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Guitar amplifiers are a major part of your tone. Some amps can do many things well, while others excel at producing specific tonal qualities. When shopping for a guitar amplifier, you will have to choose between a Tube or Solid-State model, and whether you want a combo, or separate head and speaker cabinet.
Tube based guitar amplifier use old fashioned vacuum tubes to produce their power and process the guitar’s signal. They are very loud, and generate a large amount of heat during operation. Generally, tube amps provide a warm tone that when pushed hard will produce a natural, overdriven distortion that is very sought after by many guitarists. Tube amplifiers will require maintenance as the vacuum tubes need periodic replacement.
Solid-State guitar amplifiers rely on transistors and integrated circuits to amplify and process the guitar’s signal. Although they can’t match the raw power and smooth, natural distortion of a tube amp, Solid-State amps tend to be much more versatile. Modern electronics are often used to produce a broader range of tones than found in most tube based guitar amplifiers. They also run cooler, and are relatively maintenance free.
Choosing between a combo or separates is often a personal decision. Combo guitar amps use a single cabinet to house the electronics and speakers. They take up less space, and are generally easier to transport. Separates give you greater flexibility with respect to speaker size and type. Since there’s more room for components, some argue that separates are built to higher standards than combos, but this is not always true. One really big advantage of separates is that the head can be isolated from vibrations produced by the speakers, extending the life and reliability of the electronic components.
Whichever type of amp you choose, keep in mind that your guitar and amp work as a team. Plugging an expensive, well voiced instrument into a cheap amplifier won’t allow the instrument to reach its full potential. A good amplifier will last you for many years… so don’t skimp!
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While shuffling through photos I had taken during my various trips over the years, I bumped upon some old images from the first trip I did soon after I moved to Bangalore. Though these photos are nothing great if we talk about ‘quality’ but photos, according to me, are more about ‘taking us back to the moment‘ when they were …
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25 March 2021: Ncondezi Energy Limited ("Ncondezi" or the "Company") (AIM: NCCL) is pleased to provide an update on the integrated Ncondezi 300MW coal fired power project and coal mine in Tete, Mozambique (the "Project").
Highlights:
· Positive tariff negotiations continue
· The next step is receipt of formal feedback from Electricidade de Moçambique ("EDM") and the Government of Mozambique following submission of agreed studies in December 2020
· China Machinary Engineering Corp ("CMEC") has reiterated its support for Project
Ncondezi Chief Executive Officer, Hanno Pengilly said: "We are at an advanced stage in our negotiations with both EDM and the Government. All the requested information has been delivered and further questions have been answered. We are now awaiting formal feedback from both EDM and the Government which will drive the Project timetable for the next critical milestones.
The Project remains the most advanced baseload power project in the area with the ability to supply the required power to the grid, inline with current Government generation policy targets. The Project also benefits from strong partner support as demonstrated by CMEC's commitment to certain early works budget. This has ensured that the work necessary for the Project to meet Chinese investment standards has continued during the negotiations.
Finalising the tariff will unlock all the remaining milestones and while we aim to provide updates as regularly as possible, we must balance this with the sensitive nature of such negotiations. We continue to believe the Project is in a very strong position as it is technically sound, has a financing plan in place and able to provide a commercially attractive tariff. We look forward to providing further updates in due course."
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Standard AR-15 Firing pin. Machined from steel to exacting tolerance. When performing maintenance inspections, make sure the tip of the firing pin is neither too blunt (causing possible misfires) or too sharp (possibly piercing the primer). For safety, replace it if you have any doubts.
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A cross country ski set for children wanting to learn the game. This set consists of skis, simple bindings with an easy to use control strap and poles. SkiGo Cross Country Kids Package is a perfect setup with good stability and with a wax free kick zone. The camber is soft that fits the little beginners well. The bindings fits with normal every day boots.
The poles in the package comes in costum length fitting with the ski length.
Recommended length for kids: Choose a ski that is approximately skiers height.
The package comes in a clear bag with velcro closure and a handlestrap.
Size: The bindings are adjustable via the two mounting screws. This will fit boot sizes from approximately size UK 7.5C to UK 2.5.
- Lengthwise it is possible to adjust into four positions (shortest: 6.69inches from heel to frontpart of the binding. Longest: 8.46inches from heel to frontpart of the binding.
- Width: The bindings are adjustable in width via the two mounting screws. Narrowest: 2.67inches. Widest: 3.14inches
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Skis had a broken strap upon delivery. Promptly sent Skatepro description and several pictures, then more pictures. Weeks later it's still unresolved. Hoping this negative review will get some traction.
A. Reeves (Marquette)
22/03/2022
Rating: 1 of 5!
Reply from SkatePro: Thank you for your review. We have contacted the supplier for you on this case, but unfortunately have not got an answer from them yet. The moment we hear back from them, we'll let you know. Our apologies for the inconvenience! /Doreen
Good skis, however on the first time wearing them the binding popped off and stripped the screw holes. We had to glue the screw in place so our daughter could use them but at the cost of the binding being glued in place now. I don’t want to return them from Canada as she will be without skis so we will make do! Otherwise she loves them.
Jennifer Drew (Hamilton township)
06/01/2021
Rating: 2 of 5!
Reply from SkatePro: Hi Jennifer!
I'm sorry to hear about the bindings! I understand that you don't want to wait for the return, however, if the bindings are faulty, we definitely can find a solution for you, possibly without needing to return the skis. Please contact us so that we can address this better!
Please write to us at [email protected] or call +1 647-243-6331 between Mon-Thu 12 am - 5:30 pm, Fri 12 am - 11 am, Sat 12 am - 7 am (EST)
These are a great first pair of skis to introduce young kids to the sport.
Seth K. (Fergus Falls)
06/01/2021
Rating: 5 of 5!
Great product, great customer service.
Kim S. (Maple)
05/01/2021
Rating: 5 of 5!
Unfortunately, I am not able to comment since we were not able to give these to our grandchildren due to COVID over the holidays. Check back when this pandemic is over Thanks. So far, they looked well made
Alma Poncelet (Meskanaw)
29/12/2020
Rating: 3 of 5!
I ordered three sets of skis for our grandsons for Christmas. Skis are of good quality for a young beginner. Unfortunately, screw in binding came out on second use. Buckles do not stay closed. Returning two sets and keeping one but will be putting new buckles on the straps. I really wanted to love these, just as the grandkids did!
Jean Schroeder (Manitowish Waters)
12/01/2018
Rating: 2 of 5!
Reply from SkatePro: Hi Jean,
I see that we are currently waiting for the skis to come back to our location (regarding our email contact). / Justin
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Just two hours north of the Twin Cities is Duluth, a city rich in history, scenery and attractions right on Lake Superior. I know it well, as I grew up and attended college there. It’s still “home” in many ways for me, but over the years it’s also really grown as a tourist destination with new hotels, places to visit, an expanded lake walk and so much more.
My family was invited by to visit and experience their 3-attraction pass, which includes admission to the Vista Fleet, North Short Scenic Railroad, and Great Lakes Aquarium. The pass is $36 for adults and $18 for children, and is like getting admission to 3 attractions for the price of 2. These are all big, popular attractions, so it’s a great way to enjoy some of the best highlights in Duluth, and it’s DEFINITELY worth it for the savings alone.
As part of our stay in Duluth, kids and I were given a room at the Inn on Lake Superior, which was amazing. We had a King Bed Suite with Sofa Sleeper, and a beautiful view of Lake Superior. We enjoyed s’mores outside, swam in their indoor pool (they also have one on their rooftop!), and had a big hot breakfast, all of which was included in our stay. We didn’t want to leave!
Read about our hotel stay in my Inn on Lake Superior review here.
Then we enjoyed our 3-attraction passes!
The Vista Fleet
First we went on a Vista Fleet cruise of the Duluth harbor.
The Vista Fleet is the Northland’s longest and only running harbor cruise company, and there are various cruises available, including sightseeing cruises, dinner cruises, and group tours.
The MUST SEE DULUTH pass includes a narrated 1 hour and 45 minutes sightseeing cruise: the “Grand Sightseeing Tour.” If you don’t have the MUST SEE DULUTH pass, the cruise is regularly $25 per person, and the tours are offered at different times each day in the summer. We went on a morning cruise in June. It was on the Vista Star (there’s also the Vista Queen and the Vista King).
There were several levels – the lower 2 levels are indoor, and the 3rd level is outdoor. You can also go outside on the 1st level.
The 1st level has concessions with drinks (including alcoholic), snacks, ice cream and souvenirs.
During the cruise, we went from level to level, as we listened to the narrator talk about the area. It was a perfect day, and it was so fun going under the Aerial Lift Bridge. There were plenty of photo opportunities (when our hair wasn’t blowing around in the breeze!)!
The narrator (or “captain”) did a great job keeping everyone entertained while giving us a lot of interesting information about the area.
Overall it was a fun cruise and we all enjoyed seeing the area from the water!
The North Shore Scenic Railroad
My son LOVES trains, so we were excited to go for a ride on the North Shore Scenic Railroad next! Our passes included a 1 hour and 30 minute Lester River narrated excursion. Called the “Duluth Zephyr” trip, it’s offered at 12:30pm and 3:00pm each day in the summer, and is popular with families.
There are different train cars you can sit on with seats facing both way. The trip goes up to the Lester River Bridge and back (which is not far from where I grew up!). It’s narrated with interesting information along the way, as notable landmarks and sights are pointed out.
You can get up and move from car to car during the ride, so we went to the Concessions car for snacks. Actually, we went more than a few times to get another snack and another drink… There are also open-air spots to stand and look out along the way. (And yes, there are restrooms on the train.)
Prices of the concessions.
When we got to the Lester River Bridge, the train stopped to reset for the trip back. It also stopped for about 15 minutes to change the tracks, which was an ideal time to get up and walk around.
Overall, the North Shore Scenic Railroad was a hit with my kids! (My daughter’s doll liked it too…)
Great Lakes Aquarium
The Great Lakes Aquarium is the newest attraction of the three that are a part of the MUST SEE DULUTH pass. It opened in 2000 and is located right on the Duluth waterfront.
There are two levels with live animal displays and interactive exhibits.
On the lower level, by the entrance, there is a sitting/eating area where you can bring in your own food (which we did for lunch), and a gift shop.
Both levels have so much to explore! There wasn’t just fish and undersea life, but there were birds, reptiles, turtles and snakes. But of course, there were all kinds of fish including sharks, rays, seahorses, jellyfish and so much more.
Plus you could touch some animals. We pet some horseshoe crabs and bamboo sharks!
We watched a sturgeon feeding and you could gently touch the fish from above. We saw scuba divers in the tanks, live demonstrations, a shipwreck area, and a play area for kids.
We had a BLAST at these three attractions, and now have many memories from our trip to Duluth.
Visit for information about their 3-attraction pass!
Plus, read my review of our visit to Glensheen Mansion in Duluth!
(Disclosure: We were given free passes and accommodations to facilitate this review. All opinions are 100% mine.)
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Left untreated, periodontal disease can lead to kidney problems, heart disease, and other health issues.
What Is a Dental Exam?
The term dental disease in dogs and cats is very broadly used to describe gingivitis (inflammation of the gums) and periodontitis (inflammation of the bone and other support structures around the tooth). Another term commonly used to collectively describe these two conditions is periodontal disease.
According to a study by the American Veterinary Dental Association, over 80% of dogs and cats older than 3 years have some form of periodontal disease. It’s very important to keep your pet's teeth clean and healthy, and a good way to start is by having your veterinarian perform regular dental examinations on your pet.
How Is a Dental Exam Performed?
As with any other medical condition, a dental examination generally begins with a medical history. Before performing a dental exam, your veterinarian may ask if you have noticed bad breath, excessive drooling, or pawing at the mouth, which can indicate that your pet suffers from a dental issue.
Your veterinarian will then begin by examining your pet's head and neck, noticing any abnormalities, such as swellings, lumps, pain, or enlarged lymph nodes. An abscess is a collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue. Abscessed teeth can cause swelling of the cheek and jaw and are usually very painful. Lymph nodes become enlarged when infection is present. Your veterinarian will also smell your pet's breath. Bad breath is a sign of periodontal disease.
Next, your veterinarian will check your pet's teeth and gums for redness, bleeding, and inflammation. Gingivitis (inflammation or infection of the gums) can cause t he gums to appear red or swollen and to bleed easily. Gingivitis can result from either accumulation of bacteria at the gum line or infection with certain viruses (such as feline leukemia virus and calicivirus). Gingivitis can be painful and can progress to periodontal disease, tooth abscesses, and tooth loss.
During a dental exam, your veterinarian will examine your pet's teeth for damage (such as cracks) and plaque and tartar. Plaque is the yellow, gummy substance that sticks to teeth; it eventually hardens to become dental tartar. Daily toothbrushing helps to remove plaque, but once tartar forms, it can be removed only by professional dental cleaning.
Plaque and tartar harbor bacteria, which can attack the teeth, gums, bones, and surrounding structures. Bacteria from periodontal disease can also enter the bloodstream and affect the liver, kidneys, and heart, causing further problems.
When examining your pet's mouth, your veterinarian will also look for lumps or growths that could be oral cancers. If any questionable lumps are seen, a biopsy may be recommended to determine if the growth is cancerous.
Some parts of a dental exam, such as those mentioned above, can generally be performed without sedation. However, if a patient is very painful or is aggressive during physical examination, your veterinarian may recommend sedation to complete even a brief or partial dental examination. A full dental examination, which requires sedation, involves probing the gum line and spaces between the teeth for pockets.
Dental X-rays
Dental x-rays may be obtained during a dental examination. X-rays can help your veterinarian to determine the health of the roots of the teeth and to diagnose impactions (teeth that are wedged in and can’t move into a normal position), fractures, and tooth root abscesses. Sedation is required for obtaining dental x-rays.
What Are the Benefits of a Dental Exam?
Healthy teeth are important for your pet’s overall health. A dental examination can alert you and your veterinarian to dental issues in your pet and can help determine the most effective treatment. Without proper dental care, pets may develop painful periodontal disease, suffer from inflamed gums, and even lose teeth.
Young puppies and kittens can also benefit from dental examinations. As puppy and kitten teeth are replaced by adult teeth, your veterinarian can perform a brief dental exam to see if all of the adult teeth are coming in normally. Sometimes, puppy or kitten teeth don’t fall out when they should, which can interfere with the positioning of the adult teeth as they try to come in. Puppy and kitten checkups are ideal for reviewing toothbrushing tips with your veterinary team and for getting your pet used to dental exams.
At Home Dental Care
After the dental examination, your veterinarian may recommend that your pet receive a dental cleaning. At-home dental treatments such as toothbrushing, dental rinses or gels, dental chew toys, and other types of dental care may also be recommended. There is even a vaccine available (for dogs) that can help prevent periodontitis. After performing a dental examination, your veterinarian can discuss with you whether the dental vaccine may benefit your dog’s oral health.
Most people brush their teeth regularly, but many of our pets don’t have the benefit of consistent at-home care. If you currently have an at-home dental care program for your pets, congratulations! Regular dental exams with your veterinarian are a good way to evaluate your program and determine if adjustments are needed. If you aren’t yet giving your pets at-home dental care, a dental exam can tell you how your pet’s teeth are doing and what you need to do to help maintain your pet’s oral health.
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Initially a customer found the image of Orchids in one of collections of ceramic tile. In a tile sizes limited, on it she appealed to us.
We drew a tesselated picture according to necessary sizes, picked up colors that befitted on style and that turned out.
A beige-brown colour gamut was used in this picture.
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John Oliver, Immigration Courts are Stupid, Ridiculous and Tragic, But ‘Tot Court’ Rocks! – Rack Jite
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John Oliver, Immigration Courts are Stupid, Ridiculous and Tragic, But ‘Tot Court’ Rocks!
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John Oliver exposes America’s dysfunctional immigration court system, where toddlers are forced to appear in court alone, acting as their own counsel, although that is just one of the truly shocking things that is wrong with the system.
To show how ridiculous it is for kids – or adults to represent themselves in court, John presents a courtroom television show called “Tot Bench” The judge is four years old, and everyone with the exception of the defendant is under five. Adults sit hunched over tiny tables, while kids say the darnedest things as they lay down the law.
Of the tot show send-up, Oliver says:
“Is it stupid? Sure, but is it any dumber than how America’s immigration courts are run? Barely.”
I disagree with John. On ‘Tot Bench’ no one is deported to a certain death. The worst that can happen is “jail for a jillian years” and that – only if you’re really bad.
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47 Thoughts on “Smacker Swap”
sarah on April 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM said:
this is awesome, im going to list some that i dont want anymore. thanks bc
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Celeste on May 13, 2015 at 12:43 AM said:
Whoever is seeking a pineapple lipsmacker, Ebay has some right now. Just search for “pineapple lip smacker. I bought most of my Paul Frank ones that way I got chocolate cherry today and its amazing! It smells like a cherry tootsie pop an is a strong scent. I also got a couple of back ups of the honey one and it came with mika’s sweet cream, its a really light scent, but I still like it, it does smell like the name.
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Ikke on May 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM said:
Do you know where i could buy a lipsmacker skittles. Please let me know!!????
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Ikke on May 15, 2015 at 9:41 AM said:
Do you know where i could buy a lipsmacker skittles. Please let me know!!????
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Celeste on May 15, 2015 at 7:36 PM said:
Thos are pretty easy to find. Thye have them at Target, Ebay, and the lipsmacker website, even drug stores. I have the party pack and I love it. My favorite from it is the raspberry one.
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Orange Crush on May 18, 2015 at 7:11 PM said:
I posted a vintage biggy that some might be interested in
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Savannah on June 11, 2015 at 9:35 PM said:
How much are you thinking for the orange crush??? Would you put this on eBay if I were to purchase? ????
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Maggie on August 3, 2015 at 7:57 PM said:
is anyone willing to sell some lipsmacker jewel lipsor know where i can buy them? any flavor!
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maria marin on November 20, 2015 at 11:13 PM said:
I’m looking for smackers raspberry rainbow nail polish. . Anyone know where I can get it??!! Its my favorite nail polish
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Renee on November 21, 2015 at 9:03 AM said:
I haven’t been able to find it, but I do remember other colors from that line being sold on ebay. I recommend searching “bonne bell” on it and hopefully you might be able to find something.
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Honey on January 1, 2016 at 11:14 PM said:
Haha..me too! I used to have that nail polish. I have not seen it being sold anywhere, but I was able to get other Cosmic Lip Smackers polishes on Ebay.
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Gia on June 20, 2016 at 10:33 AM said:
I know it’s a bit late, but I found it on eBay! Original packaging and all
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Karen G on January 13, 2016 at 3:04 PM said:
Anyone has anything from the Back to school set? I’m specifically searching for ANY form of jelly donut or cookie dough
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Renee on January 14, 2016 at 7:02 PM said:
There’s a jelly donut flavor in one Disney collection with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Daisy and Donald Duck, and Pluto. The Daisy Duck one is jelly donut flavored in a purple tube. I’m not sure if it’s the same as it was years ago, so I apologize if it isn’t the same scent.
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Maria on January 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM said:
Theres a Jelly Donut in a Disney Set as well. I found it on Ebay. Have u seen the “Donut Collection”? It has “Strawberry Frosting”, “Raspberry Jelly”, “Cake Donut” and “Confetti Sprinkles”? Anyway….that may be easier for u to find. Good Luck.
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Karen G on January 15, 2016 at 2:27 AM said:
I do have that collection! I’m 100% sure raspberry jelly it’s not the same scent, it’s quite sweet.. However, the cake donut one does smell like cookie dough! Thank you so much for helping!
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Renee on January 15, 2016 at 3:38 AM said:
There’s a jelly donut in the Mickey and Friens collection. It’s the Daisy Duck one in a purple tube.
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Maria on January 16, 2016 at 4:32 PM said:
Yes Renee thats the one i was refering to. And Karen I was giving u alternatives to Jelly Donut that are easy to find currently. I definitely dont think “Raspberry Jelly” smells like Jelly donut.
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Karen G on February 8, 2016 at 10:52 PM said:
Thank you! Got the jelly donut out of the lip Smackers website..it’s terribly dissapointing. Very sweet, almost too sweet. Doesn’t even have a hint of jelly
Also ordered a cookie dough and smells like coconut rather than cookies ):
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Karen G on March 1, 2016 at 11:51 PM said:
I offer to trade an Aquamarine Freeze of the jewels collection for a Jelly donut of the Back to school set
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Maia on March 12, 2016 at 1:56 PM said:
Does anyone have one of the marshmallow ones in the silvery tube with the dome cap? My Mom had two and when I was little she gave me one, and we recently both finished ours 🙁
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Tal on May 2, 2016 at 10:14 AM said:
I am looking to trade some of my 70’s biggy vintage smackers for a few that I desperately want.
I want:
Grape
Cherry Frost
Pistol Pete
Lemon Lime
Hires
Orange Pop
Licorice
Zoo biggies (early 90s)
Good n Plenty
Candy Cane
If you have any of these and you are seriously willing to consider trading them, contact me! Alternatively I can pay cash, too.
Thanks!
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Holli on June 4, 2016 at 8:59 PM said:
Looking for diamond grape lip smakers or the blue one I think they were called jeweled lip smakers the ones with the Dimond on top they have discontinued them and was my favorite as a child please let me know if u have any for sale or no where I can find them thanks
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Brit on April 1, 2019 at 1:44 PM said:
Hey, there’s a few opal watermelon jewel lip smacker glosses on eBay available to buy if you are still looking 🙂 this person has one available to sell but If you want to get it i suggest you get it now, here’s the link for you
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Michelle on June 18, 2016 at 9:29 PM said:
I’m looking for these below.
Diamond icing
Martian mallow
Moon rock candy
other cosmic flavors, the pink ones mostly but I’ll look at any.
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Jessica on August 3, 2016 at 2:48 PM said:
If you search “lip smacker 1990s” on ebay right now there is a trio set for sale that includes Moon Rock Candy.
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Jill on June 24, 2016 at 11:41 PM said:
Hi Tal
Which 70s biggys do you have? I have a few on your list that I *might* be willing to trade. Can you list what you have? Thanks!
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Tal on November 4, 2016 at 4:30 AM said:
Hey I just saw this, you still interested in possibly swapping? Can we exchange emails (maybe bunnycookie can help us so we don’t have to publish them on here). Let me know
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Maria on June 26, 2016 at 1:59 PM said:
Im seeking the Movie Time Novelty trio with Buttered Popcorn, Berry Slush, and Red Licorice…If anyone has this and wants to trade or sell plz let me know.
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Rebecca on November 26, 2018 at 12:29 AM said:
Are you still looking for these? I have the collection but the package is open.
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Katie on August 23, 2016 at 6:05 PM said:
I am a newer collector and I am searching around to see if anyone has an updated list of ALL of the lip smackers? I found one from 2010…
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Renee on August 24, 2016 at 3:27 PM said:
There’s a list on Lip Smacker’s website
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Tal on November 4, 2016 at 4:32 AM said:
I have a bunch of 90s and early 2000s smackers I am trading. Including cosmics and jewel capped. I only want to trade for other 90s smackers or earlier. If anyone is interested let me know what you have to trade
Thanks!!
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Falisha on February 10, 2017 at 9:45 AM said:
good bye
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Samantha Massie on September 18, 2017 at 5:00 AM said:
I’m interested my email is
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Falisha on February 10, 2017 at 9:44 AM said:
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Kay on March 8, 2017 at 12:33 AM said:
There are some spearminty lip smacker flavors too on eBay still like MINT JUBILEE, and ARCTICS MINT SMOOTHIE from the pet pals collection, so when you go on eBay just type in LIP SMACKER PET PALS MINT, and it’ll come up with a bunch of REALLY RARE AND REALLY OLD ONES to choose from also, I’m talking dating back to like 2004 and 2003… they are as rare as the Jewel lips lip smackers, pretty much, I absolutely loved my MINT JUBILEE one it was extremely good and I strongly recommend people to buy those ones because they are exactly like a SPEARMINT MILKSHAKE on your lips, so much flavor, you won’t regret getting them, to me they are EQUALLY AS AMAZING AND MEMORABLE AS THE JEWEL LIPS COLLECTION, and that’s reeeaaaallly special, so do buy yourself some and look them up on eBay ??
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Ellie Carter on July 2, 2017 at 9:21 AM said:
Hi just discovered this amazing blog! I’m obsessed
With lip smackers they’re just so amazing!!! Anybody interested in doing a swap?
Ellie xoxo
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Bri on June 29, 2020 at 10:44 AM said:
Im interested which ones do you have to swap out and which are you looking for? I’m looking for the vanilla creams and jewel lips also the swirl Bonne bell ones or any you may have that I do not
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Samantha Massie on September 18, 2017 at 4:59 AM said:
I am looking to buy sponge on layered cake gloss. They are from the early 2000s. Willing to buy used ones
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Samantha Massie on September 18, 2017 at 5:01 AM said:
Email me if you have any my email is
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Bri on September 21, 2021 at 5:59 PM said:
I have five different ones
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Ary on October 11, 2021 at 8:38 PM said:
Hi Bri! Which layered cake glosses do you have? Was also looking for some, thanks so much :- )
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Brit on March 29, 2019 at 4:26 AM said:
Hello I’m looking for any of the lip smackers from the jewel Lips collection, if you have any available to sell, please let me know, I will offer a very good amount of money for them, just let me know on here though please 🙂
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Deb on May 24, 2020 at 1:29 AM said:
Hi I’m looking for kaleidoscope candy with the jewel on the lid and dreamy creamy pearl. Please email me at
I have a few jewel lips. Perhaps we can make a deal!
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Bri on June 29, 2020 at 10:42 AM said:
I’m looking for the vanilla creams and the jewel lip- lip smackers. Please help me find where I can purchase please
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In addition to the conventional monitoring — i.e. the monitoring of status, log and measurement data — Checkmk includes another completely different function virtually free of charge: the Hardware/Software Inventory (or HW/SW Inventory for short). This can automatically identify elements on your hosts, such as, for example:
Which software packages — and which versions of these — are installed on a server?
What kind of RAM components does a server have?
Which BIOS version is installed on the motherboard?
The serial numbers of the installed hard disks.
Whether any ports on a switch not been used for a while (and which are thus probably free)?
… and much more
The data obtained in this way are displayed per host in a structured tree, and in various other views, and are also available via an API. Here is a small example with CPU data:
CPU data in the inventory path hardware.cpu
With the Hardware/Software Inventory you can perform a variety of tasks, such as:
Provide data on installed software for a license management system
Determine type designations for spare parts orders (RAM, hard disks, fans)
Provide general hardware and software data for regular import into CMDBs, so that these are based on current data
Track changes to hardware or software, e.g., to determine when a specific BIOS update was performed
Be informed if something has changed in the hardware or software
To identify servers that have not yet had a specific service pack installed
The most important advantage over other comparable systems is obvious — you can simply utilise Checkmk’s existing infrastructure and save yourself the effort of rolling out and administering another software environment. You just roll out a single additional agent plug-in. This is not even necessary with SNMP devices because the inventory scanner also supports SNMP and simply fetches the data over this route.
And besides, Checkmk does not need to hide behind other inventory scanners. As with our check plug-ins, we are constantly working to expand the data scanning. Each Checkmk version brings new plug-ins for the inventory scanner, and the information that can be collected is becoming more detailed and extensive.
2. Installation
Installing the HW/SW Inventory is performed in two steps. The prerequisite is that the Checkmk agent has already been installed on the hosts (if these are not being monitored via SNMP):
Switch on inventory for the desired hosts
Roll out the inventory agent plug-in on these hosts
2.1. Activating the inventory for the desired hosts
Creating the rule
As always, if you want to configure something for specific hosts this is also possible with the help of a rule. This rule set can be found under Setup > Hosts > HW/SW inventory rules > Do hardware/software inventory. Of course it is even easier using the rule search with the word inventory. Do not confuse this with the (Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX) rule set which is for the agent plug-in, as we’ll see later.
In the Do hardware/software inventory rule set, some rules that refer to host labels are already active by default. If the hosts you want have such a label, the service for HW/SW inventory is already set up. If not, you need to create a new rule.
Create a new rule for the hosts for which you want to activate the inventory. There you will find several settings:
By default, all options are disabled and are not required
For now simply leave everything as preset. The various options that you will see here are discussed below.
At the next activation of changes the rule you have just created will, for each host, generate an active check that collects all of the inventory data for that host — be it from the data that is received from a normal Checkmk agent, or through additional SNMP queries. The new service Check_MK HW/SW Inventory can be found on the hosts in the service list, and it will look something like this:
Without agent plug-in only some default entries are reported
Please do not be concerned that the check found only a few items — this is because we have not rolled out the plug-in yet.
Defining the interval
Inventory data is something that rarely changes, and recognizing a change is usually not time-critical anyway. Because of this it makes sense to use an adjusted interval during which the inventory check is performed rather than simply using the usual one-minute interval — mainly because the processing of the inventory data in the active check requires significantly more computing time than that for a normal service.
Checkmk sites as standard have a rule in the Setup > Service monitoring rules > Service Checks > Normal check interval for service checks rule set which sets the interval to one day for all services with the name Check_MK HW/SW Inventory:
A daily inventory is sufficient in practice, for testing purposes shorter periods are suitable.
Of course if you find once a day insufficient, you can also customize this rule — e.g., to four or eight hours. Naturally there is also always the option of setting it differently using multiple rules for different hosts.
2.2. Rolling out the inventory agent plug-in on these hosts
The most important step is to install the agent plug-in for the inventory on the relevant hosts. You can do this either manually or with the Agent Bakery (only Enterprise Editions).
Manual installation
For a manual installation you first need the plug-in. This can be found in the Enterprise Editions via Setup > Agents > Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX > Related page, and in the Raw Edition directly under Setup > Agents. In all editions, there you will find menu entries for the various operating systems. Depending on the operating system, use the following plug-in in the Plugins box:
Operating system
Plug-in
Windows
mk_inventory.vbs
Linux
mk_inventory.linux
AIX
mk_inventory.aix
Solaris
mk_inventory.solaris
You can also find these files on the command line in the Checkmk site in the (Linux/Unix) subdirectory, or in (Windows).
Copy the plug-in to the destination hosts in the correct directory for plug-ins. For the Windows agent it is For details see the Windows agent article.
For Linux and Unix the directory is Please make sure that the file is executable (chmod +x). For details see the Linux agent articles.
The important thing is that the agent is called by Checkmk, usually once a minute. The inventory agent plug-in, however, requires more processing time than normal plug-ins because, for example, it must search for installed software in many directories. It also generates significantly larger amounts of data. This is why it has been designed to only generate and deliver new data every four hours (14400 seconds).
So if for some important reason you have specified a shorter interval than four hours for your inventory check, you will only actually get new data every four hours. If you really want to collect more data, in such a case you will need to alter the default calculation interval.
For Windows replace the number directly in the plug-in file. Search for the number`14400` and replace it with a different number of seconds. The location where this is found looks like this (detail):
mk_inventury.vbs
Dim delay
Dim exePaths
Dim regPaths
'These three lines are set in the agent bakery
delay = 14400
exePaths = Array("")
regPaths =
With Linux and Unix this works a bit differently. For this purpose create a configuration file with the following line (here in the example with 7200 seconds):
INVENTORY_INTERVAL=7200
One more note: The inventory agent plug-in itself dictates that it runs only every four hours. Therefore do not use the mechanism from the agent for asynchronously running plug-ins at longer intervals. Install the plug-in in the simple, usual way for direct execution.
Configuration using the Agent Bakery
Of course if you use the Agent Bakery to configure your agents, things are much more straightforward. There is only one rule set named (Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX) independent of the operating system. This rule set controls the rolling-out of the necessary plug-in as well as its configuration. It can be found at Setup > Agents > Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX > Agents > Agent rules:
You can include portable programs directly via directories
For Windows, in addition to the interval you can also specify paths in which to search for executable .EXE files when it comes to finding the software installed on the system. You can also configure the paths in the Windows registry, which should be taken into account as an indicator for installed software.
2.3. Testing
If you have rolled out the plug-in correctly, you should find significantly more records the next time you run the host’s inventory check. The result will then look like this:
You will find so few entries only on freshly set up systems
3. Working with the inventory data
Inventory data is of course available for each individual host, partly as a tree and partly as a table representation. How exactly these work and how you can access them is shown below. However, there are also views, especially searches, that affect your entire host landscape. You can access these via the Inventory entry in the Monitor menu:
Global views of the inventory data
3.1. Tree-structured display
The hosts’ inventory data is displayed on the one hand in a tree-structured display per host, and on the other hand in table-form. You can open the tree diagram, for example, in a host view via the menu item Host > Inventory > Inventory of host.
Alternatively, in views that list hosts, you can invoke the menu of a host and in turn invoke the inventory from it:
Inventory access from a list of hosts
In both cases you end up with the tree view of the host’s inventory data. Starting from the three basic categories Hardware, Networking and Software, you can expand and collapse the tree’s sub-branches:
A very small part of the inventory tree
In the image above you can see behind the individual entries the internal paths in brackets, which you can display using Display > Modify display options and the Show internal tree paths option:
You will then see the internal designations in the inventory, so for example the internal path for the Processor section is called hardware.cpu. The designations for the CPU model and architecture — model and arch — can be found below in the CPU data.
You can use these internal designations to enable only individual paths for contact groups. Users of a contact group assigned only the hardware.cpu, model and arch entries shown above will then see only a trimmed-down inventory:
3.2. Tabular displays
Many of the inventory data are individual values under very specific paths in the tree, e.g. the Hardware > System > Manufacturer > Apple Inc. entry. But there are also places in the tree with tables of similar objects. A very important one is, for instance, the Software > Packages table:
The package list is very detailed and heavily cropped here in the picture
The special thing about this part of the inventory data is that you can call the packages in a separate view via Host > Inventory > Software packages. There you will then find filters specifically for searching in packages (heavily shortened in the image):
The filter for the host name is already prefilled
You can also search in software packages on multiple hosts. The corresponding view can be found in the Monitor menu under Monitor > Inventory > Search Software packages or in the Views snap-in of the sidebar under Inventory. All other table views for the inventory are also listed there, including further searches, for example for specific Oracle data.
Please note that many general filters to the hosts are not available by default in the views. These are obtained when you edit the view and add additional host filters.
Further things you can do with the views:
Include them in reports
Export them as PDF or as CSV
Integrate them with dashboards
Incidentally, you can also include such inventory data in views that are not table-like. There is a column type for each well-known path in the inventory tree, which you can add to views of hosts. An example of this is the predefined example view CPU inventory of all hosts. This is a table of hosts that displays additional data from the inventory per host. Here is an example of one of the column definitions that adds a column to the table of the number of physical CPUs in the host:
Inventory data is available to all views
4. Inventory data history
Once you have set up the HW/SW inventory for a host, Checkmk will record every change in the inventory data and also store its history. You can find these in views with inventory data via Host > Inventory > Inventory history of host.
Here is an excerpt from a history. In the table you can see some IP data that has changed since the last check:
Changes in the inventory are immediately visible in the history
If you wish, you can be informed whenever a change occurs in the software or hardware. This is done via the status of the service Check_MK HW/SW Inventory. To do this edit the rule that you created at the very beginning of this article (in the Do hardware/software inventory rule set). There, for the value of the rule you will find a number of settings that affect the history. The following example sets up the service WARN if changes occur in software or hardware:
A good way to become aware of shadow IT on workstations
The next time the inventory check detects changes, it will go to WARN. It will then look like this:
Warnings in the service list of a single host
At the next execution of the check, and if in the meantime nothing has changed, this resets automatically to OK. By manually triggering the execution you also have a way to manually reset the service to OK if you do not want to wait for the next normal periodic execution.
5. Status data
The tree of inventory data can be automatically updated with the latest suitable status data. This is very useful in some cases. An example of this is the Oracle tablespaces. The actual inventory data contains only relatively static info such as the SID, the name and the type. Current status data can supplement this with information on the current size, free space, etc.
If you want to see status data in your tree (and there’s nothing wrong with that), you only have to activate activate the corresponding option in the rule that you created at the beginning under Do hardware/software inventory:
Status data expand monitoring, in some cases considerably
By the way, a change in the status data will not precipitate changes in the history! This would almost always lead to constant changes and render this function useless. Status data are not stored in files, but like the results of checks are held directly in the main memory of the monitoring kernel.
6. External access to the data
6.1. Access via special Web-API
You can export the host’s HW/SW inventory data via an inventory web API. The URL for this is host_inv_api.py?host= followed by the host name. Example:
The output format in this case is Python source code. If you prefer JSON, just append a &output_format=json to it:
The result will look something like this:
myhost123.json
{
"result": {
"hardware": {
"chassis": {
"manufacturer": "Apple Inc.",
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If you enter the URL in the line of your browser, this will work immediately because you are already logged in to Checkmk there. From a script the best way to authenticate is as an automation user.
6.2. Access via a file
Alternatively, you can simply read the files that Checkmk generates itself. These files are in python format and are located in the var/check_mk/inventory directory. For each host there is a file in an uncompressed version (for example, myhost123), and a compressed version (for example, myhost123.gz).
7. Inventory in distributed environments
In the Enterprise Editions HW/SW Inventory also works in distributed environments. Here the inventory data are first determined by the local sites and stored locally under var/check_mk/inventory.
The Livestatus proxy daemon will periodically transfer all updated inventory data from the remote site to the central site, and also store it under var/check_mk/inventory. This is important because this data is too large to pick up live when queried at this moment.
As soon as the central site makes queries about inventory data, these files are read and then merged with current status data, which is then retrieved from the remote sites via Livestatus.
In short — you do not have to worry about anything.
There is no Livestatus proxy in the Raw Edition — therefore the HW/SW inventory is incomplete in the central site’s GUI and shows only the status data. You can aid yourself by transferring the files in the var/check_mk/inventory directory to the central site regularly with a script or similar. It is sufficient to copy the files without the .gz file extension. For efficient data transmission rsync, for example, is suitable.
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Baker Tilly Virchow Krause has announced the recipients of its third annual Wishes campaign, wherein team members nominate nonprofit organizations to receive $10,000 donations and 40 hours of volunteer time from the firm.
This year’s nonprofit recipients include ACTION-Housing, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Beyond Hunger, Computer CORE, and the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Foundation.
“Our team members inspire us every day with the genuine care they have for their communities — many have very personal, longstanding connections to local organizations doing incredible work,” said Baker Tilly Foundation president and chairman Jennifer Soltis in a statement. “We are proud to support these deserving organizations that inspire all of us.”
The Wishes campaign is part of the firm’s annual holiday giving campaign, which hosts local food and toy drives across more than two dozen offices. The firm also provides each team member with a charitable gift card to donate to the nonprofit of their choice.
“’Now, for tomorrow’ is more than our tagline — it is a call-to-action for each of us to do good every day and make a difference,” said Baker Tilly CEO Alan Whitman in a statement.
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Anyone operating in the property market space specifically Property/Facility Managers, can create a WaCommunicate account to create digitally safe geolocation dependent social networks for their buildings and to handle their soft FM administration.
Accounts
Each WaCommunicate "Account" is unique and is determined by a combination of email and mobile phone number that must correspond to a natural person. An Account permits access to the digital bundle of services entailing the WaCommunicate Application. An Account must therefore be private to a person. A WaCommunicate Account is the exclusive reference node, Walulel uses, to enable access to WaCommunicate services (the " Communication/ Soft Facility Management Services"), referred to below.
Although each Account represents a dedicated virtual namespace, which any user of WaCommunicate can think of as their personal workspace.
An Account is the place that a WaCommunicate paying user (the "Account Holder") must use to view board posts and reported issues, create tasks and assign them to in-house/3rd-party artisans, request and view sentiment reports and generally communicate and share information while keeping up to date on what is happening within their property with all the features provided. The Gratis user can view and post in board channels, view and redeem offers, view key documents, report issues and make their voices heard within the corridors of power.
In order to obtain a valid Gratis/Paying Account an Account Holder user must agree to be bound by and adhere to, the (1) Terms & Conditions; (2) Acceptable Use Policy; (3) Privacy Policy; (4) Cookie Policy; (5) Community Participation Policy and (5) Licensing Terms as found at Walulel's website's legal section. Such consent is deemed by signing-up to WaCommunicate and providing the personal information required.
Account Subscriptions, Packages & Billing
The "Subscription" associated with an Account is how Account Holders pay for WaCommunicate. An Account Holder will only need a subscription if signed up for one of WaCommunicate's paid packages. An Account Holder can choose between a monthly or annual subscription. Subscriptions auto-renew, but An Account Holder can cancel at any time. Any cancellation will be enacted at the end of the subscription period applicable to the Package purchased.
An Account Holder must select a "Package" as part of a subscription. The Package lets Walulel know how much to charge the Account Holder each billing period. WaCommunicate currently has four paid packages: (1) Hamlet; (2) Town; (3) City; (4) Metropolis. Each plan has a unique allocation quota, specifying the number of Summary Requests, Boards, Admins, Number of Apartments and the Consultation Duration hours.
An Account Holder subscribed to a Plan will be billed in accordance with the general process made clear at the time of subscription. The billing details, billing date, and billing conventions in respect of an Account Holder subscribed to a Package, can be found within the "Package" area of the WaCommunicate application, where an Account Holder subscribed to a Package can also view and manage their allocations, billing details, personal details and invoices. The user can also subscribe to the ‘Top Up Plan’ to to up their Summary Requests/Sentiments.
It is worth noting that all invoices in respect of WaCommunicate are ultimately £GBP. Invoices are currently payable in other currencies but will be settled in £GBP or the alternative currency equivalent at the rates determined by the payment provider.
Refunds and return policies are not required by law for software services such as those provided to Account Holders. All payment obligations are non-cancellable and all amounts paid are non-refundable.
Communication Services
With a WaCommunicate Paid Account (Hamlet, Town, City, Metropolis), the Account Holder can be eligible for the following features:
Board Creation - Paying users can get create digitally safe geo-located boards in any location of their choice.
Board Posts - Admins can communicate with tenants/ Asset Users, view & create board posts and post in any of the conversation channels. They can also create 3 personalised board channels on their choice.
Town Hall: Video or voice call function where Account Holders can hold online meetings can on a specific day and time to discuss issues. Associated documents can be uploaded for review before meeting day.
Key documents: Account Holders can upload all their key documents on the platform for all the users to see, upload and respond to when necessary.
Communiqué - Paying users can send and receive audio and voice communiqués from users and can create tasks from these communiqués. Account Holders can also send location-based communiqués.
Broadcast - A dedicated broadcast channel to send important messages to users of a tenanted building or members of a local community
With a WaCommunicate free account (Gratis), the Account Holder will gain access to the following communication services:
Board Posts - Gratis users can also post, comment and reply in any of the channels except the news & offers channels but can view posts in the News Channel and local ads/offers within their neighbourhood.
Town Hall - Gratis Users can request for a Town Hall or join a live/scheduled Town meetings
Key documents - Users can view and respond to documents when necessary
Communiqué - Users can send and receive audio and voice communiqués from Building Managers.
Broadcast - Users can receive broadcast messages from their FMs or BMs on important issues.
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Reported Issues - Admins can receive visual and location-tagged maintenance requests which can be scheduled and assigned to local professionals and artisans.
Task Management - Admins/BMs can create & assign/auction tasks to artisans, set the price range, task dates and priority and task description.
Unit Management - Admins can view, update/read unit, tenant and rent details and view ‘Unit’s Chronicles’ i.e. Artisan Jobs & Repairs. Account holders can manage all their tenanted units from this feature.
With a WaCommunicate free account (Gratis), the Account Holder will gain access to the following FM/ geo-tagging services:
Report Issues - Gratis users can report and geo-tag issues and attach photographs for more visual clarity.
Recording & Analysis Services
Each Paying Account Holder is permitted to this range of WaCommunicate Analysis and Sentiment Reports.
Collective Sentiments - Admins/paying users get AI powered analysis of the sentiments of tenants and users of your asset/property to better optimise their services to suit the needs of asset users.
Board Analytics - Account Holders get board specific and general analytics to enable them make informed decision about their assets/properties and local area.
Polls - Paying users can get people’s views, likes and dislikes on various topics of interest through the use of polls.
With a WaCommunicate free account (Gratis), the Account Holder will gain access to the following services:
Polls - Gratis Users can express their views, likes and dislikes on various topics of interest through the use of polls.
Management Services
With a paid WaCommunicate Account, the Account Holder will be able to get access to the following Management Services:
Board Management/Settings - Paying users can view, edit and update the board name, board description, board zone, board membership, membership verification, refresh board access code and board restriction timeline.
Artisan Management - Artisans can manage their artisans and other local professionals, assign tasks to artisans and monitor timelines all from the Artisan Management platform. They can also view artisans and upload multiple artisans onto the platform.
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Estimated Earnings - Paying users can earn extra revenue in allowing us to use their promotional space. Account Holders get money back from every impression we get from tenants/board members.
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I just read an article about professional self-publishing authors versus hobbyists. I thought it was reasonably presented, well-written, succinct, and to the point. There were a couple of things, though, that niggled at me, mostly because my brain is always adding in the qualifiers, quantifiers, and outliers — the means and the extremes. First, though, a short synopsis:
The author, Peter Mulraney, first defines professional versus hobbyist quite nicely. There can be no argument from the tax authority, which is where the distinction is most critical, much as many a self-published author will dodge that comprehension until after they’ve gotten themselves stuck in some auditing mire.
From there, we get a quick summary of product-based business basics:
the business plan
the product and its marketing
diversification
record-keeping
self-discipline
And, of course, this is where my brain releases devils within details, the first and foremost being that, in order to do #1 on the list, you have to have previously mastered #5, no small feat for many. Heck, for the majority, it’s tough to even muster enough self-discipline to get up in the morning in time to shower, dress, and head out for the day job with enough time to spare that some unforeseen delay like a train at a railroad crossing doesn’t send them into a frothing frenzy because they’re going to wind up fifteen minutes late for the job …again. Hence, you see that frenetic driver, their body leaned forward in urgency as they weave in and out of traffic to then cross three lanes in a dive for their exit, tires smoking as they round the last corner to scream into the employee parking lot.
Luckily, Peter lays out a nice road map, though, defining a business plan as “setting measurable goals.” He then gives a tidy example:
writing and publishing a book every year – that means scheduling time to write
building a body of work within a defined timeframe, for example, ten books in five years – that means committing to the long term view
setting sales targets, for example, selling 10,000 or 100,000 copies – that means scheduling time for marketing
Let’s take a look at those, shall we? Write and publish a book a year, and — very important this — scheduling the time to write that book. Okay. Do-able. …For some.
But, wait. Check out bullet point number two: Build a body of work within a defined timeframe — ten books in five years.
[Sputter.] That’s two books a year, something even big-name, trad pubbed authors often sweat to accomplish …and they (supposedly) have editors and agents to help them along in meeting that goal.
But there’s help once you’ve got number one out the door. It’s NaNoWriMo!
Voilà! That should get you book number two for the year.
Okay. Onto the second part of bullet point number two: committing to the long-term view. Now, I ask: How many folks can you name, including yourself, who can make a monthly plan and stick to it?
How about just a weekly plan?
A day plan?
Okay. Let’s lower the bar: How about just making and fulfilling a monthly shopping list of everything needed in your household for the month, vowing to never venture out to the store again until thirty days hence? …How about just a week’s worth?
I’m sorry, but most everyone I know these days, save myself and Bill next door, can’t even manage a full day! And you think a five-year plan is going to be a functional reality? Do you remember that research paper you had to turn in by the end of the month in high school? How did that work out? That book you were assigned to read and give a book report on? That chapter of reading for History class?
If the honest answer is, “Great! No problem. Always got my goals and assignments done” or, even, “Usually got my goals and assignments done,” then, yes, do give long-term goal-setting the go. If not, practice completing short-term goals, increasing the length of time for each practice goal by twice every time you succeed. Once you have managed to succeed at setting and accomplishing a yearly goal, then, okay, give longer-term planning a try.
And now we come to bullet-point number three: “setting sales targets.”
In a word, don’t. Not even if you’re a best-selling, trad pubbed author with an awesome advance release team and publicist, plus an in on Oprah …unless,of course, you’re the mob boss in some mafia, syndicate, or cabal with enough influence that will guarantee the numbers you set yourself, by hook or by crook.
As to some of the details Peter mentions, I’m only going to address this one, because it’s to-the-point and on-target:
“Being in business means being flexible with what you write and publish. There is no point in persisting with a product line that does not sell.”
Bingo!
And here’s the translation: If the books you’re passionate about writing don’t sell, are you willing and able to write what does? Because that’s the difference between being a professional self-publisher and being a writer. The bottom line drives the former; passion, the latter. I count as the latter, which, because I do make a profit, because it’s work, not a hobby, makes me, not a professional self-publisher, but a professional author who now just happens to choose to self-publish rather than go back with the trads.
Author Community All Aflutter and Cluck. OMG!
July 15, 2017 D. L. Keur
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So, a bunch of “legitimate, hard-working ‘authors'” are in an outrage. Feathers are kerfuffled, bent, even broken. Tsks, clucks, cries, and screams of outrage (text-style) flood the cyberlanes. SJW-style calls-to-action abound. Hands grab virtual pitchforks, clubs, hoes, and hatchets.
It might not make your local news, but, in the online author circles, the ripples are palpable, the temblors quaking their virtual landscapes. The headline reads: “Scammers Break The Kindle Store”. (If you’re interested, DuckDuckGo it, because, no, I won’t link to it or any of its reblogs.) What that headline should read is: “System-Gaming ‘Authors’ Beaten at Their Own Game,” because that’s what’s happened.
Authors ‘serious’ about getting their ‘eBooks’ noticed in the hopes of making both money and a name for themselves as ‘successful indie authors’ collect and then mine their followers, email list subscribers, author pals and cooperatives, friends, relatives, and anybody else they can to try to get their books highly ranked on Amazon and other online book selling venues. Calls-to-action abound with
Urges to read a provided eARC (eBook version of an Advanced Review Copy) then post reviews of the book on its release date or very soon thereafter. (Of course, four and five star reviews are expected.)
Coordination of blog posts among genre-similar associate authors promoting the book are pre-scheduled, as are blog tours.
Subscribers and followers are urged to buy within x days of release or an older release’s new promotion, with specific dates sometimes assigned.
Social media pals are sent copy to post pre-release, on release day, and the few days following that release.
Seeking permafree status on Amazon of an author’s first book or, better, of the first of a series, is something pursued with vengeance and artful manipulation.
BookBub campaigns, Book Gorilla campaigns, eliciting votes for best cover contests and best book contests….
et al. ad infinitum.
Here’s the reality: Legitimately good books written by legitimately good authors don’t usually make it to the top of any rankings, because most legitimately good authors don’t have the crowd charisma and marketing gumption (and, yes, I said ‘gumption’, defined as ‘boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness’, because that’s what it is) necessary to hold sway. Success in eBooks, especially on Amazon, regardless of actually how good the book is (and most of them are, in fact, schlock) is based on how well the author of that top-ranked book has gamed the system, which is dependent upon ‘likeability’, luck, skill at manipulating the various ranking algorithms and, more so, skill at convincing others to raise you and your book’s popularity and sales/download/pages-read numbers.
So, indie authors are in an uproar …because outsourced clickfarms have stolen their tactics of inner circle clickfarming and are ruining their game-plan. Truth is, all the outsourced clickfarms are doing is exactly what the authors were doing, only much more effectively, it seems.
Me? I don’t find the outsourced clickfarming any less ethical than author-run efforts. In fact, I think I find them less offensive. Of course, my opinion is that of a tiny minority, and, I guess, it’s extremely offensive to people like Stuart Whitmore over on G+ who decided to resort to insults and trolling me over it. That’s okay. I expect that. I’m not and never have been willing to just go along to get along, embracing the most popular opinion just because it’s socially advantageous.
Not Yours, Only Mine.
September 25, 2016 D. L. Keur
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A couple of days back, there happened amid the staid and stolid pages of a writer’s community a small foofaraw ←(a very suitable word for this, used thanks to one S. Bradley Stoner, author, who reminded me of its existence). It was a kerfuffle over the audacity of authors using social media to promote themselves and their books, specifically by sharing their latest customer satisfaction reviews. Someone was very bent about it. And, yes, personally I’m not in favor of the practice, except for the most occasional share of a nice five-star review that’s got meat and flavor. But the sharing isn’t the problem I’m going to address. The problem that steps up is the attitude and actions of the complainant, namely, “Not yours; only mine.” First some background, though. (If bored with any background, skip to paragraph 4)
There are millions of authors on social media all trying to bring attention to their literary endeavors (books, anthologies, shorts stories, poems….). Most of them have swallowed the old ideas that if you just proliferate enough noise about the existence of your book and how good it is, people will buy and you can retire to scribbling more, rather than working for the man. Oh, and corral as many people as possible into signing up for your newsletter, then remind them of your existence and your wonderful books at least twice a month, if not once a week. Whatever you do, keep posting updates about anything and everything happening in your writing and publishing and book sales life. That’s the ticket, by cybergads, and don’t you forget it. Do especially post about your loss leaders–freebies and 99 centers–because everybody wants what they can get on the cheap, and, especially for free. (This is all said now quite tongue-in-cheek, of course. None of these things really work, anymore, and haven’t for quite some time. Not really. And I mean pretty much NOT AT ALL.)
What worked for folks who got in early–“early adopters”–might have worked way back when…for about six months to, maybe, two years at longest when self-publishing and the various ‘hot’ social media platforms were all relative infants in the cyber world, but then social mediaville–the people who live there along with the platform owners–caught on. People on social media began to ignore all these self-promotion efforts, even (gasp) to the point of blocking those proliferating the feeds with what resident denizens considered ‘spam’…and it was and is spam. (Nobody likes spam, not even the meated variety still occasionally, nostalgically smiled upon by those still ‘lost in the 1950s’.) Platform owners? They chuckled and began to utilize the desires of people to gain exposure for themselves and their product to their advantage. I won’t bore you with the details, but, yes, it worked out quite well for the platform owners, if not so much for everyone else.
Meanwhile, back to the denizens. Social media denizens want quality ‘stuff’ in their feeds. They vehemently object to what THEY consider ‘noise’. A lot of them (and me) just ignore the noise, scrolling right on past, thanks. But some take extreme affront and, foaming at the mouth, will unfriend, unfollow, even block or mute someone whose content they consider ‘noise’ or ‘spammy’. In fact, they’ll unfriend, unfollow, block, or mute someone just for posting more than they consider “appropriate”, even when the shared stuff is of interest to them. It’s the fact that the person doing the posting is sharing stuff that does nothing whatsoever to promote the affronted’s own agenda–say, his/her books or product, his/her brand, and his/her online enterprise(s). And that’s the root of what’s at issue here–this ‘only mine, not yours’ attitude. Because, you see, these same individuals are the ones who post about their own stuff almost exclusively, and I mean exclusively. Check out their feeds on FB or G+ or anywhere else–it’s all about them. They don’t up-vote anything that isn’t about them. Almost never, IF ever. They won’t follow folks who aren’t in it for them.
Selfish, self-centered, self-interested, and disinterested in anything that doesn’t feed them and theirs, they go out of their way to castigate others for doing exactly what they themselves do–promoting their own projects and products. They grumble, they dis(respect), they dismiss and despoil, and, when, having been discovered and labeled as Machiavellian, they find themselves left out, they start rattling the bars, editorializing their blame of others for doing exactly what they do, never mind that at least most of those others they berate do, unlike the affronted, up-vote other people’s promotional efforts and interests.
So there you have it. In a nutshell, from me to you, if you’re one of those who is affronted by somebody doing something that you yourself do, then I think you’d best either swallow it or get TF off of social media completely. If you’re one of those who promotes and expects to be promoted by others, you have to reciprocate. If you don’t, then you’ll get left out in the cold once discovered that you’re only in it for yourself.
Of course, the easiest way to avoid all this fuss and blather is just don’t promote yourself and your books, enterprises, or products on social media, except in the most conservative manner while promoting others works at a moderated pace. It’s the only way for others…other than the “only mine, not yours” folks not to get affronted.
On Dolts Offering Writing Advice
February 22, 2016 D. L. Keur
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QUOTETH: “50-75% of blog posts with ‘Tips’ for writing are really marketing posts. They have nothing to do with writing at all.”
I have a friend, who shall remain anonymous, who shared this with me. It’s totally right on. And, yet, this friend refuses to say this publicly…because of all the flack that comes back to bombard him/her/it.
Yet, it’s completely true, and one of the HUGE irritants that I find with authors, indie and trad pubbed, alike.
Most of these posers–yes, I said posers–ain’t gotta clue what makes good writing and good novels, and have absolutely NO business trying to share their under-educated, all but illiterate advisements with anyone. And the only reason they do is to try to game up their own books and ‘brand’.
There. I said it right out loud, because it’s true.
Want to know what’s sad? The real experts who DO have valid and valuable insights on writing now mostly stay mum. That’s because what they have to say isn’t going to be swallowed well by the striving ‘wanna-be’s–that writing well means years of learning how to do it right by reading, by doing, by being harshly critiqued by in-the-know, usually caustic-as-hell editors.
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World's Longest Suspension Bridge Takes Shape in Turkey
The 1915Çanakkale bridge in Turkey will be the first motorway link across the Dardanelles Strait. Currently the only transportation mode is ferry.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
September 29, 2021
Aileen Cho
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It was a long-standing dream—not only of Ersin Arıoğlu, but of a nation. Could a suspension bridge someday cross the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey and provide another link between Europe and Asia? “To build a highway suspension bridge over the Çanakkale Strait has been on the agenda of the Turkish Ministry of Public Works for the last 20 years,” Arıoğlu, co-founder of contractor Yapi Merkezi, wrote in a technical paper.
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That was in 1994. Almost 30 years later, the dream is coming true, in a record-breaking way. The 1915Çanakkale Bridge, rapidly nearing completion, will have a main span of 2,023 meters, edging out Japan’s Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which has a 1,992-m-long main span. The two distinctive red-and-white towers—reflecting Turkey’s flag—have a height of 334 m, the tallest in the world for suspension bridges. But the bridge is about more than breaking records. It’s a symbol of Turkey’s embattled past and a link to its hoped-for peaceful and prosperous future.
Crews worked in a climate that is often rainy and windy, with strong currents. Asian Hercules III, a 5,000-tonne floating crane (bottom left) from Singapore, erected deck segments in carefully planned windows of time when the wind was not too severe.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
“This project signifies the 100th year of the Turkish Republic,” says Başar Arıoğlu, Ersin’s son and chairman of Yapi Merkezi. The Turkish contractor is part of the four-firm DLSY Joint Venture team that includes Turkey’s Limak and South Korea’s DL E&C and SK ecoplant.
The 1915 in the bridge’s name refers to the year of the Gallipoli campaign that was part of World War I, when Allied forces attempted to seize Turkey’s straits. Some 500,000 deaths resulted, but the battle led to awakenings of national identity for Australia and New Zealand, and galvanized the formation of the Turkish Republic out of the Ottoman Empire. “It was a tragedy and victory for our country,” says Başar Arıoğlu. “This bridge will signify peace instead of war.”
Over a century after the battle at Gallipoli, Australians worked with Turks on an unprecedented feat. Marr Contracting Pty Ltd. (also called “The Men from Marr’s”) provided two cranes with 300-tonne lifting capacity to place, in June 2020, the final quarter panel forming the last tower block segment in the highest position in just 30 minutes.
Resit Yildiz, DLSY executive committee member, notes the symbolism of global collaboration, so different from the global conflict that once occurred on the same soil. “We fought against the Australians and British, but 100 years later, we work hand in hand with many Australians and British” on the bridge, he says.
The Australian cranes helped accelerate the project for an anticipated 2022 completion, although the 2,023-m-long main span reflects Turkey’s 100th anniversary as a republic in 2023. The tower heights of 318 m above sea level (ornamental corbels push them up to 334 m) reflect the March 18 date when Allied forces tried to enter the strait, only to be repelled by underwater mines. March 18 is now celebrated as Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day.
Image courtesy of DLSY JV
A dry and wet dock were built to facilitate placement of caissons that form the massive tower footings.
Photos courtesy of DLSY JV
More than symbols, officials hope the bridge will stimulate local and international economic development, logistics and tourism. It is a key piece of the overall 88-km 1915Çanakkale Bridge and Motorway Project (see p. 24). That in turn is part of the new 324-km-long Motorway that will complete a roadway chain around the Marmara region. When the public-private partnership with a 16-year concession is completed, a direct connection will be established between Turkey's European region and its Asian southern and western regions. The motorway is also part of Turkey’s portion of the One Belt One Road Project and Middle Corridor vision that fits into a seamless trade route stretching from Beijing to London.
The travel time across the Çanakkale Strait (also known as the Dardanelles)—which can take hours during holidays on ferries—will be cut down to six minutes.
For Ersin Arıoğlu, the bridge not only represents a dream come true, but a milestone highlighting how design of suspension bridges has evolved. “When I was an engineering student” visiting his mother’s region, “I looked around the Dardanelles, [thinking about] whereams had to design and pull off a complex financial P3 deal as fast as possible. They did it in one year.
Complex Structures
Turkey’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, General Directorate of Highways, released the tender for the $2.5-billion build-operate-transfer contract in late 2016. Two months later, DLSY won the bid. In 2018, finance agreements were signed with 25 financial institutions from 10 countries. They included a 15-year-term loan with a grace period of 5 years.
“The tender stage assumption was that it would be 50/50 between international banks and Turkish banks, recalls Ebrunur Yildiz, director of project finance for Limak. In the end, 70% of the funds came from international banks, indicating the global market appetite for this project, she notes.
Anchorages weigh 160 tonnes and were cast in 2-m layers, each with six segments.
Photos courtesy of DLSY JV
Anticipating an approximate four- to five-year construction period and 12-year operational phase, the concessionaire then had to do due diligence, and forge approvals and debt assumptions, which involved working with Korean institutions and an Islamic bank.
“If you ask me, it’s kind of a miracle,” says Murat Sarikaya, CFO of the project team, of the level of participation. “One year would be impossible” without significant support from the Turkish government, he says. The team expects that the tolled motorway will see 45,000 daily vehicles.
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High winds, high seismic activity and high-stacked container ships all had to be considered in the bridge design, says Henrik Andersen, senior director for international bridge projects with COWI, which led detailed design. “The bridge is located at the southern entrance to the Marmara Sea towards Istanbul and the only route toward the Black Sea in the North—very large container ships and cruise ships will pass in the future and the risk of ship impact is considered in the design,” he says. “Today, more than 40,000 vessels pass every year, and that is expected to increase significantly in the 100-year bridge design life.”
The bridge deck comprises two stiffened closed steel box girders spaced 9 m apart, connected by 3-m-wide cross-girders every 24m. The 9-m gap between the box girders ensures aerodynamic stability of the deck in very strong winds.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
Work on the dry dock where the giant caissons for the two tower foundations would be fabricated began in 2017, says Evans Paik, DLSY deputy project manager. The dry dock, located on the European side about 5 km from the tower sites, required 1,328 pilings as deep as 21 m, and 16,000 sq m of fill. The caissons are 74 m x 83.3 m and 16 m high, with floating weights of up to 54,800 tonnes.
The tower foundations are designed as a cellular base structure composed of reinforced concrete slabs and walls. After the main cellular sections were constructed, the caissons were floated by controlled flooding of the dry dock and moved to deeper water into a wet dock, says Andersen.
In the wet dock, concrete construction continued while the two caisson structures sunk deeper under the increased weight. When the concrete works were finished, two double-walled 18-m-dia steel cylinders were installed on top of each on, says Andersen.
The 1915Çanakkale bridge includes 153 segments for the orthotropic steel deck and is designed to withstand a seismic event with a 2,475-year return period.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
The ground consists of Holocene clay deposits at the European tower and Pleistocene clay and sand deposits at the Asian tower, followed by a Miocene mudstone formation below at both locations, says Andersen. To strengthen the seabed, crews installed 368 steel piles of 2.5-m-dia, as long as 46 m, says Paik. Then, a 3-m-thick gravel bed covering 87 sq m was placed to create a level support for the towers, with 7-cm tolerances, says Paik.
The inclusion piles reduced tower settlement for the European tower by about 80%, and increases the lateral resistance of the foundations in the event of ship impact or seismic action, says Andersen.
Each caisson took about 36 hours to submerge, requiring a total of 152,000 sq m of water, says Paik. The project team took a year to collect data and create models for current speeds and depths, wind, temperature and even salt content, says Ömer Güzel, deputy general manager with Yapi Merkezi.
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The towers consist of 128 prefabricated block segments, each weighing about 300 tonnes, says Paik. Eighteen cross-beam segments were cast in place. A floating barge crane placed the bottom six segments of each tower, then a tower crane placed the upper 26, according to Paik.
To prepare for the suspension cable placement, crews first built a pair of 4,270-m-long catwalks from the tower tops to the north and south approach viaducts. The bridge utilizes the prefabricated parallel wire strand (PPWS) system, which consists of high-tensile strength wires bundled in a hexagonal shape; sockets are fitted to both ends of the strand. There are 127 wires, each 5.75 mm in dia, in each bundle. The main span has 144 bundles per side, says Paik, with 148 for the side spans. There are 314 hanger ropes, with the shortest being 3.9 m and the longest 232 m.
The anchorage blocks are as deep as 29 m, equivalent to the height of a 10-story building, says Oncu Gonenc, deputy project manager. The European anchorage connects to the 365-m concrete box girder approach viaduct; the Asian viaduct is 680 m long.
Each anchor is 156 tonnes. The European anchor includes 68,800 sq m of concrete and 6,400 tonnes of rebar; the Asian counterpart has 92,000 sq m of concrete and 10,832 tonnes of rebar. They were cast in 2-m-high layers, each cast in six segments. The layers create a stack that supports the front L-shaped legs that receive the bridge cables. The anchors include dehumidification chambers for the cables.
Crews laid 340,000 tonnes of gravel and fill to support the approach viaducts, and stabilized the earth with deep soil mixing and barrette walls that consist of load-bearing structural elements. The approaches were built using the incremental launching method.
The main span’s cables include 144 strand bundles; each bundle has 127 galvanized highstrength wires.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
Next-Level Feats
The bridge deck comprises two stiffened closed steel box girders spaced 9 m apart, connected by 3-m-wide cross-girders every 24 m. The gap between the two box girders ensures the aerodynamic stability of the deck in very strong wind, says Andersen. The overall width of the twin box girders becomes 45 m due to one maintenance walkway on each outer side. The bridge will carry six lanes, three in each direction. The depth of the twin box girder is 3.5 m. The total length of the bridge is 4,608 m including the side spans.
The orthotropic steel deck consists of 153 segments in total. Various cranes—including a 106-m-long Singapore-flagged floating crane named Asian Hercules III and four pairs of lifting gantry cranes—placed each 45-m-wide, 48-m-long megadeck segment weighing as much as 850 tonnes.
Crews were able to place up to four deck segments a day, says Güzel, but everything had to be planned far in advance, and within certain windows of time according to wind conditions. Even ballasting the vessel had to be considered as the crane made lifts. “We follow the weather forecasts very closely,” adds Güzel. The final deck segments will be placed this fall.
The Men from Marr’s accomplished two unprecedented lifting feats. In Nov. 2019, after being fully assembled at a dry dock, two of Marred 1 km to the tower caissons, where they were successfully installed in a one-day operation.
The bridge and motorway will establish a direct connection between Europe and Turkey’s southern and western regions, accelerating development in these areas.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
The following June, one M2480D crane perched 328 m above water took about 30 minutes to lift a 155-tonne piece of the upper cross-beam to its position 318 m above sea level on the Asian tower. The European side was completed 24 hours later.
According to Marr’s resulting case study paper, “Marr’s team of engineers were able to develop a craneage methodology … that met all the requirements of the project … The M2480D HLL’s capacity allowed heavier modularized sections of the bridge towers to be fabricated in a controlled environment offsite before being delivered to the worksite by barge for installation, instead of the more traditional approach of lifting smaller components one-by-one and then welding on-site.”
Turkey’s experience building two suspension bridges across the Bosphorus Strait and the Korean firms’ expertise, along with a large cast of subcontractors and suppliers from 22 nations, made the project feasible. A six-month pandemic lockdown with extensive safety measures taken on site in 2020 complicated things. Shipments of raw materials to build cable clamps, cable wires, steel plates, etc. were impacted. But most major material purchases were made before the pandemic hit.
The twin box girder design reflects the advances in technology recently developed by COWI and other bridge engineers as well as advanced materials like higher-strength steel. The deck thickness of 3.5 m is significantly thinner than the 14-m-thick deck of the Akashi Kaikyo, notes Ersin Arıoğlu. “Akashi Kaikyo’s deck is rigid, while this one is aerodynamic.”
Andersen says the bridge is “built on the tradition of modern suspension bridges like the Great Belt suspension bridge in Denmark and the Ozman Gazi suspension bridge in Turkey. With its 2,023-meter main span, the Çanakkale Bridge pushes the boundaries of engineering to new dimensions.”
Even that record may be beat, with crossings over straits like Gibraltar and Messina to come, Arıoğlu notes. “Every new suspension bridge—it’s like measuring the rate of civilization.”
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New 88-km-long road connection will provide another link between Asia and Europe and hopefully stimulate development of a historic region
By Aileen Cho
With the ongoing excavation of the many layers of Troy, the laid-back charm of Çanakkale’s waterfront and the expanses of farmland—Turkey officials believe the Marmara-Çanakkale region is ripe for economic development. So do international lenders who funded the P3 to build the 88-km-long Malkara-Çanakkale motorway that includes the 1915Çanakkale Bridge.
That segment is part of the new 324-km-long Motorway that will complete a roadway chain around the Marmara region. When the public-private partnership with a 16-year concession is completed, a direct connection will be established between Europe and Turkey’s southern and western regions. The motorway is also part of Turkey’s One Belt One Road Project and Middle Corridor vision of a multinational trade route stretching from Beijing to London.
The motorway is all but complete, featuring 13 km of connector roads, 12 intersections, four service areas, six toll plazas and two maintenance buildings, says Metin Özcan, motorway deputy project manager for the DLSY joint venture. Two viaducts, one 562 m long and the other 1024 m long, were built using the incremental launching method. Özcan says it took about a week to launch a 33-m-long segment.
Six interchanges and 88 km of new roadway will link the Marmara-Çanakkale region to an existing system of roads and create a new link between Europe and Asia that officials hope will stimulate tourism and economic development.
Photo courtesy of DLSY JV
In some areas where landslides were a threat, crews installed 40-m-long bolt piles. Eight million sq m of lime stabilized clay materials—the largest application of its kind in Turkey, says Özcan.
Crews also erected an 800-m-long, 3-m-high noise barrier to protect residents of Yülüce Village. The barrier includes recyclable and reusable plastic.
Most major construction tasks are just about complete, with re while reducing travel times, it featured extensive social and environmental efforts from the outset.
Mammals and Mussels
A team dedicated to social and environmental issues conducted both a local environmental impact assessment and an international environmental and social impact assessment through public briefing meetings and professional consultations at the beginning of the project, says Melih Mumcu, DLSY environmental and social manager.
One assessment findings showed that pile driving work at the 1915Çanakkale Bridge tower foundations could have a negative impact on some dolphin species passing through the strait, says Mumcu.
During the pile driving operations, which took place between March and November in 2018, three expert marine mammal observers monitored the site and warned the construction team to stop the operation when the dolphins came as close as 500 m. Pile driving operations were stopped at least five times, and a total pause of two hours was given to allow time for the dolphins’ passage.
Another risk was to a fan mussels species known as Pinna Nobilis, which is under protection in the Mediterranean. Over 1,000 mussels were relocated. The team made a commitment to plant five trees per each tree that was impacted, in collaboration with the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Mumcu says a total of 1 million trees are expected to be planted.
The seeds of endemic plant species found along the motorway route are being collected and preserved. The seeds will be registered in Turkey Seed Gene Bank. Works will also be carried out to ensure their proliferation in the region.
As for the human side, a dedicated community liaison staff has conducted more than 1,000 outreach activities and addressed more than 600 complaints, says Mumcu.
A Community Level Assistance Program offers local residents training on agriculture and livestock farming, and environment and support will be provided in the way of infrastructure and equipment. Mumcu says 487 projects for 32 settlements have been launched. They include outreach to women and improvements to schools, facilities and water systems.
Some 60 tonnes of seeds and 60 agricultural pieces of equipment have been distributed to local villages, says Mumcu. Additionally, 20 projects, such as a product drying yard, village school, or skill development class, have been completed.
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During the lockdown, individuals are attempting to discover different approaches to light up their dull lives, frequently making a plunge directly into the profundities of the web to locate an engaging pearl. That is the reason it’s obvious that nowadays, healthy and interesting recordings are being shared as a general rule and the most recent viral hit may very well be this charming pup.Somebody shot a charming bulldog gazing through a painted fence into the road and shared the recording on the web, where it has since been reshared and assembled a large number of preferences. And keeping in mind that for the greater part of the individuals who viewed the video, the little guy stayed a charming unknown second, we uncovered further and found the pooch’s character. Bogart’s proprietor, Ranveig Bjørklid Levinsen, reshared the viral video on her web-based social networking page with a short subtitle: Bogart has circulated around the web in Denmark—he has likewise jumped on one of Denmark’s greatest influencers’ Instagram profile, and now I can see that he’s [on] a Norwegian pooch bunch as well.Exhausted Panda contacted Ranveig for extra data and she generously gave some new subtleties. I’m living in the southern pecie of Jutland/Denmark in an old house (1814) along with my better half, Claus, and our two bulldogs, Winston and Bogart—it’s Bogart in the video, she presented her family.
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Link observation visits schedule 2013
UK: 12 June and 27 June
Czech Republic: 16 September
Finland: 23 September
France: 30 September
Norway: 14 October
Italy: 21 October
Cyprus: 11 November
Belgium: 18 November
Portugal: 13 January 2014
Ireland: 20 January 2014
Austria: 27 January 2014
Lithuania: 10 February 2014
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Puropelto School has undergone significant transformation over the last five years to improve the learning environment for staff and students. The change in the environment is not visible from the external view, but beyond the façade the alterations are dramatic. The investment in the school buildings mirrors the focus of attention on developing learning and teaching in the school.
The school has 523 students and on each floor there is a ‘cage’ of netbooks for shared use. (100 altogether) The school has a computer lab and 10 classrooms have access to SMART interactive whiteboards. There is a small group of staff who are working together to share good practice about learning and teaching. The Living Schools Lab project has provided the opportunity to look at practice across the whole school.
The school day begins with an assembly, but in this school the students don’t gather in a large hall; instead the ‘message for the day’ is played in a radio broadcast across all the classrooms. Today’s music: “It’s a beautiful day” gives our tour added vitality. (What a great idea!)
During the visit, I observe a mathematics lesson. The teacher uses the school computer lab and each of the students works on their own PC. Teija and I observe the lesson together; this is the same group that she teaches for languages. Having opportunity to watch the lesson gives Teija the time to focus on how the students learn.
The students use two websites to visit live information about the stock exchange in Finland. They have each identified 5-7 companies to follow. The teacher explains that they will do this over the next three years whilst at the same time building their knowledge of MS Excel software. The students work at their own pace through the same information. The teacher challenges the students during the lesson with his questions. He explores the notion of profit and loss. (Fortunately, the student I have been working alongside has made good investments, with considerable demonstration of profit.)
As part of the next STEPS on the plan, Teija will focus on working with the same group of students to increase the level of interaction in the languages classroom. Working with another colleague allows Teija to reflect on her practs, and the next step will be to link this to providing regular pedagogical support for one another. Changing classroom practice takes time and it is difficult to do this in isolation. The purpose of the Living Schools Lab project is to encourage teachers to collaborate in their own school, between schools and across the network. Regular classroom observation demonstrates how teachers can develop their practice by exploring innovative teaching and learningn be transferred between subjects.
Have you observed one of your colleagues teach?
How often do you get feedback on your teaching from another colleague?
What do you think are the benefits of team teaching?
Do you plan your lessons on your own or with a colleague?
Do you know what your next professional development will be?
What is the next innovation to be introduced in your school
How will you share your innovative work across the school? Can you share ideas with at least one other teacher and plan together?
So, as my journey continues to the schools in France, these two schools in Finland can build the work across the regional hub. The schools have identified the importance of capturing the process of professional development and revisiting this often. The teachers are also in the fortunate position of being able to access free training at the TOP centre. It is not about selecting the next or latest technology, but making a purposeful use of what is already in school or accessible to you.
PS: For those of you who ever travel from Turku in Finland back to the UK – be prepared for the very short connection between flights and the 17 minute dash across the airport!
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The day belongs to humans, but the night belongs to yokai. These supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore thrive on fear. Middle school student Rikuo Nura is three-fourths human and one-quarter yokai. His grandfather is Nurarihyon, the Overlord and Supreme Commander of the powerful yokai consortium, the Tokyo-based Nura Clan. Nurarihyon wants Rikuo to take his place as the next leader of the Nura Clan. Rikuo is reluctant, but at night, his yokai blood awakens. He becomes the “Third,” the future leader and current “Underboss” of Nura Clan.
As Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 10 (entitled Kyoto in Darkness) opens, the monstrously powerful yokai, Hagoromo-Gitsune, roams free. Held prisoner for 400 years, she now leads an army of yokai that have Kyoto under siege. They continue their bid to break the eight seals of Hidemoto, which will release more monstrous and powerful yokai.
They are attempting to break the sixth seal, but Rikuo’s friend, Yura Keikain, is determined to stop them. Yura is an Onmyoji, an exorcist that specializes in yokai. She is about to reveal the extent of her powers, but first, she must take on an onmyoji-turned traitor. Meanwhile, Rikuo and his new allies, the yokai of the village of Tono, head for Kyoto aboard a weird flying boat.
THE LOWDOWN: Not only is the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan manga one of the best yokai-themed manga; it is also one of the most imaginative fantasy comic books in North America. In terms of fantasy creatures, beings, and entities, comic books have probably not seen its like since Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
Creator Hiroshi Shiibashi crams his pages and many of the panels with a menagerie of fantastic supernatural life forms and magical things. Shiibashi’s graphic style emphasizes the eerie and the inventive. Reading Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, I get the idea that the fantastic is touching my mind.
POSSIBLE AUDIENCE: Readers of all ages who like fantasy will find in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan a must-read.
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Title Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Wheewell
Date 12 December 1853
Description Instructed by the Government Grants Committee, to inform Wheewell, as Chairman of the SubCommitee for a grant of £100. This is for Thompson and Joule for their work on the thermal effects of air passing through small apertures. Asks for a report on the progress of the experiments, expenses already made, and estimated expenses.
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There’s something about a nice warm cup of tea that is pure magic. It’s amazing how tea can make you feel calm…but lift your mood. There’s actual science behind it!
In an article by Nature Magazine, Andrew Scholey, a psychopharmacologist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia says that the effect of tea is slightly paradoxical. “Tea is calming, but alerting at the same time.” he says.
Over here, we are obsessed with this magical beverage, for the soothing gentle pick me up + instant mood lifter it gives us, morning and evening. Here are the top 5 teas that we absolutely love right now.
Tulsi Tea By Organic India
This tea brings us back to our roots and feels like we’re rejuvenating our cells with every sip. Tulsi, which is also known as ‘Holy Basil’ is considered a sacred herb in India, with its adaptogenic healing power. Plus, it’s abundant in antioxidants. We love the entire Organic India Tea line to be honest and their Tulsi Rose is a favorite on this team.
Kapha Tea By VPK
This tea literally feels like a gentle boost of energy. The spices in this blend helps the free flow of oxygen to the brain, helping enhance circulation. It even has saffron which influences the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain to give off a feel-good signal, so you find yourself feeling those happy vibes.
Purely Peppermint by Yogi Tea
Just smelling this fragrant tea makes us feel good. Peppermint tea is supposed to help with alertness and digestion. We love sipping this one after a long day, all cozy curled up on the couch in the evenings.
Organic Jasmine Pearls by Numi Organic Tea
Oh, this is a pretty one. We love the way jasmine flowers open up in the tea. Jasmine tea goes back centuries. This floral green tea does have caffeine and gives a serene energy lift. Bonus, jasmine tea is known to be good for the skin and immune system.
Love and Light Blend by The Chai Mommas
Who doesn’t get lifted when drinking chai? We may be biased on this one, but this chai blend tastes like absolute heaven with darjeeling plus assam leaves, orange pekoe, ginger, cardamom, mint, lemongrass and a hint of rose. Not only is it naturally caffeinated, but the spices just wake us up…get us ready for the day. To us, this chai evokes familiar yet new feelings with every sip, evoking calm and leaving us renewed. Love and light is right.
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A full 90 perIn a bid to protect soil globally and help farmers, the FAO warned on Wednesday that the equivalent of one soccer pitch of earth erodes, every five seconds.
It also takes around a thousand years to create just a few centimeters of topsoil and to help land restoration. Now, the UN agency is calling for more action by countries and partners who’ve signed up to the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) over the last decade.
The five key actions that FAO has called for, tasks civilians, governments and international institutions, with taking greater action to monitor and care for soil.
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The FAO also has, through the GSP, called for the coordination and integration of sustainable practices through investment in development and education.
These carefully planned programmes facilitate the transfer of information and technology concerning soil health. These networks harmonize methods, units and information relevant to soil analysis.
Similarly, the highly technical nature of topsoil policy debate, can alienate constituencies who might otherwise be concerned and engaged on such an important environmental and social issue, FAO states.
Campaigns, such as the International Year of Soils and World Soil Day are designed to raise youth awareness of soils and increase participation in preventing further degradation.
While the work of the GSP represents the efforts of non-State partners to promote sustainable soil practices, State policymakers are necessary actors in implementing a sustainable soil policy.
Production of documents like the Revised World Soil Charter, the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil and the International Code of Conduct for the Sustainable Use and Management of Fertilizers, contribute valuable guidance from the GSP, for national governments.
The five achievements described above represent a key existing strategy within the United Nations system, for stemming soil degradation, in support of sustainable farming worldwide.
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Azalea is an ornamental flowering plant that has won the love of many flower growers for its incredible beauty. The advantage of azalea among other flowers is its flowering period, which occurs when most indoor plants are dormant (late autumn - winter). However, the azalea is quite picky about the content, and for its correct reproduction it is necessary to know certain rules.
How rhododendron reproduces: methods
There are 4 ways to reproduce azaleas at home, which differ from each other in the complexity of implementation, the likelihood of plant survival and the most convenient time of the year. Azalea breeding methods are usually divided into two large groups:
Seminal - the longest way, taking about 5 years. It is the germination of seeds taken from the mother bush.
Vegetative - this method allows you to get a new plant faster. With this method, a part of the plant is taken for the propagation of azaleas. There are several methods of vegetative propagation: cuttings, grafting, dividing the bush.
When is it ok and when is it not?
Reproduction for azaleas, when it comes to the vegetative method, as well as for other flowers, is stressful, so you need to take this issue as seriously as possible and carefully study the features so as not only to grow a new one, but also not to ruin the old plant.
The beginning of flowering of azaleas occurs in late autumn and continues throughout the winter. Any manipulation of the plant during this period can lead to the fall of the buds. It is imperative to wait until the end of flowering, after which you can already start dividing the bushes and cutting off the cuttings.
The optimal breeding time for azaleas is from April to August.
If you decide to propagate the azalea by cuttings, remember that the shoots can be cut only once a year, in the spring.
How to reproduce correctly: step by step
Each method of breeding azaleas has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages that you need to be aware of.
Dividing the bush
The simplest, but at the same time the most effective way of plant propagation is the highest degree of establishment of new plants.
The method is applicable only for adults when the age of the bush is more than 3 years old. The root system of the plant must be healthy and developed.
The process of reproduction of azaleas by dividing the bush is as follows:
The pot is immersed in a container of water for 10-20 minutes so that the soil absorbs as much moisture as possible.
The azalea is taken out of the pot along with a lump of earth, carefully cut into pieces with a sharp knife, trying not to damage the roots.
Each part is planted in separate pots, filled with soil suitable for azaleas, and well moistened.
For the purpose of survival and adaptation, the separated bushes are placed in a dark place for a week.
Azalea prefers acidic soils.
Graft
The grafting method is used when other methods cannot be applied, which is typical for varieties that grow slowly and root poorly.
Vaccination involves the transfer of an azalea cut to a plant 4-5 years old. The bush to which the cutting is grafted is called the stock; the stalk itself is a scion.
Vaccination includes the following steps:
The choice of a scion with a high rooting ability - the cutting should not be older than 5 years and have a length of about 15 cm.
The choice of the rootstock on which the grafting will be carried out is an adult plant with a high rooting ability, from which a stalk about 15 cm long is also taken.
The scion is separated from the mother bush by an oblique cut.
Make a similar cut on the rootstock.
Place the cuttings of the scion and rootstock to each other and wrap with polyethylene foil.
Plant the grafted stalk in a pot, cover with foil (read about the secrets and rules for planting rhododendron here).
To increase the likelihood of successful plant survival, it is necessary to provide high humidity - spray the bush daily for 10-14 days.
In addition to the methods listed, sometimes azalea is propagated by cuttings or using seeds.
Growing a plant from seeds is a very complex and lengthy process, most often it is used by breeders to develop new varieties.
Rooting
The length of the rooting period is individual for each plant and depends on the following factors:
the age of the cutting;
humidity;
air temperature;
soil composition.
On average, the process takes 45 to 60 days.
For the successful rooting of an azalea stalk, the following conditions must be provided: the air temperature should be 25 degrees, and the optimum humidity should be 80%. A stable microclimate can be achieved by covering the plant with a glass jar or film. Azalea takes root well only in absolute darkness., therefore, the created mini-house should be covered with a dark cloth.
During the rooting period, it is necessary to regularly ventilate the mini-greenhouse and moisten the soil. A sign of successful rooting is the appearance of young leaves.
We recommend watching a video on how to root azalea cuttings:
Problems and difficulties and their solutions
Azalea propagation is a laborious and rather complicated process., in which beginners often face the following difficulties:
Cuttings take root for a long time. There may be several reasons for this problem:
Unsuitable temperature regime: at temperatures below 25 degrees, the cuttings will not root.
Incorrect selection of propagation material - cuttings are too old.
The shoots did not take root, but rotted away. In this case, the used soil has been contaminated with fungi or bacteria.
To prevent an unfavorable outcome, the soil must first be disinfected with steam.
The appearance of mold. Without daily airing of the mini-greenhouse, condensation will begin to accumulate under the film or can, which provokes the appearance of mold.
It is possible to stimulate the formation of roots with the help of vitamin watering: once a week, the plant should be sprayed with water with the addition of "Zircon" (2 drops per 200 ml of water).
A photo
Further in the photo you can see what the propagated plant looks like.
How to care for a indoor flower: first care
Immediately after rooting, young azaleas should not be transplanted - a sharp change in climate can adversely affect the state of the plant. First, you need to create an adaptation period for the plant - leave them open for a couple of hours within 7-10 days.
The first pots should be about 7 cm in diameter. To create a drainage effect, the bottom of the pot must be filled with expanded clay. The soil remains the same as it was during rooting.
After a couple of months, in young plants, the upper shoots should be pinched for the appearance of lateral shoots, which contributes to the formation of a branched bush. The first buds that appear on the new plant must be cut off. This is due to the fact that the azalea is still not strong enough for simultaneous flowering and growth.
Azalea is a poisonous plant: all parts of it contain a poison - the glycoside andromedotoxin. For any contact with the azalea, use gloves to protect the skin from the sap.
Further care for the propagated plant is no different from the standard care for an azalea:
The air temperature should be between 15-17 degrees in winter and 20-22 degrees in summer.
Watering the plant regularly with soft water at room temperature.
Maintaining a humid microclimate using frequent spraying or using special air humidifiers.
You should not wait for flowering from a young azalea - a new plant will bloom in 2-3 years.
Despite the complex and lengthy process of reproduction of azaleas, its beauty covers all the time and labor costs. Proper reproduction and proper care is the key to a healthy life and long flowering of your room beauty.
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INTRODUCTION
As you learned in the introduction to this course, there is a great war being waged in the world today. It is not a conflict between nations, tribes, or government leaders. It is not a rebellion or a coup. It is an invisible battle taking place in the spirit world.
This chapter introduces the invisible war in which every believer is engaged. It is a war where no one wears a uniform, but where everyone is a target. The historical and prophetical record of this war is contained in God’s Word, the Bible.
THE NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL REALMS
To understand this invisible war, you must first understand the natural and spiritual worlds. Man exists in two worlds: The natural world and the spiritual world. The natural world is that which
can be seen, felt, touched, heard, or tasted. It is tangible and visible. The country, nation, city,
or village in which you live is part of the natural world. You are a resident in a natural kingdom
located on one of the visible continents of the world. You can see the people who are part of
your environment. You can communicate with them. You can experience the sights, sounds,
and smells around you.
But there is another world in which you live. That world is a spiritual world. You cannot see it with your physical eyes, but it is just as real as the natural world in which you live.
Paul speaks of this division of natural and spiritual:
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (I Corinthians 15:40)
All men have a natural body which lives in the natural world, but man is also a spiritual being with an eternal soul and spirit. Man is body, soul, and spirit. Your spiritual being (soul and spirit) is part of a spiritual world just as your natural body is part of the natural world.
SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT
Because spiritual warfare is just that–spiritual–it must be understood with a spiritual mind. In our natural, sinful state, we can not understand spiritual things:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. (I Corinthians 2:14)
It is necessary to use "spiritual discernment" to understand spiritual things.
Perhaps one of the best examples of natural and spiritual discernment is recorded in II Kings chapter 6. It records the story of a natural battle in which troops of the enemy nation of Syria had surrounded a small town called Dothan where the prophet Elisha was staying. When
Elisha’s servant, Gehazi, saw the great host of the enemy he became fearful. Elisha prayed that God would open Gehazi’s spiritual eyes so he could see the angelic hosts surrounding and
protecting them. On this occasion, God actually opened the natural eyes of Gehazi and allowed him to visibly see the superior forces of God aligned for battle.
The story of this battle at Dothan is similar to present spiritual conditions in the Church. There are some, like Elisha, who see clearly into the realm of the spirit. They know there is a conflict occurring, have identified the enemy, and recognize the greater forces of God that assure victory. There are others like Gehazi, who with a little encouragement, will be able to open their spiritual eyes and no longer be fearful of and defeated by the enemy. But sadly, there are many people who, like those in the city of Dothan, are spiritually sleeping. They do not even know that the
enemy has surrounded them and is poised for attack.
TWO SPIRITUAL KINGDOMS
Within the natural and spiritual realms of which we are speaking there exists separate kingdoms which are ruled by natural and spiritual leaders.
NATURAL KINGDOMS:
All men live in a natural kingdom of this world. They live in a city or village which is part of a nation. That nation is a kingdom of the world. A natural kingdom is a territory or people over
which an actual king or political leader is the sovereign ruler. The Bible speaks of these natural kingdoms as "kingdoms of the world.” The kingdoms of the world have come under the power and influence of Satan:
Again, the Devil taketh Him (Jesus) up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto Him, All these things will I give thee, if you wilt fall down and worship me. (Matthew 4:8-9)
John 5:19 sadly reminds us that "the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”
SPIRITUAL KINGDOMS:
In addition to the natural kingdoms of this world there are two spiritual kingdoms: The Kingdom of Satan and the Kingdom Of God. Every person alive is a resident of one of these two
kingdoms.
The Kingdom of Satan consists of Satan, spiritual beings called demons, and all men who live in sin and rebellion to God’s Word. These, plus the world and the flesh, are the spiritual forces of evil at work in the world today.
The Kingdom of God consists of God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, spiritual beings called angels, and all men who live in righteous obedience to God’s Word. These are the
spiritual forces of good.
The Kingdom of God is not a denominational church. Denominations are man-made
organizations of groups of churches. They have been established for practical purposes of
organization and administration. Denominations are major church organizations like Baptist,
Assembly of God, Methodist, Lutheran, etc. The Bible speaks of the true Church which is not a denomination or religious organization. The true Church is composed of all those who have become residents of the Kingdom of God.
At the present time in the natural world, the Kingdom of God exists individually within every man, woman, boy or girl who has made Jesus King of their lives. It exists communally in the true church and wherever people make this world the kind of world God wants it to be. In the future, there will be an actual visible manifestation of God’s Kingdom.
THE INVISIBLE WAR
The invisible spiritual war is a battle which involves all men and women. Because the Kingdom of Satan is a spiritual kingdom…
…we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Spiritual win the spirit world. It is a battle within and around man. It is not a visible war is because spirits are involved and we learn in Luke 24:39 that a spirit does not have flesh and bones.
Spiritual warfare is "multidimensional,” which means it is fought in different dimensions. It is…
1. A social battle between the believer and the world: John 15:18-27
2. A personal battle between the flesh and the spirit: Galatians 5:16-26
3. A supernatural battle between believers and evil spiritual powers: Ephesians 6:10-27
Every person alive is engaged in this battle, whether he realizes it or not. There is no neutral
ground. Unbelievers are in bondage to evil and have been taken captive by enemy forces. They are victims of the war.
Believers have been freed from the enemy through Jesus Christ and are victors, but they are still engaged in the war. The key verse for this chapter indicates that we (all believers) wrestle
against evil spiritual forces.
"Wrestling" involves close personal contact. No one is exempt from this battle. No one can view it from a distance. You are in the midst of conflict whether you acknowledge it or not. If you believe it will get better, you are wrong. The Christian warfare never ceases.
WHERE THE BATTLE RAGES
This invisible war is being waged on earth:
The thief (Satan) cometh (on earth) not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
Satan fights to maintain control of the kingdoms of the world. He does not want them to come under God’s authority. The battle also rages within the hearts, minds, and souls of men and women. Satan blinds the minds of unbelievers and attacks believers in the areas of worship, the Word, their daily walk, and their work for God.
HOW THE BATTLE STARTED
The invisible war started in Heaven with an angel named Lucifer who was originally a beautiful angel created by God and was part of the Kingdom of God. Lucifer decided he wanted to take over God’s Kingdom. You can read about his rebellion in Isaiah 14:12-17 and Ezekiel 28:12-19. You will study about it in detail later in this course. A group of angels joined Lucifer (now called Satan) in this rebellion. Lucifer and the rebellious
angels were cast out of Heaven by God. They formed their own kingdom on earth:
And there was war in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon (Satan); and the dragon fought and his angels. (Revelation 12:7)
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)
Lucifer became known as Satan and the angels which followed him in rebellion as demons.
Demon spirits can enter, torment, control, and use humans who belong to Satan’s Kingdom.
They motivate evil acts which are done by men and women. Satan directs his demons in their
evil activities. He combines these powerful forces with the world and the flesh to war against all
mankind.
REASONS BEHIND THE CONFLICT
Man was originally created in the image of God and for the glory of God (Genesis chapter 2). The invisible war against man started with the first temptation in the garden of Eden (Genesis chapter 3). Satan caused Adam and Eve to sin. This resulted in all men inheriting the basic sin nature and committing individual acts of sin due to this nature:
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. (Romans 5:12)
It also resulted in the invisible war between man and the forces of evil:
And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman (mankind), and between thy seed (the forces of evil) and her seed (the forces of good
represented by the Lord Jesus an so much that He made a special plan to save him from sin:
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)
Through belief in Jesus, confession of and repentance from sin, men and women can be released from the power of the enemy. The death and resurrection of Jesus not only resulted in salvation from sin. It also defeated the enemy, Satan:
…For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the
works of the devil. (I John 3:8)
But if Satan is defeated, why does the war still rage? Following any war there are always
pockets of enemy resistance, rebellious troops that will not give up until forced to do so.
Although Jesus defeated Satan, we are living in territory which is still occupied by enemy
resistance forces. Understanding spiritual warfare strategies gives us the ability to deal with these evil powers.
Satan is trying to keep men captive in sin. Through deceptive methods he is enticing men and
women to temporary lusts of sinful living. He aims for the affections of the soul and spirit which rightfully belong to God:
The thief (Satan) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly. (John 10:10)
Satan still wants to be the supreme ruler. He is waging an intense battle for the heart, mind, soul,
and spirit of man. His strategies are directed at God, His plan, and His people. The battle will
continue until the great final conflict which you will study about in the last chapter of this
course.
THE MEANING OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Spiritual warfare is the analysis of and active participation in the invisible spiritual war. It
includes study of the opposing forces of good and evil, the strategies of Satan, and spiritual
strategies for overcoming the enemy. Spiritual warfare is more than a mere analysis of spiritual
principles. It includes active participation in warfare by application of these strategies in life and
ministry.
One of the most effective strategies of Satan is to keep believers ignorant of his devices. Paul said it is important to know Satan’s strategies…
…Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. (II Corinthians 2:11)
We should learn all we can about Satan’s strategies of attack. We must also understand the
Scriptural basis of victory over Satan and the forces of evil. We are called to intelligent combat. Basic to the understanding of spiritual warfare is this key principle:
You must recognize that all battles of life, whether physical, spiritual, emotional mental, financial or with human personalities are only outward manifestations of a spiritual cause.
Although in the natural world problems may seem to occur through the circumstances of life, the basis of these natural battles is in the spirit world. Read the story of Job (Job chapters l-2) which
confirms this principle.
We have tried to correct the evils of this world through education, legislation, and improved environment. It has not worked because the visible evils of the world are the results of an underlying spiritual cause. They cannot be corrected by natural means.
TO WHICH KINGDOM DO YOU BELONG?
In the natural world a king is the sovereign ruler of a kingdom. All the territory and people in the kingdom belong to him. He has the power of life and death over his subjects. The same is true in the spiritual world. You are either part of the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Satan. Either God or Satan has power over your life.
One of the parables told by Jesus illustrates that all men are either part of the Kingdom of Satan or the Kingdom of God. Jesus compared the world to a field. The good seed in the field were children of the Kingdom of God. The bad seed, which resulted in the growth of tares (weeds), were children of the wicked one:
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the Kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one. (Matthew 13:38)
People enter the Kingdom of Satan through natural birth. The Bible teaches that all men are born in sin. This means that they have a basic sin nature or the "seed" of sin within. Their natural inclination is to do evil:
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalms 51:5)
Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
(Romans 5:12)
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
Because we are born with the basic sin nature, we have all at one time been part of the Kingdom of Satan. All who remain sinners remain part of the Kingdom of Satan.
The whole message of God’s written Word, the Holy Bible, is the appeal to man to move from this evil Kingdom of Satan to the Kinggdom of God through spiritual birth. Entrance to the Kingdom of God is by new birth experience explained in John chapter 3.
There are only two divisions in the invisible war. Jesus said, "He that is not with me is against me" (Luke 11:23). You cannot be neutral in this spiritual war. You are on one side or the other. Some believers, because of their fear of confrontation with the enemy, try to ignore the war and
form a truce with the enemy. They think if they ignore Satan, he will not bother them. This is
one of Satan’s main strategies. He tries to render members of God’s army immobile by his terror
tactics.
But there is no neutrality in this war. You are either a victim or victor. The spiritual "call to
arms" is going out…Are you on the side of good or of evil? Are you part of Satan’s Kingdom or the Kingdom of God? To which kingdom do you belong? Are you a victim or a victor in the
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was formerly a successful political blog following and reporting on Georgia politics until early 2010 when the owners made the decision to publish libelous statements about businessman and then-Republican candidate for governor, Ray McBerry. Because of Ray’s strong conservative stand for States’ Rights and the Constitution, one of the former owners took it upon himself to publish libelous reports in an attempt to tarnish Mr. McBerry’s character and to prevent his growing support in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary. Although the owners received orders from Mr. McBerry’s attorney to “cease and desist” with the libel, they chose not to do so.
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, after more than two and a half years of legal proceedings, the domain officially became the property of Ray McBerry as part of a settlement awarded in Mr. McBerry’s libel suit against the former owners — the former owners Jeff Sexton and Tom Knighton (current publisher of The Albany Journal) choosing to settle out of court rather than have a jury of their peers decide the case and the amount of award.
In addition to a cash payment and ownership of this domain, defendant Jeff Sexton also signed a confession and apology to Mr. McBerry in satisfaction of the settlement agreement as ordered by the Court. The first cash payment has already been made to Mr. McBerry.
This website now stands as a testimony to all those who would commit libel — whether online or otherwise — that libel will not be tolerated in the sovereign state of Georgia.In addition to the libel suit mentioned above, Mr. McBerry has also won a separate court action against a woman who promulgated lies about his character during the governor’s race; and in that case, the judge also awarded Mr. McBerry’s attorney fees.
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Ray McBerry continues to be one of the most effective public speakers in Georgia, speaking regularly to political and civic organizations on the Tenth Amendment and the Constitution. He is also a father and Christian, as well as a businessman who now owns KBN Television in the Atlanta market. His strong support for States’ Rights and nullification has provided the language for legislation passed in several other states in recent years and has been the impetus for groups to continue the push for such legislation in Georgia. He credits his testimony for Christ and his desire to prevent others from experiencing similar attacks in the future as the motivating factors for pursuing his libel suit against the former owners of
When asked for a comment on the successful outcome of his libel suit, Ray McBerry had this to say, “I learned during the governor’s race in 2010 why good people rarely get involved in politics. On the evening of the third televised debate of the GOP primary, I received more votes in the straw poll among the 400 participants of the live audience than all of my Republican opponents combined; the very next day, the libelous statements began and did not stop until the end of the primary election. Those committing the libel made the mistake of thinking that my decision not to prosecute the libel case until after the campaign was over was a sign that I would not follow through; they were mistaken. I am grateful to the many friends and family members who continued to support me in spite of the lies which were said about me and for my attorney and friend Todd Harding of Maddox & Harding for helping me to pursue the libel suit and waiving his attorney fees. Thank you, too, for the one who recently took it upon himself to pay for all of my other expenses in pursuing this case; I am sincerely grateful. Finally, thanks to the thousands of volunteers during my campaign who worked tirelessly for Georgia and the cause of restoring States’ Rights and limited government; not only did our message affect races throughout Georgia and across America at a time when no one else was talking about the Tenth Amendment, your efforts will continue to be felt in Georgia politics for years to come.”
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2Department of Pharmacology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
3Institute of Dental Research, Osaka Dental University, Osaka, Japan
4Osaka Dental University, School of Dental Technician and Hygienist, Osaka, Japan
AATEX 18(1):33-38, 2013
On evaluating the effects of dental biomaterials on embryotoxicity in humans, the effects of human metabolic activation factors cannot be ignored. However, the routine the Embryonic Stem Cell Test (EST) method does not reflect the effects of metabolic activation in humans, because of the use of mouse ES-D3 cells. Thus, a TEST LIVERTM-human (Toyobo, Osaka) culture with teratogenic thalidomide was exposed to mouse ES-D3 cells to evaluate cell differentiation of contracting myocardial cells. Also, standard reagents for atomic absorption spectroscopy, i.e., component elements of dental alloys (Ag, Cu, Pd, Sn and Zn), were used. As a result, thalidomide, Ag, and Sb significantly reduced the contraction rate compared with the control group. A preliminary culture using TEST LIVERTM-human is likely to facilitate evaluation of the effects of human metabolism in mouse ES cells.
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"Come to me, all of you who are frustrated and have had a bellyful, and I will give you zest." (Matthew 28:11, The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan)
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sex and the Seminary
"I think everybody should own at least one." In 1997, that's what Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary had to say about women. He thought it was a joke, but the fact that he thought it was funny tells you all you need to know about the man. Little wonder that Patterson is now offering a women-only course of undergraduate study with a concentration in homemaking. Apparently, there's a gender-specific way to bake a pie.
Patterson, who is perfectly comfortable with women in the bedroom, kitchen and nursery, gets a little queasy when women appear in at the classroom lectern, let alone the pulpit. For Patterson, the world would be a better place if women stayed at home, submissive to their husbands' role as moral "policemen." Unbelievable.
Not all Baptists subscribe to Patterson's warped world view. Below, listen to Patterson's exchange with Baptist Center for Ethic's Executive Director, Robert Parham, and read more about it here.
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Tim Dahl said...
Just so you know, quite a few southern baptist thinks he's an idiot as well.
This stuff makes me wanna...
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August 14, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Amy Morton said...
Tim:
I know that you are right. I have deep Southern Baptist roots that I have written about before here. I graduated from Mars Hill College in NC and then attended Southern Seminary in Louisville, did CPE at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas and was ordained by my home church in NC in 1986. My opinion of Patterson was about the same then as now. The SBC today doesn't remind me a whole lot of the faith in which I was raised-individual churches and individual belivers are a different story, and I find, like me, often do not agree with some of these radical statements or concepts.
I am a member of a Methodist Church, but in my heart will always be Baptist. The Baptist concepts that are so important to me- the priesthood of the believer, the autonomy of the local church, support of religious freedom etc. seem to get trampled on by the current leadership. It's furstrating!
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This alpaca blog is intended to give a light hearted view of the day to day activities of an alpaca breeder, as well as providing an opportunity to share experiences and knowledge gained along the way. Beck Brow Alpacas of Cumbria is an alpaca farm situated within the beautiful Eden Valley in the North of England. Our aim is to breed the finest quality alpacas available...this is our journey.
Friday, 26 October 2012
Weigh Hey!
I have had a lovely day today with some like minded people...these people are not a common breed...some might even think us elite (I have other descriptions!)...although our numbers are growing and the condition is highly contagious...yes, today I have been with fellow alpaca nuts...and whats even more exciting is that they are newly obsessed alpaca nuts!
They were on duty early this morning for feed time (Camelibra and bottle feeds) followed by some hands-on experience. It was cria weigh-in and general inspection day today which is always a favourite task.. Foxy Sox was the light weight at 15.5kgs (but she is the youngest). At the other end of the scale (literally) was Coco (39.5kgs), Lexus (39kgs) and Shackleton (31kgs). I think we are going to have to think about some weaning soon...oh I do so hate it.
Also on the dislike list is deciding which boys are going on the pet boy for sale list. I have decided; now I just need to get some photos and put them on the website...maybe next week! Marco will be one of those, he is high on the cute stakes and had us all in stiches today with his posing...he seemed to be somewhere in every photo taken by our visitors today...never mind Where's Wally it was Where's Marco!
Beck Brow Pedro and Beck Brow Bendrago...For sale?
Beck Brow Marco...Mr Cute Pants!
Beck Brow Domingo getting kisses from Velvet.
Pea pods...Beck Brow Paulo and Beck Brow Advantage (behind)
Whilst our visitors were here, we did all keep remarking that we hadn't seen Velvet since her initial, very enthusiastic greeting, as they exited their vehicle..."she will be in the wood" I kept reassuring them....although I was thinking 5 hours was a bit extreme...well, all became apparent when our guests got in their car to leave...there was Velvet on the passenger seat!
I received the news last night that I have passed the BAS Stage 2 Judges Course and I am to start as an apprentice...I was rather excited...now I am rather scared!
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Debbie, Barnacre Alpacas 26 October 2012 at 16:21
Well done!
I'm still loving Mr cutie pants ears......
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Rosemary 26 October 2012 at 17:28
Congratulations!
We'll be looking out for you and your oral reasoning!
I feel a shopping trip is called for to get some suitable judging clothes with bits to lay the fleece on - or have you already got all that?!
I fear the cold has got to me and I am rambling!
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Voie de Vie 26 October 2012 at 18:38
Congrats on passing your test! Now the real fun begins. :)
And I'd take Mr. Cutie Pants if I were able ...
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Apple Vale Alpacas 26 October 2012 at 20:02
Well done on passing the Stage 2! Being the apprentice sounds enjoyable, apart from being the target for spits and kicks!
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Zanzibah Alpacas 26 October 2012 at 20:33
Well Done Barbara .... The Apprentice ... does that mean 'Sir Allen' is in charge !! Im sure it will be an experience, lovely photos of the cute babies ... weaning time ..... can't believe its here already !.........Jayne
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Shirley 27 October 2012 at 07:42
Really lovely set of photos - and very well done on passing your course. Paul will be taking you out for a celebratory dinner no doubt .................... Shirley & Robbie
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Those crias all look gorgeous and sooo clean! Our light coloured alpacas look very dirty at the moment...do you have en suite facilities for them to shower themselves off before posing for a photo?AS National Show 2014
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The other consideration is to ALWAYS consider the current value of the investment. If the value has moved up, additional purchases through dividend reinvestment or other funds is recommended.
Independent of this, the PRICE of the shares currently is always the consideration for forward returns, NOT the cost basis.
That cost basis game is dangerous because is blinds us to the value of considering alternate places to put our principle.
Using cost basis for the basis for dividend and capital appreciation in total returns is only helpful if we need to consider tax and inheritance events.
Using the above, It would be much more appropriate to use the current pricing of $23.07 (6/24/21) and 4.5% dividend rate for calculations, not the basis.
Otherwise, you would never sell as the years pass by. This is simply because you are not valuing your investment at the current market pricing (and, with additional calculation, fair value).
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The Post gives us 60 pages plus covers for our nickel this time around, but they’re doing fine with profits as 27-1/4 of the 60 pages, plus 3/4 covers contain advertising, so there’s plenty of revenue coming in the Curtis door during this period. The 32-3/4 pages of text and illustration is split almost down the middle between fiction and non-fiction. I didn’t read the stories, but I did take a closer look at the non-fiction articles and have even put together a brief bio on this issue’s all-star writer.
Speaking of bio’s, this issue’s cover was illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws, who led a very interesting and artistic life.
In brief, the fiction contained within this issue is as follows:
“Suspicion” by Harris Dickson and illustrated by Arthur William Brown looks to be a mystery involving the upper crux of society.
“A Little Taste of Business: Matt Has it and Asks for More” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Harvey Dunn is about Cappy Ricks (illustration shown), the “president and principal stockholder of the Ricks Logging and Lumber Company and Blue Star Navigation Company.” Kyne wrote several Cappy Ricks stories and Cappy would later make his way to the big screen in 1921’s Cappy Ricks starring Thomas Meighan, 1935’s Cappy Ricks Returns and 1937’s Affairs of Cappy Ricks which starred Walter Brennan. Kyne, 1880-1957, worked as a reporter in San Francisco where he would become familiar with the merchant marines.
“The Phoenix” by Richard Washburn Child and illustrated by Irma Deremeaux
“H.R.” by Edwin Lefevre and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood. This one is a serial picking up at Chapter 2. Lefevre is best known for his “Reminiscences of a Stock Broker” series of fictionalized stories about Jesse Livermore which appeared over eleven issues of the Post in 1922-1923. Underwood also illustrated several covers for the Post during this period and was especially known for his portraits of women “with suggestions of action. His elegant women were often engaged in sports, or so the combination of costume and prop suggested” (Cohn 46).
This issue carries automobile advertisements from Dodge Brothers of Detroit, who none too succinctly proclaim “Its style is so attractive that frequently the car sells itself solely by its appeal to the eye.” There is no specific model advertised, just “Dodge Brothers Motor Car” but the price is listed at $785, or $1100 Canadian. Dodge only shelled out for half a page, but the Milburn Wagon Company sprung for a full-page, half of which contains a photo of the Millburn Light Electric Coupe at $1485, Roadster at $1285. “With a garage full of all kinds of cars, you would drive your Milburn a hundred miles for every ten you’d drive other types of car. We have observed it carefully–it is an invariable fact.” Oldsmobile also goes for the full-page, but they use all of their space on text. The headline declares “Oldsmobile sets the pace with an Eight – Alive with Power — Light in Weight — Exquisite in Beauty” and italicized but also buried in the text “A Most Surprising Thing is the Price, $1295.” That’s it for autos, though there are plenty of related ads especially from tire companies such as Fisk.
Tuxedo Tobacco takes an interesting step with photos and quotes from six celebrity pitchmen, two of whom I was familiar with. There’s Brig. General C.C. Sniffen and Prominent Chicago Physician and Surgeon Clement W.K. Briggs, M.D. who says “Physicians give their approval to Tuxedo because it’s harmless and wholesome.” Also featured is Congressman R.F. Broussard of Louisiana and Herman Nickerson, who I should know but I don’t, as he is Secretary of the Boston Braves, defending World Champions of Baseball. Those I do know are the writer Irvin S. Cobb who really didn’t sit at his desk too long to come up with “I can’t think of any reason why I shouldn’t say I like Tuxedo–because I do like it, very much.” And the most famous of these half-dozen smokers, director D.W. Griffith, who says “A pipeful of Tuxedo is a wonderfully pleasant form of tobacco enjoyment, mild and soothing.”
I found this pretty interesting because it either points out that the ad agencies of 1915, or at least the one that designed this ad, were completely ignorant regarding who the public would respond to pitching products, or the public was very different than it would soon be in who it would respond too. The military man is the only one I can see the buying public responding too any time in the near or more distant future. The most interesting choices to me are Nickerson, the Braves’ Secretary, and D.W. Griffith in that it’s pretty obvious the public would spend its reverence on a baseball player rather than secretary and a movie star rather than director. Outside of a TV commercial today with George Steinbrenner or that one with director M. Night Shyamalan, it’s a pretty universal choice to go with the player or the star. As for the Congressman, that doesn’t seem appropriate outside of a PSA and I guess the physician is there to calm your fears over that cough you recently developed somewhat coincidentally after beginning to smoke Tuxedo brand products. In a pre-Marlboro Man world the tobacco company tries to entice the public by showing that smart people smoke, not tough guys.
And just a quick note to finish up looking at the advertising, the most eye-catching ad in the issue is a quarter-page ad from 2 in 1 Shoe Polishes, only because it is so racist. The caption on this one is “Dat sho’ly am SOME Polish.”
I only mention the shoe polish ad as a segue into the half-page article “White Hopes.” At first glance I had no idea what this would be about, and then reading the first paragraph and I thought it had something to do with harvesting and basically just didn’t get it. Finally, I read the entire article and it’s reporting Jack Johnson losing the Heavyweight Championship of the World to Jess Willard. This is written pretty strangely. It is extremely flowery prose, and would have taken me almost a full column to figure out what it was even about if I hadn’t known who James Jeffries was, as his was the only name mentioned to this point. Johnson is not mentioned until the last paragraph and then only by his last name. I’d like to think the article was intended to be sarcastic as it lists the long line of “White Hopes” who stepped up attempting to take the title from Johnson and failed, but in the end it just seemed to be celebrating the fact that Willard finally knocked off the old champ.
The anonymous writer writes: “The real White Hope had at last been found! All was excitement and enthusiasm reigned supreme. At the evening cocktail hour loud cheers were heard resounding and swinging doors swung again to the reverberating echoes.” Though only overtly racist in the repetitive use of the “White Hope” term, though then again I can recall this same term being applied to Gerry Cooney as recently as 1981 or ’82 when he challenged Larry Holmes, there is no doubt that the conservative Post was quite happy to see Johnson, thought of as a trouble-maker, finally succumb to one of the hopes. Every pretender along the way is referred to by full name in the article, yet there is reluctance to write out the full name of the former champion … Jack Johnson. By the way, Johnson’s story is very interesting and if you missed the PBS special on him released within the past year or so, it is available on DVD. A very entertaining couple of hours.
“Made in Japan” by Samuel G. Blythe is a long article about the expanded Japanese trade. I read this entire article and found it pretty boring on the whole. Basically the Japanese took advantage of the market created for hats when the Chinese cut their queues. Blythe stresses over and over again how the Japanese “must have more trade. They must expand.” He also drives home the point that the Japanese will gladly accept a small mark-up in order to sell a great quantity of items. He mentions that the telephone and telegraph in Japan are government controlled, as is the tobacco market, and paints a picture of a hard-handed government putting the squeeze on Japanese citizens.
A couple of other snoozers for me that I started out intending to read but found my mind wandering were “The Mind Reader” by Edward Mott Woolley, which is about bosses and employer-employee relationships and “Rubbing the Lamp: How the Specialty-Shop Aladdin Makes His Profit” by Corinne Lowe, about specialty clothing shops for women (with money). There is also a half a column article titled “Printing Telegraphs” which was interesting but probably just used as filler (maybe an advertiser dropped out late or they just had a little space leftover).
The highlight of the issue was “For King and Country: I Nibble Them” by mystery and short fiction writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, who was also a war correspondent in World War I.
Rinehart writes from the battlefield of Ypres where she mingled with the French soldiers in the trenches. The article contains a lot of dialogue between herself and the soldiers such as the Captain’s response to her wondering why the soldiers were so cheerful one morning: “They have been in a very bad place all night…They are glad to be here, they say.” “You mean that they have been in a dangerous place?” Rinehart asks, to which the soldiers’ response was laughter and a few proffering their caps forward to display bullet holes. “You see,” the Captain said, “it was not a comfortable night. But they are here, and they are content.”
Rinehart mentions how she was told that the horses were American like her, and by the end of the article she seems to comfort in this fact. When a battery is fired she is concerned that it is being done to show off for her, but the soldiers assure her that they were firing to disable a German battery which had been located. Rinehart writes:
“There is a curious feeling that comes with the firing of a large battery at an unseen enemy. One moment the air is still; there is a peaceful plain round. The sun shines, and heavy cart horses, drawing a wagon filled with stones for repairing a road, are moving forward steadily. their heads down, their feet sinking deep in the mud. The next moment all hell breaks loose. The great guns stand with smoking jaws. The message of death has gone forth. Over beyond the field and that narrow line of trees, what has happened? A great noise, the furious recoiling of the guns, an upcurling of smoke–that is the firing of a battery.”
I thought that paragraph was well-written and gave a good feeling of what Rinehart saw over there. The article is filled with descriptive entries such as this. Another portion that I particularly like is when Rinehart explored the trenches, of which she wrote:
“It was odd to stand there in the growing dusk, looking across to where was the invading army, only a little over three thousand feet away. It was rather horrible to see that beautiful landscape, the untraveled road ending in the line of poplars, so very close, where were the French outposts, and the shining water just beyond, and talk so calmly of the death that was waiting for the first Germans who crossed the canal.”
The Captain told her, “They represent the latest fashion in trenches!” as he showed her around. Rinehart took in all of the details, the mud and water, the barbed-wire rabbit trap (shown at right), and then: “Suddenly the rabbit trap and the trench became unspeakably loathsome to me. What a mockery this business of killing men!” She writes of her German gardener, Wilhelm, and reasons how easily he could have been here, could have been the enemy, had he delayed coming to America to be her gardener. She reflects on his smile and other things that she likes about him, and she knows he was a loyal German citizen when he was here, knows that he was a Sergeant in the German Army for five years, and then realizes how many more Germans are like her Wilhelm, except that they are still in Germany. Rinehart injects some patriotism into her argument writing of the many Wilhelms: “Men who have followed the false gods of their country with the ardent blue eyes of supreme faith.” Somewhat disgusted, she soon then says, “I asked to be taken home.”
The Mary Roberts Rinehart article surely had to be the most exciting part of this issue then as it was now. With America a couple of years from entering the conflict, Rinehart presented them with a detailed and realistic, though perhaps at times romantic, picture of the war from one of its most central battlefields.
Taken as a whole The Saturday Evening Post of 1915, while being sold to the masses attends more to the white-collar world, and reports on this world from a Republican perspective. Articles geared towards bankers, manufacturers and wealthy wives looking to shop are interrupted by entertainment such as the Johnson-Willard article and the report from Ypres. Remember though, this is 1915, not 1951 — those tossing their nickel across the counter were for the most part educated people of the business class. The mass public was for the most part not yet an educated population. Lorimer’s Post tailored from his perspective on the right was not meant for the “huddled masses”. Lorimer, in fact, would resign from the Post after becoming disenchanted with his audience upon their reelection of FDR. The Post would then tailor itself more towards mainstream America. Rockwell’s America.
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Cohn, Jan. Covers of the Saturday Evening Post. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
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Exercise its a mental problem?
paulinuk Member Posts: 5 Listener
January 2018 edited January 2018 in Mental health and wellbeing
I should excirsize I find is a mental problem I want and need to do it but I don't its easier not to bother and keep saying I will but I never do
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Hi @paulinuk
Welcome to the community, I think that it can be really hard to motivate yourself to exercise, especially if you have any mental health issues.
Have you tried exercising with a friend? Planning a walk with someone else means you feel more inclined not to let the other person down. It also makes it into a social event rather than an exercise day.
I try and get out every day, even on the days when I am in pain and struggling, some days I can manage a walk, some days it is just to go and get fresh air and sit on a bench in the park and watch the world go by. My doctor told me to think about it like a prescription, if you are prescribed a pill, you take it every day whether you want to or not, and the same goes for fresh air and exercise, if you are prescribed it then you feel you should do it!
The NHS website says
People who do regular activity have a lower risk of many chronic diseases, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some cancers.
Research shows that physical activity can also boost self-esteem, mood, sleep quality and energy, as well as reducing your risk of stress, depression, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
“If exercise were a pill, it would be one of the most cost-effective drugs ever invented,” says Dr Nick Cavill, a health promotion consultant.
Given the overwhelming evidence, it seems obvious that we should all be physically active. It's essential if you want to live a healthy and fulfilling life into old age.
It's medically proven that people who do regular physical activity have:
up to a 35% lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke
up to a 50% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
up to a 50% lower risk of colon cancer
up to a 20% lower risk of breast cancer
a 30% lower risk of early death
up to an 83% lower risk of osteoarthritis
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Its nice just laying in bed and or sleeping
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Hello @paulinuk Welcome pleased to meet you. Please can I make a suggestion. I exercise my self but plan for it. I have mental problems and I too find it hard to get motivated in mornings. Try just gentle warm up stretching moving. I do for a bout ten minutes Tai Chi it is designed for smooth gentle movements. Put some relaxing music on to do it with. I know it is a struggle I love my bed and it hard in winter and the start of new year. I have to try to get stirring if I do not I feel I have wasted day. Then it is a bad mood all day an do nothing day. So I plan my mornings and struggle through the day. All the lovely people here help me. I try to come on here most mornings to chat and talk or afternoons then evening. Good helps with mental health thank you all. I once got into a routine of lying in bed may I say the bad old days. So much so that my days became nights and my nights became days. Has effected my sleep patterns just got them back on track last few years. Hope you understand this. also I am sure the community have some useful tips and advice. I know it is helping me. I hope to speak to you soon Nice to talk to you.
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I can understand why Opera iso, first of all, you need A PROPER BOOKMARK MANAGER. One that can import from an HTML file. Most of us have migrated from other browsers (such as IE, installed by default or Chrome; Firefox which are more popular) and we've PROBABLY made a few bookmarks by then. I was surprised that this thing didn't have a bookmark importer much less a BOOKMARK MANAGER. You know, everyone likes looking through a hundred bookmarks on a tiny bar. And why are some features hidden? I discovered a barely plausible bookmark-to-speed dial converter (for already-installed bookmarks) at What the heck? And your browser is based on Chrome which already has a bookmark manager; importer. And, oh yeah, you can import by downgrading, installing the bookmarks from the HTML file, then upgrading, but how intuitive is that?
WHY CAN'T YOU CUSTOMIZE YOUR MENU BAR? You know, the thing that does EVERYTHING? I've spent literally 1 hour trying to find out how to add the download button (which for some reason does show up on Opera in another user for some reason, BTW). And I'm sure that I am going to want to add more buttons later.
YOUR SUPPORT SUCKS. All of your articles are outdated, seriously?
Oh yeah, and if you didn't realize this, you can actually install Chrome extensions on here, so you might want to install a feature on your browser which disguises your user agent as Chrome when the Chrome addons page is detected so addons from it can be installed. Not a problem, just a suggestion. (It will boost your already bad reputation.)
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November 14, 2007
On Torture Perspective
--Sebastian
I've written on the topic before, but a recent post by Patterico convinced me to revisit it. He hasn't finished all his thoughts on the issue, but I'll jump ahead anyway. I find him reasonable on most topics, so I thought I would throw in my thoughts. The presentation of his hypothetical is as follows:
Over the weekend, I asked a question about the morality of waterboarding. It was directed primarily at the self-righteous chest-pounders who like to pretend that the moral issues are easy and obvious — that of course we should never consider waterboarding under any circumstances, no matter how dire. The question was:
Let’s assume the following hypothetical facts are true. U.S. officials have KSM in custody. They know he planned 9/11 and therefore have a solid basis to believe he has other deadly plots in the works. They try various noncoercive techniques to learn the details of those plots. Nothing works.
They then waterboard him for two and one half minutes.
During this session KSM feels panicky and unable to breathe. Even though he can breathe, he has the sensation that he is drowning. So he gives up information — reliable information — that stops a plot involving people flying planes into buildings.
My simple question is this: based on these hypothetical facts, was the waterboarding session worth it?
Further assume that no less coercive tactic would reveal the information.
I am driving at a moral question here. What I really want to know is: do you consider the waterboarding session to have been the most moral choice under the circumstances?
Self-righteous chest-pounders like nosh, Oregonian, and Semanticleo all checked in at this blog since I put up the post. But none of them answered the question.
It wasn’t easy to get people to answer the question. The thread is over 470 comments, and it consists mostly of obfuscation and evasions. But I have gotten answers from many commenterto be) and I'm not particularly liberal, but since my overall mindset is closer to his, I thought this might be useful.
My answer to his hypothetical is 'yes, it would have been worth it'. I know that isn't everyone's answer, and it will probably cause me lots of grief here, but that is mine. In extreme situations, where you know that the person knows the information, and you need an immediate answer, IF it were effective, I wouldn't shed too many tears over 3 minutes of waterong, but on a scale of wrongs--in that situation--I'd get over it.
My answer to what I think lies behind the hypothetical is rather different. The hypothetical has nothing to do with the discussion of whether or not we (the United States) ought to be torturing people. One of the key things that conservatives ought to remember (and which we notice all the time in liberal proposals) is that INTENTIONS DO NOT EQUAL OUTCOMES. The government is horribly incompetent at all sorts of things and we ought not abandon that insight when analyzing proposals of people who allege that they are our allies (the idea that Bush is a conservative ally is something I'd like to argue about on another day--but my short answer is that he isn't).
As with limitations on free speech, I don't trust the government to be able to fairly and nimbly navigate the rules that would be necessary to make certain that it only used a legal right to torture when it was the right choice. Sadly this is no longer a hypothetical question. In actual practice, we find that Bush's administration has tortured men who not only didn't know anything about what they were being tortured about, but weren't even affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Let me say that again. Bush's administration has tortured men who were factually innocent.
Not men who got off on technicalities. Factually Innocent.
Your hypothetical demands that the government be CERTAIN of the following things:
This man is who we think he is.
This man knows what we think he knows.
No non-torture technique will work.
Patterico, you work with the government. You know for a fact that it gets things wrong all the time. Even when we go through the huge and complicated process of a trial, it gets things wrong. And we aren't talking anything like a trial here. In reality, we are talking about torturing *suspects*. That is not a power to be given to the government.
Your hypothetical doesn't speak to the question of what the policy of our government ought to be, because no important part of the hypothetical actually has anything to do with the empirical reality of governmental torture. You pride yourself at not being distracted by stated intentions which have bad consequences in areas like rent control, housing policy, and education policy. Don't let Bush wave the national security flag and make you forget everything you know about how the government actually opeis the fact that the only reason the arguments presented by Holsclaw, Farber, "Zmulls", "Pete" and "Katherine" aren't widely recognized as elementary common sense is that a very large number of people in this country -- and in its current administration -- have completely lost their marbles through sheer panic. Which, of course, has happened in the U.S. before, invariably with disastrous consequences.
Posted by: Bruce Moomaw | November 14, 2007 at 11:31 PM
Sebastian:
You display far too much respect for Patterico, and that causes me to lose much respect for you.
Torture does not elicit reliable information, and eliciting reliable information is not the point of torture. To assume otherwise is to ignore thousands of years of experience in favor of a few episodes of 24.
Torture should be condemned summarily along the same lines of pedophilia or genital mutilation -- there is no middle ground or equivocation allowed.
For shame.
Posted by: Sean | November 14, 2007 at 11:32 PM
just because some people make a different judgment than we do when considering these sorts of moral trade-offs doesn't make them monsters.
I'm not pointing a finger at Patterico or anyone else here. Just a simple question.
Where is the line between "not monster" and "monster"?
Not hypothetically, but really. Because we ain't living in a hypothetical world.
Thanks -
Posted by: russell | November 14, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Well, actually, the hypo is based on a news report of a real-world event. This is what I'd like Sebastian to address next. But I'll blog about that.
Granted, the news report may be inaccurate. I'm not sure if I buy it hook, line, and sinker. But anyone who assumes I pulled the hypo out of thin air obviously didn't read my entire post, in which I link to the news report on which it's based.
Still, kenb, I think your comment is mostly on target. Part of the reason I wrote the hypo was to address the self-righteous folks who grandly announce that any torture is always wrong no matter now minor, no matter how guilty the subject, and no matter how high the consequences. I'm pushing those people to see how committed to that view they are. I have had people say they would have let 9/11 go forward even if (hypothetically speaking) it could have been prevented by waterboarding Osama bin Laden for 2 1/2 minutes.
I just can't get my head around that kind of outlook on life.
Posted by: Patterico | November 14, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Sebastian,
This is ridiculous. There are many answers to this set up, for that is what it is, a set up. But, for fun, let's play:
Answer A: No. Not worth it.
Answer B: The hypothetical presumes a sequence of events that have an infintesimly small probability of ocurrence, as opposed to the much larger damage done to justice and morality and the very fabric of society.
Answer C: Answer a question with a question: Is this the only time the torture is used? Yes or no. If no, what circumstances justify its use?
Answer D: The counter hypothetical. Assume the torture was successful as posited. Wouldn't it then make sense to expand its use? After all, it of proven effectiveness. The technique spreads to the criminal justice system to wring confessions. It is so effective, that trials are dispensed with. It is then used in the political sphere to determine who is and who is not lying. Under this hypothetical, is waterboarding justified?
But what really gets my goat is the astouding presumption that those who take exception to this lunatic hypothetical are "self-righteous chest pounder(s)", a statement so hubristically self-righteous that it defies credulity that a sentinet human being wrote it.
In conclusion, the whole effort is just a cheap attempt to score points, and a laughable one at that.
Answer D:
Posted by: bobbyp | November 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM
By the way, I've never seen a single episode of "24."
Posted by: Patterico | November 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM
I think I'm going to bow out of the comments section, seductive as it is, and work on blogging a response.
Posted by: Patterico | November 14, 2007 at 11:43 PM
"I just can't get my head around that kind of outlook on life."
You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner, and you "can't get your head around" the fact that somebody finds this whole line of reasoning absurd.
Are you insane, or just pretending to be a lunatic?
And please, stop the ranting that I, and others with my viewpoint, are not "addressing the question." Perhaps it is time you answered one: When did you stop beating your
Posted by: bobbyp | November 14, 2007 at 11:45 PM
I posted something like this in the comments to Malcolm Nance's essay:
"Please consider the possibility that the President was weighing national security against the legal and moral implications and that - just maybe - he did not begin from all of the same assumptions that you begin with."
If that was the case, then not only did he disregard the oath he took upon assuming office:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
but he also failed in his constitutional duty to see that the laws be faithfully executed (such as the Convention against Torture).
Also, what many are losing sight of is the difference between personal moral agency and the function of employees of the government - namely to uphold and defend the principles upon which our nation was founded. Those employees all take a similar oath to that of the president, which is an oath to uphold the consititution. They owe no similar moral duty to my family that I do.
So while the question of what I would do if confronted with some kind of one-in-a-million situation that for example Mr. Evans refers to, where I could save my family by committing torture, I can't honestly say what I would do in that situation. Perhaps, not being of right mind, I would commit what is undeniably a wrong in the hopes of saving my family. But if I did it would be because I believed that I owed such a moral obligation to my family.
But even in that case, I would also have no reason to expect legal immunity or even leniency. Seeking legal protection strips the entire exercise of any moral profundity the hypothetical is designed to proclaim. Either you think your moral justification trumps the law or you don't. Having official and legal approval doesn't make your action a morally trenchant decision, it makes it following orders.
There is no evidence of a similar moral duty owed to citizens by employees of our government. They may believe it is so; but that does not make it so. They are acting in their capacity as our employees. If we wish to empower them with that ability, we should undo all of the laws on the books forbidding such behavior and withdraw from all treaties that do so as well. I would submit that that would represent a rejection of what it has to this day meant to be an American.
People may attempt to graft that moral obligation to MY family onto our servants in government, but that merely represents an attempt to win by visceral reaction, rather than logic. Yes, I may HOPE that some random interrogator would save my family by torturing a suspect, yet I have no legitimate reason for expecting it. In this respect the analogy to WW II Germany is apt: a German interrogator may have been able to morally justify torturing a captive in an effort to save his family (say by gaining information about a planned bombing raid in Dresden), but he should not expect to escape legal liability at Nuremberg.
As far as the practical results of torture, I would say that the use of torture could result in increase peril to our troops in battle because opposing combatants who thought they might be tortured would be more apt to fight to the death rather than surrender. There was a good reason why the understood rule among German soldiers in WW II was to run west not east if they found themselves behind enemy lines or separated from their unit.
Finally, also from a practical point of view, I would ask that people examine the case of Ahmed Ressam, the captured millenium bombing plotter:
A sample:
"Ressam confided to his lawyers that he had found the trial surprisingly fair. The judge had treated him respectfully. THE EXPERIENCE WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT HE EXPECTED OF THE COUNTRY HE HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO HATE.
Ressam also told Oliver he was unsure of the morality of his plan to massacre innocent holiday travelers. He said he needed to study the Quran to see if he had misunderstood passages.
So when Justice Department lawyers offered a deal to reduce his sentence, Ressam was ready to listen. (my emphasis) The terms were simple: His minimum sentence would be cut in half, to 27 years. In return, he had to testify against an associate, Mokhtar Haouari, and others. He had to reveal all he knew about al-Qaida — plots, training, tactics.
Ahmed Ressam became a terrorist turncoat.
On May 10, 2001, FBI Agent Fred Humphries questioned Ressam, the first of dozens of interviews. The information was invaluable — and terrifying. He explained how he was recruited in Montreal and funneled into the bin Laden camps. He talked in detail about training with Taliban-supplied weapons. He informed on Abu Zubaydah, Abu Doha and other top al-Qaida operatives. He provided the names of jihad fighters he had met in the camps. He revealed that he had contemplated blowing up an FBI office and the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C....
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Ressam's solitude has been broken by a stream of visitors, often FBI agents such as Fred Humphries, but also investigators from Germany, Italy and elsewhere.
With federal public defender Jo Ann Oliver at his side, he is told names and shown photographs of suspected terrorists and asked if he knows them.
On several occasions, Ressam has been flown to New York City for similar questioning. There, he is held in a detention center just blocks from Ground Zero.
Ressam did not recognize any of the 19 suicide hijackers from Sept. 11. But he was able to identify student pilot Zacarias Moussaoui of Minneapolis, now in U.S. custody, as a trainee from Osama bin Laden's Khalden camp.
Ressam informed on Abu Doha, a London-based Algerian who was the brains and money behind Ressam's Los Angeles airport plot. He identified Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who ran the Khalden camp, and Abu Sulieman, who taught bomb-making at the Darunta camp.
Most importantly, Ressam named the previously little-known Abu Zubaydah as a top aide to bin Laden. That helped smash the notion that Zubaydah, also now in U.S. custody, was little more than a travel agent for terrorist wannabes making their way to the al-Qaida camps.
Ressam is expected to testify at the trials of these and other suspected terrorists.
So it is that Ahmed Ressam — the boy who loved to fish in the Mediterranean, the teenager who loved to dance at discothèques, the young man who tried and failed to get into college, who connected with fanatical Muslims in Montreal, who learned to kill in bin Laden's camps, who plotted to massacre American citizens — has become one of the U.S. government's most valuable weapons in the war against terror...
Ressam's information was given to anti-terrorism field agents around the world _ in one case, helping to prevent the mishandling and potential detonation of the shoe bomb that Richard Reid attempted to blow up aboard an American Airlines flight in 2001"
Posted by: Maimonedes | November 14, 2007 at 11:46 PM
Hey Patterico,
Here's my hypothetical: A suspected arsonist is arrested at his family home. Without other proof, should the police --
A) interrogate the arson suspect using traditional police techniques;
B) waterboard the arson suspect until he confesses his crime and gives up all of the coming arson attacks he was planning; or
C) eat the arson suspect's children and force him to watch.
For extra credit, please tell us whether 9/11 changed everything about your answer.
For more extra credit, please tell us how you would use duct tape and/or Italian seasoning in your answer.
Posted by: Sean | November 14, 2007 at 11:55 PM
A.
Posted by: Patterico | November 14, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Great answer. Now replace the word "arson" with "terror" and tell me what changed.
Posted by: Sean | November 15, 2007 at 12:03 AM
In the original hypothetical scenario, replace waterboarding with applying electric shocks to the genitals, using thumbscrews, or sodomizing with a broom handle. Does your answer change?
Posted by: KCinDC | November 15, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Patterico,
You are a monster, and I hope you die painfully in a fire.
Posted by: Larry M | November 15, 2007 at 12:14 AM
On those facts alone, nothing changed.
Posted by: Patterico | November 15, 2007 at 12:15 AM
Oh, please.
Great answer. Now replace the word "arson" with "terror" and tell me what changed.
Now replace the word "arson" with "heresy" and tell me what changed. I'll tell you what changed: now, God will punish us all if we tolerate the heretics living right next door. How do you answer to St. Peter on the last day, when you know in your heart you let a converso live with his family, just three doors down from yours, and there they were not eating pork? Washing themselves on Fridays? What about his wife and kids -- all condemned to the fires of hell?
Lots of conversos have already confessed to plots involving child sacrifice! And poisoning wells! They are an abiding threat to all of us, and they are clearly in league not only with Satan, but with the Turkish Sultan as well.
I say that the case is clear. If the Holy Inquisition has to moisten the face of the occasional converso, well, God bless 'em.
Posted by: stickler | November 15, 2007 at 12:16 AM
You are a monster, and I hope you die painfully in a fire.
Hm. Didn't I say I was going to leave this comments section and blog a response to Sebastian?
Posted by: Patterico | November 15, 2007 at 12:17 AM
What the hell, though:
No, the waterboarding session was not worth it.
The CIA officers charged with waterboarding KSM, lacking the knowledge that everything would turn out so swimmingly, would demand assurances from their boss that they could not go to jail for this. Their boss, & his boss, would ask the Justice Department to assure them that they would not go to jail. In order to tell them that they wouldn't go to jail, the Justice Department would have to write a memo falsely concluding that: (1) terrorism suspects were not protected by any portion of the Geneva Conventions, & the war crimes act did not apply; (2) waterboarding (& such other "enhanced interrogation technqiues as the CIA would deem necessary") was not torture.
As a result of those memos, CIA agents would torture many other prisoners, and kill several of them, including some who were not high level members of Al Qaeda & whose torture & death did not save a single life. In order to justify what they had done & avoid liability, they would cover up the evidence of this. They would also make false and exaggerated claims about how the program was necessary, how many lives had been saved by torture.
The techniques would spread to the military. In some cases, it would be because the Secretary of Defense thought it would be convenient not to have the Geneva Conventions apply to terror suspects in military custody, & to have authorization to use "enhanced interrogation technqiues" to abuse prisoners. After all, were America's brave soldiers lives less valuable than civilians? In other cases it would be because members of the military stationed with the CIA saw what CIA agents could do to prisoners: a guard at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, say, might come into work one day & notice that a CIA agent had tortured a prisoner to death & left his body in the shower while higher ups fought about what to do with the evidence. The guard might conclude that if the CIA could kill a guy, he & his friends on the night shift might have a little fun. They might take some pictures.
Soldiers would torture many, many, many prisoners--in Afghanistan, in Guantananmo, in Iraq. Some of them would be tortured to death. Some of those tortured would be innocent.
The people tortured would make false confessions, which whether they were guilty or not would lead to them being detained for years without charge or trial. Their false confessions would lead to other arrests, and more torture, and more false confessions. Intelligence would be led down God knows how many blind alleys, resulting in the torture of God knows how many, the imprisonment of God knows how many more.
The results would be downright bizarre sometimes. We'd not only imprison & torture innocents--we'd imprison & torture guys we captured in a Taliban prison bearing scars from torture by high level al Qaeda members; ne of whom Osama Bin Laden had personally accused of trying to assassinate him in 1998. We'd keep one of them in prison in Guantanamo for the better part of 5 years; another for 6 and counting despite the fact that he kept trying to kill himself.
The administration wouldn't be able to admit that this happened; it would have to classify as much as the evidence as it could, for as long as it could. It would have to keep the courts from examining the legality of these techniques, & push laws through Congress immunizing itself from prosecution, & ensure that the Justice Department remained in the hands of lawyers who would continue to falsely claim that everything had been legal; who would never investigate; who would never prosecute. Members of the President's party would have to support "enhanced interrogation" & pretend it wasn't torture; otherwise they would be admitting that a President in their party had participated in a conspiracy to commit war crimes.
But they wouldn't be able to keep it all secret; the world would find out. It would destroy our reputation, & make it impossible for us to credibly pressure other countries not to torture people or detain them indefinitely based on a bare allegation that they were terrorists or national security threats. It would help drive recruiting for Al Qaeda. It would help seal the failure of our invasion of Iraq.
I suppose you could add a bunch of other stipulations to your hypothetical to prevent these things from happening: these techniques would be practiced only against the highest level suspects, in a few prisons. They would be restricted to trained, professional, carefully selected CIA agents. It would only be used to prevent attacks when there was no other possible way to stop them. We would never torture innocents. We would never torture anyone to death. You could stipulate that, but it just makes the hypothetical even more of an irrelevant fantasy. In real life, this happened. In real life, it always happens when a country experiments with torture: it always spreads, it always leads to innocents being tortured, it never saves more lives than it destroys. In real life, a government who promises that this time it will be different is either lying, or kidding itself.
You should trust a government claiming it needs to torture exactly as much as you should trust a terrorist leader explaining why it needs kill just a few civilians (or a few dozen, or a few hundred), in order to save hundreds of thousands of Muslim children from death and slavery. I could make up a hypothetical where a suicide bombing prevented more evil than it inflicted & saved more people than it killed; would that show that opponents of terrorism just don't understand the moral complexity of it all?
Posted by: Katherine | November 15, 2007 at 12:19 AM
What is the purpose of imagining an unlikest-possible scenario as a thought exercise to justify torture?
Surely its proponents are aware that, as thought exercises go, that one's about as useful as suggesting that, because Evel Knieval can make a motorcycle jump over 50 cars, perhaps letting motorcycles jump over cars on the freeway would be a good solution to traffic congestion.
Is Patterico aware of the fact that those "self-righteous chest-pounders who like to pretend that the moral issues are easy and obvious" include people whose job it is to interrogate terrorists? (Real ones, that is, not actors on TV who are following a script.)
Posted by: CaseyL | November 15, 2007 at 12:20 AM
"I only get by here by qualifying almost every word I type. I have to be very careful. I’m tolerated here, as long as I am careful. That’s all."
This is all perfectly true of me, too, as well, you know, OCSteve.
I try to always be reasonably careful that I don't make claims that I can't support.
Any good writer or debater does.
To be sure, I've been working at exactly these sorts of frequent written back-and-forth arguments for thirty-five years now, so I'd be pretty pitiful if I were entirely crap at it by now.
But I still have to be just as careful today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter, to not blather out something I can't point to support for, unless I want to be prepared to back down from it.
Same for any writer who wishes to actually persuade people.
Thus, for instance, Hilzoy: greatly more respected than someone who writes "OMG, I hatez Bush!!!! OKBYE LOL!"
The difference of result one can commonly get between making supportable, factual, logical, non-fallacious, clearly written, arguments, and making the other kinds, may seem unfair sometimes, but as you know, it turns out actually not.
Being careful about one's choice of almost every word is part of what we call "good writing." (Not that I'm other than qurea, I suggest, rather than suggest that being pushed to make the effort is unusual or unseemly.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 12:31 AM
What is the purpose of imagining an unlikest-possible scenario as a thought exercise to justify torture?
I'm hoping that this is a rhetorical question. The purpose is obvious - to play on people's fears to overcome (a) most people's natural horror at torture, and (b) the impossibility of articulating persuasive logical arguments in favor of the horror of torture, leaving the monstrous advocates only with contrived hypotheticals.
My fondest hope is that every American involved in torturing in even the smallest way shall be hanged by the neck until dead as a war criminal.
Posted by: Larry M | November 15, 2007 at 12:32 AM
"You are a monster, and I hope you die painfully in a fire."
That's a clear violation of the posting rules hereabouts. If you want to engage in that kind of rhetoric, there's no lack of other places that will let you.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 12:35 AM
(why does it always happen that way? Because human beings cannot be trusted with absolute power over other human beings. Ever.)
Posted by: Katherine | November 15, 2007 at 12:36 AM
Katherine, could you please, please, please, post your 12:19 AM as a post, rather than just a comment? Hardly anyone will read it otherwise, and it absolutely deserves to be read widely.
Trust me on this.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 12:39 AM
That's a clear violation of the posting rules hereabouts.
I disagree, and I'm not joking. I could parse each of the four rules, but the only one that I've even arguably violated is number 1, regarding reasonable civility. The key, of course, is the "term "reasonable." I simply do not believe that ANY level of civility is "reasonable" when one deals with torture advocates.
Posted by: Larry M | November 15, 2007 at 12:40 AM
"I simply do not believe that ANY level of civility is
'reasonable' when one deals with torture advocates."
I'm just a reader here, albeit a longtime one, so my opinion is as irrelevant as yours. Either one of the blog owners will notice, and give you a warning, or not.
Postere'):
Maine is a liberal state. Yet Maine allows its Citizens to shoot dead anybody that the Citizen reasonably believes to be attempting to commit arson (I know these laws well, heh heh). Laws like this are always written in the wake of some tragedy. After the loss of innocent life, hand-wringing over the treatment of the perpetrators is not a consideration.
Why anybody would lose sleep over inducing a gag reflex on some murderer in an effort to safeguard innocent life is not something I understand.
The Wiggles are on in the background. Fruit salad, yummie yummie. They are making more sense than many of these comments.
The link below is one of many variations of arson in 2007.
Posted by: Bill | November 15, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Hey Patterico, you monster!
You probably want to make it against the law to partially deliver a live baby, then pierce the skull, suck the brains out, then crush the skull, so that the infant will be aborted.
This happens approximately 5000 times a year.
And yet you heartlessly defend the waterboarding of innocents like Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, woximately 2 times a year!!!
Now, I ask you, is torturing and killing babies an ethical thing to do? I know that there was no law against it. Maybe, kind of, torturing terrorists. Why That's an Outrage!
Let's look at the outcomes in legal cases that have been discussed in many posts at Obsidian Wings:
A) The Maher Arar case WAS DISMISSED.
B) The Plame case was DISMISSED.
C) The Haditha cases were DISMISSED or declared NOT GUILTY.
Am I wrong here, or were these the results of the cases? Everybody elese seems to think Arar vs US Gite of the court's decision.
Maybe I'm out of touch. My opinions certainly don't coincide with others here, and perhaps I should be banished for that.
Posted by: DaveC | November 15, 2007 at 12:50 AM
OCSteve: My ily have moved toward my view. You make the commenters who can't restrain themselves from attacking you look bad.
But it is frustrating. On our family board I eventually gave in and made an "Antagonizing Papa Thread." In that thread I can post anything I want to about torture or signing statements without having to acknowledge that they may offend some people. It's very good for my blood pressure. I guess you would have to start your own blog for that.
Posted by: Noumenon | November 15, 2007 at 01:03 AM
Maybe we could compromise and abort only Extremely Ugly babies and torture only Extremely Ugly terrorists. This might be the KSM compromise.
BTW, I have been looking for the Haditha 15, 2007 at 01:03 AM
Yesterday I kept trying to post but the post button wouldn't do anything. Anyone else ever have that problem?
Patterico- Odd usually conservatives complain that liberals are moral relativists. Jesus once said that as you treat the least of these (referring to the poor and downtrodden) so also you do to me. I don't know for sure that waterboarding someone will send you to hell forever, but I think it at least puts you on difficult ground unless you would definately be ok with being waterboarded yourself. (Love your naighbor as yourself) If torture costs you your soul then it isn't worth it no matter how many lives it saves.
Posted by: Frank | November 15, 2007 at 01:06 AM
thanks Gary. I will tomorrow but I want to edit/proofread it first & I need to go to bed.
On the off chance that anyone is honestly confused about whether the district court's dismissal of Arar v. Ashcroft implies that the court found that Arar was a terrorist, or that he wasn't really tortured, or that the U.S. wasn't responsible for his torture: It doesn't. The Arar case was thrown out not only before trial, but before discovery: before a single document was produced, or a single deposition was taken from a single witness. When a case is thrown out that early it's because the defendants successfully argue that even if every single one of the plaintiff's factual allegations in perfectly true, he can't sue them. As I explained last year:
At this stage of a case, judges are required to assume that all of the allegations in the plaintiff's complaint are true. Arar's complaint alleged, and Judge Trager had to accept, that Arar was not a terrorist; that the U.S. government has no evidence that he was a terrorist other than confessions that a few other suspects had made under torture in a Syrian dungeon; that the U.S. government flew Arar to Syria because we wanted Syria to interrogate and torture him; and that in Syria he had been severely beaten with electrical cables for weeks and locked in a cell the size of a grave for a year.
The district court threw out the case on legal grounds--mainly the need to protect government secrets; the full explanation is too complicated & too boring to go into it here. But the ruling had nothing at all to do with the judge not believing Arar's allegations. (Also: it was a really crappy decision & will hopefully be reversed on appeal--the Second Circuit held arguments last week & based on press reports at least one of the judges sounded righteously pissed).
Posted by: Katherine | November 15, 2007 at 01:10 AM
I simply do not believe that ANY level of civility is "reasonable" when one deals with torture advocates.
I have always said that self-righteousness is the most dangerous human emotion. This comment is a good example of why. I don't even consider myself a "torture advocate" so much as someone who thinks the issue has shades of gray. For that sin, a self-righteous fellow feels perfectly justified in wishing that I die a painful death.
In any event, I thank him, because reading his comment motivated me to stop poking around in the comments section here, and go blog my response to Sebastian, which I have done. I hope he responds. It is a pleasure to read posts like his, which are very fair and thoughtful.
Posted by: Patterico | November 15, 2007 at 01:22 AM
DaveC: Let's look at those cases you're citing as some kind of trump proof.
Maher Ahar: The judge dismissed the case based on the government's claim of "national security" to keep things secret that were already public knowledge. The FBI and CIA sent him off to Syria, where he was tortured, after getting false information from the RCMP. the CBC has a timeline or you could just read oh, anything Katherine has ever posted about it.
B) The Plame case is completely unrelated to torture. It's related to the Bush administration revealing a covert CIA agent (and with her her entire network) who was working on counter-terrorism and nuclear proliferation. And they did it to attack her husband for showing the Bush administration was lying. Scooter Libby was tried and convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying to investigators. George W. Bush commuted his prison sentence. No one else was brought to trial, in large part because Scooter Libby succeeded in obstructing justice by lying.
C) Still not related to torture. None of it was reported until after forensic evidence was mostly gone, and strangely enough, none of the Iraqis from the town wanted to leave their town and come to the US to testify against part of the army occupying their country, so how grandparents and women and children ended up shot to death in their beds is left unsolved.
And I should repeat, only one of the cases you're waving as a flag even addresses torture at all. None are the hypothetical "ticking time bomb" that never happens, because those don't happen. You're just trolling and trying to distract from the fact the President of the United States has been authorizing and approving torture, regularly.
Posted by: Nate | November 15, 2007 at 01:23 AM
Oh, one last thing--Sebastian hasn't sanctioned torture, because the claim that KSM's torture stopped the Library Tower plot is provably false.
Posted by: Katherine | November 15, 2007 at 01:26 AM
(details tomorrowion supposed to prove? That under ideal circumstances that never happen, and cannot happen, it might be justifiable to torture someone? You can use the same unrealistic circumstances toive techniques to learn the details of those plots. Nothing works.
They then EAT two and one half CUTE PUPPIES.
WHILE THE PUPPIES ARE EATEN, KSM feels panicky and DEPRESSED BY THE DEATH OF CUTE PUPPIES. Even though he HAS TEN OTHER PUPPIES, he has TO WATCH PUPPIES BE EATEN. So he gives up information — reliable information — that stops a plot involving people flying planes into buildings.
My simple question is this: based on these hypothetical facts, was EATING THE DELICIOUS PUPPIES worth it?
It's just as inane that way, and proves just as little.
Posted by: Nate | November 15, 2007 at 01:30 AM
I don't even consider myself a "torture advocate" so much as someone who thinks the issue has shades of gray. For that sin, a self-righteous fellow feels perfectly justified in wishing that I die a painful death.
That wish could be well justified, as your reasoning sounds uncomfortably close to those of a sociopath. And a self-righteous one, at that, to my ears...
Posted by: gwangung | November 15, 2007 at 01:37 AM
Patterico, I'd be happy to continue the conversation. But I will also be happy to elicit help from katherine on details.
Katherine, I have your Harvard address and will send a query there, but if that isn't it please let me know here and I'll find another way to contact you.
Posted by: Sebastian Holsclaw | November 15, 2007 at 01:38 AM
Larry M, your 12:14 comment was definitely in violation of the posting rules. We do not encourage personal attacks here. Please restrain yourself in the future so that we don't have to ban you (which we hate doing).
Posted by: Sebastian Holsclaw | November 15, 2007 at 01:42 AM
Oh, one last thing--Sebastian hasn't sanctioned torture, because the claim that KSM's torture stopped the Library Tower plot is provably false.
I'd be interested to read about that. I'm not really invested in the whole thing, I just like discussing it.
That wish could be well justified, as your reasoning sounds uncomfortably close to those of a sociopath. And a self-righteous one, at that, to my ears...
And with a second person suggesting my painful death might be justified, I'm slapping myself for returning. Over and out! I look forward to the posts.
Posted by: Patterico | November 15, 2007 at 01:53 AM
And with a second person suggesting my painful death might be justified, I'm slahat, or you're a sloppy writer.
Posted by: gwangung | November 15, 2007 at 02:02 AM
Patterico needs to lose his job if he doesn't fix his moral compass.
He'd defend the waterboarding of a US Citizen if the Bush administration wanted it done.
Posted by: Jon H | November 15, 2007 at 02:05 AM
Patterico writes: " This comment is a good example of why. I don't even consider myself a "torture advocate" so much as someone who thinks the issue has shades of gray."
Gray? It has shades of the natty black of an SS uniform.
Posted by: Jon Hn Laden if it would prevent another 9/11? As the bottom?
Posted by: Jon H | November 15, 2007 at 02:15 AM
Just to echo Sebastian, who got here first: "You are a monster, and I hope you die painfully in a fire" is absolutely a violation of the posting rules. The members of the hive mind get to determine what counts as reasonable civility. Half of them have now spoken.
Posted by: hilzoy | November 15, 2007 at 02:38 AM
"Some of these commenters Patterico is complaining about (and blaming ObWi for) areose where and when and with whom he desires to exchange views with, and it is equally perfectly reasonable to refuse to engage with people interested only in personal attack, it's not, perhaps, perfectly obvious why doing so would also require not engaging in reasonable courteous discussion here with people one may disagree with, h a longtime one, so my opinion is as irrelevant as yours. Either one of the blog owners will notice, and give you a warning, or not.
I should have offered to bet a nickel, though.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 03:14 AM
WTF? Almost 150 posts on crappy hypotheticals and no-one brought up Belle Waring's seminal By The Power Of Stipulation!? What have these internets fallen to?
Posted by: Anarch | November 15, 2007 at 03:19 AM
Let me clarify, Gary. I don't blame the whole site for these commenters, and I appreciate your telling one of them off. But in recent comments I have one person wishing me a painful death, another saying "That wish could be well justified," and a third saying I need to lose my job and comparing me to a SS officer because I'm not toeing his particular ideological line.
I don't have to blame the polite commenters here to decide that it's not worth it.
Making that decision is not the same as treating everyone here like a jerk. That shouldn't be that hard to understand.
I look forward mparing me to a SS officer because I'm not toeing his particular ideological line.
No, it was because you were proferring a ludicrous hypothetical as evidence of your appreciation of moral complexities. Whether that particular brand of nonsense is suffici007 at 03:58 AM
Patterico: But in recent comments I have one person wishing me a painful death, another saying "That wish could be well justified,"
While disagreeing with the person who wishes you a painful death - I do not believe that even torturers deserve the same fate as their victims* - in endorsing torture, you are yourself wishing a painful death on post and discover that you were among the people wishing them pain and suffering and ultimately a lonely, horrible death among enemies - but we know that's what you're wishing them. You have no moral high ground here.
(That doesn't make those comments right. We have posting rules.)
*Not least because I think torture is wrong for its effect on the torturer, as well as on the victim
Posted by: Jesurgislac | November 15, 2007 at 04:04 AM
Torture is a guaranteed step onto a completely slippery slope.
Consider a soldier who captures an ehe enemy soldier tells her what time the following morning's attack is due. Enemy soldier reveals the information, which turns out to be true, and thousands of lives are safed. Now, what should happen to that soldier?
I'd say, court-martial and at least ten prove that the person in your torture chamber DOESN'T have information that will save lives? It's impossible. So, torture and see. And then you get off scot-free because, after all, you really thought that the person in question might have had such information.
That applies to the military. But it also applies to the police. For instance, if you are free to torture people, it is a big problem if the following morning they step outside and write angry letters to the papers. So you have to hold them incommunicado. You can't let them contact lawyers. Hell, writing letters or contacting lawyers might include encrypted messages to the enemy!
Hence, torture automatically means the destructioan walks down the street, how does it change everyone's opinion, if you know that he or she is a potential torturer, and cannot be punished if he or she is indeed a torturer?
Posted by: MFB | November 15, 2007 at 05:33 AM
Katherine, could you please, please, please, post your 12:19 AM as a post, rather than just a comment?
Seconded.
Why anybody would lose sleep over inducing a gag reflex on some murderer in an effort to safeguard innocent life is not something I understand.
A reasonable point. Please see Katherine's 12:19.
Thanks -
Posted by: russell | November 15, 2007 at 07:55 AM
We had a non-hypothetical ticking-time-bomb (actually a kidnapped child expected to die in a very short time) over here some time ago. The police chief threatened the confessed kidnapper with torture (on the books) and he lead the police to the child he had killed directly after the abduction. that no possible doubt that they got the right guy.
Results:
The police chief got off leniently (but his career was obviously over)
The kidnapper-murderer could have gotten a reduced sentence had he not be completely unrepentant.
It was made clear that this would not be a precedent and that any other person doing the same as the police chief would get no leniency.
All of this is lacking in the current torture practice in the US. Noone seems willing to take the consequences for their actions, "executive privilege and national security" try to keep it all under cover and the process of determining beforehand whether the person to be tortured isto deter the bad guys form committing their crimes, we should remember the calls to Bush to make it US policy that any terroriat 08:07 AM
Hartmut, I can almost understand the actions of the police chief. However, the reason it may have worked is that the child was already dead.
In the case used by Patterico, it would be as if he confessed to the plot after the plot had been pulled off.
But you are right, there is no accountability involved in the current slide into depravity, which may actually be worse than the actual occurence of torture itself.
Posted by: john millcked before writing.
I read the post here "Are We Disappearing Children" when it was first posted and followed the link to Human Rights Watch and the six group report on unaccounted for detainees. For some reason, for which I have no explanation, my memory was that the generals family was on the list. It is not. I'll try not to get so wound up I post before checking in the future.
Posted by: Baskaborr | November 15, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Hartmut-
Great example! If torturing a suspect was "legal" do you think police chiefs (or detectives) would hesitate to use it at the first opportunitwilling to pay the price personally for what he was about to do. He would break the law, because in his mind saving the child's life was worth the sacrifice of his career and possible freedom.
After the dust settles, he could be pardoned or even serve his time knowing that he sacrificed himself, but saved a life.
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I think any interrogator who finds themself facing such a decision needs to make it with the full weight of the consequences, not with complete immunity from his actions. If torture is made legal, there is NO WAY it will not be abused, the interrogator has nothing to lose, and no reason to be discriminating in its use.
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I'm not even getting into the debate about whether or not torture works, even if it had a measurable success rate (it doesn't) this still needs to be the legal position—Illegal across the board, no legislating on certain procedures, waterboarding or anythiing else.
Posted by: Mr Furious | November 15, 2007 at 03:42 PM
Here's what these pro-torture people are missing when they use the Hollywood ticking time bomb scenario...
The reason Je he himself will pay. His action is "heroic" because it is over the boundary, he'll turn his badge in, he'll go to prison, he'll take the bullet for his partner, and on and on.
If torturing suspects was routine procedure and what cops did every day right after picking out a donut, it wouldn't make a very compelling movie scene would it? Harry Callahan or Jack Bauer would just be a regular old cop, and watching them beat false confessions out of suspects 99% of the time would get old fast.
That's the system they want. Have they thought about it? At all?
Posted by: Mr Furious | November 15, 2007 at 03:57 PM
"I don't have to blame the polite commenters here to decide that it's not worth it."
No, of course not.
I simply urge you to make some attempt to engage with reasonable and polite commenters, within reasonable limits of time, as feedback is a useful correction mechanism, particularly when it comes from intelligent and courteous people of a different point of view, and relatively few of them have blogs of their own.
Obviously it's up to you.
I'd personally really like to hear from you about my very first comment and question on this.
Would it improve my odds of getting a response if I posted the query on my blog, and if so, why?
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 04:30 PM
baskaborr: "Apologies for the incorrect information."
No need to apologize to me. And we all make mistakes, of course. Particulost before checking in the future."
Always a good idea for all of us to try to remember.
Mr. Furious: "The reason Je he himself will pay.
Just for the record, the plot of the second Harry Callahan/"Dirty Harry" movie, Magnum Force (written by John Milius and Michael Cimino), revolves around Harry discovering, confronting, and putting down, a gang of rogue vigilante cops (Tim Matheson! David Soul!), who have taken the law into their hands to murder criminals who the justice system lets off. They think he's naturally going to be one of them, but he responds: "I’m afraid you've misjudged me."
Another crucial scene, as summarized by Wikipedia:
[...] Briggs reveals that he was the one who started the vigilante cops' executions of the criminals who dodged trial and explains the cause of the vigilante cops, and that there are plenty more where they (the rookie vigilantes) came from. “You’re a good cop, Harry. But you’d rather stick with the system,” Briggs adds. But Harry’s response is that although he hates the system, he will stick with it until some rules come along that make some sense. Briggs ends the repartee with the statement, “You’re about to become extinct.”
Just to clarify Dirty Harry's morals, ethics, and practices.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 15, 2007 at 04:45 PM
We already have a solution to this whole problem.
Mr. Bush and friends can go ahead and torture people to their hearts content. If done correctly and specifically and we get the results Mr. Patterico suggests then no problem.
On the other hand, if incorrect and Mr. Bush and Mr. Patterico have tortured an innocent person, they get to answer to war crimes charges.
Oh, wait, it's the SECOND part Mr. Patterico is really arguing against, isn't it?
Posted by: Jimbo | November 15, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Don't worry, Gary, I am quite familiar with Dirty Harry...
I was just tossing him in there as an example, but even so, he's had his moments...
Callahan then breaks into the stadium and searches Scorpio's room without a warrant. Callahan hears Scorpio fleeing and chases him onto the stadium's field. Frank turns on the stadium lights, which helps Callahan find Scorpio, whom he proceeds to shoot in the leg from distance. Scorpio is unwilling to reveal the location of the girl to Callahan and claiming he has the right of legal representation. In response, Callahan tortures Scorpio by standing on his wounded leg. Scorpio finally tells Callahan where he has been keeping the girl. Unfortunately, by the time the police find her, she is already dead. To make matters worse, Scorpio is released without charge because Callahan broke into his home illegally and tortured him to obtain a confession."
To his credit, "The film ends with Callahan flinging his Inspector's badge into the river in disgust at how he has lost faith in the law."
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Don't forget Robert Urich is one of the vigilante cops as well...
Posted by: Mr Furious | November 16, 2007 at 12:30 AM
...sex with Osama Bin Laden if it would prevent another 9/11...
It's a stupid gay taunt but the answer would have to be yes, regardless. If you are willing to live in a state that uses torture and that state makes mistakes once in a while then you are agreeing to be torture, even if the odds might seem fairly small that the state will get around to you. No? So, in a fashion, getting fucked by Osama is almost a talisman of a pro-torture position. Once you've said, bring it on, it's no fun if the other side doesn't play.
Argh. This whole thread left a full vomit in my mouth. Torture? We are talking about torture. Think, say, 10 years ago. Was _anyone_ pro-torture? Anyone? And that was a mistake? Sure, arguments can be made but torture just isn't part of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Period.
Posted by: anon | November 16, 2007 at 03:29 AM
Posted by: ajay | November 16, 2007 at 05:36 AM
Posted by: ajay | November 16, 2007 at 05:37 AM
The argument can only be defended by utilitarianism - "the ends justify the means". Conservatism was created in part as a critique of utilitarianism. Defend torture if you must, but you will not do so in the name of conservatism.
Posted by: My real name | November 16, 2007 at 12:48 PM
The problem with Patterico’s scenario is that it is an “idiot hypothetical,” set up so that only his desired conclusion will follow. So he posits certainties, that KSM has other deadly plans in the works, t absolutely nothing meaningful to disclose.
Also, rather than parsing hypotheticals, we have the actual experience of French journalist, Henri Alleg, who was tortured via waterboarding by French soldiers during the Algerian war:
“A man liked General Massu, who was the chief organizer of torture in Algeria and who died about two years ago, asked about three months before his death what he thought of torture and the use of -- the general use of torture in Algeria, said that he regretted it and that the war could have been -- could have gone on without torture. In fact, torture is not the main thing in such a war. The war was against the Algerian people, and every kind of torture used against an Algerian man or woman would only help the Algerians to fight back, and that when a son knew that his father was tortured, he had only one idea, that is, join the fighters who had tortured his father. So, I don’t think this is the good question.
But to answer precisely your question, it is a terrible way of torturing a man, because you’re bringing -- you bring him next to death and then back to life. And sometimes he doesn’t come back to life. So, the use of torture, in my opinion, is a way of making all people fear that if they fight, if they join the fighters against Algeria, they would undergo such a treatment. So it’s the use of terror against the people who fight. It’s not a way of getting whatever information; sometimes they get it, but most of the time it’s useless. So it is not a way of winning a war, even if the people who lead this war say that they have -- it’s an obligation for them to use this method if they want victory at the end of the war. That’s my opinion.”
The full interview with Alleg can be read here:
Posted by: Alec | November 16, 2007 at 05:24 PM
What's to kerror alerts which turned out to be bogus?
Torture might make people talk, but not tell the truth.
Posted by: George Arndt | November 16, 2007 at 08:17 PM
Authorities capture a female terrorist with knowledge of an imminent attack. She happens to be pregnant. And a lesbian. The only way the CIA can find out what she knows is by aborting her fetus and then allowing her to marry her life partner.
IS IT WORTH IT?
Posted by: Zorro for the Common Good | November 16, 2007 at 08:44 PM
Frankly, I'm suspicious (and dismissive) of anybody on either side of this issue who is entire certain of their position ... and who is unable to see the other side of the coin.
Posted by: PB | November 16, 2007 at 09:29 PM
"Frankly, I'm suspicious (and dismissive) of anybody on either side of this issue who is entire certain of their position ... and who is unable to see the other side of the coin."
Indeed. The upside of child-testicle-crushing always needs to be seriously considered.
Posted by: Gary Farber | November 16, 2007 at 10:02 PM
PB, have you always been suspicious about people not being able to look on the bright side of torture, or is it only since 9/11 changed everything?
Posted by: KCinDC | November 16, 2007 at 11:12 PM
The idea that Bush is a conservative ally is something I'd like to argue about on another day--but my short answer is that he isn't.
That would be worth a post. To me it is one of the great mysteries confronting any observer of the conservative persuasion. (I'm not a participant, but I am an observer.) How did real conservatives miss the fact that Bush is a radical? The only answer I have been able to come up with is pitifully inadequate, barely an explanation at all, and I'm sure it isn't the real story. Nonethless it is all I have: they were embarrassed at being duped.
Posted by: Jay Rosen | November 17, 2007 at 11:25 PM
I think that's actually a lot of it, Jay -- the impulse to insist on always being right is very strong in the authoritarians who run the conservative movement, and their followers apparently have a deep need for their leaders to be always right. The movement was always more radical than most of its supporters, a thing I didn't understand very well until just recently and seeing how quickly people excuse Ron Paul's many failings and strange views because he is a firm anti-war voice at a time when so few others can be heard. The movement was the only show in town for some concerns, and exploited that. The rest comes down to good liars and complicit media.
Posted by: Jaden | November 18, 2007 at 02:22 AM
In the lenghty discussion of the 'hypotheticals' which possibly could justify torture, it has not yet been pointed out, that torture can actually prevent information being provided by a suspect; see e.g.
1- the TPM Muckraker article on the testimony by Colonel Steve Kleinman at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on torture,
"...he offered a brief explanation of that process that sheds light on why torture is counterproductive for a professional interrogator, leaving aside questions of morality and law.
It's not just what a subject says in an interrogation that an interrogator needs to watch for clues, Kleinman said. The way in which he expresses himself is significant: does the subject fidget? Does he shift in his seat? Does he gesture, or suddenly stop gesturing? All of these non-verbal clues -- "clusters, groupings of behaviors," Kleinman called them -- provide interrogators with valuable information to observe what a detainee is like when he's lying, when he's being uncooperative, and when he's being truthful, or a combination of the three.
But if a detainee has his hands tied, or if a detainee shivers because a room is chilled, then "I don't know whether he's shivering because the room is cold or because my questions are penetrating," Kleinman said. That degree of abuse "takes away a lot of my tools." It's one of the clearest explanations in the public record about what torture costs professional interrogators in terms of actionable intelligence, as the debate is so often set up as what a lack of torture ends up costing national security....."
(See also Video at
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2- Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh's Book
"Administration of Torture" (
) quoted in
also points out that
"The FBI also voiced its strong objections regarding the efficacy of a fear-based approach."
* So the experts (from government) tell us, that torture doesn't work
(and as other commenters noted, its only use is to terrorize the tortured and their kin).
...and these 'hypotheticals' are even more unlikely than anybody would think.
Posted by: A | November 19, 2007 at 02:03 AM
The whole thing breaks down right at "we know that he knows". It is beyond human power to *know* what anyone else *knows*. That would imply not only that both we and he are certain about what is going to happen, but also that we are certain about the contents of another person's mind. We are not given any such certainties, nor do we at present have any way of acquiring them.
Posted by: John Cowan | November 20, 2007 at 06:42 PM
Katherine: That's really a perfect analogy to ask people to consider.
People who go consequences (narrowly and unrealistically construed) on water boarding will go principled about terrorism. After all, what's wrong with OBL isn't merely that his calculation of the good that would have been done by killing three thousand people was wrong.
Thanks. That's something. Had not thought about that.
I think Obama has the right line on this: you can concede the point about the trade-off while arguing it misses the point since it does not reckon torture as a policy. It does not address the question of what changes when you adopt this as a principle for an organization.
Posted by: Ara | November 20, 2007 at 09:14 PM
I have an interesting hypothetical moral dilemma to propose as well.
Suppose the following situation: In a remote Iraqi village, the local civilians are just trying to live decent lives and stay out of trouble. They would like to see their children grow healthy and prosper like any one else. However they have found out that rival ethnic groups who would like to posses their land have falsely accused them to the American military of harboring Al Quaeda agents.
Suppose further that they have discovered that a convoy of American soldiers and Blackwater security contractors is heading towards their village. This convoy, which sped out with short notice to capture the inexistent enemy has no translator among them and there are no English speakers in the village. The villagers KNOW they will not be able to communicate an effective defense to the American troops.
In addition the villagers know that, following patterns of such visits in the region, the troops will arrest many of the men and children and will take them to secret prisons and there torture them by many ways, including water boarding. In fact, in this hypothesis the villagers also know that certain members of the Blackwater security that are coming along have killed innocent civilians in other villages and continue to operate with impunity. These security contracte in two hours... unless...
Some members of the tribe who would rather die than see their family murdered and raped volunteer to break into that warehouse the oil exploration company left behind full of explosives, load them and security contractors are inside and kill them all.
As good Muslims, they would rather not do this, but in this hypothetical, there is no other recourse that they can use, no other way their neighbors and family will survive.
So they do it and it works.
The question is: Is it morally right for them to die and kill the dozen American invaders in order to save an equal number of innocent civilians in this hypothesis?
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Next up I've got an interview with a very important part of BHIC: Russell Thorpe. Russell has been involved since the beginning and actually helped me write up the initial proposal for the CSF. Russell has been an inspiring source of quality, forward-looking music, and great playing on several different horns. He's also my ride and a great friend.
How do you practice improvising?
With the metronome on.. sometimes by trying to transcribe, but to be honest i usually dont have the patience for transcription, so i'm really not the player i could be if i had more patience. usually its been a matter of being really terrible at something until i get a lightbulb moment. and having the patience to repeat something until you couldn't possibly play it wrong helps too.
Where have you studied music?
OSU, UNCG, at home in my living room with recordings and scores. I should probably start taking horn lessons again.
Do you think that formal music education is a good way to produce a thriving music scene?
In ways yes, in ways no. it is helpful to be able to draw on pool of players whom all have the same vocabulary in common, but sometimes the best musicians in a scene are the ones who never went to school and play completely by ear. That being said, the divide between "amateur" and "educated" musician is often hard but easy to spot. I myself probably have way too much education, and it interferes with being a good player, because knowing what won't work colors the choices I make a lot more than knowing what will work.
And in terms of scene-building I'm not sure it really matters whether players are educated or not. what ultimately matters is how people react to what you are doing. Authenticity probably doesn't hurt either, but that term is fraught with such baggage I am reluctant to use it. But I guess my main point is, if the music is good, then everything else should fall into place, and that is the hardest part, making sure the music is good.
Who is your favorite musician that plays your instrument and why?
I dont really know. Probably Tim Berne, because he doesn't go for the stunt playing that all of us who at one point in time have been under the thrall of Zorn seem to find so influential. No squeaks or boops, no teeth scrapes, just good, thought-out melodic playing. Skerik would probably be second, by dint of his commitment to playing at a high level regardless of the ensemble or situation.
What do you hate to hear/see whenever you see live music?
Audience members who don't pay attention. But I don't get out much, so maybe that really only happens in my mind. I want to believe that everyone who goes out is there to listen but I've got to be realistic. So I guess I should be happy that people actually took the time to come out at all, especially considering the average attention span these days.
What do you love to hear/see whenever you see live music?
Musicians on stage with their eyes closed, so deep in the shit that it doesn't matter whether they play for 200 people or 10 people, they are living it. Fans who get that it takes a lot out of a person to let all hang out on stage and accordingly treat the players with respect. People who have strong emotional reactions to what they hear, be it a good or bad reaction, at least they are moved.
What living musician would you most like to play with?
Bjork, Reed Mathis, Brian Blade, Mike Hosty,
How do you feel about Wynton Marsalis?
Well, my opinion doesn't really count when it comes to Wynton Marsalis. I'm a middle class white guy who still has to shed his parts, Wynton can play anything. I could say I don't like his attitude as represented in the media, but all that shit is calculated. He knows what he's doing, he knows what he's saying. He is an awesome composer and always has top-notch players working for him. Maybe one day I will meet with as much success but I doubt it. Until then I can just keep working on my tools until I approach the next short/long-term goal and then start setting newer loftier ones.
One thing is for certain though, he is not a slouch. He doesn't slack off when it comes to his music, and that is probably the most important lesson I can learn from a man I will never meet.
If you went back in time and could start all over, what instrument would you play?
Drums.
What aspect of your playing do you feel needs the most work?
My articulation. My phrasing, my melodic choices, my rhythmic acuity. Its a Sysiphus thing man, you get that boulder all the way up the hill, thinking you take a break when you get to the summit but the instant you let up, it rolls right back down to the bottom. Right now I just wish I could devote 2 hours a day to each instrument. As it stands I'm lucky to get 2 hours face time on each instrument per week.
You made reference to the influence of Zorn. I have to say that it seems like most young sax players, myself included, discover Zorn and go through a period of Zorn idolatry. Why do you think that is?
I'm not sure.. I think initially for me it was a situation where I was like " yes.. finally someone gives legitimacy to non-traditional playing techniques. that means I can use them" And after a while (and quite a big investment in his discography) it became "woo hoo.. I got another Zorn record. And look, he's playing... oh.. just like Zorn" and that became boring. Dont get me wrong, the man can play, and compositionally he is going to go down as one of the most diverse, prolific ones in the book, but by year 5 of my Zorn obsession it got kind of stale. And as a player, there are only so many "noise" solos you can take in one night before you suffer from repetitive equine abuse syndrome. So anymore I tend to shy away from anything new from him, preferring to stick with Masada when I'm jonesin, which is a rarity since I've listened to so much of his stuff
How do you approach composition?
Lots of different ways. Sometimes I start with a title or an idea, sometimes its a lick I just played on my horn that is like "that would make a good melody", sometimes i start at a piano and try to ind good changes. Sometimes I am thinking about who I am writing for and what instruments I have at my disposal.
I've been playing with you for the past few years and have noticed a tremendous amount of growth in your compositions. To what do you attribute that?
When I was 18 and first trying to write I would always approach it from a "see what it sounds like" point of view, wherein I would mark notes on a score in a haphazard sort of way hoping they would sound cool when it was all said and done, usually to spectacular failure. The last couple of years I have matured into a "hear what it looks like" sort of writer. I can hear what I am writing now so much easier than when I was younger. That and having a bunch of people around who are willing to play my crazy time-change-every-4 bars stuff. like anything, the more you do it the better you get at it.
I know that you have a great interest in brain science and work with children. How does that affect how you approach music?
The brain is the most complex thing in the known universe, with 10 power 15 possible connections between all your mental real estate. My work has made me realize that its all about hard work, and knowing how to get maximum gain from maximum effort. Music is a cognitively unique event, wherein 5 different perceptual/feedback mechanisms are in play. The brain can be trained to accomplish just about anything, just look at the Kwisatz Haderach. Its all a matter of your own self perceptions and willingness to put the hard work in.
I guess it affects my approach to music in that I have a lot more patience with my own development as a player and composer. As long as I never quit I know I'll get there.
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Both inbound and outbound work great on both providers, but the Vitelity "call failover" feature leaves something to be desired so I'm looking to define a *62 (call forward, no answer) on my 2nd provider line to forward unanswered incoming calls on SP2 over to my cell.
So, to setup on the Obi, I dial *62, it prompts me with the tone, and then I enter my 10 digit forwarding number with the pound to terminate. All seemed to have gone well.....
I guess the question is that when I do this, what provider am I modifying? SP1, SP2, or both?
I have tried to dial **2 *62 [to force this feature on the 2nd provider] but I get an error message immediately after entering the third *
Please help clarify how this works.
Thanks
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March 26, 2011, 07:50:39 AM Last Edit: March 26, 2011, 08:09:35 AM by oleg
OBi device has two separate star code profiles. I thought there is something in DigitMaps / OutboundCallRoute, but can't see anything. OBi admin guide says on page 16:
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The OBi device supports service features via the handset connected to the PHONE port. The following Star Codes can be used to access the indicated features. OBi Star Code Enabled Features Apply to All Voice Services.
Does it mean that both profiles get updated when a star code dialed?
Is there a way to address particular profile?
If not - would OBi consider it in future?
But unless you specifically want to set forwarding via star code - you can do it on device web UI for any line.
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March 26, 2011, 11:10:44 AM
It appears an 'X_Star Code Profile' option may have inadvertenly been left out of each of the SP1 and SP2 options lists.
I believe Star Codes have to be the first thing dialed and their handling is hard-wired into the OBi (it's not done via a DigitMap entry).
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March 27, 2011, 11:18:41 AM
Kurter,
The default action of *62 (or *72) is to apply the call forward setting to ALL trunks: SP1/SP2/OBiTALK/LINE.
To do call forward (no answer) on one trunk only, you can:
1. Directly configure that option for that trunk (SP2 in your case) on the expert configuration page on the OBiTALK portal (or the device's configuration page, if you're comfortable w/ that), OR
2. Go to the Star Code profile, look up * 62, and change the action to enable call forward just for SP2.
(use this method only if you need to change call forward settings often; otherwise not worth the effort), OR
3. Similar to 3, instead of modifying *62, you can define a new star code to enable call forward just for SP2.
The two star code profiles are just make it easy to change between the two sets. But both apply to to the PHONE port only. Not much intelligence to it.
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March 27, 2011, 11:39:34 AM
obi-support2,
Hi,
Can the variables that we can see in the "star codes" be used in the dial plans or call routes, or are they strictly for star code usage?
For example can we force calls going over SP1 to use 711 or 729 codec?
*4711, Use G711 Only, set($Cdm1,3)
*4729, Use G729 Only, set($Cdm1,4)
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When it comes to luxury swim and resort wear that is both contemporary and considered in its design, Alexandra Miro is a label that ticks boxes.
Not only do collections flatter (hello figure!) but signature details, such as low sweeping backs, clean lines, geometric straps and sculpted cups across key styles, assume a timeless aesthetic. Think pieces you’d pack for every pool-side/ beach-front getaway.
So well travelled is new Push PR client, Miro, that we took it upon ourselves to get a few travel recommendations down towards the I-have-to-go-here-in-2018 list.
Here are a few gems to note from the designer herself, perfect if you’re after a little jet-set inspiration.
Swimwear is the most important item to factor in when packing for a holiday; what inspired your label and the design aesthetic behind it?
Unlike many brands that are inspired by specific resort locations, Alexandra Miro finds inspiration from those unlikely sources. I have always had a love of modernist architecture and many of the swimsuits celebrate clean, linear lines and sculptural shapes.
The swimwear designs are also about showcasing the female form to make it look its most powerful, strong and ultimately, alluring. They have a sport luxe feel to them and that is very central to the brand DNA which is about celebrating, health, fitness and general wellbeing.
Bikini, one piece or both intermittently?
I personally only wear one pieces, very occasionally a two piece. I love the ease of a one piece as I’m quite active on holiday and want to swim without fear of exposure!
That said, we understand that many women love wearing bikinis and so have begun introducing them to collections in order to meet customer demand. At the end of the day Alexandra Miro is all about making women feel empowered and confident in their swimwear choices so whatever floats your boat; bikini or one piece the choice is yours.
Travel destination you’d highly recommend, why and what your experience of it is?
That is so hard! I do have a special fondness for Ibiza as there are so many different facets to the island; party, beaches and hedonistic vibe. It’s somewhere I return to year after year, if only for a weekend and I immediately feel at home.
Hotel for a little slice of paradise?
I adore The Datai in Malaysia (currently being refurbished and reopening later this year) as it’s set in such an idyllic location.
Top five travel destinations for 2018 and why?
1. The Philippines; despite the recent tycoon it is is very much on my go to list. As yet it is relatively unspoiled which is the perfect reason to discover it before everyone else does.
2. Corsica; for the most pristine beaches in Europe.
3. Montenegro; as it’s steeped in history and less touristy than Croatia. Forza Terra is a boutique hotel that is on my go to list.
4. Uruguay; where the hip are holidaying
5. Turkey; namely the Chenot at the D Maris. After encountering the Chenot experience – the ultimate detox retreat – in Merano I would love to do a one week detox in its stunning new Turkey location.
What makes a trip truly unique in your eyes?
Special trips take you out of your everyday life and transport you to a completely different world. They imbue a sense of relaxation and connection with the universe. In fact, many 5 star hotels with fast broadband do the opposite. They are merely a slightly more ambient version of your office at home!
Most memorable travel experience to date?
Without a doubt the most memorable trip I’ve ever taken was to the Okavango Delta in Botswana. In these remote locations that can only located by light aircraft you are forced to completely switch off and immerse yourself in the scenery and wildlife. It is unlike anything else, it is one of those once in a lifetime trips.
For foodies booking luxury travel this year; where would you recommend?
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is where I have eaten some of the best food recently. It is a real melting pot of cultures – Indian, Malay, Chinese – and the food scene is very reflective of just how multi-cultural it is. You can also eat the best sushi outside of Japan.
You most recently discovered….?
Coworth Park a hotel in the Dorchester Collection.
How do you get over post-holiday blues?
Book another holiday!
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Malcolm & Marie review - actorly grandstanding in beautiful black and white
Malcolm & Marie review - actorly grandstanding in beautiful black and white
Airless two-hander made under the restrictions of the pandemic
by Saskia BaronFriday, 05 February 2021
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Marie (Zendaya) giving a piece of her mind to Malcolm (John David Washington)
Do you want to spend 105 minutes trapped in a house with two people arguing, or do you already feel that your life under lockdown is quite quarrelsome and claustrophobic enough? If your answer is the former, then Malcolm & Marie is the perfect movie for you.
Everyone else might be happier escaping elsewhere (I’d recommend Call My Agent if you want to enjoy actors talking about their trade. At least you get some exterior Paris scenes and lashings of wit).
But let’s get back to the matter in hand. Forced to put their TV series Euphoria on hold because of covid restrictions, Zendaya and writer-director Sam Levinson devised this huis clos drama as a two-hander with John David Washington. Shot with a small crew on one location in Malibu over the summer, it’s an impressive enterprise. Malcolm (Washington) is a director returning from the premiere of his latest film, energised but also infuriated by the praise he’s received. Marie (Zendaya) is his long-term girlfriend, seething with resentment because he didn’t thank her in his speech. It’s late, they’re dressed to the nines and the house they are staying in (courtesy of the production company) is the height of chic, but the decor is just the backdrop for a long night of accusations and making-up and arguing again.
You know what kind of "authentic" film you’re watching when Marie hitches up her slinky evening gown and plomps herself down on the toilet and carries on talking to Malcolm through the open door. At another point she leaves the house entirely; Malcolm wanders the darkened garden trying to find her. When she eventually emerges, she claims to have been having a pee behind a tree. I blame Fleabag for the tendency to signal an actress's bravery with scenes atop toilets, but doubtless there’s some peeing pedant out there who will come up with an earlier instance. All this micturition (Malcolm has a wee scene too) made me puzzled by how little they actually drank. I began to worry that I may need a new career in urology... Malcolm & Marie has an excellent soundtrack – jazz and soul interleaved with editorialising songs (William Bell’s I Forgot to be Your Lover and Dionne Warwick’s Get Rid of Him). It’s beautifully shot on Kodak Double-X, the monochrome film stock famed for its inky depths. And Zendaya is remarkable, showing a range (particularly in the second hour), which left me longing to see her perform in a film with a more interesting premise. Unfortunately the character Washington is playing is irritatingly self-absorbed and repetitive. It’s hard to judge the actor’s performance when all you want is for Malcolm to stop grandstanding his rage at the critics who write so inadequately about his oeuvre.
Other film critics have focused delightedly on the long stretches of Malcolm & Marie which excoriate reviewers, thrilled that a filmmaker like Levinson would show his pain at a panning. Maybe it makes critics feel important to see themselves attacked on screen. But does an actual audience care? Most people read reviews beforehand to find out if a film is worth their time, or afterwards to see if someone else agrees with them; movie write-ups aren’t manifestos for changing the world. And there’s certainly a debate to be had about white critics patronising black creatives, but should it be coming from a white writer-director like Levinson?
Levinson has cited Joseph Losey, Antonioni and Edward Albee as inspirations for Malcolm & Marie so it’s a shame that his film has ended up looking like a mash-up of Marriage Story, a Calvin Klein underwear ad and a lengthy show-reel for Zendaya and Washington. Both performers are good, but trapped with them in that luxury house for way too long, I kept hoping there was a parasitic basement out of which another cast of characters would emerge and give the film a little oxygen and humour.
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In a Free State is a collection of two short stories/travelogues, two novelettes, and one novella, all of which deal with alienation and with the often difficult relationship between different cultures.
“One out of Many”, the first novella, is the story of an Indian servant who accompanies his boss to Washington and ends up trying to make a living on his own. He begins his narrative as follows: I am now an American citizen and I live in Washington, capital of the world. Many people, both here and in India, will feel that I have done well. But. As his story unfolds, the reader is shown what hides behind his “but”. Reading this story – my favourite in the book – reminded of Interpreter of Maladies, which I read recently. Many of the things I found in that book can also be found here.
“Tell me Who Two Kill” is the story of a West Indian man who follows his brother to London, working two jobs so that he can help him get an education. It’s a heartbreaking story about how disillusionment can lead to despair, to bitterness and to hatred.
In “In a Free State” we follow Bobby and Linda, two expatriate British citizens, as they drive across a fictional African nation torn by civil war. One of the very first things the story does is call our attention to the word “free”. This so-called free state has been decolonized, and yet not all that much has changed. Attitudes and mentalities remain the same – especially the “us versus them” mentality that colours Bobby and Linda’s perception of all the Africans they deal with. “The Africans” (like “the Jews”, “the Muslim”, “the poor”, “the black”, “the Chinese”, you name it) are dehumanized, are put at a distance, are perceived as alien.
If there’s one thing that makes my blood boil is overhearing people saying such things as “I met a Greek last summer. Greeks are <...>, or “My cousin’s girlfriend has a brother who works with a Chinese man and he says that she said that the Chinese are <…>, <…> and <…>.” I feel like interrupting and saying, “Excuse me, I thought you were saying you met one person?” Sometimes the adjectives that are being used to describe a whole nationality aren’t even negative ones, but what’s behind it scares me nonetheless. I refuse to think of large groups of people as homogeneous, faceless and alien. As threatening. And the swiftness with which people fall into such generalizations is responsible for far too many problems.
Anyway. Back to the book. What to say of what passages such as these exemplify?
‘The Marshalls talk about the smell of Africa. Have you heard her?’
‘I should have been firmer.’
‘This very special smell.’
‘I’ve never got on with people who talk about things like the smell of Africa,’ Bobby said. ‘It’s like people who talk about, well the Masai.’
‘You may be right. But I used to think I wasn’t very sensitive, getting this smell of Africa that the Marshalls and everybody else said they so loved. But I got it this time, when we came back from leave. It lasts about half an hour or so, no more. It is a smell of rotting vegetation and Africans. One is very much like the other.’
On a path on the wooded hillside just above the road about a dozen Africans in bright new cotton gowns were walking one behind the other in the rain, covering their heads with leaves. With the bright colours of their cottons, and the leaves over their heads, they were very nearly camouflaged. They didn’t look at the car.
‘That’s the sort of thing that makes me feel far from home,’ Linda said. ‘I feel that sort of forest life has been going on forever.’
‘You’ve been reading too much Conrad. I hate that book, don’t you?’
In a Free State is undoubtedly a powerful and important book. I believe that colonization is a mistake from which the world may never fully recover, and it’s important to tell stories that show why, that make people thing about these things. But it’s an idea book – and I’m not saying that novels that serve to illustrate ideas are bad, or that I don’t enjoy reading them, or that I didn’t enjoy this book (I very much did). Like I was saying, we do need stories that say certain things - they are often more effective than simple statements because they make us feel, they make us see the world through the eyes of others, they show us different perspectives. However, I never quite manage to feel as close to “idea books” as I do to other types of fiction. But that’s just me.
Chris is giving away a copy of a very cool sounding book: Blackness Tower by Lillian Stewart Carl. The only "catch" is that you have to be willing to read and review the book before the end of the Once Upon a Time II challenge and link to your review at the review site. To be entered, just leave him a comment here.
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chrisa511 Apr 4, 2008, 10:56:00 PM
Great review Nymeth. When I read this one, I read an edition that only had "In a Free State" in it...I'd like to read the other stories as well. They sound quite good as well. I couldn't agree with you more about how infuriating it is to hear people make generalizations about a whole nation based on one experience. It seems to be worse today more than ever with the war and all. Very sad..
Thanks for plugging the giveaway!
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Iliana Apr 5, 2008, 1:50:00 AM
I've not read anything by Naipaul and this book does sound powerful indeed. Yet, another book I'll have to add to my list!
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Ana S. Apr 5, 2008, 6:46:00 PM
Chris: I actually had no idea the book would have other stories...when I finished the prologue and started the first novella I was confused at first because I couldn't figure out what they had to do with each other :P But yeah, the other stories are definitely also worth reading. And no problem :)
Iliana: I hope you enjoy Naipaul when you get to him. This was my third book by him, and so far they have all been great reads.
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Trish @ Love, Laughter, Insanity Apr 6, 2008, 4:46:00 PM
Sounds like a powerful read--I'll have to add it to my wishlist. I have more to say about generalization of but MY blood is starting to boil just thinking about it, so I'm gonna go read. :) Thanks for spreading the awareness.
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Anonymous Apr 6, 2008, 7:48:00 PM
I like the sound of this. I know what you mean about people making sweeping generalisations between different cultures. I heard someone on the train doing it about the town I am currently living in making some very negative comments. I glared at her a lot and when her friend shushed her as there might be someone from there on the train I piped up and put her in her place! I always stick up for different cultures in my library reading group as some of the older ladies have some strange ideas about other cultures...
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darkorpheus Apr 7, 2008, 4:03:00 AM
It's annoying to hear the ignorant racial generalisation that comes up sometimes, I agree. But often I think it's because people don't get to integrate as much as they should.
Generalisation is easier when we only come into contact with one guy in our daily life. We don't know them very well, so we just fill in the blanks and end up with racial stereotypes that can be rude and demeaning.
But it does take effort to want to find out more about other cultures. Sometimes I look at my own readings and I realise I don't venture that much out of the usual Anglo-European writers.
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Ana S. Apr 7, 2008, 3:25:00 PM
Trish: I know what you mean. I hope you enjoy reading this one.
Rhinoa: It's great that you speak your mind about these things. Those older ladies remind me of the owner of the Nottingham hotel where I stayed in my first night in the UK. There was a marathon that weekend so there were lots of people in the city for it. The owner of the hotel was an elderly lady, and at breakfast the day after the marathon she was loudly talking with an older man and saying that the winner had been a Nigerian "yet again", and that it was unfortunate that black people "were taking everything over these days". I was quite shocked. Fortunately that was the only instance of racism I came across. Over here we have problems with Chinese and Eastern European immigrants, and often I hear derogatory comments coming from very young people, which is even more worrisome.
Dark Orpheus: I see what you mean. I didn't mean to look down on people who generalize, because I do think that generalization is a basic mental process. Like you said, we need to categorize things so that we can deal with them, and often we form working hypothesis based on limited experience that we then revise with further experience. The trouble is, often people don't get to have a second experience, and those generalizations stay and solidify. Like you were saying, it takes effort. I have caught myself making generalization more than once. What we need to try and do is stop and think that this mental process, understandable as it may be, can have very real consequences in people's lives. It's not always easy, though. We have to remind ourselves. What irks me is that people often seem unwilling to do this. I don't venture much out of European/American writers either, but I have been making a conscious effort to change this. Books are a very good way to have a glimpse of another culture from the inside.
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How to Make Bookmarks by Recycling Food Boxes
I love that my kids are so excited to join the library summer reading program. The kickoff was today but we were pretty busy so it is the first thing we are going to do after we get up in the morning. My oldest C will actually be volunteering at the library once a week. How is it possible that I have a child old enough to be doing volunteer work without me?
Tomorrow is trash day and we had a lot of boxes in the recycling bin this week. I decided to combine our trash and love of reading into bookmarks for all those summer books we will be checking out.
These are the boxes I started with but we were having so much fun, I went and got more.
To make cutting simpler, I tore open the sealed edges and flattened the boxes. Then I just picked an image or a part of image I liked and cut it out in the shape of a rectangle. I did not keep all the bookmarks the same size.
Once I had all my pieces cut, I punched one or two holes, depending on how I wanted it to look, and then threaded through a piece of ribbon.
Since my youngest, L, was my main helper with this, she got first pick and chose Kung Fu Panda. He came off some fruit roll-ups and I think he turned out pretty cute.
I am completely in love with the Diet Coke bookmark and of course keeping it for myself. I might even have my hubby laminate it at work so it doesn't get too bent out of shape.
All in all we ended up with 20 bookmarks. I used yarn on most of the others so I wouldn't use up all of my ribbon supply.
Have a great week! I'd love to hear what you or your kids are reading this summer! And I'd love it if you "liked" my blog in the upper right corner.
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Posted at 09:44 PM in Children's Books, crafts, Summer |per idea & way to "reduce, reuse, recycle"! Adding ribbon to anything always makes it prettier. I'm now on the hunt for anything printed cardboard to make some surprise gifts for my toddler who loves books!
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I've subscribed & look forward to finding you on facebook & twitter & reading your future posts. Thanks!
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Posted by: Leandra | June 13, 2011 at 10:26 PM
This is great! I love the Diet Coke one myself. :) This looks like a great kid craft, and a good excuse to get them to crack open a book!
Posted by: Kristen @ Who's Watching the Baby | June 14, 2011 at 12:59 AM
Great idea! I'm already fussing about the library books being left open and upside down on the couch (summer reading program is in full swing here too!). These bookmarks are an excellent idea and so simple too!
Posted by: Susan | June 14, 2011 at 08:16 AM
Love that idea! I think that would be a really fun one for kids to make themselves. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Moquelish | June 14, 2011 at 02:31 PM
what a perfect idea! i love this so much: ) they are so darling~!!
Posted by: ashley | June 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Cute! This would make a cute camp craft for kids!
Posted by: Julie | June 17, 2011 at 09:41 PM
Great way to recycle!
Posted by: Michelle @ Sweet Something | June 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM
This is such a cute idea! I would love to feature these on Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle. Feel free to stop by and grab a featured button. Thanks!
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The summer has ended – okay so there is 10 more days till the official start of Autumn but for the most part, we are all shifting into a new season.
Who can resist the urge to refresh and clean the house after a long summer? A chance to start cleaning out BEFORE the holiday craziness hits us, right? For many, we have had the air conditioning running non-stop for what seems like forever. It is a great opportunity to open the windows, let in the fresh air and start fresh. I mean, let’s be honest, how many of us really did much cleaning during the lazy days of summer?
Here are some tips to make fall cleaning easier and more effective. 1. Start with the closet. As we switch out the summer clothes and move in the fall/winter clothes, it is a great opportunity to purge what we don’t wear. You would be surprised at how many clothes and accessories are piled up on the closet. Rather than keep unnecessary things around, follow this rule: If an article of clothing hasn’t been worn for at least a year, it’s time to get rid of it.
2. Fall cleaning means cleaning from the top to the bottom. As people clean, dust and grime floats through the air and settles on furniture and flooring. To keep the areas that were just cleaned free of residue while working, dust the tops first, then the bottoms. Clean floors the very last.
3. Go through kitchen utensils and dishes while fall cleaning. A lot of clutter can build up in the kitchen over the course of a year. It is a perfect time to match the Tupperware bottoms and lids, then toss the lids that there is no bottom.
4. Go through the linen closet and discard shabby towels or linens. Turn them into dish towels, cleaning rags or get rid of them entirely. If bed sheets have lost the elastic around the corners, it’s time to let them go.
5. Organize the pantry. Put things in groupings together, such as dry or canned goods. This helps everyone keep track of just what groceries are really needed, and can prevent duplicate buy due to pantry disorganization. Make sure you check the expiration dates too. If you stock your pantry with staples that you use a lot, make sure you rotate them so you use the oldest first.
6. Rearrange the furniture. I actually LOVE this part of fall cleaning. Now, if you don’t have a lot of space, a simple change of the wall hangings, or arrange the end tables differently can make a difference. Those little things can add a sense of freshness to a room, and can inspire a sense of fun to the fall cleaning. Wash the curtains in the room and add a plant or a focal decorative point.
7. When the housework is done, scrub all the floors completely. If it is carpet, shampoo it. If it is linoleum or wood flooring, get in the corners and scour and mop. This is also the time to use a floor polish or shining product on the floors. At the end of the work, the house will be left gleaming and everything will be organized and in easy reach.
These small tips can make a house an oasis of comfort. What are your best tips for Fall cleaning, share them with us!
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SMART Shopping
April 22, 2016 April 12, 2016 Hope Wissel
The warmer weather is finally here and it is time to pull out the spring/summer clothes. I know you are wondering what does that have to do with SMART shopping right? SMART shopping is actually not about finding the cheapest clothes or the best deal. The truth is it a way to STOP the impulsive shopping so that we don’t have a closet full of “nothing to wear”. Now, we all want to spruce up our wardrobes from last year, right?
Here are 5 simple steps that I found in a blog that makes sense and will let you do it without the “nothing to wear” syndrome.
S: Start with your Shape.
I am so tired of having my shape compared to food, aren’t you? So let’s try this one. Once you understand your body type, you will be able to shop for essential items that fit and flatter you. Knowing what works for your body helps you channel your efforts and save time.
M: Make a list.
Start with the items you know are missing from your wardrobe. This is an especially useful step after a closet overhaul, when you are better able to identify the gaps in your closet, and the new trends you want to add to your wardrobe. I carry the list in my wallet so that I am always ready, just in case I run into a GREAT deal!
A: Avoid an unplanned splurge.
If it’s not on your list but you see it, love it, and absolutely positively have to have it, then put it on hold until the next day. If you still want it, go for it. This step is SO HARD for me. I am the proverbial impulse shopper.
R: Repeat the piece 3 ways.
Before purchasing an item, make sure that you can wear it 3 different ways. If it doesn’t work with your wardrobe, it needs to go back. Since I am a jeans girl, there may not be 3 ways but I am starting to think – casual, business casual and dressy. Can’t wait to try this one out!
T: Tags stay on until worn.
We are all in a hurry to wear the newest, cutest items in our closets, so if it’s still hanging there weeks later, unworn (and it’s in season), return it! I started doing this and I keep the receipt. Of course if I shop at Kohl’s and use my charge, I don’t need the receipt. This way I get credit for what I paid instead of the current selling price.
So, who is ready to do some clothes shopping? Be sure you are SMART!
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Home Organization
Saturday Morning – Kids Room Clean Up
April 2, 2016 March 27, 2016 Hope Wissel
Does this look like a room in your house? Chances are if you have kids, there is at least one bedroom that looks like this. I can’t count how many times I have seen on Facebook posts about messy kids’ rooms. From the frantic mom who is tired of yelling about cleaning it to the mom who cleans it and tosses (actually hides) everything that was on the floor. I mean we have all been there, right? I actually used to close the door to Belinda’s room so I didn’t have to see it as I walked down the hall.
Yup, I was one of those moms that didn’t clean their child’s room. Dirty clothes not in the hamper, they didn’t get washed. Friends stop by and room a mess – No, you can’t hang out in the living room. It took a little while but it eventually worked – she at least kept her room neat.
Great advice from Organized Home for younger children: “Get down to your child’s eye level to help him or her get organized. Look at your child’s space, storage, furniture and possessions from his or her vantage point. The view may surprise you!”
WOW! Did that hit home… I wish someone had told me that when Belinda was younger. Sticky dresser drawers are hard for small hands to manage. Folding closet doors pinch fingers and jump their rails when pushed from the bottom. Closet hanging rods are out of reach. Traditional toy boxes house a tangled jumble of mixed and scattered toy parts.
Here are some solutions:
Remove closet doors entirely. I was so ahead of my time and I didn’t even know it.
Resist the urge to wade into the mess alone, garbage bags flying with gritted teeth and threats of “You will keep this room clean!”. I’m sure you know that doesn’t work and is more stress than a busy mom needs, right? As tough as it may be to bite the bullet, play the role of organizational consultant for your child. Find out what’s working, what’s not, what’s important to them, and what is the problem. A lot of times they will have the solution, they just don’t know how to tell you. This one will take some time, but it will be so worth it in the long run.
Lower clothing rods and invest in child-sized hangers. We put double rods in Belinda’s closet which allowed the things she didn’t need all of the time to be hung out of the way.
Kids are short so why not organize from the bottom to the top or the room. Most used toys and belongings on lower shelves, or in lower drawers. Higher levels are for less-used possessions or those “display” items that they can’t play with. Don’t roll your eyes, we know that we have all put those kinds of things in our kid’s room.
Use floor-level open containers to hold toys, store socks and underwear. We had lots of these in the closet. The cubes could be turned around so when company came, they didn’t see what was in the cubes.
As adults, we rotate our clothes closet, right? Why not do the same with our kid’s room? Show them how to do it at an early age. What clothes are out-of-season or have they outgrown? Toys that they have outgrown – donate or share with them with other children who are less fortunate. Toys they don’t play with but are willing to part with, box up and put away for a little while. If they don’t ask for them again, then donate them.
To make things easier to maintain so that their room is clean and they can put things away – label, label, label
Let’s make life easier for us as busy women by making things work for our kids. Wouldn’t this be a more welcome site?
What is your best tip for keeping your kids room clean? Share it with us, we can always use a new way of doing things.
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Tips On Organizing Your Closet
September 5, 2015 September 2, 2015 Hope Wissel
Would’t as when we cleaned out the closets and got organized. They usually didn’t stay that way for long but that was the plan.
The Joyful Organizer is always sharing great tips on getting and staying organized. I LOVE her goal for the closet – if only it was that easy, right?
The goal of closet organization is simple… Get your clothing, shoes, and accessories in order so that you can get dressed quickly and easily, wearing outfits that you love!
Here are her top tips for Closet Organization:
Start by trying on everything in your closet. This is tedious, however, it is the only way you will really know what fits, what looks great, and is still in good condition.
Face all of the hangers in your closet in one direction. As you wear items, have them laundered, and return them to your closet, turn them and face them the other way. This is a great way to separate the clothes you wear from the one’s you don’t. This is a GREAT idea because I always say “of course I wear everything in here”.
Ask yourself the following questions about a garment before deciding to keep it?
Do I love it? Is it in good condition? Does it make me feel great about myself?
It is in style? It is comfortable? Could someone else use it more than me?
Take a look to find any wasted space in your closet, and try to maximize it. Consider adding another hanging bar, or shelves close to the top or bottom of the closet. These changes are quick, inexpensive and can add a lot of space to your closet. I did this when I moved into the condo because the closet space was small. It really did help.
An easy way to make a big difference in your closet is to use hangers that are all the same type. This creates a uniform appearance in your closet. The goal is to have all of your garments hanging at one height, on a hanger that is uniform in width. This way you will never lose clothes by not being able to see them.
Use your door space. By adding an organizational tool, like an over the door shoe rack, you can add a significant amount or storage space to your closet. Keep in mind these are also great for scarves, belts, etc.
Just like you would sort through your clothes, its important to sort through your shoes. Shoes that are not worn frequently, such as occasion shoes, can be stored in a small plastic box on a shelf in the closet. This keeps them out of the way and also prevents them from getting dusty and beaten up. Again, ask yourself the questions above in Number 3, and make decisions about what shoes to keep.
Organize your closet how it works for you. Some organizers suggest grouping by genre, other suggest grouping by color, and some by outfit. It’s not important how to group items, just make sure it works for you.
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