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Many of us fall into the same trap when we go hunting for brilliant new ideas. We roll up our sleeves and say, "It's time to get to work." A look at the creative process, however, suggests that perhaps the opposite is in order, that instead we should roll up our sleeves and say, "It's time to go play awhile."
There is an exceptionally strong link between creativity and humor. Mathematically, the humor as a catalyst for creative thinking looks something like this: Ha + Ha + Ha = AHA!
The relationship between creativity and humor is obvious to anyone who has worked in a truly innovative workplace. In fact, a survey by 3M as reported in Training Magazine, found that two-thirds of respondents listed play or humor as their favourite way of stimulating creativity in a work environment. In another study, volunteers who watched humorous videos generated more creative ideas than folks who didn't screen funny programs.
Here are just some of the reasons why humor and/or play can lead to creative thinking:
So the next time you want to tap into the creative potential of your employees consider a few of the following ideas:
As a closing thought, keep in mind the words of Cynthia Heimel, "When in doubt, make a fool out of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
Copyright Michael Kerr, 2015.
Michael Kerr is an international speaker, trainer and author of "You Can't Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work," "Inspiring Workplaces," and "The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank." Reach Michael at firstname.lastname@example.com and visit www.MikeKerr.com for more articles, videos and other resources.
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Great Ideas For Cupcake Business Cards
To gain competitive advantage over million of other businesses out there you must, among other things, produce a good first impression. Handing customers among your professional spot UV business cards instantly assures them of both your knack for design and your attention to detail. Instead of hiring a designer and waiting for the cards to be developed and delivered, you simply have to install Business Card Maker, enter the card data, decide on a stylish design template, thus hitting the Print button - this is only going to get you a handful of minutes.
It can be common practice to place information around the back of your organization card so the front of the credit card can be completely specialized in a photo of your cupcakes (though your name, of course, should be on the front of the card). This is really a comparatively cheap design that will build your card truly stand out.


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channukah crafts
This dreidel ornament makes a sparkling spinning top out of popsicle sticks. Make this dreidel ornament and get ready for Hanukkah.
This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.
This latke song gets your child excited for the Hanukkah treat. Sing this latke song with your child during the Festival of Lights.
Your kindergartener will be delighted to refine his motor and conceptual skills as he creates his own Maccabee shield in honor of the Maccabee revolt.
Make these edible dreidels out of marshmallows, pretzels and chocolate chips for Hanukkah.
Your kindergartener will be delighted to create a kid-friendly and festive Menorah that she will have the honor of "lighting"!


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New Facebook Pages are being created every day. Personally I think it's quite brave, because with all Facebook's new regulations, making a new page successful is not as easy as it used to be. It's even more difficult if you're on a budget and don't want to spend an arm and a leg on paid advertising.
Of course there are many ways to get lots of likes and engagement without much effort. For example, you can simply go to sites like Fiverr and buy your fans, likes, comments and more .
This is not a good idea! This kind of actions are absolutely not benificial for your business, to say the least.
(You can read more about this in my article 'How Buying Facebook Fans And Likes Will Kill Your Edgerank'.)
What you need are REAL likes from people who are actually interested in your content and are willing to engage. Without engagement, your likes are of no use.
Fortunately there are loads of legit ways that can help you to build an engaging fan base for your new Facebook page. Simply take a look at the infographic below that will show you which steps you can take to get your first 1000 real, targeted Facebook fans.
1. Make sure you fill out your Facebook page completely.
2. Add an appealing photo and cover image.
3. Invite all your Facebook friends through the 'Invite' option. You can even make your close friends an admin so they can invite their friends too.
4. Funnel followers from other networks and your email: simply share your Facebook page URL in emails and the profile section of your other social networks to reach out beyond Facebook.
5. Optimize your website(s) with as many Facebook buttons as possible.
6. Use Facebook advertising to reach more people.
7. Add 'Facebook Like' call-to-action on your blog.
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Jesus said "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". Matthew 19 v14
Children and young people are always welcome, and encouraged to take full part in our life and worship as a church family.
The interim priest Revd. Linda, Local Lay Minister Peter Johnson and youth workers Andy and Andrew have strong connections with the local primary and secondary schools. There is a monthly Eucharist (Holy Communion) for the primary school at St Mary's, Brighstone, and a monthly Godly Play session for the children in the Reception Class. We also regularly go into the school for Collective Worship and to work with individual classes.
Children are encouraged to be present and take part in the main services at all of our five churches. They are involved in welcoming, reading the scriptures for the day to the congregation, others offer prayers, or help by bringing forward the bread and wine for the celebration of Holy Communion. The young people also support our music and singing.
If your children would like to get involved in their local parish church, please email Five Churches Office.
Youth Work
There are a variety of ways in which children and young people can explore their faith, from bible study to detached youth work, work in local schools and a number of fellowship groups. We work closely with other churches across the Island as well as Youth For Christ, aiming to provide a range of opportunities for young people to engage at whatever level they feel comfortable.
Youth Work Update
SUMMER 2016 – Peter Johnson
The 4th Welsh Trip Monday, 22nd – Thursday 25th August 2016
This was our biggest group so far, with a much more widespread group of young people from all across the SWAY area. We had 23 willing people to embark on our most adventurous trip yet! 6 adults and 17 young people, travelling in 2 minibuses and one car laden with a great quantity of food. The weather was good for the whole trip, having stopped raining just as we arrived in Wales. For the first time we stayed in a delightful bunkhouse for 19. 4 or 5 camped, whilst the rest of us slept in beds. The food, cooked by our ever-reliable cook, Pete Taylor, was plentiful. A full roast one night and a BBQ on another night, cooked breakfasts to set us up for the day's activities.
Andy Dorning led our thought for the day after breakfast each morning, on teamwork, seeing the beauty of God in the world around us and valuing being part of a family, the family of God. There was certainly a strong sense of community amongst us over the 4 days. There was a lot of supportive and encouraging team work being seen and we glimpsed the Brecons on a particularly beautiful few days. Visiting the famous Sgwd yr Elra waterfall on the first night was an awesome experience. There had been two days of rain preceding our visit and so the rivers were full. Walking behind the waterfall with such a torrent of water falling was a deafening experience but also a thoroughly drenching encounter! The force and power of the fall was quite remarkable.
Second day was mountain day and it was hot. Everyone made it up to Fan Dringarth (632m) and then onto the viewpoint looking over to Pen Y Fan and Brecon in the distance. Half the group made their way down to the Reservoir along a pretty stream and falls, whilst the rest toiled up to Fan Fawr (734m) via a ridiculously steep slope chosen by Andy D! This was very demanding and there was lots of huffing and puffing! Both groups re-joined down in the valley, returning to the bunkhouse 8 hours setting out! Third day was fun! The groups were divided into two, with one gorge-walking and the other caving in the morning and then swapping for the afternoon. This was new territory for most of the group. It was very wet territory for both activities. Both were enormous fun and some serious personal challenges were overcome by different people.
The gorge-walking involved walking up a very pretty gorge with a fast flowing stream tumbling down at us. We fell over, immersed ourselves in a plunge pool, crawled along ledges behind a waterfall and jumped off high ledges into the river. The caving took us underground via the biggest cave entrance in the UK – Porth yr ogof. There were numerous squeezes to get through, down and along – with names such as the letterbox, the toilet, the rathole, the washing machine and the death ledge! These were fun and challenging. Jerry Willis found one drop particularly challenging! His body got stuck half way down, with feet dangling helplessly, unable to proceed further down or return upwards! With some pushing and some pulling he was pulled out to go a different route with greater ease.
The night walk on the final evening was entertaining, particularly when Peter Johnson and Pete T came back to the minibuses 30 minutes after the group, after failing to meet them on the route as they walked back from the minibuses along the route! Rookie error – they had no torch or illumination with them and they departed from the agreed route! Oh dear – embarrassing.
So ended a superb trip, with new friendships made and a large amount of fun being had.
Easter 2015 – Peter Johnson
"The winter is nearly over; life is beginning to stir once again in the woods and fields."
I think it was last summer that we last sent out a Youth Work Update and the "we" included Ben and myself. There has been a lot of change since then concerning Youth Work in the 5 Churches. In this update we want to bring you all up to date with where we are with Youth Work and ask for your continued support and prayer.
Firstly, Ben has moved and now works in Greater London in Youth Work. He seems to be getting on fine. Andy Mitchelmore is in regular contact with him.
Secondly, SWAY (South Wight Area Youth Worker Project) has emerged out of the experience of having Ben here and Dan Wells at Niton. Both lads did great things and such progress was made with young people, that SWAY was born out of a desire for that to continue and grow.
Thirdly, Steve Sutcliffe has been appointed Licensed Minister for Shorwell with some responsibility for continuing the Youth Night on Fridays in Shorwell.
Fourthly, SWAY have now appointed Andy Downing as full-time Youth Worker for the Project and Annouska Blake as part-time Youth Worker for the 5 Churches, within the Project. We are hopeful that Ash Mosedell will do the same for the Niton area, though this might be subject to change.
All of this adds up to a positive, bold and exciting new step for Youth Work in our area of the South Wight.
Before going into further detail about Youth Work, we want to say a huge thank you to all of you who give so readily to Youth Work for the 5 churches. The level of giving is truly humbling and very heartening. We would not be able to go forward with our plans without your support. The support demonstrates that you want to see young people supported and reached with the good news of the Gospel. This is at the heart of all our plans; that young people might grow into the faith that we hold so precious.
SWAY has gained a large grant of £80,000 from the Isle of Wight Council for 3 years to do Youth Work in the South Wight area, which covers everywhere between Niton and Brook. Clearly, the Project will have some responsibilities for young people outside of the church as well as those within. We see this as an exciting opportunity and challenge, rather than as a distraction.
The Board of Trustees includes Roy and myself, but it would be good to have another representative from the 5 Churches involved if anyone is interested.
Having advertised for a full-time Youth Worker, we appointed Andy Dorning from Lowerstoft before Christmas. He has now started and will soon be in the process of re-locating his wife, VIvi and little boy, Noah, to the Island.
Andy is an experienced and dynamic Youth Worker and we are very much looking forward to working with him. He will head up the team for SWAY and probably be based in Niton. We will see him fairly regularly, but his brief is Youth Work across the whole area.
Annouska lives in Brading and has been involved in Youth Work there for a few years. She has felt a leading to more committed and regular Christian Youth Work in recent years, arising out of a real experience of God in her life. We are delighted that she will be working with us for 20 hours a week. She has a daughter, Lexis, who is 17. Annouska will be starting after Easter and be with us until September in the first instance. She will work with Steve on the Youth Night, be involved on 2 or 3 Sunday's a month at either Brighstone or Shorwell and with Helen and Steve in the school in Brighstone.
It is an enormous relief that we are finally looking forward to having some help with our Youth Work. It is not that we can now all sit back and do nothing, but that we now have a team to help us with the hugely important of supporting and ministering to the young people in our area.
Over the coming months, we hope to see some exciting things happening in the area of Youth Work. We have a Parade Service at the Scout Hut at the end of April; Andy and I will be involved in that. We have some YFC events that we hope to be involved in. There is Soul Survivor in the summer; we want to get some of our young people along to this event. We hope to organize another trip to Wales for the older young people, as well as a Camp at Corfe. There may also be some joint ventures with the young people from Niton.
At last, we sense that we are ready to move forward to the next phase in Youth Work in our area. We will contributing to SWAY to fund our part-time Youth Worker and so your giving is vital to this ministry. We are excited about the partnership with SWAY and look forward to great things over the coming years.
Please add your prayers to your giving. Your prayers are every bit as vital as your giving, I can assure you. Without prayer and without God, we can do nothing that will last. Please continue to join us in this work, that God may do so much more than we ever dreamed He would.


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Donald two ahead of Fisher midway through front nine
The Englishman had played solidly, avoiding trouble through his first six holes, and he added one birdie to his tally when he found the middle of the green on the 195-metre par-three fourth hole and sank a lovely 20-foot putt.
Englishmen held the top three places on the third-round leaderboard, with Fisher gaining a stroke and moving to nine-under-par, while Danny Willett was in great touch, picking up three birdies in seven holes to move to eight-under-par.
Alexander Levy, playing in the final three-ball with Donald and Fisher, also birdied the par-three fourth, but found himself in trouble on the third and sixth holes, the Frenchman dropping shots on each to slip back to fourth place on five-under-par.
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WASHINGTON — The preliminary national average price received by farmers for all wheat in April was $10.10 per bu, down 50c from $10.60 in March but $5.21 above the April 2007 average of $4.89, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its April Agricultural Prices report (click
The national average price received for winter wheat in April was $9.26 per bu, down 74c from $10 in March but $4.39 above the April 2007 average of $4.87.
The average price for durum was $12.60 a bu, down $2.80 from $15.40 in March but $7.14 above the April 2007 average of $5.46.
The price for spring wheat other than durum was $10.90 a bu, down 10c from $11 in March but $6.03 above the April 2007 average of $4.87.
The average price received for rough rice was $14.80 per cwt in April, up $1.20 from $13.60 in March and $4.60 above the April 2007 average of $10.20.
The preliminary index of prices received for food grains in April was 302% of the 1990-92 base of 100, down 2.3% from the revised March index of 309 but up 90% from 159 in April 2007.
The April index for feed grains was 219, up 9% from a revised 201 the previous month and 45% above the April 2007 index of 151. The average price paid by farmers for corn in April was $5.13 per bu, up 43c from $4.70 in March and up $1.74 from $3.39 in April 2007. Farmers received an average of $9.50 per cwt for grain sorghum in April, up 46c from $9.04 in March and $3.53 above $5.97 in April 2007. The average price paid for oats in April was $3.59 a bu, up 15c from $3.44 in March and $1.13 above $2.46 in April 2007.
The U.S.D.A. index for April prices received for oil-bearing crops was 212, up 2.4% from a revised 207 in March and 71% above 124 in April 2007. The national average price paid to farmers for soybeans was $11.80 per bu, up 30c from $11.50 in March and $4.92 above $6.88 in April 2007.
The April index for dairy products was 138, down 0.7% from a revised 139 in March but up 8.7% from 127 a year ago. The average price paid for manufacturing grade milk in April was $17.60 per cwt, down 70c from $18.30 in March but up $1.70 from $15.90 in April 2007.
The poultry and egg index was 146 in April, down 8.2% from a revised 159 in March but 6.6% above 137 a year ago. The average price paid to farmers for all eggs was $1.03 per dozen in April, down 35c from $1.38 in March but up 30c from 73c in April 2007.
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How to use :)
Trigger actions on scroll to a point
This module is based on img-src-ondemand, the other module that I wrote some time ago to delay image loading to only when they appear on screen. Recently, I wanted to write a new infinite scroll library to replace the use of ngInfiniteScroll which I don't like so much. Reason being it requires you to pass a selector or a selector function as setup so the service can find the infinite scroll container. This doesn't work well if the container is somewhere in a route view. The container should be able to reach the service, so that doesn't matter where it's put, it can work. After some thought, I realized that the logic it requires here is already written in my previous library. Now, I extracted the logic and generalized it, so it can be used in a much wider range.
Here is a plunker demo. Scroll down slowly to see the images being loaded as you scroll to them.
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It remains to be seen when and who Conor McGregor fights next, but if his coach John Kavanagh gets his wish, the two division champ will face Nate Diaz again…
McGregor took out Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 on Saturday night to secure the promotion's 155 title. Although the Irish star has repeatedly said he doesn't intend to vacate the 145 belt, many believe McGregor's run as a featherweight is over.
As a result, since UFC 205 went down, there's been a lot of talk about McGregor facing lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov next, or Tony Ferguson. There's also been considerable discussion about him facing welterweight champ Tyron Woodley.
Kavanagh was on set for the latest "MMA Hour" yesterday, and while sharing his thoughts on McGregor's next bout, the Irish coach stated this (quote via MMA Mania):
"I understand Khabib is the No. 1 contender and it is probably going to be him, if that's how the company works." said Kavanagh. "But for me, interest-wise, the Nate Diaz fight interests me greater. If it's Tony, if it's Khabib, great, they are two fantastic fighters and a lot to learn in the preparations for them. Both of their fights will be interesting to watch, a lot of problems for me to solve and to see Conor beat both of them will be interesting for me. But, I think Nate would be quite a bit better than either of them."
McGregor – Diaz III is certainly a possibility, but it seems like there's not as much buzz about a third fight between them, as there was a couple of months ago. That could be because McGregor decisioned Diaz in the rematch, and now fans want to see if he can past the ridiculously dangerous Ferguson, or arguably MMA's best grappler, Nurmagomedov.


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Wenger's brave face won't make leaderless Arsenal hit title target
In one of the quieter moments before he spoke to the media yesterday, Arsene Wenger was asked how he's feeling. "I am not very well," the Gunners boss responded… but it was followed by a smile, and a question of his own. "Are you surprised?"
The answer would be no, since this spell of deflating successive defeats should be no surprise. We seem to see Arsenal in this type of eye-rolling reality-check form, and Wenger in this kind of tetchy mood, at least twice a season.
The visit of Marco Silva with Hull City tomorrow is coincidental in that sense, since he was responsible for one of these moments last season, when his Olympiakos side won 3-2 at the Emirates. That defeat also raised the type of questions about Wenger's reign that we've seen in the last week, but they still haven't felt as frenzied as at other times, like last season's title collapse.
That may well change if they make it three games without a win at home to Hull, after losses to Watford and Chelsea, but might also be why the manager was still in good enough mood to issue something of a rallying call.
The only problem was that rallying call was akin to Jeremy Corbyn's "real fight starts now" comment after the Brexit bill.
"It's an interesting week because it's a good test at an important moment of the season," Wenger said. "And it's a good opportunity to show what we are made of and to deal with what matters - what is at stake and in front of us in the next game."
"I focus on what is important, you know," Wenger explained.
"And what is important is to prepare for the next game and analyse what happened and prepare for the next one. I am long enough in the job that you go from hero to zero in one minute."
He also tends to unwind in the same way, regardless of what's going on around him.
"I watch football games," Wenger said, before adding a caveat: "Not so much what people think about football games."
When asked about the meetings following last Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge, Wenger - whose side are now 12 points behind Chelsea - said: "I don't want to come out on that because it is difficult enough to keep some things internal."
Wenger might not be Sir Alex Ferguson, but he is well capable of being acerbically cutting with his players. Some of the players can also be cutting with each other, and Per Mertesacker is known to be one of the most vocal, if also receding in on-pitch importance.
For all the cliched talk about Arsenal's lack of "leaders", what is really missing is the hard-edged culture of winning offered by a standard-setting core.
It was something that Rio Ferdinand has talked about.
"When Wenger came to Arsenal, he had (Tony) Adams, (David) Seaman, (Dennis) Bergkamp, (Ian) Wright, people like that, who'd won things, knew how to win," Ferdinand said.
"If he came in at half-time and something had to be done, invariably, I bet he didn't have to say a word. Those players would be digging each other out. I don't think there's anyone in that dressing room at Arsenal that does that.
"Ferguson got rid of players who weren't capable of being intense every day. If you're not an animal who can go in there and be intense every day and demand from yourself and others to improve, you won't stay long - and good riddance."
Wenger is refusing to say goodbye to Arsenal's title chances.
"When you are a competitor you fight, you do not go home and analyse rationally if they win here, they have three points… you fight as far as you can and we are in a double fight, because we are in a fight as well to be in the top four, but we have as well to fight because we want to catch Chelsea back, or you have no fuel. We have to refuse to give up."
They have, after all, been in this situation before. None of this will be a surprise to them.
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As any mother does for her children, I'm always there for them, or at least I try hard to be. There is no manual that assures me I'm doing a good job, but I listen to my heart and trust my gut. Tuning in to these two organs is a weird but necessary combination when it comes to a role that has no reference, because it's true. Regardless of their condition or diagnosis, every child is unique and your children will need you forever.
My son just turned 13 years old and I'm completely overwhelmed by the fact that he is now a teenager. It's like a mid-time crisis in the life of a mother of a child with special needs, because this is the time in which you sit for long hours just to think about the things you think you've done right and the others you may have done wrong. Many, "what if?" questions arise all the time. And many, "keep focusing on the present to build his future," come to calm the anxiety of not knowing what to expect moving forward.
Yes, many times I can't help myself from being deeply concerned about his future. Not only is he growing up, but I'm also aging along with him and his sister. Sometimes I feel as though time is running too fast to catch up with the interminable list of things I would like us to achieve before they turn 18 years old and become adults. Sometimes I feel that for the last thirteen years I have lived for filling up the most obvious blanks by leaving so many blanks ignored or passed over. For so many years, I became one of those secondary blanks that didn't require immediate attention, and throughout the years I have learned that to help them fill up their blanks, I have to feel complete myself.
And the thing is that when you raise children with a significant disability, for many years or maybe for a lifetime, you must put yourself in second place because there is no time, there is no logic, and the "having it all" theory doesn't apply. Every minute counts, and every decision takes you to the next step, for them. It simply can't be about you anymore.
Many times you are doing the job on your own because if you don't, your child may never be able to complete those regular and natural stages without added support. And there you are, always filling the blanks. Always looking for ways to connect the dots as you discover ways to find the self-motivation on the path. To learn to enjoy the ride, even though the ride might include nonsensical fights with the world around you. It's worth it every tear but it will never be an easy job. And it's never about you at all.
I have to say that I have been filling up the blanks for thirteen years already, and my biggest prize is to watch how some of them are already connected and working just fine without my constant supervision and support. Emir is independent, he is bright, he is emotionally smart and I know he will be alright. Ayelén keeps maturing, growing up, and in the last year, she has gained so many independent skills. I'm glad for that.
At the end, I guess it's all about perception because not everything needs to be connected or perfectly coordinated to work well.
To the parents crossing similar stages and evaluating their roles as they daily dedicate their lives to filling up the blanks for their children:
Hang in there, take care of yourself, don't give up on love
Trust there that even though there is never a perfect time, there are plenty of ideal moments in which you feel blessed and proud of yourself for fulfilling the obligations and expectations of this amazing job.


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Is Karla Homolka the most hated women in North America? It's hard to think of any other female who evokes the utter loathing that is directed at Homolka from journalists, bloggers, and commentators online. This would appears to set her apart from other serial killers, whether male or female, or solo practitioners or part of a deadly duo. Most serial killers, although objects of interest, are not utterly despised by those who follow them. True fiends such as Jeffrey Dahmer or John Wayne Gacy are the subject of thousands of internet searches daily by readers who are fascinated by the dark recesses of the criminal mind. Here at All Things Crime Blog we get daily referrals from "surfers" trolling the Internet for fresh insights into the psyche of the deadly Mr. Dahmer, often in the middle of the night. When I go to sleep, I chuckle to myself knowing that in the morning when I "hit the blog running" I will discover that — sure enough — the Dahmer people have made their faithful nocturnal courtesy calls. I thank them and I think I understand them. There is something so eerily creepy about Dahmer that you just can't get enough of him.
But I don't believe that most of the individuals that make up Team Dahmer loathe and despise the man. Rather, I believe that they — for the most part — are entertained and fascinated by Dahmer, whose mere existence (he lives on in infamy) raises endless questions about the dark inner reaches of the human mind. In the final analysis, like life and death, he remains an eternal mystery. And, to top it off, Jeffrey had his fetishes — his skulls, his body parts, his specimen jars, his penchant for necrophilia; he was what back in the day was called: "A Real Sick Puppy." And some of us can't help — at a certain level — feeling some degree of sympathy for the "poor devil."
Well, such is not the case with Karla Homolka. Although she and Paul Bernardo were apparently only responsible for the rape, torture and death of three Canadian schoolgirls (including of course Karla's sister Tammy, whom they drugged and both raped), based on the hatred she evinces, you would think the number was much higher. The loathing is deep and visceral. It is felt by Canadians and Americans; it is shared by "regular folks" and the press alike.
For example, when All Things Crime Blog recently posted an article on Karla and subsequently canvassed some of the Canadian bloggers and message board posters who write frequently about Homolka, we received numerous responses which indicate just how raw the Karla Homolka wound remains for many Canadians. Here is one particularly interesting response:
I am, however, far too familiar with the type of woman Karla is, and with the way they think. People – particularly men from what I've been reading – constantly under-evaluate their danger and malice (and malevolence) and make excuses for them.
After all, if she went through all of this only to have a sexual affair in prison with Gerbet, really just how naive and innocent was she in the first place?
But really, if you're looking for vetting of any articles on her, I'd suggest you might want to run them by the crime reporters who covered the trial. They have a major bee in their bonnet about her to this very day – every single one of them. No matter the article, you can just feel the sense of disgust, dismay, and injustice whenever the subject of Karla comes up for any of them. They're all award-winning writers who are extremely skilled at what they do. The fact that every one of them remains so disturbed all these years later should tell us something.
Heck, even though she'd been a crime reporter for some time at that point, Patricia Pearson was so knocked off balance by what she learned at that trial that she wrote a book to get it out of her system. Christie Blatchford and Rosie DiManno still write about her her often, with a level of pain and sadness and anger that seems little diminished from when they first covered the trials.
Patricia Pearson also writes eloquently on the Homolka case.
See also the "proboards.com" Homolka-Bernardo discussion group.
In Rosie DiMannio's 2012 article, in which she describes how journalist Paula Todd tracked Karla down in Guadeloupe where she is living with her husband and three children, the journalist pens this revealing passage:
Any insights culled from this exchange must come from Todd. She is the one who witnessed Homolka interacting with husband and children, at one point arching her back and assuming a sultry pose as she breastfeeds her baby.
That's the Karla Homolka those of us who saw her home sex movies in court will remember, a frankly carnal and lascivious creature, a predator without an ounce of conscience. That breast, now suckling a child, is familiar, as are all Homolka's intimate body parts.
She was a succubus.
She is a killer.
It's not a story she'll tell her kids, tucking them in at night. But they'll learn of it, someday.
To me, this is a little strange: Did Karla, when observed by Paula Todd, really "arch her back and assume a sultry pose as she breastfeeds her baby?" Could there be a bit of poetic license informing Paula Todd's fine writing? But far be it from me as a male observer to speculate on what women feel or do as they breastfeed their babies. But what we can certainly gather from this is the fact that dedicated followers of the Homolka-Bernardo schoolgirl murders truly loathe Karla. I get the impression that some of the "haters" would love nothing more than to be given the opportunity to get in the ring with Karla and beat her to a bloody pulp, or maybe do even worse things. But now I'm getting carried away.
But be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that many apparently perfectly normal people TRULY HATE KARLA HOMOLKA with a hatred that is deep, visceral and unrelenting.
So what fuels this?
As an American who only heard about this case fairly recently, but is developing a mounting interest in it, it seems useful to discuss some of the observations that fuel this unrelenting distaste:
Justice Has Not Been Served
Homolka served 12 years for manslaughter and was released in 2005. The relatively light sentence reflects a plea bargain which became known in Canada as the "Deal with the Devil", in large part because of the perception that Homolka minimized her participation in negotiating the plea bargain — only to have the true extent of her involvement revealed when video tapes of the sexual crimes, not available to the authorities at the time of the plea bargain, were disclosed and showed Karla a willing participant. Subsequent analysis showing that Karla had revealed the full extent of her participation in the assaults on her sister, Leslie Mahaffey, and Kristen French does not seem to have done much to diminish the outrage on this count.
The Theory That Karla Was the Real Murderer
The theory that Karla, not Paul Bernardo, was the actual murderer who took the lives of the victims is one that has gained significant traction among many. Trish Wood writes in some detail about the theory and its proponents in The Case Against Karla Homolka. In it, she cites FBI profiler Candice Skrapec, and Dr. Vincent Dimaio. Skrapec watched hundreds of hours of Homolka interrogation and interviews and came to the conclusion that sexual sadist Bernardo was only half a psychopathic equation — and that Homolka was afflicted with "malignant narcissism" which likely drove her to kill.
"This personality cannot tolerate humiliation. It is capable of destroying others in the service of meeting its ego needs." In Skrapec's view, Homolka would have had no tolerance for anyone who she thought might take her rightful place at the side of Bernardo. . . .
Under this theory, Bernardo was essentially a garden variety rapist who extended his rape activities to include the sexual enslavement of French and Mahaffey — but was not the killer. It was Karla who really called the shots and performed the ultimate loathsome deeds.
Karla is Strangely Without Affect and Is Unrepentant
In her interrogation videos and in her testimony, it was remarked that Karla was strangely without "affect" or animation, and even after being released back into society, she has never apologized to the victims' families or otherwise demonstrated that she is in any serious way repentant. Indeed, while in prison she engaged in a sexual relationship with a murderer not altogether different from Paul Bernardo, further cementing the notion that she had gamed the system and was flaunting that fact to anyone paying attention.
It's a Canadian Thing
Americans have long ago adjusted to the idea that there are lunatic Americans who will occasionally surface and wreak mayhem, and when they do, we do not feel our national identity threatened. Not so in Canada, where crimes of this sort are rare — and this crime in particular rankles because the perpetrators in essence masqueraded as clean-cut, good young Canadians — the veritable boy and girl next door. This sense of deception, and the sense that Homolka and Bernardo were the "enemy within" seems to continue to fuel the anger.
A Modest Proposal
I sense that many good-hearted, essentially moral Canadians (and, no doubt, some Americans) feel genuinely betrayed by Karla and I will tell you why I believe this is so:
Most citizens observe what Jean-Jacques Rousseau so famously called "The Social Contract." In return for living within a society that provides us with opportunities for shelter, sustenance and the all-important sense of belonging, we, as citizens, sign a sort of mental contract with society. In return for the right to live within the society and utilize the many comforts it provides, we, in turn, agree to follow "the rules." Sure, we are not required to be perfect but we are required to proceed within certain boundaries. This means we do not drive 100 miles per hour during rush hour traffic. We do not steal other people's identities and pillage their bank accounts. At work, we put in reasonably effort and do not "screw the boss." Most dramatically, we do not rape and murder anyone, and particularly not vulnerable school girls. We simply do not.
It is, of course, true that some of us may entertain aberrant fantasies from time to time, but we certainly don't act upon them. We would not even consider doing so. Those of us who strive to maintain a reasonable level of appropriate social interaction take pride in being decent people. You could say that we are all part of the "decent people club."
I believe that the Homolka haters justifiably sense that Karla did not have to run amuck in the manner she did. Unlike Jeffrey Dahmer, she wasn't born with obscure mental problems and raised in a weird and unnerving environment (Dahmer's mother was reportedly very unstable and his father was a strange, retiring scientist with a penchant for bizarre experimentation). Homolka's upbringing appears to have been quite normal. This fact is supported by the manner in which her family helped her go to the authorities when she finally decided the end the game. That's right, to Homolka it appears to have all been a dark and evil game, fun for her and Bernardo. Just kicks! "Wow! Wasn't that something? Did you see how scared that little bitch was? Now how do we get rid of the body?"
My impression of Homolka's essential normalcy is borne out by the fact that she now leads a conventional family life. In fact, she may well be essentially normal. Except she's not. A;though she has paid her debt to society, she still raped, tortured and murdered and appears to have thoroughly enjoyed committing the horrofic. And therein lies the rub. A normal person does not rape, torture and murder for the fun of it. But Karla did. And many of those who recognize this will never forgive her this shameful self-indulgence.
Click on the following links to read previous Karla posts:
Watching Karla Homolka: Karla Wheels and Deals but Cannot Beat the Odds
Watching Karla Homolka: Reality Bites and Karla Becomes Unhinged
Karla Homolka Psychological Evaluation, Part One: Abuse Victim or Just Plain Evil?
Watching Karla Homolka: It's a Family Affair
Was Karla Homolka a Normal Child? The Answer Is a Resounding No
The Karla Homolka Files: A U.S. Perspective on Karla Homolka's Plea Bargain
Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo: Canada's Most Notorious Serial Killer Case
23 Responses to Why Karla Homolka Is the Most Hated Woman in North America
Naseer Ahmad says:
"Not so in Canada, where crimes of this sort are rare"? Ahem. Hundreds of native women disappear along a stretch of highway, and barely get a mention in the news. Pickton fed how many prostitutes to his pigs? If you have Wayne Gacy, we have Clifford Olson.
One could give scores of other examples, but really, you just have a greater population and guns available to the mentally ill, but we do have our share of psychopathic killers.
PatrickHMoore says:
I think it's a question of perception vs. reality. The perception is that violent crime is not nearly as common in Canada. I suspect you have far fewer shootings if things are adjusted to reflected the much smaller Canadian population.
As far as the native women disappearing — this is a scandal of the first order which we have covered on ATCB.
You do have a few splashy serial killers but no one seems to have captured the popular imagination like Karla.
Naseer Ahmad says:
Karla is popular (in the icky sense) because of the juxtaposition of sexuality and conventional beauty. The media that hates her still makes money off of her. But over a thousand native women have gone missing, and were underreported. Not any more. 308,000 Canadians signed Loretta Saunders cousin Holly Jarrett's petition at https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/hon-kellie-leitch-minister-for-the-status-of-women-call-a-public-inquiry-into-hundreds-of-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-like-my-cousin-loretta-saunders?alert_ at Change.ORG
Lesley C says:
I stumbled across this whilst examining on a sociology A level paper where candidates made reference to this woman. An interesting read.
PatrickHMoore says:
Thank you. It is quite a fascinating case.
Jo-Anne says:
The name didn't mean anything to me but found this a really interesting read and now I know about her
PatrickHMoore says:
If you care to, you might read some of our other "Karla" posts which are linked at the end of the post. Like yourself, I knew nothing about Karla when we started All Things Crime Blog, but have found learning about her fascinating.
Jan Chapman says:
I could hardly get past this sentence regarding Jeffrey Dahmer to read about Homolka…"and some of us can't help–at a certain level–feeling some degree of sympathy for the 'poor devil". I would venture to say that anybody who has an inkling of sympathy for one of the sickest, most vile individuals society has ever had the misfortune to produce is "at a certain level" sick themselves and needs to run to the nearest psychiatric facility and beg for admission.
Veruca salt says:
Great posts on this evil succubus. I seriously love this blog/site….thanks Patrick.
May I ask where I can find the entries about the missing native Canadian women?
PatrickHMoore says:
THX for the plaudits, Veruca. We need them! Here is a link to a post Lise Lasalle has written which discusses the missing native Canadian women: http://www.allthingscrimeblog.com/2014/05/02/the-highway-of-tears/ As you'll see when you read the post, which also appears on Lise's website, "The Trouble with Justice", the authorities largely ignored the missing Aboriginal women until Caucasian women starting being abducted from the same region. http://www.thetroublewithjustice.com/
Veruca salt says:
Thanks so much, and no prob…I've been c/p'n the link to this blog where I can
Lon Spector says:
The amount of publicity determines the degree hated.
Presently, Casey Anthony is the most hated person in America, if not the world.
Hatred is a tragic waste of time and energy. Besides, all true sociopaths could care
less if they are hated.
PatrickHMoore says:
Yes, quite an irony. If Casey Anthony or Karla are sociopaths, they would be completely indifferent to wht the public thinks about them. Very interesting.
Naseer Ahmad says:
What I find interesting is the North American fixation on the verb "hate". No we don't hate Casey Anthony or Karla Homolka (or Amanda Knox either 😉 just think they got away with murder. Sooner or later, karma catches up. And I do agree, hate is such a negative emotion.
PatrickHMoore says:
Yes, many of us North Americans do (for whatever reason) hate these murderesses and/or alleged murderesses with a virulent hatred that is really quite unnerving. Quite a few of us revel in hatred almost as if it's our raison d-etre. I try to follow the old adage "Don't hate nothin' at all except hatred" which is probably good advice but not always easy to live up to.
I believe I may have hated Ariel Castro for a few weeks but I got over it. Interesting that one of his victims, Michelle Knight, has stated that she forgives the old creep because she has to or otherwise she will never be free of him.
Those of us who hate — but are not victims of major crimes — are hard to figure out. And it's probably not anything in the water.
Naseer Ahmad says:
Thank you. Hating is easy. Forgiving is hard.
PatrickHMoore says:
Or as the old Smith's song goes: "It's so easy to laugh and to hate; it takes strength to be gentle and kind…"
taddpoal says:
Uhm, where exactly did you get the idea about Lionel Dahmer being a "strange" retiring scientist with a penchant for bizarre experimentation?
PatrickHMoore says:
I believe that's more or less how he described himself, possibly in his book. I didn't make it up out of thin air.
FYI says:
Karla Homolka was average looking at best (not that it matters), even when she was young she was rather homely with those droopy basset hound eyes & big schnoz. But I suppose the "Barbie doll serial killer" moniker is more interesting than the truth – "homely woman from a lower middle class family in St Catharines, ON rapes & murders young girls for fun."
PatrickHMoore says:
Whatever she really looks like, she is perceived as being pretty, even hot. If she wasn't seen that way, she would not be nearly as despised.
FYI says:
I disagree. It is her audacity and arrogance that have resulted in such palpable hatred.
FYI says:
I would also like to add that the only reason this subhuman is so "fascinating" is purely because she is a freed serial killer without an ounce of conscience who decided it was a good idea to breed more of her. That, and she is a walking example of a failed justice system.
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There is no ifs and buts about how wonderful our Micro-blogging Twitter is. It is one of the hottest Web 2.0 apps of the year. When "t" first appeared I was amazed by the way I could show the world about how nice my cup of coffee was. Well, soon I realized Twitter is much more than just a way to tell friends what you're doing. I really feel it can be a valuable tool for Network Weavers. You have a chance to build a strong and effective network with all users around the globe. Communication, learning and teaching can be best with Twitter, but remember things get better with Tools. Without confusing you by posting 1000's of Tools, I have rounded up 20 best twitter tools that can help you building and managing your networks!
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- TwitterLocal – This tool allows you to locate and follow posts of people based on different geographical locations.
- Twubble – This would help you develop your Twitter bubble of friends. Twubble locates the most common people your friends are following that you are not.
- Who Should I Follow? – This is a very helpful tool for newbie that gives good recommendations on who you should follow.
- Mr. Tweet – Mr. You can now get many useful statistics and locate relevant people with Mr. Tweet. It can be a pure networking assistant for you!
- Follow Cost – With Follow Cost you know how much effort it takes to follow someone and how much people tweet.
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- TwitterHolic – This list is being updated constantly so you can know out who is the most popular user on Twitter. Apart from that you can get detailed statisticsa about Your twitter account.
- Just Tweet It – Want to find people with similar interest on Twitter? Then make us of "Just Tweet It" that help you locating tweeple, tools and more.
- Tweetdeck:- This one has a group function that would help you more professionally follow the people you really want to listen.
- TwitterMass – It is a hyper networking toolset for Twitter on steroids. Site set of tools plan to assist reduce some of the ordinary processes you might go through when wanting to build and manage Twitter network.
- SocialToo – Do you want to be a power user of social networks? SocialToo will let you know about the people who are following and not following you. Apart from that you can get daily update about follower and also send surveys to them.
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- TwitDir – TwitDir not only allows you to search for people, but also find statistics for Top 100 followers, Followed, Updaters and Favoriters.
- MyCleenr – It would allow you to sort your Twitter contacts via last tweet date, in turn helping you to get rid of inactive tweeters that you might now be following.
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Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.
Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.
In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.
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Newcomer Aprilynne Pike is taking the Young Adult fiction market by storm with her debut novel Wings.May 22 2009 | Read Full Review of Wings
When a dangerous enemy appears on the scene, perhaps threatening both the safety of Laurel's family as well as the faerie kingdom itself, both boys do their best to rush to Laurel's rescue.May 05 2009 | Read Full Review of Wings
Yes, there is a bit of a "love triangle" theme going on with Laurel, David and Tam – David being the strong, loyal and brave persona, while Tam is the dark, sexy and intense persona.Nov 27 2011 | Read Full Review of Wings
The book 'Wings' by Aprilynne Pike received some great word of mouth reviews, so I decided to add it to my list of books to check out.Aug 18 2009 | Read Full Review of Wings
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Give the People What They Want
Over the past decade, while many artists have come and gone, why have Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings only continued to grow steadily in popularity around the world? How can they continue to sell-out huge theaters, headline festivals, and sell hundreds of thousands of records year after year with neither major label support nor a single radio hit? The reason is simple. People love their music. There is no other band around today that plays with the rhythm, feeling, or explosive power of the Dap-Kings, there is no other singer that can match the energy and honest soul of Sharon Jones, and there is no other record that embodies this captivating sound better than their latest studio endeavor, Give the People What They Want.
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings formed out of the ashes of Desco Records, a fiercely independent label that developed an international underground following for releasing hard funk vinyl in the nineties. After the label's demise in 1999, the family of musicians that populated it's roster regrouped to form an all-star band that would become the core of the Daptone Records stable. It was obvious that the new label's first release would be the debut full length of the fiery Sharon Jones. 2002's Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings would prove to be the birth of a juggernaut.
Over the next ten years, the band toured vigorously, crafting electrifying shows that brought packed rooms to rapture, leaving only dropped jaws and sweat drenched dance floors behind them. They continued to record and albums and 45's to critical acclaim and public delight, and with each successive release they found themselves in bigger and bigger rooms. 2005's Naturally brought them their first network television performance on Conan O'Brian. 2007's 100 Days, 100 Nights would sell over 100,000 copies in the states alone, a staggering success for an independent release, and 2010's I Learned the Hard Way debuted at #16 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart outselling it's predecessor in only it's first few months.
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Sharon and the band were invited by Prince to open for his shows at New York's Madison Square Garden and in Paris, and joined John Legend and the National Symphony Orchestra to re-imagine Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On at the Kennedy Center. The Dap-Kings backed Beck as the musical core of his innovative Hello Again project; worked with David Byrne & St. Vincent, Ariana Grande and Sara Bareilles; laid down studio tracks with producer Bob Rock for Michael Buble's new album, and returned to the studio with Mark Ronson to record two Amy Winehouse tracks posthumously (after the band's previous grammy winning performance on Winehouse's Back to Black) for Lioness: Hidden Treasures. Sharon collaborated with David Byrne, They Might Be Giants, Rufus Wainwright, and Lou Reed, and joined Michael Bublé on Saturday Night Live to perform their duet "Baby (You Got What it Takes)". She also acted and sang in the Denzel Washington film, The Great Debaters. Adding to their heavy touring schedule and participation in other Daptone outfits (including studio and road dates with The Menahan Street Band, The Sugarman Three, and Charles Bradley), it is not hard to see Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have been in high demand.
However, with all of the commitments and distractions of success, the band has never lost focus on their objective: bringing their music directly to the people who need it. Last year, they returned once again to Daptone's studio/headquarters in Bushwick, Brooklyn (affectionately known by many as "The House of Soul") to write and record a new record. This time, the band (drummer Homer Steinweiss, guitarists Binky Griptite and Joe Crispiano, conguero Fernando Velez, trumpet player Dave Guy, tenor saxophonist Neal Sugarman, baritone saxophonist Cochemea Gastelum, and bassist/producer Bosco Mann) brought in background vocalists the Dapettes (Saundra Williams and Starr Duncan), who have been touring with the band for over a year, to round out the sound and in a few weeks emerged with thirty tracks of what would be their greatest work to date.
"The hardest part was picking the tunes for the record," says Mann. "I don't think we've ever had a session that was that exciting and productive before. It just seemed like everybody had so many songs and riffs bottled up from being on the road so long. The writing just came naturally, each one of us feeding off each other just like we do on stage. It was a real collaboration and I think that shows on the record. It definitely has all of the hard rhythm and drive that people expect from us – actually more – but we've definitely crossed into some uncharted territory. Our songwriting process has definitely blossomed into something pretty amazing, and Sharon never ceases to amaze us with her energy. She seems to sing better and better every day."
From the drop of the needle on the relentless stomping entrance of the Retreat!, the lilting cathartic bounce of the anthemic We Get Along, and the irresistible syncopations of Stranger to My Happiness, straight through to the intoxicating fade out groove of Slow Down, Love, the Dap-Kings have fulfilled the seemingly impossible promise of their own career and brought us the next chapter in what's proving to be an enduring story of a truly prolific band. Simply great music from a great band, because in the end, that's all the people really want.


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On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
>> I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an >> optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe >> "dc.creator" that would search all metadata registered against that type. >> >> You would not be able to get/set the value of any of the dc types >> obviously as they would potentially point to more than one metadata. >> >> Would that satisfy you Ross? >> >> (1) http://dublincore.org/documents/1999/07/02/dces/ > > If it was specific to dublin core, and only had one level of > specialisation, then it would only be of limited use. it would be limited - but is that a bad thing?
If it doesn't solve the problems at hand, it would be a bad thing. As I mentioned previously, it sounds like it wouldn't handle the case of creating relationships between two similar metadata schemas.
Im planning to add extensible metadata support to tracker-search-tool but I need it to be easy for users to add new metadata. Having a simple window which allows you to define the name, type (indexable string, string, numeric or date) and class (a dropdown combo of the 13 or so DC types) should give us a good balance.
The relationships between metadata types wouldn't really affect this UI though, right? The relationships would be provided by application developers along with the metadata extraction tools for their file types, right?
I would be worried about anything more complicated. That said for the application api I could be more open. > > If we ignore the implicit inverse relationship issue, you really want > a table that contains "property type foo is a subclass of the property > type bar". For the case of two properties being equivalent, we can > represent that with two relationships: > * foo is a subclass of bar > * bar is a subclass of foo yes thats easy to do > > Of course, using a table like this is not going to be fast when doing > SQL queries. So you probably want to have a flattened version that > can be used to map from a property to all its subclasses (usually > including itself, to make the SQL easier). Such a flattened table is > pretty easy to maintain with database triggers or in the application > code that updates the metadata type relation table. We shouldn't need a flattened table as the two metadatatype tables would be properly indexed so joins would be fast (especially with sqlite)
Really? From the description I give above, the relationships between different metadata types form a directed graph. Taking the music example again, consider the following set of relationship types: 1. foo performed bar 2. foo performed vocals on bar 3. foo performed lead vocals on bar If I register that (2) is a subclass of (1) and (3) is a subclass of (2), I want searches for relationship type (1) to pick up metadata of types (1), (2) and (3). SQL systems don't generally deal with graphs particularly well (unless they've got some extension to do so). So I was suggesting that a flattened table be maintained as a cache which could map any relationship type to all the relationship types reachable in the graph. That way you can it is a single join (or subquery) to select all the relevant metadata types. If you know a better way to do this efficiently without a flattened table, that's great.
Technically there's no problem here for me to implement this, my only concern is keeping it KISS and simple for users/apps to use without too much complication
Ideally this would be mostly invisible to users: their queries for generic relationship types would just work, even if the metadata extractors for particular file types produced more specialised types. It does mean that application authors who wish to introduce new types of metadata need to think about how they relate to the existing types, but that is necessary for the metadata to stay useful when doing generic queries. James.


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ReneSola provided 40,000 of its Virtus II polycrystalline modules for the project, which is the largest solar plant in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, the New York-listed company said in an online statement.
Earlier this week, ReneSola – China's fifth biggest PV module manufacturer – shrugged off concerns about the preliminary duties the US recently imposed on most PV cells and panels produced in China, saying that it has already secured a sizable but undisclosed order for a ground-mount installation in New Jersey.


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West Palm Beach, Florida has a exciting past for historians. Historians at Florida Atlantic University have always marvelled at the unique way of like in the Sunshine State. Scholars have even tried to document how the old culture developed.
For the founders of West Palm Beach, Florida, life was a grind. The majority of folks were laborers living under burdensome conditions. Quarrels, wars and famine were all too frequent. First and foremost, the usual dining patterns of the primitive humans of the Gulf were ordinary out of necessity. If there were any strong vegetables available like kale, they seemingly helped nourish the farm animals instead of the inordinate hipster equivalents of that time period.
Currently without any hesitation, Floridans will go out of their way to eat at foodie institutions run by kitchen wizards who know how to cook using local sweet corn, strawberries or tomatoes. No doubt, around Alachua and Marion counties, the people may prefer their chilis, salads, tacos and meatloaf taste slightly sour. But in this town, savory and sweet are the natural choice.
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Secrets are begging to be told if you stop in and speak with the born and bred kitchen masters. Taste any of the delicious temples of nosh around West Palm Beach, Florida. You'll finally fathom why alums from the University of Miami are always hyping their love for this village on Facebook.
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