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During their recent visit to Cambodia, Dr. Kirk G. Alliman, former executive director of CWS' Asia Program and his wife, Jean, visited the CWS staff at the Phnom Penh office.
Alliman last stepped foot in Cambodia 34 years ago, during the aftermath of the fall of the Khmer Rouge that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. This was a regime which was responsible for the death of 2 million Cambodian people from disease, starvation, overwork and repression.
Alliman recalled a Cambodia that at the time was "devastated, traumatized and on the peak of starvation. It was not only a matter of physical hunger and pain, it was also a matter of deep emotional and spiritual pain". By contrast, the changes he now sees he describes as a "miracle." Having not visited the capital of Phnom Penh since 1981 – a city once described as "a ghost city" – Alliman said "it is unbelievable that Phnom Penh has become so big, busy, developed, upbeat, and stable in this time."
"CWS Cambodia has come out of tragedies and continued its development work to help the poor. The work accomplished during the years since 1979 is testimony to the heartfelt compassion, outstanding skills, incredible commitment and wonderful effort of CWS staff. You have accomplished things that no one thought possible in 1979. It's truly impressive and heart-warming. We thank you for making a huge difference in the lives of so many Cambodians," Alliman said.
For those who forget or who were not yet born at the time, the late 1970s was a brutal time in Cambodia's history. When Alliman recently spoke to the 12 current CWS staff members in Phnom Penh – most of whom were either very young in 1979 or not yet born – he recalled some shocking and traumatic scenes. Among the sights Alliman recalled: a pile of skulls near a swimming pool at the hotel where he stayed, and the fresh blood at Toul Sleng prison where thousands of Cambodian were detained and later killed. There was also the emptiness of Phnom Penh itself, where nobody was to be seen or heard. Alliman told CWS staffers of one memory that portrays the magnitude of loss affecting Cambodia. In his first meeting with Cambodia's minister of social affairs, Alliman asked, "How can CWS help?"
"You can start by getting me a pencil and paper" the minister replied. There was just nothing.
Why and how did Alliman and his team get to war-torn Cambodia in the first place?
In late 1979, CWS initiated what it called "Friendshipment," a shipment of wheat contributed by American farmers and donors to Vietnam – an act to show friendship toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War.
To symbolically hand over the CWS shipment of wheat, CWS sent three representatives to Vietnam; Alliman was among them. In their meeting with the Vietnamese prime minister, the minister thanked them for the humanitarian assistance but suggested that the wheat be sent to Cambodia, given its horrendous humanitarian crisis.
When Kirk Alliman first arrived in Phnom Penh, he was shocked at what he saw and knew there was much work to be done. This was how CWS began its work in Cambodia. CWS arrived in Cambodia at a time when the country was in great need of assistance and CWS was acknowledged and credited as one of the first agencies coming to work in Cambodia after the fall of Khmer Rouge. Alliman recalled what he described as "the heartfelt thanks and gratitude expressed by Cambodian high-ranking officials including Prime Minister Hun Sen for CWS post-war rehabilitation efforts. This gratitude is still expressed by the Cambodian government today."
During CWS's 34-year presence in Cambodia, the agency has gone through many changes – from providing Cambodian people with humanitarian and emergency response through the Cambodian government to enhancing the quality of rural poor life by engaging and working with civil society, local government bodies and communities in the process of development, emergency response and rehabilitation.
After hearing a presentation by CWS staff members about CWS accomplishments and current development work in Cambodia, Alliman said this: "Being with you today makes me very grateful for CWS, its staff and program in Cambodia, and the magnificent work that is being done in 2013 to improve the quality of life, peace and justice that the Cambodian people are now able to experience."
Nao Sok and Jacqui Collis are CWS staffers in Cambodia.
In his story, Kirk also acknowledged other individuals who were significantly involved in beginning the CWS program in Cambodia in 1979. These include Doug Beane, who hitch-hiked on a military plane from Bangkok to Phnom Penh and obtained permission for the first CWS office in Cambodia, and Perry Smith, who was the first CWS representative in Cambodia. There were also many others significantly involved, including individuals in support positions in the United States and the Bangkok regional office. CWS Cambodia expresses its thanks to all these individuals for their life-changing humanitarian work in bringing CWS to Cambodia.


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Monday, 21 August 2017
The wrinkles jaws!
Crafty Cardmakers has their first challenge after the summer break beginning today. The theme is under the sea or at the beach.
I have used a paper from La Pashe Ltd's set of The Wrinkles at the Movies. I decoupaged the image and attached it to the centre of white card. I then cut a circle in the centre of a square of coloured card and attached acetate cut from some packaging to the back of it. Using a slightly darker tone of card I cut a ring to fit round the aperture to make a 'porthole'. I then added some card candi to this ring. Finally I added the sentiment.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty Friends - anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
Incy Wincy Designs - go wild
Scrapping 4 Fun - anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle - summer holidays
The Paper Shelter - punches and dies
Crafting By Designs - anything goes
Seize The Birthday - anything goes
Kitty Bee Designs - anything goes with summer
Do-Al(l) Kreatives - happy birthday with summer images
Pile It On - recycle
Squirrels Random - holiday fun
Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
Crafty Creations - anything goes
That's Crafty - only cards
Creative Moments - anything goes with make it funny
18 comments:
- Tracey@Hotchpotchcreations said...
Fun card, great idea to put the scene in the port hole aperture. Thank you for joining the That's Crafty Only Cards Blog Challenge. Best Wishes Tracey.
- 21 August 2017 at 21:35
- Diana said...
This one is so funny! I love it! Beautifull coloring and layout
Thank you for sharing your creative talent at our challenge at Creative Moments, good luck!
Looking forward to see you at the next challenge
DT member at Creative Moments
Diana's Creations
- 21 August 2017 at 21:38
- The Crafty Bat said...
Oh wow this is amazing. Love this card so much fun.
Thank you for joining us over at Scrapping4FunCreations
Kelly (DT)
- 21 August 2017 at 23:41
- Miapuh said...
Love your card
Thank you for participating on Creative Moments Challenge
hugs MiaPuh- DT
- 22 August 2017 at 02:47
- Julie P said...
Nice work, a wonderful creation. Thanks for joining in the Paper Shelter Challenge this time. We hope to see you again soon.
Hugs, Julie P
The Paper Shelter DT
- 23 August 2017 at 06:07
- Doris Klein said...
Perfect! What a funny scene! Great job!
Thanks for playing along with our Do-Al(l) Kreatives Challenge and good luck!
Kleido's BastelStüble
*Owner* Do-Al(l) Kreatives (#8 – Birthday (Summer kids are the best))
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- 23 August 2017 at 16:46
I am really hoping that it is the shark's birthday, because it doesn't seem like the lady will have a great day!! :D Such a fun card, and a great job! Thank you so much for joining us at the Seize the Birthday challenge!
xx Ashwini, STB DT
- 24 August 2017 at 06:09
- Alexander Kretschmann said...
OMG... funny image. You have chosen a great layout for your card! Love it.
Thanks for playing along with us at our present challenge at Do-Al(l) Kreatives and good luck! Hope you will join us next month again.
*DT + Admin* Do-Al(l) Kreatives {#8 – For the birthday – Summerkids are best}
*DT* Craft Rocket Challenges {#40 – Animal Kingdom}
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- 25 August 2017 at 07:16
- Diane Louise J said...
Hello… Thanks for joining our 'Anything Goes' challenge with your fun card… Please join us again next time at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog. Good luck!
Diane Louise
[Team Leader for Crafty Friends Challenge Blog]
- 25 August 2017 at 18:18
- Jac Curran said...
Love it Mary, what a great fun card and love the porthole aperture, great idea. Have a great week xx
- 26 August 2017 at 18:38
- Marjeta said...
Beautiful greeting cards. Thank you for playing at Scrapping4fun
Marjeta, GD
- 26 August 2017 at 19:27
- Hazel said...
Thank you for sharing your lovely crafting for Do-Al(l) Kreative challenge 8, Hazel, DT x
- 27 August 2017 at 09:29
- Deepti Aggarwal said...
Such a fun card..Love it..Thank you so much for joining us at Crafty Creations Challenges. Hugsxx Deepti Aggarwal
- 28 August 2017 at 10:41
- Jonnece Putu said...
Your card makes me smile. Well done. Thanks for joining us at 'Do-Al(l) Creatives'. Jonnece DT
- 28 August 2017 at 12:31
- Carrie Williams said...
Haha! So cute...made me smile! :)
Thanks for joining in the Scrapping4Fun Challenge!
Carrie, DT
- 29 August 2017 at 05:23
- Scrapping4funChallenges said...
Adorable card, love the porthole and the image
Thank you for your entry at Scrapping4funChallenges
Rachelle DT
- 30 August 2017 at 18:22
- Suze said...
Great card - not sure I'd want to see him when I was swimming! Thank you for joining in the Anything Goes challenge at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.
- 4 September 2017 at 02:45
- Squirrel x said...
We love your fun "holiday" theme card, this is so good! Thanks for sharing with us at Squirrel's Not So Random Challenge. There is a new theme starting tomorrow, 2nd Jan. Hugs xx
- 1 January 2018 at 16:43

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While we're on self-powered devices, how about a scanner with optical character recognition that ships with a bag of mulch and some baby worms, and when you scan the documents for your computer, it shreds the paper and makes a compost heap, burning off the generated methane for electricity? You'd rip out the pages out of books as you read, feeding them one-by-one to the scanner which would liberate the letters from the ink as it consumed them.
Here's another: A robot the size of a golf ball with sucker feet that strolls round my bath tub, fueling itself with a hair combustion battery, cleaning as it goes, retreating when the water comes and perching on the side until it's safe to return.
Product idea of the day: iPod circuitry printed onto adhesive paper which you peel off its backing and stick round your belly, and specially constructed pills of complex organic compounds that you swallow, and as your liver breaks the chemicals down, they set up transient electromagnetic fields that are picked up by the iPod and played as songs.
Look at the photos at Let's be friends of cute animals being cute with other cute animals (eg, tiger plus piglets) and, for each one, ask yourself: Who would win?
On the semiotcracy. In particular, see the notes on 9929 and the text behind 9931.
1. representation
To discuss things we have to somehow represent them, with words (or whatever). Representation, as a form of translation, is never exact. A transformed system must always be incomplete and make statements the original did not.
But representations are essential because, unlike the originals, they can be manipulated and communicated. This means that one quality of representations worth noting is it's communicability. How long does it take to express it? Is it resiliant to transmission noise? Where it points to physical forms, are those forms ones that are easily picked out by humans, or not?
When we use the representation "conversation," we've decided to grant objecthood to a pattern of communication that exists outside people, that is someone independent from the people who are having it. This makes actions on that representation easier to imagine: a conversation can be enhanced or spoiled. Imagine we didn't have that, and our representation pointed out an individual's pause between hearing and speaking. In a conversation, we'd think of being "tightly looped" (to ourselves) or "highly coupled" (to others) instead. Would this change what we valued in the conversation? Would it alter the thing itself?
2. representation as subjectification, forceful imposition; the impossibility of compromise
Over the weekend we, very briefly, discussed the impossibility of a non-heirarchic society. All decisions would have to be reached by compromise. But imagine two groups, who must understand one another's worldviews in order to critique and negotiate. While you don't need to articulate (therefore represent) your own worldview, another group will attempt. They'll necessarily reduce your worldview in order to understand and examine it. They will misrepresent, because a translated system necessarily misrepresents. This causes conflict.
To be examined, the representation of the other's worldview must exist inside another, in this reduced form.
This is an act of pigeonholing, however. To represent someone is to constain them, they are made to follow your representation, and their freedom is limited. Creating a representation for someone is subjectifying them. Representation is forceful imposition. Representation is power, and hierarchy.
3. representations have their own physics; the emergence of patterns; representation as power, but also representation as constraining
Representations aren't passive, they have inertia and follow their own nature. This is due to the emergent behaviour of many representions existing and interacting simultaneously.
Smaller, simpler representations can be transmitted faster. Robust representions are less likely to mutate with communication. Given two possible representations of the same or similar things (which are mutually exclusive in the same society), the one which spreads faster will win. (This is only to a first order. The more complex representation will win if, perhaps, it's more easily derived from its supporting representations. Representations don't just spread through contact; they can be created simultaneously and independently, cued by the existing pattern.)
Imagine we represent a group of people: "hackers," "women," "conservatives." We've imposed subjecthood on them. When we move through the world, we'll leave traces and deposits that conform to our representation of them. Our representation of "voters" included that high-minded people concerned with affairs of state may vote. It isn't that "women" are excluded from voting, it's that our representation never even contemplated it.
What happens when that-which-is-represented acts in a way that doesn't conform to our representation? (Wanting to vote.) We could alter our representation--but representations treated like that would be encrusted with nuance and detail. They'd be hard to grasp, transmit, and use. A more complex representation would die out, in an ecosystem of competing representations.
So we could alter that which is represented, to prevent it from not conforming. This is the easier alternative, and often what happens. This is how subjectifying constrains freedom. It isn't a conscious process. It's a natural consequence of having things, representations, communication, regulations, and many minds.
A group will always struggle to represent the other, to avoid being represented itself. A represented group will always be constained from breaking out of its representation, and the very stuff of the world will be cast in the shape of this constraint.
It doesn't help to create your own representation. As soon as it's used by others it has its own nature.
4. dasein as the unrepresentable
Perhaps this is what Being In The World is, those moments where everything mundane drops away and there's just Being, Doing: At those moments, what's happening is unrepresentable.
Whenever we Do, we simultaneously represent it. Representation is important. It allows us to discuss thing. It allows us to think about them. More than that, it reduces things so that analogies can be made. Analogies require finding a plane on which two things can be compared, so that we can say: more, less. To find an analogy, construct a line, or a net, or a shape out of some representations. Construct a parallel line, or net, or shape some distance away, out of other representions. Now conclusions from one shape can be carried over to the other.
Without analogy, we wouldn't be able to explore the territory of ideas. Analogy is what gives ideas geography, and with geography we can discover.
But analogy also means we have to compare, and to compare means to reduce one or the other, to make both representations subject to the comparison. Comparison is imposition.
So we always and continuously represent, and in this way we experience everyday life as a series of better/worse events. We draw parallels and experience events as related to other events--in this way we can have habits, and so the mundane emerges.
When you are Being In The World, these moments are unrepresentable and cannot be compared. In pure Dasein/dancing, there are no better or worse moments. There is no time.
5. different classes of representation (tagging is minimal); geeks, as hackers, enjoy folktags because they minimally represent and attempt to impose
Some representations expressly don't attempt to fully represent. It's understood they're partial and just describe some aspect, that they are incomplete, that they are subjective, and that there can be many of them. These minimal representations are less forceful.
Geeks are hackers, and hackers are those who, by their nature, understand representation. They distrust representation of themselves by others just as they attempt to use representation to completely represent everything. Due to this exposure, they see the power of representation. I suspect this is why geeks enjoy folktags: these minimal representations are used in a way that is attached to the speaker. They are incomplete, and attempt to have a small impact.
6. even using representation in public exposes the representation to more forces--reflections on identity and reputation because of expectations of truth or conformity. already the representation is less than authentic
Representation is power, but power has two faces. Nouns are representations. In the virtual worlds, including cyberspace, speaking is action, and speaking is impossibly without nouns. When we don't grant classes use of nouns, or the ability to create nouns, we don't just constrain them, we oppress them. Freedom is being able to represent the world and to discuss it.
We have a powerful drive to represent the world as much as possible, and to make these representations transformable in a robust way. ISBNs for books are transformable through text, speech, and bytes in a code that keeps the essence of the representation intact. Representations like this will prosper in our world of interlocking worlds, and so they emerge. We do this deliberately now, to encompass and label all there is. We have an obligation to enlarge the franchise of representations as much as possible, and this is inevitable because of the physics of representations.
Representation is power.
But representations are subject to many forces. If you create a representation, a text, it reflects on you as a person. If your name is on it, your identity becomes tainted as the author of that representation. If you make an unwelcome suggestion, that's remembered. But also, if a slightly untruthful representation will gain a larger audience than a more truthful one, there's a force to produce the former (again, not a conscious force, but an invisible hand in the ecosystem). Representations, as well as being reduced, and small, and disliking nuance, must conform to their own nature, and you to theirs. Publicly authored representations are therefore inauthentic. The most authentic representations are those that don't ask for an audience, but force themselves on readers, and make no assertations of truth or authorship. These three are the best: spam, graffiti, ambiguous or chance events (divination and lies).
7. the semiotcracy
There is a drive to create representations. There are qualities of representations that make them thrive. There are interactions of representations that create forces. Representations are power, and there is an ethical imperitive to increase the franchise (because of negentropy), while at the same time representations constrain. Representations have their own physics.
We now live in a world where representations are all important. They are our limbs and our eyes; they are our possibilities.
The quality of a representation that makes it easy to handle, discuss, reshape, pass on: this is how semiotcratic it is.
The overwhelming importance of creating representations at this point in time, our world which can only be experienced through them, the resistence to representation, the emergent physics coupled with human nature, the forces we feel from them and on them: this is our direction; this is the semiotcracy.
I just opened a document where I wrote a list of things I had to do urgently today. I remember adding to it yesterday--there was something in my head, and I remember thinking "I'd better make a note of that so I don't forget" and putting it on the list. Looking at it now, the item just says "TODO." I appear to think in macros.
Images from Titan. A sound from Titan. Titan! A probe landed on Titan! That's mighty impressive. The picture I'd really like to see is Saturn-rise. (I did some back of the envelope calculations with a friend back at college. If you were standing on Ganymede, Jupiter would loom 20 times wider than the Moon in the sky, four palm-widths wide (at arm's length). If the world was flat, from London you could see Paris the same size as the Moon, on the horizon. I think those were the figures.)
I do wonder whether the ability to probe has reduced the likelihood of actually visiting (whether it's the Moon, Mars or Titan). Before probes you had to just say, Hey, let's take a ship and go over that ocean to see what's there, and so seeing was isomorphic with bodies moving. It's a shame really, and it feels like it might be true--but does risk and adventure at the cinema put a stop to taking everyday life risks, and does talking stop you doing? Well.
Apple keynote thoughts:
It'll be fun to see how these pan out.
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I got the wave messaging active cover for my Nokia 3220 phone. How they market this:
Wave messaging is an incredibly fun new way to communicate and make an impression at the same time. Meanwhile, in the illustration, a smiling girl holds her phone in the air and it spells out "FUN". Hm.
It's loads of fun. Everyone I show thinks it's magic. When the cover arrived, ran the application, waved "hello" in the air, and had to show everyone in the office (partly that was my own excitement). In the first photos my arm is really tired.
That night in the pub, I was showing it off--it's a great toy, nobody expects what you're going to do ("What are you doing? Oh, oh, hang on, what does that say? Hey, that's cool! Hey, that's your phone? Give me that."), and so we ended up taking loads of photos. To begin with, just words, like this one of me waving Mind Hacks (which is bound to end up on the book website sooner or later). Then putting arrows on the words to use them as labels. That was entertaining for a good chunk of the evening.
What's weird is that you can't see the waving person's arm move, so the words just hang there in space. What's especially weird - and good - is that this wave messaging works best in pubs. It's dark, so the letters stand out, and you've had a drink, so you aren't tracking the moving phone with your eyes (it doesn't work so well then, you kind of need to look through it, unfocus a little, and beer helps for that). Retrospectively, the people sitting a few tables away would have had the best view. Wave messaging works okay from a metre away, but better from a little more. While we were squinting to make out the messages as my phone got passed around the table, other people in the bar would have been able to see them fine.
Anyway, you can make the words go round corners too which, in a way, makes them look more physical in the photograph. Doing them straight to camera, well, we're used to captions. Having the wave plane as part of the scene is entertaining. Lastly we were just mucking about, not being consistent about the waving. These photos look the best, "Yay" just looks like it's fizzing out, floating off J. like a little cloud: one; two; three. It's DIY Carnivore.
I got the 3220 after coming back from Design Engaged. The active cover came out a few days before christmas (I'd been checking mobile accessory sites addictively for months) and I managed to get one. It was just something I got because I wanted to see how it worked. You take off the default cover from your 3220 (which is just plastic) and put the new one on--that's all. The front of the cover is the same, but the back cover has a row of LEDs down it, and a circuit board on the inside which is connected by a metal strip to four contacts just below the battery (you get a little contacts plug to replace the normal rubber cover that's there). The first time the phone is switched on, it sees it has a new cover and spends a minute downloading (from the chip in the back cover) an application called "Cover Browser." When you run that app, you can see what applications reside on the cover ("Wave Messaging" and a couple of games) and choose which ones to install. They take about 5 minutes each to download and install. Using the application is just like writing a 15 character text message. It's free (some people have asked), and when you hit "Display" the phone starts figuring out how fast it's moving and displays the appropriate line of your message on the LEDs accordingly. You can also save your messages to get to them faster, and make images.
I wasn't expecting to get much more out of this cover than having a gimmick (and to be down with the kids, you know). Actually it's an enormous amount of fun. People want to play with it, write words, "can you see what this says?" There are games that come with the cover (that use the tilt sensor in the cover to pilot sprites around: tilt left to fly anti-clockwise), but the really fun game is the waving itself. People want to pass the phone around, chat about it, take photos.
Some downsides: It just takes too long to open the application and type in a message. It's a long way down in the hierarchy, and the load time is too much for impromptu waving. Also there seems to be a problem with the pre-installed images to wave. I think maybe they scroll slightly every time you wave or something, but they're not as readable as regular text messages. The games could also be a lot better. There's a tilt sensor, so why not having something rolling around on the display? Use the tilt to affect the sprite directly, not as an abstract control mechanism.
Upsides: In terms of fun now and potential later, I buy this completely. Matt Jones refers to this as the mass-market fun of embodied interaction (see also, his Design Engaged presentation), and he's right. Wave messaging is made for social play. But even apart from this, there's an intellectual joy in seeing the world of embodied interaction open up. Using just the sensors in the phone and Bluetooth, you could have a two-player virtual fencing game, using the phones as hilts. Or, with covers like these, put wheels on the back, and have the mobile follow around a radio-reflective ring you wear. Power-ups for my phone. These are toys,
but there's a serious side too. Hanging around in the Trocadero arcade the other day, I was watching kids playing some version of Dance Dance Revolution, and a couple playing a drumming game. My little cousin got some new iToy games for Christmas (he already has some, another cousin had a cheap dance mat last year).
When I wave my phone around and it spells letters in the air, that means it has all kinds of sensors inside it to tell where my hands are and how fast they're moving--it's not that far from a literal point-and-click interface to my TV.
The contention:
Whereas a mouse is a narrowband interface that isn't going to get any more fine-grained (short of yet more buttons) and doesn't conceptually acknowledge the constraints of its use (flat surface, isomorphic with the on-screen cursor), a device that you work with by pointing, or tapping, or glancing has a long way to go: in the future, we'll be making better cameras, smarter computers, better gesture recognition systems and so on. It can become high-bandwidth, and - if you're using your body - go anywhere with you. The important part of the mouse is really the flat surface which pretends to be the screen, afterall, not the puck you hold in your hand. Seeing that potential is exciting.
Now, we have a young generation becoming used to using themselves and the environment as part of the interface (when light-projected keyboards are released, that's another step). We have a middle-aged population that, sooner or later, will have been using a keyboard and mouse for two or three decades and will be seizing up in the fingers and joints.
In 2 or 3 decades, it's not just going to seem absurd and obtusely limited to funnel your whole interaction with a TV (or whatever) through a matrix of keys on a remote control, it's going to be literally painful for many people.
So why not: Use a Dasher-like interface to interact with your TV, waving your whole arm left, right, up or down to navigate through a tunnel of interface decisions? Why should I scroll my iPod with my thumb when I could scroll it on anything, the wall, my chest, etc? When I make a purchase, why type a number when I could drum my signature rhythm? (and Tom C tells me that Halo 2 already has this kind of sign-in procedure; you press your personal special move on the game controller to be recognised.) Even now, why should I have to press Select on my 3220-with-wave-superpower when I could rap it sharply (a nod), and why press Cancel when I could shake it?
We've all been having this realisation for a few years, and that's now long enough for the cheap and low power accelerometers, computer vision systems, and so on (all the assorted technology) to make its way through colleges and labs. It's all hitting the mass market, and there's all this territory out there to explore. Awesome. Tasty.
(I also posted about wave messaging, embodied interaction, affordances, design and the iPod scrollwheel on the Mind Hacks weblog: Waving, not designing.)
As is traditional in the new year, let's play "what will Apple release next week?" (It's their big trade show.) Current rumours are a cheap monitor-less iMac and an office application suite. That's no fun. How about:
The iSAN, easy to use home storage. Plug in into your home network, and put it next to the boiler or the laundry machine, perhaps in the basement. Run a service to do trickle backups to a .Mac service online, providing 1Tb of backup space for a yearly subscription. People have loads of data now. It should integrate with iTunes and your stereo (naturally, like the Elgato eyehome), give your TiVo extra storage, and, in fact, provide extra storage to anything in your house that needs it. Paul chipped in (we were talking a little less than a month ago): You should put your laptop down and have it sync, like your iPod does with iTunes. Ah yes, he's right, so we went with that idea for a bit: and that's iProject, archiving your older, less-used files, and keeping the fresh files on your computer (and of course, because it's all networked, you have access to all your files from anywhere, so long as you're on the internet: if you want to pull up a decade old document, it just takes a little longer: the index is on your laptop, and the file flows over to your from your home iSAN, encrypted).
We also talked about active kitchen tiles you could put down and dance over.
The quake in Sumatra and tsunami have hit so many. This single event travelling on a wave of simultaneity has become a thread joining communities and people, against their will, by happening and consequence. By being joined, we see the true size of the world, which is small. But with each community having some shared quality by which it can be considered together with others, all are placed on a single plane and we can see how far apart they are, and again we see the true size of the world, which is large. Every time an observer looks round the corner, something different. I doubt those involved feel joined. It's like language, or money, or HIV; something - a shared but unshared something - that owns those it touches and forcefully subjectifies them.
This is a multi-headed catastrophe. It resists representation. Maybe all changes are like this. We can only feel its weave, microscopically, along fingers of attempted understanding--bridges made out of stories from people we slightly relate to, that make pictures we can barely make out. My mind slides around and off it, but it sits as a knot in my stomach and doesn't move.
I'm scared it foreshadows. It doesn't feel like a once-in-a-lifetime reconfiguration. When the oceans rise and global warming takes hold, it won't be a slow gradient to a different world, it'll happen like this. The world will be punctured by massively shared encounters, yet each always experienced individually, in parallel, and we'll have to battle against that. This is a modern disaster, a natural fundamentalism, not one that respects our borders, not one that travels the traces of our circuitry.
If you haven't, if you're able, and if you want: Give, give.


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On Wednesday, as I sat around the table on the floor pre-class, sipping tea, sleepy from a long day and only vaguely paying attention to my ikebana ladies jabbering away around me, did I realize how comforting it was. Just as the taste of shiso leaf is one of home and nostalgia, so is the feeling of being surrounded by the low hum and occasional exclamation of older women speaking in Japanese. Not a few of my younger years were spent as the only kid around my mom's friends, as they caught up with one another on our visits home to Japan. At the time, I'm sure I was bored and antsy, escaping into whatever heroine-protaganist fantasy novel du jour, but when I look back on it, it's the same warm feeling as falling asleep during a movie in a room full of your favorite people. There's a safety in it that's wholesome and inviting. And to return to a country with a language that I can't help but eavesdrop, I know I'll miss the cozy background chatter that I've grown so accustomed to here.
Yellow calla lilies (1st), Gotto leaves (2nd), Steel Glass (3rd).


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I used to post certain dreams of mine on a Dutch Jungian website: http://kaleidoscope-forum.org/
The site has since closed down, but was invited by a few members to rejoin after a few of my dreams started to come true in major details, such as the arab spring. Most of my dreams don't determine diddly squat, but a handful have. I had a few repetitive dreams, invovling the same mountaintop temple (of unknown denomination) that I would try really hard to get up to, in the second dream (I think it was number two) part of the path took place in the hills above San Francisco Bridge on the San Mateo side. I hadn't been to San Francisco since I was ten, and only at night. I involved me climbing up a sliding hillside after the steps ended, at a certain altitude where I could look down and see the bridge, but still climbing up before reaching the top and moving through a weird industrial area where white cloth were being run through red liquid in spinning stainless steel pools, round and around.... and I thought I had something to do with making it, but didn't recognize the design and purpose.... before pressing higher to the temple where I was late in arriving, everyone else had already left.
I physically moved to San Francisco later on, as in my dreams, it was the only sure point of reference I had. I dumped my stuff on a hillside between the golden gate bridge's highway and a industrial area near Crissy Field above the Army's old Japanese Lnaguage School, and tried tp walk to it. After discovering the sea lever route wasn't any good (it was, just didn't know how to get there using it then) I made it to the bridge, walked across it, and started looking. What I saw was at the very level my dream occured at, a caterpillar excavator was flattening out the very area the dream took place in- previously to that damn near very moment, the very location my dream took place in was underground. One of the forum's members said it looked like Wine Country- the machines used for processing the wine, but I've never seen them, because I've never been that interested in them. Wine country for me is a place where cheese is made, and never bothered to learn the details of liqour manufacturing, as I don't drink.
So I made damn certain I would never head that way. In reality, I wasn't too late, but too damn early. It's been pointed out before by friends I am really stubborn in rejecting causality if I can see it comming and dislike it. Of the three temple dreams, it was my least favorite in showing up to a empty place.
My oldest dream I remember of this type is one occuring in Alaska, I'm on the western coast, moving up on Russians landing there in the winter. I have on a wooden visor, and am wearing the bare minumum in gear, and throw a explosive spear from a altalt at a vehicle, and immediately before it hits start shooting at guys. Later on when I was in the army- years later, I was sent to Alaska.... and was a little concerned about this dream for obvious reasons. It never happened, but was a few months ago offered a job watching a cabin in western Alaska, keeping it's generators going in the winter. The superstition of this dream caused me to decline it. That, plus the naked cabin fevor that would enevitably overcome me.
The details of the Arab Spring dream are deeply insightful, and paralelled the Ivory Coast-Libyian debacle exactingly..... except in key details. It's the reason why I've always payed very close attention to the Air Mountains. In the fall- roughly the time the website I linked to shut down, it was at a fever pitch for me, and pissed off alot of analysts and enthusiasts there. That spring, it struck with a vengence. Like I said, the site is back up on another forum, and I'm invited back, but at this point, I feel weirded out by the accurateness of the dreams, and even more- I feel certain detailes of it not fulfilled, one of which involved me, will come through. In fairness, I am a bit knowledgeable of the whole area NOW, but not when I had this dream. It was egotistically shattering in a sense that it would all be my fault (it's how the dream came out) but now the main wars have happened in the Ivory Coast and Libya.... it's not nearly as incriminating as it was.
Another dream I had was back in early 2009 I think it was. It was me hiking down through Cincinnati, into Kentucky and Tennessee..... and then suddenly I was in the Gulf of Mexico. I was walking along the shore, and knew it was enevitable..... the time I was running away from had finally arrived, and I would live up to it to the best of my abilities. I got into a ship, and went out into the ocean, and headed out. I con't remeber the details anymore- had it written on that site- I think someone fell in, and I dived in, and couldn't reach her..... and started sinking down into a deep darkness. It wasn't like water, and I felt I was dying.... and then I was very still in thick darkness. I knew in my last memory I wouldn't be remembered going there, everyone wouldn't begin to guess where i died.
Well.... that BP oil spill happened later on, and decided against my impulse to go there and help with the cleanup. I still can't shake it..... the feeling of assurity i have that that place, exactly like that- is how I am going to die. It's pressed in me with a surity I can't break no matter the amount of reasoning I give against it. It makes it easier to take unconsciousable risks now.... the sort of stuff the average person wouldn't undertake- stuff I usually wouldn't. I might get injured or introuble, or trapped in some nasty place where I will rot, but it never quite feels like what I will meet my end there. There is a finality I am approaching, and I don't kow the date of it, but I know the place.... and know I will hit it head on, pushing myself the best I ever would despite the consequences. In the meantime, I can strive to do the things I'm too afraid to do. Outside of heading to East Africa or Climbing that hillside in San Mateo, fuck that shit. but everything else.... yeah.
A few other dreams, such as descending backwards on a spaceship in low orbit back into re-entry, I was able to find similar structured dreams in a few other guys..... the Brit 'Robuccus' had a few similarly structured dreams..... to the point the Dutch and the Santa Monican dream Therapists both seemed a bit odded out by, as neither had encountered out dream structures in the past, despite the great similarity we and a few other guys had in overall themes and details.
Anyway, my overall dreaming capacity has dramatically warped in the last few months. In the period above, they could still be interpreted by classical means, but now.... I think my dreaming state is post-lucid- it's a bit more aware that it is a dream, and has awareness it's lacking in certain functions, and just seeks to complete what I was working on during the day- I can get stranded, consciously none stop, on the same intellectual problems, sleeping or waking- for days now at a time, and it causes headaches. I've had a total of six normal dreams in the last two months, and only two of them was uninstigated. The last four have occured the last four nights because it occured to me I wasn't have any sex dreams, just mind numbing engineering solution to problems dreams.... so I've gotten more sex dreams now. Still no twins. I want lustful twins deeply desiring to do unchristian things to me, and I want it to be prophetic. If I get the twins, in dreaming then in real life, I might be willing to finish that climb at the Golden Gate. I'm willing to bargain with the fates here, just let me know- signal me or something. Until then, I'm on strike.


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Microsoft released the Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) with Service Pack 2, an optional but recommended update for FSE customers, including EBS customers. For EBS installations, additional manual steps may be necessary to complete installation. If you selected a separate data partition during Messaging Server installation, steps below apply to you. If you've a single partition on your Messaging Server (i.e. only a C: drive), you can skip steps and apply service pack without any additional steps. Install FSE SP2 on EBS Messaging Server with separate data partition: 1. Download and save it locally. Don't run it at this time. 2. Extract contents by running: setup.exe /x 3. Open folder you extracted files to and copy engineinfo.cab to <DRIVE>:\Windows Essential Business Server\FSEData\Engines folder on your data drive. 4. Run setup.exe from folder you extracted update. 5. Follow prompts of installation wizard to complete setup.
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Heya. This post is about a match made in sewing heaven. A button up shirt called Archer and jeans called Ginger. These two are making a frequent appearance in my outfit rotation and let me tell you more about them.
The shirt pattern is the Archer Button Up shirt from Grainline Patterns. For my version I sewed up View A in size 10 in the bust and 8 in the waist and hips. As this is a wearable muslin, I picked a vintage rayon fabric I wasn't too sure about whether I'd like on me or not so if it did end up not fitting me at all, I wouldn't end up wasting a fabric I loved. In the end the fit was pretty good and I love the fabric on me. For my next version I'll need to shorten the shoulders by 1cm and work on the fit of the sleeves.
The issue I have with these sleeves is mainly the width. They are just simply too wide especially at the cuffs. And I'd like to have the sleeves a tad shorter as well. However these aren't issues that bother me enough to take the sleeves apart, just something I'd need to fix on the pattern so the next time I make an Archer, it'll fit me perfectly.
I finished the raw edges with my trusted overlocker and hemmed the shirt with rolled hem. And I decided to use a cornflower blue thread for topstitching just because I can. And it matched perfectly with the blue flowers in the print and also with the blue buttons I chose for the shirt.
The jeans are Ginger Jeans by Closet Case Files and they are my second Ginger jeans which meant I had almost no fit adjustments to do because I got the fit pretty close with my Marble Gingers. The only adjustment I did this time was tweak the crotch seam shape a bit for a better fit and now I think it's pretty close to perfect. The seams are finished with overlock and I chose a bronze denim topstitching thread to make the jeans look professional. I also installed bronze rivets that match the topstitching thread
The fabric is a simple blue denim I found in the remnant bin and has just enough stretch to be comfortable. Unfortunately it is very prone to pilling and I need to clean up the pills after every two or so washes.


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A former Marine from Orangevale has pleaded guilty in a bizarre Vallejo kidnapping in which the victims at first were accused by police of concocting the abduction.
Thomas Johnson is Matthew Muller's defense attorney. Speaking outside the federal court in Sacramento, Johnson explained the rationale behind his client's guilty plea.
"Mr. Muller wanted to resolve the case. He did not want to have a trial where Ms. Huskins would testify. Mr. Muller was trying to show that he was accepting responsibility. We feel that this is the way that will someday open a door to him to return to society."
Denise Hoskins was safely dropped off in Huntington Beach two days after the kidnapping.
As part of the plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney recommended a 40 year sentence for Muller. But the judge will ultimately decide whether to follow that recommendation.


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Mass Effect 3's (ME3) Extended Cut got its due release on Tuesday, 26 June after the Mass Effect (ME) fan community expressed its dissatisfaction over the original ending with broken storyline. The extended ending DLC promised to bring more clarity to the ending with detailed cinematic sequences and extended epilogue scenes.
According to Digital Spy, BioWare's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Casey Hudson, later admitted that the extended ending will expand the story and add value, but will not satisfy everybody. Though, the BioWare team is excited to receive the gamers' feedback positively and serve their need for a better ending, there are some things that cannot be changed whatsoever.
"Ultimately our passion is entertaining people, so delighting them with our stories and giving them amazing worlds to escape to, that's what we love to do, so in this medium it just wouldn't make sense for us to make some kind of artistic statement, and then turn our backs on it forever," explained Hudson, according to The Official Xbox Magazine, OXM.
BioWare's lead writer, Mac Walters, also gives a similar opinion about the extended ending. ME3 Extended Cut DLC is "about taking the things that are there and making them shine even more," asserts Walters. As opposed to "trying to change and adapt what's there to reach for a broad audience that's looking for something that was just never intended," he adds.
Walters further reveals how BioWare is tied down with certain feedback that cannot be addressed, wherein some people rejected the entire outcome of the endings outright and requested the game maker to redo everything from scratch. "And we can't do that because that's not our story, we wouldn't know how to write that story," explains Walters.
"What excites us is the challenge of learning how people consume our stories, so it's a learning process for everybody. And then incorporating that feedback, that's how we make our work better.
"You can never completely satisfy everyone. We've seen a whole range of feedback, ranging from people who wanted a total redo, to people who had concerns and questions about the original endings, to people who loved the original endings and have told us they don't want to change anything," concludes BioWare's lead writer.
Spoilers Ahead... Tread With Caution
Nevertheless, the extended ending seems to address more than a few broken pieces in the storyline, according to various reports circulating on the internet following the release of the much-awaited ME3 ending DLC on 26 June. If you completed playing Mass Effect 3 with the original ending then you are likely to witness the fate of the galaxy and realise the consequences of your actions and decisions through the Extended Cut DLC. Accordingly, you will be presented with three versions of concluding narratives - one each from Admiral Hackett, EDI or Synthetic-Shepard.
If you chose the synthetic option, you might signal the end of the human race that will be taken over by machines or rather half-human and half-machines called "Cyborgs" that trigger exciting possibilities for the future of the series. Despite BioWare's dedicated efforts to restore credibility to the broken endings, it seems the extended ending also has a few noticeable chinks. Poor still shots take precedence over a full-fledged video to portray the status of the crew members - of those who lived and remembering those who died - given BioWare's intentions of keeping the size of the DLC to a bare minimum - 1.9GB.
Quite expectedly, the mysterious Indoctrination Theory finds no explanation whatsoever, raising further questions on BioWare's ignorance about the trilogy's key concept. As FirstPost notes, "the bigger weak links in the plot like the Ghost Child and the explanation for why the Reapers periodically harvest all advanced organic life in the galaxy, aren't dealt with nearly as well."
It seems the mystery behind the Reaper invasion on Earth is still in the dark, as BioWare has repeatedly failed to give a logical explanation for the same, much to the chagrin of avid Mass Effect fans.
"So there's no doubt that there will be a whole new wave of discussion and debate, maybe even controversy. But we didn't do the Extended Cut because we're trying to make everybody happy, make it perfect - we just saw an opportunity to expand on things that we felt could add value to the experience, for those that appreciate it," concludes Casey Hudson, according to OXM.


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The Dangers of World-Building/
An article today on NPR about fantasy world-building suggests that what was once for the most outcast of nerds is (along with general geekdom) gaining more widespread acceptance, that the incredibly detailed worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Robert Jordan have a definite – and perhaps lauded – place. I'm a total geek. I love my world-building. I've been building a world for my stories for years, and it's great fun. And I certainly hope to be able to communicate some of that detail – and some of that love for the world – to my audience.
But to my mind – and I've heard the same from multiple writers and readers – there's a danger here. A couple, actually. Danger one is that as a writer, you spend too much time figuring out the world and not enough actually writing a story.
The more interesting danger is having to keep the balance between the world detail you put into your story to make it compelling, and having so much in there that it becomes boring. Yes, all that great detail about Middle Earth or Westeros does make the world feel more real, make it easier to immerse yourself in it, but it can also ruin the experience if it gets in the way of the story.
A lot of people I know loved the story of The Lord of the Rings and hated the writing. I don't need to know the entire history of the sword to understand why it's important; I just need a sliver of that. I would rather read a really compelling story that shows me just enough of the world to believe it, to be interested, and to want more. And then, if I do want more, maybe have some place to get more. Like an appendix. Or a wiki.
And this, I think, is one of the powers of (good) transmedia storytelling. I don't have to shoehorn all that world lore into my story; I can create other resources and other stories to explore it instead. Or maybe I can create an enhanced version of the book, where you can click on a name to get its full family history and coat of arms – but if you're not interested, or you want to come back later, you don't have to.
You can't argue with numbers, and Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice and Fire, and Wheel of Time are all hugely well-selling series. But then, so is Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, and they gave us just enough world information to make the story interesting.


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Our team of dedicated teachers and classroom assistants ensure that teaching Al Muna is outstanding. The needs of each individual child are met through engaging and interactive learning and the use of high-quality resources and facilities. Our rich and varied curriculum is driven by the interests of pupils through a learner-led, enquiry-based approach.
We have four key values of co-operation, consideration, courtesy and common sense which provide a strong foundation for our pupils to develop as rounded, moral citizens with the attributes and skills to shape the future.
Thank you for taking the time to look at our website and considering entrusting your child's education to Al Muna Academy. We hope you will join thousands of other parents who have chosen an Aldar Academies school as the stepping stone to their students' future.
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Thank you for your initial interest in an Aldar Academy. As a leading provider of private education in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, Aldar Academies has fast grown into a highly sought after institution. We prepare over 6,500 students across six Academies in Abu Dhabi and one in Al Ain to help shape the future. Our Academies are constantly winning the praise of Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge as providers of high quality education.
One of the most respected and in-demand study options in the world, the English National Curriculum creates confident students with independent minds. Project-based learning engages and inspires a love of learning among students.
The teaching of Arabic subjects is based on the guidance and materials prescribed by the Ministry of Education. It keeps local and other native Arabic speaking and Muslim children familiar with their national identity and religion. In addition, our international students gain an understanding of the UAE's heritage which helps enhance mutual understanding, peaceful co-existence and cross-cultural harmony and tolerance.
Al Muna Primary School has received an unprecedented "Outstanding" grade from the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC).
Year 1 and 2 children enjoying the annual sports day.
Children showing their entrepreneurial skills and independence at the table top sale.
Sports day information and results for year 3 and 4.
On The 20th of November, The Cosmic Dome was held in the sports hall. Classes from year 1 to year 6 had the opportunity to witness the story of space and the world around us.
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Please check out my Raglan, New Zealand post – it is finally COMPLETE!!!
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In future, I will make sure I finish posts before publishing them for all to see. Thanks for your patience 🙂


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Four crying out loud, Mike the Accoustic Dad has slipped this meme into my mind. Thanks Mike.
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Adult teacher guy, wholesale/retail houseplant guy, desktop publishing and web guy, video production guy.
Four movies you could [and do] watch over and over:
The 5th Element, Blazing Saddles, Being There, Amélie, Chocolat (I know it's five, get over it).
Four places you've lived:
Stoke-on-Trent, England; Melbourne, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand; Wanganui, New Zealand
Four fiction books you can't live without:
J.R.R. Tolkein – Lord of the Rings; Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; H G Wells – War of the Worlds;
Four non-fiction books you consider essential:
Kama Sutra; Kathryn Bold – True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals; John Brookes – The Complete Practical Guide to Planning, Styling and Planting Any Garden
Four TV shows you love to watch:
Off is my favourite, the number of channels is infinite; I used to like Daily Keno (it only lasted a minute and had interesting facts, but now it's just reruns of numbers); Babylon 5, Northern Exposure.
Four places you've been on vacation:
Køge, Danmark; Townsville, Australia; Guangzhou, Peoples' Republic of China; and Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand
Four web sites you visit daily:
Trevor Romain; Mark Bernstein; Marica's Meanderings (but only if I know she's updated);
Four of your favorite foods:
Gado gado, Mum's frikadeller, Marica's gnocchi, beetroot on peanut butter on wholemeal toast with lashings of freshly ground black pepper; soft boiled eggs (yes, I know, five – harden up).
Four places you'd rather be:
Wellington, New Zealand; Green Island (off Cairns) used to be wonderful; Tokomaru Bay;
Four albums you can't live without:
What? Only four? You have got to be kidding. Here's some…Van Morrison – Magic Time; Penguin Cafe – When In Rome; Yo Yo Ma + Bobby McFerrin – Hush; Ottmar Liebert – The Hours Between Night and Day…


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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) Jordan Perry threw two first-half touchdown passes and Northern Arizona held on to defeat UC Davis 23-21 on Saturday.
Ben Scott threw a 27-touchdown pass to Ramon Vargas midway through the third quarter, and hit Vargas again for a 47-yard score to pull UC Davis (1-8, 0-6 Big Sky) within 23-21 with 8:56 to play. Blake Bailey intercepted Scott at the Aggie 48 with 1:11 left to seal it for the Lumberjacks.
Perry connected with Ify Umodu with a 52-yard strike and threw to Beau Gardner for a 1-yard score. Ryan Hawkins made field goals from 37, 41 and 33 yards, and the Lumberjacks led 23-7 at halftime.
Northern Arizona (7-3, 5-1) has won four straight, including a 28-27 victory over conference-leader Eastern Washington (9-2, 6-1) on Oct. 25, but couldn't gain ground on the Eagles, who beat Montana (6-4, 4-2) 36-26 on Saturday.


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Tom Cotter returns to troll through Detroit and discover long forgotten classics in Motor City Barn Finds. You won't believe some of the rides he finds. Detroit has been America's Motor City for decades. It's home to Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, as well as numerous auto industry companies and specialty and speed shops. At the same time, it's the poster child for urban blight and dysfunction. It's truly a city of contrasts, which presented challenges and opportunities in equal measure to barn finder Tom Cotter.
In Motor City Barn Finds, Cotter plies his trade in a locale rich with automotive history. Detroit's lost cars are abandoned in empty lots, resident in decrepit buildings, squirreled away in garages, and stashed in historic wrecking yards. Behind the wheel of his classic 1939 Ford Woodie, Cotter trolls the back streets and neighborhoods of this historic city looking for lost automotive gems accompanied by photographer Michael Alan Ross.
As America's Motor City, Detroit is an emotional and historical mecca for car enthusiasts, capable of drawing hundreds of thousands of car people for events like Woodward Dream Cruise and attracting design-forward companies like Shinola. At the same time, it's intimidating to navigate, with numerous dodgy neighborhoods and risky abandoned factory sites. Add it all together and you have fascinating and intriguing opportunities to dig for barn-find gold.
Tom Cotter has been involved in nearly every end of the automotive and racing industries over the span of his career. From mechanic and auto salesman to heading the public relations department at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Cotter formed his own racing and automotive PR and marketing agency, Cotter Group. The agency represented some of the largest clients in NASCAR, IndyCar/CART, drag racing, and road racing. He has written biographies of the legendary Holman-Moody race team, Tommy Ivo and Dean Jeffries, but is best known for his series of barn find books, such as Cobra in the Barn, 50 Shades of Rust, and Barn Find Road Trip. Cotter appears in the Barn Find Hunter video series, which is distributed by Hagerty Insurance. He teaches public relations at Belmont Abbey College, sits on the advisory board of McPherson College's Auto Restoration program, and is a member of the Road Racing Driver's Club (RRDC). He lives in Davidson, North Carolina.
Michael Alan Ross has carved out a career photographing the studied nuances, latest models, adrenaline-rushed raceways, and proud owners of the car world. His love of automotive design includes an encyclopedic knowledge of sculptural engineering details with a parallel appreciation for the evolution of componentry. Michael's photography is featured in Motorbooks' Barn Find Road Trip and Rockin' Garages, as well as in a wide range of editorial and advertising in the US and Europe. He lives in San Rafael, California.


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This is the first time I've started with a Project Zomboid server and I've had server experience before, just not with GameServers. Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to set certain admin privileges for in-game users but I can't seem to figure out how? I've checked (most of) the files on my FTP for the server and can't seem to find anything. Along with that, from my previous server experience there was a real-time console that would allow me to do certain things in the server real-time and I'm not sure how to access that either.
I'd love some help, thanks!
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Elegant Hotels in Barbados close the Colony Club hotel for refurbishment works
The Colony Club hotel in St James, Barbados has announced that it will be closing for a month to carry out extensive refurbishment works throughout the hotel with the aim of offering a better experience to guests enjoying Barbados holidays at the resort.
The Colony Club hotel in St James, Barbados has just announced to future guests that it will be closing temporarily for general updating and maintenance works to be carried out throughout the entire property. The hotel, already a favourite among tourists seeking family-friendly Barbados holidays, will be closed for one month only, starting 1st September and finishing on 30th September 2012, when all renovation works are expected to be completed. The resort will be officially reopening and welcoming back guests on 1st October 2012.
During this time of closure scheduled for the end of summer 2012, the resort will be conducting general maintenance and repairment works all around the resort as well as carrying out improvements and enhancing existing infrastructure throughout the entire hotel property. The upgrades are expected to build upon Colony Club's recent renovation works, which had focused primarily on the resort's outdoor dining areas and will now extend to other equally important areas.
The popular family resort in Barbados had also recently added a new contemporary outdoor island lounge area, as well as giving a refreshing update of the seating area in the Laguna restaurant. For the delight of all sun-bathers and pool loungers looking forward to lazing around the pool or beach during their Barbados holidays, the Colony Club all sun-deck furniture has also been entirely replaced with a more modern and stylish design.
In addition to all this, there have also been many subtle upgrades to individual guest rooms and the reception area, while new ambiance lighting has been installed throughout the property and gardens.
The additional works to be carried out throughout September 2012 will put the Colony Club hotel among some of the most modern and recently updated Barbados hotels with the refreshing makeover expected to have a positive impact among new prospective guests and past repeat guests at the resort.
Gayle Talma, General Manager of the Colony Club said, "The temporary closure of the hotel allows us to focus on completing the upgrades as quickly as possible without disruption to our guests."
"Our goal is to give the hotel a fresh, new modern look while retaining the classic Bajan ambiance that Colony Club is known for. We know our loyal guests will be pleased with the end result and look forward to welcoming them back to one of the Island's best loved hotels".
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Average DAPS Reader: Ends Up On The Daily Show Propagating Italian Stereotypes
Staten Island, DAPS' home base, is widely known for it's guidos. Seriously, we make the best ones.
Last night, The Daily Show decided to put a bunch of Staten Islanders in a room and asked them to prove the borough's ability to produce a Supreme Court Justice, because we are the only borough in NYC to not be represented in the Supreme Court. But who cares about that, our very own Captain America a.k.a. Joe So Delicious (from over at emiliosparks.com and The Emilio Sparks Experience) appeared in the segment, and pretty much stole the show!
While I can't personally condone the whole guido thing, I have to give it up to Wyatt Cenac for producing a segment that doesn't bore me to death! j/k! (or am I?)


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Chambon, Adrienne , Johnstone, Marjorie and Winckler, Julia (2011) The material presence of early social work: the practice of the archive The British Journal of Social Work, 41 (4). pp. 625-644. ISSN 1468-263XFull text not available from this repository.
This article focuses on the practice of archival research and addresses the methodology and work of interpretation that are at stake in dealing with a multiplicity of archival media: texts, images and objects. It raises questions that arise from the archive of a Toronto child-care agency that celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2009. This work is part of a project that links social work practices to cultural representations. By exploring the knowledge and practices of early social work in English Canada, and the culturally marked assumptions of an era whose influence has continued to this day, we seek to understand social work practices in conjunction with broader debates or disputes of the time. Treating each source as a material object shows us the multifaceted nature of the agency's work, as each material fragment brings another angle of comprehension into view.
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Who is Rodney Clarke?
- I am a people person and love helping others
- I do not consider myself to be an academic, I am perhaps what you would consider 'street smart' however, I am no fool.
- I believe in transparency, no hidden agendas, doing the right thing, standing up for what you believe in and telling the truth as only honesty leads to trust.
- I have nothing to hide from anyone which affords me a strength beyond comparison.
- If you want to know anything about me just ask and I will tell you.
- I don't like wasting time or effort of either myself or of anyone else – our time on this planet is brief and I have too much to do (as I am sure you do to).
- I respect the views of other people, I may not agree, but that is my choice.
- I am goal oriented and I don't give up.
- I form an opinion based upon evidence, and make decisions based upon my opinion. If I hear a better opinion, which is based upon new or different evidence, I may change my opinion and perhaps make a different decision.
- I am not afraid of making decisions, if I am wrong, I will make another decision to fix it.
- I have learned to trust my 'gut' as it rarely fails me.
What has Rodney Clarke achieved?
- Justice of the Peace Reg No. 115198 (since 1988)
- Managing Director & Owner, Tech Teams Australia – Recruitment Agency (Employing 20 staff). Business was sold in 2003.
- Level 6 Certified Practicing Project Director (CPPD) with the Australian Institute of Project Management (This is an internationally recognised accreditation and is the highest level obtainable in Australia) – Project Management since 1995.
- Managing Director & Owner, CTQ Management Consulting – Project Management and consulting organisation since 2001
- Seven Years, Chairman, The Daniel Clarke Foundation – Charity to assist the care of children with Athetoid Cerebral Palsy
- Author of, "The Home Budgeting Kit" (Self help book to assist in the establishing a home budget)
- Author of, "Hey Dad" Blog (Since 2007) hosted by Cerebral Palsy Alliance (formerly known as The Spastic Centre of NSW) (The Hey Dad Blog achieved the highest rating on blogger for the disability sector)
- President of the School Council, Terrey Hills Public School – 7 years (2001-2007)
- Media liaison on issues such as;
- Promotion and sales operations of the book, "Tears In The Jungle" written by Daniel and William Clarke
- Promotion of Daniel Clarke's quest to save the orangutan with local and national media ($800,000+ raised to save the orangutan)
- Coordination of the issue of Teachers Aide Funding for children with a disability through Federal and State government agencies as well as discussions with the Leader of the Opposition, Barry O'Farrell and the Premier of NSW, Kristina Keneally.
- Sporting
- Five times Australian Ice Dance Champion (Junior/Senior)
- Five times representative at World Figure Skating Championships (18th in the world highest ranking) – (1 x Junior, 4 x Senior)
- Represented Australia at the 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary in Ice Dancing (20th in the world)
- Was the first ever Australian to represent the country at a Winter Olympic in Ice Dancing (with skating partner Monica MacDonald)
- Have been a drummer and percussionist since I was 9 years and regularly gig around Sydney at different venues.
If you would like to contact me you can do so at rodney @ TheClarkeFamily.com.au or call me on 0414 444 376


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We just wrapped up an amazing songwriting and recording session in Brooklyn and we're still smiling from the results. A huge thanks to all of our families and students, as well as the awesome team at Bunker Studios. As many of you know, writing lyrics is a tough job, but NonExplicit (our 11-12 year old band) really nailed it with "Shoeshiner." Check out the lyrics and song below!
Every day I shine their shoes, they don't look me in the eye
They all sit their in their suits, but their lives are just a lie
They just read their magazines, and they never want to talk
What if I could be a shoe, what if I could be a sock
Walking down the street, people looking at your feet, and they wonder why they look so fine
Shoeshiner, come to me
Shoeshiner, shine my feet
Shoeshiner, shine on me, oh yeah
What if nobody wore socks, what if nobody wore shoes
Wouldn't need me anymore, I don't know what I would do
But for now I still exist, and my future will be saved
You can find me on the street, shining shoes all night and day


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|A sailboat waits patiently.
Last week I was visiting Chicago, and I was walking around with my friend, and just as we got to crossing the Chicago River over a bridge, alarms started going off. Lights were flashing, cars had to stop, and guys in reflective outerwear started shouting and telling everyone to get off the bridge.
We soon understood that the bridge was going to open. That is, the two sides of the bridge were going to go up, so that something could pass underneath. After the obligatory selfie-takers were finally shooed away, we all stood waiting in anticipation. And waiting. And waiting. And then: nothing. The alarms stopped; the cars were allowed back on the road.
As we crossed -- a bit nervously -- we chatted with our fellow citizens, and learned the basic fact that that the bridge goes up and down to allow for sailboats to cross from one side to the other. In fact, as we learned on the internet, this bridge opens twice a week during the fall and spring, so sailboats can move between their winter resting places and their summer sailing places.
But why didn't it go up? A reflective outerwear person told us that something had malfunctioned and that they were going to try again. We decided to wait and watch. A few minutes later, the alarms started going off, lights were flashing, cars had to stop, and so on. A larger crowd buzzed around, all of us waiting in anticipation. And waiting. And waiting. And then: nothing.
My friend was tired and decided to go in, but something about the scene transfixed me. I talked to the guys, and they said they were going to try one more time. So I decided to wait.
It was a pretty awesome spot, actually. It was May, and cool and windy, but the sun was shining down. On the corner, some street musicians including a saxophonist were playing incredible music, including classics from The Jackson Five. I looked down, and saw the people in their sailboats, waiting for the bridge, and hoping it would work. Soon they tried again, the whole rigamarole with stopped traffic and get the selfie-takers off, and -- nothing.
It was so nice, standing there, I decided to stick around to see what would happen. Would they give up? Eventually I saw a repair truck down in the lower level of the bridge, and I figured they must be trying to fix something. Down below, about half a dozen sailboats were meandering around, just drifting, waiting for the bridge.
I figured I'd hang out and wait. Something about the whole scene was so pleasant and satisfying. Part of it had to do with the bridge and the problem themselves. I don't know how to else to phrase this, but it was so refreshing to be encountering such a straightforward situation. Boats are too tall to pass under bridge. Bridge usually goes up, but isn't working. Let's try to fix the bridge. It all seemed so ... real, so non-virtual, so embedded in the world of things.
I got to thinking about how many of the things I deal with -- in life, and in academia, and in philosophy -- have none of these qualities. My things are complicated, and nuanced, and mixed. When there are problems, it's often not obvious what a "solution" would be, or even if there is one. Things that are better from one point of view seem worse from another. There are a lot of perspectives to take into account.
This bridge situation had none of that. Boats are too tall to pass under bridge. Bridge usually goes up, but isn't working. Let's try to fix the bridge.
As I waited, I thought about how amazing the engineering of a bridge like that is. This bridge -- the "DuSable Bridge," as I learned -- opened in 1920, and back in the day it would open around 3,000 times a year. I thought about how amazing cities are, and how so many people had to cooperate on a massive scale to get the bridge made but also to organize the opening and closing and making sure the sailboat people were ready when the bridge was going to open.
Around me, the city was bouncing with life. A street performer dressed all in silver with a bright silver hat wandered over to where one the sailboats was lolling on the side of the river, so he could talk to the sailboat people. A woman with a baby in a stroller stood beside me and listened to the musicians and watched the water. Eventually, a gang of high school students came by, and two of them started dancing together -- like, real partner dancing, with dips and swinging around and the whole nine yards. The reflective outerwear people and everyone else whooped their appreciation.
Finally, the alarms went off. I was surprised how invested I'd become in this bridge going up. I wanted the sailboat people to be happy, but more than that I wanted to experience this miracle of this huge and heavy bridge from 1920 just lifting up into the air, like it was nothing, like we do this all the time.
Cars off, selfie-takers whisked away, a pause... and up it went! Only on the right hand side. I don't know if that was intentional or what, but it didn't matter, it was plenty of space. Sailboats used their motors to zoom on through. Boats I hadn't seen that were lingering behind a curve came into view, and they too zoomed on under the bridge.
Merriment and happiness. People clapping and hollering. Total life-affirmingness. As I sauntered away, the musicians shifted gears into Guns 'n' Roses, and much as I love GnR in their own weird way, this wasn't the moment. I picked up the pace and scampered off into the city.


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Measuring the health of Mt. Tam
Maintaining a healthy, vibrant and diverse Mt. Tam begins with understanding how key ecological resources are faring, and how we can better care for this iconic and beloved place.
One Tam partners and Bay Area scientists have come together to try to answer the question: How healthy are Mt. Tam's natural resources?
Plants & Fungi
Mt. Tam hosts over 750 native plant species that make up rich array of native plant communities. These communities, and their arrangement on the landscape, are the foundation of ecosystem health.
Not every plant community type or rare plant species on Mt. Tam was included in this health assessment process. Additional information about this health assessment process, including how indicators were chosen, is available in the What We Did section of this site.
Good indicators are easily measured, have low "noise," and often reveal some other aspect of ecosystem health. Rare plants—important aspects of biodiversity in their own right—also play a role in indicating the health of particular ecosystems. Both vegetation communities and individual rare plant populations may also show the effects of stressors such as alteration of natural disturbance regimes (e.g., grazing, fire), climate change, and invasion by non-native species. Lichen and fungi are also important components of the mountain's health about which much less is known. You can learn more about this and some of the other vegetation data gaps revealed through this health assessment process here.
Find out more about the health of the mountain's rarest flora and other plant communities through the links in the images above.


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The conclusion of "Mark of the Phantasm!"
The Story:
With Jake Chill dead and buried (cremated), Terry isn't feeling so good afterwards, and while talking with Max and Dana, he realizes Bruce has reached out to them in an effort to sort of try and put Terry at ease. In a low-key confrontation with Bruce about Dana and Max being brought in, and after seeing what has happened with Dick, Barb, and Tim over the years, Terry feels like he needs to remove himself from the situation. "Just like the others" Bruce says.
Elsewhere, turns out that Andrea was working with Amanda Waller, who asks what Terry knows and whether or not Bruce was really hiding the Jake Chill info from him. Andrea doesn't know, but you can tell she feels shitty about the whole situation. Waller continues that it's only a matter of time before Bruce figures out her involvement, Andrea was a good smoke screen, but only a few people could flag Chill's DNA. Andrea asks if it even matters if Bruce finds out Waller has been meddling behind the scenes, she already did what she set out to do, give the world a new Batman.
Finally, we see the birth of the Arkham Institute from early on in the series, Rewire before he becomes Rewire, and Ghoul offering to help him learn how to control his powers. Flash forward to the present, and Ghoul is breaking Rewire out of stasis.
The Thoughts:
Overall, this was a really good arc. Everything wrapped up where you thought it would, given how the series launched a year into the future with all these changes having already taken place. A few questions still remain, like what happened to Terry and Dana, (unless he just pushed her away after Bruce talked to her?) but I'm sure that'll be dealt with at some other time. Overall, if there was something I wanted a little more out of this arc, it would be more Phantasm. For a story with her in the title, she just boiled down to sort of being a B plot to everything else, which to me is a disappointment, given how I said a couple of weeks ago that I thought she was the most criminally underused element of the Batman mythos. Despite that, like I said, still a pretty good story, and I'm curious to see what next week's issue will be if it acts as an epilogue to this story.


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Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be challenging to execute successfully. This substantial collection of the world's best brochure design offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and armloads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. With a clean, engaging presentation, this volume is a highly visual collection of ideas for everything from choosing type to selecting photo treatments, and everything in between.
Public (http://www.publicdesign.com), based in San Francisco, CA, specializes in branding, print and environmental graphics. Clients include Nordstrom, the Great Schools, Forest Circle, Vanilla Moon, Greenopia, and many others.


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Not only is Star Trek: Deep Space NIne my favorite science fiction show, it is my favorite show PERIOD! I still think it is the second best written drama ever on television. The first being St. Elsewhere, since they always ask.......
Liked Dresden Files, even though I'm not into witches and warlocks stuff. Never heard of Jekell.
Valjeanne Jeffers said:
No, so ha ha (laugh). The Dresden Files was about this cool sorcerer who was also a private investigator, for the magic world. And one of the entities he had to answer to was a very grumpy Brother -- can you believe that :)?
Jekell was this hyped up, really cool J/H series on PBS. Although now that you mention it Hyde did have fangs sometimes, and there were vampires in The Dresden Files....hmmm. Oh well, you got me (laugh)!
Firefly is still at the top of the list for me. Battlestar Galactica remake is a close second. Been meaning to watch DS9 for years but it seems dry. One day i'm just gonna charge forward and tear through em!!! One day.
Good taste! LOL As far as anime, I had forgot about Cowboy Bebob!!
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Firefly stands out the most in my mind.
Throw in anime and i can name whole franchises though.
I liked the first two seasons of Farscape when O'Bannion was running the show, but when Kemper took over it became silly and I've never been a fan of silly, which is why I couldn't deal with Bufffy, of Firefly or anything Josh Wheedon.
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Farscape is my all time favorite ever. The individual characters were roundly developed over the course of the series and absence of a fight as a first choice - win every fight mentality in the main characters was another thing that got me hooked. They actually lost many fights and were often captured and tortured. I saw every episode from season two onwards and videotaped them while watching them. When the SciFi channel re-ran the series prior to showing the Farscape movie i videotaped them all in sequence to get season one, and once i found out about downloading music, movies and TV shows from torrents i downloaded the whole Farscape series and have all the episodes (minus commercials) in my computer ready to burn on DVD.
I'm gonna add Dark Matter and I don't know how I missed Fringe.
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Primeval, DS9, Babylon5, Red Dwarf and SG-1
I liked Star Trek, and back farther than that I liked ON STEP BEYOND (remember that one) and Twilight Zone.
Doctor Who.
Although I'd been aware of the series since the late 70's, I'm a relative newcomer to Who fandom. (Having only begun watching a few years after the 2005 relaunch of the series).
Despite it having been around for nearly 55 years, I find that the premise of the series still has legs, and (in the proper creative hands), can still thrill and entertain.
When the series introduced The Doctor's first companions of color (Mickey Smith and Martha Jones), the show resonated even deeper with me, and I've stuck with it ever since, despite the departure of both Mickey and Martha.
I'm eagerly awaiting the start of Series 10 this week, and the introduction of a new companion of color "Bill", played by Pearl Mackie.
Doctor Who.