Last week our theme was 'Authority, Property, Piracy: From Copyright to the Commons' – essentially, the complexities of the concept of authorship, the practicalities of copyright and the methods of those who subvert it, or reinvent it.
Our lectures are more like tutorials, thanks to course leader Ernesto Priego, with a lot of interaction and relevant tangents – for example, starting with a classic Beastie Boys video (think sampling and referentiality) and an homage to it by some (piratical?) librarians.
During the discussion I mentioned that I'd heard of a scheme by which authors can claim royalties from their books being issued by public libraries. My classmate James Atkinson confirmed that there was such a scheme but the conversation moved on and I resolved to find out more about it afterwards.
I remembered I'd heard about it from a news story quoting Terry Deary, author of the bestselling Horrible Histories series, lamenting the fact that he would be much better off if people bought his books instead of borrowing them.
He goes on to say that this isn't his main problem with public libraries, but all of his objections relate to the fact that allowing people to borrow books free-of-charge fundamentally undermines the commercial structures that allow books to be created in the first place, effectively equating libraries with those who steal intellectual property for their own gain.
You could almost call it a form of sabotage. RIP MCA.
We covered a lot last week, including a discussion about the past/present/future of professional journalism (thanks to the excellent Eliza Anyangwe) as well as to that of amateur journalism, which, as H.P. Lovecraft's 1920 address Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment demonstrates, is hardly a new phenomenon.
We also discussed Foucault's response to Barthes's paradigm-shifting 1967 essay La mort de l'auteur, in which the author [no irony intended] "argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text" [Wikipedia].
As the Wikipedia article's author(s) go(es) on to point out, Barthes's title is a pun on Le Mort d'Arthur [irony presumably intended], a work compiled from the writings of many unknown authors, "with heavy reinterpretation by the editor, Sir Thomas Malory." Ever since, English lit undergrads have had to religiously avoid the "intentional fallacy" (a term not coined by Barthes but in a paper by American academics Monroe Beardsley and W.K. Wimsatt) – the mistake of thinking that the author's (separately) stated intentions should have a bearing on the interpretation of his/her work (or, at least, any more than anyone else's should).
These question are brought to our attention in the social media age by Matthew Kirschenbaum in his excellent essay What Is an @uthor? (see what he did there?). Kirschenbaum introduces the subject by giving the example of Faulkner in the University (1959), edited transcripts of recordings made of William Faulkner's classroom conferences during a stint as writer in residence at the University of Virginia for the preceding two years. And all this only a few years after Beardsley and Wimsatt. It still seemed to matter what an author might have to say when he was in the room.
Kirschenbaum goes on to recount his own experience in relation to the American author William Gibson – a futurologist if ever there was one – and today's equivalents of the reel-to-reel tape deck, YouTube and Twitter. Old canards such as, the inventor of cyberspace wrote on a typewriter…, didn't know what a disk drive was…, didn't have an email account…, have been discredited, not least through material on Gibson's own website. His present day activity includes interacting with people discussing his works, either at his own book tour events, which find their way on to YouTube (see below), and via his Twitter account, to engage with a panel discussing his latest novel at a convention.
The questions this raises for literary criticism about what credit or status should be given to such authorial interventions are all the more difficult to dismiss as intentional fallacies by their very immediacy, even interactivity; not least because this sort of 'meta' analysis is the very stuff of Gibson's works.
Yes, the text has primacy; but the text is multiple, layered, and all over social media as well as the page.
Last week we considered the ideas of a radical German dramatist who lived and worked through both world wars, a Canadian intellectual who published influential works in the post-war period on how communications technologies affect societies, and an American Harvard professor, working today, who specialises in innovation and growth.
So, what do they have in common? Brecht had many ideas about what a play should be but perhaps the dominant one is that it is essential that the artificiality of a production (and Brecht was a producer/director as much as playwright) should be visible and palpable to the audience at all times. No suspension of disbelief; always a clear appreciation of the limits of the medium of theatre. As the quotation above suggests, Brecht wanted his audience to see the artifice in the real world – to see that structures and conventions were contingent rather than necessary, with all that this implies for politics and the possibility of changing society.
Marshall McLuhan coined the now familiar terms "the medium is the message" and "global village", though his key works pre-dated the internet by several decades. The meaning of "the medium is the message" is not easy to define simply from McLuhan's writings but is generally taken to mean that a mode of communication – and the 20th century saw several new ones establish themselves widely – is not a neutral channel for the communication of information but itself must filter and otherwise bias the information it carries in ways that we would do well to be aware of, though it would be very easy (perhaps in a way reminiscent of Huxley's Brave New World) to ignore. This certainly seems to chime well with Brecht admonishing audiences for participating in escapism.
Clayton Christensen has also coined an influential term/concept – that of "disruptive innovation". This theory explains what mobile phones did for fixed-line telephony, or what the PC did for the mainframe. Essentially, as an incumbent provider of a product or service refines its offering to serve its best customers and maximise its profits, this upward journey leaves a gap at the bottom that can be exploited by a new offer (maybe a technology but not necessarily) to a different customer with less to spend and fewer expectations. The enterprise that is successful in filling this need can soon find itself dominating the market and undermining the business model of its established competitors. The list of professions and industries that have at least been shaken up, at most reinvented from the ground up, thanks to the internet, is a long one. Again, what we might think of as immutable laws because that's what we and our recent ancestors grew up with, can prove to be very changeable indeed.
People who work in publishing have been feeling the heat for a while now.
It was posited during this lecture that libraries are in the throes of a mid-life crisis. This is something that could be a rather positive evaluation in that it suggests millennia of existence lie ahead for the library, however difficult the present moment is.
The publishing industry could also be said to be in crisis, certainly in the original sense that it is at a turning point that will either result in recovery or death.
This module looks set to be an examination of how developing technologies have brought (and will bring) about changes in the way that written information is curated, edited, paid for and disseminated. And the key factor is the role that libraries can play in forming the new order, if whatever follows can be described as orderly.
Certainly, the last ten years have seen it become much easier for someone to find information or to publish something they have written (this blog post being a perfect example). Presentations made at The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers international conference 2013 showed industry insiders acknowledging this but also confident that corporate publishing had a future. After all – and it looks as if this will also be a key theme throughout the course – context is very important to people in deciding what to read. The authenticity and authority a piece of writing is given by its being edited and published by a commercial publisher is something that carries a lot of value, and this is not likely to change in an information society that bombards its citizens from all directions with more and more stuff to read.
We also discussed Walter Benjamin's 1934 lecture to the Institute for the Study of Fascism in Paris, 'The Author as Producer', in which he examines the complex political and technological relations between a writer, his/her writings, and the political significance of the medium by which they are disseminated. It is difficult to distill the concepts from the black and white politics of the time, but I think that Benjamin would be very interested in how technology today (albeit largely in the hands of a few opaque commercial entities) has massively disrupted the conventional commercial model of publishing, whether of news, literature, music, or research. Capitalism does seem to be bringing about a democratic order in which the customer is king. So, at least as long as you have money to spend, you matter. One more reason, then, for public libraries to fight for their right to exist.


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Q: Ajax interrupt current function without using async i have a custom jQuery function with callbacks, in one of them i want to do a server-side check before some event is triggered.
Something like this:
var object = $('#object').customFunction({
     onSomeEvent: function (someData) {
         $.ajax({
                 ...
                 ...
                 success: function(data) {
                     if (data == ok) {
                         return true;
                     } else {
                         return false; *****
                     }
                 }
         })
     },
})

**** I want this "return false;" to be the return of "onSomeEvent".
I know i can make the ajax call async false, save the response data in a variable, check it after the ajax and return the false then, but i really would like to avoid the async false.
I really dont know what to try, everything i google is putting the ajax async on false.
Thanks in advance for your help!

A: to avoid setting async to false, im using this..
my_request = $.ajax({
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})

my_request.done(function(data)){
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});

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What is an "Upline" per the Origami Owl Career Plan?
An "Upline" refers to the Independent Designer(s) above an Independent Designer in the genealogy up to Origami Owl. It is the genealogy that links an Independent Designer to Origami Owl.


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Het Bonneymeer is een permanent met ijs bedekt zoutmeer aan de westzijde van de Taylorvallei, een van de Droge Valleien van McMurdo in de Antarctische regio Victorialand.

Het meer meet 7 kilometer bij 900 meter. Een smalle waterloop van ongeveer 50 meter breed (Engelse naam: Lake Bonney at Narrows) scheidt het meer in een oostelijk deel (3,32 km²) en een westelijk deel (0,99 km²). Omdat het water permanent bevroren is kan het water in beide delen zich niet mengen en hebben zich in beide delen unieke ecosystemen kunnen ontwikkelen. In het westelijk deel bevindt zich een sterke halocline. Ten noorden en zuiden van het meer rijzen bergtoppen op tot ongeveer 1500 meter en aan westzijde loopt de Taylorgletsjer uit in het meer via de Bloedwaterval. Het meer heeft een diepte van ongeveer 40 meter en bevindt zich onder een permanente ijslaag van 3,5 tot 4,5 meter dik. Het Bonneymeer wordt gevoed door een tiental smeltwaterstroompjes, waarvan de Priscustroom met 3,8 kilometer de langste is.

Het meer werd voor het eerst aangedaan door de Britse Discovery-expeditie (1901-1904). Het verkreeg haar naam tijdens de Terra-Novaexpeditie (1910-1913), een vernoeming naar de Britse geologieprofessor Thomas George Bonney.

Het Bonneymeer is een van de meren waar onderzoek wordt verricht door de National Science Foundation, de Amerikaanse overheidsorganisatie voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Sinds 2007 wordt de door de NASA bekostigde autonome onderwaterrobot Endurance (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) ingezet om de wateren van het westelijk deel van het meer te verkennen om de afmetingen en de ecologie te onderzoeken. Voor de NASA vormt het project een pilot voor gepland toekomstig onderzoek naar de mogelijke zoutzee van Jupiters maan Europa. Onderzoekers hebben een miljoenen jaren oud ecosysteem aangetroffen onder de aangrenzende Taylorgletsjer, dat als groeiend organisme overleeft door het omzetten van zwavel en ijzer.

Bij het meer bevindt zich een onderzoekshut.

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Sale Sharks' first team players get the shock of their lives filming promotional video for club sponsor homes4u. Four first team players from Sale Sharks Rugby Club, an empty theatre, and Halloween props. The result? A video that's more likely to have you crying with laughter, than with fear.
Fresh from their recent victory over London Irish, Sale Sharks stars Josh Beaumont, Bryn Evans and Jono Ross are the stars of a new video, which saw Curtis Langdon attempt to scare his teammates, before the terrifying tables were turned on him.
The video was created by one of the Premiership Rugby club's key partners, Manchester-based estate agents, homes4u, which has sponsored Sharks since 2016.
Each unsuspecting player takes their turn practising lines for what they believe is a Halloween promotion for the property firm. A series of embarrassing 'puns' and hilarious moments soon follow, but what the players don't realise is that teammate Curtis Langdon is waiting to scare them.
Sale captain, Jono Ross, was unphased by the scare, whilst Beaumont and Evans had more animated reactions to Langdon, who appears dressed as a spooky clown. Unquestionably, the highlight of the video is when Langdon has the tables turned on him when an actress dressed as a banshee appears to give him the shock of his life.
Andrew Mellor, Partner Development Manager at homes4u, said: "We are always looking for fun ways to activate our Sale Sharks partnership, so what better way to do that than by pranking some of the biggest and toughest guys in rugby.
"We really wanted to use the Halloween celebrations to discuss how house hunting doesn't have to be scary. A big thanks has to go to all the players for being such great sports on the day."
Sale Sharks Commercial Director and former player, Mark Cueto, added: "The lads definitely act tougher than they really are, so it was great to be able to give them a scare amd catch their reactions on camera.
"We always enjoy working with our partners to create fun and engaging content, and this video definitely ticks that box and we think the club's fans will love it."
Sale Sharks is one of the leading professional Rugby Union clubs in Europe and the pride of the North West. Historically based in the Manchester suburb of Sale, but now playing at AJ Bell Stadium, the Sharks compete in the Aviva Premiership, having played in England's top flight since 1994.
The club reflects the core values of rugby union: teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. These values have underpinned the club's achievements and have helped build a strong winning and team mentality across all aspects of the business. In June 2016, after 16 years under Brian Kennedy's control, Sale Sharks was acquired by Manchester based corporate acquisitions and investment company CorpAcq Ltd. You can find more information about the club at www.salesharks.com.
homes4u has been matching people with property since 1990 and have established Estate and Letting Agent Branches in the City Centre and South Manchester, covering the Greater Manchester area. We aim to make moving home a stress-free experience and do so by providing outstanding levels of service. Our commitment is to help people buy or sell, let or rent a home, investment or business with integrity and professionalism. It's important that everything we do and say demonstrates this commitment and shows that we see our customers as the heart of our brand.

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Bobby Maddex intervies Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, the founder and president of St. Katherine Orthodox College in San Diego, California, about the school's recent regional accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Ancient Faith Presents: St. Katherine University!
Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, the founder and president of St. Katherine Orthodox College, about the school's new online graduate course offerings.
Ancient Faith Presents: St. Katherine College Receives "A" Rating!


Porelon® pioneered the process of extruding salt-leached thermoplastic foams.
Our ability to control factors such as pore size, density, and durometer, make Porelon® foams highly adaptable.
With precise control over pore size, fluid viscosity and pore density, Porelon® gels, and specialty inks are dominant for hand stamps, fingerprinting pads, lumber and carton marking equipment.
We manufacture and sell a vast array of inking products for calculators, cash registers, printers and, yes, even typewriters!


I²CDriver is an easy-to-use, open-source tool for controlling I²C devices. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux and has a built-in color screen that shows a live "dashboard" of all the I²C activity. The 61 x 49mm board is equipped with a Silicon Labs EFM8 controller and an FTDI USB serial chip to connect devices to a PC via a micro-USB connection, so no special drivers need to be installed. The board includes a separate 3.3-V supply with voltage and current monitoring.
In addition, it continuously displays an address map of all attached I²C devices, so as you connect a device, it lights up on the map.
Excamera Labs has surpassed its Crowd Supply goals for three versions of the I²CDriver, all scheduled for shipment on Feb. 5, 2019. The $29 I²CDriver Core model is limited to 3x sets of hookup jumpers. The $61 I2CDriver Expert adds support for 16x I2C modules and 3x module carrier boards. The $79 I²CDriver Gold advances to 20x I²C modules and 4x carriers and gives you a custom USB serial ID.


How did Spartanburg get that nickname? Find out with this educational poster!
Posters are shipped rolled. Online price includes cost of shipping container. For best price, visit the Spartanburg Regional History Museum gift shop!


Warthog Archery Targets is an industry leader in supplying affordable, high quality foam archery targets to all experience and skill levels. Our goal is to make the experience of practice and competitive shooting rewarding and enjoyable for everyone.
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Through product and process innovation, Warthog guarantees its customers affordable, high quality foam archery targets which have unmatched consistent performance and durability.


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Q: Magnitude of charge and mass from cloud chamber I was reading the anderson original article on the discovery of the positron, but I can't figure out how he estimated the charge and mass. The paper : https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.43.491

A: through an external magnetic field, the charged symbols and the charge-mass ratio can be known.


The trapeze trestle is a classical product used in the child gymnastics and school sports sector. Clear contours and lightweight features serve to facilitate easy handling while catering for a whole variety of different applications. No matter whether the focus is on climbing, vaulting, crawling or balancing activities, a trapeze trestle poses ample challenge when used for role-playing games or fitness obstacle trails. The trapeze trestle is also suitable for use in conjunction with Erzi wave or roller slides.


Like it or not, Luxembourg has been the tax haven of choice of many corporations and mega-rich individuals around the world since the 1970s. Its tagline could be 'Global Capitalism R Us'. It thrives as piggy bank for the wealthy because of economic stability and huge tax incentives, a magnet for companies. In fact, its half-a-million residents, about the same number as Edinburgh, owes its population size to foreigners who account for nearly half of Luxembourg's population.
It has a parliamentary democracy that helps produce lots of Nobel Prize winners, yet is most famous for being very small but not as small as Liechtenstein. Well …..
Luxembourg is independent. And sovereign.
Scotland take note: For a small nation it wields a lot of influence. Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), United Nations, NATO, and Benelux. It is also the site of the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors, the Statistical Office of the European Communities ("Eurostat") and other vital EU organs. The Secretariat of the European Parliament is located in Luxembourg, but the Parliament meets in Brussels, sometimes in Strasbourg. Senior readers will remember Radio Luxembourg was the first to broadcast pop music to the UK shunned by the BBC. At the last count there were 30 registered film production companies, some are English companies.
A secular state, by all accounts the population of Luxembourg is very happy. So, what do Luxembourgers have to complain about? Traffic. Lots of it.
With most inhabitants owning two vehicles of some sort you'd expect roads to be busy and you'd be correct. They're gridlocked a lot of the day.
In an effort to reduce traffic congestion and the environmental impact of cars, Luxembourg announced plans to become the first country in the world to abolish transportation charges. Young people under 20 years of age already travel free on buses, trams and trains but this is a bold move.
The country's coalition government led by Prime Minister Xavier Bettel promises to remove fares on trains, trams and buses nationwide by next summer. A clever clogs in a government office calculated that it cost almost as much to collect fares – staff, ticket machines, turnstyles, and process them than profits garnered from passengers.
Will it reduce the number of cyclists? (Cue first homicidal cyclist to post the comment cycling is healthier!) Luxembourg City has well laid out cycling grids, so I don't see cyclists switching permanently, only in the worst weather.
Driving a car is often a selfish task. Avoiding the envious stares of cold, wet and late for work stragglers waiting at bus stops is a manifestation of the selfish gene. Your car is your private compartment, heater and radio on, often carrying empty seats. (My Smart has one empty seat. It helps reduce my feelings of guilt.) Not having to endure the hustle and bustle of old, young, and the looney on peak-time city buses is a blessing for some.
However one issue Luxembourg authorities will need to face head-on – how to handle First or Business class. Will passengers be charged for privileged seats and meals? Might it mean deletion of posh classes? That leaves the problem of drivers 'just passing through' Luxembourg. Why make room for more of them? I can foresee battles ahead.
The move to free transports marks a victory for the left-wing Socialist Workers' Party and the Greens. They campaigned on a promise of increased environmental protection and improved public services.
Scotland has free bus travel for pensioners. Could free transport for all be a contingent of an independent Scotland? Bettel's coalition government is also considering legalizing cannabis in addition to the introduction of two new public holidays, including "Europe Day" on May 9. That's what an independent country can do.
Next election, which party will be the first to put those items in its manifesto?
Regular readers will know one of my hobby horses is too many cars flooding the market place. Overproduction causes communities to expand and rely on the local manufacturer for livelihoods. A sales slump, and everybody is a casualty. Volkswagen will slim down its model portfolio, streamline the number of variants offered and increase vehicle costs in a bid to improve profitability. The price hike is surely one result of Dieselgate fines and VW's loss of customers. VW sold almost 84,000 Golfs in Germany in 2018 with more than 58,000 models in different configurations. VW intends to remove poor-selling engine and trim variants. VW will axe 25 percent of its engine and gearbox variants in Europe, concentrating on the high-demand variants, to simplify production. This is part of VW's "pact for the future," to reduce costs by 3 billion Euros by 2020. I guarantee other major manufacturers will follow suit, indeed are planning cuts now.
A bored moment found me looking at which cars sell the most in Scottish cities. We like to think ourselves endowed with individual taste yet we tend to buy what others buy. Taking the capital first for the top selling models, Edinburgers bought all sorts of VW Golfs, the VW Tiguan SUV, Land Rover Discovery, Nissan Qashqai and Ford Fiesta. Glaswegians bought similarly but the Mercedes A class was in their top five – probably there by Uber taxi drivers – and it preferred the VW Golf R. Dundee doesn't much like Mercs and instead does as Edinburgh does by putting the Kia Sportage and Audi 3 in its top five. Inverness likes the SEAT Ateos, and Dumfries the Skoda Kodiaq.
In time good drivers develop a sixth sense about the driving habits of other knights of the road, those in front and those behind. I am usually right in thinking the one in front will run backwards on the road's slope at the traffic lights soon as he or she releases the handbrake. I keep at least a car's length behind them, enough to swing left or right out of harm's way. This annoys the hell out of the driver in the queue behind me who has the weird idea that if he can push me to close the gap it will shorten his travelling time. What I can't predict is the behaviour of the drunk driver. It's festive time, folks. Be wary. This is the time of year when our feelings of affection for our fellow mankind are tested to the limit – and some of them are pedestrians! The Brexit fiasco and a laggard Scotland dragging its feet over a second referendum will drive anybody to excessive drink.
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Free public transport in the dense population areas might reduce city congestion here but I don't think it can address getting around in rural areas. There may of course be a sensible reasoned solution to this but I'm mig welded to the flexibility and convenience my car gives me so I'm not predisposed to see it. Using public transport in rural areas is I'm afraid, a cold, wet, miserable experience where every second spent waiting in a draughty bus shelter or exposed to the elements at an open bus stop feels like 2 weeks. That's not even taking into account the often long, cold wet miserable walk to the bus stop and back.
Public transport, argh! They'll have to pry my steering wheel from my cold dead fingers.
Yes, the Luxembourg solution is mainly a city solution. But as Edinburgh and Glasgow, to take two examples, clamp down on inner city car use, we either pay for taxis – not a choice for the poorest among us – or we get free transport as compensation.


The Holstein Breed Age Average (BAA%) value provides a way to compare the score of an animal (and herd average) to the average of the breed, taking into account age of the animal and stage of lactation. All animals receive an individual BAA value on your herd classification report, and herds participating in the Classic or Standard options of the Holstein Classification program receive an overall BAA for the herd. To learn more about how BAA is calculated, visit the Classification page and click on the BAA tab.
For the purposes of these lists, if a herd classified twice in a year (between 1/1/2017 and 12/31/2017) and received an official herd BAA for both classifications, only the most recent BAA was used. To appear on these lists, a herd must have at least 10 cows included in the BAA calculation.
In 2017, 1,303 herds had a BAA value eligible for inclusion in these lists. The average number of cows included in the BAA calculation for the entire group was 64, and the average BAA% was 106.5.


Here are some of my favourite things from February 2018.
90 Days of Waking Up at 5am. Since December 2017, I've been waking up at 5am. I learned about the #5amclub from Robin Sharma and thought it seemed like a good fit for my lifestyle. Ninety days later I'm happy to confirm it's a legitimate habit I'm sticking too. I reflect on my day, learn about a predetermined topic, and go to the gym all before I arrive at work for 8:30 ready to focus on clients.
Debt Free. I've cancelled my credit cards and simply lived on my new Monzo debit card all month (a January favourite!). It's a great feeling to have no debt building up, and I'm making smarter decisions with my money to save a few £ each week; I've made peace with forgoing air miles. Examples of savings include asking Reiss staff for extra discount on sale item(£8 extra off!), buying a product in store to avoid shipping charges (£3.50 plus 500 extra steps), and discovering frozen fruit at Tescos (so much cheaper — why has no one ever told me about this before?!?).
Slack. We are loving it in the office, great way to share content/conversations and easy to dip in and out when needs be.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Simply amazing.
Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. Read my blog post here about it.
Yoval Noah Harrari on James Altucher's podcast. If you want to understand the entire world and why things are the way they are, just read his books.
Sleep phones. So I can fall asleep listening to e-books without disrupting others 😉. Revolutionary for anyone who hates listening to their partner's content at bed time.
How Social Media is Ruining your life YT video by a 16 year old sage regarding the deep implications of social media on our lives.
Oblix in The Shard. Mind blowing food and wonderful view, the cocktails were delicious too!
Baking. I have never baked before, but as a YouTube addict I have watched others bake. So in February I tried out some vegan treats myself including peanut butter cookies, banana bread, and oatmeal cookies. My BlueGlass team and rock climbing crew seemed to enjoy all three as there was nothing left.
Jackfruit. Strangest fruit ever, it looks like meat but it's a fruit. Delicious.
1 pull up. I can now do a pull up for the first time in my life! This was a goal I set myself for the start of 2018 and I'm so excited to take it to the next level and do 2 pull ups, then 3, etc. When I get to 20 this will be a huge deal for me.
Harrowall ("Harrow Wall"). New climbing centre in Harrow, open three weeks ago and I've been twice. So much variety across 38,000 sq ft, it's a little Mecca.
I'm on the far right, learning to balance so I can join the others eventually.
Holland and Barrett. English people don't laugh at me, but I never knew what happened in this 1980's colour combo shop until this past month — if Whole Foods was British and next door to your high street optometrist it would be H&B. This weekend they had a mad deal on cashews, I bought 2 giant bags for £15.
H&M workout clothes. Again — a mega cheap alternative to Lulu Lemon and the quality 4 weeks in of hard wear seems quite good. I bought two pairs of leggings and matching tops — it makes me want to work out even more!


French designer Ferréol Babin studied space design and architecture before realizing that he loved designing products and creative objects more. A one year residence at Benetton's Fabrica soon followed, further shaping the designer's distinctive style. His projects combine "a poetic and emotional dimension" with thoughtful and functional design. The Magma series has a strong artistic tone, transforming ordinary lighting into sculptural pieces. Handmade from wood with tinted Jesmonite – a water-based casting resin – the two lamps not only provide a play between minimal design and art, but they also highlight the relationship between light and darkness.
One-of-a-kind and eye-catching, the LED lamps boast a textured surface and color contrasts. Magma I features black and pink tones, while Magma II comes with a classic combination of black and white. You can find both lamps on the website of Miami-based Aybar Gallery, with prices available upon request. Photographs© Ferréol Babin and Aybar Gallery.


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Let It Go: 8 Quotes to Help Manage Our Anger
Kristal Sapien
I compiled a list of 8 helpful quotes to help manage our anger and to remind us to let it go talk it out and find our happy place!
8 Quotes to Help Manage Our Anger
"Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you." -Joel Osten
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." -Buddha
"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke. Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say." – Jules Renard
"When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans." – Margaret J. Wheatley
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"Anger is most constructive when it is used to solve a problem, rather than merely to prove a point or vent your feelings." – Beverly Engel
"Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison." – Frank Lawlis
"Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You have to make a choice." – Jim
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Erected in the centre of the Jewish district in Wrocław between 1827 and 1829 and named after an inn that occupied the site previously, the White Stork Synagogue has been the locus of religious, political and cultural performances for almost two hundred years as well as a destination for the city's residents, tourists and dignitaries – including the likes of the Dalai Lama.1 To account for the sheer magnetism of the Four Temples District and the White Stork Synagogue one has to engage different spatial and ideological frames or, as our title suggests, symbolic borders, in order to explore the links between architecture, space, socio-cultural contexts, and the performance narratives offered by the interplay among them.
The concept of a border or frame relies on relational logic. Just as difference can produce meaning, the city feeds on heterogeneity as much as on frictions between identities, groups, and districts. Tagged by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse as the microcosm of Central Europe, Wrocław boasts a multinational history firmly inscribed in its architecture.2 Davies and Moorhouse claim that the Jewish community in what was then called Wrotizli could have already existed in the 11th century.3 However, the treacherous tide of Wrocław's history has not always been kind to Jews. Having been expelled from the city (named Vretslav at the time) in the 1450s, the Jewish community was once again allowed inside the city walls in 1744.4 Continuing with the water metaphor, one might point to the 19th-century rise of nationalism as the main current washing over the long tradition of Jewish culture in Wrocław. Since the 18th century, Jews from Wrocław could settle between the two moats, in the vicinity of what is now the Four Temples District.5 This assigning of a specific location and the relative isolation from the larger community it suggested became more significant in the post-1864 period when, as Joanna Beata Michlic writes in Poland's Threatening Other, '[t]he myth of the Jew as the harmful other in all aspects of Polish national existence emerged'.6 The advent of this myth coincided with the introduction of the term 'anti-Semitism' by Wilhelm Marr in 1879, and the growing nationalist sentiments sweeping across Europe at the time. Yet, Davies and Moorhouse stress that at the turn of the 19th century Jews were very much integrated with the local community of Breslau.7 The second decade of the 20th century saw the Jewish community flourish; but the traumatic events of the Second World War and Nazi racial policies led to the decimation of the city's Jewish community. Following the war, Wrocław became a Polish city once again and a major transit point for many Jews escaping the Soviet Union as well as home to some of the remnants of Polish Jewry. During the communist era, especially after the purges of 1968, most of the Jews who had settled in the city emigrated. However, since 1990 there has been a resurgence of Jewish community life in Wrocław around the rebuilt White Stork Synagogue.
Davies' and Moorhouse's history helps one understand the heterogeneity of Wrocław and its importance for the Jewish community. The understanding is nowhere more evident than the way in which the White Stork Synagogue survived the war and the anti-Semitism of the Communist regime. The Synagogue, though badly damaged and abandoned, was not raised to the ground, primarily because it is physically connected to the surrounding complex of buildings and therefore could only have been destroyed completely if the buildings around it suffered the same fate.8 This architectural integration and how it ensured a confirmation of the city's Jewish history is more than a simply fact, however; it is also a symbolic metaphor of the bond between the Jewish community and the city of Wrocław that can partially explain post-war Poland's political history.
As already mentioned, the White Stork Synagogue is situated in The Four Temples District, a section of the inner-city defined by four different places of worship – the Synagogue, the Roman Catholic Church of Anthony of Padua, the Orthodox Birth of Holy Mother of God Church, and the Evangelical-Augsburg Church of Divine Providence. The district is delineated by the following Streets: Kazimierza Wielkiego, Pawła Włodkowica, Krupnicza, and St. Anthony; the latter three and Bohaterów Getta square mark the Jewish section of the district. In keeping with its original, the White Stork Synagogue sits on one side of a charming, old-world courtyard and is integrated into a complex of buildings. The most direct route to the Synagogue from the city centre is through an almost hidden, decorated passageway walled by buildings and garages that runs along one-side of the Synagogue. The most striking entrance is through the arched gate that connects the courtyard in front of the Synagogue with Pawła Włodkowica Street. The multi-storied Synagogue's white facade, which is in stark contrast to the factory-like raw brick buildings around it, offers a prominent architectural backdrop to the courtyard when seen for the first time from this entrance; while the gate, the dark arched passageway behind it, and the old-fashioned lamp hanging from its ceiling provides an air of 19th century charm.
The White Stork Synagogue is constructed in a neo-classical style, in keeping with the other buildings around it. The entire complex bears traces of an industrial, factory-like, architecture, underscored by its dirty coloured brick facade. A sign on one of the walls adjacent to the Synagogue indicates that the majority of the buildings were constructed between 1900–1901; but the Synagogue, designed by Carl Ferdinand Langhans in 1829, pre-dates the other buildings by close to 70 year.9 The four high windows viewed from the front of the Synagogue give the impression of a structure serving a public function. The Synagogue has three entry doors, two at the front facing the main courtyard and one on the decorated passageway side of the building. There are no clear indicators of the building's purpose, other than a menorah visible through one of the windows and a small copula in the centre of the roof.
The interior of the Synagogue is divided into three horizontal and vertical architectural areas. The horizontal areas consist of the main worship/prayer space on the ground floor, a large reception area as one enters from the courtyard that runs along the entire back of the worship space, and a long, wide corridor on one side of the worship space leading to the stairs that access the building's upper floors. Meanwhile, the building is three stories tall with the ground floor containing the main large worship area and the two floors above it consisting of wide corridor-like balconies that overlook the large worship area below. Both balconies can serve as the traditional women's gallery during religious services as well as spaces for overflow crowds at events held in the temple and as exhibition halls from time to time (during our site visit in September 2011, for example, the second and third floors housed exhibitions exploring the histories of the White Stork Synagogue and the Jewish communities in Wrocław).
Mirroring its interior architecture, the temple's religious purpose can be divided into three sacred areas: the main worship/prayer space for the congregation; the open area directly below the copula that allows natural (God's?) light to illuminate the symbol most often associated with Judaism, the Star of David, contained within a circle that is embedded in the floor towards the front of the congregation; and the area in front of the congregation for the chief celebrants (the Rabbi, the Cantor etc.,) framed against the backdrop of the most important religious matrix in the synagogue, the majestic white Ark decorated in gold filigree containing the Torah scrolls, which is both a symbol and, for the faithful, an incarnation of the sacred that portends a door to a mystical 'other' world.
The spiritual character of the Synagogue is obviously rooted in the Jewish faith and is informed by the troubled history of Polish Jewry. This atmosphere of historical confirmation and the sacred is evident to anyone with even a scant understanding of European history who enters the building, whether one is Jewish or not. But, the commitment to a faith manifest in architecture and the implicit affirmation that 'we are still here as a people' writ large in the restored building on the site of the original Synagogue has a special resonance for the Jewish community and especially for Jewish believers.
Yet for a nation steeped in Catholicism, the most striking architectural feature of the building is how the sacred is manifest. Unlike most large inner-city catholic churches in Poland, in which a monumental darkness of stone and dark wooden walls contrasted with votive candles and shafted light filtered through large stained glass windows illuminating magnificent statues of icons of the faith watching over the main altar and numerous small chapels off to the side of the central naive, the White Synagogue is a generous, single open space filled with natural light from the large windows overlooking the main worship/prayer area. The natural light is complimented with bright open-white interior lighting and exterior light filtered through warmly tinted glass at the tops of several of the large windows. The combination of warm lighting and mostly white walls that reflect the warmth is in stark contrast with the convention of the architectural sacred in Polish Catholicism. The fact that the space at the front of the congregation in the White Synagogue is changed according to its use function, from that of the bema where the Torah is read during religious services to a stage for performances and simply removed altogether for certain social functions, only adds to the contrast with most catholic churches in which the altar is a lavish, permanent architectural statement reflecting the ethos of spiritual consequence and the eternity of religious truth underlying it.
The courtyard in front of the Synagogue is flanked by the Mleczarnia café, one part of which sits in the shade a fully grown chestnut tree. The café, cluttered with vintage tables and chairs that extend into the courtyard and decorated with pictures of Jewish life in the city, hosts its Jewish character in much the same way the city does today: as an integrated but distinctly recognizable part of a heterogeneous city's present and past. However, as with much of Wrocław's past, history is never far away; it was this very same charming courtyard, in front of the Synagogue, that the Nazis transformed into an open-air prison where the region's Jews were held prior to being sent to the Terezin concentration camp where most died.
The courtyard is confirmation that the renovated White Stork Synagogue of the 21st century is not limited to its footprint, its striking white neoclassical facade, its architectural manifestation of the sacred filtered through Judaism, or its deeply significant meaning for both the local and wider Jewish community. It is rather a larger site of multiple performative tropes that encompass the building and the courtyard that hosts it. It is on this wider stage that one of the many narratives that is present-day Poland is played out; a narrative that speaks of a booming city which is very much part of a larger Western Europe but equally one interwoven with themes of an often troubled history and a Jewish community that remains part of its story.
The courtyard is a palimpsest of meanings. In the late summer of 2011 when we visited the Synagogue, for instance, the courtyard offered a secluded oasis from the hustle and bustle of nearby noisy traffic and hectic city life. Yet, its sequestered liminality is countered by the fact that it is one of several semi-secluded public city-owned spaces in the larger city of Wrocław that are to play an important public role in 2016 when the city is to become the European Capital of Culture. Its private/public face aside, it is also a space between the Jewish matrix of belief, social mores, and cultural expression manifest in the Synagogue that dominates the courtyard and the wider community of the city. It also suggests a segue into the specific history of Polish Jewry framed inside the larger chronicle of the nation's history and by extension, of Europe's (and Poland's) current struggles to come to terms with socio-ethnic tensions. Tensions such as those generated by aspirations of multiculturalism in various parts of the continent, others between the desire for inclusion and the realities of exclusion that are so troublesome in tropes of nationalism, and tensions bred by the need for mutual respect among different ethnic, religious and/or social groups that goes to the heart of Europe's struggle to move beyond platitudes about engaging with genuine cultural change.
Krzysztof Nawratek observes in Miasto jako idea polityczna (City as a Political Idea) that heterogeneity is the core marker of the city. He writes that to manage this heterogeneity, minority groups within a city are often contained within particular districts to which different functions are assigned.11 Though hardly a minority district per se, the Four Temples District embodies some of the functions typical of the more ethically marked zones of cities such as London or New York, the major one being the tourist function. Under the guise of tourism, the entire district, and the White Stork Synagogue in particular, acquire meaning by contrasting them with what lies outside their borders. Being marked most definitively by a religious referent, much of the site's attraction, for Poles at least, draws on the hegemony of Catholicism in Polish religious discourse. Yet the cultural life of the Synagogue, mixing a religious and socio-cultural function with Jewish and non-Jewish repertoires, reveals an openness that allows space for transformation that will perhaps leave those who enter it with a fresh view on the Polish-Jewish relationships.
Important as it is, this relationship is but one facet of a larger tale. The Synagogue and its courtyard are part of a multilayered chronicle that engages the religious, historical, political, cultural and social dimensions of its city. If viewed as a performance text write large, the Synagogue and its courtyard are a stage upon which a multitude of scenes that are a part of this chronicle are played out day and night, both outdoors and inside the building. The scene changes can be hourly, daily, historical, and/or cyclical (in terms of cycles, for example, there are: the rhythms of the seasons, with their designated holy days and dates for festival programming; the rhythms of the week, with Saturday as the main religious day; and the changing rhythms of day and night, with the various activities each brings). The transformations wrought by these scene changes provide us (the ethnographers as well as other actors) with different scenarios and various readings understood within the context of the White Stork Synagogue's role in the city's larger plotline.
As in any theatre, it is the setting, actors, spectators and audiences who provide meaning. The people in and around the courtyard perceive signs and act upon them. People who live in Wrocław can be mere passers-by, active spectators, or participants in cultural events; visitors, meanwhile, often have scripts supplied by brochures to follow (some obtained at the Jewish information centre just round the corner from the Synagogue) others move more intuitively through the space.
The Synagogue building is itself a performer of sorts, with numerous roles in the various tropes it is part of: a symbol of the living Jewish faith, a confirmation of history and the survival of a people, an architectural jewel in an already beautiful city, and a partial affirmation of religious harmony as one of the four temples, to name but a few. Similarly, the interior of the building embraces numerous personas as it transforms from a place of worship to an exhibition gallery, a concert hall or a dance floor. In keeping with these various roles, the Synagogue plays to its different audiences: the Jewish community, the local authorities, the citizens of the city, the tourists it attracts, and those it entertains (and in many instances informs) with its cultural programming. In short, the White Stork Synagogue is an urban theatre piece framed by its history, manifest in its architecture, in the space in contains, in its socio-cultural context and in the playing out of the ritual and mundane, the sacred and the profane.
2. Davies, Norman and Moorhouse, Roger, Microcosm. Portrait of a Central European City. London: Pimlico, 2003, p. xvi.
4. Ibid. pp. 128, 136–138, 183, 228.
5. Łagiewski, Maciej. Wrocławscy Żydzi 1850–1944. Wrocław: Muzeum Miasta Wrocławia 2010, p. 13.
6. Michlic, Joanna Beata. Poland's Threatening Other. The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present. Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press, p. 24.
7. Davies, Moorhouse, Microcosm..., p. 308.
8. Since there were limitations on what the Nazi's could do to the building given its connection with surrounding buildings, they vented their ideological fury on the interior of the building, which was totally destroyed.
9. Carl Ferdinand Langhans (14 January 1782 – 22 November 1869) was a famous Prussian architect born in Breslau (i.e., current day Wrocław) with a special interest in theatre architecture. His designs included opera houses in Berlin, Leipzig, and Breslau as well as the Berlin Palace of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
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A drug addicted heroin abuser drinks methadone to alleviate the sickness feelings a person gets from withdrawal.
A "junkie" can stay on meth. for as long as they want to. I know people who have been on it for over 35 years now. It's the most difficult treatment to get off of and that's why so many ppl. stay on it for soo long usually.
They have outpatient facilities called Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs MMTP all over New York City in all 5 boros. In England, they don't use methadone to get off of heroin. They use heroin to get off of heroin at drug stores they administer it with a needle (syringe) for the "junkie".
So, your friend can use methadone for a long time to come in the United States. After a while, it's no longer a substitute, but it becomes a drug in of itself, since heroin then gets out of the picture altogether. In New York the drug programs accept medicaid as full payment and others that aren't privately owned, go on a sliding scale fee for deciding on how much a person pays each month. I know that in some other parts of the USA, as well as privately owned methadone pgs. can run you anywhere from $ 30 a day and up. A friend of mine in NY pays $ 22 a month at a city run out-patient program. I have no idea if the meth. treatment is considered as socialized medicine in Europe, whereby it would then be for free, no charge.


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One can never be certain with the Conservatives whether they know that to conserve does not have to mean to hinder.
Having done its best to conserve the economy by locking it in a dark room for two years, warning it not to go outside for fear of a miasma stalking the land, it is now applying that approach to the recovery, jacking up taxes disproportionately on the young and optimistic lest they get the mistaken idea that the worst is over.
We can be under no illusion that the pandemic's after-effects were not going to be painful. However, it does seem worth wailing when, in its conserving zeal, the government seeks to row back on what positives emerged from the pandemic.
Working from home began as a necessity, what with the pestilence knocking at the windows, but soon morphed from a temporary quirk into a way of life. For many, it was hell to sit in their boxers while colleagues peered through laptop screens at their furnishings — another indignity and invasion of privacy to be resisted, no matter what they were told was to be the "new normal".
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But many have found it liberating not to endure the daily traipse of the commute, adding hours to their days, conserving energy, and using both these precious resources to improve professional output and life in general. Working from home was a godsend for those cash-strapped — even before the dastardly virus merrily made its way over the Channel to a country where transportation and rented housing in our major cities are both poor quality and staggeringly expensive.
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The government, though, doesn't seem like this idea. Jacob Rees-Mogg is often unfairly depicted as from the era of the workhouse, but he has done himself no favours by conducting checks of government departments to end the "work from home culture". Meanwhile, a story in today's Telegraph warned that home working would make it easier for Russian hackers to infiltrate government systems. Reds under the bed, but for the digital age.
The irony is, the civil service does have issues when it comes to productivity (and, as Priti Patel is finding out, even doing what it's told). Home internet networks, meanwhile, are indeed vulnerable. But productivity tends to be an issue of a pre-existing culture — one that has no doubt contributed to many state computer systems being substandard themselves.
Hybrid working isn't perfect — or even viable — in all industries. But where it works, it should be encouraged, for both productivity and quality of life. A pro-free market, family-friendly Tory party should want to conserve both these things, not hinder them.
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"I applaud the Administration for prioritizing Indian and Native American Development for the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina. These grants will help the next generation of Lumbee thrive with bolstered workforce training and youth services for all age groups. While I continue to fight for the Lumbee's rightful federal recognition, I am glad to see this investment of federal resources to promote economic opportunity in Lumbee communities" said Rep. Bishop.
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'We were receiving up to 100 calls per day in the early weeks so helped distribute to the elderly and vulnerable across the Island. Since then, we have worked hard with our local partners to establish a permanent offering and support our local communities so are now immensely proud to be able to do that.'
The scheme launches today, Monday 16 November, with a range of almost 5,000 products, including bakery, cupboard staples, fresh food and laundry, along with household and pet food items. Co-op members will receive their dividend through the new initiative and the service will develop over time.
Jersey Post will run the new food delivery service independently from postal operations and the company will utilise a dedicated fleet of vans. Deliveries are scheduled between Mondays and Saturdays and orders will be fulfilled within 24 hours unless placed on a Saturday, as they will be received on the Monday.
Mr Cox added: 'It is an ongoing process for us and we will develop this over time following testing and learning with customers. We will improve the functionality of the site and listen to customer feedback to improve what we are offering.'
Niall McClure, managing director of post and logistics at Jersey Post said: 'We are delighted to join forces with the Co-op as it launches the online supermarket delivery service. Throughout the pandemic, Jersey Post has assisted islanders with prescription delivery services and the logistics that get all Covid-19 tests to the UK labs for analysis. Delivering Co-op groceries ordered online is the next innovation, and we look forward to the service growing in popularity.'
The Society believes it is important to support local businesses so recruited digital agency Webreality to build the platform.
Webreality director Mark Evans said: 'The Co-op's food delivery website marks a real milestone in Jersey retailing. As long-standing champions of local online retail, we've really valued being involved in the project. The Co-op is a large organisation with complex existing systems and processes. We've enjoyed the challenge of collaborating with many others to simplify that complexity and give customers an easy way to do the weekly shop online. We look forward to helping with its ongoing development.'
Anybody ordering a shopping list which contains age restricted products will be asked to verify their age with age verification app, Yoti. The Co-op was the first retailer in the Channel Islands to start accepting the digital identity app in their stores.
Customers can place orders through www.channelislands.coop/online-groceries/
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Iran awakening : from prison to peace prize, one woman's struggle at the crossroads of history, Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni
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I've watched the first 5 episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" season 3 and, so far — I like it. It's still very "on the edge" and very intriguing (as opposed to, I don't know, "Lost"?). But the fifth episode ("Collaborators") kind of annoyed me. Of course, it all had to happen, it's a plausible consequence of war, yadda3, but it just seemed a bit…weird. I can't put a finger on what exactly bugged me, but I know that I don't usually shout "Oh, come on!" every 5 minutes when watching my favorite TV show.
After reading about "Heroes" on Blogography, I just had to see the show (not because Mr. Simmer didn't like the first two episodes, but simply because it's SF — I felt obligated, you know?). So I sat down and watched the first two episodes. And then, a couple days later, I watched the next four in a row. I guess the conclusion is obvious: I like it a lot. And yes, it's not exactly a fast-paced show, but I feel it's got just the right tempo. It kept me occupied for 3 hours without even thinking about the time and I'm really looking forward to the next episodes. Hopefully, the creators won't blow this one.
What else… Oh — it seems that I'm not the only one with a poor purple monkey. Here's a post on B3TA boards that clearly shows another case of the, ahem, eye disorder.
Industri has entered a beta phase and I'm looking forward to testing it out. Tig has ported it to Doom3 engine and I just hope he'll find time to finish it one day.
I've coded the HTML for Up&Underground magazine's website. It runs on WordPress 2.0.4 with some minor tweaks. The site is in Croatian. It was designed by my friend Lina Kovacevic.
I've ported my own site to WP (locally), but I have yet to find the time and the will to upload it and replace the current version. I didn't touch the design due to lack of time (I'm back in 'school' once again) and ideas. That also means that I've skipped the November CSS Reboot, but it seems I'm not the only one. I guess the event has lost its charm, and it probably takes a B. Adam Howell (where's he hiding lately?) charisma to pull it off properly.
James Brown performs in Zagreb today. I didn't want to go. I just don't like him. He is the funktastic break-the-beat-and-hit-me daddy-o, but I'm not really a fan. I know who he is, and I'm thankful for the beats and inspiration, but that's it. Also, I must say that I was quite disappointed by Public Enemy's performance last month. They were so bad that I had to get dead drunk and bow down to the porcelain god the next morning. Their comic sucked too.
In my own humble words of conclusion, Microsoft's Expression Web designer (why not stick with Frontpage, eh?) is a solid copy of Dreamweaver, but with standard Office look. It's a good tool (as far as I can tell, from my brief encounter), but it'll have to be half the price of Dreamweaver when it comes out, if it's to succeed. Time will tell.


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Home › Student Health and Wellbeing › Third down and long for student athletes?
College football games represent so much more than two teams running, passing and tackling: At play each Saturday in September and October are massive implications for the legal rights for students and institutions. That cute and funny mascot? Oh, there are intellectual property and copyright issues with implications to multi-million branding campaigns. Students partying? Um, what about school's liabilities and responsibilities?
Last week, a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the NCAA is within its rights to restrict colleges from paying anything more than tuition for its student-athletes. Although student-athletes have increasingly been making demands that they should share in the revenue from football and basketball games they play in, the judges' ruling further entrenches the standard that colleges do not need to pay student-athletes.
The case arises from a complaint by a former UCLA basketball player, Ed O'Bannon—and is representative of many similar complaints, formal and informal. In 2009, O'Bannon sued the NCAA for a portion of earnings generated by using his name and image in TV broadcasts and video games. At the time, his attorneys argued that the use of his likeness helped generate millions of dollars and, quite simply, he was entitled to a slice of that lucrative pie.
The NCAA pushed back with the standard argument, saying that college athletes are amateurs and providing profit-sharing would amount to pay-for-play and distort college sports beyond anything recognizable.
On Wednesday, September 30, the three-judge panel agreed, and sided with the NCAA.
That legal opinion redoubles the prevailing attitude. In August, the National Board of Labor Relations (NBLR) rejected a ruling that NCAA student-athletes qualify as "employees" for the college, and yanked the rug out from underneath an attempt by football players at Northwestern to unionize.
Although the two recent requests by student-athletes to expand their rights and financial claims have been defeated, by these cases reaching such high levels of consideration—the full administrative board of NLRB in the Northwestern football players' case, and the Ninth Circuit for the UCLA case—there is an indication about the seriousness with which these cases are being treated.
The second issue to emerge from football games came from Syracuse University, which banned the use of the so-called "kiss cam" at a recent—and subsequent—football games.
At first blush, the kiss cam may seem innocuous enough: A couple sitting in the stands is shown on the jumbotron and encouraged to kiss each other.
But, one student was not so smitten with the kiss cam at a recent football game.
After a September 12 match between Syracuse and Wake Forest, a male student wrote a letter to the school's newspaper saying he saw two incidents when men kissed two women who were clearly saying no. He indicated that such behavior could constitute sexual assault.
In response, Syracuse has stopped the kiss cam feature at its home football games. There are no reports yet whether any other colleges have followed suit.


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Located in a genuine oasis of sun and sea, the Majorcan capital is a veritable treasure trove. Take one of our cheap flights to Palma and discover a beautiful city with a wealth of art and history, which also serves as the perfect base…
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Located in a genuine oasis of sun and sea, the Majorcan capital is a veritable treasure trove. Take one of our cheap flights to Palma and discover a beautiful city with a wealth of art and history, which also serves as the perfect base for visiting the rest of the Island of Majorca.
Lose yourself in its charming Old Town, home to Palma Cathedral, an architectural jewel dating back to the Middle Ages, which overlooks the bay and is beautifully illuminated at night. Right next door, you will find the Almudaina Royal Palace, a fortified, raised palace, built on the old Muslim fortress, and the Lonja, one of the island's most beautiful buildings, where traders used to meet.
But a trip to Palma is not just about monuments. The city boasts many interesting museums and art galleries, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (also known as 'Es Baluard'), which houses works by Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, Miró, Barceló and Schnabel, and the 'Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation', which exhibits graphic works by the Catalan painter.
Once out of the Old Town, head to the promenade and the wooded hill, upon which you will find the Castle of Bellver, built by James II of Majorca in the 14th century. This is one of the few circular castles in Europe, offering the best views of the city, the port and the Tramontana mountain rage.


Dr. Eugene C. Rajaratnam "Dr. Raj", founder of California Wellness Institute, offers a scope of services from regenerative medicine, stem cell and non-invasive cancer therapies. Patients are evaluated to find reasons that cause illness, improve nutrition and get patients to achieve their ideal weight, reverse disease, assist in removing toxic medications, identify hormone imbalance to optimize complete transformation of your health and wellbeing. Call now to take control.


Selling did not change for centuries… until now. The reason selling did not change was lack of technology maturity. Today, technology that facilitates sales change is available both for customers and companies. So far selling was dominantly based on a personal contact – seller and buyer trusting each other. Personal reputation was everything. Now, this method is losing its dominance.
Today customers use content to make a purchase decision before they meet anyone. The most extreme example is e-commerce. If businesses do not use e-commerce part of the role of the sales person is still replaced by digital content. A new way to sell uses digital content as a primary purchase motivator and does not rely on the sales team only.
A new way to sell has been present for a few decades already, but it was accessible only to a small number of companies, mainly e-commerce and big brands. The reason I consider this new is because the majority of businesses have not adopted it at all and those that adopted it have done so partially.
– Martech and salestech manage all customer and purchase data.
It requires much deeper integration than, for example, inbound marketing, and must be applicable to a large majority of businesses which already have successful selling methods. It includes a complete redesign of how marketing and sales work and it must result in a constant increase of content only leads year by year. A new way to sell should never be the only way to sell, but its importance will only grow. Companies that do not adopt it will not be competitive.


Child custody could be affected with number of factors. Losing your job is stressful for the family as you worry about finding another job before your savings run out. However, for parents dealing with a custody dispute, the loss of a job is even more stressful because of worrying about how the loss of income will affect child custody and child support.
The loss of your job should not have an immediate effect on your child custody. Only if losing your job results in severe poverty, then this could have an impact on child custody.
If you do not have a suitable place to live, you would need to change your child custody plans.
Child custody and child support are two separate issues. The courts usually favor a child custody plan that allows the children to spend quality time with both parents. The income level of each parent is irrelevant.
For example, If you are the non-custodial parent who has physical custody of the children every other weekend, the plan would be the same even after losing your job. Loss of your job will have a major impact on your child support obligation. If you cannot make the court-ordered child support, you need to contact the court immediately. Your payments will not automatically be reduced when you lose your job. To change or adjust a child support order, the court will review and assess the order. Any child support payments that are not made after losing your job, but before the child support order is changed, are still owed. You can only get a court order to reduce your future child support payments.
Child support payments are based on the monthly gross income of each parent, number of kids, time allocation, and other factors. A change in your monthly gross income because you lost your job could reduce your child support payments. Similarly, after experiencing an income increase, your child support payments may increase again..
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An inflatable stand up paddle board is one of our essential pieces of travel gear. Atoll Paddle Board delivers a board, pump, and sleek backpack that is comfortable enough for long hikes up to the water. Atoll is great for our rugged adventures and is small enough to fit into our Prius with Tucker running around the back seats.