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Speyside climbing wall reaches new heights
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SPORT and fitness in Moray is set to be taken to a whole new level when a new £50,000 climbing wall is unveiled in Speyside.
The new facility at Speyside Sports and Community Centre in Aberlour is to be launched at an open day between 10am and 4pm tomorrow (Saturday).
Local councillor Fiona Murdoch said it was a fantastic new facility for Speyside and Moray which will have great appeal to visitors and locals alike.
Speyside climbing wall reaches new heights
Supported by a number of funding bodies, community groups and the local public, the 7.3-metre-high wall is designed for both novice and experienced climbers, with several routes to choose from.
Equipment such as climbing shoes, harnesses and ropes are all available from the centre for anyone wishing to have a tasting session at the open day, while climbers will be on hand to give advice.
The day-to-day running and maintenance of the centre will be taken on by Moray Council, jointly through the school and the sport and community centre.
Councillor Murdoch, who represents the Speyside Glenlivet ward, said: "Outdoor adventure activities are growing enormously popular, and the climbing wall allows people to practise for the real thing as well as providing a new indoor sporting opportunity in its own right.
"I am sure the climbing wall will be a magnet for people of all ages to come to Aberlour to try this challenging new sport."
Tomorrow's launch will give people of all ages and abilities the chance to try out the facility. It will also include a talk by Kev Shields, who features on climbing and outdoor programmes, and regularly guides climbs.
The new wall replaces one built as part of the original school building in 1976, and has come about through the efforts of a steering group including representatives from the local community, Speyside High School and Speyside Sports and Community Centre.
Funding and support came from Moray LEADER, SportScotland, the Big Lottery Fund, Aberlour Community Association, William Grant & Sons, Glenlivet and Inveravon Community Association, Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire Mrs Clare Russell, and the local community.
The centre aims not only to provide a facility for the school and community, but to draw visitors to the area, where weather is often unsuitable for hill climbing.
It has a range of lead and bottom-roped routes that will be changed to maintain variety for regular users. Two dominating roof sections extend the length of routes by five metres, creating two of the longest horizontal roofs in Scotland.
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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Oct 3, 2011
Serendipity, Or retracing a path in order to leave it...
"From Secretaries of State to the backrooms of alternative cafes, concerns are always expressed in the same words, the same as they've always been. We have to get mobilized. This time it's not to rebuild the country like in the post-war era, not for the Ethiopians like in the '80s, not for employment like in the '90s. No, this time it's for the environment. It thanks you for your participation... Voluntary austerity write large on their banner, the work benevolently to get us ready for the 'coming ecological state of emergency.' The globular sticky mass of their guilt lands on our tired shoulders, pressuring us to cultivate our garden, sort out our trash, and eco-compost the leftovers of this macabre feast.
Managing the phasing out of nuclear power, excess CO2 in the atmosphere, melting glaciers, hurricanes, epidemics, global overpopulation, erosion of the soil, mass extinction of living species...this will be our burden. We have to consume a little less to be able to keep consuming. We have to produce organically to keep consuming. We have to control ourselves to go on controlling. This is the logic of a world straining to maintain itself while giving itself an air of historical rupture. This is how they would like to convince us to participate in the great industrial challenges of this century. And in our bewilderment we're ready to leap into the arms of the very same ones who presided over the devastation, in the hope that they will get us out of it.
Ecology isn't simply the logic of a total economy; it's the new morality of capital. The system's internal state of crisis and the rigorous screening that's underway demand a new criterion in the name of which this selection and screening will be carried out. From one era to the next, the idea of virtue has never been anything but an invention of vice. Without ecology, how could we justify the existence of two different diets, one 'healthy and organic' for the rich and their children, and the other notoriously toxic for the plebes, whose offspring are damned to obesity. The planetary hyper-bourgeoisie wouldn't be able to make its normal lifestyle seem respectable if its latest whims weren't so scrupulously 'respectful of the environment.' Without ecology, nothing would have enough authority to gag every objection to the exorbitant progress of control.
Tracking, transparency, certification, eco-taxes, environmental excellence, and the policing of water, all give us an idea of the coming state of ecological emergency. Everything is permitted to a power structure that bases its authority in Nature, in health and in well-being."
The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee, semiotext(e), 2009
It is Emergency which defines our coming age. It is to Emergency - and the preface to our age of Emergency was written in the extended verse of the "War on Terror" - that every justification for continued maintenance of the forms of power will refer. It is Emergency which mobilizes the masses. It is in the name of a succession of Emergencies that the ruling class and its states will attempt to strangle the arising and invigorated struggles against them.
So it means something, I think, that the folks involved in the OWS experiment have begun by rejecting the acculturated norm of Emergency and its consequent hierarchies, urgency, command orientation and urge to assign marching orders and battle order.
I know for Trots and Leninists like Richard Seymour, and the various dialectically constrained parties of Europe and sheltered academia, the OWS reclaimers and the inherent argument of their method (which echoes the quote above) are at best problematic, because it recommends abandoning the hierarchical and partisan organizational mode which dominated resistance to capital, imperial nationalism and colonial powers over the last one hundred fifty years. It further anticipates a fight which exceeds the limits of the party structure, and its intellectualist vanguard, who are obedient to norms which are no longer really prevalent. Those engaged with today's conditions are proving forward enough to identify the functional unity of state and corporation, as well as recognizing that the apparatuses used to obtain, process, share and utilize information, security and the capture of privatized knowledge are nested within each others' overlapping spheres of influence and authority.
The self-organized are not fighting old battles against dead enemies. Unlike the official socialist, social democratic, liberal and sectarian factions which seek to channel and corral dissatisfaction with living conditions into a capture of state offices and meliorative state policy, the latest wave of rebels - from Tunisia to Egypt to England, France and now the US - have begun from a starting premise, perhaps unvoiced, which recognizes the material conditions of our common now.
We live in a political and economic environment which strains at the edge of a closed system that has failed to expand fast enough to contain its discontents. It was once properly understood as an expanding closed system, but it has probably already passed its terminal point, and begun a period of both contraction and reaction. The second law of thermodynamics will not yield or compensate for the feedback loops the system produces within its own overlaid areas of control.
It is a system governed by men who have no choice to but recolonize their own homelands, to treat their captive populations as both markets and surplus stomachs and desires. But these feedback loops of discontent, the repricing of labor's value, the rise of debt and household overhead, the disruption of climate norms, the cascading failures of the food distribution system which follows and the accumulation of governing costs** that outpace the benefits given to those who rule: these have their own set of consequences, the most immediate of which is fracturing of the ruling class consensus of the last seventy years. It was once possible to satisfy the cultivated public demand for security and prosperity while retaining the control of the economy which allows for a ruling class, through a disciplining of workers and managers which bound them to a national project which purported to involve them in the pursuit of the chimera of economic growth. That this national project was largely defined by who it excluded did not matter much over the major period of its application, because it invested the type simultaneously most dangerous and most necessary to the system in the preservation of it; namely the aspiring middle class white male and his familial group.
It was the trade and union laborer which threatened the ruling class through the period encompassing the last decade of the nineteenth century and first three of the twentieth. And that worker was almost universally of European descent, and male.
Certainly, women and minorities played significant parts in the early labor struggles, as evidenced in Lawrence, New York, St. Louis and the Pacific Northwest - but they had no effective voice in how labor approached its struggle with capital. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Red Emma Goldman, Mother Jones and Voltairine de Cleyre might be famous, not the least of which for their notoriety - but they were the exceptions which proved the rule; formidable women who rose to prominence precisely in contrast to the white male norm, gaining influence and lasting import by their ability to break with it.
The New Deal, coupled with the so-called shared prosperity of the boom years of post-war America and successful anti-Communist propaganda (paid for by tax receipts and Chamber of Commerce ad buys) solidified the disciplining of labor by subsuming it within the national project. It vested the white male who controlled and comprised the bulk of organized labor in the creation and maintenance of the expanding closed system of American military power and economic might. He became its primary defender, and the preservative agent most resistant to revolution, and its paler cousin, reform.
Perhaps for this reason, those excluded from the dominion of prosperity - women, minorities, migrant workers and cast-offs from the Christianized nationalism into which labor had allowed itself to be co-opted - sought new ways of reaching the social escape velocity which would allow them to flee the gravity sink of the American culture and power; a culture which obligated them to do obeisance to the various hierarchies dominated by white men, this including labor, in order to share from the leavings and scraps of the expanding system's growth.
It is also worth noting that every time an economically viable group of them managed that escape, it became the priority of labor's official organs, as well as its allegedly representative national party (the Democrats, after 1964) to recapture them and mobilize their efforts, organizations and modes of existence back towards the controlled markets, household norms, political offices and especially the doctrine of growth and personal success which maintained the ruling class system as both distracting spectacle and iron gloved hand of control. It might be useful to see official labor and the Democratic Party as an early social version of the Star Wars program, organized to perform a defense more against internal discontent than any supposed outside threat.
Of course, some who broke away - the early lesbian separatists, the Black Panthers, the Weathermen (despite, or perhaps because of their flaws), Marxist and black feminists, the AIM and their like - could not be re-absorbed precisely because they rejected the chief signifiers of labor's compromise with capital: whiteness, male power and hierarchical control. These were handled in the usual fashion - criminalization, ostracism and slander. They were Othered, often violently, because the community in force was already defining them as those who marked the limit of that community by their exclusion from it; their exclusion reinforced the inside-ness of the white and male dominated norm. They were attempting necessary escapes, but those attempts themselves reinforced power by providing it with a domestic enemy: as spectacles, as the internal outsiders who could not be trusted to sit beneath the table of growth and accept their allotted place and pittance. Theirs was a series of prison breaks. But, in attempting them, they reinforced the hand which held them and others to the disciplined norm. A double bind, and a terrible fate: to assert one's necessary freedom and to know that it strengthened the hold of the oppressor not only over those who were othered, but also over the disciplined white worker whose appropriated labor was the primary engine of ruling class power.
The normative laborer of the twentieth century was a creature of mobilization. He was disciplined to it. He was Taylorized in school. He was encultured to it at the kitchen table, the Boy Scout camp and at the altar. He was mobilized to war, in Europe, across the Pacific, and later in Korea and Vietnam. He was mobilized to beat the Japanese factory. And the German engineer. To save Africa. To stop the dominoes falling. To stop stagflation. He was mobilized to fight communism, to acquire debt, to own a share of the so-called American dream, to have the best math scores, to test higher than the Koreans, or the Finns. He was mobilized to do sport, and to watch it. He is even now mobilized to own a car and drive it everywhere. He is mobilized to save the economy, the nation and the American brand. He is a herded beast. One who was raised and indoctrinated to see himself, nonetheless, as entirely autonomous.
And he is dangerous when threatened, because he doesn't really know any other way to live. He is the least adaptive creature on the whole of a continent, because that continent was organized for his needs and his small satisfactions, so long as he traded the lion's share of his labor for his place at the table, and accepted the rule and the ranks of those who mobilized him.
It's with this in mind, through this lens, that perhaps we ought to understand the explicit refusal of the folks at OWS to mobilize themselves, to establish a hierarchy and a platform which replicates the forms of ruling class power and its sanctioned organs of captured labor. One which, also not incidentally, breaks with the top-heavy and institutionalized European model as well. It is not insignificant that in Greece, Italy, France and England, it's the self-organized and un-mobilized who have given rebirth to an active and militant Left, and who continue to survive not only the various States' increasingly brazen attempts to contain them, but the official and sanctioned "leftist" parties' efforts to capture and corral their efforts towards the capture of electoral offices.
Perhaps, abandoning the structures designed to capture and discipline, the new rebels - in Tahrir and Tunisia, in London, Paris, New York, Athens and all over the world - have done so from a burgeoning awareness of the "rigorous screening" and the surveillance state which emerged from it. The decentralization of their social space, as well as their embrace of anonymity seems to suggest that this is so. Even in their eventual failures and setbacks (see, Tunisia and Tahrir; Greece), it is possible that they do and will continue to remain cognizant of the advantages and freedoms won through a refusal to be mobilized and disciplined into manageable and compromised bits and fragments of human terrain.
And if that's the case, even an aging Cynic has cause for a little hope...
* - rhizomatic?
** - which include entertainment and spectacle
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- Unknown said...
It vested the white male who controlled and comprised the bulk of organized labor in the creation and maintenance of the expanding closed system of American military power and economic might. He became its primary defender, and the preservative agent most resistant to revolution, and its paler cousin, reform.
This is the true purpose of the nation-state. Some say the nation-state's true purpose is to wage war but I disagree. The true purpose of the nation-state is to allow one group (the ruling elite) to lord it over other groups in the same state to their own advantage. This is plainly seen here in the U.S. where the ruling elite are for the most part white males. To put it bluntly if you are a white male you enter life with a clear advantage over those who are not white males. I'm sure there are exceptions but that is all they are.
- October 3, 2011 at 2:18 AM
- Mark S said...
Agreed. And, the waging of war (and the attendant demonization of opponents) happens in an unquestioned narrative context, or against an oh-so-familiar archetypal background, that of Good vs. Evil.
If the true purpose of the nation-state is not to wage war, then those wars and the drama of Good vs. Evil that accompanies and justifies them is just kabuki.
And as it happens, as pointed out in The Ballad of Billy and Oscar (though not in the stanza Jack has quoted),
"... we've come to discover that the wrong and the right
They define one another like the day and the night
That there's none free and equal this side of the grave
And the good and the evil can be equally brave."
If the true purpose of the nation-state is to allow one group to lord it over other groups, and the archetypal background against which this is best understood is not Good vs. Evil, then what is it?
I propose that the actual struggle we are engaged in, and the narrative context which best explains it, is that of The One vs. The Many. I think this has been intuitively picked up on by those propagating the "We are the 99 percent" meme -- and that the 1 percent has always known.
This is the idea I was working toward in the comments on Advice for Children, and I don't know that I've got it quite ready for prime time but it's been eating at me for a couple years now, both in the political context, and in the context of the neurodiversity movement that's the focus of the blog I run.
The broad contention here is that The One vs. The Many is fully capable of carrying on its back everything that Good vs. Evil has carried over the past, oh, seventeen centuries (I like to count from the time Rome's emperor accepted Jesus and outlawed paganism). This includes, for example, most of literature, including, say, the Harry Potter series -- which, talk about kabuki, could hardly do more to reinforce the Good vs. Evil narrative, all while keeping the faithful up in arms -- and co-opting, whitewashing, and turning the actual cultural history of magic and witchcraft on its head.
Not unlike what MoveOn and SEIU are likely to do, should they have their way, with OccupyWallStreet.
So how does one subvert the age-old narrative in which each side tries to cast the other as evil? With a competing narrative. And really, I don't know that winning is necessary -- just competing. What's necessary is to show that there's another way, that what we thought was literal reality was only a story we are in -- and that it's possible to be in other stories as well.
And like the man says, if that's the case, even an aging Cynic has cause for a little hope...
- October 3, 2011 at 3:38 AM
- Mark S said...
To clarify, one example of literature that rides on the back of The One vs. The Many is Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, a coming-of-age fantasy adventure that's far more nuanced than Rowling's, and far truer to the psychological reality of adolescence than C.S. Lewis' efforts, which it was written in answer to. If you've not read the books though, don't base your opinion on the movie. Read the books.
- October 3, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Walking my youngest to school, have errands. But, a long reply will follow.
I procured the Pullman books for my oldest, who seemed to enjoy them.
The exceptions - think Condoleeza and Hillary - reinforce the rule, because they are totems whose presence illustrates that they have power by virtue of a gift from the white males who maintain a hold on state and the economy.
- October 3, 2011 at 7:54 AM
- Justin said...
That's it precisely. People say the OWS message is incoherent or that they do not articulate it well. They miss the point, the absence of an agenda is an agenda, one that begins tearing at very deeply embedded assumptions of social and material hierarchies and all that is spent on institutions and propaganda to maintain them.
- October 3, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Unknown said...
Yes, good versus evil is the main theme of just about every novel or movie ever created. I've read C.S. Lewis when I was younger (as many people my age did back in the day) and I must say they are horrid books. They are full of violence, in fact seem to glorify violence, at least as approved of by C.S. Lewis' God. Rowling is just as violent though without the religious context of Lewis. At any rate the good versus evil is certainly a narrow view as you say and they are both human constructs. In fact there is no such thing as good or evil as far as the universe is concerned.
I'm not quite clear on what you mean the one versus the many, but it would certainly seem that we need something better than good versus evil. I mean listening to Obama telling us how evil his victims are as if we were all a bunch of children is revolting enough. They are terrorists, we are nice etc. or Bush with his laughable Axis of evil. It is all extraordinarily simple minded. In the end it would seem that the concept of good is always used as an excuse for the worst kind of violence, state violence.
There is much more to life than a reduction to a simple duality like good and evil. But people tend to think in terms of dualities. Competing narratives would certainly be most refreshing.
I agree, the exceptions are there to give the white male dominance legitimacy, "see, we elected a Black man so we are blah, blah, or see, we are so open minded we voted in a woman." It does seem rather transparent but then people enjoy being fooled, most of the time.
- October 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- Richard said...
Rebuild the Dream, the labor unions and MoveON are planning for a SEPARATE march on Wednesday in support of OWS.
Because, after all, you wouldn't want to associate yourself too closely with it by actually JOINING THEM and accepting their process of participation. Just think what a threatening example that might be. Because, after all, it is essential to integrate OWS into the existing bipartisan electoral process, as was done with the protests in Wisconsin. Because, after all, the primary objective is to render OWS innocuous.
- October 3, 2011 at 4:22 PM
This says it all:
Anyone who thinks that these are a bunch of hipsters listening to lady gaga on their I-phones (or whatever is the latest caricature on corporate owned media) should look at the pages upon pages of stories here!
- October 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- Jack Crow said...
The comment section on this blog is always improved by my inability to participate.
- October 3, 2011 at 6:58 PM
- Unknown said...
I am quite pissed off that MoveOn is co-opting OWS for their own personal interests and have organized a 'virtual march' on WS for this Wednesday online. Van Jones is sending out emails which of course, have a donate button on them..but you are donating to MoveOn, NOT the OWS groups.
How much money do you think Moveon has or will give to the OWS group? My vote is none. What balls they have.
- October 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I think that's the function of MoveOn type groups, Dusty. Once they were co-opted (or created as manageable astroturfing orgs; it's all the same in the end), it became their policy to co-opt.
I think this is an "open hand" moment. For a while now, I've preferred the "closed fist" approach, mostly from a frustration which exists but I find hard to name. Related to my kids.
Since there is no real push back from the powers-that-be, except for the cops forced to police the protesters, the best response to attempt to co-opt and control is a studied nebulous. Make them try to herd amoebas. Make them try to treat open palms as if they were threatening fists.
The unions had heft, but you're right to note that they also bring an effort to colonize a nascent movement with their own structures of control.
There's space for a Long Memory in that project, no?
Incoherence and anonymity have revolutionary aspects in our "rigorously screen[ed]" society.
- October 3, 2011 at 7:07 PM
As was pointed out in another section of "The Coming Insurrection". perhaps the most significantly political act one can take in these times is to act as a movement or a rising that negates existing politics.
- October 4, 2011 at 1:57 AM
- Justin said...
I meant my first comment to read more ironically than it did.
I don't think they are incoherent, but they are unscripted. They are a collection of people who are there fore one unifying reason, the way things are is rigged, its a suckers game, and they are not pretending otherwise. Whatever their personal reasons, they are all there to stop the global capitalist game from continuing its centrifugal pressures of wealth concentration. That is the agenda. It is inconceivable and incoherent to reform minded liberals who just think we need a touch of regulation here and a dab of 'good' politicians there.
I am in NY at the end of today, will be putting together a trip into the city. I'll have my end material and status hiearchy sign right next to the free mumia guy and the guy pointing out his impossible college loan burden.
- October 4, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Jack Crow said...
I think I read it the way you intended. I was just thinking back to a conversation from about a year ago, on anonymity and its uses in our current moral, economic and political clime.
Montag's been working (or playing) through an anti-politics:
Stump Lane
- October 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Jaime Omar Yassin said...
Great essay. I'd only critique it in that the complexion of labor has changed quite a bit since the late nineties. In my own experience, this occurred because activist unions could ask for more, for groups that had been previously excluded from unionization in the service industry, because the financial markets inflated capital. The growth of labor in the last twenty or so years has been a product of corporate largesse, another form of charity really. In the past few years, the limits of union power have been revealed, in that union tactics never had a leg to stand on in the first place. When janitors were marching in the streets in the boom years, a sympathetic and flush public was chiding big corporations to throw them a bone, and felt good about themselves for it. Now, that support is gone, along with the goodwill.
What's been revealed in the meantime are toothless unions searching for a way to be relevant again. The power is within the structure in the form of people organized within a frame of consciousness; they're already acculturated to stand up to the status quo and to question capital relationships. But they need to get out from under these umbrellas, get wet so to speak. I think OWS has the capacity to do this, where union members migrate as individuals to the movement, rather than as followers of their managerial decisions. But I also think that to a certain extent, the onus is on the activists to make the movement appealing to a broader group of people. They need to recruit, and they're in the best place for it in terms of localization, transportation and large numbers of disaffected people. They call they should be to union members, not their managers, who are often organized not much differently than corporations themselves, and with the same kinds of bottom lines, except with human lives as capital.
One last word on MoveOn. I did some reporting on the US Uncut movement that started earlier this year, and met some Move ON folks there. They gave me the impression that the organization in its constituency is more fractured. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the activists at OWS are actually former Move On people, sick of Move On's cowardice.
- October 4, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Criticism freely accepted, and on point.
What's been revealed in the meantime are toothless unions searching for a way to be relevant again. The power is within the structure in the form of people organized within a frame of consciousness; they're already acculturated to stand up to the status quo and to question capital relationships. But they need to get out from under these umbrellas, get wet so to speak. I think OWS has the capacity to do this, where union members migrate as individuals to the movement, rather than as followers of their managerial decisions. But I also think that to a certain extent, the onus is on the activists to make the movement appealing to a broader group of people. They need to recruit, and they're in the best place for it in terms of localization, transportation and large numbers of disaffected people. They call they should be to union members, not their managers, who are often organized not much differently than corporations themselves, and with the same kinds of bottom lines, except with human lives as capital.
...has the makings of an argument worth reading expanded and standing alone.
- October 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Mark S said...
There's a lot we're already doing that's underpinned by One vs. Many thinking, even right here on this page, right from Jack's first multisyllabic word, "decentralized," on to the themes of mobilized vs. gathered, hierarchy vs. self-organization, "Othering" vs. diversity, your own "war vs. one-group-lording-it-over," Justin on the absence of an agenda vs. hierarchies, and Jaime's observation that hierarchy vs. hierarchy is a fight we never really could win. The organizing or archetypal principle, the dominant narrative behind all this is what I'm calling The One vs. The Many (O-v-M). It has a history that presumably extends into pre-history, and as a dominant narrative has arguably been in eclipse "only" since the ascendance of monotheism that began in 4th century Rome. Granted, talking up an archetypal principle with a seventeen-century losing streak doesn't necessarily come off as a useful contribution. All I'm sayin' is, that principle seems to describe what's animating both this thread and the discussion that's spreading out from OWS.
The exceptions to that centuries-long losing streak, what's more, are near and dear: O-v-M is the divine right of kings vs. self-rule. It's media monopolies and control over the free flow of information vs. peer-to-peer networks and the internet. It's the Latin Mass vs. Gutenberg's printing press. It's the Titans of Industry vs. Teddy the Trustbuster. It's the mono- vs. the poly- : theism, culture, chromatic. The monotone vs. the melody. The One True God, Way, Path vs. the ones most of us likely follow.
The new thing under the sun here, I think, is the internet, a manifest, readily available example of "decentralized" -- remember it was intentionally built "headless" so as to be impervious to decapitation in the event of military attack. There's rich irony here, and it's this first generation to have grown up with the internet that's transfered its metaphor to Wall Street.
Re: herding amoebas, Mike Masnick at Techdirt has been all over the story of how Big Media time and again demonstrates how they have no idea what they're up against with distributed, decentralized systems such as bittorrent, file lockers, and usenet. If that battle is any indication, I wouldn't look for a pivot from the powers-that-be anytime soon. Plus, presenting the opposition with a distributed system as a target doesn't leave you open to that sick feeling of exposure and vulnerability-to-being-taken-advantage-of that I get imagining an open hand.
Re: the Pullman books
Evil is present in those books, but as a side-effect, and battling against it is not the organizing principle of the story. The battle is against the consolidation of power, and it's not "for" good, but rather for knowledge, for Pullman's metaphorical Eve to once again taste the apple and renew not the one world, but the many worlds described and implied in the plot.
So. When the powers-that-be start literally treating open hands as fists, and protesters are killed rather than pepper-sprayed, I do wonder how well we will all do at avoiding a default back to good us vs. evil them. That's when I worry about losing sight of the fact that good vs. evil isn't any more of a winnable war here than it is anywhere else.
- October 5, 2011 at 3:43 AM
- Mark S said...
Re: that last sentence.
The way you know exactly which story/myth/dominant narrative you are in?
It's the one about which you say, "But this isn't just a story/myth/dominant narrative! This is real!
- October 5, 2011 at 6:54 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Aye, Mark. The open hand has its dangers, but it is not without its merits. Even if only as a feint.
I am wary of "good and evil," taken as a pair. I've only read Pullman's first book (wanted to see what I was getting my little man into), but it didn't strike me as terribly committed to the dichotomy. A net plus.
- October 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Mark S said...
Wendell Berry re: the feint, from 1973:
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
- October 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM
- Jack Crow said...
This probably isn't the right venue for Laing, but a mention of him seems appropriate here.
- October 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Mark S said...
Heh. That quote is from Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. I don't think Berry ever made direct reference to the radical psychologists, but he did a whole series of Mad Farmer poems. I liked Szasz's collection of epigrams The Untamed Tongue too, and suspect that part of what both he and Laing were describing was the coping strategies of undiagnosed autistics.
- October 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- jaime omar yassin said...
Unions had their day to today, can't criticize them. But I'm sure I'll have ample reason to in the coming days/weeks.
- October 5, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Richard said...
Did I forget to mention that this is a great, insightful post? So much so, that I concluded my post on OWS with a quote from it>
- October 5, 2011 at 9:36 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Obliged, Richard.
- October 6, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Mark S said...
Voltaire on the feint, via Thomas Szasz:
"Perhaps better than anyone, Voltaire understood that only he who is legitimate can successfully wage war against the legitimizers. Asked by his secretary what he would have done had he lived in Spain under the Inquisition, Voltaire replied: 'I would have worn a big rosary, and gone to mass every day and kissed all the monks' sleeves, and tried to set fire to all their monasteries.' Voila l'homme!"
- October 7, 2011 at 12:50 AM


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This is not a post-summer escapade or an early summer treat. This is merely having FUN.
When you choose to go to the beach during off-peak season it is because you can save a lot, certainly because there is rain and it was raining gigantic cats and dogs the time we left for Boracay. Boracay though was still in a summer hangover exactly the same time when the recent heavy monsoon rain was striking Manila. It was blistering hot and the sun I've been chasing in in the metro was just there all this time. The wind was rather strong, quickly morphing ripples to waves.
I will not share my personal musings on the vacation. I choose to share things that might be helpful to some who are planning to go on a trip to Boracay in this season.
The crowd: It wasn't jampacked as we expected but the place doesn't look like it is on its off the peak season. It seems that their resources are just enough to cater the number of people during that time. It made me realize I should avoid Boracay in the summer for a vacation should be easy and relaxing and waiting in a long queue is never in my itinerary.
The majority were foreigners. There were Americans, Iranians, Chinese, Japanese (most were inked with big tattooes and I can't help not to be reminded of Sandi Fellman's photos of these Irezumis) and a lot of Koreans. Some greeted us in their native tongue, "Annyeong haseyo" and it felt necessary to answer with the same I we did. But it's strange that it's us who needs to cope. I should have said "Kamusta", my friend then quipped, "Sabi sayo tayo ang turista dito eh." Well, after learning that the facilities we used in the activities (below) were funded by Japanese investors, bubble thought popped, "Aba, medyo parang ganun nga ah."
Here are the things we tried in chronological order. We're lucky we've sequenced the activities right—from light to extreme.
The brief briefing. He tackled the ATV controls and safety precautions. There were to routes to take and we chose the Aviary + Ocean Tower trail but with additional cost. The other path is a one-stop ride, straight to Puka beach.
This may be the least extreme but it's a steep cliff you're going to roll onto and some edges of the trail have no barriers.
I bumped into these tires and got stuck in between them less than 5 minutes into driving the ATV. My helmet threw in a projectile (just to emphasize the impact haha). Good thing the crew were quick to rescue (sobra naman) but I was even quicker because I was able to take a photo of the view from where I was stuck. And that was our first "epic" stop.
At the aviary
still in the aviary
Ocean Tower, they said that this is the highest spot in Boracay. You can see the island in a bird's eye view here.
2. Zorb
You'll get inside a big ball, it can accommodate up to three persons. The ball will then be pushed to roll. There's water inside, so the tendency is for you to swing in obtuse angles.
Tsk tsk, this is long already. To be continued…here.
Fotonotes: Photos were either by me or Richard Mandras, edited (naks) by yours truly using Pixlr-o-matic.


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Need distracting from the Christmas cheer? No emails coming in as western society grinds to a post office party hungover standstill? Grab your lunch, kick back and feast on this week's Midweek Mini Movies…
We've got Scottish goodness, Swiss bus uplift adventures, Red Bull Rampage, and the Santa Cruise. BMX mad skillz, speedtests, fatbikes, snow, more snow and a quality little film about a shed on the move.
Andy McKenna the man behind Go-Where mountain bike guiding takes Matt Cox from Alpine Bikes Innerleithen along with Dirt School's Andy Barlow for some epic riding through the trails around Torridon in the North West Highlands. The video features some brilliant riding on natural singletrack and some great camera work by film maker Calum Darling. Oh and as it's Torridon you can expect some pretty spectacular scenery too!
The Biggest Bike Shuttle in the World
An adventure story about four yellow cars and two mountain bikers. A film from Filme von Draussen.
The Road to Rampage: Thomas Vanderham & Geoff Gulevich
Rocky Mountain's Thomas Vanderham & Geoff Gulevich traveled down to Utah to compete in this year's Red Bull Rampage, the largest and most dangerous competition in freeride mountain biking. Both of them 'killed it' down there, coming away (mostly) unscathed and placing well (8th for Thomas, 11th for Gully).
This is a short film about all the work and sweat and struggles behind the scenes of a competition like Rampage.
BSD 'Living for the City' Part One
Jersey, Nailz and Reed Stark on the streets of Glasgow…
Possibly the best BMX film you see this year.
Sunday 2nd December 2012 saw Steve Peat and 40 other riders take part in the "Santa Cruise" charity ride on Cannock Chase organised by Joe Whitaker.
We rode the main trails Follow the Dog and the Monkey trail with no other than Steve Peat in attendance. It's not very often you get to ride your local trails with a World Downhill Champion! Filmed by The Bikeschool
Cannondale 26
Aidan Bishop sets out to find out which is the fastest 26in or 29in? – "I was keen to find out just how much faster a 29er is over a 26in wheeled bike. So i pitched my Cannondale Scalpel carbon 26in wheeled bike up against a Cannondale Flash Carbon 29er. Fitted with the same Maxxis tyres on the same Mavic Crossmax SLR wheels, same track, same day, same rider… the results were conclusive!"
1 Minute of Winter
First ride on snow for me and my Fat Bike. I'm having a hoot riding this bike and training for a race in Arctic Lapland in February 2013 the Rovaniemi 150
Had a beautiful day in the Lake District riding up from Ullswater on to the Helvellyn ridge and down Sticks Pass. It's not everyday that you get to share the trail with skiers. A short film by Ed Oxley.
New Snow Ikast 121209
10-15cm of new snow in the forest. Always fun to ride in. Shot with a couple of GoPros at 1080p. A film by Jacob Pilgaard.
Drop in with Zack Giffin in Alaska
Seeing as we're in the snow mood we've got two quality films this week. Firstly, see what it's like to drop in on a Haines, AK line from the point of view of Outdoor Research Sidecountry Skiing Ambassador Zack Giffin.
Livin' Tiny: A Quest For Powder
And finally Cabin Porn meets Roadtrippin'. Where would you go if your house were portable? Would you spend each night in a new spot? Stay camped in a discovered utopia forever? Or would you leave life as a vagabond to the experts?
We invite you to experience their transportable abode through Sam Giffin's Livin' Tiny, an honest documentation of the epic road trip and plan your next great adventure, however tiny or large.
Thanks to everyone that sent in suggestions this week. If you've seen or made anything you reckon should be up here next time, the address is, as ever: email@example.com.
And remember: Keep it livid, yeah?
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ooh – a nice bit of gravelly Tom Waits. Nice surprise!
The tiny house is really a caravan right? – still want one mind! 😀
"Gotthard" snigger.
Pity the 26 vs 29er wasn't an A-B-A test. Kinda makes it invalid unfortunately……..
29er vs 26 tests run by manufacturers always seem to do it on tracks that favour 29ers.
Tiny House movie – really good. I want to go on a … road trip
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So we just had our first day back in business after Hurricane Harvey, and from the sound of it people are getting back to work. A few neighborhoods are still flooded or in danger of flooding, but most have moved on to assessing the damage and figuring out what to do next. We have fielded a bunch of calls about removing peoples countertops, so here's what I recommend:
First of all, take tons of pictures of everything. More pictures than you could ever imagine. If you want the insurance company to pay for it, take pictures and add notes.
Get all wet stuff out of your house immediately. Especially carpets and soggy sheetrock. Cut above any wet sheetrock. I think 4′ is the height of most sheetrock panels, so cut way higher than you need to.
For countertops, don't assume you can remove them without breaking some pieces. And even if you can save them, don't assume you can reuse them. We have trained professionals that have a better chance of removing countertops without breaking them, but sometimes they still crack. Also, matching pieces is very time consuming and difficult. Even with quartz tops, different batches don't usually match, which makes for bad seams. Do not plan on being to match something perfectly just because you know the original name.
So for insurance reasons, if your cabinets have to come out, then you should plan on buying new counters too.
And our final piece of advice, be very careful about contractors. We will eventually hear about lots of people whose contractors disappeared with deposits without doing the work, or people whose remodels took way longer than expected because the contractor was too overloaded. Be very careful about vetting these companies to make sure they are legit. Sometimes you have to pay a little more for the good ones. Check Angies List, BBB, or the GHBA for references. Companies with physical locations tend to have leases and equipment that are expensive to abandon. Businesses with longstanding ties to your community tend to be trustworthy.
Once you have a contractor, realize that all upgrades are out of pocket, and as you go through the process you will want upgrades. Whether it is design details like nice countertops or a mosaic backsplash, or functional items like a nicer cooktop or faucet, unexpected expenses will come up. And you will probably have to pay for these up front, so keep a little cash put to the side to keep your project moving forward. Most things cost more today than they did 5, 10 or 25 years ago, so be careful valuing the stuff in your house by old receipts.
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Have Lower Crude Oil Prices Affected Peru's Petrochemical Industry?
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While the recent drop in oil prices has been detrimental for oil exporting countries since their budgets are highly dependent on oil export revenues, this is not the case for oil importing countries such as Peru. The drop in crude oil prices from $100 per barrel to the current $50 per barrel has proven to be beneficial for Peru's petrochemical trade balance.
For Peru, the drop in crude oil prices means lower import prices for its petrochemical requirements. Not surprisingly, lower prices have stimulated demand, as exemplified in the country's polymer trade. With no local production, Peru is a net importer of polymers. As a result, the total import volumes of key polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, PVC, and PET), into Peru during 2015 is higher than each of the last five years. Undoubtedly lower prices have stimulated this increased demand, with the average price for these polymers having dropped about 18 percent since 2014
Net Imports of Key Polymers to Peru.
With the start-up of operations at the Camisea gas fields in 2004, the country now has tapped its vast reserves, producing more than 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. This has attracted many investors that plan to industrialize these resources and expand the country's petrochemical industry into derivatives such as fertilizers or polyolefins. Unfortunately, it takes many years for major petrochemical projects to come to fruition, between raw material requirements and pricing, acquiring process technology for the chosen products, finding cost-effective logistic routes to key markets, and arranging financing. Consequently, even though no firm plans have been announced for Peru, numerous project developers will continue to promote various petrochemical development plans.
With the Camisea Consortium planning to continue expanding the Camisea and other gas fields, the volumes of feedstocks potentially available for petrochemicals will grow, making petrochemical developments more likely based on natural gas rather than oil (even though not all the oil fields in Peru have been explored). This will continue to make Peru an interesting country for petrochemical developments that can be sustained even in the face of low crude oil prices.


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If you are looking for something to do with the family tomorrow here are a few ideas:
- Norton Commons is hosting "Just for Kids" day, June 11: 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Bring your family to this kid-themed farmers market and sign the roof of the home being raffled in the 2011 Kosair Children's Hospital home and BMW raffle. There will be goody bags for the first 100 kids, inflatables, face painting, a petting zoo, live music, the Worthington Fire Department and the Kosair Children's Hospital balloon. While you are there, be sure to stop by Carmen's Cupcakes for "Laurel's Cupcake," designed by 12-year-old cancer survivor Laurel Dortch. Proceeds from the cupcake and as well as a portion of the proceeds from the farmer's market will benefit Kosair Children's Hospital.
- Jeff Fest - FREE pony rides, FREE giant inflatables (WITH UNLIMITED RIDES), interactive stone carving with Al & Penny Nelson, an art show, face painting, food, live music, plant sale, and booths. Kids activities include making an African mask and a Native American teepee. At 1:15pm -puppet show and story. Jeff Fest will be in Preservation park, 150 W. Market Street. 11am - 4pm You can find more information at: http://www.jeffmainstreet.org/events/jeff_fest/index.html
- Schimpf's Confectionary 120th Anniversary -- candy samples, a Dixieland band, and light refreshments. Schimpff's celebration will be at 347 Spring Street. 11am- 4pm For more information: http://www.schimpffs.com/
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Family photo idea… love it!
Having a new baby in the house is always a blessing and a time to capture moments that you can enjoy as the years pass by.
Generational photos are always great ways to mark moments in time and the love and bond a family has for one another.
Baby hands are so precious, so any family photo idea that has this element I end up loving and this photo is no exception.
The stacking of the hands is a great visual representation of the trust and security a family has. Surrounding the babies hands with yours shows how you will be there for them, protect them and will hold their hand through all the rough times they will experience in life.
I love the depth of this photo and the increasing hand size, which can be a symbol of protection.
There are other family photo ideas that are similar to this that are also wonderful choices for any family album. One that immediately comes to mind is when the father or mother holds out their finger and the baby grabs on to it. This shows how the child loves and needs their parents which is a wonderful sentiment.


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In the previous blog, Philip Nolan, a discussion began about whether Russell Means is Lakota or not, and I'd like to add to that and then move on.
It isn't about blood quantum-the degree a person might have-there's a lot of lateral oppression in that regard-what this is about for me is honesty.
The Crow are a great nation with a rich history and culture, as are the Nakota. The Crow, noted warriors during the plains wars and enemies of the Lakota.
It's as though in Russell's denial he minimizes them as people, I don't like that-it is what the nations have been subjected to for over five centuries.
Every nation suffered and endured a personal hell tailored to them, every nation fought and bled-tribalism and the lack of unity it led to fueled our downfall-and the lesson for this day and age should be that there is no room for it.
There can be no room for ego, pursuing celebrity, or the pimping of a people for self enrichment. No room for lies, the corruption of ceremonies, no selling of anything germane to us as a people lest we fuel our own downfall once again in destroying the essence of who we are and what we believe.
The year 1492 and it's ramifications are well known-but there are other years that negatively impacted the nations just as insidiously-years like 1968, 1973, and 1975-the effects of which are still reverberating across ndn country.
It's becomes easier to forgive others in times of illness-it should be equally as easy to seek forgiveness-some do, and some don't. But always it is, or should be, a time for truthfulness.
Russell said that the time comes to all of us to join the ancestors, and indeed it does, the manner in which we make that passage is what will define it and us as individuals.


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Happy April to you, dear readers! I hope your month is off to a wonderful start. I spent last week-- incidentally, also my spring break from the college--at home recovering from a surgery (I'm totally OK, gratefully) and am finally getting back into my normal schedule of shooting, writing and posting.
Today's story is dedicated to a brilliant round of palette releases, the complete shade lineup for the *Rodin Luxe Lipstick and a curated list of shopping suggestions for sales in which I've been indulging as of late.
Kindly scroll on for more details, swatches and images of the products in action as well as the Bottom Line...
|The *Serge Lutens Beauté Eye Shadow Palette #4
(1) *Serge Lutens Beauté Eye Shadow Palette #4: Housed in a sleek and streamlined compact synonymous with the Serge Lutens line, this palette is a stunning embodiment of gold and bronze, offset with a panel of jet black obsidian for good measure. The epitome of luxury, this quartet is so buttery with velvety color payoff that resists creasing. The shades layer with ease, making this a worthy splurge, indeed.
|Swatches of the *Serge Lutens Beauté Eye Shadow Palette #4 in direct sunlight.
|*Hourglass Graphik Eyeshadow Palette in Vista
(2) *Hourglass Graphik Eyeshadow Palette in Vista: If you are seeking a five shades that look good on every single eye color in the spectrum, I highly recommend Vista. The silky hues--which range from delicate champagne to intense black--have no fallout and magnificent pigmentation and the multidimensional golden bronze tone (next to the black) is worth the entire palette as it is breathtaking on an otherworldly level.
|Swatches of the *Hourglass Graphik Eyeshadow Palette in Vista in direct sunlight.
|The *Laura Mercier Boheme Chic Eye Clay Palette
(3) *Laura Mercier Boheme Chic Eye Clay Palette: Brimming with delicate neutrals in matte and radiant finishes, this new palette (which is already backordered on the Nordstrom site) possesses three luxurious shimmering shades and three muted matte hues that meld into skin with tactile satisfaction. The palette is completed with a radiant setting powder for seamless and crease-free wear. The incandescent rose gold looks incredible as an overall wash of color...it's a truly effortless eye in mere seconds!
Official details, courtesy of Neiman Marcus:
An eyeshadow palette with six, highly pigmented clay-textured eye colors in matte and metallic finishesplus, a setting powder to prolong wear.
The Boheme Chic Eye Clay Palette features studio-inspired, high-performance brushed metal and matte textured clays to give you intense color resisting shadow fall-out. Soft, flexible, clay-like hybrid textures apply beautifully with a unique, wet feel that seems to melt onto your skin. It also comes with an exclusive Air-Light Setting Powder to prolong wear for up to eight hours and prevent creasing.
The Boheme Chic Eye Clay Palette features studio-inspired, high-performance brushed metal and matte textured clays to give you intense color resisting shadow fall-out. Soft, flexible, clay-like hybrid textures apply beautifully with a unique, wet feel that seems to melt onto your skin. It also comes with an exclusive Air-Light Setting Powder to prolong wear for up to eight hours and prevent creasing.
|Swatches of the *Laura Mercier Boheme Chic Eye Clay Palette in direct sunlight.
|The *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette
(4) *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette: Punctuated by a rosy gradient, this genius dual-sided palette includes eight matte and satin shades for eyes and four coordinating cheek colors. The hues are soft and blend like a dream, creating a fresh take on a traditional neutral eye that can be effortlessly subtle for daytime looks and intensified evening.
|Swatches of the *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette eyeshadow in direct sunlight.
|Dual-sided with a removal magnetic mirror, the *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette is ideal for travel.
|Swatches of the cheek colors from the *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette
|The *Touch In Sol Metallist High Shine Bouncy Cream Shadow Palette
(5) *Touch In Sol Metallist High Shine Bouncy Cream Shadow Palette: I've long been a fan of the Metallist formula (reviewed HERE) and this latest iteration is equally enchanting. Cushiony and buildable, these shadows layer beautifully, lending a gossamer veil of luminous color (in rosy warm tones) that doesn't crease or migrate for hours on end.
|Swatches of the *Touch In Sol Metallist High Shine Bouncy Cream Shadow Palette in direct sunlight.
|*Natasha Denona Tropic Palette
(6) The *Natasha Denona Tropic Palette (reviewed HERE): Rife with an array of refreshingly unusual shades that, once blended are harmoniously wearable, this palette reflects an equal balance of velvety matte, satin and metallic shades that deliver a wash of life to the face. It, as its moniker suggests, is indeed the tropics in a palette.
|Swatches of the *Natasha Denona Tropic Palette in direct sunlight.
|*Rodin Luxe Lipstick (also available at Neiman Marcus and previously reviewed HERE)
Recently, five new shades were added to the *Rodin Luxe Lipstick (also available at Neiman Marcus and previously reviewed HERE) lineup. I've been impressed with this opulent formula ever since first trying the line back in 2016 and the latest hues further extend this lip color's appeal. Creamy and comfortably long wearing, this moisturizing formula with stellar ingredients envelopes lips in major color payoff.
Shade Descriptions:
- So Mod: Pale 1960s nude pink
- Heavenly Hopp: A perfect blend of pink, nude, beige and peach...my absolute favorite.
- Winks: Hot medium pink
- Berry Baci: Electric blue-based pink with plenty of dimension
- Pinky Winky: Deep rosy nude
- Tough Tomato: Strong and creamy orange
- Arancia Adore: A lively coral red to brighten the face
- Red Hedy: Pure and lush cherry red
- Loving Lucy: Classic and rich red reminiscent of the dynamism of Ms. Ball.
- Billie on the Bike: Aubergine-meets-wine for a vibrant vamp effect
|The *Rodin Luxe Lipstick (also available at Neiman Marcus and previously reviewed HERE)
|Swatches of the *Rodin Luxe Lipstick in direct sunlight.
|An alternate view of the glorious *Rodin Luxe Lipstick
The following images reflect a couple of the palettes and Rodin lip color shades in action along with marigold and nude pink tees. Other products worn include:
- *Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation #7 (reviewed HERE)...currently, this is a perfect match for my NC 27 skin. A timeless classic!
- *Tom Ford Bronzing Powder in Terra (reviewed HERE)...applied in the hollows of my cheeks and perimeters of my face; I love this pure brown tan tone.
- Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter #4 (reviewed HERE)...applied on high points of face to illuminate.
- *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette cheek color in Double Talk and Low Key on the apples of my cheeks.
- *Rodin Luxe Lipstick in Arancia Adore (while wearing the marigold top) and Heavenly Hopp (while wearing the nude pink tee)
- *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette in Bare, Backtalk, Shade and Attitude (while wearing the nude pink tee)
- *Serge Lutens Beauté Eye Shadow Palette #4 (while wearing the marigold top) mixed with a touch of green from the *Natasha Denona Tropic Palette.
- *By Terry Lash-Expert Twist Mascara (reviewed HERE): Two coats take my lashes to the next level, each and every time I apply. I love this formula so much that I partnered with By Terry to host a giveaway on my Instagram. Swing by for the video and details!
|Wearing the *Serge Lutens Beauté Eye Shadow Palette #4 and *Natasha Denona Tropic Palette as well as *Rodin Luxe Lipstick in Arancia Adore.
|Wearing the *Urban Decay Backtalk Palette and *Rodin Luxe Lipstick in Heavenly Hopp.
// Current Sale Suggestions // I've been indulging in the plethora of springtime sales with markdowns on clothes you can wear now and for months to come. Here's a round of curated recommendations...
- Abercrombie & Fitch: 30% orders of $150 or more with code 11339 through 4/9...I recently placed an order during another sale promotion and highly recommend the Lace Trim Cami, logo sweatpants in the perfect shade of light blue and high-waisted bikini bottoms (which I paired with this top)
- Anthropologie: Plenty of fresh sale items with an extra 40% off including this chic ballerina top, plaid sleep shirt and ribbed midi dress.
- Bloomingdales: Friends & Family Sale with 25% off tons of merchandise...take a peek at these Dolce Vita Kitten Heel Booties, timeless Paige jeans and Marc Jacobs crossbody bag in the color of the season.
- Saks Friends and Family Sale (through April 9th): 25% off selected merchandise including this stunning Smythson Cosmetics Case, utilitarian S'well Stainless Steel Water Bottle and brilliant See By Chloe Wedge Sandals.
- Neiman Marcus: A host of sale items including this verdant Eileen Fisher shirt dress, Equipment France botanical garland blouse and Fendi Round Sunglasses.
- Nordstrom: Much on sale...I recommend this Madewell Nightflower Maxi Dress (worn HERE), cheery Equipment France cashmere sweater and Frame Le Original jeans.
--Shop the Sales--
|Last look.
--Shop the Post--
Bottom Line: I hope you enjoyed this eye and lip-centric post and would love to know which palette and lipstick were your favorite...do tell!
Good things ahead, including a Decorte Beauty spotlight, a fresh video tutorial and a host of new product procurements.
As always, I'm truly thankful for your readership and support...xx and more soon,
--The Beauty Professor
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|The stunning cover art for GOBLIN
Goblin by Edinburgh Napier University alumni Ever Dundas is one of the six finalists up for the award.
Widely regarded as Scotland's most prestigious book awards, the Saltire Literary Awards are organised by the Saltire Society, a non-political independent charity founded in 1936 to celebrate the Scottish imagination.
The shortlists for all seven Saltire Literary Awards were announced in Edinburgh last week, with Ever's novel described as a 'beguiling historical tale'. The winners are named on November 30th - St Andrew's Day.
Congratulations are also due 404 Ink publishers Heather McDaid and Laura Jones, who are recent guest speakers on our MA programme. Both have been shortlisted for the Saltire Emerging Publisher of the Year Award, while their company 404 Ink is up for Scottish Publisher of the Year.
Alongside its Saltire Award shortlisting, Goblin is also among the finalists for the celebrated Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award, with the winner to be announced soon.
Ever will be one of four writers reading in the Scottish Parliament on November 15th for international Day of the Imprisoned Writer. This free event run by Amnesty International and Scottish PEN is sponsored by Mike Russell MSP. Tickets can be booked here.


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A failed stunt on a German TV show left the stuntman in critical condition and cancelled a Justin Bieber concert, reports Newser.
23-year-old contestant Samuel Koch was attempting to jump over a a moving car driven by his father while wearing a set of specially modified shoes on the German game show Wetten Dass ("Bet It"). However, the suspension system in the shoes failed and Koch was injured after he missed the jump.
The mishap occurred during a live taping of the show, which is broadcast to an audience of more than 10 million viewers. The TV station canceled the show and also forced the postponement of a concert with Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, who was set to perform on the show.
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Koch sustained multiple back injuries and fractures and had to undergo surgery on December 4. His condition was described as life-threatening.
Bieber took to his Twitter account to ask for support for the fallen stuntman.
"Please pray for Samuel Kock & his family as we wait and hope for his health and safety," he wrote.
He added that while he was upset that the show could not go on, he said that "some things are more important than putting on a show" and he vowed to return for another show soon.
Selected Reading: Newser, Digital Spy, Huffington Post


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My son and I had the most thrilling adventure on Sunday: After shopping at Bass Pro Shop for his upcoming science fair project, we stopped by a park down the road. I'd found it on Google Maps, and I just wanted to walk around a bit to get my daily exercise and enjoy the autumn sun. Next thing I know, we happened upon this abandoned bridge over the Little Calumet River. We are enthralled.
Exploring an Abandoned Path
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I'll try for the Readers Digest Version: Loved this post. I would've gone along with you except for the "walking over the bridge" part. I'm not fond of any bridges, but especially one I'd have to walk on a PLANK to get to?! No way! Also loved your story "Thrown Out of the Family Home." The opening sentence is amazing: it gave me chills. I hope someday you WILL be allowed in, and that you will want to when the time comes.
Kind of amazing to find an area like you've described here in the city. I'm glad that you were not there by yourself, Annette. Safety in numbers, even if only two.
Now that's a journey worth taking, Annette!
Sehr abenteuerlich und auch mutig. Verwunschen und unheimlich. Gaensehaut, auch wenn Verkehrslaerm zu hoeren war. Herzklopfen, obwohl ich nicht dabei gewesen bin. Seid ihr hinter diese Barriere aus Steinen gegangen?
What a great time of year to find a new path!
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Live from the Occupy the Issues conference
Look out for live tweets from the 'Occupy the Issues' conference and seminar in Edinburgh today, beginning at 100.00am. These can be followed @simonbarrow on Twitter, using hashtags #occupy and #occupyissues.
'Occupy the Issues: Alternatives in Politics, Economics and the Media' is being held all day at the University of Edinburgh on Thursday 29 November 2012.
It is being run by the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) at the University, in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the religion and society thinktank Ekklesia.
A year ago, on 24 November 2011, the City of Edinburgh Council became the first governmental body in the world to officially recognise both the Occupy Edinburgh and the worldwide Occupy movement.
The tents are now gone, but the Occupy movement continues and the issues remain. Scandals plague the media, politics, and our corporations, while the influence of big money within these sectors have left many questioning whether they can once again operate for the common good.
This day conference and seminar is examining the sectors of politics, economics, and the media. Inspired by the Occupy movement, which has usefully shone a light into the plutocratic nature of our economic and political life, Occupy activists and expert speakers will examine questions of how we got into our present predicament, and what options might exist for moving toward a more equal, just, and peaceful society.
Organiser Richard Davis commented: "In tandem with looking at the wider issues involved in Occupy, this conference and seminar seeks to highlight how Christian theology can make a constructive contribution to these debates."
Speakers throughout the day will include Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia; Kathy Galloway, Head of Christian Aid Scotland'; Prof Philip Goodchild, Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Nottingham and author of Theology of Money (2007); Hannah Hofheinz, ThD student Harvard Divinity School, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Boston, and Occupy AAR/SBL; Prof Jolyon Mitchell, Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh and author of Media,Violence and Christian Ethics (2007); Prof Michael Northcott, Professor of Ethics, University of Edinburgh and author of Life After Debt – Christianity and Global Justice (1999) and An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire (2007); and Dr Paul-François Tremlett, Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University.
The conference is now fully booked, but all are welcome to the panel discussion and seminar at 16.10 at New College, University of Edinburgh (Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LX), 29 November.


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Mozilla.dev.tech.layout FAQ
Is there a way to do profiling of what is going on in Mozilla? Is there a framework for this?
If you're on Linux, then you can try using jprof. Instructions are available at Jprof Readme On more recent linux versions sysprof can also be used. also lists some profiles.
How do you find out if there are any reflows that are pending and wait to show the view until afterwards, but if none are pending, show the view immediately? What is the best way to determine whether there are any pending changes?
On the reflow branch you could check the DIRTY and DIRTY_CHILDREN framestate flags. That won't help with pending style changes, but it'll work to detect cases when the popup or something in it needs to be reflown.
What are the lowercase items called "line"?
Block(body)(1)@035FF490 {120,120,8820,600} [state=00000010] sc=035FF264(i=2,b=0)< line 035FFC18: count=1 state=inline,clean,prevmarginclean,not impacted,not wrapped,before:nobr,after:linebr[0x5100] {0,0,330,300} < Inline(span)(0)@035FFA04 next=035FFC48 next-continuation=035FFC48 {0,7,330,285} [content=0359ED50] [sc=035FF990]< Text(0)@035FFA8C[0,4,T] next=035FFB1C {0,0,330,285} [state=41600020] sc=035FFA3C pst=:-moz-non-element< "\nabc" > Frame(br)(1)@035FFB1C {330,225,0,0} [state=00000020] [content=035AEBF0] > >
The linebox is used to contain everything on a single line: Example
How do you fix inconsistent float behavior in firefox involving a two column layout using display:table and floating div elements?
This is a bug in Firefox. You can work around it by removing display:table in the style rule with the "#main" selector or adding clear:both to it.
Why does move movement disappear when I use mouse events to click and drag?
Since the dragging action is involved, you might need to disable it. Try using event.preventDefault()
What is the purpose of the NS_LossyConvertUCS2toASCII() function?
This function converts an nsAString to an nsACString by assuming that all the 16-bit units are ASCII and just dropping the high byte on them all.


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Short-a-Day: Daniel Alarcón's "Second Lives"
[One of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40]
Originally published in The New Yorker, August 16 & 23, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 97.
Now this is what fiction's all about: showcasing different perspectives. Alarcón's hit upon a perfect example, too: two brothers, arbitrarily born eight years apart, one in America, one in a Spanish-speaking Third World country (itself never specifically named): "My parents set about trying to make babies: on spring nights, when they made the room smell of earth, summer nights, when the city felt like a swamp, autumn nights, falling asleep on top of the covers, winter nights, when the room boiled with sex." When Francisco leaves, the dream is that he will obtain a visa for his younger brother, but it soon becomes clear from his fewer-and-fartherer-between letters home that this is just a dream, and in fact, the future narration of his younger brother, Nelson, clarifies this: "Eventually, I got my Third World passport, the color of spilled red wine, but it was just for show. I still haven't had the chance to use it."
Both brothers similarly indoctrinate themselves in American culture, and Nelson's slant is especially terrific: "I formulated opinions on America's multiple national dilemmas, which seemed thrillingly, beautifully frivolous: gays in the military, a President in trouble for a blow job." They are worlds apart, and even though Francisco's life isn't particularly good ("He repaired bicycles in suburban Detroit; worked as a greeter at a Wal-Mart in Dubuque, Iowa; moved furniture in Galveston, Texas; mowed lawns at a golf course outside Santa Fe"), it's worlds better than the strikes, riots, and depressions in his home country. How odd, really, that by a fluke alone, we can find ourselves in such different situations.
Alarcón errs, really, only in embedding a second story that is all too typical of America: Nelson's neighbors are a friendly couple, Alejandro and Luz, and Alejandro cheats on Luz--ruining her honor, as his mother delicately explains it to him, not just because of the affair, but because the mistress is shamefully older, which makes the act harder to explain. It doesn't really connect to the rest of the story, not even in the way that it develops Nelson's querulous voice. That's done better in a section like this:
He'd made it clear that I was a squatter in his room, an assertion I'd never thought to question. Just before he left, he'd warned me with bared teeth, frightening as only older brothers can be, not to touch a thing. In case he came back.... He threw an arm around me then, flexing it tight around my neck with the kind of casual brutality he often directed at me. I felt my face turning red; I was helpless. At ten and eighteen, we were essentially two different species.There's also a cleverness to the descriptions, an undercurrent of desperate comedy, the last resort of those who are doomed through no fault of their own. Consider this:
I doubt any generation of young people has ever looked at a world map with such a powerful mixture of longing and anxiety; we were like inmates being tempted with potential escape routes.... We were mesmerized by the possibilities; we assumed every country was more prosperous than ours, safer than ours, and at this scale they all seemed tantalizingly near. The atlas was passed around like pornography, and if you had the chance to sit alone with it for a few moments you counted yourself lucky.Look at all that we take for granted, Alarcón all but shouts. The next time we criticize the lack of high-paying jobs, or bemoan the limited amount of time we get for vacation (assuming we still have jobs), think about how ridiculous it is that we can travel at all. (Think of North Korea.) The story is never overtly political, never shoves anything in our face; instead, it enforces the earnest eagerness of children, and through those positive descriptions, we are better made to understand our unspoken negative choices. It's sobering, humbling, and Alarcon absolutely earns the ending to his story, in which Nelson attempts to get revenge on his brother by forgetting him: "I never managed it, of course." It's that final, casual yet challenging "of course" that shakes the reader; it's yet another reminder of our dismissive everyday language, our oblivious obviousness.


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I'd like to start by thanking Dale Dougherty and Rael Dornfest for coming up with this terrific series of books, and Tim O'Reilly for talking me into writing this particular volume.
Thanks to Dale Dougherty (again) for his guidance and the steadfast idea of exactly what a "hack" should be. Additional thanks to Ruth Kampmann, Nancy Kotary, and Jim Sumser for their roles in the bizarre series of events that led to the inception of this book.
Thanks to Jeffrey P. McManus and Jeff Huber of eBay for their help with the eBay API, the new "Voyager" search engine, and some other aspects of the marvelous, sometimes mysterious, and always changing computer system behind the curtains at eBay.
I'd also like to thank Todd Larason, who provided code that served as the basis for many of the scripts in Chapter 8.
Thanks to Tim Miller, Katie Woodruff, Michael Eisenberg, Cat Haglund, Dennis Butzlaff, Sara Raymond, and that nice lady who kept bringing us drinks.
Special thanks to Michael Moore, and an extra-special hello to Addie.
Finally, my gratitude and love to Torey Bookstein, whose love and support help warm my soul.


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The GLIGO smartwatch combines a mechanical watch with an E Ink display. The watch connects to your smartphone to show notifications and can monitor your sleep, steps, running distance and heart rate.
The GLIGO raised over $150,000 in a crowdfunding campaign and will ship starting at $199 in September 2018.
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Gloria Nye, Bollich, Patricia A., Braud, Emily
No need to panic, not yet, but don't wait until you have few or no options, and end up spending more than you can afford. With some planning and preparation, you can make Christmas inexpensive and fun. And what if you've been downsized, or laid off? There are some ways you can deal with that too.
Make a list of everyone you can think of that you usually buy gifts for at Christmas. Carry that list around with you between now and Christmas, and watch for sales. As you find that perfect gift, check that name off your list and store the gift at home to wrap later. Use a "gift closet," or you can use space under a bed, behind a sofa, or in a pantry. When Christmas comes and your gifts have already been purchased in advance, it takes the pressure and stress off you and your wallet.
You can find new items still in the original packaging and discounted at garage sales, charity fund raisers, store clearance sales, thrift stores, or on-line (be sure to look for free shipping). Watch for coupons and advertised "specials" for any "must have" items. If you see something on-sale and don't have the money right now, many stores have brought back the "lay-away" concept which allows you to get the item on-sale now and pay later.
What if, like many others, you really cannot afford to buy Christmas gifts this year? Don't wait to speak to those you have previously exchanged gifts with. Tell them now that you won't be able to do that this year. Telling them, before they buy you a gift, saves you and them time and awkwardness. They'll understand and appreciate your honesty. They may be in a similar financial situation this year.
Some low or no cost gift ideas:
If your credit cards allow you to accumulate points, use the points to get and give gifts or gift cards.
Talk to your immediate and extended family about exchanging names, so you buy one gift instead of many.
If you have like new books you've already read, consider passing them on to others as gifts.
There are magazines offering free or very low-cost 6-12 month trial subscriptions, or buy one and get one free. Give the gift of a free magazine subscription.
Prison arts and crafts fairs are great places to get inmates' unique handmade items at low-cost.
Learn to barter. A friend or neighbor may be a good cook or seamstress, and you may be able to trade some yard work or babysitting for that perfect home cooked or handmade gift.
If you have the capability, buy blank CDs and make Christmas or other music CDs for gifts.
You may have items we have purchased or been given, that you will never use. Consider re-gifting.
Can you knit, do artwork, make jewelry, can jelly, grow house plants, sew, make hair bows, scrap book, or use your talent to create your own unique gifts? There are lots of ideas on-line for low cost homemade gifts, like potholders out of old jeans, flavored coffees out of instant coffee, or hot chocolate mixes that can be given in jars as gifts.
You can copy and share a favorite recipe, or prepare and give it as a gift. You could make and freeze rolls of your favorite cookie dough, or a lasagna recipe, to give as gifts.
Perhaps you have jewelry you no longer wear, or something that would have sentimental value to someone else, that you could pass along as a gift.
Children can make ornaments with their names and the year -to give to friends, family, and teachers.
For children in your family, identify agencies in your community that will be distributing toys or clothing for Christmas and call now to see if you qualify to be on their distribution list. Ask if they distribute Thanksgiving and/or Christmas food baskets, or ask them to refer you to an agency that does.
Do you own something of value that you no longer need or use? Consider selling it. The price of gold is over $1,000 an ounce. You may have broken gold jewelry you can sell to a jeweler to pay for Christmas.
Can you give a coupon for cleaning a house/garage/oven/closet, yard work, shopping, or a back rub?
Christmas cards:
Right before or immediately after Christmas, when everything goes on sale, buy cards for the next year. Or make your own cards, and consider handing them out instead of mailing them. The cost of stamps is increasing, and sending Christmas cards can be expensive. If you cannot afford to send cards this year, then go through your list and see how it can be reduced. Start now, and tell those you've sent to in the past that you will not be sending cards this year. Again, they may be in a similar financial situation this year and they'll appreciate your honesty.
Inexpensive holiday party ideas:
If it is your turn to host the Christmas or New Year's party then consider making it a potluck, where everyone brings a dish to share. You can provide the place, silverware, napkins, plates, glasses, iced tea or coffee, and do the clean-up. You can let guests know the categories from which they can chose -such as salads, meat, casseroles, vegetables, desserts, etc., or take your chances and be surprised. Also, let your guests know it will be a BYOB (Bring Your Own Beverage) party. You provide the ice, and they bring their own drinks if the iced tea and coffee you provide is not what they want to drink.
If you want your party to be one that everybody will enjoy and remember, make it a fun "White Elephant" party. See: http://www.wikihow.com/Organize-a-White-Elephant-Gift-Exchange
This is a way for friends or family to get together for the holidays and have a fun time for very low or no cost.
Give yourself and your family the gift of reduced holiday stress by not adding debt this year. You don't have to wait until Christmas. You can start now to make your holiday time together less expensive and more enjoyable. Spend more time together as a family by cooking and eating together at home, taking advantage of local parks, going to the library for books, playing cards or board games, attending free concerts or educational programs, watching Christmas specials on TV together, visiting relatives/friends/neighbors, going for bike rides or walks, and talking. Make your plan now and stick to it, because the holidays are coming, and this year you can make them really special.


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Ummm…this album is H-O-T!! Dear Lord…make sure hubs is nearby when you listen to this one! I've got Robin Thicke's first album, but this one blows that one out of the water (and I really liked that one!). Go get it for some special one-on-one time with your man!
I've been sleeping on this! February 19, 2011
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You are hilarious. I love that album too 🙂
Really? I have his first one and it's is incredible! I really didn't think his next one would live up to it. Hmmmm…… I'm intrigued!


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Imagine this: your channel partners don't have business processes in place that drive your organization to success. Shipments are being missed, quality levels are dropping, employee turnover in the channels is high, and expenses are increasing. Within your own business, management is fighting every fire with the best of their ability, but are feeling the burn from partners regardless. Why haven't your channel partners fixed their problems before channel conflict ensues? It's safe to say PRM best practices are not being implemented.Step Back - Take a Deep Breath
This nightmare is simply a business that has not properly implemented a partner relationship management (PRM) solution using a Unified Partner Portal Application. No matter what part of the distribution chain this business is in, this situation is one everyone wants to avoid. However, there is more to the solution than setting up a portal and sharing the web address through your channels; it takes a full commitment to the practice of Partner Relationship Management to be effective. What could happen this commitment is absent?
Lack of Enthusiasm at Launch
Your channel partners need to know that you are serious about partner relationship management, and they need to understand its usefulness to channel conflict management. Build positive enthusiasm and energy while communicating how everyone will realize increased sales, better profits, and reduced expenses if all are on the same page through the partner relationship management portal. If there is no up-front buy-in, your partner relationship management portal will not realize adequate return on investment.
Shortage of Content at Launch
Your partners may get excited and get their employees to log in; but if there is no relevant content for them to use, all of your promotions will be for naught. Place content that will positively impact every partner in your channel—from training and marketing materials to schedules and certifications. Make sure every partner relationship management portal page has some applicable content ready to use.
READ MORE: What Is Channel Conflict? How Can I Avoid It?
No Accountability
Dumping the responsibility on IT to keep the portal running separates it from those who can truly make it useful. While IT can get the portal up and running, it's the business unit that needs to take charge and have the access, loaded with the right information for each user role within the dealer/distributor network.
Not a Useful Portal
If the only purpose of your partner relationship management portal is to list a series of links to other sites, it is not a real portal. For true partner relationship management, the portal should have its own set of materials that are incorporated internally. Links that send your users elsewhere do not provide truly relevant data—and send them away from your system! The portal itself should stand alone as a viable source for your channel partners.
Assets are Dated
If information within the portal is not kept current, the usefulness diminishes rapidly. Confusion erupts, inaccurate data is passed around, and ultimately the relationship management is depreciated.
Forums and Blogs become Ineffective
If forums or blogs are viewed as unnecessary parts of a portal, they will indeed become useless. Instead, make sure they are set up in order to build community and solutions-sharing.
Afterthought Effects
Portals that are treated as lower priority maintenance items are doomed to spiral into an obsolete tool. Put partner relationship management portal maintenance on a routine schedule and stick to it as a part of your commitment to your network's future success.


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Laura comes to the Quotidian Group with over 20 years' experience in the Human Resources arena, and over 10 years as an HR executive. Early in her career, Laura worked in Organizational Development at Verizon Wireless, facilitating team building offsites, strategic planning sessions with executives, and using instruments such as the Myers Briggs and FIRO-B to help build individual self-awareness and to help teams work more effectively together.
In 1995, Laura was recruited to work at a small start-up company called Capital One, which has since grown into one of the nation's top 10 biggest banks. She rose through the ranks in Human Resources during her tenure there, and in her last five years there as Senior Vice President, she managed a large portion of the Human Resources organization, including selection and recruitment, performance management, employee relations, diversity, and talent management.
Laura brings to every coaching engagement a wealth of experience, particularly in the arena of helping senior executives address the unique challenges they face leading hyper-growth companies. She is well-equipped to help clients address both developmental and strategic business challenges, working back from organizational priorities.
Laura received her Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida. She also completed "Strategic Leadership at the Top," the prestigious four-week residency program for senior executives at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.


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