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Peng Su, the designer of the highlighted design Award Winning Scholar Pen Rollerball pens explicates, Transforming regular stationery into one that bears historic meaning, while maintaining its user functionality in current times, is the biggest challenge. The Top Scholar Pen Set design took references from ancient Chinese imperial examination practices, scholar culture and moral values. Pen cap resembles the top hat wore by scholars in the past. Pen barrel was designed like the Cim bucket or fortune telling sticks holder. The pens, similar to fortune sticks and written with blessings in calligraphy strokes, represents luck for users to excel in performance during tests..
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We were thinking about what to watch the other night and a discussion broke out about fashion movies, after much debate here are our fave top 5, what do you think, did we miss something?
5. Zoolander
Ben Stiller at his best, a funny take on the model industry packed with jokes, and has quite a lot of quoteability.
"Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?"
4. Breakfast At Tiffany's
Yeah we know, not technically a "fashion" film, but so much that later appeared on the catwalk, in the shops and in our heads came from this movie, its a great story and the dressing is immaculate.
3. Clueless
Vain, vapid, empty consumerism yet based on a Jane Austen (Emma) plot that leaves you happy, we love the way this movie captured a moment and was out their in its styling, lets be honest back in 1995 it was the dawn of the Valley Girl and Cher was there to be a spiritual leader. Funny, charming and makes you love the characters, a great movie
2. Coco Before Chanel
A true fashion movie about the life of the most famous woman in fashion, everyone knows the name Chanel, but very few know Coco, yes it may take a few leaps with accuracy but in general stays true to real life, the script and filming really bring the Doyenne to life. It covers Coco from her poor background as a dancer/singer in a duo to her first collections via all the lovers, affairs and world events that she spun through.
1. The September Issue
A documentary about Vogue & Anna Wintour producing the biggest issue ever for the biggest month of the year, everyone in fashion slides across the screen at some point, theres footage of all aspects of the process from shoots to layout and some great interviews with the amazing Wintour, if you want to know how the fashion magazine industry works this is the best thing you'll ever see. In fact FW wants to organise a screening as an event.
So there we go, thats our thoughts, what are yours, what do you think the best fashion movies are? Maybe we'll do TV shows next.

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If it isn't one thing, it's another. Teens and cats. The Boy started high school, and decided it isn't to his liking. That's been a drama. I thought The Girl was the drama princess around here, but it's apparently a trait she opted to share with her little brother. Just peachy. The good news was that at least his little black cat was doing her job in keeping him relatively calm.
That ended. Darth Jingles got in a cat fight and lost. We didn't notice when she came home the other night. She waltzed through the door like she owned the place, which in her mind is probably accurate, and proceeded to chow down on her dry cat food. For whatever reason, Jingles prefers dry. The Girl pointed out the next morning that half her face was swollen. Poor misshapen kitty. Although she didn't act like she was in pain, as long as you didn't try to touch it. Huh.
Over the course of the day, the swelling seemed to go down a bit, she acted fine. Then she scratched it, and made a big mess of herself. I won't describe it here, but it ruined my appetite. Taking her to the vet was a no-brainer. Now she has a cone around her head, much like Princess did a few months ago. The vet bill was enough to make Hubby wonder if she was really worth it, briefly, but she's The Boy's comfort animal and he needs her right now. Plus she's been a good cat. And grumble as he might, he's not really that heartless.
So I sat there for hours last night being the cat's comfort animal. I'm serious. She came home high as pair of mating swallows and nearly as oblivious. I'm a lot less bony than either kid, so she just lay in my arms, and stared at her boy as if he was the most wonderful thing ever. The Boy took it well. We put on a show so he'd sit still and let his cat stare at him.
Then we discovered she was too out of it to figure out how to eat or drink. So I fed her one kibble at a time (patience…) and gave her drinks with a dropper. That was fun.
When Princess had a cone on her head, Jingles couldn't avoid her enough. The reverse is not true. Princess is fascinated by this turn of events and Jingles is not amused. Hiss hiss swat miss. So Jingles is confined to my room/bathroom with the new litter box in the shower (yay!) to keep her 1) away from Princess who's really become a pest in the last 12 hours and 2) from hurting herself because she's a drug lightweight and cannot figure out how this cone thing works. Seriously, Princess adapted quicker and she's (putting it politely) dim. I have hope that Jingles will come up to speed soon because the prospect of feeding this cat kibble one at a time and giving her drinks with a dropper regularly over the next week or more is really unappealing.
And she's restless at night and in my bathroom. For the first time in I don't know how long, Hubby went to bed at a decent hour and actually fell asleep. Therefore I didn't. Because the bathroom wasn't as cat-proofed as I thought. Oh, sure I put away everything breakable, just not everything knock-down-able. Well, it's mostly taken care of now. Of course now I have a mix of spilled shampoo and body wash in my garden tub and kitty prints tracking it all over the bath mats and counter…


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In other words: How and where can the information the person needs be presented so that it can be understood, is easy to find and can be used in practice? This also applies in the daily work of automation engineering, and especially in the process industry, whether in the operation of the plant or in servicing and maintenance work. Can solutions from the field of mixed reality simplify users' work in the future?
Since many people are not necessarily wholly familiar with the terms virtual, augmented and mixed reality, here are a few definitions. Virtual reality is understood as the complete simulation of a virtual reality. Augmented reality, on the other hand, extends physical reality by adding virtual aspects. Finally the term "mixed reality" is used at present to describe all media that lie between the poles of physical and virtual reality; thus it is used as a general or umbrella term (Fig. 1). The mixed reality spectrum is thus delimited on one side by physical and on the other by virtual reality.
Typical application cases
Before discussing whether it is already technically possible to use mixed reality in the process industry today – and if so, how – the question arises of what the potential applications might be. Are there applications which might benefit from a man-machine interface of this kind, either now or in the near future? The answer is – yes. There is a great potential in plant maintenance. In the extensive plants of the process industry, it can prove difficult to even find the components that need to be maintained. In this situation it could be envisaged that a mixed reality solution would, so to speak, "navigate" an employee through the plant. Directly on the spot it could then display the information on the components requiring maintenance, and provide access to the necessary documents. And while all this was going on, the technician would have both hands free to concentrate on his actual task.
There is also a potentially useful application at the control level. Instead of displaying the information about the distributed control system on big screens at a central point, it could be displayed on head-mounted devices (HMDs). Thanks to the associated freedom of mobility it would then be possible to compare the apparent status of the plant with the measured values from individual devices on site.
Another potential area of application is repetitive processes – monotonous but important tasks. Here, too, there is a use for mixed reality solutions. When performing such activities, people tend to tire and make mistakes more easily. Appropriate mixed reality concepts could help employees to work more efficiently, carrying out the unvarying processes in an automated form and documenting all the steps. There are certainly many other potential areas of application for mixed reality solutions apart from the examples mentioned here; thus it is definitely justifiable to examine the question of technical feasibility.
Where will the future take us?
Rösberg Engineering GmbH from Karlsruhe, Baden has taken up this challenge. The enterprise has specialised in the process industry and offers software solutions that support plant engineers and operators in their work throughout the life cycle of the plant. The company from Karlsruhe also provides services in the modernisation and building of process plants. Of course, as automation experts they always focus on the question of what trends will influence the sector in the future, and address the aspect of how far these can realistically be implemented. For this reason the company entrusted Stefan Stegmüller, a student from the Information Technology dual study course, with the task of investigating the present state of technology in this area for his bachelor thesis. He also examined the practical use of a mixed reality solution by designing an experiment that reproduced a real situation in a plant, with the aim of assessing the time and resources necessary to realise the solution, and identifying potential difficulties.
Mixed reality: A use case
The use case chosen for the research project was based on the Plant Assist Manager (PAM) developed by the automation experts (Fig. 2). This software supports users in performing and documenting workflows such as the filling of tank trucks. The workflows are optimised, automatically documented and then displayed, for instance, on mobile devices. With the help of a special checklist the user is guided through the work processes and thus has all relevant information available at a glance. For this application, an HMD would be ideal as the man-machine interface. The bachelor thesis focused on testing the feasibility and usefulness of this approach.
To do this, Stegmüller worked with an experimental construction that was a scaled-down version of a real tank filling plant. When filling tanks with chemicals, it is essential to avoid all mistakes, as they may be dangerous. Here support is provided by the relevant checklists. The aim was to navigate the user through the filling process using the Microsoft HoloLens.
Practical benefits and challenges
The advantages of this solution are obvious: employees no longer have to switch to and fro between the task to be performed and the tablet with the required instructions; they have all the information directly "in view" while working. They can confirm completed actions by voice or gesture command and have both hands free to work with. Moreover, operating in this way is much more intuitive if the necessary work instructions are directly linked to the relevant plant component, or the valve to be opened.
Major challenges were posed by the choice of the right tracking method, i.e. the question of how best to anchor the virtual content in the real environment. This is essential in order for the displayed information to be shown at the right point. Basically the following methods are available: magnetic or infra-red tracking; tracking with visible light; or a system using inertia (Inertial Measurement Unit, IMU for short). In tracking with visible light, a differentiation is additionally made between tracking with natural features, referenced tracking or model-based tracking. Stegmüller reports: "In the case I am concerned with, I mainly considered the possibilities of tracking with natural features, meaning prominent features of perceived natural images, and tracking with reference marks such as QR codes, for instance. The final choice fell at first on QR codes and this was subsequently modified to markings in the form of images with triangles of random size, sequence and rotation. This variant proved to be advantageous as these perceived images can be uniquely identified by the algorithm used. When using QR codes as anchor points for virtual content, mistaken identities can occur during evaluation, due to their basic structural similarity."
Seamless interaction
Another big challenge in implementing the system was the interplay between individual components such as PLC, databases, software and the HoloLens: what components are compatible, and where do interfaces still need to be developed? The concepts initially developed for the system had to be re-thought and adapted several times. During the research project it became clear that the use of a mixed reality solution in industrial practice is definitely realistic. Of course, the input in terms of resources has to be weighed against the benefits in each case. Stegmüller sums up: "In the next few years a lot will be happening in this field, and I can certainly envisage mixed reality headsets like the HoloLens opening up practical applications in the process industry in the foreseeable future. Practical tests have shown that this man-machine interface and tools such as the Plant Assist Manager ideally complement one other. We look forward to the first applications in industrial practice."
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Released to the public two weeks ago, the New York Times's Chronicle graphing tool has been at use within the paper since it was developed in 2012 by the company's "Labs" research-and-development department. But the first such program graphing the use of language in the Times archive was developed in 2008 by the California-based artist Tim Schwartz, Hyperallergic has learned. Schwartz, then an MFA student at the University of California, San Diego, created the tool using publicly accessible data from the digitized New York Times archive. The artist's precedent work, presented at a Times conference and acknowledged in emails with Times staff in 2009 reviewed by Hyperallergic, is unmentioned in the public version of Chronicle, raising questions about the practice of attribution in non-journalistic settings at the newspaper.
The programmer-artist corresponded with several Times staffers regarding the work in 2009, demonstrating the software and a related sculptural installation at the Times Open conference in February 2009. Attended by 140 people both internal and external to the company, the event was covered by Harvard's Nieman lab blog, where a video of Schwartz presenting his graphing program led the post and earned a mention in the writeup.
Upon seeing his work unacknowledged in the public version of Chronicle, Schwartz sent an email to a senior developer at the Times on July 28 that allegedly brought the following reply: "I had forgotten about your earlier work in this area … to me it's entirely possible that nobody currently in R&D was aware of your prior work." Schwartz also emailed Chronicle's creator, Alexis Lloyd, but received no response.
Queried about the similarities between Schwartz's work as demonstrated to the Times in 2009 and the present iteration of Chronicle, Abbe Serphos, executive director of corporate communication at the New York Times, wrote in an email to Hyperallergic: "Ms. Lloyd is not familiar with the work Mr. Schwartz mentioned in his email. Beyond that we are not planning to comment."
Schwartz finds the explanation unconvincing. "It's really disappointing that such a large media organization that holds itself to high standards of journalistic integrity doesn't do their research and forgets about attribution in their R&D lab … it seems ridiculous to me that an institution this large can have such a short institutional memory," he said in a telephone interview.
The artist says he does not believe that the work is plagiarized, and only asks to receive written acknowledgment on the Chronicle website for his prior work. Indeed, slight discrepancies in how different terms are graphed suggests possible variations in methodology, among other structural differences. (For example, in Schwartz's version, which is still live on his website, a maximum of five terms can be selected from existing menus, while Chronicle allows free input.) And Schwartz and the Times are certainly not alone in their interest in lexical graphing — most notably, Google released its Books NGram Viewer in 2010.
Michael Connor, editor and curator of digital arts organization Rhizome, noted that in such scenarios, ethics are not the only consideration that could be driving hesitant attribution practices. "If the Times was aware of this project and made the conscious decision not to reach out to him and attribute to him one could understand that as being motivated by our overly onerous intellectual property regime, but it's still very bad manners," he told Hyperallergic over the phone.


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Amanda at Fiercely Fresh Fingertips had this cute purple candy cane manicure while back and I really liked the colors. I thought it was a fun mani as the desing was quite traditional but the colors wasn't. Anyways, I wanted to something like that too, so here's my purple candy cane mani.
As you can see it's not nearly as cute as Amanda's.. Well, I wasn't trying to do a replica, I just wanted to use the same color. Though my purple is darker.. I used China Glaze Frosty for the base white color and then this purple glitter nail art polish and Royal cosmetic connections number 92 for the stripes. I should have made stripes that aren't as even, but oh well, I think you still get the idea from this.. I hope.. :) I really need to practice more of that free hand painting though..


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An open space enables an architecture of attention. Individual objects all have their own identity but they come together to produce a new powerful whole. Organizations should experiment with the synthesis of the experiences of a single, seamlessly unified entity to identify triggers that guard the human choices for automnomy, privacy and identity.
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Wandering through the forest you wonder about why those tall friends – who have been there for ages – need to be brutally sliced from their feet. It is reassuring to think that they will be re-used as furniture or art. Actually most wood ends up in flames. A very green area in Germany (the romantic valley Lauthentahl: […]
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Exaggeration adds drama and drama garners attention. The entertainment industry is well familiar with this trick to heap up tension and emotions. Also the drama-queens of popular culture in reality TV & You Tube know how to have Andy Warhol's fifteen-minutes of fame by enlarging their life-events. Lately a lot of this 'bigger-than-life effect' is also […]
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While reunion-ing in Montecito, Scott and I stole away to Summerland for a bit
to wander the antique shops (this reminded me of why I fake my antiques).
A quick stroll around the sleepy shopping area brought us to Bo-tan-ik,
an inspiring little garden boutique.
I love the casual garden style they have on display.
~ lots of terra cotta pots, boxwood topiaries, wicker, and succulents ~
These woven willow obelisks were a fun discovery since I picked up two of them at my local Goodwill for about $4 each a few years ago. (You can see them here.) These ones were priced around $35 each.
I also spotted some golf ball kohuhu.
I've been hunting it lately. (More on that later.)
It looks a little like boxwood, but seems less woody.
The stems are very dark and contrast with the rounded evergreen leaves.
The succulent arrangements were beautiful.
I love the variety of texture and shape while keeping the color palette simple.
I guess I'm liking that indoors and out lately.
The garden vibe continued inside the shop with potted orchids,
lots of natural wood, and bold fabrics.
Love that vanishing threshold ~ bringing the outdoors in and the indoors out ~ thing.
Love living in Southern California where this style is not only beautiful, but practical too.
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DRIVING a Jeep full of his belongings and scripts, William Van Duzer Lawrence IV arrived in Los Angeles nine years ago, determined to become a television comedy writer. People did not immediately recognize his talent, but they did notice his persistence.
He repeatedly sent his work to Howard West, an executive producer of ''Seinfeld.'' Mr. West remembers Mr. Lawrence as one of the most charming pests he'd ever met. ''He always looked like he stepped out of the shower, bright and perky,'' he said. ''He'd come into the office bouncing like a St. Bernard.''
Mr. Lawrence eventually found work as a staff writer for the first season of ''Friends'' on NBC, and four years ago he moved to New York as a co-creator of ''Spin City'' on ABC.
In May 1998, Mr. Lawrence met the actress Christa Miller at an ABC party in the Mercer Hotel in SoHo. Ms. Miller, who grew up in New York City and now plays Kate on ''The Drew Carey Show,'' does not come across as a prima donna. She usually dresses in jeans and basketball sneakers and has incredible aim with everything from snowballs to footballs.
''She's the only woman I've ever known who can hit the receiver running with a perfect 40-yard spiral in a family football game,'' said Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Sports and an uncle of the bride. ''She's just an incredibly gorgeous tomboy.''
Cynthia Rowley, the dress designer and a friend, added, ''She's the perfect mix of a totally fun, adventurous tomboy and a real, sparkling girly-girl.''
Mr. Lawrence, who grew up in Ridgefield, Conn., and is a great-great-grandson of Sarah and William Van Duzer Lawrence, whose home became Sarah Lawrence College, followed Ms. Miller around the party, showering her with one-liners. ''For me and my circle of friends,'' he recalled, ''the big question is, Will she get my jokes? Christa did. Then I found out she was seeing somebody. I thought, 'Oh, it's me being tortured again.' ''
That night, he made her promise she would call him if she ever broke up with her boyfriend. They did break up, and the following December, she was visiting New York and sitting alone in a SoHo cafe, turning her cell phone on and off, like someone plucking petals from a daisy. ''I was thinking, 'Should I call him, should I not call him?' '' she remembered. ''Finally, I called and left a message, and when I didn't hear back from him, I thought, 'Oh, it's too late.' ''
In fact, he was in Puerto Rico with a big group of friends. When he returned, he got her message, called immediately, and said, '' 'You better be single.' ''
A bicoastal romance ensued, and in March Mr. Lawrence left ''Spin City'' for Los Angeles, where he is now developing new sitcoms for ABC. The couple live in the Hollywood Hills and spend their weekends battling each other at various outdoor sports.
''We're ridiculously competitive about everything,'' he said. ''It stretches from tennis to who makes the best chocolate chip cookies. It makes menial tasks fun when you can argue about who washes the dishes better.''
On Nov. 27, they were married in New York in the chapel at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, where Ms. Miller went to school. In some ways, it resembled a Hollywood wedding. Guests had to check their cameras at the door since there were celebrities inside, including the casts of ''Drew Carey'' and ''Spin City.'' ''It was the best table-hopping party I've ever been to,'' said Danny Rose, who works with the bridegroom. ''Everyone was just so raving about it.''
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The fundamental issue isn't whether colleges should reopen in August, writes Lamar Alexander, but how institutions can do it safely.
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Jim Jacobs and Maria Cormier describe three important factors that could impact community college efforts to make workforce training relevant as the economy recovers from COVID-19.
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Such institutions should be thinking more about how to authentically market what they offer and to deliver on what they already do best, writes Helene Meyers.
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Such institutions should be thinking more about how to authentically market what they offer and to deliver on what they already do best, writes Helene Meyers.
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As the coronavirus has sent many universities into budget crises, Benjamin Bernard asks whether or not endowments should become welcome shelters from the storm.
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As some campuses plan for students' physical return this fall, Norman Clark imagines how a student might navigate a day in class. It isn't pretty.
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Colleges need to communicate culture to articulate who they are, what they offer and why it matters, write David Rosowsky and Kimberly Hallman, and that need has ballooned in the global pandemic.
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Brussels, Monday 20 October - Business lobby groups, MEPs and Commission officials are all under scrutiny in the shortlist for this year's Worst EU Lobbying Awards, published today (Monday 20th October).
Members of the public are now invited to vote for the most deceptive lobbying and the most biased decision-makers at www.worstlobby.eu to select the Worst EU Lobby of 2008 and the Worst Conflict of Interest 2008.
Five candidates in each category have been short-listed for the awards, following online nominations made earlier this year.
In the category for the Worst EU Lobbying Award [1], the five candidates are:
- The agrofuels lobby (including MPOC, Unica and Abengoa) - nominated for their misleading campaigns to promote agrofuels as green
- The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) nominated for hiding the involvement of big pharma corporations in their campaigns
- The European Business and Parliament Scheme - nominated for abusing their location and lobbying from inside Parliament offices
- Brussels-based lobbying and PR agencies Gplus and Aspect Consulting are nominated for supporting the spread of war propaganda in the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia.
- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) - nominated for its deceptive lobbying campaign to avoid CO2 reduction obligations for aviation.
In the category for the Worst Conflict of Interest [2], the five candidates are:
- Dr Caroline Jackson MEP - nominated for her twin roles as an elected representative dealing with environmental issues and as an appointed environmental advisor to a private waste management company, Shanks.
- Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP - nominated for abusing her role as an MEP by promoting the interests of her future employer, a big banking lobby group
- Klaus-Heiner Lehne MEP - nominated for his dual role as an MEP and lawyer for EU competition and regulatory issues, and for using his position as an MEP to allow lawyers to lobby in the dark.
Ex-European Commission officials Petite, Klotz and Kjølbye - nominated for going through the revolving door to law firms lobbying for industry clients
- DG Trade Director Fritz-Harald Wenig - nominated for revealing inside information on trade tariffs to "lobbyists" who were in fact journalists working under cover.
Full details of the nominations are available at
The Worst EU Lobbying Awards put the spotlight on the behind the scenes' activities of lobbyists which influence European decision making. They highlight some of the controversial lobbying practices being practised by some of the thousands of corporate lobbyists roaming the corridors of power inside the EU.
The Worst Conflict of Interest award was introduced this year to highlight the need for European Institutions to clean up their own activities - there have been a number of cases of conflict of interest in recent years, but little action has been taken to prevent such cases from occurring. The nominations show the need for stronger ethics rules for the European Parliament and the European Commission.
The awards also take place against the backdrop of the European Commission's failed attempt to make lobbyists' activities more transparent with the launch of a voluntary online register. More than three months after the register was launched, 430 lobbying bodies have registered - a tiny proportion of the total number of lobbying organisations operating in Brussels [3].
The register has failed to shed the necessary light on lobby campaigns or lobby firms - as demonstrated by some of the nominations for this year's awards.
Voting for the Worst EU Lobbying Awards closes on Sunday 30th November and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony in Brussels on Tuesday 9th December, with the results also published online.
The Worst EU Lobbying Awards is organised by Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, LobbyControl and Spinwatch.
[1] The award for Worst EU Lobbying goes to the lobbying campaign which is voted to have relied on deception, misleading information, inappropriate favours or other improper lobbying tactics to influence decision making within the EU.
[2] The award for Worst Conflict of Interest goes to the MEP, European Commissioner or other member of EU staff whose background, other jobs or liaisons with special interest lobbyists raise the most serious concerns among voters about their ability to act impartially and in the public interest.
[3] See https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/transparency/regrin/welcome.do
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/transparency/regrin/ri/registering.do#countries and http://blog.brusselssunshine.eu/


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A Concord District Court jury today found Attorney Chris Spring's client not guilty of operating under the influence of alcohol, despite her registering a .11 on the Breathalyzer.
The defendant was driving from a party in Concord to a party in Maynard in the middle of a February night when she slid into a snowbank. Her car was stuck and a Maynard police officer showed up. He had a conversation with the defendant and smelled alcohol on her breath. The defendant conceded she had been drinking, and the officer asked her to perform a series of field sobriety tests in a nearby parking lot. The defendant consented to perform the tests and according to the police officer, she was unable to maintain her balance as she attempted to walk in a straight line and hold her foot six inches about the ground. She was arrested and transported back to the police station, where she was booked and offered the Breathalyzer test. She blew a .11, which is considerably higher than the .08 statutory limit.
At trial, Attorney Spring's strategy was to offer an explanation for his client's supposedly sub-par performance on the field sobriety tests and suggest the Breathalyzer machine did not produce an accurate reading. Attorney Spring traveled to the scene of the defendant's arrest within days and took pictures of the surroundings, which was important to establish the road was covered with snow (which could have led to the defendant's accident) and the parking lot where the field sobriety tests were administered was in lousy condition (the lot was hilly and covered with defects in the pavement). The officer admitted it was extremely cold outside and the defendant was not properly dressed. When cross-examined by Attorney Spring, the officer was unable to remember precisely how the defendant had allegedly failed the field sobriety tests. His trial testimony was also partially inconsistent with his police report, which Attorney Spring brought to the jury's attention.
Even if the jury was not convinced the defendant failed the field sobriety tests, she still blew a .11 on the Breathalyzer. The prosecutor called the Breathalyzer operator to testify about his administration of the test. During his cross-examination, the Breathalyzer operator admitted to Attorney Spring that he could not remember if he observed the defendant for 15 minutes prior to the test (which is a requirement under Massachusetts law). The Breathalyzer operator also conceded he has no idea how the machine works and was unable to explain the science behind the machine to the jury. He admitted the Breathalyzer machine has a built-in margin of error and he didn't know whether the introduction of a foreign substance, such as medication from an asthma inhaler, could taint the test result. The defendant testified that immediately before driving, she had taken two puffs of her inhaler. While she had been drinking before getting behind the wheel, she did not feel drunk or buzzed.
The jury deliberated for about two hours before finding the defendant not guilty of operating under the influence of alcohol. Many OUI cases, even those involving Breathalyzer failures, are winnable at trial. If you have been charged with OUI, you should immediately call an experienced criminal defense attorney.


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I can't wait to take this all the way down to the Mississippi River when done!!!
great easy ride ... nice varying views .woods, commerce, old remnants ... nice it's all paved.nice it has a spot to cross heavy traffic...
What an awesome experience on the Delta Heritage Trail !! This was our first "Rails to Trails" experience ever. The state park folks were oh so helpful and informative!! Riding the trail, the same as the 'Delta Eagle" did as a passenger train in years gone by and looking down at the trail and seeing bits of the old railroad timbers was great ! We had a late start and just managed a little over 12 miles ' but we'll be back !! Loved it and looking forward to exploring more Rails to Trails !!
Pleasant and interesting ride near the river. Most of the trail is shaded. There are restrooms and water near the main trailhead about the center of the trail. It is easy to get confused where you are as there are a number of loops. I rode all the trails and loops in this section and totaled 12 miles.
There is a connector to Shelby Park where you can ride around a lake on s separate bike trail and adds about 5 miles to the ride.
Trail pavement is in excellent condition except for a few tree roots. The half of the trail close to downtown is densely shaded, and gets dark early in the evening. No water or toilets unless you detour into Shelby Park.
No guide is needed as the trail is an old rail line and you can't get lost.
In brief, the trail quality and quantity are absolutely fabulous! However, the lack of directional signs is totally disgusting. Therefore I would give the trail quality five stars and one star for the lack of directional signs. If a person could navigate, they would have the time of their lives-bicycling That is!
me and my husband walked this trail about 2 weeks ago and i can honestly say you will take a walk down history lane iv recently over the last couple years have really gottin into learning the history of our past im memorized with it and i love it and to walk down that what once was the union railroad where a battle fought and later burned is just speachless...
its beautifull duriing the fall trees turning, leaves fallin, sun shineing wind whistlein, ............... just peacefull
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It's a shame more people do not use this trail. It is very well maintained and very shaded for most of the trip. My brother and I live 3 hours away and do this trail at least 3 times a year. For a Sunday family outing there is a picnic area with grills at the state park at mile mark 2, and then 4 generations from babies in strollers to great-great grandparents can walk or bike parts of the trail. Two negatives though. crushed stone and except at mile marker 2, there are no restrooms, no food, no water along the trail, only benches for breaks; hence the 4 rating.
Started at Tillman around 8 and did the entire trail out and back. Amazing scenery and wonderful smells. Flowers in full bloom and the birds singing. Flat and easy, don't miss the trail if your in the area.
My wife and I bike this trail occasionally and love it. Great trailhead with a very nice visitors center on hwy 49. It starts off with a few miles of tree shaded trail that turns into wide open farm field viewing. It's a small gravel trail that is very flat. Bring plenty of water! We highly recommend it. When it is completed, it will be one of the most beautiful trails in the country as it will go through the "last frontier" white river refuge. Can't wait!
John and Kelly
We did an out and back on this trail south from the state park to about mile 15, where it emerges from the trees and continues through farm fields along a road.
The trail is well-maintained and there is some interesting historical info. along the way. The trail is tucked into a tree lined strip between fields, so there is really nothing like the hardwood forest that the literature suggests, although the ride is pleasant enough.
Watch out for dogs that were loose from a nearby house between mile markers 8 and 9.
It seems the remaining 64 miles, if ever completed, may be the best part of the trail, since some of it would pass through a national wildlife refuge.
The people at the state park were very friendly, even offering to come rescue us if we had a flat!
Very much worth the short stop! We parked & unloaded at the trailhead on Channel 3 Drive by WREG where there was plenty of secure/safe parking. We rode across the bridge while stopping at the lookouts for pics of the MS River, tow boats, Memphis and the 100-year-old bridge. You will end up at a nice landing area on the AR side. Upon returning and reloading the bikes, we headed to Harbor Town/Mud Island to go exploring. We parked at the Middle Lot (the North Lot was a bit sketchy) & picnicked on the lawn watching the river. We got back on our bikes and rode the Mississippi River Greenbelt (the path parallel to Island Dr.) south to the entrance of Mud Island and back north to the new Downtown Wolf River Greenway at the confluence of the Wolf & MS Rivers. The new greenway takes you to the top the levee on one side and through "bottom land" on the opposite in an approx. 1-mile loop. Getting off the greenways, we spent the next couple of hours leisurely biking through the micro-neighborhoods of Harbor Town enjoying the residential architecture, friendly folks and views of the Wolf River Harbor and Pyramid. We truly enjoyed this relaxing spring ride over & on the banks of the MS River in Memphis.
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It's been said that experience is a form of exploration. I've been exploring how we think and what makes us tick since what I humorously call my first success book, Be Here Now, which goes way back.
Overtime, my literary list grew to the likes of Carl Jung,William James, Fritz Perls, Alfred Alder, and Howard Gardner to name just a few. I was slowly but methodically becoming an arm-chair psychologist without realizing it.
Meanwhile I was entertaining a life in the Arts (not for the faint of heart). That journey held my attention for decades, but I finally started to look into the "business" aspect of life a lot more seriously, as I watched the "business" of music turn into something that looked as if it was written for The Simpsons.
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American Renaissance & American Romanticism
Guide to The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851, author of "The Leatherstocking Tales"
Cooper was the first American writer to make a career as a professional novelist, and his "Leatherstocking Tales" were the first American books to become international bestsellers.
Cooper is a definitive American "Romantic" writer. His novels resemble those of the British Romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott (e. g., Ivanhoe), and Cooper spent a good deal of his life in Europe, where his novels were well-received.
Cooper grew up and lived much of his life in Cooperstown, New York, named for his father who founded the city and now famous as home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"The Leatherstocking Tales" are a series of five novels that are connected by two fictional characters:
"The Leatherstocking"
|Prototype of heroic cowboy or scout in
western novels and movies. Resourcefulness and gimmicks prefigure
Batman, etc.
Lawrence: "a saint with a gun"--cf. Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Kevin Costner
--archetypal American hero combining: violence & innocence or honor
(cowboys as American knights)
|Prototype of the American Indian as
"Noble Savage": silent, inscrutable, honest, deadly, poetic in
Later examples: Indians in Dances with Wolves; "Go in peace, my son!"
"The Leatherstocking Tales" in order of composition
The Pioneers (1823)
(set in the 1770-80s: Natty & Chingachgook are aging squatters near the new fictional town of Templeton, modeled after Cooperstown)
The Last of the Mohicans
(set during the French and Indian War of 1757-. Natty and Chingachgook are in the prime of middle age. The title character--"the last of the Mohicans"--is Chingachgook's son Uncas.)
The Prairie (1827)
(Setting is the western prairies of the early 1800s at the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Chingachgook is dead, and Natty is a very old man who dies at the novel's end.)
The Pathfinder (1840)
(Setting 1740s; Natty Bumppo as "pathfinder" in his 20s; military action and courtship in years prior to Last of the Mohicans)
The Deerslayer (1841)
(Set near Cooperstown / Lake Otsego ["Glimmerglass"] in the 1730s. Natty and Chingachgook are young men at age of first courtship and first battles. A teenage Uncas makes a brief appearance in an epilogue to the novel.)
Guide to Last of the Mohicans
Reading Last of the Mohicans relates first to Objective 1 (LITR 4232). It appears early in the American Renaissance, and it features aspects of "classic literature," of "popular literature," and to a surprising degree of "representative literature." However, our discussions will mostly center on objectives 2 and 3.
· Objective 2. To study the contemporaneous movement of "Romanticism," the narrative genre of "romance," and the related styles of the "gothic" and "the sublime."
· Objective 3. To use literature as a basis for discussing representative problems and subjects of American culture (new historicism), such as equality; race, gender, class; . . . emergence of the individual; . . . nature or land . . . .
Note on reading: The Last of the Mohicans is not only a "classic" but the United States's first international bestseller of a novel--a popular book that average educated people can read. Don't disgrace your mind by resorting to Cliff's Notes or other consumer-trash that "dumb down" everything. Many students have trouble getting started, but when they get the hang of Cooper's prose they stretch their reading abilities. Cooper writes great action while dealing with major intellectual and social issues we're still working out.
Names. Cooper writes in his preface
to Mohicans, "The greatest
difficulty with which the student of Indian history has to contend, is the
utter confusion that pervades the names."
Correspondingly, the greatest difficulty for a first-time reader of
this text is how many ways Cooper can
refer to a single character. Here
are some different names that can apply to a single character--but don't be
surprised if some are left out.
Leatherstocking, Long Rifle, La Longue Carabine, Natty Bumppo, the scout
the Great Snake, Le Gros Serpent
The Bounding Elk, Le Cerf Agile
Munro, the dark one
Munro, the fair one
the Cunning Fox, Le Renard Subtil
Gamut, the psalmist, identified by his pitch-pipe;
associated with the Biblical David, esp. when he trades his musical instrument
for weapons like rocks. Compare to Ichabod Crane.
Tamenund, a historical Indian leader (a Delaware?), after whom "Tammany Hall" in New York politics was named.
Mohicans = Mohegans, New England Indians who broke away from the Pequot people in the 1600s and partly befriended the English Pilgrims. Later they dispersed and made alliances with other tribes or nations such as the Delaware.
Historically, there was a real "Uncas" who led the Mohegans in their break with the Pequots in the 1600s. The fictional Uncas would have been his great-grandson (or thereabouts), since he lives at the time of the French and Indian War in 1757.
The novel's Uncas is "the last of the Mohicans," according to Chingachgook. Uncas will be the last pure-blooded Mohican because there are no pure-blooded Mohican women for him to marry.
In fact there are many Mohegans still living in New England (running, for instance, the Mohegan Sun Casino), but as with most American Indians today, most if not all are of mixed blood from a number of races or nationalities.
Genre of The Last of the Mohicans
"historical novel"--the novel is set in the location and time of a famous, decisive, or dramatic event or movement in history--in this case, the French and Indian War that led to the American Revolution about 20 years later. Other examples of historical novels would include Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask (1847-50), both set in Paris during the French Revolution.
"historical romance"--usually the same, but "romance" often means that the plot is more adventurous and amorous, and that the historical reality fades in importance relative to the fictional adventure.
Characterization: the leading characters of a historical novel or romance are usually fictional, while fringe or background characters may be recognizable from history.
For instance, in Last of the Mohicans:
completely fictional characters: Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Duncan Heyward, Magua, Hawkeye, Chingachgook
historical characters: Montcalm, General Webb, Colonel Munro
Time written: 1826 (early Romantic period, a generation after American Independence)
Time set: 1750s, during the French and Indian War, the major American conflict before the War for Independence in the 1770s.
of setting: mostly Northern New York State, near the Great Lakes
Last of the Mohicans
and history
of New York, including Lakes George & Champlain
of colonies in early America
Cole's paintings from Last of the Mohicans
Indian groups, French & English alliances, and historical setting
Two main Indian language / culture groups in the eastern Woodlands of North America: the Algonquians and the Iroquois.
Chingachgook's and Uncas's tribe is the Lenni Lenape, a.k.a. the Delawares (from modern-day Delaware and Pennsylvania), but ultimately they derive from the Mohegans or Mohicans who earlier lived near (and cooperated with) the Pilgrims in Massachusetts. In Cooper's view, these are "good Indians" who get along with the British without giving up their Indian ways. All of these Indians are Algonquians, the large language group along the Atlantic coast.
(Pocahontas was an Algonquian, for instance. Plus there really was a historic Indian leader named "Uncas" who formed alliances with the Pilgrims in the 1600s but refused to convert to Christianity or to allow missionaries to visit his tribe. See pp. 332-33 in The Heath Anthology. Near the end of Last of the Mohicans, which is set in the 1760s, when the very old Indian leader named Tamenund hears our Uncas's voice, he thinks that the earlier Uncas has returned and that the old Indians live again.)
Magua is a Huron, but he has been expelled from his tribe and now runs with the Mohawks, Mingos, or Macuas, who are all associated with the Iroquois language group that live around the Great Lakes of North America. In Cooper's view, these are "bad Indians" because they're helping the French, though by the end of the book some of the "good" English-loving Algonquians are allied with the "bad" French-loving Iroquois—Cooper comments several times how the white conquerors have confused the Indians' relationships.
The historical setting of all this conflict over whether the Indians join up with the French or the English is, of course, the "French and Indian War," which took place in North America about 20 years before the American Revolution. So Cooper's novel is set about two generations before his own time, but it's dealing with issues that are still with the United States after the American Revolution.
of The Last of the Mohicans
The movie The Last of the Mohicans that appeared in 1992 had good-looking actors, the Indian activist Russell Banks as Chingachgook, some well-realized historical settings, and some stirring music.
Be aware, though, that the movie is only loosely based on Cooper's novel. In fact, if you look at the credits to the 1992 movie, they acknowledge that its screenplay is based on the screenplay for a 1936 movie, also titled The Last of the Mohicans, which was written by John Philip Dunne.
In both of these movies Hawkeye is changed from a middle-aged man with no romantic interest in the ladies, to a young heart-throb in love with Cora. In the process, the title character, Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans," is moved off center-stage, and the interest of his relationship with Cora (see below) is lost. Instead, in the 1936 and 1992 movies Uncas is reduced to a teenage hunk and paired off with Alice, who in the book belongs with Duncan Heyward. The character of David Gamut disappears from these movies, though he's no great loss compared to the lost opportunity—even in the 90s!--of pairing the Indian Uncas with the mixed-blood Cora.
The film version of Last of the Mohicans that is most faithful to the original novel is a silent film from the 1920s that retains the original Uncas-Cora pairing and keeps Hawkeye the same age as Chingachgook.
Cora, Gender, and the American Gothic Secret
Cora is the most interesting voice or figure in Last of the Mohicans, despite many readers' dismissal of Cooper as a sexist or macho author. Cora's sister Alice is a "damsel in distress," but Cora, by reasons of birth and Euro-American ideology, can't fit into that category. Pay close attention to chapter 16, where Cora's mixed background is indicated (however allusively and indirectly).
If the romance involves crossing borders, borders have already been crossed in Cora's past. As a romantic heroine, she continues to cross boundaries in terms of the expectations of her gender. Yet she also upholds some values traditionally associated with feminine gender.
Cooper's Alternative (Tragic) Narrative of American Race Relations
Given the antagonism, separatism, violence, and unequal power relations that the Captivity and Slave Narratives represent, it's important to observe that Cooper outlines, however vaguely, an alternative vision of American race relations. The relationship between Uncas and Cora is so subtle or understated that some readers deny that it's even there, but the possibility of an amorous relationship between an American Indian man and a European/African-American like Cora cannot be ignored. It suggests an alternative to the standard American ideology, in which the races are pure, permanent, and separate, despite the fact that a great deal of racial crossing or mixing has always occurred. (However, Cooper kills off the possibility.)
The Wilderness Gothic
In the traditional European gothic romance, an ancient house or castle is the dark site of certain wrongs or sins that have been committed in the past. A newcomer to the house often stirs up these ghosts, which often arise from past disputes about ownership or lineage.
When Cora and Alice enter the forest, they are like the heroine entering the haunted castle--spirits of lust and revenge are excited, most explicitly among the American Indians, particularly Magua.
As in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the natural landscape assumes the gothic functions of the castle, especially in terms of secret hiding places and places where blood has been spilled.
Also, the value-laden gothic symbols of light and dark as good and evil are
also complicated by Cooper's exploration of the light and dark of American race
Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas as Romantic Knights of the Forest
These guys are like the knights of the medieval romance, amusing themselves by hunting until an opportunity comes along to help ladies in distress. Pay attention, however, to the ways Cora both inspires and controls their knightly impulses and restores some common sense. Duncan Heyward also appears as a knight, at least in a dream. In any case, he's "an officer and a gentleman," to connect to a later-day romance.
+ "Captivity Narrative"
Last of the Mohicans (the novel and the movies) uses a romance narrative, which can be recognized through all the quests, captivities, pursuits, and rescues--much like a medieval romance of knights and adventurers, or like Star Wars now. Most interesting for American literary history, Cooper combines this old-fashioned European romance with a home-grown American genre: the "captivity narrative," in which a white person (frequently a woman) is captured by—and must be rescued from—the Indians.
Captivity narratives are one of the first and most popular American genres of literature. Hundreds of factual and semi-fictional captivity narratives were written before Last of the Mohicans--note, in our anthology, the captivity narratives of Mary White Rowlandson (p. 340) and John Williams (449), and many of you already know (at least through the Disney movie) of the captivity of John Smith by Pocahontas's father Powhatan (pp. 184, 186). More recently, movies like The Searchers, Little Big Man, and Dances with Wolves fit this category.
Captivity narratives (and their allied form, the slave narrative) are considered one of America's unique contributions to world literary genres, but notice how easily it fits into the dynamics of romance, both material and spiritual: a human is restrained or imprisoned but yearns to break such barriers; or, from the outside, such a person must be "saved."
In fact, Last of the Mohicans contains two captivity narratives, one after the episode at Glenns Falls, the other after the fall of Fort William Henry.
The Last of the Mohicans and the Leather-Stocking Tales
The Pioneers: or The Sources of the Susquehanna: A Descriptive Tale (1823)
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)
The Prairie: A Tale (1827)
The Pathfinder: or The Inland Sea (1840)
The Deerslayer: or The First War-Path (1841)
Brief Title*
Year Published
Name of Leather-stocking
Time of action
The Pioneers
Natty Bumppo
"Templeton," fictional counterpart to Cooperstown, New York State
1793, USA's early national period
Last of the Mohicans
New York-Canadian border near Lakes Champlain & George
1757, during French and Indian War
The Prairie
the trapper
Western plains of Louisiana Purchase near Missouri River
Early 1800s, time of Lewis & Clark Expedition
The Pathfinder
Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario; "Station Island" in "Thousand Island" area
French & Indian War, subsequent to action in Mohicans
The Deerslayer
Deerslayer > Hawkeye
Lake Otsego or "Glimmerglass" near future Cooperstown
1740-1745; pre-historic: North America as pioneers found it


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Importance for the Outsourcing for Business
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Passed away in Huntingdon on Sunday Oct 14, 2018 Miss. Alice Rolfe at the age of 100 years. She was the daughter of the late Robert Rolfe and the late Mary Moriarty. She leaves to mourn her niece Lorraine Rolfe (late Gary Campbell), her great nephews Chad and Cory, her cousins Jonathan Curtin (Mike Tateo), Jennifer Curtin (Josh Plavin), Joan Moon, Paul Moriaty, June McCuaig and Barbara Weinstein (Joel), her great cousins and friends. Visitations will be held Saturday Oct 20, from 9h30 a.m. to 10h45 a.m. at Rodrigue Montpetit & Fils Funeral Home, 170 Châteauguay Street, Huntingdon. Funeral service will take place on Saturday Oct 20 at 11 a.m. at the Huntingdon St-Joseph Catholic Church. Burial at Huntingdon St-Joseph Cemetery. Donation can be made to charity of your choice. FUNERAL ENTRUSTED TO RODRIGUE MONTPETIT ET FILS INC. Online condolences and tributes may be made at www.rodriguemontpetitfils.com


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Well, I wish it would get it over with. I'm so sick and tired of all this twaddle where everything from global warming, to carcinogens in plastics, to carcinogens in bacon, to the piggly-wiggly flu is going to wipe us all out by the day after tomorrow. This hanging in suspense waiting for the grim reaper to appear is probably going to kill me due to the stress of anticipation.
- 1:09 am, December 13, 2009
- Dave In Guelph said...
"We're all gonna die!!!"
Funny stuff Neo!
I'm with Powell it's like hurry up and wait already?
If the enviroment is gonna kill us be done with it. I don't want to listen to this incessant drivel another day.
- 1:28 am, December 13, 2009
- hunter said...
Hey, Alberta is in a deep freeze, we are all going to die!
Oh, wait, we have tons of gas and oil...we will be okay, but Toronto might be in trouble!
- 2:12 am, December 13, 2009
- Patsplace said...
Walker has an interesting question. Has there ever been a fraud as big as global warming in the history of the planet?
Maybe the Nazi cover for the biggest robbery in recorded history but I can't think of anything that is this crooked and this big. Can you?
- 2:16 am, December 13, 2009
Funny thing: during the recent Alberta "cold wave" (like any MSM ever calls it that for some reason...) the province's energy bill went through the roof. And was barely recorded. But when Ontario's "heat wave" does likewise, its front page news...and that was two years ago.
Cold will kill you faster than heat. Just sayin...
- 3:10 am, December 13, 2009
- langmann said...
The thing is, at the rate they are going we will see a lot of deaths when they have finally butchered our ability to produce cheap energy either through fossil or nuclear fuel.
- 10:03 am, December 13, 2009
- maryT said...
They are right, we are all going to die, when your number is up.
And just for a laugh, some guy in the US is using as his defence, he was under the influence of too much coffee, when charged with whatever he did.
And with the EPA stating co2 is harmful to your health, try living without it.
I think that most of these greenies do not know that without co2 there is no live. Wish they would all hold their breath 20 continuous minutes every hour, to reduce the problem.
- 10:20 am, December 13, 2009
- maryT said...
The biggest problem is a lot of idiots believe all this warming crap. Think of those tourist that got caught in ice, and needed an ice-breaker to free them as they tried to get a first hand look at the melting artic.
And how can ice melt when it is below freezing most of the time.
I think the best example of how this warming crap, and rising sea levels is not a problem was this=
My g/daughter's grade 2 teacher gave all her students a glass 3/4 full of water, then put an ice cube in every glass and asked, how much water will be in the glass when the ice melts.
She called the water the sea and the ice cube a glacier.
Try it yourself.
- 10:39 am, December 13, 2009
- Neo Conservative said...
the usual ctv twaddle, i'm afraid.
remember the big deal about the liberals screaming that the government had screwed up the swine flu vaccination program... "arghhh... horrible shortage... we're all gonna die!!!"?
funny... now there seems to actually be a surplus... so now they're damning that evil stephen harper & his wasteful ways.
good grief.
- 11:21 am, December 13, 2009
- wilson said...
So how is 800 jobs in the auto sector good news McGuinty?
Think of the increased ghgs,
think of your grandchildren for gawds sake!! (lol)
On the same front page, McGuinty brags to Ontarians how the economy is improving jobs jobs jobs,
and then go to Copenhagen to run down Canada, and push for strictor economy killing targets....
But the economy McGuinty and Charest want to kill is west of the Manitoba border, so I guess that will be just okey dokey with Canadians east of that border, eh...
- 12:29 pm, December 13, 2009
- Frances said...
Mary - the problem is with land ice, not sea ice. I agree the sea ice has already done the displacement bit, so that there will be no change when it melts. It's the land ice that falls off into the ocean that gets the warmists all upset. By the way, when Lake Winnipegosis broke its banks at the end of the last ice age, the oceans did rise and cause problems to shore dwellers. Has happened; could happen again. That's what nature does.
- 1:41 pm, December 13, 2009
I would have to say the various religions are the biggest fraud in history, but I'm sure a lot of you would disagree with me!
Still there are a few religions which seem to be more frauds than others, e.g. Islam.
- 5:51 pm, December 13, 2009
- Neo Conservative said...
say, nonnybot... what does your latest troll about religion have to do with anything in this post?
the subject here is media bias in general and warmist cant in particular... any thoughts on that?
- 11:15 pm, December 13, 2009


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Dodge Makes Orange Go Mango Paint Option on All Challengers and Chargers
Dodge really likes its crazy colors this year. After introducing the Plum Crazy hue—a nice, bright purple—for its 2016 Challenger and Charger SRT models, the American performance carmaker has decided to add another bright color to its portfolio—Go Mango.
As you might assume from its name, the Go Mango color is a bright orange that highlights the Challenger and Charger models' muscular form. While this color was originally only available for the Hellcat and SRT models only, Dodge recently opened its availability to the entire Charger and Challenger lineup due to its popularity.
"We've seen a tremendous response from our customers after we announced the return of Go Mango at the 11th annual Spring Festival in California," said Tim Kuniskis, Head of Dodge, SRT, Chrysler, and Fiat in North America. "In fact, nearly half of all SRT and Hellcat orders are for Go Mango. To meet consumer demand, we plan to expand this modernized heritage color to the entire Charger and Challenger lineup later this spring."
The Go Mango exterior color option truly speaks to Dodge's heritage. It was first introduced as an option in the 1970 Dodge Challenger. While it slowly faded away from the brand's color options—it was last seen in 2006 on certain Charger R/T Daytona models— Go Mango popped up again on the 2016 Dart. Now, it's a regular option for the SRT 392 and Hellcat until it is available for all Challenger and Charger models.


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Miladay supports the Divine Healer Academy benefit concert entitled Laff heals
Jon Santos has been making audiences roar with laughter for almost 30 years now. Today, his name has become synonymous with happiness.
Early this year, Jon wanted to offer a token of gratitude to God for his many fruitful years as a successful comedian. He reached out to Fr. Gerard Deveza, a compassionate healing priest and founder of the Healing Servants Foundation, who runs a mission school called the Divine Healer Academy of Sorsogon in Cabid-an, Sorsogon.
Jon generously poured out all his comic energy into the hilarious side of Wonder Woman, Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, Vilma Santos, Aling Dionisia Pacquiao, Imelda Marcos after the burial of her beloved Ferdinand Marcos and, finally, Jon Santos himself in a brilliant and witty update of life in today's world, much to the delight of the crowd who filled up SM Aura's Samsung Hall last Sept. 30.
Highlights of the show included a beautiful opening prayer and two finale Christmas duets rendered by Divine Healer Academy students Orven Ebrada and Jessica Gordola, as requested by Jon. They certainly awed the audience with their spectacular voices.
Each guest was gifted with a colorful bunch of intricate paper roses painstakingly made by the students as their tokens of appreciation.
Father Gerard profusely thanked Jon, all the benefactors, members of the Healing Servants Foundation, families and friends who took time out for this cause. "Your enthusiastic response, your presence, this full house of support make the students of the Divine Healer Academy feel loved," he said with a grateful smile.
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Mrs. Rajavi welcomes recent remarks by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Pope regarding fraternity between the followers of Islam and Christianity and calls on followers of all religions for solidarity in confronting extremism
On Friday, 5 May 2017, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, met with Bishop Jacques Gaillot in Auvers-sur-Oise. In this meeting the threat of extremism under the pretext of religion and the genuine message of religions including Islam and Christianity for peace, fraternity and coexistence were discussed.
Mrs. Rajavi said: Extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism which is currently taking place under the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam. Islam is the religion of mercy and emancipation and not vengeance and violence. Islam is the religion of coexistence and fraternity and not sectarianism, war and hostilities. Theories like Velayat-e-Faqih and religious dictatorship which have been invented by Khomeini have nothing to do with Islam or Shiites. Khomeini, Khamenei and the religious fascism ruling Iran, which have invented and spread this theory, are the biggest enemies of Islam. The misuse of Islam, like other great religions, dates back to long ago, but the phenomenon that we are facing today, i.e. terrorism under the banner of Islam stems from the regime which has been ruling Iran for the past 38 years.
On behalf of the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance, I welcome the recent remarks by Sheikh Ahmed Tayeb from Al-Azhar and Pope Francis regarding brotherhood between followers of Islam and Christianity in confronting extremism and terrorism which in my view is rooted in Iran under the rule of the mullahs. I call on all freedom-loving people of the world, all friends of peace and fraternity, and followers of all religions for solidarity in confronting extremism.
Bishop Gaillot said Islam is the religion of fraternity and you, Mrs. Rajavi, represent the true face of a tolerant and democratic Islam. The extremists don't represent this true image of Islam. I believe that an emancipated Iran, free from the clutches of religious fundamentalism, will have a vital role in ending religious extremism and spreading peace and fraternity in the Middle East and the world over. Bishop Gaillot reiterated the motto that, "The other person is forever your brother."
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 5, 2017


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