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Zaha Hadid for Caspita diamond pave Skein rings.
Zaha Hadid threw a party at her East London gallery on Thursday night to celebrate her collaboration with Swiss jewelry brand Caspita.
Hadid and Caspita designer Arlène Bonnant have collaborated on "Skein," a limited edition ring and bracelet which come in variations of white, yellow, black and rose gold, some inlaid with pavé diamonds. Cellular structures found in nature inspired the mesh-like designs.
The Pritzker prize winner is no stranger to the fashion world, since She's designed runways for Chanel, shoes for Lacoste, and was even named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine in 2012.
One of her latest foray into fashion—designing shoes in collaboration with Rem D. Koolhaas's brand United Nude— brings her architectural style to the feet of ladies willing to shell out $2000 USD for a pair of daring, cantilevered heels.
Arlène Bonnant and Zaha Hadid

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Create A Forum Installed
I am almost finished with the second pass-through on level 5a. I have no idea how long it is going to take to complete level five. I will tell you that I get benefits every single session I do. Immediately after the session I feel good and more aware. Sometimes a startling permanent case change occurs. I reflect on what sort of compulsive games play condition I was in, bordering on insanity when I started around November of last year and the difference is dramatic.


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I think there is a big difference between online activism and slacktivism, although people often use the terms synonymously. Just like I think there is a difference between cyberbullying and online harassment.
We all have the friends on social media who are slacktivists. We may have been tempted to or already have stopped following them as they share, like, and flood your network with controversial issues, but never seem to really do anything about it. Yet they feel like they are doing their part to bring about real social change and feel good about it.
Slacktivism in this essence frustrates me as it gives people who are actually fighting to provoke change a harder time to make a difference. I also wonder if the people who share these stories actually take the time to read them and make critical decisions on them or just share them because the title, photo and caption are captivating.
Slacktivists are criticized for people who just want the image of a change-maker, but aren't actually doing anything to help. For example, they will post, share, and comment about issues, but it stops there. They won't make a donation, volunteer, or organize a rally because they feel they have already done their part.
Just talking about social justice issues on social media isn't going to drive social change and change the world, but it may be the reason something catches fire, cause others to do more and begin a social movement, it might move people from being passive viewers to active witnesses who see something and do something, or even get the conversation going. In using our voices on social media we can make the actions of a few active protesters visible to millions of people, all over the world. Although we might not have the capability or resources to be on the ground with the protesters fighting for change, we are able to use our voice to shed light on social justice issues.
Online activism is more than just sharing social justice issues through 140 characters, comments, and a clever hashtag. Social media is just another outlet to use our voice and speak up about these causes. It helps to generate empathy around the issue and hopefully breaks the stigma of talking about it. However the activism shouldn't stop there. You should strive to be a change maker, conversation starter, and active participant in offline spaces as well.
But maybe in the end the very essence of this post makes me a slacktivist? Or maybe, although it may be small, I am using my voice to start critical conversations and bring awareness?


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Return to Silent Hill: Intro to my blog
This is me when I was staying up late, playing Silent Hill. This is one of the best games ever created that tells a very compelling story surrounding the characters in game and your character- I believe this game to be a test to the human psyche of the player. And OH, does this affect me!
Welcome to my blog!
I am here to share some of my works both in computer graphics and traditional illustration of pencil, paper, and mix-media. I am not that big in words as I was taught that the illustration/ art alone is in itself a message and best viewed and discussed alone per viewers thoughts, but I will do my best to put snippets of my thoughts when I was doing them to give you an insight on why they were made. 😀
Please enjoy!


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Like the Bad Fairy trumped by the hero of the tale, I left my last blog (little more than a week ago, I'm deliriously proud to say) with the promise you haven't heard the last of me! – and indeed here I am again with some more weighty and insightful – well, insights: on the matter of our glorious Referendum, that is.
While atavisms, as I was explaining last time round, are important to me – in the same sort of way that flu, or VAT, are important – I'm not sure that the referendum is. This has something to do with my age, and I think I should state here and now that if lots of people under the age of forty want to tell me which way I should vote, I shall gladly do a tally of the various goadings I've had when September comes and vote as the majority dictates. I wouldn't like the next generation to be thinking that whichever mess they're left with can be ascribed to the bad decisions made by people who cast a vote whose consequences they would never have to live with.
At the moment I'm disinclined to vote yes. Why? Well it's quite nice to have all the nob-ends doing their destructive thing in London, which is nice and far away in comparison with Edinburgh, which I visited last Tuesday and got back in time for tea; so that's a bit too close for comfort. There's nothing worse than nob-ends who speak the same language as you (and who you'd therefore expect to know better). Plus, when I ask myself the question: who, historically, has mainly screwed over the Scots? the answer is unequivocally: the Scots.
On the other hand, the Scottish psyche does need a hefty boot up the rear, and perhaps being (supposedly) in charge of our own affairs would encourage us as a nation to quit moaning and get on with it. So that would be a yes-vote.
On the other hand again (I'm thinking I might have as many hands as Durga the warrior – though maybe even ten isn't enough), I do worry that taking Scotland out of the political map of Britain would do severe damage to the cause of socialist decency in England – it would be tantamount to a kick in the teeth for many, particularly in the north and west; and, ever inclined to be right-ward leaning, England could well lurch towards some form of National Socialism, which in the long run would probably be bad for Scotland, let alone England and Wales. And here I would mutter, never forget the atavisms: nations which once used to go to war could probably grub up their roots and do it again. So I suppose that would be a no-vote.
I also half-suspect that a Yes vote would be precisely what the Tories are after, and anything the post-Thatcher breed of Tories want is probably what I wouldn't under any circumstances like to see.
All that said, I think we're looking at the entire question upside-down. It isn't really independence for Scotland we should be debating, but independence for London. London has aspirations as an international super-state, and I say let it have what it wants. Vote independence for London and London can continue to be sublimely parochial while the rest of Britain could get down to the job of forming a real nation, presumably along federal lines. That's what I'd vote for, if I was a Londoner, and even if I wasn't (which I'm not).
I believe I never pointed out that finally, finally, after many months, I got some half-reasonable recording of my "vowel-stories" put up on the audio page. Having devoted so much, frequently despairing, energy to this project I completely overlooked the possibility of producing these stories as written works, so I've got my dear Marilyn on the job there trying to drum up interest among the publishing community. I'm not quite sure I quite like the sound of "the adventures of Big Ape and his friends in the jungle" though, which seems to be the kind of direction she's suggesting. I do have about another ten of these stories apart from the ones I've posted and – unable to stop myself – am starting to see that it would indeed be possible to put together a sort of coherent collection (coherent is a relative term). I'm sure if there were more than one publishing house in Scotland such awful dilemmas wouldn't occur: in fact everything would be hunkydorie ever after, there'd be publishers falling over themselves to bring out National masterpieces, the Prince across the water would return, and we'd all nourish ourselves on shortbread.
Anyway, I'm now getting Ellie to tell me back the vowel-stories, which she does with great gusto – and it's quite enlightening for me to be able to see which sections she reproduces word-for-word, presumably meaning that these were particularly felicitously constructed bits, from her point of view.
I'm sorry, the above should read "two publishing houses". There is of course Ben and Stickman Press as well, and can I just remind everyone that The Story of Mouse is out there on the shelves, which was why I was in Edinburgh last week looking out small independent bookshops, and actually finding some! Keen on giving Mouse a whirl, what's more.
Rachel has got herself ensconced in a Studio – half an hour's drive away, and maybe she's right and that's the only way to do it, and I gaze greenly after her as she disappears off in her black diesel-cloud, then turn bleakly to view my own little cubby-hole (which, no, somehow I've never used this winter): the roof-beams are definitely bowing under the turf-roof, and there must be a seam in the membrane which, naturally, is letting in water – not a lot, but enough to subtly rot the boards in time; so, it'll need a centre-post to support it, and that's all going to take time, and besides I'm getting quite used to dodging around snatching the odd hour's quietness amongst Maddy's assaults from Alkaline Trio and Ellie's reiterations of BBC's Merlin series and audio versions of Narnia. As I've just added some more radiators to our heating system, the number of slightly warmer places to malinger in has grown (I still haven't given up on the toilet as a Quiet Place, of course, even though it's wholly radiator-free and indeed, particularly when a brisk westerly is blowing, arouses in me some interesting speculations about the origin of the surname Winterbottom). Annie is distinctly displeased at the amount of heat which her back-of-couch radiator now has to share with other, less deserving, parts of the property. I keep thinking there must be some kind of moral here for the Referendum issue – though I'm not sure which of us would come out unmasked as the villainous Tory.


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By Max Bibeau | United States
The American Dream, as outlined by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, has long been the shining beacon of hope for citizens and foreigners alike, offering a chance to be successful on an even playing field. Unfortunately, that beacon has been dimming in recent decades, leading the World Economic Forum to bluntly mourn that the American Dream is broken.
As class mobility continues to fall and the economic gap between rich and poor only seems to expand, many Americans are starting to give up hope in American capitalism. This has led to mass calls for change among the general populace, with everyone desperately looking for solutions. Some, such as Vermont Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, propose that it is time to look towards "democratic socialism" in the United States. Others, such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, seem to be denying the problem completely, still claiming that "the circumstances of your birth do not determine the outcome of your life."
As much as we might wish for Paul Ryan's statement to be true, the facts stand against him. Since we are in grave need of a solution, and one does not appear to be coming anytime soon, we must ask how America can improve competition in modern capitalism. Luckily, it is not too late for capitalism to be saved and for America to recover, but the country needs to act fast. While there are many potential solutions, there are three primary ones which will specifically target major problems in the US economy. In order to address current problems in the economy, the United States should target inefficiencies in regulatory organizations like the FDA, foster blockchain development around the country, and crack down on state preference policies.
FDA Inefficiency
The problem of skyrocketing drug prices was first brought to the forefront of American politics in 2015 when the infamous Martin Shkreli increased prices on a lifesaving drug by over 4000%, from $18 a pill to $750 a pill, making the cost of treatment virtually impossible to cover. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case, as the Center for American Progress describes how American pharmaceutical prices have "continued to skyrocket" in recent years, with manufacturers of Medicare-covered drugs raising prices 12% per year on average. Another study shockingly found that over the past 14 months, 20 different prescription drugs had their prices increased by 200% or more.
Price increases, especially of these unprecedented proportions, are a clear indicator of a lack of competition within the pharmaceutical industry, as confirmed by a Government Accountability Office study. To counteract price increases, the United States must directly tackle the sources of the problem: inefficiency and over-regulation, which leads to monopolistic markets. All of the prescription drugs that saw drastic price increases have one thing in common: they have little to no competition making the same substances. This is because of how unreasonably difficult and expensive it is to get a new drug approved for manufacturing by the FDA.
The Journal of Health quantifies just how expensive the process can be, totaling it at over $1.395 billion in out-of-pocket costs. That number skyrockets up to $2.870 billion when post-approval research and development costs are factored in. These astronomically high development costs make it extremely difficult for anybody looking to create a new drug to even get their business off the ground. High startup costs are one of the top reasons that new companies and drugs never find success, as it's virtually impossible for new companies, even with perfect scientific viability, to raise nearly $3 billion in investments just to allow their drug to be widely sold.
Because of complex regulations and red tape encircling the pharmaceutical industry, it's no surprise that the market is nearly devoid of competition. By removing excessive regulation on the industry and streamlining the FDA, new drugs could be approved faster and cheaper. This would dramatically lower startup costs for new businesses trying to develop drugs and would promote increased competition throughout the entire industry, making life-saving substances much more affordable.
Blockchain Growth and Development
The blockchain, developed and made popular by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, is currently a buzzword in American Congress. Politicians are scrambling to implement the budding technology into their cities and states, and have even formed the Congressional Blockchain Caucus to craft policy surrounding it. Luckily, the potential benefits of the blockchain, especially when it comes to increasing competition, cannot be overstated. To quickly summarize a complex technology, the blockchain is a completely digital, decentralized ledger of information, constantly being confirmed and updated by computers around the world. This has plenty of business applications.
Specifically, since the National Bureau of Economic Research contends that the blockchain removes almost all need for trust in a transaction, small businesses will no longer have to compete with larger businesses when it comes to reputability. Trust, especially when it comes to internet retail, is one of the largest problems that businesses face, preventing up to 30% of internet users from utilizing online retail at all.
However, as the blockchain expands and becomes more widely used, retailers, especially small, newer businesses, will be granted the same level of trust as established companies. The Pew Research Center has found that many consumers soon "expect to see improved technology emerge that will allow people to have confidence in the organizations and individuals with whom they interact online," specifically through the blockchain. Once the blockchain and cryptocurrency have become mainstream, the issue of trust will be eliminated from the equation, promoting widespread competition in online retail by allowing small retailers with no reputation to provide legitimate competition to retail giants.
While many are afraid to buy from anywhere other than Amazon due to the threat of scams, the blockchain will almost completely mitigate that problem, giving startups a chance, and opening up the online retail industry to everyone. To promote this, the government should focus on effectively regulating and investing in blockchain companies. These regulations would allow them to thrive and innovate in the near future, while still protecting the safety of consumers.
Ending State Preference Policies
While it is commonly agreed upon by economists that international protectionism damages all parties involved, what is criminally under-discussed when it comes to increasing domestic competition is state-by-state protectionism, more commonly known as preference policies. These policies are outlined by the Mercatus Center, which describes that preference policies, often enacted by state or local governments, give a significant advantage to companies residing in-state when bidding on government projects.
When a state government wishes to have a project completed, whether it be building military bases or providing a government building with computers, they allow companies to bid on the project. In theory, this practice would reduce costs as much as possible, as competition drives prices lower. Unfortunately, as the Mercatus Center furthers, even if an out-of-state company bids with a significantly cheaper offer, the more expensive in-state company will still almost always get the job. Aside from drastically raising the costs of government projects on taxpayers, in-state preference policies are almost identical to international protectionist policies, and have almost identical impacts, especially when it comes to decreasing competition.
Essentially, these programs enable companies to raise their prices due to the lack of competition from other states. Similar to international protectionism, these policies are put in place with the goal of stimulating domestic growth. However, this growth often comes at the cost of cheap prices and quality services. While it may appear that this would only discourage competition when it comes to government services, that is not quite true. Because most of these state and local policies are very strict, they only give preference to companies that have a state/local business license, pay all state/local taxes, and hire only state/local employees.
Since these policies are so rigid, and only apply to exclusively state or local businesses, it often discourages companies, especially those which rely on government business to remain profitable, from expanding outside of state borders, given that they know this will likely cost them their government business. This has much more broad impacts, affecting competition around the entire nation.
An Increase in Market Freedom
The United States, viewed as a pioneer of capitalism around the world, has found itself entrapped by red tape and ineffective policies, all of which are hindering one of the key benefits of capitalism: competition. However, while the United States does have some dire problems, they can be addressed.
First, the country needs to crack down on inefficient and ineffective regulations, specifically in the pharmaceutical industry. Second, the US should encourage and foster blockchain development by establishing fair regulations that don't stifle the technology. Finally, the unfair problem of in-state preference policies must be addressed. While hope may be in short supply for capitalists in the United States, some common sense changes to economic policy would allow the beacon of the American Dream to shine brightly once again.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Absolutely Unacceptable Regrets
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WOW! That is worth doing! You are a marvel in pointing out the meaningful things of life!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a happy day with no regrets.
What a great idea! I'll be doing this.ReplyDelete
interesting. mmmm today is my birthday and this seems like a REALLY good thing to do. Kind of a 'life check up'ReplyDelete
great project and exercise! i love how you have such insightful posts.ReplyDelete
This is probably a good idea to do every few years, starting at a young age.:)ReplyDelete
I have to try this. Although, since I lost my brother to cancer last year I'm much more aware of the brief lives we have.ReplyDelete
This is my first visit to your blog and I loved the story behind your blog. You have beautiful hair!
I thought I replied to this post, but apparently I just imagined that.ReplyDelete
I e-mailed this post to myself and am doing it now... Thank you. I especially appreciated your personal reflections of this project.


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For the last few years social media has been a part of most people's everyday lives. Yet some men haven't quite been able to navigate some of the pit falls of social media as it relates to the women in their lives. Whether the relationship is purely sexual, a dating situation or a committed relationship, social media brings with it its own set of problems between men and women. When a man is in attendance at an event where his "lady friend" is also present or could walk in unnoticed to observe his behavior, he has a different set of social rules. That man knows he has to do things a certain way to prevent drama at the event and/or unwanted conversations after the event. Some of the actions are out of respect and others are to prevent flare-ups of insecurity. Regardless of why, following those rules isn't representative of a man's normal social behavior. You have to do the same thing when it comes to social media to prevent the same problems.
After polling men with social media accounts, I came up with a list of the most common complaints. If you DGAF…STOP READING HERE. If you don't want to hear these complaints, then be proactive.
COMPLAINT: Why you tell HER good morning? You don't even tell me good morning anymore…
HER VIEW: You must have an interest in her or you wouldn't go out of your way to do it.
PRO-ACTION: When you log on, do a general greeting. Do NOT single out any one of the opposite sex.
COMPLAINT: Isn't that your Ex? Why are y'all communicating? How would you like it if I communicated with my Ex?
HER VIEW: You are creating opportunity to backtrack and reunite. By the way, anybody you've been with before her, is going to be labeled as an Ex.
PRO-ACTION: Limit public communication with anyone SHE would qualify as an Ex. That's what DMs and private messages are for, privacy. ALWAYS delete them after the conversation.
COMPLAINT: You can tweet/update your status but you can't text/call me back?
HER VIEW: She understands if you are busy and can't get right back to her but she expects that when you are no longer busy, your first order of business is to text/call her back. She will not view tweeting/updating your status as more important than her.
PRO-ACTION: I know you prefer your app but the easiest fix here is to tweet/update your status from the web as often as possible. Doing so lends credit to the excuse that you weren't by your phone or didn't know she'd sent a text/called. Think of it as the online version of "I left my phone in the car".
COMPLAINT: Why you stopped tweeting/don't tweet me (like my status or comment on my posts)? You do it for other women all the time. You don't want people to know we're together?
HER VIEW: You're down playing your association with her to leave the door open for other women to approach you or consider your approach.
PRO-ACTION: Be social with her, just as you are with others. It doesn't have to be often nor telling of what kind of relationship you have. It's just a form of inclusion that could spare a break in your peace of mind. Never forget women notice changes in patterns. If you tweeted your ass off to get her attention then stop when you get her, it is noticed. Feel free to level off the tweeting but don't stop tweeting her.
COMPLAINT: It's so disrespectful to be tweeting/commenting back and forth on posts late at night.
HER VIEW: She assumes you have sex on your mind during that hour and all communication with the opposite sex will be viewed as a form of flirting.
PRO-ACTION: Either only DM/ private message women during that time or go play Call of Duty something. They don't call it #TwitterAfterDark for nothing!
COMPLAINT: Why you going back and forth with that one female? You like her or something?
HER VIEW: Once again long conversations denote interest. She won't see it as interest in the topic, only as interest in the female.
PRO-ACTION: Unless it is a group discussion, don't single out other females to have public, lengthy conversations. Take that to DM/private message.
COMPLAINT: What woman were you talking about when you tweeted #OOMF? What's that all about?
HER VIEW: You're having sex with #OOYF. #ThatIsAll
PRO-ACTION: Stay away from the #OOMF and the #her tweets period. Even if you are talking about her sometimes, she'll still be obsessed with trying to figure out if and how many other women could fit the possibility. That may lead to placing certain women on their radar, you don't need those problems.
COMPLAINT: Are you talking about me in your tweet/post? It really hurt my feelings because it could apply to me.
HER VIEW: Is that how you really feel about me?
PRO-ACTION: Don't tweet/post anything similar to topics of past or current arguments or state of conditions with her. When a topic is brought up or you come up with one randomly, if you think she'll take it wrong, just don't go there.
Any of that seem like too much trouble to go through; too much consideration to show? Fine, don't be proactive BUT remember this:
This is especially so with women. When a woman does not feel special, it ignites something in her. Social Networking is just the computer version of a paper trail. It can be worse than leaving your little black book around or your cell phone with unlocked text messages and picture albums. Treat the situation as though any woman you are dealing with has read ALL of your tweets/posts to back before she knew you and/or back to your first tweet. Approach it as though she's seen every picture in your Facebook albums and in every picture media site associated with your Twitter account: Frog, TwitPic, Lockerz….all of 'em. She will use all of this intel to make sure that everything is as it should be. Women are going to try their best to stand out from the crowd. If they are special, you will allow them to stand out. If they are not special, you will suppress every attempt they make. Women know this, therefore they are going to pee all around you, your tweets, your Facebook posts, your MySpace status, etc… to try and claim or keep territory. Use that knowledge and dull your public interactions to make NO one feel special or stand out if you are living the single life or to ONLY make her feel publicly special and stand out if you are in that type of relationship.
Don't address it and you will hear all about it…BLAH, BLAH, Whine, Whine….


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The Twenty-NIneth Season of International Concerts at Vinehall continues to offer music-lovers the opportunity to experience chamber music of the highest quality without the need to go to London! As usual, we have a tremendous mix of older established musicians and ensembles along with some younger and new faces; who like so many who have performed here, will go on to become distinguished artists of the future. We welcome music lovers from Kent, Sussex and beyond to the Chaplin Theatre, which is a 240 seat purpose-built venue with excellent acoustics, visibility and also benefits from a superb Bosendorfer piano.
Saturday 7th October 7.30pm – LA SERENISSIMA
"To become another Four Seasons recommendation takes something special, and this absolutely is". Editors Choice, Gramophone Magazine
Saturday 11 November 7.30pm – DORIC STRING QUARTET: Mendelssohn, Haydn, Brahms "This is a superb ensemble, intelligent, technically brilliant and wonderfully balanced." The Times 2016
Saturday 2 December 7.30pm – ISSERLIS (Cello) and VARJON (Piano): Schumann, Schubert, and Chopin
Sunday 4 February 3pm – EMMA JOHNSON (Clarinet), FINGHIN COLLINS (Piano) and MAXIM RYSANOV (Viola): Schumann, Weber, Britten, Mozart
"Britain's favourite clarinettist" (The Times)
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Saturday 5 May 7.30pm – ENDYMION: Mozart, Dvorak and Dohnanyi
Saturday 9 June 7.30pm – VOCES8: Choral dances
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Untrieds Day 1: Essie - School Of Hard Rocks
Remember that day where I said I would totally finish that 30 days of polish challenge and blah blah blah... Obviously I failed... AGAIN! I feel like the weak one on here :P
Anyhow! I just found out that somebody started the 30 days of untrieds starting November 1st. I think I'm allowed to be in it :P I was actually getting some polishes together before I knew about this, but I'm far away from 30 polishes... But who says I'm not buying new stuff?
This is my first Essie! :) I got it from Nory and I applied it for the first time yesterday. And Oh-Em-Gee! I LOVED the application. Not ever I had a nail polish apply like this, maybe I have but I don't remember.
One coat was enough. Nothing more was needed. The color is lovely and I can't wait to get more Essie's. Not that every polish from a brand will be so amazing, but I'm just still flying high here.
So yeah, a little Fairy Dust felt on my nails and it was looking lovely :)
I have no idea yet if I'm actually 'allowed' in this challenge thing, because I only spoke to one of the girls in this challenge who said it was okay. So if this post disappears, I wasn't allowed to be in it :P
The other girls that are in the Untrieds month:
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This concoction sports potatoes of the rainbow variety that I found at the co-op today. Included are Cranberry Reds, Blue Potatoes, New Reds and a Garnet Yam. I boiled them, let them cool, slipped the skins of, smashed them with a fork and infused the dish with Indian spices toasted in peanut oil with a simmer of tomato. Very simple and over-the-top yummy!
- 3 – 4 pound potatoes
- 3 fresh tomatoes, pureed
- 3/4 cup peanut oil
- 1 Tbs. brown mustard seed
- 1 Tbs. cumin seed
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. fennel seed
- 2 Tbs. curry powder ( I used Pensey's Balti)
- 1 tsp. hot pepper flakes
After the potatoes are boiled and skins removed, smash them with a ricer or fork. I like my potatoes a little chunky.
Heat the oil in a pan and add all the spices. When the mustard seeds start to pop, add the tomatoes and cook for a minute or two.
Mix the oil gently into the potato mixture and pour into a baking dish.
Note: I kept the sweet potato out of the other potato mixture. I added a little salt to the sweet potato and put it in a well in the middle of the colored potatoes.
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Paulette, our Canadian friend and classmate from the kominkan (local community center where free language classes are held etc.), says that other foreigners living here have grown jaded and angry over the years. She says it's mainly because people here lack a sense of humor, but I beg to differ. She's been a kindergarten teacher here for 14 years now, so I guess she knows what she's talking about, yet not everyone here acts the same. Any country has different kinds of people, so there's really no difference where you are. Some of the people I work with are friendly and accomodating while others are sarcastic and downright condescending. The drivers especially like to joke around and laugh the loudest so I can't say that they don't have a sense of humor. It's just the cultural difference that gets in the way of seeing them for who they really are.
* On the language
Speaking of the drivers I work with, they're the ones who use Hiroshima ben (the local dialect here) the most. There are many times that the Nihongo I took up during and after college goes out the window as soon as they start speaking. That's partially why Lyn and I started taking free language classes at the kominkan like I mentioned earlier. It gets frustrating sometimes when I can't express the more complex thoughts and emotions I want to convey, but it'll get better the longer I stay I suppose. In the past couple of months we've been corrected by our team leader Yamasaki san on how to properly use the language. For instance, a bunch of us saw some oddly brown colored drops of liquid on the floor as we were clocking out for the day. As a joke, I told Koyanagi san that it was "kuso", the word for "shit". She laughed at me the way an adult would at a child that unknowlingly uttered an expletive, and not fully aware of its context or usage. My unwittingly misplaced attempt at humor quickly reached Yamasaki san, who half-scolded me. "Kouhi dake" (it's only coffee), he said in a partially amused/shocked tone. This was followed by laughter from Iwano san, the senta chou (center chief) who found the whole thing funny being that I was a gaijin who didn't yet realize that the word was rude. There was another time when Yamasaki san advised us to refer to a woman as jyosei rather than onna (which literally means "female"), which Lyn and I thought was acceptable. You could say onna no hito (female person), but plain onna won't do. Strangely enough, using the term otoko (male, without the hito suffix) is perfectly fine.
* Seasons
snow-capped mountains outside our window
Back home, the weather only ranges from typhoon cold to suffocating heat coupled with insane humidity. Obviously, it's quite new for me to deal with living through four different seasons in a year. We arrived here during aki (autumn), so there were many times when we biked outside without having to put on a jacket. Since it started snowing last December 31st however, three layers of clothing plus a jacket and your choice of headwear is a prequisite when going out. So far, it only snowed for a few days last month (and hasn't since) but recently the average temperature at night is a few degrees shy of zero, if not below. We're still waiting for the peak of winter, which is February when it gets the coldest. Snow is pretty to look at when indoors, but it quickly loses its charm when the reality of having to deal with it sinks in.
* Foodblogging
Just for kicks, I've decided to put up some pics of the stuff I've eaten thoughout the duration of our stay here:
Soba served with tako (octopus) balls. The tako balls are mainly a wheat-like substance with a chunk of octopus in the center. The noodles all came in a ready-to-eat bundle (got it on sale for about 120 JPY/45 PHP for two packs) which includes the pink kamaboko (fishcake) and the actual soup itself.
Fried cookies made from wheat sprinkled with sugar. Our Chinese co-workers who live right next to our room cooked this for us. A tasty snack I sneak into work in a little ziploc bag when I get the munchies.
Noche Buena for Christmas Eve: pasta, fried chicken, macaroni salad, cake and red wine.
Tamagocchi-themed fruit chews (which look like gum) that my co-workers gave me.
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While some books are requested for review, others arrive on their own. Armageddon is one of the latter, and it sat in our in-box for months before the growing election season piqued our curiosity. Inside, writer Eileen McGann speaks for Dick Morris who is a well-known political commentator and former Clinton advisor. He knew the Clintons well, until his unceremonious dismissal after being discovered that he let a prostitute overhear a phone conversation with the President Bill Clinton. It suffices to say that no one in this book is an angel. This is not a debate about Clinton in the classical sense, and there is no rebuttal from the Clinton point of view.
The book begins by outlining twelve reasons why Mrs. Clinton should not be president, ranging from her legendary temper to her right-up-to-the-chalk-line behavior with the law. Most of this information has circulated during the election year. He paints the picture of a candidate who is virtually unable to address controversy in a straight-line manner and therefore must constantly reformulate her truths in order to survive.
Beyond the general deceits that we anticipate from any politician—only the frequency and severity varies—Morris points out two troubling factors. First, since leaving her husband's oval office, Clinton has become much more hawkish on war. During her period as Secretary of State, the Middle East destabilized, an American embassy was attacked under suspicious circumstances, and a general mood of international chaos has risen with more encouragement than mitigation. Second, Clinton is not charismatic like her husband. Nor is she a creative thinker. This brings up perhaps the only new insight in the book. According to Morris, Clinton relies heavily upon idea men who Morris calls gurus. Morris identifies himself as one such guru from 1995 to 1996. He claims that she becomes transfixed by her gurus, following their advice word for word, instead of incorporating it into her own ideas like Kennedy or Reagan. This behavior has even led at times to campaign staff rebellions, but more importantly, it poses the question: Who will be Clinton's guru as President? In other words, who will be influencing her direction of the country?
In 1787 as Dr. James McHenry of Maryland exited the last day of the Constitutional Convention, he stopped one of America's true originals and freethinkers, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, to pose a simple question, "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it." Today our government behaves more like a bananas republic than that which is stewarded by its people. This transformation did not happen overnight, and we are all to blame for tolerating its creeping decline and the men and women who populate its halls. Morris and McGann could have posed the most important question: Which candidate can halt or even reverse our slippery road to perdition? And while we are at that task, if we are of the mind, it would be almost impossible not to raise the level of civil discourse given its current residence in the gutter.
No candidate is perfect or the best fit for the job, while some are better suited for the times. A case could easily be made that Clinton would deliver more of the expected in government, while Trump is a product of the times, the wildcard that occasionally appears in history. Not every wildcard is successful. In fact most are not. They are more influential than ultimate leaders. Ironically, Bill Clinton was one such wildcard who surprisingly won the presidency in 1992. Today, Morris presents the case that Hillary Clinton would further current causes, while deepening existing flaws in government, such as its propensity for questionable military action and the reckless course of the national debt. Morris is not necessarily interested in Trump. He wants to defeat Mrs. Clinton. One also has to temper his commentary with the fact that he has been forced to watch the Clintons from the outside for two decades.
Armageddon borders on the sensational, and its veering into Chelsea Clinton's dealings should have been avoided. It would've been effective to see Trump vs. Clinton, point for point, making it the easiest for people to see the contrast and decide on their own. Still, the book does not claim to be a fair and balanced presentation—a phrase employed often by Morris' former employers at Fox News. The book is of two parts: first, Morris' personal assessment of Hillary Clinton, which should be sprinkled liberally with salt, and second, his strategy for exposing the weaknesses in her campaign rhetoric. Mostly, it's a passionate plea to take a look at the woman behind the campaign slogans.


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ok...it is official...I have turned 38 today with a mustache...you can see how awesome it makes me look when carving a sweet turn in the snow...a smarmy sweet ski swoosh...Today is my birthday and I went skiing this morning and it was fantastic!! I woke up to awesome presents from my amazing wife and slept well from a great night prior of eating and celebrating...so life is just getting sweeter!!!!
so here is to birthdays!!!
Love and Understanding.


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Destin & 30A Condo Market Update
August 2020 -- The condo market continues to deliver good news to condo owners with respect to their condos appreciation and consumer�s demand for coastal real estate. While prices have risen, buyers continue to see value. The charts below show a comparison of condo sales and prices each of the 10 years. Using the same month-to-month time period for each year presents an 'apples to apples' that reveals the very strong upward trend within the condo market over the past decade.
Destin & 30A Condo Sale Price
The price of Destin & 30A condos continue to trend upward. The average price for a Destin condo has increased 22% from FY 2012-2017. Looking at 2018 at mid-year, it is almost a certainty 2018 will add another year to the long string of average price increases.
Destin & 30A Condos Sales By The Numbers
Number of Destin condo sales this year continue the upward trend. Rising prices have not yet dampened the number of sales. The number of Destin & 30A condos sold has more than doubled since 2009.
What is fueling condo sales? This is what condo buyers say:
Waiting to purchase does not seem productive as sustainable condo price growth is underway.
Shrinking condo inventory continues and and unit choices are diminishing.
Popularity of the area is projected to continue.
While no one knows the future, statistical indicators show the strength of our local market and infers continued demand.
Destin & 30A Condo Inventory At Record Low
Dwindling inventory has been the trend in the Destin and 30-A coastal market. Significantly more buyers than sellers combined with few new condo startups continue to rapidly diminish inventory. Buyers looking to purchase are faced with fewer choices while prices continue to creep upward. THis trend is postured to continue.
The peak inventory occurred July 2006 when Destin & 30A condos for sale reached its record high of 5,047 condos. What an amazing difference between then and now.


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Life Goes On (Music Video)
Here is a music video I directed for Mr. Randy Wilson, an up and coming R&B vocalist, who's been compared to greats, Luthor Vandross and Teddy Pendergrass.
Life Goes On (music video)
Artist – Randy Wilson
Producer – Paul Mack
Directed by – Aaron Leong, Mike Sato
Director of Photography – Ian Webb
Grip – Fernando Fernandez
Grip – Justin Martinez
Make-Up – Patricia Swamy
BTS – Johnny Yang
BTS – Jordan Sato
Girlfriend – Rachelle Cain
Mistress – Amber Lee
Body Guard – Paul McGee
BIG HUGE thanks to Ted and Connie Warner!!!
Another BIG HUGE thanks to the Blush Ultra Lounge in Sacramento!!!!! Thanks Chris!!!


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Facebook Agrees on Advertising Deal With Yahoo, Settles Patent Dispute
Facebook, in a blog post on 6th July, announced that they have completed an advertising deal with Yahoo, on how their respective ad networks will be leveraged for mutual benefit. In a landmark development, they also settled their patent infringement cases, in what seems to be a turnaround of sorts for the legal dispute between the two internet giants.
You have a Login with Facebook option on every news piece on Yahoo & soon, your Facebook likes will determine, what ads you will be shown on Facebook. It looks as if Facebook plans to leverage Yahoo's reach as a news & media website, and people won't have to leave the Facebook ecosystem for checking out the latest news.
Ross Levinsohn, interim CEO at Yahoo, in his statement, was more than grateful to Facebook, for striking, what looks like a pretty lucrative deal for Yahoo, & specifically thanked Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook for bringing on board, her team for the successful closure of the deal.
This deal comes close on the heels of Yahoo's endeavor to add more social experience to its news stories & search results. It became a do-or-die issue for Yahoo after Google launched its Google+ platform, to personalize search results, plus promoting the concept of social search. It also has a "social bar" which it has implemented on 100 of its properties globally, and according to data mentioned in the Facebook blog post, has around 90 million active users.
This development has queered the pitch not only for social media agencies, but also SEO professionals, who have hitherto, put Yahoo rankings low on their priority list. It will be interesting to see how the "social experience on Yahoo" unfolds.


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Throwout Bearing Maintenance
...cleaning, inspecting, and servicing the throwout assembly on '74 to '84 airheads every 10K. Would someone be willing to describe this process in enough detail so that I would have half a chance of performing this myself successfully?
Sure... The reason I suggest doing this, is due to the nature of the layout of the rollers in the bearing. Before the '74's (/5 and earlier), BMW used a ball bearing throw-out assembly. They went back to this after 1984. If you referrence a price list, you will see that the '74 to'84 roller set up is a LOT cheaper. The rollors are laid out radially in a circle.This insure that as the rollers attempt to roll, one end will go faster than the other and will scrape on the two "thrust pieces" on each side.
The bearings do fail (usually indicated by a sudden need to take up slack in the clutch cable). Now, the failed bearing, the two thrust pieces and the clutch thrust rod are turning as a unit. The clutch end of the thrust rod can bore into the forward pressure plate of the clutch assembly. Surprisingly, the bike can still be operated while this is going on, with the rider noting strange shifting and odd clutch noises. This happens often enough that I carry a spare set up as insurance for my wife's '78 R100/7, when we tour. (I have, of course, the vastly superior /5)
OK, how to check a new-to-you bike/10K service interval. Detach the clutch cable at the throw-out arm. Clean up the area , as there usually is a lot of road grit on the back of the gear-box. There is a C-clip that locks the throwout pivot rod to the two cast aluminium "ears" of the rear gearbox cover. CAREFULLY remove
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It's never easy to write about, and draw attention to, your own mistakes. That's especially true when realization hits that many others already know enough to avoid the pitfall that ensnared you. Still, maybe I'm not the only jackass here and maybe this will help somebody. I sincerely hope so:
It's often helpful to time deposits. This is because, especially with CD money, you earn interest from day of deposit when, for example, opening a new CD account. I always try to earn double interest for a few days on my funds by timing my deposit to arrive on a Friday or, even better, on the last business day before an extended holiday period. Another reason to time a new CD deposit is avoidance of an unwanted maturity day. And in fact, oftentimes you can kill two birds with one stone through precise timing of the deposit. To cause funds to arrive on a specific day I use the overnight mail services, of which there are three: Fedex, UPS, and USPS Express Mail. Since Express Mail is cheaper I used to prefer it, but no longer. Here is the story:
It makes no difference how you address the Express mail item. Upon arrival at the destination post office, if your addressee has a PO Box, there is a real danger your "overnight" letter will simply be placed into the addressee's PO Box. If your addressee has already picked up mail for that day, your "overnight" letter will sit in that PO box until the next pickup of mail by your addressee. Thus, USPS Express mail, when a PO box is available, does not always accomplish next day delivery.
What happened to me is exactly what I've already explained. I addressed my "overnight" letter to the financial institution's street address, but it went straight into their PO box. When I protested to the USPS that my "overnight" letter was never even delivered, which it was not, and demanded a refund of their nearly $19 charge, the USPS told me my item had been delivered timely according to their rules. Bottom line I lost a good bit of money on the matter, circa $100 in all. I will not be using the USPS "Express" mail service again when opening a new CD.
Couple of things my investigation revealed:
The post office that screwed me was following postal regulations to the letter. Many post offices don't. It varies with the individual post office. Some postmasters will break their backs to ensure overnight delivery of Express Mail items. These individuals understand that delivery to a PO box of a letter addressed to a street address (physical address) is not really delivery. And they understand they have competition from Fedex and UPS. They also are aware they are violating postal regulations . . . they just don't care. They care more about their customers than asinine USPS rules.
Full disclosure: I had used Express mail successfully in the past when opening new CD accounts and made nice money in the process. Unknown to me, the receiving post offices were breaking postal rules and delivering my items on a next day basis. When I recently ran into a post office that followed the rules it really caught me off guard, cost me money, and motivated me to find out what was going on.
My advice, if you are trying to time deposits as I do, is to spend the extra money and use Fedex or UPS. Either should work for you because with neither service is there the threat of PO box delivery. Of course Fedex and UPS overnight delivery services cost more, so:
An alternative, if you want to risk Express mail, is to telephone the destination post office, speak with the postmaster, and inquire as to his or her local policy. This is really the only way you can find out what will happen to your Express mail item upon arrival.
And finally, even if the financial institution where you're opening your CD has no PO box (sadly most do), that's still no guarantee of next day delivery if you use Express mail. If there is no carrier available, the post office will sometimes not deliver even Express mail items until the following day, on their regular rounds. This obviously does not work when you are trying to time a deposit for, say, a Friday by mailing on Thursday. The deposit ends up instead being delivered on the following Monday and you earn only a single day of double interest instead of three.