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Dads. If you're lucky, they teach you a load of different stuff as you grow up, some of which you need, some of which you don't but they like to teach you anyway. In this respect, my Dad started off well but tailed off towards the end and specifically when it came to teaching me how to shave, he was a man of traditional tastes. Preferring his double edge stainless steel razor, over the two, three or five bladed modern inventions that he always regarded with a skepticism that bordered on the militant end of suspicious. As such, as soon as I left home, and in a display of youthful ill gained confidence I, obviously, ignored him completely. Coincidentally, for my 18th birthday I was sent a free razor by Wilkinson Sword in a move that proved more cunning than a fox who had just been ordained as Grand High Wizard of Cunning at the Official Church of Cunningology. Needless to say I've been sucked in to their lubricating stripped, multiple bladed, vibrating handled, flip topped progress ever since. That is, until now…
We met the guys behind The Modern Man by chance, before Christmas and we started to ask them about the 'Male Grooming' scene. I'll happily admit that SuburbanGent is far more into his grooming* than me but as John talked about the huge increase in the diversity of shaving products targeted specifically at men, I began to wonder if my beard oil and Hydro 3 combo was starting to look a little dated. What then was next? Where are we going and what should we be looking out for? The answer that came back from The Modern Man was very clear: when it comes to shaving, these days it's time to go Old School.
Shaving, the way it used to be
To prove their point that my Dad actually knew what he was talking about, The Modern Man sent through a few new modern twists on the old classic products for us to try; a brush, a moisturiser and two different shaving treatments. First up, I took a closer look at the Vie-Long brush. John tells me with an authority which I find hard to doubt, that traditionally these are made from badger hair. Did you know that? I didn't. Quite apart from the PR nightmare that is a mental image of a load of shaved badgers running around a farm somewhere in Eastern Europe to provide hair for my Dad's favourite shaving accessory, I welcome Vie-Long's dedication to revive the appeal of the shaving brush with sustainable, cruelty free pure horse hair. It's a wonderful thing to look at too sitting on your shelf, plus it has a strangely pleasing prickle against your skin. I decided that we had started well.
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Next up, was a shaving cream and biscuit. The cream from MenRock loaded onto the brush really nicely and the slight citrus scent from the lime was strong and fresh. There is no need to create a lather as the cream layers on your chin very well. However, the cream kind of dried and caked on my face like a face mask which meant that the shave turned a bit unpleasantly gooey half way through. This made it very difficult to see what was going on but also meant I got lubrication with every stroke so swings and roundabouts there. The end result was pretty good though, smooth and fresh if pretty messy.
The biscuit from Dear Barber comes in a very classy wood effect pot (it ain't wood but you would never know on the shelf), and requires you to wet the brush and create a lather on the top before applying it to your face with the brush. The smell of this stuff is the smell of my Dad, back in the early years before the whiskey; it's the smell of happy memories. Shaking off the rose-tinted glow of reminiscence, I noticed that application on the face is softer and thinner than MenRock's offer but still provided great coverage, and although there was a little bit of goo when the lather settled into a cream when on the face, it didn't crack or dry and wasn't disagreeable at all. The finished shave was significantly better than the other cream as well, softer, smoother and needless to say much easier to clean.
Finally, I used the moisturiser from American Crew with both shaves and having never used one post cut before (despite SuburbanGents insistence that it should be an essential part of every mans grooming practice), I'll fully admit that I came at it from a very wary position. Real men were red raw, stubbley and slightly flaking around the edges, weren't they? Well, I'm not in a position to truly judge the effectiveness of American Crew as it's the only moisturising cream I've ever used, but what I can say is that it had me at the first palm softening moment I allowed it near my skin. It cooled, it softened and it relaxed my face in one single move, it was nothing short of a revelation. Real men be damned, this is my future and I love it.
So is the Modern Man learning old tricks?
So, Gentlemen one and all, allow me this moment to confirm and cry from the roof tops; I am a convert, I have been radicalised, I am an Apostle to the true believers – never again will I suffer with greasy oil or dry and chapped skin. I have rediscovered that the joy of a good shave is to learn the lessons of the past; shaving is a process of preparation, dedication and moisturisation. Of course, there will always be a place for a tight trim, or the kind of Brian Blessed beard you can lose a badger in. But right now as I lather up my shaving biscuit and squeeze out another dollop of American Crew, I can finally admit that my Dad was right about something at least.
The Modern Man sent us these products to take a look at because they think they're pretty good and from what I've seen I can't disagree. They stock a huge range of brands and will ship worldwide for free on orders over £15, plus they are running a deal to give you the American Crew moisturiser for free if you spend over 30 quid. That seems like a pretty good deal to us so check them out here: TheModernMan.co.uk
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weekly mix #1
As you might have noticed, there was no final mix for 2012. I kind of ran out of time and decided to just move on. I may post a little top ten or so of my most played tracks this year, but we'll see. Here we are already a week into 2013.
- U2 – A Sort of Homecoming
- The Lighthouse and The Whaler – Little Vessels
- The National – Afraid of Everyone
- William Fitzsimmons – Find Me To Forget
- Eagle Seagull – You're The Reason Why I'm Afraid To Die
- The Detroit Cobras – Let's Forget About The Past
- Blood Orange – Champagne Coast
- Freedom Or Death – This Crowded Room
- My Brightest Diamond – Of Fear and Wonder (I Found A Universe)
- Son Volt – Windfall


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Ada Cecilia Bersoza Hernández '15 is a Biology concentrator from Monterrey, Mexico interested in ecology. She will be working with Professor Dov Sax (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and Dr. Qinfeng Guo (USDA Forest Service) to explore the extent to which climate conditions limit species high-latitude or high-elevation boundaries. She will compare temperatures experienced by woody plant species across North America at their highest latitude and altitude to help inform the extent to which climate per se (as opposed to other factors) limits species distributions. This analysis will provide insights that will be used to help develop conservation approaches in the context of climate change. Ada also is a 2014 Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. '45 UTRA awardee and co-funded by the University's UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards) program.
Alyssa L. Browning '15 is a dual concentrator in Environmental Science and Religious Studies interested in the intersection between humans and nature. She has recently returned from South Africa where she spent the spring semester studying savanna ecology and conservation. Alyssa hopes to build a career conducting applied research within the paradigm of strategic adaptive management and community-based conservation. This summer, Alyssa is working in conjunction with Christopher Neill (Brown University EEB, Marine Biological Lab) and Matthew Pelikan (The Nature Conservancy) to evaluate the efficacy of homeowner implemented land restoration on Martha's Vineyard, MA. Their evaluation of vegetation structure as well as butterfly and bee abundance and diversity will help inform conservation strategies taken to improve habitat connectivity on the island.
Steven Hagerty '15 is an Environmental Science and Economics concentrator interested in conservation biology, environmental policy and management of natural resources. He is working with Professor Mark Bertness (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and Stephen Smith (Cape Cod National Seashore/National Park Service) to analyze how recreational overfishing ultimately affects small marine invertebrates that live in coastal Cape Cod. This research should help more clearly identify the structure of New England salt marsh food webs, the complete effects of human activity in coastal ecosystems as well as general implications for trophic cascades. Steve leads trips for Brown Outdoor Leadership Training and volunteers for Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression. He enjoys backpacking and poetry.
Allie Reilly '15 is an Environmental Studies concentrator most interested in reconciling human society and the environment through policy. As a New Jersey resident, she is using her personal curiosities sparked by her family's own experience with Hurricane Sandy to fuel her research. In collaboration with Caroline Karp (Environmental Studies) and Amanda Martin (RI Statewide Planning Program), she will be researching whether Hurricane Sandy had any impacts on coastal management policies in the Northeast. The research process will include legal examination of municipal ordinances, followed by a survey of and interviews with local government officials to understand how they respond to events like Hurricane Sandy. This work hopes to inform coastal management practices, and highlight policies that are adaptive in light of climate change and its subsequent impacts on the coast. Allie also is a 2014 Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. '45 UTRA awardee and co-funded by the University's UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards) program.
Elena Suglia '15 is a Biology concentrator interested in ecology, conservation, and science communication. She is working with Professor Mark Bertness (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) to determine the effects of sea level rise on salt marshes in New England. Salt marshes provide many ecosystem services but are becoming increasingly degraded by human impacts; therefore, their preservation is an important issue. Elena's research will help inform conservation and management of coastal ecosystems in a warming world. Elena is from Rhode Island, and enjoys sailing, skiing, and kayaking. At Brown, she is a rugby player, Science Policy director of student-led science magazine The Triple Helix, and an undergraduate teaching assistant.


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The Latest in Green Burials: Be Buried In a Coral Reef
Image via: Getty Images
When it comes to death, this is a topic most people don't like to talk about, but when environmentalists get involved, there is a debate to be had. Are you tossed overboard? Are you buried in a biodegradable cardboard box? Are you cremated? Each of these has weighty pros and cons, and now you can add being memorialized in a coral reef to the list.The Neptune Society, the largest cremation company in the US, has come up with a way to dispose of those ashes, by creating a 16-acre coral reef system off the coast of Miami, Florida - the largest man-made coral reef in the world. The Neptune Memorial Reef, as it is called, is certified by the Green Burial Council, meaning that it is built to last, promotes marine life in the area and is free of harmful materials.
Underwater image of the Neptune Memorial Reef. Image via Neptune Memorial Reef
Currently over 100 individuals are memorialized in this reef and you can watch an underwater video of the coral reef on their website. Even if you are not cremated by Neptune Society facilities, you can still take the remains of a loved one and have them installed at this site. Essentially, the remains will be turned into molds in their Miami studio and then affixed inside the different "Lost City" structures that they have installed on this first phase of the reef. Plus, they will affix a bronze plaque to the structure where your loved one remains and give you a photo album with images from the installation.
Neptune Memorial Reef system plan and burial location options. Image via: Neptune Memorial Reef
It starts to get a little cheesy when they describe the coral site as an "undersea tribute to life" and "a recreation of the legendary Lost City," - we assume they're referring to Atlantis. The creators also added "bronze statues of lions, majestic columns and sculptures of shells and starfish" which they claim was created using a non-polluting process, though the energy used to make the structures and transport them down into the ocean and install them (both the initial site and each installation of new "residents") constitutes quite a carbon footprint. Tour groups and divers are allowed down into the area of the reef, and there are reports that marine life has increased 60% in the area since installation.
Image via: Neptune Memorial Reef
While cremation itself does have its environmental downsides (namely energy use and mercury pollution), using your "remains" to build new habitat for marine life isn't a bad way to go. To be certified by the Green Burial Council, the reef must be free from harmful materials - since there tend to be metal and mercury remnants after cremation, we wonder if those are removed prior to installation in the reef. According to the Green Burial Council policy, they won't "require mercury pollution be mitigated" until 2010 when "cost-effective technologies are expected to be available."
While cremation is better than other burial options, we're not sure that encasing your remains inside of an already built reef structure is the greenest option either. For those who go ahead with it, maybe instead of leaving flowers on someone's grave, or memorializing their ashes in an urn in your living room, you'll take the family on a scuba diving trip and visit lost loved ones under the sea.
More on Eco-Friendly Burials
The Last Act - Green Burials
Green Eyes On: Green Funerals
Swedish Town Recycles Heat from Cremations
Design Cemeteries for the Living, Not Just the Dead


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The future of semiconductors is not chips: Instead of fabricating circuits on chips and soldering them to printed-circuit boards, Canadian researchers propose painting transparent "solution processed" circuits directly onto a device's surface. Such semiconductor circuits--from emitters for large-area displays to detectors for spray-on solar cells--could drastically lower the cost of electronic devices, the group says. The first beneficiaries could be night vision goggles for the military that would be 10 times more sensitive, yet less expensive, than today's models. But that is just the beginning, according to the team at the University of Toronto, because now spray-on circuits no longer have to sacrifice performance to attain low cost. Besides being inexpensive to mass-produce, the photodetector material could post a tenfold sensitivity increase for military night vision systems, which image in infrared, as well as for biomedical imaging systems that use infrared to see through skin.
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Watching a "behind the scenes" clip of Walk Off The Earth crafting a new music video, I was delighted to hear producer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gianni Luminati talk about the band's goals.
It brought up a question that has been debated for (at least) a few millennia: IS IT BEST TO SET GOALS THAT ARE REALISTIC?
Entire forests have been laid waste to print the thousands of books on goal-setting that tell you to create attainable, achievable, S.M.A.R.T. goals, etc. (We'll leave aside the books telling you that goals are harmful; just try running your business without any.) But let's have this post settle the question once and for all and save further trees. (NB: eBooks will not be making print books obsolete anytime soon. You read it here first.)
So if you're a team of top performers—whether it's a software development team, an executive committee, a sales team, or a rock band—do you really want to be setting realistic goals? NO, NEIN, NON, NYET, BU! Of course you don't want to set goals that are pure fantasy, but it's important to set them way beyond what's predictable. (As motivational author Paul Arden says, "Most people are reasonable; that's why they only do reasonably well.")
In the spirit of that, Luminati points out in the vid below (at the 3:35 mark): "Sometimes we like to make our goals just out of reach. You may not get it, but it's the only way to really push yourself to the point where something really cool can happen." Nicely put.
But I better include some caveats.
1. You should pursue your ambitious goals in a spirit of SERIOUS PLAY (the title of the innovation classic by MIT's Michael Shrage). This means that you take the outcomes seriously, but you maintain a sense of play throughout, which enables creative thinking and experimentation. There's nothing worse than a team with tunnel vision doing grim and lifeless work. Celebrate successes and failures. Play around with stuff. Keep it a little crazy. (I write about this in detail in my upcoming book—how rock bands are always at play when they're at work.)
2. Tie the goals to something that matters. This is where a sense of mission or purpose is important. So what if your team or organization produces a dazzling product, slashes time-to-market, or gains a big chunk of the market? What will THAT accomplish? The original Apple Macintosh team in 1984 wasn't just launching a new product. They were on "a mission from God"—as one team member later put it—to revolutionize computing. In Steve Jobs' words they were out to "make a dent in the universe." At the other end of the grandiosity scale I witnessed an employee involvement team dedicate itself to producing a company picnic in three weeks' time (an ambitious enough goal), but their purpose was to create a WOW! event that would bring employees together for the first time outside of work and begin to create an experience of family in the organization. That got the team inspired—which helped them pull it off.
3. If your team busts its hump but fails to achieve that demanding goal, make sure that the team is acknowledged and appreciated for the work, that their failure is celebrated (really!), that lessons are learned, and that the chapter is closed. Of course this usually does NOT happen (which keeps consultants like myself happily employed). In the case of that original Macintosh team, when they failed to meet their sales target there was: (1) no formal appreciation for their work; (2) no celebration; (3) no lessons-learned huddle; (4) no closure or completion. Dispirited, the team members left Apple soon thereafter. Of course the team was eventually credited by business historians for the dent they actually made, but that was years later, after they had all moved on.
4. This goal-setting approach only works if you don't already have a history of failing at the particular goals you're pursuing. To give a non-business example, people who are always setting goals for weight loss (or in my case, weight gain) and failing to achieve them SHOULD be setting more realistic, attainable goals. (My new goal is to be able to turn sideways in the mirror and not disappear.)
It's no surprise that research indicates that top-shelf performers and teams are most turned on when they're pursuing a tough—but not impossible—goal. In a time when everyone is looking to grab or retain top talent, that's an important if obvious fact.
But, you ask, what if your team isn't made up of top performers? Set ambitious goals anyway. Most people are hungry for a bigger game to play. With proper support they can develop into a top performing team. And make sure they learn to seriously play.
And what do you do about the naysayers who don't believe you can do it? As WOTE's Sarah Blackwood told me: "There are very few people telling us we can't make things happen, and the ones who do, we tell them to go f#%@ themselves and then we make it happen." (WOTE seems to be writing the book on team lessons from rock!)
Speaking of which, here's another new WOTE video.
For my interview with Blackwood, check here.


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That being said, here are some of my favorite 2011 memories.
2011 was a year of life changes, or more accurately, life realizations. Friendships were lost while others grew stronger. I realized how blessed my life is and need to focus on what I have and how to make it better and not on what I want and can never have. Steps were taken to improve my health, which, in turn, is improving my quality of life. I starting focusing on more attainable goals as opposed to just high hopes. This is the year I've asked for help. My hopes for 2012 are that I continue to grow, continue to appreciate the little things. Continue to ask for help. I don't make New Year's resolutions. I do reflect and see which direction I would like my life to take though. I'm on a good road right now and I plan on staying right where I am and evolve with the changes around me. Doesn't seem difficult or even something to strive for, but for me, it's huge. I don't deal well with change. I'm learning. My hope is that 2012 is that I don't fall off the road I'm on and I can continue to make positive changes in my life.
That being said, here are some of my favorite 2011 memories.
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The hugin assistant automates nearly everything needed to create a panorama, just follow these three steps:
1. Load images...
Click on the Load images... button to select the photos you want to use in your panorama.
This tries to identify the field of view of your photos by looking at (EXIF) information stored by the camera itself. If this fails you need to enter the field of view manually, or let hugin calculate it from the Focal Length and Focal length multiplier.
Also select a matching Lens type from the drop-down list. If you are unsure try the default Normal (rectilinear).
2. Align...
Click on Align... to use an automatic tool such as autopano-sift to match images, then use the internal hugin optimiser to align them, correct exposure and white balance. The result will appear in the hugin Preview window, if this looks good then click the next Create panorama... button. Otherwise you will need to make some changes to the project in the tabs of the hugin Main window.
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text: Weekend Round Up It was an incredibly busy weekend for triathlon at home and abroad with multiple races taking place in all corners of the country, and Ireland's Age Groupers, paratriathletes and elite triathletes in action at the European championships in Kitzbuehel.Doherty and Murphy the Best in WestportLocal elite athlete Con Doherty and Belpark's Ellen Murphy took home the honours from Westport Triathlon in Co. Mayo on Saturday.Doherty cruised to victory, leading the race from the gun and crossing the line in 55mins 39secs - three and a half minutes ahead of second placed man Kevin Keane, who came home 19secs ahead of teenager Ben Ryan in third.Things were closer in the women's event but again the winner - Ellen Murphy - led strongly for most of the race and came home with a time of 1hr 4mins 49secs.Her Belpark teammate Maeve McMaher Williams finished second 1min 10secs later with Caron Ryan from Predator Triathlon Club coming home in third place 35secs later.Results and ImagesProvisional results from Westport Triathlon are available on the club's website.A gallery of more than 250 images from the day, taken by TI Media's Martin Jancek is available on Triathlon Ireland's facebook page and on Martin's Flickr page. Ireland Represents at Kitzbuehel In Austria, a large contingent of athletes across all levels competed in at the ETU European Championships in Kitzbuehel.First up were the paratriathletes who encountered tough conditions on Friday morning with low temperatures and alpine rain accompanying their race.Torrential rain greeting the para athletes at #ETUKitzbuhel this morning @tri_irelandpic.twitter.com/abdXyaAlZj — Mark Kelly (@thewateredge) June 16, 2017Tojo Lazzari finished 9th in the men's PTS4 race, where Garrett Turbett finished 11th.In the men's PTS5 race, Aidan McGlynn finished in 8th place.Caroline O'Leary finished 7th in the women's PTS5 race while in the women's PTHC race, Fiona McCormack came home in 6th place.Kitzbuehel Age GroupersSun sets on another amazing day at #ETUKitzbuhel, well done all @tri_ireland athletes. Tough course, very hot conditions pic.twitter.com/sH2FeOp7fm — Mark Kelly (@thewateredge) June 18, 2017The weather improved later in the weekend for the Age Group athletes, where Finbarr McGrady claimed the best result of the weekend by finishing 4th in the 40-44 Male Age Group. June McMinn was the best of the female competitors - she finished 5th in her 55-59 AG.Other results from Kitzbuehel include: Dympna Kelly - 11th in the 35-39 Female AGEmer Sandham - 20th in the 35-39 Female AGWilliam Desmond - 41st in the 35-39 Male AGCeline McPhilips - 22nd in the 40-44 Female AGSonya Schwaller - 34th in the 40-44 Female AGRosemary Gibson - 36th in the 40-44 Female AGGer Cronin - 44th in the 45-49 Male AGCiaran Campbell - 71st in the 45-49 Male AGIan Steele - 58th in the 50-54 Male AGAnne Morrissey - 7th in the 55-59 Female AGOwen Barron - 29th in the 55-59 Male AGDermot Connolly - 41st in the 55-59 Male AGThomas Linton - 51st in the 55-59 Male AGDavid Cochrane - 52nd in the 55-59 Male AGPeter McLaughlin - 22nd in the 60-64 Male AGKeith Scott - 40th in the 60-64 Male AGWilliam Rees - 10th in the 65-69 Male AGThere was disappointment however for Russell White who dnf'd in the men's elite race Valenta, Dunmore East, Monkstown, Portrush & BlessingtonCillian Tierney marked his return to racing with victory at the Harman Valentia Triathlon in Kerry where he won the men's race ahead of Patrick Quinn in 2nd and Oran Kane 3rd.In the women's race, Denise Casey won ahead of Ciara Tierney in 2nd and Caroline Kilty in 3rd.Stephen Kelleghan has a gallery of great images on our facebook page from what has to be one of the most spectacular locations for a triathlon anywhere and you can find provisional results from the race here.In Mullaghmore, Barney McCullagh and Sasha Gannon won the long running MSC Triathlon with Gary Higgins and Kate Fitzpatrick in 2nd; and Gareth Gallagher and Ellie McArdle in 3rd.Results for MSC TriathlonFurther south, in Dunmore East, Kieran Jackson and Cathy Drinan won the Hook or by Crook sprint distance triathlon over Sebastian Helga and Nuala Carroll in 2nd; and Enda Bagnall and Eimear Matthews in 3rd.Provisional Results Here Meanwhile in Co. Cork, local athletes Donnacha Kiely and Joyce Wolfe won Monkstown Sprint Triathlon - full results hereWhat a super day out at Blessington Tri. Well done all in scorching heat. @BelparkTri looking forward to hosting race in 2018 pic.twitter.com/46AyXCH2qi — David Power (@dapower) June 18, 2017In Co. Antrim more than 150 people raced the Causeway Coast Triathlon with Dominic McAllister and Sonia Knox winning - Results are available on Champion Chip IrelandAnd finally, in Co. Wicklow, Blessington Triathlon staged standard, sprint distance and Aquabike events in perfect conditions.Full results are available here.


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Born in Berlin, Hans Epstein was educated in Switzerland and Bavaria, obtaining his PhD in 1934 with highest honours. Leaving Germany to escape Nazi persecution he secured an appointment in the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, where, at the suggestion of Robert Macintosh, he worked on the design of more reliable anaesthetic inhalers.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 Epstein joined the Nuffield Anaesthetics Department and was set to design simple portable apparatuses for field conditions. The result was the Oxford Vaporizer, which made use of the latent heat of fusion of calcium chloride crystals to maintain a constant vapour concentration. Nuffield's car factory in Oxford manufactured some 3,000, which were used in all campaigns. Epstein designed other vaporizers, to which his name or initial is often attached; the Emotril for obstetric analgesia, the EMO, and the Oxford miniature vaporizer.
Epstein also participated in the experiments in which Edgar Pask was the subject on the design of a safe life-jacket, and in studies on oxygen tension in airmen at varying altitudes. He was co-author of the textbook Physics for the Anaesthetist, which went through four editions, and he taught and lectured widely until his death, aged 93.


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Goodbye Planet GNOME
I have been a Planet GNOME blogger for almost three years now. Every post has been a pleasure. I learned some truly odd and interesting things, like how to strangely pass parameter in C and how the kernel reads shebangs.
For over two years PGO has put up with my oddities, like buying AskJeevesMom.com. I never received warnings to stay on topic. The GNOME community is the most friendly and welcoming online community I know. #gnome-hackers was my home as a teenager and I don't think I heard a dirty word once. The GNOME community simply rocks.
Knowing that my posts end up on PGO has always made blogging seem like a bold and glorious undertaking, though I felt a midget among giants. My posts end up on the same page where HP blogs and Mark Shuttleworth announces.
Tonight I'm saying goodbye because in three weeks my blog will be removed from PGO and I support that decision.
You see, my blog was once about GNOME and Linux. When I was added to PGO in 2009, I was a new and passionate GNOME user who blogged about Zeitgeist. Today I use OS X and occasionally GNOME 2. I used to be passionate about FOSS, but nowadays I'm a student and I'm just happy if I eat two meals a day, preferably with a cup of fresh squeezed orange juice, assuming that isn't over-budget, but of course it always is.
It has been a pleasure. If you want to follow me, subscribe to my blog's RSS feed, follow @aantn or plus me - or even just email me. Do people still use RSS? I still use email.
Hi Natan, I know it's hard to find time to contribute when you're a student, but every little bit goes a long way to helping GNOME! I suggest that in the coming weeks, find one or two things to improve about GNOME – help us write an article for the annual report or update some information on our website – and apply for membership! It's not too late. You don't need to grow into a champion GNOME hacker all at once, and small things help us a lot. I can't comment on OS X though
I also support the decision. PGO needs more ham.
> I'm not going to apply for GNOME membership because I don't deserve it.
I disagree with that. Everybody who has ever helped making GNOME more awesome deserves that batch. Forever. But you may of course set a higher bar for yourself.
So if you feel you're not involved enough with GNOME to go through the process of applying for membership, I'm fine with that, too. But it really has nothing to do with you not deserving it.
Thanks for your great work (I remember you from GHOP) and quite interesting blogposts! Hope to see you around again when you have more time again.
Natan, I do agree with Benjamin about that. Everybody's help are welcome and everyone who helped deserve to be recognized. Note that being a GNOME Foundation member is not only about hacking. We have some members who never written a single line of code, but their work in design, marketing, art, documentation, many other areas, and even on bureaucratic things (like me, being part of GNOME Foundation Membership Committee) are important to keep GNOME rocking, as WE ARE!
Just wanted to say: although I still do use GNOME on a daily basis, as of late your blog posts about things like ACTA, etc. have been the reason I've stopped by PGO every couple of days. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!


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Computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) have been spamming us. They admit it too. In an effort to get a better understanding of the deeper workings of SPAM they infiltrated a network of SPAMMERS and sent out almost 350 million e-mail messages within 26 days. To find out how effective SPAM actually is they set up a fake pharmacy campaign but showed an error message when people actually submitted their credit card details. They found out that only 28 people actually bought something which means they got a 0.00001% response rate.
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Following the breakdown of a marriage, civil union or de facto union, the former spouses can share the pension benefits accrued in a supplemental pension plan subject to the Act respecting supplemental pension plans . Spouses formerly in a marriage or civil union When partitioning their family patrimony, spouses formerly in a marriage or civil union must consider the pension benefits accrued in their supplemental pension plans during the marriage or civil union. They should consult a lawyer to find out if the benefits are covered by their matrimonial regime, in particular if they have renounced partition of the family patrimony. Spouses formerly in a de facto union Spouses formerly in a de facto union, including same-sex spouses, can partition the benefits accrued in a supplemental pension plan after the breakdown of their union on the basis of a written agreement made within 12 months following the breakdown. Statement of benefits accrued in a pension plan (estimate)
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The air was crisp and cool. My eyes took in my surroundings, mesmerized. My breath quickened as my eyes rested on it. How big it was! I couldn't believe it! It was thick but even as a teenager I thought I was ready. I reached out and grabbed it, the lightness surprising me. I hesitated at the size but I knew that it was what I wanted: the John Lennon biography.
I was with my family and my mom's sister's family at Half Price Books in outer Cincinnati. This was the first time I'd ever been to a bookstore where everything was half off. It was a brilliant concept to me. Where I grew up, we had to drive twenty minutes to the nearest bookstore and even then, everything was at list price. Upon learning about Half Price Books, I began a long and financially draining relationship with it.
It really wasn't until I moved to a bigger city that I got to appreciate the chain of (for lack of a better description) book pawn shops. There were two in the area at the time and it took me another three years into college to realize that most of my "textbooks" (literature books, really) could be bought there at a fraction of the cost than at the campus bookstore.
Since then, I've remained ever close to HPB. Yes, I've strayed and shopped at other stores. I even work at another chain but I still love HPB. I can't go every day or even every week so I go when I can and every time I do, something has changed between us (mostly the stock). But I am still welcomed and I feel at home when I walk through those doors. However, if I were to even glance at HPB when depressed, I will be tempted to part with significant amounts of money in exchange for a weight to burden. Sometimes afterwards I feel guilty and dirty that I'd succumbed to the temptation. It's downright sinful.
HPB has been there for me, too, though. A few times I've been in a financially sticky situation and have gone to HPB to get some money. I turned to HPB to cleanse myself of DVDs that I was wasting my life watching. We have a give and take relationship and it mostly works for us.
There are now four stores in the city. Mom and Dad have none close to them where they are (that would be a deal breaker for me) so when they come to visit, it's not hard for me to persuade them to go to HPB. Mom visited this weekend (Dad had to stay behind to work). We started just going to one location. Mom brought some books to sell but what money she got for her stack of books was quickly depleted as she and I ransacked the place for books we wanted.
Mom and I have the same routine: go to the clearance section first and then hunt in other areas. If we pick up a book that's not a dollar, go back to the clearance section and make sure that another copy of the title isn't there. Other rules include not grabbing a cart or basket until absolutely necessary (in hopes of not getting too much) and if we're not sure if we'll like the author of the book we're looking at, go ahead and get it if it's a dollar.
This weekend Mom and I danced our routine with not one, not two, not three, but all four HPB. The escapade left us exhausted but ecstatic. We found a lot of great books and all but a few of them were only a dollar. What can I say? I love HPB, and I'm sure it feels the same way about me.
Here's a picture of our loot from our weekend extravaganza. My pile is on the left and Mom's is on the right. My pile is slightly taller than Mom's, which is good since she was trying to get rid of books this weekend, not replace them all!


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The report said that Carnivore provides investigators with no more information than is permitted by a given court order and that it poses no risk to Internet service providers.
At the same time, the report warned that Carnivore "does not provide protections, especially audit functions, commensurate with the level of the risks," and that the lawfully collected information could be lost or corrupted by "physical attacks, software bugs or power failures."
Carnivore was designed by the FBI to track the electronic correspondence of suspects. Privacy experts have raised concerns that the program, which is installed at Internet service providers, is capable of also collecting the email of people who are not under investigation.
In response to those concerns, the Department of Justice commissioned the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to examine the technology. In its report released Tuesday, IIT said Carnivore "reduces, but does not eliminate" the risk of unauthorized interception of electronic communication by the FBI.
"We are overall pleased with the findings," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. "They are quite positive and substantiate the contentions that we've made all along--that when the Carnivore system is performed accurately it only provides investigators with the information it is designed for under a court order."
Critics of Carnivore, however, said the review raised more questions than it answered.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which has sued the FBI to release its Carnivore-related documents, said the report showed that Carnivore could easily be used to collect private information not permitted under the law.
"If it's that easy for the FBI to accidentally collect too much data, imagine how simple it would be for the agents to do so intentionally," EPIC attorney David Sobel said in a statement. "This supports our belief that Carnivore raises extremely serious privacy concerns."
Even before the release of the report Tuesday, the review process itself had been under attack.
Several prominent universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), backed out of the application process after the Justice Department released the guidelines for the study, saying restrictions placed on the scope of the review took away from its independence.
When IIT was chosen to perform the review, critics said it would not be independent because the IIT reviewers were government insiders.
For example, Dean Henry H. Perritt from the university advised President Clinton's transition team on information policy. Other members of the university's review team have either worked in the past on government projects or hold active security clearances.
The Justice Department had blacked out this information when it released a document about the selected team. However, people reading the documents with Adobe software were able to view the unaltered document, which adds to suspicions about the review process.
To avoid a similar mishap, Tuesday's release of the review was delayed by several hours, said Justice representative Chris Watney. The documents are available on the DOJ's Web site.
In contrast to the conclusions in IIT's review, EPIC, which is conducting its own review, has lambasted the FBI for the program, which it describes as an invasion of privacy.
EPIC sued the FBI for information through the Freedom of Information Act and is conducting its own analysis.
In a second batch of paperwork received from the FBI last week, EPIC concluded that Carnivore can capture and archive "unfiltered" Internet traffic--contrary to FBI assertions.
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If you're an arts student you will probably have experienced unpaid internships first hand. But is your university doing anything to tackle the issue of unpaid work?
"Unpaid internships are a huge problem in the creative industries and have been for a long time," says Katie Mills, who is responsible for student enterprise and employability at the University of the Arts London (UAL).
Students have long campaigned for an end to unpaid work, and now their institutions have started to back them. Several arts universities – UAL, Falmouth, Kingston, the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and Goldsmiths – have decided not to advertise for unpaid work, in line with national minimum wage legislation that says that interns doing real work during set hours are entitled to payment.
At UAL, the careers department made the decision in April last year to stop advertising any kind of unpaid work on their jobs site for students. Previously, unpaid work was advertised if it was part-time and less than eight weeks long, but Mills says that the old system had loopholes.
"We were getting feedback from students and graduates saying that they had undertaken an internship that was supposed to be part time but wasn't, and that they would sometimes continue unpaid after eight weeks," says Mills.
"We realised that we had a fuzzy system and needed to draw a line in the sand."
There've been changes at UCA, too. Its careers and employability adviser, John Watts, says: "It had been under discussion in the careers service for some time, but following representations from the student union, it was clear that there was significant student feeling about this issue.
"We decided that the time was right to change the policy and to add our voice to the campaign."
But choosing not to advertise unpaid work has ruffled the feathers of some employers.
"We get employers phoning up saying 'well I did an unpaid internship and it didn't do me any harm' and 'my company can't afford to pay someone but this is a really good opportunity'," says Mills.
"That's quite a good phone call to have actually, because it's an opportunity for us to say that legally you have to pay them if they're coming in for set hours and you're expecting them to do set tasks. Many employers don't know that."
In some instances, employers have stopped advertising when they learned they would have to pay.
Watts says: "One or two were vociferous in their opposition, and no longer advertise. But a number appeared to be unaware of the legislation and, once it was explained to them, were happy to offer a salary or fee."
It's not just troublesome employers that careers services have to deal with – university staff can put a foot in the closing door of unpaid work too. "There are some tutors and teaching staff who don't necessarily think that unpaid internships are always a bad thing," says Mills.
"Some tutors have very longstanding fantastic relationships with certain businesses. Tutors will refer students to these businesses in the hopes that they will then get the opportunity to work for that brand."
However good the official line on unpaid interships is, if individual lecturers are still encouraging students to work for nothing, it can make it difficult for them to get out of the cycle of working for free.
An anonymous fashion design student at the University of Kingston says: "Our tutors have always told us not to take unpaid internships and I think they're all quite passionate about that. In second year, we do competitions as part of our course, and the winners of these are offered a paid internship, often with accommodation provided too.
"But ultimately only a small percentage of people win these competitions, or obtain internships at big brands who can afford to pay you.
"The emails lecturers forward from brands who have contacted them don't necessarily pay minimum wage – instead they offer travel costs."
At the Arts University Bournemouth, a recent graduate who prefered to remain anonymous says: "Tutors usually warn us that some companies may not pay a penny, but they tell us that the experience pays off."
Vanessa Freeman is senior careers consultant at Goldsmiths, where unpaid internships have not been advertised by the careers team for the past four years.
She says: "Many of our tutors work in industry, so they know the reality at ground level. It's tricky for them, because they want to provide students with accurate support and advice. There's no point telling students that there are loads of paid internships in the sector when there are not."
As well as banning the advertising of unpaid internships, some universities are developing programmes to teach students more about national minimum wage legislation and their rights. Campaign group Intern Aware ran workshops last year at UCA, UAL and Middlesex, where students learned more about internships and picked up tips on finding good placements.
At Middlesex, media students working with Intern Aware as part of a campaigning unit in their syllabus, gained 1,600 signatures in support of paid internships in three days.
This year UAL is launching a graduate internship scheme: the university will match half the cost of a graduate salary (at the London living wage), leaving the company with only half the salary to pay.
Falmouth students can take on paid placements at their own uni. And many courses at arts unis include work placements that can be a good alternative to unpaid internships during the holidays.
Freeman says: "Having embedded placements within courses can be a way of giving students quality work experience that isn't exploiting them in the way that an unpaid internship would.
"During the work placements in term-time, students usually work on a project and they produce a report that counts towards their grade. While that placement might be unpaid, it's not taking away from the student's ability to work part time or come in to college."
Arts universities have realised unpaid internships are a key issue faced by students, and are keen to back their calls for ending the practice.
Watts says: "It is important to us, because if a situation develops where only those who can afford to take long-term unpaid work in London can gain the advantages such a placement in the industry can provide, this would not be inclusive or in the best interests of our students."
Chris Hares, campaign manager of Intern Aware, says: "Universities are more focused than ever on ensuring the employability of their students, and it's encouraging that many of them are taking action to ensure that internships are about talent and hard work, rather than simply the ability to work for free."


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Nvidia Stock Forecast" The future car is going to have an enormous amount of computational ability, we imagine the number of displays in your car will grow very rapidly." - Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia
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My knee-jerk views are what they are, my own views, specific to who I am, but they don't necessarily reflect how I really feel about anything given the chance to gather my thoughts. Can I trust myself to say, or do things, when I confuse myself sometimes? It's a risk, but I do take responsibility for putting it out there, and try not to be irresponsible, in order to provide something raw. I'm a philosopher and devils advocate at heart. I really do feel I can see the both sides of everything, even though expressing them through language/words sometimes is a struggle as I feel, I've been losing my grasp of vocabulary, and ability to focus overtime. I've always been more of a feeler; how I remember things, and in decision making (which is a whole other struggle). Language/words have always seemed limiting to me. As with anyone else, my views, can and do, change with time, additional exposure/experience, and the influence of others.


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MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo directed yesterday presidential adviser on education Mona Valisno to replicate the kariton classroom system in areas not reached by the Department of Education.
Following the worldwide recognition that CNN Hero of the Year Efren Peñaflorida's kariton (pushcart) classroom has generated, the government is now adopting the strategy to reach out to school children, especially in remote areas in the country.
Yesterday, Peñaflorida was conferred the prestigious Order of Lakandula with the rank of komandante at Malacañang for the honor he and his Dynamic Teen Co. (DTC) brought to the country on a worldwide stage. His parents, Lucila and Efren Sr., accompanied him to Malacañang.
The President told Valisno to work with non-government organizations such as the DTC and support them in education programs for children.
She said the focus should be on children from poor families who most likely would have lesser access to education.
"If Kenya was able to have success replicating the program, then there should be no reason for the Philippines not to do this too," she said. – Marvin Sy
(The Philippine Star) Updated November 28, 2009 12:00 AM
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Victoria: Howdy friend! I've got new digs and I hope you like them. I'm still getting used to the surroundings. As a welcome gift, Landra rounded up a couple of suckers… um, I mean guests. And I came up with some new questions just for the occasion. Before we get started please give a warm welcome (or spanking) to Uri and Shadi.
Note – My guests are not from around here so I thought I'd ask appropriate questions. Appropriate for me. *winks*
First up, what kind of kinky stuff can you do in spaceships?
Shadi: *Narrows her eyes* Uri? What does…"kinky"…mean?
Uri: *Looks ready to spontaneously combust and glares at Victoria* That is something we haven't gotten to yet, and I'm not sure you'd be willing to try….
Shadi: But what does it mean?
Uri: …Less conventional ways to have sex. *pulls a flask out of his jacket pocket*
Shadi:*eyes brighten* OH. So what COULD we do on the ship?
Uri: *throws back a swallow from the flask* Not much considering the rest of our crew. But perhaps one day we could try the zero gravity option. And there are always options for the captain's chair….
Shadi: I like the way you think.
Victoria: I like the way you think too, Uri. You know my fiance and I enjoy watching, too. Speaking of relationships, do you find a lot of alien species who believe in monogamy where you're from?
Uri: Ath'eri's species, the Vodni'du, are extremely monogamous. Marriage is rare among them because they don't need to make a commitment in front of others or a god. It seems wired into their very DNA. And if their mate dies, they never choose another.
Shadi: Sounds sad.
Uri: *squeezes her hand* It's understandable, though. Once you have that one great love of your life, nothing else compares. [Cue the author throwing up in her mouth a little]
Victoria: Oh, Uri. You're such a romantic. I never would've thought. You're definitely easy on the eyes, but visually rough around the edges. I'm afraid I like my romance with a little bite. So, let's get dirty. Tell me the name of something alien that could be mistaken for a sex toy?
Shadi: Nysa has this weapon that has an electrical tip.
Uri: *stares at Shadi* What?
Shadi: Yes. It has an electrical tip. She let me tinker with it to see how it works and I accidentally zapped myself. It felt…kind of good. *Shadi shrugs* And then Leida asked to borrow it….I don't know if she ever gave it back.
Uri: That explains quite a bit. *takes another swig from his flask*
Victoria: Sounds like you have quite a few kinky folks running around on your ship. Kink always livens things up in my opinion, as well as difference sexual positions. Do you have a perference between missionary or doggie-style? Oh, to explain missionary is girl on her back and guy on top or doggie-style is like mating dogs… you've probably seen something similar with other animals.
Shadi: Have we done that before?
Uri: *third swallow from flask* No, we haven't.
Shadi: On Goliv there were these animals—Shilah and I called them rock-eaters because that seemed to be all they ate. One night, when I couldn't sleep, I snuck out of camp and headed toward the pond where I used to bathe. There were a couple of rock-eaters rolling around in the gloop and I thought they were trying to kill each other. But they weren't. At all. When they finally stopped wrestling, the dominant one pinned the other down by its neck and they…well…
Uri: Oh, I remember those things. They caterwaul, too. They woke me up frequently when they were mating.
Shadi: *grumbles* Sounds like Leida with Nysa's weapon.
Uri: I think you've just described kinky.
Victoria: *laughs* We'll get you on the kinky path yet, Shadi. Final question and then I'll let you two be on your way, give me your best impression of a motor boat and do you think this is a turn off or a turn on?
Shadi: I don't know….
Uri: *has had more alcohol than was necessary* This is what motor boating is, love. *proceeds to stick his head in Shadi's chest to demonstrate.*
Shadi: *giggles* Can we do this in the captain's chair, too?
Uri: Anything you want, love. Anything at all.
Victoria: I think my job is done here. For more about the book, read below. If you want to subject your characters to one of my interviews, email the woman who unleashed me on the world.
Gemini: Disillusioned by Catherine Peace
Blurb: Being one of the Embassy's glorified treasure-seekers has its perks…
Komandan Uriah Jacobs recovers ancient artifacts in exchange for more than just decent pay; he also receives guaranteed protection from his former owners, the nyx…until an emergency landing on a too-familiar colony brings him face-to-face with his past life and something more—a surprisingly priceless treasure in the form of a human woman.
A slave to the nyx since childhood…
Shadi spends her waking hours in the forge, dreaming of rescuing her brother with the help of a man she once worshipped like a father. A crashed ship on the colony becomes her only hope to escape. But before she can steal the ship, the pilot abducts her. They may be the same species, but will he help her find her Shilah?
Their attraction is undeniable…
Fighting it seems inconsequential as they evade the nyx's bounty hunter and uncover a conspiracy that shines unwanted light on Shadi's past and reveals the corruption in Uri's beloved Embassy, placing their fledgling love in danger.
As the universe systematically falls apart, will Shadi and Uri's newfound passion be enough to keep them alive?
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Sunday, 19 January 2014
Pebble Original or Pebble Steel - versatility vs. looks?
Sunday morning run - is the inability to use NATO Straps for wear outside clothing a dealbreaker for you with respect to Pebble Steel? As a runner I am on the fence, as with a Gadgetwraps wrap the Original Pebble has exactly the same functionality as the Steel, is almost as attractive and is more versatile... I can't decide whether the looks/versatility tradeoff is worth 250USD! I would like to hear if others have had the same #firstworldproblems dilema...
For me, the Pebble is about versatility. The fact that the Pebble Steel precludes NATO straps means that I will probably pass on it. While it looks nice, the functions are the same but the versatility is reduced. As a watch geek, I do hope Pebble will consider reaching out to the community when designing the next Pebble. The current steel straps are folded-link bracelets which signal "cheap" to most watch collectors, and I am afraid any sales of Pebble-specific bracelets will be offset by a reduction in potential Pebble Steel sales to people like me. I only hope that Pebble will offer a quick-adjustment, quality sports strap so that I can justify buying a Pebble Steel after all ;-)
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Today, just a quick announcement. I have submitted my beaded Great Blue Heron painting into the Cambridge Art Association's 66th Annual Fall Salon. The Fall Salon is an unjuried art exhibition featuring artists working in all media. Many works will be available for sale. If you happen to be in Boston, Cambridge, or Harvard Square this month, please stop by and take a peek!
The Fall Salon runs Sept. 10- 30, 2010 and will be shown in both CAA galleries. Please see the CAA's website for hours and directions.
Reception is Wednesday, Sept. 15, 6-8pm. Mary Schein awards presented at both locations at 7pm. Hope to see you there! 😀


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Relationships thrive on spontaneity, and every girl likes getting a pleasant surprise now and then. It shows her you care and keeps the routine from becoming stagnant. The secret to a good surprise is to catch her off-guard, and also to make sure that the surprise is pleasant for her. That means knowing who she is, and making a gesture that holds meaning for her. In so doing, the surprise becomes a gesture of your feelings for her.
Timing is everything when it comes to surprises. While you should always do something on special dates like her birthday or anniversary, she's more apt to be ready for some kind of surprise on those occasions. So, pick an average Tuesday when nothing much is going on, or sometime when she won't suspect anything. Take time off from work for a midweek getaway, or send her flowers on a nondescript rainy day. If it hits her out of the blue, she's much more apt to be touched.
Make sure you tailor your surprise to match her particular likes and dislikes. Going to a monster truck rally may indeed be surprising, but if that's not her thing, it's not going to be very romantic. Take note of things she enjoys—special things which she may not get to do every day—and plan a surprise evening around one. Look for items she may want but can't quite bring herself to buy, then make a gift out one of them sometime. Remember which flowers she likes and purchase a bouquet of them, or pick up a book from a favorite author that she may not have read. The connection to her personality makes the gift special, not necessarily the price tag.
As far as specific tactics go, a surprise dinner always works wonders. Restaurant reservations are an easy way to accommodate one, though it may take a little preplanning. You can't just have her show up at a restaurant, or she'll know what's up. Make the reservations, then call her and tell her your car broke down. Say you need her to come pick you up and give her an address near the restaurant. When she arrives, be there with a bouquet of flowers and reservations in hand. You may want to give her a little extra time to go back home and change if she feels self-conscious, but the gesture itself will still be incredibly romantic.
Alternately, if you have enough confidence in your cooking skills, make her a romantic dinner at home. Prepare all of the courses--soup, salad, wine and dessert included--then set candles on the table along with a nice tablecloth. If you can, prepare her favorite dish (even if it's just chocolate ice cream after the meal). Have it all ready by the time she gets home from work, then tell her you're taking the evening off to wait on her.


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February 6
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Wednesday February 6
Keiki Storytime
Kailua Public Library, Wednesdays until March 27, 10:30 a.m., free. Recommended for ages 2 to 5. Children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. Storytime will feature stories, sing-along songs and a craft. Contact the library two weeks in advance if a sign language interpreter or other special accommodations are needed. (266-9911)
Preschool Storytime
Aiea Public Library, every Wednesday until March 6, 10:30 a.m., Children ages 3-5 are invited to hear stories, learn fingerplays and rhymes, and make a simple craft. All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. (483-7333)
Adam Crowe Performs
Hard Rock Cafe, 9-11 p.m., call for cost. Adam Crowe performs. (955-7383)
"A Deeper Shade of Blue" Red Carpet Premiere
Hilton Hawaiian Village, doors open at 5:30 p.m., visit website for cost. Director Jack McCoy presents his film featuring underwater surfing images that have never been seen before. Prizes include two round-trip tickets courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines. (adeepershadeofblue.com)
Makahiki Challenge Registration
Kualoha Ranch, 9 a.m., $70 until Feb. 13, $80 until Feb. 25. The Makahiki Challenge is a journey over three miles long that takes you through tireless hills, rough terrain, mud pits and more. Email for registration and more information. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
The Wedding Cafe Wednesday Night Workshops
Ward Warehouse Conference Room, every Wednesday for 10 weeks, 6:30 p.m., free (except the Cake & Catering Trends workshop). The Wedding Cafe kicks off their bridal workshop series with its Location & Venues workshop, featuring 12 wedding venues on Oahu. Each workshop features a different theme featuring Hawaii's top wedding vendors. RSVP online. (theweddingcafe.net/signup)
Andrew Rose Gallery, 1003 Bishop St., Suite 120, runs through March 1, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment, call for cost. AETHER is Andrew Rose's latest body of work in his continuing investigation through paint into the theme of water as a visual metaphor for how we see and know. (andrewrosegallery.com, 599-4400)
Ainu Treasures: A Living Tradition in Northern Japan
East-West Center Gallery, weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 12-4 p.m., call for cost. Like many other indigenous people throughout the world, the Ainu have taken initiative to revive their traditional culture, including a project for Ainu artists to make replicas of Ainu artifacts owned by various museums. This exhibition features modern Ainu masterpieces and replicas of traditional artifacts. (944-7177, arts.eastwestcenter.org)
Hawaii Meth Project Hosts "Take a Stand Against Meth" Teen Art Display
Hawaii State Capitol – Chamber level, foyer, until March 22, 7:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m., closed holidays, free. The "Take a Stand Against Meth" contest challenged Hawaii teens to create original works of art inspired by content from the website methproject.org. Works in any style or medium, with the exception of videos, were eligible for entry. (hawaiimethproject.org)
Hawaiian Heritage Plants Art Exhibition
Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden, open daily, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., call for cost. In honor of the Makahiki season, Hoomaluhia will be featuring an art exhibit on plants that traveled to the islands in the sailing canoes of the early voyagers who became the Hawaiians. (233-7323)
Windward Wanderers Art Show and Sale
Hoomaluhia Botanical Gardens Art Gallery, daily through Feb. 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., free. Featuring 15 artists specializing in watercolors, acrylics, goache, oils and pastels. (254-2757, 233-7323)
Windward Winter Show
Art Gallery 315, Kailua Square, Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., free. Enjoy original fine art including drawings, paintings and sculptures ranging from traditional to contemporary. (262-5678, artgallery315.com)
Giving Birth: The Castle Experience
Castle Medical Center, Kailua, four Thursday sessions, 6-8 p.m., $45/person, $80/couple. This class is specifically geared for couples giving birth at Castle Medical Center. You will learn different aspects of the birth experience. This class is suggested for couples in their third trimester. Call or visit website to register. (263-5400, castlemed.org)
Open Enrollment for New 'Ballet Basics' Class
The School of Hawaii State Ballet, Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., $112 for eight weeks. The classes will cover the basic fundamentals of ballet training from the traditional barre warm-up to exercises moving across the floor. A $30 registration fee will be waived during the month of January. No previous experience necessary. (947-2755)
Panel Discussion: The Inside Scoop From Current Law Schools
William S. Richardson School of Law, Moot Court Room, 5:30-7 p.m., free. UHM law students share their experiences, insight and advice. Walk-ins welcome, reservations preferred. (surveymonkey.com/s/29N3WJY)
Claiming Christianity
University of Hawaii Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, 7 p.m., free. "Claiming Christianity: John Henry Wise and the Roots of Native Christian Patriotism," an illustrated lecture presented by Ronal Williams Jr. (537-6271)
Dave Heenan
Oahu Country Club, 12-1:30 p.m., $25 for lunch. Dave Heenan, former CEO of various large Hawaii businesses will speak about his latest book, "Leaving on Top." The book will answer the question: At what point do leaders say goodbye to their current calling and when is the right time to do so? (225-2965)


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At various places in the writings, the circumconscient is also referred to as the
- environmental consciousness
- nervous envelope
- aura.
Circumconscient defined
By environmental consciousness I mean something that each man carries around him, outside his body, even when he is not aware of it, – by which he is in touch with others and with the universal forces. It is through this that the thoughts, feelings etc. of others pass to enter into one – it is through this also that waves of the universal force – desire, sex, etc. come in and take possession of the mind, vital or body.
(Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, Subconscient)
All this means that the physical body is not man's sole means of action in the physical world. The physical extends and expands into more and more subtle modes of activity and all the more, not less, effective for that very reason. Behind the physical lies the subtle physical, behind which again is the vital physical and then the various grades of the vital. Indeed the vital or life energy as a whole is the real dynamism of all our physical activities and if it usually acts through its bodily instruments, it can act independently of them too; normally, too, it often acts in this way, only we are not conscious or observant enough to notice. A conscious concentration of the vital energy directed upon a material object can handle it with the effectivity of material energy.
(Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, Vol 3, Expanding Body Consciousness)
Circumconscient's role in illness
'The first thing one sees when one has broken the barrier is the vital-physical body. It is around the physical body and with the physical it forms as it were the "nervous envelope." The force of a disease has to break through it to reach the body – except for the attacks on the most material parts. You can then feel the disease coming and also feel in the nervous envelope the part of the body which it is going to, or intending to, attack because what is in the nervous envelope has a material counterpart in the body. Thus it is the vital-physical which is first attacked and then the force takes the form of a disease in the system. I had myself the experience of fever all around the body.'
(A.B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Volume 1, p. 232)
This knowledge is also useful in curing diseases. For instance, it is perfectly easy to prevent diseases and to cure them if you have the knowledge of these planes. There is what is called "the nervous envelope", which is an intermediary between the subtle and the gross body. It is that which acts as a sheath protecting you against all attacks of diseases. If the nervous envelope is intact no disease can come to you. In most people, with aging, this envelope wears out and then gradually the forces are able to penetrate and pierce it. That is one of the causes of death.
(A.B.Purani, Evening Talks 3rd January, 1939)
Circumconscient's role in accidents
Question: What are the causes of accidents? Are they due to a disequilibrium ?
If one answers deeply… Outwardly there are many causes, but there is a deeper cause which is always there. I said the other day that if the nervous envelope is intact, accidents can be avoided, and even if there is an accident it won't have any consequences. As soon as there is a scratch or a defect in the nervous envelope of the being and according to the nature of this scratch, if one may say so, its place, its character, there will be an accident which will correspond to the diminution of resistance in the envelope. I believe almost everybody is psychologically aware of one thing: that accidents occur when one has a sort of uncomfortable feeling, when one is not fully conscious and self-possessed, when one feels uneasy. In any case, generally, people have a feeling that they are not fully themselves, not fully aware of what they are doing. If one were fully conscious, the consciousness wide awake, accidents would not occur; one would make just the right gesture, the necessary movement to avoid the accident. Hence, in an almost absolute way, it is a flagging of consciousness. Or quite possibly it may be that the consciousness is fixed in a higher domain; for example, not to speak of spiritual things, a man who is busy solving a mental problem and is very concentrated upon his mental problem, becomes inattentive to physical things, and if he happens to be in a street or in a crowd, his attention fixed upon his problem, he will not make the movement necessary to avoid the accident, and the accident will occur. It is the same for sports, for games; you can observe this easily, there is always a flagging of the consciousness when accidents occur, or a lack of attention, a little absent-mindedness; suddenly one thinks of something else, the attention is drawn elsewhere – one is not fully conscious of what one is doing and the accident happens.
As I was telling you at the beginning, if for some reason or other – for example, lack of sleep, lack of rest or an absorbing preoccupation or all sorts of things which tire you, that is to say, when you are not above them – if the vital envelope is a little damaged, it does not function perfectly and any current of force whatever which passes through is enough to produce an accident. In the final analysis, the accident comes always from that, it is what one may call inattentiveness or a slackening of consciousness. There are days when one feels quite… not exactly uneasy, but as though one were trying to catch something which escapes, one can't hold together, one is as though half-diluted; these are the days of accidents. You must be attentive. Naturally, this is not to tell you to shut yourself up in your room and not to stir out when you feel like that ! This is not what I mean. Rather I mean that you must watch all the more attentively, be all the more on your guard, not allow, precisely, this inattentiveness, this slackening of consciousness to come in.
(Collected Works of the Mother, Vol 4, Questions and Answers, 2 April 1951)
Question: Does the vital body also need rest?
Yes. The vital body surrounds the physical body with a kind of envelope which has almost the same density as the vibrations of heat observable when the day is very hot. And it is this which is the intermediary between the subtle body and the most material vital body. It is this which protects the body from all contagion, fatigue, exhaustion and even from accidents. Therefore if this envelope is wholly intact, it protects you from everything, but a little too strong an emotion, a little fatigue, some dissatisfaction or any shock whatsoever is sufficient to scratch it as it were and the slightest scratch allows any kind of intrusion. Medical science also now recognises that if you are in perfect vital equilibrium, you do not catch illness or in any case you have a kind of immunity from contagion. If you have this equilibrium, this inner harmony which keeps the envelope intact, it protects you from everything. There are people who lead quite an ordinary life, who know how to sleep as one should, eat as one should, and their nervous envelope is so intact that they pass through all dangers as though unconcerned. It is a capacity one can cultivate in oneself. If one becomes aware of the weak spot in one's envelope, a few minutes' concentration, a call to the force, an inner peace is sufficient for it to be all right, get cured, and for the untoward thing to vanish.
(Collected Works of the Mother, Vol 4, Question and Answers, 27 Jan 1951)
Widening and rupture of the circumconscient after attainment of cosmic consciousness
The subliminal has besides a formation of consciousness which projects itself beyond all these sheaths and forms a circumconscient, an environing part of itself, through which it receives the contacts of the world and can become aware of them and deal with them before they enter. The subliminal is able to widen indefinitely this circumconscient envelope and more and more enlarge its self-projection into the cosmic existence around it. A point comes where it can break through the separation altogether, unite, identify itself with cosmic being, feel itself universal, one with all existence. In this freedom of entry into cosmic self and cosmic nature there is a great liberation of the individual being; it puts on a cosmic consciousness, becomes the universal individual.
Its first result, when it is complete, is the realisation of the cosmic spirit, the one self inhabiting the universe, and this union may even bring about a disappearance of the sense of individuality, a merger of the ego into the world-being.
Another common result is an entire openness to the universal Energy so that it is felt acting through the mind and life and body and the sense of individual action ceases.
But more usually there are results of less amplitude; there is a direct awareness of universal being and nature, there is a greater openness of the mind to the cosmic Mind and its energies, to the cosmic Life and its energies, to cosmic Matter and its energies.
A certain sense of unity of the individual with the cosmic, a perception of the world held within one's consciousness as well as of one's own intimate inclusion in the world consciousness can become frequent or constant in this opening; a greater feeling of unity with other beings is its natural consequence. It is then that the existence of the cosmic Being becomes a certitude and a reality and is no longer an ideative perception.
(Sri Aurobindo, Life Divine, Knowledge by Identity)