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Damon and Jo, the co-founders of travel show and blog 'Shut Up and Go', have gone from Skyscanner super-users to star partners. As their relationship with Skyscanner has expanded, so has their audience - and now they are happy to provide 'Shut Up and Go' users with their very own flight search powered by the Skyscanner White Label.
Here is our interview with Jo, discussing how they came across our White Label and where they hope to take (and travel with) 'Shut Up and Go' in the future!
1. How would you describe Shut Up and Go?
We're Damon and Jo, two 20-somethings who love traveling as cheaply as possible. From the very beginning of our friendship, we didn't care where we went, as long as we went somewhere different and learned something new. We created 'Shut Up and Go' back in 2012, which is a travel show and blog showcasing our experiences, our cheap travels, and our lifestyle in hopes of inspiring people to stop making excuses and do just that, shut up and go. We now have an audience of over 500,000 people who believe in our same goal of traveling and learning languages. We've developed a community of interesting and international polyglots who follow along with our shenanigans on a daily basis through social media, blogs, and videos for their shared passion of living a global life.
2. How did you find out about the Skyscanner White Label?
Skyscanner was actually our favourite flight search engine from the very beginning. We always used their "Everywhere" feature when we just wanted to go somewhere, but didn't care where. We loved and used them so much that we reached out to Skyscanner's CEO, Gareth, on LinkedIn about three years ago telling him about our show and blog. Despite us having less than 5,000 subscribers at the time, he connected us with the marketing team, showing how genuine the company is. We've been working on projects with Skyscanner ever since. Recently, we heard about the White Label through our main contact at Skyscanner, Marlon, because we'd built a great relationship and both agreed it was time to work on a long-term project like using the White Label.
3. What made you interested in using it?
We were always advocating for our viewers to book their flights on Skyscanner, because that's what we do, and feel it's the best way to find cheap and flexible flights on a well-designed interface. Of course, when we were given the opportunity to not only inspire our viewers to travel, but to give them the tools to book directly from our site, it was a no brainer.
4. How did you find the White Label integration process?
It was pretty seamless. We do all of the web tech stuff on our site, so we just had to call our host service to make sure everything was linked properly. The design was extremely simple, and we were able to pick our exact brand colours to make it match perfectly with our site.
5. How long did it take you to set it up?
No more than two hours across two days.
6. What value does the White Label add for you?
Other than the awesome revenue stream that helps keep our lights on, the ability to be more than just the "regular ol' influencer." Providing a service like flight booking on our site definitely legitimizes our whole operation; we're not just cute kids on camera, we're savvy business people that now help provide a service that helps everyone in the end.
"Other than the awesome revenue stream that helps keep our lights on, the ability to be more than just the "regular ol' influencer." Providing a service like flight booking on our site definitely legitimizes our whole operation; we're not just cute kids on camera, we're savvy business people that now help provide a service that helps everyone in the end. "
7. What value does it add for your users?
They're able to book flights from their trusted friends, Damon and Jo. We've grown an audience – and basically virtual friendships – with 500,000 people that look to us for advice, tips, and expertise. Of course, we're not a tech company, so we can't give them all the resources on our own, which is why it's critical to have a partner like Skyscanner who has the expertise in flight search and booking technology.
8. What has the feedback/ reaction been like from your users since you integrated the White Label?
Most of our viewers love the service. They're impressed that we're offering a service like that now, and they're constantly sending us screenshots of the cheapest flights they find.
9. What does the future hold for 'Shut Up and Go'?
We hope to continue growing not just as travel influencers, but as the household names that always have travel tips, tools, and resources such as the Skyscanner White Label.
10. What role does your relationship with Skyscanner plan in that future?
Listen, we love everything about Skyscanner, the service, the design, the people who make it all happen on the back end; we will undoubtedly continue growing our relationship with them. It's just the beginning, there is so much more to be accomplished together in the future!
11. Lastly, what destinations will you be searching for flights for?
We're constantly all over the place, filming for different clients, but we just made the decision to take the Fall to travel around Europe and maybe South America or Southeast Asia! Who knows! We constantly find ourselves skimming on our Skyscanner app every night, tracking the cheapest flights to make our decision!
Check out the YouTube video from Damon and Jo sharing how to find the cheapest flight - featuring Skyscanner White Label.
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Blasterjaxx & Bassjackers – 'Switch' – An awesome and long anticipated collab is taking place, as Blasterjaxx and Bassjackers finally join forces for their new banger 'Switch.' Expectations are exceeded here with a blazing tune, featuring heavy kicks, dark chords and strong singalong main melody bursting out into raw synth stabs. Peak time sounds, supported by DJs like Hardwell, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, W&W, Timmy Trumpet, Afrojack and more.
Dutch duo Blasterjaxx have been on a fast ascending journey from relatively unknown producers to heroes of the current scene in astounding fashion. With a none-more-energetic sound that's packed to the brim with huge riffs, enormous builds, killer drops and infectious melody, Thom and Idir have taken electronic dance music to new levels, while continuously evolving their sound.
DJ, Marlon Flohr, and producer, Ralph van Hilst, who together form Bassjackers, are perfectly in sync as a duo. Their opposing personalities – Marlon being the wild one rocking each and every stage they play and Ralph the more cool and collective preferring to shine behind the scene on the producer seat, are a perfect combination for this unique one dj-one producer collaboration.
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Nissan has lowered the price on seven models in its U.S. lineup to increase sales, despite reporting a double-digit sales gain last month.
"Nissan is hoping that the change will help the cars and SUVs show up more prominently on shopper search websites such as AutoTrader, Edmunds and Kelley Blue Book," the Los Angeles Times reports. The automaker is hoping to become "more price competitive for online shoppers."
Kicking Tires says that consumers will see lower prices starting tomorrow on the Nissan Sentra, Altima, Murano, Rogue, Maxima, Armada and Juke. Prices will reportedly drop about 3 to 11 percent, depending on the vehicle. "The sticker reductions vary by model and, in some cases, trim level and will be applied to new vehicles, including those already in dealer inventory."
Buyers can expect savings of about $580 on the Altima to about $4,400 on the Armada, Automotive News reports. The publication notes that in 2012, Nissan North America saw a decline in market share in the U.S. "for the first time since 2006." Total 2012 Nissan North America sales were up 9.5 percent over 2011, though. By lowering the prices on its high-volume models, Nissan hopes to show up more often in online price category searches, where consumers can narrow down vehicles by price bracket. "Such screens can leave models off the consideration list because of a few dollars difference in MSRP," Automotive News writes.
Nissan North America saw a sales increase of 23 percent last month compared with April 2012, with the Nissan brand selling 25 percent more vehicles and the Infiniti luxury brand experiencing a 10 percent jump. So far this year, Nissan North America's sales are up 3 percent over last year.
In the market for a Nissan vehicle? Check out the U.S. News rankings of this year's best cars. Then, look for a great deal on a new car by checking out this month's best Nissan deals. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.


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This letter is to the future president of the United States on the issue of abortion in our country.
Dear Future President,
Hi, my name is Dezirae' Edwards, I am a 16 year old that attends Delta Charter School in Ferriday Louisiana. I am writing you to state my opinion about abortion. I am very concerned about how many babies are being murdered by abortion daily. Many people feel like abortion is against the law , which it should be. Meanwhile most of them think it's actually fine. Why should anyone decide to kill their babies?
One point two million abortions happen each year. That's one point two million murders of babies each year. Abortion should be a crime. I think people should go to jail for abortion as long as people are being sentenced for murder. Abortion is just wrong! It would be better to put the baby up for adoption so it has a chance to do great things. Choosing to kill the baby would be taking the chance to have a family away from someone who isn't able to have a baby themselves. In the case of a child of rape the child should have a chance to live a normal life even if it came into this world in a horrible manner. I hope that as the next president of the United States you can do something to change this.
If you can bring that abortion percentage to zero percent, I think you would be the best President in United States history. I know a lot of people in Ferriday that go through abortions and its because they cannot afford taking care of the baby , but that is no excuse for murder I think you should do something about this. This is a big problem in Ferriday, Louisiana and the whole United States.
Sincerely Yours,
Dezirae' Edwards


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Good morning to all my crafty friends! I've got another "Peeker" card to share with you today. :) For anybody who may not be familiar with "The Peekers", they are a collection of adorable little girls designed exclusively for SCACD by artist Elisabeth Bell. Susana recently released the second installment of these lovely little tykes, "The Peekers Collection 2".
This is "Mama's Purse Peeker". I just love her...actually the entire Peeker collection has made its way into my heart. :) They are so much fun to colour up. This wee lass has hit the jackpot though...just look at that happy grin and little fist full of dollars! I remember as a little girl thinking what a treasure trove my mom's purse was...gum, hairbrushes, compacts, chapstick and of course money! lol The papers are from My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose. (check out Susana's amazing selection of paper HERE) The flower is from Prima (De Soie). The swirls were made with Spellbinders Doodle Parts. (SCACD's selection of Spellbinders can be found HERE.)
I stamped "Mama's Purse Peeker" on Make It Colourful cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and coloured with Copics. The purse was paper pieced with some of the MME patterned paper, but shading was added with Copic markers before adhering it to the image. Oh...and I just noticed now that I splotched a bit of yellow from the purse handle right in the middle of the purse. sigh. So, please feel free to take a closer look...just not there, lol.
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20 Hair: Dress and Headband: YR00, YR04, YR20, YR23, Y38, E08, E18 Flower and Dots on Headband: RV000, R20, R22, R59, BG72, BG75, C5 Shading on Paper-pieced Purse: BG000, BG10, BG72, BG75, C5, C7 Money: YG00, G20, G21, C5, C7
The Peekers Collection 2 is exclusively available at SCACD and at Quixotic Paperie if you live over in the UK. Make sure to check in at SCACD frequently as Susana is always adding new products!
If you have not yet signed up as a follower over at the SCACD store blog Follow Your Heart, please make sure to do so! There is always inspiration to be found there by the very talented design team featuring stamps and products carried at SCACD.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and thanks so much for stopping by. :)
Stamps: SCACD's "Mama's Purse Peeker" from The Peekers Collection 2"
Ink: Memento, Copics
Paper: Bazzill, Make It Colourful blending card, MME
Embellishments: Prima flower, ribbon, pearls
Tools:Spellbinders Doodle Parts
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Labels: Copics, Feminine, Friendship, kids, SCACD, The Peekers
5 comments:
- Toni said...
Wow Melanie shes so cute another gorgous coloured image love it
- August 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- ♥Rach♥ said...
Love the coloring as usual and how you did the ribbon piece in the center with the flourishes and flower. Beautiful design!
- August 17, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- Kelly Schelske said...
These peekers are adorable, fab card Melanie!!
- August 17, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Joy said...
WOW! Awesome coloring job and great layout. Very cute!
- August 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Dana said...
Gorgeous coloring and papers Melanie!! I love the colors you used on her dress and headband : )
- August 18, 2011 at 9:36 AM
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Man, is this blog getting all religious up in here or am I just going nuts on the idea of Catholic universities with Demons and Devils as their mascots? I must be the only one in the world that finds that odd.
Anyway, No. 4 Wake Forest knocked off No. 1 Duke on a shot in the low-post by a guy not named Jeff Teague.
Seriously, the guy is off the hook.
He's averaged 21.5 points per game including 34 against North Carolina and six other games in which he scored at least 24 points. Absolute stud.
But did you know he was some fatherly advice away from being a Saluki.
Jeff Goodman dropped this nugget on the world a few weeks ago and I've sat on it hoping for the right moment:
Imagine Jeff Teague playing at Southern Illinois. It nearly happened.
"Teague was one of those late-bloomers. There were always one or two guys that came out of nowhere at the ABCD Camp in New Jersey – and Teague was one of those guys a few years back.'I was about to commit to Southern Illinois before ABCD Camp,' Teague said. 'But my dad talked to me about it and convinced me to wait.'
Goodman goes on to say, "I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say he's the best guard in America, but he's certainly put himself in the conversation along with Stephen Curry and James Harden."
The idea of Teague in Saluki maroon makes my heart flutter and eyes tear up a little.
Imagine Teague, Mullins, Dillard, Hare and Bocot. I'd run a five-guard offense for the heck of it and dare my Missouri Valley Conference foes to stop all five of them at once.


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''Skill and compassion go hand in hand when providing patient care. As a Dentist, my goal is to provide the best treatment options for my patients while maintaining five star customer care." Dr. Koosha
Dr. Koosha has practiced general dentistry for nearly 20 years and is thrilled to open My City Dental, his second practice, serving the vibrant north Toronto community.
Preventative dentistry for children is a personal passion for Dr. Koosha
Now residing in Thornhill, Ontario with his wife and two children, Dr. Koosha values quality time spent with family and friends. He stays active by participating in triathlons, cycling, skiing, and snowshoeing.
Mahkameh / Office Manager/supervisor
Mahkameh got her bachelor degree in computer science in 1998.Learning the business of dentistry has been enjoyable for Mahkameh,She graduated from 'Aplus institute' accredited Dental hygiene college with a Dental Hygienist certification in June 2015.
She enjoys working with people and always volunteer to assist. what she likes the most about our practice she gets to meet a lot of people from all different backgrounds . She enjoys the variety that comes with the position.She's always available and easy to approach for all Patients and staff and is always willing to offer advice or support. Her primary goal is to "Help you".
Mycitydental team are amazing and I love the energy of team . They become like family to me.
She lives with her husband for 19 years with their two kids Arsalan and Amitis. outside of work she likes to spend time with her family and friends.She likes traveling, swimming and skiing. She speaks fluently in Persian/Farsi.
Sonia / Office manager
She has worked in the dental field since 2000.
Sonia is extremely skilled in answering any questions you may have about your treatments, insurances or anything related to dental. She keeps the day to day office operations running smoothly, and always has an open door for the staff or patientsto come to.
Her care and concern for others instantly connects her to patients and makes them feel comfortable and welcome. She is a patient's biggest advocate and nothing brings her more joy than knowing someone felt special in the office.
Sonia believes that Dr. Koosha and their
On her spare time, Sonia enjoys spending quality time with her family (especially her 2 kids).
Christina / Front Desk
Works as a member of our amazing front reception team. She brings to our office a wealth of experience and knowledge. She graduated from George Brown College (Dental Reception Program) in 2006 and has been in the dental field since 2005.
Outside the office, Christina and her husband enjoy going to the park with their son and on her spare time, she enjoys reading and listening to music.
Teresa / Registered Dental Hygienist
Teresa is a 1997 Graduate of the George Brown College Dental Hygiene program. With over 17 years of dental hygiene, orthodontics and assisting experience Teresa is a true expert in her field.
As a current member of the CDHO and ODHA she stays committed to her profession as reflected in her positive attitude and gentle delivery of care to her clients
Patient comfort and building new relationships are some of Teresa's greatest passions as well as staying current in her craft.
Galyna / Dental Assistant
Galyna works as a Dental Assistant for our practice. She graduated from Everest College in 2010 and has been working since. She provides exceptional services to every patient and helps them feel comfortable while they under-go their treatments.
She enjoys going to the gym, swimming, playing piano and spending quality time with her family. Galyna speaks fluently in Ukrainian and Russian.


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Guard Generator (ガードジェネレーター) is a stationary defense machine from Mega Man X8, that appears in the stages Noah's Park and Metal Valley.
In Noah's Park, only two generators appear out of reach in the background of the second trap room. They release a wave of Bombees to attack the Maverick Hunters, going dormant once the room has been cleared. In Metal Valley, they're first seen inactive in ditches covered by wooden planks while fleeing the rampaging Yellow Brontes. While chasing the Yellow Brontes back through the stage, the Guard Generators will have been uncovered, and attack by launching purple spheres.
- Sepelak, Greg (2004). Mega Man X8 Official Strategy Guide. pg.104. BradyGAMES Publishing.
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Ural electric sidecar
This looks just amazing – Ural took the guts of the Zero DS-R and made a sidecar out of it: That looks so damned cool! From the pictures, I could carry a passenger, maybe even two, and it'd certainly work for a most of our grocery and household shopping. Alas, it's only a prototype for now, but the […]Read More


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Soon after the discovery of a gold nugget at Sutters Mill in 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush, a diamond turned up among glacial debris in Ontario, Canada, followed by more isolated discoveries south of the Great Lakes. Unlike the rush to find gold, however, the search for Canadian diamonds progressed at a crawl. More than a century after the initial discoveries, that pace has picked up speed.
Located only 220 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, Diavik Diamond Mine is one of three operating diamond mines in Canadas Northwest Territories. Since beginning production in January 2003, the mine has produced an annual peak of about 8 million carats. Photo courtesy of Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.
Canadas lag in diamond exploration contrasts with exploration in Africa, where mining companies started fighting for claims in the diamond fields about 14 years after the first confirmed diamond discovery along Africas Orange River in about 1867. The reason for the lag, geologists say, is that Canadas geology and harsh climate make locating diamond deposits a notoriously slow and difficult process. The scene is changing, however, as explorers and miners now forge northward with refined exploration tools and models suited for the landscape.
Diamonds form deep below Earths surface at the roots of continental plates. At depths of about 150 kilometers, pressures and temperatures are high enough to convert carbon into diamond. Getting those diamonds to the surface, however, requires the presence of carrot-shaped pathways, tapered at the bottom, called kimberlite pipes, which are carved by magma making its way to the surface. Occasionally, the rising magma boosts the deep diamond-bearing, or diamondiferous, rock through the pipe and closer to Earths surface. Locating such pipes so that they can be mined is a goal of exploration groups worldwide.
Diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes tend to form where the cores of continents are thick, stable and about 2.5 billion years old. Those conditions are present below diamond-producing countries, of which the largest producer by mass in 2004 was Russia (see sidebar). South Africa, commonly thought of as a superpower in the diamond industry, ranked fifth, followed by Canada at sixth, according to a 2004 Natural Resources Canada report. Canadas rank could change, however, as explorers continue to discover more kimberlite pipes.
Still, only about 23 of the worlds total 5,000 pipes actually contain enough diamonds to make their mining worthwhile, according to Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. Searching within diamond-producing countries, explorers rarely find a diamond resting on Earths surface. They look instead for traces on the surface of more common indicator minerals, such as garnet and olivine, which form alongside the diamonds deep inside Earth.
Tracing diamond indicator minerals back to their source is more straightforward in Africa than in Canada. In Africa, Tania Marshall, a private consultant and the technical director of Monroe Minerals, headquartered in Alberta, Canada, follows indicator minerals through old river systems back to the pipes of origin, which are then usually mined (if drill samples turn up enough diamonds to make the endeavor economically viable). In Canada, however, additional challenges posed by glaciers add complexity to the process, Marshall says.
In 1899, William Hobbs, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, hypothesized that advancing and retreating glaciers would shave away the tops of kimberlite pipes and carry indicator minerals, along with any diamonds, far from their source. Indeed, Marshall says, the whole landscape has evolved differently compared with southern Africa, where glacial activity has been absent for 250 million years.
Recent glaciations have been the difficulty in the north, says Ralf Tappert, a diamond geologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and were part of the reason why Canadian diamond sources have evaded discovery for so many years. Now, a significant amount of work for Canadian exploration geologists goes into reconstructing the movement of the ice so that they can try to follow the indicator minerals back to their source. But the problem remains that glacial activity spread the minerals far and wide. We have to pretty much test the whole region, Tappert says, to find high abundances of minerals.
Ten kilograms of glacial debris often turns up only a few grains of indicator minerals, Tappert says. But if explorers are lucky, they find regions with a high abundance of the minerals, and they can tighten the sampling grid, he says, and nail it down to the source.
Further complicating exploration, kimberlite pipes in Canada are a little more difficult to find, Marshall says, because some are buried under lakes or ice in a bit more extreme conditions. The Diavik Diamond Mine, for example, is located only 220 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle in Lac de Gras. The pipes of interest are just offshore an island, under a lake that is frozen for seven months each year.
To access the pipes, which formed about 55 million years ago within approximately 2.6-billion-year-old rock, engineers need to build a watertight dike around the pipes and pump out lake water. So far, the dike is performing better than expected, says Tom Hoefer, a spokesperson for Diavik, with minimum leakage that is then filtered and pumped back into the lake.
Engineers also considered environmental concerns unique to the northern latitudes, such as preserving permafrost in a region where the 3.9-kilometer-long dike meets small islands. Closed tubes installed within the dike hold liquid carbon dioxide, which has a cooling effect that is made active during summer months to prevent melting. The success of the dike, first drained in 2002, led to the construction of a second dike expected to be completed this year.
Getting materials to the site is also a chore. A years worth of supplies need to travel over a 350-kilometer-long ice road (75 percent of which is over frozen lakes) reconstructed annually each winter. For Diavik alone, about 2,000 truckloads of supplies make the journey across the ice road each winter, which typically opens in early February and can support trucks through April. The ice road opened to light loads in early February as usual, despite warmer than average temperatures this year.
Explorers and mining companies do not appear deterred by challenges posed by northern Canadas geology and location. Diavik Diamond Mine is one of a growing number of mines in the region; DeBeers the giant diamond mining and trading company that once had a near-monopoly on the industry in Africa even has a presence, with two Canadian mines under development and a third in the permitting process. I think its definitely a growing field, says Thomas Stachel, head of the diamond research lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Explorers have already found about 600 kimberlite pipes in Canada, Tappert says, and it is quite likely that there is still a lot undiscovered. About 10 to 20 percent of those pipes are diamondiferous a percentage similar to that of diamond fields in other countries. The difference, Tappert says, is that Canadian kimberlite pipes that contain diamonds tend to have them in very high concentrations and quality, which make them worthwhile to mine, even under the difficult Arctic conditions.
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It's that time of year again – the season of lists and mellow fruitfulness, as journalists scramble to compile their top 10, top 100, worst, best, most whatevers, into an annual tsunami that crashes over us all, leaving us washed up and gasping on the new year's far shore. So rather than a round-up, I thought I'd sign off on 2014 with a little book that, 72 years after it was written, still sells more than 2 million copies a year. And, if the trailer is anything to go by, looks like becoming the most beautiful animated films of 2015.
I'm talking of course about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince.
Everyone knows the story of a little prince who leaves his own planet – a tiny, lonely asteroid in the vast sky – visits other tiny planets each with its own strange or deluded inhabitant, and finally falls to earth where he encounters an airman whose plane has crashed in the desert. The little boy asks the airman to draw him a sheep, and the prince narrates his life as the two wander through the desert in search of water. But it's not the plot that we remember. It's the drawings – the little round circles of the little boy's eyes, the single line for a nose, the hat that is in fact a drawing of a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant, the lonely rose in her bell jar, and the tiny, fragile planet-let smaller than a house.
The baobabs that threaten to overrun the Prince's tiny kingdom can stand for any one of any number of evils that threaten to overwhelm our own home: "an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people," as Carl Sagan described it. Saint-Exupéry's drawings call to mind the famous 'pale blue dot' photo taken (at Sagan's request) from the Voyager 1 space probe twelve years after its launch in 1977, at the edge of our solar system. Earth, at a distance of 3.7 billion miles, could well be the Little Prince's asteroid, with barely enough room for one small boy and a little rose. As Neil Armstrong's recalled, looking back at the Earth from the moon: "I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
There are several theories about the identity of the real little boy that inspired Saint-Exupéry's drawings, and his tale: possibly the son of the aviator Charles Lindberg, with whom he was friends, possibly the son of philosopher Charles De Koninck, possibly the author himself as a child. Most likely it was a combination of the three. But the story perhaps took root in 1935, when the author, travelling to Russian by train, noticed a child, sleeping between his parents on the seat opposite: "What an adorable face! A golden fruit had been born of these two peasants….. This is a musician's face, I told myself. This is the child Mozart. This is a life full of beautiful promise. Little princes in legends are not different from this. Protected, sheltered, cultivated, what could not this child become? When by mutation a new rose is born in a garden, all gardeners rejoice. They isolate the rose, tend it, foster it. But there is no gardener for men. This little Mozart will be shaped like the rest by the common stamping machine…. This little Mozart is condemned."
The Little Prince is an allegory, a poetical tale, a philosophical treatise and a coded love-letter to the author's beloved wife, Consuela. Both whimsical and profound, it has been described as 'a children's book for grown-ups' – a phrase often deployed as a sort-of backhanded criticism (or do I mean compliment?) as though such books have missed their mark somehow, or are masquerading as something they're not: a children's book that is wasted on the young (to misquote Shaw).
In a crowded, noisy world where publishers (and filmmakers too for that matter) seem to spend their lives chasing the book or story that will be loud enough to make itself heard over the clamour, it is a comfort to know that the small and the quiet ones also endure. The Hunger Games or the Harry Potters are wonderful for their dazzle and brightness, and we love them like we love fireworks on a crisp cold night, but we will always come back home to warm ourselves next to the fire, nourished by the simple words of a little boy from a distant planet: "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
The Little Prince is Saint-Exupéry's cri de coeur, a plea for a world in which there are gardeners of men, a place where the child-Mozart in all of us can be nurtured. That perhaps in requires not a giant leap of imagination but a very small step into the shoes of the child that we all once were.
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States' Rights
Thomas Allen
IThe essence of States' rights is the dispersal and decentralization of political power. Its opposite is consolidation, which is the concentration and centralization of political power. The republican principle of not concentrating absolute political power in any one individual or body is a States' rights principle. Because it disperses rather than concentrates political power, States' rights is an antidemocratic principle. Democracy concentrates absolute political power in the majority.
States' rights does not mean the right of the States to do as they please. To the contrary, it limits the ability of the States to do as they please.
Whenever and wherever States' rights is accepted as a valid principle, political subdivisions are able to judge the legality and constitutionality of acts of the government above them and are able to veto those acts judged illegal and unconstitutional. In a federation, be it a true federation or a pseudo federation, each State of that federation is able to judge the acts of the federal government and interpose and veto acts of the federal government, so far as they apply to that State, when that State deems them illegal or unconstitutional. (A true federation is a confederation of several States. The United States prior to the War Between the States and Germany prior to World War I were true federations. A pseudo federation is a State divided into several independent or quasi-independent parts. The Soviet Union, West Germany, and Brazil are pseudo federations.) Even in unitary countries, such as the United Kingdom, where regions thereof, such as Scotland, have guaranteed home rule, each of these regions has some veto over acts of the central government that the region judges illegal or unconstitutional. Even within a State, the counties have some veto over acts of the State government that the counties judge illegal or unconstitutional. Each political subdivision has the right to judge the acts of the government above it and veto acts judged illegal or unconstitutional if States' rights is accepted as a valid principle.
States' rights does not end with political subdivisions. It includes family governments and church governments. It may also be extended constitutionally to include other important segments of society, such as economic interests or racial interests. Whenever and wherever States' rights is considered a valid principle, each of these bodies through their representatives has the right to judge the legality and constitutionality of the acts of their State and political subdivisions thereof and have the right to veto those acts judged illegal or unconstitutional so far as those acts apply to that body. To a certain degree even individuals have the right to judge and veto laws. However, the veto of an individual may be overruled by a jury. The veto by the representatives of family governments, church governments, and perhaps some other segments of society is absolute and final. Under the principle of States' rights, not only do political subdivisions have the right of veto, but so do the more important segments of society.
The following is an example of how States' rights as just described could work in practice. Acting in their capacity as the representatives of family governments, the heads of households in each county elect members to a body that represents the family governments of that county. These bodies in turn elect members to a similar body that represent the family governments of the State. Now suppose that a county outlaws the spanking of children. If a sufficient minority, say about 10 or 20 percent, of the heads of households believes that the law usurps the authority or rights reserved for family governments and signs a petition proclaiming such and if the county board representing family governments agrees, then the law is vetoed so far as it applies to families. That is, parents or other members of the family can spank a child of that family and the law does not apply. However, if anyone else spanks the child, the law applies. If the State had enacted the antispanking law, the State board would be the body that would veto the law upon petition. If the State board fails to veto the law, then each county can judge the law. If the board of county commissioners, or preferably some other specific county board, finds the law unconstitutional and vetoes it, the law does not apply in that county. It does continue to apply in all other counties that have not vetoed it. As this example shows, the principle of States' rights can be applied in a real situation without creating chaos.
The question arises is the principle of initiative and referendum a States' rights doctrine. The answer is no. They are democratic principles. They are majority rule. Initiative is the positive act of enacting a law. Under an initiative the majority imposes its will on the minority by enacting a law. Referendum is the negative act of repealing a law. Under a referendum the majority imposes its will on the minority by repealing a law. Initiative and referendum are not States' rights principles.
There is at least one important difference between vetoing a law by the democratic principle of referendum and the republican principle of States' rights. Under the doctrine of referendum, the law is vetoed completely; it no longer applies to anyone. Under the doctrine of States' rights, the law is only partially vetoed. Although it no longer applies to that segment of society that has vetoed it, it continues to apply to all other segments of society. Thus, the vetoing body does not veto the law for other segments of society, which may desire the law (unless of coarse they desire the law to oppress the segment of society that has vetoed the law in which case their plans have been foiled.) For example, the representatives of church governments judge a law of the State unconstitutional, i.e., the law usurps the rights, duties, or powers that belong to the church, and vetoes the law. The law would then no longer be of any force or effect with respect to any church or church official acting for and in the name of a church. However, it would continue to be enforced against all other segments of society. One of the important differences between veto by referendum and veto by States' rights is the degree to which the law is repealed.
Applying veto by States' rights doctrine in lieu of democratic referendum does not mean that the minority has the right to oppress the majority. To the contrary, the minority has no more right to oppress the majority than the majority has to oppress the minority. Under the States' rights doctrine, instead of resorting to referendum and initiative to protect themselves from the minority, the majority uses the same avenues available to the minority to veto laws. That it can simultaneously protect the minority from the majority while protecting the majority from the minority makes States' rights vastly superior to democratic doctrines, which can only protect the majority.
Why not use the courts to decide the constitutionality and legality of governmental acts instead of resorting to veto under the principle of States' rights? First, courts are part of the government. Being part of the government, courts cannot always be relied upon to act in an unbiased manner. Anything that adds to the power and importance of government adds to the power and importance of the courts. Most men prefer having power and importance to not having them. Therefore, the inclination of the courts is to increase their power and importance. The result is that power and importance of the government is increased at the expense of the other segments of society. Second, in a republic the courts are created by the federated parts of the body politic. In a federation they are created by the federated States. Courts are created agents. As such they should not have the final say. The creators, each acting in its independent capacity, should be the final judge. Although the courts should be the first to judge the constitutionality and legality of governmental acts, for these two reasons it should not be the last.
States' rights is a principle that limits political power. It decentralizes and disperses political power. It allows each part of the State to judge whether the acts of the State trespass on the rights, duties, or powers reserved by that part of the State and to veto those acts that are judged to usurp these reserved rights, duties, or powers. It protects the minority from the majority while protecting the majority from the minority. States' rights is a principle of liberty.
The time has come to resurrect the principle of States' rights. The time has come for a free and independent confederation of free and independent Southern States where States' rights is truly considered a valid principle.
IIThere are two types of States' rightists: the true States' rightist and the false States' rightist. The true States' rightist advocates States' rights regardless of the issue. He is a strict constitutionalist and believes that the federal government has only those powers expressly delegated to it and no more. All other governmental powers have been reserved by the States. That is, the States have retained all powers that they have not delegated to the federal government and that is not denied them by the compact creating the federal government. Before the false States' rightist advocates States' rights, he first determines the position that the State has taken vis-a-vis the federal government. If a State favors his position while the federal government opposes it, the false States' rightist advocates States' rights. On the other hand, if the federal government favors his position while a State opposes it, the false States' rightists opposes States' rights and advocates consolidation. The following example of gun control illustrates the difference between the true and false States' rightist.
Excluding those who are indifferent, people tend to take one of two positions on gun control. One group believes that the ownership of guns should be moderately to severely restricted and regulated. The other group believes that there should be little or no restrictions or regulation of gun ownership. Because extremely few true States' rightists fall in former group, only the latter group is considered.
The true States' rightist believes that the Second Amendment, "the right to bear arms" amendment, applies only to the federal government. Contrary to what the consolidationists and false States' rightists claim, it does not apply to the States. For the true States' rightist, whether gun ownership is restricted or not is a State issue. Gun ownership is protected from restriction by a State with the State's constitution and not with the federal constitution. Therefore, even though nearly all true States' rightists favor little or no restriction on gun ownership, they would not consider appealing to the federal government when a State restricts gun ownership. That is an issue to be resolved by the State. The federal government, including the federal courts, has no say in the matter.
The false States' rightist views the matter differently. If a State restricts gun ownership, he has no inhibitions about pursuing the matter in federal court. The false States' rightist typically argues that the Second Amendment applies to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. Therefore, a State may not restrict gun ownership. (The true States' rightist does not recognize the Fourteenth Amendment for several reasons. Foremost, it was adopted illegally and under the force of arms. Also, it is extremely anti-States' rights because it changes the locus of citizenship from the States to the Union.) However, if the federal government restricts ownership, the false States' rightist has no inhibitions against turning to the States and persuading them to protest this infringement upon liberty. The more radical ones may even advocate interposition and nullification. (The true States' rightist would join the false States' rightist in this endeavor not only because he opposes the restriction of gun ownership but more importantly because he opposes usurpation of power by the federal government.) For the false States' rightist, the position taken by the federal government and States determine whether he advocates States' rights or consolidation.
The true States' rightist consistently advocates States' rights. He believes that all governmental powers not expressly delegated to the federal government by the States in the federal constitution belong to the States unless the federal constitution specifically denies the States such power. Even where a power has been expressly delegated to the federal government, he believes that the States have concurrent power, provided the exercise of that power is not contrary to the federal constitution or federal law. However, if a particular power has been expressly delegated to the federal government and denied to the States, he will side with the federal government.
On the other hand, the position taken by the false States' rightist depends on the issue in question. If a State supports his position while the federal government opposes it, he favors States' rights. If the federal government supports his position while the State opposes it, he opposes States' rights. If both the States and the federal government oppose his position, he usually favors consolidation in preference to States' rights. It is much easier to persuade one government than many.
In summary there are two types of States' rightist: the true States' rightist and false States' rightist. The true States' rightist support States' rights regardless of the issue in question. The false States' rightist supports States' rights only when the State supports his view of the issue in question; otherwise, he supports consolidation.
(The preceding discussion can be extended to described the principle of States' rights within a State merely by substituting "State government" for "federal government" and "family government," "church government," etc. for "the State.")
Copyright © 1987 by Thomas Coley Allen.
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Mud Fest – that's the name that forever will be associated with the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival, held the first weekend of May every year. I'm not sure the origination of the term, but I'd like to think it came in 1995, which happened to be my first of many Beale Street Music Festivals. That first Saturday in May became an afternoon filled with torrential rain. By the time the sun set, the rain was gone but a cool breeze off the Mississippi River had set in. More importantly, the grassy park had become a muddy soup.
That year wasn't a one-off for Music Fest becoming Mud Fest. It's almost an annual occurrence that the first weekend of May includes rain, and even a severe thunderstorm or two.
Here is a Beale Street Music Festival survival guide:
Wear Rain Boots or Old Shoes: That muddy festival in 1995 led to the additions of mats on the ground in front of the stages. And while it's a big help, the rest of the festival grounds can get messy when it rains. So wear rain boots or old shoes, but make sure your feet won't slip out of those shoes when you step in one of the deep mud puddles. And definitely don't wear flip flops or sandals.
Dress Cute But Practical: Sure, wear that cute sundress, but don't wear the expensive one. Good clothes are sure to get ruined at Mud Fest.
Bring a Rain Jacket: The 2013 festival actually brought cold temps and rain, so check the forecast before heading out to Tom Lee Park. Make sure your rain jacket actually is waterproof. Don't wear one of those nylon track jackets that lets water soak through.
Have Sunscreen: Yes, it's probably going to rain at Beale Street Music Festival. But chances are Saturday or Sunday afternoon will be beautiful. And that means the warm May sun can burn.
Carry Cash: The festival grounds have ATMs, but I find it easier to come prepared. It will be easier at the food trucks and beer vendors. And if you decide to park in one of the surface parking lots near the grounds, cash might be the only way to pay.
Bring Toilet Paper: You just never know what the toilet paper situation will be in a portable toilet. And if it's a rainy evening, well, that roll of paper might get a little yucky.
Bring Hand Sanitizer: Portable toilets and the potential for muddy evenings makes the yuck factor higher. Hand sanitizer and baby wipes will prove to be a life saver.
Have Clean Clothes and Towels in Car: If you get soaked or muddy, it will be important to have something dry to put on for the drive home. And a towel to wipe off the Tom Lee Park filth might be good, too.


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One of the criticisms that Harbhajan Singh has had to live with is his performance overseas. After all, how many times had he won India a Test outside the subcontinent? One has to strain the mind to think of such instances. Harbhajan's 10-for at Galle last year was perhaps his only genuine match-winning performance outside India.
A difference of about 12 points in his average at home and overseas is well documented. Before the Hamilton Test, Harbhajan had taken 17 five-fors at home, which didn't compare well with five away, in 10 fewer games. For the most successful offspinner of a country that has a proud spin tradition, it didn't make for good reading.
Harbhajan's remarkable figures of 6 for 63 today have come against a New Zealand side lacking in classy batsmen who can face up to spin. The batsmen allowed Harbhajan to settle into a groove, hardly using their feet against him, allowing him to bowl where he wanted to. Nontheless, it is an important performance for him - his first five-for against New Zealand and one that has resulted in a famous win. He talked about that missing five-for last night with his team-mates. It is missing no longer.
"Though there wasn't much help for the spinner, they didn't go after him," Dhoni said. "Once you allow a bowler of his calibre to get on top of you, more often than not he will get wickets or contain you, which is as good.
"It will be important to see him through throughout the Test series, because he is the kind of bowler if he starts getting wickets, game after game, he will continue to do so."
Another criticism Harbhajan has lived with is that he is one of those spinners who look lethal when they are doing really well, and lacklustre when things are not going their way. The longer he takes to get a first wicket, the faster and flatter he starts to bowl. That persistence, that willingness to purchase wickets, is sometimes missing. But in New Zealand's second innings, Harbhajan remained persistent, varying his pace as opposed to quickening it, and utilised the minimal rough that was available to him.
The pitch at the Seddon Park wasn't entirely to Harbhajan's liking. There was not much pace off the track, and hardly any assistance in terms of break. Daniel Vettori toiled for 35.4 overs for two wickets, albeit against much better batsmen. And since the pitches in New Zealand don't deteriorate fast there wasn't much rough to work with.
When Harbhajan came on to bowl for the first time yesterday, New Zealand had a partnership going. Martin Guptill looked really good in the way he attacked the medium-pacers, and though he got most of the criticism for the shot he played, a lob-drive to mid-off, the fact was that the ball turned out to be shorter than he had expected. It was these small nuances that Harbhajan had to rely on, rather than the big-spinning, spitting offbreaks or the bigger-than-legbreak doosras.
Jesse Ryder was caught plumb to a ball that straightened just enough from round the stumps, and Franklin scooped a flighted delivery that drew him into the shot. That he wasn't up against a famed batting line-up does takes some gloss off his figures, but the flat track perhaps restores it again.
Another aspect that shone through for Harbhajan in the second innings, was that he looked to be the leader of the attack, coming from the knowledge that he is the No. 1 spinner in the team. The feisty character that he is, he has invariably risen to the occasion whenever he has had to lead the spin attack. In the 21 Tests that he has played without Anil Kumble, he averages 26.19 as opposed to a career average of 30.58.
There is no doubt that playing alongside Kumble helped Harbhajan grow as a spinner, but towards the end of Kumble's career, the time had perhaps come when he needed that extra responsibility. It perhaps showed in that he had become a much better bowler in one-day cricket than in Tests. All through the final stages of Kumble's career, there were fears over whether Harbhajan could take over the mantle of being India's No. 1 spinner. Much of it had to do with his overseas performances. With 22 wickets in four Tests since Kumble's retirement, and a match-winning five-for in New Zealand, Harbhajan seems to be on the right track.


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It is like a dream come true for me when I finally "landed" in the city of Las Vegas. For many suns and moons I have been hoping to see the bright city lights as shown on television and movies and all those years, I have never thought that my dream would come true one day. This is one vacation that I have enjoyed the most and most of the time during my holiday, I have been thinking about them and wishing that they were together with me as well. We would have lots of ideas for activities they would enjoy especially in the resorts I was staying, something like old Vegas.d Vegas. As much as we love the high-end Vegas resorts, there is a definite benefit to the old resorts, too. There's an easy kind of low-key civility in the older posh hotels. The pace is slower. The people seem friendlier. The clientele is chiefly made up of Vegas veterans, experienced travelers and locals.
Experienced Vegas visitors know the best spots. This helps the established
Vegas hotels retain a lot of their own flavor. At Tropicana
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he had enjoyed a couple of hours investigating the tropical ambiance within the
Other older hotels have their own individual personalities and charm. They
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I had a wonderful vacation with my family members, all of us had an awesome
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Most Multi-Car Households Are Eligible for Multi-Car Discounts
Generally speaking, any household with multiple vehicles will be eligible for multi-car discounts.
Some insurance companies require all vehicles to be registered under the same name and owner. Most insurance companies, however, allow you to bundle car insurance policies together when all vehicle owners are legally residing at the same household.
The only time you may not be eligible for a multi-car insurance discount is when you have a unique type of insurance on a certain vehicle. If you only have storage insurance on one vehicle, for example, then you won't get a multi-car discount on your primary vehicle.
Similarly, not all insurance companies offer multi-car discounts when you bundle motorcycle insurance with an ordinary car insurance plan.
Typically, a multi-car insurance plan will cover 2 to 5 vehicles. The discount does not increase as you add more vehicles to the plan. You don't get a bigger discount when you add a third, fourth, or fifth vehicle to your insurance policy.
Are Multi-Car Insurance Plans Always Cheaper?
In almost all cases, it's cheaper to have a multi-car insurance plan than multiple single-vehicle policies.
Nevertheless, some drivers expect major discounts from multi-car insurance plans when, in reality, the difference isn't as big as you expect. Some drivers might save just $10 or $20 per month off their monthly premiums, for example.
The only situation where multi-car insurance plans are more expensive is when a bad driver moves into your household. If a driver with multiple at-fault collisions or DUIs moves into your household as an eligible driver of your vehicles, then tries to add their vehicle to your insurance policy, then you might notice your rates increase. In this situation, it may be better to maintain multiple single-vehicle policies.
Can I Get a Multi-Car Insurance Discount If I'm Not Married to the Other Driver?
If you live with someone but aren't married, then you may or may not be eligible for multi-car insurance discounts.
Some insurance companies are very flexible with discounts. They provide multi-car discounts for all vehicles registered to drivers living in the household – including roommates, partners, children, etc.
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Ultimately, the best option is to compare insurance plans to decide the right policy for your unique needs.
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So you're ready to save money on car insurance. You want to add your vehicle to your insurance plan to get a multi-car discount.
Adding another car to your policy is easy. You'll need:
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- The date of birth and driver's license number of any additional drivers
- Lienholder information (where applicable)
Remember: if any driver in the household gets into an accident while driving under multi-car insurance coverage, then their premiums will increase, and this will also increase the total monthly premiums for the entire household and the entire insurance policy.
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A multi-car insurance policy is a great way to save money when insuring multiple vehicles. However, lower insurance rates aren't the only benefit of a multi-car policy. Other benefits include:
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- You don't need to worry about multiple renewal times; all policies are renewed on the same deadline
- All drivers in a household with a multi-car policy will be eligible to drive all vehicles insured under that policy
On average, a multi-car insurance policy will save you 10% to 25% off the cost of an ordinary car insurance policy. That means you're paying 10% to 25% less for your liability, collision, and comprehensive insurance. Contact your insurance company today to talk to them about saving money by putting all of your vehicles on the same insurance policy.


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Bloody Business
The 'Annals of Ulster' state, s.a. 954:
"Malcolm son of Donald [Mael Coluim mac Domnall], king of Alba, was killed."
The 'Scottish Chronicle' in the Poppleton Manuscript says:
"And the men of the Mearns [i.e. Kincardineshire] slew Malcolm in Fetteresso [near Stonehaven]; that is, in Claideom."
Following the murder, for unknown reasons, of Malcolm son of Donald, i.e. Malcolm I, the throne of Alba passed to Indulf, the son of Malcolm's predecessor, Constantine II. The 'Scottish Chronicle', reports that:
"Indulf [Idulfus] held the kingdom for 8 years. In his time the fortress [oppidum] of Eden was evacuated, and abandoned to the Scots right until the present day. A fleet of Vikings were slain in Buchan.+"
It would appear that the Northumbrian English had been compelled to vacate "the fortress of Eden", i.e. Edinburgh, which they had held for the previous three centuries. Henceforth, Edinburgh was a Scottish possession.* There is no mention of Indulf's death in the 'Scottish Chronicle',* but a later Latin king-list, List D, says:
"Indulf [Indolf] son of Constantine reigned for 9 years; and he was killed by the Norwegians in Invercullen [Seatown, at the mouth of Cullen Burn, Banffshire], and was buried in the island of lona."*
However, according to the 'Prophecy of Berchán' (Stanza 163), which records past events as if they were yet to happen:
"... he dies in the house of the same holy apostle where his father will die."
Indulf's father, Constantine II, died in the monastery of St Andrews. Indulf's death is not recorded in the, normally chronologically reliable, 'Annals of Ulster', but his obit does appear in the 'Chronicon Scotorum':
"Illulbh, king of Alba, died."
And a similarly brief notice is found in the 'Annals of Clonmacnoise', s.a. 956, where Indulf's name is rendered Iwulfe. Other entries, that are common to these three sets of Irish annals, allow the 'Annals of Ulster' to fix the date of Indulf's demise: 962. Interestingly, the Irish obit does not specifically say that Indulf was killed, only that he "died".
As recorded by the 'Verse Chronicle', after Indulf's death:
"King Dub [Duf] reigned for four summers and a half; a son of Malcolm [Malcolm I], wielding royal authority."
Dub means 'black' in Gaelic. The 'Scottish Chronicle':
"Niger [Latin for 'black'] son of Malcolm ruled for 5 years."*
In 965 the 'Annals of Ulster' reports that there took place:
"A battle between the men of Alba themselves, in which many were killed, including Donnchad, i.e. the abbot of Dunkeld."
The 'Scottish Chronicle' says that the battle was fought:
"... between Niger [i.e. Dub] and Caniculus [Latin for 'little dog'] upon the Ridge of Crup [Duncrub, Perthshire?]; and in it Niger had the victory. And there fell Duncan, abbot of Dunkeld, and Dubdon, lord [satrap] of Atholl."
Caniculus is Culen (Irish Cuilén = 'little dog'), a son of Indulf, and he was evidently intent on wresting the throne from Dub. Although Dub had defeated Culen in battle, the next comment in the 'Scottish Chronicle' states that Dub (Niger):
"... was driven from the kingdom, and Caniculus [i.e. Culen] held it for a short time."
The 'Annals of Ulster' report, s.a. 967:
"Dub son of Malcolm [Dub mac Mael Coluim], king of Alba, was killed by the men of Alba themselves."
The 'Scottish Chronicle' doesn't mention Dub's death, but List D says:
"... he was killed in Forres, and hidden away under the bridge of Kinloss. But the sun did not appear so long as he was concealed there; and he was found, and buried in the island of lona."
And the 'Verse Chronicle':
"Him the treacherous nation of Moray slew; he was slain by their swords in the town of Forres. The sun hid his rays while [Dub] lay hidden under a bridge, where he was concealed, and where he was found."
Although the 'Annals of Ulster' place Dub's death in 967 (the first entry for that year), it is widely supposed that the above accounts of Dub's demise refer to an eclipse that occurred on 20th July 966.
The 'Scottish Chronicle':
"Culen reigned for 5 years.+"
List D:
"Culen son of Indulf reigned for 4 years and six months ..."
Having recorded nothing of any consequence (obits etc.), the 'Scottish Chronicle' entry for Culen's reign concludes:
"Culen and his brother, Eochaid, were slain by the Britons [of Strathclyde]."
The 'Annals of Ulster' place Culen's death in 971 (no mention of Eochaid), and state he:
"... was killed by the Britons in a battle-rout."
Whilst the 'Chronicon Scotorum' says he:
"... was killed by Britons, in a house on fire."
According to List D, Culen:
"... was killed by Amdarch, Donald's son, for the sake of his daughter, in Ybandonia."
And the 'Verse Chronicle' reports that:
"... he [Culen] was a foolish man. It is said that Radhard slaughtered him in the Lothians, because of the rape of his daughter, whom the king had carried off for himself."
The name Donald, father of Amdarch/Radhard, equates to the British name Dyfnwal. He is likely Dyfnwal ab Owain, king of Strathclyde.
Culen's successor, in 971, was Kenneth (Kenneth II), the brother of, Culen's predecessor, Dub. He is the last king listed by the 'Scottish Chronicle' preserved in the Poppleton Manuscript:
"Kenneth son of Malcolm reigned years....
.... He immediately plundered Britain in part. Kenneth's foot-soldiers were slain with very great slaughter, in Moin Uacoruar....
.... The Scots plundered Saxonia [i.e. English Northumbria] to Stainmore, and to Cluiam, and to the lakes of Deranni. And Kenneth walled the banks of the fords of Forthin. After a year, Kenneth went and plundered Saxonia, and carried off the son of the king of the Saxons. It is he who consigned the great city of Brechin to the Lord."
At Stainmore (Stanmoir in the text), situated about the junction of the modern counties of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire, there is a broad break in the Pennines, known as the Stainmore Gap, which has been used to facilitate east-west travel since time immemorial. Cluiam and the lakes of Deranni have not been conclusively identified,* though, presumably, they are to be located to the north of Yorkshire. The "king of the Saxons", that is, the king of the English, at this time was Edgar, and it is most unlikely that it was his son that Kenneth "carried off". It seems much more likely that it was the son of one Eadwulf Evil-child who ruled Northumbria north of the Tees under Edgar.*
Florence of Worcester records a meeting at Chester, in 973, at which "8 petty kings ... swore that they would be faithful to him [Edgar], and assist him by land and by sea". Two of the "petty kings [subreguli]" are clearly identified: "Kenneth [Kynath], king of the Scots" and "Malcolm, king of the Cumbrians [i.e. of Strathclyde]".* Florence proceeds to describe how Edgar took the helm whilst these eight rowed him on the river Dee. Although Florence's report of the Chester meeting is couched in terms of submission to Edgar, modern scholars tend to present it as a 'summit conference' – an assembly of leaders where treaties were negotiated.*
According to an early-12th century Durham text, 'De Primo Saxonum Adventu', Eadwulf Evil-child, his colleague, Oslac, who governed "York and the districts pertaining to it" on behalf of Edgar, and Bishop Ælfsige, whose seat was at Chester-le-Street:
"... conducted Kenneth king of Scots to King Edgar. And when [Kenneth] had done him homage, King Edgar gave him Lothian; and with great honour sent him back to his own."
Roger of Wendover places his elaborated version of this event s.a. 975.* The context, however, is a look-back at Edgar's career (975 being the year of his death), and most scholars link it to the meeting at Chester in 973:
"... [Edgar] made him [Kenneth] many presents of his royal bounty; among the rest a hundred ounces of the purest gold, many ornaments of silk, rings, and precious stones. He gave him, moreover, the whole of the district called Lothian in the native tongue, on this condition, that every year, on particular festivals, when the king and his successors wore the crown, he should come to court and celebrate the festival with the other princes of the realm. The king gave him besides many mansions on the road, that he and his successors might find entertainment in going to the feast, and returning; and these houses continued to belong to the kings of the Scots until the times of King Henry the Second [r.1154–89]."
Roger's elaborations could simply be conjecture, but, be that as it may, the gift of Lothian – the land between the rivers Forth and Tweed – to Kenneth would, on the face of it, seem to be an extremely generous gesture on the part of Edgar. However, the indications are that the Scots had already taken control of the area, so it is perhaps more likely that Edgar was obliged to recognize the fact as part of a negotiated treaty.
In 977 ('Annals of Ulster'), Kenneth (Irish Cinaed) killed Olaf (Irish Amlaíb), the brother of Kenneth's predecessor, Culen.* Irish annals, however, title Olaf, not Kenneth, 'king of Alba'. Olaf, though, does not feature in any Scottish king-list. Clearly, he was Kenneth's rival, and it is conceivable that he had, unrecorded, been ruling in part of Alba until this time.*
There follows seventeen years of silence regarding Kenneth, and then, s.a. 995, the 'Annals of Ulster' report:
"Kenneth son of Malcolm [Cinaed mac Mael Coluim], king of Alba, was deceitfully killed."
Scottish king-lists provide more detail:
"And he [Kenneth] was killed by his own men in Fettercairn, through the treachery of Finuele, the daughter of Cunchar, mormaer of Angus. This Finuele's only son had been killed by the aforesaid Kenneth at Dunsinnan.+"
In 995, Kenneth II was succeeded by Constantine III, the son of his predecessor, Culen. Constantine ruled for only a year-and-a-half before he was killed in battle against a rival faction. The 'Annals of Tigernach' simply say he "and many others" were slain.
List D provides a little more detail:
"Costantine son of Culen reigned for 1 year and 6 months. And he was killed by Kenneth son of Malcolm, in Rathinveramon; and was buried in the island of Iona."
The purported agent of Constantine's death, Kenneth son of Malcolm, is quite possibly the result of a scribal error. Kenneth son of Malcolm was, of course, the name of Constantine's predecessor, Kenneth II, and whilst it is possible that Constantine just happened to be killed by someone else of the same name,* it seems more likely that the person responsible for his overthrow and death was the person who actually succeeded him, Kenneth II's nephew, Kenneth son of Dub (Kenneth III).
In fact, the king lists fall into two camps: those that name Constantine's successor Kenneth son of Dub, and those that name him Giric son of Kenneth son of Dub.* It is, however, odd for a king-list to give a name three generations long, and although Kenneth son of Dub features in Irish annals, the same is not true of, his supposed son, Giric. It would appear that the name of Giric, who ruled a century previously, has, in a common ancestor of the affected lists, been inadvertently attached to Kenneth son of Dub.* List F:
"Giric son of Kenneth son of Dub [reigned] for 8 years. He was killed by the son of Kenneth [i.e. the son of Kenneth II ] in Monzievaird*....
.... and was buried in Iona."
The 'Annals of Ulster', s.a. 1005:
"A battle between the men of Alba themselves, in which fell the king of Alba, i.e. Kenneth son of Dub [Cinaed mac Dub]."
Nothing else is known about the eight year reign (997–1005) of Kenneth III.
Having killed Kenneth III, in 1005, Malcolm (Malcolm II), the son of Kenneth II, took the throne of Alba. List D:
"Malcolm son of Kenneth, a most victorious king, reigned for 30 years."
The cryptic Irish poem known as the 'Prophecy of Berchán' (apparently composed in the late-11th century) says of Malcolm:
"Son of a Leinster woman, leap through battle, the blood-stained, the violent; enemy of Britons, destroying Foreigners [i.e. Vikings] ...
He will conquer ten battles ..."Stanzas 183 & 185
Though Malcolm was clearly remembered for his military prowess, there is little evidence of it in the surviving record of his reign.
The first reliable report relating to Malcolm is found in the 'Annals of Ulster' s.a. 1006 – the year after he had usurped the throne. Perhaps eager to prove his worth, Malcolm led a large army into Northumbria. Unfortunately for him, however, the expedition did not go as planned, and the Scots were soundly defeated: The Siege of Durham.
In 1016, Cnut, the son of Swein Forkbeard, became king of England. In 1018, Malcolm, in cahoots with Owain the Bald, king of Strathclyde, fought a battle against the English on the Tweed.* This time, Malcolm was victorious: The Battle of Carham.
The 'Verse Chronicle' in the 'Chronicle of Melrose' notes that Malcolm had a daughter called Bethoc, who "was the wife of Abbot Crin". Crin is Crinan, and he was abbot of Dunkeld. He and Bethoc had a son, Duncan.*
It would appear that Bethoc was not Malcolm's only daughter. The 'Orkneyinga Saga' (§13) – written c.1200, by an anonymous Icelandic author – maintains that Sigurd the Stout, earl (jarl) of Orkney:
"... took to wife the daughter of Malcolm the Scot-king, and their son was Earl Thorfinn."
In 1017, Cnut had married Emma, King Æthelred's widow and sister of Duke Richard II of Normandy. Rodulfus Glaber maintains that:
"After this [i.e. his marriage to Emma] also the same Cnut set out with a very great army to subdue to himself the nation of the Scots; whose king was called Malcolm, powerful in resources and arms, and (what was most efficacious) very Christian in faith and deed. And when [Malcolm] knew that Cnut audaciously sought to invade his kingdom, he collected his nation's whole army, and resisted him strongly, so that he should not succeed. And Cnut shamelessly prosecuted these claims for a long time, and vigorously; but at last, by persuasion of the aforesaid Richard, the duke of Rouen, and of [Richard's] sister, he entirely laid aside all ferocity, for the love of God; became gentle, and lived in peace. Moreover also for friendship's sake, having affection for the king of the Scots, he received [Malcolm's] son from the holy font of baptism."'Historiarum Libri Quinque' II, 3
If Rodulfus' story is right, these events should be set between 1017 and 1026, when Duke Richard died. The only recorded encounter between English and Scottish forces during that period was at Carham in 1018, though it doesn't seem unlikely that there were others unrecorded. If, as Rodulfus claims, Cnut stood as godfather to Malcolm's son, the boy must have died before Malcolm.
The entry for 1031 in Manuscripts D and E of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' begins:
"In this year King Cnut went to Rome ..."
Manuscript D continues:
"... and as soon as he came home he went to Scotland; and the Scots' king surrendered to him and became his man; but he held to that only a little while."
Whilst Manuscript E says:
"... and in the same year he went to Scotland; and the Scots' king Malcolm submitted to him, and two other kings, Mælbæth and Iehmarc."
Sighvat, court poet to Olaf Haraldsson (Olaf the Stout), king of Norway (Olaf II; St Olaf), apparently refers to this event:
"The most famous princes in the North from the midst of Fife have brought their heads to Cnut; that was to buy peace."
In 1020, as reported by the 'Annals of Tigernach':
"Findlaech mac Ruaidri, mormaer of Moray, was killed by the sons of his brother Mael Brigte."
The 'Annals of Ulster' simply say that Findlaech was "killed by his own people", but, rather than "mormaer of Moray", he is titled "king of Alba". Findlaech wasn't, of course, king of Alba, but he may well have been considered to be king in Moray. At any rate, he was evidently succeeded by one of his killers, his nephew, another Malcolm. The 'Annals of Ulster' don't give this Malcolm a title in his obit – he died, apparently peacefully, in 1029 – but the 'Annals of Tigernach' call him "king of Alba".* He was succeeded by his brother, Gilla Comgain. There is no notice of Gilla Comgain's death in the 'Annals of Tigernach', but the 'Annals of Ulster' place it s.a. 1032:
"Gilla Comgain mac Mael Brigte, mormaer of Moray, was burned together with fifty people."
It doesn't seem unreasonable to suppose that the agent of Gilla Comgain's death was his successor, Findlaech's son, Macbeth – who now submitted to Cnut, at which time he was accorded the title 'king' by the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.
According to the 'Chronicle of Huntingdon', Macbeth was a nephew or a grandson (the Latin nepos can mean either) of King Malcolm II. It is possible that Malcolm sheltered Macbeth after the sons of Mael Brigte killed his father. Malcolm may have seen the ambitious sons of Mael Brigte as a threat to his own position. The 'Annals of Ulster' mention, s.a. 1027, that Dunkeld (where Malcolm's son-in-law, Crinan, was abbot) "was totally burned". Nothing else is said, and, of course, it could simply have been accidental, but it could also have been the result of warfare between Malcolm II and Malcolm of Moray.
The 'Annals of Ulster' report that, in 1033, "the son of the son of", i.e. the grandson of, a certain Boite son of Kenneth (Boite mac Cinaed) was killed by Malcolm son of Kenneth (Mael Coluim mac Cinaed).* Malcolm son of Kenneth, is King Malcolm II, but Boite could be either Malcolm's own brother or a son of Kenneth III (whom Malcolm had killed to secure the throne for himself in 1005). Either way, this grandson of Boite was clearly posing a threat to Malcolm. Gilla Comgain of Moray had apparently made an alliance with Boite, by marrying his daughter, whose name was Gruoch. After Gilla Comgain's death, Macbeth married Gruoch.*
The 'Annals of Ulster', s.a. 1034, simply state:
"Mael Coluim mac Cinaed, king of Alba, died."
The 'Annals of Tigernach', however, grandiloquently announce:
"Mael Coluim mac Cinaed, king of Alba, glory of the whole west of Europe, died."
Marianus Scotus says that Malcolm, whom he titles "king of Scotia" (an early use of the term Scotia for Alba), died on the 25th of November.* List D maintains that Malcolm:
"... died in Glamis, and was buried in Iona."
Whilst the 'Verse Chronicle' in the 'Chronicle of Montrose' suggests Malcolm met a violent end:
"... in the village of Glamis; he perished under foot, after laying low the enemy."
And a similar impression is given by the 'Prophecy of Berchán' (Stanza 186):
"[He will rule] Until the day he goes to battle in meeting with the kin-slayers; to a swift leap in the morning at the mountain ..."
Malcolm was succeeded by his grandson, Duncan. There are no indications that Duncan's succession was opposed, and it is widely suggested that Malcolm's motive for killing the grandson of Boite was to ensure Duncan's smooth succession.


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That 16 inches contained 2.27 inches of water. That's a water content of 14%. Thick and creamy, but I bet anyone out this morning won't be complaining.
The pattern remains showery and unpredictable for the next few days, but don't wait. The best time to get good turns this late in the spring is when it is snowing.


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Welcome to all the Mountain West He-Fans and She-Ravers. Please introduce yourself and let us know where you are located.
I'm new to .org but have been collecting the classics for about three years. I am currently living in a small town in Central Utah, but will be moving to Wyoming this month.
Starlight.Studio here, and im in Colorado! you being in Wyoming were almost cousins lol
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The Beastess Within: Bel Powley compels but "Wildling" loses its way
Wildling (2018)
92 min., rated R.
"Wildling," the feature debut from director Fritz Böhm (who wrote the script with Florian Eder), begins well as a dark fairy tale and a hairy coming-of-age metaphor for a young woman's transformative sexual awakening. Many other films in the realm of horror have covered this territory before, most recently 2017's bold "Raw," and while Böhm finds atmosphere in some of the visuals and sets up some interesting ideas to give his first film its own distinguished voice, "Wildling" gradually loses interest in its provocative subtext and seems to go on autopilot. "Ginger Snaps," this is decidedly not.
Living in a cell is all introverted teenager Anna (Bel Powley) has ever known. According to Daddy (Brad Dourif), she has had to stay inside since she is one of the last children being sought out by the "wildling," a toothy monster. In reality, the man has arrested her maturity, giving her daily injections and building a fantasy mythology for her to protect her from herself. When her father figure attempts to take his own life and go to "The Better Place" (Heaven, to you), the gunshot is heard. Anna is brought to a hospital, and when Sheriff Ellen Cooper (Liv Tyler) gathers that the young woman is new to the outside world, she takes it upon herself to foster Anna, until a permanent home turns up. Experiencing the real world (and the taste of a juicy hamburger) for the first time, the strange Anna tries to lead a normal life with the help of Ellen and her teenage brother Ray (Collin Kelly-Sordelet), until changes in her body take over.
There is an enticing, visually evocative fairy-tale sensibility throughout "Wildling," particularly in the opening sections where young Anna (played by both Arlo Mertz and Aviva Winick) is in bed with her father spinning his yarn about the nasty "wildling" outside. The film still remains compelling and affecting as Bel Powley (coming off her breakout role in 2015's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl") navigates a different kind of path toward womanhood; if anything, Powley is the reason the film works for as long as it does, her round, soulful blue eyes giving her an ethereal softness to the otherwise feral Anna. Brad Dourif is also genuinely unsettling with that recognizable "Chucky" voice in his scenes as Daddy, and Liv Tyler lends a much-needed source of humanity as Ellen, a woman who uses her skills of protecting people for a living to care for Anna and offer her a maternal figure that she never had.
The payoff of "Wildling" becomes less about Anna discovering who or what she is and more about a standard, visually muddy, darkly lit showdown in the woods and caves. There is also the use of The Wolf Man (James Le Gros), a country bumpkin living off the land in the woods and wearing wolf skins, which could have added an interesting element but only functions as a deux ex machina when he's finally needed. When the film doubles back by resurrecting a thought-dead character and then goes nowhere special or otherwise surprising, it is safe to say that it has lost its way. It's well-made for the most part, and Bel Powley gives it her all, but "Wildling" falls short of its greater potential of exploring female sexuality through the guise of a monster origin story.
Grade: C


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The aim of this chapter is to explore the potential of a video-based methodology for theorising identity. Drawing on the theoretical and analytical framework of conversation analysis (CA) and video-based research on mother-midwife interaction (Lomax, 2005), the chapter will explore the role of the visual in mediating social interaction and in the discursive construction of identity. Drawing on sequences of interaction in which mothers talk with midwives about their recent birth experiences, the chapter will examine how particular normative professional and patient identities are accomplished locally and sequentially through co-ordinated gaze, body movement and speech. Mothers and midwives story-telling activity can be understood as a dance through which each subtly displays, through their talk and visual attention to the other, their acknowledgement of, and shifting affiliations to, institutionally defined and wider cultural understandings of birth and mothering and through which particular maternal and professional identities are 'talked into being' (Heritage, 1984).
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And yesterday Mr. L finished updating the last cover. Will this be for the last time? Who knows. Last week I Googled a title by one of my favorite authors and saw there had been TWELVE covers for that book over the past 30 years. Some were better than others--some downright awful ... but every couple of years they rerelease the book and give it a new look.
And here's the new look for my Jeff Resnick story Bah! Humbug.
Same (partial) picture, different look.
What do you think about this one?