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Master and PhD Scholarships, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia -KFUPM currently offers Masters and Doctoral Programs 32 11 in 27 different disciplines.
We welcome outstanding and talented prospective graduate students from around the nation and the world to apply for Graduate Studies. In addition to national students, KFUPM currently has international graduate students from 28 different nationalities. This adds to the richness & diversity of academic and research environment at KFUPM.
The university offers 32 Master programs and 11 Doctoral programs in a full range of traditional disciplines and interdisciplinary programs that anticipate market trends and respond to national needs. KFUPM provides a full scholarship for MS and PhD's leading graduate applicants who demonstrate high potential to conduct original research in the field of Engineering, Science and Business.
Online Application
All revenues administered by the Graduate Deanship of Graduate Studies (DGS). Candidates who intend to enroll in a graduate program at the University need to submit an online application available on the DGS website at http://www1.kfupm.edu.sa/gs/application/preonline.asp link. Online application is available only during the application period in accordance with application deadlines posted on http://www1.kfupm.edu.sa/gs/main/deadlines.asp link. Recognition of postgraduate open twice a year for two semesters: Fall term (usually beginning in September) and Spring Term (usually beginning in February).
After submission of online application, documents need to be uploaded through the System shall uploads using the Login ID and PIN is the same for online applications created using this link: http://adgs.kfupm.edu.sa/
Mandatory documents for the application (without which the application will not be processed)
* Copy of identification (National ID for Saudi nationals / passport for international applicants / iqama for the citizens of Saudi Arabia).
* Complete official transcript for the BS degree and MS degree (if applicable for PhD).
* Statement-of-aim (a one-page essay focuses on career and research goals).
* Recommendation Letters of recommendation 3 Master through the online system after submitting the online application.
* GMAT scores for MBA program (for international applicants).
Other supporting documents (required for final admission decision)
* Certificate for BS degree and MS degree (if applicable for PhD).
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* Received the General GRE scores (min. Quant. It is 700, min. Analytical is 3.0).
* Upon approval, a copy of the original / degree certificate (s) and transcript (s) that will be sent by post.
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KFUPM has a very strong collaborative partnerships in conducting innovative research with international institutions as follows:
* MIT: Clean Water and Clean Energy research.
* Stanford: Oil and Gas research.
* California Institute of Technology (Caltech): Refining and Petrochemical study.
* Technical University of Munich: Refining and Petrochemical study.
* University of Cambridge: Oil and Gas research.
* KAUST: A lot of research disciplines of Engineering and Science.
* Saudi Aramco (the largest oil companies in the world): Many studies have discipline.
* SABIC (one of petrochemical companies around the world): Refining, Petrochemical and Polymer research.
Many other world-class university and industrial research in different fields.
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To provide support for research in the field of extreme excellence, KFUPM has established the Center for Research Excellence for the following:
* KFUPM-MIT Collaboration Center on Clean Water and Clean Energy (http://ccwce.mit.edu/).
* The National Center for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology (http://www2.kfupm.edu.sa/cent/).
* The National Center for Renewable Energy Research Excellence (http://corere.kfupm.edu.sa/).
* The National Center for Research Excellence in Refining and Petrochemicals (http://core-prp.kfupm.edu.sa/).
* National Center for Corrosion Research Excellence (http://core-c.edu.sa/).
* Center for Research in Transformative Development in Petrochemicals and Polymers (http://cid-rpp.kfupm.edu.sa).
* Center for Excellence in Maintenance (http://se.ikfupm.com/department/ce/ceim/).
* Center of Excellence in Supply Chain Management (http://se.ikfupm.com/department/ce/cescm/).
* National Center for Technology Innovation in Carbon Capture.
Graduate Scholarships:
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1. Graduate assistantship: Open to outstanding Graduate Assistant Arabia regularly MS degrees in KFUPM, featuring outstanding performance in their undergraduate education.
2. Research assistantship: Open to students of national and international teachers, the outstanding performance in their undergraduate education.
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1. Lecturer: Lecturer Open to Saudi extraordinary hold a Ph.D. degrees at KFUPM, which performs very well in their undergraduate education & Teachers.
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010
This piece of palm debris has been hanging from a tree in the front yard for about a week. Paddys pathetic attempt to salvage it for me resulted in a seven-months-pregnant woman hanging off the front stairs with a broom outstretched trying to shake the it loose. Well, where there's a will there's a way - and half an hour, later I began some festive decorating in the dining room. I'm quite pleased with my efforts - a dead branch never looked prettier.
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Hello, thanks for adding me as a lovely place! I'm happy to be your newest follower. I've just read your whole blog and it's lovely. I'm feeling very envious of your gorgeous looking home too! So well decorated and airy and minimal. Very fancy and impressive christmas tree too. Nice bump you've got too - so much love just around the corner. Kellie xxReplyDelete
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I just found your blog via Aux petits oiseaux. and can I say love it!ReplyDelete
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The Asian across the table from me is tearing great gobs of warm flesh from his girlfriend's neck. Tendons and tissue hang from his mouth in bloody spaghetti strands while his jaw works tirelessly to consume. He chews her like gum.
The skull of the small dog, cooked and served on the plate between us, has me thinking the Asian is Korean. The crisped flesh with the dark ginger sauce and the crusty roasted eyes are probably a delicacy, I could be wrong or course, he might not be Korean. The cooked eyes might be garbage.
I look away from the dog head. It's making me salivate in a way I'm not comfortable with. The Asian casually pushes the girl away. She hasn't resisted him, cried out or shown fear. She's Tankbread.
'You like dog?' The Asian's voice is thick with juice but eloquent for one of his kind.
'Reminds me of a pet I once had.' I reply and let my right hand slide over the handgrip of the sawn-off shotgun holstered to my thigh.
'Ha-ha! You had good dog yes? Now you good dog.' Evol humour I suppose. Maybe some geek has written a paper on it. Something for the other geeks to consider as they push out Tankbread and keep us from taking that final step into extinction. The Asian leans forward, his eyes clouded, like dead fish eyes, but I can feel his intelligence shining through.
'We do business now. You deal, you get dog.'
As far as opening offers go, I've had worse. Usually of the 'Do what I say or get butt-fucked with a bayonet,' pedigree.
'I'm listening,' it is true in the literal sense. I'm listening so hard I can barely think. The space behind us is filled with evols and the humans who serve them. Some of the walking dead are chowing down on Tankbread. The room echoes with the wet sound of living flesh being torn from bone. The low murmur of zombie growls muffled only by the thick wads of raw meat they are gorging on. And there's the smell. Slow decay, the nostril-clogging stink of flesh starting to rot. You get used to it. You become immune or your nose just gives up and says screw it, this stench is normal. Fresh air is what smells odd now.
'I'm listening.' I'm listening for the one chance an outlaw like me can have. The early days of hunting these zombie pricks have long passed. It's a new world order and each of us have to stake our claim and exercise our Darwinian right to exist.
'You go to Opera House, tell them Soo-Yong send you. Bring back what they give you. Bring to me here.'
He knows I've understood. There is a change in his expression from the determined focus required for the formation of thought and words ,, to the more basic recognition of meat emotions. His grey lips constrict into a grin that goes well beyond mere rictus.
'And what's in it for me?' I ask the age old question that was Yang to his Yin. Judas would have asked the same thing.
'Passage, vehicle, supplies. You can run away like a bad dog.'
I swallowed. I wasn't in a position to argue, but I could sure act like negotiating might be an option. 'There's some wild turf between us and the House. Whatcha got to get me there?'
'Motorcycle, four litre fuel for bike. Two round for that shotgun. Fare for the boatman. House give you same for return. But must bring back what they give you or…' Soo-Yong didn't need to waste his rotting brains on spelling it out. Fuck it up, and I was worse than dead.
The evols do fine if they have time to marshal their thoughts, think things through and arrive at the same conclusion that you or I could come to in seconds. Except with them, it can take hours.
How the hell did they end up ruling the world?
I ate the roast dog while I waited, crouched in the evening shade under a tattered canvas awning. The diner, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney was run by meat, that's live folk like you and me. They were the people who'd gotten over the crawling revulsion that the living felt for our zombie masters and worked for them. Doing shit like cooking dogs in ginger sauce for the occasional living diner like me and tending the tankbread.
All of us who are older than twenty-something still remember the war, the apocalypse, the end-of-the-fucking-world. Call it what you want, it all refers to when the dead started coming back to life and attacking the living. It's the sort of shit we used to go to the Drive In to see. We used to go see movies about all kinds of things back in the day. Now we live in a state of cold war. Some of us have gone crazy, some of us are holed up in secure compounds and some of us are kissing dead arse. Yet we keep telling ourselves--at least we're alive, right?
Evols, zombies, the walking dead. Early on, when TV still worked and we thought we had a chance, some geek labelled the risen dead as Extremely Violent Lucid Organisms. Evol was easier to Tweet and the moniker caught on around the world. Almost as fast as the virus, or meteor or toxic waste, or genetic engineering experiment. We still don't know what caused the mess. When someone dies you destroy their brain or they get up again and start trying to eat whoever is close. What the geeks call the infection factor is transmitted by undead body fluids in contact with open wounds. I've never seen anyone survive a zombie bite.
There was a little time between my accepting the job from Soo-Yong and sitting astride a beaten up trail bike watching closely as exactly four litres of fuel was measured into the tank by one of Soo-Yong's mob. He must have been thinking about this for a while.
The bike took some starting and evols don't like loud noises. When the engine backfired the bunch that were hanging around set to moaning and shuffling in that way they do when agitated. I was sweating ice water throughout the next three pumps on the kick-start before the bike came to life.
Soo-Yong handed over the two shotgun rounds last, carefully wrapped in a scrap of old tinfoil. The foil was a valuable item in itself. I hadn't seen tinfoil in I didn't know how long. The fare for the boatman was in a stained sack on a rope, which I looped and tied over my shoulder.
I didn't stop to wave, or make a speech; they wouldn't have listened anyway. I tore out of the diner car park, past the burned out shells of long abandoned cars and through the streets of the evol-controlled sector of the city. The dead were walking the streets, they had no concern for day or night, and it was now well dark. They just got out and wandered around, reliving some parody of their former lives. The geeks said it was part of their re-evolution. The walking dead were reinforcing synaptic links by repetition of learned behaviour.
It still freaks me out to see them stumbling around, lining up for buses that will never come, wandering through decaying shops in silent malls, and no doubt when, whatever internal clock they are setting their time by tells them to, they go home and try to fuck their putrescent wives.
Meat live here too; the survivors who refuse to give up their nice north Sydney homes in suburbs like Roseville. They're usually in well barricaded apartment buildings or parks. They keep some livestock, a sheep or a goat. I even saw a cow once, calmly chewing it's cud in a rooftop garden. With no fence or tether to stop it stampeding over the edge and falling 13 floors to the empty street below. The city dwelling meat are hard-core survivalists and they tend to keep to themselves. I guess they know they are one failed crop away from cannibalism.
I rode through a silent city. Zombies, both solo and in small packs caught on to the noise of the bike and started following. There was never enough Tankbread to go around and most of these were feral zeds. A steady diet of 'bread kept the evols who could get their hands on it intelligent and almost civil. Regardless, I usually walked, scuttled or scurried from shadow to bolt hole when I had to travel. The dead are everywhere and they have a taste for human flesh. There's been as much speculation as to why the dead attack the living as there has been about what caused them to get up in the first place. All I know for sure is that if they are eating tankbread, they aren't eating me.
Many small communities in the great Sydney ruin would let me stay for a day or a night in exchange for some news or whatever job needed doing. Never longer; food was always a problem and they didn't like extra mouths to feed.
Crossing the Sydney harbour is always risky and I don't do it often. The bridge was blown back in the early days. No one thought ahead far enough to realise that evols don't need to breathe. Whatever need was driving them on would push them into the water, along the septic bottom and up the other side.
They came out of the dark water, clambering and falling over the abandoned tables and chairs of the restaurants and cafes that lined the waterfront to scale the harbour side barricades.
I remember the screaming. It seemed constant, people just screamed and screamed during those dark times. We called it The Great Panic and I never got used to it. Though I miss the noise now that the world is so quiet.
The dead got through all our defences of course, they always did. Every one of us that fell became another one of them. The siege mentality and a need to secure a large number of civilians made the Sydney Opera House an obvious choice. So it was there, at the living heart of the greatest city in Australia that we made our final stand. The slaughter stopped at the barricades on those iconic steps.
Some survivors call it The War. It wasn't a war. It was a fight to survive. We haven't won it yet, and I don't see how we ever can. In time we will die out, Tankbread or no Tankbread. We have a limited usefulness and if the evols haven't figured it out yet they will eventually. Like they seem to with everything else.
I rode down the Pacific Highway, passing empty shops and dead faces. There was nothing worth scrounging from here anymore, it had all been stripped years ago. First, anything that could be used as a weapon, then food and finally anything that would burn, could be used as shelter or traded for food. The dead don't need to eat to survive like us living folk, but they have a hunger. Tankbread soothe that, like a nicotine patch for a heavy smoker.
At the corner of Pacific and Freeman I came up on a roadblock. There were no dead around and this wasn't their style. I stopped the bike, acting casual as I glanced around, looking for movement. The zombies following me hadn't caught up yet, but they were coming.
The intersection had been sealed off with wrecked cars. I waited, the bike idling away underneath me, burning through the precious few litres of fuel I had.
With a flash of movement he appeared first on a balcony of the apartment building on my left. I kept looking around because he might have had buddies lining me up for a shot. A minute later a thin figure with long grey hair and beard appeared on the other side of the cars. He wore a business shirt that might have been white once and a filth encrusted tie. 'Hey mate,' he said in greeting. I switched the bike off and stroked the butt of the shotgun on my thigh.
'Evening,' I couldn't hear the evols coming up behind me yet, but I could feel the skin between my shoulder blades crawling in anticipation.
'Say,' the guy wiped his matted hair back from his eyes. 'Got any food to trade mate?'
'Nope.' It was true. I didn't have shit, the roast dog was the first decent meal I'd eaten in days. The man licked his lips and glanced back at the open door way of the apartment building.
'You gotta have something,' he paced up and down on the other side of the blockade. 'We are dying here man. Rats got into my supplies. There's no more cans you know? No fucking cans!'
'It's hard all over. How about you shift this car and let me through?'
'Wait, wait, I got something you want. Yeah I got something every guy wants. Wait right there.' He darted back into the shadows and re-emerged with two kids in tow. One a girl, maybe fourteen years old, bone thin, small breasts, and long dreadlocked hair adorned with bottle caps and shards of shiny plastic. She wore a long singlet and her legs were pockmarked with sores and scabs. The other kid was an even younger boy. As thin as the girl, his hair hung down past his shoulders too. He wore nothing but a pair of stained underpants that he held up with one hand under his swollen belly.
'Gimme some food and you can fuck my girl. She's a great cock-sucker. Just a can, some meat. Anything man and you can do her all night,' He pulled the girl forward and swept her hair back, tilting her face up so I could get a clear look. 'Maybe you like boys? You can fuck him too if you want. He kinda looks like a girl anyway.'
'I told you man, I don't have any food.' Now I could hear them, the slow gait and moans of the dead. A whispering hiss of dry flesh shuffling down the street towards us. When the dead move they attract others, and crowds form quickly, which can mean certain death if they corner you.
'Listen,' I hissed at the bearded man. 'You hear that? There's a parade of evols coming up behind me, and if you don't clear the way they are going to be all over you and your kids and then food is going to be the least of your problems.'
He started pawing the girl's breasts, doing the hard sell, I pushed the bike's kickstand down and climbed over the barricade.
The guy snatched at the sack over my shoulder. It had nothing for him in it, just my fare across the harbour. I pulled it out of his reach and yanked the car door open. Twisting the wheel I pushed back, rolling it slowly out of the blockade and opening up enough space to ride through.
'Please, we are fucked, completely fucked!' Shirt and Tie was crying, tears streaking white in the grime on his cheeks.'Dance for the man baby, show him you're sexy.' He pushed his daughter at me. She started twisting and moving in a listless way. I got the car moved and jogged back to the bike. Dark silhouettes appeared from the darkness down the street. I kicked the bike to life and rolled through past the family. 'You might want to get out of here,' I called as I rode past. I didn't look back again and focused on putting distance between me and the following dead.


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Freeport, IL Domestic Violence Programs
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The Matrix 22 Harmonizer may restore emotional balance. Here is a healer's testimonial on how the Matrix 22 is positively affecting her clients as well as her own emotional body:
Dear Katharina,
Here are some of my observations and experiences in random order [with respect to the Matrix 22 Harmonizer]:
With several clients who aren't particularly dedicated to self-change, I observe them getting more aligned with support for their bodies i.e. getting hearing aids, sleep apnea ecquipment, needed surgeries etc. This group would never credit subtle energy support, but I quietly notice that where they had resisted intervention before there is a willingness to seek the help they need. I believe exposure to the Matrix is largely responsible
Clients who are devoted to self-change report:
- Abrupt terminations in professional and personal relationships of all kinds and sprouting into new zones of experience with more matched vibration
- Disruption in all areas of life with a later result of:
- more ease
- "I'm happier"
- Fuller engagement in life
As for me, I feel like I know my own mind and heart much better. It used to take me long periods of sifting through the fog to come to clarity. Now I feel like clarity is more my ground of being. If I'm not clear, I recognize it and know to hold off on speaking or making decisions until clarity comes.
My current understanding of harmonizing has more to do with respecting my own experience and the intelligence of the universe vs an ideal of love and peace.
I used to tend toward lethargy and depression. I no longer feel depressed and have energy all day long and into the night.
I am happy to be alive and receptive to Orders. I am less inclined to make choices based on my own preferences.
Other ways I've found the Matrix 22 to be showing up in my life:
- More inclined to be still at times vs be in constant motion
- Self-care in general is a skill I'm cultivating
- Less cowardice and laziness and hiding out. More participation and curiosity about what the Design of Life has in store
- Less overwhelm
- I am more resilient, meet obstacles as they come along, celebrate the forces of transformation working inside me, and celebrate the changes. Fear doesn't stop me in my tracks like it did
- Increased awareness about the value of my influence, speech, input, actions, and ideas
- New people and new enterprises are coming into my life
I'm really excited to continue to incorporate this tool into my daily practices.
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Thu, 17 July 2014
Today's episode is sponsored by Dizzy Blonde Studios. For beautifully hand-dyed yarns and inspired knit design, please visit DizzyBlondeStudios.com.
Catching Up: (1:18)
Laura and her husband celebrated her 13th wedding anniversary and are having a dinner and movie date. She is finally seeing Maleficent, which Jen has seen and had mixed reviews about it. The anniversary is slightly overshadowed by the passing of her husband's uncle. Laura also caught up on Orphan Black and is almost done with Season 1 of Game of Thrones. She's working on making the next shipment of the Mean Girls Yarn Club, procrastinating on blog posts for both Mean Girls Yarn Club and Sunnydale Yarn Club. She's also procrastinating on entering stash into Ravelry. And she is working on dying the exclusive Knit Dizzney colorway and CogKNITive colorway.
Jen got a little kicked around by the world these past couple of weeks, and she's trying to focus on the positive. She saw How to Train Your Dragon 2 which was cute. She's been watching the new season of Falling Skies and a new show, The Last Ship. She has the same complaints about Falling Skies, but she still enjoys it. She appreciates the diversity of the cast of The Last Ship, even though it's kind of a silly show. She saw some plays up at the Hollywood Fringe and she saw The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged. And she is excited to announce there is another niece or nephew on the way because Brother 1 and his wife are expecting Baby #2.
In the Knitting Bag: (17:27)
Laura is working (crocheting) on her Down the Garden Path Shawl by Michele DuNaeir in Lambie Toes in Special Hell. She is working on her Yggdrasil Afghan by Lisa Jacobs out of reclaimed Berroco Vintage Chunky in Chocolate.
Jen is working on the yoke for her Leah's Lovely Cardigan from More Last Minute Knitted Gifts out of Malabrigo sock in Eggplant. She's also working on her Water for the Elephants socks by Rose Hiver in some Knitpicks Stroll in a bare (natural) and Summer Blooms (pink). And she's swatching for her Ginny's Cardigan by Mari Chiba from Unofficial Harry Potter Knits out of Wollmeise Pure in Chim Chim Chimney for Camp Loopy Month 2. She is reworking the pattern for fingering weight.
Finished Objects: (23:35)
Jen finished her Lauriel Cardigan (by Ysolda Teague from Little Red in the City) out of Wollmeise DK in Pesto for Camp Loopy Month 1. She's super pleased with how it turned out.
Devil's Tower: (26:41)
Laura put the Knitted Scale Mail Gloves by CraftyMutt into Devil's Tower until she has the brain space to suss out the scale pattern. She put the mitts for her husband (which incorporate design elements from Motoring Madness mittens by Audrey Nicklin from Lit Knits) away; she has knitting ennui.
Jen pulled out some ancient socks, the Sock Strap by General Hogbuffer out of Knitpicks Stroll in Bare, Spring, and Dogwood Heather. She stopped working on them because she broke one of her needles. They have unusual construction. We talk about anatomical sock toes.
Frog Pond: (31:58)
Laura frogged her Yggdrasil Afghan because she was unhappy with how the center looked. She had only knit 6 rows. She restarted on larger needles.
On Deck: (36:05)
Laura wants to make a Dreambird by Nadita Swings out of either Dizzy Blonde yarn. She will make a(nother) slipped stitch hat for her other brother, out of Knitpicks Brava using this one to work out any issues with the pattern so she can publish. And she wants to make the Effortless Cardigan by Hannah Fettig out of Dizzy Blonde DK.
Jen has a huge list: the Citron Grande out of Desert Vista Dyeworks Voir in Cherry Icee, she wants to restart her Chickadee, the Dump Truck Cardigan for her nephew, the Playful Stripes Cardigan by Alana Dakos for the new baby out of Cascade 220 Superwash Sport out of teals and pinks and greys, and a layette for the new baby niece out of Cascade Heritage. She also wants to make booties and more baby things sweaters. She is happy to have a girl to knit for so she can make all manner of baby patterns. She also wants to make the Beulah Cardigan for Camp Loopy Month 3 out of Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light in Dried Rose.
Knit Culture: (40:31)
We recap the great time we had at our World Wide Knit in Public event. We had a great turn out, did some great shopping at Colors 91711 (Jen fell down on some recycled cashmere yarn), and had a great time. Thank you to Joni for the prize donations and the project bags you gave us. We also got donuts from the Museum of Donuts.
We review Botanical Knits 2 by Alana Dakos, which retails for 18.00 for a PDF, 22.00 for the print book, and 40.00 for both Botanical Knits 1 and Botanical Knits 2. We both LOVE this book and highly, highly recommend it.
We remind you that the stashdown is still going on. Post your finished projects in the June thread and you can win two patterns–the beautiful InfiniTAM donated by the amazing Deborah Tomasello and the Tan House Brook Shawl donated by BostonJen of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast (which you should all listen to, because it's awesome.
July's theme will be music, so post your FOs that are inspired by music in the thread.
We let you all know that the ACTually KNITting Podcast is running a knitalong called the PAL KAL, which is themed to support podcasters. Use yarn or fiber or a pattern from a podcaster; see their thread for all the details.
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We point out this Verizon Ad about girls in science.
We point out this awesome article about Jesse Seay's tutorial for knitting a working circuit. It's awesome.
We talk about knitting software and apps. Some charting software we have used are EnvisioKnit (purchasable), Knit Visualizer (purchasable), Stitch Maps (free,web-based), Sconcho (free download), and Stitchworks Software (a purchasable software for crochet). Some apps we like are Stitchminder (a stitch counter app), Evernote (cloud storage, not specifically for knitting but great for storing Ravelry download patterns), Knit Companion, Yarma (interfaces with Ravelry for photo uploads), Wooly (interfaces with Ravlery to update projects), and Button Wizard (calculates where to put buttonholes on buttonbands).
We mention the The Diet Diary for some knitting calculators.
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We are both going to the CogKNITive retreat run by Dr. Gemma of the CogKNITive Podcast on July 25. There is an exclusive colorway you can pre-order in Dr. Gemma's group.
KnitDizzney will be Sunday, September 7, 2014. Save the date. There will be exclusive colorways and T-shirts for purchase and we will have a meetup at the picnic spiral.
We will be at Yarnosphere on October 4th and 5th at the Expo Arts Center in Bixby Knolls in Long Beach. Dizzy Blonde will be a vendor and Jen will just be there for fun. We've interviewed the organizers of Yarnosphere in Episode 10.
And Jen and Laura will both be at the CogKNITive Fiber Retreat on October 11 in the La Quinta Inn in Tehachapi. Dizzy Blonde will be vending. Sign ups are open.
Our next milestone prize will be at 1000 members, so join the Ravelry Group. And don't forget to post your finished June projects in the thread! Keep stashing down!
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Churches (or denominations), like people, are dynamic. They mature. They change. However, the changes, though inevitable, are not totally predictable. Nor are they easily discerned! Too often, the awareness of the change comes late -- the needed fence repair is discovered after the horse is out!
What causes these changes? Are they controllable? Are these inevitable events of growth and maturation even desirable?
Some might argue that the entire question is moot, for God is directing and, therefore, when he IS in charge only what he wills will happen. Others, pointing to the experience of Israel, God's chosen people, might counter that history does not support such a contention.
Our May meeting of the San Diego FORUM Chapter will address this question of change and the future of the Adventist Church.
"For nearly a century and a half," according to Dr. Fritz Guy, our speaker, "Adventists have been developing and changing in various ways -- culturally, sociologically, economically, educationally, theologically -- and we will certainly continue to do so. While we cannot control the future (or even predict it in detail), we can try to shape it in ways that will improve our theological and spiritual health and enable us to make a positive difference in the world. But this kind of future is not a 'sure thing' by any means. It will happen only if there is a good deal of deliberate effort by all sorts of people who care about the Adventist future and are willing to invest time and effort to improve the prospects."
Dr. Guy promises that the May 23 presentation will focus on a "threefold theological agenda: the Christian gospel, the contemporary world, and the Adventist heritage."
Further, he suggests that "while the topic is theological, it may well have some broad implications for Adventist life and experience as well."
Fritz Guy's experience and academic background immediately identifies him as a scholar practitioner.
Currently, he serves as Lecturer in Theology, Loma Linda University, and also as Associate Pastor of the University Church at Loma Linda -- positions he has held since 1984.
Prior to his current roles, he was Professor of Theology, SDA Theological Seminary, Andrews University, 1977-84. While in that position, he addressed our San Diego FORUM on the topic: "A Prophet in a Changing World," May, 1982.
During the sixteen years, 1961-77, he worked as Instructor, Assistant-, Associate- and Full-Professor in the Department of Religion at LLU, La Sierra campus.
His earlier pastoral ministries included service in San Diego, Huntington Beach, Indio, El Centro, and Oceanside.
For three years, 1957-60, he was Assistant Editor of The Youth's Instructor.
Born in Minnesota, he is an alumnus of Cedar Lake Academy in Michigan. His Bachelor of Arts degree was earned at La Sierra (1952); his Master of Arts in Bible and Systematic Theology at the SDA Seminary (1955). He earned further graduate degrees from Andrews University and from the University Chicago where he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Christian Theology in 1971.
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"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (or "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces", original: "Die zertanzten Schuhe") is a German fairy tale originally published by The Brothers Grimm in Children's and Household Tales as tale number 133. Charles Deulin collected another, French version in his Contes du Roi Cambinus (1874), which Andrew Lang included in The Red Fairy Book and Alexander Afanasyev collected a Russian variant, "The Secret Ball", in Narodnye Russkie Skazki. Joseph Jacobs collected a Gender Flip, "Kate Crackernuts".
The plot follows twelve princesses who slept in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors were securely locked, but in the morning their shoes were found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king promised his kingdom and a daughter to any man who could discover the princesses' secret within three days and three nights, but those who failed within the set time limit would be put to death.
An old soldier came to try his hand at the task, following many who had failed. Whilst traveling through a wood he came upon an old woman, who gave him an invisibility cloak and told him not to eat or drink anything given to him by one of the princesses who would come to him in the evening, and to pretend to be fast asleep after the princess left. He followed the advice, only pretending to drink the wine given to him by a princess after reaching the castle, and pretending to fall asleep.
The princesses, sure that the soldier was asleep, dressed themselves in fine clothes and escaped from their room by a trap door in the floor. The soldier, seeing this, donned his invisibility cloak and followed them down. The passageway led them to three groves of trees: one of silver, the second of gold, and the third of diamonds. The soldier broke off a twig from each as evidence. They walked on until they came upon a great lake, and twelve boats with twelve princes in them ferried them to the other side, the soldier hiding in the boat of the youngest princess. On the other side of the lake was a castle, into which all the princesses went and danced the night away until their shoes were worn and they needed to leave.
This continued a second and third night and on the third night the soldier carried away a golden cup as a token of where he had been. When it came time for him to declare the princesses' secret, he went before the king with the three branches and the golden cup, and told the king all he had seen. The princesses saw there was no use to deny the truth, and confessed. The soldier took the eldest princess as his bride and was made the king's heir.
The story has been adapted several times to that of television and movie format, as well as used as the inspiration for some novels and parts of stories such as Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry.
Tropes in "The Twelve Dancing Princesses":
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Nothing is really said about the hero's looks, but in the Grimms Fairytale Classics he turns out to be a rather handsome soldier (who even wears a a Nice Hat) not likely to be past his mid 20's. He looks even better when dolled up in regal clothes at the end.
- Big Fancy Castle: Where the dance is held.
- Composite Character:
- The Faerie Tale Theatre version knocks it down to six princesses instead of twelve.
- There are only three princesses in the Grimms Fairytale Classics version.
- Crystal Landscape: The intrepid soldier surreptitiously follows the titular royalty through three groves of magical trees - one of gold, one of silver, and one of diamonds. The diamond tree grove is a Crystal Landscape.
- Dances and Balls
- Discreet Drink Disposal: A standard part of the story, which often has the soldier pour the drugged drink the princess offers him into a hidden sponge. In Robin McKinley's adaptation of the story in The Door in the Hedge, he pours the drugged wine into the thick, luxurious cloaks he's been given to wear, whereas in Grimms Fairytale Classics he quietly dumps the drink in the soil of the nearest plant.
- Eldritch Location: The magical place where the princesses dance is generally agreed to be in the Land of Faerie, and an interesting note is that while many versions hold the princesses, the princes, or the entire royal family to be under a curse, nobody seems to state who put the curse on them or WHY they would have done it, so there are some heavy Genius Loci implications if you poke at the backstory long enough.
- Hypnotize the Princess: In some versions, the princesses are under a curse and that's why they find no problems lying to their father and letting the princes get executed for failing; when the soldier finally breaks the curse and they regain their memories, they're horrified at their actions. In other versions, the failed princes are the ones under a curse and they're not actually dead, but spirited off to the Otherworld where the princesses dance with them. In yet more versions, everyone is under that curse, and it's never really stated who went to all this trouble.
- Gratuitous Princess: While it's not unusual for a fairy tale to have princesses, the story features not two but twelve princesses, all of whom sleep in the same room and are basically interchangeable. The large number seems to add to the mystery of why they able to disappear each night and dance the night away - it's less plausible that such a large number could sneak away undetected.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In some versions of the story, the men that the princesses dance with at the ball are under a spell. When the princesses are exposed, they suddenly remember who they are. Additionally the original has the king say that anyone who fails to find out what his daughters are up to will be executed - and the princesses still try to drug the soldier, knowing he'll be killed.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: The king has 12 daughters.
- Missing Mom: The Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation says that the princesses' mother passed away.
- Mysterious Benefactor: The old woman who gives the soldier the invisibility cloak and some valuable advice. McKinley's version implies that she's actually the oldest princess in disguise, but never confirms.
- Nameless Narrative: None of the characters have names.
- Old Beggar Test: The hero often but not invariably gets the means to save them by this.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Few versions of the story give much attention to the motives or feelings of the princesses. In some versions, they are stated to be under a spell, but more often they're implied to be willing participants in the nights of dancing, and how they feel about the soldier revealing the truth and getting to choose one of them to marry is rarely addressed. Then there's the case in the original that if anyone attempts to figure out the truth and fails, they are executed. So the princesses don't seem to mind innocent people being put to death, as long as they can continue their dancing. In some variants, they are wittingly dancing with literal devils; some (but not all) of these variants have the hero refusing to marry any of them.
- Rags to Royalty: The protagonist is a soldier who becomes king.
- Rule of Three: Three nights following the princesses, three groves of magical trees, and the princesses themselves and their dance partners also number in a multiple of three.
- Slipping a Mickey: The princesses would drug any potential suitor so that they'll fall asleep while the princesses go to their dance, and fail the challenge. The Soldier tends to catch on, pretend to drink and then fake falling asleep.
- Standard Hero Reward: Although subverted in some versions - where the soldier declares that he doesn't want to marry any of the daughters.
- Youngest Child Wins: Averted, a rare example for the oldest sister to be chosen as the hero's bride — in some versions. Sometimes he chooses the youngest princess, whom he followed closely throughout the adventure; sometimes he declares he doesn't want any wife so untrustworthy.


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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
May 9, 2011
Social Currency
AmEx has managed to do what it does best - capitalize on the relations in a society organized to capture labor and turn it into profit, for companies such as AmEx. Using the supposedly revolutionary new means of "horizontal" and democratic interaction - you know, the ballyhooed fountainheads of not only the Arab Spring, but resurgent progressive politics - AmEx has, with less than a minute of video, done us all a tremendous service. It has shown twitter, social media and the internet for what they are: means of capitalized exchange.
It's ad men have shown us the naked operation of spectacular forms of control, assimilation and integration.
In a hierarchical, monetized society, there is no democracy, no consent, no free exchange. Any interaction which occurs within the confines of an owned system of exchange belongs to that system, in the same manner in which licensed software belongs to its producer, and text messages remain the property of the phone company.
In our communities, horizontal interactions occur only within hierarchies. There are no social currencies which are not also capitalized ones, owned by fiat or fiction in the name of real chains of command. Capitalist exchange colonizes everything it can, whenever possible, however it can afford to do so.
Social media, in our society, do not develop in a democratic haven safe or secure from corporate predation and influence. Social media are the creation of hierarchically organized bands of expropriators. They are direct and immediate colonizations of human exchange. Every tweet is an advertisement, every update a commodification, every blog post an offer to sell.
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- Richard said...
great post
technology developed by capital tends, of course, to serve the interests of capital
but, one shouldn't be too deterministic, as there is always a tension between the purposes behind the development of a particular technological innovation and the forms of resistance to which people put it to use
or, to put it differently, all manifestations of capitalism carry within them the potential for resistance to it, this is, in effect, what dialectical analysis, for all of its strengths and weaknesses, attempts to discern
oddly enough, this is why I tend to be suspicious of some utopian proposals regarding things like education, for example, because I sometimes think that absent an experience of an oppressive system, you can't proceed to create a compassionate, humanistic alternative
I guess you could say that there is a thread of Maoism in my thinking, filtered through the cinema of Fassbinder
- May 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I took an all or nothing approach in order to deliberately outline what seems to be ignored by the triumphalist credo of technology=progress=liberation.
But, you are on the money: tools can have their uses altered.
Justin's "walking the dog" illustrates, in the same way, how mental tools (techniques) can be altered as well, to change relations and outcomes...
...I don't know what I think about education. My experiences were too limited and too personal to allow me to develop an expansive or forgiving view of managed edification. My contempt for sponsored academia should be fairly obvious, at this point, but I'm not convinced that this commends me.
- May 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Randal Graves said...
Dammit, all this selling I'm doing and I was a poor as I was before I started blogging. #fuckinghell
We are all AmEx now.
- May 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- David K Wayne said...
"a thread of Maoism in my thinking, filtered through the cinema of Fassbinder"
- Sounds like one hell of a party. Twitter it!
- May 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Totally agreed Crow. The google is very explicit with their class system:
I had access to a personally unprecedented amount of privileges, but was not entitled to the ski trips, DisneyLand adventures, stock options, and holiday cash bonuses from their team of temporary Santa Clauses. Thousands of people with red badges (such as me, my team, and most other contractors) worked amongst thousands of people with white badges (as Full-time Googlers). Interns are given green badges. However, a fourth class exists at Google that involves strictly data-entry labor, or more appropriately, the labor of digitizing. These workers are identifiable by their yellow badges, and they go by the team name ScanOps. They scan books, page by page, for Google Book Search. The workers wearing yellow badges are not allowed any of the privileges that I was allowed – ride the Google bikes, take the Google luxury limo shuttles home, eat free gourmet Google meals, attend Authors@Google talks and receive free, signed copies of the author's books, or set foot anywhere else on campus except for the building they work in. They also are not given backpacks, mobile devices, thumb drives, or any chance for social interaction with any other Google employees. Most Google employees don't know about the yellow badge class. Their building, 3.14159~, was next to mine, and I used to see them leave everyday at precisely 2:15 PM, like a bell just rang, telling the workers to leave the factory. Their shift starts at 4 am.
As servile and passive as the author seems, they still fired him. Why? He took an interest in something good google citizens know to ignore.
- May 10, 2011 at 8:12 PM
- Richard said...
dr-gonzo: thanks for the link, it's a very compelling story, and I recommend that others read it in its entirety
as for describing the author, I think that "naive" is more apt
- May 10, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Yeah, thanks for that link, Dr. G. Enlightening.
- May 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Naive, sure. Maybe I was being a little harsh. The fact that this guy even took an interest in the google class dynamics means he is several steps ahead of his fellow merit class technocrats in being an actual human.
- May 10, 2011 at 9:54 PM
J.R. Boyd begs to differ:
Like, look at this blog man. It's like anarchism sprouting in the midst of consumerism...or some shit.
- May 11, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Perhaps, but every posting on blegher promotes the market penetration of blegher.
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BOSTON, May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LastPass by LogMeIn, a leader in password management, today released findings of a new global survey, "Psychology of Passwords: Neglect is Helping Hackers Win," revealing that despite today's increased threat landscape and heightened global awareness of hacking and data breaches, password behaviors remain largely unchanged. Data from the survey shows that 91 percent of people know that using the same password for multiple accounts is a security risk, yet 59 percent continue to use the same password. As a result, individuals' behavior in creating, changing and managing passwords in both their professional and personal lives is slow to match the rapid evolution of cybersecurity threats.
The global survey, which polled 2,000 individuals across the United States, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, provides evidence that increased knowledge of security best practices doesn't necessarily translate into better password management, and highlights regional, generational and personality differences can factor into password security.
Key findings include:
"The cyber threats facing consumers and businesses are becoming more targeted and successful, yet there remains a clear disconnect in users' password beliefs and their willingness to take action," said Sandor Palfy, Chief Technology Officer of Identity and Access Management at LogMeIn. "Individuals seem to understand password best practices, but often exhibit password behaviors that can expose their information to threat actors. Taking a few simple steps to improve how you manage passwords can lead to increased safety for online accounts whether personal or professional."
Survey Methodology
The Psychology of Passwords survey was commissioned by LastPass and fielded by independent panel research firm Lab42 from February 8-21, 2018. The responses were generated from a survey of 2,000 adults, ages 25 to 60 who have at least one online account. Survey respondents represented the United States, Germany, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. Where possible, results were compared with the 2016 Psychology of Passwords survey commissioned by LastPass.
About LastPass LastPass is an award-winning password manager helping millions organize and protect their online lives, at home and at work. For businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides secure password storage and centralized admin oversight to reduce the risk of data breaches and remove password obstacles for employees. With customizable policies, secure password sharing, and comprehensive user management, LastPass gives IT the tools to strengthen password hygiene across the organization. For more information, visit https://lastpass.com.
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Family Violence Intervention Orders and your Family Law Matter
Family law is known as being a volatile area of law. Trying to decide who gets the kids and for how long can often turn into a bitter battle which runs into court. Once in court, an impartial judge with no personal knowledge of any of the people in the matter attempts to decide the dynamic of a particular family's future.
Complicating this process are family violence intervention orders.
1. What is a Family Violence Intervention Order?
It is an Order made by a Magistrate which names an affected family member or members (the person or persons fearing for their safety) and a respondent (the person against whom accusations of verbal, physical, sexual, emotional or financial abuse are made). These particular Orders are deliberately easy to get due to the difficulty in proving allegations – a better safe than sorry approach.
The Order includes conditions designed to prevent the Respondent from using family violence against any of the people named on the Order.
They are dealt with under Part 4 of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic) – this is easily accessible via astlii.edu.au.
Many people instantly worry about what damage these kinds of orders will do – particularly if the kids have been named on the order as well as the affected parent. What if the accusations are untrue and the judge believes them? These orders are more common than you might think.
2. The Outcomes of an Application for an Intervention Order
With an Intervention Order matter, there are 5 possible outcomes:-
- The matter proceeds to a contested hearing and is successful;
- The matter proceeds to a contested hearing and is unsuccessful;
- The matter is settled by consenting to an Intervention Order, without admitting any of the allegations are true;
- The matter is settled by the giving of an undertaking (a promise) to the Court not to engage in family violence; or
- The matter does not proceed and is withdrawn.
The following points are merely food for thought and designed to help you gain a more accurate idea of where your IVO falls on the scale.
3. Was an Order actually made or was there merely an application for an IVO?
For an intervention order to have actually been made, at least one party must have attended court. You must also be provided with a copy of the order if one is made against you.
4. Who is named on the IVO?
If the IVO/s name only the parents in each case, this is a cause for concern but unlikely to be detrimental to any parental application and even less likely to a property application.
5. Is this the first IVO? Are there more?
Many cases contain cross applications – that is, both parents have taken out applications against each other.
Many cases also have IVO's many years old, or dotted steadily throughout the years right up to the date of the final hearing.
Or your case may just have the one.
6. Seriousness of the IVO
It is easy to become caught up in what you may consider an unjust accusation and to become worried about the kind of consequences this will cause. Verbal arguments can be nasty but many people have verbal arguments and they range considerably in intensity.
Depending on the severity of the accusations in the application or on factors outside of the IVO process – the incident may also attract the attention of organisations such as the police – have criminal charges been laid? – or the Department of Human Services – has an investigation been opened?
7. Have there been breaches of the IVO?
Should there be a serious breach or multiple breaches of an IVO, this will be recorded as its own incident and its circumstances considered.
It is important to note that breaching an intervention order is an offence; you may be arrested and charged for it.
As mentioned above, this may attract the attention of other authorities such as the police and DHS who will make their own assessments and who may pursue further action.
8. Intervention Orders and Family Court Orders
IVO's are made via state law – they do not trump family court orders.
IVOS's and family law proceedings operate in two separate spheres of law. They do not cross and are dealt with in separate jurisdictions – this means separate courts and different police (state vs federal).
Should you apply for Consent Orders (family law being in Federal courts), you will have to state if they are inconsistent with any family violence order, and, if it is, detail how.
9. Conclusion
Ultimately, the IVO will be taken into account together with all other documentation provided to the court. The Judge will attempt understand the dynamic of the particular family – in doing so they will attempt to gain perspective over the whole matter. The IVO forms only one part of this analysis and depending on the content of that IVO, its significance can vary greatly.


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One of Britain's top doctors has warned that children's health is being damaged because academies and free schools are allowed to opt out of serving healthy lunches to their pupils. Two million children at such schools are now at risk of exposure to unhealthy foods as a result of the coalition government's divisive and "irresponsible" policy, which is undermining the fight against childhood obesity, Professor Terence Stephenson told the Observer. Full story >>
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I'm a big fan of Cory Doctorow, who is amongst other things the assistant editor of one of my favorite websites Boing Boing. He has talked a lot of sense over the years particular when it comes to privacy, the web and building community.
I read one of his latest fiction books (published October 2012) over the summer titled, "Pirate Cinema" and I have to say I found it to be absolutely brilliant and compulsive reading.
The great thing about it is that although it is set in a dystopian near-future Britain, there is so much about the book that anchors it to the present day and our lives in real world. Indeed the cleaver thing about 'Pirate Cinema' is that it is pretty much all based on facts and things that do already happen (or could easily happen in the future). Doctorow has then done a great job of linking events together though a series of fictional characters and brilliantly crafted narrative.
Even some of the things, which sound almost impossible in the story, have actually happened. For example, projecting onto the Houses of Parliament (this was done as early as 1999 and more recently by BrewDog). Or the Laser mosquito killer – the theme of a 2010 TED Talk and lots of research cash from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The three-strikes Internet Piracy law is also a very real thing in the UK and 'Pirate Cinema' does a brilliant job of getting into the politics of it all!
Doctorow's passion and deep understanding of copyright, openness, opportunity from the web, hack-culture, the importance of sharing to build knowledge and the loopholes in the law all come across well in the text.
Even the fact that the book is published under a Creative Commons Licence and you can download it for free from his website has a certain infectious charm about it.
I also love the underlying message that we must believe that access to the Internet is a human right and as culture (certainly within the UK) we have become dependent on it. Lets face it this is absolutely true. The Internet is no longer just a nice thing to have, but a necessity for finding jobs, applying for unemployment, going to school, paying tax, shopping and so much more.
I also love his remarks (spoken through fictional characters) about creativity which appear throughout the book.
"No, it only takes a long time because there are so many people who would like to come up with a definition of creativity that includes everything they do and nothing anyone else does. But if we're being honest, its easy to define creativity: its doing something that isn't obvious."
"That's what 'to create' means: to make something new."
"The fact is, creativity is cheap, hard work is hard, and everyone wants to think his ideas are precious unique snowflakes, but ideas are like assholes, we've all got 'em."
The other thing that I really enjoyed reading about in the book was how the young characters used their 'constantly on' Internet connection as a natural part of their lives. In particular to teach themselves how to fix computers, re-wire a house and most importantly cook! The insight into squatting was also pretty interesting and Doctorow gives a shout out to Jamie King from vodo.net for giving him a hand with this.
Overall 'Pirate Cinema' really is a great read and I bet it won't be too long until it becomes a film (its got Film 4 potential written all over it!)


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This is our Fanclub, where you can share fun stuff about your Sveldalas and make suggestions or ask questions. You can post just about anything Sveldala related. So go ahead, introduce yourself friend!Traits wrote:. Flopped/lopped ears
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. Short choppy mane
. Long shaggy forelock
. Twelve to eighteen hands
. Long thin legs
. Thin lithe body
. Thin whip-like tail
. Talks in clicks and chirps
. Blue tongue
. Brightly colored eyes
. Highly intelligentWhat Are Sveldala Walkers? wrote:Sveldala Walking Equines are a rare and historic horse breed, originating from the remote beaches of Anholt. The first tame SWE was originally caught and broke by a young Swedish zoologist that lived in Svedala, a locality in Skåne County, Sweden. From there the entrepreneur bought a small farm in Lilla Sveldala, and began domesticating and breeding the rare species.
It didnt take long for the intriguing creatures to gain interest on a global scale, and buyers quickly began lining their stalls with the beasts. However, due to their very specific needs, it was nearly impossible to get them to breed outside of the original sanctuary. This in turn caused them to keep their severely endangered status for many many years until more information became available.
Now these equines are being offered to other potential breeders (you) in hopes of making a more stable and readily available selection to the public. With sanctuaries located all over the world and importing on a massive scale, its up to us to bring these historic horses out of the very real danger of extinction.Club Rules wrote:. Be kind and thoughtful always, or you'll be banned right quick
. Always add a response/reply to at least one user when posting
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. Whenever posting an image of a SWE, link back to its adoption page
. Feel free to post questions here for staff
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. PM me for any questions/concerns/rule breakingPublic Rules wrote:. Closed species - you may not make your own!
. Closed breeding - you may not breed your own!
. You may own up to thirtyfive 1st Gen SWEs at this time
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. Bred SWEs do not count toward your total limit
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. May rehome one SWE per month with permission
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Background information on the inductive miner
Note: this article provides pointers to extra material, beyond this course. Those interested are invited to inspect these resources, but this is not mandatory for the successful completion of this course.
The usage of the Inductive miner is also explained in this video (YouTube, 7 min.).
The following scientific papers describe in great detail how the Inductive miner works:
- Leemans, Sander JJ, Dirk Fahland, and Wil MP van der Aalst. Discovering block-structured process models from event logs containing infrequent behaviour. Business Process Management Workshops. Springer International Publishing, 2013.
- Sander J. J. Leemans, Dirk Fahland, Wil M. P. van der Aalst: Process and Deviation Exploration with Inductive Visual Miner. BPM (Demos) 2014: 46


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Maybe I'm egocentric? Or perhaps I'm unavailable to other people's feelings when they're based on significant others and compromises of exclusivity and the possession of my faithful sexuality to a single person?
I believe I'm made by nature to rebel against the norm, of the eager commodity of humans who remain in the center of what the world has ever known: Familiarity.
I believe it's exceptionally selfish to ask a person to be monogamous period. To be able to make a conscious choice out of your philosophy, out of your environment is asking for rousing chaos. It appears monogamy has much to do with sexuality and not of the love that unites two people. What does love have to do with sex? Or sex has to do with love?
I would like to know if anyone can offer me a good answer as to why a person shouldn't be allowed to share themselves freely with another person in more ways than just an emotional or spiritual response. Why wouldn't I connect with someone unreservedly on sexual conditions just because my partner wouldn't grant me permission? My body is my will and so is my mind when I make a decision.
I've come to recognize there are lots of reasons as to why I don't feel a closed relationship would work for me (until further notice). I knew from the start I wasn't some downright scandalous cheater but a person who felt caged and was practically dying to be unleashed into absolute liberty.
I'd wonder why I could be with a partner and decide at a whim of madness the desires I knew that weren't going to be met by they. Maybe what seemed to be hopeless was an expectation of a matter? Something deeper I presently fail time and time again to put my finger on.
Perhaps I sit premeditating a cycle that becomes unbearable if I yearn for the obviousness of me wielding the power of a man's shaft in my hands with a mind and mouth of a dangerous whore searching for the collection of sperm through wishes of instant gratification which takes place from her tangible performance.
Or perhaps I'm with a friend or two lounging with an array of smoke and alcohol and the heat of lust takes over me when I'm aware my partner and I rarely throw ourselves into the throes of passion where tongues collide first in a ritual of softness and saliva sparks the breath of required aspiration. Of a person savoring my body with their glorious hands and taking into account that tomorrow is never promised.
There isn't a hiding place for greed, eventually it will catch up to you. There isn't a safe place for expectation to rest its head. There isn't a means to destroy the need for instantaneous connection. Is there a point to living life without the utter abundance of life itself when there isn't any time like the present?


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The people who fill club treasurer positions really aren't born for such greatness — they're made. There are some qualities that help a treasurer, and these qualities can be nurtured among all club members, increasing the chances of sharing this important position during the club's lifetime.
Personally, I believe patience is a great quality in a treasurer. A treasurer will be waiting for information from companies on mergers, spinoffs and other complex transactions. Also, there's the patience needed to wade through company websites for information on transactions. Patience is also needed to get all the outside information needed to file tax returns.
You'd think a penchant for math is essential to club treasurers, but anyone with basic math skills should be capable of being a treasurer. Accounting knowledge also isn't necessary. It may help a bit, but the basics for clubs aren't difficult, and most of it is embedded in club accounting software.
Another good quality in a treasurer is the ability to take criticism. Many of the criticisms are about matters the treasurer has no control over. Good treasurers can politely let these remarks flow past them.
The final quality I'll discuss here is the ability and desire to learn. Tax laws change. Accounting software will need to change with the law. Companies will devise new ways to structure deals that'll stretch our ability to enter them into the software. A treasurer will need to be able to learn and should be happy to learn.


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|Dawn reviews Leaning into the Wind
For centuries, Buddhists have engaged in the spiritual ritual of the mandala offering. Traditionally made with colored sand, the mandala is a work of art containing geometric shapes that simultaneously represent a palace containing a deity and the entirety of the universe. Although these works of art are quite beautiful, the end product is not the objective. Through the slow and patient act of pouring the sand into perfect geometric shapes, the mandala acts as a meditative vessel, and serves as an invitation to enter the bigger perceptual world, reminding its creator of the infinite space that links the internal and external.
Like the mandala, the ephemeral works of artist Andy Goldsworthy are an exploration of the connection between the organic world and his internal perceptions. Working only with natural materials, Goldsworthy creates three-dimensional sculptures, that emphasize contrasting colors and repetition, which he uses to find meaning with both, the events taking place in his life, and the surrounding external world.
Sixteen years after his first film on the artist, Rivers and Tides (2001), director Thomas Riedelsheimer's Leaning Into The Wind catches up with the artist for a second round of observational documentary filmmaking. However, unlike the first film, which focuses more on the details of his creative process, Leaning Into The Wind concentrates on the emotional landscape that Andy Goldsworthy expresses through his work.
Having already created one film that focuses on observing the artist's method specifics, Riedelsheimer now appears to have an intuitive understanding of Goldsworthy's mind and uses his stunningly beautiful cinematography to translate this intuition to the audience seamlessly. Viewers are woven in and out of Andy's inner emotional spaces, as he speaks of major events and relationships in his life, and how they relate to specific fallen trees, leaf colors, or rock formations. Soundscapes ranging from ambient to something approaching Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000) further enrich this intuitive link between artist, filmmaker and viewer, creating a nonverbal dance of the senses.
Simultaneously, if you are someone who is interested in learning about art but has no background in the subject, Leaning Into The Wind is a great place to start. The way Andy Goldsworthy describes his work, and his feelings surrounding its creation, can give a novice viewer insight into the creative process. Like the mandala, the artist uses his materials and the process to learn something, or express something, and it is the learning through expression that supersedes the end result.
Serene and meditative, Leaning Into The Wind is a visual and auditory journey through the beauties of the natural world and it's ability to connect to something deep inside of us. It is an emotional step off of the everyday path and will open a doorway allowing the audience to feel and see the world through Andy Goldsworthy's eyes, whose art will never let you look at your surroundings the same way again.
-Dawn Stronski