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In preparing of buying a bedroom sets, you need to go shopping around for the optimal brand name which provides durability, fashion and has a large range of designs. You'll be able to utilize the internet too in searching for the most effective bedroom and bed sets that are for sale and which you can select from. You could even play a game on the internet and you can decorate and design a bedroom making use of bedroom and bed sets which you choose from those. When you will attempt playing the stated game on the internet, you are able to have a much better concept regarding what to go shopping and appear for in going near the actual store. You'll be able to employ an interior designer to employ to pick sets for you when you have a challenging time choosing upon the distinct selections of bedroom sets. On the other hand, employing a designer shows an extra price too to the expenditures you have in providing your house and your dream bedroom.
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Ruffled bed skirts and charming dust ruffles can add character and whimsy to your bedroom area. The comforters, pillows, sheets and ruffled bed skirts that you pick for this space talk volumes about your sense of style as well as your individual choices.
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All Purpose Liquid Fertilizer with Micro Nutrients - Algoplus (1 Liter-5 Gallon)
All Purpose Fertilizer
Liquid Fertilizer with Magnesium and Micro-Nutrients!
New packaging, new formula, same amazing results!
All Purpose Liquid Fertilizer is a balanced formulation which lends itself well to most gardening tasks and is ideal for all green foliage. It is suitable plant fertilizer for garden plants, vegetables, bulbs and bedding. It stimulates flower and vegetable production at astounding rates! It is effective on just about everything in the garden. Our All Purpose formula is an ideal lawn fertilizer too!
In order to live, grow, develop, flourish and make fruits, plants need to be nourished. Their roots search and absorb nutrients in the soil. Water is essential for a good nourishment of the plants. From roots to leaves, it is the water that transports the important nutrients for the plants. For assuring optimum nourishment, it is important to use the right fertilizer dose and to fertilize regularly so that the plants' needs are met. Being well nourished makes your garden plants resistant against diseases and parasites.
Algoplus is a liquid fertilizer, 100% completely soluble in water. Algoplus is a 100% mineral based balanced fertilizer designed to deliver the 12 essential nutrients and trace elements that plants need to boost growth, flowers, and fruit. It is non-burning and can be used every time you water. It is non-toxic, odorless, environmentally friendly and very economical to use.
This patented formula contains no chlorides, no carbonates, no sodium -- it's odorless, colorless, and environmentally safe!
Mix 2 teaspoons (10 ml) of ALGOplus liquid fertilizer per gallon of water as a regular feed
OR 1 teaspoon to spray directly onto the foliage.
May be used at every watering for optimal results. One liter bottle for regular feeding makes up to 118 gallons!
Recommended Months: March - October
Pour 4 oz. of your favorite concentrated Algoplus Liquid Fertilizer into an empty hose end sprayer bottle. Fill the rest of the Hose End Sprayer bottle with water. Attach a hose to the end and turn on water. Rotate the dial to "ON" and apply.
Safe for use at every watering. One liter bottle for regular feeding makes up to 118 gallons!

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Choice list interactive filters based on database views take their choices from the base table. Even when choices are defined for the view table of a database view, the interactive filter does not recognize them.
Steps to Reproduce
- Navigate to Reports > Interactive Filters.
- Click New.
- Create a filter based on Choice list.
UI control type: Single Input.
Table: Incident SLA [incident_sla] (a database view created on Incident)
Field: Priority
- Click Submit.
- Add the interactive filter to a dashboard.
The available choices are All, None, 1-Critical, 2-High, etc.
- Navigate to the Incident table (the base table for Incident_sla).
- Filter the columns on Priority and view the dictionary entry for Priority.
There are ~90 choices configured for Priority.
- Add Table to the view (Cog > Personalize List Columns > Move Table to Selected column)
All the tables in that column extend the Task table.
- Right click on Task [task] in the Table column and select Show matching and then right click on en in the Language column and select Show matching.
There are 5 choices left. These five are the same that appear when you look at the available choices on the dashboard.
- Filter the Choices list on Table=Incident and click Run.
There are no choices on Language=English or Table=Incident. When there are no choices, the list in the interactive filter is populated by the choices in the base table.
- Add a choice on the Incident table (1 - Major, for example).
This should appear in the interactive filter and replace the choices from the base table.
- Navigate to the Incident table. Right click a priority to see its options.
The choice list now shows only one - the choice you created in the previous step.
The personalize_choices security role can be used to let non-administrators modify the options for Choice elements on all tables.
If there is a choice created on a table, the interactive filter should show only the choices created for the table. If no choices are created for a table, the displayed choices should be those configured for the base table. However, in releases through Jakarta choices created for database views are ignored in favor of those created for the base table.
There is no workaround applicable. This issue is fixed in the Kingston release.
Related Problem: PRB1021036


text: havonasun 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2016 When I boot, usually from hibernation, EIS performs its definition update, and I experience a loss of control over the computer until it is finished. The process uses 60 to 100% of cpu resources. I have tried to set it's priority to low, but I see no difference. Does it need to be so aggressive with the updates? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I'm over here just thinking about some new giveaway ideas. I will be contacting companies and Etsy shops who fit what I need and I will also need some help for button designs to promote. If you have any of the following skills or make items such as these, please fill out the form below:
*Button design
*Organic food (for review/giveaway purposes)
*Pampering items- soap, lotion, spray, etc. The more unique the better!
*Anything Handmade for children (for my Milk N' Honey blog)
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I see lots of articles like this, talking about consumer confusion over ebook pricing. The lead-in goes something like…aw, I'll just quote it.
Publishers are making a killing on e-books because they cost nothing to produce, distribute and sell and are almost 100% pure profit. At least, that's what many consumers think.
Another statistic often quoted in this article and similar pieces is that ebook production costs "10% less" than traditional books. Turns out ink and paper aren't that expensive, etc. (Unstated: 10% less than what? Hardcover? Mass-market paperback?)
Lots of people smarter than me have weighed in on this, and in particular on DRM aspects of the ebook market, for example Charlie Stross here and here and here.
But to consider consumer attitudes, as the top-quoted article does, you need to take into account one other important factor: ebooks are licensed, not sold. This (often in combination with DRM) causes all kinds of problems, for instance the Hunger Games Problem. Buying and licensing are different things, and they're not directly comparable. It would be like trying to determine whether a brick-and-mortar bookstore has fair pricing by examining how libraries work.
Holding a mere license to something, limited to a particular platform, without the ability to transfer, pass from father-to-son, share [beyond artificially limited horizons like '14 days'], or buy or sell at a garage sale makes ebooks a fundamentally different kind of beast. Some of the differences are subtle, but consumers are bumping in to them when they try and fail to do reasonable things with a book they "bought" (or at least exchanged money for). The inevitable demise of never-been-workable DRM schemes will help somewhat but won't solve the fundamental problem.
So in the context of the DOJ case against Apple and several publishers, I see lots of people asking the question of wether cheaper ebooks are a good thing for the industry. I don't think anyone will know for years, but as we move toward a fully licensed world, lower prices reflecting lower utility might be inevitable. Ebooks for many older titles are still unavailable or far more expensive than picking up an old, second-hand paper book–that is to say–too expensive. So prices may have nowhere to go but down. The big question: will publishers make it up on volume?


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Celtic could land £2m windfall as Man Utd eye up £40m Dembele transfer
The Frenchman could land his former side a seven-figure bonus after the Hoops negotiated a sell-on clause when he completed his controversial move to Lyon
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER is eyeing up Lyon star Moussa Dembele in his summer revolution.
The ex-Celtic striker is on Man United's hitlist in a £40million move as part of Solskjaer's attempt to build a younger squad.
Celts could land a £2m windfall from the deal after negotiating a sell-on clause when the Frenchman headed to his homeland last August.
Solskjaer wants to sign young talent like 22-year-old Dembele to develop and end the marquee signings of the post-Alex Ferguson era at Old Trafford.
United are among the Premier League top six interested in Swansea winger Dan James but have not made an official approach yet.
They are also looking at Lille winger Nicolas Pepe to bolster an attack that dramatically misfired in the last two months of the season.
NTCHAM CHASE Porto are set to make a fresh bid for Celtic midfielder Olivier Ntcham
Solskjaer's priority is getting fresh blood to revamp a dressing room that failed to function after an initial upturn in results after Jose Mourinho's dismissal in December.
Dembele would offer an option as a No9 should Romelu Lukaku depart after his agent revealed the Belgium international will consider all his options this summer.
Meanwhile, Hoops interim boss Neil Lennon continues to work on potential summer signings.
related stories
He travelled south for Tuesday's Premier League play-off between West Brom and Aston Villa.
And SunSport can reveal he's keen on Charlton midfielder Joe Aribo, 22, who has scored 14 goals in 81 games for the League One side.


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Soup #2
One quart can of tomatoes, three pints of milk, a large tablespoon of flour,
butter the size of an egg, pepper and salt to taste, a scant teaspoon of soda.
Put the tomato on to stew and the milk in a double boiler to boil, reserving,
however, half a cupful to mix with the flour. Mix the flour smoothly with this
cold milk, stir into the boiling milk, and cook ten minutes. To the tomato add
the soda, stir well and rub through a strainer that is fine enough to keep back
the seeds. Add butter, salt and pepper to the milk, and then the tomato. Serve
immediately. A little whipped cream added when serving improves this. If half
the rule is made stir the tomatoes well in the can before dividing, as the
liquid portion is the more acid. Mrs. II. E. King.
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m = 1, n = 1 oscillations following the injection of a fuel pellet on the Alcator C tokamak (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1985-01-01)
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M-Blocks : three dimensional modular self-reconfigurable robots (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis details the development of the 3D M-Blocks modular robot system. Modular self-reconfigurable robots (MSRR) are robotic systems which contain many modules that can form and break connections with other modules, ...
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The M.I.T. organization research program: research on the management of large-scale technology-based enterprises. ([Cambridge, M.I.T.], 1963)


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TODAY'S gallery showcases some of the most stunning photographs taken from across the world.
Nadine Darsanlal is pictured with her pet service pig on a street in New York. Emotional support animal Wilbur accompanies Nadine, a disabled Navy veteran, everywhere she goes, providing therapeutic benefits through companionship and affection.
Vic Clinco likes it hot as he owns what is thought to be the world's largest hot sauce collection. His amazing 6,000 bottles collection from around the world includes a rare bottle of "Blair's 16 Million Reserve", the hottest sauce on the planet.
And finally, as the heat wave in China continues, an ambush of Siberian tigers lick ice cubes to cool off at the Guaipo Siberian Tiger Park in Shenyang.
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This week saw the opening of the 10 day exhibition of my steampunk items and sculpture. After an extremely hectic couple of days setting up, I am really pleased with the results! We had an opening night Private View on the first day, attended by none other than the Mayor of St Albans as well as lots of friends and general punters. Smooth jazz for the evening was provided by my brother, who I must say did an excellent job! Here are just a few selected photos both from the night and also of some of the general works on show / for sale. Do get in touch if anything strikes your fancy!
Posts Tagged 'art'
Pop Up Shop exhibition goes live!
Posted in Steampunk, Visual art, tagged art, brass, copper, copper pipe, recycling, sculpture, steampunk on November 13, 2014| 1 Comment »
'Pop Up Shop' sale of my lamps and sculpture
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, Visual art, tagged art, copper, copper pipe, sculpture, steampunk, welding on October 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A great opportunity has just cropped up in my area – a group of local artists have gained access to an empty shop and are running a two month long 'pop up' art show/sale.
My stuff (my steampunk-style lighting, welded metal sculpture, home and garden accessories etc) is being shown in the second week, 10th to 19th November.
Click here to download a flyer for my part of the show (Pop Up Shop Flyer) but see the shop website here for more details on all the artists taking part, opening times, location etc >>
Railway art – local art project
Posted in Visual art, tagged art, found art, found items, found objects, sculpture, st albans on July 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
My friend Chris B had recently been coordinating an arts project in my area.
Working with a group of local students, the participants have scoured a local disused railway line (now used as a cycle track and general walking route) for lost and discarded items. Taking these back to base, they have then adapted them, wrapping them on various brightly coloured materials, and reinstalled them back along the railway.
Here are a few shots, taken on my phone so apologies for the less-than-fantastic quality!
More details on this and other projects can be found here:
Benches from scrap
Posted in Music, Visual art, tagged art, furniture, king alfred's cakes, Mill Arts Centre, recycled art, Ride a Cock Horse Folk Club., sculpture, welding on April 8, 2010| 2 Comments »
Last week The Cakes went all the way to Banbury to do a small slot at the excellent Ride a Cock Horse Folk Club.
Run by the very nice Derek and Mary, we were made to feel extremely welcome. It wasn't the best gig of our lives – we have played and sounded much better in the past, but the environment was very pleasant indeed.
What particularly caught my eye in the upstairs room of The Mill Arts Centre that serves as the venue for the club were the following items of hand-made furniture. Made entirely from welded bits of scrap with dark wooden tops, it's very much the sort of thing that I like and similar in style to a lot of the stuff I produce (albeit mine being on a much smaller scale so far!):
I've no idea who made these great pieces of furniture, but would love to find out if anyone out there knows. . . drop me a line/comment.
The Art of Litter on BBC Radio 4
Posted in Visual art, tagged art, bbc, bbc radio 4, litter, recycling on February 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Just heard a very good half hour programme on BBC Radio 4 (as detailed below) all about art made from litter – my kind of heaven!!
You can hear it on the BBC's excellent 'listen again' service, available here – better be quick though, as I think they only keep programmes up there for one week after transmission?
26 February 2009, 11:30: The Art of Litter
John Wilson explores the reasons why some artists use rubbish in their work and the messages they often communicate about waste, consumerism and the dispensability of modern life.
Christmas comes early for the Welding Man!
Posted in Visual art, tagged art, Visual art, welding on July 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I've just been given the most fantastic present to aid me in my welding investigations! A set of handy tools (basically mole grips with different shaped ends/jaws) specifically designed to hold bits of metal together when welding them….
Gone are the days therefore of having to try to hold my work down by putting heavy things on top of them, nailing them in place to the top of workbench or rashly holding them in trembling gloved hands!!!
What things of beauty… (I'm guessing that serious welders know all about them already, but to me they are a revelation!). Must get on and actually use them for something now – enough talk, more work…
Shears II – a quick addition
Posted in Visual art, tagged art, garden, recycled art, sculpture, Visual art on June 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
So, after the (relative) success of my Shears 1 sculpture, I promptly came across another set of old garden shears in a skip, this time with attractive wooden handles. Another rusty pole was obtained and the two pieces combined…
Shears II was instantly appropriated by a friend of mine who has just moved house and is starting a complete garden-makeover – here are a couple of photos…
In progress:
And in situ:
Next time, something a little more complex, I think!


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(This blog post was originally written by Jean-Marie Jobs in January 2019.)
Naming is a way of framing or setting context, an expectation – a mental map of another person. We use names like brother, sister, pastor, friend, mom, dad, etc… in addition to our own personal names. Most of us carry multiple names, and each one gives us another view or window into our roles and purpose.
What about Jesus? What names have you given Him? Prophet, wise man, Son of God, Savior, King? Even before He was born, Jesus was foretold as the coming King. From the outset, His Kingship was made explicit.
Luke 1:30-33
But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end." NIV
The introduction of Jesus to His mother declares his Kingship, His reign. Consider what Jesus as King looks like in your life. Does this give you peace? Frustration? Fear? Joy? Can you find a space to surrender?


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Hi, Meet my family! I am a Vegas made, Kentucky born mother of 4. I'm a freethinker and have constantly found myself moving against the grains of "the norm". I am an artist, a naturalist, a writer, a pastors daughter in law, the wife of a licensed minister. I find myself often looking for all things GOD made in order to better my life and my families. Living in the Bible Belt of Kentucky has it's ups and downs as anyone could imagine. Join me in changing the minds, creating a movement, teaching this world how to find peace and create a healthy body for us all. All you Legal Hippies… lets unite!!! I myself am a Legal Hippie looking to deal some natural remedies and oils to help support a better mind and body! Let's all learn together and move forward in the amazing, captivating, organic, frequency filled green world that we live in. #legalhippie


text: Johannesburg - Investors in the UK and US are spoilt for choice if they want to appease their environmentally friendly values because they can invest in many funds that reflect them. For instance, if they want to invest in funds that avoid backing tobacco firms, casinos or nuclear power stations, they can.Unfortunately, in South Africa, retail investors don't have the luxury of such choice, because we are lagging behind in this space. Traditionally, ethical funds adopt a process called negative screening to exclude companies with questionable practices, such as the ones that manufacture weapons or promote gambling. However, there is an increase in the number of funds and indices that are investing in companies that make a positive ESG (environmental, social and governance) contribution by having good human rights, labour rights and equality records. Encouragingly, South Africa is making some progress when it comes to supporting ESG practices. However, it is the institutional investors that have better access to funds that embrace ESG philosophies, while retail investors will struggle to find such exposure. This is mainly because some institutional investors are bound by law to consider them, while retail investors have yet to show an appetite for them. Pension funds, for example, are obligated to embrace ESG principles, thanks to regulation 28 of the Pensions Fund Act of 2011 which says: "Prudent investing should give appropriate consideration to any factor which may materially affect the sustainable performance of a fund's assets, including factors of an environmental, social and governance character."If you personally want to invest in green companies or funds that embrace positive ESG principles, it is possible, but you will have to become more proactive. Here is what you can do:1. Grill your fund management company about their ESG credentials"There are asset managers that have responsible investing credentials, so you could ask them ... to show you how these issues are considered in their research, evaluation and portfolio construction process. For the buyer that wants to impose some ethical constraint, you could say 'I am looking for a fund that excludes tobacco, alcohol and gambling'," says Jon Duncan, head of responsible investment at Old Mutual Investment Group.2. Consider the FTSE/JSE responsible investment index seriesConsider funds that track or have exposure to the FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment index series. It was launched in October 2015 by the JSE to promote its corporate sustainability practices, in partnership with FTSE Russell. The new index series replaced the JSE's Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index after questions were raised about its selection criteria and performance.3. Change your share portfolio to reflect your valuesThis is a good thing to do as it could reduce your risk, says Gray Maguire, an independent financial management consultant. "Companies that manage their environmental and social impacts better are less likely to have share price volatility from changes in environmental legislation, social unrest or disasters – think VW emissions scandal, BP Deepwater Horizon, Lonmin," he says. Simply sell your shares and invest your money elsewhere if you have exposure to a company, whose philosophy and governance practices you do not agree with.If you find your fund manager or investment house invests in companies that have questionable practices and values, you can get advice about switching those too.4. Invest in sharia fundsSharia funds are investments governed by guidelines under Islamic law. According to sharia law, non-permissible investments include those made into businesses which offer interest-based money-lending transactions; conventional insurance; embryonic or stem cell research and cloning; gambling; non-halaal meat; and nightclubs.These values may be in line with your own, and the good news is that you generally do not have to be Muslim to invest in these funds.5. Consider alternative investmentsSome renewable energy companies may not be listed on the JSE, so investing in them could prove difficult. If you have the collateral, you could consider alternative investment funds. "Debt, through bonds or fixed-income project finance, or private equity may be the only way to gain exposure to renewable energy companies," says Duncan.6. Make sure your pension fund is embracing ESG principlesYou do not have to sit idly by and let the trustees make all the decisions when it comes to your pension fund. Grill the trustee of your pension fund about how ESG issues are considered in their investment mandates.Old Mutual, for example, launched the first responsible investment MSCI equity fund in South Africa, and there are bound to be more asset management houses following suit and creating similar products for pension funds to consider. So, should you let your beliefs guide your investment decisions?Maguire says that, besides reducing your risk, investors should look at impact investing because they can improve performance and have become more socially acceptable. "International share price experience shows us that firms that have the best social and environmental governance practices also tend to manage their businesses best, manage their workforce better and out-perform other less responsive firms," he adds. ESG values will be something that will need to be embraced in the future, particularly considering the fact that we live in a country where water is scarce, electricity is unreliable and climate change is real. "In an environment where the investor can get a competitive return while also doing good, the social acceptability of investing solely for returns is rapidly drying up," says Maguire.Read Fin24's top stories trending on Twitter: Fin24's top stories


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Death in Paradise is a British-French crime comedy-drama created by Robert Thorogood. The show is set in the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, and is filmed in Guadeloupe. The series focuses on a Detective Inspector (DI) and his police team solving murder mysteries on the Caribbean island. The programme's main cast has included Ben Miller, who starred as DI Richard Poole from 2011 to 2014, Kris Marshall, who portrayed DI Humphrey Goodman from 2014 to 2017, Ardal O'Hanlon, who currently plays DI Jack Mooney, Gary Carr, who portrayed Officer (later promoted to Sergeant) Fidel Best from 2011 to 2014, Sara Martins, who starred as Detective Sergeant (DS) Camille Bordey from 2011 to 2015, Joséphine Jobert, who currently stars in the role of DS Florence Cassell, Don Warrington, who has starred as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson since the first episode, Danny John-Jules, who has played Officer Dwayne Myers since the show's first episode, Tobi Bakare, who currently portrays Officer JP Hooper, and Élizabeth Bourgine, who has played Catherine Bordey since season 1.
Death in Paradise was first announced on 9 December 2010 by the BBC; commissioned by controller of BBC Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson. It was revealed that the show would be produced by Red Planet Pictures and Atlantique Productions, in association with Kudos Film and Television, for BBC and France Télévisions. The idea for Death in Paradise came from Robert Thorogood, whose idea was formed after reading a report of a suspected murder in the Caribbean during the Cricket World Cup. Filming for the first season began in spring 2011, with the first season airing between October and December 2011. On 11 January 2012, BBC announced that a second season comprising of eight episodes had been commissioned. A second season ran from January to February 2013, with a third season announced midway through season 2. The third season ran from January to March 2014, with a fourth season being revealed by BBC on 28 February 2014. The fourth season aired from January to February 2015. Season 5 aired from January to February 2016, with a sixth season commissioned on 24 February 2016. The sixth season ran from January to February 2017, with an seventh season announced on 23 February 2017, by the BBC. Season 7 began airing on 4 January 2018. An eighth season was announced on 1 February 2018, to be broadcast in 2019.
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- Ralf Little (Detective Inspector Neville Parker) (seasons 9–)
- Joséphine Jobert (Detective Sergent Madeline Dumas) (seasons 9–)
- Tobi Bakare (Officer JP Hooper) (seasons 4–)
- Shyko Amos (Officer Ruby Patterson) (seasons 8–)
- Elizabeth Bourgine (Catherine Bordey) (seasons 1–)
- Don Warrington (Commissioner Selwyn Patterson) (seasons 1–)
- Former cast
- Ben Miller (Detective Inspector Richard Poole) (seasons 1–2)
- Gary Carr (Sergeant Fidel Best) (seasons 1–3)
- Sara Martins (Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey) (seasons 1–4)
- Kris Marshall (Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman) (seasons 3–6)
Awards Edit
- Diversity in a Drama Production at the Screen Nation Awards 2015[1]
- Knight of Illumination Awards 2016[2]
- Crime Programme of the Year at the TRIC Awards 2017[3]
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFM2e00dP4Y
- ↑ http://koi2018.co.uk/previous-winners/#2016
- ↑ http://tric.org.uk/2017awardswinners.php
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© RIA Novosti / Ilya Petliurite in fotobanka Hershkowitz. Archival photo© RIA Novosti / Ilya Petliurite the image Bank
System videoporama arbitrators (VAR) at this stage does not provide complete objectivity in the definition of offsides, but for this set future, said the Agency «R-Sport» the head of Association of domestic trainers Michael Gershkovich.
System videoporama in the confederations Cup was first used on Sunday in the match between Portugal and Mexico (2:2). In the first half, the referee Argentine Nestor Supply after prompting the referee-videoassistance abolished the Portuguese goal for offside. In the first half of the match Chile – Cameroon (2:0) referee Damir Skomina after video viewing has cancelled a goal of Chileans for offside. In the second half, the referee initially canceled another goal of Chileans, but the video system showed that the ball was scored correctly, and the judge was forced to change its original decision.
«This is a good innovation, defining goals, video replay should be used. But the moment that happened in the game Cameroon – Chile when was disallowed a goal (Chilean striker Eduardo Vargas), though the referee pointed to the centre… the Moment was so thin that some experts say that the situation out there, others argue that it was not. Still, even in this case, there is subjectivity. But for all replays – the future of football.»
«I wonder what would happen in situations where the player receiving the ball will, in the opinion of the referee, to be in an offside position and the referee will give a whistle, and in fact, after reviewing the records offside is not found? It's not so simple. The thing about football is its unpredictability,» — said the Agency interlocutor.


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Whitehat Agency Announces Five New Client Wins
Australian digital and SEO player Whitehat Agency has announced a raft of new client wins in the first quarter of 2018.
Joining the Whitehat client stable are the NRL, ORIX, Westmead Medical Research Foundation, Zambrero, and Worldfirst.
Having beat out a number of competitors to win the ORIX account, Whitehat is managing all of the organisation's SEO activity and helping the brand create and execute a digital growth plan this year.
Whitehat has also brought digital innovation to Mexican food chain Zambrero, having built responsive technology whereby franchisees are able to automatically customise branded content to fit their store.
As well as celebrating new client wins, Whitehat Agency has recently undergone a rapid team expansion over the last year, now employing 15 full-time staff in its Sydney office and moving to a new 230 square-metre office in the heart of Surry Hills.
Whitehat Agency director Shuey Shujab said: "We've had a fantastic start to the year with a number of high-profile business wins.
"Having succeeded and won business over a number of highly respected competitors, I feel this is a clear demonstration of a shift occurring within the industry and I am excited to see Whitehat Agency lead this change.
"I am extremely proud of the fantastic results we're producing for clients and I look forward to continuing this success throughout the year."


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Here's a perfect floral print you will love all year around. This super soft knit has a silky luster with a touch of stretch.
The Cat's Pajamas team searched the globe for the perfect knit fabric for their pajamas and nightshirts. They started with hand-pulled Peruvian Pima cotton, which is known for its silky luster and unbelievably soft hand. They combined this Pima cotton with Modal to get the perfect drape and added Elastane to give it stretch and recovery so they look and feel great with every wear. This nightshirt is so luxuriously soft you'll never want to take it off.
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These planters are about the size of a wheel of brie and are great for succulents with shallow root systems. Shallow pots allow their roots to spread out and they allow the soil to stay drier, which many succulents prefer. These include a drainage hole but no drainage tray.
Size, shape and finish vary due to the handmade nature of these pieces.


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(Case's lizard).
Phonetic: Case-o-sore-us.
Named By: A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, R. M. Sullivan & M. G. Lockley - 1998.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinoauria, Theropoda, Herrerasauridae.
Species: C. crosbyensis (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Up to about 2 meters long.
Known locations: USA - Petrified Forest Formation.
Time period: Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial fossils.
Caseosaurus is recorded as being a genus of small theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now the South Western USA back during the Triassic. However, since being named in 1998, many have speculated that Caseosaurus may actually be synonymous with the genus Chindesaurus which was named earlier in 1995. If true then fossils relating to Caseosaurus would be added to Chindesaurus since that was named first.
Further reading
- Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States. - Géobios 31(4):511-531. - A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, R. M. Sullivan & M. G. Lockley - 1998.


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Ee Ji Ban Chicken Rice Ball
275 Jalan Melaka Raya 3
Taman Melaka Raya
Melaka 75000
(Coordinates: 2.188310, 102.253645)
Believe it or not, a day after coming back from Kuala Terengganu, we made an impromptu day trip to Malacca because we had a hankering for chicken rice ball.
|in Melaka Raya proper
|looks can be deceiving, they are using a high tech billing system!
|candid shot, hehehe J
|lunch is served J
|the sotong sambal is my personal favourite
|oooh lala J
|rice balls anyone?
We've read reviews of this place and one particular person who absolutely bashed this place. While we agree that Ee Ji Ban does not compare with the more established rice ball restaurants at the Jonker Walk area, we do not agree with this person's assertions that this place serves absolute crap.
To each his own I guess...


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Mangaluru, June 02, 2018: In the wake of the Nipah outbreak, the Thamarassery diocese of the Syro-Malabar Church has issued a circular to the parish priests to serve the communion during the mass only on the hand.
The custom of serving the communion on the tongue by priests will be discouraged as part of the efforts to support the Health Department's drive against the viral disease.
Priests in nearly 120 parishes under the Thamarassery diocese will heed the bishop's advisory issued on June 1.
Nearly 20 parishes in Malappuram district too will follow suit.
The decision comes as the majority of those attending the holy mass receive the communion and that chances are high of the spread of virus from infected persons.
Abraham Kavilpurayidathil, Chancellor of the diocese, said the Thamarassery diocese had voluntarily taken the decision to extend support to the preventive measures taken by the Health Department.
"The custom of serving communion in the hands was there earlier for hygiene reasons. It was brought back mainly to avoid the chances of misuse," he told The Hindu.
Fr. Kavilpurayidathil said the diocese was the first to take such a precautionary measure, which could be adopted by other dioceses too in the infected regions.
He also confirmed that the priests would be part of the awareness campaigns conducted by the department.
The circular issued by Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil said the Sunday catechism classes in the parishes would be suspended until July 10.
Similarly, baptism, consecration of marriages, prayer gatherings, and home blessings too would be put off.
Bishop Inchananiyil also urged the parishioners to cooperate with the Health Department in adopting the precautionary measures put in place and adhere to the related guidelines.
He also called upon them to postpone all religious conventions, group tours, and prayer gatherings till the situation was declared safe by the authorities.
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Archive for category Holiday Highlights
Things I forgot to blog about, part n+1: MathsJam Things
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights, Publishing on January 5, 2020
Happy new year! There are so many things from last year that I've forgotten to blog about. For instance, my poem They Might Not Be Giants (which is, by the way, available spoken and sung on videos and on a poster) was published in Chalkdust 10. Chalkdust is a magazine for the mathematically curious, which we were frequently encouraged to submit work to during the 2017 MathsJam Annual Gathering. I gave a talk at that gathering where I recited They Might Not Be Giants and also presented a few of the haiku I found in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, so that was an obvious thing to submit.
Through a combination of luck and procrastination, I submitted it just in time for it to be in the latest issue available at the 2019 UK MathsJam Annual Gathering, which I also attended, along with Joey Marianer. We wore 'matching' clothes; a 'forall' (∀) neckline dress and a 'there exists' (∃) hoodie, so that if we aligned our nametags well (which I didn't) we could make an unproven statement quantifying our coexistence.
Now, Joey and I have a habit of noticing words which scan to 'hallelujah' (that is, double trochees*) and writing short parodies of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' about them. Having some experience singing the original song, Joey sometimes sings those parodies, as you can see in this playlist:
MathsJam has a Competition Competition, so naturally, I wrote a Hallelujah about that:
Well, sometimes competition's tough.
At MathsJam, that is not enough —
they have a competition competition.
But what if all the MathsJams fought,
and all such fights together wrought
a meta-meta-meta-competition?
Competition competition competition competition.
And then we decided to enter a competition into the competition competition, where our competition would be to write a Hallelujah parody about competitions. I wrote these instructions for our Competition Competition competition:
You know that oft-sung Cohen song?
We challenge you to write it wrong —
instead of "hallelujah", "competition".
And if your lyrics really slam
we'll sing them in the MathsJamJam.
We call this Hallelujah competition:
Competition-competition competition "Competition"
There was quite some competition in our competition Hallelujah competition; Hallelujah! Some entries used a word other than 'competition', and we ended up giving a prize to the best non-competition entry into our Competition Competition competition, as well as the expected prize for the best 'competition' Competition Competition competition entry. As promised in the competition rules, Joey sang some of the competition entries (and the two Hallelujahs above) at the MathsJamJam, with the accompaniment of whoever else felt like joining in:
Lyrics and credits for the other entries are in the video description. Joey came to Vienna after MathsJam and performed with me at Open Phil, including singing They Might Not Be Giants both on-stage and in Phil's studio, but that's for another post.
* I noticed that 'double trochee' was a double trochee, and stopped writing the blog post at that point to write a Hallelujah:
You heard there was a secret song
that if you play, they will sing along.
You want to make a splash at karaoke.
It goes like this, the halfs, the thirds…
you can't remember Cohen's words,
so sing about a random double trochee.
Double trochee, double trochee, double trochee, double trochee.
My Performances on JoCo Cruise 2019
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights, video on April 14, 2019
I've been going to JoCo Cruise since it started in 2011, and this year I finally had the nerve and organisation (okay, so actually Phil organised it) to take part in running a shadow event. What with this and MarsCon, apparently 2019 is my year for getting on stage at events I've long frequented.
There are many official celebrity guests on JoCo Cruise, but anyone can request a space and time to host their own events, whether concerts, crafting workshops, jam sessions, locksports seminars, hydrating face mask parties, PGP signing parties, space dog slideshows, scotch or foreign snack tastings, meetups of people who are various flavours of non-heteronormative, religious, merfolk, impaired, purple-haired, or scientists, or just a session of yelling at the moon. All of these things are real events that happened this year. This 'shadow' cruise, as it's called, took up 292 of the 605 hours of programming.
My little corner of that was Angela Brett & Phil Conrad with Friends, later referred to as the 'Hastily Assembled Entertainment Taco', after the official event 'Hastily Assembled Entertainment Burrito'. The friends involved included Randy Parcel on vocals, Ryan Nathan on drums, Joey Marianer on vocals and ukulele, and Jeff Kahan on oboe. You can see the full show in the YouTube playlist below, or read on as I self-indulgently embed the specific parts I had a hand in, along with a few others from the open mic night.
With or Without U (U2 Parody)
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights, The Afterlife on December 23, 2018
Here are some parody lyrics to U2's With or Without You which I wrote in response to a facebook comment back in May. It's about time I shared them:
The contours of paramours
The velour of troubadours
They're spelled with u
But in colour, labour day
with far-harbour ardour, neighbours say
They will write, without u
Write -or without u
Write -or without u
Not behaviour to condemn
Who has honour, humour them
Latinate roots for u
Spelled -or without u
Spelt -or without o-u-r
These are spelled
With or without u
And your dialect's okay
And your spelling is okay
And you spell
And you spell
And your spelling is okay
My armour's breached
There is no errour in yor ways
just flavour and splendour
And can I lend a vowel?
And your dialect's okay
And your spelling is okay
And you spell
And you spell
And your spelling is okay
With or without u
With or without o-u-r
These are spelled
With or without u
With or without u
With or without o-u-r
These are spelt
With or without u
With or without u
Enjoy it with or without U2's version playing along. I'd like to say that I used my Masters degree in linguistics to write this, but really, everything came from the -or, -our section of the Wikipedia page on American and British English spelling differences. I threw in a few other spelling variations for fun.
I hope you're enjoying the holiday season. For those who celebrate Christmas, vicariously or otherwise, here's a playlist of Christmas-related things I've uploaded to YouTube, and the tag of Christmas-related blog posts I've written.
What's the difference between European sleeper trains and US sleeper trains?
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights on August 30, 2018
A while ago I posted about the difference between couchette cars and sleeping cars in Europe, mentioning that I wanted to compare that experience with the newly-introduced lie-flat sleeper buses in New Zealand. Well, I tried that, but the bus turned up hours late, it was not a sleeper bus because the only sleeper bus had had some water damage, I sat upright without sleeping all night and did not get the promised free onesie until I complained on Twitter, and the bus company has now gone out of business without any help from my hypothetical damning blog post.
However, earlier this year I took a five-day train journey from San Diego to Minneapolis (between JoCo Cruise and MarsCon) so now I can compare that with the European sleeper trains.
The most obvious difference is that in the USA, you can take a five-day train journey and stay in the same country, whereas in Europe, I've only ever travelled for one day or night at a time. On European trains, you keep all your luggage either in the room with you or on a luggage rack elsewhere in the carriage, and carry it off yourself, which makes sense for a one-night trip. On Amtrak you can check in your larger luggage, and pick it up from a carousel at the end of your voyage.
I was travelling with Joey Marianer (you know, that guy who sings things I write sometimes!) and we were booked to take the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Portland, then the Empire Builder to Minneapolis.
Our train from San Diego to Los Angeles broke down, and then the new engine which had been brought into service to pull us along also broke down. We ended up getting off that train in San Juan Capistrano and waiting for a train to Los Angeles, from whence we took a bus to Bakersfield, and then a train to catch up with the night train we were originally scheduled to be on in Martinez, twelve hours later than we were scheduled to get on it. Our checked luggage made it to our destination despite all the changes of route, and I'm still not sure how.
Luckily, we had a few other JoCo Cruise sea monkeys with us for most of that part of the voyage, so we could commiserate together. I'll comment on it more in the sections below. Compare them with the corresponding sections in the European couchette vs. sleeping cars post if you want more detail on both sides of the comparison.
There were no washbasins in the rooms, as there are on European trains, but there were basins and even showers, with provided towels and soap, at the ends of the carriages. It's possible that European trains had showers as well, but I never noticed as I shower in the mornings but I always got off the train first thing. Unsurprisingly, they were the kind of shower that only runs for a minute or so each time you press the button, and rarely gets warm. Good enough to clean up when you really need to, but not pleasant.
During the day, we could either stay in our room or visit the observation car, where we had spectacular views of snowy landscapes. Photos from a moving vehicle don't do it justice, so I captured an hour and a half of video:
Both the train and the replacement bus on the first day had tables, but the tables on the bus were too shaky to play card games on.
Evening Goodies
You're not given any kind of welcome package on these trains. Given that people could be joining them at any time of day and staying for multiple days, and full evening meals, towels, etc. are provided throughout the journey anyway, such a gesture wouldn't make too much sense. I'd have appreciated earplugs, though, and I like the newrest slippers from European sleepers as souvenirs.
Sleeping Place
While on European trains I've travelled alone and shared a four-to-six-bed room with strangers, occasionally lucking out with a room to myself, on Amtrak you book by the room, and fill it with whichever people you are travelling with. We booked a two-bed roomette — that's two bunk beds, in a cabin just big enough for someone to stand next to the beds. There wouldn't have been room to keep our suitcases in the room, but there was a slim cupboard where we could put some things. During the day, the top bunk was folded away and the bottom bunk was folded into two seats facing each other, with a fold-out table between them.
In terms of comfort and bed linen, the beds were closer those in the sleeper cars in European trains rather than a couchette. I'm told that the top bunk was more difficult to sleep on due to movement and noise.
On a European train, your ticket includes breakfast in bed just before you're scheduled to get off the train, and perhaps a snack or drink when you board late in the evening. When you've booked sleeper cars on a multi-day Amtrak voyage, it includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the trip, in a scenic dining car. There are about five choices for the main course of each meal, and the choices were the same on both trains. You can have whichever meal you want, even with extra sides and toppings, and salad and dessert at dinner; only alcohol costs extra. This was a good way to ease into the real world after being on a cruise ship with unlimited included food — we just had to get used to having only one main course at each meal. Here's a menu.
Passengers not in sleeper cars can also eat in the dining car, but they have to pay for their meals. We could go to breakfast at any time during a certain time window. Reservations are taken for lunch and dinner, with sleeper passengers getting first pick. Tables fit four people, and we were usually seated with other passengers, which often led to interesting conversations. On our first night, we were seated with a couple who had also endured the replacement train/bus debacle, so we had something to talk about.
On that note, for the first day of our trip, we were not on the sleeper train so did not have access to any of these nice meals. We got a partial refund for that. On one of the trains there were tea, coffee, and mini-muffins available for free, and on one there was an enterprising announcer trying to make more money out of our predicament:
The sea monkeys we were with shared some of their food (they were not taking a sleeper, so had packed food for their shorter journey), and another passenger shared her home-grown mandarins, in exchange for some ukulele music and IT help from Joey, as I recall. There were many friendly conversations. [Note: these experiences may not be available on your Amtrak sleeper train adventure.] We bought some food at the station in LA while waiting for the bus to Bakersfield.
I've now written almost 1200 words, mostly as an excuse to show you my one-and-a-half-hour-long video of scenery. Do look at the description of that video if you like the quality Josh Woodward soundtrack and want to know which songs they are. Also, check out my friend Joseph's Patreon, as he not only makes music and stories but also provided some great hugs and conversation while we were changing trains in Portland.
If you are still interested in visiting New Zealand despite the lack of motorised beds, read up on some kiwi facts I made up, which were quite popular on Twitter.
Happy travels!
They Might Not Be Giants Posters, now touched by my own hands
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights, News on February 25, 2015
Note: I am back in Europe now, and have the posters available on my Etsy store, which are good value for anyone ordering from Europe. From the US it may work out better to get them from Zazzle.
At the Presidential Variety Show, and later the Open Mic Night, on JoCo Cruise Crazy 5, I recited my poem 'They might not be giants.' Here's a video from the Open Mic; pretend I said that 'I was waiting for the shaking to stop' was the name of my Taylor Swift cover band.
I brought along some locally-printed copies of this Len-Peralta-drawn poster of the poem, since I figured people would like them, and if they bought the ones on Zazzle they'd have to give a lot of extra money to Zazzle and the postal service.
The posters I printed are 11×17 inches (approximately A3) on 300gsm silk-coated stock, which is really quite fancy and sturdy. Quite a few people wanted them, which meant (since we're not supposed to sell things while onboard, and I was mostly able to resist the urge to give them away) I had more fruity drinks and other items than I otherwise would have, plus some cash from sea monkeys I saw on land. But some people who wanted posters didn't manage to catch me at the right time to get one. I have some posters left, which you can order from my Etsy store. (Note: when I wrote this post originally, I was temporarily in New Zealand, and it was economical for me to send posters to the US for a lowish price. That is no longer the case, so I have updated the post with a link to my Etsy store which has the correct postage from Austria.) If you're in Europe, the combined price is slightly lower than from Zazzle while still giving me a bigger cut and getting you a better-quality poster. It is of course better value for both of us if you order more than one at a time, since the postage costs the same amount for multiple posters unless you're ordering a ridiculous number of them. I'm not a warehouse full of elves, nor am I on my home turf at the moment (update: okay, now I am), so I can't make any promises about how soon I will post posters after you order, but I'll do my best. Feel free to order from Zazzle if you prefer elven reliability.
If you want me to sign it or write some kind of message or doodle in the small area or empty space, say so in the message to the vendor when you check out (update: I am not sure if there is a way to do that on Etsy, but contact me here, on twitter, on Etsy or something). Please note that I have not settled on an official famous-person-style autograph yet, so results may vary. Also, my doodles are the doodles of a poet, not those of Len Peralta, so don't expect them to match the quality of the rest of the poster.
If I gave you a poster on the ship and you didn't have anything to give in return, you can donate something:
Or you could lend some money on Kiva and join the Sea Monkey team I created yesterday. I don't have a day job at the moment, so I am no longer promising to lend poster proceeds on Kiva before using them, but I probably will anyway as long as I have enough savings to live on.
Many other things also happened on JoCo Cruise Crazy, which I might summarise when I have time. I have a lot of video to upload when I eventually get home. For now, here's The Future Soon a cappella and Jim Boggia's cover of Paul McCartney's 'Junk'.
The Vatican Nag (Tom Lehrer Parody)
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights, The Afterlife on October 9, 2014
I visited the Vatican recently, and a friend was kind enough to put this song in my head beforehand:
After arriving early enough to get to the front of the line for Saint Peter's Basilica fairly quickly, being turned away because of a weapon I'd brought from Geneva (no, not antimatter), coming back unarmed and being let through without waiting in the then-hours-long line because they noticed I had 'problems' (I had blisters. Also, I'm not very good at walking), and then being repeatedly offered paid guided tours to skip the line while I was going to the post office and generally chilling out, I decided to write a parody. Here it is; The Vatican Nag:
Half off gods that come in threes!
Twelve for ten on rosaries!
Fourteen euros ninety-nine
to skip the line, skip the line, skip the line!
Buy a stick to take a selfie.
Try a discount saved-from-hell fee.
Whatever your indulgence is,
they'll upsell the whole Jesus
doing the Vatican Nag.
Get in line for that basilica?
Only clueless pilgrims will, a co-
lossal fee will leave you poor as a m-
onk enjoying guided tourism.
You don't have to spend the day there.
Save the day and spend your pay there.
Two, four, six… great!
Ninety euros, skip the wait!
Half off gods that come in threes!
Twelve for ten on rosaries!
Fourteen euros ninety-nine
to skip the line, skip the line, skip the line!
Hawkers oft insisting crap'll
put you off the Sistine Chapel.
Don't Holy See 'em;
try the Colosseum.
Hide in your attic and
never do that again.
Out of the Vatican Nag!
I used some artistic license here, but a lot of it is true. There were plenty of people selling 12 one-euro rosaries for the price of ten, and the 'skip the line' tours were either €15 or €43 depending on the kind of tour. People selling selfie sticks, hats, cellphone chargers, and flat wooden things that magically transform into sets of bowls were all over Rome and the Vatican. I did not see anyone selling indulgences ('saved-from-hell fees'), however. Also, it wasn't all that annoying, really. But do see the Colosseum.
I thought about saying 'then the cost'll send you Pentecostal' but I think that's even worse than the lines I have. I also wanted to use 'poperies' in the first line, but since it would be indistinguishable from 'pot pourris' if anyone actually sang it, I decided to go with the holy three-for-one deal.
In other news, I've been reciting my poems at Open Phil, a great open mic night in Vienna hosted by the Phil half of Crazy for Jane. You can watch some of the performances on the online highlights reels, but to see the whole thing you really have to be there.
Also, Shit Your Inner Voice Says is now on The FuMP Sideshow.
Ten Minutes A Day (Live on JoCo Cruise Crazy)
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights on March 29, 2014
I recited a revised version of Ten Minutes a Day at the JoCo Cruise Crazy 4 open mic, because it's about how to start doing the things you're passionate about when you're not in a position to literally quit your job like all these JoCo cruisers did. I introduced it with some quotes from John Hodgman from this video, which can be seen with more context in the JoCo Cruise Crazy 2 Q&A.
Here are the words I intended to say:
Ten minutes a day:
that's all you need
to realise your dreams —
not as hard as it seems!
Ten minutes can always be freed.
Ten minutes a day,
a sixth of a clock,
to keep up your writing,
the forced march providing
the force to march through writers' block.
Ten minutes a day
can't be denied,
to read through your bookshelf
and castle your rook self,
with culture of kings by your side.
Ten minutes a day,
one day at a time.
To inch past the worst of it,
combat inertia that
nothing excuses, must try if it uses just
ten minutes a day.
Don't you forget
to learn a new language:
word spread, grammar sandwich.
Ten minutes to keep your tongue wet.
Ten minutes a day,
not big amounts,
to work on your fitness;
don't tire yourself witless,
but even a small workout counts.
Ten minutes a day,
on or offline
to maintain your friendships;
accept rain, and send drips,
as long as it's something, it's fine.
Ten minutes a day —
find it somehow!
Deny social network fun;
finally get work done.
You've got all these things to make, it's really not hard to take
ten minutes a day.
That's all you do.
To try meditation —
it's self-re-creation!
You have to take some time for you!
Ten minutes a day;
it doesn't take long
to tidy a tight space,
put junk in the right place,
and live with things where they belong.
Ten minutes a day;
put down those chores
to teach well your baby;
remember that maybe
its life will be bigger than yours.
Ten minutes a day?
I can do that!
Grab life while I'm alive!
Did all the things, and I've
got what I'm leaping for now,
and I'm sleeping for
ten minutes a day.
That's all I need. [yawn]
Night dreams are boring,
my real dreams are [sound of snoring]
The main change since the last version of this poem is that I replaced 'if you've spread spores' with 'put down those chores' and moved that stanza nearer the conflicting advice to tidy up, because in the end it's all about conflicting advice. The 'spores' line always seemed like grhyme scraped off the bottom of a barrel anyway. Also, people might take offense at my likening parents to fungi (not that there's anything wrong with fungi), and if they're going to take offense at my views on reproduction, I'd rather they react to The Family Tradition.
I'd recited an earlier version of this at an open mic in Geneva, which went well: my stated goal for that performance was to make the audience yawn, and I succeeded. But I was nervous that people would think it was over when it wasn't, so I started the last few lines while people were still laughing too loudly about the previous ones to hear me. It's a good problem to have, I guess. So my goal on the cruise, aside from getting all the words right (I got six words wrong, but they weren't the most important ones, and I don't remember whether 'sleep dreams' instead of 'night dreams' was a mistake or a premeditated improvement) not hesitating or rushing too much, and not dropping entire lines or displaying as much high rising terminal as I did at the last JCCC open mic, was to wait until the laughter died down before continuing with the last few lines. I succeeded! Achievement unlocked: elementary stagecraft.
My dictionary says that 'stagecraft' doesn't mean what I thought it meant, but I'm sticking with it because 'stagecraft' is only two letters away from 'spacecraft'. It's a pretty cool thing to have. On the subject of spacecraft, I highly recommend seeing Atlantis on display at Kennedy Space Center; the way they show it to you is great. I'll put up my video of it later.
While practising the poem, I got pretty self-conscious about the corny/overwrought rhymes, and wondered whether it was worth wading through them to get to the laugh line. Oh well: stagecraft! Jack Conte from Pomplamoose was hosting the open mic, and I think he is made of stagecraft. Hank Green was also hosting, but he made it pretty clear that he is made mostly of quarks. Hank Green, we're not so different, you and I.
A few people who heard this poem at open mic have told me they were inspired by it, and are making progress on various projects because of it, and that's great. But when I wrote this it was out of frustration with the idea. It always takes more than ten minutes, and there are always other things to do in the day, and if I try to do more than a few of these 'ten minute' things there isn't enough time for sleep. Maybe I need to be stricter about stopping when the time's up no matter whether I feel like doing more or am still waiting for my nearly-five-year-old Mac Ayu to let me start. I put in the 'teach well your baby' stanza almost as a joke, because I'm amazed that people with children have time and energy to do anything else at all, and yet they are told to spend just that wafer-thin amount of extra time doing each of several conflicting things to raise their children better, as well as all the other things. If you really only have ten minutes a day for a child, consider spending them on contraception.
The spontaneous Mr. Creosote reference in the last paragraph made me think of this extra stanza:
Ten minutes a day:
it's just wafer-thin!
To add to your total,
create, Creosotal!
Conserve it, but don't hold it in.
Which is kind of gross and kind of negative, but if you have something you want to create, and you just spew out whatever you can in ten minutes, it's better than forgetting about it or using up mental energy fretting about forgetting it. If time is your nemesis, fight it with emesis.
I'll leave you with the much prettier words of Jonathan Coulton and Hank Green: There isn't time and space to do it all, so pick the right addiction.
Queen of Pants: The JoCo Cruise Crazy 4 Ball Pits (In My Pants)
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights on March 19, 2014
My last post here said that JoCo Cruise Crazy would have a ball pit. Due to hygiene regulations, that ball pit became an imaginary ball pit, but there were still at least two real ball pits on the ship. The one I brought was sewn onto my pants for the annual Fancy Pants parade. Anyone who wanted to get into my ball pit would have to at least buy me dinner first.
I did, however, flash my balls at people occasionally:
Ultimately, giving such a 'special show' to the Monarch of the Seas, Queen Courtney, won me a trophy, and the title of Best In Terms of Pants. Here's the video of the parade from my own camera (expertly wielded by Simcha, who also took his own videos of the cruise), showing my humble beginnings and triumphant return:
And here's a video from an angle that shows the rest of the parade well. You can almost see that when Jonathan Coulton is walking around humming God Save the Queen, I flash my balls at him and make him laugh a little:
I thought I had some fancy pants, and now I know it's true. I looked at all the fancy pants and held the trophy high:
Everybody cheered, but I swear by Coulton's beard, that everybody had the best pants. For while it may not seem like it from the fact that I was wearing toys bought from a baby store and making jokes about balls, I am mature enough to understand that the key to happiness cannot be in supplanting someone else's pants. Chances are you're best in everybody's pants. There were shiny pants, blinking pants, gumbo pants (I liked them, and he did put a ring in it), squid pants, wrong pants and right pants; you can see some of them up-close in Atom Moore's gallery.
Some of the balls were less securely attached than others, causing a wardrobe malfunction whereby a few of my balls fell off during the parade. This was fun, because I could throw them to my adoring fans (of which I have none) in the hot tub at the end of the catwalk. It looks like they were thoroughly examined. I'm told the people in the tub chanted 'ball pit pants!' to correct Her Majesty's proclamation of 'balloon pants'. Off with their heads!
The fancy pants parade was followed immediately by a movie night, which was followed by a concert. As I made my way to the concert, I heard that somebody had already added ball pit pants to the life-sized Lego statue of Jonathan Coulton that brick artist and JoCo Cruise Crazy 4 performer Nathan Sawaya had unveiled earlier in the week and left in the game room to be embellished. I was honoured!
The guy who took that photo got a bit creative with the later shots.
Some people wondered how I made the pants, and some did assume I'd used balloons, due to the difficulty of attaching and transporting balls. But they are, in fact, balls. I started with some old jeans that were starting to fall apart. After searching for playpen balls in the toy sections of various stores without success, I finally found some at a store called Babywalz, and bought two hundred. They were for babies, and definitely not the crush-proof kind Randall Munroe recommended for adults. As such, they were made of a quite supple plastic that was easy to get a needle through, so I could sew them on. At first I only attached them with one stitch each, and these were probably the balls that fell off during the parade. We each got a single playpen ball in our swag bags when we boarded the ship, but those ones were harder than mine and wouldn't have been easy to sew. The swag bags also contained the pants/squid/robot/monkey playing cards that the one pictured comes from; while this post is not technically part of Writing Cards and Letters, I couldn't resist using such a card. The pants cards were designed by Katie Rice.
I used nearly a hundred balls to cover the front, outer sides, and back lower calves of my pants. I left the other parts ball-free so that I would be able to sit down, and wouldn't have to splay my legs apart to make room for my balls, as I have little experience in that. On the backs of my legs I sewed some coloured foam circles I found in the craft section of a bookstore… not as many as I'd intended to sew, since I only remembered to do that on the night before flying out.
The balls were not crush-proof, but as Randall Munroe warned us, there still wasn't really a way to compress them for transport. My pants filled that third of my suitcase that I usually struggle to fill without going over the weight limit. As I continued my vacation to Kennedy Space Center, Chicago (including Fermilab) and MarsCon, I accumulated more and more souvenirs, and my victorious balls got more and more crushed. I still showed the pants to a hot-tub full of dementites at MarsCon, though, and once again threw some balls in for playing.
The tutu was a birthday gift made by my mother; if you like it, and you live in New Zealand, you might be able to get your own. The 'great tits' T-shirt (entirely necessary to balance the inevitable ball jokes) was from an ornithological society which has since sold its domain name to a more lucrative enterprise.
The other ball pit was created by Christopher Badell (not pictured), one of my thirteen roommates in the Presidential Suite, and also the official sponsor (in the name of his company, Greater Than Games) of the imaginary ball pit. He brought a few hundred balls to float on the surface of our suite's private hot tub, which were fun to play with on the only occasion I had spare time to sit in a hot tub. There may be video of that later from another of my roomies (or 'suities', I guess.) I added a few spare balls from my pants to that hot tub as well, making a total of three hot tubs graced by my balls.
I've been saying this a lot in the last few weeks: my life is ridiculous. And I like it.
A new video! A new video! A new video! A new video!
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights on January 2, 2012
My boss gave me a new car for Christmas, the very day that I got my new camera, which can take high-speed video. So it seemed natural to combine the two. The soundtrack is 'A New Car' from the album 'Brontosaurus' by Da Vinci's Notebook. Paul and Storm (the comedy music duo formed from roughly half of Da Vinci's Notebook) said they wouldn't sue me for using it.
The new camera is a Canon PowerShot S100, in case you're wondering. Most of setup at the beginning was shot with my Canon PowerShot G9 in time-lapse mode, and the rest is shot with the S100 at 240 frames per second, 320×240 pixels. The domino shot looks a bit dim because I tried to do it in natural light, since the flickering of fluorescent light is too noticeable at high speed. The rest was lit with a halogen lamp.
Practically everything went wrong during the making of this video. I learnt:
- Either my dominoes are bad quality (they were from the $2 shop), I'm terrible at setting them up, or dominoes in general are more difficult to set up in a line than one would think. I ended up putting them on their sides.
- Natural light after spending far too long setting up dominoes on a winter afternoon is not bright enough for high-speed video.
- I'm not as good at building houses of cards as I used to be. Or they don't make playing cards like they used to.
- Natural light after spending far too long setting up dominoes and then spending far too long setting up playing cards on a winter afternoon is not bright enough for high-speed video.
- Halogen lamps don't flicker at 50Hz.
- A container of glitter hit by a toy car goes a long way.
- When dealing with piles of shaving cream, always know where your towel is.
Maybe I should make a blooper video.
Edit: Oh, alright. I made a blooper video. It uses 'Incompetent's Lament' by Paul and Storm as the soundtrack, which contains the F word, so if you don't want to hear it, just turn the sound off.
A video, full of sound and light, signifying Christmas
Posted by Angela Brett in Holiday Highlights on December 25, 2011
Last weekend I was on my way to a concert in Lausanne when I came across a building with a light show projected onto it. I stopped to film it in high resolution with my fancy new camera. Later I added appropriate music to the different scenes, to make it a bit more interesting. Here is the result:
Most of this music is explicitly released under a Creative Commons license, and most can be downloaded for free (there are links below), and most comes from artists who generally don't mind people using their music and don't have labels that are likely to sue me, but there are a few tracks I didn't make 100% sure I was allowed to use, so I hope those artists don't mind being included.
I tried to include as many different artists as possible so that people will discover someone new. The only ones I used twice are Jonathan Coulton (well, he only got a short bit at the beginning) Jonathan Mann (I planned from the beginning to use Penguins Having a Party, not suspecting that he'd written a song in which he said 'building' over and over, which is the perfect space-filler in a video of a building) and The Cow Exchange (I had many possibilities for the last song, but this one followed better musically from the one before it.)
I did this fairly quickly, to get it ready by Christmas, so most of the time I just searched my music library for keywords relating to a scene and picked the first song I found that seemed to fit. There may be better matches in songs which don't happen to have the right keywords in the title, or which I don't have yet, or which I ignored because I didn't know what the artist's or their label's policy on reuse was.
You can get most of the songs for free, but I encourage you to support the artists if you can, and if you like what they do, of course. The songs are: Read the rest of this entry »


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A number of writers have noted a tendency amongst those articulating a Judaic social vision to use Jewish texts as a peg on which to hook their preconceived views. Such an approach is obviously destructive to the goal of deriving Judaic values from those texts so it is worth discussing this phenomenon at the outset of our research.
In an article for Commentary , writer Hillel Halkin reviews Righteous Indignation , a book written by a range of Jewish activists, intellectuals and spiritual leaders addressing issues of social justice and environmental responsibility. In his censorious review, Halkin accuses the authors of expressing their personal moral biases rather than any traditional Jewish perspective: 'On everything, Judaism has a position – and, wondrously, this position just happens to coincide with that of the American Liberal Left.' According to Halkin, the authors treat 'Jewish tradition not as a body of teachings to be learned from but as one needing to be taught what it is about by those who know better than it does what it should be about. Judaism has value to such Jews to the extent that it is useful, and it is useful to the extent that it can be made to conform to whatever beliefs and opinions they would have even if Judaism had never existed.'
Not having read Righteous Indignation, I cannot assess the accuracy of Halkin's evaluation. However, the danger that he alludes to is a very real one for someone looking to discuss the Judaic message for today's world.
This disingenuity is not confined to those on the left of the religious spectrum. In his book, A Far Glory (p.195-6), Lutheran sociologist Peter Berger observes 'that the most divergent and often diametrically opposed moral imperatives have been legitimated in Christian terms.' Berger writes about two events that took place in the 1950s in the town in which he was teaching. The first involved the visit of Martin Luther King, Jr. The event took place in a black church and was interspersed with prayers, Bible reading and hymns.
The second event was a rally of the Klu Klux Klan. These proceedings were also marked by what Berger calls 'a specifically Protestant type of collective jolliness' and climaxed with the lighting of the cross. As Berger notes, 'the very same symbols of an old-fashioned Southern Protestantism were used to legitimate two diametrically opposed political causes.'
Writings and incidents such as those referred to by Halkin and Berger throw open a challenge to us – how do we develop a Judaic social ethic which is genuinely rooted in the sources and not projected by our preconceived ideas.
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