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|Francisco Goya- No hubo remedio [There was no help] (1799)
|(1857-1917) Interior of the Seville Cathedral - Jose Gallegos y Arnosa
|Eric Ravilious - Chalk Paths, 1935
|Kacho fugetsu - book cover
|He went forth into the dawn sleepless - Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871 – 1954)
|Jacques-Louis David, Study for the figure of Plato in the 'Death of Socrates' (1787)
|Madeline Mackay (Irish, b.1980) Egret her website
|'I was alone in a palace of leaves'- illustration for Harper's Monthly, Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1902.
|William Blake - The Last Judgement (1808)
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land." Blake


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Slight improve in December caps off a year of slower development, although journey employment ended the year at a document excessive of over 8.2 million jobs added. Download the Pupil & Youth Journey Digest. The first-of-its-form international examine to gauge the transformative energy of journey on college students and the travel industry. I travel so much and solely bring a keep on bag, my black leather purse (with a whole lot of pockets which is stuffed) and a laptop computer. I have lived in the panhandle of Florida for 2 years now, the Fort Walton Seashore, Destin, Okaloosa Island area. I'll proceed to enjoy my travels throughout the state. Thanks for sharing. Good lens. Merry Christmas.
I have been to Huntington Seashore. The pier was good. I loved strolling down it within the night and watching the local folks fish. It's pretty from a distance. I think I noticed a picture of it on this lens. When my cat's in the automotive, she really prefers sitting on top of the provider so she can be at eye degree with the windows and look out. Nonetheless, tunnels with flashing lights freak her out. Joyful travels. If you want to avoid having to deal with the ones which are causing an unbalanced load and objects you must have brought with you but didn't, comply with the rules on this article, and you will do OKAY.
Platinum Card® Members get 5x Membership Rewards® factors on flights at Amex Travel. Phrases apply. Wow. Nice lens. Good, concise recap of what a traveler could anticipate. I am positive many people will find this data very helpful. I have been watching Christian Leblanc's movies on YouTube about his intensive travels across the Philippines. I can not wait to ditch this New York winter and head out with my girlfriend and friends to see these beaches you so fastidiously detailed right here. Great article. As a Filipino American, my mother and father by no means told me about the beauty we left behind to come back right here to the US. Possibly someday I will purchase a trip dwelling on one of many islands.
Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte is often referred to as the Boracay of the North due to its advantageous white sands, numerous water actions (for many who are staying at private resorts) and of course crystal blue waters. Nevertheless, not like Boracay, it's a easy municipality. This is not the place to go for procuring or malls. In actual fact, there aren't even any ATM's so make sure that to carry cash with you while you go to the place. Its Blue Lagoon seashore is now changing into extra famous however not many tourists go there, yet.
They now supply night tours, which may be reserved on the Vatican Museums' web site. One advantage of this visa is that it'll final for 10 years. So, it's a must to go through this painful process solely as soon as every decade. Of course, consulates may grant visa for shorter validity, but it's not a typical factor. My favorite site is Corona Del Mar (seaside) subsequent door to Newport Seashore California. Beautiful! I would love to plan a highway trip! Overdoing it'll make you feel claustrophobic and uncomfortable and can trigger you to spend nearly all of your time moving things round and/or searching for them.


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We have a natural craving for sugar from the day we are born. The average sugar consumed by a person is 22 teaspoons of sugar a day, but the recommended serving of sugar is meant to be 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men. The major problem that usually occurs is not paying attention to the sugar content in the various foods we eat throughout the entire day. There are ample of easy ways to keep those cravings at a minimal.
Indulge a Little
You can indulge yourself in a sugary treat once in a while. Allow yourself to consume sugar in a limited quantity such as a cookie or small candy bar. By doing this you are not denying your body's craving but by providing it a little, you are setting yourself for over consuming it. Just try to keep the snack not more than 150 calories.
Make Your Snack Half Healthy
Combine your sugary treats with healthy ones. By combining it in such a mixture you are more likely to feel fuller. This allows you to indulge in your favorite sugary snack and also reap the benefits from a healthy snack. You may try snacks like apples and chocolate sauce or chocolate chips in a trail mix.
Chew Gum
Instead of reaching out for a candy bar or a piece of chocolate every time you crave for sugar, just have a piece of gum. This will help you to get away with your craving and still give you a taste of sugar. It is advisable to have a gum that is labeled as sugar-free.
Grab Your Favorite Fruit
Having fruit is a great way to curb your cravings. Fruits naturally contain sugar. Along with it your body will get the needed nutrients and fiber.
Exercise to Curb Cravings
Whenever you get the feeling of craving simply just get up and go for a walk. Exercise is not only keeps your body fit and fine, but also helps to hinder your food cravings. The change of scenery will help to divert your mind from the craving.
Regular Eating Schedule
By waiting too long between meals you are making yourself to overindulge when you get hungry. It is recommended to eat every 2 to 4 hours to maintain your blood sugar level. This will help to avoid sugary snacks consumed at last minute to fight hunger.
Drink Water
Water is very much essential part of our daily diet. Drinking water at regular intervals not only helps us to feel full and but also allows our body to function the correct way as it should. Water is a natural way to keep food cravings at a minimal.
Avoid Fat-Free Foods
Fat free foods may sound good for your health, but they actually compensate less fat for more sugar. Your body does need fat in your diet in order to keep you feeling full and help deter sugary cravings. It is good to go for foods that are naturally low in fat, rather than consuming labels that claim to be healthy as it lacks fat.
Read Labels
Most of the foods that we consume daily are high in sugar content, even if we don't expect it to be so or rather unaware of it. For instance, some vitamin waters and energy bars claiming to be less in sugar, contains way more sugar then it is actually recommended for one to consume. The labeled food whatever you eat should be low in sugar in order to meet the daily recommendations.
Avoid Artificial Sugar
There are multiple kinds of artificial sugar in the market that have 0 calories and 0 sugars content. However, by using artificial sugar, you are setting your body to over indulge for sweet. Your body will crave for "real" sugar if you use these artificial sugars and it will also increase the amount of sugar you use daily.


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Welcome to Art Dolls Only's Member SPOTLIGHT! ADO shares an article focusing on it's members on the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th and 30th of each month! (February's 30th installment will share on the 28th)
Today's member spotlight is Jordan Taylor of The Free Folk. Jordan is a student studying creative writing, and a librarian. She has always loved books and writing, but her other life-long love is art. Creating art dolls combines both loves.
Today's member spotlight is Jordan Taylor of The Free Folk. Jordan is a student studying creative writing, and a librarian. She has always loved books and writing, but her other life-long love is art. Creating art dolls combines both loves.
§ What kind of Art Dolls do you create? What is your primary medium?
All of my art dolls and their clothing are hand-stitched, and some have limbs jointed with buttons. I have a few patterns I work from, but usually modify them for every doll I create. I like experimenting with different ways to color my dolls' bodies and faces. Most often I use watercolors and artist's pencils, but I have recently been trying
painting my dolls' entire bodies with oil paint, and then carefully sanding them down smooth when they are dry.
How long have you been a doll maker? How did you get your start in doll making?
I have been a doll maker for most of my life, but have only been selling my dolls for about five years. My mom taught me how to sew when I was still very young, and I used to sew tiny delicate dresses for my favorite dolls. When I was older, I started creating sock dolls with yarn hair and simple faces. It wasn't until my grandfather
gave me a small soft sculpture elf art doll that I started researching cloth art dolls and decided to make my own.
H How has your practice change over time?
My first art dolls were all elves and fairies – I'm a fantasy nerd! They had simpler bodies than the dolls I create now, and were usually sewn into one static position. Now I create a much wider array of characters, and I enjoy creating dolls that are jointed or posable.
Do you have a favorite doll that you have made?
My favorite doll that I've made is probably still Madapple. He is a rather sweet Victorian Steampunk vampire who has an owl familiar named Luna. He now lives with a very special family in Ireland!
What are your favorite materials to create with?
I love creating with antique or vintage materials – linen from my grandmother's sewing cabinet, antique buttons, rusty skeleton keys… They have their own stories and history, which is what I'm striving to capture in my dolls' characters.
Where does your inspiration come from?
Most of my inspiration comes from my favorite stories. The tag-line I use for my work is "art dolls inspired by a love for literature". Even when I'm not creating well-known characters like Jane Eyre or Alice in Wonderland, my love of reading still finds a way to sneak in, like in my doll built around the theme of Shakespeare's love sonnets.
What does your work area look like?
Most often I work at the wooden desk which has been passed down through my mom's family. It has many layers of paint, but most recently I painted it a light blue color that I really love. When I have to spread out further, I work on my bedroom floor!
b What research do you do before you create?
Researching a new character I want to create is sometimes the most fun part of the entire process for me. If I'm planning a character from a book, I reread the book and research other artists' representations of the character before starting my own sketches. During my Alice in Wonderland project last summer, I read "Alice" three times, and found just about every artist who ever illustrated the book! Even though my dolls don't look much like any of the artists' illustrations, I can still look at them and see certain elements that were influenced by different people. If I'm creating a historical character, I also research the time period, especially fashion from the time. I'm that person who gets really excited about the stitching on clothing in historical museums!
What are you currently working on?
Right now I'm working on four "Green Angels", small dolls using natural elements and tea staining. They're going to have jointed limbs made from sticks, something that I have never tried before.
Where can our fans find you on line?
My shop on Etsy: www.thefreefolk.etsy.com
My Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/thefreefolk
My blog: www.thefreefolk.wordpress.com
My Flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/thefreefolk


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Understanding Sanitation & the Need for Proper Disposal of Waste
Sanitation is now steadily the most talked about subject in the country. With successive governments laying massive emphasis on making the country filth and dirt-free and crores of rupees being invested year after year into campaigning for the same, what is it that is still far from being achieved? Why are we as the world's second largest population still moving at a snail's pace? Is sanitation really important to us? Were we taught the real meaning of sanitation, or are we imparting the right education to our future generations at all? Somewhere it all stems from the fact that we over the generations have known so little about cleanliness and sanitation. Flush it, and the poo goes away. But do we really bother where it goes, as long as we can't see it or smell it? It is not just about not smelling or seeing excreta, it ought to be about safe disposal as well.
Over time, as a country we have become comfortable with filth. There is no general population outrage when they see a pile of garbage on the road, in shopping markets, or even around the places they live. People have become comfortable with dirt, garbage and even excreta floating in their water bodies, drains and cities. This situation has to change!
Excavations by archaeologists have proven that in the most ancient civilizations every household had a private toilet. But as time passed, and administration styles changed, so did societies. 500 AD to 1500 AD is considered as the era that took human hygiene to its lowest dipping point. Aristocratic households and forts across India used protrusions for defecation. Excreta was simply dumped here and there or into the rivers. Some parts of the Mughal Empire bear testimony to the primitive practice of covering human waste with earth. And then wherever public toilets were built, lack of maintenance rendered them unusable with people finally resorting to open defecation.
The caste system further aggravated the situation since cleaning came to be seen as a menial job, with the lower rung being given the responsibility of cleaning the mess and filth for the upper castes. And this thought still exists. As recent researches have pointed out, somewhere it is the mindset that needs overhauling. "Should I not be responsible for my own waste?" Why should it be someone else's job to clean my waste? This has to start somewhere, and where else but the schools? We don't remember being taught about right disposal of waste, or to even recognize that disposal is as important as using toilets. After all, undisposed excreta in the biosphere poses as much threat even if unseen. Effort now has to be made to teach future generations to understand that excreta flowing out through drains cannot just be dumped and needs to be treated.
Maybe this is one step ahead of all the efforts that the Government is making on spreading messages about building, using and maintaining toilets. One key aspect is however, missing….what about treatment? If we don't treat our waste, we might as well let it float and build up outside….by collecting it in toilets, and then dumping it or letting it seep out through overflowing tanks, doesn't solve our problems. We are too easy on ourselves and our administrators. We must demand of ourselves to pay attention to cleanliness; and demand of our governments to ensure that all human excreta is safely treated before it is allowed into the environment. Our rivers, forests, and living environment are at grave threat – and the threat is not from some external source – but coming out of our homes, offices, shops, drains! Sanitation is everyone's problem and by focusing on the end goal of treatment, we can add to the resource pool of safe water, and valuable nutrients that will enrich the environment for future generations.
– Neeti Sharma, Communications and Media Coordinator, Save the Children. With more than 14 years of experience in working with various broadcast mediums, Neeti made her shift to the Development sector 3 years ago and has worked with the Red Cross movement in humanitarian and disaster situations. She is a keen observer of the human psyche and also works at devising new innovative ways to help enthuse Behaviour Change. She is currently working the Stop Diarrhoea Initiative, a signature programme of the Organization that aims to reduce diarrhoeal incidence and prevalence in both urban and rural intervention areas.
- http://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/history-of-toilets
- http://riceinstitute.org/research/caste-purity-and-pollution-and-the-puzzle-of-open-defecation-in-india-evidence-from-a-novel-measure-in-a-nationally-representative-survey
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/manual-scavenging-continues/article8038311.ece


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The Precious Moments - Precious Girls Club giveaway is now closed for entries. I have chosen a winner via Random.org. I'll give the winner, Sheila, a few days to get back with me with an address. If she doesn't, another winner will be chosen. By the way, all entrants are winners of sorts. I'll be e-mailing each contestant with a code for the rainbow memberships shortly!
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There is a family in our church - the dad is actually a church planter and they are getting their own church this September. They are moving to Detroit Lakes and have a darling daughter. This would be great for her.
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text: Am I the only person on the planet that likes this movie. I just got hold of a second hand R1 copy on the Goodtimes label. OK it's not anamorphic, but I found the picture acceptable. I always found this offbeat entry to the series very creepy and more akin to sci-fi than horror. It really did remind me of Quatermass (not surprising considering carpenters regard for Nigel Kneale). Oh and i nearly forgot: "Eight more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween." "Eight more days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock." Repeat until insanity.


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Complete Trauma Cleaning offer a service for specialised cleaning of air ducting, air conditioning and ventilation systems which are vital to a business which relies on the safe and continuos use of the system for a hygienic, safe and cost effective way of working.
The 1992 Health & Safety at Work Act covers ventilation and air quality and is very specific in its requirements, as is the draft EU standard on Cleanliness of Ventilation Systems (prEN 15780). It is therefore imperative for all air supply and extraction systems to be monitored and serviced regularly to ensure maximum protection and optimum effectiveness, and to comply with the law.
Sick building syndrome not only affects the productivity of your staff but can also have a detrimental effect on their health - Cleanscene Trauma offer ventilation system / air conditioning cleaning service whereby using a range of specialised devices, we remove contamination from your ducts and disinfect where necessary during the air duct cleaning process, depending on the design and configuration of your system.
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By now, you've probably gathered that we get a kick out of tracking our progress and keeping all of you updated accordingly. Therefore it probably comes as no surprise that we're even more excited than usual to present today's #SiteVisit photo(s). How can that be, you ask? We put together a time-lapse collage that beautifully shows the strides we've made on our facade.
It's exciting to see the progression of where we've been to where we are today. Each week brings more changes and we'll continue to keep you up to speed.
Q: How many square feet is The Godfrey's façade, including windows?
A: 104,695 square feet which is the equivalent of 2.4 acres!


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CWA members will continue to stand up and fight, despite anti-union corporate and political groups who are intent on restricting the freedom of working people to stand together for respect and fairness in the workplace.
This case is about taking away the freedom of working people to come together, speak up for each other, and build a better life for themselves and their families.
AT&T Mobility workers negotiated precedent-setting contracts that roll back offshoring and outsourcing and set a new standard for wireless retail and call center jobs in America.
CWAers at Frontier Communications continue to mobilize while negotiations continue; NABET-CWA and NBC Universal bargainers have held two rounds of negotiations for a new master agreement.
There's a big difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, especially when it comes to the issues that matter to working families.
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CWA is in some tough fights.
The good news is that we're a union where members have each other's backs.
That's how we know we can take on greedy employers and the 1 percent, and win.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed "Leah's Law," endangering thousands of child welfare workers who are engaged in some of the most dangerous work in the state.
The bipartisan legislation was named for CWA Local 1038 member Leah Coleman who was stabbed more than 20 times by a deranged client in November 2014. The brutal attack, which nearly cost Leah her life, occurred just days after the Christie administration made the cost-cutting decision to pull all police officers out of New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) offices. Without security or metal detectors, the client walked into the building with a nine-inch kitchen knife in broad daylight. Thankfully, two CWA caseworkers were able to tackle and subdue the assailant, while three HPAE nurses treated Leah's wounds until the ambulance arrived.
Real wages for working people (adjusted for inflation) have stagnated over the past 40 years. As CWA members, we've done better than that, but like all working families, we're up against the greed of Wall Street and the 1 percent. It's the financialization of our economy, and it's bad for working families and bad for our communities.
Workers' wages and productivity used to rise together. Since 1973, the gains from worker productivity started going, mainly into the pockets of company CEOs and Wall Street investors.


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Latest News
WBBA launch the Wessex Youth Band(April 14, 2013)
On the 14th April 2013 the WBBA met in an initial meeting with interested parties to kick start the formation of a Wessex Youth Band. Steve Chislett, Chairman, explained that other Associations like Cornwall and Gloucester run very successful Youth Bands and he hoped that The Wessex would do the same. Having a Youth Band means our younger members have somewhere they can meet and make new friends and play in a Band of similar aged people. Perhaps in the future being able to run a Summer or Easter course and invite a Professional Conductor to take the Band and also to encourage and train young people to play musical instruments.
The initial get together of the Wessex Youth Band will be held on Sunday 14th July 2013 at Burgate School, Salisbury Road, Fordingbridge, Hamps. SP6 1EZ from 10.00 to 16.00
(the last hour being when parents can come in to hear the band perform).
Application forms : Steve Chislett, e-mail [email protected]


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Tessa Hadley is a gorgeous writer whose books are a multilayered pleasure...
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How do we come to be who we are sexually? How do we cope with the forces of desire? How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the anarchy of the erotic?
How do we come to be who we are sexually?
How do we cope with the forces of desire?
How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the anarchy of the erotic?
Daniel Bergner looks for answers in the stories of four people whose longings are very different from our own: a devoted husband burdened by an insatiable foot fetish, a clothing designer who finds ecstasy in the pain of others, a man smitten with his young stepdaughter, and an advertising director who casts traditionally beautiful models but who is attracted only to amputees. Bergner finds in their desires metaphors for the issues that confront us all and raises fascinating questions about the erotic differences between men and women and the nature of ecstasy itself: Are some people actually experiencing more ecstasy than the rest of us?
In speaking to experts in the fields of psychology and neurology, and by threading the personal stories of several modern-day Kinseys throughout his riveting case studies, Bergner has written a provocative, profoundly insightful, and brilliantly illuminating book about the most fundamental of human needs.
"Riveting….Powerful…as much about desire and whats normal as it is an exploration of why we are the way we are, whether we like it or not."
—New York Times Book Review
Subtitled "Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing," Daniel Bergners The Other Side of Desire is a literary exploration of science and sex that will appeal to readers of Mary Roach and Natalie Angier. A cross between "a top-rated HBO series [with] provocatively graphic sex, humorous dialogue, and moral ambiguity," (New York Times) and a profound, deeply humanizing study of sexuality, The Other Side of Desire has been called, "a foray into extreme passion, in quest of the human soul" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and its author, Bergner, "a keen storyteller but above all a humane one" (Salon.com).


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Printing wedding invitations can be pricey, but having a good plan of which invitation you would like can make it value for money. Create your printing template, understand which style you are looking for. Professional printing of wedding invitations can save you heartache, and create a wonderful memory.
Create beautiful wedding invitations by printing a design which reflects your uniqueness and style, a wedding invitation is a long lasting memory and introduces your wedding style to the invitees.
Remember: Coordinate the wedding invitations with the thank-you notes, and the save-the-date cards
Design and print the invitations early and send out a "save the date". Wedding invitations need to be sent out at least 3 months before the date as far as possible
Ensure there is a RSVP date in the invitation
What size is your invitation and how does the information you need to add fit into the space provided
Handing out invitaions is cheaper than posting
Add invitations, envelopes and cards into the wedding budget
Metallic ink is more expensiv, but shows more elegance
Grammar- be careful of the common grammar errors such as there (over there)/ their (showing ownership) / they're (they are); presents and presence.
Capital letters are only for proper nouns
Not adding details time, place and dates
Check the spelling of the names!
Mixing plurals and singulars (accommodation vs accommodations, church's vs churches)
Avoid mixing up phrases eg honour
Avoid spelling out the year, if you do need to spell the year, do not add the word "and"
Write out the places of being married completely, with address. or the guests might attend a different function!!
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It is said that the birth of perfume dates back to the Stone Age when aromatic wood and resins were burned to honor deities. Surviving Sumerian texts (3500 BC) mention the uses of aromatic ointments, oils and perfumes.
Perfumes arrived in the port of Havana in the 17th Century. Some time later the famous French houses of Molinard and Guerlain opened branches, followed by several others since Cuban women of the time were great consumers of perfume, especially eau de cologne after bathing. They also used sachets of mint leaves and petals of violets, roses and other aromatic plants on the shelves where they kept their undergarments.
Although today we can choose among a great variety of available industrial perfumes, there is one store distinguished for offering customized colonial fragrances for a variety of tastes.
Crossing the threshold of the Habana 1791 facility, in its 18th Century house on Mercaderes Street between Obrapia and Lamparilla Streets in Old Havana, we are immediately surrounded with the delightful fragrances of jasmine, violet, orange blossom, lilac, vetiver, sandalwood, and lavender.
Here, you can choose the flower for your cologne and you can also choose an elegant period flask made by Cuban ceramists and smiths to contain it.
Chief perfumer Yanelda Mendoza of Habana 1791 explains that the house was opened in 2000 to "recall the smells of colonial Havana".
"We researched history for the fragrances of the time and how were they used and bottled. In colonial times there were sachets besides eau de cologne."
The exquisite perfumes prepared by Mendoza deserve fine containers. The bottle should also be a jewel, and several artists take care of it, creating truly magnificent works of art.
The Goldsmiths
Among the flask creators are Evelio Mendoza, Ernesto Gener and Marcel Ramirez. Mendoza, the eldest, showed us a beautiful flask and a cameo on a chain, both made of gold. Ernesto Gener, with 16 years experience, makes stylized and personal flasks.
Marcel, the youngest, competes with original and daring designs like the flask made out of a horn and silver. The three have shown collectively in national exhibitions and some of their work is part of private collections in Latin America and Europe.
The exclusive offer of the store is completed with services including floral therapy and aromatherapy, apart from the sale of jewelry by the San Eloy Silversmith Congregation.
Atomizers and candles together with exquisite silver jewelry complement the essence of Habana 1791.
Twelve fragrances:
Rose: Sensual and aromatic, it neutralizes violent and aggressive feelings. It is associated with love and advised for the treatment of liver diseases.
Tobacco: Intense and rhythmic scent, it was used in the past to clear the mind, lift the spirit and invite to pleasure. It is an aroma related to masculinity.
Jasmine: Exotic, sensual, relaxing and aphrodisiac, it is capable of awakening sexual appetites and, at the same time, is relaxing to ensure good sleep. Cuban grandmothers used it as a calming tea.
Orange Blossom: It is a greatly appreciated essence for its incomparable aroma. It works on the digestive system and aids better sleep. It is greatly used in brides' bouquets to work in the areas of aphrodisiac, emotion, delicacy and sensuality.
Sandalwood: Perfumed wood used during religious ceremonies, it lifts the spirit. Its soft, wood-like and intense aroma works on the nervous system favoring relaxation. It is said to be ruled by Jupiter and the Sun, symbols of good fortune.
Citrus: Its relaxing and invigorating properties are excellent for eau de cologne. Its smell is fresh and contagious, inviting to life.
Vetivert: From the roots of this plant is extraded an oil having an intense aroma with sedative properties and sometimes tonic ones. Its woody smell ranges from sweet to dry.
Lilac: A persistent and sticky aroma, it helps concentration and clears the mind. It is very feminine and is sometimes able to recall a person or moment.
Ang-lIang: Its name means flower among flowers. Its most precious essence is the one from yellow flowers. It calms the heart and is useful when decreasing libido.
Patchouli: Its dense and persistent odor reminds you of environments laden with species, mysteries and emotions. It is strongly aphrodisiac. It invigorates and stimulates.
Lavender: Its name comes from Latin lavare. It helps in overcoming fears. Strengthens women's ego and stabilizes emotions. It is a fragrance for emotional and psychic balance. It is also a stimulant and tonic.
Violets: They are the symbol of love. This flower is associated with modesty and shyness. Its color is a meeting between passion (red) and intelligence (blue). Its perfume comforts and strengthens the heart. It is very feminine.


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Course website: http://mdsec.tripod.com The weekly reading schedule, links to online readings and websites, and handouts will all be posted on the website. You will need to check it continually.
Course weblog: http://mdsec.tripod.com/fifty Announcements, changes, writing prompts, discussion questions, and other course materials will be posted here. A link to the log will be on the online syllabus, or you can type the address directly.
Course Forum- This venue is provided as a place for you to pose questions, discuss course materials, and assignments with other students, as well as with me. If you are having problems with a text or a topic, or have questions about something, this is the place the throw out the issue for discussion. The use is the forum is purely optional for this class. It is simply there to facilitate the exchange of information and a limited kind of cooperative effort or study.
Required Texts:
Stearns, Peter, World History in Brief, Volume One to 1450, 4th edition, (Pearson Education).
Stavrianos, Leften, Lifelines From Our Past, Revised edition, (M.E. Sharpe: 1997).
We will also read extensively from primary sources in handouts and on the internet.
This course is designed to provide an overview of the nature and course of human history. Along the way, the student will have the opportunity to acquire a superficial familiarity with most of the major civilizations of the world. At the same time, the course will suggest some of the factors that have affected and continue to affect the way societies work and people live. By the end of the course it is hoped that each student will have gained some sense of the cultural and historical roots of contemporary human societies as well as an appreciation of the universal character of human history.
Upon completion of the course students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of:
Ø The origins and roots of western civilization.
Ø The contributions of different peoples and cultures to the mix that eventually becomes a whole new civilization in western Europe.
Ø The chief characteristics of the institutions and value systems of the societies studied here.
Ø The processes of change and development within societies and civilizations.
Ø The complex interplay of value systems, social structure, geography and ecology, technology, economics, and political institutions in human societies.
Ø How societies and civilizations have confronted issues of diversity and cultural differences within their populations.
Students will also be able to demonstrate:
Ø University-level methods of historical inquiry, text interpretation, analytical writing, and critical thinking.
Ø The ability to reflect upon their own lives in the light of world history.
Attendance is required. You are allowed four absences without penalty. Each absence beyond that will result in a one grade reduction in your course grade. With eight absences you automatically fail this course.
Class preparation and participation. I expect students to come to class each day having read thoroughly all materials assigned for that day and ready to discuss the topics covered that day. Consistent thorough preparation will greatly help your grasp of the sometimes complex subject of this class, and will improve the chemistry within the classroom making the class itself a better learning experience. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to be mentally "into" this course.
Text glosses- (5%) Each student must submit brief glosses of required source readings four times during the semester. These glosses will be the basis for class discussions of the texts.
Internet/website sources and commentaries. (15% = 3 x 5%): 1) Art or music sample. Each student must submit at least one example of art from one of the cultures under study in this class in the time periods covered by this class. You must also provide a brief commentary on the example, and identify the website (URL) from which it comes; 2) Brief web-based research on "kinship societies" or "people without a history." Comment on how your research affects your understanding of Stavrianos's first part. Documentation (URL) and commentary required; and 3) description of and commentary on website dealing with some aspect of history prior to 1600 C.E. The website must be fully identified. This website must not be used for either the Art/Music or "kinship societies" assignments.
Responses to prompts (5%): Writing prompts will be posted for each week's readings. You must respond in writing to a prompt from five weeks throughout the semester.
Extended analyses of writers and documents (20%- 2 x 10%). You are allowed to use one the writers and documents assigned for our readings. You may use other writers or documents, but these choices must be approved by the instructor in advance.
Exams (55%) There will be two exams- a midterm (20%) and a final exam (35%). Please note: You must average a passing grade on the exams to pass the course!!! There are no make-up exams without an acceptable, verifiable, written excuse, or unless arranged in advance.
All your work should be kept in a portfolio throughout the semester and resubmitted at the end of the semester.
Assignment sheet: History 50 assignments
Written work is due at the beginning of class on the due date. Late work is accepted, but a one grade penalty is applied for each day (not each class period) it is late, beginning at the end of class.
Course grades are determined on a 1000 point scale. Weight is given to assignments according to the above percentages. For instance, the journal is worth 300 points.
800-899 =B Less than 600=F
Resources on the Web
Writing Guides: Brown University; Carney; Bowdoin College
History texts: Academy for Ancient Texts; Internet Sacred Text Archive; Internet Classics Library; From Primitives to Zen (Eliade site); Exploring Ancient World Cultures; The Labyrinth; ORB: the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies; Internet History Sourcebook Project; world civilizations
Online textbook: http://fsmitha.com/index.html
Part I. The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural Civilizations
Week 1
9/2 What is World History?
9/4 People Without a History?
Stavrianos, Introduction, ch. 1; Stearns, Preface IX-XI, pp. 1-13
For sources on the religious practices of "kinship" societies see:
From Primitives to Zen (Eliade site)
Week 2
9/9 Elites and the Masses: Tributary Societies and the Origins of Civilization
Stavrianos, ch. 2; Stearns, pp. 13-16
9/11 Disease, Climate and Resources: Geography and Climate in History
Week 3
9/16 Ziggurats and Pyramids:
Stearns, pp. 16-21
Primary sources: Proverbs from Ki-en-gir; Gilgamesh:the Flood Story;
Code of Hammurabi; The Precepts of Ptahhotep;
The Dead Pharoah Becomes Osiris TheDead Pharoah Ascends to Heaven;
9/18 Aryans, Oracles Bones, Myth and Mystery:
Yellow (Hwang He) River
Stearns, pp. 21-31
Primary Sources: Hymns from the Rig Veda; The Worship of Ancestors
Part II. The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E.-500 C.E.
Week 4
Sons of Heaven and Filial Piety: Social Order and Cultural Integration in Classical
Stearns, pp. 33-59;
9/25 Harmony, Humaneness, and the Dao
Primary sources: selections from the Analects; Han Fei Tzu;
selections from the Tao Te Ching
Week 5
9/30 Brahmans and Sudras:
Order and Integration in Classical
Stearns, pp. 60-80
Primary sources: Edicts of Ashoka; the Arthashastra, selections on Government;
the Arthashastra, on Gender Issues
10/2 Karma, Dharma, Enlightenment, and Illusion
Primary sources: Bhagavad Gita; Dhammapada
Week 6
10/7 Helots, Hetaerae, and Useless Questions
Stearns, pp. 81-103
Primary sources: Antigone, excerpts; Greek materialists; On Greek Women;
Euthyphro (first three selections);
10/9 Civic Duty and Personal Allegiances
Primary sources: Polybius; Apuleius; Apuleius 2; Livy, excerpts;
Week 7
10/14 World Religions and the Axial Age
Stearns, pp. 104-127
Primary sources: Matthew 10:1-42; Matthew 24:3-31; Faith and the Law; Tertullian; Two Cities
10/16 Mid-term Exam
Week 8
10/21 Bedouins, Merchants and Revelations
Stearns, pp. 129-145
Primary Sources: Hanged Poems ;Selections from the Qur'an; Hadith, excerpts; Sunnah, excerpts
Handout: Early Islam
10/23 Veils, Shari'a, the Millet system, and ijtihad
Stearns, pp. 146-161
Primary Sources: Pact of Umar; Ibn Rushd; Moorish poetry
Week 9
10/28 India and Southeast Asia under the Impact of Islam
Stearns, Ch. 7
Primary sources: Sidi Ali Reis
Stearns, Ch. 8
Primary sources: Ibn Battuta, travels in Africa and Asia; al-Jahiz; Leo Africanus; Voyage and Acts of Dom Francisco;
Week 10
The World of Eastern Orthodoxy
Stearns, ch. 9 11/6 The First European Civilization Stearns, ch. 10, pp. 199-218 Primary sources: Gregory of Tours; Salic Law; Life of Charlemagne; de litteris colendis Week 11 11/11 Kings, Saints, and Clerics Primary sources: Concordat of Worms; Bull unam sanctam; Feudal Agreement; Life of St. Benedict 11/13 The Harvest of the Middle Ages Primary sources: Anselm, on the existence of God; Sic et Non; Letter of Heloise to Abelard Week 12 11/18
Aztecs, Anasazi, and Cahokia Stearns, ch. 12, pp. 236-246 Primary sources: Letter to Charles V; Chronicle of the Incas; Cahokia; Anasazi; Aztecs; Mayan civilization 11/20 Stearns, ch. 11, pp. 219-228 Primary sources: Chinese poetry; Chinese educational system; Autumn of the Palace of Han Week 13 11/25 Neo-Confucianism, Li-Po and the Chinese Golden Age 11/27
Thanksgiving Week 14 12/2   Samurai, Ikebana, and the Sound of One Hand Clapping Stearns, ch. 11, pp. 229-235 Primary sources: Taika Reforms; Early Japanese constitution; The Sarashina Diary 12/4 The Last of the Great Steppe Conquerors. Stearns, ch. 13, pp. 247-251
Stearns, ch. 9
11/6 The First European Civilization
Stearns, ch. 10, pp. 199-218
Primary sources: Gregory of Tours; Salic Law; Life of Charlemagne; de litteris colendis
Week 11
11/11 Kings, Saints, and Clerics
Primary sources: Concordat of Worms; Bull unam sanctam; Feudal Agreement; Life of St. Benedict
11/13 The Harvest of the Middle Ages
Primary sources: Anselm, on the existence of God; Sic et Non; Letter of Heloise to Abelard
Week 12
11/18 Aztecs, Anasazi, and Cahokia
Stearns, ch. 12, pp. 236-246
Primary sources: Letter to Charles V; Chronicle of the Incas; Cahokia; Anasazi; Aztecs; Mayan civilization
Stearns, ch. 11, pp. 219-228
Primary sources: Chinese poetry; Chinese educational system; Autumn of the Palace of Han
Week 13
11/25 Neo-Confucianism, Li-Po and the Chinese Golden Age
11/27 Thanksgiving
Week 14
12/2   Samurai, Ikebana, and the Sound of One Hand Clapping
Stearns, ch. 11, pp. 229-235
Primary sources: Taika Reforms; Early Japanese constitution; The Sarashina Diary
12/4 The Last of the Great Steppe Conquerors.
Stearns, ch. 13, pp. 247-251
Primary sources: Marco Polo on the Mongols; Ibn al-Athir on the Tatars
Week 15
12/9 The World in Transition
Stearns, ch. 13, pp. 252-256
Primary sources: Da Gama; Pico della Mirandola;
12/11 Rise of Capitalism
Stavrianos, ch. 3


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This and That
Morning kids! I have a few things to share with you before I hope on a plane and leave for Arizona tonight. Matt and I are going out to see the McCool's and I can hardly contain myself!! But before I go, here's the dish:
Isn't the comparison between Tori Spelling and the Wayans brothers in "White Chicks" chilling? Maybe Tori is really a black due with 14 brothers and sisters? Have any of you caught her (or is it his?) new show "So noTORIous?" It's not great, but at the same time, it's not completely horrible. Well, maybe. I don't know. I'm confused. Her boobs are doing a Jedi mind trick on me. Speaking of which...with all the cash money this girl has, why does she have one of the worst boob jobs in Hollywood? It seems that she even got them enlarged again. Scary. I'm torn with her. She's cool. She bugs. I'm confused. Donna Martin graduates.
Ok, I really don't have much to say about this because it's sheer madness. Mandisa got voted off American Idol last night. Bucky is still a contestant. Mandisa has no shot of winning the competition. Bucky could be your next American Idol. Does anyone else see the horror with that? Rocky, Buckys twin brother, must be burning up those phone lines. He prolly got the whole farm on staff. That being said, I don't call in and vote. I did that only on the first season when Fiona and I watched religiously. Now I just TiVo it and fast forward through the lame stuff. I've got the hour long show down to 25 mins!
To tell you the truth, Mandisa doesn't need this competition. She's got the skills and will do just fine without them. Too bad she signed her life away with the others and is stuck in a crazy contract that says AI owns her for about 6 years.
Oh, and by the way, Chris is going to win this whole thing. Because he's the shit.
Ok, America's Next Top Model was Bananas! How the hell did sexy bitch Molly Sue get voted off but stuck up hag and instigator Jade stay??? What the hell are the judges smoking? They're pathetic! (Except Nigel. He's hot.) When they announced that MS was going home all I kept thinking was "oh shit, Jesse's gonna be piiiised!"
Molly was working the whole improv thing (brought back memories of the good ole days of Lanie and I doing improv nights in high school) but Jade failed miserably. She sucked. Just as she always does. She's not even cute. She's got that nappy ass hair and that U.G.L.Y. attitude. I bet they kept her around because she's a bitch and bitch = ratings. It really got under my skin when they showed them all at "The Groundlings" and she had the audacity to sit there with her feet kicked up in front of her on the seats. What a tramp! (Lanie, Erik & Jesse-weren't you so wanting Jim to come out from backstage and smack her up side the head. Give her one of those yelling spurts about how wrong and disrespectful it is!) And if I hear her say "if I had more direction" one more time....
My fav right now is Danielle. I think she's got a shot.
So, to recap: Molly Sue is gone, Jade is still there (WHY?) Futada (or whatever her name is) is still frighteningly skinny, Tyra faked her own death, Nnena wears the penis in her relationship, Joanie thinks she's Ice Cube and Miss J now has bangs. Yea, that sounds about right.
After only 82 days of marriage, Em and his white trash princess have called it quits. Again. Are we surprised? No. Is it patheic. Absolutely. Thank goodness he had the common sense to have a pre nup.
I wonder what he was thinking when he decided to give it another shot. That all the horrific stuff he had said about her would be just water under the bridge? "yea honey, I know I was kinda harsh when I said I wanted to kill you and stuff you in the trunk of my car...but it's only because I love you baby!"
At least he'll have a bunch of new reasons to detest her and you know what that means. Number one single.


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I thought I should let you know about this product as since we've stocked it here at The Nantwich Clinic a number of us have been giving it a try out. We've have had really good results!
Prior to stocking this range of products I thought very little about nail varnish and would happily use whatever I liked the look of and occasionally take myself off for a shellac polish as I enjoyed the long lasting effect. What I didn't enjoy was how my nails looked and felt once the shellac was removed. This would leave me with a dilemma – should I have more shellac to hide my nails? Surely not a healthy cycle.
Finding out about Dr's Remedy has given me healthy strong nails whilst still being able to enjoy nail varnish. The Hydration Nail Moisture Treatment was brilliant in helping to condition my nails after using shellac. Since "giving up" shellac I have used it twice weekly on my nails which leaves a high gloss shine and gives me strong healthy nails.
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The Experimental Lakes and the PEARL Arctic research lab are two examples of recent cuts to Scientific Research by the Government of Canada. Should Canadian Scientists be concerned about the future of research?
"Read the directions, even if you don't follow them" is a famous maxim from a 1997 column in the Chicago Tribune written by Mary Schmich which has direct relevance to the relationship between Science and Politics. There is concern here in Canada that the advice of Scientists is increasingly ignored and even unwanted in Political Circles.
For several years, a low-level conflict between the current Canadian federal government and many scientists has been brewing. However, late last year and early into the spring this sentiment has crystalized and broken out into the mainstream. There have been layoffs at many government ministries, talk of eliminating research scientists from government payrolls entirely, an increased emphasis on controlling the message within the public service, the termination of the position of Science Advisor and the closing or de-funding of several significant pieces of scientific infrastructure including Insite, the long-form census, the ozone network, the PEARL arctic research station and the experimental lakes.
I've been wondering for a while now just what I could contribute to this debate. There have been many petitions (ELA, PEARL, Census, Ozone). But with yesterday's protests in Ottawa and today's column in Maclean's by Julia Belluz, I feel like I can no longer be a simple signatory to such documents. In short, there are a few things worth emphasizing at a deeper level then the simple decrying of specific actions by the current government. A step back and a more thoughtful approach is required.
But first some background. There are two separate but related issues here. The first is prioritization, essentially the answer to "what kind of science should the public fund and at what levels?" The second is the role played by science in the public discourse, namely the influence scientific evidence should hold in swaying politics and politicians.
Prioritization of Science
If you take a walk down a corridor in nearly any building at any University in Canada, you will find a who's who of companies and successful individuals who have lent their names and their funds to laboratories. Those are a significant contribution to the work that we do, however, it is important to recall that the largest benefactor to scientific research of all kinds is government at all levels. It's a significant contribution. All told, we learn from NSERC* (the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) that more than $10 Billion goes to funding Science and Engineering research at Universities in Canada from the Federal Goverment:
Figure courtesy Maclean's.
Maclean's tells us that there has been a 23% increase in the number of researchers between '02 and '07 that might be causing greater competition. But to my eye, the increase in the total budget (above) is in-line with that increase in staffing. Instead, what is likely changing is the allocation between fields which necessarily creates winners and losers. Of course, those on the losing side will be most vocal about those changes as we saw earlier this year with the President's proposed budget in the United States.
It is worth pointing out that such prioritization is the job of politicians who are tasked with allocating scarce resources. So essentially the question is not "are the experimental lakes worthwhile?" so much as the question should be "are the experimental lakes more worthwhile than the alternatives for funding?" As rational beings, I think we all recognize this fact. Furthermore, we need to recognize the concept of sunk costs - that just because a project has been institutionalized does not mean that its funding is guarenteed. That said, Scientific monitoring projects are unique in that the longer they are funded the more valuable their records become. This must be taken into account in any balancing of values and costs.
However, there is one aspect of this re-prioritization that requires closer scrutiny. The current administration has long decried the lack of Commercialization of Research and of Research and Development spending by Canadian firms in general. Admittedly, this is a serious problem, with Canada ranking well below the OECD average at 20th in the world, compared to the size of our economy. There are many reasons why Canadian firms just don't spend on R&D to the same extent as their foreign counterparts. Perhaps chief amongst these is our close integration with the economy of the United States, a far larger market with more competition to spur greater efforts at innovation.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for the government to legislate that companies spend more of their money on R&D. That makes one wonder if a shift from the "S" side of NSERC towards the "E" side, if this is in fact taking place, is, in fact, a sort of subsidy to private industry? Since such priority-setting is the purview of politicians, it is perfectly acceptable, but it should be publicly acknowledged and discussed. Certainly, such a move should not be cast as an increase in Science funding if only the applied side is being encouraged.
Science in public discourse
That brings us to the heart of the debate: not the re-prioritization itself, but the way in which it is occurring. In a perfect world, Scientists would provide policymakers with evidence of past successes for a project to demonstrate its value, reasons for continuing it to increase that value, the costs associated with that continuation and what would be lost in case of cancellation. That information would then be balanced against all the other projects in line for renewal or start-up and the public's appetite to pay for such projects.
But the ultimate cause of all the concern seems to be that scientists feel that this rational approach is being ignored and that the fix, as it were, is already in for programs that do not line up with the prevailing philosophy. Worse, there are those who suspect that there are ulterior motives for the changes being made. For instance, there is a case to be made with the long form census that privacy concerns support eliminating it. However, there are those who point out that without the information this survey provides, it will become more difficult to determine the efficacy of many government programs. Therefore there will also be less evidence to counter the assertion by those who enact such programs that they have been successful.
This is concerning because more and more, the public discourse has become reduced down to a debate in which it is insufficient to prove that one's own argument is superior to the others on offer. Instead, in many places, the game is now more about undermining, denying or eliminating all other arguments. This is the "attack on evidence" central to the recent protests.
For instance, the global warming debate takes this to the extreme. On one side, I have no doubt that many who argue against it are doing so not because they reject the evidence, but they have made a value judgement: that cost to present-day prosperity is not worth the benefit of the reduction in the magnitude of the change in future climate. But no one argues this. Instead, most such politicians claim that there is no or weak scientific evidence for human-caused climate change and therefore no reason to act.
On the other side you have those who seem to imply that politics do not exist and that everyone not for extreme measures today is an idiot. The best case is this famous video by Greg Craven which suggests that because the potential effects of climate change are so great, we must act regardless of the strength of the evidence. The problem with this greatly simplified argument is that it does not answer the question of how much action should be taken and therefore does not address the real-world problem of allocating limited resources. After all, there are many many low-risk/high-consequence scenarios that can get the same treatment. We cannot commit all of our resources to everything.
Conclusions and Suggestions for Action
The actions we can take are a bit of a tricky matter. On the one hand, Science teaches us to be wary of far-reaching conclusions and to treat all conclusions as tentative. On the other hand, the media and the general public tends to discount those who don't trumpet their findings as the final word on the subject. For evidence of that dichotomy, you need turn only as far as the recent text "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the front lines" by Michael Mann.
One thing I am sure of is that we shouldn't be afraid to speak out about the value of our projects and what will be lost if they are cancelled. But too often, Scientists speak up only when their work is threatened. Instead, as recipients of public funds, talking with the public about what we're doing and sharing the excitement of discovery is something we should be doing constantly. There are those who feel like Science is apart from Society, that somehow we should quietly toil in the backrooms and ivory towers as purveyors of unbiased evidence, speaking only when called upon by our leaders for our "distinguished" advice. But Science is a part of society and we need to fight to preserve the privilege we have secured over generations.
For its part the government should take the advice it receives seriously and should pause before eliminating basic research in favor of applied research. The benefits of having an aspirational and inspirational program are harder to measure, but there is evidence that things like Astronomy, Planetary Science, Particle Physics and the basic sciences are part of the reason that young people enter into technical fields. That is the reason that the US, after WWII invested so heavily in basic research: many of those whose initial curiosity is sparked by space travel or the deep mysteries of the universe will later become the engineers and titans of industry that drive the economy forward.
Furthermore, caution is also called for in eliminating research from the public service. Should the government wish to maintain a capability to assess which policies are working and which are not, to maintain their stewardship of our natural resources in trust for future generations, to maintain the safety of our environment and food supply and to continue to be able to properly assess what science is worth funding out of the public purse and what science is not it is important to possess some in-house scientific capacity. While many of these functions could be done at the University level, this downloading of public trust would need to be done very carefully and its funding secured for the long term.
But ultimately, if you want to change the politics, don't change the politicians - change the people. In the long run it is only by educating and creating a scientifically literate citizenry that we can hope to change the discussion. If we, as a society, reject the simple short-term arguments for the full picture we will demand of our leaders a more nuanced conversation that leads to building a better country. After all, while a primary concern of an elected official is to be re-elected, they should aspire to more. Just as we Scientists aspire to be more than simple paper-mills.
* Full disclosure - I am myself funded through NSERC and the Canadian Space Agency


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Imagine living in Alphabetown USA , populated by letters from the alphabet which come alive, have their own personality and teach young children word formation. The new Alphabetown USA series of stories from Beaner Books features the titles Where is Ziggy?, Hannah's Homework and Catena Goes Camping followed this summer by the introduction of Madison's Magical Adventure.
The Alphabetown USA series was developed by Ryan and Nicole Mayer, a husband and wife team from Rolesville, North Carolina and is illustrated by artist Russ Simmons. The first Alphabetown book, Where Is Ziggy? , prior to its official publication was made available for use in local elementary schools. Where Is Ziggy? went on to receive an Honorable Mention at the 2008 NYC Book Festival for Best New Children's Book. [Read more…]


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- The city of Douglasville is the county seat of Douglas County, Georgia, United States. The population was 20,065 at the 2000 census and in 2009 was estimated to be at 32,812. Douglasville is one of the fastest growing cities in Georgia.
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- hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
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Georgia Western Cotton Mills
The Georgia Western Cotton Mills in Douglasville, GA was built in the late 1890's by Charles A. M. Praray of Providence, Rhode Island.
Unusual triangular bays formed the exterior walls to allow more natural light into the mill and provide horizontal bracing. The windows were filled in with concrete blocks some time later. Praray built only five mills using his patented system, all located in the South.
Incidentally, this mill in Douglasville, GA is where my Grandfather met my Grandmother in the mid-1930's . . . He was a mechanic, and she was a seamstress . . . They were both teenagers, and were married for 63 years.
The mill has been abandoned since the mid-70's and is currently structurally unsafe.
It is located on Bankhead Highway in Douglasville, GA . . .
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I am an AKC (American Kennel Club) and FCI/SKC Swedish Kennel Club licensed judge.
I have judged in Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Ireland, Germany, Austria and France as well as most of the United States.
I am licensed to judge the following breeds:
Australian Terrier, Border Terrier, Bullterrier, Miniature Bullterrier, Cairn Terrier, Jack Russell Terrier, Norwich, Norfolk, Parson Russell Terrier, Staffordshire Bullterrier
Basenji, Cirneco dell´Etna, Pharoah Hound, Podenco Canario, Podenco Ibicenco (Ibizian Hound), Podengo Portugues
Basset Hound
Rhodesian Ridgeback
You are welcome to contact me for assignments to judge any of the breeds listed.
You can find an update of which breeds I am approved for on the FCI European judges list www.fci-judge.org


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From Curitiba, this band brought a new spirit to Oi! in Brazil. At the end of 2005 these well-known men in the underground scene from Curitiba got together and decided to make a sound that they could be pride of, that could talk about their usual life and their city. That's when Mão-De-Ferro was created, with the purpose of a sound that could reflect their origins. In 2006 they recorded some songs and people started to know them by internet. Those songs were "Curitiba" and "Futebol Na TV" that made clear their position and sound: Oi! mixed with Curitiba's traditional music (that's why they use accordion).
More songs were being recorded until when they signed with a german record label and recorded their first and only record.
The lyrics talk about their usual life, their ideas and the loyalty and love to Curitiba.
This record was a limited edition in Brazil and it is just possible to buy it at Randale Records' website.
01-Knock out
02-Futebol na tv
03-Sem terra e sem vergonha
05-Viver lutando
07-Rota 77
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Featuring John "MusiM" Beauchamp, Scott "Artisan002", Suzy "Specter", and "Stretch".
Music: Intro – Untitled by MusiM; Outro – Untitled
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Wasim Akram sees Pakistan as favorite in World T20
KARACHI: Former test cricketer of national cricket team, Wasim Akram declared Pakistan as the most favorite team for upcoming mega event, ICC Twenty20 World Cup, ARY News reported.
While talking to media at Karachi airport on Tuesday, legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram said Pakistan team will be seemed in a different action during the T20 World Cup.
Talking about Pakistan's performance in Asia Cup, He said fast bowlers had disappointed in the event.
"Junaid Khan wasn't used appropriately by skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, who needs to learn smart decision making techniques", Wasim added.
Wasim Akram said its Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) responsibility to make captain and whoever assigned with the task of captaincy, should lead the team with positive approach.


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This is a fairly complete CPU identification utility. It has been tested on
several Intel, AMD and Cyrix CPUs. If the Pentium III serial number misfeature
is present and enabled, this program will display it.
WWW: http://www.ka9q.net/code/cpuid/
make generate-plist
Dependency line: cpuid>0:misc/cpuid
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/misc/cpuid/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install cpuid
cd /usr/ports/misc/cpuid/ && make install clean
pkg install cpuid
PKGNAME: cpuid
There is no flavor information for this port.
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: i386 amd64
SHA256 (cpuid-3.3.tar.gz) = 1e72ca592ba564a443fe7d163ae779dbacd92480fd22657d11c844e9bc0ffe60
SIZE (cpuid-3.3.tar.gz) = 5762
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 29
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [g-n]*
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Allow staging as a regular user and simplify
PR: ports/193102
misc/cpuid: Add support for RDRAND/F16C and newer intel features
There is no maintainer for this port, so submitted patches are just
assumed to be correct.
Submitted by: Arthurmech (gmail.com)
Adds: RDRAND/F16 support
Submitted by: netch (netch.kiev.ua)
Adds: Additional intel features
misc/cpuid: reset maintainership
There are two open PRs which I've not yet dealt with: ports/185277 ports/179065
Prodded by: linimon
- Remove NO_STAGE as these have been tested to be safe
With hat: portmgr
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Remove now excess verbiage.
Reviewed by: bapt
Clean up my ports (and a couple of ports@ owned ones):
- Fix COMMENT
- Add MAKE_JOBS_SAFE where appropriate
- Change ordering of LICENSE lines
- Fix new header format
- Etc.
Reviewed by: drogoh (on irc)
Fix manually done conversion - make the headers correct
Trim the headers in the ports I maintain.
- take maintainership
Approved by: bapt,sahil (mentors, implicit)
- Get Rid MD5 support
Add detection for new features and fix family/model detections according to
Bump PORTREVISION
PR: ports/146864
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev [netch netch.kiev.ua]
Approved by: tabthorpe (mentor)
- Use the latest Intel spec sheet and added many of the missing features.
- Corrected some of the old ones which appeared to have been originally
typed wrong.
Add support for reading ECX (miscellaneous features) on AMD Athlon chips.
Submitted by: cokane
Update misc/cpuid handling of AMD CPU features
PR: ports/105534
Submitted by: Ed Maste <email@example.com>
This software has quite broken original Makefile, at least for us.
Instead of trying to patch it, just supply a BSD-specific Makefile
using <bsd.prog.mk>. This removes the build-time dependency of this
tiny port on USE_REINPLACE and the heavy-weight gmake at once.
- Add support for many new Intel features
PR: ports/90036
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Add SHA256
- This port works on amd64
PR: ports/75653
Submitted by: Roland Smith <rsmith(at)xs4all.nl>
Use PLIST_FILES.
Reviewed by: marcus
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 1)
Update MASTER_SITES and WWW
Submitted by: Kimura Fuyuki <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Replace ${PERL} with ${REINPLACE_CMD}
Submitted by: Oliver Braun <email@example.com>
upgrade to 3.3
mark it only for i386
add cpuid CPU identification utility
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Time again to pick images for Archive. I'm going to run two shots from China, but I'm having a hard time deciding which images to go with. This always feels like such a huge decision to me, but I'm learning that it's best to just go with the gut and get it over with. A few possibilities:
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Possible Archive Spreads
3 comments:
- Rob Prideaux said...
I think Five works best - the similar pallete and mood work really well together, and the subject matter seems to match quite nicely.
Two's not working for me because they're different (close in vs out, narrow lighting) but not different enough (portraits, chinese people).
One, that walkway shot is awesome but I can't see how these two images support each other.
Three and Four are better pairings than two, but have basically the same dynamic as Two.
Not that you asked!
- September 4, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- wannabe said...
three (pyramid) - humor is relative to your style
five (chair) - mood is just fantastic
- September 4, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- yv said...
Actually I would like to see one with the pyramid on the left and the walkway on the right. Besides that #5 would be my choice. Nice images.
- September 5, 2008 at 2:10 PM
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- Afghanistan: at the crossroads once more
Afghanistan: at the crossroads once more
30 October 2012
BAAG Director Jawed Nader says Afghans must work together to build a new future
When I returned to Afghanistan in 2002, it was a broken country.
Homes and public buildings were devastated, battered by war. Newly re-opened schools were short of teachers and books. Patients were forced to go abroad for medical checkups. Only a tiny number of people owned phones; even fewer had electricity. Women were virtually absent from public life.
But at that time, my ravaged homeland had one major thing going for it - hope.
Unprecedented levels of international attention and an influx of aid led Afghans to believe that their country could be changed. They hoped Afghanistan could finally be at peace, with a strong democratic government steering it towards a better future.
That hope was bolstered by the massive changes which followed. Millions of refugees streamed home. Many, like me, were returning from a decade or more in exile. A huge construction boom followed, as they began to rebuild their homes. Huge infrastructure projects started. There seemed to be a job for everyone.
Millions of children returned to school. Improvements to health care meant fewer mothers and babies died. A broad based government was set up, helping Afghanistan to shake off the isolation of the Taliban years.
But ten years later, that sense of optimism has gone. When I was in Afghanistan this summer, I sensed that most Afghans regard the past decade as a time of missed opportunities- and are fearful about the future.
Rising corruption and mismanagement have led to waste. Young Afghans are once again fleeing the country - this time in search of jobs. The democratic system itself is uncertain: continuing insecurity and lack of adequate monitoring mechanisms put the viability of Presidential elections in 2014 into question.
Most Afghans equate the drawdown of international forces by 2014 with the drying up of international attention - and of foreign aid. And many, particularly women, also fear losing hard-won freedoms if closed-door political negotiations lead to the return of the Taliban.
Such fears reflect the formidable challenges facing Afghanistan as the political and economic realities of transition take hold. But Afghans are resilient - they know how to survive during difficult times.
What's important now is for all Afghans, including the government, political parties and civil society, to work together to overcome the challenges facing the country. And the international community must continue to support them.
Civil society, in particular, could play a unique role in helping to maintain new freedoms won over the past decade. Ten years ago, some Afghans regarded the idea of "civil society" with some suspicion, fearing it was a Western concept which they would be expected to adopt blindly and unquestioningly. But then they realised that many of the roots of civil society- concepts of volunteerism, self help, consultation and organisation - all existed, in one form or another, in Afghanistan.
Since then, they have broken new ground, becoming more confident and more ambitious. A decade ago, it would have seemed impossible for an Afghan woman to set up and run a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts - and open her own restaurant to keep it going. Today, it seems unsurprising.
But to truly blossom, civil society groups need continued support, both from inside Afghanistan and from the international allies who helped establish them in the first place.
As BAAG's new Director, I will continue to support these groups as they strive for a just and peaceful Afghanistan. I intend to do my very best to ensure that their voices continue to be heard, both at a national and an international level.


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Contemporary Israel
New Insights and Scholarship
320 pages
10 halftones, 5 figures, 10 tables
August, 2016
Subjects:ReligionJewish Studies
Part of the Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century series
"Like any complicated country, Israel is a land of myths and realities. In this volume, Frederick Greenspahn has assembled an outstanding collection of essays that will help readers to distinguish between the two. Israel has changed enormously over its sixty-some years of statehood. As the chapters demonstrate, many images inherited from the past, frozen into the memories of people who pay attention to the country, no longer conform to everyday reality. This volume is a good place to start in making sense of Israel as it is, not as an idealized or mythical entity but as a country coping with an astonishing array of social challenges."
—Kenneth D. Wald, Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture & Society, University of Florida
"One of the best new anthologies in the burgeoning field of Israel Studies. For both those unfamiliar with the interdisciplinary study of modern Israel, and those more versed in this scholarship, the book's authors—all leading researchers in the field—offer a wealth of information and insight on Israel's diverse population, its contested national and sub-national identities, and its transforming public and private spaces. . . . A refreshing volume that steers clear of the stale partisan polemics that characterizes much of the current discourse on Israel, this work offers a rich, complex, and deep grasp of Israel's multifaceted society and its relationship with both state institutions and the Jewish diaspora."
—Miriam Elman, Syracuse University
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School of Classical Civilizations
Student Number: 208504832
Student Name: Nahishta Singh
Course name: Classical Civilizations 201
Assignment: 1
Question: Describe the creation myth of any traditional ethnicity or culture of your choice, ancient or modern. How, according to this culture, did the world begin & how did humans originate?
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Cosmic myths are concerned with the world and how it is ordered. They seek to explain the origin of the world, universal catastrophes and natural disasters such as fire or floods, as well as the afterlife. Nearly all mythologies have stories about creation. This type of story is technically known as cosmogony, meaning "birth of the world." (T Lansford, 2006) These Creation stories also include myths of how human beings first came into existence and how death and suffering entered human experience. In my assignment, I have chosen to describe the creation myth of Hinduism as I am a Hindu myself. I shall begin by creating a clear understanding of Hinduism thereafter proceeding on to discuss the various creation myths of this culture as well as its many religious beliefs. Finally, I will conclude my essay.
Hinduism is currently followed by one fifth of humankind. (A Michaels, 2004: 12) It is a religious tradition of Indian origin, embracing the beliefs and practices of Hindus. Hinduism is a religion of diverse gods and goddesses. It comprises elaborate ritual and a striking tolerance for diversity, or the possibility of different spiritual paths for many different people and at different times in their lives. (P.F Lurquin & L Stone, 2007: 25) Our Hindu festivals tend to be vibrant and lively, and are celebrated with much devotion and purity.
Contrary to Judaism, Islam and Christianity each of which complies with just one religious book, Hinduism has many religious texts. (P.F Lurquin & L Stone, 2007: 25) Such books as the Rig-Veda and the Bhagavad-Gita come to mind. The Rig-Veda is the oldest Hindu sacred text and does not present its version of creation as fact. (P.F Lurquin & L Stone, 2007: 25) Bhagavad-Gita directly translated means "Song of the Lord". (W. Doniger, 2007). It is a Sanskrit poem, consisting of 700 verses divided into 18 chapters, that is regarded by most Hindus as their most important text. (W. Doniger, 2007). To most Hindus, including myself, it is the essence of our belief. Almost every significant Hindu philosopher has written a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, and new translations and interpretations continue to appear. According to Alex Michaels (2004: 59), it was probably completed in the second century A.D. The Bhagavad-Gita incorporates many doctrines, such as the immortality of the individual soul (Known as "atman" in Hindi) and its identity with the supreme godhead (Brahman), the process of reincarnation, and the need to renounce the fruits of one's actions. (W. Doniger, 2007)
Now that I have given you a brief overview of Hinduism and its' religious texts, I shall go on to discuss the creation myths of this culture. The process of creation did not proceed as smoothly as might have been expected; from its beginning the rivals of the gods kept a keen eye on the proceedings. (A.L Dallapiccola, 2003: 26) Hinduism has more than one myth of creation. One version restricts itself to saying that some sort of substance, commonly known to Hindus as "prakrit", is at the origin of all that exists in the universe. (P.F Lurquin & L. Stone, 2007: 25) Another version has beliefs that are similar to that of Christianity and Greek mythology, where the world arises out of chaos and nothingness. This version is much more descriptive than the first. It explains how the universe is reborn multiple times in cycles of destruction and...
Bibliography: • Beck, G., "Om." Microsoft® Encarta®, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2006.
• Dallapiccola, A.L, "Hindu Myths." University of Texas Press, 2003. ISBN 0292702337, 9780292702332.
• Doniger, W., "Bhagavad-Gita." Microsoft® Encarta® 2007, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2006.
• Leerning, D.A., "A Dictionary of Asian Mythology." Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Lurquin, P.F. & Stone, L., "Evolution and Religious Creation myths: How scientists respond." Oxford University Press US, 2007.
• Michaels, A., "Hinduism ' Past and Present." Princeton University Press, Oxfordshire, 2004.
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Source: GHANAsoccernet.com
Former Chelsea star Michael Essien scored the only goal for Persib Bandung as they defeated Persipura Jayapura 1-0 on Sunday.
The 34-year-old midfield enforcer, converted from the spot in the 58th minute to secure maximum points for Persib and them top of Indonesia Soccer Championship A.
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The goal is his second after opening his account on his debut.
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I recently read a research study which scientifically determined whether or not, men are really happy when their wives or significant others over-achieve them professionally. And the answer is….NO…they aren't! Even though he may take you to dinner, break out the champagne; even praise your accomplishments from here to Timbuktu, happiness isn't in the equation. In short, he said it, but he didn't mean it. To him, your BIG promotion or gigantic raise is like the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head, lowering his self-esteem with each achievement swing.
In a study performed by researcher Kate Ratliff of the University of Florida Gender Differences in Implicit Self-Esteem Following a Romantic Partner's Success or Failure, she explained that "there is some evidence that men automatically interpret a partner's success as their own failure." When it comes to male/female relationships, the more successful the female, the more problems the men have with the relationship. Women on the other hand, are just the opposite. We love it when our mate is successful and making money. For us, it's a matter of dollars and cents…for men it's EGO.
After reading the study, I laughed aloud because women don't need a study to tell us what we already know. For the most part, men are either mildly or overly insecure about one thing or another; and we know it! Just two months ago I intentionally lost a game of cards to my husband because had I won, he would have sulked for the rest of the night. No strike that…for the rest of the week.
Women tend to deal with self-esteem issues much better than men because our issue-causing problems are much different than theirs. Our problems start at our head and end at our toes. To be more definitive, breast to knees. And if we're not careful, trying on a bathing suit can send us into shock!
But the question is why do so many men have self-esteem problems when it comes to their wife or significant other being more successful than they are? The study made me wonder if most men still want us to play the 'Honey, You Are' game. You know, Honey, you're so smart; or Honey, you've done a wonderful job; Honey, you're the greatest; and my personal favorite, Honey, you're a real rodeo rider. Oh, sorry, that's another game.
According to Dr. Ratliff, since "men tend to be more competitive than women," their self-worth diminishes when their romantic partners achieve more success than they have. Even without the study it doesn't take a genius to figure out that unless the man is really confident, secure, and proud of his partner, he's not going to ride with you, so you might as well leave the car in park.
Men were meant to be the bread winners of the family. They possess an inherent need to be looked up to, revered and respected. No matter what their title, or their salary, or where they live, they want to be viewed as the stronger, dominant one. Even the corner drug dealer wants to be viewed as 'the man' that's why he's always flashing his cheddar.
Even though times-are-a-changing personally and professionally for both sexes, one thing doesn't change, and that's the male ego. It's continuous, unchanging, and always waiting to be stroked. So always talking about your important corporate job can make him feel very unimportant while subconsciously lowering his self-esteem bit-by-bit.
Putting research aside, and talking common sense, I've come to realize that it doesn't matter what women do for a living or how much money we make, in most cases, it's how we make our mate feel. Some women just don't have a knack for making their mate feel good. They demean, discourage, complain and nag all of the time. These women rarely lift him up but constantly wield their title, money and submissiveness like a sword, even in the bedroom.
It doesn't take a university professor to decipher the psyche of men. Undoubtedly, feelings of insecurity on his part can lead to arguments, cheating, and unnecessary problems at home. Sure, he may have said it…but didn't mean it, when congratulating you on your big promotion, so what.
If you want a happy life with your husband or significant other, stroke his ego now and then, and play the 'Honey, You Are' game at least once in a while. Because if you don't, and his self-esteem decreases as yours increases, the one word he will mean is, 'GOODBYE" as he walks out of the door.
Written by DeBorah Heggs-Alston


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As Most Of You Know, My Oldest Is Autistic. We Have Always Gone Back & Forth With The Gluten Free Diet But For The Most Part-He Eat's Pretty Healthy. As He's Gotten Older, The Variety Of Organic, All Natural & Gluten Free Items Available Has Grown So Much! With The School Year Quickly Approaching (Yikes!) I Have Been Researching Snacks For My Big Guy To Take In His Lunch. I Came Across The Gluten Free Bar & Thought We Should Give It A Try! :)
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it all just kicked off in sheffield
just saw 2 ambulances 2 paramedics, 4 squad cars, 2 mounted officers and 1 riot van required for a man who was then knocked out, tasered and ate 13 pills in the space of about 10 minutes.
- sharp_yet_blunt this'd this
how did you know there were 13?
did he do it with dramatic gestures as if to taunt the police?
13 was the number his friends were quoting
can't confirm if it's definitely correct though. was a decent handful of pills though
- CrispinAlexander and Antelope this'd this
Probably another victim of the new south yorkshire drug craze
of injecting ecstasy into their mouths.
E By Gum has another victim :(
- monoshono, aggressively_passive, seafoodweregreat, NickDS, UnicornPorn, creakyknees, marilyninthesky, blimeycharlie, boxtoboxelder, and ZooKeepersBoy this'd this
When i was in sheffield last weekend there did seem to be a lot of people off their tits more than drunk.
That doesn't sound like it's all kicking off at all
Quick-thinking staff!
:DDDDboxtoboxelder, UnluckyBeast, and Antelope this'd this