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Dealing With The Dramatic
Should you Save the Drama for your Momma?
I have been lucky in my life to have great players who act out these scenes in character without needing to go to any rules sets for aid, but that also means they get no in game "reward" or aid for them either. None of that bothered them, but every once and a while we'd have a new player who wasn't as comfortable with our style of play or with "acting" out their character actions (usually they didn't last long with us or came around to our way of play). When we played other people's games it really wasn't something to worry about, but when I started working on my own it eventually came to the forefront.
At first I just skipped over the thing and worked on several other areas of the game, world, and system I knew would be there (especially setting up the base mechanics that all things should run on top of). Soon enough I had a core system (slightly altered for specialty section, but mostly the same for everything), deep rules for spell creation, psionics, combat, an entire encyclopedia (not just creatures, but plants, minerals, and more), and more all finished and being tested and polished up. So it came time to deal with the idea of drama rules.
The first thing I did was come down to the idea that I only wanted rules to deal with times when there was actual conflict of some kind, not just dramatic moments. People should be free to just "be dramatic" whenever they think their character should. There shouldn't be rules for the sad farewell of an old friend or the angry commiserating of a group of captured criminals. But there should be something to handle the times when this drama is a contest, conflict, or argument between two or more people. So I decided to call these drama rules Social Conflicts.
Then came the creation of how these rules were meant to play out and be used in the system. But some people even question if such rules should be included at all. Before I go on about what I did, let me just discuss the subject (pro and con) in general a little. Allow me to explain the path my mind went as I thought about why I chose the way that I did.
There are countless great debates, discussions, arguments, and posts made on the subject of weather or not social interactions should have some kind of rules attached to them or not. People argue for both sides (some actually eloquently and refraining from name calling) and there are good reasons to go both ways. In the end it really depends on what you want to have in your game and what you don't, but I don't see how it should be an all or nothing thing.
Having to stop for rolls and rules can cause a good scene between good players to falter, losing momentum, if they let it. A lot of people don't like to stop the good interaction of two players acting as their characters to make some skill rolls that could completely change the flow of the scene. It is also true that this is what social interaction rules can do, but this is not just true of social scenes. This is exactly what combat rules do.
Most people accept the interruption of rules for combat, since it allows for the outcome of complex actions to be randomly generated based on the skills of those involved. When they use the outcomes to aid in designing the way the scene plays out it can actually enhance the combat description rather than detract from it. Like a sudden lucky critical that kills the superior foe suddenly becomes a scene where a sword finds purchase in the one weak spot of his armor and plunges through his shoulder and down into his heart.
Why not accept this type of interplay of scene and rules in other types of conflicts too? Wouldn't it be possible to have the same thing happen in a social conflict? Two characters are verbally sparing over which gets to hold the leadership position, using debate and other social skills. They make some rolls and the rare critical happens again. This could lead to some amazing unexpected ending to the conflict that none saw coming, but it makes for a great scene.
When a combat roll happens in an exciting and unexpected way it can lead the players involved to create an entire scene to explain how it happened. Descriptions of exciting action grow out of these rolls. When a social roll happens in an exciting and unexpected way it can lead the players involved to create an entire scene to explain how it happened. It doesn't require they just ignore the role-play and only use the rolls. The players get to play out the scene using these rolls as a guide to the outcome.
What having the rules in place for when they are needed does is help even the playing field between the players with strong personalities and quick wit and those who are a little shy or not comfortable acting. The rules set the outcomes based on the character's abilities and skills, not the players, but doesn't stop them being able to act them out and play the scene. Just as with combat and other types of physical conflicts.
In the end I went with the inclusion of many social skills that can be used for certain special situations (like trying to lie your way out of something or haggle over prices) and for direct conflicts with others through social conflicts. Battles of wills, debates, arguments, and more can all be handled with a simple selection of skills and actions that form the backbone of the scene, while player interactions create the surface scene based on the outcomes of these.
For us old-schoolers it takes a little getting used to. We aren't used to having skills or rolls for anything but hard and fast physical actions. I hope I achieved something that allows for a strong rule set wile still keeping things open to role-playing the scenes. This goes for combat, skill use, magic, psionics, and every other aspect of the game too.
The rules are there to form the framework and allow chance to make the game fun and exciting, but in the end what we want is a good story to tell together and remember later.
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Christian von Ehrenfels (also Maria Christian Julius Leopold Freiherr von Ehrenfels; June 2, 1859 – September 8, 1932) was an Austrian philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology.
On June 20, 1859 Christian von Ehrenfels was born in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wien.
There he studied philosophy, was a pupil of Franz Brentano and Alexius Meinong, promoted under supervision of Meinong, following him after his move to the Karl-Franzens-Universität (Graz), in 1885 on the topic of Größenrelationen und Zahlen. Eine psychologische Studie ("Relations of magnitude and numbers. A psychological study"). He obtained his habilitiation in 1888 in Vienna with the work Über Fühlen und Wollen ("On feeling and willing"). From 1896 to 1929 he was professor of philosophy at the German university of Prague. Interested in his lectures were among others Max Brod, Franz Kafka and Felix Weltsch.
The idea of Gestalt has its roots in theories by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ernst Mach. Max Wertheimer is to be credited as the founder of the movement of Gestalt psychology. The concept of Gestalt itself was first introduced in contemporary philosophy and psychology by Ehrenfels in his famous work Über Gestaltqualitäten (On the Qualities of Form, 1890). Both he and Edmund Husserl seem to have been inspired by Mach's work Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen (Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, 1886) to formulate their very similar concepts of Gestalt and Figural Moment respectively.
His analysis of the transition of a melody to another key became famous. Ehrenfels explained that a melody consists of individual sounds, but that it is considerably more than the sum of these notes. The individual notes would be able to join themselves for completely different melodies, while the melody would remain the same, if transposed into another key and containing single tones. This new opinion, that came up to a "perception of the whole" compared to its "parts" Ehrenfels called Gestaltqualitäten (Figure qualities).
(Compare with: Aristotle (trans. 1952) "In the case of all things that have several parts and in which the whole is not like a heap, but is a particular something besides the parts, there must be some such uniting factor".) In the 1890s, Ehrenfels-who was a passionate fan of Richard Wagner-befriended a fellow Wagnerite, the British born German völkisch thinker Houston Stewart Chamberlain, "the Evangelist of Race". Ehrenfels, who despite being a Wagnerite and a friend of Chamberlain's did not generally associate himself with the more extreme racist and anti-Semitic wing of the Wagner movement that Chamberlain came to be the leader of. Ehrenfels never accepted Chamberlain's anti-Semitism, but he was influenced by Chamberlain's theory that the Aryan race was the greatest and best race of them all.
Ehrenfels argued in numerous cultural-scientific and sexual-political writings against the cultural harmfulness of monogamy and for the utopia of a polygynian social order. He defended the opinion that monogamy would hinder a Darwinistic reproduction-logic and procreation-selection, which would have a devastating effect on society in a cultural-biological way and therefore monogamy should be combated. With those theories, Ehrenfels exposed himself to massive criticism, because he offered with his theories unimaginable thoughts to contemporary Western conventions. The basis of Ehrenfels's thinking about a new sexual order were expressed in a series of essays published in several academic journals in Germany and Austria between 1902-1910. In his essays, Ehrenfels began with the argument that men are not naturally monogamous, and that monogamy was something that had come to Europe with Christianity. Ehrenfels stated through monogamy had some useful functions such as the "iron discipline" it imposed on European men, on the whole Europeans had suffered terribly from the unnatural condition of monogamy, which had seriously interfered with the Darwinian progress of ensuring the survival of the fittest (Ehrenfels was an avid Social Darwinist). Ehrenfels believed polygamy was what nature had intended for men as it allowed the "fittest" men to father as many children as possible with as many as women as possible in a process of "virile selection". Ehrenfels wrote with disgust that monogamy was "that type of sexual life...that corresponded to the needs and capacities of women, at the cost of men". By contrast, Ehrenfels believed that women were naturally monogamous, and that all that women desired was one good husband to look after them. Ehrenfels further believed that all social problems were caused by unnatural state of Christian monogamy, which caused a "splitting" between a man's "day consciousness" when he professed to believe in Christian marriage, and his "night consciousness", when a man's naturally aggressive, animistic sex drive come into play. Ehrenfels argued that this "splitting" within men between their "day consciousness" and "night consciousness" caused men all sorts of psychological trauma, and led to men acting in irrational, often violent ways. The specific example of the sort of male irrationality brought up by Enrenfels concerning this "splitting" was that of men abusing the prostitutes they visited. Additionally, Ehrenfels argued this psychological "splitting" led to men to treat their wives badly as men were forced into the unnatural condition of monogamy, and that the feminist movement and the entire "Women's Question" had arose as a response; Enrenfels believed the "Women's Question" would naturally resolve itself if only husbands would learn to treat their wives better. Finally, Ehrenfels argued that the monogamy was at the root to the "Social Question" (by which meant Ehrenfels meant the rise of the Austrian Social Democratic Party) as it encouraged men to leave their fortunes to their children, something that Ehrenfels believed to be natural, but also something that "very often contradicts the demands of social justice". As a result of wealth being spread by "privilegistic" means as opposed to "meritocratic" means, the poor felt resentment and were voting for socialist parties, which promised to abolish inequality. Ehrenfels believed that humanity was naturally unequal, and the demand for universal human equality had to be fought as it totally unnatural. In a 1908 essay, the proud aristocrat Baron von Enrenfels called the demand for universal equality being made by the Social Democrats "preposterous".
Moreover, Ehrenfels was obsessed with the fear of the "Yellow Peril", and believed that Asian peoples were a deadly threat to European civilization. Ehrenfels believed that Asians were especially dangerous enemies of the Europeans because in East Asia, polygamy was accepted as a natural part of the social order. Ehrenfels warned that this process of "socially victorious" Chinese men taking as many wives as possible was ultimately a grave threat to the West. As a result of polygamy, genetically superior Asian men were fathering as many children as possible with as many women as possible while genetically superior European men were fathering children by only one woman. As a result of European monogamy and Asian polygamy, the Europeans were losing out to the Asians, and it was only a matter of time before this genetic edge allowed the Asians to destroy European civilization. As a Social Darwinist and a racist, Ehrenfels saw all history as an endless racial struggle with the fittest "races" surviving. Ehrenfels took it for granted that the whites and Asians were natural enemies, and always would be. In Ehrenfels's viewpoint, the fact that Chinese were capable of working hard while eating less than Europeans were an important sign that the Asian "race" was thanks to polygamy was starting become the stronger "tougher race". Ehrenfels wrote with alarm that: "the average constitutional strength of the Chinese, their resistance to overwork and...noxious and prejudicial influences of all kinds...exceeds that of the civilized peoples of the West to an astonishing degree".. Ehrenfels warned that it this progress was allowed to continue, then the "beautiful Aryan race" to whom Ehrenfels compared to "clear mountain streams" and "purest white milk" would be swept away by the Asian "torrents of mud". Ehrenfels stated that racist anti-Asian immigrant laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States were a good first step, but were insufficient to stop the rise of the "tough, fecund Mongol race".
Ehrenfels proposed solution was to do away with monogamy, and create a new social order based on polygamy. To begin with, the state would take complete control of human sexuality. In Ehrenfels's new society, the "highest goal" would the "improvement of the human constitution" by allowing only the fittest white men to breed. In Ehrenfels's new society, only those white men who proved themselves to be social "winners" would be allowed to marry, and the number of wives a man could have would be based upon his degree of success. The more successful the man, the more wives he would have. The state would assign a man his wives after determining his social success and other features such as health, looks, morality and intelligence. Woman by contrast would be allowed only one husband at a time. All women would be forced to live in communal barracks at the expense of the state, where they would help other each raise their children and where their husbands would visit for sex. In this proposed new society, romantic love would be done away with, and relations between men and women would be only sexual. Since in Ehrenfels's viewpoint, all that men really wanted from women was sex, not love, in this new society men would not suffer the psychological problems caused by monogamy, thus ending the "splitting". Since this new society would be meritocratic, this would solve the entire "Social Question". Furthermore, in this new society, women living in their communal barracks would help each other with raising children, women would have more time for leisure, and as such Ehrenfels believed that women would come to see this new society as a huge improvement over the previous monogamist society. Their husbands now free of monogamy would treat them better, and so the entire "Women's Question" would dissolve as women would lose interest in feminism (which Enrenfels saw as very unnatural). To end the "Yellow Peril" once and for all, Ehrenfels suggested that the "white nations" band together to conquer all the Asian nations before it was too late, and create a new world racial order with a hereditary, racially determined "caste system". In Ehrenfels's vision, whites would serve as the oligarchic "Aryan" military and intellectual castes and the Asians and blacks as the slave castes supporting the whites. To prevent Miscegenation, interracial sex would be a capital crime with offenders to be publicly hanged.
Until the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-05, Ehrenfels believed that these sort of radical changes would only happened sometime in the far-future, or as Ehrenfels put it in 1902: "the Aryan will only respond to the imperative of sexual reform when the waves of the Mongolian tide are lapping around his neck". After Japan's victory over Russia in 1905, Ehrenfels wrote "the absolute necessity of a radical sexual reform for the continued existence of the western races of men has... been raised from the level of discussion to the level of a scientifically proven fact". In a 1907 essay, Ehrenfels wrote that radical sexual reform was "now a question of 'to be or not to be'...We have no time to lose." Ehrenfels suggested as a starting point, the Austrian government begin to allow soldiers upon completing their military service to have polygamous marriages, with those soldiers who proven themselves especially intelligent, brave and physically fit to have the largest number of wives. Subsequently, Ehrenfels made a public appeal to "manly Aryan men" who had proved themselves to be both "social winners" and "studs" to disregard monogamy and marriage, and to start impregnating as many women as possible to give the "white race" a genetic edge in the coming war against the "Yellow Peril".
Ehrenfels's ideas were not widely accepted by the public, but the very fact that he was allowed to publish essays on his new society in intellectually prestigious, learned academic journals in Germany and Austria show that his ideas were part of the intellectual mainstream in the first years of the 20th century. Social Darwinism and racism were part of the intellectual mainstream in the West as was the widespread belief that white men were starting to become "soft", and if white men continued to lose their masculine "hardness", inevitably this would led to process of "racial degeneration", which would end with the whites becoming enslaved to the "Yellow Peril".
However, Ehrenfels's ideas did meet with disagreement. In December 1908, Sigmund Freud invited Ehrenfels to give a lecture on his proposed new society. The audience generally offered polite dissent from Ehrenfels with one participant calling his new society an "adolescent sexual fantasy". The American historian Edward Ross Dickinson wrote the "pieces" of Ehrenfels's thinking were all mainstream, but the way he brought them together was "idiosyncratic". Dickinson suggested that these ideas were rooted in Ehrenfels's own tormented sexuality as he was both fascinated/repulsed by sex. Ehrenfels had been brought up in an extremely conservative, sexually repressive Roman Catholic family, and from his teenage years onwards, always felt deep shame and guilt about his sexual desires. Despite his obsession with sex, Ehrenfels was enraged by pornography (which he wanted to see ruthlessly stamped out) and by the "indecent" popular culture of Vienna, which he saw as far too sexualized. Dickinson wrote that when Ehrenfels wrote about men suffering from what he called the "tortuously shackled animal personality" created by monogamy, he almost certainly writing about himself. Dickinson suggested that based upon a reading of Ehrenfels's private letters, that his concerns about psychological "splitting" within men were based upon his own visits to prostitutes, where he saw johns abusing the prostitutes, and that he may himself had badly treated the prostitutes he had sex with (his letters are somewhat ambiguous on this point). The frequently which Ehrenfels brought up the example of how psychological "splitting" was causing men to abuse prostitutes may very well had reflected a guilty conscience on his part about past abuse that he had inflicted on the prostitutes whose services he had used. In a 1908 essay entitled "The Yellow Peril", Ehrenfels wrote that 13 years earlier in 1895, he "arrived, on the basis of personal experience, which it would be superfluous to recount here, at the following two alternatives: "Either I am an individual of totally corrupt sex instincts, or our monogamous sexual order is an institution with completely corrupting tendencies.""
In the late 19th century, what the British historian John Tosh called the "flight from domesticity" novels became very popular, which were a major influence on Ehrenfels″. The "flight from domesticity" novels typically dealt with a ruggedly tough male who lived life on his own terms, usually alone and always in some remote frontier place, and who almost never had a relationship with a woman or children. The heroes in the "flight from domesticity" novels were usually a frontiersman, a hunter, a cowboy, a scout or some other suitably adventuresome, manly occupation. Because the heroes in the "flight from domesticity" novels lived in the wild in harmony with nature, they were always portrayed as being more morally purer and authentic then the people who lived in modern civilization. The hero in the "flight from domesticity" novel was always the "strong silent type", the taciturn tough guy who lived uncompromisingly by his own code of honor and who embodied typical male values like courage and self-reliance far better then did the men who lived in civilization. Typical of the "flight from domesticity" novels were the Allan Quatermain novels by the British novelist H. Rider Haggard dealing with the adventures of a British frontiersman in 19th century South Africa; the Western novels by the German novelist Karl May dealing with the adventures of the German immigrant cowboy Old Shatterhand and his Apache best friend Winnetou in the American Old West; the Scott Allen Cameron novels by the Canadian novelist Ralph Connor about a Mountie singly-handily upholding the law in the Rocky Mountains; and Western adventure novels by the Irish-American novelist Thomas Mayne Reid. The typical hero in Reid's novels which were extremely popular in the United States and Europe was described as being: "gallant, skillful at arms, far more at ease around men than around women, has lots of time for trappers and soldiers but little for the upper classes and intellectuals, and is much happier hunting and killing than thinking." Tosh argued by the end of the 19th century, the burdens of being a husband and a father in a modern, industrialized, urban society were such that many men fantasized about "chucking it all" to escape domesticity; to live a life unburdened by the demands of a job, children, a wife or any other social obligation. Hence the popularity of the "flight from domesticity" novels, which celebrated the "masculine primitive". Ehrenfels's ideas about his new society where men would live apart from women and children, would not participate in raising their children and whose relationships with their wives would be entirely sexual bear a very strong resemblance to the themes in the "flight from domesticity" novels. Significantly, Ehrenfels believed that in his new society where men would not be burdened by the demands of family life would allow them to live more fuller and adventuresome lives like the type depicted in the "flight from domesticity" books. Ehrenfels's own fantasies about manly Aryan heroes battling the "Yellow Peril" who would single-handily kill hundreds of the "evil" Asians while sleeping with every white women in sight, but never having a relationship or raising children appeared to be a sexualized version of the macho fantasies found in the "flight from domesticity" novels. It should be noted that not all of the "flight from domesticity" writers took the same racist line as did as Ehrenfels, with May in particular being very sympathetic towards the plight of Native-Americans in his Old Shatterhand novels. In many of the "flight from domesticity" books, non-white peoples like the Zulus and the Apache were depicted admiringly if rather patronizingly as "noble savages" who in their primitive state had preserved certain spiritual qualities that people in the industrialized West had long since lost. What Ehrenfels like many other men at the time seemed to have liked in the "flight from domesticity" novels was the celebration of the "masculine primitive"; a purer, rawer, tougher form of masculinity that was alleged to exist in the wild than that found in civilization.
In September 1895, the German Emperor Wilhelm II had a nightmare where all the nations of Europe appeared as "prehistoric warrior goddesses" who were protected by Germany which took the form of the Archangel Michael. To the East, they were threatened by a dark, stormy cloud in which a Chinese-style dragon carried a Buddha wreathed in fire under which marched millions of Asians who destroyed all in their path, killing all whites. After his nightmare, which Wilhelm regarded as a message from God about the coming, apocalyptic great "race war" between Europe and Asia which decide the future of the 20th century, and a painting of his nightmare done by his court painter Hermann Knackfuss. The painting, which was known as the Yellow Peril painting was very popular in its time. Ehrenfels saw the Yellow Peril painting in December 1895 and was greatly impressed. From 1895 onwards, Ehrenfels was greatly influenced by the "Yellow Peril" propaganda put out by the German government, in which Wilhelm repeatedly warned of the alleged Asian menace to the West. More broadly, Ehrenfels's "Yellow Peril" anti-Asian racism was part of an environment in which non-white men were depicted as threatening to rape white women. In this racist viewpoint, to protect their women from being raped, white men would have to wage a "primitive" and "primordial" racial war against the "Yellow Peril", which justified both white supremacy and male supremacy.
Dickinson noted that for Ehrenfels, the fear of the "Yellow Peril" was always expressed in water imagery; noting how Ehrenfels warned of a "flood" of Chinese coming to the West, that the Chinese were a "torrent of mud" in which Europe was drowning in, that the Japanese were a "polluting liquid", and that Europeans would not respond to this menace until the "waves" of Asians were up to their neck. The German historian Klaus Theweleit wrote that the same threatening water imagery was frequently used in the writings of Freikorps men during the interwar period, but only the threats were the Jews and the Communists (usually the same thing in these writings) rather the Asians which threatened to subsume German men. Theweleit wrote that right-wing German men who had served in the Freikorps during the interwar period were obsessed with proving their masculinity by establishing their "hardness", and that the water imagery reflected their fear of women, the erotic, love, intimacy, and of dependence, all things that threatened to make them less than manly. Theweleit argued in his 1977 book Männerphantasien (Male Fantasies) that the water imagery was associated with sexuality and a loss of self-control. Reviewing Theweleit's book in 1987, the American historian Paul Robision wrote that "...one can't read it without feeling that Mr. Theweleit is onto something: the piling up of examples eventually begins to take its toll on even the most skeptical." Dickinson argued that men like Ehrenfels felt the same sexual anxieties about their masculinity as did the writers examined by Theweleit, but only he projected these anxieties onto the "Yellow Peril" rather than "Judeo-Bolshevism". To be in love can often mean a certain loss of self-control as those in love often invoke the images of being "swept away" or "swallowed up". Dickinson argued that for Ehrenfels, a self-proclaimed macho "manly man" and Aryan alpha male, the prospect of being in love with someone was terrifying as it meant the possibility of losing control, and he projected those fears-which were always expressed in the water imagery-onto the Asians. Dickinson further noted the great irony of Ehrenfels's life, namely that his own biography disapproved his theories about men as sex-crazed animals incapable of love for either the women in their lives or their children. By all accounts, Ehrenfels did indeed deeply love his wife and his two children.
His wife Emma was befriended by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. His daughter was the author Imma von Bodmershof and his son Rolf, a professor of anthropology who converted to Islam in 1927 and assumed the name Omar. Omar Rolf's wife, Elfriede von Bodmershof, was a literary person. As well, she registered the pseudonym "Kurban Said" as belonging to her for the novels "Ali and Nino" as well as "Girl from the Golden Horn." However, Lucy Tal whose company E.P. Tal had published "Ali and Nino" wrote her lawyer saying, "I had never heard of the Baroness... Also my late husband's right hand and secretary knew nothing of the Baroness. Only much later, when for some reason, we looked at Buchhaendler Boersenblatt, we discovered the Baroness as Kurban Said. Of course, under the Nazis pseudonyms were born, people unrightful had themselves as authors ..."
The Czech Zionist, philosopher and friend of Kafka Felix Weltsch wrote many essays and memos about Ehrenfels, who himself was of partly Jewish descent. Weltsch was one of Ehrenfels's most important pupils.Show more Show less | More at Wikipedia

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Deer tracks
Our neighbors tree
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Our neighbors tree
Great post Brenda! I love looking for beauty and so does J. I have got to make myself start taking pictures. A whole week at the beach and I took 4 pictures. I am so lame....
What a great idea, to have Taz look for the beautiful things you could photograph! Hope it's ok I"m going to borrow this idea for my girl!
Beautiful pics! You may not have the ocean waves you saw on my blog, but we don't have your gorgeous fall leaves.
Thanks for the kind comment on my blog Bren. Hey! Nice pics here. I like old barns too. Thanks for sharing girl. See ya!!
you are an AMAZING photographer! you did that thing i want to be able to do! the blurry backround, clear subject thing! what camera do you have? AWESOME! love the leaf pic.
I hope Taz picked the father/daughter shot. That is a wonderful thing to find beauty in.
Awwwww...Thanks Brenda!!! You are so sweet and thoughtful! I love all the pics and wonder how many more hidden talents you are going to surprise us with!?! :)
Thanks for the kind words all. I'm afraid Taz did not pick the father daughter shot. He told me not to take a picture of them. It was weird. My camera is a Cannon Elph. I'm still learning how to use the features. It is easy to take good pictures when you are working with such beautiful scenery.


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This is a recently finished new painting for a pretty cool new show at Subtext Gallery, opening Friday, August 12. The show is based around the classic "Release the Kraken!" line uttered by Liam Neeson in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans. Purists will remember Sir Laurance Olivier delivering the line first, if with much less gusto in the original 1981 version. This is a different kind of art show, in that the artists were asked to paint on someone else's painting. Several paintings of seascapes were culled from consignment stores and given to a handful of artists to reinterpret the famous line in whatever way they saw fit. It created a new challenge in having to paint over and around someone else's original work, as much or as little as you wanted. This was challenging and ultimately a pleasure, as I changed the direction I was gonna go several times, before I just finally let go and had fun with it. Enjoy "In and Out at the End of the World."
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In and Out at the End of the World
Acrylic on found acrylic painting on canvasboard. Framed.
15.5″ x 11.75″ (2011)
And yes, it's what you think it is. Here's a detail shot:
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If you like The Walkmen...
(I know there's a few fans of theirs on here)
You may like a band called Suckers, they seem to have a pretty similar sound I think (sometimes to the point where it sounds as though they're ripping them off), not least on the track 'Out On The Water', which is also a suspiciously similar title to The Walkmen's song 'On The Water'.
So, yeah, you may like them or possibly hate them if you think they're ripping them off. Either way they're worth checking out - there are about 6 songs by Suckers on Hypem, which you can find from this link: http://hypem.com/#/search/suckers/1/
Tell me what you think.
Having a listen now...
Liking it so far, dude.
In fact it's pretty fucking good, so far.
I may have mentioned this already...
they opened for Menomena here about 2 weeks ago. I really liked them, a lot really. Had no idea who they were. The drummer plays while standing, like the drummer from Jellyfish, way fun to watch, oh and he sings too. They busted out this really weird song where the lead guy sings in this ridiculous falsetto, the song was strangely groovy.
Here it is.
I like this one too.
Never mind about the drummer,
that was the drummer from The Soft Pack, who played right after Suckers, they were extremely bland live, but he played standing, which was the only thing good about them.
Yeah, sweet, like both of those tracks
See what you mean about the crazy falsetto, but it works...
Also, keep meaning to get my shit together and get hold of the Menomena album - thanks for the reminder.
Awesome, never thought that one of my old 0-reply threads would get resurrected :)
I got Suckers' album since creating this thread and it's a really good listen. Turned out not to be as Walkmen-esque as I initially thought: much more chatoic and less brooding, but still a good listen.
'Black Sheep' is a cracking song and well worth a listen.
Methinks I copped an EP of theirs last year
So they have a full length? Fair's fair. I'll go buy it. Cheers for the tip.
Got the EP myself after I heard the album.
I actually prefer the EP overall, I think. It's less expansive, naturally and perhaps a bit more deriviative (I'm thinking of the blatant Bowie influence in 'Beach Queen'), but there's not a dull moment across all four tracks. They're not quite as consistent on the full length, Wild Smile.


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Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Temisan Omatseye, has said that Nigeria is the immediate future destination for African Maritime activities.
Omatseye who stated this while speaking at the Investment Business forum organised by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) to commemorate Nigeria's fifty years of independence, said the country has infinite possibilities for economic opportunities in the maritime sector.
In his paper titled: Nigeria as an African Trade Hub, the NIMASA D-G highlighted the vast opportunities in the Nigerian maritime sector to include ship building and ship repairs, human capacity development, ship breaking and recycle facilities amongst others.
He advised the potential investors who converged on Abuja from various Commonwealth countries across the world to explore available windows based on public_ private, private_private and government-government partnerships.
While noting that Nigeria accounts for over 65% of the total maritime trade traffic in volume and value within the West and Central African sub_region, Mr. Omatseye said that his administration is committed to transforming Nigeria into a regional maritime centre and hub for maritime services.
A press statement signed by Ego Nwokocha, Deputy Director in charge of Public Relations of the apex maritime regulatory agency, noted that the NIMASA boss stressed the need to increase the participation of indigenous players in the Nigerian maritime sector, adding that steps have been taken to lay the foundation for the country to possess a competitive indigenous fleet with capacity to effectively carry at least 50 per cent of Nigeria's international seaborne trade including crude oil and gas export.
"Our immediate priority is to develop those aspects of Nigeria's maritime and shipping industry that are critical to support and facilitate trade and economic development in the country."
He informed the potential stakeholders that NIMASA has provided comprehensive incentives ranging from Fiscal to administrative measures such as tax breaks, concessionary tariff rates, etc.
He declared the agency's preparedness to partner the private sector to develop a model that will exploit the natural habitat of the Niger-Delta region of the country to build an integrated maritime economy in the region.
In his words, "This concept, when fully implemented, will lead to massive development of maritime and shipping infrastructure such as specialized deep sea port, shipbuilding yards, training institutions, and cluster services amongst others. This will surely provide huge employment opportunities to absorb restive youths in the region".
Mr. Omatseye, who declared that a reasonable ship building and ship repair capacity, is required to facilitate real implementation of the Cabotage policy in Nigeria advised investors to take advantage of the yet to be fully developed maritime and shipping sector in Nigeria.


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The Renfrew Rotary Club 'Bacon and Egg Scramble' Golf Tournament was a great success. The weather
co-operated, there was a full contingent of teams and the Renfrew Golf Club once again were excellent hosts
serving both breakfast and lunch.
The tournaments winner were the 'Mountain Men'.
One of Janet Springers beautiful Glass work being auctioned.


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Honors English Language Arts
On-Line for the 2018-2019 School Year
Teacher: Jody Best
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
NOTE: This class is designed as preparation for AP classes and will be designated as an honors class.
Tuition: $625 before July 1; $650 beginning July 1
To apply: Please complete the application below.
Please feel free to email me your questions at any time.
Suggested Grade Levels:
This course is open to 8th, 9th and 10th -grade students. Some 11th-grade students may also find this class to be a good fit.
Length of course:
This course begins Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 and extends through May 10, 2019.
There is a half-week break at Thanksgiving, a two-week break in December, an Easter break, and a one-week spring break.
Course Description:
Hang on. It's going to be an adventure. We'll explore all the big, fat rules and all the delicate and demanding nuances that encompass the enchanted land of language arts.
It's gonna be fun. ("Outside of a book, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." –Groucho Marx)
It's gonna be challenging. ("We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language." –Arne Tiselius )
It's gonna be good. ("Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." –Adrienne Rich. )
English Language Arts/Honors is a rigorous and engaging class that is designed to encourage creative and critical reading, writing and thinking. The class will prepare students for success in future AP classes as well as provide strategies and practice that are useful for upper-level high school classes, college classes or tests such as the PSAT and SAT. In addition to reading and writing assignments, students will be encouraged to develop skills such as time management, organization, note-taking, and legible handwriting. These basic proficiencies are crucial for AP and academic success. (Did you know that the SAT and AP tests have sections requiring hand-written essays? This class will help students be prepared!)
A small class size ensures that students stay engaged and receive meaningful feedback. This class will require that students be receptive to respectful critique which will be offered in a positive way that reinforces the value of persistence and hard work. Students will learn how to develop drafts, make revisions, and present a polished finished product.
I think one of the most important aspects of language is recognizing its power. I will emphasize to students that their writing reflects on them. I will teach students to begin to recognize how language can be used and manipulated...with results that can be funny, poignant, disturbing. There will be much to discuss! Students can count on enthusiasm and attention! Parents can count on careful and in-depth evaluations and feedback...plus, I will share ideas and tips that might be helpful in navigating high school homeschooling.
Our study of language arts will encompass novels, plays, non-fiction texts, and poetry. Vocabulary and grammar will be integrated into the curriculum in order to develop the strong foundation needed to become a confident writer. Students will learn how to develop a thesis and support an argument with textual evidence. Lessons will incorporate real-world applications, and students may participate in contests such as the Scholastic Writing Awards. I will provide opportunities for students to develop and submit work for publication or recognition--excellent for resumes and for personal satisfaction. Students will complete a variety of writing samples for their portfolios.
Honors English Language Arts will live up to its name. We will take a Renaissance approach to the study of English and integrate art, science, and history into our lessons. For example, lessons will be developed from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Nobelprize.org, Games for Change, and a wide variety of other cross-curricular sources. Students will have hands-on projects, and I will encourge intellectual curiosity.
Required Texts:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Inferno by Dante Alighieri (John Ciardi translation)
MLA Handbook 8th Edition
I will provide a selection of short stories, poems, and essays. These will include works by Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe, Martin Luther King, William Blake, Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll, Billy Collins and others.
Students should be prepared to spend a minimum of an hour each day on reading and writing assignments. Assignments will include the following:
-independent book projects
-group work
-First Friday creative educational games
-films (in conjunction with reading assignments)
-research project or paper
-tests and quizzes
Tech needs:
Students must have full web and printer access and must be able to view and create PDF files. The class is hosted on a password-protected site designed by Pa Homeschoolers. Each student will need full Internet and printer access. Students will also need to use a word-processing application such as Microsoft Word as well as Google Docs. I will provide instructions about how to set up and submit papers. Students will need to be able to create and view PDF files and may need to utilize Skype or Google Hangouts for book club discussions or group projects. (I am not a "techie" teacher, and I will strive to make all online interactions comfortable for all parties involved. I appreciate your patience as we navigate the process together.)
Class Structure:
This course is asynchronous, which means that it is structured but flexible. There is no specific time requirement to be on-site. Daily interaction is expected with me and with classmates on the class discussion board. With this flexibility comes a responsibility to complete all assignments and meet all deadlines. Every Sunday, students will receive an overview of concepts, assignments, and deadlines. Assignments will usually be due on Wednesdays or Fridays. Parents also receive the weekly updates. Extensions to deadlines will be granted with advance notice or in the case of illness or emergencies. Students will interact with one another both in online discussion forums and in group projects such as online book club meetings. I am readily available to parents and students via telephone, email, or skype.
About the Instructor:
I am delighted to be joining the roster of PA Homeschooler teachers this year. I love teaching, and I am committed to challenging my students and caring for them as individuals. I know the importance of establishing standards and maintaining a sense of humor. I taught high school English in a rural public school prior to a 14-year homeschooling journey with my two daughters—both recent high school graduates who took many PA Homeschooler AP classes. I attended Penn State University, Florida Atlantic University, and Saint Vincent's College, and I have written for newspapers and other publications. Now, I am the director of a non-profit community arts organization, an avid reader and writer, and an advocate and teacher of arts and literacy.
Instructor Recommendations / Endorsements
I have known Jody as a teacher and friend for over twenty-five years and can attest without reservation to both her love for learning and for children of all ages. Jody was my high school English teacher, and what I remember the most about that time and relationship was being both simultaneously encouraged and challenged - to think a little bigger, to go beyond "good enough". Since then, I have known Jody as a friend, and never come away from a visit without a book recommendation, a good story to ponder, or some other inspiration to live a more creative and joyful life. My husband and I have enjoyed being a small part of the Best family's homeschooling experience. Watching her daughters grow and learn, learning ourselves from visits and conversations, they have shown us what is possible and are a guiding influence as we look forward to homeschooling our own children. Jody is a gifted educator, and I am confident that her students and their parents will find her class to be rich and rewarding.
Sara Wetzel, former student and parent of two young daughters
The first story I heard about Jody Best was how she had her daughters lie on the ground to paint the underside of their picnic table as they studied Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. This creative approach to education is central to who Jody is, and I can honestly say that she is one of the most natural teachers I have ever encountered. I know that our family's homeschooling experiences are better in so many ways from the knowledge and inspiration we have received from Jody for the past eight years. From organizing community-wide art classes to teaching local youth the fundamentals of Shakespeare as the director of the community theatre, Jody embraces learning and instruction with boundless creativity, enviable energy, and a sincere interest in each of the young people she works with. She is a master at taking advantage of teachable moments to help students thrive and learn in an enjoyable and nurturing environment. Without a doubt, the most compelling evidence of her ability as a teacher is her two daughters, homeschooled for their entire K-12 programs. They are exemplars of what is possible through homeschooling, and their success owes much to Jody's kind and thoughtful guidance. I am confident that students and families who embark on a learning adventure with Jody will gain much from the experience, and have a wonderful time along the journey.
Annelise Carleton-Hug, homeschooling parent
Jody Best is someone you can count on to teach Honors English Language Arts. There is no question in my mind, the class will be taught with high standards and preparation. I have known Jody for 15 years as a neighbor, director of a nonprofit community arts organization and as a homeschooling mom. She is a PA certified teacher with experience, commitment, and enthusiasm. Just reading her course description makes me wish she had been doing this when I was homeschooling our son.
Mona Rishel-Shissler, former homeschooling parent
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The city has holiday safety tips up on their website , including tips on Christmas tree safety, holiday decoration safety and a guide to picking a Christmas tree.
Have you run across any holiday hazards this year or in years past? Share your stories so that others don't experience the same holiday trauma!


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Blending his Latin roots with provocative electronic house/techno and deep groovy tech sounds, Herman Saiz creates a seductive atmosphere that makes people get up and into the rhythm of his undeniably infectious flavour of music. As a Producer, his musical creations are cosmic compositions of trip space and celestial sounds. His tracks aim to bring a higher consciousness and vibration to the dance floor through ancient and alien messages, intergalactic sounds and subtle spiritual healing.
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Transforming A Bland Condo Into An HGTV Feature In Gallery Place/Penn Quarter
We came across a mention (courtesy of creative dc's blog) of local Washington DC artist, Sean Hennessey, who transformed a Mather Studios condo into a work of art! The company is called Scenic Artisans LLC.
His work of art was subsequently featured on HGTV!
Here is the info:
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From a letter to The Guardian by Jessica Ormerod:
The Guardian's revelations of the extent of corporate influence on the housing policies of government and their implementation by local authorities of all political persuasions is shocking, but not unexpected. The displacement of council tenants and leaseholders in areas of high land value in favour of the development of their old homes into homes for profit is the same transfer of provision being carried out across all sectors of public service, including the NHS.
Adequate access to decent housing is a growing problem for all income groups, leading to overcrowding and stress as people struggle to meet high housing costs. These policies, which focus relentlessly on 'economic value', are the drivers of greater inequality which is having a dangerously adverse effect on the nation's health.
We are particularly concerned for the future of the children in families who are being moved out of their communities with increasing frequency, fragmenting their education, friendships and family connections. These are well researched indices of poor outcomes in both health and educational attainment. We are seeing that the real effect of privatisation, as demonstrated so clearly in these revelations, is to reduce the availability of services to the public in the name of profitability. That goes for genuinely affordable housing, NHS services, social services and all other public sector provision. Businesses need to flourish, but not at the expense of the public health. We have been badly let down by successive governments who fail to grasp this basic point.


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(You know, I never got to start the campaign with the one line I wanted to use… "Once upon a time…")
"The heroes were tired, and they were hurt. Their injures had taken a grave toll on them, and all they wanted to was rest. They would not be given such a luxury; there was too much at stake. The world watched with piercing eyes."
"Four days later, it is said, the party finally arrived at Brindol. But poor Siddartha had been inflicted with the worst and the most atrocious diseases; the terrible status of undeath. Yet it was not a lifestyle he abhorred; no; in his rush to fix one mistake for another, he had gladly allowed the curse of undeath upon him.
Brindol was a city, similar to any other in Avalon. However, it held Hope, and it was a symbol for the Vale to rally behind. Long before the heroes had set foot withing sight of Bridol did they know that this was where the final battle would be fought.
But the final battle was not today; after fucking around in Brindol and meeting the Captain of the Guard, Lars Ulverth, Siddartha finally revelaed his ghoulish nature, feasting on the bodies of the fallen.
An elven woman had the happenstance to witness him; she was not granted the liberty to witness anything else.
(The next two pages seem to be stuck together with either blood or strawberry jam and are unreadable.)
"...did not falter or waver in their cause; despite the greed, bloodthirst, and madness that ran rife in the group, Boots McCabe and the rest of the party refused to falter, sending the gold along with their hopes and dreams."
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« Mountain Biking in the Sierra Madre through the Pueblos Mancomunados
Written on: Thursday May 1st, 2008
A journal entry from: North America in our Camper Van!
Michelle and I drove back into Oaxaca to get the lab tests performed that Dr. Fernando had requested. I had been feeling fine and the blood in my stool had disappeared and so we felt confident that I would get a clean bill of health and would be on our way. We had to be in Villahermosa in less than three days to pick up Michelle?s mother, and that was more that 15 hours away. We found the lab, waited around a couple of hours for the results and then headed back to the Clinic to see Dr. Fernando. To our surprise, the doctor was not happy with the results. ?Have you lost any weight recently??, he asked. Michelle and I both responded no, although my brother had commented that I was looking thin. I stepped on the scale and was shocked to learn that I was 7 kilos (almost 17 lbs) lighter. ?On second thought, you do look really skinny?, Michelle commented. The doctor then indicated that he wanted to hospitalize Rob. Needless to say, trying to understand the Spanish medical terms, the general confusion regarding what was going on and then dealing with our travel insurance agency made the next day and a half a little stressful. When I was not worrying about what medical condition I might have I was trying to come up with a way that I could tell this story on our blog without going into some of the bodily details. The good news is, I came up with a great analogy to tell the story? oh ya, and I am going to be okay!
Michelle and I left the hospital with instructions to return by 6 pm that evening so that they could monitor me and prepare me for the examination. Luckily we had found a spot near the hospital that we could ?borrow? wireless internet with our laptop and we skyped the insurance company. Compared to the ease of dealing with them last week, we suddenly hit a brick wall. ?There?s a chance the procedure won?t be covered?, they told us as they requested that we send them a report from the doctor and complete a Medical Release form. We spent the rest of the day tracking down the contact information for the last three doctors that Rob had seen in Canada (required for the Release Form), then we had to find an internet place to print and sign the form, then we headed back to the clinic to get a doctors report and then back to the internet place to fax?. it was a very hectic day. We then decided that this was too important to wait around for the insurance company to make up their mind and made it back to the hospital at 6:05 pm.
I was checked into my hospital room, threw on the smock and made myself comfortable. This one did not tie up properly in the back so all the Mexican nurses had a great view of my tushe!
Here is where my brilliant analogy begins. I?ve chosen none other than to use vocabulary from my past career, in the Oil and Gas Industry. First off, the supply pipeline was shut off and I was not allowed to eat anything for nearly 24 hours. From 6:30 to 10:30 pm I had to take 4 litres of pipeline cleaning solution, or perform some ?hot oiling?. The only other time that I have drank 4 litres of fluid in 4 hours was at Oktoberfest; that was easy. Beer does not taste like salty sweet lime juice with the consistency of saliva. It was hard and disgusting (Michelle has some disturbing video footage), but I got ?er done.
The cleaning fluid did not go to deep well injection until about 11 pm. I think that the fourth litre of fluid was jealous of the first because once the first got out it all wanted to come at the same time. After about 1 in the morning I got some sleep and dreamt sweet permaculture dreams. Michelle slept on the hospital bench in my room.
In the morning I was awoken by the nurse who took my temperature, blood pressure and weight. It turns out that my friends are right, I really am full of shit as I had lost another 2 kilos. The nurse told me that I would be having my pipeline logged around noon and to not drink any water or eat any food. Seeing as how I could not sleep anymore I started crafting this blog in my head. Michelle spent the morning running between the internet café and the hospital trying to resolve issues with the insurance company. The insurance company now had a letter from our doctor (in Spanish) copies of all the lab results, the medical release form but they now wanted to speak directly to the doctor. He was gone for much of the morning and so this was difficult to arrange; nevermind the language barrier. She also had to make new arrangements with her mother who was due to arrive in Villahermosa, 15 hours away, tomorrow. We had originally planned on picking her up at the airport but now would likely not make it on time.
Mid-morning an IV was painfully inserted into my arm. We were starting to get worried that the insurance company was procrastinating so that the procedure would occur before receiving permission. Under that scenario we knew they had an ?out-clause? to not cover the costs. When the doctor arrived for the examination Michelle first dragged him away to make the phone call to the insurance company. It turned out that they didn?t need to talk to Dr. Fernando, and after answering a few more questions, their doctor gave the okay to Michelle to proceed. Michelle later checked her email and found an email from them explaining this, but was rather frustrated and embarrassed after dragging the doctor away for no reason.
I was then transported down to the line logging room. Into my IV bag they injected a wonderful serum and I felt fantastic. As usual my ass was completely barren and when two cute Mexican nurses showed up to help with the inspection, instead of blushing I tried to make a joke in broken Spanish. I told them that my mother-in-law was flying in tomorrow and that they needed to ?Undele, Undele? (Hurry up). They laughed a lot but I think it was at the silly ass gown and hiking boots that I had on. Before I knew it I began sweet dreams and the line logging was underway. I awoke back in my room with a Depends diaper on with Michelle besides me.
?Rob, the doctors want to operate, tonight?!
?Ya, well, there are some defects in your pipeline?
The doctor had a free time slot at 10 pm this evening and he was willing to pencil me in, but first he wanted to bring in a Specialist Pipeline Inspector to review the results. In the meantime, Michelle headed back to the internet café (again) to do some research on pipeline defects and, of course, call the insurance company.
She returned an hour later with a pile of information. Before the Pipeline Inspector arrived we had pretty much decided that considering Rob was not in any pain, and considering that there seemed to be a plethora of natural ways to deal with this type of internal flaw, we would much rather pursue this again back in Canada. In addition, the insurance company had indicated that the surgery would not be covered.
And so, after discussing this over with the Specialist, I was discharged from the hospital at 6 pm. Everything is going to be okay, I feel great and I will deal with the issue when I return home. In the meantime I have increased my fiber intake tenfold, and Michelle?s mother had time to stop at a homeopathic store in Calgary before getting on the plane.
Having gone through this ordeal, Michelle and I appreciate even more now our health system in Canada. Some days it feels that there is a lot to complain about, but we cannot imagine living in a country with no health safety net and where we were required to deal with an insurance company for every medical requirement. When I broke my knee several years back, we did not even have to consider the possibility that the medical costs would not be covered. The additional stress and concern that we had to deal with here in Mexico because of insurance concerns was immense; nevermind that we have the financial resources to pay, if necessary. Although the $1700 hospital bill was not cheap for our insurance company this bill could have been an order of magnitude higher had this happened in the US. And so, we?ve decided that if it comes to choosing between (i) fast, privatized but expensive with uncertainty regarding coverage or (ii) long wait times for non-urgent conditions but 100% coverage, we would chose definitely chose the latter and are grateful for the existing Canadian system.
I know it?s already quite long but there?s a tad more story to end this last day. Michelle and I finally left the hospital just past 6 pm, exhausted, hungry and headed to the nearby campground. Annette was arriving tomorrow evening, and we decided that we would try and make it to Villahermosa in one long day of driving tomorrow. As we headed out, the van radiator indicator light started flashing. ?Stupid light? I said to Michelle, ?Either there is no fluid in the tank or Wilson is just messing with us?. We both agreed that it must be a false alarm. However, when we stopped to grab a few groceries I heard a hissing sound and saw that our van was bleeding out coolant from underneath. ?Ah Shit! What a day!?. One of the veg oil coolant hoses was rubbing on the axle and resulted in a pinhole leak. It seems that Wilson was feeling a little sympathy pain. I completed the surgery on the side of the road, solving the leak but filling our system with even more air. We made it to the campground and then had to spend another hour using our sketchy hose/jug system to bleed the system of air (again) and preparing for the long journey tomorrow up into the Sierra Madre Mountains and down the other side towards the East coast of Mexico.
From Gilles on May 14th, 2008
You know, your analogy could work the other way too.. next time you're trying to explain pipelines to someone, try giving an example about proctologists!


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Greenville, S.C. – The Florida State women's tennis team began their 2017 season Friday at the Debbie Southern Fall Classic hosted by Furman.
"We were very happy to see how our girls competed today," said assistant coach Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios. "The first day of competition and first matches are always tough and the girls did a fantastic job."
The duo of sophomore Andrea Garcia and freshman Petra Hule fell in their first doubles match 8-5, but came back to take down their second opponent of the day 8-1. The pair defeated Danielle Wolf and Andrea Ballinger of Ohio State.
"Petra and Andrea had a great win today against the Ohio State team of Danielle Wolf and Andrea Ballinger," said Sanchez-Canamares Rios. "They played at a high level of tennis and they performed extremely well. Same for Gabby (Goldin) and Lucie (Prochazkova). They defeated a Vanderbilt team playing very well on key moments and showed a lot of confidence, which is great because that's our goal during these tournaments."
Sophomore Gabrielle Goldin and freshman Lucie Prochazkova were defeated in a heartbreaker of a first match, 8-7(6), to Texas Longhorns Chelsea Crovettie and Katie Poluta. The freshman and sophomore duo were able to win their second match of the day as they took down Lauren Gish and Payton Robinette of Vanderbilt, 8-6.
"We were proud coaches today watching them competing," said Sanchez-Canamares Rios. "Our freshmen Lucie and Petra did incredible in their first matches wearing the garnet and gold. Lucie won a very competitive match in 3 sets while Petra showed her potential against a great Tennessee player."
Sophomore Ariana Rahmanparast and partner sophomore Nandini Das fell to their opponents in both of their doubles matches. They fell 8-2 to Emily Smith and Fermanda Contreras of Vanderbilt and 8-6 to Katty Weymouth and Danni Vines of Furman.
In singles play, Das fell in the first set 6-3 to Tea Jandric of Ole Miss. However, she came back in the second set to win 6-3, but fell in the final set 6-0. Prochazkova defeated Aryn Greene of Furman in her first collegiate singles match, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. Hule was not as fortunate as her fellow freshman, as she lost in a three setter to Johanna Silva of Texas, 6-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Garcia was able to take her match to three sets after she fell behind 7-5 to Emily Smith of Vanderbilt. Garcia won the second set 6-4 to force the fourth, three set match of the day for the Seminoles, but could not take the third as she lost it 6-3.
"Andrea and Nandini lost in 3 sets in their matches," said Sanchez-Canamares Rios. "However, the learning and confidence they got from today will help them for the next days."
Rahmanparast and Goldin finished off singles play for the garnet and gold with two wins. Rahmanparast took down Andrea Ballinger of Ohio State in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6(6), while Goldin defeated Courtney Meredith of Wake Forest 7-5, 6-3.
"It was a joy to watch (Gabby) Goldin compete and play," said Sanchez-Canamares Rios. "Her passion and commitment is incredible and we could not be happier for her win today."
Play will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday with one round of doubles followed by two rounds of singles immediately after.
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The Wilcox-Ross Award was established in 2017 to inspire Longwood students to engage in substantial projects that will help Earth's environment. The $1,000 award will be awarded each spring to the best submitted project as determined by a panel of judges. The judges reserve the right to not make the award if no projects are deemed to have met the criteria shown below.
The project should have a substantial direct or potential impact on the Earth's environment. This intentionally broad guideline allows students from all disciplines at Longwood to be eligible for the award. Some possible examples: the invention of a device that would help bring low-cost alternative energy to disadvantaged populations; a feasible economic plan that would help Caribbean nations move toward wind and solar for electricity generation instead of diesel-fueled generators; a community-service project that significantly changes behaviors in a local community in a way that benefits the environment. There are many other possibilities.
The project should be the result of a considerable effort over an extended period of time. At the time of submission, the project should be at some logical stage of completion though it may not have reached the endpoint. For example, a student may have proved the viability of a device to produce low-cost wind energy but has not yet reached the point of finding a way of mass producing such a device.


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Pakistan Clothes for Kids
Fashion is not the thing which should be followed by the people of all different age groups. We cannot ignore kids and their beautiful outfits if we talk about the new trends and styles of costumes. To add fashion and style in the innocence and cuteness of kids today we are here with a latest collection of traditional Pakistani dresses for kids. Traditional Pakistani dresses includes outfits in different styles like shalwar kameez, kurta shalwar, choori pajama and long shirt for kids, anarkali or umbrella frocks for kids and beautiful traditional lehnga and sharara for kids especially for the occasion of wedding of near and dear ones.
Sometimes moms feel difficulty in choosing the outfits for their kids for different occasions like weddings, eid, marriage etc. So we are here today to help you out you can choose any type of wedding outfit according to the choice of your child and you can order us online for buying these beautiful costumes of kids. All the dresses for kids are designed in traditional Pakistani styles and the color combinations are very stunning which will definitely attract your kids as well as the people around. Style and designs are latest and the quality of work and fabric is also excellent. Just send us the link of the image for price and dress details we will inbox you all the prices. Hope you will appreciate this beautiful collection of traditional Pakistani dresses for kids.
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Oneal Ron Morris, a transgendered Florida woman, was arrested on Friday for allegedly practicing medicine without a license. Morris is accused of injecting a woman's buttocks with a concoction of cement, 'Fix a Flat' tire sealant, mineral oil, and super glue. The patient suffered complications from the procedure, and was later hospitalized allegedly for pneumonia and MRSA. Unfortunately this incident is not the first of its kind, and many women across the world are seeking out cosmetic surgery with hopes to increase the size of their derriere.
Earlier this year a 20-year-old woman and her friends traveled to Philadelphia from London, England to receive a similar procedure that police believed they arranged over the Internet. After experiencing chest pains and trouble with her breathing, the young woman died after being rushed to an area hospital.
The obsession with butts, especially those belonging to women of color, has been going on for quite sometime. Over the past decade, many have blamed the increase of this phenomenon with hip hop culture. However, the root of this fascination goes back as far as slavery.
Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman (also known as the Hottentot Venus) a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa was enslaved by Dutch Farmers near Capetown. The brother of her slave owner sent her to England to be paraded in a circus exhibition. Baartman was forced to show off what was considered unusual body features (a large buttocks and elongated labia). She was later sold to a French animal trainer to continue performing in shows, and also to be the subject in several scientific paintings. After her death in 1815, Baartman's brain and genitals were put on display next to a mold of her body in a Paris museum until 1974. France released her remains in August 2002, so they could be buried near her homeland 200 years after she was born.
Nine years after Baartman's body was laid to rest, we continue to see the bodies of women being objectified. Music videos and celebrity magazines fawn over big butts, and we see many of these messages being passed onto women. The hypersexualization of women's bodies has forced women to challenge their body image, confront society's assumed ownership of their bodies, and even seek out potentially lethal means in order to fit 'the prototype.'
A few celebrities that have experienced media fascination with their hind-parts.
Latoya Peterson spoke about her experience confronting body politics as a black woman in a blog post for Racialicious. Peterson writes:
"In the quest to develop a healthy sense of sexuality, we are prone to societal input and norms as a way from which to understand our behaviors. So while I may personally celebrate my curves, thanks to music videos and centuries of dehumanization, my body is often seen as the property of others. While many people voice appreciation for my body and how it is shaped, both men and women often feel as though the simple presence of my ass allows for them to take whatever action they see fit."
We have a serious problem when people are seeking medical procedures performed outside the care of licensed medical professionals. The issue of body image amongst women (and men) has always been a challenging conversation, but with the increased cases of death and illness surrounding this particular procedure it is time for us to tackle cosmetic surgery head on. I am in support of a woman's decision to choose, but with that choice should come education–specifically about risks.
One look at history and you will be able to see that people of color have been oversexualized. The bodies of women of color, in particular, have been erotized and viewed as forbidden property. By glorifying these women because of their physical features alone, society bases their value and significance in those assets. Young women looking for similar social approval will find ways to meet those standards, even if it means risking their health. I believe that it is important for media and communities to promote positive, healthy body images. We should celebrate the diversity of women, especially women of color. We should work to teach women how to find the value in themselves, and not in the acceptance given to them by others.
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How do you believe the mainstream media is impacting women's decisions to seek out cosmetic surgery? What do you believe the impact of cosmetic surgery is having on the self-esteem of women? What needs to be done in order to educate and promote positive self-image messages to women?


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Nice! THE SLAYER!
I am REALLY looking forward to checking this lesser-known slasher flick out. I haven't had the chance to see it yet, but it has come highly recommended to me from quite a few of my most-trusted horror flick confidants.
That said, I don't know much about the film and or if it is a classic as they say, but I can tell you that Arrow Video is going to be pulling out all the stops and rolling out a jam-packed new 4K transfer!
THE SLAYER rundown via Arrow Video:
One of the most sought-after titles for slasher fans everywhere, The Slayer finally rises from the ashes of obscurity in a brand new 4K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video.
Previously only available on home video in truncated or full screen versions, The Slayer – whose nightmares-seeping-into-reality theme predates a certain Wes Craven classic by several years – comes lovingly restored from the original negative in a stunning transfer that will be a revelation to fans both old and new.
THE SLAYER Special Features:
• Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
• Original Uncompressed Mono Audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new interviews with cast and crew
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring new liner notes by writer Lee Gambin
THE SLAYER synopsis:
Two young couples set off to a secluded island for what promises to be a restful retreat. But the peace is short-lived: as a storm batters the island, troubled artist Kay begins to sense that a malevolent presence is here with them, stalking them at every turn. Is she losing her mind, or are her childhood nightmares of a demonic assailant coming to terrifying life?
THE SLAYER is set to hit both the US and the UK on Blu-ray & DVD August 21st & 22nd.
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We're excited to introduce our new Project kit: the Dolled-Up Birthday Kit! which includes the following:
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**Adhesive and acrylic block not included
That's all there is to it! Everything you need to make and mail six cards except the postage stamp! This is great when you don't have much time or perhaps you are an inexperience stamper... it's all there and cut for you! You can take care six of your girlfriend's birthdays with this kit!
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WHILE The Post's Hondo has had a terrible season handicapping baseball, his footnotes have been getting better and better. This is the man who first dubbed Monica Lewinsky "the portly pepperpot." But Hondo better watch his step, because Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is looking over his shoulder. The Coke-swigging judge the other day told a panel of writers that he never reads novels and peruses only one part of just one newspaper: the sports section of the New York Post.
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But that story is for another time. This one is Christmas-themed: At this time of year, it is a singular pleasure in our home to invest a couple of hours reveling in arguably Stewart's most iconic role: George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. (Plus I get to look…
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Alberic the Wise and Other JourneysBy: Norton Juster (author)Paperback
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DescriptionThree tales of wit and wonder from the children's classic author of `The Phantom Tollbooth'. Unlikely hero Alberic is on a seemingly endless search for wisdom. He learns much along the way but will his journey ever satisfy him? In the second tale, a boy is drawn to a mysterious painting of a princess far away who's left bereft of her kingdom. Can he be the knight in shining armour and win back her lands? And then meet the richest monarch in the world... and the poorest, as they discover the true worth of wealth. Fascinating fables from a classic storyteller overflowing with humour and wit.
About AuthorNorton Juster was born in New York State in 1929. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool on a Fulbright Scholarship. After spending three years in the US Navy, he practised architecture in New York and Massachusetts. His work includes The Dot and the Line, which was made into an animated film, and a musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth. He is married and lives in Massachusetts. He has one daughter and one granddaughter. The Phantom Tollbooth, his most famous book, won the George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Award.
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GST storm clouds on horizon as Tassie share cut
- GST cut will place further pressure on budget strained by big-spending Libs
- Hodgman is too weak to stand up for Canberra
- Turnbull must finally release Productivity Commission report
A downgrade of Tasmania's share of GST revenue is an alarming sign of what is to come with Liberal Governments in Tasmania and Canberra.
Shadow Treasurer Scott Bacon said the downgrade would place pressure on the state budget, already under stress after more than $2.7 billion in Liberal election promises.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delayed the release of the crucial report on GST from the Productivity Commission until after the state election – a tell-tale and alarming sign that there will be no good news for Tasmania.
"Yet again we have evidence that Will Hodgman is weak and does not stand up to Canberra," Mr Bacon said.
"Time and time again the Premier has shown he will not stand up for Tasmania's fair share from Canberra.
"Today's news is a blow to the state's finances in the wake of $2.7 billion in irresponsible promises from a Liberal party desperate to win the March election.
"The Liberals' mismanagement of the state's purse strings will be put under further pressure and Treasurer Peter Gutwein needs to explain how this latest hit will affect the state.
"It is an alarming sign that Tasmania's GST share is slipping with the Productivity Commission report into GST still to come."
Mr Bacon called on Malcolm Turnbull to finally reveal the long-awaited Productivity Commission report.
"Any move away from the current distribution system will cost Tasmania's budget tens of millions of dollars," Mr Bacon said.