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In light of current challenges and aware of the changing situations of the Church in and around Liverpool, Archbishop Malcolm McMahon decided to call a Synod [1]of the Archdiocese.
The process began with a Year of Prayer beginning from October 2017 (as part of the preparations for the Eucharistic Congress and Pilgrimage Adoremus [2]. In October 2018, with the celebration of the first Synod Sunday, it was highlighted the need to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to everyone through the life and experiences of all priests, deacons, religious and people of the Archdiocese.
The Archbishop invited the participants to discern carefully together what the Spirit is saying to the Church and to agree on common directions and actions for the future.
Each Parish and Pastoral Area has their own representation in a member of the Synod. Claire Newton is the Synod member for SFX Church [3] whereas the parish's Pastoral Assistant, Debbie Reynolds, is a member of the Synod working Party.
Last Sunday, 3rd February 2019, the 500 chosen and appointed members of the Synod with their friends and family were called together for a Service of Inauguration at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. The event reminded each of them to be bold and creative in the task of rethinking the goals, structures, style and methods of evangelisation in the Archdiocesan community with its various parish and ecclesial, religious and social communities.
Concluding his homily [4]on the passage from the Gospel of Luke on the Presentation of the Lord, Archbishop McMahon said "the journey ahead towards Synod 2020 may seem long and arduous, and there will be many diversions and setbacks, but with the hope of Simeon and Anna in our hearts, we will come to a new vision for our archdiocese and it will be transformed into the church that we are called to be."
At the end of the service, the Synod members were given a candle each and commissioned for their work: to be present at all the gatherings, encourage prayer, honest sharing on the questions given, listen attentively and give time for discernment.
Members will be completing information and training days so that all people will be empowered to take part in this process of prayer, sharing, listening and discernment which will shape Synod 2020.
"The Service at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King was a truly wonderful occasion, with so many people attending and showing their support and desire to participate in the Synod process," commented Debbie Reynolds.
"The high schools involved in the liturgy were tremendous! Their Elijah drama reflection was a real challenge to us all to remain firm in faith with the Holy Spirit, listen attentively to the people we meet and listen attentively to our own hearts: that's how we will surely hear the voice of God."
Your prayers are asked for Debbie and Claire, all the Synod members and for this journey of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
[1] http://www.synod2020.co.uk
[2] https://www.jesuit.org.uk/adoremus-fringe-events-st-francis-xavier
[3] http://www.jesuit.org.uk/st-francis-xaviers
[4] https://www.synod2020.co.uk/news/post?id=30
[5] https://www.jesuit.org.uk/recent-news


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Minimalist fashion. "Less is more." is the main idea of minimalist fashion. Minimalism is a philosophy of dressing that has endured for decades, and is probably best recognized today by the general public through the fashion houses of Jil Sander, Balenciaga, and Calvin Klein. Calvin Klein really has captured the minimalist movement in America during the 1990s. While the clothes are simple and have a reduction on color pallet, there is a very sexual and grunge feel to his designs.
Simple, function, and original are the key components to describe minimalism. Clean lines, functionality have always been hallmarks of the style. It depends as the mainstream fashion of 90s, Calvin Klein and ` are the well-known examples for minimalistic style. They create easy clothes for modern women which use executed cut to emphasize shape and neutral color are the major color tone.
90s fashion has re-emerged the black and white palette prevalently as a defining duo on todays' runways. The all-white look is another 90's favorite look which is impacting a rise in neutrals in today's fashion as well. Minimalism is also a catalyst for the rise of activewear influences. This trend introduces the bandeau and sports bra tops, bomber jackets and racerback details in high fashion collections during that era and it returns to runways and streets today.
Sheer is a key material during the minimalist movement. It emerges in a wide range of applications, from an overlay to a full garment. The trend for transparency keeps to continue as a focus of designer collections every since then. Besides sheer fabrics, metallic materials also bring the interest to the sparse shapes of the era. It is a trend that reflects in the rave culture and bridging the grunge musician and the fans. Reflective has returned on recent runway and also on current streets with a range of metal.
Crop top is the most democratic garment that connecting the movements of minimalist, grunge, hip-hop and R&B culture and turning up on everyone from Mariah Carey and Spice Girls to the top fashion icons. Another defining looks to emerge from minimalist era is the idea of underwear as outerwear. Camisoles and slip dresses were introduced to the market and it became a quintessential of the 90s in contemporary fashion.
Minimalism style is much more than a trend, it becomes a zeitgeist. Designers such as Stella McCartney follows the suit with pragmatic tailoring in neutral palettes, Alexander Wang starts to show pared-down activewear in black, white and grey. Even Victoria Beckham turns to strict silhouettes from the bling wave. Minimalism never goes away. Shapes are plain, femininity is the leader, Color and sculpted shapes speak louder than extra decorative accessories.

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In spite of an ever expanding competitors from the United States and nations with new identified wealth, Europe is nevertheless the spiritual property of classical music and Opera, and the a variety of European capitals are house to some wonderful 'old world' opera homes, exactly where the hundreds of years of history, typically enhances the knowledge into something otherworldly.
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King City, Missouri: The Big PumpAn old gas station built in the shape of a huge, red electric gas pump. Regular-size pumps stand out front for photos, though you can't actually fill up.
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At the big gas pump. Also there are giant wind turbine blades on display.[J Nichols, 07/31/2011]
The Big Pump filling station was built in 1937 by Foster's Builders for Kyle Phares of Phares Oil. It originally didn't carry a brand name gasoline and was first a discount filling station, one of the first in the area. It later carried several brand names, the last being the CO-OP brand.
It was moved from its original site in the late '70s and purchased by Jerry Jones, who owned Jerry's Bargain Barn and moved north of town, close to his business.
The Big Pump served as a CB radio repair shop at one point and fell into disrepair.
How and why King City acquired the structure remains a mystery. However, it's good that it was saved from being destroyed and forgotten. It's definitely a piece of Americana that several wish would not have left the place of its roots. Thanks to King City for saving this structure.[JD, 12/22/2009]
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Here is a photo of the Giant Gas Pump in King City, Missouri, with my '55 Packard parked in front of it for scale. The Big Pump is quite remarkable... too bad it isn't still an operational filling station![Jeff Pachl, 11/29/2007]
"The Big Pump" is now located at a convenient roadside park location in King City, MO, on highway 169. This location is about 80 miles north of Kansas City. King City is the hometown of a gentleman named Rufus Limpp (now deceased) who was (I believe) an oil jobber who built the structure.[Mic Jones, 10/24/1998]
The town of Maryville, MO, once had a gas station shaped like a giant electric gas pump. Electric gasoline pumps were evidently new when this station was built, but now, unfortunately, the station, known as "The Big Pump" is gone. The small wedge-shaped traffic island it stood on now is home to a statue of St. Francis. The Big Pump was once moved to a lot just north of Maryville, where it could still be seen from the side of the road, but it had been painted over or something, and was hardly recognizable for what it once was. I don't know where the structure is now, because I didn't see it when I was through there last.
Also, there is a giant weathervane, near 2nd and Buchanan, just one block east of Main Street, in downtown Maryville. I believe the giant weathervane is associated with a company that manufactures lightning rods and such, and is located at the above-mentioned intersection.[Don Fraysier, 10/12/1998]
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Dear Technical Support,
Last year, I upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. No mention of this phenomenon was included in the product brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during system initialization where it monitors all the other system activities. Applications such as PokerNight 10.3, Football 5.0, Hunting and Fishing 7.5, and Racing 3.6 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected. I cannot seem to purge Wife 1.0 from my system. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 1.0 but the uninstall does not work on Wife 1.0.
Please help. Thank you.
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Dear Bewildered,
This is a very common problem men complain about but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a "UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT" program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM designed by its creator to run everything.
Do not try to uninstall, delete, or purge the program from the system once installed. Trying to uninstall Wife 1.0 can be a disaster. Doing so may destroy your hardisk drive. Trying to uninstall or remove Wife 1.0 will destroy valuable system resources. You can not go back to Girlfriend 1.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this. Some have tried to install Girlfriend 2.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system.
Please look in your manual under the "Warnings - Alimony/Child Support". Others have tried to run Girlfriend 1.0 in the background while Wife 1.0 is running. Eventually, Wife 1.0 detects Girlfriend 1.0 and a system conflict occurs. This can lead to a non-recoverable system crash. Some users have tried to download similiar products such as Flirt 1.0 and oneNightStand 1.0. Often their systems have become infected with a virus. I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 and just deal with the situation.
Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I suggest that you read the entire section regarding General Protection Faults (GPF). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur. The best course of action is to enter the command "apologize" as soon as lockup occurs so that the system will return back to normal.
System will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all GPF. Wife 1.0 is a great program and it comes with several supporting programs, such as Clean and Sweep 3.0, Cook It 1.5 and Do Bills 4.2. However, be very careful on how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program Nag Nag 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Diamonds 5.0 !
Do not, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3. This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system.
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Friday 25 January
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This gastropod produces a large spiral shell with spines that are thought to be for protection (3). The shell has a wide, flared lip that is a rich pink colour (4). Within the shell, the gastropod's head has two pairs of tentacles; the larger ones carry eyes whilst the smaller pair provides a sense of smell and touch. The large foot is visible at the lip of the shell (3). The large, beautiful shell has been prized by tourists in recent years, but was previously valued more for its meat (2).
Queen conch have internal fertilization, after which the female spawns thousands of eggs in a long tubular egg mass. Spawning tends to occur during the summer; the large egg masses may take up to 36 hours to produce and can hold between 310,000 and 750,000 eggs. These egg masses are covered with sand to provide camouflage and the larvae emerge after around 5 days. A single female will spawn between 6 and 8 times during one season. Larvae, known as veligers, float in the open ocean, feeding on phytoplankton and may drift a considerable distance from the site where they emerged, although evidence for this is limited. Between 18 and 40 days later (depending on conditions) the larvae settle into the sand and metamorphose into the adult form. Adult queen conch have been observed to migrate to deeper waters as they increase in size, and seasonal migrations during the summer months, in order to group together and spawn, have also been recorded (5).
Conch move by an unusual 'hopping' motion whereby the foot is thrust against the bottom, causing the shell to rise and then be thrown forward. Queen conch are most active during the night and graze on algae and detritus using their extendable proboscis (5).
The queen conch was previously found throughout the coastal waters of northern South America, north through the Caribbean and Bahamas to south Florida and Bermuda. Today the species has declined in numbers throughout much of this range (5).
Adults are associated with shallow warm waters usually with a sandy substrate, where there is abundance of seagrasses, such as turtle (Thalasia testuinum), and manatee grass (Syringodium filiforme) or mats of microalgae (5).
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).
Queen conch have provided a staple meat source in the Caribbean region for centuries and in recent times have been extensively overfished for this resource. Their flesh is also used as fishing bait and the shells can be sold for the tourist trade (6). The tendency of conch to aggregate in shallow waters in order to spawn in the summer months has allowed them to be easily exploited. The population is now in decline throughout most of the region (5). Fishing for conch has been banned in Florida and Bermuda, but so far populations in these areas are showing few signs of recovery (9).
The Queen conch is listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), thus requiring an export permit for trade to occur (7). In 1996, the countries within this conch's range recognised the importance of the species and adopted an International Queen Conch Initiative to promote a common international management strategy for the queen conch resource in the Caribbean region (8). It has been suggested that harvesting limits or marine reserves will allow the species to recover from overfishing in the past. Queen conches have been bred in captivity but attempted reintroduction programmes have so far proven unsuccessful (6).
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Your Merry & Bright sign is perfect.ReplyDelete
I'd love for you to pop over and share this project at my Inspiration Party for Simply Christmas at http://shabbyartboutique.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration-friday.html
Very cute! I love that saying, too!ReplyDelete
So simple and pretty! I love it Jill! Thanks for linking up!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM
Love the Merry and Bright sign! Love the embellishments you added, and I just learned to make bows recently too - isn't it fun! Thanks for sharing your Christmas beauty.ReplyDelete
How fun! I really like that font. You did a great job. So glad you shared at Shine On Fridays!ReplyDelete
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Donald Trump, "The British are angry over borders and many other things."
The Brexit 'leave' victory was humiliating loss for US President Barack Hussein Obama.
Some British polls showed that voter sentiment moved decidedly in favor of Brexit after Mr. Obama traveled to Britain and urged a "No Exit" vote.
British voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Mr. Obama Thursday opting to leave the EU by a 51.9 to 48% margin.
So strong was the backlash to Mr. Obama's blatant attempt to influence the Brexit vote that a reasonable case might be made that he contributed to the outcome.
Mr. Obama's threatening remarks Vs Britain over Brexit ignited firestorm of resentment.
Mr. Obama said, Britain should not expect a new trade deal with the US, that it would be "in the back of the queue, suggesting that a new trade deal with America's closest ally could be 5 years from now, 10 years from now before we were able to actually get something done.
There are those that believe that Mr.Obama's comments had, in fact, been written for him at 10 Downing Street.
A newspaper editorial was attacked Mr. Obama's anti-Brexit interference, saying he had shown "contempt for voters."
"The tone was patronizing, the language menacing – and the message not only hypocritical but, frankly, insulting," it added. "… He has no business to come here and preach that submission to Brussels is good for the people of the UK." I listened to the speech it was exactly as described by the editorial
Friday, there has been a media "blackout" in the US of Mr. Obama's role in Brexit, but Donald Trump did point the finger at Mr. Obama's meddling.
"I think it's something he should not have done. It's not his country. It's not his part of the world. And I actually think that his recommendation perhaps caused it to fail," Donald Trump said.
The biggest loser in the Brexit vote is Mr. Obama, who invested his personal prestige and global popularity in the referendum, and lost.
Donald Trump said about the British Friday morning, "They are angry over borders, they are angry over people coming into the country and taking over, nobody even knows who they are. They're angry about many, many things."
Perhaps one of those things is Barack Hussein Obama.
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8.555077 - TVEITT: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5
Geirr Tveitt (1908 - 1981)
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
There are a lot of trees in Norway. A banal fact, but one that can have devastating consequences. Even today, a lot of Norwegian building work uses wood; a lot of Norwegian towns have burnt down not once but several times. When the composer Geirr Tveitt's house on his ancestral hillside farmstead, above Norheimsund by the Hardangerfjord in western Norway, burnt to the ground on 12th July 1970, with it went a lifetime of musical creation. Over 300 works, neatly filed away in eight huge (wooden) cupboards, were destroyed: four-fifths of Tveitt's output. Music had always poured from him like, people said an "unstoppable waterfall"; now it slowed to a trickle.
Waterfalls; hills; forests; fjords: ideally Norwegian metaphors for Tveitt's life and work. Consciously or subconsciously, a need to be "Norwegian" was one of his deepest driving forces; specifically, west Norwegian. His family name comes from the Old Norse word for a cultivated forest clearing or hillside plateau (a "thwaite", in some dialects of English) - that very Hardanger farmstead where his family had lived for eight centuries or more. Christened Nils, the young composer obviously did not feel Norwegian enough - his two siblings had both been given ancient Norwegian names, and he chose to be called Geirr, from an old word for "spear". Enthralled as a teenager by local songs and especially the Hardanger fiddle, the decorated folk violin of western Norway, with sympathetic strings below the fingerboard, like a viola d'amore, Tveitt took as his compositional foundation the modal scales of Norwegian folk-tunes. His first published pieces were a set of Twelve Two-Part inventions in the Lydian, Phrygian and Dorian modes, and by the age of thirty he had produced an extraordinary , if far-fetched, treatise which postulated a uniquely Nordic theory of music, based on the idea that the modes are in reality old Scandinavian scales; Tveitt even gave them names in Old Norse: rir, sum, fum, tyr... The intervening years had seen his high-spirited symphonic poem Prillar and a gigantic ballet on Norse legends, Baldur's Dreams, for an equally gigantic orchestra including nine gigantic specially-designed drums, tuned pentatonically. This early fascination with national music drew Tveitt for a time, like many colleagues who had come of age in the 1920s, towards the composer David Monrad Johansen, already acclaimed as Norway's great white hope and soon to be celebrated as Grieg's biographer (string quartets by Grieg and Johansen are available on Naxos 8.550879). Hoping, in vain, that Johansen would help him have Prillar performed, eloquent young Geirr wooed him with honeyed words, calling his choral works "the dawn of Norwegian music" and approving his thesis that Grieg's German training had stunted his growth as a "national" composer. Later in life, Tveitt was up with the earlier Norwegian sunrise, illuminating, in analyses, orchestrations and performance, Grieg's own remarkably radical modal language, above all in his treatment of Hardanger fiddle music. Back home in Hardanger during World War Two, Tveitt collected over a thousand folk-tunes, later using them in his hundred Hardanger Tunes for orchestra, and hundreds more for piano (of which fifty have survived, recorded on Marco Polo 8.225055 and 8.225056). These, his most famous works, include Do you hear the song in the waterfall's roar?, which Reidar Storaas used as a motto for his recent biography of Tveitt: "The song in the waterfall's roar". Amid the genuine folk melodies hide many original Tveitt-tunes, but who knows which? As Tveitt said of his musical roots in the Hardanger region, "If a leaf grows on a birch tree, it necessarily becomes a birch leaf'. And in the 1950s and 1960s he wrote two concertos for Hardanger fiddle; the second, "Three Fjords", opening with a loving evocation of the Hardangerfjord.
This "Norse" Tveitt is rather less than half of the story - a story with many piquant ironies. Like Grieg, both Tveitt and Johansen spent many years studying in Germany, even at the very Leipzig Conservatory that supposedly spoilt Grieg. In Leipzig from 1928 to 1932, Tveitt found the teaching thorough but dogmatic and dull; perhaps he understood its effect on Grieg only too well. Some twenty of Tveitt's early scores were published in Leipzig, by Breitkopf and Härtel, not least the Two-part Inventions, dedicated to his, and Johansen's, professor, Hermann Grabner. Tveitt also studied languages at Leipzig University: his "Nordic music" treatise (1937) was actually written in German. In later years he spoke at least five European languages fluently, and could get by in four more, including Arabic and Hindi. He had followed Leipzig with lessons from Wellesz in Vienna and a longer Parisian period, where his teachers included Honegger and Villa-Lobos, and where, at last, he felt he had found freedom and kinship. Baldur's Dreams went down a storm there, before being lost in the London blitz. Paris too always held an especially warm welcome for Tveitt in the meagre post-war years, when he was largely cold-shouldered in Norway: to support his family he toured southern Europe and northern Africa as a conductor and brilliant pianist, having enormous success with his own works and piano pieces by among others, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel - and Grieg. That is when he added the final "t" to his surname, especially to ensure the French pronounced it, but bringing it, ironically, closer to the Old Norse spelling.
Tveitt's music, like the man, is indeed both intensely vernacular and utterly cosmopolitan. Strong "Norwegian" rhythms and ostinato patterns complement a French flavour in the superb orchestration and piano figuration, the impressionistic harmonies and textures. The Lydian mode of much Norwegian folk-music - with its sharpened fourth note, mingles happily, sometimes simultaneously, with a plethora of other modes and scales: in defiance of his own treatise, Tveitt's modality is much less uncompromising than Bartók's or Vaughan Williams'. His theories may posit a "primitive" sound-world, reinventing music almost from first principles like his Icelandic contemporary Jón Leifs, inspired by the barbaric grandeur of Nordic Nature. But far from the waterfall's roar, Tveitt's surviving piano concertos, four out of six, more often suggest two fellow composer-pianists from Russia, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
The Piano Concerto no. 1, written in Leipzig soon after the Two-Part Inventions, gave Tveitt his first public hearing three years later, on 5th June 1931: the solo part was played by Tveitt's fellow-student, the American Jewish composer Herman Berlinski, with their conducting teacher Alfred Szendrei directing the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, some of whose members were soon to be arrested by the SS in mid-rehearsal. The First Concerto is a strikingly mature work for a student barely out of his teens: three compact movements bound together by the rising interval of a fifth that launches them all. The haunting opening melody generates everything in the rhapsodic first movement, while the central "scherzo", built even more strictly around a single theme, has the character of a Halling or Gangar, a Norwegian folk-dance in fast duple time, hurtling to an abrupt, almost Bartókian close. The finale, a kind of mirror-image of the first movement, confirms young Geirr's fondness for high piano decoration, and piles one fifth atop another en route to a grand Rachmaninovesque climax and a tender, and formally satisfying, final fade-out.
Anyone who knows The Planets will sit up at the start of the Fifth Piano Concerto: with its suggestion of Uranus, the Magician, Tveitt conjures less searchingly than Holst with his motto-theme: in contrast to the First Concerto, the Fifth, the only one to be published, is as big-boned and 1oose-limbed as Geirr himself, a glittering showpiece for an itinerant virtuoso. On 12th May 1954 the Théâtredes Champs-Elysées saw Tveitt's last, and perhaps greatest, Parisian triumph: with Jean Martinon conducting the Lamoureux orchestra, he played the First Concertos of both Tchaikovsky and Brahms, and then gave the first performance of his own Fifth Concerto; "lightning flashes, a hurricane is unleashed by his fingers" said Le Monde. Stylistically, the Fifth Concerto has many affinities with British music: Holstian austerity meets the glamour of Grainger against the filmic backcloth of William Alwyn, while Tveitt's sometimes chilly writing for strings, or woodwind in parallel thirds, is reminiscent not so much of Sibelius, its ultimate source, as of Britons supping at the same spring: Moeran, Patrick Hadley, and Bax, who also shared Tveitt's Russian influences. The central slow movement, Danse aux campanules bleues (or The song of the cattlebells in the Blue Mountains), with its wide-spaced, Prokofiev-like textures, is evocatively restrained, echoing the thematic economy of Tveitt's finest Hardanger Tunes, an innocent picture of the high pastures, or an invocation of the sinister supernatural creatures whose legendary bellsong lures humans after them inside the mountain. Structurally more episodic, the outer movements compensate with the fresh brilliance of their orchestral and pianistic effects, and their ever-inventive variations on several recurring themes -"streaming with the abundance of mountain waterfalls set free by the spring warmth", gushed another Parisian critic; one glorious, surging melody above all. It grows from embryo in the opening Springar, the most common Norwegian folk-dance, in triple time, to reach its apotheosis, transformed into duple rhythm, in the final Halling, out-Rachmaninoving Rachmaninov.
We are lucky to have the First Concerto in a definitive version: the Fifth, like so many of Tveitt's works, proved more elusive. Just as Norway's greatest artist Edvard Munch painted several variations on some of his most famous subjects, including The Scream, so for Tveitt, as for other performer-composers, a piece could have as many forms as it had performances. He would alter orchestral parts just before going on stage, and seemingly re-improvise at the piano in concert. This "fluid form", for future revision, partly explains why he kept all those scores himself, fatally perfect fuel for the fire. Manuscripts which survived elsewhere sometimes differ wildly from recorded performances by Tveitt, raising questions as to which is the "right" version. For the Fifth Concerto, several scores and two – divergent - concert recordings by the composer had to be reconciled. Some works exist only in Tveitt's recordings; should we use them to "reconstruct" the music? A musicologist's nightmare, or dream - but also an exhaustingly practical problem for performers, and for the Tveitt family. In the years since Geirr's death, the critical tide has turned again in his favour; more and more musicians want to play and study his pieces, and the loss of l2th July 1970 looms ever larger.
A final irony. The young Geirr Tveitt also showed a natural talent for drawing; music being a perpetually precarious profession, his father hoped he would prefer the safer living of architect. Would he have built wooden houses?
David Gallagher
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Happy Birthday!!! I wanted to get you a restored copy of OUT 1 on DVD, but alas...
Happy Birthday, GK! I have Joe Swanberg popping out of a cake while Richard Kelly sings "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" tomorrow at noon so, for the love of Christ, be home.
Happy birthday, Glenn.
I will be 50 on Monday, Aug. 10 (and so will Rosanna Arquette). Let us know how your birthday goes.
Interesting how many film critics were born in '59: you, Mick LaSalle, Owen Gleiberman, David Edelstein. Probably more. Must have been something in the air or water that year.
I try not to comment unless I feel have something new to add to a conversation. Alas, I do not.
Happy birthday, Glenn. The missus and I wish you well.
"Rife with cheap sentimentality, Mr. Kenny's baby photo lacks much of the wit and sophistication of his later work. Nonetheless, as a depiction of his formative year, it is of mild historical interest."
Happy Birthday Sr. Kenny, from two blocks away from your old home!
Happy Birthday, Glenn! Here's to many more years.
Happy birthday, Glenn! Here's to several dozen more!
And it's a Happy Birthday to you, Glenn. So did you get the Chewbacca action figure and Wonder Woman costume you asked for?
I think mom is saying, "What da fuck is uuuuuuuuupppppppp??!!!" Happy day, Mr. K.
cheers, Glenn!
Have a happy one...
@ JC: "Au contraire. The seemingly unfeigned earnestness of the image is legitimately moving, its sentimentality tempered by the layers of distancing artifice that are obvious on close inspection. The blurry gauziness of the tableau is clearly something of an homage on the part of the unseen photographer, perhaps to the early work of Seurat."
Have a great one, Glenn. I beat you to the half-century mark by just over six weeks. Go ahead, remind me anytime you like.
50 is the new 42.
Happy Birthday!
@JF: Heh...nice. :)
So say we all! (Been watching Battlestar Galactica again).
Happy Birthday Glenn, all the best.
Happy B-Day, GK.
Happy Birthday, Glenn.
Happy birthday! Older, maybe, but less blurry.
Very sweet. Happy Birthday! (a day late)
Happy (if belated) birthday greetings from the other side of the pond!
Happy belated, as well! All the best!
Happy Birthday, Glenn. Fun fact: I started reading your reviews when you said nice things about The Crow.
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I tried to pay for them, they claimed that since they have a contract with the school photographer they are not legally allowed to sell the list to another photographer.
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In a July 5, 2011 article, author John Keller lists the company that invented EZ-Metrix®, James Heires Consulting, Inc. in an article about software verification tools.
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Negombo Beach
Getting there: The town Negombo, is just 10 minutes on a taxi from the Bandaranayke International airport of Sri Lanka and is also serviced by rail and public transport. Airport taxis are recommended as they are registered and run regularly from the airport.
Things to do: Negombo city tour along its narrow streets, small boutiques covering the ornate churches, the fort, "lel-lama or the fish market is best done under peddle power . Excursions on the Negombo lagoon (prehistoric lagoon 25,000 – 30,000 years old) on hired boats are possible and you might even be able to talk to a willing fisherman to take you out and traverse through the famous estuary, where bird life and salt water crocodile babies rest. Sun, sand and nightlife is best along the beaches of Ethukale as its better geared to handle tourists. Negombo is an ideal place to enjoy the promfret, lagoon crab & lobster during season, one of the best places to observe a Sri Lankan sunsets with a beer in hand.
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In ruling that the case cannot go to trial, Justice Stanley Mosk said that the 1996 lawsuit presented evidence that the petroleum companies may have possessed the motive, opportunity and means to unlawfully conspire.
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i own a little vintage shop on the south coast by the sea, or at vintagepersempre.com. im married and we have a beautiful baby girl. i like going for walks on cold sunny days and trashy reality tv. i love small boutiques, markets and big city centers. im slightly dyslexic so you'll have to ignore my poor spelling, and i rarely use capital letters. my music taste is so varied, from country to screamo, oh and musicals. i love song lyrics, pretty photographs and modern art. i have many guilty pleasures and im really not very cool. im obsessed with drawings and tattoos of birds, but im genuinely terrified of real life ones. i guess you can read on to find out more (:
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Peshwari naan:
The naan itself is based mainly on Meera Sodha's in Made in India (though she adds baking powder for an extra bit of lift) but I have tried lots of different recipes. If you go to the trouble of making naan the rest of the meal can be fairly simple – Indian spiced roast chicken, leg of lamb, or dal with fresh chutneys and raita.
500g strong white bread flour
1½ tsp sugar
2 tsp salt
7g sachet fast-acting yeast
5 tbsp natural yogurt
2 tbsp melted ghee or butter, cooled (but still liquid)
200ml warm milk
For the filling:
70g unsalted butter
6 tbsp desiccated coconut
3 tbsp raisins
6 tbsp ground almonds
1½ tsp sugar
To serve:
75g melted ghee or butter
Nigella seeds or black sesame seeds (optional)
Put the flour, sugar, salt and yeast into a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the yogurt and melted butter. Mix together, then gradually add the milk and 50ml water to make a soft, sticky dough.
Tip the dough out on to a lightly floured surface and knead for about five minutes. Put in a large, lightly oiled bowl, turning it until coated in oil. Cover and leave in warm place until doubled in size.
To make the filling, melt the butter on a medium-low heat. Mix in the remaining filling ingredients and leave to cool.
Tip the dough out on to a lightly floured surface and punch it down, then divide into eight balls. Set them on a floured baking sheet, sprinkle lightly with flour, cover with cling film and leave for 20 minutes.
Take each ball and push some filling into the middle, closing the dough over it. Flatten with your hands and shape into a teardrop or oval (about 20x10cm). Put the prepared naans on floured baking sheets.
Put a non-stick frying pan over a very high heat until it is really hot. Put a naan into the pan. When it starts to bubble and go brown, turn it over and cook the other side until it is browned in patches. Keep turning it over until it is cooked through, puffed up and scorched here and there.
Keep warm in a low oven while you finish making the others. Brush with melted ghee or butter and sprinkle with the seeds, if using.
Sweet potato and lentil curry:
As with other spiced dishes in this book, I realize there is a risk of creating office tensions, as the waft of the orient drifts across computer screens and up nostrils. Some homemade biscuits should resolve matters.
15 minutes
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Vegetable oil
1 red onion, peeled and sliced
1 garlic clove, peeled and thinly sliced
2 tsp grated fresh ginger
Salt and pepper
1 tsp onion seeds (optional)
1 tbsp garam masala
100g/3½oz/½ cup red lentils, rinsed
1 large sweet potato, cubed
200ml/7fl oz/generous ¾ cup coconut milk
1 tbsp tomato purée (tomato paste)
200ml/7fl oz/generous ¾ cup water or stock
Naan bread or roti (or pitta)
Plain yogurt
Coriander leaves
Heat a little oil in a saucepan over a medium heat and add the onion, garlic and ginger. Season with salt and pepper, and cook for about 7 minutes, stirring regularly, until softened.
Add the spices and stir for a minute or so, then add the lentils, sweet potato, coconut milk, tomato purée and water. Give it a good stir and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer gently for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the lentils are tender and breaking up. Cool and store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Portion of curry (in a microwaveable vessel); bread; yogurt; fresh coriander.
Reheat in a microwave on medium for 4–5 minutes. Warm some bread. Serve with a dollop of yogurt and a few coriander leaves.
Spring onion bhajis:
Around 10-12 bhajis
80g gram flour
40g rice flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp chilli flakes or fresh chopped chilli
½ tsp turmeric
1 tbsp fresh coriander (optional)
½ tsp salt
About 6 spring onions and 6 shallots, cut into 1-2cm pieces
Vegetable oil, for frying 25g butter or ghee, melted
1 garlic clove, crushed
Put both flours, the bicarb, the spices, coriander (if using) and salt into a large bowl. Add the onions, shallots and garlic and mix in.
Add the lemon juice, butter or ghee and one or two tablespoons of water to bring it together. Leave the batter to rest while you warm the oil over a medium heat.
Test the temperature of the oil by dropping in a tiny bit of the mix. It should start to go brown within 20-30 seconds.
Take a dessertspoon-size blob of the mix and gently and carefully drop it into the oil – repeat with a couple more (leave enough space in the oil for the bhajis to move about a bit).
Cook the bhajis for about three minutes each, turning occasionally to ensure they brown all over, and take them out when they are a nice medium-brown colour. (You will need to fry these in batches).
Dry on kitchen paper to catch the excess oil and serve.


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Embarcadero Prism XE2 FAQ
By: Hitoshi Fujii
Abstract: Frequently Asked Questions for Embarcadero Prism XE2
Embarcadero Prism™ XE2 provides a flexible development solution and robust, Delphi-like programming language for rapidly developing .NET, Mono, ASP.NET, and data-driven applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Embarcadero Prism combines easy-to-learn syntax based on the Pascal language with features not available in other .NET programming languages, enabling developers to create cutting-edge applications.
What's new in Embarcadero Prism XE2?
Is there any functionality from previous releases that is not available in XE2?
We evaluate the feature set of the product for each new release. This release of Prism no longer includes support for the 2008 version of the Visual Studio IDE. Prism XE2 also does not include or support the MonoDevelop IDE that was available in earlier versions. If you have the previous release, Delphi Prism XE, you can continue to use the MonoDevelop IDE with the Oxygene compiler that was included in that version. Delphi Prism could previously be used with the MonoDevelop IDE and MonoTouch from Novell to develop iOS applications. That functionality is also no longer supported. We recommend Delphi XE2, now with the new FireMonkey application platform, for building native iOS applications.
Embarcadero Prism XE2 ProfessionalEmbarcadero Prism XE2 Professional is designed for developers who want to go beyond the capabilities of other .NET development solutions with expanded language capabilities and cross-platform targeting. Delphi developers can use Embarcadero Prism XE2 to build .NET and cross-platform Mono applications using a familiar Pascal-based programming language. Embarcadero Prism Professional features include:
Embarcadero Prism XE2 EnterpriseEmbarcadero Prism™ XE2 Enterprise is designed for developers building data-driven and multi-tier Web and database applications. Embarcadero Prism Enterprise provides local and remote ADO.NET database connectivity and the ability to build clients that connect to native Delphi or C++ DataSnap servers for rich multi-tier interoperability. Embarcadero Prism Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and web applications:
See the Feature Matrix on the Embarcadero Prism XE page of embarcadero.com for additional details on features by edition.
You can purchase Embarcadero Prism from one of our valuable partners or our online Embarcadero Shop site. Embarcadero Prism is available standalone or as part of Embarcadero All-Access XE. Prism XE2 is also available as part of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2.
Yes. An Embarcadero Prism XE2 trial edition is available at http://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/delphi_prism. The Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 trial also includes a Prism XE2 trial edition.
Embarcadero Prism XE2 is sold under a subscription model so upgrade pricing is not available. Once you purchase Prism, you should renew your Support and Maintenance yearly to continue to receive upgrades. If you don't renew, you will have to purchase the next version of Prism at the new user price.
If you are a registered users of any paid Delphi, C++Builder, or RAD Studio (version 2009 or later), you qualify for upgrade pricing on RAD Studio XE2 which includes Prism XE2. Academic products don't qualify for upgrade pricing.
Embarcadero Prism XE2 standalone products include a year of support and maintenance. Prism and RAD Studio users can download the latest software updates from the Prism registered users web page athttp://cc.embarcadero.com/reg/delphi_prism. More major new feature upgrades are available only to users with current Maintenance agreements. Notifications for those upgrades are delivered via email and the upgrades can be downloaded via the Maintenance Portal web site by following the instructions in the email.
No. If you purchase RAD Studio XE2, the first year of support and maintenance is not included in the price. We strongly recommend that you purchase Support and Maintenance for your RAD Studio product so you can get access to new Prism features as they become available, rather than having to wait and purchase an upgrade to the next major release of RAD Studio.
Embarcadero Prism XE2 is available in English, French, German and Japanese. At install time you can choose the language that you would like to install. The product documentation is available in English only.
Embarcadero Prism XE2 is available with multiple licensing options including:
Embarcadero Prism XE2 is available to academic users at a discount as part of the RAD Studio XE2 Academic products.
Yes. With Embarcadero Prism XE2, you also get access to a license and download for earlier version Delphi Prism XE.
If you purchase individual named user licenses, go to http://www.embarcadero.com/xe2-earlier-versions after you register your XE product serial number. You can enter your registered XE serial number and get serial numbers and downloads for the older version. The license will be tied to your user account and cannot be given away or sold. If your XE2 license is an upgrade, you will not receive duplicate licenses for the older version(s) you upgrade from.
You must request your older version license within 180 days of your purchase of the XE2 product.
If you purchase Network Named AppWave or Concurrent AppWave licenses, the older version license will be included as part of your network license. Each network license count is a suite license that can be used to run one of the included versions at a time.
Previously there was a separate Command Line Edition download available. Starting with Embarcadero Prism XE2, you can install the command line compiler by using the Prism XE2 installer or trial installer and unchecking all of the options in the "Select Components" dialog except RemObjects Oxygene Command Line Compiler.
The most up-to-date documentation is available in the online Documentation Wiki at http://wiki.oxygenelanguage.com.
The Prism Primer at http://wiki.oxygenelanguage.com/en/The_Prism_Primer/en/The_Prism_Primer provides a great step-by-step introduction to Prism.
Though there are many similarities between the Object Pascal based Delphi language and Prism's Oxygene language, there are differences and we wanted to avoid any confusion between the two so you will now see the product name as Embaracdero Prism and the language name Oxygene.
No. Cooper is a sister product to Prism that offers the same Oxygene programming language but targets Java. Cooper is available from RemObjects Software at http://www.remobjects.com/.
InterBase XE Developer Edition is InterBase XE Server licensed for up to 20 users and 80 logical connections. You can install InterBase Developer Edition on a server for testing purposes using the serial number included in the Prism readme file or you can download and request a serial number from the InterBase download page athttps://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/interbase.
When you're ready to deploy applications using InterBase, Embarcadero offers a variety of editions (Desktop, Server and To-Go) and a variety of licensing options (flexible server licensing, multi-packs and OEM licensing). Contact Embarcadero Sales or partners for more information. See the license terms in the RAD Studio license.rtf file for additional licensing details.
If you want to go beyond .NET application development with additional tools for native Windows, Java, PHP and Ruby on Rails coding; plus a complete set of database tools, Embarcadero All-Access XE is the solution for you.
Embarcadero All-Access XE provides all the application development and database tools you need-when you need them-across all major platforms, frameworks, and programming languages. It's the single, cost-effective toolbox solution for developers, architects, performance testers, and DBAs.
All-Access XE provides you with industry-leading database tools, including DBArtisan® XE, Rapid SQL® XE, ER/Studio®, and many more. It also provides powerful application development tools, including Delphi® XE, JBuilder®, C++Builder® XE, Embarcadero Prism XE, RadPHP the InterBase database, and more.
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You must have the .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.0 installed to install and run Prism.
No -- Prism can be targeted to link against any version of the .NET Framework from version 1.1 to 4.0. The developer can choose which version to link against.
Do I have to buy Visual Studio from Microsoft in order to use Prism
No. Prism contains a full copy of the Visual Studio Shell. If your machine doesn't have a copy of either the Shell or a Visual Studio Professional edition or above already installed, Prism will install the Visual Studio Shell 2010 for you before installing the Prism Oxygene language plug-in and features.
If you already have a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher installed, Prism will integrate directly into your existing Visual Studio install automatically.
Prism runs inside the Visual Studio Shell. This is basically the Visual Studio IDE without any language plug-ins from Microsoft. Thus, you see the Microsoft branding. But rest assured that you can see Prism as soon as you select the File|New... menu.
No. Because of the way that the Microsoft Express products are installed, they will not integrate directly into installation of Visual Studio Shell. However, Prism and the Visual Studio Express products can reside on the same machine together and can be run side-by-side. However, if you have Prism installed, and then install Visual Studio 2010 Professional edition or higher, you will get the Visual Studio functionality in the same IDE as Prism.
Prism applications will run almost anywhere the Common Language Runtime (CLR) exists. Prism applications will take full advantage of the .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 Frameworks on Windows. Prism applications will also work on Mono for Linux. In addition, Prism applications will execute on Mono for the Mac.
No. Development for VCL.NET has been deprecated and will not be supported in Prism. Developers using VCL.NET can either use Delphi 2007 to continue those products or can migrate their VCL.NET applications to VCL for Win32.
Probably not without some changes. While the languages used by Delphi for Win32 and Prism are very similar, they are not entirely compatible. Each language has features and idioms designed specifically for the platforms that they are meant to run on. However, the languages are close enough that code written for one can usually be used on the other with minor changes.
Yes – Prism includes a "compatibility" switch which enables certain language features that will be more familiar to Delphi for Win32 developers. This option can be set on a per-project basis as part of the project options tab.
Prism will compile against the CF assemblies. However, there is no design-time support as the Compact Framework designers are closely integrated with the C# and VB.NET personalities of Visual Studio and not available for use by other language plug-ins.
The Oxygene compiler was written by RemObjects.
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Garrycastle 3-13 Athlone 0-9
Three first half goals virtually decided this final round league game of the season in favour of Garrycastle. Played on a perfect evening for football in Garrycastle, Athlone started the stronger with an early point before James Sheeran fisted the ball to the net, after a high ball by Cathal Mannion, for the first of Garrycastle 's goals. Athlone's tactic of crowding the midfield was succeeding in stifling many of Garrycastle early attacks. The next stage of the game saw Garrycastle outscore Athlone by 4 points to 2, Garrycastle 's points all coming from frees by Conor Cosgrove (3) and Dessie Dolan (1). A good Garrycastle move ended with Tom O'Halloran beating the Athlone goalie with an angled shot. Another high ball troubled the Athlone defence resulting in Conor Cosgrove scrambling the ball to the net. A good Eoin Monaghan point finished the scoring leaving the halftime score 3-6 to 0-4.
On the resumption Garrycastle continued their dominance with a Cathal Mannion point. John Gaffey added another after a rare sally up the field. Gary McCallon got the first of his two points before Eoin Monaghan, Dessie Dolan, Mathew Guiheen and Gary McCallon added points for the home side. Athlone added 5 points to their tally. Mark Keenan brought off an excellent save on the only occasion that Athlone breached the Garrycastle defence. The defence in general was solid with John Gaffey outstanding and Gary McCallon adding an attacking dimension. The midfield more than held their own and in attack the high ball created difficulty for the Athlone defence. This result leaves Garrycastle in the league final against St Lomans.
GARRYCASTLE:- Mark Keenan, Gary McCallon (0-3), John Gaffey (0-1), Anthony Larkin, Neil Rhattigan, Doran Harte, Mathew Guiheen (0-1), Justin Barrett, Jonathan Maguire, Eoin Monaghan (0-2), Dessie Dolan (0-2, 0-1f), Tom O'Halloran (1-0), Conor Cosgrove (1-3, 0-3f), James Sheeran (1-0), Cathal Mannion (0-1).
Subs Michael Monaghan for Jonathan Maguire; Frank Farrell for Tom O'Halloran; Gary Mullery for Neil Rhattigan; Enda Keena for Dessie Dolan' Colm Lynch for Gary McCallon.


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I headed off for another lunchtime meal in Midtown yesterday. This time at FreeFoods NYC which I've walked by several times and have always been intrigued by the awesome looking juices people walk out of there with.
FreeFoods NYC – Per their website
"Specializing in Contemporary Organic Cuisine – flavorful, nutritious , and creative foods designed especially for a busy lifestyle"
What it SHOULD say is "flavorful, nutritious, and creative foods designed especially for those with a lot of money".
You see this…
That little slice of pizza will cost you $6.50.
Yes, it's healthier than the $1 slices Ray's (or whoever) is selling right across the street. But, it definitely explains why this spot was close to empty during the lunch hours in Midtown. And it explains why my salad and juice (to go) cost me over $20.
I absolutely understand that organic, healthily prepared food is worth more. But, it's hard to justify spending $20 a day on lunch. This place is for a splurge, only.
My lunch was fine. I went with the macrobiotic cobb salad. (ate it too fast to get a picture) and a delightful juice.
The 7 Green (kale, spinach, parsley, cucumber, pear, apple & lime). Well, mine was only a "5 Green" since they were out of pears and substituted my lime for lemon. But, it still tasted fresh, delicious and healthy. 3 of my favorite things.
I think you can tell. FreeFoods NYC was fine. I was just a little put off by the prices. Not customary for the neighborhood and not worth it, in my opinion.
- Food – * * * *
- Service – * * *
- (The juicer was broken & it took about 15 mins for someone to fix it. And they didn't seem to care too much)
- Ambiance – * * * *
- (Cool, clean & beautiful)
- Price Value – *
- Overall – Underwhelmed
And, nothing to do with FreeFoods NYC but, this was my view as I walked home last night.
This weekend, and anytime I look at the Manhattan skyline, my thoughts are with the victims, families and brave first responders who lost their lives 10 years ago on 9/11. God Bless.


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Google Weighs Boosting Encrypted Sites in Its Search Algorithm
A powerful voice at Google wants websites to be more secure.
In a move that experts say could make it harder to spy on Web users, Google is considering giving a boost in its search-engine results to websites that use encryption, the engineer in charge of quality control for search results hinted at a recent conference.
The executive, Matt Cutts, is well known in the search world as the liaison between Google's search team and website designers who track every tweak to its search algorithms.
Cutts also has spoken in private conversations of Google's interest in making the change, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person says Google's internal discussions about encryption are still at an early stage and any change wouldn't happen soon.


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Well hello 2017. I wonder what you will bring? Is it a year to embrace balance and take time? Is it a year for big adventures? Is it a year that will scamper along? Maybe all of the above...
Loving // The lazy days, filled with good books, a movie or two and time to pursue hobbies at leisure.
Eating // Italian cuisine. I have been inspired by Silvia's Italian Table. I have been watching on ABC iView and doing a spot of cooking myself!
Drinking // Gin and tonic!
Feeling // A bit hot under the collar...it's summer in the outback and the rhythm of our day follows accordingly
Making // A photo book of the family photos from 2016. I hate them languishing on my laptop! I use Snapfish
Thinking // About belonging, what it means to me and how you can create it
Dreaming // Of kayaking in New Zealand, eating gelato in Italy, taking a train through Switzerland...
What are you dreaming of for 2017? Do you feel a belonging somewhere?
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I frequently find myself wondering how much emotion is appropriate to show ones children. My kids have seen me very upset by another person once and crying from being very ill once. Each child had a very different reaction and handled the situation uniquely. My ASD son on seeing me being upset was rearing and ready to go and hurt the "ugly man" who made me so sad that we had to hold him back. My other son was calm yet a bit concerned and interested in this newfound side to his mom and my daughter was a bit confused. On the incident of me being very ill my ASD son was very anxious and crying, he tried to help me, called for help and screamed when he had to leave me. My other two children comforted me in their own unique ways.
I think it is an important lesson in life for our children to see human emotion especially from their parents. It can be used as a guiding force in how to handle various emotions. Although I firmly believe in this principle my kids have not seen all my ranges of emotion, specifically sadness, anxiety and fear. I keep these very much in check, as I also believe as a parent I need to protect my children, they do not need to be exposed to too much too early. So what is the elusive balance, in teaching our kids emotion and how to deal with it through our own experiences, yet protecting them from our own hurt, fears and anxieties?
I grew up in a family where my father was a typical man and very emotionally strong. My mother on the other hand is a much more emotional being and perhaps shared too much. I have always prided myself in being able to feel emotions but not overtly showing them. In truth I have realised over the last few years that this is a farce. By not showing your emotions or having an outlet, I think I have become quiet hard and one of my challenges of having an ASD child has been to feel more emotion and realising I will not fall apart.
Naturally my kids have seen me cross or angry, especially as this is often directed at something they may or may not have done. I do not like to shout, but we all do it as parents and of course I have days when I do more than my fair share. My kids always get ample warning that they are pushing me and that I am getting frustrated. How my two neuro-typical kids will handle emotions of anger I am not yet sure. They are little and still have temper tantrums or fits of tears to vent their emotions. My ASD son who already has frustration tolerance and anger issues, shouts at us and gets extremely angry and moody. I do get concerned that I, in some way, may reinforce his behaviour. Working on his anger and mine is something I address all the time.
My ASD son started "big school" this week. Who can explain why for mothers the first day of "big school" and school uniforms tug at our heartstrings, which are apparently directly joined to our tear-ducts. I found myself in a familiar position with him. I wanted to be emotional but felt I had to hold back. I did not think him seeing me with tears in my eyes would bode well for his anxiety levels. My plan was therefore to drop him off and afterwards feel the emotion. The moment I walked out of the school there was a silent sob from me, but the moment was lost and I found myself feeling sad that I lost the ability to feel the emotions I knew were inside me. I saw other moms with tears streaming down their faces and hugging one another. I felt very excluded from this experience. Holding my emotions so close and tight affects my ability to feel. I want to feel them but I have a valid reason to keep my emotions close to my heart. But by doing so, I become closed off and hardened; a very common occurrence in special needs' moms.
Excitement is another emotion my husband and I keep close to our hearts; we were so excited about his first day of school as was his younger brother and his granny and nannies. Out pop the cameras, I would have loved to behave like the paparazzi and shoot 10's of photos for this occasion, however 2 to 3 was the maximum amount we could get. Making a big deal of this day would set up expectations he could not handle. As does making a big fuss about the fact that he has just learnt to swim or read his first word. There seems to be an immense anxiety on his behalf about us having immense excitement in his abilities. It feels like he senses our expectations and this is too much for him.
Anxieties and fear are of course other emotions that have to be controlled. My son can feel my anxiety in a situation and it just feeds his anxiety. I think it is beneficial for my ASD son that I hold myself back in most contexts. I think it enables him to make more sense of his world and cope better. He does not necessarily understand certain emotions yet, so they may be confusing to him and can also be too much for him to tolerate and work through. Luckily for me when it comes to cuddles and love, he is really an affectionate child who is very demonstrative. I know many parents with ASD children who have this as an added battle; their children do not tolerate affection. This can be demoralising and soul destroying for some parents but they become accustomed to it and learn not to take it personally. Yet for other parents it is always an immense aspect of pain. For most moms, hugs and kisses are supposed to heal and make it better, but these too, can be another set of tools ripped from an ASD parent's armada.
For my other two kids I feel I am doing them an injustice. Even though I am a very loving mom, they do not get to see all sides of me and learn human emotion and how to deal with feelings from me, even in a small and yet still protected way. I can talk about them being sad, excited, powerless and anxious but never really show them this emotion in me, or give them lessons in how I deal with these emotions. They are very interested in the fact that I may sometimes cry; why mommy, when mommy; even how mommy, do you have tears, do you make a loud noise or a soft noise?
I always used to have an irrational fear that if I truly felt my emotions I would become depressed or fall apart. This is not an uncommon fear. Many of us do not like the thought of dealing with our emotional stuff; we are concerned if we go there we may not be able to handle the emotions. I have worked hard in the last 3 years to come into touch with my emotions. This has been beneficial, as I love being aware of what I feel. I just wish I had the ability or luxury to show these emotions more, not always having to be so held together. I think instinct plays a role in holding me back – even if it does feel a bit unnatural. But, I have worked so hard to feel more and I do wonder what would happen if I was a more feeling and emotionally open parent? What are the gains and losses to each approach?


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I'm so surprised that I really, really love Fonzworth Bentley's Fireside Chat. This brother has "some sense" as my grandma would say. He is underestimated. He is also signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music. His debut album, Cool Outrageous Lovers of Uniquely Raw Style or C.O.L.O.U.R.S. was slated to drop in 2008, but was delayed. Wonder why they are sleeping on this Morehouse alum.
Oh the apologies that he gave out need to be given out so so so so bad. I know all those artists were like, "Yes! Finally!". Come on hip hop A&R people. Yall got to stop giving deals to people who sound like they read and spell on a 3rd grade level.


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NRC Regulations by Subject Matter
NRC regulations are found in Title 10, "Energy," of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Chapter I, Parts 1–199 and are listed by part in the index to Title 10 of the CFR. You may also purchase NRC regulations from the Government Printing Office (GPO) Bookstore in a two-volume, paperback annual version.
The parts applicable to all licensees are 2, 19, 20, 21, 51, 71, 170, and 171. See the following Regulations, Guidance, and Communications pages for the parts applicable to specific types of licensees:
Nuclear Reactors
- Operating Reactors
- New Reactors
- Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning
- Operator Licensing (Operating Reactors)
- Operator Licensing (New Reactors)
Nuclear Materials
- Radioactive Materials
- Medical, Industrial, and Academic Uses of Nuclear Materials
- Fuel Cycle Facilities
- Source Material
- Uranium Recovery
- Materials Decommissioning
- Materials Transportation
Radioactive Waste
- Low-Level Waste Disposal
- High-Level Waste Disposal
- Waste Incidental to Reprocessing
- Spent Fuel Storage
- Spent Fuel Transportation
Nuclear Security
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A lot of people underestimate twitter it seems. I've been looking at a lot of companies and how they interact with twitter and I just can't believe it. They fall into the trap of making a twitter account and then neglecting it of anything more than a few cursory throw-away tweets. There's no attempt made to leverage prime options for connecting with their customers. It's a sad state of things that companies neglect such a powerful tool. It's understandable as it was relatively new. A few years ago. But now that it's out, and now that there are leaders in the market driving new and innovative ways to interact and leverage the website it's just inexcusable, really.
Take for instance the twelp force I've talked about previously. Why aren't more companies doing that? Why are companies like Marriott protecting there tweets? They only have 78 followers as of writing this article. They could be tweeting about deals, they could be tweeting about work they are doing. Anything would be good. But they aren't even tweeting at all? It's embarrassing. While they might be doing anything with twitter, doing just something isn't ver good either. In fact, in some cases it can be more harmful than doing nothing. But like Socrates said, an unexamined life is not worth living.
What you need is an executable twitter strategy. Before you jump into the water you need to be wearing the proper gear. Jumping in with nothing at all may be fun, but it can get you in trouble- double trouble if the water is cold. You need to prepare yourself. You need to know what you are representing and how you are going to represent it. You need to understand the ins and outs of the platform. You need to have something of VALUE to tweet about. And most of all, at least to me, you need to have some kind of funny bone. The most famous or "successful" people on the web generally are pretty funny. So work on your 160 character delivery, buck-o.
Want to know more about the influencer formula, influencer marketing, and b2b influencers? Hit me up at email@example.com


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212 E Broughton St. Savannah, GA 31401 • leopoldsicecream.com
Once upon a time I used to work at one of the best ice cream parlors in the country, East India in Winter Park, Florida. The inventors of Oreo Ice Cream. I know according to Wikipedia Emack & Bolio's in Boston claims they did it in 1975 and Huggs McShane from Portland claims they did it in 1978 but I can assure you they were both behind East India who had already been serving it for years by 1974.
The reason I bring this up is that I think it gives me unofficial ice cream expert credentials. So, if a court case were to ever break out over ice cream, I believe that I could serve as an expert witness if need be. Thus, it is with great pride and self-proclaimed expertise that I give a resounding two thumbs up to Leopold's. Even with all the hype, Leopold's sailed over the bar. Every flavor we tried was a work of frozen magic. Disney's Elsa, eat your heart out.
My favorite was the Rum Bisque, made with a serious doses of actual rum, making it a clever way to circumvent open container laws. Another clever touch is the addition of hazelnut macaroon chunks throughout, making it more addictive than the alcohol within, if that's even possible.
A very close second was the Honey & Almond (pictured). So rich with honey, if your eyes were closed you'd swear your tongue was halfway up the ass of a queen bee. But in a good way. It's just awesome. Almost hard to believe how pure the flavor is, but I guess it's to be expected from a town that prides itself so strongly on the sticky stuff.
And last but not least, the chocolate chocolate chip. A bit less inventive than the first two, but every bit as delish in its own right. Made with decadent chunks of dark chocolate folded into a rich, creamy ball of cocoa bliss. Screw Coco Puffs. This will make you certifiable for certain.
***Okay, year two and once again we made the pilgrimage to Leopold's, this time trying a few new flavors, all of which proven to only further solidify my love for this former Hollywood Producer turned ice cream tycoon. The best of the new three being the Frozen Hot Chocolate, complete with marshmallows, of course. It's basically Rocky Road without the rocks (walnuts). Next for me would be the Pistachio, loaded to the gills with chunks of actual pistachios. And finally, the plain old chocolate. It's good for what it is, but a touch boring comparatively. But you really can't go wrong here, no matter what you choose, so feel free to let your cravings guide you.


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Ok, we've still got a bit of sun, but let's be honest, we're in the run-up to winter and winter clothing – which could include this A.P.C. Peacoat.
On the face of it, this is just like any other peacoat on the market, but there are a few added extras to make it worth the outlay. That includes a sleek finish on the 100 per cotton coat, a removable wind collar and epaulettes, adding to the expect double-breasted fastening, side pockets and inside pocket.
All of which will set you back around £260.
Find out more at the End Clothing website


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Are you a people person? Do you like helping home owners get reliable exceptional cooling, heating, and plumbing services? Then the retail sales associate job with ARS may be what you are looking for.
American Residential Services provides cooling, heating, and plumbing services by trusted professionals, doing every job right the first time. Our retail team represent ARS as a marketing agent of products and services at a major retail outlet providing first contact with potential customers.
ARS is accepting applications from qualified sales associates for those retail store positions. For those exceptional people who love the excitement of a sales job, who love taking the initiative and working independently, who love helping people, and who love to learn new skills, then look to our retail sales associate jobs at ARS. If you have experienced success in any of the following jobs, we want to hear from you:
Generous hourly pay with added performance-based incentive-earnings are just a few of the benefits of an ARS Retail Associate Job.
Apply today, and join our Talent Network to start earning to your potential today.
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