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Felonies too stringent to charge 11-year-old boy
August 16, 2004
I'M SORRY, BUT I do not see the justice in charging an 11-year-old with six felonies.
Given that the "accused" is a juvenile (aka: a kid), I know what you (the reader) knows: what we read from the Greeley Tribune over the course of the arson cases. But, in case you skipped the articles, let me review a few things before I go on.
From the Aug. 5 Tribune article "11-year-old boy charged in arson:"
1. July 13th, 14 and 17 two Habitat for Humanity homes burned to the ground and an Urban Renewal house was damaged by arson reaching an estimated $117,000.
2. An 11-year-old boy "confessed to setting fire" to the three homes.
3. On Aug. 4, this boy was "charged with six felonies," including three first-degree arson charges and three second-degree burglary charges.
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4. If convicted of these charges "the boy could face up to two years in the department of youth corrections," also known as "juvie" or "prison."
5. The boy "set fire to the houses because he knew no one was living in them and no one would get hurt."
While considering the crimes, we cannot forget that we are talking about an 11-year-old boy acting, quite frankly, like an average unsupervised fifth-grader.
Readers, consider when you or your siblings were 11; did you ever play with fire?
I set fire to my brother's hair and then nearly burned down our back yard trying to put it out. My brother-in-law set fire to a haystack and nearly burned down his house. Another 11-year-old boy I knew lit matches in his closet and burned down his family's house on Christmas Eve.
Like us at this age, it is obvious the boy meant no real harm. He deliberately chose unoccupied houses so he wouldn't injure anyone. Any developmental psychologist will tell you that children this young lack the capacity for abstract thought and he could not reason out the full consequences of his actions.
A felony charge does not disappear from one's record, ever. So if convicted, even after this kid turns 18, he will have six felonies on his record — something he will have to cite on every job application he ever fills out. Many businesses want to know if applicants have ever been charged with arson specifically, not wanting to risk their own property by hiring an arsonist. But three counts of burglary as well guarantees Greeley will be paying for a long time.
He will also permanently lose one of the basic tenets of American democracy: the right to vote.
We as a community need to ask ourselves if we are so intent on retribution that we need to charge a fifth-grader with six felonies.
Obviously, this kid needs rehabilitation and should learn the consequences for his actions. This boy should be required to help rebuild the houses he destroyed. I doubt he really knows the gravity of what he did, and should learn firsthand how these houses are built, and why. When the family moves in, the emotions of the day will never leave him. He will be changed, and in a way that will serve him far better than prison time.
Lastly, where were the boy's parents during his three nights of 3 a.m. arson? And, where was the rest of the community? It takes a whole community to raise a child, and now we must come together to correct our failure with this boy.
Samuel Helms is a three-year resident of Greeley and a follower of the "10 Traditions of Religious Spiritualism."


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You could of course clean the carpets yourself.
Hiring a carpet cleaning machine always worked out more expensive than I imagined - since it used a great deal of detergent - and took a great deal longer than I had expected.
Using a steam cleaner gave better results - but took a long time to dry the carpet afterwards and left the room very damp.
Carpets do look good and elegant in offices and other commercial establishments. But do you know that dirt and dust usually hide deep in carpets and that carpets are conducive to mold and fungi because they are warm in nature? Cleaning and sanitizing are two important things that carpets should undergo not only to increase their life span but also to maintain a healthy environment.
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Name of Club: Riff Raff's
Location: New York City
Square Footage: 1,000
Capacity/Seats: 72
Open Date: Feb. 12, 2011
Website: http://www.riffraffsnyc.com
Located in Manhattan's bustling Flatiron District, Riff Raff's can best be described as harkening back to the exclusivity and crowd of Bungalow 8 and classic NYC hospitality. The first nightlife venture by Michael Stillman of Fourth Wall Restaurants, the group brings its signature service, detailed finishes and superior menu are nothing short of on-point.
Riff Raff's specializes in tiki service, where oversized libations delight for the over-the-top Polynesian presentations with a cavalcade of rums, tropical juices and tchotchkes of all shapes and sizes, including coconut bras, Etro pocket squares, and Riff Raff's own customized neon orange Wayfarer sunglasses.
The central component of Riff Raff's design by AvroKO is comprised of 108 woven tapestries sourced from small villages in Malaysia. The designer travelled to each village to talk with the local craftsmen and check out their wares in order to collect enough pieces to finish the project. In New York, only replicas of these types of tapestries are available. The effect of having so many of the crafted, hand-woven pieces ensconce the space is breathtaking and worth the travel adventure to retrieve them. Golden bubble chandeliers imbue the space with an amber glow that is occasionally accented by sparks of light from gold disco balls that descend late in the evening.
Riff Raff's renowned DJ program consists of constantly rotating top-tier deejays that play to the crowd, which remains very eclectic and energetic — just like the music. Guest performances by Chromeo, Cut Copy and B-Roc of The Knocks are just a few of the famous names that have graced the venue's turntables. High profile guests and events have graced the banquets of Riff Raff's, usually leaving with the signature tribal face paint for which the club is so well known.


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My kids, my spouse and my God want my undivided attention and presence.
My mind is on 1000 things at any given time.
Minimalism has helped me simplify lots of areas in my life and I still have a long way to go because life is so full of EXCESS and busyness.
Once all the junk is gone , we have to re-discover things that really matter. I have found that to be just as great a journey as simplifying. Honestly, I don't know what this will look like… but I'm excited to find out!
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what of knowledge literacy?
My last post still has me thinking, especially with the ensuing discussion on Twitter about how the data/information/knowledge/wisdom model is still a prevelant and commonly taught thing in lib schools (although, as pointed out to me, not the only extent model in info science).
So now I'm faced with this question: what would a move from information literacy to knowledge literacy look like?
(Oh! And as also pointed out on Twitter, I'm not just fingering reference/instruction librarians for the ways that they do their jobs. This isn't about that, since a lot of how we approach information literacy is based on community demands, rather than necessarily operating from our own epistemologies.)
I was also grumbling on Twitter not too long ago about how irritated I am whenever I see educators talking about how 'kids these days are afraid to/can't/won't think critically'. The thing is, is that the way that 'information literacy' is usually presented, it pretty much discourages any real level of critical thought. Professors just demand that student's cited sources are peer reviewed papers or acadmeic monographs. We more or less tell students that 'authority' is the best gauge for quality resources and try to equip them with the tools they need to find these 'authoritative' resources.
All well and good… but it just feeds into itself. And it definitely seems to work against the stated goal of most people involved in higher ed that university is a place where we teach/encourage critical thinking. Yet, at least on this front, it would seem that we do everything but encourage students to be critical thinkers.
If we were to shift to 'knowledge literacy' we might actually be getting to a place where we truly attempt to give students the tools they need to critically assess the resources they encounter in the world. Unfortunately, this also gets incredibl messy and would, without a doubt, requrie that librarians finally drop any and all pretenses of 'neutrality'.
Knowledge is messy because, if we are working with the classic white model of knowledge being 'justified, true belief' then we basically have to address those two major elements: justification and truth. This also means that we absolutely cannot rely on the common markers of 'authority' that we usually teach. 'Knowledge' being expressed within a peer reviewed article has no greater value the exact same bit of knowledge expressed on wikipedia. Credentials are meaningless when we are trying to assess the truth of a claim. Does the truth of 'the sky is blue' depend at all on whether or not the speaker has a PhD?
So what would happen if we (higher ed in general) tell students that we want knowledgeable rather than authoritative resources? Obviously, some resources are both, but we need to be able to say which ones are both and why. How would instruction change if we were tell students not to assess 'credibility' but to assess the justification and truth of a resource?
Try as I might, I'm truly beginning to not understand how 'information literacy' teaches anything but passive acceptance of authority and credibility being more important than justification and truth. Or, at least, treating like these are interchangeable and/or equivalent concepts. Authority has no bearing on whether or not something is true (or counts as knowledge). Neither does credibility of a resource.
You should trust me on this, I'm a librarian.


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Mbili. 2015
Eight New-Generation African Poets
The chapbook 8 box collection contains:
• Yellow Iris- Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
• Who Are You Looking For – Amy Lukau
• The Wire-Headed Heathen Inua Ellams
• Things We Lost in the Fire Vuyelwa Maluleke
• Mitu's Spice Tour – Blessing Musariri
• Bird From Africa Viola Allo
• Bearing Heavy Things Liyou Libsekal
• A Pagan Place Peter Akinlabi
Akashic Books (April 28, 2015)
This eight-piece boxed set features the work of seven African poets, with an introduction by Kwame Dawes, APBF series editor, and Chris Abani.
"Kofi-Tsekpo's collection reveals a poet of tremendous maturity, clarity, and vision. This explains the polish of her work, the deft weave of words and music (tonal and atonal), the assurance of a mature line, and the settling into short forms that turn so much… This collection also reveals an understanding of myth and symbolism that this poet wields with an impressive command but deploys always with a deep faith in the reader's ability not only to understand the work conceptually but also to also engage and experience it viscerally."—Chris Abani, Nigerian poet and novelist, PEN Award and Guggenheim winner. (edit)
Noli Me Tangere
In his pink-yellow salmah
he sees her. I see you, she says,
walking here alone. Just like that worm
split by the gardener's hoe,
spread across the grass,
struggling to be whole
there in the earth's damp spot.
Don't touch me, he says.
Her hands are golden fires;
they lick His feet.
"[Lukau's] is a poetry that endeavors to empathize with those who have faced injustice—whether political or historical—and simultaneously to challenge the systemic fissures inherent in today's post-colonial, globalized landscape. … Academic affiliations are brought to bear within the work, both stylistically and in terms of a broader sense of hybrid poetics, where the experimental is juxtaposed with a multicultural, woman-centered take on science and theology."—Karen McCarthy Woolf, British poet, writer, and teacher. (edit)
Thoughts of Isaac
[T]he day i saw you.
They took you
to Ethiopia
no more talking
i will not be your Sarah
you my Abraham
no defying reality:
offspring will never number the stars
& yet I still hear
absence of your laughter.
Too Heavy to Love
How much you hate yourself is muffled
by the lavender foam bath the shop assistant said
would make you feel like Paris arched herself into your tub.
You'd never been to a place whose skies
were bouquets and not smoke.
But even in the water you think:
I am too heavy to love
I am too heavy to love
I am too heavy to love
"Critical of a contemporary life that has placed the material over the ethereal, Ellams reminds the reader of just how central the art of storytelling is to our ability to locate ourselves in the constant transformation that defines our daily lives. Specifically, his poetry articulates a space for contemporary African thinking on and beyond the continent with a striking ability to dip into narratives that are simultaneously reminiscent and deeply edifying."—Matthew Shenoda, Egyptian-American poet, writer, and professor. (edit)
Ghetto Van Gogh
The night my mother tells the story of the thief I am cross-legged on her lap. Her mouth is inches from my ear. She lets the dusk slip into her voice and whispers about the boy who snatched a mango at the market and ran, becoming the teenager who robbed a shop at gun point, shot the blind cashier, shot him as he fell, shot him once more dead; became the man who stole 36 cars and when apprehended, to be publicly hanged, asked for one wish, his whole lip quivering.
My mother who is inches from my ear, explains his dying wish to speak to his mother. The crowd parted silently, she gathered his bound wrists, kissed his rough skin, her cheeks shimmering in the killing heat. He bent forward, says mother, her mouth even closer, dusky voice hushed, bent towards her cheek as if to kiss goodbye and switched sharply, bit into her ear, strained against the flesh, ripped the thing off and spat / you should have told me mother, what I did was wrong /.
"Although Blessing Musariri is from Zimbabwe and still lives there, the poems in this collection defy any kind of nationalized categorization. They are not rooted in one place but instead have a global reach expressed through localized incidents, experiences and sensations. Her poems range from negotiations of the heart and meditations on loss and home, to the textured landscapes of memory, and the unsettling disquiet of violence, both physical and psychological."—Bernardine Evaristo, award-winning British poet and writer. (edit)
We cannot be men's wives
who want a limp weed to hold
through rushing waters
for their watching pleasure,
wondering if we will break
in the swollen current,
debating how tight to hold
and how long.
In the harmony of muddy banks
we are straight and still,
bowing if they bend us,
but careful not to break
What to Wear
In my dreams
I'm a girl again
and I return
to Cameroon.
There's nothing new
about this.
The thing to note:
Almost always
I wear
the same clothes—
black with shoe polish
and my cornflower-blue
school uniform.
"The continuity between life closely observed and the larger lessons it holds gives the poems an intimate and grounded sense of justice. Indeed, one of the great gifts of this collection is the empathy it offers to those who walk innocently into forces they do not understand and which punish them for their lack of power. The poems stand with those whom injustice silences. This is particularly true for women caught in the constrictions of tradition, to whom the speaker offers her compassion and sense of unity." —Gabeba Baderoon, Professor of Women's Studies and African-American Studies at Penn State University (edit)
Vanquishing Visions
grayish-white turban
the scent of coffee in cotton foldsshe speaks, and my veins rush
magnetized, urged to break skin
but I, can be toughshe says the stars leaked
and someone sat beneath them
absorbed their heat
she has a voice that makes things festershe throws lifelines
to drain marrow from our bones
and fade from sweet clouds and heavy lidded mornings
"Akinlabi gracefully takes us through varying landscapes of Africa: from his native Nigeria through Ghana, the Congo, and Libya. All the while his interests are less in the physical place and more in the sense of place, perhaps even the psyche of place, of what it means to occupy place as an African in the world… While anchored in an African sensibility, the cartographic is expressed largely through memory and the life of the mind, in a longing for understanding."
—Matthew Shenoda, Egyptian-American poet, writer, and professor
A Report from Benghazi
The cameras are candid, maintaining
their fidelity with still more souls adrift.
The sky stretches,
an unrevealing omen of clouds.
The red of revolt reveals
his confidence as sketched.
There is no newer neurosis,
but certainly a professed devotion.
The clammy prayer said, the hand
is free, the soul, emblazoned,
unleashed. A grey of grenade
clouds all, and the footage, sterner now,
locates a moist mural of bones and flesh;
and an unclosed eye piercing
the ambling clouds for beatitudes


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I like the way the figures on the poster energize the rest of the image. To me they make the people walking look more purposeful, like they're intentionally moving away. The kid glancing at the camera is a nice bonus. Good capture of a moment that might otherwise be pretty meh.
The kid and that dude's hair makes the pic. Love it! I'm not sure about the poster or the lady in the background. They don't seem to relate to hair man and the child. You know, like if the child had one of those superman capes on, or if the guy was running with the stroller, if the woman was making the same outreached arm gesture as the poster. I like the photo, I just wish there was something stronger tying in the layers. Nonetheless, that kid's expression is wonderful, great capture!
Fantastic – the signage, the guy's hair, the woman's arm pointing in the opposite direction of the signage, the kid looking at the camera. A great maximalist shot!


text: SPA Hotel Bankya Palace is situated in the folds of Lyulin Mountain with a splendid view of Vitosha Mountain. It offers to its guests 39 double rooms, 19 single rooms, 2 rooms for disabled people, 13 suites, a presidential suite. All the rooms are equipped with air-conditioning, TV, mini-bar, direct telephone line and internet access. The main hall of the Restaurant has 120 seats, VIP lounge with 30 seats, Lobby bar, Garden BBQ, Swimming-pool bar. SPA Hotel Bankya Palace offers available to guests' use of the National racecourse of Bankya and tennis courts which are close to the hotel complex. It also offers Water Procedures, such as Pearl Bath and Vichy Bath, Jacuzzi and Vapourbath. The hotel complex is extremely suitable for seminars, training and business meetings with its four multifunctional conference halls.


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Harry: Hey
Veronica: What's up?
Harry: I'm good.
Veronica: Cool. I'm fantastic. You look amazing today; wish I could spend some time with you. (Smile)
Harry: Really
Flirting for some is the ideal. Being on the receiving end gives the receiver the kick they need just to jump start their slow or bad day. If you are involved in a relationship flirting would be the last thing on your mind – based on set cultural rules. On the other hand, however, single people who are not obligated to anyone, find it enticing to flirt. But are there advantages and disadvantages of flirting? Sure, there are, but if flirting is 'contained' and by that I mean not over the top then friends and people in your circle should be able to flirt. Why not?
I remember later on in my high school years that we all would flirt but we knew at the end of the day nothing would come of it. It wasn't serious – I want to date you flirt. We need to acknowledge the fact that there can be heavy or light flirt. Heavy flirt is where you make the other person uncomfortable in their space. This is most relevant in the workplace and may lead to sexual harassment. Heavy flirt also includes staring and lusting at someone in a demanding way which makes the other person think you are dangerous and makes them scared. I have been out recently and people literally act out of line in their quest to send their signal that they are interested. One would think that if someone is interested they would say "Hi", or wave with a smile – something that is cool and fun. What people are doing is the extreme and makes you want to run. Staring and licking their lips makes it heavy flirt which makes you feel grossed out.
People who have mastered the art of flirting are great at making friends. You place them in a room with strangers and you watch them come alive as they work the room – getting people comfortable around them. I am a believer in flirting. Flirting builds ones ego, confidence and can you imagine flirting could also activate your adrenaline and nervous system? Essentially, flirting allows you to become more alert and stimulates the limbic centre of the brain, which creates pleasurable feelings among other things.
For many, flirting is an abomination and a sin in relationships. Are partners depriving themselves of lower stress levels and the ability to eliminate loneliness when they all ignore flirting – all the benefits? There should be boundaries in relationships and these must be reinforced and established. Partners in relationships should be allowed to flirt lightly. Hold on, but they do flirt without the view expressed which means that partners in relationships know the accepted limits in flirting. Relationships that embrace light flirting would mean that partners lead happy lives based on the fact that flirting provides benefits that will inextricably build better relationships.
I am in no way defending that men and women should go out of their way to flirt with others because of the guaranteed benefits. Everything should be done in moderation. Sometimes people will misinterpret your actions and think because you said something nice, sweet and endearing that it is their place to ask you out and to make certain advances. With this said one has to be extremely careful when they decide to flirt especially when in a relationship because when the word gets back to the other partner, the storyline is filled with lies.
Single folks can never really go wrong with flirting since they answer to no one. However, people who are hitched and are in relationships should be wary on how they go about flirting lightly and getting those needed benefits. Ready to flirt, who is first?


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I actually like the hadeda. At my apartment in Joburg, a vast lawn, giant trees, flower beds, organic veggie garden, space for kids to play cricket and a resident batch of hadedas. They would leave for 'work' at 6 am. Home in the tree at sunset. I'd see them on the light poles, one road up, or outside Constitution Hill, a few roads back. Joburg birds: hustling for a Parktown prawn, out working hard all day, must sleep at night.
Here. Cape Town. Seagulls. Thousands. We live in a leeetle Victorian cottage. They live on the roof of a block of flats parallel. I cannot see the seagulls, but they are the loudest birds in the world ever. They don't shut up. And it's discordant. Unharmonious*. And also, they don't go to work. Sometimes they flit down the road to visit the beach, eat an ice cream, then they come right back to the roof….
- how lovely that this word is difficult to say, onomatopoeia vibes.
In other news, work. Not easy to come by in CT. Luckily, Jhb still wants me - flies me in for pitches (see how I conflated the entire ad industry there). Want to work here though. So must readjust expectations? I guess, yes, must. Still, after many years of many advertising, my favourite is still above the line.
Am writing various proposals - different applications, diff novel pitches. Anna Peters (2) is en route, hopefully the recipe book comes together as well. Book has been doing well :) good feeling.
MS for Lupus Love Story - SIX YEARS IN NOW. Finally coming together. Definitely I think that writing novels is mostly a personal pursuit. By this I don't mean .. not for an audience (fuck that, of course it's for someone) but that if it never gets read, I would still write it BECAUSE I WANT TO.
And so to my birthday. Beware the Ides of March. Nuf said. Tho, nothing bad will happen. haha. It's a good year. Change started this time last year so that by this time this year I would not be in my giant flat in the Joburg urban jungle of thick dense trees (god I do miss living in a city tree canpoy :( tho) but rather here complaining about the messy cawing of 1000s of seagulls. Who, incidentally, have just gone quiet.
Nope. They're at it again ;)
Think I will walk down the road and go and get my own ice cream.


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Business Methods are Patentable
The US Supreme Court issued its anxiously awaited ruling in the case of Bilski vs Kappos yesterday. The case dealt with the allowability of business method patents in the USA and received an inordinate amount of publicity.
On 30 October 2008 the first Bilski decision was issued from the Federal Circuit in the USA. The court held that a method (or process) is patentable only if it:
- is tied to a particular machine or apparatus; or
- transforms a particular article into a different state or thing.
The above is conveniently referred to as the "machine-or-transformation test".
The US Supreme Court has now found that the Bilski machine or transformation test is a valid test but is not the only way of determining whether a business method patent is allowable or not.
The court did not go on to outline other tests which could be used but stated that business methods were certainly not excluded from being patented as long as they were not simply abstract ideas (incidentally, the subject matter of the Bilski invention itself was found to be an unpatentable abstract idea and therefore rejected).
The next step will be to see how the US Patent Office is guided by this judgment and implements it practically including developing other tests for these kinds of inventions.
It goes without saying that the pro-free software and anti-business method camps will be disappointed by the judgment. Many have also criticised the judgment for not setting out a definitive test to end the debate once and for all.
Others have praised the decision as taking a "measured middle ground".
In any event, it will be appreciated that this area of law is very difficult to navigate not only due to the complexity of the law but also due to the ever changing legal landscape. The message to inventors of software and business methods who are interested in obtaining IP protection remains - check with your local patent attorney if you are interested in securing your rights to prevent others from copying you before you disclose your invention to the public in any way.
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Theatre Review: Steptoe and Son
Cast: Mike Shepherd, Dean Nolan, Kirsty Woodward.
Director: Emma Rice
Writer: Emma Rice (Book), Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Running Time: 120 minutes
Theatre: The West Yorkshire Playhouse
In 1962 Steptoe and Son arrived on television screens and became an institution. Originally featured as a one-off episode in Galton and Simpson's Comedy Playhouse, several series followed over two decades, spawning movies and worldwide theatrical tours. Fifty years on, Kneehigh have brought a renewed adaptation of Steptoe and Son to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, adapting four classic episodes into a full-length show.
Steptoe and Son follows the plight of rag and bone man Albert Steptoe and his long-suffering son Harold as they try to scrape together a living. It is the 1960s, a time of liberal politics, free love and high aspirations. As Harold sees the world changing around him, he revaluates his existence, making the difficult decision between caring for his father or his own future.
From the outset it is clear that Kneehigh have reimagined Steptoe and Son from the page up, without too much influence from the television product. As such, it is somewhat jarring to see the famous duo re-evaluated with West Country accents and behaving in a heightened dramatic state. The attempt to entirely dislocate the performances from what could easily be an impression is admirable, but unfortunately doesn't quite work with the original material as written. Somehow, the flickering moments of pathos which made the Steptoe scripts so earthy have been overly laboured with a dramatic intensity, and many of the gags are lost in the heightened tension. The jokes are in there, but they're often asides to the conflict which takes precedence. The result is an uncanny Steptoe and Son, with less levity and more expressive emotion.
As a two-handed show, Mike Shepherd's Albert to Dean Nolan's Son work extremely well, with a chemistry which is believable despite the great disparity in physicality. Nolan brings a wholly original physical humour to Harold whilst Shepherd's sinewy study of old age has an honest sensitivity. The pair are joined by Kirsty Woodward, who fulfils the role of the many women who pass through Albert and Harold's shambolic lives, presenting a myriad of female stereotypes from all the decades. Woodward's engaging performance serves to highlight the role and position of women at the time the scripts were written and acts as an interesting evaluation on how femininity is presented in a male-dominated sphere.
Steptoe and Son is ingeniously realised on stage within a beautiful tinderbox set designed by Neil Murray, doubling as a lounge, cart and scrapyard gates. Sympathetically lit, the set is an evocation of the 1960s, complete with a record player which bookends scenes with hits of the period. Music itself plays a large part in the show and one moment, where Albert and Harold tenderly dress each other to the entirety of Always on My Mind, is beautifully touching. It is a shame that there is almost an over-reliance of tonal music in other scenes, which overbears and flattens the subtle fluctuation of drama and humour which is so prevalent in Galton and Simpson's dialogue. Sometimes, less is more.
As a show in its own right, Steptoe and Son is entertaining and engaging. Those with no prior knowledge of its heritage will find much to enjoy. Others who are familiar with the original incarnation may draw inevitable comparisons, some unfavourable and justified. Well-meant and intentionally different, this is a Steptoe and Son unlike any seen before and is a fascinating reappraisal of a much-loved classic.
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There will be no Winter Classic rematch in the NHL playoffs. The Lightning made sure of that by downing the Penguins Wednesday night in Game 7 of their first-round series. That means it will be a Caps-Bolts series in a matchup of Nos. 1 and 5 starting Friday night at the Verizon Center.
Games 1 and 2 will be broadcast on Versus, while Games 3, 4, 6 and 7 (if necessary) will be shown on Comcast SportsNet in the D.C. area. Game 5, if necessary, will be shown on NBC.
We'll have an expanded preview soon, but in the meantime here's a look at the schedule:
Game 1: Friday, April 29, 2011, 7 p.m., Lightning at Washington (VERSUS, TSN)
Game 2: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 7 p.m., Lightning at Washington (VERSUS, CBC)
Game 3: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, TBA, Washington at Lightning, (CSN, VERSUS, TSN)
Game 4: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 7 p.m., Washington at Lightning (CSN, TSN)
*Game 5: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 12:30 p.m., Lightning at Washington (NBC, TSN)
*Game 6: Monday, May 9, 2011, TBA, Washington at Lightning (CSN, VERSUS, TSN)
*Game 7: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, TBA, Lightning at Washington (CSN, VERSUS, TSN)


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In an age of digital terrorism and identify theft, it's somewhat refreshing to see some con artists haven't turned their back on the classics. Received today in my email:
Good day,
I am Lt. Gen.ALIYU MOHAMMED, National Security Adviser to President Umaru
Musa Yara'adua of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I decided to contact you because of the prevailing security report
reaching my office and the intense nature of policy in Nigeria.This is
to inform you about our plan to send your fund to you via cash delivery.
This system will be easier for you and for us.We are going to send your
contract part payment of US$10. Million to you via diplomatic courier
service. I have secured every needed document to cover the money.Note:
The money is coming on 2 security proof boxes. The boxes are sealed with
synthetic nylon seal and padded with machine.
I will use my position as the National Security Adviser to the President
to send this fund to you. The boxes are coming with a Diplomatic agent
who will accompany the boxes to your house address.
All you need to do now Is to send to me your full house address and your
identity such as, international passport or drivers license including
your contact phone numbers, The Diplomatic attached will travel with it.
He will call you immediately he arrives your country's airport. I hope
you understand me.I will let you know when the special Grace of God will
airlift the boxes.Note: The diplomatic does not know the original
contents of the boxes. What l declared to them as the contents is
Sensitive Photographic Film Material. I did not declare money tothem
please. If they call you and ask you the contents please tell them the
same thing Ok,I will let you know how far I have gone with the
arrangement. I will secure the Diplomatic immunity clearance certificate
that will be tagged on the boxes to make it stand as a diplomatic
This clearance will make it pass every custom checkpoint all over the
world without hitch. Confirm the receipt of this message and send the
requirements to me immediately you receive this message, i will give you
the contact of the diplomatic agents for more information on how to
carry out the plan.
Please I need urgent reply because the boxes are schedule to be as soon
as we hear from you.
Best Regards,
Lt. Gen.ALIYU MOHAMMED
National Security Adviser to the President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
It's almost sweet, isn't it? There's a certain innocence behind that email; a belief that it'll work, that no alarm bells will ring in my head whatsoever and I'll send my bank account, sort code and sit back and wait for the lolly to roll in.
So I've gone back with the following:
Dear Colonel Saunders,
This con again? Really? Does it ever work? Seriously, how much money have you ever made out of it? The idiot sitting next to you, how much money has he ever made out of it? I can't imagine people are so stupid they'd fall for it. Everyone knows you're not a Lt Col. They know you're not a Saudi prince. They know you're sitting in an internet cafe, praying there's still a shmuck out there who hasn't heard this scam before and thinks you're genuine. But if they're that stupid, what makes you think they can work a PC? How lazy are you? Get a fucking job, make some money, buy yourself a PC, get on the internet and when you get a spazmo email like the one you've just sent me, think to yourself, am I REALLY that stupid? That's what everyone on your mailing list is asking themselves right now.
Kind Regards,
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WaveLab Engineering has been active in the area of antenna development for nearly 20 years. Initially we built bigger antennas, in the past years we also created smaller and tiny antenna structures. You will find those integrated antennas in electronic control systems, in parts of remote systems as well as in passive structures - everywhere where you would need wireless transmission.
These antennas cannot always be operated in resonance, they are often a compromise between size and efficiency and have yet to comply at best with the classic HF-requirements. Thanks to our long-time experience and by using our state-of-the-art simulation and measurement equipment we succeed in meeting these challenges. Once confident of the quality of our theoretic solution, we will then verify with a first prototype at our open test range site or in our shielded anechoic chamber. During this test procedure no details remain hidden, the expected performance will be efficiently and mercilessly revealed.
Should you be in need of a customized antenna or do you wish to optimize your existing antenna system? Get in touch with us, we invite you to talk shop and to consult in order to exploit your system's potential in terms of range and efficiency.
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This PCB integrated double antenna covers the mobile bands 900/1800/2100 efficiently, but allows also in good quality to receive the navigation data from the GPS/Galileo systems. This double antenna can be produced in large quantities and is manufactured using low cost standard substrate material. This allows to produce cost efficient antennas paired with state of the art RF perfocmance.
Punched and bent antenna
Antennas working below 1000MHz are perfectly realized as punched and bent antenna structure, when the required housing volume is available. The punching and bending production steps allow to manufacture cost efficient and high performing antenna structures, either as single or multiple band structures.
Already early in the product design phase is the reservation of the antenna volume required, to allow building later-on in detail the antenna structure, including the loading effects of the neighbouring elements.
Broadband railway antenna
The operational environment of a broadband railway antenna is demanding, as rain, cold temperatures, wind and UV radiation are around the clock stressing the structure, while this has to remain reliable in service. Therefore have such antennas to width stand a stressful test program, making sure that the antenna keeps the full specifications during the whole life time. Only this testing assures the expected life time and the savety aspects, including when the winter wind blows at -20°C, and when an icy layer covers the radom.
Quite often contain such a broadband antenna a second antenna structure for the reception of the navigation signals. And more and more, multi radiator antenna systems in operation to cover today's and tomorrows MIMO requirements of our customers.
LogPer- and crossed LogPer antennas are typical measurement antennas, as they have well specified antenna patterns, are broadband and maintain over a large frequency range quite similar characteristics. The well designed crossed LogPer-Antenna allows at the same time to receive horizontal and vertical polarized signals, and in combination with supporting elements can circular polarized signals being received or transmitted.
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As an avid reader of Science fiction I always thought, secret of speedy walking is to defy gravity. Later when I read "walk is nothing but a series of fall supported by leg" it struck me as joke, and later I was dumb by the profound implication and simplicity of the statement.
When we walk, we raise our body against gravity and let ourselves fall in front. We repeat the process to move forward. This is process adopted by all non-wheeled movement. Gravity and friction thus helps us in moving forward. Less gravity will make us more energetic but not nacessrily move faster. The secret in moving faster is to control our motions to use less energy.
Birds also uses the same princlple in flying. Bird flaps its wing to go up and then spreads it to move forward in a controlled fall. Fish looks to be a odd one out, as fish in water is actually weightless. But the study shows the movement of fish is possible as displacement of water. It creates a swirl in water by its tail and pushes the swirl back to move forward. Water pressure, thus gravity is required to create the swirl.
It looks very strange that for movement we are bound and at the same time empowered by gravity. Perhaps it is similar with other things also. The same thing that looks to be a hinderance at first sight actually enables us to perform. Maybe such discovery is awaiting for some learned soul to take a fresh look.
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Events Calendar · September 2019
Friday Live Music at William Tell House
Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Phone: 707-879-2002
Join us at William Tell House for dinner and Friday Live Music! Tonight enjoy Blues, Jazz and Americana by Shake the Blues.
Established in 1877, the William Tell House is the oldest saloon in Marin County. Despite a devastating fire in 1920, the Tell House has remained a cherished community gathering place for generations and home to countless dinners, weddings, and celebrations.
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William Tell House is located at 26955 CA-1, Tomales, CA 94971. The Tell House is just north of Pt. Reyes and minutes from the Tomales Bay Oyster Trail.


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Westley Richards is a name synonymous with rifles; double, magazine and single shot. Over the years the reputation of the company has been founded on large calibre rifles that have proved effective on all the worlds big game. The list of big game calibres built by the company reads like a who's who of the very best the British gun and rifle makers could produce, ever since the introduction in 1898 of the first .450 3 1/4″ nitro express metallic cartridge.
With such a reputation for large calibre rifles it is a genuine pleasure to get to build the first and probably only .22-250 Remington calibre take down magazine rifle in the history of the company. This fine little calibre can trace its ancestry back to the 1930's and the boom in wildcatting that our good friends in the USA were running with. In essence the .22-250 is the .250 Savage case necked down to take the .224 bullet. It was officially adopted by Remington in 1965 and has been chambered in production rifles by most of the major rifle manufacturers ever since.
Principally a varmint (sorry 'vermin' for us Brits!) calibre it is also a devasting Roe deer calibre north of the border here in Britain. Unusually and much to our gratification, this rifle is intended for use here in the Uk which makes this an extra special build for the factory as most of the guns and rifles we build head overseas.
A Swarovski 1″ Z3 scope in old school claw mounts sits well on the rifle making use of the original rear square bridge.
When building a rifle of this scale in British terms the key to the build is in the action. You need something small and being a British riflemaker that traditionally has to be a Mauser '98. Now modern small 'Kurz' (short) actions are available, but with a project this unique you really need to look for something special. So it was that we pulled from the depths of the factory an original Mauser Oberndorf Kurz action with a rear single square bridge still retaining its original factory fittings for a quick detachable scope system.
Taking things a step further it was decided to build the rifle as a takedown, the smallest of which we have built. This in itself was an interesting excercise as we opted to review the takedown release catch traditionally found on the right side of the forend, to use a revised underside catch fashioned in the shape of our famous Deeley forend catch so giving the rifle that classic Westley Richards touch.
Case colour hardening predominates tthe finish of this rifle enhancing the unusual 'Byzantine' design.
Engraving wise the client requested a design based around 'Byzantine' motifs. The Byzantium period in history is said to span over 1000 years so clearly there was a lot to chose from so with the aid of the client, a geometric border (found commonly on gold jewellery of the period), combined with a floral motif was used as the basis for the engraving with the family crest set in the centre of the floorplate surrounded by a design that was taken from an architectural feature. To cap it all of the clients initials for both the stock and case disk were engraved from the Uncial alphabet!
Looking down on the rifle the elegant lines are enhanced by the rich black, electric blue and vivid case colours of the final finish.
In its finished state with the addition of a case colour hardened floorplate and magazine box the rifle is a wonderful mixture of the old and the new. The original Mauser '98 Kurz action was without doubt the right way to go with such a project and we trust that complete in its traditional lightweight canvas case this unique little rifle will give its owner decades of fun and pleasure.
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Los Angeles Confidential's latest cover girl and "Scandal" leading lady, Kerry Washington, was in the building to help celebrate the magazine's 10th anniversary. Kerry along with her "Django" co-star, Jamie Foxx, hosted a special soiree at supperclub Los Angeles in Hollywood.
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Federal Reserve interest hike not a major threat to consumers
The Federal Reserve recently reported that the net worth of U.S. households and nonprofits — the value of stocks, bonds bank accounts and other assets minus mortgages, credit cards and other debts — increased by $2.1 trillion to $98.7 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2017. The 7.8 percent annual growth in wealth is directly tied to the pickup in the stock market and housing prices. At the same time, household liabilities increased $209 billion. Consumer credit rose $86 billion while mortgage debt rose $67 billion. The data suggests that the household balance sheet in the aggregate is in good shape and is in a far better condition than at the same time late in previous expansions. Moreover, households are significantly underleveraged relative to recent prior expansions.
Besides personal income and drawing down savings, consumers use credit to achieve higher spending. Personal consumption has exceeded disposable personal income since late 2015. A reduction in saving and increased use of credit has filled that gap. In 2017 outstanding revolving credit (mostly credit cards) advanced on a monthly pace of 5.9 percent. That was nearly twice the 3.1 average monthly growth in 2016. Besides a higher level of spending, households frequently use credit to smooth out consumption during the year, such as with holiday shopping.
In the wake of the Great Recession, households reduced their debt levels. The low interest environment between 2008 and 2016 helped keep debt service costs low and supported household borrowing and, in turn, spending. While borrowing increased over the last 17 consecutive quarters, the debt service ratio reveals consumers have kept their borrowing manageable and delinquencies low. The ratio measures the amount of disposable income households need to cover principal and interest. It is currently 10.29 and remains near 30-year historical lows. Although the low figure is due in part to tighter credit standards following the Great Recession, it is also due to lower interest rates. A measure of debt payment behavior covered in the Fed's recent Survey of Consumer Finances is whether a family uses credit cards for convenience only or carries a balance. In 2016, 58 percent used credit cards for convenience only (not carrying a balance), down from 64 percent in 2013 and 63 percent in 2010.
In March, the Fed increased its benchmark rate to a range between 1.5 percent and 1.75 percent. This quarter-point increase was designed to manage inflation and inflation expectations and signal that the economy is on track for future growth. With outstanding consumer credit near all-time highs, how worrisome is the increase for household borrowing and spending? Higher rates will impact a portion of consumer loans that have floating rates (personal, autos, home equity) but fortunately, 70 percent of U.S. household debt is in mortgage balances that are at fixed rates, so a gradual increase should not necessarily be a significant concern.
There has been some tightening of consumer loan credit standards by lenders. This is not surprising given that historically underwriting standards tend to tighten pre-emptively to reduce risk of losses as rates go up. Higher rates have translated into households straining to make payments. Looking ahead, planned gradual rate increases by the Fed and relatively modest tightening in credit standards should be more than offset by healthy pace of spending coming from faster growth in the economy and increased income.
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I cut these shapes from 18-gauge cold rolled steel at the Barnfunk workshop in Winthrop, Washington. These silhouettes are hand-painted and finished with a water/UV-resistant clear coat and have super-strong magnets attached to the back. They are best indoors (prolonged exposure to direct sun can fade the colors) but can be hung in outside areas protected from direct sun and weather, such as covered decks, porches, or entryways.


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The black telephone box and other Clerkenwell mysteries.
Enid Blyton had a knack of spinning a mystery out of a seemingly inconsequential event. So, for example, a midnight delivery to the local grocery shop might well lead to a gang of Nazi spies trying to infiltrate the UK. Well, here are two connected mysteries that took place on my doorstep, in Clerkenwell in the middle of London.
First, the disappearing security camera. It appeared quite suddenly, towering over us and swivelling in a way that was ever so slightly sinister, following us up and down Cowcross Street. Who was watching us and why? Perhaps it was related to the many drug deals that take place here (though after its installation, the dealers moved a few yards round the corner).
But then, one night, in an equally random fashion, the camera and its pole vanished. My first thought was that it had been stolen. Perhaps, like various war monuments, it had been taken for its scrap value which would be a very worrying development because it would mean that in future we would have to construct CCTV cameras to watch the CCTV cameras and where would that end?
But now to mystery two. Where the camera once stood, we now have a telephone box. Not one of those ugly modern things but a Gilbert Scott original except – and this is another detail worthy of Blyton herself – it is black, not red. I thought that in the age of the mobile, and since we now all know that Clark Kent is Superman, nobody actually used telephone boxes any more.
And there's another, intriguing twist to the story. Although it has stood there for almost six months, nobody has yet installed a telephone inside it. There are a couple of trailing wires, old coffee cups, a pool of urine of course – but no phone! What is it for? Is it an attraction for tourists as they wander up to Smithfield Meat Market? Is it a meeting point for a secret society? Is it perhaps a colossal waste of money inflicted on us by a council that should know better?
One of the joys of living in central London is that I feel myself constantly surrounded by stories. After all, Fagin lived just round the corner from me. Bleeding Heart Yard (which appears in Little Dorrit) is up the road.
So – some other thoughts. Why are there no escalators at the new Farringdon Station? Why can you never dock a Boris Bike? Who invented (and paid for) those electronic signs that tell you when the next bus is coming but which are actually about as informative as the lights on a Christmas tree? Watch out for The Black Telephone Box & Other Stories – coming soon.


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By Elizabeth Warner, Published: 09/27/2017, Last Updated: 09/27/2017
Intel has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We believe that in order to shape the future of technology, we must be representative of that future. This is what started Intel's exploration into sponsoring FIDGETECH's initial game jam and our ongoing relationship with them, as well as other non-profits that actively work with STEM education for diverse populations. Autism affects a large number of people and their unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences can help us to continue to innovate and solve the world's toughest challenges.
FIDGETECH is a non-profit organization in the Portland-metro area that creates technology-focused programs for autistic people age 17 and up. Intel® Software worked with FIDGETECH this past spring to sponsor a Game Jam where young autistic adults received an introduction to game design from professional game developers. Below, Director Justine Haigh explains how the organization got started and where they are headed.
What is FIDGETECH
FIDGETECH is the result of several years of collaboration between a small group of individuals based in Portland, Oregon interested in the personal and professional success of adults with autism. Dr. Justine Haigh, FIDGETECH's director, is mother to Dan (now 19) who was diagnosed with autism at an early age. Justine noticed her son loved focusing on technology, even at a very young age, and realized that other young adults on the autism spectrum share a similar passion. Committed to helping her son, and others, find their purpose through technology, Justine teamed up with David Karstens, Jeanna Johnson, and other volunteers to create a variety of technology-focused programs for young autistic adults, ages 17 or older.
We started as a night program at Park Academy in Lake Oswego, Oregon called the "Explorer" program. FIDGETECH Explorer has been running for two years with over 25 participating members. In a fun and supportive environment, members are encouraged to explore various areas of technology to expand their technical abilities and knowledge. Through team projects, individual projects, group instruction, and self-study, members develop skills and apply their knowledge using technologies such as Blender, Photoshop, Java, HTML/CSS, SketchUp, C++/C#, Unreal, GameMaker, Unity, SparkFun, and others.
FIDGETECH was just recently notified that we are now officially a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are very excited about this and are looking forward to start fund-raising efforts soon.
FIDGETECH's Future Plans
While working to open additional FIDGETECH Explorer chapters, with an initial focus on Yamhill County, Oregon, FIDGETECH held a Game Jam over spring break in March 2017 in the newly launched Chehalem Valley Innovation Accelerator. The Game Jam was joint sponsored through the Intel® Software Innovator program, Intel® Game Dev program, and Soma Games, whose CEO is Intel® Black Belt Software Developer and Intel® Software Innovator Chris Skaggs, as part of the overall Diversity and Inclusion Month efforts in March. The event provided twelve young adults on the autism spectrum an introduction to game design using Unity 3D and Gaia. Technical instruction was provided by FIDGETECH instructors and professional game developers from Newberg-based Soma Games. FIDGETECH has also launched an evening innovation camp at the accelerator, which will meet weekly September through December this fall.
While expanding the Explorer program, FIDGETECH is exploring a partnership with Epicodus Portland to launch a trade certificate program in web and mobile software application development. This program is specifically designed for individuals on the autism spectrum. Epicodus is an in-person code school that provides training in languages such as C#, PHP, Javascript, .NET, Ruby on Rails, React, and more. FIDGETECH members participating in the Epicodus training program receive the additional support of small groups, a 4-to-1 member-to-instructor ratio, instructors certified as Synergy Autism mentors, one-on-one tutoring, and specialized internship training developed by Incite Works. To promote this opportunity and help individuals determine if they have an interest in programming, FIDGETECH and Epicodus hold frequent introduction to programming workshops at the Epicodus Portland facility. Check the FIDGETECH website and Facebook page for the next scheduled workshop.
Readying Autistic Young Adults for Employment
National and state-wide diversity awareness for the employment of autistic individuals is still in its early stages. During initial discussions of program designs, FIDGETECH's founders were encouraged with the success local young adults on the autism spectrum were finding internships at Portland-based businesses, including Cambia Health and New Relic. In both cases, these opportunities were the result of a collaboration between like-minded corporate representatives and advocates for adults with autism.
That set the hook for FIDETECH's founders, and the launch of the organization's core programs. New Relic has held two Future Talks at its headquarters in Portland focused on autism in the workforce. Prosper Portland has invited FIDGETECH and New Relic to speak to their TechTown Diversity Pledge Companies to highlight the importance and benefits of hiring individuals on the autism spectrum.
For more information on companies who are hiring individuals on the autism spectrum, see the following Forbes article: Where is Autism Employment Heading in 2017?
What Makes FIDGETECH Unique
There are many organizations working with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) individuals in various ways, but FIDGETECH is unique in its design. FIDGETECH's Explorer, Education, Portfolio Builder, and Maker programs are organized to work with individuals as they face obstacles and boundaries in various stages of personal and professional development. For example, the Explorer program can help individuals find a community of peers and develop an interest in technology. The Education program can be helpful for individuals interested in developing skills needed to succeed in a technological field.
Although only the Explorer and Education programs are currently operating, FIDGETECH's vision is to provide long-term support and community to its members by developing all its programs. The Portfolio Builder program is outlined to help individuals with specific skills apply those skills to real-world problems, while the Maker program is outlined for those interested in pursuing the development of a product or project.
Learn More About FIDGETECH
Please visit our website to learn more about FIDGETECH programs, our staff & directors, and about autism in the United States. Follow us on Facebook to learn about upcoming events and other information.
For more information about FIDGETECH programs, please visit us at:
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Volunteer Opportunities
FIDGETECH is always looking to recruit technical volunteers. If you are an Intel employee and would like to get involved with this organization, contact Justine Haigh or Wendy Boswell. FIDGETECH is now part of Intel® Involved, the global corporate volunteer program at Intel.
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I love fads. They're fad-ulous. Fad-tastic. They're funny, and eventually classic (but still a little funny).
The Hustle. Friendship bracelets. TV dinners. Break dancing. And, the fashion fads – beehive hair, feathered bangs, denim jackets, platform shoes … the rebels, the grunge, emo kids. Alas, now it's the hipsters taking their place (back) in history.
You know, the one that's too-cool-for-school, wearing 80s sunglasses and sporting a probably-paid-for-but-don't-want-you-to-think-it's-paid-for haircut. Oh yeah, and don't forget the PBR in hand and what-the-f*@k-right?-but-I-kind-of-pull-it-off fashion statement. Yeah, that person. There's nothing more I can say about this, eh, style that hasn't already been said. I just wanted a reason to post hipster-related stuff that made me laugh. Because I can't sleep right now …
Q: How many hipsters does it take to flush a toilet?
A: You can't touch that toilet – it's art.
Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It's such a cool number, you've probably never heard of it.
Have you hugged a hipster today??


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The Golden Key
There is a golden key! His name is Jesus Christ. We can't do it. And He can. We must be very clear about those two truths. The main reason it hasn't happened is that we do not fully believe both those two truths.
Christ Himself is the most powerful source of reunion in the world because it comes not from the world but from Heaven. And He will have His way with us sooner or later, one way or another. We don't know whether it's going to be sooner or later, and we don't know if it will come by one way or by another. But we do know that it will come because it is his will. We don't know when and we don't know how, but we know who.
Pope John Paul II has voiced the bold hope that as the first thousand years of Christian history were the millennium of Christian unity, and the second thousand years were the millennium of Christian disunity, 1054, 1517, and the over twenty-thousand denominations that came from 1517, so the third thousand years may be the millennium of Christian re-unity, reunification.
But how? The deepest division is obviously between Catholics and Protestants, for the Eastern Orthodox Churches have all remained one, not split into twenty-thousand in creed, code, or cult. They have preserved the fullness of Catholic faith. Except for universal papal authority, but that has changed its form quite a bit throughout Christian history, though not its reality, and it can change again. The pope himself explicitly said that in Ut Unum Sint. But how can Catholics and Protestants achieve reunion? I will prescind entirely from the question whether Anglicans are Catholics, Protestants, both, or neither. Well it cannot be by yielding or weakening or compromising one iota of divinely revealed truth!
All the serious differences between Protestants and Catholics concern how much territory this category of divinely revealed truth covers. For instance, the Church's doctrines about Mary, and the saints, and the seven Sacraments, and Transubstantiation, and purgatory, Catholics accept them because they believe they are true and divinely revealed. Protestants reject them because they believe they are not true and not divinely revealed. Protestants say Catholics believe too much. Catholics say Protestants believe too little. Protestants say the Church added to Christ's original, pure and simple revelation in the New Testament. Protestantism is thus Catholicism stripped down: the Catholic Ark with what Protestants claim are the non-scriptural barnacles scraped off of it.
When I was at Calvin College and investigating things Catholic and falling in love with them and feeling guilty about it, because this was the wrong church, I took a course in church history to try to get things clear. And the very first day of the course, the wise-old professor said, "What is the Church?" And we were all just freshman, we didn't know for nothing so nobody answered. So he said, "Well, you're going to meet a Roman Catholic someday and he's going to say, 'You're in the wrong church! You're a Calvinist, you're in the church John Calvin founded 500 years ago. We're in the church Jesus Christ founded 2000 years ago.' What do you say to him?" Nobody had an answer. I said to myself, "I'm in the right class."
He said, "Well, here's what the Catholics will say: the church today is a great big thing and it looks very different from the simple thing you read about in the New Testament, but it's the same just as that oak tree is the same organism as that little acorn. What's wrong with that picture? The Catholic will say that Luther and Calvin broke off some branches of the church because it was really rotten and they tried to start a new one, but that can't be done cause there's only one Jesus. And therefore, only one church. What's your answer to that? What's wrong with that picture?" And nobody had an answer. I said to myself, "I'm in the right class!"
And he said, "Well, here's what's wrong with that pictures, here's what happened: Jesus founded one church indeed and it is the church described in the New Testament, and it's like Noah's Ark, and it did get rotten, and Luther and Calvin and Knox and others said, 'Gee, this Ark is sinking! We gotta scrape the barnacles off!' So they scraped the barnacles off and restored it to its simple, pure, primitive, New Testament essence. So we're in the right church! It's the Catholics who are the upstarts. They're the ones who added all those pagan barnacles." I said, "Oh that makes me feel good." I remember asking a question, I said, "Professor, do you mean to tell me that, if my Catholic neighbor and I both found a time machine and went back to the first century," I still remember his look, "What's this guy, a weirdo? Science fiction?" "…and worshipped together, that I as a Protestant would feel more at home in that church than he as a Catholic would?" And then he smiled. He said, "That's exactly what I'm saying." I said to myself, "Good, that means that I don't have to be a great theologian to figure out who's right. All I have to do is read the Church Fathers to prove to myself that they were all Calvinists." Well, I read the Church Fathers and proved to myself they were all Catholics, so that's why I'm here.
But the very word "Protestant" means protesting, refusing some of the Catholic whole because they think it's anti-scriptural and unscriptural barnacles added to what Christ gave us. While the very word "Catholic" means universal, or whole. The whole deal. So this has a problem, apparently without a possible solution because no faithful Catholic could dream of unity with Protestants except on Catholic grounds. For to be a Catholic is to believe that those grounds are holy grounds, divinely revealed. It is the Protestants who must remove their shoes. Catholics cannot negotiate away any of the deposit of faith because it is not theirs, it is Christ's! The divinely appointed mail carriers may not edit God's mail.
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According to a Bulgarian website called cinefish.bg, Cartoon Network RSEE (Russia and Southeastern Europe, the version of CN that Bulgaria receives) will get Clarence in November.
Cartoon Network UK already confirmed that Clarence will air in late 2014 and according to a French website called Catsuka back in late March, it will air in September on CN France.
As Clarence is planned to air in November on CN RSEE and in September on CN France, it's usually the case for new shows, that the other Western European feeds will get Clarence first, possibly a month before (possibly in September and October) the Central and Eastern European feeds will air it.
I will keep you posted when I recieve further information.


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After my publication of Jean's confession (which quite graphically shows his appalling inner landscape), I still have to face his desperate attempts to intimidate me and my friends (Laura, her family) and to destroy my confidence and freedom of choice, choice which was to start a new life away from him. It is indeed an intense learning experience, one which I hope will help readers to deepen their knowledge about the inherently pathological nature of some people, and how it can affect each and every one of us.
I've copied below his last email, which I'll be addressing step by step. As usual, I'm sharing this data anonymously, removing any personal reference, etc., because my point is not to make his life more difficult, but to give readers an opportunity to decipher 'psychopathological' language and mode of functioning. These data, taken from real life, offer a great learning opportunity. It's also a good exercise for me, as having to look at his sick rants with the critical distance needed for objective assessment – to look at it clinically and publish my comments for others to read – somewhat relieves the anxiousness and apprehension of having to read his threats and attempts at intimidation on my own, without anyone to bear witness to his twisted thinking. Continue reading


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As a privately funded non-profit institution, Discovery Center relies on the support and generosity of people like you to provide hands-on learning experiences for Middle Tennessee families. Our funding comes 58% through admissions and special program revenue and needs 42% to come through charitable donations. Your gift today lights a spark for life-long learning – for a family struggling financially, for teachers looking for learning opportunities for their students, or for a child who needs the sensory friendly exhibits and programs developed by Discovery Center each and every year.
Please consider joining our efforts by making a tax deductible gift today and bring the power of play to every member in our community.
As we contend with an extended closure, we want to express our deep appreciation for the many members and supporters who have made it possible for us to continue limited operations. Your support is vital to our mission. It funds continued care for the exhibits and animals that call the Discovery Center home.
For those who are able, we ask that you consider these additional ways to support Discovery Center during this challenging time:
- Make a donation to support the museum while we are closed. (Click the "DONATE NOW" button above.)
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You can make a difference to the future of the Discovery Center by planning now. Gift planning uses tax laws to enable you to pursue your philanthropic goals while minimizing your cost of giving and maximizing the benefits to yourself and your family. One of the simplest ways to support the Discovery Center is through a bequest provision in your will. Bequests can be specific or residual. Other options to consider include charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts as well as gifts of property or insurance.
The Discovery Center strongly urges donors considering a planned gift to consult their personal advisors about tax implications. For more information, contact Lindsey Fournier, VP of Philanthropy at (615) 890-2300 ext. 221.
It's simple to give a gift of stock and a great way to use your assets to benefit the Discovery Center. There are several ways to transfer stocks and securities to the museum.
For more information about making a planned gift or gift of stock, contact Lindsey Fournier, VP of Philanthropy at (615) 890-2300 ext. 221.