul R. Kitch of Nixon Peabody, Chicago.
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Barney Ricca
Director, Graduate Program in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Saint John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: 585-899-3866
email: bricca (all Fisher e-mails are "at sjfc dot edu")
MY (overly long) COMPLEXITY STATEMENT
To me, a complex system is one that has three interrelated hallmarks; I will call these three growth, mutual influence, and topology.
First, complex systems grow; they cannot be assembled piece by piece as a car on an assembly line. This notion has many important consequences, including:
- Because the actual state of existence of a complex system is "the result of a series of highly contingent events that would not happen again if we could rewind the tape" (Gould, quoted in Rosenberg, 1990), complex systems always bring their pasts with them.
- Complex systems are autopoietic (Maturana & Varela, 1992) and cannot easily be directed (or predicted!) by external entities.
- In such a growing system all action is creative action (Kampis, 1991). Even the maintenance of a complex system entails ongoing acts of creation (as, for example, the cells that compose a body today are not the same cells that composed the body yesterday). Creative systems often bring forth new entities, and so not only is prediction impossible: the creation of new entities may also require the creation of new interpretations and meanings .
Second, although all systems can be considered to be in relationship to all other systems – even if the relationship is a null one – complex relationships are those that exhibit a mutual influence of each system on the other (Kaneko, 2009). Hence, the complex interaction of two systems may provokes changes in both systems, and not merely the adaptation of one system to the other.
Third, complex systems possess a topology that is markedly different from non-complex systems.
- Most complex systems simultaneously exist both as themselves and inside themselves (Kampis, 1994).
- Most complex systems are enmeshed with (and not merely embedded in or part of) other systems
These create a sort of Klein bottle topology which does not permit classical reductionism. Attempts to reduce a complex system to its parts generally result in fragmentation of the system and disconnection rather than insight.
- Complexity: Foundations and Applications
- Teacher preparation and professional development
- Science Learning
- Inquiry-Based Chemistry Institute. (Workshop grant from the Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science.)
- Fisher Scholars for Rural Schools (Robert Noyce Scholarship Grant from the National Science Foundation)
- Problem solving approaches to student learning
- Green, K & Ricca, B. (2010). If Mowat & Davis are correct, then teaching is hard. Complicity 7(1) 63-69. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta.
- Ricca, B. (2009). The imposition of boundaries. Complicity. 6(1) 56-60. . Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta.
- Ricca, B. (2008). Enframing: The view from inside. Complicity 5(1) 115-120. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Univers
- Ricca, B. (2009). Refining models of complex systems. In N. Kellam & D. Stanley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Complexity Sciences and Educational Research Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia.
- "Does self-organization exist in education?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, May 2010.
- "Observers and Autopoietic Systems." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, April, 2008.
- "Refining Models of Complex Systems." Presented at the Fifth Complexity Sciences and Educational Research Conference. Athens, GA, February, 2008.
- "Learning, Learning Environments, and Complexity Theories: Domains of Applicability." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 2006.
- "Boundaries, Components, and Education." Paper presented at the Third Complexity Sciences and Educational Research Conference, Loranger, LA, November, 2005.
- "Complexity and learning processes." Presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April, 2004
- "Complexity sciences and implications for schools." Presented at the Complexity Sciences and Educational Research conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October, 2003.


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