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Let's all use the word 'Interlocutor' more oftenPosted: 5 October 2016 Filed under: Health, Humour, Language, Literature, Uncategorized, Writing | Tags: Health, Literature Leave a comment
Today is international polysyllablitis awareness day. I hope you can spread the word so that people will better understand this debilitating condition and try to support those that suffer from it.
Polysyllablitis is a communication disability that primarily affects people that read too many fancy books. The main symptom is a swollen vocabulary, leading to frequent difficulty in finding an acceptable word to express a concept they are trying to convey. Such difficulty typically manifests in uncomfortably long pauses mid-sentence, because the speaker was about to say that the proposed expedition to a nightclub would be 'inimical to his health', but didn't want people to think him a ponce for saying a fancy word like 'inimical', yet the alternatives 'it would make me feel bad' or 'I'm tired' (average syllable count per word = 1.0) refused to present themselves to his desperately searching mind.
For this to happen just occasionally – say every couple of months – is manageable. Many people have such experiences. But people with really serious polysyllablitis (known as PSI to health and remedial vocabulary professionals) can suffer such attacks as often as several times a day. At such frequencies it can become terribly debilitating. Sorry, I mean it makes the person feel really bad.
Chronic sufferers have complained of persistent diffidence (meaning they often feel shy), disorientation (they feel dumb or lost), isolation (they feel lonely) and melancholy (they feel sad).
I have studied this phenomenon (sorry, I mean thing) for many years now. I think there is hope for the sufferers, as long as they don't get excluded (shut out) from society. That's why we need this awareness day. If people can keep a look out for others that may be suffering this malady (it makes them ill) they will be able to find ways to help them, reassure them (make them feel good) and put them on the road to rehabilitation (get better).
The best way to help these unfortunates (poor guys) is to include them in your conversations. When they say an unnecessarily fancy word, or get stuck mid-sentence with that look on their face that says they can't remember the normal-people's word for 'lugubrious'*, the best thing to do is to gently correct them, remind them of the normal-person word while making clear that we still love and accept them. (*it's 'sad'). Studies have shown that these inclusionary strategies (being nice to them) are in most cases highly efficacious (they work).
However, in my years of study, there is one word for which I have simply never found a way of translating it into normal person speech, and that is the word 'interlocutor' – being 'the person with whom one is having a conversation'. I have searched in vain for a simple alternative. The closest I've seen is 'discussant' but that has the dual problems that (1) it's ugly and (2) I suspect it's not a real word.
The next most reasonable alternative seems to be to replace the word with its definition 'the person with whom one is having a conversation'. But that doesn't really help much, as that 'whom' is bound to raise eyebrows, not to mention the monarchical 'one' (sorry – I mean like how the queen would speak). Plus inserting that long string of words into a sentence raises the risk of apparent poseur-ness because of the length of one's sentences.
'He's always interrupting those with whom he is having conversation' just doesn't have the pizazz of 'He's always interrupting his interlocutors'.
I doubt Hemingway would approve.
It wouldn't matter if it was a useless word, like that silly old 'antidisestablishmentarianism' that schoolboys used to quiz each other on, but nobody ever used in a genuine sentence. That was, until the Guinness Book of Records people wanted to get in on the act and invented 'floccipausinihilipilification', just so that people would buy their book to find out about the new record-breaking word.
Of course if you want a long word that's actually used by proper people, it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which at 34 letters is longer than either of those non-words to boot. Plus it's used by Mary Poppins, who is cool and not anything like a social reject that got her head stuck in a dictionary, so it must be OK.
But, unlike antidisestablishmentarianism, interlocutor is not a useless word. How can one talk about conversations one had yesterday without using it? More importantly, how can one give counselling and therapy to PSI sufferers if one cannot tell them useful things like 'try to use the same words that your interlocutors use'? The word is simply too useful to discard. I find myself needing to use it at least seven times per day on average. I'd be lost without it.
I can only see one way out of this conundrum (tricky thing). That is to make interlocutor an honorary normal person's word. We could do that by all making an effort to use it at least once a day. Then before long it would seem as normal as 'but'. There are precedents for this. Normal people use the pentasyllabic 'qualification' when talking about who might get into the finals in the footy, and the quadrasyllabic 'ceremony' when talking about who earns the right to humiliate themselves in the next round of a reality TV show. So I think, If we all make an effort, we can create some space for 'interlocutor' in normal people's language.
I leave you today with these two requests:
- Please keep an eye out for PSI sufferers, and try to be kind to them (and help them to get better); and
- Try to use interlocutor as often as is consistent with common decency.
Just remember, no matter how strange and scary they seem, every PSI sufferer is somebody's son or daughter.
Andrew Kirk
Bondi Junction, October 2016
The Bishop of DignePosted: 11 February 2016 Filed under: Ethics, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, Virtue, Writing | Tags: ethics, Heroes, Les Miserables, Literature, philosophy, politics, religion, Richard Holloway, Victor Hugo, Virtue 1 Comment
When I first read Les Misérables, I was miffed to find that the first one hundred or so pages were taken up with a character that does not even appear in the musical – Monseigneur Myriel, the saintly bishop of Digne (saintly as in incredibly kind, not as in pious). That hundred pages is basically devoted to painting a picture of just how saintly Mgr Myriel is.
When you know you have 1800 pages ahead of you and are impatient for Jean Valjean (the hero) or Javert (his primary antagonist) to appear, you don't have much patience for detailed portraits of peripheral characters, however saintly. Mgr Myriel's sole role in the story is to be the first person that shows the cold, starving, exhausted Jean Valjean some compassion, as Jean makes his way on foot from the prison galleys in Toulon, where he was finally released after nineteen years' penal servitude, to Pontarlier in Central Eastern France, which is several hundred kilometres to the north. Valjean's attempts to buy food or shelter along his way are rejected by innkeepers, peasants and even local jail-keepers who distrust and fear him because they know he is a former convict. Valjean seems destined to starve or freeze to death until the bishop takes him in and treats him like an honoured guest. Despite that, Valjean sneaks out of the bishop's house in the middle of the night, stealing away most of the bishop's silverware with him – the bishop's only possessions of any value. When the police arrest Valjean next morning and bring him to the bishop, expecting the bishop to accuse him and thus complete an easy arrest for them, the bishop instead says 'No, I gave all that to M. Valjean, and also, you silly sausage, you forgot to take these that I gave you as well' (and hands over to the astonished Valjean the few remaining pieces of silverware). This act of unfathomable kindness stuns Valjean, gives him much to think about, and changes his life (but not instantly: he still manages to steal a shilling off a small kid later that day before he finally 'sees the light' – a baroque flourish that is omitted from the musical).
There you have it – one hundred and fifty pages summarised in a paragraph!
Victor Hugo is given to these long diversions. Later in the book there is a very long, technical diversion about the topography of the field in which the battle Waterloo was fought – apparently just to show what a villainous knave the innkeeper Thénardier is ('Master of the 'ouse'). And another later on, almost one hundred pages long, describing the construction and layout of the sewers of Paris – just because Valjean will escape the police by going through these, carrying the half-dead body of Marius, his daughter's boyfriend.
In most cases these interpolations are irritating. They subtract momentum from one's reading and cause one to lose interest. That's how I felt on my first reading of Les Mis. There was no momentum to lose, because Mgr Myriel is introduced on page 1, but one is beset by impatience to meet Jean Valjean and come to grips with the famous story. 'Why are we wasting time on this bloody bishop?' the impatient reader (me) asks themselves, and 'We get it already, he's a very kind person, can we move on now?'
But on the second reading it was different. I already knew the story. I knew when JvJ would enter, and why, and I knew what role the bishop would play. So, the impatience having been neutralised, I was alert for little details, items of colour and feeling, that were not essential to the plot, but instead artistic features of what is better considered as a vast tapestry.
And on that second occasion, I found myself entranced and inspired by Mgr Myriel. Unlike cardboard cut-out goodies like Dickens's Little Nell or Little Dorrit (with Dickens, you always know you're in for some insufferable Victorian sentimentality when somebody appears with the word Little prefixed to their name), Mgr Myriel seems real. One can imagine that there really are such people – rare, yes, but not extinct. I heard the retired heretical bishop Richard Holloway interviewed on ABC radio a couple of years ago and he sounded a little like what one imagined Mgr Myriel might be like.
How was it Inspirational? Basically, it just made me want to be like Mgr Myriel. I am sadly aware that my troubled, deeply flawed character is a million miles away from that of Mgr Myriel – a ridiculous seething mass of passionate good intentions with very little in the way of good actions to match. But just observing first hand the operation of Mgr Myriel's apparently bottomless well of compassion made me want to be more like him – even if it meant travelling only a few small steps along the way between where I am and where he is. And in addition, Hugo managed to make it seem possible, that one could be at least a little bit like that.
It's hard to put a finger on what it is that makes Hugo's presentation of Myriel so inspirational and believable and so different from the goody two-shoes vaunted by other Victorian-era authors. Being honest, I have to concede it's possible that it's just a consequence of the frame of mind one has when one reads about them. Maybe if I'd read about Little Nell in the right time and place she would be my inspiration. I doubt it, but one must always remain open to the possibility of being mistaken.
One key difference is that Hugo doesn't content himself with telling us how kind Mgr Myriel is, or with quoting dialogue in which Myriel says pleasant, amiable things. Talk, after all, is cheap. No, what we see beyond his gentle, friendly speech is a long string of tremendously kind actions. Myriel, piece by piece, gives away almost everything he has to those less fortunate than him. Since he is a bishop, and bishops in those days were very wealthy, with palaces, coaches, large incomes and expense allowances, there is an awful lot to give. Having given away almost everything he has, he then researches what other allowances and claims he can make from the church in virtue of his office, does the paperwork to claim whichever ones he can, and then gives those away too.
But never does Myriel congratulate himself. He seems to subscribe to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 'property is theft' adage. When asked why he gave this or that thing away, he replies to the effect that he was never entitled to possess it in the first place. But Myriel is no anarchist. His comments are not generalised philosophical points about the nature of private property, but about the specific treatment by society of the people to whom he gives these things. They have been dispossessed, by the operation of law, of privilege, of capitalism, of raw temporal power. As his employer's policy manual says 'Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them'. Bishop Myriel does his humble best to redress the imbalance created by the church and state by returning some of the world's good things – those that he has in his power – to those from whom they have been taken (whether directly or indirectly).
Hugo writes Myriel's dialogue in such a way that one can imagine doing and saying such things. His lines are not ethereal or sanctimonious, but practical and down-to-Earth. After giving the last remaining silver to Valjean, as well as saving him from a return to penal servitude (this time for life), he professes relief, telling his sister and housekeeper that he was embarrassed to be dining off silver when others in the village had no utensils at all, and that he feels much more relaxed eating his soup out of a wooden bowl.
Here's a sample. Mgr Myriel is talking to the director of the small, overcrowded church hospital that is attached to his large, luxurious bishop's palace, and has learned that they have too many people crammed in, in unbearably uncomfortable conditions. After a series of probing questions about conditions in the hospital, Myriel comes out with:
'Look, Mister Hospital Director, this is what I reckon. There's obviously been a mistake. You have twenty-six people in five or six little rooms. We have only three people in here [in the palace], where there is room for sixty. It's a mistake I tell you. You have my lodgings and I'll have yours. Give me my house [meaning the little hospital]. This one here is your house.'
No moralising, no sermons, no verbal niceties, just 'Look – this is what we need to do'.
He even has a sense of humour – a quality nearly always lacking in nineteenth century heroes. When the housekeeper discovers that Valjean has disappeared overnight and so has the silverware, the following dialogue ensues:
Housekeeper: Your excellency, your excellency, do you know where the basket of silverware is?
Bishop: Yes.
HK: Jesus-God be praised! I didn't know what had become of it.
Bish: [Picks up and presents to the housekeeper the empty basket that he had spotted lying under a hedge, where Valjean had jettisoned it last night] Here it is!
HK: What!? There's nothing in it! Where's the silverware?
Bish: Ah, so it's the silverware you were worried about. I don't know where that is.
One might be tempted to think that Myriel is a Marxist in disguise – a fifth-columnist usurping the rich, corrupt church from the inside by giving away whatever of its wealth he can lay his hands on. But that is not the case. For instance he does not give away the (very valuable) robes and ornaments of the cathedral – presumably because he feels that they belong to his congregation, who enjoy seeing them as part of their religious rituals every week. He even believes in a good God – quite an achievement given the corruption and cruelty of those around him who claim to represent that God. He holds fast to a humble, optimistic spiritualism in which God is identified with Love – the value that guides his life in every waking moment.
But he has no time for theology. He has no interest in doctrinal favourites like the trinity, the resurrection, sexual purity, salvation by faith or grace, or the damnation of sinners and unbelievers. When his ecclesiastical colleagues discuss such things he does not criticise them for wasting their time on meaningless arcana. He just shrugs his shoulders as if to say 'They must be terribly clever to understand such things, but it's much too complicated for a simple man like me'. If he has a theological position, it is something like that everybody is worthy of salvation, and will ultimately be saved. He never quite articulates this though. If he did, he'd be at risk of punishment as a heretic. But all his actions seem to me to suggest such a belief. He expresses no theological opinions except for the primacy of love. He judges nobody, and is happy to admit his ignorance and uncertainty on all 'ultimate questions'.
In general I am not a fan of clergy. But I make an exception for Monseigneur Myriel, even if he is fictional. He is an inspiration. I could never be anything like him. But if reading those 150 pages again, without the impatience this time, has motivated me to move even a little bit more from where I am towards where he is on the spectrum of compassion, it will have been worth it.
Andrew Kirk
Bondi Junction, February 2016
Too many words!Posted: 25 November 2015 Filed under: Culture, Education, Fiction, Language, Literature, Physics, Science, Uncategorized, Writing | Tags: language, Literature, neville chamberlain, science, writing 2 Comments
Books are too long. People talk for too long. Academic papers are too long. Almost everything is too long.
Why? Partly, because to be concise is very difficult. Urban legend has it that Blaise Pascal once wrote at the end of a letter to a friend: 'I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to write a short one'.
I struggle with conciseness. Part of the problem is that, when I am trying to explain something, I worry about whether what I have said is clear enough, so I keep on saying it over, in a slightly different way each time, in the vague hope that one of the attempts will make the connection.
I think a better strategy might be to make one brief attempt at an explanation and then wait for a response. If more is needed, I imagine my interlocutor will tell me. If they do, the particular nature of their response will better enable me to tailor my next statement to fill in the information that was missing in my first.
But that requires discipline, and nerves of steel. It is like being silent in an interview after giving a short reply to a question – forcing the interviewer (or interrogator) to make the next move. Few people can carry that off, and I suspect I am not one of them.
Academic papers can be particularly irritating, droning on about all the references and who has written what, so that by the time one gets to the bit about what the authors have done that's actually new, one is exhausted and wants to retire for a tea break. It's not clear to me whether this is a stylistic practice, imposed by the producers and reviewers of journals, or whether it reflects insecurity on the part of the authors, who may feel that they need to mention some minimum number of other papers in order to be taken seriously.
Arthur Schopenhauer railed against this sort of writing in a series of essays collected under the title 'The Art of Literature'. He opens with an unrestrained broadside 'There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.' Schopenhauer loved the first (and of course considered himself to be one of them) and loathed the second.
If someone really has something important to say, it usually doesn't take very long. When Neville Chamberlain announced the grim news to the British people in 1939 that Britain had declared war on Germany, the message had been delivered by the end of the 67th word. I did a test reading just now and it took about 26 seconds, including pauses for effect.
Einstein's legendary 1905 paper that presented his special theory of relativity to the world, ending decades of confusion amongst physicists, is only 24 pages, and the key part that resolves the paradoxes by which physics was previously beset is complete by the end of page 12! John Bell's paper that turned the world of Quantum Mechanics upside down in 1964 is only six pages. Bell cited only five references. Einstein cited none.
In general communication, most people use too many words. I do too, but I am trying to correct that. I feel that, where possible, I would like to conduct a post-mortem on every sentence I utter and work out whether that sentence has added any new information. If it hasn't, then it was probably a waste of everybody's time.
Politicians exploit this deliberately. They are trained to, when asked a difficult question by a journalist, give a long-winded, emphatic speech about something only tangentially related, thereby avoiding the issue and (they hope) making the journalist despair of persisting with the question because of the pressure of time. Even better, if the politician sounds confident in their 'answer', the less analytic watchers will form the impression that the politician is competent and frank. The more analytic types just shrug their shoulders in disgust and turn the telly off.
A sentence can be very long and yet not reveal what information it contains until late in the sentence. Sometimes there is a key word that makes it all fall into place, The words before that one stack up like the numbers in a long calculation on a Reverse Polish calculator, impotent while they wait for release. Then the key word comes and it all falls into place. It attains a meaning. The wait for that word can sometimes be prolonged, like in this:
Though they all came from different social strata, sub-cultures and occupations, crammed together against their will in the prison cell from which they wondered if there would ever be any release, though none of them had known each other – or even known of each other – in their previous lives, though they squabbled and quarrelled over the tiniest of things, the one thing that bound them together despite the rivalries and petty jealousies, the perceived slights and reconciliations, the development, disintegration and reformation of cliques, was a single shared emotion, an emotion so powerful that they could feel it oozing out of one anothers' pores, smell it on their breath and discern it in the tones of voice – the emotion of fear.
In some cases, the key word never comes. Perhaps the writer or speaker confuses themselves by their excessive verbiage and ends the sentence with an admission of defeat.
Books are too long as well! Novels are generally OK, as it takes time to get to know and care about the characters. But I have a strong sense that non-fiction books are often padded to reach whatever is considered a minimum page count for a book – usually at least 200. There isn't really a strong market for writings that are halfway between essay and book length. In many cases a book really only has one idea, which could make a decent essay, but doesn't justify a book. But essays don't get to be put on a prominent shelf that catches your eye as you enter the bookshop, nor do they get listed on the New York Times best sellers' list.
Nassim Taleb's famous book 'The Black Swan' is like that. It really only contains one idea, which is that investors, bankers and other financiers have for decades been making crucial financial decisions based on theories in which they assume that the future will be like the past, and that all occurrences of randomness must follow the Normal Distribution (the nice friendly old 'Bell Curve'). Decisions based on that erroneous, oversimplified assumption have repeatedly led to disasters, because events tend to be more extreme than is predicted by the Bell Curve. Taleb's is a good insight, and definitely worth saying, but probably not worth stringing out to book length.
And then, if the book sells well, they write it again, ever so slightly differently, and pretend it's a new book, with new ideas. Taleb did that. Self-help authors do it all the time – which raises the question 'If your first book about how to live a better life was so incomplete that it needs to be supplemented by a second, why did I waste my time reading it?' I suspect Richard Dawkins may do it too. As far as I can tell he has written at least four popular explanations of evolution. I read The Blind Watchmaker and thought it was great (but too long, of course!). But I didn't read The Selfish Gene, The Ancestors' Tale or The Greatest Show on Earth because I couldn't see any indicators that they would contain much substance that hadn't already been covered in the one I had read. I imagine there is some new material in each of them, but I would guess it's more likely to be a dozen pages' worth rather than 200+.
Fiction authors and other creative artists do this too. Stravinsky acidly observed that Vivaldi wrote the same marvellous concerto five hundred times. Bach shamelessly reused his work (goodness knows he was paid little enough for it!) and Enid Blyton invented maybe a dozen adventure and fantasy stories, which she recycled into what seems like hundreds of similar tales (surely I'm not the only one that's noticed the remarkable similarity between Dame Slap's School for Bad Pixies and Mr Grim's School for Mischievous Brownies?). And let's not even mention Mills and Boon. But somehow I don't mind that so much. We humans are story-telling animals, and telling the same story repeatedly, changing it just a little every time, is what we have always done. I find myself able to smile indulgently on the prolixity of Enid and Antonio and Mills (?), but alas not on that of Nassim or Richard, or Deepak Chopra.
I think I've ranted for long enough now about how We All (including me) need to work on being more concise with our communication. It's time to relent a little.
Not all language is just about conveying information, so the efficiency with which the information is conveyed is not always the best test. In comforting a frightened child, information communication is not the purpose of our speech. I will restrain myself from objecting that the second half of the soothing phrase 'There, there' is informationally redundant. In fact, I think I could even stretch to approving of its repetition, if its first invocation was insufficient to assuage the poor mite's distress.
Declarations of love, expressions of support, telling jokes, goodbyes, hellos and well-wishes are all 'speech acts' that have important non-informational components. It seems appropriate to apply different expectations to those speech acts from those we apply to informational speech. Even there, there are limits though. Many's the operatic love aria I've sat through where after a while I just feel like screaming 'OK, you love him, we get it, can we move on with the plot now please?' And waiting for Mimi to die in La Boheme (of consumption, what else?) in between faint protestations of her love for Rodolfo, can become a little trying on one's patience after the first ten minutes of the death scene.
But communication of information is the purpose of much of the language we use, especially in our work lives. It is a pity that so much of it is ill-considered.
Hmmm. 1,742 words. I wonder if I could turn this into a book.
Andrew Kirk
Bondi Junction, November 2015
Writers' BlockPosted: 25 May 2014 Filed under: Language, Literature, Writing | Tags: essays, writers block, writing 2 Comments
I have writers' block. It's not that I can't write anything, it's that I can't finish it.
I have at least a dozen essays ranging in degree of completion from a bare skeleton or a couple of paragraphs to three-quarters finished. I even have one that's finished but just doesn't seem quite right. It needs revision, but I can't work out how to revise it. It seems it might be easier to throw it away and start again.
Each essay was started in a rush of enthusiasm. The words poured onto the page. But the torrent gradually slowed. In each case I finally realised I had written myself into a corner. I had raised too many questions, or bypassed issues that were too crucial. Or what had started out meaning to be a cool analysis had ended up being too passionately opinionated.
It seems to me that there are two polar opposites of how to approach writing.
One is to just write intuitively, whatever words come into one's head, and see where it leads.
The other is to meticulously plan the structure, mapping out the points one wishes to make by a skeleton of headings and subheadings. Then fill in the detail.
With the latter, one can get good structure, but it sometimes lacks heart.
The former – the 'stream of consciousness' approach – has heart, but often ends up in a blind alley, with nowhere to go. Or it can end up lopsided, with 500 words spent on one viewpoint and only 100 on the alternative with which the essay seeks to contrast it. Does that matter? I don't know, but it seems to.
You can tell from the third paragraph of this essay that most of my recent efforts have used the stream of consciousness approach. This one has too. Perhaps if I keep it short enough it won't get lost.
I'm pretty sure the best approach is somewhere between those two poles. There needs to be some planning, but there also needs to be spontaneity. It is striking that balance that I find so difficult. Things always seem to want to lurch towards one or the other of the extremes. It can be quite dispiriting.
Am I being too self-critical? I read many, many essays and non-fiction works and most of them seem to me to be poorly written and in most cases far too verbose. Even with David Hume, whom I revere, I sometimes find myself thinking 'what was the purpose of that paragraph? Haven't you already made that point?'
Perhaps most essayists write from stream of consciousness, and just don't worry much about whether they are being as clear, ordered and succinct as they would ideally wish.
But like many people, I am my own harshest critic. Perhaps the difference is that, if I am reading something written by someone else and find it is not grabbing me, I infer that it may be my lack of concentration that is the problem, rather than a lack of writing quality. But if it is something I wrote, then I am to blame, whether it's poor reading or poor writing, so I may as well blame the writing, and I do.
Well then. I shall post this essay, as a heartfelt expression of my annoyance, and then stumble off to look at the jumble of my mixed-up writings to see if anything can be salvaged. There's always the possibility that they could be of posthumous interest as what they call 'fragments'. After all, Heraclitus is known only from his fragments, and some of Nietzsche's and Kafka's interesting ideas are in their fragments. I am not Heraclitus, nor Nietzsche nor Kafka, but maybe if some relation or associate of mine becomes extremely famous, my fragments might attract the interest of their biographers.
In the meantime, here is a fragment to create the illusion of momentum. Perhaps that will be sufficient, via some sort of placebo effect, to generate some genuine momentum that will save those poor languishing part-finished essays.
Andrew Kirk
Bondi Junction, May 2014


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Liverpool's former piano shop Cranes, a landmark local building in Hanover Street, is to reopen later this month as a modernised Gothic pub aimed at younger drinkers.
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On Tuesday (May 19) a group of infra-national leaders representing twelve authorities from seven countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding tackling climate change in the lead-up to the Paris COP21 in December. By signing the deal, referred to as "Under 2 MOU", leaders committed to curb ambitiously GHG emissions, pledging to perform a 80 to 95 percent decrease of total emissions from 1990 volumes or to achieve a level of per-capita emissions below two tons by 2050.
States and regions signing the agreement include the US States of California, Oregon, Vermont and Washington; the Country of Wales in the UK; the Canada Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario; the Provinces of Baja California and Jalisco in Mexico; the German State of Baden-Württemberg; the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in Spain; the Brazilian State of Acre.
.@JerryBrownGov, international leaders form historic partnership to fight climate change: http://t.co/K01DXphlxM
— Gov. Brown Press Ofc (@GovPressOffice) 19 Maggio 2015
I've signed this #Under2MOU agreement you've never heard of. Check the other places pushing hard for energy poverty! pic.twitter.com/0AtbRV6vwk
— Glen Murray (@Glen4Not) 19 Maggio 2015
Besides the 2050 commitment, the agreement covers a variety of actions to tackle climate change, ranging from the definition of mid-term targets for emission reduction to adaptation and resilience measures.
Signatories represent over 100 million people from seven major economies, with an aggregated GDP of more than $ 4.5 trillion. Other governments have applauded the deal, and expressed their interest in signing onto it in the near future, Environment News Service reports.
(Image: Governor Brown talks amidst signatories of Under 2 MOU in Sacramento (CA), United States, May 19, 2015. Photo credit: Governor Brown Press Office)


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TV Is My Life ... Interior Design Ain't
I installed my own flatscreen TV yesterday. I feel pretty proud of myself, too.
It's not easy being green ... or brilliant.
I bought myself a flatscreen TV last week, and installed it in our loungeroom myself yesterday. I did a great job, too.
I'm not at all 'technically-minded', so it took quite a bit of motivation (the promise of a working TV) to fire me up enough until I was ready to tackle such a huge home-handyman project.
I went to Bunnings and I bought my tools.
I brought them home and laid them out on the loungeroom floor.
I reached for the phone to call someone who'd come and do this for me. (Who'd do it? An electrician? A furniture removalist? A plumber?)
I was tackled to the ground by Wifey, who was adamant that I do this one myself.
I spent days poring over he instructions so I'd know what I was doing.
And then I attempted it.
The end result is … we have a working, full-operational, gigantatron of a television set in our loungeroom. And flatscreen is always the best.
And the best thing is … I did it all myself.
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- AnonymousFebruary 27, 2015 at 10:17 AM
Are those apricots? We have a grape vine in our yard, and the rest of our garden is vegetables and herbs. My favorite fruits are probably mangos and peaches.ReplyDeleteReplies
I believe they are. :) Ohh, yum! We have some wild grapes in our yard as well. :) I love peaches!Delete
Apricots, Peach trees have different leaves.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! I thought they were apricots. :)Delete
Um... Apricots? They look a lot like apricots. I like mangoes best!ReplyDelete
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I thought so too! :) I don't think I've ever had a mango.. my mom is allergic to them. :PDelete
I love that picture! It is beautiful!!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks! I loved it because it was so..warm and summery. ;)Delete
Wow, what a great picture! I'm not sure if those are peaches or apricots, but they sure look good :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm pretty sure they are apricots. :) Haha, that's what I thought! :DDelete
I honestly have no idea . . . um . . . peaches? No--apricots. They are apricots--right?ReplyDelete
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Hahaa, that was me! :D Oh gosh, Amanda! Sorry, I got so busy!! :P I will try and get back to you today..but I'm not sure if I'll have time once again. :( I will try though! How are you? :)Delete
Oh no that's totally fine! I'm just bored because no one's been emailing me . . . besides our next video review brands!!! ;) Thanks for referring me to eShakti. I emailed them and am still waiting for their response but I'm sure they will respond soon. How are you, girl?!Delete
I know what you mean.. ;) I sent that email to you! :D I am doing WAY better now..haha, I was really sore from my adventure on the slope. Hmm..that may just end up being my blog post title. ;)Delete
I nominated you for 'You Are Amazing and So is Your Blog' Award!! I hope you can do it! Here's a link: http://adventuresbeyondthehorizon.blogspot.com/2015/03/tagged.htmlReplyDelete
Thanks Micaiah! I'll have to see if I can do it..I still have to write up my blogger book review for Bethany house. hehe..I am a little slow. ;)Delete
Those definitely look like apricots!ReplyDelete
They look delicious.
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I agree on both accounts! :D Thank you very much for the comment and the follow. I pray you are blessed by reading my blog! ♥Delete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Those apricots look amazingly delicious! I can't believe I didn't comment on this post yet! I have looked at it like four times this week! Maybe I'm just out of it! Lovely post my dear as always!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know!! :D Oh, don't worry about it! Your PDD may be effecting you slightly. ;) lol! Thanks! ♥ I really need to do a post about my snowboard trip..I think I may try and do that today. :)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2015 at 5:06 PM
It might be!!! LOL!! That would be so cool! I would love to see some pictures of your snowboarding trip! :)Delete
I'll get posting then! :)Delete
Hey Jamie! :) I actually think they are apricots..but you may be right. :)Delete
Apricots. Definitely apricots. They're missing the fuzz!ReplyDelete
Cool blog, by the way, Julia! :) Very interesting. You're a good writer! (btw this is Ruth from "Girls Living For God's Glory"
My thoughts exactly! :D Thanks Ruth, I'm glad you like it. :) You are really sweet..because I'm really not. :P Did you know that I just became a writer for Girls living For God's Glory? I guess 'glory' is a pretty popular word for blog titles for me. ;)ReplyDelete
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Music moves me. It's able to change my moods from feeling sad to happy, hopeless to hopeful, and totally lost to empowered and ready to set the world on fire. So, it's little wonder that when I heard the song, You Will be Found, from the Dear Evan Hansen Broadway play, it was like a lightening bolt through my heart.
You Are Not Alone relates this message better than I. First, reminding us of the times we've felt hopeless, or despondent. When we're totally out of ideas, desperate for a crumb of positivity, and certain that nothing will ever be, or feel, possible again.
Have you ever felt that nobody was there
Have you felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere
Have you even felt like you could disappear
Like you could fall and no one would hear
I think my biggest message, to friends, to family, to strangers…to anyone who will listen, is that we are never truly alone.
Even when the dark comes crashing through
When you need someone to carry you
And when you're broken and on the ground
You will be found
The lyrics also remind us that if we find the courage to speak up and tell someone that we need help, the next time we speak up it might be a little easier for us. And, once we are willing to let others in, and willing to ask for help, someone will rise to the challenge.
Each time that you call out you're a little less alone…
Someone will come running
And I know they'll take you home…
And, because we've been brave enough to speak up ourselves, and grateful for the assistance we've received, we are more apt to notice, and feel empathy for those who are experiencing their own moments of need.
The question is, is today the day you need assistance, or is today the day you'll offer it? If you're in the giving mode, will you take the time to look around and be aware of the emotional state of others? Can you be the shoulder for someone to cry? Or, an attentive listener who maintains eye contact? Will you avoid looking at your watch or checking emails in order to let that person know that, right now, there is no one and nothing more important than they are to you?
Maybe today is the day you'll decide to offer positive messages to as many people as you can throughout this one entire day.
- You look nice today.
- Hey, great smile.
- You were really helpful yesterday; in case I didn't come out and say it then, thanks for all you do.
- Let me get that door for you!
- Thank you for being so kind to me.
- I appreciate that so very much.
None of these activities include spending money, but all offer positivity and words of kindness to those with whom you come into contact. Imagine the impact you can make with nothing more than your kind words and a smile on your face.
Maybe today's the day you will touch the heart and soul of someone who really needs this type of kindness. As Evan Hansen said,
You are not alone.
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Whether you are purchasing the massage chair as an essential item for your health or as a comfort item to enjoy yourself, you will find it hard to choose a brand to go with. For instance, there are numerous brands on the market offering a myriad of massage chairs in what they typically tout as the best massage chair for your needs. However, this is not always true as some of the brands do not meet your expectations.
With this in mind, we will explore the top 4 massage chair brands for you to consider.
#1. Inada (Premium Brand): This Japanese brand is considered the best massage chair brand on the market. The flagship product the Dreamwaves is considered the best massage you can purchase. It is robustly built (hence it is durable), it has a supreme design, and importantly, their customers get world-class customer care services that are second to none. Furthermore, their products tend to perform exemplarily with regards to massages. Most of their products such as the Dreamwaves and the Inada Flex are designed for therapeutic purposes. As such, their massage chairs are perfect for people engaging in demanding sports or people suffering from muscle and bone issues. However, their Flex product also performs posture correction.
#2. Human Touch (Premium Brand): designed and engineered in the US with some support from their Japan offices and manufactured in Taiwan, the Human Touch is renowned for consistently producing high-quality products that are good looking but also very functional. While their products are priced on the higher side, customers more often than not find their quality and exceptional performance to be worth the price. Their iJoy and Perfect models tend to be a favorite choice for many on the market looking to purchase massages chairs.
#3. Luraco (Premium Brand): For the most part, this is made in America brand that is based in Arlington, Texas. All the critical and the vast majority of non-critical parts are sourced in the US. Only a few non-critical parts are sourced from Taiwan, and even so, the company goes to great length to ensure that the parts are of high-quality. As a premium brand, Luraco products target therapeutic users. They are renowned for their iRobotics massage chair, which comes with cutting-edge features, perfect sizing, and exceptional durability.
#4. Omega (Value Brand): The design and engineering of this brand's chair are done in the US. Importantly, the Omega brand has been partnering with the Human Touch brand, especially with regards to designing products. As such, they have been focusing on aesthetics, producing products that have high-quality aesthetics. However, the chairs are manufactured in China, and therefore, their quality of the products is somewhat compromised. Nonetheless, their products are a very good option for people seeking a value product in the massage chairs market.


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Stage 1: become a championship level daydreamer. My school reports say so, it must be true.
Stage 2: keep on dreaming. Make many wish/goal lists. Poddle through life, accidentally ticking a few things off along the way.
Stage 3: wake up one morning, realise that my best friend and co-dreamer is dead already, my 40th birthday has come and gone, and that list is just getting longer.
Stage 4: decide to get serious about living the life less ordinary and make some magnificent memories for me, my little boy, family and friends. Aim to have a lot of fun - and do a bit of good - along the way.
Stage 5: join Go Mighty, sign up for this course, buckle up...
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Following the advice in the (inspiring) welcome video I've just spent a little while mind mapping what 'Happy' means to me. Calm, secure, creativity, home, friends and food all feature prominently. The more I think about it the more I realise that the main unifying feature of my list is memory - making and sharing good, meaningful memories and traditions for me and my family.
A lot of my list is to do with travel, which is interesting as I like familiarity. I do crave novelty and experience. I like to plan big adventures, stress throughout most of them, then enjoy the (edited highlights of) the memories for years after. The truth is, a lot of travel is outside my comfort zone. Some places I instinctively love (NYC, Amsterdam, Paris, numerous coastal UK towns and villages); some I find energising, fascinating and exhausting (Hong Kong); others - frankly - scare the pants off me (I'm looking at you trekking-in-Nepal)! I never regret it though, and always come away having learned something and with a renewed appreciation for home.
So, travel stays on the list, but possibly with a few tweaks.
Some of the items on my list are real boundary stretchers and I have to think hard about whether they should stay. Teaching a class in something, for instance. I like the idea, I think it would be a good way to build confidence by facing a major fear (see also: public speaking generally), but will it make me more calm? More creative and confident? Happier? Probably not. It might help serve another goal though - developing a business, for instance... one to think on.
Camping at a festival? I suspect that is something I wish I liked rather than something I actually would. Following Gretchen Rubin's of the'The Happiness Project' personal reminder/check to Be Gretchen, I'm not sure that if I let myself Be Mali I'll be hiking off to Glasto every year. Might be worth a go once though. Just in case... A friend has a small family-orientated festival locally. That could be a gentle 'in'.
Parties. Parties terrify me. I enjoy them (though in truth I've only really ever thrown one big party - our wedding. Does that even count?) and love the idea of them but stress majorly about logistics - who will come? Our friends live so far away/apart, how can I expect them to travel? What if the weather is pants (this is Britain after all)? What if noone comes? I'm more of a small-group-of-friends girl. But one or two Big Bashes, to celebrate Big stuff (forty was last birthday, I sort of regret not going for a big party), is probably do-able.
More thinking...
Prioritising. Not one of my strong points. I loved the idea of testing goals against feelings, and also against where I want to be in a year from now. That really helps to crystallise a few things for me.
I think I'm going to edit some of my goals. There are a few things that I would love to Have Done, but I'm not sure I want to actually Do them - back to letting myself Be Mali again.
First things first, though - picking five to focus on this year.
Quite a lot of my goals are long term things - learn French, for instance, is something I need to work on quietly in the background for the next umpteen years! But that, in itself, will open up other long term goals like living in Paris... But that is not a realistic focus for the next year.
So. Where do I want to be in 12 months?To borrow a Radiohead lyric: fitter, happier, more productive. By 'happier' I mean calmer, more settled, with a greater sense of connection to friends and community.
Looking at my list I can see a number of things that might help achieve that:
- Get organised (stay organised) and be more productive
- Throw a cake and cocktails party and invite all of my favourite people
- Take a sleeper train
- A warm evening, my favourite people, a candle-lit garden, a beautifully laid table, a relaxed feast
- find and make a home
- serve a meal for friends in/on own-made and inscribed dishes
- get fit, be fit, stay fit
- start my own business.
On an opportunist kick I could throw in 'learn to make pasta' and 'ride in a hot air balloon' because I happen to have vouchers for both (lucky me!), but I think I'd rather use these goals to stretch myself a bit.
Time for a bit more thinking and whittling...
OK. I slept on it. And this is my thinking...
The next year is going to be busy. We are moving house, hopefully only once more and hopefully into a place of our own. We are trying for a baby (it is very complicated for us, it probably won't happen... but it might. We'll know soon). We are hoping to arrange a Big Trip in about 14 months time. I need to be realistic about what I can achieve without driving myself potty, setting myself up to fail, or undermining the successes I can achieve.
Finding and making a home is an obvious one.
Get fit, be fit, stay fit is just necessary, as is Get organised (stay organised) and be more productive!
Then I think I need to throw some fun into the mix. I'd love to do the pottery challenge of making my own plates, it brings in time for me in the making as well as time with friends in the serving.
So. Number five. I really *really* want to add the starting my business one but I'm worried that it's a bit of a stretch, given the other demands on my time in the months ahead. I absolutely don't want another false start. I think this year I need to consolidate, plan and prepare ready to drive forward with that goal in 2014.
A warm evening, my favourite people, a candlelit garden, a relaxed feast it is then. Celebrating our new (hopeful!) home, celebrating the summer that feels like it will never come, celebrating the friends we love.
So. Progress report...
Finding and making a home is an ongoing challenge. We are waiting for more reports, expert opinions... it is all slooooow. I think the chances of us making our mid-June deadline are slim to non-existent so I need to renegotiate our lease (yeay).
Get fit, be fit, stay fit is a work in progress. It is going to take a while! My running has stepped up a gear in regularity. I'm walking lots. I need to get into a routine of a short burst of bodyweight exercise each day, just 10-15 minutes would make a difference. I've also re-joined fatclub, to focus my mind (and see friends)! I am eating healthily but seeing the 'syns' (I hate that) in my meals add up startlingly fast - mainly wheat and sugar - is a useful reminder to refocus my meal planning slightly.
Get organised (stay organised) and be more productive! Another long term plan but small steps are helpinng. I am loving the Pomodoro timer to keep me focussed during tasks, I need to invest in a small notebook to capture the random thoughts that drift through my head and usually divert (sabotage) me. I'm getting in to using Astrid, though I need to really commit to it properly. And I started using a neat little reward chart chores system (because it isn't just kids that respond well to treats for doing boring-but-necessary stuff!) which was working well until I let it slide during a fortnight of deadline madness just passed... Time to pick that back up again.
Serve a meal on dishes I have made and inscribed myself. I've looked into pottery courses locally but it's the wrong time in the academic cycle for evening courses. The new syllabus comes out in June and I will be On It!
A warm evening, my favourite people, a candlelit garden, a relaxed feast will happen, I'm just waiting until we know what is happening with a few big things (not least The House!) before putting firm plans in place.
In a cheeky - and probably foolish - nod to my business dream I have also signed up for Andie Powers Scratch to Success course. I know that I am not in a position to really power on through and get started right now, but the framework for some structured thought to put plans in place for when I am is useful. It feels like progress which, when things feel stuck elsewhere, is good for the soul!


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SMS marketing, which stands for simple message service, has shown to be a more than feasible alternative to email marketing. It's getting harder and harder to find those who are not using text messages in one form or another, and they are not only the realm of pre-teens.
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As mentioned in the previous post you can get good food for a good discount whilst shopping at Whole Foods. I took my own advice and used the $1 off Rudi's Organic bread at my favorite natural food store, the Co-Op in Santa Monica. The bread was already on sale for $2.99, add in the coupon and it's only $1.99. Check the Rudi's Website for coupon and where to purchase. Anything under $2 for bread is a good deal, but for organic bread it is a great deal.
= $1.99 for a loaf of organic bread
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Americans are more concerned about health than ever before, so we should also have the same amount of concern for our pets ... particularly regarding the ingredients in their food. We would like the ingredients of our pets 'foods are acceptable for human consumption.
After all, if the byproducts are not tolerated in our food, why should they be tolerated in our pets 'diet? We 're also starting to understand that our dogs and cats need daily supplements the same way we do, to take care of their bodies for the inevitable ravages of aging. In the space of an animal 's life, starting early for good health ensures less vulnerability to degenerative diseases of joints that are less likely to scream in pain and a healthy heart. Naturally, we want our dogs and cats live with us as long as possible.
Renowned holistic Veternarian Dr. Jane Bicks says that when you look at the dog food, it must be weary of dyes, chemicals and artificial preservatives wherever possible. For example, BHA ... one of the synthetic antioxidant preservatives most commonly used primarily to prevent food discoloration and rancidity ... it has been found in scientific studies to cause gastric cancer in laboratory rats at certain doses. At lower doses, the Conservative doesn't have a cancerous effect but there is not to say that BHA can do to the body in small doses over a long period of time. Dr. Jane that the maximum life of dogs is estimated between 25 to 30 years, but the dog often lives no more on average 13 to 14 years. And it says that difference is caused primarily by inadequate nourishment.
It also states that the protein is an essential element of a dog 's natural evolution for pet owners should look for foods that contain ingredients like meat, eggs, fish and dairy products by opposed to byproducts.
Working hard or more energetic dogs require more protein and fat in their diet to maintain stamina and good body shape. A dog food that is balanced and comprehensive and includes at least 26 percent protein and 1650 kilocalories of metabolizable energy per pound is ideal. During the seasons when dogs are not working, their energy requirements decrease. Feed less of the high calorie.
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Whittnee Nihipali has gotten most of the volleyball headlines in her four years at Shadow Ridge, and deservedly so.
She's a four-year starter, an Under Armour Preseason All-American and the No. 72 prospect in the nation.
But the Arizona-bound senior isn't the only reason the Mustangs feel confident entering the Class 4A state tournament Friday at Faith Lutheran.
"It's good that we can go to her, especially when we need that kill," senior teammate Madyson Lousignont said. "But we have a lot of different hitters. If we need to set Kizzy (Rodriguez) or Kahea (Nihipali) or me, our setters trust us to put the ball down. A lot of schools don't have that."
Nor do they have a roster with 12 battle-tested upperclassmen, including seven seniors.
Shadow Ridge (29-11) will make its third state tournament appearance in four seasons when it faces Coronado (27-9) — the Sunrise Region champion — in a semifinal at 5:40 p.m. The Mustangs won both regular-season meetings, including a five-set victory to open their season Aug. 29.
"I'm ready to go. I'm hyped," Nihipali said. "I think we can do it."
Operative word: "We."
The 6-foot-2-inch Nihipali has almost 400 kills this season, is one of the state's leading candidates for Gatorade Player of the Year and has shown the ability to take over matches at any given moment.
But she knows the program won't win its first state title based off any individual performance. Nihipali was there for the heartbreak as a freshman in 2014, seeing the Mustangs unravel before getting swept by Coronado in the state championship.
"We've been making Whittnee understand it doesn't always fall on her shoulders," Shadow Ridge coach Karissa Guthrie said. "That she's got other players around her that can take it. … She wants that send-off. Everyone wants that send-off. So it's just continuing to play team ball like we can."
As they have all season.
Behind an unpredictable spread-out offense, Shadow Ridge lost to only one Nevada opponent — albeit, three times — this season. The Mustangs want another rematch with Bishop Gorman, which won the Sunset Region title last Friday by rallying from a two-set deficit.
Guthrie said that match hasn't weighed on the Mustangs since, especially considering they swept Silverado in a state play-in Monday. If anything, she said, it has been used as a learning tool.
"I chalk it up to good experience, really," Guthrie said. "We were lucky enough that state's down here (in Southern Nevada) and we got another opportunity to get in."
It's an opportunity Guthrie and her players said they won't waste.
"We all just want it," senior Kizzy Rodriguez said. "We have that hunger. It's our last year — our last week to do something."
Gorman (29-10) plays Bishop Manogue (28-5) in the other semifinal at 7:30 p.m. The winners will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday for the championship.
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I mean, there are several things I like: a good clear voice that's not nasal or raspy (Rick Florian of White Heart, Loyd Boldman of Prodigal), keyboards/piano (David Meece, Crumbächer) poetic/deep/insightful lyrics (everything Terry Scott Taylor has ever breathed on), a good dancing beat (basically the entire 1980s)...
But the other night one more ingredient clicked in my mind: I like bigness.
The 1980s (especially rock and, to an extent, pop) are notorious for 'big' production. Lots of instruments, lots of layers, lots of space -- music that could, and often did, fill arenas and stadiums. Late at night, go crank up the local '80s station and notice how sooner or later your mental pictures start going into outer space even if the song isn't about outer space. The production is just so big, so open, that your mind just starts to fly on its wings and suddenly you're meandering past galaxies.
You don't have that kind of space in a hipster song. There's nothing between the moaning vocal and the acoustic guitar. It's so flat and listless. Rock used to glitter and sparkle and have shape -- big shape, like a cathedral's ceiling. There were layers you could dig through -- drums, bass, keys, multiple guitars, vocal harmonies -- and they all had different dynamics. I realised I like music that lets me escape, distracts me, lets me fly, fires my imagination, releases me to the stars. It awakens my sense of wonder, and these days I need as much of that as possible. Hipster music doesn't do that, and worship music especially doesn't do that (worship music should though, in my opinion -- how are you going to inspire wonder in a congregation about a God you can only praise with flat, listless, bland, boring music?). (For more on that rant, see here.)
This doesn't just apply to '80s rock either -- choral music and symphonic music have a similar effect. Both have been widely used in the church and still capture the hearts of young and old in any religion today. Coincidence?
I'm not saying we have to go back to '80s arena rock. It's not everyone's thing, and that's cool. But can we at least kill this hipster music thing so we can have a resurgence in inspiring music? Please?


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Microsoft Corp. will give away its upcoming Windows 10 operating system as a free upgrade to users of the most recent versions of Windows and Windows Phone.
The strategy is a calculated gamble for Microsoft, designed to put Windows in as many devices as possible as the world's largest software company tries to retain customers in the mobile era, Reuters reported.
The firm will try to make up for any lost revenue by selling services such as Office over the internet, or cloud.
"It's a necessary evil, as CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft have recognized the 'golden goose' and major revenue opportunities will happen after the upgrades have taken place," the report quoted Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, as saying.
The immediate impact on revenue is unlikely to be large, as Microsoft gets no more than US$500 million of its US$20 billion or so in annual Windows revenue from upgrades, analysts said.
The bulk of Windows revenue comes from hardware makers that install it on new personal computers and businesses that pay for multiyear licenses.
Windows appears on roughly 15 percent of computing devices, including phones and tablets. Microsoft lags Apple Inc. and Google Inc., which regularly update their operating software free for customers.
Microsoft also unveiled a holographic lens device that allows users to see three-dimensional renderings of computer-generated images.
Microsoft HoloLens will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn, a Microsoft executive said.
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Hit the road Jack....
>> Sunday, July 27, 2008
It's about time for me to hit the road. The road to convention that is. Stampin' Up! Convention. I'm Salt Lake City, Utah bound. WOOHOO!!!!!!!
I am so excited. I can't stand it. I want to go now!!!! NOW! Too bad my plane doesn't leave until Tuesday (figures).
"My bags are packed. I'm leaving...." Oops! Not yet. My bags are NOT packed. The only thing packed right now is my sinuses. I've had a terrible head/cold/sinus/congestion/allergy something going on all week. I was able to taste food yesterday, and today I can taste AND smell food! Hopefully I'll be over it by tomorrow night.
My friends, Tammy & Debbie (and Debbie's mom that I haven't met yet, but I'm sure we'll be friends) and I are headin' out to Nashville tomorrow night. Our flight leaves early on Tuesday. We have a lay-over in Atlanta. How weird is that. Get on a plane in Nashville, fly to Atlanta, and THEN fly to Salt Lake City. Somebody made a "screwy" flight pattern.... heehee. We also have a lay-over in Atlanta on the way back too. Crazy!
Anyway. I plan on having a BLAST at convention. This is my first one. It's also Stampin' Up!'s 20th anniversary. I'm sure we will be treated royally well at this one. There is only one session this year instead of two. I think there are 6000+ registered. It should be a super-fun time.


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Lamar Odom and Khloé Kardashian have left their detached ways — nonetheless that doesn't meant he has any ill will towards her.
During Wednesday's part of Complex's Everyday Struggle, a former NBA star non-stop adult about his stream attribute with his ex-wife, whom PEOPLE recently reliable is awaiting her initial child with her boyfriend, Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson.
Though he didn't criticism on a pregnancy, Odom, 37, seemed to prove that a dual are cordial, nonetheless they don't pronounce regularly.
When asked if he is "still cool" with Kardashian, he replied, "I mean, from a distance."
"I wish her well," he added. "Still got adore for her."
Odom also suggested that he's drifted detached from Kanye West, who is married to his ex-wife's sister Kim Kardashian West.
"Kanye is a good dude," he said. "He was there for me when we was in a coma, he was there for me when we woke up."
"I would contend [our relationship] substantially run-down with all a other relations that were built," he added. "But it's like that sometimes. It'd substantially be uncanny [to hit Kanye now]. But I would have no problem with it."
Odom and Kardashian, 33, wed on Sept. 27, 2009 — one month to a day after they met, and 9 days after removing engaged. In 2013, a matrimony began to fall apart following Odom's cheating scandal and drug relapse, and by December, Kardashian had filed for divorce.
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Outdoor wrought iron furniture available in the market will certainly complement and blend with your indoor home décor style. Benefits and advantages of iron furniture are many.
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- It can deal with extreme weather making it durable and long lasting
- It blends well with every style may it be traditional or contemporary
- Wrought iron is malleable and tough, so can be shaped into fashionable themes
- Artisans can create intricate and beautifully designed patio furniture using garden motifs like plants, flowers, and wood nymphs
- It is an easy material to clean
- It is heavy, strong, and sturdy, which makes it uncomfortable to use but quality cushions resolves this issue
Good quality iron furniture has been passed down from one generation to another. Investing in quality wrought iron patio furniture bought from online Arteferro Store is worthy. You can enjoy it with your family for lifetime.
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- Heavy and solid, so iron material is suitable for windy locations, where light furniture may get blown away. Never expect it to be easily portable.
- Iron, when exposed to moisture will rust, if it does not carry a protective finish. Therefore, select an iron patio furniture with quality powder coated paint finish.
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- If it is mesh wrought iron furniture piece then check the edges where mesh meets the frame, it needs to be clean.
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Latitude: 51.9355 / 51°56'7"N
Longitude: -1.3887 / 1°23'19"W
OS Eastings: 442120
OS Northings: 226507
OS Grid: SP421265
Mapcode National: GBR 7V9.PQ4
Mapcode Global: VHBZB.WM53
Entry Name: Pear Tree Cottage
Listing Date: 27 August 1956
Last Amended: 18 May 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1052500
English Heritage Legacy ID: 251946
Location: Sandford St. Martin, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, OX7
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Sandford St. Martin
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Sandford St Martin
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
SP4226 (North side)
14/136 Pear Tree Cottage
27/08/56 (Formerly listed as House
immediately to South of
Southfield Farmhouse)
Farmhouse, now house. Late C17, possibly with earlier features. Limestone ashlar
and rubble; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roof with ashlar gable stacks.
3-unit cross-passage plan, now partly altered, with rear service range. 2
storeys plus attic. 3-window ashlar front has leaded stone-mullioned windows of
2, 3 and 2 lights on both floors plus a chamfered stone doorway to left of
centre; continuous moulded drip over ground floor openings. Stacks have plinths
and moulded caps, and the roof has been extended to right over a cart entry with
former loft above. Rear has further mullioned windows and a central gabled stair
tower. Left end wall is in random rubble and may be earlier; it returns to a
single-storey service range. Interior: large open fireplace with cambered
stop-chamfered bressumer and bread oven; similar fireplace with bread oven in
rear wing; winder stairs to attics; butt-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: SP4212026507
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09 Jun Hands and neck rejuvenation with Medical Chemical Peels
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The Chemical peel treatment is a quick, simple and painless treatment that involves the application of various acids at different concentrations or compositions, depending on the type of skin, which epidermal exfoliation effect will be mild, moderate or deep under the skin alterations to be treated. They may also be other body sites.
We stimulate the production of collagen and elastin causing a rejuvenating effect and the treated area will appear rejuvenated , bright, smooth and free from impurities.
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- Will improve skin quality by epidermal regeneration.
- Reaffirm and remodeled treated areas by collagen stimulation.
- Relax depth of wrinkles.
- Provide uniformity and light skin.
- Improve skin elasticity.
- Increasing the consistency by redensification of treated areas.
- Improve acne scars or old injuries.
- Will stimulate the production of collagen and elastin.
- Attenuate or delete skin stains.
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- Diminish the size of the pores.
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What type of chemical peel is right for me?
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The Superficial Peel is intended to eliminate fine wrinkles, age spots and acne in people who do not want or can not afford a visible peeling because it only leaves a slight redness that disappears within a few hours. Can be applied weekly or with in intervals of one or two weeks.. It is recommended to be apply at least one every season.
The Medium Peel is intended to remove superficial wrinkles and pigmented lesions and acne extended active phase. Redness greater and more visible desquamation, dry skin shedding. Practically not alter normal social life. It can be applied again at six weeks.
The Deep Peeling is intended to eliminate deep wrinkles, photo-aging of high average degree, acne scar status and circumscribed pigmentation. Redness of the skin is intense for 3 or 4 days and severe scaling for up to 10 days. The normal social life can be altered for about a week. Is performed in a sesión. It can be reapplied after 3 months.
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Can I combine it with other Body Therapies?
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