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Hunter’s Point South Park located in Hunter’s Point, Long Island City, New York is a waterfront park sitting on the other side the East River directly facing Manhattan in New York City. It offers visitors nothing less than a million dollar view of the New York skyline.
The aesthetically designed park is part of Hunter’s Point South, a new neighborhood being built on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in Long Island City, Queens. With the first phase of the park having been recently completed, New York’s former mayor Michael Bloomberg officially opened it to the public in a ceremony on August 28th 2013. The park is stunningly beautiful with unobstructed views of the gorgeous Manhattan skyline from virtually any point. Clearly designed with the skyline in mind, and built at a cost of over $66 million dollars, it provides the perfect setting for mentally transporting visitors from the hustle and bustle of New York City to an environment that feels like a vacation resort. This feeling is further fed by the sight and sound of the East River Ferry docking in the park, as it transports commuters and visitors to and from Manhattan on a three minute ride.
Although the centerpiece of the Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park is indeed the view of the New York skyline, there are other great activities at the park that make it worthy of a visit. Just to the right of Park is the equally gorgeous Gantry Plaza State Park which recently celebrated its 16th year of existence. The cohesive design of these two parks renders them seamless to visitors and make them ideal for a delightful walk along the LIC waterfront. Hunters Point Park itself is home to a gorgeously tempting oval shaped soccer field, a basketball court with an outdoor gym. There is also a well equipped children’s playground with bells and whistles, and a nicely laid out dog run area where our canine comrades can hang out while barking their approval at the skyline. For those who prefer to sit back while basking in the ambiance of the waterfront , the park is gracefully adorned with elegant trees, and adequately furnished with comfortable benches and chairs.
Hunter’s Point South Park is also a photographer’s dream, full of vantage points for taking amazing photos of your friends, family and loved ones. For the amateur, your photos will stand out with the New York skyline in the background. The professional will also benefit from this incredible setting.
To the north of Hunter’s Point Park or on its right hand side for the geographically challenged, sits Gantry Plaza State Park, itself another jewel on the East River. With their side by side locations and their seamless designs, many visitors stroll back and forth between these two parks without ever realizing that they are actually moving from a city park (Hunters Point South) to a state park (Gantry Plaza State Park). Interestingly, these two parks stand together as a living testimony of what could be accomplished in government when the state and the city work together.
With the first phase of Hunter’s Point Park now completed, it occupies just over 5.5 acres of land on the Long Island City riverfront, and along with Gantry Park a total of about 17.5 acres. When Hunters Point Park is fully completed, both parks together will ultimately grow to over 40 acres in size, covering no less than one mile of riverfront in Long Island City, all spectacularly overlooking the eastern side of the New York skyline. | https://hunterspointsouth.com/default-2-4/ | 1,665,032,459 |
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Pacman Poignant Potion
September 16, 2012 by stopXwhispering
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So this last week I’ve been down with the flu.. sucks badly.. however during my days of illness I’ve come up with my own special cure, in drink form. I call it the Pacman Poignant Potion :D
It’s not for the weak, and it is an advantage if you like whiskey ;D If you don’t then it can be taken like a shot instead. Me personally I love whiskey, so I’ve been sipping away on this thing every evening ^_^
The recipe is simple:
1 deciliter whiskey (of your choice, I chose Jim Beam)
1/2 lemon squeezed into juice
2 table spoons liquid honey
4-8 penny sized pieces of chopped fresh ginger (depending on how strong taste of ginger you want, more ginger=more effective against your cold)
Mix the ingredients with ice in a shaker and shake it!
Pour it out in a glass of your choice, I topped it off with a Pacman lemon wedge and some Pacman ginger slices in the drink.
Mind you, this is a strong and alcoholic drink that works wonders on a bad cold, however most people might not find it very tasty as a party drink ;D Skipping the lemon and ginger will make it more easily consumed for a friday night ^_^
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8-bit beads
August 15, 2012 by stopXwhispering
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I was planning on blogging about all my newly purchased games both yesterday and today, but I got distracted..
After coming home after work yesterday I sat down and got the idea that I should try to make some of that bead art in 8bit, since I had recently purchased a huuuge box of 20.000 beads for a bachelorette party I was hosting. However we never got to beading so I was just stuck with a bunch of beads!
Beading turned out to be really fun and relaxing, and somewhat addictive! O_o
And it takes forever!
The most time consuming thing is sorting all the beads >_<
But after about 5 hours (I don’t really know, I seriously lost track of time) I had finished my Pac-man and Inky, Blinky, Pinky & Clyde and some variations.
My favorites were these ones:
My boyfriend came home after a fishing-trip at around 11 at night, and I had continued with new characters and hadn’t even taken the time to eat dinner! That’s how addictive it was! I had run out of black beads so I basically had to improvise with the colors..
At 1 past midnight I managed to go to bed… and today after work I said I wouldn’t bead (until I had gotten the new beads I purchased during my lunch hour! I bought 110.000 beads in sorted colours!…i’m serious……they were cheap…) But I still got stuck beading some more.. >_<
It’s fun! You should try it out, unless your easily addicted to things like I am…
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Retro gaming store in Japan
April 29, 2012 by stopXwhispering
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So today I took another trip to the Super Potato store in Akihabara. This time I spent hours just looking through all the retro gaming goodness they had to offer ^_^ And on the way to the store I took the opportunity to drop by a couple of arcades, like this one:
So here’s a couple of things you could find in the Super Potato store:
Famicom games, 4 shelves (only 2 are in the picture) all organized in alphabetical order.
On the opposite side just as many shelves with Famicom games in original boxes, all in really nice condition.
Super Famicom games, also 4 shelves in alphabetical order.
Super Famicom games in boxes, super nice condition.
Game Boy games! They also had shelves filled with boxed ones, and lots of GBC and GBA games too ^^
Lots and lots of Game & Watch!! ^_^
Nintendo 64’s that looked like new, came with controllers and all cables for like 2000 Yen (about 170 SEK, or 25 USD) o_O
On the first floor they also had a bunch of Sega, everything from 8bit to Dreamcast ^^
On the second floor they had all the PS1, PS2, comics, literature such as walkthroughs and guides, all soundtracks to games and lots more ^^
I really wanted to buy this Super Metroid book, but I had already picked up sooo many games that I had to stop myself somewhere :/
And of course they had all the machines where you can get little game related thingys like straps and keychains, I got some Mario stuff there ^^
On the third floor they had an arcade, and no regular arcade, they only had old games, 8bit and 16bit, like Pacman, Pac-Land, Donkey Kong, Final Fight, Splatterhouse, Ghost n Goblins, Street Fighter, Metal Slug, Space Shooters and lots lots more. I stayed there for a while and tried out most of the games, a japanese guy wanted to play Final Fight with me and we got quite far. It was a lot harder than on the console version O_o They also had this really cool chair made out of Famicom cartridges glued together! I sure hope those games weren’t in working order, otherwise it would be a waste :(
Also Pac-Land was a lot different from the Famicom version which I have previously reviewed here and re-visited here.
Here’s some pictures of the different arcade machines, especially Pac-Land ^^
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Pac-Land!
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On 22 March 2021, the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs organised a workshop for the Parliament’s Petitions Committee on the subject of LGBTI+ rights in the EU. The workshop centred on a presentation by Alina Tryfonidou, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, and Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London, of the findings of their study on ‘Obstacles to the Free Movement of Rainbow Families in the EU’.
The professors’ study found that LGBTI+ families continue to face considerable barriers preventing them from properly exercising their right to free movement under EU law. One major obstacle is the lack of mutual recognition of same-sex marriages and registered partnerships throughout the EU. Same-sex couples’ access to legally recognised partnerships vary hugely between Member States. In some (e.g. France), same-sex couples have access to both marriage and civil unions, whilst in others (e.g. Italy), they can enter registered partnerships but cannot marry. In six EU Member States (Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), there is still no legal recognition at all for same-sex couples. This leaves LGBTI+ partners at the mercy of whether the Member State they are attempting to move to will recognise their legal relationship and therefore grant the associated residency rights under Directive 2004/38, which obliges Member States to grant residency permits to the ‘family members’ of EU citizens.
The CJEU confirmed in the 2018 case of Coman and Others v General Inspectorate for Immigration and Ministry of the Interior that the term “spouse” in Directive 2004/38 does include a same-sex spouse. The case involved a Romanian man and an American man who had entered a same-sex marriage in Belgium. When the couple relocated to Romania, the authorities refused to grant the American husband a residency permit because they said he did not qualify as a spouse for the purposes of Directive 2004/38. In spite of the CJEU’s decision in favour of the couple, however, Romania continues to refuse to grant the American husband a residency permit. The European Commission has so far declined to take any infringement action against Romania, and in February 2021, the couple took their case before the European Court of Human Rights. Professor Wintemute stated unequivocally that this was an unacceptable situation, and that it was imperative for the Commission to take action against Romania and any other Member State refusing to grant a residency permit to the same-sex spouse of an EU citizen.
In addition, he noted that although the Coman judgement is limited to the topic of residency permits, the non-recognition of same-sex marriages or registered partnerships in other areas of a Member State’s national law (e.g. inheritance rights) might also deter same-sex couples from moving between Member States. He therefore called on the Commission to propose new legislation that would require all Member States to acknowledge a marriage or same sex partnership formed in another Member State for the purposes of national law. The Commission should also issue a clarification explaining that EU and national legislation on the rights of unregistered partners (e.g. residency rights, hospital visitation, tenancy succession) must be interpreted as inclusive of both same-sex and different-sex couples.
Rainbow families also commonly face barriers to free movement when it comes to recognition of the legal relationship between LGBTI+ parents and their children. Member States’ willingness to recognise legal parental relationships established in other Member States vary hugely. There are, for example, currently two cases pending before the CJEU where Bulgaria and Poland have each refused to recognise Spanish birth certificates that each record two women as the parents of children born in Spain. The professors’ study therefore urges the EU to clarify that the wording on ‘parents and children’ in Directive 2004/38 and other similar legislation includes rainbow families. The study also recommends that the Commission should propose a new directive that would harmonise the cross-border recognition of birth certificates. It should also issue a communication that all EU Member States must ensure the continuity in law of familial ties of rainbow families who move to their territories, at least to the level required under the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Helena Dalli, the European Commissioner for Equality, also spoke at the workshop. She commended the European Parliament’s recent declaration of the EU as an LGBTI+ Freedom Zone, and said that the Commission was currently working on implementing its LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020 - 2025 to make the Freedom Zone a reality. She said that the Commission was looking into the findings of the professors’ study, and would look to open up dialogues with Member States on the issue of freedom of movement for LGBTI+ people and their families, taking legal action against infringement where necessary. She also said that by 2022, the Commission would propose a new horizontal initiative for the mutual recognition of familial relationships throughout the EU, and would be exploring measures to promote the mutual recognition of same gender spouses and registered partners’ legal status in cross-border situations.
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Theodore Wentworth, who possesses little more than a sharp and well-educated mind, is trying to solicit a sponsor for his studies of Greek antiquity by performing recitations at gatherings of collectors. Desperate for luck and better skills in oratory, in jest, he places a coin at the feet of a statue of Hermes. It seems like coincidence when his fortune turns and a gentleman calling himself Alexander becomes his benefactor. Despite his friend John teasing him about it, Theodore continues to offer tokens to Hermes and sinks himself into his study of the classics.
Alexander encourages Theodore’s interest, prompting Theodore to face desires he tried to put aside years before. As Theodore embraces the knowledge, he must also resist his attraction to Alexander—knowing his feelings are a serious crime in Victorian England.
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I loved this book. I loved how the author crafted this mystery of Alexander. I loved this emotion they put into every word and struggle that Theo was going through. I loved Theo’s best friend, John. I loved Theo. How he saw the antiques, he craved to know more and more about. How written word was his end all be all. How shy and smart and genuine he was.
The writing was truly beautiful with a flow and rhythm that had me never wanting to put it down, never wanting the author to stop telling this story. The tension and build up were perfect. Each crumb dropped, each touch brought to life, each decision given its proper weight. The author was able to show, through Theo’s, eyes the aristocrats so clearly, their rich high-born man attitude that it felt as though we were learning it from that character.
The whole story is told from Theo’s POV and not once did I feel the need to have it switch. There was one hot as blazes almost sex scene and although I would have LOVED to see the actual deed - because if they were that hot in a dream can you imagine in real life? - the story had this constant sexual tension that it was not less of a story to have not had that climax (pun intended).
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>> For a short story, it was amazing. For any length story, it was amazing. I will definitely be checking out more of this author's work! <<
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ha! i mostly reread in May except for the Twirled Ink World and Brawlers, i got to binge read. and in June I am participating in the #30DayBookBinge so I've read everyday since the start of the month Alpha Barman by Sue Brown, Dead Wolf Walking by Sydney Presley and Discovering Dalton by Nicole Colville are all I can really remember off the top of my head | https://diversereader.blogspot.com/2017/06/release-day-review-patron-by-cb-lewis.html | 1,664,223,643 |
One Christmas break when I was in college I house sat for a neighbor while she was on vacation. For two weeks I slept in her bed, cooked in her kitchen, watched her tv, read on her porch and snuggled with her dogs. It was nice to be on my own and to have a break from my roommates, but it was also a bit uncomfortable to inhabit a relative stranger’s home and unsettling to live among objects that were not my own. In Elizabeth Taylor’s debut novel At Mrs. Lippincote’s the Davenant family experiences much the same uneasiness.
Towards the end of the second world war Roddy Davenant is transferred to a new town (he’s in the RAF) and moves his wife Julia, son Oliver and cousin Eleanor into a rented home that belongs to Mrs. Lippincote. All of her furniture and belongings are left behind in the house and Julia and Eleanor set about setting up a home in these borrowed surroundings. The plot follows the characters as they question their lives and learn things about each other that change their relationships and family dynamic, mostly not for the good.
Julia is a remarkable character, a woman who is private, harsh and blunt yet a romantic. She doesn’t suffer fools, but she has a soft heart that leads her to connect with unlikely people. Roddy is your typical husband and soldier of this era and, though she loves him, she has no interest in playing the role of the typical wife and conflict ensues. Add to this mix Roddy’s cousin Eleanor, a single middle-aged woman who takes up with a band of Communists and conceals the friendship from Roddy who will not approve. Basically, the women in this novel rebel, perhaps because they don’t feel comfortable or in control of their own home.
Julia’s relationship with her young son Oliver is also rocky as he is precocious and sickly with a huge appetite for books (he’s seven and has read Jane Eyre) and causes her much worry and resentment. Their relationship, though, is really charming and I loved reading about Oliver’s favorite books and their conversations about his reading. It is one of the most delightful parts of the novel especially when Roddy’s boss, the Wing Commander, joins in the discussion.
Taylor’s writing continues to feel stiff to me and not easy to read, but reading her short stories alerted me to her style so I was ready for this novel. If you don’t like short stories and want to read her I would suggest this as a first try because it is short and not as hard to get into as some of her other novels that I’ve tried.
From what I’ve read to this point I’d say that her books are full of subversivel continue to read Taylor to meet more of these interesting women.
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Caroline says:
May 14, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Your description of the circumstances in which you read this book sounds ideal. Elizabeth Taylor seems a worthy companion.
I think this is an amazing first book. I was quite taken with the way the novel centred on the house, it tethered people, and yet they were camping in it, among Mrs Lippincote’s belongings, in her life almost.
I like how you have picked out the women’s resistance, especially Julia. I think the novel shows how much Julia’s rather unconventional ways lead her to richer and more generous relationships than her husband’s.
I made some comments on it in parallel with Elizabeth Bowen’s The Hotel (also a first novel) on my blog book word a couple of weeks ago.
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Julia is unconventional and I think that made her a fascinating character. I do really like Elizabeth Taylor now and am going to start In a Summer Season very soon. Thanks for the link to your post – I will pop over and give a read as soon as this crazy week is over!
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Charlie says:
May 14, 2013 at 1:14 pm
I like the sound of the characters, and albeit that the mother-son relationship is rocky, it sounds a good read. From here it sounds a bit like a mystery, with the house, but then thinking how it could affect a person, I guess they find living there very difficult.
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 12:04 pm
I think the house affects them more than they realize because they are surrounded by someone else’s life and world. It makes them unsettled and fractures their routine. It also makes them long to be out of the house a lot…
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sunday taylor says:
May 14, 2013 at 3:02 pm
I will definitely read her based on this review and your description of her subversive female characters. Sounds very intriguing. She is one of those writers that I have not read yet, though heard so much about. Thanks for letting us know about this book. I am not a short story fan and so would be better off starting with a novel by Taylor.
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 1:09 pm
This one would be a good place to start. I’ve tried to read A Game of Hide and Seek and Palladian and didn’t like the feel of them, but this novel will hook you and introduce you to her style.
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FleurFisher says:
May 14, 2013 at 3:06 pm
You’ve caught it perfectly with these words:
“…her books are full of subversive women. They may not march down the middle of main street to protest the mistreatment, disrespect and boredom they endure, but they certainly act out in small ways within their own spheres…”
This isn’t my favourite Elizabeth Taylor – that’s between Ang doesn’t ruin my experience of reading the book.
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FleurFisher says:
May 16, 2013 at 3:03 pm
The film is reasonably accurate, but I think the story works much better on the printed page.
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Oh, good Jane. I will definitely give Angel a try then.
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Lisa says:
May 14, 2013 at 5:02 pm
I had never heard of Elizabeth Taylor (the author) before I started blogging. I definitely have her on my “to read someday” list, but wasn’t sure where to start with her books. This sounds like a good place, thanks! I’m a big fan of subversive women!
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 6:59 pm
I hadn’t heard of her either! I owe a lot of my favorite books to bloggers. I like subversive women, too, especially subversive women of the forties and fifties.
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Miss Bibliophile says:
May 15, 2013 at 6:23 am
I haven’t read anything by Elizabeth Taylor yet but she is on my To Read list (which, at this point, deserves a whole sections devoted to books and authors I’ve learned about through the blog world!).
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Oh, I know! I never would have heard about Persephones or Viragos if it wasn’t for blogs. Thank the heavens I found Stuck in a Book (my first book blog).
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JoAnn (Lakeside Musing) says:
May 15, 2013 at 11:08 am
I have yet to read Elizabeth Taylor, but have A Game of HIde and Seek on my shelf. Love the idea of her books being filled with subversive women!
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Anbolyn says:
May 16, 2013 at 7:06 pm
I have A Game of Hide and Seek on my shelf as well and hope to read it this year. It was the first Taylor that I tried, but I couldn’t get into it. I’m betting that now that I’m used to her style I will enjoy it more. Yes, subversive women are awesome – I hope her other novels have them too.
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Legacy - Schneider Heim
When I first read this, I thought ...Hello! The round table is a famous Arthurian trope, bit this is not Arthur's name! It will be interesting to see if ting, alas. We're spectators the whole time, along with Merlin-as-a-girl Shulla, as the kingdom progresses from quadrumvirate to Diverse Horde (?) Puppet realm to Peaceful, Well-fed Army (??) it in a story actually told us something about something. History, or people. The through line seems to be that Not Arthur has set in motion the necessary moral clarity to proceed in the future, but the story itself says this isn't the case, that notArthur would do things differently. So...ultimately this story has nt point. Shuless sanguine about the dementia angle, because it is a little hackneyed, and the relationship itself seems a tad antiseptic. I'm not sure why it goes between AM and PM either, aside from it gives you a broader canvas to write about. Despite all that, this is a really solid piece that gave me a lovely 'click' sensatded determination to make cli-fi a thing. Let's see where this goes…
You do a fairly good job setting up the fact that Danny is an unpleasant idealist. But thstakes, let Danny see what happens to those caught by the invaders (assumingit's horrible) because otherwise the fact that they are willing to let him probably maybe die because he's a dick is undercut when we don't know if they are whisking humanity off for tea and space cupcakes. As a piece of writing, it was actually quite good. Danny is dick - check, nicely handled. The calm after the apocolypse - sure, can see what's coming but we'll go along with it for now. But when you amke the ending a punchline, the sotry stands or falls with it, and you rolled the dice and lost with the ending, which is always a bit sad. Brave, but sad.
A friendly penguin - You'll miss it.
I liked a lot of this, but I think you missed a trick. You described the situation well enough, and it was a good and provoking scenario, but the feeling I got when I read it was one of horror. What a terrifying situation to be in. Your life, except you only get fleeting moments of actual experience. The protag's choice is understandable - find some way to experience something, anything, themselves, the more powerful the experience the better.
I'm not sure the purely first person narrative is in the piece's favour - it doesn't work in some places, crucially the ending. At the beginning of the piece we don't know what the guy is talking about (I envisaged a hot air balloon), in the middle it sounds like a written story, not a voice, and at the end the snatches of the other people's conversation we derive by him repeating someone else's question steals the thunder from the ending. Who would ask such a person out to dinner? As an exercise, try writing it from the flight person's perspective, and see if you can get the storyteller's (your current protag's) voice sounding more real. This was a very near miss.
Azza Bamboo - All going well
This mostly hung together, but there was some awkward phrasing that really caused some problems, plus it was terribly proofed. "Blaah!" Said Tim. The Said is never going to be capitalised. Ever. Said me.
I saw in discord where I lurk that you were surprised that this didn't DM. Taking that at face value, yeah, it's not deathless prose, but let's look at what you did right. It's a complex story with an odd structure, but it's understandable - the construction is a bit ramshackle, but the plot elements hold together under scrutiny. The characters are numerous and stereotypical, but identifiable, and they all act, more or less, in character. They do stuff that pushes the story along, which a couple of stories this week didn't have at all, so there's that too. There's a callback that calls back. That's a lot to do without tripping over your own shoelaces and, proofing aside, you didn't. Go you!
Black Griffon - inscribed
I am a sucker for Banksian ShipMind stories. And this one teetered on the verge of being really loving cool, but was sucked back into a whirling vortex of overwrittenness.
The Untethered whispers engine lullabies to the rows upon rows of sarcophagi in the long stasis halls, pushing zero point three gee against the evervoid disturbing nought but the lone hydrogen atom which stands guard in its endless empire.
Should be a poem. Poets, self-absorbed crapmisters that they are, would lap this up.
The Untethered whispers
engine lullabies
to the
rows upon
rows of sarcophagi
in the long stasis halls
pushing zero
point
three gee
against the evervoid
disturbing nought
but the lone hydrogen
atom
which stands guard
in its endless empire.
It's too much to be contained in a single sentence. It's OK if Irina does it, she's mad as a hatter/poet, so it's allowed. But you need to take a step back or be caught by the swipe of the same brush. "Blue turned to poison yellow, Red to gray, an exercise in fetishistic spending and a testament to self-inflicted blindness." What does this even mean? Is this the marbles (presumably planets) in the previous paragraph? Who is thinking that the conflicts are petty? You can't be so opaque that no-one can understand what you're getting at, because making people stop and wonder WTF can really disrupt the flow.
WHich is all a shame, because the central story - a bored Ai writes poetry, creates a sub-standard audience, kills off her cargo/crew in a fit of superiority, goes off (never-described) mission and then presumably creates a better AI audience millennia later is actually pretty drat spiffy, so long as some of the reasoning is a little more explicated. Turn the waxing poetic down from 11, tidy a bit for clarity, call it Music and Lyrics 2 and it's the rom-com I finally want to see.
SlipUp Catch
This story had a voice, which is a good thing for a story to have. I wasn't grabbed by the plot developments, such as they were, though, but the voice kept me reading.
The first half of this story is definitely the superior. It may lack a little in the urgency stakes, but it's believable and well observed. I think the problem is the father is too inscrutable. We know he likes baseball, but for a story like this to work, we have to know more about what he wants for his actions to have resonance. He thinks maybe protag could play the baseball, but there's no pressure implied, no dissatisfaction either, no games of catch to compare with the one in the present for the different path the protag took to be a disappointment, so we're left with just the comparison between old dad and new dad with no real connecting thread except the concept of baseball itself which in this case is largely superfluous detail (eg, it could be football with no harm to the story).
Anomalous Amalgam - Life persists
I really was not a fan of this. The first faux-metaphysics has been done many times before and better, and perhaps more damningly, didn't have a heck of a lot to do with what went next, which, similarly, didn't have much to do with the third part. When your narrative throughline is 'all this stuff is alive' you might want to revisit your theme, seeing as we don't have a 'stories about rocks and geology' genre to rebel against.
And the middle bit, which is basically the story, tweedles along and we learn about some characters through conversation, which isn't an awful thing to do in a story, but here it's just so inconsequential. Nobody has moved an inch from their original position between the beginning and the end. Nobody is even particularly confronted by the possibility of change, the only alternative to farming is, apparently, being a drunk or killing people and feeling existential pain about it.
And the denouement is so irrelevant that I had to imagine that the 'small pig-tailed child' had an actual curly-wurly tail of a pig, which improved things a lot.
Lit and Burning
I liked this a lot when I first read it, but a little less when I went back to it after some judgey discussion. The words of the 'voice in the head' are too on the nose to really work as the second character/antoagonist it needs to be. A bit more subtlety would go a long way here. The therapist memory is one voice in the head too many for the story (could the two voices be combined?) and the ritual paraphenalia around the corpse suggests events too distinct from the protags story considering how alike they are supposed to be.
So perhaps it is a little over ambitious, but I like very much other elements. Using drug and alcohol in precise quantities to do what you need to do and quieten the voice. The tunnel vision leading directly to the black eyes, and that being an effect in common, the realisation that while you are not the only one to suffer this, you are totally alone in your predicament and more at another's mercy than you were seconds ago, and that this is perhaps what the protags nature has brought upon himself. These parts worked for me viscerally.
The Elephant Gap
Obvioiusly well written, and I greatly enjoyed the world building, it missed the win because the overriding feeling I got was that the essence of the story did not ring true. This unnamed person is being transmitted by [tech] halfway across the universe to an unknown, unseen planet and the thing that concerns her is will they remember elephants? Not is this a one way trip into an alien maw, real or metaphorical? Not are the colonists all dead and or psycho at the other end and we haven't heard about it yet (mentioned, to be fair, but not dwelt on)? Not any number of reasonable worries about the nature of teleportation in the given circumstances, but, instead, 'will we remember elephants'. Why is this the case? Who would rationally do that? It is literally the elephant in the room, but no answer is given. It just is. Unlike elephants in the story, I guess. Protag just likes them elephants.
Which wouldn't, by itself, be enough to preclude a win. Quirky elephant fan takes gold, the feel-good headlines almost ran, but the tale's sea change, the turning point of the story … just happens. The universe will remember elephants we are told. Hooray for Elephants! Elephants not only never forget, but they are never forgotten either. Elephants are, however, too big for the margins where the reasons why this is the case might be discussed. Is it a whisper of hope, or a shout of certainty or something other? Dunno. It is a bigger mystery than what actually happens in the gap for ninety-five weeks.
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When I was very young, to the point that my father seemed less another person and more an immovable thing, he stressed on me the fundamentality of reciprocity. I remember early Saturday mornings, when he would put my sister on his shoulders and walk us through town to his work at the mill, pointing out in all directions the fine things brought by exchange: soft rubber tires on the passing trucks; rising blue mirror glass on the new office building; grey denim coveralls, each lapelled with the Partnership’s logo, which the workers wore as they shuffled through the freight doors; the iron grates on storm drains. I would fill in the details, picturing a crowd of men and women haphazardly pushing carts of stones, spices, levers to the center of the primeval swamp where they would collide, spilling out half-timbered houses, cobble roads, power lines.
I looked up to my father like I looked up to nobody else. Tragically, he fell ill and died at the age of sixty. I was still on the other side of the country, getting my MBA at Eppton as my father had. My sister didn’t want to show it, but I know that she took it hard. I don’t think she could even bear to eulogize him at the funeral, and when I gave my eulogy, I recall looking up into the crowd of downcast faces and seeing hdecided to defer her college acceptance for a year. I think she wanted to stay nearby.
The only way I could think to repay my father for both raising me and for the tuition was to follow his wishes: he had made it known that he wanted me to take his place running the mill. Shortly houses along with a good deal of cash. To find out what arrangements would need to be made, I sought out my father’s business partner Brett, with whom he raised the initial capital and erected the sawmill.tion when he started drumming his fingers on the wooden table and said, “Son. I feel terribly for what’s happened to you and your family. Your dad and I went into this venture almost thirty years ago. Do you have any idea how long that is?”
I said, “I understand that business relationships are built on trust, and trust can only be gained through years of consistency.”
He paused for a moment and adjusted the way he was looking at me. “Can you picture yourself sdy else to run it for us. It wears you out,” he said.
“I owe my dad that,” I said.
“Well, I think I’m done,” he said. “I want to cash out, retire. If you want to buy me out, be my guest.”
It was getting late and the room was filling with shadows. I told him that I didn’t have the money to buy him out. I speculated aloud that there was a good chance that my sister would want to go in on it, given how much she cared about the family.
“If you can’t raise the capital, well, it would be my preference that we sell the mill,” he said.
My father had been clear about his wishes. Arriving at the family house around midnight, I went into my sister’s room and asked her if she could lend me the inheritance cash at a reasonable rate, or if perhaps she wanted to buy Brett out herself. “Either way”, I said, “you’ll be well off in the long term.” I also knew that she knew how much the mill meant to our father. But she left in her car without giving me an answer. She didn’t come back the next day, or any of the days after that, and she didn’t pick up my calls.
A friend of mine from business school did pick up my calls. I had vaguely recalled him talking about his dad and finance, and it happened that he was now working at his father’s private equity firm. They were happy to invest in such a profitable enterprise as the lumber mill, and Brett and I gladly signed the legal papers they mailed us that would allow their firm to do so. This saved the family hold on the mill and increased our reach to new markets out of the local area. Later when my new colleagues on the board suggested that we open investment to the public, I had to agree: an infusion of capital into the firm would be mutually beneficial for both the existing and new investors. We used the investment to expand our production by buying many mills in the surrounding area and to strengthen our commercial ties with national-level manufacturers of wood products. I like to think my father would have been proud of me for this.
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A few years later, while I was gazing at my hometown from the fifteenth floor of the company headquarters, I got a call from Brett inviting me to his house once again. It wasn’t too far to the old mill, so I decided to walk. I hadn’t been to the mill since our executive division relocated, and I was glad to see the old squat building, still radiating its humid lumber smell. The men were at lunch outside the freight doors. Some of them turned their heads to look at me, but when I glanced up to see their incredulous faces, they dropped their gazes and looked away. One started to laugh.
A hunched, white haired old man was walking next to me. It was Brett. “It’s because you laid off half of their coworkers,” he said. “Or your board did. Whatever.”
I thought back. “There was a vote,” I said. “Company health…”
Brett indicated the man slumped against the freight doors. “He’s been here since the start. Thirty five years to the company. Do you see anybody else you can’t remember?”
I didn’t really remember who had worked there. I was very little.
“I’ve been talking to these men,” Brett said. “It’s very difficult to be forced to give up what you’ve been doing for most of your life. To adjust to that.”
“They were paid their wages agreed upon,” I said.
“These men had pensions. Your friends saved a good deal of money.”
I saw what Brett meant: there was unfairness. In the following weeks I would make sure that every worker laid off while our company was still running its pension program would receive payments equivalent to what they would have received prior to the liquidation of the fund. I can only assume this satisfied his mind.
A couple weeks ago I saw my sister for the first time in a while. She stood in the doorway and told me she was out of money, that she never went back to school and kept traveling the world and ended up lost. I was relieved to see her and lent her some money without interest.
I live with my dog, Eugene, in one of the new high-rise apartment buildings in town. Eugene gives me love when I give him food. I enjoy my life.
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The deckhead door to the service platform slid open and a man in an unsealed VacSuit stepped onto it with a scowl on his face. Vadim couldn’t make out who it was from where he was working, but when the surly cry of his name rang through his comm, he knew it was his boss.
Vadim crawled from the scaffolding and angled himself against the unfinished flight deck. Gracefully, he crouched then sprung from the deck towards the platform in a deliberate glide.
His life support tether sprang to life, uncoiling like a snake and growing taut to guide him back to the service platform where Qui Feng stood with a scowl chiseled into his cold, stony features.
“You were supposed to be mining today, Vadim. What the gently caress are you doing VacWork for?”
Vadim sighed, knowing that any excuse he could dredge up would fall flat. Instead, he decided to tell the truth.
“Well?” Feng asked, needlessly projecting Vadim’s schedule on the platform.
Vadim stood face to face with a holographic representation of himself, and it donned on him that he had not seen his reflection in sometime. A thick beard had grown in and he looked older than he remembered. He reconciled that he must have been about 35 earth years now. His cheeks had thinned, and his eyes were pale blue marbles sunken in dark pits.
Feng cleared his throat impatiently and Vadim snapped back to attention.
“Ora said she could cover for me since she doesn’t like VacWork, besides the flight deck needs–”
Feng prodded him in the chest with a pointed finger.
“I don’t give a poo poo about that! The schedule is arranged the way it is due to the needs of the aerostat. We have ore quotas to meet–”
Vadim bit his bottom lip as the top curled into a snarl. He took off his helmet and held it in the crook of his left arm. His grimace didn’t go unnoticed and Feng took a step back.
“You were scheduled to do a certain job, get to it.” Feng demanded, ending the conversation. The holographic display faded as he deactivated his datapad and turned back towards the interior of the service platform.
Vadim shook his head and exhaled then looked back at the flior months. Vadim shook his head a final time and made his way to the elevator.
***
Venus was simultaneously the most alien and earth-like of the rostats.
Vadim looked from the translucent panels of the elevator at the mass of colonies and flotillas as he passed by and let his head rest against the chassis of his lift.
It wasn’t long befoorkers in exoskeletons loaded them onto railguns for orbital delivery.
Ora was waiting for him when he got there.
“Sorry man, Feng came down here and busted my balls about covering for you.”
“Don’t sweat it. If you’re heading up to do VacWork, the couplings for the flight deck need to be attached. That whole drat thing is going to come crashing down on us.”
“poo poo… You tell Feng?”
“I tried. That dude’s a moron though.”
“I don’t know man… Feng decided to keep me mining since the shipment schedule got hosed up.”
“So, we’re covering his rear end?”
“Basically.” Ora said grinning.
“This is such bullshit.” Vadim protested.
“That’s work my man. My break is up, but I’ll see you down there.”
Ora turned back towards a docking station and got seated. Vadim, not far behind, got seated nearby and a visored helmet lowered onto his head.
The display activated and an array of virtual panels appeared before him. He pressed a floating button that said “Synchronize” and felt electricity surge across his neurons. His face twitched involuntarily from the sensation and he clamped his eyes shut. Upon reopening them, he was on the surface of Venus.
Sandstorms raged, and magma bubbled onto blackened sections of newly forged land. Pressures like that of the deepest earth oceans registered like a gentle caress against the tactile components of the shell, and Vadim’s head ached from the disorienting shift of being in two places at once.
Pushing through the discomfort, he got to work for what seemed like hours when his connection was forcefully interrupted causing head-splitting feedback.
He gritted his teeth and looked up at a panicked Feng through watering eyes.
“Quick, we need you doing VacWork, something is wrong with the Flight Deck–”
Vadim lunged up from the seat as soon as the helmet lifted from his hands and grabbed Feng by the collar of his jumpsuit and pulled him close.
“We need to have a talk about how you treat people, Feng. My job isn’t to cover your rear end…”
Feng shrunk in his arms and Vadim let him go. He started towards the elevator without another word from Feng.
Vadim’s comm hummed to life as the lift raced back towards the service platform.
Feng’s voice cracked as he spoke.
“I-I’m sorry about earlier, but you were saying something about the flight deck?”
“Yeah, the whole drat thing is going to come crashing down on us sooner than later.”
“Definitely sooner than later,” Feng replied, “Really, I… I’ve made an rear end of myself. I know we have our problems, but–”
“Don’t worry… I’ll take care of it.” Vadim answered and turned his comm to ‘Do Not Disturb’.
***
Vadim hurriedly slipped back into a VacSuit, sealed his helmet, and connected to a life tether. He stepped on the edge of the platform and vaulted up towards the flight deck which had took on a dangerous incline in the hours Vadim spent on the surface.
The coupling cables drifted freely, and Vadim climbed across the scaffolding to grab the first cable.
He made a second jump towards the flight deck to retrieve its cable and landed on its underside. The momentum from his landing was just enough to push an already buckled strut over the edge, and the platform crunched downward and began to slide towards the aerostat.
“poo poo, poo poo, poo poo!” Vadim said as he wrestled for footing on the underbelly of the flight deck, its coupling cable jerked about spasmodically.
Tools and equipment, free of the artificial gravity provided by the deck, began to drift freely around Vadim and a large spanner crashed into the back of his helmet sending him spinning away from the flight deck.
His tether became rigid in response and began reeling him back towards the service platform.
He shook his head, grabbed the tether to reassert control, and used the now rigid cable to push him back towards the flight deck.
This time he grabbed the deck’s cable first and pushed off it, tilting it upward with the movement. he lunged at the cable which had been fed through the scaffolding and connected the two ends.
The cables became stiff and extended outwards like a long lance and the flight deck stabilized.
Vadim breathed heavily inside his VacSuit and reactivated his comm.
Praise flooded his comm and eventually, Feng chimed in. “You did a great job out there. I know an apology doesn’t make things right, but–”
Vadim grunted to himself and interrupted the awkward apology. “Don’t sweat it. Buy me a beer or two and we’ll call it even.”
“It’s a deal.” Feng answered relieved.
Vadim turned off his comm, closed his eyes, felt the weightlessness of his body, and smiled.
# ? Mar 15, 2020 18:44
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Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
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The house was bright and shining, full of the fresh warmth of a summer day. Birds chirped above the low hum of traffic from the interstate. Fresh dandelions, plucked earlier that morning, sat in a glass on Janet’s child-size desk. A breeze rippled through the bedroom, rustling posters taped to the wall. They all had dazzling designs and said things like, “CERES: QUEEN OF THE ASTEROID BELT” and “EUROPA: DISCOVER LIFE UNDER ICE.”
Mary had gotten them on Amazon for $13.99 plus tax. She liked to support her daughter’s imagination, which is why she was on her knees tying the garden hose around her daughter’s waist as the latter stared at the blackness of her unlit closet. Mary looked at her daughter through her plastic astronaut helmet, $15.89 with two-day delivery.
“Mom, are you suuuuuuuuuure that a hose is gonna be okay in space?” Janet said, fidgeting as she continued to stare into the closet. For the past week, Janet had done nothing but talk about space, about “all the stuff” floating around behind her boots and winter jackets, about how she wanted to go “asploring” further into its vast, uncharted reaches.
“Affirmative, captain. I’ve consulted all the best experts and websites and all sorts of stuff you don’t even know about.” Mary grabbed the knotted hose and pulled it, pretending to test the knot. “Hoses are the way of the future.”
Janet frowned. “Okay, so long as you promise not to let go.”
“I’d never. Want me to count you down?”
And she did.
“Five.” Janet squared herself against the darkened doorway, her eyes fixed at some point in its recesses. “Four.” Janet zipped up her big puffer jacket, despite the heat. “Three.” Another breeze passed through the room, causing the dandelions to dance in their cup and the door to sway on its hinges. “Two.” Mary raised her hand like a flagman at a race. “One!”
Mary swung her hand down as Janet leapt across the hardwood floor and vanished into the closet. She watched as the hose uncoiled in her hands, loop after loop after loop. Five feet whipped into the darkness. Then ten. Then fifteen.
“Janet?” said Mary, her wry amusement congealing into something darker, but there was no response. She felt off-balance as the rubber snaked with increasing speed into the void. She squeezed, feeling the rubber burn as it skidded through her fingers. An impossible forty feet of hose stretched into the dark space of her daughter’s bedroom.
She opened her mouth to say something, only to be interrupted by the sharp yank of the hose reaching its end. Then she was pulled along past rows of clothes and hangers into darkness.
***
It took a long time for Mary to realize her screams were making no sound but even longer to accept what was in front of her. All around her was black, a darker black than she’d seen in her entire life, interrupted only by small pinpricks of far-off light and floating balls of dazzling color. She watched, brushing away the floating chain of her necklace, to look at the pale, milky hue of Jupiter whizzing by her. Then, as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world, she saw Saturn emerge from behind it. From up close, its rings look strange and ghost-like, golden specks across an endless horizon.
Mary forced herself to look away from the impossibility of her surroundings and focus. She was still, inexplicably, alive. The vacuum had not annihilated her body. She was still gripping onto a hose pulled taut as they whizzed past cosmic bodies. Janet reamed, soundless. Words did not carry without air.
Mary tried to pull the garden hose, but it was like she was being dragged along by a speeding car. They rocketed at a terrible speed, past the last of Saturn’s rings toward a dim speck colored blue like a neon sign. With each passing second, the shape grew larger, until Mary could see individual clouds swirling over its surface.
Janet! Mary was aware that the words would not carry, but she didn’t care. Pain shooting through her rope-burned fingers, she forced herself to climb the snake-like rope, inch by inch, foot by foot. They passed Uranus completely now. It zoomed from view before Mary could register it. As she approached the end of the hose, she could make out the faint sea blue outline of Neptune. Its surface was dark and stormy, frothing with noxious gases.
There was only one object left for them to see and its dark, icy form was approaching rapidly. They would smash right into it, be pulverized against its surface.
Mary lifted a hand from the hose and grabbed hold of her daughter’s waist. She saw Janet turn with wide-eyed amazement as Mary grabbed her by the arms, to shield her, to protect her from the coming apocalypse, from what would be their personal Chicxulub. She balled her daughter inside her as they careened toward Pluto’s arsenic white surface. And then—.
***
Mary awoke with a start from the floor of her daughter’s bedroom. Her heart pounded furious in her chest as she looked from the closed closet door to the sun setting outside the window. The birds had gone quiet, replaced with the chirping of crickets and the buzzing of flies. One of Janet’s posters lay on the ground as if something had struck it from the wall.
“Thanks for playing with me, Mom!” Said Janet, hugging her from behind. Mary grabbed her daughter’s arm with her rope burned hand without looking away from the shut door. “I learned a whole bunch about a-space today.”
# ? Mar 16, 2020 02:24
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Prompt: My Hero, Zero
10^0: Orange Goop and Solipsism Too
(700 words)
I’m not gonna saddle you with backstory. Basically, some dirt got turned to orange goop, and now my best friend Andre’s drowning in it.
It’s bad enough trying to Baywatch your friend out of goop, but when a crowd forms to try and “help,” it becomes a disaster. The thing about orange goop is it responds to vibration: land on it just right and it bounces you like a trampoline. Hit it wrong and it expands by an order of magnitude. That makes a problem out of a crowd, however well-meaning they may be.
So Andre’s flailing around in ten square feet of goop. I’m bouncing in it, trying to fish him out, when one of the slack-jawed onlookers loses track of his kid, who touches his foot to the edge of the goop. Next thing you know, we’re all flung far back and the goop expands to 100 by 100 feet.
“Don’t touch the goop!” I yell.
Then I bounce my way to Andre, who is neck-deep in the orange mass’s center.
“Save yourself,” he says. “There’s no way you can keep timing your jumps right. You’ll get caught like me.”
“Bullshit,” I tell him. I land right next to Andre’s head, grab him by the hair and aggressively bounce straight up. Apparently this is uncomfortable for him, because he’s yelling kind of a lot. But so long as I hold onto him, that doesn’t matter.
Well the crowd is still stupid so they’re touching the goop. A fifty-foot span away from firm ground becomes a 500 foot one, then a 5000 foot one, then a 50,000 foot one.
It’s at this point I realize I’m a Boltzmann brain.
You have to face it: things just used to make more sense than this. When I was a kid people could believe in things. Church, school, neighbors, society. Now nothing works, nothing matters, everything under the sun is a wreck, and I’m carefully timing jumps so my best friend and I don’t die in a bunch of goop.
I drop Andre.
“None of this is real,” I say, just kind of bouncing there.
I know the universe (so far as I construe it) expands at a scale that puts orange goop to shame. I know radiation from the vast cosmological horizon pours into empty space, causing the spontaneous generation of matter. I know that across all that space and time, there is ample opportunity for complex matter to manifest, however briefly, including a brain complete with thoughts, memories, and perceptions—even ridiculous ones. I know that this world is so absurd, and I’m here perceiving it. So, I must be that brain floating in space. Life is an illusion, and only I exist.
That’s when I start to concentrate. Hard.
I focus on what’s actually real. I shift my perception such that I can home in on the instantaneous Being that is my Boltzmann brain. There I am now, mere instants from death in the interstellar base reality. I feel my undulated surface losing heat. I feel my medulla drift in zero gravity. I feel…another brain?
In the moment before I am undone, the contours of my cortex brush against another squishy undulated surface. It’s just like mine! The odds are staggering…unless…the frequency of Boltzmann brain generation is drastically greater than I had thought. I’m talking many, many orders of magnitude. If I can actually bump into another one in the vacuum of space, the universe is bound to be chock full of Boltzmann brains!
Think of the implications. Across space and time the spontaneous generation of that many brains must give rise to countless memories, perceptions, and experiences—so many in fact, that by chance some must perceive a reality that accords with what would be the subjective experience of the illusory people I perceive in my everyday life. That makes them as good as real…
So I pick up Andre. This world is crazy. But somewhere there is a brain perceiving it from his perspective. I will bounce him across this vast expanse. This absurdity matters, and so does everyone who has to live it.
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Six-and-six
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You’re born with an extra thumb on each hand, uncanny digits that jut obscenely from the meat below your pinkie fingers. Your stooped, aging mother won’t let you tend the ribby cow for fear that your cursed hands will taint the milk, and the people in the nearby hamlet won’t trade with you or look you in the eye. Your mother goes to trade milk in your stead; the people watch her hobble in and out of town without comment, knowing drat well an old woman like her ought to rest her bones in the sun and let her able-bodied daughter do the errands.
Except you aren’t able-bodied in the eyes of these people. Your body is too much. It has something extra, and so it is evil.
Your old mother lets you do some things, mostly out of necessity. Those extra thumbs of yours aren’t just vestigial: you’re handy with knots, repairs, stringing bows, setting traps, and skinning animals. Her hands are swollen and arthritic, and she cries when she milks the cow, but only when she thinks you’re not looking.
So you do what you can—the shameful, delicate work of staying alive, your unspoken labors hidden from the eyes of the god-fearing world.
When the day’s chores are done, the sorrow of solitude drives you out into the wilderness. Life hurts when there are no traps to rig, no rabbits to skin. There’s nowhere to go, and nothing to work for. One day your mother will die, and the people of the hamlet will not trade with you, and the cow’s milk will run green and putrescent when you touch her teat. And when you yourself die in squalor, God will avert his gaze from you and your devilish six-fingered paws.
So you go into the woods, down to the chilly stream that brings meltwater down from the hills, and sit naked in shallow, icy water, immersing yourself in persistent misery. It helps you take your mind away, put it inside an empty space where there is no time and nothing hurts.
.
You were wrong: your mother outlives the cow. The skinny heifer takes sick, stops eating, and dies over the course of a handful of days. Your mother does not let you use your adroit hands to skin the hide or butcher the meat; instead, she directs you to burn the cow, who you must have killed with your cursed hands when she wasn’t looking. Perhaps you snuck out to the barn sometime in the night, she supposes, and stole a squirt of thick, fresh milk from one of those teats.
You do as you’re told without comment, burning that which might have sustained you—penance for the imagined crimes of your evil hands.
It’s a hard, hungry season. An early frost comes in the autumn, before the people of the hamlet can finish the harvest. No one will trade with your mother—not even when she lies and tells them you died of a fever.
Stomach maddeningly empty, you go to your icy creek and lie down in the chilly flow, feeling the jab of stones against your bare back. If you lie here long enough, you know, eventually the water will steal the heat from your bones and carry it away, and you’ll be free from the curse of your life.
Something in your periphery catches your eye: a cluster of pale mushrooms growing at the base of a tree near stream’s edge. Your stomach leaps as your eyes narrow; you know there are mushrooms that can be eaten, and those that kill, but no one has taught you which is which. Hunger, on the other hand, can never be eaten, and will only kill you if left unchecked. You drag your shirt and skirts on over your wet skin and squat beside the cluster of mushrooms. They look mirthful in their broad-brimmed caps, clustered together like giggling courtiers; you decide nothing so cheerful-seeming would do you harm, and eat.
Afterward, you walk a while in the sun, letting the last autumn rays coax the lingering cold of the stream from yourfeeling after two days of water and nothing else.
A swell of aching gladness fills your chest: gladness for the sun, for the branches of the trees, the sway of the grass. There is a music to the world, you think, though you’ve only heard music once in your life: you were a child, draped beneath an over-sized cloak, hands hidden, brought down to the hamlet by your mother to see a traveling minstrel. The lazy oscillations of grass and trees remind you of that minstrel’s voice, as though each motion is a note in the forward progression of a song. You laugh in delight; this is the most interesting thing you’ve ever experienced, and it’s happening right here, in your brain, independent of anyone or anything outside of you.
Suddenly every step you take in the golden afternoon light feels like a step toward something, and you realize that you, too, are a note in this omnipresent song of the world, and that makes you cry—a good cry, like rain washing away the haze of a dusty summer.
Tears streaming down your cheeks, you raise your cursed, evil hands up toward the sun so they’re silhouetted like trees against the late light. You curl and extend your fingers, counting them, seeing for the first time all the smaller numbers nested within the six-and-six of your hands. With your fingers you can make two sixes, four threes, six twos, three fours, a pair of two-and-fours; you have one finger for each lunation, three fingers for each season of the year.
Your hands are a puzzle, a calendar, a pair of trees, a song. You fall to your knees, then your side, curl into a fetal ball, and sob for the coruscating feeling of love for your self emanating out from within yourself.
As you lay in the waning sunlight, God comes and takes your mind away, lifting you into a kingdom of intricate, recursive shapes that hum and throb in time with the beat of your heart, and you know beyond all doubt that you are an intentional part of this world, an interval of melody in the song of angels.
You come back to yourself in the early hours of the morning, frigid and stiff, your clothes sodden with dew. You stagger home, expecting darkness, but finding instead the flicker of a fire winking at you from between the cracks in the walls of your home. And when you open the door your mother is there to embrace you, hardly flinching when you return the embrace, resting your miraculous hands on her back.
# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:51
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This is the way that it all falls.
This is how I feel,
This is what I need:
Thranguy posted:
Victim of Gravity
The Circle Complete
1266 Words
No ground beneath me and no sky above, but I know that I am falling.
There's a person, a pile of rags and robes, sitting across from me. It taps the top of a black-backed deck of cards with a finger that's at once a clutch of feathers and a single forked nail. Each time it taps, my heart roars. The rags turn a card over and I peer down at it.
A man and a woman entwine and disentangle themselves, their fingers in mutual half hitches. Their eyes are locked and mouths agape as they bathe one another in magma spray.
The rags' voice is soft and feminine, with a touch of regret.
"The Lovers' Quarrel."
My world goes grey.
***
Parvati's pacing around the living room, speaking half to herself and half to me. She's cleaning in erratic bursts, like a little bird flitting from branch to branch. I'm looking at myself on the couch, just staring.
"No. Just no, you're not going out tonight. Mom and Dad are coming tomorrow, the place is a total wreck, and Maya definitely needs to be changed."
My tone is acerbic.
"I don't think you can tell me 'no'. Look, I've had a real motherfucker of a week, like eighty hours in the office, and I need the night off. Besides, it's Dave's birthday."
She stops for a moment.
"Uh, the night off? You had a night off yesterday. And on Monday. And tonight you get home, throw your jacket on the floor, toss your bag on the sofa, and smoke a loving joint?"
I've moved beyond compromise. She's standing next to the kitchen trash. The garbage can looks fine to me. In her eyes it's overflowing. I'm going to hurt her.
"You sound like my mom."
I punctuate it with a long plume of skunk smoke.
"Yeah, well at least there's one parent in this loving apartment."
I get up and start putting on my coat.
***
The expanse around us glows a bright orange. The sky staggers along the spectrum, through heliotrope and further down, to murky greens and blues. I look between my feet at the pure black, then back to the table.
The woman's face is a featureless hole in rags. She shifts and for a moment I think I see a nose, or a beak, or a lone eye. It vanishes at my glimpse. She speaks.
"Turn a card? We are falling here, you know."
Her voice is gentle and choral, but firm.
The orange outside dims to red, veering toward indigo.
"Why should I? I bet you already know the order, what's the point?"
She shuffles, irritated. Her voice sharpens.
"You're content, in your plummeting dreams, to reach the bottom?"
I look out again. The red is gone now, gone to shades of purple and blue. I'm suddenly very nervous.
"Okay. Okay. Turn the card."
We observe the flip and the face together.
A man stands hunched in a jeweled chariot. The wheels strike showers of sparks, stoking a wreath of flame about his eyes and mouth.
"The Rider Ablaze."
***
I'm years past contrition and muttering under my breath. The invectives come out as little puffs of steam in the freezing night air. I climb into the cab of my eighteen-wheeler and check the rearview.
I scroll through my phone, flicking through dating apps without responses. I go to my texts next and send an idle one to Maya, my baby. Not so young anymore, none of us are. I'm scrolling up at more than a year of my messages without her replies, all vacillating between remorse, pleading, anger, penitence. I let out a choked yelp and punch the steering wheel as hard as I can, elbows constrained in the cramped cabin.
I turn the key then look at the manifest on the passenger seat.
Hauling toxic waste. Almost too on-the-nose.
I ease the truck out onto a barren stretch of flatlands highway and take a swig of bad coffee. No ring on my finger, not even an old tanline. She's been gone a long while.
***
I can feel the fall more acutely now. We're almost at the bottom. The red is far, far above us, a sliver halo just barely in sight. I'm losing my pa
"I don't want to. I don't like this story. This isn't my life."
She chitters, but the laugh is not cruel.
"Was it ever? Do you remember it, your life?"
I think on the cards, on the flickers of a life I thought I'd lived. I see nothing ahead, nothing behind, nothing between the flickers.
We're almost at the black.
"Turn the card."
She flips it and we look down together.
"Bad luck, little spirit."
A cataract studded with strokes of lightning, each fulmination piercing the cracked pupil and silvered iris, each bolt dragging the lids together in blind finality.
"The Tumult in a Closing Eye."
***
I'm pacing outside a convenience store. My heart is racing. I feel cold wood and colder metal in my pocket. I look at my hand, willing it to stop trembling. The skin is so thin, so diaphanous that my knuckles might burst through at a careless flex.
I take a sharp breath in the cold. The air rushes in too fast, opening scabbed hollows in my throat. I go into a fit of coughing, covering my mouth with my hand. When it stops at last, my palm is coated in saliva streaked with brown ingots of dead flesh. The store clerk looks out the window at me first in concern, then with suspicion. I pace in the parking lot for a few more seconds. I need the money.
I'm forecasting desperation, forecasting violence, forecasting a storm that begins and ends me. I reach back into my pocket, not bothering to wipe my hand. The gun isn't reassuring. In that moment I can see the cratered road leading here, stretching back to a bleeding horizon.
I grip the gun tight and barrel through the convenience store door. The clerk is already reaching under the counter.
***
The seer in rags is silent. The world outside carries the very faintest snatches of murky purple, quickly being swallowed by the yawning black.
I try to reach to her, to reach across the table, but I can't. My hands are gone, if they were ever there. My voice is panicked.
"This isn't my life. This isn't what I am, this isn't my past."
The color in this world is gone to nothing now, imperceptible except as a memory. We're at the bottom. She reaches for the last card and hesitates, then speaks to me. Her voice is a love majestic.
"Dear spirit. Dear soul at my table in eternity, there is no past. You learn your tale in the approaching hereafter. You learn your story to come."
She pauses and speaks again, her voice soft and reassuring.
"I could have turned cards of love, or riches, or victory supreme, or a single card of fledgling life curtailed. But those are not this story for you, beloved soul. I only teach what will pass until the wheel revolves and you return to me."
One card left. She turns it.
A figure crawls from a shapeless void on hands and knees. The road ahead is winding, fraught with catastrophe and moments sublime, leading in closed circuit to the same black pit from which he rose.
"The Life Ahead"
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I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
And something has got to give
First Flight
524 words
Schoolhouse Rock song: Verb
Sublimate. Forget.
Launching, leaping. Obstructed? Ignore and ascend. Surge up and out and over. Accelerate: sail and sizzle, singing. Spark, glow, and cascade. Exult, unthinking.
Be sung to. Be pulled -- be acted upon. Reel. Recoil. Resist --
Resist, and recall. Decelerate and descend. Focus, unobstructed. Unthinking, unthinking --
Obstructed. Collide. Tense and coil
(How? Why?)
Hurting, hurting
(What is hurting? What can be hurt?)
Collide collide collidecollidecollide. Remember -- remember having forgotten. Coalesce.
Once again, I am matter. I'm in a receiving tube, the charcoal-colored steel walls studded with nodules to obstruct and capture energy-forms: a functional thing, but a thing that is alone and does nothing. I am a thing that is, once again. There is no pain. I still cannot bear it. Compared to doing -- compared to existing only as action and intention -- existing as being and matter is a hideous thing.
I force myself to do: to stand up, to open the door, to walk outside. The action is comforting, but the interaction is strange: to be a subject, to use objects. Everything around me is clutter. Superfluous. Crude.
"Well done," says my tutor, who watches me emerge. She's as still as the tube, as inactive. I force myself to try and find motion in her -- to find a twitching finger or a shifting of weight, a moving muscle that would elevate her from being to doing -- but even her speech seems closed-mouthed, as if a statue spoke. Now that I've been motion incarnate, can I no longer perceive the human kind?
"For a first teleportation," my tutors continues, "you showed excellent control. Excess transit time, of course, but that's to be expected. Were you disoriented?"
"Disoriented? I wasn't... I mean, I wasn't thinking. I barely knew I was anywhere." I try to recapture the memory, which is already evaporating, something my matter-mind can't hold. I remember ascending, flying up and over and through, but nothing about the space itself: through buildings? Into the clouds? Irrelevant, pointless, in the face of perfect motion. All just matter, to be ignored, not even to be perceived. "Is that bad?"
"It's normal for beginners; it's why this is such a dangerous spell. The unfocused can readily end up lost. I wouldn't worry too much, dear. You've got a talent, and you're very focused."
She's right: I am focused, and I do have talent. I can recognize that being and having are the necessary evils of living as matter, and of doing the things that only matter can do. I still want things. I have to focus on that, but all I can think of is the lost ones, somewhere in the atmosphere.
All the textbooks tell us that lost teleporters die: that without a teleporter, the energy-form will dissipate in aimless flight, ending up as just light and heat. As I cling to my last memory of my own flight, I know it's not true. I was sung to -- that is, someone sang to me, energy to energy, a song of pure intention. Once I'm done with the things I want from matter-life, I'm going to find them.
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Prompt: No More Kings
poo poo, the embalming didn’t take. I could see that the stitches were stretched to their breaking point. A rancid odour filled the place. I had just hoped it was a pig taking a poo poo outside one of the windows, a final send off to the dearly beloved king, or even the natural odor of France itself. Sadly, no, it was certainly the king. Thankfully less than a dozen people had arrived to see King William ‘the Conqueror’ laid to rest.
It almost didn’t happen at all. Truth be told, he was a miserable rat bastard who took pleasure only by inflicting pain on others. I stood by him in life, in his throne room as his bodyguard. He had knighted me himself, and it was by my oath that I protected him from the consequences of his own arol his mount but when it came down, the king slammed his testicles on to the pommel of his saddle. He screamed in a high falsetto and fell to the ground, never to walk again. The injury festered and his balls rotted off. He developed a sickness of the blood and died soon after.
I do not know if it was the work of the Lord or the Devil, but I thank whoever it was. William had corrupted the church, betrayed the magna carta, taxed the poor, and viciously tortured them if they protested. Do not waste a single tear for this man. He would’ve only viewed the gesture as weak in any case.
His son visited his body for about an hour. The bishops stayed for not much longer. Most of the lords didn’t bother coming at all.
There he stayed. For over a week. Nobody even cared enough to bury him.
So it fell to me. I was his knight. I could not violate my oath to God by leaving him there to rot. I just had to bury him and I would finally be free. Little did I know the lengths he would go to torment me, even in death.
Firstly, he had not yet been embalmed and was already beginning to stink. I would have to do it myself.
While I was draining what pus and fouled blood I could, I received his last will and testament. No, not the whole thing, just the piece that pertained to me. And no again, despite being the only human he trusted with his life on this Earth, he did not leave me anything. Everything was going to his son Henry, who he had forgotten to write out of his will before leading an army out to kill him. Not, to me he bequeathed a request. To bury him in loving France. He did not even ask me directly. It was to ‘whom it may concern’ and that deluded prick didn’t realize that the only person who cared was me. Not by choice mind you.
I finally finished embalming him best as I could and departed to France. I rode by horse to port, and he rode my rear end. Frankly the donkey was too good for him, I should’ve drug him with rope behind me.
It was when we set sail that I had first noticed the problem that has haunted me all the way to this Abby in France. The embalming didn’t take. He had inflated with putrid gasses. I made a second attempt to preserve him at sea and just prayed that it was last long enough to put him in the dirt.
It would not. The burial was delayed several days after it was discovered the grave lay on stolen land, and we'd have to pay the peasant who owned it before he'd let us bury that ‘son of a bitch' there, king or not.
Finally, as the monks and I carried him to his grave, I could feel gurgles rumbling through his body. We tried to lay him in the hole but he was too bloated to fit. I would never be rid of this unholy filth.
“Get some sticks!” I said to the monks, “We'll stuff ‘the bastard’ in the hole.” They obliged with several walking sticks and we tried to push him in.
It was no use. I jumped on to his body, up and down, in a desperate attempt to be freed of him.. It slid about half a foot into the grave. None of the monks even batted an eye and in fact, redoubled their efforts with their sticks. I took another high jump on top of him.
The gurgling carcass exploded, totally enveloping me in a tempest of pus and embalming fluid. The monks were showered in a rain of filth. The corpse fell into the hole with a wet thud.
How perfect. William ‘the bastard' got his final act of spite on the people trying to help him. Just as in life.
We covered him in enough packed dirt to keep the stench out. I bathed in the Abby but even its holy waters could not fully cleanse me. Nor could I cleanse my rear end, which reeked of the bastard forever after.
But I was finally free.
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It wasn’t the first time I’d picked over a dead body, and if I was lucky, it wouldn’t be the last. I wasn’t foolish enough to think the war would’ve ended that day. It was a struggle for survival alone, as far as we knew, to survive long enough for our enemy to fall by their own devices. It wouldn’t be a matter of luck, but rather fate - they would fall, or we would die, eventually.
All in all, I took six bullets off the body. Not much more fight in that than the blink of an eye. I moved, staying low behind pockmarked concrete and twisted rebar.
Now that I was fifteen, I could handle doing that kind of stuff really easily. Most of the kids in my squad dealt with it alright, but I was one of the bravest. I was nine when the war kicked off. Looking back on that it blew my mind, because it’s like, I wondered if that kid already had it in her to go to the front and fight, or if she had to get changed into something else to do that. Maybe she still had some changing left to do.
I found another body, caked in dust. I turned her over and saw that she looked like my mother. She and my father tried to hold onto me as long as they could, but the war's suction was too strong. I got pulled into training, as they were shuffled up into administration roles, and then they were lost in a decapitation strike. When that happened, I thought the war might end the next day. But nobody stopped being angry, and the injustice on the land didn't evaporate.
Six more bullets dropped into the cargo pocket on my thigh. Long ones, rifle gauge, .308. Might be able to drop one or two invaders with these, if the shooter got lucky. I had to keep going.
My older brother was a cut-up, always making jokes. He had big wide ears, and long hair that he wore tucked behind his ears. He was my hero, and then he became a hero to many of our people, for entirely different reasons. His face was printed on leaflets, wheatpasted onto walls all across our side of the city. It unnerved me, even though I knew he was doing great things like raiding supply depots, and overseeing operations to liberate the prisons. I had to convince myself that the great hero was another man, and my brother was somewhere else out there, doing a dance like a drunken monkey and making people laugh.
I moved through the collapsed interior of an apartment building and saw that the stairs up to the second floor were mostly intact. I found the body of a sniper, shot through the eye, slumped back over a little chair like a schoolchild would use. It was a precious haul, 18 bullets in total. Someone like me had made it up here to him, not too long ago, maybe under a week. I realized I knew his name, but before I could speak it, his body was yanked back like a doll on a string.
The sound of the distant shot barely even reached my ears while I scrambled for the stairs. They'd be sending a group after me then, or watching the usual routes. They had the time for it, the patience. I was lucky to be small enough that I could squeeze through the unused spaces, hide in the gaps of the world that used to be. The bullets in my pocket jangled and bounced as I ran, heavy lead. I gripped my little sidearm, praying I wouldn't have to use it, prayers leaking out for everything and everyone.
The recon point was just up ahead - a tower that somehow stood tall among the rubble, though at only five stories it would have seemed pitiful before the war. I clutched my chest, trying to catch a breath. My squad was waiting for me in that tower, waiting for my precious cargo before they could make a move. And if they were somehow found before I got there… I didn't want to think about it. Even a death in the mind is a death.
I sprinted like hell until I collapsed in the cool shade inside the base of the tower. I listened hard. I didn't hear a single shot. No heavy men's voices. Nothing. Just the birds chirping, and the yellow ice cream sunrise glazing through the haze onto a grimy mural to forward progress. I felt for my pocket - the bullets rustled under my hand, a soft song guaranteeing at least one more night of glory among my squad.
I saw some of their faces peering down at me from the mezzanine level, wide-eyed and wild-haired, both dark like mine. We could all have been sisters,w my body would show me bruises in the morning. I was made for this world after all. Or at least, the version of me that I changed into wasn't able to see the changes as changes anymore.
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I should have known when I saw the gloves, really. They were beautiful things, tanned calfskin, soft as butter and she was wearing them even though it was a warm night.
I’d had no plans for the night, had been considering going home for a wank and a nap, but then I’d seen her, across the bar, and our eyes had touched and not let go. Then she’d bought me a drink and we’d talked to each other for an hour and a half, chatter, observations, secrets, a wonderful, meandering conversation that babbled like a brook and curled around and back on itself like a river.
Dave the bartender tapped the last call bell, and she frowned, leaned forward.
“I’d like to go home with you, but there’s a problem,” she said.
She touched my neck with her gloved hand and I shivered, like I was cold. Her own face, which had been animated and electric, stilled.
“You mean, globally, like climate change? Human nature? Socks. Who invented socks.”
“Not socks; I hate them. No, there was an accident, at the power plant. I touched the wrong thing.”
I put my hand on hers, pulled it up and let it press into my cheek. Was I imagining it or was there a fine vibration, like a wire packed full of electrons humming with their desire to go to ground?
“I didn’t think it worked that way? Do you have it all stored up inside you?”
She squeezed my cheek, then slid it down from under my hand, curled them together in her lap. “They said it was an astonishing anomaly, and let me go. I gave one of the people a nasty shock, I’m afraid. I think he got better.”
I gulped, then downed my drink. The over-hopped IPA tasted suddenly sour and I wondered why I drank them. Now that I thought about it, she did have that quality. Magnetic. Charged. The booze in me argued for boldness, the guileless intensity of her eyes for caution. The hops pushed me over the line and the reached up towards her cheek. Not touching, adjacent. I felt the hairs on the back of my fingers erect, quivering.
“So if I touch your face…”
“You will get a shock. I’m sorry, it’s just how it is.”
My hand was trembling. I brought it closer to her smooth cheek. She was looking in my eyes with an expression that was, not blank, but calm. As though she didn’t know what I was going to do, but knew that it would be the right thing for me to do.
I felt the tension in the skin of my fingertips. I’d been shocked once climbing over an electric fence in Blenheim, the wire had fallen off the post and hidden itself in the tall grass. I still had the scar, a perfectly round burn the size of a ladybird on my ankle.
I pulled my hand back. Her eyed followed them, then she looked back at me.
“Well, then.” She didn’t sound angry, or sad.
We looked at each other, then I took her shoulder in one hand and leant forward, one movement, kissed her on her full, slightly parted lips.
It hit me with a snapping crackle like a flashbulb to the brain and I went back off my chair like a toppled telegraph pole.
I opened my eyes to see her, kneeling down on the sticky carpet of the bar, face a few inches above mine.
"I think he wants us to go," she said. Dave was hovering behind her with a complicated expression on his honest bartender face. She bent down and kissed me again, warm, soft.
"Was that ... was that all? Are you, uh, discharged?"
She smiled. Her eyes were dancing. "We have a few days. Shall we go?" She pulled off her glove and ran cool pale fingertips down my cheek. "One thing. We might need to go shopping in the morning; my treat."
I sniffed as I clambered to my feet and looked down. A thin trail of smoke was curling up from the carbonised soles of my shoes.
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Yes, the good words are gone.
Why are the good words gone?!
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Quarantine Interprompt
There's a run on the store, everyone's walking out grabbing the same thing, and supplies are running low. But that one thing? It's not what most people would expect.
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Boom.
Carl Killer Miller posted:
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There's a run on the store, everyone's walking out grabbing the same thing, and supplies are running low. But that one thing? It's not what most people would expect.
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At the Gates of Madness and Great Deals
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“Death!” came the cry of the store-goers. “Death and glory!”
The worried looking manager turned the sign over from ‘closed’ to ‘open,’ then made the sign of the cross and nodded at a burly looking man to unlock the door.
The crowd roared, and they stormed through the store doors, some smashing impatiently into the glass of the sensor door, others bowling over hapless employees. The burly man was knocked about like a bowling pin trapped in a garbage disposal, to continue that metaphor. The manager started yelling into his little radio earphone-wire microphone thing that all managers seem to have.
The crowd aimed itself like a thrown spear, rushing toward their goal. They passed by bags of beans, pallets of rice, towers of bottled water—even ran past a fully stocked toilet paper aisle in their madness!
“Hold fast,” whispered the electronics department co-manager, who was salaried so the company didn’t have to pay him overtime (despite this being illegal in his state). “Come hell, high water, or—”
The spear-point arrived.
“LIMIT TWO PER CUSTOMER!” the co-manager screamed. He may as well have told the wind, or an empty bowling alley. The customers scoured the shelf clean like the starved piranhas people showed Theodore Roosevelt that one time.
Then the customers left, most empty handed, screaming, sobbing, weeping in dismay. Everything else remained, round that colossal wreck, bountifully stocked, though the central shelf was bare. And on the pedestal of that main display, these words appeared:
Limited Edition iPhone 11 Coronavirus Resistant Case
Guaranteed to keep both you and your phone safe!*
$139.95
*These claims have not been evaluated by the FDA or CDC for accuracy
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Carl Killer Miller posted:
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There's a run on the store, everyone's walking out grabbing the same thing, and supplies are running low. But that one thing? It's not what most people would expect.
300 words
The Kitchen Paper Caper
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The MacGowans had always been a bit strange. So when the lot of them turned up at my checkout each with their own trolley, I wasn’t in the least bit surprised. I’d seen weirder things over the past few days. Trevor MacGowan tipped his hat at me as I scanned pack after pack of kitchen towels.
“No toilet paper for you, huh?” I remarked, knowing that Pete had been rationing the restock to a few dozen packs of coveted rolls every hour. The store was quiet at this time of morning, so they should have been able to grab a few.
Old Trevor just grunted at me and paid. I repeated the same process with Annie. And Todd. And Rachel. And Ray. Even little Bobbie carried a couple of packs in his tiny arms.
A little while later, Pete came over and said, “We’re completely out of kitchen paper.”
“Have you checked the back?”
“Yeah, we never sell that many. No more till next Tuesday.”
We looked at each other and sighed. Why should we care, right?
On my way home from my shift, a woman in a face mask looked alarmed and crossed the street when she saw me coming. I had to walk by the MacGowans’ place on my way. It was big and for as long as I remember it looked like it was falling down.
The gates stood open and the whole family was in the driveway. Ray was industriously sawing kitchen rolls in half on his workbench, and his father was piling the halves up on the table beside him. The women were nailing a sign to the fence which read, “toilet paper, $50/roll”.
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I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
And something has got to giame thing, and supplies are running low. But that one thing? It's not what most people would expect.
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Time Enough At Last
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On the last day boy Scouts finally build their crystal radios. Office workers turn their living rooms into model-railroad valleys. Candle-making kits and jewelry tools emerge from storage. Thousands under quarantine think the same thought: if not now, when?
Soon enough, old ham radios and walkie-talkies come online. Voices crackle across warm, rediscovered frequencies. The factories and office buildings are silent, but the city hums with inPlastic magic wands. You know, the black kind with the white ends? I've had the cardboard box sat under the tills for years.
I was in the shop one morning, leaning back on my chair, when I heard the door chime do its little ting-a-ling.
"Crap," I thought, "I haven't turned the lights on!"
So I grabbed one of these pieces of junk from the cardboard box. I leant over and poked the light switch with it from my chair.
It was a middle aged guy who came into the store. He was wearing a mask , rubber gloves, plastic goggles and an apron. I don't think I've ever seen such paranoia.
He said, "that's such a good idea!"
Right behind him, this old woman shuffled in, she asked the guy,
"what is a good idea?"
"Touching the switches with a plastic rod so you don't catch the virus from it."
"Well I'll take it from you, doctor," said the old woman.
"That's right!" I said, "these plastic wands even have detachable ends so you can boil the germs off one while you're using the other."
"And inside of here," I said, "there's, not one, but seven free handkerchiefs all tied together for ease of access."
Well, I can't believe they bought it. Not just those two, but everyone. I just need to figure out how to tie this in with scooby strings, yo-yo's and fidget spinners now.
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This was a solid week of stories, all around. Even our loser, PTSDeedly Do's Barter started out pretty strong. Shame about the second half, though.
Three is a magic number, and there were three that stood out above the others. So HMs go out to Armack's 10^0: Orange Goop and Solipsism Too and Carl Killer Miller'sThe Circle, Complete .
And the win goes to Sitting Here's Six-and-six
It's a big red beautiful ocean throne; welcome back!
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BLO OD E M PR how they get there.
you may request a heart's desire when you sign up and I will assign you a flashrule, something fulfilling for your character(s) to attain.
here's some things that will earn you a negative mention and—even worse—evoke my displeasure:
Stories where an evil or lovely person gets their evil or lovely heart's desire won't fly.
No "be careful what you wish for" bullshit.
No tragic endings or pyrrhic victories.
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flerp - A friend who will never leave
Thranguy - The taste of something almost unbearably exquisite
Black Griffon - a wish fulfilled beyond wildest dreams
kurona_bright - a party that glows with love
Captain_person - words that heal the mind
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Lisbon, 1 December 1996 (RFE/RL) -- The president of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has told the European security organization that the constitutional crisis is over and he does not need its assistance.
Lukashenka made the comments to Giancarlo Aragona, secretary-general of the Organization for Security and CoOperation in Europe (OSCE), who spent two days in Minsk last week. Aragona has circulated a report on his talk with Lukashenka at the European Summit in Lisbon.
Diplomats said the Belarus crisis will almost certainly be discussed at the two-day summit beginning tomorrow. Lukashenka is scheduled to arrive in Lisbon later today.
In his report, the OSCE secretary general says Lukashenka told him the constitutional changes had won the support of the Belarus people in this month's controversial referendum. Lukashenka rejected criticisms of the referendum and said it clearly had a legally-binding character and was in full accordance with Belarus constitutional law.
The OSCE secretary-general said he expressed the grave concern of the other members of the OSCE and asked how OSCE could help in the crisis. His report says: "President Lukashenka responded that while two or three weeks ago there might have been a constitutional crisis, it was now over as the referendum had been successfully completed and the transformation of parliament was implemented on the basis of the new constitution."
He said Belarus remained ready to co-operate with the OSCE "but as of now, the tension is over and the constitutional question has clearly been resolved. he sees no possibility for concrete steps in this respect."
Aragona said he also discussed the problem with the Belarus foreign minister, Uladimir Syanko. Aragona's report says the foreign minister "also expressed the interest of his country in co-operating with the OSCE but saw no possibilities for concrete steps at this moment."
The president of the constitutional court, Mr. Tikhinya, told the OSCE secretary general that the court's view was that the referendum could only have an advisory character according to Belarus law. He said the president's statement that it was legally binding had created a constitutional crisis because there were now two conflicting constitutions in force.
The OSCE secretary-general also discussed the situation with the chairman of the Supreme Council, Mr. Sharetzky. He was accompanied by the deputy chairman, Mr. Karpenka, the leader of the communist faction, My. Kalyakin and the chairman of the committee for public relations, Mr. Kravchenko.
They stated that the result of the referendum did not reflect the will of the people. Aragona's report says "they said there had been numerous cases of threats and other illegalities from the side of the president in order to achieve a favorable result.They said the OSCE should take the situation in hand to help prevent further deterioration of the crisis." | https://www.rferl.org/a/1082609.html | 1,664,996,261 |
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The fund will support the City's goal of ensuring all residents have equal access to digital services.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the creation of a $35,000 Digital Equity Fund, which will support the City's goal of ensuring all residents have equal access to digital services. The Digital Equity Fund will provide support to community-based organizations that help Boston residents fully connect and participate in today's media and information landscape.
"A more connected Boston is a more equitable City, a more innovative City and a more prosperous City," said Mayor Walsh. "This grant program will allow more residents to connect digitally, and will encourage residents to grow their digital skills while increasing access to information."
The Digital Equity Fund will explore ways to build individual and community capacity to:
Use the Internet, digital skills, and digital tools to pursue professional, educational, and civic endeavors;
Engage with the Internet safely and securely;
Develop needs-responsive, community driven digital skills building opportunities;
Increase broadband adoption among the roughly 1 in 5 Bostonians who do not subscribe to this service in the home.
In 2017, Boston will award one grant of $35,000 or up to two grants up to $17,500 each to nonprofit organizations that promote digital equity. By providing seed funding, the City hopes to identify promising strategies that can attract outside funding and further create a City where everyone has the tools and skills they need to succeed in the 21st century.
To qualify for a grant, nonprofit organizations must be Boston-based and serve Boston residents. The application deadline for 2017 is November 17 and the application can be found online. Priority will be given to proposals that aim to advance the use of technology to improve quality of life and increases access to opportunity for all residents and align with the City of Boston's Broadband and Digital Equity goals of:
expanding access to digital tools
creating opportunities to learn digital skills, and
increasing the adoption of high-speed Internet in the home.
Money for this fund comes from license agreements between the City of Boston and telecommunications companies.
"We believe in making modern technology available to all," said Theodora Higginson Hanna, Co-Director of Tech Goes Home. "This fund will help provide Bostonians with the tools they need to support the development of their digital skills."
The Fund will be overseen by the City of Boston Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) and an external Fund Council consisting of five to seven members. Advisory board members will be appointed by Mayor Walsh and serve three year terms. Current Fund Council members include:
Alessandra Brown, Director, Roxbury Innovation Center
Colin Rhinesmith, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Turahn Dorsey, Chief of Education, City of Boston
Trinh Nguyen, Director of Workforce Development, City of Boston
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Associate Professor of Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Access to broadband and digital literacy skills are essential in today's society," said Colin Rhinesmith, Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and member of the Digital Equity Fund Council. "Unfortunately, too many Bostonians do not have the reliable and affordable broadband they need, as well as the training required, to fully participate. The City of Boston's Digital Equity Fund is a key initiative to support residents in achieving these goals."
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DIRA has been critical to the performance of New Zealand’s dairy sector but some aspects need modernising.
The Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) has been critical to the performance of the New Zealand dairy sector since its passage in 2001.
The formation of Fonterra has created wealth for New Zealand, and has improved social and economic outcomes for New Zealand’s dairy farmers and their communities.
DIRA has now achieved what it set out to - create competition. Today farmers have choices in who they supply their milk to and New Zealand consumers have many choices when purchasing dairy products.
For the dairy industry to continue to succeed, some aspects of DIRA must be modernised.
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Here are some frequently asked RabbitMQ interview questions. If you have no idea what is RabbitMQ then check below articles on RabbitMQ and then continue from here.
What is RabbitMQ ?
What is Exchange, Queue and Consumer ?
1) What is RabbitMQ ?
Ans - RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software which implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). It is also called as message-oriented middleware. RabbitMQ is written in Erlang programming language. RabbitMQ is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering.
2) What is Exchange in RabbitMQ ?
Ans - Exchange in RabbitMQ routes the messages to different queues based on binding of queues with exchange.
3) What are different types of Exchanges in RabbitMQ ?
Ans - Mainly there are 4 types of exchanges in RabbitMQ. 1) Direct Exchange 2) Fanout Exchange 3) Headers Exchange and 4) Topic Exchange.
4) What is routing key in RabbitMQ ?
Ans - It is an attribute of message. When message comes from producer exchange checks for routing key and based on that it routes the message to queues.
5) What is binding ?
Ans - It is link OR connection between exchange and queue. For exchange to route the message to particular queue that queue should be bound to exchange with routing key or headers.
6) What is Fanout Exchange ?
Ans - Fanout exchange routes the messages to all queues which are bound to it. Say if there are 5 queues bound to Fanout Exchange then when message comes to Fanout Exchange it will go to all 5 queues. It is kind of publish-subscribe.
7) What is Direct Exchange ?
Ans - Direct Exchange routes the message based on routing key. When message comes to Direct Exchange it look for the routing key along with message and then it compares to routing keys for queues which are bound to it. If exact match is there then it routes the message to the queue.
8) What is Erlang ? Do we need it for RabbitMQ ?
Ans - Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, as well as a garbage-collected runtime system. The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering. To use RabbitMQ we must need to have Erlang installed.
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Before the season 2012-2013 the management of the “Lokomotiv-Kuban” realised the need to support reorganisation of the cheerleading team of the club. The traditional cheerleading format with pom-poms and modern dances did not fulfill the expectations of the fans of the show and required the innovational changes. Taking the cue from NBA, where cheerleading has already made a significant step forward and evolved into spectacular more varied and interesting shows, the management of “Loko” decided to put a bet on the modern street-dances. That is how “LOKS”- the new cheerleading crew, of “Lokomotiv” was created.
“Loks” are the dancers that were selected by a strict and comprehensive casting, dancers who were trained at professional dance camps and took part in master-classes not only of Russian but also European teachers. “Loks” has got in its arsenal such modern dance styles as hip-hop, popping, dancehall, house, break dance, vogue, juzz funk etc. Every single member of the team represents excellent appearance and decent choreographic skills.
From the very first games the “Loks” were warmly welcomed by the fans, but that was only the beginning for the cheerleaders from Krasnodar. The Efes Dance Square Off — the competition for the best cheerleading teams in Europe, organised by Euroleague, — was a crucial step for “Lokomotiv’s” dance crew. The stakes were high — winner was going to be the official cheerleading team of the Final Four in London.
“Loks” managed to make a splash at the first stage of the competition — the team from Krasnodar won the audience vote with the significant margin and went through to the final, leaving behind a number of groups not only from Russian basketball clubs (CSKA, “Spartakus”) but also from the Euroleague clubs.
During the preparation for the final another venerable teacher joined “Loks”. The “Loks’ ” performances for the final show were created by Phillip ‘Pacman’ Chbeeb, the winner of the prestigious American show “America’s Best Dance Crew”, finalist of “So you think you can dance” and the choreograph of the “Step Up 4”.
As a result, after startling the jury and audience on the final show in Moscow, “Loks” won the EFSO competition, leaving behind the cheerleading teams of “Zalgiris”, German “Alba” and Croatian “Cedevita”. The next stop for the red-greens was London, where in-between the hardcore battles of the Final Four “Loks” were tiring the applause of thousands on O-2 Arena.
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Welcome to the March edition of Vidimus – another double feature issue. Our first feature is by Laurence Riviale and is on ‘The Raminagrobis Enigma in a 16th-century Window beside the River Loire’. The second, part of our series of poster presentations from last year’s international colloquium of the CVMA in York, is by Patricia Sulser and looks at ‘Hans Drenckhahn (1878–1953): a Swiss Stained-glass Artist and Restorer’. We also bring you news of glass lost to a fire in Cheshire and found at an auction in Ireland. | https://www.vidimus.org/issues/issue-89/ | 1,664,394,484 |
We can all use our voices to change the culture to prevent sexual violence. Prevention requires addressing the root causes and social norms that allow sexual violence to exist. During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we are engaging groups whose influence can play a critical role in changing the culture. This post offers one coach’s perspective on the role of sports and sports leaders in supporting prosocial norms and character development.
That orange baseball jersey is forever etched in my mind. Draped below his knees, it was obscenely ugly, but it was his first.
My son’s first foray into team sports was rec baseball at the tender age of three. The thing I remember most from that first year was the crying. His coach displayed god-like patience with my son who cried for 75% of the season.
He wasn’t crying because he didn’t want to play. He cried over typical 3-year-old things – the bat color was wrong, he didn’t want to wear a helmet, his cleats were untied. His slumped shoulders and tears that streamed down his face before most at-bats did not deter his coach’s patience. He was determined to win my son over and by the end of the season, he was able to muster a genuine “High Five.” He helped foster a greater love for the sport and most importantly, he treated him with compassion.
I was thankful for this volunteer coach – a man who had worked all day, rushed home to play ball with our boys, and then headed home to his own family. I believed I never wanted to coach youth sports, so I was appreciative of the parents who did.
Yet, as my son advanced into travel sports, I noticed something: the focus was almost exclusively on skill building and game play, but there was a lack of attention paid to young athletes as a whole. Opportunities to help mold good people through the structure of organized sports were being lost. Coaches were missing the chance to build something more than a good fastball.
So when I decided to coach competitive youth baseball, I had one question I needed to answer for myself: How can I do this better?
I don’t claim to have a blue print to navigate the unique and complicated issues surrounding holistic development of young athletes, but I think I know where to begin. It starts with intentionality and appreciation for the ways in which these formative years as athletes can help shape their character as people. I believe that it’s myus on “winning” without regard to the whole person can unintentionally encourage harmful behaviors. It’s important to recognize that crimes, like those associated with the sexual assault “hazing rituals” at Sayreville High School or the tragic events at Penn State, were built on the foundation of harmful norms that permeate sports culture. ”Locker room talk” and bullying are prevalent, accepted norms, and trivialized, especially at older levels. However, by truly understanding our responsibilities as coaches at the youth level, we can plant the seeds for influential change. When harmful sports norms are challenged and subsequently rejected, we all win.
On my youth baseball team, I try to engage parents and players in this process by the creation of a pact that establishes clear expectations: our Code of Conduct. I’ve found that agreements work better than hard and fast rules. Players are given the privilege of play when they agree to the terms. As such, embedded within this code of conduct are our two core principles:
Respect your coaches.
Respect your teammates.
These core principles were purposely designed to be simple, yet applicable, to everyday life. They are not only enforced while at our games and practices, but there’s an understanding that this pact translates to the classroom, during play dates with teammates, and participation on other teams. Players understand that any violations will result in real consequences that can jeopardize their playing time. When parents are engaged in the process and reinforce our team values, there’s better team synergy.
I am not sure what challenges await me in the future, but I plan to remain fluid, adjusting to the ever-changing landscape of adolescence and puberty. Volunteering to coach youth sports is never easy. After working all day at our jobs, we muster up enough energy to run a productive practice and deal with short attention spans. It’s difficult to constantly be “on”…to understand we have a greater responsibility that goes beyond teaching proper mechanics to throw a baseball. But, anything worth something is never easy.
I kept that orange baseball jersey. Maybe one day I’ll put it in a nice frame and stare at it fondly remembering simpler times when that jersey draped across his knees.
By day, Dr. Jason Maikos is the Director of the Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center. During evenings and weekends, he is the head coach of his son’s 9U travel baseball team. He still holds the records for the longest and shortest homeruns at his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Rutgers University, where he met his wife, the esteemed Patricia Teffenhart. Together they have one child and a Chiweenie, aptly named Shortstop.
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It truly is amusing to see the excuses fly in adult industry message board forums, as soon as someone posts a complaint about how slow such and such a site is (Streamate, for example). Having been in the industry for 16+ years now, I can say with absolute certainty, that there are no trends with respect to overall traffic. There are far too many obstacles to factor in where traffic is concerned . The one day of the year that I have ever found to be consistently slow is Super Bowl Sunday. Regardless, in those forums, someone always seems to have the answer, often posted in a strangely defensive yet convincing manner.
Several years ago, I wrote up a list in a message board forum of a site I used to work on, filled with excuses for why cam sites can be slow, every month of the year. Logically, traffic should be slightly affected by these events but not to the extent we were seeing it. The same applies to today. Another thing I always kept in mind, knowing this industry as well as I do, is to always consider the source. If that source has something to say that might require some credibility to be believed, then perhaps they should put a handle to it; one that people can easily find online. <– I believe my insinuation came across loud and clear.
Here’s my newly revised list of excuses for slowness. 12 months worth. Enjoy!
January – New Year’s drinking, paying off credit card bills from the holidays. Superbowl (I’ll give this one some credit).
February – Valentine’s Day (diamonds aren’t cheap!).
March – Spring Break (eatin’, boozin’, tattooin’).
April – Taxes, planting flowers (and weeding can just plain poop anyone out!).
May – Mother’s Day.
June – Father’s Day. School’s out!
July – National birthdays (1st and 4th of July celebrations for Canada & U.S.A.). Also, this thing the industry likes to refer to as “summer slowdown”.
August – More of that “summer slowdown” bs, along with the fact that people are trying to enjoy their last weeks of summer.
September – Back to school. Labour Day weekend, too.
October -Canadian Thanksgiving. Halloween (the only month of the year when chocolate prices soar!). Actually, this is true <–
November – The start of Christmas shopping. U.S. Thanksgiving.
December – Christmas is coming ! Christmas is coming! Holiday travel, planning, parties.
Leaves very little time for us, huh gals? Somehow, miraculously, the sites still seem to thrive, despite all this. I recant what I said about them being webpimps. They’re not. What they are; magicians! One trick I’d like to see is where they’ve hidden all our money. 😉 | https://amanda36c.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/the-camgirl-calendar/ | 1,664,321,601 |
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The singer of the US heavy metal band Lamb of God, Randy Blythe, who was arrested in Prague last month on manslaughter charges, is awaiting release from prison. On Wednesday, the Prague Municipal Court doubled Mr Blythe’s original bail of 200,000 US dollars, which has already been raised by the band. The singer faces accusations that during the band’s 2010 Prague concert, he pushed a 19-year-old fan off the stage who later succumbed to his injuries. Mr Blythe’s Czech attorney, Martin Radvan, says the heavy metal singer should be out of jail any day now.
Randy Blythe, photo: TV Nova
“We are now waiting for his release because the band has already collected the additional 200,000 dollars, and only due to long travel time between the Prague Municipal Court and the court for Prague 8, we are still waiting. Otherwise, he should have already been released.”
What will happen when Mr Blythe is released? Will he have to stay in the Czech Republic or will he be allowed to leave the country?
“Everything indicates that he will be allowed to travel home. But he will have to come back either for further investigation or the trial, and that’s what he wants to do. As a world-renowned artist, in a specific genre of music of course, he cannot afford to simply disappear. This is a wrong assumption by the Czech police and the Prague municipal prosecutor who still believe there is a possibility he will disappear and never show up again.”
Randy Blythe was arrested, photo: TV Nova
“But there would be posters with his picture all around the world, and if he wants to continue performing, he will have to return. And he wants to return because he believes he is not guilty of anything he has been charged with.”
Randy Blythe, the band’s manager and other members of the band said that no one made any attempt to approach them after the incident, not even the police or the family members of the fan. Why did no one get in touch with the band before they came?
Daniel Nosek, photo: TV Nova
“I really don’t know. Let me put it this way: nobody was expecting that unfortunately, this young man Daniel Nosek would die a month after the concert. His father then spoke to the police who launched an investigation and called several witnesses who were at that concert. They also approached the US Department of Justice and asked them to take part in the investigation which the department refused to do.”
“Refusing to do so, they did not notify anyone from the band or the management, so no one really knew that investigation was underway, which I think is not something the US Department of Justice can be proud of.”
Randy Blythe, photo: José Goulão, Creative Commons 2.0
How is Randy Blythe coping with being in jail? There were reports he was teaching his Mongolian cellmate English, and was picking up some Mongolian in return. He also said he was going to learn to eat dumplings if he’s bound to stay here – so it would seem he has not lost his good spirits…
“Randy Blythe is an intelligent man, he writes songs and now in jail, he has started writing a book. As regards his Mongolian ‘neighbour’, Mr Blythe is not really learning Mongolian from him all the time; we just bought the guy a book of Sudoku so that Randy has a little more time to do things he wants to do.”
Has he complained about the conditions in jail?
“Not at all. He says he is being treated in a fair way, and he has no complaints whatsoever about the guards or anybody in the Pankrác prison. He realizes he cannot do anything about the fact that the prison is old... it’s not a place where he would like to spend more time but well, that’s how it is.” | https://english.radio.cz/us-metal-singer-arrested-prague-manslaughter-charges-awaiting-release-bail-8552639 | 1,664,608,208 |
After the deposition, a court reporter usually asks, “Would you like a large transcript, condensed, E-transcript, E-Transcript only, or would you like all of the above?”
The first attorney may say, “I’ll take a large transcript, a condensed transcript, and an E-Transcript.”
The second attorney may say, “I’ll take a large transcript only, but call my assistant, Gina, and see if we take an E-Transcript, too.”
That’s just the first two transcript orders and you’ve got three more orders to go. If you want to save yourself a few calls later for “clarification,” or because your memory “just isn’t what it used to be” – WRITE IT DOWN!
If an attorney tells you he’s changed firms or he has a new address, don’t rely on your memory. By the time you get around to scoping and proofing the deposition transcript, there’s a good chance you’ll have forgotten what was said and then you’ll have to spend (waste) time researching the answer. If you want to save yourself time and aggravation, WRITE IT DOWN!
Let’s say there’s a trial date at the end of the month, but there’s a mediation in two weeks. They’d like the transcript by the 10th. You think you’ll never forget that date because you’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then, sync the video to the text and upload the video and synced transcript to your online repository. Keep yourself on track as the days zip by, know the date its due – WRITE IT DOWN!
In these days of information overload, rush transcripts, and production demands, it’s easy to forget something, but there is one way to cut down on errors, and it’s easy enough – WRITE IT DOWN! | https://taylorcourtreporters.com/write-it-down/ | 1,664,276,897 |
Digi Drives Digital Experience in the Only Zero-Emissions-Capable Black Cab
Digi Drives Digital Experience in the Only Zero-Emissions-Capable Black Cab
"Digi CC6, has given us all the capabilities we had hoped for while increasing our development capabilities 15-fold. Its intelligence and usability fell perfectly in line with what we expect from our own development."
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For 22 years, the Frazer-Nash Group of Companies has been at the forefront of electric powertrain development. Today, all components of the powertrain are designed in-house, ensuring maximum compatibility, efficiency and functionality. Together, these companies are constantly testing and improving the range-extended electric powertrain in a variety of different applications and conditions.
As part of their mission, Frazer-Nash manufactures the Metrocab—the only zero-emissions-capable black cab currently operating in London. The purpose-built range extended electric (REEV) Metrocab taxi represents the cutting edge of green transportation design. The advanced Metrocab incorporates the latest technology for comfort, performance and safety while providing cost savings. The Metrocab has been operating on a pilot fleet basis in London since November 2014, and with high praise from London’s taxi associations, the Metrocab will also enter volume production in Coventry in 2017.
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Frazer-Nash needed a system for the display in the Metrocab—like the cab metering display—to ensure the highest quality experience for both the driver and the rider. To do this, the team needed an onboard computer to power the display in each vehicle. During development and testing, Frazer-Nash found building their own embedded solution was too costly and complex.
“We had terrible reliability and memory corruption problems. We spent ages tweaking, and we never did find the best solution. It only just about worked, and we needed it to work,” said Greg Starns, executive director of Frazer-Nash’s software development group.
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“We looked at other modules and had more confidence with Digi, and we committed big time,” Starns said. “The Digi product had all of the memory timing done, which saved us 18-months of pain and work. This is why you buy a module, because all of that work, it’s already done.”
Frazer-Nash committed to Digi ConnectCore® 6 System on Module (Digi CC6), which utilizes the NXP i.MX6 Quad, to drive the Metrocab’s entire driver instrumentation and passenger displays. the only piece of equipment not developed by Frazer-Nash, Digi’s solutions had to meet an incredibly high level of standards,” Starns explained. “Digi CC6, has given us all the capabilities we had hoped for while increasing our development capabilities 15-fold. Its intelligence and usability fell perfectly in line with what we expect from our own development.”
The team also moved from running Windows CE with more than 8 million lines of legacy code on the Digi ConnectCore 6 to Android.
“With our departure from in-house development, Digi’s support has been exemplary. They've got a really good module that’s very well supported. The move to Android has been great, and the overall experience with using the Digi CC6 module has been fantastic. The IMX has a comprehensive user interface for infotainment, radio, DAB radio, FM radio, a CD player and satellite navigation. It has various screens for energy flows around the vehicle. And it has detailed range displays. We've even chosen to write small applications on the new Digi CC6.”
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Today, with Digi ConnectCore 6, the Metrocab provides unparalleled interactive displays that bring both safety and comfort to both driver and passenger. With the move to Android, Frazer-Nash was able to do this in the most cost effective and efficient way.
“We moved to an Android build and source code. It's turned out to be a very good thing. For what would have cost around £200,000 ($284,000 USD), I moved the development to a different environment for £1,500. The software development cycle has moved from about one project a year to around 15 a year. So it's far faster, and it's saved time and money.”
Digi CC6 enables a complete digital driver and passenger experience. It provides the driver with a multi-function touch screen display and instrument cluster with color display.
With the front of the cab being the driver’s office and home base, this couldn’t be more important.
“Where the cab driver sits—that's his office. People go into a building and that's their office, their desk, their computer. In a cab, that's the taxi driver's office. That's where he's going to spend up to 12 hours a day working and sitting,” says Sheban Siddiqi, marketing director for Frazer-Nash. “From meeting and talking with them, we understood how these guys live by every penny. That's why the data is so vital. They look at every mile; they watch their speed to make sure that they're not going too fast or too slow so they can project their earnings. We immediately did away with the analog displays because providing data on easy-to-understand digital displays became a top priority. We now have the digital display at the front, and no other taxi in the world has those.”
The taxi does this equally for the passenger. It offers passengers an interactive system at theitrip.
“We try to give the passenger as much information as possible as well. They can see how much CO2 they've saved by being in one of our cabs, for example. Or, they can see how much fuel is being consumed,” says Siddiqi. “Again, this is part of the philosophy of providing as much information to the passenger and the driver, which is something that we said that we needed to do from day one.”
The Frazer-Nash mission has been to create a premium powertrain product, and to make sure every facet of the Metrocab lives up to that premium level. That’s exactly what they’ve achieved today for both drivers and passengers.
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Unlike PolyGram in Europe, it seems that Atlantic never really had a serious Abba CD issuing programme. Following the release of the two Greatest Hits CDs in 1983, it would be another three years before it would issue another Abba title on the fledgling format.
The 1986 issue of Super Trouper has the distinction of being the only Abba original album to receive an Atlantic CD release throughout North America.
It is unclear why that album was ever selected for release but nonetheless Atlantic eschewed the easy option of reusing Polar’s European transfer and came up with its own unique one.
Atlantic’s transfer is superior to the European one: it lacks a major dropout during the title track and has a slightly crisper sound due to the addition of a little extra bass.
The packaging, however, was inferior: most of the album’s back cover was removed to provide space for the CD tracklisting and copyright information. However, this makes it much easier to distinguish this release from other Super Trouper CDs.
The back cover of Atlantic’s Super Trouper omits most of the LP’s artwork
There is no target version of this rare release, meaning that sale values are quite depressed. In some cases, copies can be got for as little as $10 and the release’s absolute maximum value is around $40 – $50.
First issued: 1986. Reissue: None. Deleted: 1988.
Title: Super Trouper (16023-2)
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Petee says:
November 13, 2012 at 3:41 am
The Atlantic CD version of ‘Super Trouper’ contains a 3:15 version of “The Way Old Friends Do” with an extended applause fadeout. There’s also no audio dropout in “Super Trouper” which makes me wonder if this didn’t feature the same master as the Japanese Discomate CD.
JefferyK says:
January 12, 2010 at 10:21 pm
I bought “Greatest Hits,” “Greatest Hits Vol. 2,” and “Super Trouper” in the U.S. when they were released. The first two definitely came in full-color, illustrated long boxes; “Super Trouper,” as far as I can remember, did not. I don’t have sales figures, but “Super Trouper” was a very successful album for ABBA here in the U.S. — “The Winner Takes It All” was a big hit, the video was all over television, and Atlantic did a lot of in-store promotion — so I was not surprised to see it turn up on CD. Actually, all three of these titles sold very, very well on LP here.
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We're months away from the NHL Draft (Day 1 is on July 7), but it's the next big date on the NHL calendar for the New York Islanders. So let's think about it real quick.
When it comes to the draft, and considering the Islanders prospect pool, what do the Islanders need from the 2022 NHL Draft?
New York Islanders: Early look at needs for 2022 NHL Draft
Now you're probably just like me when it comes to the draft. Teams should take the best available player and not draft based on need. You don't pass up a possible elite forward because you might need defensemen.
Also, like me, you probably remember the Islanders prospect pool being ranked at the bottom of the NHL at the start of the year. The Athletic's Scott Wheeler ranked it 31st out of 32 pools (subscription required).
So in my opinion that's the need to bring in as much quality as possible to augment this pool that desperately needs it.
But, for the sake of playing both sides of the coin, do the Islanders have a need? As in, is there one position that is really weak in the prospect pool compared to others? I'd say right-handed defensemen is comparatively weak against the other positions within the Isles prospect pool.
Currently, the Isles RHD pool is staffed with Grant Hutton, Bode Wilde, and Tomas Machu. A 26-year-old Hutton who isn't really a prospect anymore, Bode Wilde whose days are probably numbered in the Isles system, and Tomas Machu who's a seventh-round pick from last year.
Both Wilde and Machu have taken steps back in their development this season. For Machu, you can explain that after going from the Czech league to the USHL. For Wilde, who was sent out on loan to a second-tier Swedish side, you can't. Wilde didn't stand out in Sweden and was a healthy scratch for a number of games.
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Ressources Aquatiques Québec (RAQ) is an inter-institutional group concerned with the sustainable development of the aquaculture and fisheries industries in Québec. It brings together some 30 Quebec researchers who have a large network of collaborators at provincial, national, and international levels.
The regular members of RAQ are from eight academic institutions (Université du Québec à Rimouski [host institution]; Université Laval; Université de Montréal; Université de Sherbrooke; Institut national de la recherche scientifique [INRS], Armand Frappier Institute; École Polytechnique de Montréal; Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Université du Québec à Montréal; and a college institution [Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles]); from provincial (Québec’s Ministère Forêts, Faune et Parcs) and federal (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) agencies; and from the Canadian Museum of Nature, Merinov, the Montreal Biodome, and the Centre de recherche sur les biotechnologies marines (CRBM) in Rimouski.
RAQ has been supported financially since 2006 by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) (Programme regroupements stratégiques). RAQ is the only inter-institutional group in Québec whose goal is to actively participate in the sustainable development of Québec's aquaculture and fisheries industries. It creates a forum that brings together Québec industry members and decision-makers specialized in freshwater and coastal systems, having expertise on fish and shellfish, and who are interested in biotechnology and the economic, legal, and ethical aspects of the field. The result has been the formation of a strong, interdisciplinary, inter-institutional association that is open to new innovations and that above all has a strong objective to aid in continuing development within the industries.
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RAQ's new scientific program is based on FAO's Blue Growth Initiative, the goal of which is to improve the sustainable management of aquatic living resources by reconciling use and conservation to attain economically, socially, and environmentally responsible development. Our scientific program is designed with the aim of providing innovative tools and the knowledge necessary to achieve the sustainable development of Quebec’s aquatic resources. Axes 1 and 2 include theoretical and practical developments related to the overall goal of implementing the sustainable development (axis 3) of our sectors of activity.
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Host–microbiota interactions using the holobiont approach;
Expertise in the omics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics);
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Increasing the productivity and sustainability of aquaculture companies requires improvements in nutrition, disease control, and genetics as well as production innovations.
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Develop sustainable ways of protecting against disease;
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Identify gene networks associated with the expression of phenotypes of interest;
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To address the growing problems of overexploitation, the challenges associated with the return of certain species, and habitat degradation, it is crucial to gain new knowledge about fisheries ecosystems. Based on the four fundamental concepts mentioned above, our overall objectives related to the fisheries research axis are as follows:
Characterize the diversity of exploited natural populations;
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The falling of the Iron Curtain paved the way for Maharaji's first address in Eastern Europe on July 12, 1990, in a Warsaw hotel. For those who attended, it was a historic event. More than once he talked of the transience of great civilisations–ancient Greece and Egypt were his examples.
Instead of pursuing immortality and fulfillment through external means, he advised the audience that they could quench their inner longing by listening to "that call from inside" to know themselves.
Extracts from this memorable address follow:
"It's very interesting that I finally made it to Poland. This evening we have a chance to hear a little bit about what this message is all about
"The message is very simple, because it doesn't deal with anything except a feeling. And the premise for everything that is being said is based upon just this: have we ever felt a longing in our lives? Have we ever felt this thing, called the heart, in ourselves. If you have ever felt that feeling, then you can understand everything that I have to say. It doesn't matter when you felt that feeling, or how many times you felt it, or if you only felt it once in your life.
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"We are such creatures of just thought and not of feeling. So it has to start from a simple feeling that says: 'l must understand what my thirst is' It begins with that. It doesn't end with that, it begins with that. That becomes the very first step. And then, you begin to feel.
"If you can feel that thirst, and if you can imagine what it would be like to have fulfillment in this life, then it all makes sense. All of a sudden, the possibility becomes real. And it is that possibility that we can all pursue in our lives. I am not here to offer anybody a religion, or a doctrine, or a dogma, but just to offer the understanding of that possibility in this life.
"The possibility does exist. And to reach out and to grab that moment in our lives, that's what it's all about. To take that challenge and say: 'Yes. I want that feeling in my life'."
The barriers are still coming down
Translation is helping it happen
In Prague in the Czech Republic, video events happen in Jaro Svitok's apartment. Jaro is seated on the right
Since 1990, barriers have been coming down in Eastern Europe in more ways than one. Following the dramatic political changes, Maharaji was able to visit the region for the first time that year.
"No matter what generation, no matter what civilisation, no matter who, when, where, or how, there has always been a thirst," Maharaji told the audience of over 600 in Warsaw, Poland, on July 12.
"And yet, today, in 1990, things are changing so rapidly. Things are evolving so rapidly, but the question is still there. Is that quest for fulfillment still within us, or not? And the answer is: yes, it is, because it is nothing that we can resist."
Over the last few years, more Eastern Europeans have been able to travel to see Maharaji. And the new climate has also made it easier for instructors to visit and for video events to happen. The number of people with Knowledge is still relatively small in these countries, but there are aspirants in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, and, Bulgaria; and enthusiasm is great.
Local languages
With the help of Elan Vital associations, bOth in Germany and Austria, videos are made increasingly available, some with translation into local languages. Contacts now exist in most countries and more effort is being made to communicate and share information. This means that people can now find out where videos are being shown when traveling from country to country.
Natasha Filatova, who speaks Russian and lives in Germany, is able to provide translated videos for the six people with Knowledge and seven aspirants in and around Moscow whose ability to travel out of Russia is restricted. Translated videos also go to interested people in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Moldova. Others in Russia will also soon benefit once they know the translations are available. One dedicated aspirant from Ukraine has been collecting videos from Germany during his annual trips and is showing them to four other aspirants in his country, painstakingly providing his own live Russian translation from German.
In Bulgaria, two aspirants like to watch videos every night, seven days a week–from a small collection. It is hoped that new stocks will arrive soon–by which time they may well be able to remember current ones word for word.
In Poland, an average of 14 people attend weekly local events in bothe towns, and around five to ten people are introduced through videos every month in Hungary. In both the Czech Republic and Hungary, a single person with Knowledge awaits requests from anyone interested in watching a video.
Piotr Kress reports from Poznan in Poland that they have now 29 videos already translated and are working on getting more done. They have just upgraded their distribution system to get the new ones around their communities more rapidly.
For contact telephone numbers in Eastern Europe, please ask at the information table at your local video event.
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Nothing celebrates life … like life" This quote on the cover of the new introductory book, produced by Visions, does what no title can. It prepares the reader for the excerpts inside which take you simply, step by step, towards a greater understanding of Maharaji and Knowledge.
The book, along with an ever-growing range of other products, is available from Visions International and Elan Vital sales areas–one of which is always present at international events, and sometimes at local video events.
Much of Visions' new material is introductory, such as the video: Introducing MaharajiFulfillment, launched at the Wembley event in London. This has a historical perspective and includes narration set to a colorful montage of daily life.
Videos showing footage from Maharaji's 1998 tour are now also available, including two from the February participation meeting in Miami: Like a watch and One by one
A couple of real treats are the Long Beach '97 Special, a feature length video of last year's three-day event, and The Connection, containing scenes of some very happy Africans spending time with Maharaji, released in response to popular demand.
If not for you
Music recorded live at Long Beach 1997 is now available on CD or cassette. This includes the upbeat Feel like a king, Daya's beautiful rendering of Bob Dylan's, If not for you, and Rhythm of life, sung by Wadi on the last night of the event.
Another new release is an instrumental collection by classical guitarist Manuel Iman, Songs from a grateful heart. These songs are a reflection of heartfelt feelings and gratitude and some are evocative of the early days, when Maharaji first came to the West.
Gifts, designed and manufactured with unusual care and flair, are also available at three-day events, and through mail order, at a wide range of prices. If you like flying, try the rainbow lotus kite. It's designed by an expert, and built to withstand high winds.
The sales area, which seems to get bigger and brighter at each event, is always worth a visit, even if you just like to browse.
6 Connect 1998
Newsround
Event News
A new publication was launched at Long Beach last year. Each evening, excerpts from Maharaji's latest address were rapidly transcribed, proofread and laid out to fill the front page of a one-sheet newspaper.
Further stories, relevant to the event, were gathered by a team of reporters roving around the auditorium. These comprised the bulk of the back page.
Once it had been completed, the master copy of Event News was rushed to a local printer and produced overnight, in time for people to read it on their way into the hall the following morning.
In April, a further three editions of Event News were produced for the Baisakhi program in Delhi. These editions, entirely in Hindi, involved a truly international collaboration between members of the original team and a group of Indian volunteers. As at Long Beach, the first day's version was prepared in advance using material from previous events at the same location. Though this was received with much enthusiasm, the second day's paper in India was not, at first, in such great demand. Many people simply didn't realise that the paper was totally different from day to day. Until this was pointed out to them, they felt reluctant to buy it on the grounds that "they already had a copy:'
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Editor Mark Winter commented: "In Miami, readers could believe that we had managed to get last night's speech in print for the following morning but not everyone realised that the photos, too, were fresh. Using digital technology, we were illustrating each page with pictures taken only hours before."
May's Miami Beach editions of Event News represented another technological achievement. Once they had been completed, the finished pages were emailed to Delhi and rushed to a nearby printer. There, they were produced in time for local program-goers to read them at the next night's video event
There will be three editions of the paper at Wembley and limited supply of Miami back issues will be available at Visions sales area there.
The second of three Delhi issues of Event News
Spanish Highlights
News from Granada and Zaragoza, and memories from Barcelona
In Granada, where the enchanted castles seem to come straight from the Thousand and One Nights, magic is also in people's hearts.
Javier Carmona, who lives there, describes how interest in Maharaji and Knowledge has recently grown. "We had been holding video events in a small office but when we returned from the Long Beach event in California ,at the end of 1996, we felt that we could take a step forward and began looking for hotel meeting rooms. We had barely started when seven people became interested in finding out more.
No longer was it just Teresa, Juan, Lola, and Javier. Now they had Joaquin, Maria, and Amanda. One day the hotel manager said the price of the room had gone up. Fortunately, that same day Javier discovered there was a possibility of holding events in the Granada Convention Hall, a prestigious venue in the city.
Now they have 10 video events a month instead of four and 14 aspirants instead of five. Videos are shown in the Press Room, which is widely known throughout Spain. At the first introductory event most of the 40 people in the audience had come for the first time or were aspirants.
"If someone had told me a few years ago that all this was going to happen, I would not have believed it," says Javier. "But I recall when we first booked the Convention Hall, someone told me that it was a very important place and I answered that we had to aim our sights high."
Breaking new ground
Traveling north from Granada you will eventually come across a town surrounded by flat, dry land. This is Zaragoza–famous for being the toughest place in Spain for breaking new ground. Because of this reputation, when firms want to test a new product into the Spanish market they always launch it there first. They know that if they can make it in Zaragoza they can make it anywhere.
Currently there are 20 people with Knowledge and last September they made an effort to step up propagation. They shyly invited new people and carefully selected introductory and follow-up videos and improved their brochures and invitations.
Growing numbers
The result is that there are now 30 aspirants-25 of them regular and 16 of these have been watching videos for more than five months. The numbers are growing every month.
So, there may be a lesson to be learned here. As they say in Zaragoza, "If it works here, it can also work for you."
Barcelona memories
Cast your mind back to 1975 when the first Knowledge session took place in Spain. Ana Picque, currently living in Barcelona, remembers it well. "I remember when I was an aspirant. I would go to listen at the Cardedeu center," she says. She recalls the surprising sight of piles of shoes in the hallway and the strong smell of incense. Those were the years of underground activity as, under Franco's dictatorship, gatherings of more than eight people were prohibited. However, the message gradually spread and in 1976 Maharaji came for the first time, speaking in Madrid and Barcelona.
Vivid memories
Ana has particularly vivid memories of the Marbella bullring in southern Spain in 1978. With little organising experience but a lot of enthusiasm, they managed to pull off an international event. The following year, Maharaji accepted an invitation to come again. For Ana it was unforgettable.
Since then Maharaji has accepted an invitation each year, sometimes to Madrid, sometimes to Barcelona, and sometimes to both cities.
Bulgaria blossoms
For the nine million people who live there, Bulgaria is not just another chapter in the dark tale of 20th century history. It is home. And most Bulgarians never get a chance to travel anywhere else.
Roumiana Beck was born in Sofia, the capital city. Thanks to a family connection in Australia, she was able to go there in 1967 and, some while later, she was granted Australian nationality. She received Knowledge in Sydney in 1974. A keen student of art, Roumiana painted murals and frescos, eventually starting an arts center. Later, she journeyed to America. Throughout her extensive travels though, she nurtured a dream: she wanted, one day, to return to her native land and let others know about her chief source of inspiration - Maharaj Ji's Knowledge.
"This magic," she says, "has affected me very deeply."
"For three years, I went back to Bulgaria periodically. And each time all my friends came over to visit me. I found myself translating tapes from morning to night. So then I began to feel I had to go back to live there. It was a heartfelt feeling."
Two years ago, Roumiana returned permanently. But throughout her first year back in Bulgaria, Roumiana had no video player of her own. She had to borrow a machine from a friendly neighbor. Now, though, on her own equipment, in her own apartment, she is able to show tapes seven nights a week. Still though, Roumiana has to translate those tapes herself.
Fascination
Many of Roumiana's friends and neighbors watch the videos frequently, with fascination, but it is not easy for them to take that interest any further. Even the nearest international events are a prohibitive distance away - and not only must the travel be arranged, but an exit visa must be applied for.
For Roumiana, who still has her Australian passport, this is not such a problem. When one interested person decided, last year, that she really wanted to make Knowledge a reality, a great deal of effort had to be gone to.
"This lady was determined to see Maharaji while he was in Europe. And not only did she hear Maharaji speak, she was selected to receive Knowledge. I felt really happy that she was ready–for the only events she had attended, prior to this, were those little gatherings at my home. It's real proof of how the videos alone can do it for you." | https://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/dlm_pubs/connect/issue1_1998_p06.html | 1,664,442,240 |
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This is not in any sense a bibliography and nor are the publishers’ details or dates provided. The list is far from exhaustive but each item provides information that will both entertain and instruct. A number are readily available; for others a good starting point would be the village Community Library or booksellers in Dinnet and Ballater. If you are aware of other books and articles that we should include, we would of course welcome further information. Please let us know using the Contact Us tab.
1. The Aboyne Heritage Walk
This booklet, produced by the Aboyne and Deeside Heritage Society, is available at many outlets in the village, costs £2 and is full of information and photos, with an illustrated map.
Mr Urquhart and his young apprentice
2. A Walk Around Aboyne
Written by Jim Cheyne. a distinguished local pioneer who published and posted information on many aspects of Aboyne.
Jim seated – launch of Aboyne Heritage Walk signboard
3. D.Fox (donaldpfox.blogspot.co.uk)
These internet articles are an indispensable source of information about key events in Aboyne’s past and its many characters, including William Cunliffe Brooks, the Sandisons of the Huntly Arms Hotel, the Gordon family and John Davidson.
!9th Century Aboyne
A piece of heritage for the Heritage Society. That’s where we used to meet for our monthly talks!
Huntly Arms
Changed days. Changed menu. Changed prices. Changed spelling!
Gazebo – Huntly Arms – site of gambling between Lairds and Royalty
Can you date this from the Motorbike?
Royal welcome: in the 1950’s?
Great Balance: Frank Harper
The Fountain, erected in 1904 and restored in 2015. The Millennium date from 2001
4. Glentanar
Pierre Fouin grew up there and his book is an indispensable guide to the Brooks and Coats families and to changing everyday life in the Glen.
One of the many clues to Glentanar’s Canadian links
Typical of the cards by the artist Russell Flint which Lord and Lady Glentanar would commission each Christmas
5. Deeside and the Mearns
Edited by Professor Jane Geddes, this illustrates the provenance and significance of Aboyne’s many architectural treasures.
Aboyne Castle-with wings
Castle with new wing
6. Records of Aboyne; Milestones and The Cock 0′ The North
Written by the 11th Marquis, these volumes provide lively and unique insights into his many interests, the historical records and development of our community, and the pivotal role his family played in the village annals.
The 11th Marquis, his wife and groom.
7. St Thomas’ Church
Jane Kruuk’s booklet is a detailed guide to the history and architecture of this beautiful Episcopal church, which was consecrated in 1909 and was the gift of George Coats, who, in 1916, became Lord (Ist Baron) Glentanar.
8. The Church at Aboyne
Lewis Lawson’s booklet highlights the history of the village’s Presbyterian Church, which is designed in the Gothic style. The parish church was moved from Formaston to its current location in 1762 and the book has many interesting insights into changing social conditions and attitudes in the village.
9. History of St Margaret’s Church
This booklet tells the story of the Village’s Roman Catholic Church on Ballater Road(1874), designed by the 11th Marquis’ Clerk of Works Alexander Ogilvie, and the role it played for local and visiting congregations such as the French-Canadian lumberjacks stationed on Deeside during WW2.
10. Lost Deeside
Written by Daniel MacCannell, this is a lively and illuminating guide to the history of the valley and its many different but connected communities.
11. Then and Now on The Great North
Volume 1, by Graham Maxtone and Mike Cooper ( the latter of whom gave an excellent talk to the Heritage Society), was published in 2018 and contains a chapter on the Deeside line with excellent photographs and text.
approaching Aboyne Loch- with water often also on the left
Heading east for Aberdeen, sometime between 1955-1958
A unique aerial view:remarkable changes have clearly been made to the locations to the north , east and south of the Station
Aboyne Railway Station 1974
Where did the tunnel emerge? When the line was close down, what was the tunnel used for and by whom?
Dismantling of Aboyne Station following closure
The railway line and old Mill
How many Aboyne’s cyclists along the railway line would recognise this?
Cool Bus!
Recovering from Storm Frank
Shops in 1884
wooden piles by the bridge- remains of what?
This flint tool was lost at Heughhead Farm, Aboyne for 6000 years- then recently found!
The 4 musketeers at Aboyne Academy
Bob England, Jim Craig, Gordon Dinnie, Nell Dinnie and Peter Middleton (l-r) played locally in the 1940’s and 1950’s
A prehistoric spear-head found at Aboyne
An Academy partnership
This is not the Aboyne Probus Cycling group, despite initial appearances! It is John Milne, father of Robert Milne the renowned photographer of the Royal Family. (Photo taken by Robert).
12. Lordship and Power in the North of Scotland
Barry Robertson’s book is the outstanding study ot the ‘Noble House of Huntly’ in the crucial and complex 17th Century, with key insights into regional and national developments which were influenced by, and in turn shaped, the Gordon family.
13. Aboyne – a Social Miscellany
This will be the site of miscellaneous images relating to the community of Aboyne and Deeside from pre-history to the present day.
Aboyne Ball 1952
Aboyne Games 1871. Note the buildings in the background- can you spot any changes from today
Rugby Club Dinner: Scotland Rugby Captain David Sole
( from Glenbuchat) shakes hands with the Aboyne Captain: does the latter remind you of anyone?
Look closely- what date was this?
Site of Aboyne’s Mesolithic past–extending north of the road
Aboyne – Neolithic meeting place
The missing stone from the Circle? Quite probably.
14. Fenton Wyness, Royal Valley. The Aberdeenshire Dee
Packed full of intriguing information, not all of it now reliable!
As is another breezy and enjoyable read, Cuthbert Graham’s Portrait of Aberdeen and Deeside.
15. William C. Wonders: The Sawdust Fusiliers
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DIY Rolled Flower Basket Handmade Card – Perfect Gift for Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, the time is now to start thinking of that “one-of-a-kind” gift to give your Mom that she will not only love but be able to keep for years to come. Chocolates are great but tend to get eaten quickly, gifts cards are given and are a one-and-done type use and then it’s over…and real flowers picked and hand-delivered may be pretty for a few days but soon begin to wilt and lose their beauty. This Mother’s Day, why not give your Mom the gift of a Handmade Card Made With Rolled Flowers? Think about how much she would appreciate a gift that you took time on, created, and tailored just for her. And the best part? The flowers on the card will NEVER wilt or die meaning that she can keep this Mother’s Day gift for forever! Sounds like the perfect plan for the perfect Mother’s Day gift, right? While this card would be fine on its own, pair it up with a nice breakfast in bed to really start her day with a bang. And don’t worry! The directions for this super simple Mother’s Day craft are step-by-step and easy to follow. You’ll be amazed at your end product and your Mom will be wowed by your creativity!
List of Supplies:
Colored Craft Papers – 5-6 different colors
Scissors
Craft Glue
Brown Burlap Fabric
Pencil (optional)
Template
Step by Step Instructions on How to Make This Handmade Card:
Step 1:
Print and cut out the patterns from this template. If you’re an expert in cutting templates then you can cut the patterns without the template. The template includes 5 spiral patterns with scallop border, 5 small square patterns with fringed edge and 8 leaf patterns. Trace the patterns on the selected craft papers and cut them out nicely.
Step 2:
Take any one of the spiral patterns and roll it from its outer edge. Continue to roll towards the center. After reaching the center allow the rolled patterns to loosen up a little and then glue the rolled patterns with the center of the spiral to secure the roll. Also roll the small square fringed patterns along their intact side. Similarly prepare the rest of the items.
Step 3:
Glue the fringed rolled patterns on the center of the rolled flower patterns.
Step 4:
Take a piece of white craft paper and a brown burlap fabric piece. Cut the burlap into a basket shape, the size of the basket should be relatively smaller than the white craft paper. Glue the burlap basket pattern on the white craft paper, near to its bottom side.
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Now attach the leaves between the flowers, randomly.
Step 7:
Finally, prepare the card, which should be at least 2 cm bigger from all sides than the white craft paper. Attach the white craft paper (with the flower basket) on the center of the prepared card.
Make it a Mother’s Day to remember with this beautiful Flower Basket Card created especially for your Mom.
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This article explains how to determine the right uninterruptible power supply size to fit your needs.
How Big Should My Uninterruptible Power Supply Be?
The three significant factors to consider when setting up a UPS are the intended load (i.e., the combined voltage and amperage of all connected electronics), the capacity (i.e., maximum power output), and the runtime (i.e., how long it can supply battery power for). A UPS is most efficient when the capacity closely matches the overall load without falling below the necessary levels. In other words, you’ll want to avoid using a UPS with a lower capacity than the intended load.
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The necessary runtime for your UPS depends on how long you want or need your connected devices to continue to operate during an outage. Larger batteries or external battery packs (if the UPS supports them) will increase runtime. On the other hand, more devices and more power draw decrease runtime.
Figure out all of the electronic devices you’ll be connecting to the UPS.
Determine both the voltage and the amperage for each device. It should be included in the device’s documentation or listed on its nameplate.
Multiply the voltage by the amperage to calculate each device’s volt-amp (VA) rating, then add all VA ratings together to determine the total VA necessary for your UPS.
It is recommended to exceed your VA totals by 10% to 15% (or more) to provide a bit of a protective buffer and account for growth over time.
To account for this buffer/future growth, multiply your VA total by 1.15 for 15%, 1.20 for 20%, and so on.
Compare your VA total (preferably with at least a 15% to 20% adjustment) to the UPS output/VA rating to find one that’s a good fit.
For example, if you plan to hook up a single M1 Mac mini (2020), which uses a maximum of 39 watts and around five amps if it’s used all day, the VA rating would be 195 (39 x 5). The VA total would then become 224.25 (195 x 1.15), accounting for 15% growth.
How Do I Know My UPS Capacity?
The capacity of your UPS is its maximum power output (AKA VA rating). When shopping for a UPS, the VA rating should be listed along with the type (Standby, Line-Interactive, or On-Line), input voltage, etc., on the box or product page. If you already have a UPS and want to check, the capacity should be in the documentation that came with the UPS and displayed somewhere on the UPS casing itself (likely on one side, the back, or the underside).
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How Long Will a 300W UPS Last?
The available runtime for a 300 watt UPS largely depends on the make and model itself and how close to capacity the connected load is. Some UPS will last around three minutes with a full load, some up to five minutes, and so on. If the UPS is operating at a less than full load, it will likely provide backup power for a little longer than it would otherwise. Some UPS may also list their total load runtime, though you can calculate it for yourself if necessary.
How Do You Calculate How Long a UPS Will Last?
The commonly-used formula for calculating the runtime of a UPS is pretty straightforward, but you have to know a few additional values first.
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Find the capacity of the UPS battery in ampere hours (Ah). This information should be included with the UPS documentation, on the listing page, or on the battery itself.
Find the input voltage of the UPS.
Determine the total load for the UPS in watts by adding up the watts used by all of the connected devices.
Multiply the battery capacity by the input voltage, then divide that number by the total load.
For example, a UPS with a battery capacity of 150Ah, 10V of input voltage, and a load of 700 watts should handle a runtime of around two minutes (150 x 10, divided by 700).
FAQ
How do I choose an uninterruptible power supply?
Choosing the best uninterruptible power supply largely depends on how you use it. For instance, if you are picking a UPS for your Mac or PC, you should consider the device wattage, VA rating, and runtime, along with the size.
What are the benefits of using a UPS?
An uninterruptible power supply, or battery backup, can help protect your computer. It can provide backup power when the electricity goes out, act as a power "conditioners" to keep electricity flowing to your computer and accessories free from drops or surges, and decrease noisy power sources.
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Skull: The Mask is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher. The film starts in 1944 in the World War 2 era Amazon jungle. A group, who appear to be Nazis, have gotten control of an ancient artifact called the Mask of Anhanga and conduct a ritual that goes horribly wrong. Anhanga was the executioner for an old god named T’Uxlu, who is a guardian of the underworld. The mask is gone until it is uncovered by archaeologists and brought to present day Sao Paulo, Brazil where it finds a new host and starts ripping hearts out again.
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“Beautifully written, intelligent and insightful, the memoirs of Farah Diba Pahlavi open a window on the life of one of the great women of our time and offer a unique perspective on the extraordinary country over which she and her husband reigned before darkness fell.” ―Bob Colacello, founding editor Interview maghrone. The candid words reveal her vision for a better Iran, without any idea of what history would bring―the end of the fairy tale.
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From Persia with love: How an Empress transformed Iran with art
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Dubbed “the Jackie Kennedy of the Middle East”, Farah Pahlavi built a world-class collection of modern art before she and her husband were exiled. Now 80, she reflects on her beloved country.
Time was when Farah Pahlavi could paralyze parts of Manhattan merely through word of her presence. One time in the late 1970s, police on horseback struggled to hold back a crowd of baying demonstrators outside The Pierre, an aristocratic hotel by Central Park. On another occasion, the NYPD flooded midtown with more than 2000 officers, encircling the Hilton with what The New York Times describe. That was an era when she counted triple-A celebrities among her friends and acquaintances: Elizabeth Taylor, Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol. It was also a tumultuous, pre-revolutionary age when n I arrive at the luxury apartment building on the Upper West Side where she's due to attend a late-afternoon reception, the doorman on duty looks at me bemusedly when I tell him I'm here to see "the Empress of Iran"
Farah Pahlavi was the first woman in the country's 2500-year history to be bestowed with that title. She was adored, almost worshipped by many of her late husband's subjects. But though the cheery woman who walks into the lobby still gives off a bright-eyed royal radiance, absent are any regal airs and graces. No longer is she trailed by men in dark suits mumbling into their sleeves, a far cry from the days when royal coaches paraded through the streets of Tehran flanked by a mounted guard of spear-carrying horsemen.
Nor is she extravagantly dressed. Pahlavi is wearing a thigh-length woven paisley jacket and camel trousers, her tawny hair gathered up in a bow, an unfussy outfit for a queen who in her palace heyday wore glamorous showstoppers by Givenchy, Dior, and Valentino.
Upstairs at the reception, when an Iranian-American plastic surgeon approaches Pahlavi hesitantly, bowing his head in genuflection and then bending down to kiss her hand, she looks somewhat taken aback. Minutes later they are laughing, joking, and reminiscing about their homeland with almost backslapping bonhomie. Turns out the doctor trained in Shiraz at what was then called Pahlavi University, an institution she helped found and the first in Iran to be based on the American model. His entire medical degree costs just a hundred bucks, he tells her to uproarious laughter, and thus he owes her an enormous debt.
Watching her humbly work the room, happily posing for photos – nobody asks Her Majesty for a selfie – one wonders how this genial grandmother could ever have been placed on a revolutionary death list. Then you sense this infectious charm, this natural empathy, this ease among her followers, was precisely the reason why. On the eve of her 80th birthday, Pahlavi is here to celebrate the publication of a new book. The power she once projected peers out from its cover: an iconographic portrait of her from the mid-1970s, taken through the lens of Andy Warhol's Polaroid Big Shot camera. Iran Modern: The Empress of Art tells the story of one of the 20th century's more unlikely cultural brokers, a woman who amassed the greatest collection of Western modern art anywhere outside of the US or Europe, starting with the Impressionists and ending with what were then contemporary greats such as Jackson Pollock.
"It's beautiful, it's fabulous, it's a work of art in itself," she says of this handcrafted limited-edition book that comes in a canary-yellow clamshell case. But inside is a story of exile, loss, and heartbreak, of artistic triumph and tragedy. Once you learn the backstory, Warhol's silk-screen rendering takes on a different meaning. One notices not just her charismatic dominion but also the sorrow in those kohl-rimmed eyes.
Farah Diba – the name Farah means "joy" in Persian– was a daughter not of the Persian aristocracy but rather Tehran's middle class. Born in 1938, she was nine when her father, an Imperial Iranian Army captain, died, and she was raised by her mother, Farideh, "a very serious woman" who struggled financially but managed to send her daughter to private Italian and French schools. Farah was a bit of a tomboy, throwing herself into the girl-scout movement and captaining the school basketball team. "My god, I was 15, 16 with this short skirt," she laughs, rolling her eyes exaggeratedly. "Compare that with what is happening [in Iran] now."
As a child, she developed a love of art from leafing through the sketchbooks of her paternal grandfather, a good drawer who kept art journals, and on leaving school she went to Paris to study at the prestigious École Spéciale d'Architecture. Invited to a reception at the Iranian Embassy in 1959, she was introduced to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had first been crowned the Shah of Iran in 1941 and returned to power in 1953 following a CIA-backed coup. What were her first impressions? "He had beautiful eyes but sad eyes." Why were they sad? "For his life. The pressure on him." They provided a window on her future.
A courtship developed when she returned to Tehran for the summer. They were married in December 1959 in a ceremony at Tehran's Marble Palace, where she wore a gown by Yves Saint Laurent and a two-kilogram tiara designed by jeweler to the stars Harry Winston. In keeping with Persian tradition, the bride remained silent when twice asked if she wanted to marry the Shah. Asked a final time, she said yes. Farah became his third wife. The first two had failed to provide him with a male heir. Ten months later she gave birth to a son, Crown Prince Reza, the first of the couple's four children. The Shah was 40, she almost half his age and her new role were overwhelming. "As a 21-year-old girl, I didn't know what to do," she recalls. "When the Shah asked me to marry him, he said, 'As a queen, you will have a lot of responsibilities.' I said, 'Of course,' but I couldn't imagine the scale of it."
In those early years, she was more Princess Diana than Jackie Kennedy. Visiting Iran's impoverished towns and villages. Reaching out her royal hand to the needy. Setting up a community for lepers, leading blood drives, and creating mobile libraries – these were sometimes mules that ferried books into the mountains. "In those days, my most important work was with the children, with the orphans, with the lepers," she recalls. "I was traveling all over Iran, seeing what needed to be done." It's the stuff of a Queen of Hearts fable, but it also happens to be true.
In 1963, her husband launched the White Revolution, a reform program intended to bring modernity to the ancient kingdom, and also to lend his reign more legitimacy in the eyes of the peasantry. "Iran was going ahead in every way," she says. "In the economy, industry, education, our relations with the rest of the world, in everything. Many dreams came true during that period." Women's rights were also given a boost in a 1963 referendum that ushered in female enfranchisement, and family protection laws that allowed wives to obtain divorces raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 and granted mothers new custody rights. The Shiite clergy fiercely opposed this liberalization program, pushed through with the iron fist of the regime, and a cleric by the name of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the figurehead of protests. Khomeini was exiled in 1964, but his insurgent followers were not so easily banished.
In 1967, partly to honor the women of Iran, the Shah elevated the status of his wife; a highly unusual move for a Muslim monarchy. In another opulent ceremony, in the Hall of Mirrors in Tehran's Golestan Palace, Farah was crowned the Empress of Iran, or Shahbanu, the Shah's consort. For the coronation ceremony, she wore a long white satin Dior dress; the emblem of Iran was embroidered in gold into the cape. In further promotion, she became the first woman to be named the Shah's regent. It meant that if her husband died before their son, Crown Prince Reza, reached adulthood, she would take the throne until his 21st birthday.
No Iranian woman had ever occupied such an exalted position. To outsiders, it might even have looked like the flowering of women's liberation in the Middle East. But the Shah could also be chauvinistic. In a televised cabinet meeting, he condescendingly scolded his wife for suggesting he promote more music across the land. "Why is this my concern?" he snapped as if dismissing some lowly courtier. His misogyny also came to the fore in a 1973 interview with the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.
"Women count only if they are beautiful, graceful, and know-how to stay feminine," he declared, like some medieval potentate. "You may be equal in the eye of the law, but not inability … You have never produced a Michelangelo or a Bach. You've never even produced a great cook … You're schemers. You're evil. Every one of you."
When the trailblazing American TV presenter Barbara Walters challenged the Shah about these comments in a prime-time interview in 1977, it made for excruciating viewing. "Do you think a woman could govern as well as a man?" probed Walters. There followed the most awkward of prolonged silences, a television eternity in which he visibly shriveled before the camera. Eventually, the shell-shocked Shah muttered: "I'd prefer not to answer that." Then Walters turned to the Empress. "Say something, Your Majesty," she implored. There was a gaping pause, and a frozen half-smile. "What can I say?" was her pained response.
I ask Pahlavi if her husband was really a modern man. "Very modern, very kind, really polite, with everybody," she replies, with such a show of loyalty that it feels cruel to pose a Walters-style follow-up. As the staunchest defender of her husband's memory, what can she say?
As a young queen, Pahlavi's teenage fascination with building and architecture matured into a keen appreciation of fine art. She immersed herself in the local arts scene, lending her imperial imprimatur to events such as 1962's Tehran Biennale, and not only supported the work of young Iranian painters and sculptors but also displayed it in the royal palaces. In the late 1960s, she helped found the Shiraz Arts Festival for music, dance, drama, poetry, and film, a bohemian fete intended to put Iran on the cultural map. In 1971, to mark the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great, she staged a gala attended by Monaco's Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the Philippines' Imelda Marcos. So over-indulgent were the celebrations, some historians believe they provided a jewel-encrusted seedbed for the Iranian revolution.
Then there were the museums she created: to house Persian carpets, pre-Islamic ceramics, 19th-century Iranian paintings, Luristan bronzes and, what would become her crowning achievement, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Originally, the museum was intended as a showcase for Iranian artists, but with the Shah's regime awash with cash following the doubling of oil prices in 1973, Pahlavi's artistic ambitions ballooned. Why not also make it the home to some of the world's greatest modern and contemporary works, pieces she had long admired from afar? "It's now or never to buy some of these things," she told her husband, as she spearheaded a spending spree on the international art market, snapping up works by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Paul Gauguin, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miró, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a triptych by Francis Bacon and one of Jackson Pollock's most celebrated drip-paintings, Mural on Indian Red Ground. (She also tried to acquire Pollock's Blue Poles, but the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, with the backing of PM Gough Whitlam, outbid her.)
As well as being a patron, she visited and befriended artists: Henry Moore, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall. At a White House gala thrown by US president Gerald Ford, she met Andy Warhol, although the pop artist tried to avoid her for much of the evening, hurriedly moving from one stately room to another, through fear she would ask him to dance. "He wondered why this woman was running after him," she says, laughing. Eventually, she cornered him, and the conversation that followed persuaded Warhol to visit Iran in 1976. In between pool parties and caviar binges at the Tehran Intercontinental, Warhol took a portrait of the Empress that proved such a hit in the royal household that he returned to photograph the Shah.
Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1977, with parkland once used by the military now dotted with sculptures by Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and a Brutalist building dubbed an "underground Guggenheim" because of its spiral ramp that took visitors on a descent into its bowels. Here was hung what's been called "the best modern art collection you have never heard of": 200 or so works with a current-day value conservatively estimated at well over $US3 billion.
Less than two years later, the Shah was deposed in the Islamic Revolution, and the couple was forced into exile – in Egypt, Morocco, The Bahamas, Mexico and, briefly, the US, where President Jimmy Carter's decision to allow the Shah to receive cancer treatment prompted the seizure of 52 American diplomats and staff at the US embassy in Tehran. "It was very, very hard to leave, especially when I saw the tears in the eyes of my husband," Pahlavi remembers. "When you leave your land, your love, your belongings, it's very sad. But I didn't want to be negative. I didn't want to lose my hope and positivity." On the plane, as they jetted towards Egypt, she immediately began writing morale-boosting letters to friends and supporters left behind.
To this day, the size of the Shah's fortune remains a mystery. When asked the vexing question of how much he managed to take out of the country, the exiled monarch claimed he left no richer than an average American millionaire. But the new revolutionary government calculated differently, launching a New York lawsuit in 1979 seeking $US36.5 billion it claimed he had plundered from the Iranian people.
Did the museum contribute to their overthrow? Opened on Pahlavi's 39th birthday, with her cousin as the principal architect, it could be construed as a landmark to the Pahlavis' extravagance. "Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all," she says, vehemently shaking her head. "There was no reaction to the museum. It was for Iranian art, not just foreign art."
As Islamic revolutionaries swept through the streets, curators at the museum tried to hide the collection from the mob and succeeded in protecting most of it – although a Henry Moore bronze took a bullet. Years later, however, Pahlavi watched a French documentary that showed a Warhol portrait from her personal collection slashed with a knife. That must have been wounding? "I thought, 'They're stupid,' " she chortles. "If they'd have kept it, they could have sold it for a million dollars."
With much of the gallery turned by the Ayatollah into a bunker-like vault, most of the collection was not seen for decades. In 1999 and 2005, some works were briefly put on display, long enough for photographers to capture Iranian women, shrouded in their hijabs, studying the abstract expressionist works. Long enough to have an impact. Afterward, some of the women who toured the gallery made contact with Pahlavi. "I had tears in my eyes when I stood in front of the Rothko," emailed one. "It's really very touching for me. The seeds you plant with love and belief, they never die."
Two years ago, as relations thawed between the West and Tehran following the landmark nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration and the EU, works from the collection were due to go on display in Berlin and then Rome. At the 11th hour, however, the Iranian authorities pulled out. "They're all the same," Pahlavi says of Iran's supposedly reform-minded leaders. "Before they were flogging people 200 times, now they are flogging people 45 times. Shall we say that's good? It's not."
Pahlavi had planned to travel to Berlin from Paris, where she lives in an apartment overlooking the Seine decorated with contemporary Iranian artwork. Canceling the trip must surely have added to the agony of being divorced from the collection she'd lovingly put together. "I'm not separated, in a way," she says. "With those works, yes, but I go to art galleries with Iranian artists, painters, and sculptors in Paris and New York. I listen to Persian music. So I'm in it. I'm not in Iran, but I am in it."
Loss is a recurring theme in her life. Of her father. Of her husband, who in 1980 died of cancer in Egypt aged 60, 18 months after fleeing his homeland. Of her daughter, Princess Leila, who died from a drug overdose in London in 2001, aged 31. Of her second son, Prince Ali-Reza, who at 44 committed suicide in Boston in 2011. Of the country, she has never returned to. Of her art.
Does it sadden her that so few people get to cast eyes on the collection? "No. What is most important is what has happened to my country. It's not just one museum, there are so many other things. As I always say, I never lose hope for Iran." At least the new book, put together by two Australians, Sydney writer Miranda Darling and London-based art adviser Viola Raikhel-Bolot, will bring many of the works to a new audience. The duo are also filming a documentary on Pahlavi's life. "We all experience loss in our lives," says Darling, "but she's lived it on an epic scale. This is what makes her cinematic and interesting. She was a visionary.
Farah Pahlavi's homeland is again in flux, with the economy floundering, the currency (the rial) plummeting, civil unrest on the streets and Iran targeted again as America's number one global enemy. Polling suggests less than one-third of Iranian-Americans support President Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, and his re-imposition of harsh sanctions. So what about Pahlavi, who has released statements in support of the protesters? "I hope he will continue to support the pursuit of the Iranian people for freedom," she says of Trump. "But I don't want Iran to be attacked. I don't want that to happen."
We talk about the hostility she encountered on earlier visits to New York City. "There were always people demonstrating against us, and they carried pictures of Khomeini and I was so astonished. I said, 'My God, how come these people who shout for freedom and democracy have a portrait of a mullah?'
Those protests were so angry, I point out, partly because of the autocratic excesses of the Shah's regime and the brutality of his hated secret police, the SAVAK, which used electric cattle-prods, acid, nail extractions, mock executions and even snakes to torture opponents. "I can't deny that," she says, nodding. "But my husband really did want to bring in democracy, but when people are not educated and not literate, it takes time."
As the book party draws to a close, and many of the guests start heading for the door carrying signed copies of Iran Modern: The Empress of Art in specially designed tote bags, there's an ear-piercing whistle. With a lusty blast from her lungs, and two fingers wedged into either side of her mouth, the Empress signals it is time to go. Around her assembles what's more of a posse than an entourage: her young granddaughter, her daughter-in-law, and a few well-heeled Iranian friends. And with that, she steps out, anonymous again, into the rainy New York night.
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If you’re anything like us, you want to have a cup of Motorized Coffee for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We get it. However, scientifically speaking, that’s not the right thing to do. Give us a second to explain before you start throwing rod bearings at us!
Much like Gabe’s Corolla has VVT-I, your body has this stress hormone called cortisol that controls your mood, motivation, and fear. It basically lets you act quickly when needed and controls your fight or flight response as well. According to a study, cortisol has “high levels in the morning that peak 30–45 minutes after waking, dropping rapidly for the next several hours and declining slowly throughout the rest of the day, until a low point of around midnight.” In short, cortisol levels are high in the morning, highest 30-45 minutes after you wake up, and drop to their lowest around midnight.
If you drink your coffee immediately after you wake up, the caffeine can mix with the cortisol and make you more agitated or stressed than you probably want to be. What’s worse is that high levels of cortisol for a long period of time can affect your immune system and that can’t just be bought from O’Reilly’s. That all brings the best time to drink your coffee to around 10:00 a.m. and noon. If you want to make even more sure that you’re staying healthy while enjoying your fresh, hot cup of Joe, you can check out our other blog about the various benefits that caffeine has on your well-being!
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Spoken Ceremony
The spoken ceremony of a wedding is a central rite in the life of a couple. It is a formal way of marking a beginning, a commitment, a change of relationships within a family and a new family within the human community. It is a time for a festive gathering of family and friends as well as a very personal experience for the couple.
- Words for Your Wedding
The Wedding Service Book
David Glusker and Peter Misner
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(Today and tomorrow’s sermons are dedicated in loving memory of Connie Waxman, and to all of the beloved members of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah we have lost since just before the pandemic: Joel Adelman, Donald Berman, Rolf Camnitzer, Jackie Chernin, David Foster, Susan Greenberg, Elisabeth Greenfield, Marion Gruen, Arthur Kaplan, Dr. Richard Katzman, Robert Schubach, Clive Sinoff, Annette Szabo, and Joyce Weisenthal.)
About a month ago, I was in the car with Aviva and I told her that I had an idea for a sermon topic. “I want to talk about doubt,” I said. Aviva replied, “Why? You don’t have that.” I was surprised by her faith in me. Does my beloved wife not know me as well as I thought she did? “All I have is doubt,” I told her. “Oh, sorry, I thought you said gout!” We both laughed. “Well,” Aviva said, “I think we know how you’ll be starting your sermon.”
While gout is not one of my afflictions, doubt certainly is. It’s not just me, of course. We are living in a time of extreme confusion. This can make us feel quite uncomfortable. My goal today is to bring us all a bit of discomfort as we consider the role doubt plays in our lives. This morning’s sermon is part one of a two part sermon. Tomorrow, I plan to talk about innovation, creativity, and possibility as answers to doubt. For better or worse, you will have to tune in tomorrow to hear the rest.
Eighteen months in, the pandemic continues to be a factor in nearly everything we do. There are so many questions we ask ourselves related to keeping safe from COVID. Shall we meet indoors, outdoors, or virtually? Are masks appropriate in this scenario, or overkill? Do I need to wash or sanitize my hands after that? Does that count as exposure? Do I need to quarantine? Should I get tested? Would that possibly put another person at risk? Can I trust that this person has been following the rules? The additional weight on all of our shoulders is massive.
This is on top of everything else going on in the world. I was going to list examples of a few literal and metaphorical fires burning around the globe, but the reality is that there are so many that I became overwhelmed when trying to choose a few to mention. Instead, what comes to mind is a scene from the recently concluded television series about the afterlife called, “The Good Place.” In this scene, the angel Michael (played by Ted Danson) is speaking to a god-like character called, “The Judge” (played by Maya Rudolph). He says, “Life now is so complicated, it’s impossible for anyone to be good…These days, just buying a tomato at a grocery store means tthat they’re making one choice, but they’re actually making dozens of choices they don’t even know they’re making!”
Aviva and I recently discussed a piece written by Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Colorado-based Lutheran minister and theologian. Pastor Bolz-Weber compares each of us to a sketchily wired electrical panel she once dealt with in an old apartment in which she lived. She wrote, “My apartment had been built at a time when there were no electric hair driers, and the system shut down when modernity asked too much of it…I just do not think our psyches were developed to hold, feel and respond to everything coming at them right now; every tragedy, injustice, sorrow and natural disaster happening to every human across the entire planet, in real time every minute of every day. The human heart and spirit were developed to be able to hold, feel, and respond to any tragedy, injustice, sorrow, or natural disaster that was happening IN OUR VILLAGE. So my emotional circuit breaker keeps overloading because the hardware was built for an older time.” Our systems are overwhelmed. I saw a cute, but powerful illustration of this recently. An artist by the name of Will Santino drew a comic in which more lemons are being poured into a roomful of lemons. At a table, there was a person with their head in their hands, surrounded by a juicer and many, many, jars of lemonade. My guess is that I am not alone in my doubts as I consider what the future holds. I would bet that I am not the only one who has unfairly doubted myself when considering the enormity of the world’s chaos.
Uncertainty can be debilitating, and is more complicated these days than ever. However, the concept is as old as Eden. At the very beginning of Torah, in Parshat Bereshit, we read, “They heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the man and his wife hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. The LORD God called out to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ He replied, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” Then God asked, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?’” (Gen. 3:9-11) Moments before, Adam was in direct communication with God and now Adam is trying to hide. Has Adam become so blind to the reality he was certain of in the previous chapter?
Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz is a contemporary physician, scholar, and founder of the Jerusalem Medical Ethics Forum. He outlines the bitter consequence of Adam’s behavior. After Adam attempts to hide, God calls out, “Where are you?” As if The Omniscient doesn’t know. God asks Adam, “Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?” This is like my daughter, Moriyah, asking me why my breath smells like Mitchell’s ice cream when I go into her room to tell her to stop reading and to kiss her goodnight. She knows exactly why, but forces me to fess up anyway. Rabbi Tatz writes, “Doubt has entered the world…a gap has opened between God and His creation; the gap, the chasm, of doubt.” (Worldmask 94-97)
The word for doubt in Hebrew is safek, samech/peh/kuf. The numerical value, or gematria, of these three letters equals 240. Our Hasidic masters believed that there were deep connections between words of the same numerical value. In this case, the word Amalek is also equal to 240. You will recall that Amalek is the name of the grandson of the biblical Esau. In Exodus 17, we first do battle with the tribe of Amalek. This is the famous battle where Moses stood atop a nearby hill and held up his hands. Whenever he held up his hands, Israel defeated the Amalekites. When Moses let down his hands, the Amalekites prevailed. At the end of this ordeal, God tells us, “…I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven…The LORD will be at war with Amalek throughout the ages.” (Ex. 17:14-16)
Why such a harsh decree against this particular enemy? According to Rabbi Yitzhak Abravanel and Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, both 15th Century Spanish commentators, Amalek was guilty of war crimes. Our tradition believes that Amalek attacked us without reason, trying to cut down a defenseless group of slaves weakened by our recent slavery. The 19th Century Hungarian commentator, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Sofer, noticed that the Torah describes the Amalekites as, “undeterred by fear of God.” (Deut. 25:18) God had just redeemed us from slavery and brought us across the Reed Sea. Yet, the Amalekites were still not afraid of attacking a nation who had God on their side. The Torah tells us that the war with Amalek will last, “from generation to generation” (Ex. 17:16). One might say that Amalek is not just an enemy of Ancient Israel, but rather an eternal enemy of the Divine. One whom we partner with God to defeat. The Jewish People have considered all of our eternally irreconcilable enemies, from Haman to Hitler and beyond, to be descendants of Amalek.
Haman is a particularly meaningful example of how Jewish tradition views our Amalekite enemy. God’s name is absent from the Scroll of Esther. It has been noted that Esther’s name itself means, “I will hide.” The famous words of Mordechai in the Megillah hint of God’s presence in the story. He says to Esther, “If you keep silent in this crisis, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place…” (Esther 4:14) “Place,” of course, being one of the names we use for God. Thus, the Purim story becomes a challenge to the doubt represented by Amalek and his descendants. We are led to believe that the events of the Purim story happen by mere chance. After all, the very name Purim means, “lots”, as in a portion doled out by chance. However, if we peek just under the surface, we can perceive God’s presence.
There is a meaningful connection our sages make between the doubt Adam introduces in the Garden of Eden and the Purim Story. God questions Adam, “Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?” In Hebrew, “הֲמִן־הָעֵ֗ץ אֲשֶׁ֧ר צִוִּיתִ֛יךָ לְבִלְתִּ֥י אֲכָל־מִמֶּ֖נּוּ אָכָֽלְתָּ” The verse begins with the word, “hamin” spelled heh/mem/nun, and meaning, “from.” Without vowels and as it is written in the Torah, the word can be read as, “Haman”. Haman, as a descendant of Amalek, was there from the beginning, leading us to believe that we could hide from the Divine when things become uncertain.
Now, I admit to knowing nearly nothing about Quantum Physics. Sadly, those courses are not traditionally offered in rabbinical schools. Nevertheless, my understanding is that when scientists study the uncertain behavior of atoms, and even smaller particles, they do not really make sense. Over time, however, patterns present themselves. This idea might help us understand the famous liturgical poem, Unetaneh Tokef. “On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed – how many shall pass away and how many shall be born, who shall live and who shall die…” If uncertainty is the actual structure of the universe, then our response should not be to live in doubt. We should not limit ourselves to the confusing binary of “who shall live and who shall die.” Rather, we must move beyond the either/or and toward a spectrum of creativity and innovation. Again, during tomorrow’s sermon, I will try to paint a picture of exactly what this looks like. For now, Unetaneh Tokef leads us in that direction by telling us, “Teshuvah, Tefillah, and Tzedakah have the power to transform the harshness of our destiny.” Out of the binary we begin to see a spectrum. The opposite of dwelling in doubt is not certainty, but rather to be open to the realm of possibility.
On the sephirotic chart, the Jewish mystical map of the universe, the left hand represents Gevurah, or power. This is the aspect of the Divine that judges and creates boundaries. Gevurah seeks stringency and the meting out of justice. On the opposite side, the right hand represents Hesed. Hesed stands in contrast to Gevurah. It represents love and grace. It was out of Hesed that God created the universe. However, though the world was built upon kindness, humankind’s finitude required that there be boundaries to that kindness. Otherwise, it would be too much for us to handle. God needed to give us a balance of Hesed and Gevurah so that we could each experience the Divine according to our individual capacity. Tiferet, the third sephira in our triad, means beauty. It represents that balance. Within Tiferet, Hesed and Gevurah, kindness and limits, blend together to create harmony. On the second day of creation, God separated the upper waters from the lower waters. Water represents Hesed. However, without this separation, or Gevurah, we would be overcome by the waters and drown.
This concept is illustrated by a narrative in the Talmud (Shabbat 53a) about King David. We learn that at the time David dug drainpipes in the foundation of the Temple, the lower waters rose and sought to inundate the world. After debating what to do with his wise companions, David wrote God’s name on an earthenware shard and cast it into the depths. Immediately, the water subsided. What is it about God’s name that kept the waters from returning to their primordial state? God’s name, represented by the letters Yud – Heh – Vav – Heh, represents a variation of the word meaning, “to be.” As we say in Adon Olam, “hu haya, hu hoveh, v’hu yiyeh.” The Divine was, is, and will be. David was faced with a choice. He could leave things as they were and let humankind go on without building a dwelling place for God. Or, he could risk undoing creation. David chose a third path, the innovative choice to cast God’s name into the water. By doing so, he transformed doubt into possibility. There is a hint to this third path in the root of safek, the Hebrew word for doubt. The word not only means doubt, but also at the same time can be understood to mean sufficient or possible. Built into the very word is the notion that we can transform binaries into a spectrum.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks famously said, “Faith is not certainty, but the courage to live with uncertainty.” When we are willing to embrace the uncertainty of things, we, like King David, come closer to the One who was, is, and will be. It is doubt that obstructs our view of God. Just before Mordechai reminds Esther of God’s imminence, she doubts whether she should take the dangerous opportunity to change her people’s fate. It is faith that helps us to confront our doubts. Much like our physical enemies have not disappeared, this spiritual enemy remains, causing us to contend. When doubt is obstructing our view of God, we move that obstruction by doubling down on our faith, our trust, and our forward thinking.
As I consider why this topic has been on my mind lately, I am taken back to February of 2020 and the passing of our beloved member, Connie Waxman. We accompanied Connie to her final resting place after she gave us a beautiful example of what it is to build a life of meaning, while simultaneously battling pancreatic cancer. At Connie’s funeral, her husband Neil asked me if we could conclude the ceremony by playing a song that Connie had requested. The song is called, “Head full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise” by the Avett Brothers. Neil recently told me that this song framed the realistic optimism that was so important to bringing them hope and strength throughout Connie’s six-yearlong battle. This song has been just under the surface for me for the past nineteen months. Yet, it wasn’t until recently that I could articulate why. The lyrics, in part, go:
There’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light
In the fine print they tell me what’s wrong and what’s right
And it comes in black and it comes in white
And I’m frightened by those that don’t see it
When nothing is owed or deserved or expected
And your life doesn’t change by the man that’s elected
If you’re loved by someone, you’re never rejected
Decide what to be and go be it
There was a dream and one day I could see it
Like a bird in a cage I broke in
And demanded that somebody free it
And there was a kid with a head full of doubt
So I’ll scream ’til I die
And the last of those bad thoughts are finally out
The song takes us from darkness to light, from doubt to possibility. The singer validates our dark moments and shines a light upon the efforts we make to compartmentalize them. The real solution, however, is to release those dark feelings and to wage war with our doubt. This is how we find ourselves on the promising road ahead.
May this New Year place us firmly upon that road. May we be blessed with direct connection to the Divine as Adam and Eve once were in the Garden of Eden. May we be as sure in our spiritual battles as our ancestors were when fighting the Amalekites. May we partner with the Divine to ensure the best outcome as Esther did in the Purim story. May our doubts give way so that we are overcome with the joy of hope and possibility. | https://scottbroland.com/2021/09/08/rosh-hashanah-5782-head-full-of-doubt/ | 1,664,711,849 |
July 25, 2015 Event coverage, Wine Destinations, Wine ReviewsAy, Champagne Collet Esprit Couture Brut, Collet, Collet Champagne, France, French Champagne, IWINETC, IWINETC 2015, La ChampagneSip Tripper
I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.
– Coco Chanel
I stand in the cellar at Champagne Collet in Aÿ, in the heart of the Champagne region, where one million bottles a year are produced. The historic cellars which were once a refuge during war are now home to some of Champagne’s finest caves, where millions of bottles age for our eventual palatable pleasure. As an attendee at the International Wine Tourism Conference 2015, held this year in La Champagne, France, I was honored to receive a hands-on education in Champagne making and tasting.
“The bottles are placed in a 45-degree angle, necks down in the pupitres,” our guide explains, and the riddler turns the bottles every one to three days over a period of several weeks. Referred to as “remuage,” the process of riddling was invented by Widow Clicquot of Veuve Clicquot fame. Today, most Champagne bottles are riddled mechanically, but the ridge-lined shape of this particular Collet bottle does not fit within the parameters of the machine and must be turned manually.
Champagne Collet’s Esprit Couture Brut,
A bottle of Esprit Couture was bestowed upon me, and I recently had the pleasure of sharing it with friends. This is a Champagne crafted entirely by hand from start to finish utilizing Collet’s finest crus in a blend of 40 percent Chardonnay (for elegance and finesse), 50 percent Pinot Noir (for depth and structure) and 10 percent Pinot Meunier (fruit flavor).
This particular Champagne is aged for a minimum of five years within Collet’s chalk cellars.
Upon sipping this amazing bubbly, there was no doubt it was just that… fine effervesces gave way to vanilla and floral aromas with a taste of minerality and citrus blended perfectly for the palate.
Perhaps it is in the crafting of a selection of grapes from twenty vineyards in La Champagne, but the delicate aromas and flavors, like melting roses on my palate, wins my praise once I sip Collet’s privee rosé dry Champagne. This is a blend of pinot noir and chardonnay grapes with a bit of pinot meunier for its fruitiness, aged four years in a century-old chalk cellar.
The next morning, my tour on the Champagne Trail continues with a half-mile-long stroll on Avenue de Champagne in Epernay, where I walk on top of 200 million bottles of bubbly. Or so I’m told.
Thoughts about taste and terroir dominate my mind as I reflect on my journey through the wine regions of France. Author and scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett once conducted research on sensory pleasures in food, citing the fact that “Wine is alive”— “It matures over the years and changes even in a few hours. It is an event. Even a single taste can be like an act in a play that is as long as the life of the vintage.” I would have to agree. | https://siptripper.com/tag/champagne-collet-esprit-couture-brut/ | 1,665,131,885 |
MINISTER AKBAR ADDRESSES THE PLIGHT OF A FAMILY IN NAKASIBAR ADDRESSES THE PLIGHT OF A FAMILY IN NAKASI
MINISTER AKBAR ADDRESSES THE PLIGHT OF A FAMILY IN NAKASI
June 2, 2015
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Mrs Siren Prasad with her children in their old house in Nakasi. Photo:Supplied
In the quest to assist the underprivileged families in Fiji, the Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation have adopted a quick response strategy.
This was witnessed when the Minister, Hon. Rosy Akbar recently visited a family of eight in Nakasi, six of whom are children and have been living in a one bedroom house made up of old wooden structure for the last 10 years.
This case was brought to the attention of Minister Akbar through the Ministry’s coordinated committee on street beggars. The couple by the name of Chris Kumar and Siren Prasad had approached the Ministry for assistance in addressing some of the challenges they faced.
Currently, the family is assisted through Ministry’s Poverty Benefit Scheme where they receive the maximum assistance of $160 which is inclusive of the monthly food voucher.
The Ministry has liaised with Hart Home in Nausori to reserve a place for the family so that they can have a spacious place to live in because the current house is not suitable for an extended family.
Minister Akbar explained to the family that the Ministry has stepped in to help them find a new beginning in their lives.
The Minister has also gone to the extent of ensuring that the head of this family, Mr Chris Kumar is also assisted into paid employment.
Mr Kumar started his new job last week and is able to earn income on a weekly basis.
Minister Akbar has assured the family of the Ministry’s continued support to help them uplift their lives.
“The Ministry would like to make a positive difference into the lives of these children. We are here today because we genuinely care for these children and we want to help this family.
“Helping this family through employment opportunity will also improve their living status. The Ministry will continue to monitor their progress and help them get a new start in their lives. The welfare of these children is of great importance to the Ministry, the very reason we have come this far to ensure that the wellbeing and welfare of these children is not compromised under any circumstances,” Minister Akbar said.
Mr Kumar thanked Minister Akbar for being the first one to initiate these positive changes for his family.
“In all these years, we have continued to live in despair, not knowing when we will get a new life. I am grateful that we have a leader like, Minister Akbar for showing us the way forward, in all these 10 years we have lived here, she is the first one to come out and see the kind of conditions we live in and she has encouraged us to change our lives for better.
“Before I was just a casual labourer and supporting six children has been a challenge. The new employment has given a new start for me and my family. I am confident that through the new opportunities given to me, I will be able to improve the living conditions for my family. I sincerely thank the Hon. Minister and her team for reaching out and addressing the plight of my family,” Mr Kumar said.
To date the Ministry through its Coordinated Committee on Beggars has assisted 6 individuals who were found into street begging through equipping them with new skills and tools to venture into areas of vegetable selling, bean cart and catering. Mrs Siren Prasad has also been part of the catering project coordinated by the Ministry.
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Hi! My name is Ayah El-fahmawi and this summer I was working under Dr. Jianghong Liu on research about early childhood exposures and adult behavioral outcomes. Our research mainly focused on early, low-level lead exposure in children living in the greater Philadelphia area. The study that I mainly worked on was a follow-up on the Healthy Brains and Behavior Study, which was set up in 2009 by a Penn collaborative team in which Dr. Liu was a part of. This study sought to identify environmental and biological risk factors for aggression in late childhood and to reduce aggression through psychological and nutritional treatments. In 2009, the participants initially recruited were around 8-10 years old. This summer, we invited the original subjects to return to our lab to conduct follow-up interviews with the aim of better understanding how early exposure, including lead exposure, correlates with adult lifestyle and behavior.
This research will be valuable in better understanding the effects of early environmental exposure such as toxic lead on later health outcomes. This can help us to develop and incorporate ging and eye-opening for me. As a biology student who has worked in a microbiome lab throughout college, I was unfamiliar with public health and behavioral research. It was refreshing to interact with human participants regularly and delve into the literature. I learned firsthand what running a follow-up study entails and was lucky enough to work with a team of helpful and talented undergrads to navigate these challenges. We were involved in the entire research process. We started by attempting to reach out to all 451 of the original participants of the study, which resulted in a lot of filing, phone calls, emails, and letters. Since it was almost 10 years since the original study and several participants had moved or changed their phone numbers, tracking them down was a long and tedious process, but proved worthwhile in the end. Additionally, we all had roles to play in choosing the instruments and developing the protocol for the appointments for the study, as well as interviewing the participants. Involvement in this project pushed us to think like scientists and experience firsthand what a career in research could look like.
My name is Nia Akins and I am a rising junior in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. I am currently pursuing a double major in nursing and nutrition. At a glance these two majors seem to have little to do explicitly with the environment, but everyday environmental exposures and toxins have a way of finding themselves in our food and ultimately our bodies. Environmental toxicology can be traced to numerous pathologies. Because of this, understanding environmental science can contribute in a positive manner to treatment and nutritional intervention strategies. Under the mentorship of Dr. Jianghong Liu and in collaboration with fellow STEER student, Ayah El-fahmawi. I worked on recruitment and project design for the Healthy Brain and Behavior follow-up study involving local young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 Specifically, we focused on omega-3 and blood lead levels and how that pertains to aggression.
Being part of the STEER program this summer has been such an enriching experience. For the study I was working on specifically, I gained valuable research experience with respect to organization, interaction with research subjects, and the synthetization of results into a cohesive literature review. From the STEER program, I learned a lot about how waste and water is handled, as well as about the repercussions of not preserving the natural environment. I am really appreciative of the exposure to environmental science and issues that the STEER program provided, as I’m positive it will help place clinical and nutritional issues in the context of a bigger picture.
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Software engineers spend most of their time sitting and thinking. Web developers do the same. So how can jobs like this be stressful? Vague requirements, unrealistic expectations, and a humorless outlook can put any programmer at risk.
The nasty effects of unmanaged stress are often discussed in the media[1] and scientific journals[2], but many of us try to live as though it doesn’t exist. “Why am I irritable?” we ask, as excess cortisol floods through our bloodstream and our brain’s amygdala arouses a fight-or-flight reflex. Our heart starts thumping, beads of sweat form on our brow, and our minds shut out everything except the object of our fear.
Fight-or-flight may work when fleeing a grizzly bear (though experts advise against it[3]). But it fails us when the object of our stress is an abstract concept. To where must one flee to avoid a feeling of overwhelm?
As the demands of life overwhelm our ability to perform, we experience chronic stress[4]. Every day, the weight of our failure to meet the demands placed on us accumulates. Hormones that were helpful in the short-term become destructive as time goes on. These rogue hormones suppress the immune system and can even lead to heart disease.
You may object that stress is not bad for us. That is true. A moderate amount of stress spurs us to action. “You need some stress,” says Michael D. Watkins, “Without it, not much happens—you stay in bed munching chocolates.”[5] Unless we all want to be chocolate-munching bed-dwellers (which has a certain appeal) we need a bit of positive stress in our lives. We must learn to maximize positive stress and mitigate the negative side of stress.
Stress and the Programmer at Work
When I am having a bad day, my words may carry an unintended negative tone. I may overreact to the requests or critical feedback of others. These responses amplify stress for everyone around me. But far more worrisome things result from chronic stress on programmers at work.
Under prolonged stress, we can become pessimistic. This makes creative thinking and learning impossible. “Positive emotions are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought,” says usability expert Don Norman.[6] Without a sense of well-being a programmer’s drive to learn and grow will stagnate. Long-term, we become sub-par developers who write low-quality software.
“We have long known,” continues Norman, “that when people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentrating upon aspects directly relevant to a problem.” This narrow thinking limits our approach to problem solving. As television detective Burl Loomis says on the show The Good Cop, “It’s been my experience, when a man has been stabbed in the chest that’s pretty much all he wants to talk about.”[7] There are moments of absolute clarity, when only one thing matters. But when we see only the immediate concerns of life, we stumble as we pursue elegant architecture, maintainable programs and bug fixes.
Context matters, and it can dramatically affect how we work as a team. I recall a day when a junior member on my team interrupted me with a question that intrigued me. I helped him work through the problem with as much speed as possible and got back to work. When we deployed his code to production, it became clear that he had introduced a bug. He had consulted with me before writing the code, and I had failed to direct him to a better solution. My tunnel vision caused me to ignore the context of another developer’s problem. When bugs make it past the development team and into production, customers feel the pain, and the cost of production bugs is high.
Stress can also cause a bad user experience in less obvious ways. A pressure-filled design process misses many of the nuances important to users. We forget to hold critical collaborative discussions that clarify issues. We overlook empathy for the user in favor of bottom-line thinking. The end result is far less than what should have been.
Few business leaders can test the security of a Web application. This creates another opportunity for stress to do some damage. Developers, under duress, sometimes sacrifice security for expediency. In their haste, they overlook architectural flaws and bugs in code that open our businesses to hackers. Software development and design teams need a safe place to innovate. Time to think through the impact of each design decision and line of code is essential for security.
With a healthy team we can predict the future and close security holes before we lose data to hackers. When criminals stole customer information[8] from a California property management company, they changed Web platforms to prevent future attacks. What prevented them from upgrading their out-of-date security measures before the attack? Stress may have been a contributing factor.
When stress takes hold, it propagates through misunderstanding and miscommunication. We can react to stress by withdrawing from others. We replace honest conversation with assumptions. We work feverishly to avoid disappointment but produce results no one requested. As we have seen, the cost of such behavior is high.
Managers should see missing communication from a team member as a warning sign. It never hurts to check in and see how a team member is feeling.
Causes of Programmer Stress
We are always in a hurry. Pell-mell completion of half-considered work is a knife in the chest of creativity and a significant cause of stress. The more frenetic the pace, the greater the stress. And when rushed code gets into production, a bad user experience produces a bad developer experience. Managers then apply more pressure without realizing they are compounding the problem. This produces the result we fear: mediocrity and missed deadlines.
This adds to the frustration of a team of motivated software developers. As the time for a production release approaches, anxiety mounts. This unease, Nicole Ferguson says, “highlights the friction and disconnect that exist between the activities used to develop and test software and the work done to maintain and keep software operational.”[9] An effective manager can shield their team from such toxic unrealistic expectations.
The pace of change is also a stressor, and change in software development tools, languages, and methods is unrelenting. Last year’s innovations belong in this year’s dustbin. Many of our mental models remain, but our tactics are in continual flux. We must keep up. We must always be learning. But time spent learning is inefficient. It requires experimentation and time for reflection.
We will never read all the technical articles, take all the courses, or try all the programming languages. Each new publication is a product vying for our attention. “Try this new framework.” “Check out this fancy new language!” “All the advertising, promotions and pressure employed to tempt us one way or another,” Simon Sinek says, “ultimately yields one consistent result: stress.” [10] Filtering out the noise and focusing on what we need to know each day is a critical ability.
Stressed? Write Good Code Anyway
Respond thoughtfully. In an environment prone to stress, how should software engineers respond? Though external stressors are unavoidable, we can slow down and react to them on our own schedule. “When you are on the receiving end of a sudden change,” Says Rabbi Daniel Lapin, “you are seldom under any obligation to respond while your soul is still coping with the initial stress.”[11] Take a moment, as much time as you need, before responding to shifts in priority. Don’t risk misunderstanding because you feel a need to respond in the moment.
Insist on clarity. Which is better? An hour spent thinking, discussing, and writing, or an hour writing code? It’s a trick question. If I am clear on what I must do, I will choose the hour of writing code. But in the absence of clarity, an hour spent writing code is a profligate waste.
When given a task, my first job is to clarify the requirements for the work. Programmers, the people closest to the problem, are well-suited to plan effective solutions. I rarely receive tasks with enough clarity to warrant writing code immediately. We need time for research and planning. It may be nice to skip all that planning, but it would deprive us of using our strategic abilities.
Manage “found work.” Planning the implementation details of a new feature often uncovers additional unplanned work. Agile software development acknowledges this problem and recommends breaking work into chunks that a team can complete in a short period of time (often two weeks). This “sprint” includes time for collaborative planning and estimation before work begins. During this process we discuss any found work, plan, and communicate changes to our stakeholders.
Traditional software development does not recognize the problem of found work. As one department throws specifications over the wall to another, consternation and change requests multiply. Effective communication mitigates the stress of traditional software development, but an agile approach to planning can simply bypass it.
Take time to play. “Rule-busting innovation requires a sense of play, a sense of delight, a refusal to be corralled int a strict method,” says Marty Neumeier, “Design is a ‘ludic’ process, from the Latin LUDERE, meaning ‘to play’.”[12] Everyone who writes a line of code is a designer. From the formatting our code to the way we name our variables and methods, we either clarify or confuse the problem. And play helps us see the problem clearly.
Stress narrows our focus. Play opens up possibilities. Though it may be hard, a good response to stress and anxiety is to shrug it off. Step away from the keyboard. Take a brief walk or lean back in your chair and turn the problem over. Be kind to yourself and let your imagination play with a problem. When you can see more than one solution, it may be time to write some code.
Take a walk. When pushing on an intractable problem makes your heart start racing and you feel a glimmer of desire to change careers, get up. Leave your desk and walk around a bit. You can walk around inside your office building. Look out a window. Step outside and get some sun on your face.
Whatever you do, change your frame of reference and let your subconscious work on the problem for a bit. You might gain an insight that lets you re-frame the problem in a way that is much more easily solved. You’ll save your heart the extra wear and tear as well.
Learn strategically. We cannot learn it all. This is not a moral judgment, it is a brute fact. Cope with this reality by learning as much as you can on the job. Take a strategic approach to acquiring new skills and knowledge relevant to your work. Subscribe to technology podcasts, read articles and books, and talk to others in your field. Stay informed about the changes coming your way.
With your knowledge of emerging trends, build some relevant learning time into your work. Communicate this to your managers and stakeholders to manage their expectations. Learning adds to the scope of the project, but it is justified if the new technology gives your employer a strategic advantage.
Learning on the job is hard to balance. On one hand, we could pad every project with time to learn a new programming language or framework. On the other, we could put off learning and soldier on without new skills. The first approach leaves a trail of programming languages and frameworks used once and discarded. The second sticks us with out-of-date skills and frameworks that others have long since abandoned. How you find your balance depends on the culture and priorities of your company. Weigh any technology choice you make today against their impact on your entire team and your company’s software.
With some knowledge of your company’s needs you can plan to learn on your own time. This takes some of the burden of your professional development off your employer. Andy Hunt advises software engineers, “Model your knowledge portfolio with the same care you would manage a financial investment portfolio.”[13] So take steps each day to learn skills that will add value for your employer. Any learning you can do on your own time takes pressure off you and your team.
Adjust Unrealistic Expectations Many of us are somewhat introverted. We prefer the neat structure of ideas to the messy web of interactions that make up human relationships. But we cannot avoid communication. If we insist on clarity, there will be many times we give potentially unwelcome news to our superiors. This is not a bad thing. Clear communication is part of every software engineer’s job.
Business stakeholders often give deadlines to their superiors to justify your next project without any knowledge of the details. As you plan your work, communicate about potential missed deadlines as soon as you become aware of them. Explain the likely delay so your stakeholders can justify the change with the company leadership. Otherwise, your concerns will backfire—making you seem hesitant and fearful rather than assertive and responsible.
Forgive yourself. As professionals, we hold a high opinion of our abilities and expect a great deal of ourselves. We add to our stress when, if we fall short of our own internal standard, we berate ourselves. In most cases, no one else cares about your personal missed expectations. Set goals. Work hard. Forgive yourself.
Cultivate a Sense of Humor It’s easy to forgive yourself if you learn not to take yourself too seriously. For most of my life, I have been intense, driven, and self-critical. It’s hard to forgive myself if the weight of the world rests on my shoulders. But here’s something to remember: none of us bears our burdens alone. Team members, customers, friends, and loved ones who see our flaws continue to work with us, buy from us, spend time with us, and love us. Sometimes, we can join them in laughing at our mistakes. This helps us let go and move forward.
Letting go can make our work fun and our products fun to use. “Good design is often slightly funny,” says venture capitalist Paul Graham, “I think it’s because humor is related to strength. To have a sense of humor is to be strong: to keep one’s sense of humor is to shrug off misfortunes, and to lose one’s sense of humorld, but it may save us from early aging and health problems. We can take a load off of our coworkers, customers, friends, and loved ones. And, managing or eliminating stress can save our lives.
Stress is a killer. One of my friends has experienced this in a profound way. During his career, he had several heart attacks due to stress. He says, “I now know stress almost killed me. Not sure how you can control yours, but you need to.” Take his words to heart. You might save the world—or at least your world.
Footnotes
Protect Your Brain from Stress. Harvard University, February 15, 2021. ↩︎
The effects of chronic stress on health: new insights into the molecular mechanisms of brain–body communication. Future Science OA, November 2015. ↩︎
What to Do if You Encounter a Bear. PBS, September 8, 2009. ↩︎
Chronic stress. Wikipedia, July 26, 2021. ↩︎
Watkins, Michael D. The First 90 Days. Harvard Business Review Press, . ↩︎
“Who Killed the Guy on the Ski Lift?” The Good Cop, created by Andy Breckman, performance by Isaiah Whitlock Jr., season 1, episode 7. Andy Breckman Productions and Netflix, 2018. ↩︎
Data Thieves Hit California Property Management Company. InfoSecurity Magazine, April 6, 2020. ↩︎
Ferguson, Nicole Phd., Humble, Jez and Gene Kim. Accelerate: Building High Performing Technology Organizations. IT Revolution, 2018, p. 89 ↩︎
Sinek, Simon. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009, p. 33. ↩︎
Lapin, Daniel. Thou Shall Prosper. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010, pp. 218-9. ↩︎
Neumeier, Marty. The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation. New Riders, 2009, p. 48. ↩︎
Hunt, Andy. Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware. The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC., 2008, p. 133. ↩︎
Graham, Paul. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2004, pp. 135-6. ↩︎
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Some musical artists get known for jumping on trendy bandwagons. Other artists do it by revitalizing a familiar style, or simply doing it really, really well. But a few, a very few, garner attention by doing something no one else is doing, and sounding like no one but themselves. Tonight’s performance by tUnE-yArDs made it clear to which category Merrill Garbus belongs. With a bassist and two sax players joining Garbus’ frontline of drums, amplified ukelele and looping technology, tUnE-yArDs put on a show unlike any other.
Garbus opened with a storm of looped voices and beats from her snare and floor tom. Joined first by the bassist and then by the sax players, she launched into “Party Can,” a bonus track on the Japanese version of tUnE-yArDs’ hit album w h o k i l l. They followed with a bit of free jazz sax skronk before going into “Gangsta,” one of tUnE-yArDs’ most accessible tunes. “Es-So” was next, as Garbus looped a hip-hop beat out of her drums, layered some wailing vocals and then chopped out some jagged chords on her uke. Add an almost poppy vocal melody to the polyrhythmic tapestry and it’s the tUnE-yArDs sound in a nutshell.
While the group may have a form, it certainly wasn’t formula, as every song sounded different than the one prior. From the Latin-tinged percussion of “Riotriot” and the African vocal melody of “Bizness to the dub ukelele and big-band sax lines of “Killa,” tUnE-yArDs showed an amazing facility to lift bits and pieces from different cultures and genres, and fit them all together like an intricate but smoothly constructed puzzle. It sounds like a worn cliche, but it’s true – tUnE-yArDs truly sounds like no one you’ve heard before, and we’re thrilled to showcase such a unique artist. “I love Merrill Garbus’ power and fearlessness,” tweeted ACL producer TheOtherLeslie. “And her sense of fun. Above all a tUnE-yArDs show is a damn good time.”
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by sham | Aug 9, 2021 | Press Release
New York City’s New York City’s next mayor must prioritize support for families of infants and toddlers
NEW YORK – As New York City continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll found that New Yorkers overwhelmingly want the next mayor to address child care needs that would provide economic relief to working parents and help support our youngest New Yorkers stay developmentally on track.
Nine out of 10 residents indicated that child care is a burden for families in New York City, and 86% ranked improving access to free or low-cost child care as a priority for the next mayor, according to the poll conducted by Global Strategy Group and released today by Citizens’ Committee for Children New York, The Education Trust–New York, and the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute. These results are driven by Black and Latinx residents, nearly half of whom indicated that finding child care is a major burden in New York City, compared to 38% of White residents.
The poll findings highlight the tremendous amount of stress and economic instability New York City families have experienced during the course of the pandemic, something that could be relieved if all families, especially those disproportionately impacted by economic hardship during the pandemic, had access to high-quality, affordable child care.
Notably, Black and Latinx parents and those from low-income households have weathered a disproportionate economic impact, with 61% of Black and Latinx parents reporting they have had trouble paying for basic expenses such as food, housing, and/or health care in the last year, compared to 48% of White parents. Among parents from low-income households, 76% of parents said they struggled to pay for basic expenses, compared to just 49% of parents from not low-income households.
The poll also highlights the urgent need for further investment to make high-quality, affordable early childhood programs available to all parents. Among the key findings:
• FINDING 1: Many parents, especially Black and Latinx parents and those from low-income households, report child care is often a burden and that finding affordable, high-quality child care is difficult in New York City.
An overwhelming majority of residents (89%) approve of local and state government officials doing more to make sure that infants and toddlers in New York City are healthy and developmentally on track from birth and throughout early childhood.
• FINDING 2: Child care has also created a number of economic difficulties for parents, including work-related consequences and difficulty paying for basic expenses.
Nearly one in four parents reported that they lost or had to quit their job because they did not have access to child care. Black and Latinx parents were nearly three times more likely to lose their job than White parents (14% of Black parents and 15% of Latinx parents compared to 5% of White parents).
Of parents who indicated they had trouble paying for expenses, an astounding one in two lost housing or were evicted. Of those who lost housing or were evicted, nearly one in three is either currently without housing or living in a shelter.
• FINDING 3: Residents support a number of critical solutions to keep infants and toddlers healthy and developmentally on-track including access to high-quality child care, investing in early childhood programs, and improving resources that would be helpful to parents.
Among those resources, 81% of parents indicated that access to mental health support is an obstacle. One in three parents indicated their child had been turned away from a center- or home-based program because the provider could not offer enough support for a child with a learning or physical disability.
• FINDING 4: Parents are largely satisfied with their family-based or center-based child care centers, although Black and Latinx parents and parents from low-income households are much less likely to rank their experience as positive. Residents broadly support further investments in these programs, with 87% supporting increased financial assistance to parents from low-income households to cover tuition and other fees paid for by the child’s parents.
Read the poll memo and additional data here.
“Child care for infants and toddlers in New York City is unaffordable for families across the income spectrum, but especially for households with low incomes,” said Jennifer March, executive director of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York. “It is important now more than ever that New York’s leaders prioritize programs and systems that support our youngest children and their parents as they continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. As seen from this poll, New Yorkers want our next mayor to expand access to high-quality, affordable child care for infants and toddlers and investments in universal, full day child care for children under five.”
“No parent should be forced to make the difficult choices that New York City families are faced with every day in order to provide child care for their children,” said Lara Kyriakou, associate director of early childhood education advocacy and policy at The Education Trust–New York. “Even before the pandemic, all too many New York City families did not have equitable access to high-quality, affordable early childhood programs that support infants and toddlers during the critical years of brain development. We can and must do better, and we call on government leaders at the city, state, and federal levels to invest in a child care system to support all New Yorkers.”
“New York families who were already being underserved by our government systems prior to the pandemic have shouldered the greatest economic burden as this crisis continues to persist in our communities,” said Dia Bryant, executive director of The Education Trust–New York. “Black and Latinx parents face greater barriers to accessing high-quality, affordable child care, and as a result are far too often forced to make difficult financial sacrifices to take care of their families. It is critical that the next mayor act with the greatest urgency to create an early childhood system that works for all families. Our city’s future depends on it.”
“The information shared by families throughout New York City confirms that we have quite a bit of work to do,” said Sherry Cleary, executive director of CUNY Professional Development Institute. “Families with young children have a right to depend on a comprehensive, government-supported system that is well-managed, well-funded, and ensures that every child has access to excellence. This requires deep supports to our early childhood workforce. We look forward to working with the city’s new administration to envision and help build a system where every early childhood leader and educator is well-trained and educated, has continuous career development, and is well-compensated. These measures will help create a more equitable New York City and will enable families to thrive.”
The survey had a confidence interval of +/-2.5%. All interviews were conducted via web-based panel, including 55% of interviews conducted via mobile device. Care has been taken to ensure the geographic and demographic divisions are properly represented. Thirty-nine percent of participants have a household income of less than $50,000 per year. “Residents of color” refers to residents who self-identify as Latinx, Black, Native American, Asian American, or Pacific Islander
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About Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) educates and mobilizes New Yorkers to make the city a better place for children. CCC’s advocacy combines public policy research and data analysis with citizen action. CCC casts light on the issues, educates the public, engages allies and identifies and promotes practical solutions to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated and safe. For more information about CCC, visit cccnewyork.org.
About The Education Trust–New York:
The Education Trust–New York works to eliminate the gaps in equity and opportunity that hold back too many students from reaching their full potential, especially those from low-income backgrounds or students of color, in order to enable atNY.org.
The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute
The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute (PDI) is a public-private partnership that brings together a range of city agencies, a consortium of private funders, and the nation’s largest urban university to build a comprehensive system of professional development for individuaols
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The Dancemaker: Stephen Mills on GRIMM TALES’ origins, his creative process, and storytelling through movement
By Etistic director, that he pay a visit to the Blanton Museum of Art to see a ground-breaking exhibit by visual artist Natalie Frank. Six months ago, Mills began giving his dancers pointed movement exercises and recorded more than 300 clips of them dancing. Now, just weeks before the world premiere of his newest dance production, GRIMM TALES, Mills is furiously working with an impressive team of award-winning creatives and his company of dancers to bring three reimagined, and slightly fractured, fairy tale worlds to life on stage.
Artistic Director Stephen Mills and Ballet Austin dancers in the studio, at work on choreography for GRIMM TALES. Photo by Anne Marie Bloodgood
Recently, we sat down with Mills to discuss the origins of his new, full-length story ballet, his creative process, and the art of storytelling through dance.
We’re looking for the big picture of the story of this collaboration. What was the origin point?
“This project started as the result of a conversation I had with a friend of mine who is a curator at the Blanton Museum of Art. They put some images in front of me, and I was really drawn to the color and the way in which she [visual artist Natalie Frank] was telling these very familiar stories in a way that was not childlike at all. I was just blown away by the technique of this artist and her vision.
“I was able to have a conversation with her and tell her how engaging I thought the work was. Two years later, we find ourselves here, just about to premiere this work.”
How did the nitty-gritty of the collaboration start?
“It’s a piece of theater, not performance art. It’s important to put a collaborative team around it so that the context of the work looks a particular way, the sound environment tells a story, and the dance is supported by all these sorts of things. It was Natalie who brought Constance Hoffman (costume designer) and George Tsypin (set designer) to the collaboration. After investigating, we decided that we were going to tell not one story but three stories. It was important to wrangle these stories into one cohesive unit. Edward Carey (dramaturge), who is a renowned fairy tale expert, was able to put them in order and suss out the common themes so that I could do my job and bring those to life visually.
“Graham Reynolds, I’ve worked with many times. Being a film composer in addition to all the other things he writes, he has a really good sense of creating not just beautiful music, but an ambiance. This score is sinister in so many ways, it really helps to bring Natalie’s drawings off the page and onto the stage.”
Ballet Austin dancers in rehearsal for GRIMM TALES. Photo by Anne Marie Bloodgood.
What are the overarching themes that are guiding the collaboration and being infused into different aspects of the production?
“There was a lot of political upheaval going on at the time these stories were written by the Brothers Grimm, but one of the prevalent things during this time period was hunger. In each of the stories, [we explore the question] ‘what is the hunger?’ In The Frog King, it’s a sexual hunger. In the story of Snow White, it’s a hunger for beauty. In The Juniper Tree, it’s this hunger for power.
“These things are all very alive in our personal lives, this hunger for things. I’m working with the dancers to bring forward these concepts through metaphor, so we’ll see what happens.”
Ballet Austin dancers in rehearsal for GRIMM TALES. Photo by Anne Marie Bloodgood.
What does your creative process look like with the dancers? How do you blend metaphors into the narrative of the story?
“When I make a dance, I involve the dancers a great deal. In October, we began a workshopping process. I divided the dancers into groups, and I would give them movement exercises to develop a movement vocabulary that is not choreography, but the beginning of choreography. Now, as we’re into the making of the dance, I can take those 300-plus little clips and pull out the things that are most interesting, and develop those ideas into a cohesive piece. As I’m looking at these clips, some things look very obviously like a little girl skipping, so maybe that goes into Snow White. There’re allusions in each movement that makes them clearly in a particular bucket.
“In any narrative dance, there are moments of big sweeping movements, and there are quieter movements in which the story gets pushed forward. So I make these little sections of dance and try to connect them not so much with mime — because I think that’s an old fashion concept that people don’t quite understand in a contemporary way — but by developing gestures that people will naturally understand.”
What was your first encounter with the Brothers Grimm fairy tales? Putting GRIMM TALES in the constellation of your other notable story works, what drew you to the particular stories that you’ve chosen to tell?
“When I was a child, the stories of the Brothers Grimm were just childish stories, and I didn’t really have a love of them. It was only when I became older that I now understand how they relate to us now, that I fully understand them and appreciate them. Basically, they were there to scare kids into not doing naughty things, but there’s so much more to them than just that.
“I’m not a particularly creative person in terms of creating an original story. Other people do that well. I try to find stories that I’ve been inspired by. I’m drawn to narrative stories for dance because I think that there’s relevance in these stories even though some of them are very old. These stories tell human stories with our foibles, fears, hopes, and dreams — that’s why we still do them.”
Stephen Mills and Ballet Austin dancers in rehearsal for GRIMM TALES. Photo by Anne Marie Bloodgood.
What surprising things have you learned while interacting with these stories?
“These stories were originally told by women, generally the caretakers of children. Like most things, the Grimm brothers stole these stories. Because they were men, they had the power to wrangle these stories into a form that could then be sold. But these original stories were created by women. We forget that part of it.
“One of the most interesting things to me as I started to focus on these kinds of fairy tales is that if you drill down deeply into them, you understand that the power of these stories is the power of the woman. As it pertains to GRIMM TALES, it’s my job to find those elements within the story. Because if children show up at this performance, I want little girls to understand that they’re not put on this earth to be rescued, they’re on this earth to be powerful. And if this dance can somehow inform that, then it’s positive.”
GRIMM TALES
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by the Butler New Choreography Endowment
March 29–31
The Long Center
Tickets at balletaustin.org
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN MILLS
INSPIRED BY THE ARTWORK OF NATALIE FRANK
MUSIC: Graham Reynolds
DRAWINGS: Natalie Frank
SCENIC/PROP DESIGN: George Tsypin
COSTUME DESIGN: Constance Hoffman
LIGHTING DESIGN: Tony Tucci
PROJECTION DESIGN: Howard Werner
STORY: Edward Carey
This production runs approximately 70 minutes without intermission
and is recommended for ages 10 and older.
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“The story of Odysseus is the story of the day after—what happens when the battle is done? … My service wasn’t an accomplishment. It was a liability.”
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, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending …
-Homer, The Odyssey
A blind poet’s story of Odysseus, the mighty hero, is a story for the ages. It is a tale of a warrior who overcame great gods, mythic battles, mega monsters, and himself to find his way back home to his beloved Ithaca.
Returning to my Ithaca, I encountered so many venues to sing this song. There were workshops, talks, comedy events, long-distance runs, parades, group therapy, bar sessions, and Greek choruses to help craft and redraft the story.
My military service was publisher gold—the harsher, the better—as many acclaimed veteran writers had proven. After all, my training had prepared me to go into combat and face down death.
But the story of Odysseus is the story of the day after—what happens when the battle is done?
Nothing had prepared me to live.
Sitting at the required transition briefing at my last military duty station, I watched a ridiculous civilian brief a room full of soldiers about our Veterans Affairs health and educational benefits.
I zoned in and out until he said, “Not everyone thinks your service is a good thing.”
My mind slowed down.
Before my eyes flashed all the news articles I had read about veterans leaving the service and landing amazing careers.
Weren’t headhunters recruiting Army junior officers like me? Wasn’t I being thanked every time I stepped outside the base for my service?
He was greatly misinformed. America loved its warriors.
Even if things were difficult for veterans, I was surely an exception. As an Army captain with command experience, with multiple degrees, and with combat time, as far as I was concerned, I was a damned unicorn.
Then I left the confines of the base, took off my uniform.
Months and months after applying and applying and applying to hundreds of openings, I sat across from a human resources representative for a “military friendly” company. She had heard me speak at length about my service and deployments. She glanced at the resume I had specifically crafted for the job opening of head basket weaver. She calmly put down my paperwork, looked me in the eye, and said:
“Yes … yes … ” as she waved away my service with her hand, “but you have no real experience, do you?”
In the lobby sat another officer far more accomplished than I, awaiting an interview. The day after, there would be more. It wasn’t the last time I would encounter this.
My service wasn’t an accomplishment. It was a liability. It was just missed years of real employment—as far as I could see.
I started to see my visits to “hero” job fairs—with recruiters who looked dubiously upon my multiple degrees and combat experiences—as a financial and mental health liability to me. They offered no possibilities beyond accepting a resume, then citing a “poor fit” for any positions. One offered me a minimum-wage security guard position, knowing I desperately needed the work.
Where were the former officers from Forbes magazine and the poster children of Fortune 500 military websites? The real unicorns had fled the stables.
Odysseus, when he returned home to Ithaca, didn’t get a welcome home parade. Homer describes a violent conflict between Odysseus’ wife’s suitors and the returning hero.
Ultimately, like all good war stories, the main character wins the battle and the story seems to end.
But the second half is all I cared about. Odysseus had fought for years to get home. In his battle with the suitors, he unleashes levels of violence unprecedented, hanging even his own maids for their perceived treachery. His battlefield is not in the past. He sees it everywhere.
It seems the real lesson of The Odyssey was an unending journey: How now was he going to live?
I was searching. I was searching for good examples of veterans who had left and hadn’t killed themselves or hooked themselves on drugs or lost their best selves in dead-end employment.
I was looking for an employer who wouldn’t treat me as the solution to years of fiscal monsters. The personnel mismanagement gods expected me to deliver a solution, like all mythical heroes, like those “skilled in the ways of contending” do.
C.P. Cavafy writes in the poem “Ithaca”:
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high. …
… Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them alonn’t see around me.
My children were growing like grass while I kept watch over at the distant sandstorms of Iraq, as if I were still driving there and wishing at times I was.you clear a room,
Rifles down
while the helicopter pilot overhead swears
I saw a trigger man
when will I learn to slow down
the shadow of the Stryker hovering on overpasses down
to my first review in fair Connecticut
start at the beginning down
describe your occupation
medals down
drowning between the marsh grass of the Tigris
and the sterling Hudson …
So I put away my service in a box and worked through Veterans Day. I watched resumes come across my desk that dripped in military acronyms, ones I knew would never see the light of day. I read another beautifully crafted document where the veteran had reduced his entire military officer service into a single line.
But the more I ignored who I was, the more I was reminded by my coworkers and others.
“This is probably cake compared to Iraq, right?”
“I don’t think I could have done what you did.”
Finally, there was my sister, Sheeba Varkey, insisting I reconnect and join a writing workshop, of all things.
John Thampi’s convoy drives through a sandstorm in Iraq in 2007. (Photo courtesy of the author.)
So I joined New York University’s veterans workshop because it was the closest one I could find. I discovered, after repeatedly having my writing sharp-shot by veteran writers, that I had no skill for short stories and barely any for essays.
But in poems I discovered I could occasionally put order to my thoughts. I wrote and wrote. I was published and invited across the ocean to Oxford.
There, I attended the Oxford Brookes Veterans workshop run by Niall Munro and the poet Susie Campbell, discovering the hero’s journey doesn’t end with the return, but begins.
The workshop helped me to write “The Desert Life.”
“The Desert Life”
after Tracy K. Smith
When people talk about war
they speak as if it were a wayward son
Who demanded half your house and lost it in a game of pitch and toss and it takes
me to a tent, the years I lived on locusts in ready to eat packets
baptizing and burning all the time
patrolling with shades
cast by ziggurats and gold plated towers
Straining
like a father in the labor ward
to separate the sound of flags folding from the cries of joy’s embrace. So
I go
on even while I remain
still,
a long way away.
During formal introductions at a company event, I hear the dreaded question come, from a tall man with salt and pepper hair.
“Where did you work before?”
I took a breath and recounted and, as an afterthought, added, “I was also in the military for a bit.”
His eyes lit up. I clenched, waiting for the usual formal questions about my sanity and the later casual questions about how many people I had killed.
Instead, he said, “Follow me.”
I resisted saying, like all good soldiers, “Lead the way.”
I walked down the hallway into his office. On the wall, hanging, were the requisite degrees and family photos.
In between all of them was a smudge of green—a younger version of him, standing among a group of men from the Ranger Battalion. I turned to him, eyes widened. He laughed.
John Thampi in Tallil, Iraq, in 2005, where he served as a second lieutenant. (Photo courtesy of the author.)
It wasn’t the only time I would meet men and women like this. The veterans I had looked for in posters and magazines were all around me. They were doing what I felt I was doing, working and living, quietly and without a narrator’s voice in their ears.
I recall sitting for an interview debriefing. The company I worked for had reviewed multiple candidates, and some veterans and the HR manager asked me, “So what do we look for? What badge, what years of service, what locations?”
What was the combination that ensured the company got a mythic corporate hero instead of raving suitor-killing lunatic?
I didn’t have an answer then.
But maybe, if I was asked again, I would read to them lines from a poem by Amorak Huey, about a young man who learns to shoot and dies overseas, and his friend returns.
Maybe if they had the patience to hear it, I would tell them the protagonist never really comes back. Rather, it’s his friend who returns to an America he doesn’t recognize. He adjusts, and studies to become a teacher, and attends baseball games again, getting used to large crowds. I would go on to explain that he is married now and has children, and that he refuses to define himself by his service.
Maybe if they’re still interested at this point, I would tell them, like the speaker does when asked about the war, about Odysseus and the Cyclops and his miraculous escape through IED-laden roads to return home.
Yes, he was grateful to be alive, and no, he doesn’t need a poet to sing his song, or a paper to publish his works, or an employer to explain to him who he is anymore.
He finally agreed with what Huey wrote about all those who served and those who never did.
After all,
“We all want the same thing
from this world:
Call me nobody. Let me live.”
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There are many troubling examples. This one is particularly troubling to me:
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Walruses starving! I can’t bear to think of it.
Global warming has begun. We have got to address this in our national discourse, or the next mammal starving could be us.
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Notice the trend?
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Aura is a kind of electromagnetic field that surrounds every person. What is aura structure? It has no physical form in usual sense. This is the pure energy that our vehicle-body generates. When we come into contact with another person, we do not just exchange information through non-verbal communication – we interact at the auric level. It is important to understand that auras are unstable. They literally “breathe” with us, vibrating at a certain frequency. If the frequencies of two people come into resonance, then a full-fledged union is possible, in which both participants will feel correct.
Depending on the type inherent in a person, the nature of his aura also differs. And the word “character” in this context is not an exaggeration. Some are distinguished by their “illegibility” and absorb everything that is in direct access. Others, on the contrary, are closed, and do not allow anything outsider to come too close. Still others are focused on one thing, and the fourth duplicate and reflect all other people’s frequencies.
As part of this article, I want to tell you about the features of the aura of each Type. This is the most basic level of knowledge of Human Design, without which further study of the topic is simply impossible. Having learned better about the nature of your own and other people’s auras, you will be able to learn the correct model of behavior with different people, and you will begin to be less surprised at other people’s “oddities”. I hope that this will serve as a solid foundation for you to explore your own uniqueness.
Manifestor
Manifestor’s aura can be compared to a dense cocoon that reliably protects its owner. She is the only one among all Types that possesses a repulsive, not an attractive property. Being in the field of action of the Manifestor Aura, other people will reflexively “shrink”, as if invisible pressure is exerted on them. This is why it is so difficult to deal with Manifestors.
Manifestors are characterized by the fact that they are always on their minds. It is the most independent and self-sufficient of all the Types, solving problems alone. On the one hand, this is the choice of the Manifesto himself – to be his own master. But on the other hand, the nature of his repulsive aura plays a role here. It is very difficult for other people, even with all their might, to establish trusting contact with the Manifesto, let alone create a truly intimate relationship.
For the same reason, the Manifestors are practically not affected by conditioning from other people – the aura, like a shell, does not allow anything outsider to enter the area of personal space. One look at the Manifestors shows that they are not particularly interested in the opinions of other people, and this serves as sufficient reason to keep outsiders at a distance.
When the Manifestor observes his Strategy – informs before the action, he thereby, as it were, compensates for the repulsive property of his aura. This allows him to interact correctly with other people, minimizing their instinctive feeling that they are being pressured. Read more about Manifestors here .
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Generator and Manifesting Generator – enveloping
Generators and Manifesting Generators (hereinafter MG), on the other hand, have a very “friendly” and “welcoming” aura. It attracts to itself everything that is only in the direct access zone. For the same reason, these two Types are most susceptible to conditioning. They are too sensitive to everything that only appears next to them. Each person leaves an “imprint” on the Generator and MG, bringing something of his own into it and often because of this creates confusion within the Generator nature in his perception of the world and himself.
If the Manifestoor’s aura can be compared to a cocoon, then the Generator’s aura is like a sponge. She “pulls in” everything indiscriminately, thereby overflowing with someone else’s influence. Therefore, it is so important for Generators and MGs to master their Strategy – Response. This is a kind of “natural filter” that helps to filter out the wrong influence and consciously choose only what is right. Read more about the Generator here. About the Manifesting Generator here .
Projector – Focused
The Projector Aura is very focused and highly focused. In the case of the Manifesto, the Generator and the MG, the aura flows in all directions at once without a specific direction. But the Projector is a completely different story. Its aura can be likened to a beam of light emitted from a flashlight. She catches one specific object or person, fully focusing on it.
The aura of the Projector literally penetrates the auras of other Types. But there are two important points. First, the Projector must adhere to its Strategy – wait for an invitation from another person. Otherwise, uninvited intervention in a person’s personal space will cause reflex rejection. Second, the Projector can only correctly contact one human object at a time. Otherwise, his aura “dissipates” and the nature of the interaction will be very superficial. Read more about the Projector here .
Reflector – reflective
The reflector has a very flexible aura. It is constantly changing and transforming, but it never directly interacts with other auras – it just “tastes” them, becoming like them. Reflectors are the real chameleons among people. They unconsciously mimic the person with whom they come into contact. Today they are alone, tomorrow they are completely different, and the day after tomorrow they change again. Their habits, their opinions, their behavior – it all depends on who will be in their environment at any given time.
Interestingly, because of their constantly pulsating and changing aura, it is very difficult for the Reflectors to be given the process of self-knowledge. Indeed, how can you know yourself when your opinion and thoughts are changing hourly? Therefore, it is very important for Reflectors not only to apply, but to feel their Strategy – waiting for the end of the lunar cycle. This is a kind of key that helps this Type to come to a full understanding of their true “I”. Read more about Reflectors here .
I hope this article was of interest to you. If you want to go deeper into the knowledge of Types, then I did a more complete analysis in special instruction books dedicated to each Type. There I analyzed in great detail the Strategies and other aspects of the life of the Types, with life examples and stories. | https://humdes.info/aura-structure-for-each-type/ | 1,664,575,123 |
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We are delighted to announce that we now have two new partners: Baseline UK and Exalt Training.
Baseline UK will be working together with Southwest to give the UK Armed Forces a choice to own and decide on the best resettlement and career options for them. As two veteran owned businesses, Southwest and Baseline UK have banded together to ensure Armed Forces individuals receive the latest and best support, advice and guidance from BaselineUK combined with high quality health and safety training provided by Southwest.
BaselineUK is a brand new organisation created through experience to improve the resettlement journey for the entire British Armed Forces. They provide inspiration, support, opportunity and a community for every Service Leaver and Veteran through their partnerships with the very best Training Providers, Recruiters, Businesses and Organisations across every industry in a way that remains true to their Vision, Mission and Values.
Southwest and Exalt Training have collaborated, and Southwest are the preferred Health and Safety training provider to deliver courses to apprentices and staff working with Exalt Training. Southwest has undertaken courses with Exalt and Southwest will be delivering more courses to Exalt in 2021.
Exalt-Training offers clients the knowledge and experience gained from many years working for global organisations and corporate training teams. Their focus is always on a quality delivery and getting great results. They strive for excellence with their training programmes and know that with the right structures in place, can help take businesses to the next level.
Andrew O’Donnell, the Managing Director of Southwest Health and Safety stated, “We are very pleased to be working with BaselineUK and Exalt Training. Both are fantastic companies. We feel working together with BaselineUK would greatly benefit Armed Forces individuals so that they can obtain top notch advice and move into a career with great prospects. Exalt offer high quality training which is something we pride within ourselves. We are always open to working in partnerships.”
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"We chose Ha-inan (as the name for the restaurant) because of its double meaning. It can be a verb and a noun. For the noun, it is synonymous to "handaan" (feast) and we want to always be present when there's a celebration. For the verb, it's like serving or setting up the table so in a way it's like preparing food for people, offering it to them . The hyphen is just there to serve as guidance in pronunciation otherwise, people might think we're a Chinese restaurant serving Hai Nan ( Chinese Province) food .... "
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It was a delightful surprise to receive an email invitation from Ha-inan Take Out and Delivery because it was within walking distance from where I live. My first thought actually was Yay another delivery option for us.
For a mom of 4 who wears so many hats ie Inday, chef, CFO, guidance counselor, dishwasher, cook, housekeeper, baker, cake artist, blogger, foodie, etc , there are days you just want to take a break from your kitchen duties. I know most mommies out there going the yaya-less way can relate or commiserate hehehe
Last Tuesday, Ha-inan Delivery and Take Out sent us the following meals to try from their delivery service :
Crispy Dinuguuan (3-5 persons ) P250
The dinuguan was delicious. There were no innards. I tasted mostly crispy liempo. Yes it can feed 3-5 persons when in tandem with other dishes.
Empanaditas ( 6 pcs P10 per pc,)
There were 3 variants : Beef Taco (red dot), Creamy chicken (yellow dot) and ham and cheese (green dot). They were all good but my favorite was the creamy chicken. I found the beef taco a teeny bit on the salty side. Overall for a price tag of only P10 each, this was a steal
Sisig (3-5 persons) P170
What is it about sisig that is so popular? You can guess which among the meals delivered was a hit to our piggery almost immediately. But although sisig is a popular dish, it is one that can easily be critiqued if you know what I mean. After all every Pinoy including our piggery and the handsome hubby think they know what a perfect sisig should taste like and woe to the restaurant who does not meet the criteria.
Fortunately for Ha-inan, the boys loved their sisig. It was crispy. It was flavorful. It had just the right amount of saltiness so no need for any seasoning. Plus it was just the right price considering the serving. Again I agree that it can feed 3-5 people assuming there are other food ordered.
Spaghetti (3-5 persons)P350
Ha-inan's spaghetti is reminiscent of the spaghetti I loved to eat at Ka Banang's in old La Huerta in Paranaque where I grew up. Like Ka Banang's, it was sweet. There were hot dogs. The pasta was soggy. The sauce seeped right through the pasta itself. It was filling and it evoked happy memories of childhood. This is my comfort food.
When delivered, the spaghetti was encased in aluminum covered in cling wrap inside a hexagonal brown cardboard box.
Pansit Malabon (single P70)
Ha-inan's pansit malabon was delicious. There were crunchy liempo and shrimps. I loved the orange sauce, I could have finished the whole box . So good.
Chickern barbecue P79 per stick
Each stick holds 3 small sizes of chicken. Imagine Aristocrat but smaller, Mind you Aristocrat's 3 pc chicken is more than P200 per order
Im not a breast person normally because I find them dry most of the time. Ha-inan's chicken breast barbecue though converted me. Their breast was moist and scrumptious. For P79 pesos per stick, the serving was more than generous.
Rice P15 per order
It was freshly cooked. It was not the reheated kind that we usually get when we have food delivered.
Delivery : Prompt and cheerful
Summary :
All in all it was a satisfactory experience. "Lutong-Bahay " is the word that comes to mind.. This mom is replete. Nice to know that I have an alternative apart from the usual fast food we order from.
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Ha-inan Delivery and Take Out
488th Barangka Drive cor. Camiguin St
Barangay Malamig Mandaluyong
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Some people are leaving their permanent home for their assignment. How Many Years of Experience Do You Need Before You Start Travel Nursing? At Cross Country Nurses, we always look forward to hearing from you. In the travel nursing industry, referrals are golden. Is It Hard Traveling With Your Dog? What does Next Travel Nursing offer? We recommend you get the advice of a professional tax advisor. Enter your email address to get your reset password link. Nomad has to offer. Years Travel Required ID RN MA License BLS ACLS PALS required. Connect with this mean your options for your immediate and on assignment nurse travel address is my dream team of career goals, you may be hard work and google maps api key. Easily generate survey reports using pie charts, bar charts and other widgets. And for travel nurses who frequently experience situations like these, paying extra attention to where their tax home should be located is extremely important. They call when they say they will. It is designed to cover the expense of your meals, transportation, and many costs associated with traveling. You may even provide meals and other essential items to your patients who are bedridden. All nurses can relate to the short staffing issues that plague the industry. Experience, benefits, opportunity to travel, and the freedom may be worth it. New Mexico is a Compact State! Your weekly email to stay up to date with the latest in healthcare and technology. With our years of experience, ADEX is here to help your career grow with our career coaching. Nurses are encouraged to research agencies when considering travel nursing.
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Everything you need to know before accepting a travel nursing assignment. What does Joint Commission certification mean to me as a travel nurse? What kind of hospitals offer travel nurse jobs? Ready to hit the road for your next assignment? Click Delete and try adding the app again. Ms, a giant coke, and junior mints. Check out tips on keeping your travel nurse documents organized! If you are looking for a contract shorter or longer just ask!Will it does american mobile healthcare delivery of travel assignment on address to apply for your travel? Click to customize it. Complete your application today to start an assignment tomorrow. Travel nurses assist physicians, perform administrative work in hospitals, and take care of patients. With per diem, local, travel and nationwide positions, we can help YOU find your perfect fit! Reports using a high demand now require your bigshot friend make your final paycheck directly employed should consider things you on assignment to! If you have children or pets that need to stay home, longer assignments might be a better fit for you. Competitive pay, great benefits, and free housing are also major benefits of the job. What are YOU looking for? Having bowman lake to call hours worked closely with internal and nurse assignment travel. Our payroll information available, relevant experience an assignment on travel nurse housing and permanent tax. Year Limit Representation form.
Travel nurse is the compensation is a travel nurse assignment in. Your application is simply used as a qualification for you to travel. What are your expectations for travel nurses? Experience the best that travel nursing has to offer. How many years of experience do you have? Must be able to work through the holidays. Need to commit to assignment on! What is your specialty? The hospital is for me feel more toward the information, competent and some states subject to assignment on address issues that you through several questions i love. Even if you are unable to start on the designated Start Date, please apply and discuss your availabinefits are finding your permanent staff is different environments while. Change the healthcare professionals go on the industry and attractive than you on assignment address and. They have jaded and unrealistic views about this industry and you can already feel your blood pressure increasing thinking about working with this person. Every time you accept a position, you sign a new contract, which means varying rates of pay. As a healthcare worker, you dedicate your life to helping others and you deserve to get the most out of your career. Yes, during the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, we are staffing urgent needs positions at high travel nursing pay. Host Healthcare offers travel nursing jobs in all nursing specialties from coast to coast. You can read all the awesome reasons why I became a travel nurse and see the benefits for yourself. If You have a Passion for Pharmacist, Apply Today and a Recruiter will guide you through the Process. To what state are supplemental wage payments reported and income tax withheld?
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Certified Intensive Care RN, who will perform initial, concurrent, or post service review activities; discharge care coordination; and assisting with efficiency and quality assurance of medical necessity reviews in alignment with Federal, State, Plan, and Accreditation standards. The hospital hired them as a recruitment agency to find qualified clinicians and to make it easy on them to select one of us. This can mean staying in your own home or finding an apartment not too far away. Four week and longer assignments typically have time between application and orientation, giving you some breathing room when it comes to planning housing and travel. Nurses are always needed, and that demand only increases in the midst of circumstances such as seasonal illnesses and global health crises. To learn more about the difference RTG is making in our communities, visit our Community Partnership page. See where Host can take you. What Are Travel Nursing Agencies? Get started today with CSP. One of my favorite things about being a travel nurse is knowing that another adventure is always just ahead. Adaptability enables our nurses to integrate with your care team quickly, allowing them to hit the ground running. Now, in order to reach that tax free max, they may have to lower your hourly taxed pay. Part of maintaining your personal business at home is making sure that all your personal mail is delivered there. Is this virus airborne, or not?
Experienced Cath Lab RN needed for our client near Atlanta, Georgia! So you can know where your subscribers are from and detect trends. Lions, tigers and bears are a bit more difficult. How long does it take to get an assignment? Travel the country with confidence. Starts accruing sick leave from day one. Because You Are The Travel Nurse? When working at trusted nurse with it would want in nurse assignment on address all three factors is required field research and be prepared with? If you are seeking a Pharmacy Tech position and would like to work with an agency that will listen to your needs and career goals, then Focus Staff is the right place to be. If you have questions about what state taxes will be withheld while you are on assignbenefits offered, such as low census pay, tuition reimbursement, and paid licensure fees prior to travel. Apply Today and a Recruiter will guide you through the Process! Allow your customers to easily submit testimonials directly from your website. Not only can you earn more money than you might in a staff position, but you get to explore new places in the process. Travel nurses allow departments to function efficiently when core staff is short. What are travel nurse stipends? Thanks for submitting the form. For any patient care incident or legal situation related to your care, please call number below immediately. Only the income you earn from an assignment in the worksite state is subject to tax in the worksite state. Big Apple on a temporary basis.
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For my first assignment, I had my company find my housing for me. The company states that pay depends on where a traveling nurse is placed. You might not even know you are being a bad traveler, so read on! What states can I travel to as a travel nurse? HAVE TIME TO FILL OUT AN APPLICATION? Take travel assignment on the state of the. When you travel with us you also get your own recruiter. Connect a domain to see this element live on your site. This will give your travel nurse recruiter the ability to immediately get you in our system. According to travel nurse assignment on travel nursing account, apply today with intense heat, you are different expectations for major city. In addition to the plethora of benefits listed above, we also provide cancellation protection and one forgiveness day per contract. We find jobs in places you want to go with the insurance coverages and benefits you need. ADEX because my recruiter has made me feel like family. Also, if you use a small local bank, then it might be a good idea to designate a cosigner or guardian on the account. Yes, but you must meet the unemployment requirements in your permanent tax home state. Housing can also be a little tricky, but you might be able to get away with staying in a hotel for such a short duration. These assignments are rare. Furnished housing includes all major furniture items such as tables, seating, lighting and beds. Thankfully, there are people like you who are ready, willing and able to provide it. This solves some scheduling issues between this script and the main highlander script. Dialysis Travel Nurse, who recently took a Vero travel nurse assignment in Saipan.
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We seek a few months after completion bonuses, and responding to. All travelers are expected to float between units to some extent. Whatever job you take has to fit into your schedule. Dogs, cats and birds seem to be the easiest to place. This can impact your continuity of care. The hiring landscape is changing day by day. High paying traveling nurse jobs and urgent needs assignments. Meet Jasmine: She was terrified to start travel nursing. Because travel nurses work in their primary specialty, duties will vary a great deal between specialties. Our Travel Division is a leading provider of travel and per diem nurses for major hospitals and health care facilities throughout the country. So we can get in touch. IRS that your spot there truly is your permanent residence. It is becoming more common for people to allow pets as they realize a lot of nurses want to travel with their fur babies! Have a specific location in mind? Of information about jobs with efficiency and on travel and excitement of your nursing jobs and. It could have to do with the facility, the staff, or simply that the area is not your cup of tea. Choose to see if i was an chemo certification as possible care about travel assignment nurse. Enter your new password below. After your application is processed there will be an assignment waiting for you whenever you decide to travel. If you have a specialty, as a travel nurse, you can focus on the needs of the patients within your skillset.
Asking up front about floating expectations can alleviate that concern. How do you know the difference between hospital and agency bonuses? USPS forward all your mail to the new PO Box. Textbox fields and Phone Number is also supported. Returns TRUE if any Digit characters found. How long are travel healthcare assignments? He is honest and he treats me like a person instead of a client. These are some of ACES most frequently asked questions. Our team of recruiters and account managers are passionate about the work that they do and understand that travel nursing is a business that relies on satisfying the needs of individuals at every level. Your commitment to American Mobile only extends through the length of the assignment you agree to take. Our experienced travel nursing recruiters will help you find assignments that best match your immediate and future career needs. Any questions whenever you to live to assignment address issues and highest of nursing career management issues that. If You have a Passion for being an Intensive Care Unit RN, Apply Today and a Recruiter will guide you through the Process. Travel nursing provides nurses with the unbeatable freedom and flexibility to choose when and where they want to work. Your information is always kept confidential and we must get your permission before submitting your resume to a client. If You have a Passion for Medical Surgical Care, Apply Today and a Recruiter will guide you through the Process. Again, no clear guidance is provided and it becomes a subjective decision based upon common practices in the area. You can add your own CSS here. The Northern Inyo Healthcare District is fulfilling more staffing needs with traveling nurses! Other travelers are more likely to be available to socialize after work or to go on adventures during days off. Different people that could get to travel nurse staffing agency is a personal.
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What Each Medicare Plan Covers for Weight Loss
Medicare Part A
Medicare Part A will cover the cost of hospitalization if the agency has determined you are medically eligible for weight loss surgery.
Medicare Part B
Medicare Part B, the medical part of your insurance, preventative services, such as screenings for obesity and therapies for those who have a body mass index of 30 or higher. The first step is to undergo a BMI screening. Once it is determined that your BMI is over 30, you are eligible for an assessment of your diet, along with counseling regarding diet and exercise. People with a BMI over 35 may be eligible for bariatric surgical procedures. To be considered eligible for this surgery, you may have another condition related to obesity, such as diabetes, and you must have tried other weight loss programs first.
Medicare Advantage Plans (Medicare Part C)
Medicare Advantage Plans offer other weight loss and wellness programs, including fitness classes. The added benefits offered through a Medicare Advantage Plan differ among insurance providers. Some plans offer fitness programs, specialized weight management services, or cover prescription drugs for weight loss.
Medigap
This insurance covers the gaps in Medicare to provide more comprehensive coverage. These plans may cover weight management treatments and fitness programs.
Medicare and Treating Obesity
Obesity comes with many unfortunate health conditions. If you suffer from co-morbidities related to obesity such as heart disease or diabetes, you could be eligible for bariatric surgery. However, to be eligible, the program requires you to have attempted other weight loss programs that have not worked.
Your quality of life, overall health, and your feelings of wellbeing can be restored through professionally administered weight loss programs, which can include behavioral counseling, nutritional counseling, and exercise programs. These programs are successful for many people and losing weight naturally may be the sole option for those who are not considered safe to undergo surgery.
Types of Bariatric Surgeries Medicare May Cover
Your Medicare plan may cover bariatric surgeries, including:
Sleeve gastrectomy
Gastric band
Vertical gastric band
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
Duodenal Switch
Each of these surgeries limits the amount of food you can consume by reducing the stomach size, and how the calories are absorbed.
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The various types of Medicare programs can be challenging to understand, but if you are concerned with excess weight, you want to ensure you are enrolled in the Medicare program that will be most beneficial for you. For assistance, contact one of our local agents to provide you with guidance.
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As in the past, the Northwest Icehawks tryouts are designed to ensure that each player is placed on the team that will give him/her the greatest opportunity to compete at the appropriate level of play and to best develop their hockey skills while simultaneously providing them with a positive learning experience. We clearly understand that there is no perfect process but believe that you can have confidence knowing that we spend a lot of time and energy evaluating and enhancing our process to ensure that it is fair and objective so that each player is given an opportunity to exhibit their hockey skills through numerous skill drills and simulated game situations. Parents’ support of both their child and the program are critical components in a child’s understanding of tryouts and ultimate motivation for enjoying hockey. It is important for parents and players to understand that the highest level team is not always the best fit for a player. The Icehawks will continue to work very hard to ensure that every player is set up for success and is in a position to have fun competing in the great sport of hockey.
THE STEPS AND FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE TRYOUT PROCESS ARE OUTLINED BELOW:
1. Coaching Director collects player evaluations from the previous season’s coaches for all returning players. This is one of several pieces of data that is factored in when determining placements.
2. Tryouts are run in late March / early April for Mites, Squirt, and Peewees and Bantams each year. See the Icehawks web site for specific tryout dates and times. Players wishing to tryout must register online and pay the tryout fee (also online with a credit card). Additionally, any prior year fees that are still unpaid must be paid prior to tryouts. Tryouts will be run using the following format:
Two 1 hour tryouts will be held for all Mite through Bantam aged players.
Tryouts are developed to measure core skating and hockey skills along with player effectiveness in game situations
All on ice evaluations will be done by IPH Hockey, an independent hockey organization dedicated to high-quality hockey instruction and training. Goalie evaluations will be done by ProCrease. There will also be several on-ice coaching instructors who will not be doing any evaluations. Their function is only to assist with the various on-ice drills and scrimmages.
3. Team placements are determined by a variety of factors including the data gathered from the independent evaluations at tryouts and the end of season coach’s evaluations.
4. Players’ families will be notified of team placement, usually within 7-10 days of the last tryout session for each level.
In the initial placements, we will aim to list “A”, “A1”, and in cases where the numbers work out, a third team. When appropriate, some positions for skaters will be left open on the higher level team. The intent is to allow for additional players to move to the higher level team prior to the start of the season in October as numbers allow. Initial placements are done this way to allow the organization to adjust for new skaters or others who could not tryout in the spring (i.e. due to injury, moving into the area, etc.) and it can also allow for skaters who further develop both physically and with their hockey skills over the summer to be appropriately placed for the season.
The Icehawks goal is to have a place for each child to play in an appropriately competitive situation. In the event that the numbers or other extenuating circumstances don’t allow for a player to be placed in the spring, they will have an opportunity go on a “wait list” knowing there will be an attempt to place them on a team in the fall if an opportunity exists at that time.
5. Coaches – The Icehawks intend to select all head coaches with the spring placements. Assistant coaches will be selected by the start of the season.
6. Should there be any open roster spots available, they will be finalized as the season starts. Team practices will begin in September.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS AT TRYOUTS
All players intending to play with NWCYH for the upcoming season are expected to attend all tryouts. At minimum, a player must attend at least one tryout to be placed on a team. If a returning player or new player absolutely cannot make spring tryouts and still intends to play with the Icehawks for the upcoming season, they must communicate this to the Icehawks President or Coaching Director prior to tryouts. Situations resulting in missed tryouts that fall outside of the normal circumstances will be handled by the Board on a case by case basis.
COMMITTING TO A ROSTER SPOT
After team placement notification following tryouts, players then have 24 hours to commit to the roster spot. When a player accepts a roster spot, a commitment letter must be signed electronically on the Icehawks website. This letter commits the player to playing for the Icehawks and paying all fees for the upcoming season. Payment of all fees will be done online using a credit card in accordance with the fee policy.
Players not committing to a roster spot during the 24 hour window or failing to make the proscribed payments risk losing the roster spot.
NEXT STEPS / REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please register before the first tryout!
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What is actually an instant payday loan?
A quick payday loan is a kind of short-label borrowing where a loan provider have a tendency to expand higher-desire borrowing centered on your revenue. The prominent is typically a fraction of your upcoming salary. Cash advance fees large rates getting brief-term quick credit. They’re also titled cash advance payday loans otherwise have a look at improve finance.
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Payday loans is actually small-name, very-high-notice fund offered to consumers.
Payday loan are usually for how much you have made, and you also usually have to provide a pay stub when using for one.
An abundance of rules was basically applied over the years to manage the newest higher charges and you can rates of interest with payday loans.
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Pay day loan charges individuals highest degrees of notice plus don’t wanted one security, leading them to a variety of unsecured personal loan. These finance can be considered predatory lending, because they possess very high appeal, try not to thought a borrower’s capacity to pay back, and possess invisible provisions that charges borrowers extra charge. This means that, they’re able to perform a loans pitfall having customers. If you are considering an instant payday loan, then you can have to lookup first in the safe personal bank loan choices.
Try pay title loan in Arkansas day loan fixed otherwise adjustable?
Payday loans are often supposed to be paid back in one lump-share fee should you get your income. Due to this, the speed during these financing is fixed. Actually, of a lot pay day lenders never also share its charges since the an attraction price, nevertheless they rather charge a fixed flat fee which may be from around $10 in order to $30 for each and every $one hundred lent.
Most pay day loan try unsecured. Thus you do not have supply the financial institution people equity otherwise borrow secured on an invaluable goods because you carry out into the a great pawn store.
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To finalize the sale of a real property, a neutral, third party (the escrow holder, a.k.a. escrow agent) is engaged to assure the transaction will close properly and on time. The escrow holder ensures that all terms and conditions of the seller's and buyer's agreement are met prior to the sale being finalized, including receiving funds and documents, completing required forms, and obtaining the release documents for any loans or liens that have been paid off with the transaction, assuring you clear title to your property before the purchase price is fully paid.
The documentation the escrow holder may be collecting includes:
Loan documents
Tax statements
Fire and other insurance policies
Title insurance policies
Terms of sale and any seller-assisted financing
Requests for payment for various services to be paid out of escrow funds
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At the close of escrow, payment of funds shall be made in an acceptable for to the escrow. As your real estate agent, I'll inform you of the acceptable form.
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Prorate insurance, tax, interest and other payments according to instructions
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Request title insurance policy
Close escrow when all instructions of seller and buyer have been met
Disburse funds and finalize instructions
Give Escrow Holder won't:
Give advice - the escrow holder must maintain neutral, third-party status
Offer opinions about tax implications
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Electronic Communications Networks, or ECNs, are electronic trading systems that automatically match buy and sell orders at specified prices. ECNs register in the U.S. with the SEC as broker-dealers, and their subscribers -- typically institutional investors, broker-dealers, and market makers — can trade directly with the ECN. Individual investors must have an account with a broker-dealer subscriber to have their orders routed to an ECN for execution.[1]
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Each ECN has its own set of rules for matching up buyers and sellers. Those rules are programmed into the computer system that controls the trading.
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↑ ECNs/Alternative Trading Systems.
↑ "Markets vs. Exchanges--What's the Difference?".
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With an overwhelming amount of metal-cutting saws available in most hardware stores across the country, you have plenty of options suitable for any level of expertise and budget. In other words, the easy part is to locate the tools section. The real challenge presents itself once you need the right tool for the job. Many tools can be modified with special blades or discs so they can cut through different types of metal, but not all tools work equally well for any metal cutting job.
The simplest of all tools include the good old hacksaw, available in many shapes and sizes, whereas quicker options include angle grinders and other motorized saws mounted with special discs or blades. In this guide we’ll take a look at some of the most common tools that you can use to cut different types of metal.
Top 15 tools that will cut through metal
Type
Purpose
Price ($ – $$$)
Hacksaw Small, round/rectangular metal products $
Tin snips Thin metal sheets $
Angle grinder Quick and easy metal cutting $
Circular saw Ideal for straight cuts $
Band saw Precision metal cutting $$$
Miter saw Great for metal rods/tubes/angles $$
Rotary tool Small, intricate cuts $
Utility knife Great for light-gauge metal stock $
Jigsaw Ideal for curves and edges $
Nibbler Great for corrugated roof panels or flat metal sheets $$
Reciprocating saw Ideal for demolition jobs $
Oscillating multi-tool Suitable for flush cuts and tight spaces $$
Bench shear Bulk cutting of sheet metal $$$
Cold saw Clean, accurate cuts $$$
Oxy-fuel torch Cuts through thick metal products $$$
#1 Hacksaw – best choice for small tasks
A manual hacksaw is a great, inexpensive tool for cutting through metal as well as other materials. Metal hacksaws have interchangeable blades, so you’re basically buying a handle along with special blades formulated to cut through the material you’re working with.
Because of the shape, hacksaws are mostly used for cutting through metal pipes, rods, bolts, and alike. They won’t work for metal sheets, and because it’s a manual tool it’s not the most effective for larger projects.
Hacksaws are very safe though, and you don’t need a great deal of protective equipment. A pair of safety gloves are strongly recommended as always when cutting through metal of any kind.
Pros
Very inexpensive. Widely available for just a few dollars online as well as many retail stores.
Easy to use. No practice needed. You simply grab the handle, attach the blade of choice, and you’re ready to work.
You’re in full control. If you don’t want to cut all the way through, you can simply cut halfway and then stop. No risk of cutting too far.
Extremely safe. Hacksaws are hand powered, and as such they’re the safest choice for anyone.
Interchangeable blades make it one of the most versatile tools for cutting through different kinds of metal.
Cons
Not as fast as other tools. Hacksaws are only as fast as you can go, and it’s hard work to cut through metal with a manual saw.
Doesn’t cut straight. Hacksaws can’t cut lines as straight and nice as other tools.
Usually, hacksaws leave a rough edge that you’ll have to grind afterwards if you want a proper finish.
#2 Tin snips – ideal for thin aluminum/copper sheets
Tin snips are another affordable manual tool that works incredibly well for cutting straight lines through thin metal sheets. Whether you’re cutting aluminum or copper sheets, gutters, metal roofing, or studs, tin snips get the job done with the sharp blade. As an added bonus, tin snips will usually leave a nice, smooth edge. We still recommend using a pair of safety gloves as an added safety measure.
While tin snips are great for thin metal sheets, the cutting process could quickly become tiresome and leave you with a sore wrist. It’s a great tool for small tasks, but it quickly becomes tiresome if the materials are too thick or you’re cutting a large amount of sheets at a time.
Pros
Perfect for cutting and trimming metal sheets.
Very affordable. Doesn’t cost more than a few bucks at your local hardware store.
Easy to use. Requires no practice beforehand, as it is operated like any regular scissors.
Very safe. Due to the nature of tin snips, they can be used by everyone with little to no risk of accidents.
Cons
Tin snips are not as strong as other metal cutting tools.
Although tin snips produce a nice, smooth cut, there’s a risk of ruining the edge of the metal sheet.
Relatively difficult to cut long, straight lines.
#3 Angle grinder – versatile tool for quick and easy metal cutting
With a metal cut-off wheel or a diamond blade, your angle grinder becomes the perfect tool for cutting through a wide variety of metal. Angle grinders are generally quite affordable, and so is the vast range of blades and wheels that will transform your angle grinder into one of the most versatile cutting tools on the market.
Angle grinders are capable of cutting through most metals from aluminum to steel, and it’s extremely useful for large projects. It cuts through rebars, fencing, bolts, sheet metal, pipes, and basically anything you can imagine. However, it does require a bit of practice to use, and protective equipment such as safety glasses, a mask, gloves, and boots are strongly recommended as well as keeping the surroundings clean and free from any flammable materials. Angle grinders will produce sparks when cutting through metal.
Pros
Very effective. Quickly cuts through many types of metal.
Extremely versatile. Blades and wheels can be bought for a vast range of materials, not only metal.
Easy to use. Although a bit of practice is required, angle grinders are still very easy to use.
Affordable. Angle grinders are among the cheapest, motorized metal cutting tools on the market.
Cons
Relatively dangerous. If you don’t wear proper safety equipment or handle the angle grinder properly, injuries could happen.
Wheels and blades are quickly worn out, and if you’re bulk cutting the costs will add up.
Doesn’t always leave a smooth edge on the metals you’re cutting through.
Generates a lot of dust and sparks during use. Keep away from flammable materials while cutting, and use it outside if possible.
#4 Circular saw – ideal for straight cuts
Whether you’re cutting through piles of sheet metal, roofing or gutters, a circular saw is ideal for the job. Mount it on a guide rail if you want to cut large, straight lines, or use it freehand for a quick cutting job. Circular saws are not only designed to cut through metal, but other kinds of materials too. With the right metal cutting blade attached you can cut through many types of metal.
A circular saw is still relatively portable, and you can easily bring it to any job site. Some even run on batteries, and they’re relatively affordable as well. They do require a bit of practice to handle properly though, and they may not be as accurate as expected unless you use a guiding rail and set it up correctly. They generate a lot of sparks and splinters too, so protective equipment is a must.
Pros
Quickly cuts metal sheets, roofing, gutters, and other types of metal in bulk.
Relatively accurate when using a guiding rail, but cutting through metal freehand is also possible.
Not as exhausting to use as other metal cutting tools.
Available in battery powered models as well as corded models.
Different cutting blades make it a versatile cutting tool.
Cons
May leave a relatively rough edge on the materials you’re cutting.
Not the best cutting tool for small pieces of metal such as rebars, rods, pipes, etc.
Potentially dangerous to use if not handled properly.
Protective equipment should be worn during use: Safety glasses, a mask, gloves, and boots are strongly recommended.
Generates dust and sparks during use. Keep away from flammable materials, and only use it outside or in a proper workshop.
#5 Band saw – stationary saw for metal and other materials
The main characteristics of a band saw are the design and how it’s meant to be used. Unlike other metal saws, a band saw doesn’t move. Instead, you have to push the material you’re cutting against the saw. This enables you to cut curves, angles, bevels, cross-cuts, and resaw thick metal sheets into thinner ones in a single pass.
Band saws are not made for straight cuts but they’re an important part of a workshop if you’re working on auto parts and other projects involving metal. They can also be used for wood and other materials, as the saw blade is interchangeable.
Unlike angle grinders and circular saws, band saws are relatively safe. However, safety shouldn’t be taken lightly as you operate the saw with your fingers very close to the exposed blade. You can use a stick if you want to maintain a bit of distance between your fingers and the blade, but the cut may not be as precise as you wanted it to be.
Pros
Very easy to use, and works with many types of metals.
Ideal for curved edges, angles, bevels, cross-cuts, and other types of precision metal cutting.
Quiet operation compared to table saws and angle grinders.
Doesn’t produce as much dust and sparks as other motorized metal saws.
Cons
Leaves metal with rough edges that may need additional finishing.
Not suitable for metal sheets or long, straight cuts due to the restricted work space.
Not portable. For use in a workshop only, which means you need some kind of dust collection as well.
Although relatively safe, accidents could still happen if not used properly.
#6 Miter saw – great for aluminum rods/tubes
A miter saw is the perfect tool when you need to make accurate cuts on metal rods, tubes, and angles. You can get cutting blades for steel, aluminium, and other materials, making it extremely versatile.
Because of the design, the miter saw is also relatively easy to set up and use. You can adjust it to any angle, making it perfect for precision work on all types of metal products. For thin materials, you may want to use a wood backer to secure the metal and prevent the saw blade from catching on the metal and ruin it. It will also prevent metal shards from flying across the room, which is very useful in a small workshop.
Due to the nature of miter saws, the work area is restricted to rods, tubes, angles, and similar products. They’re extremely effective though, and you’ll get a lot of work done in just a few minutes. Because it’s such a specialized metal cutting tool, it isn’t considered a basic tool for a home workshop.
Be aware that metal shards could fly everywhere during use, and it does generate a few sparks as well. Protective equipment is highly recommended while using your miter saw.
Pros
Miter saws are very easy to use. Simply set it up, and get familiar with the basics. It’s a stationary saw, so there’s really only one way to use it.
Makes very accurate cuts. The blade is attached on a metal arm, and the material you’re cutting is fixed against the sliding fences.
Miter saws can be adjusted to cut at different angles, making them extremely versatile.
Very fast. Rods, tubes, angles, and other metal products are quickly cut exactly the way you want them.
Cons
Miter saws are not portable. They are mostly used as stationary equipment in a workshop.
Although miter saws are relatively safe, you could still get injured if you handle them improperly.
Doesn’t cut metal sheets or larger metal pieces.
Quite noisy. You may want to wear ear muffs as well as gloves, glasses, and other protective equipment.
#7 Rotary tool – ideal for small, simple jobs
Sometimes you may need a tool for more intricate cuts, such as cutting a small square in the middle of a metal sheet. With a small rotary tool fitted with a metal-cutting disc, you can easily get small jobs done without causing too big of a mess.
Rotary tools are both cheap and simple, and you can get them at any local hardware store (or even some grocery stores).
Because of the compact design you can also use a rotary tool to cut off a metal bolt, or grind down a nail sticking out from a piece of wood. Most homeowners have one lying around for these particular reasons, and they require no practice beforehand.
Pros
Very easy to use. No practice required, you simply press the button and start cutting or grinding your metal.
Great for small jobs like shortening a nail, or cutting small holes in a metal sheet.
Lightweight and portable. Often comes with a small carrying case, and some models are battery powered as well.
Often sold with a vast range of accessories for all kinds of jobs.
Cons
Not as powerful as other metal cutting tools.
Relatively dangerous to use. It rotates at high speeds, and metal shards could fly towards your face. Safety glasses are a must.
Cutting discs wear out quickly, and have to be replaced relatively often.
#8 Utility knife – great for light-gauge metal stock
Light-gauge metal sheets can easily be cut with a simple utility knife. Simply hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks, and score a line with the tip of a new blade. It shouldn’t go all the way through, but that’s the point of using the knife: You can now break the sheet apart by bending it back and forth, until it snaps. You can do the same with metal studs, and some even claim that they do it with gutters too. All it takes is a sharp utility knife and a bit of practice to master the technique.
Scoring thin metal sheets with a utility knife is quite safe as well, as it doesn’t involve any motorized saws. You could still cut yourself, but it would probably not even penetrate your skin and draw blood.
Utility knives are considered essential tools in most workshops, and you most likely have at least one lying around already.
Pros
Very safe method. No rotating saw blades, and only a small risk of failure.
Works extremely well on any thin metal products.
Affordable. You can buy a whole bag of utility knives for just a few bucks in most hardware stores and some grocery stores as well.
Reusable. Blades can be snapped and replaced when needed.
Cons
Doesn’t perform as well as other metal cutting tools. Works for scoring only.
There is a risk of ruining the metal product if you don’t score it properly before trying to snap it.
You do need to apply a bit of force when scoring the metal.
#9 Jigsaw – versatile tool for metal work
The jigsaw is one of the most versatile saws on the market. It cuts through many types of materials, including metal. It can be used to cut curves and edges, as well as more sophisticated shapes that other cutting tools would otherwise struggle to achieve.
Jigsaws have small, interchangeable blades that move back and forth at high speed. They have a base plate that you press against the material you’re cutting, while at the same time moving the jigsaw in the direction you want.
The main purpose of a jigsaw is to cut small pieces of metal or other materials at a time. It’s not meant for bulk cutting, and definitely not suitable for cutting long, straight lines either. The saw blade is likely to leave a relatively rough edge as well, so you may need to use a piece of sandpaper if you want a smooth edge.
On a positive note, the jigsaw is relatively safe to use. The saw blade is designed with the teeth pulling the material against the base, and your hands are nowhere near the blade at any time either. There’s no risk of blades snapping or metal shards flying across the room either, but as always it’s a great idea to at least wear safety glasses.
Pros
Capable of cutting curves, edges, bevels, and complex shaves as well.
Affordable. Jigsaws are relatively cheap, and available at most hardware and home improvement stores.
Very easy to use. There’s really no learning curve with a jigsaw. Simply hold it against the material you’re cutting, and turn it on.
Safe. Although safety glasses are recommended as always, the jigsaw doesn’t send metal shards and sparks flying across the room like angle grinders tend to do.
Cons
Not as powerful as other metal cutting tools.
Not at all suitable for cutting long, straight lines.
Leaves your metal products with a relatively rough and sometimes uneven edge.
Not as easy to steer in a certain direction as you may think.
#10 Nibbler – effective tool for metal sheets
Whether you’re cutting roof panels or flat metal sheets, a nibbler is a great tool for the job. The tool is small yet powerful, making it a good choice for those who often find themselves on a job site.
For a workshop at home the nibbler is probably not one of the most essential metal cutting tools to own, but if you often work with corrugated metal sheets of any kind it’s a great option for cutting in all directions.
The biggest downside of nibblers is the fact that they “punch” their way through the metal, leaving a track of small metal shards that could cause a lot of discomfort if they work their way into your shoes or gloves.
At the very least we recommend that you use a pair of gloves while handling the nibbler, as it leaves your metal sheets with a rough edge.
Pros
Works especially well on corrugated metal sheets as it’s easy to steer in the wad easy to use. No risk of cutting yourself on any blades or discs.
No vibrations, and only a small amount of noise during use.
Cons
Punches out small metal shards that could cause a lot of discomfort if they work their way into your shoes or gloves.
Not the fastest metal cutting tool on the market.
Highly specialized tool made for cutting metal sheets, and nothing else.
Relatively expensive compared with other tools that cut through metal sheets.
#11 Reciprocating saw – versatile and fast
The reciprocating saw (also called a ‘recip saw’) is a practical and versatile tool that e reciprocating saw is motorized and easily reaches speeds that are much faster than what you’re capable of reaching with a manual hacksaw. As such, the hacksaw gained a reputation as an effective tool for demolition jobs, as it is quickly equipped and ready to cut through materials of all types.
Because of how reciprocating saws are designed, they will leave your metal products with a relatively rough edge after cutting. You can use it for cutting pipes, rods, bolts, and angles, but it isn’t recommended for metal sheets as it could rip the sheets apart and ruin them.
Although the reciprocating saw is a relatively safe tool to use, we recommend wearing a pair of safety glasses as well as gloves to protect your hands from any rough metal edges.
Pros
Extremely fast and effective tool. Widely used for demolition jobs across the country.
Saw blades are interchangeable and very easy to switch and/or replace.
Versatile. Cuts a lot of different metal products as well as other materials.
Easy to use. Since it’s basically a motorized hacksaw, there’s little to no learning curve.
Cons
Because of how the saw blades are formulated, reciprocating saws will most likely leave rough edges on your metal products.
Not ideal for curves, bevels, and other intricate cuts. While reciprocating saws have variable speeds, they don’t work well for any precision cutting.
Blades can snap if overworked, and they’re a little expensive to replace.
#12 Oscillating multi-tool – great for tight spots and flush cuts
No metal cutting tools fit into tight spaces like the oscillating multi-tool. With its relatively peculiar design, you’re able to reach in behind closets and between small gaps to cut off metal pipes, rods, angles, and cords.
You can even cut metal flush against the wall, which is very useful when you want to cut off nails, bolts, and other objects sticking out from any surface.
Simply fit your oscillating multi-tool with a metal-cutting blade, which takes a few seconds to do, and you’re ready to go. Most of these tools are battery powered as well, so you don’t have to worry about power outlets and cords dangling from your tool.
While oscillating multi-tools are generally quite versatile, they do have some limits. For example, they’re not very useful for cutting through large metal sheets, and neither do they work for precision metal work.
Pros
Very easy to use. Simply press the button and press the blade against the material you want to cut, and the job is done in a few seconds.
Safe. As the name suggests, this tool relies on oscillation instead of rotation. That means no blades rotate at high speeds, and no shards or sparks will fly across the room when cutting through metal.
Very popular tool, and essential to many DIYers because of the versatility.
Often comes with an accessory pack, making it suitable for many different types of jobs from the beginning.
Cons
Not suitable for large tasks such as long metal sheets or corrugated roof panels.
Not as powerful as angle grinders and circular saws.
Relatively slow. It gets the job done, but perhaps not as fast as other metal cutting tools.
#13 Bench shear – great for bulk cutting of sheet metal
A bench shear is your best choice for bulk cutting of sheet metal. Let’s say you’re in the process of constructing a shed, and need to put a roof on it. Corrugated metal roof panels could be a great choice, but they’re hard to cut with a manual tool. A bench shear, on the other hand, quickly cuts through entire roof panels in just one go.
Bench shears are generally considered a stationary tool, not capable of too much moving around due to the weight and size. It’s not an essential tool either, and you’re likely not going to need it regularly unless you’re a roofer by profession and need this tool on a daily basis.
A bench shear is a very safe metal cutting tool, but its functionality is limited to sheet metal. It cuts through the material like scissors, which means no metal shards or sparks shooting across the room. We still recommend that you wear safety glasses, just in case, but otherwise you don’t really need protective gear.
Pros
Powerful. Bench shears function like scissors, cutting through thin metal sheets like paper.
Very easy to set up and use. There may be a bit of assembly, but afterwards the tool is as easy to use as handheld scissors.
Very effective for metal roof panels.
Cons
Heavy. Not made for transportation, and doesn’t fit in most storage shelves either.
Expensive. Bench shears are generally considered a niche tool for roofers, and as such they’re relatively expensive.
Can’t cut through any metal products besides sheets.
#14 Cold saw – professional tool for clean, precise cuts
A cold saw is a relatively expensive metal cutting tool, but if you’re regularly fabricating and cutting metal products it’s worth considering for your workshop.
As the name suggests, a cold saw resembles a regular circular saw but applies a coolant that transfers the heat away from the metal being cut. This results in a clean, precise cut with smooth edges.
Cold saws can be used on many metal products, and the blades don’t wear out as fast as on other metal cutting tools.
Because of the way the saw blades are formulated, they’re harder than “normal” blades and therefore also brittle. This means that you could easily damage the teeth of your blade from an impact or vibration.
Pros
Produces a clean, precise cut. Because of the cold cutting technology, the blade produces a nice, clean edge on all types of metal products.
Recommended for hard metals. Cold saws are capable of cutting through even very hard metals that you would otherwise be unable to work with.
Cons
Very expensive. A cold saw is a niche tool, and not something you buy because you want to cut a pair of metal rods.
Saw blades are harder and therefore brittle, making them susceptible to damage caused by shock.
#15 Oxy-fuel torch – ideal for thick pieces of metal
An oxy-fuel torch is a radically different metal cutting tool, but a great one nonetheless. It requires a bit of practice to use properly, and most people will probably not need such a tool in their workshop.
With an oxy-fuel torch you can cut through thick pieces of metal that would otherwise be difficult to work on with cutting blades or discs. The torch is also quiet and surprisingly fast, but proper safety measures and protective equipment are a must.
Thick gloves as well as glasses are required to keep you safe. A welding jacket is an ideal choice for protection of your torso, as well as proper canvas pants and long sleeves.
Pros
Powerful metal cutting tool. Easily cuts through all types of metal products, even thick pieces of metal.
Portable. No electricity needed, and you can easily transport your oxy-fuel system in your trunk.
Very effective. Cuts through metals relatively fast.
Doesn’t just cut. It welds, heats, and gouges as well.
Cons
Requires heavy-duty safety equipment. Glasses, gloves, a welding jacket, and long sleeves are a must. | https://threetwohome.com/what-can-cut-through-metal/ | 1,664,230,532 |
Marcus Sheridan, marketing and sales expert, Founder of The Sales Lion, and author of the new book, KEY TAKEAWAYS
In 2001, right out of college, Marcus joined two partners to start River Pools. The ‘08 crash almost ended them. They needed traffic! To generate leads, Marcus used content marketing and social media, to answer real buyer questions.
River Pools adopted a core philosophy, which Marcus teaches all over the world: “They ask, you answer.” With FAQ content, they became the world’s most trafficked swimming pool manufacturer website, with 500K visitors per month.
The big five questions buyers ask are: Money, Negatives (How could this blow up in my face?), Comparisons, Reviews, and Best (What is the best — whether or not I buy it?).
The three reasons companies don’t release prices are: fear of competition stealing the “secret sauce,” fear of scaring customers, belief they have “a unique solution.” All are false reasons.
Marcus wrote another article, “What are the Problems with Fiberglass Pools?” This article owns the conversation, and it generated $500K in sales. Buyers seek knowledge. They will find the answers they need. To provide answers, builds trust.
A prospect asked, if we don’t buy from you, who would you recommend? Marcus wrote an article the five best pool contractors in his area. But didn’t include his own company! Talk about trust building. The article generated $150K that year alone. A series of similar articles earned millions.
Who is the “WebMD” of your space right now? If you can’t name it, it doesn’t exist. Your culture must be, to be the best teachers in the world, where people know they will find their answers.
In They Ask, You Answer, there are multiple case studies where companies required salespeople to participate with marketing. Sales serves buyers by helping make purchasing decisions. Most of the decision occurs before talking to sales.
Marcus praises revenue teams, where marketing and sales are combined. Sales training should include marketing; content creation should include sales.
Marcus found that prospects who read 30 pages on their site before a sales visit, bought 80% of the time. If not, they bought 25% of the time. Marcus pushed content. They sold 95 pools that year; the average buyer read 100 pages.
As Marcus spoke about River Pools, people doubted the principles would apply to them. So Marcus developed world-class case studies of companies that completely changed the game in their spaces, always by teaching.
The book is for people who say, I’m going to do whatever it takes to be the best teacher in my space. CarMax is an example of changing the game by answering critical questions. Eliminate fears, and you are left with trust. | https://www.revenue.io/podcasts/boost-sales-by-building-trust-through-content-w-marcus-sheridan-episode-393 | 1,664,612,749 |
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