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Compliance – The Movie
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 20, 2012
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- The Situation of Bystanders,
- The Situation of Gang Rape,
- The Situation of Helping,
- The Situational Effect of Groups
- Solomon Asch’s Famous Compliance Experiment
- The Situation of Bullying
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- Journalists as Social Psychologists & Social Psychologists as Entertainers
- RADIOLAB on the Situation of Badness
- Situation, McDonalds, & Tort Law
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5 Responses to Chopped
What a great story! What a fun time. Bacon trumps all…..especially with fresh pineapple. I did, once, make the HUGE mistake of grilling chicken kabobs with fresh pineapple on the same skewer as the meat. The lag time before cooking resulted in disasterously mushy chicken because of the enzymes in the fresh pineapple. Very cool of Char-Broil to set up such a great event.
YOU ARE JUST SO BRIGHT AND BRAVE! I’d have wet my pants , given that combination of ingredients!
I ate two – just sayin’
Loved hearing about your contest. Better luck next time but I think honorable mention is still good.
It’s hard not to love bacon covered anything. We’ll take the second place.
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Jul 12 2012
Scripts are Like a Loaded Gun
Everything Looks Like a Target When You Have a Gun
Congratulations! Through ingenuity or skill with using your programming language of choice or your favorite search engine you are now in possession of a script that you can use to make all your performance tuning problems vanish in an instant. Be sure to kick it off whenever you need to; and use the results to instantly make important tuning decisions in your production database environment. <–Sarcasm, folks!
Having code to use and understanding it’s usage are two different things entirely. Unless you’re lucky in troubleshooting and Russian Roulette, not understanding there is a difference leads to making bad decisions with bad – or even correct – information.
A Little Something for the SQL Geeks
While this applies to all programming disciplines I am going to use Microsoft SQL Server’s programming language and engine as an example due to my familiarity. Let’s talk about the fine art of waiting for a second…
When I present for user groups, at technical summits, or on SQL Cruise I frequently do so on the subject of SQL Server’s Dynamic Management Objects. These are internal code constructs that allow for advanced troubleshooting and analysis of what is going on under the covers in your SQL Servers. One of the more useful DMOs (as they’re referred to) is sys.dm_os_wait_stats. Without getting into the nitties and gritties of what this DMO is and how to call it (for those of you not versed in SQL Server) let’s talk instead of the data it offers up to those who use it.
It’s Like Marriage
Sure marriage is full of unicorns dancing in fields of marshmallow-coated bacon where it rains chocolate-covered cherries and money grows on trees but it is also about waiting. Waiting for him to find his car keys for the 5th time this month. Waiting for her to choose the right black dress from the 19 she owns. Waiting for him to finish that last match of Halo multiplayer. Waiting for her to finish that last section of code and log off the computer for the night.
The good spouse or partner accepts these things as the overhead to a successful, lasting marriage. The alternative is that you keep a running tally sheet in your head
That was the 8th time this month she had to try on little black dresses while I’m waiting in the car… a total of 40 minutes! That’s an average of 5 minutes!
If he starts up another game of Halo he’s going to have to learn how to toss a grenade by pressing on his left testicle where I’m planning on shoving that controller. That is the 7th time this week!
You get the idea. Microsoft SQL Server does the exact same thing. Not performing outpatient surgery to insert XBox controllers into the lower GI tract of gamers, but rather keeping track of when it needs to wait for something. This is the crux of what wait stats are. By querying the sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMO though a great script that I’ve discussed here and others have created, refined, altered, and tuned elsewhere as well you can get a great idea of where to start tuning things when you get that dreaded (at non-informative) call from a user stating “the database is slow.” Cue the screeching music and tighten the tension, that phone call will come eventually…
The Call Is Coming from Inside the Office!
Typically the call is short on information; no idea what the database name or server is perhaps, or if the performance issues are related to a given process. Once all that is ironed out where do you begin? The issue could be a poorly performing query or a constraint on resources or, well, ANYTHING!
Scripts Don’t Replace Years of Expertise and Experience
The first place I start once I am at this stage is with the wait stats query that shows up on multiple blogger sites. Here is the flavor of it I pulled from Glenn Berry with SQLskills. I had the pleasure of working with him on my book on the subject we’re discussing now and he really understands performance diagnostics.
What Glenn’s script does is identify the top waits that SQL has accumulated since the last time the wait stats were cleared via issuing the DBCC SQLPERF(‘sys.dm_os_wait_stats’, CLEAR); command or by cycling the SQL Services. This is a key thing to understand – these waits are not permanently accumulating – they are transitory and it’s important to understand how much metadata you’re basing your decisions on rather than blindly placing your trust in the data displayed on the screen in front of you. The waits also don’t take into consideration routine maintenance and backups as well as perhaps single – expensive tasks that may not represent the true current workload causing issues on the SQL Server. The wait stats cover all the activity that has accumulated over time.
Performance Tuning Scripts Can Be Powerful, but Dangerous
It’s critical that when you download a script to resolve a particular issue, you have faith in the source of that script (expertise) and you also understand it’s use and what it does (and does not) tell you. After all a loaded gun is a dangerous thing in and of itself, but is quite a powerful tool in the hands of a trained professional.
Do you want to get more SQL Server training with a side of fun, networking, and rejuvenation? Then join me in 2013 for SQL Cruise 2013!
Hi Tim,
Nice write up and very interesting imagination specially about the surgery to insert game controller.
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The name of the disease sounds like just another clinical term: Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. But the experience of the disease sounds like the premise of a psychological thriller: A healthy young woman has everything going for her -- a promising career, an active social life -- until suddenly, she starts feeling "off." She's moody, she's paranoid; she becomes convinced her apartment is infested with bedbugs and her boyfriend is having an affair ... soon, the seizures and hallucinations begin. Before long she's hospitalized, appearing "possessed, crying or laughing hysterically one moment and turning catatonic the next." Doctors prescribe antipsychotics for what they assume is some form of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
But Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis isn't a mental illness at all. It's a recently discovered auto immune disease that strikes mostly young women and is decribed as having one's "brain on fire."
That's what happened to Susannah Calahan, New York Times best-selling author of "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness." The disease is treatable; though not curable -- Calahan was fortunate (as much as anyone who contracts such a horrible disease can be considered "fortunate," anyway) to eventually receive a correct diagnosis. Which was thanks to a hunch, really, by Calahan's doctor, Souhel Najjar, who thought to give his then 24-year-old patient a test usually reserved for people with dementia or Alzheimer’s: The Clock Test. Explains Calahan:
"He first asked me to draw a circle -- and I did after one aborted attempt ...."
On the one hand, it's completely fascinating that such a simple test would solve this mystery -- on the other, it's completely horrifying to think, as Calahan says, that "there could be people in comas right now or people stuck in psych wards that have this disease and aren’t being treated properly."
Have you ever heard of this disease?
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Blueberries and grapefruit are tied for Anna's favorite fruit. Grapefruit is always the first choice for breakfast, while blueberries are the preferred bedtime snack. So, when Emily asked us to go blueberry picking, we jumped at the chance to go with our berry-picking friends.
Everyone with kids knows how fruit picking goes...one in the mouth, one in the bucket. OR five in the mouth, one in the bucket. OR all in the mouth, none in the bucket. Needless to say, Anna ate her weight in blueberries.
After massive thunderstorms last night, the blueberry bushes were drenched, so we were sprinkled with water drops every time we picked a berry.
Anna's bucket rarely had more berries than in this photo. By the time we left, it was empty. This is why:
Every time I turned around, this is what I saw.
Emily and I ate about two berries each. You'd think I was eating mine, though...I walked away with just 2.5 pounds of berries, while Emily managed to pick 5 pounds!
After we finished picking, Emily's mom generously paid for my blueberries (I managed to leave the house without my wallet) while Anna and Harper begged to have their turns with the cameras. It's becoming a regular thing. Harper was adorable, setting up her shots with very specific ideas in mind. Anna captured a few cute ones, as usual:
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Rap Ratz is the Hip Hop version of Doonesbury by Funkwork
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So here’s how the conversation goes…
“It’s good to get some coffee; I’m really not a morning person.”
“Oh my god me too… so, you’re from India right?”
“Yeah, just livin’ the dream.”
“Slumdog Millionaire has to be my favourite movie of all time.”
And you think to yourself, ‘Umm, okay?!’
Let me throw another piece of conversation at you. Or to avoid losing out on readership, I’ll summarize it and try to put forth the surprise of a fellow traveller at the existence of an upper class in India. Apparently, if you can hold a conversation in English without making somebody laugh and fund a trip to Europe, you’re from the Upper East Side of New Delhi.
Instead of beginning my next sentence with a ‘Well I think lalala is to be blamed’, let’s try and understand where we’re going wrong in representing the existence of an upper-middle class. A class of people who don’t talk like Apu from The Simpsons (“Thankyoucomeagain!”) who shop at Zara, wait only preppy guys go there, okay who shop at, wait H&M isn’t here yet na, hmmm.. Okay screw it you guys, you know where we shop. This is all too far beside the point I’m trying to make.
What I want to do is examine the kind of cinema that India is sending out, without trashing it because let’s face it a Gangs of Wasseypur is hardly counter-productive for the image of Indian cinema. But let’s talk about a Slumdog Millionaire –for lack of a better example at 9 a.m. in the morning –it was one of the most successful movies of 2008, but I can’t help but feel that it got the accolades, besides the obvious reasons, because it played right into the stereotype of “Poor Little India”.
I’m well aware that the story really mattered because it was based in a slum and it was the most realistic depiction of it. But as a country looking to change its image, why aren’t we doing anything about it? The movie shows the Indian police as these mindless rowdy fools –not too unlike them jocks –who are impulsive, brash and simply messed up. It’s not like that. It’s bad, but you won’t find a policeman looking the other way while a man is being murdered. And yeah, what’s with the Hindu on Muslim violence? Didn’t really get that bit. The pure filth on the streets. The men openly preying on children. Why are we so accepting of a film that’s exaggerating the most negative points of our country?
That’s not the kind of life you and I lead. Why isn’t there anything that resembles our lifestyle? We work, we shop, we party… it’s all there in real life, just not there on-screen. And don’t tell me it’s impossible to set an interesting story in a Hauz Khas Village or an apartment on the Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. We saw a glimmer of it in Aisha, the contemporary rendition of Jane Austen’s novel
Emma, set in the high society of Delhi (I can already see some of you getting ticked off). I cannot begin to count how many reviews trashed it saying that it portrays the youth as ashamed or ignorant of their culture and tradition, and craving westernisation.
First things first, the Indian culture has changed Mr. random IMDB user sitting in Australia. We’re not craving westernisation, it’s a natural phenomenon that’s happening (Dunkin’ Donuts, Zara, etc. much?) throughout the country. Okay, well most parts of it. And yes, a large part of our everyday conversation is in English, so yeah the movie was true to Delhi culture in that regard. Did I already
talk about how we go to parties, take random trips when we’re sick of work, maybe even smoke a little *whispered* maal (Indian slang for pot), and *a fat auntie gasps* we also do the nasty nasty.
Another example I’d willingly belt out is Shaitaan. Now this movie came dangerously close to the life of an average twenty-something-year-old. I know not everyone drinks and smokes up all the time, but the portrayal is as real as it gets. Yes, we should try and hold on to our culture, the culture which teaches us the most basic of human morals: respect. You wanna target a flaw in today’s society; look at the rapid decline in respect. From rape to fuck buddies to hit and runs. A movie like Shaitaan makes it very clear that this sort of lifestyle comes with its own repercussions and in no way advocates it, but as far as representation of the upper class goes, it hits the spot.
I’ll take a contrived sidetrack and switch from movies to photography. India as a country attracts photographers from all over the world, who search and capture the most bereft of people under the garb of finding “beauty in poverty”. Seriously? No offence to your artistic licence but you’re kinda showing that we’re all living in half-disintegrated houses with dirty clothes and naked children on
the street. Take any photograph of the street. Background –you and I –completely out of focus and in the crowd there is this one woman selling bangles who is just the quintessential beauty.
No wonder it’s such a surprise when you’re sitting in a café halfway around the world with people you barely know and they look at you and assume you’re the son of like an Ambani or something.
While we’re all so eager to watch Student of the Year, I refuse to even count it in this list. While I’m still not sure if it’s set in a school or a college (that campus looks like it’s trying too hard, it’s not Gossip Girl), the language is skewed and tortured (Hey.Dude.What’s.Up.) and the actors are strangely buff to be students of any kind.
In the end I guess, it’s funny that the upper class is either non-existent or distorted into fantastical characters of Karan Johar’s Indian Serena, Dan and Nate.
So why don’t we just hide behind a bottle of Corona (YES, we can afford them here!) it’s the only logical way to save face. Cue the fat aunty gasping.
Rohan Dahiya
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We'll let others give the thorough reviews of Sarah Palin's speech. We'd put in a couple of links, but they'd just be to the same places as always anyways, and besides the swooning we are currently undergoing makes that kinda difficult right now.
Our immediate reaction last night to the speech went like this...
As objectively as I love it so, love her so, love the speech so, and no matter how much I would no matter anything else -- the thought that Sarah Palin delivered this speech under this pressure with this amount of sickening vitriol from the left, the media and the Dems has given me a respect for her that cannot be shaken.
We feel the same this morning.
Your move, Senator Obama. Think carefully about your response. Palin went after you hard last night, inviting a hard response.
Because she wants it.
You can stand up to a little ol’ small town mayor, can’t you?
The speech certainly appealed to her base, but it will have lasting negative effects for the McCain campaign.
READ if you have any interest in an alternative view.
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Giant news from the Arab world this morning as reports claim that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been captured and killed by rebel forces in his hometown of Sirte. Reuters, the BBC, and other international news outlets are reporting Gaddafi's death, although it has not been confirmed by U.S. news agencies or by the American government. A gruesome cell phone photo that is reported to be the corpse of the Libyan dictator has been broadcast on MSNBC and other networks.
With Gaddafi having been in power over 40 years (since the Nixon administration to put it into context), his imminent demise poses large questions about what happens next in Libya.
As the Arab Spring continues in to fall, Libya is just the latest Arab nation making headlines as civil unrest spreads across the Middle East and Northern Africa. Since last December, we have seen political revolutions resulting in the ousting of longtime dictatorial leaders in Tunisia, Egypt , and Libya, and we have witnessed uprisings and civil protests in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, and other Arab states.
The fire of rebellion spreading through the Arab world is exciting, and the idea that real organic democracy (not the Bush-imposed brand used in Iraq) may take hold in these nations inspires hope. With these revolutions though also comes uncertainty, and a pressing need for cautious and balanced American diplomacy and leadership (this is not time for walking tall and carrying a big stick).
As we celebrate the downfall of cruel and tyrannical dictators, we should all, regardless of political affiliation, hope our leaders are capable of thoughtfully positioning the U.S. favorably in great Arab unknown. The Arab Spring presents historical opportunities for our nation to forge new positive relationships in the Arab world. Our leaders must exercise enormous care to make sure we take an appropriate role in these events that allows us to leverage these opportunities to make new friends, or at least to avoid making new enemies.
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Almost certainly first on the list for some kind of adaptation is Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series of novels. The Wheel of Time is currently the dominant force in the epic fantasy subgenre. The thirteen novels (fifteen, including the guidebook and prequel) have sold approximately 50 million copies to date in more than two dozen countries, and the series will be attracting a substantial amount of publicity next year when the fourteenth and final novel, A Memory of Light, finally hits the shelves. Given the series' immense sales clout and popularity, some kind of adaptation has been on the cards for a while. About ten years ago, Robert Jordan sold an option to NBC, who were considering making a mini-series of The Eye of the World. Nothing came of this project after those pushing it at NBC departed. A Japanese animation studio contacted Robert Jordan with a proposal to adapt the first three books as a series of movies, but they only wanted to do the first three and change the ending of the third book to the ending of the entire series. Jordan turned down this proposal.
In the mid-2000s, Red Eagle Entertainment bought the rights from Robert Jordan to develop film, computer game and comic adaptations of The Wheel of Time. In August 2008 they entered into a partnership with Universal Pictures to develop a two-hour movie based on The Eye of the World. Three years on, there appears to have been no movement on this project, and it's unclear how much longer Universal's option has left before it expires. Whilst the success of Game of Thrones may inspire Universal to take another look at the project, I think it's more likely that we will see the project re-envisaged for television.
In a series of articles I'm going to be looking at the practicalities of bringing The Wheel of Time to the screen, considering its vast scope, huge cast and immense visual effects requirements. To start with, let's ask the most basic question of all.
Should This Even Be Attempted?
There is a strong opinion amongst a subset of Wheel of Time fans that no adaptation should even be attempted. This is a series of fourteen very large books, totalling 11,000 pages in paperback when all is said and done, featuring a cast of almost 2,000 named characters sprawling across dozens of major and minor storylines. The books are what they are. Why should they be brought to the screen?
The easy answer to this is that it's going to happen. At some point, whether it's next week or twenty years from now, there's going to be an adaptation of The Wheel of Time on screen. The books have sold too many copies and there is too much potential money in a successful adaptation for it to simply be left alone. As a result, it's better (I think) to be taking this as read and considering how it may be best achieved rather than simply hoping it won't happen.
In addition, working out how on earth you'd tackle this project makes for an interesting thought-experiment.
TV or Movie?
This is the next question and one that has driven a great deal of discussion over the years. The question results in a paradox which can be summed up concisely:
The Wheel of Time is too expensive to be a TV series. It needs to be a film.Basically, the books have too many huge battles, too much magic use, too many sets, too much location work and too many non-human creatures to be viable as a TV series. Only a series of movies capable of assigning hundreds of millions of dollars to two hour-blocks at a time can give the Wheel the visual look it needs.
The Wheel of Time is too long to be a film. It needs to be a TV series.
At the same time, the books are too long with too many characters, too many storylines and too many subplots to be easily adapted as a series of films. To fit a 700-page novel (let alone the 1,000-page ones in the middle of the series) into two hours is impossible, which will result in epic cuts, with major characters and storylines having to be weeded out (great for Crossroads of Twilight, less so for The Eye of the World). Having fourteen films in the first place is also hopelessly unrealistic and impractical, splitting books across multiple films (an option apparently considered by Red Eagle) far moreso.
For me, the equation is a simple one to solve. The practical concerns about effects and budget are serious ones and should not be underestimated. However, the books don't exactly have a major battle sequence every five pages (and not one of the battles in the books so far rivals the battles that Game of Thrones will be depicting soon enough), whilst shows from Legend of the Seeker and Merlin through Heroes, BSG, Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have handled extensive special effects requirements on extremely modest budgets before. In short, the practical concerns can be handled or worked-around on TV. There is no way to address or work-around the cutting of major storylines and characters in a film adaptation.
Of course, some fans and critics would be happy to see a chainsaw taken to immense length and the vast cast of characters of the books, and certainly even a TV adaptation will have to be ruthless with some aspects of the story. But to work as a film or series of films, The Wheel of Time would have to lose major elements: the Seanchan and probably the Shaido would have to go for a start, along with many of the interim obstacles Rand faces on his quest to unite the world for the Last Battle. Most dangerously, the cutting would reduce Rand's story to its bare bones: a humble guy from a bucolic countryside who, with the help of his plucky friends and a wise mentor figure (albeit an attractive woman rather than an old guy) evades black-cloaked creatures and eventually goes to a volcano to confront the bad guy. Yeah, people might think they've seen that story before.
My conclusion is that if an adaptation must proceed, it must attempt to be faithful to at least the spirit (if not the letter) of the storyline set out in the books. Taking this hugely popular story and immediately ditching 90% of it makes no sense, so the movie option has to be dismissed (as Robert Jordan himself said many years ago). So now we can consider a TV show and all the immense impracticalities and challenges of that daunting prospect.
Next time I'll ponder how you shrink 11,000 pages of dense plotting into a workable outline for a TV series without destroying the story or scaring off viewers. This will include questions about the length and structure of the overall series, the length of individual seasons (can we tell the story of The Eye of the World in five or six hours, or does it need ten?) and what impact that will have on what needs to be cut and what can be kept intact.
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Aside from budgetary constraints, which you say can be resolved, do you see any other reason for not including the Seanchan storyline? I feel its too crucial, particularly going into the final books, and moreover, what with the Seanchan battle and everything, its likely to be one of the most attractive parts of the TV series, if it were made.
Loved your analysis! Do tweet when you post the next one in this series :)
I think the second half of s1 of Game of Thrones, were it starts to get really epic, will prove whether or not its possible to make an epic fantasy series on TV. So far the series has been great beyond belief, but we haven’t really had any large scale stuff yet, and WOT certainly is large scale. I’m not convinced it can be done, Rome’s 2 minute battle of Philippi didn’t exactly make a compelling argument for it.
Ignoring money issues, I think each WOT book (except for COT) needs to be at least 8-10 episodes long. Sure, there’s a lot of slow stretches(much like ASOIAF), but book 1-7 and 11-13 are also filled with such a huge amount of plot movement and action, that I think one could easily make 10 episode adaption’s that would feel fast paced.
Hmm, interesting thoughts - I agree that a TV series makes more sense - especially given the pacing of the series.
I think perhaps, one way to resolve the length issue though would be to take account of how the books are perceived.
Books 1-3 are often perceived as a trilogy, of sorts. Climaxing with Rand being confirmed as the Dragon Reborn. This could be series 1.
Elements that could be cut: Seanchan. The Eye of The world. (A lot of fans see this as a side-quest anyway, in essence a resolution imposed by the need to get a first book resolution to a series).
Cutting the Seanchan could prove problematical due to the importance they play later on. However a possibility would be to make it so that their arrival in Amadicia / Ebou Dar is their first entrance into the series.
Books 4-6 are seen as the next 'arc'. Climax being the kidnapping. Up for cutting: Shaido, Tanchico. The various journies to Salidar (Siuan et al and Nynaeve et al) could be condensed. This would be series 2.
Books 7-9 would be a good arc. Climax being The Cleansing. Up for cutting: Most of book 8, but keeping Egwene taking control. Series 3.
Books 10-11 are harder - neither has a defining climax. Candidates for a climax could be Mats marriage, or Elaynes kidnapping. Sereis 4.
Books 12-14 are much faster paced, I suspect that there is enough material for perhaps 2 or 3 series in these books. Series 5 and 6 (perhaps 7).
The Seanchan attack on the Tower here is vital - hence why the invasion of Ebou Dar has to be kept.
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One thing that would need to happen would be reorganising to keep the storylines roughly in parallel. This was the problem with later books - and it wouldn't adapt well to a tv series.
The problem would come with series 4 (Books 10-11). There isn't a focus on Rand in those books in any major way, so one possibility would be to move Rands Gathering Storm Arc into the 10 to 11 region. Each series before then has culminated with Rand performing a great act. and nothing in 10 or 11 would risk seeing the series cancelled right before its climax.
I still think that Eye of the World, at the very least, should be made into a movie. It's practically begging to be made into a movie, what with the way the plot is laid out. It's also the most self-contained of the Wheel of Time books, so you could make the movie, then drop the rest of the series if the movie isn't profitable.
Having fourteen films in the first place is also hopelessly unrealistic and impractical,
Several of the books would almost certainly be combined/cut. There are also a lot of subplots which really just don't go anywhere, along with lots of description.
Even so, you'd end up with a long series of movies . . . which is exactly what Hollywood loves. They love a long, successful franchise of movies that they can milk (look at the Harry Potter series of movies).
However, the books don't exactly have a major battle sequence every five pages (and not one of the battles in the books so far rivals the battles that Game of Thrones will be depicting soon enough),
I strongly disagree. A Song of Ice and Fire has only five major battles* that we see from the perspectives of the view-point characters, with the rest occurring either off-screen or in flashback. Those are spread out through-out the series.
* I'm counting
1. Tyrion's battle in AGoT
2. Battle of the Blackwater
3. Battle on the Fist of First Men
4. The Jon-led defense of the Wall vs a Wildling siege.
5. Stannis's assault on the wildlings.
Wheel of Time, on the other hand, has tons of battles with massive numbers of opponents (like tens of thousands of Trollocs or more), along with frequent and heavy use of special-effects-laden magic. For a television show, they'd either have to cut back on that extensively, or show it on lower budget effects (which can look very cheesy).
The Wheel of Time would have to lose major elements: the Seanchan and probably the Shaido would have to go for a start, along with many of the interim obstacles Rand faces on his quest to unite the world for the Last Battle.
I could live without the Shaido, who are mostly off-screen except in a handful of books. Even the Seanchan could be mostly shown off-screen in the movies.
Sorry for the long post.
There is a guide book to Wheel of Time? I am so picking it up!!
I honestly think an anime series of the Wheel of Time would be the best way to preserve it in its entirety. I don't know what kind of expenses are involved, but I imagine it'd be far less than a live action tv series. The only problem would be that WoT fans may not embrace that medium. Who knows, but I feel like anime fans are fantasy fans I think, while not all fantasy fans are anime fans.
As long as their is a lot of oversight to make sure it's not just some fan-service fest, but played more seriously, it could be great! Hey, WoT even has some pretty fan-servicey moments built into it.
And if not "anime" in style, any animation works. There's just the stigma of animated = cartoons = for children.
So yeah, that's what I'd prefer and what would work best if fidelity to the story is the main priority.
"Wheel of Time, on the other hand, has tons of battles with massive numbers of opponents (like tens of thousands of Trollocs or more), along with frequent and heavy use of special-effects-laden magic."
I know there's a perception of this, but I don't think it's really true. Dumai's Wells will be a massive set-piece, but the much larger (in terms of manpower) Battle of Cairhien in the book before mostly happens in the distance whilst Rand and Egwene observe from a wooden platform (most of Mat's battles there happen offpage/offscreen, though for TV we'd definitely need to have Mat and Couladin's fight). There's the running battles with the Seanchan in Book 8, but a lot of that is related through characters talking inbetween the engagements, not the actual combat itself, and most of the battles aren't shown in the book either.
Book 11 has a couple of medium sized-battles at Malden and the Malvide Narrows. Malden isn't actually that bad, since it happens at night and the focus is on Perrin's rescue mission, not the bigger battle which is a backdrop. The Malvide Narrows, where Mat deploys his basic proto-firearms, will need to be a bigger battle though. Rand and the channellers blowing away hordes of Trollocs with the Power will be an expensive set-piece, no doubt about that, but the Trollocs are mostly wiped out at a great distance and the whole thing can be CGIed (rather than a mix of CGI and live-action in some of these other scenes, which is more complicated). Maradon in ToM is also a big deal, but arguably it can be toned down a lot for TV.
What WoT does have much more of is the number of party-level, D&D-style skirmishes between Team Rand and bunches of Shadowspawn and so forth, but these should be more doable on a budget. As long as these things can be spread out every few episodes, it shouldn't be a problem (like when DS9 or B5 had an absolutely massive space battle and then four 'bottle shows' in a row which had next to no sfx at all to make up for it).
I know lots of people love the animation idea, but it's really not viable. Red Eagle paid a substantial figure for the rights, and Universal paid them an even more substantial figure to develop the propety, way more than the return from any anime or CGI movie that could be generated. If the rights collapse back to the Jordan Estate (as they will eventually if nothing more happens), maybe it could be done in a way that is affordable, but that's many years off.
It's also worth reiterating that a Japanese animation company was interested in the property a decade ago, but Jordan turned them down and as far as we know, there's been no interest at all from that quarter since.
Nice post. You're right that this would seem to be the next major fantasy series to be adapted for screen, whether large or small. I've been reading the Wheel of Time for many years, but my enthusiasm for it dropped off after Crossroads of Twilight. The idea of getting rid of the whole Shaido subplot makes perfect sense - then we wouldn't have to endure Perrin's interminable traipsing around after them.
Do you know which Japanese animation studio it was, that had hoped to adapt the first three books of the series? Or is that just anecdotal? I'd be interested to hear... used to be a bit of an anime buff, I did.
Fascinating post in any case, Adam. Looking forward to whatever you have up your sleeve for next time. Oh, and I'm glad your computer woes seem to be behind you. Whatever would we all do without our Wert? :I
Is the Wheel of Time worth reading? I'm thinking of trying it once all the books are finished. I've heard both pros and cons...
I would be perfectly happy if they created new characters, and follow their journey to the Last Battle. You could brush their story-lines up against major events in the book.
Creating a TV series from that angle would be much more appealing to me than butchering my favorite fantasy series.
Of course this probably isn't an option, but it should be.
@ Niall: No, the computer is more stable now than it was, but this just means it's crashing 3-4 times a day rather than 9-10. It's letting me get some stuff done, but only by constantly using Blogger's draft-saving technique or drafting files in Word and saving them every few minutes before sending them over :-(
As for the anime option, I believe RJ only ever mentioned it once:
"A japanese company contacted me about doing an animated movie. I told them no, because they wanted to do a movie based on two or three books, and I said 'no, I won't do that.'"
@Tom Bremer: It's difficult to say. I read the first seven books when I was 17 and fairly new to the fantasy genre, and read it long before ASoIaF, PoN, MBF and other big series. I think older people who've already read a lot of fantasy may find it less interesting, though it's still far better-written than say Eddings or Feist.
@Anon: That's a good idea, and when RJ was still alive I thought it would be brilliant to do a War of the Shadow movie based on his notes and outline. Of course, that's not possible now, and I think fans will be reluctant to okay any original WoT material not okayed by RJ. That leaves really only an adaptation of existing material possible.
Good post. I'm thinking it's unlikely the studio is planning beyond the first movie. If they make the first one and it's successful, they'll make a second one. If the second one is a blockbuster they'll plan for more. If it gains a cult following then maybe it moves to TV.
I'd love to see a more planned-out approach but Hollywood being Hollywood, they are probably gonna figure it out as they go.
i don't a tv show is even being considered is it? at the last WoT convention the guys from red eagle said they were making a movie, nothing about tv. they even said who was working on it.
Why do series have to be divided into seasons with a limited number of episodes? Couldn't there be a long series that has as many episodes as it takes to tell the story? Some soap operas run forever (I'm thinking of the German Lindenstraße). Of course WoT takes more preparation than a soap opera, so weekly episodes for years might not work. There might have to be breaks between books to catch up with production.
Red Eagle have a tendency to say that things are moving along, stuff is happening, announcements will be made soon and then nothing happens. Three years after the Universal deal, more than that since they optioned the property, fans' patience with them is at an all-time low.
I have no doubt that Red Eagle want to make a movie. They will make far more money even out of a failed movie than a TV series. The point I am making (and Mondragon admits in the interview) is that you cannot tell this story in the format of film. You can tell 'a story inspired by the books' but a faithful adaptation of the early books is impossible. My argument is that if you cut three-quarters of this story (and that's being ludicrously generous; it'll be more like 90%), then what's the point of adapting it in the first place? For fans there is no point whatsoever. Newcomers might get a half-decent film sharing some names with the books. But that film will not be, and cannot be, THE WHEEL OF TIME. Red Eagle have optioned the property not to produce a faithful adaptation true to the spirit of the books, but as a stepping-stone to making some dosh. Fair enough, that's what rights-management companies exist for, but to pretend that this is the best way of telling the story on screen is an outright lie.
A great post, and a great discussion.
I am one of those (who Adam mentioned in passing) who feel that much of the series would be vastly improved by cutting certain parts of it. In particular, I would love to see a heron-mark sword taken to large swaths of books 7 - 10.
Adam, your point about the similarity of the bones of Rand's story is well taken - which is one reason why I think the Seanchan need to be kept in. They are one of the more original elements of the story and set it apart in many ways.
An (incomplete) list of things I would like to see disappear from a movie adaptation (not to mention the books themselves), in no particular order:
The entire Shaido storyline, post-Couladin (including Faile's abduction and Perrin's endless quest to retrieve her).
The Bowl of the Winds / climate change subplot (the concept doesn't bother me, but it took way too long to tell and could be cut or vastly shortened).
The Prophet. (The Prophet might have been interesting if, again, it didn't take such an extraordinarily long time to wrap up his subplot.) Granted, taking away the Masema entirely essentially takes away Rand's reason for calling Perrin back from Emond's Field...
The entirety of Elayne's struggle to hold on to the throne of Andor.
The entirety of the Salidar sequence, other than the bare minimum necessary to show Egwene taking power and heading for Tar Valon.
I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. Keep in mind also that these are just things that I think would improve the series if they were removed entirely -- there are obviously many other portions that could be cut or shortened for length's sake.
I also say this with all the love, as I still think of this series as one of my favorites. Reading the Eye of the World for the first time is one of the defining moments in my memories of reading fantasy.
The could make the series much shorter if they edited out all the romance- I did a blog post on that ( ).
Additionally they could also edit out all the time Elayne spends in the bath, that would saves hours, or if HBO were making it, add hours :-)
The entire Shaido storyline, post-Couladin (including Faile's abduction and Perrin's endless quest to retrieve her).
That pretty much eliminates most of Faile, which opens the (great) possibility of simply eliminating the character altogether. She mostly exists as something for Perrin to deal with and chase after anyways. Give him something else to do in the movies/television show.
The entirety of Elayne's struggle to hold on to the throne of Andor.
You could move the events of that earlier into the whole storyline.
In fact, you could do both. Move Elayne's struggle to get control of Andor earlier into the story, and possibly move Perrin's defense of the Two Rivers later on.
Here's the thing... while a load of the tertiary characters may be unnamed in a movie or a TV series, a lot of secondary characters will have to be kept in. However, in a TV series, these people will have just a few scenes in one season and many scenes in another (expecially important Aes Sedai like Verin and Sheriam, as well as the Foresaken). The same is the case with making a movie. You can't change the actors who play these characters for each installments, and I think keeping them all active for the huge nuber of years it would take to film this would be impossible.
I think a performance capture 3-D film, ala Tintin, made by a big name director like Spielberg or Jackson or Cameroon is what we need.
You're right that WoT is indeed an epic story. And I think the subtexts involved in Rand's descent into madness, Egwene's politicking, Mat's reluctance to take responsibility, and the Seanchan will be something that a lot of people may appreciate in the current world of terrorism and the fight against it. I know Jordan intended none of this, but those themes work really well in the context of today's world, something that is usually not easy to see unless you read the books all
together.
But I think live action movies would pose too much of a challenge. Forget the magic and the battles. Hoe will you create iconic places like Caemlyn, Tar Valon, Tear, Ebou Dar and Rhuidean? GRRM restricted himself to magestic castles. Jordan has huge cities, and all of them are very well described and most readers would want to see them on screen. The best option is to give up live-action.
I'd say a TV series is certainly the best idea. But plan it out with extreme economy to take no more than a set number of episodes, say 150, split into 7 seasons of 21-22 episodes..
They would need to be mindful of what I felt to be the cardinal sin of the first season of Legend of the Seeker. Adding in too many filler episodes. When the first season should have adapted both "Wizard's First Rule" and "Stone of Tears" to completely finish up the Darken Rahl storyline, and set up the Chimes storyline. They didn't, it turned into monster of the week, people didn't watch it, and by the time they fixed it with season 2 it was too late.
Having it on Sunday afternoons was a terrible idea too.
but the last thing died. The one with the plucky girl, and the white tower, and all the fucking dragons at the end.
Killed by Hollywood.
Award winning script too.
Do I care if Wheel of Time comes to the screen? NOT EVER.
I want to read the ending.
POSTMAN at least did some good (orange revolution).
I hope hollywood, in total, rots in hell before they start killing good series that don't work on TV or Movies.
Wheel of Time works best as a Mud. There are several. Go, play them.
Game of Thrones works horribly as a Mud. Hope nobody's doing it, because it would suck!
But it makes grand TV.
Mud?
TV would be the best medium, but the model is broken. The 10-13 episode seasons of HBO could work, but would they be committed to it? They aren't even sure Game of Thrones will be back for season 2 despite pretty big numbers. You could do a lot with a full 24-26 episode runs on primetime TV, especially on NBC who really needs a hit - look at their desperation with renewing the terrible "Heroes" and running shows like "Bionic Woman" and "The Event".
For TV, the problem becomes ratings and cost. We've seen successful Sci-fi in primetime but not Fantasy. With DVRs ruining the income-through-commercials-based-on-ratings model, it's hard to determine if costs would be covered.
Even more problematic are executives who meddle when they think they know what's best for a show. "Make Perrin the goofy sidekick to Rand! Let's get a romance going between Matt and Egwene! Where are the cute and cuddly pets?" You're dealing with marketing people who have no clue about what fans of the show want, only what they think has "worked" over the years because it fits a formula.
What you need is a screenwriter/director in Hollywood with the passion to be true to the story, and a studio willing to take a risk, like Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema did with LotR (and look where NLC is now). Obviously you can't make 14 movies, but with some tight script writing you could cut it down to 6 or 7 movies...that's Harry Potter-ish and certainly doable, but the movies would have to be no more than 2 years apart to keep actors from aging too fast and plot threads forgotten.
How do you cut out the Sanchan? Way too big a part of the plot/Mat's character arc and we still don't know what part they will play in the Last battle.
cut out parts? hell no. why dont we change everbodys name and make it a kids movie while we are at it?,
Movie producers dont have a problem
making scream 5 or final destination 5 or 6 or what ever part they are on, look up new movies coming in 2012, all remakes and parts 4s and 6s. stupid. t.v. serries= bad graphics. give me six
3 hour, rated R movies. this story deserves it. and every movie would make more money than the last...
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"cut out parts? hell no. why dont we change everbodys name and make it a kids movie while we are at it?,give me six 3 hour, rated R movies."
So you don't want parts cut, but you want the entire story condensed into 6 3-hour movies? You can't have both. 6 3-hour movies would amount to, maybe at absolute best, 7 or 8% of the story from the novels.
If you want to do WoT properly on screen, you have to do it on TV. Film is not a realistic option unless you want the story gutted.
This reminds me that Part 2 of this article is a couple of months overdue. Need to get back to that.
It's too big of a task and too much risk involved to remake the books into TV or movies. I think something similar to how True Blood has done is what should be done. A Game of Thrones of just far too predictable for me to really love, although it is worth watching. However I just love True Blood because you don't know what's going to happen.
I just hope the creation of a movie or series will inspire more readers to try the books than turn away new readers with a poorly made project.
It will be interesting to see how they put it all together, but Im not holding much hope for an adaptation that holds anything close to the experience of the Wot books. Be it TV, or film.
Its said they want to stray from the traditional "family friendly" aspect other fantasy genre movies followed. (i.e. Harry potter, Narnia, Erigon etc). but aside from Blood and gore, little about the series is Mature other than the sometimes confusing plot, but the plot confounds just about everyone at times.
point being, does this mean in-book phrases like "Burning" or "Bloody" will be replaced with actual curse words in the movie?
would it even make sense to INCREASE the maturity?
A lot of people focus on the sheer number of pages that make up the books. In the case of RJ, this is very misleading since he is a very descriptive writer. Turning this to a visual medium will remove all descriptive parts and the reintroductions of many characters in every book. This alone will decrease the material by hundreds of pages in one stroke. Dynamite turned this series into a comic and adding pictures makes a lot of difference
Personaly, I also favor the option for an animated series. An artform that is alas underestimated by many, including the major studios.
Hey from what I myself have seen of the great example Game of Thrones I think that parts of the WOT series should be put into TV format with no issue, but there are certain major parts, whole books in fact, that this format would not be compatible. For instance, spoiler alert, I think that the Battles at say the end of book Two with the Ever Victorious Army the White Cloaks and the Heroes of the Horn and the Battle for Caemlyn, whatever book that’s in, are large enough and important enough to be made into full scale films, not to mention the Last Battle. So rather than having to choose from two totally different options, I think it would be better to have a balanced mix, the practicality of this kind of setup is questionable, but if say Universal and HBO teamed up they could create something that has never been successfully achieved: A continuous story that crosses from TV to movie without a mountain of series contradictions. I do however agree that T.V. would be the primary for the series.
i,m not a big fan of reading. i never read a series of books in my life, but....... my father introduced me to the wheel of time and i,ve read them all so far and am waiting for the final book. i'm a HUGE fan of the wheel of time, and i would love to see a successful tv series come from this awsome story. and i would like to congradulate branden sanderson on doing such a great job continuing the story.
I think the idea of a tv series with some movie makes sense thats how SG-1 did it they had 2 movies and 10 seasons. They could combine some of the books into the same season with 2-3 movies and be able to it in a similar amount of time.
I feel like I need to compare this series to a few others right now in regards to whether a movie or TV series would be better.
First off, movie option is a definite no, WAY too many books and it would not feel like the series it already is. Especially if you were to compare it to Lord of the Rings, the books are about the same size, but the Wheel of Time series is easily 5x as long. 3x if you include The Hobbit in there.
Now for the TV idea, definitely more viable, but instead of making each book its own season like what HBO is doing with Game of Thrones, take say the first 3 books and turn that into a season. That takes the series from being 14 seasons long, to about 5, around the same length of Game of Thrones (that one will be 7 seasons I believe).
Now here we can combine some movie aspects into it. I agree, the special effects won't be totally stellar due to budget on a TV series, however if you figure a book on its own can make a 3 hour movie (again, comparing to Lord of the Rings here, particularly the 3rd original movie, not the extended version which is 4 hours long), then you have 9 episodes for your first season across 3 books (3 episodes per book, each episode about an hour long).
I noticed someone else commented with the same idea with the TV arc, however I disagree with cutting the Seanchan out from the first season. The reason: We have the Horn of Valere being uesd, which will play a later role. Same with why we can't cut out the Eye of the World "side quest" either, that's where it's discovered, and it ties in to Mat, as well as later when Birgette is ripped from tel'aran'rhiod. It's hard to say what can be cut out because later they come back to play a pretty major role. And with Season 2, the Shaido play a part in how the Aiel are involved with Rand, Tanchico gives you more information with the Black Ajah. The Salidar journey though I agree can probably be drastically shortened.
I definitely disagree with the people saying there's a lot of subplots that can be cut, because I've been re-reading the series quite a bit and every time I do I notice a connection between a seemingly random subplot with the greater story. Especially when bits of the Prophecy of the Dragon are mentioned. And we still have one more book to go. I have a feeling all these subplots will prove to have a significant impact on how this last book will play out.
With HBO's obvious success with Game of Thrones, and the fact that a Premium cable channel like HBO would have the budget to handle such a task, the TV series would be the best way to serve such a great series of books. The key would be Mid-Season Finales. A full 1 hour episode without commercials, would allow for a book to be covered in half a season, say 6-7 episodes, with a 1 1/2-2 hr "season" finale if needed for the major battles. this would give the network 7 full seasons of potential income, and allow a shorter amount of time for the actors/actresses to age.
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What, with all these wonderful times ahead of us and I still find a way to be a grinch? We have the usual stalemate in Congress between the Republican controlled House and a Democrat controlled Senate and White House. Neither side likes the other’s deal but both sides speak desperately about avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff..”
At this point it is getting hard to figure what “meets the test balance.” It was President Obama that commissioned the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson, then rejected their plan because of the cuts it suggested to government spending. But somehow defense cuts and tax increases are a better alternative?
Here’s a secret, we are going over the cliff. The pedal has been screwed to the floor. There will be no deal because no one wants a deal. Let me explain.
If we go over the so-called fiscal cliff four things will happen.
- The Bush tax cuts will expire
- Clinton era tax rates will be adopted
- Automatic defense cuts kick in
- Some human service programs will be cut
Presumably all of these combined will work at reducing the deficit so the country can start paying down its debt. “Presumably” being a very key word.
These are all the things Democrats want (minus the fourth point). The Republicans can’t give them these things without putting up a fight. They have to if they do not wish to face an army of primary challengers during the next midterm election. So they make an offer, then a counteroffer but neither side will come to an agreement. In fact, for an agreement to work it will have to look a lot like the four points mentioned. So it is a wonderful dilemma for both parties.
One side can save face with its constituents “by fighting fiercely ” and the other side gets exactly what it wants, while blaming the program cuts on Republicans. The Democrats see this as 3 to 1. They’ll take it.
The GOP can cave without caving. The president can say he tried without ever trying.
If the GOP thinks anyone is buying this little girly slap fight show they must be high on dog food.
GOP- you`re done.
This latest bit of theater is exactly what Jason has described, a contrived way to appear tough – that won`t work any more.
Obama has written the music (actually copied from Alinsky, Piven and other noted anti Americans) and the GOP in a pathetic bid to stay relevant is dancing like a geek at the prom.
The half of this Country that realizes whats coming must roll over the GOP in what Matt Kibbe has rightly titled a “hostile Takeover”
Thomas Paine must be watching with apprehension – there are ” soul trying” times coming.
Ironically, going over the cliff is the correct economic policy. If the initial recession and market crash are allowed to happen, deficits will decline and a healthy economy will ensue.
There is a small chance that the idiots in B.C. can avoid taking us over this fiscal cliff. In my opinion, there is no chance that we will avoid the much higher cliff of the fiat money, debt addicting, sovereign debt cliff in the not to distant future. It will take down the US, Europe and most of the world. Chaos will reign for some time.
@ CoF- if Maxwell Smart can whup chaos, by God, so can we. “…if they mean to have a war….”
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Still wanted ... Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov (AAP)
Sir
United's record signing has cut a lonely figure since being left out of the squad for the UEFA Champions League final defeat to Barcelona in 2010.
Berbatov was further squeezed out last term thanks to the emergence of
Berbatov took to his Facebook site earlier this week to question how he was still at Old Trafford when it was obvious he had no future.
And, after the £30.75 million ($46.43 million) man featured in an advanced midfield role in a 1-0 win over AmaZulu in
, which has just sold
It does appear certain that at some point prior to the August transfer deadline, he will end an ultimately unfulfilling four-year stint with the club.
He did at least have the satisfaction of setting up the only goal for
Ferguson introduced £17 million ($25.67 million) new boy
Ferguson has already stated that the number one priority for him this season is to reclaim the Premier League title from Manchester City.
And he is expecting
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"He will be 38 in November and like any player of that age we know that his legs will go eventually.
"But, as we have seen so often, there is no one else in
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That's "The Bullies And The Tyrants" from March 5, 2006. Thhat was a day when I was searching for an idea.
I finally merged the Mamas and the Papas debut album cover with Bruce Springsteen's Born In the USA.
I think this works visually. I think it was okay for a day's comic. I don't think it has any staying power. It was visual at least.
When you're doing a weekly comic, there's a lot of pressure. Now days, I do several comics each week and I can really feel like the well has run dry.
And let me take a moment to thank Betty and Ann for their kind words.
Here's C.I.'s "10 Point Program for Struggle:"1). 2). 3). 4). 5). 6). 7). 8). 9). 10). NOW on PBS this Friday (on most PBS stations -- check local listings).
We'll close with this from independent journalist David Bacon's "In Oakland, Hunger Is Multicultural" (East Bay Express):). And I'm going to squeeze in one more thing..
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the independent of londonmichael savageadrian hamiltonchris ames
the socialist worker
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mike mountthe wall street journalyochi j. dreazenaugust cole
mcclatchy newspaperslaith hammoudicnnanderson cooper 360anderson coopermichael ware
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Baliem valey's mummies
Wim Tok Mabel's mummy held by one of his descendant. Apparently the mummy is 362 years old. Wim Tok Mabel was a "big man" and everybody in the valley wanted his advices. Even nowadays somebody is looking for his advice! Sumpaima village, Baliem valley (Papua Barat, Indonesia).
I will write something longer and post it later!
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How is it that in a country where “support our troops” ribbons and bumper stickers abound, the military is suffering from serious recruitment woes? Why has the Pentagon had to resort to questionable (at best) recruiting tactics, like creating a database of students’ personal information, possibly in violation of the Privacy Act?
A new Campus Progress article by Daniel Savickas offers a compelling answer. Savickas, who tagged along with several Army recruiters while they worked, found the “general consensus of the recruiters was that most people joining the Army today are either doing it to help pay off college debt, or to pay their way through college.” Savickas writes of recruiters who have to “sell” military service in cold calls, and quotes one saying, “A lot of the time you’ll ask for someone and they’ll tell you they’re there until they find out who you are, then they tell you the person left.” Savickas’ own conclusion gets to the heart of military recruitment problems: “I know a lot of people joining the army are trying to earn money for college or pay off college loans. I know that an education can provide a better life. But I just don’t know if it’s worth dying for.”
It doesn’t have to be this way. Answering the call to military service should mean loving our country’s principles so much that one is willing to sacrifice one’s life to protect them. If our government would stop deceiving us about matters of war, if it would adopt a foreign policy that embraces this nation’s historic values, we would have Americans enlisting because they wanted to, not because they had to.
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In a startling act of fealty to polluter interests, several senators are fighting scientifically guided smog limits that would save thousands of lives a year. Under the guidance of administrator Lisa Jackson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working to clean up one of George W. Bush’s most blatant acts of ignoring science and disregarding the law, when he personally overruled the unanimous recommendations of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for an ozone limit no higher than 70 ppb, setting instead an arbitrary and capricious standard of 75 ppb. Jackson intends to instead follow the law by setting a 60-70 ppb standard. However, a group of Democratic and Republican senators led by retiring Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) are trying to preserve Bush’s toxic legacy on behalf of the coal and oil industries in their states, complaining to Jackson that her plan “will have a significant negative impact on our states’ workers and families”:
We believe that changing the rules at this time will have a significant negative impact on our states’ workers and families and will compound the hardship that many are now facing in these difficult economic times.
The pro-smog letter was also signed by Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Richard Lugar (R-IN), Kit Bond (R-MO) and David Vitter (R-LA).
Remarkably, the senators do not seem cognizant of Bush’s well-reported act of malfeasance, complaining that “the Agency has not presented new data or evidence to justify its course of action”:
Instead, outside of the regular five-year review process, EPA is choosing to interpret the same basic body of information that existed in 2008 and reach a different conclusion. . .
Given the absence of new or different scientific data, EPA should maintain the current ozone standards, which EPA finalized only two years ago and concluded were adequately protective of public health and welfare with an adequate of safety [sic].
Actually the conclusion EPA staff and scientists drew in 2008, based on the scientific evidence that “ozone has a direct impact on rates of heart and respiratory disease and resulting premature deaths,” was that a standard no higher than 70 ppb was needed. The agency calculated that a standard of 65 ppb “would avoid 3,000 to 9,200 deaths annually,” two to three times more than a 75 ppb standard. The difference is that George W. Bush is no longer the decider.
The senators also claim that the previous smog standards harmed the economy:
We note that many states are only recently coming into attainment with the 1997, 0.084 ppm ozone standard. Attaining that standard required costly mandates on businesses, which greatly restricted the ability of local communities to grow their economies. . ..
The claim that attainment with the 1997 standard “greatly restricted the ability of local communities to grow their economies” is without evidence. In fact, the only noticeable effect of the 1997 standards on the economy was to dramatically cut the regulated pollution, making millions of children healthier, even as the economy steadily grew, as this EPA chart shows:
Finally, the senators claim — again without evidence — that “non-attainment” penalties under the Clean Air Act “undermine the economic viability of communities within our states.” In fact, “there is no clear evidence that non-attainment designations or progress in addressing air quality prevent areas from growing,” EPA officials informed the Wonk Room. Areas such as Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth and many others have been non-attainment for years and have had very strong growth rates. The EPA tells the Wonk Room:
We see no significant differences in the trend of employment, wages and number of establishments between attainment and non-attainment areas.
There is clear evidence, however, that this effort to ensure that more children have asthma attacks comes on behalf of coal and oil corporations in the senators’ states. Peabody Energy, the “world’s leading coal company,” is based in Missouri and has mines in Indiana, and is a top campaign contributor to McCaskill, Bond, Lugar and Bayh. Murray Energy, the “largest privately owned coal company in America,” is based in Voinovich‘s state. Landrieu and Vitter have collected a combined $1.5 million from the pollution industry, whose refineries and power plants keep killing children and keep sending these senators back to Washington.
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NEWS FLASH
Ninth Circuit Prop 8 Decision To Come Tomorrow | The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit announced today that it will hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the anti-gay Proposition 8 tomorrow. Supporters of the Constitution have good reason to be optimistic. The panel includes Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a well-known judicial liberal, and Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, who compared marriage discrimination to public school segregation during the 2010 oral argument in this case. Whichever side wins tomorrow, the decision is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme.
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Our guest blogger is Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), a member of the House International Relations Committee.
Last Tuesday, the House took an important first step regarding the war in Iraq. It voted in favor of an important amendment to the Iraq supplemental spending bill that I introduced, along with my colleagues, Reps. Tom Allen (D-ME), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). (Watch it here.)
The amendment we offered was very simple: it stated that no funds from this spending bill will be used to enter into military base agreements between the United States and Iraq. Stating this will clearly indicate that the U.S. has no intention of maintaining a permanent military presence in Iraq. I’m pleased to say that the House unanimously approved this amendment.
While differences exist over how and when we should leave Iraq, we should all agree that U.S. forces should not be in Iraq forever. The House is now on record as supporting that position. Unfortunately, the administration’s position is unclear.
On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, “As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation, and neither does America.” But last week, General John Abizaid, the Army general in charge of the U.S. troops in Iraq, told the House defense appropriations subcommittee that the U.S. could end up having permanent bases in Iraq. And today, the Los Angeles Times reports that Bush “continues to request hundreds of millions of dollars for large bases” in Iraq.
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have left behind thoughts of books and homework, homeschooling moms are now sweating out thoughts of planning next years lesson plans. Glossy catalogues are arriving, two-day homeschooling conferences are in full swing. You ask your child to divide his brother’s sandwich into quarters and he gives you a glassy-eyed stare, they’re already forgetting everything you’ve taught them, and it’s only June! Maybe it was last years curriculum, maybe you need to switch it all up. Before you know it, you’re sitting pool, lake or beachside with an iced coffee, no less than three curriculum catalogues, two legal pads and a husband so desperate for your undivided attention he’s taking off his t-shirt and exposing his bright white chest to the world.
2. In what I considered to be a stroke of genius, I made the decision from the get go to school year round; three months on, one month off. The children would never suffer from the summer brain drain, I’d get December off for Christmas prep and a whole month for spring break in April. Why isn’t everyone on board with this?
3. Because when it’s hot as the Mohave, no one wants to do school. I go to pick my arm up from the lesson plans and they’re sticking. I can only motivate the kids to do their work in a timely manner by bribing them with Fudgesicles. Now there’s brown finger prints everywhere. Ignore every indication they’re not just from the Fudgesicles by eating more Fudgesicles.
4. An old house with central air is as cool and inviting as having a fat man sit on your lap and fan you with the folds of meaty flesh on his arm. Or maybe it just feels that way to me since I’m always got a child or four clinging to my sweaty body.
5. It takes a long time to fill a pool with water when your husband demands giving the well pump a break after an hour. Yes, I know it’s old and could give out at any minute but I don’t think I can keep the kids from jumping in our 3/8 filled pool and breaking their legs for much longer.
6. I’m trying to use up food from our freezer and pass it off to the kids undefrosted as a cool dinner alternative.
7. So while I’m trying to wrap up this school year and not dehydrate, I’m freaking out about next year’s school work as are many of my friends. We’re as helpful to one another a flock of cackling hens before the slaughter. “What are you using for spelling? Aaackkk, spelling, who said spelling?? I forgot about spelling? Aaackkk! I was all concerned about grammar! Aaaacckkk! Grammar, who said grammar! Aaaccckkk! I forgot about grammar! And what about transcripts?? Aaacck!” waddle, waddle, waddle
At the local homeschool conference, moms are bombarded with a dizzying array of curriculum choices. Most are lucky to emerge at day’s end without their heads exploding.
So if you’re off to a conference this weekend, keep your wits about you! Keep calm and enjoy the central air and whatever you do, don’t buy the first glossy book you see. Or you could avoid planning a bit longer by heading over to Conversion Diary for more Seven Quick Takes.
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Tonight we get the first look at the highly anticipated White Dress by Kanye West off RZA’s The Man With The Iron Fists sound track. This is produced by Kanye himself and RZA.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
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It’s funny coz it’s true. (also it’s very depressing).
Ali Farazat, Syrian Cartoonist supporting the revolution in Syria was attacked and his hands were broken. This is the reply. - via Imgur
Wish I could confirm the story, TBH it looks doubtful seeing how bandaged his hands are, but either way, it’s awesome… Can anyone read the signature in Arabic?
Go #Syria!
EDIT: So apparently it’s confirmed, thanks ipickthingsupanputthemdown
Actual Malice: Phantom of the Press Room
—Cartoons by Robert and Donna Trussell
Traduction:
Homme: Tous les jours, il reste là, à regarder par la fenêtre.
Femme: Il est comme un veilleur. Il attend que les petits annonces reviennent.
(via copyeditor)
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Additionally, Boston Catholic Marilyn LoPresti contacted the CDF and Apostolic Nuncio and received assurances that the Pride Mass at St. Cecelia's had been canceled. She was also assured that the Cardinal sent a communication to all pastors: they are to disassociate with the secular Gay Pride celebrations here in Boston and they are not to organize or celebrate such a Mass. These clarifications sent to priests from His Eminence were also supposed to be published in a public media statement.
But in its stead, Boston priests received this peculiar and truncated statement from Terry Donilon:
Good evening,
Recently a Mass was scheduled for St. Cecilia Church in Boston and was publicized in the parish bulletin as being held in conjunction with Gay Pride Week. This created the unintended impression that the Church was endorsing Gay Pride activities. It is not. The Mass has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a later date.
Saint Cecilia Parish is a loving and welcoming faith community and the Catholic Church treats all people with dignity and respect. The Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality and the dignity of the human person are rooted in faith and revelation.
Thank you,
Terry
The good news is, the statement clarifies secular festivities of Gay Pride week cannot crescendo in a Catholic Liturgy, and emphasizes the Catholic Church treats ALL PEOPLE with dignity and respect.
That ends the good news.
Now, let us pull out our BS detectors and have a go at the rest of it.
The statement seems to isolate St. Cecelia's as the only Catholic parish in the Archdiocese where gays are welcomed and treated with dignity and respect.
The last thing we need are statements coming from the Archdiocese validating acumen that Catholics-at-large want the Catholic religion to be reserved for heterosexuals.
People are hurt by this message. You're repeating the urban legend that in the Catholic Church, except for a few people, they are rejected.
Nice job fellas.
Thanks be to Jesus this crew was not in place at the time of the Civil War. The South would still be flying the Confederate flag.
Further, the spin the timing and placement of the announcement of a Mass in St. Cecelia's bulletin and Gay Pride Week is all a big misunderstanding is not gelling. Even with the Globe:
Donilon declined to answer questions about the apparent contradiction of the church’s bulletin and his statement.
Statements that nobody can swallow seems to be the public relations policy of this Archdiocese.
Why not just say there was a theological misunderstanding that is pastorally being aligned to outreach programs consistent with Catholic teaching?
He digs himself further into the hole:
He said, however, that there would be a Mass in the future to welcome the community, but not specifically gays and lesbians.
Is there going to be a broader list?
I hope we can move them beyond their fixations on who is sleeping with whom.
I wonder if we can migrate them to focus physical attributes?
How about segregating out parishes for fat people and skinny people?
It could work.
I'll tell you right now, I'm going to the parish that welcomes skinny people. Keep your coffee and donuts. I'm going where there'll be green tea and fruit cups.
I've got just the song for the welcome home Catholics program: Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks, even kids with chicken pox.
Where are they going with this?
Does Donilon believe a Mass in the community to welcome all is something novel?
This is what every other Mass, on any other day, in any other community has been doing for the last 2000 years.
Why is it the policy of the Archbishop to publish the notion that loving and welcoming is reserved to a couple of handfuls of Catholics, and gays must flock to these places or face the hatred stewing in all other parishes?
Can't they see that they are the ones inflicting wounds?
How would you feel if suddenly the Archdiocese set up the dynamic that there are only a few parishes in town where orthodox Catholics are loved and welcomed in accordance with the Catholic religion?
Oh, wait...
:)
The moral of the story is, this is another shining example of how Cardinal O'Malley is dismantling the unity of One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in Boston.
He is fractioning our religion to places where every priest or every part of town has its own gig. He's made clear that in the future, it will all soon be handed over to the authority of those in these philosophical and structural subdivisions.
There is a set of teachings in the Roman Catholic Church that should be taught in every parish by every priest and should all be consistent with what is taught by the roots of our faith and tradition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
All are most definitely welcome.
We listen, we learn, we strive, we struggle, we are tempted, we fall, we repent and we use the Sacraments to amend our lives in accordance with the Deposit of Faith.
Most if not all of us have at one time or another thought some teaching was foolish and resisted accepting and guiding our lives by the teaching. Some of us even have periods in our lives when the teaching was too much of a burden on our own desires and we checked out.
Sometimes, even a priest will derail and come up with an idea that is not theologically sound. There is supposed to be a local shepherd, the Bishop, who rescues his straying priests and brings us all to unity under sound Catholic teaching and theology.
In the absence of this in Boston, things and people with an ax to grind against religion or Catholics are going to pick up the story and use it for ammunition to divide and conquer.
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Carol,
Having read the post several observations come to mind.
1.) Kindly learn to proofread your posts prior to posting them. This simple step will enable one to more readily and easily read the screeds you publish.
2.) I would recommend a psych eval for you posthaste.
3.) Since when did detraction and calumny become hallmarks of a faithful Catholic instead of, as I was taught, mortal sins?
Have a great day!
Carol, splendid comments in the Globe article.
The Globe, of course tags believing Roman Catholics as "conservative", while the dissenters and their enablers are presented without description. The same Old Media trickery.
Father Unitarian (eh, I mean Unni) will continue his efforts to balkanize Catholics into his ideological and sexual categories. Unfortunately, the mealy mouthed response of the Archdiocese is not encouraging.The vigilance of local believing Roman Catholics shamed them into taking action. Good work!
Carol, It is interesting that those who despise your faithfulness to Catholic teaching are calling for you to undergo "pysch eval".
Using psychiatry and psychology as political weapons was favored by Soviet communism in the waning days of Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov. Similarly, it's a favored tactic of the current crop of those who would use the Church as a tool to promote their sexual and secularizing ideologies. A totalitarian personality will always resort to these underhanded tactics.
Instead of preaching the truth of
things to an unbelieving world
our "Cardinal Sean" seeks to conform to that world.
The Church teaches the dignity of
man and of his sexuality. These sad
people (GAY -GOOD AS YOU)propogate
what is unnatural and destructive to person and anithetical to "community"
To the first commenter, who like most cowards, made your disparaging remarks anonymously:
What's your point, if indeed you have one?
My anomymous comment on "Cardinal
Sean" has to be so as I am an
orthodox priest serving in an
unorthodox archdiocese.
Thanks be to Jesus this crew was not in place at the time of the Civil War. The South would still be flying the Confederate flag.
Wonderful analogy, Carol!
Besides, "this crew" probably would justify slavery as part of the price for not going to war...which, come to think of it, is what you're saying. :)
BTW, have you ever considered making a formal complaint to the Papal Nuncio about O'Malley's apparent recklessness?
My anomymous comment on "Cardinal Sean" has to be so as I am an orthodox priest serving in an unorthodox archdiocese.
Which, I assume, means that you would suffer retribution, otherwise?
Mahony did the same thing in Los Angeles.
Boy, these "princes of the Church" sure think alike, don't they? Who cares about being "progressive" or "traditionalist" when you can intimidate people who disagree w/you.
Maybe "Cardinal Sean" should exchange his brown cassock for a black pinstriped suit and a fedora. Then he should Italianize his last name. Thus would he be a more accurate depiction of what he truly represents and is.
Of course, some knee-high black boots and a Gestapo uniform would do the trick, as well. So would an olive-green uniform w/a red star on the front of the peaked cap...
"My anomymous comment on "Cardinal
Sean" has to be so as I am an
orthodox priest serving in an
unorthodox archdiocese."
I was making reference to the very first comment on this page, which was also made anonymously, not to the specific comments about Cardinal Sean. You didn't make disparaging remarks, the first commenter did. Apologies for any offense to the good Father, as none was intended.
No offense taken.
In our parish we have special
devotion to the "Little Flower."
May the Lord Bless you.
No offense taken.
The "Little Flower" has always
been a favorite of mine.
I wish the Cardinal would make
our Archdiocese a missionary
Church instead of a secular PR machine.
May God continue to bless you.
My anomymous #
You aren't another limp wristed cleric seeking to defame the church, are you? I am SURE it just could not be a JESUIT, right? Who are the bullies?
Bravo, Carol!!!
Thank you Father, I will pray for you, as I do for all priests. You have your work cut out for you. If the cardinal won't make yours a missionary parish, any chance of becoming a personal parish? I'm not exactly sure how that works, but perhaps it's another option.
O'malley should have never enabled
and empowered this group at St Cecilia's parish.
It is run by a homosexual activist, one Richard Ianolli masquerading as a Roman Catholic parishoner there.
This personage is intellectually and spiritually dishonest.
His position is ludicrous - akin to belonging to a labor union but being unalterably oppossed to collective bargaining!.
As the fist comment suggests, this post is so illiterate as to be almost unreadable.
However I felt the need to respond to this garbage:
"The last thing we need are statements coming from the Archdiocese validating acumen [sic] that Catholics-at-large want the Catholic religion to be reserved for heterosexuals.
People are hurt by this message...Can't they see that they are the ones inflicting wounds? "
People are hurt by this message? How myopic and hypocritical do you have to be to say "people are hurt" by THIS message when the Roman Catholic Church has spent centuries vilifying and persecuting gay, lesbian and transgender people, a campaign which continues to this day?
And as for wounds inflicted, look to the extraordinarily high rate of suicide among young queer people, and the studies which demonstrate highly religious families are more dangerous for such youth.
The wounds caused here are by the irrational mistreatment of queer people by this powerful and unaccountable institution: an institution so venal that it has attempted a systematic cover-up of the worldwide abuse and torture of defenseless children.
Anyone who still associates themselves with the Catholic hierarchy after such extraordinary criminality is morally bankrupt, so no wonder why you take this wicked and sickening stance when it comes to welcoming and affirming human beings who are different.
Shame on you.
James, when Jesus encountered the prostitutes and the tax collectors, He not only embraced them, but He also admonished them to "go, and sin no more". If "queer" people, (your terminology, not mine) want to seek forgiveness and healing, that is one thing, but to insist that a disordered lifestyle be made acceptable is quite another. Those who suffer same-sex attraction carry a cross unlike any other. But if "welcoming" these suffering brothers and sisters means embracing their lifestyle and insistence on accepting it, this would more accurately fit the description of morally bankrupt. Our Lady of Fatima said that more people go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason. I don't want to go to Hell, and I certainly don't want anyone else to go there. If the desire to save souls is seen as hateful and wicked, well, Jesus never said it would be easy. There is no charity in condoning sex between people of the same gender.
I agree with Jack O'Malley - the only way that Mass could have been permitted to take place is if that message was going to be delivered.
If you don't cherish the disgusting things they do with one another, you're "hateful", "illiterate", "bigoted" and in need of some psychological help.
Homosexuality is a mental illness and that manifests itself every time they go on parade demanding that you accept their buggery.
James,
Catholics have not done a very good job of getting the message across to the gay community that all are welcome at every Mass and every parish every day of the week.
The teachings of the Church are tough for every one of us in our own little worlds but as a community, we want to hear them and we want our families to hear them. As difficult as they are, the Catholic religion is a promise, a fiat, to live our lives by these teachings.
Things start to go awry when there's an effort to silence the teachings and this is certainly not limited to moral teaching on sexuality. Women object to the teachings on contraception, abortion, etc.
Divorced people who are not annulled have to live a celibate life. This is no different than what the Church asks of people with same-sex attraction.
It isn't mean or spiteful for the people in the pews beside us to want their religion preserved in it's entirety, even if it is a terrible burden to us.
Fr. Unni is doing a disservice to his Christ, His Church and the people sitting in his pews, the Sacred Liturgy and to the unity of all Catholics.
James Croft: the Roman Catholic Church has spent centuries vilifying and persecuting gay, lesbian and transgender people,
James, this is a blatant lie. The Church has only ever condemned homosexual acts.
Further, you must realise that your statement about "transgendered" people is risible on the face of it.
First, "transgender" surgery is a modern phenomenon of the medical art and is not centuries old.
Second, "transgendered" people are not so in fact as a simple DNA test will attest.
Third, the Church condemns mutilation of the body, the temple of the Holy Ghost, even such mutilation as tattoos. How much more ought "transgender" surgery to be condemned.
For "gay" and lesbian (alas that the sublime lyricism of Sappho should have ever after tarnished the name of that beautiful island!) people are called by the Church to the same moral strictures as are unmarried heterosexuals. That is to say, to chastity. "Transgendered" people must have contrition when confessing the sin of mutilation of their bodies, since repair of that mutilation is not possible.
Can a Catholic active homosexual devoutly pray the Rosary or say the Angelus with the knowledge that his or her acts make a mockery of Our Lady's chaste and sinless life? Do you now begin to understand that your invective is blasphemy towards God, the Creator and King of the Universe, the Stablisher of the Moral Law? That it reviles His Only-begotten Son whose chaste Life, whose Passion, Death and Resurrection, whose founding of His Church upon Peter were for the sake of your redemption? Or are you so sunken in the slough of sin that you longer care to be redeemed?
James Croft, I have a question for you. If anyone wants to offer true compassion to an alcoholic friend, does he buy that friend a beer? Of course not, for he'd be only greasing the skids as his friend accelerates his dreadful decline to destruction. Rather, he would do anything to help him overcome his vile habit.
True compassion towards those with same-sex attractions would be to help them overcome those disordered attractions, not to inculcate them. Our Lord welcomed sinners where they were - but He never allowed them to remain where they were. He always - always - challenged them to repentance.
James, I followed your profile and noticed that you're an atheist. Therefore, you cannot possibly appeal to an objective standard of right versus wrong, as such transcends human consensus. I wonder then, how you can, with a straight face, tell Catholics that they "should be ashamed". That doesn't fly, my friend, and I'm not letting you get away with that!
I don't know who said this, but I think it bears repeating: "Those who live like there's no God, better be right." They aren't of course. I pray that you and all atheists/humanists come to realization of the truth.
Jack, your confusion of transgender people with people who have had sex change operations demonstrates you profound ignorance of this subject - at last seek to inform yourself before telling people how to live their lives.
As for this - "The Church has only ever condemned homosexual acts" - tell that to the people who have been murdered, mutilated, subjected to fake 'medical' procedures, ostracized, and prevented from seeking political office by people inspired by their religious commitments as shaped by the Catholic Church. In what alternate universe do you live?
I have absolutely no fear of your non-existent God. I only fear hateful bigots like you who seek to enforce your morality on others through social stigma and the courts.
LOL. That's the price you have to pay for 'we welcome all'!
James, again, being an atheist, you have no standard of right vs wrong, love vs hate, that transcends the whims and fancies of human beings. Therefore, you have no intellectual basis to accuse anyone of being "hateful bigots".
Anyone who has murdered or maimed anybody has NOT been "shaped by the Catholic Church", your slanderous statements not withstanding. Those acts are condemned by the Church roundly.
As far as "seeking political office", they can - and do -seek such office. Now whether or not people vote for them is another matter, but please understand that the voters can vote for whomever they wish and for whatever reason they deem best (psst! They have rights, too!).
Speaking of other people having rights, I do believe the original topic regarded a Catholic Mass. Well the Catholic hierarchy has a right to determine what will be acceptable practices within their churches, like it or lump it. It is those who seek to disenfranchise Catholics of the right to the free practice of their faith who are the true "hateful bigots".
"It is those who seek to disenfranchise Catholics of the right to the free practice of their faith who are the true "hateful bigots"."
Do you include the archdiocese of Boston in this description then? Since it was they who prevented the Catholics at St Cecelia's from practicing their faith as they understood ot. I am the one defending their right to practice in this instance!
"being an atheist, you have no standard of right vs wrong, love vs hate, that transcends the whims and fancies of human beings. Therefore, you have no intellectual basis to accuse anyone of being "hateful bigots"."
Reality provides plenty of evidence regarding what promotes human flourishing and what does not, and this provides the only basis for morality we need or can hope to have.
Since there is no good evidence that the entity you credit with providing a foundation for morality actually exists, you are the one without intellectual basis here - your worldview is based on a fantasy!
James, Fr. Unni's ministry at St. Cecelia's is perverting the Catholic religion. The Archdiocese was forced to act when the fraud was exposed.
So, you have it wrong. The Catholics who asked that Christs Holy Sacrifice of the Mass be protected from theological perversion are the people who are protecting the free right to practice our religion.
You cannot convince people who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and have felt His presence as surely as they have felt the sun on their faces that Christ is a fantasy. It is as laughable as telling a microbiologist that there is no such thing as germs because you can't see them.
The teachings of the Catholic Church and the people who want to hear them is what will prevail until the end of time. That victory was won for us by Christ's Death and Resurrection.
You're talking to the descendants of 2000 years worth of martyrs.
Viva Christo Rey.
James Croft predictably pontificated: tell that to the people who have been murdered, mutilated, subjected to fake 'medical' procedures, ostracized, and prevented from seeking political office by people inspired by their religious commitments as shaped by the Catholic Church.
You're right. How could I have been so blind. The Church did all of those things? Or "inspired" them? The clerical state has always been a haven for homos. You are a bigot of the first order and not worth responding to.
In what alternate universe do you live?
In the only one created by God and subject to His immutable Law.
I have absolutely no fear of your non-existent God.?
You are a lost soul in this world and the next. You already know you are lost in this world now, don't you? How many failed relationships have you had? How many sordid encounters with unknowns? When will you tire of your squalid mode of living and yearn for something more permanent. The Gospel will be there for you. And you will read it as you grow older and lonelier. The Lord will not abandon you though you have temporarily abandoned Him.
I only fear hateful bigots like you who seek to enforce your morality on others through social stigma and the courts.
I impose no morality on anyone. You can do with your backside what you will. The arse evolved to be a one-way street, pal. It takes no morality to figure that out, just the natural law.
I thought you purported to be Catholic. You aren't. So go to buggery for all I care.
And the courts? LOL! Do you live in the Commonwealth of Sodomchusetts? The perversion of invert "marriage" was imposed by the courts! Social stigma? What about the miscreants and their lurid ostentations during that abominable parade? There was a time the whole lot of them would have been arrested. That time will come again as the world regains its sanity.
Come back with more venom if you must. Clamato in podicem catamiti tui. Ego tibi non auscultabo.
Anyone who has murdered or maimed anybody has NOT been "shaped by the Catholic Church", your slanderous statements not withstanding. Those acts are condemned by the Church roundly.
DC, have you ever heard of Joan of Arc or the Albigensian Crusade? Have you ever heard of the phrase, "Kill them all; God will know his own"? How about the murderous intrigue that permeated the Vatican for centuries?
I'm not saying that those atrocities justify James Croft's attitudes toward homosexuality or Catholicism. But people must be honest about history.
I pity you, Jack O'Malley. So much hatred, and a disturbing obsession with others' sex lives. I so hope one day the light of reason will burn the scales from your eyes and you will know what it is to see clearly.
Adversus solem ne loquitor. Veritas vos liberabit.
James,
Fr. Unni and people like him have been passing out the kookaid that Christ and His Church hate but he 'loves'. His mind is tangled up in his violations of the First Commandment.
He is feeding your anger and rebellion from God so that you will idolize him.
He and people like him prevent listeners from the understanding that people who try to guide us from doing harm to our soul and separating us from God are acts of love, not hate. But like a loving mother who will tell you not to ride your bike without a helmet - the advice isn't borne out of hate, but love.
If Unni had his head screwed on straight, he would and could heal you of your anger. You are paying the heavy price for his obstacle to seeing God's love. In fact, we all are paying that price.
Joseph - when we are talking about just war where people suffering evil and oppression under a dictator, of course God is on one side of that conflict. Yes, God inspires and will supply the people freeing the oppressed.
James is taking this out of context and liken it to what He feels, i.e., Divine Law is 'killing his spirit'.
It's a bogus comparison.
I'm on my way to work so I want everyone to be on their best behavior in the com boxes.
The RCC hierarchy has been criminally tolerant of the homosexual abusers within the clergy.
The recent John Jay study shows that 81% of the clerical abuse cases were same sex abuse against post pubescent males.
This tolerance of homosexual acts by the RCC hierarchy cries out to heaven.
Poor James at war with reality
and our given nature.
Biology is not bigotry!
Things are as they are and no amount of self deception makes
them otherwise.
We must love creation and not
be at war against it.
It's people like you that make me very happy I left the Catholic faith a long time ago. I'll never be back.
You haven't got a chance with fraud
And might as well be true to God!
Joe,
If you've left it then it's time to give up the obsession with the RCC.
Mr. Croft's and your Catholic bashing must fill a pyschic emptiness that (for secularists like yourselves) can only be addressed by a sensitive professional in a therapeutic setting. Good luck in finding one.
It's an astonishing state of mind which considers principled criticism of a hugely powerful and largely unaccountable institution to be a sign of psychological problems. A demonstration of extraordinary arrogance, in fact.
Do you think that gay people should just remain silent while they are denigrated and cast out, while it is made clear they are not welcome, while they are termed "disordered" and "pathological"? I, for one, refuse to allow this immoral institution to insult me and people like me without speaking up. You would do the same were you shown such a lack of compassion.
Tennessee Williams compared the homosexual compulsion to "needing
a fix" and to "the stabbibng of a hypo needle".
All civilizations and peoples have
had strictures against homosexuality as destructive to the person and to civilization.
It is not the institution of the RCC. Natural law is a reality. Try holding your breathe!!
If your criticism was directed at the homosexual clerical abuse and the hierarchy's enabling of such acts, then you would be on very principled ground indeed.
However, your rage against the Magisterium's perennial teaching (based on biblical and natural law grounds) against homosexual acts is grounded in sexual and political ideology at best-as a personal obsession it very well may require a therapeutic response.
Let's repeat the teaching of the Church for the benefit of those blinded by their own unbridled lechery (one of the deadly sins):
Homosexual orientation is objectively disordered. Clearly true as its object is not the opposite sex and cannot lead to the generation of new life.
Homosexual acts are intrinsically evil. True again as they are a perversion of God's purpose in creation. Incidentally, acts of sodomy between a man and a woman are also condemned by the Church. A married couple is also called to chastity.
The term "psychopathology" has not been used by the Church. I used the term in its Greek sense, i.e. sickness of the soul. This is also true since that sickness leads to a rejection of God and the Law of God. Dura lex, sed lex. That Law was promulgated both in the Old Testament and in the New.
The cure is a life of prayer and chastity.
Those who so hate the teachings of the Church, which are the teachings of Christ, that they flout their vice in Catholic venues are clearly deeply troubled and soul-sick. They are seeking approbation of their errors. To interpret correctly another commenter's Latin adage: they are speaking against the sun (the natural law) and against the Son (the Divine Law). The Truth (Christ) will indeed set you free; Error (Satan) will enslave you.
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Place your trust in Him. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to learn this.
Joseph D'Hippolito,
Your mentioning of the lamentable massacre of Béziers and the revolting command of Arnaud Amaury recalled the old Dominican joke:
-- What are the similarities between the Jesuits and the Dominicans?
-- They were both founded by Spaniards, the Dominicans by St. Dominic and the Jesuits by St. Ignatius of Loyola. They both fought heretics, the Domincans the Albigenses and the Jesuits the Protestants.
-- And what are the differences?
-- Seen any Albigensians lately?
Sometimes the sword is mightier than the pen.
Wyndham Lewis in the 1920's forsaw the destruction of the family with attacks on male's ability to reason. He foresaw the feminization of the male predicting the plague of
of pathics and the neuter gender
now upon us-
"At twenty-five, thirty-five and forty-five one still sees them pouting lisping and sobbing spread eagled on their backs helpless and
inviting caresses like a bald stomached dog." THE ART OF BEING RULED
James Croft, I'm not a homosexual yet I feel embarassed by the insults you had to endure on this thread. Those responses do not reflect what Christian love should be (see I Corinthians 13: 1-13).
James, if Jesus met you, He would not treat you the way that many on this thread have. Nor would he approve of homosexuality. But in the final analysis, those are separate issues.
People can love others while disagreeing with their opinions by not engaging in personal insults that have nothing to do w/the issue at hand.
Many "gay" apologists engage in the same behavior. They say that questioning the social wisdom of supporting same-sex marriage is the exact same thing as supporting the brutalization and murder of Matthew Sheperd. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The former is a legitimate challenge to the "gay" perspective on how best to govern society; the latter is nothing more than evil. Many people (like myself) who question the idea of same-sex marriage want nothing to do w/Sheperd's tormentors. What they did was evil regardless of who their victim was.
I've read WLewis. He was remarkably
insightful and on the verge of entering the Church as evident in his last works.
His friend, the greatest lyrical poet of the 2oth century Roy Campbell became a convert to the Church.
In the Georgiad campbell had some wonderful lines about the decline
of civilization and art that Lewis spoke to deeming them -
Intellectual without intellect
And sexless folk whose sexes intersect.
Mr. D'Hippolito,
You may very well have a job as a dissembling spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston.
Your broad brushed allegation of personal attacks is shameful. There are very strong indictments of homosexuality. There are very pointed critiques of the homosexual movement and their anti-Catholic agenda.
However, unlike Mr. Croft's personal characterizations of faithful Catholics as "illiterates", "garbage", "morally bankrupt" and "criminals", your indictment does not hold up to scrutiny.
There is no charity in attempting to portray sinful acts as virtue.
Joseph D'Hippolito,
I will pass over your attempt to seize the high ground for display of your own hubris. You clearly know far better than we slugs slithering in the slime what Jesus would or would not do. But The Little Way reminds us what Jesus actually did do: He told them to go and sin no more. It has been pointed out on this thread ad nauseam that homosexual acts are indeed sin, whereas homosexual orientation unacted upon is not. But Mr. Croft as a free-thinking free-feeling free-acting free-mouthing atheistic ignoramus has brought his bigotry, his irrational and uninformed hatred for the Catholic Church to this blog and has personally insulted his hostess on top of it. Will you at least join me in reproving his bumptious discourtesy towards a woman and dereliction as a gentleman? But I for one will counter his vitriol against the Church even if you will not.
I will merely quote for you a relevant verse from the chapter you chose to puff yourself up as the quintessence of non-judgemental always-be-nice Christian charity. Viz., [Caritas] non gaudet super iniquitatem, congaudet autem veritati ([Charity] does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices with the truth).
As you are a thumper for St. Paul, will you now quote his condemnation of homosexual acts for our Christian edification? The relevant Epistles would be Romans, Galatians as well as that selfsame First Corinthians you have just used to hector us. I leave you to find chapter and verse.
Michael, where have I ever tried to "portray sinful acts as virtue"? For that matter where have I ever said that homosexuality was acceptable? You accuse me of making "broad-brush allegations personal attacks," yet you do the same thing!
Jack O'Malley, knowing what Jesus "would or would not do" is not "hubris." All you have to do is read the NT. Just as The Little Way said, Jesus didn't condemn the adulteress but told her not to sin anymore. If His behavior is consistent, then He would have behaved the same way w/James. He ate and drank with "tax collectors and sinners" because He wanted to make God's love accessable to them. It's that love that will make them change. The "cure" is not an act of the will. The cure is God's Spirit changing the homosexual from within. If you find that to be "non-judgmental always-be-nice Christian charity," then you would have a problem with SS Matthew and Paul, among others, who experienced this "cure" from within for their own sins (and, no, homosexuality was not one of those sins).
Christians are called to imitate Christ, right Jack? If we are called to imitate Him, that means we have to know what He would or would not do, right?
On a more practical level, just because James Croft behaves like a jerk doesn't mean that those who claim to be Christians have the prerogative to behave in kind. The Church doesn't need you to defend it, Michael and Jack. It has survived 2,000-plus years w/o either of you. It will survive another 2,000 years...unless God decides to punish it for forsaking its Petrine commission for secular power, prestige and influence. The pity is that the vast majority of Catholics don't see it coming.
Don't believe me? Look up the vision of Leo XIII.
As Belloc said Christ was not a
"milk sop". He also whipped paople
out of the temple.
The greatest charity is to speak truth to an unbelieving world.
All of the comments on this site
were temperate and reasoned with
the exception of the person who
calls people illiterate and was
aptly educated about many things
including Whydham Lewis.
Joseph,
Well, at least you admit Mr. Croft is a jerk. One step at a time.
But the Church does need Michael and me, and you too Joe. It needs Mr. Croft as well. His presence here betokens an eventual conversion. Trust me.
I'll tell you what. As a concession to your liberal Catholicism, I'm going to take an IRS agent to lunch next week. He lives down the street so I don't have to go into the highways and byways to look for a publican. Besides, in Ireland, a "publican" is a man of highest merit. I'd take a prostitute to lunch too, but Mrs. O'Malley wouldn't let me put it on my "New Evangelization" expense account.
But enough of these ephemeral ecclesiastical disputes. The Bruins are up 4-0 in the first intermission. I still have the faith.
BTW, Joe, where are those Pauline cites you were going to furnish?
Mr. D'Hippolito:
The giving of aid and comfort to a rabid anti-Catholic, under the guise of charity and compassion, I characterize as a vice disguising itself as a virtue.
That you reject homosexuality, as one of the four sins that cries out to heaven, is welcome news. However, it does not mitigate attempts to protect an ideological anti-Catholic's "feelings".
Our Lord did not help relocate the moneychangers from the Temple by means of a social program or small business loans. He turned over their tables and opened up a can of "kick-ass" on them. The plague of sexual depravity cannot be coddled.
Yes, the teaching of the Church is compassionate, however the characterization of the sin cannot be watered down.
Sorry, there are five sins which cry out to heaven, #]
The refernce to Jesus and his opening of the can of "kick-ass" may actually have been a can of "whoop-ass". Biblical scholars are divided on the issue. The effects are the same.
So Carol,
Father Unni says he is hurt by the bloggers who spoke out against him and his parish. If the archdiocese in its spokesman is not going to teach the Truth, do you think the Boston Bloggers could write an op-ed piece together detailing the very good reasons for the Catholic teaching on homosexuality? I'm serious. Some one has to tell the Truth, and it looks like God has put you into a position to do it.
M
M, Me thinks that is his Bishop's job. There are more developments on this story coming in the next few days so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, there are more gripping photos of Weiner and a debate to talk about. I was tied up and couldn't watch. Was it a disaster?
What do you mean, there are more developments coming? Such as?
"Priest says all are welcome in his church Supports gays, lesbians after Mass was canceled June 13, 2011
By Laura J. Nelson, Globe Correspondent
"About 200 members of the congregation wore buttons that displayed a cross…Sunday Mass at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Back Bay brought the first standing ovation any parishioner could remember.
During the first Mass since the Archdiocese of Boston canceled one planned for next weekend in support of St. Cecilia’s gay and lesbian churchgoers, the.’ ’’
BOSTON.COM
America Magazine is, what else, pleased as punch.Looks like this story is far from over., as heterosexuals, the first concern one might want to have, rather than looking outwards, to the homosexual, is to look inwards, to see how well or how poorly, I am responding to the teachings of the church regarding my attitude and treatment of homosexuals? Am I known, for my respect, compassion, and sensitivity towards homosexuals? Do I avoid EVERY sign of unjust discrimination in their regard? Am I known for this? People won't approach me if I'm known for judgmental finger pointing but thankfully, I am not allowed to do that, as a catholic, am I?
Do I befriend and encourage, through my own lived out example of self mastery and Christian witness, to a homosexual person that helps them to know and believe and begin to trust, in a God who loves them so much?
Do I believe God loves them, truly? Do I love them, truly? Have I allowed the Holy Spirit to shine His light on my heart in this area? To know me, to root out any prejudice I may have harboured along the way?
Personally, I find often, that by the time I tidy up my side of the street, it's much easier to see what's really tripping me up. I can be long sighted sometimes, when all the while the garbage that needs picking up and dealing with is right under my own nose, on my side of the pavement!
still, I'm a work in progrees, like most of us, I guess.
But when people are using the Church to justify their sin
then we must speak out.
This is the essence of charity.
As to applause in Church, something is wrong - the crowd always prefers a Barrabus to Christ!
Patrick said:
"But when people are using the Church to justify their sin
then we must speak out.
This is the essence of charity."
Oh yes, I agree. When people are doing that, we must definitely speak out, or comment.
The radical homosexual movement has identified the RCC as Enemy#1.
They use calumny, distortion and unbridled hatred to achieve their goal to, at a minimum, quarantine Roman Catholics from the public square.
Of course, the perennial teaching of the RCC has been compassion in dealing with the individual homosexual person, as outlined beautifully in then Cardinal Ratzinger's CDF statement:"On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons".
However, when faced with a political and ideological campaign by extremists, faithful Catholiics must not be disarmed in responding to campaigns to neuter the Church's Magisterium. We must respond forcefully, swiftly and with all the tools in our arsenals.
I was amazed by the restraint that commentators on this blog used in responding effectively to the anti-Catholic extremists.
Breathnach said :"I was amazed by the restraint that commentators on this blog used in responding effectively to the anti-Catholic extremists."
Really? I didn't find the responses that restrained myself, for example....
'Homosexuality is a mental illness and that manifests itself every time they go on parade demanding that you accept their buggery.'
'Tennessee Williams compared the homosexual compulsion to "needing
a fix" and to "the stabbibng of a hypo needle".
? '
'Of course, some knee-high black boots and a Gestapo uniform would do the trick, as well. So would an olive-green uniform w/a red star on the front of the peaked cap...'
'Do you now begin to understand that your invective is blasphemy towards God, the Creator and King of the Universe....... Or are you so sunken in the slough of sin that you longer care to be redeemed?'
'The Church teaches the dignity of
man and of his sexuality. These sad
people (GAY -GOOD AS YOU)propogate
what is unnatural and destructive to person and anithetical to "community"'
'Poor James at war with reality
and our given nature.
Biology is not bigotry!
Things are as they are and no amount of self deception makes
them otherwise.'
'Mr. Croft's and your Catholic bashing must fill a pyschic emptiness that (for secularists like yourselves) can only be addressed by a sensitive professional in a therapeutic setting. Good luck in finding one.'
'It is not the institution of the RCC. Natural law is a reality. Try holding your breathe!!'.
shadow,
Your litany of perceived slights against homosexuals is without merit.
The following are taken from the aforementioned CDF statement on the care of homosexual persons. They are more hard hitting than some of the polemics you have quoted from commentators:
."
Now I will address my contribution that you single out as, I suppose,uncharitable:
'Mr. Croft's and your Catholic bashing must fill a pyschic emptiness that (for secularists like yourselves) can only be addressed by a sensitive professional in a therapeutic setting. Good luck in finding one.'
I completely stand by this statement. It in no way slurs Croft or the other person for their homosexuality, instead it attacks their ideological and hateful methods of attack against Catholics as..."haters" "criminals" and "illiterates".
I do believe unbridled rage is a spiritual and pyschic disease, therefore I suggested a secular remedy for their rage.
Shadowlands,
Your quote from the CCC is incomplete and I question your dubious editorial license.
The other relevant quotes from the CCC.
Michael,
you question my alleged dubious editing do you? Perhaps you find it hard to trust people generally?
Let me say, I did not pick and choose to 'win' an argument. You don't have to justify the way you talk to and about homosexuals, to me. Only to God.
I have not said what I have said, to get into a battle with you all. I have said it, because I believe it. Whatever the outcome of what I say, is not in my power, nor indeed any of my business.
But I could not stay silent, in this instance, without being dishonest to my own professed beliefs.
I have said what it is in my heart.
Shadowlands,
Pointing out passages (that are directly relevant) from the CCC was not intended to enter a "battle" with you. I don't consider civil discussions military confrontations.
My "trust quotient" does not come into play when engaging in rational arguments on the internet. I scrutinized your posting and did find your selective quotation to be woefully inadequate.
There's no need to search within the dark recesses of my soul in hopes of finding a paranoid.
Shadowlands (Terrae umbrosae),.
For your penance, say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys and make a good Act of Contrition. Go and sin no more.
Sentire cum Ecclesia, Shadowlands. Sentire cum Ecclesia.
Now you have the Latin for your Lewis-inspired moniker. A gift from me to you. God bless you.
Gentlemen,
You've been busy, busy!
I don't completely subscribe to Joe and shadowland's assertions, but come on, let us admit that a few of those quotes are a wee bit over the top.
I understand this man's pain comes from feeling rejection, but an atheist from out of town using bullying to imply the teachings of the Catholic Church have no place in the Catholic Church is going to get a push back.
It's tough to find the right balance between using the opportunity to bandage his wounds while still making it clear the teachings of the Church will be proclaimed.
As Fr. Unni and his congregation demonstrate, people who want the teachings of the Church taught are the furthest thing from welcome - so 'we welcome all' is a lot of hooey. This is not something that we can continue.
Would they ban and burn Tennesee Williams and all his works?
And the great truth teller W.Lewis
ad all his art and books would they be put to the flame too because he affirmed our basic human nature?
These people are really haters of reality and totalitarians!
To Fr Unni
Thou art in error, trouble me not with your righteousness. The Church has innocense to defend and ignorance to instruct.
If Fr Unni cannot accept the beautiful teachings of the RCC
on human sexuality then why has he not the courage to leave the Church
instead of being a hypocrite?
Resign!
Shadowlands,
Please check out the Boston Globe comments section whenever a story involving the RCC is posted.
You will see an orgy of hatred, abuse and vileness against RCC clergy and laity that is disgusting to behold. The majority of this vileness is committed by homosexual activists who are committed to the destruction of the Church.
Your compassion for anti-Catholics and homosexual extremists might be useful in trying to get through to these diseased souls. Just a friendly suggestion for a possible avenue of evangelization.
The important thing to remember
is the faithfulness of the laity have achived this great reprimand and victory over the secularist
priest Fr Unni.
Unlike the Roman Catholic Church which challenges us to reorder ourselves and repent Fr Unni
preaches a regeneration which requires neither repentence nor an inward reordering.
Jack O'Malley said:
."
Just redressing the balance Mr O'Malley, just redressing the balance.
Thank you for the Latin form of my username, but when I looked it up, it said something other than shadowlands though?
I love C S Lewis, but in a very amateurish and unlearned way compared to most of his adherents. I've been to his birthplace in Ireland and Oxford and Headington (the Kilns), I prayed at his grave and had a wonderful experience of his presence(peace) and I also knelt in his pew (actually, it was his brother Warnie's seat, I got mixed up). Oh sorry, I've gone down a rabbit hole. Ooops! I do do that. It's from being chased away so often maybe haha!
"I understand this man's pain comes from feeling rejection, but an atheist from out of town using bullying to imply the teachings of the Catholic Church have no place in the Catholic Church is going to get a push back."
I am not meaningfully "from out of town" anymore - I've lived and worked here for years, and I do not see what I have said as "bullying". I have used strong words to express my moral condemnation of the Catholic Church and particularly its current hierarchy, but since I'm in a minority here it's hard to argue I have any power to "bully" others.
I stand by what I have said, and proudly. It is my considered judgment that the RCC causes enormous suffering and misery to millions and is complicity in a criminal coverup of numerous cases of child abuse, torture and (as is coming out now) essentially trafficking and slavery. The current Pope is directly implicated in some of this - we have all seen the offending documents and witnessed the continuing refusal to work with law enforcement.
Given this appalling record I find it hypocritical and rank to the highest degree for the same institution to lecture people like me on sexual morality - a parable involving beams and motes comes to mind.
The stunningly grotesque responses my position has evoked is evidence of real heat around this issue - more heat than I have ever seen expended by a Catholic against the current pedophile-protecting Pope. Priorities, people?
Some here have suggested I'm angry - and to an extent I am. I'm angry at any institution that wallows in injustice and refuses to bring criminals to heel. I'd expect the same anger from any moral person. But I am not consumed with rage. I simply seek a more just world and realize that a certain amount of righteous anger is a useful tool to motivate action.
Further, numerous individuals here have displayed profound ignorance regarding gay and transgender people, confusing transgender people with those who have had a sex change (not the same!) and assuming all gay people engage in anal sex (or 'sodomy') when many do not - believe me, it's a hassle!
I do not believe that when I make love to a partner /partners what I am doing is either "disgusting" or "disordered". Even if it were, it doesn't harm anybody else and gives the participants great pleasure. Even if I accepted Catholic metaphysics (which are backed by zero evidence) it's my choice to live my life as I wish. I expect others to grant me the dignity of allowing me to make my own choices as long as they don't harm others.
To judge and condemn others whom you do not even remotely understand is wicked. To do so with such glee and relish is simply evil.
Not all Catholics behave in this way, and many interpret their faith in such a way that does allow others dignity and freedom. I exempt Joseph from this criticism, for example, because he seems to understand how to engage in a reasonable discussion.
Those who seek to denigrate people like me, and who then attempt to hide behind false horror when someone takes them and the institution they support to task, are acting disingenuously. We are both making moral judgments here: it's just that mine are based squarely in the real world.
shadowlands, we all appreciate and welcome your contributions.
The conversation is lively for sure, but not venomous - even from James at this point.
James,
What you don't realize is, all of us have been in your shoes. Not about this teaching of course, but certainly others.
As a woman, the 'all male priesthood' went right to the heart of my personhood and I felt cast off in similar ways that gays feel. The teachings define who I sleep with, when, how and they even define the quality of that sexual act, in that I must be open to life.
The difference between you and other readers here is, the struggle is over for us. Our love for God grew so deeply that we no longer approach the relationship with selfish desires. Just like in a human relationship, we give things up because He asks us to and we want to please Him. Into His Hands, we commend our spirit.
We understand all too well the feelings you have.
The teachings of Christ's Church are what they are. You have every 'right' to believe whatever the culture wants to lead you to believe. These are your civil rights.
Our Mass is the Holy Sacrifice of Christ, His Passion and His Death and His Resurrection.
Celebrations of who we're sleeping with, in rebellion of Church teaching don't belong there. If you're going to stampede our Sanctuaries insisting we accept what the culture is teaching you, the fur is going to start flying and the priests poisoning the souls in the pew are going to find themselves in an embarrassing position.
It's an internal fight that has to be fought. Please accept our apologies for how the newspapers pick the story up and use it to manipulate your emotions. We have no control over it.
We want the teachings of the Church proclaimed to us and our children and our community. These are the civil rights of Roman Catholics. It's non-negotiable.
btw - You're not going to get any argument from me or anyone here about the internal corruption inside of the Church. What you say is exaggerated, but there are many inside of the Church who are corrupt and downright evil. Many of us are working on that corruption.
Just like the government is stacked to the rafters with the corrupt, that doesn't then vilify the institution itself. Weiners and the perverts like him have nothing to do with our Constitution and three branches of government.
The Roman Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. The are vultures, thieves and perverts have nothing to do with the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity that Christ left for us.
One must repent and reorder oneself
not look for affirmation from others for our sins and in living below our human nature.
I tried putting batteries in a radio backward and it does not work.
All societies have condemned homosexaulity. Socrates called the a disorder the most unholy of things.
It is a distateful vulgarity to be parading that age old sin and expecting accolades from civil order.
"The conversation is lively for sure, but not venomous - even from James at this point."
Nor has it ever been "venomous" from me, I think. It's interesting the double standards that pervade here.
"The difference between you and other readers here is, the struggle is over for us."
I assure you, I experience no sense of struggle whatsoever. The continual assumption that those with different beliefs are just more or less on the way to believing what you believe is very arrogant. I have a completely different set of premises to you, which I find entirely satisfactory. I don't experience a "struggle" which needs to be resolved.
An essential difference between my position and yours is that mine is more life-affirming. I accept people's choices regarding their own lives, and affirm them when they produce joy and satisfaction. You would have people like me deny themselves happiness for an unsure future reward. It's very very unconvincing.
It's also damaging. Young queer people feel miserable and hated when they hear these messages, regardless how "nicely" they are put. The message that you are inherently disordered and sick is not possible to sugar-coat. Plenty of empirical evidence demonstrates the devastating effects these messages have. Given that the teachings of the RCC regarding homosexuality are not supported by any evidence whatsoever, it is particularly pernicious that they are so forcefully promoted.
Simply put, these teachings harm real people in this life. There is no way that they can be presented that they will not. There is a moral responsibility here to consider the damage that you are doing.
They feel miserable because it is disordered and one will never find happiness there. They hurt themselves but the Church offers the blood of the lamb all we sinners must be washed in.
You have to open your heart to Love and not go around declaring you are better than anyone else.
The Church's teaching are difficult as Chesterton said but not impossibe. It is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.
I was touched and deeply moved by one writer's comments in this blog from Tennessee Williams, a non catholic on the very nature of this compulsion which cries out for help..
Malcolm said: (to me, re visiting the Boston Globe combox))
"Your compassion for anti-Catholics and homosexual extremists might be useful in trying to get through to these diseased souls. Just a friendly suggestion for a possible avenue of evangelization."
I find your description of homosexuals as diseased souls particularly offensive Malcolm, God only knows how hurtful these insulting terms are to the fearfully and wonderfully made creation(God's description of his son or daughter) affected personally by them. Re your suggestion of evangelisation in other comboxes, my asking Catholics to search their own hearts with the light of the Holy Spirit didn't go down too well, why would you suppose I would have more success with non-believers or anti-catholics? If I go there proclaiming a God reconciling man to Himself, yet am unable to be reconciled with you, my fellow brother in Christ, how foolish would that appear? Nope, I'll stick with the calling I feel God has given me. To encourage Catholics and Christians to search their own hearts first, repent to Jesus Christ of any prejudice and ill treatment, through the use of word, action or deed, towards LGBT people, then let homosexuals know that they are loved very dearly, by God and also Our Lady(because that is the truth). Catholics and Christians 'tell' homosexuals to repent, how about we show them, through our witness and acknowledgment of wrong doing first?
If we resist the call to repent as believers, why would we judge non-believers, for doing the same? Maybe through a diseased soul nesting in our own being, eh? I just think it's a good idea to start with the man/woman in the mirror first.
Carol, thanks for providing a forum where a rigorous and humane defense of the Roman Catholic Faith can take place.
Unfortunately, there are factions among us, who believe that a supernatural faith is subject to sexual and political ideologies.
Any deviation from an affirmation of their predilections is met with a political and social campaign to ostracize.
Believing Catholics will not sit by and allow their Faith to be deconstructed by those who would like to eliminate it from the public square.
"If I go there proclaiming a God reconciling man to Himself, yet am unable to be reconciled with you, my fellow brother in Christ, how foolish would that appear?"
It might appear heroic and saintly. Whereas your continuous proclamations of your superior compassion and preternatural moral acuity vis a vis Catholics on this site, who are calling out for truthful representation of Catholic teaching, seems rather staged.
I will leave to God to judge my characterization of "diseased souls".
I'm not quite convinced that you will be passing me through the pearly gates. Cordially.
"I will leave to God to judge my characterization of "diseased souls"."
And will you leave to God too the responsibility for the harm you cause when you use such slurs against fellow human beings? Or do you take moral responsibility for yourself?
James,
when I choose (or the state coerces me) to subject myself to your secular inquisition, I will present myself for re-education.
Till then I stand by my statement.
James, being "queer" is by no means the only "disordered" lifestyle in our culture. I did things in my past that the church considers disordered. I answered the call to amend my ways. If you are an atheist, you probably cannot relate to or accept this, but I was willing to give up my own will for something greater. I would submit to you that in our present political culture, it's more acceptable to be "out of the closet" and sexually active with a member of the same sex than it is to be Roman Catholic. My faith has nothing to do with the men who make up the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. It has everything to do with the Foundation of the Church - Jesus Christ - Who, whether you like it or believe it or not - loves you as much as He loves me. There isn't a person who has commented on this blog who hasn't lifted you up in prayer, I guarantee you. When I was wallowing in sin, I rebuked anyone who prayed for me. I can only thank God they ignored me. You may not think you're suffering, just as I was dead-sure I was happy as a lark doing my own will and thumbing my nose at God. I got out of the burning house in time and I don't want anyone else left behind to perish, even you.
" I've lived and worked here for years, and I do not see what I have said as "bullying". I have used strong words to express my moral condemnation"
"Nor has it ever been "venomous" from me, I think. It's interesting the double standards that pervade here."
James, People here in this forum would say the same thing about their moral condemnation. If you're going to dish it out, you can't go boo-hooing about "damage" somebody's counterpoint is doing.
Big girls and boys discuss things here.
"I assure you, I experience no sense of struggle whatsoever."
You say that like it's a good thing - lol. I can tell you from experience, it isn't good.
"An essential difference between my position and yours is that mine is more life-affirming."
That's your opinion which you are entitled to. For people who believe God is their creator of life and they have surrendered their positions to please Him, we decline opportunities to proclaim your position inside of our Churches. This is the beauty of America and the Constitution.
"I accept people's choices regarding their own lives, and affirm them when they produce joy and satisfaction."
Wow. You accept people's choices regarding their own lives.
Is that right?
Well then, I some wonderful news for you: Catholics choose to produce joy and satisfaction when they teach, live by and affirm the teachings of our Church.
"You would have people like me deny themselves happiness for an unsure future reward. It's very very unconvincing."
Knock yourselves out James.
This controversy is about a Roman Catholic priest who is depriving Catholics in the pews the teaching of the Church and their salvation and making the Memorial Service of Christ's Death on the Cross, Our Sacred Liturgy into something that was a theological seduction.
He has been stopped. He tried to lie his way out of his embarrassment but everybody in the Catholic Church who is faithful to Church teaching now knows what he is. He has deleted the misleading content of his blog on his parish website. He will be watched and recorded. Under a microscope. His goose is cooked. Not only is his goose cooked, several others who have been misleading souls are scurrying around cleaning up their acts.
"It's also damaging. Young queer people feel miserable and hated when they hear these messages, regardless how "nicely" they are put. The message that you are inherently disordered and sick is not possible to sugar-coat. "Simply put, these teachings harm real people in this life. There is no way that they can be presented that they will not. There is a moral responsibility here to consider the damage that you are doing. "
What I've been trying to tell you James is, young queer people aren't alone. They are welcome to join women, single Catholics, Sacramentally married Catholics - all who by accepting the Blessed Body and Blood of Our Lord and saying "AMEN" are renewing their vows to remain in communion with the teachings of the Church.
What isn't welcome are priest who decline to teach Church teaching to extract money out of your wallets. That's what Fr. Unni is, a fundraiser. We are just as vocal about priests withholding the teachings of contraception and abortion - or any other teaching for that matter.
"Given that the teachings of the RCC regarding homosexuality are not supported by any evidence whatsoever, it is particularly pernicious that they are so forcefully promoted.
Your problem with that theory is the body of evidence lying natural law and the biology of reproducing.
As you say above, you are very, very unconvincing!
Shadowland,
I consider anyone caught in the vice of any sin somebody whose soul needs a physician. So did Christ. That is why His Church and His priests are called physicians of the soul.
I don't think anyone has any delusions that an unrepentant an d hardened sinner of any kind has a reservation in hell waiting for them.
The people here know their lives have to stay on course. We are all on our guard watching our flaws and weaknesses and striving not to trip and fall into a temptation.
This thread is about a priest, Fr. Unni, who is passing out poisoned kookaid to Catholics and has them imprisoned at St. Cecelia's in a sick state of the soul.
I didn't see you around during the last few years when we were complaining about the Chancery stealing worker's pensions or the last ten years of any other subject we've taken up. So, let me assure you of something. We're trying to let people out of Fr. Unni's asylum. Next week, should he cook up a plot to have a pride in abortion or gluttony Mass, we'll be right on him.
Thanks for your thoughts. You make some valid points. As James says, there's no way to sugar coat it. The teachings are what they are. I walked out on Our Lord when I was in rebellion against Church teaching, way back when..
Catholics are being robbed of Christ's love and the gifts that come with Sanctifying Grace. Some of us are not sitting by in silence because we see the consequences to friends, family, people we love and more importantly, to Christ.
Some people will make that ugly out of anger or hurt, but those perceptions couldn't be any further than the truth.
Fr. Unni doesn't 'love' anything but the man he sees in the mirror. He is a lost soul.
Joyce, beautifully said.
Thanks to all whose love and zeal for the House of our Lord and souls contributed to this discussion.
Viva Christo Rey!
The Little Way is one of the most eloquent and heartfelt writers I have read in a long time. Thank you to her for her insights.
I have no wish to engage Mr. Croft further but between the wisdom of The Little Way and Carol (always wise and a zealot for the Faith) I hope the true and unadulterated message of the OT and NT sink in and redeem his soul. He is obviously an intelligent and well-spoken man. He will see the Light of Christ eventually. The Lord will wait for him and bring him to Himself. As He does most of us who have wallowed in the solitude of grave sin.
Vivat Christus Rex.
Jack, I very much value your zeal, your humor, your Latin and your love for Christ, His Church and souls.
I love Little Way's gentility. You bring different gifts. I much more think of our journey as a collective effort where we are all learning together, keeping each other on our toes.
Carol,
I have not said anything about your blog post in the negative, nor what you are attempting to do. You say you have not seen ne around when you have done other things. Well, where I have been and what I have been doing ( and the content of my heart whilst doing it) will all be brought into the light one day and shown up for it's worth, or lack of.
You also mentioned;
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Well, it is the action of the Holy Spirit, to convert. If you were talking to people such as some(not all) in this combox, I would say it was inspite of their words, rather than because of them, but that just might be my personality. I don't think you need to worry about anyone pussyfooting around here though, we don't seem to be that kind of cat! Jesus does allow us to have and use a personality, along with our faith. He has one Himself! It's not a 'one rule fits all' type of church, that's why people prefer different forms and liturgies I suppose. None of them should supercede the other, if done reverently. Just like people, studies show some are motivated through criticism, some through encouragement. When we encounter people with a view to loving them as Christ does, we will listen to them individually, not lump them all together with a one-off warning. "Do this or burn!" I have sounded like that in the past haha! It didn't work, needless to say. Loving others, as Christ does, even attempting it, is hard work. Learning to love myself is hard enough, then I have to give it away!
'Catholics are being robbed of Christ's love and the gifts that come with Sanctifying Grace. Some of us are not sitting by in silence because we see the consequences to friends, family, people we love and more importantly, to Christ.'
Once again, I affirm your absolute duty and right to do this. Just not at the expense of another losing out to Christ's gift of eternal salvation, for them. I am also not prepared to sit in silence when this happens to homosexuals.
'Some people will make that ugly out of anger or hurt, but those perceptions couldn't be any further than the truth.'
A blatant typed insult is what it is. To suggest homosexuals are 'making out' something is unfriendly due to anger or hurt, is patronizing and unfair. As Catholics, even if we have the truth all sewn up, can utter it perfectly, (in Latin if needs be) without love, it will just burn up, on Judgment day.
My involvement in this combox was to highlight, as a christian, what I hear people (not just homosexuals either) accuse us of. Hatred ( used in mockery, insults, judging) for the person, not the sin.
I wish you well with your campaign to bring about Christ's kingdom, the GOOD NEWS!
Malcolm said:
'.......Whereas your continuous proclamations of your superior compassion and preternatural moral acuity vis a vis Catholics on this site, who are calling out for truthful representation of Catholic teaching, seems rather staged.'
Well, Malcolm I have done a bit of acting in the past, so maybe it clings a little, who knows? It might be one of those 'once a thespian things' darling!
Seriously though, I consider myself a person who IS calling out for truthful representation of catholic teaching. I am DEADLY serious about that!
You also said,
'I will leave to God to judge my characterization of "diseased souls".
Pity you don't leave the judgment of those you perceive diseased, to that same God? It sounds as if God judges you, no-one else, but you judge others. Maybe I am mistaken though?
Oh no, it appears I'm not. You finish, by telling me.....
"I'm not quite convinced that you will be passing me through the pearly gates. Cordially."
Malcolm, we can pass through the pearly gates twice, once on the way in and then again on the way out! So who knows, i might pass you after all.
As for ending with the word cordially, if that's you being cordial, I'm glad I haven't encountered your 'unfriendly'
Whew! Malcolm, your last sentence was really, truly appalling.
PS. What the hell is 'preternatural moral acuity?' It dsounds dead posh, imagine me having that. I might put it in my blog sidebar under...'things I've been called by fellow Romans'.
Praise the Lord and pray the rosary, for ironing out of rough edges.
Actually Carol, I'm getting to feel quite at home here in your blog combox. I think people are beginning to warm to me a little (or maybe they want to set me on fire hahahaha!). I might stop by on a regular basis!
What are we discussing next? I'll read up on it first.
God bless. Praise the Lord!
Shadowlands,
I'm glad you feel welcome! Judging from your responses, you'll have to get used to snark here though. For instance, my reference to you're not being around for the ten years of other subjects wasn't a condemnation of you. (In fact, it might be virtue, LOL.) It was snark. As in the case with this subject, sometimes we get people who need affirmation that there's a bigger picture. And, sometimes, I'm talking something up that doesn't even pertain to you at all.
Do this or you'll burn pretty much captures the essence of the Deposit of Faith! We need both the gentility and people who will speak the truths of our faith with zeal and conviction. Most times, the people who are gentle and loving do not have the personalities to ever bring you to the table of the Deposit of Faith. The beauty of knowing that the Mystical Body works in unison is that we don't have any attachments to being that person's savoir. That role, as you rightfully point out belongs to God.
This is what makes Fr. Unni's problems with the First Commandment stand out like a sore thumb.
Carol,
As I say, I have no opinion, indeed it's none of my business what your blog post is about or what you and the other members do in your own church. My reason for dropping in, was that I felt the faith was being unfairly represented by some and the harmful effect that might have on a person, who from reading parts of his blog, has already encountered more than a lifetimes worth of less than gentle personalities.
"Most times, the people who are gentle and loving do not have the personalities to ever bring you to the table of the Deposit of Faith."
I haven't managed to meet enough gentle and loving christians to know if that is true, but Jesus Christ met with me at the lowest point of my life. I didn't hear shouting, I felt two strong arms lifting me up. Also, when my son was near death, He sent Our Lady. I had asked him, a few weeks earlier to let me get closer to her, if it was his will. He put that request in my heart, I am sure. He knew what was coming.I saw her, inwardly.That's all I know. That's all I can suggest to others to try. His light shining into your heart, it always affirms the person first. Who would dare look into their own heart without knowing of God's available unending mercy? If a non-christian insists that he thinks believers hate him, we must ask ourselves 'why' first, then look to the person asking, rather than deny his view as lies.That's how I see it anyway.
If I have to learn to get used to snarkiness, I may not visit too often. I have a defect of character myself, that I am working on, regards sarcasm, I wouldn't want to indulge it. It wouldn't bear fruit for any of us, ultimately. God knows where he wants me to shout my fourpenneth worth! No, if you all wanted me to stay, your tone would have to be rooted in gentleness and love. Well? No, don't answer that on second thoughts.
I do wish you all well, in your journey, also those you encounter, unbelievers and turned away hearts, as you share what the Lord means and has done, for you.
Also, if any of you are inclined, please pray for my other son, who is being operated on, on Monday. (His heart pacemaker is being removed and re=placed....again!).
Thank you Carol and Jack for your very kind comments. I like to think that we all complement one another with our various gifts in hope of defending the faith and igniting a spark in even the most hardened hearts. The Lord gave me a most profound gift of conversion and like the scene at the end of "Saving Private Ryan", I have to earn it, every day.
God Bless you!
Joyce
Joyce, you're right on with complimenting each other. Depending upon our personality and how entrenched we have become, we need different messages in different ways.
Shadowlands, I'm sorry to hear of your losses and you can count on prayers for your son.
You are preaching to the choir on loving. The urban legend that we 'hate' is coming from the poppycock of people like Fr. Unni.
We get through here on snarky humor, so I'm afraid that won't be changing but we too wish you the best.
Carol,
I didn't mean to mislead you re my second son. He didn't die! He lived. He had a very traumatic brain injury in 2007. He was given the last rites. The priest also prayed for healing. After ten hours of surgery (two ops) he pulled through! against all medical odds. I credit Our Lady's presence there, for his healing.He has had a long recovery including residual epilepsy but passed his degree and is in full time work. Prayer works!
Thanks for the good wishes and prayers for my eldest btw!
Awesome news.
Our Lady rocks.
Shadowlands: Most here are Irish. Snarkiness is in our DNA; hence, we don't understand what others mean by "snark". One thing is clear: we will not be bullied by those who would destroy our faith.
One of the fundamentals of being a Roman Catholic is the recognition that we are all "diseased souls" in
need of God's Grace.
I will bet Fr Unni says nothing
about Confession.
Shadowlands,
"Malcolm I have done a bit of acting in the past, so maybe it clings a little, who knows? It might be one of those 'once a thespian things' darling!"
Besides by me gran and raspy voiced waitresses, I haven't been called darling in ages.
"Pity you don't leave the judgment of those you perceive diseased, to that same God? It sounds as if God judges you, no-one else, but you judge others. Maybe I am mistaken though?"
You hold me in much too high esteem, if my "judging", gets you down so much. I am not competent to give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to anyone's eternal soul.
However, I will not shirk from describing persons who are consumed with hatred towards the RCC, as "diseased souls". As I initially said, I believe that to be consumed by hatred and vileness towards the RCC is a spiritual sickness. You should note that I did not attribute this vileness as an innate characteristic of their homosexuality. It's an aspect of their crippled humanity (oh, my goodness forgive me, their "disabled" humanity.) A hetero anti-Catholic is similarly a diseased soul. A raging racist is a diseased soul. A vicious misogynist is a diseased soul. The denier of the homosexual's unique personhood is a diseased soul. I'm quite liberal in use of the term.
"You finish, by telling me....."I'm not quite convinced that you will be passing me through the pearly gates. Cordially."
My unfortunate sentence structure may have caused a misunderstanding in this instance. It isn't reflective of my competence to "judge", in the sense of the fate of your eternal soul. It was denying that you will hold a Saint Peter role in passing me through the pearly gates. So, I'm not trying to keep you out of heaven. I don't expect to see you controlling the gate. Snarky? Probably. Appalling?
"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than apall"...Melville
"Preternatural moral acuity": moral insight that is below the abilities of God, but on a footing with the angels. It's a damn good phrase. Words are there to be used. I'm not ashamed of using them.
"As for ending with the word cordially, if that's you being cordial, I'm glad I haven't encountered your 'unfriendly'"
I can't remember who, someone used to send liturgical post cards to atheist Ayn Rand, in order to send her into a tizzy. It's in that vein, that I use the word "cordially". I am trying to get under your skin, but not in a nasty way. There's a difference.
Father Unni: "snarky blogs...cause serious harm...Take a look at any opinionated religious blog.... and you’ll see all manner of terrible name-calling".
Shadowlands:"If I have to learn to get used to snarkiness, I may not visit too often."
Her Master's Voice.
Hesketh
God bless you.
Unni brought this all upon himself.
He seems now to be posturing as a
bit of a dolt pretending he knew not what was going on.
This was a real win for laity in
keeping the local Church in line
with Church teachings from those
seeking self applause and no healing.
Shadowlands:
I'll take the blessing. But I think you misinterpreted me.
"Her Master's Voice" refers to that classic RCA Victor ad- the dog listening in awe to his master's voice coming from a Victrola. See:
I sense organized outrage in your postings.
Hesketh,
No, I didn't misinterpret you, I've seen your comments on others blogs in the past. I am quite familiar with your style and tone.
I was following 1 Peter 3:9.'s advice:
"Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing."
'I sense organized outrage in your postings.'
Nothing organised about my outrage, it's totally disorganised!
I'm not on other blogs.
Perceiving evil in a critical posting, that's a little over the top.
I'll pray you don't go down the road of Young Goodman Brown.
Hesketh
Insult.
I perceived insult.
Had I not quoted the whole verse, I might have been accused of editing the text. I was accused of this earlier in the thread by someone else re the catechism, quite an accusatory place infact, for some..
"I'll pray you don't go down the road of Young Goodman Brown."
I don't imagine you will pray for me Hesketh, somehow. However, perhaps when you've finished analysing my soul's possible final end, you might offer a prayer for my son though? If you are a believer, that is? You've told me so much about me, yet said so little about yourself.
I'm happy to have been downgraded from a focus of evil to Don Rickles.
Believe it or not, I will pray for your son. I began at Mass this AM.
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We don’t go out to eat that often, but when we do, we usually go to the local Mexican joint down the road. Our favorite place closed last year. The friendliest family ran it. They were always so great with Andrew, the food was always good – we just loved them. They moved on to another part of the country to start a new venture, and left me with no Mexican eats locally (outside of my home, of course) for about 6 months. In desperation one day, I browsed Mexican restaurants in our vicinity on Yelp. To my surprise, one turned up in a town nearby – a nice 30 minute drive on the back roads. I must admit I was leery, as Crisfield is known primarily for it’s seafood (blue crabs, oysters, etc). I wondered how good could this place be? I’d never heard of it. But, like I said, I was desperate. So, one night, we ventured up.
We were blown away with the dinner we got at that little hole in the wall place. The proprietor/chef hails from South America, so there are lots of great Latin options – as well as traditional Tex Mex fair. While a new place has opened up closer by, we still try to make the trip to Mi Pueblito whenever we can. My favorite thing on the menu is the black bean soup. So simple, yet so flavorful and filling. Nice and smoky from the ham hock, and rich silkiness that only black beans can lend.I always devour the whole bowl, then have very little room for dinner. I made a batch last weekend at home in an effort to recreate their version, and it is right on point. As with other soups, it was even better the second day for lunch. The pico de gallo on top is optional, but highly recommended. It adds a great pop of color and flavor!
Black Bean Soup
1 pound dried black beans, soaked in 4 quarts of water overnight, drained
1 pound smoked ham hock or shank (1 large bone)
2 bay leaves
8 cups water
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 large yellow onion, chopped fine
1 teaspoon salt
4 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chile powder
juice of 1 lime
Sour cream
pico de gallo (for garnish)
Heat olive oil in large dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onions, and saute until starting to brown on the edges, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add beans and ham hock to the pot, followed by 8 cups water, bay leaves, and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a low simmer. Cover and let cook at least 3 hours, until beans are tender. Remove bay leaves and ham hock from the pot. Add cumin and chili powder, and stir to combine. Cook for another hour on low.
Remove 4 cups of the soup (about half of it) to a blender. Purée until smooth and return to the pot of soup. Or, if you have an immersion blender, feel free to use that to achieve the desired consistency. I wanted mine nice and smooth. Add lime juice, stir to combine. Season with salt to taste. Top with a dollop of sour cream and pico de gallo.
Source: adapted from Simply Recipes
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It’s the ham hock that is KEY…It imparts sooooo much yummy flavor!!! Love me some black bean soup
I’ve never actually had black bean soup before, but this looks great!
I ve never eaten anything like this before… looks really interesting!
Oh the horror of not having a Mexican restaurant close by! I’m not sure what I would do since that is usually my first choice on the rare occasion we go out. I’m glad you found one, though.
Your black bean soup sounds perfect! I love the pico de gallo on top…I always need a little tomato and pepper with my black bean soup.
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Everytime they consume cereal for breakfast, they finish it off together by drinking their milk from the bowl just like this.
In unison.
Quite frankly, I there are some who would say this is a display of poor manners.
Me? I say this is hilarious and it shows how much these two are joined at the hip, even with their age differences.
So thanks Grammie for teaching them this ;).
Tiff~
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DISCLAIMER: I’m copying and pasting a lot of this, so don’t hold it against me.
Come summer, this is one of those foods that is always in short supply, especially in my house. Now, we have a way to “rapidly” make these, but somehow, we always seem to run out.
It’s hard to find a low-calorie, low-sodium, gluten-free recipe that the whole family will consistently like, and this one definitely hits the mark.
The one thing I particularly like about this recipe (in addition to its short overall time) is that it’s SO simple, even your non-reading kids can do it. Granted, they may need some supervision so there isn’t a huge mess, but that’s kind of par for the course with kids in the kitchen. And, distracted teenagers can usually make these, too, without burning down the house.
Enjoy! (and be sure to read all the comments!)
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Ice Cubes
Total Time: 2 hrs 2 mins
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 2 mins
“CHRISSYG‘s Note:
I am publishing this recipe, because I am sure that there are other families who have members who don’t know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice tray is empty.”
Ingredients:.
“This recipe is horrible! Maybe I should have left them in longer than two minutes (the recipe doesn’t say how long to leave them in the freezer so I just kind of guessed) but mine came out all watery. I won’t be making these again.”
“To be quite honest, the coldness kind of takes away from the flavor.
My Indonesian in-laws advised me to sprinkle a little cumin and a dash of curry power, and it worked!”
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Tila's "Wigging" Out!!
Today the bobbleheaded mutt is so "subtly" trying to bait you mean ol' haters into calling the police on her again.
Now, I KNOW you all are SO EXCITED to see the "picture" she's talking about, right?! The BEST part of this picture is that she actually thinks that she's going to pass this picture off as a "current" picture. Notice the fucked up wig. Someone like Tila loves to post pictures of herself and when people love who they are they love nothing more than to post the most recent and up to date photos ... that is ... IF they look good. You see, Tila has no real recent photos and the most recent ones that she DOES have we've picked apart and talked about how meth-face and strung out she looks. So what does she do? She goes and finds the ones of her with the platinum wig so that she can try and pass it off as something current. Cute ... really, it is. Check out the date on that bitch:
Here Tila, I figured you might want some recent photos posted being as that it seems you're a bit shy about how you look right now. It's okay, your army will love you no matter how you look, right?
Courtesy: MissTilaOMG
I'm sure her "lawl-yer" keeps giving her this mind-blowing advice to keep baiting everyone that she claims to be so fearful of. If so, she should
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HO-LEE-SHIT!!! Warn a sista before you post Tilas current phots. I haven't laughed till I peed in a long long long time!!!! I knew that photo wasn't current. I've said it a million times over there to her, She has a bunch of computer nerds that can call her on her bullshit when she posts lame old shit. I said it when she posted that bullshit last week when she was called on it. And she's dumb enough to keep doing it.
I know you read the comments here Tila. Give it up already.
I haven't studied law but isn't there something about keeping your trap shut during an investigation or impending court case?
I would think her MOST POW-ER=FUL ATTORNIES at this point, would have advised their client to cease addressing the "haterz" and keep it on the DL on the blog until everything came to light, you know...papers being served, people arrested, etc etc.
I'm interested to see how this storyline ends...what will be the excuse when there is no case and nobody goes to jail? or will she just claim they did and now she is going after the people that took their place...
the ongoing battle of Tila and her army of mentally gifted minors!
oh lawd.
You know she looks like that IRL. Lol, it's funny how she tweeted that she was gonna eat a turkey burger last night. I guess she was able to save enough money over the weekend to eat something else besides ramen sprinkled with fairy dust.
Bwahahahaha at her tits in that red belt. OMG I think I may have peed myself laughing! What else do we have here? Contacts and fake lashes? Check. Tan in a can? Check. Ghetto nails for a klassy touch? Check. Plastic Barbie hair? Check.
She is the epitome of understated elegance.
PS: Looks like Hope had the same reaction I did, LOL!
Bwahahahaha she looks like my best friend Seths Bubie. Seriously, I just told him he had to come and look at this and he is rolling on the floor because it looks so much like her.
She is so dumb she doesn't realize all her antics harm the potential of her gossip blog to be anything but train-wreck watch.
If she is already resorting to this to drive people to her website, think of what she'll have to do next. My guess is sex tape leak.
Oh God, her boobs look absolutely disgusting in that second picture. I'm definitely going to have to claw my eyes out after that disgusting shit. Rotty, prepare yourself, for I'm going to contact Tila's oh-so "POWerful lawyers" and sue you for causing me such distress.
Livvey,
Been there, done that.
So she threatened to sue them if they didn't take it down. She claimed it was stolen off of her laptop that got stolen once. NOW SHE SAYS IT ISN'T HER.
You can totally find the articles about it on TMZ. So much for being a big ol' lesbian, huh?
Eduardo,
I can't check the link because I'm on my work computer and that link scares me!
So we have:
Leaked sex tape. Check.
Proclaiming a mental disorder. Check.
Faked a suicide. Check.
Sex tape. Check.
It's pretty scary what lengths she will go to for people to notice her.
Oops, I put in one too many sex tapes.
I guess I'm just trying to be a psychic.
Holy shit on the last photos hahahaha. I about died. I really like the added "belts".
Thats from when she had those dumb handcuffs and shit on her nails, they are old.
Dude...those last pictures are so gnarly. I honestly have no more words, and now I have to go dry my eyes from the gagging.
Shes posting old photos on Myspace too, back when her hair was long and brown. She looked ALOT more healthy IMHO.
She tried that bait shit last night when she tweeted she STOLE an exclusive from TMZ on the Mary Jane Girls/Rick James and put it on her piece of crap gossip site. I made a comment about it on a prior post.
The skank probably don't have any money to pay Mr Vo or whatever his name is to re-bleach her hair and it looks like a hideous rat's nest or she looks so bad she's ashamed to take a current picture knowing even if she photoshopped it, it still would come out looking beyond bad.
My god, her boobs look painful. I can't believe she didn't rupture one of those back-alley saline bags while she was rolling around on the red carpet.
And what the fuck is that crap on her nails?? It looks like hardened frosting.
Oh God, I peed a little. That shit is so wrong! LMBAO!
Ewww; My eyes! :(.
On a 2nd note, LMFAO bobblehead!
I was listening to a song called that no too long ago: "Christina Aguilera - Bobblehead."
Instantly made me think of Tila :].
The shit should be her theme song.
Ha ha....I am out of words...great Job guys:)
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<< THREATEN US SOME MORE ~ MAIN ~ EFFORT MADE TO BE SMART >>
Page 23, chapter four of the Stern Report:
Gender inequalities will likely worsen with climate change.
UPDATE. Climate change will also cause forced marriage.
(Via Joe Cambria)
Link to article
World Ends - Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.
Etc etc
Wait, I’m confused, hotter climates mean less clothing ipso facto, less burkhas and less inequality. Wait, this is bad, hotter weather means more laying on the couch asking the better half for more beer, which leads to more smiting from Gaia and more inequality. I’m so confused / hand wringing.
I forsee a Department of Climate Change.
There will be training, seminars, conferences, meetings. Lots of meetings.
#4, there already is: Australian Greenhouse Office
They’ve been given so much money from the government that they’re flat out spending it by attending seminars and conferences all around the world and they’ve still got plenty left over.
While we’re on the Stern report, I’m hoping to see some serious rebuttals soon. The report relies on some numbers from the IPCC that have already been comprehensively debunked.
Don’t heed stern warning
When Stern was chief economist at the World Bank he got into an argument with the formidable former commonwealth statistician, Ian Castles, over the inappropriate use of statistics in the bank’s development report (on emissions, as it happens), an argument Castles seems to have won.
From a quick look on the web today, Castles and others really got stuck into earlier drafts of the Stern report and their criticisms don’t appear to have been refutted or accommodated.
Every time I think the globalwarmacoolichanging thing has reached the height of absurdity, I see something like this. How long until they tell us global warming will shrivel our penises?
Wikipedia’s entry on Niagara Falls says that increased mist from the Falls that obscures the view from the Canadian side may be a result of global warming. I shit you negative.
I think that the concensus has fucking lost it.
Inequality? I would’ve though warming would mean more hot chicks.
It’s true! If women no longer need to put their feet on us to keep them warm while they sleep, what good are we to them?
Wish I had a link to the ‘report’ which argued - seriously - that global warming was worse for women because they were less likely than men to be able to swim. In fact, here it is.
Although he hasn’t yet weighed in on the Stern thread, Ian Castles has been a regular contributor to the comments over at Climate Audit. Climate Audit being the often very technical blog of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, of Hockey Stick debunking fame (and well worth a look).
It means that when we cycle back to global coldening, dem bitches is gonna hog ALL the blankets…
#9 It’s okay, blogagog, as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.
Why didn’t Mr Gay write this report? Then people wouldn’t worry so much.
Hot Dogs up late game show is possibly caused by global warming
who said there’d be no consequences - huh, HUH???
#5; Art, Tim Worstall also has some criticisms that might be worth checking out.
Meanwhile, I’ll do my bit to keep the globe cooler; I’ll keep the airconditioner running flat out!
You know what the real elephant in the living room is here? With all these reams of reports on global warming, nobody says whether or not it’ll be a dry heat. That’s really crucial to the argument, I think.
#13: “#9 It’s okay, blogagog, as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.”
Hmmm. The trash is usually outside already when I get home from work, Mrs. Paco feeds bugs to Paco Jr’s pet lizard with her bare hands, and she’s a VCR-programming whiz, as well as an excellent self-taught electrician and plumber. Must preserve illusion of indispensability!
Hey, look, honey! I tied my shoes all by myself, again!
Obviously, Howard Stern is only worried about the future lesbian employment situation as it relates to his own financial well being and shouldn’t be taken at face value. It is a statement from Howard Stern, isn’t it?
You tie your own shoelaces? What did you have Paco Jr for, then?
For me, shoelace tying is a just compensation for being a bit slow working out what was the cause of offspring in hte first place.
#8 Habib said - I would’ve though warming would mean more hot chicks.
#6 Dave S. said - How long until they tell us global warming will shrivel our penises?
Yeah, but what good is one, without the other?
#21 Like tighty-whities, global warming will make men less potent. So, no pitter-patter of little carbon footprints for you.
#4 SingleMalt
“I forsee a Department of Climate Change”.
Too late.Bob Brown proposed that John Howard set up exactlt that department yesterday.
And you thought you were being droll….
(Reminds me of John Cleese’s Ministry of Silly Walks)
And who says a warmer planet is bad anyhow…?
I like the basic assumption of the Stern report. It’s like saying that if you stop on a level crossing and make no effort to get off the tracks that it is inevetable that you will suffer a catastrophic train impact.
#2 There has been for decades. Environment Canada has been working on Climate Change for at least 15 years now. There are whole departments and bureaucracies and careers that depend upon global warming funding.
The whole thing is a complete hoax to keep bureaucrats and jet-setters well fed and travelled.
That should have been #4 not #2. I see from #5 that Australia already has its own collection of parasites.
#6 Omigod, global warming will lead to increased evaporation from Viagra falls and no one will be able to get it up. Earth stops due to change in angular momentum brought on by BusHitler scheme to deny Big Bird her bananas.
We are doomed! We are all going to die!
I can’t focus on climate change. Not with rioting and looting in the cities, the international banking and finance system in tatters, raw sewage running down the streets of our darkened cities and airplanes falling out of the sky everywhere…
Just give us a chance to get over the Y2K catastophe.
Very OT, but lame-o ‘youth’ (i.e. thirtysomething) comedy show The Glass House has been axed. This show is the poster-child for publicly funded, smug, unreflective, Howard- and Christian-bashing ‘humour’ on our ABC. The stars are said to be ‘distressed’ and ‘devastated’. First time anything about that show has ever made me laugh.
Well, I’ll be…
I guess it makes sense. We have one side of the economy making stuff and the other side geared to not making stuff (or having a meeting about not making stuff).
It has a symmetry about it.
#18 Paco jr.‘s pet lizard
Is that the one called ‘Spot’ who lives under a trapdoor in the main staircase?
#29
I can’t focus on climate change. Not with rioting and looting in the cities, the international banking and finance system in tatters, raw sewage running down the streets of our darkened cities and airplanes falling out of the sky everywhere…
I thought we’d already had all that Y2K stuff and it was time to move onto something new. Well, new-ish, anyway.
as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.
Hey, wait a minute! How come I’m doing all that stuff for myself? What gives?
*Looks at Mr. H*
Trouble is, I tend to kill the spider by hitting it with the VCR, after which I have to throw it in the rubbish bin.
Paco, you should wear blundstone boots, no shoelaces just pull them on and go;)
Catfish tend to be tropical- imagine when they start pouring down the east coast of Australia, and all the meat women have to start covering up at the beach- then you’ll be sorry.
#6 Dave S…
“Wikipedia’s entry on Niagara Falls says that increased mist from the Falls that obscures the view from the Canadian side may be a result of global warming. I shit you negative.”
I suggest a smallish water diversion project. That ought to leave one helluva rock climbing “experience” once the Falls are gone. At least it’s somethin’ to do if blogagog’s worst fears come true.
What, in this feminised world of positive discrimination, men will be even worse off? Surely not…
#37 We have walking catfish here. Catfish are good eating if you don’t mind the bones.
I suggest a smallish water diversion project.
Wronwright! You’re up!
#35 - Thanks, cuckoo, I just peed myself.
But what id the walking catfish eat uncovered meat? Is this haram?
I’m getting confused.
BTW, there was a dingbat in the letters section of the Oz extolling the example of the planetary action over Y2K to push the same reaction to global warmy/coldy/dry-y/wetty whatever the fucks going on:-
AS we approached the new millennium, Y2K became the most important thing facing the world and billions were spent to ensure that our computer-dependent world was prepared. The Y2K bug hardly rates when one looks at the monetary and human cost global warming will have on everyone on the planet, and yet we have John Howard and George W. Bush unprepared to acknowledge the enormity of the problem. Even the latest dire warning on global warming by former World Bank economist Nicholas Stern has barely made a dent in the PM’s reluctance to acknowledge that global warming is a reality.
G. Unwin
Gold Coast, Qld
So by this reasonning, because idiot governments and cretinous business management got suckered with a world-wide con in 1999, we should repeat the performance and get our wallets hoovered by some spivs by panicking over another flim flam.
Evolution is a myth- humanity getes stupider by the nanosecond.
While we’re on the Stern report, I’m hoping to see some serious rebuttals soon.
This is a question I ask all the time.
Does your data take into consideration water vapor?
Water vapor, responsible for 95% of Earth’s greenhouse effect, is 99.999% natural (some argue, 100%). Even if we wanted to, we can do nothing to change this.
Adding up all anthropogenic greenhouse sources, the total human contribution to the greenhouse effect is around 0.28%
[Kyoto], even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about 0.035%.
This is much less than the natural variability of Earth’s climate system!
#17 Donnah…
I’m beside myself, I’m verklempt! Dey remind me of my cousins in Netanya!
Vaat are dey doin’ over deya?
Dey vant air conditionin’? Just because dey ask dey ain’t gonna get!
Oh no what if all the catsmeat spoils in the heat? No goat will be safe!
oh goody!
I do Tim tam :)
I’m just wondering whether we’ll hear the usual suspects warning about the dangers of surrendering our freedoms in the face of fear.
You know the kind of thing: If we start profiling at airports then the terrorists have won, etc, etc
I’m just guessing our hard won rights to drive cool cars and eat whatever the Hell we like may be under threat. I don’t see too much beard stroking over what promises to be the mother of all erosions of liberty?
A quote from the Stern Report:
Gender inequalities will likely worsen with climate change. ... A particular burden will be imposed [on them] ... leaving women vulnerable to impoverishment, forced marriage, labour exploitation and trafficking.
So climate change is the new Islam?
Time for a new look at the whole phenomenon- could global warming be being caused by all those hot and horny Moslem males radiating randy energy?
I’m for terrestrial sequestration to mitigate the effects.
#26
The whole thing is a complete hoax to keep bureaucrats and jet-setters well fed and travelled.
In my view it is part of communism’s ongoing culture war agaimst the West.
Part of the how can we make them hate themselves and slow down their damn economies campaign, alongside the left’s attacks on Western culture, history, patriotism, etc.
#44 trainer…
I read your link. Contrast that to the screed written at the “forced marriage” link provided above by Tim.
I have a problem here. The commenters at “The road to Smur.. er… Surfdom” think everyone at “Tim Blair” are “smartarse idiot morally vacuous warbloggers”; so just what do you think you’re doing bringing incontrovertible science into this??? Shame! How in tarnation will Tim’s commenters ever live up to our hard-earned reputations?
By the way, is that Surfdom(sic) as in “surfdom-and-turfdom”? Like when I take my wife out for a steak-and-lobster dinner.
Heck, I’ve been working like a serf lately… better hit the rack.
P.S. Any chance this Stern geezer is correct? Because if he is, I won’t have to shovel 6 feet of snow this winter in 35-below-zero temperature. Again… like I’ve been doing most winters for decades.
you might want to close those tags Joe, italics don’t grow on trees.
UPDATE. Climate change will also cause forced marriage.
I don’t believe the Stern Report addresses the question everyone wants answered: will we see cats and dogs living together?
#43 - Unwin the Useless!
Curse you, Tim, for sending me to a lefty blog. It’s like entering an inverted bizarro version of the real world. No jokes, no facts, just whiny bile. Are they all like that?
#53 ArtVandelay…
Damned italics!
Let’s see. Insert “” in front of “(sic)”, insert “” behind… forget it. Almost midnight here… mom told me to get to bed 2 hours ago. And I still have to let the dog out… and scrape the poop off the patio (wouldn’t want to pollute the environment). Damn dog shits a pile so high that 2 good men couldn’t shake hands over top of it.
Humour inequalities between right and left will likely worsen with climate change.
Molo the magnificent, clairvoiant to royalty will now astound you with his predictions!!
The answer to gerbil worming is ...(drumroll)... more regulation and higher taxes, both direct, and indirect.
Thank you donations in the hat please.
O/T - Another triumph for The Lancet. Unbelievable.
London - In the first comprehensive global study of sexual behavior, British researchers found that people aren’t losing their virginity at ever younger ages, married people have the most sex, and there is no firm link between promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases.
Note the small print which kyboshes the wholke survey as a beat-up:
Wellings noted that since the survey results were based on self-reporting, they could be susceptible to error.
‘Could be’ susceptible to error. Stone me.
Fox News (and doubtless others).
You have to hand it to the people who came up with global warming/climate change/end of the world from carbon spewing capitalism.
Can anyone think of one of the left’s bug bears it doesn’t deal with. It’s like the Ikea of politics causing everything from envioronmental damage to higher taxes to gender inequality while at the same time making it hotter, colder, wetter, drier, stormier, calmer, snowier and clearer.
It’s a marketer’s wet dream.
#52 Joe B - I suspect its supposed to be a clever take on the terrific book “The Road to Serfdom” by F A Hayek.
9. blogagog
You’re a very clever dog, posting on the internet. Good boy!
Indeed. Now, I’d like to be left alone while attempting to lick my groin…
Why would you lick your groin if you could lick your balls?
#18
Dammit, Paco, what about the Tardis, Rovian killbots (don’t mention the MkIII modification which makes ‘em into the buggerbot, OK?), global warmenating instant reversal satellite array (heard from kilo recently?), death laser satellites, moonbase, marsbase, starships and the recent 400 metre upward extension to Andreas trophy wall!
Does none of this count with Mrs paco?
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC
<erm, she did not find out about Caligula’s bucks party, did she??>
Another quote from the report, quoted on “Road to Surfdom”
Women are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters with women and children accounting for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters.
Hmmm. Consider a 3 generation family: nanna and pop, their two adult kids, with spouses, and the two offspring each of the adult pairs have produced. You finish up with 7 women and children to only 3 men (or 70% of the population).
Kill off pop because pops usually don’t live as long as nannas do. That brings the women and children population to 78%. Add more kids per generation and the percentage of women and children just keeps going up and up whether or not there’s a natural disaster. And remember that natural disasters include such things as earthquakes and volcanic explosions which, last I heard, have nothing to do with global warmening.
This bloke’s alarmism is contemptible.
And, frankly, if I’m caught up in a natural disaster and I survive more or less uninjured then I won’t be sitting around waiting for some bloke to do the necessary for me. Unless male level brawn is both necessary and useful being female does not render me less than capable of looking after myself.
So, wait, lefties are FOR forced marriage, near-slave like conditions for women, and all that when caused by Islam, but AGAINST the very same things when “caused” by climate change?
Color me confused.
So, wait, lefties are FOR forced marriage, near-slave like conditions for women, and all that when caused by Islam, but AGAINST the very same things when “caused” by climate change?
Color me confused.
Color me confused.
Climate change = caused Western culture.
Islam = not Western culture.
Clearer now?
Offtopic, but Webdiary is back up. This post is called “The Horror”, so it seemed like the most appropriate place to mention it. ;-)
I liked the great pic/title Harry Heidelberg used for his post when it went down…
So gerbil worming will cause women to be attracted to the man with the most food, shelter, power, and pretty baubles?
And that would be different to now how?...
/hides behind Andreas wall, they cant get me here.
#32 cuckoo: “Omar”, the Australian bearded dragon, currently resides in a spiffy terrarium, but when he gets bigger, a trap door under the stairs would be ideal (should make our house salesman-proof).
#66 MarkL: Nah, she just considers that useless guy stuff.
#49 No, climate change IS islam
Thanks Tim for that last link update
The posts there are rather amazingly twisted and one caught my eye:
This is part of Mr z’s comment
I was going to post a comment in response to this at Blair’s, but after reading the number of commenters on the linked post there who stated their wish for the mass-executions of ‘leftists’ as a response to climate change, while simultaneously calling the eco-aware “fascists”, I decided not to waste my time
Really?
I can’t remember seeing you all post about mass executions!
Or do the regulars here have some kind of code? That I haven’t worked out yet?
Wish I had a link to the ‘report’ which argued - seriously - that global warming was worse for women because they were less likely than men to be able to swim.
Poppycock. Not only do we know how to swim, our increased body fat makes us eminently more floatable.
Here’s an example of how well-researched and solidly presented this report is.. [113]
[113] is a reference to this lovely paper: ‘Caught in the storm: impact of natural disasters on women’. San Fransisco, CA: Global Fund for Women.
And that paper takes its reference from this poorly-cited article: Most tsunami dead female - Oxfam
So that “women and children account for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters” is inferred from an Oxfam report on a couple of villages in Aceh following the tsunami.
I kinda think that if that witless child Tim Blair and his minions vanished from the blogosphere the average IQ across the board would rise considerably.
Ooo, I would so love to have a dueling IQs contest with blogosphere left. Bring it on.
signed,
A witless child Tim Blair minion
Dear Climate Mufti:
I will shortly be attending a conference on Climate Change Activism in a far part of the world. Since the Jew manipulators have done away with all the sailing ships, I will be forced to travel there by airplane. I know that our spiritual leader Monbiot (pbuh) has declared airplanes unclean; can you tell me, O Tim, if there is any ritual by which the plane may be made clean and suitable for use of the faithful?
What is it with lefties and math? Are they all innumerate?
How long until they tell us global warming will shrivel our penises?
Don’t you think that’s already the problem for many of the climate alarmists, Dave?
#9 It’s okay, blogagog, as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.
I put out my own trash, kill my own spiders, know how to program a VCR and don’t have cold feet. Now, why do I need you men? Oh yeah, now I remember…
It is a statement from Howard Stern, isn’t it?
Yes.
And who says a warmer planet is bad anyhow…?
Indeed. As with any change, there will be winners and losers. Seems like North America will be one of the winners (our neighbor to the north already is counting the extra revenue derived from its increased agricultural capacity and extended growing season). How’s that for a kick in the teeth, ecofascists? The biggest polluter and most egregious waster of global resources is likely to benefit and profit from a slightly warmer planet (and remember, we know how to turn a buck from almost anything). But with that Anartic ice sheet supposedly expanding and all, I am a little worried about you guys Down Under.
#81 Kyda Sylvester
Can’t speak for my fellow Aussies but we’ll be right here in my neck of the woods
The Georges River down the road should just rise enough to make us into waterfront zillionaires - which should keep our assorted offspring happy when the will is read out
#79 can you tell me, O Tim, if there is any ritual by which the plane may be made clean and suitable for use of the faithful?
Guzzling lots of vodka before boarding.
“STERNN!”—Hanover Fiste
Another quote from the report, quoted on “Road to Surfdom”
Women are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters with women and children accounting for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters.
Posted by Janice
Posted by Janice
That’s not unlike the shocking statistic that 40% of employee absence occurs on Mondays and Fridays.
#52 Joe B
As a marine zoologist I studied all of these global environmental trends 4 decades ago. They were predicted and predictable, and there were solid scientific reasons for them. I’ve seen nothing to change my mind.
That was until the illiberal godawful greenies made a religion out of them.
Is it getting warmer. Yes. It’s supposed to. In about 200 years it’ll start getting cooler. It’s supposed to. It’s a 500 year cycle overlaid on a 1500 year cycle overlaid on a 10,000 year cycle overlaid on a 100,000 year cycle overlaid on a million year cycle. And don’t forget to throw in the 11 year solar cycle. It’s even got a name…Milankovitch Theory from 1842 for Gods sake.
From a more empirical standpoint, think about the Currier and Ives etchings - Deep snow in London all winter in the mid 1800s. That corresponds to the low point in the temperature swings. Think about Chaucer’s writings - it was much warmer in England at his time - much much warmer than now. The swings are regular and predictable.
Globular Warmening is a joke and no serious scientist (i.e., one not dependent on moonbats for money) will sign on to it.
#73
Paco, you are just SO screwed.
Nothing we can do to help you. Remember the first trial trip in the Tardis, back to the Neolithic?
We watched poor old Urg the Hairy spend 2 days stalking and killing that humungous Mastodon, clean it, drag it back to the cave while fighting off Cave Bears and Giant Hyenas, and what did his missus say to the poor panting shagged-out bastard?
“Urg, just where the #$£%& do you expect me to put all of THAT?”
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC
Paco’s patented Women’s Water Wings
You know it makes sense…
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Q.: I bought several poinsettias during the Christmas season to use as decorations. Several of my friends and family said they were poisonous and dangerous to have around my animals and small children. Is this true? Should I avoid buying them in the future? Also, I noticed that the blooms look like colored leaves. Do the leaves develop into blooms? If they are safe, how can I keep them from dying so quickly? Mine already look sick.
Hannah C.
A.: Poinsettias can be mildly toxic, but it is a myth that they are extremely poisonous to people and animals. This myth apparently dates back to 1919 when a two-year old child erroneously was reported to have died of ingesting poinsettia leaves. Snopes, the urban legend watchdog, as well as several government agencies, health groups, veterinary groups and plant experts, agree that it is a myth that poinsettias are deadly to children and pets. Snopes says that The American Medical Association’s “Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants” indicates that ingesting poinsettia leaves may cause occasional vomiting.
The ASPCA Animal Poison Center on its website says that poinsettias are mildly toxic to animals. The American Veterinary Medicine Association of America says: .”
Poinsettias have been used as Christmas decorations for many years. The actually bloom is the small yellow part of the colorful area. The colorful parts of the “bloom” are actually leaves called bracts. With proper care, they will be attractive for several weeks.
When transporting them from the nursery to your home, try to keep them from becoming chilled if it is below 50 degrees. When you get them home, place them in bright light, but don’t allow the leaves to touch the cold windows. They prefer a cool place (60-70 degrees) away from drafts and heat vents.
Poinsettias prefer slightly dry soil. If they are in foil paper, check it to be sure water has not collected in it. If they sit in water for a long period, the roots will rot. Let the soil dry between waterings. After a few weeks, they will start to fade and look bad. Because, it is a lot of trouble to get the characteristic coloring, which makes the poinsettia so attractive, most people use them as annuals and replace them the next year.
If you do decide to try to get one to bloom the next year, there are several steps you need to take. Remove any dead leaves and place the plant to into bright light, preferably a south- or east-facing window. Remove the foil and place it in a saucer. Cut the stems back about half and fertilize it with half strength houseplant fertilizer in January and every four weeks until April. In April the bracts will begin to die. At this time, cut the stems back to 4 or 6 nodes.
When the weather warms, it can be placed outside either in a pot or in your garden. In the garden with proper fertilization it many grow to as large as 4 or 5 feet in width and height. Any houseplant fertilizer used at the recommended rate should work. It will need to be cut back at least twice during the summer to keep it small enough to bring back into the house in the fall.
Poinsettias are tropical plants and will die if they get too cold, so they must be mechanically manipulated in this area to induce them to bloom. To bloom, poinsettias much receive the same amount of light as they would in nature. Walter Reeves recommends covering them with a cardboard box for 14 hours a day beginning in late September. Any type of light during the 14 hours can disrupt the blooming process. Water them normally and leave them outdoors until it turns cool. Then move them indoors, continuing to cover them for 14 hours a day until early November. You should then begin to see buds appear at the ends of each branch. Then keep the plant in a cool, bright window and hopefully you will have colorful bracts in time for the holidays.
For more information on poinsettias, contact the Carroll County Office of the UGA Extension Service, 770-836-8546.
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Mandissa Marshall was looking forward to the indoor season competing in the pole vault with the George Mason women's track team. She was red-shirted last winter to get ready for the outdoor season, but was planning for a big spring this season.
Mandissa had a major setback this fall when she ran through on a jump and twisted her ankle, pole vault coach Kevin McGorty said. It has been a long and slow recovery and she has missed a lot of base training.
Senior Marshall (Crestwood), who holds the George Mason record indoors (13-1½), will take it slowly because the outdoor season has been outstanding for her. Not only does she hold the school record (14-1¼), but she's won two straight Colonial Athletic Association Championship titles, was the top finisher in the NCAA Division I East Regionals two straight years and earned All-American mention as a sophomore.
We are doing our best to get her back into jumping form but we will also be very mindful of her injury, McGorty said. Unfortunately, an injury like this really just needs time to heal properly and to regain strength.
Marshall didn't compete in the first two meets of the season and is doubtful when the college hosts the Patriot Games this Friday and Saturday in Fairfax, Va.
The injury was really bad timing because she was hoping for a super indoor season, McGorty said. I expect to see solid performances in the few meets she enters, but nothing beyond that and we will continue to evaluate her training on a week-by-week bases.
KRAMER'S CLICKING – Senior Brianna Kramer of Drums (MMI Prep) kicked off the indoor track season for the Ursinus women's team in the Collegeville Classic last Friday. She helped the DMR finish second (13:10.85) and the 4x400 finish fifth (4:17.66). Individually, she was 13th out of 58 runners in the 800 in a time of 2:31.79.
Brianna has really blossomed the past year as an athlete, coach Chris Bayless said. Somewhere along the way something clicked and she is responding to the training we are doing and her times are dropping.
Kramer was one three school record-breaking relay teams last year to kick off the process.
Her attitude changed dramatically enough that she was named a captain this past fall and she made her first cross country regional team, Bayless said. I'm excited to see how she progresses this indoor and outdoor season.
The Bears return to action in the Thomson Invitational Saturday at the University of Delaware.
FAZZINI A HOT SHOT – Stonehill senior Adam Fazzini (Crestwood) ranked third in NCAA Division II in three-point shooting percentage in the latest statistics. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound guard had shot 50 percent (38-for-76). His percentage dropped a tad (48.7) after missing his only two attempts in a 68-62 loss to Le Moyne last Saturday. He finished with six points, four rebounds, an assist and a steal and was in foul trouble most of the game.
On the season, Fazzini is averaging 10.7 points and 4.1 rebounds for the Skyhawks, who are 7-8 overall and 3-8 in the Northeast-10 Conference. In a two-game stretch, he hit nine of 16 three-point attempts against New Haven (loss) and St. Rose (win).
HOOK HELPING WILDCATS – The first season that Justine Hook played for the Bay Path women's basketball team, the Wildcats finished 0-25. Since then, Hook has helped the team gain respect and this season, Bay Path is 8-6 overall and 5-3 and in title contention in the New England Collegiate Conference.
Hook, from Berwick (Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech), is averaging 11.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists. The 5-foot-7 junior guard had 22 points in a 68-46 victory over Pine Manor, 17 points in a 68-46 triumph over Newbury and 16 points in a 70-61 victory over Becker.
Justine is in her third season as a starter and she's been selected as team captain for the third straight year, coach Jill Shaw said. Pep, as she's known in Wildcat country, began the season at the point, but has since transitioned to shooting guard and that serves her quite well.
Hook is among the league leaders in three-point shooting – she has 23 – but the coach is quick to point out that first of all, she's a team player.
Pep will do whatever it takes for us to be successful, Shaw said. She leads by example on the court, both in games and in practice. She is just a great kid and a pleasure to coach.
LEVERY A KEY RESERVE – The Marywood women's basketball team is off to a fine start – 10-7 overall and 7-1 in the Colonial States Athletic Association. And 6-foot sophomore center Maddie Levery (Meyers) is seeing key minutes off the bench for the Pacers. She's averaging 2.4 points with 27 rebounds and has three steals and three blocked shots. She had four points and five rebounds in a 64-50 victory over Rosemont last Saturday in Scranton.
Maddie has been a great spark for us off the bench, coach Tara Macciocco said. She is a terrific shooter and is becoming a great defensive rebounder. We will be looking for her to give us a lot more minutes down the stretch.
LAMPART FITTING THINGS IN – Senior Kyle Lampart (Hazleton Area) is competing with the St. Joseph's men's indoor track team. At last weekend's Delaware Invitational, he finished fourth in the 800 (2:12.50) and helped the 4x400 relay finish second.
Kyle is a great guy who is currently trying to juggle the results of a fall training season that was interrupted by a worthwhile internship that left him too little time to train, coach Michael Glavin said. Hopefully his spring schedule will be a big more flexible.
Lampart is one of the veterans on the team.
Kyle needs and deserves to have a great senior indoor and outdoor season after the four years of hard work he's put in, Glavin said.
BULL READY FOR ACTION – After a strong season with the Gettysburg cross-country team in the fall, freshman Abby Bull (Berwick) is looking to compete in her first indoor track meet.
Bull finished 55th out of 346 runners with a 6k time of 24:12.3 at the NCAA Division III Mid-East Regionals and prior to that was 35th out of 113 runners (23:12.1) at the Centennial Conference Championships.
She's ready to go this weekend, coach Aubrey Shenk, the Bullets competing in the Thomson Invitational at the University of Delaware Saturday in Newark.
Bull competed in all events from the mile up to the 5,000 at Berwick.
We look for Abby to compete in the long distance events this indoor season, Shenk said.
FRANK ADJUSTING – Sophomore Mary Frank (Holy Redeemer) is competing with the Pittsburgh women's indoor track team. She finished 31st in the 3,000 meter run (11:59.23) at last weekend's Tiffin University Carnival in Tiffin, Ohio.
Mary is getting adjusted to Division I training and will be a work in progress as she continues to train hard to meet the demands of the Big East (this season) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (next season), coach Alonzo Webb said.
The Panthers will compete in the Penn State Nationals Friday and Saturday in State College.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Lowly Ditch Lily
You know this plant; it's everywhere. In backyard gardens and along roadsides. It's Hemerocallis fulva, also known as Orange Lily, Ditch Lily, Outhouse Lily (I'd love to know the backstory on that nickname), and less offensive - Tawny Daylily.
My mom was an incredible vegetable gardener, and grew some perennials too, but I remember my next door neighbor (hi, Glenn!) having a huge bed of Ditch Lilies that grew through the chain link fence that seperated our yards. I used to take ownership of any of the flowers that bloomed on my side of the fence. They were so captivating and exotic looking compared to the dandelion and clover flowers I routinely collected from the lawn. I wonder if most people have a memory of this ubiquitous plant.
Last week a fellow plant geek friend of mine told me she was looking for a few of these to transplant into her yard. I was kind of surprised that someone with extensive plant knowledge choose this plant over other, more unique ones. But she shared that she had memories of growing orange lilies when her three grown boys were just babies, and that triggered my own memories of the plant - hot, sunny summer afternoons spent daydreaming and making bouquets for my mom. And I immediately understood. I brought her about 15 of the plants from my own back garden. And in doing so, perpetuated a pass-along practice that has been going on in our country since as early as 1793.
Many think Hemerocallis fulva is native, but it was actually brought here from Europe, and from China before that. It does not reseed, so according to this very interesting article, "it's widespread distribution is the handiwork of gardeners." So, the next time you see these lilies growing in an unusual place, you'll know that someone intentionally planted them there!
What are your experiences with Hemerocallis fulva?
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Article by Tina Quizon “Human rights cannot be disconnected from other priorities. They are inextricably linked with all of the goals we strive for in our countries and around the world, ” was the reminder from the U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her speech to a captive international audience in Dublin […]
The Bravo Hydrogen Bomb Blast on March 1, 1954 took away not only the innocence of a people who lived in a Paradise, but their health and their well being. The Bomb also poisoned the land and the Ocean resources surrounding Rongelap & the Marshall Islands. In an inhumane act that the United States turned […] […]
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Bush Led Kerry in IEM
June 11, 2004 | Bloomberg NewsDemocratic presidential candidate John Kerry continued to lead George W. Bush in polls the week of June 11 as voters expressed concern about the president's handling of the Iraq war and the economy. But some investors are betting Bush will win in November. According to the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, as of June 11 investors were paying 53.2 cents for futures that pay $1 in November should Bush win the election. Kerry futures were quoted at 46.8 cents. Sponsored by the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the market allows investors to buy and sell futures contracts based on the outcome of political and economic events, such as elections and Federal Reserve interest-rate changes.
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As far as New York City kids go, Bibi Cornejo Borthwick, who is the daughter of the fashion designer Maria Cornejo and the artist and T photographer Mark Borthwick, and Roman Grandinetti, a D.J. and the founder of the creative agency CNNCTD+, are pretty well connected. But just how connected even they couldn’t be so sure until they reached out to 100 of their cultural heroes and, using a Playbutton as a platform, loaded their words of wisdom, favorite songs and even the occasional recipe onto the wearable MP3 devices. The artist Cindy Sherman, who claimed not to like public speaking, curated a playlist; the legendary art director George Lois read from his new book, “Damn Good Advice“; Pharrell Williams rapped philosophic on his personal otherness (his new record label is called I Am Other). Starting tonight, and for the next three weeks, 10 different MP3 buttons will be available to the listening public at the New Museum Store as part of CNNCTD+100. Additional buttons have been planted throughout the city at special Sound Graffiti stations. (Hint: the Jason Woodside mural on Kenmare Street between Bowery and Elizabeth has something to say for itself.) Cornejo Borthwick and Grandinetti’s plan is to take the project global, bringing the buttons — and their collective good will — to cities like Paris and Tokyo and adding new names to the roster along the way. “In New York City people are always so competitive,” Cornejo Borthwick observes. “The way to succeed is to collaborate.”
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They say a picture can tell a thousand words. When dealing with historical pictures, the pictures not only become our mechanism for visualizing the past, but in some way, reliving the past. Being so close, as to actually see immortal images of people, places and things can free us to share a glimpse of time with those who went on before us.
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The Gun Control Debate: Americans Generally Like The NRA
by YouGov Staff in Economist/YouGov Poll and Politics
Fri February 1, 8 a.m. PST
(Week of 1/26/2013) Despite majority support for stricter gun control laws in general, and overwhelming support for some specific measures, the National Rifle Association may have at least a narrow advantage in the gun debate: more Americans continue to have a favorable view of the organization than an unfavorable one. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, 44% have a favorable view of the NRA, while 37% are unfavorable.
Groups with a negative view of the NRA are stronger supporters of gun control measures: 63% of Democrats have an unfavorable opinion of the gun rights group, as do 56% of African-Americans. Northeasterners are less likely than those in other regions to be favorable. Just under six out of ten college graduates are negative. So are nearly half of moderates and those under 30 years old. People in the West — residents of states no further east than Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico — are evenly divided. A majority of independents and 7% of Republicans view the NRA favorably. By 51% to 36%, men have a positive view of the NRA; women are evenly divided.
Another difference is between those who own guns and those who don’t. Gun ownership is low in the urban Northeast, and among those under 30. Republicans and independents are more than twice as likely as Democrats to own guns. A third of men say they personally own a gun, while just 13% of women do. But an additional 22% of women live in a household where someone else is a gun owner.
By 68% to 24%, those who own a gun view the NRA favorably; those with no gun in their household are unfavorable, though by just a ten-point margin (34% to 44%). Adults in gun owning households are positive—even though they do not own a gun themselves.
Since the December killings of 20 first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., a majority of Americans have favored making gun control laws stricter. In this week’s poll, 52% are in favor of that. One in three wants no changes, and one in ten would loosen gun control laws.
Economist/YouGov poll archives can be found here
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I have to confess these paintings leave me feeling uncomfortable! The first painting reminds me of strange experiences I used to have playing chess......sometimes when I was feeling threatened by an opponent's superior play the chessboard began to distort in front of my eyes and I could no longer distinguish between the black and white squares!
Anyway thanks for broadening my horizons.
Wow. These are great. I liked the first and the third one very much. Thanks for sharing...:)
Bob: They are not to everyone's taste but at least you had an emotional reaction! Sounds like your chess game took place in Wonderland with magic mushrooms on the menu.
Mr Stupid: Glad you liked them.
Thanks for the laughs you provide over at your blog; I always enjoy your posts even if I don't comment!
Hmm, the first one makes me dizzy.
Parlancheq: I think it's meant to!
These paintings are quite large when you see them in a gallery and you sometimes need to hold on to something to avoid falling over.
Hi bazza,
Struggling to leave a comment as I'm getting these wavy lines in front of my eyes. Weird.
Thanks for posting Bridget's pictures. I guess.
All the best, bazza. I'm going for a lie down in a darkened room...
The first one is a real bona fide optical illusion, for sure. Makes my sight a little jittery. The second, eh, didn't do much for me. The third, however, does make me feel drunk or bouncing gently with the waves in water. Can't decide.
Gary: It's OK to say if you don't like them or can't see the point; lots of people don't. Personally I find them fascinating. Bridget Riley is highly respected in the modern art world. I'm sure a lie down will do you good!
Kelly: I think the artist would be pleased that you had any kind of reaction! Thanks for commenting (even reluctantly!)
Hi bazza,
I thought the paintings were interesting. I sensed a bit of optical illusion which was actually okay.
I neither like them or dislike them. So, that makes me neutral. Heck, at this rate, I should run for politics. After my lie down lol
Gary: Actually, I rather enjoy pushing the boundaries a bit. So if I show something people haven't seen before I get a buzz; it doesn't matter too much which way you go so I am grateful for your honest reaction. You may find that now you know about Bridget Riley you might notice her influence all around. She is considered to be very influential since the sixties.
They do seem to move and I actually had to look away a time or two...almost like being on an artistic roller coaster ride.
Lovely the same.
Mimi: Glad you like them, Mimi. But you were dizzy to start with!
Like Mimi I saw movement in these pieces, especially when looking away... and like Parlancheq the first one made me dizzy... From all of the reactions in the comments, it would be advised not to mix Belgian beer with a study of these paintings :)
Joanne: You are right, I didn't realise at first about the juxtaposition of these last posts. Maybe some sub-conscious event made me link the two!
I, of course, a newcomer to this blog, but the author does not agree
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Welcome! This is just a place for me to share and document my creative projects; most of the time I sew clothing for myself, but I also sew for dolls (and have a minor obsession with them too) and embroider occasionally. And Pedro likes to... actually, Pedro doesn't really have any (crafting) hobbies, but she is entertaining.
Feel free to contact us at molly.
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Belladonna Took
Belladonna Baggins (née Took) (Third Age 2852 - 2934, died aged 82) was the mother of Bilbo Baggins.
History
Belladonna was one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took.[1] She had eight older brothers (and one younger), and was the eldest of the three daughters.[2] Belladonna married Bungo Baggins, who built a spacious hole for her (partly with her money).[1] It became the residence of the Baggins Family, and in Third Age 2890, her son and only child Bilbo was born. She died in Third Age 2934,[2] eight years after her husband.[3]
Etymology
belladonna is the name of a poisonous plant,[4] fitting in with the Hobbit-habit of naming girls after flowers.[5]
The word is understood as an Italian name, a rarity among Hobbits (though her sisters Donnamira and Mirabella share this peculiarity) and translates as "beautiful lady" although it derives from Latin bladone "nightshade".
Inspiration
In her first appearance in the fiction, Belladonna - which has stayed unchanged from the earliest survived sketch of the story[6] - is described as "one of three remarkable daughters of the Old Took". Humphrey Carpenter, in his attempt to draw an analogy between Bilbo and Tolkien, noted that Tolkien's mother, Mabel Suffield, was one of three remarkable daughters of John Suffield, who lived to be nearly a hundred.[7]
Portrayal in Adaptations
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
- A portrait of Belladonna Baggins hangs in Bag End. It is based on Fran Walsh's appearance. A portrait of Bungo next to it is based on a beardless Peter Jackson.[8]
2003: Sierra's The Hobbit:
- A portrait of Belladonna, Bungo and a young Bilbo hangs at Bag End. As he looks at it, Bilbo exclaims "A Hobbit couldn't ask for finer parents".[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Baggins of Hobbiton"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson, The Annotated Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party", note 8
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "On Translation"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, "The Bladorthin Typescript"
- ↑ Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, "Enter Mr. Baggins", page 175
- ↑ Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) , "Farewell Dear Bilbo", Director's commentary
- ↑ The Hobbit (2003 video game), "Hobitton"
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And so this moment, which would have been the last had not this next one just arrived, and then this one, "beginning again and again" as Stein said. I didn't get to leave this 'note on things' yesterday, which seems again (in these parallel universes of ours) to 'connect' --.
Both the Johnson and Wittgenstein pieces, which I’m reading as a single Beyond The Pale publication, affected me very directly and strongly. In pure cliché terms (for which I apologize), I immediately felt them as light as air (in terms of the form and clarity of expression) and heavy as lead (in terms of their moral and intellectual import).
……..” is essentially my home address.
The force of “consideration upon the careless” has both darkened my view of human character (the effects of the current economic recession on the behavior of many people I encounter reminds me constantly of what you see on the Discovery Channel in terms of the savagery, but with none of the actual survival issues and none of the beauty) and provided occasional, unexpected happy surprises, thank heaven. (Friends, including BTP, family, the great outdoors, the great indoors, the surprising kindness of strangers.)
The weirdest thing to me about yesterday’s Goldman Sachs hearings (apart from seeing the father of a former classmate of my daughter’s testify) was the repeated use of the phrase “get closer to home”. I’m not a financier, but I think they were referring to the even-value position of the X axis set at 0, a flat-line. It clearly wasn’t meant to sound sinister, but I found it untoward. I mean home is where the heart is, where home plate is, not a flat-line. way.
Why would the light of the past and the light of the future intersect at a focal point--the eye of the observer? But we don't "see" time--it's an illusion. Nor can we "see" things in the past or the future. Except, perhaps, in the astronomical sense--where light traveling from distant galaxies reaches us millions of years after it was "sent" -- and, hence, we can only see the universe "as it was" before we--or anything else in our Solar System--even existed. It's a weird notion. The whole distant universe may have changed, but we will never know, since we, and all of our eventual descendants--will be long gone by that time.
Blip.
The present is all we have.
It’s funny, but I was just taking virtual pen to virtual paper and considering Curtis Faville’s observation when I saw Lucy In The Sky’s comment (which I was preparing, in advance of seeing it, to echo, which I guess isn’t temporally possible), and thinking: “Now if it is not the causal connections which we are concerned with, then the activities of the mind lie open before us.”
Logically/poetically, the light/cone illustration makes sense to me.
Curtis F.,
That blip point of the visualized two dimensional intersection, postulated for the convenience of the schematic mind, seemed to me an example of the sort of reduction of dimension of the experience of duration which Wittgenstein would have regarded as (in the immortal paraphrase of the philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt) "bullshit".".)
The other, no doubt obvious intended irony in the post involved the lower image of the formidable Devourer Goddess Kali, who "represents" Time, having her visual field (which according to Wittgenstein has, like our lives, no limits) -- or shall I say our visual field, including her now as merely one panel in a diptych -- extended beyond the designed limits.
Oh, well.
Peggy, welcome!
Curtis R.,
Know what you mean about that light/heavy clarity. The diptych is complicated for me (happily so, actually) by the fact each panel possesses certain of the motifs of the other.
The connection for me is that these are sentences, that is those of both writers, so constructed as to make the experience of them, for the mind, no less interesting, no less worth wanting to be in the middle of, for a moment, than the larger experience of a world.
When Wittgenstein with apparent serene assurance asserts we have left causality behind and now stand at the brink of an activity of the mind which is open and has no limits, I hear a Germanic poetry which veils its weight within a wonderful lightness.
Reading him sometimes a hear in my inner ear an odd tune, I imagine a brilliant schoolboy whistling the austere lyric of a perfectly constructed lieder as he proceeds through the dark woods of the Black Forest to the home of the local postman who was once his student, to ask forgiveness.
"(Not by the way to criticize the diagram, I found it strangely poetic, and a bit humorous as well.. .)"
Should probably add in explanation, lest the "humorous" in regard to the diagram seem a COMPLETE nonsequitur, that I can't keep from imagining the Future Light Cone and the Past Light Cone as matching protective devices designed to keep similarly afflicted twin dogs from overmuch obsessive worrying of bothersome, perhaps phantom itches..
And by the way, as to that OTHER nonsequitur: I seem to recall that I am not imagining things, LW actually did make that trek after absolution to which I vaguely allude, perhaps not with a lied on his lips nor in his heart -- as he was then dying, and at the end of a terminal quest to seek forgiveness from everyone he thought he had ever wronged, no matter how infinitesim
Imagine what this aspect must have looked like before the white man came. Pale yellow grassland punctuated with scrub oak, and higher up, stands of 200 year redwood. Herds of deer, foxes, ground-hogs, snakes. Flocks of birds filled the tidelands. The bay teeming with fish.."
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After the moon goes down, the nearness of the night, fair
And dark in its standing against the remaining trees,
Comes off as not an embellishment
But a facsimile. Where have I seen this evening before.
Past is past. It is no longer the small town nineteen forties.
But living in the moment is postponed by
This uncanny sense of repetition.
For example, at the filling station
On the corner outside the theatre,
Beneath violet neon, near green garbage cans
And racks of bright red cans of motor oil, and rows of whitewalls
Stacked for sale, a young man in blue overalls pumps
Gas, over and over, in my mental reproduction of this scene,
Remembered from a foggy night on Pico, Santa Monica,
1951. Sometimes images will never leave your mind.
It's as though you were merely the carrier pigeon
For messages of unknown origin, to be delivered over and over.
As when, after a long day of construction
And assembly, the factory worker and the apprentice escort,
Having put workaday cares aside for a rare night out
At the movies, sitting rapt through the double feature,
Shyly holding hands, turn to one another at last
And sigh, and one whispers to the other,
In a tone of concession gentler than the soft summer night wind,
This is where we came in.
Woman aircraft worker checking electrical assemblies, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California: photo by David Bransby, 1942 (Library of Congress)
Two Maiko (apprentice Geisha) conversing near Golden Temple, Kyoto, Japan: photo by Daniel Bachler, 2004
Two Maiko (apprentice Geisha) conversing near Golden Temple, Kyoto, Japan: photo by Daniel Bachler, 2004
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beautiful.
Past
is past. I salute
that various field.
James Schuyler, "Salute", of course. He beings that poem with something I've always found troubling:
Past is past, and if one
remembers what one meant
to do and never did, is
not to have thought to do
enough?
My reaction's always been NO. To have thought to do and not done is called regret, in my book, and, at this point in my life, my regrets are what I find most heartbreaking.
I don't feel any "no" when I read your poem. This is beautiful.
Yes.
And yes.
Double feature thankyous.
A strong sense of the eternal, told within a modern span. Time transforms itself around me, making it harder to believe that all moments do not exist at once. I found so much to connect with in this piece. I agree that "no" is not a component, more a dreamy waltz that plays forever. Beautiful, very.
Heartbreaking. Heartbroken.
Tom,
Yes, "Past is past," and yet/also "This uncanny sense of repetition." Meanwhile, "This is where we came in." --
7.23
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
top of ridge, blue jay landing on fence
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
name that conceals, sense of
related to other way of
difference, present as human
action, tone of shadows
grey-white of fog against top of ridge,
cormorant flapping across toward point
interesting images...I can see that...
I don't know if there are still double features. My early moviegoing experiences were entirely double feature experiences. There were several theatres in my immediate urban neighborhood. You could watch the double feature as many times as you wished, over and over. Eternal recurrence seemed a plausible way of life in the universe.
"Eternal recurrence seemed a plausible way of life in the universe." That was also my experience. When I was growing up, my mother parked me in the local movie theater for long periods of double feature watching, seeing the movies over and over, as you say. I couldn't have been happier and, upon reflection, may never have been happier. I think double features are now only offered by art/repertory houses, which isn't the same thing at all.
just beautiful!
"Sometimes images will never leave your mind.
It's as though you were merely the carrier pigeon
For messages of unknown origin, to be delivered over and over."
*sigh*
Curtis, hb,
Good to have your thoughts always.
The top picture here reminded me of early moviegoing experiences. The original intention of its making and propagating was obviously patriotic. However the feeling it evokes, now, has more to do with personal and cultural memories.
Most commonly I work from words to images, but in this case I began with the images; and from the associations produced by the images the words then came.
The utter immediacy of the voice of this poem is superb and effortlessly exacting.
But a facsimile.
is an absolute genius of a work.
Not a movie/cinema-goer myself, but been a witness to the double features plenty o' times in the daily events of life. How certain events keep coming, again. Unsorted is just another way of being sorted. It requires much less an effort.
Lovely poem !
"Unsorted is just another way of being sorted."
Inscribe that on my ash thermos, please.
Hahaha!
DO it YOURSELF.
Well atleast you though about it.
Poets are useless.
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Choosing Sides Part 1: Using Luminosity Masks to Fix Halos
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Now invert the white Reveal All mask on the adjustment layer to make it black instead of white (Windows: Ctrl+I / Mac: Command+I). It is now a Conceal All mask as shown in the layer stack below. The normal haloed image returns.
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In a previous post I described how luminosity painting is one of my favorite techniques for balancing the light in an image. The technique can be effectively used to burn or dodge specific parts of an image while maintaining tonal contrast in the areas being painted. In this post I’ll expand on the technique a little more and show some variations in the procedure that can be useful.
Unlike black and white images where a full tonal range from delicate whites to detailed shadows is often desirable, color images usually look better with the highlights retaining some good color instead of going to light or pure white. In fact, I’ve developed a preference for a left-shifted histogram for color images–no whites at all and mostly composed of mid-tones and quarter tones as seen in the histogram below.
Even though there may not be many of them in an image, getting the brightest values correct is still important. This is difficult to do sometimes because simply darkening white values yields gray, which really has no color either, and doesn’t contribute to the richness that may be desired. A good place to start to achieve the proper light tones is with RAW conversion, making sure there are no clipped highlights and that the light tones are already left-shifted and retaining color. This allows them to be further developed to the proper brightness and contrast in Photoshop.
The image below is one that I consider nearly finished. Color, brightness, contrast, and saturation had been addressed during processing, and on-screen it seemed nearly as good as I could make it. I usually let the print help make the final call as to when an image is actually finished, and the light values in this image looked a little weak in the print. They had too much tonal whiteness and not enough color richness. The rollover of the image (it may take a few seconds to load) shows the final version after the light tone had been further addressed. These tones have been darkened in the rollover and have richer color, but the contrast in these light values has been retained to bring out the texture.
There are, of course, many ways luminosity masks could be used to make this adjustment. What I’ll illustrate here is a way to do it with a combination of techniques, each of which may also be useful in other situations.
INVERTED MASKS
The first thing that will be done is to luminosity paint through an inverted luminosity mask. I’ve previously written that these inverted masks aren’t too useful. They tend to include a lot of tones and don’t isolate specific tones as a result. However, there is a dictum with luminosity masks that point to a way in which inverted masks might be useful:
To increase contrast in an image when luminosity painting, paint white through a Lights-series mask or paint black through a Darks-series mask.
Because of the way luminosity masks are generated, each series concentrates the selection progressively towards one end of the tonal spectrum. The Lights-series masks, for example, have fewer and fewer tones as the masks progress from Lights to Light Lights to Bright Lights and finally to Super Lights. The tones that do remain in the progression are the whitest and lightest with pure white being selected in every mask. Luminosity painting through a Lights-series mask, therefore, deposits more paint on the less-masked light tones than on the relatively more-masked darker tones. So painting with white means that the light tones get more paint and get lighter faster than the darker tones, which receive less paint. The end result being increased contrast in the area being painted. The opposite happens when painting with black through a Lights-series mask—the less-masked light tones receive more black paint and darken faster than the more-masked darker tones, which in turn decreases contrast in the area being painted.
Any inverted mask switches to the opposite series. An inverted Light Lights mask, for example, is effectively a Darks-series mask. Even though the inverted mask doesn’t have a name, it’s character is decidedly that of a Darks-series mask, namely that the parts of the image that show in the mask are a gray-scale negative of the original image with the darkest tones being 100% pure white in the mask. This is demonstrated in the Light Lights mask for the above image which is shown below. The rollover shows the Darks-series inverse.
So according to the dictum, painting black through the inverted Lights Lights selection, which becomes a Darks-series selection, should darken and increase contrast in the areas that receive paint. That’s what was done in this case. The process is as follows:
- Create the Burn/Dodge layer (new layer > fill with 50% gray > set blending mode to “Soft Light”)
- Create a Light Lights selection (and save a copy as a mask on the Channels panel).
- Invert the selection.
- Hide the marching ants.
- Make sure the foreground color is set to black.
- Paint black onto the Burn/Dodge layer through the inverted Light Lights selection (a 33% opacity soft brush was used)
- Deselect the hidden selection when done.
After luminosity painting through the inverted Light Lights mask, the Burn/Dodge layer looked like the image below. The areas darker than 50% gray cause darkening in the image.
The resultant image is shown below. The too-light areas have been made darker and painting through a luminosity mask has blended the darkening into the rest of the image, but it’s overdone. There is now a blackness in some of the areas that were painted as well as some dark haloing along the center ridge. This is because the broad, inverted selection allowed the paint to be applied in a very imprecise manner. Too much black paint reached the darker pixels in the image because they are substantially revealed by the inverted selection. While this is expected, the image has taken on a color “gloppiness” as a result. For reference, the rollover is the original image.
It may be hard to notice, but within this heavy-handed paint job the desired darkening of the light tones has been achieved along with a slight boost in their overall contrast. Black paint applied through a Darks-series mask (the inverted Light Lights in this case) insures this. Now it’s just a matter of fine-tuning the painting to separate the properly-painted pixels from the poorly-painted ones.
MASKING LUMINOSITY PAINTING
A luminosity layer mask on the luminosity-painted Burn/Dodge layer is the way to reveal the good parts of this bad paint job. Interestingly, the Light Lights mask, the one that was inverted for luminosity painting, can now serve as the correct mask to reveal the desired darkening in the pixels that were originally too light. While simply adding the Light Lights mask as a layer mask does a pretty good job, I prefer to actually paint the mask through the Light Lights selection so as to create a more precise reveal and to augment it with multiple brush strokes in specific areas. The procedure is as follows.
- Create a Hide All layer mask on the Burn/Dodge layer (a “black” layer mask).
- Create a Light Lights selection. (NOTE: It’s best to use the original Light Lights mask from the unpainted image instead of creating a new one from the now gloppy image. The original Light Lights mask can be stored on the Channels panel when it’s created and reselected at this point.)
- Hide the marching ants.
- Make sure that the mask is selected for painting and that white is the foreground color.
- Paint white onto the layer mask (100% opacity, soft brush) in the areas where the darkening effect of the luminosity painting needs to be revealed.
- Deselect the hidden selection when done.
Imprecision in painting this time has a much less deleterious effect on the image. The Light Lights selection is much narrower than its tonal inverse. As such, it’s harder to paint outside the lines because the selection is more confining as to where paint gets applied. Some care needs to be taken in smaller confined areas or where multiple brush strokes are used, but overall a few wide strokes of the brush creates the painted mask that reveals the darkening in just those areas where it’s needed. The remaining dark areas of the painted mask effectively conceal the gloppiness of the original paint job. Below is the painted mask that was created. The whitest areas are where multiple brush strokes were applied to create greater reveal of the luminosity painting.
The image that results after painting the layer mask for the Burn/Dodge layer is shown below. The rollover is the unmasked layer with the gloppy luminosity painting that was visible without the layer mask.
The painted mask effectively selected the right pixels to reveal in order to achieve the desired darkening effect in the light tones of the image. This is a good example of how luminosity mask selections, when employed in painting, can correctly select tones and seamlessly blend the desired effect into the rest of the image. What’s most remarkable in this case is that even after the grossly overdone luminosity painting through the inverted mask, painting a layer mask through the Light Lights selection was still able to reveal just the right amount of tonal adjustment for each pixel that received paint and almost effortlessly facilitated the desired adjustment to the image.
The blue highlighted layer below shows how this Burn/Dodge luminosity painting layer with its painted layer mask looked in Photoshop’s Layers panel when the procedure was complete.
BLURRING THE MASK
While I don’t often feel it necessary to blur luminosity masks, this is one time that it helped. Light tones tend to blend together visually. Blurring the mask provides a bit of increased sharpness, which causes what texture there is in the light tones to become a bit more visually separated. When I apply blur to luminosity masks, it’s usually a 21-pixel Gaussian blur. That amount was chosen to “correlate” with my 21-megapixel camera, but I’m not really sure if there is any correlation at all. For whatever reason, the 21-pixel Gaussian blur seems to provide a good result when used to blur a luminosity mask. The blurred mask is shown below.
Below is the final image after the blur was applied to the layer mask. The rollover is the image with the unblurred layer mask. The difference may be hard to see in this size image, but it has a nice effect on a larger jpeg and the actual print.
In summary, three steps were used to make this adjustment:
- Paint through an inverted luminosity mask to maintain/enhance contrast.
- Create a painted layer mask by painting through a luminosity mask selection to reveal the luminosity painting to the appropriate degree in the appropriate pixels.
- Blur the layer mask if it helps to improve textures/contrast.
If you’d like to practice this technique on this image, a larger version with a prominent copyright symbol is available for download here.
Listening to the Light – Examples in Image Development – Part 2
The last post discussed concepts about listening to the light in an image—working to understand what’s not quite right and then finding a way to correct it. It’s an interactive and iterative process with each step building on what has been done previously. The process may require going back to adjust previous adjustment layers, printing the image and looking at it in different light to see things that the on-screen image might not reveal, and a willingness to experiment to find the best way to make a particular adjustment.
An important part of this process, I think, is finding and nurturing a relationship with the image and its light. While the Layers panel may have 10 to 20 different layers to complete the development process, only a few of them usually make significant changes in how the image looks. These “layers of significance” make the more dramatic changes to the image and set the overall tone and direction that development takes. These are the “finding the relationship” layers—the big steps. They’re the ones that spark interest in pushing ahead, rev up the imagination, and make one start to feel a bit giddy about the possibilities the light may hold in this image. These layers tend to create a degree of infatuation. There is increasing desire to be with this image and it’s light to see what might happen.
The other layers—the majority of layers in the layer stack—make smaller, less dramatic changes. These are the “nurturing” layers. They keep the relationship going, sometimes at a very deep level. When there’s no big changes happening during the development process, it’s these small steps that build on the themes first realized in the big steps. This is often a slower process, and it takes careful listening to figure out what the image wants. But as the whispers become reality, there is a certain closeness and intimacy that develops between the photographer and the image. The light will only speak to the photographer who took the picture at this point, and the photographer is the only one who can understand what the light is saying.
This post is going to take a look at the big steps in the development of an image. These are easier to see in mouse rollovers, so they lend themselves better to instructional purposes. Unlike the last post that showed the incremental changes in finishing an image, the rollovers here should be more obvious. A good place to start is to take a look at the final image, which is shown below. This is another sandstone abstract. The natural color in the rock, the warm light reflected from a nearby cliff face, and the blue light from an open sky combined to produce an interesting mix of colors. I saw the color, lines, and texture when I was taking the picture and felt like I would enjoy developing them out in Photoshop; however, I didn’t visualize this as the final image. The final image is the result of an ongoing dialog with the light as the image developed and the relationship that ensued. I felt there were three “big steps” that moved this image along, and I’ll go over each of them and how they were accomplished. First, however, rollover this image with the mouse. It shows how the image would look with the visibility of the three “big-step” layers turned off. (NOTE: It may take a few seconds for the second image to load.)
Healing/Cloning
The first big step that was important for this image was healing and cloning. My original thought was to keep this minimal since immediately after converting the RAW file everything seemed to look OK and work reasonably well together. About halfway through development, however, this changed. Richer colors and more pronounced contrast were starting to come out, and as a result, some of the lighter blue patches, especially in the foreground, were starting to look out of place in both brightness and color. So I cloned them out. There are different “ethics” with regard to how much cloning one should or should not do to an image. There seems to be more leeway given in nature photography to cloning out rather than cloning in. Removing twigs, leaves, and other “spots” seems acceptable, but cloning in birds, clouds, and animals is not. Personally, my ethics are pretty liberal on this subject. What the picture and the photographer do in the privacy of the computer is their business, not everyone else’s. In other words, it’s a personal decision. I also tend to be somewhat liberal when it comes to using Photoshop’s healing and cloning tools in my images when I feel it works to remove elements that cause visual distraction. If it’s done well and enhances the image, I think it’s a credit to the photographer and their skill. Photoshop’s healing brush, which was used here, generally produces good results, though it does require working on a magnified image to insure perfect blending. The image below is again the final image. The rollover shows how the image looks with the Heal/Clone layer turned off in which the blue areas distract the eye slightly from moving smoothly through the scene from lower right to upper left.
Below is the Heal/Clone layer that produced this effect. The healed ares show up well against the checkered background. Looking closely at this layer shows a bit of a dark smudge in the lower left corner. This isn’t healing/cloning; it’s luminosity painting. I had the wrong layer selected and accidentally added a thin layer of black paint to the Heal/Clone layer. However, I liked the effect it had on the image and simply left it in. The effect can easily be seen in the rollover above as a bit of darkening in this area.
Make-It-Glow
Make-It-Glow is a technique available in my complete set of tutorials and actions. I actually don’t use it all that often, but when it works, it can make a big difference in how an image looks. It simultaneously increases contrast and saturation in a smooth manner across the entire image. It essentially imparts a glow to the image that looks pretty natural. A low-contrast, low-saturation image that has lots of texture is a good place to try it. Images that have large areas the same color or significant color saturation tend to look garish with this technique, so it needs to be used judiciously. Since it makes a pretty dramatic change, lowering the opacity of the layer it’s on can help decrease the effect if it goes too far. Also, a vibrance mask on the layer can help restrict the effect to less-saturated areas of the image. In this image, it was applied soon after RAW conversion and before development had brought out the colors and contrast. As such, it worked well to increase the overall saturation without the need to lower the layer’s opacity or mask the effect. Again, the final image is below. The rollover is how it looks with the Make-It-Glow layer turned off.
Luminosity Painting
Luminosity painting once again had a significant impact on this image, but it was used in a decidedly different manner than in the last post. In the image in the previous post, most of the burning and dodging were done through a Basic Mid-tones mask to even out the brightness across the image. This resulted in decreased general contrast, which was restored in the next step. For this image I was more concerned about the lack of local contrast that I was seeing in the image and wanted to paint in more contrast while at the same time evening out the light across the image. To increase contrast with luminosity painting, there is an easy rule to remember: LIGHT through LIGHTS, DARK through DARKS. What this means is that to increase contrast when luminosity painting, paint a LIGHT color through a LIGHTS-series masks or paint a DARK color through a DARKS-series mask. For luminosity painting, LIGHT color paint = white, and DARK color paint = black.
So here’s a summary of my goals and how I’ll accomplish them:
- 1st Goal: Darken and increase contrast in areas that are too light.
Technique: Paint black through a Darks-series selection (Expanded Darks, Darks, Dark Darks, Shadow Darks, or Super Darks).
- 2nd Goal: Lighten and increase contrast in areas that are too dark.
Technique: Paint white through a Lights-series selection (Expanded Lights, Lights, Light Lights, Bright Lights, or Super Lights).
While it’s necessary to follow the “LIGHT through LIGHTS, DARKS through DARKS” rule in order to to increase local contrast while balancing overall light, it’s also possible to do it in a more nuanced way that offers greater control. Instead of using the “straight” Darks- and Lights-series selections to paint through, subtracting one mask from another creates a subtracted selection that selects image tones nearer the mid-tones. So, for example, paint won’t be applied to the full range of tones in a Darks selection. Instead, just the Dark tones near the mid-tones are selected. For this image the “DARKS” selection that was painted through was actually the Darks minus the Shadow Darks. This selection contains the image’s dark tones, but the darkest tones are subtracted off making the selected tones the darker mid-tones of the image.
Black paint is going to be applied through this selection to the Burn/Dodge layer to darken the too-light areas of the image, which generally contain light tones. As such, it’s necessary to be a bit careful in how the paint is applied. The subtracted selection still favors dark tones, so dark tones can easily get more paint than light tones when black paint is applied through the selection. So it’s important to choose the right size brush that doesn’t spread the paint too far outside the intended areas to be darkened and to control the brush strokes so they predominantly hit in the light areas that need to be darkened. Sometimes a slightly harder brush (30-50% hardness) can be useful in not straying into the dark areas too much.
You might be thinking that this approach sort of goes against the main advantage of luminosity painting, which is that errant brush strokes are of little consequence since the selection is controlling which pixels receive paint. This is a consideration, of course, but also keep in mind that painting is occurring through a luminosity selection, so it will still blend into the image. It’s just a matter of making sure that most of the paint gets stroked onto the areas that need to be changed. Additionally, the selected tones that receive paint are near image’s mid-tones; the darkest tones in the image are subtracted off and don’t receive much paint.
Again, the selection being painted through here is Darks minus the Shadow Darks. The mask of this subtracted selection is shown below.
The light areas are darker in this mask but aren’t completely black. This means they will still receive paint if they are stroked with a brush of sufficient opacity. Because the mask reveals dark tones more than light tones, darker pixels get darker faster when black paint is applied through the selection to the Burn/Dodge layer. So if the light tones are painted black through this selection, all the light tones get a bit darker, but the darker light tones get darker faster than the lighter light tones. This increases contrast in the light tones, and is exactly what is expected from the “DARK through DARKS” rule, and what is desired in this image.
Lightening the dark tones to increase contrast works the same way except this time the selection being painted though needs to come from the Lights-series of mask. A subtracted selection is once again desirable and the Lights minus Light Lights works well for this purpose. It selects the lighter mid-tones in the image and subtracts off the image’s lightest tones. It’s a pretty narrow selection and it’s mask shows a predominance of dark gray tones as shown below.
When loaded as a selection, there are no pixels more than 50% select, so no marching ants appear. Still it’s the right selection for the job and will be effective in lightening the dark tones while increasing their contrast. However, it’s again necessary when painting to be a careful to brush primarily the dark areas of the image that need adjustment and not stray too much into the light areas. With a little care, the LIGHT paint through the LIGHTS-series of masks lightens and increases the contrast of dark tones in the image.
The image below shows the painted Burn/Dodge layer for this image. White paint lightens and black paint darkens the underlying image and it’s possible to combine both these things on one layer by painting through the appropriate selections as described above. The rollover shows the image before painting in order to see how white paint was applied to the dark areas of the image and black paint to the light areas in order facilitate the appropriate burning and dodging.
The more even light across the image and the good maintenance of local contrast that resulted from luminosity painting can seen below. Again, this is the final image and the rollover is the image with the Burn/Dodge layer turned off.
A quick summary of this procedure might be useful, so here are the steps
- Create the Burn/Dodge layer.
- Create a Darks minus Shadow Darks selection and hide the ants.
- Apply black paint to the Burn/Dodge Layer through this selection to areas of the image that are too light, being careful to adjust brush size and hardness to only paint in the light areas as much as possible.
- Create a Lights minus Light Lights selection, clicking OK when the warning box comes up that no pixels are more than 50% selected.
- Apply white paint to the Burn/Dodge Layer through this selection to areas of the image that are too dark, being careful to adjust brush size and hardness to paint mainly in the dark areas where increased brightness is desired.
I like this technique enough that I recommended it to Alban Fenle when I saw one of his images. I requested to use the image in this post as it worked well to demonstrate this luminosity painting technique and he agreed. His image is more “realistic” than my sandstone picture and is shown below. The only adjustment I added to this image was luminosity painting on a Burn/Dodge layer as described above. The too-light areas of the image were painted with black paint through a Darks minus Shadow Darks selection, and the too-dark areas were painted white through a Lights minus Light Lights selection. The paint was somewhat carefully applied with a 30% hard brush to makes sure the right pixels received paint. This evened out the light across the image and maintained good contrast in the areas being painted. The end result, I think, is richer colors with stronger detail in both the highlight and shadow areas. The rollover shows the image after luminosity painting using this technique.
The Burn/Dodge layer that resulted from painting is shown below. The rollover is the original image so that it’s easier to see which light and dark areas received paint.
Alban’s version after applying this technique is posted on his Google+ page. It’s different from what I did, and that’s one of the nice things about luminosity painting—it’s a very personal way to interact with the image; no two photographers can do it the same. There are many interpretations of an image, and the photographer and the image will together decide what works best.
Listening to the Light – Examples in Image Development
One of the hardest things about developing an image in Photoshop is figuring out what changes to apply to improve it. This is an acquired skill, I think, that, like composing an image with the camera, improves with practice. Sometimes I know exactly what I need to do in Photoshop, but I also spend a lot of time going back and forth on different possibilities, experimenting with alternate techniques, and generally exploring options before settling on a particular adjustment. Even then, I may go back and readjust an adjustment layer depending on what happens with subsequent layers.
Image development is a dynamic process, not a one-way street. I receive questions asking which technique to use in developing an image and when to use it, and the answer is always the same: It depends on what the image needs. Responding to the image often means that a standard “workflow” probably isn’t going to work. It’s really the image dictating what needs to be done, not the photographer or some repeatable steps. It’s necessary to respond to the light in the image in the same way you respond to the light in the field. Don’t try to control it. Instead, work with it, listen to it, and let it determine the direction of development.
There’s a corollary to this concept of listening to the light that is very important. Once you do figure out what the image needs, you have to have the right tool or technique to address the issue. As such, I thought it might be instructive to occasionally write a post on how I think about what an image needs at different points in its development and discuss my approach to solving the “problems” that I perceive. In other words, what I heard when I listened to the light, and how I responded to what it was saying. The goal being not to go over every layer in the development of a particular image, but rather to look at a few of them and attempt to discuss the collaboration that was occurring between the image and me at that time. I’ll say up front that it’s not always easy to describe exactly what I was thinking. Sometimes it’s just intuition and sometimes just a fortunate experiment that helps to move image development forward. However, I also think that instances like this maybe reflect our deeper understanding of the light and that we just don’t always have the vocabulary to communicate these feelings.
The image below is one that is partially developed. It shows a sandstone detail that I recently photographed in twilight shortly after sunset. I know abstract images can be confusing, so just to get past the perceptional difficulties here, the camera is pointing downward to capture the layers of texture and color as they recede from the camera. Four Photoshop layers were added after this point in development. I’ll go over them one by one explaining what was going on and my reasons for adding the layers.
The first layer added was a luminosity painting layer, which involves dodging and burning through luminosity mask selections to lighten or darken specific parts and specific tones in the image. It’s described in detail in this tutorial. My goal in luminosity painting is generally to create an evenness of light so that the colors and textures assume a large role when viewing the image. This often involves lessening some of the natural shadows and highlights in the scene that might draw the eye unnaturally in the print. Dodging (lightening) with luminosity painting can sometimes remove excess saturation in dark areas and can add texture in light areas. Burning (darkening) can improve color richness to areas that look washed out and can remove distracting highlights that draw the viewer’s eye.
I usually start the process by painting through a Basic Mid-tones selection since it can be used to both lighten and darken the image, but I also use other selections or combinations of selections from masks of both the Darks-series and Lights-series depending on what I want to accomplish. Once the even light starts to come out in the image, the uneven places seem to stand out a bit more. In this way, luminosity painting sort of becomes self-directing. It’s just a matter of looking at the image and seeing and addressing the unbalanced light and then painting through an appropriate luminosity selection to correct it. I usually have all the Darks- and Lights-series of mask sitting on my Channels panel, as well as a Basic Mid-tones mask, so I can quickly grab what works best. Below is the luminosity painted Burn/Dodge layer for this image. The mouse rollover shows how the image looked before luminosity painting to provide a better idea of where paint was applied to even out the light. (Note: For all the the rollover images, it might take a short time to load the second image, but continue to hover the mouse over the image until it appears. Once it does, you should be able to move the mouse quickly back and forth over the edge of the image to see the change.)
Blacker areas on the luminosity painting layer darken the image, whiter areas lighten it, and 50% gray areas are unchanged. The luminosity selection being painted through determines which pixels receive paint and how much. The luminosity painting layer is generally one of the most dynamic in the layer stack. I continually return to it as subsequent layers shift the light, and apply additional paint, black or white, to bring back the evenness. Below is how the image looked after luminosity painting. The rollover shows the image before the luminosity painting layer was added so you can readily see the difference between before and after.
Once I had the light somewhat balanced with luminosity painting, the next thing I noticed was the lack of saturation in the colors and an overall flatness to the image. While luminosity painting can be used effectively to increase local contrast, using the technique to even out the tones across the entire image can result in a loss of general contrast. The benefit of balancing out the light almost always outweighs the risk of increased flatness though, since general contrast can be easily improved. Because the image was both lacking in general contrast and saturation, the most logical choice for addressing both issues is an S-curve on a Curves adjustment layer. One concern I had with this, however, was the fact that my histogram was looking pretty good at this point. An unmasked S-curve could cause loss of shadow detail as the dark tones got too dark, and the lighter tones might also start looking too light. I certainly didn’t want to clip any shadows in this image taken in soft light, and I generally try to avoid strong whites. S-curves also can really punch up the saturation, sometimes out of proportion to the desired contrast change. A mid-tones luminosity mask (Basic Mid-tones is always a good one to try) would be useful in this case for confining the adjustment to just the mid-tones in order to keep the dark and light sides of the histogram unchanged and for providing a more gentle increase in saturation. The Basic Mid-tones masks for this image is shown below.
This mask is always a bit hard to “read” in that it’s overall grayness is confusing. Essentially what a Basic Mid-tones mask reveals is the image’s mid-tones. Both the light and dark colors are darker (concealed by the mask from being adjusted) and mid-tone values are lighter (revealing the adjustment). The lack of pure black and pure white in the mask makes it seem like it would be ineffective at concealing or revealing anything in a meaningful way, but it actually does a very good job of targeting adjustments to just the image’s mid-tones, as designed, sparing the dark and light colors from being overly adjusted. The histogram below demonstrates this. The S-curve adjustment that was applied on the masked adjustment layer is shown in the figure below.
Like luminosity painting, an S-curve adjustment through a Basic Mid-tones mask seems to find its way into all my images since it’s a really good way to adjust overall contrast without messing up the histogram. If the saturation looks right before the adjustment, I change the layer’s blending mode to Luminosity to avoid adding saturation to the image, but generally the boost in saturation, especially with a small adjustment like this one, looks right and improves the image.
Below is the histogram before the curves adjustment was applied. The rollover is the histogram after the Curves adjustment through the Basic Mid-tones mask. Notice how the two ends of the histogram remain fixed. The improved overall contrast comes entirely from expanding the tonal range in the mid-tones.
Below is how the image looked after the addition of the Curves adjustment layer with the Basic Mid-tones mask. The rollover shows the image before this adjustment layer was added.
At this point I thought the on-screen version of the image was looking OK. I really didn’t see anything else that bothered me all that much. Whenever I reach this point of satisfaction, though, I make a print, and without fail, the problems I couldn’t see on my monitor are now quite obvious. I think this is because the transmitted light of the monitor makes almost everything look better. Pictures generally look better on-screen than on paper. So in this regard, viewing a print in reflected light encourages criticism, and it’s a useful tool, I believe, in helping to understand where the light in the print wants to go. The print in this case indicated a couple of problem areas, and the last two layers for this image are a direct result of viewing a hard-copy version of the image.
The most obvious problem was the blue color cast in some of the white rocks. This is completely natural given the light conditions at exposure—a clear sky with post-sunset glow in the west. However, in the print it seemed like the blue contrasted too much with the warmer elements in the scene. The image had become decidedly warmer as it developed, and these cool whites now felt a bit out of place. A warming filter would take care of this, but it wasn’t needed for the entire image and not even in all the white areas. Just the blue-colored whites need to be warmed. This is a situation where a painted mask works well. I created an Photo Filter adjustment layer with a warming filter and adjusted the filter until it removed the blue in the blue-tinted white areas. The adjustment is shown below.
The layer’s mask was then inverted to black to completely conceal the adjustment. A Lights luminosity selection was created to target the whites in the scene, and the marching ants were hidden. White paint was applied onto the layer mask to the blue-tinted white areas of the image. The lights selection helped target the paint to the lighter/whiter areas being painted. While this step was originally intended to remove the cool color in some of the whites, revealing some warmth in specific darker areas seemed to work well too. Because the Lights selection reaches into some of the darker tones, painting darker parts of the image turned out to be an effective way to warm-up other cool-toned areas as well. Below is the mask for the Photo Filter layer after it was painted showing the areas that were revealed to receive the warming effect. The rollover is the image before the warming was added to provide a better idea of how the blue-tinted areas in the image ware targeted for warming by the painted mask.
Below is the image as it appeared after the addition of the Photo Filter layer with the painted mask. The rollover again shows how the image looked before the Photo Filter adjustment layer was added. The blue-tinted areas in the rollover are now obvious and these areas look more coherent with the rest of the image once they’re warmed up, but again, it took viewing the print to see how this adjustment could benefit the image.
The final layer for this image involved color-cloning. While not all that bothersome in the on-screen version of the image, the unmatched rock color in the upper parts of the image, especially the upper right, looked unbalanced in the print. Revealing the Photo Filter warming didn’t help correct this A curve adjustment could be used to shift the color and then this color change could be revealed in the off-color rocks, but since there is plenty of the “right” color readily available in other parts of the image, an easier method is to simply paint in the desired color using the cloning color, retaining texture technique. Using this technique, the final layer is a pixel-containing layer set to Color blending mode. The desired color was sampled from other areas of the image and painted into this new layer where color change was desired. This technique worked particularly well for this image since the underlying color was slightly darker than the sampled color being painted into the layer. Color-cloning tends to lighten the painted area just a bit, so painting over a darker color keeps the area from appearing too light after painting. Generally when using this technique, I just paint the color onto the Color Clone layer at a low opacity to build up the color to the desired level. In parts of this image, however, I wanted to limit the color change to just the darker tones, so I painted through a Dark Darks and Shadow Darks selections to avoid adding the tint to the lighter tones. The image below is what the Color Clone layer looks like. Remember, this layer is set to Color blending mode so only the hue and saturation of things in this layer are transmitted to the image. The luminosity, which defines texture, comes from the composite of the layers below. The rollover shows the image before color cloning in order to see which areas were targeted to receive paint.
Below is how the image looked after color-cloning. The rollover is before this technique was applied. It’s a subtle change that once again probably benefits the print more than the on-line version.
In summary then, four techniques were used to provide the finishing touches to this image: luminosity painting, a Curves adjustment through a Basic Mid-tones mask, a painted mask with a Photo Filter adjustment layer, and color-cloning. The different layers for these steps are shown below. Each technique was applied after assessing the image (listening) to see where change was needed, and each was specifically chosen to address the particular concern that was uncovered. As often happens, an actual print of the image revealed more than the on-screen version, but adding layers to correct the print also led to subsequent and noticeable improvement in how the image looked on the monitor.
Painted Masks
NOTE: A more complete description of this mask painting technique can be found here.
Luminosity painting is one of my favorite Photoshop techniques and is described in a this tutorial. It is a method for burning (darkening) and dodging (lightening) specific areas of an image and specific tones in those areas by painting through luminosity selections.
Painting a layer mask for an adjustment layer is another example on how luminosity painting can be used. It provides a method to first make a global adjustment using an adjustment layer, then hiding it, and then painting to very precisely reveal the adjustment in exact areas and tones in the image.
The image below shows the final version of an image where an adjustment layer with a painted luminosity mask played an important role during development. The mouse rollover is the image with this adjustment layer’s visibility turned off. (It may take a few moments for the second image to load, but once it does, you should be able to pass the mouse back and forth across the edge of the frame to flip between the before and after allow greater customization depending on what the image needs.
To make this adjustment, I started by first creating a Curves adjustment layer and changing the blending mode to Multiply. how the image looked after doing this.
While clearly excessive when not moderated by a mask or decreased layer opacity, Multiply (and its image-lightening counterpart, Screen) blending mode tend to make very natural-looking tonal changes to the image when properly applied. Provided that they are used in moderation, these blending modes can subtly and appropriately change image tones without unexpected saturation or contrast changes that sometimes accompany Curves and Levels adjustments.
By default, Photoshop creates an all-white, reveal-all layer mask when adjustment layers are created. Once the blending mode is changed to Multiply, the image is clearly too dark because the pure white mask conceals nothing. While Multiply blending mode will benefit parts of the image eventually, this full-on effect is not desired. To return the image to its original state before the adjustment layer was added, simply type Ctrl+I (Mac: Cmd+I) to invert the layer mask from white to black. This completely hides the adjustment from the image. The menu command Image>Adjustments>Invert can also be used to do this. The figure below shows how the new layer looks on the Layers panel. It’s worth noting that no adjustment was made to the curve for this adjustment layer. Changing the blending mode from Normal to Multiply is all that was needed to darken the image.
Once the desired (but exaggerated) adjustment is created and concealed, it’s necessary to create a luminosity selection to paint through to reveal the concealed adjustment just where it’s needed in the image. The easiest way to get the right selection to paint through is to make an entire series of masks on the Channels panel and choose what works best. For this image, I want to darken some of the lighter tones in the image. The Lights-series of luminosity masks provides several choices of masks that target progressively lighter tones. The figure below shows this series of masks as they appear on the Channels panel.
Masks are graphical representations of selections, with light colors showing selected pixels and black representing pixels that aren’t selected. Shades of gray correspond to the degree to which pixels are selected—dark gray pixels are less selected than light gray pixels. Any mask can be turned into a selection with a Ctrl+click (Mac: Cmd+click) on the mask’s thumbnail image.
Examining the masks by clicking them one-by-one on the Channels panel helps find the most appropriate one for this image. The mask that shows white (or light gray) in the areas that need to be changed (darkened in this case) is a good starting point. However, it’s also good to think about combining masks to make an even more refined selection to paint through. For most selections I use for luminosity painting, I’ll generally subtract off a selection at the extreme end of the series. So, for example, in this case I chose the Light Lights mask as targeting the tones I wanted to reveal on the adjustment layer. Instead of just creating a selection from the Light Lights mask and painting through it, however, I also subtracted off the Super Lights. I want the very lightest tones to stay nearly white, and by subtracting them from the selection that is painted through, they won’t receive much paint and will remain concealed from the adjustment and unchanged in the image.
So, after creating the Lights-series of masks on the Channels panel, here’s the process for making my desired selection:
1) Ctrl+click (Mac: Cmd+click) on the Light Lights mask thumbnail—this loads this mask as a selection.
2) Alt+Ctrl+click (Mac: Opt+Cmd+click) on the Super Lights mask thumbnail—this subtracts these tones from the selection.
I now have a selection that is targeting the tones enclosed by marching ants in the figure below–light tones are selected but very whitest tones are not.
: Cmd+H) so they don’t hamper judging the effect that painting has on the image. Even though the selection outline is hidden, the selection will still be active and directing paint to the desired tones.
Single-click on the black layer mask on the adjustment layer making sure the framing brackets are around the mask.
The “color” to paint with is easy: white. The mask is 100% black, completely concealing the blending mode adjustment. To reveal the adjustment in the image, white paint needs to be applied to the mask. So make sure the foreground color is white. Type “D” to reset the colors if white is not the foreground color.
Select the Brush tool by clicking on it on the Tools panel or by typing the letter “B”. The opacity setting for painting will depend somewhat on the mask(s) chosen or combined to make the selection to paint through. Selections made from masks with pure or nearly pure white areas in the mask pass more paint through the selection and require a lower opacity setting to reveal the adjustment. A good starting value for opacity in this case is 10 to 20 percent. Selections made by subtraction within the same series will often have the “white” pixels subtracted out of the selection, so a higher opacity setting is necessary to force paint through the “grayer” pixels that remain. Fifty percent is reasonable choice. One brush stroke is usually NOT sufficient to create the desired or perfect reveal of the blending-mode adjustment. There are two alternatives. If the reveal is insufficient, additional brushstrokes can be applied. Perhaps increasing the opacity or changing the size of the brush (bracket keys) will be necessary. However, layering in multiple brushstrokes to slowly reveal the adjustment is often desirable as long as each stroke makes a slightly visible difference.
If the reveal is too pronounced after a single brushstroke, undo it using Ctrl+Z, (Mac: Cmd+Z), and then lower brush opacity, reduce brush size, or possibly load or create a new, more restrictive selection to paint through.
The goal is to sequentially add white paint to the layer mask to allow some amount. The luminosity selection also insures that less than perfect mousing keeps paint inside the desired tonal lines.
The image below shows the painted mask and can help to better understand what’s happening with this type of luminosity painting.
The first thing that can be seen in the mask is an outline of parts of the image. Since the primary luminosity mask (Lights) is a gray-scale of the original image, all subsequent luminosity masks derived from this primary mask show image detail as well. A selection created by subtracting different luminosity masks, as was done in this case, still has partially selected pixels that mimic the luminosity in the original image. Painting through a selection based on the pixel variables in the original image (a pixel-based selection) recreates the contours of the image in all subsequent masks and when painting through these masks. defined by single mask, the mask can be enhanced in any area by simply applying more white paint through the selection. The enhancement can continue until the area being painted is 100% white, a complete reveal of the adjustment layer’s adjustment.. So it’s like using several luminosity masks on one layer mask and choosing which parts of them and to what degree they will benefit the image. In this case, most of the painting was done through the Light Lights minus Super Lights selection described above, but when repeated brushstrokes started to reveal darkening in some adjacent areas where darkening was not desired, a Bright Lights minus Super Lights selection was used to restrict the reveal of the adjustment to even lighter tones in the image.
Once you have a feel for luminosity painting, using it to create or enhance layer masks becomes a logical next step. Painting through a pixel-based selection, like a luminosity mask, applies paint in proportion to the pixel-based selection(s) in the original mask. The pixel-based quality of the mask is retained so that. I hope that you’ll try it and that your images will benefit from this technique.
A PSD file containing the complete Photoshop workflow for this image can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
eBooks from My Friends
Steffen and Isa Synnatschke and Guy Tal have recently released new eBooks. This electronic publication format is becoming increasingly popular as photographers attempt to share what they know with a larger audience without the expense of traditional publishing and distribution of actual books. Tal and the Synnatschkes are good friends who I’ve encouraged to write and share what they have to offer as I believe their unique perspectives will resonate with many nature photographers. These new eBooks validate this conviction. Both offer new insights into what makes photography such a popular activity, and both provide photographers new avenues for exploration.
Guy Tal’s blog is widely followed for its insightful commentary on photography. There is almost an infectious passion in his words that makes readers want to take their own photography to a higher level. Tal is now bringing this enthusiasm to a series of eBooks that take a deeper look at the creative aspects that inform his own body of work. The first was entitled “Creative Landscape” and it took readers into the natural world to explore processes for extracting personal and original compositions. It was a combination of practical knowledge and spiritual attunement that is at the heart of the creative process. The new eBook, “Creative Processing Techniques,” provides a similar perspective, but this time applied to image processing in Photoshop.
The emphasis on creativity in this publication is obvious from this excerpt:
“Given the irregular and unpredictable nature of creative epiphanies, your processing workflow should not be linear or very strict, but rather one of continuous refinement until the desired result is achieved. While the process has a known beginning (the RAW file) and a desired outcome (the visualized image), the transition from one to the other may be the equivalent of navigating a complex maze of paths and creative choices. A non-linear, or iterative, approach is one that relies on progressive refinement and course correction; where goals are re-examined at every step and inform the next iteration in ways that may not be obvious from the start. For best results, we may sometimes need to take a step sideways or even backwards before moving forward.”. Once again, Tal’s own words are probably best:
“The digital studio offers boundless opportunity for creative expression, experimentation and infusing your work with your own style and vision. Seen in this light, it is much more than just a set of tools for adjusting or correcting pixels. Rather, it is the place where your thoughts and ideas take shape and manifest themselves visually in your creations.”
This combination of practical application of software with creative exploration of the light is very much in line with my own concept of how we should approach our images and their light. I consider myself reasonably facile with Photoshop, but I still learned new techniques in Tal’s book that I’ll use to process my images from here on. And while I read it front to back to glean these pearls, it was the message that image processing is an integral part of photographic creativity that resonated most strongly. Guy Tal’s ability to fuse practical skills and existential concepts into eminently readable prose helps us all become better photographers.
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Steffen and Isa Synnatschke are perhaps the premier place-finders when it comes to the Colorado Plateau. From their home in Dresden, Germany, they scour many online resources to assemble bits of information on possible places to photograph during their semiannual trips to the United States. They explore continuously while they’re here and, based on my own time spent in their company, frequently walk right to the place they are looking to find. Wind Song, Sandstone Nebulae, Towers of Hasi Nagi, Lower Chamber, Sitting Ducks, Desert Mushroom, Momo’s Brain, and The Wing and a Prayer are examples of images from my website that owe their existence to the Synnatschkes and their irrepressible quest for new light. Their websites (linked above) show just how many places they’ve photographed and how dedicated they are to good light.
The iconic quality of many of the places discovered by the Synnatschkes makes these locations a natural draw for many photographers. If your vacation and picture-taking time is limited, photogenic subjects in the right light help insure you’ll come home with many good pictures. The Synnatschkes are particularly adept at sniffing out such sites. They have spent nearly a decade traveling and finding these places and are finally starting to share their secrets in the “Closer Look” eGuide series. They recently released their first book centered on the fascinating sandstone of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
This park has been one of their favorite locations over the years, and they have hiked and photographed here extensively. This is an extraordinary place with unusual sandstone everywhere you look. Their desire to explore and eye for composition have uncovered many places within the park whose photographic potential was previously unrecognized. The eGuide provides detailed information about these places: how to get there, GPS waypoints, and recommendations on the best time of day for exposure. If you’re planning to visit the Southwest and are interested in seeing or photographing some astonishing sandstone, Valley of Fire State Park should be on your itinerary and the Closer Look eGuide to it should be in your daypack.
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Of late, my 8-year-old has been giving a lot of thought to marriage—and more specifically, to finding a husband. To wit: When her friend turned down several snack options in a row, El sought me out.
“Mom, she is a PICKY eater. She’s going to have trouble getting a husband if she eats like that.”
And later: “I think it would be good to know geometry before you try to get a husband, because…” She pondered. “Because then you’d both know it.”
Right-o. I mean, I’m not sure that both people knowing the difference between an acute and an obtuse triangle would qualify as being “equally yoked,” but it couldn’t hurt.
El’s musings got me thinking. I watch The Bachelor, I admit it. And, yes, I disrespect myself in the morning, but I am fascinated by what young women and men assume will make a relationship work. Two minutes into meeting the prize—AKA, the bachelor—beautiful, seemingly bright women are passionately kissing this virtual stranger and claiming they’re sure he’s the one. By the end of the evening, these same girls are sobbing inconsolably, because the bachelor has given their coveted rose to somebody else.
Well, duh.
To all past, current, and future ABC bachelorettes: I’m going to give you a little advice, and you should take it, because I’m a romance novelist, and I know about happily ever afters.
When you meet someone you consider forever-after material, keep your lips clamped unless you are opening your mouth to talk. To talk, ladies. You will not know he’s the one for you simply because you feel goose-pimply after he kisses you and fifteen other girls at an alcohol-soaked cocktail party. (I’d feel goose pimply, too. Eew.) This is romance 101: Save your kisses for someone who’s kissing only you.
From now on, I want you to heed the wisdom of my 8-year-old: At the very least, find out if you both like geometry before you begin doodling your name together with his on a cocktail napkin.
I tell my daughter all the time, “Marry your best friend.” At the moment she’s taking me literally and is considering walking down the aisle with one of her girlfriends. “’Cause we talk about everything, and we could share the same wedding dress, and wedding dresses are very expensive, Mom.’”
I question the practicality of two women and one dress in the same wedding, but I appreciate that she’s budget-minded and, for the moment at least, wise enough to want to spend her life with someone she knows, likes and respects.
As for The Bachelor/ette, Too Hot Mamas must send the show to the front of its Doody Head line asap. Of course, I suppose I have to walk it there myself.
Wendy
3 Responses to HOW TO PICK YOUR HUSBAND
At least your daughter is exploring ideas of what a marriage should be when she is 8 and not when she’s on a reality TV show!
Also, I agree with the “marry your best friend” advice.
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. teach her the words to the Tammy Wynette song. they may also come in handy.
Funny. A wee bit frightening too. She’s an early bloomer, eh?
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2010 Giro d’Grafton race report and heartrate data
June 20, 2010 at 12:33 pm Leave a comment
Quick Summary
- 2nd on 1st $200 prime
- 3rd on $750 prime with 7 laps to go
- Narrowly avoided crash in final 100m to finish 14th.
Heartrate and power data for the entire race
- Going for the $200 prime
- Struggling to move forward from towards the back of the pack
- Easier once I made it to the front
- Attacking to go for the $750 prime
- The finishing sprint
Heartrate and power data for the last seven laps
- Attacking for the $750 prime
- The actual sprint for the $750 prime
- Hitting it hard to keep my position at the front of the pack
- The 39mph crash in front of me with 100m to go
- The actual finish of the race, tied my current known maximum heartrate
I just found this youtube video online that has some good clips of the race. At about 34 seconds into the video, I am the first rider around the corner with Andy Crater behind me. Andy had just won the $200 prime, and I decided to keep rolling in case a break came up to us. It did, but our break only lasted for maybe half a lap before the field caught back up to us.
Detailed Summary
Nearly 140 riders lined up for the start of the race. I got to the staging area real early, but after all the callups and people rolling in front of the staging area, I ended up on the third row for the start. Better than at the back, but not ideal. Fortunately, somebody in front and to the right of me had trouble clipping in, and this opened up a hole so I was able to zip around him and into the top 15 or so. The pace was fast, but manageable. Then at the start of the sixth or seventh lap, the announcer rang the bell for a $200 prime. I wasn’t intending to go for the prime, but I was already at the front when Emile Abraham (Aerocat) attacked with his teammate Andy Crater on his wheel. I was right there so I jumped in third wheel as we got a small gap on the field going into turn 5 and 6. Out of turn 6, Emile peeled off and Andy launched his sprint. I tried to come around, but couldn’t do it and had to settle for second (i.e., nothing).
I was happy to be in contention for the prime, but it was a lot of wasted energy. I spent the next 20+ laps trying to recover and work my way back to the front of the group. It was pretty crazy back in the pack and it took a really concerted effort to work my way all the way back to the front. A few thoughts kept running through my mind:
- “The #1 rule in moving forward is to NOT move backward”
- “Gee, it’s still a really long way to the front” when the group was strung out single file ahead of me
- “How on earth am I not to the front, yet? Who is passing me and when?”
Finally, with less than 15 laps left to go, I had worked my way back into the top 20-25 riders. It was much smoother, and not too hard to maintain that position as long as you made sure to pass people on at least two different parts of the course. This was the status quo for the next 8 laps when with 7 laps to go (no more free laps), the announcer rang the bell for a $750 prime. Coming through the start/finish line, I was sitting maybe 20th wheel but carrying some momentum so I swung to the outside, moved up to maybe 10th wheel when the group in front veered right opening a hole for me on the wind-protected side of the group. Without hesitation, I attacked as hard as I could hoping to get a gap that nobody would want to close. Unfortunately, I brought two riders with me – Rahsaan Bahati and a Mountain Khakis rider (Myerson or Howe). Nevertheless, I knew that Kristine would be excited to see me off the front so I drilled it and we absolutely flew through turns 2, 3, and 4. Turn 3 was a right turn, followed by a short 1 block straight away and then a left turn. I was going so fast through those corners that it felt like a corkscrew instead of two 90 degree turns! Plus I caught the pace car coming out of Turn 4 so we did get a little bit of a draft up the hill. By the end of those turns, we had a 5-10 second gap on the field. I was in the front and coming off turn 5, I coasted hoping that one of them would come around, but they didn’t. We gradually slowed down and started our sprint for the $750 prime from about 23mph with a comfortable gap on the field. I’d like to say that I crushed the sprint against one of the top sprinters in the country and walked away with $750, but what actually happened is that Rahsaan won by maybe 15 bike lengths, the Mountain Khakis rider was next, and then I trailed in maybe 3 or 4 seconds later with the field coming up hard.
Strategically, going for the prime wasn’t the best thing I could do — but I had the opportunity, and I wasn’t going to let it slip away and wonder what would’ve, could’ve, should’ve, etc… The only strategic advantage about going for the prime is that it meant I was at the very front of the race with 6 laps to go. When the pack came by, I knew that it was going to hurt, but I drilled it as hard as I could and slotted somewhere into the top 20 riders. The pace was fast with Aerocat, Bahati, and Mountain Khakis riders at the front drilling it. Even so, there was a lot of shuffling where riders from the back would carry more momentum and push forward ahead of the leadout riders. I tried to anticipate those “surges” and ended up in the top 15 with one lap to go.
The last lap was really fast, but I was able to move up a couple more positions going into the last corner and the downhill sprint. So I already knew at this point that barring an accident, I was going to place in the top 20 maybe even top 10. Well, with 100 meters to go, there was an accident — a bad one. According to my bike computer, I was going 39mph in the downhill, tailwind sprint when the accident happened. The sole BMC rider in the race, Cole House, got tangled up with a Mountain Khakis rider and the two of them went down at the front of the sprint — immediately in front of me. A third rider in front of me and to my right went down as he collided with another rider trying to avoid the original accident. Since I was going 39mph with very little time to react, I had already resigned myself to the fact that I was going to fall when I realized that if I punched it I could maybe squeeze between the riders and bikes on the ground to my left and right. The only obstacle was the BMC rider’s bike which was currently up in the air. It was just off to my left though so I ran into it with my shoulder and pushed it out of the way and very, very luckily no part of it got tangled up with my bike. So I made it through, but according to my computer I had slowed down to under 30mph. A lot of people were having to hit the brakes and slow down because of the accident, but there was still room for some people to come around carrying speed so I ended up getting passed by 3 or 4 people in the final 50 meters while I was trying to get back up to speed. Still, I was very happy (and lucky) to have stayed upright and finish 14th.
Brent Mahan (Nashville Cyclist) finished 11th riding a great race and has now moved into the green jersey for best young U25 rider! Congratulations Brent!
Entry filed under: Racing. Tags: heartrate, power, videos.
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Mississippi Gran Prix – Day 2 – Road Race and Time Trial
April 14, 2012 at 11:09 pm 1 comment
Quick Summary
My teammate Pat Allison and I took 6th and 7th in the road race in a strategic 80+ mile road race. My other teammate Justin got into a great two-man move for over half of a 27 mile lap. This forced other teams to chase and gave Pat and I a much needed break from attacking and covering moves. Unfortunately, Justin’s break-mate Russell Walker flatted towards the end of the second lap. Earlier in the race, I had my own bad luck with a broken rear spoke, but Pat and Justin stopped and helped pace me back up to the group – awesome teammates! Later in the evening, we all rocked the TT merckx style and had decent times.
The Data
I didn’t have power data from the road race b/c of the broken spoke in my powertap rear wheel. I had the iBike on, but then the wheel magnet on my front wheel slid down so the iBike shut off with no speed data coming into it.
TIME TRIAL Dist: 2.84 mi (0:06:09) Energy: 168.9 kJ Cals Burn: 161.4 kcal Braking: 0.0 kJ (0.0%) Min Avg Max Power 223 457.6 1439 W Aero 0 376.5 766 W Rolling 10 35.8 43 W Gravity -600 7.5 327 W Speed 7.4 27.7 33.4 mi/h Wind 8.4 27.1 35.9 mi/h Elev 314 341 364 ft Slope -5.5 0.08 4.1 % Caden 29 79.3 96 rpm HR 112 164.9 181 bpm NP:443W IF:1.60 TSS:26 VI:0.97 CdA: 0.342 m^2; Crr: 0.0039 168 lbs; 4/14/2012 6:45 PM 76 degF; 1013 mbar
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jerzak80 | April 15, 2012 at 4:25 am
Found my way here via Strava. Loving your work
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Ashley Greene Bikini Photos Posted By: Ryan Deal on January 12, 2011 140500http%3A%2F%2Ftopcultured.com%2Fashley-greene-bikini%2Fashley-greene-bikini-green%2Fashley+greene+bikini+green2011-01-12+16%3A05%3A25Ryan+Dealhttp%3A%2F%2Ftopcultured.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Fashley-greene-bikini-green.jpg More Images From This Gallery Related Posts Kung Fu Crash Teenage Mutant Ninja Pizza Party The Taiwanese Take On TSA Security Measures Just Gonna Use This To Take A Nap God Always Wins Oprah Gets The Auto-Tune Treatment Around The Web Loading... Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website
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Date archive for May, 2011
7 districts primed for Race’s round 3
The suspense is over
Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
Rocketship: 29 charters in San Jose
Worth a second look
Wake up and smell the school cuts
Redistricting’s shadow on budget
The case for/against CALPADS
Judge to throw out Trigger petitions
Common Core’s manifesto war
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FRIDAY OLYMPIC ROUNDUP: Phelps wins last individual Olympic swimming race
August 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm in The Dickinson Press
LONDON Michael Phelps’ last individual race at the Olympics ended like so many of the ones before it with his hands on the wall before everyone else in the pool. Continue Reading
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A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
A pregnant leukemia patient, whose life was at risk because anti-abortion laws in the Dominican Republic prevented doctors from treating her, has started receiving chemotherapy, officials said Thursday.
In the Dominican Republic, a ban on abortion is preventing a teenage girl from receiving treatment for a life-threatening disease.
Five years after battling and beating breast cancer, "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts faces another dangerous health foe.
Good Morning America's Robin Roberts has a blood disorder that developed as a result of her fight with breast cancer.
Doctors who treat breast cancer patients are very excited about an experimental drug that presents a whole new way of knocking out cancer cells.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is battling cancer. Health problems began to pop up for him a year ago. Here are some key dates, according to government statements, local media accounts and CNN reporting:
A young boy in Canada has a new tool to help him manage his diabetes. CBC News has the story..
He thought the bleeding was a hemorrhoid, brought on by a strenuous weightlifting session at the gym.
Few Americans think twice about whether their medicine bottle really contains what it says on the label.
After losing her nursing job to a disease, a young woman turns a hobby into a business.
Kelsey Trusty plans almost everything, but getting cancer was one thing she didn't anticipate.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen talks about a counterfeit version of Avastin that is being sold in the U.S.
Battling a relapse of Hodgkin's lymphoma, former "Survivor" winner Ethan Zohn had just finished round three of the new chemo drug SGN-35 when he got some welcome news from his doctor.
The Swiss drugmaker Novartis is cutting nearly 2,000 jobs in the United States, anticipating the impending loss of patent protection on its blockbuster drug Diovan.
Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke..
A new combination of treatments can help battle some forms of metastatic breast cancer and slow down the spread of the disease, according to two separate studies.
Dr. Drew and his guests discuss what people should understand about the risks of breast cancer..
Since Kezia Fitzgerald and her 1-year-old daughter, Saiorse, started cancer treatments this year, the disease has upended nearly every aspect of their lives.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who remains a popular figure in his country, vowed in a video posted on YouTube to beat his recently diagnosed throat cancer.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will begin chemotherapy in the coming days to treat a malignant tumor in his larynx, a hospital official said Saturday..
When new patients worry they don't know how they'll get through breast cancer, Cindy Davis puts her hand on theirs and says, "I know, but I want to tell you, I truly know, because I went through this two years ago.".
The now-healthy Olympian tells PEOPLE the "toughest part" of chemo was facing her little boy.
Kezia Fitzgerald and her 15-month-old daughter are both blondes with bright blue eyes. They both giggle easily and share a love of peaches.
A throat infection sidelined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for a few days, but on Tuesday he said he is ready to begin what will be his fourth cycle of chemotherapy.
A visually-impaired teen is using his paintings to help others. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield has the story.
At 12 years old, Jeff Hanson was struggling to see the world around him.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Saturday that he was hours away from a third phase of chemotherapy, state media reported. said Friday he is seeking congressional approval to return to Cuba to continue cancer treatment.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his cancer treatment may require radiation therapy and chemotherapy, comments that shed a little more light on the state of his health after he underwent surgery to remove a tumor last month..
American Society of Clinical Oncology's Dr. George Sledge discusses a new cancer drug that fights advanced melanoma.
For the first time, patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer have two new treatment options that prolong survival, according to new research presented at a cancer conference in Chicago on Sunday..
CNN's first sports anchor, Nick Charles, speaks about his life, his work and the people he's leaving behind.
Nick Charles looks into the camera, as he's done thousands of times before. Except he's not calling a boxing match for sports fans around the world.
By now, you likely know David Seidler, who won an Oscar on Sunday for best original screenplay for "The King's Speech," was a stutterer just like King George VI, whose battle with the speech disorder is portrayed in the film.
Women with early stage breast cancer that has spread to their lymph nodes may require less extensive surgery than previously thought, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A new study questions the way breast cancer surgery is done. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
How many stages are there in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
The controversial drug Avastin should be phased out as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, citing recent studies that show its benefits may be outweighed by dangerous side effects.
Is there anything currently in trials for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia that can help my father, who has had triple-bypass surgery and is 81 years old?
My husband had non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1990. He was treated with m-BACOD, then switched to CHOP. Now he is diagnosed with adenocarcinoma.
Out of cancer treatment options, John Cossman turns to clinical trials, without which he says he'd have "no hope."
John Cossman's friends call him cancer's iron man. He's had more than 90 radiation treatments and 200 chemo treatments since being diagnosed with head and neck cancer eight years ago.
Congress wants to know why the Lockerbie bomber is still alive 13 months after being released with three months to live.
Convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbeset al-Megrahi, released from a Scottish prison last year on humanitarian grounds, is not terminally ill, a New Jersey senator asserted Wednesday..
The former Survivor contestant says he's "happy to wake up in the morning" with girlfriend Jenna Morasca
On Christmas Eve 2008 12-year-old Paul Yared started counting his days. Medical tests had revealed a vicious form of bone cancer that transformed the Lebanese boy's life in London from going to school and playing to dealing with chemotherapy and pain.
Rima Maktabi meets a woman with the vision to give education to kids with cancer and the children whose lives she hopes to improve..
For a serious distance runner, 7 hours, 48 minutes is not a great marathon time. But cut Brian Fugere some slack.
Lung cancer patients who are 70 years or older should be considered for a more aggressive chemotherapy treatment offered to patients who are decades younger, according to a new study presented at a major cancer conference Saturday.
Acclaimed chef Grant Achatz once said he would rather die than lose his tongue.
A vaccine treatment for prostate cancer has become the first therapy of its kind to win approval for use in U.S. patients.
A round-the-world yachtswoman who beat breast cancer says that sailing helped her cope with the "hell of cancer."
How many, if any, cases of nervous system disorders have been reported because of A-C breast cancer chemotherapy? I'm 45 and had treatment at 39 and 40. I now experience a very exaggerated amount of shaking of the hands.
Diana Tirpak was so sure her leukemia was going to kill her, she bought a suit for her husband, Jake, to wear at her funeral.
It brought a tough, All-Star NBA coach to tears this week. And it stilled the voice of a famous film critic.
Diagnosed in 2005, the Survivor: Palau beauty used her TV fame to help others
The Survivor winner, battling cancer, takes a camera along to his PEOPLE photo shoot?
Suzanne Somers takes on Dr. Brawley: Alternative therapy vs. chemotherapy..
From his hospital bed, the Survivor winner shares the latest in his cancer battle
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As the UK launch date for iPhone 4 is drawing near, potential buyers are busy in assessing available price plans announced by the different providers.
Apple’s much-anticipated iPhone 4 will be available from 24th of June via almost all major network providers including Vodafone, O2, Orange and AT&T. Three network providers viz. Vodafone, O2 and Orange have already announced tariffs for the upcoming phone.
Vodafone has also announced pricing for the iPhone 4, with a range of plans staring from £25-a-month. All of its monthly plans offer 1GB mobile internet and webmail plus 1GB of Wi-Fi with Openzone.
Comparatively, the cheapest deal on Orange is £30-a-month on a 24-month contract, while its "unlimited" mobile internet browsing and Wi-Fi packages are capped at 750MB each a month.
O2 will offer 1GB of data on only the most expensive iPhone 4 packages as it has already dropped its unlimited data plan.
Moreover, Vodafone’s plans over £45 a month offer 5MB European data roaming a day or 150MB a month, which is expected to prove very useful for business users.
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Tablets Running on Android Expected to Surpass iPad This YearSubmitted by Sumit Yayavar on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 13:20
According to the latest data released by IDC, tablets running on Android OS are likely to beat Apple's iPad in terms of sales this year.
As of Tuesday, IDC estimations revealed that in 2013 Android devices will comprise 48% of the total tablets shipments while Apple's iPad will come down to 46%.in 2012, the Apple was reported to account for 51% of the total shipments.
Apple Launches 2 Commercials Showcasing New iPhoneSubmitted by Sumit Yayavar on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 13:39
In order to gain peoples' attention for its new iPhone, Apple has introduced two new advertisements. Both eth commercials are quite peppy in nature and accompany upbeat music.
It would not be wrong to say that both the commercials have been truly flaunting the features of the new iPhone. The commercial shows hands which have been using the new gadget like tapping and clicking while showing its varied features.
Apple Marketing Chief Tweets about Rising Malware Threats on AndroidSubmitted by Sumit Yayavar on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 13:11
In his one of rare tweets at the micro blogging site, Twitter, Phil Schiller, Apple Marketing Chief, has warned users about the rising malware threats on Android. Till now, maximum of the tweets by Phil used to be about sports, music and movies.
Apple iPhone 5S May Arrive This AugustSubmitted by Neelesh Raghuwanshi on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 13:22
Since the Apple iPhone 5 has been launched into the market, rumors are being heard about the next iPhone. Yet another report has revealed that the rumour mill of iPhone 5S and iPad is becoming stronger.
Apple To Come Up With iWatchSubmitted by Sumit Yayavar on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 13:28
Apple is known for raising the bar when it comes to innovation in technology. Whether it's about portable music players or tablets, Apple keep on revolutionizing them.
One of the latest things on which Apple is working on is `iWatch'. It is said that approximately 100 product designers have been working on this concept. There are chances that the device will be introduced by the end of the year.
Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter Carries ARM ChipSubmitted by Sumit Yayavar on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 13:04
A group of developers at Panic Software have recently carried out a ripping out operation on a Lightning Digital AV Adapter. It was only then that they found that the device was having an ARM system embedded on a chip.
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50 Nonprofit Mission Statements
Many nonprofit mission statements succumb to an over use of words in general, but especially jargon. Good mission statements should be clear, memorable, concise. While I'm tempted to add "inspiractional" to this list, I find that the end product often ends up as a frankenstein that is part mission statement, part vision statement, and almost always too long.
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This week's parsha begins with the dissention of Korach, a cousin of Moshe
Rabbainu. He challenged Moshe's authority to appoint Aharon, his brother,
as Kohein Gadol, or High Priest. Korach, Doson, Avirom, and 250 men, mostly
from the tribe of Reuven, teamed up against Moshe. Rashi, (the medieval
French Commentator) writes that Korach was disgruntled about the
appointment of his younger cousin as Prince over his family, while he felt
the position was coming to him.
The Sages of the Talmud comment about Korach and his colleagues as follows.
"Any dispute which is for the sake of heaven will endure, and any dispute
which is not for the sake of heaven will not endure. What is a dispute
which is for the sake of heaven? This is the dispute between Hillel and
Shammai. (And) What is the dispute which is not for the sake of heaven?
This is the dispute between Korach and his followers" (Chapters of the
Fathers). There are a few questions about this, as follows.
A dispute for the sake of heaven is one which is borne out of similar
intentions to ascertain the truth. The opponents are, in reality, on the
same team. Hillel and Shammai may have had differing perspectives about how
to understand the application of a Torah law, but they both wanted to
observe the law as G-d intended them to.
The ability for the dispute to "endure" is that the goal of the opponents
endures, not the dispute, because the underlying intentions are "for the
sake of heaven," and not for selfish ends.
Korach's dispute was not between Korach and Moshe. Korach and Moshe were
not opponents. Korach's intentions were not the same as Moshe's. They were
motivated by his perceived loss of dignity at the appointment of his
younger cousin, not that G-d be served according to His will. Since Korach
and his followers were all motivated by selfish ends, none of them were
really on the same team. Each one teamed up with the other so that he could
attain his own selfish goal. None of them were acting on behalf of the
bigger picture. This is why the Sages say that the dispute was between
Korach and his followers.
There is a proof that Korach and his followers' intentions were selfish.
The test they were willing to undergo to choose a new High Priest was that
each one would bring a sacrifice of "Ketores," a blend of particular
spices. Each one knew that only one man's sacrifice would be accepted, and
only he would live through the test. Still they were willing to go through
with it.
Before we enter into disagreements with others we would benefit by
remembering the mistake of Korach and his followers. We might ask ourselves
together with an objective third party the following questions. Why do I
care about this? Is it for the sake of truth, or for my own concerns? What
might I lose if I get involved? What might the world gain? Will it really
matter in the long run if I get my way?
In conclusion, there is a passage in the morning liturgy. It describes the
way the ministering angels sanctify G-d each day. "And they encourage each
other to sanctify their Creator etc. The Eitz Yosef, one of the
authoritative commentators of the liturgy, writes as follows. "They
encourage each other to sanctify G-d. Their focus is not on who does the
job; rather their main concern is that the job be done." The ministering
angels are team players. Let us take their example in our lives, and be
better for it.
Good Shabbos.
Text Copyright © 1998 Rabbi Dovid Green and
Project Genesis, Inc.
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U.S. Team has loaded staff for Futures Game
Bundy, Cole, Hultzen among plethora of high-ranked pitching prospects to play Sunday
The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game always assembles the best talent the Minor Leagues has to offer, but when looking at the United States Team's pitching, it's safe to say no one has seen a more powerful staff of prospects assembled in recent memory.
The 10 pitchers on the U.S. club for Sunday's game are a veritable who's who of pitching prospects. All of them are among MLB.com's Top 100, starting with the Orioles' Dylan Bundy, who is ranked No. 7, and finishing with an under-valued Matt Barnes of the Red Sox, who is No. 95.
Seven are former first-round Draft picks, including five from 2011. The Pirates' Gerrit Cole and the Mariners' Danny Hultzen were the top two picks a year ago. Bundy went No. 4. Barnes was the No. 19 overall pick in 2011, while Alex Meyer of the Nationals went four picks later at No. 23. The Mets' Zack Wheeler went No. 6 in 2009, and Jameson Taillon on the Pirates was the No. 2 pick in 2010.
The other three, all supplement first-round selections -- Jake Odorizzi of the hometown Royals; Trevor Bauer's replacement, fellow Diamondback Tyler Skaggs, Taijuan Walker of the Mariners -- aren't far behind.
"Wow," an American League professional scouting director said. "What you're talking about is the No. 1 pitching prospect from each of those guys' organizations. I don't think there's been a more talented staff. That's a pretty impressive group right there."
Said a National League pro scouting director: "First and foremost, they all have the chance to be impact pitchers. Sometimes when you're putting rosters for All-Star games together, you have to balance who's available. This time, there's a legit chance every one of them ends up at least in the front end of a Major League rotation, and that's kind of unusual."
Before seeing them fronting those rotations, fans can watch this staff in action live on MLB.com, ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD and follow MLB clubs, selected the 25-man rosters. Hall of Famer George Brett will manage the U.S. Team, with former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams doing the honors for the World Team.
The fact that the U.S. pitching staff is so stacked is a direct testament to what teams have been doing in the First-Year Player Draft, especially in recent years. The first round of the 2011 Draft -- so well represented on the roster -- saw 19 pitchers selected out of 33 picks. Led by Taillon, 14 more, out of 32 picks, went in 2010's first round. Walker was taken No. 43 overall in that Draft. In 2009, Wheeler's year, half of the first round (16) were pitchers. Skaggs was the 40th pick in 2009, while Odorizzi went No. 32 in 2008.
"If you look at the last couple of Drafts, there's been a pitching-heavy [slant]," the NL scouting director said. "That's starting to show up in Minor League All-Star games."
What's even more impressive is that these arms are not that far off from the ultimate goal: hitting a big league rotation. One day on a Major League mound for the Futures Game is great, but the idea is for them to call that home for the long-term. As the NL scout pointed out, all 10 heading to Kansas City this weekend have the chance to do that. And quickly.
Hultzen, Odorizzi and Skaggs are all currently in Triple-A, each having earned promotions after starting the year in Double-A. Cole recently moved up to Double-A, joining Walker and Wheeler at that level. Barnes and Bundy are both in the Class A Advanced Carolina League, having both earned bumps up with their performances this season. Taillon, in the Florida State League, has been at that level all year, leaving just Meyer as the lone member of the staff in the lowest level of full-season ball.
"I think all of these guys are within a calendar year of impacting their clubs, easily," the AL scouting director said.
The timing is right, too, in that all of these pitchers were available for the Futures Game in the first place. The stars were definitely aligned that each player's organization allowed them to be chosen, that each has been performing well for stretches, if not all, of this season, that all were healthy and that none of them other than Bauer had been called up to the big leagues.
"Pitching, especially dominant pitching, tends not to spend too much time in the Minor Leagues," the NL pro scouting director said. "[With this roster] you have college pitching right on track. The high school pitcher have forced their way up and haven't hit any bumps. They haven't seen a lot of hiccups yet. They all fit with the Futures Game mix at this point."
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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Duly Quoted: Paul Godfrey on a Downtown Casino
OLG chair says casinos shouldn't go in residential neighbourhoods—which is why it's fine to have one downtown.
“I live in a residential neighbourhood. It has what I would describe as either single-family homes or townhouses or places where people live. But I wouldn’t describe all of downtown as a neighbourhood. Downtown has stores and offices and places of entertainment and restaurants.”
—Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Chair Paul Godfrey to the Globe and Mail, in an attempt to clarify remarks he made during a speech to the National Club on Tuesday [PDF]. Among his comments: “I gotta tell you, I wouldn’t want [a casino] in my neighbourhood, but at the same time you’re not putting it in a residential area.” Councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina) quickly condemned those remarks in an open letter to provincial finance minister Dwight Duncan, writing: “These [downtown] communities deserve not only to be recognized by your government and its appointees, but their rights and quality of life deserve the same consideration as Mr. Godfrey’s neighbours and friends.”
Of the locations currently being considered for a Toronto casino, three—Exhibition Place, the convention centre, and the Port Lands—are close to a substantial number of homes or planned residential growth, although not perhaps in a form Godfrey recognizes, since they are primarily condos rather than single family homes.
The first public consultation meeting about a potential casino takes place tonight at City Hall.
This post originally listed Ontario Place as a possible location for a Toronto casino. It has been changed to Exhibition Place.This post originally listed Ontario Place as a possible location for a Toronto casino. It has been changed to Exhibition Place.
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Paragon Relocation, a leading provider of global relocation solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Calanni as Director, Global Business Development covering the southeastern United States, stretching from New Jersey to Florida. »
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Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design
by Thomas Woodward
Baker Books, 2006
(224 pages, $14.99, paperback)
reviewed by Louis Markos
The intelligent design (ID) movement has come a long way since Phillip E.
Johnson’s crusading book, Darwin on Trial (1991), challenged
its readers to question not only the science behind Darwinian (macro) evolution
but also the academic-political-media establishment that dismisses as “unscientific” any
discussion of origins that does not adhere religiously to the dogma of scientific
naturalism.
Johnson’s call was heard by Michael Behe, who, in Darwin’s
Black Box (1996), argued that Darwinian (naturalistic) evolution was
incapable of assembling complex chemical structures, and by William Dembski,
who, in The Design Inference (1998), proposed a method by which
researchers could test whether a phenomenon was the result of necessity,
chance, or design.
Critical Shift
Still, the movement lacked a historian. Enter Thomas Woodward, who teaches
systematic theology and the history of science at Trinity College of Florida,
whose 2003 book Doubts About Darwin provided a clear and comprehensive
history of the major figures, books, and breakthroughs that have marked the
growing success of ID.
In Darwin Strikes Back, he explores the animosity that ID has provoked
from the academy and the media. He carefully documents how its critics have
changed their tactics since 2000, shifting from ridicule andcondescension to
outright attack and accusation, attempting to undercut ID’s strong scientific
foundation while associating ID with theocracy, witch trials, and the end of
progress. No longer willing (or able) to ignore the arguments of ID, they have
grown increasingly dishonest and uncivil.
The charge that ID is religion disguised as science was, of course, raised
against Johnson, but the “religion, not science” label, used sporadically
in the 1990’s, became [after 2000] a vehement first volley in almost
every rhetorical encounter between the two sides. Often it was closely tied
to the charge that many adherents of ID theory were known to be “religious” or,
even more rhetorically poisonous, “fundamentalists.”
In God, the Devil, and Darwin (2004), for example, an Oxford University
Press book praised by Science as a “cogent and well-argued
alarum” that “deftly skewers the scientific pretensions of intelligent
design creationists,” historian of science Niall Shanks declared that “a
culture war is currently being waged in the United States by religiousextremists
who hope to turn the clock of science back to medieval times.” This war
is an important fragment of a much larger rejection of the secular, rational,
democratic ideals of the Enlightenment upon which the United States was founded.
The chief weapon in this war is a version of creation science known as Intelligent
Design Theory. . . . At the fat end [of ID’s wedge strategy] lurks
the specter of fundamentalist Christian theocracy.
According to Woodward, one of the key players in the fight against ID’s “fundamentalist
takeover” is Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science
Education (NCSE), whose “goal is not only to warn the pro--evolution
constituency of these threats but to seek to block and thwart them at every
turn.” As a typical example of the extent of her efforts, he documents
how, along with the ACLU, she pressured a Washington state high-school superintendent
into prohibiting a biology teacher from bringing into his classroom information
critical of Darwinism, even though that information had appeared in prestigious,
peer-reviewed journals.
ID Strikes Back
Having established the general rhetorical tone of ID criticism, Woodward
surveys the major critiques not only of Behe’s irreducible complexity
and Dembski’s design inference, but of ID research in the fields of paleontology
(the Cambrian Explosion), biochemistry (DNA), physics and cosmology (the Big
Bang and the Finely Tuned Universe), and the history of science (textbook misinformation).
He then lets us hear Behe and the others answer, point by point, the charges
of their critics.
Woodward concludes with a promise: that the wedge ID has driven into Darwinism
will soon (“by 2025 at the latest”) split open the “aging
paradigm” of “nature-driven macroevolution.” New naturalistic
paradigms will spring up to take the place of Darwinism, but he argues that
these new paradigms will be less rigidly defined and will allow for the parallel
growth of ID research that accepts microevolution (adaptation) while insisting
on the need for design.
Although well organized and uniformly engaging, Darwin Strikes Back badly
needs a timeline that can double as a bibliography. Woodward is most helpful
in documenting ID responses to what I consider the most successful anti-ID
book of the last decade, Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s
God (1999), but he needs to devote more than two pages to answering the
critiques of Evangelical and Catholic Darwinists who argue that God initiated
the universe but subsequently refrained from intervening in nature.
Still, these are minor concerns. Darwin Strikes Back offers both
a unique, rhetorical history of the ID versus Darwinism debate and an accessible
primer on how proponents of ID may best defend their position. Club”.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Khuzami is leaving the Securities and Exchange Commission after leading the agency's efforts to penalize the nation's largest banks for actions that triggered the 2008 financial crisis.
Khuzami was named enforcement director in February 2009, just months after the crisis peaked. In his four years at the helm, he spearheaded investigations that accused banks of misleading investors about risky mortgage securities.
His efforts drew large SEC settlements. Goldman Sachs agreed in July 2010 to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges. Similar deals followed with Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and others.
Critics have said the penalties were a small compared with the banks' revenue and no senior executives were held accountable.
Khuzami is stepping down within a month of former SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro's departure from the agency.
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Welcome to the first "The Week in ID Checks." Each Friday from now until the election, I will be keeping track of where and how many times I am asked to present government issued photo identification during the week as Attorney General Eric Holder continues his quest to squash Voter ID laws across the country. Now, I am well aware the argument that the following activities are not constitutional rights will be made (voting is a right), but the point is, when I am asked to present photo identification it is simply because I am required to prove who I say I am. Should voting be any different considering it is more important? Nope. Not to mention, this project will be an example of how any American cannot efficiently function or do basic everyday things without government issued
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Songstress Keri Hilson lays down vocals for ‘Freedom Ride’!
The cut, lifted from the ‘Think Like a Man’ soundtrack, is a clappy number layered with piano melodies and some electric strings. On the song, the singer puts on the emotional tap while lamenting on the loss of her relationship (to another woman). Before the split, they travelled on the freedom train of sorts making a pact not to let it ruin what they had. Turns out, she stuck to her end of the deal, and well, he didn’t, leaving the singer absolutely heart broken. ‘Freedom Ride’ is a very solid track and her vocals have really picked up over the years. The musical compilation will be available from April 10th, while the movie hits the big screen on April 20th. Take a listen to Keri’s heartfelt track about lost love, after the jump!
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The leaves are turning and we've been seeing roadside signs for haunted hayrides and corn mazes. It might just be time for some spooky music. This record is a bit of a dark horse as I had never heard of it until recently. But it's a gorgeous little album of how should I say... noir exotica? There are hypnotic organs and flutes, chiming mallet instruments and a particular electric bass guitar sound that I like to call "punchy." This music is way, way ahead of its time, as if it were meant to have been buried and re-discovered somewhere in Bristol or Birmingham in the mid-1990s.
Good stuff. Reminds me of Peter Thomas' soundtrack for Raumpatrouille Orion.
cool, i don't think i've heard that.
Noir exotica? Nice!
@Ben, oh you should check it out. Essential space exotica.
And (in the main theme) also probably the first recorded use of a Vocoder in pop music, as I just read in Dave Tompkins' epic book about the history of the vocoder.
Well, if you had to write scores for future dances like this one in 1966:
@dispo - thank you VERY much for recommendation!
It is always time for spooky music. Always.
And yes, it is awesome. The soundtrack for black cars driving down foggy roads strewn with yellow leaves. Thank you!
Sir, this is marvellous.
But I must know more.
Principally:
1. Where did you find it?
2. What year is it from?
3. The artist is listed as P. Reno - is this correct?
Any help would be much appreciated.
I think the record is from 1969. Half of the tracks are by P. Reno and the other half by Reg Wale.
this is marvelous indeed! i love it. it's been ages since i've heard a library lp as good as this. moody, introspective and oozing with raw emotion. i live for this kind of music right here. thank you for sharing this.
INTERESTING!!
Peter Reno is two dudes. I knew it was linked to Dawn of the Dead somehow!
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Ticket #137 (closed defect: fixed)
Time zone name wrong in waterfall header (says I'm in DST when I'm not)
Description
Here in November in the US Pacific Time zone, we're currently observing standard time (PST). However, the header of the waterfall display says it's PDT.
In status/web/waterfall.py, function "body", around line 503:
TZ = time.tzname[time.daylight]
Should be:
TZ = time.tzname[time.localtime()[-1]]
It turns out that time.daylight only tells you if the region you're in observes DST at some time of the year; if you want to know whether or not DST is *currently in effect*, you need the last item of the localtime time tuple.
Twisted's log.py also makes this mistake, causing log.msg to report the time wrong in the twistd.log(s).
A similar fix is probably needed in tests/tests_web.py, line 235 (Class Waterfall, def _check1)
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by warner
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
- Milestone changed from undecided to 0.7.7
fixed, in [299b025cf104687122a8121e93662298e769920d]. Thanks!
ahh.. that probably explains a lot of the confusion I've experienced over the last few years.
thanks!
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5-2011
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Education
Major Professor
Richard Allington
Committee Members
Allison Anders, Anne McGill-Franzen, Trena Paulus
Abstract
Teacher effectiveness has been a rallying cry for education reform over the last decade. The push for policies that aim to increase teacher effectiveness, fire ineffective teachers and recruit or retain effective teachers unite educational stakeholders; yet, specific, operational definitions of effectiveness remain elusive and divisive. It is easy to say that teacher effectiveness is the single most important factor in student achievement, but difficult to say what it means to be effective. In this study I take up a Critical Discursive Psychology (Wetherell, 1998) approach to the text of the current Framework for Teacher Evaluation and Professional Growth in Tennessee and the talk of the Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee (TEAC)– a 15-member committee appointed to craft a new evaluation policy with Race To The Top funds under the First To the Top Act. My findings suggest that there are polarized interpretative repertoires available for talking and making sense of effectiveness in teaching. These ways of talking about teaching create conflicts and dilemmas within conversations that are managed in patterned ways. Within the talk of the TEAC, patterns in the way dilemmas are managed within conversations include evading and dividing decisions points in ways that support a self-extending system of education reform. My findings suggest that teacher effectiveness is constantly being constructed within conversations, rather than being a single idea that can be singularly and authoritatively defined and handed down. As such I argue that teacher effectiveness policies must purposefully engage individuals at all levels of policy and practice in ongoing conversations about effectiveness in teaching and the evaluation of teaching in order to mediate the unintended consequences of tools for evaluation, and to develop a shared vision of excellence for collaborative progress.
Recommended Citation
Gabriel, Rachael Elisabeth, "Tennessee teacher evaluation policies under Race To The Top: A Discursive Investigation. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2011.
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So here we are in Manila.
I tell you what, I haven’t had a chance to scratch myself since we got here. It’s been crazy, manic, hectic from the word go.
Within the first ten minutes of being here I nearly got ran over by a motorbike as we walked (ran) down the side of the traffic laden street.
I mean I had to turn my body sidewards, against a parked truck and suck both my belly AND my breasts right in to avoid being hit. Don’t ask me how you suck your breasts IN, but believe me it’s possible.
But even BEFORE that I had the biggest major anxiety provoking experience…
Landing in Thailand (We stayed there overnight before coming to Manila)
So…there we were, after eight looooong hours about to land. My favourite part. Yay! I get to put my feet firmly back on the ground where they belong.
So we’re descending, ears popping, chewing gum like mad, looking excitedly out the window as the ground is coming closer (when you can see past the smog that is.)
The houses are looking like little lego houses, tiny cars are coming into view on little weeny roads….rice fields (I don’t know….wet fields of something they looked like) patchworking the landscape…and there is the runway, aaaaand we’re almost there….I’m just waiting, holding my breath waiting for the inevitable bump as the plane touches the ground……aaaaaand…..VRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
What?
We’re going up?
Wait?
Oh SHIT!
We’re zooming up into the air again….
Christ!
Are we going to make it?
What about the tail?
What’s happening!!!!!!!
Umm….there was another plane in the way.
In the bloody way. A great big airbus taking it’s merry old time down there on the runway… MY runway, where I want to be safely set down on the ground THANK YOU, and it’s right in the path of the plane I’m trying to land in.
Can you imagine?
I’d never imagined that scenario….or the feeling of that roar of power when you’re actually still suspended in the air!
Man! What a truly frightening feeling.
Probably quite ok, for the pilots to, at the very last minute, pull the nose up and roar back up into the sky, but quite freakishly- almost need a change of underwear- nightmarish for me!
So where was I?
Oh yes, getting run over by motorbikes.
I’ve figured out, by watching the locals that to cross a road here you just have to walk…cars don’t stop you see. Pedestrian crossings? Na…purely for decoration.
So you just have to pick a moment, and GO…and do NOT hesitate, for he who hesitates, is…. no more.
Somehow, the cars and jeepneys, buses and motorbikes will dodge you. Not you dodge them…you just walk and God is with you.
Something like that.
God is with me anyway. “Oh God, oh God, ohhhhh God!”
Better still is if you cross with a whole bunch of other people.
Like lemmings, all running towards the cliffs edge.
Somehow, you just join in….and the cars swerve round the lemmings.
It’s absolute madness.
Everybody in a vehicle here honks their horns.
I don’t think they told the Philippino’s what the horn was actually for.
Nah…they’ve made up their own rules.
Honk if you’re impatient.
Honk if the light is red.
Honk if the light turns green.
Honk if the traffic is congested.
Honk if the road is completely clear.
Honk if you’re happy.
Honk if you just farted.
Honk ….just because.
I tell ya, it is driving me INSANE, and what is driving me even more insane is that this apartment we are renting, is eleven floors up, and if is as though we are on ground level and there is NO glass in the windows.
It is SO loud, and all we can hear is the incessant…..honking.
The good thing about it being so incredibly noisy here is that you can fart in public and nobody at all can hear it.
Everybody’s honking!
And there are bad smells drifting in and out of gutters and alleys and out of street food carts….so nobody is the wiser.
Hey, there’s always a bright side.
The kids have taken it all in their stride, I’m pleased to say.
We haven’t had to scrape their jaws off the ground too often, but there have been some experiences thus far that have been a little bit….nerve wracking.
I’ll leave those for further blogging when we get back.
The one child (grown child – my eldest daughter who is back home taking care of the pets and house while we’re away) is NOT coping well.
Actually she’s quite traumatized by the paranormal activity going on there.
She’s just moved back home see, from Western Australia. She’s never stayed at this new house before, but has been quite self sufficient and independent for quite some time now. Quite used to living alone.
Now she knows.
Now she KNOWS.
She’s been hearing and sensing it.
The ghost!
We’re seriously going to have to do something about this situation when we get back.
Just a quick blog for tonight.
I have to be up early to go to have my new porcelain crown fitted. Yes, visited the dentist….all is going well except for when the temporary one fell out as we were sitting in a public place having coffee- right before we were about to go to dinner. (Front tooth….nothing under it but a homeless person looking stump)
I could slip it back in, but to eat with it all just “sitting” there like that would be impossible. I’d swallow it!
The kids were impatient, and hungry.
“Mum just take it out and put it on the table while you’re eating then put it back in when you’re finished!”
I don’t think so! Not there in hoity toity central with millions of well groomed, fancy shmantsy folk around.
So it was a rushed taxi trip back to the dentist so they could cement it back in.
I’m grateful they GAVE me something temporary for a few days while the porcelain one is being made.
In Australia you either walk around with homeless person looking stumps or else pay an exorbitant fee for a temporary more aesthetic fully toothed look.
(Actually, in Australia unless you have loads of money to throw around, you’re usually stuck for good with the homeless person stumps.)
I think it was the incredibly bumpy boat ride the day before that worked that damn temporary tooth loose.
Lucky I didn’t lose it as we battled waves, and buckets of water being thrown in our faces….
More about that….exciting boat ride later.
Now….will the dodgy internet connection let me actually connect long enough to post this?
That is the question.
Yes the dodgy internet worked. I know what you are saying about temp crowns fitted and coming out – I have so been there. Amazing you have had the time to write a post! A window with no glass WTF? Do yo have ants – they have ants- they like beds… juz sayin’
Hysterics with the Honk if you just farted….takes me back reading this – not because of the farts mind… but what you are experiencing. Enjoy and hopefully the crown remains in place!
All good now. Permanent crown is fitted and feeling much better
I can eat without worry now.
Just sounds like they don’t because the traffic noise is SO loud!
No,,,the windows HAVE glass
I’m actually feeling a bit homesick! Craving some peace and quiet.
Wow
sounds worse than getting around Rome.
And I can honestly say that I hope that they never realize the medium of smell-o-rama.
Another close call hey?
I tell you, somebody is watching out for you.
And another thing, what makes you think that “it” the ghost is a malevolent spirit?
This is your friend’s house, yes?
Call me crazy (which should probably be my middle name) but my gut (which is also not without merit) tells me that it is looking out for you and those you love.
Hope those new pearly’s don’t effect your singing voice.
Sorry but the mention of coffee and dentistry always reminds me of the movie “10″ with Dudley Moore.
You didn’t happen to be looking at any hunks while you were drinking your coffee did you?
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Chassis
» Kenworth shows concept van
Nov 1, 2011 12:00 PM,
By Rick Weber
This concept truck from Kenworth is designed for improved aerodynamics. It is based on a European-built cabover chassis and a PACCAR van body.
KENWORTH unveiled a prototype-concept truck that integrates a European-style cabover chassis with its own van body to produce a Class 6 and 7 truck with enhanced aerodynamics.
“This has been tested, and I will tell you it has definitely shown fuel improvements over your standard box,” said Doug Powell, medium-duty marketing manager. “A lot of work has been done to prove this out, and a lot of real-world testing has been done to prove this out.”
It has a North American chassis with 34-inch frame-rail spacing, PACCAR PX-6 engine, Allison automatic transmission, Horz X-over exhaust, and five wheelbase options from 166 to 214 inches.
The frame rails will be 9⅞" × ¼" 120K steel, or 10¼" × ¼" 120K steel. It has a 45-gallon rectangular fuel tank located on the left side, with the 6.6-gallon rectangular DEF tank just behind it.
The cab has an 82.5"-wide interior space to cater to three people, and comes standard with an air-suspended driver's seat and a passenger bench seat with storage underneath.
Kenworth also has introduced NavPlus, which is now available for order on Kenworth Class 5-8 trucks.
NavPlus, a PACCAR proprietary navigation and business technology system, is standard on Kenworth steer clear of restricted roads and streets.
It.
NavPlus also offers audio controls (including satellite-enabled radio, AM/FM, CD, MP3 and USB), and camera inputs for up to four optional video cameras for monitoring the truck and trailer. An optional cellular modem allows drivers to connect to Sprint, which provides mobile connectivity services, meaning that means when the truck is parked and not in motion, the driver can access the Internet to look up favorite websites to search for loads, news and weather updates, and check personal email.
NavPlus and all of its features and benefits now are showcased on a special Kenworth NavPlus Website () that offers a six-minute video that explains and demonstrates how it works. The website's interactive feature enables fleet managers and drivers to discover the system's capabilities by clicking through the key menus and icons on the NavPlus system's dashboard screen.
The new website also includes a downloadable NavPlus online brochure, operating manual, Garmin navigation users guide, Sprint Broadband information and phone compatibility guide, and diagnostic guide.
Two other new products:
Neway ADZ rear suspension from SAF-Holland for heavy-duty and severe-duty applications.
“The big advantage is substantial weight reduction,” said Alan Fennimore, vocational marketing manager. “Neway was able to come back and take out almost 250 pounds per axle out of the suspension over the current axle.”
The ADZ suspension is for typical heavy-duty applications, such as construction trucks, loggers, and fire apparatus and emergency vehicles. The suspension also is for severe-duty applications where heavy vertical loads, high gross combination weights, high-torque drivetrains, high center of gravity loads, and significant off-road travel are expected.
Available in 23,000-pound and 26,000-pound. A new integral lower control arm module provides improved roll stability for high center-of-gravity load vehicles.
Kenworth is offering the Neway ADZ series suspension for the Kenworth C500, T440, T470, T800, and W900.
Fabco power take-off option on the two-speed transfer case for all-wheel drive Kenworth T270 Class 6 and T370 Class 7 models.
Kenworth says it is the first in the industry to offer a factory-installed PTO output drive on the transfer case on a medium-duty chassis.
It 3500 rpm.
The PACCAR van body includes a translucent roof. Note the slight curve to the roofline, a feature designed to smooth airflow.
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We want to make it easier for you to choose the best when you go up into the mountains. Therefore we have developed different sets of UIAA standards for organisers and producers. This way you can make sure that your mountaineering equipment has passed safety tests and that a guidebook is easy to use. Or you can check that the company which arranges your expedition is environmentally friendly or the organisers of your climbing course are up to international standards. Look for the UIAA logos!
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2x01 Super-visor
February 3, 2011 10:30 pm
Tania's having a bad day. Darrel's living in the office, Gloria's winding her up, Asif's running away to Wales, Shelley's flat-hunting and Kenny's kissing strange girls and drawing pictures. The post room is in chaos and it's Tania's first appraisal as supervisor. Asif is so stressed that he enlists evil Charlie's help in convincing his family that he is a top lawyer. They want him to sue the optician who sold faulty glasses to his Auntie Reena. Can Tania pull it all together, pass her appraisal and get back on board the Kenny boat before it sails for good?
2x02 Monkey Love
February 10, 2011 10:30 pm.
2x03 Smoke and Mirrors
February 17, 2011 10:30 pm
Shelley wakes up in the office with the hangover from hell, annoys the other monkeys all day and smells terrible. Kenny and Tania's sex life is under scrutiny when Tania lets slip to Gloria that they didn't spend the previous night together and rumours fly through the office. Darrel's counter-espionage only makes things worse and his relationship advice for Asif, who has a crush on the office flower girl, isn't working. And there's a limo in Mike's personal parking space, so he's going up the wall.
2x04 Dream a Little Dream
February 24, 2011 10:30 pm
Kenny is back from a week on tour with the band for which he does photos and flyers. Tania has missed him, but Asif has missed him more. Tania has planned a motivational exercise involving hats and five-year life plans which puts the fear into Kenny. Is this it? Work, marriage, kids then death??
2x05 Who's the Daddy
March 3, 2011 10:30 pm
Darrel’s estranged dad, Pat turns up doing odd jobs at Fox Cranford. Pat soon spots an opportunity to find a new home at Darrel and Shelley’s flat having been kicked out by his ex. Shelley sees Pat for the unreliable self-obsessed tit that he is and verges on the point of violence. It’s a big day for Asif – if he passes his driving test he’s been promised a new set of wheels by his dad. And Kenny is stressed because everyone thinks he’s boring now he’s settled with Tania and sets out to prove them wrong.
2x06 Big Trouble in Little Cranford
March 10, 2011 10:30 pm
It’s Fox Cranford’s 30 year anniversary, but the celebration is a damp squib involving Gloria’s home made cake. Kenny’s panic stricken when he mistakenly thinks that Tania is pregnant, Mike’s on the verge of meltdown, the firm’s going under and the icy Miss Fox, a silent partner, is on the prowl - busting balls and sorting out the firm’s inefficiencies. Tania and Shelley decide to hold a proper party to cheer Mike up. Kenny’s in charge of the food and drink and with Darrel and Asif’s help it quickly goes pear-shaped. Will Mike top himself? Is Shelley pregnant? Or is it Tania?
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In The News
Shuster & Rice Op-Ed: Port Critical to Economy
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The Stunt Pilots Misread Their Gauges
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The FAA Strikes Again, the FAA Brags
The Federal Aviation Administration claims the sequester spending cuts are forcing it to delay some 6,700 flights a day, but rarely has a bureaucracy taken such joy in inconveniencing the public.
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Flying the Government Skies
As travellers nationwide are learning, the White House has decided to express its dislike of the sequester—otherwise known as modestly smaller government—by choosing to cut basic air traffic control services.
Flight Delays as Political Strategy
The FAA furloughs traffic controllers rather than cut other spending
GAO Recommends a Halt to 11 Courthouse Projects
Shuster Op-Ed: Waterway, Port Investments Are Vital to Louisiana and the Nation
Chairman Shuster discusses the importance of maintaining and improving our ports and waterways
Shuster Op-Ed: Efficient Transportation System Is Crucial to Economy, Way of Life
Chairman Shuster writes about the economic importance of infrastructure, the federal role in ensuring that the United States is connected by an efficient transportation system, and the Committee's priority of passing a Water Resources Development Act to improve our system of ports and waterways.
Shuster & Thune Op-Ed: The FAA’s unfriendly skies
Shuster and Thune outline concerns with the Administration's sequester plan, which appears designed to inflict pain on the flying public.
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Martinis Above Fourth
+1 619 400 4500
Neighborhood: Hillcrest/Uptown
Overview.
- Open Hours: Tuesday to Thursday from 05:00 PM to 11:00 PM, Friday to Saturday from 04:00 PM to 12:00 AM
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Cafe Abir
At Divisadero Street
+1 415 567 6503
Neighborhood: Alamo Square
Overview
Graduate students, artists and intellectuals frequent this cafe/health food store. They relax over mugs of beer, cups of tea and glasses of wine, discussing the world's problems and the plans for the evening. Once at the cafe, grab a beer and find a table as soon as you can. Once in the groove, you will start to feel yourself getting back to your Bohemian roots. The mood is mellow and the atmosphere is friendly, from the budding political scientist at the next table to the counter staff. Call ahead for more details.
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by Shahrum Sayuthi and Siti Norabsah Juswar
JOHOR BARU, MALAYSIA - The Legoland Malaysia theme park project came closer to realisation with the selection yesterday of the first batch of model builders.
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Advantages Spectacular critters, well cared for
Disadvantages They looked a bit bored - someone get them a TV
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Italy
Things to see and do
Organise your stay
Marmolada :
Nearby tourist sites
Nearby hotels
La Locanda del from45 €Book
Hotel Valentino from70 €Book
Hotel De Paris from47 €Book
Things to do nearby
Chianti Wine Tasting Tour
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Gondola Serenade with Live Music
Nearby Restaurants
Miky's Grill
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Alpenrose
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Marmolada
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Marmolada
: Michelin's recommendations
This massif (3 342m) is famous for its glacier and very fast ski slopes. From Malga Ciapela, a cable car will take you up to a belvedere perched at 3 265m for some of the best views of the Dolomites. You will be able to see the Cortina peaks (Tofana, Cristallo), the Sasso Lungo, the enormous Sella massif and in the background the summits of the Austrian Alps including the Grossglockner.
Useful Information
- Phone : 0437722277
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5 Great things to do in Stockholm for free
There are only a few cities in the world that carry the historic pedigree of Stockholm, and certainly not very many this far north that have played such an important role in the evolution Europe. The earliest records of the name ‘Stockholm’ is from when the city was founded in 1252, but as far back as the 10th century a Norse settlement on the same spot called Agnafit was a major hub in the iron trade. Throughout the centuries the city has played a vital strategic role in the region, and today is one of Europe’s great cultural, political, financial and tourist hubs.
Of course, major European capitals are not known for being cheap to visit, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty you can do without spending much money. In fact, Stockholm is known for its beautiful architecture, clean air & water, and many municipal attractions that mean that there’s plenty to do even if you don’t want to spend a cent! Here are five things you can do in Stockholm for free that will still allow you to soak up the atmosphere, appreciate its beauty, and get to know the local culture a bit closer.
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oh my goodness hello everyone!
my 6 year old trey says i don't "look like a tortured woman anymore," and i am so glad about that :o)
i am slowly getting better and it feels so amazing.
my 6 year old trey says i don't "look like a tortured woman anymore," and i am so glad about that :o)
your prayers, comments, and emails have meant so much to me.
i am getting soooo close to being able to blog again.
but for now, i have something for you i am SO excited about.
do you remember d!
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE:
1- Pick ONE fabric for straps (black, brown, white).
2- Pick TWO fabrics for each side of the main body.
2- Pick TWO fabrics for each side of the main body.
"Such a BEAUTIFUL carrier! I am so so so excited to wear it to our play group today. I feel like I need to dress up just to match how pretty it is. I LOVE it.... it really is gorgeous and so well made! It's so cute and I feel all fancy wearing it... I love my Ergo, but never realized how informal and shabby it looks now! :)" - Wendy in El Cajon, California
"I absolutely love this Mei Tai and so does my daughter! I'm glad I finally found a carrier that she likes and feels comfortable in. I love, love, love the fabric!" - Amber in Tomball, Texas
"Got my Mei Tai today in the mail. I LOVE IT!!! It's so pretty and the quality is excellent! Thank you!" - Liz in Ontario, Canada
"This is a great carrier! I love it even more than my ergo. So pretty too! And I love the flower headband you sent, I wear them together and feel like a "pretty" mommy for a change." - Luana in San Diego, California
i have seen her carriers in person, she is a perfectionist, and her work is amazing!
(me and dani last year :o))
good luck!
i will be back to you soon i promise!
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Wow, I'm soooo IN!!
SO cute! I'm totally in! I love her choice in patterns and colors!
P.S. Glad you are feeling better!
These are gorgeous! I'm in :)
I am in! I would love to win! So glad to here you are doing a bit better.
GAH! This is perfect for me. We have worn out our mei tei! I so need a new one!!! yaaa! So I am for sure IN!
I'm in ( : my little one would look like a doll in one of those!
Adorable! I'm in!!!
I love these! I am definitely in.
glad you are coming back!!!
and I'd love one!
I am so in!! Love them!!
Glad you are feeling better! You will continue to be in our prayers. Take Care and Be Well!!
So glad you are feeling better! These are absolutely GORGEOUS!! I just had my second son 3 weeks ago, and this would be a perfect way to keep my hands free while chasing my 2 year old around. LOVE IT!
I am in. I don't have little ones anymore, but would love to give this to one of my friends who is going to have one.
So glad you are feeling better! I'd love to be entered for the giveaway. Those carriers are gorgeous!
I'm in. Amazing! I'm so happy you are feeling better.
So glad to hear that you are starting to be among the living again!! :o)
I was planning on making my own Mai Tai for our little one on the way, but I like the idea of having someone make one for me!! Especially one as cute as these!! Thanks for the giveaway. Hope you continue to feel better everyday.
I would love one...count me in!
I'm so glad you're starting to feel better! :) How wonderful! and I'm absolutely in! They are beautiful!
Wow those are amazing! My husband and I are expecting our first child through adoption and I would love one of these! Count me in! Glad you're feeling better!
Me, me, me! I'm in!
I'm SO IN! I have been playing with the idea of making one of these, but I'd much rather win one :-)
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Love this!!! cutest one i have seen yet. count me in!!!
So happy you're feeling better! And yes, I am IN - those are the cutest, and I definitely need one!!
I am totally in! And I hope you get feeling ALL BETTER SOON!
I'm in! Expecting #3 in May...this would be awesome. :) glad you're slowly feeling better...hope you're back soon!!
Would LOVE to win one, I am having #3 in 8 weeks!n
I am IN!!! Thanks for the giveaway :)
I'm SO in! My sis is pregnant with her first, and this would be an amazing gift!!!!
SO glad to hear you're feeling better!!!
Let it be ME!!!! Please! Having a baby in July and this would be perfect. Glad you are improving.
i have been wanting one of these for a while now, love them! i'm in for sure! beautiful fabric choices she has!
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p.s. so glad you are doing better!
Ah.dorable! This would make a terrific baby gift for one of my great friends whose first will be here in August. She too has been on bed rest with complications. Glad you are getting better. I don't have to know you to pray for you!
These carriers are ABSOLUTELY adorable!!! They are beautiful! I'm so IN!
I'm in! these are so cute! i would love one! and im so glad you are starting to feel a bit better!
Oh my goodness, these are gorgeous! I am definitely in.
Ooh. I am in. I think one of my friends got one of those at her baby shower last year! They are awesome.
yes please! I am definitely in. So glad you are feeling better!!
For sure I am in! Do you know how many pounds they will hold? Thanks for the great giveaway!
-Brittany
Ooooh buddy, I'm in. Would LOVE one of these- they're gorgeous!!
I'm in! I'm in! Those are GORGEOUS!! I'm due in July and would LOVE one! Glad to hear you are feeling better. Can't wait for you to be back!
I would LOVE one of these...count me in!
I'm so in! Just found out i'm preggie with baby number 4 and still haven't found 'that perfect carrier'! This looks like it's the one:) Thanks for the info on Dani...think I'll be hitting up her Etsy shop soon:)
These are SO beautiful! I would LOOOOOVE one! ;)
me me me! i LOVE these! little baby's coming in september! glad to hear you're feeling better (or starting to) tanya. i've been checking your blog almost every day, hoping to see that you're back! :)
LOVE those!!! I'M IN!!!
Those carriers look awesome! Count me in!
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gorgeous!
Wow! Pick me Pick me!! What a great gift idea too!
Love it! Count me in too!
I am so glad you are starting to feel better!
Would love to win this.
She's alive! ;)
Love that you are blogging.
Henry is going to need this.
Love ya!
Love them! I'm in. Totally a better way to carry around an immobile one-year-old.
So glad you're feeling better! I'm due with #4 in 5 weeks, and it has been a very long and rough road!!!
I would love one of these carriers! They are Gorgeous!!!
INSANE AMOUNTS of 'IN' for me!
I'm SO glad you are feeling better!!! I don't even know you but I was worried about you and your family!
I"m so glad you're doing better. I can't imagine having to go through what you do!!! PS I'm definitely in!! :)
Glad to read that you are still alive!!! :) Hope you are 100% soon!
i hope i get randomly chosen. this would be a great gift!
Would love to win one for my little babe....glad to hear you are on the mend
i'm soooo happy you are feeling better!
oh, and of course i am IN for the giveaway! thanks mucho!
would love one of those carriers! such nice fabric choices.
I am so in, and I am so excited to see you blogging! We have missed you! Love these carriers, they are GORGEOUS!
These carriers are too cute! I'm definitely in!
What a great thing to win...I love all of the fabric choices!
Those are gorgeous!! So happy to hear you're feeling better!! =)
with #3 on the way I'd LOVE to enjoy this mei tei!!!
please pick me! I love the choice of fabrics and I need something cute to carry my baby in (and to inspire me to dress in something nicer than my "mommy uniform").
I am in it to win it!! Thanks!
First baby girl due in a month! I am in!
eeek! I'm so in!!!
I'm really happy your starting to feel better. I hope you keep getting well! :) Take care!
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These are adorable. I am in!! :)
I WANT one!! These are so gorgeous.
P.S. You dont know me, but I follow your blog. I have missed your updates and was very sorry to hear you are having such a hard pregnancy. I am glad to hear things are getting better.
Those look like they would be very comfy! I would love to use it with my 3 month old!
these are are so pretty! She is soo talented! So glad you are feeling better:D I would be honored to own one:)
I would live one of these for my 8 week old stud muffin!! Count me in. So glad you are doing better, best wishes.
Ooooo this will come in handy for my baby girl. I'm in for the drawing.
Prayers and blessings to you as you recover. Hope you are well soon!
I love it! So many polka dots to choose from :)
So beautiful! I would love to have one.
Glad you are feeling better!
Love the carriers!!!
I'm in! These are adorable :)
I'm in!! Love these, they are adorable
Glad you're almost ready to blog again :)
these are beautiful!
can't wait till you are posting more. So glad you are feeling better.
I would definitely love one of these. I've been wondering how I'm going to haul a newborn around while chasing a 20 month old outside this summer. This would be perfect!
I'm a foster mom to little babies and that carrier looks awesome!! I would love to own one!
Count me in!
But most of all, so glad you are feeling better. I don't know you personally, more of you from church in the Pacific NW and your blog, but reading your story made me feel for you. I am incredibly grateful that you are so willing to be a mother despite the challenges. You are a fabulous woman. Congrats!
how do you choose just one?
these are beautiful! thanks for the chance, i'm in!
Oh my I could use one of those so bad! I have a 3 month old that WILL NOT let me put him down!! I'm crossing my fingers! Thanks :)
I'm in, too! Those carriers are the shiz.
how cute, I've never seen one like this, I'd love to win such a beautiful piece.
So glad to see that your are feeling better and back to blogging! We're also expecting and would love a carrier! Great giveaway!
Tara
~A Mustard Seed Dream
I'm in!! This would be perfect for #3 due in May!
i love Dani! I met her a few months ago, and she's doing a giveaway over at my blog next month! love it!
can I win anyway, even though I know her!
I want one!!!!!
Very cute! I'm in!!!
So glad the "torture" is almost over!! I would love to give a Mei Tai to my sister who will be adopting her first baby in a couple of weeks. She would love it!!! Count me in!! Thank you!
Oh I would love one of these! I am due with my first in August :)
Hi,
I am glad you are feeling better!
We are both due in September. This will be my first and I would love to win.
Thanks,
Jessica
I am due in August and so in! Love it. (Plus my word verification is 'dhani.' What the...I should win:)
ohhhh! I am in! Love these
Sarah
I'm in! I love to read your blog! So glad u are feeling better..progress is progress... No kids for me yet, but we are trying! Love the carrier so beautiful, and what talent!
Oooh yes!! Pick me! :)
I would absolutely love one! They are so beautiful and look really comfy for both mom and the little one.
Would love to be entered please :)
Dani IS amazing. I wish we could see more of her and the beautiful family she has. I am in and in! If I don't ever win won of these I am for sure purchasing.....in the somewhat near future. :)
I'm totally in! And so excited to see you blogging!
I am IN! Such a beautiful giveaway! Love the choice of colors and patterns.
I'm IN!
These are so cute! Glad you are feeling better too!
Just found out two weeks ago I'm pregnant! I'd love to have one of these! kristina {dot} noall {at} gmail {dot} com
I'm in!
You can TOTALLY count me in. Gorgeous carriers!
So happy you are feeling better! I would love to win this, what a neat gift.
Pick me...Pick me!
It's good to see you blog again...I think about you all the time! Keep hanging in there...Love you tons!
Beautiful!! I'd love to give one of these to my sister-in-law, due in late July. :-)
Count me in!
wow! Beautiful carrier!!! I would love love love one! :-)
ps - Welcome back! I am so happy you are starting to feel better.
I am in! Beautiful!
I AM IN...they look AMAZING, she is surely talented ;-)
Thanks for the give away! I am in- because they are super sweet!!
I'm in!! These carriers look amazing!
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Oh I am in!!! They are so DARLING!!
OH my goodness; I'm in! These are the cutest baby carriers I've ever seen! We just found out we're expecting #2 so we will definitely be needing one of these!
LOVE IT, her fabrics are awesome & I would love to carry my little one in it!
I am in!! Those carriers are so adorable! Way cuter than the ones in the store!!
So glad you're feeling better!!
I would love a carrier for my new little boy!
I LOVE the fall leaves fabric! What a beautiful way to carry a baby.
I'm in! Would love this!
How awesome- and beautiful!
Glad you're feeling better, too!
--Joanna
These are awesome!! I'm in!
SO glad to hear your doing better. Im sooo in!!
Count me in! They look amazing!
This would be great for my BFF's baby shower coming up soon!
it would be perfect for my sis. thanks for hosting the giveaway
I'm in!!! So glad you are starting to feel better.
Those look amazing! I love that she is showing an older baby it it!
I would LOVE one of these. Dani is amazing! She makes amazing stuff and i am always in awe of what she does. Whoever wins this is very lucky.
I'm in! those are beautiful!
This is perfect timing!! :] I am hunting for a perfect carrier as it's been 5 years since I've needed one.
These are just gorgeous!!
Thanks for the giveaway and am SO glad to hear your are feeling better!!
Sounds Awesome! I am def in :-)
Glad to see you're on the mends! Thanks for offering this giveaway :) I'm in!
Those are cute :) I'm in!!
I am in! With baby 2 on the way Im definitely going to need one of these and they are so beautiful!!
Wow, those are beautiful. I am having our second child in July and would so need one of those! Praying that you just keep getting better and better!
I'm in!
oooh... I've been wanting to try one of these. If I don't win, maybe I'll just add it to my ridiculously growing registry list. haha
I'm grateful things are getting better for you! Hope you continue to improve. I'd love to be included in the drawing!!
so glad you're feeling better..
my little one has outgrown her sling and i would love to win one of these. :)
I am so glad you are starting to feel better, I was thinking about you today as I started to read blog and though, "I should tell her that even though I've never met her I really do think and pray for her" So there ya go!
And of course, I would love to win a carrier! I'm expecting my 2nd in June and that would be so nice to have!
I'm SO in. This would be a great baby shower gift for a friend =)
I'm totally in. I'm due in September and would love one of these.
Of course!! I'm in and they sure do look fabulous!
I am so in! What a beautiful carrier, would love one!
P.S. Been thinking about you, glad you are feeling better!
I would love to win one!
Having a baby in 4 months, I AM IN!!!
They are beautiful! Please count me in
Oh my goodness, do I need one of these. My one year old would love to be carried on my back.
Thanks for the fantastic giveaway.
Heather
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Bless your heart! The things we do for little babies! Glad you are doing better!
Count me in! I'll keep my fingers crossed!
super cute! sign me up :]
Love it!!!!! and it would come in handy with my new little one and toddler running around. Thanks!
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I just had baby boy #5 so this would be perfect. You can diff. count me in. Thanks a bunch!!!
So cute! I'm expecting a little girl (I have 2 cute boys) about a week before you are due :) I would LOVE one of these!
super cute! i would love one of those for baby #2 that is on the way:)count me in!
Oh my gosh, I am so happy to hear from you! I have been checking in on your blog every day hoping and praying that you have updated, you are in my thoughts pretty much daily. Sounds like I'm a weirdo but I'm not, just a crafty Mum of two like you. I would love to win the mei tai, can i enter even though I am in Australia? So glad you are feeling a bit better and not looking like a "tortured woman" :)
Grace
Oh wow! Please count me in Tanya! I mde a Mei Tai carrier for Asha, but Dani's design is SO much nicer! That would be so great to win!!!
Glad to hear you are getting better! I've actually wondered about you a lot since your last post and have hoped things were looking up for you! Excited to see you back here, but more than anything, just be healthy!
woo hoo! you are back! I said Yippy outloud at work when i saw you posed something. I am so glad you are feeling well enough to atleast blog a little.
as for the carrier, I am so in! these are awesome looking!
my friend says they are amazing - i would love to try it out!
Pick me, pick me!
I'm new to this blog and wow what a treat! These are BEAUTIFUL!!!
Yay for feeling better- I got excited when I saw a new post! ...and I'm totallyin, and is baby#3 ;)
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In! And now a follower, thanks to babble :)
These are so cute! i love everything in her shop too!
This is the one thing I have said I want for a next baby!
Count me in!
I'd love to have one of these for a future baby.
wow! i would LOVE one of these to carry my little dude around in! :)
stephanie.
These are so cute! I would love to carry my new baby girl (due in a few weeks) around in one!
Count me in!
Wow, those are BEAUTIFUL!!!! I'm in!
I am in too. Rosie and I would love to rock West Hollywood in one of her cute carriers!
I am sooooooooo IN! Those are awesome and I love the fabrics! Pick me!
I'm in, definitely YES!
So Cute! I would love to give this as a gift!
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I was thinking of getting an Ergo...but it looks like this is better! I'm in please!!!
pick me pick me random generator!!! :) i would love one for my new little guy coming in June!!
Oooh I'm in! Such a beautiful product, so darn crafty!
If it is not too late- count me in!
I would love one!! I'm in!!
I'd love to win!! I'd also love to do a giveaway on your blog if you like what I make! You can check my things out at:
I'd be happy to make something for your new one on the way!
I am in, in, in! Baby girl due in August needs this, since she's the fifth, and I am completely out of free hands at this point!
Holy smokes I would love the green damask with a solid green and white straps! Oh and hang in there! Smoochies!
Love these!!!! Very cute!
Glad you are feeling better, and hope you continue to :)
these are beautiful! i am definitely in!!
so glad that you are feeling better. i'm pregs right now also - i think i am due 5 days later than you :) i've been sick, but nearly as sick as you, and have thought on many occasions how difficult it must be to go through what you're going through.
sending continued love :)
- Jane
Oh I am so glad you are feeling better! I have been checking weekly for any sign! I would love a carrier. You should probably win it though!
I love these! My little girl loves to ride around with me and this would be a nice change from using a wrap.
Glad you're feeling better!
I LOVE this carrier- consider me IN!
I am so in. It looks fantastic!
I would love one! Thanks for sharing.
Ummm...me please! (It will make keeping up with my older two littles easier if I can carry my new baby in one!
like the material options! Would love to win it to carry my 5 mth old in!!
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Militant group says such misuse of technology violates teaching of Islam, tribal customs. PHOTO: FILE
The pro-government militant faction led by commander Mullah Nazeer has banned mobile phones with built-in digital cameras and memory cards in Wana – a subdivision of South Waziristan tribal region which is believed to be a stronghold of the militant leader.
The announcement, which was made through loudspeakers from different mosques, also warned that any tribesman found in possession of such a cellphone would be fined Rs15,000 and his device would be confiscated.
Prayer leaders and clerics in different mosques have also been asked to spread awareness amongst tribesmen in their Friday sermons about the camera phone ban.
The reason provided for this ban is that the misuse of such mobiles violates the teachings of Islam and tribal customs. Indian and Pashto songs on these phones were cited as an example. The ban is also being used to justify protecting the honour and dignity of tribal women to ensure no videos of them are recorded in violation of the purdah system in the area. There is only one mobile network inside the Wana Scouts camp and the adjacent localities of Wana subdivision.
In the past, the Mullah Nazeer group set ablaze several camera phones in Wana Rustam Bazaar, and warned tribesmen to avoid using these kinds of technologies.
Militants in Swat
Earlier, in Swat, three Taliban fighters were killed in an ambush with security forces in the Sarsardarey village of Manglawar union council late Friday night.
Security forces raided the location where militants were hiding following a tip by local residents, according to Swat Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesperson Col Zeeshan.
“Locals of the area informed security forces about some suspected militants in the area,” he said. “Following their tip-off the security forces cordoned off the area and raided the location, at which point militants opened fire on them. The security forces killed three militants,” the spokesperson told local media, adding that two short machine guns (SMGs), one pistol and ammunition were also recovered from the militants. He added said that the area has been cleared of the Taliban and there was no resistance from their side.
According to sources, the militants hail from an area located on the border of Buner district.
The new wave of target killing in the valley has resulted in the death of several peace committee members. As a result of the frequent attacks, security forces have beefed up their presence in sensitive areas and set up extra check points in those places as well. (WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY FAZAL KHALIQ IN SWAT)
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2012.
Makes sense. Capturing images renders a Burqa useless, isn’t it and hence, against Islam. Camera Phones can be used to capture images ergo BAD!
Music is generally considered un-Islamic and hence, these phones which have the ability to play music are against Islam.
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after operation in south waziristan and swat militants are still there and even more.Now we think for noth waziristan operation but the result will be again zero.Why not we leave American war of terror which damages everything in Pakistan.
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Hallelujah!
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Is it any wonder that this tribal belt is not progressing at all? When it is being run by these fanatics who are still living in the stone age. Bring on the drones.
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haha..cant stop laughing..mulla nazir group
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political parties crying on the sovereignty should give their views on such ban seizing the rights of citizen conferred on them by National constitution .or some territory of the nation is ceded
( assuming it temporary )
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These illiterate Useful Idiots are just making everyday life of civilians harder.. they wont let the construction of roads. They wont let cell phone towers, so that no one can communicate but they’ll be still able to communicate through their thuraya’s… May God guide them!
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RAW,CIA,MOSSAD conspiracy
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The story of Arab, camel and his tent is being repeated in Wana and it might soon spread to whole of Pakistan for which military is entirely responsible for supporting certain factions of Taliban who are well known for switching their loyalties later and fight the state itself. No lessons have been learnt from the Swat experiment where Taliban antagonized and oppressed the people by enforcing dracunian laws and Mullah Nazir too is following the same pattern by banning cell phones which would soon be followed by many more restrictions.
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“Pro-government militant faction led by commander Mullah Nazeer has banned mobile phones with built-in digital cameras and memory cards”
isn’t dr Rehman Malick rocking in the same boat as this lunatic???Recommend
Isin’t dr Rehman Malick rocking in the same boat as this lunatic?
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So why killing not banned
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Shame on those politicle analysts who don’t get tired of teling us the difference between good taliban and bad taliban.They are one and the same.Why we need them?-Check on democracy.
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Kash, the mullahs of this country were educated, and stressed same amount of importance to education as Holy Prophet(pbuh) did.
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@Osman:
So… Nothing but a vague reference to it?
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Which kind of donkies follow these molvies is beyond me.
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back to the 7th centry they go….lol
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What kind of ease does a camera-intact mobile bring to the already hardest lives of these tribesmen? At least they haven’t banned mobile phones themselves like our beloved good Taliban who’ve been blowing up phone towers in Afghanistan saying people inform security forces about Taliban activities via mobile phones.
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I too would be laughing at the absurdity of these laws made by the militants. But the truth of the matter is that they are directly affecting fellow Pakistanis ! When will we rid our land of such extremist fools who, for some reason, think that to be an Islamic society is equivalent to being a regressed society with no basic human rights, freedom of speech etc.
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@tommy troll trash:
You’re busted troll
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” The reason provided for this ban is that the misuse of such mobiles violates the teachings of Islam and tribal customs”
So the reason for the ban is misuse of mobile phones with camera. What about MISUSE OF RIFLES, SUICIDE BOMBERS & FORCE.? will such misuse be declared banned by them ? may we suggest them to USE THE BRAIN. We feel it is being MISUSED.
“The pro-government militant faction led by commander Mullah Nazeer has banned mobile phones with built-in digital cameras and memory cards in Wana’ — it is still in the memory that
all Militants were ONCE pro Government. ( till their ideology was supported ). With changed scenario their guns have been trained against the Government .
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Let me know when the Middle Age is over.
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2012 Events
Dr. Ikenna Okezie mentors next generation of leaders
Ambassador Beatrice W. Welters with Dr. Ikenna Okezie (left) and Chinenye “Chinny” Offor and Jason Emejuru
March 6, 2012: Dr. Ikenna Okezie visited Trinidad and Tobago from March 5-9, 2012 on the invitation of Ambassador Beatrice W. Welters. The Nigerian medical doctor, entrepreneur and a nationally recognized speaker was accompanied by Chinenye “Chinny” Offor and Jason Emejuru, also young motivational speakers.
Dr. Okezie has presented across the United States at health system board meetings and retreats, medical technology summits, investor conferences, national association meetings, and physician leadership retreats.
His visit to Trinidad and Tobago enabled him to speak to medical groups, youth and entrepreneurs about his experiences in building businesses, teaching about health and the importance of mentoring the next generation of leaders.
Among the groups meeting with Dr. Okezie and his team were medical professionals at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and Junior Achievement. A panel discussion was also jointly hosted with the American Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AMCHAM) on Young Business People and Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Okezie and his team also met with staff of the Embassy.
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The College ��'. ?V- VOLUME V. No 1. BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 2, 1918 .<�� Pri�6 Cents I TWO OF FACULTY WED Dr. Clarence Ferree, Professor of Psy- chology, and Dr. Gertrude Rand, Associ- ate In Psychology, were married In New York last Saturday (September 28th). No engagement had been announced. ,W. B. M. PROFESSORS' AVIATION TEST IN USE ON WE8TERN FRONT Device Worked Out During Summer in Psychology Laboratory The government Is now using in France for the testing of aviators a piece of ap- paratus devised by Dr. Clarence Ferree and Dr. Gertrude Rand Ferree of the Bryn Mawr Psychology Department. The purpose of the test is to measure the speed of adjustment of the eye for clear seeing at different distances. Dr. Ferree's services were enlisted by the government last June when he was called to Camp Mlneola and asked to work out a test dur- ing the summer. An aviator needs a supernormal eye, Dr. Ferree said in sta'tlng the probfom. He must be able In one Instant to look off and see objects In the far distance and In the next to read clearly the figures on his dial plate. If his eye fails to adjust itself instantly to the change of focus, he is un- fit for aviation. Aces in France Often Unfit This facility of adjustment varies not only with different individuals, but from day to day. Aces in France are on some days unfit to make a flight. By means of Dr. Ferree's instrument such cases can be Instantly detected and consequent fa- talities avoided. The device will also be used in this country in the selection of aviators. Throughout his tests, which he made chiefly on the graduate students and the college farmers, Dr. Ferree found no one over thirty with the requisite speed of adjustment. His test has proved inci- dentally an excellent one for astigmatism. The apparatus may be seen in the Psy- chology Laboratory. Dr. Ferree was urged by Colonel Wil- iner, commanding officer of the Medical Research Laboratory at Camp Mlneola. to take a commission in the U. S. Service. Last week Dr. Ferree was called down to Washington and asked to devise an eye test for naval observers and signal men on battleships to determine the acuity of their eyes at low illumination. REFUGEE GARMENT8 R. C. PROGRAM Must Be Made in Village Workroom No surgical dressings are to be made for the Red Cross in campus workrooms this year owing to the decision of the Red Cross abolishing small groups. Refugee garments will be made instead at the Main Line work rooms In the old Lancaster IniJ on Montgomery Avenue op- posite the Italdwin School. Workers there will havfc the advantage of experi- enced supervision. Later the necessary sewing marlines and equipment will be Installed in the campus work rooms. Sol- diers' gai menu may be taken from the Red Croat for mending. Free wi *�1 will be given out at the vil- lage worl rooms. A card catalogue will be kept f >r members of the college and strict regi ilations enforced. The Merlon work roof > will be open for the use of the knlttl" �* machines, and for the sale, at TS �ents a hank, of khaki, white and gray wool left OTsr from last year. SI8TER8 OF B. M. 8TUDENT8 WIN MATRICULATION SCHOLARSHIPS Robert E. Speer and Otis Skinner Have Daughters in 1922 (if the twelve sisters of alumnae or un- dergraduates among the entering class, two are matriculation scholars. Virginia Randolph Grace, scholar for New York, New Jersey and Delaware, is a sister of J. Grace '17. She was prepared by the Brearley School. Her average is 83.20. The other is Lillian Wyckoff, of Norwich Free Academy, who won the New Eng- land matriculation scholarship, awarded last year to her sister. D. Wyckoff "21. Her average was 76.35. The matriculation scholarship of the Western States went to Margaret Cros- bio, entering from the Northrup Collegi- ate School, Minnesota, with an average of 71.85. The first Bryn Mawr Chinese Scholar, Fung Kei Liu, enters college this fall. She was prepared by Miss Shipley's School. (Continued on page 6.) LIBERTY LOAN WAVE COMING Will Sweep Campus Next Week The campus Liberty Loan campaign will begin October 12th. On this date there will be a big War Council rally, with song-i. short speeches and an ad- dress by a member of the Main Line Lib- erty Loan Committee. Throughout the following week, the last week of the National campaign, there will be a vigourous drive on campus, un- der the direction of the Liberty Loan Committee of the College War Council. NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS One British and four French students have been awarded scholarships and have reached this country to study at Bryn Mawr. They are as follows: Miss Helen Isabella Wllkle. of Edin- burgh University: Master of Arts with Honours in English. Miss Denise Leredde, of Paris: Student of the Lycee Feneion and the College Savlgne. (Continued on page 3.) CHANGES IN THE FACULTY AND STAFF Dr. Huff, Professor of Physics, has been granted leave of absence for the year 1918-19 and Is doing war work in Wash- ington in the Bureau of Standards. His courses will be given by Miss Blake, who has been a demonstrator In the depart- ment for a number of years. Miss Nora May Mohler of Dickinson College, grad- uate scholar In mathematics last year, has been appointed Demonstrator In Physics for 1918-19. Dr. Crandall Is promoted to be Pro- fessor of English Composition. Dr. Gray has leave of absence to work in London for the Shipping Board. His courses will be given by Dr. Anna Line Llngelbach, who has collaborated with her husband, Dr. William E. Llngelbach. Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania, in his recently published book. Miss Dimon. Recording Secretary of the college, has a year's leave of absence. Dr. Anna Johnson Pell, Instructor and Associate Professor of Mathematics, Mount Holyoke College, 1911-18. becomes Associate Professor of Mathematics. Mde. Alice H. Beulin, Agregee des lettres, succeeds M. Vatar as Associate in French. Mde. Beulin Is well known as a writer in PariB. M. Vatar is working in Washington for the French Government. Miss Lanman will give the courses in Chemistry previously given by Dr. Cren- shaw, absent in France on war service. Miss Dunn continues as Acting Director of First and Second Year English Compo- sition, in place of Dr. Savage, absent on war service. Dr. Charles Wendell David, Instructor In History, University of Washington, 1915-18. has been appointed Associate Professor of History- Miss Carolina Marclal Dorado. A.B., In- structor In Spanish and Head of the Span- ish Department, Wellesley College. 1907- 11; Head of the Spanish Department of Glnn A Co.. 1917-18, will lecture on Span- ish. Dr. Margaret Steel Duncan '08. Asso- ciate Professor of Romance Languages. Temple University. 1914-17, will give the elementary French Course, some courses In Spanish, and will conduct the French tutoring classes. Dr. Mary Agnes Quimby '04 will give the si�atirr German Course and con- tutoring Dr. Rlddell, who taught Spanish last year, will conduct Minor. Major, and Graduate Courses In Italian. Miss Anne Besanzon. A.M.. Manager of Business Firm, 1903-11. Lecturer on Sta- tistics, Wellesley College, 1917-18. will give courses In statistics and industrial questions in the Carols Woerishoffer De- partment of Social Economy snd Social Research. Miss Marjorie Lome Franklin. A.M.. Li- brary Assistant, American Telegraph and Telephone Co., 1916-17; Instructor in Po- litical Science, Vassar College, 1917-18, will take one section of the Minor Course In Economics and Politics and give a graduate seminary in Municipal Govern- ment. Miss Helen E. Fernald, A.B.. Scientific Artist and Research Assistant, Columbia University, 1915-18, has been appointed Instructor in History of Art, and will give a new elective course In Chinese and Jap- anese Art. Mr. Malcolm Havens Blssell. I'hli. A.M., Assistant in Geography, Yale Uni- versity. 1917-18, becomes Associate in <;��- ology. succeeding Mr. Frank James Wright. Miss Margaret W. Watson, A.M., Law turer in German, Barnard College, 1917- 18, will be Instructor in English Composi- tion. Dr. Esther Parker Ellinger is ap- pointed Instructor In English ( omposi tion, and will assist Professor Donnelly in the first semester and direct a section In English Composition In the second se- mester. Dr. Marlon Hague Rea, A.B., Ml), has been appointed Assistant Resident Physi- cian. Dr. Rea was Superintendent of the Woman's hospital in Philadelphia in 1918 Miss Mary Ruth Almack. A.M.. and Istar Haupt '17, A.M. Bryn Mawr College, will be Demonstrators In Psychology. Harriet Hobbs '18 will be Demonstrator in Chemistry. Miss Dorothy Crane Is a newly ap- pointed Demonstrator In Athletics and Gymnastics. Miss Mary Neaiing 09, for two years Warden of Rockefeller Hall, has resigned and will be succeeded by Mrs. Webb I Vorys (Adeline Agnes Werner '14). Miss Bertha Ehlera '09 has also resigned as Warden of Denbigh Hall, but the vacancy is not yet filled. EVERY SttJDENT TO HAVE PART IN COLLEGE WAR SERVICE Nine Hours a Week Quota All students of the college, as It was voted at a mass meeting last spring, will be conscripted for nine hours of work per week; four of war work, three of recrea- tion, two of physical development. Registration will take place during the first week of college. Everyone will be offered a choice of war work and times for doing it. which will be followed as far as possible by the Conscription Board. Conscription plans worked out by D. Peters, chairman of the Conscription Board, are: Organization Each hall has a captain with seven minor officers under her. The captains: Rockefeller, L Wood '19; Pembroke WesL H. Holmes '20; Pembroke East, O. Hearne '19; Denbigh, A. Moore '19; Merlon, A. Warner '19; Radnor, E. Mar- quand '19; Llysyfran, E. Lanier '19. form a Conscription Board to decide upon all individual cases. The minor officers Include a student In each hall for Red Cross; one for Clerical Work; one for (Committees; one for Com- munity Center and other lines of work. Each officer will see that people In her division do not fall behind, and will an- swer questions concerning her line of work. Cute and Substitutions Illness will be the only acceptable ei cuse for failure to put In the nine hours of conscripted work .Substitution It to be limited. Thus, If a student who has signed for Tuesday night in the Red Cross room wishes tp ko on Wednesday, she may exchange with someone who goes on Wednesday. Her Wednesday appointment, however, may not be postponed further. (Continued on page 3.) BUSY SUMMER FOR STUDENTS Many Take Jobs, Chiefly War Work Vacation Jobs and summer school courses, ranging from the manufacture of munitions to work among the insane, claimed many undergraduates during the past summer. Most of the positions taken were connected with war work, par- ticularly farming. M. L Thurman '19 worked with the Woman's Land Army In Petersburg. Virginia. A. Thorndlke '19 tilled the soil In Massachusetts, and M. Peacock '19 and I). Rogers '20 cooperated In the running of a farm at Putney, Ver- mont. K. Woodward '21 and A. Taylor 21 Joined the Connecticut Land Army. C Hayman '19 worked In a Philadelphia leather factory, making shin guards for horses. A. Harrison '20, J. Cochran '20. and M. McDonald '21 manufactured muni- tions. M. Ballou '20, besides working in (Continued on page 4.) FRE8HMAN MINISTRY PEACEFULLY ELECTEO The Freshman committee which will run the class until the election of the president In the first week In November. in-cording to the plan worked out last year by 1920, was elected last night by the i man class In the gymnasium. The committee consists of Emily Anderson fi .mi the Brearley School. Katherine Gar- dener from Rosemary. Prue Smith from Mlsa Wheeler's, Catherine Stuart from the Columbus School and Margery Tyler tram the Sprlngstde School at H11L 98574
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TriReme was born in 1994, with a goal to improve software development within business.
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TriReme helped set up and partly owns Penrillian Ltd, (penrillian.com).
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always for the good guy...lawmanhowever the Rancher could go either way some good and some bad.outlaws are always the bad guys. ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com
That's a tough question because all three could be great characters in the story. I'd say I don't have a preference, IF the outlaw was a changed man and wasn't a "bad" guy.
Hello, I prefer rancher...yep I am all about the good life, safe at home type... Gods land is a gift just like our life, so what we do with it is important ... just my opinion... I hope to read this book ...
I think I will pick The Rancher. He has so many options ~*~ unless, of course, The Rancher is a woman! That would be a good story!! Conversion, growth, and knowing God's Word is always true, by example and not so much by spoken word. The seeker being confirmed, settled in and strengthened; lives changed. Everyone can come out to the ranch ~*~ passer-bys, cook-out including town's-people, weddings, stray cattle, so many happenings!lanehillhouse[at]centurylink[dot]net
Hi, Rhonda! I enjoyed reading about you and your book. I haven't read a western romance before (but I'd love to do so), but I think the lawman would be my favorite hero.
It's a toss up between a lawman and a rancher. I'd probably lean slightly toward the lawman though.Your book sounds great! please enter me. kimberlyj503(at)gmail(dot)comThanks!
I just like a good christian hero. If an outlaw can turn his life around by becoming a hero, that makes things interesting.wfnren(at)aol(dot)com
First of all thank you for drawing my name for the Midwife book. I can't wait to read it, I will watch for your email. Second - I prefer the rancher in historical books, I think it is because of all the hard work they do and how dedicated they are to their family. Thank you for a chance to win another book.griperang at embarqmail dot com
In historical books I prefer the hero be a lawman. He can protect the heroine.
I prefer a lawman or an outlaw turned good! I enjoy historicals because they give you a chance to imagine what life was like at that time.jennydtipton[at]gmail[dot]com
Hi Everyone!! Sorry I'm late. I had jury duty this morning and well... let's just say I can now tell you what the inside of a judges chamber's looks like.I love all three. In this book Seth is a US Marshal. In Eliza's story coming in Feb. 2013 Jackson is a Blacksmith. And in Hannah's story, the one I'm working on now Daniel is a Rancher. As you can see, I like strong heros. Thank you all for coming by :)
I love it when an author takes a character with flaws and shows us readers how he/she can be changed once God is in control. The bigger the flaws, the more exciting the changes. So I would enjoy reading about an outlaw who becomes a strong Christian hero. I already have The Marshal's Promise in my TBR stack, so please draw someone else's name.
Hey Rhonda!Great interview! I prefer a rancher, but I'm a guy so probably doesn't matter as much. Always love anything you write!
I have to say I like Ranchers and Lawmen equally. The outlaws not so much. dancealert at aol dot com
My first choice for a hero is a Rancher...followed closely by a Lawman! Not crazy about an outlaw being a hero!Loved the interview and this post! Blessings!Judysweetpea.judy(at)yahoo(dot)com
Lawman, Rancher or a [email protected]
Thanks everyone for stopping by. Trish thank you so much for having me, this has been really fun.Aw Aaron, thanks!Rhonda
Rhonda and Trish,Fun interview - I just won a copy of Short-straw Bride and I'm really looking forward to reading it.As far as a hero goes, I'm always intrigued by the outlaw, curious about the lawman, but give me the rancher, hands down. I think there's just something delicious about a man who loves wide, open spaces and doesn't mind spending time alone, a man who can build and repair anything, and who knows how to handle big animals. Strength, dignity, and doesn't feel like he has to prove it to anyone. Your book sounds wonderful - and I'm curious about your lawman :-). I'd love to win a copy!
I prefer an outlaw turned lawman. Thanks for the opportunity RO win!
I prefer when the hero is a lawman.This book sounds exciting.wildflowers386(at)yahoo(dot)com
Have no preference. I've read some with all those types of characters and enjoyed them greatly.Enter me please jrs362 at hotmail dot com
I guess I'm a sucker for a hero who has a second chance at life, a redeemed outlaw.:)worthy2bpraised at gmail dot com
Thanks for this chance to win this good sounding book. I would pick the Rancher as first choice. Maxie ( [email protected] )
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