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Q: How do I get the address of a C global variable through the Haskell FFI? For example, in C, I have something like this declared:
extern char _binary_res_txt_start[];

It came from this command:
ld -r -b binary -o binary.o res.txt

How can I get a Ptr in Haskell that points there? If it were a function, I'd do something like foreign import ccall "&exp" a_exp :: FunPtr (Double -> Double), but I don't think that works for variables.

A: The foreign import syntax works for variables too, as long as you use &. You can then use peekCString or packCString to read it (or peekCStringLen or packCStringLen if it's not null-terminated but you know its length). Here's a full example:
printf 'foo\0bar' > res.txt
ld -r -b binary -o binary.o res.txt

extern char _binary_res_txt_start[];
extern char _binary_res_txt_end[];

import Foreign.C.Types
import Foreign.C.String
import Foreign.Ptr

foreign import ccall "&_binary_res_txt_start" txt_start :: Ptr CChar
foreign import ccall "&_binary_res_txt_end" txt_end :: Ptr CChar

main = do
  str <- peekCStringLen (txt_start, txt_end `minusPtr` txt_start)
  print str

"foo\NULbar"

Note that while ld -b binary also produces a _binary_res_txt_size symbol, it's no longer useful now that ASLR is a thing. See Why doesn't a linked binary file's _size symbol work correctly? for details on that.

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Training is a major part of life. Classical music from the Romantic era (written from about 1820-1900) typically comprises multiple keys, as does jazz , particularly Bebop jazz from the Nineteen Forties, through which the important thing or "house observe" of a tune could change each 4 bars and even every two bars.
Produced by Justin Paul, Benj Pasek, Greg Wells, Kevin Weaver, and Pete Ganbarg, the album turned a world success following the release of the movie, topping the charts in a number of international locations together with the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan.
The celebrity songstress briefly disappeared from social media final year earlier than roaring again with the launch of new album Repute, which sold two million copies worldwide in its opening week. This Music Dynasty (960-1279) painting, entitled the "Night Revels of Han Xizai," reveals Chinese musicians entertaining guests at a celebration in a tenth-century family.
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Ikpeazu declares Abia capital of small, medium enterprises in Nigeria
Annie Nwosu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has said that Abia State is now the capital of small and medium enterprises in Nigeria.
The governor, who was speaking in AIT program, Democracy Today, said that artisans in Aba no longer do their shoes with hand, as there is an automated shoe factory in the commercial nerve State, while a new garment factory will soon be established.
He said the return of market giants, including Kilimanjaro, marketplace, Dominos, Chicken republic, Coldstone among others in Aba is a clear good sign of economic growth.
The state chief executive said his administration had already set up five pillars of development with enablers such as road infrastructure, health, and education and would continue to make them deliver prosperity to the people of the state.
The governor noted that Ndigbo are sufficiently united to demand for the presidency of Nigeria and urged all political parties in the country to consider an Igbo person for the presidency in 2023 in line with equity, fairness and good conscience, pointing out that the region had notable and responsible people that will lead the nation towards the path of progress.
He further noted that the emergence of Prof George Obiozor as the new President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo was in line with the aspiration of the people, pointing out that the erudite Professor and diplomat has all it takes to drive the unification of Ndigbo and their agenda.
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FCTA announces date for school resumption for in Abuja
Wale Odunsi
The FCT Administration has directed all schools in Abuja to resume on Monday January 18.
Leramoh Abdulrazaq, Acting Secretary and Director, Administration and Finance, made the announcement on Friday.
Abdulrazaq issued the directive at a stakeholders' meeting.
The official said the resumption was in line with the Federal Ministry of Education directive.
He urged heads of schools to ensure total compliance with COVID-19 protocols.
"The FCT Education Secretariat has directed all Schools in FCT to resume accordingly," he said.
Abdulrazaq said the education management would always place the safety of the staff members and students as priority as they returned to their various schools for the new academic session.
He added that the secretariat had gone ahead also to ensure necessary modalities were worked out for safe resumption amidst the second wave of COVID-19.
Abdulrazaq assured that FCTA had made adequate provision for all that was needed for safe re-opening.
Schools were directed to ensure staff members and students complied to all laid down rules and regulations.
Kaduna Government rescues 160 Almajirai
John Gabriel
The Kaduna State Government COVID-19 Task Force officials have rescued 160 children from locations that are neither authorised and licensed as schools nor as children's homes in the state.
Muyiwa Adekeye, the Special Adviser to the State Governor on Media and Communication, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.
According to Adekeye, some of the rescued children are toddlers who aren't yet able to properly identify themselves.
He noted that the rescued children are from thirteen states in the northern and southern part of the country.
Adekeye added that some of the kids are from Benin Republic, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic.
The statement read in part, "The locations in which the children were found were operating in violation of regulations that had ordered the closure of all schools since Dec. 2020.
"By keeping children in unauthorised places, the locations were also in contravention of KDSG land use regulations and inconsistent with the policy of repatriation of almajiri to their states and local governments of origin to continue their education under the care of their parents, and in properly registered and regulated schools."
Adekeye also said that the state government wished to remind all corporate entities, non-governmental organisations, faith institutions and religious leaders that the Kaduna government has laws prescribing the free and compulsory education of all children in properly registered schools in the state.


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Each cemetery is shown with a map and notes on its history, condition and access, followed by a list of persons buried there. Information on individual burials includes names and dates from all remaining gravestones, plus maiden names and other genealogical information when known. Sources used include a complete and accurate reading of all remaining grave markers, local histories, town and village records, census mortality schedules, earlier gravestone readings and other available records. This is the first accurate and complete listing of all the county's cemetery burials, eight years in the making.
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Volume Three contains more than 7100 names from 29 cemeteries in the towns of Barrington and Starkey, and in the village of Dundee, including the village's large Hillside Cemetery. Each municipality is indexed separately, as is Hillside.
Volume Four contains more than 4400 names from 21 cemeteries in the town of Jerusalem, plus both cemeteries of St. Michael's Roman Catholic parish. The town is indexed, as is St. Michael's. The latter contains the names of nearly all 19th-century Irish immigrants to the area.
Volume Five contains more than 9700 names from the oldest sections of Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan.
Volume Six contains a master index to all five cemetery volumes, about 40,000 names.
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Books: Cost-Conscious Innovation
By Rebecca Massman, CMA, CSCA, CPA
With memberships starting at $10 per month, Planet Fitness frequently has been cited as a disruptor in the traditional fitness market. Geared to appeal to first-time gym members and those who are looking for a more casual workout, Planet Fitness saw a portion of the fitness market whose needs weren't being met by the more traditional gyms with higher overhead. This different perspective is the basis of the book Costovation by Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law. Costovation is defined as "a type of innovation that significantly compresses cost while still exceeding customer expectations."
Often when discussing innovation, cost is seen as a limiting factor, but Wunker and Luo Law encourage companies to look at cost cutting through the removal of operations or features as an important component to strategy. Costovation as a strategy can be successful not only for product innovations, the authors argue, but also for the production process, selling strategies, and other behind-the-scenes activities.
In addition to Planet Fitness, examples of companies that have pursued costovation strategies include Primark (inexpensive clothing) and Warby Parker (online-only prescription glasses). Costovation provides a framework of questions to ask and perspectives to consider when exploring the potential of the strategy.
The book is divided into two main parts: an examination of the three traits of costovation and the playbook, where 20 different potential strategies and tactics are laid out. The authors have determined that you need three major traits to costovate successfully: breakthrough perspective, relentless focus, and a willingness to blur boundaries. These traits are analyzed through brief case studies. In the playbook, the potential strategies and tactics are discussed, and thought-provoking questions are included in each section to help determine whether cutting costs to create an innovative solution would be a good fit.
Wunker and Luo Law give useful examples of both wildly successful costovation strategies and complete failures. One of the key takeaways to engaging in costovation is that the process requires that a company not just pursue the high-profile, very visible portions of the strategy but must be willing to look deep below the surface and pursue innovations that will support the visible products or services, whether it be through operations, material sourcing, or other support divisions.
Ultimately, each company must determine which strategies to pursue, but the authors of Costovation bring a new perspective on how to steer innovation and address the unmet needs present in many markets through lower-cost solutions.
Rebecca Massman, CMA, CSCA, CPA, is the cost accounting manager at Vermeer Corporation and a member of IMA's Des Moines Chapter. You can reach her at rmassman@vermeer.com.
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MEDIA: Herald man to head business mag
May 05, 2000 by JULIETTE GARSIDE
Sunday Herald business editor Kenny Kemp is leaving to edit monthly magazine Scottish Business Insider. Kemp is due to start his new job in mid-summer. He has been business editor at the Sunday Herald since its launch in February last year, and oversaw the launch of a separate business section just over a month ago.
Sunday Herald business editor Kenny Kemp is leaving to edit monthly
magazine Scottish Business Insider. Kemp is due to start his new job in
mid-summer. He has been business editor at the Sunday Herald since its
launch in February last year, and oversaw the launch of a separate
business section just over a month ago.
Prior to the Sunday Herald Kemp worked at the Scotsman for ten years, on
the foreign and features desks and latterly as business features
editor.
Before joining the Scotsman he was features editor on Today and helped
launch the Evening News in London in 1987.
Kemp will take over from the current editor of Scottish Business
Insider, Bill Millar, who will stay to help with the handover. Millar is
leaving to pursue other interests.
The magazine, which has a circulation of 20,000, is published by the
Insider group. Insider was bought by Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily
Record and Sunday Mail, earlier this year. Kemp said: 'Trinity Mirror
has said it wanted to take the magazine in a different direction. There
is still a crying need for a good business publication in Scotland that
looks at the wider world.'
P Harry Reid, editor of Scottish broadsheet the Herald, is to retire
after 18 years with the paper. He will remain in the post until the end
of December 2000, to ensure a smooth handover with his successor, who
has yet to be appointed.


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The store brought in Bright Bricks, a LEGO building company (note to self: send CV in immediately), to recreate the magic using the toy.
And it took seven expert builders a whopping 116 hours to LEGO-ify Buster the Boxer, the old Man on the Moon, our fave penguin Monty, the Bear and the Hare and The Snowman.
A dog on a trampoline, John Lewis, you have outdone yourself.
The year we sobbed and resolved to volunteer at an old people's home.
Sam tries to cheer up his sad penguin pal Monty, with adorable results.
A classic animation, this one.The hare convinces the bear to go against nature, not hibernate, and see the magic of Christmas. Hurrah!
Remember this one? This is when John Lewis really started getting really epic with its ads. When a snowman mysteriously disappears from a family's garden and embarks on a magical adventure to find the perfect present for his snowwoman.
You can see the builds in person in the Oxford Street store during the run up to Christmas.


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Hot Topics: Resting-State Structure and Gating Mechanism of a Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel
In this report the Catterall laboratory succeeded in solving the high resolution structure of a voltage-gated Na+-channel (Nav) in its resting state (1). Why is this difficult and why is this important? It is difficult because Navs exist in the resting state only at very negative voltages but not at a zero membrane potential required for structural analysis by X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM. Accordingly, all high resolution structures of Navs, whether pro- or eukaryotic, have so far reported channels with the voltage-sensing domains in the depolarized state, i.e. the positively charges S4 helices of the voltage sensors moved "up" towards the extracellular side. Therefore it is not known how the activation gate of the ion pore (formed by the four S6 helices) is kept closed by the voltage sensor in its resting position, i.e. with the S4-helices "down". Some predictions about how this might work was inferred from structural work on related voltage-gated ion channels (e.g in a TPC1 channel, 2) or from a study in which a chimeric Nav construct was trapped in a closed ("deactivated") state by a toxin (3). The elegant work presented here by Wideschaisri and colleagues (1) directly addressed this important question by generating suitable mutants of the bacterial Nav, NavAb (4). One mutant (KAV mutation) was engineered to shift its activation threshold to much higher voltages thus holding the channel in the resting state also at 0 mV for structural studies. Moreover, they introduced disulfide crosslinks locking the voltage-sensor in the desired resting (S4 "down") or activated (S4 "up") state. The stabilization of these states in these mutants were verified in functional studies to ensure that the structural data have clear functional correlates. Analysis of the X-ray structures (and cryo-EM structure for the KAV mutant) provided important novel insight into the structural rearrangements associated with the transition from the activated/open to the resting/closed state. This includes changes of the helical structure of S4 associated with its striking inward movement of about 11.5 A compatible with a "sliding helix" model. Rearrangements of the four S4-S5 linkers were found to tighten the "collar" around the S5 and S6 segments thus keeping the pore closed.
All this was possible because they used the bacterial NavAb, for their experiments. This comes with the advantage that this channel exists as a tetramer of identical subunits and therefore the mutations are present in all four voltage-sensors. This also facilitated disulfide cross-linking, because these channels lack endogenous cysteines. The disadvantage of NavAb is that it does not reflect the more complex structure of eukaryotic Nav and voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (Cavs) in which all four voltage-sensing- and pore forming elements are different and are tethered together in a single molecule. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that this "sliding helix" model of electromechanical coupling will also apply to eukarytic Navs and Cavs. Understanding all the conformational rearrangements occurring between resting and activated channel states will provide new opportunities for the discovery of state-dependent and subtype-selective Nav- and Cav- channel blocking drugs.
Comments by Jörg Striessnig, University of Innsbruck
(1) Wisedchaisri, G., Tonggu, L., McCord, E., Gamal El-Din, T.M., Wang, L., Zheng, N., Catterall, W.A., 2019. Resting-State Structure and Gating Mechanism of a Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel. Cell 178, 993-1003. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.031. [PMID: 31353218]
(2) Kintzer, A.F., Green, E.M., Dominik, P.K., Bridges, M., Armache, J.-P., Deneka, D., Kim, S.S., Hubbell, W., Kossiakoff, A.A., Cheng, Y., Stroud, R.M., 2018. Structural basis for activation of voltage sensor domains in an ion channel TPC1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115, E9095–E9104. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1805651115. [PMID: 30190435]
(3) Xu, H., Li, T., Rohou, A., Arthur, C.P., Tzakoniati, F., Wong, E., Estevez, A., Kugel, C., Franke, Y., Chen, J., Ciferri, C., Hackos, D.H., Koth, C.M., Payandeh, J., 2019. Structural Basis of Nav1.7 Inhibition by a Gating-Modifier Spider Toxin. Cell 176, 702-715.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.018. [PMID: 30661758]
(4) Payandeh, J., Scheuer, T., Zheng, N., Catterall, W.A., 2011. The crystal structure of a voltage-gated sodium channel. Nature 475, 353–358. doi: 10.1038/nature10238. [PMID: 21743477]
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By Bill Humphrey January 23, 2014 - 9:50 pm September 4, 2014 Arsenal Analysis
Less than two weeks after turning over the keys to the governor's mansion, Republican former Virginia Governor and presidential once-hopeful Bob McDonnell and his wife were indicted by a Federal grand jury on 14 felony counts.
They somehow managed to run afoul of the (Federal) law, despite their own state's virtually non-existent ethics laws. Their crimes generally all relate to a scandal involving accepting — or rather actively soliciting — huge gifts from a political donor so the McDonnells could continue living the high life even after their investment portfolio collapsed.
They hadn't even taken office before the shenanigans began (despite repeated warnings from staffers), and they likely wouldn't have even gotten charged with anything if they had just disclosed it, but they knew it was too politically damaging to admit.
So, charged they were — and how.
…former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife Maureen were indicted on 14 felony charges on Tuesday. The indictments centered around tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts received by the couple from a wealthy tobacco executive.
In what Republican state legislator Bob Marshall called the "type of activity" that "undermines public confidence," McDonnell and his family allegedly accepted more than $135,000 in gifts and/or loans from Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the then-CEO of Star Scientific Inc. The McDonnells then helped promote the scientifically-unproven dietary supplements line made by thecontroversial tobacco company-turned-supplements manufacturer. While Virginia's lax gifts law allows elected officials to accept unlimited gifts — even from lobbyists and those with business before the state — McDonnell apparently failed to fully disclose what he and his wife received.
The gifts included a silver Rolex watch, golf clubs, Louis Vitton shoes, and $15,000 to help pay for the McDonnells' daughter's wedding. According to the indictment, the former governor and his wife conspired to commit wire fraud to accept bribes, knowingly made false statements on loan applications to avoid reporting the Williams loans, and obstructed justice.
Great job to the Washington Post for pushing relentlessly to expose this story. And now — since this is one of those scandals that probably didn't really truly hurt anyone — the fun begins, particularly because Bob McDonnell was not well liked by much of the nation for his (and his party's legislative members') support for aggressive counter-abortion laws, such as the proposed mandatory, highly invasive early ultrasound.
From the trolling Brits on the other side of the Atlantic — who had their own major gifts/expenses scandal a few years ago, involving many members of parliament — comes this delightful take (The Guardian):
This Oscar de la Renta dress costs $12,590, which is just a fraction of the $140,805.46 in luxury gifts federal authorities say former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, took from a wealthy businessman.
We tried to online shop our way to the $140,000 mark, but we fell short.
We also learned all kinds of crazy (alleged) things about the McDonnells in the text of the indictment. Top line version below, details within:
1. It All Started With An Inauguration Dress
2. The McDonnells Were Deeply In Debt
3. Bob McDonnell Allegedly Knew About The First Big Loan From Williams
4. But Some Of Williams' Help May Have Come As A Surprise
5. Bob McDonnell Asked For $20,000 Via A Text Message
6. People Discussed Using [State] Employees As Dietary [Supplement] Guinea Pigs
7. Bob McDonnell Told Virginia Officials That He Took Anatabloc
8. Maureen McDonnell Allegedly Lied To Law Enforcement
The Feds were even willing to offer an extremely generous — perhaps overly so — deal to former Gov. McDonnell that would have protected his wife entirely, even though she seems to have orchestrated much of the corruption and solicitations. All he had to do was plead guilty to one felony count and serve time (probably very little considering who he is). Yet he said no.
All I know is this:
I love it when a Virginia Republican scandal comes together.
Oh, and a word to the wise for successor Governor Terry McAuliffe: Given your own shady ethics, don't forget to declare the gift you received from the McDonnells when they left.
For our initial coverage of the scandal in July 2013, listen to AFD Episode 50 – Ethics, Efficacy, Insurance.
Tagged Bob McDonnell, ethics laws, Terry McAuliffe, Virginia


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Christian Ariano Rachmat
Mr. Rachmat joined Adaro in 2005 and was appointed Chairman of KCR in April 2018.
Mr. Rachmat started his career as a business analyst at A.T. Kearney in 1995, then moved to work as operations researcher and supply chain manager for PT Toyota Astra Motors from 1996 to 1998. After a spell at his family's Triputra Group, he brought his experience to Adaro in 2005.
Mr. Rachmat holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the Northwestern University in Illinois.
Owen Hegarty
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Mr. Hegarty has more than 40 years' experience in the global mining industry including 25 years with the Rio Tinto group where he was Managing Director of Rio Tinto Asia and Rio Tinto's Australian copper and gold business from 1989 to 1994. Mr. Hegarty was the founder and Managing Director of Oxiana Limited. He was previously the Vice Chairman of ASX listed Fortescue Metals Group.
Mr. Hegarty holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from Monash University.
Chia Ah Hoo
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Mr. Chia ran a contract mining company in East Kalimantan before joining PT Adaro Indonesia in 1991 as operations manager. PT Adaro Indonesia further developed his career by providing a period of study at the European business school INSEAD in 1998. Later that year he was appointed General Manager of PT Adaro Indonesia.
Mr. Chia holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Windsor in Canada.
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Mr. Aman holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Indonesia and a Master of Laws from the University of Washington.
Jason Chang
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Mr. Chang has over 20 years' experience as a professional advisor specializing in the Asian market and the resources sector. He was previously Partner in Charge of KPMG Australia's Asia Practice, China Practice and India Practice, at different times, and a member of KPMG Australia's leadership team. In these roles, Mr. Chang was the head of KPMG Australia's businesses across all service lines (advisory, tax, audit) for the Asia Australia corridor, where his primary focus was working for Chinese companies acquiring mining projects globally.
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Mark Small
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Mr. Small's introduction to Adaro was as Managing Director of a JV between BHP and Adaro in Indonesia. After Adaro acquired 100% of the Indonesian BHP assets, Mr. Small joined Adaro to assist with the development of the Metallurgical coal division. He has over 35 years' experience in the development and management of mining ventures throughout Australia and South East Asia with a strong focus on underground longwall mining and will lead the Adaro team in the transition to ownership.
Mr. Small holds a Master's Degree in engineering from Wollongong University and studied Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University.
Tony Manini
Mr. Manini was appointed director of KCR in February 2018.
Mr. Manini is a geologist and business development executive with over 25 years of exploration, development and operations experience in the resources industry. He worked with Rio Tinto for 14 years in various technical, commercial and management positions before joining Oxiana Limited in 2000. More recently, Mr. Manini was the Executive General Manager for exploration and business development at OZ Minerals Limited. He is also a co-founder and former CEO of the Tigers Realm Minerals Group.
Mr. Manini holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) (Hons) from the LaTrobe University.
Nine Handajani
Ms. Handajani was appointed director of KCR in June 2019.
Ms. Handajani is currently the Head of Corporate Finance – Overseas Assets for Adaro. She was previously the Director and CFO of PT Bhimasena Power Indonesia (a joint venture in which Adaro is a participant) which raised US$3.4 billion in project financing – the largest project finance deal in Indonesia.
Ms. Handajani holds a MBA of Business Administration from the University of Houston and a degree in accounting from the University of Indonesia.
Ralph Ferguson
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Mr. Ferguson has over 30 years' experience in the provision of accounting, assurance and finance related matters and is CFO of EMR. Prior to joining EMR, Mr. Ferguson had been a Senior Partner in KPMG Australia for 18 years. In that position, he has held various senior roles including Partner in charge of KPMG's CFO Advisory Practice in Melbourne, responsible for advising CFO's on strategy, operations and risk. Mr. Ferguson's experience includes transaction due diligence assignments relating to mergers, acquisitions and divestments. In addition to his external client roles and internal KPMG leadership positions, he has led various strategic and operational initiatives for KPMG.
Mr. Ferguson holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and is an ASIC registered company auditor.
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It's not often that an animal is named "edible", and although it may seem rather barbaric, the truth is that in Ancient Rome these Dormice were deliberately bred in special farms, and when a celebration was coming near, they were fed with acorns and chestnuts and then served as a delicacy. Nowadays, this animal, also known as the "Fat Dormouse" inhabits central, eastern and southern Europe, as well as the Middle East.
This animal is considerably larger than its closest relative – the Common Dormouse. Being about 13-20 cm long, with a 11-16 cm long tail, the Edible Dormouse is often confused with the gray squirrel. The fur indeed is silver or grayish brown, with a whiter underside, but the animal still has the large, round ears and the short pink nose, typical to all Dormouse species. The tail which is almost as long as the rest of the body is fluffy, with long, soft fur.
Initially, Edible Dormice could only be seen in deciduous forests, but now they also live in gardens or even parks, if there are enough trees with thick leafage. At night, the animal searches for food in bushes and lower trees, maneuvering through the branches with enviable agility. This rodent doesn't go far from its den and returns to it every morning. The den is usually set up in a tree cavity, under a roof, in an abandoned bird house and is is furnitured with chewed leaves and straws.
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Even though it may seem that the times when the Edible Dormouse was really eaten are in the past, they are still being hunted for meat in some regions. Still, hunting for meat is nothing compared to the destruction of the natural habitat, if we're talking about what decreases the numbers of these small animals. Still, Edible Dormice are quite common in all their inhabited areas and no actions need to be taken to conserve them.


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autoAmerican anarchy
Two adolescents, a boy and a girl, were throwing snowballs at cars in Milwaukee. One driver took umbridge, pulled over, and shot them. Would an autoAmerican jury even convict?
Meanwhile, in Kansas City, an off-duty police officer, a the mother of two, pulled her car over to help an elderly woman cross the street. As a reward for her good deed she was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle.
Turns out, Halloween is a truly scary night. "The most disturbing thing about Halloween isn't the fake blood, urban legends, or sexy clown costumes. It's that the streets are full of actual child-killers: Pedestrians under age 18 are twice as likely to be struck and killed by a car on October 31 than on any other day of the year," reports City Lab. Be very afraid, kids.
It is a perverse autoAmerican value that the act of walking is actually hazardous to your health. "Ten years ago, 4,109 pedestrians died. The number has risen virtually every year since, and last year, the death toll was up 3.4 percent to 6,283. Pedestrian fatalities in urban areas are up 69 percent over the last 10 years," Reports McClatchy news service. On the other hand, don't you feel really safe inside that big, tall, armored SUV?
From our Best Intentions Dept: San Francisco adopted "Vision Zero" goals to eliminate traffic deaths. But the city has since declared a "state of emergency" because the death toll is actually climbing. "San Francisco is midway through its Vision Zero goal to eliminate street fatalities, which don't count highways or underground transportation, by 2024 but faced a setback…this year has seen at least 24 people die in street collisions and 16 of those have been pedestrians or cyclists. In all of 2018, there were 23 deaths counting against Vision Zero," reports SFWeekly.
And if you think technology is going to keep us from killing each other, think again. It turns out that the reason an Arizona woman was killed by an Uber self-driving SUV last year was because the car apparently didn't know that human beings don't always heed the rules of the road. "Much of that explains why, despite the fact that the car detected (Rafaela) Herzberg with more than enough time to stop, it was traveling at 43.5 mph when it struck her and threw her 75 feet. When the car first detected her presence, 5.6 seconds before impact, it classified her as a vehicle. Then it changed its mind to "other," then to vehicle again, back to "other," then to bicycle, then to "other" again, and finally back to bicycle," reports Wired. Back to the drawing board on that one.
After a 37-year old cyclist was run over by a truck in Chicago, cyclists turned out in protest bearing "Please don't kill us" signs. But don't just blame the driver. ""You had a bike lane that is completely gone, it hasn't been maintained. The plan was to make it a protected bike lane but the area pushed back, so it was just a faded, painted bike lane," Christina Whitehouse, founder of advocacy group Bike Lane Uprising, told Block Club Chicago. "We had a cyclist that was in it and who was clearly an experienced cyclist based on the bike, and you had a commercial truck that right-hooked her." The moral to this story is that life is cheap – or at least cheaper than the cost of laying down a little paint or installing barriers.
The city of Elizabeth, N.J. decided to ban Lime electric scooters after a teenager rented one and was killed. By a tow truck. ""It didn't matter if he was 16 or 18. He was hit by a tow truck. No matter how old he was, he would have been killed," Elizabeth resident Danielle Fienberg told StreetsblogNYC. "We have no bike lanes, we have no basic pedestrian safety measures, and we have drivers that are aggressive. We were not ready for Lime scooters." No word on whether Elizabeth now intends to ban killer tow trucks.
They are serious about jaywalking in Gwinnette County, Ga. A man on his way to a job interview reportedly got tased three times for walking outside the line. "You jaywalked again right in front of us. Again, bro," the officer said, according to a WSBTV news report. "Y'all doing all that over jaywalking?" the tasee responded. Hey, this is autoAmerica, pal, you need to watch your step!
Professional wrestler Matt Travis was a tough guy. "Wrestling is my lifeline. Every night I come home and hear how someone got shot… like, what if I'm next? But with wrestling I feel like, finally, I have a shot," he once said. "It didn't take a bullet to kill Matt Travis. It took a 10,000-pound dump truck," reports StreetsblogNYT. "According to police, Travis was coasting down the Willis Avenue bridge bike path at around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, intending to continue across 125th Street — but a dump truck on a service road parallel to the bridge made an illegal left turn onto 125th Street and then another left onto the bridge, hitting Travis in the process."
And, listen, you don't have to be a pedestrian or cyclist to be at risk in autoAmerica. In Toms River, N.J. a red Porsche was traveling so fast that it actually went airborne and lodged itself into the second story of a real estate building, killing both driver and passenger. "The red Porsche Boxster was clearly visible upside down in the second story,' reported USA Today. "Toms River building inspector John Gerrity deemed the building unsafe, police said." And the building wasn't even jaywalking.
Meanwhile, the Houston Chronicle reports that "Texas has not had a death-free day on its roads in 19 years." Texas Transportation Commissioner Laura Ryan said "They die silently and violently,'…noting the numbness many drivers have to Texas leading the country in fatalities." On the plus side, you get to drive really, really fast in Texas.
By the way, if you think driving doesn't go to your head, think again. "New research has linked air pollution nanoparticles to brain cancer for the first time. The ultra-fine particles (UFPs) are produced by fuel burning, particularly in diesel vehicles, and higher exposures significantly increase people's chances of getting the deadly cancer," reports The Guardian. "Toxic air has been linked to other effects on the brain, including hugereductions in intelligence, dementia and mental health problems in both adults and children. The World Health Organization says air pollution is a "silent public health emergency." Talk about distracted driving.
But don't get the impression that all drivers are oblivious to the world around them. When St. Petersburg cyclist Steven Weldon got nailed by a speeding motorist, he got assistance from an unexpected source. "The unidentified driver stopped and helped pull an injured Weldon off the roadway. He also moved the bike out of the road," reported the Tampa Bay Times. Then "the driver got back into his car and drove off. Now it's being investigated a case of hit-and-run."
Be careful out there folks.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 17, 2020 January 17, 2020 Leave a comment on autoAmerican anarchy
The forever war
Listen, Donald Trump's war on Iran could save hundreds of American lives. Maybe thousands.
But not against acts reprisal or terrorism. That blood letting is likely to be terrible, and we will live to regret our strategy of promiscuous drone warfare.
But it could save lives back here on the home front.
How? Because if things really go sideways with Iran, the price of oil will likely skyrocket.
Cheap gas is killing us, and we've been drunk on the stuff for years.
About 40,000 Americans were slaughtered in traffic last year alone. And it is a fact that the less we pay for gas the more we drive. And the more we drive the more likely we are to kill each other.
"During hard times, or when gas prices surge, people drive less: some shift to cheaper travel modes, some just stay home," the online news service CityLab observes. "One predictable and well-documented result of big spikes in gas prices is fewer car crashes…"
Not to mention that less driving means less climate-changing carbon emissions spewing into the atmosphere.
The Union of Concerned Scientists points out: "Our personal vehicles are a major cause of global warming…cars and trucks account for nearly one-fifth of all US emissions, emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon of gas."
We've been fighting this forever war in the Mideast for what seems like forever now – squandering our national treasure and throwing away young American lives to keep the oil spigots flowing. It's not honor, but slavishness that makes the bloody Saudi regime our best pal. We have pledged our allegiance to Aramco.
What does "patriotism" even mean in war time these days? The Bush administration told us to go shopping while it knocked off Iraq. And thanks to all the oil we "liberated," too many of us went shopping for gas guzzling SUVs and pickups.
That's not patriotism. That's self-indulgence.
To end the forever war, the ultimate act of patriotism would be to drive less, drive smaller and drive slower. Doing so would simultaneously save lives and help stave off climate change.
What might a rational homeland security strategy look like in a post-forever war America? Well, instead of spending billions on bigger highways we would be investing in transit…and then make it free as an incentive to not drive.
Rather than subsidizing suburban sprawl – as we've done since World War II – we would instead redesign our cities to be more walkable and bikable. Traffic calming by design saves gas and makes us more free to get around.
Here on the home front, pedestrian deaths in cities like New York and Denver are on the rise. This despite the adoption of much-touted "Vision Zero" policies.
Does that mean Vision Zero doesn't work? No, in Norway, Oslo saw just one traffic fatality last year, thanks to a Vision Zero plan that takes itself seriously.
"The great tragedy of the American postwar development pattern is that we've built a world where a productive life is only possible if we do our daily travel at truly crazy, historically unprecedented speeds," argues strongtowns.org. "These are speeds that make doing everything by car (with the attendant risk of injury or death, to yourself or others) the unavoidable ante to participating productively in society."
To end the forever war we need to stop playing Aramco's game and resolve to make America a civilization that doesn't run on cheap gas.
Ron Cunningham is former editorial page editor of The Sun. Read his blog at floridavelocipede.com.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 12, 2020 January 12, 2020 Leave a comment on The forever war
So long Surly
Oh the ignominy.
I just gave away one of my bicycles.
To make room for my new(ish) car.
I can't even believe I just wrote that. Me, the holier-than-thou cyclist philosopher and constant scold of autoAmerican Anarchy.
But there it is.
And at this point I can only plead extenuating circumstances.
You see, I owned a 13-year old Nissan pickup trick. For years it sat in my driveway. And it was mostly my fallback transportation. I usually cycle downtown, or to campus, or to the Starbucks of my choice where I did much of my writing. But my mother lives more than three hours away, in Brevard County, and my favorite place to camp is Anastasia State Park, in St. Augustine. Plus, at my age, cycling in, say, a cold rain is no longer the thrill it once was.
Long story short, the old pickup was starting to cost cost money for repair. And so we finally traded it in for a 2017 Honda Civic. Smaller and more fuel efficient, it reduced my carbon footprint.
But here's the thing. The Civic turns out to be the nicest looking car I've ever owned. A sleek, jet like, smoke-gray model that looks like something Capt. Kirk drove to the spaceport on his way to board the Enterprise.
And our next door neighbor has an overhanging hickory tree that has for years pelted whatever happened to be parked in my driveway with hard, dent-inducing projectiles.
So I resolve to make room in my half of the garage (my wife's Subaru owns the other side) for the Civic.
One problem, though. What to do with the five bicycles that already had squatters rights in there? Not to mention the shelves full of God-knows-what, and the decades-old refrigerator.
First we got rid of the refrigerator (bye-bye emergency backup beer). Followed by lots and lots of accumulated junk.
Hey, am I the only American guy who kept large coffee cans full of nuts, bolts, brackets, washes, hooks and whatnot – all of it just sitting there waiting to spring into action?
I don't even remember where all that stuff came from. Maybe I inherited from whoever lived there before us.
All I can say is that, in the 30-some years we've lived here, I can never remember dipping into any of those cans to pull out that one essential component I needed to keep the house from falling apart.
So I got rid of all that stuff….no doubt tomorrow I'll have to go to Lowes and buy new nuts, bolts, washers etc.
But never mind that. After getting a junk hauler to haul all the junk away, I was still left with one final dilemma.
Let's see, the Subaru on the left. The Civic on the right. And the little alcove in the back for the bikes and the shelves.
No kidding, it took me three days of arranging, rearranging and re-rearranging to finally figure out that I had one bicycle too many for a comfortable fit.
We've got two road bikes, Jill's and mine. And two urban bikes that we use for everyday trips around town.
That left my touring bike. A sweet Surly Cross Check that I bought for multi-day road trips.
Getting rid of Surly wasn't easy. It was the first bike I ever bought brand new. That was maybe seven or eight years ago and it set me back nearly $2,000 as I recall. Tough steel frame, fat tires and a three ring drive chain it was designed for the long haul.
And we've had some adventures together, Surly and I.
I once cycled the Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal trails, from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. on it, carrying all of the clothing and gear necessary for a six day journey. I'll never forget the night we showed up in Harper's Ferry, Surly and me, covered in mud after an all day trek in stormy weather.
Not to mention our journey on the Erie Canal Trail, from Buffalo to Seneca Falls, fighting headwinds much of the way.
But truth be told, I hadn't ridden that bike much in recent years. On the odd camping trip, mostly.
It was like giving up an old friend. But the truth was, Surly's tires were all but flat from disuse.
So I just gave Surly away to a buddy, who seemed glad to have it. And all to the good, I suppose, because it's a shame to see a good bike go to waste – languishing away on the hooks that kept it suspended up against the wall of my garage.
Surly I hardly knew ye.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 11, 2020 Leave a comment on So long Surly
Growing up in the "shadow of the H Bomb" and being a teenage boy, I naturally gravitated to nuclear apocalyptic fiction.
"Fail Safe," "Alas Babylon," and of course "Dr. Strangelove" all conspired to feed my Cold War era paranoia.
But the most depressing "end of days" book I ever read was Nevel Shute's "On The Beach." It was a grinding, soul-crushing account of how the last survivors of World War III lived out their remaining days while waiting for the radiation to reach them.
"It's not the end of the world at all," Shute wrote. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us."
And then he tacked on what amounted to mankind's eulogy: "Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this."
Shute's "end of the world" scenario was set in Australia. It was the globe's last outpost of humanity after Europe, Asia and the Americas wiped each other out in a nuclear holocaust. But the prevailing winds would ultimately spare no one, not even those who watched and waited at the ends of the earth.
I haven't thought about "On The Beach" in years. But the inferno now raging in Australia…literally driving many refugees out of their homes and onto the beach, brought it all back.
Who knew that far from being the last outpost of humanity, Australia would turn out to be one of the first at risk? That its residents would be among the first to face, not radioactive Armageddon, but rather the deadly impact of man-made global warming.
It is a desert continent, after all. And changing weather patterns appear to be converging on that already hot and dry island as surely as Shute's imagined radioactive wave.
But Shute knew of what he spoke, even if he got the means of delivery wrong. "No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that," one of his characters, John Paxton, explained. "It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake."
Mistakes aplenty were indeed made. Because, having escaped out from under the shadow of the H bomb, we humans proceeded to spend the ensuing years and decades spewing carbon into the atmosphere. We were warned, goodness knows, but we chose to ignore the harbingers of climate change doom.
"You could have done something with newspapers," Shute wrote. "We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault…"
No, we opted for all of the cheap luxuries and consumer goods that our disposable, petro-sodden economy could give us. And we listened as charlatans like Donald Trump assured us that environmentalists were hysterical naysayers, and that we could have jobs or a clean environment but not both.
Have you seen the photos from Australia? As bad as the fires that have been raging in the Amazon rain forests. Worse than the conflagrations that burn large swaths of California.
But, surely, those are all just acts of nature and nothing to do with the rest of us.
"A look at the current fire map shows the whole continent of Australia ringed with flame," reports the Daily Beast. "This is the driest continent on earth, and it is now being cooked by global warming. After the driest spring on record it has had the hottest day, with average highs across the whole country above 107 degrees."
But nothing to see here, folks. "Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said climate concerns were being stoked by 'raving inner-city lefties.' Australia remains heavily committed to coal-fired power stations and has one of the highest per capita greenhouse gas emission rates."
In Shute's novel, word of the encroaching catastrophe could not compete with all of the sweet distractions of life. "The news did not trouble her particularly," he wrote of one character, "all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it.
"What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds."
Daffodils are on fire in Australia. They will burn, or perhaps drown in the rising sea levels, elsewhere in the coming years. And we will likely continue to wallow in self-interested doubt and denial.
Perhaps because, indeed, "we've been too silly to deserve a world like this."
"Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen," Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, a latter day Shute, wrote in the New York Times. "The images of the fires are a cross between 'Mad Max' and 'On the Beach'."
Survivors are literally gathering "on the beach" in Australia because everything else is on fire. Will the fire next time blaze closer to home?
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 3, 2020 January 3, 2020 Leave a comment on The fire next time
We hope for the best.
And prepare for the worst.
Author floridavelocipedePosted on January 2, 2020 January 2, 2020 Leave a comment on What comes next?
Our dirt cheap water
Fifteen years is a lot of water under the bridge. And every year that water got a little dirtier and scarcer.
"Floridians in 2005 may not be facing a statewide water crisis at present, but they are certainly facing enormous challenges. They cannot afford to be complacent."
That cautionary note appeared in a little-heeded study, "Avoiding a Water Crisis in Florida." Its author, Lynne Holt, was a policy analyst for the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center (PURC).
It is safe to say, 15 years later, that we choose complacency. So we now live in water crisis times. Red tides, toxic algae, collapsing oyster beds, mass fish die-offs and on and on are our new normal.
Two decades into the 21st century we are still making terrible water decisions. That's why, to cite just one egregious example, one of the world's largest bottling companies feels entitled to suck up Florida spring water, for free, and sell it in little petroleum-based containers.
Which is why it's worth remembering Holt's 2005 report as we blithely row, row, row on our fragile water resources into the third decade.
"One method of curbing water use and thus reducing conflicts over water in Florida and elsewhere is the adoption of more efficient pricing and funding mechanisms to capture the real cost of supplying water," it asserts.
That's a polite way of saying that if Florida wants to stop treating its water like dirt we need to stop making it as cheap as dirt. We need to stop giving away our most priceless resource to anyone who cares to pump it out of the ground.
Dirt cheap water is why Big Ag hasn't moved to drip irrigation and other less water intensive growing techniques. It's why Nestle can sell "our" water at enormous profits while continuing to add to the world's plastic pollution stream. It's why millions of Floridians can pour rivers of water on their lawns (after which it runs back into our streams and wetlands laden with pesticides and fertilizers).
Why not? That water's as cheap as dirt.
"We Americans are spoiled, we wake up in the morning and we turn on the tap and out comes as much water as we want for less than we pay for cellphone service or for cable television. So we take water for granted," Robert Glennon, a water expert at Arizona University, told Atlantic magazine.
But wait a minute. What about the poor? If we "right price" water, won't they be deprived of this life-sustaining fluid?
No. The Atlantic article adds: "Since drinking water is a human right, experts all agree that the base amount a person needs to survive, about 15 gallons a day, should be subsidized." It's water squandering that needs to be priced out of the market.
What would happen if Florida right-priced water? Holt's report recommends that the proceeds from water sales be used to replace aging and leaking water supply infrastructure, pay for water preservation and address pollution.
More importantly, right-pricing would foster a water conservation ethic among farmers, utilities, manufacturers and individual users.
"Absent pricing schemes that capture the true costs of water use, consumers will not be able to respond rationally to conservation signals," Holt wrote.
That's another polite way of saying that we will continue to soak our lawns, flood our fields and, yes, let entrepreneurs sell our water to the world in little plastic pollution delivery systems until we stop treating that water like dirt.
(Ron Cunningham is former editorial page editor of The Sun. Read his blog at www.floridavelociped.com)
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Ron's sense of snow
Canadians think Americans are loopy anyway. But if you really want to evoke eye-rolling and dark mutterings from our northern neighbors try saying this to a Canadian:
"I'm from Florida and I'm here for the snow."
In December. In Ottawa.
And we're not talking about skiing. I ski. I fall down. I break something. That way lies disaster.
No, I just love the snow. I like to walk in it. To savor its fresh, sharp scent and biting touch. It's a walk on the wild side. I'm a stranger in a strange land.
Once my backpacking group, the Shining Rock Orienteering Society (AKA Old Florida Guys In Hot Pursuit Of Their Lost Youth) were hiking in snowy Rocky Mountain National Park. People kept looking at us funny because my fellow Orienteer, Louis Kalivoda, was wearing shorts. It's just Florida Man folks, nothing to be alarmed about.
It is true that I have lived in Florida for more than 60 years. But the first seven years of my life was spent in Pennsylvania. And I still have memories of waking up on winter mornings and discovering that the world outside had turned white and magical.
Listen, to this day I can't watch "Christmas Story" without tearing up.
The best day I ever spent in New York City happened because there was a blizzard and my flight home got canceled. I went for a long walk through Central Park in a driving snowfall (listening to Sinatra on a Walkman) and had the time of my life. I had lunch at Tavern On The Green and later went to the Algonquin Hotel for scotch. Move over Dorothy Parker.
So here I am at the age of 72, and a confirmed denizen of the Sunshine State. But there is nothing for it. Every now and then I've simply got to go looking for snow. Which is why Canadians find me such an odd duck. But there it is.
I'm a bizarre example of rare reverse tourism. The Air Canada plane headed north had quite a few empty seats. On the return trip to Orlando (aka Land Of The Mouse) it was full up.
Ottawa is one of my favorite cities. I have ridden bicycles there and walked for miles around Parliament Hill and along the Ottawa River. But always in the summer or fall. This time we arrived just in time to take in the Christmas Lights Up Canada festival in Confederation Park. They handed us lighted candles and we walked in a snowfall among gaily lighted trees and sculptures.
The next day I walked along the celebrated Rideau Canal locks. The last time I was here it was crawling with tourists and boaters who were patiently waiting out the long lift up or down. Now I had the place to myself.
Strolling along the Ottawa River was a bleak experience…all whites and browns and grays. Then I came upon a spot where someone had left flowers next to a small plaque of an angelic figure and another that said "Peace And Grace." I know there's a story there.
Had tea with the suffragettes near Parliament. Still waiting patiently for Hell to freeze over.
The last time I visited Maj. Hill's Park we laid down in the soft green grass and took in the sunshine. Things change.
And the snow leaves room for interpretation.
The mutant spider at the National Gallery was still assaulting that cathedral across the street. But it seemed to be moving more sluggishly.
We had taken a cabin on Otty Lake for the month of July. This time we had to hike in because the road was blocked.
In nearby Perth is Steward Park. When last we saw it, kids were swimming in the Tay River. Now not so much.
And downtown Perth has certainly changed.
Although we did meet a woman who was shoveling snow off the sidewalk and told us "It's very mild today." I love that sort of optimism.
I'm only saying that if you decide to cross that bridge, the snow presents new and infinite possibilities.
So don't be a grump. Enjoy the moment. Just be sure to dress appropriately.
It's a wonderful life. Get out in it. And leave footprints.
I'm a Floridian but I love the snow. So sue me, Canada.
Plus, I'm not the only one.
"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'" Lewis Carroll.
"A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things."
George R.R. Martin.
"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."
"With luck, it might even snow for us."
"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person" Sylvia Plath
"The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground"
Jamie McGuire.
"I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Rachel Cohn
"To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost."
Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
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"If I Ever Fall In Love Again:" A Kenny Rogers & Anne Murray's Classic Hit Duet
Honestly, after a heartbreak, we are sometimes afraid of opening our hearts to someone new. Why? That's because we are afraid that what happened in the past will happen all over again.
We all do not want to be in a place where we are put in a hopeless relationship, right? So, the best thing to do in order for us to avoid it is to love ourselves more because, at the end of the day, no one will save us but ourselves. Listen to this song from Kenny Rogers & Anne Murray called "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" to get inspiration on how the narrator opened their hearts again.
"If I Ever Fall In Love Again"
Via Kenny Rogers' Official Facebook Page
Recorded and performed by Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers. This classic love song was written by American songwriter Steve Dorff and Gloria Sklerov while American record producer Jim Ed Norman and Steve Dorff produced it. The song was then released in September 1989 as a single from Murray's greatest hit album Greatest Hits Volume II and Roger's twenty-first studio album Something Inside So Strong.
Via Anne Murray's Official Facebook Page
"If I Ever Fall In Love Again" is a love song that hit Canada and it ranked number 6 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart and reached number 9 on the Canadian Country Chart in. In the Philippines, the song became a number one classic hit.
About the Song
Scared, I guess I`m scared to fly
It`s such a long way down
And yet, if you`d just trust in me
I`m sure, I`d come around
And I know when you`re hurt
It`s hard to let someone inside
In your arms I feel I`m ready now to try
Via Youtube.com by Screengrab
If I may ask you a question, how would you know if that person is really into you? According to some, the person is really into you if that person has not left you through your bad and good times.
Nowadays, people tend to show you only their good side because they are afraid to show their true colors to avoid rejections from the society they are living in. However, try to think of it. Why not start accepting yourself first before allowing someone to accept you? At the end of the day, it is only you yourself that matters most.
Do not be afraid to show off your true colors because a true lover does not only love your physical appearance but also the personality that is in you. Thus, if the person you thought is the one for you suddenly left you hanging, then learn to accept and let go because a heartbreak sometimes leads you in finding the right one for you.
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Ear on TV: Week of Sept. 24
Folk music has always gone through cycles and mutations, and this week sees the release of three of the best of what is being called 'new folk.' Iron & Wine, Devendra Banhart and Jose Gonzalez all have new albums hitting the shelves tomorrow, and both Banhart and Gonzalez make appearances on Conan (Wednesday for the former, Friday for the latter).
Gonzalez, Swedish born and of Argentinian descent, is the quiet one, performing his hushed ballads on expertly handled classical guitar. His prior release (2003's Veneer,) rose in awareness a couple years ago through it's use on television, first with a Sony ad (featuring his brilliant The Knife cover of "Heartbeats,") and then on shows like The O.C. ("Crosses") and Friday Night Lights ("Storm"). His latest album (In Our Nature,) features more of the same quiet Nick Drake like acoustic sketches and we're sure to hear a few on this coming television season, namely Gonzalez' acoustic interpretation of the theme song to House (Massive Attack's "Teardrop").
Both Gonzalez and Banhart have South American ties (Banhart grew up, in part, in Caracas Venezuala) and are influenced by Brazilian bossa nova, but the similarities pretty much end there. While Gonzalez is often shy in his delivery, Devendra Banhart is certainly anything but. The gregarious singer dons make-up and elaborate clothes looking more like a gypsy troubadour then a traditional folk artist. His latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, plays genre hopscotch, hitting bossa nova, reggae and even Jewish doo-wop building upon a folk base. It's 16 songs clocking in at 66 minutes, but live it's one and done on Conan Wednesday night.
Not to be forgotten, this coming Saturday is also the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and for Kanye West is just the man for the task. It's considered an honor to be the musical guest on premiere night, so you can't say he hasn't won nuttin'.
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kanye West (REPEAT)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Will.I.Am
NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Rilo Kiley
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Sea Wolf
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Will.I.Am
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: The National
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Bright Eyes
NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Devendra Banhart
NICK: Yo Gabba Gabba: Nikki Flores
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Cary Brothers
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Raúl Midón
NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Björk
SUNDANCE: Live From Abbey Road: Shawn Colvin, Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons (REPEAT)
SYNDICATION: Live With Regis and Kelly: Tony Bennett
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Raúl Midón
IFC: The Henry Rollins Show: The Mars Volta
NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Jose Gonzalez
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Kanye West
tags: music, television, soundtrack, talk shows, rogue wave, kt tunstall, indie rock, spoon, indie rock, rhapsody
Posted by Shawn Anderson at 9/24/2007 02:40:00 AM
Labels: devandra banhart, jose gonzalez, kanye west, live music, talk shows, television
Gonzalez also covers Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy this time around. It's not on the album, but it is available as a single on iTunes.
12:10 PM, September 24, 2007
Yeah, the Down the Line single (also available on Rhapsody.)
Bumpershine said...
Rhapsody, of course. By the way, did you see The Family Guy Star Wars parody last night? I bet that was water cooler talk today.
Yeah, that got forwarded around late last week from this gizmodo post. I've only seen the youtub'd clip from that. We're already up to RealPlayer11 now, Seth! ;)


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Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Virginia Woolf #Age
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

<q>It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.</q> Virginia Woolf #Age

Virginia Woolf #Alone
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

<q>For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?</q> Virginia Woolf #Alone

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

<q>Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.</q> Virginia Woolf #Alone

Virginia Woolf #Amazing
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

<q>When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.</q> Virginia Woolf #Amazing

Virginia Woolf #Art #Nature
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

<q>Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.</q> Virginia Woolf #Art #Nature

Virginia Woolf #Beauty
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

<q>The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.</q> Virginia Woolf #Beauty

Virginia Woolf #Business #Truth
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

<q>Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.</q> Virginia Woolf #Business #Truth

Virginia Woolf #Dreams #Truth
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

<q>It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.</q> Virginia Woolf #Dreams #Truth

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

<q>Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.</q> Virginia Woolf #Dreams #Truth

Virginia Woolf #Experience
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

<q>Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.</q> Virginia Woolf #Experience

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

<q>Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.</q> Virginia Woolf #Experience

Virginia Woolf #Freedom
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

<q>To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.</q> Virginia Woolf #Freedom

Virginia Woolf #Friendship #Poetry
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

<q>Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.</q> Virginia Woolf #Friendship #Poetry

Virginia Woolf #Humor
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

<q>Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.</q> Virginia Woolf #Humor

Virginia Woolf #Intelligence
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

<q>There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.</q> Virginia Woolf #Intelligence

Virginia Woolf #Love
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

<q>One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.</q> Virginia Woolf #Love

Virginia Woolf #Men #Women
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

<q>Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?</q> Virginia Woolf #Men #Women

Virginia Woolf #Money
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

<q>Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.</q> Virginia Woolf #Money

Virginia Woolf #Peace
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

<q>You cannot find peace by avoiding life.</q> Virginia Woolf #Peace

Virginia Woolf #Power #Women
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

<q>Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.</q> Virginia Woolf #Power #Women

Virginia Woolf #Power
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

<q>Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.</q> Virginia Woolf #Power

Virginia Woolf #Relationship #Women
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

<q>If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?</q> Virginia Woolf #Relationship #Women

Virginia Woolf #Truth
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

<q>If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.</q> Virginia Woolf #Truth

Virginia Woolf #Truth #Women
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

<q>The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.</q> Virginia Woolf #Truth #Women

Virginia Woolf #War #Women
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

<q>This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.</q> Virginia Woolf #War #Women


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Rendered in 18K yellow and white gold.
Composition: White diamonds 0.89cts & brown diamond 2.43cts.
Composition: White diamonds 0.68cts & brown diamond 1.98cts.
Composition: White diamonds 1.16cts & brown diamond 3.09cts.