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Without trust, you've got nothing.
Trust is the glue that binds relationships. Without trust, it's nearly impossible for any relationship to last.
In fact, our whole world is built around our ability to trust others.
When you drive your car, you trust other drivers to stay in their lanes. You trust people who drive to follow the law. When you see a car swerve slightly, or if it's a late night on a holiday, you might wonder if someone is driving intoxicated. But overall, if you didn't trust the process, chances are you wouldn't risk your life by driving at all.
We all have our own handful of beliefs about trust. We may wonder if we should trust someone from the start until they give us a reason not to, or if it's better to hold back until our trust has been earned.
It can be hard to choose which way to go. If you hold back trust, you send a message that you aren't willing to open up in the relationship, but if you give trust blindly without really knowing who a person is before doing so, there's a good chance of getting hurt.
No matter which path you choose, you can still wind up being disappointed and hurt — and that's a tough pill to swallow in the end.
Some people turn to their faith in a higher power, others turn to their faith in themselves to navigate this emotional dance.
The bottom line is that trust is something internal and personal to you, and before you can really trust someone else in a relationship — whether a higher power or a human being — you need to trust yourself.
There's a certain type of secret blame that takes root in your spirit when someone you loved with all your heart hurts you. Part of you wonders how you didn't see it coming or what was it about you that made you so unworthy of their deep love and respect. But if you can't find forgiveness, your trust issues only grow.
Trust issues can lead you to believe you will never love again, or that you can't fully let go to trust others. The reason that pain hurts so deeply is because there's a small part of you that feels like you've failed yourself.
In order to know who to trust and when to trust in the way that you'd like to, you may need to forgive yourself (even if the only thing you did wrong was to believe in someone) and work through that fear so you can regain self-confidence.
To be able to trust someone, you'll need that inner self-confidence to perceive when a person is unsafe and you will slowly be able to make the decision to trust again and build stronger, more trusting relationships the way you always hoped.
In the spirit of moving forward, here are 30 trust quotes that remind us what's REALLY important.
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"Always trust your gut. It knows what your head hasn't figured out yet."
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust what you love, continue to do it and it will take you where you need to go." — Natalie Goldberg
"When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible."
"Whether it's friendship or relationship, all bonds are built on trust. Without it, you have nothing."
"Without trust, it's only a matter of time before relationships crumble."
"In a relationship, trust is more important than love. It will enhance your love."
"Trust is one of the most important things in a relationship. It won't work, if you don't trust each other."
"I trust you" is better than "I love you" because you may not always trust the person you love but you can always love the person you trust."
"The best proof of love is trust."
"When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically receive one of two things — a friend for life or a lesson for life."
"People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top." — Don King
"Great people have great values and great ethics." — Jeffrey Gitomer
"Friendship is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there, and they have to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust , the friendship will crumble."
"Wisdom is found only in truth." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers." — Tim Gunn
"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings." — Deepak Chopra
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." — Buddha
"Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of instant courage and I promise you something great will come of it."
"How you make others feel about you says a lot about you."
"No individual can win a game by himself." — Plato
" It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
"When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."
"Communication + Trust = A relationship that will last a lifetime."
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted." — Lao Tzu
"You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible." — Anton Chekhov
"Let go of the need to control outcome. Trust the process. Trust your intuition. Trust yourself."
"Hold the vision. Trust the process."
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts." — Dr. Joyce Brothers


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Sacrifice ~
There are some occasional hints that Creator considers prayer and praise offerings as significant as any other offering. (See Leviticus 7:12 & 19:24), perhaps even more so. This is something many churches have learned to practice, singing praise songs for a good twenty minutes before anything else begins. But, I want to look at why these should or would be considered a sacrifice to Creator. Throughout the Holy Writs, from Bangkok to Cairo, there is much said about the release and renouncing of the Egoself.
It is, in fact, a difficult thing, dealing with the egoself, that part of us which is the pride of life. When we believe that we have accomplished all that we have done with no help from other humans or Spirit, we become rather unbearable in our dealings with others. We become "prickly" and "proud", making no attempt to be diplomatic when speaking or acting out our plans. This is part of human nature, part of the programming in the human brain, taking pride in accomplishment so that we can survive in a tough world. However, it is a bit of programming that needs to be placed in a subordinate roll if we are to function as creatures within a structured society.
Our Creator knows full well how we are made, and I believe this is why there is recognition in the holy writings that we must sacrifice this tendency to pat ourselves on the back and learn to praise, pray and give thanks for all that comes into our lives, and even the opportunity to learn. When we learn to do this, we begin to deal with life through our own spirit, rather than through our own ego. It can be a wonderful experience, as much of the learning that comes through our spirit is intuitive and flows more cleanly between the heart and the head, allowing us to deal in compassion with our fellow travelers.
Sacrificing the ego is not an easy thing, it is the practice of humility, of knowing when to be silent and when to speak. It means working always with an eye toward the needs of others so that they may function and contribute to the "cause" as well as possible. One other thing. Sacrificing our egoself may be more difficult than laying down our physical lives, as that is a once for all sort of move, but sacrificing the self-praise "machine" is an action that must be repeated hour by hour, day by day.
"If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up." Deepok Chopra
As Dr. Chopra points out, be careful, you might end up truly happy if you learn to sacrifice the egoself.

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Fellow Britons and best actress nominees Judi Dench and Kate Winslet only rate 14/1 and 25/1 respectively.
Martin Scorsese is favourite to win best director for The Departed at 1/3, and the movie itself leads the field for best film, at 11/10. Forest Whitaker is 1/4 favourite to win best actor for his barnstorming turn as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
With such a strong British field, the bookmakers expect turnover to exceed previous records and are predicting industry turnover to exceed the £1m mark. "The Queen is probably Britain's best chance of winning in this year's Oscars with Helen Mirren quoted as the almost unbackable 1/12 favourite and with so much British interest we will be hoping for a record turnover," said Hill spokesman Rupert Adams.
One customer, a Mr John Kelly from London, will be very pleased that Peter O'Toole has been nominated for best actor - his eighth time in the running. Mr Kelly backed O'Toole in March last year, at odds of 33/1 - if O'Toole goes home with the little gold man on February 25, Mr Kelly will be £3,400 richer.
William Hill's latest Academy Award odds:
Best film: 11/10 The Departed, 3/1 Little Miss Sunshine, 7/2 Babel, 13/2 Letters from Iwo Jima, 8/1 The Queen.
Best director: 1/3 Martin Scorsese (The Departed), 7/1 Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Father), 7/1 Alejandro Gonzalez I˜árritu (Babel), 9/1 Stephen Frears (The Queen), 10/1 Paul Greengrass (United 93).
Best actor: 1/4 Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), 5/1 Peter O'Toole (Venus), 8/1 Leonardo Di Caprio (The Departed/Blood Diamond), 14/1 Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), 33/1 Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson).
Best actress: 1/12 Helen Mirren (The Queen), 10/1 Meryl Streep (The Devil wears Prada), 14/1 Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), 25/1 Penelope Cruz (Volver), 25/1 Kate Winslet (Little Children).


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1. Where did you grow up?
I spent my early childhood in Haiti. I have vague memories of mountains, jellyfish, market, L'Épée magique, and Mardi Gras celebrations. When I moved to the States, I thought Playland at Coney Island was the greatest thing, especially Skee-Ball.
2. Why did you select law librarianship as a career?
Richard Bowler. Dick was the director of the University of Chicago Law Library back then. During and after college, I worked at the circulation desk in the evenings. Students would ask me questions like "where can I find F.2d?" and I wouldn't know the answer. Dick gave me a copy of Morris Cohen's Legal Research in a Nutshell and I was off and running. I found l liked answering reference questions and helping students. So I decided to go to library school (University of Michigan) and law school (University of Chicago) to become a legal reference librarian.
As a pre-professional, I had the privilege of learning about law librarianship as a career from Margaret Leary, George Grossman, and Judith Wright.
3. When did you develop an interest in foreign, comparative, and international law?
On the job. I had no plans to specialize in FCIL librarianship, but I needed a job after graduating from law school, and the University of Minnesota had two openings for a reference librarian, one with foreign language skills. I applied and got my first professional position in 1986 as a foreign and international legal reference librarian. I replaced Yugoslavia-born Joseph Levstik, who had been Foreign Law Librarian at Minnesota for 20 years (1964-1986).
Kathie Price was the director of the law library at the time and very involved in an AALL initiative to develop a new generation of FCIL librarians. The first generation of foreign, comparative, and international law librarians were mostly Europe-trained lawyers, and they were retiring or had passed away. How to replace their knowledge of foreign legal systems and legal bibliography?
I attended town meetings and workshops on how to train the future generation of FCIL librarians. And then I participated in the educational programs created to train next generation FCIL librarians. I attended the five AALL/Oceana Institutes and co-edited (with Jeanne Korman) one of the resulting books. The Institute books became training materials for future FCIL librarians:
- Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems (Richard A. Danner & Marie-Louise H. Bernal eds., 1994)
- Introduction to Transnational Legal Transactions (Marylin J. Raisch & Roberta I. Shaffer eds., 1995)
- Introduction to International Organizations (Lyonette Louis-Jacques & Jeanne S. Korman eds., 1996)
- Introduction to International Business Law: Legal Transactionsin a Global Economy (Gitelle Seer & Maria I. Smolka-Day eds., 1996)
- Contemporary Practice of Public International Law (Ellen G. Schaffer & Randall J. Snyder eds., 1997).
As part of my new FCIL librarian training, Kathie Price arranged for me to travel to Europe for a practicum working with the United Nations depository library documents collection at the Library of the Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany. I also visited libraries in Heidelberg, Brussels, and Geneva.
I apprenticed with Latvia-born Adolf Sprudzs, who was then Foreign Law Librarian at the University of Chicago. Mr. Sprudzs taught me how to select FCIL materials. Suzanne Thorpe and I taught the first International and Foreign Legal Research course at Minnesota, and teaching helped me hone my FCIL skills further. And I learned substantive and bibliographic FCIL info/knowledge from working with international law faculty and attending AALL FCIL-SIS, ASIL, IALL, and other conference programs and workshops.
4. Who is your current employer? How long have you worked there?
I am presently Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law at the D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago Law School. I have been since Judith Wright hired me in August 1992 to become Mr. Sprudzs' successor. Judith was also a leader in the initiative to train the next generation of FCIL librarians. And I continue to try to follow her and Kathie's lead in mentoring and helping train new FCIL librarians.
Mr. Sprudzs was President of IALL and a scholarly international law librarian. I seek to follow in his footsteps. I focus my scholarship on identifying gaps in international legal research tools and trying to fill them as well as sharing information about new FCIL research resources. I also promote and support FCIL scholarship generally.
5. Do you speak any foreign languages?
English! Really, sometimes I lose my English and have to go find it… I grew up speaking Haitian Créole, and learned French in school, so I theoretically speak both. And I took courses in Spanish and German in college. I speak Spanish well enough to be understood, and a smidgen of German.
6. What is your most significant professional achievement?
I'm very proud of having compiled the Law Lists (1992-2005) guide to law, library, and law library-related listservs, Usenet newsgroups, and e-newsletters. It enabled me to connect with diverse people across the globe and to help them connect with each other. I am also thrilled that the Int-Law listserv which I co-founded in 1991 with Mila Rush while I was at Minnesota is still active and being used by law librarians and others worldwide who work with and research FCIL materials.
I enjoyed chairing the FCIL-SIS during its 10th anniversary celebration (July 1995). And am grateful to my FCIL colleagues for honoring me with the 2014 Daniel L. Wade Outstanding Service Award. I admire Dan so much for his continued service to our SIS. He's such a great mentor!
I love helping others create new tools and resources as well as continue old ones. I'm glad to have updated Dan Wade's original 1993 "List of Foreign and International Law Librarians Who Have Expressed a Willingness to Help Non-Experts" with the Jumpstart guide. This directory of people willing to help answer FCIL research questions by jurisdiction/region and topic is now being updated and maintained by Mary Rumsey. If you have special expertise or willingness to help in researching the law of a particular country, international organization, or FCIL topic, please volunteer!
7. What is your biggest food weakness?
Diet Coke.
8. What song makes you want to get up and sing/dance?
Any good doo-wop tune. The Del Satins' Remember (1961). Pink Martini. Konpa/Kompa/Compas (especially Tabou Combo). Salsa. Bachata. Merengue. (I like Señor Priego's Échale Salsa mix) Big Pun's ode to Puerto Rico – 100% (edited language version). Funk.
9. What ability or skill do you most wish you had (that you don't have already)?
I wish that I could clone myself. One Lyo would sleep all day and watch movies. A couple of others would travel the world and learn new languages. One will write a popular bestseller and become a kazillionaire. One would be a trucker. I wonder if I could get myself to stop cloning at five Lyos?
10. Aside from the basic necessities, what is one thing you cannot go a day without?
Besides Diet Coke? The Internet, particularly Twitter.
11. Anything else you would like to share with us?
I really enjoy being an FCIL librarian. Having a specialty enables to you master an area even if you're continually learning new things. I also think being a generalist legal reference librarian is quite interesting and challenging too. In my job, I get to do both general reference as well as specialize. The best of both worlds. I never get bored. And, since I'm still trying to improve, I always have a goal…
I enjoy meeting new people who enter the field and finding out what unique skill or life experience they bring to the mix. Looking forward to meeting all of y'all at the 2016 AALL conference in Chicago!


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Does your content quality take a nosedive at stakeholder signoff rounds? Here's how to avoid 'content by commitee'.
"What's the biggest obstacle to better quality content in your organisation?" I ask at the start of each content strategy seminar. And somebody (often several somebodies) will reply, with a sigh, "stakeholders".
It's got to be the most frustrating scenario for any self-respecting content professional.
You get an intelligent content brief agreed. You work hard to commission or create an on-brand, usable, search-friendly piece of digital copy. It's mapped to user insights. It's written in the customers' language. There are clear calls to action. It's scannable at speed even on the smallest of screens. It meets your stringent QA standards.
Then it gets circulated to stakeholders for sign-off and hey presto, their combined and often conflicting feedback transforms a potentially effective piece of content into almost comical corporate gobbledegook.
Sooner or later the content developers even start churning this out themselves as it's 'easier to get signed off'.
Feedback rounds are rarely a joyful experience for stakeholders either. After all, checking and approving digital content is a whole new workstream that is often bolted on to the job spec of people who were already overloaded.
It's time consuming, difficult, usually required to tight deadlines and if they get it wrong, they might well get it in the neck.
Content by committee never works. That's why all the best print publishers operate a strict editorial hierarchy. And yet I know that for many organisations, stripping out agonising rounds of stakeholder input is an impossible dream.
So here are five tips for managing content feedback rounds.
Limit stakeholders in number
Three's a crowd, five's a crush. Any more than five is one of those cooks-and-broth-type situations in the making. You have to get those numbers down as far as possible, so challenge everyone's true value to the project before you begin.
Limit stakeholders in scope
One stakeholder, one set of feedback. One for product, one for brand or marketing, one for legal and compliance, one for digital… If there are multiple stakeholders wanting to feedback on one area, then make them collate their feedback and deliver it to you as one (after all they should be in agreement and if they aren't, it's not your problem).
And by the way, some search people like us to believe SEO is a dark art and requires its own feedback stream. Nah. Instead, get a clear SEO brief up front and make sure the person in charge of digital sign-off can check it's been followed.
Create an order of priority to feedback
Does brand tone of voice trump product manager feedback? Does usability trump marketing? Does compliance trump them all?
The time to have this argument is prior to any content being created, at your initial stakeholder briefing, when you're agreeing how the project should be run and managed. What do you mean, you don't have a stakeholder briefing?
Let stakeholders in on your secrets
You can't blame a person whose job it is to stop your company being sued not appreciating why you've rewritten their verbose T&Cs as a bullet-pointed list. Give them a chance.
We've recently started running short web copywriting sessions for content stakeholders prior to project kick-offs. Early indicators are that it can cut the feedback down dramatically.
Permit (encourage) people to give very little or no feedback at all
It's an eternal truth that if you ask someone for feedback, they won't feel they've done their job until they give you some. So they'll find something to say.And then you'll have to act on this.
Stop setting yourself up for feedback failure. If you've done your job well as an editor, got a good brief and followed it, subbed and proofed and checked the work, then really, feedback should be minimal.
Take back editorial control and stop passing the work around like a hot potato. Communicate confidently with your stakeholders saying: "Here's that piece of content for approval. I think it's very strong and meets the brief for x, y and z reasons, so I hope you'll feel able to sign off on it with limited or no amendments".
And remind each stakeholder what the scope of their feedback should be (eg 'please give me only product-related feedback as so-and-so is signing off for brand tone of voice'). You might be surprised how well this goes down and how much everyone actually enjoys the release from the nine circles of feedback hell.


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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is a therapeutic process which helps patients to understand and resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present.
It aims to help people with serious psychological disorders to understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress.
It provides an effective treatment for a range of psychological disorders, both as a treatment in its own right and as an adjunct to other forms of treatment. It can contribute significantly to patient's mental and physical health, to their sense of well-being and to their ability to manage their lives more effectively.
The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element in the therapy. The therapist offers a confidential and private setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient's inner world become reflected in the patient's relationship with the therapist.
Child Psychotherapists are trained in a unique way, observing how the child or young person relates, noticing verbal or non-verbal communications or play, finding ways to understand deeper thoughts and feelings that are underlying the behaviour.
In the safety of therapy room, the child or young person is encouraged to express their most troubling emotions. Thus confused, hurt, angry or painful feelings can gradually be put into words rather than actions.
The length of treatment is determined by the needs of the child and their family.
This form of treatment is useful to children who are anxious or depressed or in psychological turmoil, which may cause the child to react to people or circumstances in an aggressive way. It is of value to children who are in conflict because of physical illness or who are having difficulty coming to terms with disability. It is helpful in treating children with unresolved grief reaction because of the death of an important person for them. It can also help children who are suffering from stress due to a traumatic life event.
Parents might be worried about their child or adolescent due to change in their behaviour. The young person might have become sadder, angrier, troubled at home or school. They might be experiencing difficulties with friends or having unexplained worries. Parents might have tried other approaches and feel that nothing seems to help.
Psychotherapy is not just about clearing up symptoms. It helps to develop deeper understanding of behaviours in a way which makes difficulties seem less overwhelming for all concerned. The child or young person begins to feel more able to understand frightening feelings and conflicts and when less burdened by emotional conflicts, they are more able to engage positively with life. Parents are also likely to gain confidence as the child or adolescent begins to feel better.


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Here is the next installment in my creations from my catalogue launch party held a few weeks ago. There are more than 10 blog posts with all my creations so to be able to see them all I will tag each post with the tag '2015 Catalgoue Launch'. Just click on that tag at the bottom of the post and all my launch creations will come up.
Today's card is using the fabulous hostess only stamp set 'Floral Wings'. I can't go on enough how stunning this stamp set is. I really love it and the different colour combinations that you can have with the butterfly, flowers and leaves are endless. This is because the stamp set is a 3-step stamp set and each layer is a different stamp.
The colours on my butterfly are Black (Memento Tuxedo Black Ink), Mint Macaron and Gold Embossing! This is a beautiful colour combo and give the card a regal look. Because this is a photopolymer stamp set it makes it so easy to line up each layer because you can see right through each stamp!
Again I've used the Shimmery White Cardstock for the butterfly. It really is beautiful. If you don't like things with too much shimmer and sparkle and want a subtle hint of bling, then this is the cardstock for you. Or you could go all out and use it for your whole card if you want that all round sparkle. Either way you wont be disappointed!
Remember this is a hostess set, and a stunning one at that, so if you really love this set you can get this set with either a $250 (AUD)+ order or a qualifying party. So contact me on how you can get your hands on one!
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Parent Leaders/Community Experts
Neighborhood Walks
- Parent Leaders shared their knowledge of the local neighborhood by mapping routes for researchers to follow. On these neighborhood walks, researchers took photographs of the buildings, physical environments, and natural landscapes that were familiar to children.
Home Observations
- Parent Leaders opened their homes so researchers could observe children at home and learn about the natural STE opportunities and resources that were part of children's daily lives.


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"Is it cold in here, or is it just me?" is a line twice-said in Demolition Man and the answer is Fuck Yes It's Cold, because it was. I know I'm just a pussified Californian because what passes for a heatwave in the East Coast was fucking my shit up with a serious case of the Brrr's, but you know what? Fuck you, East Coast, that shit ain't my fault, it's not my fault I live in a place with awesome weather and therefore can't handle anything below Freezing. Anyway, yeah, Demolition Man played at the New Beverly Cinema for a midnight show on Saturday (or Sunday, I guess) and I guess that shit is even more popular than I thought because the motherfucker was packed and damn near sold out despite the bitter chill.
Phil Blankenship showed up in his usual all-black ensemble, then would take deep audible breaths in between his extemporaneous paragraphs about what was playing next month at the New Bev (St. Quentin is programming March's schedule, it turns out). Turns out he was trying to buy time for the long line of concession-buyers that was snaking out into the audience; waiting until most people are able to get back to their seats is a typically considerate move by the New Bev'rs. The lights went down and I remember a couple of Wesley Snipes trailers; people laughed at the awesome Passenger 57 trailer and properly applauded at John Cutter's "Always bet on black" line. Fuck that, I'm capitalizing that shit because it's so awesome -- "Always bet on BLACK."
The audience then ha-ha'd the Boiling Point trailer, and I'm still wondering who to blame for that. I mean, I've seen Boiling Point and thought it was a pretty decent low-key crime drama/character piece from James B. Harris; I wouldn't laugh at that movie. The trailer, on the other hand, promotes that shit like it was Passenger 57 II (or Passenger 58 because Passenger 57 2 would look too confusing, that's for sure) with an extra dose of Retard and that's probably why back during one week in the spring of 1993, lots of my friends at school came back the following Monday to complain about going to see the new Wesley Snipes movie that looked Awesome but turned out Lame. I wish these same friends saw the Takeshi Kitano film of the same name, it would be funny to watch their reactions to that one.
In addition to Boiling Point, Demolition Man also came out in 1993, which I'm telling you because it'll add to the following sentence I'm about to write. The movie begins with a shot of a burning Hollywood sign and sounds of chaos and gunfire in the background, and when the onscreen title card declaring this scenario as "Los Angeles 1996" came up, everyone in the audience laughed their asses off, which wasn't much of a difference from how that shit was received when I first saw this flick in the theaters 17-18 years ago (give or take a couple seasons). Then Sylvester Stallone jumps out of a helicopter in some fuckin' bungee-harness thing and screams out PHOENIIIIIIIX while firing his pistol during free-fall and then some girl a couple rows ahead of me must've found that moment some kind of geek-out victory because she shot her arms up into the air like YES and all I could do in response was nod and say Fuckin' A, just like Alfredo Garcia in the movie.
The girl had friends who would cheer as well whenever Sly owned a motherfucker during the opening scene and that is a sentiment that I both understand and share. What I get confused with is someone who is having a good time but does so in a manner that distracts painfully sensitive (read: sober) people like me. I'm talking about this man or woman with an unfortunate distinct giggle in the audience. I'll do my best to describe it in the writing, but it's really something you had to hear to understand. It went something like UH-HEGH-HEGH-HEGH and it sounded like a baby's giggle with the pitch lowered down to the Satan's Minion setting and I've yet to figure out if it came from a man or a woman and even worse, I couldn't figure out the age range of said horrible laugh-er. I turned (so did a couple other people near me) but couldn't find this person.
To make things worse, he/she with the Rosemary's Baby giggle was mostly out-of-sync with the audience, so his/her laugh usually stood out during moments that should mostly be the property of the film's soundtrack. I wonder if this person had a different sense-of-humor than everyone else, or if this person knew he/she was making a spectacle of him/herself and did it on purpose. The Me of 5 years ago would guess the former, but Current Me thinks the worst of people now and assumes the latter. "Hey everyone, listen to my 'funny' laugh!" this cunt/dick probably thought, knowing it would be funny to his/her fellow jerkoffs in the audience.
Or maybe -- most likely -- I'm the jerkoff, and I'm just hard to have fun around. I mean, the guy next to me started taking slugs from his flask and I could smell the Jack Daniels and I was actually being a prissy girl about it, all Oh My Delicate Nasal Passages Are Offended, but to be real with ya'll, I was probably pissed at my current status as Former Drinker and even more pissed that I did not arrive slightly toasted in another manner. It is a midnight show, after all. Maybe I'm just a player hater.
Since the good guy is an eye-tie and the bad guy is a (Always Bet On) Black, it leaves a motherfucker wondering if that shit was intentional. Not in a Fueling The Race War kind-of-way, but in a Rocky I-III reclaiming past glory kind-of-way. Back when Eddie Murphy was funny and publicly homophobic, he had a hilarious bit on Italians coming out of the movie theater after a Rocky movie and I wonder if the same shit happened with this one. Alright John Spartaaaann! Alright, Sly!
I thought I read somewhere that Schwarzenegger was considered for the role of Simon Phoenix and I'm glad that shit didn't happen, even though I'm sure the Phoenix character would've been written differently to cater to Arnold's strengths, because I'm guessing lines like "They defrosted you just
so you could lasso my piddly ass? Damn, you been had!" wouldn't sound the same coming from the Governator, nor would it sound right to hear Arnie extol the virtues of the scent emanating from an open manhole, saying it reminds him of biscuits and gravy.
As it is, they got Wesley Snipes, who is clearly having a ball with his villainous turn as Phoenix. Usually, I think the actor-ly thing to do when given a villain role would be to look at this shit from the bad guy's perspective; because the bad guy probably doesn't think he's the bad guy, he's just trying to do his thing. But Snipes probably realized way early the fuck on that this was no Spike Lee joint and he's not playing a motherfucker in a wheelchair (see: The Waterdance, no really, see that shit, it's really good) and then he probably called his people to find out if the check cleared, and after that, he just decided to just be one of those bad guys who are bad for the sake of being bad and have some fuckin' fun with it.
It's not like he's the only one. I mean Stallone is having a little fun with it, he knows this shit is pretty ridiculous, but he still tries to have his human moments, and besides, he's the hero and has to be kinda serious during these proceedings in comparison to the bad guy. But Snipes, he is totally comic-booking it up because he can, and I guess you really have no choice but to play it that way when your character's hair is dyed blond and your eyes are of mismatched color. Holy shit -- in that case, I think we need to keep a close look on Kate Bosworth because she isn't a natural blonde and her eyes are different colors too; for all we know, that chick's a super-villain in training.
So, Stallone's character John Spartan managed to capture Simon Phoenix and run all the way down a large building just before it completely explodes (they don't call him the Demolition Man for nothing) but it's all just a big Fail because the hostages he was trying to save were in that building. That means he joins Phoenix in "cryo-prison", where they put you in frozen isolation from the rest of the world. Cut to 2032, and society has become a horrifyingly pussied-out utopia of non-violence, political correctness and healthy food options.
You can't even swear in this motherfucker -- BUZZ! -- without getting a ticket from some nearby monitoring device for "violating the verbal morality". Shit --BUZZ! -- you can't even mutter that shit -- BUZZ! -- to yourself because that still counts as a "sotto voce" violation. Somehow, Phoenix escapes during a parole hearing (!) and trots off to "San Angeles", where he's like a kid in a candy store -- that is, if the kid is a psychopathic murdering criminal and instead of Snickers, lollipops and M&M's, you have weak unarmed shaky emo motherfuckers -- BUZZ! -- who need to get daily affirmations from a computer kiosk just to get by.
Faced with a bad guy they don't know how to handle, the San Angeles Police Department defrost Spartan and off he goes, looking to take this motherfucker down. Along for the ride is the fuckin' Gallo Negro himself, Benjamin Bratt and Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock. I like Sandra Bullock, and I was happy to see her win an Oscar for that movie My Pet Negro, but I still think she should've thanked Lori Petty because if it wasn't for Tank Girl getting fired from Demolition Man, they wouldn't have had Bullock replace her and who knows what would've happened.
For all we know, if Bullock never got her break, then maybe it wouldn't have been her driving the bus in Speed which would create a chain of events that leads to Miss Congeniality never happening and while I know some of you hipsters are probably reacting to that scenario with "Good!", I am going to disagree and once again declare my love for that fuckin' movie and if any of you want to take it up with me, we can square that shit out in the muthafuckin' Octagon. Because I don't fuckin' play around when it comes to Miss Congeniality. As far as Part 2, OK, I'll stand for a little shit-talking, but that's about it. Hey Hollywood, you know there's always room for a part 3, you know. Special Agent Gracie Hart could take up a new partner after the one from part 2 dies in a terrible multiple-gunshot accident, and the new partner could be played by The Adorable Amy Adams. I already have the script written if you want to get that shit on the road tout de suite.
Speaking of adorable, Bullock's performance is sprinkled with liberal doses of it. Her Lenina Huxley (ah, looks like someone's a fuckin' reader) character is obsessed with the 20th century and while the idea of someone fondly looking back at a time when shit was more violent might be kind of disturbing, I don't agree, it's kind of endearing, actually. But you want to know what does disturb me about lovely Lenina? The fact that she has a poster of Lethal Weapon 3 -- the worst in the series, I say -- on her office wall. I bet you she has an excuse, though -- the poster for part 3 was probably the cheapest one she could get (who wants that shit?) and it's not like she could afford to get part 1 or 2 on a cop's salary. Anyway, I got a kick out of her unintentional nerdery whenever she tries to use a late 90's phrase and gets it wrong or when she excitingly claps her hands when her favorite "mini-tune" plays on the radio, and if I ever have to be kicked out of some lady's house, I can only hope she does it in as cute a manner as Huxley's stomp-on-the-floor-while-pointing-toward-the-exit move.
Demolition Man is one of those movies with a cast that looks even better with the passing years. You have Sandra Bullock before she was a star, Benjamin Bratt before he became more established, the fuckin' warden from The Shawshank Redemption is being an asshole to Sly, that crazy fuckin' King George III is in this bitch trying to out-utopia his current utopia, you got Denis Leary when he was still the guy from MTV (as opposed to now being known as the guy who ripped off Bill Hicks), former governor/current conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura is here (not only does he not have time to bleed, he doesn't even have time for a line of dialogue), that fuckin' douche from MTV Sports shows up fast enough for you to not notice or give a fuck, and last but not least, the late great Glenn Shadix is here to further awesome this shit up with a Heathers vibe by saying "Greetings and Salutations" to everybody, which might be co-writer Daniel Waters' little shout-out to himself.
According to Blankenship, Mr. Waters was going to try to make it to the screening for a Q&A, but he was too busy getting drunk with hip filmmakers and stars after the Independent Spirit Awards to attend. Let me clarify, the part about Waters possibly attending was what Phil said, the rest of it is me projecting. But hey, the guy wrote Heathers and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, so he can do whatever the fuck he wants, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I raise my glass to Mr. Waters for his past work. Mr. Waters, here's to you -- suckin' my dick! OHHHHHHHHH!
Also, Deuce Bigelow has a brief role in the movie, and I don't think I caught his name in the credits. What up with that? Did he watch the final cut and realize he wasn't able to ruin it, hence his displeasure with the final product and his request to go without credit? Only he and the producers know for sure. Whatever, he's not paying my bills, so fuck that guy. The movie was directed by Marco Brambilla, which gave me a Latin Pride boner back when I was a kid, but then I found out he's really a Canadian eye-tie, so fuck him too.
You know, I'm being unfair to the guy. He did a great job with this flick, the action was chaotic without being confusing and the whole look of the film is pretty tight too (calm down, I'm also giving credit to the late Alex Thomson's cinematography and whoever the fuck did the production design). I don't know how much this movie cost to make, but I'm sure you see every penny of it on the screen. There's a shot in the beginning, when Spartan is about to attempt his free-fall drop onto the building; there's all these tracer bullets being fired towards the helicopter hovering over the roof, fuckin' searchlights moving around, all bordered by fire and little explosions -- and it's pretty fuckin' spectacular to watch.
The music by Julie Taymor's husband is pretty epic for the most part; the shit that plays during the opening action sequence (and the climax) is probably my favorite bit from him. The only track I didn't like was the one that would play whenever Phoenix was doing his thing, it's like a mixture of White Guy Scratching The Turntable and this weird scratchy 60's blues guitar riff that would come on and every time I heard it, I got the douchechills something awful. Also, I like Sting but he almost manages to suck out all the goodwill earned by the movie with his theme song. Motherfucker shoulda spent less time having Tantric sex with the chick from Fair Game and more time trying to write a badass song.
It's funny that one character says something to the effect of "no kiss kiss, no bang bang" because that's kinda what the action scenes are like in this movie. It seems like every scene between Stallone and Snipes involves a lot of dialogue in between the attempted ownage, a lot of dialogue:
Phoenix: I've been dreaming about killing you for 40 years!
(Phoenix fires his gun at Spartan)
Spartan: Keep dreaming!
(Spartan fires his shotgun at Phoenix)
It's almost like the gunfire is interrupting their conversation, the bullets are the exclamation marks at the end of their sentences. I mean, these guys can't do a single thing without prefacing it with some line. "You're on TV!" sayeth the Spartan, right before swinging a television set at Phoenix. Usually, you say that shit AFTER you own a guy, not before. Plus, it's kind of weird that in a couple cases, one guy will ask the other guy a question and then fire at him. I'm like, what the fuck, don't you want to hear an answer? If you kill him, you'll never find out!
Back to Brambilla; so the guy then went on to make Excess Baggage because star/producer Alicia Silverstone wanted him to direct it, leaving me amused at the thought of Cher from Clueless watching Wesley Snipes using a poor guy's severed eyeball to escape from prison and then declaring "That's who I want to direct my rom-com!" In fact, it was also her idea to cast Benicio Del Toro (back when he was just the weird mumbly guy from The Usual Suspects) to play her love interest. Holy shit, Alicia Silverstone is a fuckin' mad genius, when you get right down to it. I'll have to watch that one again, because I didn't like it the first time, but who knows. I sure as fuck won't waste my time with Brambilla's other stuff though, because they look like lame TV-movies about dinosaurs, which come to think of it, I think those flicks ARE lame TV-movies about dinosaurs.
I enjoyed Demolition Man even more with this viewing; maybe it was the venue or maybe the movie improved with age, or maybe it was a little of both. I saw this movie back in '93 at a movie theater that had the best
popcorn, so naturally that place eventually closed. Then I saw it a year
later at a friend's house, and now I'm no longer friends with him. My third viewing
was at the New Beverly and now I'm afraid something bad is going to happen. Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure Bosworth and Silverstone
are going to be behind it and it will be hot to look at.
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I don't really care for classes that don't get my heart rate up, so I wasn't expecting to like The Daily Method. To be honest, the first time I hit up the Pilates-ballet-yoga fusion class I was bored out of my mind, and I left wondering, "What's the point?" Hours later, when the delayed onset muscle soreness emerged, I smiled—that's more like it!
The Dailey Method is a series of movements that focus on core conditioning, muscle strengthening, and muscle lengthening. The aim is to sculpt your body while maintaining balance and alignment to protect the spine. The movements are tiny and restricted, and often feel repetitive (hence my boredom), but they're also quite tough. During the pelvic-tilt-squat-combo move at the ballet bar, my calves and quads shake uncontrollably and my knees give out—it's pretty intense.
Still, I'm not completely satisfied with a workout unless I break a sweat, so to get my cardio fix before class I run to the studio. I'd like to tell you I'm such a badass that I run the three miles home again, but I usually hitch a ride back with my cousin Christy. (She loves The Dailey Method and hates running. Go figure.)
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Upstate New York is famous for its salt potatoes, a dish in which small skin-on potatoes are cooked in super-saturated salt water. They're typically served in paper boats and are absolutely drenched in melted butter. This version of the elegant salt-steamed potato is inspired by, and is much better for you than, the aforementioned classic. They are a versatile side dish for roasted meats. They're also great turned into next-day potato salad.
How to Make It
In a standard steamer (basket and base), combine the 3 cups water, the salt, and the rosemary sprigs. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
Place the washed potatoes in the steamer basket. Place the basket in the steamer base. Cover the steamer, reduce the heat to medium, and cook for about 30 minutes, until the potatoes are tender but not cracked.
Carefully remove the potatoes from the steamer and let stand 5 minutes.
Combine butter and chopped rosemary in a small microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIgH 20 seconds or until butter melts.
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The Annual Beekeeping Summer Course was as usual a complete success! Please share your comments with us via here.
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It's that time of year when the thoughts of beekeepers in Ireland turn to Gormanston. The excellent FIBKA beekeeping summer school is the highlight of the beekeeper's calendar in Ireland, so if you are a beekeeper already or are interested in learning about bees, do consider taking a day or more to travel up to Gormanston for the summer school at the end of July. It's great value. With the motorways now it's easy to to a day trip, and there may even be some accommodation still available. For other opinions you can check out our Gormaston page here. Last year Claire and I made some video interviews at Gormanston, so maybe check them out.
And finally, below is a brief video interview with Richard Jones of IBRA, the International Bee Research Association at Gormanston last year. The boffins from Cardiff will be at Gormanston again this year, so if you want to order any special IBRA books from their bookshop – for example Eva Crane's excellent World history of beekeeping and honey hunting – get in touch with IBRA's bookshop! This writer has ordered a signed copy of their Welsh honey recipes.
Yes, the Dublin Horse Show has come round again. And this year, once again, the Dublin Beekeepers have a stand at the RDS – so if you're around, do drop in and say hello. We will have an observation hive on site so you can practice your queen-finding skills. The Dublin Horse Show runs from Wednesday of this week till Sunday, and we'll be there every day. Perhaps we should teach the bees dressage – if they can learn to fly and build comb in zero gravity on a space shuttle (download the paper here) I'm sure we can teach them to dance better than horses can!
Last Saturday we had a demonstration for our beginners of honey crop removal, winter feeding & varroa control with Apiguard, up at our apiary. Plenty attended, and as usual, everyone learned something.
Last month, many Dublin beekeepers attended the excellent Gormanston beekeeping summer school – it was packed, as usual, and the lectures were of the high standard that we have come to expect. In the humble opinion of the author, the accommodation's not the highlight of the experience, but if you want luxury you can stay in a nearby hotel or do a day trip from Dublin – and for many the accommodation is part of the charm of the place.
The big event for the Dublin beekeeper, of course, is our annual honey show. This year's will be held on Saturday 3rd November. This year, in addition to the honey show competition, the craft fair, the honey for sale and the refreshments we are offering two lectures – one on 'Beginning with bees' which should interest all aspiring beekeepers – and another on 'The history of beekeeping in Ireland'. Both lecturers are eminent beekeepers and lecturers, so put the date in your diary! If you are a member of Co Dublin BKA, please do consider giving a little of your time to help us run these events – just contact one of the committee.
And finally, Facebook users will probably have spotted the Co Dublin beekeepers' page (see the panel on the left) – but had you heard of the new Facebook group called 'Beekeepers of Ireland'? Hope to see you there!
Best wishes for a bountiful honey harvest
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Chinese investors are demanding that closed-circuit surveillance cameras be installed in Chinese-North Korean joint ventures operating inside North Korea to prevent workers from stealing materials and products that cause financial losses, sources said.
Chinese companies investing in North Korea say the installation of CCTV cameras in their facilities are a "critical factor in the success or failure of joint-venture businesses," a source from North Hamgyong province told RFA's Korean Service on Tuesday, citing an executive from North Korea's foreign trade bureau.
As an example, the source, who declined to be named, said there was a "big fight" between a Chinese investor and local managers from a Chinese-North Korean joint venture in Chongjin, capital of North Hamgyong province and the country's third largest city.
"The investor suspected that there was an unreasonable amount of output compared to the amount of investment, and he claimed, based on recordings by security cameras, that the workers had been stealing products," the source said.
As a result, the Chinese investor threatened to withdraw from the joint venture.
"North Korea, in need of foreign investors, tried to deal with the situation with judicial authorities, but they were put to shame because the investor presented the video footage as evidence," the source said.
"The Chinese investor had been watching the joint venture's production line via surveillance cameras with solar-powered batteries that aren't affected by power outages," he said. "Because the investor presented the video footage of the workers stealing products, the company manager eventually admitted stealing and apologized."
"Workers who do not know about security cameras still steal raw materials and final products," the source said. "However, it is mainly managers who steal more raw materials and products than workers."
A second source from North Hamgyong province also told RFA on Tuesday that the pilfering of materials and products from inside Chinese-North Korean joint ventures is why new Chinese investors have made it a priority for firms to install security cameras.
"Old security cameras don't work when there is power outage, so they are useless," he said. "Workers and managers usually sneak materials and products out during power outages."
Many investors in the past lost their investments and had to pull out of Chinese-North Korean joint ventures because their workers and managers stole products, said the source, who requested anonymity.
"Even if they operated security cameras for 24 hours, it would not be easy to completely prevent North Korean workers from stealing," he said.
In the past, textile manufacturers in North Korea contracted to produce export-bound apparel for companies in China skimmed off raw material supplied by the Chinese during the production process and manufactured items such as coats, which they later sold at bargain prices in North Korea's tightly controlled black markets.
Commerce Ministry order
China's Ministry of Commerce issued a notice on Sept. 27, 2017, ordering the closure of all existing joint ventures with North Korean firms in China and entities owned by North Korean companies or individuals, as part of new United Nations sanctions imposed on Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile tests.
The order also required overseas Chinese-North Korean joint ventures to cease operations, though firms approved by the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee, such as nonprofits and noncommercial infrastructure projects, could remain open.
The businesses were to shut down within 120 days from Sept. 11 of that year, the day on which the Security Council unanimously adopted the U.S.-drafted resolution to slap harsher sanctions on Pyongyang a week after the country conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test.
The ninth set of sanctions imposed by the Security Council on North Korea since 2006 also included a ceiling on Pyongyang's crude oil imports, a ban on the country's textile exports, and an end to contracts for additional overseas workers who generate much-needed funds for leader Kim Jong Un's regime.
It is unclear how many Chinese firms have complied with the order from their government, an ally of North Korea which has long argued for a softer approach to Pyongyang and only reluctantly supported U.S.-led sanctions efforts.
Chinese entities have been repeatedly caught skirting or violating U.N. sanctions on trading oil, coal, and other commodities.
Reported by Jieun Kim for RFA's Korean Service. Translated by Leejin Jun. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.


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Cruise around town on a map of the Saugatuck business district circa 1906 and enjoy incredible views from the photo archive.
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Mansaf is the most popular dish in Jordan and it served during family meals, weddings or any occasion.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes approximately
Cooking Time: 90 minutes approximately
Serves: 4 persons
All you need
3 cups of rice
1 kg lamb meat
1 liter yoghurt prepared from hard yoghurt ball
6 cups of water
2 tbsps. vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. cardamom
2 cinnamon sticks
1/2 tsp. al alali Ground Cinnamon
1/4 tsp. al alali Ground Black Pepper
1/5 tsp. saffron
2 bay leaves
1 tbsp. flour
1 egg
1 medium onion, sliced
Salt to taste
Roasted pine seeds
Roasted almonds
- In a large pot, cook lamb meat, add onions, cinnamon stick, salt, cardamom, al alali Ground Black Pepper and bay leaves. Cook over moderate heat until meat is tender
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, soak rice for 20 minutes
- To prepare mansaf soup, in a blender, mix yoghurt, salt, al alali Ground Cinnamon powder, saffron, flour and egg. In a cooking pot, bring mixture to boil
- In a pot, heat vegetable oil. Drain the soaked rice and cook on low heat.
- Add 3 cups of lamb broth to the rice and bring the broth to boil
- Add a cup of lamb broth to the mansaf soup, add the cooked lamb meat. Bring the mixture to boil
- Place a piece of flat bread on the serving plate and add the rice with topping of meat
- Garnish with roasted pine seeds and almonds
- Serve and enjoy!
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The Forest of Reading Program has grown from a modest beginning in 1994 with one program and has since grown to seven programs in both French and English. From the beginning, the school and public library community were committed to expanding the program and to offering it to their students and patrons. For the past twenty years, the Canadian publishing and book industry have increasingly provided support, ideas and have asked how can they be further involved in showcasing and expanding this program.
Members of the Advisory Committee will serve as key influencers in helping move the Forest of Reading® and its Festival into the future and help keep it as a leading reading initiative in this country.


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It's funny how the human part of me needs much of everything. The desire for community, safety, companionship, intimacy, success, love, drive my attitudes and actions. I'm always wanting but no matter how much I seek outside myself, it's never enough.
I play this game of life and yet spirit knows it's just a game. It's all just a creation, a story I'm making. It means a lot, yet it means little. How often do I go down dead end roads expecting to find a pot of gold when all there is is a dead end. An end or a beginning or both? When I can look within to find a soul that is just looking to be freed, when I let all earthly desires go like sand through my fingers, I find peace and love unconditional.
God, let me be free today and help me to stop looking for false happiness. Help me find something real, something that lasts.
Help me to know you and feel close to you, all the moments of my life.


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Why Birds On A Wire Act A Lot Like People In Line
Birds on a wire space themselves out for the same reason that we put distance between the person in front of us in line at the movies.
"It's an attraction. You want to talk to the person in front of you but you don't want to be in their personal space," says Bill Saidel, associate professor of biology at Rutgers University-Camden. "That's a repulsion. It's the same thing with birds."
As reported in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, how birds self-assemble can be explained by the combination of attraction (such as for mating or searching for food) and repulsion (to avoid collisions with group members or because of claustrophobia).
The findings also show that interactions between birds are topological—birds interact with each other based on the closeness of their neighbors on the wire.
Over a two-year period, researchers took hundreds of photos of starlings and pigeons sitting on telephone wires at various locations in Camden County, New Jersey.
After narrowing down the photos to a set of 114, they observed how and where the birds were positioned and measured the distances between them. They then used a systematic quantitative approach to develop a mathematical model to predict the pattern of spacing between individual birds.
"There are a few characteristics where we were able to capture, like, birds are dense," says Benedetto Piccoli, chair of mathematics, who is also associate provost for research. "If you have a large group, they sit more closely in the center and they are more spaced on the wings and this depends on the species and the bird's size."
Using Matlab software, the team scaled the photos, cropped the bird groups in the photos, removed the wires, and took measurements and analyzed the images and the data they found.
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Gathering data on the birds and analyzing their behavior was a bit complicated, the researchers say, because they're up high, and locating and measuring their position wasn't easy.
"It's just catch as we could," says Saidel. "One of the rules of natural behavior is that you can't tell them what to do."
The National Science Foundation funded the work.
Source: Rutgers University
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The BOSS at the Barn!
My name is Little Bit and I am the BIG BOSS at The Healing Barn! I am 16 hands tall and registered as a stock paint horse. I do not have markings of a paint like my girlfriend Fancy, but my body looks like some one took a white paint brush and splattered it on my copper colored hair. When I first came to The Healing Barn, I was falling down and I was very sick. I had what they call EPM. All I know is it was not fun to have no control over my rear end. I would try to run and my butt would fall down. It made me feel really stupid.
My job, as you know, is to protect the herd and all I could do was fall. My owner wanted to donate me to Ohio State to be experimented on:( When Nancy at The Healing Barn heard about me she called my owner and talked her into donating me to The Healing Barn.
Now I am the leader of all the horses, and of course all the girls love me. They all think, "I am all that" and you know, "I am all that, I am beautiful." I do not fall down and I am not sick anymore. Thank the Lord, he put me in a good place.
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The historic Mount Elizabeth Mound Archeological Site is a prehistoric midden and an archaeological site in Jensen Beach, Florida. This Martin County Historical Site is also known as Racey's Tuckahoe and St. Joseph's Novitiate. Southern Florida is covered with ancient archaeological sites left behind by the first Floridians. Many of these sites are thousands of years old.
Early Native Americans did not leave us written information about their lives. It is up to archaeologists to tell their story by researching historic sites like the Mount Elizabeth site. Achaeologists learn about these Native Americans from artifacts found at ancient campsites and villages. Important clues about the early Floridians are the numerous shell and earthen mounds, large earthworks, and canals they left behind. The Mount Elizabeth historic site is one such shell midden which may provide great insight into these prehistoric people. Native Americans created these shell, or midden mounds, by tossing away the empty shells of shellfish or other refuse such as broken pottery, shell tools, animal bones. Archaeologists research and excavate these mounds to learn about the everyday life of the early Native Americans.
The Mount Elizabeth Mound Archeological Site is located in Martin County's Indian RiverSide Park, which includes the former Florida Institute of Technology. 4,000 years ago, the Nomadic Tribes inhabited Jensen Beach & built the Mount Elizabeth midden we see today. In 1850 the lands surrounding the site were purchased by explorer William Racey who named the mound Mount Elizabeth. This purchase was one of the earliest property sales in Martin County. The property would change hands a few times before Willaford and Ann Bates Leach purchased the land and
built the Mediterranean style mansion, which they called "Tuckahoe," a Native American expression meaning "welcome."
The historic Mount Elizabeth was added to the National Register of Historic Place on September 14, 2002.
In 2008 an excavation of a portion of the mound was financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance to Martin County provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Historic Preservation Advisory Council. The project was conducted with adult volunteers from the Friends of Mount Elizabeth and Southeast Florida Archaeological Society. The excavation hopes to uncover more details about this historic site in Martin County Florida.
Location of Historic Mount Elizabeth Mound


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July 20, 2017
Trump administration helps shutter massive online crime market
The Trump administration and international partners have taken down the largest marketplace for illegal goods on a shadowy section of the internet known as the "dark web."
The marketplace, AlphaBay, at one point had 200,000 users and 40,000 sellers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at a press conference in Washington. In early 2017, more than 100 sellers offered the synthetic opioid fentanyl, and 238 offered heroin.
Sessions said that AlphaBay sales had been traced to multiple opioid deaths in the United States.
"You are not safe," Sessions told cyber criminals during his press conference. "You cannot hide. We will find you, dismantle your organization and network, and we will prosecute you."
AlphaBay relied on the hard-to-trace digital currency bitcoin to sell products and operated through the dark web, a collection of sites that require special software to access. This software passes users' connections through a series of relays to disguise their location, which makes it more difficult for law enforcement to track and identify them.
The marketplace went offline on the evening of July 4. The next day, Thai police arrested a Canadian man named Alexandre Cazes, who allegedly helped run the site. He died in Thai custody one week later, but he was expected to be extradited to the United States to face charges.
In the operation that took down AlphaBay and a second dark web vendor, Hansa Market, DOJ worked with authorities in Thailand, the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Lithuania, along with officials at the international police group Europol.
"Disrupting and dismantling dark websites is a priority for the Department of Justice, and international coordination is critical for our success," said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Authorities arrested the operators of both dark-web markets and seized "extensive" evidence, Rosenstein said. Dutch authorities moved against the suspected administrators of Hansa Market on Thursday, after secretly seizing control of the site to monitor the influx of new users who flocked to it from AlphaBay.
DOJ said in a fact sheet that it knew of "hundreds" of dark web markets that sold illegal material, including child pornography and stolen financial information.
"Many of these sites are the subject of investigations both in the United States and abroad," it said.
AlphaBay was by far the largest such site, with a user base 10 times larger than the infamous Silk Road market. Robert Patterson, the deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said AlphaBay sales generated $1 billion in proceeds throughout its existence.
"This is a landmark operation," said acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
The AlphaBay takedown is just the latest in a string of successful global cyber operations for law enforcement.
The Justice Department has also worked with international partners to dismantle the massive Kelihos botnet— which powered spam campaigns and digital broadsides on websites that overwhelmed their servers—and to arrest and extradite one of the four men charged with hacking into online giant Yahoo.
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