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Man in a Red Turban
Jan Van Eyck: Man in a Red Turban
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In this essay I will attempt to show the importance of Jan Van Eyck's Man in a Red Turban, and also give a small amount of background on Van Eyck. I will also, using art terminology, attempt to analyze Man in a Red Turban from three different schools in the study of art history: formalism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis.
Jan Van Eyck was born, according to artchive.com, somewhere around "1390 in the village of Maaseyck near Maastricht." Jan had an older brother named Hubert, of whom little is known other than Jan held him in the highest regard as a painter, and also as a sibling. Jan Van Eyck's ability began to recognized at a fairly young age, and he was noticed by members of the clergy and nobility who afforded him opportunities for employment:
"Between 1422 and 1424, he was employed as a painter by John of Bavaria, Bishop of Liège; the next year, 1425, his famous relationship with Philip the
Good, Duke of Burgundy, began. As court artist and equerry, he moved to Philip's court at Lille. Few such cases of mutual serendipity adorn the history of Renaissance patronage: instead of treating his artist as something between a jongleur and an artisan, as the Medici in their off moments were apt to do, Philip was moved to declare that he 'would never find a man so much to his taste, or such a paragon of science and art.' (artchive.com)"
Jan was considered by Phillip the Good to be of inestimable worth, and Jan's salary was paid often at the expense of other facets of the ducal economy. Jan prospered under the benefaction of Phillip the Good, and he was also afforded the luxury of travel. He made a trip to the Iberian peninsula in Phillip's entourage for his (Phillip's) betrothal to the princess Isabelle of Portugal, and he also mingled with the finest personages of the Burgundian court, including the wealthy Italian, Giovanni Arnolfini.
Jan Van Eyck was a master of realism. He is considered to fall between the end of the Gothic period and the beginning of the Renaissance. His style was an admixture of the elements of humanism and the genuine interest in the human figure as an ideal to be admired for itself, and the cold, calculating, baroque (in the words of Henri Focillon) elements of high Gothic. Jan Van Eyck's seeming self-portrait, Man in a Red Turban (figure 13.66 in Art Across Time), is closer to the former of these styles than the latter. From a formalist perspective, this painting symbolizes everything great about the Northern early renaissance style. Upon viewing this piece, the eye travels upward from Van Eyck's chin to the lush adornment of his scarlet chaperone (see page 533 in Art Across Time). The chaperone, or turban has a mixture of diagonal lines of lighter value than the rest of Van Eyck's clothing. The deep red color of the headdress gives us a feeling of warmth, in contrast to the cold, but serene expression found on Van Eyck's face. The sheer beauty of the folds of the headdress denotes the time expended on the work and Van Eyck's mastery of realism and space. Van Eyck's lips are thin and pursed in a sort of pedantic expression, but his eyes exude great wisdom and lend an aura of serenity to the pose. Van Eyck has a great sense of balance, especially in the line down the center of the headdress, and he also exhibits a brilliant sense of humor: the grave nature of his facial expression in contrast with the ridiculousness of his choice of hats. In a way, he has poked fun at his own erudition by making the very seat of his learning, his brain, the focal point of our amusement. This sense of humor is one of the finer qualities of Renaissance humanism, and is a marked departure from the elaborate scenes of damnation to be found in much of Gothic art and architecture.
However, from a Marxist perspective, more elements of the portrait come to life. Van Eyck was a functionary of the Burgundian court, but still relegated to the level of bourgeois. In a typical mode of class struggle, Jan Van Eyck could have been viewed as a type of upwardly mobile worker. In an attempt to be recognized, Van Eyck signed his paintings with elaborate faux-engravings and also added little puns and jokes in an attempt to please the upper echelons of society with his apparent humility. In Man with a Red Turban, Van Eyck faux-engraved "Als Ich Kan" (which are the first words of the proverb "As I can, but not as I would"). (Art Across Time pg. 533) The pun, and the self- promotion may be found in the word "Ich", which in a play on words resembles "Eyck". According to oneata.edu, "The inclusion of the signatures and mottoes suggests that they are part of van Eyck's design to articulate his privilege as court painter. He could be like a court official and witness events and produce documents that have ducal sanction. It is also possible that van Eyck is making a claim for a change in social status. One of the rewards sought after by bourgeois functionaries attached to the ducal court would be gaining noble status from the duke in recognition for their loyal service." The early renaissance was a time of great opportunity and progressive ideologies. In the middle ages, it was nearly impossible for a man born outside of the nobility to achieve noble status. With the coming of classical ideas of government, humanistic views of man as a whole and the possibility of fame and fortune tied to a profession other than war or the clergy, it was natural for Van Eyck to assert his claim to a better life for himself and his family. With enough learning, skill, and perseverance, a man might climb out of the common ranks and join that illustrious set of personages at the top of the social ladder. Another element found in Man with a Red Turban that might reflect Marxist undertones is the color choice of Van Eyck's head adornment. The color red had long been associated with the clergy, more specifically with the Cardinals of the Church of Rome. In a bold stroke, Van Eyck has equated his own profession with the priesthood. In other words, learning, skill, perseverance and new ideas might usurp the old hierarchy of religion and nobility, and create a new priesthood based on merit rather than birthright.
Finally, I will add a few thoughts from the school of psychoanalysis. Obviously, Van Eyck is an obsessive compulsive. His far-reaching obsession with attention to detail belies the torture inflicted upon a man by his own neurotic preoccupation with perfection. Van Eyck, though feigning humility, could also be seen as a sort of narcissist. His revolutionary method of signing his own works in such bold tones was a type of schism with the accepted conventions of the old world. Van Eyck's preoccupation with achieving that "new priesthood" could be interpreted as a vain bolstering of his own ego, with the reflection of self hatred found in his little puns and the obfuscation of self found in paintings such as The Arnolfini Portrait. Van Eyck, however, could see Man in a Red Turban, as an attempt at self-love, and a sort of redemptive ridiculousness for his own vanity can be found in the humorous aspect of that portrait.
In conclusion, I would like to say that I have admired Van Eyck for years. Being a type of perfectionist myself, especially concerning my own form of artistic expression, I can empathize with him on a very deep level. When I was a child, I would tear up drawing after drawing because I couldn't capture a scene as I thought it should be captured. Attention to detail can be a type of double-edged sword wielded against ourselves sometimes with unyielding fury. In Van Eyck's case, however, it was this same attention to detail that separated him from his contemporaries and relegated his work to the halls of greatness. More than this though, Van Eyck, through the details embodied in his work, captured the beauty of a period in history that might have been lost, in part, to posterity if it were not for his efforts. For that accomplishment alone, we should be truly grateful to him for his efforts.
Art Across Time, 3rd edition: Laurie Schneider Adams. McGraw Hill, Boston. 1999.
Art of the West: Henri Focillon. Phaidon Press Ltd, London. 1963.
Oneata.edu: found at: http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/ARTH/arth214_folder/van_eyck/court_painter.htmlArtchive.com: found at: http://artchive.com/artchive/V/van_eyck.html


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At a time when the pay of leading college presidents soars over $1 million a year and many a campus leader prefers the title "CEO," it sounds almost quaint to hear several dozen top administrators wrestle with such a fundamentally personal -- and yet outward-looking -- question as: "How might the thoughtful coupling of a president's personal sense of calling with the mission of the institution she or he serves enhance presidential leadership?"
Yet that's just what unfolded during the just-completed Presidents Institute of the Council of Independent Colleges, where presidents of some of the group's small and midsized, private liberal arts colleges -- most of whom operate in a far different financial universe from peers at places like Ohio State, Vanderbilt and Emory Universities -- contemplated the impact of "vocational thinking" on the work and lives of college presidents.
Nominally, the session was designed to introduce presidents to the council's Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program, a Lilly Foundation-sponsored project in which groups of presidents (and of potential presidents) are brought together for several days of reflection, discussion and examination of how their own personal goals align (or do not) with those of the institution they oversee (or, importantly, might oversee).
But while those leading the session did discuss how their participation in the program changed their views of their roles and how they managed their institutions, the discussion was most noteworthy for how strongly it served as a counterpoint to the usual fodder of such meetings and to the prevailing perception of what occupies the minds and agendas of college presidents in an increasingly commercial, careerist age.
That is precisely the point for William Frame, president emeritus of Augsburg College, whose own experience spawned the council's program. Frame had an iconoclastic career in which he abandoned a job as a tenured professor of political science at Kenyon College for 10 years as a banker, and when he sought to return to teaching, found that colleges had no interest in having someone with that career arc in their classrooms. So he returned to academe through finance, becoming chief financial officer at Pacific Lutheran University in the early 1990s. One of the tasks assigned to him there was to study the college's history as part of a reworking of its strategic plan, and that brought Frame in contact with Martin Luther's definition of "vocation" as a way of fulfilling a spiritual mission in everyday life, including through one's occupation. That experience, among others, Frame said, made him a candidate when Augsburg needed a new president, and chose him, in 1997, as its first non-Lutheran, non-Norwegian leader.
But Frame found that being a student of Lutheranism, as he had been at Pacific Lutheran, had not fully prepared him for being a representative of it as the Augsburg presidency required, and he admits to spending almost every night early on fretting, "Why am I here? What caused this to happen?"
"I must have nearly killed my wife" with the angst, he said at Saturday's session. But the time he spent thinking and writing and understanding how his own personal goals as president aligned with Augsburg's institutional sense of mission, he said, persuaded him that others would benefit from similar reflection. He and CIC's president, Richard Ekman, persuaded the Lilly Foundation to finance a new program aimed at providing an outlet for it.
The sponsorship by Lilly (which is known for its backing of spiritual causes) and the use of words like "calling" and "vocation" that have religious roots give the impression that the program aims only at religious institutions, but that's not so; 30 percent of participants in three years so far come from nonsectarian colleges.
But presidents of religious institutions, who might have been expected to have the strongest innate sense of their own missions and their institutions', described how much they had benefited from the chance to spend several days doing "nothing but talk with one another about big questions," as Sister Mary Ann Dillon, president of Mount Aloysius College, a Pennsylvania Roman Catholic institution, described it. Questions, Sister Mary Ann said, like: "Does the metaphor of 'presidential vocation' have empowering potential for those of us who don't tend to think in those terms? Can you develop a sense of vocation -- can you get a job and say 'Whoops' -- I need to figure out why I'm here? Can an institution's mission, its culture, be changed by the presence who is particularly charismatic?"
James T. Barry, president of Mount Marty College, a Benedictine institution in South Dakota, said the time he spent preparing for and immersed in the "sanctuary" of the vocation program with his colleagues (and their spouses) helped him "pause" to consider the question, "What is prompting us, calling us, tugging at us, to participate each day in the life of our institutions?" Upon their return to their respective campuses, Sister Mary Ann began a series of discussions with faculty members about the "saga" of Mount Aloysius and hired a vice president for mission integration; Barry started having dinners with groups of 10 employees at his house (the college has only 100 altogether) to "talk about introspective things" and established a "mission effectiveness" committee. (Proof, perhaps, that in higher education, even the lofty and ethereal require a committee to bring to fruition.)
Audience members (undoubtedly a self-selecting audience, as the session was up against others on intercollegiate athletics and international education, among other topics, plus the contract and retirement planning consultations that were offered throughout the meeting) seemed drawn to the opportunity to engage in what Sister Mary Ann characterized as "great therapy for being eaten up by your work." The panelists tried to alter the attendees' misconceptions, not only about the perceived religious tilt but also their sense that the program was geared toward people earlier in their careers.
In addition to the ways the program helped Barry and Sister Mary Ann reshape their presidencies midstream, Frame recounted that he wrestled with questions of presidential vocation at the very end of his time in office, and that it influenced his thinking about how he help set the stage for a successor and what he might do in retirement.
Ensuring an alignment or "fit" between individual goals and priorities and the institution's own mission not only helps presidents lead their colleges better in good times, but can be the sort of intangible that can help them survive when trouble hits. "Times when you find yourselves in tough spots, where the ability to navigate is difficult, are much easier for people who are inside the mission of an institution because of a personal sense of call," Sister Mary Ann said. To nods from the audience, she recalled presidents she had come across who were eminently prepared to be president and, based on their C.V.'s and qualities, seemed like sure-fire successes at their institutions.
But they failed, "not for lack of quality, or knowing 'stuff,' but simply because the two pieces" -- their own goals and the "stories" of their institutions -- at a qualitative level didn't come together."
That conclusion led her and others to suggest that it might make sense for search firms and trustees charged with finding presidents to steep themselves more than they generally do in candidates' sense of "calling" and institutions' sense of "mission."
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Silver confirmed he supports requiring all lawyer-legislators to reveal their client lists and outside income.
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When Queens of the Stone Age returned with the band's most recent full-length, Villains, some longtime fans were immediately put off by the record's producer before even hearing a note of music: pop hit-maker Mark Ronson.
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It's a backlash that frontman Josh Homme knew was coming when the band chose to have Ronson work on the album.
"I was expecting it," Homme revealed to The Current. "It would be safe to understand that I might have known that that was going to happen. I do believe that there's no stasis or static in life. You're growing or dying. And, I feel if I'm challenging myself and if we're challenging each other, we're going in the right direction. The by-product of that is that anyone that's into us should expect the poke in the chest because we're doing it to ourselves first."
Homme went on to discuss the demands of evolving the band's sound with maintaining fan's loyalty.
"Part of me thinks that every time we put something out, we may lose 20 percent of the people," he said. "That 20 percent of the people might go: 'It's changed! Where's my band that I had?' You can presuppose that. I told this to Ronson, 'If 15 percent of the people don't hate you, you suck.' He said: 'I'm just trying to get it to 40.'


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Buttrick said it lasted all of 30 seconds. When she came outside, she saw a broken window and debris scattered around.
"I never imagined a tornado to come through here. It was loud. I remember just the racketing, the house was shaking. I heard the windows cracking," Buttrick said. "I was scared. It was pretty scary. The adrenaline was pumping."
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Jack Wilshere has returned to the England squad for the friendly against Sweden in Stockholm on 14 November.
The Arsenal midfielder has not featured for his country since making his fifth appearance against Switzerland in June 2011. He has only just returned after 16 months out through injury and Arsène Wenger had cautioned against him being propelled straight back into the international arena.
The squad also includes Everton's 31-year-old Leon Osman for the first time, and will be captained by Steven Gerrard, who will win his 100th cap. Also included are the Liverpool pair Jonjo Shelvey and Raheem Sterling.
Jermain Defoe, Andy Carroll and Michael Carrick have not been included but they remain part of Hodgson's plans with the former West Brom manager simply choosing to look at other options.
Ashley Young returns from injury at the expense of Sunderland's out-of-form winger Adam Johnson while the Arsenal full-back Carl Jenkinson will be added to the squad once Fifa clearance has been received. Jenkinson has played for Finland at Under-21 level, but has recently trained with the England squad.
England Under-21s, meanwhile, face Northern Ireland in a friendly on Tuesday in their first match since last month's stormy match in Serbia.
The squad includes call-ups for the Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, the Chelsea defender Nathaniel Chalobah, the Leicester defender Liam Moore, the Derby midfielder Will Hughes and Bolton's on-loan Arsenal striker Benik Afobe. There are also recalls for Nathaniel Clyne and Sammy Ameobi for the match at Bloomfield Road.
England squad to face Sweden
Goalkeepers Fraser Forster (Celtic), Joe Hart (Manchester City), John Ruddy (Norwich City).
Defenders Leighton Baines (Everton), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Steven Caulker (Tottenham), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham), Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal, pending Fifa clearance).
Midfielders Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur), Leon Osman (Everton), Jonjo Shelvey (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Liverpool), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal), Ashley Young (Manchester United).
Forwards Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea), Daniel Welbeck (Manchester United).
England Under-21 squad to face Northern Ireland
Goalkeepers Ben Amos (Hull City – on loan from Manchester United), Sam Johnstone (Manchester United), Jason Steele (Middlesbrough).
Defenders Nathaniel Chalobah (Watford – on loan from Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Southampton), Tom Lees (Leeds United), Liam Moore (Leicester City), Jack Robinson (Liverpool), Adam Smith (Millwall – on loan from Tottenham Hotspur), Andre Wisdom (Liverpool).
Midfielders Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Will Hughes (Derby County), Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers), Josh McEachran (Middlesbrough – on loan from Chelsea), Nick Powell (Manchester United), Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur).
Forwards Benik Afobe (Bolton Wanderers – on loan from Arsenal), Sammy Ameobi (Newcastle United), Tom Ince (Blackpool), Connor Wickham (Sunderland), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).


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The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council,
voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected
at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
Phone: (208) 384-4422
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Barstool thrown in crowd leads to Aggravated Battery and other weekend arrests
Arrested: Manuel Solomon Cortes, 25, Caldwell
Charges: Aggravated Battery (F)
Boise Police responded to a disturbance at a concert house on the 400 block of South 9th late Saturday (October 17th) just before midnight. Witnesses tell officers that the suspect, later identified as Manuel Solomon, had become angry at the cancellation of a concert while inside the crowded theatre. Witnesses say he picked up a solid wooden bar chair and thew it into the crowd near the stage. The barstool hit an adult female in the back of the head knocking her to the ground. The woman was transported to a nearby hospital for what appeared to be serious injuries at the time. The suspect was booked at the Ada County Jail on the above listed charges.
Warrant Arrested: Robert C. Billos, 41, Boise
Warrant Charges: Forgery (F)
The suspect was taken into custody on an outstanding felony warrant for Forgery Sunday (October 18th).
The arrest warrant stems from forged checks the suspect presented at area grocery stores in May of this year. At that time the suspect presented two forged checks to the local businesses and cashed them. After a detailed investigation the information was forwarded to the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and resulted in the felony warrant.
Learn what's happening in your neighborhood. Read the Boise Police Neighborhood Crime Bulletin, updated regularly by the Boise Police Crime Prevention unit. Log onto www.boisepolice.org!
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Health Benefits of Mustard Oil
Mustard oil is a fatty vegetable oil extracted from the mustard seeds. It has been in use since ancient times for a whole lot of remedies to treat various health problems. Mustard oil beneficial for your Skin, Hair and Health. Mustard oil is dark yellow in color and slightly pungent. The Health Benefits of Mustard Oil includes helps in digestion, increase appetite, relief asthma and also malaria, benefits for skin and hair.
Health Benefits of Mustard Oil:-
Some of the Health Benefits of Mustard Oil are as follows:
Good for Cough and Cold:
Mustard oil is really beneficial for people who are prone to cough and cold. Mustard oil aids clear the congestion of chest & nose. Combine a teaspoon of mustard oil & also camphor and apply on your back and chest for relief.
Mustard oil is beneficial during asthma and also sinusitis. Massage your chest with brown mustard oil to develop airflow to your lungs. Mix a teaspoon of sugar with a mustard oil and also have it a sometimes in a day.
Mustard oil is a helpful mosquito repellent because it can deter insects with its sharp aroma. Therefore, it aids in preventing malaria and other insect borne ailments.
Benefits for Cardiovascular Health:
Mustard oil contains polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated, omega-3, 6 fatty acids that help balance the cholesterol level in the body. They enhance the amount of good cholesterol (HDL) and also decrease the levels of bad cholesterol (LDL), therefore minimizing the risk of heart diseases.
Helps in Digestion:
Mustard oil is also easier to digest than most other oils. It also stimulated the production of digestive enzymes and therefore, the food gets digested faster and better.
Benefits for Skin:
Mustard oil acts as natural sunscreens as of its high content of vitamin C and wide consistency. Mustard oil is useful in removing tan and dark spots to provide you a naturally glowing skin. Also, it is a best remedy for dry chapped lips when lip balms also prove to be infective.
Benefits for Hair:
Mustard oil gives essential nutrients to the hair follicles for proper growth. Massaging your scalp with mustard oil stimulates hair growth by rising blood circulation in the scalp. Mustard oil is useful in preventing premature graying & also darkness your hair naturally.
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Part of the joy of arriving in Hay-on-Wye for the Hay Festival is to take a huge breath of Welsh air – or is it English? So close to the border, it is a mixture of both. In any case, you can almost taste its freshness.
Even better, take a gulp of the organic cider, advertised on signs tacked to apple trees by the side of the road as you drive into the "town of books".
The festival, nestling between the Black Mountains and the Radnorshire hills, is a world away from the pollution and stress of most British towns and cities. Of course this is all part of the charm.
When Peter Florence decided to invite authors to the remote town in 1988, he realised that a key attraction was the rolling green farmland on the northernmost tip of Brecon Beacons National Park.
Ignoring warnings that authors "don't do wellies" and their publishers "don't do real ale", he decided to make the historic market town and surrounding countryside a major attraction. It paid off, and now reconnecting with nature has become a major theme.
Somehow it is easier to identify with the world's best nature writers, wildlife photographers and celebrity gardeners when a cool breeze – or even a raging storm – is flapping the walls of the festival's marquees.
Red kites circle above and swans glide down the River Wye. Visitors walking – or even canoeing – to the festival can see kingfishers darting from the river banks and may be lucky enough to spot an otter.
Much of the accommodation on offer is "eco" – or at least "country" – chic. Last year, Mariella Frostrup stayed in a barn conversion with a hot tub overlooking Hay Bluff, and even the cheapest B&Bs or tepees boast "biomass" – in other words, wood fires.
With such a beautiful setting, the festival is intent on keeping it that way with initiatives to protect the environment. Since 2006 the festival has been dutifully counting its own carbon footprint and making cuts to the 700 tons of carbon generated over the event's 11 days. The Hayly Telegraph you're holding in your hands is 100 per cent recyclable.
Other innovative solutions include solar panels to heat water, cycle rickshaws, and vegan flapjacks. All the waste from back stage will be recycled (including the carpets), as will most of the visitors' rubbish.
Sculptures made with recycled plastic add surprising shapes and colour to your picnic spot; keen gardeners can admire vegetable plots planted by unemployed teenagers before going to a talk by Monty Don.
This year, you can also go foraging with Telegraph columnist and BBC presenter Kate Humble or learn about filming wildfowl from Autumnwatch's Simon King.
The environmental theme extends to Hay's 14 other festivals around the world, where saving water and supporting local activists is even more important.
But don't think that Hay-on-Wye does not have its own green issues. The Plan B for Hay campaign is fighting proposals for a supermarket in the town and one of the most fierce debates this year is expected to be around planning. It is a topic audiences will probably quiz Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco, about when he appears today at 1pm in the Barclays Pavilion.
The opening day was dedicated to environmental themes: expect sparks to fly over mega-dairy farms in the UK, rising sea levels in the Maldives and the problems of drought in England.
Environmentalists are gearing up for Rio+20, a UN meeting in late June, 20 years after the original Earth Summit, and will be gathering at the festival to swap ideas.
But it's not all doom and gloom; this year the emphasis is on what you can do to help.
Safia Minney MBE, the founder of ethical clothes company People Tree spoke yesterday about how to avoid sweatshirts made in sweat shops, while the Environmental Justice Foundation will be giving tips on "fashion activism" – and producing a designer bag for the Telegraph. Ben Law, the woodsman who featured in an episode of Grand Designs, told us how to build an eco-house, while green economist Molly Scott Cato passed on ideas on how to make sure your shopping is fairtrade.
Andy Fryers, the founder of the Hay on Earth branch of the festival, says the challenge is helping visitors take away ideas.
"We are providing a platform to educate, inspire and inform people about environmental issues in a beautiful place, which they can take out into wider society."
Louise Gray is The Daily Telegraph's Environment Correspondent


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Taxpayer Aid Sought for Mortgage Bond Trading: Australia Credit
A year after taxpayer support for Australia's mortgage bonds ended, lenders want it back as issuance languishes at half the levels seen before the global financial crisis.
Deutsche Bank AG predicted last month sales of residential mortgage-backed securities will slip to A$23 billion ($21.4 billion) in 2014, down from last year's A$26.1 billion, the most since 2007 when issuance was double that amount. The government should restart RMBS purchases, focusing on the secondary market to encourage investment, the Australian Securitisation Forum, an industry association whose members accounted for 94 percent of last year's issuance, wrote in a submission to the Financial System Inquiry dated March 31.
A year after the government judged the market had returned to health and ended a A$20 billion support program, issuers say trading volumes have failed to revive despite a housing boom fueled by record-low interest rates. The industry body will have to persuade Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is focused on spending cuts and says he doesn't believe in a "government by checkbook."
"One of the biggest issues with Australian RMBS is that in the secondary market, there's not a great deal of turnover and that tends to put off some foreign investors," said James Austin, chief financial officer at Firstmac Ltd., a Brisbane-based non-bank lender that sold A$1.64 billion of mortgage notes to the Australian Office of Financial Management. "To the extent that the AOFM could play a role in promoting market turnover, that would be a good outcome," he said by phone on April 1.
Offshore Issuance
About half the almost A$50 billion of mortgage debt sold by the nation's lenders in 2007 was denominated in a foreign currency, according to the ASF's report, citing data from Macquarie Group Ltd. Issuers haven't sold any new foreign-currency bonds this year after sales slumped 39 percent in 2013 from a year earlier, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Offshore demand for home loan-backed bonds was a "significant factor" in boosting Australian issuance and compressing costs before the financial crisis, according to the ASF. While overseas accounts are still buying Australian dollar-denominated mortgage-backed bonds, poor secondary-market liquidity is inhibiting their return, the ASF said.
"Most managers and asset consultants see the securities as being illiquid, so that influences how much they buy," said Chris Dalton, chief executive officer of the organization. "For the AOFM to continue to buy and sell over time could provide another useful component to helping liquidity in the secondary market," he said by phone from Melbourne on April 3.
Government Purchases
The AOFM would ideally be permitted to buy notes in either the primary or secondary markets, Dalton said. This would maintain the agency's experience and expertise with the asset class and allow the government to efficiently deploy support if another market shock made that necessary, he said.
The ASF is also lobbying for an exchange facility, run by the AOFM, which would allow funds to switch discounted RMBS for government bonds during market disruptions.
Credit growth in Australia is slowly picking up, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said in a statement April 1 after holding the cash target at 2.5 percent. The central bank has cut its benchmark rate by 225 basis points since late 2011 to stimulate lending. The benchmark 10-year bond yield fell to 4.07 percent as of 3:08 p.m. today in Sydney from 4.51 percent before the RBA started its current cutting cycle.
Home Prices
Housing finance climbed 5.8 percent in February from a year earlier, the biggest jump since September 2011. Firstmac is writing an average A$140 million to A$150 million of new loans every month, back to levels last seen before the financial crisis, according to CFO Austin.
Home prices in Australia's capital cities rose 10.6 percent in the year through March 31, the biggest annual gain since July 2010, according to the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index. Prices rose 2.3 percent last month from February, the measure shows.
Late payments of more than 90 days rose to 0.57 percent in January from 0.53 percent a month earlier, according to Moody's Investors Service. That compares to a 1.9 percent delinquency rate in the U.K. in the three months through August, the ratings company wrote in a report published last week.
Australian banks, from the nation's four majors to regional lenders, are paying the least to sell mortgage-backed bonds since the financial crisis. Issuers that were frozen out of the market through the crisis due to ballooning costs are also returning, with Columbus Capital Pty and Bluestone Group Pty pricing their first offerings since the financial crisis.
Market Functioning
"I like the idea that people are thinking about what to do in times of stress but when markets are functioning reasonably well, I think it's better to let the market work out its own levels," Peter Casey, deputy treasurer at ING Bank Australia Ltd., said April 2. "We've seen good demand come through over the last few years with a very solid base of investors. That investor base may look different to seven years ago but it seems to be more sustainable."
The government bought A$15.5 billion of RMBS between October 2008 and April 2013 to foster competition in Australia's mortgage market after funding costs blew out following the collapse of subprime lending in the U.S. The AOFM's mandate restricted purchases to the primary market.
The government now owns just over A$7 billion of the debt, according to the AOFM's Michael Bath. The agency has selectively sold notes since March 2010 "in the interests of secondary market transparency," according to its website. The case for further sales this year is however not strong after the agency sold down its holdings of mezzanine RMBS, Bath said in an April 2 phone interview, speaking as acting chief executive officer.
Financial Inquiry
"It's not for us to comment on what the government may or may not tell us to do," said Bath, when asked about the ASF's proposals. "It clearly would represent a significant change to our mandate if we were to either make a market or be a buyer of last resort under some sort of facility arrangement."
The Financial System Inquiry is reviewing Australian markets to create a blueprint for the nation's financial sector. The committee is due to release an interim report in mid-2014 and then consult the market again on its conclusions. Any changes that result after the panel makes its recommendations to the government in November aren't likely until well into 2015, according to the ASF's Dalton.
"The market could certainly do with more liquidity but I'm a bit reserved about expectations for significant volumes of turnover occurring in short periods of time," Stephen Maher, head of debt markets analysis in the fixed income and currencies team at Macquarie Bank Ltd., said April 3. "It's a buy and hold market."
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[atlas]Falling back to IPv4 if IPv6 connectivity is lost?
Kenneth Aalberg kenneaal at abohelse.onmicrosoft.com
Thu Jul 7 18:40:01 CEST 2011
Greetings, Probers. (Yes, that was the first name that came to mind. :P ) I've joined the probecloud, and it is working fine. However, I am on an IPv6 tunnel behind a NAT that doesn't let me configure protocol 41 to be forwarded to one specific host (my linux router). Thus, the AYIYA tunnel is in a NAT table as a normal connection, and will sometimes be cycled out if it is the oldest connection and a new one is attempted, regardless of whether the NAT entry has seen traffic recently or not. The probe receives an IPv6 address, and uses this correctly. However, if the tunnel should go down, the probe will also be marked as down, even if it is actually still alive and can communicate through IPv4. Is there any kind of fallback option to try IPv4 connections before declaring a probe host down? Or would it make more sense for me to disable IPv6 on the probe to ensure it accurately represents the actual state of my connectivity? Best regards, Kenneth Aalberg Probe 737. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/attachments/20110707/7612ba8e/attachment.html>


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It's another season and another opportunity for the Cincinnati Bengals to take a step forward in the NFL postseason picture, as the franchise is riding a seven-game playoff losing streak. The Bengals have lost six straight in the Wild Card round, with defeats in 2005, 2009, and in each of the last four seasons spanning from 2011-2014.
The process of teammates getting comfortable with each other is over and done with, but there's always an extra chemistry component that can be built upon and the Bengals are hoping something new starts developing in the upcoming set of preseason games. With information on secondary market Bengals tickets provided by RazorGator.com, below are the average ticket prices and get-in prices for their schedule prior to Week 1 of the regular season.
8/14/2015 | Cincinnati Bengals vs. New York Giants | Paul Brown Stadium | Average Price: $87.35 | Get-in Price: $17
8/24/2015 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Cincinnati Bengals | Raymond James Stadium | Average Price: $38 | Get-in Price: $4
8/29/2015 | Cincinnati Bengals vs. Chicago Bears | Paul Brown Stadium | Average Price: $67.61 | Get-in Price: $23
9/3/2015 | Indianapolis Colts vs. Cincinnati Bengals | Lucas Oil Stadium | Average Price: $33 | Get-in Price: $4
The Bengals' preseason opener is their most expensive game during the four-game slate, as they host the New York Giants at Paul Brown Stadium tomorrow night. The average ticket price is $87.35 with a get-in price of $17. The Bengals then hit the road to play the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, Jameis Winston, and the rest of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium.
The most valuable preseason game is in Week 3, when the starting position players from each team usually play the most. It is typical for the starters to come out and play a series or two after halftime to get into that routine again and back into rhythm. The average ticket price for this affair against the Bears is $67.61 with a get-in price of $23.
The preseason finale is surprisingly the Bengals' least expensive game, as Cincinnati travels to Lucas Oil Stadium to take on the Indianapolis Colts. The starters are unlikely to play much in this contest, as both teams are expected to be playoff contenders after both making the postseason again a year ago and don't want any last-minute injuries before the games start to count. Interestingly, it was Indianapolis that knocked out Cincinnati last year in the Wild Card round.


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One thing I love about a new month is that it gives opportunity for a fresh start and girls .. I can't put into words how I need one.
I have gotten so upside down with this business that I have lost vital pieces of my life. And by golly I want them back.
Searching for nourishment has led me to several things
May purposes look a little something like this
I purpose to spend just simple time with God every morning .. SIMPLE .. a letting go of my plans & wants..CONTROL and STRIVING and let go and relax into me following Him. Back to remembering ONE day at a time. I am setting my clock a little earlier but I refuse to beat myself up when I fall short...cause I will.
I purpose to do my dishes, laundry...basically maintain a tidy home. NOT a perfect one. One that is lived in and since I do work from home I will cut myself some slack but NO MORE of the business holding my home and family hostage
I purpose to complete {being the key word} 3 of my projects on MY house in the month of May!!...tall order {sigh}
I will purpose to cook dinners at least 4 times a week. SIMPLE ones. We are eating out way to much = to much money + grease = not good!
I purpose to ENJOY my calling..to listen to GOD's leading..take all concerns and complitments and suggestions to HIM first.
I purpose to put my family first. My work was taking priority over all of these areas. I have not been able to take a weekend off...go to the movies...I've missed going to causal lunches..communicating with friends..
to be really honest sometime I would like to take a whole Sunday and sit in my PJ's in bed and just watch TV! just ONCE in awhile
I don't want to live striving and surviving and miss moments in my life that I will never get back. LIFE is to short.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE what I'm doing. What GOD is doing...I trust there is so much more ahead but before He can move forward I feel led to get a handle on this chaos because it is not true
that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...sometimes it really can kill you!
June 1 I will report back here and let ya'll know how I'm doing...and in the in between days too;0
Now it is your turn:)
Have you been? Am I crazy here? the only one that is going through this? Do you feel like you have a zillion balls in the air and can't seem to find time for the really important things? If so ~ what are you doing to change it?:)
I've got some fun news to share next week. I smiling ear to ear just being able to share our hearts here. Thank you for listening to mine. I would love to hear yours as well?


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What is McBride's main argument in The Color of Water?I do not understand what it is. At first I thought about racism, but then it goes on about explaining religion and education.
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I think that McBride's main argument is closely tied to his title, and that while most would associate that title with race, McBride intends for his readers to realize--as he did--that in regards to race, religion, and education, humans cannot think everything is either black or white. The mature McBride looks back on his life and realizes that if everybody viewed every area of the human existence clearly (the color of water) and neutrally, then we would have far fewer controversies, whether they be connected to race, religion, etc.
In regards to the second part of your question, McBride has to discuss religion and education because they played just as significant a role in his life as his mixed ethnicity did. While his mother was white, and that certainly created controversy for her and her children, she was also Jewish, and her family would not have approved of her marrying anyone (black or white) who was not Jewish. Similarly, when McBride's mother seeks to get the best education possible for her children, she must combat not only segregation based on race but also differences in religious philosophy with the schools.
Actually, after my teacher and I discussed this, it turned out the true argument is that what happens in the past will reflect in the future. As Ruth is growing up her history reflects her son and her future.


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Assessing the Security of Your Web Applications
Sometimes forms are filled out in sequence. This may be necessary because the information provided in one form is used to take the user to the next form in the web application. Additionally, the entire web application may be divided into multiple forms for ease of use.
Malicious users may be able to bypass the intermediate forms by typing out the entire form name in the browser URL field instead of using the navigation controls provided by the web site pages. This may result in unexpected application behavior, accessing a defunct application, incomplete database records or buffer overflow.
Security measures you can take are:
Ensure the user progresses to the next form only after all the required information requested in the preceding forms is provided. Furthermore, ensure the user visited all preceding forms.
Perform referrer checks on the server side. This will ensure a given form was reached from the page that contains the hyperlink providing access to the form.
Many times, form fields are used to send input provided by users to the back end web site for further processing. For example, a user may input their user ID or full name to list information pertaining to their user account. Once the web server receives this information, it will issue a query to a relational database. The results of the query are displayed to the user.
A malicious user may input field entries in such a way that the returned result provides additional information about other users as well. In addition, the embedded queries may run other SQL commands, such as pipe commands, which may result in disclosure of confidential information.
Security measures you can take are:
The web application must carefully examine the input fields used to create the database queries for illegal characters, for example an asterisk (*).
Validate and ensure that input fields contain only the relevant user-related information.
Ensure proper permissions exist on the database objects accessed by the web application.
Many site administrators feel secure simply because the site is using SSL for all its sessions. SSL provides for data transmission security between the web client and the web server. Once an SSL session is established, all information exchanged between the web server and the web client is encrypted. The session timeout specifies the "no activity" duration beyond which the user will have to re-authenticate himself to the web site. The session timeout is usually based on the type of application. Serious financial institutions may specify a very short session timeout period. Regular applications, such as web-based e-mail, may use longer timeout periods.
A malicious user may be able to hijack another user's session if session timeouts are too long. The implications of this are widespread, ranging from embarrassment to loss of confidentiality and integrity of user information. This is a major issue in kiosk, cyber café, laboratory and shared workstation environments.
Your security measure is to evaluate carefully the session timeouts for your application. If you are using multiple application servers, then ensure the session timeouts for the multiple applications are consistent with the timeouts determined for the entire web site.
Most servers are configured with automatic directory listing. This means any directory that does not contain any of the default files (for example, index.htm or default.htm) served by the server will display the contents of the directory. This is dangerous for directories where CGI program sources or executables reside. Further, these directories may contain other files (for example, files with the ~ prefix or the .bak suffix) that may provide more information on the web-site application.
Malicious users may be able to browse the directories and download key files. Files that contain source code may be examined to identify trap doors to gain access into the web server or applications.
The security measures you can take are:
Configure the web server to specify all default files that may be used and to disable directory browsing.
Establish proper procedures when adding the web-application files.
Ensure that unnecessary files are periodically removed.


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A 57-year-old Craigavon man who is facing a litany of charges linked to sex slavery failed to show up in court today despite being in custody.
Keith Baker, of Drumellan Mews, is charged with 15 sex offences against women, including one who is disabled.
The court heard that Baker, who is in custody, couldn't be brought to Craigavon as he claimed he was too ill.
Baker's wife Caroline Bernadette Baker, (51) is also facing charges including falsely imprisoning a severely disabled woman between 2004 and 2012.
Police had requested via Craigavon Magistrates Court that Keith Baker be released into their custody for further questioning and he was due to appear at court this morning.
However District Judge Mervyn Bates heard Baker had not been brought from Maghaberry Prison as he was ill.
Last month, following a request by the Lurgan Mail, a judge lifted reporting restrictions allowing the pair to be identified for the first time since their cases came to court.
Baker faces charges including rape, human trafficking, sexual assault, aiding and abetting rape, false imprisonment and voyeurism.
It is claimed one woman was held in squalid conditions and repeatedly sexually abused by Mr Baker, his wife and 'a number unknown males'.
At a previous court when Mr Baker applied for bail, it was revealed that a malnourished woman had been repeatedly raped and held prisoner. She had gone missing from her home in 2004 and weighed just six stone after being kept in a sparse and unlit bedroom with no inside door handle.
The court ruled today (Wednesday) that Baker appear via video link at Craigavon Magistrates Court on March 28.


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Questions remain for USC at many positions at the end of spring practice — Quarterback? Tailback? Cornerback? — but it seems that the Trojans can breathe easy about what took place at center.
The replacement of Khaled Holmes at center was one of the biggest concerns going into spring ball, and after a couple early twists, the situation seems to have settled, with Marcus Martin taking charge.
It was an interesting path. Martin, set to be a junior in the fall, worked out at center in February and March during unofficial player workouts, which led to rightful speculation that he would be moving from guard, where he was a part-time starter last season.
When spring practice began, though, Martin was back at guard and USC tried former starting tackle Max Tuerk at center. Problems were evident immediately, as Tuerk struggled with quarterback exchanges. After a couple weeks, Martin returned to center, backup up by Cyrus Hobbi, and the position settled.
"I got a surprise when I came back (for the start of spring ball) and they told me I was playing guard,'' Martin said. "So I got in the guard mindset, and then halfway through the spring I had to get back in the center mindset.''
That's a lot of movement and adjustment, but it's notable that in the 86-play spring game on Saturday, there were not any fumbled snaps. After the scrimmage, Coach Lane Kiffin said USC will go forward with the 6-foot-3, 325-pound Martin as the starting center.
"I've still got a lot to improve on in the offseason, now that I know I've got a shot with the ones [starters] at center,'' Martin said. "I've just got to continue to progress and get better.''
It helps to have his predecessor close by. Even though he has graduated, Holmes attended a few spring practices and regularly has been on campus to help prepare for this month's NFL Draft.
"He knows that when I need him, he's there for me,'' Martin said. "If I reach out to him, he's always there for me. But I really don't ask for tips. That's not what I like to do. As a center, I'm trying to develop my own game.''


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From the Desk of SONI MOJE, CITIBANK N.A.NIGERIA, #82 ALLEN AVENUE, IKEJA, LAGOS-NIGERIA. Dear Sir, STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL I am Soni Moje , The Manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the Citibank N.A. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.We discovered an abandoned sum of $25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five million United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a Plane crash. Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus: 15% for you as my foreign partner, 70% for us the officials in my department and 15 % for the source of financing all local and foreign expences to be incurred by us and you during the course of this business. Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 70 % we intend to invest in (estate) and import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made. Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. I look forward to receiving your prompt response. Yours faithfully, SONI MOJE CITIBANK N.A.NIGERIAReceived on Friday, 28 March 2003 18:05:55 UTC
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Shifting Responsibility
...Well that took a while. Not that you guys are really gonna notice a difference. So I got all my mons to level 35, Confit evolved into Swanna, and I'm now standing a few dozen steps further into Chargestone than I have stood before, with Bianca barely in view ahead of me. Past her I see some stairs up, while in the other direction there are some stairs down. Seems fishy. When I walk up to her, she - oddly - doesn't talk to me first. And unless I talk to her now, this is probably going to bug me for ages, so I see what she has to say... Which turns out to be that she's there to be Juniper's lackey, in order to research Tynamo. Not sure I've seen one of those yet. (As it turns out, I have not.) Seeing as how she's being such a pushover right now though, I leave the professor's pet to her thing and continue on my way. Seeing as how I want to leave, I head up, rather than down. Heading downstairs can come later, when I'm too overpowered for this place or need more Pokemon. I wanna be outta here sooner rather than later; my only counter to Ferroseed is Angkokear, due to Ferroseed having a Bug attack. Moving on. Continuing up through the cave, the first foe I meet seems oddly aware that she's called an "ace trainer"... why is the player character never aware of what they themselves are called though? No fair. That aside, this place doesn't give me any troubles at all. ...Okay now this bugs me. I left the previous city at the north west, headed up the route in what was probably a NNW direction (maybe even NNNW), entered a cave at its south west entrance, exited it in the north east... So now I'm basically north of where I started. In the next town. Yet the map tells me I should be distinctly north west from where I started. Was the original Chargestone Cave & Route 6 this bad? As I enter this new town, I'm greeted by Juniper in person, who - since she's so close - should stop leaving work to Bianca, who clearly has her own goals. She checks out my Pokedex, and gives me a Master Ball "for how well I've done"... even though I bet she'd do the same if I only had three Pokemon, and never evolved any. The local gym leader Skyla turns up to giver Juniper a lift to an otherwise unreachable city, but the lazy one says she has other things to do first. Lazy and negligent. Gotcha. That done, I explore the town... Which is oddly small. Only two actual houses. Oh, and Skyla turned the only aeroplane hanger into a gym, which is incredibly self-centered of her. There's also a cargo terminal thing, which I have little use for right now, but purely thanks to owning a flying type Pokemon, I got some Net Balls. (The excuse being that I helped a guy reach something which was high up. Which you'd think is what ladders were for.) Since I don't want to be underleveled for the gym (again), I head out to Route 7... And fall into a bad habit of mine: I see shaking grass, I head straight for it. Thusly, my new potential pokemon is Audino. Simply caught, I figure it being a "Hearing Pokemon" means I should name it something related to that. Like Polenta! I doubt I'll use this Pokemon, but it'll be good to have it just in case. ...Okay, I'm good now. I think I'll do some exploring, then start up the next installment when I find something notable enough for it.
- Pica the Magnezone, Lv.35
- Zoroark, Lv.35
- San Pedro the Maractus, Lv.36
- Angkokear the Joltik, Lv.35
- Confit the Swanna, Lv.35
- Lentil the Lairon, Lv.35
- Gummalapur the Liepard, Lv.32
- Necco the Alomomola, Lv.5
- Polenta the Audino, Lv.32


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11/09/2005 7:14pm, #31
The guys at my club said the Sirius gi's were really comfortable to wear and very soft. They are also quite hot though.
11/09/2005 7:32pm, #32
But new gi's have not stood the test of time yet. Lets see how they look and feel, but most importantly perform after about 50 washes. I ain't knocking Sirius gi's. I am just not jumping on the bandwagon until I see some dirty ass ragged Sirius gi covered in old blood spots with yellow armpits still holding strong where the knees haven't been ripped out and the seams are all together.
11/09/2005 7:58pm, #33Originally Posted by Yrkoon9
My blue Atama goldweave has worn like iron for the last year, with about the same use as the white. As near as I can tell, it has barely faded. The collar is good as new.
Say what you will about Atama, but they've never done me wrong.
Yrkroon9: Out of curiousity, exactly what circumstances on this planet would lead you to lend your prized gi to anyone? And what brand was it, Ouano?
11/09/2005 8:12pm, #34
Yes. It was my Ouano. The old school double weave that hasn't been made in years.
Here is the circumstance. There was a kid, a friend, who trained at the same gym I did. He was 16 when he got his gi and obviously outgrew that **** pretty fast. And we were headed to a tournament. He needed another gi badly. And my Ouano was just a little small for me. So I offered it to him.
He never returned it. Months went by of me asking for it. I had a sneaking suspicion it got ruined or something because he never wore it to class.
And then I got kicked from the gym. Never to see these guys again and the chances of me getting this gi back is about ohhhh I dunno. 1 in 1,000,000?
The easiest thing to do was try to buy another.
11/10/2005 12:31am, #35Originally Posted by Yrkoon9
Of course, Atama *mailed* me the gi Express when I paid for UPS Worldwide Express, so I bitched at them today and they should have another order flying past it for arrival tomorrow morning. I then have three nights to pound the crap out of it and get the flags on for the tournament.
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11/10/2005 4:55pm, #36
If money is no object: Koral MKM
I've had mine for nearly a year and a half now, and it still feels as good as when I first wore it. Never had a better gi.
Of course, for what you pay for it, you'd be pissed if it wasn't.
11/12/2005 6:30pm, #37Originally Posted by kikkoman
11/12/2005 11:14pm, #38
I suggest you skip my posts entirely then.
11/15/2005 12:34am, #39
if u r just starting jits, get a $50 atama judo gi. no need to have 50 patches and a $300 gi and still get your ass handed to you when u r on the mat. besides...if you quit....$50 is not a lot.
www.jokerjitsu.com has reviews for a bunch of different gi manufacturers
i got an A2 Keiko blue limited edition if anyone want to buy it off of me :P
only been used 3x and washed twice....just a little long for me.
11/15/2005 7:01am, #40Originally Posted by SircAnd that's when I figured out that tears couldn't make somebody who was dead alive again. There's another thing to learn about tears, they can't make somebody who doesn't love you any more love you again. It's the same with prayers. I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does. I can at least see why people would want him around. It's good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do. Maybe God's there because people get scared of all the bad stuff they do. They figure that God and the Devil are always playing this game of tug-of-war game with them. And they never know which side they're gonna wind up on. I guess that tug-of-war idea explains how sometimes, even when people try to do something good, it still turns out bad.


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Author Callie Logan never expected to swap her life in London for one in rural Suffolk but, after the breakdown of her marriage, she decides that a fresh start is just what she needs. Finding Owl Cottage in the tiny village of Newton St. Clare, Callie determines to give up on love and throw herself into her work. But fate seems to have other ideas and she soon has two very different men vying for her attention.
First there's Leo, who likes to live on the wild side, which usually means taking his dates foraging in the local woods for their supper. Then there's bookshop owner Sam. Recovering from a divorce, Sam has also vowed to embrace the single life. That is, until he meets Callie.
But is Callie willing to risk her heart again and, if she is, will she make the right choice?
©2015 Victoria Connelly (P)2015 Victoria Connelly
"Purely delightful!"
I loved this story. It was gentle and realistic and above all just gorgeous!
Loved Jan's voice. Could have listened to her all day every day.
A feel-good happy ever after romantic comedy.
Just gorgeous!
"Charming and Captivating"
Light, Feel-good, Easy-listening
She was the sort of narrator that you know is good because you don't really notice them while you're listening.
Absolutely, I would listen in the car driving backwards and forwards to work and would often wish I could stay sitting in the car all day to hear the next bit!
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"Good story"
I enjoyed this book, the troubles, the characters and the journey they go on.
There was lots of "he said" and "she said" to describe the dialogue, that got quite tiresome. Maybe reading it would have been a obvious.
The performance of the narrator d good reading the book, a lovely, soft, eloquent voice. Reading the dialogue though she gave emphasis that I didn't enjoy as much.
"Happy memories"
Brought back so many happy memories ... my love of books will never fade away
A sweet story of friendship, family and love on an English countryside. Pleasant narration and easy listen.
"Book lovers!"
Great book!! If you love books, you'll love this sweet romantic fiction. Narration was great too!
"Lovely story with a great narrator "
Such a pleasant change in the romance arena. The reader falls in love along with the characters. Smart and funny writing.
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By Ben Jacobs
Not for the first time in his career, Eleider Álvarez has had to adjust following the withdrawal of an opponent. The Colombian, now based in Quebec was scheduled to face South Africa's Thomas Oosthuizen screened by HBO on the undercard of the Jean Pascal – Lucian Bute fight. Instead he will battle undefeated Canadian Andrew Gardiner who was called at short notice following reports that Oosthuizen was out of shape and subsequently fired by his own promoter.
Álvarez travelled to Big Bear, California, a site chosen by many big names over the years, including Óscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, as a base to train. The 29-year-old also worked with Ángel 'Memo' Heredia, alongside Jean Pascal.
"It was the first training camp that I have had outside of Canada and my first with a new strength and conditioning coach so the preparation was excellent," revealed Álvarez to BoxingScene.
"It was difficult at first to adjust; you need two weeks to acclimatise to the altitude in Big Bear. After the first few days though I felt good so there was no problem. I notice a big difference now.
"Memo is a good trainer and a good person too, we get on well also as he's Mexican and I'm Colombian, and Mexicans and Colombians have a similar culture, so we connected very well."
In addition to working with Pascal, future hall of famer Roy Jones Jr. was also in the camp and naturally was a source of inspiration for Álvarez.
"I didn't do any sparring with Jean Pascal even though we were in the same camp. That's because we were both due to fight southpaws, and we're both orthodox fighters, so there was no need to spar. But we were competitive in the training camp.
"Roy Jones gave me advice. When I was sparring he told me to move my head more and that I have an excellent jab which I should use more. I often watched him and Pascal in the gym and how they did things."
Saturday was supposed to be the breakout night for Álvarez, however his bout against Gardiner will now not be televised by HBO following Oosthuizen's pull out. While Álvarez admits to disappointment, he isn't letting it affect him in his last week of preparation.
"First it emerged that he had fallen off his motorbike or something," he said.
"Then it came to light that he has been fired by his promoter and that he was well overweight. So we think in other words he didn't want the fight.
"I was ready for a big fight, the training we did to fight Oosthuizen was really good so when they told me that I wouldn't fight him or be on a big channel like HBO I felt a bit down. But I will carry on working hard to have this opportunity again.
"I'm going now from fighting a tall guy of 6'4 to a shorter guy who fights on the inside. But I'm not making too many adjustments to fight this guy, just small details."
In his last outing, Álvarez dominated fellow Colombian Edison Miranda back in September. Many expected Eleider to stop the former world title challenger; however
"The Storm" feels the fight will serve him well down the line in his career.
"I wanted to knock out Edison Miranda because I promised that! But, well, I got a lot of experience which will help me in my career. They were 10 tough rounds. He was very well prepared, if he wasn't he wouldn't have got up from the knockdown.
"Right now light-heavyweight is one of the best divisions in the sport, very good boxers, fast ones and hard punchers, so it's very difficult. But I'm happy to be in this division. I'm working hard to be world champion soon, hopefully this year I'll have that opportunity. I'm not far away from it."