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Jeremy Renner Born 1971-01-07 Modesto, California, USA
Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971, height 5' 10" (1,78 m)) is an American actor and musician. Renner appeared in films throughout the 2000s, mostly in supporting roles. He came to prominence in films such as Dahmer (2002), S.W.A.T. (2003), Neo Ned (2005), 28 Weeks Later (2007), The Town (2010), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the 2009 Best Picture-winning war thriller The Hurt Locker.
The following year he appeared in the critically acclaimed film The Town. His work as "James Coughlin" in that film received a nomination for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor plus nominations in the Supporting Actor category at the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes.
Renner has portrayed Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in 5 films so far as the character- Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Renner will appear as Hawkeye again in a Disney+ series about the character. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeremy Renner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies Starring Jeremy Renner
A Little Trip To Heaven
The Immigrant
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Bookmark this Lesson. In this lesson we will take a look at a few legato techniques aimed at the more experienced player. We will practice both 2 finger and 3 finger legato patterns.
After learning the initial pattern we will then take it up and down the fretboard and across the strings.
The number one thing to concentrate on when doing purely legato playing is your fret hand positioning. You will notice in the video lesson how my thumb is placed in about the middle of the back of the neck which makes my fingers point straight up to the ceiling.
Take your time and just practice the smaller pattern exercises first before tackling the technique of moving them across strings and up and down the fingerboard.
Don't forget to download the PDF TAB download for this lesson.
Try not to let your fret hand get to tight, if you feel a little bit of pain stop and shake you hand out a little or maybe take a short break. You will notice that when you come back to the guitar you will feel stronger and looser.
And last but not least... HAVE FUN!!
Man I love Joe Satrianni and I liked this lesson very much!!!What about making a lesson about his style?It would be awesome.
Love what u r doing! Your legato lessons r clear, inspiring and informative. Bravo!
I have been playing over 45 years, But I never learned tapping and legato technique. Your lessons are just what I needed to begin learning this style. Thank you for explaining how it works. Awesome lessons.
Thanks for the cool feedback Victor!
hey man, i want to know is thunderstruck by ac/dc good for legato?
I do know that a lot of people feel Angus played "Thunderstroke" legato but in reality he is picking it.
You have been a literal "Life Saver" for my guitar playing!
I use 09-42 strings. Is it going to help my legato playing to use a higher gauge?
Hey Robert! The lighter the string gauge the easier it will be to do all of this legato work.
Possibly related to string gauge, or just technique. I find when I'm on the high E, when I'm flicking that sometimes I flick the string off the edge of the fretboard. I don' t feel like I'm flicking especially hard, but it still happens. Like on the 12-8-10 section should I be applying pressure with my index slightly upward to counter my flicking? Or, would a higher tension help this? I'm using 9s.
Hey Sean, this is a common problem and from my experience usually has more to do with the guitar than the player.
I had the same issue with my strat after getting some fret work done. I then shifted the neck angle slightly to give the high E string more room. However, that decreased the amount of room the low E string had so it caused the same issue however on the low E string string side this time.
The final solution came from when I was reading about how Neal Schon had his signature Les Paul setup. He had them create a nut that had a slightly shorter distance between the strings which provided a lot more room below the high E string and above the low E string. I had a new nut made for my strat with a more narrow string spacing and that finally solved the problem.
Back to my pinky though, my finger just isn't perpendicular to the fretboard. Is that something I need to work towards? It has a bit of tilt, and I know when I'm hitting the 8B that I'm also touching the E with it sometimes. I try to make sure it's cleared before hitting the 5E, I'm just wondering if I need to try to get more towards a 90 degree angle with everything except the index.
Sorry for the long post…thanks for your help!
Hey Sean, the muting of the B string with the tip of your index finger when you are playing the high E string is the proper technique. Try to make it seem like you are just barely touching the bottom of the string. You don't really want to use your palm to mute an adjacent string. It isn't accurate enough.
The palm's job is going to be to mute strings 3-6, but the index finger should always mute the string directly above when playing scale licks, and of course, any strings below the string you are playing if you move to lower strings.


My peach section of the exhibition displaying prints, Giant Ron, and the launch of my new brand, Inner Peach Design.
Giant Ron: about 4ft tall, made entirely out of triangles, and hung from the ceiling.
Sold some original work to amazing people.
I wanted my section to feel like a welcoming space where you can sit or lay down and stare at Giant Ron.
Our entire "Art Survival" class with professor Andrea Harris.


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Behind Al Cook's "Necropolis": Blood Test.
Whenever I get an illustration commission I occasionally get asked to provide 'idea sketches' to show what the finished piece will look like. This type of request usually results in me turning down a lot of artwork job offers because I almost never ever produce any 'idea' sketches and if I do, they never really resemble the eventual illustration and I tear them up just as soon as I'm finished with them. Besides, I think that sample and 'idea' sketches could subliminally put someone off of your work.
Is that crazy and paranoid?
If it's not crazy and paranoid it's probably arrogant of me but I'd rather turn down an illustration job than waste my time churning out sample sketches just to please someone who doesn't have the faith in me to just let me get on with things.
That said, sometimes I do produce 'working' sketches for my horror comic-strip to help me place where characters and objects will be in the panels and today I'm going to break my own rule and show them to you.
All of these working sketches come from the "Please Give Blood" installment from my comic-strip, Al Cook's "Necropolis" and as you will see, these were never meant to be seen…
* Working Sketch:
* Eventual Illustration Panel:
* Eventual Illustraion Panel:
* Working Sketch #1:
I decided to upload these scribbles because aside from my own, I like to see work in progress. Be it a building being built or a half finished song, I'm interested and so I hope those sketches were of some interest to you.
You can view "Please Give Blood" in full HERE.
* Al Cook's "Necropolis"
* Graham Humphreys: "Zombie Flesh Eaters" Artwork
* Sketches For Nobody #6
Al Cook's "Necropolis".
Macabre.
Sketches & Scribbles.
Sketches For Nobody.
www.alcooksnecropolis.wordpress.com
on December 18, 2012 at 14:26 Leave a Comment
Tags: Al Cook, Al Cook's "Necropolis", Artwork, Artwork In Progress, Biro Pen, Blood Test: Behind Al Cook's "Necropolis", Brokenglasseye, Comic Strip, Drawing., Glasgow., Horror Comic, Horror., Illustration., Please Give Blood, Working Sketches
Al Cook's "Necropolis": Please Give Blood.
Hi folks, this is the latest entry in my macabre Glaswegian comic-strip, Al Cook's "Necropolis".
It's called "Please Give Blood" so please do!
As always, the main place to view Al Cook's "Necropolis" in all of its complete and black biro penned, sinister hand-drawn wonder is HERE.
* Footnote:
I sent this "Please Give Blood" strip off to the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service asking them to get behind the comic etc… and they said:
Many thanks for your enquiry.
I'm afraid this is something we will not be able to support.
Leigh.
Leigh Taylor.
Donor Recruitment and Publicity Officer
Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
25 Shelley Road
G12 0XB
Tel: 0141 357 7740".
That aside, please do give blood. It's very very important and not painful at all.
FACEBOOK LINKS:
* Give Blood For Scotland
* Cut Loose (Complete Version)
* Cracking Open A Cold One
* REDRUM
Anatomy.
Psychopaths.
on November 9, 2012 at 14:57 Leave a Comment
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Books That Are Better Than The Bible…
There is hope for all of you rubbish aspiring authors yet!
All of those classics of literature and more can be purchased from Abebooks which is HERE.
* Make Mine A Harlot
* Happy Birthday To Me?
* The Alternate Mr. Men Books
Weirdos.
What The Fuck!?
on July 24, 2012 at 13:49 Leave a Comment
Tags: Abebooks, Books., Booms That Are Better Than The Bible, Strange Books, Weird Books
Photography: Water Experiments.
Here are some photos I took of my massive face back in 2004 when I actually had the time to spend entire days messing around with cameras and glass and ink and lots of water.
There's quite a few of these pictures and you can see them all on my Facebook page.
Tags: Art., brokenglasseye@hotmail.com, Experimenting At Home, Glass Photography, My Artwork, Photography Experiments, Photography., Self Portraits, Water Experiments
Buckfast In The New York Times.
Did you know that Buckfast Tonic Wine once got a mention in The New York Times last year?
Aye well it did and if you come from anywhere in Lanarkshire like me then you might find this article a wee bit funny.
The New York Times.
Published: February 3, 2010.
COATBRIDGE, Scotland — What is it about Buckfast Tonic Wine that makes it so alluring to consumers and yet so repulsive to politicians?
Buckfast is considered a regional favorite in Coatbridge.
Perhaps it is its special caffeine-and-sweet-wine recipe, which allows overly enthusiastic consumers to be tipsy and bouncy at the same time. Perhaps it is its array of snappy nicknames, including "Wreck the Hoose Juice" — hoose being a Scottish pronunciation of house — or its exotic provenance as the product of wine-making Benedictine monks at an abbey in England.
Whatever the cause, Buckfast has emerged as a symbol of Scotland's entrenched drinking problems at a time when it is urgently debating how to address them. "For a large section of the Scottish population, their relationship with alcohol is damaging and harmful — to individuals, families, communities and to Scotland as a nation," the Scottish government said in a recent report.
Buckfast does not seem to help. In a survey last year of 172 prisoners at a young offenders' institution, 43 percent of the 117 people who drank alcohol before committing their crimes said they had drunk Buckfast. In a study of litter in a typical housing project, 35 percent of the items identified were Buckfast bottles. And the police in the depressed industrial district of Strathclyde recently told a BBC program that the drink had been mentioned in 5,638 crime reports between 2006 and 2009 (the bottle was used as a weapon in 114 of them).
A spokesman for J. Chandler & Company, which distributes the drink, said that Buckfast accounted for less than 1 percent of the alcoholic beverage market in Scotland and was being unfairly singled out. Nor, he said, is wine-making a sign that the monks of Buckfast Abbey have strayed from the teachings of St. Benedict, an accusation recently leveled by an Episcopal bishop.
"It's always wise to remember that Jesus turned water into wine," the spokesman, Jim Wilson, said in an interview.
Britain as a whole has finally accepted that it has a drinking problem that goes beyond fears about binge drinking. It is also realizing that the measure enacted in 2005 to address it — allowing pubs to remain open 24 hours a day, to avoid the last-minute rush — has failed. But if the problem is grave in England, it is worse in Scotland.
On average, Scots age 16 and older drank the equivalent of 12.5 quarts of pure alcohol each in 2007, the eighth highest rate in the world (In England, the figure was 10.5 quarts per capita). The government estimates that alcohol misuse costs Scotland $3.6 billion annually in health and social problems and loss of productivity.
A multipronged bill wending its way through the Scottish Parliament would, among other things, force retailers to charge a minimum price per unit of alcohol, ending the special deals that have helped reduce its price by 70 percent in real terms over the last 30 years. But opposition lawmakers oppose the bill, in part because it would have no effect on Buckfast, which already charges more than the proposed minimum amounts.
Legislation to curb drinking is of particular interest here in Scotland's old industrial heartland, or the "Buckfast Belt," where Buckfast is considered a regional favorite. The drink is so ubiquitous in this working-class town, not far from Glasgow, that some people call it Coatbridge Table Wine (others call it "loopy juice," or, adding their own twist as they channel Travis Bickle, "Who're you lookin' at?" wine.) Buckfast is no newcomer to the market, having become popular in the first half of the 20th century, when it was prescribed by doctors for down-in-the-dumps miners and sold in drugstores.
One person's helpful mood improver, though, is another's worryingly effective stimulant. The drink is 15 percent alcohol by volume, a bit stronger than most wines. Also, each 750 milliliter bottle contains as much caffeine as eight cans of Coke.
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is considering banning caffeinated alcoholic drinks, which can make people uninhibited from the alcohol but also hyper, anxious and combative from the caffeine and sugar.
"It'll blow your head off," said James Grimson, smoking a cigarette outside a pub near the center of Coatbridge recently, speaking of Buckfast.
"It's why a lot of fights happen around here on Saturdays," said Umair Ansar, who works at a newspaper store in town.
The drink is favored by young, rowdy men with a taste for making trouble — "neds," they are called in Scotland. Hard-core aficionados drink two or three bottles in succession, right down. "They say it doesn't taste the same out of a glass," explained a passer-by, Martin Rooney, 48.
"It goes straight to your head," he said, "but it's not my cup of tea." (Mr. Rooney noted that his cup of tea is half a bottle of vodka a night.)
Buckfast comes in an attractive bottle illustrated with a friendly looking bunch of grapes. It would seem to be an acquired taste. To the neophyte sampler, it evokes a thick, sweet wine — sherry, perhaps — fortified with cola and Vivarin.
"Have you ever tried Benalyn cough syrup?" asked Sharon Macauley, a sales assistant at G & B's Newsbox general store, which does a brisk business in Buckfast.
In walked 30-year-old John Miller, ready to procure his daily dose, a bottle and a half.
Mr. Miller was hard-pressed to articulate what he likes about Buckfast. "You get used to it," he said.
He said that Buckfast had been unfairly singled out as the cause of all the drink-related ills in Scottish society. "You see people with lager and vodka who are fighting just as much," he said. "It has nothing to do with Buckfast."
Five years ago, Cathy Jamieson, then Scotland's justice minister, said that Buckfast was "related to antisocial behavior," and called on liquor stores to limit or ban sales of the drink.
But Ms. Jamieson's message was diluted by the boisterous presence of a group of local youths, who surrounded her, chanting, "Don't ban Buckie! Don't ban Buckie!" as she spoke. And the plan backfired, anyway; regional sales of Buckfast soared.
It's hard to pick a favourite part of that story but I liked how they described the bottle as attractive and illustrated with "a friendly looking bunch of grapes".
As oppossed to evil looking grapes?
Evil alcoholic stabby grapes?
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Alarmed by a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pilot program that aims to bring down the cost of drugs to patients, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have lined up against it, citing concerns ranging from rationing of care to reduction in rural patients' access to affordable providers. But a Public Citizen report released Monday shows that many of the members of Congress who opposed the pilot are also bankrolled by the pharmaceutical and health-products industry—major opponents of the proposal.
The "Pharma's Orders" study by the nonprofit watchdog group examines the contributions received by the 310 members of Congress (240 Republicans and 70 Democrats) who signed two letters, as well as by the 124 members who did not sign either. (One letter opposed the CMS Medicare Part B demonstration project; a second expressed "concerns" about it.) Signers received 82 percent more in contributions during 2016 than those who didn't sign.
"The contrast here is pretty stark and shows a case where influence is pretty clear," says Rick Claypool, a Public Citizen research director and the author of the report.
The signers received a combined total of more than $7 million from the pharmaceutical and health-products industry, with an average of $23,344 per individual. Those who didn't sign either letter got nearly $1.6 million from the industry in total, with an average of $12,789.
It's not only the signers who are top recipients of pharmaceutical money. Many lawmakers who have otherwise come out publicly against the measure have also been targeted by the industry.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has criticized the proposal for potentially driving seniors in rural areas toward hospital treatment, which is more costly. So far this year, Wyden has received $365,441 from the pharmaceutical and health industry. Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who called it "an ill-conceived experiment" that amounted to human research, received $130,100. Senator Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat who questioned why it was so large and expansive, received $226,310. And Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and one of the plan's fiercest opponents, received a massive $693,377 from the industry.
The vast majority of the industry's contributions have gone to Republicans, but Claypool believes this case reflects the current make-up of Congress, which is 56 percent Republican. Historically, the pharmaceutical and health-products industry has tended to steer most of its congressional contributions to members of the party that effectively controls Congress.
The pilot program proposed by CMS Deputy Administrator Dr. Patrick Conway would test how changing the drug-reimbursement system affects doctors' prescribing behavior. Critics charge that the existing system incentivizes doctors to prescribe more expensive drugs.
Currently, Medicare reimburses physicians the average sale price plus 6 percent for each drug that they prescribe. The proposed measure would lower this percentage to 2.5 percent, and replace the average sales price with a flat payment of $16.80 per drug per day.
"In a way, we're trying to reduce monetary influence in this process just as we're trying to reduce it in the political process," says Claypool.
Following the volley of criticism from members of Congress, Conway told the Senate Finance Committee that CMS intends to go forward with plan, albeit with modifications.


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Searching in the local quality of movement in contemporary dance and its local references.
It is all about recalling the needs of moving/dancing and expressing with our bodies.
It's the need to feel Alive/Active in a culture and society that forgot about its own poetry and beauty.
It's the need of not being censored or self censored while dealing with religiously sacred issues and social surrenders; thus, to question the contemporary society and it's social, political and religious intensity.
It is to question our Intimacy, Individuality, Memories and Believes.
The dance that interests me is the one when a gesture can resume a context, a single move can recall memories, a choreography can rewrite the stories, our own stories.


Thread: Events Organiser Applications + Improved Payment Scheme!
Events Organiser Applications + Improved Payment Scheme!
Me again with a fresh new thread, aren't you guys lucky?
The last few versions of payment schemes have been somewhat unnecessarily complicated for everyone involved, most importantly ME so to make it easier for everyone (and in fact, far more profitable for you!) I'm changing the entire process. No more points-for-tasks, no more trying to convert reward tiers into prizes, just simple and reasonable coins for your efforts!
- minimums met, thank you!


English is the most demanding language in all over the world in todays date. A person with fluency in english has more scope of getting jobs in MNCs or any other private sectors. Also, fluency in english gives a wider opportunity in your career.
English act as a medium of communication among almost all the nations of the world. It becomes very difficult for a person not knowing english to communicate with a person from a foreign country.Here is why english is an important language all over the world.
This does not imply that learning english will support linguistic chauvanism. When it comes to linguistic chauvanism , its we who supports it by thinking a language to be superior than others.
Feeling proud on ones language is good but thinking ones language to be superior than others leads to linguistic chauvanism.
Now coming into the thing that how to improve your English?
First thing you should keep in mind that nobody becomes a brilliant with in one day it takes time. So, same thing applies in your case too. Believe in yourself and work hard accordingly. You will surely get what you want.Don`t get into depression from negative things. Know your strength , you can do whatever you want.
Next is you have to read grammer books. Only attending english classes won`t help you much. You have to take a step from your side also.
Read more and more. Read novels, articles, newspapers, magazines,books, etc. These will not only keep you update with the happenings all around you but will also improve your level of language.
Write as much as you can. Write stories, articles, diairies, etc. Give your feelings your own words. This will enhance creativity in you. Creativity does not comes by birth. It is developed over the period of time.
Don`t worry about your marks in English exams. It will surely improve with time.
The main thing is reading and writing . These are the only key elements which will help you to improve your language.
Another thing is there are many people who have a very good level of english. But they face problem while speaking. They can write in their very level but when it comes to speaking in fluency they get sturck.
The problem is we all usually think in our mother tongue or any other language with which we are mostly familiar with. We don`t think in english. This may seems to you curious but this actually happens if you take notice.
When we are thinking in some other language and try to speak in english , it takes time in our minds to translate . And that is why it becomes a hurdle for us to speak so fluently.
Some times you might have wondered how these foreigners speak so fluently? The answer which we get is that its their mother tongue and that is why they have this kind of fluency.
We all too can have that kind of fluency if we too can have that environment. But the thing is every time it won`t be possible . Then we have to create that environment. You can listen to english songs, you can watch english movies, ets.
But the main thing which you should keep in mind is thinking in english. This is the main thing which we all skip. You have to try thinking in english all the time . Then only you will be able to speak fluently.
Reading , writing , thinking and speaking are the key elements which you should follow. Other than these you should study grammer as much as you can. Even if you can`t take english classes then also you can learn it on your own.
Always keep a dictionary with you. Whenever you are struck with any word, look for the meaning in your dictionary. Also, when you know the meaning try to use it in your daily life. This will help you to learn new words .
English is a language in which daily new words comes into existence. So, there is no end. This is one of the easiest language in the world to be learned and is the most highly demanded language in all the MNCs all over the world.
A person thinking of joining an MNC should work on his language because even if he is elegible for the job then too he may get rejected because of his language.
All the best. I hope if you follow the aforementions then you will surely improve your language.


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Just having a day. This made me feel better although I'm not sure why.
It will forget the joy outside the window.
Wonderful Osiris! Echo's a large Wow! Cool imagery.
Oh Urnieleh, that was amazing. It's been so long since any of us have expressed ourselves in such a way. Good on you for being the first to reclaim the glory! And what a glory it was.
The phrases you used were so wonderful and so alive. Not only are the emotions behind your words heart-wrenching and real, but the images you give are ones that most anyone can relate to. Particularly during the yummy season of winter! Well done to you! I adored your usage of the window, the snow, and the coming of the spring. It's very original too because most people would use the winter as cold and bleak and the spring as life. You see things through blessed eyes. I also loved how you linked the reality of the seasons to thoughts in the mind. It's not just the footsteps physically melting, rather it is them fading in your memory. Just beautiful!
I understand how this would have made you feel better. Thank you for reminding me what a wonderful escape the world of poetry can be. Thank you for sharing this amazing part of you with us.
Mwa! I love you lots!!!!
Patches - Thank you, I've been reading some of your work and I must say how wonderful it is. Having you here to read my work is fantastic and greatly appreciated.
SJ - Clearly a kitten of few words. I will say thank you for them all.
Rachy - You darling kitten dear. What a fantastic review of this piece. Can you believe a year of poetry is all locked up inside. Who knew it would take a little ache of the heart to jump start it again. You know what a crap memory I have so this all seemed logical. I love you doll!!! Mwa!!
Will I be as passive?
So I read and re-read that poem. I kept trying to decide what words I could possibly say that would do it justice. Frankly, I was amazed by it.
You managed to, in only a few words, write about such a sensitive and true subject. It happens everyday in everything that we do; that strive to reach the top, be better than another. Be it in school or work or just general life. While we are up there, at the top, we feel good. Being up there makes us forget those lower than us on the ladder. It makes us disregard people who have helped us. Struggling to stay afloat in the ocean of life people often use others as buoys.
I loved your usage of the ladder. Saying how they 'can press it hard into your spine'. They have the ability to hurt so many people and sometimes they don't realise they are doing it or they just don't care. They don't see the people that are on the bottom of the ladder holding it up.
the glory of reaching the top"
They are in a position where they could help others reach their goals. They are blessed in one way or another with the ability to save.
but then they don't. Often it doesn't make sense. Could be greed. Could be a blind eye. Deep down, they know that one day another ladder may raise higher than theirs, yet for the moment they feel bigger.
All your words are so beautiful. Each has it's purpose and reason for being there. Your writing is fantastic and really makes one think about life and the way people work.
Your ending was the most powerful of all. I loved how you showed that they may feel bigger and better because they have reached that rung but to all of the other people looking up at them, they are small. Being important to someone is not something that can be bought. You can't buy love. All that they achieved was distancing themselves from potential friends and alliances.
Beautiful poem Urnieleh. I must say that I am so glad you started writing poetry again. Well done to you!
I love you! Keep up the great work!!!
Rachy - You really are a doll. There is great frustration in most of my current work. I'm sure that is farely easy to read. I adore your insightful replies. Thank you for taking the time to savor the words and move me equally with your appreciation. It makes writing worth it. Mwa!!!!
So on to the latest piece.
Your rights will not wrong.
The stain of your rotten Christian fruit.
That's all for today people. I hope you enjoyed it.
That was different.. I liked it! Great poem.
Here's something I wrote shortly after the death of a very dear friend.
A someone... to someone... Somewhere.
On the ground, in a square?
sewn with needle and thread.
I'm spread across this place.
Filling this, by a mile.
My life is measured eight feet by eight.
I'm a square on the ground, on the wall.
So many squares to be sewn.
Yet another Man, Woman, Child !
Urn of Osiris"All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the Web of Life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
The noise in my head.
To checkmate and stuff what frightens the frightened.
Hi! Words really cant express how much I enjoy your poems! I mean, the description alone is like...i cant even do my poems like that! I hope you write more soon! Thanks for writting! Thanks for sharing!
AKA: Spike is not mine 87 :) I dont want him...I want Tara!
Amazing. I don't know if you intend for your poems to have political undertones, or I'm just putting them there. Anyway, I really enjoyed the last two poems. Very well done.
I see that your fics aren't the only wonderful thing you write! So powerful.
My favorite part of the last one.
I'm feeling slightly out of sorts these days. Here's a slice of that.
Thanks to all of you that read.
Numbness is the wake of your slow manipulative stirring.
Can I tell you how much I love your writing? How I missed your thread I will never know but I'm glad I finally caught up. All of your pieces are works of art. 'How to make an American quilt', 'Living frost', and your latest one titled 'Drowning' are just a few of my favorites right now. They're just so powerful and expressive and I really love it. Please post more if you can, I'd love to read more.
Thanks R85. I appreciate the feedback. I've been in a very dark writing mood lately so you are getting poetry. When I'm in better spirits I write fic or short stories. I'm in the American midwest so the change of seasons brings much blechyness. Health issues just add to all of that. I'd expect you'll get your fill of my dark prose in the next few weeks. Things are looking kinda grey at the moment.
How often we have all experienced the turmoil you describe.
Could I express my feelings the way you did? Not!
Thanks SJ. It's always nice to know you've been here for a read.
Hey BV, Thank you! Your words are very flattering. Sometimes I just don't know where it comes from but I do know it must be shared. I really do appreciate you kind words.
I had a lovely weekend with my family and just couldn't help but see this.
bouncing around the glassy rocks.
Both are beautiful, however "Snowflake" is my favorite.


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Articles » Biographies
Richard B. Fowler
Susan Jezak Ford
If not for a five-year period battle with tuberculosis, Richard Fowler, one of the Kansas City Star's most prolific writers, might have spent his life as a chicken farmer. A five-year period of enforced bed rest began Fowler's writing career in his early 20s.
Born near Sedalia, Missouri, and orphaned as a young boy, Fowler was raised by aunts and was educated in a one-room school. He attended Westminster College and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, graduating with a degree in commerce and finance. Fowler was working in the poultry business when doctors diagnosed his tuberculosis at the age of 22 and prescribed inactivity. He began writing and sold his first story to Scribner's magazine and continued to sell articles to several newspapers.
Fowler's decades of work at the Star started in 1930 as a general assignment reporter. He began submitting articles on the lives of prominent Kansas Citians a year earlier and continued his "Turning Point" column for the next three years. He took on the Pendergast political machine as an editorial writer in the 1930s, attacking the city's corrupt administration until it fell in 1940. Fowler was a prolific writer, typing with two fingers his interviews with such notables as Harry Truman, Clarence Darrow, Helen Hayes, Al Jolson, and Sinclair Lewis. He authored several books, including Leaders in Our Town and City of the Future, co-authored with Henry Haskell.
Fowler was named the Star's fourth editor in 1960 and president in 1963, succeeding Roy A. Roberts. Under Fowler's leadership, the staff of the Star was aggressively integrated and wages were sharply increased. A retirement plan was adopted that helped make way for younger employees to move into positions of leadership. After just six years at the helm, Fowler retired from the newspaper in 1968.
Spending much of each year during retirement in Mexico, Fowler continued to contribute stories to the Star on the politics and economics of that country. While visiting Morelia, Mexico, he was killed in an automobile accident on August 19, 1978, at the age of 76.
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King Solomon's Monologue and Prževal′skij's Obituary: Čexov's Unwitting Confession
Among Čexov's unfinished works is a play about King Solomon, of which remains only one fragmentary monologue of Solomon. Solomon speaks of the meaning of life, or more precisely, the impossibility of affirming any meaningfulness in the face the death facing every human being. His "incomprehensible existence" (nepostigaemoe bytie) becomes a source of constant terror and feelings of helplessness for the king. This existential terror is central to a number of Čexov's works in this period, for example: "A Dull Story" ("Skučnaja istorija"), which in Čexov's time was read (by Suvorin's wife, for one) as something of a confession of Čexov's own dangerous psychological condition. The topic of Čexov's existentialism in this story, as well as in "Kašatanka" and "The Steppe," has been discussed most prominently by Marena Senderovich. At roughly the same time as Čexov wrote Solomon's monologue, he published in Novoe vremja an obituary for the famous Russian explorer, Nikolaj Prževal′skij, the tone of which could not be more opposed to that of Solomon's monologue. If Solomon's monologue never saw print in Čexov's day, then this piece was published anonymously; thus, both remained unknown to Čexov's readers for many years, and to this date have received little critical attention (Rossbacher; Sobennikov; Polockaia). It is my contention that the two can be taken together as an unwitting confession of Čexov—an author who never openly displayed himself to his readers—made during a turning point in his life and career(his brother's death, increasing signs of his own mortal illness; breaking into the "thick journals" winning the Puškin Prize). In Čexov criticism there is a tradition of opposing the Prževal′skij of Čexov's obituary to the characters of his poetic world, with the obituary serving as a hymn to "people of podvig [heroic sacrifice], faith, and clear goals." I intend to show that these two pieces must be read together, that the idea of the podvig in Čexov cannot be appreciated outside of its relationship to the existential fear of Solomon. Čexov affirms "podvižničestvo" as a solution for Solomon's unresolvable problem; it comprises an attempt to find an exit where none can possibly be. But as always in Čexov, the answer does not exhaust the question, but causes us to return to the question again and again, if only to discover that the pain of Solomon and the heroism of Prževal′skij—the one life-negating, the other, life-affirming—rather than excluding, in fact complement and condition one another. At the end of my presentation, I will briefly juxtapose Čexov's distinctive artistic and philosophical position with those articulated in arguably the most important and closest two texts from nineteenth-century Russian literature dealing with such Ecclesiastical motifs: "Enough" ("Dovol′no") of Turgenev, and Tolstoj's "Confession" ("Ispoved′").


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Sadove (în ) este localitatea de reședință a comunei Sadove din raionul Hoșcea, regiunea Rivne, Ucraina.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației localității Sadove era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de alte limbi.

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Maurice, S. (2007)
Self-Organization and Cross-Scale Interaction in Integrated Development and Conservation Projects: A comparative study of Honey Care Africa's beekeeping projects in Kakamega District and Kwale District
Master Thesis. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.
Aremo, J.; Donnaberger, L. (1995)
Development Strategies: A case-study of an integrated community based project (Magarini Integrated Rural Development Programme, Kenya)
Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. Volume 11 #2. p. 213-2222.
Johansson, S. (1992)
Irrigation and Development in the Tana River Basin
In: Darkoh, M.B.K. (ed.), African River Basins and Dryland Crises. Uppsala: Uppsala University, Dept. of Human and Physical Geography. p. 43-56.
Maas, M.; Hekken, N.v. (1991)
Women's Social and Economic Projects: Experiences from Coast Province
Food and Nutrition Studies Programme 37. Nairobi/Leiden: Ministry of Planning and National Development/African Studies Centre.
Porter, D.; Allen, B.; Thompson, G. (1991)
Development in Practice: Paved with good intentions
London: Routledge.
Little, P.D. (1990)
Institutional Dynamics and Development in the Tana Basin, Kenya
In: Chaiken, M.S.; Fleuret, A. (eds.), Social Change and Applied Anthropology: Essays in honor of David W. Brokensha. Boulder: Westview Press. p. 215-230.
Miller, D.L. (1989)
Northeastern Kenyan Riverine Farmers in Conflict with Colonial Development Strategies
In: Linnebuhr, E. (ed.), Transition and Continuity of Identity in East Africa and Beyond: In memoriam David Miller. Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger. p. 353-368.
Fleuret, A. (1988)
Food Aid and Development in Rural Kenya
In: Brokensha, D.W.; Little, P.D. (eds.), Anthropology of Development and Change in East Africa. Boulder: Westview Press. p. 77-97.
Kimani, J. (1988)
River Basin Development: Case studies within Tana River basin of Kenya
Binghamton, N.Y.: Clark University.
Comparative Analysis of Institutional Experiences with River Basin Development in Africa: The case of the Tana Basin, Kenya
Binghamton, N.Y.: Institute for Development Anthropology.
Oendo, A.W. (1988)
Identity and Adaptation: Social and political factors in health and development among the Digo of Msambweni
Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge University.
Gazzo, Y. (1985)
Irrigation et Participation Paysanne au Kenya: Exemple du projet de Bura
In: Conac, G.; Savonnet-Guyot, C.; Conac, F. (eds.), Les Politiques de l'Eau en Afrique: Developpement agricole et participation paysanne.. Paris: Economica (Actes du Colloque de la Sorbonne). p. 376-380.
Hughes, F.M.R. (1985)
The Tana River Floodplain Forest, Kenya: Ecology and impact upon development
Ph.D. thesis. University of Cambridge.
Kelly, H. (1985)
Development Priorities in Arid Areas: Who are the experts?
Rural Africana. Volume 21. p. 83-111.
A Comment on the Impact of Development Schemes on the Floodplain Forests of the Tana River in Kenya
Geographical Journal. Volume 150. p. 230-244.
Monson, J. (1984)
Agricultural Change in Taita District, Kenya: The twentieth century
M.A. thesis. University of California and Los Angeles.
Kenya - Republic of (1982)
Kwale-Kilifi Integrated Development Project, 1984-1988
Nairobi: Ministry of Planning and National Development.
Geist, J.K. (1981)
Coastal Agrarian Underdevelopment and Regional Imbalance in Kenya
Ph.D. thesis. Berkeley: University of California.
Marsh, C.W. (1980)
Primates and Economic Development on the Tana River, Kenya: The monkey in the works
In: Furtado, J. (ed.), Tropical Ecology and Development. Kuala Lumpur. p. 373-376.
Gatheru, J.K. (1979)
A Review of Agricultural Development in the Coast Province
Kenya Farmer. Volume 25 #31.
Parkin, D.J. (1979)
Along the Line of Road: Expanding rural centres in Kenya's Coast Province
Africa. Volume 49 #3. p. 272-282.
Gillette, C. (1978)
A Test of the Concept of Backwardness: A case study of Digo society in Kenya
Ph.D. thesis. Ithaca: Cornell University.
Memon, P.A.; Martin, E.B. (1976)
The Kenya Coast: An anomaly in the development of an 'ideal type' colonial spatial system
Kenya Historical Review. Volume 4 #2. p. 187-206.
Browne, D.L.; Achola, O.P. (1975)
The Women's Group Programme in the S.R.D.P. Case Study of the Kwale Area
Working Paper 232. Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies.
Sedlak, P.A.S. (1975)
Sociocultural Determinants of Language Maintenance and Language Shift in a Rural Coastal Kenyan Community
Ph.D. thesis. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University.
Simpson, M.C. (1973)
Alternative Strategies for Range Land Development in Kenya
Rural Development Study 2. University of Leeds, Dept. of Agricultural Economics.
Palms, Wine and Witnesses: Public spirit and private gain in an African farming community
London: Intertext. p. 113.
Baarspul, J.A. (1971)
The Tana Irrigation Scheme: An integrated development project
Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science. Volume 19 #2. p. 76-84.
Taylor, D.R.F. (1970)
Development of Central Places in Coast Province, Kenya
Ottawa: Carleton University. p. 378.
Kenya - Colony and Protectorate (1960)
The Mariakani Milk Scheme
Sessional Paper 12. Nairobi: Government Printer.
Rees, A.H. (1959)
Educational Development in a Backward Area
Oversea Education. Volume 31. p. 17-24.
Patterson, G.D. (1957)
Report on the Lamu Hinterland
Nairobi: African Land Development Board.


I went from conflating activity and productivity to understanding that time is a finite resource best spent on the disciplined pursuit of the wildly important. It is simple, but not easy. I'll tell you the habits that are working for me and provide pointers to resources I found helpful on this journey so you don't have to waste your time.
Focus is the super-power needed to succeed in the current knowledge environment. Yet, we are on the losing end of an asymmetrical war for the attention needed to succeed at a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Our well-resourced opponents in this battle range from our own lack of clarity on success and fulfillment to external distractions that are in the business of convincing us that superficial connection can enable deep and meaningful relationships.
My own journey in finding effective defenses involved everything from resigning from my last job to taking a half year sabbatical that included hiking the legendary Tour du Mont Blanc, the long distance alpine trek circumnavigating the highest peak in the Alps while crossing on foot the borders of Switzerland, France and Italy.
My simple but key insight to finding my own path on this journey was to understand and accept at an emotional and not just intellectual level that time is the one finite, non-renewable resource from which everything else flows.
What I discovered in my journey is that without an emotional understanding of the value of time, you end up mechanically following other people's recommendations of practices that may or may not apply in your unique personal and professional context.
So what I will provide below for both personal and professional contexts are the readings and resources that helped me bridge the gap between intellectual and emotional understanding.
In each case I will also share some of my tactics and habits. It is important to understand these are only examples - they are contextually relevant to me and may not work for you. You need to do the work to figure out what will work for you.
A starting point here is to figure out what is important to you when facing the constant bombardment to do more which results in taking on more than you can handle. Greg McKeown's book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, provides a good framework for choosing between the "trivial many" and the "vital few".
I would follow that up with Cal Newport's new book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, which argues "deep work (focusing without distraction on a cognitively demanding task) is becoming more valuable in our economy at the same time that it's becoming more rare."
Ultimately, you will need to develop and put into place prioritization filters, that are deeply personal and contextual, to help you decide how to parcel out the finite number of hours available in a day or a week.
BTW, you might question why I still blog if I am minimizing social media. The answer is that I find the process of long form writing "... forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what, and how things are related". In short, I continue to write because it helps me think more clearly.
Within a professional context, you need to make sound decisions to execute strategies that deliver value to the organization. A good starting point for avoiding cognitive decision making biases is the Heath Brothers' book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work.
Delivering value requires you to understand the difference between Strategy ("what do I do?") and Execution ("how do I do it?"). Far too much emphasis is paid to the former to the detriment of the latter. A great resource to help you on this topic is The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals.
Delivering value is not a one time occurrence but something that needs to be done on a regular, incremental basis while constraining risk. An effective tactic to ensure this is to fix the budget for time and resources while flexing the scope of work. This philosophy as applied to the modern context is well articulated in Eric Ries' book, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.
We are all driven to find meaning and purpose in our lives in both personal and professional contexts. To achieve the wildly important goals we set for ourselves, we need to put into place habits and tactics driven by the ultimate constraint that is the amount of time we have available to us.
Simple to say, hard to do, but well worth it!


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I was created with a super-dominant authenticity gene. It's one of my favorite things about myself, although I've realized that at times it can lead me to overthink things.
Like holidays and the sharing of holiday-driven sentiments and gifts. I can get really hung up on whether the card or gift or thought or thing was done or shared or given because it's really true, or if it was more about playing the societally-assigned role of the day. And I get really moody if I feel like I'm involuntarily playing a part in someone else's mental holiday pageant.
So I've been thinking about this today, and about how I want to feel tomorrow, on Thanksgiving Day.
I want to feel grateful. I do. But not just as niceties are shared around the medley of nostalgic starches on the table. I want to feel toe to top and below and above and deeper and higher grateful, like with every step my feet can touch a magic that will carry me everywhere I care to go. And like with every magic-cradled step, I shake loose a little sparkle that floats down through time and space and comes down as glitter dust over all my loved ones near and far. Like we're all connected and we all see the beauty and divinity within each other.
I want to smell the smells and hear the sounds and taste the goodness and touch the things and see it all. Vividly. Crisply. Fully.
I want to be saturated, satiated, and surrendered.
And I think I know how to get there.
Ground your gratitude in presence.
The only way to experience it all for real and fully is to really actually be there. And to stay there. When it gets difficult or awkward or uncomfortable or confusing or so amazing you feel like you can't even stand it. Stay with that. Let go of the armor and the walls and the pretenses.
Feel it. Show it. Share it. And see what comes next.
Of course who knows what the day will bring and how easy or difficult it will be to actually live this. But I know I'm going to start my day in meditation on this intention and see where it goes from there.
I invite you to do the same. Decide how you want to feel tomorrow and really let yourself feel it in its fullness in a quiet stolen moment however you need to find it. Pick a word or a phrase and make it your mantra as you do what you do on this day. And let that sacred act open the pathways for more of what you want in your day.
To those of you who aren't celebrating this day, and to those of you reading this afterwards anyway, I invite you to celebrate whatever day you're starting in exactly the same way. Why not make every day a holyday?
Ever grateful for you, you lovely bloom ????


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The camp is ideal for anyone wanting a more remote camp from which to enjoy game walks. Walks of about 3-4 hours are usually taken in the cool of the mornings, then in the afternoons you are driven to a different area for a shorter walk. After sundowners you take a night drive back to camp.
The Sleep Out platform is yet another experience which Rhino Walking Safaris offers, and this is for anyone who wants to get closer to the wilderness. The elevated wooden platform has mozzie nets with sleeping bags, and there are flushing loos and a small kitchen area. You could have a night here and then walk back to Plains Camp.
Open: Rhino Plains Camp is open all year.
Location: Rhino Post is in a private concession of 12,000 acres bordering the Mala Mala and Sabi sand reserves in Kruger. It is in a grove of Acacia trees overlooking the Timbitene plain and waterhole. The camp is about a 45 minute drive from Skukuza airport.
Rooms: There are 4 explorer-style tents with en-suite shower rooms with hot and cold running water.
Activities: This is a base for walking safaris. A typical day starts with an wakeup call and cup of tea or coffee and snack, then you set out for the first walk of the day. The duration of the walk will depend to some extent on the fitness and interest of the guests, but is usually between 3 and 4 hours. You will return to the camp for brunch and time to relax or have a siesta. After high tea you will set off for the later afternoon walk or game drive, followed by sundowner drinks. You will have dinner back at the camp.
Facilities: There is a communal lounge and dining area with an outside fireplace.
Children: There is a minimum age of 12 for the walking safaris.
Sleep Outs: The camp also offers the option to sleep out on a raised platforms with proper beds, mosquito nets and fly sheets if needed. You leave plains camp in the late afternoon and arrive at the platform in the early evening, taking a daypack with a change of clothes and refreshments. You have sundowners overlooking the waterhole. You can sit around the campfire as dinner is prepared, listening to the sounds of the animals around you, safety guarded by observant guides. After your night in the wilderness, you wake to a snack breakfast and return to Plains Camp for a hearty brunch. Please note that the sleep outs are highly dependent on weather conditions and requires a minimum of 4 people to operate.


Distance from Harari to Nayoro is 10,098 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 6,275 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Harari and Nayoro is 10,098 km= 6,275 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Harari to Nayoro, It takes 11.2 hours to arrive.
Nayoro is located in Japan.


The Maison du Roi is the Municipal Museum of Brussels. Besides historical relics there is a collection of dresses and decorations that were granted to the Manneken Pis.
Musée d'Art Ancien is located 30 metres from the Place Royale. It has a large collection of Flemish art. On the same street is the Musée d'Art Moderne which displays works of contemporary Belgian artists. You can find several works by Magritte, there are also works by Miro, Picasso and Dali.
Brussels has three major railway stations: Gare Centrale (Central Station), Gare du Nord (North), Gare du Midi (the South). The information office at the Gare Centrale is open daily. Zaventem Airport is 14km from the city. It connects with Brussels by train and arrives at three main stations in the city.


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A new study was carried out by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Brighton.
Lorna Harries, a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Exeter, led the researchers, and the first author of the paper is Dr. Eva Latorre, a research associate at the same institution.
The new study builds on previous research from the University of Exeter, which found that so-called splicing factors — which are a type of protein — tend to become inactive as we age.
In the new study, the researchers added "resveralogues," or chemicals similar to resveratrol, to aging human cells and found that they reactivated these splicing factors. This, in turn, not only made the old cells appear younger, but they also started dividing again, as young cells would.
"When I saw some of the cells in the culture dish rejuvenating I couldn't believe it," says Dr. Latorre. "These old cells were looking like young cells. It was like magic," she says.
"I repeated the experiments several times and in each case, the cells rejuvenated. I am very excited by the implications and potential for this research," Dr. Latorre adds.
Resveratrol is a compound found in peanuts, grapes, red wine, dark chocolate, and some berries.
What are mRNA splicing factors?
For us to better understand the context of the new findings, Prof. Harries explained to Medical News Today what mRNA splicing is.
"The information in our genes is carried [in] our DNA," she said. "Every cell in the body carries the same genes, but not every gene is switched on in every cell. That's one of the things that makes a kidney cell a kidney cell and heart cell a heart cell."
"When a gene is needed," she continued, "it is switched on and [makes] an initial message called an RNA, that contains the instructions for whatever the gene makes. The interesting thing is that most genes can make more than one message."
"The initial message is made up of building blocks that can be kept in or left out to make different messages," Prof. Harries added. "[This] inclusion or removal of the building blocks is done by a process called mRNA splicing, whereby the different blocks are joined together as necessary."
"It's a bit like a recipe book, where you can make either a vanilla sponge or a chocolate cake, depending on whether or not you add chocolate!" she said.
"We have previously found that the proteins that make the decision as to whether a block is left in our taken out (these are called splicing factors) are the ones that change most as we age."
Prof. Lorna Harries
Seniors may live healthily 'for their entire life'
"[The findings demonstrate] that when you treat old cells with molecules that restore the levels of the splicing factors, the cells regain some features of youth," explains Prof. Harries.
"They are able to grow, and their telomeres — the caps on the ends of the chromosomes that shorten as we age — are now longer, as they are in young cells."
"[We] were quite surprised by the magnitude of [the findings]," Prof. Harries told MNT. She also said that the rejuvenating effects lasted for weeks, which was also very exciting.
The discovery may soon improve the healthspan of seniors. "This is a first step in trying to make people live normal lifespans, but with health for their entire life," explains Prof. Harries.
On the same note, study co-author Prof. Richard Faragher, of the University of Brighton, says:
"At a time when our capacity to translate new knowledge about the mechanisms of aging into medicines and lifestyle advice is limited only by a chronic shortage of funds, older people are ill-served by self-indulgent science fiction. They need practical action to restore their health and they need it yesterday."
Prof. Harries also shared with us some of the researchers' plans for their future investigations, saying, "We are now trying to see if we can find out how the changes in splicing factor levels [cause] cell rescue. We have more papers in preparation on this so watch this space!"
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South Africa-based Ugandan model Patricia Akello wearing a necklace by the Ugandan label Halisi. From photographer Per-Anders Pettersson's new book African Catwalk:
[Photo © Per-Anders Pettersson]
The French, it's generally agreed, have finally recovered their senses with the court decision that the burkini ban was unconstitutional and a violation of fundamental liberties. Which it clearly was. But of course there's the whole tradition of laïcité - the French term for their particularly rigorous brand of secularism - which colours this whole debate. Paul Berman aims to provide some nuance, looking back at debates in the past over the veil:
The French controversy over the veil—which, in the French debate, has meant the Islamic headscarf or hijab, too—got underway not with the arrival of the Muslim immigrants, but with the arrival of the Islamists. This was in 1989. Schoolgirls in the town of Creil, outside Paris, began to insist on their right to wear the Islamic veil in school. This was unprecedented, and the school authorities forbade it. The schoolgirls insisted, even so. And the question of how to interpret this dispute became, very quickly, a national debate in France, with plausible arguments on both sides.
To wit, pro-veil: Shouldn't a woman and even a schoolgirl have the right to dress in accordance with her own religious conscience? Isn't religious attire a matter of individual right and religious freedom? More: If Muslim schoolgirls are displaying fidelity to their own religion and its traditions, shouldn't this be deemed an enrichment of the broader French culture? Shouldn't the French welcome the arrival of a new kind of piety? And if, instead, the French refuse to welcome, shouldn't their refusal be seen as the actual problem—not the pious immigrant schoolgirls, but the anti-immigrant bigots?
To which the anti-veil argument replied: No, the veil has been brought into the schools as a maneuver by a radical movement to impose its dress code. The veil is a proselytizing device, intended to intimidate the Muslim schoolgirls and to claim a zone of Islamist power within the school. And the dress code is the beginning of something larger, which is the Islamist campaign to impose a dangerous new political program on the public school curriculum in France. This is the campaign that has led students in the suburban immigrant schools to make a series of new demands—the demand that Rousseau and certain other writers no longer be taught; the demand that France's national curriculum on WWII, with its emphasis on lessons of the Holocaust, be abandoned; the demand that France's curricular interpretation of Middle Eastern history no longer be taught; the demand that co-ed gym classes no longer be held, and so forth. The wearing of veils in the schools, then—this is the beginning of a larger campaign to impose an Islamist worldview on the Muslim immigrants, and to force the rest of society to step aside and allow the Islamists to have their way. From this standpoint, opposition to the veil is a defense of the schools, and it is a defense of freedom and civilization in France, and it is not an anti-immigrant policy.
The French have engaged in a very vigorous and nuanced public debate over these matters. And yet, for some reason, in the reporting by American journalists and commentators, the nuances tend to disappear, and the dispute is almost always presented in its pro-veil version, as if it were an argument between individual religious freedom and anti-immigrant bigots, and not anything else. To report both sides of the dispute ought not to be so hard, however. The French government held formal hearings on these questions, with both sides represented. It was just that, once the hearings were over, the anti-veil side was deemed to have been more persuasive. Crucially influential were Muslim schoolgirls who, given the chance to speak, testified that, in the schools, Islamist proselytizers had become a menace to girls like themselves. And the National Assembly passed a law banning the Islamic veil, along with all "ostentatious" religious symbols, from the schools. The purpose of this law was not to suppress Islam. Students could continue to wear discreet symbols in school, according to the new law, and anything they wanted, outside of school. But ostentatious symbols were banned from the schools, in the hope of putting a damper on the Islamist proselytizing.
Naturally, the hearings and the passage of a law (about school dress) and then another law a few years later (about full-face veils in public) and the issuing of various regulations did not bring the argument to an end. That is because these controversies are, by nature, without any obvious resolution. On one side, in France, there is good reason for immigrants and their allies to complain about imperialist holdovers and larger bigotries in the culture, and reason to worry that anti-Islamist laws and regulations may spill over into an anti-immigrant campaign. And there has been no shortage of pious Muslim women willing to say that, in their own instance, they are not victims of the Islamists, and they wish to wear Islamic attire strictly for reasons of individual religious conscience, regardless of what anyone might say. These arguments are unanswerable.
Then again, the French public as a whole, ancestral Gauls and new arrivals alike, has had every reason to grow ever more frightened of the Islamist movement, which has grown over the years, until by now it has come to dominate the young generation in entire neighborhoods in the immigrant districts—which means the French as a whole have every reason to look for simple regulatory ways to discourage the movement, beginning with legislation against the Islamist dress code. This argument, too, is unanswerable. Here, then, is a debate that will not come to a close.
We've had similar arguments here, of course. There was the case of the Luton schoolgirl in 2005 who went to court - under the influence of her brother, a Hizb ut-Tahrir member - to insist on her right to wear the jilbab, a strict Muslim covering, to school. She lost, eventually, despite support from the Guardian and, of course, Germaine Greer.
So there's nothing uniquely French about the debate. And while it's important to understand the reasons behind the French ban on veils and on other religiously-inspired clothing, it's important as well to see that the burkini ban was a silly step too far in terms of state intervention in matters of personal dress. For a start, the beach is very different from a school.
Predicting regime collapse
The recent defection of North Korean Deputy Ambassador to the UK Thae Yong-ho has increased speculation about the increasing instability of Kim Jong-un's regime. Like the thirteen restaurant workers who defected from China in March, the Deputy Ambassador was well-connected: his wife is a member of the O family, whose links to the regime go back to the days when O Jung Hup fought alongside Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader, against the Japanese. In a country obsessed with lineage and pure race ideology, these things matter. There's no doubt the regime is rattled. They've not just called Thae "human scum": they've gone all the way, accusing him of raping children and embezzling money.
Leading the speculation is South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who's presumably privy to information unavailable to the rest of us:
Instability in North Korea is growing as members of Pyongyang's elite are increasingly turning back on their communist homeland, President Park Geun-hye said Monday, fueling speculation that the South is preparing for a possible regime change in the North....
"The North Korean regime is taking no account of the people's lives, while it oppresses the people with continuous rule by fear," she said. "Recently, even the elite in the North is collapsing and high-profile figures are increasingly escaping their homeland and defecting to foreign countries. As the signs of serious cracks emerge, the regime's instability is growing."
Also, Joshua Stanton:
Most experts thought the regimes in East Germany, Romania, Albania, Libya, and Syria were as stable as Lehman Brothers, right up to the moments when each of those "stable" regimes fell. Most Sovietologists failed to predict the collapse of the East Bloc and the Soviet Union. Status quo bias is a powerful thing. The conventional analyst who predicts that the status quo will go on looks smart every day — until the day when he suddenly doesn't. The unconventional analyst who predicts doom looks like a lunatic every day until the day when he suddenly looks like a prophet. The only day history remembers is that last one....
It's a typically well-sourced and authoritative piece, which broadly supports Stephan Haggard's thesis that a financial crisis now provides the most likely scenario for regime collapse:
Defection by North Korean diplomats who have access to foreign currency holdings would make it harder for North Korea to bring in money from abroad which can eventually hasten the communist regime's collapse in the event of a financial crisis, a renowned U.S. scholar said Monday.
The analysis by Stephen Haggard, professor at the University of California San Diego, reflects the speculation of growing instability in North Korea, as seen by recent defections of North Korean overseas workers who had played a part in repatriating hard currency to the cash-strapped regime....
"Historically, I've never thought of the collapse of North Korea in terms of political collapse, but I believe in the scenario ... with respect to the possibility of financial crisis," the professor said in a seminar arranged by the East Asia Foundation in Seoul.
North Korea's thinning foreign currency income, caused by UN-imposed trade bans and the shutdown of its inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex, left the country vulnerable to the possibility of a "sudden" financial crisis that can lead to a subsequent regime collapse, he said.
Now, Pyongyang is left with labor export as an only option for foreign currency earnings, with North Korean diplomats put in charge of securing the foreign income needed to keep North Korea afloat, the expert indicated.
"If a crisis in being caused partly by these activities that are being generated offshore by the ministry of foreign affairs ... labor exports and so forth, it's possible the defections could actually accelerate the likelihood that this financial crisis scenario unfolds," Haggard said.
It's coming, it's coming. But yes, we've been saying that for years....
Winter freight
January 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. At 8:45 p.m. the train arrives at its destination."
[Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]
Yellow branch
In the Balkan Mountains near Shipka peak, Bulgaria:
[Photo: Veselin Atanasov/National Geographic]
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Bank Holiday at Markfield skateboard park.
Artist at work:
Artist, with friend, in thought:
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With the sense that there would be no repercussions
In Scotland and in France they prefer to cloak their anti-Semitism in the guise of a principled support for the underdog, along the lines of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign, by flying Palestinian flags at football games against Israeli club opponents. In Poland they don't bother with such scruples:
A group of Polish soccer hooligans put on a horrifying display of antisemitism last Friday, setting fire to "Jewish" effigies and parading a banner calling for the burning of Jews, Polish news website Gazeta Wyborcza reported.
According to the report, some 50 supporters of the Widzew Łódź soccer team had gathered outside a local train station to rally against rival team ŁKS Łódź.
The ruffians unfurled an antisemitic banner, which stated, "19.08, today the Jews were named. Let them burn, motherf***ers." The message was intended as a direct insult to the ŁKS Łódź team, which was founded in 1908 and is often derided as Jewish by fans of other soccer clubs.
Photos from the demonstration show effigies appearing to be dressed as Orthodox Jews being strung from rope and set on fire.
A representative of the local anti-racism group Never Again said that the demonstrators were acting without fear, and with the sense that there would be no repercussions for their actions. Police are reportedly investigating the incident....
Antisemitic and racist behavior is not uncommon among Polish soccer clubs.
In 2013, ŁKS Łódź fans invited visitors to an indoor tournament to play a game in which they could throw objects at "Jews," models dressed in Widzew Łódź uniforms. A sign next to the game informed players that for a meager price they would be given "three throws at the Jews."
In 2014, in a match between Lech Poznan and Widzew Łódź, fans of Poznan chanted, "Move on, Jews! Your home is at Auschwitz! Off to the gas!" Following an investigation, a Polish prosecutor declined to take action against the Poznan fans, saying the antisemitic chants were not directed specifically at Jews, rather the opposing team.
The single most incompetent individual ever to lead a British political party
Chris Deerin, on the unshakeable faith of the Corbynistas:
The reason that Corbyn will have won comfortably again when the leadership result is announced is that there is nothing that can be said or done to disabuse his followers of the belief in their and his innate righteousness. Jeremy might make a fool of himself over seats on trains and rail nationalisation; he might oversee a movement shot through with anti-Semitic scumbags; he might be the kind of naïve dupe who shows more sympathy towards Putin and every enemy of the West than to his own country and its allies; he might be the single most incompetent individual ever to lead a British political party and employ a team of people you wouldn't trust to wash your car; he might guarantee large Tory majorities in perpetuity; he might have helped bring about Brexit and be on the cusp of losing Labour's few remaining heartlands to the far-Right Ukip. But to his followers, none of it matters: the incorruptible faith can never be at fault, only the faithless, corruptible world.
Photographer Mark Burns has visited all 59 US National Parks as part of the National Parks Photography Project, celebrating the centenary - or, as they say, the centennial - of the National Parks Service, formed in August 1916. There's a gallery of his photos at the Atlantic's In Focus:
"Wotan's Throne Sunset," Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
"Rialto Beach Seastacks," Olympic National Park, Washington
"Zabriskie Point—Manly Beacon Evening Vista," Death Valley National Park
"Bryce Canyon Sunrise—Thor's Hammer," Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
"Joshua Tree at Intersection Rock," Joshua Tree National Park, California
"Schwabacher's Landing—Morning Reflections," Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
"Turret Arch—Morning Sky Contrails," Arches National Park, Utah
"El Capitan Peak," Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
[All photos © Mark Burns]
The photos are so much in the tradition of Ansel Adams that you wonder how much is conscious homage to the man, and how much is the perception that this classic black and white approach is now the kind of official visual language deemed appropriate for America's majestic landscape.
A more egalitarian spatial model
I like the new Tate Modern extension - I really do. It adds a pleasing symmetry to the place, with the Boiler House on one side of the Turbine Hall, and the new Switch House on the other. It opens it all up. There's the unfortunate matter of the lift provision - not foreseeing the extent to which the free tenth floor viewing platform would be an obvious tourist destination, so the lifts are always jam-packed (or, as Jeremy Corbyn would say, ram-packed). But apart from that, I find the new architecture an appealing brutalist-lite which combines well with the old brick power-station.
The problem, as ever, is what's displayed inside. The Turbine Hall is empty now, as it has been ever since the departure of the ridiculous Empty Lot in April. No contemporary artist, it seems, has the imagination or wit to do something with such a huge space. On the floor can be seen the vestiges of Doris Salcedo's absurd 2007 A Fracture in Modernity, which set the standard for how bad it could get. The huge walls either side are bare, painted in tasteful puce. Let some street artists in, liven it up a bit? No...inconceivable.
The Tanks are a newish space on the ground level on the Switch House side, for "performances and interactive art and video installations". These galleries "celebrate new art". There's a frisson as you go in - dark, mysterious. What challenging new works await?
Well, the main space is taken up with Rasheed Araeen's Zero to Infinity:
Zero to Infinity is a large interactive sculpture by the British-Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen, which consists of a maximum of one hundred wooden open-framework lattice cubes that have been painted blue and are arranged in a square on the gallery floor. Each of the lattice cubes is composed of thin vertically, horizontally and diagonally oriented pieces of wood that are joined at their tips, and the diagonal parts bisect each of the cubes' six faces at a forty-five degree angle, reaching from one corner to another. Each time the work is displayed, the cubes are initially positioned in an ordered structure, but the artist's intention is for viewers to interact with its components by moving them into new configurations....
As the art critic Jean Fisher has noted, upon moving from Karachi, Pakistan, to London in 1964 Araeen was inspired by 'the new generation' of British sculptors, particularly Anthony Caro and Phillip King, but grew increasingly dissatisfied with the hierarchical nature of their sculptural compositions (Jean Fisher, 'An Art of Transformation', in Tate Britain 2007, p.4). Araeen regarded the invention of his modular and combinatorial 'structures' (a term he used from 1968 in order to distinguish them from traditional sculptures), each of which consisted of open lattice cubes and rectangles, as a way of introducing a more egalitarian spatial model. Fisher has described Araeen's structures as forms
that made clear the material and structural principles of making in a move to democratize and de-mystify the art object; that began to break down the separation of interior and exterior space characteristic of modernism's 'autonomous' object; and that therefore enabled the viewer to enter into a more dynamic and active relationship with the work.
(Fisher in Tate Britain 2007, p.4.)
Furthermore, Aareen has suggested that he views the gallery visitor's act of dismantling Zero to Infinity – of breaking the symmetry of the composition – as a challenge to the fixity of British modernist sculpture of the 1960s. In a 2013 interview at Tate Araeen discussed the important participatory element of the work, stating in that he wanted visitors to dismantle the structure, 'making one work or many other formations in their own way' (TateShots: Rasheed Araeen's Zero to Infinity, Tate Modern, London, 3 January 2013, The title of the sculpture reflects the potential for continual change and unlimited variation inherent in the work. As Araeen explained to Tate curator Andrew Wilson in 2008:
In terms of the body entering the work itself, touching it, changing it, transforming it constantly – its transformation can go on to infinity. That's why it's called from Zero to Infinity. Zero is the static structure of Minimalism.
(Araeen 2008, accessed 8 May 2015.)
Yes, there are indeed a number of blue lattices on the floor:
Just to be clear: no, you can't play with the lattices yourself. It's interactive in theory only - because "interactive" sounds good. It's not actually interactive in the sense of being - you know - interactive. A large notice tells you as much:
Any re-arranging will be done by staff members. [Imagine how exciting that must be.] Helpfully, some possible reconfigurations are visualised for our benefit:
Clearly only highly trained experts should attempt this kind of work.
You will, of course, be immediately struck by the anti-hierarchical nature of the piece, representing as it clearly does a more egalitarian spatial model than your typical modernist sculpture, and won't fail to be impressed by the powerful desire manifest in the blue lattice configuration to democratize and de-mystify, breaking down the separation of interior and exterior space characteristic of modernism's 'autonomous' object, thereby enabling you, the viewer, to enter into a more dynamic and active relationship with the work.
Like so:
On the other hand it might occur to you that this represents nothing so much as a child's building kit made large, and the urge to rearrange it something that those of us fortunate enough to have owned and played with such toys will remember with some pleasure from when we were about - ooh - five or six years old.
Admittedly though, we hadn't had the benefit then of an art school education.


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Q: Run thread periodically I have a runnable class like this:
public class GetUpdatesThread implements Runnable{

@Override
public void run() {
     //call a webservice and parse response

}

}

Which I want fire every 10 seconds for instance...
I would like to know how can I manage handlers or runnables or timers in my activity to acomplish this?
Thanks in advance!

A: You can use TimerTask and can implement like this.
int delay = 5000; // delay for 5 sec.
int period = 10000; // repeat every 10 secs.

Timer timer = new Timer();

timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

public void run() {

System.out.println("repeating");

}

}, delay, period);

A: You can use the timer method called scheduleAtFixedRate from this link. I am already using it inside my project and it works like charm. You just have to give a starting delay time and a period for it then it works.

A: You can use Handler and calling the sendEmptyMessageDelayed method. Here's a tutorial or two on using Handler. Also check out Updating the UI from a Timer from the official doc - it covers both approaches with TimerTask and Handler.

A: The best way to do this thing is to use AlarmManager class.
1) schedule a AlarmManager with serRepeat method. link for AlarmManager
2) set Broadcast receiver in Alarmmanager, it will call Receiver every particular time duration, now from Receiver you can start your thread .
if you use Timer task and other scheduler, Android will kill them after some time.


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John Wesley was a supporter of free will and in opposition to Calvinism which taught predestination... What was his view on Original sin since by logic the baby is predestined to sin by just being born, no free will?
For Wesley and other Arminians, original sin is not a matter of predestination but of human nature.
The Scripture avers, that "by one man's disobedience all men were constituted sinners;" that "in Adam all died," spiritually died, lost the life and the image of God; that fallen, sinful Adam then "begat a son in his own likeness;" -- nor was it possible he should beget him in any other; for "who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?" -- that consequently we, as well as other men, were by nature "dead in trespasses and sins," "without hope, without God in the world," and therefore "children of wrath;" that every man may say, "I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin did my mother conceive me;" that "there is no difference," in that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God," of that glorious image of God wherein man was originally created.
According to Wesley, our free will (which he calls "self-will") is inherently sinful. We have a choice of following God's will or our own. When we choose to exercise our own will, we turn our back on the will of God.
Satan has stamped his own image on our heart in self-will also. "I will," said he, before he was cast out of heaven, "I will sit upon the sides of the north;" I will do my own will and pleasure, independently on that of my Creator. The same does every man born into the world say, and that in a thousand instances; nay, and avow it too, without ever blushing upon the account, without either fear or shame. Ask the man, "Why did you do this?" He answers, "Because I had a mind to it." What is this but, "Because it was my will;" that is, in effect, because the devil and I agreed; because Satan and I govern our actions by one and the same principle. The will of God, mean time, is not in his thoughts, is not considered in the least degree.
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