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Happy Memorial Day! We have been having such lovely weather here, and today was no exception! Our parents hosted a fun Memorial Day party at their house this year - with everything red, white, and blue! :)
I think one of my favorite things about the holidays is how festive my mom is. She gets so excited to decorate the house, make fun treats, and just go all out. She was Pinterest before it existed! I still loving going home and seeing decor we helped make as kids hanging up all over the house. So many fun memories!
Seriously, how cute is that? And delicious too!
One of my mom's recipes from yesterday is so simple, she gave me the recipe to share on here. It is from Kraft, but their recipe calls for a graham cracker crust on the bottom. I'm sure that would be yummy, but my mom's is just as good without it!
Cool and Easy Strawberry Dessert
2/3 cup boiling water
1 pkg. (4-serving size) Jell-o Brand Strawberry Flavor Gelatin
Ice Cubes
1/2 cup cold water
1 tub (8 oz.) Cool Whipped Topping, thawed
1 cup fresh strawberries, chopped
1 cup sliced strawberries
Stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl for at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved.
Add enough ice to cold water til it measures 1 cup. Add to gelatin; stir until slightly thickened. Remove unmelted ice.
Add whipped topping; stir with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in chopped strawberries.
Pour into serving cups. Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight until firm. Top with sliced strawberries.
We also added some Cool Whip and blueberries around the edges for the holiday!
My mom has made this with orange Jell-O and mandarin orange slices too, and that is amazing! Like I said, it's so easy and delicious for a fun summer party!
We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday, and most importantly, remembering all who have served and died for our country.


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Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Scottish Nazism to the fore
In the 1930s Hitler had a special party arm (the brownshirts) that specialized in breaking up the meetings of other parties. A similar situation has arisen in Scotland these days. There a group of extreme-Left nationalists even break up the meetings of the Labour Party, the major British party of the Left. Intimidation and silencing of your opponent are Leftist reflexes so it has an element of justice that Labour party people are finding out how it feels to be on the receiving end of such tactics. They don't like it! A current report below:
Labour tonight accused the SNP of tipping off a mob of nationalist campaigners - after the party's leader in Scotland Jim Murphy was forced to abandon a planned rally when he was confronted by dozens of angry campaigners.
A group of around 30 separatist activists hurled abuse at Mr Murphy, who was campaigning in Glasgow with the comedian Eddie Izzard, eventually forcing the pair to flee in a getaway car.
In scenes reminiscent of some of the confrontations during last year's independence referendum - when Mr Murphy was egged, spat at and abused during a 100-day tour of Scotland - then chased the pair as they attempted to leave.
A young girl was left in floods of tears by the aggressive scenes, which also saw a photographer and TV reporter pushed to the floor, and several activists caught up in a violent scrum.
The protest was organised by the leader of far-left campaign group 'Scottish Resistance' James Scott, self-styled anti-austerity campaigner Piers Doughty Brown and former SNP candidate Sean Clerkin - who have all been pictured with leading SNP politicians.
Mr Murphy was greeted with shouts of 'traitor', 'Judas' and 'warmongering scum' by the mob of protesters in Glasgow's St Enoch Square, who drowned out Mr Murphy and Izzard using megaphones and music speakers.
Speaking after the event the Scottish Resistance chief Mr Scott said his group was part of an alliance of pro-independence groups aiming to overthrow 'British imperialism' and defended this morning's chaotic scenes. He added: 'We are not provoking them, we are annoying them.'
Allegations later emerged on Twitter that one of Nicola Sturgeon's spin doctors had given some of the protesters details of the location and timing of the event. However, this was emphatically denied by the SNP.
But a spokesman for Mr Murphy, who said that while he could not believe the First Minister's office would direct the group, added: 'The 'nothing to do with us' defence doesn't hold water.'
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Black rioters in Israel too
The crunch of broken glass and stun grenade shards could still be heard underfoot in Tel Aviv's Rabin square early Monday morning as the day's first papers sailed onto the blood-spattered sidewalks, carrying the news of the most intense clashes the so-called White City had seen in decades from the night before, and beginning the requisite round of hand-wringing over violence by both the protesters and police.
Front page headlines like "Battle Zone" (Israel Hayom) "Rage Square" (Yedioth Ahronoth) and "About 50 injured in Tel Aviv protest," accompanied by pictures of an overturned cop car, riot police on horseback, black protesters and clouds of tear gas, set the tone for the tenor of coverage, which focuses on the violence that punctuated the night while also addressing causes for the demonstration and the claims of racism by the Ethiopian community.
Dani Adino Ababa, embedded for Yedioth with the protesters, gives a firsthand view from inside the chaos that reigned in Rabin Square, writing of the moment all hell seemed to break loose out of nowhere.
"'We are not violent,' the protesters shouted and raised their hands in the air. 'We want no violence, we suffer from pain.' However at this moment the event lost control," he writes. "Rocks were thrown in every direction, and after that bottles went flying in the air, trash cans and even bikes that were parked nearby, damaging car windows. The police response was no less violent: phalanxes of horses galloped on the masses with no warning to clear the demonstration, while shooting stun grenades and tear gas, and water cannon trucks tried to clear a way through the center of the events."
A Haaretz account reports that most of the protesters were in their 20s and 30s, many in army uniforms, with their shirts untucked. "Others waved Israeli flags or held up signs reading 'I didn't choose to be born black but that's my right,' or 'Since when is color a crime.'"
The paper notes that activists say the struggle against racism suffered by the Ethiopian Israeli community is nothing new. "We will protest until somebody from the government will come and give real solutions, we won't leave," a protester named Solomon is quoted telling the broadsheet.
Israel Hayom reports on the response of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for calm while not dismissing the claims of the protesters. The paper also cites the police pulling the old Sacco and Vanzetti, placing the blame for the troublemaking on anarchists.
"Some of the people here were incited by anarchists, you can see well who is there with the protesters," Tel Aviv police chief Bentzi Sao is quoted telling the paper.
Even with the police claim, though, the 5-0 face some tough questions on how they responded to the protests, including from Ben Dror Yemini in Yedioth.
"The protest that paralyzed Tel Aviv yesterday was furious, justified and formative. After hours of quiet came a turning point. It's not clear how it started. It's possible there were hotheads among the protesters. In mass protests there is always a violent minority," he writes. "And the police, oh the shame, lost patience. Why? Why respond with smoke grenades? Why not keep their cool? The masses came out to protest against violence. So why in the hell did the police response need to be so forceful? Given police brutality in the past years against Ethiopians, there's a suspicion that there was more violent provocation from the cops than from the protesters."
Haaretz's editorial sums up the feeling among most of the commentators across the papers: the protest was justified, even if the violence was not: "No group in society need accept discrimination by the authorities. The immediate cause of the latest demonstrations may be police brutality, but the protest is broader, reflecting a lack of hope for any change, particularly among younger people who were born and educated in Israel and have personally experienced the degree to which Israeli society is unwilling to accept them," the paper writes.
In Israel Hayom, Boaz Bismuth admits that there is a problem with the way Ethiopians are treated, but after comparing the protest to the Baltimore riots (albeit without the baggage of 300 years of slavery) he blames the discrimination on a unique mixture of Israeli stupidity and bad luck: the fact that Ethiopians arrived in Israel around the same time as masses of non-Jewish African migrants.
"Unfortunately for our Ethiopian brothers, they got here at the same time as illegal migrants began coming from Africa, and there's no shortage of idiots who confused them. Not to say that the migrants are worthless and they deserve to be treated badly, but what to do when a new immigrant is the same as every other Israeli, but there are those who get confused between them. Both in relations with them and also in protests," he writes, ignoring the fact that the largest waves of Ethiopian immigration predated the migrant influx by a couple of decades.
Some Leftist hate from England
Some translations for non-British readers: A scouser is someone from the Liverpool area. A skiver is a work-avoider. A Trot is a Trotskyite, a far Leftist
Esther McVey, the jaunty Tory Scouser, with her boss Iain Duncan Smith, has made it harder for benefits skivers to suck off the state. It is in no small way thanks to Miss McVey that welfare abuse has faded and 1,000 jobs a day have been created during this Government.
Boy, Miss McVey has taken some stick, not least from that sexist oaf John Prescott, who naturally got her name wrong and sneered about her penchant for dressing in smart outfits.
Lady Prescott has also been known to buy the odd frock, I believe...
The trade unions hate 5ft 4in Esther so much, they are funding a 'sack McVey' campaign, depicting her as the spoor of 'wicked' Mrs Thatcher.
At times it has seemed every moaning Trot on Merseyside has descended on West Wirral to campaign against ex-television presenter Esther.
Labour MP John McDonnell said that she should be 'lynched'.
For getting youngsters into work! Imagine the hoo-hah from the BBC if a male Tory MP said a Labour woman should be physically attacked.
Yesterday morning found Miss McVey – accompanied by her wiry dad Jim, who used to run a Liverpool construction firm – near West Kirby's waterfront.
Five years ago, one in four shops in nearby Hoylake was boarded up. Now West Wirral is booming, Unilever is investing millions, Vauxhall is taking on workers and the local number of welfare recipients has dropped 50 per cent.
'Labour's bullying is hurtful, yeah, but if they think I am going to be intimidated, they have the wrong person,' said Miss McVey.
She was being helped yesterday by other Tory candidates from the Liverpool area: Jackson Ng, Ed McRandal, Martin Williams, Gillian Keegan. All admitted that it was character-building being a Tory in Merseyside's Labour heartlands.
But Wirral West certainly ain't that. I'd say Labour's sexism and negativity may have backfired.
New residents Jesper and Tina Toft introduced themselves and Miss McVey kept rising on her flat-shoed tiptoes to talk to tall Jesper.
The Tofts knew nothing about her beforehand. They went away with a Tory poster and a blue sticker for their cocker spaniel Charlie.
Wine merchant Paul Nelson, 59, thanked Miss McVey for 'putting forward a positive image of Merseyside'. Schoolgirl Issy White, 16, was cross that the local Labour Party had criticised her state school. The White household, previously Labour, was now leaning to the Tories.
Retired industrialist Bill Lancaster said he had been tempted by Ukip but Miss McVey's work-rate had converted him.
Clinton: Religion Must Surrender to Progressive Ideology
There is little question the American Left is arrogant. It is an arrogance suffused with a self-aggrandizing worldview that begins and ends with the simplest premise: You either agree with us, or you're wrong. But not just wrong in the sense of having a different opinion. Wrong in the sense that you're a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal at best, or the embodiment of evil itself at worst. In other words, you're either on board with us, or you're completely illegitimate.
The above explanation fits Hillary Clinton to a tee. At the sixth annual Women in the World Summit, Clinton brought up one of the Left's most cherished planks, abortion on demand. "Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth," she insisted, "and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice, not just on paper."
One is left to wonder what denial of access Clinton bemoans. It can't be Planned Parenthood (PP), an organization whose name completely belies its true function. As its 2013-2014 Annual Report reveals, PP received more than $528 million in taxpayer funds in the form of government grants, contracts and Medicaid reimbursements that accounted for 41% of its total resources. And despite its ostensible non-profit status, the abortion giant has $127 million in excess revenue and more than $1.4 billion in net assets.
Where does the money go? According to a fact sheet disseminated by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, PP devoted 94% of 2013 "pregnancy services" to performing abortions. Prenatal care and adoption services accounted for 5% and 0.05% of its activities, respectively. Moreover, between the years 2011-2013 for which figures are available, PP performed 988,783 abortions.
PP chair Alexis McGill Johnson and president Cecile Richards couldn't be happier. "We've come a long way since Margaret Sanger was jailed in 1916 for opening America's very first birth control clinic," they explained at the report's release. "Today, 99 percent of sexually active American women at some point in their lives use birth control — and, thanks to Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act, more than 48 million women are now eligible to receive it with no copay."
Sounds like a boatload of access, at least to "reproductive" health care. Safe childbirth? Not so much, a reality that deeply troubles people of faith — a group with this "crazy" notion that abortion constitutes the wrongful termination of a human life.
Not to worry, though. Hillary has a "solution" for their concerns. "Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will," she declared. "And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed. As I have said and as I believe, the advancement of the full participation of women and girls in every aspect of their societies is the great unfinished business of the 21st century and not just for women but for everyone — and not just in far away countries but right here in the United States."
If that sounds like people of faith must either abandon that faith or be considered wholly illegitimate, or "structurally biased" as it were, it's because that's exactly what Clinton proposes. In short, you're either pro-abortion or a "bitter clinger." That euphemism entered the national zeitgeist courtesy of Barack Obama, whose administration has made it clear that the only thing standing between it and the evisceration of the First Amendment's Freedom of Religion clause is a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby v. Burwell case. The Court decided corporations with sincerely held religious beliefs are under no obligation to provide a full range of contraceptives — including abortifacients — at no cost to their employees as mandated by ObamaCare.
Yet abortion is only one arena where people of faith are being steamrolled. As Solicitor General Donald Verrilli made clear during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the subject of same-sex marriage, the heavy hand of government will be imposed on those who refuse to embrace progressive "values." When asked by Justice Samuel Alito if the Obama administration would be willing to impose penalties on institutions that refuse to abide same-sex marriage, Verrilli admitted as much. "It's certainly going to be an issue," he conceded. "I don't deny that."
Family Research Council's Tony Perkins spells out the inevitable, writing, "Translation: If churches, religious groups, schools, or nonprofits won't surrender their beliefs on marriage, the government will make it hurt." And regardless of what the Court decides, Justice Anthony Kennedy illuminated the stakes with a simple remark, noting the definition of marriage as between a man and a women "has been with us for millennia." Therefore, he said, "[I]t's very difficult for the Court to say, 'Oh well, we know better.'"
Progressives have no such inhibitions. And that would be fine were it not for the reality that they are determined to forcibly impose their worldview by any means necessary on those who disagree.
How arrogant is Clinton in that regard? As recently as 2013 she opposed same-sex marriage, and in 2004 she called traditional marriage a "fundamental bedrock principle." How hypocritical? "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic," she huffed in 2003.
Not patriotic? Now if you disagree with the leftist onslaught, you're a homophobic, religiously impaired bigot who must abandon millennia of traditional beliefs — or be deliberately targeted if you don't.
Live and let live? A concept for which those who profess to be the most tolerant among us have zero tolerance. "Evolving" on issues as Clinton and Obama have on same-sex marriage? Embrace progressive ideology right now or be penalized in every way possible.
A number of Christian leaders are fighting back with a pledge defending traditional marriage. One of their reasons for doing so stands out. "Family is the first vital cell of society, the first government, and the first mediating institution of our social order," the pledge states. "The future of a free and healthy society passes through marriage and the family." Anyone else think this is a message that might resonate in Baltimore right about now?
One last thought regarding abortion: Perhaps the debate on the issue might be imbued with far more honesty if the phrase "a woman's right to choose" included the first choice, as in the decision to have unprotected and/or irresponsible sex leading to an unwanted pregnancy.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, GREENIE WATCH, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here.
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KOMO transitions to local HD newscasts
KOMO, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, WA, will begin producing its daily local newscasts in HD with Thomson Grass Valley HD news production equipment.
The Fischer Communications-owned station will use the new HD production system to produce news in the studio on a shared-storage network and in the field on portable laptop systems.
The news division will deploy an HD Thomson Grass Valley K2 media server system with 12-channels in and 12-channels out on a large storage area network (SAN) system, 16 seats of Thomson Grass Valley Aurora Craft HD editing systems, and several laptop edit systems running Aurora Edit software.
Content will be ingested into the new HD system on the K2 servers allowing the station's news editors to begin working on news stories before a clip has finished being loaded onto the servers.
The system includes an Aurora Ingest system for managing and logging incoming materials from feeds, VTRs and file transfers; an Aurora Browse system for media management; and the Aurora Edit LD low-resolution editing platform with EDLs conformed in full resolution and played back on the K2 playout system running Aurora Playout software.
The station's editors, working on Aurora Craft systems, will be networked on an 18TB K2 SAN to store more than 800 hours of 50Mb/s HD resolution video, while the low-resolution system will maintain about 4000 hours of 1Mb/s material on a 3TB NAS.
For more information, visit www.thomsongrassvalley.com.


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05 Aug Have You Heard You Can't Get Credit For 10 Years After Filing Bankruptcy?
Some people avoid filing bankruptcybecause they think they aren't allowed to have credit if they file. Many are especially afraid they will never be allowed to by a house.
This is a myth. It is not true that people can't get credit for 10 years if they file for bankruptcy.
- Credit can be taken after filing a Chapter 7 case
- Credit can be taken after completing a Chapter 13 case
- Creditors are free to lend money, or not to lend money, to whomever they chose regardless of credit scores.
Just because you CAN get credit, doesn't mean it is a good idea to do so. Remember that you just got out of debt and don't want to make the same mistake twice.
That said, there is nothing in the bankruptcy laws that forbids people who have gone through (completely finished) bankruptcy from borrowing money, although if someone is in an active Chapter 13, they might be forbidden from borrowing money without court permission.
A bankruptcy filing will be listed on a credit report for 10 years, and it will affect credit ratings negatively.
- Just like anyone with negative marks on their credit report, people who have filed for bankruptcy have to deal with a bad credit rating and will likely pay a higher interest rate, and have a harder time getting credit than someone with a good score.
Once a Chapter 7or Chapter 13discharge is entered, it is important that people work hard to improve their credit score. You should pull your credit report a little while after your case is done, and check what is reported. The safest way to pull your own credit report is outlined inthis article by Eugene S. Melchionne.
All sorts of people look at credit reports.
Some lenders or employers will see a bankruptcy and will want to see that some time has passed and the credit score improved since filing. It is possible that they may refuse to work with someone because of the filing and/or credit score.
Other lenders actually look for people who have filed bankruptcy because they know that people with bad credit ratings will pay more for credit. They also know that people who filed bankruptcy are limited in being able to file again in the near future, so if they lend them money the borrower probably won't be able to file bankruptcy against the debt.
Some lenders realize that someone who just filed bankruptcy won't owe many other creditors and are probably in a good position to make payments.
Filing for bankruptcy certainly won't make a credit rating better, and it won't "clean up" a report either. It will make it harder to get credit in one way, but it can also make it easier to start rebuilding credit since the discharged debts will no longer be reporting as late each month.
See also:
How Important Is Your Credit Report After Bankruptcy by Carmen Dellutri
Will I Ever Be Able To Get Credit Again by Dana Wilkonson
Filing For Bankruptcy Can Help My Credit Score? by Kevin Gipson
Will My Spouse's Bankruptcy Hurt My Credit Score? by Carmen Dellutri
Latest posts by Susanne Robicsek, North Carolina Bankruptcy Attorney (see all)
- New Bankruptcy Forms: Easier, Or More Problems? - January 20, 2016
- Forget about Bankruptcy - August 29, 2013
- After Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Discharge: Can You Take A 401k Loan? - March 13, 2013
- What Is A No Asset Bankruptcy Case? - February 13, 2013
- Bankruptcy Basics: When is Chapter 7 A Good Option? - January 13, 2013


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Dear Democratic Leader Pelosi:
I write to you here because as I do not live in your Congressional district, my attempt to email you failed.
Congratulations on your election to remain the House Democratic leader.
Having said this, please know that I am removing myself from this email list, sadly. I am personally surprised at my fatigue in all things politics, especially now, after this month's mid-term elections, when my Party's numbers in Congressional representation have been reduced so significantly. And while I want and need to stay informed, I feel that there is a constant free-for-all in the emails that are sent to me. I am done with the emails that sensationalize everything, that always request a contribution, and that appear to divide the gap between the two parties even further.
I received the news that you have been re-elected as House Democratic leader, and was asked for a contribution. I am always asked for a contribution, no matter what the news. I appreciate your hard work and tenacity, but, (and yes, there is a "but" here) must all emails include a request for money? Perhaps an announcement, and a call to rally would have been sufficient, and not tipped me over the edge. I am unsubscribing to these emails.
Here's why I am tired — through this constant barrage of emails, the appearance is that elected representatives from both houses cannot do their jobs without airing dirty laundry, without constantly asking for money, without inane and sensational "Subject" lines that are at best humorous, and at worst, infantile and embarrassing. I am tired of reading multiple times a day that all is lost. I am also tired at the lack of respect for the offices of representing citizens; that respect has been whittled away by infighting, and also by these so-called "chummy" emails. Remember, citizens get these emails multiple times a day. Representing the people of the United States is serious business, and the behavior of elected officials as portrayed in these missives is unprofessional. This goes not only for the legislative branch, but also for the executive branch. Compound this constant campaign of ridiculous emails with the work that is not getting done in the beautiful and historic chambers in the Capitol building, and one might begin to understand why voters, well, I can only speak for myself here, why I am tired of the way business is being done today,
While something deep inside me knows that money is needed and campaign reform laws are paramount, I have been worn down to the point that I can no longer spend energy every day sorting through these missives, reading accounts of how the political parties continue to fight and how nothing is getting done, and then cringing as I am asked for and yet another contribution.
Again, I sincerely congratulate you, Congresswoman Pelosi, and I wish you all the very best. I appreciate your hard work and tenacity and service. I also hope that a sense of decorum can be re-established, that people can see that the Congress is willing no longer to use the citizenry to jump in and take sides as if this were a big sporting match where we shout each other down. I fear that we have become a laughing stock. I look forward to a day when, while entrenched in vehement disagreement, there will be some respect for each other and for the electorate.
As you prepare for a new Congress, my thoughts are with you as you attempt to negotiate policy in a profound climate of non-partisanship, and urge you to take a new tack. I also urge your party members to do the same. Who knows? Perhaps this is something to which both sides can agree.
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Guess it's that time of the year again…
Every once in a while I look back and see that what I had proposed to do just faded into the background. All my intentions of doing better than I did before, of getting things done and stop procrastinating, just disappeared. I know what you are thinking, and the answer is yes. I went back to my origins and procrastinated again. And the worst part is that since I had no deadline I did it until now.
Well this time it's going to be different (or at least I hope). This time I wont impose myself with a "write something every week" mentality. I will write something when I feel like it. I will write it for myself and for whom ever wants to read, but mainly for myself. I'll write about everything that goes about in my life. Books that I'm reading, projects that I'm involved with and other mundane stuff. So, stay tuned to what I'll be posting next. It will probably be something that has to do with Canned food and how I'm going to get back to CannedWorld.
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A unique example of a rural business which achieved economic profitability based on innovation and environmentally-friendly practices.
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An agricultural holding installed 42 ha of pastures which helped increase the farm's livestock while increasing carbon sequestration and offering environmental services.
A company that produces wine and olive oil developed a strategy to improve its water use efficiency and receives AECM support for its water-saving agricultural good practices.


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In this weeks show Leo reads an article about the origins of Remembrance Day and Dave reports from the service at the War Memorial Park. Leo also reads an article called 60 years of Tony Hancock and BBC Coventry & Warwickshire radio presenter Vic Minette continues his talk view website to the Monday Club. All this plus the usual mix of news, sport, what's on, outlook for living and postbag.
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A beloved South Austin food-and-beverage institution, as well as live music venue and generally sweet hang, Whip In has been purchased by new owners.
Amrit and Chandan Topiwala, who founded the Whip-In in 1986, have sold the business to Zahir Prasla of Austin's Quickie Pickie Group. Prasla intends to serve a similar wine and beer selection, while introducing a new food menu with a London-style curry house/pub theme that will deviate from some of the Indian-Texas fusion dishes of Whip-In's past, according to a release. The restaurant will also return its Sunday brunch. Live music will continue, and new owners plan to expand the grocery selection.
Renovations are slated for the dining room in an effort to ease flow, and there will be multiple bathrooms available, but new owners hope to keep the "same relaxed, funky atmosphere and vibe that has made it an Austin institution."
Extended hours and weekday breakfast are also in the plans, but no details have been released as yet.
Dipak Topiwala, who for 11 years helped steward the business his parents opened in 1986, slowly transforming it from an ordinary gas station into a multi-cultural convenience store, beer bar, wine garden, restaurant and music venue, will open his Lotus Joint food trailer (the catchphrase is "tacos con chutney") at the Cosmic Coffee and Beer Garden at 121 Pickle Road in South Austin in the coming weeks. The locally-sourced food trailer will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. He originally operated Lotus Joint from a food truck at Independence Brewing. Topiwala had been looking for a new location for his Kamala Brewing, but has put those plans on the back burner in order to focus on Lotus Joint for now.
- Austin360 Dining Guide Indian restaurant critic's picks: Clay Pit (2016) | Saffron (2016) | Asiana (2015) | Tarka (2015)
- 2013 Austin360 Dining Guide: Whip In (#47)
Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled Dipak Topiwala's last name.


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The current inflation rates across the world, as of April 2009, were low due to the global recession that peaked in September 2008. The recessionary pressures felt across the globe resulted in a massive decline in the supply of money. This, in turn, affected commodity prices, resulted in low inflation rates. Current inflation is measured by the International Monetary Fund.
Current Inflation Trends in the World
According to an IMF report, headline inflation in the developed nations is expected to decline from 3.5% in 2008 to a record low of 0.25% in 2009. It is expected to recover to 0.75% in 2010. In the emerging economies, inflation is expected to fall to 5.75% in 2009 and 5% in 2010, from 9.5% in 2008. For the quarter ended March 31, 2009, the current inflation rates of major nations are listed in the table given below:
Countries Current Inflation (%) New Zealand 3 UK 2.9 Australia 2.5 EU 0.6 Japan -0.3 US -0.4
Calculation of Current Inflation Rates
Current inflation rates are calculated for different timeframes - from as short a period as a week to as long as a year. Short-term inflation rates facilitate the analysis of the sudden effects of economic, political and social changes on current inflation. Long-term rates are a better measure, as they reflect the economic situation in a more comprehensive way by rounding off the effects of sudden price movements.
The current inflation rates released by the IMF and various national governmental bodies are calculated on an annual basis. The weekly and monthly figures announced by these organizations are annualized figures.
Current Inflation and Unemployment
According to an ILO report, the world unemployment rate is projected to reach 7.1% in 2009 if the sluggish economic performance continues. This is estimated to increase worldwide unemployment by 50 million. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 651,000 jobs were lost in February 2009 in the US alone.
The IMF has projected world economic growth at 0.5% for 2009, a record low since World War II. However, given the constant efforts to ease credit strains by implementing expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, the world economy is expected to recover by 2010.


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Funding (2010): DARPA Funding on "PERSISTENT STARE EXPLOITATION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM (PERSEAS)"
Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS)
Part of the team led by Kitware Inc to work on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS).
The Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System (PerSEAS) program is developing the capability to automatically and interactively identify potential threats as they emerge based on the correlation of multiple disparate activities and events in wide area motion imagery (WAMI) and multi-INT data. PerSEAS will enable new methods of threat hypothesis adjudication and forensic analysis through activity-based modeling and inferencing capabilities.
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I denna uppsats skrivs en nutida version av Charles Dickens verk En julsaga. Texten kommer att utspela sig under 2000-talet, det blir alltså ett miljöbyte genom tidsresan, inte rent geografiskt. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om genren och huvudkaraktärerna kan bevaras när miljön förändras och om den nya texten bibehåller formen av en saga. Inledningsvis har jag läst En Julsaga och sedan valt tre scener och av dem skrivit en nutida version.
This article addresses the relationship between text and paratext in the publication history of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. Such paratexts include Nabokov's own afterword to the 1958 American edition and his postscript (published in 1967) to his own translation of Lolita into Russian, as well as various introductions and afterwords, both in English-language editions and in translations of Lolita into Russian and other languages. A particularly interesting type of paratext is constituted by annotations to the main text, and the analysis focuses on parallel examples published in annotated editions of Lolita in English, Russian, Polish, German, Ukrainian, and French. The analysis shows that the most detailed annotations concerning the totality of the English and Russian Lolita text and paratexts can be found in editions published in languages other than English and Russian, whereas most English or Russian editions seem to focus on the respective language version. There is still no complete, annotated edition of the bilingual text containing all the authorial paratexts.
"I am based on real people," Kristina Lugn writes in the foreword to her play Nattorienterarna (1999). This quotation summarises the ever-changing concept of the ego which finds expression in Lugn's writing and which is the focus of this study. Special emphasis is placed on the way in which Lugn tackles the concept of the ego in both her work and her appearances in the media, and also how in recent years she has taken to greater depths this playing with the ego's changing forms and has, in an ironic way, created different egos which are constant in neither time nor space. The thesis is in part a text analysis of Lugn's lyrics and drama and in part an examination of Lugn's appearances in the media – and, in the case of the latter, it touches on intermedial aspects.
The analysis discusses how Lugn expresses in different ways in her appearances in the media pathos for groups seen as potentially isolated and vulnerable, of which children constitute a particularly charged category. One argument in this reasoning is that Lugn's constant nods at and incorporating of the exposed and solitary child's experience of society's norms and power order structures is a basis and a reason for the explosive power in her ironic delivery of a critique of power, in her questioning and shaking up of the ordered roles of gender.
The purpose of the thesis is to examine the irony and what can be characterised as "the giving of voice" in Kristina Lugn's literary production, and also how these devices hang together. One chief question is whether it can be viewed that Lugn's irony is used both as a means of style and as a (literary) political strategy.
The concept of the giving of voice is used to illustrate the way in which Lugn as author and role player allows her personae and characters to speak, often in situations of her devising where they are, and feel they are, powerless in different senses, even though she has inevitably, in her capacity as author, the power to edit and dictate.
A secondary aim is to present a more nuanced and in-depth picture of Lugn's writing than that done so far in the reception given Lugn in the media. The study focuses attention on Lugn's ironic stage-setting of ego positions and the constant playing with fiction and reality which characterises her writing. This is in contrast to the early reception of Lugn as a depressive confessional lyricist, where the fictitious personae were very much likened to the biographical figure of Lugn. Part of this revisionist picture includes a discussion about how central the position of the child is in both Lugn's work and her appearances in the media.
Irony and the giving of voice in her writing is discussed and illustrated with examples from a selection of Lugn's literary works. Focus is placed on the poetry collections Om ni hör ett skott… (1979), Percy Wennerfors (1982) and Hundstunden. Kvinnlig bekännelselyrik (1989), and also on the theatre scripts Tant Blomma (1993), Idlaflickorna (1993), Nattorienterarna (1999) and Stulna juveler (2000). The selection of the material in the media consists of TV and radio programmes in public service broadcasting and also daily newspapers, evening papers and weekly magazines. An examination of this material is made on the basis of three points in time: that of Lugn's literary breakthrough as a lyricist; i.e. 1983 and the period around then, the 1990s in connection with Lugn's transition from primarily that of lyricist to that of dramatist, and the period around the turn of the millennium in connection with the première performance of the play Stulna juveler.
The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating "I". The aim is to investigate why the protagonist, Carina, is perceived as unintelligible by many readers and explore how she can be understood in relation to what constitutes an intelligible identity from a literary and cultural perspective.
The novels, as well as their protagonist, are approached from the perspective of genre theory, the argument being that Carina's unintelligibility is directly dependent on what genre she is read in relation to. In the first part of the thesis the ambiguities of autobiographical texts are discussed, and the narrative and protagonist are analyzed in relation to the autobiographical genre. In the second part of the thesis the consequences of reading the texts as examples of the Gothic with emphasis on monstrosity, the uncanny and sexual transgression are examined. The two readings demonstrate how interpretations of text and character are highly influenced by the reader's expectations connected to genre. Rydberg's transgression of the norms of genre, gender, and identity leaves the reader with a contradictory set of genre-specific expectations, which in turn makes it difficult to understand and accept the protagonist.
The main theme of both novels is Carina's unsuccessful attempts to reconcile what she sees as two separate, essentially incompatible identities: woman and author. The final chapter includes a comparative study in which Rydberg's novels are linked to works by other Swedish female writers, both past and contemporary, to demonstrate that the conflict of woman versus author is a common problem for female writers. The thesis closes with a discussion about the possibility of placing Rydberg in a specifically female literary tradition and demonstrate how a feminist analysis can make the unintelligible intelligible.
The article investigates the complex intertextual dialogue between Torgny Lindgren's Minnen (2010) and Augustine's Confessions, from which Lindgren has taken the motto of his autobiography. By using the patristic intertext as a starting point, the investigation intends to show how Lindgren has constructed his image of Västerbotten. The article is divided into four parts. The first part (I), establishes the heuristic principles of the investigation, which adhere to the recent tendency in patristic studies to observe the heterogeneous character of Augustine's world of thought. The second part of the article (II) charts parallels between text and intertext in their portrayal of grace, evil, and man. It emerges that those elements of Lindgren's world view which are particularly closely related to Augustinian theology are also the ones that possess a particularly strong Västerbottnian character. This intertextual affinity can be explained not only with reference to the Lutheran tradition of Västerbotten, but also has to be related to the text's specific structure of memoria, which is unravelled in the remaining parts (III– IV). On the basis of modern cultural anthropological theories of memory, the third part demonstrates that most of the differences between text and intertext can be linked to the cultural memory of modernity, and document the rise and fall of industrial subjectivity. Lindgren embeds his autobiographical version of Västerbotten into the basic structure of modern memory, transforms it into a quasi-subject, and taints it with the symptoms of decay that plague the industrial 'I.' In the same as Western modernity, Minnen draws the majority of its metaphors of dissolution from Augustine's paradigmatic doctrine of sin. The fourth part of the article (IV) aims to analyse the autobiography's mechanisms of substitution. It is argued that these attempt—in analogy to many Western critics of modernity—to counteract the crisis of industrial cultural memory by reviving the Augustinian forms of memoria and creating a synthesis of pre-industrial and industrial. Within the quasi-subject of Västerbotten and its wealth of agrarian objects, Lindgren finds adequate metaphorical models for use in his compensatory project of counter-memory. The article concludes by observing that, just as Minnen's productive dialogue with Augustine allows it to recapitulate the history of Western memory, Lindgren's Västerbotten is elevated to the status of a universal symbol of European consciousness and its fate.
After being either completely ignored or mixed up with monsters and devils, which in the medieval imagination dwelled in the Extreme North, the Sami were suddenly brought into the limelight by Olaus Magnus (1492–1557), Swedish catholic bishop in exile. His Carta marina (1539) and Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) contain most valuable information, depicting the Sami's natural virtues, practical skills and mysterious magic powers. The image provided by these works became widely spread in Europe thanks both to the reprints of the Latin originals and to the numerous translations. In the seventeenth century the theme was re-actualized by a new publication, entirely devoted to Lapland and its inhabitants: Lapponia (1673) by Johannes Schefferus (1621–1679). Translated into a number of languages it replaced the image created by Olaus Magnus with a new one, at the same time similar and different. The present paper examines some crucial points of this evolution in order to show that both "portraits" reflect motivations that go beyond purely scholarly interest: each of them is part of the ideological struggle of its time—the Reformation in one case, the conflicts brought to life by the Thirty Years' War in the other.
The focus of this essay is on the power that language has on the individual, the protagonist and anti-heroine of the novel, related to her use of language – her storytelling. How does she resist and break through the oppressive linguistic, psychic and social prohibitions of systematized discourse through her narrative? The essay, exploring the protagonist's relationship to language, attempts to explain the way power works, and how language makes this possible. The protagonist's story is analyzed using various feminist ideas on the female voice. Through a close reading of the novel, this essay tries out a theoretical account by which the protagonist of the novel comes to internalize the suppression and restriction of her speech and thereafter overcomes the taboo of Handmaid speech, focusing on how the first-person narrator delivers her story.
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818) is the starting point for this reading of remix in relation to authorship and its implications for creative work. The monster in Frankenstein has no single author, or father, and is damned by his mixed parentage as much as by his inability to recreate himself. Alone, he falls into the waste as a product of the divide between poetry and science. The 'two cultures' coined by C. P. Snow (1956) address this same divide and lament its dominance in mid twentieth-century intellectual life. But contemporary remix culture that relies on digital media closes this gap as poets now write code and artists are technicians. In my close reading of five remixes I show that origin is no longer relevant in the mixed material realization of processes that are performed or 're-authored' in reception. In these remixes the creator reinterprets by changing the context of remixed elements in the works. The result is textual hybrids that are remixed further in reception.
I approach digital media via brief examinations of spatial and narrative discourse networks not often associated with the digital. This approach is meant to suggest that digital media is a product and a producer of a dynamic realignment of cultural assumptions globally, such as what is considered to be 'narrative'. The cultural fields I discuss in relation to digital media are the performance of pilgrimage and some of the story telling systems of the Australian Aboriginal nations. In relation to pilgrimage the 9th century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur on the Indonesian island of Java is examined as an example of a spatial hypermediation that immerses the pilgrim in a story manifest through interactions. The Aboriginal story systems examined move across media forms (spoken word, song, body paint, sculpture, bark painting) to present a participatory narrative grounded in culturally specific understandings of space and place.
My use of the term 'digital' refers to media systems that rely on digital technologies. The major features of digital technologies relevant here is the effectiveness of the technology at constructing spatial relations in representations and the demand of the direct participation of the users as co-creators of what is represented.
This paper discusses three examples of rhetorical holiness from the online virtual world of Second Life. The rhetorical holiness is compared to the representation of beliefs and practices in physical settings. By examining representation of the holy in Second Life it is possible to discuss the shift from older to new media forms in established and therefore comparative contexts. How these movements reflect and affect practices and beliefs is argued as highlighting networks of power and meaning.
Cooperation over borders between individuals and groups is possible using online three-dimensional virtual worlds. This cooperation occurs in the production of art, research, teaching and learning, and performance as well as in building social, professional and personal contexts. The borders that are crossed can be geopolitical, generational, spatial and embodied. In order to maintain coherence for people to meet, talk, build, write, perform and exchange in virtual worlds, a sense and understanding of place is required. Such human activities as meeting are reliant on a shared space and place. This chapter integrates the idea of sharing places in examples of how virtual worlds can provide common spaces and places from a series of projects involving art, documentation, teaching and communication. By using examples of one artist's project and several machinima – videos made using screen-capture software on computers, to film places and avatar actors in virtual worlds – I argue these virtual worlds can enable cooperation over a variety of borders through sharing.
The aim of this thesis is to study representations of identity and (in)visibility in Swedish lesbian novels written in the 1930s, and to provide a summary of Swedish lesbian literature up to the early 21st century. This study has been done through a close reading primarily of Charlie by Margareta Suber (1932), Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1930–1935) and Kris by Karin Boye (1934).
Lesbian literature is discussed as a loose category, a construction which can be used as an analytical tool in a conscious and reflexive way, with its basis in the categories of author, text and reader. In short, I define lesbian literature as novels written by women, about lesbian figures and/or relationships, and for lesbian readers in the sense that the literature depicts lesbians from an insider's perspective.
As regards the period before 1930, the focus is on romantic friendship and the excitement zone when the romantic friendship becomes a sexual one, as seen in the fictitious case of Sin fars dotter (1920) by Lydia Wahlström.
Sexological theories, the image of "the new woman" and changes to the law all colour the first half of the 20th century. This is seen in Charlie by Margareta Suber, where the author makes use of many such explanations in her creation of a lesbian figure.
A reading of Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna shows an intricate pattern of relationships at its heart. My analysis charts several same-sex couples, a lesbian single woman and two collectives; that is to say, the female collective and the male homosexual collective. The relationships between women are many-faceted and include everything from romantic friendship, kinship and sensualism to eroticism and shared parenthood.
In my analysis of Kris by Karin Boye, I focus on Malin, the main character, and the development of her sense of identity, in which the struggle between the language of the world around her and her own emotional experience of love for a woman is a central theme.
After the 1930s, the historical context changed in terms of everything from decriminalisation in 1944 via the homophobic panic of the 1950s to the impact of queer theory in the 1990s. Swedish lesbian literature addresses everything from crime of passion (murder) to the coming out process of young women.
There exists in all novels from the 1930s an interplay that is (in)visible: the characters or lesbian relationships depicted are both visible and invisible at the same time. The characters are more or less aware of the potential risks attached to being visible as a lesbian, and often they do not notice themselves when this occurs. During the course of the 20th century, (in)visibility becomes replaced by openness and secrecy, and the visibility of the lesbian characters is politicised.
At the heart of this thesis are the Swedish author Stig Larsson's novels: Autisterna (The Autistic, 1979), Nyår (New Year, 1984), Introduktion (Introduction, 1986) and Komedin I (The Comedy I, 1989). The purpose is to illuminate how certain central activities in the novels contribute strongly to the actual formation of these works. A part of this purpose is demonstrating that these central activities can be related to fundamental thinking in the writer's authorship that concerns a struggle for authenticity. In terms of theory I connect principally to Jean-Pierre Richard's thematic criticism. The purpose of the thesis, the theoretical considerations and a presentation of Stig Larsson form the first chapter.
The second chapter discusses Larsson's aesthetic points of departure, where a recurring striving after authenticity and change stand in focus. The chapter begins by placing Larsson's authorship in relation to a late-modernistic literary tradition. Next it is emphasised that this authentic attitude often stands on a collision course with a harmonising and anti-modernistic view of literature, associated with György Lukács, which was common in Sweden in the 1970s when Larsson debuted as an author. The chapter ends with a rough description of the three most important elements of Larsson's quest for authenticity: insignificant phenomena, everyday activities and painful experiences.
The third chapter concerns the insignificant and minimal activities that are such a dominant element in Larsson's novels. First comes an analysis of the "small moments" observed during a train journey by the protagonist of Autisterna, and then a comparison is made with literary impressionism. The chapter then focuses on: the peripheral spatial dimension, the odd moments in time, the slow movement and, finally, "the view of an uninterrupted nothing". Given Larsson's aversion to a harmonising and grandiose literature, these insignificant phenomena are a clear element in his struggle for authenticity.
The everyday, the worthless and the ugly are the focus of the fourth chapter. The theme of everyday life is looked at from four different perspectives. The first concerns an ordinary everydayness (food preparation, watching TV and everyday games) and the second the literally worthless and ugly (rubbish and bodily fluids). The third perspective looks in detail at everyday language, and the performative character of dialogue in Larsson's novels, and the fourth at relations to modern Swedish social developments since the 1960s.
The fifth chapter looks at humiliation, violence and abuse in the novels. I argue throughout that Larsson chooses to touch on phenomena such as humiliation and violence because they show more authentically how real people behave towards each other in real life. Even the way in which these activities are portrayed can be related to ideas concerning authenticity. This is because Larsson generally chooses to portray both violence and humiliation visually and without comment.
The thesis ends with a sixth chapter, which consists of a brief conclusion that shows how ideas concerning authenticity and change can also be related to four autobiographical prose works that Stig Larsson released between 1997 and 2000.
I denna studie utforskas hur arbetet karakteriseras samt hur arbetarnas upplevelser skildras i de två arbetarromanerna Drömfabriken (2010) av Maria Hamberg och Yarden (2009) av Kristian Lundberg. Det som studeras är hur kropp, solidaritet och livsberättelse påverkas av kapitalismens kultur med särskilt fokus på de bemanningsföretagsanställda karaktärernas erfarenheter. I Drömfabriken, vars berättelse utspelar sig innan Yardens, skildras konsekvenserna av vinstmaximerande åtgärder på en bilfabrik. Att hyra in personal är en av de slutliga åtgärderna. I Yarden skildras hur tillvaron påverkas av att vara anställd av ett bemanningsföretag. Inom ramen för studien sker en viss jämförelse med exempel hämtade ur det tidiga 1900-talets arbetarlitteratur. Analysen har genomförts med hjälp av Richard Sennetts teorier om hur arbetare påverkas av den nya kapitalismens kultur. Även begrepp som respektabilitet, turist och vagabond har använts.
Sammanfattningsvis visar undersökningen att kropp, solidaritet och livsberättelse tar skada av den fragmentariska och för arbetarna icke-påverkansbara situation de befinner sig i. Förhållandet till kroppen är komplext. Kroppen är en förutsättning för arbete, men den slits också av det. Studien visar även att solidariteten bland arbetare har försvagats över tid. Den återfinns dock till viss del i de studerade romanerna. Studien visar också att bemanningsföretagsanställda avpersonifieras i Drömfabriken och avhumaniseras i Yarden. Livsberättelse i form av utveckling och framgång på arbetsplatsen är inte tillgänglig för karaktärerna i Drömfabriken och Yarden. De arbets- och anställningsförhållanden som skildras har även en negativ inverkan på romankaraktärernas försök att skapa sin livsberättelse utanför arbetet.
En slutsats som dras är att arbetarlitteratur, som ger en kritisk röst till dem med osäkra anställningar, fyller en viktig funktion som ställföreträdare för det kollektiv som inte kan formas till följd av rörlighet, kortsiktighet och få anställningsrättigheter.
The conference Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language and Politics in an Age of Digital Media (NorLit 2009)was held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, August 6–9, 2009. The conference was organized by the Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit); the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University; the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); the Department of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University; the Department of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University College; and the Department of Comparative Literature, Uppsala University.
The aim of the conference was to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. As the title for the conference suggests, the principal question for the conference was the challenge that the study of literature encounters in an age of digitalization and globalization. It was our aim to encourage discussion of how literary studies respond to the ongoing changes in media and technology, politics and economy. Many have argued that the Humanities currently are in a state of crisis. We believe that the discipline seldom has found itself in such an interesting and fruitful historical moment. Several of these questions have surfaced during earlier media system changes, in particular during Romanticism and Modernism, which provided the conference with an historical frame. The conference Codex and Code also addressed questions of authenticity and originality, identity and gender, literary genres and reading practices, media and materiality, culture and popular culture, language and history, world literature, work aesthetics, translations, and canon formation.
The conference Codex and Code wanted to stimulate interdisciplinary scholarly research of the literary in a broad sense. The conference was open to scholars in Comparative Literature and in Classical and Modern Languages, Aesthetics, Media and Communication studies, Film and Theatre studies, Philosophy and adjacent disciplines. The conference was organized around a number of thematic sessions in which researchers and scholars presented and discussed papers.
The conference has received generous financial support from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Magnus Bergwall foundation, Granholms foundation, Linköping University, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Svenska litteratursällskapet; the Swedish Academy, Swedish Science Council, and Vitterhetsakademien.
Our times of ecological disasters and climate crisis inspired the author Mikael Niemi to write the novel Fallvatten (2012). The narrative deals with what happens when a dam in a hydro-electric power plant bursts, and creates a tsunami-like flood. The purpose with my essay was to make a thematic analysis of this novel from an ecocritical, ecofeministic and postcolonial perspective. The genre and its importance for the themes and the shaping of the novel were also noticed in the essay. My questions were: Does the author use an ecocritical, ecofeministic and a postcolonial approach in the novel? If he does, how is that shaped in the narrative? Is the story adversarial to civilization and/or technology? Is Fallvatten an ironic novel? If it is, what is the irony about? What are the characteristics of the genre ecothriller, and why can the novel be placed in this genre? How does the genre influence the themes used and development of the story? By using the method of close-reading I have made a thematic analysis of the novel Fallvatten, with a theoretical frame of ecocriticism, ecofeminism and postcolionial theory. The results of the analysis demonstrated that this novel can be regarded as an ecocritical, ecofeministic and postcolonial "rewriting". In the narrative nature is personified and depicted as an active agent who takes vengeance on humanity's greed. The author is deconstructing dichotomies and stereotypes about the view of both gender and nature. He is also depicting the Sami cultural identity as hybrid and heterogeneous. Fallvatten can be placed in the genre of ecothriller, because the environment is a premise for the story and it also includes an intense and increasing suspense. The genre has enabled the author to create a polyphonic and rhapsodic novel containing several protagonists with a variety of points of view. In the story, the protagonist´s personal problems get exposed, and forces of good and evil within them reveals, trough their encounter with the disaster. Fallvatten might be adversarial to civilization, but not to technology. In the story technology is depicted positively and it often seems to be indispensable. The narrative contains several Bible-references, which seems to be meant as a parody. But I don´t consider Fallvatten to be an ironic novel. Instead, I see it as a seriously meant story written with a sense of humor and with an ironical tone. I believe the author handles weighty subject matters in the novel with humor and irreverence because it works in a subversive way, with an ecocritical, ecofeministic and an anticolonial aim.
This papers purpose is to compare the female protagonist as a subject and reader in Madame Bovary, Watermelon and Bridget Jones´s diary. The aim is feministic, where Judith Butler's concepts of subjectivity and performativity have been used besides the method of close reading. These novels are pioneering works of each genre; the realistic novel and chick lit. Emma Bovary loses her subjectivity and turns in to a passive object when she is desired and looked at by men. Instead dead objects gets animated, which produces an extremely objectifying portrait of Emma. This culminates with the depiction of her suicide. Surprisingly Emma's position as a subject, if she ever has one, appears through her reading. The performativity of the texts gives her power and agency to try to change her life within the limits of the bourgeoisie marriage. The protagonists of Watermelon and Bridget Jones´s diary are two female subjects in a modern society, who loves reading. Despite their different opportunities to live fulfilling lives, as compared to Emma, they tend to objectify themselves in relationship to men. They also emphasize the importance of love and having a man in their life, which is according to the genre. Interpreted through Butler, an explanation could be that the power of submission not only sets the outer limits, it also influences our internal desires. These chick lit-novels also discuss literature and cultural hierarchy, where the protagonists tend to prefer popular literature. Watermelon also contains an opening for subversion, depicted by Claire's achieved independency at the end of the novel, and through some gender-parodies. Most of all, these two chick lit-novels tend to reiterate and consolidate a traditional gender-order through their performativity, although ironizing over the same.
Keywords: Reading, genre, realistic novel, chick lit, feminism, Judith Butler, subjectivity, performativity, Madame Bovary, Watermelon, Bridget Jones´s diary.
The image of Northern Sweden has long been subjected to stereotyping, and the stereotyped image of the Northerner is widely spread in various media contexts within Sweden. Historically, Norrland has been regarded as a wide wilderness, and the Norrlandic literature in turn has typically been studied in terms of the pastoral genre, the romanticism of the wilderness, or from an eco-critical perspective. The study of masculinity within modern Norrlandic literature, however, is largely overlooked, despite the undeniable stereotyping of Norrlandic males within other forms of media. This thesis aims to solve this anomaly by providing insights into the creation processes of masculinity in three contemporary Norrlandic novels.
In the novels Smekmånader [Honeymoons, 2017] by Mikael Berglund, Solidärer [Solidarians, 2017] by Anna Jörgensdotter, and Silvervägen [The Silver Road, 2018] by Stina Jackson, the construct of Norrlandic masculinity is examined through close-reading. The questions of how Norrlandic masculinity is constructed is examined through a theoretical framework combining the hegemonic masculinity of R. W. Connell, the gender performativity and queer studies of Judith Butler, the frontstage and backstage perspective of Erving Goffman, and the creation of emotions of Sara Ahmed, in the reading of three contemporary novels following male protagonists—each seeing their identity challenged while on a journey far away from home.
Viktor of Honeymoons is constructed as a brave cry-baby or a highly sensitive person whose self is disintegrated in the absence of his wife Maija. He is furthermore constructed as a person offering emotional comfort, despite being deeply void of such comfort himself. Ingemar of Solidarians is constructed as a mummy's boy or a dreamer who ends up as a martyr, who always requires the presence of a woman—his mother Eivor, Klara whom he is wooing, or Conxa whom he meets in the war in Spain—in order to advance from a mere lust to an actual event of action. His emotions are slightly supressed. Lelle of The Silver Road is constructed as an emotionally blunted vigilant or a nervous wreck, who readily succumbs to aggression and violence towards other men, in his lack of emotional cathexis to a physical person. He is struggling with his perceived failure in his role as a father, and is furthermore driven to action by his need of reconciling with his past. Nonetheless, none of the male protagonists exhibits a lasting hegemonic masculinity.
The study concludes that the analysed novels contribute to a new form of Norrlandic literature which challenges the traditional and stereotypical ideas of rural masculinity.
This essay delas with the effect of emotions on Ondaatje's characters. By using Sara Ahmed's theory that they way we react and act is shaped by our contact with other people and that "emotions shape the very surfaces of bodies" (Ahmed 4) and that this in turn make us either approach or reject people, Ondaatje's main characters are analysed. It is their meeting with certain people that governs their feelings and explains the way they act.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the voice in Elin Wägner's novel Silverforsen (1924), Selma Lagerlöf's Löwensköld trilogy (1925–1928) and Klara Johanson's causeries in the feminist weekly newspaper Tidevarvet 1923–1924, in relation to women's suffrage. Swedish women were finally granted the right to vote in 1921. The female political voice arroused high expectations of societal change: the female body was supposed to provide a female perspective on politics. However, the connection between the body and the voice was imagined differently by different theorists of emancipation. Therefore, in order to pinpoint the functions of the voice, the functions of corporeality need examination as well. The readings of the novels and causeries by Wägner, Lagerlöf and Johanson reveal striking discrepancies in the functions of the voice in relation to corporeality.
The examination of the functions of the voice includes an account of the genre, the mood and the narrator's voice as well as the characters' ability to speak and the workings of the voice in the societies established in Silverforsen, the Löwensköld trilogy and Johanson's causeries. A central argument of the dissertation concerns Wägner's, Lagerlöf's and Johanson's various constructions of identity. Identity proves to be of equal importance to legitimate political action. Though, while Wägner's notion of identity is based primarily on sex and inspired by the voice of God, Lagerlöf complicates the criteria for identity, featuring nationality, family and social class as primary distinctions. Johanson, for her part, rejects the idea of a shared gender identity all together. She still emphasises the need for politics to voice identity, although identity in her account includes only one single person.
Contemporary theories on gender by Ellen Key, Mathilde Vaerting, Rosa Mayreder, Otto Weininger, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alexandra Kollontay and Olive Schreiner form a context for the relations between voice, corporeality and emancipation developed by the novels and causeries. The readings of the literary texts are also, in their turn, intended to shed light on the theories of emancipation. This study proposes a new metatheoretical model instead of the heavily criticized distinction between essentialism and constructivism, by focusing the relation between corporeality and meaning, using the rhetorical tropes to analyse these relations. The tropological model may specify the body of the early twentieth century identity politics.
I den här uppsatsen görs en analys baserad på adaptationsteori av boken och serien med samma namn nämligen El tiempo entre costuras. Genom att använda funktioner inom adaptationsteorin analyseras materialet med målet att svara på frågorna hur den formella strukturen av boken och serien skiljer sig åt, hur några av huvudpersonerna har anpassats från boken till serien, om några exakta fraser från boken kan återhittas i serien samt hur två olika scener från boken har adapterats i serien. Analysen visar t.ex. att den generella strukturen på boken och serien inte är den samma samt att de kardinalfunktioner som hittats i boken också återfinns i serien och generellt sett har adaptationen från boken till serien skett i enlighet med teorin.
Autofiktion är ett omdiskuterat genrebegrepp som fått ökad aktualitet i Sverige under de senaste decennierna genom en rad verk som positionerat sig på gränsen mellan verklighet och fiktion. Med denna uppsats vill jag lyfta fram tre av dessa verk, nämligen Karl Ove Knausgårds Min kamp (2009), Stig Larssons När det känns att det håller på ta slut (2012) och Marcus Birros Släng alla kartor (2012). Syftet är att undersöka texternas litterära tekniker och romantiska idéinnehåll för att urskilja en autofiktionens estetik. Det jag kommer fram till genom mina analyser är att texterna ger uttryck för en antilitterär estetik som styr läsaren mot en självbiografisk läsning. Detta åstadkommer författarna dels genom det självbiografiska anslaget och den strikta subjektiviteten, dels genom inslag av metareflektion och självkritik från berättarjagen som uppenbarar texten som en fortlöpande arbetsprocess. Författarna kringgår litterära konventioner genom ett öppet och tentativt skrivande som inte eftersträvar det formfulländade. De förhåller sig till det låga på ett skrivtekniskt plan genom inslag av talspråklighet och genom att ge illusionen av en konstlös komposition. Även innehållsligt får det låga utrymme i form av berättarjagens bekännelser vad gäller deras destruktiva karaktärsdrag eller tveksamma moraliska handlingar. Berättarjagens destruktiva läggning och deras tendens att framhålla konsten som överordnad livet visar på det romantiska arv som går att spåra i texternas idéinnehåll. I texterna framställs berättarjagen som begåvade men motarbetade outsiders, som bara kan närma sig livet genom att skriva det.
Hjalmar Söderberg är en svensk författare vars verk i allra högsta grad lever kvar i våra dagar, vilket visar sig i de mångtaliga omtolkningar på hans romaner som uppkommit under 2000-talet. Med detta arbete vill jag dels analysera Hjalmar Söderbergs mest uppmärksammande roman Doktor Glas (1905), dels utveckla en didaktisering av de sentida pastischer som sprungit ur verket och belysa pastischernas postmoderna tendenser.
Mitt syfte är också att undersöka hur dagens gymnasielärare ser på användandet av Hjalmar Söderbergs texter i sin undervisning. I arbetet intervjuar jag sex yrkesverksamma svensklärare som pekar på olika förtjänster med att använda sig av Söderbergs texter i elevsammanhang, däribland språket, stockholmsskildringen, de etiska och moraliska frågeställningarna som tas upp i texterna samt Söderbergs texter som förmedlare av ett svenskt kulturarv.
Därutöver har jag själv gått ut i skolan och provat min didaktisering av de sentida omtolkningarna av Söderbergs Doktor Glas med en elevgrupp. Eleverna har sedermera fått besvara en skriftlig uppgift om pastischerna samt en utvärderande enkät om hur de upplevde mitt lektionsmoment. Utifrån detta diskuterar jag hur och varför Söderbergs texter kan ha en plats i skolundervisningen samt vilka förtjänster det finns med att undervisa om postmodernistisk litteratur i skolan.
Resultatet från lärarintervjuerna och elevenkäterna för mitt resonemang in på hur vissa elever kan ha svårigheter att förstå äldre texter och forna tiders moralsyn, men också nyttan av att utmana sina egna perspektiv och sin egen tids tankesätt. Med min ansats om en postmodern litteraturdidaktik i åtanke diskuterar jag undervisningsformens problem, men också dess möjligheter: att utveckla en historisk förståelse för litteratur och att klargöra villkoren för konstnärligt skapande, vilket i förlängningen kan gagna den egna kreativiteten.
Boström, T. 1979. Den objudne gästen. HurMaeterlinckintroducerades och mottogs i Sverige intill 1903. The Intruder. How Maeter1 inck1 s work became known and was received in Sweden up to I9O3. With a Summary in French. ISBN 91-7174-038-4. 230 pp.The aim of the thesis is to show how Maurice Maeter1 i nek 1 s work became known i n Sweden and how it was received up to 1903. This examination is placed in relation to important facts concerning the man himself, his aesthetic theory, his literary production in general and the background of Belgium and France. From these countries his literary path is traced to Sweden through Denmark, Norway and Finland. Attention is concentrated on Maeterlinck's reception by the Scandi nav.i an pub 1 i c and on which of his works were translated and published or introduced by means of the stage. In this connection the motives and principles for staging The Intruder and Pelléas and Mé1 isande are studied. Up to 1892 Scandinavian critics regarded Maeterlinck's works as being essentially realistic. Later there was a change and the critics then began to regard and interpret him as a symbolist. On the whole it cannot be said that Maeter1 i nek was justly performed or understood, which probably helped to delay interest in him and in symbolism in general. Opponents of conventional Swedish stage procedure sometimes used Maeterlinck as a positive argument for change,but on the whole the spiritual climate remained unfavourable for the author. Not until 1902 did Maeterlinck become a recognised master owing to two Swedish translations of the internationally successful Life of the Bees, which received cri t i cal acci aim and was the start of his breakthrough in Sweden. The following year Monna Vanna was a similar success on the Swedi s h s tage. The traditions in Swedish cultural life which had meant that Maeterlinck's symbolist works were not accepted instead ensured his success now that he had abandoned symbolism.
The time-space of the archive: on the shadow texts of Sara Lidman
As a place for scientific research the archive may be stationary or mobile – or even a virtual site. Alongside its function as a source for empirical study, the archive holds several other crucial qualities which highlight the complexity of all epistemological endeavour, including its metaphorical or symbolical aspects. Thus, "archive" or "archival" has been frequently used keywords in recent debate and research, from feminist theory to art theory. Jacques Derrida's striking metaphor of "mal d'archive" – archive fever – has been followed by several more or less related thought figures, such as Sara Ahmed's image of "the Unhappy Archives of Feminist Theory" och Ann Cvetkovich' "Archive of Feelings" has been most influential.
However, among archives, an author's archive always holds an exceptional position, located as it is on the treshold between private, personal and public. Remaining objects, imprints of intimate articulations of emotions in diaries and letters are systematized side by side, often in chronological order, with manuscripts, drafts, articles etc. As such, an author's diary never tells just one story – but shelters the potential of many, written and unwritten; manifest or hidden. In this way an author's archive can be said to form a "time-space" of its own, where the material layerings of memories, narrative patterns and lived experiences which both resists and challenges archival ordering principles.
Taking its departure from the archive of Swedish novelist Sara Lidman (1923-2004), the aim of this article is to reflect on the encounter between the researcher and the author in an archival context. The methodological and stylistic approach is experimental, making use of personal diary writing as a means to enfold the tactile and sensual aspects of the "archival experience". The article thus wants to argue that archival research must be recognized as an emotional as well as epistemological and intellectual practice.


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These pictures taken last week at Le Moulleau (Arcachon, France) made me realize 2 important things:
1) Marcel is such a big dog now ! I didn't realized how fast he had grown until watching these photos as in my eyes I still see him as a 2 month puppy (he is 1 year 1/2 now...).
2) I really, really, need to cut my fringe as its obvious I can't see anything. Well, I cut it since but by my own and its not that straight...
I told you it was crucial informations...
Besides, I am wearing my favorite jean of the moment. I love its cut, color, flowers on sides and above all how versatile it could be ! I first though it will be one of these eccentric piece I would wear once at times and I finally surprise myself wearing more often than I would though.
Veste :: Des Petits Hauts
Sweat :: Zara
Chemise en jean :: Zara
Jean :: Insight
Shoes :: Mellow Yellow
Sac :: DIY
Bandana :: La boutique du bandana
Lunettes de soleil :: Roxy
Lunettes de soleil :: Roxy
Get the look ::