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Anyone within shutter range of celebrities can use their cellphone cameras, and nerve, to launch themselves onto gossip sites ...Read the full article
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Jason Richard from Windsor, ON, Canada writes: Boo hoo. And are we supposed to feel sorry for these paparazzi who have made their living by invading people's privacy time and time again? I think not! Maybe it's time to get a real job instead of making a living by stalking people.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 6:25 AM EST | Link to Comment
Rollo M Tomasi from Belgium writes: There's a paparazzi in all of us screaming to get out?
- Posted 10/09/07 at 6:32 AM EST | Link to Comment
Some Other Guy from Canada writes: This article, which seems to be about the blight of the poor paparazzi, wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Globe invites readers to send in their TIFF pictures, would it?
- Posted 10/09/07 at 10:36 AM EST | Link to Comment
Noone Anywhere from Canada writes: Why is this ON THE FRONT PAGE??? Don't celebrity fluff pieces belong in the Review section? The Globe gets worse by the day.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 10:56 AM EST | Link to Comment
Rolloff deBunk from Calgary - centre of American wannabe's, Canada writes: This goes to show that shots of those beautiful people dont have to be beautiful - a reasonable facsimile will do!
- Posted 10/09/07 at 11:14 AM EST | Link to Comment
Kevin Dooley from Canada writes: All I can say is ... Thank God I'm not a celebrity. Sounds horrible.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 12:49 PM EST | Link to Comment
A Yu from Barbieston, Canada writes: "The (Four Seasons) hotel has strict policies barring photography in its public areas." Even for guests? Remind me not to stay there the next time I visit Toronto.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 3:49 PM EST | Link to Comment
J K GALBRAITH from Canada writes: I agree with many of the comments posted above regarding this specific article. However, it is a representative of a larger issue regarding the entire Film Festival and the media coverage. From almost the day of the pre-festival news conference by the organizers, where they release the list of celebrities attending the festival, there seems to be a greater focus on them than on the films by all media. Whether it is the CBC or the Globe and Mail, the film coverage seems now to be secondary. In the sports world, they often tell what type of a person you act by how you have responded after scoring a goal, hitting a homerun, or scoring a touchdown. The advice given to young players is to act like you have done it before! After over 25 years, you would think Torontonians and the local media could act like the festival has been there before and that high profile performers have visited the city before. Please stop going gaga over every celebrity who attends the festival and remember that the festival is about the films and performances that take place on the screen and not outside the movie theatres. Even the small town of Sundance, Utah seems to act more grown up and world class about the celebrities than Toronto and its media. Let's have two pages of coverage about the films, directors, writers, and their performances for every one page of star gazing and gossiping rather than the other way around which seems to be the case. Is the Globe and Mail up to the challenge of making Toronto seem like the world class city that it is in how it reports on TIFF?
- Posted 10/09/07 at 4:17 PM EST | Link to Comment
C Web from Kingston, Canada writes: Maybe some of these talented photographers will leave the tabloid world and persue REAL photography work or art.
And as tabloids seek out cheap amateur shots, the quality of the magazines will degrade and perhaps too will the level of readership and fascination with celebrities.
We can only hope.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 5:54 PM EST | Link to Comment
Jason Richard from Windsor, ON, Canada writes: @ J K GALBRAITH - Very well put! I agree 110%.
- Posted 10/09/07 at 6:32 PM EST | Link to Comment
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Last Wednesday 11 November, Terence Maloon officially opened the Tin Shed Art Group 2oth Anniversary Exhibition.
Featuring artists Jennifer Adams, Noelle Bell, Joan Costanzo, Clare Hughes, Ken Miller, Alan pomeroy, Jaquie Rogers, Mort Schipp, Peggy Spratt and Patricai Wheatstone.
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I have been eating chia seeds for awhile now. Chia seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins, and packs 16 grams of protein in every 3 oz serving. In our house, they get sprinkled on top of a yogurt parfait with some crunchy pumpkin seeds, and other times they get added to a round of vanilla almond granola, or tossed into a batch of warm blueberry muffins.
But the one way I had never eaten these powerhouse seeds was to try them as the main ingredient – up to this point they were only a supporting character in my effort to eat better. It's not that I was scared of them, but it just seemed so weird when I saw things like chia seed "pudding."
Really? Seeds taste like pudding? Pudding doesn't normally have seeds, well, at least no pudding I had met so far. Sure, creamy vanilla or chocolate pudding – sign me up. Seed pudding? Uh….??
But try it I must. It's something new to me and even though it could have been horrible (it's delicious by the way!) I had to give it a try. So I looked around for recipe ideas and decided on trying this pudding for breakfast. Nothing more than soaking some chia seeds in your favorite nut milk and fifteen minutes later you have a protein packed, super flavorful and creamy breakfast pudding.
The chia seeds soak up all the milk and honestly, turn into pudding. It's no vanilla or chocolate pudding – those are in a league all their own – but the chia and almond milk become very "pudding-like." I think this pudding is best served chilled with some sweet peaches, fresh raspberries and toasted almonds slivers but if you can't wait for a turn in the fridge you can eat it as soon as the seeds absorb the milk. And if you like your breakfast on the sweet side, drizzle a bit of agave nectar or honey over the top of everything.
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2 tablespoons chia seeds
2/3 cup almond milk (or your favorite nut milk)
sweet peaches, ripe raspberries, toasted coconut, slivered almonds, agave nectar, honey – whatever toppings you like
Combine the chia seeds with the almond milk and stir well. Allow to sit for at least 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the chia seeds completely bloom and soften. (I put it in the fridge to bloom and chill at the same time.) Once the seeds have bloomed, top with fresh fruit, crunchy nuts and sweetness.


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Mircea Lucescu (born July 29, 1945, in Bucharest) is a former Romanian football player and one of the most successful Romanian football managers.
Lucescu played 362 matches and scored 78 goals in Romanian First League. He started his football player career at Dinamo Bucharest, one of Romania's top teams, where he played for 15 years; he played also for Politehnica Bucharest and Corvinul Hunedoara. Lucescu appeared 74 times in Romania's National Team. As a player, he won 7 times the Romanian First League and 1 Romania's Cup, with Dinamo Bucharest.
In Romania, Mircea Lucescu managed Dinamo Bucharest, Corvinul Hunedoara, Rapid Bucharest. After coaching Romanian national team, had a long career in Italy, at Pisa, Brescia, Reggiana, Inter Milan. He had a brilliant start with Galatasaray, winning the European Super Cup against Real Madrid. Under Lucescu's managership, Galatasaray qualified to quarter finals in the UEFA Champions League in the 2000-01 season for the first time, but in the quarter finals they lost to Real Madrid. The same year, he lost the Turkish League title to rivals Fenerbahçe. Next year, Gala qualified to second phase in the UEFA Champions League and won Turkish League title under his managership. (2001-2002 season).
Lucescu was disappointed to be sacked despite winning the league champion title. In June 2002, he signed a contract with rival Beşiktaş J.K.. It was a very important season for Beşiktaş since, in 2003, the reputable Turkish club was celebrating her 100th foundation year. In this atmosphere, Beşiktaş made a great work under Lucescu's management. They won the Turkish title by having only one loss, and collecting 85 points; a record for Turkcell Super League as the maximum points collected in a season. So Beşiktaş was able to succeed by winning the championship in 2003, in their first century fest. In the 2002-03 season, Beşiktaş reached the quarter final of the UEFA Cup, only to lose to Lazio. 2003-04 season started very well for Lucescu and Beşiktaş. The team could not qualify from a difficult Champions League group, but was able to get a ticket to UEFA Cup by holding the 3rd position in the group. In the second half of the season, the team's performance declined drastically. Lucescu could not stop the decline. He blamed Turkish Football Federation for one-sided decisions by the referees. After a disastrous second half, Lucescu decided to leave Turkey blaming that his championship was stolen.
He is currently the manager of Shakhtar Donetsk, he won the last 2009 UEFA Cup Final (May 20, 2009) against Werder Bremen 2-1 after extra time. His son, Răzvan Lucescu, is now managing FC Braşov and the Romania national football team.
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Welcome to the last day of the JustRite Papercraft August Release! Today we are excited to share with you more beautiful stamps designed by Amy Tedder. For my card I used Merry Christmas Background Stamp, Antique Christmas Tags One Stamp Set which was designed to coordinate with Antique Tags One Dies.
To create my card I stamped Merry Christmas Background Stamp 3 times on cream cardstock using black ink and then I colored the images with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. I die cut the different layers using A2 Matting Basics A and A2 Matting Basics B by Spellbinders. I adhered the layers to card base using foam squares to add dimension.
For the ornament, I stamped the image using Merry and Bright Stamp Set by JustRite Papercraft and die cut it using 2010 Heirloom Ornament by Spellbinders.
The sentiment was stamped in black ink using Antique Christmas Tags One and then die cut with coordinating die from Antique Tags One Dies. The ornament and sentiment were adhered to card using foam squares.
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Marseille is a beautiful and fascinating city, with incredible architecture, medieval alleyways and trendy cafés and boutiques. I was only there for a couple of days and really felt as though I'd seen the city and experienced the culture. I'd been to France before, but really only Paris and a small village close to Bordeaux, but not the actual city, so coming to Marseille was a whole different ball game. I'm a big fan of seeing cities by walking, so I always do my best to figure out the best way to do things to get as much done as possible all while seeing the city on foot.
Marseille does have a metro, trams and buses, so if public transport is your preferred mode of transportation you're totally covered. We stayed in a hostel just off of the Vieux Port, which is the most central part of the city and probably the best location to stay since it's pretty much equidistant from all of the major attractions.
While there's so much to see and do in Marseille, it can be done in a day but with a weekend you can truly experience everything it has to offer. To learn more about everything I talk about in this post, click on each place on the map and it will give you a little blurb about each place.
The best place to start in Marseille is the Vieux Port, which is the Old Port of Marseille. Dating back to the 6th century, this is a beautiful area of town near the ferris wheel and has wonderful views of the city, which is built more or less on several hills.
After seeing Vieux Port the very first thing you should do is make your way up to Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde, which is the iconic symbol of Marseille. The name means Our Lady of the Guard and it's as beautiful inside as the views you get of the city. There are multiple viewing areas where you can get amazing 360 views of the city, from the port and the ocean to the spectacular mountains on the other side of the city.
This should be done early on in the day because the hike up is really quite exhausting and it's best to do if you're fresh and awake. You could take a taxi if you don't want to walk or have small children, as there is a road leading up to it, but I think the walk is very rewarding and gets the blood flowing. Once you get to the top though, all of your hard work will be rewarded and going down is a lot easier than the way up.
From here you have a few options on where to go next. It depends on how quickly you're trying to see everything, but if you have a couple of days head to the other side of the Vieux Port and stop by the Pavilion M and make your way to the Marseille Cathedral. We pretty much spent most of an afternoon in that area because it has so many cute cafés and lots of beautiful areas to just sit and enjoy the beautiful weather that Marseille is lucky to have most of the time.
The Pavilion M is a wide open square right off the port and has lots of places to sit and enjoy the sunshine, as well as a large metal M that you can sit in and have your photo taken in. We walked along Rue Caisserie and saw so many soap and perfume shops. Marseille is known for its soap so you can find lots of stores pretty much at any point in the city, however, we found this particular area was home to many more authentic ones rather than tourist traps. The prices were reasonable and the quality was great.
The cathedral is just a short 5 to 10 minute walk from there and is huge and impressive. Unfortunately, they're restoring parts of it so there was a lot of scaffolding on the front, but the rest of it is beautiful and impressive. Part of the cathedral remains from the original building constructed in the 12th century and the rest was added on in the 19th century, culminating to one very large, beautiful and pretty unique cathedral.
Near the cathedral is the historic district of Panier, which dates back as far as 600 BC. What I love about this area was the narrow alleyways that are reminiscent of the medieval layout of the city, as well as some of the architecture which looks different to the rest of the city. I found Panier to be a much quieter and low-key area than the rest of Marseille with lots of reasonably priced boutiques and cafés (this is France after all, there are cafés everywhere).
Depending on how much time you have left in the day you may head to Palais Longchamp or save it for the next day along with Cours Julien. We did Palais Longchamp and the park the next day and I couldn't get over how impressive it was. Approximately a 30 minute walk from the Vieux Port, Palais Longchamp was built in in 1839 to commemorate the construction of the Canal de Marseille and today houses two museums. There's a large fountain in the middle and directly behind is Parc Longchamp, which until 1987 had a zoo.
The best part of Palais Longchamp is the architecture and the view of the city. Since it's built on a slight incline and it is quite tall, you get wonderful views of the basilica on the hill on the other side of the city.
The final thing you should see in Marseille is Cours Julien- the trendy district of town. From Palais Longchamp it takes about 30 minutes to walk to, but brings you quite close to Vieux Port, so you're sort of making a large circle.
Cours Julien is known for its graffiti and it has a very different feel to the rest of Marseille. It's obvious that the younger crowds have made this area their home and a lot of places are a little edgier and more modern than you would fine in the older parts of the city. There's nothing specific to be seen here, but it's a cool area to explore and if you're in the market for any clothes or items this could be a great place to look.
Marseille is a beautiful and old city, but apart from the few major landmarks, it's a wonderful city to walk around and explore. Spending time in cafés and boutiques are the main things to do, and finding food isn't difficult. Here are a few suggestions of great cafés and restaurants dotted around the city. All are more than affordable, have great food and a wonderful atmosphere.
For Coffee or Lunch:
- Coogee: This café plays great music and has a sort of hippy chic vibe. Slightly pricey coffee, but worth it for the environment.
- The Cup Of Tea: This adorable café is affordable but also doubles as a bookstore, talk about heaven.
- Au Vieux Port: Mainly Italian food, this restaurant serves very cheap pizzas to share as well as pasta and other dishes.
For Dinner:
- La Carbone: Focusing on the cuisine of Brittany, this restaurant was beyond affordable and had a really cozy atmosphere.
- Restaurant Lilin: If you're looking for something a little less French, this Chinese restaurant was cheap and incredibly tasty. Wine was a bit expensive considering, but the food itself was beyond affordable.
Marseille is a city with a unique culture that's not typical French and is the kind of city you go to to see the few major sights and spend the rest of the time sipping coffee in a café overlooking beautiful views of the hills, sea and city buildings. If I were to go back to France I wouldn't hesitate to visit Marseille again.


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I have been travelling up and down between California and Nevada for two months now. We have brought 5 suitcases with us from Italy, but the number has now somehow escalated to 7 - probably thanks to my Vegas shopping spree and some stuff we picked up from a storage that we rented at the end of our previous trip. We now bear a striking resemblance to a travelling gipsy family with our 7 suitcases, a countless number of smaller bags, a box full of our food essentials (like olive oil, agave syrup and Weetabix cereals), a pissed cat, and, at various stages of our journey, some friends and my mother in the back seat. It's not at all embarrassing to pull up to a hotel valet and load the bellman with 24 different items. Not. At. All.
However, I really do enjoy this kind of life. It gives me a certain sense of freedom and independence, and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but I also often feel a sense of loss when I leave a place I have managed to make my home. When our car pulls out of the driveway of a house we have been renting for two weeks, or a hotel we've been staying at, I always think about how unlikely it is for me to return there again, yet I know I will always remember it and the days I spent there, whether they were rainy or sunny, busy or slow, happy or sad. With time I have learnt not to look back too much, though - something new is waiting around every corner and I have to focus and keep going. Ain't nobody got time for being mushy.
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I'm not selling my stake or settling in the US: Preity Zinta
The Ness Wadia molestation controversy has been hogging media limelight for quite some time now. Ever since the actress lodged an FIR against her former boyfriend Ness Wadia, new facts have been making their way into the media. After reading various reports about her migration to US and selling her stake in the IPL, Preity decided to tweet on the entire issue and clear her stand.
Preity tweeted, "A big Thank U 2 all the people 4the support. Amazed at how much speculation in the media. No I'm not selling my stake or settling in the US."
"SO called sources says anything & its getting reported. Pls No hearsay. There are many IMP Issues in India which are much more news worthy."Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, who shocked everyone by filing a molestation case against her former businessman boyfriend Ness Wadia now speaks her heart out on the issue. The actress, who made her debut in Bollywood with Dil Se lodged a written complaint against Wadia with the Marine Drive police station on Thursday night. After the entire hullabaloo, Preity chose social media to explain her stand on the issue.
From my heart- (Facebook and Twitter)
I may not be super wealthy and powerful but I have truth by my side and I've worked very hard all my life and tried to earn respect for myself as a self made professional.
It saddens me that no one at work or around ever stood up for me in the past when I was abused and insulted publicly. This time I was left with no option but to take this stern step as this incident happened in front of way too many people.
Sometimes we are so ashamed and humiliated that we fool ourselves to believe that no one saw what happened . Everyone always looks away as if they don't exist or then we don't exist. People are embarrassed just enough to look away, but not too embarrassed to intervene.
Ironically what happened at Wankade is being diluted by every other fabricated story about my character except the truth of what happened. I'm sure the witnesses will speak the truth and I trust and believe that the police will do their job fairly and quickly.No woman likes to be involved in a controversy like this which makes her open and vulnerable for all to take a dig at.
I have worked for over 15 years in the film industry and have never been subject to such humiliating behaviour and for that I really want to thank all the men that worked with me. Through all our highs and lows my head was always held high.
Every human being has a limit to how much they can take; some of us foolishly call it strength and try to look ahead focusing on the positives of work and life.
All these years I have never said anything about him in the media but now I have no choice.
I humbly request the media and my supporters to pls focus on the issue and the incident that happened in Wankade and not turn this and me into a TV soap. This is not easy for me and my intention is not to harm anyone but simply to protect myself and to stand up for myself. I don't want any sympathy from anyone but I will sincerely appreciate it if people do not try to take away my dignity in the process of my fight for respect at my workplace. I think after all these years I deserve it and I'm not asking for too much.
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It is sad a night of revelry celebrating a Florida Gators Basketball victory would cost someone 10 years of their life, and the death of another.
Judge Peter Sieg entered the room at 2 p.m. on Dec. 12. His job was as simple as it was profoundly difficult.
He did not have to decide whether Wright went barhopping the night of April 2, 2007.
Nor did he need to determine whether it was Wright who drove a truck into Gainesville Police Department Lt. Corey Dahlem on University Avenue around 2 a.m. the morning of April 3.
Wright had already admitted he was behind the wheel that night. He'd had so much to drink that when police cars finally boxed him in after he had plowed through a barricade and sent Dahlem's body flying across the street, Wright was unaware of what he had done.
His blood alcohol level was 0.271 n more than three times the legal limit.
Dahlem died the next afternoon.
Both Wright and the prosecution agreed on these facts. Now it was up to Sieg to punish him.
Depending on the judge's discretion, Wright could walk out of court with his family that night and pay for his crime with community service. Or, he could spend up to 30 years in prison. (Source)


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The High Linewritten by migueld on 2009-07-16 #places
New York's park in the sky! With cool views, plenty of seating for people watching, and a vibrant community around it, the High Line is a great place to hang out and see New York from a different perspective.11 9 Share Tweet
Conquering Mutianyu, The Great Wallwritten by kaelcat on 2010-08-30 #places
I decided to end my summer trip in Beijing with a BANG! True enough, IT WAS! My friend and I decided to go to Mutianyu where the watchtowers and passes were built on the steep mountains (and what a climb it was!). Hiring a private taxi indeed was the best transport to take since it only took us a little over an hour. And it's cheap! It's a fast and easy way to get to the Great Wall if you want to spend a lot of time trekking the only man-made structure visible from space!5 13 Share Tweet
Parc de la Plage Jacques-Cartierwritten by rater on 2009-07-12 #places
Situated in the Cap-rouge district of Quebec City, you can find this beach flanking the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River.5 2 Share Tweet
Wine Tasting: Let's Drink at 10am!written by johnnyq302 on 2011-02-14 #places
For my husband and I's 3 year wedding anniversary we decided to pack up and head on a weekend road trip to Ithaca, New York. The best thing to do in Ithaca besides act like a hippie? Well, that would be to take a tour of as many Finger Lakes wineries as you can.3 2 Share Tweet
Bridgeport At Valcencia (Valencia, CA)written by jblaze823 on 2010-01-04 #places
Peaceful walks around a man-made lake, day or night.2 2 Share Tweet
Solo Biking Routes: The Martin Goodman Trail - Toronto's Primary East-West Bicycle Corridorwritten by deepfried_goodness on 2013-05-14 #places
With many kilometers of bicycle- and pedestrian-only trails, the Martin Goodman Trail is a great area to walk, run and ride while taking in some of the best city and lake views in Toronto's west end.3 Share Tweet
US CitySlicker Hope: Down in the Bluebonnet Swampwritten by tisburylane- on 2012-07-19 #places
Escaping to the famed Louisiana swamps doesn't require a boat ride or driving through back alleys of Cyprus trees. You might even find one in the middle of your city. Read about Baton Rouge's own swamp after the jump.3 Share Tweet
Fun Under the Sun: The Exercise Trail in Simplon Parkwritten by sirio174 on 2013-06-14
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|Maybelline Color Elixir in Dashing Orchid
I am not really sure which way is up here because as a gloss the cap would be on top and as a lipstick the bullet would be on top. Hmmmm. Maybelline's website says, " A trio of concentrates delivers the color of a lipstick, the cushiony care of a balm and the glass shine of a gloss. Our exclusive smoothing angora brush delivers a polished, even application and smoothing sensation to the lips." I will admit that it has great pigmentation and great shine.
I will also agree that I really like the applicator. It is soft, smooth and does a great job of delivering the color to the lips. There are 20 different shades which is a nice selection for a new range of products. There are some cream shades and some shimmer shades but the shimmer shades are not overly shimmery. It's a great shad selection and the colors are beautiful. The color I purchased Dashing Orchid is absolutely beautiful.
|Maybelline Color Elixir in Dashing Orchid
So sounds great and I should theoretically be telling everyone to go buy this product. There's just a little problem. The smell and taste! They smell like old lady perfume and they taste like old lady perfume. It's that overbearing chemical taste that seems to linger in your mouth. I have tried on several occasions to wear this because I love the look of the product when it's on my lips. I just cannot keep it on my lips. I always end up wiping it off. This product might be work if you have dead taste buds but if they are alive and well I would steer clear of this product. I hate to say that because I really want to love this product; but I just can't get behind something that tastes this awful.


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May 13, at 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Central Time.
Featuring Barbara Stripling. Stripling will draw particularly on her experience as Director of Library Services for the New York City schools and as past-president of the American Library Association. She will include examples from both situations.
Recently reflecting on her long career, Stripling wrote: "Throughout my library career, I have looked into the faces of young people and been nourished by their sense of wonder and enthusiasm for learning. As a librarian, I have served these young people by providing library programs and services that are their right: an environment conducive to learning; equitable access to resources that reflect their diverse needs and interests; effective instruction that builds independent learning skills; and opportunities for sharing with others."


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Terribly Twisted Tales, edited by Martin Greenberg and Jean Rabe
My newest story just came out (May 5, 2009) in the new DAW Books anthology, Terribly Twisted Tales. I'm looking forward to reading all the stories and seeing what the other writers did.
I decided to TWIST the story by Hans Christian Anderson called, The Little Match Girl. She was the innocent street urchin who sold matches on the street. In the story she had her shoes stolen, was thrown out of a shelter by a mean merchant, and proceeded to freeze to death and die while lighting the last of her matches and seeing visions of what her life could be like. It was an incredibly sad story and made me cry as a child. I couldn't believe how sad the ending was.
In my story, titled: Revenge of the Little Match Girl, the girl learns a better use for her matches. That's right, I took the most innocent character I could imagine and turned her into a homicidal pyromaniac.
I hope you enjoy the stories!
Paul Genesse
Author of The Dragon Hunters
Book Two of the Iron Dragon Series
May 2009 from Five Star Books


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The Overweening Generalist is largely about people who like to read fat, weighty "difficult" books - or thin, profound ones - and how I/They/We stand in relation to the hyper-acceleration of digital social-media-tized culture. It is not a neo-Luddite attack on digital media; it is an attempt to negotiate with it, and to subtly make claims for the role of generalist intellectual types in the scheme of things.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
A Haunting Frame For Generalist Intellectual Types in 2015
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
A general problem for insatiable readers and writers of journal articles, non-fiction books, novels, poetry, sociologies of science, histories of ideas, essays on arts, rants and diatribes by marginalized figures, economic ideologies, radical thinkers, etc: Let's let this dude sum it up for me:
"It requires in these times much more intellect to marshal so much greater a stock of ideas and observations...Those who should be guides for the rest, see too many sides to every question. They hear so much said, and find that so much can be said, about everything, that they feel no assurance about anything."
This is John Stuart Mill, in his diary, 1854. And for Robert Anton Wilson fans, how many Jesuses ago was this? 32? 64? 256? Oh wait: forgot to carry the three....several thousand J ago, arithmetically in fact.
Emile Zola, apparently in self-portrait, trying to
come off as a magician of some sort?
It's fairly well-known that, for a long time, intellectuals on the "humanities" side have wanted to foment revolution, and most-times a non-violent one. Some on the technical intelligentsia side have too. And the "intellectual" as well-known category traces only back, according to a popular intellectual riff, to the Dreyfus Affair. Emile Zola - a damned novelist so what the hell gives him the right to question?! - led the charge against the French military, and was hounded out of the country. But Zola and his fellow "Dreyfusards" were right: Dreyfus was innocent, and being persecuted largely for being a Jew. This story was resolved only 109 years ago.
And while the technical intelligentsia - specialist intellectuals in the physical sciences, to be brief - are a quite young group, maybe only 140 years old, the Humanist intellectuals go back perhaps 3000 years, if you include religious radicals, or just Old Men Who'd Read Everything.
The Haunting Frame
The dream of making a war-less, border-less and much more equitable and human political state of affairs perhaps had a window, briefly open, now closed. How so?
Well, for one thing, the class of State-supported scientific intellectuals have won. Oh sure, the economy is bad enough that even their newly minted PhDs are having trouble finding work, but it's nothing like what's going on for the Humanities PhDs. (Bing "adjunct professors") Moreover, another quote to suit my dire thesis:
"In this tremendous contrast with previous revolutions one fact is reflected. Before these latter years, counterrevolution usually depended on the support of reactionary powers, which were technically and intellectually inferior to the forces of revolution. This has changed with the advent of fascism. Now, every revolution is likely to meet the attack of the most modern, the most efficient, most ruthless machinery yet in existence. It means that the age of revolutions free to evolve according to their own laws is over."
That's Franz Borkenau, from his 1938 study of the Spanish Civil War. He's talking the military and police state apparatus, which will, it seems, always protect the interests of what's now called "the 1%." He had no idea about digital technology or the NSA, much less television. Even the Stasi were far in the offing.
What Were the Functions of Generalist Intellects?
I've seen a lot of answers, from the New York intellectuals themselves talking about their own powers and knowledges. I've read the lamentations in Russell Jacoby's book The Last Intellectuals. I've read just about everything Chomsky has to say about how his colleagues have used their knowledge and privilege to throw in their lot with the Owners of the country. (In this he's a lot like what Julien Benda said about his own class - in 1927! - in his The Treason of the Intellectuals. For those who see the irony here and like to savor it, please do so.) There is no end of books on intellectuals, if only because this "New Class" is so zealously protective of its own rights and privileges.
Whether from New York or London or Paris, or Hollywood's Hitler-inspired Jewish intellectual diaspora, or wherever else, a literate public saw how ideas hung together, how stylish sentences about important matters could revivify the mind, how discrimination among ideas could take place, how a writer could make something that you thought was not interesting was au contraire: quite a kick. Via wide-ranging intellect, the idea of a vibrant and informed popular culture was possible.
I think this may be all over. Not that there aren't still overweening weirdos who live for this stuff. But this one has to get All This off his chest. Possibly because I hope I'm wrong. Maybe because it's some sort of misery loving company thing. Or, you just like reading bookish jagoffs throw their erudite hissy fits; my misery loves your company. Could be I'm in a 30 Year Funk. Maybe I'm like the guy who just realized he got rooked by mega-unwisely investing in a chain of Foto-Mat booths, nationwide, in this year Our Lady of Eris, 2015.
It could be that, via some sort of magickal working, I confess my haunting frame here - many of you may be well ahead of me on this, I know, I know - so that it will ameliorate things and somehow cause them to go in the opposite direction. But this last "maybe"? I don't feel it. I know the words but not the tune. It feels flat. More's the pity.
Know Thy Enemy/Due Diligence
For me, it was a few solid years of feverish reading of the rise of Public Relations, and tangentially related areas. Such as the 1947 National Security State, which has never left us, only gets stronger, a Behemoth of untold proportions, one of its favorite moves being to make Itself invisible to almost everyone, all the while suctioning the sustenance from its own citizenry.
The signal fact about public relations experts - who Antonio Gramsci called "masters of legitimation" - is that they were so out in the open about what they did and why. Now? Not so much. But check out Harold Lasswell - or is it Edward Bernays? my notes are old and unclear; I had no idea I'd be blogging, and indeed, Internet wasn't really a Thing when I crashed on PR - anyway:
"The spread of schooling did not release the masses from ignorance and superstition but altered the nature of both and compelled a new technique of control, largely through propaganda..." He goes on to say this is the best means of controlling the proles because it's cheaper than bribery or outright violence.
It took a long time for me to not be struck by how arrogant these Mandarin intellectual officials were, or how gleefully subservient they were to the Captains of Industry and War. (And the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce, et.al) I was stunned by the disparity between what experts in legitimation for the Owners of the country think versus all the patriotic "we're all Americans" "in this together" and "freedom" and "democracy"hokum I got in my own indoctrination camps (9AM to 3PM public schooling, minimum of 12 years served).
Some of these pricks just gave it all away. You think Lasswell (Bernays?) was crass, check out one of the fathers of the Neo Conservative movement, Irving Kristol:
"It has always been assumed that as the United States became more managerial, its power more imperial, and its population more sophisticated, the intellectuals would move inexorably closer to the seats of authority -- would, perhaps, even be incorporated en masse into a kind of 'power elite.'" (origin of quote unknown to me due to bad note-taking, but found again in George Scialabba's What Are Intellectuals Good For?, p.7)
If I had to pick two of the most egregious of these legitimators of State power today in Unistat, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman could easily lead the pacifist writer of this blogspew to punch either in the mouth, were I to come to within fist-shot of either. Talk about "treason"...
What intellectual on our side is seen talking about political ideas on the teevee in Unistat? Lemme see...Glenn Greenwald. (And you can only guess what multi-millionaire former head of the taxpayer-funded NSA Keith Alexander thinks about Greenwald: he ought not exist. Let's not even bring up Edward Snowden. Anyone got anyone I missed?)
Yea, But The Science Guys Can Come Around, Right?
Not likely. That's not to say there aren't physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers on the side of the huddled masses yearning to be free, or at least make their rent. Clearly there are many out there. But they still want their jobs. They're addicted to solving abstruse technical problems, then heading home to the spouse and kids. Compared to the average certified Humanities person, the physical science guys are apolitical. (In general.)
There's a heady literature (if you dig and have a library card) about the political commitments among the technical intelligentsia. Most of the best ones are about the morality of their commitments. My favorite among the minority of books that question those commitments from a libertarian position is a guerrilla ontological book, jocoserious, satirical and pissed: The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and The Citadel of Science, by Robert Anton Wilson. RAW has all the generalist chops of any New York intellectual, but rarely did one of that storied group take on the scientific elite. A golden passage here, and realize the book was published in 1986, but keep in mind Unistat's straddling of the globe with its military, and why Islamic militants are at such wit's end of desperation they're cutting off heads of journalists, knowing a drone could likely obliterate them with zero foreknowledge tomorrow afternoon, after having a piece of baklava:
"The late J.B. Priestly often animadverted among what he called The Citadel - the scientific-technologic elite which both supports and is supported by our military-industrial alpha males. The Citadel, in most countries, gets millions of pounds for every twopence doled out to the humanities, the social studies or the arts; it devotes most of its time and intellect to the task, as Bucky Fuller used to say, of delivering more and more explosive power over greater and greater distances over shorter and shorter times to kill more and more people. For this reason, The Citadel increasingly frightens most of us and there is a vast, somewhat incoherent rebellion against it all around the world. The rebellion takes the form, most of the time, of return to some earlier philosophy or reality tunnel (hello ISIS and al-Qaeda! - OG), although within the scientific community there is also a rebellion which is seeking a new reality-tunnel, which is usually called The New Paradigm." - pp.20-21 of my tattered, pages-falling-out copy
RAW goes on to say Citadel personnel are intensely territorial, including in ideology, and they're proud of their atheism. He's appalled by death-centered nature of this well-educated group, but makes it clear his book is not an attack on the Citadel's moral grounds, but rather its violations of what he sees as the right of free speech and for every scientist to report any finding, even if it's in violation of the current paradigm(s). He particularly loathes the inquisitorial doings of the Citadel's ideological protectors in persecuting scientific heresy, as this simply should not take place in a supposed Free Society. Although RAW uses a rhetoric that at times seems outlandish in The New Inquisition, I think his thesis is very strong and ought be heeded. The academic version of his approach to the philosophy and history of science would be found in Paul Feyerabend, in a work such as Against Method, and possibly in Imre Lakatos's work. Bruno Latour's application of ethnomethodological-like inquiry to practices in actual scientific labs seems to bolster RAW's more Swiftian/Nietzschean/Fortean rhetorics. I also see a family resemblance in Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
However, I don't need a weatherman to know blah blah blah, and I guess we will just have to see if "Reality" can deal us a surprisingly good hand. Meanwhile, we do what we can.
Whither the University in General?
This deserves a few other blogspews of its own, but student debt is now well over $1,000,000,000,000 and mounting fast, and not only do young people "graduate" with a "degree" but they seem to not be able to think all that well for themselves. But then there aren't any jobs for them anyway. Meanwhile the highest paid public servant in most states is the head football coach, and that entire system stinks to high heaven. Go ahead, lift the lid and take a whiff. It's sulphurous-rotten and the older, comfy alumni say "Let's go all the way this year!" Their best players don't get educations and barely have enough to eat. If they're lucky they won't suffer brain damage by the age of 45 from too many violent blows to their inadequately helmeted heads. And undergraduate costs have vastly exceeded inflation (gee...why?), and your freshman is largely being taught by "adjunct" professors who make less take-home pay than a head manager at Burger King. Try to tell me how this is sustainable. Meanwhile, Obama seems to think it's of the utmost importance to keep sausage-grinding-out "college graduates." So they can...monitor robots?
Well, The Citadel does need a plentiful supply of STEM students. Fuck the Humanities bastards, with their questioning of the political economy and values and all that.
It should get pretty interesting. I can't help but imagine the increasing numbers of very bright, hyper-educated Humanities types, and their degrees and their debt and the increasingly fucked job market. Will they get political knowing the NSA might be tracking their every move?
The entirety of scenario(s) above constitute a mere model, or frame. Since I'm not a modeltheist, I don't think I'm presenting "the Truth" here. I merely affirm it might have some weight and heft, and that I don't exactly consider the model as anything close to a felicitous state of affairs. I've tried working myself into a lather about the cup being twice as big as it needs to be, but it's not taking.
I will leave us there, to escape back into my comic books.
Bobby Campbell
18 comments:
- Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson) said...
Well, in addition to Glenn Greenwald as a dissenter who gets quoted sometimes, there was also Dennis Kucinich. But he lost much of his microphone when he was redistricted out of Congress. Just a coincidence, of course.
Your critique of college is largely true, but it still also remains true that most people who have college degrees can still manage to get a job. You can argue about whether that's fair or right, but it's still largely true.
As for the general tenor of your observations, while there is little to disagree with here, there are also positive things about the present. Almost everyone can find food and shelter, and entertainment and education is available free for everyone. (College may be expensive, but there are free online courses and public libraries are everywhere.) The Internet gives everyone a platform and allows everyone to link up with like minded folks.
Not to go all Charles Dickens on you but:
"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way--
in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of
its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for
evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
So yeah, things have always kind of sucked.
- March 1, 2015 at 7:49 AM
Bollox _ I wrote a long comment to this and then the whole lot got lost in the aether.
ah well, Michael keep the faith. Your work is always stimulating and worth reading.
The fear is coming in mostly through that exquisite trance machine the television. The answer is to take the Keith Moon approach - throw the fuckin thing out the window, preferably from a great height.
Sorry, cant now reproduce what I wrote earlier.
Keep the faith.
- March 2, 2015 at 7:12 AM
- Eric Wagner said...
Another wonderful piece. The reference to Zola and Dreyfus made me think about how the Dreyfus affair rocked Europe. It comes to dominate parts of Proust, and it shows up prominently in Chekhov's letters. I remember reading a Philip Jose Farmer story with a character named Jacques Cuze (J'accuse). Phil also wrote a story about a man named Winnegan who pretends to die. When they open his casket a rocket goes off and banner goes across the sky saying "Winnegan's Fake".
Last week's "Better Call Saul" reveals a meaning of Saul Goodman's new name: "'s all good, man". I wonder if Wilson and Shea had that in mind.
- March 2, 2015 at 7:51 AM
- michael said...
@Tom: I think you're spot on.
@ Tony Smyth: I wish I could read what you wrote that disappeared. THAT is one painful thing, eh? It's happened to me at least a dozen times since I've had a computer...I don't think I'm getting my (pessimistic, for this one blogspew) ideas from TV, although maybe I've let my guard down and the TV FNORDS have infiltrated? Also, when I'm frustrated I tend toward the hyperbolic, and it's not the best rhetoric.
I very much appreciate the kind words.
@Eric: Yea, the Dreyfus case reverberates for a long time after it was officially over, and not just in the reification of the idea of a class called "intellectuals."...I never considered "'s'all good, man" for Rebecca's lover in Ill Tri. It seems that "It's all good" came out of black culture not that long ago. Maybe it's been around for a longer time?
If "Better Call Saul" stays as good as I've heard it is - I've never seen it - I'll wait till it's run its course then do what I did with "Breaking Bad": watch the entire series in less than two months. They call it "binge watching" and I'm pretty sure THAT term is less than 10 yrs old?
- March 3, 2015 at 12:01 AM
Sorry Michael, I wasn't at all suggesting that YOU watch much TV, it was just a generalised comment based on your post.(I think its statistically the case that most Americans get their NEWS from TV though)
Wasnt Zola forced to take exile for while for defending Dreyfus, or did I imagine that?
- March 3, 2015 at 7:45 AM
- Eric Wagner said...
I posted your wonderful article on Facebook, and it has gotten a number of positive responses. Rafi Zabor asked if you had read _The Charterhouse of Parma_ by Stendhal. I loved that book.
I like "Better Call Saul", but "The Walking Dead" has become my obsession at present.
- March 3, 2015 at 8:02 AM
I read your post along with the Alternet thats linked in the sidebar - the one on the Use of FEAR. Good site by the way. I think that was what was influencing me last night. Relates to your post too. This is a section of it:
Nearly half (43.9 percent) of U.S. households live on the edge of financial collapse with almost no savings to fall back on in the event of a job loss, health crisis or other income-eliminating emergency, according to a report by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED).
Things are as bad or worse for those in retirement or on the brink. In December 2014, 42.9 million people received Social Security retirement benefits that averaged $1,328.58 a month, or roughly $15,943 annually before taxes. One third, or 14.3 million people, derive almost all of their income this way. For most of the other two-thirds, Social Security provides over half their income. That means more than 20 million additional people live on less than $32,000 a year.
Pretty shocking set of stats right there.
Know of a study by a Prof of Mathemetics in US called Mottesherai? He and his team looked at the collapses of previous civilisations and what they had in common. Turns out there were two things always present. A collapse of resources such that they couldn't support the population. The second factor was an elite that took much of the resources and were unresponsive to the distress of the commoners, until it finally caught them too. Just like now eh? Except this time it may be global. You're right, its hard to stay positive the way things are going.
Intellectuals just trying to save their fat asses maybe.
- March 3, 2015 at 8:05 AM
- Bobby Campbell said...
Great meditation, OG!
I find my process includes a phase wherein I accept the validity of the narrow view. Seeing everything as totally fucked up seems like a reasonable interpretation of things to me.
Plus also an affirmation of life that is not informed by the pervasive deep darkness of dukkha ain't worth much of anything anyways.
So yes! The world is on fire and we're probably all going to die in misery and poverty! Good, we got that out of the way. But what should we do until then?
"All is impermanent, all is without a self"
I always liked Rick Strassman's mantra: "If so, so what?"
My interpretation of the half glass is that the glass started out as empty, and find it a miracle that there is any water in it at all.
Darkness sufficiently cursed, now to light some candles :)
- March 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM
- michael said...
@Anonymous, who I take to be Tony Smyth: I think you're right about most Murrkins getting their "news" from TV, but I haven't kept up with those organizations that try to spot changes in demographics. I know people under 30 watch less mainstream TV - far less - and get their news from their friends and stuff they read on the Net. The demographic for the egregious Fox "News" is something like 50% are 68 and older; whether their lumpenprole fascist messaging can capture a younger audience over time, I don't know.
And yes: Zola had to bail out of France for awhile.
- March 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM
- michael said...
@Eric: I've never seen The Walking Dead, but from clips it looks vaguely Lynchian?
I read Charterhouse of Parma long ago and I'm fairly certain when I do re-read it again I'll get much more from it. Same with Rouge et Noir.
Thanks for propagating my signals over FB. I've always gotten some hits from FB, but wasn't sure who or why or how. (I'm not on FB)
- March 4, 2015 at 3:22 PM
- michael said...
@Anonymous: Yea, the corporate electronic news would rather not talk about any of those poverty stats you cited; or if they do mention anything along those lines, it's a 7 second tidbit sandwiched between celebrity crap and weather and how the Dumb Game in DC is going. Jefferson said we can't have a Democracy if we don't know what's really going on AND acting on our knowledge.
Moreover, Aristotle- who was an elitist and right winger who thought "democracy" was illusory: he did an extensive study of the constitutions of as many Greek city-states as he could find. The ones that were trying for democracy were laudable, but Aristotle thought they were doomed unless they could avoid vast income disparities.
The Tea Party, who seem to want MORE of what's fucked us so far? Did you see what former Reagan advisor Bruce Bartlett said about them? Check it:
I'll have a look at Prof Mottesherai. Thanks for the info and for reading!
- March 4, 2015 at 3:30 PM
- michael said...
@ Bobby-
I work at trying to get my head space for the day into something more like yours. And I appreciate your term for this article from the OG: "meditation": it was done in a way I don't usually do these things: I thought, "I should do a blog post." But I didn't know what I wanted to write about. I just started writing about how I really felt: I noticed I have constant, nagging thoughts that my ideals about being a free-floating, non-attached-to-an-institution thinker/reader/generalist? It's still my ideal, but I seem to have gone the way of the Dodo bird as far as thinking there's much currency for what I do, for my stance on intellect.
Clearly it's better to be really good at something this Kulch values and which pays well, THEN do lots of extraneous reading outside my "profession." But I didn't take that route. I know plenty of people who are "specialists" at make a very good living, but who are "generalists" in their free time.
And yet: I guess I'm tilting at windmills here. At the same time, I enjoy it. Go figure.
- March 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM
- tony smyth said...
This should link you to the Motesharrei study. http://www.sesync.org/sites/default/files/resources/motesharrei-rivas-kalnay.pdf
There's a good article by Nafeez
Ahmed that he wrote for the Guardian/Independent (I forget which) that first brought this study to many peoples attention.He doesn't write for them anymore as he dared write an article critical of Israel!! SIGH.
- Tony
- March 5, 2015 at 7:14 AM
- Eric Wagner said...
Michael, I don't find "The Walking Dead" terribly Lynchian. I haven't read many of the comic books, but I adore the TV show. (I plan to read more of the comics.) I love the characters, the acting, the story. I want to find out what happens next.
- March 6, 2015 at 8:13 AM
- Mister Meta said...
Enjoyed the piece. Had just been reading Harari's Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind where he covers much of this ground in what I can only describe as a pragmatic historical sense. A history that tries not to judge or moralize, although the author does seem to be on the humanistic side of the fence. Well worth it if you haven't already seen it. Lots of chutzpa.
- March 7, 2015 at 6:47 AM
- michael said...
@ Mister Meta-
Oh this is one 'dem "coincidences": I've been aware of Harari for awhile, and just yesterday crashed on him after reading the piece done with Kahneman at The Edge. He was saying things about humans being "superfluous" when rich people start to merge with AI and the masses...well, maybe they can be kept mollified with drugs and shows. I was getting really angry...and after reading another 8 or so articles on him or by him or interviews with him, I realized he was trying to be ironic via provocation, but possibly his English tripped him up? He thinks Silicon Valley's "religion" is more of a threat than ISIS, and that what we do about networks and AI should not be subjected to "market forces."
Many of his ideas reminded me of Terence McKenna. No one has pointed that out yet, or not that I'd read. The neo-Roussean claim that "sapiens" was happier during the Upper Paleolithic, before agriculture, etc.
Dude's really interesting. Love the sound of your phrase, "Lots of chutzpah"!
Thanks for reading.
- March 7, 2015 at 11:07 PM
- michael said...
@ Tony-
I read the paper - without really following the math - of Economics and ecology. Fantastic and horrifying. Quite plausible, I think. It seems Herman Daley is their guy. The idea of HANDY (Human and Nature DYnamics) being modeled on the math of "predator vs. prey", where humans are predators and Nature the prey: it's my Reality Sandwich for the week!
- March 7, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Hey, you are quick.There's another book The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A Tainter. He's an archeologist, and the book is a bit old but its kind of similar nad he only examines thre civilsations but in depth. By collapse he didnt mean 'crumble to dust', more that there is a return to a less complex state of organisation. I think thats what going to happen in few decades. In fact that will be major theme of my next book, a sequel to the one I'm doing now. Things in neoliberal-land look pretty predatory to me right now!! The amount of inequality is breathtaking.
- March 8, 2015 at 7:56 AM


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The Canadian manufacturer of non-penetrating guardrails for roof safety just released a simple way to protect every access ladder on your rooftops. The Guardrail Kit for Roof Ladder is a simple and universal safety barrier that can be installed in minutes and insure your facility meets every safety standards.
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Since there is no anchoring done in the roof structure, the installation of the non-penetrating guardrail kit can be done within minutes by your own staff with a minimum of hand tools. No cutting or welding is needed to install this kit. The 50 lb bases are easy to manoeuvre and the upright posts come pre-assembled.
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The product used is the VSS Classic freestanding guardrail and the VSS SafetyLine permanent warning line. Totally safe for the roof membrane, both products can be installed on a roof ballasted with pellets like this one. Additionally, the two roof ladders leading to the roof's lower level are protected by self-closing ladder safety gates.
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A specialized architecture firm was commissioned for this project. Their main goal was to identify and suggest a versatile and permanent solution to improve fall protection on portion of the roof deemed dangerous.
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
VIETNAMESE YOGURT( Sua Chua)
My sister brought me some little yogurt jars from Vietnam yesterday.Thanks my mom a lot!!!! I miss the Vietnamese yogurt so much. Just don't know why i can't stand the American's taste. I start making my own ones. So freshh, so delicious!!!!! Even for those who are not into cooking can do it as a piece of cake....
-1 can sweetened condense milk
-1 can boiling water (measured using the milk can)
-2 cans cooled water/regular milk (measured using milk can)
-1 can yogurt (i use the plain one)
-15 yogurt jars (or any container you may have,with the lids)
-boiling water in a large container with a lid
- Pour milk into boiling water and stir until milk is dissovled
- Add 2 cans of cooling water,then comes the plain yogurt( optional: strain for the smoother mixture)
- Pour into the jars, cover with the lid
- Placing the yogurt jars into the large container
- Pour the boiling water over the jars until the water level comes up to right around the lid of the jars but not covering the jars
- Place lid onto the container and leave there for 5 hours till overnight.
- Then put into the fridge for better and more enjoyable taste
Note: After the yogurt ferments you save a jar to use as a starter for your next batch.Therefore, don't need to buy the plain yogurt again.
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2 comments:
- Giaochi said...
did you mean 1 can (milk can) of regular yogurt?
- November 20, 2008 at 2:32:00 PM PST
- ♥ESTEE♥ said...
No, you don't need to measure the yogurt in the milk can. Just take 1 regular yogurt jar (mine one weighs 8oz or 277gr)
- January 25, 2009 at 5:26:00 PM PST
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[Watch] Obama delivers emotional farewell in final presidential speech
Published On January 11, 2017 | Entertainment News
President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address Tuesday from Chicago, where he launched his political career eight years ago. He called for Americans to seek solidarity over division in a celebratory farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday, calling for a "new social compact." He also praised his wife, Michelle.
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16 April 2015
Back when I lived on the East Coast people would confuse me quite often for someone they knew. When I'd stop to let them know that I wasn't whomever they were yelling for, they'd look genuinely shocked. Weird, right? Well, when it happens more than a handful of times it's downright creepy. I legitimately thought people were just messing with me, but they never were. I always wanted to find this girl, but never knew how to go about doing so. This kind of thing ever happen to you?
- Twin Strangers: These Women Are Not Related, But They Look Almost Exactly Alike – huffingtonpost.com
We give millennials a lot of crap, but they're not dumb as rocks, guys. They learned from our mistakes and the mistakes of our fathers. Good on them. Hopefully, though, it's not too late for us all to get our act together. Who am I kidding? It's never too late.
I have to admit, this is kind of amazing. I do miss being able to challenge the player sitting on the couch next to me. If this is what it's going to take to get that accomplished, so be it. I'm lookin' at you, game developers.
I'll take all the help I can get considering the one time I felt the earth shake, I couldn't wake up my husband or the dogs. I thought someone was rattling our window, trying to break in and so I shook my husband and tried to wake him. He wouldn't budge and the resulting ruckus didn't even phase the pets. By the time I figured out it was a mild earthquake, I was falling back to sleep without so much as a twitch from anyone else.
We all need better sleep. For me, I think that means I need a bigger bed. Small dogs take up big spaces. Plus, then I'd feel less afraid of smothering the little one while sleeping. Having thoughts that are less morbid would probably help too, huh?
Don't get me wrong, this is great and everything, but call me when Amazon's doing it with free shipping and the Dash button.


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American director, Oliver Stone, mentioned his travel to Iran, attending the International Fajr Film Festival, in a post on his Facebook page.
Semih Kaplanoglu: New Talents Are Future of Cinema
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Semih Kaplanoglu is a Turkish screenwriter, producer and director, known for Egg (2007), Honey (2010) and Angel's Fall (2004). His films are characterized by metaphysical themes and distinctively authored use of cinematography. Kaplanoglu, who is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential directors in Turkish cinema, has received 28 international awards and
Thomas Mauch: Storyboards Kill Ideas
27 April 2018 - 19:42
Thomas Mauch is a German cinematographer and film producer. With a career that spans over fifty years in both film and television. Mauch is well known for his numerous collaborations with Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, Werner Schroeter, and Werner Herzog. Some of his well-known films include Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972), Heinrich
George Ovashvili: Fajr Filmfest Is Progressive, Has Future
27 April 2018 - 18:43
George Ovashvili (1963, Georgia) graduated from the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theater (1996) and New York Film Academy filmmaking course at Universal Studios in Hollywood (2006). He is a director of both dramas and documentaries that he often produces. He has made a number of memorable shorts: Eye Level received an award at
Luong Dinh Dung: Art Movies Popular in Vietnam
27 April 2018 - 17:59
Vietnamese director Luong Dinh Dong was one of the special guests of 2018 Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. His movie Father and Son won the Best Asian Film Award on Thursday. Luong Dinh attended the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema, where he graduated in 2010. Dung made his debut feature film Father and
Hanna Slak: Iranian-Slovenian Filmmakers Face Similar Challenges
27 April 2018 - 17:22
Hanna Slak is a Slovenian film director, multimedia artist and writer. She has written and directed feature films (Blind Spot, 2001; Teah, 2007; Rudar, 2017), as well as documentary films and experimental shorts. She also creates video installations and video design for the stage. Her films were screened at Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, and others.
Leila Babovic: FIFF Helpful in Dealing With Western Prejudices Toward Iran
27 April 2018 - 17:12
Leila Babovic was one of the special guests of this year's Fajr International Film Festival. She has been in attendance for many years and here is a quick chat with in that regard: Tell us about your festival experiences? I've been in here for many years. The last time I attended in Fajr Film Festival
Busan Agent: Having a Good Vibe About Iranian Cinema
27 April 2018 - 16:55
Young Woo-kim, the representative of Busan Film Festival, was a guest of this year's Fajr Filmfest. His colleague Kim Ji-seok passed away last year during the Cannes Film Festival. Young replaced Kim as the new representative of Busan festival: Tell us more about yourself? I heard a lot about Fajr International Film Festival. Busan and
Dina Iordanova: Not Necessary to Upgrade FIFF
27 April 2018 - 16:11
Dina Iordanova (born 1960) is an educationalist and professor of film studies at the University of St. Andrews. A specialist in world cinema, her special expertise is in the cinema of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Europe in general. Her research approaches cinema on a meta-national level and focuses on the dynamics of transnational film;


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Best Game Nobody Played of 2016 - ArticleDan Carreras , posted on 11 January 2017 / 12,358 Views
Many great games release each year which, sadly, are simply overlooked and don't generate the kind of sales they really deserve. From accomplished sequels to long-running franchises, to brand new IPs that struggled to build up mindshare, this award attempts to give some additional exposure to some of the year's most forgotten titles. neglected
The Shortlist:
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Song of the Deep
The Winner:
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Maybe it's simply down to the fact that the WiiU is now approaching the end of its lifespan, especially now that the Nintendo Switch is on the horizon, or perhaps Nintendo didn't market the game to its full potential. Whatever the reason for its modest sales, Paper Mario: Color Splash is a charming and enjoyable game that deserved more than the sub 500,000 sales it's managed to chalk up thus far. Fortunately Color Splash is showing some solid legs through the holiday period, so there's hope for it yet, but it's still a far cry from Super Paper Mario's almost 4 million units sold, or even Sticker Star's 2 million+.
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I would have said Zero Time Dilemma. That game NEVER gets talked about in recent conversations. Mario Color Splash does to an extent. It's still a Nintendo title in the realm of the Paper Mario series. ZTD needs more exposure, although Zero Escape Plan Nonary Game is by far the best in the series.
Still... Color Splash sould hundreds of thousands. I think the better choice here would be Zero Time Dillemma. Nobody talks about that game
Zero Time Dillema should have taken the spot.Sure, its not as good as the first two entries, but it is still a superb entry.
Yep, I haven't played any of those for various reasons.
Well i played 4 of them.
Yes! Color Splash is a fantastic and really fun game, such a pity is so massively underrated because of internet irrational negativity and its stupid hate bandwagons, this game suffered the sins of its predecessor despite improving everything about it, really unfair, but for those who gave it a chance was a blast and a very nice goodbye to WiiU until Zelda gives it death.
Battleborn was pretty fun actually, too bad nobody wanted to play it. Also too bad it couldn`t win this award :(


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Worlds Hardest Game 2
In this game we introduce the new and improved version of the hardest game in the world. This is a sequel and it returns with new surprises. Normally sequels are never as good as the original, but this is the exception to the rule, because the Worlds Hardest Game 2 brings a new level of difficulty that was not seen in the original. At first it may seem that these mazes are not so tough, but as you progress through the levels, you surely will find them more challenging than ever.
There are also new objectives for each level, which not only increase the difficulty, but also increase the fun and excitement. The Worlds Hardest Game 2 will leave you with a desire to pass all levels and achieve a good position on the leaderboard which you can access once you finish the game. If you have not played the toughest game in the world or any other version of the game, then you'll need a small initial explanation. There is a tutorial which contains a mini-game that will teach you the basic rules. It is a simple game with the same graphics as the real thing. It is quite easy and is only designed to give you an idea of how to play and not to challenge you. In the first level of the tutorial, you must enter a maze and collect certain number of coins, which are located in the center of the maze. After completing this level you can try the next, which is a bit more challenging. Here you will see some blue circles moving across the maze, which you must try to avoid. They are moving in a regular and predictable pattern, but a pattern that leaves you little room to pass them and meet your objective. Once you collect all of the coins you must make your way back to the green zone and you will complete the level. The next level is a bit more challenging. Here you have to get past the blue circle to retrieve a key that will unlock a gate, which leads to the final destination. Here the blue circles are moving in circles in a tight space and you must try to get past them without making contact, or you will have to start from the beginning. With each level of the Worlds Hardest Game 2, there is a new objective that you will find more challenging than the previous level. Remember that there are no limits to the number of times you can fail a level. This means that you can fail as many times as you need before passing the level. Each time you fail, however, your final score will be lowered. After you do a good job in the tutorial, you will be ready to start the real game and attempt to succeed in the hardest game in the world 2.
This game is sure to test your reflexes and patience in each different maze. The main objective of the Worlds Hardest Game 2 is to reach the finish line with the red square, which always begins in the green and safe zone. You must move the red square with your arrow keys to one or several green areas found elsewhere in the maze. If there is only one green zone, then you must collect all of the coins or a key and return to the same green zone. Of course you must avoid the enemies as well that will be moving in regular patterns inside the maze. You cannot pass a level of the Worlds Hardest Game 2 until you have met your secondary objectives, which may be coin or key collecting and the main objective, which is arriving safely to the green zone. But the hardest part of the game and the reason it is called Worlds Hardest Game 2 are the blue circles. They act as obstacles and move up and down, left to right and diagonally in movement patterns try to obstruct your path. If you move the red square chaotically, you won't come close to fulfilling the objectives. It is best to plan your move ahead of time and study the movements of the blue circles, which are different for each level of the Worlds Hardest Game 2. Fortunately, there are some video tutorials for the Worlds Hardest Game 2 on the internet that might help you should you need them.


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Security has been a major worry to many companies in the planet as a result computer technology tends to be moving towards a safer and extra safe atmosphere in the coming years. HTC will certainly use its most sophisticated technologies in the device to make it planet popular, as we have noticed prior HTC M9 which is pretty much disappointing with its design and style, this will be not repeated once again, yes this time we can anticipate extra revolutionary design from M10. These are the four upcoming exceptional technologies that would make human life additional uncomplicated and comfortable.
Which we can also call as the successor of Oppo find 7 smartphone, and it will also be the Finest device from Oppo, that is why the device manages a position in our list of Best 10 Upcoming Smartphone. The upcoming technology list will also include 3d Gesture, augmented reality and hologram-like technologies. Apple's 3D Touch technologies garnered substantially attention even just before the iPhone 6s launch, and Samsung is not the only manufacturer who is attempting to get its hands on a similar technology.
Some of the firms predicted will I think could give changes/influence on our daily lives. This technology utilizes nano technologies that potentially creates a planet of devices with additional spectrum of possibilities. In the past 5 years, digital technology has remarkably leaped to something even greater. The technologies may perhaps also be obtainable as an accessory to fit onto most other devices.
This technologies is below improvement and may well be following the productive particle government will not enable this technology for a common particular person. This way, device interactions with much less friction in between technology and individuals will emerge, and this will be noticed as a step towards the net of things ubiquity. Eye Tribe is an eye-tracking technologies that will allow customers to handle their tablet by means of eye movements.
The investigation paper came out just two days just after the Entertainment Software Association of Canada's (ESAC) released its own report calling on the federal government to take a leadership function in making a national program to far better prepare Canada's students for careers in the burgeoning technologies sector. The essential to having the upcoming season's trends in your closet is to appear ahead.


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BOURG-LA-REINE, France (Reuters Life!) - In the quiet, southern Parisian suburb of Bourg-la-Reine, a Belgian brand of upmarket ready-made food is pulling young professionals and students away from their traditional lunchtime haunts.
The outlet, "Delitraiteur" —a twist on the word "traiteur," roughly meaning delicatessen —is a mix of deli, convenience store and restaurant, offering everything from freshly squeezed orange juice and organic cereals to ready-made Italian meals.
The Belgian-owned chain is due to expand into the heart of Paris this summer after opening in Bourg-la-Reine in November.
It is part of a new breed of retailers in France looking to attract time-pressured, urban consumers with quality food in a convenience-store format amid the many hamburger restaurants such as McDonald's, Quick and Asian food counters.
Although France is known for long meals in a traditional cafe or restaurant setting, habits seem to be slowly changing.
"It's the changing family and changing consumer preferences (driving the market)," said Isabel Cavill, an analyst with Planet Retail, citing similar chains like Le Pain Quotidien — which is also originally Belgian — and the less upmarket Daily Monop', which is 50 percent owned by Casino Guichard.
The Belgian EXKi lunch room chain opened in Paris in 2006 and Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, is testing an urban convenience banner called Carrefour City.
What sets Delitraiteur apart, according to Cavill, is the focus on premium foods and the hybrid mix of lunchtime restaurant and late-night convenience store.
The Bourg-la-Reine outlet is open seven days a week, between 7.30 a.m. and 10 p.m., and has mostly upmarket brands on its shelves like Compagnia dell'Arabica coffee.
Its ready meals, prepared in Belgium and delivered to France within a 24-hour time-frame, cost around 6 to 10 euros ($8.45-$14.09) each and range from traditional recipes like gratin dauphinois to Thai and Chinese dishes.
"We come every day, just for lunch," said Emeline Goumidi and Clara Pinhede, two 15-year-old students who have ditched the school canteen in favor of Delitraiteur. "It's more fun."
Delitraiteur has a "varied choice of dishes," according to Thierry Vincent, 40, who was polishing off lunch with two of his colleagues from a nearby insurance firm. "We're regularly here."
However, the locals have shown less interest in Delitraiteur as a source of evening meals, according to Ariane Delmas, the chain's head of marketing in France, though she insists it will only be a matter of time before they make the connection.
"Today French people are not in the habit of popping into a store in the evening to buy a ready meal," she said. "It's a market we have to create ourselves."
Delitraiteur plans to open four more French outlets in 2010, with the key test due in June when it is to open a branch in the Center Pompidou in the heart of Paris.
Its parent company, Louis Delhaize Group, has opened 29 Delitraiteur branches over the past decade in Belgium. Louis Delhaize has the Cora and Match supermarkets and Houra online store but is not related to the larger Delhaize Group.
Delitraiteur says it makes annual sales of 42 million euros.
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For a large church such as ours, it also can be a challenge---especially for newer members---to learn about and connect with the many volunteer opportunities that are available. OPMH volunteer coordinator, Sandy Davis, is available to help you make those connections. Sandy and his wife Anna are long-time OPMH members. Sandy works with OPMH pastors, staff, ministry moderators, deacons, and other volunteer leaders to help identify and coordinate the full range of volunteer opportunities at the Meeting House---with the goal being to help you find the best match for your time, talent, and interests.
To help you get started, here is a list of current volunteer opportunities that need folks right now. Volunteer opportunities at the Meeting House generally fall under the umbrella of one of the seven OPMH ministries --- Service and Justice; Worship; Education; Membership and Evangelism; Administration; Stewardship and Finance; and Facilities. To learn more about each ministry and the broader range of volunteer opportunities they oversee, visit the ministries page here. If you are interested in learning about any of the volunteer opportunities listed below, or just want to discuss how to find the right volunteer opportunity for your time and talent, please contact the church at 703-549-6670. Feel free to get in touch directly with the Ministry moderators or the OPMH members listed for a specific activity. We're all in this together!
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Rural Mission, St. John's Island, SC -- Meeting House members go to John's Island, SC in the summer to work with an organization called Rural Mission (www.ruralmission.org). We help repair homes of individuals and families in the community and do a little touring around Charleston. Construction skills are not needed. Just a positive attitude and a willingness to help out! The trip is open to adult and youth members of OPMH, but youth under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent per Rural Mission rules. This is a wonderful opportunity to serve God and our friends in South Carolina! Robin Muthig heads up this mission event.
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