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Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2012.
Adele is in a mess. On her own with her young son, struggling to cope with her job as a teacher, and stuck in a disastrous - and dangerous - affair, her life is unravelling. The sharp contrasts and certainties she experienced during the years she spent as a child in far-off Senegal have faded to a distant blur. Then, one night, when she looks in the bathroom mirror, she sees the face of Ellena, a girl she knew in those carefree days, staring back at her from the glass.
As the daughter of a nightwatchman in exile from the brutal conflict in Liberia, Ellena's childhood was far from the idyll of Adele's memories. Her mysterious appearance sets in motion a chain of events that takes Adele back to Africa, in the hope that she can make amends for a heartless act that broke the girls' friendship and damaged Ellena's family irrevocably.
Africa Junction artfully interweaves the stories of dramatically different lives and experiences - a Senegalese boy setting sail for Europe, a Welsh teenager running from Timbuktu, a young girl escaping from a life of slave labour in Mali - but at its heart is Adele and her quest.
From the rain-drenched streets of Britain to the sun-baked reds and yellows of Senegal and the violence of Liberia's civil war, Africa Junction follows one woman's attempt to draw the threads of her life together. Out of the quagmire of violence and hardship there emerges a tentative vision of common humanity and, ultimately, the possibility both of redemption and of love.
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Praise for Africa Junction
"Africa Junction takes the many threads that bind or separate its characters and weaves them into a compelling story. Baily opens a door onto the harsh, dazzling landscapes of Senegal and Mali, the anguish of children sold into slavery by their parents, the determination of a boy to find his sister, and the mystery of friendship between two girls whose lives soon tear them apart. Africa Junction beautifully expresses the search for survival, love and meaning that drives each one of Baily's characters."
Helen Dunmore,
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"Each chapter in Africa Junction can almost be read as a single story yet each feeds masterfully into the redemptive conclusion. … Baily entwines several African stories - a Senegalese boy setting sail for Europe, a Welsh teenager travelling to Timbuktu with her boyfriend, the violence of civil war in Liberia - to shed light on the life-questioning anguish of Adele, a single mother with one son, who needs to piece together her African childhood to make sense of her here and now in the UK.
The African writing is enchanting and frank and fresh, reminiscent of Salinger and Harper Lee. The heat and randomness of childhood are brought to life with honesty and humour, and all the complexity and crossfire of Africa is evoked in this warm-hearted and uplifting novel."
Daily Mail
"Ostensibly, the protagonist in this forceful debut is single parent Adele, a teacher living in Devon, nostalgic for her 1970s expat childhood in Senegal, 'its white light tree-climbing days, and hot, black velvet nights'. Yet the first chapter of the novel describes the aftermath of a village massacre during the Liberian civil war. Baily's evocation is terrifyingly intense, focusing on the inert body of an old woman, 'bare black feet, baking in the sulphurous sun'. The astonishing landscapes of Mali, Liberia and Senegal over the last 30 years are compellingly crossed to trace the tale of Adele's African childhood friend Ellena and other parallel fates, depicting an exhausted, vibrant continent scoured by Aids and child trafficking."


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Beverly Hills Fire Chiefs Fund and the Beverly Hills 9/11 Committee would like to thank our growing list of donors and partners for their financial and in-kind support of the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden.
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I wanted to post about this project in case you or anyone you know has a child with a food allergy. Blue Bear Aware is a Canadian company which sells allergy alert badges and wristbands. My pal incorporated one of their badges into a luggage tag for her son's backpack.
On the reverse of the tag is a vinyl slot to slip in contact information and what to do in an emergency, use of epi-pen, health information, family physician etc.
{Sewing Notes: The construction of the tag is not overly complicated, just a little fussy to execute. This particular tag has a button hole to thread recycled leather fastener through, but you could also use a grommet / eyelet. Bias tape is used to sandwich all of the pieces together as the denim and vinyl made it too thick to turn inside out. Finished size is approximately 4 X 4 inches.}
I think this is a very useful tag. When I work backstage at Lily's ballet recitals there are a number of dancers with serious food allergies. Although there is a nut free policy, I still get concerned. This sort of tag would make the dancers' with allergies' backpack standout should I ever have to administer their epi-pen.
For more information on food allergies, I found this site and this site particularly informative.
{Neither my pal nor my blog have any affiliation with these sites or Blue Bear and this post is not sponsored in any way}.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Boat Tales by Gordon England
A New Release from Gordon England
This collection of Gordon's true life stories will take you across the globe in search of adventure. Whether he's chasing sailfish in Panama or hunting dove and quail deep in Mexico, Gordon pursues outdoor sports with a passion for the biggest and best. In these tales he catches huge dolphin in the Exumas, races motocross through woods both on and off the trails, hunts ducks in brutal Texas snow and ice, hooks hopelessly large blue marlin in Nassau, and gets lost at sea in a monstrous Gulf of Mexico storm.
Gordon's adventures often take place on Boat Tales, his 21-foot Aquasport walkabout, based in Nassau, Bahamas. His love of the ocean is captured in his travels across Florida's Gulf Stream, to Abaco's fabled Hole in the Wall, to remote islands of the Exumas, and from Abaco to Eluthera to Nassau in the dead of the night across miles of coral reefs at low tide. These tales will capture your imagination, vicariously take you to exotic lands, and entertain you with Gordon's true-life escapades.
Boat Tales is a collection of ten true to life adventures drawn from Gordon England's outdoor lifestyle and nautical journeys.
About the Author
Gordon England is an avid outdoorsman, living in Cocoa Beach and sometimes the Bahamas. He loves hunting, deep sea fishing, and exploring the islands. In real life he is a civil engineer, President of Stormwater Solutions.
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Scotch Guarding
Scotch guarding provides an invisible barrier around each individual fiber, protecting it against stains and dirt. Because stains have difficulty adhering to the fibers, they clean easier and dirt vacuums up more efficiently resulting in an area rug that stays cleaner and looks like new longer with only routine care and maintenance. Scotch guarding also improves the fiber's ability to resist water and oil-based stains, dirt from shoes and the grind of everyday use.


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The Dark Road Called Forward
[My world is lately upside-down. Its only direction is the road before me, and it is called, Forward.]
I have a past. We all do. Mine is dark behind me, and strewn with the debris of unchangeable regret. The burnt and mangled wreckage of unsuspecting lives, forfeit to the fog-wet highway, taken too lightly. Captured only in digital reminders of the worst ending, never imagined, and what must have been the better times before. Times of lies rightly told, and fears suppressed long enough to enjoy the promise of surroundings that would fade away, locked safe inside grief's scrapbook.
The open road, at night, looks like life. There is only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit. Just enough light to aim yourself, hurtling, into more dark. Behind you, there is nothing on which to dwell. A last stop, last road sign, last lane change. Or anything more than the shadows of what might be gaining on you. And in the distance, there are the cities, distant, shining. Waking dreams, miles away and full of the hope you foolishly still hold onto, silent, in your heart. Silent, because you know that, while they were once beautiful, they are now just the out-loud promises you weren't meant to keep. Mystical, glowing, still drawing you like a vision of your own clever words. But up close, jagged, and beyond forgiveness. A blue neon cement-scape of lives crumbled, and nothing but dirt in the details.
So you accept only what you can see in the light right before you. You trust only that the destination ahead is there as you've been told, and that it waits for you. You let all there is, shining in the distance, go.
And you stay on the dark road called Forward.
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february art journal pages
My creative habit this month was art journaling, and I have to say I've loved it. This is so different from anything else I've done creatively in years, and yet it reminds me of the magazine-clipped collages I used to make in high school and college.
My journal is totally free-form. I don't sit down knowing what I'll create, which has been a huge change for me. I've learned so much about my creative process.
The biggest surprise for me is how relaxing this is. I feel like a kindergartner, pulling out my paints and experimenting with techniques. Writing in pencil. Adding washi tape here and there. Jotting down incomplete sentences and phrases. Just breaking out my art supplies and going for it, with abandon.
I've joined the Get Messy Art Journal community, which I love. It's so inspiring to see all that people are creating, and it's challenged me to thing outside the box, creatively, while still sticking to what's true to me.
Have you every tried art journaling or have you recently gotten into any creative habits?


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In computer science, channel I/O is a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past they were generally implemented with a custom processor, variously named channel, peripheral processor, I/O processor, I/O controller, or DMA controller.
Many I/O tasks can be complex and require logic to be applied to the data to convert formats and other similar duties. In these situations, the simplest solution is to ask the CPU to handle the logic, but because I/O devices are relatively slow, a CPU could waste time (in computer perspective) waiting for the data from the device. This situation is called 'I/O bound'.
Channel architecture avoids this problem by using a separate, independent, low-cost processor. Channel processors are simple, but self-contained, with minimal logic and sufficient on-board scratchpad memory (working storage) to handle I/O tasks. They are typically not powerful or flexible enough to be used as a computer on their own and can be construed as a form of coprocessor.
A CPU sends relatively small channel programs to the controller via the channel to handle I/O tasks, which the channel and controller can, in many cases, complete without further intervention from the CPU (exception: those channel programs which utilize 'program controlled interrupts', PCIs, to facilitate program loading, demand paging and other essential system tasks).
When I/O transfer is complete or an error is detected, the controller communicates with the CPU through the channel using an interrupt. Since the channel has direct access to the main memory, it is also often referred to as DMA controller (where DMA stands for direct memory access), although that term is looser in definition and is often applied to non-programmable devices as well.
The first use of channel I/O was with the IBM 709[1] vacuum tube mainframe, whose Model 766 Data Synchronizer was the first channel controller, in 1957. Its transistorized successor, the IBM 7090,[2] had two or more channels (the 7607) and a channel multiplexor (the 7606) which could control up to eight channels.
Later, for larger IBM System/360 computers, and even for early System/370 models, the selector channels and the multiplexor channels still were bulky and expensive separate processors, such as the IBM 2860 'selector channel', the IBM 2870 'multiplexor channel' and the IBM 2880 'block multiplexor channel'. For the smaller System/360 computers, channels were implemented in CPU's microcode, and the CPU itself operated in two modes, "CPU Mode" or "Channel Mode". Much later, the channels were implemented in onboard processors residing in the same box as the CPU.
Amdahl Corporation's approach to System/370 channels was quite different. A single internal unit, called the "C-Unit", supported up to sixteen channels using the very same hardware for all supported channels. Two internal "C-Units" were possible, supporting up to 32 total channels. Each "C-Unit" independently performed a process generally called a "shifting channel state processor" (a type of "barrel processor"), which implemented a specialized type of finite state machine (FSM). Each CPU cycle, every 32 nanoseconds in the 470/V6 and /V5 and every 26 nanoseconds in the 470/V7 and /V8, the "C-unit" read the complete status of next channel in priority sequence and its in-tags. The necessary actions defined by that channel's last state and its in-tags were performed: data was read from or written to main storage, the operating system program was notified if such notification was specified by the channel program, and the "C-Unit" finally stored that channel's next state and set its out-tags, and then went on to the next lower priority channel. Sufficient FIFO storage was provided within the "C-Unit" for all channels which were emulated by this FSM. Channels could be easily reconfigured to the customer's choice of IBM 2860 emulation, IBM 2870 emulation or IBM 2880 emulation without any significant restrictions by using maintenance console commands. "Two-byte interface" was also supported as was "Data-In/Data-Out" and other high-performance IBM channel options. Built-in channel-to-channel adapters were also offered, called CCAs in Amdahl-speak, but called CTCs in IBM-speak. A real game-changer, and this forced IBM to redesign its mainframes to provide similar channel capability and flexibility. IBM's initial response was to include stripped-down Model 158s, operating in "Channel Mode", only, as the Model 303x channel units.
One of the earliest non-IBM channel systems was hosted in the CDC 6600 supercomputer in 1965. The CDC utilized 10 logically independent computers called peripheral processors, or PPs for this role. PPs were powerful, a modern version of CDC's first 'personal computer', the CDC 160A. The operating system resided and executed in the primary processor, PP0. Since then, channel controllers have been a standard part of most mainframe designs and a primary advantage mainframes have over smaller, faster, personal computers and network computing.
Channel controllers have also been made as small as single-chip designs with multiple channels on them, used in the NeXT computers for instance. However with the rapid speed increases in computers today, combined with operating systems that don't 'block' when waiting for data, channel controllers have become correspondingly less effective and are not commonly found on small machines.
Channel controllers are making a comeback in the form of bus mastering peripheral devices, such as PCI direct memory access (DMA) devices. The rationale for these devices is the same as for the original channel controllers, namely off-loading transfer, interrupts, and context switching from the main CPU.
The reference implementation of channel I/O is that of the IBM System/360 family of mainframes and its successors, but similar implementations have been adopted by other mainframe vendors, such as Control Data, Bull (General Electric/Honeywell) and Unisys.
Computer systems that use channel I/O have special hardware components that handle all input/output operations in their entirety independently of the systems' CPU(s). The CPU of a system that uses channel I/O typically has only one machine instruction in its repertoire for input and output; this instruction is used to pass input/output commands to the specialized I/O hardware in the form of channel programs. I/O thereafter proceeds without intervention from the CPU until an event requiring notification of the operating system occurs, at which point the I/O hardware signals an interrupt to the CPU.
A channel is an independent hardware component that coordinates all I/O to a set of controllers or devices. It is not merely a medium of communication, despite the name; it is a programmable device that handles all details of I/O after being given a list of I/O operations to carry out (the channel program).
Each channel may support one or more controllers and/or devices, but each channel program may only be directed at one of those connected devices. A channel program contain lists of commands to the channel itself and to the controller and device to which it is directed. Once the operating system has prepared a complete list of channel commands, it executes a single I/O machine instruction to initiate the channel program; the channel thereafter assumes control of the I/O operations until they are completed.
It is possible to develop very complex channel programs, including testing of data and conditional branching within that channel program. This flexibility frees the CPU from the overhead of starting, monitoring, and managing individual I/O operations. The specialized channel hardware, in turn, is dedicated to I/O and can carry it out more efficiently than the CPU (and entirely in parallel with the CPU). Channel I/O is not unlike the Direct Memory Access (DMA) of microcomputers, only more complex and advanced. Most mainframe operating systems do not fully exploit all the features of channel I/O.
On large mainframe computer systems, CPUs are only one of several powerful hardware components that work in parallel. Special input/output controllers (the exact names of which vary from one manufacturer to another) handle I/O exclusively, and these in turn are connected to hardware channels that also are dedicated to input and output. There may be several CPUs and several I/O processors. The overall architecture optimizes input/output performance without degrading pure CPU performance. Since most real-world applications of mainframe systems are heavily I/O-intensive business applications, this architecture helps provide the very high levels of throughput that distinguish mainframes from other types of computer.
In IBM ESA/390 terminology, a channel is a parallel data connection inside the tree-like or hierarchically organized I/O subsystem. In System/390 I/O cages, channels either directly connect to devices which are installed inside the cage (communication adapter such as ESCON, FICON, Open Systems Adapter) or they run outside of the cage, below the raised floor as cables of the thickness of a thumb and directly connect to channel interfaces on bigger devices like tape subsystems, direct access storage devices (DASDs), terminal concentrators and other ESA/390 systems.
A channel program is a sequence of channel command words (CCWs) which are executed by the I/O channel subsystem in the IBM System/360 and subsequent architectures. A channel program consists of one or more channel command words. The operating system signals the I/O channel subsystem to begin executing the channel program with a SSCH (start sub-channel) instruction. The central processor is then free to proceed with non-I/O instructions until interrupted. When the channel operations are complete, the channel interrupts the central processor with an I/O interruption. In earlier models of the IBM mainframe line, the channel unit was an identifiable component, one for each channel. In modern mainframes, the channels are implemented using an independent RISC processor, the channel processor, one for all channels. The earlier SIO (start I/O) and SIOF (start I/O fast release) assembler instructions (System/360 and early System/370) were, therefore, replaced by the SSCH (start sub-channel) instruction (late System/370 and successors).
Channel I/O provides considerable economies in input/output. For example, on IBM's Linux/390, the formatting of an entire track of a DASD requires only one channel program (and thus only one I/O instruction), but multiple channel command words (one per block). The program is executed by the dedicated I/O processor, while the application processor (the CPU) is free for other work.
A channel command word (CCW) is an instruction to a specialized I/O channel processor which is, in fact, a finite state machine. It is used to initiate an I/O operation, such as "read", "write" or "sense", on a channel-attached device. On system architectures which implement channel I/O, typically all devices are connected by channels, and so all I/O requires the use of CCWs.
CCWs are organized into channel programs by the operating system, an I/O subroutine, a utility program, or by standalone software (such as test and diagnostic programs). A limited "branching" capability, hence a dynamically programmable capability, is available within such channel programs, by use of the "status modifier" channel flag and the "transfer-in-channel" CCW.
IBM CCWs are chained to form the channel program. Bits in the CCW indicates that the following location in storage contains a CCW that is part of the same channel program. The channel program normally executes sequential CCWs until an exception occurs, a branch CCW is executed, or a CCW is executed without chaining indicated. Command chaining tells the channel that the next CCW contains a new command. Data chaining indicates that the next CCW contains the address of additional data for the same command, allowing, for example, one record to be written from multiple data areas in storage.[3]
Channel programs can modify their own operation during execution based on data read. Self modification is used extensively, for example in OS/360 ISAM.[4]
The following example[5] reads a disk record identified by a recorded key. The track containing the record and the desired value of the key is known. The device control unit will search the track to find the requested record.
The TIC (transfer in channel) will cause the channel program to branch to the SEARCH command until a record with a matching key (or the end of the track) is encountered. When a record with a matching key is found the channel program will not branch, and the channel will execute the READ command.
On most systems channels operate using real (or physical) addresses, while the channel programs are built using virtual addresses.[6] The operating system is responsible for translating these channel programs before executing them. Pages containing data to be used by the I/O operation are locked into real memory, or page fixed. The channel program is copied and all virtual addresses are replaced by real addresses before the I/O operation is started. After the operation completes, the pages are unfixed.
As page fixing and unfixing is a CPU-expensive process long-term page fixing is sometimes used to reduce the CPU cost. Here the virtual memory is page-fixed for the life of the application, rather than fixing and freeing around each I/O operation. An example of a program that can use long-term page fixing is DB2.
Even bootstrapping of the system, or Initial Program Load (IPL) in IBM nomenclature, is carried out by channels: to load the system, a very small, simple channel program is loaded into memory and initiated, and this program causes the first portion of the system loading software to be loaded. The software is then executed once the I/O is completed, and an interrupt is signaled to the CPU.
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"Some artists traverse boundaries. Sarah Lipstate's work seems to come from a world where they never existed. Her color-rich visual art has a mournful literary quality to it; her short films trigger collisions of emotional crosscurrents; and her instrumental music, which she makes under the name Noveller (emphasis on the middle syllable), seems to call to attention all senses at once, to the point where even the word music seems somehow limiting." – Time Out NY
"…simultaneously soothing and mind-wrecking noise, along with a compositional depth that most loud-for-the-hell-of-it guitar droners never reach." – NY Press
"…hypnotic, rich-textured electric guitar works." – New York Times
"Sarah Lipstate creates miniature musical worlds, places that you feel like you'll never leave long as the record is playing." - Pitchfork
Noveller is the solo electric guitar project of Brooklyn/Austin-based composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the guitar as her muse, Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive of how it's housed in a single instrument manipulated by a solitary performer. Her one-woman guitar soundscapes have captured the attention of NPR, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, and The Wall Street Journal.
She released her first two full-length albums on Brooklyn noise label No Fun Productions in 2009. In 2010, Lipstate started her own imprint, Saffron Recordings, as a vehicle for releasing the Noveller full-length 'Desert Fires' and a split LP between Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard) titled 'Bleached Valentine'. In May 2011, she released the critically acclaimed 'Glacial Glow' jointly through Saffron Recordings and Weird Forest. She teamed up with Important Records and Taiga Records in 2013 to release the highly anticipated followup album 'No Dreams'. In July 2014, Shelter Press released a vinyl pressing of a collaborative effort between Noveller and thisquietarmy. Lipstate's newest full-length, 'Fantastic Planet', arrives on January 27th, 2015, on Fire Records.
Noveller has toured the U.S. and internationally, at times supporting acts such as St. Vincent, Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, U.S. Girls, Aidan Baker, and Emeralds. Lipstate has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, The Geraldine Fibbers), David Wm. Sims (the Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), and JG Thirlwell (Foetus, Manorexia). She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts & Labor, and One Umbrella. Lipstate has also participated in Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army, Ben Frost's "Music for 6 Guitars" Ensemble, and Glenn Branca's 100 guitar ensemble. Lipstate joined the hit podcast Radiolab on a nationwide tour of their live show, Apocalyptical, performing a live cinematic score for their show along with fellow musicians Glenn Kotche (of Wilco) on percussion and Darin Gray on upright bass.
Sarah Lipstate began composing for film in 2012 in collaboration with renowned composer Nathan Larson (Boys Don't Cry, Margin Call). Lipstate has composed original music for the following features and short films:
Animated Life: Seeing the Invisible (animated short film, dir. Sharon Shattuck & Flora Lichtman) - 2014
The Skeleton Twins (dir. Craig Johnson) - 2014
Happy Baby (dir. Stephen Elliott) - 2014
The Truth About Emanuel (dir. Francesca Gregorini) - 2014
Flushing Flesh (short film, dir. Taylor Cohan) – 2014
The Animated Life of A.R. Wallace (animated short film, dir. Sharon Shattuck & Flora Lichtman) – 2013
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (dir. Sam Fleischner) – 2013
The Moment (dir. Jane Weinstock) - 2013
Plus One (dir. Dennis Illiadis) - 2013
The Supreme Price (dir. Joanna Lipper) – 2013
TRAITORS (dir. Sean Gullette) – 2013
Grand Street (dir. Lex Sidon) – 2013
Sarah Lipstate's Film REEL
The D.C. based ensemble, Low End String Quartet, approached Lipstate in late 2010 to compose a commissioned work for their 2012 season. The quartet premiered her piece, "Into the Midnight Sun," at the Reston Community Center in Reston, VA in April 2012. The instrumentation featured electric guitar, electric violin, cello, and double bass.
Lipstate's short films screened at the SXSW film festival in 2006 and 2007, and earned Lipstate the "Diamond in the Rough Cut" award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. She debuted a new film, 'Interior Variations', at the New Museum as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May 2009. The film also screened at the 12th Kyoto International Film & Video Festival in Japan, and as part of the 'New York Avant Cinema Series' at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival. Lipstate's film works were showcased in the Women of NY Cinema screening as part of the 2009 NY Eye + Ear Festival in Tribeca.
In March 2011, Lipstate showed ARTIFACT, a multimedia installation exploring process, rescission, and artifact in film and sound, at Splatterpool Artspace in Brooklyn. She collaborated with Chris Habib to create an interactive personal echo chamber fitted with a cassette player running one pre-recorded tape loop. Each time a participant engages the echo chamber, a switch activates an erase head atop the structure deleting a portion of the audio randomly from the loop. As more people visit the chamber, more silence is restored to the tape.
Lipstate received a BS in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in December 2006.


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Boys JV soccer claim a disguised victory
Robyn Stein, Staff Writer
February 25, 2019
The gloomy clouds looming over Carlmont High School on Feb. 13th set the tone for the last game of the season for JV boys soccer. Carlmont was playing the Aragon Dons with a record of three wins, one loss and one tie in the league. As the points stood, Carlmont was in first place with 30 points, ahead...
Opinion: the spirit of giving should extend beyond the holidays
Nina Heller, Staff Writer
December 11, 2018
'Tis the season for gifts. Whether giving them or receiving them, November through January has become the time of the year most known for present exchanges as several holidays within the time-frame value gifts as a means of celebration. It is impossible to open a magazine, click on a website, or walk d...
The intent of prom is lost amid excessive norms
Kathryn Stratz, Staff Writer
April 6, 2018
Prom: the highlight of every typical high schooler's experience as a teenager — a night to remember forever, right? Well, our wallets will remember prom, that's for sure. Prom these days has become a huge fiasco, with all the bells and whistles. Not only does this burn a hole in wallets everywhere,...
Carlmont shows grit in loss to Aragon
Izzy Mitchell, Staff Writer
August 27, 2016
On Aug. 26, Carlmont varsity football lost to the Aragon Dons 57-23 in their season opener. In the first quarter, the Dons easily scored three touchdowns against the Scots. Senior VA Wilson scored two touchdowns, bringing the score 14-0 Aragon, followed by a 49-yard touchdown by Junior Davion Cox. Aragon...
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Megan Tao, Scot Scoop Editor-in-Chief
January 31, 2015
Based on the worldwide best seller by... In the past couple of years, there has been a surge of movies based off of best selling novels, remakes of old classics, and sequels. According to Short Of The Week, the reason for the glut of unoriginal movies is because box office numbers are down. Takin...
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December 11, 2007
Build a Bear
SavvyToddlerMom and I had a toddler-boys outing this morning. It was so much fun! And being the coupon-shopper that I am, I found this great $5 off coupon! That made the trip even more worth it. Little Ro' made a monkey that is SO adorable. His favorite parts of the experience were stepping on the peddle of the stuffing machine to make it fill the monkey and the bath station. After stuffing their bear, your child can give the bear an air "bath." I think Little Ro would have bathed his monkey all day. He also loved the bins of little hearts and enjoyed choosing his monkey's heart. Aside from that, he wasn't interested in much else there. The clothes are adorable, but he was disinterested, so I picked up a pair of shoes for him to put on his monkey and a skateboard – because what little boy doesn't love anything on wheels? We topped the day off with Wendy's, and now he's fast asleep – hopefully for a long, long time!
December 7, 2007
Maternity Clothes Drama
It is becoming increasingly evident that I will need to give in and start wearing maternity clothes within the next 2-3 weeks. My clothes still fit, but that doesn't mean I should wear them. A mantra I wish more people (pregnant and not) would adopt. My first pregnancy was mainly during warm weather, so I'd be set if it was summer. Unfortunately it's 35 degrees outside. Fortunately this time around fashion trends are on my side. I think I'll be able to get away with non-maternity tops for much of the winter–with the exception of some layering pieces.
Pants and skirts. These are my latest drama. My DH has made it abundantly clear that he is tired of sitting next to my laptop looking over my shoulder at various online retailers while I pour over the selections of bottoms. I need to vent my gripes! First of all: There are practically NO decent maternity stores in Utah. Isn't this the land of perpetually reproducing families?? I picked up one cute pair of Mavi jeans at Mimi after trying on at least 12 pairs. Second: There is so much contradicting information about size ordering. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and order multiple pairs and plan on mailing back whatever doesn't work. But let's face it, that's a complete hassle. I know I love my Paige and Citizen jeans, but I just can't get the sizing straight. According to Paige's website, I should order my pre-pregnancy size. But according to EVERY other site out there (and Saks' live chat), I should go up 2 sizes. Two sizes?! I would have to cut the tag out to spare my self esteem! Third: What is with all of the totally tacky maternity fabrics? I am having a completely impossible time finding any skirts that don't make me cringe.
The last time I was pregnant I found this darling maternity boutique where I bought 90% of my clothes. They had great brands and all of my skirts looked like I picked them up at Anthropologie. Unfortunately the store was in a bad location and the owner said she had priced herself out of the market and had to close her doors (not before giving me a 50% discount on my last visit!).
What is a fashion-conscious pregnant girl to do? Any suggestions?
December 5, 2007
Snow Day
We had an unexpected snow day on Saturday! We woke up to a a few inches of the white stuff and it stormed pretty hard all day. It was beautiful! Fortunately I had just picked up Little Ro's snowsuit, hat, gloves, etc. on Thursday. He wasn't sure he liked it at first, but he warmed up to it fast and stayed out for 2 hours (and came in the house kicking and screaming). Here are some pics.


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Reported: 9/12/2005 4:47:51 PM 16:47
Posted: 10/11/2005
Location: West Tisbury, MA
Shape: Light
|small bright fast moving group of lights West Tisbury Marthas Vineyard Ma 20 secs
at about 8;30 on Sunday in west Tisbury Martha's vineyard. facing toward the towards the moon with a few planes showing in then area. we saw lights very bright and moving not as normal as the other plans. yet in very close range to these other planes. Again the lights were bright and small but moving in back and forth and around but then stoped in a firm position. the group of lights then moved off as if as one unit.
watched them go behind the trees and gone never came out on the other side of the grouping of tress.
Interesting experience.


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The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market launched in 2016 as Richmond's first weekly farmers market. The market offers a rotating selection of food trucks and carts, vendors with local produce, fresh Okanagan fruit, locally brewed beer and BC wines, SPCA certified chicken and eggs, freshly baked French breads and pastries, and natural soap and body care products. The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market has everything shoppers need. The market features products grown and crafted by local farmers and artisans, highlighting KPU's own Sustainable Agriculture students.
The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market provides a unique opportunity for market shoppers to engage with student farmers who are learning ecologically sound organic farming practices through KPU's Sustainable Agriculture and Farm Schools in Richmond and Delta. These students are learning about crop planning and growing, owning a farm business, preparing for and working at farmers market – all skills that will enable them to successfully run a farm business once they leave school. Your purchases directly help these students learn about farming and support their program.
The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market is a nod to the rich farming and agricultural history of the Richmond area. The local First Nations historically visited the delta to gather berries and to fish. When settlements started in Richmond the land was prepared for farming and fishing continued to grow. As the city developed, our market site at Lansdowne became a popular horse racing track (a history commemorated in our logo). Today, Richmond is a thriving city with significant agricultural and food processing happening in the city.
The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market has created a space in Richmond where shoppers, families, and students can access products grown and crafted by local farmers and artisans, including KPU's own Sustainable Agriculture students. Farmers markets started as venues to sell produce and products, but have evolved into exciting community events. We have created a farmers market with local farm products, food trucks, music, activities for families and children, and a sense of community that is based first around food.
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I'm so excited that we only have 5 1/2 school days left before the kids are out for summer. I'm hoping to have some fun activities planned for us but it will really be nice to just be home with them. Travis is being a nut this summer and spending 3 weeks taking PE in summer school (so he can take an extra elective next year -- he wants Japanese and Computer Science II and Business II). The nutty part of it will be 3 weeks of 9 hours of PE a day. The first session is from 7:30am - 12:15pm and the second session is from 4:00pm - 8:45pm. He's going to be one tired teenager.
Tonight's dinner is my submission to Ruth's Presto Pasta Night over at Once Upon a Feast. I love that even though she's sticking with her South Beach Diet she's still taking the round-up for all our yummy pasta dishes. Go over there on Friday and check out the submissions. Yum!
This recipe is so, so easy. It was slightly modified from The Little Big Book Quick Meals (I picked it up on the reduced rack at Borders in California) and was ready in just as long as it took to cook the pasta. I've really been enjoying some of the olive oil-based sauces for pasta I've made out of the book. I'm not a big fan of pasta in general but these have been delicious.
Farfalle with Herbs
- 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh basil
- 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh rosemary
- 4 tbsp fine dry bread crumbs
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 clove garlic, finely minced
- 1 tbsp capers
- 1/3 cup pitted kalamata olives, halved
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pound farfalle
- Cook the farfalle in boiling water according to package directions.
- Mix the basil, rosemary and breadcrumbs in a small bowl.
- Saute the scallions, garlic, capers and olives in the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-low heat for 3 minutes.
- Add the chopped herb mixture and saute for 2 more minutes, or until the garlic is pale gold.
- When the pasta is done, drain and add to the pan with the herbs.
- Saute for 1 minute over medium heat.


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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Mountain-Prairie Region
134 Union Boulevard
Lakewood, Colorado 80228
July 28, 2011
Contact: Diane Katzenberger 303-236-4578
Distinguished Biologist Central to the Gray Wolf Reintroduction Effort Retires From the Fish and Wildlife Service
With his recent retirement, Dr. Steven H. Fritts concluded his distinguished 32-year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service).
In recognition of his significant contributions to the conservation mission of the Fish and Wildlife Service, most notably as the chief scientist for the gray wolf recovery program in the Western United States, Fritts was presented with the Meritorious Service Award, the Department of the Interior's second highest honor.
Fritts began his career with the Service in 1979 managing the gray wolf depredation control program in Minnesota. In 1984, he transferred to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center serving as a Section Leader and then Deputy Branch Chief in the Endangered Species Research Branch overseeing species research, including research on the gray wolf. In 1989, Fritts was selected as the first Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Coordinator and led the wolf recovery effort, through multi-agency coordination, to successfully translocate wolves from Canada to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996.
"The gray wolf introduction was the focus of national and international attention, and Dr. Fritts worked diligently to ensure the recovery activities were scientifically based," said Steve Guertin, Director of the Service's Mountain-Prairie Region. "In planning the reintroduction, he had to resolve a multitude of unique biological and logistical issues in a complex political and legal working environment."
With the wolves on the ground and the reintroduction complete, Fritts became the primary wildlife biologist for the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program (WSFR) in Denver, Colorado reviewing and approving all wildlife research grants for the eight states in the Mountain-Prairie Region (Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah).
"Among his colleagues, Fritts is highly respected and considered a man of deep integrity and honorable character who is consistently thoughtful and considerate to all who have worked beside him," said Region 6 WSFR Chief David McGillivary.
Fritts attributes his success to his wife Diana, who supported him unconditionally throughout his conservation career. Fritts plans to remain involved with wolf conservation through several scientific endeavors.
Photo Caption: Dr. Steve Fritts Photo credit: Wolf International, Summer Issue, 1995
Photo available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsmtnprairie/5985117208/in/photostream
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By Megan Blackwell
Artist / Show: Matt Stellingwerf - Bachelor of Arts
Date / Venue: Wednesday May 11th, 2016 - Montecristo Room, Auckland
Matt Stellingwerf's show Bachelor of Arts left me feeling vindicated as an educated liberal; empowered as a woman; confused over my personal level of racism; and disappointed with the lack of lateral thinking I approached my tertiary studies with. Stellingwerf's comedy is intelligent, clever and thoroughly researched. He's a criminologist and primatologist turned comedian that has brilliantly and self-deprecatingly created a show where he's put all his accumulated book and street smarts to comedic use. All the while being really likeable.
He started the show off as a bemused voice over. His monotonous tone would easily mislead you into thinking he's a deadpan comedic that would spend the hour droning on about his observations on cats. However as soon as he took the stage it was abundantly clear why he deserves to be a two time Billy T Award Nominee. Stellingwerf owned the stage with a cool and confident attitude.
The volume of topics he touched on was mind boggling if not a verging on exhausting, including how bonobos say hi, shakespearean dirty talk, and homeopathy. Every subject matter he brought up was dripping with wisdom. His was so passionate about his knowledge he sacrificed a joke just to make sure the information he imparted was accurate. Not only did Stellingwerf deliver tight and lean material with barely a hint of effort, he frequently stepped back and got incredibly meta on us. He playfully acknowledged the Billy T judges in the room; was constantly gauging our humour level; and even deconstructed his set to deliberately elicited the right type of applause he wanted from us.
Unlike the lowest common denominator that most mainstream entertainment tries to appeal to, Stellingwerf assumes his audience is as intelligent and cynical as he is. I thoroughly enjoyed the show and wish him all the best for this year's Billy T Awards.
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Gotta stop writing "unabridged" comments but ya about have mine adopted lol. No, ya did not see anything close to complaining, lol. They aren't immature, although I AM lol. They love it and first evening knew they was little problem solvers when wasn't so comfy one kept almost SHHH we was messin with lol, fallin outta the bed, The other one asked i
Oh DAMN lol. Now these two gurly gurls in oh so many ways, as couple/few years ago was across the wet border across the river in Canadia, lol. Have met lotsa nice, is such an understatement the people tho some may seem LiL moody, no wonder since so many from the States are over there who cant just "hang out", LoL. About if not by common law already


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Oracle's POS System Could be a Game-Changer/
Today, digital systems have become an operator's best friend. Gone are the days of the chunky cash register that were permanently stuck in designated areas of the restaurant. Now point-of-sale (POS) tablets and handheld devices are becoming wildly popular at restaurants.
These POS systems have morphed into state-of-the-art tools that offer much more than just a solution to collect customer transactions. Packed with features, these solutions enhance a restaurant's day-to-day operations, while also helping the operator understand their customers better.
But since operators have so many POS providers to choose from today, it can be a challenge to find the right software for their restaurant.
On this episode of On Foodable Weekly, we take a closer look at one of the most innovative systems out there, the Oracle Simphony POS software.
One of the solutions demoed is the Workstation 6. Equipped with an array of different ports for future connectivity and an especially durable design, this tablet is meant to last. Not to mention, it's mobile, meaning it can be wall mounted, kiosk mounted, or moved to the kitchen, if needed.
But the sleek hardware is just a piece of the puzzle, it's the software on the devices that make a difference. These products are equipped with the Oracle Hospitality Simphony software, a cloud and mobile hospitality management platform.
This user-friendly platform enhances inventory management, gift and loyalty programs, labor management, and increases loss prevention efficiency. Simphony can also operate offline, so restaurant staff can still take orders in the event that the Wifi disconnects.
For those looking for a more portable tablet, Oracle's Tablet 720 works in harmony with Simphony and has the same design as the Workstation 6, with a battery life of 6-8 hours. This battery can easily be replaced if the tablet needs to remain active on the floor.
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Casey Anthony walked out of prison a free woman yesterday after she was acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in a trial that has held America spellbound.
Casey faced a crowd of more than 100 people, some shouting âbaby killerâ, as she left Orlando area jail under heavy guard.
The 25-year-old said âthank youâ to a deputy sheriff and boarded a car to an unknown destination.
Mounted patrolman and cruisers blocked the street as the crowd surged against police barriers.
Hundreds of thousands of people posted enraged messages on Facebook after Ms Anthony was cleared on July 5 of killing Caylee, whose remains were found near the family home in 2008. The two-month trial was televised nationally.
She had finished a four-year sentence for telling investigators lies, including an early claim that Caylee was kidnapped by a non-existent nanny.
With credit for the nearly three years she had spent in jail since 2008 and good behaviour, she had only days remaining when she was sentenced last week.
Her attorney Jose Baez told reporters yesterday: âIt is my hope Casey can receive the counselling and treatment she needs to move forward with the rest of her life.â
Watch – Casey Anthony freed from jail:


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Johnson grass, grow light, DMX board, fan, plastic, wood, projection
In Breath, my brother's respiration pattern while having an apnea was translated into the varying brightness of an LED grow light and used to nourish a patch of wild grasses. The plants grew under this wavering light from germination onward, showing surprising resilience for the abnormality. The projection on the wall shows me trying to do the same thing. I plugged my bedroom lamp into the system and tried to fall asleep breathing in sync with his rhythm. My body appears and disappears with the light while my rib cage swells and falls, slightly out of sync. I am unable keep the pace.


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This video has been produced by RUAF Foundation in 2001 with financial support from Sida, Sweden. The video has been produced to facilitate a greater understanding of urban agriculture among policy-makers, urban planners, NGOs, and other organisations and people who can make a contribution to the integration of urban agriculture into urban policies, plans and development programmes.
Part 1-6 of the video (approximately 23 minutes) are of special interest for an audience less familiar with urban agriculture. These parts of the video show the different forms of urban agriculture that can be encountered, the type of people involved in it and the potential contributions of urban agriculture to urban food security, local economic development and poverty alleviation and sustainable urban environmental management. But also some health and environmental risks associated with agriculture in the city are discussed.
Part 7-10 of the video (approximately 22 minutes) presents examples (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Cuenca, Ecuador) of what cities are already doing to facilitate urban agriculture. Local processes of situation analysis, policy development, planning and action regarding urban agriculture are shown.
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text: I love exploring the world... that's why I travelled to well over 40 countries. The more I travelled the globe, the more I discovered that the world each person lives in can be very different. That's how I developed a fascination for exploring the world within my head. You will find here an example of where my inner travels are leading me.


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(Scraps from a Sinological Scrapbook 漢齋閒情異誌, fragment 18)
[The following piece, originally titled 'An Open Letter to Slauerhoff at the Beginning of the Year of the Rat,' was originally written in Dutch and published in De Gids 171:4 (April 2008), pp. 308-311. It is in the form of an open letter to the famous Dutch poet and fiction writer J. Slauerhoff (斯勞爾霍夫, 1898-1936). As a ship's physician, Slauerhoff traveled extensively in the Far East, and many of his stories have Chinese settings. His poetry includes memorable adaptations from classical Chinese verse. Several of his works have appeared in Chinese translation.]
For the past two weeks, since returning to
for the so-manieth time, I've been reading all sorts of things about your work. Normally I try to avoid that most pretentious and hyper-intellectual of all genres, 'the literature on literature.' But now I'm wading through some of it; a Dutch magazine has asked me to write something about you 'from an East Asian point of view,' and first I need to know what other points of view there already are. Taiwan
Your work has not escaped the oversimplification and pigeonholing that make so much 'literature on literature' misleading. Later writers on you tend to repeat what the earlier writers had already stated. Again and again it is said that you had a 'sloppy' style; you paid too little attention to rhyme and meter; you published poems that still needed additional polishing.
Many or most critics agree that you wrote 'sloppily,' but they do not agree as to why. Some say the imperfection of your style was deliberate. You consciously left grammatical or metrical errors in to keep your work from seeming fuddy-duddy, stiff, lifeless. I call this the Believer's Argument: the poet knew perfectly well what he was doing and where he was going wrong in the eyes of the squares and the wise and prudent. Opposed to this, there is another view that I will call the Skeptic's Argument: the poet couldn't help it; his mind was already slipping; his illness caused inadequate oxygen supply to the brain and he was a sick man.
This debate reminds me of a recent experience of my own in 'East Asia.'
For several years now, almost every day I have been practicing tai chi 太極拳, a Chinese system of bodily movement (I prefer not to call it a sport, though many Dutch bookstores stock tai chi books under 'sports' – to many of us in the West, the very word 'sport' has associations with grimly endured effort, with strenuousness and 'grit.'). In the Chinese world, tai chi is typically practiced by 'older' or even very old people, because the movements are non-strenous. Slowly, attentively, the body weight is transferred from one leg to the other; the arms are moved through the air as if through the imaginary resistance of surrounding 'water'; the hands are placed on imaginary 'surfaces' or 'railings.'
To those who have never experienced it, it seems impossible that such seemingly easeful movements could lead to increased energy and improved circulation. But practitioners agree that the legendary old Teachers were right when they said the most advanced practice was like 'doing nothing': the more relaxed, the more effective and more beneficial.
In the Yang school of tai chi (for the world of tai chi, like so many other traditions of expertise, is long since divided into quibbling factions, typically named after a family in which the given style was first taught and handed down), a common saying is that you should 'move your arms as if you had no arms.'
Nowadays on the internet you can find all manner of video clips of tai chi teachers in action. There are plenty of clips of modern 'masters,' whatever their degree of real knowledge or legitimacy, showing fragments of longer instructional films which it turns out you can order for a price...but also, for the patient browser, fascinating old black-and-white takes of the fabled teachers of a bygone age.
This past winter in Taipei, I found a long black-and-white film of Xiong Yanghe (熊養和, published dates differ: 1886-1984 or 1889-1981), one of the first teachers from the Mainland who brought the Yang-style tradition (that is, his own version of it) to
. Xiong originally hailed from Jiangsu Province on the Mainland; later he became renowned as a tai chi teacher and author in and around Yilan 宜蘭, Taiwan. Whoever posted the film provided no information as to how old Teacher Xiong was at the time of filming. What would it have been, ninety? (In this area, anything is possible; there is an excellent clip of Wu Tunan 吳圖南 practicing at the age of 101.) Taiwan
The quality of the video was, by present-day standards, miserable: black-and-white but faded and yellowed, flickering, occasionally dropping out for a couple of seconds. But what I was seeing was a revelation to me. Xiong seemed to be ignoring what all the textbooks say. And the 'deviations' were mostly in the same direction: simplification. Parts of movements, or transitional movements between the traditional 'postures,' were shortened, simplified, or simply skipped.
According to the books, in performing the posture called Whip to One Side 單鞭, the right hand changes from an open palm to a so-called Hook Hand 勾手, with the thumb and one or more curled fingers lightly touching each other. But in Teacher Xiong's version of the posture, the right hand remained open, suspended in the air, seemingly just an extension of the open posture of the rest of the body.
I saw this as an example of the coveted Yielding and Gentleness that the Yang-style teachers call hallmarks of high mastery. To grasp or grab as little as possible – such is the mental attitude, and the physical style, of one who supposedly 'embodies the Tao' 體道. Watching, I thought: he's past the stage of listening to Prescriptions. This is the way Lao Tzu 老子must have lived...
I grabbed the phone and called Teacher Mou 某, who lives in my neighborhood. Mou has been practicing the Yang style for decades and is a recognized authority who is often invited as a jury member and evaluator of tai chi events in
. He was not yet aware of this Xiong Yanghe video, and came to my house the same afternoon to watch it with me. Taiwan
We sat down at the computer and I clicked on Teacher Xiong. There it was again, the great Yielding, not out of fear but out of confidence. Xiong was not even afraid – and this is a truly great level of achievement, possible only after long years – of his own self-critical eye.
Teacher Mou watched for a minute or two and said: 'Too bad. He's too old for it. He can't really do it any more.'
Whip to One Side is one of the first postures in the standard series, and within two minutes there it came again, that old-and-thin but graciously open right hand.
'See?' said Mou. 'His fingers are too old; he can't form the Hook.'
I said nothing, but I was not immediately convinced by Mou's application of the Skeptic's Argument to Xiong's simplification of the Hand. Perhaps I was, and am, still too awed by the Believer's Argument, which has very deep roots in Chinese traditions as to what to do about aging.
Western students often see, and want to see, a great panacea and elixir in tai chi, qigong, and related disciplines. To them, all this is an unassailable tradition of non-Western (hence not yet subject to their own mature critical judgment) wisdom, for which they are willing to undergo radical changes in their diet, daily routines, and way of life. But there is one area of the traditional Prescriptions that Western students have trouble accepting. I am referring to the attitude of the Old Teachers toward sex.
Our Western folk wisdom on such matters, whether or not it is substantiated in actual practice, advises 'doing it' as often as possible, viewing sex as both an indispensable source of energy and a badge of continuing vitality. But there is a persistent vein of Chinese tradition which takes the opposite position. Many of the most famous Teachers, even today, regard the male orgasm, with its loss of semen or 'vital essence,' as a strength-diminishing burden to the organism.
Students of the famous Zheng Manqing 鄭曼青 (1902-1975), who some decades ago was a sensationally famous tai chi teacher in America, and was also regarded in certain circles as a great healer and expert on Chinese medicine, were shocked to hear him say that men past the age of fifty should actually have no more need for sex.[1] To us post-Puritan post-Freudians, this is truly 'an hard saying; who can hear it?'[2] But Zheng was merely reaffirming his native tradition, which says that 'doing it,' at least doing it through to the end, as little as possible is the best thing, and that someday when you are truly Advanced, you will no longer be bothered even by the thought of such things.
I do not doubt that for aging men it is more pleasant, more reassuring to believe their slackening sexual performance has to do with consciously following wise Prescriptions – than just helplessly to undergo it as a fated biological predicament. Similarly, I suppose an elderly practitioner of tai chi would rather believe he no longer 'forms the Hook' because his ripened insights into Gentleness give him the right to skip over it.
Such, in any case, would be the Skeptic's Argument. But the Believer can still fall back on an ever-vital tradition that says 'I deliberately choose not to.' In 1996, when he was 72 years old, Wei Shuren 魏樹人, a Beijing-born present-day teacher of the Yang style, published two richly illustrated volumes under the title An Exposition of the Real Yang Style Tai Chi 楊式太極拳述真.
The first volume was a detailed treatment of the more than eighty postures of the traditional sequence of movements as explained by Wei Shuren. It began with a series of photos of Wei's own teacher, Wang Yongquan 汪永泉 (1903-1987). On the illustration of Whip to One Side, Wang's right hand is clearly open, not closed.
In the second volume, Wei Shuren presented his own simplified set of movements, comprising only 22 postures. Among the many deleted traditional postures were all the occurrences of Deflect, Parry and Punch While Stepping Forward 進步搬攔捶. In Wei's new simplified set, apparently they were satisfactorily summed up in a single posture called Deflect, Parry and Punch While Stepping Backward 卸步搬攔捶.
J., it's been two weeks since I wrote the above. Since then I've been becalmed, not knowing how I should continue and conclude this letter. It seemed to be full of concrete details, but still to lack the overall aura of a unifying vision that would give it a message, a reason for being. What, in this case, would be my concluding vision? Are Teachers Xiong, Wang and Wei communicating helpful wisdom by consciously revealing their unorthodox 'incomplete' movements, or are they just slipping-but-congenial codgers taking the easy way out?
I didn't know the answer two weeks ago, and I don't know now. Maybe the only thing I could do would be to inform the editors of the magazine that I could not submit the piece on time.
But then I thought: hey, wait a minute. Wouldn't it be appropriate if a piece about 'incomplete' forms...itself remained incomplete? (Don't be afraid here, J.: though I've been reading 'the literature about literature,' it still hasn't affected me to the point where I might start adopting 'iconicity' as a literary technique. At least, if I can still control myself.)
So, let's postpone the 'East Asian perspective' till another occasion. Meanwhile, may the Year of the Rat bring more contributions to the deserved preservation of your name and fame!
All best, L.
--Lloyd Haft


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My post a few weeks back on an advertising image for Land Securities reminded me of a shoot from back in 2014. I wasn't blogging regularly then; I neglectfully buried the images in a grid as part of a round-up post of my year's work. So it's a TBT.
The brief was to spend time around the central London areas of Aldgate, St Pauls, Fleet Street and Chancery Lane, where Land Securities has properties and ongoing developments. They required imagery of the buildings, shops, interesting asides, key sights -and the general feel and atmosphere - for a brochure and some other materials.
I loved this shoot - I had freedom over my schedule and route, and while there were some required shots, I was mostly left to my own devices as to what else to capture and how to photograph it. Apart from seeking a few permissions, I barely spoke to anyone for two days!
I'd done a couple of recces to plan the route, locate the main areas of interest, and see how the light was for the more architectural and wider scene shots at the different times of day. But still, so often I found myself winding around and double-backing on myself, getting lost around backstreets and frequently sidetracked with details I'd not noticed. I delivered a small library of photos in the end, very much an interwoven document of the area, but with a number of shots which I felt stood alone.
Here's a (small-ish) selection of some of my favourite ones - enjoy!


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Time Warner Cable Delays Earnings Release to Nov. 5
Time Warner Cable has rescheduled the release of its
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The second largest cable operator in the nation will now
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Psychosynthesis is an approach to human development. It is both a theory and a practice where the focus is to achieve a synthesis, of the various parts of an individual's personality into a more cohesive self. That person can then function in a way that is more life-affirming and authentic. Private sessions in English, by a trained counsellor in the Vaud and Geneva areas - Nyon.
Psychosynthesis is an in-depth, integrative and compassionate therapeutic approach. Drawing on many major therapeutic disciplines and techniques, Psychosynthesis takes a transpersonal and holistic view into a person's inner experiences and their outer circumstances.
The process, rather than being passive (where you are only listened to and received), is active, where both parties are engaged, you will be heard, understood and guided. The focus, is to achieve a coming together of various parts of your experience such as; body, feelings, attitudes and behaviour and into a more harmonious and synthesised self. This can then allow you to live in a way that is more energetic, life-affirming, authentic and satisfying.
A Psychosynthesis Counsellor...
the need for meaning and purpose as being fundamental to well-being
that the mind, body, emotions and spirit are deeply interrelated
a human being as both an individual with unique qualities and as intimately interconnected with others and the environment
that people repress not only the unacceptable aspects of themselves but also their higher impulses such as intuition, altruism, creative inspiration, love and joy
powerful experiences and the defence mechanisms around them which can hinder our self connection and development
that individual will is necessary before change and transformation can take place
to integrate different and often opposing parts of our experience, in order to create more self connection and a capacity to live vibrantly
to emphasise the Self, as the source of psychological health
life as a journey of development and differentiation, where problems are opportunities, that assist its unfoldment
a compassionate and an optimistic vision of human nature, despite the dominance of the pathologically orientated psychology
In 1927, Robert Assagioli (a colleague and counterpart of Freud and Jung) criticised Freud and Psychoanalysis and founded Psychosynthesis. He aimed to bring something more to the healing professions than Psychoanalysis could. His focus was to achieve personal and spiritual synthesis, rather than analysis. He proposed that the purpose of psychological healing was to contact a deeper centre of identity (the Self) to nurture its unfoldment, while removing obstacles to its actualisation. He held a wide and deeply compassionate view of the human condition and devised numerous creative ways with which to discover an individual's unique reality and address their needs.


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Leicester City FC: Putting reputation before performance
Star performers can sometimes earn a reputation for wild behaviour and nowhere more is this apparent than the world of sport – whether it be players spilling out of nightclubs in the early hours or FIFA officials alleged with their hands in the till the back page stars are no strangers to the front pages.
However, in a business that puts results above all else the playing staff at least seem to remain in high demand no matter how they behave – Manchester City's pursuit of Liverpool's Raheem Stirling illustrates how a player cannot even turn up to training yet still demand huge sums.
Despite this, Leicester City Manager Nigel Pearson has found himself out of a job. Pearson was highly praised towards the end of last season which saw Leicester go on a long unbeaten run and retain their Premier League status against the odds. However, during the season the manager had found himself embroiled in several controversies – including scuffling with opposition players, calling reporters names and getting involved in verbal disputes with fans.
This appeared to culminate in Pearson being sacked in February, and while this seemed premature many in the industry claim that he was fired and then re-instated.
Then seemingly out of the blue six weeks after performing the great escape, Leicester announced that Pearson was no longer manager of the club. According to David Alexander, Managing Director of Calacus Public Relations, this is a sure sign that in today's game reputation is still important.
Alexander believes that Pearson's behaviour as an ambassador for the club could be seen as compromising in terms of the acquisition of new corporate partners.
He said: "The Premier League is the most popular domestic football competition in the world and the manager is an ambassador, therefore anything that he does is deemed to have an impact on his club's reputation.
"On a purely commercial level, a club such as Leicester is trying to establish itself as a permanent fixture in the Premier League, so corporate partnerships are the best was of gaining a competitive advantage because of the increased funds and profile that they provide."
Though it isn't purely for commercial sponsorship reasons that Pearson was removed.
"At the end of the day, rather than just at a corporate level but even just reputationally, if the club is associated with a manager who wrestles opposition players to the ground, gets in disputes with the media because he doesn't like their questions or starts being abusive towards fans then clearly it's an embarrassment," said Alexander.
Despite him believing that Leicester took the right decision, Alexander feels that the club could still review its processes as there were several stories which painted Pearson as the victim after his sacking.
Rumours that he was fired via text message or that he had not been warned of his conduct made it appear that the club was not in control of the flow of information.
Alexander concluded: "I think the fact that Leicester released a statement as soon as the story broke was a good thing and clearly they don't want to have to go in to comprehensive detail as they will still be in complex negotiation regarding pay-offs or severance or what have you.
"However, a review of how they manage the outflow of information in general would be a good idea as it's something they could improve upon."
This article first appeared on the Chartered Institute of Public Relations website. You can read it HERE


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MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2015) - Pioneer Marine Inc. (
(1) Termination of three (3) newbuilding contracts at no cost to the Company
(2) Delays in the current delivery schedule with five (5) vessels now scheduled to deliver before YE 2016 and the remaining three (3) vessels to be delivered in 2017
The Company's CEO, Pankaj Khanna, further elaborated by stating "Our newbuilding program continues to represent a strategic partnership between Pioneer and Yangzhou Guoyu Shipyard. We are grateful for their support through the current unprecedented downturn in the dry bulk market. We are being proactive in creating a long runway for the company and the reduction in our capital expenditure commitments strengthens our balance sheet significantly. The cancellation frees up $34 million of equity commitments and the delay in deliveries, now spread over the next two years, pushes out the capex over an extended period. We have now delayed our newbuilding deliveries by a total of 96 months and also proactively raised $25 million of equity in August."
About Pioneer Marine Inc.
Pioneer Marine Inc. is a leading shipowner and global drybulk handysize transportation service provider. Pioneer Marine owns thirteen Handysize and one Handymax drybulk carriers with an additional 8 Handysize newbuildings on order for delivery through 2016 and 2017. The Handysize Green Dolphins newbuildings are 'Eco' vessels.
Forward-Looking Statements
Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words "believe," "anticipate," "intends," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "plan," "potential," "may," "should," "expect," "pending" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, our management's examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections.
In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the failure of counterparties to fully perform their contracts with us, the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk vessel capacity, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, charter counterparty performance, ability to obtain financing and comply with covenants in such financing arrangements, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors.
Contact Information:
Pioneer Marine Inc.
Pankaj Khanna
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The Langley Open for 2012 was a great success. The previous attendance record of 44 was exceeded by 16, pushing us well past our goal to an impressive 60 players. Thank you to everyone who came out. We hope you will join us again next year.
Congratulations to YiFei Han, who won the tournament with a score of 5.5/6.0!
Results of the tournament can be seen on our Open Results page, or on the CFC website.


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The three Rawls sisters,Iva, Myrtie,Aladee, were the last to carry the name Rawls,in our direct line, and their mother the last to carry the Bowen name. We will attempt to trace back their blood line, and then follow it forward.
The three sisters grew up, the two older ones, went off to find their Prince and happiness. Iva went to New York, married moved to Ohio, after two failed marriages and four children, she died age 61. Myrtie went to Ky.married and had eight children, seven sons and a daughter, they moved to Ill. her marriage was stormy and divorced after thirty years, she died age 75. Ala stayed home, found her Prince and happiness, right around the corner. She will be married 56 yrs. in July,2000. She had three children. She and her husband live two blocks from the last house the sisters shared as girls. Ida the fourth sister died at age 14 mos. of pnuemonia, so she never had a chance to find out what her future could have been.
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Results for Best High School Football Coach 2013
Bob Johnson
Twice named national high school football coach of the year, he has won six Southern Section titles. He is the No. 3 active winner in the state with a 29-year record of 288-93-1.
Bruce Rollinson
A two-time USA TODAY High School Sports Super 25 national champion coach, he has posted a 24-year record of 229-73-2. Five times he has won a Southern Section crown.
Harry Welch
Only coach in state history to win a bowl championship at three different schools. In 24 years he has put together a record of 252-55-3, which includes nine Southern Section titles.
John Barnes
He is the No. 1 active coach in the state with a 33-year record of 301-97-3. Barnes has won four Southern Section titles.
Kevin Rooney
He has won four Southern Section titles, twice with 14-0 records. During his 33-year career, Rooney has put together a 274-108-5 record.
Lou Farrar
The No. 2 active coach in the state with a 30-year record of 289-109-7, Farrar has won five Southern Section crowns.
Mike Herrington
From a family of coaching brothers, Herrington has won six Southern Section championships. In 25 years he has posted a 248-69-1 record.
Paul Knox
He has dominated the Los Angeles City Section with five Class 4A championships. In 31 years, he has put together a 242-95-3 record.


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If there is a prize for the cutest looking Exchange Puzzle at IPP34, Yoshiyuki Kotani's Double Heart Arrow would surely be a top contender.
Not only is it cute, it's also colourful and whimsical looking. The puzzle comes unsolved in four loose pieces and the object is to "pierce" the heart with the arrow. All the pieces are laser cut from acrylic and quality very good. The heart consists of two identical pieces, one in red and the other pink. The arrow is split into two halves, in transparent orange and yellow.
Effectively, the Double Heart Arrow puzzle is like a four-piece board burr and solving it requires you to navigate the heart pieces through the notches and channels along the arrow. The end point is marked by etched markings so you will know when the puzzle is completely solved.
Although it looks simple at first glance, it is in fact not that easy. I found myself close to the finish several times yet the final position of the pieces eluded me; one of the pieces would always be just one step out of place and I had to start all over again. This is a sequential movement puzzle with only one solution, it would seem. Get the sequence wrong, and you would have to back-track your steps.
Overall a nice interesting concept and a departure from the traditional wooden burr style interlocking puzzle, even though the design and solving process are similar. Not easy by any means but not difficult either. And Its fun looking and colourful appearance serves only to make you want to persist until you solve it.