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That was the message delivered by Toronto FC's self-run television channel on Saturday night after the team's ugly, uninspired 5-0 loss to the New York Red Bulls, dashing all hopes for a Major League Soccer playoff berth.
A positive spin — the perfect way to deflect attention from the embarrassment of not showing up to compete in the biggest game in franchise history.
Why should one measly loss get in the way of a feel-good story, which is exactly what TFC has been from Day 1?
Those at TFC will tell you, the club is a work in progress. The playoffs would have been nice and winning is always better.
But TFC is only three years old and the more important overlying message is that the fan experience is an enjoyable one. You get a sense of belonging being a TFC supporter. From making banners, to singing songs and making friends along the way, it's all really cool and a whole lot of fun.
The team does a fantastic job selling the fan experience and there's nothing wrong with that — except for the small fact that, from a competitive, sporting perspective, TFC is far from enjoyable.
All the fun stuff has created apathy with the on-field product. The wins will come, or so you are told. Just keep supporting the team, buying merchandise and renewing your season tickets regardless of price increases, because a winner is right around the corner.
The problem is that, under the regime of Mo Johnston, there is little to suggest anything will change.
Johnston has a firm grip running the soccer side of TFC. All decisions are his, and that means all of the shortcomings fall on him, as well — including the team dysfunction that came to the surface after the final whistle in New Jersey on Saturday night.
A head coach who would rather be elsewhere than in Toronto, players questioning one another, a culture of failure and zero tactical consideration in the composition of the team — all problems that have been there all along.
And what has been done to cure the ills plaguing the team? Shortsighted, band-aid solutions.
And it starts at the top, with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. Johnston's yet-to-be-announced contract extension is just part of the lack of soccer acumen and vision among those making decisions.
Aside from bringing home Canadian players who publicly wanted to play in Toronto, what has Johnston done to make the team better?
The myth that Johnston has a keen eye for young talent can be debated by the fact he overlooked Los Angeles Galaxy standout centre-back Omar Gonzalez in favour of a redundant centre-midfield option in Sam Cronin at last year's SuperDraft. It's no coincidence the Galaxy won the Western Division with a commandeering centre-back while TFC continues to be shelled.
Naming Chris Cummins, with no first-team head-coaching experience, as interim head coach after John Carver abruptly left, was massively shortsighted. Cummins was a knee-jerk, easy and cheap option after the team grinded out a couple of wins with him initially on the sidelines. Now, after three years of no playoffs and three coaches, there is still no team direction. And the calls for New England Revolution head coach Steve Nichol to join Toronto grow louder by the day.
Regardless of Cummins, the continued trial-by-error revolving door of players gave the team little hope for any kind of consistency. No natural wing players, a leaky defence and no proven goal-scorer outside of Dwayne de Rosario doesn't flatter Johnston's resume either.
Forget about the Miracle in Montreal, which was more like a gift from the Impact anyway. It was a miracle TFC was even in playoff contention on the final day of the season.
And through it all, the team is still selling the illusion that TFC is something more grandiose than it really is. Julian de Guzman took the bait, deciding to sign with the Reds. A penny for his thoughts now.
Still, despite letdown after letdown, there are those who support the team unequivocally. They have passion. They're having fun.
But the question going forward is this: How much on-field disappointment will they take before they turn away? The casual fan may be leaning that way already. It's the diehards TFC can ill-afford to lose.
Changes will be made. The status quo isn't good enough. The team will even tell you that. But it will be the same guy calling the shots.
As long as the tickets are sold, merchandise is being bought and the fans are having a good time, all will be good with Toronto's soccer team — at least in its own eyes.
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OMG! yes , dreams do come true to those who wait :) Karl Kerschl drew the Wren! This weekend as a whole has been a great reminder of how nice artists and fans of comic books are and I thank everyone who showed up for making it so, Team work !
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Jung, Pauli and the I Ching
with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and Cruz Manas Sabbadini
July 12 – 16, 2018
The I Ching is a formidable psychological system that endeavours to organize the play of archetypes…
into a certain pattern, so that a reading becomes possible.
(C.G. Jung)
The term "synchronicity" was coined by Jung and refers to those meaningful coincidences in which outer circumstances reflect in surprising ways the inner process of the person involved, sometimes with life transforming implications.
In this seminar we will investigate synchronicity both as an interpretative principle and as a psychological experience through the actual consultation of the oracle. We will use the Eranos I Ching, an innovative translation by the sinologist Rudolf Ritsema and myself, the fruit of fifty years of research by my co-author and a decade of Round Table Sessions at the Eranos East-West study centre, founded under Jung's supervision in 1933.
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle, rooted in a shamanic tradition almost four thousand years old. Its images are a map of the dynamics of archetypal energies in and around us.
The most effective way to come to understand this map and to become familiar with it is by using it as a mirror, opening a dialogue with it about a concrete situation we are presently involved in. We shall read the images the oracle reflects back to us as 'evoked synchronicity', as if if they were a dream offered in connection with the specific question we have asked. This will allow hidden symbolic dimensions of our situation to emerge into consciousness – and this enlarged perspective will help us align our choices with the flow of the "great river", with the movement of Tao, and to act in a more aware and responsible way.
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The text we shall use is The Original I Ching Oracle or the Book of Changes, translated by Rudolf Ritsema and myself (a new edition by Watkins Publishing will come out in May 2018), the result of half a century of I Ching scholarship by Rudolf Ritsema and of a decade of oracular studies at Eranos, an East-West Center founded in 1933 at Ascona, Switzerland, under the auspices of C.G. Jung. This translation is conceived as a tool for psychological enquiry, focusing primarily on the images conveyed by the shamanic texts and allowing an interpretation to emerge from the direct interaction of the consultant with the oracular images.
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini (www.shantena.com) worked as a theoretical physicist at the University of Milan, Italy, and at the University of California. He was involved in research on the foundations of quantum physics and in the first identification of a black hole. In the 1990's and early 2000's he helped organize the Eranos Round Table Sessions and lectured at Eranos about the I Ching, physics and philosophy. He is director of the Pari Center for New Learning (www.paricenter.com). His most recent book, Pilgrimages to Emptiness, has been published by Pari Publishing.
Cruz Manas Sabbadini (www.cruzmanas.com/en/) was born in Cordoba, Spain and, although she has lived in different places, she feels she belongs to the landscape of the Sierra Morena. She has always been interested in the secrets of the human heart, and for this reason she writes poetry. She is a clinical psychologist and a postgraduate in psychological research. She has given clinical and psycho-educational treatment in the penitentiary environment and was a researcher for some years. Now Cruz works as a psychotherapist. Her Jungian therapeutic orientation leads her to bring consciousness to psychic symptoms in order to transcend them and move along an individuation process of autorealization. She is interested in holistic forms of intervention based on a more integral approach than the prevailing biomedical one. She believes in psychology as a tool for social change, since any improvement we may wish for in this world starts with ourselves. Being involved in other projects that work for social, ecological and spiritual change helps her to keep learning by sharing her resources.


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Car keys that are broken off in ignition or even lost is guaranteed to stress the owner particularly if you rush to go to work or if you are in the middle of running errands. Broken car keys pose unique problems for car locksmiths. Even if you have spare keys, it makes no difference as you can't take out the broken part.
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This site got a new face-lift. The basic color scheme is the same, but I decided to use the Blueprint theme as a base. I will be the first to say that I am not very good at design, but I am always open to criticism. I am also am never satisfied with the sate of my site, so it always end up in a state of flux. It's good experience for me, but ends up being inconsistent to the user (which is you), so I am sorry.
Haikus and Portraits
I have failed! It's true. But I am not out of the game yet. I have pretty much kept up with my pictures, but the haikus have fallen behind. Also, finding the time to post them seems to be limited. I know you are disappointed, but I will get them up as soon as possible.
Most of the site images are broken. I will fix them real soon.


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Every time we hear about a new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project—like bioengineering new life forms or enlisting preteens to test advanced military software—it's like being pulled into the pages of a pulpy scifi paperback. The agency's newest project continues this trend: implantable chips that can heal soldiers' bodies and minds.
The goal of the program, dubbed ElectRX, is the development of tiny chips that can be injected into soldiers with a needle to act as pacemakers for the nervous system. By precisely stimulating the right nerve endings with minute electromagnetic signals, the implants will treat painful and chronic inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and mental illnesses, researchers say.
What's more, a joint fact sheet released by the Department of Defense and the Veteran's Association revealed that DARPA scored a cool 78 million dollars to build the chips as part of the US government's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) program.
"Instead of relying only on medication—we envision a closed-loop system that would work in concept like a tiny, intelligent pacemaker," said Doug Weber, DARPA program manager, in a statement. "It would continually assess conditions and provide stimulus patterns tailored to help maintain healthy organ function, helping patients get healthy and stay healthy using their body's own systems."
Although treating physical ailments is first on the agenda for ElectRX, DARPA is looking to eventually expand the treatment possibilities of the chips to mental illnesses like PTSD.
DARPA has been working on chips that can treat mental illness through its Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program for over a year, and ElectRX appears to be building upon the research undertaken so far. SUBNETS, like ElectRX, aims to use electrical impulses to regulate abnormal impulses caused by the disorder in question.
Devices that treat diseases with electrical pulses are already used in clinical settings, but DARPA researchers say they're about the size of a deck of cards. This poses a series of problems. For one, sticking something that large inside of you is bound to smart, and the devices often cause side effects due to their lack of precision. ElectRX aims to solve both of these problems.
The issue of size is somewhat self-explanatory—they're going to make the chips miniscule. The precision element is both tricky and interesting in turn: tricky, because extremely advanced biosensors and electromagnetic devices need to be invented in order to target nerve endings with precision, the researchers say. The interesting part is that when it comes to stimulating nerve endings to treat an individual's ailments, precision also means personalization.
The military has made gains in the field of hyper-personalized medicine and healthcare recently. The Army, for instance, has been looking into being able to bioprint replacement skin tailored to an individual soldiers' needs on the spot. 3D-printed food containing a cocktail of vitamins tailored to specific dietary needs is also in the works.
Even if ElectRX implants are far off—just another entry into DARPA's growing collection of totally bonkers science projects—we could be looking at a future where soldiers are implanted with chips that regulate their chronic diseases, fed with food designed to meet their unique dietary needs, and healed with body parts printed just for them.


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The retail market has been suffering for the last 2+ years. The main stream media has suppressed the financial reasons behind the falling decline of large brick-and-mortar franchise stores. In 2011 it was determined by Judge Gleeson that the major credit card companies in regards to interexchange fees. The courts agreed that Visa, Mastercard and American Express were violating of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 Case 1:05-md-01720-JG-JO Document 1656-1 Filed 10/19/12 Page 6 of 379 Page ID #: 34517 3 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), the Clayton Act from 1914 (15 U.S.C. § 12 et seq.), the California's Cartwright Act (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 16700 et seq.), and the New York Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (N.Y. Debt. & Cred. Law. § 270 et seq.)
"Bank Defendants" means Bank of America, N.A.; BA Merchant Services LLC (formerly known as National Processing, Inc.); Bank of America Corporation; MBNA America Bank, N.A.; Barclays Bank plc; Barclays Bank Delaware; Barclays Financial Corp.; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.; Capital One F.S.B.; Capital One Financial Corporation; Chase Bank USA, N.A.; Chase Manhattan Bank USA, N.A.; Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bank One Corporation; Bank One Delaware, N.A.; Citibank (South Dakota), N.A.; Citibank N.A.; Citigroup Inc.; Citicorp; Fifth Third Bancorp; First National Bank of Omaha; HSBC Finance Corporation; HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; HSBC North America Holdings Inc.; HSBC Holdings plc; HSBC Bank plc; National City Corporation; National City Bank of Kentucky; SunTrust Banks, Inc.; SunTrust Bank; Texas Independent Bancshares, Inc.; Wachovia Bank, N.A.; Wachovia Corporation; Washington Mutual, Inc.; Washington Mutual Bank; Providian National Bank (also known as Washington Mutual Card Services, Inc.); Providian Financial Corporation; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and Wells Fargo & Company.*
The courts appointed counsel; Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Berger & Montague, PC, and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP for this class action lawsuit. The United States Eastern District of New York court on December 13, 2013 by Judge Gleeson determined Defendants were guilty and the largest class action settlement of $7.6 billion dollars was awarded to plaintiffs, yet currently in appeals.
Most of the plaintiffs are franchised retail department stores that joined the lawsuit and then, realized this case was going to cultivate negative effects in their businesses. Before Judge Gleeson's ruling, many retail store plaintiffs jumped ship, but only leaving more settlement awarded money for the remaining plaintiffs. The media sweep these news stories under the carpet. They have been looking for ways to undo this complaint, because most big business retail stores are just as guilty for the same violation as the banks they sued.
This award money has become a major gridlock for the financial system and the tip of the iceberg. There have been many other companies in violation of the same business practices. It has been used as a tool to investigate other monopolies financially.
The media has pretended this court case never happened, yet is just as guilty for rigging the stock market or falsely reporting financials to swindle investors out of money. So, the banks are tumbling and it clearly appears that Central banking is going out of fashion, figuratively and literally.
* UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK IN RE PAYMENT CARD INTERCHANGE FEE AND MERCHANT DISCOUNT ANTITRUST LITIGATION This Document Applies to: All Cases. No. 05-MD-1720 (JG) (JO)


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I spent a good part of the first night trying to identify the sound of danger from the rain beats and waves which gave so many shades of blue and green to the water during the day. Somehow, I could also hear light footsteps on the balcony, and started to imagine how I would react and make enough noise to attract the neighbors.
It was January, 2015, I had just arrived at the Butterfly House for a three-week writing residency in the small town of Dromana in the Mornington Peninsular south of Melbourne. I had reasons to be paranoid about burglary, having heard various cases in and near my apartment complex in Guanghzou. Burglary tends to happen before the Spring Festival, when the offender can use some help for the biggest festival of the year. What is nerve-wracking is that the burglar seems to know the family well, and often manages to get into apartments during the window of time when no one is home, where food and all kinds of gifts lie around ready for the occasion. The more skilled burglar would break into the apartment when the family are fast asleep. One of them had to abandon the operation because the grandpa got up to go to the toilet. When he broke into the apartment for the second time, the writer in him made him leave a note to tell the story of his coming back. In the postscript, he warned the family not to report the case, because he knew the 8-year granddaughter's name and what school she went to, having gone through her backpack …
Cases like that shook me as much as the family in question. I had put myself in the situation a number of times: should I pretend to sleep if I woke up to see a burglar at work? Should I fake a conversation with my husband who happened to be away that day to scare the burglar away? If he finds me awake, should I scream for help or should I surprise him by striking up a conversation and offer him something to go home with? …
Those thoughts came to me again as I busied myself deciding whether I heard footsteps. It was only when I worried myself into a state of full and unhealthy consciousness that I began to rationalize the situation: who would be drawn to burglary on a rainy night in a small town in a house that only had one temporary resident?
The night was uneventful, and I woke up to marvel at the Butterfly House one more time, a masterpiece by architects David Chancellor and Rex Patrick, which features geometric and interlocking horizontal forms, though as a layperson, I saw mostly triangles, serving as walls through which passers-by could see me if they chose to. While the unobstructed view of the sea is something I can't stop looking at every day, the most arresting scene was the garden. I watched in amazement as a group of cockatoos came to visit every morning and afternoon.
"This guy can cost around £650 in the black market," I remember my friend Zou saying, as I admired the cockatoo chained to an iron bar in his front yard. "He flew in from nowhere one day and stayed ever since," Zou tried to look cool but he sounded like he had just won a lottery.
I could not help feeling like a newly-rich, starting the day with so many cockatoos. For the first two days, I walked as close to the birds as they could tolerate, armed with a camera with a big lens. They were aware of the click of the shutter, looking at me and then each other to size up the situation. I backed off into the house, as two cockatoos flew to the biggest eucalyptus near the balcony, landing on the same branch. They rubbed heads against each other, their beaks touching intimately — this would have been an experience in the zoo in China.
As I zoomed in for a series of snapshots from the balcony deck, a window in the opposite house shimmered. I could see a vague figure behind it. Is my neighbor finding it fascinating to see me so taken by something that is a daily presence in Australia?
That would be like when I laughed at John, my American friend when he frantically took out the camera to take a shot of three topless men napping on the same piece of board on a tricycle in an alley in Guangzhou.
"You can't see this in the US," he took a deep breath, as if the shot was ready to go for the Pulitzer prize.
But those guys were just taking a break from half day's hard work, crowding together on a hard board. It was not an uncommon scene in the mid-1980s. Yet John was thinking along the line of homosexuality.
"You know, we have a saying …"
"Like you do for everything else," John repressed a smile.
"You've had too much to eat."
"You have wild thoughts because you don't have to worry about feeding yourself."
That was the first time I became aware of different perspectives.
In the late 1970s when China first opened itself to international visitors, I looked at them outside five star hotels such as White Swan Hotel, China Hotel and Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou, wondering how much money they had to have in order to stay there, and why and how they could ever travel out of their countries.
I used to look at the map of the world in my bedroom, trying to remember where countries are and the names of their capitals, as they could get me some easy points in the National College Entrance Exams. Traveling out of the country was an un-dreamed of concept at the time.
Then one day in February, 2002, I walked out of a five-star hotel in Cairo with my son and husband, my eyes met those of two Egyptians in the opposite side of the street. In a split second, I saw myself outside China Hotel in Guangzhou 30 years ago.
That was soon topped by another trip when a tour guide said, "People think of Iceland as a cold place, but we're very warm people," as I boarded the bus on a glacier trip in 2003.
I remember thinking, as fellow tourists around me laughed, that for me, Iceland had been more impossible than cold. Reykjavik was among a large number of world capitals I had memorized. Its Chinese transliteration made no sense and inspired no association or imagination.
I went to Iceland again within a month, right before I left for home in late September, 2003 from London after one year at Brunel University as a visiting scholar, just to tell myself that Iceland was not so hard to get to, and to go on a day trip from Reykjavik to a small fishing village in the southeastern tip of Greenland, a place that had felt even more impossible than Iceland.
The small airport on the Greenland end served one village whose name I regret never learning. I walked with the dozen or so passengers for 30 minutes to the village that had only 400 something people. We were greeted by semi-hungry dogs chained outdoors — they weren't supposed to be overfed so that they would be fit enough to work in winter.
It felt like home as I laid eyes on the Eskimo children there. I had forgotten that Eskimos look Asian. What felt more like home were that most of the items at the only general store were made in China, and that the village only had old people and children, like many villages in China.
The guide drew our attention to a dead seal tied to a boat, the sea serving as a fridge. We watched a drum dance, a form of entertainment that desperately needed to be kept alive. An old man, who was the only one preserving the art, performed at the edge of the island. The natural stage was set at the tip of a cliff, the ocean being the immediate background, the mass of glacier across the ocean a distant background.
About 5 minutes into the old man's mellow singing and movements, something leaped its way out of water, rainbow style, and disappeared instantly. We, me an 4 other Japanese tourists, gasped in amazement and asked in unison: what was that?
"It's a whale catching its breath. It should come out again within a couple of minutes," the guide explained.
The old man sang and danced on, his voice muffled by his mustache, his feet moving almost without moving to indicate dancing, his palms giving a touch or two to the drum tied to his belly.
"There it is again!" Someone shouted, as the whale shot out of the ocean, and rainbow-dived back in under our intense gaze.
It was like a show within a show. We wowed in repressed excitement, trying to be respectful to the drum dancer.
My mind must have stopped thinking for a while, because it awoke to a grand collapse of one section of the glacier opposite us, as it fell in fast, then slow motion, whitening the sea at its feet.
We stood up in calm panic, in awe of Nature as it did its thing.
We looked at each other, and I was sure that one question we all had in mind was: what's the likelihood of seeing these two things happen one after the other?
I had been a little disappointed by the ordinariness of the village, and wondered whether I would get anything out of it, as it was not as impressive as the fishing villages of the Lofoten archipelago in Norway, and it was poorer and had no tourists other than us. It did not promise the whale and glacier stunts that remained to be the most exclusive moments in my life. The island's only outsiders were a couple in their 30s and their three-year-old kid. They were from Iceland, having been there to collect data for their master's theses in anthropology. They continued living there a life that was close to primitive state.
I wondered, as the only passenger boat took us to the airport, maneuvering around tips of iceberg floating around, why and how the couple had lived there for 5 years, and how much they had seen that my two-hour there did not allow me to see. I wondered, if not for the deprived feeling as a result of the close-door policy in China in the 1960s and 1970s, whether I would have the urge to go to Greenland just for the sake of seeing a remote place that I thought I would never get to. In fact, the urge for seeing the rest of the world has possessed me ever since traveling abroad became possible for Chinese since the mid-1980s.
Over the years, I realized that deprivation does not necessarily mean negative things. It provides the urge and the curiosity to reverse the situation.
I wonder whether it is the same urge and curiosity that drove me all the way from Guangzhou to Dromana just to write, an idea that many of my friends find intriguing, if not incomprehensible. I wondered whether the same urge and curiosity drove me to help others understand China, suggesting itineraries that demand three times of energy for the average person.
I would not be reflecting on all of the above experiences if the Butterfly House had not distanced me from my life, which usually evolves within close reach of people in a city where the population is half of that in Australia.
Which is why I find the Butterfly House a little too transparent with its big glass walls that seemed to put me onto a central stage. The one-bedroom house, with its triangular structure, literally stands tiptoe on an elevated platform. I could see people walking by from the kitchen, and from the sitting room where I wrote. The house was recently donated to RMIT University and they had not got around to putting blinds to it.
The house was so bright inside that my glasses turned dark as the ultra-violet ray found its way in. I had suspected they were faulty when they failed to change color on sunny days in Guangzhou. I made a complaint to the Glass Hut.
"They'll change color in less polluted places" was the response. But now they were outperforming my expectation, and overreacting to an unhelpful point. I could not see a thing on the laptop.
I began trying in all the less bright areas in the sitting room, experimenting with various angles. But the sun was going strong, so were my sunglasses.
I resorted to putting a bath towel across the laptop and my head. That created enough of a shade for the glasses to get back to normal, and I began to write feverishly. Within minutes, the slope of a towel with me on the higher end began to slip downward toward the screen, leading to a quick landslide like when one quickly loses a tug-of-war. I put the towel back on, lowering my head to negotiate a reasonable slope, only to find it was developing into a hammock.
After repeated effort, I found myself laughing hysterically under the now slope and now hammock…
But it was the transparency that I found harder to deal with. It was like I could be watched even if I were home. I looked at other houses. They had glass walls too. It was like having a relationship with nature from home. I could appreciate it because I had seen not only cockatoos, but also magpies, and some other devastatingly beautiful species flying by.
In the meantime, I wondered why I was so uncomfortable in spite of the fact that no passers-by bothered to look up at the house, I was the one looking at them! Shouldn't I have appreciated it more because back in China, we use curtains to create personal space made all the more necessary by the huge population.
I lived in a five-room apartment shared by my family and one other family from 12 to 18 years of age. The time with the Liu's family allowed me to know some of the best homemade Cantonese dishes, and I was among the first of my generation to watch TV, as they let me enjoy the modern device with them, having purchased the first TV set I knew in the neighborhood in 1977. The 12 inch black and white set was sponsored by their overseas relatives and privileged me for the first time in my life, when many of my teenage friends simply could not comprehend what a TV set could do.
We lived with the Li's after the Liu's emigrated to the US in the early 1980s. For the next three years, I was entertained almost every day, by Mrs. Li's yelling at her husband and their two sons. Mr. Li was either not moving fast enough to take food to their sitting room, or the elder son Tiemin was oversleeping again, or the younger son Tiejun's flute-playing was piercing her ears.
In contrast, Mrs. Li was all politeness with us. She had a very sharp nose that wrapped back a bit at the tip, giving her a comic smile as her lips widened, the lower one twice as wide as the upper one, showing teeth that were almost too orderly and too white to be true. She became well-known in the apartment complex as the one who wore a white top that seemed to be her only outfit, which looked more like underwear than T-shirt. She was thin and never wore a bra, making the way she dressed harmlessly revealing. Consequently, she attracted attention from both men and women wherever she went.
I now look back to the apartment-sharing time and think that it enriched my life, in spite of the lack of privacy, in spite of the side effect of failing to appreciate the transparent life in the Butterfly House. It was like you could be a close observer of other people's life without having to ask for permission.
While the transparency of the Butterfly House made me feel that I had a non-existent relationship with anyone passing by, I found myself not having a relationship with anyone for the first three days when I was there, as Wifi had not been set up. It brought to me a sense of void and anxiety, as if I were cut off from the rest of the world. In the meantime, I quickly learned to enjoy the tremendous relief, even freedom, of not having to respond to anyone. Life was back to reading, writing, eating, and exercising.
That, in fact, was what I hoped to have in a residency. One that gave me the time and space to reflect, so that I can see why I am the way I am, and to put my life in a collage that seems wild and logical all at once.


text: Phil_Turner_UK 0 Report post Posted September 30, 2007 Hi Guys, Long time lurker - 1st time poster!! Having been inspired by what you guys are doing (some of the video footage is awsome!) - I decided to have a play with FPV alongside my normal Heli (Primary) and Plane flying activities. As the goal will ultimately be Helicopter platform - I decided on something modular that I could easily swap between an Aircraft platform (for genearlly learning and getting a feel of FPV flying) and Helicopter. These are my initial attempts (have flown both heli (Logo 10) and Twinstar) - the Heli is scary!!. Sorry for stealing some of the published ideas (especially the Cap) and having made a start, there's already a long list of improvements I am thinking about - there's always lots of new ideas posted in the Forums!!. Hopefully will publish more details as the Project develops!! Sorry for the low res pictures - I need to work out how to attach multiple files or something!! Regards Phil T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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You know when you jump in a swimming pool and the water goes up your nose? It irritates your sinuses and your eyes water.
You get a weird headache. You're unable to think clearly because something wrong is happening right on the front of your head.
Having allergies is like that. All day. During the most beautiful times of the year.
Conventional allergy treatment involves suppressing the immune system. This strategy only works for so long.
With Chinese medicine we don't suppress the immune system. We regulate it. Rebalance it.
Why is your immune system over reacting in the first place? There are a few causes, and with a bit of detective work we can solve most allergies*.
Here are a few successful case studies using acupuncture and herbs to treat allergies:
Brent, the 24 year-old whose face exploded during dinner (Cat Allergies)
Kim, the 55 year-old levitating artist (Fall Allergies)
Susie, the executive who had been holding her breath for 52 years (Seasonal Allergies)
*I'm talking here about allergies to pollen, cats, dogs, dander, etc. Here's info on food allergies. And yes sometimes they go hand in hand.


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The Scarlet Thread, by Francine Rivers
This book was pretty good. I like Francine's style of writing, and the way she develops her characters, but in this book, I just didn't like the characters. I have a hard time reading fiction where the main characters make really stupid choices.
Women who allow themselves to be verbally abused make me very angry. It was very hard for me to care about this couple – a pastor and his wife. Her unwillingness to stand up for what she knew to be right frustrated me so badly it was hard for me to continue reading sometimes. I think the only thing that kept me reading some of the time was the fact that I was getting up 2-3 times a night to feed Jack and needed something to do.
Overall, the story was pretty good. It was a long journey, and it ended well, which gives it most of its points, but if you have a ton of books to read, I wouldn't start with this one.


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Friday, February 11, 2011
Just Add ... some Love and a bit of News!
It was an impossible week for me to try and get a challenge done and I hate letting down the team by not having something new to share today. However, LIFE HAPPENS!
So I thought I'd post some different pictures of my little Chocolate Heart Holders that I made in the last round of UStamp with Dawn and Friends, Year End Blow Out as a Guest Designer (The Oh! My Word Edition will go LIVE TODAY as well. Can't wait!)
Here's the link to the original post - Bliss Chocolate Heart Valentine Holders
Here's a couple of other links to some more Valentine's Day Projects -
Mojo Valentine
Heart Topped Box
That will have to do for now. I had a choice to either give my family take away for the third night in a row this week or get a card done for JAI #55. I opted to make Shepherd's Pie! Aside from the fact that after spending 4 to 5 hours on Tuesday with what I thought were a couple of great ideas in my head, they both turned out to be total disasters as my Mojo decided to go on holiday!
However, I know that a bunch of very cute little kids will be keen and eager to walk through the classroom door next Tuesday and will appreciate the fact that my new room will be in a less chaotic state than it was at the beginning of the week!
"So what's NEW?" (or NEWS in this case) Did you wonder about my blog post title?
If you haven't stopped by the Just Add Ink Blog, you should hop on over to see what's happening!
Hopefully, I'll be back with a NEW Just Add Ink Challenge to share with you next week!
Thanks for stopping by,
10 comments:
- Sharnee Torrents said...
I think these boxes are AMAZING and love to see them even if it's not a brand new project!!! Bron I'm sooo excited for you and your new year and I'm pleased you cooked instead of putting the pressure on yourself!! Life does happen indeed!
Hope you are well and get your Mojo back soon!
Love and hugs SHarnee :)
- February 11, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- Sharnee Torrents said...
P.S! WOW mate!! COngrat's on your news!!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!!!! what a awesome thing to do, you're totally the lady for the job, oh bring it on, i'm EXCITED!!!! xxxxx
- February 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM
- Mae's Cachet said...
These are lovely Bron...but I got a sneak peak at what you had been putting together and they weren't disasters at all! I had a great time catching up with you this week...can't wait for Convention!
Looking forward to continuing on with you and Delys and the rest of the DT girls at JAI and the year to come of challenges!
- February 11, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Sandra said...
Congratulations Bronwyn!!!! That is FANTASTIC news! *smile*
- February 11, 2011 at 10:45 AM
- Jodene said...
I just love these little boxes Bron! And don't worry about not doing a specific project this week, there are times when our priorities are elsewhere and that's just life!
I am glad you shared these anyway, because I think they're adorable :) And the chocolate is looking so good to me right now! lol
- February 11, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- Patrice said...
These are just as gorgeous second time around. So glad you chose to cook dinner instead!
- February 11, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- KimB said...
Honestly its like you designed these these choccy holders for the challenge!! Bet the family enjoyed the pie too :)
- February 11, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Danielle Daws said...
I'll never get enough of seeing this project! It's such a stunner! I'm thrilled you and Delys are taking over JAI - can't wait to see what you have in store!
Much love,
- February 12, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- Andrea L - EnchantINK said...
Congrats on the new appointment! Well deserved .... and although we will miss Danielle & Amanda ... I am sure you will fill their shoes well. Hugs xxaxx
- February 17, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- Linda Tarolli said...
What a fun idea. I think I may have to incorporate it into my upcoming Chicks & Chocolate class. I even bought some Hershey's Bliss chocolate hearts! Perfect.
- February 17, 2011 at 10:57 PM


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Jovian Salak looking good!
Erin Richie which company is that? I'm doing some research on the UX of data export at the mo and they sound like a good bad example :)
Aral Balkan heh, that in itself is a good (if diluted) example of how surveillance and record keeping can be used against people
Just got an all-new type of email spam from @twitter — notifications that a tweet I was mentioned in was favourited :/ /cc Tantek Çelik
Problem with PRISM is shitty marketing. NSA should have promoted it as "free cloud backup". Then geeks would be down with it.
LOL Tom Morris (source) #prism #web #privacy #marketing
Just logged in to my site using my phone number, courtesy of Aaron Parecki. #indieauth just got about 50 times better! Incredible work at #indiewebcamp
Aaron Parecki good afternoon! Or, something like that… eternal sunlight is messing my internal clock up ;) Hope you're all having a good time at #indiewebcamp
Battle for the planet of the APIs by Jeremy Keith — nice piece of writing, it's worth pointing out that Twitter still includes rel=me links back to homepages, but is increasingly wrapping them with t.co, making them fairly useless.
Whilst I admire RSS as a rallying cry for the openness of data on the web, I don't like it much, mainly due to it's DRY violation. microformats2 is the better solution.
Aral Balkan surely use of #tease precludes any use of #open? Have a good time in Cyprus :)
@benwerd loving your work on idno! Just had a look at the source, great that you're using #microformats 2, I have some suggestions/corrections:
.h-entry is better off where you've got
.idno-entry so then the author
.h-card can be scoped into the entry
.p-author to the
.h-card for each
.h-entry to explicitly declare authorship
.h-as-* on the same element as
.h-entry .idno-entry
.u-url where you currently have
.dt-published, move
.dt-published to the
time element
Thanks to Aaron Parecki you can see how a page is parsed here, or use my php-mf2 demo sandbox for experimentation by hand.
Erin Richie that is so going on little printer tourist bingo — if it can be expressed in a 60px square, that is /cc @briansuda
Hey @appdotnet @daltoncaldwell, what happened to
rel=me on personal homepage links on app.net? /cc Aaron Parecki Erin Richie #indieweb #indieauth
Jeremy Keith I know Aaron Parecki currently has a script to convert twitter pages into microformats 2 canonical JSON, I think it should be here but he hasn't pushed it yet :)
The way the web will win is if we out-web Facebook
Tom Morris hits the nail on the head.
Crispin Walker congratulations! So, what's next?
Beware debates about implementation that weren't preceded by debate and agreement on the desired outcome.
Particularly relevant to the #indieweb and #fedsocweb
/by rjs
Another #indieweb creator has commented on Laurent Eschenauer's famous thread with a new implementation — congratulations benwerd!
Specced out improvements to #pubsubhubbub after use-case-driven discussion in #indiewebcamp: indiewebcamp.com/pubsub focusing on simplicity, reusability, content-agnosticism. Comments/discussion appreciated on wiki, IRC or your own sites /cc Brett Slatkin
I have not stopped laughing at KimKierkegaard's tweets all morning.
/via Crispin Walker #pseudophilosophy #twitter


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Game Notes
- Release date: August 14, 2007 (Based on the 2007 NFL season.)
- Cover athlete: Vince Young QB Tennessee Titans (GameCube, Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, Windows PC)
- This was the last of the games in the Madden series to include all 6 NFL Europa teams.
Player Notes
- 99 Overall Club: QB Peyton Manning (Colts), RB LaDainian Tomlinson (Chargers), MLB Brian Urlacher (Bears), FS Ed Reed (Ravens), CB Champ Bailey (Broncos)
- QB Trent Green was originally listed on the Kansas City Chiefs roster, but he was traded to the Miami Dolphins shortly before the game released, so he is still listed on the Kansas City Chiefs roster below.
- Kansas City Chiefs QB Trent Green signed with the Miami Dolphins roster in Roster Update #1
- Miami Dolphins QB Daunte Culpepper signed with the Oakland Raiders roster in Roster Update #1.
- Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick was removed from the game in Roster Update #2.
- Cincinnati Bengals sign QB Ryan Fitzpatrick in Roster Update #2.
- Jacksonville Jaguars release QB Byron Leftwich in Roster Update #2.
- Atlanta Falcons sign QB Byron Leftwich in Roster Update #3.
- Carolina Panthers sign QB Matt Moore in Roster Update #4.