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"People who are always making themselves busy with acquaintance that will not develop into a real friendship don't know the beautiful feeling of not having to worry about the drama."
People who are
As I left the big house behind, heading to my car, I looked back one last time to see if anyone was watching. And by anyone, I mean Elsa. Our conversation earlier was a bit tense. I could feel her tension when I mentioned Pitch.
That Pitch, if he ever puts his filthy hand on Elsa I swear I will-
Happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts...
I wasn't gonna get my day ruined just by thinking of what Pitch might do to Elsa, if he ever dares to. He may be a tall and intimidating guy, and I might be shorter than him, but he doesn't scares me. He should be scared of me since I can beat the crap outta him. If he didn't have those "faithful" henchmen of his always watching his back.
I finally finished my handfull of hazelnuts and I was ready to leave. I gave a last glance to the house and notice Elsa looking outside, probably waiting for me to leave, or she just wanted to take a final glance to my beauty (hehe). She most likely look outside to see if I left... meh
While heading back home, picking a radio station was really hard. Nothing on air was of my interest, I could've stuck to a classical music station but I wasn't in the mood of listening to it. So I just plugged my iPod to the radio and put my favorite songs of a movie soundtrack: Twilight Saga.
I haven't seen any of the movies though, or read the books; but I sure like most of the music. I decided to listen first to Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation :3
Eyes on fire, your spine is ablaze, feeling any foe with my gaze. And just in time, in the right place, steadily emerging with grace...
I really liked that song, it might have a little weird beginning, but it calmed me down when I had my fumes up; mostly thanks to Pitch, but I found my way out.
Pitch (unexpected point of view)
My parents had made me go into this prestigious music school to keep up with the family tradition. I wasn't as musical as my parents. My father could play the piano and my mother could sing. I could do none but hit the drums down all the way. My parents said that I wasn't making music, just noise. WHAT THE F*CK DO I CARE!!! I liked making noise just to annoy them.
At least this senior year I didn't have to see their faces, but I had no idea of what to do after finishing school. I thought of making my own heavy metal band or anything that I might let my rage attack the drums. At least I have my guys, my partners in crime (inner evil laugh) and to me they are essential to get to Elsa.
I may not be the most handsome man on Earth, but I sure know what a woman likes. If this was enough, I woulld've be with Elsa already. There's just one little but freaking annoying problem. Jack Frost.
I hate that guy with every single cell in my body. My blood boils everytime he approches Elsa with that pretty boy swag of his. I don't get why girls are more into him, not that Elsa is one of them fortunately, but she wouldn't be with me either. She rather be alone than being with anyone except her little sister Anna. But I think she's giving in to Jack. If she doesn't give in to me, I'll take her by force. One of these days I'll give to the charming Jack Frost a little surprise (devil-ISH thought).
Every time I mention a plot for a story I came out with my mom always tell me "Don't tell me about it if you're going to do like the rest of the story and never finish it" I usually say I do but honestly I don't. There's only 3 stories I have finish "King Rudy and the Smart Girl", "Searching for freedom" and "Pup: The Puppy That Wanted to be Friends With His Shadow." Long names I know. The only reason I finished this story is because they are children story and well I wrote "King Ruby and The Smart Gir"l in fifth grade for an assigment and "Pup: The Puppy That Wanted to be Friends With His Shadow." for my niece this summer. Anyway the thing I was thinking about this and is true I have like 9 stories that I have started writing and have not finish. It kind of makes me feel like I'm afraid of commitments but am I? Well I have decided that since I have a 7 week christmas break why not dedicated it to a story? I usually do something like this, I usually go to my grandmas house for 2 weeks in christmas and just try to write and in this christmas break since is longer I'm thinking of doing something like this. I was thinking what story do I want to finish first? and I decided to do my NaNoWriMo failed challenge. Its a story about human trafficking that I didn't finish because school work got in the way. I though that maybe the best way to push myself to do it is to publish it on Wattpad like I did with a couple of stories but hopefully this time I will finish. Actually delete that. This time I WILL FINISH IT! The Story will hopefully bring attention to human trafficking and will make people more conscious. This story is a year old so please bear with me while I tried to start it again. So here's the poster for the story:
What do you guys think? yes? no? I love it, I find it describes human trafficking and the story and idk I'm pretty proud of it. Anyway click here to read it and bear with me if I don't update close enough but understand I still haven't finish college, and I'm working on my house and the blog so yeah.
oh also there this video next to the story that I would love for you guys to see is called Back To Innocence but in case you don't want to read the story here is the video:
Yes, this is one of those post where the person fangirl and comment on an artist performance. So after almost 2 days about hearing how amazing Taylor Swift's performance at the AMA I finally found the video on youtube. THANK YOUTUBE! You never fail me. So since I was afraid that it was going to get copyrighted and you guys wouldn't have the chance to see it I did the unthinkable. I downloaded it xD Now lets hope it won't get copyrighted here. So before I start I'm going to leave you with video.
I love the way she does the crazy eyes. Has maybe she since her last movie/episodes been taking acting classes? Maybe we will see her again in the big screen. I mean her acting on The Giver was pretty good even though at first I didn't really recognise her. Go Taylor!
An Icy Melody: A Jack Frost and Elsa FanFic
I woke up to my alarm in the morning like if I hadn't slept in ages. It's Saturday morning and, yes I have an alarm for Saturday, all I remember is the way Pitch looked at me a couple of days ago.
I have to take him out of my mind. I can't live a peaceful life if he's there surrounding my thoughts. I shook my head to clear my thoughts and be able to wake up.
I went to the bathroom to clean myself up and get ready for breakfast. I already could sniff in the air the smell of pancakes, bacon and mmm.... hot chocolate (=^w^=)
I ran downstairs to the kitchen, and for my surprise I see the one and only Jack Frost sitting on my chair.
"What the heck are you doing here?" I asked clearly demanding an answer.
"Oh, good morning cupcake. How was your sleep? Mine was good thanks for asking." He replied with a tone of mischief in his voice and a little smirk in his lips.
I was pissed and he knew it, but heck what is he doing in my house, my kitchen, my chair.
"Well good morning Jack Frost. My sleep wasn't good enough. But I'm still wondering why are you in my chair."
"Well, I just came here to make your morning wonderful, my little chocolate chip." He sure knew how to piss md off.
My little chocolate chip?
I rolled my eyes at his response and the closed them, took a deep, deep breath, and exhale. Conceal, don't feel. I thought to myself.
"Anna?" I looked at her with a 'help me' face
"I don't know, he just came in and told me he wished to see you" she shrugged. "Then I told him you were asleep, and he said he'll wait until you woke up. He hasn't moved for like half an hour.
Wow, so persistent. I looked at me and he gave me a cute warm smile. You get me to my nerves pretty boy.
"And what could possibly be your business here, Frost?" I calmly asked.
"I already told you sweetie, to make you a wonderful morning" he winked at me. God can't he be any cuter?
"Anna, why don't you make something for Jack?" I asked as I sat on her seat.
"I already asked him if he wanted something, but he said he only wished to see you." She told me, but I couldn't tell what kind of expression she had since I wasn't facing her.
A dead silence reign the kitchen. Anna spoke first.
"Well um... if you need anything I'll be in my bedroom" she said awkwardly and walked away.
I didn't need to tell Anna to leace me alone. She knew what the dead silence meant. I kinda felt bad for her. Since our parent's death, we've been living here on our own. We were going to live in a foster house but then I turned 18 and we were mature enought to take care of ourselves.
"Well Frost, Imma eat my breakfast and then you tell whatever you want. I don't want my breakfast to be spoiled." I said coldly
"Ouch." That's all he could say, while looking at me straight in the eye.
I ate my pancakes calmly, really enjoying them. I was completely ignoring Jack. He was surpringly silent.
When I finished, I drank my delucious warn chocolate and stared at him.
He was looking out the window, as if he was thinking.
"Jack." I got his attention
"I just came to see if you were alright" he confessed
Wow, Jack Frost is concerned about me. I'm very surprised.
"Well Jack, thanks for worrying, but I'm fine. You didn't had to come." I told him.
"I had to". He replied. "You looked quite anxious a couple of days ago."
"Then why didn't you asked me at school like, I don't know, Thursday or yesterday...?" I said with a tone of 'duh'
"I wanted to see you out of school. Besides, when I see you at school I only come to you to piss you off" he said playfully
"You really pissed me off a while ago" I remembered him
"Anna was around so I had to keep myself as the pretty boy that pisses you off." He winked at me
"Well I'm fine. Now you can leave."
"Bab-" I cut him off
"Don't call me baby, ever again"
"Then what should I call you?" he asked, rising an eyebrow.
"My parents didn't called me 'Elsa' for no reason." Like 'duh'
"Well Elsa, if you need any help with anything, call me, look for me, whatever. Let me know, okay?"
What is he asking me? Why would he? Why would I ask him for help?
"Um, Jack... what the heck?" I asked
"Look sweeti- I mean Elsa, I know something is bothering you, so please let me help". He begged
"Why you?" I asked narrowing my eyes
"Cuz..." he doubted.
"That's... a very nice reason" I told him. "In any case... I'm fine, you don't have to worry."
Elsa wouldn't tell me what's going on. She's always been like that, shutting people out. I wonder how Anna can live like this. Unless she doesn't shut Anna out, since they only got each other. Anyway, I better find a way to get Elsa to tell me what I need to know.
"Is it Pitch?" surely I caught her out of guard since she froze for a moment right in front of me.
"U-um... n-no... why would he?" she stuttered
"I've seen the way he looks at you, and it bothers me. And when I look at your reaction, you seem quite... scared?" I said doubtfully
"Terrified." she corrected me.
"Hmm... So he does bother you after all, huh?" I told her rubbing my chin. Later noticed a bowl of hazelnuts sitting on the table between Elsa and me. Oooh! Hazelnuts :3
She kept quiet, not answering my question. So I supposed I was right.
"It's none of your business, Jack." she spat
"Elsa, I swear, if he does something to you or he touches you I will-" she cut me off inmediately
"Jack! I don't need your help, I'm not a damsel in distress!" she yelled at me and it caught me out of guard. Elsa never yelled at anybody, heck, she barely speak to anyone.
"Alright," I gave up. I stood up ready to leave, but before, I looked at her and took a couple of hazelnuts. "See you on Monday"
"Uh... there's no school on Monday" she told me
"I'll see you around" and I left
FINALS FINALS FINALS! My brain is fried
GUYS! This week have been CRAZY! Finals are driving me crazy. I still have one more week left of studying and then a week of vacation only to go back to a test to then continue vacation. AAAH! If someone told you college was easy let me tell you guys THEY ARE LYING to make you feel better. Also freshman 15 is a real thing i have gain like 6 pounds since I started college. I'm working on losing them but guys is so hard because college won't let me have free time. Like UGHT! okay okay sorry for the rant.
This how I feel when I have free time:
I'm going crazy here! I have to do 2 monographies that have to be 10 pages long for dec 2 and 2 summaries that has to be around 4 pages long. THATS 28 Pages minimum that needs to be written!! Plus I have a test on december 2 and another on the 8!! and thats only because the other essay test that I had for the dec 2 was postpone for yesterday. I mean is not THAT much but with the little time I have to do this I feel like I'm drowning. Seriously!! I'm trying to help my family paint the house but if I do then I have to rush a project. and Sleep I love sleep and i hate missing it. The thing that screws me over is the fact that it takes like 4 hours daily to get from my house to college and from college to my house. okay! I should stop now but I just needed to rant it out. I must say it may not look like a lot of work but that's just because thats only the bit that's left. Thanks God I have done almost everything else. well may the odds be ever in my favor.
Here it is the so wanted second part of the Jelsa fanfiction that left you asking for more. Yes! It's finally here for you to enjoy.
It's been three months since school started. Winter is coming, and finals too (>.<) but I guess I'll be alright. I may not be the smartest student, but I'm good enough to survive this semester. At this part Ikinda envy Elsa. She's really really smart, responsible and super talented.
I dare to say that her audition was perfect. Her voice was like the one of a godess, so beautiful, so bright. For a moment I felt that I didn't stand a chance, but that's just cuz I don't really like to sing... I mean I do but, meh.
Surprisingly, I got out early from my English class. So I'll go to Language clasroom and wait for Elsa to come out. It's the perfect time to see her sexy annoyed face (hehe).
I see her concentrated face looking foward (idk, teacher, board whatever). I swear that I could've been drooling, but I stop myself before looking like an idiot. She looked down to her notebook to take notes. That angle of her face is so beautiful, with her eye lashes touchig her cheeks. So cute.
I mean, what am I thinking? She's gorgeous and sexy of course but, Oh! so beautiful... JACK STOP! she's just hot. Yeah but... STOP!
Oh! Look, she's coming out (muahaha).
"Hey Elsa!" I smirked at her
She rolls her eyes at my sight but answers
"Hey Jack, what's up?" she asked
"Nothing much, I was just wondering if those were space pants, cuz DANG! You're outta this world!" I exclaimed.
She gave me a "seriously?" face but said: "No, they're baseball pants, cuz I'm SO outta your league" (A/N I had to write that xD)
"OOOHH!!!" many of the guys howled in our direction
"Tsk, nice..." I chuckled and walk away still looking at Elsa, who looked quite satisfied, bitting my lower lip, rising my eyebrow. Then I turn around and leave.
I've never felt better in my life. Like, I SHUT HIM UP! I don't know if he's going to give up, I hope so. That'll teach him to leave me alone, and so to the other guys.
At the end of the hall, I see Pitch Black. A slim, tall, pale and dark haired guy, with a creepy aura around him. He was looking at my direction. His look gave me creeps to the bone. He was looking at me like a possession, a precious treasure that soon enough will belong to him, he looks at me as if I was edible.
I turn around drastically just to avoid his look. I rushed through the school's door to catch up with Anna and the gang. I saw Anna with a guy who I didn't recognize, Merida and Rapunzel by their side and, Hiccup and Flynn talking about I don't know what.
"Hey Els, you finally decided to tag along" Anna tells me
"Yeah, sorry guys. Who's this?" I asked Anna pointing at a tall, buffed blonde guy
"Oh! Um... Elsa, this is Kristoff. Kristoff this is my sister Elsa." she said
"A pleasure to meet you Elsa" says Kristoff politely nodding his head
"Mine too Kristoff" I agreed smiling warmly
"Um... Elsa? Kristoff is coming over to our house to start with a History project we have together. Do you mind? she asked me nervously
"Uh.. sure, he can come" that's all I managed to say
My head was in the clouds. I still had Pitch's look in my mind like a plague. I was scared of him. No wait, I was terrified. He looked like he would hurt me or do anithing to get me. I just wish that I could close my eyes and make him disappear forever.
Did you guys like it? Then vote, and follow her. kay kay! goodnight, my loves.
An Icy Melody: A Jack Frost and Elsa Arendelle FanFiction
An Icy Melody: An Elsa and Jack Frost Fan Fiction
Hola! How are the most amazing readers in the world? I am good! I am in finals and I barely have time to do ANYTHING! Right now I was supposed to be writing a 4 page summary for humanities class but I misplaced my copy of the chapter so I'm here instead of looking for it. I know, I know SHAME ON ME!!! but hey I'm here! Even though I'm not really posting anything mine (except this introduction) and that sends me to the whole point of this blog. So a beautiful, smart, amazing, talented and awesome girl I know is writing a fanfic on Wattpad. She is just starting and as a aspiring writer I felt so proud of her. And I did what anyone would do... I asked her if she wanted to share it on my blog. No? You wouldn't do that? Ah COME ON! The thing she ACCEPTED and she even let me read/post the third part before she even posted it on her Wattpad so here it is. Have in mind that this IS a fanfic of Elsa and Jack Frost.
Finally. I finally get to my senior year. Not that I wanted to leave, I like it here (very much I must say), but it's life and you have to move on.
That's what I decided to do.
I attended to this prestigious music school, in which I entered as a singer together with my sister, Anna.
The audition went really good. The judges (professors) liked our performance. Our song was Defying Gravity, from our favorite musical, Wicked. It was aired to the whole school. And when it was done, we recieved all kinds of reactions from the others students. Amazement, congratulations, interest and of course, envy and hatred.
"Oh no, look who's here" Anna anounced me pointing foward with her chin. I looked and I saw this boy coming my way, smirking. A slim boy with white hair and blue eyes like mine.
"Ugh" that's all I get to say.
He came to me. "Hey babe, that was incredible there. You wanna hang out and have some fun sometime?" He asked me.
"Look Jack Frost, why don't you just leave me and bother other girls?" I asked.
"Cuz I wanna be with you bab-"
"Don't call me baby ever again" and I left dragging Anna with me.
Yes, Jack Frost, the pretty jerk boy. I've known him since 9th grade, and by some "divine" coincidence, he's at this same school as I am.
It's not like I really hate him, but he is SO annoying. He can sometimes be sweet and gentle... but that is just 10% of the times.
He auditioned before I did. And I honestly gotta say that I admire him musicaly. He's great at playing the guitar, like GREAT. Just like the guitar was another part of him and he could play it with his eyes closed.
At the audition, I could see his fingers dancing through his guitar, creating a beautiful melody, which I later realized it was He's a Pirate, from Pirates of the Caribbean.
I mean, it was amazing! I've never heard such thing or seen so much talent. I have to agree that Jack Frost is an amazing musician.
I've been acepted. Yes! I would be able to see Elsa everyday hehe. Not that I hate her, no. She's just so gorgeous I can't help it. You know what they say: when a guy bugs a girl, it's because he likes her.
Now that doesn't mean that I will cross the line. Of course I know there is a limit. I'm not like Pitch Black, he definitely gets to the limits and further.
Once in 10th grade, when Elsa wasn't looking, he grabbed het butt. Like, he grabbed it. I bet that if she was alone and not with her sister, he'll rape her.
He's a monster, I feel like an angel if I'm compared with him. I'll kill him if he dares to do something to Elsa. I swear.
It doesn't mean like I'm love with her. I mean I like her, yeah, she looks so sexy when she gets mad but, in love? Pfft, ha. Right?
Hey guys! Thanks for reading. I hope you like it so far, it's my first fanfic so please don't kill me (>u<)
If you liked it please vote and follow. I'll do my best to get it done and good, so please cheer for me!
If you think it's missing something, please comment (constructive comments please) no hatred. Peace and love, Kitty_Panda
If you like it you should totally go check out her wattpad and follow her. OOOH and also vote for the story. I'll be posting the second part tomorrow but don't get greedy and use to it because we are both in finals. #SmileForNate
I saw this and I felt sick. I felt like throwing up and not because I have the flu but because what society has come to. The person that posted this is a girl from 9th grade who is skinny and is definitely not fat by any standard. AND even if she was "fat" what wrong with it? Again back to this girl she is freaking skinny but she looks up to these stars that are underweight and unhealthy. They see these edited pictures of these girls or women and she is thinking I want to be like them. They are so beautiful, she's a freaking 00 but I'm a size 4 wow I'm so fat.
I hear/see so many girls and boys believe in these incredible high standards are almost impossible to reach and then they look at themselves and think that they aren't good enough or beautiful or perfect but NO. Like NO don't ever think that because you don't look like these girls/women/boys/men this doesn't you aren't beautiful or perfect or worth it. Look at yourself in the mirror and look at all the good things you have, but don't let what society or other decide is how you're supposed to look sink in.
NO! Brush it off! You are perfectly flawed in a way that makes you perfect. If you could only see how beautiful you are. FORGET ABOUT your looks, if is this that's bringing you down, because you have a golden heart and an intelligence that is something to be proud of. You are amazing! You are you! Be you! Ignore all the negativity. I'm sorry for this rant but I've been where lots of you are and I know is not a pretty feeling; I also know we are more than physical appearance and that I'm perfectly imperfect. Goodnight!


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Novi vodotesni sončni pogon GPS Vario z Bluetooth 4.1
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 23:10
Pozdravljeni Prijatelji! My name is Nicolay, I am a paraglider pilot and an R&D engineer in the Ungravity project. And you are all one of the best competitors, adventurers, and mountaineers. Have you ever worried about whether your paragliding, or speedriding, or whatever else track will be recorded or get lost?
Just one day my own GPS get discharged during hike-n-fly and I lost a cool adventure, another time I landed in the water while performing acro and all my flight instruments had to be thrown out. I would like to understand how you - professional and leisure pilots today, solve this issue, going to the longest cross-country flights and doing SIV over the water ? And if you still have a headache whether to record a track or not, then I'm on the right way. And the world's first solar-powered waterproof GPS vario - is really in demand.
I will be very happy if you say whether such a device (waterproof stand-alone GPS vario with a smartphone connectivity) is necessary for you or how do you solve the problems described. And if you liked my idea, then by this season we will have such an instrument!
A more detailed and technical description can be found here: https://ungravity.store/

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Put another point in the "redesigned iPhone 5" rumor column: A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests the next iPhone will go the route of the iPad 2, trimming off a few millimeters and ounces in the process. That may not seem like such a big deal, except that rumors about the next […]
Put another point in the "redesigned iPhone 5" rumor column: A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests the next iPhone will go the route of the iPad 2, trimming off a few millimeters and ounces in the process.
That may not seem like such a big deal, except that rumors about the next iPhone are split pretty evenly into two camps. Some claim that the next iPhone will be something more akin to the jump between the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS, which wasn't much of a redesign of the phone, but more a slight improvement. The real jump in hardware didn't come until last year with the iPhone 4.
That seemed to make a lot of sense, given the fact that Apple only released the Verizon iPhone 4 in February and that it has pushed back the release of the new iPhone to the fall from its normal announcement date at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. That change suggested a substantial update for the iPhone wasn't as big a priority for Apple this year, and rumors that the next iPhone would be a little more 4S than 5 started to appear. The biggest change in the device, it seemed, was the no-brainer inclusion of the A5 dual processor Apple created for the iPad 2.
But while it seemed that an incremental iPhone update was all but agreed upon by the Internet and media outlets, more and more rumors have been surfacing that suggest that Apple really is pushing a big update for the iPhone when it eventually announces it, presumably in September (or as early as August) to go with the release of iOS 5. We've been steadily accumulating new rumors that suggest better hardware: the WSJ story pushes the 8-megapixel camera on the phone that we heard about recently, and now discusses actual physical changes to the handset that seem in line with where Apple is going.
The WSJ's report comes from "unnamed sources" who apparently work for component suppliers in Taiwan, which supply the parts that go into making Apple's products. We heard a similar story just a few days ago from DigiTimes that suggested the same thing, although with the WSJ publishing these rumors, they receive a little more credibility.
An iPhone 5 redesign also is supported by what we've been hearing about what Apple is expecting in terms of sales. The WSJ report has Apple pegging iPhone 5 sale numbers at 25 million by the end of the last quarter of 2011. That's a pretty huge order, and while it's certainly inclusive of Apple expanding to additional overseas markets, it also likely takes into account the fact that many iPhone owners clamor for new editions of the phone. A more incremental update – an iPhone 4S, for example – would likely see many iPhone owners deciding to wait for the real iPhone 5 than upgrade in September.
The mounting evidence seems to suggest that Apple may be looking to deliver a more substantial iPhone this fall, despite the Verizon iPhone crowd being relatively new to iPhone ownership and likely unable to receive a subsidized upgrade this early from Verizon. Of course, with all iPhone rumors, we're only going by what little information and evidence is available, so there's a lot of speculation here. It's probably fair to say that regardless of what the iPhone 5 looks like, the sales figures Apple expects (or at least hopes) to see are about as high as what's being reported.


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Guide and Virtual Tour of Kefalonia: Kiriaki Bay and Beach.
Panorama | Review | Map
Not much to say about this place, really. We were just tootling along the road from Argostoli to Mirtos Beach and stopped for a photo because it looked so good.
We didn't actually go down onto the beach, though there was a very rough, little farm track which appeared to go in that direction. It will have to remain one of life's mysteries.
Join us on the next part of our virtual tour of Kefalonia...
You are viewing panorama No.35 (Kiriaki Bay and Beach), one of 52 Virtual Reality 360 degree views of Kefalonia.
Map of Kefalonia showing the location of Kiriaki Bay and Beach at Latitude 38.307820 / Longitude 20.479674.
We have visited Kefalonia on a number of occasions to produce this tour, this page was created on Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:34:13 +0000.
5 Day, 10 Day, 15 Day long range weather forecast and current conditions for Kiriaki Bay and Beach, Kefalonia


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If you've been curious about acro yoga for a while now, here's your chance!! These workshops provide a safe environment to come play and get your feet wet in the world of Acro Yoga!Flight School highly recommends attending an Acroyoga Fundamentals workshop to build a strong foundational practice. While our weekly classes are mixed level, and beginners are welcome, the fundamentals course is an opportunity to learn the primary building blocks in a supportive environment. Workshop attendance will enhance the weekly class experience for you and everyone.Bring a friend and see you there!
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On April 2, a workshop on Competition Law was held for representatives of AmCham Moldova.
The event was opened with a keynote address from Marcel Raducan, President of the Competition Council and moderated by Viorel Mosneaga, member of the Competition Council Plenum.
The seminar focused on familiarizing business representatives with the main definitions and provisions of the competition and advertising legislation. In this aspect, the authority representatives have shared their opinions regarding the impact assessment of the normative acts on the competitive environment, analysis of actions/inactions of the public authorities applied for restriction, prevention or distortion of competition, examination of unfair competition acts and inappropriate advertising, and analysis of anti-competitive practices, namely abuse of a dominant position.
In addition, during the event, AmCham Moldova members have had the opportunity to interact with the Competition Council representatives', discussing various situations with a major impact on business, such as: methods to assure fair competition between all the players on the market, promotion of the competitive culture among the companies.
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We all envy the chic, easy style of the endlessly fashionable women of Paris, don't we? They just exude casual elegance. Well, with the right haircut, you can be one step closer to bringing a classic French style to your maison. Next time you visit the salon, ask if a bob with blunt bangs is right for you. And for after you take the plunge, here's how to ensure your nouveau style always looks great:
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The Cognac & Brandy Insights report launched this week by the IWSR states that 'Cognac sales will continue their remarkable recent momentum' into 2018. Cognac has certainly worked its way back into the hearts of the drinks trade over the last year, whether for sipping, food pairing or in mixology. This was clear to see at the Cognac Experience, an immersive cognac tasting hosted by Phipps on behalf of the BNIC this month.
This month 17 Cognac producers convened at East London's TT Liquor with one main aim; to demonstrate the diversity within the category. From VS (Very Special) designed specifically for mixology, to rare vintage Cognacs, over 71 different products were on show for guests to explore, taste and compare.
The Cognac Resurgence
A large part of cognacs' resurgence is the increased demand for high quality cocktails. All over the world, a new generation of mixologists, both professional and amateur, are seeking authentic and versatile ingredients to create showstopper cocktails. Cognac, with its diverse range of aromas, contributes a smoothness and intensity to cocktail creations that mixologists have been taking advantage of since cocktail making first began. Guests to the Cognac Experience were given the opportunity to experiment with different flavour profiles during a very special mixology masterclass hosted by Joe Hall – Cognac enthusiast and general manager at renowned Bethnal Green bar Satan's Whiskers.
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While Cognac carved its spot in mixology from the outset, it also has excellent food pairing qualities that are often overlooked. Experience sur Mesure is a chef and sommelier partnership from Cognac who are pioneers in cognac and food pairing. The pair have developed the perfect pairings to inspire any audience, focusing on different styles of Cognac at different temperatures to bring out the best in a variety of foods. Attendees to our food pairing masterclass were taken on a journey through the styles, experiencing delicious and often surprising food pairings – from frozen VS Cognac with caviar to XO with dark chocolate.
Charlotte Charret, Head Bartender at The Coral Room attended both masterclasses. She commented; "I think that Cognac is one of the world's most refined spirits. No other distillation of fruit or grain can equal Cognac for its nuanced bouquet or its artful balance of power, subtlety, and warmth. It is also a versatile drink, as it can be enjoyed neat, with food, as a long drink, or in your favourite cocktail."
Alice Lascelles, drinks columnist for the Financial Times, author and presenter summed up the day on her Instagram post. "An excellent Cognac tasting today – reminded me how much I and a lot of bartenders love Cognac. Lots of great new discoveries. Will be interesting to see if Cognac can kick start the renaissance it deserves".


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Ideas that have Harmed Mankind Analysis and Summary: Bertrand Russell
Read below our complete notes on the essay "Ideas that have Harmed Mankind" by Bertrand Russell. Our notes cover Ideas that have Harmed Mankind Analysis and Summary.
Ideas that have Harmed Mankind Analysis and Summary:
Bertrand Russell is a well-known British philosopher and a symbolic character in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy. He is also known as a logician and social reformer, and a Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1950. He wrote numerous books and huge numbers of articles. His subject matters include social, political and moral issues. He is preeminently known as a promoter of peace.
Ideas that have harmed mankind, by Bertrand Russell, is an expository essay in which the writer gives a detailed account of the ideas or things that have harmed mankind by humans and non-humans. This essay, like ideas that have helped mankind, is also among the unpopular essays of Russell.
Russell starts the essay by pointing out the two sources that have caused the misfortunes of mankind. According to him, first of all, humans are harmed because of non-human environment that inflicts suffering upon them; secondly, the human themselves are responsible for their sufferings. Russell desolately declares "man is that man's worst enemy". In past time, calamities like famine etc. were mostly natural, but nowadays man, in order to attain power over other men, destroys the crops and starves them to death. They easily decrease the shortage of food in one place by increasing the food supply at other.
To Russell, those who inflict evils on others are not because of their ideas or beliefs let them do so, but because of their own evil spirits. They are more like sadists who enjoy the sufferings of other beings. Russell's ideas that have harmed mankind is explained in the following headings:
- Wrong Religious dogmas:
The superstitions that are connected to religion has harmed the mankind. For instance, it was thought the sacrifice of human would mend the crops; afterward, a religious belief that the oppressed people should be eradicated completely. The cows and sheep, even, were not secure. The Christian saint believed a superstition that all the pagans would be imperiled to everlasting torments after their death.
Consequently, all the saints of this belief refrained themselves from the pleasures of the world. They establish their gratification in the belief that the ones who didn't have alike spiritual beliefs to them would experience inexpressible torments in the hell. This Christian belief, in modern times, acquired a political form. The Nazis of Germany and the Communist of Russia commanded a great amount of work and altruism from their admirers on the fact that the one who didn't obey them would be discharged. These sort of political dogmas that are based on absurd religious beliefs directed to substantial harassment and misery.
- The faith in Enchantments:
Russell mentions another wrong concept that has harmed the mankind significantly is the importance every individual assigns to himself. The belief that every misfortune happened to us is because of the intention of others and to this we create any kind of superstitions to describe our evil fortune. The black magic and witchcraft is the invention of this state of mind.
Russell effectively illustrated the various ideas, coining from religion that has harmed mankind. In religion, no doubt, there are dogmas that in reality are just superstitions and inflicted excessive miseries in the world. The historic example, illustrated by Russell, is quite authentic. The Christians attitude toward the pagans is justified by Russell when he quoted Bible which claims: "thou shall not suffer a witch to live". This shows that the punishments inflicted upon the people who don't believe in punishing the witches are impartial. Russell, time and again, provides evidence from real life and from literature to prove his point. The rational ones between us are by this time conscious that technical discoveries have chased away many illogical beliefs associated with religion. But if a great majority even of educated people carry on to grasp gullible dogmas, then, it shows their reluctance to be educated.
- Jealousy:
Another source, besides religion, that causes false beliefs is jealousy. We often heard a proverb regarding women jealousy, but jealousy not only prevails among women but among men as well. The men jealousy is particular to their official circle. This envy becomes tremendous when prevails among nations and dominates the attitudes of people for each other. Jealousy among the nations may cause the misunderstanding of financial interest of one country. In modern time, a false concept or philosophy prevails among the nations that the economic interest of one nation will result in devastations of others. This untruthful faith crops worldwide revulsions and conflicts and therefore lead to confrontation.
Russell, by adopting a philosophical approach, suggests that the world wars in the past are deep-rooted as the envy in human hearts. He illustrates that the competition among the "butchers" and the "bakers" and their feelings of envy made them only concentrate upon their opponent, forgetting the altogether prosperity through their customers.
- Pride:
Another urge that gives rise to politically harmful dogmas is pride. The pride in nationality, the pride in sex, the pride in class, the pride in race, and the pride in creed are all sorts of pride that we have and are very dangerous. It was time that English people were thought to be inherently superior to French nations. Alike feeling of superiority valued other nations as well. For Russell, the superiority of race is more deterrent than that on national pride. The aim of education should be to eliminate the pride in races and creeds. Another concept that has harmed mankind is the notion that men are superior to women in all respects. Men claim themselves to be more rational, more imaginative, and less influenced by emotions than that of women. This dominance in sex has great influence upon married life. Husband, being superior to wife, treat her wife like slaves, considering themselves to be masters.
The pride in class perseveres even in America where all men are considered to be equal; in theory. As far as the disparities of mammon will last, the vanity in classes will stay. Russell points out towards England, a country where discrimination of wealth is less evident and claims another sort of arrogance among people, i.e. the pride of class. According to Russell, by all of these various forms of pride, a "grand" feeling arose in people. And this feeling, on one hand, makes people happy; but, on the other hand, all these irrational, false, misleading feelings of superiority roots the destruction of mankind.
- Imagining Oneself Exceptional to God:
The other harmful belief of mankind that Russell mentions in his essay is people consider themselves more special to the God. The superiority complex of a nation leads them to think themselves as the exceptional creator of God and they are chosen by Him to carry out His tenacity. For example, the authors speak of Muslim's obsessive faith that each warriors dying in the fight for his faith would go straight to heaven. Likewise, Cromwell believed himself to be chosen by divine will for overpowering Catholics. The Marxist, in the 20th century, believed themselves to be appointed by God for guaranteeing economic fairness; on the other hand, Hegel communicated that "dialectic" is the root cause of giving supremacy to Germany. Marx contradicted the Hegel's point of view and provides that superiority is not of Germany but of the working class. Russell concluded this false belief of superiority to God by illustrating: "Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false".
- Russell Showing Himself as Rival of Dogmatism:
Russell, in the concluding paragraphs, shows himself as a sturdy of dogmatism. He ironically and satirically illustrates the tenacious and narrow beliefs of different kinds of people. He harshly scorns those who ponder themselves to be exceptional creatures of God and are appointed by Him to do special jobs. Russell shows himself to be a man of substantial ideas, not committed to any creed, nor obsessive beliefs. He is even not obsessive about democracy that is considered as the best form of government. He illustrates that a Democrat doesn't believe in the democracy as the best form of government. Russell points towards those who lack moral potentials and the political leadership essential for the governmental organizations. Russell suggested the international government as the best form of government for preventing wars.


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Over the last decade, masculinity has been publicly criticised in the mainstream press due to its supposed negative impacts on both men and women. But just what exactly is masculinity and why do some view it as so problematic?
To begin, we must examine the discipline of academic gender theory, which gained prominence in the 1960s and 70s. Spurred on by the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and the deconstructionist school of thought spearheaded by Derrida, prominent critical theorists argued that gender was performative rather than inherent. This was supposedly a product of the exploitative, heteronormative culture which thrived off of inequality.
Masculinity, therefore, was associated with traits which abetted such oppression: violence, selfishness, and carelessness. Taking a theoretical-sociological approach to human behaviour and largely ignoring biological traits is a problem in itself, but what this thinking seems to lead to is the viewpoint that masculinity in general needs to be curbed or conditioned in order for us to have a society free of violent, perverted, and emotionally detached individuals.
Christina Hoff Sommers, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, refers to a "War on Boys", which describes the situation boys face in the educational system in the US for simply acting like boys. In an article written for Time Magazine, she demonstrates three instances.
The first one is the case of Christopher Marshall, aged 7, who was suspended from school for picking up a pencil and using it to "shoot" his friend. Josh Welch and Alex Evans, the same age, were both punished for similar causes; the former being sent home for "nibbling his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun" and the latter being suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade at "bad guys" to "save the world."
These are plain instances of boys having fun through playing out action scenarios. It's exciting. It's escapism. I know I used to enjoy this exact sort of thing. But there is undoubtedly a new push to take away elements of aggression in boys activities. Simply look at the newest calls this year from academics to take away tackling in rugby in schools up until the age of 18 – most likely replacing it with touch rugby. Is it really motivated by health and safety concerns? Many commentators, including former players, have noted that the safety concerns for adults will actually be much higher if this proposal is adopted. Even at such a young age, we can see how boys are being conditioned to suppress their urges to do as they do – leading to difficulties further down the line.
The greater autonomy of women in society, whilst an achievement, is also playing a role in shaping said "crisis." It cannot be denied that the role of men has indeed shifted in the last few years – women are firmly within the workplace and are now occupying higher earning positions due to a greater rate of graduation from university than men.
Some men, like Jordan Peterson, have argued that the rate of male suicide, particularly amongst middle-aged men, is sustained due to their inability to play their traditional role – they feel emasculated and purposeless. This has been felt especially after the recent financial crisis, where many male-dominated industries such as construction felt the impact of the slump.
Politically, what does this crisis spell? What we've seen is a new pivot towards more authoritarian leaders – who deliver a form of distorted masculinity by proxy. Donald Trump is emblematic of this: he represents a nihilistic, no-holds-barred, hedonistic way of life which replaces the order and responsibility of masculinity with a certain coarseness and disregard that his supporters find refreshing. He is the embodiment of a reaction to a status quo that perceives masculinity as something to be challenged and chipped away at the root. No wonder men (and particularly working-class men) pulled the lever for him. But his masculinity is a twisted version of what his champions desire.
So what must be done? To solve this crisis, masculinity must not be associated with a form of archaic oppression. It has to be seen as a collection of traits which men share and aspire to achieve. Ultimately, we are still living in the hangover period from the turbulent 20th century, the birth-giver of social progress. Men will in time learn to adapt these traits to the new age. If not, however, we may see a great deal more clamour for hyper-chauvinism as an outlet.


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Reentry is an incredibly disorienting time for astronauts as the body is trying to adjust from the near weightlessness of orbit to the regular ol' forces exerted on us planet-side.I am suffering from reentry today. My sons and I reached home around midday, after nearly 24 hours of train travel. Our sleep had been interrupted by some late-night boarders, who encamped near us and left their door open, so that the dulcet sounds of the two urchins in their group cut through our clickety-clack dreams. We are also coming down from seven days of New Orleans style eating. But the biggest shock to my system is the resumption of the everyday stresses I still haven't learned to handle.
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If you were to suggest to me that this movie was created solely for the intent of letting liberal movie critics reaffirm their objectivity by giving genuinely bad reviews to a story about a working-class Latina woman asserting herself against various toxic male authority figures amid a morally-gray portrait of the American/Mexican narco-wars… well, I would tell you that there was no way anyone that imaginative worked on this movie. However, it's certainly almost impressive how badly Miss Bala manages to bungle a premise with so much obvious goodwill built into it.
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Flatly staged and directed by Catherine Hardwicke — who at this point has mostly earned her way out of being blamed for Twilight — it's mostly another dull drama that's too fixated on guns and proceduralism to function as the character piece it wants to pose as and neither stylish or sexy enough to warrant its convoluted women-in-peril plotting.
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Amusingly, the secondary plotline about the gang inserting the heroine into the Miss Baja Beauty Pageant (which makes significantly less sense here than it did in the original where it was more central and the connection to the "true events" vaguely inspired the story) briefly enters the narrative near the beginning of the "crime parts" only to vanish entirely for almost the whole runtime; so that when it suddenly shows up again so that the finale can load up on forced shots of Rodriguez carrying a machine gun in an evening dress (so the trailer can pretend it's selling a trashier but more entertaining movie), the ensuing whiplash is nearly the most exciting surprise Miss Bala has actually managed: "Whoa! Hey! Remember when it looked like this was gonna turn into 'Violent Miss Congeniality' and then it just… didn't?"
Instead, the bulk of the second act gets bogged down in the dreary kidnap/double-agent/imprisonment melodrama; ostensibly centered on Rodriguez maybe/maybe-not developing a twisted sense of mutual affection with the gang's ruthless young leader around their shared experience of growing up in both Mexico and the U.S. — a dynamic that might be interesting if it even once felt like anything but a narrative justification for the two main characters to speak mainly English to one another despite the film taking place in Mexico.
This kind of empty, bland storytelling is par for the course for mid-budget features dumped into early February, sure. But what finally tips Miss Bala over the edge from being dull and forgettable to outright annoying is the mounting realization that the reason the lead character essentially isn't a character (at all) until pretty much the finale is because this is all meant to be the "origin story" in what someone is clearly hoping will be a "franchise" for Rodriguez; a compelling actress who's been unsuccessfully chasing a series-ready character-property to underwrite her drama career for several years now. I almost feel bad hoping it eludes her for at least this one more attempt. It's nothing personal, I just can't imagine sitting through "Miss Bala Returns" in two years.


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As if I needed to start collecting something new.... I have a new set of vintage flatware, that I am lurking around eBay attempting to finish out the set.
I found this lovely set of flatware on Craigslist one weekend. I was looking for a Duncan Phyfe buffet for my living room. But ended up buying this gorgeous Hiawatha flatware instead.
It was a place setting for 12. Missing one dinner fork and knife. Which really... does not matter. I mean rarely do I do a dinner party for more than 8. ha! No, really it is so easy to find replacements for these vintage sets. I didn't think twice about it missing a couple of pieces. I did what all good crazy girls do... I hopped on eBay to buy some more. ha!
What I ended up buying... was the the matching Hiawatha luncheon set.
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February 11, 2019 § 4 Comments
Whenever I write about racism, white privilege, feminism, etc., I get a slew of comments from usually anonymous trolls calling me every name you can imagine. And then I get some comments from people who may or may not be using their real names, almost always identifying themselves as white, who complain that the world is racist against them. Or white men complaining that the world is sexist against them. And so on. Usually, these comments also include a series of ad hominem attacks on me.
I can handle the abuse, I'm a big boy. But I will not approve comments that include racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, misogynistic commentary. Nor will I approve comments that are nothing more than insults.
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November 11, 2018 § 2 Comments
Across Canada, the cenotaph is a central component of the central square of villages, towns, and cities. Erected in the wake of the First World War, these cenotaphs faithfully record those who gave their lives in the first global conflict. The First World War was the 'war to end all wars.' While not nearly as massive or bloody as the Second World War, it is the First World War that is remembered as The Great War.
These cenotaphs recording the war dead are deeply embedded on the landscape. And, unlike so many memorials, they are not invisible. Growing up, I was always aware of them and what they meant. They were solemn and dignified, almost always identical, obelisk shapes. I remember reading the names of the dead on them, and not just on Remembrance Day.
The dead of the First World War seemed so faraway from me, growing up in the 1980s, beyond living memory for me. My grandparents served in the Second World War. And whilst my grandfather's service as a tailgunner in the Royal Canadian Air Force held a certain romance, it was nothing compared to the First World War.
As a boy in Canada, I didn't know a lot about the conditions of the War. I learned these in university and the romance of the war dropped away quickly. And I learned more and more about the status of Canada during this period. Even still, the First World War has maintained a certain mystique. Part of this is driven by the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by the Canadian soldier (and victim of the war) John McCrae:
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lie,In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.
And so the First World War maintained this mystique. Even if the veterans handing out the poppies in return for a donation to the Royal Canadian Legion were from the Second World War when I was younger, it was a symbol of the First World War they pinned to my lapel.
Last month, I was in Ottawa and visited the National War Memorial located at the intersection of Elgin and Wellington streets, kitty corner to Parliament. The Monument, somewhat ironically, was dedicated in May 1939 to honour the war dead of Canada. Ironic, of course, because the Second World War broke out in Europe barely three-and-a-half months later.
It was whilst staring at this monument that something really struck me about our cenotaphs and war memorials: they tend to date from the First World War. In this case the artillery is that of the First World War, down to the cavalry on horses. These monuments may include the names of Canadian soldiers who served in conflagrations before that one, of course, such as the Boer War. But it is the First World War dead who appear in great number. And the war dead of later wars, including the Second World War were added to the original monument. They were not the original soldiers, and whilst their sacrifices are the obvious equivalent, these memorials date not from their war(s), but the Great War.
And so these original soldiers, those who fought and died in the First World War were the baseline for the Canadian military and, even if this wasn't the first time that war was made real for Canadians, it was the first time it was made real on a national scale. And even if the First World War left a complicated legacy on Canada, it remains that it was perhaps the first great crisis the country faced. And it gave rise to a series of stories, some true, some mythical, about the import of the war on the still young Dominion at the time.
Griffintown Book Launch
September 19, 2017 § 1 Comment
This Thursday, 21 September 5 à 7, come to my book launch at Hurley's Irish Pub, 1225, rue Crescent, Montréal. 2nd floor.
Bonne fête à la charte de la langue française!
May 31, 2017 § 1 Comment
Bill 101 is 40 years old this year. For those of you who don't know, Bill 101 (or Loi 101, en français) is the Quebec language charter. It is officially known as La charte de la langue française (or French-Language Charter). It essentially establishes French as the lingua franca of Quebec. For the most part, the Bill was aimed at Montreal, the metropolis of Quebec. Just a bit under half of Quebec lives in Montreal and its surrounding areas, and this has been the case for much of Quebec's modern history. Montreal is also where the Anglo population of Quebec has become concentrated.
When Bill 101 was passed by the Parti québécois government of René Levésque in 1977, there was a mass panic on the part of Anglophones, and they streamed out of Montreal and Quebec, primarily going up the 401 highway to Toronto. My family was part of this. But we ultimately carried on further, to the West Coast, ultimately settling in Vancouver. At one point in the 1980s, apparently Toronto was more like Anglo Montreal than Montreal.
Meanwhile, back in the metropole, nasty linguistic battles dominated the late 1980s. This included actual violence on the streets. But there were also a series of court decisions, many of which struck down key sections of Bill 101. This, in turn, emboldened a bunch of bigots within the larger Anglo community, who complained of everything, from claiming Quebec wasn't a democracy to, amongst some of the more whacked out ones, that the Anglos were the victim of ethnocide (I wish I was kidding).
But, in the 30 years since, much has changed in Montreal. The city settled into an equilibrium. And I would posit that was due to the economy. Montreal experienced a generation-long economic downturn from the 1970s to the 1990s. In the mid-90s, after the Second Referendum on Quebec sovereignty failed in 1995 (the first was in 1980), the economy picked up. New construction popped up everywhere around the city centre, cranes came to dominate the skyline. And then it seeped out into the neighbourhoods. By the late 90s/early 2000s, Montreal was the fastest growing city in Canada. It has since long since slowed down, and Montreal had a lot of ground to catch up on, in relation to Canada's other two major cities, Toronto and Vancouver. But the economic recovery did a lot to stifle not just separatism, but also the more radical Anglo response.
Last week, the Montreal Gazette published an editorial on the 40th anniversary of Bill 101. It was a shocker, as the newspaper was central to the more paranoid Anglo point-of-view, even as late as the mid-2000s. But, perhaps I should not have been surprised, as it was written by eminent Montreal lawyer, Julius Grey. He is one of the rare Montrealers respected on all sides. At any rate, Grey (who was also the lawyer in some of the cases that led to sections of Bill 101 being invalidated), celebrates the success of the Charte de la langue française. It has, argues Grey correctly, led to a situation where, in Montreal, both French and English are thriving. He also notes that there is much more integration now in Montreal than was the case in the 1970s, from intermarriage to social interaction, and economic equality between French and English. Moreover, immigrants have by-and-large learned French and integrated, to a greater or lesser degree, into francophone culture. Many immigrants have also learned English.
But the interesting part of Grey's argument is this:
On the English side, dubious assertions of discrimination abound. It is important for all citizens to be treated equally, but often the problem lies in the mastering of French. The English minority has become far more bilingual than before, but many overestimate their proficiency in French, and particularly when it comes to grammar and written French. By contrast, francophones tend to underestimate their English.
In other words, speaking French is an essential to life in Montreal. And Anglos, I think, are more prone to over-estimating their French-language skills for the simple fact that it's common knowledge one needs to speak the language.
Grey goes onto make an excellent suggestion:
These difficulties could be eased by the creation of a new school system, accessible to all Quebecers, functioning two-thirds in French and one-third in English. Some English and French schools would exist for those who do not wish to or cannot study in both languages, although most parents would probably prefer the bilingual schools.
However, this would never fly. The one-third English does not bely the demographics of the city (let alone the province, and I really don't see the point of learning English in Trois-Pistoles). The urban area of Montreal is around 4 million (the population of Quebec as a whole is around 8.2 million). There are a shade under 600,000 Anglos in the Montreal region, largely centred in the West Island and southern and western off-island suburbs. That means Anglos are around 15% of the population of Montreal. The idea that Montreal is bilingual is given lie by these numbers.
Nonetheless, there is merit to this argument of an English-language curriculum in Quebec's public schools (including in Trois-Pistoles). Like it or not, English is the lingua franca of the wider world, and global commerce tends to be conducted in that language. There is also the fact of the wide and vast English-language culture that exists around the globe. One of the things I enjoy about my own partial literacy in French (one that has certainly been damaged by not living in Montreal anymore) is the access to francophone culture, not just from Montreal and Quebec, but the wider francopohonie).
For any group of people or individual, there is a lot to be learned from bilingualism (or, multi-linguality). In Montreal (and Quebec as a whole), it could ensure that the city's economic recovery in the past two decades continues. Along with this economic recovery has been a cultural renaissance in the city, in terms of music, film, literature, and visual arts. It is a wonderful thing to see Montreal's recovery. And I want it to continue.
Punk as the Establishment
February 10, 2017 § Leave a comment
When Joe Corré, son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, torched his Sex Pistols memorabilia in November, I was left very conflicted as an ageing punk and a public historian. I felt equally conflicted when I learned that British Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May wears Vivienne Westwood designs. Or, rather, I was horrified at that, so I pondered Corré's argument the more. And I wrote a post for the National Council on Public History's blog, History@Work. It got published today.
Trauma and Memory
January 18, 2017 § 3 Comments
I read David Means' novel, Hystopia, last week. It is an alternative history of the 1960s and 70s in the United States; a novel within a novel. Hystopia, according to the editor's notes, was actually written by a Vietnam vet named Eugene Allen, shortly before he killed himself in 1973 or 1974. In Hystopia, JFK survived Lee Harvey Oswald's bullet, and continued on as president and is now in his 3rd term (the scholar in me wonders how he got passed the 27th Amendment, mind you). He oversaw a massive increase in American involvement in Vietnam, much greater than that of his successor in real life, Lyndon Baines Johnson. And, of course, there was no Great Society policy initiatives. He was eventually assassinated in Springfield, IL, in 1970. But this is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what happens to Vietnam vets when they get home: they get enfolded.
A new branch of the government, Psych Corps, has attempted to use drugs to deal with the horrors that the soldiers in Vietnam saw, with a caveat: they only accept men who are not physically disabled by the war. At the Psych Corps HQ, the vets are fed an anti-psychotic drug and 'enfolded.' Psych Corps re-creates the source of the trauma and PTSD for soldiers, they are forced to relive it, and in so doing, their memories are essentially wiped. Thus, veterans who have been enfolded don't remember their experience in the war, such as the 'hero' of the novel, a veteran named Singleton. Singleton, we eventually realise was an officer in Vietnam and commanded the unit that also included the other main characters of the book. But he has no recollection of this. The only thing that connects him to Vietnam is a horrible burn scar on his left side. Singleton's scar comes from a friendly fire caused by a soldier calling in the wrong co-ordinates for a fire bombing, resulting in his own death.
Now employed by Psych Corps, Singleton falls in love (against regulation) with a fellow officer, Wendy, and sets off to Northern Michigan to track down Rake, a former member of his unit and a failed enfold. Rake, meanwhile, has kidnapped the beautiful but deeply troubled, Meg, whose boyfriend and first love was the soldier who got himself killed. Meg is also Eugene Allen's sister.
Immediately after Hystopia, I picked up Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, for a new researh project I am undertaking. It turns out that Hystopia and The Body Keeps The Score are directly related for my purposes. I am still only about 100 pages into the book, but van der Kolk is talking about his early experiences in the field of psychiatry in the early 1970s (the same period the fictive Eugene Allen was writing his novel, incidentally) and his first clients, including Vietnam vets at the VA in Boston.
He writes about what trauma does to the brain, using a vet as an illustration. This guy was a high functioning, and very successful criminal lawyer in Boston. But, he was completely empty inside. He went through the motions at home, with his family, at work. He felt violent impulses and thus recused himself from his family, spending weekends at a time drinking heavily in an attempt to get his war experiences out of his head. He had been a platoon leader, and watched helplessly as he lead his men into an ambush. They were all killed or wounded. He was not. The next day, he took his wrath out on a Vietnamese village, killed at least one child and raped a woman.
As I read this story, and others, I couldn't help think of Hystopia, and the vets being drugged to forget stories such as this veteran's. In the late 1980s, van der Kolk began experimenting with PET scans and, ultimately, fMRIs, by which the traumatising event is re-created, according to a script, in order to discover which parts of the brain are triggered. It turns out it is exactly the same parts of the brain that one would expect to be triggered during a traumatic event. More to the point, the participants in these experiments reported feeling exactly as they did during the original event. And thus, van der Kolk notes, his colleagues began to wonder about how to use drugs to treat PTSD patients, using the information from the PET and fMRI scans to learn which parts of the brain neeed to be treated. Or, in other words, exactly what happens in Hystopia when the soldiers are enfolded upon return from Vietnam. The difference, of course, is that enfolding works for the majority of patients. There is no cure-all for PTSD for us in the real world.
Nonetheless, van der Kolk notes that we tend to respond to deeply traumatising events, whether something as graphic and terrifying and terrible as his Vietnam vet, or other traumas such as sexual assault, rape, being beaten as a child, etc.. And I found myself wondering about how our brains work to incorporate these memories and recast them in terms of society, how our memories and our traumas are never ours alone, but also belong to our wider society. Our memories are formed, re-formed, and re-fined in light of our interaction with society, of course. And it is difficult to tell where our individual experiences end and our societal imports begin, or vice versa.
And as I embark on a this project, I am wondering where that dividing line is between our own personal traumas and where society intervenes in the reconstructions of the narratives we tell ourselves about our experience. What makes our traumas unique and what makes them like other victims of traumatising experiences?
We, The Other People
November 15, 2016 § Leave a comment
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency last week has many people in the United States worried or scared, or both. Anxiety is running rampant across the nation. He was elected with something less than 25% of the vote of the voting age public, which is a problem in and of itself. He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. These are all things we must keep in mind. Many people are feeling worried about their place in Donald Trump's America.
Many of us feel like we don't belong, like the nation held a referendum on our right to exist, and we lost. People of color, immigrants, women, Muslims, LGBTQ people, disabled people and many others find themselves devalued and vulnerable to harassment. Let's join together to hold the incoming President accountable for the fear, anger and hate he has stirred in our country. Let our voices be heard; we will not allow hatred to hold sway.
We believe that if we speak truth from the heart again and again and again, our words and stories have the power to affect change. We create a record of our dissent. We demand our system of government work for us, not against us. We stand our ground in a way that honors the office of the Presidency and the promises of freedom and justice for all. '
We, the project organizers, are documentary filmmakers and public historians who are deeply committed to making sure that all people are able contribute to the historical record. We believe that stories matter and that everyone has a right to make their voices heard.
We, The Other People is a project to collect letters from Americans and immigrants who live here. We are all protected by the Constitution of the United States of America.
So why letters? Glad you asked:
Letters to the President of the United States (POTUS) have a long tradition. Revolutionary War veterans wrote to President Washington seeking pensions that were promised but not delivered. Escaped African American slaves petitioned President Lincoln on behalf of their families. Children beseeched President Roosevelt to help them survive the Great Depression and Jewish Americans pleaded with their President to help get their relatives out of Nazi Germany. Japanese Americans wrote to Reagan asking him to remember the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the Cold War raged.
Across centuries, letters to the President have expressed the concerns, hopes, fears and expectations of our nation's people. They have called on the holder of the seat of power to hear them and to be their leader.
We are collecting them for now on our website. But, come January, we will deliver them to the White House, to deliver our message for an inclusive United States, to the president. This will also ensure that the letters enter the official record and eventually end up officially documented in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.


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With two outs in the top of the eighth inning and the Bisons leading 3-2, Bobby Parnell was summoned to pitch to Yankees top prospect Jesus Montero. Montero took a 0-1 hanging slider deep over the right-center field wall for a go-ahead three-run home run. Josh Stinson (pictured)was in line for the victory before the Montero blast. Stinson's 7 2/3 IP, 3 hits, 2 er, 0 bb, 6k performance was his best since joining the Bisons.
Val Pascucci (1-4, HR (2), RBI) hit his second home run of the season for the Bisons. Michael Fischer (2-4, 2B, RBI) and Nick Evans (2-4) each had multi-hit games.
AA: @ Trenton Thunder 7, Binghamton Mets 4
The B-Mets bullpen once again let a victory slip away. Trenton scored seven runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to erase a Binghamton 4-0 lead. This was the ninth blown save chance for the B-Mets bullpen. Brandon Sage came on to face four hitters, and did not retire not one of them. Sage gave up four singles, and all four of them came around to score.
Mark Cohoon had yet another effective start, as he pitched six innings, giving up only two hits, two earned runs, walking five, and striking out three. The five walks were a season high for Cohoon, but he battled enough to pitch effectively.
A Kai Gronauer(1-2,2B, 2RBI) two-out, two-run double gave the B-Mets a 4-0 lead in the top of the fourth.
A+: @ St. Lucie Mets 7, Lakeland Flying Tigers 0
Tobi Stoner made his first rehab start since coming off the DL and pitched five shutout innings for St. Lucie. Stoner allowed only four hits, no walks, and struck out four. Collin McHugh,who came on in relief of Stoner, finished off the final four innings to pick up his first save of the season. McHugh allowed only one hit, one walk, while striking out five over his four shutout innings.
The offense was lead by the bottom third of the batting order. Juan Lagares (3-4, 2RBI), Francisco Pena (2-4, 2B, HR (2), 4RBI), and Rylan Sandoval (2-4) each had multi-hit games.
A: Hickory Crawdads 1, @ Savannah Sand Gnats 0- 13 innings
The Crawdads scored a run in the top of the 13th when Gnats reliever Luis Rojas threw a wild pitch over the head of catch Albert Cordero while attempting to throw ball four of an intentional walk. (I have never heard a game end that way)
The Gnats offense managed 10 hits in the game, all singles. Three of the singles were by Cory Vaughn (3-4, 2 BB), who also reached base two more times via the walk.


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So how could a man be dick-punched to death in a locked hotel room, while holding a cigarette, without making a sound?
But Wait, It Gets Weirder:
There's no real way to put this gently: Ed Fleniken was shot in the scrotum.
The cops were stumped, so Fleniken's family called in private investigator Ken Brennan. Now, one of Ed's neighbors did hear something odd: a loud crack, like a gunshot. Brennan started sniffing around, and managed to find a small bullet hole in the wall between the rooms, cleverly concealed with what turned out to be dried toothpaste. The electricians in the other room had been drinking, and one of them, Lance Mueller, fired a shot which went through the wall separating their room from Fleniken's. The electricians thought they'd "heard a cough" from the other room, so they figured that the occupant was alright, hastily masked the hole in the wall with what they could find (hence the toothpaste), and took their party to a bar, all without thinking to check on Fleniken.
Unfortunately, the noise they heard was less of a cough and more of an "Oh shit, I've just been shot in the balls" death rattle. The bullet went through the wall and hit Fleniken square in the sack while he was lying on the bed watching Iron Man 2 (a slightly less painful experience). It entered his body and ricocheted up through it, causing massive internal injuries, until finally lodging itself in his heart. Meanwhile, the soft skin of his scrotum swelled and folded around the bullet hole. Seeing no entry wound and having no reason to assume there was one, the coroner didn't bother looking for a bullet. And thus ends the mystery of the Deadliest Dick Punch.


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Chap's Dream
Sire: Dream Ahead
Dam: Strum Cha
Colour: Brown
Gender: Filly
Age: 4 year old
Foaled: Sep 23rd, 2015
Country: Australia
Career Record: 9-0-4-3
Wins0.0 %
Place77.8 %
|Brown filly
|Foaled in 2015
DREAM AHEAD (USA) (Bay or Brown 2008-Stud 2012). 6 wins-3 at 2, Newmarket July Cup, Gr.1. Sire of 488 rnrs, 260 wnrs, 21 SW, inc. Al Wukair (Deauville Prix Jacques le Marois, Gr.1), Donjuan Triumphant, Shumookh, Dark Vision, Tornibush, Dreams Aplenty, Sweety Dream, Final Frontier, Basileus, Gold Tail, Mozart, Pursuing the Dream, Dream of Dreams, Gorane, Peach Melba, Sensei, Tisbutadream, Visionary, Awaken, Generalissimo, Ken's Dream, etc.
1st dam
STRUM CHA, by Stratum. 3 wins at 1300m, 1400m, SAJC Come From the Port H., Adelaide Casino H., 3d SAJC Boileau H., Allan Scott Park Morphettville H., Nunn Family H. Dam of two named foals, both raced-
Artstrum (f. by Artie Schiller). Winner at 2, MRC Yulong Park 2YO H., 3d SAJC Breeders' S., Gr.3, MRC Spicer Thoroughbreds 2YO H.
Chap's Dream (f. by Dream Ahead). See below.
2nd dam
DIM SIM, by Zabeel. Unraced. Sister to
Strum Cha. 3 wins. See above.
Rush to Judgement. 6 wins at 1600m, 1650m, A$83,465 in Aust.
Craiglea Simmo. 2 wins at 1400m, 1550m to 2018-19 in Aust.
Churchill Dreams. Winner at 1400m in Aust.
Any Minute Now. Winner at 1350m in Aust.
3rd dam
SCARLET ROBIN, by First Consul. Raced twice. Half-sister to SOVEREIGN RED, GURNER'S LANE, TRICHELLE, QUEEN'S CHOICE,
ESTIMABLE (Balmerino). 7 wins from 1550m to 2400m, A$156,746, STC Canterbury Cup, Gr.3, Lord Mayor's Cup, L, Skystar Welter H., Vain Welter H., AJC Chester H., STC Presidents H., 2d AJC John Edmondson VC Welter H., 3d STC Aintree Welter H.
Sherwood Forest. 4 wins from 1600m to 2400m, AJC Rain Lover H., 2d STC WSFM H., 3d STC Schweppes Sueno H.
Lady Viola. 3 wins from 1600m to 2050m, AJC Alexander Gray H., MRC Gladsome H., MVRC Roster-On Staff H., 2d MRC Battle for Australia H., AJC Brighton H., STC De Bortoli Wines Yarra Valley H. Dam of-
PURPLE (Commands). Joint third filly on 2008-09 Australasian 3YO Classification. 6 wins-1 at 2-from 1400m to 2400m, A$1,137,113, STC Storm Queen S., Gr.1, Queensland Oaks, Gr.1, VRC Matriarch S., Gr.2, AJC Coogee 2YO H., Fairfield H., MVRC Members Equity Bank H., 2d VRC Matriarch S., Gr.2, MRC Sandown Classic, Gr.2, AJC Craven P., Gr.3, MRC Coongy H., Gr.3, Ladies Day Vase, L, VRC Moet & Chandon S., 3d NSW Tatt's RC Chelmsford S., Gr.2, STC Hill S., Gr.2, BTC Doomben Roses, Gr.3, AJC Galilee 2YO H., 4th AJC Warwick S., Gr.2, Bill Ritchie H., Gr.3. Dam of-
Toga Picta (Lonhro). 3 wins-1 at 2-from 1300m to 1600m, A$109,700, to 2018-19, BRC Kirin P., 2d ATC Fernhill H., L, 3d BRC Canadian Club H., 4th VRC Sires' Produce S., Gr.2.
Mother Flame. Unraced. Dam of-
Harden Up. 4 wins to 1400m in Malaysia and Singapore, Penang TC Malaysia 3YO Championship Heat 1, Singapore TC Class 5 H., 2d Perak TC Malaysia 3YO Championship Final, Singapore TC Class 5 H., 3d Singapore TC Kranji D S.-twice, Class 5 H.-twice, 4th Penang TC Malaysian Magic Millions Classic, L.
Sinjani. Unraced. Dam of-
FOORAM (Maroof). 7 wins from 1200m to 2600m, NZ$43,935, A$436,550, AJC Chairman's H., Gr.2, STC NE Manion Cup, L, Murrumbidgee TC Wagga Gold Cup, L, Waikato RC New Zealand Bloodstock H., STC Vodka Cruiser H., WRC Kingdom Residential H., 2d AJC Quasar Constructions Welter H., STC Homeshop.com.au Welter H., WRC Royal Wolf Trading H., Manawatu RC Newmarket Lodge 2YO H., 3d VRC Queen Elizabeth S., Gr.3, AJC Randwick City S., Gr.3, Fast Proof Offset Welter H., ARC Graeme Thomson Jewellery H., 4th AJC Sydney Cup, Gr.1, Moonee Valley Gold Cup, Gr.2, AJC Canterbury Cup, Gr.3.
Estimation. Unraced. Dam of-
Capsimation. Unraced. Dam of-
Powerful Ruler (Viking Ruler). 8 wins from 1200m to 1800m, S$860,404, Singapore TC 2YO H., Kranji A S., Class 1 H., Kindness S., Open H., Novice H., Class 3 H.-twice, 2d Singapore TC Magic Millions Orchid Trophy, L, 3YO Challenge (2nd Leg), L, 3YO Challenge (1st Leg), L, Stewards' Cup, L, Singapore 3YO Sprint, L, Open H.-twice, RDA Cup, Panasonic Workio S., Auckland Racing Club Trophy, 3d Singapore TC Garden City Trophy, L, Merlion Trophy, L, Singapore Guineas, L, 4th Singapore TC Kranji Sprint, L, Jumbo Jet Trophy, L.
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Placed at 3 in 2018-19 in Aust.


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In this tutorial, we learn how to crochet a Kingston cap left-handed. Start round one by doing a chain one, then doing three double crochets and a chain one. Then, work a single crochet and then use a chain 1 to join. After this, do another chain one and pull up, then do 3 double crochets followed by chain one in the same space. After this, work a single crochet to join. For round 4, do a chain one, then work 3 double crochets again and chain 1 in the same space. Continue to do this process until you reach the 12th round. In this round, you will modify the band so it fits you perfectly.
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Truth be told, bygone automobiles don't really enjoy present-day London's chaotic and overcrowded roads – but there should be no overheating on Sunday June 24 when around 150 old motors gather in the five-acre Belgrave Square Garden for the second edition of the Belgravia Classic Car Show.
The informal, one-day event promises live music, a barbecue and an ice-cream stand – as well as the opportunity to see an impressively large number of truly interesting cars without having to venture out of town.
Organised by estate management company Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (and Belgrave Square Garden Events Committee) in conjunction with Chestertons and London groups the 96 Club and Waterloo Classics Car Club, the Classic Car Show promises vehicles spanning eight decades. One of the oldest exhibits will be a 1932 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental, the last Rolls-Royce model to have been designed by the marque's co-founder, Henry Royce. The four-seater, 7.7-litre tourer is one of only 281 PII Continentals built.
Also of note is the unique "Steady Special", a custom-built, 1934 Lancia Astura-based two-seater sports car designed by the late motoring writer and racing driver Ronald "Steady" Barker that has recently emerged from a six-year restoration after being off the road for more than half a century.
Spectators of a certain age, meanwhile, will recognise the 1970 Aston Martin DBS in striking "Bahama yellow" that was the actual car driven by the late Roger Moore as raffish Riviera agent Lord Brett Sinclair in the television series The Persuaders. Signed inside the boot lid by Moore and his Persuaders co-star Tony Curtis, it was sold at auction in 2014 for a record £535,500.
Also worth a look is a remarkable 1984 Lotus Esprit Turbo that is described as being in "timewarp" condition, and an example of the ultra-rare Jaguar XJR-15 from the early 1990s. There will be a "best in show" award sponsored by Sotheby's.


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