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After almost 2 years..... hola folks, I am still alive!!! Honestly, I never thought I'd visit this blog again, especially after I terminated the domain. But I guess miracles like today still happen, you know, that day when all of a sudden you want to write and you have so much time to do it ...AND miraculously, you also have the energy to sit down and open a laptop for that urge, rather than just ending up on social media. LOL!
Just a quick recap of my last for last 20+ months. I gave birth to Lorenzo a few weeks after my last post, motherhood happened, obviously, followed by the zombification of the self - sleepless nights, grumpy mornings and all. LOL! So many things changed, and I don't think I can write everything in detail (for now) so I'm gonna share only what I can:
Throughout motherhood, I heard from all over, "Nights are long, but years are short" --this is so true! I never had time to write because for the most part of motherhood, so far, I don't even have time for myself. I look forward to getting a good night sleep, only to feel still tired the next morning. haha! It's been all about survival, until just recently when I realized that infancy stage is really over. I have a toddler now who walks, runs, eats and throws a tantrum. Where is my baby?! where did time go?!
Lou and I have been on the same team for the most parts of parenting. We are still both working full time with #noyaya! It is really HARD, but I wouldn't have it any other way. A lot of friends already asked me about the mechanics of this, so I'd rather set aside thoughts on this for another post (hopefully!). We jumped into trends you'll hear these days - cloth diapering, baby wearing, baby led weaning, and just recently, homeschooling. And as for our home, we've been into minimalism (as I've written before) and waste reduction, hence I felt the need to revive writing so I can share all these things.
Oh, and we're drowning in Netflix these days. LOL!
That's it for now. More posts later on about motherhood and random things, hopefully! Until blogging is not yet completely dead, and while I have no time and guts to make vlogs, I hope this old blog of mine will suffice!


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ZH: Hillary Has No Health Problems And Was Simply Helping Two Wogs Down The Stairs
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The old racist hag fired her ever present black medical aid and replaced him with an older white guy.
You think she was going to trust her health to an AA special? He was only there for show during the campaign, and for his brawn to support her bloated mass when she collapsed. Her medications were provided by a WHITE doctor.
I ain't drunk… I'm jus' drinkin'.
A lot of people want her dead, and I empathize. But I'm enjoying the slow deterioration. So emblematic of the Democrat Party's current condition.
Their only hope to regain power is for a GOPe candidate in 2024.
They retain all power right now.
Are you free to be "racist" at work using your real identity? Or even anonymously on Twitter?
Of course not.
Racism is realism, and Africans in our country are a problem, obviously.
I am willing to settle for equal
justice under the law, but we know
law and order only applies to the
deplorable dirt people.
The videos of her movement disorder are not only suggestive of dystonia, but are equally consistent with demonic possession.
There is perhaps a small part of Hillary that rejects the evil she has wrought and so she does not display the perfect aplomb of those who, in their 100% free will submission to Satan, display what is termed by exorcists "perfect possession."
Pray for her repentance, her reparation, and for her eternal soul… and prosecute her.
Her hero was Saul Alinsky, she actualy wrote him a fawning fan letter when she was in college, and who did Alinsky dedicate his Rules For Radicals book to? Lucifer
I am so sick of the ridiculous metaphysical nonsense.
She is treasonous criminal and
communist shitbag.
At a minimum, she should immediately
be arrested, stood up against a brick wall, and put down by an enthusiastic
firing squad.
"Lock her up, lock her up!"
You Simps are pathetic.
by 2024 another dozen states will have shifted to White minority. The Republiscams are finished.
and good riddance.
as to Mrs. Clintron, the lack of ordinary human empathy shown by the WRS keyboard commandos is deeply disturbing. It's India. She probably slipped on a patch of human excrement.
She is a patch of human excrement.
I'm pretty sure there are professional courtesy rules about that.
And whatever excuses she makes, amazingly, no one else on those steps was having any trouble navigating the descent.
She'd probably do better if she wasn't drinking her lunch and dinner most days.
Any one with any sense would step AROUND such pile of feces…..
Looks like Parkinsons'. Although insufficient blood supply to the legs could also be it. Dementia shows up like this too, and it's victims lose focus on what they're doing, and fall.
Compare how the (((media))) treated President Ford compared to Loser Hillary.
Ford was never forgiven (not part of the media's religion, ask Mel GIbson) for pardoning NIxon who was also never forgiven for saying true things like Mel. As punishment Ford, arguably the most athletic US President ever, was portrayed as a clumsy oaf.
Because of her toadying subservience ("Let me know what penance I owe you" to Lynn Rothschild for a missed meeting), Hillary, unlike Ford, is shielded from any portrayal of clumsiness, illness, and criminality.
Haven't thrown a Molotov since the early eighties. I have every confidence I can throw one now. You have to have a predictable target, close proximity, and some one to cover you while you hurl one. Don't use thickened fuel on armor targets, it has a great tendency to slide right off. Don't make more than a few at a time, unless you got lots of troops to use them. Don't forget at least an inch of motor oil on top the gas in the bottle. Smokers need not apply.
I'm hoping she runs again in 2020. Imagine this clip playing on endless loop on Trump's website.
Maybe "Bill" beat her again when the cigar Fell-In and couldn't be found!
Will somebody (more talented than me) make a mash-up of Stumblin' Hillary with the Tequila song in the background please?
I've known several functioning alcoholics. They can navigate stairs.
This is neurological. Kuru? (half joking)
That rear foot isn't moving. Her brain is telling it to move but it's not. Far more than a drunken stumble going on here.
We dodged more than a bullet. Her residency would have been all show while a Valarie Jarrett ran the country with a complicit MSM giving her complete immunity.
Masthead: Freshman year in high school. I still remember how though. We used to lob them into a parking lot from up on a hill above, great fun.
How funny is it to consider Shrillary getting soused on a bottle of ripple. Probably even her favorite.
Ole cankles cannot escape the ghosts of 9/11 and Benghazi while he cameras are running.
That one single moment was a major tunring point in the 2016 election.
Let's not forget Waco
Uh, guys. Do not gloat. Remember Frank the Cripple and the damage that rat bastard and his minions and useful idiots did to our republic. that Masonic, diabolical rat bastard campaigned from a wheel chair. Clintonia is just an extension of Camelot.
The Sheeple still revel in any political hack who will give them their freebies and abortions. This modern-day incarnate of Maleficent would campaign if she was in an iron lung. And, she just might still win. Remember H.L. Menken: "…no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
He only pulled that off because for 40 years, the media colluded in covering up how crippled he was.
The days when that was possible went away a long time ago, and forever.
Die, cunt.
I bought 500 Rounds of M80 Ball and 1,000 Rounds of M855 today.
Prices are low.
Good time to buy.
It's a shame they caught that demonic bitch. Just think of good it would have looked if they did not catch her and she bashed her head on those rock stairs and then she tumbled down 20 or 30 feet. The only think better would be if she sounded like Homer Simpson every time she hit and bounced.
Like Justice, the wheels of senility and dementia grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
My money's on Parkinson's. Second choice is dementia.
And speaking of demon-infested globalist geriatrics, McCain's been very quiet lately. Guess those hail Mary aborted fetal stem cells didn't work after all…


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Cooking is one part creative and two parts insanity. This week I tested a recipe for lamb Kofta which came out wonderful. The journey from farmer's market to plate on the other hand was hysterical. These experiences are why I love cooking. There is always something to learn. It is through this learning process that you are forced to appreciate the efforts and commitment that goes into preparing good food.
Here in Italy I have found that doing it yourself is far easier than trying to explain or change the way people do things. None of the stalls had ground lamb which meant I had to ground the lamb myself. So I bought the lamb bone-in then I set off to the kitchen equipment shop to buy a meat grinder. The first model was a manual one that I have seen used on Iron Chef many times and there was a fancy all electric model. The price difference between the two was 26,50 euros versus 248,00 euros. Needless to say I went with the less expensive version.
Since I have a glass table the store clerk suggested that I use a wood cutting board as a protective barrier and stabilizer for my table. This is where all help ended. The directions that came with the grinder where less than helpful. In the spirit of full disclosure my love of Iron Chef and naivetè real gave me a false sense of confidence as I would soon find out upon reaching home. After about 30 minutes of cursing in addition to assembling, disassembling and reassembling the grinder I was able to achieve success. My take away from the experience is priceless I have a newfound appreciation for what all chefs go through to prepare the food we eat. Moving forward I will have a deeper appreciation for food when eating out. My journey was a great one as it allowed me to better understand of food through learning and the curve itself was a great one.
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This blog has been a helpful for me to recall and secure memories from each week's lecture/ workshop. Through out the weeks, I have learnt about different aspects of innovative materials, from the beginning of learning about raw materials, which allows me to think about sustainable designs and products from the very first step as a designer and consumer. Then we learnt about biomimicry where we use nature as a model to design inventions to solve existing problems. We also looked at speculative design and human-centred design, which are two different ways of designing for our future. I find the 4 design steps for human- centred design extremely useful, especially having a persona throughout the design process made it a lot more specific and precise.
Overall, I enjoyed the lectures and workshops. I think I have learnt a lot about both sustainable and innovative designs, through completing the tasks, I also had plenty of opportunities to research before analysing them critically. The design steps and researching skills are techniques that I have learnt from this expanded practise and will get to put to practise again and again in the future. I also find the workshop on human-centred design on our last meeting was especially fun, it was my favourite meeting out of the all. I especially loved the two examples I found for the speculative design, although they are not necessarily textiles related, both ideas are so innovative without being very science- based.
I really love the idea of the Light Showers, which embraces the unwanted discharge and turning it into such a beautiful installation. A lot of people nowadays have a lot of misunderstandings towards discharges and waste, which is understandable, but everyone needs to stop being to repellent and be more open-minded towards them, because we can find ways to beautify them. Just because we don't the landfills and waste does not mean they don't exist.
Parts where I found difficult was the beginning of the expand practise, as I had a different expectation to what it really was, I was not expecting there to be any scientific elements to it. I thought it would be more focused on materials that are innovated, i.e. more textiles based, but there was a lot more to it than just learning about new materials. As I eventually became more comfortable with the unit, I learnt to enjoy it more.
On the other hand, I was pleased with how committed I was to attending and completing all the lectures and tasks every week. Since I did not have a lot of knowledge to innovative materials before attending the expanded practise, it was a bit difficult sometimes to be 100% committed, especially when some of the lectures focused on the scientific research, which has happened once or twice. But I made it through with commitment and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Surprisingly, I also quite enjoyed completing the tasks, although they were very time-consuming, a lot of them were quite fun and I gained a lot of knowledge through researching.


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You're not crazy – your ex is disordered. It's likely that the more you get away from him and out from his spell of influence, your understanding will get even clearer and clearer. It is likely that he is doing things to keep you under his control.
It took me forever to go completely no contact. When I finally did, I wished I'd done it sooner. You'll know when the time is right for you to break off contact completely. You might consider beginning to take the steps needed for you to remove yourself from the business. Maybe give notice that you will be leaving so they can find someone else with the necessary license. Consider that any connection with a spath is potentially harmful to you. He does not care about your well being, so any situation that he can throw you and your license to the wolves to save himself, he will. Spaths are often vindictive and harm their victims to punish them for getting away. I eventually learned that nothing, including murder, is out of the realm of possibility of my ex psychopath. When someone does not have the restraint of conscience and of caring how others feel, there is nothing to stop them from any behavior if they think it will get them what they want and if they think they won't get caught. I know that my ex may not have murdered anyone, but also that he may have if it ever suited his purpose at the time.
Going no contact is very very difficult at times, and most people have had several setbacks before being successful at it. If one can get over the hump – the point where one is faced with the grief and the loss, and get through it, then it gets easier and one recovers faster. For me, as long as there was any contact, I did not fully recover. Like a low grade infection that never gets totally eradicated, that has the potential to go full blown any time.


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The draw of the championship was organised by the Oman Hockey Association (OHA) on Monday under the auspices of H H Sayyid Fahr bin Fatik al Said in the presence of Talib al Wahaibi, the OHA chief, OHA board members and club officials.
The Seeb-Ahli-Sidab clash will be preceded by the opening match between last year's runner-up Bausher and Sohar on the same day. Al Salam is the fifth team in Muscat region.
Seeb captured a record 11th title last year with a 3-2 win over Bausher to break Ahli-Sidab's record of ten titles.
A total of nine teams will vie for the coveted title, regarded as the symbol of hockey supremacy in the sultanate.
The Dhofar region will feature four teams – former winners Al Nasr, Dhofar, Salalah and Al Ittihad – and will also kick-start on November 16. Ittihad meets Dhofar and Al Nasr takes on Salalah on the opening day.
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When pirates sailed the ocean blue,
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Who loved ill-gotten treasure.
Tales are told how they killed for gold,
Though anything could be their prize,
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The captain stared with his one good eye,
(The one without the patch),
He cried, "Ho Ho, Mateys! Look at this!"
He smacked his lips and laughed.
He held the gorgeous string of pearls,
High in the air above his head,
Then, "BANG," there came a pistol shot,
And the pirate captain fell down dead.
In the melee that followed,
The pearl necklace disappeared,
No one knew where it had gone,
And it was lost for many years.
It finally came to light one night,
In a tavern on the coast of Wales,
A seaman gave it to a barmaid,
For kisses and for pints of ale.
The barmaid took the necklace home,
A pretty bauble, she thought she got,
She hung it o'er her baby's crib,
Better than any toy she'd bought.
With no idea of their value,
The pearls were treated as a toy,
The woman, indeed, was very pleased,
They gave her baby so much joy.
Then winter came, the tavern closed,
And the barmaid lost her job,
Her livelihood now gone, it seemed,
"Oh, woe is me," she sobbed.
When her landlord came to get the rent,
She confessed she could not pay,
She pleaded, "Sir, just one more month,
Please, sir, just let us stay."
He smiled and rubbed his hands together,
When he saw her lustrous gems,
Well worth the paltry one month's rent,
He gave to her for them.
He polished the pearls until they glowed,
And placed them in a velvet case,
He sold them then for coins of gold,
With a greedy grin upon his face.
The buyer was a connoisseur
Of fine jewelry round the world,
He was delighted with his purchase,
And left at once with the treasured pearls
While in Algiers, he met a lady,
Who wore seven veils and danced,
She seduced him for the necklace
As she promised him romance.
Each night the lady danced and swayed,
The pearls were twined about her hair,
Then one night in a rhythmic frenzy,
She flung the whole strand through the air.
The room so dark no one was sure
Of the pearls' path or trail,
The patrons too engrossed, of course,
As the dancer dropped her veils.
But a quick-eyed Irish sailor,
With a quicker moving hand,
Caught and stuffed them in his pocket,
Before any search began.
Perhaps, the pearls would be his ticket
To the new Land of the Free,
An American ship was in the slip,
He boarded her surreptitiously.
The third night he came out on deck
The vessel now on the open sea,
He bargained with its Captain then,
And gave up the pearls happily.
The Captain was a generous soul,
And he was pleased with his new treasure,
For he knew that such a special gift,
Would give his lovely lady pleasure.
When his ship reached port, he hurried home,
And hung the necklace round her neck,
She kissed him, and she touched the pearls
They were so lovely that she wept.
For many years she wore the necklace,
With a pride she could not hide,
The soft glow of every pearl,
Also made her glow inside.
One day the Captain was assigned
To a brand new, modern ship,
They said it was unsinkable,
Well engineered and well equipped.
So rich and elegant the vessel,
Its fittings, plush and fine,
He asked his wife to come along,
And no way could she decline.
She packed her very best dresses,
And every lovely jewel,
She wished to make her Captain proud,
And for him she would be beautiful.
Of course, she'd wear her pearl necklace,
Which would flatter every gown she wore,
The most handsome piece of jewelry,
Of any worn on board.
On the last evening of their voyage,
A vicious storm arose at sea,
A tremendous iceberg struck their ship,
Slashing it unmercifully.
The unsinkable ship went down,
And lost were many lives,
But the Captain and his wife,
Somehow managed to survive.
They clung together on debris,
While they watched and held their breath,
The pearl necklace, now pulled free,
Had begun its dance of death.
To and fro and back and forth,
Playing hide and seek amongst the waves,
Lost for moments in the foam,
Then reappearing, as if saved.
King Neptune then claimed ownership,
Of the pearls stolen from his crown,
With one mighty swoosh, they all broke loose
And ... one by one ... each pearl went down!
Virginia (Ginny) Ellis
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'Aashayein will change John Abraham's hunk image'
Has John Abraham's image as a handsome hunk overshadowed the actor in him? It may appear so with his roles in films like Jism,Garam Masala, Dhoom and Dostana but filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor is confident that...bollywood Updated: Aug 25, 2010 15:57 IST
Has John Abraham's image as a handsome hunk overshadowed the actor in him? It may appear so with his roles in films like Jism,Garam Masala, Dhoom and Dostana but filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor is confident that their latest film Aashayein will break that image.
Abraham plays a compulsive gambler, Rahul Singh, in the movie, who discovers a new meaning of life and lovethrough a dramatic turn of events."I like to cast my actors against the tide. It is ahuge challenge the actor if he is up for it. John has played this cool, handsome guy with little bit of variations in many films.I am hoping that people with see him in a different light post Aashayein," Kukunoor told PTI. The 37-year-old star lost 16kgs to play the role and Kukunoor had to shoot the movie over a period of time to show John's gradual weight-loss onscreen.
The film is releasing tomorrow after a delay of about two years because of disagreement between producers-distributors Percept and Big Pictures. Kukunoor, 43, says he is approaching the release with a sense of relief "It was very frustrating when it did not release but now it is total relief.
he waiting period is over and it was not in my control and had nothing to do with the film," says Kukunoor, whose another film 'Yeh Hausala' is also awaiting release for sometime. Asked whether the audience will accept a film that should have come two years back, Kukunoor is quick to clarify that his story does not carry a 'dated' look.
"We had not even set the release date in 2008 when the film got pulled so not much work was done on the movie in terms of promotions. So it does not have a dated look and as far as material is concerned the story is timeless because it is valid at any point," he says.
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"I have been offered some roles but they were not something that attracted me. I want to do a good role. Last time I felt like this was in 3 Deewarein," he says. Kukunoor last two films Bombay to Bangkok and Akshay Kumar starrer 8X10 did not work at the box office. The director agrees that his image as a serious filmmaker may have contributed to their failure.Kukunoor is ready with 3-4 scripts that he wrote after Aashayein
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Please accept my thanks for an exceptionally well prepared tour. The quality of documentation was outstanding and it provided for every need both on the road and at each of the waypoints at day's end.
My time in New Zealand was fantastic, due in significant part to the extraordinary bicycling trip you designed. The itinerary was perfect...
I just got back to the States and I wanted to shoot you a quick email to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the cycling tour you planned for me, and wanted to thank you for the planning a preparation that went into making that trip so great. It was truly one of the best cycling experiences of my life!
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text: Here comes a little spring illustration I made a couple of years ago just to hurry things up a little. Here in Moscow you can feel the spring in the air and yes most of the snow has melted but still quit a lot of icy and ugly traces here and there. No sign of spring flowers yet that I have managed to spot anyways but I have limited places to find them at as I am not that close to nature where we live. I will check in Gorky park later this week. Feels good to leave February behind and I am welcoming March with open arms.


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"Dine Stoke": A Q&A with Alan Barrett
As part of this weekend's ACAVA Studios: Spode Works open studios event, and our contribution to the Stoke for UK City of Culture bid, we'll be showcasing ANNA, a learning algorithm that analyses poetry and audibly delivers it in an old-fashioned regional Potteries dialect. To create ANNA, we needed to feed text input into the system to "train" her to produce the poetry, so we enlisted the help of Stokie actor, storyteller, writer and poet Alan Barrett to provide the content to give ANNA authenticity. Here we have a Q&A with the man himself about the history of dialect, the importance of retaining traditional Potteries "speak" and the relevancy of it to the SOT 2021 City of Culture bid.
The Potteries dialect is a very distinct one! Can you give us a little background about it?
Most of the dialect stems from local idiosyncrasies, as it does across the world. What one area calls a stew, another calls a hotpot, or in our case, a lobby. Add that to the increased industrialisation of the 18th and particularly 19th centuries, where new jobs and technologies brought in new words, to a largely uneducated population and they made up their own pronunciations for ease of use and learning. I suspect this is not unique to our city.
However, we do have several unique words. How many areas have a "jigger" or "jollier" as both job and equipment? The word "sneyped", or "sneeped", depending on how you prefer to spell it, is almost onomatopoeic. I have no idea of its origins, but I can tell you I learned it very early in my life. Some phrases are distinctly geographical; for instance "up 'anley" is clearly because Hanley is on a hill, whereas "dine Stoke" is because Stoke is on the valley floor.
Dialect and accent are usually regional, and Stoke-on-Trent is no exception, but we're a half way stage for the roads intersecting north and south, as well as east and west. This means we've evolved a unique dialect without much outside influence. It's almost impossible to copy the dialect if you're not local.
We're also an area with traditionally manual labour, which means the dialect gets passed around very quickly. Outsiders coming in for work adapted to fit in. If you add to that, the canal users and their slang, it becomes so much easier to understand how different dialects evolve. It's a definitively working class dialect, with a distinct lack of "h". As with many others, it's the vowel sounds that determine its eventual outcome.
When the pottery industry was in its infancy, many people still spoke with biblical reference, thee, thou, shalt etc. This is not unique to us, but much of it has remained. "Dust 'ear?" probably began as "Dooest thou hear?" and "Coss do eet?" from "Canst thou do it?" As I've travelled the country, working as an actor, I haven't found the same level of biblical referenced pronunciation retained. It does cause me to consider that we have closer links to "olde Englishe" than most regions. That might just be wishful thinking on my part, but it's worth condering.
There's also a modicum of preferred brevity about regional accents and dialects, taking the spoken language down to its simplest form. This applies nationally, but we seem to have mastered linguistic brevity to degree level!
We have also given a word to the English lexicon. It's not a great word, but it says everything you need to know about it – "pothole", a hole dug from a flattened road of clay. The resultant clay used to make pots.
Why do you think that it's culturally important to retain local dialect?
It's absolutely imperative to keep all regional dialects, no matter where they are in the country. It's a positive reflection on the community, helps to establish and retain links to our cultural heritage and history and – speaking personally now – I loathe the TV speak and imposed accent of the "trendies". It is unique, and we have far too much that demands we are all the same.
I know what I sound like when I'm just talking socially, but I do make an effort when conversing with strangers. I'm happy to do both, not to fit in, but simply out of courtesy. We're all much happier conversing with friends and family because we don't have to make the effort to speak with perfect diction.
We should be proud of our heritage and that includes the dialect. We must not be bullied or made to feel somehow lacking simply because we don't have RP as a standard. The dialect also reflects the culture of evolving industries, and though the words may change because of new and different jobs, the way we pronounce them should not.
How did you become involved in the development of ANNA?
I am a storyteller, and one of my characters is Toby Jugg, a Victorian kiln placer brought forward 150 years by Dr. Who to tell people what life was like on a potbank in 1868. He uses old terms, and "spakes wi' a pott'ry dylikt". Carl contacted me and asked me to help out.
Anything that preserves what we're rapidly losing, or potentially losing, is something I want to be involved with.
I love language with all its nuances, especially English. People forget, it's essentially a hybrid tongue, made up of many influences. The original Brit language is likely a mix of Welsh and Cornish. The Romans pushed the Brits back westwards and couldn't be bothered to follow them over the Welsh mountains or the Cornish moors. As well as Latin from the Romans, we also have Gaelic from Scotland, along with Anglo-Saxon, Jute, Danish, Norse, which includes Norwegian and Swedish, and other linguistic influences they brought with them from other places they conquered. Add to this the local and regional dialects and accents and you can see where what we now call "English", is actually not "local" to the island at all!
Do you think modern technology is an effective tool for educating a younger generation on the history of their home town?
To be honest, I never gave it a thought until Carl spoke to me about it. I suppose that's an age thing. However, once I saw his enthusiasm for the project, and he led me through it, (being gentle with the science and tech-speak), I could see its merits.
We live in an increasingly tech savvy world, where I have to ask my grandkids to sort my phone out, so I think it's sensible and desirable to apply that technology where it's most beneficial. If that means making an app they can use, rather than watching a documentary, then so be it. I'd still rather they read a book, but I'm pragmatic.
Do you think that the local dialect is important to the promotion of SOT 2021?
Yes. Absolutely! Can you imagine a Birmingham bid without a Brummie accent, a Liverpool bid without a healthy dose of Scouse?
I think we need clarity, and any dialect can lose its appeal if overused external to its origins, but we shouldn't shy away from it. It's part of who we are, so whilst it's good and proper to have the bid written down well, it's equally important to take the public with us, and that means not ignoring the way we speak. That would be insulting.
See ANNA in action this Saturday 7th October at Bitjam's studio (number 22) as we put her to the test against artist and painter Fred Phillips to create some 'Pottr'y' poetry, in "Fred Against the Machine". You can find out more about Alan Barrett here at Manic Meanderings.
May Un Mar ANNA
Yesterday we introduced you to the latest project at Bitjam: ANNA. A learning algorithm that analyses poetry and audibly delivers it in an old-fashioned regional Potteries dialect, the project has been inspired by the bid for Stoke-on-Trent as the next UK City of Culture. We interviewed Liam Mountford, Senior Developer at Bitjam, about the technical elements of creating artificial intelligence (AI) that is able to independently learn.
Why did you have the idea to create a computerised system that creates poetry and delivers it in a potteries dialect?
The initial idea came about from a discussion between me and Carl. Carl knew I had an interest in machine learning from the work I did for my dissertation, I created a neuro-evolutionary algorithm that was to predict the results of the 2015 general election. I have had a number of discussions about neural networks and similar machine learning and AI algorithms with Carl, where I tended to ramble on about some of the more interesting aspects such as trying to create a Neural Network (NN) that could produce pieces of art. Carl liked the sound of a creative learning machine and formed the idea of using it to create potteries poetry.
From a more technical point of view, how does ANNA actually work?
Once we had our idea we sat down and had a discussion about the possible complexity of the project. A fully fledged bespoke neural network is quite a lot of work so we decided to try to find some existing neural networks to base our work off of. With the help of Jacob we found a Recursive Neural Network (RNN) designed to take text input and after a large number of training cycles we then tried to get ANNA to output some meaningful 'learned' poetry.
So, tell us more about neural networks.
In it's simplest form a NN consists of 3 layers. The input layer accepts various inputs. In theory, as many or as few as you need. Next the hidden layer, this is the heart and soul of a NN and helps to create the correlating links between the various inputs supplied at the input layer. Finally the output layer, is the part of the NN that spits out – hopefully! – some sort of meaningful information. Where a RNN differs is that there is a recursive link between the output and hidden layer, this part is important as it helps the RNN to learn the structure of the language supplied. In turn this means that the particularly interesting part with the RNN is that it is able to learn dialects such as potteries.
How does ANNA learn poetry?
ANNA is a python script based on a simple RNN, we feed in around 200 pages worth of potteries dialect poetry aiming to produce some sort of meaningful poetry. Anna runs through about 500 recursive cycles of the input text per "epoch" of learning for a total of around 30 epochs. An epoch is essentially a single full training cycle.
What were the challenges of this project?
One problem that always rears it's head is a shortage of data to feed into the RNN. So the next step for us was to source plenty of potteries dialect based poetry from poets past and present. First we tried to source as much poetry as possible from an online source, the main works we used were by Arnold Bennett. We then tried sourcing further poetry from Wilfred Bloor's sons Roger & Ian. Wilfred Bloor wrote over 400 Jabez tales in Potteries dialect (the Jabez character is a countryman living in the shadows of industrial Potteries). We also spoke to Alan Barrett, Stoke-born writer, storyteller, poet, and actor. Thanks to the kind contributions of these people we managed to collect plenty of poetry that has been fed into ANNA.
Come and see ANNA in action at the ACAVA Studios: Spode Works open studios event on Saturday 7th / Sunday 8th October from 12pm at Bitjam, studio number 22.
ACAVA Studios: Spode Works Open Studios With Bitjam
Next weekend at Bitjam we will be opening our doors to the public for the next ACAVA Studios: Spode Works open studios event. Each year a selection of studios welcome members of the public to come and see their work, holding demonstrations and workshops for people to take part in. Bitjam are hosting code workshops to demonstrate coding on a beginner level, so anybody, including children, can join in and learn on the day.
The 43 studios at ACAVA Studios: Spode Works are making a valuable contribution to the development of the Spode site, as a cultural centre for creative industries and the revitalisation of Stoke town. The studios are home to artists of traditional art forms such as painters and ceramicists, but with added contribution from more modern and technological expressions of art such as web developers and graphic designers.
As well as our code workshops, Bitjam are using the open day opportunity to showcase the Spode Works weather station which we've developed. The weather station is a digital machine which will tell you the weather conditions and can be found in the Bitjam studio, number 22. We've added an audio twist to make it relevant to the area, and the upcoming Stoke for UK City of Culture 2021 bid, by programming the weather station to deliver weather updates in "Stokie" dialect.
Further to our contribution to the city of culture bid, we've also been working on a computerised system that uses Stoke regional dialect to create poetry. The system is called ANNA and as part of the open day we'll be putting our neighbour Fred Phillips to the challenge of creating equally as compelling poetry. We'll have more details about "Fred Against the Machine", information about workshop times and how you can help us to develop ANNA in our next blog post, out tomorrow.
ACAVA Studios: Spode Works open studios are next Saturday 7 / Sunday 8 October.


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In 2006, the World Report on Violence Against Children was published by the United Nations, authored by Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. This report was the first comprehensive global attempt to describe the scale of
all forms of violence against children and highlighted the large scale rate of violence against children at home, in schools, in their communities, and by the state despite most countries having signed the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
From a monitoring & evaluation perspective, why should I discuss child abuse and violence against children? One of the major findings of this study was that too many complicated and different tools were being used across countries which made it difficult to assess and compare child abuse rates and trends.
In response to this finding, recommendations were made to develop a approaches and standardized ways to measure voilence agaisnt children that would allow for cross-national comparisons. A set of tools were
developed by 122 experts and are discussed in an article published in 2009 in the journal, Child Abuse & Neglect. These tools are called the International Child Abuse Screening Tools (or ICAST). The ICAST tools were piloted in convenience samples in 7 countries representing all regions of the world. As stated in the journal article mentioned above, these tools were specifically designed to be used in cross-cultural, multi-national, multi-cultural studies so that comparisons could be made across time and countries.
There are 4 ICAST tools to measure child abuse: a) the parent report for young children, b) the child report, c) the institutionalized child report, and d) the young adult retrospective report. These 4 ICAST tools can be found on the International Child Abuse and Neglect website. They have been translated into the following languages: Spanish, Arabic, Icelandic, Hindi and Russian.
If your project or program is considering a baseline assessment of child abuse or violence, these tools may be useful.
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All for Naught!6 03 2010
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You have the Power!!!!23 10 2009
Nothing more to say than Congratulations to Altaiir. 1/>9000!!!
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The Never Ending Cavalcade of Failure.9 10 2009
Though from our blog entries as of late, it may seem to the uninitiated that we are skipping many events, however one would be making a false assumption. It's important to note I generally do not see fit to update the same Fafnir dropping assjammer, or Aspidochelone dropping good ol' Dfeet, but in the interest of maintaining a sense to the outside world that we indeed are as strong as ever, I will update the latest batch of claims and kills.
This morning being the most expected, an easy claim Aspidochelone that of course only dropped Dryadic Abjuration: feet. But the Egg was sold to a Monk for a paltry 5,000,000 gil. One third of the price we sold an unused Nidhogg abjuration for, so I guess it was not all bad.
A few days ago we managed to hop on out to Chasm and claim ourselves a Tiamat too. Though of course, as is the case with most HNM, the desired item eluded our treasure pool. A rather uneventful battle, Tiamat remaining one of the least impressive foes to grace the surface of Vana'diel.
Khimaira, on the other hand was SLIGHTLY more generous, actually dropping something (though how useful is a case of much debate) that could be considered in terms of blog worthy. Of course however, Hauteclaire Fail chain continues uninturrupted.
And what entry would be complete without complimentary lulz. This one courtesy of Freonski's quest for Maat's Cap. As a little backstory for the screenshot, Freo had been trying to get Dragoon's Testimony for about 5 hours. Alaistair decided he could get it first try, and they made a gentleman's wager, the results captured in undeniable default screencap.
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Non-existant Treasures of Aht Urhgan19 09 2009
If I could have one request in regards to FFXI, it would be to view the drop algorithms for Notorious monsters in the game. What variable is there that makes shitty linkshells obtain 5 of said item in 2 kills, while another LS who is clearly more competent (Though that technically isn't saying much) can kill 31 of them and obtain only one. It boggles the mind really. But I suppose if everyone got everything, the game would lose it's appeal pretty quickly. However, hard as it may be to believe, we still have fun with our events, and in the fairly lax atmosphere, we make fun of the occasional idiot maneuver while a giant purple cockbag hopelessly flails his pathetic attacks in an attempt to defend itself.
And of course, while this was going on, Cerberus was alive and meandering about for some hours, since nobody else saw fit to kill, we figured, what the fuck. I'll hit that. And so we did. At least when Cerberus fails, only a loldrk is burned.
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Busy day indeed.14 09 2009
Ah the weekends. A time to relax, maybe crack open a few brews, fuck that hedgehog you call a girlfriend. Indeed wonderful times.
Unless you're in a linkshell, then, everything pops in succession as you're about to go out for a night on the club. Still, it's something to blog about, so here's the latest batch of woopakills.
Unfornately, it is a with a little hesitance I post this Nidhogg picture. I never like the idea of someone else profiting off our work, but I suppose since nobody wanted, it's okay. It just sucks having to lose a Nidhogg abjuration.
And of course, we have Angry Purple Fail, Khimaira, who's tenancy to drop absolutely nothing is quite astonishing.
And that sums this eventful day up. Until next time.
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Same old tune.23 04 2009
It's been some time now since the last update, and the Linkshell has had perhaps more exciting days. Aside from a few Synthesis Materials ONLY Khimairas the past week week, WoopaTroopas has been playing Glue factory, slaying an alarming number of horses in the field of battle, some fights proceeding more smooth than others nevertheless we continue on our horse extermination campaign. Thanks to our tenacity however the Linkshell coffers swell with enough gil to buy the Earth and all the heavens, and perhaps we shall complete that transaction in the future. But seeing 30 Dark Ixion drop lists does not make for good blogging, so instead I shall show a brief glimpse into the sexual tensions that we are currently experiencing.
As you can see, the shenanigans never cease between these two, however in order to keep a PG-13 Atmosphere I must not continue with what followed after the above line of text. To compensate however, I will end this somewhat brief post with a bit of lulz at my expense. The Tip for the day, is read carefully before you comment.
Happy hunting fellow fighters!
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An eventful weekend13 04 2009
The weekend, the promising time of rest after a hard week's work, the time at which one would get drunk or laid, maybe even both. Assuming you're not a nerdy geek that is.
In the case of our hard-working drones it's obviously the latter as evidenced by the all the things we have accomplished in the past two days.
Now, where to begin? Chronological order would be the obvious choice, so let's cut to the chase and start with an Ixion, boring and repetitive as usual despite the new rage timer, but at least not quite as stingy as one would expect:
Following this fate had quite an interesting twist in store for us since the Khimaira decided to show its disfigured body, which obviously caught our attention. And so some of us went on a journey to the Caedarva Mire, a dark place infested with tentacle-monsters most of us know from certain Japanese, uh, comic books,
and engaged the Khimaira in a fight that would best be described as boring exciting and refreshing. Eventually we were rewarded with our linkshell's very first Hauteclaire, congratulations to Freonski since he finally found a sword big enough to match his giant crotch!
Also, congratulations to Lichtl on getting his brand-new Seveneyes!
As you can see, these drops have received Brad Kidd's seal of approval, something the two aforementioned lootwhores persons on the receiving end can only answer with a cry of joy:
Naturally we could not just leave it at that even though the end of the weekend drew nearer and nearer and so we went to town with the self-proclaimed ruler of the skies, king of wyrms, Bahamut:
Not the most exciting of drops, but depending on what my capable hands do with the cloth we might be able to get some cash out of this.
Next we went on a trip to Temenos since it had been a while since our last bout with Ultima, yielding us the following:
Congratulations to Temudschin and Rafnir on Nashira crackows and Nashira turban!
Last one to fall was King Vinegarroon the dreaded, surprisingly passive scorpion king:
18 of our best men engaged him in a fight best described as epic, but there was no helping it, the mighty king would not waver despite our best efforts and so the wyvern who's been my partner since January 2005, Rygor, decided to finish him off with a mighty blow:
The drops weren't quite as appealing as we had hoped, but at least Rygor got a chance to display his powers.
Yes, maybe he really did just happen to land the last hit as KV was torn apart by a bunch of Apocalypse/various multi-hit weapons wielding DRKs, but we really shouldn't mind the details too much, right?
With that we could finally call it a day, allowing our men and women to finally get some hard-earned rest, it was the weekend after all.
Today's word of advice:
Don't get drawn in by King Vinegarroon when you're fighting an Antica on the other side of the map, things might get ugly when a train of them finally catches up with you.
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FedEx Corp., the second-largest U.S. package-delivery company, is eliminating 900 jobs in its freight unit because of declining demand and "aggressive" pricing by rivals.
The cuts, equal to 2.6% of FedEx Freight's 35,000 employees, are in addition to 540 jobs trimmed at the unit late last year and 650 at FedEx's Office unit, a spokeswoman said.
Paring the payroll deepens the retrenchment to cope with what FedEx calls the worst economic conditions in its 35-year history.
FedEx, which is based in Memphis, Tenn., is working to reduce costs by $1 billion with steps including freezing hiring and cutting salaried employees' pay.