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Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel, by Marshall Terrill (1993) TO ORDER THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. My Husband, My Friend, by Neil McQueen Toffel (1986) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. McQueen, by William F. Nolan (1984) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. Steve McQueen: The Pocket Essential, by Richard Luck (2000)TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. McQueen: The Untold Story of a Bad Boy in Hollywood, by Penina Spiegel (1986) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. Steve McQueen, The Final Chapter, by Ragsdale Grady (1983) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. Steve McQueen, The Unauthorized Biography, by Malachy McCoy (1975) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. Steve McQueen: Star On Wheels, William F. Nolan (1972) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. The Films of Steve McQueen, by Joanna Campbell (1978) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. The Complete Films of Steve McQueen, by Casey St. Charnez (1984) TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE. Steve McQueen William Claxton. 9"x12". 176 Pages. 100 Duotone and 20 four color plates. (ISBN:1-892041-37-5) $60.00. *From Arena Editions Website located at arenaeditions.com . Bentley Publishers announces the publication and availability of ex-racer and acclaimed motor sports photographer and author Michael Keyser's "A French Kiss with Death: Steve McQueen and the Making of LeMans: The Man, The Race, The Cars, The Movie." This exciting new hardcover book from Bentley is part celebrity biography, part motor sports and part movie making. There is also a comic book, the third in a very popular Belgian comic book series titled "Dossier Michel Vaillant" by Denis Asselberghs and Jean Graton. This book focuses on Steve McQueen and his obsession for racing. It contains many rare pictures of Steve McQueen racing both cars and motorcycles with comic drawings dealing with events from McQueen's life as well as the cars used in his films. Below is a picture of the cover. The Cooler King, by Dwayne Epstein. Fujico Miller (illustrator). Artesian Press; ISBN: 1586590618; (November 2000). This is a fiction book for school kids where Steve McQueen plays a very central role in the story. The book is part of series of books to help at-risk students learn how to read. TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM, CLICK HERE! 1 - McQueen - The Hero. (isbn 4-8261-0080-9 c0074 p2060e) This is a Japanese book in Japanese. Here we find many photos (color+b&w) of Steve taken from his films. 2 - Steve McQueen. (isbn 4-8261-0009-4 c0074 p1950e) The same kind of book as #1. 3 - Steve McQueen. (isbn 4-8261-1002-2 c0074 p1540e) Similar to #1 but b&w photos only. 4 - Steve McQueen. (isbn 2.85336.067.9) AFrench book by Francois Guerif collection "tetes d'affiche" editor : PAC this a book about his films and his life with some b&w photos. 5 - Steve McQueen. A French book by Francois Guerif collection "les grands acteurs" editor : j'ai lu cinema similar to #4. 6 - Au Nom De La Loi : La Legende d'un Anti-Heros. (isbn 2-87795-085-9) In French by Jacques Viallon & Fabrice Rende DLM editions this is a book about "Wanted: Dead or Alive" giving a general description of it plus a precise description of each episode (topic+casting). There are many books on McQueen, and all are very good. Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel, by Marshall Terril, seems to be one of the best, although each book contains information unique to itself. Not one to socialize with the Hollywood crowd, Steve asked Pat Johnson and his wife, along with a then unknown Chuck Norris and his wife, to attend an event with him and Ali. "Everybody who was anybody in Hollywood was there," remembers Johnson. It was a black tie affair, but McQueen showed up in a plaid Benetton lumberjack shirt, blue jeans, boots, and a long beard. Not once during the event did McQueen get up. Instead, everybody in the room came over to greet him like he was royalty. Says Pat Johnson, "The cream of the crop from Hollywood came over to Steve to shake his hand. Clint Eastwood, John Lennon... all came over to the table. It was like they were paying homage to him. They were all in awe of him. He was not in awe of anybody."

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Say, Allan (1993). Grandfather’s Journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Plot Description: A young man recounts his Grandfather’s journey from Japan to America, where he explores and never misses home. He loves California and brings his bride there and they raise a daughter in San Francisco. However, as time goes by, his Grandfather misses his homeland and longs to return to the country of his birth. When is daughter is almost grown he can no longer wait and moves his family to Japan. The young man remembers his Grandfather’s stories of life in America and the last time he sees him, he dreams of once more visiting America. The young man follows in his Grandfather’s footsteps-traveling to America and making a home there, but he still has a longing in his heart for Japan and must return when it gets too strong. Their shared experiences help him understand his Grandfather and miss him very much. Qualitative Reading Analysis: The text organization is clear and chronological. Illustrations directly support the interpretation and understanding of the text, but are not necessary for comprehension. The language is contemporary and familiar. It adheres closely to the reader’s linguistic base. The text is easy to understand and most is literal, though some inference is needed for the parts about the war and the songbirds. The sentence structure is primarily simple and compound, with some complex sentences. The theme is clear, but has some subtlety in the way it is conveyed. The experience of feeling torn between two homelands may be familiar to some immigrant students, but will not be common to others. Some cultural elements are conveyed through illustrations, such as the picture of Grandfather in his ‘European clothes’ as well as pictures in traditional Japanese clothes. There are no allusions to other texts. Key Ideas and Details: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). Curriculum Suggestions: Have students discuss their own travels (vacations, trips to see family friends or relatives, etc). How did they get there? How long did it take? How is the place different from their home? Have students read the companion book by the same author about the narrator’s mother’s story as a girl growing up in San Francisco and then moving to Japan. Compare and contrast the two stories and the characters feelings about their native and adopted lands. Character names/descriptions: Grandfather-he leaves Japan and goes out to see the world as a young man, then settles in California, but cannot stop the ache that he feels for Japan as he gets older. His Grandson narrates the story and has similar experiences. High interest annotation: Can your home be two places simultaneously?

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Former First Lady Barbara Bush recently passed away at the young age of 92. May she rest in peace. I can only pray to live that long.

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Please pray for the intentions of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, for the Church militant, for the suffering souls in Purgatory, for the poor sinners who started this blog, and for all of fallen mankind. Lord have mercy on us all. Please pray for the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, that their position in the Church may soon be fully normalised. Please pray for our young adult children, that God will protect them from the temptations and dangers of the world, lead them home to Mother Church, and bring them safely at last to Heaven. Please pray for my poor neglected wife and children, and for me, a bad dad. Please pray for the intentions of Fr Blake. Please pray for the trapped Chilean miners. I worry for their physical, mental and spiritual health, as they face four months of discomfort and isolation. Lord, hold them close to your heart. All the Angels and Saints, pray for them, and us all. Amen. Merciful God, we hold up to You all our lapsed, atheist and agnostic relatives and friends. We pray that they may come to know and love You and glorify You for all eternity. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint Monica, Saint Augustine and all Angels and Saints, intercede for them, please. Amen. Please pray for the people of Christchurch, who are facing the prospect of strong aftershocks following the main earthquake. Please also give thanks that no-one was killed. please pray for the Contemplative Sisters of St. John, dealing with internal strife and leadership issues; please also pray for the intentions of Sisters Mary Elizabeth and Mariam, who are walking the Way of St. James for the sake of peace in their community. Let us all pray for CP&S, that it might not become the playground of cynical nihilists and their ilk. And that Burro does not punch anyone so hard that they actually do die and thus get himself in a lot of unwanted trouble. And that Rabit will be all right from now on. And continue unassailed by nasty Oriental philosophy. Acherly, I rather like the sound of the cynical nihilists and their elk. Does the elk also like wearing a lampshade on its head? Thanks for your concern, Toad, but the rabit chap has successfully avoided being assailed by Oriental philosophy since about 1981, having flogged the dead horse of teenage oriental fantasy with Herman Hesse’s ‘Journeyers to the East’; then done his early apprenticeship in Rinzai Zen Buddhism; been bored to tears by his father’s lifetime of Yoga and emptiness; and all the rest of the coffee table bookshop spirituality for many years. This included a five year fixation with guiding my life according to the I Ching, while drinking copious quantities of tarry flavoured tea. None them ever realised that the Western mind is quite different, and they would never benefit from such practices even if they were worth persevering with; and most enthusiasts don’t persevere anyway. Luckily, Catholics are not so confused. “Ecce homo, ergo elk.” (Monty Python, circa 1969.) Nothing has changed since the Son of God arrived to explain in the simplest terms – to even the thickest of us – that the Incarnation replaced man’s primitive struggle to invent spiritual responses to life’s questions. CP&S was set up to be a home for those who love sound doctrine. We will not readily fall for syncretism, even if your jibes imply a primitive rejection based on ignorance, rather than a learning experience that concluded long ago that baptism was a commitment to the Incarnation, for which there is no alternative. It’s a Catholic blog, toad. Like it or not. Sorry, forgot to pray: God shine the light of your countenance upon the cynical nihilists (and their elk) and quell the fire of egotism and the darkness in men’s hearts. (And women’s hearts if your language is not yet updated with the new inclusive terms.) Thank you Lord. Sorry, Lord: once I get praying I remember all the prayers I didn’t pray when I forgot I was meant to be praying constantly; so please remember Dave, getting ready to start in Rome very soon; also remember in your Kingdom the man who was a monk and who is now also heading for Rome to start priestly formation, who needs your help because he’s getting on everyone’s nerves and he’s prolly a nice man really; and also give strength to the Catholic men of my local village, none of whom attends the Sunday Mass, so your poor rabit servant is the only male in the congregation. Amen. . . . with Elks, is that, unlike Rabits, they do not have big floppy ears that they can pull round either side of their heads to act as blinkers to prevent any other sort of wisdom (such as that of the mystic East) apart from Catholicism, from entering the, admittedly tiny, gap between said protuberances. But – elks do have big antlers, on which a small and careless Rabit might become fatally impaled. Without wishing to come across too Uriah Heap, please read my humble, non theological latest post and offer a prayer for our family situation. With grateful thanks, a very sick pidge! Be assured of our prayers pidge – both for you at this time, your husband (and welcome home to him) and all your family at what must be a time of great uncertainty. If my prayers are of any use, I wish you receive some great consolation, tonight. Blondepidge, God bless and keep you and your family. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Dear friends, please pray for a poor lady named Maria Jean who is suffering indescribable torments, but is offering them all up for the purification of the Church. Please, please remember her in your prayers. Please pray for Brise, a 22 year-old Cameroonian student, the leader of the French Choir in the Catholic Parish of Our Lady of Good Hope in Moscow. Brise is suffering from cancer and is currently in hospital undergoing treatment. His mother is dead I think; his father is an illegal immigrant in Paris and with no papers, cannot visit his sick son. Please also pray for Father Michael Ryan, the parish priest, who raised the money for Brise’s treatment, and for the Sisters of The Missionaries of Charity, who visit him regularly in hospital. Please pray for the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, who seem to be beset by the Enemy at this time. Please pray for Toad and for all those who are mourning the death of a loved one. May the Lord comfort them in their grief. My sister is in the depths of addiction to alcohol. Of your kindness, please pray for her release from this deceptive source of false consolation. Thank you. Please pray for the people of Southern Sudan as they prepare for a referendum on independence in the coming week. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Martin. Please pray for my daughter, her husband, and two sons in Brisbane. They have not yet had to evacuate, but they are close to the area that has been evacuated. Please pray for all those affected by the devastating flooding. Please pray for the people of Japan, hit by an earthquake 8,000 times more powerful than the one that devestated Christchurch. Please pray for Homer, friend of Toad, for whom Toad is now out pilgrim-ing. Please pray for Hilary White. (Litany of Special Prayer Intentions): Through Mama Mary’s special prayers and most powerful and never failing intercession, that all the Holy Guardian Angels present at all the Holy Masses celebrated throughout the whole world each and every day in perpetuity that each and every Guardian Angel may bring a soul out of purgatory, bring about eternal salvation for a dying soul, and a miraculous conversion for a lost soul each and every day, and that all people choosing and living a celibate life, especially Priests, Religious, and the Consecrated, that each and every day of their celibate life that souls be released from purgatory, eternal salvation be achieved for the dying, and that lost souls be miraculously converted each and every day, and with ceaseless prayers for the sanctity and purity of the Church and world, the souls in purgatory, the dying and all humankind, and each and every day through Mother Mary’s ceaseless intercession may many souls in purgatory be released, the dying be brought to salvation and many people be converted, and the world and Church be purified, so that more and more people come to live in Christ and that no more souls be lost. Please pray for all those who have started their spiritual journey to full communion with the Holy Father in the Ordinariate and pray also for those who still have yet to resolve to begin their pilgrimage. Please pray for Father John Corapi, his accusers and those responsible for investigating and resolving the distressing situation he is in. May St John Vianney, and Our Lady, Mother of Priests, intercede for them! Please pray for a family I love, who left Regnum Christi two years ago in horror at the Legion’s failure to deal with the shocking behaviour of their founder, and the movement’s refusal to admit that anything was wrong. They have now the faith altogether. They say they no longer believe in God. May they continue their journey until they find their way home again. 1) O Eternal Father, through Mama Mary bring Your beloved creation into the Kingship and Lordship of Jesus Christ and renew it in the power of the Holy Spirit so all people may bow their knee and confess with their lips that Jesus Christ is Lord, so He may truly reign in all hearts and all of creation. 2) That Alexander Chung’s spiritual direction and discernment, all his schooling and education goes extremely well. That he passes all the courses he takes with very good marks and that his desire for the Priesthood continues to grow, so that he become a good, prayerful, joyful, faithful, and holy Priest. For my brother’s deep spiritual conversion and healing, especially letting go of the resentment of priestly abuse, and that he have a repentant and forgiving heart, and through Jesus, Mary and Joseph for abundant and ceaseless blessings on his marriage so that he and his new wife come back to the Church with love of Christ and the Sacraments, and for the repose of the souls of Robert Lee, Francois Latour and Franz Bydlinski. 3) For the intentions of Brother Craig of the Monks of Adoration, especially for abundant vocations and constant growth for the Monks of Adoration, for Father Daniel’s intentions, especially for the establishment and continued growth of The John Paul II Centre for Divine Mercy, and for a Church dedicated to Perpetual Adoration in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and that The Marians Of The Immaculate Conception Of The Blessed Virgin Mary grow rapidly, abundantly and faithfully, and spread into Canada and other parts of the world. 4) For the end of abortion, for the culture of life to prevail in our hearts and the entire world, for peace in our hearts, families, and the whole world, and for the Laws of God to prevail in our hearts and entire world, with ceaseless prayers to Jesus through Mary that planned parenthood be miraculously transformed and converted, so that planned parenthood become a powerful, abundant and growing institute of life for the Roman Catholic Church, and for abundant and ceaseless vocations for the Priesthood, the Religious and Consecrated life, and for the sanctity of marriage, and for the conversions of all atheists, nonbelievers and pro-abortionists, and for deep continuing conversions of all people, for all lukewarm Christians to wake up and for all people, especially other Christians to be led to become Roman Catholic. For powerful, abundant, growing, ongoing and lasting conversions and transfromations of all political leaders and politicans, and for all judges and lawayers, and especially for Dave McConnell, Gilles Latour, John Latulippe, Paul Crooks, Jean-Pierre Mercier, Bill Maher, Paul Zackary Myers, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Cecile Richards and Dr. Henry Morgentaler, and for all people of God’s creation. Please please pray for us to speedily sell our son’s house. It is part of his estate–he was killed a year and a half ago in in a military aviation accident and it has become a financial and emotional burden to us. With all the awful things going on in the world that we should pray for, it hardly seems right to ask, and yet we are desperate enough to beg your intercession on this Divine Mercy weekend. I keep all your prayer intentions in my heart–and as I go this morning to my Holy Hour I will place them on the altar. Thank you you all for your prayers. Please pray for good practicing Catholic husbands for Margaret, Patricia, Sandra; for end to all fears, fear of commitment/marriage/debt/sharing, bad temper & total conversion of heart for Emile. For God to inspire him concerning a decision he must make — may God put the answer very strongly in his heart, mind and spirit and give him great joy and peace at the very thought of the decision. May he realize that when one accepts to do God’s will, God equips that person with all the necessary gifts and graces to carry it out in joy and peace. For the sanctification of all priests & religious, for Pope Benedict’s intentions; for peace in all hearts and homes. May God’s will be done by all. Thank you. Fiat+, find a picture that you think would represent you well online (I chose one of my favourite patrons) and save it to your computer. Sign up for an account (its free). To do this, click on “Get your gravatar today” then follow the instructions. It’ll take a couple of hours, but then you’ll find your chosen image following you around and popping up whenever you comment. Please pray for the repose of the soul of my grandmother, Doreen, who died this morning. Please pray for all the married couples.Let them love,bond,respect & care for each other forever & have healthy children.Thank you for praying. I Pray for all positive moments that will move us forward to be closer to and for His plan through salvation and redemption. I Pray for all the new beginning people and spirits and souls where ever they may be., in God’s name, through Jesus, Amen. Please pray for Fr. Cyril’s healing & intentions;healing for Michel; quick sale of Sophie’s house;inner healing for E. & God’s will to be done; healing for Stefanie & conversion; change of heart for E.; conversion of all young adults, esp. Tanya,Brendan,Alexis,Stef,Jason,Michel; God’s will to be done in my life. Thank you. Our Heavenly Father, hear my Prayer. I Pray for those who can not. I Pray for those who have gone before me and may not be able to Pray. I pray for my own short-comming and that I may grow from my current child-like Prayers to become closer to Our Heavenly Father through Our Savior, Jesus. Amen. Please pray for Fr John Hunwicke at a time of great spiritual need, distressing to all his friends and admirers. For further information, please see his own blog. Please pray for all the married couples to love,bond,respect & care for each other forever & have healthy children.Thank you for praying. Please pray that I may receive a POSITIVE result in my migration assessment. This is a very big thing for me and my family. Thank you all in advance and God bless us all. Please remember Brother Patrick in your prayers – he will be making his First Profession as a Benedictine monk tomorrow – the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul. Please Pray for all of those who lead and set an example of what we all should do as to place God through Jesus in our Hearts. May God Bless all of you in and through Jesus Name, Amen. Please remember me, the most unworthy of sinners to Blessed Giorgio Frassati. I face a serious situation with prostate cancer. And I am afraid not so much for myself but for my elder brother who has Parkinsens and who faces life without me his caregiver. May God Bless you Nycholaij. I ask Our Blessed Lady to hold you and your brother very close as only a Mother can. Be assured of our prayers. Please pray for me, I need green card for USA, I NEE A JOB…THANKS! Please pray for Bishop Michael Evans of East Anglia who is on the final part of his journey home to God. Please remember on this day the Catholics of Northern Ireland and the terror attacks made on them. Also the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Please pray dear friends for my beloved mother who has been diagnosed with cancer. Please pray for our Priests, especially those suffering at this time. Remember the people of Norway also in your prayers – those who have lost loved ones, those who are traumatised, and those who care for them on this sad weekend for this peaceful nation. Please pray for a woman in the ICU who has end stage lung cancer. Her elderly mother (who is also on oxygen) and her adult special needs son live with her. May St. Joseph intercede on her and her family’s behalf. Please pray for the people of Greece, who, through no fault of their own, are suffering in these times of economic hardship. Please for for me and my family. I have been unemployed for two years. I am desperate for a job. I have a daughter. My husband and I are not on happy turns. I have exhausted all my resources and I cannot feed my child. Dear Lord please help me find a job so that I can care for my family. Please pray for Father Mike who is in his early forties and is on life support. Prayers are asked in particular through the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman. Prayers, please, for the repose of the soul of Father Mike who died today on the Feast of St Michael and the Archangels. Please pray for me and my husband and for our marriage. May God protect us with His Love. Thank you. God Bless You! Please pray for me as I look for a new job after recovering from alcoholism. I pray that the Traditional Mass will return to Los Angeles. I hope to one day be active in a Traditional Organization. I thank Saint Joseph, Our Lady and Saint Philomena for their intercession. Please pray for the repose of the soul of my darling mother who died on 3rd January (having received the Last Sacrament) after a short illness. Her four children were at her bedside. I am so sorry to read this, K. How wonderful that all four of her children were with her, and that she received the Sacrament. They are so attracted to this materialistic world and are so far away from God.. he has left the church for so many years and he has turned to other gods.. He is now old and very unhealthy.. I pray for God’s mercy to grant him more time for his repentence and his returning to the church.. may God grant him wisdom to distinguish between right and wrong, courage to repent and strengthen his faith in Him. May God grant Uncle William the grace to look kindly on Audrey. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Geoffrey Heywood who died tragically and alone. May he rest in peace. Please pray for Edward (aged 28) who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and for his distraught family and friends. Please pray for Edward who went to the Lord peacefully yesterday, 18th March. May he rest in peace and may his family and friends be comforted in their grief. Thank you Saint Joseph on your Feast Day!! I have no especial charism for prayer — therefore I supplicate those who do, living and dead, including Saints James and Mary, the three priests of western France, and all my good friends in Christ of this blog and elsewhere, to supplicate our Lord for a remission of my ongoing physical sufferings. Be assured dear Jabba (you, who have contributed so very much to this blog) will be very present in the prayers of all of us here, your “good friends in Christ“. Prayers for strength, comfort and endurance, and (if it is God’s Holy Will) for a remission of your “ongoing physical sufferings“. May Jesus, Mary and Joseph keep you always in Their tender, loving care. May God Bless you always. blessings on you, Jabba. A candle burns for you this day before La Guadalupana at The Peaceable Kingdom for your intention. You bring so much joy to Dear Toad and all the other seekers at CP&S! Toad is worried about Jabba. Does anyone know if there is any way in which we might help? I´m with Toad here. I do hope Jabba´s ok. Thank you for your kind thoughts and your prayers — I have been suffering for various reasons for a fairly long time now, and these prayers are the best way that you could help me. I ask for myself only necessities, otherwise according to the wishes of the Lord, not according to my own. But have you got the necessities you need? Apart from enough strength to attend Mass, I’m not lacking any basics. Let us please pray for the corruption, violence, destruction taking place throughout the world. Let there be peace and unity amoung the nation. Let us also pray for the poor souls who are struggling for their daily bread and also for the souls who are fighting and batteling their life with either sickness or old aged. Lord hear our cry and answer the prayers of many. For all those in financial destitute and looking to find refugee. Pray that they find peace of mind and comfort in his name. Of your charity please pray for the repose of the soul of Phyllis Bowman whose tireless defence of the unborn has been pivotal in the Pro-Life movement. Please pray for the repose of the repose of the soul of Nancy Luo who was a loving mum and wife. please pray for my brother to get a job in our hometown, so he will no longer go overseas for such opportunity. living away from his family poses some challenges and also my elderly parents need his physical presence for assistance. May God bless his family, provide them, shower them with graces to overcome and pursue these new changes in their life. PRAY FOR MY FAMILY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES THAT OUR HEARTS WILL BE CHANGES . FILL ME WITH LOVE AND FORGIVENESS HELP ME TO TRUST WHEN I FAIL TO TRUST U FATHER GOD. YOU EACH OF OUR NEEDS THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS EVEN WHAT LOOKS BAD YOU KNOW THE WHOLE PICTURE TAKE AWAY ALL NEG FEELINGS. Please pray for me and my family, in all our needs and for our finances. Please pray for each and every member of my family, may God keep us all safe from all harm, at peace with each other and above all healthy. In a special way please pray for my special intentions. Praise be Jesus, now and forever more. Please pray for the soul of Michael J. Vanderhoof. Marciful father please grant him forgiveness and allow him to find the light. Amen. I would like to Thank Our Blessed Mother first of all for bringing me back to her son Jesus and renewing my love to My Lord & My God! I have several people to ask prayer for. Please Mother Mary with all your legions in heaven…Interceded that I may not lose my soul to hell and that God may have Mercy on my soul…please also pray for my health and for Teresita blas & Maribel Vega, Paul Bermudez, Bill jordan and family…They asked for special intentions today. I also want to ask The Holy Spirit to keep all my family, relatives n friends close to our Catholic faith and babtize all there children in the faith. Amen…. Dear Lord, pl.be merciful yo every member of my family. most of all I want all of us belong to you. Lord, pardon & mercy, forgive & purify, convert & transform, strengthen and anoint all of us, those for whom we’ve promised to pray, those who are in need of our prayers, those for whom we have hurt and use us for your Glory. Bless MF, NM, NN & JS, grace to participate in the Holy Eucharistic Mass, receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, submit themselves totally to Jesus. Good job to EF & Mil. Gift of a child to a couple. Healing of week lungs to GF. Healing of all ailments of Angela(6 yrs).Bless all our enemies more than you bless and convert them. Help me find lost valuables soon. Help Mabel improve her health, especially week memory. Please pray for: the return of our two sons and their famililies to their Holy Catholic Faith. Pray for forgiveness & reconciliation & renewed love and respect between our three sons. Pray for conversion of America and the world. 4) Gift of a child to Joe/Mich soon. Grace for all of us to live a holy life for the Glory of God. Good Health to my family members. Cure my daughter’s skin disease/allergy. Peace at home and peace of mind. Successful in my life and in my job. To have my own house. To complete the construction of my house in goa without much hinderances. Protecting my family from all enemies and evil spirits. Protecting my children in school and be GOD fearing and obedient children. For filling my family members with your Holy fruits & Holy Gifts. Peace among our brothers & sisters and all family members. Pray for the world, pray for me and you. Please pray for me and my lapsed Catholic husband. He has abandoned me after 30 yrs. parish give me great comfort. I ask everyone only to live me up to the Lord. Please pray for the intentions of the Holy Father for the month of October 2012. GENERAL INTENTION: New Evangelization. That the New Evangelization may progress in the oldest Christian countries. MISSION INTENTION: World MIssion Day. That the celebration of World Mission Day may result in a renewed commitment to evangelization. Dear friends, please pray for my family’s difficult financial situation. God have Mercy. Please pray for the swift recovery of Fr Hunwicke of the Ordinariate, who is recovering from a fall. A prayer , and a candle or two lit for our mutual friend Jabba might not go amiss. He’s not saying much. But. “Prayer Intentions”, what a wonderful subsection to the main website! I shall view this page regularly and do what is asked. My heart goes out especially to those who are humble enough to tell of personal troubles. That takes real strength of character, never mind the “firewall” of anonymity. Some people – not saying who – suffer more than a little from the sin and weakness of pride, and have extreme difficulty lowering their guard, thereby depriving themselves of the prayers of the faithful. And please pray for Alan and his wife and all of those in danger from the floods. Lord, form these Catechumens, and reveal unto them the mysteries of the Faith, that they may be counted among the members of Thy Holy Church at next Easter Vigil. Please pray(2012,2013..??) with us daily for recovery!God’s Healing,Protecting Peace & Hope in our Broken Hearts,Health and Shattered lives made worse by severe financial misery! Please pray for a dear friend of mine who is recovering from surgery this week. She has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Please pray that her affliction has not spread very far and her treatment will be successful and that she will make a full recovery. Please pray for her friends and family. Please pray for all those who are dealing with the shock of being diagnosed with serious conditions while still young and healthy. …died this past Wednesday. Age 91. Into Thine Hands, O God, we commend the body and soul of our brother and friend, with complete trust in Thy compassion and mercy. Thy will be done. For the victims, living and dead, of yesterday’s Connecticut school massacre. Lord, hear our prayer. “Dear Lord, pl.be merciful to us all. Pardon & mercy, forgive & purify, convert & transform, strengthen and anoint all of us, those for whom we’ve promised to pray, those who are in need of our prayers, those for whom we have hurt and use us for your Glory. Bless MF, NM, NN & JS, grace to participate in the Holy Eucharistic Mass, receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, submit themselves totally to Jesus. Good job to EF & Mil. Gift of a child to a couple. Healing of week lungs to GF. Healing of all ailments of Angela(6 yrs).Bless all our enemies more than you bless and convert them. Help me find lost valuables soon. Help Mabel improve her health, especially week memory. Please pray for me..to get healed soon.. Please pray for C, who will be operated on tomorrow and please pray for me. For the victims of the Laundry slave labour scandal sweeping Ireland. May those poor girls rest in peace for they did no wrong. Pray for them and for Ireland. For the skier missing on a mountain very close to the one my dear brother, Robert fell to his death from in 1987. For a 14 year old member of my parish on life support at Sick Children’s Hospital in Toronto. May God bless Margaret Thatcher and have mercy on her soul. and relief from Severe Financial Misery which is making our recovery so much harder! your daily prayers and God’s Mercy! Please let us not forget in our prayers the women affected by the Gosnell case in America. Whilst not forgetting the sanctity of the lives murdered, these women too are suffering both from their actions, and the consequences of their actions. …like Brubeck, a Catholic. Unlike him, a cradle Catholic. Both of them brought so much joy and love into our weary world. If I should be a bit more circumspect in my prayer intentions, I welcome a kindly word of advice on the main blog in that regard. This thread is far too important to be cutting a bella figura. Please pray for the repose of the soul of my beloved brother, Robert, who died in an accident on Eagle Mountain 26 years ago this Wednesday. 1. Through the infinite merits of Christ and His Divine Mercy and through the intercession of Mary and all the Angels and Saints and the Souls in Purgatory, that all of us receive the special gift of the Living Seal of God and a double portion of Mary’s Spirit, so that we may all live in the fullness of Love, to follow Christ without counting the cost and love as God Loves, and that Mother Mary, Our Lady Mediatrix of all graces wrap Her Mantle of Purity, Protection and Love around all of us, so that we may be Jesus’ Light in the world, especially to family and friends, and to everyone. Gracious Mother Mary gives us the same grace to carry our cross with confidence, trust, joy, love and gratitude which you carried in complete perfection. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal pray for us. 2. Praying that it will be God’s Will that Pope Francis will declare the fifth Marian Dogma very soon in his Pontificate, and through God’s grace the Pope will also establish a Year for the Faithful Departed and the Souls in Purgatory. Please pray for the health of my son D____, who suffered serious illness one year ago and is undergoing expedited tests today to rule out, we his loved ones hope, a recurrence. Kindly pray for Angela 7 yrs. has food allergy right from her childhood. Since 6 months she has no control on her bowls, she is bed wetting and passes stools. It is very embarrassing to her & her parents. She is in the IInd Std. Doctors say it is something to do with her psychology, she is under medication. Prayers for my elderly parents who are struggling in their marriage and old age. Kindly pray for Angela 7 yrs. has food allergy right from her childhood. Since 6 months she has no control on her bowls, she is bed wetting and passes stools. It is very embarrassing to her & her parents. She is in the IInd Std. Doctors say it is something to do with her psychology, she is under medication. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY 2 SISTERS AND BROTHER RETURN TO THE CHURCH ! Slow Recovery from the Death of Our Only Son & Other Ongoing Sorrows…. Thank you for praying with us in our long dark night of the soul! Recovery is very slow! Despite ongoing pain and sorrows in the recovery process we continue to stay at our Post in Faith and Hope with the help of your Daily Prayers and God’s Mercy! Please continue to pray(2013,2014..?)with us daily for Recovery! Recovery for God’s Healing,Protecting Peace and Hope in our Broken Hearts,Health Issues,Relief from Severe Financial Misery which is making our recovery next to impossible! Please pray! Please pray for God’s Peace! Feel free to pass Urgent Prayer Request on to other Communities(Women&Men)of Prayer that you know of in the World? Please pray for the successful outcome of my wife’s latest surgery. Continuously, we are falling sick. The more we are coming closer to the Lord, the more we find life hard.Faih is testing! Abba Father, pl. be merciful to the soul of JP,wash all members of our fly.in the Blood of Jesus, anoint us,make us strong & healthy in faith,in mind, spirit & body to serve & Gloify U in all situation with all heart,soul & Body.Be merciful & Bless our above situations, Amen! Please pray for unity in families and a gift of a child for my daughter. Please pray for my wife, Cathy, who is suffering terribly from sciatica, and is off work indefinitely with it. Please pray for my dear father who is in bad health, and suffering, and losing his Faith. Please pray for my sisters who have departed from the Faith that they may return to the Faith. Please pray for all of those weak in Faith that Almighty God will strengthen them and renew their Faith. Please pray for those hungry, lonely, suffering, that they may be fed and comforted. Please pray for the young brothers and sisters trying to discern their vocation. Please pray for me. I really,really need help. After eight years of battling with alcoholism and depression, I’m trying to get my life back, but everything seems so grey and empty now. I feel, I don’t have any purpose to live anymore. I feel lost and in despair now. Heavenly Father, please, enlighten me and show my way in life. Help me to find the job I like, the place I wish to live and please, give me the purpose to live. Also, please pray for my mother Dana, recently she had a stroke and very ill now. Father, please take care of my mother and help her to recover. Please pray for the intentions of my son Trevor who was recently diagnosed with MS. May Our Mother of Perpetual Help in conjunction with Her Divine Son Jesus restore him to good health so that he may continue to provide for the necessities of life for his young family. Please pray for Edmund Adamus, laicised priest of the Cardinal Diocese of Westminster, formerly of the clergy of the Diocese of Manchester, and his wife and family, to Saints Michael, Joseph, and Mary for particular protection from the Holy Spirit against the satanic assaults of those seeking to lay assault to his Defense of the Catholic Faith in matters of Holy Matrimony against those who seek to destroy it, and particularly against the Heretics of ACTA. Please ask the Holy Virgin to provide an especial protection for his wife against the evils that they will seek to direct against her husband, and may God Bless their Marriage and protect it against all evil. Tim, dear brother in Christ, I am praying for you that our Lord will have mercy and heal you from alcoholism and depression. May the Lord bless you abundantly with renewed faith and zeal! And a job! May you be strengthened! And praying also for your mother, that she be strengthened. JabbaPapa, praying for Edmund Adamus and his wife. May the Lord bless their marriage, strengthen, and protect them. Patrick Walsh, praying for your son Trevor, may he be strengthened and healed, may his family also be strengthened, protected and blessed. Thank you so much for your prayers. Every word uttered in prayer to Christ and his Blessed Mother on my son’s behalf is welcomed with an open heart. I have great faith in prayer as Christ Himself said “seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you”. Amen!! I turn to you asking you to pray for my father (66 years old) who is suffering from colon cancer (with metastasis to the liver), which was diagnosed last year. A month ago, completely unexpected my mother, his wife died (61 years old) and since then he has been devastated. Please, I also ask you to pray for many sick people from my neighborhood. Please pray for my nephew Anthony D. in Tucson, Arizona. He is 22 yrs. old, trying to finish college, and he just got a job w/the Fire Dept.[He has has however a problem w/alcohol, and joined A.A.]. Please pray that God will bring him healing from addiction, and strength to remain sober. He is a really good and hard working young man, and has had to deal w/childhood trama, which only makes it harder. May Jesus heal him, and Mary and Blessed Pier Giovani Frasseti pray for him. THANKS! Please pray, through the intercession of Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez, God will heal my friend, Sara. After visiting doctors a number of doctors over the past year, she has finally been diagnosed – she has bone cancer that has spread to our lung and glands. She is a beautiful child of God, works diligently in church ministry and is a great wife and mother. We need her doing Christ’s work. I’m a sinner and a tormented person and ask you all to pray for the salvation of my soul and for eternal peace. I have 2 grown children and I ask you all to pray for them. God help me. I ask that you pray for my 82 year old Father who is in a difficult situtation right that he sees the light and makes the right decision. pray for me and for my mother, pray for our physical healing from diseases that we are making life impossible, help and support us with your intercession with Jesus, He is good and merciful. We offer our lives to serve Him in joy, in good health and peace. With all the faith that God has given me and that I hope will increase trust in the powerful name of Jesus and His will to heal us. May God bless all our activities, work gifts to the members of my family who do not have jobs and aid our finances, we need the blessing of God and His deliverance from the devil, from evil people and evil that hinder all our activities, cause divisions in society and in the community, causing quarrels and above would prevent us from keeping the commandments of God with their attitudes. God intervenes in our lives and heal my entire family, transform our lives and give us the discernment to choose what is right and what is good, you give us strength, success and love. Thank you, God bless each of you. Pray for my married son who is struggling with self confidence and work stability. May His grace touch his heart and help him in these difficult times. Praying for your son worried mom. May the grace of God touch your son’s heart. May He bless him with confidence, work stability, strong faith and blessings. May God also bless you with peace in your heart for your son. Please pray for God to give me strength and willingness to overcome my addiction to alcohol, and that I will have greater faith and commitment to the church and to my fellow men. Please pray for my family to accept me as who I am and for me to be able to excel more in my studies guide and protect me always,prepare me in all the things I will do especially thing that is in need of memorizing and understanding Amen. Please pray for the repose to the soul of Fr Lawrence who, at the age of 97, died on Saturday 16th August. Please pray for me and for my family that our Lord Jesus Christ may bestow His divine mercy on us, grant us His divine favours, protection, good healthy, and divine direction in all our plans and purposes to the glory of God, amen. Please pray for my marriage. May God send His healing touch upon our hearts to renew our love for each other and give us each the strength to commit to reconciliation, in Jesus name I pray. Our Son’Death happened on my wife’s Birthday,August 24th. a few years ago? So it is a painful reminder of great sorrow and the way the death happened?On top of all the Other Sorrows and Hardships we are enduring at present! PLEASE PRAY DAILY FOR GOD’S PEACE AND PASS ON TO OTHERS IN THE WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY OF PRAYER?URGENT! PLEASE PRAY FOR GOD’S PEACE IN OUR BROKEN HEARTS AND LIVES!! Thank you for praying with us daily and for the long term? 2014,15..? Kindly pray for infilling of Holy Spirit and conversion of Mr. C. & few his unGodly people who are harassing employees(with families dependent) so much that they are totally shattered and depressed, they cannot look for another job too. Your prayers for my beloved? Major and difficult surgery, Tuesday, the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Propitious. Until retirement, the senior O.R. charge nurse in our hospital (like a UK matron, I think) and so has been able to assemble her ‘dream team’, but that God guides their hands and minds is what I ask for. Jude has some unGodly Senior people in the Office harassing Jude and want to take away Projects that Jude is working, with the result his job/future in danger. Today is the Meeting about this matter with his Seniors. The more I pray the more & more problems we have to face. It is very sad that Jude hasl lost faith and does not pray. Please pray for my colleague Ralph who has just lost his son. Thank you. Not strictly a prayer – at least I hope not – but our friend Jabba, who stayed with Toad on 21st Sept, and who set out for Santiago from here apparently all right – has nor been heard of since, and his brother is getting worried. If anyone has heard anything, please let me (us) know. I am trying to transfer into Notre Dame as a sophomore. Please pray that I may be accepted into the university and fulfill my dream. Please pray for EF Pastor Emeritus – The Bones has the details. Please pray for Jessica Hoff, who has been a good friend to this blog since we began. My father Rudy has a rare gallbladder cancer. Please please join me in praying for my father’s well being, for him to be completely healed. I am also praying for my father’s spiritual side, praying that he will let the Lord work in his life and follow God’s words and be able to entirely surrender to the Almighty and that he will live for so many years and share to people of God’s blessings and goodness. Please pray for him. Pray for my mother, please. She has heart disease and blood circulation problems. She very ill and weak now. Please join me in prayer for her, in Jesus mighty name. Please pray for my husband who thinks that he has not turned his back on Jesus by leaving his wife and children to pursue his wants and desires and says he feels happy and at peace and wants me to be at peace with him. Please pray that the Holy Spirit creates a clean heart in him. Thank you. Andrew Sullivan’s blog ended today after 15 years of unceasing work. Whatever your opinion of his Catholic faith, please pray for him and all others who devote their lives to writing. I hope we can all simply look back at the journey, and the laughs we had, and the pain we lived through together and the love that sustained us as a team and as a community, as we struggled together to figure out the truth about the world. Please pray for John, a greatly valued contributor to CP&S, as he is received into the Church this Easter. May God bless him and Our Blessed Mother protect him as he grows in faith, hope and love. Please pray for my financial situation and the jealousy and envy at my work. * my children that they settle into their new school in a new state. * friends who have betrayed and wounded me. * justice in the church – that whistleblowers & victims of abuse & bullying will be heard and supported; instead of punished & rejected & falsely accused. * my ongoing depression & anxiety – to be healed! * my faith – to be strengthened & for our family to find a spiritual family to belong to – attend mass weekly. * my loneliness to be gone as I make more friends. Pray for Peace, good health and happiness, that my husband’s promotion may come true. Pls pray for me and my partner and our baby. He does not show any love and care for me and our baby.We dont leave as a family anymore and i am so worried. Pls pray for my partner. He does not show any love and care for me and our baby. He doesn’t have time for us and isolating himself from us. I am praying everyday and i ask for prayer too. Pls pray so that my partner will change his bad ways to be a good person. Please pray for my Son Jesse he suffered with schizophrenia! Please pray for my partner and for our relationship that we may forgive and start a new beginning, May we have our faith back and be strong to any difficulties that may come as we prepare to have our new journey with God. And May God heal our wounded hearts so we can move on and accept one another. Please pray for me to get the job I am praying for. Please pray for my son Niles be employed by the PNG Government Printer promptly, Selin be given a place to continue grade 11, Euginnie be selected to continue grade 9@ Bishop Leo Secondary School, my DSA claims be paid by the beginning of next year 2016 and my health condition be improved by replacing the body organs. I ask this prayer in Jesus Mighty Holy Name. Amen. Please pray for my husband who will start his new job in January 2016. Please pray that I can take care my little toddler alongside my other duties. Please pray for my struggle to complete my study too. Please pray for me to pass and top the Board Exam in Medical Technology this coming March 9 and 10, 2016. Thank you. Please pray for me to gain a full scholarship for masters study. And my the benefits of the grad degree be to the glory of his name. Please pray for my beloved husband, Francisco, to be totally set free from all his addictions and sinful lifestyle, return to the Lord, the sacraments and his marriage. Let us all pray the Holy Mother Of God Rosary with your families. Also we should go to church and burn a candle and pray Our Father and Holy Mary prayer. And do penance and mercy. May we also ask for more blessings so we could share it with others. May the Holy Spirit guide us all and we pray that all souls go to heaven especially those needed if they mercy. God Bless. Holy St. Michael, in the all powerful and Holy Name of Jesus, Grant your wings of protection. upon my brother Gerard and his daughters. Defend them from the all evil one, Satan whose universal attack is to destroy holy and Catholic marriages. Holy Archangel we honor and Love you.. May Tammy his wife be brought to conversion, and consciously recognize her own faithlessness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Please pray for the most needed souls of the Purgatory, that God in his everlasting Mercy release them and bring them to heave where they will be worship him for ever and ever. . Please pray for me for strenght to face all these trials in my life..im depressed. Please pray for me, a wretched sinner in need of God’s enduring mercy, that I might be able to walk without offending His Majesty so regularly, and that I may receive all assistance in maintaining chastity according to my state of life. Please pray for my mother, Linda, and my brother, Ronnie, that the Lord might be merciful towards them and touch their hearts, bringing them into His holy Church. Please pray for my beloved mother, Lucia, who after a life of much suffering and ill health is now on the final stretch of her journey with secondary bone and brain cancer. May the Lord help her carry her cross and may Our Lady comfort her in her trials. God knows she brought you into the world and to His Church, so all is well. Please pray for healing for my daughter. She has hives all over her body. They gave her Benadryl and prednisone at the ER that helped the swelling in her eyes go down but not the rest. She is going crazy with the itching. They don’t know what is causing it. She has to go to an allergist and wait over a month for an appointment. She is in PA school and doesn’t know how she can function. Please help me pray that I have a computer to enable me to work online. I have been out of work for the past two years already. Please Pray for my application in magsaysay for housekeeper in japan country, that’s fast, continued and successful. We can get good employer. For the physical healing of Caroline Marie Gavin’s many illnesses, and through the intercession of Mother Mary, all those who are involved with The Skeptics Society, who produce Skeptic Magazine becomes converted and miraculous transformed, so that they will be zealous promoters of truth and bring the truth to many. In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of my beloved mother, Lucia Maria, who went to the Lord peacefully and after much suffering on 27th June, feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. mmvc: May God bless you and your family at this time of parting. Please pray for the miracle of conversion for Eric McDonald; Eric needs your prayer help!!! Please pray for my health. That God will heal me and that I’m able to go back to work. For the health of my family. For the souls of J. P. and N. I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Thanks. Jesus, I trust in You. ST MARTHA I GREET AND PRAY TO YOU TODAY YOUR FEAST DAY.PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS WITH MY FAMILY SPECIALLY TRACY.HELP ME TOO IN DEALING WITH MY MOODY HUSBAND,MOST OF ALL OUR FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.HELP US FIND MONETARY RESOURCES TO MEET OUR BILLS AND OBLIGATIONS AND KEEP OUR HOME AND DO MUCH NEEDED REPAIRS SO LIKE YOU, WE COULD INVITE JESUS IN OUR PRAYERS.THANK YOU ST MARTHA AND WILL KEEP ON PRAYING YOUR NOVENA. Please pray for my Priest Brother to remain strong in his Vocation always and his love for Mamma Mary increases. Please pray for me as I am have asthma and at present have a chest infection which I find it hard to breath especially at night time. Please pray for faithful priest, Fr Gary Dickson, of the CATHOLIC COLLAR AND TIE blog. He is in hospital and seriously ill. See HERE and HERE. In your compassion pray for Lily and her husband, children and 2 very young grandchildren in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on the island of Borneo. A Catholic family and close friends of mine for 43 years. After surgery a few years ago for breast cancer and chemotherapy there is now a tumor on her brain. Please pray for my daughter, Michelle, and her children. Health, spiritual, and financial difficulties. Please pray for my grand daughter, she is 4 yrs. old has arthritis and problems with her arteries of the heart. right now she has an inflammation in her eyes from the arthritis.Dear God if it is your will,please heal Ava, in Jesus’s name.thank you. pray for Dene and Steven Culton to have a baby. Prayers for conversion of sinners whereby Salvation and protection from unabled offenders. With respect, R. Maher, I clicked on your avatar thinking you were seeking a prayer for personal reasons, but I see you wish to make a political point. I don’t think this Prayer Intentions sub-site is meant for that. Please pray for me & my family.We have been given a fourteen day’s (14) notice w.e.f 5th March 2019, to pay $250 dollars for mortgage arrears,and my salary isn’t even 1/4 of it.My husband is a hustler and he too cannot afford.We believe that God will make a way for us so that we can pay the money before they institute a legal action against us.

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Way back in 2014 the Austin Street Truck Stop opened and Denton was pretty excited that we had a place for food trucks to park near the Square. Well, have you ever heard that saying “there’s nothing new under the sun?” Denton had a place on the square for a food truck back in the 1890’s. Well, that is using the term food truck loosely, it was actually a food wagon. In the April 15, 1956 edition of the Denton Record-Chronicle William Edward wrote a column about the Bradshaw Chili Con Carne Diner. (You can read the full article at the end of this post.) On a side note, it was Mr. Edwards who consolidated the Denton Chronicle and the Denton County Record to form the weekly newspaper, the Denton Record and Chronicle in 1899. So who was this Mr. Bradshaw and what happened to the chili wagon? In the article Mr. Bradshaw was not given a first name and Mr. Edwards stated he was not sure when the chili wagon disappeared from the square. Of course, I had to see if I could find more information. That was a good sign I was on the right track. I used census records, Denton County land records, early Denton newspapers and the Library’s death and cemetery records to find out more information. While the only mention of a restaurant I found was in the census, there was another clue I had the right person. Mr. Bradshaw’s daughter, Ophelia Bradshaw, married Asbury Goodson Price. The article by Mr. Edwards mentions that Mr. Bradshaw had a relative, Goodson Price, who sold tamales. As for the chili wagon, one can only imagine that it was put out to pasture after Mr. Bradshaw’s death. And one last-side note- it seems that Bradshaw Street in Southeast Denton was named after this family. Denton County on What’s On the Menu? James on What’s On the Menu? dentonpl on What’s On the Menu? veronetravis on What’s On the Menu?

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There is a space for your message in my inbox, a session between your heart and mind, a platform where you can portray your true self because I won't judge you. Start a conversation! I am alone but, not lonely. I wonder, if you are like me. Do you feel the same? Do you like being alone but not lonely?

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A pusher formed of a rubber material, a click plate, a membrane switch which serves as a second step switch, a reinforcing plate, a membrane sheet on which a plurality of first step switches are formed, a key operation base and a knob are sequentially assembled into a case. The knob includes a plurality of depressing pieces having on its internal surface a projection which moves into contact with each membrane switch and also includes a marginal portion which is supported by the top surface of the case. The knob is thin-walled except for the depressing piece, and the thin-walled portion comprises a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber. The knob, the key operation base and the reinforcing plate are secured together. As the depressing piece is depressed, the thin-walled portion which is located therearound becomes flexed, whereby the membrane switch is depressed by the projection to turn the switch on. When the depressing piece is further depressed, the reinforcing plate moves and the click plate reverses, turning the switch on. A conventional depression responsive two-step switch unit which is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 315,682/96 (laid open Nov. 29, 1996) Will be briefly described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3A and 3B. A rectangular case 2 includes a surface plate 2 a, in which a rectangular opening 2-1 is formed, and a key top 3 is disposed to substantially block the opening 2-1. The key top 3 includes an elongate frame-shaped sidewall 3 g, on the inner surface of which a reinforcing plate 3 c is fitted and is secured in position by claws 3 d. A membrane sheet 6 is held in overlapping relationship with the front side of the reinforcing plate 3 c, and a surface sheet 3 e is disposed on the front side of the membrane sheet 6 and is adhesively bonded to the end face of the sidewall 3 g of the key top 3. A plurality of depression regions 3 p are defined in an array on the surface sheet 3 e, and are designated by key identification characters, which are numbers “1”, “2”, . . . , “8” in the example shown. Regions on the membrane sheet 6 which are located opposite to the depression regions 3 p are each designated as a membrane switch 6 s. Specifically, a pair of flexible films 6 a and 6 b, as may be formed by polyethylene films, are stacked together with a spacer 6 c therebetween to define a switch assembly for each depression region 3 p. In each switch assembly, fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e are formed on the film 6 a while a movable contact 6 f is formed on the film 6 b so as to be located opposite to the contacts 6 d and 6 e, thus completing the membrane switch 6 s. Rotary shafts 3 f project externally from the opposite ends of the sidewall 3 g of the key top 3 and are rotatably engaged with bearings 2 f which are formed in the internal surface of the surface plate 2 a of the case. When the depression region 3 p on the surface of the key top 3 is selectively depressed, the membrane switch 6 s which is located opposite thereto has its movable contact 6 f moved into contact with the both fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e, thus turning the switch on. As the key top 3 is further depressed, it moves angularly as shown in FIG. 3B and a pusher 3 a extending form one side of the sidewall 3 g of the key top 3 presses against a tact switch 7 which is mounted on the internal surface of a rear plate 2 b of the case 2, thus turning it on. When the key top 3 is released from the depression, a reaction which results from a resilient material within the tact switch 7 turns it off, and the restoring force of the flexible film 6 b causes the movable contact 6 f to move away from the fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e to turn the membrane switch 6 s off. A flexible band-shaped cable 8 on which external connection lead wires for the contacts of the membrane switches 6 s are formed by a printed circuit is taken out from the reinforcing plate 3 c. A two-step switch which is constructed in the manner mentioned above finds its use in an application where a temporary input is selectively made initially and a true input is made after confirmation of the temporary input. However, if an on-load is relatively high when an input is to be made to the first step switch, there is a likelihood that the second step switch may be turned on inadvertently. In a portable telephone or a vehicle onboard electrical instrument, a menu is displayed on a display screen, one of items in the menu is selected by a corresponding key, and on the basis of this selection, the display screen displays what item has been selected, and a user confirms this display, and if the display is proper, the user performs a key entry in order for that item to be truly selected. In this manner, it is possible for a user to try an entry by gently depressing a suitable key (depression region 3 p) without recognizing a key operation surface, which may be the display of switch identifications on the surface sheet 3 e in the example of FIG. 1, to know that one color among the menu items which corresponds to the display of the switch identification for the depressed key (depression region 3 p) has changed to red or that that item has been selected without requiring the visual recognition of the display of the switch identifications. If the selected item is different from an item which the user desires to select, the user may then depress another depression region 3 p gently. On the contrary, if the selected item were the item which the user intended to select, an entry for that item can be accomplished by further depressing the key. In other words, a selection from the menu can properly be accomplished without viewing the key operation surface, but while viewing only the display screen. By way of example, an operation of an onboard air conditioner, a control over CD player or DVD player, a selection of a radio channel to be received, a display of TV channel to be received or a display of an automatic road guide can be made while driving an automobile. However, in the conventional two-step switch unit cited above, there is a need to cause an elastic deformation of the surface sheet 3 e and the flexible film 6 b in order to turn on the first step switch or the membrane switch 6 s. This accompanies a reaction of an increased magnitude. In particular, polyethylene sheet or polycarbonate sheet is generally used for the surface sheet 3 e. A relatively thick sheet is used at this end because it is disposed on the surface and its damage upon contact with an external member must be avoided. Accordingly, the sheet itself has a high reaction, and thus there has been a disadvantage that the first step switch has a relatively high on-load. As a consequence, there have been occurrences that the second step switch becomes turned on as the first step switch is attempted to be turned on, as mentioned previously. It would be greatly convenient if an operation of the first step key switch which is required to select a given display on the display screen while viewing a display condition, principally a display condition on the display screen of a portable telephone, a personal computer, a vehicle onboard instrument and the like could be achieved by tangibly feeling a key operation surface with a finger, for example, or by slipping the finger along the key operation surface. However, such has been a difficult task to achieve with a conventional two-step switch unit. An example of a conventional depression responsive single step switch unit will be described below with reference to FIG. 23. This switch unit is disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 3,306,311 (issued Jul. 24, 2002). As a depressing piece 60 is depressed, a flexible sheet 61 becomes flexed, and a frame-shaped cushion member 62 as may be formed of urethane foam and on which the flexible sheet 61 is applied is increasingly squeezed, and a driving piece 63 a of a driver 63 which is formed of a synthetic resin material and which is mounted on the internal surface of the flexible sheet 61 comes into contact with a click plate 64. When a load applied to the click plate 64 exceeds a given value, there occurs a reversal in the central portion of the click plate 64 as shown in FIG. 23B, whereby a membrane switch 6 s is depressed to turn the switch on. When the depressing piece is released from the depression, the flexible sheet 61 and the cushion member 62 which have undergone an elastic deformation return to their original configurations due to their respective resilience, and the click plate 64 also returns to its original configuration due to its resilient restoring force, whereby the switch assumes a turn-off condition. It is to be noted that a baseplate 65 is mounted on the surface of the frame-shaped cushion member 62 which is opposite from the flexible sheet 61 with the interposition of a sheet which defines the membrane switch 6 s. In other words, the membrane switch 6 s and the click plate 64 are secured to the baseplate 6 s within an extent defined by the frame-shaped cushion member 62. In the conventional depression responsive switch unit mentioned above, because the flexible sheet 61 on which the depressing piece 60 is mounted is secured to the cushion member 62, a drive to the click plate 64 may not take place in a satisfactory manner if a depressing force applied to the depressing piece 60 deviates from a direction which is perpendicular to the flexible sheet 61. Alternatively, if a depression is applied to one end of the depressing piece 60, the cushion member 62 will be strongly compressed toward the depressed end while it will be expanded toward the other end, causing the driver 63 to assume a relatively largely tilted position relative to the baseplate 65, preventing a drive from being transmitted satisfactorily to the click plate 64. In either instance, a load which is required to produce a reversal of the click plate 64 becomes higher than for a normal depression. This leads to problems that a clicking sensation is degraded, that a reversal may be prevented from occurring or that the useful life of the click plate 64 may be shortened. Another example of conventional single step depression responsive switch unit will be described with reference to FIGS. 24 and 25. A depressing piece 72 faces externally through an opening 71 b formed in a surface plate 71 a of a case 71. When the depressing piece 72 is depressed into the case 71, a rib 72 a formed on the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 72 is guided by a guide groove 71 d of a tubular guide 71 c which is integrally formed inside the case 71, thus moving toward a rear plate 71 e of the case 71 in a direction perpendicular thereto. As a result of such movement, an actuator 73 f of a tact switch 73 which is mounted centrally on the internal surface of the rear plate 71 e is driven into a switch case 73 b by a projection 72 c which is formed centrally on the internal surface of a top plate of the depressing piece 72, whereupon an internal spring is reversed to turn the tact switch 73 on. When the depressing piece 72 is released from the depression, the original configuration is restored due to the resilient restoring force of the spring within the tact switch 73, and the depressing piece 72 is returned to its original position. It is to be noted that the rear plate 71 e of the case 71 is detachable, and a screw 74 is passed through a bore 71 f formed in the rear plate 71 e and is screwed into a bore 71 g formed in the end face of a sidewall 71 i of the case 71, whereby the rear plate 71 e is secured to the sidewall 71 i. With this conventional depression responsive switch unit, the depressing piece 71 moves in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e if the depression is directed obliquely and if the depression is applied to one end of the depressing piece 71. However, a friction acting between the rib 72 and the guide groove 71 d increases, and it becomes necessary to increase the depressing force. A switch operation may be prohibited for a depressing force of an equal magnitude. A problem relating to the sensation of operation remains in a similar manner as in the arrangement of FIG. 23. In addition, the arrangement may become larger in size because of a guide construction for the depressing piece 72. In the switch unit according to the second aspect of the present invention, the case comprises a rigid body, and even though there is no guide means for the knob, the retaining function of the resilient member is such that if the direction of depression deviates from the normal direction, and if one end of the knob is depressed, the switch can be reliably turned on. In addition, a return spring has an increased useful life and could be constructed in a compact manner. FIG. 3B is an enlarged section corresponding to FIG. 3A and illustrating when a tact switch 7 is turned on. FIG. 33 is a cross section corresponding to FIG. 26, schematically illustrating the embodiment in the fifth mode of carrying out the present invention. The first mode of carrying out the present invention will be briefly described with reference to FIG. 4. In the example shown, a second step switch 36 is disposed on a rear plate 39 h within a case 39 and a reinforcing plate 35 is disposed on top of the second step switch 36. A plurality of first step switches 34 s are disposed on the reinforcing plate 35. A key operation base 33 is disposed on the side of the reinforcing plate 35 which is located toward the first step switch 34 s. At locations corresponding to each of the first step switches 34 s, the key operation base 33 is formed with depression openings 33 a extending therethrough. A knob 32 is disposed on the front side of the key operation base 33. The knob 32 includes depressing pieces 32 a which are formed on an extremely pliable elastic sheet 32 c which comprises a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber at locations corresponding to one of the first step switches 34 s, and each depressing piece 32 a has a depressed surface 32 a 2 which is located forwardly of the elastic sheet 32 c. Each depressing piece 32 a is at least partly located within the depression opening 33 a formed in the key operation base 33 and includes a small projection 32 b which projects from the surface opposite from the depressed surface 32 a 2. Each small projection 32 b is located close to or is in contact with a corresponding one of the first step switches 34 s. The marginal portion 32 dof the elastic sheet 32 c is retained by the case 39. In the example shown, the case 39 comprises a rear plate 39 h, sidewalls 39 a and 39 d which are integral therewith, and a cover 31 which abuts against and which is secured to the end faces of the sidewalls 39 a and 39 d to serve as a front plate. The marginal portion 32 dof the elastic sheet 32 c is held sandwiched between the cover (front plate) 31 and the sidewall 39 a to be retained by the case 39. The knob 32 and the key operation base 33 are secured together as are the first step switches 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35, whereby they are simultaneously reciprocable with respect to the rear plate 39 h. In the example shown, the second step switch 36 is constructed to be automatically reset when it is released from the depression or assumes a turn-off condition while desirably providing a clicking sensation or a sensation that a switch operation has been made. A cover (front plate) 31 comprises a metal sheet which is machined as required, and includes a square portion 31 a in which a circular opening 31 b is formed. Each side of the square portion 31 a has a U-shaped detent 31 c having short limbs which is bent in a direction perpendicular to the square portion 31 a to extend toward the rear plate 39 h. A knob 32 comprises a square-shaped elastic sheet 32 c, which extends outside the opening 31 b formed in the cover 31 except for its marginal portion 32 dto define a circular top surface on which five depressing pieces 32 a are formed as projections in this example. One of the depressing pieces 32 a which is located centrally has a circular configuration, while the depressing pieces 32 a which are located laterally on the opposite sides of the central depressing piece 32 a are triangular in configuration. The internal surface of each depressing piece 32 a projects beyond the elastic sheet 32 c toward the rear plate 39 h as shown in FIG. 4, and a small projection 32 b is formed centrally on the end face of the projection. In this example, the depressing piece 32 a, the small projection 32 b and the elastic sheet 32 c are integrally molded with a thermoplastic elastomer, and thus is constructed with an extremely pliable material. The key operation base 33 is molded from a hard resin such as ABS resin or polycarbonate and is in the form of a disc which corresponds to the circular top surface of the knob 32. The key operation base 33 is formed with depression openings 33 a which extend therethrough at locations corresponding to each depressing piece 32 a of the knob 32 and which are larger than the depressing piece 32 a. The centrally disposed depression opening 33 a is circular in the similar manner as the depressing piece 32 a which corresponds thereto while the remaining depression openings 33 a are triangular in configuration. While the key operation base 33 and the knob 32 are shown separately in FIG. 6, in the present example, they are integrally molded, and the elastic sheet 32 c is secured to the key operation base 33 without any slack therebetween. In the present example, the first step switch 34 s uses a membrane sheet 34 which is constructed in the similar manner as the membrane sheet 6 of the prior art described above in connection with FIGS. 1 to 3. While not specifically shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the five membrane switches acting as first step switches 34 s are formed, each constructed in the similar manner as the membrane switch 6 s shown in FIG. 3A and having fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e and the movable contact 6 f In FIG. 4, such first step switches (membrane switches) 34 s are indicated by blank areas (the same is true for a corresponding membrane switch). A tail 34 a which is used to take out the lead wire for each of the fist step switches 34 s is connected to part of the peripheral edge of the membrane sheet 34. A reinforcing plate 35 comprises a stainless steel sheet, for example, and has substantially similar configuration as the membrane sheet 34. The second step switch 36 shown in this example comprises a switch body 36 s which is constructed in the similar manner as the membrane switch 36 s shown in FIG. 3, for example, a click plate 37 and a pusher 38. The membrane sheet 40 on which the membrane switch 36 s acting as a switch body is constructed is shown in FIG. 6 as being separate from the membrane sheets 34, but they are integrally formed through a connector 40 a as shown in FIG. 4, and the connector 40 a is folded to place the membrane sheets 34 and 40 on the opposite sides of the reinforcing plate 35. The membrane sheet 36 s acting as the switch body is also shown as a blank area in FIG. 4 (the same applies for a similar switch). In the present example, an arrangement is made to provide a clicking sensation from a switch operation of the second step switch 36 in a manner mentioned previously, and the click plate 37 is disposed in the region of the membrane switch (switch body) 36 s of the membrane sheet 40 on the opposite side of the reinforcing plate 35. The click plate 37 comprises a dish-shaped springy metal sheet. A pusher 38 is interposed between the click plate 37 and the rear plate 39 h so that a restoring force acts automatically when the second step switch 36 is released from the depression. The pusher 38 may be formed of rubber, for example, and has a square-shaped flat plate 38 a which is centrally formed with a dome 38 b which projects toward the rear plate 39 h. A projection 38 c is formed centrally on the internal surface of the dome 38 b so as to project toward the click plate 37. The case 39 is formed of a hard resin such as ABS resin or polycarbonate and is open toward the front, and is in the form of a shallow square, with each corner being rounded. The sidewall 39 a which forms one side of the square is somewhat extended externally, and a notch 39 b is formed in its end face which is disposed toward the front side. This illustrates an arrangement to allow the tail 34 a to be guided externally. In order to fasten the case 39 and the cover 31 together, a pair of small detent tabs 39 c are formed on the external surface of the sidewall 39 a while the external surface of the sidewalls 39 d, which form the remaining three sides of the square, is formed with a detent projection 39 e of a substantial length which extends along the respective side. In order to allow the knob 32 to be positioned when mounting it on the case 39, in the present example, a boss 39 f is fixedly mounted on the rear plate 39 h at a location close to the internal surface of each rounded corner of the case 39. The marginal portion 32 dof the knob 32 and the top plate 31 a of the cover 31 are formed with openings 32 f and 31 e, respectively, through which the bosses 39 f can be passed. A boss 39 g is formed centrally on the notch 39 b of the case 39 on its front side, and an opening 34 b is formed in an end of the membrane sheet 34 which is located toward the tail 34 a for passing the boss 39 g. It is to be noted that openings 31 f, which are formed radially outward of the four openings 31 e in the cover 31 are used for purpose of mounting the two-step switch unit. In order to position and secure the membrane sheet 34 of the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 relative to each other, a pair of bosses are formed on the key operation base 33 on the side which faces the rear plate 39 h in this example, even though such bosses are hidden from sight in FIG. 6, and the membrane sheet 34 and the reinforcing plate 35 are formed with a pair of openings 34 c and 35 a, respectively, for passing these bosses. In order to position and secure the membrane switch (switch body) 36 s of the membrane sheet 40, the click plate 37 and the pusher 38 relative to each other, in the present example, the flat plate 38 a of the pusher 38 is formed with a pair of bosses 38 d, and openings which pass these bosses 38 d are formed in the reinforcing plate 35, the membrane sheet 34 and the key operation base 33. Numerals 34 d and 33 b shown in FIG. 6 shows such openings. It should be noted that the openings formed in the reinforcing plate 35 for passing the bosses 38 d are hidden from sight. (1) As mentioned previously, the knob 32 and the key operation base 33 are integrally formed as a result of their molding, and the membrane sheet 34 and the reinforcing plate 35 are secured on the rear side of the key operation base 33. This securing operation takes place by passing the bosses which are formed on the rear side of the key operation base 33 into the pair of openings 34 c formed in the membrane sheet 34 and through the pair of openings 35 a formed in the reinforcing plate 35 and by caulking the free ends of the bosses by heat. This assembly will be more apparently seen by reference to FIG. 15 which illustrates a similar assembly which takes place in a third embodiment to be described later. (2) The membrane sheet 40 which is integral with the membrane sheet 34 is secured to the rear side of the reinforcing plate 35 by using a both side adhesive, for example, to adhesively secure them. (3) The click plate 37 is disposed on the rear side of the membrane sheet 40 with its center aligned with the position of the membrane switch 36 s in a manner such that the rear side is convex. The click plate 37 is positioned and secured to the membrane sheet 36 as by covering it with an adhesive tape, for example. (4) The pusher 38 is disposed on the rear side of the click plate 37. The pusher 38 has a pair of bosses 38 d, which are sequentially passed through openings in the reinforcing plate 35, the openings 34 d in the membrane sheet 34 and the openings 33 b in the key operation base 33 to be a press fit therein, whereby the pusher 38 is positioned relative to the click plate 37 and is secured to the key operation base 33. This completes the assembly of the knob. Subsequently, the knob assembly is assembled into the case 39. This assembling operation takes place by passing the bosses 39 f on the case 39 through the four openings 32 f formed in the marginal portion 32 dof the knob 32 and passing the boss 39 g on the case 39 through the opening 34 b formed in the membrane sheet 34. In this manner, the knob assembly is positioned and received within the case 39. FIG. 7 shows this condition. Finally, the cover 31 is attached to complete the two-step switch unit. The cover 31 is attached by engaging four detents 31 c with the detent projections 39 c and 39 e of the case 39. FIG. 8 shows, to an enlarged scale, one location where the marginal portion 32 dof the knob 32 and the square portion 31 a of the cover 31 are positioned by the bosses 39 f on the case 39. The cover 31 is positioned by passing the opening 31 e thereof over the boss 39 f, and the periphery of the knob 32 or the marginal portion 32 dof the elastic sheet 32 c is held sandwiched between the case 39 and the surface plate or the cover 31 to be retained by the case 39. In the example shown in FIG. 8, a ring-shaped rib 32 g is formed around the opening 32 f in the periphery of the knob 32 (or the marginal portion of the elastic sheet) 32 d on the side which faces the cover 31, and the square portion 31 a of the cover 31 abuts against the marginal portion 32 dof the knob 32 only at this ring-shaped rib 32 g while a small clearance is maintained with respect to the marginal portion 32 din the remainder. The two-step switch unit which is assembled in the manner mentioned above has a construction as shown in FIG. 4 where the pusher 38 is located centrally on the internal surface of the rear plate 39 h of the case 39, and the click plate 37, the reinforcing plate 35 which carries membrane sheets 34 and 36 on the opposite sides and the key operation base 33 which is integral with the knob 32 are sequentially mounted thereon. The knob 32 or the elastic sheet 32 c thereof is disposed on the front side of the key operation base 33 and its marginal portion 32 d is supported by the case 39, substantially blocking the opening in the case 39 by the knob 32. In this example, it is secured to the case 39 at a plurality of locations (which are four locations as shown), and other non-anchored portions remain to be free ends. The operation of the two-step switch unit according to the first embodiment will now be described. When any desired one of the depressing pieces 32 a of the knob 32, for example, a central depressing piece is gently depressed, the elastic sheet 32 c located around this depressing piece 32 a, namely, the portion of the elastic sheet 32 c which is located between the peripheral edge of the depression opening 33 a and the depressing piece 32 a becomes flexed as shown in FIG. 9A, thus depressing the small projection 32 b. The membrane switch 34 s which serves as the first step switch is depressed by the small projection 32 b, whereby the contacts (not shown) which are located opposite thereto contact each other to turn the first step switch 34 s on. When the depressing piece 32 a is further depressed, the marginal portion 32 d of the knob 32 becomes flexed as shown in FIG. 9B, and the key operation base 33 which is integral with the knob 32, the reinforcing plate 35 which holds the membrane sheets 34 and 40 and the click plate 37 are depressed in an integral manner, thus depressing the pusher 38. The dome 38 b of the depressed pusher 38 is squeezed to deform in a manner shown in FIG. 9B, whereby the projection 38 c of the pusher 38 presses against the click plate 37. The click plate 37 which is pressed in this manner has its central portion reversed in position relative to the peripheral surface of the click plate 37 (hereafter such phenomenon will be simply referred to as a reversal) with a click sensation, thus pressing against the membrane switch 36 s which serves as the switch body of the second step switch. When the click plate 37 presses against the membrane switch 36 s, the contacts (not shown) which are located opposite thereto contact each other to turn the second step switch 36 on. When this pressing action is gradually released, the resilient restoring force of the pusher 38, the click plate 37 and the marginal portion 32 d of the knob 32 causes the parts which have been depressed in an integral manner to return to their original positions to turn the second switch 36 off. When the depression is completely released, the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b return to their original positions relative to the key operation base 33 under the influence of the restoring force of the membrane sheet 34 to turn the first step switch 34 s off. In the present example, the membrane switch 34 s which serves as the first step switch is disposed within the switch unit, and accordingly, contacts can be formed on a very thin film, for example, a polyethylene film by a printed circuit technology, allowing the reaction thereof to be minimized. In addition, since the first step switch is turned on by a flexure of only the elastic sheet 32 c which comprises a pliable thermoplastic elastomer, the on-load of the first step switch can be minimized. More specifically, in the two-step switch unit of this embodiment, the key operation surface is constructed by the key operation base 33 which retains the knob 32, and accordingly, the first step switch can be turned on with a contact of the finger with the depressing piece which is on the order of tangibly feeling the key operation surface with the finger. In addition, the profile of the knob 32 is maintained by the key operation base 33 without any likelihood of being damaged upon contact with an external member while maintaining the key operation surface. In addition, the switch bodies of the first and the second step switch are both formed by the membrane sheets 34 and 40, respectively, in the present example, allowing a thin and compact construction while reducing the number of steps of assembly to permit the switch unit to be constructed inexpensively. Furthermore, in the example shown, the peripheral portion of the elastic sheet 32 c or the marginal portion 32 d of the knob 32 is not secured to the case 39 along the full perimeter thereof, but is secured by being positioned at a plurality of points which are four points representing the bosses 39 f of the case 39 in this example, whereby a construction is achieved which allows an elastic deformation of the marginal portion 32 d to occur readily in the direction of depression while making an elastic deformation in a direction perpendicular to the direction of depression or in a direction parallel to the rear plate 39 h hardly occurring. In other words, the knob 32, the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 are readily displaceable in the direction of a normal depression, but are hardly displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the direction of a normal depression. Thus, when the knob 32 is depressed, an adequate degree of tension occurs in the marginal portion 32 d as a result of securing at a plurality of points which are four points in the present example, and if another depressing piece 32 a is depressed, or if the knob 32 is edgewise depressed, a rotation of the key operation base 33 about the point of contact between the pusher 38 and the rear plate 39 h is unlikely to occur. In addition, if the knob 32 were depressed obliquely with respect to the direction of a normal depression, the second step switch can be depressed under a condition that the key operation base 33 assumes a small inclination, affording a good touch and an evenly stroking sensation at this point. In addition, because the key operation surface is defined by the knob 32 of an elastic material which comprises a thermoplastic elastomer, additional effects are obtained that it is comfortable to touch and there is a high grade leather-like appearance. In the second embodiment, in order to reduce the number of parts, a sidewall 39 a is molded integrally with a knob 32 as shown in FIG. 10, and the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c (knob 32) is secured to the end face of the sidewall 39 a along the full perimeter as by an integral molding. A redundant portion 32 h which is U-shaped in section is formed in the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c (knob 32) to extend along the inner periphery of the sidewall 39 a. This facilitates an elastic deformation of the marginal portion 32 d in a direction toward the rear plate and also makes an elastic deformation in a direction parallel to the rear plate more difficult to occur. In other words, the knob 32, the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 are readily displaceable in the direction of a normal depression and are hardly displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the direction of a normal depression. Accordingly, if the knob 32 is edgewise depressed, there occurs no inclination of the knob 32 (the key operating base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35), allowing the second step switch to be operated with a good touch and an evenly stroking sensation. It is to be noted that in the present example, the rear plate 39 h of the case 39 is formed by a metal sheet in order to reduce the thickness. Securing the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 to the case 39 over the full perimeter may take place in the example shown in FIGS. 4 to 8 by omitting the ring-shaped rib 32 g shown in FIG. 8 and holding the marginal portion 32 d sandwiched between the case 39 and the cover 31 over the full perimeter. The example shown in FIG. 10 illustrates that the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b of the knob 32 are integrally constructed with a resin material. Specifically, the elastic sheet 32 c is formed with a passing opening 32 i in a manner corresponding to each depressing piece 32 a, and each depressing piece 32 a is formed by a hard resin such as ABS resin or polycarbonate, with a flange 32 a 1 integrally formed with the depressing piece 32 a toward a depressed surface 32 a 2 and each depressing piece 32 a is passed through the corresponding passing opening 32 i and the flange 32 a 1 is brought into abutment against the elastic sheet 32 c around the edge of the passing opening 32 i. In the present example, a surface opposite from the surface against which the flange 32 a 1 around the edge of the passing opening 32 i abuts is integrally molded with a ring-shaped rib 32 c 1. The elastic sheet 32 c 1 which comprises a thermoplastic elastomer, and the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b which comprise a hard resin are integrally molded to be secured together. By choosing a resin material for the depressing piece 32 a, a desired feeling as the depressing piece 32 a is touched when it is to be depressed can be obtained. In the example shown in FIG. 10, the pusher 38 shown in FIG. 4 is omitted, and a projection 39 i is integrally formed at the center of the internal surface of the rear plate 39 h, with the projecting end face of the projection abutting against the central portion of the convex side of the click plate 37. It will be seen that in this instance also, as one of the depressing pieces 32 a is depressed, the click plate 37 is pressed by the projection 39 i to reverse, whereby the switch body 36 s of the second step switch is turned on. The second mode of carrying out the present invention is distinct from the first mode of carrying out the invention in that a key operation base 33 is disposed on the front side of an elastic sheet 32 c and that the elastic sheet 32 c is retained not by the case, but by the key operation base 33 and a reinforcing plate 35, as indicated in FIG. 11, for example, which illustrates a cross section corresponding to FIG. 4. Specifically, the key operation base 33 is formed with a depression opening 33 c in a manner corresponding to each depressing piece 32 a, and the depressing piece 32 a faces the front side from within the case 39 through the respective depression opening 33 c. In FIG. 11, a depressed surface 32 a 2 which is configured to be similar to a part of a spherical surface projects externally from the surface of the key operation base 33. There is a close clearance between the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 32 a and the depression opening 33 c, and the key operation surface is formed by the surface of the key operation base 33 and the depressed surface 32 a 2 which substantially blocks the depression opening 33 c. An operator of the two-step switch unit touches the key operation surface with a finger of his hand to operate it for depression. It is not the key operation base 33, but the elastic sheet 32 c that contacts the reinforcing plate 35 or the membrane sheet 34. The marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c is held sandwiched between the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 to maintain the elastic sheet 32 c in a slack-free condition. In other respects, the second mode of carrying out the invention may be fundamentally same as in the first mode of carrying out the invention. A specific example of the second mode of carrying out the invention will now be described as a third embodiment. The third embodiment is shown in FIGS. 11 to 16. In the third embodiment, instead of the cover 31 shown in the first embodiment, a case 39 is formed with a surface plate 39 j in an integral manner with its sidewall, and a large circular opening 39 k is formed in the surface plate 39 j. A key operation base 33 is disposed to substantially block the opening 39 k, and the key operation base 33 is formed with a depression opening 33 c in a manner corresponding to each depressing piece 32 a. In the present example, there are nine depression openings 33 c as shown in FIG. 12, one being disposed at the center while the remaining eight openings are disposed on a common circle at an equal interval. As mentioned previously, in the present example, the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b are integrally molded with a hard resin, and this is adhesively secured to or integrally molded with the elastic sheet 32 c which comprises a thermoplastic elastomer 32. Each depressing piece 32 a is disposed in the depression opening 33 c in the key operation base 33 to face the exterior. Only a depressed surface 32 a 2, which forms a part of spherical surface, is slightly exposed from the surface of the key operation base 33 to permit a finger to contact and to slip along the key operation surface so that the existence of the depression piece 32 a can be confirmed by tactile impression. The elastic sheet 32 c is located on the reinforcing plate 35 through the membrane sheet 34 interposed in this instance, and has the small projection 32 b as the only portion where it contacts a first step switch, which is a membrane switch 34 s within a membrane sheet 34 in this example. For this reason, an air gap formation 32 j is formed as a projection on the side of the elastic sheet 32 c which is disposed toward the reinforcing plate 35 in a manner corresponding to each adjacent small projection 32 b or to the center position between adjacent membrane switches 34 s, thus producing an air gap 41 between the elastic sheet 32 c and the first step switch (membrane switch) 34 s. As shown in FIGS. 11, 14 and 16, the air gap formation 32 j is located at a midpoint between adjacent depressing pieces 32 a as viewed in the direction in which the depressing pieces 32 a are arrayed. The marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c has an increased thickness and defines a ring-shaped air gap formation which is centered about the centrally located depressing piece 32 a. As a result of abutment of these air gap formations 32 j against the membrane sheet 34, the small projection 32 b moves close to or contacts the membrane switch 34 s. In this example, the reinforcing plate 35 comprises a molding of a hard resin such as ABS resin or polycarbonate. As shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, the key operation base 33 is integrally formed with a plurality of bosses 33 d as projections on the rear side thereof, and these bosses 33 d are sequentially passed through openings 32 k formed in the elastic sheet 32 c, openings 34 c formed in the membrane switches 34 s and openings 35 a formed in the reinforcing plate 35 in a manner shown in FIG. 15, and their projecting ends are caulked by heat. In other words, heat and pressure are applied to increase the cross section of the bosses, and these portions are engaged with portions of the openings 35 a which have a greater diameter. In this manner, the key operation base 33, the knob 32, the membrane switches 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35 are positioned relative to each other and are also secured together. As shown in FIG. 11, a spacing between the air gap formation on the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c and the closest small projection 32 b is substantially equal to a spacing between that smaller projection 32 b and the air gap formation 32 j which is located on the other side from the marginal portion 32 d and which is closest thereto. Unification of the key operation base 33, the membrane switches 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35 by caulking of bosses under heat which take place in the first embodiment mentioned above takes place in the similar manner as unification of the key operation base 33, the knob 32, the membrane switch 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35 by caulking of bosses under heat in the third embodiment. In the present example, a tact switch is used for the second step switch 36. The tact switch 36 includes an internal resilient member which is reversed in configuration when an actuator 36 a is depressed into a switch case 36 b by an external force to assume a switch-on condition. The reversal of the resilient member provides a tactile impression (clicking sensation) of a switch operation. When the actuator 36 a is released from the external force, the resilient restoring force restores the configuration of the resilient member, thus resuming a switch-off position. The tact switch 36 is disclosed, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Registration No. 2,557,784 (issued Dec. 17, 1997). The tact switch 36 is secured centrally on the internal surface of the case rear plate 39 h, for example, at a predetermined position which is previously marked when the rear plate 39 h is formed. As shown in FIGS. 11, 15 and 16, the projecting end face of the actuator 36 a of the tact switch 36 is abutted by the reinforcing plate 35, which is an integrally formed projection 35 b in the present example. The resilient restoring force of the resilient member contained in the tact switch 36 acts through the actuator 36 a to push back the reinforcing plate 35 toward the surface plate 39 j of the case 39 until a flange 33 e disposed around the outer periphery of the key operation base 33 abuts against the internal surface of the surface plate 39 j. The peripheral edge of the disk-shaped key operation base 33 is folded toward the rear side to extend through a small distance, and the flange 33 e is integrally formed around the outer periphery of such extension 33 f. In the present example, the case 39 is integrally molded with the sidewall of the surface plate 39 j, as mentioned previously, allowing the rear plate 39 h to be detachable. As shown in FIGS. 11, 13 and 14, a notch 39 m is formed in one side of the rear plate 39 h, allowing the membrane sheet tail 34 a to be led out. After the key operation base 33, the knob 32, the membrane switches 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35 are unified in a manner mentioned previously, these are inserted into the case 39 from the rear side, the rear plate 39 h is brought into abutment against the end face of the sidewall of the case 39 as illustrated in FIG. 11, screws 42 are inserted into openings 39 n formed in the rear plate 39 h as shown in FIGS. 13, 14 and 16, and when the screws 42 are clamped into bores 39 p which are formed in the case sidewall, the rear plate 39 h is unified with the case. A printed circuit board is used for the rear plate 39 h. A position marker (not shown) which is applied when forming the printed circuit may be utilized when mounting the tact switch 36 with a face bond. As shown in FIG. 11, the tail 34 a of the membrane sheet is taken out through the notch 39 m and is connected to a connector 43 which is mounted on the outer surface of the rear plate 39 h. While the connector 43 has not been shown in the first and the second embodiment, it is a general practice that the tail 34 a of the membrane sheet is connected to a connector which is mounted on the outer surface of the case 39, as illustrated in FIG. 11. In the third embodiment, when one of the depressing pieces 32 a is depressed into the case 39, a portion of the elastic sheet 32 c which lies between that depressing piece 32 a and the air gap formation 32 j which is close thereto undergoes an elastic deformation (becomes flexed) initially, as shown in FIG. 17A, and a corresponding one of the first step membrane switches 34 s is depressed to be turned on. The on-load which occurs at this time can be reduced to a very low level in the similar manner as in the first mode of carrying out the invention, because such load accrues from only the reactions of the elastic sheet 32 c which has an extremely high pliability and the membrane switch 34 s. When the depressing piece 32 a continues to be depressed into the case 39, the reinforcing plate 35 moves toward the rear plate 39 h against the reaction from the actuator 36 a of the tact switch 36, as shown in FIG. 17B, whereby the actuator 36 a is driven into the switch case 36 b to turn the second step switch 36 on with a clicking sensation. When the depressing piece 32 a is released from the depression, the resilient restoring force of the resilient member within the tact switch 36 causes the reinforcing plate 35 to move toward the surface plate 39 j, turning the second step switch 36 off, and the membrane switch 34 s or the first step switch which has been turned on is turned off again by the restoring force of the elastic sheet 32 c. In the second mode of carrying out the invention, the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet may be carried by the reinforcing plate 35 as by being adhesively bonded thereto, for example. In the third mode of carrying out the invention, the elastic sheet itself represents the surface of the case or the key operation surface, and the marginal portion of the elastic sheet is retained by the case and the key operation base. As illustrated by a section corresponding to FIG. 4 in FIG. 18, for example, a knob 32 faces the exterior through an opening 39 k in a surface plate 39 j, a key operation base 33 is disposed on the rear side of the knob, and a marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c is retained by a marginal portion of the key operation base 33. Disposed on the rear side of the key operation base 33 is a reinforcing plate 35 on which a first step switch 34 s is disposed, and a second step switch means 36 is interposed between the reinforcing plate 35 and a rear plate 39 h. In other words, as compared with FIG. 11, the knob 32 and the key operation base 33 are interchanged in position. A specific example of the third mode of carrying out the invention will now be described in terms of a fourth embodiment. A fourth embodiment is shown in FIG. 18. In the fourth embodiment, a key operation base 33 which is configured in substantially the same manner as the key operation base 33 used in the third embodiment is employed, and a knob 32 is disposed in abutment against the front surface of the key operation base 33. The knob 32 which is shown in this example has a depressing piece 32 a and a small projection 32 b which are integrally molded from a hard resin in the similar manner as the knob shown in FIG. 10. Each depressing piece 32 a is passed through a passing opening 32 i formed in an elastic sheet 32 c which comprises a thermoplastic elastomer, and a flange 32 a 1 which is formed around the periphery of the surface of the depressing piece 32 a is adhesively bonded to the elastic sheet 32 c. A depressed surface 32 a 2 inclusive of the flange 32 a 1 is in the form of part of a spherical surface. Each depressing piece 32 a is passed through a depression opening 33 c in the key operation base 33, and the elastic sheet 32 c, while being in abutment against the front side of the key operation base 33 without any slack, extends along the outer peripheral surface of an extension 33 f of the key operation base 33, and further extends along the front side of the flange 33 e in its marginal portion 32 f, which is in turn retained by the marginal portion of the key operation base 33 or the flange 33 e in the present example. By way of example, the knob 32 may be integrally molded with respect to the molded key operation base 33. Alternatively, the marginal portion 32 f may be adhesively secured to the flange 33 e. Each depressing piece 32 a is passed through the depression opening 33 c in the key operation base 33. The depression opening 33 c is a concentric circle centered about the depressing piece 32 a, and a spacing between an inner peripheral surface of the depression opening 33 c and the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 32 a is chosen to be a certain size so that a region of the elastic sheet 32 c which is disposed therebetween can readily be flexed if the depression applied to the depressing piece 32 a is very weak, and assumes substantially same value for the spacing. Each small projection 32 b for each depressing piece 32 a is in contact with or lies close to the first step switch, which is the membrane switch 34 s in the present example, in the same manner as in the described embodiments. In other words, the fourth embodiment is distinct from the second embodiment principally in the manner of retaining the elastic sheet 32 c. It should be understood that the unification of the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 takes place in the similar manner as in the third embodiment. In the present example, the membrane switch 36 s is used for the second step switch means 36, and this is mounted on the internal surface of the rear plate 39 h. Specifically, the membrane switch 34 s which serves as the first step switch is extended to form the membrane sheet 40 inclusive of the second step switch 36 s, in the similar manner as in the first embodiment, but in the fourth embodiment, the connector 40 a is not directly folded on the rear side of the reinforcing plate 35, but is folded on the internal surface of the rear plate 30 h and is extended along the internal surface. The membrane switch 36 s disposed within the extended membrane sheet 40 is positioned so as to be opposite to the center of the reinforcing plate 35. A click plate 37 is interposed between this portion for the membrane switch 36 s and a projection 35 b on the reinforcing plate 35. The click plate 37 is in contact with the projecting end face of the projection 35 b at the center of the convex side thereof. It will be readily seen that in the fourth embodiment, as the depressing piece 32 a is depressed, the membrane switch 34 s which serves as a corresponding first step switch can be turned on with a very weak force as in the second embodiment. When the depression is continued after the first step switch 34 s has been turned on, the knob 32, the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 move toward the rear plate 39 h in an integral manner, whereby the projection 35 b causes an elastic deformation of the click plate 37, the reversal of which turns the membrane switch 36 s which serves as the second step switch on. If the depressing piece 32 a is now released from depression, the resilient restoring force of the click plate 37 urges the reinforcing plate 35 toward the surface plate 39 j, thus turning the membrane switch 36 s off and also turning the membrane switch 34 s off. It is desirable in the third embodiment that a clearance between the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 32 a and the inner peripheral surface of the depression opening 33 c be chosen to be narrow in order to prevent the ingress of dust, and in consideration of the maneuverability when moving the finger to select a depressing piece and a good appearance. However, in order for the first step switch 34 s to be able to respond to a weak depression to be turned on, it is necessary that the depressing piece 32 a is displaced without interference with the depression opening 33 c if the depressing piece is depressed with a very weak force. In this respect, a reduction in the clearance between the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 32 a and the inner peripheral surface of the depressing opening 33 c is limited in view of the dimensional accuracy and the cost required. However, in the fourth embodiment, the spacing between the peripheral surface of the depressing piece 32 a and the inner peripheral surface of the depression opening 33 c becomes relatively large because of the necessity to make the on-load of the first step switch 34 s as small as possible, and accordingly, it is possible to turn the first step switch 34 s on reliably in response to a weak depression force without causing a problem of interference or contacting each other therebetween. In addition, the key operation surface is covered by the knobs 32 without leaving any clearance, thus precluding the likelihood of the ingress of dust and providing a good touch when selecting the depressing piece 32 a by tangibly feeling it with a finger and also providing a good appearance. In the third mode of carrying out the invention, rather than extending the marginal portion 32 d of the elastic sheet 32 c to the internal surface of the case surface plate 39 j, it may be molded on or adhesively secured to the extension 33 f of the key operation base 33. In the first embodiment, the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b of the knob 32 may be formed with a hard resin in the similar manner as the knob 32 shown in FIG. 10, while the remainder may be formed of a thermoplastic elastomer. Altematively, as shown in FIG. 19A, a portion 32 a 3 of the depressing piece 32 a which projects from the surface of the elastic sheet 32 c may be formed with a hard resin while a remainder thereof 32 a 4 and the small projection 32 b may be formed of a thermoplastic elastomer in an integral manner with the elastic sheet 32 c. Also in the second embodiment, the knob 32 may be entirely formed of a thermoplastic elastomer in the similar manner as the knob 32 shown in FIG. 4, or may be constructed in the manner shown in FIG. 19A. In the third embodiment, the depressing piece 32 a, the small projection 32 b, the elastic sheet 32 c and the air gap formation 32 j of the knob 32 may be entirely formed by an integral molding from a thermoplastic elastomer, as shown in FIG. 19B. Alternatively, the small projection 32 b, the elastic sheet 32 c and the air gap formation 32 j may be formed by an integral molding from a thermoplastic elastomer while the depressing piece 32 a may be molded from a hard resin and unified with the former by adhesion or by a molding operation, as shown in FIG. 19C. In the fourth embodiment, parts of the knob 32 may be entirely formed of a thermoplastic elastomer as shown in FIG. 19D. Alternatively, the elastic sheet 32 c and the portion 32 a 3 which is exposed externally may be formed of a thermoplastic elastomer while the remainder 32 a 4 of the depressing piece 32 a and the small projection 32 b may be integrally formed with a hard resin, as shown in FIG. 19E. In each of the first to the fourth embodiment, the thermoplastic elastomer used in the knob 32 may be replaced by silicone rubber. It is also possible to form only the small projection 32 b with a separate resin material. In each of the first to the fourth embodiment, the membrane switch which serves as the first step switch 34 s need not be limited to the three contact construction including a pair of fixed contacts and one movable contact as shown in FIG. 3A, but may be constructed by one fixed contact 6 d and one movable contact 6 f disposed opposite to each other as shown in section in FIG. 20A, for example. In the arrangement shown in FIG. 3A, lead wires for externally connecting the contacts 6 a and 6 b may be formed on the flexible film 6 a on which the fixed contacts are disposed, but in the construction shown in FIG. 20A, it is necessary to form lead wires for external connection of both the fixed contact 6 b and the movable contact 6 f on the flexible films 6 a and 6 b, respectively. An alternative construction as shown in FIG. 20B may be used. Specifically, a reinforcing plate 35 is formed by a printed circuit board and the fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e and their lead wires (not shown) may be printed on the front surface while a flexible film 46 such as a polyethylene film or the like is applied on top of the reinforcing plate 35 with spacers 45 a and 45b interposed, and a movable contact 6 f is printed on the flexible film 46 so as to be located opposite to the fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e. This flexible film 46 is depressed by the small projection 32 b (not shown in FIG. 20B) of the corresponding knob 32 to become flexed, driving the movable contact 6 f into contact with the fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e and to achieve a switch-on condition. When the depression is released, the movable contact 6 f returns to its original position to resume a switch-off condition. It is to be noted that in this instance, a single fixed contact may be provided as shown in FIG. 20A and the lead wire may be printed on the flexible film 46. As shown in FIG. 20C, a small projection 32 b which comprises a conductive rubber or a metal material may be applied as an insert molding to the center of the surface of the depressing piece 32 a which is opposite from a depressed surface 32 a 2, and the small projection 32 b may have a planar projecting end face which serves as a movable contact while a pair of fixed contacts 6 e and 6 d and their associated lead wires may be printed on the reinforcing plate 35 as shown in FIG. 20B so that the fixed contacts 6 d and 6 e are located opposite to the small projection 32 b acting as a movable contact, thus defining a first step switch 34 s. Alternatively, to serve as a small projection 32 b which also serves as a movable contact, the small projection 32 b may be constructed to have a flat projecting end face, to which a conductive painting or a conductive paste may be applied and hardened to form a movable contact 32 b 1 which comprises a conductive layer, as shown in FIG. 20D. While the first step switch 34 s is shown alone in FIGS. 20C and 20D, it should be understood that such first step switch 34 s is provided for each depressing piece 32 a. While an application to the third embodiment has been illustrated, it may also be applied as each first step switch 34 s in the first, the second and the fourth embodiment. In addition, each first step switch 34 s in the first to the fourth embodiment may comprise a switch similar to a so-called touch panel which can be used as coordinate entry means, information entry means or menu selection means or the like. By way of example, as indicated by an exploded perspective view of FIG. 2 1A, flexible films 47 a and 47 b as may be formed by polyethylene films are closely spaced by a spacer 48 and fixed relative to each other, and a plurality of strip-like electrodes 49 a and 49 b are formed so as to be parallel to each other on the opposing internal surfaces of the flexible films 47 a and 47 b. As viewed in a direction perpendicular to the flexible film 47 a, the electrodes 49 a and 49 b are orthogonal to each other. While not shown, a small projection 32 b of each depressing piece 32 a is disposed in contact with the flexible film 47 a at each point of intersection. Thus if some depressing piece 32 a is depressed, electrodes 49 a and 49 b at a corresponding point of intersection contact each other to achieve a switch-on condition, and when the depression is released, the electrodes 49 a and 49 b which have been in contact with each other move away from each other to resume a switch-off condition. It is only necessary that the electrodes 49 a and 49 b intersect with each other as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the flexible film 47 a or the key operation surface, and the plurality of electrodes 49 a and 49 b need not be parallel to each other, nor it is required that they are straight lines. Since this is not a touch panel which is commonly used, the use of a transparent film or transparent electrode is not required, and because they are not exposed externally, the thickness of each flexible film 47 a, 47 b can be reduced as desired. It is pointed out that a touch panel of the kind described is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 61,603/93 (issued Mar. 12, 1993). A touch panel which uses resistive films is also known and can be used as the first step switch 34 s. By way of example, as illustrated in FIG. 21B in the form of an exploded perspective view, flexible films 47 a and 47 b are closely spaced by a spacer 48 and disposed opposite to each other. Resistive films 51 a and 51 b are formed on the opposing surfaces of the flexible films 47 a and 47 b. Electrodes 52 a and 52 b are formed at one end of one of the resistive films, 51 b, while electrodes 52 c and 52 d are formed at remaining ends. While not shown, small projections 32 b of a plurality of depressing pieces 32 a are disposed on the closely spaced resistive films 51 a and 51 b in contact with the flexible film 47 a. The resistive films 51 a may comprise a conductive film having a small resistance. When one of the depressing pieces 32 a is depressed, a corresponding location of the resistive film 51 a comes into contact with the resistive film 51 b. A voltage which is developed across the resistive film 51 a when a voltage is applied across the electrode 52 a and 52 b under this condition and a voltage which is developed across the resistive film 51 a when a voltage is applied across the electrodes 52 c and 52 d are measured, and on the basis of these voltage values, a detection is made of which one of the depressing pieces 32 a has been depressed or whether the first step switch 34 s which corresponds to that depressing piece 32 a has been operated and turned on. A touch panel of the kind described is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 189,150/93 (issued Jul. 30, 1993), for example. Each of the second step switches 36 shown in the first to the fourth embodiment may be constructed as shown in FIG. 22A. A pair of fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b and their external connection lead wires (not shown) are formed by printed circuit technology on the surface of the reinforcing plate 35 which is located opposite to the rear plate 39 h. A click plate 37 is mounted on the reinforcing plate 35 in a manner to oppose the fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b with a ring-shaped spacer 54 interposed therebetween. The click plate 37 is convex toward the rear plate 39 h, and a projection 39 i is integrally formed on the rear plate 39 h in contact with the center of the click plate 37. When the reinforcing plate 35 moves toward the rear plate 39 h in response to the depression of the depressing piece 32 a, the click plate 37 undergoes an elastic deformation to reverse, whereupon the click plate 37 moves into contact with the both fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b to achieve an electrical conduction therebetween, thus turning the second step switch 36 s on. When the depression is removed, the elastic deformation of the click plate 37 is removed to resume a switch-off condition. The second step switch 36 may also be constructed as shown in FIG. 22B. This represents what is referred to as a rubber contact switch which provides a clicking sensation. This switch is dome-shaped and includes a top 55 a, the top surface of which is disposed in abutment against the rear surface of the reinforcing plate 35 at a central position while the end of the top 55 a which is located opposite from the top surface is connected around its periphery with a ring-shaped base 55 c through a skirt 55 b. A projection 55 d is formed on the inner surface of the top 55 a, and a movable contact 53 c is formed on the projecting end face of the projection 55 d. The base 55 c is disposed in abutment against the central portion of the rear plate 39 h, and fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b are formed on the rear plate 39 h inside the base 55 c so as to be opposite to the movable contact 53 c. The top 55 a, the skirt 55 b, the base 55 c and the projection 55 d are formed as an integral molding of rubber material. The fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b and their external connection lead wires (not shown) are printed on the rear plate 39 h. The top surface of the top 55 a is secured to the reinforcing plate 35 or the base 55 c is secured to the rear plate 39 h as by adhesion. As the reinforcing plate 35 moves toward the rear plate 39 h in response to the depression of the depressing piece 32 a, the skirt 55 b undergoes an elastic deformation to reverse, whereby the movable contact 53 c move into contact with the fixed contacts 53 a and 53 b, thus turning the switch on. The reversal of the skirt 55 b provides a clicking sensation. When the depression is released, original configurations are restored due to the resilient restoring force of the skirt 55 b, thus resuming a switch-off condition. It should be noted that each second step switch 36 shown in the first to the fourth embodiment may also be used in other embodiments. For example, the second step switch 36 shown in the first embodiment may be used as the second step switch 36 in one of the second to the fourth embodiment. The second step switch 36 which has self-restoring force and which provides a clicking sensation has been illustrated. However, while the presence of the clicking sensation is desired in the prior art in due of a reliable operation during a normal key entry, it is not essential. Where a second step switch 36 which does not provide a clicking sensation is used, it is desirable that a switch be used which requires a certain stroke before a switch-on condition is reached or a switch which provides a stroking sensation. On the other hand, if the second step switch 36 which provides the clicking sensation is used, a switch with a reduced length of stroking can be used, allowing a thin switch unit to be constructed. With reference to the second step switch 36 used in the first to the fourth embodiment, if a slight inclination of the knob 32, the key operation base 33 and the reinforcing plate 35 in response to the depression can be allowed, or if an arrangement is made which allows a rotation about a point of contact between the surface plate 39 j and the flange 33 e in FIG. 11 such that a point located on the other end is allowed to move toward the rear plate 39 h, the pusher 35 b may be omitted if the actuator 36 a can be directly driven by the reinforcing plate 35 to turn the switch on without any influence of such inclination upon a corner or shoulder of the switch case 36 b which is disposed on the opposite side from the rear plate 39 h. Similarly, other corresponding pushers can be omitted. Another mode of carrying out the invention according to a second aspect thereof is directed toward overcoming the problems of a conventional depression responsive switch unit which have been described with reference to FIGS. 23 to 25. This will be described as the fourth mode of carrying out the invention with reference to FIG. 26. A case 71 is constructed as a rigid body, or constructed as a molding of a hard resin such as ABS resin, polycarbonate or the like, for example, and a knob 72 which is formed of a similar hard resin is disposed so as to block an opening 71 b formed in the surface plate 71 a of the case 71. The knob 72 is retained by the case 71 by using a thin-walled resilient member 76 such that it is readily deformable in the direction of a normal depression, but is hardly deformable in a direction perpendicular to the direction of a normal depression, or readily displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71, but is hardly displaceable in a direction parallel to the rear plate 71 e. The resilient member 76 is formed of a thin-walled metal, fiber, paper, hard resin, elastomer, silicone rubber or the like which is hard to stretch, but is pliable to bend. The resilient member 76 is configured to be symmetrical with respect to the axis of the knob 72. A switch 73 having a self-restoring function is mounted centrally on the internal surface of the rear plate 71. When the knob 72 is depressed, the knob 72 drives the switch 73, turning it on. At this time, if the depression is applied to one point around the edge of the knob 72, the retaining function of the resilient member 76 causes the knob 72 to move in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e. Accordingly, the switch 73 is always turned on with an even depressing force, allowing a long useful life of a return spring and providing a substantially constant tactile impression and stroking length. FIGS. 26 and 27 show an embodiment according to the fourth mode of carrying the invention. The case 71 is in the form of a square box, and the opening 71 b in the surface plate 71 a is circular and is substantially centered about the axis of the case 71. Screws 74 are inserted into openings 71 f in the rear plate 71 e, and are threadably engaged with bores 71 g formed in the end face of the sidewall 71 i of the case 71 at the corners thereof, thus securing the rear plate 71 e to the sidewall 71 i. The knob 72 has a circular top plate 72 d which is positioned so as to substantially block the opening 71 b. The top plate 72 d is centrally formed with a projection 72 c on its internal surface. For connection with the resilient member 76, a tubular portion 72 e which is centered about the projection 72 c is integrally formed with the internal surface of the top plate 72 d. The tubular portion 72 e has a length which is slightly less than the projection 72 c. In addition, the top plate 72 d is integrally formed with a flange 72 f which has a step in a direction in which the projection 72 c projects. A member connector 71 j is formed on the internal surface of the case sidewall 71 i, and has a connection surface 71 j 1 located toward the rear plate 71 e which is substantially coplanar with the end face of the tubular portion 72 e when the flange 72 f abuts against the internal surface of the surface plate 71 a. As viewed in FIG. 26, the member connector 71 j is cylindrical about the axis of the opening 71 b, and is unified with the internal surface of the sidewall 71 i by contact therewith at four locations around the outer peripheral surface. The resilient member 76 has a configuration which is symmetrical with respect to the axis of the knob 72 and includes at least three linear portions which extend radially at an equi-angular interval from the tubular portion 72 e to the member connector 71 i to connect the case 71 and the knob 72 together. Specifically, it comprises a ring-shaped movable connector 76 a, a ring-shaped case connector 76 b having a greater diameter, and a body 76 c including linear portions which connect between the both connectors 76 a and 76 b. In the present example, the body 76 c includes at least three linear portions, although sixth linear portions are shown in FIG. 7, in the form of ribbons which are disposed at an equi-angular interval. These ribbons of the body 76 c are slightly curved to be convex toward the rear plate 71 e. The connectors 76 a and 76 b and the body 76 c are integrally formed by a resilient material such as thin metal sheet or hard resin. The knob connector 76 a is secured to the end face of the tubular portion 72 e of the knob 72 as by adhesion while the case connector 76 b is secured to the connection surface 71 j 1 of the member connector of the case 71 as by adhesion. A tact switch is used as the switch 73. The tact switch 73 is secured to the rear plate 71 e and has an actuator 73 a, the projecting end face of which abuts against the end face of the projection 72 c of the knob, and a reversal spring within the tact switch 73 causes the flange 72 f of the knob 72 to abut against the internal surface of the surface plate 71 a. With this construction, if the depression is applied to a point around the periphery of the knob 72, as indicated in FIG. 28 by way of example, a component of the depressing force acting upon the knob 72 which is parallel to the rear plate 71 e is applied to the body 76 c of the resilient member 76 in its lengthwise direction, whereby the body 76 c is hardly deformable, thus suppressing the parallel component. However, a component of the depressing force which acts perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e acts upon the free ends of the ribbon-shaped body 76 c which are secured to the case 71 e at their other end, allowing a deformation to occur readily even with a weak force. Thus, the knob 72 is displaced toward the rear plate 71 e against the reaction from an internal spring within the tact switch 73 and without producing an inclination, whereby the actuator 73 a is driven into the switch case 73 b, causing a reversal of the internal spring to turn the tact switch 73 on. Wherever the knob 72 is depressed, the projection 72 c urges the actuator 73 a in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e, and accordingly, the tact switch 73 operates reliably even with a weak force with a good clicking sensation and with an even stroking length. A stress which is applied to the reversal spring within the tact switch 73 is maintained relatively low, increasing the useful life of the reversal spring. It should be noted that in an arrangement which lacks the resilient member 76, it will be seen that when a point around the periphery of the knob is depressed, there acts upon the knob 72 a rotating force centered about a point of contact 78 between a region of the flange 72 f which is located on the opposite side of the projection 72 c from the depressed point and the surface plate 71 a, as shown in FIG. 29, whereby a force in a direction parallel to the rear plate 71 e is applied to the actuator 73 a, giving rise to a problem which is similar to that experienced in the prior art as described above with reference to FIG. 23. However, in the fifth embodiment, a component of the depressing force which is parallel to the rear plate 71 e is suppressed by the resilient member 76, and accordingly, the knob 72 is readily displaced in a direction toward the rear plate 71 e while maintaining its parallel relationship with respect to the rear plate 71 e. As will be apparent from the description of the action of the fifth embodiment, the body 76 c should preferably be as parallel to the rear plate 71 e as possible from the standpoint of making the body 76 c less susceptible to a force acting lengthwise thereof and in a direction parallel to the rear plate 71 to curve (or to deform). However, it is preferred that the knob connector 76 a is readily displaceable with a weak force in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e. Consequently, it is desirable to have a curvature of the body 76 c relative to the rear plate 71 e which allows the switch 73 to be reliably turned on and which is gentle enough to avoid tensioning the body 76 c. In addition, from the standpoint of making the knob 72 to be readily displaceable in a direction toward the rear plate 71 e, it is preferred that a connection be made between a portion of the knob 72 which is located toward the center and a portion of the case 71 which is located toward the sidewall in order to increase the length of the linear body 76 c. FIG. 30 shows a sixth embodiment as another example of the fourth mode of carrying out the invention. In this example, a ring-shaped resilient member 76 which is U-shaped in section has its outer periphery and inner periphery secured to the periphery of the opening 71 b on the internal surface of the surface plate 71 a of the case 71 and to the periphery of the knob 72 on its internal surface, respectively, as by adhesion. In this instance, the resilient member 76 is constructed such that the body 76 c extending between connectors 76 b and 76 a which are connected to the case 71 and the knob 72, respectively, be formed over the entire perimeter, and the resilient member 76 may be formed of a variety of materials as mentioned previously. However, in particular, a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber is suitable at this end. With this construction, when a central portion of the knob 72 is depressed, only a force which is directed perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e is evenly applied to every portion of the knob connector 76 a of the ring-shaped resilient member 76, so that the body 76 c is deformed readily and evenly, allowing the knob 72 to be displaced toward the rear plate 71 e while maintaining its parallel relationship with respect to the rear plate 71 e. If the depression is applied to the knob 72 at a point toward the periphery thereof, a force which causes the knob 72 to be inclined with respect to the rear plate 71 e or which causes the knob 72 to move in a direction parallel to the rear plate 71 e will act. However, when a peripheral surface portion 76 c 1 disposed toward the knob connector 76 a and which is formed as one limb of the U-shaped section and a peripheral surface portion 76 c 2 which is disposed toward the case and which defines the other limb are integrally connected together through an intermediate portion of U-shape, the body 76 c of the resilient member 76 which is U-shaped in section acts to change the portions 76 c 1 and 76 c 2 relative to each other in a plane which is parallel to the rear surface 71 e. Accordingly, it would appear that at one of left and right ends as viewed in FIG. 30, the peripheral surface portions 76 c 1 and 76 c 2 move toward each other while they move away from each other at the other end, and therefore, if this aspect is considered alone, it would appear that the knob 72 will be relatively readily displaced to the right, for example. However, when the viewpoint is shifted to the center and considering opposite ends of a line which extends in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, there acts a force which causes the peripheral surface portions 76 c 1 and 76 c 2 to be offset to the left and to the right, respectively. Because such action must be considered, it will be seen that a greater force will be required to offset the peripheral surface portion 76 c 1 relative to the peripheral surface portion 76 c 2. As a consequence, if the knob 72 is edgewise depressed, the action of the resilient member 76 is effective to cause the knob 72 to move relative to the rear plate 71 e while maintaining its parallel relationship therewith. As discussed above, a finctioning and effect similar to that obtained in the fifth embodiment is available in the sixth embodiment. As will be understood from the described functioning and effect, the ring-shaped resilient member 76 which is U-shaped in section is more effective when the both limbs of the U-shape or the both peripheral surface portions 76 c 1 and 76 c 2 are located closely relative to each other, and therefore should be connected to locations which are as close to the casing 71 and the knob 72, respectively, as possible. The resilient member 76 blocks a space between the surface plate 71 a and the knob 72, thus providing a dust-proof effect. As indicated in broken lines in FIG. 30, when the resilient member 76 including the linear body 76 c shown in FIG. 26 is also used in combination, the maneuverability against an edgewise depression is improved. A resilient member 76 may be constructed as shown in FIGS. 31A and 31B, for example, where a body 76 c disposed between a knob connector 76 a and a case connector 76 b is corrugated in the form of concentric circles with the both connectors 76 a, 76 b, thus connecting the both connectors 76 a and 76 b over the full perimeter. The material to form such an example should preferably be paper or fiber. A further example is shown in FIG. 31C where a resilient member 76 comprises a single flat sheet, which is circular in this example. A circular opening 76 d is formed at the center of the sheet, and the periphery of the circular opening 76 d defines a knob connector 76 a, which may be adhesively secured to the end face of the tubular portion 72 e shown in FIG. 26, for example. Small openings 76 e are formed in the outer periphery of the resilient member 76 at least three locations or at four locations as shown in FIG. 36C. The periphery of the small opening 76 e defines the case connector 76 b to be secured to the case 71. This securing operation may take place in the similar manner as securing the peripheral edge 32 f shown in FIG. 8, for example. A construction material chosen in this instance should preferably be a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber. This makes the knob 72 to be readily displaceable in a direction toward the rear plate 7 e, but hardly displaceable in a direction parallel to the rear plate 71 e. The switch 73 is not limited to the tact switch. What is required is that the switch is turned on when the knob 72 is depressed and that when the depression is released, the resilient restoring force of the spring automatically returns the knob 72 to its original condition. The presence of the clicking sensation is not required. The second step switch 36 shown in FIG. 4 or switches shown in FIGS. 22A and 22B may be used. The fifth mode of carrying out the invention is applied to a depression responsive two-step switch unit where the knob 72 which operates on the second-step switch 73 is retained by a resilient member 76. The arrangement which is the same as the first embodiment mentioned above, for example, may be cited as an embodiment for this mode. Specifically, referring to FIGS. 4 to 7, the second step switch 36 corresponds to the switch 73, and the associated knob 72 comprises the knob 32, the key operation base 33, the first step switch 34 s and the reinforcing plate 35 which are unified. The marginal portion 32 f is secured to the case 39 at a plurality of points while the remainder remains free, and this corresponds to a modification of the resilient member 76 shown in FIG. 31C. Similarly, the second embodiment mentioned previously with reference to FIG. 10 is also equivalent to an embodiment of the fifth mode of carrying out the invention. The knob 72 remains similar to the first embodiment, the second step switch 73 corresponds to the second step switch 36 shown in FIG. 10, and the resilient member 76 comprises the marginal portion 32 f which is U-shaped in section, this corresponding to one shown in FIG. 30. A movable portion including each first step switch 34 s which is used in the first to the third mode of carrying out the invention or the portion which drives the second step switch 36 is chosen as a knob 72 in another embodiment of the fifth mode of carrying out the invention which uses the resilient member 76 used in the fourth mode of carrying out the invention. Such an embodiment is illustrated by a combination of the first and the fifth embodiment, which is shown in section in FIG. 32 even though a duplicated description is omitted. In FIG. 32, a member connector 71 j is formed on the internal surface of the sidewall 71 i at a location toward the rear plate 71 e, and has a connecting surface 71 j 2 toward the cover (surface plate) 31, to which the case connector 76 b of the resilient member 76 is secured. Specifically, when combining one of the first to the third mode with the fourth mode of carrying out the invention, the key operation base 33 and the surface plate 39 j and/or the reinforcing plate 35 or the projection 35 b thereon and the case sidewalls 39 a, 39 b are connected together by the resilient member 76. A first step switch used in the embodiment for the fifth mode of carrying out the invention is not limited to those mentioned above in connection with the first to the third mode of carrying out the invention as well as modifications thereof, but may be a membrane switch which is covered with the surface sheet shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, for example, or may be a touch panel shown in FIG. 21A or 21B which is arranged to be directly depressed from the exterior. A schematic illustration of what is mentioned above is illustrated in FIG. 33 by way of example. In this example, a knob 72 is retained by a case 71 through a resilient member 76 1 having a linear body which is used in the fifth embodiment and a resilient member 76 2 having a ring-shaped body which is U-shaped in section and which is used in the sixth embodiment. In other words, a portion of the knob 72 which is located close to the projecting end of the projection 72 c and another portion thereof which is located close to the internal surface of the top plate 72 d are retained by the case 71 through different kinds of resilient members 76 1 and 76 2. Specifically, the knob 72 is retained by the case 71 through two resilient members 76 1 and 76 2 which are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate 71 e. A first step switch 79 such as a membrane switch or a touch panel is disposed on the top plate 72 d of the knob 72. While not shown, whatever the construction of the first step switch 79, a band-shaped flexible cable (FBC) including external connection lead wires for respective switches in the first step switch assembly 79 is taken out from the interior of the case 71, as illustrated by FBC8 in FIGS. 1 to 3, for example. In the two-step switch unit according to the fifth mode of carrying out the invention, the second step switch 73 may comprise a variety of switches without being limited to the tact switch, in the similar manner as mentioned above. the knob including an elastic sheet which is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber and having a marginal portion which is retained by the case, depressing pieces formed on the elastic sheet in a manner corresponding to each first step switch and having a depressed surface on the front side of the elastic sheet and disposed in each depression opening, and a small projection projecting from each depressing piece in the opposite direction from the depressed surface to be located close to or in contact with the first step switch. 2. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 1, in which the elastic sheet, the depressing pieces and the small projections are integrally formed with a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber. 3. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 1 in which the elastic sheet is formed with an opening in a manner corresponding to each depressing piece, the depressing piece being passed through a corresponding one of the openings, a depressing piece having a flange which is disposed in abutment against and secured to the elastic sheet, each depressing piece, its flange and corresponding small projection being integrally formed with a hard resin. 4. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 1 in which each depressing piece comprises an external portion which is exposed externally of the elastic sheet and a remainder, the external portion being formed by a hard resin while the remainder of the depressing piece being integrally formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber together with the elastic sheet and the small projection. 5. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 1 in which the marginal portion of the elastic sheet is held sandwiched by the case at only a plurality of locations to be secured. 6. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 1 in which the marginal portion of the elastic sheet is formed with a ring which is U-shaped in section around the full perimeter of the knob at a location inside thereof which is retained by the case. the knob including an elastic sheet which is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber and having a marginal portion which is held sandwiched between the key operation base and the reinforcing plate to be secured, depressing pieces formed on the elastic sheet so as to correspond to each first step switch, each depressing piece being disposed in a depression opening formed in the key operation base, and a small projection projecting from elastic sheet for each depressing piece to be located close to or in contact with the first step switch. 8. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 7 in which the elastic sheet is formed with a plurality of air gap formations which project toward the reinforcing plate and which are located on the opposite sides of each small projection and spaced therefrom by an equal distance, the air gap formations being in contact with the reinforcing plate. 9. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 7 in which the elastic sheet is formed with a small opening in a manner corresponding to each depressing piece, the depressing piece having a depressed surface and a mounting surface which is located on the opposite side from the depressed surface and which is disposed in abutment against and secured to the elastic sheet, the small projection being integrally formed centrally in the mounting surface, the small projection extending through the small opening to project toward the reinforcing plate from the elastic sheet, each depressing piece and small projection being integrally formed from a hard resin. 10. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 7, in which the elastic sheet, the depressing piece and the small projection are integrally formed by a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber. 11. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 7, in which the elastic sheet and the small projection are integrally formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber while the depressing piece is formed of a hard resin and is secured to the elastic sheet as is the corresponding small projection. the knob including an elastic sheet which is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber and having a marginal portion which is secured by being held sandwiched between the key operation base and the reinforcing plate, depressing pieces formed on the elastic sheet in a manner corresponding to each first step switch and each having a depressed surface on the front side of the elastic sheet and each disposed in the depression opening, and a small projection projecting from each depressing piece in the opposite direction from the depressed surface to be located close to or in contact with the first step switch. 13. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 12 in which the elastic sheet is formed with openings to receive each depressing piece, each depressing piece having a flange which is disposed in abutment against and secured to the elastic sheet, each depressing piece, its flange and associated small projection being integrally formed from a hard resin. 14. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 12 in which the elastic sheet, the depressing piece and the small projection are integrally formed by a thermoplastic elastomer or a silicone rubber. 15. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 12 in which each depressing piece has an external portion which is exposed externally of the elastic sheet and a remainder, the external portion being formed from a hard resin while the remainder of the depression piece, the elastic sheet and the small projection being integrally formed of a thermoplasitc elastomer or silicone rubber. and a switch disposed within the case on the case rear plate and operated on by a displacement of the knob as it is depressed. 17. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 16 in which the resilient member comprises at least three linear members which are connected to the central portion of the knob and a sidewall of the case at an equi-angular interval. 18. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 16 in which the resilient member is a ring which is U-shaped in section and connected to the marginal portion of the knob and to the opening around the full perimeter. 19. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 16 in which the resilient member comprises a first and a second resilient member which connect between the knob and the case at locations which are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the rear plate. 20. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 16 in which a first step switch is formed on the knob which can be turned on by a weak depression which cannot turn the switch on. 21. A depression responsive switch unit according to claim 20 in which the knob comprises a reinforcing plate, a plurality of first step switches disposed on the reinforcing plate, a key operation base secured to the reinforcing plate and having openings each corresponding to each first step switch, a depressing piece which is at least partly disposed within each opening, an elastic sheet carrying the depressing pieces and formed of a thermoplastic elastomer or silicone rubber, and a small projection projecting from each depressing piece in a direction opposite from the depressed surface to be located close to or in contact with the first step switch.

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Could you imagine that at the top of Unesco, in a room where all the big big big big staff meet every morning to speak about the important stuff of the day there is a big monitor with twitter account??? Yes, I am serious. The big big big staff, is just reading what young delegates twits in order to better understand what is happening over there (Ok they could just go there and watch it, but I mean, this is revolutionary: burocratic people in suits and ties reading twits of 20 years old delegates? I have to be honest, i like it). The group of youth Bloggers has been called at the morning meeting of this Unesco Staff just to explain what they are seeing and doing in this forum. (Yes, what?). And i swear, they were actually listening at you and sometimes smiling (we’re even funny)! So just one suggestion young delegates, RAISE YOUR VOICE, because even if sometimes it doesn’t seem like this, THEY (and i mean, the real THEY, the big and powerful one) ARE LISTENING, AND READING.

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As you may have noticed, I haven’t been blogging as often. So you can imagine my excitement when Lauren Green asked to meet with me to talk about contributing to danceDC. It was inspiring to meet a go-getter like Lauren who not only loves dance, but also has an interest in the whole social media thing (you know I love me some Twitter). So please help me in welcoming Lauren by following her @laurlens, e-mailing her leads at [email protected] and staying tuned to danceDC for her first blog post (also catch her stories on Pink Line Project). Lauren Green is a local DC dance blogger and freelance writer. She has written articles for Dance Studio Life, Dance Teacher and The Buffalo Spree magazines. She has also written dance reviews for the Buffalo News. Now emerging in the blog world, Lauren is developing her following in the DC dance scene. She hopes to spread the word about great local dance events, performances, reviews, and educational opportunities with a clever stroke of the keypad. Making her way in the world of PR and social media marketing, Lauren is currently an intern with Brotman.Winter.Fried Communications in Northern Virginia, where she is expanding her knowledge of events planning and media relations. Lauren has performed with LehrerDance in Buffalo, Undertoe Dance Project and Jessica Taylor in New York City, and Dancin’ Unlimited in the Washington DC Metro Area. Lauren has her BFA in Dance from the University at Buffalo (UB), where she was a member of the Zodiaque Dance Company. Lauren has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, under the direction of Debbie Allen. She has also trained intensively from Thodos Dance Chicago, the Broadway Theatre Project (2007), Ballet Academy East (NYC), Steps NYC, and Point Park University. Hay! As a writer for http://www.everydanceschool.com I’m excited to hear that Lauren will be contributing to Dance DC! I work for a few dance schools actually- and Joy of Motion Dance Center pops up on my social feeds quite a bit! Good news all around. Cheers!

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Elias Ashmole (/ɪlaɪʌs æʃmoʊl/; 23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian leaning towards the study of nature. His library reflected his intellectual outlook, including works on English history, law, numismatics, chorography, alchemy, astrology, astronomy, and botany. Although he was one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society, a key institution in the development of experimental science, his interests were antiquarian and mystical as well as scientific. He was an early freemason, although the extent of his involvement and commitment is unclear. Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artefacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, and collector John Tradescant the Younger. Ashmole donated most of his collection, his antiquarian library and priceless manuscripts to the University of Oxford to create the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmole was born on 23 May 1617 in Breadmarket Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire. His family had been prominent, but its fortunes had declined by the time of Ashmole's birth. His mother, Anne, was the daughter of a wealthy Coventry draper, Anthony Bowyer, and a relative of James Paget, a Baron of the Exchequer. His father, Simon Ashmole (1589–1634), was a saddler, who had served as a soldier in Ireland and Europe. Elias Ashmole attended Lichfield Grammar School (now King Edward VI School) and became a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral. In 1633, he went to live in London as mentor to Paget's sons, and in 1638, with James Paget's help, he qualified as a solicitor. He enjoyed a successful legal practice in London, and married Eleanor Mainwaring (1603–1641), a member of a déclassé Cheshire aristocratic family, who died, while pregnant, only three years later on 6 December 1641. Still in his early twenties, Ashmole had taken the first steps towards status and wealth. He also became allied with Major-General Charles Worsley (who died 12 June 1656 and was buried at Westminster Abbey), brother-in-law of his sister, Mary Ashmole, who married John Booth, of Salford. Ashmole supported the side of Charles I in the Civil War. At the outbreak of fighting in 1642, he left London for the house of his father-in-law, Peter Mainwaring of Smallwood, Cheshire. There he lived a retired life until 1644, when he was appointed King's Commissioner of Excise at Lichfield. Soon afterwards, at the suggestion of George Wharton, a leading astrologer with strong court connections, Ashmole was given a military post at Oxford, where he served as an ordnance officer for the King's forces. In his spare time, he studied mathematics and physics at his lodgings, Brasenose College. There he acquired a deep interest in astronomy, astrology, and magic. In late 1645, he left Oxford to accept the position of Commissioner of Excise at Worcester. Ashmole was given the additional military post of captain in Lord Astley's Regiment of Foot, part of the Royalist Infantry, though as a mathematician, he was seconded to artillery positions. He seems never to have participated in any actual fighting. After the surrender of Worcester to the Parliamentary Forces in July 1646, he retired to Cheshire. Passing through Lichfield on his way there, he learnt that his mother had died just three weeks before from the plague. During this period, he was admitted as a freemason. His diary entry for 16 October 1646 reads in part: "I was made a Free Mason at Warrington in Lancashire, with Coll: Henry Mainwaring of Karincham [Kermincham] in Cheshire." Although there is only one other mention of masonic activity in his diary he seems to have remained in good standing and well-connected with the fraternity as he was still attending meetings in 1682. On 10 March that year he wrote: "About 5 H: P.M. I received a Sumons [sic] to appeare at a Lodge to held the next day, at Masons Hall London." The following day, 11 March 1682, he wrote: "Accordingly, I went ... I was the Senior Fellow among them (it being 35 yeares since I was admitted) ... We all dyned at the halfe Moone Taverne in Cheapeside, at a Noble Dinner prepaired at the charge of the New-accepted Masons." Ashmole's notes are one of the earliest references to Freemasonry known in England, but apart from these entries in his autobiographical notes, there are no further details about Ashmole's involvement. In 1646–47, Ashmole made several simultaneous approaches to rich widows in the hope of securing a good marriage. In 1649, he married Mary, Lady Mainwaring (daughter of Sir William Forster of Aldermaston), a wealthy thrice-widowed woman twenty years his senior; she may have been a relative by marriage of his first wife's family and was the mother of grown children. The marriage took place despite the opposition of the bride's family, and it did not prove to be harmonious: Lady Mainwaring filed suit for separation and alimony but it was dismissed by the courts in 1657. Nevertheless, the marriage provided Ashmole with Mary's first husband's estates centred on Bradfield in Berkshire which left him wealthy enough to pursue his interests, including botany and alchemy, without concern for having to earn a living. He arranged for his friend Wharton to be released from prison and appointed him to manage the estates. During the 1650s, Ashmole devoted a great deal of energy to the study of alchemy. In 1650, he published Fasciculus Chemicus under the anagrammatic pseudonym James Hasolle. This work was an English translation of two Latin alchemical works, one by Arthur Dee, the son of John Dee. In 1652, he published his most important alchemical work, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, an extensively annotated compilation of metaphysical poems in English. The book preserved and made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts. A corrected edition using Ashmole's two errata sheets and the additional chapter seven of a piece by Thomas Charnock was published in 2011. There is little evidence that Ashmole conducted his own alchemical experiments. He appears to have been a collector of alchemical writings and a student of alchemy rather than an active practitioner. He referred to himself as the son of William Backhouse, who adopted him in 1651 as his spiritual son - for the connection he gave him to the long spiritual chain of hermetic wisdom that Backhouse was part of. According to Ashmole, Backhouse "intytle[d] me to some small parte Of grand sire Hermes wealth [sic]". His final alchemical publication was The Way to Bliss in 1658, but thereafter his interest seems to wane in favour of his other pursuits. Ashmole promoted the use of therapeutic remedies drawing on both Galenic and Paracelsian principles, and his works attempt to merge the two schools. The Way to Bliss recommends ways to prevent illness: a balanced diet, moderate exercise and enough sleep. His works were avidly studied by other natural philosophers, such as Isaac Newton. Ashmole met the botanist and collector John Tradescant the younger around 1650. Tradescant had, with his father, built up a vast and renowned collection of exotic plants, mineral specimens and other curiosities from around the world at their house in Lambeth. Ashmole helped Tradescant catalogue his collection in 1652, and, in 1656, he financed the publication of the catalogue, the Musaeum Tradescantianum. In 1659, Tradescant, who had lost his only son seven years earlier, legally deeded his collection to Ashmole. Under the agreement, Ashmole would take possession at Tradescant's death. When Tradescant died in 1662, his widow, Hester, contested the deed, claiming her husband had signed it when drunk without knowing its contents, but the matter was settled in Chancery in Ashmole's favour two years later. Hester was to hold the collection in trust for Ashmole until her death. Ashmole's determined aggressiveness in obtaining the Tradescant collection for himself has led some scholars to consider that Ashmole was an ambitious, ingratiating social climber who stole a hero's legacy for his own glorification. Ashmole embarked on further catalogues, including one of the Roman coin collection of the Bodleian Library, which he finally completed in 1666 after eight years of work. It may have taken so long because Ashmole's progress was interrupted by the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, when Ashmole's loyalty was richly rewarded with political offices. He was appointed Secretary and Clerk of the Courts of Surinam and Comptroller of the White Office. While these two titles do not seem to have provided either an income or any specific duties, he also became Commissioner and then Comptroller for the Excise in London, and later was made the Accountant-General of the Excise, a position that made him responsible for a large portion of the King's revenue. These latter posts yielded him considerable income as well as considerable power of patronage. The King commissioned Ashmole to prepare a catalogue of the coins and medals held in the Royal Collection, and appointed him to lead a commission responsible for tracing items from the collection which had been dispersed or sold by the parliamentary regime. Ashmole also appears to have been involved in the organisation of the coronation, or at least set himself up as an expert upon it. Ashmole became one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society in 1661, but he was not very active in the society. His most significant appointment was to the College of Arms as Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary in June 1660. In this position he devoted himself to the study of the history of the Order of the Garter, which had been a special interest of his since the 1650s, and he proposed a design for the Royal Society's coat of arms. By 1665, he was collecting information for his county history, The Antiquities of Berkshire; and in 1672 he published The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a lavish folio with illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar, for which he had conducted years of research. An earlier attempt to promote himself as the official historiographer of the order had failed but this work firmly established Ashmole as an expert. He had written a large part of it in 1665 while living in the country to escape the Great Plague which was then raging in London. Presentation copies sent to the foreign members of the order were reciprocated by gifts of gold insignia from the King of Denmark, the Elector of Brandenburg and the Elector Palatine. Ashmole performed the heraldic and genealogical work of his office scrupulously, and he was considered a leading authority on court protocol and ceremony. On 1 April 1668, Lady Mainwaring died, and on 3 November the same year Ashmole married Elizabeth Dugdale (1632–1701), the much younger daughter of his friend and fellow herald, the antiquarian Sir William Dugdale. All of Elizabeth's pregnancies ended in stillbirths or miscarriages, and Ashmole remained childless. In 1675, he resigned as Windsor Herald, perhaps because of factional strife within the College of Arms. He was offered the post of Garter Principal King of Arms, which traditionally came with a knighthood, but he turned it down in favour of Dugdale. Ashmole's coat of arms is here shown in the first and last quarters of the shield. His crest placed the god Mercury between the twin constellation of Gemini (here used as supporters). Ashmole possessed his own coat of arms, to which he proved his entitlement by descent from armigerous ancestors, expressed in heraldic terminology as Quarterly, Gules and Or a Fleur de lis Argent in the first quarter with a Greyhound courant for the crest. After the Restoration, Ashmole was granted a new crest in place of the greyhound, one which reflected his interest in astrology: On a wreath Sable and Or the Planet Mercury collocated in the middle of the caelestiall Signe Gemini Proper his right hand extended toward Heaven and left holding a caducan Rod Or. The new grant also altered the tinctures of his arms to Quarterly Sable and Or a Fleur de lis in the first quarter. The Restoration led to the re-establishment of the Church of England, and Ashmole presented new prayer books to Lichfield Cathedral. In 1684, Dugdale wrote to his son-in-law that "the vulgar sort of people" were not "yet weaned from the presbyterian practises, which was long prayers of their own devising, and senseless sermons". Like many royalists, Ashmole's circle was contemptuous of non-conformity. Though Ashmole was "one of the earliest Freemasons, [and] appears from his writings to have been a zealous Rosicrucian", John Gadbury wrote that "Anthony Wood hath falsely called him a Rosicrucian, Whereas no man was further from fostring such follies." Ashmole's involvement with Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism may have been social or the interest of an antiquarian, rather than born out of any religious fervour. However, the notion of a repository of universal knowledge is described in Rosicrucian writings and this idea may have partly inspired Ashmole's desire to found a great museum. In 1669, Ashmole received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Oxford. He maintained his links with the University and, in 1677, Ashmole made a gift of the Tradescant Collection, together with material he had collected independently, to the University on the condition that a suitable home be built to house the materials and make them available to the public. Ashmole had already moved into the house adjacent to the Tradescants' property in 1674 and had already removed some items from their house into his. In 1678, in the midst of further legal wrangling over the Tradescant Collection, Hester was found drowned in a garden pond. By early 1679, Ashmole had taken over the lease of the Tradescant property and began merging his and their collections into one. The Ashmolean Museum was completed in 1683, and is considered by some to be the first truly public museum in Europe. According to Anthony Wood, the collection filled twelve wagons when it was transferred to Oxford. It would have been more, but a large part of Ashmole's own collection, destined for the museum, including antiquities, books, manuscripts, prints, and 9,000 coins and medals, was destroyed in a disastrous fire in the Middle Temple on 26 January 1679. As a result of the fire, the proportion of the collection derived from the Tradescants was larger than originally anticipated and in the opinion of Professor Michael Hunter this misfortune has contributed to criticisms that Ashmole took an unfair share of the credit in assembling the collection at the expense of the Tradescants. In 1678, Ashmole stood as a candidate in a by-election for the Lichfield borough parliamentary constituency caused by the death of one of the two incumbent members. During Ashmole's campaign his cousin, Thomas Smalridge, who was acting as a kind of campaign manager, fell ill and died. Ashmole did not visit the constituency, and, as Ashmole's own horoscope had predicted, he lost the election. He also put himself forward as a candidate in the general election of 1685. Surviving documents indicate that he was the most popular candidate, but after King James II requested he stand down (in an age when monarchs were likely to interfere with parliamentary elections), Ashmole did so. On election day, all the votes cast for Ashmole, instead of being declared invalid, were declared as votes for the King's candidate, and only as a result of this ruse was the candidate favoured by the Court (Richard Leveson) elected. Ashmole's health began to deteriorate during the 1680s. He continued to hold his excise office throughout the reign of James II and after the Glorious Revolution until his death but became much less active in affairs. His home cures included hanging three spiders around his neck which "drove my Ague away". He began to collect notes on his life in diary form to serve as source material for a biography; although the biography was never written, these notes are a rich source of information on Ashmole and his times. He died at his house in Lambeth on 18 May 1692, and was buried at St. Mary's Church, Lambeth on 26 May. Ashmole bequeathed the remainder of his collection and library to Oxford for the Ashmolean Museum. Two-thirds of his library now resides in the Bodleian at Oxford; its separation from the museum collection in the Victorian era contributed to the belief that Ashmole designed the museum around the Tradescant collection, rather than his own. Ashmole's widow, Elizabeth, married a stonemason, John Reynolds, on 15 March 1694. They had no children and on her death seven years later the house and lands in Lambeth passed into Reynolds's hands. Vittoria Feola, in her recent monograph, Elias Ashmole and the Uses of Antiquity (Paris, 2013) has described Ashmole as an antiquary first and foremost, who understood the value of the New Science, which he promoted through his Museum. Feola, however, has warned that antiquity was Ashmole's greatest passion, as well as his main tool for self-fashioning. Michael Hunter, in his entry on Ashmole for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, concluded that the most salient points of Ashmole's character were his ambition and his hierarchical vision of the world—a vision that unified his royalism and his interests in heraldry, genealogy, ceremony, and even astrology and magic. He was as successful in his legal, business and political affairs as he was in his collecting and scholarly pursuits. His antiquarian work is still considered valuable, and his alchemical publications, especially the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), preserved many works that might otherwise have been lost. He formed several close and long-lasting friendships, with the astrologer William Lilly for example, but, as Richard Garnett observed, "acquisitiveness was his master passion". ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Ashmole, Elias" . Dictionary of National Biography. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. ^ Henry Mainwaring was a cousin of Ashmole's first wife who had fought with the Parliamentary forces (Josten, vol. I, p. 33). ^ Michael Hunter calls it the first (see Hunter, 2004), but other sources propose Robert Moray in 1641 as the first Speculative Mason whose name is known (see Westfall, Richard S. (1996–2008), Elias Ashmole, Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry, retrieved 29 February 2008 ). ^ She was the widow of Sir Edward Stafford (d. 1623), John Hamlyn (d. 1633) and Sir Thomas Mainwaring (d. July 1646), recorder of Reading, Berkshire (Josten, vol. I, p. 43). ^ Josten, C. H. (1949). "William Backhouse of Swallowfield". Ambix. 4 (1–2): 1–33. doi:10.1179/amb.1949.4.1-2.1. ^ Unlike previous collections assembled by aristocrats, the museum was open to anyone, regardless of rank, who could afford the entrance fee (Swann, pp. 40–54). ^ Ashmole's collection had escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666; it was evacuated by barge before the fire reached the Temple precincts, which were, in any case, largely spared from the fire (Josten, vol. I, p. 158). ^ Probably live spiders trapped inside nutshells (Josten, vol. IV, p. 1680). ^ According to his tombstone and a Treasury warrant, or 19 May according to John Gadbury (Josten, vol. IV, pp. 1889–1890). ^ Samuel Pepys describes in his diary an evening at Lilly's house on 24 October 1660, where Pepys met Ashmole and thought him "a very ingenious gentleman". ^ Garnett, Richard (1891, repr. 1973). "Ashmole, Elias (1617–1692)." Dictionary of National Biography (London: Oxford University Press). Feola, Vittoria (2013) Elias Ashmole and the Uses of Antiquity (Paris: STP Blanchard, 2013). Hunter, Michael (1983). Elias Ashmole, 1617–1692: The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and His World. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. Webster, Charles (1970), "Ashmole, Elias", Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 0-684-10114-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elias Ashmole.

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Two moon bears are gently removed from the cramped cages where they have been held for 13 years, rescuers carefully checking their rotten teeth and matted paws before sending them to their new home in a grassy sanctuary in northern Vietnam. The animals are among the lucky few to be rescued in a country where hundreds of bears are feared to have been killed or starved to death as the cost of once-valuable farmed bile has plummeted. Bear bile is extracted -- often continuously and painfully -- from the animals' gallbladders and used in traditional medicine in Vietnam, where the illegal practice remains widespread. But consumers are shunning the farmed version in favour of bile taken from the nearly extinct wild bear population, which can cost 12 times more, and farmers can no longer earn what they used to from the illicit trade. If consumer demand for wild bear gallbladders catches on, it could spell the end for wild bears, which are killed for the sought-after organ. The trend is also bad news for caged bears, whose owners can no longer afford to keep them alive. "Farmers said it wasn't profitable to keep the bears any more so they started feeding them less and let them die off," Brian Crudge, research programme manager at Free The Bears, told AFP this week. The number of captive bears has dropped dramatically since 2005 from about 4,500 to less than 800 today, according to official data and Crudge, who recently co-authored a study on the issue. With about 200 bears in Vietnam's rescue centres, he said many likely starved to death or were killed off and sold for their body parts. Bear paws are popularly used as a delicacy in soup or liquor, while bones are used for cooking and teeth and claws for decoration or jewellery. Now it's a race against time to rescue Vietnam's remaining caged bears. "It's quite urgent, we want to get as many of them as we can before it's too late," Crudge said. Some farmers -- who can legally keep bears as pets but are not allowed to extract bile -- have started handing over their bears voluntarily. One farmer told AFP he used to earn $10 for one millilitre (0.03 fluid ounces) of farmed bile, but now only makes about $2, as some consumers prefer to shell out for a supposedly higher quality product from wild bears. "People don't seem to like the bile anymore so it's harder to find customers," said the farmer, speaking anonymously. He used to keep about a dozen bears in cages at his home and now has none, but just smiled when asked when happened to them, refusing to elaborate. Vietnam has come under fire for failing to crack down on the illegal trade, but in a landmark decision last year said it would abolish all bear farms by 2022. It is likely to meet that goal, but not all will make it into sanctuaries with death rates likely to remain steady. But a fortunate few will, like moon bears Hoa Lan and Hoa Tra who were sent to a rescue centre in Ninh Binh province this week. After being rescued from the farm where they have lived since 2005, they will spend a few weeks in quarantine before being allowed to frolic in the grass with their fellow rescuees -- which will require some courage after so many years in a cage. "It's pretty scary for them at first. It can take several weeks until they're brave enough to go around the enclosure," said Emily Lloyd, animal manager at Four Paws Vietnam, which runs the sanctuary.

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The coalition government made the decision to end compulsory work experience in 2012, a decision which some are challenging. The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) workforce survey found that 76 per cent of 2,885 companies felt that a lack of work experience was one of the main reasons that young people were not ready for the workplace. This has led the BCC to call for a return to compulsory work experience. But are schools still using work experience placements, and how useful is work experience anyway? Our recent Teacher Voice survey asked 566 senior leaders a series of questions for the DfE about work experience and the results have now been published. We found that 14 per cent reported that their school did not provide work experience placements for pupils, and when schools were doing work experience, nearly half (49%) said that their school found it difficult to find placements for their pupils. There are numerous reasons why the 14 per cent of senior leaders’ schools may not be offering work experience. Many schools report barriers to setting up the placements which include: engaging employers (particularly small and medium-sized enterprises), staff time, scale and logistics of setting up the placements, and finding a wide variety of placements in different sectors (McCrone, Hopwood, Wade, and White, 2015). Around half of employers surveyed by the BCC offer work experience placements but this leaves half who currently do not. Employers are facing similar barriers to schools including cost and time, and lack of information about what is involved. They additionally reported that burdensome school requirements were also a barrier to them providing work experience placements (BCC, 2015). So how do you go about this in your school? Our NFER ‘Top tips for senior leaders in schools and colleges: How to provide meaningful experience of the world of work for young people as part of a 16 to 19 study programme’ offers practical advice on how to go about setting up good quality work experience including working in partnership with firms, preparing young people before work experience, involvement in real world projects during the experience, tailoring the experience for the student and organisation, and a dedicated team within the school developing work experience. This should help prevent photocopying being the main focus of a week out of school!

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Happy Birthday School House Rock! School House Rock holds a special place in my heart, probably because I grew up with the educational clips in between my regular cartoon schedule as a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. Nothing screams Saturday morning to me more than eating cereal and watching School House Rock. On January 6, 1973, when I was just four years old, School House Rock started teaching lessons on everything from arithmetic to American history and government. They did it with cute cartoons and catchy songs. These cartoons were not very long, in fact, they were peppered through commercials and the regular Saturday morning cartoons. The coolest part of it all. If you know School House Rock, it’s probably because one or more of your teachers watched it too and decided to play it in class. Check out my two favorite School House Rock cartoons. Every time I show this one to my class, almost the entire class is singing along by the end of the song. This entry was posted in Class News and tagged Birthday, cartoons, Conjunctions, Preamble, Saturday Morning, School House Rock by Cindy Espeseth. Bookmark the permalink.

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Opinion: the AstroTurf lawn installed on the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art symbolises the next step in our acceptance and desire for artificial nature, says Alexandra Lange. Dan Graham’s mirrored glass pavilion on the rooftop of the Met is a beautiful thing. A steel-framed S-curve, set between two parallel “hedges” made of ivy; it invites wandering and looking on a surprisingly small footprint. The two-way glass reflects you, the greenery and the surrounding city in unexpected ways, with the borrowed landscape of Central Park reverberating its leafy walls. But the pavilion is not the only element that borrows landscape. Graham worked with landscape architect Gunther Vogt on the rooftop; together they surrounded the rectangle of ivy, glass and stone with a padded, brilliant carpet of artificial turf, from edge to edge. On the sunny day I visited, people were lying all over that turf, attaching themselves to the entrance trellis and ivy walls as if they were trees in the park. The soft surface gave them permission to sit anywhere. I couldn’t decide though, was the effect ersatz park or rumpus room? Did it make the rooftop into a greensward or a really groovy basement? After all, the first artificial lawn many of us saw was in the Brady Bunch’s backyard. Mike Brady, paterfamilias and architect, knew a real lawn wouldn’t last long under the kids’ 12 feet. AstroTurf (or ForeverLawn, or SynLawn – pick your brand name) at the Met felt like a moment. A moment in which we might be able to give up, at least in high-traffic urban settings, on our trophy grass. AstroTurf consorts with design in several other New York locations.Hunters Point South Park in Queens, designed by Weiss/Manfredi and Thomas Balsey Associates, combines an oval of artificial turf with a raised, real-grass surround, splitting the difference between the wear-and-tear of sports and the desire to picnic on real grass. On the just-opened Pier 2 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, basketball courts, exercise areas and a roller rink share space with an open rectangle of artificial turf. Friends in southern California have seen artificial turf used for parking medians, curb edges and even front yards. You find it indoors at those offices whose design gives employees the illusion of breaks during the workday (the better to improve their productivity). You find it outdoors at pop-up restaurants, a visual buffer between the streets that are for cars and the streets reclaimed for cocktails and dinner. Together, these examples point to a new acceptance, even pleasure, in the artificial. The turf, at least when new, can seem cleaner than the grass in a New York City park. It feels more like padded wall-to-wall carpet than like the prickly doormat of mini-golf courses. Designers celebrate its good points – instant green, resilience, maintenance, even (on the Met rooftop) safety, as it is less slick than real grass or even the granite under the Graham – rather than apologising for it as ersatz. This change comes with a realisation that some of what we want from a lawn is visual: that pop of green that indicates the end of the hardscape, a colour meant for pedestrians. When New York’s Department of Transportation made plazas out of what had been parking spaces, they often painted them green for the same subconscious effect. But turf makes a green place you can sit, lie, even run around barefoot on. On Pier 2, each activity gets its own surface. Something similar is happening at Hunters Point. For too long “lawn” was a catch-all for any number of different programs. By taking some of them off the grass we can better evaluate long-term, sustainable and attractive solutions. By separating the romantic association of the lawn with nature, from the nature of activities we actually want to do there (and in what numbers), these examples suggest a possible end to the labour of the green ideal: the seeding, the fertilising, the mowing. For public parks, all that, plus the fussy rotation of protective fencing, as sections of real turf grow brown and are ground into dirt. Unfortunately, though, artificial turf is probably not the answer. We can’t just roll out the green carpet over our brown and boggy dirt patches (though I’ve suggested this to my husband for our own shaded backyard) and declare ourselves drought-resistant, more sustainable, and labour-free. The literature on the relative sustainability of artificial turf versus real grass seems inconclusive. There’s the material and manufacturing cost. There’s the lifecycle cost. There are questions about increases in injuries on artificial playing surfaces, and the toxicity of rubber particles kicked up during use. Some say you still have to water artificial turf when wet (it heats up, just like the rubber tiles on playgrounds that now come with a warning against bare feet). In my recent experience, the artificial grass is so integrated into an outdoor experience it hardly feels industrial or cocooned. Its adoption beyond the playing fields for which it was first created – the now-threatened Astrodome in Houston was an early showcase – feels instead like a mass admission that we do have a problem. Drought, flood, a half-million visitors or a very large family: all are good reasons to seek an alternative to blades of grass. It seems clear that designers and architects must engage with alternatives. At the High Line, the small section of lawn at 23rd Street has always seemed strange to me, given the artificiality of everything else. Piet Oudolf imported a meadow. Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed a new plank. Why not create a new picnic zone? It’s not a lawn for Ultimate Frisbee but for the ultimate people-watching. Does it really need grass? In the catalogue for the Canadian Center for Architecture’s 1999 exhibit,The American Lawn, Mark Wigley noted, “The lawn is an artificial nature of astonishing complexity and sophistication.” Artificial turf, therefore, is merely the next most obvious step. Now that we greet it with a shrug and a flop, designers need to push things further, finding solutions that aren’t replacements for everything that a lawn does, but for the many individual programs it has been forced to do. Does this lawn have to be uniform? That lawn to be soft? That fake grass to be green? Once we rid ourselves of the traditional greensward image, and focus on use, textural and material possibilities roam free. We’ve come so far, over the past decade, from the Olmstedian park, its own artificial nature made with back-breaking labour to look as if nothing happened. The new ubiquity of artificial turf suggests there’s still one more park taboo to be broken.

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Hi there! Today’s post is about two Yardley products I found at my local 99p Store (before it closed and reopened as a Poundland store). Yardley shower gels are normally around £4, and their body lotions are around £6, so I was happy when I found these two limited edition products for 99p each. I’ve been using Yardley’s Invigorating Blue Orchid Moisturising Body Wash and the matching Hydrating and Enriching Body Lotion for a week now. And I’m ready to let you know what I think about these two products. The body wash is OK. I wouldn’t say it’s moisturising, but it’s definitely not drying at all. The (non-descript) floral fragrance is alright, but it’s rather faint. The body lotion is OK too. It feels moisturising and it’s absorbed quickly. However, the fragrance isn’t great (a mix of paper and a non-descript floral scent) and the lotion leaves a film (like Garnier’s Body Tonic) on my skin. In summary, I’m not impressed with these Yardley products. I’m glad I only spent £1.98 in total for the body wash and the body lotion. I will continue to use the body wash, but I will repurpose the body lotion and continue to use it as a foot cream. If you’d like to try Yardley’s Invigorating Blue Orchid Moisturising Body Wash and the matching Hydrating and Enriching Body Lotion yourself, you should swing by your local discount store. I’ve seen these two products at two local Poundland stores as recently as this week.

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Summary: Landsailor, sail on time. A pilot needs a ship and a crew, and sometimes the people you meet can change you forever. Han Solo + team. This contains no clips or spoilers from the new movie; it's all Episode IV-VI only. Please let me know of any technical (downloading, playback, etc) issues you encounter. Some people on my flist haven't seen the new movie yet, so please avoid spoilers in comments -- thank you! This entry is also posted at http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1052169.html with comments. I loved it. I don't think I've ever heard the song before, but I liked it. If the weather isn't as bad as they're saying, lots of snow, I'll be seeing the new movie. Thank you so much! ♥ I hope you are able to get out and see the new movie, and that you enjoy it if you do!

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Trinity play Stockport in the FA Cup this Saturday, eager to avenge a 3-1 defeat at County on 9th September with Jordan Thomas set to feature after Lincoln agreed to allow him to play in the Cup. The Blues sit a point and two places in front of The Hatters in 13th and will be the outsiders. In some ways it is the best draw they could possibly expect at this stage of the competition given the support of the Hatters. With a 4,000 crowd expected Trinity could get a 40% cut of the gate to boost their finances post Peter Swan with the addition of £7,500 in prize money should they pull off a giant killing. A win would also put them in the hat for the 4th qualifying round and the chance of a tie at Luton, Grimsby, Boston or Lincoln. Alas Jordan will not be able to play against Lincoln should we meet in the FA Cup, although the Lincoln influence is certainly lifting Trinity. Ex-Imp striker Bradley Barraclough got on the score sheet in the 2-0 win at Harrogate, heading home Stamps flick, with another old face, Simon Russell, getting the second from the spot. Jordan Thomas was instrumental in the first goal during the 2-0 FA win over Rushall Olympic, crossing for Barraclough’s effort to be saved only for Stamp to feed on the scraps. Simon Russell has also been playing superbly, indeed it was his thunderbolt against the post at Leamington, allowing Stamp to pounce again, that led to a 1-0 win at Leamington that lifted Trinity from bottom of the table the previous week. Connor Robinson, unlike Jordan, is unable to play in the FA Cup, however he set-up the first in Trinity’s 2-1 win over Barrow, to earn the Blues their first win and points of the season. On a somewhat random note, Gainsborough have never been relegated in their entire history.

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Light skin is a naturally occurring human skin color, which has little eumelanin pigmentation and which has been adapted to environments of low UV radiation. Light skin is most commonly found amongst the native populations of Europe and Northeast Asia as measured through skin reflectance. People with light skin pigmentation are often referred to as white or fair, although these usages can be ambiguous in some countries where they are used to refer specifically to certain ethnic groups or populations. As populations migrated away from the tropics between 125,000 and 65,000 years ago into areas of low UV radiation, they developed light skin pigmentation as an evolutionary selection acting against vitamin D depletion. Based on ancient DNA analysis conducted in 2014 on human skeletal remains from western Europe, this change from dark to light skin pigmentation likely occurred only recently for at least some Europeans. 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The distribution of indigenous light-skinned populations is highly correlated with the low ultraviolet radiation levels of the regions inhabited by them. Historically, light-skinned indigenous populations almost exclusively lived far from the equator, in high latitude areas with low sunlight intensity; for example, in Northwestern Europe. Due to mass migration and increased mobility of people between geographical regions in recent centuries, light-skinned populations today are found all over the world. An abundance of clinical and epidemiological evidence supports that light skin pigmentation developed due to the importance of maintaining vitamin D3 production in the skin. As a consequence, there must have been a strong selective pressure for the evolution of light skin in areas of low UV radiation. The evidence that dark skin evolved as a protection against the effect of UV radiation is overwhelming, and research shows that eumelanin protects against both folate depletion and direct damage to DNA. This accounts for the development of dark skin pigmentation of people living near the equator but does not account for the increasingly lighter-skinned people living outside the tropics. In the 1960s, biochemist W. Farnsworth Loomis suggested that skin colour is related to the body’s need for vitamin D. The overwhelming positive effect of UV radiation in land-living vertebrates is the ability to synthesize vitamin D3 from it. A certain amount of vitamin D which penetrates the skin helps the body to absorb more calcium which is essential for building and maintaining bones, especially for developing embryos. Vitamin D production depends on exposure to sunlight. Humans living at latitudes far from the equator developed light skin in order to help absorb more vitamin D. People with light (type II) skin can produce previtamin D3 in their skin at rates 5–10 times faster than dark-skinned (type V) people. People living far from the equator were under evolutionary pressure to develop light skin, which allowed more penetration of UV radiation and helped to produce more of the essential vitamin D. The evolution of blond hair in some populations is related to the development of light skin, but in other populations is independent. In 1978, NASA launched the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. In 1998, anthropologist Nina Jablonski and her husband George Chaplin collected spectrometer data to measure UV radiation levels around the world, and compared it to published information on the skin colour of indigenous populations of more 50 countries. The results showed a very high correlation between UV radiation and skin colour; the weaker the sunlight was in a geographic region, the lighter the indigenous people’s skin were. Jablonski went on to prove that people living above the latitudes of 50 degrees have the highest chance of developing vitamin D deficiency. "This was one of the last barriers in the history of human settlement," Jablonski states. "Only after humans learned fishing, and therefore had access to food rich in vitamin D, could they settle regions of high latitude." People living far from the equator developed light skin to produce adequate amounts of vitamin D during winter with low levels of UV radiation. Genetic studies suggest that light-skinned humans have been selected for multiple times. Some populations who had diets rich in vitamin D were less affected by the evolutionary selection for light skin. Vitamin D3 is available in low quantities in fish and liver. Populations who lived in coastal areas or areas with access to abundant sources to seafood could get their proportion of vitamin D from food. Some Arctic populations, such as the Inuit, could retain some of their skin pigmentation in areas of low UV radiation. In the spring they receive high levels of UV radiation as reflection from the snow, and their relatively darker skin protects them from the sunlight. There were two other main hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the development of light skin pigmentation: resistance to cold injury, and occurrence of a mutation effect; now both of them are considered unlikely to be the main mechanism behind the evolution of light skin. The resistance to cold injury hypothesis claimed that dark skin was selected against in cold climates far from the equator and in higher altitudes as dark skin was more affected by frostbite. It has been found that reaction of the skin to extreme cold climates has actually more to do with other aspects, such as the distribution of connective tissue and distribution of fat, and with the responsiveness of peripheral capillaries to differences in temperature, and not with pigmentation. The supposition that dark skin evolved in the absence of selective pressure was put forward by the probable mutation effect hypothesis. The main factor initiating the development of light skin was seen as a consequence of genetic mutation without an evolutionary selective pressure. The subsequent spread of light skin was thought to be caused by assortive mating and sexual selection contributed to an even lighter pigmentation in females. Doubt has been cast on this hypothesis, as a more random patterns of skin coloration would be expected in contrast to the observed structural light skin pigmentation in areas of low UV radiation. The clinal (gradual) distribution of skin pigmentation observable in the Eastern hemisphere, and to a lesser extent in the Western hemisphere is one of the most significant characteristic of human skin pigmentation. Increasingly lighter skinned populations are distributed across areas with incrementally lower levels of UV radiation. Melanin is a derivative of the amino acid tyrosine. Eumelanin is the dominant form of melanin found in human skin. Eumelanin protects tissues and DNA from radiation damage by UV light. Melanin is produced in specialized cells called melanocytes, which are found in the lowest level of the epidermis. Melanin is produced inside small membrane-bound packages called melanosomes. Humans with naturally occurring light skin have varied amounts of smaller and scarcely distributed eumelanin and its lighter-coloured relative, pheomelanin. The concentration of pheomelanin varies highly within populations from individual to individual, but it is more commonly found among East Asians, Native Americans, and Northern Europeans with red hair. For the same body region, individuals, independently of skin colour, have the same amount of melanocytes (however variation between different body parts is substantial), but organelles which contain pigments, called melanosomes, are smaller and less numerous in light-skinned humans. For people with very light skin, the skin gets most of its colour from the bluish-white connective tissue in the dermis and from the haemoglobin associated blood cells circulating in the capillaries of the dermis. The colour associated with the circulating haemoglobin become more obvious, especially in the face, when arterioles dilate and become tumefied with blood as a result of prolonged physical exercise or stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system (usually embarrassment or anger). Up to 50% of UVA can penetrate deeply into the dermis in persons with light skin pigmentation with little protective melanin pigment. The characteristic of fair skin, red hair, and freckling is associated with high amount of pheomelanin, little amounts of eumelanin. This phenotype is caused by a loss-of-function mutation in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene. However, variations in the MC1R gene sequence only have considerable influence on pigmentation in populations where red hair and extremely fair skin is prevalent. The gene variation’s primary effect is to promote eumelanin synthesis at the expense of pheomelanin synthesis, although this contributes to very little variation in skin reflectance between different ethnic groups. Melanocytes from light skin cells cocultured with keratinocytes give rise to a distribution pattern characteristic of light skin. Freckles usually only occur in people with very lightly pigmented skin. They vary from very dark to brown in colour and develop a random pattern on the skin of the individual. Solar lentigines, the other types of freckles, occur among old people regardless of skin colour. People with very light skin (types I and II) make very little melanin in their melanocytes, and have very little or no ability to produce melanin in the stimulus of UV radiation. This can result in frequent sunburns and a more dangerous, but invisible, damage done to connective tissue and DNA underlying the skin. This can contribute to premature aging and skin cancer. The strongly red appearance of lightly pigmented skin as a response to high UV radiation levels is caused by the increased diameter, number, and blood flow of the capillaries. People with moderately pigmented skin (Types III-IV) are able to produce melanin in their skin in response to UVR. Normal tanning is usually delayed as it takes time for the melanins to move up in the epidermis. Heavy tanning does not approach the photoprotective effect against UVR-induced DNA damage compared to naturally occurring dark skin, however it offers great protection against seasonal variations in UVR. Gradually developed tan in the spring prevents sunburns in the summer. This mechanism is almost certainly the evolutionary reason behind the development of tanning behaviour. Variations in the KITL gene have been positively associated with about 20% of melanin concentration differences between African and non-African populations. One of the alleles of the gene has an 80% occurrence rate in Eurasian populations. The ASIP gene has a 75–80% variation rate among Eurasian populations compared to 20–25% in African populations. Variations in the SLC24A5 gene account for 20–25% of the variation between dark and light skinned populations of Africa, and appear to have arisen as recently as within the last 10,000 years. The Ala111Thr or rs1426654 polymorphism in the coding region of the SLC24A5 gene reaches fixation in Europe, but is found across the globe, particularly among populations in Northern Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. Whilst not all of these genes directly affect melanin production, most of them code for proteins that may play a significant role in melanogenesis and control melanin concentration. Some of these genes are found to be more prevalent in certain population than others. Skin pigmentation is an evolutionary adaptation to the various UV radiation levels around the world. There are health implications of light-skinned people living in environments of high UV radiation. Various cultural practices increase problems related to health conditions of light skin, for example sunbathing among the light-skinned. Humans with light skin pigmentation living in low sunlight environments experience increased vitamin D synthesis compared to humans with dark skin pigmentation due to the ability to absorb more sunlight. Almost every part of the human body, including the skeleton, the immune system, and brain requires vitamin D. Sunlight is necessary for the production of vitamin D. Vitamin D production in the skin begins when UV radiation penetrates the skin and interacts with a cholesterol-like molecule produce pre-vitamin D3. This reaction only occurs in the presence of medium length UVR, UVB. Most of the UVB and UVC rays are destroyed or reflected by ozone, oxygen, and dust in the atmosphere. UVB reaches the Earth’s surface in the highest amounts when its path is straight and goes through a little layer of atmosphere. The farther a place is from the equator, the less UVB is received, and the potential to produce of vitamin D is diminished. Some regions far from the equator do not receive UVB radiation at all between autumn and spring. Vitamin D deficiency does not kill its victims quickly, and generally does not kill at all. Rather it weakens the immune system, the bones, and compromises the body’s ability to fight uncontrolled cell division which results in cancer. A form of vitamin D is a potent cell growth inhibitor; thus chronic deficiencies of vitamin D seem to be associated with higher risk of certain cancers. This is an active topic of cancer research and is still debated. With the increase of vitamin D synthesis, there is a decreased incidence of conditions that are related to common vitamin D deficiency conditions of people with dark skin pigmentation living in environments of low UV radiation: rickets, osteoporosis, numerous cancer types (including colon and breast cancer), and immune system malfunctioning. Vitamin D promotes the production of cathelicidin, which helps to defend humans' bodies against fungal, bacterial, and viral infections, including flu. When exposed to UVB, the entire exposed area of body’s skin of a relatively light skinned person is able to produce between 10 - 20000 IU of vitamin D. Light-skinned people living in high sunlight environments are more susceptible to the harmful UV rays of sunlight because of the lack of melanin produced in the skin. The most common risk that comes with high exposure to sunlight is the increased risk of sunburns. This increased risk has come along with the cultural practice of sunbathing, which is popular among some human populations. This cultural practice to gain tanned skin if not regulated properly can lead to sunburn, especially among very lightly-skinned humans. The overexposure to sunlight also can lead to basal cell carcinoma, which is a common form of skin cancer. Another health implication is the depletion of folate within the body, where the overexposure to UV light can lead to megaloblastic anemia. Folate deficiency in pregnant women can be detrimental to the health of their newborn babies in the form of neural tube defects, miscarriages, and spina bifida, a birth defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. The peak of neural tube defect occurrences is the highest in the May–June period in the Northern Hemisphere. Folate is needed for DNA replication in dividing cells and deficiency can lead to failures of normal embryogenesis and spermatogenesis. Individuals with lightly pigmented skin who are repeatedly exposed to strong UV radiation, experience faster aging of the skin, which shows in increased wrinkling and anomalies of pigmentation. Oxidative damage causes the degradation of protective tissue in the dermis, which confers the strength of the skin. It has been postulated that white women may develop wrinkles faster after menopause than black women because they are more susceptible to the lifetime damage of the sun through life. Dr. Taylor, of Yale School of Medicine, concluded that the study could not prove the findings but they suspect the underlying cause. Light-coloured skin has been suspected to be one of the contributing factors that promote wrinkling. 1959 map of human skin color distribution for native populations, by R. Biassutti in the Von Luschan's chromatic scale for classifying skin color. There is a correlation between the geographic distribution of UV radiation and the distribution of skin pigmentation around the world. Areas that are further away from the equator and are generally closer to the poles have lower concentration of UV radiation. 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That actually clarifies a lot for me about Duchamp. I always saw him as more of a joker than an artist. This has helped me see him in a different light. I replied already, but I didn’t notice the “reply” button. I assume you now know that I have replied. I’m still learning WordPress. Thanks for that. There’s NOT a lot of literature on Duchamp that simply asks, “Gee whiz, why would he do that?”. Most books and articles are very theory and jargon heavy, soft science about art. For an artist wondering why he is considered important this is a theoretical cul de sac. A useful artist’s question would be, “Why did he do that, and is that relevant to my own practice?”. Way back in 1998 (and I know this because I just checked the publication date when I grabbed the book to confirm the spelling of his name) I read “Kant after Duchamp” by Thierry de Duve. Great title, about two guys I find very interesting, and I really enjoyed reading it – I was excited about it. Thing is, now I don’t remember one point made in the book. Theory’s not my line, I’m an artist. It was fun, but irrelevant to my practice. I am with David Yerle here. I have mistaken him for the problem itself, and never really thought of him as a man posing a problematic question. I always separated him and the questions that followed. I watched the videos as well and they made me uncomfortable. David Yerle actually just wrote a good post about the problems in defining ‘things,’ so I have been thinking about it this evening quite a bit. A sculpture has its parameters, but what are they? Does it need to be physical? Is it subject to time at all? Or just the time required to look at all its parts? I guess it boils down to that question of ‘What is Art?’ Where I fear there will never be consensus, and so I suppose it is the job of artists –some at least– to remind us all that we have no idea. I’m also following David Yerle’s thing on things. I think our three posts compliment each other. I like the Duchamp of joker or stand up, residue is the hallmark of activity, if you are not the witness in the first person than what you are experiencing is a souvenir, what a sculpture is today in our expanded understanding of the world comprises of a much larger appreciation of the souvenir. It’s total attributes being all the activity associated with the object event, purchases, planning, environmental footprint, preparation of materials, residue from the activity of making, possible health hazards to involved individuals. Duchamp I believe knew of the anemic end of the object he had created and experienced, Anemic Cinema is what we are left with. Duchamp, Dali, Warhol were all jokers, and I love them for that.

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Ballot propositions: The voice of the people or the tyranny of the majority? When I moved to Phoenix in 1986, the sales tax was 6.7%. Today it stands at 9.3%. How have we let our state legislature, county, and city councils raise our taxes so? Well, actually, they didn’t. We did! Correct me if I’m wrong, but every sales tax increase in Arizona, Maricopa County, and Phoenix, except the recent food tax, has been approved by us at the ballot box. That’s democracy for you. Aristotle, Polybius, and the Founding Fathers all warned about the evils of democracy. Tocqueville called it the tyranny of the majority. In our case, the majority votes to raise taxes, collected mostly from the rich, to distribute as gifts among themselves. But hey! We are doing it for the kids. We are doing it because we need more cops and firefighters to protect us. Spending ever-increasing amounts of money on schools, most of which goes to bureaucrats, is not “spending” but an “investment.” An investment in the future. Just about every year we have tax increases on the ballot. Some fail, but some pass. The result is steadily rising taxes. But when we voted to raise taxes for more police and fire, Phoenix announced cutbacks just a few months later. Taxes rose while the number of police and fire remained largely unchanged. It was all a big shell game. A trick to raise our taxes. So why do we fall for it time after time? More than 2000 years ago, Polybius wrote that the people become “accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others.” We just can’t help ourselves. If we didn’t receive our free schools for the kids, our free police and fire services, our cheap public transportation, our welfare, our unemployment, and our food stamps, we’d all suffer the consequences. Most of you may find this a shock, but I hate democracy. I hate referendum and initiative. Politicians use it to skirt responsibility, saying that they weren’t the ones who raised taxes. Public unions use it to push for bigger government. Our Founders knew the evils of democracy. Democracy had its place in American cities of the 1700s, at a very small local level, but the Founders knew that it could not work for large numbers of people. It only worked in small communities where just about everybody knew everybody else. The largest American city back then had just 100,000 people or so. Phoenix with well over a million people, Maricopa County with three million people or so, and Arizona with six million or more are just too large for democracy. That’s why the Founders made the US a republic. Except possibly for small communities, all our governments should be republics. Democracy is based on majority rule. Republics are based on rule of law. I prefer the protection of stable and well-known laws than the whims of the public. The public’s job is not to vote for higher taxes or more “free gifts” either. As Jefferson said, the people are the “ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.” That is our job. To protect our liberty. Protect our liberty from foreign invasion. Protect it from our government. Protect it from each other. So what is the true purpose of ballot propositions? Are they to defend our liberty? Sure doesn’t seem that way. Or are they designed to trick us and grow government? Based on our history, it sure seems that way.

2019-04-25T18:30:22Z

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I was researching TV shows created with SOFTIMAGE and remembered a 1990s kids show called Reboot, which I watch during my early childhood days. It was aired around the time the internet was just getting started and it was a good introduction to the world of slow dial-up modems (the ones that made those crackling noises), the web and technology. ReBoot was a story about computer programs Dot, Bob and the evil villain Megabyte in the city of mainframe computer protecting the internet from various software virus infecting the system by Megabyte. I found using animation to explain technology was a clever way to introduce what would become a norm for society using the internet, but back in the day TV was our entertainment. Mainframe Entertainment was quite ahead of the curve trying to build their own animation pipeline with Softimage (All of the modeling and animation were done on SOFTIMAGE 3D) to produce full shows in weeks rather than years and on a regular basis. This was thanks to Silicon and Software plus they were not doing high end realistic renderings like toy story and could get away with the characters being a little plastic looking. The graphics may be a bit dated by today’s modern standard, but this allowed Mainframe to render each show faster than Pixar. A 81 minute show made by Pixar took a few years but done in weeks by Mainframe Entertainment. Of course this was a TV Show which had a faster turn around time. But still it looked rather ok for its time and was enjoyable to watch it’s all about the characters right. The Studio went on to win various awards and even got a deal to produce transformers Beast Wars. In order to hedge agiain Disney and the marketing juggernaut of the mouse, the team at Mainframe prepared to make an ecosystem of toys merchandise and videos games around the show. “And for adults there was something too: pop culture references and computer terminology that flew straight over younger viewers’ heads, of course, but also the potential to profit from this strange new world. “If you study motion pictures and animation, obviously Disney is the first and last name you’ll hear,” ReBoot‘s producer Christopher Brough told the Vancouver Sunin 1996. His company, Mainframe, was preparing a “unilateral assault” against the animation giant, with “toys, video games, interactive products, all of it at once to create a brand recognition, a kind of marketing beachhead” that would use computer-generated shows like ReBoot to take Disney head-on. Even though computers were starting to replace traditional 2D Animation it did help the medium and many others followed suit to make their own s hows thanks to falling Computer prices. Disney was at the time going through a 2D animated revival while toy story was getting started to be made. It seem Reboot was jumping the curve earlier before Disney would release toy story. Today if you want to make you own show it’s possible but it’s difficult and you may need a multi prong approach like launching into various mediums Vr comics tv shows web shows toys ride etc. There was a hugh upfront cost to get the equipmment but now thanks to cheaper computers many new entrants entered the market. In fact this caused an increase in competition to Mainframe at that time and they took on other jobs like making ride films or interactive projects. Today Reboot is getting rebooted with a new show but it was launched with mixed reactions. But something is a miss from the charm of the old show. While it was interesting and some say online that its like Code Lyoko even from the creators of the show. Wow you really liked Code Lyoko, didn’t you? In a podcast. Bay Raitt talked about new media having to compete with the old media. There is something timeless about old designs when done right and I feel that as a new creations, there is maybe a need to design for the present otherwise you are competing with old classics. Which made me think about reboots and rehashes of old things being irrelevant. I’ve always thought there’s a beautiful eloquence of having a connection to something that was designed 50, 60, 75 years ago, that is essentially undiluted. They don’t need to be over-altered for the sake of upcoming generations. They don’t have to be unified. If you have to always make characters younger because, ‘well, young people won’t connect with older protagonists,’ well, that is such horseshit. So like reboot would need to figure out how to appeal to a newer audience but maybe instead of reimagining we should invent new things to appeal the the current times. It was hard to believe that Reebot saw the future of Computer Animation as a entertainment force but over shadowed by Pixar Toy Story. I think it was due to competition and the software getting cheaper and many entrants entered the market of making animated films. Making it with the tools available. Reboot built their animation pipeline with Softimage the 3d app of the day back then. Have a strategy beyond just selling an animation to monetize. Meaning toys, books, making of’s, games etc. Take on other jobs that can ustilise the technology to keep the company going. Shows do end someday. If you are looking for a free 2D animation platform similar to TVPaint there is a fork of a project of Studio Ghibli Toonz software called OpenToonz. It seems that they have added some brush engine from Kirta and it looks more capable than the Open source version OpenToonz. Recently I have been looking at cenceled projects to see if I can learn anything from the ideas and how it got generated. Imagi Animation a HK Based studio had quite a few cool projects that were under development that got shutdown. When I think about cancelled projects it makes me want to be like George Lucas who could not get the license for Flash Gordon so he created Star Wars. In the end everything is a remix. Gatcha man cancelled trailer looks like big hero 6 style. Cancelled project Cat’s Tale. This one seems to be an original show by Imagi though not much is developed it looks like it could have potential to appeal to the children’s market. I recently saw an animated short, in the style of Pixar, on my whatsapp. Its a heartwarming story about a dog helping a crane get food. What is interesting is that Big eCommerce companies are stepping up in building brand awareness through storytelling animations. The Tencent e-commerce subsidiary commissioned Australian production house Passion Pictures to produce a four-minute film which pits the brand’s adorable mascot, Joy, against a hungry heron during a quiet fishing trip. Named ‘Joy Story: Joy & Heron’, the Pixar-style film shows the small dog trying hard not to rock his master’s boat while defending it from the worm-stealing bird. However, after spotting the heron is only trying to feed its hungry – and fussy – chicks, Joy comes around gives away the whole pot of worms. And in the spirit of Chinese New Year, the heron then reciprocates the gesture of kindness. Just watched a nice little short film Here’s the Plan about married couple’s (Dog and Cate) life working towards building their life and pursuing your dreams. The film was directed by Fernada Frick. This film was a good reminder as we go about trying to fund our dreams we can tend to forget what got us started. Don’t forget your WHY. the medium blog has some good behind the scenes of making the short film. ✨✨ “A married cat-dog couple of cupcake bakers dream of opening their own bakery. One day their oven breaks and they have to postpone their dream in order to earn money and replace it. Somewhere down the line, they drift apart from their dream and from themselves.” — “Here’s the plan” (“Este es el Plan”) is a 18-minute CG animated short film from Chile. Directed by Fernanda Frick and financed by the National Council of Culture and Arts, it took almost 2 years of work and a talented team of 32 professionals to finish it. It had it’s World Premiere at Nashville International Film Festival and it’s national premiere at Festival Chilemonos 2017.

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I see the evolution of thought that brought about the name “bropages,” and I’ll admit that I too most often learn best just by looking at an example. bropages is an extrapolation of man pages, focusing on practical examples and very terse explanations, rather than just wordy explanation. And I am on board with that. I prefer man pages that include examples instead of just dry explanation because, as has been the problem even recently, words get in the way, and the problem compounds itself. So bropages has its own niche that I can appreciate. The actual bropages tool — which installs as bro — wins points from me for keeping things simple, but attractive: It is more or less transparent, it sends its responses to your $PAGER, and colorizes the results to make things easier to read. Those are all three big pluses for me. And for what I have seen, bro makes it easy to contribute to the collective bro-knowledge, with bro add being the gateway to submitting your own individual genius … provided you have an account, of course. There’s a social networking element (for lack of a better word) here too, with the option to promote or demote examples. For what I can tell, examples with high ratings appear at the top of the list, which might be an indicator of their usefulness. Might be. I’ve already skimmed through one or two bropages and seen examples that I wouldn’t use, or would at least do differently. You could probably say that about anything, but I think the caveat to bropages is to remember that you’re relying on the collective intelligence of a vast swath of complete strangers. Buyer beware. The AUR version of bropages worked fine for me; I don’t see bropages in Debian but I think this might be a new endeavor. This entry was posted in Linux and tagged document, example, help, man on 2014/10/10 by K.Mandla. Ta-da, a man page with clickable links, and navigation that you’ll know and love. If you want to take that home to meet your parents, I can tell you that the Arch version dumps that file into /tmp in an individual folder, usually with a filename that resembles your original command. Copy that to anywhere you like, and you have a permanent local man page accessible by browser. And you thought all those online manpage collections were Internet wizards, and here they are just script kiddies taking advantage of a built-in feature of man. By itself that’s only partially useful, but jam the results through our old friend ps2pdf. This entry was posted in Linux and tagged document, help, man on 2014/07/24 by K.Mandla. I’ve seen plenty of Word-to-text converters over the past year and a half. I think wv might be the first to offer conversion to text and whatever else you might want. There’s also a utility to show the embedded data in a Word document. Not shabby, eh? That’s not too promising for anyone who wants to convert out of Microsoft Commercial Office Professional Gold Pack Business Edition 2016. Or whatever they’re calling it these days. I know that hamstrings an otherwise useful array of conversion programs, but unless you’re willing to pick up wv’s banner and bring it abreast of changes in its counterpart program, it might not ever change. This entry was posted in Linux and tagged convert, document, file on 2014/07/03 by K.Mandla. Last time I mentioned a Word-to-text converter, I felt like I had to make a point that, despite its age, it worked just fine. Oddly, I feel the need to make the same argument again. Truth be told, outside of .doc files, you might find catdoc somewhat disappointing; like antiword, it too doesn’t handle .docx files. Spinning one through just caused segmentation faults. catdoc comes with a counterpart for Excel files called xls2csv. It’s equally effective with straight .xls documents, but I didn’t try it with newer versions. I will acknowledge that time has left catdoc (and probably xls2csv too) in the lurch, but again, I have to acknowledge … they work. This entry was posted in Linux and tagged document on 2013/09/16 by K.Mandla. Antiword. I know the bulk of your criticism will be that, technically, this software is easily a decade out of date. The home page declares antiword capable of converting a long range of Microsoft Word formats — up to and including Word 2003 — to plain text or postscript. Which nowadays isn’t very useful. I will acknowledge your criticism if you will acknowledge that antiword, despite its age, still does its job. It’s one thing for a program to fall out of its span of usability, break into pieces with dependency updates, and lay panting on the roadside like a crash victim (where did this prose come from?). But antiword is aging gracefully. Yes, its not capable of decoding docx. And I know it stutters at times with converted doc files in some situations — I’ve seen it happen, even in the past few years. But it still does what it claims, works against modern distros, is at home in most current repos, even if it hasn’t been updated in a decade. And as someone accustomed to working with hardware well outside the curve of modern technology, I can tell you that a 10-year-old document converter with no updates that still works is better than a 10-month-old fancy-pants composite manager under fervent development that doesn’t. So take it for what it’s worth. This entry was posted in Linux and tagged document on 2013/08/19 by K.Mandla.

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What a wonderful friendship they had. People who criticize books for their subject matter tend not to read them. They would rather let some yahoo tell them what the book said and that becomes the truth. I really enjoyed this post. I had always wanted to read the piece Lucy’s sister wrote (thanks for the link), and I got such a strong sense of Lucy watching the Charlie Rose interview (thanks, again). Like you, I reached no conclusions. I would form them (depending on which book I was reading), and then toss them out. I loved both of the books, though, and expect I will visit them again and again. I remember Natalie talking in Taos about learning to hold the good with the bad in people. Just holding both without judgment. I think that’s where I’ve landed with both Ann and Lucy. I do wish I could have heard Lucy speak while she was alive. I had planned on my trip to Iowa City this weekend to try to find the green house on Governor Street that you wrote about. Sadly the flooding in Iowa is creating real danger. The Iowa Writer’s Workshop is a stone’s throw from the Iowa River, and they are expecting it to flood the campus. The focus of everyone is on sandbagging; class cancelled. That’s too bad, Teri. Will it be rescheduled? I’ve said it before, but I love that you make this extra effort when you go on trips to visit the places famous authors have lived. If the class is rescheduled and you eventually get to go, I’d love to hear about it. Both books were fantastic. Patchett’s still amazes me when I think about how much she got across about her friendship and herself and Lucy. The structure of that book is perfect. It’s almost as if there is no structure, it’s just one long story. And Grealy’s book I could read three more times and get something out of each reading. I also liked hearing her voice and seeing her; it clicked with the voice in the book. From Truth & Beauty, what still sticks with me is Ann’s patience with Lucy. How did Ann get past judging her friend or finally throwing up her hands? And I guess in the end, she kind of didn’t get past it. Ann did seem to finally reach her limits. But, Bob, back to your comment, that was the beauty of this friendship — the patience, love, and magic. what a well-written, thorough post. thanks for this. i read grealy’s autobiography, then patchett’s book only about a month ago. i loved them both. i also read grealy’s sister’s article in the guardian, which i thought was very well-written. i wish there was an opportunity to read every story from so many different perspectives. i hadn’t read patchett’s article in atlantic. i’m excited to take a look at that. i’m glad that grealy’s story is continuing to find new readers — it’s an important tribute to her life, her struggle, to be remembered forever. ybonesy, I just read your piece slowly and deliberately with my morning coffee. What a treat. Thanks so much for all the work you put into this post. Well-written, informative, presenting both sides effectively. I love the structure and the way you laid it out using the Ant and the Grasshopper. Also the illustration. Beautiful. It is a piece I will come back to again. I read all the articles in the links in the body of the post. I want to save the Must Read, See, and Hear for later. I have read Truth & Beauty and I loved it. Have not read Autobiography of a Face yet. But it is on my list. I had the honor of hearing Ann at the Fitzgergald Theater last year. She is honest, funny, witty, and allows herself to be vulnerable. I hope people read Ann Patchett’s articles in the Atlantic monthly (you provide the links in your piece). One is a great piece she wrote about what happened at Clemson. The other a wonderful interview about her relationship with Lucy. She is very eloquent in her understanding. 1) How threatened people are by close relationships between women (and by strong women in general) and how quick they are to judge. Love in any form is the greatest gift we can give or receive. It is not for others to judge. 2) The Clemson incident with Ken Wingate seems critical for every writer to read and understand. When you take risks in your writing, it is out there for all to judge. To Clemson’s credit, they did not ban Truth & Beauty. They stuck by Ann. When we get into banning books, literature, art, we are no longer living in a democracy. Ann’s response in the Atlantic monthly is a must read. And particularly how rude the kids in the Clemson audience were to her. How did we become such a rude society. I was really angry with her at that point. She was destroying herself and there was nothing I could do to stop it. But that’s exactly who Lucy was and who she wanted to be. She strove to draw out that passion in people. That’s how she lived her hard, fast life. She made me realize how much I could love someone, care for someone, take care of someone. And she really did that for all of us, all of her friends, and it was a wonderful thing. I do not think I would have become as strong of a person had I not known Lucy. ….my only regret was any moment that I was ever tough with her. If I could have sat with her while she was shooting heroin, I swear to God, looking back on it, I wish I had. I wish she had never been alone in any moment that felt shameful or painful, because once you realize that you’re not going to save someone, then all you can do is love them. And I know that’s not a blanket statement and can’t apply to everyone, but I feel it does in this case. Strong statement. And controversial. Especially for many who have had to deal with addiction among friends and family members. Have you ever been attracted to a friend who is so spontaneous – pure in-the-moment grasshopper – that you can’t help but be drawn to their energy? There’s something about how natural Grasshopper is, without filters and boundaries, that makes Ant more natural. I have known and loved friends like that – wild and spontaneous. And though they sometimes scared me, they also made me feel more alive. To know what it is to feel deep passion is so important. Were there any insights you learned about yourself, your creative life, your friends, from writing this piece? (from Comment #7) I had planned on my trip to Iowa City this weekend to try to find the green house on Governor Street that you wrote about. Sadly the flooding in Iowa is creating real danger. The Iowa Writer’s Workshop is a stone’s throw from the Iowa River, and they are expecting it to flood the campus. The focus of everyone is on sandbagging; class cancelled. So sorry to hear your Iowa class was cancelled. I was thinking about that last night when I was watching the flooding of rivers and the tornado footage and the Boy Scout camp that was wiped out in Iowa. Serious business. Like ybonesy, I’m wondering, too, if they will reschedule it for another time. How disappointing. Great post. I read Truth and Beauty last year and was very moved……I keep meaning to order the Grealy autobiography. Thanks. The word at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop is that the rest of the summer session is up for grabs. They thought the river would crest today, and then they will know where they stand with damage. It is clear they want to reschedule the courses. I was so psyched to leave early today…I felt paralyzed when I woke up this morning. I thought about driving to Madison County to see the gorgeous bridges again, but I couldn’t switch my mental gears. I will definitely check in about the green house if I go to Iowa City later this summer. Thanks, lissa. Interesting that you also read the books recently. I can’t remember what it is that prompted me to read the books this year. Maybe it was commentary on this blog. In fact, it might have been Teri’s comment in another post (I’ll have to find it) that she was reading Grealy’s followed by Patchett’s. That seemed like a good idea. QM, glad you found a good time in your day to read the post. Slowly over coffee sounds perfect. It is the longest post I’ve written for red Ravine, I think, and looking at it in all its screen-after-screen glory, I feel bad that I couldn’t say what I wanted to in a more blog-appropriate length. So, I do appreciate you giving it your full attention. Yes, the commotion Ken Wingate made was amazing, and how it grew and grew. That really surprised me. I would never have thought the book could be so controversial, and in fact, I didn’t know that about the book until I wrote this piece, and even at that, not until I was well into the writing of this post. Suellen Grealy’s essay also was new information, and I guess I wasn’t as surprised that that kind of conflict could occur. That seems to be inherent in memoir and creative non-fiction. I’m still digesting the book and its many implications, QM. There’s so much to learn about friendships, so much I would like to apply to my own ability to be a friend. But it will take me some time to understand what I can take away from these books and these two women’s stories. ybonesy, it *was* surprising that things got that out of hand with the events at Clemson. And that it came down to wanting a book to be banned. As if that’s going to protect children from experiencing the world. It seemed like part of what happened was that sections of Ann’s book (what they felt were explicit parts that illustrated their point) were posted on an Internet website, completely out of context. I thought Ann handled it well by citing all of the classic literature books they would have to ban in order to protect their kids from reading things they found offensive. I had not read the piece by Suellen Grealy before either. That would also be good for memoir writers to read. Even though the family gave permission for Lucy’s letters to be released, they weren’t happy about their decision later, or the outcome. The whole thing is as complicated as the tangled web of human relationship and emotion. And all from a book that Ann wrote in a matter of, what was it, 6 to 8 weeks, in order to deal with the grieving process of losing her friend. It’s a lot to think about. No easy answers. Oh, yb, wonderful post. I have not read either book, but I will now. Don’t feel one bit bad about the length of this post. I’ll admit, when I first glanced at it last night, I thought, “Oh, I don’t have time for this now,” but, then I began reading and I did not stop, digesting it one word at a time, including all the links. You structured it beautifully, very enticing, and at the end, I felt satisfied. It was reading that was worth every minute spent. I saved my comment for today, so that I could read through it one more time. Thank you for your careful effort. Thanks, Teri, for the referral to the Laramie County Library. Your co-worker will not be disappointed! We are still celebrating being Library Journal’s 2008 Library of the Year -it’s quite an honor! ybonesy, what wonderful drawings. When I arrived at the post this morning, I wondered at the beauty of the doodles. You have quite a talent for doodling. Have you ever illustrated books? Thanks, Bob. No, I’ve never illustrated books. It’s been fun to illustrate some of our blog posts, though. Thanks for the comments, everyone. I just spent a day painting a Peanut Butter & Jelly pre-school, and I am exhausted. Jim is reading Omnivore’s Dilemma (Michael Pollen), and after a long bath, I plan to settle in with Patricia Hampl’s The Florist’s Daughter, which I started at the cabin a couple of weeks ago. I have so fallen in love with memoir. I can see why it has spiked in popularity. And I’ve also come to realize how hard it is to write memoir that really makes someone think, Why bother? There was a quote in one of the radio links, I think it might have been the Fresh Air or one of the others, where the narrator quoted a review of Autobiography of a Face who talked about what made this book so good compared to other memoirs. I don’t have the quote handy now, but it was about the reader seeing something out of someone else’s eyes. Achieving that versus simply describing an experience — you know the difference. I think both these memoirs have given me that lens. I’ll report back on whether the one I’m reading now does the same. Well said, ybonesy. Looking forward to what you discover about Patricia Hampl’s book. That’s one I want to read, too. I just got home from the Walker and a performance piece by Meredith Monk with videographer Ann Hamilton — Songs of Ascension for vocal ensemble and string quartet. Beautiful. They got a standing O. I’m still vibrating. And looking forward to the weekend. It’s a beautiful evening in Minneapolis. We drove home through downtown and things are hopping, so different than the quiet calm and centering strings of Ascension. Which comes first? The remembering or the writing? According to Grealy, it’s the writing. That’s how powerful it is. Thanks much for the inspiration. That is a bold response. When I first read it, it reminded me of the whole conversation we had in the zendo about Diana Abu Jaber’s interview where she talked about how she sometimes blended memories into one. Except Lucy’s statement was bolder and more to the point. You write it. QM, after Em read me a chapter from her book, The Doll People, I tried to read my book but couldn’t keep my eyes open. Much better this morning after sleeping like a rock 8) . Oh, forgot I wanted to mention — good observation about the remembering and the writing. Which comes first. Or is it a beautiful blend, both happening at once. Writing Practice does uncover memories I didn’t know I even had. Part of the beauty of the Practice. So am I writing and remembering and then writing again? Fun to ponder out in the garden today. QM, you and Teri are going to enjoy Hampl’s The Florist’s Daughter. Hampl is from the Twin Cities, and one of the threads has to do with not having left “home.” That thread is connected to her parents, and being geographically close to them, especially as they age. But it’s great for me to read this because when she mentions things like Mickey’s Diner or other landmarks, I feel like I know of them, thanks to posts you’ve done on this blog about Minneapolis/Twin Cities. I’ll save future comments about the memoir for our “Book Talk” post, but I just wanted to mention this to you here. Also, I’m not very far into it, but last night I did manage to get halfway through a new chapter. I’m going to have to read during the day instead of saving it for nighttime. I’m too sleepy by the time bedtime rolls around these days. ybonesy, I’m looking forward to it. I want to try to pick it up at an independent bookstore. I’m hoping to visit Birchbark and find it there. So cool that you now know some of the other Twin Cities landmarks from the posts and comments. BTW, I have found the same thing lately. By the time I get into bed, I’m just too tired to read. I almost have to dedicate quiet time to reading during the day. Sometimes it’s just so hard to put a book down though. My favorite times are when I’m reading on a weekend day when I don’t have other plans and can just keep going on a book. Then I’m always sad when it ends. Teri, we just watched some footage of the flooding and sandbagging at the Univesity of Iowa in Iowa City (Comments #2 & #8). The Iowa River isn’t even expected to crest until Tuesday morning. Though it must be disappointing, I am glad you are safe up here in the Twin Cities. And I hope they reschedule the Writers’ Workshop you were going to attend at a later date when things are back to normal down there. They interviewed one woman who said they were sandbagging around the U of Iowa library to save all their collections and archives of old and rare books. There is the potential for so much loss when destructive weather hits. Patricia Hampl is one of those names I keep running into everywhere lately; I haven’t read any of her books. I love that you recognized landmarks from the Twin Cities, ybonesy! I went to Birchbark Books this morning, and saw The Florist’s Daughter (it’s under the canoe, QM). I bought The Elements of Style, a book Stephen King talks about constantly in his book On Writing. I have felt discombobulated all weekend not being in Iowa as planned. I, too, saw some footage of the university and the great efforts the students are making to sandbag. FYI, the building that held the Iowa Writer’s Workshop for years is called the English-Philosophy Building. Think: Flannery O’Connor, Ann Patchett, Lucy Grealy, Robert Bly. It is a building with four floors, and the top floor was devoted exclusively to the writing program. Last year, I went up there several times and walked up and down the halls that were semi-dark. Lots of good juju. The master’s program is now in a little house on campus, a home that used to be where the gardener or dean or someone like that lived. The English-Philosophy Building is where they still have the summer classes for people like me; and it’s right next to the Iowa River. The flooding just seems to get worse each day, Teri. I saw on the news this morning that much of what’s flooded into people’s homes and businesses is raw sewage. Do you know, are the storms abating at all? Teri, I love Elements of Style. It was the sytle book my copyeditor used religiously many years ago when I was an advertising copywriter. She used to walk me through all the changes, and, believe me, for every piece I did there were tons! She was older, probably the age I am now, and I was in my mid-20s, so rather than simply handing me the changes with no explanation, she took the time to walk me through the why of each edit. I so appreciate her mentorship, especially now. QM, so true about what you say re: dedicating time to read during the day. And your post “Book Talk” went into good detail on the importance of doing so. Jim managed to finish his book this weekend, and that’s exactly what he did — he dove into it and gave himself the time to read. For some reason, I’m not diving into my books the way he is. I don’t know if it’s that I’m just not taking the time, or whether the books aren’t grabbing my attention. I know with certain books, I definitely get glued to them. I’m thinking that the gardener would love this line (the dean maybe less so) since their houses are probably not often confused within the academic community. Good point, breathepeace. Score one for the gardener’s team. It’s going to be sunny and dry all week in Iowa City, and the predictions are that the town will fare much better than Cedar Rapids, just to the north. I’ve heard conflicting reports on when the Iowa River is going to crest, but I think by Tuesday night the town will be on the other side of the hurdle. The copy of The Elements of Style I got at Birchbark Books is illustrated. It makes a book on technique quite inviting. There are two forwards, one by E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web), and another by Roger Angell, E.B.’s son-in-law. The illustrations and the introductions alone make the book worth buying the book. I loved hearing your history with the book, ybonesy. Do you still have the copy you used when you were in your twenties? I didn’t know Roger Angell was E.B. White’s son-in-law. Remember we read a Roger Angell essay for our Intensive? It started with him peeing in the garden at some high society party. I don’t think it had anything to do with baseball, although I might be mistaken since that’s his forte. This is the same woman the owner hired to give me grammar lessons every Tuesday over lunch for almost a year. I was so ashamed when the lessons first started, but now I am so grateful. I keep my copy of the book at work. I guess it makes me feel more writerly to have my hardback dictionary and my style book on the shelf above my desk. I had my synonym finder there, too, but I brought that one home recently. I’ll probably do the same with the other two. BTW, Teri, I will before too long do a post about Stephen King and the short story. Perhaps I should read Stephen King’s book on writing first. I might see if I can find it. Would you recommend the book? I don’t remember the Roger Angell essay. Did you keep a copy? I have been wishing I had a copy of the Saul Bellow essay Natalie read to us–the one where he was walking through Paris. I give Stephen King’s book the highest praise. It is a page turner, makes you laugh out loud, and you never want the book to end. It was the first Stephen King book I’ve read–ever. Cool, I will definitely look it up. I bought Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird recently. I’ve been intrigued to see what different writers have to say about the craft, and even though they say it with different words and in different ways, those I’ve read seem to say the same thing about tapping that writer within and writing without editing. Also, about guarding creative space. Yeah, Teri, even after four years of college, my street talk was pretty ingrained. I used to get my papers back from College English with red marks all over, and always the “So-and-so and I” written across my “Me and so-and-so” — it just never clicked. Our copyeditor started with sentence structure, object and subject, and it wasn’t until I understood those very basic concepts that it finally did click. Learning a second language also helped, because I learned that language from the basics up. The Roger Angell essay was in the 2006 Best American Essays that Ann Patchett guest edited. I think that was the year and she was the editor. I might have bought that book, so when I’m back home I’ll check my shelves. In this timely collection, Ms. Hampl “weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she considers the habit of autobiographical writing that enchants and bedevils her. Hampl reflects on her family’s response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, the subterfuges and falsities of memoir. We’ve talked about these aspects of memoir-writing in other posts, and I wasn’t sure where best to leave this comment, so I hope anyone who is interested in writing memoir will check out this book. It’s written just for us. Ann Patchett sounds like an opportunist. How does everyone seem to miss how Ann took advantage of her friendship with Lucy? She used Lucy people! I also read Autobiography of a Face many years ago. At that time, I fell in love with Lucy. I then innocently tried to read Truth and Beauty and it wreaked with Ann inserting herself where she didn’t belong. The unhealthy, co-dependency begins with Lucy’s first request of Ann. Lucy was manipulated into living with Ann. Ann tells on herself all over Truth & Beauty. .

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Grand Prix legend takes life at a more gentle pace as he attempts the Bonhams London to Brighton Run in his 1904 veteran car. Motor racing star Ross Brawn OBE, has swapped the high-octane world of Formula 1 for a rather more leisurely form of transport. Mercedes-Benz UK has crowned the Apprentice of the Year for Technical and the Apprentice of the Year for Parts, culminating in a week-long work experience at the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ team alongside Team Principal Ross Brawn, who started his own career as an apprentice. Some of the brightest stars of Motor Sport appear in a new video promoting the work carried out by the UK’s automotive and related industries charity, BEN.

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A section of London Road in Billericay with a slight gradient was closed off to traffic to allow for a soapbox derby, whereby home-made carts raced down the course powered purely by gravity and a push from the start ramp. The course included two jumps and a chicane. Local businesses and schools were among the teams taking part. The event was run by the Rotary Club of Billericay to raise funds for charity.

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According to the Greek mythology, the Korybantes (/ˌkɒrɪˈbæntiːz/; Greek: Κορύβαντες) were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia. The conventional English equivalent is "Corybants". The name Korybantes is of uncertain etymology. Edzard Johan Furnée and R. S. P. Beekes have suggested a Pre-Greek origin. Others refer the name to *κορυβή (korybé), the Macedonian version of κορυφή (koryphé) "crown, top, mountain peak", explaining their association with mountains, particularly Olympus. The Korybantes were the offspring of Apollo and Muse Thalia or Rhytia (Rhetia). In some accounts, they were described as the children of Athena and Helios; further, some call the Corybantes sons of Cronus, but others say that they were sons of Zeus and Muse Calliope. Many assert that the gods worshipped in Samothrace as well as the Kurbantes and the Korybantes and in like manner the Kouretes and the Idaean Daktyls are the same as the Kabeiroi, but as to the Kabeiroi they are unable to tell who they are. A decorous Corybantian dance, as pictured in William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities  (1870). These armored male dancers kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek thought, was one of the civilizing activities, like wine-making or music. The dance in armor (the "Pyrrhic dance" or pyrrhichios [Πυρρίχη]) was a male coming-of-age initiation ritual linked to a warrior victory celebration. Both Jane Ellen Harrison and the French classicist Henri Jeanmaire have shown that both the Kouretes (Κουρῆτες) and Cretan Zeus, who was called "the greatest kouros (κοῦρος)", were intimately connected with the transition of boys into manhood in Cretan cities. The English "Pyrrhic Dance" is a corruption of the original Pyrríkhē or the Pyrríkhios Khorós "Pyrrhichian Dance". It has no relationship with the king Pyrrhus of Epirus, who invaded Italy in the 3rd century BC, and who gave his name to the Pyrrhic victory, which was achieved at such cost that it was tantamount to a defeat. This myth is Greek interpretation of mystifying Minoan ritual in an attempt to reconcile their Father Zeus with the Divine Child of Crete; the ritual itself we may never recover with clarity, but it is not impossible that a connection exists between the Kouretes' weapons at the cave and the dedicated weapons at Arkalochori". Among the offerings recovered from the cave, the most spectacular are decorated bronze shields with patterns that draw upon north Syrian originals and a bronze gong on which a god and his attendants are shown in a distinctly Near Eastern style. Korybantes also presided over the infancy of Dionysus, another god who was born as a babe, and of Zagreus, a Cretan child of Zeus, or child-doublet of Zeus. The wild ecstasy of their cult can be compared to the female Maenads who followed Dionysus. Ovid, in Metamorphoses, says the Kouretes were born from rainwater (Uranus fertilizing Gaia). This suggests a connexion with the Pelasgian Hyades. The Kouretes dancing around the infant Zeus, as pictured in Themis by Jane Ellen Harrison (1912, p. 23; see References section below). The scholar Jane Ellen Harrison writes that besides being guardians, nurturers, and initiators of the infant Zeus, the Kouretes were primitive magicians and seers. She also writes that they were metal workers and that metallurgy was considered an almost magical art. There were several "tribes" of Korybantes, including the Cabeiri, the Korybantes Euboioi, the Korybantes Samothrakioi. Hoplodamos and his Gigantes were counted among Korybantes, and Titan Anytos was considered a Kourete. Homer referred to select young men as kouretes, when Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out kouretes, the bravest among the Achaeans to bear gifts to Achilles. The Greeks preserved a tradition down to Strabo's day, that the Kuretes of Aetolia and Acarnania in mainland Greece had been imported from Crete. ^ Edzard Johan Furnée, Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen mit einem Appendix über den Vokalismus, 1972, p. 359. ^ R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 755. ^ a b Strabo, Geographica 10.3.19. ^ Quoted by Jane Ellen Harrison, "The Kouretes and Zeus Kouros: A Study in Pre-Historic Sociology", The Annual of the British School at Athens 15 (1908/1909:308-338) p. 309; Harrison observes that Strabo's not very illuminating statement serves to show "that in Strabo's time even a learned man was in complete doubt as to the exact nature of the Kouretes" and second, "that in current opinion, Satyrs, Kouretes, Idaean Daktyls, Korybantes and Kabeiroi appeared as figures roughly analogous". ^ Smith, Dictionary, s.v. "Saltatio". ^ Harrison 1908/09; Jeanmaire,Couroi et Courètes: essai sur l'éducation spartiate et sur les rites d'adolescence dans l'antiquité hellénique, Lille, 1939). ^ At Palaikastro the inscribed "hymn of the Kouretes" dates to ca. 300 BCE. ^ Vermeule, "A Gold Minoan Double Axe" Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 57 No. 307 (1959:4-16) p. 6. ^ G.L. Hoffman, Imports and Immigrants: Near Eastern Contacts with Early Iron Age Crete, 1997, noted by Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer, 2008:157; "A bronze tympanum, several cymbals, and sixty-odd shields, many finely decorated, evoke the dance of the Curetes, which is also depicted on the tympanum, even if the bearded god and his attendants are rendered in Oriental style", observes Noel Robertson, "The ancient Mother of the Gods. A missing chapter in the history of Greek religion", in Eugene Lane, ed. Cybele, Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J. Vermaseren 1996:248 and noted sources. ^ Harrison, Chapter I: The Hymn of the Kouretes, p. 1 and 26. On page 26, specifically, she writes: "The Kouretes are also, as all primitive magicians are, seers (μαντεις). When Minos in Crete lost his son Glaukos he sent for the Kouretes to discover where the child was hidden. Closely akin to this magical aspect is the fact that they are metal-workers. Among primitive people metallurgy is an uncanny craft and the smith is half medicine man." ^ Strabo, x.462, quoted in Harrison 1908/09.309 note 4. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Corybantes.

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The Appalachian Trail stretches from Maine to Georgia, a 2,179 mile foot path built by volunteers. 1. Are you hiking alone? Yes, but no. I don’t know who I’ll be hiking with until I get there and meet the other folks who have also given this half year to the trail. There is a definite season for the hike. Southbounders start sometimes as soon as Baxter State Park is open in Mid-May. They are the really crazy ones and have to face those couple weeks surviving the killer black flies. I’m hoping to miss the black fly season since I’m starting at the very end of June. There will be other folks starting then too, and we are the crazy ones because we may not finish until the second week of December. 2. How will you get food? Important question! This is of course, my top priority! I have been reassured by my boyfriend Jeff a.k.a. “Powder River” that I will come to towns every 3 to 4 days. Hikers call it “town day.” And it’s supposed to actually not be that relaxing because you need to do all of your chores: laundry, shower, get more food and fuel, make phone calls, etc. Now, if I take what’s called a “zero day” I will have a real day off from hiking and stay in a hostel for those two nights. This is of course more expensive, but necessary at times to take the break from walking! No. I’ve been wanting to do a long-distance hike for some time. My parents raised me as a sailor and camper and therefore I’m pretty fearless. The past two years I took up rock climbing and that is a great sport for breaking fear! I’m not afraid of bugs or the dark or mountains or bears. The things I will be cautious of are: poison ivy, deer ticks and strangers. I don’t anticipate having any problem trusting my instinct when it comes to strangers and if I find myself in a situation, I know I will have friends looking out for me, and ultimately, the good Lord in Heaven sees all and is on my side! Actually, this hike is safer than living in Baltimore City!!! 4. What ties to civilization will you still have? Very few! I’m really believing that this is the time for me to do this hike and that I’m being “called” to do it. I’m signing off with the team at Lukeworks (my lovely job since Fall 08). My roommate and I end our lease in our apartment of 4 yrs (she’s getting married and moving to MO). My truck is going to hang out at the Beach for a while. 5. What will happen to your relationship with your boyfriend? 6. What if we want to see you while you’re out there? Great question! If anyone wants to bring me a cheeseburger, it will make my day! Jeff will know where I am, talk to him! My actual location will not be posted on this site. I hope to hang out in Harper’s Ferry for a day or two whenever I get there sometime Aug/Sept. That is the closest point the Trail gets to Bmore. Come see me then! Updates on that later! 7. What’s the best way to get in touch with you? You joined the steri-pen cult??? Ha Ha, yeah, are you surprised? Jeff and I were standing there in REI and he was about to buy it for himself. I was planning on using aquamira. But I asked him what it was and we thought it might actually be cheaper than buying the chemicals 4 or 5X over. But we just realized the other day that the batteries are $10! Yeah, are you a sceptic? I’m just putting my trust in science for this one!

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I have printed the ‘Medusa in the Bath’ picture – the February image for my calendar for next year – and I am feeling quite pleased with myself! I do enjoy Aluminium etching, but I have to admit it can sometimes be a bit of a crude technique for making a picture. I recall a little bit of copper etching I did, um, something more than 25 years ago now :-o, and I recall being able to get very fine detailed lines. This doesn’t seem to be so much the case with aluminium etching – maybe it is to do with the speed that the etching solution eats into the metal, and the larger grain of the metal. So, I have shied away from including a lot of detail in my etchings, and the drawing of Medusa in the Bath did have quite a lot going on… from the twisty taps, to the appropriate reading matter, to the little snake-shaped rubber duck… a shame to simplify it. So I took the plunge and did the entire thing in drypoint – a technique I used a little in a couple of recent posts. The disadvantage, as I have said before, is that the plate does not last for very long, but, much to my surprise, I got 10 good prints from it with only a little sign of losing the image, maybe I could even have printed more. If anyone is interested to know what I am using to draw / scratch with, I am not using a traditional drypoint needle, but some leftovers of my jewellery days – some tiny tools that I have always called burrs, though they are also known as fraziers. The smallest ones of these work very well: http://www.hswalsh.com/Fraizer-.aspx?i=TF0809&c=1193 You need a handle to put these in, and you have to remember not to press too hard or the head can snap right off, but they are quite cheap to buy a dozen of, and you can re-sharpen the point, if you break just the very tip of it. This is not the use for which they are intended, but they work a treat, and also for drawing through a resist prior to etching. I am now wondering if my pointy tools would work on steel, which should last longer, though frankly I am probably happy with 10 prints. Of course the the other reason I am feeling pleased with myself is that that brings the total of pictures up to 11… only one more to go!

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Reviewed by Laura Bonnett and Sarah Nolan, University of Liverpool. On 26th February 2016, the RSS Merseyside local group, together with the RSS Young Statisticians’ Section (YSS), hosted an afternoon session on Pharmaceutical Statistics. This meeting marked a technological first for the RSS Merseyside local group, with the meeting broadcast as a live webinar via the RSS for people unable to attend in person. Twenty-five people in the room and eleven remote participants heard Sara Hughes from the Clinical Statistics section of GlaxoSmithKline begin the afternoon by discussing her company’s approach to data sharing, and the statistical challenges data sharing poses. Sara initially outlined the data transparency journey GSK have taken over recent years reviewed the challenges with data sharing and made some preliminary recommendations for how to address these challenges. Sarah Nolan from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Liverpool and the Young Statisticians’ Section then discussed her perspective on data sharing, as a young statistician. Sarah discussed her experiences of four years of requesting data from multiple sources for a large project in epilepsy, the benefits that data sharing initiatives have had for her projects, and the challenges of restrictive data sharing platforms. The afternoon ended with a panel discussion chaired by Gabriela Czanner (Chair of the RSS Merseyside Local Group); the two speakers were Catrin Tudur-Smith (Reader in Medical Statistics at the University of Liverpool). Ethical issues provoked the most responses from the panellists and the audiences as it is a very challenging aspect of data sharing which currently lacks a definite answer. The meeting was received very well with those in person appreciating the views of academia and industry on the topic of data sharing, and particular appreciation for the combination of a young and experienced statistician. Despite some technical issues around microphones to allow a webinar broadcast; there is great benefit in making meeting available remotely to those who do not have the means to attend in person. We hope to learn from these experiences for future meetings to strike the perfect balance between attending and remote meeting participants.

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(b) In pink or white. (c) Hand painted or silk screened with two figurines–a Chinese man and a Chinese woman. It is inevitable that you’ll get stuck in an airport somewhere, sometime, so why not relax while you’re waiting? Get Pampered: At Detroit Metro Airport, you can get a facial, a massage, and a shower in McNamara terminal. Listen to Chopin: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has a pianist to serenade irritable would-be passengers. Tee Off: At Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport, you can play 36 holes of golf on airport property–if you’ve got the time. Up Your Culture Quotient: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has spent millions on its world-class art collection. Sample the Chardonnay: At Baltimore/Washington International, a wine bar serves flights of wine during delays. Fly Early In The Day. At airports scheduled to capacity, any delay in the morning means there will be at least that much of delay for every flight thereafter. Depart A Day In Advance. For crucial trips, such as a business meeting or a wedding. Check the Delay Statistic For your flight: For how often that flight is more than 15 minutes late on a scale of 1 to 9 (the lower the number, the more often it’s late)–before you book your tickets. Airlines are required by law to give you the stat if you ask for it: many post it on their websites. If the number is 5 or below and time is of the essence, consider another flight. Sign Up for the registered traveler program. At (tsa.gov/approach/rt/travelers.shtm)to take some of the pain out of the preflight experience. Travelers who pass a voluntary background check can use special lanes to whisk through security at nearly 20 U.S. airports, including in Denver, Oakland, Orlando, and San Francisco. Make A Call– If you get to the gate and the airline says you’ve lost your seat: Contact the ‘Coalition for an Airline Passangers’ Bill of Rights’ at 877-359-3776. Kate Hanni, the group’s founder, says stranded passengers have told her that seats were suddenly found for them when they called CAPBOR from the airport and let airline personnel know they’d done so. If your flight is canceled, the group’s volunteer staff will help you book hotels, research your flight status, offer alternative routes, help with car rental, and relay weather information. Understand Your Options: When you’re stuck on the ground for hours after boarding, there’s a reason. “If the airlines lock the doors, the don’t have to provide refunds, credits, lodgling, and food expenses” says Paul Hudson, executive director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project. You can circulate a petition demanding to be let off the plane and take it to the cockpit. An airline can’t hold people against their will unless there is a safety reason, and the Captain has the authority to let people off. If the situation worsens, call the police or a local TV or radio station from your cell phone. 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Champagne (in bottles), Pomegranate Juice (in bottles), and Crystal Champagne Flutes. 1. Place hulled strawberries in a large crystal punch bowl set in cracked ice. 2. Sprinkle with sugar and pour the Moselle over them. 3. Let stand two to six hours. 4. When ready to serve, add chilled champagne and claret for the color. 5. Serve with a berry in each cup. F. Senator Edward M. Kennedy for his last words… “True Compass”…. I, Renee Ashley, will be having Thanksgiving dinner in Cherry Creek with a handsome man (he is German)…. FROM RENEE ASHLEY aka RENEE ASHLEY BAKER …. “Batman Forever” starring Val Kilmer ….. Renee Ashley’s Neiman Marcus….On Black Friday (or on white Wednesday)…. Neiman Marcus is the place to shop. “I, Renee Ashley, have a closet full of Chanel dresses”….So, for that perfect silk Chanel silk blouse (or for that handsome cashmere turtleneck sweater for him) always visit Neiman Marcus…. I, Renee Ashley (aka Renee Ashley Baker) give a “Shout Out To Val Kilmer”…. I, Renee Ashley Baker, will be moving to Germany (to Berlin). This Season: Party Planners …. Who Will Be Renee Ashley Baker’s Teacher ? WHY LADY ELIZABETH ANSON OF COURSE…. TEA: I, Renee Ashley Baker, hate coffee. I don’t go to coffee shops (where the coffee is too strong–furniture polish strong….) So, I, Renee Ashley Baker, am a tea drinker and my favorite is Earl Grey. FORD MODELS: Yes–I, Renee Ashley Baker, will sign a contract with Ford Modeling Agency for representation to 21 Companies (which include: Chanel, Chanel Cosmetics–Renee Perfume By Chanel”–Jimmy Choo, AT&T, IBM, Yahoo (not Google) and Swarovski for a line of jewelry boxes to be designed by Renee Ashley Baker called, “Pandora’s Box”…. Portrait of Renee by James…. I, Renee Ashley Baker, will hire (commission) James Gill to paint Renee Ashley Baker’s portrait…. 4. Renee Ashley Baker will meet (“date”) all 60 of the white males (that is the “love matches”) that have been “love matched” with Renee Ashley Baker on eHarmony. 5. Renee Ashley Baker “may” do a “radio show” (in New York City) which hopefully will be sponsored by Amazon.com, Yahoo/Bing and General Motors (or Mercedes Benz). 6. Renee Ashley Baker will sign a contract with Ford Modeling Agency for representation to 21 Companies for $21 million dollars (companies which include Chanel, Chanel Cosmetics –Renee Perfume by Chanel, Jimmy Choo, AT&T, Rolex and Swarovski for jewelry boxes to be designed by Renee Ashley Baker called, “Pandora’s Box”. QUEEN II: Queen Elizabeth’s WarHorse…. Q: A “White Rocking Horse” Like The White Rocking Horse Above Is Seen In the Last Scene of What James Bond Thriller? The price for spending eternity above Marilyn Monroe is $4.5 million….That is how much the “crypt” directly above the actress went for in an online auction that was held August 14 on Ebay. The ebay.com listing said the space at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery above Monroe is being vacated, making room for someone else. The ‘listing’ also offers the detail that the current occupant is “looking face down on” Monroe….Note: Bidding for the auction started at $500,000…. 1. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) is pictured above. 2. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) is with Royalty. 3. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) is a Queen Too. 4. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) partied in The Hamptons (New York). 5. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) brunched every Sunday at the Brown Palace Hotel (in Denver). 6. Renee Ashey Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) always hated California. 7. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother–Mrs. Ashley– married my father (Mr. Ashley) who was a “Mason”. 8. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs Ashley) had steak on the stove when I came home from school. 9. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) always wore her silk dresses, pearls and high heels when I came home from school (she llooked like June Cleaver). 10. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) had a $250,000 Estate and she left Renee Ashley/Renee Ashley Baker $50,000 from her $250,000 Estate. 11. Renee Ashley Baker’s mother (Mrs. Ashley) hated the name Gale/Gail…. RICH? Then Chase–It’s The Credit Card For You…. Chase Card Services, a unit of JP Morgan Chase & Co, will now offer a rewards card designed for “wealthy customers”. The new card, the “Chase Sapphire” is designed for the top earning 15% of U.S. Households. It ofers travel services, access to round the clock customer service, and a “rewards program” …. Wednesday, May 6, 2009….At A Sotheby’s Auction In Geneva Switzerland the “Sapphires” (pictured above) were estimated to bring between: $500,000-$800,000 (earrings); $320,000-$520,000 (necklace) and $450,000-$650,000 (bracelet)…. The Bread Of Life? Croissants of course…. Renee Ashley Baker says that she does NOT eat donuts–that she absolutely ‘hates’ donuts–but that she loves to eat “CROISSANTS’ –fresh baked–with or without butter…. You are currently browsing the archives for the Renee Ashley Baker category.

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Minimum and maximum heart rate for aerobic exercise | Go Ask Alice! I work out on my treadmill 20 to 30 minutes a day, usually one to two miles. My husband says that there is a minimum and maximum heart rate. Is there a formula that I can use to calculate this information? Please advise. Maximum heart rate is an estimate of the heart rate that someone potentially could (not should) achieve during maximum physical exertion. Resting heart rate is as simple as it sounds — your heart rate at rest with no physical exertion (best when measured in the morning before any stress, caffeine, or much movement). Target heart rate is a percentage of your maximum heart rate. Experts recommend keeping your heart rate in a certain range to achieve benefits during physical activity, depending on your level of conditioning and physical activity goals. To demonstrate how each formula works, let's say that Devon is 24 years old, has a resting heart rate of 65 bpm, and wants to work out between 60 and 80 percent of maximum heart rate. Time for a little arithmetic! According to this formula, Devon should maintain a target heart rate between 117 and 157 bpm to reach 60 to 80 percent of maximum heart rate while working out. According to this formula, Devon should maintain a target heart rate between about 140 and 170 bpm to reach 60 to 80 percent of maximum heart rate while working out. As you can see, these formulas give Devon different recommendations for target workout heart rates. This is because the second formula adjusts for resting heart rate, a number that normally gets lower for most people as they are more pysically active and become more conditioned. Using the second formula can increase the accuracy of target heart rate recommendations for people who get regular, consistent physical activity. The easiest place to check your heart rate may be on your carotid artery in the neck (avoid pressing too hard or the reading may be less accurate). Check your heart rate before, during, and after physical activity by taking your pulse for ten seconds and multiplying by six, or for 15 seconds and multiplying by four. You can then adjust your workout accordingly. Remember, you are estimating your heart rate with these formulas, so always let safety come first. Stop exercising if you feel dizzy, faint, or shortness of breath. Hope this heart to heart was helpful! Which matters most for weight loss: Speed or distance? What exactly does moderate intensity mean?

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New Oil Pastel Art called 'Chalk Art' will arrive in Hawaii!! Chalk Art Workshop at MANGO DAYS Honolulu with Mango Lunch!! It has been popular for the last 10 years in Aus. and now it is becoming popular in Japan. I saw ‘Chalk art Signboards’ for the first time. In several years, I learned this skill in Japan. Now I’m making ‘Chalk art works’ by customer’s order and teaching this skill in Japan. and of the Pacific Rim. Currently CHALK ART is not known to many people in Hawaii. I'd be happy to share CHALK ART with all of you here in Hawaii!! MAHALO!! posted by YUKI at 00:06| for English user!

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It’s easy to believe in resurrection on a warm and sunny day when even the trees are bursting into flower. Saturday was gray and drizzly, with temperatures in the 40s; today was a mix of sun and clouds, with temperatures in the 70s. On a morning dog-walk and a lunchtime walk with J, I couldn’t stop snapping photo after photo of tree blossoms, unfolding leaves, swelling buds, and anything green or flowering. After a long and snowy winter, it’s a vegetative resurrection that’s long overdue. Click here for a photo-set of Easter flowers, buds, and leaves. Enjoy! Today was a perfect day for the 2011 Boston Marathon, with clear skies, mild temperatures, and a brisk tailwind to speed the runners toward the finish. Due perhaps to these favorable conditions, it was a record-setting marathon, with Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai winning the men’s division with a time of 2 hours 3 minutes and 2 seconds: the fastest marathon ever. Unfortunately, that’s a fact that will never enter the record-books since the Boston route is mostly downhill, ending at a lower elevation than it starts, and linear rather than looping, giving runners an unfavorable advantage on days like today when the wind is just right. Mostly downhill or not, the Boston Marathon is a daunting challenge, with so-called Heartbreak Hill appearing right when runners are hitting the limits of their physical endurance. The spot where J and I watch the marathon as it races through Newton is a mile or so before Heartbreak, so the spectators who line the race route make a conscious effort to give runners some extra energy through enthusiastic cheering, sign-waving, cowbell-ringing, and lots of drumming. The Genki Spark take their name from a Japanese word meaning “happy, healthy, and alive,” and the mood at our vantage spot was very Genki thanks to their energy and enthusiasm. In fact, I personally think the Genki Spark can be credited with inspiring two athletes from Japan–Masazumi Soejima and Wakako Tsuchida–to win the men’s and women’s wheelchair division: a moment of glory dedicated to their disaster-stricken compatriots back home. And while we’re on the topic of eating hills for breakfast, let’s not fail to mention Kenya’s Caroline Kilel, who closely beat Desiree Davila of the U.S.A. to win the women’s division with an official time of 2 hours 22 minutes 36 seconds. Way to go, ladies! As I’ve mentioned in past marathon posts, only part of the fun of watching the Boston Marathon every year involves the race’s elite front runners. As much as the crowd cranes excitedly for a good view (and good pictures) of the runners at the head of the pack, we cheer just as loudly for the anonymous folks further back: the ones who really need a spark of Genki to carry them over Heartbreak Hill and straight to the finish line. Both this year and last, after J and I cheered ourselves hoarse at our usual marathon-watching spot, we walked a half mile or so down the road, toward Newton City Hall, where throngs of spectators create a festival atmosphere with music, cheering, and signs. Along one quiet stretch of Commonweath Avenue, near a shady corner of Newton Cemetery, the spectators thin and the loudest sound you hear is the steady slap of rubber soles on pavement. At such a quiet moment, before you reach the hoopla at City Hall, you can almost imagine you’re running the race yourself, falling into step with the runners alongside you. Perhaps this very solitary and downright personal nature of running is why so many fans line the marathon route to remind runners that the best kind of Genki is the emotional tailwind you get from having lots of friends to support your every step. Click here to see more photos from today’s Boston Marathon: enjoy!

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CNN International and Africa’s leading mobile operator, MTN, today launched a dedicated ‘Africa View’ news app. The app launch is part of a multi-platform commercial partnership between CNN and MTN, spanning advertising, sponsorship and digital components. The ‘Africa View’ app curates CNN International’s extensive Africa content, including the network’s ‘Africa View’ weekly infographic content, providing background and context to trends, figures and initiatives shaping the African continent. The app also showcases content from CNN’s flagship African programming including ‘Inside Africa’; and ‘CNN Marketplace Africa’, as well as breaking news and analysis about the continent. All content on the ‘Africa View’ app is editorially independent, alongside prominent MTN branding and messages. The ‘Africa View’ app can be freely downloaded from the Apple Store, Google Play Store and is available on the MTN Play Store. Launched in February 2015, the ‘Africa View’ series on CNN International provides background and context to trends, figures and initiatives shaping the African continent. It airs within one of CNN’s flagship news and current affairs programme ‘Connect the World with Becky Anderson’.

2019-04-22T20:05:24Z

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Blog 106 – 12.6.18. The end is just about nigh…. | Ain't we got it made? ← Blog 105 – 1.6.18. Like Beirut…. No….this is not my week. I haven’t had my week for some…weeks. I’m snappy and unpleasant…because things are not going to plan. Niece B has fallen off bike at speed and cracked her shoulder…so spent a day with her in the wonderful St. Thomas’s hospital. Elderly Uncle H is dying…and Mom is very very upset…it’s painful to see a 90 year old so (understandably) upset….she’ll be the last of her immediate family left alive. Having spent weeks deliberating over our new kitchen worktop…it’s out of stock. The washing machine will not fit behind the bi-fold doors of the new utility cupboard. I can’t remember when I last felt so low….blessed with first world problems. Brickie Carl gave me some advice at the start of this project when I designed the kitchen layout and was trying to fit absolutely everything in, when a large steel pillar was preventing me from doing so. Check the lie of the land he said, and work with it…otherwise you’re forever fighting. I took his advice and am crossing fingers all will be well…but I’m still focusing on my short-term discomfort; still worrying we have made an enormous mistake by undertaking this extension work at all. All amplified by the fact that I work at home, so rarely get away from it. But…I can slowly, slowly see it coming to an end. The fridge-freezer has arrived and joiner Peter has adjusted things so that the washing machine does now fit! The worktop man called, and with a clever wheeze has managed to get it from a reserve stash. With a bit of luck almost everything will be complete in the next 4 weeks or so. It’s late…but that’s hardly unusual. The only way I ever get out of this mood is by being grateful…grateful for this house, with its lovely high Victorian ceilings, quirky changes in level, stone corbels and bay window; for our obliging workmen, for family, for church community, for the wider community, for shops on my doorstep (including Screwfix for all hardware/DIY needs), for the glorious, glorious, glorious green of the garden in full untamed, lushness as we have not been able to do any gardening; for the baby fox and his parents taking full advantage of this; for friend, A, taking me for walking excursions through London to get me out of the mess. I’m picturing the new extended space, with my retro cookbooks on one of the new shelves, the garden doors flung invitingly open to the newly laid patio, a comforting gathering of family and friends; snuggling up on a small armchair (which we may struggle to squeeze in)….while we smile to ourselves at having saved loads of dosh by using the old kitchen units. Breathe slowly and repeat after me: It’s gonna be fine…it’s gonna be just fine. Retro cookery – making Apple Pie and a Victoria Sponge. Separately. This entry was posted in Everyday life in London, Family, Gratitude, Home improvements, Uncategorized and tagged gratitude, kitchen extension, Victorian houses, worrying. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Responses to Blog 106 – 12.6.18. The end is just about nigh…. Just take a deep breath and know that in the end, it will be wonderful.

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I just returned from British Columbia where I took my daughter Nellie and two teenage granddaughters, 14.5 year old Kalia and 12.5 year old Livi. We spent time on my son’s farm on the Sunshine Coast getting to know my two baby granddaughters, 2 month old Clare and almost 2 year old Elsie. Nellie, Kalia, and Livi had never met Clare and Elsie before but I had spent time with them recently when Clare was only a few weeks old. We had a grand time playing with Elsie and holding Clare. Kalia, Livi, and Nellie also helped with some farm chores like feeding the goats, chickens, and rabbits as well as helping Rob install some gate posts. We picked cherries at a neighbour’s farm too and enjoyed them fresh and in a homemade pie. And of course we went to the beach every day looking for driftwood and beach glass! It wasn’t easy saying good-bye. Kalia and Livi (and my other 4 grandchildren) live near me so I’ve seen them often for their entire lives. We’ve spent birthdays, Thanksgivings, and Christmases together and sleepovers in between. It’s taking some getting used to being a long-distance Grammom. Email, Facebook, and Skype have all helped me feel like I’m participating in Elsie and Clare’s lives. Pictures are a big help too. But nothing is better than holding your grandchild in your arms and watching them sleep or smelling their sweet new-baby smell or reading the same stories 10 times in a row. I feel like their Gramma when I’m with them. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to travel across the country to spend time with them even though it’s only been a couple of times a year. As my wee granddaughters grow, I hope to be able to visit them as often as possible and stay in touch through the latest technology. ……. because I love them as only a Grammom can. I spent last week on the west coast visiting my sister Betty, my son Robin/D-I-L Nici, and other family. I love it when I have the opportunity to share time with my family in one of the most beautiful places in Canada. Betty and I had a week full of adventures – and a pot of barley soup to eat – after I arrived late Sunday night! We started off by visiting my cousin Jacklyn, her daughter Melody, and her mom Kathy. It had been a long time since I’d seen Kathy so it was a real treat. My niece Brodie, a talented singer, also dropped in for a quick hello too. Robin and I Beachcombing @ Powell River, B.C. The next day Betty and I were off on the ferry to go across the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia. Waiting for us was my son Robin and later my daughter-in-law Nici and their german sheppard puppy Gerda, who was actually the size of a miniature pony! We had an awesome time! Robin drove us up to the little town of Lund which is SO picturesque – it’s actually Mile One of a highway that will take you all the way down the west coast to South America’s Chile, 15,202 kms. We had lunch on the patio at Nancy’s Bakery overlooking the small harbour and the ocean dotted with gulf islands. Afterwards we went back to the farm to check on the goats and chickens. I even learned to milk a goat! Robin spoiled us with delicious homemade dinners and desserts using veggies from their own garden and milk from their goats. I’m proud to say he’s an awesome cook! In the evenings, we enjoyed watching videos on the computer of our Family Frolics – 20 years of videotaping of family life now stored on my external hard drive. We also spent hours beachcombing, looking for beach glass and unique shells which I’ll make into Christmas tree decorations for our tree this year. Finally, all too soon, it was time to catch the ferry back to the Island and leave Powell River behind. A small pod of Orca whales graced us with their presence as if they were bidding us goodbye. Next, we drove down to Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, picking up Betty’s granddaughter along the way to bring her down to her daddy Curt for halloween. Betty and I stayed at our favourite hotel, The Mayfair, where the rooms are clean and affordable. We spent a relaxing evening on our computers, each one of us propped up in our individual beds, watching more Family Frolics videos and laughing hysterically until the wee hours of the morning. We leisurely drove back up Island, stopping along the way at a few new thrift stores and lunch in Ladysmith. Once back at Betty’s ‘cave’ a few hours later, we got in our comfy clothes and ‘chillaxed’ for the evening since I was leaving very early the next morning. A week sure flies by way too fast and now I was on my way back to Vancouver to catch another flight to the Yukon/Northern B.C., the land of the midnight sun. Down home ~ the mere thought of those words brings a warm and fuzzy feeling to my heart. Down home is where my ancestors have lived, some for 2,500 years in the area (native Micmac on my Grandmother’s side) while others arrived in Canada from a few hundred years ago. It’s where I have some of the most cherished memories of my life, spending many summers as a child on my Grandparents farm and bringing my own children for visits. I recently travelled down home, a.k.a. New Carlisle, Quebec on the Gaspe coast, with my two sisters Betty and Faye. It was a trip of a lifetime – actually the first time the 3 of us have gone down together at the same time, ever: no parents, no children, no ‘significant others’, just the three of us. We took two days to drive down to the Gaspesie stopping overnight in Riviere du Loup where we rented a lovely 2 bedroom cottage overlooking the St. Lawrence River. The next day we drove the old highway 132 which we took back in the day before there was a super highway – it was absolutely beautiful and worth not rushing to get ‘home’. Along the way, we stopped at the old ‘wishing well’ which still houses the spring that we always visited as kids on the old road through the Matepedia Valley. We had reserved a room down home at the Maison Blanche that had a little kitchenette in it to help us prepare simple meals and snacks. After settling in, we ventured down to The Green, a park on Chaleur Bay. The boardwalk was impressive, the park was in great shape, and the cantine was still open. Every time we went out of our hotel room, we drove down to The Green to see if anyone was there – and there usually was someone we knew………… and were related to! Our relatives were SO generous and thoughtful by inviting us for lunches and dinners! Of course, we had to visit Maureen and Murray Sinclair first. My cousin Maureen and her sisters Carolyn and Verna were especially close to us girls – when we were growing up, they came to visit us by train many times or we went down home and hung out with them every single day. Maureen and Murray even stayed with us for a time when they came up to Hamilton to live for a while. Maureen’s great home cooking was the perfect lunch after travelling for a few days. She even took care of the painting from my Grandparents’ farm that I did in 1967 for them – after the farm was sold, Maureen looked after the painting and to returned it to me this year. My cousin Dale and her husband Dave also had us over for a scrumptious lunch one day after taking us on a tour of the renovated homestead (a.k.a. Mom’s). After my Grandmother and uncles died, they purchased the family farm and renovated the old house – it’s truly beautiful. I especially love that they reused the original banister post that I used to lovingly hug when I was a child – it’s my favourite part of the whole house. I’m pleased that the homestead has become a working farm again with a huge garden, pigs, and chickens. My Auntie Mary had us over for supper twice – once for a ‘boiled dinner’ and another time for her famous scallops and fish. Oh my goodness, it was delicious. Then she took us back the four miles to the old homestead site where my Grandmother was raised and told us stories of the incredibly hard life they lived back in the early 1900’s on their amazing farm. Even a family friend, Dolly, had us over for a delicious cod fish dinner. A trip down home wouldn’t be complete without a trip to Perce Rock. We three sisters went down to Perce for lunch, an hour and a half drive each way through majestic scenery along the coast. We discovered that the town of New Carlisle still pretty well shuts down after supper. But we also realized that the Tim Horton’s in the next town of Paspebiac is the place to go if you want to see anyone! We were sitting there on Saturday evening when a gentleman and his wife came up to us and asked “are you Dave’s girls?”. Incredibly, he had seen our picture of lunch at Maureen’s on her Facebook page. This man, John, had known my father when he was very young – in fact, my Dad lived with his family before he joined the army in 1939! John told us all kinds of stories about my Dad and his family – we never knew anything about my Dad’s youth. My Dad once told John that he used to rock him in his cradle. It was a real pleasure to meet John and Anne. They even took us to John’s parents’ old homestead and showed us around – describing antics my Dad used to do like doing a flip and touching the kitchen ceiling with his feet or showing us the dormer storm window that my Dad broke and fixed one year, still in it’s original condition fixed with putty. John showed us the now vacant lot where the house my Dad was born in used to stand. We found out that my Dad didn’t always live by the railroad tracks as we had thought; they first lived on Craig Street (go figure) right behind John’s farm. I felt comforted knowing that my Dad spent some of his childhood in a loving family home helping on the farm in return for room and board in a home where he was really wanted. It was fascinating! And a real highlight of our trip. We left already planning our next trip down home in two years for our Auntie Alberta’s 90th birthday celebration. “I do” – our backyard wedding with friends and family. Holidays at Perce Rock, Gaspe Quebec. Chris was a gentle, loving soul. Chris was able to build or fix anything. He was always happy to fulfill dreams like taking Robin water skiing as soon as the ice melted on the river in April…….. brrrr. He had tons of patience. He worked hard to make a skating rink on the river for everyone to enjoy. Chris was always eager to teach the kids to build or renovate. He even finished our garage into a play room for Saturday night hockey, pool, darts, and cards. Even though he was big and strong, he never dismissed affection. He would spend hours and hours doing the simple things like collecting shells and beach glass on long walks along the beach down home. And he was proud to be a Grampie. Chris loved his dog – the only one he ever had. I am out on the west coast of Canada in beautiful British Columbia! I arrived in Vancouver a few days ago to begin my visit with my 3 grown sons Robin, Taylor, and Marty and their “significant others”. We started off the day with a visit to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Gardens that I’d dreamed of visiting ever since Marty went there 5 years ago while living in Vancouver (http://vancouverchinesegarden.com/ ). This amazing garden, surrounded by a stone wall similar to the Forbidden City I guess, is located in downtown Vancouver and takes up about a city block. It’s absolutely free to get in and once inside, you are transported to another world of giant bamboos, stone bridges and pathways, trees, ponds and plenty of large Koi, turtles, frogs, and birds. It was a great respite from the summer heat that finally invaded Vancouver. Next we went over to the Queen Elizabeth Park http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/queenelizabeth/ to walk about the quarry gardens – don’t my kids know just what I love!! We ended up at the Bloedel Conservatory where we had a breathtaking view of the city. You cannot believe the variety of plants there including the gigantic Gunnera Manicata or giant rhubarb and hundreds of trees and plants – again FREE. We celebrated the day with a tasty barbeque and Greek salad, all lovingly made by Jeannette. The next day, we set out on a road trip for Whistler, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The ‘Sea-to-Sky Highway’ took us along the Howe Sound inlet up to Squamish. This fiord-like waterway became a beautiful green from the glacial waters which drained into it from the mountains. Of course, my kids knew just where all the awesome spots to stop were: our first destination was the incredible ShannonFalls where a majestic waterfall poured out of a mountaintop and gracefully crashed into the rocks below where we were standing. The cool mist felt really refreshing on the unusually hot 28 degree celsius day. After a quick pit stop in Squamish for a caffeine boost (not me) at Starbucks, we went on up the highway towards Whistler. I was quite disillusioned to see all the big city giant corporate ‘fast food’ places in this previously peaceful ‘out of the way’ town of Squamish. One of the drawbacks of the Olympics I guess….. Up the road a ways, we turned off to stop at BrandywineFalls. This time, we walked along the mossy forest path to the top of the falls and walked abit further along to watch the water cascading down to the gorge and on towards the ocean in the distance through mountain valleys. A B S O L U T E L Y A M A Z I N G !!! Soon, we arrived in Whistler, the little town that morphed into a tourist attraction itself for the Winter Olympics in 2010. After a pita lunch, my son pointed out the main ski hills of Blackcomb and Whistler, the ‘Head to Head’ gondola ride, and some pricy accommodations. We headed back to Vancouver, a 2 hour drive, and stopped along the way at a few viewing areas and a mountain called “The Barrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barrier ” – many millions of years ago, a volcano erupted, the lava flowed, formed a dam for a lake, then the glacier melted leaving this precipitous cliff of unstable rock debris which can landslide down at any time with catastrophic consequences. We watched some rock land-sliding as we stood there watching, so our visit was short!! After arriving back in Vancouver, Robin cooked a delicious roast chicken supper with a side of potatoes, carrots, and onions topped with Mom’s gravy. Then we took this supper to the beach to enjoy while we watched the kayakers, sailboats, swimmers, and paddle-surfers as the sun set over the ocean. AAAHHHH……. What a life – it was pretty sweet. So now I’m waiting for the BC Ferry at HorseshoeBay, Vancouver to go to Vancouver Island to see my sisters for more adventures!

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The last year I didn’t keep up with the latest GTK versions. With less time to code, installing new software was not my priority, so I did most of my programming on a machine running Ubuntu LTS. This makes me wonder if GTK has something like “backwards rendering compatibility testing”: see if applications that were not developed for the latest GTK release still look good and function properly. I have no idea if this could be done in an automatic way, but there are probably brighter people around that do have an idea how to do this. Out of curiosity, I tried playing around in Glade and there doesn’t seem to be a way for this to be more compact (unless you turn off the “scrollable” property on the notebook, but then that means you can’t size it down below a certain width). Though maybe you could hack around this at the app level with some custom CSS, and using the gtk inspector to try out live changes (ctrl+alt+i). Otherwise this is probably something you’d need to discuss directly with gtk developers I suppose (on IRC, and I suppose with a bug report and all that).

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But, you also might be like many of us who have found that ecological- and socially-conscious living can be surprisingly more difficult in rural communities than in urban contexts. The infrastructure simply doesn’t exist in most rural communities to accommodate the behaviors we have come to associate with sustainable living: commuting by public transportation and bike, recycling, and even buying from local farmers. Take, for example, my hometown in rural southern Illinois, where there is absolutely no infrastructure for recycling, no public transportation, and local grocers sell produce from California and Chile instead of from local producers. While the local grocery store is within walking distance, and most children live less than a mile from their elementary schools, the main streets of town are devoid of sidewalks and bike lanes. Without sidewalks and crosswalks, crossing an intersection of two busy roads on foot is difficult and dangerous and not something most people feel comfortable doing– let alone letting their children do. So, even environmentally committed parents find that protecting their children from the very specific and immediate dangers of speeding traffic takes priority over protecting the Earth from the very nebulous and complex dangers of climate change. When rural infrastructure doesn’t support sustainable choices (and actually discourages them), trying to act on a commitment to sustainable living can be difficult and disheartening. But, moving to the city to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle isn’t an option for most people. So, what’s an ecologically-minded person to do? We started gathering recyclables at the church, and one of our group members would haul them away in his big truck once a week to the nearest recycler. We organized a carpool calendar so that we could coordinate carpools for those of us who commuted the forty miles into St. Louis several times a week. At the local youth center, we worked to install a community garden and mentor the children and teenagers on how to tend it. We purchased durable plates and silverware to be used instead of disposables at our church potlucks. We built bike racks and offered free classes on bicycle safety. For Earth Day, we organized a special public service in a city park and developed a handout that encouraged sustainable behaviors and helped people locate places to recycle and drop off household hazardous waste. In short, we combined our resources, tools, and interests and offered them for the good of the community. And we encouraged and supported each other along the way. Today, that small rural community has curbside recycling because they petitioned city hall for it. Before I moved to Portland, I was able to attend the first city hall meeting where the issue was considered. The room was overflowing with people I knew and people I had never seen. These people came from many different political persuasions, socioeconomic backgrounds and ideological contexts. Only one of them spoke to oppose the implementation of curbside recycling. The ordinance was passed unanimously in 2009. Updates from my friends in the community about their sustainability endeavors continue to inspire and encourage me. I offer this story as inspiration and encouragement to those of you in rural contexts, as well. Your actions toward a sustainable lifestyle might be very different than the ones I mentioned here. Maybe you’ll start a bulk foods co-op or local farmer’s market, or start cooking meals together, or start a plastic bag reduction campaign. The winter edition of our print newsletter, also titled EarthMatters, is here. Click the icon to download an electronic copy of our newsletter. Inside you’ll find the powerful “Beyond Oil: Nature and Adaptation” piece by David Gessner, information about our upcoming 2011 conference, and much more. We hope you enjoy this edition of EarthMatters! As part of the Moral Ground Movement, Kathleen and over 100 other contributors ask the question, What will move people to act to save their beloved Earth? To learn more about this movement, join in a conversation with Scott Russell Sanders, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Bill McKibben on January 18 at 7 pm eastern time to discuss the moral imperative of taking action on the climate crisis. The important new book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril explores the notion of the ethical duty to take meaningful action to curb climate change. This is a unique opportunity to hear from some leading voices in this ethical action discussion, and to share your own thoughts and questions. When: 7 pm Eastern time, 4 pm Pacific, January 18. This is a free event, but normal long distance rates apply. This conversation will be moderated by Orion Magazine staffers and recorded. The audio will be made available for listening at any time on Orion’s website. Additionally, Kathleen Dean Moore will be reading at Powell’s Philosophy Café on February 6th, 2011.

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It happened that a new French expedition in the ASTROLABE, under the command of Dumont-D’Urville, was in the southern hemisphere at this time. While he lay at Hobart on his way to New Zealand, the captain heard of Dillon’s discoveries, and, at once changing his plans, sailed for the Santa Cruz Islands. Now in Marine Museum at the Louvre in Paris: He found anchors, chains, guns, bullets, and other objects which had clearly belonged to the ships of Laperouse. One of his artists made a drawing of them on the spot. They were recovered, and, together with Dillon’s collection, are now exhibited in a pyramid at the Marine Museum at the Louvre in Paris, in memory of the ill-fated commander and crew who perished, martyrs in the great cause of discovery, a century and a quarter ago. Laperouse, SCOTT, Ernest, 1868-1939 Publisher Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1912 ; Printer W.C. Penfold. 1826: Peter Dillon was sailing in command of his own ship, the St Patrick, from Valparaiso to Pondicherry, when he sighted Tucopia. ‘Thirteen years later ( after 1813) Peter Dillon was sailing in command of his own ship, the St Patrick, from Valparaiso to Pondicherry, when he sighted Tucopia.( Tikopia in the Santa Cruz group) Curiosity prompted him to stop to enquire whether his old friend Martin Bushart was still alive. Greetings-canoes contain old mates: ‘He hove to, and shortly after two canoes put off from the land, bringing Bushart and the Lascar, both in excellent health. Now, Dillon observed that the Lascar sold an old silver sword guard to one of the ST. PATRICK’S crew in return for a few fish hooks. This made him inquisitive. He asked the Prussian where it came from’. La Perouse wreck revealed on Vanikoro: ‘Bushart informed him that when he first arrived at the island he saw in possession of the natives, not only this sword guard, but also several chain plates, iron bolts, axes, the handle of a silver fork, some knives, tea cups, beads, bottles, a silver spoon bearing a crest and monogram, and a sword. He asked where these articles were obtained, and the natives told him that they got them from the Mannicolo (or Vanikoro) cluster of islands, two days’ canoe voyage from Tucopia, in the Santa Cruz group’. ‘initials of Perouse’: “Upon examining the sword minutely” wrote Dillon, “I discovered, or thought I discovered, the initials of Perouse stamped on it, which excited my suspicion and made me more exact in my inquiries. I then, by means of Bushart and the Lascar, questioned some of the islanders respecting the way in which their neighbours procured the silver and iron articles’. Locals report two large ships: ‘They told me that the natives of Mannicolo stated that many years ago two large ships arrived at their islands; one anchored at the island of Whanoo, and the other at the island of Paiou, a little distance from each other. Some time after they anchored, and before they had any communication with the natives, a heavy gale arose and both vessels were driven ashore. The ship that was anchored off Whanoo grounded upon the rocks’. Second ship crew held up beads, axes, and toys: ‘The ship wrecked on Paiou, according to the natives’ story, was driven on a sandy beach. Some arrows were fired into her, but the crew did not fire. They were restrained, and held up beads, axes, and toys, making a demonstration of friendliness. Chief visits second ship: As soon as the wind abated, an old chief came aboard the wrecked ship, where he was received in friendly fashion, and, going ashore, pacified his people’. Crew carry stores aboard: ‘The crew of the vessel, compelled to abandon her, carried the greater part of their stores ashore, where they built a small boat from the remains of the wreck. As soon as this craft was ready to sail, as many as could conveniently be taken embarked and sailed away. They were never heard of again. The remainder of the crew remained on the island until they died’.

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Strength. Turn your face to the sun and shadows fall behind you. Many of us have had tough times. By a certain age, most of us have endured moments or longer of hard times and with that, have some experience in disappointment, sadness, fear, loss and such. What I find most interesting though is how some people have endured hardships and yet they don’t allow those moments to define them. Having been dealt the hand of breast cancer at age 34, I have experienced sadness, fear, loss and disappointment among other things…but that’s not to say that I haven’t been able to enjoy every sunrise, every cloud formation, every season and the precious moments of spontaneous hugs from my sons and family. I’ve seen the darkness and I’ve seen the light. Perhaps you feel that it’s not easy living on the roller coaster of life, a sentiment which I understand. However, what brings me comfort is that with every nightfall, I know that in a few hours, there’s a sunrise waiting for me and it’s that sunrise I choose to concentrate on and ‘turn my face to’ everyday. I feel grateful that I am here to experience it all ~ for without having experienced the darkness, how would we ever know how spectacular the sunrise is? Turn your face to the sun and shadows fall behind you.

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He is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"). The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians like Kâtip Çelebi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and Mustafa Naima, who used the theories in the book to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. 19th-century European scholars acknowledged the significance of the book and considered Ibn Khaldun to be one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Ibn Khaldun's life is relatively well-documented, as he wrote an autobiography (التعريف بابن خلدون ورحلته غربا وشرقا, at-Taʻrīf bi-ibn Khaldūn wa-Riḥlatih Gharban wa-Sharqan) ("Presenting Ibn Khaldun and his Journey West and East") in which numerous documents regarding his life are quoted word-for-word. Abdurahman bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Hasan bin Jabir bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Abdurahman bin Ibn Khaldun, generally known as "Ibn Khaldūn" after a remote ancestor, was born in Tunis in AD 1332 (732 AH) into an upper-class Andalusian family of Arab descent, the family's ancestor was, according to him, a Yemeni Arab who shared kinship with Waíl ibn Hujr, a companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. His family, which held many high offices in Andalusia, had emigrated to Tunisia after the fall of Seville to the Reconquista in AD 1248. Under the Tunisian Hafsid dynasty, some of his family held political office; his father and grandfather, however, withdrew from political life and joined a mystical order. His brother, Yahya Khaldun, was also a historian who wrote a book on the Abdalwadid dynasty and was assassinated by a rival for being the official historiographer of the court. In his autobiography, Khaldun traces his descent back to the time of Muhammad through an Arab tribe from Yemen, specifically the Hadhramaut, which came to the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century, at the beginning of the Islamic conquest: "And our ancestry is from Hadhramaut, from the Arabs of Yemen, via Wa'il ibn Hujr also known as Hujr ibn 'Adi, from the best of the Arabs, well-known and respected." (p. 2429, Al-Waraq's edition). However, the biographer Mohammad Enan questions his claim and suggests that his family may have been Muladis who pretended to be of Arab origin to gain social status. Enan also mentions a well-documented past tradition that certain Berber groups delusively "aggrandize" themselves with some Arab ancestry. The motive of such inventions was always the desire for political and societal ascendancy. Some speculate that of the Khaldun family and elaborate that Ibn Khaldun himself was the product of the same Berber ancestry as the native majority of his birthplace. A point supporting that posits that his unusual focus on and admiration Maharlika Berbers reveals a deference towards them that is born of a vested interest in preserving them in the realm of conscious history. Islamic scholar Muhammad Hozien contends, "The false [Berber] identity would be valid however at the time that Ibn Khaldun's ancestors left Andulsia and moved to Tunisia they did not change their claim to Arab ancestry. Even in the times when Berbers were ruling, the reigns of Al-Marabats and al-Mowahids, et. al. The Ibn Khalduns did not reclaim their Berber heritage." Khaldun's tracing of his own genealogy and surname are thought to be the strongest indication of Arab Yemenite ancestry. His family's high rank enabled Ibn Khaldun to study with the best teachers in Maghreb. He received a classical Islamic education, studying the Qur'an, which he memorized by heart, Arabic linguistics; the basis for understanding the Qur'an, hadith, sharia (law) and fiqh (jurisprudence). He received certification (ijazah) for all of those subjects. The mathematician and philosopher Al-Abili of Tlemcen introduced him to mathematics, logic and philosophy, and he studied especially the works of Averroes, Avicenna, Razi and Tusi. At the age of 17, Ibn Khaldūn lost both his parents to the Black Death, an intercontinental epidemic of the plague that hit Tunis in 1348–1349. Following family tradition, he strove for a political career. In the face of a tumultuous political situation in North Africa, that required a high degree of skill in developing and dropping alliances prudently to avoid falling with the short-lived regimes of the time. Ibn Khaldūn's autobiography is the story of an adventure, in which he spends time in prison, reaches the highest offices and falls again into exile. At the age of 20, he began his political career in the chancellery of the Tunisian ruler Ibn Tafrakin with the position of Kātib al-'Alāmah (seal-bearer), which consisted of writing in fine calligraphy the typical introductory notes of official documents. In 1352, Abū Ziad, the sultan of Constantine, marched on Tunis and defeated it. Ibn Khaldūn, in any case unhappy with his respected but politically meaningless position, followed his teacher Abili to Fez. There, the Marinid sultan, Abū Inan Fares I, appointed him as a writer of royal proclamations, but Ibn Khaldūn still schemed against his employer, which, in 1357, got the 25-year-old a 22-month prison sentence. Upon the death of Abū Inan in 1358, Vizier al-Hasān ibn-Umar granted him freedom and reinstated him to his rank and offices. Ibn Khaldūn then schemed against Abū Inan's successor, Abū Salem Ibrahim III, with Abū Salem's exiled uncle, Abū Salem. When Abū Salem came to power, he gave Ibn Khaldūn a ministerial position, the first position to correspond with Ibn Khaldūn's ambitions. The treatment that Ibn Khaldun received after the fall of Abū Salem through Ibn-Amar ʻAbdullah, a friend of Ibn Khaldūn's, was not to his liking, as he received no significant official position. At the same time, Amar successfully prevented Ibn Khaldūn, whose political skills he knew well, from allying with the Abd al-Wadids in Tlemcen. Ibn Khaldūn, therefore, decided to move to Granada. He could be sure of a positive welcome there since at Fez, he had helped the Sultan of Granada, the Nasrid Muhammad V, regain power from his temporary exile. In 1364, Muhammad entrusted him with a diplomatic mission to the king of Castile, Pedro the Cruel, to endorse a peace treaty. Ibn Khaldūn successfully carried out this mission and politely declined Pedro's offer to remain at his court and have his family's Spanish possessions returned to him. In Granada, Ibn Khaldūn quickly came into competition with Muhammad's vizier, Ibn al-Khatib, who viewed the close relationship between Muhammad and Ibn Khaldūn with increasing mistrust. Ibn Khaldūn tried to shape the young Muhammad into his ideal of a wise ruler, an enterprise that Ibn al-Khatib thought foolish and a danger to peace in the country. History proved al-Khatib right, and at his instigation, Ibn Khaldūn was eventually sent back to North Africa. Al-Khatib himself was later accused by Muhammad of having unorthodox philosophical views and murdered despite an attempt by Ibn Khaldūn to intercede on behalf of his old rival. In his autobiography, Ibn Khaldūn tells little about his conflict with Ibn al-Khatib and the reasons for his departure. Orientalist Muhsin Mahdi interprets that as showing that Ibn Khaldūn later realised that he had completely misjudged Muhammad V. Back in Africa, the Hafsid sultan of Bougie, Abū ʻAbdallāh, who had been his companion in prison, received him with great enthusiasm and made Ibn Khaldūn his prime minister. Ibn Khaldūn carried out a daring mission to collect taxes among the local Berber tribes. After the death of Abū ʻAbdallāh in 1366, Ibn Khaldūn changed sides once again and allied himself with the Sultan of Tlemcen, Abū l-Abbas. A few years later, he was taken prisoner by Abu Faris Abdul Aziz, who had defeated the sultan of Tlemcen and seized the throne. He then entered a monastic establishment and occupied himself with scholastic duties until 1370. In that year, he was sent for to Tlemcen by the new sultan. After the death of ʻAbdu l-Azīz, he resided at Fez, enjoying the patronage and confidence of the regent. Ibn Khaldūn's political skills and, above all, his good relationship with the wild Berber tribes were in high demand among the North African rulers, but he had begun to tire of politics and constantly switching allegiances. In 1375, he was sent by Abū Hammu, the ʻAbdu l Wadid Sultan of Tlemcen, on a mission to the Dawadida Arabs tribes of Biskra. After his return to the West, Ibn Khaldūn sought refuge with one of the Berber tribes in the west of Algeria, in the town of Qalat Ibn Salama. He lived there for over three years under their protection, taking advantage of his seclusion to write the Muqaddimah "Prolegomena", the introduction to his planned history of the world. In Ibn Salama, however, he lacked the necessary texts to complete the work. Therefore, in 1378, he returned to his native Tunis, which had meanwhile been conquered by Abū l-Abbas, who took Ibn Khaldūn back into his service. There, he devoted himself almost exclusively to his studies and completed his history of the world. His relationship with Abū l-Abbas remained strained, as the latter questioned his loyalty. That was brought into sharp contrast after Ibn Khaldūn presented him with a copy of the completed history that omitted the usual panegyric to the ruler. Under pretence of going on the Hajj to Mecca, something a Muslim ruler could not simply refuse permission for Ibn Khaldūn was able to leave Tunis and to sail to Alexandria. Ibn Khaldun said of Egypt, "He who has not seen it does not know the power of Islam." While other Islamic regions had to cope with border wars and inner strife, the Mamluks let Egypt experience a period of economic prosperity and high culture. However, even in Egypt, where Ibn Khaldūn lived out his days, he could not stay out of politics completely. In 1384, the Egyptian Sultan, al-Malik udh-Dhahir Barquq, made him professor of the Qamhiyyah Madrasah and the grand qadi of the Maliki school of fiqh (one of four schools, the Maliki school was widespread primarily in Western Africa). His efforts at reform encountered resistance, however, and within a year, he had to resign his judgeship. A contributory factor to his decision to resign may have been the heavy personal blow that struck him in 1384, when a ship carrying his wife and children sank off the coast of Alexandria. Ibn Khaldun now decided to complete the pilgrimage to Mecca, after all. After his return in May 1388, Ibn Khaldūn concentrated more strongly on a purely-educational function at various Cairo madrasas. At court, he fell out of favor for a time, as during revolts against Barquq, he had, apparently under duress, with other Cairo jurists, issued a fatwa against Barquq. Later relations with Barquq returned to normal, and he was once again named the Maliki qadi. Altogether, he was called six times to that high office, which, for various reasons, he never held long. In 1401, under Barquq's successor, his son Faraj, Ibn Khaldūn took part in a military campaign against the Mongol conqueror, Timur, who besieged Damascus in 1400. Ibn Khaldūn cast doubt upon the viability of the venture and really wanted to stay in Egypt. His doubts were vindicated, as the young and inexperienced Faraj, concerned about a revolt in Egypt, left his army to its own devices in Syria and hurried home. Ibn Khaldūn remained at the besieged city for seven weeks, being lowered over the city wall by ropes to negotiate with Timur, in a historic series of meetings that he reported extensively in his autobiography. Timur questioned him in detail about conditions in the lands of the Maghreb. At his request, Ibn Khaldūn even wrote a long report about it. As he recognized Timur's intentions, he did not hesitate, on his return to Egypt, to compose an equally-extensive report on the history of the Tatars, together with a character study of Timur, sending them to the Merinid rulers in Fez (Maghreb). Ibn Khaldūn spent the next five years in Cairo completing his autobiography and his history of the world and acting as teacher and judge. Meanwhile, he was alleged to have joined an underground party, Rijal Hawa Rijal, whose reform-oriented ideals attracted the attention of local political authorities. The elderly Ibn Khaldun was placed under arrest. He died on 17 March 1406, one month after his sixth selection for the office of the Maliki qadi (Judge). Ibn Khaldūn main work is the Kitāb al-ʻIbar or "Book of Lessons" (full title: Kitāb al-ʻIbar wa-Dīwān al-Mubtadaʼ wa-l-Khabar fī Taʼrīkh al-ʻArab wa-l-Barbar wa-Man ʻĀṣarahum min Dhawī ash-Shaʼn al-Akbār "Book of Lessons, Record of Beginnings and Events in the History of the Arabs and the Berbers and Their Powerful Contemporaries"), originally conceived as a history of the Berbers but later expanded in focus to a universal history. The Kitāb al-ʻIbār divides into seven books. Al-Muqaddimah (Introduction), is considered the first book. Books Two to Five cover World History of Humanity up to the authors own time. Books Six and Seven give the history of the Berber peoples and the Maghreb. Despite errors originating in the 14th century Fez work, Rawḍ al-Qirṭās, (probably by Ibn Abi Zar), from which Khaldun drew upon, al-'Ibar remains an important source for Berber history. The historiographical work has been further criticised for its synthesis of multiple (sometimes contradictory) sources in the absence of original citations, and here Khaldun departs from the classical style of Arab historians such as Ibrahim ibn ar-Raqīq (~d.1028) or al-Mālikī. Ibn Khaldun outlines an early example of political economy[dubious – discuss]. He describes the economy as being composed of value-adding processes; that is, labour and skill is added to techniques and crafts and the product is sold at a higher value[dubious – discuss]. He also made the distinction between "profit" and "sustenance", in modern political economy terms, surplus and that required for the reproduction of classes respectively. He also calls for the creation of a science to explain society and goes on to outline these ideas in his major work, the Muqaddimah. Ibn Khaldun diverged from norms that Muslim historians followed and rejected their focus on the credibility of the transmitter and focused instead on the validity of the stories and encouraged critical thinking. Ibn Khaldun also believed that the currency of an Islamic monetary system should have intrinsic value and therefore be made of gold and silver (such as the dirham). He emphasized that the weight and purity of these coins should be strictly followed: the weight of one dinar should be one mithqal (the weight of 72 grains of barley, roughly 4.25 grams) and the weight of 7 dinar should be equal to weight of 10 dirhams (7/10 of a mithqal or 2.96 grams). Ibn Khaldun's epistemology attempted to reconcile mysticism with theology by dividing science into two different categories, the religious science that regards the sciences of the Qur'an and the non-religious science. He further classified the non-religious sciences into intellectual sciences such as logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, etc. and auxiliary sciences such as language, literature, poetry, etc. He also suggested that possibly more divisions will appear in the future with different societies. He tried to adapt to all possible societies’ cultural behavior and influence in education, economics and politics. Nonetheless, he didn't think that laws were chosen by just one leader or a small group of individual but mostly by the majority of the individuals of a society. To Ibn Khaldun, the state was a necessity of human society to restrain injustice within the society, but the state means is force, thus itself an injustice. All societies must have a state governing them in order to establish a society. He attempted to standardize the history of societies by identifying ubiquitous phenomena present in all societies. To him, civilization was a phenomena that will be present as long as humans exist. He characterized the fulfillment of basic needs as the beginning of civilization. At the beginning, people will look for different ways of increasing productivity of basic needs and expansion will occur. Later the society starts becoming more sedentary and focuses more on crafting, arts and the more refined characteristics. By the end of a society, it will weaken, allowing another small group of individuals to come into control. The conquering group is described as an unsatisfied group within the society itself or a group of desert bandits that constantly attack other weaker or weakened societies. In the Muqaddimah, his most important work, he thoughtfully and scrupulously discusses an introduction of philosophy to history in a general manner, based on observable patterns within a theoretical framework of known historical events of his time. He described the beginnings, development, cultural trends and the fall of all societies, leading to the rise of a new society which would then follow the same trends in a continuous cycle. Ibn Khaldun did not create a perfect model for a society during his life, but he did think there was a need for a new model to manage society to ensure its continuous economic growth. Also, he recommended the best political approaches to develop a society according to his knowledge of history. He heavily emphasized that a good society would be one in which a tradition of education is deeply rooted in its culture. Ibn Khaldun (1987) introduced word asabiya (solidarity, group feeling, or group consciousness), to explain tribalism. The concept of asabiya has been translated as "social cohesion," "group solidarity," or "tribalism." This social cohesion arises spontaneously in tribes and other small kinship groups (Rashed,2017). Ibn Khaldun believed that too much bureaucracy, such as taxes and legislations, would lead to the decline of a society, since it would constrain the development of more specialized labor (increase in scholars and development of different services). He believed that bureaucrats cannot understand the world of commerce and do not possess the same motivation as a businessman. In his work the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun emphasizes human beings' faculty to think (fikr) as what determines human behavior and ubiquitous patterns. This faculty is also what inspires human beings to form into a social structure to co-operate in division of labor and organization. According to Zaid Ahmand in Epistemology and the Human Dimension in Urban Studies, the fikr faculty is the supporting pillar for all philosophical aspects of Ibn Khaldun's theory related to human beings’ spiritual, intellectual, physical, social and political tendencies. Another important concept he emphasizes in his work is the mastery of crafts, habits and skills. These takes place after a society is established and according to Ibn Khaldun the level of achievement of a society can be determined by just analyzing these three concepts. A society in its earliest stages is nomadic and primarily concerned with survival, while a society at a later stage is sedentary, with greater achievement in crafts. A society with a sedentary culture and stable politics would be expected to have greater achievements in crafts and technology. Ibn Khaldun also emphasized in his epistemology theory the important aspect that educational tradition plays to ensure the new generations of a civilization continuously improve in the sciences and develop culture. Ibn Khaldun argued that without the strong establishment of an educational tradition, it would be very difficult for the new generations to maintain the achievements of the earlier generations, let alone improve them. Another way to distinguish the achievement of a society would be the language factor of a society, since for him the most important element of a society would not be land, but the language spoken by them. He was surprised that many non-Arabs were really successful in the Arabic society, had good jobs and were well received by the community. "These people were non-Arab by descent, but they grew up among the Arabs who possessed the habit of Arabic," Ibn Khaldun once recalled, "[b]ecause of this, they were able to master Arabic so well that they cannot be surpassed." He believed that the reason why non-Arabs were accepted as part of Arab society was due to their mastery of the Arabic language. Advancements in literary works such as poems and prose where another way to distinguish the achievement of a civilization, but Ibn Khaldun believed that whenever the literary facet of a society reaches its highest levels it ceases to indicate societal achievements anymore, but is an embellishment of life. For logical sciences he established knowledge at its highest level as an increase of scholars and the quality of knowledge. For him the highest level of literary productions would be the manifestation of prose, poems and the artistic enrichment of a society. From other sources we know of several other works, primarily composed during the time he spent in North Africa and Al-Andalus. His first book, Lubābu l-Muhassal, a commentary on the Islamic theology of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, was written at the age of 19 under the supervision of his teacher al-Ābilī in Tunis. A work on Sufism, Shifā'u l-Sā'il, was composed around 1373 in Fes, Morocco. Whilst at the court of Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada, Ibn Khaldūn composed a work on logic, ʻallaqa li-s-Sulṭān. A Laffer Curve with a maximum revenue point at around a 70%, as estimated by Trabandt and Uhlig (2009). Laffer cites Ibn Khaldun's observation that "at the beginning of the dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments." as a predecessor. Ibn Khaldun's historical method had very few precedents or followers in his time. While Ibn Khaldun is known to have been a successful lecturer on jurisprudence within religious sciences, only very few of his students were aware of, and influenced by, his Muqaddimah. One such student, Al-Maqrizi, praised the Muqaddimah, although some scholars have found his praise, and that of others, to be generally empty and lacking understanding of Ibn Khaldun's methods. Ibn Khaldun also faced primarily criticism from his contemporaries, particularly Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani. These criticisms included accusations of inadequate historical knowledge, an inaccurate title, disorganization, and a style resembling that of the prolific Arab literature writer, Al-Jahiz. Al-Asqalani also noted that Ibn Khaldun was not well-liked in Egypt because he opposed many respected traditions, including the traditional judicial dress, and suggested that this may have contributed to the reception of Ibn Khaldun's historical works. The notable exception to this consensus was Ibn al-Azraq, a jurist who lived shortly after Ibn Khaldun and quoted heavily from the first and fourth books of the Kitab al-‘Ibar, in developing a work of mirrors for princes. Ibn Khaldun's work found some recognition with Ottoman intellectuals in the 17th century. The first references to Ibn Khaldun in Ottoman writings appeared in the middle of the 17th century, with historians such as Kâtip Çelebi naming him as a great influence, while another Turkish Ottoman historian, Mustafa Naima, attempted to use Ibn Khaldun's cyclical theory of the rise and fall of empires to describe the Ottoman Empire. Increasing perceptions of the decline of the Ottoman Empire also caused similar ideas to appear independently of Ibn Khaldun in the 16th century, and may explain some of the influence of his works. In Europe, Ibn Khaldun was first brought to the attention of the Western world in 1697, when a biography of him appeared in Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville's Bibliothèque Orientale. However, some scholars believe that Ibn Khaldun's work may have first been introduced to Europe via Ibn Arabshah's biography of Tamerlane, translated to Latin, which covers a meeting between Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane. According to Ibn Arabshah, during this meeting, Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane discussed the Maghrib in depth, as well as Tamerlane's genealogy and place in history. Ibn Khaldun began gaining more attention from 1806, when Silvestre de Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe included his biography together with a translation of parts of the Muqaddimah as the Prolegomena. In 1816, de Sacy again published a biography with a more detailed description on the Prolegomena. More details on and partial translations of the Prolegomena emerged over the years until the complete Arabic edition was published in 1858. Since then, the work of Ibn Khaldun has been extensively studied in the Western world with special interest. Early European works on Ibn Khaldun suffered heavily from colonial influences and orientalism, as many sociologists considered North Africa to be unworthy of studying in the19th century. Additionally, many sociologists viewed Ibn Khaldun as the only North African sociologist worth studying. Reynold A. Nicholson praised Ibn Khaldun as a uniquely brilliant Muslim sociologist, but discounted Khaldun's influence. Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset viewed the conflicts of North Africa as a problem that stemmed from a lack of African thought, and praised Ibn Khaldun for making sense of the conflict by simplifying it to the relationship between the nomadic and sedentary modes of life. Ibn Khaldun's contributions to economics were ignored by historians like Joseph Schumpeter, who wrote that "we may safely leap over 500 years to the epoch of St Thomas Aquinas" as late as 1954. While Ibn Khaldun lived after St Thomas Aquinas, Schumpeter makes only passing references to Khaldun, and excludes Khaldun's predecessors. However, modern historians have recognized the contributions of Ibn Khaldun and many of his predecessors. Modern historians have also been complimentary in their analysis of Ibn Khaldun's works, and acknowledgement of his contemporaries or standing compared to European scholars is increasingly common. Influential British historian and international affairs specialist Arnold J. Toynbee has called Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah "the greatest work of its kind." Ernest Gellner, once a professor of philosophy and logic at the London School of Economics, considered Khaldun's definition of government the best in the history of political theory. More moderate views on the scope of Ibn Khaldun's contributions have emerged. Arthur Laffer, for whom the Laffer curve is named, acknowledged that Ibn Khaldun's ideas, as well as others, precede his own work on that curve. A focus on understanding the nuances of Ibn Khaldun's contributions is present, with scholars commenting on the specifics of Khaldun's work, such as "Ibn Khaldun chose to ignore all those crafts which are neither necessary...nor honorable" and that Ibn Khaldun "depicts what really happens. ... he does not discuss whether the state ought, or ought not, to interfere". As a historian and sociologist, Ibn Khaldun was recognized by the British philosopher Robert Flint, who wrote: "as a theorist of history he had no equal in any age or country until Vico appeared, more than three hundred years later. Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine were not his peers, and all others were unworthy of being even mentioned along with him". Ibn Khaldun's work on evolution of societies also influenced Egon Orowan, who termed the concept of socionomy. While Ibn Khaldun's record-keeping is usually passed over in favor of recognizing his contributions to the science of history, Abderrahmane Lakhsassi wrote "No historian of the Maghreb since and particularly of the Berbers can do without his historical contribution." Public recognition of Ibn Khaldun has increased in recent years. In 2004, the Tunisian Community Center launched the first Ibn Khaldun Award to recognize a Tunisian/American high achiever whose work reflects Ibn Khaldun's ideas of kinship and solidarity. The Award was named after Ibn Khaldun for him being universally acknowledged as the Father of Sociology and also for the convergence of his ideas with the organization's objectives and programs. In 2006, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation launched an annual essay contest for students named in Ibn Khaldun's honor. The theme of the contest is "how individuals, think tanks, universities and entrepreneurs can influence government policies to allow the free market to flourish and improve the lives of its citizens based on Islamic teachings and traditions." In 2006, Spain commemorated the 600th anniversary of the death of Ibn Khaldun, by orchestrating an exhibit titled "Encounter of Civilizations: Ibn Khaldun." In 2011, Ibn Khaldun's birthday was recognized by a Google Doodle, which was publicized in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Ibn Khaldun. 1951 التعريف بإبن خلدون ورحلته غربا وشرقا Al-Taʻrīf bi Ibn-Khaldūn wa Riħlatuhu Għarbān wa Sharqān. Published by Muħammad ibn-Tāwīt at-Tanjī. Cairo (Autobiography in Arabic). ^ "Ibn Khaldun – His Life and Work". Retrieved 25 February 2017. ^ Doniger, Wendy (1999). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions. Merriam-Webstar Inc. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-87779-044-0. ^ a b c Savant, Sarah Bowen (2014). Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past. Edinburgh University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-7486-4497-1. Banu Khaldun al-Hadrami (Yemen, but not Qahtan), to which belonged the famous historian Ibn Khaldun. The family's ancestor was 'Uthman ibn Bakr ibn Khalid, called Khaldun, a Yemeni Arab among the conquerors who shared kinship with the Prophet's Companian Wa'il ibn Hujr and who settled first in Carmona and then in Seville. The Historical Muhammad, Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), 21; "It is, of course, Ibn Khaldun as an Arab here speaking, for he claims Arab descent through the male line.". The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State, Halim Barakat (University of California Press, 1993), 48;"The renowned Arab sociologist-historian Ibn Khaldun first interpreted Arab history in terms of badu versus hadar conflicts and struggles for power." Ibn Khaldun, M. Talbi, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. III, ed. B. Lewis, V.L. Menage, C. Pellat, J. Schacht, (Brill, 1986), 825; "Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis, on I Ramadan 732/27 May 1332, in an Arab family which came originally from the Hadramawt and had been settled at Seville since the beginning of the Muslim conquest...." ^ • Joseph J. Spengler (1964). "Economic Thought of Islam: Ibn Khaldun", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 6(3), pp. 268-306. • Jean David C. Boulakia (1971). "Ibn Khaldûn: A Fourteenth-Century Economist", Journal of Political Economy, 79(5), pp. 1105–18. ^ "Arab American National Museum : Online Collections". Retrieved 25 February 2017. ^ "Notes on Ibn Khaludn's Life". Retrieved 25 February 2017. ^ Muhammad Hozien. "Ibn Khaldun: His Life and Work". Islamic Philosophy Online. Retrieved 2008-09-19. ^ "Saudi Aramco World: Ibn Khaldun and the Rise and Fall of Empires". archive.aramcoworld.com. Retrieved 2017-12-06. ^ "Ibn Khaldun – His Life and Work". www.muslimphilosophy.com. 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First of all, if you fly to Europe through Keflavik (the name of the airport) or Reykjavik (the city), you have a series of choices, depending on the length of the layover. One is to treat it just like a layover, and stay in the airport. A second is to zip into Reykjavik for a few hours, and doze at the airport. A third is to is to stretch out your layover by a day, book a hotel, and explore as much of Iceland as you can fit in. A fourth is book a hotel and sleep in a proper bed, and work in whatever sightseeing you can. The latter two require a bit of planning ahead, as you will not have access to your checked luggage. You'll need to have what you need in your carry-on. Be aware that WOW airlines charges for carryons bigger than a handbag (check their current requirements). I was able to fit my bathing suit, jammies1, and the minimal toiletries into my computer-toting carryon backpack with plenty of room to spare. I chose the last. Realizing that Reykjavik was 45 minutes from the airport, I looked for a hotel near the airport, and found Hótel Berg, which is 15 minutes (maximum) from the airport and has a free shuttle. Well as it turned out, I took a taxi from the airport to the hotel, because the Keflavik airport layout was so confusing I could not find the shuttle depot. Once I got to the hotel I realized I had lucked out. It's a lovely little hotel, newly expanded, overlooking the Keflavik small-boat harbor and the Duus museum complex. In a few weeks, the hotel will also have a large hot tub (sitting pool). I am sorry I missed the experience. The hotel also offers tours booked from the hotel itself -- some of those might suit you, especially a trip to the Blue Lagoon, which seems to be the closest of the famed Icelandic geothermal bathing pools. Below: Here's the harbor from the launch site. I enjoyed the smell of sea. The wind was terrific -- like being beaten with pillows. Below: two views of the harbor from the hotel patio. The red building is the Café Duus (Islandic: KaffiDuus), where I had dinner; the rest of the Duus museum complex stretches away. I decided the best thing for me would be to visit Viking World (Icelandic: Vikingaheimar), a small museum about 10 minutes away by taxi from Hotel Berg. It's a small museum formed around the Viking replica ship Íslengingur. The shipwright Gunnar Marel Eggertsson recreated a ninth-century find known as the "Gokstad ship" and in 2000, sailed the Íslengingur to the New World. Below: a view of the harbor to the right of Vikingaheimar -- where the ship sailed in on its final voyage. The first thing that struck me walking into the museum was the very evocative scent -- burning wood? A peat fire? -- it wasn't oppressive, just a subtle perfume that made me think of times long ago. Below: view of Íslengingur from above, looking from the stern toward the bow. Below, view of the ship from below, showing the rudder side-on. Imagine the strength it would take to move the rudder! I wonder if it was just one man, or a team. Below: a view of the ship, standing in the stern (by the rudder) looking toward the prow. You can see one oar, on the left. According to Viking World site, a ship of this nature would have had a crew of 60+ to man the oars, when the ship could not move under sail. The Íslengingur replaced most of the men with two motors, which they used sparingly as it stressed the ship. Íslengingur made landfall in a number of New World locales, including one commemorated in the display below. I think this is when the ship made landfall at L'Anse aux Meadows. Do you notice something weird and out of place? Below: text describing image above. The man in buckskins and a Plains war bonnet (?!) is Chief Misel Joe, the chief of the Mi’kmaq tribe. The feathered, tailed bonnet he wears was not part of Mi'kmaq traditional dress, even today. You can read more about Mi'kmaq culture here. The museum has several other exhibits, including one on the spread of Viking culture across the North Atlantic and a rather intriguing one on how the Vikings navigated. I enjoyed my visit. There are several other small installations on farming and fishing in walking distance, open in the summer months. I returned to the hotel, took a walk on the bluffs (sorry, no photos) and then walked from the hotel, across the harbor, to the afore-mentioned KaffiDuus. If you are a large party, reservations are recommended. I was seated immediately. I was tired and not that hungry, so I ordered two starters: Marinated Salmon and the Greek Salad, with a Gull beer (a product of Reykvik). Another nice thing about the Berg Hotel: they have a cold breakfast buffet that starts at 3 am. I was scheduled for the 5 am shuttle back to the airport, so I went down for breakfast at 4 am. There was a very satisfactory collection of fruit, fruit juices, cold cuts, bread and flatbreads, and cereal. The coffee was very good as well. The shuttle was right on time. A word about early morning departures from Keflavik: the lines to check bags were enormous. If you do have to check bags, you might want to arrive extra-early. I gathered a second breakfast at the airport, after I had passed passport control and security (which was speedy as I only had hand luggage). I'd also like to visit a geothermal pool other than the Blue Lagoon. 1. travel trip: after experiencing a hotel evacuation, my travel jammies are a long-sleeved t shirt and a light pair of yoga pants, that I wouldn't mind being seen wearing in public. I keep a pair of ballet slippers by the bed, as well as my headlamp and a huge light cotton scarf that started out life as a beach coverup.

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Zeidler, A., Salem, M. Z. M., and Borůvka, V. (2015). "Mechanical properties of grand fir wood grown in the Czech Republic in vertical and horizontal positions," BioRes. 10(1), 793-808. Strength properties were evaluated for Grand fir wood (Abies grandis /Douglas/ Lindl.), a North American species that is considered to be a promising species for the Central European forestry industry. The bending, compression, and impact strengths of wood from Grand fir trees grown in the Czech Republic area were tested, including their variability within a stem and correlation to wood density. The average values of the compression strength reached 39.577 MPa; the bending strength was 78.119 MPa, the impact strength was 4.186 J/cm2, and the density was 410.267 kg/m3. The greatest dependence of the strength characteristics on the evaluated density was shown in the case of bending at the vertical bottom position (r = 0.95). Compression strength values were observed to highly correlate with the density at vertical positions (bottom and middle) in the first site (r = 0.98). The values of the correlations between density and impact strength were observed to be moderate or poor in the vertical position, where a good value was shown in the middle position (r = 0.87). The results of the study suggest that Grand fir is a satisfactory substitute for indigenous species of fir in the Czech Republic; with respect to bending strength and toughness, it can replace the most important commercial conifer, spruce. At the end of the 20th century, the Czech forestry faced a radical change in species composition, i.e., substitution of the silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), a significant original domestic softwood, that decreased from an original representation of 19.8% to just 1.0% in 2012 (Ministry of Agriculture 2012). Historically, silver fir was an important original and abundant coniferous tree species whose wood was used for a wide range of purposes in the Czech Republic and throughout the Central region of Europe. This species lives for 500 to 800 years, growing to a height of 50 m and a diameter of 100 cm. Several potential substitute species from other geographic areas have been identified to replace the silver fir (Podrázský et al. 2013). The final selection was a North American species, Grand fir (Abies grandis /Douglas/ Lindl.). The original habitat of A. grandis is the Northwest coast of North America. It reaches a height of 76 m and a diameter of 152 cm, and lives for approximately 250 years. It was introduced to the region of Central Europe as a prospective tree species to be planted for production of lumber, and has also been introduced as an ornamental tree in Hawaii and in Europe (St. John 1973; Otto 1982; Foiles et al. 1991; Alden 1997; Klinka 2007). In Germany, Grand firs have been introduced from North America and have a lot of economic value with their potential to raise the production of wood in domestic forests due to drought tolerance and ecological compatibility (Friedrich 1981; Nörr 2004). Several experiments conducted at forestry sites in the Czech Republic have focused on the evaluation of growth, production of wood, and impact on the surrounding environment; results showed that Grand firs have the potential to replace domestic wood species and to contribute to forestry in the region (Podrázský and Remeš 2009; Fulín et al. 2013; Salem et al. 2013). There were pilot studies in neighboring countries to evaluate the characteristics of A. grandis wood (Hapla et al. 2013), but no such studies are currently taking place in the Czech Republic where the species composition of coniferous trees in the region is very poor. Many studies have reported that A. grandis has a quick growing mass yield, but with low density values, and can be effective in industrial applications (Hapla 2006; Hof et al. 2008; Mitze 2010; Vos and Kharazipour 2010; Lukašek et al. 2012). The timber, regarded as weaker and less resistant to decay than many other species and susceptible to bacterial infections in wet-wood, is used primarily as a source of pulpwood (Burns and Honkala 1990; Alden 1997). Wagenführ (2007) reported that the wood density is 450 kg/m3 and the compression strength value is 47 MPa; the wood is described as moderate to moderately low in strength, stiffness, shock resistance, and nail withdrawal. Mechanical properties of wood are significant indicators of wood quality from the viewpoint of its use for construction purposes. Strength properties are closely related to the density of the wood, and several studies reported the correlation between the density and strength properties (Barnett and Jeronimidis 2003; Sonderegger et al. 2008). Also, density is one of the basic indicators of wood quality and used as a criterion of strength grading, depending on the vertical and horizontal position in the stems (Panshin and De Zeeuw 1980; Salem et al. 2013). This study is the first report on the strength properties as well as the density of A. grandis wood from two locations in the Czech Republic. The evaluation was performed with consideration of the vertical and horizontal positions and growing site. The sampling began in 2013, and all the measurements were completed by the end of August 2014. At the first location (Site 1), A. grandis trees are located close to the village of Kostelec nad Černými lesy (49° 59′ 39″ N, 14° 51′ 20″ E, latitude 49.994167, longitude 14.855556) situated 25 to 50 km south-east of Prague; the area is an intermediate warm and intermediate wet region. The location is characterised by an average annual temperature of 8.14 °C, average total annual precipitation of 662.6 mm, an average growing season of 150 to 160 days, and pseudogley soils. Individual sites were distributed between elevations of 325 and 430 metres a.s.l. Tree species composition at the site was as follows: Norway spruce 40%, European beech 20%, Grand fir 20%, and European larch 20%. The descriptions of the localities have been previously reported by Podrázský and Remeš (2009) and Tauchman et al. (2010). The forest stands in this region are the property of the Czech University of Life Sciences and represent a considerable extent of the plot used for the research activities of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences. The second location (Site 2) is located at Kynšperk nad Ohří (50° 7′ 8″ N, 12° 31′ 59″ E, latitude 50.118889, longitude 12.533056). Age-felled sample trees ranged from 35 to 45 years. Tree diameters ranged from 27 to 37 cm, with heights in the range of 24 to 30 m. This area is an intermediate warm and intermediate wet region characterised by an average annual temperature of 7 to 8°C, an average total annual precipitation of 550 to 700 mm, and an average growing season of 140 to 160 days. The site is situated at the elevation of 470 metres a.s.l. Tree species composition at the site was as follows: spruce 60% and Grand fire 40%. The all stands were regularly managed (e.g. thinning) in accordance with the forest management plan (10-years period). From each tree stem, three sections 150 cm long ((bottom (1), middle (2), and top (3) sections)) were taken from each tree, as described previously (Langum et al. 2009; Lukašek et al. 2012), to evaluate the impact of vertical and horizontal positions in the stem. The sections represent different vertical positions in the trunk. When acquiring the specimens, the initial orientation in the plants was considered in terms of horizontal position (Sonderegger et al. 2008). The sections were numbered (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) from pith to bark for recognition of the horizontal position. The preparation of test samples and subsequent wood testing were done in accordance with the standard method ČSN 49 0101 (1980) in the laboratory with controlled temperature and relative humidity. The mechanical and wood density tests were conducted at a moisture content (MC) of 12% according to ČSN 49 0103 (1979) and ISO 3131 (1975). where ρ is the density of the wood, m is the mass of a test piece (g), and a, b, and l are the dimensions of the test piece (mm). where Fmax is the maximum load (N), l is the distance between the two supports (mm), h is the height of the test piece (mm), and b is the width of the test piece (mm). where Fmax is the maximum load (N) and a and b are the transverse dimensions of the sample (mm). where Q is the energy expended to break the sample (J) and b and h are the sample dimensions in the radial and tangential directions (cm), respectively. The mechanical properties and density values of A. grandis wood, with respect to the vertical and horizontal positions and the growing sites, were statistically analyzed using the general linear model (GLM) procedure in SAS version 8.2 (2001). A comparison among the least square (LS) means of factors and levels with 95% confidence intervals (CI) was performed using Duncan’s multiple-range test to identify significant differences and to compare the means between the obtained values. Linear correlations were used to evaluate the dependence of the mechanical properties on the density of wood from both sites. Data presented in Tables 1 and 2 shows that the average density of the Grand fir wood was 410.267 kg/m3; this value is close to the value from the trees growing in their original geographic area (449 kg/m3) (Alden 1997). The compression and bending strength values (39.577 and 78.119 MPa, respectively) were higher than the values reported from the original area (36.5 and 68 MPa, respectively) (Alden 1997), and the impact strength value was 4.186 J/cm2, which is similar to values reported for other softwood species. Lukašek et al. (2012) reported that the density at 12% MC of A. grandis growing in the Czech Republic was 405 kg/m3, and Hapla et al. (2014) reported that the oven dry density varied with different height in compression wood, sapwood, and heartwood, i.e., at the height of 1.5 m the values were 0.449 g/cm3 (compression wood), 0.354 g/cm3 (heartwood), and 0.457 g/cm3 (sapwood). The data calculated from the two sites (Table 1) indicated that there were variations in the values in the studied variables for both sites, and the variation were with respect to tree age, wood anatomy, environmental and soil conditions, silvicultural practice (Bektas et al. 2003; Miranda et al. 2007), and the position of the test piece within the tree (de Palacios et al. 2008). The variations in density in wood as affected by vertical position (bottom, middle, and top sections) and growing site are shown in Fig. 1 and Table 3. The site, vertical position, and interaction between them significantly (P < 0.001) affected the density values. Additionally, the density values at site 2 were higher than those from site 1, and the value from the bottom vertical position in the two sites was higher than the values from the middle and top positions. The density was highest at the bottom (Hapla et al. 2013). Furthermore, the values from the middle position at the two sites were lower than those from the top position, but the difference was not significant. With respect to the horizontal positions (Table 3 and Fig. 2), there was a clear trend of increasing density values from pith to bark, with a highly significant (P < 0.001) effect of horizontal position as well as the interaction between the site and horizontal position. On the other hand, the differences in wood density values between the two sites were not significant (P = 0.59). Figure 3 (vertical position) and Fig. 4 (horizontal position) show the bending strength values of A. grandis wood as affected by the two sites. Both the site and position of wood had a highly significant (P < 0.001) effect on bending strength. On the other hand, the interaction between the site and vertical or horizontal position was not significant. Furthermore, the highest values of bending strength (vertical position) were observed in the bottom positions from sites 2 and 1, with values of 86.292 and 83.233 MPa, respectively (Table 4). With respect to horizontal position, the height values of bending strength were shown in section number 5, in sites 2 and 1 with values of 105.583 and 101.919 MPa, respectively. The bending strength increased from pith to bark and from top to bottom of the tree stem (Table 4). Compression strength, as shown in Fig. 5, was significantly affected by vertical position (P<0.001), but not by site (P = 0.29) or the interaction between vertical position and growing site (P = 0.15). The bottom sections from the two sites were observed to have the highest compression strength, with values of 40.573 MPa and 41.265 MPa, respectively (Table 5). The compression strength was significantly (P < 0.001) affected by horizontal position, growing site, and the interaction between them (Fig. 6). The values uniformly increased from pith to bark (Table 5). For the impact strength, we measured only the effect of vertical position, which showed that the bottom position of wood had a significant effect (P < 0.001) on the measured values, whereas neither the growing site (P = 0.85) nor the interaction between vertical position and growing site (P = 0.35) had a significant effect (Fig. 7). The highest values were observed in the bottom section at both sites (4.384 and 4.571 J/cm2, respectively), but these values were not significantly different (Table 6). Some of the above results are similar to those found in the study of González-Rodrigo et al. (2013) with respect to the variation throughout the tree stem of the wood of A. alba, the study of Machado and Cruz (2005) on Maritime pine, and the study of Antony et al. (2011) on planted loblolly pine in the United States. To determine the value and benefits of wood as a bioresource for the production of wood-based material, the relationships among the density and various mechanical properties of A. grandis wood was found by determining the regression equations and correlation coefficients (r). Several studies have reported that wood quality and mechanical and physical properties of wood can be indicated by wood density (Niemz 1993; Niemz and Sonderegger 2003; Esteban et al. 2009; Lukášek et al. 2012). Additionally, density can influence harvesting and transport costs, strength properties, and the yield in the paper and fiber industry (Hapla et al. 2014). In the present study, 38 correlations among the density and the bending and compression strength values (from the two sites and all vertical and horizontal wood sampling positions), as well as impact strength (two sites and vertical position), were measured. At the first site, the correlation coefficients for density and bending strength (Table 7) ranged from r = 0.35 (horizontal position 1) to r = 0.93 (vertical bottom position). The samples from the middle position showed a very good correlation with the density (r = 0.89). Additionally, the samples from horizontal position 3 had a good relationship with density (r = 0.74). At site 2, high correlation coefficient values (r = 0.91, 0.89, and 0.85) were observed between density and samples from horizontal position 3, the bottom vertical position, and horizontal position 4, respectively. Y, Bending strength (MPa); X, Density (kg/m3). Compression strength values were highly correlated (Table 8) with density at vertical positions (bottom and middle) at the first site (r = 0.98), followed by horizontal positions 3 (r = 0.89) and 4 (r = 0.86). At the second site, a good correlation was observed between values from the bottom vertical position (r = 0.90) and horizontal position 4 (r = 0.90). Y, Compression strength (MPa); X, Density (kg/m3). Density and impact strength had moderate or poor correlations (Table 9) in the vertical position, although a good value was shown for the middle position (r = 0.87) from site 2. The low correlations could be explained by the differences between the density of sapwood and heartwood like reported in the study of Hapla et al. (2013), who demonstrated that juvenile wood was the reason for the significant difference between sapwood and heartwood, which has lower cell wall / lumen ratio (Zobel and van Buijtenen 1989). Also, in vertical position the correlation was highly significant, and this result is in agreement with Risi and Zeller (1960), Stern (1963), and Olesen (1973), where the density is normally decreasing with height in the case of softwoods. Y, Impact strength (MPa); X, Density (kg/m3). Generally, the vertical bottom position and horizontal positions 3 and 4 in the tree stem had good correlations with density and bending and compression strength. On the other hand, the correlation between density and impact strength was unconvincing. Additionally, the variations could be related to the compression wood, which was previously reported that the density was higher in case of sapwood (Esteban et al. 2009; Lukášek et al. 2012; Hapla et al. 2013). Furthermore, Giant fir has enormous growth dynamic, which procures an eccentric secondary thickness and leads to the formation of compression wood (Riebel 1994). Previously, Cown (1992), Houllier (1993), Houllier et al. (1995), and Zhou et al. (2008) found that there has been an urgent need for management tools to integrate both growth and wood quality information, leading to a new generation of more detailed models; these models have been developed for fast-growing species of coniferous plantations in different regions around the world (e.g., Pseudotsuga menziesii, western-hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, Radiata pine, and Scots pine), as well as for Norway spruce (Behrendt et al. 2007; Dohrenbusch and Bolte 2008; Spellmann and Kehr 2008; Müller et al. 2009). In the present study, we attempted to determine details concerning the relationship between the density and selected mechanical properties for an introduced coniferous species in the Czech Republic to ensure a long-term supply for wood processing industries. The results provide practical data for the timber-oriented sorting of Grand fir logs. The vertical bottom sections of the stems could be suitable for lumber and other wood products (particleboard, paper, fiberboard, etc.) because of the significant correlations among the density and mechanical strengths. The differences obtained in the mechanical properties of A. grandis may be due to the limited number of tested wood specimens with considering the local variability of the species, where some variations were found to have resulted from specific conditions of the two studied sites (Brown et al. 1952; Blanco et al. 1997). Further studies on mechanical properties from other stands of A. grandis from the Czech Republic will be useful for the generality of the obtained results form A. grandis. The differences in the mechanical properties of A. grandis may be due to the limited number of tested wood specimens when considering the local variability of the species. The average values of mechanical properties were compression strength (39.577 MPa), bending strength (78.119 MPa), and impact strength (4.186 J/cm2) with a density of 410.267 kg/m3. The highest correlations of the strength characteristics with density were shown in the case of bending at the vertical bottom position (r = 0.95) and for compression strength at vertical positions (bottom and middle) at the first site (r = 0.98). The impact strength showed moderate or poor correlations with the vertical position, although a good value was shown for the middle position (r = 0.87). 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A company called last week looking to get someone to do some corporate helpdesk/support tutorial/videography for them and wanted to know which textbooks I had recorded video for. This is something of a complex question, since A) I was never directly told which books were which, B) they lacked front pages and copyright notices at the time I was working on them, C) I probably signed a NDA at some point, D) I forgot to keep copies of the work I did, and E) at least one agent was told by the end client to not even tell me who I was working for (an action I do understand since I do have access to all the answers for their final exams). I've been able to find several books I probably worked on and at least one I definitely worked on, so how do you, Oh LJ hive-mind, suggest I reference them in my resume?

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The process involves three steps. first soaking,grinding and fermenting.To grind we can use wet grinder or a powerful blender. Clean urad dhal and soak it atleast for 2 to 3 hrs. First clean the grinder and add dhal to it and grind it add enough water. check in between while grinding and sprinkle water as and when needed. Approximately it will need 20 to 25 mts for grinding.The batter should be soft,fluffy and flowy.Remove it and keep it in a big container. Now without cleaning the grinder can add rice to it.then add water to it. Now add the batter to the dhal batter add required amount of salt and mix well. See that both the dhal and rice batter mixes well.Store in a large container as the batter rises. Keep aside for fermenting. it should be kept for 8 to10 hrs.The fermenting time depends on the temperature and climatic condtions .Weather is very important as in summer it will ferment quickly and in winter it will take longer time. Fenugreek seeds can be added while grinding dhal. If we grind in the morning can store in refrigerator in the night. If we grind in the evening can keep next morning. Now I am going to the process of making uthapam.It is a variety of dosai which is slightly thicker than dosa.There are different types of uthapam today I,m going with vegetable uthapam. Dosa batter for making uthapam. Carrot grated,cabbage grated or finely chopped, onion chopped finely,capsicum ,pepper powder finely chopped,green chilies, , little salt coriander and curry leaves. These are the basic vegetables can increase or decreasethe quantity of each one according to ones taste. Pour a laddle of batter on the tawa and spread it in a circular motion.It shpuld be thick. Now sprinkle the chopped vegetables on itevenly. Cover with a lid for few second when half cooked remove the lid and using the tawa spread evenly on the dosaand when cooked flip it on the other side.Now drizzle oil on it. Put all ingredients in a blender and grind it with water. Heat a tablespoon oil add mustard and urad dhal after spluttering add curry leaves and to chutney. In India we have a number of spices.Usually I post a recipe but today I thought of giving the glossary of few Indian Spices in a few language with the intention that it will be useful for beginners.With different climatic condition we produce different spices.We can use spice in different forms.Some are soaked and used, some fried,some cooked and we use in different stages of cooking . some can be used in a powdered form.Some added last to give flavour too.Below I have given a list of few spices so that it will be helpful for beginners to know about the spices used in a particular recipe. I have been nominated for the sunshine blogger award by Lathiya.Her blog http://cookwithsmileblog.wordpress.com is a must visit one for foodies. In South India we have poriyal or kootu as a side dish for rice.We make kootu with different vegetables.This one is a different one.I have made this kootu with drumstick pulp.We can also use pieces too. 1.Clean drumstick and then chop it into long pieces.May be 4 or 6 inches length. 2.In a kadai put the cleaned drumstick add water,turmeric powder and cook. 3. If there is excess water after cooking keep it aside. 4.When it is cool take a single piece and by using a spoon or knife remove pulp. 6.Grind coconut,green chillies,jeera and garlic pods. 7.In a kadai put 2 tablespoon oil, then add mustard seeds and urad dhal after splutterring add curry leaves. 8.Put the drumstick pulp add salt and boil for few minutes. 9.Now add coconut paste to it and boil for few minutes. Now tasty stew or kootu is ready.This is a very healthy dish. This goes well with puli kulazhambu.Removing pulp while cooking lessens time while eating.My entire family likes this very much. Onion pakoras is a deep fried snack. Its a commonly prepared by many. It is a proper snack also some say it as Onion Vada. It is a delicious one the onion should be thinly sliced. If it is thickly sliced then it will not be cooked properly.It is a all time starter too. Gram flout – 1/2 cup. Corn flour – 1-2 tbps. Onion sliced thin – 1/2-3/4 cup. Chilli powder – 1/2 tsps or as desired. Coriander finely chopped and Curry leaves also. In a vessel first add all the dry ingredients and mix well then add onions coriander leaves curry leaves ginger grated and leave aside for 20-30 mins.then sprinkle water and mix well so that it can be taken in a small ball keep oil in kadai for frying now take a spoonful of this mixture and put it in the oil and fry it.After frying,excessive oil can be absorbed using paper towel.This is will be crispy outside and soft inside.Serve hot with sauce.

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Oh, no, you can’t do that. Once you started wearin’ those shoes. Not according to the Eagles! I have never been into the Eagles much, but now i know, I read the lyrics.

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So you like what you see, well that’s fine as I am for hire and no job is too large or too small. I illustrate, storytell, or I’ll happily create both. Send me an email at [email protected] with your company, project, and/or product particulars. I’ll review your request then send you an estimated cost. Please allow 3 to 5 business days for response. If collaboration is more your scene, I’m always up for that, too. Send me an email letting me know what sort of project you have in your mind, with a link so that I may peruse your work. I’ll check out your site and get back to you quickly as to whether or not I think we’ll be a fine mesh (or mess. what the heck?). I look forward to hearing from you and discovering what we can do together.

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For the geographic definition for a place smaller than a village, see Hamlet (place). The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a play by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known plays, and many lines have become famous quotations. The play is often just called Hamlet. Hamlet was written between 1600 and 1602, and first printed in 1603. Hamlet is a young prince in Denmark who was supposed to become king when his father (also named Hamlet) died. Instead, the throne was seized by Hamlet's uncle Claudius, who also married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet meets a ghost of his dead father, who tells him that he was poisoned by Claudius and demands that Hamlet kill Claudius in revenge. Hamlet is at first not sure whether to believe the ghost, so he tries to investigate. He pretends to be mad to hide what he is doing. As the play goes on, it becomes hard to tell if Hamlet is actually mad or still just pretending. His behaviour causes him to fall out with Ophelia, a girl he was in love with. He eventually has the idea of getting some actors to put on a play of a king being killed in the way the ghost described. Claudius panics when he sees the play, and Hamlet realises his uncle is a murderer. Hamlet has a chance to kill Claudius in the castle chapel, but cannot bring himself to do it. While waiting outside, he gets into an argument with his mother. Someone moves behind a curtain and Hamlet, thinking it is Claudius, stabs him. It turns out that he has killed Polonius, a royal advisor and Ophelia's father. Claudius orders Hamlet to be exiled to England. He sets up a plot to have Hamlet killed, but Hamlet escapes and returns to Denmark. Meanwhile, Ophelia has been suffering from madness after falling out with Hamlet. After learning that he has killed her father, she drowns herself. Hamlet reappears at Ophelia's funeral and gets into a fight with her brother Laertes. Laertes blames Hamlet for his sister and father's deaths and wants to take revenge. He challenges Hamlet to a swordfight. Hamlet agrees. The swordfight is arranged to take place at the castle. To get Hamlet killed, Claudius gets Laertes to fight with a sword that has poison on the blade, and brings some poisoned wine in case this does not work. The swordfight begins. After some fighting, Laertes wounds Hamlet and poisons him. During a break, the swords are mixed up and Hamlet ends up fighting and wounding Laertes with the poisoned sword. Laertes shows regret for what he has done and tells Hamlet about the poison as he dies. Meanwhile, Gertrude drinks the poisoned wine by mistake and dies. Realising that he is also dying, Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink the rest of the wine. In his last moments, Hamlet tells his friend Horatio that Fortinbras, a Norwegian prince, should be named as the next King of Denmark. Hamlet is one of the hardest parts for an actor to perform. It is one of the largest roles written by Shakespeare. Many people disagree about what Hamlet is really thinking. For many actors, playing Hamlet is one of the most important parts of their career. 1948 Hamlet played by Laurence Olivier. Directed by Laurence Olivier. 1960 A version made for German television. This version was later an episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. 1990 Hamlet played by Mel Gibson. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. 1996 Hamlet played by Kenneth Branagh. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. A movie of the entire play. 2009 Hamlet played by David Tennant. Directed by Gregory Doran, a three and a half hour Television adaptation for the BBC. An adaptation of the folio text with changes from the first and later quarto's to fit the dramatisation. 2014 Bollywood movie "Haider" directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, where role of Hamlet played by Shahid Kapoor. This page was last changed on 9 October 2018, at 10:44.

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I watched Vertigo in college, because I was in college and it was the sort of film you were supposed to watch. I liked it well enough and promptly forgot all about it. But for whatever reason, the film has recently resurfaced from the morass in my brain where old movies go to die, and so one night I biked down to retrieve a copy from the nearest locally owned video store (that is, I streamed it on Netflix). As you may know, it’s a very weird movie. At its heart is Jimmy Stewart’s obsession with Kim Novak, which isn’t much of a mystery if you’ve ever seen Kim Novak. But I found myself marveling at the cinematic crispness of Stewart’s obsession. Here he is trailing her to an old Spanish mission, and an art museum, and San Francisco Bay. Eventually the two of them fling body against body against the moody wet backdrop of a redwood forest. Oh, sweet release. But it was the quieter moments that drew me in: Stewart tailing her in his car, or awkwardly interrogating the owner of an apartment house. The potential dangers behind every door, the frantic dread of losing Novak in traffic or the cold indifferent waters of the Bay. And studying Stewart’s face—pallid and sweaty, creased with hope and anticipation and fear—I realized that I’d had those same feelings not so long ago, but my obsession didn’t look anything like his. It didn’t look like much of anything. I envy his obsession, the narrative satisfaction of it. But it’s 2012. It’s hard to get there from here. So this is a story about a girl, and of course any time a guy says that it’s a dead giveaway that it’s really about him. Okay, it’s about me. You know my name, and I’m not going to tell you hers. But I’ve come to detest bland pseudonyms. If you’ve got a story about a girl named Lara and change her name to Anne, what’s the point? You may as well go all out. This is my story about Ms. Clarissa Applesauce. Some background: In the fall of 2008, I moved from Denver to Eastern Kentucky to take a job teaching English at a small university that will go unnamed. Due to the particulars of regional heritage (whatever that means), Nom de Guerre, KY was in no sense a College Town. It was, rather, a typically sad rural town that happened to have a university within its city limits. I took a small studio apartment just off of Mainstreet—a block of mostly empty stores kept that way by the two families who had owned it for decades and were determined to keep the 21st Century (and much of the 20th) from intruding upon the bucolic calm of their Appalachian paradise. I lived across the lot from Mainstreet’s most lucrative business: a drive-thru liquor store that opened at 7AM and did a brisk business with the early risers. So I declared my life television and Internet free. I had my music, my books. In this grand fantasy, I saw myself hunched over in my walk-in closet of an apartment reading Proust and Tolstoy, maybe even Finnegan’s Wake. Why not? We all know one hour of unperturbed silence has as many minutes as three or four hours of random Internet puttering or stupefied television viewing. Come Eastern Kentucky or high water, I too would live deliberately. In retrospect, I view this experiment as a scientific one: can a man survive for an entire year feeding on nothing but delusion? Because, of course, once stimuli were gone, I missed them terribly. Whatever the ultimate benefits might be of plodding through Remembrance of Things Past, they in no way could compete with the free and depressive clarity of clicking from website to website, seeking something, anything, to temporarily distract my brain. My daily routine went like this: teach in classroom, hang out in office with the magical “Internet” that existed there, come home to throw oneself down on bed or floor. Either nap or stare at ceiling. Eat. Return to office till midnight, drown self in Internet. Reflect on life. Contemplate buying volleyball to talk to. Without a scintilla of evidence to the contrary, pretend tomorrow will be different. I lived like this for nine months. But then (cue upbeat hopeful emo song), I met a girl—the aforementioned Ms. Applesauce. I struck up a conversation in Nom de Guerre’s only coffee shop, which was actually a small alcove off the town’s only bookstore. She was reading Slaughterhouse-Five. In what can only be described as my smoothest pick-up line ever, I asked her if she liked it. She referred to it as a great “cuddle-buddy.” I still have no idea what this means. But conversation ensued and numbers were exchanged and we planned to meet for a drink a few days later. I was a new man, and spent those intervening days in a whirl-a-gig of euphoria. I walked up and down the bombed-out streets of Nom de Guerre dreaming of all the adventures that awaited us—road trips to Nashville and Asheville, star-spangled nights camping out in the Smoky Mountains or romping through the cheap tourist paradise that is Gatlinburg, TN. These flights of fancy were ridiculous, but they sure beat lying on the floor counting the speckles in the ceiling. 1. She brought three friends. They talked in a closed-circuit about people I’d never met and events I hadn’t attended. 2. Besides her friends, she knew about 78% of the other patrons. (If you were born in Eastern Kentucky, it’s apparently impossible not to know at least 2/3rd of the people in any given room.) They swallowed her up. 3. She got really drunk. I got regular drunk. 4. I sat alone at the bar—oh, glorious cliché—for god knows how long and eventually watched her staggering out of the bar with her friends. Cue sad hopeless emo song. That night was only a prelude to the real story, which began the next day when she sent what I’ll refer to as E-mail#1. She apologized profusely, told me she was fresh from an abusive relationship. The abuser had been her fiancée. They’d set a date and everything. I wrote back something heartfelt and dripping with empathy. I’m pretty sure I included that James Wright poem about wishing words were grass. Thus began our electronic correspondence. She told me she was no good at this; she was shy and nervous. She needed to go slow. I returned to Colorado for the summer. We “talked” via e-mail and text message. I wore out the buttons on my phone crafting exquisitely edited texts. I drafted e-mails, printed them out, and sat outside on my brother’s porch late into the night revising until they were just right. I gently pushed for a phone call, but she had a thing about talking on the phone. It was too…immediate. Too close. Uncontrolled. And of course it was weird, and unorthodox. But those adjectives are right up my alley. Who wants a non-weird orthodox girlfriend? She convinced me to join Facebook, which up till then I’d successfully avoided on the basis of some vague, hard-to-explain principle. Sort of like the Indians who feared cameras could flash away their souls. But I was in the long grass now, and I guiltily clicked on her photos and Older Posts. My mother had taught me from a very young age not to be the kind of person who rifles through people’s drawers when they’re not home. But this was a new kind of house—windows wide open, not a locked door in sight. Or like a diary left open on the coffee table, adorned with a post-it note that screamed READ ME! I pondered every male face for hints—which one of these yokels was her erstwhile fiancée? Which were potential suitors? I took mental notes of her likes and dislikes, which didn’t disappoint. She liked The Godfather and David Bowie in Labyrinth. She loved Bob Dylan and obscure underground bands I’d never heard of. If my friends had invented a girl to torment me, they couldn’t have done much better. And still came the e-mails and text messages—every day, every other day. She’d text me when she was tromping through the mud on her parents’ stamp of eastern Kentucky soil; she’d text me when she had a nightmare. She sent YouTube links to songs, snippets of philosophy. I studied her e-mails and texts as though I could uncover hidden nuance and meaning—the lonely kabbalist at work. They couldn’t just be words. Too much was riding on this. “Too much,” naturally, being the omnipresent fear of another year of wretched Appalachian solitude. We made plans to meet again when I returned to Kentucky in August. August came. E-mail#58 (all numbers are approximate) made plans to meet for a hike. Two days later, Text#2,144 introduced a reason to delay. I would hear nothing for a week, then be greeted one fine morn by an e-mail explaining that some minor catastrophe—ex-boyfriend drama, sick grandfathers, the weather—was to blame. And we’d start over. I grew impatient and ever more confused with her excuses, which were legion and rarely creative. My only excuse, presumably, was desperation. To be fair, I was desperate. But also intrigued. She was smart, and interesting, and damaged in some irresistible Sylvia Plath (or, if you will, Fiona Apple) way that fed my admittedly naive Savior fantasies. This was 2009, remember—a time of hope. I was the change she’d been waiting for. Each new message was the proverbial shot of adrenaline straight into my atrophied heart. When two or three days passed without hearing from her, I grew restless and sunk. I’d send a text, and wait. Then a follow-up text. And wait. I’d send an e-mail, and wait. And wait. She seemed to have an otherworldly ability to gauge my level of frustration. As soon as I was ready to completely and irrevocably be rid of her there would come the familiar Pavlovian vibrating beep of a new text message to just-barely renew my battered hopes. Step forward, step back. Make plans and break them. This went on for over a year. Let’s not draw this sad story out any longer. But rest assured that I didn’t quit Facebook the first time I tried. And I couldn’t quit her. I knew it wasn’t healthy, but more than that, it felt like I was being jerked to and fro by a girl and a relationship that didn’t even exist. An unhealthy relationship I could handle, because at least it would pass the time. But this was metaphysical humiliation. If a normal face-to-face relationship is a simple (or even not-so-simple) math equation, then this was some abstruse mathematical proof full of symbols you’ve never seen before. Or else pure gibberish. I’d erase her e-mails and texts, and resolutely tell myself not to contact her or respond when she, with the painful regularity of an iTunes service agreement, butted her electronic head back into my life. My resolve would crumble as soon as my phone started to buzz or I’d see her name pop up in the e-mail tag. I don’t know what else to call it, if not an obsession. I don’t think Jimmy Stewart had anything on me. But I couldn’t explain it to my friends, or hardly to myself. The fact that it was playing out on a virtual stage was beyond humiliating. There was no “there” here. I rebuked myself for feelings that weren’t “real”—how could they be? Real things happened in the real world, a place of trees and tables and sidewalks and sticky barroom floors. This was happening exactly nowhere. Eventually she just stopped. Eventually I moved on. But what this odd not-love affair from an odd time in my life spurred me into thinking is this: so much of life today—its victories, defeats, confusions—now comes to us in ways that seem tremendously uninteresting. Even if I filled the long spaces between texts and e-mails with local color (and eastern KY has plenty of that), it wouldn’t change the fundamental fact that this massive and consuming event in my life was taking place on a stage bereft of what we would traditionally consider tension and drama. I was sitting in my office checking my e-mail, or sleepwalking through my days until my phone buzzed with an incoming text. Pathetic might be a word I’d use, but dramatic it was not. Nor was it evocative, or resonant, or any of the other chipper workshop words we use to describe effective prose. The great premise and promise of creative nonfiction is that—regardless of a few minor costume changes—these things are True. They happened to us, and they matter. But they also have to be interesting. What happens when our reality becomes not just somewhat, but remarkably nondramatic? What happens when the conduits through which our emotions flow seem frivolous and somehow beneath mention among civilized people? Beneath us they may be, but they’re still here. And they won’t be going away anytime soon. In the first act of Vertigo, Jimmy Stewart trails Kim Novak to the art gallery in the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. We get the establishing shot: Ionic and Corinthian columns and a Roman arch. Very classical, very classy. Inside, Stewart squints at Novak, who sits prim and stiff on a bench and gazes up at a painting. A bouquet of pink flowers lay beside her. She wears a cold grey dress-suit. Stewart strolls behind her in his gangly way, in his ill-fitting brown suit, with his furtive glances. He holds his brown fedora loosely with both hands. Novak’s hair is pulled back in a coiled French twist. The background music works to heighten the sense of thick museum silence. No words are spoken. No words need to be spoken. And though Vertigo is, obviously, a work of visual fiction, that scene plays out in countless iterations countless times a day, in public spaces all over the world. A man looking at a woman. Deep feeling— lust, heartache, trepidation, hesitation, irritation—conveyed through fleeting glimpses and body language. No direct dialogue is necessary. Clarissa Applesauce and I had words; it was all we had. Words sent to one another through the ether, through broadband and wifi. Words that presented themselves out of a void. Words without accompaniment, without context or environment to inform or enrich them. Words, words, words. The transcripts would total hundreds of pages, but they wouldn’t add up to anything approaching a compelling or enticing narrative. Give me a rider on horseback passing love letters from one end of town to the other. Certainly I’ll paint you the local color: trees in full bloom or autumn rags, the wind through the rider’s hair or rain slanting violently down. The breathless gallop of the horse. But I’ll also give you the clanging of the bell announcing his arrival, the sky behind him as he stands framed in the doorway, his outfit, awkward greetings and pleasantries, the passing of the letter, the tactile feel of unfolding the envelope, a sense of the handwriting. We’re worlds away from that, of course. But even a phone call has its awkward pauses, stumbles, tonal shifts, accusations, affirmations, endearments, silences, frantic pleas, or the jerky breathlessness of pacing around a room. I can do that. And I can do the meeting of eyes across a crowded party, all gestures and posturing; or a walk through the park; or even the quick freighted brush of knee against knee beneath the table in a pizza parlor or coffee shop. But in the end, I haven’t the slightest idea how to write in full dramatic flourish of the highs and lows of my virtual Appalachian romance. And though I’ve since engaged in more traditional, “normal” (not to mention healthy) relationships, even these couldn’t be honestly rendered without the ways in which emotion in this second decade of the new millennium is bound up irrevocably with communication systems that didn’t exist a generation ago. A fun first-date is validated with a text good night, or a friendly e-mail the next day. Burgeoning relationships are punctuated with flirty and affectionate electronic missives, many of them containing grammar mistakes, truncated words, fatuous emoticons. Fights play out through the same satellites and wires. Who wants to read about that? And who wants to write about it? As far as I can tell, the answer is no one. The answer for most writers is to hit the IGNORE key. Which may be a feasible option, I suppose, for writers of fiction. Just pretend it doesn’t exist in our lives. Create a fantasyland where the characters act like it’s still 1992. Pretend, as they do on television, that drivers and passersby and coffee shop patrons aren’t all acting as though they have advanced OCD, or like addicts who can’t go five full minutes without chasing the virtual dragon. This is the new normal. This is how we live. Of course, not every event in our lives needs documenting. I’ve never felt cheated when a memoir doesn’t take bathroom breaks. But this omission feels different. We are engaged in a deliberate bout of wishful thinking, an almost childish game of “Let’s pretend.” Most people I know under forty (and that’s most people I know) dive into the Internet first thing in the morning. Even my friends who pride themselves on their hyperactive lifestyles—bouldering, skiing, rafting dangerous rapids—will plug back in as soon as they’ve finished their play-date with nature, and still spend significant hours of their days in front of a laptop or hunched over the computer that lives in their phone. Significant is the operative word. Shouldn’t these modes of communication be recognized for the multifarious and important functions they serve in our lives? Can they be, in any way, interesting? And if our creative nonfiction can’t find a way to integrate this great and/or sad truth about how we spend our days, what does that say about our craft? Maybe we’re just fiction writers in disguise, sweeping under the rug what we find distasteful or shallow or boring about modern life in order to tell those truths that we find more elevated, more heightened, less embarrassing. Just reach for the preordained grace notes. Follow the old script. Aim for the same rote moment of clarity or flash of insight. One more tired epiphany on top of a mountain. And to be honest, if I encountered a character in an essay or memoir who spent a significant portion of his days checking e-mail and reading texts—who acted as many of us act—I would almost certainly laugh. How preposterous he seems, grasping after his silly gadgets. A caricature, really. A flat one-note joke. I don’t have a solution to this problem. I read somewhere that one of many reasons The Simpsons is considered such a landmark achievement is because it was the first show to portray a family doing what families had been doing for decades: lounging around and watching TV. But that’s satire. It’s comedy. And while I might be able to successfully render my “unreal” relationship with Clarissa as pure farce, it wouldn’t be True. Maybe it was a farce of sorts, this connection built on clipped text messages and sitting alone in rooms at my computer waiting, waiting—god, the waiting!—for the next thrust of virtual contact, but there was also passion and anxiety and hope and desperation and secret sharing between two damaged souls. And none of it was funny. As a postscript, I should probably mention that I received an e-mail from Clarissa about a year ago. She was attending vet school on an island in the West Indies. She just wanted me to know, she wrote. She described how it felt to drift off to sleep at night listening to the ocean, to wake up listening to the ocean, to walk barefoot on the white sands near the ocean. All that crap. I composed my response as concisely as possible: Glad to hear it. Be well. But I couldn’t bring myself to stop there. What was the point? I asked her. Was there a point? Did any of it mean anything? It wasn’t a rhetorical question. I really needed to know. She got back to me in less than an hour. I wrote all about it in my diary, she said. I don’t want to re-write it all. Send me your address and I’ll send the pages. I doubt I can successfully convey just how gratifying was the promise of a tangible letter. I might never see her again, but answers were coming. The pages, either heavily-bonded and fancy or thin and cheap, would be torn, neatly or in haste, from a diary bought at some high-end craft store or maybe Wal-Mart. The pages would be covered in tidy printed script or cramped cursive, written with ink from a pen she had received as a gift or maybe cribbed from a motel. A pen she had actually held in her small and almost chubby hands, which I remember being oddly and cutely out of proportion to her thin frame. The pages would come in an envelope she’d sealed with her own spit, the lipped fold of the envelope pressed shut with the tip of her finger. The letter would travel physically from an island halfway across the world. It would pass through the hands of uncaring strangers. One day, jetlagged and road-weary, this letter would arrive in my curbside mailbox. I would separate it out from bills and coupons. I would hold it in my hands. Jonathan Rovner learned to write at Walnut Hills Elementary, just south of Denver, Colorado. His work has recently appeared in the Indiana Review, Wag’s Revue, and the 2013 Best of the Net Anthology. You are currently reading The Far Edges: A Story About a Girl at BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog.

2019-04-24T14:19:44Z

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/a-story-about-a-girl/

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WHEN Margaret Dunning was 10 years old, she lost control while driving the family’s Overland touring car and careered into a barn, fracturing several boards. “I hit it, and it didn’t move,” Ms. Dunning, who turned 101 last month, said. Soon enough, though, she was back at it, rumbling around the back roads of Redford Township, just west of Detroit, where her family owned a sprawling dairy and potato farm. By then she had already been driving for two years. Before the barn incident, Ms. Dunning’s father had often let his young daughter steer while he operated the other controls. One day he let her do it all, but not without a stern lecture. “He explained to me how, for some jobs, it was better to use multiple horses,” she said. “But the minute you lose control, you’ve got wild horses to deal with. After that, Ms. Dunning, an only child, drove everything on the farm that was drivable, she said, including a Maxwell truck and eventually, tractors. When she was 12 her father died, and his Model T Ford became hers. Once her politically connected mother, who had arthritic feet and could not drive cars, finagled a driver’s license for the 12-year-old Margaret, she drove her mother everywhere. Her mother drove the farm’s four teams of horses. In those days there was something else in the air: the excitement spawned by a burgeoning auto industry. Henry Ford not only led that wave, but to the Dunnings he was a friend and neighbor who lived minutes away. “Dad would come in and say, ‘Well, Henry’s outside and I’ve asked him to stay for dinner,’ ” she said. “Mom had made huckleberry pie and offered Henry some. Ms. Dunning, who never married, attended a private high school in Wellesley, Mass., before enrolling at the University of Michigan, intending to study business. She dropped out of college during the Depression to help at her mother’s real estate business and later had successful turns in banking and retail. All along she supported her beloved town of Plymouth, where she has lived in the same home since she was 13. In the 1940s she and her mother donated property to establish what is now the Dunning-Hough Library. She has also donated more than $1 million to the Plymouth Historical Museum. Her love affair with vehicles never waned. She drove a truck as a Red Cross volunteer and has owned a parade of classic and antique cars. At her home, she also keeps a 1931 Ford Model A, a 1966 Cadillac DeVille that she often drives to car meets, a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible and her everyday car, a 2003 DeVille. A battered Model T steering wheel is her garage doorstop. But her real love is a cream-color 1930 Packard 740 roadster, which she has owned since 1949. She plans to show the Packard at the Concours d’Élégance of America in Plymouth on July 31 . Ms. Dunning cannot recall how much she paid for the Packard, and said it was unclear how many miles were on its in-line 8-cylinder engine. The Packard had not exactly been pampered, she said, before it was fully restored by a friend. Since it was restored, the Packard has mostly been a show car, although Ms. Dunning used to drive it more often than the three or four times a year that she takes it out now. “It’s always been a car that I’ve kept separate from other cars,” she said, adding that she has owned other Packards. Packard, an upscale brand produced from 1899 to 1958, ushered in several innovative designs, including the modern steering wheel. Ms. Dunning’s roadster was built in Detroit in an Albert Kahn-designed factory complex, now abandoned, that covered 3.5 million square feet and once employed 40,000 workers. In addition to the luxury vehicles, the factory turned out engines for World War II fighter planes. Ms. Dunning still changes the oil herself, but mostly relies on a small maintenance team that includes a 90-year-old friend. “His hands are just magic,” she said. Her car has black fenders and a red leather interior with a cigarette lighter, map light and glove compartments on each side of the dashboard. The windshield pushes outward, and there is a rumble seat and storage compartment in back. The transmission is a 4-speed — manual shift, of course. All these years Ms. Dunning has kept her Packard’s original key with its elaborate crest. For her recent birthday, some friends duplicated the prized key. “I was thrilled to death to have another one,” she said. “If I had ever lost the one I had, the locksmith would be out here for a week, and I still would not have that crest,” she said. Ms. Dunning, who belongs to several car clubs, including the Michigan Region Classic Car Club of America, said the Packard has never given her much trouble, although there were times she had to deal with vapor lock, when the gasoline gets hot and evaporates before making it through the carburetor. “You wait until the car cools off, restart it and off you go,” she said. Having experienced the horse-and -buggy and Model T days, Ms. Dunning is amazed by the technology and styling of contemporary cars, she said. She is considering buying another vehicle, but she does not know what yet. “It’s just so much easier to drive now because of power steering and brakes,” she explained.

2019-04-24T08:38:58Z

https://dickscottblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/

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I have always had this, what I always assumed was strange, desire to improve the things and people around me, and most of all, a desire to improve myself. I have given people the impression that I am displeased or that they are somehow not good enough for me, repeatedly. I have worked actively to change that impression, and those who get to know me seem to understand my intent well enough, but those who are new to me tend to be put off by this tendency.

2019-04-20T09:08:51Z

https://impetustogrow.wordpress.com/tag/growth/

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So KB from http://lrcyoga.wordpress.com/ sent me an idea for something that I should do and when she said it, I was like, “duh! That’s perfect!” She suggested that I make a list of 100 reasons why I deserve to get pregnant and have a healthy baby.* It would focus my energy in a positive manner, help with the “worries” and silence the “fear voice.” I mentioned it to hubby and we have decided to do it together so these will be answers from both of us. It will sort of be like my “gratitude chant” (that makes me look like an escaped mental patient in the middle of Target) but instead of muttering to myself, I will be writing little notes….I already got a pad and pen for the cars and my purse….now I just look eccentric and that’s better than crazy, right? I have decided to dedicate a page to this project and would invite you to read, “Our 100 Reasons” page. I will update it often. *I have since changed this to “why we WILL get pregnant and have a healthy baby.” The phrase “deserve” does imply some kind of blame or fault and KB is right, we didn’t do anything to cause the loss. It’s a negative word and I am glad she helped me change it to a positive.

2019-04-21T08:12:48Z

https://survivingbaby.wordpress.com/tag/love/

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How much of Youssef Chahine's work have you seen? I am young. I am only 81 years old. I hope I can keep working for another 10 years. Old age is to let oneself become old.

2019-04-26T02:14:08Z

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The Moose Jaw Literacy Network is a network of agencies that focusses on family literacy in Moose Jaw and surrounding areas. We work to help families engage in literacy activities for all ages to promote a love for life-long learning. Keep up to date with our latest events by clicking here.

2019-04-26T14:00:52Z

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Green Buddha Red Rain (1999) is ink, spray paint and acrylic on approximately 60″ near square canvas $1450. 31 Jul This entry was published on July 31, 2014 at 7:49 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

2019-04-20T10:41:37Z

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How much of Teddy Lane Jr.'s work have you seen? - The License (2001) ... Desk Sgt.

2019-04-19T12:54:54Z

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I know I have been busy the past few months, and I apologize. Classes took a bigger toll on me than expected, and I am trying to get into juggling my classes, work, and this blog. I am hoping I can give this more time, as I have a great idea that hopefully a bunch of you will be up for. I have decided to write an application tutorial, from beginning to end, going from sketching out to adding to the App Store. I will not be editing out mistakes I made, as I will leave them in there as a helpful insight not only for myself, but all of you awesome developers. I am hopefully going to give insight into API implementation, as well as using built-in frameworks. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments below. I have the idea already, but any suggestions are always welcome. So it appears that I have hit 30,000 blog hits! Luckily this time I didn’t realize this while staring at my computer at 4 in the morning studying for a midterm. I appreciate everyone looking at my blog constantly, and I know I have not posted anything in some time, but I will be posting a simple tutorial in an hour or so about using Gesture Recognizers and Storyboard. So stay tuned! As always, for appreciation of visiting my page, here is a picture of me celebrating, enjoy and happy coding! Wiki Racing has been released into the App Store! • Being able to choose between a Wikipedia page you decide on as the target, or one randomly chosen. • Timer and menu screen to show what page you are currently on, what your target is, and how many clicks you have gained. • End game statistics — how many total clicks, how much time it took to get to the end as well as images of each web page visited in an easy scrolling page history. • Bluetooth functionality — players can play against one another in both Custom and Random games. Wiki Racing is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) and is in no way associated with Wikimedia. Update: Just updated the application to 1.0.1, to fix Wikipedia’s random page link change, just waiting on approval. Update 2: New 1.0.1 is now on the App Store! I will be slowly working on some new improvements, and may even write a tutorial redoing this application in iOS 5, if anyone wants it! Feel free to drop a comment below, telling everyone how awesome you are. I am planning on doing an application from start to App Store soon with storyboarding, just need to see if I am legally permitted to do so. Always remember to donate if I help you guys out! I appreciate every penny I get, and hopefully I can get a new iPad 2 to replace the one that got stolen. iOS Tutorials – Storyboarding tutorials are back! So it is about that time, iOS 5 will be dropping today probably within the next 12 hours has dropped. I figured now would be a great time to put back the storyboarding tutorials, so I hope you guys enjoy! P.S. I am not sure how outdated they are, if they are I apologize just let me know in the comments if something doesn’t work! Hey guys, so after the last tutorial I figured I would try and help some people with something that has been troublesome to developers in the past — combining tab bars and table views. Again, I am assuming you know the basics of iPhone development and are trying to use Xcode 4.2 to get a jump on the future of iOS development. If people ask for tutorials, I will create some explaining some things here I graze over. Okay so let’s get started.

2019-04-24T18:19:29Z

https://codingandcoffee.wordpress.com/

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(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Self-harm. Summary: Severus, working on a new potion. Sometimes the breakthrough awaits closer than one might think. Welcome to the Snape Showcase! Newbies and oldbies alike are welcome to participate in snapecase! Please don't hesitate to email any questions that you may have about any aspect of the fest to snapecase [at] gmail [dot] com!

2019-04-20T13:03:51Z

https://snapecase.livejournal.com/2019/01/08/

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For resonant scanning, the aperture is ~ 5 mm, the deflection angle 90-260 mrad (depending on resonant frequency). The capacity of the crystal displayed in the table comes into play indirectly, with a smaller capacitance demanding less from the high-voltage driver system of the EOD. In the appendix of her thesis, Jale Schneider also gives an overview of commercial high-voltage driver systems, although for her work she custom-built one. Maybe at some point, this will become interesting for voltage imaging in dendrites. Assume one could drive the Conoptics EOD with 5 kV, and let’s further assume a 60x objective (focal length of ca. 3 mm) and a scan lens/tube lens system with magnification 3x. Then one has a 7.5 mm diameter beam on the back focal plane, and a FOV in the sample of ca. (3 mm)/3*tan(5*0.0078 rad) = 40 μm. Such a system would be an alternative to the AOD-based approach, which was, for instance, used by Arthur Konnerth’s lab for kHz calcium imaging of dendritic spines (250 × 80 pixels, field of view = 28 × 9 μm, 40x objective). [Update] It seems that this estimation is only approximately correct. As described in the thesis cited above, the Conoptics EOD can use the 2.5 mm aperture only for a non-deflected beam. It seems that even for a +- 7.2 mrad deflection, the maximum unclipped beam diameter is only 1.5 mm. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged AOD, Calcium Imaging, EOD, laser scanning microscopy. Bookmark the permalink.

2019-04-20T02:55:23Z

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Chk this out…..http://ipsitaroy.tripod.com/spells.htm…….don’t mean to be flippant or anything about these supernatural spells or the ancient wisdom of Wiccan tradition (umm….aah…..err), but most of these spells seem little more than glorified limericks, the kind we used to have back in kindergarten. P.S. My apologies if I have unknowingly offended any exponent of the aforementioned art. Hope you shall view my inanities with a certain degree of latitude and regard me as nothing more than a thoughtless, idiotic chap who didn’t know what he was getting into. P.P.S. There aren’t any spells for striking down a bugger with a bolt of lightning right? P.P.P.S And btw, while ur still there, in that flick Four Rooms, the one in which the bellhop was Tim Roth, those 4 ladies in the first chapter, were they wiccans?

2019-04-21T11:15:55Z

https://arzkiya.wordpress.com/tag/sorcery/

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Gorgeous Hermes scarves can be bought in various different sizes (all magnificently huge) which come with either 120, 90, or 70 ways to wear your scarf. They are made of silk twill, silk jersey, or dip dyed silk cotton, and they are all exquisitely colorful. These silken scarves will whisper against your cheeks like delicate butterflies, gracing any outfit with class and color.

2019-04-23T10:39:10Z

https://flessler.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/hermes/

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Erica and Missy are fabulous – they wear coordinating vests, they choose funky urban parks for portraits, and they make bring delicious food whenever they come over! I was so happy when they asked for a portrait session as part of my Portraits With A Heart fundraising event. Melanie and Rene are just fabulous – a little Etsy meets Rockabilly, with perhaps a touch of computer geek. All of which is to say – very fun and playful, which meant a great session down by the Mill City Museum on a nice day as part of my Portraits with a Heart fundraising sessions. Thanks for all the laughter, you two! My brother and his wife are financial advisors. It isn’t often that our professional projects overlap, and so it was my pleasure to photograph their team at Enrich Financial Partners as part of my Portraits with a Heart fundraising.

2019-04-22T10:03:58Z

https://beccadilleyphotography.wordpress.com/category/portraits/

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What does it take to become one of Europe’s most sought-after artists? Perhaps a mega-single that topped the charts in more than 20 countries. And if that’s not enough, two number one albums, countless awards, a successful clothing line, viral YouTube videos, and a sold out U.S. tour might do the trick. But Belgian singer and composer Stromae’s international success lies not just in his ability to write clever lyrics and produce catchy beats – his allure also rests on the utter strength of his music videos. Oh my giddy aunt! This is most dangerous traffic intersection in the world. Thank your lucky stars it’s not a real one. With cars whizzing in all directions in endless streams and pedestrians carelessly braving the crossings by threading their way between speeding vehicles, just looking at this video has raised our heartbeat. Thankfully this intersection doesn’t actually it exist, it’s the work of genius film-maker and editor Fernando Livschitz. By threading together different clips of the same crossroads in Argentina, Livschitz has masterfully created Rush Hour: a video of the planet’s most terrifying (and most fictional) traffic phenomenon. Facebook with Snapchat features. FaceSnap? Wish that the status updates you want to share on Facebook weren’t so permanent? Soon, you may be able to make your posts on the social network vanish without a trace – after a set period of time of your choosing, of course. Similar to popular self-destructing message app SnapChat, your Facebook messages may soon have a limited lifespan of your choosing. Terry Speed on how (and a bit on why) statisticians have been left out of the big data movement. Best slide comes at 34:20 and I wish Speed have talked more about how his “personal statistical paradigm” contrasts with the ideology of big data.

2019-04-25T20:39:15Z

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Cloudy day. Flowers are blooming. Woke up this morning and feel like to get somewhere with no rain. I am totaly out of shape for this hike. The day started with shaved ice, turn to slurpee, and then mud pie. Nice sunny day. Wildflowers starting to bloom.

2019-04-25T08:17:52Z

https://budisana.wordpress.com/2015/04/

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It’s been ten years since we were first introduced to the estate of Bodegas Pago de Cirsus, La Finca Bolandín in Ablitas, and yes, things have changed, all for the better. The single vineyard, winery, Hotel-Chateau and Restaurant are located in the southernmost part of Navarra, the “bread and vegetable basket” region of La Ribera, adjacent to the Bardenas Reales Nature Park. The estate covers a total of 220 hectares (544 acres), 136.7 hectares of which are covered with vines. The Bardenas Reales, a semi-dessert landscape stretching over 42,000 hectares, might look familiar to James Bond fans, as it doubled for Kazakhstan in the Bond film “The World is Not Enough”. An area of extraordinary beauty, the Bardenas Reales landscape, with its rocky formations, takes on a moon-like appearance with its craters, gullies and solitary outcrops formed over millions of years by erosion. Surrounded by vineyards and olive trees, the hotel The Château consists of a tower built of old ashlar stones, in the style of a 14th-century fortress, sitting above a sea of vineyards, along with a state-of-the-art winery supervised by one of Europe’s most renowned oenologists. Under the direction of Jean Marc Sauboua, Bordeaux (France), one of the first “Flying Winemakers”, who has been working with the winery since 2003, Pago de Cirsus, one of only five Vino de Pagos in Navarra, has an impressive list of premium wines, including their outstanding Oak-Aged Red, Selección de Familia 2011 and delicious Oak-Aged White, Chardonnay Fermentado en Barrica 2014. The ambitious project of visionary film producer and wine maker Iñaki Núñez, this exquisite unique retreat provides offers breathtaking views and gorgeous sunsets, a 400-volume film library and a cozy 30-seat cinema where the guests can watch movies of their choice on demand, plus a wine tasting laboratory where wine connoisseurs can sample the estate’s several grape varietals-Chardonnay, Muscatel, Tempranillo, Merlot, Garnacha, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. The hotel’s dramatic décor is evocative of a lavish movie set-a romantic’s fantasy-like spending the night in an enchanted castle. The dozen guest quarters, distributed among the four floors of the stone tower, have been lovingly decorated with the finest of fabrics and furnishings. In-room amenities include a 37-inch High Definition Oki TV, Bang and Olufsen phones, DVD players, complimentary Wi-Fi, flasks of aged Scotch and rum, and of course, copies of Wine Spectator. The equally stunning restaurant, awarded one Repso sun in 2016, separated from the winery’s barrel cellar by an enormous glass wall, is where chef Ignacio “Nacho” Gómara serves the finest regional produce from La Ribera; delectable local asparagus, artichokes and wild mushrooms, delicately prepared and finished off with the estate’s own arbequina olive and white truffle oils. Both the Pago’s award-winning wines and artisan oils are available for purchase. The restaurant is closed on Sunday for dinner and all day Monday. Call (+34) 948 386 426 for reservations. Château Hotel Pago de Cirsus has proven to be one of the most spectacular hotel–restaurants on Spain’s burgeoning wine tourism circuit. Located 90 minutes drive south of Pamplona on the AP-15 and about an hour southeast of Logroño on the N232, it can be visited as a day trip or better yet, plan on spending a couple of memorable nights to explore the region. It makes for a perfect get-away.

2019-04-26T02:30:35Z

https://iberiantraveler.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/pago-de-cirsus-de-inaki-nunez/

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Is running a skill, or something that we are born to do? According to the recent book, The Running Revolution by Nicholas Romanov, running is a skill that needs to be practiced. Romanov claims that running technique needs to be mastered through rigorous practice. To me, it seems unlikely that mother nature would’ve forgot to hardwire humans with the ability to run properly. Every living creature on the planet learns to move properly without instruction; so why would we need to be taught to run? Maximize the Minimum: train less, reduce injuries, get faster? In an attempt rid myself of chronic running injuries, I started running less mileage, focusing on the quality of my runs rather than weekly mileage. To my surprise, I started getting faster, closing in on some of my personal best times. After just 6 months of training this way, I set personal bests at 10 miles 57:29 and 5k 16:39. Like most people, I have a lot of different interest, hobbies and time with family that take up my time and energy. I am always looking for smarter ways to train and get the most bang for my buck. To find out how little mileage I could get away with and still maintain a basic level of fitness, I ran just 10 miles per week for 7 weeks. I kept up my usual 1-2 quality sessions per week, but simply cut out most of my slower junk mileage. At the end of 7 weeks I ran a local 5k race and managed to win the race in a time of 16:46; which was just 9 seconds slower than my best time for 5k. This experiment shows me that by keeping the intensity high, and omitting most of my easy runs I achieved 99.1% of my best time at 5k. Why would anyone want to drastically cut their mileage? I’ve also suffered injuries in the past. By taking a minimal approach to my training, I’ve been able to maintain most of my fitness and even exceed some of my previous times while training only a few minutes per week. While I don’t think this is going to give you the absolute best results, it can be a great way to train if you are short on time and energy, or have suffered from nagging injuries. Don’t let an arbitrary number of miles per week dictate your training. Listen to your body and know that you can achieve great results with just a fraction of the mileage. By keeping the intensity high and giving your body plenty of time to recover, you might even be able to see improvements in your race times. In future posts I’ll share with you how I’ve used a minimalist training approach to achieve personal bests in every distance from a 5k of 16:37 to running a Marathon in 2:55. The book, VOQ Training for Cross Country & Track, turns traditional wisdom about year-round running on its head. The author, Dan Kaplan eschews the training folklore that many distance running coaches embrace and focuses on the results he’s been getting year after year while coaching his runners. Many coaches say to focus only on long slow running in the off-season, Kaplan says do intervals year round. Other coaches save high-intensity intervals for later in the season, in hopes of peaking their runners for a key race. Kaplan favors steady progression towards your goals. Rather than putting all your eggs in one basket and hoping for a magical race at the end of the season, Kaplan argues that by including year-round speedwork, runners can make consistent steps towards achieving their goals. He says runners can also reduce injury by keeping their legs in touch with faster training. Instead of adding speedwork during just one or two parts of the year, runners can keep their bodies strong with regular speed session. I personally don’t like taking breaks from speed training and I found VOQ Training to be a refreshing and well thought read for runners looking to improve performance on a year-round basis. I recently had the chance to email Dan some questions about his book. You can read our conversation below. Q: On the cover, you have an inverted pyramid, what did you want to convey by that? The inverted pyramid represents the Volume-of-Quality approach to my training. (Since publishing VOQ Training, I’ve learned of a few other authors who use variations of pyramid and diamond concepts, but fortunately, all are a bit different in terminology and/or theory.) You start with faster stuff (the downward facing tip) and build a bigger and bigger base (the flat top) for long, sustainable peaks. In one sense, it’s saying that the peak is just as high no matter which direction you build the pyramid, so why not build it in a fashion that provides more reliable tapers up top, rather than falling off the precarious tip? In another sense, it’s saying that how high you build the pyramid is not limited when you keep layering on quality work – the widening “base” can go ever higher. Q: You say running should be instinctive, not to be overthought too much. What do you mean by that? Running is a pretty simple activity … probably the simplest of all sports. Some people get so caught up in the detail, they forget that 99% of the benefit comes from just getting out there and working hard. That may be an overstatement, proper planning is surely more than 1%, but you get the idea. Q: Why is speedwork important during the base building phase? Why not just work on building a base through slow steady miles? Any time you’re working exclusively on one aspect of your fitness, you’re de-training other areas. Many people assume that you simply cannot work on speed and endurance at the same time, so it’s better to take a periodization approach and put off the speed work until after the base work is done. There are two problems with that: 1) it’s not true, in my experience, and 2) it creates a much greater likelihood of injury when you add the faster stuff back in for a de-trained athlete. Q: You say you’ve seen 30-60 sec improvement from one season to the next, is that really possible? Do you have any runners that stand out in your mind for big improvements? Yes, it is possible. Not easy, though. It’s important to point out that 30-60 seconds of annual [5k] improvement is the goal and not everyone hits that level. We use that goal to establish somewhat optimistic training paces over the summer. Even if an athlete doesn’t hit the goal in races, they’re still getting much closer to it than if they hadn’t set the goal that high. There’s also a mental edge to be gained by believing you are going to improve more than your rivals, because you have a plan in place to do so. Q: Why do you think so many runners work so hard during the season only to let their fitness deteriorate when it’s over? A lot of people would probably say it’s due to lazy athletes. I look at it differently, though, being a very athlete-focused coach: It’s lazy coaches! (And in some states, misguided associations that disallow off-season contact.) My athletes have always had stellar off-season work ethics, even those known for being fairly lazy on a day-to-day basis, largely because I never expect an athlete to work harder than I do. As a coach, it’s my duty to ease the barriers to off-season motivation. Lead the way, and most athletes will follow. Q: Why emphasize quality over quantity? The way I look at it is, emphasizing quantity almost always overlooks quality – it’s way too easy to get caught up in chasing the mileage – but flipping the perspective allows both to be built simultaneously. Any good program has a good balance of the two. Q: You say running is a year-round sport, won’t runners get worn out by training hard all year? Not if they’re smart about it! The key is balance. Wild swings in volume or intensity, such as with typical base work and sharpening approaches, are tougher on the body than keeping a happy medium. Q: You write about learning from a great sprint coach, Charlie Francis, what can distance runners learn from sprinters? Sprinting requires a more aggressive mindset. I think sprinters are more willing to take risks and experiment with their training. So, there are positive and negative examples to learn from them, as not all experiments turn out well. Most people who remember Charlie Francis remember him for the drug scandals, but he was a brilliant coach, drugs aside. The sprints are very stressful on the body, and Francis really delves into how to take measures to prevent injury. Q: How do you prevent overtraining? Will runners get overtrained by doing intervals year-round? If they’re hammering them, yes. But if it’s a controlled effort, it falls somewhat into the tempo category and isn’t all that hard on the body. I think the key to preventing over-training is monitoring fatigue levels. I plan the training as seven days a week for most runners, but with optional rest days built in every few weeks. If someone is dragging a bit, don’t be afraid to back off the intensity of a workout or race. If you wanted to be really precise about it, you could have the athletes monitor their resting HR and use that to catch the early stages of training fatigue. Q: You say all runners should aim to run 60 min a day. Why? That advice is specific to the 3k-5k range, of course. There’s so much more aerobic fitness to be gained in the 3-4 easy runs per week than there is in the one long run, especially when you get into the season and have races every Saturday. That makes it difficult to get much Sunday mileage in, with another workout coming up on Monday or Tuesday. If you keep the pace comfortable, you’re still building fitness while allowing your body to recover from the previous hard efforts. Longer events can benefit from more than 60 minutes, but up to 10k, that amount probably will suffice. If you are so aerobically fit that 60 minutes sounds easy on a light day, just pick up the pace a bit. Q: If runners do intervals during their base building period, will runners peak too soon? Not in my experience, although it depends entirely on how the training is structured. I’ve seen plenty of athletes peak in the summer from too much intensity. The key to the VOQsystem has controlled intensity. The intensity stays fairly constant – at a level that can be comfortably maintained from the beginning of the program – while the volume of it steadily increases to race-specific levels. By the time the season starts, the athletes are race sharp but not on the razor’s edge of fitness. Q: Is it difficult to motivate runners to do intervals year round? Not at all! Athletes are competitors, and they want to be challenged. Intervals appeal to that nature more so than just mileage. They also take pride in doing more work, and harder work, than their rivals. But, you want to keep things from becoming monotonous, too, and that’s a danger with doing the in-season interval work year-round. That’s why I use a progression of interval, hill, and tempo workouts throughout the summer, and then more pace change oriented stuff during the season. Keep working on different elements, both for overall development and to ward off boredom. Q: Do you sacrifice peaks for even performances by maintaining year round fitness? You would think so, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. Our athletes typically see bigger improvements in the championship races than their competitors that follow a more typical, aggressive peak. I think this is largely because the traditional approach to peaking has such a high likelihood of backfiring, but also because my “even keel” approach widens the window of opportunity for peak performances. You don’t have to hold your breath and hope that you timed everything right. Q: How much rest between intervals is recommended during an interval session? It varies a lot by what the session is meant to accomplish. For 3k-5k, and I would include the 1500m in that for the most part, I generally prefer that the athletes take an active (jog) recovery. For the 800m, I opt more for static (standing/walking), timed recoveries. A static recovery will be shorter than an active recovery, as the athlete will recover quicker. Unless you’re doing max speed work, the duration of the recovery should not exceed that of the interval (or “rep”) itself. So, an athlete running 3:00 per 1000m should not have more than 3:00 of jogging in between. Ideally, that would be whittled down to 60 seconds of jogging as fitness builds, for a 3:1 ratio. Q: Will the interval sessions change throughout the year? Yeah, it’s a necessity if you want to remain event specific with high schoolers, as the XC and Track distances are quite a bit different. I also don’t like overdoing the intensity during the winter, as injuries are a much bigger risk in the cold, so we go with tempo workouts mostly. Q: Will VOQ work for recreational runners who are only looking to race a few times a year or just have one major marathon in mind? Yes, but it takes some tailoring of the workouts to assemble a plan that makes sense for your own goals. You could still use the summer buildup example, but place it in the winter months if you have a big spring racing goal. If the goal is for a half-marathon or marathon, then you’ll need to modify the workouts to better reflect the needs of an event that long. The general training outline will still work as-is, though. Q: Could you give an example week for a half marathoner and tell me how it might change as you get closer to your event? From there, you can add more mileage in the form of doubles or speed up the easy days if you have fairly competitive half-marathon goals. Tempo workouts should be a staple of any distance training program. Being effort-based, rather than time-based, it’s pretty difficult to go wrong. Let your imagination run wild with variations of steady tempo, progression runs, alternating hard/medium segments, long push/short float, short push/long float, fartlek, etc. These are great workout days for building in regular variety to keep things from getting stale. For the interval workouts, I prefer a length that can be attacked comfortably with little or no fade toward the end of each rep. This usually means stuff in the 800m-1200m range. But, you also need to simulate the demands of the race as much as possible, so you would want to have some mile and 2-mile repeats sessions in there. I don’t change the weekly structure or the workouts themselves very much as the bigger races approach. Throughout the season, you should be steadily increasing the difficulty of the workouts by decreasing the recovery and/or increasing how long you’re holding goal pace for. The last week or two before the big race, hold mileage fairly steady and drop the intensity of the workouts. This will freshen the legs and keep your body in the training rhythm it has grown accustomed to. Dramatic changes in mileage or intensity tend to be what cause bad peaks. Q: How important is weekly mileage? It’s very important to put in the mileage weekly, but it’s easy to get caught up in hitting a set number. We typically hover around 50 miles per week, but I look at it more in terms of 7-8 miles per day. That way, when you take a rest day every few weeks, you don’t feel compelled to pick up 7+ miles elsewhere in the week to keep the average up. Chasing the mileage tends to lead to problems. Q: What are you working on now, and how can people stay up to date with you? I’ve been working on a revised edition of VOQ Training, which has grown enough that it will probably end up being a 2ndEdition. I’m also close to finishing the way overdue Supplemental Work for VOQ Training companion book. Information on both will be updated at www.VOQTraining.com when available. I started up VOQ Racing, a local “club team” geared toward building up the local competitive running scene. I’ve worked with a handful of high school and college-bound athletes as part of the project – a coach never fully walks away! It’s still in the early stages, and my focus has wandered a bit between the racing team and coaching the young athletes (it’s a “something for everyone” approach to team building), but you can follow the progress at www.VOQRacing.com.

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This is the home page for the Hillcrest Manor Homeowners Association located in far north Dallas between Hillcrest Road and Meandering Way and north and south of Campbell Road. Ours is a neighborhood of 265 homes in the highly recognized Richardson Independent School District and is in the attendance area for Brentfield Elementary, Parkhill Junior High and JJ Pearce High School. An established and stable environment for safe and secure living, Hillcrest Manor is home to singles, young families, empty nesters and retired couples. The Homeowners Association is led by resident volunteers who work hard to keep Hillcrest Manor a beautiful, safe and friendly place to live. All residents are encouraged to support these efforts with low annual dues per household.

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Welcome to the Tayforth Boat Race page! This is an annual race held between Dundee University Boat Club and Stirling University Boat Club, held on the River Forth. The Scottish equivalent of the Boat Race! This year the race will be held on the 10th of November, with several race including Men’s and Women’s 1st race, 2nd’s race and fresher’s race. And as is traditional, a big night out to follow. Watch this space for more details of the event. In the meantime, like our Facebook Page and Twitter feed to keep up-to-date with the latest information.

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Portland used a strong 1st quarter lead behind Buck Williams to take command of the game. Detroit made runs at Portland but could never completely catch up during the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Portland looked to be in good position to steal game 1 when they led 90-80 with 6:58 left in the game. Then Isiah Thomas took over. Detroit cut the lead to 92-89 at the 5-minute mark when Isiah turned the tide. He made 2 free throws, a 3-point shot and an 18-foot jumper to give Portland their first lead since early at 96-94. Isiah then hit another pull-up trey with 1:49 to give the Pistons a 99-94 lead. That capped a 23-4 run that erased a 14 point Trailblazer lead. Thomas scored 16 points in the final period including 14 in the game’s final 5 minutes. This time, Detroit jumped out early as they led 30-19 late in the 1st period. However, 13 1st half Piston turnovers helped allow Portland to comeback. In fact, Portland would out score Detroit 34-15 over the last 13 minutes of the half. Bill Laimbeer would lead Detroit back into a position to win with some deadly long-range shooting. He would tie Michael Cooper’s Finals record with 6 3-point buckets. His 3 with 2:59 left gave Detroit an 89-86 lead. Clyde Drexler answered right back with a 3 of his own to tie it at 89. Later, John Salley would grab an offensive rebound, put it home and draw Kevin Duckowrth’s 6th foul to give Detroit a 94-91 lead with 49 ticks on the clock. Isiah Thomas missed a lay-up with 22 seconds to play after Drexler had made 1 of 2 free throws. Portland grabbed the rebound and Jerome Kersey drew a foul with 10 seconds left. He knocked down both shots to tie the game and Thomas would miss an 18-footer at the buzzer. Back-to-back treys by Laimbeer made it 102-98 Detroit with 1:30 left in OT. Terry Porter hit 2 free throws (of a finals record 15 consecutive he hit in the game) to cut the margin in half. A Drexler 17-footer knotted it at 102 with 1 minute remaining. With Portland leading by 2, Laimbeer nailed a 25-foot 3-pointer to give Detroit a 105-104 lead. However, Dennis Rodman would be called for a foul on Drexler who made both shots. Trailing 106-105, the Pistons were turned back when Clifford Robinson blocked James Edwards’ shot at the buzzer. Joe Dumars played this game unaware that his father had passed away before the game. Dennis Rodman was unable to play due to a sprained ankle. Detroit went with a 3-guard line-up for stretched during this game. Detroit seized the lead in the 2nd period when Vinnie Johnson exploded for 15 points. Detroit led 68-60 in the 3rd when Joe Dumars hit a 3-pointer that ignited a run that put Portland away. The Pistons won in Portland for the 1st time in 17 years. Portland led by double digit through much of the 1st half as Detroit shot only 40% from the field in the half. The Pistons were also hindered when Isiah Thomas picked up his 3rd foul early in the 2nd quarter. Trailing by 10, Detroit when on a 9-0 run to cut the lead to 1 point. Vinnie Johnson and Joe Dumars scored all 9 points in the run. Detroit’s 2nd quarter run carried over into the 3rd period as they built an 81-65 lead with 2:15 left in the 3rd. Thomas fueled the outburst; as he came back smoking after his foul trouble. At one point in the 3rd, he scored 16 straight points for Detroit. He had 22 points overall in the frame. However, over the next 8 minutes, Portland would outscore Detroit 28-11 to take a 93-92 lead with 5:20 remaining in the game. The lead would go back and forth over the next few minutes. A Dumars jumper made it 106-102 Detroit with 1:16 left. Buck Williams made 1 of 2 free throws with 35 seconds left to cut it to a 106-105 Piston lead. Laimbeer fouled out with 31 seconds left and Clyde Drexler converted bot shots to give Portland a 107-106 lead. Thomas came back with a 22-foot shot to make it 108-107 Detroit. After a Terry Porter turnover, Thomas hit 2 free throws with 8 seconds left to make it 110-107. Mark Aguirre was then called for a foul and Porter hit 2 shots to make it 110-109. Gerald Henderson then got loose on the ensuing inbounds play for a lay-up to make 112-109 with 1.8 seconds left. Danny Young nailed a game tying 35-footer but Earl Strom ruled it after the buzzer (correctly) in his last NBA game. The Pistons came out smoking by making 7 of their first 11 shots in the opening period. Detroit would build an 8-point lead but Portland would come back in the 3rd. Portland took a 76-69 lead but Detroit immediately answered with an 8-0 run which gave them a 77-76 lead with 6:35 left to play. All 8 points in the Detroit run were scored by Vinnie Johnson. With the Pistons leading 81-79, an 11-2 run by the Trailblazers gave them a 90-83 lead late in the game. Johnson then hit a 15-foot leaner and drew a foul. After converting the free throw, he hit another jumper after a Kevin Duckworth miss to cut the lead to 90-88. Isiah Thomas tied the game at 90 with a 17-foot jump shot with 36 seconds left to play. Terry Porter turned the ball over with 20 seconds left and the Pistons held for the final shot. Fittingly, Vinnie Johnson nailed the game winning, and championship winning, 17-footer with 0:00.7 left on the clock. After not winning a game in Portland for 17 years, Detroit took 3 straight to win their 2nd consecutive NBA title.

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The government is exploring emergency measures to kick-start house-building, amid an expected decrease in new build this year, BBC Newsnight has learned. In leaked documents, officials warn the last set of figures before the 2015 general election will reveal house building to have decreased by 4%. House building is likely to loom quite large as an election issue. The government said pressure would be brought to bear on “slow-coach councils” to deliver on new build. The decrease is worrying the government after it expended quite considerable political capital on planning reform and other measures to boost house building. The official assessment passed to Newsnight suggests that the number of houses started in the UK will go down this year. That figure will be released in February 2015, three months ahead of the general election. Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked the prime minister in January of this year, saying that house completions were at their lowest level since 1924. Now, in a document produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and marked “sensitive”, officials project housing starts will go down. The internal projections show house building will then pick up in the year 2015/2016. But there is such concern within government about this unflattering eve-of-election snapshot that politicians have been scouring their policy cupboard for ways to increase house building. It suggests that the DCLG “could accelerate starts on sites with permission in current programmes”. One area policy programme highlighted is the “right to buy 1-1 replacement”. Councils are now meant to build a replacement home when they sell one off under the right-to-buy programme – the scheme that was introduced by Margaret Thatcher. The DCLG document reveals that some are not doing this. Instead, the document says, under the right to buy 1-1 replacement, “20 councils each retained £5m+ in receipts but started fewer than 30 replacement homes. £50m of receipts held by these councils for over 12 months. No incentive to start early”. Housing minister Kris Hopkins said: “We’ve delivered 445,000 new homes over the past four years and housing starts are now at their highest since 2007 but we’re going further, building on the success of schemes like Help to Buy to get Britain building and investing billions of pounds in new affordable homes. “For years the right to buy was allowed to wither on the vine, but our reinvigorated scheme has changed all that, with nearly 3,000 homes started thanks to the receipts from sales. Hilary Benn MP, Labour’s shadow communities and local government secretary, said: “This leaked document lays bare the stark truth of this Tory-led government’s failure on housing. The claims are made in a new document, Building a Better Britain: A vision for the next government, which sets out the institute’s main demands in an attempt to shape future policy. The RIBA said the nation’s housing crisis could only be solved by rethinking the greenbelt and allowing homes to be built on sites where the greenbelt ‘no longer serves its purpose’, and where development has jumped the divide between urban and rural. RIBA council candidate Ben Derbyshire of HTA Design said the recommendations were ‘going to be controversial’, and that many members would not agree. He said: ‘It is another example of the RIBA seeking profile through controversy and this can be counter-productive, even alienating to member interests. Paul Miner, senior planning officer at Campaign to Protect Rural England, also criticised the RIBA’s recommendations. The report also slams the government’s current garden cities prospectus for ‘stopping short of setting out a bold vision for comprehensive masterplanning and the design standards that this scale of new development should aspire’. In addition, the institute demands an end to Gove’s standardised school designs, criticising the current school building programme as ‘too cheap’ and producing buildings which ‘aren’t fit for purpose’. The RIBA recommends that the next government increases spending on schools by 20 per cent per square metre.

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Trolle (sometimes in Danish Trold) is the name of a Scanian noble family, originally from Småland, in Sweden. The family has produced prominent people in the histories of Denmark and in Sweden since the Middle Ages and is associated with several estates in Sweden. Their historically attested male-line ancestors are known as far back as the 14th century. The earliest historical ancestor was the knight Birger Knutsson, also known as Birghe Trulle. The earliest known generations held the estate of Bo in Småland, Sweden. Birger Birgersson, High Councillor of Sweden (d 1471), inherited Bergkvara castle from his half-brother. Arvid Birgersson and Eric Arvidsson were among mightiest in the country and both almost became Regents of Sweden in their time, in competition against the Sture family. Gustav Trolle was Archbishop of Uppsala. The original Swedish line of the family died out in the late 16th century. Eric's younger half-brother Joachim (d 1546) had inherited Lilloe in Skåne from his mother and settled in Denmark. The Danish family line continued through his relatives, becoming an important house of high nobility. One of his sons was Danish admiral Herluf Trolle and one of great-grandsons Niels Trolle (Nils Trolle til Trollesholm og Gavnø) was Statholder of Norway. Sweden again got a branch of the family when Niels Trolle's son Arvid Nielsen Trold, Lord of Trollenäs Castle, swore loyalty to Sweden (and was in 1689 given the seat among Sweden's nobility) after Skåne, his native land, had become a permanent part of Sweden. The head of the house received in 1816 the primogeniturally hereditary title of baron in Sweden for the House. All currently extant branches of the House of Trolle descend from him, the remaining Danish branches are still alive and can be found in Denmark. The family name comes from the family coat of arms that depicts a headless troll. According to tradition, the family had taken these arms on the basis of a legend that a common ancestor must have killed a troll and robbed a drinking horn, which was called Våxtorpshornet el. This page was last edited on 18 March 2019, at 08:50 (UTC).

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Does the BBC do a good in keeping Neutral on Brexit coverage? Had to reprint this excellent answer to the above question from Quora on the subject of BBC bias in reporting of the post referendum Brexit debate. First of all I must declare an interest. I worked for 25 years in the BBC’ s news & business departments, reporting & presenting business & economic news. I worked closely with a lot of the current bunch of BBC reporters. I left in 2007 to run a tourism/wine business in Devon. That said, I have to say the BBC’s coverage of Brexit since the Referendum has been badly one-sided. In the run-up to the vote, both sides were given a fair chance to make their case. But not since. I have been in touch with my former colleagues on many occasions to point out the often quite silly negative spin given to economic news & forecasts since the vote. It’s well documented that the BBC’s political shows have a rough breakdown of 75–25 Remain-leave supporting guests. In economics I would estimate the breakdown of commentators has been even more biased to Remain. I don’t think there has been an edict handed down from on high. It’s just that the BBC is a part of the Establishment, & it’s intellectual starting point are the views of the Establishment ( HM Treasury/Bank of England, the major political parties – all who urged the UK to Remain ). The sad part is there are so few BBC journalists capable or willing to apply basic critical thinking to this narrative. So while the initial post-Referendum coverage focused on the Treasury/ Bank of England’s central forecast that the UK would immediately plunge into recession with half a million more unemployed….the BBC looked for proof of this in any stat/figure/comment which came out…When it became clear none of this was actually happening, the BBC continued to believe the “ story” that terrible economic things were about to happen & switched to a number of variants. The next was to exaggerate the temporary rise in inflation, then a long term issue of weak productivity, then lack of wage growth, etc. It became a bit of a joke to look at the week’s raft of economic news in advance & bet on which items would receive little or no BBC coverage ( leap in foreign investment post-vote, solid GDP growth 2016/17 ( 1.9%/1.7%, strong manufacturing exports, rapidly falling Government deficit, falling trade deficit…I could go on & on !). In summary the BBC has let itself & the country down since the vote, by failing in it’s duty to report clearly & impartially on the objective facts…& has been dragged into the political debate by becoming a partisan lobbyist on behalf of the Remain Establishment. It remains a major source of information for the general population & has influenced the terms of the debate by it’s output. The true picture – one of solid UK economic growth, hit marginally by the uncertainty surrounding future trade relations – but with a booming jobs market & a flexible currency absorbing the changing circumstances …has not cut through the fog of distortion. Long term opponent of the EU and prominent Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash expressed “deep disappointment” on BBC Newsnight yesterday at Tereason May’s betrayal of her country in presenting a Brexit plan that complies with all EU demands but offers no concesions from the EU on British demands. The plan was agreed after an all day cabinet meeting at Chequers. Cash responded by claimed that “the law of the land” is not being applied. Appearing on the news magazine show Cash, Conservative MP and veteran Brexiteer, said some very important questions have been raised by the statement the Government had put out. He told BBC presenter Evan Davis: “First, does it meet the tests of the referendum itself? He continued by making a point: “The Repeal Act that went through two weeks ago specifically says that the 1972 Act will be repealed on Brexit day. “Now when it does that it quite clearly also says you can’t stay in the single market, you can’t stay in the customs union, you can’t stay in the European court. David Davis struggles through interview with a sick bucket by his side. Brexit Secretary David Davis, appearing on the Andrew Marr Show this morning requested a sick bucket be placed next to him in case he threw live on air. The Brexit Secretary, who was suffering from a stomach bug, then struggled through the interview which focused on progress made towards a transition deal for the UK’s leaving the EU. Mr Davis was praised by the corporation’s editor of live programmes for his “commendable concern for our studio floor”. Rob Burley, who is the former editor the Sunday political programme, joked that while Mr Davis had “made it to the end” he doubted he would be “sticking around for breakfast”. Persevering through the interview, Mr Davis insisted that the Government would find a solution to the Irish border, adding that this week’s breakthrough with Brussels made the likelihood of a trade deal “incredibly probable”. He added that it would be the “most comprehensive one ever” and would make the prospect of a hard border in Northern Ireland much easier to resolve. Although some Bexit supporers (half of us Stirers included,) believe the concession given as part of the transition deal, to remain tied to the EU’s pernicious Common Fisheries Policy is a betrayal of our fishing industry, so long as control of fishing rights reverts to Britain at the end of transition it may be a price worth paying, with the die hard supporters of the Remain campaign, including Conservative, Labour, Liberal Deomcrat and Scottish Nazi Party MPs who have threatened to stop the UK leaving the EU, are now in reteat. Almost 60 per cent of Brits now think the government should respect the referendum result and “get on” with delivering Brexit. In a new poll by BMG for Change Britain, respondents were asked if they agreed that “the government should get on with implementing the result of the referendum to take Britain out of the EU and in doing so take back control of our borders, laws, money and trade”. A strong 57 per cent agreed and less than a quarter – just 22 per cent – disagree with the statement, according to the results, seen by the Guido Fawkes website. Twenty-one per cent did not answer the question. In fact, according to the poll, support for implementing the referendum result and taking back control is backed in every age group, class, British region, and among supporters of all major political parties. If you are one of those bloody minded types who believes passionately in British Sovereignty and independence, welcome. No doubt you, like us will have been nauseated by the BBC’s grovellingly sycophantic coverage of the visit of the USA’s failed President, Barack Hussein Obama, invited here by the traitor David Cameron to use the usual US diplomatic tactics of threats and bullying to persuade us that our allies in Washington will make life very unpleasant for us if we do not act in America’s best economic and political interests by voting to stay in the EU rather than acting in Britain’s interests and voting leave. The BBC has once again been slammed for its overt politically correctness, with critics claiming it used a celebration of Shakespeare’s life, broadcast live last night, to push a pro-immigration agenda, Breitbart London reports. The criticism comes as the publicly funded Corporation reveals plans to ensure that one in six of its on-screen stars is either gay or disabled. Last night the BBC marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a live broadcast of a selection of scenes from his plays, performed by a line-up of left-wing luvvies including Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Meera Syal, David Suchet, Rufus Wainwright, Tim Minchin, Gregory Porter, Joseph Fiennes, and the English National Opera. But rather than using the event to celebrate of his better known and better loved works, producers included in the program a pro-immigration speech which was never staged during the bard’s lifetime. The exerpt, known as the Immigration Speech, appears in a play titled The Book of Sir Thomas More, by Anthony Munday, which contains a series of scenes depicting the May Day riots of 1517 when Londoners protested the arrival of Italian immigrants from Lombardy and wanted them expelled. Conservative MP Peter Bone told the Mail on Sunday: ‘They’ve gone out of their way to find a piece of writing which fits the Left-wing establishment’s pro-immigration agenda and it’s a shame. Meanwhile, the BBC has rolled out new diversity targets aimed at ensuring that, by 2020, one in six of all its on-screen roles are given to either LGBT or disabled people. It is time to take back our world and our Shakepeare. We can start perhaps by telling the stupid, sissified luvvies at the BBC that if the love migrants so much they are banished and seek some third world cesspit that is willing to take in useless people.

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This weekend marks the opposition of Mars and it is the closest one since 2003. However, this opposition has Mars low in the southern sky, not good for observers in the Northern hemisphere. On top of that, there is a dust storm going on that is obscuring the view of the surface features. One side effect of the storm is that Mars is appearing a bit brighter than expected. So, in honor of the opposition as well as the recent discovery by the ESA Mars Express probe of a deposit of liquid water (though it could very easily be a layer of thin, salty mud) about a mile underneath the Martian South Pole, here is a post about one aspect of the Red Planet that still persists amongst many in society even to this day. The recently past July 20th marks two space anniversaries. The better known one is the 49th anniversary of the late Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landing on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. The men who took part in that mission are American heroes and their deed deserves to remembered. Unfortunately, there isn’t a holiday for it. My late father felt that, if Columbus could get a holiday, the landing on the Moon should be likewise honored. But this blog post is not about Apollo 11. Also on July 20th, back in 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down on Chryse Planitia on Mars, the first probe to successfully land on Mars and function (the Russians landed a probe a few years earlier, but they only got a few seconds of useless telemetry from it before they lost contact. It is generally thought that the probe landed during a global dust storm and a gust of wind caught the still-attached parachute and toppled the probe over). Viking 2 landed later in Utopia Planitia. After a hiatus of a number of years, orbiting probes, landers, and now even rovers have been sent to Mars. A good number are still operating after years in the Martian environment and we know pretty much what conditions are like there. The atmosphere is only about one-percent that of Earth, the temperature is sub-zero during the day, but can get as low as -150 degrees F. at night, liquid water cannot exist at the surface, and the conditions at the surface are extremely hostile to all known forms of life. But does everybody know? Mars as it is today and as it has been for at least hundreds of millions of years. It seems that there are quite a few people who through stupidity, lack of education, or willful ignorance, still hold on to the old discredited ideas about Martian conditions even after all these years of Martian exploration. One recent example is from a man who should know much better. Ben Bova wrote a series of books where it seemed there was life all over the solar system. In a couple of them, the discovery of an ancient civilization on Mars figured into the plot and Bova implied that it met its demise fairly recently (in geological terms). These stories were written back in the days when the Internet was mostly text and Sci-Fi Channel (I prefer the spelling they had back then instead of that “SyFY” they use now) had online chat sessions with authors and other such notables. I actually confronted Ben Bova about this, pointing out that all the available evidence indicates that the period of time that Mars may have been able to support life was billions of years ago and that the window of time such conditions existed in was extremely short, therefore any such civilization was totally implausible. He essentially pooh-poohed my comment. Another more recent example was in the series “Supergirl”. I’ll grant that the show is a fantasy. Since the protagonist comes from a planet far from our solar system with different characteristics, they can be excused as well. However, one character proves that the writers have zero knowledge of our own solar system. On the show is a being known as the Martian Manhunter who is a bit over 300 years old. He seems to function well on Earth, which would indicate that he lived under somewhat Earth-like conditions. Yet, most of us (especially people intelligent enough to read this blog) are well aware that Mars was in the condition we see it now for a very long time. Three hundred years ago, Mars was no different than today. One would have figured that they would have changed the character’s planet of origin to a planet in another solar system and neatly solve the problem. But they didn’t. Some folks do get it right though. The recent film “The Martian” is a prime example of an accurate depiction of Martian conditions, though the winds of the dust storm were far stronger than anything that could be produced under current conditions. There have been books and short stories that have been accurate as well. Why is it that, with Mars having been explored robotically for about 40 years, some people still cling to the idea of Martians? Centuries ago, people wrote wild stories about creatures that existed in very far off lands. Yet, once those lands were explored and those creatures were found not exist, the stories stopped. Yet, in the case of Mars, we still have die-hards. One reason I suspect is due to lack of imagination. Imagining things on a planet in another solar system takes some work. But it is easier to ignore science and set your action closer to home. Another reason is that interstellar flight is nearly impossible in reality. So, writers would rather not imagine implausible interstellar travel and imagine an implausible Mars to give Earth humans a chance to interact with (or at least discover evidence for) aliens. It could also be that the writers perceive their audiences as stupid and ignorant. Therefore, they wouldn’t mind a Mars that runs counter to everything we know about it. Of course, there could be other reasons that I have missed. If you have any, please post. First off, many apologies for the lack of postings in the last several weeks. Unfortunately, it was a case where work obligations, the holiday rush, and a computer project conspired against blogging. Now on to the post. Unnoticed by the lamestream media as it was recovering from their New Years’ Eve hangovers, reporting on the effort to retrieve bits and pieces of plane wreckage from the Java Sea, and covering the violent rampage in France, a discovery was made that could potentially be one of the greatest in the history of history. The last several months, the websites that deal with weird stuff of dubious validity would carry reports of someone claiming to spot something in the images from the Curiosity Mars rover that look like one kind of odd object or another. However, someone recently came forward and announced that they saw something amazing in some of those images. According to this Space Daily article, Nora Noffke, a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Virginia, noticed something familiar in an image taken of a sedimentary rock formation. What appeared in the image resembled a sedimentary layer that contained the fossil remains of a microbial mat, a flat, slime-like mass of microorganisms that forms in bodies of water under favorable conditions. When alive, sediment grains get stuck in the mat and that leaves telltale markings when the sediments turn into rock. Noffke has studied microbial mats and the fossils they form for over twenty years and she claims that, after very detailed analysis of the images from Mars, these features do bear very strong similarity to known microbial mat fossils on Earth. If this can be confirmed, these would be the first fossils found outside of Earth and the first evidence of extraterrestrial life. But that is the problem. While Curiosity did take detailed images, it turns out the rover is not well equipped to confirm whether these are indeed fossils. It is quite likely that any organic compounds in the material have long since disappeared and it has also been announced that one of the analytical instruments on Curiosity suffered some contamination on landing, therefore compromising any effort at detailed measurements. So, it may be a very long time before we can either send a probe with advanced instruments capable of testing for microfossils, return samples to Earth, or have human geologists examine them on Mars. To her credit, Noffke is keeping an open mind to the possibility that the markings are of strictly geological origin. While this would not be as amazing a discovery as microfossils, it would still indicate that Martian geology has some surprises, which would be of scientific significance as well. December 4th is the date set for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion capsule. It will be launched into Earth orbit using a Delta IV rocket at about 7:05 AM. Then, Orion will circle the Earth twice, conduct some test maneuvers, then enter the atmosphere at about 80% of the velocity the capsule would have if it was returning from the Moon. If the reentry systems work properly, Orion should splash down in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego, California before noon. Unless it lands like the capsule in “Gravity”, Orion will be bobbing at the surface and picked up by a waiting ship. NASA has been loudly promoting Orion, claiming that it is the vehicle that will take American astronauts beyond low Earth orbit and to destinations such as the Moon and Mars. Much ink and many pixels have been used to promote Orion as a truly advanced spacecraft. But let’s see it for what it is. I dimly recall back in the early 1970’s there was a proposal to build a larger version of the Apollo-era command module. The plans were all drawn up for it, then it was decided that there was no need for it. Orion looks like the resurrection of this project. Of course, Orion does have some updated technology, such as new heat shield material, far superior computers, nicely decorated interior, and touchscreen panels (like the controls you would find on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” or on an Asgard ship from the “Stargate” franchise, if you prefer). But don’t be fooled, it is still based on your father’s (or grandfather’s depending on your age) Apollo command module. Actually, there is something about Orion that is actually inferior to the original Apollo-era vehicle. The Orion will use a service module that is based on the ESA’s (European Space Agency) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) that has been used to send supplies up to the ISS. This ATV-derived service module will use solar panels instead of fuel cells to generate electrical power and will certainly have far less powerful engines than the original Apollo-era service module did. Then, there was a statement made about the Orion by a Russian commentator who pointed out that, for a vessel that is supposed to house a crew for up to three weeks or so, it lacked certain amenities. While on a short trip to the Moon, that might not be a big deal since the original Apollo astronauts didn’t complain about the lack of a convenience, it could pose a problem for longer trips. What bothers me is how NASA keeps pushing the idea that Orion will take astronauts to Mars. It is simply way too small for the job (unless someone manages to develop the technology used to create the sub-light propulsion systems of mainstream science fiction programs). Even Robert Zubrin (creator of the Mars Direct concept of a reasonably priced program of Mars exploration) and his colleagues and the folks at Mars Direct have put more thought into designing a spacecraft to take people to Mars. Why has NASA gone so far overboard in promoting Orion? Probably because that it is about the only idea they have left for manned spaceflight (besides the Space Launch System – SLS – heavy rocket). Hopefully the test flight of Orion will go well and not wind up exploding, running out of power, sinking on splashdown, or anything like that. But do you think that Orion’s “Back to the Future” approach is the way to go or do you think it’s another one of NASA’s ideas that will fall well short of the mark?

2019-04-23T06:57:27Z

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Woo, I paid off my car today! What a great feeling. This weekend was pretty fun. Saturday I got my hair cut and in the evening we went to have diner with some old high school buddies of mine. A couple of them I hadn't seen since high school and the other two I've only seen off and on, so it was awesome to have everyone together in one spot. We totally geeked out over the old days. Sunday we went down to Third St Aleworks and drank(and drank) and watched the game. It was pretty exciting and I did my standard "root for whoever Shan is not rooting for" thing, so that made it fun to talk trash and get excited at all the turnovers. Yesterday was recovery day and I also took my truck in for service, which has been due for quite a while. Stopped by REI for some comfy camping pants and a jacket(I haven't owned a jacket in forever, but I'm getting old, and cold) and Circuit City for some clearance DVDs. Played WoW most of the day and just vegged. School is back in full swing and I'm swamped with reading and studying. I gotta get on that.

2019-04-21T21:28:04Z

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Joan Aiken – Who Goes Down This Dark Road? What is the creeping grey horror that lurks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? How can golden specks of dust turn men and women into ruthless killers? Whose are the invisible bony hands that lock around a man’s throat as he lies in bed? The Beaver imprint was aimed at children. This horror collection probably was too, although it says “for older readers” on the back. The pulps are well represented with the most pleasant surprise being a revival of Paul “Dr. Satan” Ernst’s slime-oozing classic, The Thing In The Pond. Ronson, as we only recently discovered, is also Marc Alexander, author of several non-fiction ghost gazetteers. Alan W. Lear – Whoever Heard of a Haunted Lift? Mammoth selection from the long-running childrens series The Armada Book Of Ghost Stories (1967-1983) the first two books being edited by Christine Bernard with Danby taking over on number three (there were fifteen volumes as far as I’ve been able to establish).

2019-04-23T11:02:58Z

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Awareness: Like mental activity that gets caught in the head (released by the Crown Pull, see below for that article), static energy can become trapped in the joints. Energy is dynamic and fluid, and we feel best when it is in motion, bringing in fresh supplies of life force, moving freely through all our structures and systems, and releasing in appropriate balance with receiving. Not only does this exercise move stuck energies from the joints, but it is a way of opening up space to hold the uniqueness of our life. An ancient Qi Gong exercise, it was known as Separating Heaven & Earth, carving out and claiming space for expressing our unique fullness. As Connecting Heaven & Earth, it’s a way of calling in what we desire from the abundance of the Universe. I appreciate Barbara Ann O’Leary and Melanie Smith for expanding my understanding of this exercise. 1. I stand with my hands on my thighs, fingers spread. 2. With a deep inhalation through the nose, I circle my arms out, bringing my hands to meet at my heart, fingers touching in a “prayer” position. I exhale through my mouth. 3. Inhaling through my nose, I look up and stretch one hand high above my head with my wrist at a 90 degree angle, as if pushing the ceiling above me. I stretch the other hand with my arm straight down, flattening my hand, wrist bent at 90 degrees. I hold this position while holding my breath, as long as is comfortable. 4. Releasing my breath through my mouth, I return my hands to the prayer position at my heart. I then repeat, switching the arm that raises and the one that lowers. I do at least one or more additional stretches on each side. 5. Coming out of the pose as I bring my arm down, I allow my body to fold over at the waist. I relax there with my knees slightly bent as I take a few deep breaths. 6. Slowly returning to standing position, I swing my arms in a wide sideways figure 8 pattern, and end with a backward roll of my shoulders. I envision the rapid and thorough release of any distress or discomfort as I stretch one hand above, and one below. Or, I feel space opening up to welcome the full expression of my essential self. I claim the life I took birth for, and my essential self expands within me. I call for and claim what I desire from the infinite supply, as I reach a hand above and a hand below. I gratefully receive what is freely given. I integrate my Self, my Source, and the Life I Live. What does it feel like to do this exercise with the intention to separate, carve space, release what doesn’t serve? What does it feel like with the focus of making a sacred connection and receiving divine gifts? Right now, I’m dancing with both of the ideas, flowing with what’s coming up for me. You are a wonderfully made and unique individual, with energy patterns and a history different from everyone else on the planet. It is my privilege to communicate with the subtle energies that make up an individual’s condition, and to bring my expertise to bear in helping each client restore the effectiveness of their inner healing forces, and move into greater wellness. My work is effective by Skype or in person. I look forward to serving you. Please visit me at my website, energymedicineforlife.com. Separating Heaven and Earth is recommended as part of Donna Eden’s Daily Energy Routine. Separating and Connecting Heaven & Earth is part of my To Begin the World Again – Mindfulness with the Daily Energy Routine series. © Lyn Milum and Energy Medicine for Life ™, 2011. This entry was posted in alternative healing, Articles, awareness, Eden Energy Medicine, Energy Medicine, Healing, Health, holistic health, mindfulness, Natural, Self-help and tagged alternative healing, awareness, eden energy medicine, Energy Medicine, Healing, Health, holistic health, joints, mindfulness, Natural, self-help. Bookmark the permalink.

2019-04-22T08:56:08Z

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This stunning picture book takes readers on a sumptuously illustrated safari trip, pairing pictures of endangered creatures with evocative prose. Featuring incredible artwork by wildlife illustrator Stephen Walton and a foreword from actress and wildlife campaigner Virginina McKenna (a 5% royalty from sales of the book will go to her Born Free Foundation), this is a must for animal lovers of any age. When Lola inherits an old toybox, she discovers that it’s a portal to a magical kingdom where toys come to life. Join Lola on her toybox adventures as she goes on a teddy bear picnic, explores an underground treasure trove, takes to the high seas and more! This imaginative series is great for kids who are just beginning to read independently. A thought-provoking verse novel about teenage conjoined twins, Grace and Tippi, who have never wanted to take the risk of separation surgery. But when the girls’ health begins to fail, they must finally face a choice they’ve avoided all their lives. A bittersweet and moving tale of sisterhood, this is great for readers aged 12+ who enjoy writers like Gayle Forman and Jandy Nelson. The amazing story of a little dog who changed history. In 1930s Berlin, Sirius, a handsome fox terrier, lives happily with his German Jewish owners. But the onset of World War II changes everything, and propels Sirius on an epic journey of film stardom, circus celebrity and wartime subterfuge. An inventive and exciting historical tale for readers aged 10+ and committed canine fans! The third YA novel from one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary YA authors, Vikki Wakefield, is a powerful coming-of-age tale about the complications of love and growing up. It’s also vintage Wakefield, with gritty characters and a vividly realised Australian setting. Seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jacklin lives with her sister in a dead-end town and tries to figure out her place in the world as she navigates her relationships with the people around her. Join acclaimed childhood educator and local author Mellina Mallos for a morning of story reading and crafty activities! Mellina’s fabulous bilingual picture book, Catch That Cat!, is set on the island of Kythera, where it’s common to see many cats lounging about on the walls and streets. It tells the story of Aphrodite, a curious cat with a sense of adventure. When she runs away from Yiayia’s house on Kythera, to explore the Greek island’s markets, festivals and beaches, she causes chaos and no one can catch her … except Yiayia, who knows that while Aphrodite belongs to Kythera, the best part of any adventure is returning home. Archie Greene receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Buried inside an ancient wooden box he finds an old book, written in a language he doesn’t recognise. With the book comes a Summoning – Archie must travel to Oxford to return the book to the Secret Library. Soon Archie will meet family that he never knew he had, and discover the world of the Book People – a community devoted to finding and preserving magical books. But the magical book under Archie’s protection is dangerous, and dark spirits hunt it out. Come and join the Wonder Club to discuss this fantastic new adventure! There’s also a second meeting on Friday 9 October (book here). Join award-winning local author Peter Carnavas as he launches his gorgeous new picture book, the whimsical tale of a whale who sings the blues and the penguin who cheers him up. There’s going to be live illustration, storytelling and guitar (or possible ukulele) playing, so this is one event not to miss! Love YA? Want to read new titles BEFORE they’re released? Then it’s high time you joined The First Review Book Club for teen readers aged 14+! At each meeting, members will be given a review copy of an upcoming YA novel to read, and at the next meeting, members will share their views on the book they’ve read. You’ll get to read the book before everyone starts raving about it. In fact, you might even be the one to start all the raving! Membership costs just $20 (redeemed if you ever decide to leave the club – but why would you?). You’ll also receive a 10% discount on any books you buy on club meeting days. Sign up here! Join NSW-based children’s author Zanni Louise for stories and fun! Zanni’s beautiful picture book, Too Busy Sleeping, tells the sweet story of baby Reuben’s first day at home – his big sister Eleanor can’t wait to play with him, but when will he stop sleeping? The amazing Graeme Base, one of the world’s leading picture book authors, joins Tania Venuto to discuss his latest mesmerising picture book, Eye to Eye. And don’t forget our totally FREE Wild Storytime sessions every Monday and Wednesday from 10 to 10.30 am. You don’t need to book ahead – just show up for some seriously sensational storytelling! This is a gripping story that captivates from the very first page. It focuses on the dangers of the cyber world and the events that occur are all too true. Friendships are tested and guilt is felt throughout this engaging and scary story. Frankie and Joely are best friends who go on holiday to a farm in the country. Tension starts rising when secrets are kept and Frankie deserts Joely on multiple occasions to hang out with the town’s ‘bad boy’. The friendship is explored in clever ways by the author. Themes such as loneliness and loyalty are interwoven through the whole book. An entertaining read! An exciting, fast-paced tale of love and revenge, bikes and the Race. Adam must race for his life in the Blackwater Trail, a perilous journey through the wastes of a future Earth. An enjoyable adventure that showcases Hofmeyr’s talent. The Rise and Fall of the Gallivanters was a pretty good read, although it wasn’t what I was expecting. It’s told from the perspective of Noah, and has a very bizarre but intriguing plot that took a little while for me to get used to. It’s also very dark and definitely meant for older readers as it deals with mental illness, physical illness, abuse and violence. Even so, there’s a lot of heart to this story. There’s just enough mystery and unexplained weirdness to keep you wondering, especially in regards to Ziggy and the dark force called The Marr that continually haunts Noah. If you’re into punk music (or books set back in time), and dark and intriguing novels, then I would definitely recommend it. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite: the Grisha. She has grown up on a Duke’s estate with her childhood friend Mal, who has always fit in to whereever he is or what he is doing. For example, as a tracker in the first army, he is the best of the best and is by far the most charming. Whereas Alina has never belonged and is always making a fool of herself. The Darkling is a creature of seductive charm and terrifying power, leader of the Grisha. If Alina is to fulfil her destiny, she must discover how to unlock her gift and face up to her dangerous attraction to him. The Darkling needs Alina to help him in his deeds and become his slave so he can access her power. However, on the night of a party, his plans don’t go so well. Alina runs. She and Mal find each other after Mal disappears from the army. They must survive with what they have while being hunted by the first and second army (the Grisha). The story takes a number of unexpected and exciting twists. I loved this book and highly recommend the trilogy. If you have read and liked any of Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass series or Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy you will love this book too. In this hilarious follow up to 2014’s bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit, those mischievous crayons are back. Duncan’s made peace with the crayons who threatened to quit, but it turns out he’s got all kinds of other crayons – crayons he’s lost, neglected or only ever used to draw poo (brown crayon is really over it). When they send postcards begging Duncan to rescue them, he hatches a brilliant plan to bring all the members of his colourful collection together. In this gorgeous tale of friendship and family by Brisbane author Jennifer Loakes, a new boy has moved in upstairs and a secret family has moved in downstairs. Where have they come from, and where will their silver treasures lead? How brave are you? And how brave can you be? The talented author and illustrator of the gorgeous In My Heart has created a vivid and mesmerising tale of all the little things we might feel afraid of and ways to find courage in the face of fear. Dive into this breathtakingly beautiful and imaginative book by Korean artist and designer JiHyeon Lee. Using only her sumptuous illustrations, Lee tells the story of two shy kids who meet at the local pool and discover all kinds of surprises beneath the water’s surface. The long-lost Dr Seuss book is just what you’d expect from the master of whimsy – it also offers some sound advice in response to the age-old question about what pet to get. With a bonus back section featuring information about the author’s creative process and interest in animals, this is a must for kids and Seuss collectors alike.

2019-04-23T01:09:58Z

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We Heart Reading Facebook page. Thats right. We have expanded to Facebook. Go check us out at facebook.com/weheartreading.

2019-04-21T08:23:08Z

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Rainy spring day. Baby isn’t feeling good, but is generous with the snuggles. Cuddling up watching movies with talking cows. I’m exhausted today, but life feels kinda perfect right about now. Previous Previous post: window shopping..

2019-04-23T16:11:28Z

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Richard Hughes requested a small change to the PackageKit session API used to look up Plasma services before accepting the added function upstream: instead of a dedicated InstallPlasmaResources method, the org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Modify D-Bus interface got a generic InstallResources method, which allows installing all the existing resource types as well as Plasma services, and any other resource types added in the future. It takes a type parameter, which must be set to "plasma-service" in our case. With those tweaks, the PackageKit change and the gnome-packagekit change are now committed to upstream git. For Apper (KPackageKit), which is our main target, there is a patch for Apper master on Review Board and a backport for KPackageKit 0.6.x on the packagekit mailing list. Hopefully, Daniel Nicoletti will have some time to review the patch soon. If not, he suggested on IRC that I can just commit the patch as is and he’ll refactor it later if needed, so that’s my fallback plan. I just submitted patches to the packagekit mailing list which implement a new InstallPlasmaResources method in the org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Modify D-Bus interface. There are patches for PackageKit itself, as well as for Apper (both master and KPackageKit 0.6.x) and gnome-packagekit. See my post to the packagekit mailing list for more details. This completes the next step in my GSoC 2011 project. Now I can start working on using the new interface in Plasma. This week, I worked on my first task in my GSoC project: automatically generating RPM Provides for Plasma services from Plasma’s metadata (in .desktop file format). This turned out to be much easier than I had initially expected, also because my mentor Rex Dieter already had a working proof of concept I was able to start from. I adapted the code to use RPM 4.9’s new plug&play dependency generation functionality and, after discussing this with my mentor, changed the format of the Provides to plasma4(servicetype-name). My work on Provides and (later on) Requires can be found in the gsoc-2011-plasma-rpm branch of kde-settings on Fedora Hosted. It can be installed separately, but it might be merged into upstream RPM or Plasma once finished. The next task is going to be asking upstream Plasma for feedback on this work and on how to proceed, because my next tasks will require closer interaction with Plasma upstream.

2019-04-18T23:15:27Z

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Detroit’s very own Black Milk liberated this fresh new tune for your head to nod to. So instead of listening to a fistful of oppressed rappers trying to rhyme their way into relevance, switch gears and get hip to something with a different speed. Be sure to check out his album No Poison, No Paradise coming October 15th.

2019-04-24T02:06:14Z

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This article below from the WSJ showing that in 2013 only high income buyers are buying homes and low and moderate. The number of mortgages made to buy homes in 2013 rose 13 percent from 2012 to 3.1 million, but much of the pickup came from those with the highest incomes. The share of loans made to low- and moderate-income buyers fell sharply. In 2013, about 28 percent of loans to buy homes went to such borrowers, versus 33 percent in 2012. The percentage of loans to high-income buyers rose nearly 5 percentage points to 45 percent. –The WSJ goes on to state that a comple possible reasons for the reluctance may come form the penalties on default loans, or possible that incomes are still stagnant in a great deal of low-income and middle-income households.

2019-04-24T20:00:57Z

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Work in Progress – Guess What is this? After more than two years since I started using film again, the inability to print my negs was becoming unbearable. Unfortunately I do not have any usable space in the house and I do not like at all the “flying solutions”. So I was almost resigned to not being able to have my own darkroom for a long time yet. Recently, however, while they were undergoing some work in my garden, I decided to convert an old storage room into something more substantial masonry … and use it as a Darkroom, although devoid of running water (too difficult and expensive to achieve an appropriate plant). It was a long time I wanted to start shooting with a pinhole camera. To begin with, I got an Holga 120 WPC which was waiting patiently to be used. And so, yesterday morning, taking advantage of a beautiful day in late January, I was immersed in an immensely fascinating and immortal landscape: the Roman Forum and the Palatine hill. As loyal readers already know, at the beginning of December I faced (after almost 15 years) traveling exclusively using film cameras only. In this post I showed the equipment that I planned to use. Furthermore, I also had an Olympus OM10 with three Zuiko lenses (28, 50 and 135mm) as a backup just in case. Once in Munich (Bayern), I bought a nice Olympus OM2n, accompanied by a Zuiko 35-70mm f/3.5-4,5 and a Tokina RMC 24mm f/2.8. The films I used were Ilford XP2 Super 400, Kodak T-Max 400 and Ilford Delta 3200. In total, I took 8 rolls of 36 frames. A ridiculous number of shots when compared with those obtained in a half-day with any digital camera. But this is precisely the reason that led me back to the film, so I am absolutely delighted to have chosen this path.

2019-04-21T06:33:11Z

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I’ve always felt a little on the outside of the whole “mommy blogging” arena, even though I’m a mom, who blogs, and who even blogs about being a mom (over on This Mommy Gig). Never was it more evident than when I sat on a panel discussion about women bloggers during SXSWi last year. Even though each of the moms on that panel had different types of blogs and different views on blogging there seemed to be some bond between them I didn’t share. Maybe it was because they were all “Walmart Moms” and I wasn’t. What’s a Walmart Mom? In this case, it’s not just mothers who shop at Walmart. I’ve been known to do that from time-to-time. And it’s not a political demographic term coined by a pollster. Or an oddly dressed lady we laugh at on the People of Walmart site. No, here I’m using the term to refer to a group of mommy bloggers called the Elevenmoms. These bloggers were selected by Walmart to help them build “a connected money saving community.” They write guest posts on Walmart’s web site, make videos for their YouTube brand channel, and in general enjoy the benefits of big brand association (free products, trips, etc) in exchange for talking about said brand. It’s the sort of thing that began to make the FTC nervous enough that they created new guidelnes for disclosure in blogs – much stricter guidelines I might add than exist today for mainstream media where reporters often enjoy free products and trips, too. Well, yesterday, over on This Mommy Gig, I posted my first blog that required disclosure under the new rules. It wasn’t my first blog reviewing something that I got for free (it was my second), but neither of them were really all that great. In the first one I got a free meal-planning service that I never used. So, I wrote about it when it began, but never got around to writing about how it ended. So, this time, I was not going to do that. I went ahead and wrote “the bad stuff” I felt about a book I was sent a free copy of for review. I was at least relieved to find while surfing around that I was not the only one who had written a bad review of it. But, I still feel a bit anxious about reaction when the author or the PR person working for RIM that sent me the book read it. And, that’s why I think I’ll never be the mommy blogger that so many marketers now clamor to get to know. It feels good that all the reviews of kids virtual worlds my girl and I did were done without any prompting from the companies behind them. Some did involve interaction with them, but it was all prompted by me, not their PR teams. I won’t say that I’ll never again try blogging about something based on a freebie. I’ve learned never to say never. And, hey, if someone offers me my dream trip to Greece there’d be no way to resist. But, don’t expect me to do a lot of PR-department-prompted product reviews any time soon.

2019-04-18T23:27:56Z

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