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Is there anything more intriguing than a courtroom drama? Full or predictability and uncertainty at the same time? The cast of characters known and clearly defined, yet a mystery. The police who are charged with enforcing the law but always suspected of using it for their own ends. The surly judge, the bureaucratic prosecutor, the witnesses who can sink or save a case on the turn of a phrase. The jurors, the most mysterious of them all, that band of unknowable everyday folk, who sit stoned faced day after day, listening (or are they sleeping with their eyes open?). The defense attorney fighting an uphill battle against what seems to be inevitable.
They're all here and more in Margaret McLean's new novel, Under Oath. The story takes place in Robert-Parker-Land, more commonly known as Boston Mass. Ms McLean cites Aeschylus: It is not the oath that makes us believe the man but the man the oath. I'd guess Aeschylus never lived in the one square mile of Boston known as Charlestown where the motto of the living is: see nothing, hear nothing, never talk to cops. There's even a program that, a first blush, sounds like it might be a kind of Head-Start after school thing. It's called the After Murder Program. I's run by the church for mothers whose sons and daughters are victims of murder. This group provides an added weight to the courtroom as they sit day after day in the front row, wearing matching shirts, bearing silent witness.
The novel has a strong visual quality, the scenes, or chapters, are short and to the point. To add to the visual effect several oil paintings, one in particular, are at the center of the case. Annie Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, is a striking, tall redheaded Irish/Asian who everyone considers too good to be doing what she's doing, where she's doing it. Why is she is Boston? This question comes up a number of times. Could it be she has a score to settle?
Buddy Clancy, an aged defense attorney is sly, shrewd and capable. And maybe worse than that, he's likeable. To add to the novel's visual quality he wears decorative bow ties themed to the action in the courtroom. Callahan, the seasoned detective, can't seem to catch a break and winds up on the wrong side of almost everyone at one time or another. It makes you want to iron his suit or something, anything to help him out.
And then to my personal favorite characters, Elaine Wilson and Louie Henderson, jurors both. Louie has had a baloney sandwich, with chunks of butter and mayo on Wonder Bread, for his lunch his whole adult life and he's not about to change. Elaine Wilson can't get enough of the free buffet lunch provided to jurors and just shakes her head at Louie and his baloney. She also can't seem to follow the judge's instructions. She will read and watch anything that has to do with the case, she can't wait to get home and phone her friends about it, she's infuriating. And she lives in that one square mile of heaven called Charlestown.
The book is an easy read, a page turner. The dialogue is often crisp without being terse. We can hope Ms McLean will continue to embellish these characters in future works.
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I was standing in the check-out line at the local Walmart (in Central City,Ky) when the line was stopped. The cashier refused to check the lady ahead of me because she was buying beer. Me, being me, asked what the problem was? The clerk said she couldn't scan the beer because "It"s against my religious convictions". So the lady with the beer, and I, had to wait until a manager was called up to scan the beer onto the ticket.
I laughed about it. It's so outlandish! So, the question is if a person can't (or won't) do their job because of their their religion, should they have the job? I say no. They should either do the job or quit but don't hold up innocent bystanders due to your beliefs.
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I see your having problems with shifty Walmart employees as well, we should start a boycott.
Maybe she should get a job at the Mennonite store!
If your religious convictions prevent you from doing your job you either have the wrong job or the wrong convictions!
I bet she's pentecostal. Or maybe southern baptist. Being from this narrow area of the bible belt it's a sure bet it's one of them.
@Chelle Walter...don't look for a job at Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby, either.... LOL!
Duh. These fanatics don't understand that their imaginary friend drank both wine and beer. I don't know if beer is mentioned in the buybull, except for place names like Beersheba, but wine certainly is. I do believe that every culture on earth brewed some form of beer,, and everyone drank it, including children (usually "small beer"). It was safer than most local water.
"...the inhabitants of ancient Israel drank beer, and wines made from fruits other than grapes, and references to these appear in scripture."
I wonder what sect that checker belonged to that didn't even allow her to touch beer in aluminum cans that were wrapped in cardboard. I think her manager should have given her ONE more chance...maybe talk to her about the difference between touching a package and actually consuming any alcohol (except I've dealt with "managers" who aren't any smarter than their employees). One chance, and if she still pitched a fit...unemployment.
Same deal for pharmacists who won't dispense prescribed contraceptives. If they own the drug store, they should put up a large sign that it's against their policy to fill such prescriptions. If they work for someone else, then they need to look for another job. Flipping burgers, maybe.
Agreed - I'm not exactly going to apply for a job at the local christian book store!
As far as being a conscientious objector it only applied if you were affiliated with a monotheistic religion. As far as I have read you simply were not moral enough to be a conscientious objecter if you were an atheist and didn't receive the proper peacefull messages downloaded directly into your brain by some sort of cosmological Santa Claus. Hello, atheist cannon fodder, strap on or face execution!
some places have a sign about where you can check out liquor. In the progressive state of NJ, there is serious concern that even touching an alcoholic beverage package by someone under the calendar age of 21 will cause the universe to implode, or, at least destroy that persons morality, we have people who can't ring you up because of age.
Both the religious and the secular taboo are equally stupid.
The one thing I agreed with former Illinois Governor, now federal inmate, Blagojevich (who's nickname in the Prairie State was a slang term for fellatio), was when he came down against pharmacists who wouldn't fulfill birth control prescriptions. They could either fill them or have their State license pulled.
I have no problem if someone doesn't want to do a job based upon religious or moral convictions. Prior to the all volunteer military, there was the draft status of conscientious objector. And, given the Hippocratic Oath, I can't understand how a doctor can, in good conscience, act as an executioner. But, as I often said referring to a time when the Popes were Italian and I was rebelling against the church, "You no lika da rule, you no playa da game.",
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Thread: Kegel while jelqing/stretching
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Hi All,
One question to all PEers who jelq and manual stretch
While jelqing, do you kegel?
Are you aware that while jelquing, how you are breathing?, kegelling or reverse kegels.
I am keeping a close eye on what I am doing.
When I jelq, I am aware that I am sometimes doing a semi-kegel( sort of like holding your pee). Everytime I feel I am doing that, then I immediately reverse kegel for the duration of the jelq session. I dont know which one is the right or combination of both.
Anyone care to add to this,
How are you doing it? And have you been having gains.
The reason I am asking is because I read some posts from Walk-in, and he mentioned that he jelqs before he takes a piss in the morning, this would mean he is kind of in a semi kegel, or full kegel state (holding back his piss) while jelquing. His gains are impressive to say the least I wonder if kegel at the right time during the jelq or stretch has anything to do with his gains.
Another question is
Stretching Are you in a kegel or reversal kegel state when stretching (or are you even aware, if not then the next time you stretch, take a note of how you are reacting.
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I really don't pay attention to my breathing much, but I do kegal when jelqing and/or stretching. While holding the stretch, I do quick kegals.
While jelqing, I throw in the kegal here and there if I think my erection is too low and it needs some additional blood.
- 09-12-2010 #3
When you jelq, you can intensity to the exercise by doing a strong kegel just before gripping your penis: you'll have more blood trapped but take it easy, it can be really tough, especially if your erection is already above 70%. I don't know whether reverse kegels while jelqing could have an effect. I just can't see how... For my part, I kegel from time to time while jelqing but just to maintain my erection level, as Waylander does.
For the stretching part, the effect of the kegel is adding intensity to the stretch 5it's a part of JP's 90 days beginner routine. I do the same.
I try to pay much attention to my breathing during my workout, especially while I jelq because theorically, i could probably have significant benefits (https://www.pegym.com/forums/pe-theo...e-session.html). I try also to visualise my goal and this too is really important in my opinionIl vaut mieux mobiliser son intelligence sur des conneries que mobiliser sa connerie sur des choses intelligentes.
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I frequently Kegel while stretching and I sometimes do reverse jelqs. When I do, I Kegel while doing so to increase the pressure on the internal portions of the corpora. About a third or so of each corpus cavernosum is internal so you obviously can't jelq to the end of it. I think kegeling provides a counter pressure to better expand that end of the corpora.
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normal guy thanks for the link to breathing during PE session, I knew breathing was important, but reading the post gave me some more helpful info. I also make sure I breathe properly during my session, infact I count in breathing cycles, just so I dont forget. 1 breath in and 1 breath out is 2 cycles. So with my stretching each set consists of 15 breathing cycles, about 15 to 20 seconds. This pretty much gaurantees I am breathing properly.
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by the way what is your take on Walk-in's jelqing before pissing?
- 09-13-2010 #7Il vaut mieux mobiliser son intelligence sur des conneries que mobiliser sa connerie sur des choses intelligentes.
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When doing my girth work I do three strong kegels, building up the intensity with each one. And just like Normal said, with that fresh influx of additional blood is the perfect time to secure your grip to begin whatever girth exercise you are about to do.BPEL 7.3", MEG 6.7", FL 6.0", MFG 5.75"
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- 09-13-2010 #9
For me, kegels, btb jelqs, the angle of my jelq (pointing my penis anywhere from straight down, to straight up), all these things help me control bloodflow--that & concentration. I haven't mastered it yet, but I'm working on it. Ideally you could keep a partial erection & never go too high/ too low. I still struggle with this at times.
I don't kegel while stretching-- I never saw a need, although there are some very intense types of stretches invented by Big Al which involve kegels. Those stretches & more can all be found through the link in my signature "PE Links".
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Arabic has given us many common, ordinary words, such as apricot, syrup and chemistry, that do not look particularly Arabic. This week we look at some less-familiar words, from Arabic, that retain a Middle-Eastern flavor.
Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina, in 622 A.D., is called the Hagira, from hajara "to depart". (The Muslim calendar begins in this year, equivalent to our year 1.) Hence:
hagira - an exodus or departure
Some dictionaries define hegira as a flight to escape danger. t is often used this way (see first quote), but "from danger" need not be an element (see second quote, perhaps familiar from a few days ago).
– New Republic, Dec. 5, 2002
Invited to write and deliver a poem …, [Bret] Harte had showed up late, his poem unfinished. He had tried to wing it with some other verse he'd brought along; the verse was blatantly irrelevant to the occasion, and the press that had kept track of his great eastward hegira several weeks earlier pronounced him "A Fizzle."
– Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life
loofah – a scratchy bath-sponge, made from the fibrous insides of the fruit of the loofah plant (seems to be rather popular nowadays)
[from lufah, the name of the plant in Egyptian Arabic (botanical name Luffa ægyptiaca)]
– MSNBC, May 25, 2007
The loofah's abrasive texture tones your skin, stimulates healthy circulation and leaves your skin soft and smooth with a rosy glow.
– Greeley (CO) Daily Tribune, Apr. 26, 1976 (advert)
With apricot, Arabic is only one stage in the development. The word comes into English from Spanish albaricoque, from Arabic albarqūq, from Greek berikokkon, from Latin praecoquum, from PIE *pekʷ-, *kʷekʷ-. It's cognate with cook, precocious, and of course pukka.This message has been edited. Last edited by: goofy,
Today's word comes from Arabic through Turkish. Its cognates in Arabic include manarat "lighthhouse", manar "candlestick", nar "fire", a rather nice progression.
minaret – a slender tower of a mosque, with a balcony from which a crier (the muezzin) calls Muslims to prayer
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
masjid – a mosque (also musjid)
From the Decemberists song "Constantinople"
giaour - an infidel; a non-Muslim, esp. a Christian
[from Persian "fire-worshipper," originally applied Zoroastrians]
In our thought-provoking first quote, where Zorba recalls his youth, the term is used almost affectionately. But in general it is a term of contempt, as in the other quotes.
– Nikos Kazantzakisw Zorba the Greek
You are a usurer and a money-lender. All Armenian swine are usurers and money-lenders. You unclean giaours are responsible for the wretchedness of our people.
– Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
The Turks at this day count us no better than of dogs, so they commonly call us giaours, infidels, miscreants, mave that their main quarrel and cause of Christian persecution.
– Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Carroll did have that misunderstanding, for whatever reason, and it shows up in his famous poem Jabberwocky. In the Alice books, Humpty-Dumpty explains some of the poem's odd words. But when Carroll had privately published the first stanza some years earlier, he had different explanations:
– Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics edition)
dura mater – the outermost membrane (of three) enveloping the brain and spinal cord
Latin loan-translation of Arabic umm al-dimagh as-safiqa, "thick mother of the brain." Says Klein, "In Arabic, the words 'father,' 'mother,' and 'son' are often used to denote relationships between things." Wonder if this is where Saddam Hussein got his "Mother of all Wars".
The dura mater is the toughest and the outermost of three such layers. The other two are the the arachnoid mater and the pia mater. The three collecively are called the meninges (singular meninx).
– MaxHealth.com, NC, May 25, 2007
Interesting! I wonder if Bob saw this.
Like yesterday's giaour, today's term is a usually-contemptuous word for "someone not of our kind".
feinghee – a European (term used in India)
[from Old French Franc + Arabic. ethnic suffix -i. Why did the r-sound move so that FRanc became FeRingee? Because the fr- sound is not possible in Arabic.]
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, ch. XII
I … had the happy idea of presenting one of my own pistols on the spot to the Kahn's son …. He shouted with delight, and his eyes shone as he handled the weapon – I was off to a good start.
. . .Then once of the courtiers came forward, and I felt a prickle up my spine as I looked at him. … "I can kill parrots with a sling," he said. "Are the feringhee pistols good for anything else?"
. . .Sher Afzul damned his eyes, more or less, for casting doubt on his fine new weapons, and thrusting one into the fellow's hand, told him to try his luck. And to my amazement, the brute turned straight about, drew a bead on one of the slaves working in the garden, and shot him on the spot.
– George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman: A Novel
Hindi ferengi, from Persian from Arabic, is a current derogatory term for westerners. It's also apparently where they got the name for the Star Trek race.
kismet – fate; fortune; destiny
[from Arabic qisma, portion, lot, from qasama, to divide, allot]
– Gigi Levangie Grazer, The Starter Wife
A reader sent me the following. Based on it, I question whether feinghee is truly from European Franc (as my sources state) rather than from hingi rang.
You might ask your friend if "feinghee" could be a local mispronunciation of "foreigner," like farang in Thai.
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The Turks at this day count us no better than of dogs, so they commonly call us giaours, infidels, miscreants, mave that their main quarrel and cause of Christian persecution.
– Robert Burton, [i]The Anatomy of Melancholy
just figured i'd take the time and put in my two cents.. the word.. as we "Turks" call it these days.. 'gavur', is really no longer based on religious bases, its more of a word used to describe someone that is not Turkish, a foreigner.. but i can do see some religious backround to it, for we dont call arab's that.. nor do we call anyone that is muslim the word.. but we call anyone that is i guess none musliman.. but i really do believe that at this point the younger generations really, use the word really to describe a foreigner.. that they arent very fond of.. its really not a word devived through hatred, its just a way to point out a foreigner.. im sure back in the old days.. it did have alot more weight to it.. but in these modern times, i dont see it being used in a way that brings hatred.. but rather.. and indifference..
The Hindi word is not Sanskrit, since it contains /f/ which is not a Sanskrit sound. I see no reason to doubt the OED.
The term Frank was used by and for the Crusaders during their many attempts to "reconquor" the Holy Land. The etymology of ferengi is the only one I've seen in dictionaries. Angrezi from English and gora (literally 'white' in Urdu) are other terms one sees, at least, in a South Continental context.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Pekin, we have a rule here. Each new member is required to drink one beer for every greeting he receives.
Hi Pekin. If you pop round to shu's house you can ask him for another beer now. I know for a fact that he always has a houseful of great beer.
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New Raiffeisen experience world planned in Emsdetten
"Those wishing to survive in today's retail landscape must start with a convincing profile, fitting range and consistent customer orientation," emphasises Christoph Kempkes, Member of the Managing Board at AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Raiffeisen store in Emsdetten at the start of December. "We live and breathe customer proximity" is the successful motto with a regional orientation implemented in an exemplary manner at the new Raiffeisen store in Emsdetten.
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- The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the new Raiffeisen store in Emsdetten was attended by (from left): Claus Stottrop, Renate Stottrop, Jörg Stottrop (investor and owner), Stefan Chmura (Managing Director, Raiffeisen-Markt Emsdetten GmbH), Jörg Mohr (Managing Director, Raiffeisen-Markt Emsdetten GmbH), Thomas Wiesner (Head of the Stores Division, AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG), Georg Moenikes (Mayor of Emsdetten), Ralf Haverkamp (Architect), Reinhard Möllers (CEO, Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG), Christoph Kempkes (Member of the Managing Board, AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG), Martin Walbelder (Managing Director, Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG) and Heinz Heitmann (Member of the Managing Board, Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG)
The new store is a joint project of AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG and Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG, who will run the store together within the newly-established jointed venture, Raiffeisen-Markt Emsdetten GmbH. Jörg Stottrop from Emsdetten is the owner and investor. A model store and reference for Raiffeisen stores is planned with a shop design and range concept developed according to modern principles. The creation of experience worlds combined with an individual customer orientation – these two challenges of modern retail are to be implemented in a professional manner at the Raiffeisen store in Emsdetten. The shop design will focus on emotionalisation. "The strengths of the cooperatives and Raiffeisen stores will be emphasised according to the motto of 'We live and breathe customer proximity': the reflection on the rural roots and local products. Local ties, the range's top quality and first-rate advice are our trumps," explains Thomas Wiesner, Manager of the AGRAVIS Stores division.
A site of around 6,000 m² in size is available at Grevener Damm 93 in Emsdetten. "A modern retail venue will be established here in the coming months," describes Martin Walbelder, Managing Director of Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG. In the coming year, product ranges for pets, fish, horse riding, gardening and functional clothing will be showcased here on a retail space of around 3,500 m². The store is due to open in spring 2016.
The store concept developed by Terres Marketing + Consulting GmbH, a subsidiary of AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, will be implemented for the interior design and store layout. As the system headquarters, Terres Marketing + Consulting Systemzentrale offers a holistic retail concept for Raiffeisen stores and is the franchiser for the Raiffeisen store in Emsdetten.
"Customer orientation is a key concept in future-oriented retail and this will also be emphasised at the new location," assert Jörg Mohr and Stefan Chmura, the Managing Directors of Raiffeisen-Markt Emsdetten GmbH. "Emsdetten can look forward to a modern location that will fill a gap in the local retail market." What's more, the Raiffeisen store will offer customers a wide range of services.
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Raiffeisen Bever-Ems eG operates a comprehensive agricultural business with a focus on animal feed in addition to six of its own Raiffeisen stores. In 2014, it generated turnover totalling € 81.6 million.


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Should dance be considered a sport? Should dancers be considered athletes?
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Hello there :) 2000 this time, very nice.
Let be ask you a few questions:
I'd say no to all.
Want to know the truth?
A sport is exactly as you defined it.
A runner doesn't run to entertain as much as to set records and earn money for it.
A swimmer doesn't swim to entertain (In fact if I'm not watching someone of Michael Phelps' level I get quite bored viewing it) they swim to do a certain speed and earn medals.
Dancing is like sex. You learn special moves and routines that are both pleasurable to the soul to do and, when done with others can ultimately entertain viewers very much. You have a coach/director and merely do it for the physically and emotionally pleasurable sensation and only earn money due to SUBJECTIVE taste. In boxing there is always ONE winner for a DEFINITE amount of points earned, in dancing there's no objective measure of points.
A sport requires an objective measure of skill of some kind and unfortunately dancing offers no such structure to the judging.
Dancing is an art for entertaining the viewer and just like most men would probably agree on an amazing porno and a crap porno, they would also rate it very differently because of their personal emotional response to the performance.
As I have previously stated (for those of you that don't know, RationalMadman and I have already had this debate) dance IS judged based on an objective measure of skill. Take a Starbound national competition in the USA for example. There are several different sets of criteria based on the age group of the dancers and the type of dance. Dancers are judged based on technique just like an Olympic diver or gymnast would be judged. Dancers are judged based on the preciseness of their turns, the height of their jumps, etc. Doing an aerial with flexed feet or bent legs would result in a deduction of points. And this does NOT just apply to ballet. There are different sets of criteria that each dancer is judged on based on the type of routine, whether it's lyrical, contemporary, jazz, acro, etc. COMPETITIVE dancers compete to earn titles and win medals just like any other athlete; they do not perform simply for entertainment. These competitions DO have an objective measure of points; dancers are NOT judged based on the mood of the judge or how it makes the judge feel although the emotion portrayed by the dancer does play a part in the judging. Being a competitive dancer myself, I am fully aware of what I am judged on at each competition that I attend and I can assure you that there is an objective measure of points.
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Today, I was at KOMO4 TV interpreting His Holiness, Dalai Lama's discussion with the
panelists. They were talking about spirituality, healing the body and heart and spreading the seeds of compassion everywhere. Dalai Lama is visiting Seattle for five days and spreading his message of love and compassion. I feel honored and privileged to listen to his comments along with some of the wise, learned people and altruistic youngsters that were present there, sharing their views.
Talking about healing the heart and the body, a great food that helps heal is Khichari. Turmeric is also great for healing common colds and cough. When it rains or the weather is chilly, I usually like to eat Khichari. My daughter is also a big fan of a simple split urad daal khichari. Khichari goes well with accompaniments such as mango pickle, crunch rice papad or potato chips, soy yogurt and a few drops of olive or vegetable oil.
Ingredients for Khichari
1 cup rice
1/2 cup split urad daal
5 cup water
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp coarsely chopped ginger
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Rinse the rice and daal several times until the water runs clear. Add the contents, water, salt, ginger and oil to a pressure cooker on high heat. Close the lid of the pressure cooker. After the second whistle turn the stove off. Let the pressure release and open the cooker. Mix well and serve warm.
I usually serve Khichari with rice appalams that you can buy at your local Indian grocery store and I fry them at home. I also serve Khichari with mango pickle, my favorite. You can substitute it with your favorite pickle.
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Interesting - I have never made khichari with urad dal before. Only moong, toor or channa dal. I will definitely try this. Please see my blog for pictures of me making khichari: http://mangosoup.blogspot.com/2009/08/cauliflower-and-pea-khichari.html
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Let me know how you find the urad daal version of khichari.
Thanks for writing.
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Lancaster University is playing a major part in a new research centre dedicated to the investigation of higher education and its future.
The ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), led by the UCL Institute of Education, will formally open in October this year. Its core purposes are to improve higher education, advise on its future development, foster innovations, and expand its contributions to public and private good in both the local and global domains.
Professor Paul Ashwin from Lancaster's Department of Educational Research will head a large research project on knowledge and student learning, and take special responsibility for emerging researchers and networks of established social scientists.
The project Paul Ashwin is leading will examine how students' identities are transformed by engaging with knowledge in undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. This will involve researching students on degree programmes in the UK and South Africa and builds on his involvement in earlier ESRC-funded research which examined students' experiences of studying undergraduate degrees in Sociology.
Professor Ashwin said: "I am delighted that Lancaster is involved in such an important development in research into higher education. The Centre will allow an international team of leading researchers to examine fundamental questions about higher education at a local, national and global level. At Lancaster we have one of the longest established and largest group of higher education researchers in the UK and we are very excited about participating in such a significant centre for higher education research."
The new Centre has been established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and jointly funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), at a time of unprecedented growth and change in higher education. Recognising that higher education and science are now global activities, the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) will work with universities and governments in the UK and across the world to increase our practical knowledge about higher education.
The Centre will support three major research programmes investigating higher education from global, national and local perspectives, and a rolling cycle of engagement with practitioners and policy makers to secure the benefits of the Centre's research and expertise.
This new venture draws on the talents of 25 collaborative researchers who will carry out 13 specific projects using a range of methods of inquiry. The CGHE is a partnership of the UCL Institute of Education, Lancaster University and the University of Sheffield, working also with leading researchers of higher education from the Netherlands, Ireland, United States, Australia, South Africa, China, Hong Kong SAR and Japan. It will consider UK higher education with fresh eyes, while helping to position the UK as a global leader in higher education and research.
Higher Education is becoming an increasingly global sector with cross-border students growing at twice the rate of all students. For example in 2012-13 over 300,000 non-EU students studied in the UK, generating £7 billion to the economy. More than half of all school leavers in Europe, North America and Asia now go on to higher education. Yet despite the vast international scale of higher education, and its influence on society and the economy, up till now this sector has been less researched than other major social sectors such as health, manufacturing industry and government.
Research projects will cover a range of issues shaping the effectiveness of higher education in the future, including teaching and learning, learning technologies, research, system organisation, new providers, management, governance, academic capacity, financing and sustainability, social access to higher education, student loans and affordability, graduate labour markets, research collaboration with industry, and internationalisation.
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Vincent Price once lived on Swallow Drive, just up the hill from the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, in a house full of art. The actor, who was both connoisseur and also the deliriously over-the-top investigator of evil as the mad Dr. Rappaccini in the 1963 horror flick"Twice-Told Tales," needed but drive five minutes to enter into the enthralling grip of one of the most refined gardens in the county.
Would Price have been right for the title character of Gotham Opera's production of "La Hija de Rappaccini," an early opera by Daniel Catán that had an unusual outdoor performance at Greystone just before sunset Saturday? The opera and a segment of the film both take their impetus from Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale, "Rappaccini's Daughter," in which a scientist cultivates poisonous plants in his desire to manipulate mankind. I like the image of the Master of Menace, as Price was dubbed, wandering among the manicured horticulture that oil baron Edward L. Doheny was once able to cultivate thanks to his exploiting local and Mexican markets.
The story is of an Italian scientist, Rappaccini, and his most extravagant bloom, his lovely daughter Beatrice, raised on poison and now herself lethal. A young medical student arrives in medieval Padua and falls in love with her, but to touch her is to die.
Catán's opera was inspired by Octavio Paz's play based on Hawthorne's short story. The Mexican poet and Nobel laureate traced the origins of the tale to India, and Catán went even further afield than that musically.
A popular Mexican composer who later settled in South Pasadena until his sudden death from heart failure at 62 two years ago, Catán found inspiration in "Rappaccini" from modernist Mexican literature, Japanese film and ancient court music, along with Indonesian gamelan. In "Rappaccini," Catán also discovered his inner Puccini.
Sensuous vocal lines sung in Spanish convey the sickly, sexy passion of the opera's lovers and the perverse gardener. The orchestra is a field of ravishing exotica, which alludes to the sinuous call of the Japanese flute and the glamorous clangor of the gamelan. It's as if all the world is out to seduce, which means — as we've now learned in the age of globalization and massive Internet overreaching — danger lurks.
Some but not all of that came through at Greystone. The production was imported from New York by the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, which is excitingly branching out. Gotham, a venturesome small company that finds intriguing sites to stage opera, first mounted "Rappaccini" last month in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With an orchestra impractical, the company used the occasion to premiere the composer's version of the opera for two pianos, elaborate percussion and harp. Especially harp. Catán wrote the extensive part for his wife, Andrea Puente Catán, who played it brilliantly Saturday.
As staged by Rebecca Taichman, Gotham's "Rappaccini" was treated as tidily as Doheny's formal gardens. Anita Yavich's period costumes were standard issue except for colorfully racy ones for three women who are meant to be voices of alluring flowers. Staged on what was once the mansion's pool area, there wasn't much in the way of overgrown foliage. A bed was the main prop.
Amplification at Greystone proved relatively crude, and the instrumental ensemble and conductor (Neal Goren) were a considerable distance from the stage. Balances sounded artificial, as though they were whatever a sound designer wanted them to be.
Still, much of what makes this opera remarkable managed to come through. However much sweetness and color orchestration loses in the clangorous chamber version, marvelous percussive effects create a different kind of exoticism, such as the harp glissandi contrasting with glissandi of strummed strings inside the piano.
The opera revolves mainly around the physical and psychological dissolution of Giovanni, the medical student whose idealism is threatened by his impossible attraction to Beatriz, as she is called in Spanish. Tenor Daniel Montenegro fell apart convincingly and lustfully.
Soprano Elaine Alvarez offered a Beatriz more regal than hothouse but able to soar. Baritone Eric Dubin's Rappaccini was stalwart rather than campily creepy (but that's creepy too). Tenor Brian Downen was sympathetic as the doctor who provides a hopeful anecdote to Beatriz's poisoned blood that ends up killing her. Ariana Wyatt, Cassandra Zoe Velasco and Nora Graham-Smith, the tamely enticing voices of the flowers, were also their personifications, slinking around Giovanni.
Site-specific opera is all the rage, and simply sitting outdoors in a beautiful late afternoon overcast light while a rare summer rain threatened created a sure sense of operatic occasion. And if for Gotham going outside the box didn't mean throwing away the packing material or really smelling the dangerous, desirable roses, at least the company is helping keep alive an opera with significant implications for our time.


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TROY - A research scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will talk to Troy University students Thursday about the 2020 mission to Mars.
Dr. Luther Beegle, deputy manager of the Planetary Science Section at the Pasadena, Calif. laboratory, will speak at 3 p.m. in Room 214 of the Math and Science Complex, hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Physics.
He earned a doctorate in astrophysics and a master of science in physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and taught at UAB from 1991 until 1997. He joined the JPL full time in 2001.
The focus of much of his work has been SHERLOC, which was selected for inclusion on the Mars 2020 Rover. The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals is a spectrometer that will provide fine-scale imaging and uses and ultraviolet laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy and detect organic compounds.
SHERLOC will be the first UV Raman spectrometer to fly to the surface of Mars and will provide complementary measurements with other instruments in the payload.


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Albert's Poetry Cafe "Keeping the Dream Alive!" with Helena September 22, 2009 - October 7, 2009
Contest Completed
Gold - Dream Within A Dream
Silver - LIFE IS A DREAM SHORT-LIVED
Bronze - Measuring Infinity
Albert - Forged Metal Dream Roll
Silver - LIFE IS A DREAM SHORT-LIVED
Bronze - Measuring Infinity
Albert - Forged Metal Dream Roll
Hello Poets!
I have chosen this line " ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM
IS BUT A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM" ----from the beautiful poem
below. Please include this phrase in your poem to qualify
for a prize.
A Dream Within A Dream
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Enjoy! Don't forget to include the line in your poem.
Contest ends October 7......so pick up your pens and go, go, go!!!
Here's my little contribution if you care to take a peek!
Not for consideration of course!!!
1st 2nd 3rd & Albert's Special Award
Helen Margaret CrutchettN.S.W., Australia
6 Contestants
6 Submissions
478 Views
Created Sep 23, 2009


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A guided tour through the books on sale at Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller with plentiful historical asides.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Suing Julius Streicher for Anti-Semitic Libel
Julius Streicher was the editor of Der Sturmer, a Nazi tabloid that most Nazis apparently were embarrassed by. Streicher's hate filled preaching against Jews would earn him a spot at Nuremberg, where he was hanged. I my mind he serves as the ultimate example of the limits of free speech. From the perspective of the Nuremberg prosecution, Streicher was not merely a journalist, who held anti-Semitic opinions and used the press to make his opinions known, but part of a conspiracy to facilitate the murder of Jews by dehumanizing them.
It is important to keep in mind the distinction advanced by John Stuart Mill. Speech in of itself causes no empirical harm to others and therefore is a protected liberty. Being able to pursue one's own good in one's own way as long as one does not cause physical harm to others means that one is free to hold any opinion, from the virtues of cannibalism to putting Jews into ovens, no matter how offensive they might be to others and engage in theoretical discussions with others about them even for the purpose of convincing others of the rightness of such opinions. The moment, though, that one speaks with the intention that other people act in a certain way, such speech ceases to be speech and becomes an action. If such "speech" leads to physical harm, such as people being stamped upon in the rush to exit a crowded theater after someone shouted fire, then it is no different from any other action that leads to physical harm. In the case of Nuremberg this principle was important as without it none of the defendents could likely have been charged; the criminal actions in question where actually carried out by other people. Most of the defendents simply gave orders; in Streicher's case he simply helped convince people to carry out those orders.
It should be noted that this restriction on speech is different from modern notions of banning hate speech. Hate speech is defined based on its ability to cause non-physical harm, such as feeling hurt and dehumanized, to others. For the purposes of hate speech it is irrelevant whether the speech actually caused physical harm or if it was intentional.
Streicher had an earlier brush with Jewish "censorship" in January of 1935 when Rabbi Solomon Gliksman of the Orthodox Congregation Ohel Yitzchak in Danzig attempted to sue him for libel. For those of you not familiar with post World War I Eastern European politics, Danzig was a politically oddity hanging between Germany and Poland. While Danzig was a German city, the Treaty of Versailles made it a "free city" under Polish control. Danzig fell under Nazi control in 1933, but because it technically was not German territory, it became the one "German" city in which Jews could legally strike back.
Gliksman wrote to the police chief and the attorney general, denouncing Streicher and Bruno Schnorkowski, the main distributer of Der Sturmer in Danzig:
They have transgressed against paragraph 166 of the Penal Code insofar as they have allowed to circulate about 300 copies of the "Sturmer" number 2, 1935, which contained expressions blaspheming God and His laws, in the period of the 7th till the 15th of January 1935, in the Free City of Danzig. There is no doubt that the abominable manner in which the "Sturmer" attacked Jehovah and the Bible has also offended the circles of the Churches existing within the jurisdiction of the Free City of Danzig. For Jehovah is obviously not only the "Jewish God", as the "Sturmer' informs his readers but the Universal God. "Jehovah" is the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, the group of four letters representing the ineffably holy name of the Supreme Being in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, which as is well known, forms the basis of the New Testament.
The assertion that the Holy Scriptures are a horribly criminal romance is then to be considered a detestable defamation of the Old Testament which constitutes preeminently the basis of all prevailing theological social and ethical concepts. Concerning this I call to witness the experts Count O'Rourke, Bishop of Danzig, Dr. Kalweit, the emeritus General Superintendent at Danzig, and Dr. J. Gruen, the Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Danzig. (Shlomo Gliksman, The Forgeries and Falsifications in the Antisemitic Literature and My Lawsuit against Julius Streicher & Co. pg. 86-87.)
Unfortunately for Gliksman, this attempt to, at the very least, stop the distribution of Der Sturmer in Danzig did not come to much. In April the attorney general wrote back:
A lawsuit against the Editor-in-Chief, the assistant editors and publishers of the "Sturmer" cannot be conducted in Danzig, since the accused live in Germany and are obviously not citizens of Danzig.
Concerning the worker Mr. Schnorkowski, the law-suit against him had to be discontinued for subjective reasons: As the "Sturmer" is not forbidden in Danzig, there is no reason to suppose that the defendant had even the slightest idea of becoming criminally liable by circulating these periodicals.
Finally, the conduct of an objective proceeding of confiscation, according to paragraph 42 of the Penal Code, is unnecessary as the editions of the "Sturmer" challenged by you are no more in stock circulation. For the same reason it is unnecessary to take a stand on the question of the guilt liability of the contents of the periodicals." (pg. 92.)
Note that Gliksman argument was not based on the liberal principals of Mill used at Nuremberg. Instead he argued based on a hate speech principles. Considering that the speech in question was against the Bible and that he wanted to call Catholic priests as friendly witnesses, it should be clear that hate speech is really just the traditional charge of blasphemy brought up to date to make it palatable to modern values.
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Amazon Canada: Panasonic Camcorder For $186.99
I was browsing the electronics section over on Amazon Canada, seeing what nice and shiny goodies they had available, and I spotted a deal on this Panasonic SDR-T50 Camcorder. The camcorder has been reduced from $329.95 down to $186.99, and it is available in red, blue or black.
Of course, I did a little googling to see if this was a good a deal as it sounded. I spotted that they are selling the same model for $299.99 at Henrys, $299.95 at Vistek, and Panasonic list the manufacturer's selling price as $299.99 also. So the sub $190 price from Amazon Canada seems good.
I cannot really say much about the technical specification as I am not very savvy on that front.
I will say that I also have a Panasonic camcorder that looks very similar to this one, only I have the full HD model. I do recommend Panasonic as a brand, I think they're very reliable.


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Hi Brett, could you send me a pic of the spare BOV you have? What price are you looking for? Thanks!
I might be interested in the Sport KISS that you have for sale. However, I live in Sweden and in your add you wrote that you only ship within the US or to Canada. Would you consider shipping the unit to me in Sweden?
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Thanks very much. Certainly there are plenty of good examples of (free) code to be borrowed out there, but then again the nature of the OS programmer is (sensibly or not) to want to code everything from scratch.
But then again, there's a balance to be struck between "I don't want to borrow any code" and "this would be really useful to users". There's a related project called "Partition Logic" (http://partitionlogic.org.uk) which is just a different configuration of Visopsys, meant to feature the Disk Mananger partitioning tool; people are clamouring for NTFS resizing support and in the end it probably makes sense to just port the Linux ntfsprogs code until I can get my head around NTFS. That porting attempt is underway at the moment.
Networking, on the other hand, I'm sure my initial attempt will be buggy and insecure but I at least want to give it a try!


text: There are plenty of places for Dude Ranch weddings in Colorado. This gallery features photos from a wedding at Lost Valley Ranch. Also check out the Aspen wedding gallery for photos from the T Lazy 7 guest ranch. When some people think Colorado they think 'cowboy' and if you hold your wedding at a dude ranch then you and all your family and friends will be able to get their cowboy on in a very unique way. Hope on your horse, ride off into the sunset in your wedding dress. Sounds like a pretty amazing photograph.


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For this baby boomer, it's jarring, and a little unsettling, to seeJimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child, Part II" being used to sell a truck. Wasn't rock and roll--at least the good stuff--supposed to be about maintaining a critical distance from corruptive influences such as the marketplace?
Then again, rock music is hardly the only cultural institution that hasachieved a rapprochement with--or, more bluntly, been co-opted by--institutions and forces it should have kept at arm's length. American evangelicalism (specifically, the white suburban variety) is even more captive in this regard than is the music of Hendrix. In fact, after reading Rodney Clapp's new book, "Border Crossings," it's hard to escape the conclusion that the principal problem with American evangelicalism is that it's so, well, American.
In many respects, the book is a follow-up to Clapp's 1996 book, "A PeculiarPeople," in which Clapp made the case that Christians--specifically, American evangelicals--ought to see themselves as a culture that functions independently of the mainstream. Instead of trying to serve as a "sponsoring chaplain" to American culture in the hope that people will love them, or to regain power and influence through politics, Christians should work at being an alternative to the "technologically-oriented" and "consumer-based" mainstream culture.
"Border Crossings" describes what's necessary for American evangelicals to be the kind of people Clapp described in his earlier work. Pulling this off requires that evangelicals first disavow what Clapp labels "foundationalism." According to Clapp, evangelicals believe that Christian truths are "available to rationally able, well-intended individuals quite apart from any particular tradition or social context." It may be hard to believe in our post-"Inherit the Wind" world, but evangelical faith is indeed dominated by a kind of rationalism, which says that the content of evangelical faith is expressed in propositions supposedly accessible to any "well-intended individual." The Bible is a sort of instruction manual, albeit one sometimes more difficult to interpret than what comes with Ikea furniture.
Instead of rationality, Clapp insists on the importance of context, of showing Christianity, not telling it. This places Clapp on a collision course with the closest thing evangelicals have to what Catholics call a "doctor of the church." Clapp takes issue with C.S. Lewis' insistence that both sides in a moral debate proceed as if they "had in mind some kind of rule of fair play or decent behavior or morality." In Lewis' England of the 1940s and '50s, this might have made sense, Clapp retorts. "But today our society is sufficiently pluralistic and candid that it is exactly different standards that seem to be at work."
As the musical group Tag Team put it, "Whoop! There it is." Clapp is sayingthat almost everything American evangelicals know about relating to theirnon-evangelical contemporaries is wrong, or at least outdated. Other Americans share neither their spiritual aspirations nor their moral reasoning. Sticking to the "foundationalist" script is not only unproductive, it's counterproductive. Why? Because in addition to assuming something about your interlocutor that isn't true, it "inclines us towards believing that those who disagree are necessarily benighted or ill-intentioned."
If these assumptions should be discarded, what should take their place?How should Christians commend "the faith once delivered to the saints" totheir contemporaries? Clapp argues that American churches should become realcommunities "that [teach] people the language and culture that enables themto know Jesus as Lord...it is the church in the fullness of its life--not primarily its arguments--that draws others to consider the Christian faith. Instead of trying to persuade people, Christians should work at creating a viable alternative to the mainstream.
To achieve this alternative, Christians should shed the individualismthat characterizes both modernity and American evangelicalism. In it's placewould be a corporate identity, a community whose life would be shaped bythe rehearsing of "The Great Story" of God's gracious saving of His people,as Lewis once put it. Creating this alternative requires a greater appreciation for the liturgy and the celebration of the Eucharist in which Christians remember Christ's death, resurrection, and coming again in glory.
Anyone who has spent any time around American evangelicalism can guess how foreign this vision is to most evangelicals. Evangelical faith places hugeemphasis on the individual and the idea of a personal relationship withGod. And the less said about liturgy, the better. The countercultural Christianity Clapp is advocating would require nothing less than a reinvention of the species Evangelicus Americanus.
The reinvention would also reshape American evangelicalism's approach to politics. As Clapp points out in the essay entitled "Calling the ReligiousRight to Its Better Self," the Christian right can be fairly understood as"the latest manifestation of the evangelical refusal to accept the passingof American Constantinianism--which basically mean's evangelicalism's ownhegemony over the culture." With no real sense of what it means to be thechurch--what Christians call an ecclesiology--evangelicals depend onbeing American--and Americans being Christian--as their sole source of acorporate identity. Little wonder so much of the "religious right's" rhetoric is characterized by fear and sense of crisis. There's no plan "B."
Recovering the sense of being the church and seeing ourselves as a peculiarpeople would change this tone. While Christians would continue to speakon issues such as abortion, sexual ethics, and hopefully add others suchas poverty at home and debt relief in the world, the goal wouldn't beto "roll back the culture" or otherwise reclaim some lost hegemony. Instead,Christians would bear witness to what it means to worship the "author oflife." Would people respond differently? Probably not. But that wouldn't bethe goal.
While Clapp's views put him in a minority among American evangelicals, he's hardly alone. Within the past year, books such as "Blinded by Might" by Ed Dobson(no, not that Dobson!) and columnist Cal Thomas have expressed similar misgivings about the form and goals of evangelicalism's engagement with the culture. For their trouble, they've been caricatured as "defeatists" and "quietists"--content to pray in church while the culture goes up in flames.
The stridency of the criticism suggests that the critics may be afraidthere's an audience receptive to the idea that the current strategynot only isn't working but seems to be backfiring. If there is an alternative,one that stands a chance of being read by non-academics, Rodney Clapp isprobably going to be one of its principal expositors. He understands thechallenge, and what's more he has described the alternative evangelicalsneed to embrace. If they don't, it won't be because no one told them. They'll only have their own cultural captivity to blame .


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Who can picture the 1960s without Peter Max?
Max's psychedelic colors, billowing lines and images of peace and love and rock and roll are the iconography of an era.
But the artist didn't go the way of bell bottoms. He kept painting, and his free lines — the ones that created portraits of popular icons such as Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney — took on freedom's themes, capturing Lady Liberty, the American flag and American presidents. For Arkansas's favorite son, Max created an official poster for the 1993 Clinton Inauguration, artwork for the Clinton Presidential Center opening and a painted globe for the Clinton Global Initiative.
Now comes the "Peter Max Paints America" exhibit to the Clinton Library. The exhibit, of 250 works by Max — including the globe — opens Presidents' Day, Feb. 16, and runs through May 25.
Exhibited along with Max's work will be the winning entries in the "Peter Max Paints America Coloring Contest," which the library is sponsoring for students in grades pre-K through 12. Winners will receive a signed Peter Max poster as well as a spot on the walls of the Clinton Library.
Max's design for the coloring contest — as well as more information on the exhibit — will be revealed in a special section in the Feb. 12 issue of the Arkansas Times. The special section will also include a coloring form for kids. They've got until March 28 to put their era's own stamp on things.
Hearne Fine Art is leaving the River Market district at the end of the month to set up shop in a new building at 1001 Wright Ave. Construction should be complete by June, Garbo Hearne, who owns the gallery with her husband, Dr. Archie Hearne, said. Part of the new space will be a doctor's office.
The gallery will include a frame shop, book store and gallery of work by African-American artists, just as it does now. It will offer affordable fine art as well as high-end pieces. Hearne plans an early masters exhibit there in the future, a show that would include 19th century artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, early 19th century artist Edward M. Bannister and others.
Hearne said she and her husband chose the neighborhood location because "if we don't build up our own communities, who will?" The new space will also have parking, which isn't easy to come by in front of the Museum Center, the gallery's home until Feb. 21.
The Museum Center space will be closed temporarily until Feb. 12, as Hearne prepares for the National Black Fine Art Show in New York. It will reopen Feb. 13 for 2nd Friday Art Night. Books and decorative art will be on sale through the following week. A groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new gallery is set for noon Feb. 21.
Bob Workman, Crystal Bridges Museum's executive director since 2006, announced last week he is resigning the position. He will remain at the museum until the end of 2009, but a national search for a new director is under way.
Workman told the Times that he was proud of the work he's done to date with the museum's organization, collections and construction — he was consultant and project manager prior to taking the director's job — but he didn't want to make the time commitment the director's job will require when the museum opens its doors in 2010. He also said he looks forward to the opportunities the museum presents, which sounds like he may have future business plans connected to the museum. He said he planned to stay in Bentonville.
Alice Walton has so far invested more than $250 million in the construction of and collection for the museum, which should open next year. Given the state of the arts in the current economy and the pay — Workman was paid $228,800 in 2007 — applications for the director's job should start coming in by the truckload.
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That's right folks. Bainimarama as we've long known is ONLY about Number 1. Himself. And he certainly does not want anyone else stepping into his shoes or taking over his privileges. So right now at the fourth floor of his Govt Buildings office they are plotting and scheming the possibility of abrogating the constitution ASAP.
NZ PM John Key's knew this even when commenting after the court ruling was handed down today.
The military is being mobilized right now.
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Minecraft: Medieval Weapons Command Block 1.11 – Catapults, Crossbows and more. Defend your castles or attack enemies with these new Medieval Weapons for vanilla Minecraft with only one command block! This one command creation adds various types of weapons for your world such as catapults, crossbows and hot oil cauldrons.
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