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I am really excited to present my newest children's book, My Second Year of Kindergarten, which released on April 4th, 2018. This book has been a project that I have been working on with Mascot Books for about 2 years and is close to my heart in many ways. This book is intended to be an educational tool for parents and educators about the topic of repeating a grade, specifically kindergarten. It's a story about celebrating progress and having a flexible mindset.
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Faculty of Arts
Japanese Language 3A
Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for JAPANESE 331.
This course is designed to consolidate and enrich the knowledge and skills you have gained in Stage 1 and 2, and to further develop communicative use of the Japanese language in the four skills in and beyond everyday-life situations. With greater focus on written Japanese, you will explore a variety of authentic materials including essays, folk tales, poems and visual texts that contain both traditional and contemporary cultural elements. You are encouraged to study autonomously as well as collaboratively with others.
By the end of the course, you should have improved your ability to:
- Express ideas and opinions in Japanese using a wide range of vocabulary and phrases acquired in the course
- Comprehend the content of authentic materials in limited styles with dictionary assistance
- Extract relevant information and "get the gist" of a text in a limited time
- Write an essay with dictionary assistance on a set topic commensurate with the level of this course without significant errors
- Carry out certain language functions, such as making a request and conveying a message, using the language appropriate to the situation including honorific language as well as appropriate communicative strategies
- Understand the gist of dialogues and monologues which are spoken at natural speed by native Japanese speakers in different situations
Availability 2019
Semester 1
Coordinator(s) Michiyo Mori
Chuukyuu e Ikou (with a separate booklet and a CD): 3ACorporation
Kanji Practice Book (pink)
Reading Book (green)
Recommended Reading
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar (The Japan Times) by S.Makino and M.Tsutsui
Coursework + exam
JAPANESE 331: 15.0 points
JAPANESE 330, 338, 339. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed


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Here is what amazes me. I started this little blog almost a year ago. It hasn't had a new post in 11 months. And yet, with no relevant or newsworthy content in almost a year, it still gets 40-50 visits a day. For crying out loud!!! The damn thing was only active for 3-4 months.
That ought to show you the evil in the internet. It captures every letter and every keyword. Years and years after something was published, some idiot with a search engine will site some internet source as the validation for his/her current belief set. Nevermind that the original content may have never been researched and cited, But, even if it were, it may have been refuted by intelligent argument 1000 times over.
but that won't stop some "web-expert" from using it to build some strawman case for his/her ill informed position on this or that.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Mullenix, chair and professor of theatre at Miami University, has been named interim dean of the School of Creative Arts, effective Monday, July 8.
Mullenix has served as chair of the department of theatre at Miami since her arrival in 2006. She writes on the following topics: antebellum culture/theatre, cross-dressing, performance and politics during the Civil War, first wave feminism and gender/feminist theory. She has published articles and book reviews in various journals.
Her book Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage was published by Palgrave in 2000; her second monograph Theatres of War: Civil War Theatre and the Performance of Nationhood is currently in progress, although sections of it have appeared in journals and recent anthologies.
Mullenix served as representative for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education's Theatre History Focus Group, conference planner and history symposium chair for the Mid-American Theatre Conference, executive committee member for the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR) and board member of the American Theatre and Drama Society.
In addition, Mullenix is on the editorial board for "Theatre in the Americas," a performance series published by Southern Illinois University Press, and is the new editor for the annual journal Theatre History Studies.
Prior to coming to Miami, Mullenix received a doctorate at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and afterwards taught theatre history, dramatic literature and theory for 11 years at Illinois State University, where she also served as the associate chair of the School of Theatre and the associate dean for the College of Fine Arts.


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I never feel really comfortable talking about poo, and yet it seems to dominate my life!
This week we had another visit with the gastro doctor at the Children's hospital. It was a 6pm appointment just 3 days before Christmas, so we went into town early to have a browse and look at the decorations. The kids were not really all that interested though, but it could have been because of the rain. We did go into the church and light some candles for lost family members, including the two cats this year. The kids loved the nativity scene, despite the characters not having faces.
Anyway, onto the appointment. Back in October, Lucy was put on a high dose of Movical to clear her out. We didn't manage to get it to work. It took five days before there was any sort of result at all and then the school break was over and I didn't want to risk her getting loose while at school so I stopped giving it to her. So, now it's the Christmas holiday and she has two weeks before she goes back to school so we are going to try again, but with an even higher dosage. It's going to be a smelly Christmas. She also has to go back to the hospital for blood tests next week. The Dr wants to rule things out to find what her problem really is. Lucy isn't happy as she has developed a real fear of needles, but I'm sure we'll get through it somehow, perhaps with some bribery.
In other news, Lucy's class is going on a residential trip in the summer. It's not the first time she's had the chance to go, but it's been four years since the last one. I've had to turn this trip down for exactly the same reasons as the last one which makes me feel sad as it shows there has been no improvement in that time. In fact things are much worse now. We not only have the incontinence and sleep problems to worry about, but also the fact that we would be worried sick about her getting hurt. She fractured her ankle stepping off a very small stage during a school concert, the school didn't even know she was hurt.how could we be sure she'd be ok away from home. Lucy is fine with not going, part of her would like to join in, but she knows she wouldn't be able to cope away from home.
Which brings me to my worries about secondary school. I know we have chosen the right school for now, but I'm really not sure how she is going to cope. All along I've said we will have to give her the chance of a normal school life, but if it goes wrong we'll take her out and find another option. Now, I'm concerned so much about the if it goes wrong part. If it did, would it be something she'd ever get over even if we did intervene?


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Supporters of Egypt's President, Mohammed Mursi, have clashed with opponents in Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving more than 100 injured in the worst violence over the Islamists' leadership.
Mr Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood movement and a coalition of secular-leaning groups held separate rallies on Friday on some of the thorniest issues facing the new democracy.
The Health Ministry said at least 110 people were injured as protesters showered each other with stones and petrol bombs, after Mr Mursi's supporters tore down a podium from which anti-Brotherhood chants were being orchestrated.
Protesters torched two buses used by the Brotherhood to drive supporters into central Cairo, witnesses said.
The violence erupted as Mr Mursi faced a backlash from judges after trying to sack the chief prosecutor following last week's acquittals of Mubarak-era officials on trial for a deadly attack on protesters during last year's uprising.
Despite multiple statements from Brotherhood leaders saying they would attend the rally, the group denied on Twitter that any of its members was involved in the fighting.
"We are not involved in Tahrir clashes, and none of our members were there," it wrote on its Twitter account, prompting a wave of derision from others who posted videos of apparent Brotherhood members in the square.
The clashes subsided when Islamists withdrew from the square in the evening. State television reported that they held a protest outside the nearby state prosecutor's office.
In a speech in the coastal city of Alexandria, Mr Mursi pledged to bring to justice officials accused of organising the killings of protesters during the uprising that eventually brought his once-banned movement to power following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.
"We will never ignore those who committed crimes against the nation and corrupted it," he said in the speech reported by the official MENA news agency. But other groups that had taken part in the 18-day uprising and now oppose Mr Mursi, accuse the Islamists of dominating political life, particularly a crucial body that is drafting Egypt's new constitution.
"The Brotherhood realised today that the Muslim Brotherhood is not all of Egypt," said protester, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, an opponent of the movement. Mr Mursi narrowly won a June election which presented voters with an unpopular choice between an Islamist president and Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's last prime minister.
Friday's clashes were the most violent in a simmering struggle between Mr Mursi's movement and his opponents, who range from Mubarak loyalists to groups which spearheaded the revolt against the former dictator. He also faces intense opposition from powerful judges who accuse him of trying to detract from their authority.
An influential group of Egyptian judges backed state prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud's refusal to resign after Mr Mursi ordered his removal on Thursday, the official newspaper Al-Ahram reported.
Mr Mursi's bid to remove Mr Mahmud bypassed checks on presidential control of the prosecutor, further enraging judges after the President had unsuccessfully tried to reverse a court order disbanding the Islamist-dominated parliament.
Mr Mahmud said he received threats from a senior judge and an ally of Mr Mursi who told him he could be assaulted if he did not heed the decree to resign.
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In Harry Potter, there are these creatures called "dementors." They guard the wizard prison and by nature, they are dark, cold, and soulless. They suck every joy out of the unfortunate person within their proximity, leaving the person to feel as if they can never be cheerful again. Dementors even have the power to suck someone's soul out of them, a fate worse than death. J. K. Rowling has said that dementors are a metaphor for depression.
Having suffered with depression for more than half of my life, I can see the clear parallel.
The wizard who wants to scare away the dementor has to cast a Patronus charm. A patronus is cast when one focuses on one's most happiest memory. It takes the shape of an animal, vibrant and full of light.
The significance of that too, is not lost on me.
When I think of my "Patronus" and happiest memory in my life, I think of when I was thirteen, isolated and unpopular. One day in winter, a boy that I liked grabbed my cold hands and said emphatically, "I will warm them for you." It was incredibly touching, and a memory that was seared onto my brain with love and adoration.
But then I think of my dementors–my demons, my depression. And my most saddest, and arguably most traumatic, memory. I was fifteen. I arrived to the emergency room, anxious yet oddly numb, wishfully thinking that my dad was going to be okay. A family friend asked me, "Do you want to see your dad?" When I said yes, he led me into the dark room. I stared at my father lying in the bed, still as a stone. Sitting in the chair next to his bed, I reached out and grabbed his hand–but it was stiff. Cold as ice. And I knew. He's dead. Why did no one tell me? He's gone. He's dead.
These two memories, are intricately linked and tied together. Hands. Warm hands. Cold hands. Connection. Love. Death. Loss.
As I reflect on all this, I think of Jon Foreman–he stated that as human beings, we are constantly living in tension, like a guitar string strung between two poles. While we often make attempts to fight against the tension, he asserted that perhaps instead our goal should be to make beauty in the tension.
And this is one of the biggest tensions we must face in life: Love vs. Pain / Loss. Or even more so, Love vs Fear.
I've spent most of my life fighting the tension. Living in fear, while also running from it. Fearing love, while also desiring it to the point it physically ached. But this is the tension: to love, despite our fears of hurt or loss. To love, even when we don't know what will come. To never cease loving, even as we are drenched in pain. If we avoid loss or pain, we also have to cut out love. And having lived that way for many years, I can say with confidence that avoiding loss does not mean you will not experience pain–in reality, it is a confirmation that you will feel pain. Except it will be a different kind of pain… the pain of loneliness, of isolation.
I've experienced some of the most painful losses, but I realize now that this is a part of living in the tension of life. It is a part of living life in full color. We love and give love, empowering, inspiring, and giving warmth to others in the brave act. But then we lose and we suffer.
We will hurt, that is a guarantee. But eventually, we will be okay. With all of these swirls of human emotions, we are inspired, we grow, we make beautiful music. They are the raw materials that we use to build our lives and amplify our voices in the world.
"The tension is where the beauty happens. The melody of our lives is when we dance on these strings of tension. Be brave, your melody is worth it. Be courageous, your melody is needed. I dare you. I dare you to live out your purpose. That the melody within you would soar above the fear, above the crowd, above the past, above the pain, and that the song that you were born to sing would come to life." – Jon Foreman


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Roads. They wound up on themselves and through the greens and browns and blues, sometimes aging worse than the cars and people that traveled on them. This Harvey knew. He'd spent plenty of time on rough nights after a screaming match with his fiancée, out floating along the curves until he wished back home floating his fingers along her hips. Even though most of those drives were when the outside was black and obscured out passed the reach of his headlights, he knew it was still beautiful despite man's progress and its attempt to stifle it. The greens and blue, reds and yellows, and everything in between flourished… and probably bided their time. Beauty that disarming didn't come without consequence. This was also something else Harvey knew. Emily, his fiancée, was a smoking gun in God's right hand, but along with the sugar and spice it seemed a dash of malice or spite had slipped in. For all her gorgeous angles and sweet words, the woman was a vicious wolf in dainty sheep's wool. He'd once seen a kid torn into by a rabid wolverine and he'd come to feel a sense of comradery with the child, much like being the lone survivors of a great tragedy.
He hit the brakes lightly to hug a curve and heard the hum from the tread of his tires rolling over the blacktop. The wind came through the window in bursts, fluffing his hair violently while a white-hot sun hung in the middle of the bleached sky. They didn't have a fight today, Harvey was only on a joy ride drinking in the scenic beauty at 60 miles an hour while his camera rode shotgun. The passenger was there in case something completely gorgeous or grotesque came across his path, or near it. Harvey was only a photographer by hobby, not by trade, and that's all he felt it could be in the digital age where any idiot with a cell phone could make "art". The profession was crowded with wedding vultures and pretentious would-be geniuses as he saw it anyway, so he stood content with doing math for money and leaving the lens-gazing for downtime. Hundreds of pictures littered his hard drive, flowers, seeds, trees and landscapes, bones and decomposing shacks in ruin and all always just feet off the road. It always started with a glimpse of something different and lead to a collection of frozen windows of time.
The engine hummed a series of repetitive v's in different inflection as Harvey eased on and off the gas pedal. Trees and bushes waved at his passing, like they were saying hello and goodbye all at once. In front of him, the road laid out like a giant black and yellow serpent as it twisted a path to nowhere in particular. It was exactly where he wanted to go. Yellow squares with black arrows stood guard at the edge of another curve. They guided him away from a careless wide turn that would otherwise lead him astray. On the opposite embankment, at the bottom of the slanted road, a guardrail held the green at bay inside the curve. Leaves and branches leaned over the steel and threatened to take something back from man. Harvey's eye twitched at the corner as he came upon the curve. The green behind the guardrail looked like a giant face. It wasn't completely human in its reflection, but the very basic formation of two eyes and a giant, gnarled nose was prevalent. His heart smashed against his ribcage until he realized it was only the overgrowth. He loosened sweaty palms from the steering wheel that they had instinctually throttled in fear and pressed his foot back on the gas as the cold hallucination washed out in the tiny beads of sweat from his pores.
He pulled the wheel toward the inside of the curve. The leave all pulled back tightly around the face Harvey had thought he'd seen. The car floated by the inside of the curve and the face turned to follow it. Leave and branches had tucked firmly together and defined more features than before. A green, rustling brow pulled together in the middle of the face, smashed up in an aggravated grimace while a deep, hollow wind howled through the trees. This time Harvey knew the face he saw from the corner of his eye was real and not another trick in his mind's eye that haunted him like some post-jitters paranoia. His foot sunk into the gas pedal. Behind the giant, green face more leave pushed out with knotted branches and trunks behind them. They rammed against the driver's side door. Harvey's face slammed into the window and caused a spider web crack where his head hit. The frame around the window had become grossly distorted. His head felt like a baseball tossed into a solid wood bat. The car spun to the top of the curve, nearing a full circle, and faced back the same way on the road while he foot was still heavy on the pedal. The tires smoked and start to gain traction. The rubber squealed against the blacktop. Before the car could lurch forward and away, more tightly woven branches came back like an angry god-fist and caved the frame in further. Slits in the metal opened and curled while shards of glass littered the road and leather interior.
Harvey's left eye stung, salty with blood as it ran from his scalp. A jagged piece of scrap had peeled away from the frame in the impact and had sunken itself into Harvey's upper thigh, he felt it scape against his femur. The squeal of the metal on his bone reverberated through the meat of his body and turned his stomach in heavy knots. A third hit sent the car off the road and into a ditch on the far side. The front wheels hung inches off the grass. Harvey pulled his foot back and let the battered engine idle as it choked out its last breaths. He glanced up in the rear-view mirror. The living embankment was behind him. The leaves had drawn tight again and in a blink he heard the trunk of his car collapse like an aluminum can. The car lurched further into the grass and dug into the earth below. The grill planted itself like the head of a spade while the crushed rear suspended from a moment before gravity pulled it down. The grill pulled open a gash in the skin of the earth.
A tornado of steam and exhaust rose up from the car and filled the cab. It seeped into Harvey's lungs. He gagged and choked. His eyes pooled and blurred and everything worsened from the smog of the car. He tried to free himself, but the piece of the metal in his leg had him pinned. It was still attached to the door frame. Metal scraped against his bone again. He felt slices of it peeling off like bark from a stick. Bile climbed up his throat and sat in his mouth. He swallowed it down, hard, and reached for his thigh. With as much strength as he could gather, he pushed the flesh of his leg down with his right hand and slowly pulled the frayed piece of metal out with the left. Blood spurted out more and more vigorously then closer he came to freeing himself. It oozed from the hole and washed out over his pant leg. His left hand shook. The jagged piece had been at least three inches inside of him and now it wouldn't give anymore as it hovered barely an inch outside of his skin. Harvey tried to move his leg, but when his muscles tensed more blood left him and unbearably sharp pains crashed into the nerve clusters in his body. The blood loss was beginning to show its hand, as well. His arm quivered ferociously. He was barely able to keep the scrap out of his leg. He unlatched his seat-belt and rolled toward the passenger seat. The metal slipped from his fingers and caught the outside seam of his pant leg. It tore away a generous chunk of denim. His leg, though freed, was saturated in blood. He dragged himself across the cab to the undamaged passenger door. A trail of red smeared across the seats like thick, watery paint. He opened the door and fell out onto the upturned grass. The brown earth clumped and stuck itself to the blood all over him and even worked into the wound. It burned as it unleashed new elements into the gash. Harvey pulled his shirt off and did the best he could turning it into a makeshift tourniquet. His head swam. All of his concentration had started to wane with his composure as it all leaked out his leg.
The ground shook beneath him in patterns like slow, plotting drums. They were spaced apart enough to seem like long, drawn out footsteps. Confusion built inside his dizzy mind. Each thrum shook harder and soon audible thuds began to accompany them like small avalanches over in seconds. Harvey pulled himself passed the cover of his car and stared out blankly to the horizon. The clutter of trees that lined the edge of the tame field had begun to rise like a series of randomly firing pistons, though once they were at their peak they didn't return back to their casing. And the trees began to walk away like they'd given up on the ages they had tried to coexist with man, or worse: they were revolting. Harvey felt his heart drop in his chest. He questioned, for a moment, if he wasn't delude from the blood loss. It was completely plausible that he'd had a terrible crash and imagined everything else after the fact while he remained unconscious. There was only one way to have any proof if what he was seeing was real. He pulled himself back into the car and reached for his camera. Quickly, he wiped the lens with his sleeve and pointed it toward the edge of the woods and shot.


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Interview by Gila Hayes
Many armed citizens carry pocketknives for utility use as well as for last-resort defense if unable to use their gun. Others carry pocketknives at times when carrying a gun is illegal or otherwise prohibited. Like a firearm carried for self defense, a knife's effectiveness and legal defensibility is in direct proportion to the knowledge and education of the citizen employing it. Just as a leading concern at the Network is assuring that members understand the imperative for articulating the whys and hows of using a firearm for self defense, we also strive to educate about problems that attach to using knives in self defense.
Our journal first introduced this topic in December of 2008, in a lengthy interview with knife and self defense expert Marc MacYoung, who is also the featured speaker lecturing on pre-attack indicators on one of the educational DVD lectures sent to all Network members. We want to continue to expand member knowledge about issues bearing on defending oneself with a knife, and much of this issue of the journal is dedicated to knife concerns.
A few weeks ago, we spoke at length with Spokane County (WA) Public Defender Investigator Troy Bunke, who gave us a great overview and introduction to the topic. During his 20-year career, Bunke has had the challenge of investigating problem cases, identifying exculpatory evidence and helping Public Defender attorneys understand the issues involved. He explains, "The way I look at it, my job as an investigator is to catalog the good, the bad and the ugly, to get to the evidence that we are looking for."
In addition to his professional expertise, Bunke is an avid student of self defense and has trained extensively with Massad Ayoob, and specifically sought out knife training from Eric Remmen, George Williams, and Insights Training Center, along with his own research into both the laws and any literature on the topic.
Still, he explains that he wishes for better resources, noting, "Even in textbooks published on self defense and use of force there are very few that I've ever read that are knife related. That has made it generally a hard topic to learn about."
Bunke made many interesting observations both about investigating knives used in self defense, pitfalls he has identified and how Network members might avoid them. Let's go now to our interview with Mr. Bunke.
eJournal: When you investigate a crime in which a knife was used, how often is its use self defense?
Bunke: Since I work for the Public Defender, I will never see any case the state has ruled self defense, either through law enforcement's initial investigation or the prosecutor's office deciding not to charge that case. The cases that I generally see are the ones that are not "clean." Typically, I think, most Network members' situation would be considered clean: they would not be under the influence of drugs or alcohol or would have no prior convictions, would not have harassment issues, and so most of their cases would never make it to me. Once a case has made it to my desk, there is generally something wrong with the case. I do not get clean cases. I do not get cases that are simple and easy to figure out.
The cases that I get have been charged at a felony level, whether those are assault, manslaughter or murder. When we have a knife injury that has produced any significant damage–and the prosecutors will say that almost any knife injury produces significant damage–we are looking at minimum charges of assault or some form of criminal homicide if a death is involved and someone is easily looking at 10 to 20 years in prison for a single significant knife injury.
When I see knife cases, more times than not, the charge is first-degree assault because of the kinds of injuries that have been produced on the victims. I would guess that of the number of homicides that I've worked, maybe as high as ten percent were knife cases. In my twenty years, I've worked about 90 homicides, and at least ten of those were knife-involved.
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European stocks advanced, trimming their first December decline since 2008 amid low equity volume.
Trading on the London Stock Exchange will end at 12:30 p.m. local time today, and NYSE Euronext's European cash markets will close 35 minutes later. The Madrid bourse will stop trading at 2 p.m. local time. Exchanges in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Nordic countries are closed.
The volume of the session should be reduced, and may focus on the final stage of negotiation with institutional investors to adjust their portfolios to the beginning of the year which is foreseen to be turbulent. In fact, the beginning of 2015 should be marked by political uncertainty in Greece, the economic and financial situation in Russia and the continuous oil price weakness. Fund managers also need to consider the amount of redemptions and subscriptions in recent weeks, which will influence the decrease or increase the exposure of these funds to equity markets. At the end of the session may occur some selling pressure related to tax issues. The idea behind tax-related selling is that individuals who have experienced capital gains in a calendar year can offset the taxes paid on those gains by showing losses on other investments. For that reason, in a year where many thing have performed well, badly performing assets can add to selling pressure.
US markets fell slightly after the S&P and Dow Jones have reached another record high on Monday. Yesterday´s session accused the lack of liquidity typical of this season, and the volume was the lowest in the past few months. The weakness of European markets and the initial retreat of oil led some investors to realize capital gains. Economic data ended up not having a significant impact on the course of the session. Property prices in 20 major US metropolitan areas, as measured by the S&P / Shiller index rose 0.76% in October compared to September, against expectations for a 0.40% increase. In annual terms, ie, from October 2013, house prices rose 4.50%, the lowest increase in the last two years.
Consumer confidence, as measured by the Conference Board, rose in December to 92.1 compared to 91.0 in November. Although this reading fell short of the estimated (94.0), there was an improvement in the perception of consumers in relation to the labor market, which continues to be their main source of income.
The US stock market is open for trading today from 14h30 to 21h00.
With the exception of Hong Kong stock market, Asian markets closed down, before disappointing data given by the Chinese economy. To notice that the Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.
According to HSBC economists, the PMI index on manufacturing activity, fell in December from 50.0 to 49.6. While this reading is marginally better than the preliminary reading of December (49.5), the situation of the Chinese economy continues to provoke concern among investors and will be a central theme of 2015. Recently, the Bank of China reduced its estimates for GDP growth in 2015 from 7:40 to 7:10%%.


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OK so first of all, I'm proud to have provided the music for this powerful documentary, transmitted on BBC Scotland on 11th April:
And you can still order "Bonjour" - my album with Harry Pye - here.
So the Teenage Fanclub world tour bandwagon rolled on to San Francisco.
We stayed in a groovy hotel....
...encountered The Ghost Of The Tenderloin...
...and ate good, inexpensive Vietnamese food.
On the day of the show I grabbed a diverting wee hour in SFMOMA.
Our show at the Great American Music Hall was a tour highlight. Great, great audience. Nice to catch up with some old pals after the show.
|Britta Phillips opened for our US west coast shows and was great.
|Norman's back in Frisco (I know - nobody calls it Frisco. I'm a rebel).
|String Bikini.
|"Unless your childhood sucked...'
Ask me anything about Rodin (- don't, actually).
I especially loved some of the American photography exhibits...
|left-handed cellist...
|I'm going to start wearing my tie like this.
|I believe this work by Jeff Koons influenced the artwork for TFC's "Thirteen" album.
|Orange Words In Neon
I enjoyed speaking to Scott McCaughey after our show and hearing about the Young Fresh Fellows' experience recording with Rufus Thomas. And Ivan from The Rosebuds who toured with TFC many moons ago hung out too, and recommended I visit the Morgan Library and Museum in NY (see below). I invited Camera Obscura's producer Tucker Martine to the show and he came along but we never got say hello. I would probably have bored him with my jabbering how his dad wrote my favourite Elvis song (you read that right).
If you fancy some tasty BBQ in Portland - I know where to go, btw.
Twas, onward to Seattle, hometown of our excellent guitar/keyboards stand-in Michael Lerner.
I forgot to put Frasier Crane on the guest list.
It was a lovely fresh day in the city. I ate a disappointing omelette and a nice coffee; a legendary burger and a tasty tamale.
Vancouver rocked.
We played the Rickshaw Theatre (an ex-Chinese kung film theatre, apparently) and I got some laundry done. AND I scored a tasty Katsu curry.
Thence to New York. Brooklyn to be more precise.
I suggested we repair to a characterful Italian restaurant of which I had fond memories from another visit, some years before, with Camera Obscura. Our waiter told us it was the oldest family-owned restaurant in New York. So there.
I defeated the spaghetti & meatballs once again. Go me.
Show was great. Lovely final audience for the final show of our tour.
|Camera Obscura's old trumpeter Tim Cronin forgave me for my forgetting to get him guest tickets (hashtag 'oops').
Next day I got some huevos rancheros, a wee visit to Strand Books, Manhattan and then on to the luscious Morgan Library and Museum.
A few hours later, we flew home.
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3-year-old's photo exhibition is a snap
Ruby Ellenby had her red party dress on to celebrate her first photography exhibition. A few minutes into the opening, she dipped into the party favors. Cupcake in her hand, her mouth was ringed by pink frosting.
Ruby is 3 years old. The exhibition of her work includes 22 photos, most taken in San Francisco's Dogpatch and Mission Bay neighborhoods near her home. She used three cameras: Her own VTech kids' camera, a Nikon Coolpix, and Mom and Dad's iPhones.
"It began," says her mom, Jeanne Ellenby, the day Ruby said, "Mommy, can I see your camera?"
The photos are from a kid's-eye view: a leaf on the street; a random letter on a sidewalk; from under the dinner table at Thanksgiving; bare branches overhead. It helps that both parents are photographers.
"One thing I learned from watching my daughter is you shoot what is close to you," said Peter Ellenby, who along with his wife specializes in music photography. "Ruby is close to the ground, so she shoots a lot of things at that level."
On the walls of Moshi Moshi restaurant, 8-by-10 prints were mounted with a white border on foam core. The restaurant was the natural place for the show, the Ellenbys said, as it's where they had their first date, where they went when they found out Jeanne was pregnant and where they've been taking Ruby since she was a newborn.
For Ruby, the show was pure fun, with balloons and sugar, friends and even her pink stuffed dog, Raisin, in tow.
"Taking pictures makes me feel like a princess," Ruby said, pausing briefly before making another happy circle around the room.
In addition to knowing how to unlock the iPhone, find the camera icon and begin taking pictures, she has learned how to use two iPhone applications, including ToyCamera and CameraBag, but prefers CameraBag because she can change the colors in the photos.
"We celebrate anything creative, no matter how trivial," said Peter Ellenby.
Gillian Ellenby, Ruby's grandmother, insisted she was objective when looking at the works.
"I'm impressed," she said. "I had thought the photos would be really random. But she has an eye. Her photos are really good. I especially love the picture she took of her red sparkly shoes, her 'Ruby slippers.' "
Jeanne Ellenby laughed and confided that her daughter possesses something of the artist's temperament.
"I'll ask her, 'Ruby, do you want to go out and take photos?' And she'll say no, she's not in the mood."
The opening night reception, held March 13, ended promptly at 6:30 p.m. The photographer's bedtime is 7:30.
Ruby Ellenby's photography: Through April. Moshi Moshi, 2092 Third St., S.F. www.rubyellenby.com.


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- Could Different Borders Have Saved the Middle East? by By Nick Danforth May 14, 2016
- The Master's House 100 Years After Sykes-Picot by S.Sayyid 19 May 2016
- The Ongoing Attempts To Shape The Modern Middle East by Ali Murat Yel 19 May 2016
Could Different Borders Have Saved the Middle East? by By Nick Danforth May 14, 2016
THERE probably aren't many things that the Islamic State, Jon Stewart and the president of Iraqi Kurdistan agree on, but there is one: the pernicious influence of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret plan for dividing up the Middle East signed by France and Britain, 100 years ago this week. It has become conventional wisdom to argue, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. recently did, that the Middle East's problems stem from "artificial lines, creating artificial states made up of totally distinct ethnic, religious, cultural groups."
That Western imperialism had a malignant influence on the course of Middle Eastern history is without a doubt. But is Sykes-Picot the right target for this ire?. . .
The borders that exist today — the ones the Islamic State claims to be erasing — actually emerged in 1920 and were modified over the following decades. They reflect not any one plan but a series of opportunistic proposals by competing strategists in Paris and London as well as local leaders in the Middle East. For whatever problems those schemes have caused, the alternative ideas for dividing up the region probably weren't much better. Creating countries out of diverse territories is a violent, imperfect process.
Sykes and Picot Hatch Their Plan
In May 1916, Mark Sykes, a British diplomat, and François Georges-Picot, his French counterpart, drew up an agreement to ensure that once the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, their countries would get a fair share of the spoils.
Both countries awarded themselves direct control over areas in which they had particular strategic and economic interests. France had commercial ties to the Levant, and had long cultivated the region's Christians. Britain intended to secure trade and communication routes to India through the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf.
To the extent the Sykes-Picot plan made an attempt to account for the local ethnic, religious or culutural groups, or their ideas about the future, it offered a vague promise to create one or several Arab states — under French and British influence, of course.
Faisal Dreams of a United Arab Kingdom
In March 1920, Faisal bin Hussein, who led the Arab armies in their British-supported revolt against the Ottomans during World War I, became the leader of the independent Arab Kingdom of Syria, based in Damascus. His ambitious borders stretched across modern-day Syria, Jordan, Israel and parts of Turkey. (But not Iraq.)
Would Faisal's map have been an authentic alternative to the externally imposed borders that came in the end? We'll never know. The French, who opposed his plan, defeated his army in July.
But even if they hadn't, Faisal's territorial claims would have put him in direct conflict with Maronite Christians pushing for independence in what is today Lebanon, with Jewish settlers who had begun their Zionist project in Palestine, and with Turkish nationalists who sought to unite Anatolia.
When France took control of what is now Syria, the plan in Paris was to split up the region into smaller statelets under French control. These would have been divided roughly along ethnic, regional and sectarian lines: The French envisioned a state for Alawites, another for Druse, another for Turks and two more centered around Syria's biggest cities, Damascus and Aleppo.
This cynical divide-and-conquer strategy was intended to pre-empt Arab nationalists' calls for a "greater Syria." Today, five years into Syria's civil war, a similar division of the country has been suggested as a more authentic alternative to the supposedly artificial Syrian state. But when the French tried to divide Syria almost a century ago, the region's residents, inspired by ideas of Syrian or Arab unity, pushed by new nationalist leaders, resisted so strongly that France abandoned the plan.
Americans to the Rescue?
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson sent a delegation to devise a better way to divide the region. Henry King, a theologian, and Charles Crane, an industrialist, conducted hundreds of interviews in order to prepare a map in accordance with the ideal of national self-determination.
Was this a missed opportunity to draw the region's "real" borders? Doubtful. After careful study, King and Crane realized how difficult the task was: They split the difference between making Lebanon independent or making it part of Syria with a proposal for "limited autonomy." They thought the Kurds might be best off incorporated into Iraq or even Turkey. And they were certain that Sunnis and Shiites belonged together in a unified Iraq. In the end, the French and British ignored the recommendations. If only they had listened, things might have turned out more or less the same.
Nick Danforth, a senior analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center, blogs at midafternoonmap.com.
The Master's House 100 Years After Sykes-Picot
19 May 2016
The Sykes-Picot Agreement represents the absence of an authentic, legitimate successor to the Ottoman order and should be seen as part of the last stage in a sequence of when Europe asserted itself by directly organizing the world outside Europe
On May 16, 1916, two rather undistinguished civil servants – Mark Sykes representing the United Kingdom and François Georges-Picot on behalf of the French government – agreed on the division of the Ottoman Empire into British, French and Russian spheres of influence. A line was drawn on the basis of this plan, stretching from the border with Persia in the east to the Mediterranean. Britain would control the areas to the south of the line while France would do so to the north. In each of these regions France and Britain alone would "have priority of right of enterprise and local loans" and "supply advisers or foreign functionaries." More importantly, in the assigned regions Britain and France "shall be allowed to establish such direct or indirect administration or control as they desire and as they may think fit to arrange with the Arab state or confederation of Arab states," which would be "recognised and protected" by both powers. The agreement would be approved later by then Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov, again, behind closed doors. In return for the acceptance of the British and French claims, Russia would get control of Constantinople and other territories carved out of Ottoman Empire.
A year later the secret plans were exposed by the Bolsheviks following the Russian Revolution and overthrow of the Tsar Nicholas II. The post-Ottoman order that emerged after end of World War I (1914-1918) did not correspond exactly to the map drawn up by Sykes and Picot, as according to the plan, Mosul was to be part of Syria and not Iraq.
There is a legitimate scholarly dispute about the significance of this agreement and its relevance today. After all 100 years is a long time, and there have been lots of developments that cannot, with any confidence, be traced back to what Sykes and Picot were up to. Regardless of the details of the actual Sykes-Picot Agreement, over the years it has gained a symbolic importance that exceeds the details of what was agreed to on May 16, 1916. It is the metaphor of Sykes-Picot, i.e., what it represents, that continues to resonate today. In particular, I draw attention to three features of what the plan represents as being significant and that account for notoriety.
Firstly, the Sykes-Picot plan should perhaps be seen as part of the last stage in a sequence when Europe asserted itself by directly organizing the world outside Europe according to its own cartographic imaginings. Beginning with the Treaty of Tordesillas between the crowns of Spain and Portugal in 1494, through conferences such as Berlin in 1884, which formalized European colonial rule over most of Africa, European maps became templates for reshaping the non-European world. In these maps natural boundaries or historical bonds were often secondary to geometric principles, which filled the vertigo of experiencing space on a planetary scale. The Sykes-Picot Agreement represents not only the 1916 plan to distribute the spoils of victory over the Ottoman Empire, but a series of other unequal treaties, agreements and protocols by which the non-European world was classified, categorized and allocated to Western powers. Sykes-Picot is a sign of European power and authority. It has to be remembered that the British Empire reached its territorial peak five years afterward.
Secondly, Sykes-Picot meant not only new borders, it was also an attempt to transform the cosmopolitan realities of the Ottoman world into narrow nationalism and xenophobia. The Anglo-French carve up of the Ottoman domains meant not only the cultivation of elites willing to collaborate with London and Paris in exchange for privileges and power, it also established the template of patron-client relations throughout the region so that local rulers spent a great deal of energy cultivating their foreign patrons rather than providing for their own people. This pattern continues today when oil riches are used to buy influence in Western capitals at the expense of state sovereignty and popular accountability. In others words, ruling families are linked to Western capitals more than their own populations. So Sykes-Picot represents the history of clientelism in the region, and all that follows from the institutionalization of such client-patron relations.
Thirdly, Sykes-Picot represents the absence of an authentic legitimate successor to the previous Ottoman order. The spatial divisions of the region and divisions between rulers and ruled institutionalized by the Sykes-Picot system culminate in the production of a void and absent or lost center able to bring order, autonomy and prosperity to the region. Sykes-Picot did not allow for viable independent states capable of exercising sovereignty. It was designed to build a state system through which Anglo-French interests, influence and indirect rule could be exercised. This was the house that Sykes-Picot built and this is the house that people of the region still live in. So even though the architects of that house are gone, as the French and British Empires are shadows of their former selves, and the new owners, be they from Washington or Moscow, are able to use that that architecture for their own ends. The main losers remain the people of the region. The Sykes-Picot Agreement symbolizes the plans for building the master's house in the absence of the Ottoman Empire. Such a master's house spread across the globe as part of the process of European colonial world-making.
Audre Lorde, the Caribbean-American writer and thinker, declared that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. For the last 100 years the only tools generally available have been the master's tools. The need to invent new tools to dismantle the master's house is something that has resonance around the world. So after 100 years the faulty map drawn by two undistinguished diplomats continues to frame the politics of the post-Ottoman world.
* Professor in Rhetoric, University of Leeds
The Ongoing Attempts To Shape The Modern Middle East
Ali Murat Yel
19 May 2016
Accomplished director Werner Herzog's film 'Queen of the Desert,' starring Nicole Kidman as British agent and writer Gertrude Bell, has been in the spotlight recently both in terms of its historical authenticity and cinematography
Those who had seen Anthony Minghella's 1996 film version of "The English Patient" might vaguely remember a conversation among some British soldiers on getting through some mountains for the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. The answer was: "The Bell maps show a way," to which the response comes: "Let's hope he was right." This was an excusable mistake because it would not occur to them that a woman could have explored almost all the hills, mountains and deserts of the Middle East a century ago.
Having watched Werner Herzog's 2015 movie "Queen of the Desert," most viewers would leave the theater with the impression that they had witnessed the life of a kingmaker - Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell. However, this female version of Lawrence of Arabia, played by Nicole Kidman could never come close to Peter O'Toole's hero. Those who know Bell's life story and what she accomplished in the Middle East with her linguistic and political skills for the benefit of the British Empire, the movie is an utter failure. Unlike in "Lawrence of Arabia," this movie does very little justice to Bell's achievements in devastating the lives of Arabs living under the Ottoman administration.
The ongoing attempts to shape the modern Middle East
The movie opens with a scene from a windy desert and then we see some British men, including a young T. E. Lawrence, at the British Arab Bureau in Cairo discussing how the British Empire would snatch Mesopotamia away from the Ottoman Empire. The movie proceeds with a lively, innocent, attractive and very intelligent English lady who was bored with the luxurious life of the British countryside. We only passingly learn that she graduated from Oxford with the highest honors in history. She innocently insists her father send her anywhere, which could be either India or the Middle East, as if it is their backyard. Initially, she was sent to Tehran where the British council happens to be one of their relatives. One would expect that Bell would feel like a fish out of water, but on the contrary, she never has any culture shock and wants to explore the entire region as a scholar and "expert of archaeology." Then, we presumably see her wandering around, received at the palaces of a few sheikhs like an omniscient British diplomat. In between these travels come her two love affairs with staff at British consulates. Apart from very rare panoramic shots of the Arabian deserts, the movie does not deserve its title as the plot takes place mostly indoors. The film ends with her conversation with two Arab noblemen, Faisal and Abdullah, in the middle of a desert where she tells them sagaciously that they will become kings of Iraq and Jordan soon. Viewers will probably only remember her two loves and the word "kingmaker" from the movie. All things considered, even Nicole Kidman could not be said to have saved Herzog's film. I would suggest Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's 2014 full-length documentary about Bell, "Letters from Baghdad," to get a better image of this British intelligence officer in shaping the modern Middle East.
As a Middle Easterner and descendant of the Ottoman Empire, I have heard of Bell's notoriety since my childhood and have read some biographical works on her life since then. If you do not know her real life story, you would little learn from this film. I do not claim that movies are sources of knowledge, but they are expected to at least give a glimpse of reality. Bell was fairly fluent in Persian, Arabic, French and German to the extent that "The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell" was an excellent translation with the original Persian on the facing page with her introduction on the life and works of Hafez. She was a gifted scholar that had authored some of the best travel writing, cartography and ethnography books. It would not be surprising that such a talented personality would be employed by the British colonial administration. She was quick to distinguish the Arabs, Kurds, Druze, and Shiite communities in the region and her advice to trust the Sunni Arabs in shaping the modern Middle East as an expansion of the British mandate was well-taken.
It is hard to draw a conclusion from the film that Bell was the person behind all the current problems in the Middle East, who delineated the borders with her ruler and pencil. She appears in the movie as if she did not have anything to do with dividing and conquering Ottoman lands with her friendship with the Arabs and knowledge of tribes. In fact, she was not any different from other British personnel in the region in terms of their overt orientalism in justifying their own position of superiority and influence, so much so that she remarked in one of her white papers: "The Oriental is like a very old child. ... He is not practical in our acceptance of the word, any more than a child is practical, and his utility is not ours." It might not be her personal decision to incite rebellions by the "vociferous minority" in the Bilad al-Sham against the Turkish victories at the Dardanelles or the Kut al-Amara siege, as she had lost her second love at the Gallipoli campaign, but it retrospectively seems like a retaliation of the British on the Ottomans. A century ago these orientalists accused the Ottoman Empire of irrational despotism that neglected and discouraged the delegation of power and contemporary orientalists are still trying to do the same by encouraging local ethnic and sectarian divides to rebel against the state authorities. This time not under the supervision of Britain only but a whole bunch of Western powers' modern "Major Bells" are trying to map the region according to their own benefit by supporting and encouraging some of the local tribes to establish their own states, but making sure that they are weak and feeble enough to follow the rules of their Western masters. This time they are wiser in realizing their objectives of divide and conquer through proxy wars and new neo-colonialism.
* Professor of anthropology in the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Marmara University


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Leno glad 'to be home' on Tonight Show
"It's good to be home."
And with that, Jay Leno welcomed himself back to the job he held for 17 years before . . . well, before you-know-what.
"I've got to admit that I'm a little nervous," he added. "Not because it's my first night back [but] because I know Dave [Letterman] and Oprah [Winfrey] are watching."
We all know what that's about, too. (The three talk-show giants poked fun at themselves in a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl).
Originating from the same studio where the late and not-great "Jay Leno Show" originated in Burbank, Leno stepped back into a job that he felt was rightfully his and (if the tastes of most late-night viewers are to be believed and counted) so did his fans. He didn't tarry on the past, and that was understandable. After a couple of brief comments, he launched straight into the turbo-charged Leno joke machine, with about 21 quips tossed off in the usual 14- to 15-minute span. There were jokes about the Olympics - "Did you see Lindsey Vonn? Nobody comes down hill faster than she does . . . except NBC."
There were jokes about Dick Cheney - the "good news is that the former vice president is doing fine. The doctors say the sneer will be back on his face in no time." There were (of course!) jokes about Tiger Woods: Tiger Woods is returning to Buddhism "as opposed to what he was practicing before - that was Bootyism."
OK, groan. But guess what? This is what Leno does, and has done for years, for better or worse. But now the hard part, at least for him and NBC - making viewers forget about an abysmal six months.
Meanwhile, Letterman had a quick observation Monday night, too: "Thank you very much, welcome to the 'Late Show.' My name is Dave Letterman - same time, same host."


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I made 80 cupcakes for a wedding on Saturday!
Sadly i forgot my camera at home :(
The bride looked so beautiful! her dress had just a touch of red accents and as she was leaving she put on a white fur cape that was just so gorgeous! it was all very Christmasy (i don't think that's a word!)
The groom was from Japan and does not care much for cake so their actual cake they cut was an ice cream cake and the cupcakes were for the other guests.
I told the bride i am no professional, cake decorating is something i enjoy. I was flattered to just be given the opportunity.
The bride sent me a beautiful thank you card and it was my first paying order :)
Thanks to my Aunt who was also the wedding director i have some more opportunities coming up before Christmas :)


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Gretchen Mol, who starred in The Notorious Bettie Page and TV's Boardwalk Empire, has talked about her early days as an aspiring actress in an interview with Backstage.
"I remember when I took my résumé into William Morris Agency and they kind of snickered at my special skills section. Like, 'We gotta get rid of this.' The one that did get me my first summer stock job was I had 'Marilyn Monroe impersonation,' and a director said, 'Can you sing your song as Marilyn Monroe?' It was 'Unusual Way,' from Nine. I did it. I really did not have the impersonation down that well. [Laughs.] I didn't expect to be called out on it! I remember when I walked out he said, 'You aren't afraid and that's gonna really help you in this business.' Along the way, you need people to believe in you or see something in you and then tell you, so you feel you're on the right track. Those kinds of moments are so important when you're starting out. And I remember that so well, walking out thinking, Whether I get that job or not, I feel like it couldn't have gone better."
Gretchen was also (albeit inaccurately) compared to Marilyn after playing a woman involved with John F. Kennedy in An American Affair (2009.)
"Her first, semi-nude scene in An American Affair is reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe's iconic photo shoot with Bert Stern in 1962, taken shortly before her death, a year before this story begins. Monroe was also alleged to have been a lover of John F. Kennedy, and even played a similarly-named character, Claudia Caswell, in All About Eve (1950.)
Blonde, free-spirited and sexy, with a messy love life – it would be easy to assume that Catherine Caswell is a version of Monroe herself. However, the resemblance is only skin-deep. Monroe's dalliance with Kennedy has long been the subject of gossip, but the truth of the matter is still uncertain.
After further investigation into Kennedy's many extra-marital affairs, it becomes clear that Catherine Caswell is more closely modelled on another of his mistresses, Mary Pinchot Meyer …. Meyer was smart, liberal and probably one of the few women whom Kennedy treated as an intellectual equal. They met at least thirty times, and their relationship is generally considered to be one of the most significant in Kennedy's fast-paced life."


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A sharp in increase in sales has given Spreadshirt the confidence that it would break the €100 million (£84.9 million) sales mark this year after an expansion into the US market.
The ecommerce retailer raked in €93 million (£77 million) in sales in 2016, an increase of nine per cent, driven by a 22 per cent uptick of purchases via smartphones.
Spreadshirt found that almost 50 per cent of its visitors use mobile devices, boosted by a 40 per cent growth in global orders via smartphone, while in the UK and Europe this was up 73 per cent.
While smartphone transactions surged, Spreadshirt records a 14 per cent decline of orders via tablets.
READ MORE: Mobile is the strategy for sellers, designers & buyers
"In 2016, our focus was clearly on mobile optimisation and the removal of technical difficulties in order to be able to further develop the platform," Spreadshirt chief executive Philip Rooke said in a statement.
"We no longer have a mobile-first strategy – mobile IS the strategy.
"Organisationally, we have repositioned ourselves with the three business areas of personalisation, marketplaces and merchandising. The figures for the past financial year confirm this course.
"In 2017, we will break the revenue limit of €100 million by attacking the US market and expanding the areas of merchandising and marketplaces."
READ MORE: 5 Minutes With Philip Rooke, CEO, Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt lets users to create designs on fashion merchandise that can then be put up for sale on its own ecommerce marketplace or on external sites like Amazon and eBay.
Based in Leipzig, Germany, it operates in 18 markets globally – including the UK – with about 70,000 sellers placing ideas up for sale on up to 150 different products.
Last year, it sent over four million products from around two million orders to more than 150 countries.
The busiest day was December 12, when around 18,000 orders of more than 30,000 products were made.
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Joe Paterno:Legacy vs JusticePosted: November 11, 2011 Filed under: Rants | Tags: College football, Graham Spainer, Grand Jury Report, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Mike Mcquerey, Penn State Board of Trustees, Penn State Nittany lions, Penn State Riots, Penn State scandal, Tim Curley Leave a comment
Justice vs Legacy by Devin Knieriem
It's everywhere now, and if you have not heard about it then you must be living under a rock. Of course im talking about the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University that has sent shockwaves throughout the country.
I am not going to get into the semantics of what happened but what went on in short is a man named Jerry Sandusky, who was a defensive coordinator at Penn State until 1998 is accused of now 40 counts of sexual molestation with now 16 different young boys, some as young as 10 years old. Now as terrible and shocking as these may sound, there are worse things to come.
The actual scandal part involves all of the higher ups at Penn State. Sandusky was an employee at Penn State since 1969 when he was hired as a defensive line coach by Joe Paterno, the legendary head football coach at Penn State, Joe Paterno, who has been a coach at Penn State, first as an assistant then a head coach for 62 years. In 1998 Sandusky got in trouble and was investigated by State College Police for showering with a young boy when he was reported by the boys mother. Sandusky after getting caught said that he will never shower with boys again. A year later after the investigation, which was kept quiet from the general public Sandusky , who was the head coach in waiting for Paterno who was in his 70s was forced into retirement while he was still a revered figure in the school with his football accomplishments.
Even after Sanduskys retirement he was still allowed full access to the campus and the football facilities and in 2002, Mike McQueerey, a grad assistant for the football program observed Sandusky and a young boy in the shower with Sandusky raping the boy. McQueerey told his father who then told Coach Paterno, and that is where the problems started…
Are you curious about what happened after that? Well NOTHING!!! Paterno reported the incident to his athletic director, Tim Curley, who then informed Penn State president Graham Spainer and assistant director of finance Gary Schultz. You know what they all did??? They took Sanduskys locker room keys away and that's IT!!!! They never called the police, they never had McQueerey questioned, they just swept it under the rug, just like they did in 99 when they made Sandusky retire.
9 years later, after an extensive Grand Jury investigation on Sandusky, they arrest him on 40 counts of sexual assault. They also issue arrest warrants for Curley and Schultz and then the dominos begin to fall. A few days later the Penn State board of trustees, fearing public backlash fire Spanier and Paterno, who had both been at the university for a very long time, Paterno had been there for 62 years.
There was immediate backlash for the firing of Paterno. The students of Penn State rioted in the streets, chanting "JOEPA" which was his affectionate nickname and causing so much chaos that the police had to be called in with pepper spray and riot gear.
You know what I think? Every one of these people deserve to get fired, Paterno included. I love football as much as the next guy and as a college football fan I had a lot of respect to Joe Paterno, the man had 409 wins in his 40+ seasons at Penn State, most all time by a Division one head coach but this thing goes way beyond football. The truth of the matter is that Graham Spainer,Tim Curley and Joe Paterno put the prestige of their football program before the safety of these kids. Paterno put his legacy as a football coach before stopping this inhuman monster known as Jerry Sandusky, and it is sad to see. I love football but its only a sport…as Mark May of ESPN put it "Its Football, its an extracurricular activity" and that's all it it.
And to the Students and protestors at Penn State, I understand that your angry about Paterno being gone, and I do agree with you that the way they fired him over the phone like that was extremely Impersonal to a man who has done so much for that university, this is way beyond football. Don't grieve for Paterno, grieve for the young boys that had to suffer through what Sandusky did. Paterno had his time, he made a wrong choice, he chose football over justice, don't make his mistake.
And for the people that say Penn State shouldn't play their football game this weekend…don't even… They have to play this game to prove that football is only a sport…and that Joe Paterno was great but he isn't a god
Penn State has to clean house now…everyone that was involved in this cover-up needs to be fired. Curley and Schultz need to be fired for not doing what they should of done, McQueerey needs to be fired as he basically did the same thing Paterno did…he reported the incident to his superior and then dropped it..as well as anyone else that was involved in this glaring lack of foresight.
And to all of these guys involved that swept a RAPE under the rug…all of these people that shook Sanduskys hand…no matter how many times you wash it, your hands will never be clean…
If you wanna know more about the Sandusky case then read the Grand Jury Report online but fair warning it will make your stomach turn
Go Occupy yourselvesPosted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Rants | Tags: Occupy protests Leave a comment
Why occupy?
Ok so, I have been reading a lot of articles about this "occupy wall street" movement that is spreading throughout this entire country…and my one question is..what exactly are they protesting?
From what I could read, the occupy wall street protests are a response to corporate greed and economic inequality, which is understandable, because there is no doubt about the level of economic inequality in this country, however, I do disagree with the way they are going about it.
I am failing to understand how standing in lines with picket signs and blocking city streets is going to change anything from the current "norm". People don't like the fact that the poor are getting poorer while the rich get richer..but what do you expect the people that work at these big corporations to feel bad that people are poor and give everyone 1000 dollars? How exactly is this going to change anything, in fact I find these movements to be counter-productive myself.
Big corporate people are rich because they are good at their jobs, they are rich because people buy their products and thus making their net worth go up, and the protesters don't like that? That's the American dream that the founders of America told everyone about some 230 years ago. Sure it is sad that people are getting poor and there are not as many jobs as there are people to work them, but don't complain about the businesses that are just doing their job, complain to the government. Wall Street doesn't have the power to give all the unemployed a job. The government can do more than they can. Picket them.
I am not going to support a bunch of people that just make life difficult for everyone else by blocking streets and cause problems with their loud, sometimes violent protests. The only thing these protests are doing is hurting small businesses, like the occupy Eugene people that stole the Saturday Market lot from the vendors that need the cash they make there to get by..do they care? It doesn't seem so. They just want to sit there with their signs and piss people off. Do something that is actually going to accomplish something. I fail to see how these "occupy" protests will change anything at all
Oh also just to be clear, I am an unemployed college student, and im not siding with the Wall Street people either, Im just saying that you are not going to change the fact that the poor are getting poorer by standing outside city centers with picket signs
Thank you and good day!


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A huge thank you goes out to our PTO for supporting our Artist in Residence program this year at MBS!!!
We had our kick-off assembly Monday and the kids were thrilled! What a wonderful opportunity for our Osprey's to work with these "green" artists. Everyone loved working with Troy and Don during art and P.E..
- Art & Music classes are creating and playing their own "junk" play station for our performance next week.
- P.E. classes are practicing circus arts like juggling, balancing and "clowning" around!
We have a dress rehearsal during the day at CHS next Friday, April 8th, before our evening performance at 5:30 . . . I hope to see you all there!


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from James H. Smith's
History of Dutchess County
Chapter XXVI
History of the Town of Pleasant Valley
| The oldest monument
of the past in the town of Pleasant Valley is the cemetery opposite the
Methodist Church at Washington Hollow, where lies the dust of many that
were the first settlers of this town and Washington. While the settlers
lived principally upon the territory belonging to the latter, yet their
meeting house was built within a few feet of the site of the Methodist
Church, which stood for a long time, and was a witness of many scenes and
incidents of interest, both of a political and religious character.
Several aged inhabitants of the vicinity are positive they have seen a
grant from Queen Anne, to the "church of Pittsberry," of a piece of land
upon which to erect a church, bearing date 1710. Were it not that
the lands lying here were granted to the Nine Partners in 1697, we might
be satisfied as to their correctness; but such being the case and having
been given without reserve with the exception of timber for naval purposes,
we are led to think the grant was a permit, or certificate of organization
granted to the Nine Partners, for the purpose of encouraging a settlement.
However, if the date of the instrument is remembered correctly, it gives
the settlement of this locality an earlier date than has generally been
supposed. In searching for that document we were successful in finding
the church record in the hands of Rev. A. B. PRICHARD, beginning Sept.
19, 1746. From it we copy the following, verbatim: - -
The next meeting was in July, 1747, when articles of agreement were drawn up for the building of the church. it says: "The majority of the Committee met and agreed With Joseph BARTON Esqr. to build the frame of the Presbeterian meeting house and are to give him twenty-five pounds and - - " Here the record stops and nothing is recorded until "ye 19th September 1763." Without a doubt the building or frame, was erected that year, and the society's affairs passed along without any unusual occurrence.
Hotel In Ashes - December 5, 1884
Armstrong's in Pleasant Valley
Lightning Strikes Mill - September 17, 1915
Bowman's Grist Mill
Pleasant Valley?
(How Pleasant Valley got its Name and the History of A Real Mill Town)
Return to Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., ALHN
Return to Dutchess Co., ALHN
Transcribed by GINNY BUECHELE
Ginny's Home
Some Graphics by Vikimouse


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At tnAchieves, we know that your senior year of high school is exciting, nerve-wracking, and sometimes a bit confusing. This may be the first time in your life that people expect you to have answers to questions you've just started considering. If you feel overwhelmed with questions like "What do you want to do when you graduate?", "Where do you want to go to college?", "Do you know what you want to major in?" you are not alone. In fact, the mini panic attacks and tears that might be triggered by these questions are normal.
In this blog, tnAchieves wants to help you tackle the first and most important question you'll have to answer your senior year: "Why should you go to college?" While you might have your own personal answers to this question, here are some more reasons to consider furthering your education.
College graduates have higher paying jobs
According to a study by Pew Research Center, in 2012 college graduates with bachelor's degrees were making about $45,500 a year while working full-time jobs. Full-time workers with associate's degrees were making about $30,000 a year during this time, and people with only high school degrees were making $28,000 a year. The salary difference between a high school graduate and a college graduate resulted in a pay gap as high as $17,500.
College graduates get the job, and keep the job
Not only do most jobs today require prospective hires to have a college degree, but the Washington Post reported that people with college degrees have lower unemployment rates. College grads are also more likely to keep their job when the economy faces a recession or decline in job opportunities.
College graduates enjoy their jobs more
In 2013, over half of people with bachelor's degrees told Pew Research Center that they were "very satisfied" with their job, and almost 40 percent of people with associate degrees said they felt the same way about their employment. High school graduates were almost tied for job satisfaction with people who had associates degrees; however, more people with associate's degrees said they felt confident in their education in preparing them for their career. Over 80 percent of the survey participants Pew spoke to with bachelor's degrees and 73 percent with associates degrees said they had a career, or career-track job.
College pays off
Not only do college graduates tend to make more money, maintain a stable career, and have more satisfaction in their job or career, but Pew found that 62 percent of millennials said that college has paid off in their lives and 26 percent of college students believe their degree will pay off in the future.
Ultimately, the decision to further your education past high school is yours. As you think about your options for after high school this year, remember to consider some of the information tnAchieves has provided in this blog. Whatever path you choose, just make sure it is the right one for you!


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"Yep Yep Yep Yep, EE-Bay, EE-Bay…"
More often than not, Finn wakes up happily chattering in his room. It can be fun to listen for a couple of minutes via the baby monitor, trying to figure out what he's saying.
He really seemed animated the other day, so I poked my head in and asked, "What's Finny talkin' about?" Without missing a beat he replied, "Yep yep yep yep, happy happy boing boing, eBay, eBay, eBay!!" Why yes, son, we're all very happy that Mom has a job, but--Ah! I realized he was referring to this bit from Sesame Street, one of our near-daily favorites. Here's a later re-enactment (click the little arrow to listen):
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Autumn is Calling {Margaret Howell Fall/Winter 2011 Collection}
18/08/2011 § 2 Comments
Can we talk about this? Can. We. Talk?
Margaret Howell is conspiring yet again to separate me from all of my money, as you can obviously see. I am completely in love with this collection and its campaign featuring Dree Hemingway — so much so that it's hard for me to identify what I like most. The hats, belts and scarves…the volume of the skirts…the buttoned-up boyish refinery with a splash of the deshabille. It is as if Margaret Howell opened my brain and extracted a wish list that I didn't even know was there.
Click the images for a closer look (at what my fall will be looking like).
All images via RDJ.
§ 2 Responses to Autumn is Calling {Margaret Howell Fall/Winter 2011 Collection}
Clean lines, basics with a twist, lovely aesthetic. I agree with Anne, looks like some of the French lines I so obsess over. Keep me posted on what you acquire.