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Darkthaw
by Kim in Alternative History, Fantasy, Surnames A-H, Title A-H Tags: Alternative History, Arkham Reviews, Book Blog, Book Review, Darkthaw, fantasy, fantasy novel, Fiction, Kate A Boorman, Review, Young Adult, Young Adult Reviews
Please note that this review may contain spoilers for its prequel, Winterkill. You can read my review of this novel [here].
Darkthaw was written by Kate A Boorman and first published in 2015. It is the second part of a planned trilogy and carries on directly where Winterkill (2014) left off, following Emmeline and her allies as they travel away from the Settlement for the first time. The final part of the trilogy, provisionally titled Heartfire, is due for release later this year.
La Prise has finally arrived and Emmeline is excited about the changes that it brings. Finally, it's safe for her to travel through the forest to Matisa's hometown. However, she soon discovers that the journey is not going to be as straightforward as she first imagined. Tom is unable to join her, forced to remain to care for his ailing father. Kane is also reluctant to come without his mother and brothers, raising tension among the party for fear that they will slow everyone down.
However, the biggest challenges lie outside the walls of the Settlement. The world is not how Emmeline envisioned it. The Dominion has begun its gradual crawl into the West, keen on bringing law and order to the ungoverned land. Ahead of them come all manner of outlaws, all intent on seizing control for themselves before the Dominion arrive. In addition to these, Emmeline discovers the truth of the malmaci, not a spirit but a disease that thrives in standing water. Only Matisa's people know how to prevent the agonising death that this sickness brings.
Death and danger wait at every corner as Emmeline struggles to travel across the strange new lands and it's not long before her party is divided. Lost in the woods with only the bad tempered Isi and Kane's young brother for company, Emmeline battles to reunite her friends. However, she is also forced to face her own doubts. Is travelling to Matisa's home really worth risking the lives of everyone that she's ever cared about?
I think I'll start this review by just making clear that Darkthaw is a far stronger novel than Winterkill. It's really clear that it's taken what the prequel had set up and built upon it, expanding the world and its concepts tenfold. However, Darkthaw doesn't really stand on its own at all so I would really recommend that you read Winterkill before you pick up this novel.
At the same time, I find it hard to compare the two novels. Darkthaw really is a creature of another kind. The thing I loved most about Winterkill was its atmosphere. It was a really claustrophobic novel that closely followed Emmeline as she learned how her home came to be so cut off from the outside world. As this mystery is entirely revealed by the climax of the novel, I was uncertain how effective a sequel would be.
Boorman approaches Darkthaw as the logical next step in Emmeline's journey. She's uncovered the terrible truth at the heart of her community and stood up to the manipulative tyrants who formally oppressed her. Now, her future lies in the outside world. The story this time is a journey. It's a tale of adventure, challenging Emmeline's idyllic view of the lands beyond the forest. The world of Winterkill was very small but, this time, the scope of the story is staggering.
In this novel, the many grey areas within Winterkill's world-building have been filled in. Through Emmeline's experiences, we begin to see the state of the world. The story is roughly analogous to the settlement of North America, with the native First People being gradually driven out and exploited by the arrival of "pale" settlers. The encroaching Dominion with their superior weaponry remain an ominous threat on the horizon but the opportunistic outlaws are more frightening still. Darkthaw is certainly not a happy novel. While it's not graphic, the implications of what the outlaws are capable of are pretty horrific (especially where women are concerned). From start to finish, the novel is full of death and sickness and loss, yet somehow this combination makes for an incredibly compelling read.
But, for all the story's strengths, it still felt as though something was missing. I personally think that Darkthaw suffered from middle novel syndrome. Looking back on it as a whole, I realise that it didn't really have a plot in its own right. It existed purely to get Emmeline to where she needs to be for the final book. While the novel wasn't boring, it certainly felt more like a collection of events than a polished whole.
The novel also had a problem with things happening for plot convenience. At times, it felt as though Boorman had written herself into a corner and the only way out was through crazy random happenstance. At one point, Emmeline finds a horse in the middle of the woods that has somehow managed to escape from an outlaw camp (and not been noticed despite the fact it's cover in bells). At another, Emmeline's party is captured and has seemingly no chance of escape until a character who had not been mentioned for over two hundred pages suddenly appears to save the day. Let's also note that this character had managed to locate Emmeline when he didn't know where she was heading and she had a head start of at least six days. In a story that is otherwise pretty gritty and realistic, I found it hard to suspend my disbelief that far.
Yet the thing that made Darkthaw most interesting was Emmeline herself. In my previous review, I commended Winterkill for the development of her character. In this book, her development really was the best thing. I loved seeing her gaining strength and confidence as the story progressed, learning to stop criticising herself so harshly and believe in herself. I'm pleased to say that this growth continued into Darkthaw. Emmeline finds herself unable to truly break from the old virtues of the Settlement – Honesty, Bravery and Discovery – and constantly questions what they actually mean. Her narrative is riddled with doubt but she learns from her experiences. By the end of the novel, it's clear that she's a very different person from the self-loathing maid that she was at the beginning of Winterkill.
While the rest of the characters in the story vary in depth, there are two relationships with Emmeline that I found particularly interesting. The first is her friendship with Isi. From the beginning of the story, it is made clear that Isi holds Emmeline in utter contempt. He views her as a liability; slow, stupid and likely to get to get them all killed through her "selfish" desire to help as many people leave the Settlement as possible. It was inevitable that these two would wind up spending a chunk of the story reliant on each other. It felt really natural how their bond gradually strengthened, solidifying as they began to discuss the meaning of their dreams. I really do want to see where this friendship will go in the next novel.
The second relationship of interest was between Emmeline and Kane. While I still do find Kane to be a rather bland character, I felt that Emmeline's shifting feelings in the novel were very interesting. It was pretty clear from early in the novel that Kane had little interest in Emmeline's dreams and was only truly wanted to travel with her so long as she followed him where he wanted to go. I was really satisfied with the way that this panned out. Although it put a heavy emotional strain on Emmeline, it helped emphasise her strength of will. It takes a lot for a person to stand up for what they believe is right, especially if it means potentially hurting someone close to them.
Anyhow, I guess that's a good point for me to wrap up this review. All in all, it's clear that this story is getting stronger. While Darkthaw wasn't perfect, I did think it took the ideas raised in Winterkill and really developed them into something interesting. I'm rather looking forward to seeing where Boorman will take this story next when Heartfire is released later this year.
Darkthaw can be purchased as a Paperback and eBook on Amazon.co.uk
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PAGANINI – CARULLI – ROSSINI : ITALIAN SERENADES FOR CLARINET AND GUITAR – LUIGI MAGISTRELLI – BRUNO GIUFFREDI
Filippo GRAGNANI : Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro (Arr. for Clarinet) – Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 8: II. Tema con Variationi – Larghetto (Arr. for Clarinet) – Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 8: III. Allegro spiritoso (Arr. for Clarinet) – Niccolò PAGANINI / Adriano AMORE : Serenata in G Minor for B-Flat Clarinet and Guitar, MS 16: I. Larghetto – Raimondo CUBONI : Theme and Variations for A Clarinet and Guitar: Largo – Andante Tema con Variazioni – Antonio NAVA : Duo No. 3 for C Clarinet and Guitar: Andante grazioso – Rondo Allegretto – Mauro GIULIANI : Serenade for C Clarinet and Guitar, Op. 127 – Matteo BARBI : Five Little Notturni for C Clarinet and Guitar – Ferdinando CARULLI : Notturno for three C Clarinets and Guitar: Largo – Allegretto * – Gioachino ROSSINI / Adriano AMORE : Tarantella for B-Flat Clarinet and Guitar: Presto.
Luigi Magistrelli, clarinette – Bruno Giuffredi, guitare – * Laura Magistrelli & Cristina Romanò, clarinettes.
Italian Serenades for Clarinet and Guitar
The clarinet has been considered since ever one of the most melodical and singing instruments, able to express the inner feelings in a deep and romantic way also resembling the human voice. Both classical and early romantic composers understood these qualities and started to produce good repertoire for it, giving the accompaniment parts to different instruments. Not only the usual piano had been chosen but also some other instruments such as cello, viola, harp and guitar. The guitar can be considered the king of the classical and romantic Serenades, to be done by lovers or simply for singing melodical songs. The clarinet is without doubts one of the most suitable instruments to be coupled with guitar since it can sing beautifully and coping very well with the virtuoso passages present in any serenades. My aim was to put together interesting and unknown compositions for clarinet and guitar of the first decades of 19th century conceived by Italian composers, some already known but most of them totally unknown. A few of these compositions haven't been in origin thought for clarinet but according to a well established performance practice of the late classical and early romantic periods, some instruments with common characteristics such as violin, flute or clarinet (better if in C) could be indifferently used.
Filippo Gragnani was one of the composers who gave great relevance to the guitar repertory. Born in Livorno he belonged to a family of famous luthiers and musicians. He studied violin firstly and then devoted himself totally to the guitar becoming a great virtuoso. Ricordi and Monzino published in Milan some works of him. Filippo Gragnani is connected to Ferdinando Carulli because he was his pupil and friend and studied in Paris with him. The two composers dedicated to each other some guitar compositions. The Duo here recorded for the first time consists of a manuscript originally written in a quite awkward key for C clarinet and guitar, and this suggested me that it could be transposed and played in a more comfortable way on an A clarinet, also with a better timbrical outcome. It could be possible that it was in origin intended for violin or flute. We have here clear influences of the classical viennese style of the typical serenade form. This Duo-Serenade is a lovely piece with enjoyable themes and demanding variations for both instruments. Filippo Gragnani composed a good number of Duets, Trios including guitar and also a Quartet with violin, clarinet, two guitars and a curious Sextet with flute, clarinet, two guitars and cello. In this compact I put also two arrangements of Adriano Amore, well-known Italian clarinet scholar, of small nice and famous pieces, quite suitable to open and to conclude the CD: the melodical and sweet Serenade of Paganini and the brilliant Tarantella of Rossini.
Raimondo Cuboni was an amazing multi-instrumentalist able to perform on violin, viola, flute, clarinet and guitar! He was active as a clarinetist in Cagliari, where he was born, at the Municipal Theatre, and then in Modena where he lived and died, as a violist and clarinetist at the Court Theatre. He also was even first violin at the Balls Orchestra. From 1818 he taught guitar, mandolin, flute and clarinet at Collegio dei Nobili. The manuscript of his Theme and Variations for A clarinet and guitar is preserved at the Biblioteca Estense of Modena. Some virtuoso variations are developed from the short cantabile main theme, and addressed to both instruments, which can thus show off their peculiar qualities.
Antonio Nava was a guitarist, composer and singing teacher who was born and lived for all his life in Milano. He made concerts in Italy, France, Germany and England. Ricordi published for him four guitar Sonatas called The Seasons of the year. He also wrote a Method for guitar and various Duos. The small nice Duo for C clarinet and guitar No. 3 has been intended for flute or violin or, I would say, for a similar instrument.
Mauro Giuliani was one of the most significant guitar composers of all times, called the Paganini of the guitar for his great virtuosity. Paganini, Mocheles and Beethoven were also his friends. He lived in Vienna for some years and here he was influenced by the viennese classical form. He produced an endless number of compositions for guitar of any kind. The Serenade Op. 127 requires the flute or the violin, but again the C clarinet is a very good substitute to those instruments. This beautiful composition has such a rich number of pleasant themes with slow and virtuoso demanding variations for both instruments, to be considered one of the best pieces composed by Carulli. On the opposite, the little five Notturni of Matteo Barbi could be intended as unpretentious but, in a way, small gems perhaps written for didactical aims or destined to amateur players. The short Largo introductions of these five Notturni are followed by brilliant lighthearted movements. We don't have actually many information about him, only that he was active in Rome as guitarist and clarinetist. At the Casanatese Library in Rome are preserved his five Notturni, a Symphony in B flat for orchestra and a Concerto in D for two guitars and orchestra.
Ferdinando Carulli was in origin a cello player but later he started to study the guitar as a self-taught person and became a real virtuoso on his instrument. He made his success in Paris where he moved after being acclaimed during his performances in that city. He wrote a large number of pieces for guitar including Concertos with orchestras, Duos, Trios, Sonatas, Etudes and a celebrated Method. The small Notturno here recorded was intended for two violins, flute and guitar and we replaced the three instruments with three C clarinets, also suitable to create an ideal atmosphere of cantability around the soft guitar accompaniment in the initial Largo and then in the witty character of the allegretto with a passionate final part.
Luigi Magistrelli
Clarinette - Cor de basset
AMORE Adriano
BARBI Matteo
CARULLI Fernando
CUBONI Raimondo
GIULIANI Mauro
GRAGNANI Filippo
NAVA Antonio
PAGANINI Niccolò
ROSSINI Gioacchino
Giuffredi Bruno
Magistrelli Laura
Magistrelli Luigi
Romanò Cristina
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I want to make a website that lets you schedule when this happens.
I'm running this website on a Raspberry Pi with Apache.
My question is how can I program the raspberry pi that it gets information on what time to visit the HTTP link and turn on the lights from the website
I Do not Know if this is done on the website through PHP or on the server through python or something else
Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated.
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How to receive and store user's schedule?
You first need an HTML form that user can specify the time for the command to run. The tricky part is to store the scheduled job somehow. PHP do not have a long running process for job scheduling. You need some per persistent storage.
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How to run the scheduled job?
As stated before PHP doesn't have a long running process for running scheduled job. Linux system have cron to run things regularly. You can schedule it to regularly run a PHP script. Then in the PHP script, you can implement logic to actually run the stored schedule job.
You may use some scheduler library to help you with it.

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10. The form factor of the sinusoidal waveform is?
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Spielberg's Lincoln: flawed, but worth seeing
The following interview was conducted especially for Redline. Mark Lause is a professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and a longtime active Marxist. His books include The Secret Society History of the Civil War and Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. He sat down with Ben Stockwell, a Cincinnati activist and member of the International Socialist Organization (USA), to talk about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which opens in New Zealand on January 31. Special thanks to Ben and Mark.
Ben Stockwell: Starting out, you've written extensively about the period in which the film takes place; what are your initial thoughts about this film and its accuracy?
Mark Lause: This movie is basically the story of a singular legislative process in 1865. Specifically, it's about how the president, congressmen, political parties, and lobbyists piloted what became the national elimination of slavery through its first stages to becoming the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – that is, its proposal to the state legislatures as a constitutional amendment by a vote of Congress. Most of my own work focuses on the activities and ideas among working people, radicals, African-Americans, Native Americans, and others, particularly those on the western end of the war and farthest from Washington. To say the least, these tended to be under-represented in the councils of power.
Their voices tell the vital back story which the movie hints at but does not develop. To be fair, of course, people produce movies to make money by entertaining us with a story, not to enlighten us about history.
Given the story the movie opted to tell, they took a few dramatic liberties, where they imposed anachronistically modern ideas of the presidency on the story. In trying to put and keep President Lincoln at the centre of the story, they misrepresented him in several important respects. While he became well-loved after he was harmlessly dead and out of the way, he was doubtlessly, at the time, the most hated president the country ever had.
Nor did Lincoln have the kind of immense powers the movie implied. The modern president can use drones to order the arrest, torture or execution of anyone anywhere in the world, including citizens of the U.S. In contrast, Lincoln acted as commander-in-chief to order a general advance of the Federal armies across the entire front of the war in February 1862, only to be virtually ignored by almost the entire military. When they began mustering African-American units into the army in early 1863, his War Department ordered the generals to commission black officers, but that, too, was simply ignored almost to the end of the war.
Most notably, the movie implies that Lincoln kept a Confederate peace offer secret in order to get this amendment passed. That this futile exercise took place early in 1865 reflected the genuine war weariness on both sides. However, after having spent several hundred thousand lives and the treasure of what had been the country's ruling class for generations, representatives of the secessionist government could hardly consider any peace that would not recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation. And, after similar costs, the most war-weary and conservative Unionists would have found this unacceptable. When asked to permit such peace feelers, Lincoln had no problem going along with it.
I thought the movie also introduced an anachronistically modern fetish that reduces substantive issues of policy to mere symbolism. Perhaps due to the prominence of media, appearances tend to be everything and words trump policies. This reached an absurd point in the movie where radical congressmen regaled Thaddeus Stevens for not arguing for immediate racial equality in debate with Democrats over the continuation of slavery, as though he was under some political or moral obligation to discuss something that wasn't on the agenda.
This marred and trivialized a well-dramatized Radical smashing of the Democratic position on the floor of the Congress.
Ben: So, what was this missing narrative about the end of slavery?
Mark: The national elimination of slavery actually grew from what happened outside the formally-designated institutions of power. Large numbers of African-American slaves engaged in the largest rolling strike in American history, leaving their work at the first possible opportunity to seek freedom. They did so increasingly by seeking the safety of the Union Army. Contrary to a lot of assertions, the Army did not respond in a uniform and coherent way to this. The higher up in the ranks, the more you encounter conservative regular Army officers with no sympathy for slaves or abolitionists. Some of these certainly follow the letter of the law and returned runaway slaves to their owners. However, the rank-and-file soldiers increasingly saw slavery as an asset of the Confederacy. Some certainly shared the abolitionist sentiments of their communities, especially those from New England, upstate New York, and the upper Midwest. Many more developed abolitionist sentiments because of their direct human contact with runaway slaves. In early 1861, sections of the Union army had begun to support emancipation in practice.
In keeping with its general pragmatism, the Lincoln administration left local commanders a lot of leeway in these things, and basically made assessments over time as to what seemed most likely to work. By the middle 1862, Lincoln had already decided to issue an Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in those areas in rebellion against the Union. That did not keep him from publicly responding to Horace Greeley in his often-quoted letter that if he could save the Union without eliminating slavery he would do so. In fact, the decision was already made both to proclaim emancipation on this level and to justify it as a war measure.
However the Emancipation Proclamation did not eliminate slavery in those areas that were not recognized as being in rebellion against the Union as of late 1862. Starting with the Cherokee nation in early 1863, governments of slaveholding peoples loyal to the Union began taking action themselves to eliminate slavery. This reflected tremendous social conflicts within those societies. The old rulers, the army high command, Washington officialdom, rarely sympathized with these moves. The army so hated emancipation in those places that it actually dissolved two regiments in the county where I grew up – in Missouri – for helping slaves get to freedom and it did this in the face of a Confederate military threat. The 1864 election turned on the future of slavery there, and the Radicals swept to power. The movements of Southern Unionists themselves made a Thirteenth Amendment particularly necessary to settle the question.
More than that, though, by 1863, white Unionists in New Orleans were passing resolutions calling for black suffrage. In this, they, too, faced opposition from Washington and the local military bureaucracy, but launched an experiment in interracial politics of immense importance.
Ben: Is this the most compelling time in Lincoln's life to highlight with an epic movie?
Mark: The emergence of the Republican Party, and Lincoln's role within it, would make a fascinating and instructive movie. People usually forget that the American two-party system, at that time, consisted of Whigs and Democrats, and Republicans represented an insurgent third-party force. In 1860, Lincoln won the national election only because the Democrats split along sectional lines, while the remnants of the Whigs in the South ran as a Constitutional Union party. This represented the only time in American history that those governing the country did not successfully close ranks against the success of a popular-based third party.
All this took place against the backdrop of a shooting war in Kansas over attempts to introduce slave labour into the territory. In response to that, the persistent radical calls for a new party actually gained purchase across the upper Midwest and Northeast. However flawed and faltering, Republicans became an effective instrument for some of the most radical changes that took place in American history.
Emancipation represents the most dramatic of these changes; Republicans made the initial efforts nationally to challenge the white supremacist foundations of American civilization. They also adopted measures like the Homestead Act, long advocated by working-class organizations as a means of getting land to the landless. They introduced a graduated income tax. Though not unknown, they introduced paper money, which made capital so readily available for farmers and small entrepreneurs that the battle over the future of "greenbacks" provided a touchdown for social politics for decades to come.
Ben: Before the interview, you described Lincoln as "the great pragmatic radical of his time". What was the makeup of politics – whether it be about being a Republican or Democrat, or being in or out of Washington – in that period and where did Lincoln fit in?
Mark: Despite the fact that Lincoln had read law and become an important figure in Illinois politics, he had been a poor boy from the back country and always remained something of an outsider to power. His first bid for public office back in the middle 1830s included his advocacy of women's suffrage. A decade later, his principled opposition to the US war on Mexico cost him his only term in Congress. Lincoln came to conclusions that would allow him to be friendly to abolitionists like Owen Lovejoy, while remaining disinterested personally in small organizations with good positions that he thought too marginal to do anything about them. The woman suffragists who knew him rightly believed that he supported the idea, but his experience had inspired a belief that it would be futile for a politician to take a position in advance of what the voters wanted. He became quietly involved in the new Republican Party in the middle 1850s but he avoided a prominent role until it became clear that it could win elections.
His law partner, William Herndon, described Lincoln as a "fatalist," who had read Robert Chamber's book anticipating Charles Darwin, and thought of change in evolutionary terms. He once told Herndon that it wasn't the job of a politician to push progressive change, but to move in the wake of public opinion, nailing changes in the public mind into law. In his mind, this is what he was doing on slavery, and we should appreciate the sincerity of his position, which he demonstrated by acting on it, which proved successful on some issues. We also have to appreciate his ability to adapt his evolutionary ideas to what became revolutionary times.
That said, Lincoln strove – perhaps as only a self-conscious outsider would – to fit into that politicians' world. He had no interest in figuring out how to go about making that kind of change in public opinion, and thought about institutionalizing those changes only in the most formalistic and legalistic sense. Considered as a whole, for example, the Reconstruction Amendments did not entirely end involuntary servitude or assure black suffrage or equality before the law. Generations later, it took mass social movements to do these things.
Ben: At one point, Lincoln asks two telegraph operators if they feel that they are fitted to the time they find themselves in. Earlier, you mentioned anachronisms in the film; were there other parts of the film that seemed out of place and how does the film serve the historical moment we find ourselves in?
Mark: I thought that particular exchange a very good reflection of the Civil War period. In contrast to an abolitionist who'd argue in eternal absolutes about liberty, Lincoln saw the times as placing very specific kinds of demands on us, and he also believed that the times shape us and our capacities. His rhetoric was so popular because it reflected a general sense that the nation faced an ordeal of expiation for the sins of slavery and greed. It is simply inconceivable to me that anyone in a position of power today would ask themselves if they are fitted to the times.
In contrast, we are spoon-fed assumptions today that there exists some kind of default to which everything naturally wobbles, regardless of the individual injustices and systemic problems. That's all that the general use of "left" and "right" mean, some wobbling that increasingly comes back to the centre and stability. No need to think much about what's happening in politics or getting any more involved in mobilizing your peers, because the people in charge, however imperfect, are naturally the best to be there. Once this set of assumptions is in place, you can have the bottom fall out of the global economy and address it with fairy tales about the free market or you can accept sophistries as a responsible response to global warning. Somehow, we'll muddle through somehow and things will get back to normal, because our time isn't really that different from what our parents' time had been. This contemporary view is incompatible with much soul-searching as to whether we are fitted to the times.
Ben: Obama has been compared to Lincoln extensively during his presidency; do you think this movie is timely in that regard?
Mark: I've heard that, too, and from the makers of the film. I have no idea what they could possibly be talking about. Lincoln announced his expansion of Unionist war goals to include emancipation in September 1862, as part of his bid to get a mandate from voters in the November elections. His scrupulous concern about getting a mandate was unusual in the day, but the notion of using the election to get a mandate to pursue a particular policy seems to play no role whatsoever today. Obama made only the most feeble kind of statements about what progressive measures he would do when he ran for president, but he hasn't actually met a single one of them.
If voters repudiated the lawlessness of the Bush administration in 2008, Obama entered office with a declaration that they wouldn't investigate, much less prosecute, any action against those who consciously and deliberately lied the U.S. into two wars. Despite occasional anti-war mutterings, Obama has now expanded that into acts of war in half a dozen nations. Voters baulked at the unconstitutionality of Bush's so-called Patriot Act, but Obama's expanded it. Obama talked about universal healthcare coverage, but deferred to special interests in excluding from consideration the single-payer option which most members of the public favoured. For years, he's been openly courting a deal with the Republicans to start slashing social security and other benefits. You couldn't have a president more favourable to the oil interests and hostile to anything conservationist, in the old sense, much less anything substantive to minimise global warming. The list goes on.
If Lincoln approached the job like Obama, you have to wonder if we'd still have slavery. Most strikingly, I suppose, the comparisons are made between Lincoln's pragmatism in terms of suspending habeas corpus and taking other war measures with Obama's institutionalised repressive apparatus. Lincoln certainly felt that he had to keep his generals placated, sometimes accepting deplorable concessions to military government, repression, the use of forced labour, etc., but he believed there were and should be limits as to what the government could do. Nothing the Lincoln administration ever did approached the claimed executive authority of the Obama administration. The railsplitter who only read law had a far greater respect for precedent than the law review fellow.
Ben: How did the film portray the radicals of the time?
Mark: It was only concerned about the Congress, of course, and the filmmakers won merited praise for their portrayal of Thaddeus Stevens. However, the inane depiction of the radicals arguing with Stevens after his brilliant dressing down of George Pendleton tended to present radicals as self-righteous dunderheads unengaged with the realities of getting the Thirteenth Amendment passed. In contrast, they gave us a Stevens that was willing to compromise and trim his principles, admirable but precisely because he wasn't really a radical, but just a kind of liberal candied cherry perched on top of a liberal muffin.
Similarly, the implication that Stevens had contempt for the opinions of the people in general did not reflect the actual views of a man who won elections, got other people elected, and always saw himself as an advocate of government that should be "republican," that is, representative of the people.
On these matters, the generations of Hollywood's institutionalised anti-radicalism still oozed into the screen. But the entire orientation of the movie – to describe serious and fundamental change – as coming from the top of society down reflected this.
Things are the way they are because the rulers of society benefit from them. Things don't change because the rulers want to continue benefiting from the way things are. So, the way we get change is to make the status quo untenable, as we did with slavery, with the treatment of women as property, or the prosecution of labor organization based on whatever interpretation of conspiracy their lawyers manage to sell each other this year.
After doing this, the radicals of the 1860s found themselves as maligned, misrepresented and forgotten as widely as the rulers could arrange. Much the same happened to those of us who were through the 1960s. Official memory is never going to celebrate its critics.
Ben: What can people interested in politics learn from the movie?
Mark: What we should learn is that even the best mass entertainment carries a message, often not on the surface. This one frames emancipation as an administrative question for lawyerly bargaining and maneuvering, while the reality was that the people had already made the decision. Lincoln was indisputably "great" as U.S. presidents go, but not for the reasons readily apparent in the movie, which was good on style, but murky as to his reasoning.
That said, the movie was certainly worth seeing if it provides discussion and gets people interested in exploring these questions more deeply.
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Spielberg's Lincoln « the irish revolution says:
[…] Over on the other blog I'm involved in, there is an interesting interview with US Marxist historian Mark Lause on Spielberg's Lincoln. Check out: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/spielbergs-lincoln-flawed-but-worth-seeing/ […]
Interview: Spielberg's Lincoln: flawed, but worth seeing | Dessemundo says:
[…] A few weeks ago, I interviewed Mark Lause, professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, about Speilberg's Lincoln. Mark's expertise is crucial for understanding the movie and the ramifications it has for our time. Check it out here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/spielbergs-lincoln-flawed-but-worth-seeing/ […]
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Interesting movie, great discussion. Face it: what would we do without historians?! ~Howard Beeth


I sketched this character based on a dude I saw on the street roughly and went straight for the smaller/deformed 8 bit version of him, and I don't know what it is, but I really don't like the sprite. I made a walking animation him walk before I decided I really didn't like his design. I then changed the design slightly so he was capless, but I still hated it so just gave up all hope. It's just interesting to me how easy it is for a character design to completely fail. I mean, am I crazy or is the art just not good?
Also, in other news Game Maker development is going slowly, but surely. Brad is walking and can punch air (no collision yet)… but that's about it for now. Progress is progress though so I can't really complain.


Rotating the tires is easy; the mechanic will rotate the front tires to the back, right to the left.
Rotating the tires is easy; the mechanic will rotate the front tires to the back, right to the left. By adding weights to the wheel it helps the weight of the tire and wheel assembly to be evenly distributed around the axle, to become balanced. Rotating and balancing your tires help to increase the life of your tires and the driving performance of your car.


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Len Sunukjian '64 heard the call to vocational ministry while earning a master's in education and a teaching credential at Stanford. The youth pastor at Peninsula Bible Church got him involved with Young Life, which awakened his interest in ministry. A social science major at Westmont, Len finished at Stanford before attending Dallas Theological Seminary. He met his wife, Diana, in Dallas, where they both worked with Young Life.
Len's career in ministry includes 12 years leading programs and teaching at Mt. Hermon Christian Conference Center and 17 years pastoring two churches in Santa Barbara: Grace Church (now Shoreline Community) and Chapel of the Hills (now Hope Community). He became ministries director for the Missionary Church Western District in 2000, working with pastors in five western states. Today he serves pastors in full-time ministry through FishBowl Ministries, which he joined in 2013.
Diana raised their two sons, Jason '95 and Luke '97, and went back to school to become a marriage and family therapist. She worked in the Westmont Counseling Center for seven years and helped cofound Hope Counseling Center in Santa Barbara.
Both sons appreciate the close friendships they developed at Westmont. Jason and his wife, Heather Hippenhammer Sunukjian '01, live in Santa Barbara with their two children. He works for Lynx Property Management, and she is an occupational therapist at Cottage Hospital. Luke and his wife, Melanie, also settled in Santa Barbara with their four kids. He teaches mathematics at Providence High School, and she is a Director with Trades of Hope.
When Len and Diana planned their estate, they set up a trust that includes Westmont and organizations important in their lives. They see it as a way to give back, especially as their sons received financial aid. "We all had such a fabulous experience there," Diana says. "Len and the boys benefitted from the strong academic program, the great teachers and the wonderful student life programs. We appreciate Westmont."
Reproduced with permission from the November 2014 Toward Tomorrow Newsletter.
For more information about including the college in your revocable trust, please contact the Office of Gift Planning at (805) 565-6058 or giftplanning@westmont.edu.


On Dec. 19, the country was again in slow mode to condemn a new series of austerity measures as the International Monetary Fund OKed a 34-billion-euro loan.
The Greeks are not throwing in the towel. Once again, the country was partly paralyzed by a 24-hour general strike to condemn the government's economic austerity policies. Government offices and transportation were in slow mode. The strike call was issued by the two main trade union confederations: Adedy for the public sector and GSEE for the private sector. It was to be the year's last strike.
A national work stoppage was organized from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the private sector. Civil aviation workers joined the strike. Airplanes were grounded from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Subways were not running in Athens during the morning rush hour, triggering massive traffic jams.
The demonstrators also condemned a future tax reform which will hit the middle classes.
The strike came as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) freed up a 34.3-billion-euro loan installment, which had been frozen since June. The condition for this aid was the slashing of 9 billion euros from the budget in 2013. On Dec. 18, the ratings agency Standard and Poor's announced it had raised Greece's ratings by six notches, from "Selective Default" (SD) to "B-". For their part, the Greeks are refusing to tighten their belts another notch.


George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are quite the globetrotters!
After spending early May in the United States and Mexico, the couple reunited in Italy Tuesday, May 27, where they were photographed having a candlelit meal at Venice's Ristorante da Ivo.
George and Amal were reportedly joined by friends, including Clooney's bodyguard.
"The mood was relaxed and informal," a source tells E! news. "Everyone was enjoying wine."
Surprisingly, Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton also dined at the restaurant, but they couples didn't interact with one another.
George, 53, and Amal, 36, left the restaurant holding hands around 11:45 p.m. local time.
The actor and lawyer are reportedly planning to exchange vows in September. According to People, they are hoping to find a secluded wedding venue to tie the knot. They'll follow it up with a party near Amal's Lebanese hometown.


I had a friend in college whose life's goal was to move to France, don a beret, stomp on grapes, and make wine for a living. Though I tried to tell her that there was more to wine-making than purple feet, and that berets were so "Clinton Administration," she ignored me and dreamt of grapes anyway. Though I did not share her winemaking aspirations and decided instead to dream of something much more realistic, like a marriage proposal from Brad Pitt, she did get me thinking about the process, and she got me thirsty for knowledge. This eventually led me to discover different types of wine require different recipes, with one of the most complex belonging to Port.
Prior to actually reading about making Port, I was under the impression that all it involved was people stepping on grapes in bare feet. Because of this, I often worried that I would be drinking Tinta Barroca, and find floating in my glass a human toenail or perhaps a foot corn. But, in truth, port-making is a lengthy, complicated process.
Port wine, also known as Vinho do Porto, Porto, or Porto wine, is a fortified wine that comes from the Douro Valley in the northern lands of Portugal. Produced in Portugal since the mid 15th Century, Port gained popularity in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703. While this treaty did war-related things reserved for history books, in regards to wine it caused England to become an adopted family for Port, with Portugal being the biological parents.
There is no easy way to make Port: no kind comes in a packet with "just add water" instructions. Instead, the process initially involves picking grapes, smashing them, and then placing them in an automated tank where they are further chopped into tiny pieces. After remaining in this tank for nearly twenty-four hours, the grapes begin to ferment and their sugar climbs the food chain, turning into alcohol.
With Port wine, after fermentation begins, timing takes over. Once half of the grape's sugar has been converted, fermentation must be stopped. In order to do this, the wine is mixed with clear brandy (a strong alcoholic spirit distilled from wine) containing a proof of 150. The alcohol in the brandy kills the yeast in the wine, causing fermentation to cease. The ending result is a sweet wine that is about 20 percent alcohol. It is typically served with desserts, cheese, and, of course, desserts made of cheese.
Though there are many styles of Port - White Port, Ruby Port, Young Tawny Port, Aged Tawny Port, Vintage Character Port, Late Bottled Vintage Port, Traditional Late Bottled Vintage Port, Vintage Port, Single Quinta Vintage Port, Crusted Port, and Garrafeira Port - most styles fall into two broad categories: Bottle aged or Cask aged. Because doing the tiniest thing different will result in a different taste of wine, the two Port processes greatly dictate the flavorful outcome. While Bottle aged Ports generally behave like wine on Botox, keeping their color and their fruitiness well into maturity, Cask aged Ports lose flavor quickly. They are ready to drink right away.
The best Ports to know, the ones to introduce yourself to before sending them down your esophagus, are the Taylor Fladgate Tawny Port, W. & J. Graham's Tawny Port, Smith Woodhouse Vintage Character Port, Niepoort Vintage Port, Quinta do Infantado Single Quinta Vintage Port, and Adriano Ramos-Pinto Late Bottled Vintage Port.
As demonstrated, the process of making Port is not as simple as one might imagine; it involves a little more than simply visiting a vineyard, and being met with thousands of grapes shouting, "Pick me! Pick me!" And, it involves more than taking off your tennis shoes and having a smashing good time. After a careful, lengthy process, the smashing good time will follow.


Jerald Melberg Gallery presents for the first time in North Carolina a survey of paintings and collages by Esteban Vicente (1903-2001). A member of the first generation of abstract expressionists, Vicente was part of a movement that would achieve worldwide influence. During the course of his celebrated career, Vicente experimented with color and space and explored the possibilities of collage. During the 1920s, Spanish-born Vicente immersed himself in Madrid's cultural scene, including the Generation of '27, a group of poets, artists, and other intellectuals interested in the avant-garde. After exhibiting for several years in Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid, Vicente moved to New York City in 1936, a city that would soon be at the center of the western art world. Vicente's powerful, gestural work is recognized as being of central importance to post-war American painting.
Included among his many teaching positions were those at Black Mountain College, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, Princeton University and Yale University. In 1991, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia awarded him the Gold Medal of Honor in the Fine Arts, Spain's most important honor in the arts. In addition to the Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente in Segovia, the artist's work can be found in the permanent collections of such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.


Feb 9, 2017 Sanjay Mehrotra has stepped down from the company's board of directors, effective immediately. Mehrotra, co-founder and former chief executive officer of SanDisk Corporation, joined the Western Digital board in May 2016 upon the completion of the company's acquisition of SanDisk.
June 8, 2016 — Western Digital ® Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) ("Western Digital" or the "Company") today announced that it has received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender offer" by TRC Capital Corporation to purchase up to 2,500,000 shares, or approximately 0.89 percent of Western Digital's outstanding shares of common stock as of the date of the offer. TRC Capital's offer price is $42.95, 4.53 percent lower than the closing price of Western Digital's shares on May 27, 2016, the first business day prior to the date of the offer.
29-4-2016 I will now provide an update on cost savings initiatives as a result of the integration of our WD and HGST subsidiaries….We now expect to achieve total savings of eight hundred ($800) million dollars on an annualized run rate basis by the end of 2017, versus the six hundred and fifty ($650) million dollars estimated previously….We continue to estimate cash expense to achieve these savings to be approximately eight hundred ($800) million dollars. We now expect sixty percent (60%) of these expenses to be incurred in 2016 and the balance in 2017.
As of January 1, 2016 , total compensation cost related to unvested stock options and ESPP rights issued to employees but not yet recognized was $118 million and will be amortized on a straight-line basis over a weighted average service period of approximately 2.4 years.
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Effective October 21, 2015, in connection with the Company's planned SanDisk merger, the stock repurchase program was suspended. The Company did not repurchase any shares during the three months ended January 1, 2016 . The Company repurchased 0.7 million shares for a total cost of $60 million during the six months ended January 1, 2016 .
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Make the cream sauce according to the recipe. Saute the mushrooms in 2 tablespoons butter until just heated through; add the parsley and toss. In a buttered baking dish, combine the spaghetti with half the cream sauce, the mushrooms and parsley.
To re-heat casserole, allow it to come to room temperature and stir in about a cup of milk to rehydrate the sauce as the pasta is absorbent. Cover with Parmesan and bake at 350° F. for 30 minutes then broil the top to brown.
In a heavy saucepan over medium low heat, melt the butter and stir in the flour. Cook the roux until it is golden and frothing.
Stir in the milk and chicken stock and stir until smooth and thickened. Cook for about a minute and add the remaining ingredients. Heat through and remove from heat.


There are a few possibilities why you lost dial tone. Here is a checklist of things you can check.
1. Make sure your internet is working. If you internet is not working your phone will not work because VoIP requires high speed internet in order to work.
2. Make sure the telephone is plugged into the appropriate port, Phone 1 or Phone 2.
3. Disconnect and re-connect the telephone cable between the adapter and telephone.
4. Power cycle your phone adapter by unplugging the power wait for 1 minute and plug the power back into the adapter.


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Rare earth elements are a group of 17 speciality metals used in high-tech products such as smart phones or wind turbines. Due to the lack of internal supply the EU needs to import more than 90% of these metals, mainly from China. As the demand for rare earths is expected to grow, the EU aims to improve access to these metals, reduce their consumption and improve extraction conditions in Europe. To help secure the supply, the European Rare Earths Competency Network (ERECON) was established.
European end-user industries and rare earths supply trends and challenges.
The final ERECON conference took place on 16 October 2014 at the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. The event was an opportunity to present the main findings of the ERECON network. It brought together over 150 participants.
Key findings of the network have been compiled into a draft Report that will be available soon.


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U.S. News: Major U.S. news stories, from the Presidential Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike
Updated February 28, 2017 | Infoplease Staff
Major U.S. news stories, from the Presidential Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike
by Jennie Wood
2012 News of the World
Science News of 2012
2011 Month-By-Month Current Events
2012 People in the News
2012 People in the News Quiz
2012 Places in the News Quiz
2012 Pop Culture in the News Quiz
2012 Arts and Entertainment Awards
The biggest story this year for the United States was the 2012 Presidential Election. Other events like the teachers' strike in Chicago, the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing Obama's Affordable Health Care Act, and several state-wide battles over gay marriage threatened to have an impact on the election. Meanwhile, the nation continued to be shocked by the fallout over the Penn State scandal as well as be deeply affected by the killing of Trayvon Martin and the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado. The 2012 General Election turned out much like the election in 2010, with the Democrats maintaining control of the Senate while the Republicans still dominated the House. As 2013 approached, a still divided Congress was faced with resolving Federal Budget issues in time to avoid a possible fiscal cliff. Read about these 2012 news highlights and more below.
Obama stays in the White House while Democrats keep control of the Senate and Republicans remain in charge of the House
Look back at the close, intense 2012 presidential election campaign
Chicago Teachers' Strike
Teachers from the nation's third largest school district go on strike
The U.S. Economy and the Fiscal Cliff
The still struggling U.S. economy may go over a fiscal cliff
Petraeus Scandal
General Petraeus resigns from the CIA after his extramarital affair is uncovered by the FBI
The U.S. and Gay Marriage in 2012
Same-sex marriage is a reoccurring issue throughout 2012
Gunman Kills Twenty Children in Connecticut
The shooting reignites the debate on gun control
U.S. Supreme Court Reviews the Affordable Health Care Act
A nation's highest court reviews the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act
Colorado Movie Theater Shooting
More people are killed and wounded than in any other shooting in U.S. history
Occupy Wall Street Anniversary
Checking in with the nationwide protest one year later
The Population Shifts in the United States
According to Census data released in 2012, white births are no longer the majority
Aftermath of the Penn State Child Molestation Scandal
Sandusky receives his sentence
Trayvon Martin case
The killing of Trayvon Martin sparks national outrage
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in place while hoping to ;nd talent later. Companies have begun to recognize the advantages of project management and invest in developing new talent, says Bojan Knezovic, CAPM, PMP, head of the PMO o;ce at Citi's Chile Technology Services Center, a PMI Global Executive Council member in Santiago, Chile. But that's a longer-term solution. Right now, "there are people that have 20 or 30 years' experience and are skilled, but not in project management. So everyone does the best they can, but they often fail," Mr. Knezovic says.
But if Chile's government can go beyond creating ambitious goals and a carbon tax by working to ensure that private industry, permitting regulations and local stakeholders all move together in the right direction, it could become a project management model for other South American countries. Conditions aren't quite where they need to be, but they appear to be turning a corner, says Johannes Dietsche, general manager of TRITEC-Intervento, a Santiago-based solar energy development company.
Developing renewable projects in Chile "is really complicated compared to Europe," Mr. Dietsche says.
;e problem is clear, yet forest preservation e;orts are complicated by the 1. 6 billion people whose livelihoods depend on forests, including cutting trees down for wood and pasture lands. To address this quandary, in March 2014 the United Nations called for an annual US$30 billion investment in tropical forest conservation through REDD+ projects, which allow developed countries to o;set their carbon emissions by funding forest conservation projects in developing countries—such as Brazil and Indonesia— where deforestation is most egregious.
;e U.N.'s recent call to global action is as ambitious as the stakes are high.
tourism and sustainable commodities, creating jobs and increasing rural incomes.
Deforestation is one major cause of climate change.


I am so excited about seeing him in the gown. I will give you some pictures of him in it as soon as I get the gown. Thank you for all your help in making this day even more special for Stephen and our family. It was a pleasure doing business with you. I will keep in touch.
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Our patient had a previous strip surgery prior to contact us.
During consultation, we noticed poor growth in recipient area with micro scarring and bad angle.
In the donor area, he had a thin linear scar of 3mm wide and 13 cm long.
He had coarse hairs and good donor density.
His goal was to fill in and recreate a new hair line and because he likes short haircut, to hide the donor scar.
We recommended grafts both the frontal zone and the scar by FIT shaven technique.
Results in the front was still poor and we modify our plan to do small sessions with injections of Acell to improve results .We already did 2 sessions and we will present this case later on if needed .
Our focus today is the results we get in the donor from scar grafting.
The scar surface was about 3.9 cm2 (13cm long/3mm wide) .Knowing that grafting at low density (beneath 30 Fu/cm2) lead to better yield, we decided to graft at 25 Fu /cm2 .The total number of grafts in the scar was 101 grafts.
What lessons do I want to share here?
Scar of 3mm is acceptable and it was also flat .But the contrast with the skin color and the anatomy of the scar (linear) attracts our sight and reveals it.
At the end it bothers the patient because it doesn't look natural.
Grafting the scar improved the scar color and just with low hair density, we broke the contrast and it looks pretty much invisible.
We also noticed FIT /FUE scars also known as white dots .They are present in this case .Their anatomy blends easily with the surrounding area and it doesn't attract our sight .Therefore it looks natural and normal and no one will pay attention to them .They are present but not noticeable .And our patient can have a short haircut as he wanted.
I haven't seen too many photos like these. The results speak volumes. Thanks for sharing doc. I read somewhere online that you will be in the UK. Is it true that you will come to the UK sometime in the next couple months?
You are right, his scar was probably one of the best, a lot of strip patients could only dream to have a strip scar so thin.
Well the density of the graft placement was 25.8cm2 so that puts the hair density or the number of hairs per graft at about 3.70.  The mid-occipital region of the scalp typically averages high hair density (180cm2 to 190cm2). From our observation, the yield of growth in linear scars from FUT a.k.a strip procedures isn't always ideal when follicular density is above about 30cm2.
This is an acceptable result considering the uniformed appearance and condition of the scar.  Our approach was to simply blend the FIT in perfect fashion.  It's not always easy for patients to hide or explain a strip scar.  The majority of patients are fully aware of this disadvantage prior to the procedure but a few of them aren't.  A lot of patients have the intention of wearing it longer in the back so the scar doesn't pose any issues.
Not very often are we influenced with strip scar augmentation in such manner. Although not perfect, the improvement is noticeable even after one hundred plus FUE by FIT extractions.


Cupcakes for who you love!
While surfing youtube tonight… I found this video that I can TOTALLY relate to. I love my I.T. guys and when they help me out I take them cupcakes. ijustine does just that for Twitter. Isn't that the best way to someone's heart? LOL Enjoy!
Do you students ever experience anxiety over performing in front of the class? Earlier this month I worked with Anne Shealy at Hand Middle School to try and combat student anxiety with performance. She decided she wanted the students to perform their monologue by recording it as a podcast. The students really enjoyed recording because they were able to use an iPod to do so. I asked Anne to reflect on the process and here is what she had to say.
Podcasting is something that I had wanted to try for several years now. I subscribe to several podcasts and felt that there was definitely potential for using podcasting in the classroom. I found the chance when my students wrote monologues in response to Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt." Students analyzed a character from the story and then wrote a monologue from that character's point of view. Students performed them in class, but I didn't see the level of performance that I was really looking for. One boy stood lifeless in front of the room to read his while another girl just begged to go ahead and read hers because she wanted to get it over with. Of course, there were those who love the stage and did a great job hamming it up in front of the class.
By offering the students the opportunity to create a podcast, I was hoping that I would reach some of these students who might not perform well in front of a crowd. I was hoping that they would take risks with their performances that they might not have taken in front of the class. Though I have not heard their finished products, I have hopes that many of the students did just that. The boy who had once stood lifeless to present his monologue was completely engaged with the project. He had received an iPod for Christmas and loves to talk about it. I was able to watch him record his monologue and I definitely saw him move into character and bring life to his presentation.
One of the most interesting parts of this project that Ms. Sansonetti and I both noticed was the level of engagement for all of the students. By using this technology, kids were turned on. They listened intently to instructions regarding how to use it. They knew this was a privilege and they did not want it taken away. They knew that we are planning to post these on the school website so again; they stepped up their level of performance so that they could show their best work.
"It was fun because we got to use a cool modern device. It forced me to think about how I presented my monologue and if I read too fast and if I changed my voice well enough to get across how my character was feeling at that time." Lauren F.
"I thought the podcasting was easy and fun. Doing that made me read with expression which I would not usually do." Katie L.


Black Mount Logging Inc. from Squamish, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Surrey for a License of Occupation for Log Handling and Storage situated on Provincial Crown located at Folger Creek in Howe Sound.
A log dump, a location where a logging road meets the water and logs are dumped into the water, is proposed to be build north mouth of the creek. The location can be viewed on the maps that were submitted with the application.
This is a proposal for a 10 year Licence of Occupation for a log dump in the Folger Creek area.
The site will be accessed by the water or network of forest roads.
Infrastructure may include reconstruction of previous dump facilities, installation of floating dump skids, installation of booming grounds, installation of a dock and barge ram, and installation of three anchors in the water.
Although the company is applying for a log dump at the end of an existing logging road (built during last century logging), the BCImap site does not show any pending cutblocks in the Folger Creek watershed.
It is very unlikely that the company applying for the log dump and the agency reviewing the application are aware of the herring spawn at this location, and the areas adjacent, as we have just started providing detailed information about the spawn locations.
If the logdump were to be built at the proposed location it would destroy existing habitat for Herring spawn, and possibly kill Herring due to soil, and oil- and grease residue (from logging equipment) entering the water at the site.
Why is there a need for a log dump to be build if no logging plans have been submitted for the Folger Creek watershed to the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
And if such logging plans were submitted, to have the log-dump moved to a location where Herring spawn would not be put at risk.
Video of Herring Spawn at Folger Creek showing extreme thick spawn.
Take notice that Black Mount Logging Inc. from Squamish, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Surrey for a Licence of Occupation for Log Handling and Storage situated on Provincial Crown located at Folger Creek in Howe Sound.
2) By mail to the Senior Land Officer at 200 – 10428 153rd Street, Surrey BC V3R 1E1.
Comments will be received by the Ministry of Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations until January 15 2016. Comments received after this date will not be considered.


Doesn't happen to all of us.
In his essay on Julius Caesar's writings he says: "Masterfully concealed in The Gallic War and The Civil War is a philosophy of human relationships that only maturity can comprehend or even recognize. The masterful concealment, of course, is an essential part of the maturity."8 The same thing might be said of Rexroth's own writings. For my purposes in this book I have tended to cite his most explicit pronouncements, but if you read him through you will see that he usually deals with the "big things" with a light touch, and often leaves them implicit, to be discerned between the lines.
Having said that the little old Quaker sat down and next week appeared at another meeting. It certainly did help me, probably more than any other words in those hideous years.
In their deepest and most enduring form such "mystical" experiences are often associated with meditation and spiritual discipline; but Rexroth implies that the same awareness comes to all of us at moments, though we may scarcely know what is happening, and it is strangely easy to forget as we once again become caught up in the compulsive turmoil of the world.
"At the core of life," he says in his essay on the Tao Te Ching, "is a tiny, steady flame of contemplation."18 Even without knowing anything about it, people instinctively return to this "quiet center." It is always there, even amid the most turbulent situations; but some scenes are especially conducive.
To dry some more. . . .
This was no doubt a real sequence of events, but at the same time it seems to suggest a parallel inner settling and illumination — and it does this in a manner truer to the "unselfing" character of the process than if he had said I had such and such experiences. As in many of the great Chinese and Japanese poems, a state of mind is conveyed through the lucidity of what at first appears as merely an objective nature scene. The outer landscape corresponds to the inner one, the macrocosm to the microcosm.
To touch the last galactic dust. . . .
The truest illumination, he says, arises as a side-effect of a way of life, not as an experience sought for its own sake.
He didn't think much of the idea of using of psychedelics as a short cut to mystical vision — at most he conceded that they had given many young people their first hint of the "interiority" repressed by middle-class American culture. In this context he often quoted St. John of the Cross: "Visions are symptoms of the defect of vision." For Rexroth the transcendent religious experience is not a vision of some different, supernatural world, but a reawakened awareness of this one.
Rexroth liked to say, "Religion is something you do, not something you believe." He had a fond interest in traditional folk-religious rituals and festivals of all sorts, to the point of extolling even their most threadbare modern vestiges. "I don't care if it takes Daddy a year to pay off the bills for the First Communion Party or the Bar Mitzvah or the wedding. For a moment there has been at least a token acknowledgment that even the poorest and most humdrum life is of transcendent importance, that no individual human being is insignificant."33 In this spirit he himself participated in various religious communions — Buddhist, Vedantist, Quaker, and even Catholic.
Needless to say, he was opposed to practically everything about the Catholic Church except its traditional rituals; but like many people he seems to have taken part in those religious practices that appealed to him and simply ignored the aspects that didn't. "Today we have large sections of our most literate population voluntarily adopting the religious behavior and beliefs of more primitive communities for purely pragmatic, psychologistic, personal reasons."35 His Catholicizing was mostly within Anglo-Catholic communions, which offer the rituals while rejecting the central dogmatic authority of the Roman Church.
Of a distant cry . . . .
Rexroth stresses that Buber's view is not a sentimental preaching of "sharing" or "togetherness" ("our current Togetherness is simply the massing of frightened cyphers"), nor an advocacy of collectivism as opposed to individualism. "Individualism understands only a part of man, collectivism understands man only as a part."47 Both Buber and Rexroth sharply distinguish collectivity (a collection of units) from genuine community (an ensemble of persons in direct living relations with each other).
Rexroth is always enthusiastic about these ethical or "world-affirming" mysticisms, always quick to praise and encourage any tendencies toward joining contemplation and community, toward integrating religious life with ordinary life in the world. Mysticism has, of course, more often been used to provide a justification for ignoring ethical responsibilities and social realities. The experience of transcendent unity has been taken to imply that all the suffering and turmoil in the world is only illusory and need not concern us. The paradoxical statements of mysticism (transcendence of duality, "All is one," etc.) may be appropriate figures of speech to hint at an indescribable experience, they may even be true in a certain sense, but it is confusing different levels of reality to conclude that they are also true in the ordinary sense. The simplest refutation of this sort of transcendental sophistry is to note that even those who preach it take some aspects of worldly life quite seriously (notably the money they charge).
End of Chapter 2 of Ken Knabb's The Relevance of Rexroth (1990). Reprinted in Public Secrets.
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The largest iPhone factory in China is in boiling, a total shutdown was imposed in Zhengzhou
After violent protests and leaked video clips documenting the state of panic and terror pervading the largest iPhone factory in central China's Zhengzhou city, local authorities have imposed a general shutdown in many districts of the city to fight the Covid-19.
Hundreds of workers joined Protests at Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China. The rare scenes of open dissent marks an escalation of unrest that has become a symbol of danger build-up in frustration with the country's ultra-hard COVID rules https://t.co/tkhDAfeeAD photo.twitter.com/ZjYdHPAuwR
Authorities also confirmed that downtown residents are no longer allowed to leave thearea without submitting a negative result for the test Corona and obtain official permission from local authorities to do so, and have advised residents not to leave their homes "except when necessary."
More than 6 million
Furthermore, he explained that these restrictions will apply from midnight Thursday to Friday for five days to more than 6 million people, or almost half of the city's population.
This decision, issued last night, Wednesday, obliges all residents to reside in eight areas of the city to undergo a daily test "Pcr" and for all five days of general closure.
現場最新狀況,大白情況有點不妙啊🤔🤔🤔 photo.twitter.com/iKJ6PGBH4n
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Hundreds of workers demonstrated
The move came after hundreds of workers demonstrated at the city's largest US iPhone factory, owned by Taiwanese firm Foxconn, rejecting the country's tough restrictions to stop the epidemic from spreading again.
While the video clips, released in the past few hours on social media Chinese and said to have been filmed in the factory, showed thousands of people wearing masks and confronted with policemen wearing white isolation suits with riot shields in plastic.
As other scenes showed, dozens of employees were beaten.
As the #Foxconn_Unrest hashtag spread, Chinese authorities in later they blocked him!
An unprecedented number
And the National Health Office announced today, Thursday morning, that the daily toll of new infections in Corona has reached an unprecedented number since the virus began to spread about three years ago, despite strict measures imposed by the authorities, including thorough examinations and restrictions on movement.
Interestingly, China, with a population of more than 1.2 billion people, is the only major economic power in the world that is still trying to stop the spread of the virus in the country by shutting down entire cities and placing those who have been in contact with patients in strict quarantine.
As the world's second largest economic power adheres to the implementation of the policy zero Covid by imposing lockdown measures, large-scale testing and strict quarantine to control the spread of the epidemic, a policy that has been successful in prime stages of the spread of the virus.
But the recent surge in infections is evidence of the resilience of this policy, in one moment in which officials are trying to avoid a lockdown in whole city, as happened in Shanghai for two months in April!
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