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ESI Manual: The Swedish EU enlargement debate (May 2009)
The Institutional Agenda
Carl Bildt has often pointed out how crowded the agenda is for the Swedish presidency – given the key institutional issues that have to be resolved and the fact that the Lisbon Treaty is still not in place:
- A new Lisbon Treaty? As three Member States have yet to formally ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Sweden is preparing to conduct its EU presidency with the current Nice Treaty in place. The Lisbon Treaty could enter into force during – or immediately after – its presidency.
- The newly elected Parliament: Sweden begins its presidency with the newly elected European Parliament that will first focus on internal issues; forming new committees and holding hearings for a new European Commission.
- The new European Commission: The current European Commission will remain in office until 31 October 2009. The new Commission must then be approved by a vote of both the European Parliament and the Council. Fewer proposals than usual are therefore expected from the Commission in the first half of Sweden's presidency.
- Short Presidency: The holidays in August and public holidays in December mean that, in practice, the presidency in the second half of the year is shorter than the first.
The Challenges
The packed agenda facing the Swedish EU Presidency was outlined by Carl Bildt in his Washington speech on May 5th 2009.
He said that Sweden hopes to make progress on EU institutional reforms if there is a "yes" in the Irish referendum in mid-October: Much of Sweden's presidency will be devoted to overseeing the institutional changes the Lisbon Treaty makes.
"It is my sincere hope that we will be the end of an historical era – in the sense that we would get the Lisbon Treaty ratified."
Implementing the Lisbon Treaty:
- "The Lisbon treaty – in terms of justice and home affairs, is another step of integration…we hope we can take some not insubstantial further steps in that particular area". "Foreign and security affairs; to have a de facto European foreign minister (as EU high representative for foreign and security policy), and to have an elected president of the European Council, and to set up the European Action Service. By merging all of the activities of the Commission and of the Council, and then adding elements from the national diplomatic services; these are huge steps."
Big issues on the EU agenda:
- "The European Union has a big role to manoeuvre the world towards a global climate deal in Copenhagen in December 2009. That is going to consume a lot of political energy."
- "We have to manage the economy both in terms of the G-20 global context, in terms of internal European issues, and in terms of the financial political crisis management – that will consume a much larger percentage of our energies than people are aware of".
- "The single most important political process within Europe this year is the peace process in Cyprus. We have a President in Cyprus, Mr. Christofias; we have a leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, Mr. Talal – they are both personally committed to overcoming the division of their island…"
- "Another of our main challenges is, of course, enlargement – the roughly 100 million people of Southeast Europe that are knocking on our door: the countries of the Western Balkans and Turkey."
- Turkey: "I belong to those Europeans who agreed very much with President Obama, when he came to Europe and said that the strategic significance of Turkey joining the European Union is vast: it's vast for the European Union; it is vast as a symbol of reconciliation, solving and overcoming old divisions; it sends a very powerful signal to the rest of the world. That being said we know that it's not an entirely easy thing to do. The same applies to the countries of the Western Balkans."
- Croatia-Slovenia dispute: "We have on the table – very much supported by us and by the French and the Czechs – the trio – a compromise proposal by Commissioner Rehn which we think is constructive and good. It would allow resolution of the dispute, and it would allow, which is also very important, that we go on with the Croat accession negotiations. I welcome everyone supporting and adhering to the proposal of Commission Rehn. The accession of Croatia is of course important. It is important for Croatia but it is also important for the rest of the region."
The following overview of contacts in the Swedish Parliament is part of a manual prepared by ESI within its "Communicating Europe" conference series project. Please download the full manual here.
The Parliament (Riksdag)
Tel: + 46 8 786 40 00
Per Westerberg (Moderate Party) has been the Speaker of the Riksdag since 2006. The Speaker directs the Riksdag's work and presides over the meetings of the Chamber. He is assisted by three Deputy Speakers. The office of Speaker is the highest position to which a person may be elected in Sweden. Formally, the Speaker ranks in precedence after the King, but ahead of the Prime Minister. One of the main tasks of the Speaker is to lead negotiations on forming a new Government, and to present a proposal for a new Prime Minister.
More information on the Swedish Parliament is available at www.riksdagen.se.
Seven parties are represented in the Riksdag:
The Coalition since 2006:
Moderates (Moderata samlingspartiet) | 97 |
Centre Party (Centerpartiet) | 29 |
Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna) | 24 |
Liberals (Folkpartiet liberalerna) | 28 |
Total | 178 |
Opposition parties:
Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna) | 130 |
Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) | 22 |
Greens (Miljöpartiet de gröna) | 19 |
Total | 171 |
Parliamentary Committees
There are 15 standing committees in the Riksdag. Under the Swedish system they have considerable powers. Each committee is responsible for monitoring developments in the EU within its area of competence. The standing committees have been assigned a more active role in work with EU issues since Jan 2007. In addition, the EU Committee has a special consultative role. Ministers have to appear before the EU Committee before all meetings of the Council of Ministers. The 15 standing committees cover:
Civil Affairs, Constitution, Cultural Affairs, Defence., Education, Environment and Agriculture, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health and Welfare, Industry and Trade, Justice, Labour Market, Social Insurance, Taxation and Transport and Communications.
More details on the committees' work related to the EU are available on the Riksdagen's website.
Details of Committee members are available on the Riksdagen's website.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs (FAC)/Utrikesutskottet (UU)
Göran Lennmarker is the Chair. He is a Moderate Party MP and is well-known known as a staunch supporter of enlargement. His view is that: "A bigger EU is a better EU" and that "we have an obligation to receive mew members who share our ideas and meet our requirements." He also chairs the Joint Committee on the Constitution and Foreign Affairs. Göran Lennmarker is also a deputy member of the EU Affairs Committee and a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the Swedish delegation to the OSCE. In January 2007, he headed the international election observation mission to observe Serbia's parliamentary elections. He has been Special Representative for the South Caucasus for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. He is President Emeritus of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The FAC has 17 members and 27 deputy members.
Tel: + 46 8 786 4602
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Secretary: + 46 8 786 4568.
Pål Jonson is foreign policy adviser.
Tel: + 468 786 5608 / + 46 70 738 205 847
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Urban Ahlin, the foreign affairs spokesman of the Social Democratic Party, is the Deputy Chair of the FAC. He is also a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitution and Foreign Affairs, a deputy member of the EU Affairs Committee and a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. Like Göran Lennmarker, Urban Ahlin is a staunch advocate of EU enlargement. He wrote in 2006: "Today we also see a more peaceful Balkan region, with several Balkan states set on becoming EU members. The winds of change are still blowing across Europe."
Tel: + 46 8 786 4723 / +46 70 530 4245
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Secretary of the Committee is Thomas Hörberg.
Tel: +46 8 786 4284
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
More information on the Foreign Affairs Committee is available on the Riksdagen's website.
The list of Committee members is available here:
The Committee on European Union Affairs
The Committee on European Union Affairs differs from the standing committees. It is a special consultative body. The Government must gain support for its EU policies in the Riksdag and is expected to pursue EU policies supported by a majority in the Riksdag. Before all meetings of the EU Council of Ministers, the Government must first receive support in the Committee on EU Affairs for the positions it intends to take. The Government is expected to observe the positions agreed with the Committee on EU Affairs, which may be regarded as a sort of mandate. Should it fail to do so, the Government risks criticism from the Riksdag and ultimately a vote of no confidence.
Unlike the parliamentary committees, the Committee on EU Affairs does not present any proposals for decision by the Riksdag.
The Committee, which has 17 members and 41 deputy members, is chaired by Anna Kinberg Batra, a Moderate Party MP. She has worked as an adviser for senior Moderate party leaders, and she has also run her own communications company. Before the elections in 2006, she was the Vice President for PR and Communications at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
Tel: + 46 8 786 4458
E-mail: email@example.com
Web: www.annakinbergbatra.se
The Deputy Chair is Susanne Eberstein, a Social Democrat.
Tel: +46 8 786 4303 / + 46 70 252 6690
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Committee Secretary is Jan Olsson
Tel: +46 8 78 64 305
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Margareta Hjort is the Deputy Secretary and the adviser on relations with the European Council and GAERC – well placed and willing to answer external questions on Parliament's work on EU issues.
Tel: + 46 8 786 4878
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
More information on the Committee on European Union Affairs is available here.
The list of Committee members is available here.
Chamber Officials in the Parliament working on the EU
Charlotte Rydell is the Assistant Chamber Secretary for EU issues.
Tel: + 46 8 786 4885
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bengt Olsson is the Riksdag's representative to the EU Institutions, based in Brussels.
Tel: + 32 47 383 5793
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Friendship Committees:
The three separate Committees on Austria, Hungary and on BiH are chaired by Walburga Habsburg Douglas, an active Moderate MP and a German-Swedish jurist and ex- journalist. She is daughter of Otto von Habsburg and her (unused) formal title is the Archduchess Walburga of Austria. She has a reputation for informality. As Secretary General of the Paneuropean Union she was one of the organisers of the now famous "Paneuropa-Picknick" on 19 August 1989 at the Austrian-Hungarian frontier – then part of the Iron Curtain. The border was then opened – the first historic breach of the Iron Curtain – allowing more than 660 East Germans from the GDR to pass through.
Tel: + 468 786 4619 / + 46 70 244 2477
E-mail: email@example.com
The Committee on Serbia is chaired by Jan R Andersson , also a Moderate.
Tel: + 468 786 5006 / +46 70 248 9099
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
There are two committees covering Turkey. The friendship committee is chaired by Göran Lindblad.
Tel: +46 8 786 5896
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The deputy chair is the Social Democrats' new Secretary General Yilmaz Kerimo, a Turkish Assyrian by birth.
Yilmaz Kerimo
Tel. +46 8 786 5478
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Or contact via the Social Democratic party headquarters.
Rosita Runegrund chairs the committee focusing on human rights in Turkey (SSKT).
Tel: +46 8 786 4735 / +46 70 343 9768
E-mail: email@example.com
Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs
The Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs prepares foreign policy decisions before a decision on the matter is taken by the Riksdag. The Advisory Council is a consultative body between the Government and the Riksdag. The Council consists of the Speaker Per Westerberg and 18 members of the Riksdag. It is chaired by the King of Sweden.
More information on the Advisory Council members is available on the Riksdagen's website.
The Priority on Enlargement in the 2009 Foreign Policy Statement
The Riksdag holds a foreign policy debate each February. The debate opens with a presentation of the Statement of Government Policy on Foreign Affairs by the Foreign Minister, in which s/he sets out the foreign policy to be pursued by Sweden in the coming year. A debate follows in which the parties in the Riksdag present their views on Sweden's foreign policy.
The 2009 Statement of Foreign Policy by Carl Bildt was geared towards the Swedish Presidency in the second half of 2009.
Full contents of the Sweden Manual:
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5 |
8 |
14 |
15 |
17 |
21 |
Government |
32 |
The Prime Minister's Office |
32 |
The Cabinet |
34 |
European Policy-making: The Foreign Ministry (MFA) |
37 |
Departments relevant to the Western Balkans – and their functions |
39 |
40 |
44 |
The Parliament (Riksdag) |
45 |
The Political Parties |
49 |
58 |
Television |
58 |
Radio |
62 |
Newspapers |
64 |
69 |
75 |
78 |
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Made a new video today. I thnk I'll do another when I'm at a point where I can actually talk about what I'm doing without all the waiting for stuff to dry.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Spectrum Exhibition 2 Sept 11th
It's official. I bought my tickets today:) I'm sure it's going to be another ridiculously amazing show. And!...Art Out Loud the next day. I totally need this.
Good Weekend
Wrapped up another drawing and here I'm bringing my next one up to par. Once all the drawing is done I'll have several paintings I can work on simultaneously. This is helpful in keeping work fresh. If I get burned out on one I can switch up. Or paint on one while another dries. I think it has sped things up for me a bit. Esp in the beginning when I'm doing large washes. Just getting to that point seems to take forever ughhh.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New Print Available
"A Want to Believe" giclee print on watercolor paper now available from Gallery Nucleus. Interested in purchasing? go here
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Here I'm just refining the drawing. For the main figures and other important elements I like to get them just the way I like before applying paint. In this stage it's easier for me to correct mistakes or make adjustments while in graphite. Sometimes I will do subtle rendering that in the end become lost or completely covered up. So I'm trying not to put in too much detail in areas that I know are going to be dark. Also there's no real sense of value at this point. So what may seem dark is probably not even close. I'll smack some paint on here soon and have a better sense of where things need to be. I have a good idea of what this will look like in my head. Haven't done a value study yet. Wouldn't be a bad idea. And will probably save me some time in the long run. Why does getting started take so long!?
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Early Stages
Getting started on a new painting. At this point I'll start to do a finished drawing using my reference. Taking time to for a photo shoot then filtering through all the pix for ones that work, or parts of a photo that works, takes a lot of time. But I think it saves time in the long run. Some people feel like this may stifle their style or creativity. I've found that it has actually enhanced my work a lot. On top of that I also feel I have plenty of room for spontaneity and random artistic goodness. The trick is not to become a slave to your reference.
Spectrum Exhibition 2 Sept 11th
There's also "Art Out Loud" the following day Sept 12th. Some of the top fantastic artists will be doing live demos. More info here This is going to be a great weekend to be in NY
Monday, August 10, 2009
Eric Fortune Prints
I get asked often enough that I decided to create a new blog dedicated to prints. Currently I have 1 print available. More on the way very soon:) Stay posted.
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Citigroup Reiterates Buy Rating, $240 PT on BlackRock
In a report published Friday, Citigroup reiterated its Buy rating and $240.00 price target on BlackRock (NYSE: BLK).
Citigroup noted, "BLK remains among our favored A/Ms for 2013 as we see: 1) accelerating organic growth, including likely positive upturn in equities; 2) superior margins driving superior EPS leverage; and, 3) favorable FCF deployment theme – including potential dividend hike in February, further buyback, and akin to the CS ETF deal, more bolt-on deals – the latter perpetuating the favorable daisy chain of superior strategic positioning. In turn, we see modest multiple expansion, helping to drive the stock toward $250 p.s., and still attractive upside. Maintain BLK/EV pair trade as we see favorable P/E multiple arbitrage playing out."
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They were a few steps shy of divorce, separated and working out child custody, when Rick DeRosia of Hartford, N.Y., realized he wasn't so sure he really wanted a divorce.
He says his 16-year marriage had been shaky before the separation in 2009, when he told his wife, Tina, he wanted out. Their son and daughter were 13 and 11. And life in the midst of recession was also taking a toll. "There wasn't any one event," says Rick DeRosia, 42. "It was several things over the years that started a downhill slide that never really came back up." Divorce "was not really what I wanted," says Tina DeRosia, 38, but she thought he did. "I felt moving on was what I needed to do, but … should we try to do more? I thought about the effect it would have on my children."
The DeRosias, like so many couples, were teetering on the brink of divorce. The angst of such a major decision is very real. But little is known about how people actually decide — or why, like the DeRosias, they sometimes change their minds. New research offers the first inklings of understanding — and shows that there's uncertainty even among couples who have already filed for divorce.
Adding to the confusion is the financial reality that a split is expensive. Census data released last week suggest that the economy has indeed caused a dip in divorce. Some experts predict a divorce explosion when the economy improves, but others say the recession may keep some together long enough to work it out.
"There's a whole lot more ambivalence out there than any of us ever thought," says psychologist William Doherty, a marriage and family therapist and professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota. He'll present results of his survey in Washington next month, expanding on his research published last spring.
Frank and Julie LaBoda of Cross Plains, Wis., were just weeks from a divorce decree that would have ended the marriage that began Aug. 7, 1992. "All that fun stuff was gone," says Frank LaBoda, 46, a transportation operations manager, who says his wife was so busy with the kids that he started spending more time with the guys. Then he had an affair and moved out for six months. That was in 1996.
"We tried to put it back together after the affair, but it was ugly," says Julie LaBoda, 44, a dental assistant.
Two years later, she filed for divorce, and they separated for another six months. But they opted for a last-ditch marriage weekend that they say saved their relationship. 'Forgiveness and hope'
"We found out that forgiveness and hope was possible and that people can and do change. We saw real-life examples of people who shared stories with us. Frank changed his behavior drastically, and I'm quite sure I changed my attitude," she says. "But it was a process to get through it — a good, solid two to five years." In 2000, they had a third child; their fourth daughter was born in 2002.
Doherty's survey of 2,484 parents who filed for divorce in Minnesota offers new insight into how people decide whether to call it quits or try again. About a quarter of those surveyed thought there was still hope for the marriage; in 12% of a subset of 329 couples, both partners independently indicated interest in reconciliation.
Additional surveys in 2009-10 of 886 Minnesotans who filed for divorce dug deeper into contributing factors. "Growing apart" was the top reason, cited by 55%, followed by "not able to talk together" (53%). Infidelity was cited by 34%, the same percentage who cited "not enough attention."
Doherty says lack of attention from one's spouse and in-law problems were among reasons associated with partners thinking the marriage could be saved. Also, infidelity wasn't a factor in whether someone was open to reconciliation, he says.
Alan Hawkins, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, says there's a lot of research on factors that predict divorce but "virtually no research on the thinking process."
Iris Krasnow interviewed more than 200 women for her book, The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What It Really Takes to Stay Married. "Splitting up crosses people's minds more than I imagined," she says. And "those on second marriages were not any happier than they were in their first. Many times, you're trading in one set of problems for another."
Doherty says marriage today involves expectations of more gender equality than in the past. "We expect so much out of marriage, but we haven't prepared people for the skills that are necessary for the kind of marriages that we want now."
Denver clinical psychologist Susan Heitler says couples often view her as "a last resort." But "it's radically cheaper emotionally, as well as financially, to fix the marriage than to declare it dead," she says. The Census bureau counted 65,000 fewer divorces in 2010 than in 2008, a 7% drop. Observers say tough economic times mean many delay divorce; it's expensive to maintain separate households and pay attorney costs. It also may be difficult to sell the house to divide assets.
Of the more than 1,600 member lawyers surveyed in the past month by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 85% say they've seen a rise in divorce settlement complications over housing debt in the past three years; 53% have seen an increase in the number of child custody cases involving relocation requests.
Economy takes a toll
Matt O'Connor, 40, of Atlanta shares custody of his kids, 11 and 4. His former wife moved to Phoenix a week before the divorce was final in July.
He believes the economy took a toll on his 12-year marriage.
"We had a business that was an early casualty of the recession. She found full-time work, but that business, after a couple of years, closed. She was one of the last people on staff; it was very stressful. When she couldn't find work, she tried to start a new business, and that ultimately failed as well," he says. "There was a tremendous amount of difficulty outside the marriage that ultimately impacted the marriage."
He says they couldn't sell the house, and his ex couldn't afford to move out, so they lived together until she left town.
Brandon and Erin Hamilton of Modesto, Calif., say they spent $15,000 to $20,000 for lawyers and other divorce costs — but ended up not going through with it. They married in 2005. The troubles started in October 2008, when she was on maternity leave from her job as a registered nurse.
"My husband took a 40% pay cut the month my first daughter was born," says Erin Hamilton, 29. "He didn't want to tell me about the pay cut. It just turned into this massive snowball."
He filed for divorce. Custody of their infant daughter became a major issue, both say. "In the process of getting my teeth kicked in in court, I was second-guessing myself," says Brandon Hamilton, 40, which prompted him to try reconciliation. "When I walk my daughter down the aisle, I wanted to be able to tell her that I tried everything."
They went to classes to bolster communication and conflict resolution, which she says helped when their home went into foreclosure. The couple had another daughter three months ago.
The DeRosias, both certified nurse assistants at the same nursing home, were separated a couple of months and had both been dating others when a series of events changed their course toward divorce. A car breakdown and not enough money to fix it meant they shared rides to and from work for a week and spent extra time together during that period. He realized he was jealous of her new boyfriend. And then he says a song on the radio "hit an emotional chord with me."
Every Other Weekend, a Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney song about the kid trade-off, brought them back together, he says. "I had the song on the radio and asked her if she would take me back," he says. "I don't know if that time apart was necessary for me to realize it, but I had more fun with her that week than I had in years. I realized I wanted to try again."


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Five book covers that recently caught my eye. Links are to Amazon.
Blacklands Via.
Not Your Typical Book About the Environment
The Mansion of Happiness (The VQR Poetry Series)
A Key to the Suite.
Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill
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"Artscape Launchpad will be a game-changer that connects the creativity of thousands of artists with business acumen and thrusts the Toronto region into a leadership position in creative sector entrepreneurship development."
–RICHARD FLORIDA, Author and Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
What is Launchpad?
Artscape Launchpad is a new model of creative space: part incubator, part co-working facility and part entrepreneurship centre. Scheduled to open in 2018 as part of the Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts complex, it has been designed by Artscape to provide art and design professionals with the tools, resources, training and mentorship to build successful careers rooted in sustainable businesses. Artscape Launchpad members will gain access to a 30,000 square-foot, multi-disciplinary co-working environment full of equipment and technology, as well as a whole suite of programs and services to help them grow their incomes and launch new businesses.
- Collaboration & Networking
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- Entrepreneurship Training
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- Mentoring & Coaching
- Collaboration
- Market Connections
- Ultra-High-Speed Broadband Access
Learning Labs
Five dedicated learning labs will allow for year-round enrolment in courses, workshops, events and project-based learning initiatives. Launchpad's learning labs will range in size from 500 to 2,000 square feet with the largest accommodating 200 people.
Creative Co-working Studios
Co-working studios will offer access to state-of-the-art design tools and rapid prototyping equipment; fully equipped digital photography, film and sound production facilities, including a green screen studio; and creative production studios that will include jewellery, fashion and textiles. This multi-disciplinary environment will allow designers/makers, craftspeople and artists to develop work individually or collaboratively.
Creative Commons
Launchpad will include a "creative commons" with a community kitchen, communal work areas and hot desks, a flexible event space and an outdoor patio. The creative commons will allow creative ideas to flow freely so that chance encounters around the water cooler may develop into collaborations leading to innovation.
Artscape Launchpad has grown out of nearly a decade of collaboration and research with colleges, universities and trade organizations. We've focused on how we can help individuals and small businesses in the art and design communities thrive. The combination of programs, services and facilities that Launchpad will bring together is unprecedented. It will be a game-changer for artists and designers, a major boost for Ontario's $23 billion creative economy and a jolt of urban acupuncture that will help bring Toronto's waterfront to life.
Scheduled to open in 2018, Artscape Launchpad will be located at the Daniels Waterfront – City of the Arts complex, which is currently under construction on the waterfront.
Development Partner: The Daniels Corporation, Interior Design: Quadrangle Architects, Mechanical & Electrical: Smith & Andersen, Acoustics: J.E. Coulter Associates Ltd., Building Architect: RAW Design, Rafael + Bigauskas Architects
"Launchpad is a tremendous opportunity to apply the principles of company incubation to the creative industries sector."
– DR. SARA DIAMOND, President and Vice Chancellor, OCAD University
"Artscape Launchpad has identified a crucial gap in how we create artists and will be instrumental in building bridges between craft, artistry and business acumen."
– JEFF ZABUDSKY, President, Sheridan College
"Artscape Launchpad is a brilliant response to a major gap in the entrepreneurial infrastructure of the Toronto region."
– MERIC GERTLER, President, University of Toronto


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Sunday, December 4, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Oddisee & yU - Still Doing It
The only vocal track from Rock Creek Park featuring my Diamond District brother, yU. Rock Creek Park is available on iTunes tomorrow.
Still Doing It (feat. yU) by Oddisee
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Subversive Virginity told us all about the power of female purity. Now it's the guys' turn. Sarah's at it again, stirring up controversy in all the right places.
Some things in life that are better defined by examples than formulas. Masculinity is one of them.
Whenever I've attempted a dictionary-precise definition of masculinity, I've always tripped myself up in endless qualifications and asides. So now instead I collect little anecdotes to illustrate the concept to my liking. Here is one of my favorites. One weekend last year I was at a well-known dance club in New York's Village with a girl friend from college. Two guys I knew from the area were escorting us; we'll call them Timothy and Titus. At some point well into the evening, while we were jumping and jiving in the middle of the dance floor, a drunken stranger tried to, well, grope me.
I wasted no time scooting over to the other side of the circle, which naturally raised the boys' curiosity. I explained myself. Titus promptly responded, "Do you want us to take him outside and beat him up for you? I've always wanted to be able to defend a woman like that."
The punishment hardly fit the crime, so I declined his offer. But my friend and I were wildly impressed. Neither of us in our lives had met a guy willing to do that for us. What was more, Timothy was the one hoping for a romantic entanglement, not Titus, so the latter stood nothing to gain for his trouble. The story passed among my friends in short order and every last one of them hinted, none too subtly, that they would sure like to meet this man.
Maybe it is embarassingly retrograde to equate masculinity with a proposal of physical aggression to solve a social infelicity. It would be unwise, though, to turn a blind eye to the enthusiastic reception with which this offer met among the women I know. Unwise also to ignore the fact that this man had made it to his single mid-20s with his sexual virtue still intact. I had always known that female chastity and girl power went hand in hand. After this incident I began to realize that male chastity and a compelling, attractive masculinity weren't antithetical, either.
Of course, try telling that to a typical American teenage male, and your pains will be met with laughter at best, if not outright derision. The statistic is appalling: by the age of 19 years, 85 percent of American men have had sex.This statistic and others are taken from the research of the Alan Guttmacher Institute Thirty percent will have done so by the age of 15, half by the age of 17. It is reasonable to assume that these sexually active young men are not terribly fearful about the state of their masculinity. On the whole, they are considerably more fearful of something else. The number one reason for not having sex among 16- to 21-year-olds is fear of disease (shortly followed by the "not ready" reason — a dangerous rationale that can reverse itself in a matter of seconds).
Fear of disease isn't a very good reason, though, and ultimately not very convincing. For instance, I had a conversation this past summer with my little brother, who is actually only little to me in terms of age — otherwise he's about a foot taller than I am. Our conversation was about the two most important topics in the world, religion and sex. My brother was telling me that he insists on practicing the first now, but planned to save the latter for marriage. I agreed it was a good policy.
Then he mentioned that he was kind of amazed that his friends didn't feel the same way. After all, he said, there's such a high risk of pregnancy and disease. That's when I started to get uneasy. The thing of it is, I have known an awful lot of guys who have long since traded in the V card (so to speak) and no such horrible fate has descended upon them. Of all the people I have known who haven't waited, only the tiniest fraction of them has had to deal with either pregnancy or disease. Most suffer little apparent harm, some hurt maybe when the relationship ends, but new love does a nice job of covering up old pain. An ethic based on the fear of traumatic physical consequences will not last very long in the face of a few countervailing examples.
My brother and I ended up agreeing that there had to be more to it than that. God's law just couldn't be so arbitrary, based on a few statistical anomalies that at best work by negative reinforcement and at worst send the persons concerned to the drugstore for not-so-reliable supplies. There had to be some positive content to the "thou shalt not." The positive content is bound to be more persuasive than its negative counterpart, but ironically it isn't mentioned nearly as often, to the detriment of struggling young men.
Case in point. There was a guy I knew in college whom several of us half-jokingly called the "Ungracious Virgin." He was holding out because he knew it was right according to his so-called "Sunday school morality." All the same, he resented his childish morality and the God who gave it every step of the way, and so he never matured in his understanding of the law. His fear was of the destructive, not instructive, kind, and he deserves better. So for his sake and my brother's I have been trying, a little paradoxically as a woman, to work my way through the "problem" (some might say oxymoron) of male virginity.
For starters, it must be said that a healthy ethic of fear has its place. But if the fear tactic is to be employed at all, the emphasis ought to shift to the bad impact that premarital sex, sometimes even with the fiancee, has on marriages. I've been absolutely staggered to hear one man after another express excruciating regret over his fast and loose past once he's met the woman of his dreams. The simple (and often denied) fact of the matter is that sexual intercourse binds man to woman, and becoming unbound again is no more possible for the man than it is for the woman. Man ends up carrying with him to the binding vows of marriage all the other people he's been bound to before.
Worse yet, it is widely agreed that for men especially sexual memories remain vivid for a very, very long time, regardless of one's marital status. This will not appear to be much of a problem to the man who says he expects very little of love and even less of marriage. But that is a shaky and shallow excuse.
It's funny how the idea of "the One" captivates everybody, even the skeptics who try most vehemently to deny it. I'm sure we all have seen a hardened cynic reduced to a state of embarassing, quivering, sentimental infatuation and chuckled to ourselves at the irony of it all. Most of the non-V guys I know (all of them, perhaps) still aspire to some kind of everlasting love, even if they reject the "institution" of marriage on principle, and keep looking, however doubtfully, for the one great love of their lives. Meanwhile, their lifestyles methodically sabotage their hopes and dreams. Marriage promises the love that is so ardently desired by men, but conditionally — conditioned upon faithfulness not just during marriage but before it too.
The logical question is, then, if men want this kind of love, why do they jeopardize it by messing around so much? I, for one, am not at all persuaded by the line of argument that claims guys are more compelled by their hormones to promiscuity than women are. Whoever made that claim obviously did not know any women very well and vastly underestimated the power of sublimation for men and women alike.
I think there's a little more credence to the claim that men are not, as a rule, told by their societies that their own virginity is worth preserving. Generally speaking, cultures have always been more interested in female chastity than its male counterpart. It may not be particularly fair, but it does make sense; after all, women are the ones carrying the babies, and until very recently there was no foolproof way to verify the father's identity. For our own culture, where the stigma of promiscuity has nearly disappeared and the attendant problems are treatable if not curable, I'd like to place blame on one specific person. And the winner is none other than Hugh Hefner.
However it actually developed, and whatever latent social impulses it picked up on, in the final analysis little has been so explicitly destructive of male chastity in the past thirty years or so than the Playboy philosophy. I would venture to guess that it has been altogether more destructive for men than even the worst kind of feminism has been for women. The message is simple and seductive, quietly pervading the national male consciousness. Its veneer of respectability makes it particularly alluring; the smooth Playboy lifestyle isn't crass like Hustler, for heaven's sake, and the magazine always manages to have the best celebrity interviews. Very clever.
Even if they resist it or resent it, even if they never let their eyes pass across a single issue, American men know that they are being pressured to score as much as possible. The ideal foisted on them is one of suave promiscuity, backed up by a blandly materialistic worldview. The trap is baited with money. It is reinforced by all the things guys are likely to get interested in: sports, vehicles and fraternities. The lure of luxury effortlessly translates into the lure of womanflesh. One kind of lifestyle naturally implies the other. The materialism of it allows men to shut down their hearts without even noticing.
And that is where I see the most serious destruction. For every baby born out of wedlock and every instance of STD, there must be ten times as many men who have abandoned their claims to soul and spirit. A woman may suffer more visibly from promiscuity in the social and physical penalties she pays. But at the same time, if I may make such a sweeping gen(d)eralization, a woman will stay attuned to her soul and hang on to her heart no matter how damaged they get. Whereas a man, it seems to me, can much more easily ignore that part of his being if not lose it altogether.
Since I started thinking hard about this issue, I've been paying close attention to the non-V 20-something men I know. Once I started looking, I was surprised by what I found. I saw imperfectly concealed sadness, the eyes of little boys who had slept their way out of childhood and family, who never found a way into a new family with children of their own to reclaim the innocence that they'd had to forsake. I saw these men looking at virgin women with envy — not lust! — at what these lucky girls still had: not a sexual status, but a lightness of heart that is the companion of sexual innocence.
Some of these men, I think, hoped to recover the lightheartedness from sheer proximity to virgin women, even while they despaired of ever deserving such a woman for themselves. At other times, their own suppressed despair prompted them to turn on their chaste buddies, unconsciously harassing them into submission (misery loves company). In my own personal encounters with these men, I have often had the startling feeling of being a lot more grown up than they were. Their post-chaste problem refuses to be ignored. Sexuality grips the imagination so because life and death are wrapped up in it. Rightly fulfilled, it creates humanity in both the lovers and their children. Abused, it kills not only physically but spiritually as well.
And now look at the fallout. These poor men (yes, please pity them; we are a people of repentance and forgiveness) who bought into the Hefner philosophy were gypped out of their manhood. No one ever taught them the meaning of masculinity. No one ever challenged their foolish, boyish ways and forced them to prove that they were really men. No one even cared if they grew up to be men at all. At best they sensed a choice between two false models: one in which manhood was defined by aggressive sexual behavior, high income and mood-altering substances, the other in which anything stereotypically male (strength, protectiveness, daring, competitiveness, authority) has been deemed rude, crude and socially unacceptable. Given that the later is more of a non-option than anything else, it's not surprising that most men have gone for the former, even if they have modified it to fit some inkling of morality they may have ("it's okay if she says so," "it's okay if I love her," etc.). I even wonder if the rise of male homosexual activity in our country isn't somehow linked to a search for real manhood and real danger.
It would help to sort out from the usual cliches about "men-and-sex vs. women-and-love" the genuine intuition about what makes male sexuality distinctly male. Everyone has heard the cliches that say, when it comes to sexual retationships, women focus on the intimacy part and men focus on the physical part. But what really makes male sexuality distinctly male? Maybe it can be stated like this. Female sexuality is specific. Women rarely want sex-in-general: their passion is focused on one with whom the sex is desired. Commitment is inherent in female sexuality, no doubt in large part for biological reasons. The question for women is who the lucky winner will be. And the problem is avoiding bad or too early or serial commitments. But male sexuality isn't like that, perhaps again for biological reasons. It is naturally unfocused and amorphous. It is a challenge for men to focus desire onto one person, one woman, one life partner. Herein the culmination of sexual adulthood for men is found. If men engage in too-early-sex or pre-wife promiscuity, not only is true sexual adulthood subverted, but a crucial challenge to the man — an essential test of his masculinity — is lost or failed, all too often in the supposed pursuit of masculinity itself. Promiscuity undermines masculinity. Fatherhood perfects it.
But if this challenge to men is going to stand, we as a culture have to stop being afraid of masculinity. Certainly we must condemn that which is bad or perverted masculinity (machismo, for instance) but we dare not lose the good and true masculinity along with it. My family has a story that illustrates this beautifully. Many many years ago when my great-grandparents were first married (in the 1920s or '30s) they got into an awful fight. My great-grandpa lost his temper and hit my great-grandma for the first time ever. With that the fight ended, because my great-grandma turned away and refused to speak to her husband for the next three days. Finally, on the third day, he got down on his knees before her and begged for her forgiveness, which she granted, and he never hit her again.
In some ways it is a shocking story — I certainly was shocked the first time I heard it. But look at what is going on under the surface. This working-class Christian man learned for himself that violence towards his own wife was a sign of weakness and not strength, infidelity and not marital prerogative. As her husband he was called to serve and protect her, not dominate and hurt her. And he learned powerfully the depth of her love and faithfulness towards him because she was willing to forgive an ugly sin when he came to her in repentance. My great-grandfather was a physically powerful man, but through that story we have always understood that his greatest strength was in his humble apology.
The time has come to reconnect masculinity and morality. They have been severed from one another far too long. Morality is never persuasive until you can show what it's for. It has to point to something higher and better or else it becomes sheer social utility. If women should be aiming for a "cartel of virtue" (to use Wendy Shalit's words), then men, as a whole and not just in tiny pockets, should aim for an "alliance of valor." Valor is the marriage of masculinity and morality, the cultivation of the highest and best way for men. Giving in to lust and money and cultural pressures is just so easy. Winning the heart of a good woman, raising a child to love and fear the Lord, and contributing to a worthy vocation are not so easy. But they are the signs of a real man.
Copyright 1999 Sarah E. Hinlicky. All rights reserved.
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Robbie Deans has dismissed suggestions former captain Stirling Mortlock was kept in the dark over the decision to replace him with Rocky Elsom for the upcoming Grand Slam tour of the British Isles, insisting the 32-year-old knew exactly where he stood.
Both the coach and former skipper fronted the media yesterday in a bid to clear up any confusion over the handling of the change in leadership amid increasing speculation of a rift between senior players and the Kiwi-born mentor.
Deans confirmed he first broached the subject with Mortlock in the week after the side's disappointing loss to New Zealand in Wellington last month, in what was to be the first of several meetings about the matter.
"Stirling was under no illusions that there was going to be a change of captaincy," Deans said.
"We met the week after our last fixture of the Tri-Nations... so we've had a number of conversations since that point - the most recent being last week where we talked about the emotion, I guess, of that change and how Stirling would respond at the point of announcement."
Mortlock concurred: "Robbie and I had discussions probably two weeks leading up to the announcement last (Friday), so it was an ongoing thing and a situation that we were both well aware of."
However, while both men agree the meetings took place, the 80-Test veteran, who declared Elsom's appointment the right way forward for the team, alluded to a minor breakdown in communication.
"I think if anything there was a slight misunderstanding from mine and Robbie's communications we had," he said when asked if the situation was handled properly.
But when asked to confirm there was a breakdown in communication, a defensive Mortlock was quick to shoulder the blame for the mix-up.
"No, no I didn't say that, what I said was (it was) a misunderstanding from my behalf," he said.
Meanwhile, Deans is adamant reports star playmaker Matt Giteau is unhappy are unfounded.
"I've got absolutely no doubt that's he's fully committed to what he's doing," he said of Giteau.
"We constantly discuss how we can do what we do better and we're all going to have to get outside our comfort zones in order to change our circumstance."
Giteau, who was controversially overlooked for both the top job and vice-captaincy with Berrick Barnes appointed Elsom's deputy, also refuted claims he is disenchanted.
"Obviously I was a little disappointed (not to get the captaincy), I think if you talk to any players within the squad at some point they'd like some kind of leadership role at some point of time," Giteau said.
"So from that point of view I'm disappointed but fully supportive of the guys that obviously the coach and (ARU boss) John O'Neill have appointed.
"I'm not unhappy. I'm looking forward to the tour that's coming up, obviously it's a great opportunity. The Grand Slam hasn't come up in 25 years so it'll be great to be a part of that."
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Mail order blouse and Ginger
What can I say about this outfit? It's a bit of a surprise to me, as I didn't expect this project to fall into place, but I love it. The blouse came from an unmarked, mail order, dress pattern. Last year I started making the dress, but the skirt didn't seem to fit or line up with the bodice. I thought of grading it (truing) and did, but there were other issues. So after many attempts at making the dress, it was thrown into the UFO pile. I finally got back to it and decided to draft a new bodice using parts of the pattern. I am not a fan of the edge stitched pleats included on the original bodice, although edge stitched pleat look pretty on the ironing board, they did nothing for my waistline. Anyway, after a year of sitting in a basket this UFO is solved! I really like the added trim for fun. And of course I paired it with yet another ginger skirt in cherry red. The ginger has become a staple in my wardrobe. I have to say, I enjoy them plain, out of the box, but I think I am ready for some pockets or piping next time.
Pattern: Blouse- it's a Sew-Rite 8251 and Ginger by Colette Patterns for the skirt
Fabric: Blouse- Cotton, vintage buttons, skirt-gabardine
Make Again? Yes, I would like the blouse in many colors mostly because I can move in it very well, no tight arms, hooray!
Alterations: Of course. The blouse is a 32 bust, which is perfect for my shoulders, but my hip line needs added inches. With the Ginger I have decided that I need to make them a bit smaller in the waistline. I have been cutting the size 8 and it's about two inches too big. So I'll be working on that for the next time.
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Sponsored by Centre for Globalisation Research, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Conference organisers: Sushanta Mallick (Queen Mary), and Huw Edwards (Loughborough)
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Overall agenda: The workshop aims to look at cross-border effects within a somewhat wider disciplinary framework than pure economics. Empirical and theoretical economic papers are encouraged, but so are multidisciplinary articles. This workshop will be a forum to discuss the latest political economy related issues. Our goal is to select a small number of papers in order to allow for feedback and debate from participants. Of particular interest are papers that consider the following topics:
Global and regional governance
Human and civil rights
Environmental spillovers and treaties
Development assistance
The role of the World Bank/IMF/WTO
Linkages between trade and governance/human rights/environment
The following keynote speakers have kindly agreed to deliver a lecture:
Partha Sen – Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
Todd Landman - Professor of Government and Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex
Panicos Demetriades - University of Leicester
Scientific/organising committee:
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Hi, We will have our regular meeting Friday, July 15 at 9 am PST to discuss JDO TCK issues and status. Dial-in numbers are: 866 230-6968 294-0479# International: +1 865 544-7856 Agenda: Test status (Michael W.) JPOX fixes/issues (Erik) Metadata Tests (Michelle) Detached objects (Matthew) Other issues and status (any and all) Action Items from weeks past: [Jul 8] Double-check locking in the PMF (Martin) [Jul 8] AI: Michael W. will add a check to all test cases in package api.persistencecapable: isBinaryCompatible && !instanceof PersistenceCapable. [Jul 8] AI: Michael W. will add names of new test classes to assertions spread sheet. [Jul 8] AI: Michael W. will catch JDONullIdentityException in test cases NewObjectIdInstance.testSingleFieldIdentityNotInitializedXXX instead of JDOFatalInternalException. [Jul 8] AI: Michael W. will fix bug in inheritance of pc classes: Fields in abstract superclass must be moved to concrete subclasses. [Jul 8] AI: Michael W. will remove dependency to JNDI implementation from TCK20 introduced with testcases for assertion A8.6-19, A8.6-20 (GetPMFByJNDILocation, GetPMFByJNDILocationAndClassLoader). The JNDI implementation will be specified in jndi.properties which must be added to the classpath. [Jul 8] AI: Michael B. will evaluate how to specify properties of type List in input files. [Jul 8] AI: Michael B. will change JDO Wiki and replace the assertion spreadsheet attachement with a link into the SVN repository. AI JDO API release on ibiblio (Brian T) [Jun 3 2005] AI: Craig file a JIRA on current errors. [May 20 2005] AI: Craig file JIRA bug and fix this. Can test cases rely on JDOHelper for state interrogation of non-binary-compatibility classes? Yes, but the JDO 2.0 JDOImplHelper class has not implemented the functionality yet. [April 15 2005] AI Brian Topping will update the wiki to tell how to access our releases area. [April 15 2005] AI Brian Topping will do the maven goal for creating and uploading the snapshots. He will create a directory parallel to trunk called "releases" and put the snapshots there. [April 15 2005] AI Matthew will create a directory in the tck.api.persistencemanager called detach in which he will have complete freedom to implement the assertions in the detach section of the specification. [April 22 2005] AI Craig will resolve what happens if an application identity field is changed while the object is detached. [April 22 2005] AI Craig will resolve the serialization contract for a Detachable class so that implementations interoperate. [May 13 2005] AI Brian Topping will implement pushing SNAPSHOT builds of the project to ibiblio. [May 13 2005] AI Brian Topping will arrange for automated nightly builds. [May 13 2005] AI Martin Zaun will investigate JSR 294 (Java 5) to see impact on enhancer. [May 20 2005] AI Craig to define the JCP distributions and see if maven can help. | |
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I would like RIM to die a quick death.
While I do appreciate the technology this is an engineering company who has basically been putting out slightly different shades of the same phone for over ten years.
I am embarrassed when someone shows me their Iphone and my corporate blackberry can barely scroll through pictures (on a little cub, not even the screen).
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Women walk for miles, barefoot down muddy tracks, to come to malnutrition clinics. They carry with them listless and emaciated children. In this small part of Jonglei state, more than a quarter of children are thought to be severely malnourished – well above crisis levels. In areas where conflict is fiercer, life is harder still.
At one clinic, Nyapuoch, a mother who fled the fighting in Malakal and walked for days to reach safety, has nothing to eat and nowhere to stay.
"It is hunger and sickness that are really killing people and making us suffer now," she says, her thin arms wrapped round the twin baby girls sitting quietly in her lap. Her daughters are getting treatment for malnutrition, but thousands more are growing increasingly desperate as they wait for food assistance.
The crisis in South Sudan, where thousands of people have been slaughtered and more than a million displaced, is now greater than that endured by Darfur or the Central African Republic, a senior UN diplomat cautioned on Friday.
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However, the rest of the family live hand-to-mouth, scavenging to find what wild food they can and occasionally buying a little flour when they can sell their firewood. Dressed in a ragged blue dress with short hair yellowed from chronic malnutrition, Nyagoa picks leaves from the ground while her older sister struggles to pull dead branches from a tree.
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Theirs is a familiar story: it is the youngest citizens of the world's youngest nation that have been hit hardest by the current crisis. They were promised a better life when the country celebrated its independence from the north three years ago, but those promises have yet to be kept. The UN has described gross human rights violations – ethnic killings, rape, revenge attacks, and the deliberate targeting of children – on a "massive scale".
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The challenges are huge. The UN's appeal – last week it said the world needed to donate another £300m to South Sudan – is less than half funded. Without more money for the humanitarian relief effort and a lasting peace deal, there are real fears that many more children will die.
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The geomagnetic field gradient tensor: Properties and parametrization in terms of spherical harmonics
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2012
We develop the general mathematical basis for space magnetic gradiometry in spherical coordinates. The magnetic gradient tensor is a second rank tensor consisting of 3 × 3 = 9 spatial derivatives. Since the geomagnetic field vector B is always solenoidal (∇ · B = 0) there are only eight independent tensor elements. Furthermore, in current free regions the magnetic gradient tensor becomes symmetric, further reducing the number of independent elements to five. In that case B is a Laplacian potential field and the gradient tensor can be expressed in series of spherical harmonics. We present properties of the magnetic gradient tensor and provide explicit expressions of its elements in terms of spherical harmonics. Finally we discuss the benefit of using gradient measurements for exploring the Earth's magnetic field from space, in particular the advantage of the various tensor elements for a better determination of the small-scale structure of the Earth's lithospheric field.
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Our 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Joyce led us into the auditorium for televised French lessons on Thursday mornings. The PBS instructor would begin, "Écouter – écouter -- la plume -- la plume. Répondre – répondre," which translates to, "Listen, listen; the pen, the pen. Respond, respond." Listening and responding are the essence of conversation. Quietly sandwiched between the two is understanding, … [Read more...]
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I removed the cabinet doors, which was obviously free. The paint was $20.97, the brushes, etc. were about $10.00 and we bought a can of spray paint for the knobs, which was about $5.00, so it's actually a $35.00 kitchen makeover, but forty sounded better.
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Holy Moly! Whitney, my mom just sent me a note telling me about your kitchen transformation. She said it was amazing and I wholeheartedly agree! It's like the magic sunshine fairy flew in and whirled around three times and flitted out an open window. Bravo to you two!
I love your under-the-counter global inspired art collection and your yellow chandelier. Very hip.
I'm inspired to 'youthen' up my space with brighter colors and eclectic art.- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 6:55 PM
Love it! Amazing. You inspire me and keep me dreaming.
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Your kitchen makeover is quite cute! My cabinets are exactly like yours and now I know what I've been wanting to do with my 40 year old house. Awesome job!
ReplyDelete bluefem- thank you!! painting the countertops was really simple. we did it one Sunday and haven't regretted it. i thought it would chip and scrub off but there hasn't been any significant wear. i always use cutting boards and don't generally let food sit on the counters- only because i'm paranoid about chemicals and the like. we have touched up a couple spots here and there, but overall, i'm very happy with the durability.
ReplyDeleteHey! Love the makeover. It's super inspiring! Just a quick question: in this post your Kitchenaid Mixer is industrial silver. In the Apartment Therapy post, it's sunflower yellow-orange and looks smaller. Which one is truly yours? And which model do you love? I'm an avid baker and have begun shopping for my very first mixer! Any advice you have would be lovely!
ReplyDeleteKrystina- Thanks for your interest. The silver one was my mom's that I had borrowed for a while because I bake a lot. The yellow one I received as a gift in May, after the pictures were taken. They're actually both Artisan mixers and I use mine ALL the time- it's fantastic. BUUT, if I had to do over (with a little extra money) I would get the Professional, especially if you will use it a lot. One thing to consider, I don't know that the Professional will fit on the counter under standard cabinet height. I would check the dimensions if storage is an issue-it's definitely something to think about.
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The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog is reporting that Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) will direct a film adaptation of the young adult space adventure Larklight by Philip Reeve.
In Larklight -- the first of three books in the series -- Art Mumsby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in a huge and rambling house called Larklight … that just happens to be traveling through outer space. When a visitor arrives, it is far from an innocent social call. Before long Art and Myrtle are off on an adventure to the furthest reaches of space, where they will do battle with evil forces in order to save each other -- and the universe.
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"Caesar was murdered by his friends, too." Denmark's answer to The West Wing involves a lot of walking and talking along corridors, spin-doctoring, conniving and clandestine meetings at the dead of night.
Why can't we make political dramas this gripping and sexy?
Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Birgitte Nyborg, the idealistic leader of the Moderate Party, who is gunning – successfully – to be prime minister of a coalition government. She's assisted by wise Bent Serjo (Lars Knutzon), her crafty spin doctor, Kaspar, and her understanding lecturer husband, Philip (Mikael Birkkjaer). She's also helped by her appalling opponents, the vile Michael Laugesen and the bumbling Prime Minister, Lars Hesselboe, whose unhinged wife unravels in a Mulberry store; this leads to all sorts of trouble. Meanwhile, Hesselboe's political aide is having an affair with TV newsreader Katrine (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen) – until she discovers him dead in the sack from a heart attack. Cue her pal, Kaspar (Pilou Asbaek, excellent), to clear up the mess.
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In the summer the Higuera has one of the most sought-after things in the Albaicín; a lush, cool tranquil garden with the sound of a trickling water fountain. There are two entrances, one from the Plaza Fatima and the other from Calle Mina. The restaurant is a little hidden and are unlikely to find it by accident although it is very easy to find. To get there, go to Plaza Fatima and go to the alley at the end.
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text: Creepy 'Love Surgery' Performed on New Moms' Unwitting VaginasErin Gloria Ryan11/29/12 4:25pmFiled to: WtfhorriblegynecologyDr burtLove surgeonLove surgeryVagina tightening surgerychildbirthgenital mutilationGettypicTopFb3082EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkDr. James C. Burt was a simple gynecologist with a simple goal: to make life better for the boners of husbands of women who just had their love-holes ruined by childbirth. And so, for more than 20 years starting in the mid-1960's, Dr. Burt would perform vagina-tightening surgery on his new mom patients without their consent. He called it "Love Surgery." AdvertisementBurt's "Love Surgery" was based on the doctor's cockamamie idea that women are "structurally inadequate for intercourse" and that the only way to fix their "pathological condition" was through surgery that made the vagina and vulva more penis friendly. He also believed that Love Surgery would turn women into "horny little mice." In his 1975 book, entitled "Surgery of Love," Burt admitted that many of the women who first received the surgery were simply told after childbirth that they'd received episiotomies. Burt's book says that "hundreds and hundreds" of women were treated this way, but other sources estimate that the number is actually in the thousands. One woman who was treated by Burt recalls the doctor telling her, oddly, that he'd "fixed her up" and that soon she'd be "just like a virgin" again.While Burt started performing the surgery on women who didn't know about or consent to the procedure, starting in the mid-1970's, he began promoting it as a sexual enhancement surgery and enticed women to voluntarily subject themselves to Burt's invention, and his idea that "'the difference between rape and rapture is salesmanship."AdvertisementI'm sure you know where this is headed. In his tireless efforts to make women more fuckable, he actually ended up causing his patients serious, irreversible damage. From a Times article that ran in 1988, near the end of Burt's career,The surgery often included removing the hood of a patient's clitoris, repositioning the vagina, moving the urethra, and altering the walls between the rectum and vagina. It was intended, the doctor wrote, to redesign the vagina to increase sexual responsiveness.Instead, the surgery caused sexual dysfunction, extensive scarring, chronic infections of the kidney, bladder and vagina and the need for corrective surgery in many patients, according to the Ohio medical board.Perhaps the worst part of this story, changing public perception of which is detailed in a new study to be published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, is how other doctors and medical professionals knew what Dr. Burt was up to, but did nothing. St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where Dr. Burt practiced, didn't require medical consent forms for the procedure for the first 12 years it was being performed. And doctors with former Burt patients could always tell who the Love Surgeon had worked on.'Doctors would say, 'Dr. Burt's done surgery on you, hasn't he?' '' said Joy Martin, on whom he performed his surgery after delivering her son in 1974. She recently had corrective surgery. Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Sexton have filed lawsuits, seeking $6 million, against Dr. Burt and St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he performed most of his surgeries. Thirty-five other former patients are expected to sue in the next few weeks, said Lee Sambol, the lawyer for the women. Ten malpractice suits against Dr. Burt over the past 12 years were dropped after other physicians refused to testify.''We've all had Dr. Burt's patients, and we've tried to undo the work he has done,'' said Dr. Robert Hilty, a gynecologist who was chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kettering Medical Center in Dayton for 18 years. ''But we need the freedom to openly criticize without fear of legal retribution.''During the late 1980's, ex-patients of Dr. Burt's began to come forward with complaints that Burt had left them disabled or sexually dysfunctional, but the doctor was defiant, insisting that his 25-years-younger-than-him fourth wife had the procedure and, in his defense, wrote that she "has climaxed in elevators from the Southampton Princess in Bermuda to the Kuilima in Hawaii, more than many women do in their entire lives."SponsoredIn 1989, Dr. Burt voluntarily surrendered his medical license after $21 million worth of lawsuits were filed against him. The subsequent financial hardship he faced from years of maiming sex organs eventually led to his super-orgasming wife divorcing him. Burt eventually declared bankruptcy.[Pub Med]Reply308 repliesLeave a reply