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Mash in with Bright Mash beer club
We love brewing and drinking full flavoured and unique crafty beers. If you do too, how would you like a box of delicious fresh brews delivered to your doorstep every 3 months? Become a Mash club member and enjoy the Bright Brewery experience year round!
As a Bright Mash member you will receive a box of mixed Bright Brewery beers delivered to your door each quarter (or collected from the brewery if you are local and wish to come in for a chat or a bite to eat at the same time!), plus additional membership benefits that you can access throughout the year.
Want to Mash In with us today? Click here to sign up now!
What is Bright Mash?
Bright Mash is Bright Brewery's Beer Club, which provides members with quarterly deliveries of beer, exclusive discounts, early access to new beer releases, insider info, and more!
What do Mash members get?
- A Mash Box (a box of mixed Bright Brewery beers – usually 24 x 330ml bottles) delivered to your doorstep 4 times a year.
- Member Welcome Pack when you receive your first delivery, which includes a member card and brewery merchandise.
- Early access to limited release bottled beers.
- Regular member newsletter and e-newsletter providing the latest news from inside Bright Brewery and behind-the-scenes info from our Brewhouse.
- Free Brewery Tour when you visit Bright Brewery.
- Invitations to special Bright Brewery functions and events.
- 10% discount on any beer purchases over the bar at Bright Brewery – *Not valid with any other offer (ie: other club types or discounts).
What is required to join?
You must be over 18 years of age and reside in Australia. You'll need to provide your contact information with an email and a delivery address for us to send a Mash Box to you.
How much does it cost?
There is no joining fee when you sign up to Bright Mash. We will charge your credit card $75 plus the standard delivery charge to your address each quarter, prior to the next Mash Box delivery.
How much is the delivery fee?
We use both Fastway couriers and Australia Post to provide the best price for your delivery. In most cases, delivery costs around $12 – $18 for most major cities and towns around Australia. Remote locations are calculated at higher rates than metro and major country centres.
What is the minimum commitment when you become a member?
Your commitment is 12 months and a minimum of four deliveries.
Is there a joining fee or a cancellation fee?
There is no joining fee, and only a $20 administration fee if you withdraw from Bright Mash prior to receiving four deliveries. There is also a $2 admin fee to replace lost membership cards.
When will Mash members receive their Mash Box?
Deliveries are in February, May, July, October, and December in 2019. Deliveries in 2019 have been changed to better align with our seasonal releases. Read more here.
From 2020, deliveries will be in March, June, October and December.
If you sign up more than 30 days until the next quarterly delivery cycle, we will get your first Mash Box straight away. Signing up within 30 days of the next scheduled quarterly delivery means that you will be sent your first delivery during the next scheduled delivery.
Can you ship to a PO Box?
Unfortunately not. We use couriers to deliver all membership cases which need to go to a physical address. If you can't be at home then we can always deliver to your work or a friends place. Members must provide an authorisation of a safe place to leave the delivery if not home to sign for the goods.
How long will my delivery take to arrive?
This is determined by the delivery location. We use Fastway Couriers and Australia Post who will generally take no more that 5 days to get your order. If you think it is taking too long, please let us know and we will chase the order for you.
Can I track my Mash Box delivery?
Yes, we'll notify you when your Mash Box is shipped.
What mix of beers will I get in my Mash Box?
Typically 3 to 4 different beer types and flavours that draw on seasonal production. The mix will vary with each delivery but be assured the beers you get will be great drinking!
How can I update or change my shipping and billing details?
You can update your shipping and billing details by logging in or send us an email.
What is a Mash?
A mash is the first step in making beer. To begin a brew, we gather together milled grains (malt) and "mash in" by pouring the malt into the Mash Tun, and then we mix the grains with hot water.
The heat from the water activates the enzymes within the malt. These enzymes then begin to convert the starches in the grains into sugars. This mash mixture is heated up to allow the enzymes in the malt to break down the starch in the grain into sugars, creating a sugary liquid known as wort (pronounced "wert"). Delicious stuff! Now to taste the final result…


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So you keep hearing the "South Coast" of Sri Lanka is amazing, and a 'must visit' and that it will be a 'highlight of your trip' …. and you already know that the beaches are supposed to be breathtaking and wonderful and well, more than you could hope for in a beach. You also know of some amazing Villas to stay in (wink wink)- where you are unlikely to ever want to leave once you arrive (well you won't – if you stay at a one of five villas from the Taru Villas collection – shameless self-promotion – but if we didn't it would be like we are keeping the goodness to ourselves). But what else can you do once you are there?
so you can extend your stay in the South of Paradise.
1. Yala National Park
Go on a Wild Life Safari and explore a beautiful combination of a national park and reservation where leopards, peacocks, elephants, crocodiles, sloth bears, spotted dear, jackals, sambars and other exotic birds call home. The best season to visit is between February and July. Taru Villas – Yala makes for the perfect base to explore the Yala National Park, as well as Udawalawe and Bundala National Parks as well.
2. Mulkirigala Rock Temple
3. Kataragama Temple
Kataragama is one of the holiest sites on the island most sacred to Buddhists and Hindus alike; pilgrims come here all year round to worship at the shrine of the god Kataragama. The temples come alive in the evenings when religious rituals take place as devotees arrive with trays of offerings to the god and where you'll hear the sound of conch shells being blown and the beats of many drums.
3. Whale & Dolphin Watching
5. Coconut Tree Hill
This is one of the prettiest, very Instagram-worthy spots on the South. It is situated at the end of Mirissa Beach and completely covered with coconut trees overlooking the ocean.
6. Jungle Playground Mirissa (Adventure Park)
If you are traveling with friends or family and are after something a little bit more adventurous but not too far from the beach, you must visit the jungle playground. Designed and run by a European couple, it is a unique jungle trail with a range of different obstacles to experience such as jungle bowling, climbing and mini golf !
7. Hikkaduwa Beach Strip
Hikkaduwa is an electric town home to beautiful beaches, serene diving spots and even some brilliant surfing! After checking out the numerous souvenir and curio shops that line the strip, indulge in fresh seafood or inspired fusion cuisine at trendy restaurants.
8. Diving in Hikkaduwa
9. Hiriketiya Beach
A beguiling horseshoe bay that causes waves to come in high attracts many surfers to the area. If instead you prefer to relax and not exert too much energy you will particularly appreciate the few hipster restaurants and cafes that dot the shore.
10. Surfing at Weligama Beach
Despite the many surf spots around the island, Weligama Beach is perfect for surfing beginners. It is quieter, more relaxed and ideal for family beach time.
11. Go Stilt Fishing
Koggala Beach is one of many places where you can observe as fishermen lure their catch atop bamboo stilts close to the shore – a practice dating back to World War II. Should you wish to give it a try, the local fisherman will gladly give up their seat and share their fishing lines and bait with you for a tip. Fish bites the best early in the morning or evening, so go fishing earlier if you want bragging rights to a catch!
12. Galle Fort – Galle
Visit the historical Galle Fort built by the Portuguese in the early 1500s and further fortified by the Dutch. Tour the Maritime Museum, walk along its cobbled streets and take in the rich architecture while enjoying a gelato. The Fort boasts hidden cafes, stunning boutique hotels, the Galle Lighthouse, gem shops, art galleries, antique shops and so much more to explore.
13. Udawalawa National Park
Explore the elephants, leopards and other exotic birds and reptiles found in this National Park initially created to provide a sanctuary for wild animals displaced by the construction of the Udawalawe Reservoir. This park does not have a best time to visit as animals at Udawalawe can be spotted at anytime of the year, including leopards. The park has the biggest concentration of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka, so the probabilities of you seeing them are very high.
14. Geoffrey Bawa Estates – Lunu Ganga
If architecture is your thing, then Geoffrey Bawa needs no introduction. Go on a special tour of the Lunuganga Estate once the country home of the world-renowned Sri Lankan architect. Experience Tropical Modernism at its finest in his architecture, works of art scattered through the estate and its lush gardens.
15. Water Sports – Bentota River
If you're looking for a different kind of fun on the water, check out the different water sports available to do on the Bentota River. From jet skiing to banana boating, this will be fun for the whole family!
16. Bentota River Cruise
Further up (away from the water sports), cruise through the mangroves along the third largest river in Sri Lanka and spot some crocs, snakes, bats and the second-heaviest lizard after the Komodo dragon!
17. Kudawella Blow Hole – Dickwella
Visit the site of the Hummanaya Blowhole and witness the only known blowhole in Sri Lanka. It is also considered to be the second largest blowhole in the world. The water is set to blow up to height between 25-30 meters!
18. Kosgoda Turtle Care
Spend some time here to learn about huge efforts to increase the rate of hatching, and survival of baby turtles in their very initial stages. You will also see how they take care of sick or injured adult turtles before releasing them back into the ocean when they are ready. There are also volunteer programs and awareness programs for local and international visitors, if that is your thing. Five species of sea turtles lay eggs along the west and south coasts of Sri Lanka and all of them are on the endangered list.
19. Community Tsunami Museum – Hikkaduwa
A visit to this small local Museum that preserves memories of the 2004 Tsunami will be promise to be sobering but it really captures such a devastating part of the history of the South of the Island and will truly amaze you at what Sri Lanka has bounced back and developed into.
20. Beruwala Gem Market
The buzzing "Pathe" gem market in Beruwala is also known as China Fort, named after Chinese traders who settled there about 300 years ago. There are up to 5,000 dealers spanning over two blocks. Buyers from all over the world come here to make their purchases and the market is highly active with millions of dollars worth of gems being traded every day.


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Can't bear another round of insipid, frosted snowmen? Then you've come to the right place. All of the cookie recipes gathered here have a secret. Just like Clark Kent, beyond their handsome exteriors they possess superpowers — albeit by means of harboring super foods in their ingredients, not by donning tights and breaking into flight.
The beauty of superfood cookies is that they are creative confections that don't sacrifice taste or texture, and are imbued with great bursts of healthful ingredients that may have you leaping tall buildings in no time. Case in point: The Cranberry and Pecan Shortbread Cookies pictured above.
Brandied prune and chocolate chunk
Photo: Random Michelle/flickr
Prunes get such a bad rap. Here in the United States they are more aligned with Bengay and Metamucil than with the loveliness that they really are. They have a dense, moist flesh unusual for dried fruit, and a deep floral-plummy flavor that makes them the perfect accomplice for chocolate and baked goods. There's a reason that the French laud dried plums and make all kinds of yummy things with them.
Plus, prunes are an excellent source of fiber, potassium, vitamins A and B-6, and non-heme iron and they land themselves on many a list of best super foods. Therefore, try this: Brandied Prune and Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
Green tea ginger shortbread
Photo: djwtwo/flickr
We're not going to claim that this recipe for Green Tea Ginger Shortbread will yield a warm plate of seriously health-food cookies; there's no denying the butter, and refined flour and sugar in these pups.
But on the other hand, they have green tea and lots of ginger in them, which gives them a healthy kick. And if you try swapping some of the plain white flour with white whole wheat flour, they will be well on their way to being health food. Kind of.
Pumpkin whoopie pies with maple cream cheese frosting
Photo: youwannatalkjive/flickr
Click over to the never-ending pumpkin post to get the skinny on the super-food-filled Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting.
Chocolate fudgey vegan oatmeal cookies
Photo: Sarmale/flickr
Cocoa! Oatmeal! Flaxseed! Dried Cherries! If you thought oatmeal cookies were good for you, these Chocolate Fudgy Vegan Oatmeal Cookies are even better. And although the healthier things in life aren't always the tastiest, these provide an exception to the rule.
Grown-up fig newtons
Photo: Vegan Feast Catering/flickr
All that needs to be said for these Grown-Up Fig Newtons, aside from the fact that they're gluten-free and rely on all healthy ingredients, is this: The figs are soaked in port and pomegranate juice for 24 hours. (A double batch of figs may be in order.)
Fig and pine nut
Photo: Greencolander/flickr
Does it get any more Christmas-y than Fig and Pine Nut Cookies?
Figs (as in figgy pudding) and pine nuts (as in Christmas trees) are both super tasty super foods and paired together make the super-est holiday cookies.
Date and hazelnut
Photo: joannaverdan/flickr
Hello, little globes of wonder. These Date and Hazelnut Cookies are kind of not really cookies if you consider that they are not baked, but in our opinion, that makes them all the better. That, and the fact that they are made of dates, nuts, seeds, berries, and little else. Like fancy balls of bird-food for elegant people.
Almond, cranberry and quinoa
Photo: TheDeliciousLife/flickr
We'd like to kiss the cookie concoctor who came up with the idea of adding super-duper super food quinoa to a cookie that already has super-food oatmeal and super-food cranberries in it, as in these Almond and Cranberry Quinoa Cookies.
White bean blondies
Photo: Telephone Melts/flickr
There will be no "dumb blonde" jokes made about White Bean Blondies, simply because replacing much of the butter and flour with a super food is so obviously smart.
Chocolate puddle
Photo: Chiot's Run/flickr
Crispy-crunchy on the outside and "puddly" on the inside, Chocolate Puddle Cookies have three cups of super salubrious walnuts and more than half a cup of antioxidant-happy cocoa in them. And no flour!
Lemon and blueberry sandwich
Photo: Matthew S. Cain/flickr
What would a collection of superfood cookies be without blueberries somewhere? We would be remiss to omit the darling of the super-food set, so here you go: Lemon and Blueberry Sandwich Cookies.
Do you have healthy cookie recipes or ingredient swaps adding a boost of super-power?


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In recent years, I've noticed a trend: the prefix "stem-" is becoming more and more popular for stem groups. For those who don't know what a "stem group" is:
- A crown group is the last common ancestor or two or more extant taxa, and all descendants thereof.
- A total group is the first ancestor of a crown group that is not also ancestral to any other extant taxa, and all descendants thereof.
- A stem group is a total group minus its crown group. (Which means, of course, that a total group is a crown group plus its stem group.)
Or, to put it more simply, an extinct organism is a stem-X if it does not belong to X, but it shares more ancestry with X than with any extant organisms outside of X. Real-life examples:
|Velociraptor mongoliensis, a stem-avian.
Illustration by myself (Mike Keesey).
- Stem-mammals: Dimetrodon, Moschops, Cynognathus, Castorocauda.
- Stem-avians: Marasuchus, Psittacosaurus, Plateosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis.
- Stem-humans: Ardipithecus(?), Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus.
- Stem-cetaceans: Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, Maiacetus, Basilosaurus.
- Stem-felines: Proailurus, Smilodon.
Stem- pterygotesStem-neopterans: Dictyoneura, Lithomantis.
This is a great convention. It's consistently useful in every area of the Tree of Life. It's concise. It communicates instantly the general area we're talking about, and sets us up to make proper phylogenetic inferences (when the fossil data is lacking).
So I'm glad this trend is becoming more popular. Unfortunately, I've also noticed another trend: rampant misuse!
Case in point:
- CABREIRA & al. (2011). New stem-sauropodomorph (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Triassic of Brazil. Naturwissenschaften (online early). doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0858-0
This looks to be an excellent paper on a very interesting find, so it's unfortunate that there's a glaring error in the title, but there it is: "stem-sauropodomorph". There is no such thing, because Sauropodomorpha is not a crown group. It doesn't even include a crown group (sadly—it'd be very cool if it did). Rather, all sauropodomorphs are part of the avian stem group.
|Panphagia protos, a stem-avian
(not a "stem-sauropodomorph").
Photo by Eva K.
Used under the GFDL.
I see a lot of people making this mistake. I think what's happening is that they're using the basic concept of a stem group, but replacing "total group" with "some large clade" and "crown group" with "an interesting subclade". In this case, Sauropodomorpha is "some large clade" and Sauropoda is "an interesting subclade". (And in that case, the usage is even wronger, because it should at least be "stem-sauropod".)
This misuse is unfortunate because it is subjective, while the proper usage is objective. One could make the argument that the real "interesting subclade" of Sauropodomorpha is Titanosauria, or Neosauropoda, or whatever, and then the terminology would mean something very different. By contrast, e.g., "stem-crocodylian" very clearly indicates a particular paraphyletic group.
So, please, people, use the "stem-" prefix, but use it correctly!


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The Reading Guru is proud to host an excerpt today from "Godwin's Law", a thriller by Bernard Maestas. Enjoy.
Book Excerpt
Just then, Alex lifted a hand, touching the clear coiled earpiece lodged in his ear, straining to listen to the transmission on his stolen police radio. A sour frown twisted his expressive mouth as he turned back to Ted. "You were saying? We've got two transit cops moving up from the back of the train, looking for us."
Ted breathed a disappointed sigh and glanced up, then down the car. "All right. Plan B. I'm going to commandeer the train. We'll uncouple and ditch the passenger cars at the next station."
He may not have agreed with Ted's plan, but Alex was quick to slide off the sculpted plastic bench and onto his feet, following his partner towards the front of the car. Gwen remained seated, watching after them nervously. No one paid them any mind as they approached the conductor's booth tucked in the front right corner of the car.
The darkness of the tunnel around them gave way to the streaks of lights from the next station, spilling into the windows all around them. Brakes engaged with a shriek of metal on metal and the train coasted to a halt. Another gentle chime sounded and the doors parted throughout the train.
That was when Ted reached out and jerked the door open. Alex was through the door in a flash, grabbing hold of the startled driver by his uniform shirt and dragging him out. A chorus of panicked screams rose up from the passengers, who definitely noticed the pair now.
Twisting past Alex and the conductor, Ted knifed his body into the narrow cubby and set to work. He dropped his bag on the floor at his feet, bending to strip his laptop from within, along with a tangle of cords and cables.
Meanwhile, Alex gave the conductor a shove and sent him sprawling back into the retreating crowd of passengers.
Ted worked fast, balancing his open laptop on the control console and stabbing plugs into various ports and outlets on it. Almost as an afterthought, he tugged the public address microphone from its holster, passing it out the door to Alex while his free hand continued to work. "Use your charms, get everyone off the train."
Alex didn't hesitate, stretching the black coiled cord outside and turning to address the crowd. The speakers popped as he keyed the mic and rattled off a calm string of German. A fresh chorus of terror rose from the throngs as they scrambled over each other to pile off the train. "Allahu akbar," he concluded calmly.
About Godwin's Law
Author: Bernard Maestas
Genre: Thriller
Gwen Kane, estranged daughter of a Forbes millionaire and the bearer of a horrifying secret is lured into a dangerous international cult. It falls to Alex Kirwan and Ted Reagan to rescue her. What should be easy money for the mercenary team of a freerunning ex-commando and his computer hacking partner proves to be anything but as they find themselves doggedly pursued across Europe, Canada and the United States by highly trained forces with resources vastly disproportionate to the recapture of one missing acolyte.
Will Alex and Ted unravel the mystery of Gwen's importance in time to survive?
Will Gwen pierce the seemingly impenetrable armor around Alex's heart?
Will Alex and Ted get paid?"
Author Bio
Bernard Maestas lives in paradise. A police officer patrolling the mean streets of Hawaii, he has a background in contract security and military and civilian law enforcement. When not saving the world, one speeding ticket at a time, and not distracted by video games or the internet, he is usually hard at work on his next book.


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Troubled publisher THQ has notified investors that its annual financial results will be better than forecast thanks in large part to the runaway success of Saints Row: The Third.
THQ made 240 staff redundant in February following losses of more than US$55 million in the October-December quarter, primarily due to the extremely poor performance of the uDraw tablet.
However, on the back of Volition's sandbox title, THQ now expects to end FY2012 with a cash balance three times larger than forecast.
THQ has shipped more than 4 million copies of Saints Row: The Third, and digital sales are also higher than expected, says the publisher. Sales of UFC Undisputed 3 have also exceeded THQ's expectations.
"The company expects to utilise a substantial portion of its cash and cash equivalents, as well as its credit facility [that it didn't dip into in financial Q4], as it launches its slate for the 2013 fiscal year, beginning with Darksiders 2," reads the note to investors.
THQ has announced this morning that Darksiders 2 has been delayed into August.


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ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Most Stress is Internally Generated
Excessive anxiety, excessive upset, or a "fight or flight" response, are all things generated by the human mind and body. And these create a great deal of biological stress.
Anxiety, fear, anger, and many other stressful emotions, as a whole, seem to be an outmoded coping mechanism left over from earlier versions of "homo sapiens" that once provided people with additional energy to deal with a threat. And they produced emotional prods that drove people to do the things needed to survive and procreate.
In modern times, there isn't always an agenda to pass along our genes. There isn't always an agenda to be the dominant female/male in your group. Many people have for the most part moved beyond these primitive instincts. When the remnants of these instincts come up, the associated emotions can be very inconvenient and sometimes inappropriate. Furthermore, many of the strong instinctive type emotions that people have, are counterproductive, and make situations far worse than they would be otherwise.
An extreme fear response, or almost any emotional response, are on a hair trigger in the human nervous system, and come up in response to thoughts and perceptions. A person can perceive a threat when there really is none at all. A person's emotional responses can not distinguish the validity of a perceived threat.
I am getting you to the concept that a lot of human stress is internally generated. People become upset based upon abstract reasoning. Most other creatures do not. Human beings, in the thinking mind, generate stress-causing emotions.
Secondly, as a formerly psychotic person, when one's intellect has lied to them enough times, because of psychosis, one will begin to doubt the validity of one's intellect--and this can be an additional problem.
In the mind of a psychotic person, false, delusional ideas can bring about very strong emotions, ones that are not appropriate for the actual situation. This is a combination of an intrinsic human design vulnerability, (getting upset over abstract thoughts) along with the illness.
People with mental illness are more prone than average to have stress-induced health problems. We are more accident-prone than average. These are two of the many reasons that people with mental illness have a shortened lifespan.
If we have mental illness and receive disability benefits to live on, we ought not waste our time and energy on things that produce excessive stress and that do not have a lot of benefit. For example, there is no reason for us to go get a job emptying trash. We are better off economizing without the extra income, and going to a museum with a friend.
In my past and continuing, the concept of "lighten-up a bit," is well-advised.
According to one psychiatrist, valium is good for schizophrenics. His premise was that getting well from schizophrenia is supported by calming down. He also espoused meditation and other "new age" philosophies. I saw him in the 1980's and early 1990's, after Kaiser dropped me.
The main points of this piece are this: Too much stress is bad; most stress is generated on the inside; we need to do things that mitigate stress--usually things we enjoy.
For example, I enjoy going to Dollar Tree once a month and picking up microwave food and essential supplies, and hardly paying anything for them. A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum for a short visit, and it was a good getaway. If your life is like wading through a cesspool, take breaks from it and let yourself dry out.
We cannot always prevent our minds from generating stress, which is sometimes actually caused by a disorder. However, anything we can do to distract ourselves from the stress, and take a vacation from it, is well-advised.


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|Grigory Zinoviev
Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев
September 23, 1883
Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire
August 25, 1936 (aged 52)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev[1] (Russian Wp→: Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев, IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj zʲɪˈnovʲjɪf]; September 23 [O.S. Wp→ September 11] 1883 – August 25, 1936), born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum (Russian Wp→: Радомысльский), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev is best remembered as the longtime head of the Communist International and the architect of the several failed attempts to transform Germany into a communist country during the early 1920s. He was in competition against Joseph Stalin who eliminated him from the Soviet political leadership. He was the chief defendant in a 1936 show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Before the 1917 Revolution (1901-1917)
- 1.2 1917
- 1.3 The Civil War (1918-1920)
- 1.4 Rise to the top (1921-1923)
- 1.5 With Stalin and Kamenev against Trotsky (1923-1924)
- 1.6 Break with Stalin (1925)
- 1.7 With Trotsky against Stalin (1926-1927)
- 1.8 Submission to Stalin (1928-1934)
- 1.9 Show trials (1935-1936)
- 2 The "Zinoviev Letter"
- 3 Footnotes
- 4 External links
Before the 1917 Revolution (1901-1917)
Gregory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine), to Jewish dairy farmers, who educated him at home. Between 1923 and 1935 the city was known as Zinovyevsk. Gregory Zinoviev was known in early life under the names of Apfelbaum or Radomyslovsky and later adopted several designations, such as Shatski, Grigoriev, Grigori and Zinoviev, by the two last of which he is most frequently called.[2] He studied philosophy, literature and history. He became interested in politics, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901. He was a member of its Bolshevik faction from the time of its creation in 1903. Between 1903 and the fall of the Russian Empire in February 1917, he was a leading Bolshevik and one of Vladimir Lenin's closest associates, working both within Russia and abroad as circumstances permitted. He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers. Zinoviev remained Lenin's constant aide-de-camp and representative in various socialist organizations until 1917.
Zinoviev spent the first three years of World War I in Switzerland. After the Russian monarchy was overthrown during the February Revolution, he returned to Russia in April 1917 in a sealed train with Lenin and other revolutionaries opposed to the war. He remained a part of the Bolshevik leadership throughout most of that year and spent time with Lenin after Lenin was forced into hiding after the July Days. However, Zinoviev and Lenin soon had a falling out over Zinoviev's opposition to Lenin's call for an open insurrection against the Provisional Government. On October 10, 1917 (Julian calendar), he and Lev Kamenev were the only two Central Committee members to vote against an armed revolt. Their publication of an open letter opposed to use of force enraged Lenin, who demanded their expulsion from the party.
On October 29, 1917 (Julian calendar), immediately after the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and Leon Trotsky from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik Central Committee argued that the Bolsheviks had no choice but to start negotiations since a railroad strike would cripple their government's ability to fight the forces that were still loyal to the overthrown Provisional Government. Although Zinoviev and Kamenev briefly had the support of a Central Committee majority and negotiations were started, a quick collapse of the anti-Bolshevik forces outside Petrograd allowed Lenin and Trotsky to convince the Central Committee to abandon the negotiating process. In response, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Vladimir Milyutin, and Victor Nogin resigned from the Central Committee on November 4, 1917 (Julian calendar). The following day, Lenin wrote a proclamation calling Zinoviev and Kamenev "deserters". He never forgot their behavior, eventually making an ambiguous reference[citation needed] to their "October episode" in his Testament.
The Civil War (1918-1920)
Zinoviev soon returned to the fold and was once again elected to the Central Committee at the VII Party Congress on March 8, 1918. He was put in charge of the Petrograd (Saint Petersburg prior to 1914, Leningrad 1924-1991) city and regional government. In September 1918 he declared:
To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.[3]
Sometime in 1918, while Ukraine was under German occupation, the rabbis of Odessa ceremonially anathematized (pronounced herem against) Trotsky, Zinoviev, and other Jewish Bolshevik leaders in the synagogue.[4]
He became a non-voting member of the ruling Politburo when it was created after the VIII Congress on March 25, 1919. He also became the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern when it was created in March 1919. It was in this capacity he presided over the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920[5] and gave his famous four hour speech in German at the Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in October 1920.[6]
Zinoviev was responsible for Petrograd's defense during two periods of intense clashes with White forces in 1919. Trotsky, who was in overall charge of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, thought little of Zinoviev's leadership, which aggravated their strained relationship.
Rise to the top (1921-1923)
In early 1921, when the Communist Party was split into numerous factions and disagreements were threatening to engulf the Party, Zinoviev supported Lenin's faction. As a result, Zinoviev was made a full member of the Politburo after the Xth Party Congress on March 16, 1921, while members of other factions such as Nikolai Krestinsky were dropped from the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Zinoviev was one of the most powerful figures in the Soviet leadership during Lenin's final illness in 1922-1923 and immediately after his death in January 1924. He delivered the Central Committee's reports to the XIIth and XIIIth Party Congresses in 1923 and 1924 respectively, something that Lenin had previously done. He was also considered one of the Communist Party's leading theoreticians. As head of the Comintern, Zinoviev deserved most of the blame for the failures of the several Communist attempts at seizing power in Germany during the early 1920s, but he managed to shift it to Karl Radek, the Comintern's representative in Germany at the time[citation needed].
With Stalin and Kamenev against Trotsky (1923-1924)
During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and Joseph Stalin formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of Leon Trotsky. The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate selection process in autumn 1923 during the run-up to the XIIIth Party Conference and secured a vast majority of the seats. The Conference, held in January 1924 just before Lenin's death, denounced Trotsky and Trotskyism. Some of Trotsky's supporters were demoted or reassigned in the wake of his defeat, and Zinoviev's power and influence appeared to be at its zenith. However, as subsequent events showed, his real power base was limited to the Petrograd/Leningrad Party organization while the rest of the Communist Party apparatus was increasingly under Stalin's control.
After Trotsky's defeat at the XIIIth Conference, tensions between Zinoviev and Kamenev on the one hand and Stalin on the other hand became more pronounced and threatened to end their fragile alliance. Nevertheless, Zinoviev and Kamenev helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the XIIIth Party Congress in May–June 1924 during the first Lenin's Testament controversy.
After a brief lull in the summer of 1924, Trotsky published The Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917. In the article, Trotsky described Zinoviev's and Kamenev's opposition to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, something that the two would have preferred to be left unmentioned. This started a new round of intra-party struggle with Zinoviev and Kamenev once again allied with Stalin against Trotsky. They and their supporters accused Trotsky of various mistakes and worse during the Russian Civil War and damaged his military reputation so much that he was forced to resign as People's Commissar of Army and Fleet Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council in January 1925. Zinoviev demanded Trotsky's expulsion from the Communist Party, but Stalin refused to go along at that time and skillfully played the role of a moderate.
Break with Stalin (1925)
With Trotsky finally on the sidelines, the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Stalin triumvirate began to crumble in early 1925. The two sides spent most of the year lining up support behind the scenes. Stalin struck an alliance with Communist Party theoretician and Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and Soviet prime minister Alexei Rykov. Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Grigory Sokolnikov, the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting Politburo member. The struggle became open at the September 1925 meeting of the Central Committee and came to a head at the XIVth Party Congress in December 1925. With only the Leningrad delegation behind them, Zinoviev and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated. Zinoviev was re-elected to the Politburo, but his ally Kamenev was demoted from a full member to a non-voting member and Sokolnikov was dropped altogether, while Stalin had more of his allies elected to the Politburo. Within weeks of the Congress, Stalin wrestled control of the Leningrad party organization and government from Zinoviev and had him dismissed from all regional posts, leaving only the Comintern as a potential power base for Zinoviev.
With Trotsky against Stalin (1926-1927)
During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party. The alliance became known as the United Opposition. In May 1926, Stalin, weighing his options in a letter to Vyacheslav Molotov, directed his supporters to concentrate their attacks on Zinoviev since the latter was intimately familiar with Stalin's methods from their time together in the triumvirate. Following Stalin's orders, his supporters accused Zinoviev of using the Comintern apparatus in support of factional activities (the Lashevich Affair) and Zinoviev was dismissed from the Politburo after a tumultuous Central Committee meeting in July 1926. Soon thereafter the office of the Comintern Chairman was abolished and Zinoviev lost his last important post.
Zinoviev remained in opposition to Stalin throughout 1926 and 1927, resulting in his expulsion from the Central Committee in October 1927. When the United Opposition tried to organize independent demonstrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1927, the demonstrators were dispersed by force and Zinoviev and Trotsky were expelled from the Communist Party on November 12. Their leading supporters, from Kamenev down, were expelled in December 1927 by the XVth Party Congress, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928.
Submission to Stalin (1928-1934)
While Trotsky remained firm in his opposition to Stalin after his expulsion from the Party and subsequent exile, Zinoviev and Kamenev capitulated almost immediately and called on their supporters to follow suit. They wrote open letters acknowledging their mistakes and were readmitted to the Communist Party after a six-month cooling off period. They never regained their Central Committee seats, but they were given mid-level positions within the Soviet bureaucracy. Bukharin, then at the beginning of his short and ill-fated struggle with Stalin, courted Kamenev and, indirectly, Zinoviev during the summer of 1928. This was soon reported to Stalin and used against Bukharin as proof of his factionalism.
Zinoviev and Kamenev remained politically inactive until October 1932 when they were expelled from the Communist Party for failure to inform on oppositionist party members during the Ryutin Affair. After once again admitting their supposed mistakes, they were readmitted in December 1933. They were forced to make self-flagellating speeches at the XVIIth Party Congress in January 1934 when Stalin was parading his erstwhile political opponents, now defeated and outwardly contrite.
Show trials (1935-1936)
After the murder of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934, which served as one of the triggers for the Great Purge of the Soviet Communist Party, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their closest associates were once again expelled from the party and arrested in December 1934. They were tried in January 1935 and were forced to admit "moral complicity" in Kirov's assassination. Zinoviev was sentenced to 10 years in prison and his supporters to various prison terms.
In August 1936, after months of careful preparations and rehearsals in secret police prisons, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and 14 others, mostly Old Bolsheviks, were put on trial again. This time, the charges included forming a terrorist organization that supposedly killed Kirov and tried to kill Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet government. This Trial of the Sixteen (or the trial of the "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center") was the first Moscow Show Trial and set the stage for subsequent show trials where Old Bolsheviks confessed to increasingly elaborate and monstrous crimes, including espionage, poisoning, sabotage, and so on. Zinoviev and the other defendants were found guilty on August 24, 1936.
Prior to the trial, Zinoviev and Kamenev had agreed to plead guilty to the false charges on the condition that they not be executed, a condition that Stalin accepted, stating "that goes without saying." Nonetheless, a few hours after the conviction, Stalin ordered their execution for that night.[7] Shortly after midnight, on the morning of August 25, Zinoviev and Kamenev were executed by shooting.
Accounts of Zinoviev's execution vary, with some having him beg and plead for his life, prompting a more stoic Kamenev to tell Zinoviev to quiet down and die with dignity. Regardless, Zinoviev put up such resistance against the guards that, instead of taking him to the appointed execution room, the guards took him into a nearby cell and shot him there.[8]
The execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their associates was a sensational news event in the USSR and around the world, paving the way for the mass arrests and executions of the terror of 1937–1938. Zinoviev and his co-defendants were formally absolved of the spurious charges which led to their deaths by the Soviet government in 1988 during perestroika.
The "Zinoviev Letter"
- For main article, see Zinoviev letter.
Zinoviev is remembered in Britain as the alleged author of the "Zinoviev Letter" which caused a sensation when published on October 25, 1924, four days before a general election. The letter called on British Communists to prepare for revolution. This document is now generally accepted to have been a fabrication, validating the declaration that Zinoviev made in a letter dated 27 October 1924:
"The letter of 15th September, 1924, which has been attributed to me, is from the first to the last word, a forgery. Let us take the heading. The organisation of which I am the president never describes itself officially as the Executive Committee of the Third Communist International; the official name is Executive Committee of the Communist International. Equally incorrect is the signature, The Chairman of the Presidium. The forger has shown himself to be very stupid in his choice of the date. On the 15th of September, 1924, I was taking a holiday in Kislovodsk, and, therefore, could not have signed any official letter....It is not difficult to understand why some of the leaders of the Liberal-Conservative bloc had recourse to such methods as the forging of documents. Apparently they seriously thought they would be able, at the last minute before the elections, to create confusion in the ranks of those electors who sincerely sympathise with the Treaty between England and the Soviet Union. It is much more difficult to understand why the English Foreign Office, which is still under the control of the Prime Minister, MacDonald, did not refrain from making use of such a white-guardist forgery."[9]
- ↑ Transliterated Grigorii Evseevich Zinoviev according to the Library of Congress system.
- ↑ Information from the article on the subject in the 1922 edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ George Leggett. The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-822862-7 page 114
- ↑ Zinoviev cynically referred to this in his eulogy of Uritsky (the chief of the Petrograd Cheka, assassinated on August 30, 1918): "When we read that in Odessa, under Skoropadsky, the rabbis assembled in special council, and there these representatives of the rich Jews, officially, before the entire world, excommunicated from the Jewish community such Jews as Trotsky and me, your obedient servant, and others - no single hair of any of us has turned gray because of grief"; Zinoviev, Sochineniia, 16:224, quoted in Bezbozhnik [The godless], no. 20 (12 September 1938).
- ↑ Stenographic Report of Congress of the Peoples of the East - Session 1
- ↑ Lewis/Lih, Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in Halle, (2011) November Publications, London, pg117-158
- ↑ Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar; Simon Sebag Montefiore, pp. 197
- ↑ Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar; Simon Sebag Montefiore, pp. 188, 193-98
- ↑ Grigorii Zinoviev, "Declaration of Zinoviev on the Alleged 'Red Plot,'" The Communist Review, vol. 5, no. 8 (Dec. 1924), pp. 365-366.
External links
- Grigory Zinoviev Archive, part of Marxists Internet Archive.
- Anatol Lunacharsky on Zinoviev.
- Leon Trotsky on Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev
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|Why would you give a body to the most vile computer program ever created?
"Human Eddy" is the 17th episode in Season 4 of Lab Rats: Bionic Island. It first aired on October 14, 2015. This is the 89th episode overall. It features the last appearance of Eddy, and also his first and only time that his human self appears.
Davenport gives Eddy, the smart home system, a synthetic human body, and he quickly becomes a model employee working alongside Terry. Meanwhile, Chase gets an offer to go to Washington DC to work for the President, but Adam doesn't want him to leave.
Main Cast
- Billy Unger as Chase Davenport
- Kelli Berglund as Bree Davenport
- Spencer Boldman as Adam Davenport
- Tyrel Jackson Williams as Leo Dooley
- Hal Sparks as Donald Davenport
Recurring Cast
- Will Forte as Eddy/Human Eddy
- Maile Flanagan as Terry Perry
- John Eric Bentley as Mr. President
Mentioned Cast
- This is the first episode with Eddy's name in the title.
- This is the twelfth episode to have a character's name in the title. The first 11 being Leo's Jam, Air Leo, Spike's Got Talent, Leo vs. Evil, Adam Up, Trent Gets Schooled, Three Minus Bree, Spike Fright, Adam Steps Up, Spike vs. Spikette, and Bob Zombie.
- This is Eddy's first appearance in Season 4, with his last appearance being Three Minus Bree.
- This is Mr. President's first appearance in Season 4.
- This is possibly the first time Mr. President visits the Bionic Academy.
- This is the third time Eddy has gotten a body, the first two being Missin' the Mission and Three Minus Bree.
- This is Will Forte's only physical appearance on the show.
- It is revealed Eddy hacked into the Academy's system, escaping Mission Creek.
- Eddy got a beard in this episode, even when he was on the wall.
- Adam admitted that he was going to miss Chase if he went to Washington to work with the president, which is why he tried to sabotage Chase's opportunity to work with him.
- Eddy acted like how Spin acted in Adam Steps Up.
- In this episode, Donald makes Eddy nice, but Perry quickly ended Eddy's kindness because she didn't like Eddy that way.
- It is possible that Perry remembers how Eddy was like when they first met in the episode, Mission: Mission Creek High.
- Bree, Leo, and Perry all got put into wall screens at one point or another.
- Oddly enough, there are beginner level students present, even though everyone was promoted up a color level Space Elevator, and since that episode, there has not been a single yellow-level student. They could have been demoted however.
- Eddy disabled Bree's and Leo's bionics with laser cuffs, which is said to block the signal from someone's bionic chip. Leo however, doesn't have a bionic chip.
- When Chase began being followed by Adam, he was in his formal attire, but when they entered the Commons area, and he was in his mentor uniform.
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Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo: Ahhh!
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|You're asking whether I trust my technology more than my children? Yes!
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|Didn't feel a thing, who else wants to not hurt me?
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| Adam: Okay, do you wanna know the real reason why I didn't want you to get the job?
Chase: Oh, this should be really good.
— Adam and Chase
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Why do cyclists shave their legs?
Here are some of the purported reasons:
- It looks sexy and lets you show off your diamond-cut calves.
- It makes postride massage easier and less painful.
- It makes cleaning and treating wounds easier and speeds up healing.
- It's a tradition and part of the sport, so you just do it.
- It makes you faster because it's more aerodynamic than hairy legs.
Depending on who you talk to — whether it's a massage therapist, a doctor, or your partner — there is an argument to justify each of those reasons.
But perhaps the most compelling reason is that shaved legs are faster, at least according to the folks at Specialized, the major California-based manufacturer of performance bicycles, which has a state-of-the-art wind tunnel.
Recently, they set out to determine whether shaved legs were in fact faster than hairy legs.
They tested a number of riders "across the entire spectrum of Chewbacca scale," eventually choosing one cyclist, Keith, who had level-6 hairiness — "fairly dense follicles."
They tested him with hair, and then they tested him without hair, 10 separate times.
The results? They were "shocked" at how big a performance difference they found.
Over 40 kilometers, or about 25 miles, Keith saved 82 seconds — nearly a minute and a half.
Although they found that Keith was on the high end of performance savings, even a rider on the low end could save 50 seconds. That's huge.
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In a bike race or triathlon, where races are won and lost by seconds, and sometimes hundredths of a second, that is an enormous difference.
The closest Tour de France in history was won — after three weeks of racing — by just 8 seconds by American Greg LeMond in 1989.
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Will Keith keep shaving his legs? "Depends on what the girlfriend thinks," he said.
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The Notebook: Could It Be More Obvious?
Now, I'm just as much a paper snob... er, connoisseur as the next guy, but that can be a problem. For example, I have some nice Moleskines, quality sketchbooks and journals that I keep handy, but hardly ever use. Why's that? Well, I suspect that many of you know the feeling: they're too precious to sully with mere idle thoughts, to-do lists, memos for groceries, and so on. They are, in fact, reserved for "special" thoughts, often during long and dry stretches of no use. And yet, a thick planner can be a little too bulky to carry around absolutely everywhere, and index cards have their problems too: it's hard to shuffle a large pile and find things, and the ones with important and frequently-used notes tend to get lost in piles, migrate under books, or slip beneath a keyboard.
I've rediscovered a certain joy lately, and among all the tinkering I've done lately, it was one of the last things to occur to me, even though I did it for years -- seemingly a lifetime ago. It's the act of keeping a portable, messy, continual-brain-dump device known as a notebook.
The main reason for keeping a notebook is precisely that it is not a journal, planner, calendar, commonplace book, or anything overly precious. It's an excuse to slap down any thought, regardless of how permanent you think it is. It is for collecting.
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- It should be inexpensive, but still convey a little quality. Unless you have an affinity for them, stay away from spiral-bound ones and instead opt for one with a real cover and binding. Having a cover that's water-resistant and wipable means that you won't fret taking it out in damp weather or using it at the breakfast table. Most department stores carry these for about $5 USD, and range about 120-150 pages.
- It should fit in your bag that you tote around, ready to use at a moment's notice. If not, you'll never have it handy when you need it.
- Label the inside front cover with your name, email address, phone number, or any other pertinent contact information. On the inside back cover, tape a small reference calendar for the year, such as the one found in the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition, and slap in a small stack of sticky notes (about 6-10).
- On every page, make sure to put the page number (mine is at the bottom) and the date (the top). This way, you can reference things ("see page 23") or see when something happened. Use a sticky to keep your current place, and mark pages that are currently important. As you finish each notebook, label the spine with a number and date range.
- Fodder for your notebook: notes, half-baked ideas, inbox collection, vague musings, quotes, to-do items, snatches of dialogue, meeting notes, recipes, lists, memos, sketches, groceries, appointments, and anything that might prove useful some day.
- Keep your notebook wherever you'll likely to need it. If you come up with ideas while taking a shower (as I do), bring your notebook to the bathroom. (Hence, getting one with a water-resistant cover.) Bring your notebook around the house as you get things done, watch television, surf the net, work in the garage, try out a new recipe, do some transplanting, or sleep (for dreams, insomnia-induced ideas, purging ideas, etc.). Keep it a constant companion.
- Your notebook works well as a continual inbox, but be careful that things aren't lost outside of your planning system. At the end (or beginning) of each day, make it a part of your daily review. Come up with a system to denote what needs to be transferred. For example, I use a circle to mean "move this to my planner", and put a long black line in the margin to make the items stand out. A diagonal stroke through the circle means that it's been already transferred, and another one in the opposite direction (making a cross) means it's been done, so don't worry about it. Some GTD-specific examples:
O NA@Home: Call bank about last car payment
O Cal:01/12: Appointment with nurse for shots
O WF@Work: Frank - Environmental Impact Report (due 02/08)
O File: Frank's contact info: frank @ franklyfrank.com, Work tel (555) 555-5555
O File: Recipe for Frank's killer buffalo wing sauce (see card)
- If you're using the notebook for creative purposes as well, don't forget to transfer the important bits into your system as well, whether that's a dead-tree journal or sketchbook, or software like DEVONthink, Tinderbox, Zoot, Emacs, Word, or just some handy text files. Remember, the notebook is for collection, not filing.
- Spend some quality time with your thoughts. Take the notebook and a pen to your favourite chair, turn off the television, get comfortable, open the book, and just start writing. It's amazing what ideas come to you when your mind is open yet able to focus.
Above all, the most important thing to remember is that it is a notebook. Refer to it thus. It's for notes. It's not a journal, or a diary, or a sketchbook, or anything else precious that you resist writing in. When your mind is cooking, it's there to catch the drippings.
(Ugh. I can't believe I actually wrote that line....)
Minds Cooking
Just need flour for gravy...
Sorry, I just had to.
Getting past the 'too nice
Getting past the 'too nice to write in' is a big step for me too. I also had somewhat of a breakthough when I realised I needed just this sort of notebook. Mine is a 'brain dump' similar to what you describe and I've been using the small Moleskine Cahiers - only a couple of dollars each and the same quality as their big brothers. Less fear factor before using them ...
delicious drippings! plus: reward offer
Nice post, Doug. I guess I'd suggest adding a "Reward if found $50," plus contact info, if the notebook is important to get back if you loose it.
Notebooks and HPDAs
Good thing about the water resistant cover.
I also get ideas while I'm in the shower or sitting in my "throne". I used to have a coverless HPDA and it got wet and the notes smudged when I wrote on them. I DEFINITELY second the water resistant cover as well.
As for the notebooks, I usually separate it from the HPDA , because my notebook is mainly used for references and planning purposes only. Tried placing it all in my HPDA and it got thick and confusing really quick. I presume that if you placed it in a planner it's going to have the same result.
Nice post! Don't worry about the corny mushy statements man. It's ok to get in touch with your "inner feelings".
I highly recommend miquelrius notebooks. Waterproof covers, color-coded pages, subject/date box at the top, and narrow lines. The paper is an excellent quality and inks (fountainpen or rollerball) don't show through at all. They also have quad paper notebooks, if you're into that kind of thing.
You can find the plain-covered notebooks at some Barnes & Noble stores and some art stores (around NYC). They have a bunch of different types (and sizes) at kates paperie on broadway, too. I prefer the lined, 6x8 version. They aren't easy to find online, but they exist.
If you're really into it (and have some time on your hands), there is also apparently a minor online debate about the benefits of moleskine v miquelrius.
I just found this blog post
I just found this blog post comparing the two notebooks. And another.
Here's a link to see examples of the miquelrius lines.
As for me I'm still excited about my new moleskine.
Moleskine and Miquelrius
Thanks for the post Doug; thanks for the mention Anon. I actually like both Miquelrius and Moleskines, each for slightly different purposes.
For personal capture I use Moleskine: sketchbook, grid for ideas, ruled for book notes and a daily diary to capture the day's thoughts. I like the hard cover, bookmark, elastic strap and pocket for these uses. Poocket works well for travel as they can be stowed almost anywhere for immediate use.
Meanwhile, I have a larger A5 Miquelrius with flexible cover and blue gridded for my work sketch ideas for logos, websites and other design related items. The cover is soft and the size is a little larger, allowing me to sketch freely, yet also small enough to carry in my cafe bag and perfectly suited to my preferred drawing scale.
There is some crossover at times, but generally they operate for different purposes. BTW, Miquelrius also offers the fleible cover notebooks in the smaller pocket size -- I have yet to try one of these out.
For more info on each of these notebooks, I've created two Squidoo lenses with resource information:
Hope this information is helpful to someone looking for notebook options and ideas!
We have redesigned the leatherlook notebooks with a strap and you can find them on our retail website ShopMiquelRius.com as the "flexible" books. Thank you for using our products!
Moleskine heretic....
I number the top right hand page in the right hand corner. It's easier to find them that way.
I find the need for an imprimtatur with Moleskine amusing; I'm sure Hemingway et al. had shopping lists and trite thoughts to record. In fact the only one not to was Van Gogh and look what happened to him :O
The right though at the right time. I'm just here trying to reorganize my "paper" life with some notebooks and planners. But planners are simply not the right thing for taking different notes, having only one page a day stops me from being creative ...
I'll go for the notebook + calendar stuff, thanks for inspiring.
Notebooks + SAC inserts
Trying something different the past couple of days. Normally, in my Classic-size planner, I use Satellite Action Card inserts for my Next Actions and Waiting Fors. Since the SACs clip in and out easily, I've been taking them along in my notebook while I roam, as well as a Hipster PDA calendar. I must say, the system doesn't work badly at all. When I get back to the planner, the cards clip back in.
Hmmm... getting an idea for some new templates....
Borders Bookstore has a
Borders Bookstore has a collection of nice, plain vanilla, hard cover journals and sketchbooks for very reasonable prices. As a journal I'm using a 188 page 11' X 8" model that cost $5.99. I also have a $7.99 , 250 page sketchbook with similar dimensions. At those prices I can (and do)write or sketch any dippy thing that comes into my head. Its great!
I'm still using my pocket moleskin for when I go out, because they don't have a pocket size and because the moleskin has a little more cachet :-)
Getting over the "too nice to use" factor.
I employ a trick similar to dumping dirt into a new car to make it less stressful. Simply write some meaningless crap on the first page. Directions, thoughts on lunch, or just scribble. Basically anthing to make it less interesting to future scholars studying your ever-so-interesting life. The important idea is to get *something* trivial written, so you don't think "is this too trivial?" in the future.
Waterproof notebooks
I really love the "Rite in the Rain" brand notebooks for taking notes in the Pacific Northwest. However, they don't work that well with certain pens, they work best with pencils and the "Rite in the Rain" pen.
--Sara, a friend of innowen
The Newton as a notebook
Great article! It helps me to better choose a tool to collect information.
For those who want to go digital, it seems to me that the Newton MessagePad (particularly the 2100) would be a very good equivalent of a paper notebook. I will try both solutions to see which one is best for me.
to nice to write in anonymous
"hi everyone my name's joe and I've been a 'to nice to write in' note book addict now for as long as i can remenber".(quiet applaus from the group).
In Australia, 'Quill' note books come in a vast array of sizes. I'll use oany of the smaller varieties that fit into my little 'Manbag'. however just as Dave Allen says, the ideas and things you have to get done ,pop into your head at the most inopportune times. For me its when I'm in the shower and the car, both situations are not conjusive to writing anything down.so i sue a dictaphone,which seems to work fine i can dump anything into it at any time. My girlfriend should use her ipod for the same purpose with one of those voice conversion attachement doovies, but she doesn't like the sound of her own voice on the thing.
Note books shouldn't be too nice to write in . Whats that guys name? Oh yes Richard Branson he reckons he's got a book case full of the things all full.The point is you can use them and they dont go to waist. Mine are still empty and I continue to buy the 95 cent note books from the news agent.tsk tsk.


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The group agreed to meet twice a year. A second meeting was held in May 2006, focusing on the implications of avian flu for development NGOs, methods of benchmarking employment conditions in the Development NGO sector and organisational policies for preventing and managing stress.


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My name is David Lee and I am the founder of Intervention Services and Technologies, Inc. For many years I was directly and indirectly responsible for helping over one thousand families members get their loved ones to Narconons throughout North America, a program that I once believed in, advocated for, and endorsed. A program that I no longer endorse in any way. I must first state that I am not reacting to anything that Narconon, Scientology or anyone has "done" to me. I am not an angry terminated staff member, or been disconnected (until now, probably), or had a major falling out because of anything personal. I am simply here because of my own conscience, because of what I have seen and the damages that I believe Narconon has done by misleading addicts struggling to find recovery and the families that have often times invested everything they had on the hope that maybe it would work. I would also like to thank Mary McConnell of this site, and also Lucas Catton, without whom I might have not had the courage to make this final step. Around Christmas of 2001, my family found Narconon. I had tried and failed at many traditional approaches. My mother prayed for the right answer and thought it had come in the form of Narconon. Here was something different for her son. It says it has a 76% success rate. For those odds, my mother would have sold her soul to save her son. Instead, she took out a loan that she couldn't afford. If it had been a million dollars she would have found the way to pay it. She just felt that I was dying, that she was losing her son. She knew nothing and was told nothing about Scientology...and off I went.I flew to Canada and found out right away that it had L. Ron Hubbard written all over it. But, at the time, I wasn't mad, I was fascinated. The treatment center was a small and new Narconon that had just opened up in Canada. Only six "students" at a time, but it had about 10 Scientologist staff members. Not Narconon grads, but actual Scientologists. I had never met a Scientologist before. I liked them right away. There the staff told me things that I never heard in an AA meeting. That I didn't have to be an addict forever, that I could be something more. I heard about power, control, confronting my life. I heard about responsibility, the evils of traditional programs and psychiatry, a duty to help others, and having an effect on the world. I heard about changing the world. AA was about humility. This wasn't about humility at all. I never met anyone who encouraged the typical "grand" thinking that I had as an addict. I loved it. I was offered a job almost immediately. Here was something amazing to me. I went to sleep one night a patient. I woke up a staff member. Newly sober, emotionally immature, not stable at all. But now in charge of helping others to find Narconon and, perhaps, Scientology. In the Narconon world, your actual sobriety means very little, I have found. What matters is what "ethics condition" you are in. A strange but attractive philosophy. You could have 2 weeks sober, but after a condition workup, be essentially in a higher level than someone who had abstained for many years. In AA, you had to earn it over years and time. Here, you could find admiration and respect in a few days. We never spoke of "clean time", sobriety dates, or anything like that. It was about conditions, cause, effects, control. After I left I began doing interventions for Narconons across the US. Within 7 years, we kept expanding and were eventually the largest provider of interventions for Narconons that had ever been and perhaps, ever since. Much of that time, I believed that I had a grand purpose. I believed in Narconon, although I would continually relapse. Be taken off lines, taken to a Narconon for a "retread" workup, put back on lines. Throughout all this I still believed in Narconon, I just believed that I had missed something. Sometimes I thought I needed a more thorough PTS handling (identify external factors that were causing you problems), other times it was TR's (training routines) where I would sit in a chair motionless for 10 hours a day, weeks on end. Maybe it was that I hadn't written enough overts (harmful actions, secrets, etc), maybe a more thorough Sauna program. Through it all, it was usually suggested that unless I got on the bridge of Scientology and got into deeper auditing, I would probably never find true stability. I could just never afford what they suggested. "A mere $200k and you can have total freedom" Ouch.I eventually found that I was losing faith in the Narconon program. Not so much because of my lack of stability (I still felt I was the failure), but because of what I saw on a more and more frequent basis amongst other Narconon grads, staff members, and Scientologists. Here are the most major of the concerns that I began having: Narconon Reg's (salespeople) seldom if ever were honest to families that Narconon was based upon L.Ron Hubbard and connected to Scientology. At the time, I was proud of Narconon and couldn't understand why someone who had that philosophy would be ashamed. I've never met a Christian who lied about being a Christian, the bible or their faith. If we suggested to Narconon that we would be transparent, we were usually told not to, that they would "handle that" after the client arrived. Many families arrived without understanding it was connected to Scientology. I would say that 90% of the time families were upset it was because of this issue. It happened almost constantly. Many said they wouldn't have minded if Narconon told them up front, but since they didn't...how can they be trusted now? Every time I did a retread or crossed paths with other Narconon staff members, I found frequent relapsers just like myself, it was just hidden. I remember on occasion where new staff members would approach me in confidence and say that "no one who works here has stayed sober. I'm worried. You know other Narconons. Is this normal, David?". I believe that I only know of less than 10 Narconon graduates who became staff members and stayed 100% sober without picking up a drink or a drug since graduating. Less than 10 out of hundreds and hundreds that I have crossed paths with in the last 10 years. Apparently they too felt that a "condition" state was more important than actual time sober. A strange thing for an organization so adamant about stats. I think that "time sober" should be the most important statistic in a rehab. Perhaps I'm wrong. Many families went to Narconon because they were told of a 76% success rate. In my experience this is simply not true. And when their loved one didn't stay clean, they just assumed they were on the wrong side of the high success rate. Clients were being lied to about counseling at Narconon. Prior to coming in, many families were being told that their loved one would have more "one on one counseling" than anywhere else. In reality, I know and knew that Narconon has almost zero clinical counseling in the traditional sense. The "one on one" aspect they refer to is one addict sitting across from another. Which I guess would mean that the last time I was in Detox I had 20 counselors helping me...unfortunately, they were detoxing clients as well.I was eventually thrown out of Intervention Services and Technologies, Inc due to frequent relapsing. It was the best thing my brother could have done. During my time away, I had much time to reflect upon the truth, the choices that I had made and the life that I lived. I moved into a 12-step halfway house and remained there for 18 months. I am coming up on 4 years clean and sober. A true 4 years sober. I don't know what condition that I am in, but I am happy enough to have real sobriety. I am a current member of traditional recovery. This isn't meant to be a "my recovery vs. Narconon recovery". But I do believe that with true recovery comes honesty, accountability, sobriety and purity. These are things I was taught at Narconon, but didn't actually see much of in my time with them.I sincerely and truly regret that many families that we worked with were being misled. I also regret that I did nothing to prevent it and was a party to getting their loved one's to Narconon without them knowing all the facts. It's ironic that when I was in the Narconon Universe they always said that an "overt of omission" is a "failure to act that results in the harm of another". I could have drawn the line long ago, and regret that I stayed in that universe longer than my conscious gave me warning. I had misgivings long before writing this. I should have made a statement years ago.In the last 3 years since my return at Intervention Services and Technologies, Inc. we have had to come to terms with many things. For a time, we felt that if we promoted 12-step recovery after Narconon, or stopped referring clients there, or if we were transparent with family members about Narconon and its connections with Scientology that would be enough. I, and we, no longer feel that way. And although working with Narconon has all but fallen completely away, I feel that unless I make this statement the door is still open. I and we here at Intervention Services and Technologies, Inc. will officially no longer work in any capacity with any treatment facility that endorses, promotes, or advocates Narconon or Scientology principles.This includes any facility within the actual Narconon Network, Best Drug Rehabilitation in Michigan, and A Forever Recovery. My suggestions to those there are, in my experience, that if you bring any form of Scientology or Narconon principles in your universe you very well may find a lack of recovery, honesty, sobriety, emotional stability, and instead have all the chaos that goes with it. I believe that AFR was designed to be a good place with multiple paths to recovery. I was there in the beginning. However, there comes a time in recovery when you must draw a line in the sand. If one path brings down the others then what have you left? Sooner of later you have to make a choice.I think it is important to understand that most of us who find our way into the Narconon or Scientology universe do so initially because our life had fallen apart. Maybe we had tried other methods, and were desperate to find something different. I, for one, was so grateful in the beginning when I got to Narconon. I didn't know there were other options until then. I had almost given up. In the end, I was so reluctant to let go of Narconon as a recovery path, because I felt it was the last house on the block, even if it wasn't really working for me. Letting go of your last hope isn't always easy. I would like to personally apologize to those here, the family members and addicts who we have worked with through Narconon. If you didn't find success there, I am deeply sorry. I hope that you never give up searching for recovery. And to my staff, many of whom aren't Narconon people, I'd like to apologize for dragging you into a universe that you probably didn't believe or even belong in. It is safe to assume that those who are reading this are not all antagonistic towards Narconon or Scientology. Perhaps you are a fellow ex-coworker at a Narconon, or a former friend. Or perhaps you were sent this, even though you are probably told not to read Black PR sites as I was. So I would like to speak directly to you, the current Narconon staff member. The one who may be there...but is having doubts.Many dozens of ex-Narconon employees have reached out to me over the last several years. The story is always the same. They didn't like the dishonesty. One day you will probably find yourself in the same position that I and many other people have over the years. Should I do what's right or should I do what's easy? Maybe you are passionate about helping others and Narconon gave you a chance to do it. But when you eventually realize, as most of us have, that the relapsing amongst your coworkers is more common than you think, that lying for "the greatest good" is not ok, then you have a choice. What if you find one day...that the success rate isn't true? You can either leave, or get honest about what you sell. But will you be permitted to? Ask and see.And I speak from personal experience here. You may eventually find yourself on a spiritual path of true recovery. And one day you may wake up and you can no longer ignore the voices of the mothers, fathers, brothers and family members who reached out to you in desperation and found hope in Narconon...only to be replaced with major concerns about being misled. Although there have been hundreds, perhaps thousands of family members I have spoken to, one in particular stands out. I wish I remembered her name. I was working at Narconon. I spent an hour on the phone with her and in the end, she was sobbing for joy. "Thank you David, I had given up hope and I now know that my prayers have been answered. Narconon is going to save my son. Thank you, thank you, thank you!" And as I hung up the phone, I was aware of something new that I felt for maybe the first time, in my heart. That Narconon wasn't going to work for her son. She had sold everything that she had on a chance to save her son. I don't know why I think of her more than anyone else. There were many. But, I think, that it is because she probably sounded exactly like my mother when she reached out over 10 years ago and found Narconon. And when my mother hung up the phone, she sold everything that she had for a chance that she believed would now save her poor and lost son.Again, I am not angry at anything that Narconon or Scientology "did" to me. In reality, they never did anything other than try and offer to help me. The lack of honesty about Scientology, counseling and their often posted success rate is what I have the most issue with. To be deceptive about one point opens a whole series of questions about the integrity of the other points. And I don't intend to single any one person or entity out. Anything that I speak of can probably be found at most Narconons. I am fully responsible for the choices and decisions that I have made in my life. I know there are probably some that have found a great life after Narconon and I don't want to take that away. I know of others, who although still relapsing, have found post-Narconon life better than the alternative. I was never a "great" example of a Narconon graduate, staff member or even of a Scientologist. I doubt I would be considered, at any time, their "golden boy" and probably know less about Scientology than the people on these sites. I just traveled in many, many Narconon circles. And I can only speak of my experiences, thoughts and feelings, and how they have changed over the years.I doubt Narconon will change. I doubt they will tell everyone who calls that they are connected to Scientology. I doubt they will really evaluate their posted success rates and how the program is "sold" over the phone. But, I do know, that for as long as they don't...there are others who will.Sincerely,David LeeFounderIntervention Services and Technologies, Inc.
There the staff told me things that I never heard in an AA meeting. That I didn't have to be an addict forever, that I could be something more. I heard about power, control, confronting my life. I heard about responsibility, the evils of traditional programs and psychiatry, a duty to help others, and having an effect on the world. I heard about changing the world.AA was about humility. This wasn't about humility at all. I never met anyone who encouraged the typical "grand" thinking that I had as an addict. I loved it.
Hi David. I have been investigating Narconon Fake referral and other websites that referred to Narconon, for nearly two years now. I had a meeting with SQ Intelligence Police, the Canada Competition Bureau, 3 Senators in 3 countries, and a meeting with the FBI in Oklahoma, as well as other authorities I can not mention yet.I also, was at Narconon Trois-Rivieres as a patient and Registrar, Graduate Officer and Course Supervisor. I was only a Reg for a short period of time because I refused to participate in their "Conspiracy to Commit Fraud" operations.I'm very pleased to see that you are speaking out and have stopped referring to Narconon and their Clones. BRAVO!!! I'm sure you know some of the same Fake Referral owners that I do, but I won't mention names on this open Forum. A while back, three prominent Fake Referral websites shut down in Canada. One generic, one depicting Toronto, and another depicting Fort McMurry. These sites were backed by one of the richest assetts in North America (enough said). Although these sites are still up (because 5 years were paid in advance), the Toll free has been down for quite some time. I view the owner of these sites as my Friend and we chat often. The owner, as you did, saw the light of deception etc, and has moved onto other business ventures that are legit.QUESTION??? A couple of these past Narconon referral website AND intervention site owners, are aware of ongoing investigations and they are willing to testify. Apparently, this testimony should give them immunity from prosecution. Are YOU willing to gives States evidence? Are YOU willing to be interviewed by mainstream Media? Would YOU be willing to talk to me on the phone for an interview for an article in the Examiner and Canada News Wire?David, the far reaching ramifications of you speaking out now, "MAY" cause you some untold grief from Scientology's OSA - - are you prepared for this?All this ^^^ said; once again, THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING OUT!!! David Edgar Love.


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Wedding Photography Tip #3 – Engagement / Lifestyle / Getting to Know You Session
As a wedding photographer, I'm often asked what I enjoy photographing the most. Of the wedding day, I'd say it's the time between the ceremony and reception and/or the first dance.
If a person has booked a wedding package with me, they will receive a complementary engagement session (this is sometimes called a "getting to know you session" or a "lifestyle session"…among other things). This is truly the most fun I probably will have with the couple and is the session I enjoy the most. Why, because there are no rules. Usually there is no time frame, usually there are no boundaries and I get to losen the couple up and get them to just have some fun.
I, as a photographer, have an ulterior motive. I want to learn how far I can push the couple, how they interact with each other and quite probably how they will interact with each other on the wedding day. I am very upfront about my objectives and tell the couple what I'm looking for and what I expect from them at the beginning of the session. The guys usually roll their eyes, the girls usually say, "we ARE going to have fun." In the end I've only had one guy, in over 100 engagement sessions, ever say he thought it was a lot of work. Mission accomplished…some super fun photos for the couple, a learning day for me, a day I get to experiment and push my boundaries a little and in the end a couple that will be happy they spent that 1.5 hours with me…getting to know their photographer.
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