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http://academyofbards.org/fanfic/a/adamallison_thechosenpath6.html | common-crawl | "You are certain of this?" Caligula asks with more than a hint of malice in his voice.
"Yes, my lord," Macro replies. The two of them are hidden away in a dark corner of the temple. Caligula's eyes are fixed on the statue of Vulcan, Roman god of fire, and the altar before it. "The priest who informed me of her visitations is a devout man not given to lying."
"Everyone is given to lying Macro if it suits their purposes," Caligula informs his subordinate.
"I would not lie to you," Macro retorts. "I have seen her myself. She appears before the altar and stands there staring at it. Then she vanishes."
"And you are certain it is her?" Caligula asks feeling his patience wearing thin. They have been here since nightfall and it is now nearly dawn. And it is the third night of such waiting. His patience is wearing thin.
"I am positive." Macro shifts his weight from one leg to another. They have been waiting a very long time and have been standing the whole time. "She is the very image of her statues in the temples."
"This had better not be a waste of time." Caligula turns his gaze from the statue to settle it upon Macro. His underling shrinks back from the glance. "I have far more important things to do than to …" His voice trails off as the temple interior is illuminated by a faint, ethereal glow. Both men turn their attention back to the statue and altar.
"There. You see my lord." Macro points at the woman dressed all in black who stands before the altar where a moment before there had been not a living soul.
"Silence," Caligula hisses. He watches the woman enraptured. For he can see that Macro was not lying or exaggerating. The woman is indeed the very form and face of Venus, Roman goddess of love. "Wait here and do not move." He points to the floor at Macro's feet to emphasize his point.
Cautiously Caligula moves out of the shadows at the back of the temple to make his way towards the altar and statue. His sandaled feet barely make a sound as he strides across the tiled floor towards his quarry. He is within mere feet of her yet she still takes no notice of him. Her head is upturned gazing into the scarred face of the statue of Vulcan. He takes a deep breath gathering his will to speak. The words flow from his lips and resonate within the confines of the area before the altar and statue.
The woman in black turns her attention from the statue to stare at the man before her.
She is even more beautiful than he could have imagined. Truly she is a goddess. And he can feel that godly presence and power humming around her. Suddenly he can feel that power gathering as she no doubt prepares to leave now that her vigil has been interrupted.
"I meant no offence, Lady Venus," Caligula intones the words suffusing them with understanding and sorrow. He kneels before her. "It is my shame to disrupt your lamentations. But you seem so sad."
Aphrodite stares down at the man kneeling before her. A moment ago she had been prepared to leave. But now something seems to compel her to linger. Something in the kindness of his words. She looks from the man back to the statue of Vulcan, the Roman personification of her love Hephaestus.
"What ails your heart, goddess?" Caligula says with the voice of longing and desire. "I crave your indulgence great Venus. It is just that I can feel your pain."
Without thinking Aphrodite answers his question. "I mourn for my lost love. Hephaestus. All temples in Greece are falling into disrepair. Statues and altars destroyed for their stone. I come here to gaze upon his face."
"I am sorry for your loss, my goddess." Caligula remains kneeling but turns his face up towards her as he speaks. "One as radiant as you should never know pain."
Aphrodite turns her gaze to the man once more. His words ring true to her. There is something in what he says. Though she cannot understand why, she trusts this mortal implicitly. "I thank you for your words. Rise." She beckons him with a gesture of recognition.
Caligula stands and even takes a step towards her. He is close enough that should he wish he could reach out and touch her. "My words hardly seem adequate for the grief of a goddess."
Aphrodite opens her mouth to reply but as she does so Caligula inhales sharply. A golden strand of vapor flows from the parted lips of the goddess of love into the waiting mouth of the ruler of Rome. It is so quick and sudden that Aphrodite does not even notice it. She feels momentarily weak and takes an awkward step backwards only managing to keep herself from falling by placing a hand on the feet of the statue.
Caligula gasps as the very essence of Venus flows into his being. It surges through him like fire. Never has the essence of another felt so powerful. But he has never tasted the essence of a god before. He recovers quickly. "My goddess. Are you well?"
Aphrodite regains her footing and balance within seconds. What was that? For the briefest of moments she felt so weak. She hears the concern in the man's voice and feels the desire to reassure him. "I am fine." She knows that isn't exactly true. What could make her feel that kind of weakness? But she doesn't want to show weakness to this man who shows her such kindness.
"Is there anything I can do to help, my goddess?" he asks. He emphasizes the word my each time in order to strengthen the connection. "It pains me to see you distressed."
With each syllable he speaks she feels herself more inclined to trust this man. It is almost as if he is a friend. But she has no friends. Except for Gabrielle. The thought of the bard saddens her more. Her gaze goes back to her love's face cast in stone. "I should go."
"I understand," Caligula says saturating his words with sympathy. "But perhaps you will return. Might we speak again? Next time of your love? Perhaps it will do your heart good to share the ache it feels." He smiles with kindness.
Perhaps it will at that, Aphrodite thinks. Yes. His words are true. It will indeed aid her heart in healing to speak to his man again. "I shall return this time tomorrow. Will you return to speak with me?"
Caligula smiles with unuttered glee. He had worried that his power would not work on the goddess. That his ability to persuade with his voice would be ineffectual against an immortal. Bu the powers and abilities passed to him by his father are apparently without limit. He bows deeply. "Of course, my goddess."
"Might I know your name?" Aphrodite asks.
"I am your humble servant Caligula," he replies while remaining bent over with his bow.
"Stand up straight," Aphrodite requests. He does as asked. "You are no servant. You are my friend." She feels an instant kinship with him as she says the word friend. "Good bye for now." She vanishes in a shower of light.
Macro rushes from the shadows to find his lord dancing like an ecstatic child. "It worked?" he asks incredulously.
"Yes Macro!" Caligula shouts and soon breaks into laughing. "It worked! I can feel her essence coursing through me."
"A goddess." Macro stares at the place where moments before Venus had stood. "You told me before how strong the essence of men made you. What then will happen as you take the life force of a goddess?"
"We shall see Macro. We shall see." Caligula continues to laugh as the sun rises on a new day in Rome.
It takes four men to drag the woman into the tent. She is still shouting and fighting against her bonds as she is thrown at Ares's feet. Ares pretends to be indifferent to her arrival, continuing to study a map on the table before him. But more than anything he wants to question her. To ask , no demand, she tell him where to find that he seeks. But that is not something the god of war would do. No. That is something a mortal in despair and anguish would do. He cannot show that kind of weakness to his men. Not if he expects to retain his command of them.
The four soldiers step back from the woman awaiting the command of their god.
"Is she the one?" Ares asks still not taking his eyes off the map but finding it harder and harder to contain his desperate attitude. The campaign against the Amazons has taken him far longer than he would have thought. And the troops are perplexed. He is constantly having to placate them with screaming tirades about how this is all a test of their faith in the god of war. But it is becoming more and more difficult. Many look askance at him as he rides his horse at the back of the army. Since when does the God of War ride a horse? One of them had asked the other day. That thought makes him aware of the pain in his backside and he becomes angry. Angry at his weakness, his mortality. He uses that rage.
"Yes Lord Ares," one of the soldiers replies. "She is the queen of this tribe."
"My name is Marga!" the woman shouts standing to her feet. "And what gives you the right to …"
Her protest is cut short when Ares turns and backwards her back to the ground. "Leave us!" he bellows. He is utterly disappointed by the sound of his own vehemence. Once that voice would have boomed across the land like thunder. Now it barely resounds in the confines of the tent.
She knows he is a man by the way he carries himself. His posture and body language scream of an insecurity that no god, of war or otherwise, would have. "What gives you the right to invade our lands? Burn our forests? Kill my sisters? Just who do you think you are?" She continues her interrupted tirade.
Xena leans in close to whisper in Ares ear. "You gonna let her talk to you like that?"
Eve slams her hand onto the tabletop. "How dare she speak to the God of War like that."
Leaning against one of the tent posts Gabrielle chuckles. "Well Ares. Going to man up or let her brow beat you like a bitch?"
"Shut up." Ares growls.
Mistakenly assuming he is talking to her Marga goes on with her protest. "I will not be silent! You will tell me why you have done this!"
Gabrielle kneels down next to the bound queen. "She's pretty uppity for someone bound and helpless. Don't you think?"
"Agreed." Xena walks around Ares to look down at the Amazon queen. "But then what does she really have to worry about? Him?" She thumbs over her shoulder towards Ares.
Eve laughs loudly. I mean look at him standing there." She hops up onto the edge of the table.
Screaming in rage Ares dashes forward and kicks Marga squarely in the chest as hard as his mortal body can. The queen tumbles backwards into the dirt feeling broken ribs as she does so. "I said shut up!"
"Impressive." Xena steps out of the way of the rolling queen. "He can kick a woman when he's down."
"I liked the scream." Eve dangles her legs swinging them back and forth like an amused child.
Gabrielle looks from the prone form of Marga back at Ares. "That all you got?"
Ignoring the taunting trio Ares strides forward and grabs Marga by the hair. He hauls her to her feet with rage fueled determination. "Do you know who I am? I am Ares. God of War."
Marga spits in his face. "You are no more a god than I am."
Enraged Ares forms his free hand into a fist and proceeds to repeatedly hammer it into Marga's gut.
Xena feigns cringing. "Ouch. Ouch. Ouch."
"You know you might want to question her before you kill her." Gabrielle stands by Ares watching him batter the woman.
Ares ceases the assault but then slings the nearly unconscious woman towards the table.
Eve leaps off just as Marga lands on the table. "Oops a daisy."
Ares looks down at his hand to find a bloody fistful of hair and scalp. He tosses it aside then walks over to where the queen lies. He draws his sword and lays it against her throat. The feeling of the cold steel on her throat draws Marga's full attention.
"Now. I want you to tell me." Ares stares hard down into her eyes and spits out every word. "Where. Is. The. Ambrosia."
Marga looks appalled at the words. "Ambrosia?" she croaks. As she does blood drools from her mouth. "You slaughtered my people and burned our lands for that. Are you mad? The ambrosia was lost long ago."
"What?!" Ares shouts pushing the sword tighter against her throat. Tight enough to draw a rivulet of blood that runs along the length of the blade's edge.
"It was found and used by queen Gabrielle to revive the warrior princess Xena." Marga tries to talk as softly as possible to keep the blade from further cutting her.
Ares turns his stunned gaze from Marga to Gabrielle.
Gabrielle shrugs. "Sorry. Did I forget to mention that?"
Xena stamps her foot on the ground. "Damn. I knew there was something I meant to tell you."
Eve leans over to examine the blade pressing into Marga's neck. "Oh well. There's always the next village."
Ares roars then draws back his blade. With all his hate and rage he drives the blade back down. Marga screams but the sound is abruptly cut short as the sword severs her windpipe before becoming lodged in her spine. Her nearly decapitated head lolls off to the side as blood begins to pool beneath it.
Eve takes a casual step back as the blood runs off the table. "Eww. Now that is messy."
Xena puts her hands on Ares's shoulders and rubs them. "Bet that feels better."
Gabrielle kneels by the table to stare into the lifeless eyes of the Amazon queen. "What now god of war?"
"Artais!" Ares exclaims as he pulls the sword free of the corpse.
His general enters the tent and is taken aback by the scene before him. "Yes Lord Ares."
Ares wipes the sword clean on the queen's garments before sheathing the weapon. "We are moving on."
Artais looks from the bloody corpse back to Ares again. The confusion is apparent on his face and Ares sees it.
"Is there a problem Artais?" Ares steps up to his general. "You and your men have done well here. But there are other conquests to be had. Raze the village to the ground and set the forest ablaze. Then we move on to the next. And if need be to the next then the next.
Now overjoyed with the idea of further bloodshed Artais salutes. "Yes my Lord Ares!" He runs from the tent already screaming orders to his men.
Ares follows him out to watch his army begin to move. He doesn't give the three women remaining in his tent a second thought. Which is fine with them. Xena, Eve and Gabrielle look at each other then begin cackling madly. In the next instant , their flesh and clothes melt away to reveal the forms of Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone. The Furies laugh giddily at their handiwork for a few more seconds before vanishing. |
http://accoun.org/2015/03/ | common-crawl | A prosecutor, who sent an innocent man to death row, now seeks redemption.
Read in The Guardian about Méxicoleaks or visit the Méxicoleaks web site (in Spanish).
We also congratulate Paul Craig Roberts for the International Award For Excellence In Journalism by the Press Club Of Mexico. Read his speach Truth Is Our Country.
The pleas by Amnesty International and many others were in vain. Saman Naseem was executed last month. According to Amnesty, he was earlier tortured to confess. |
http://almayasabdam.com/ghana-priests-shift-focus-marriage-prep-youth-formation/ | common-crawl | Accra, Ghana, Jan 30, 2015 / 02:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A national gathering of hundreds of priests in Ghana have resolved to become more involved with their parishioners through marriage preparation, family counseling, and educational youth formation.
“As priests, we promise to continually update our knowledge and educate ourselves on marriage and family issues, to be able to help the families of today to respond, cope with and manage the challenges they face,” stated Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi in a recent article for CANAA, the Catholic News Agency for Africa.
Fr. Francis Appiah-Kubi is the president of the National Union of Ghanaian Diocesan Priests’ Association, a congress that gathers priests from around the country to discuss various pastoral issues and implement improvement when needed.
Concluding their recent assembly this January, the clergy created a nine-point resolution, which promised more involvement in remote, proximate, and immediate marriage preparation. They also discussed a deeper role in assisting families with challenges and formation with youth.
The five-day meeting took place in Takoradi, a western region of Ghana. Over 600 diocesan priests were present for the 25th national and 13th biennial assembly, which offered a renewed approach towards ministry in family life and the challenges it brings.
In light of the New Evangelization, the Catholic clergy in Ghana have resolved to reach out to couples, emphasizing unity, permanence, equality of spouses, and the importance of faith in the family. These priests will also become more involved in counseling and post-marriage guidance, as well as making a more profound presence with the youth in education.
“We resolve to improve upon our living together as one big priestly family in Ghana, working in unity and love in our various communities to give good examples to all families,” Fr. Francis told CANAA.
The resolution comes in the months leading up to the 2015 Synod on the Family.
Following last year’s gathering on the same topic, bishops from around the world will meet in Rome this October to discuss various challenges to the family and pastoral solutions to these challenges.
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http://amiable.lookfab.com/archive/2014/4/ | common-crawl | WIW: Easter and Spring!
Today I wanted to wear blush with lime green, as suggested in this post. Such a springy combination.
It sort of worked for me, but I'm not sold on it. It seemed a little too sweet just as-is, so I tossed on a black leather jacket when I went out. (And ended up cold - it's not shorts weather for me yet).
What do you think? How should it be improved?
Bonus: a team wear moment - I wore my newly-purchased star shirt (It's sheer navy with white stars. I wore a tank underneath) with white jeans and a white pleather jacket yesterday (and lime shoes, for fun). I liked it a lot, but should have worn a belt as the jeans kept creeping down, then the shirt coming untucked....
I love Ornella's Style, and she directly inspired this outfit with her recent concert outfit - that was a white shirt, jeans and pearls - with a jacket.
My version is pretty RATE, but the same basic idea. White shirt, skinny jeans (for a change of pace from my boyfriends), converse sneakers. I got chilly so I added in my navy suede "jean" jacket. It's been getting a lot of wear this spring.
I feel like this outfit is probably a bit overly casual and RATE. But I like it anyway - it's very me.
Here's my outfits for the beautiful spring weather of the past two days.
#1 Today - burgundy short-sleeved sweater with gray jeans, white belt and plaid sneakers (in gray, burgundy and white).
#2-3 Yesterday - navy short sleeved button-down with white boyfriend jeans. I tried them rolled and unrolled - wore them rolled at home, but unrolled them in the evening when we went out for a little date. My daughter especially liked the strappy denim-blue sandals.
What do you think? What should be improved?
So thrilled that Spring is here weather-wise! It's warm, and even raining the last two Sundays (it's been way too dry here recently).
Thanks to all your help, here's what I ended up wearing for Easter. It felt just right.
And bonus of what I'm wearing today. These green loafers are past their prime (square toes, ack!), but the color is so cheery, that they're staying until I find a replacement. I'm also wearing a white belt, and my shirt is semi-tucked. It just wasn't yet when I took the pic I guess...
Thanks for the ensemble this morning Angie! I love the inspiration.
I cleaned out my closet yesterday, moving everything that I had any complaint about into "probation", even if I liked it. So out are the tops that just don't set right, and the jeans that never stay zipped, or muffin top me, etc.
So this morning I looked, expecting to be thrilled with my now emptier closet, and instead felt bored. Go figure. Not enough color staring me back. (I was left with eight tops - three white, two black/light print, this floral, one coral and one teal shell). Most of my pants are now blue jeans or black, and most of my toppers are now black (with a bit of navy thrown in). I think I'll be adding back in items out of probation soon.
Now I still have a full drawer of tees and another of sweaters. Don't think I purged down to a minimal closet. And even what I purged is still nearby and accessible. This is more of an experiment to find out if I'm happy wearing only what I deem perfect or nearly there.
I decided I needed some pattern and color this morning, and went for this floral shirt, which I do have a complaint about (it's too short), but I kept anyway. (I'm weak). I paired it with my gray cashmere, and like the pairing. But the bottoms are tougher to figure out. I tried white, and liked the color pairing, but didn't like how the slouchiness of the white and the shortness of the top interacted. So I tried some blue jeans that aren't at all slouchy, (and they're too long for the white shoes). But I'm not sure this works either.
I'd tuck the top, but looking down and seeing the little strip of flowers makes me happy. I like it while I'm working.
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http://archive.camillenathania.com/2017/02/bowen-lookout-cypress-mountain.html | common-crawl | Bowen Lookout: Cypress Mountain.
This is definitely one of my favourite experiences in Vancouver to date: backcountry hiking in Cypress Mountain. Martin, my cousin Julien and I had made a plan to visit Cypress after a week of good weather and our trip to Grouse. Unfortunately at the last minute Martin came down with a cold after weeks of us feeling rundown and exhausted, so Julien and I went alone.
The drive to Cypress takes about 40 minutes from where we are in the greater Vancouver area. It wasn't a particularly sunny day at the start, but as you'll see in the photos, that certainly changed (and with a maximum of 11ºC that day, it truly was a pleasant day for it).
Hiking in snow is unfamiliar terrain for my feet as it is let alone with my recent ankle surgery, so Julien picked an easy, but no less beautiful track: the Bowen Lookout trail. A relatively easy 5km return, the Bowen Lookout trail rewarded us with stunning, clear views of Howe Sound, Bowen Island & the Gulf Islands, not to mention boundless beauty along the way. I can just imagine having a little picnic at the lookout during the summer (although you'll see the snow certainly didn't deter a group of four from sitting down to share some Earl Grey tea during theirs, I overheard).
Cypress had significantly more fresh snow (“virgin powder”) than Grouse. With so many fluffy pillows of the stuff—untouched save for a few fresh rabbit/deer prints—we couldn't help but stop to take photos off the trail. Adventuring with another photographer is always a lot of fun, because you're usually both just as willing to stop for photos. In our case, we may even go as far as to walk on a frozen creek*, accidentally sinking waist-deep into freezing water at an unsuspecting weak point...(spot the moment in the photos below). Julien got one back on me later in the afternoon, though, as he happened to be holding my camera when I lost my footing and slid onto my bum into the snow (softly, thank goodness).
*In all seriousness, walking on ice can be dangerous, as the water underneath can still have a strong current, taking you away and trapping you under the ice. Never risk your life for a photo—we knocked on the ice before stepping on it, and only ever stepped in areas we were sure would be safe or easy to get out of.
Since Borneo, I've only been able to do the occasional hike. Cypress reminded me of what I've been missing: much-needed time amongst nature, and the ability to connect with another human outside of a screen. I find hiking with one or two other people to be extremely enjoyable: there's so much time for conversation, you each get to walk away with a shared experience and stronger connection to each other. A smaller hiking group usually leads to better conversation, but in bigger groups, quality conversations tend to be harder to maintain, not to mention how slow the entire group would go if each of you are slowing to take photos.
Cypress Mountain is definitely one to visit if you'd love a walk with a view. Later on when my ankle is a lot stronger, we can come back and continue past Bowen Lookout to St. Mark's Summit—a more difficult, 11km return hike with higher elevation, but even better views. |
http://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2008/05/18/sec02.asp | common-crawl | Colombo Crime Division (CCD) sleuths have taken in for questioning a man on suspicion in connection with the bomb explosion opposite the Sambodhi Viharaya at Lotus Road in Fort that killed 10 persons and injured 95 persons, Police media spokesman, Senior DIG N.K. Illangakoon told the Sunday Observer.
According to police sources the suspect taken in for questioning has been identified as a person residing in the Tricomalee area.
The man is being grilled with regard to the Hero Honda CBX motor-cycle used by a suicide cadre when he rammed it into a parked police bus at Lotus Road.
The powerful bomb was concealed in the compartment of the petrol tank of the motor-cycle which was very much similar to the one used to blow up the motorcade carrying Major General Parami Kulatunga at Kottawa in the Pannipitiya area in 2006.
The Government Analyst who visited the scene of carnage on Friday is conducting further investigations. The victims of the explosion included three Women Police Constables, five Police Constables and two civilians.
Police are investigating whether the suicide bomber, had targeted the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Pillayan staying at a nearby five star hotel who was to take oaths on Friday afternoon. Police are also investigating whether it was intended for another VIP.
The suicide cadre may have rammed in to a police bus when he realised that he could not proceed any further along Lotus Road, police said.
The chauffeur of the Minister of Sports and Recreation, Gamini Lokuge also became a victim of the blast when his vehicle was caught up in the explosion. The minister’s official vehicle too was damaged badly. |
http://artmuseum.bowdoin.edu/Obj15?x=176610&port=4900 | common-crawl | The languid and sensual Allegory of Peace epitomizes Mannerist elegance in the female form. From her idealized profile and ornately knotted hair to her tiny waist, swelling abdomen, ample thighs and dainty feet, she embodies the artificial beauty favored by Italian and Northern Mannerists. Sustris employs the convention of “wet drapery” in rendering her quasi-ancient Greek garment, which reveals her navel and breasts beneath the fabric. The personification stands erect, effortlessly holding the heavy torch with which she sets fire to the symbols of war at her feet: cuirass (body armor), helmet, sword, and banners. She holds a palm branch of peace in her left hand, pointing heavenward with one extended finger, indicating the source of peace on earth.
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http://astonlife.astonwordpress.co.uk/2018/02/15/things-about-english-language-students-at-aston/ | common-crawl | 1. Not all of us want to be teachers.
2. It is not literature. It’s Language and Linguistics.
If I had a quid for every “so you do Shakespeare, and read books?” that I get in a week, I’d be able to afford to do my weekly shop at campus Tesco. Literature is great, if you like that, with lots of classics and abstract analysis of an authors’ mindset. But we do linguistics – raw language, placed into lots of different contexts. I mean, you could do both if you wanted to! But we’ll stick to what we know!
3. There is a lot of reading and essays – the struggle is real.
Our lovely friends over in the Aston Business School and School of Life & Health Sciences at Aston tell us how they couldn’t do a series of essays like we can. Don’t get us wrong, we wouldn’t be the best at conducting a science practical or hosting a business meeting knowing only what we know from our course content… But, our degree is made up of many assignments. Except for the odd exam or assessed class test, it’s all in-depth independent research, multiple thousand-word essays and large weekly readings.
4. We study some fascinating topics throughout the course.
Take out the boring / compulsory things we are forced to do (such as a whole module on what’s basically writing an essay), we’ve covered some fascinating topics. Computer-mediated communication taught us to blend technology and language use (many essays were done on dating apps and internet trolls), language as evidence (how law / police cases use language to find evidence and prosecute – with lots of graphic stories!), and language and identity (with topics such as media coverage for transgender, Muslim and BAME people covered in class).
5. English grads have explored amazing roles after graduating.
Kudos to the few who want to be teachers – here or abroad. But our English Language lot have also gone on to be speech therapists, forensic analysts (language and crime / evidence / prosecution) – as well as land roles in marketing, publishing and media creation.
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http://b-interleukin-ii-44-56.com/index.php?g=Wap&m=Article&a=detail&id=2460 | common-crawl | Results To investigate the effect of 17βE on cell proliferation in the human renal tubular epithelia, BrdU uptake was measured in HRTEC primary and 3D-HRTEC cultures, allowing determination of the DNA replication rate. Representative microphotographs show BrdU uptake in HRTEC (Fig. 1A). Incubation of HRTEC with 10 nmol/L 17βE for 24 h, significantly stimulated the BrdU uptake in eight HRTEC primary cultures from different pediatric patients in comparison to their respective controls (Fig. 1B). These results demonstrated the reproducibility of 17βE effect on cell proliferation in primary cultures of HRTEC. The microphotographs in Fig. 1C and the graph in Fig. 1D, show that a significant increase in BrdU uptake was also observed in tubular structures of 3D-HRTEC cultures treated with 17βE for 24 h with respect to their controls. The number of HRTEC was also quantified to assess whether the increase in BrdU uptake in 17βE-treated cells corresponds to a subsequent increase in cell proliferation and growth. A tendency to increase cell growth was found in HRTEC at 24 h of 17βE incubation, which progressed to a significant increase in relative cell growth after 48 h of 17βE incubation (Fig. 1E) indicating that cells entering the CGS 21680 HCl due to the estrogen treatment end up proliferating. The increase of BrdU uptake induced by 17βE was completely abrogated by incubation with the ERs and GPER-1 inhibitors (ICI182,780 and G-15, respectively). (Fig. 2). 17βE treatment of HRTEC with ICI182,780 or G-15 alone did not significantly modify the percentage of BrdU uptake compared to control cells (Fig. 2). Of note, ICI182,780 was used at a dose (100 nmol/L) that was reported to not stimulate GPER-1 [11]. The involvement of GPER-1 on 17βE stimulated cell proliferation was corroborated by the treatment of HRTEC with the agonist G-1. Incubation of HRTEC with G-1 (10 nmol/L for 24 h) significantly stimulated the percentage of BrdU uptake with respect to control cells, similarly to the effect produced by 17βE at the same dose (Fig. 2). Furthermore, co-incubation of HRTEC with 17βE and G-1 (1 or 10 nmol/L) did not produce potentiation or synergistic effects (data not shown). As shown in Fig. 3, ERα and ERβ are localized mainly to the cytosol of most cells in HRTEC control cultures (Fig. 3A and C), and only to the nuclei of few cells. Incubation with 17βE for 24 h significantly increased the percentage of nuclei positive labeled for ERα compared to control cells (Control: 7.8 ± 2.10%; 17βE: 15.00 ± 3.09%) (Fig. 3B). However, no significant differences were observed in the percent of nuclei labeled for ERβ between control and 17βE treated HRTEC (3.9 ± 1.39% vs 3.0 ± 0.73%) (Fig. 3D). To investigate whether β-catenin participates in the cell proliferation increase induced by estradiol, primary cultures were incubated with different concentrations of iCRT14, a specific inhibitor that antagonizes the transcriptional function of nuclear β-catenin [28]. Treatment of HRTEC with 1 and 10 μmol/L iCRT14 for 24 h significantly inhibited the stimulation of BrdU uptake induced by 17βE (Fig. 4A). A lower dose of iCRT14 (0.1 μmol/L) partially inhibited the estradiol effect. iCRT14 alone did not modify significantly the BrdU uptake at any dose assayed. Moreover, western blot analysis (Fig. 4B) demonstrates that 17βE significantly stimulates β-catenin expression in HRTEC. Both ICI 182,780 and G-15, inhibited the increase in β-catenin expression induced by 17βE (Fig. 4B). Immunofluorescence showed that β-catenin was localized mainly to the plasma membrane of control HRTEC and to a lesser extent in the cytoplasm and nuclei (Fig. 4C). Incubation of HRTEC with 17βE, significantly increased the number of cells that translocated β-catenin into their nuclei (14 ± 2.0%), compared to control cells (8 ± 1.2%) (Fig. 4C and D), demonstrating that β-catenin is activated by 17βE in a percent of HRTEC, such as occurred with ERα whereas HRTEC incubation with G-15 or ICI182,780, in the presence or absence of 17βE, showed similar values as control cells (Fig. 4C and D).
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http://badwilf.com/with/tom-baker-cosplay/ | common-crawl | Last month I was invited to a fancy dress party in Devon’s Devon. I had a weeks notice and the only thing I was told about the party was “vintage”.
Given this limited information, I decided to go as a vintage character from Doctor Who. The fourth Doctor, as played by Thomas Stewart Baker.
Now, before we get into it. Let me start by saying I wasn’t aiming for screen accuracy here. I just wanted something that would be passable and recognisable as Doctor Who. I was also only going to Devon for the day, so I wanted something I could wear on the train to and from.
The first item I purchased, was a burgundy crombie jacket from Jacamo.
Again, in no way screen accurate. But, it’s passable and a really comfortable jacket to wear.
The jacket cost £99 and can be ordered here.
It could also pass for a Twelfth Doctor burgundy jacket.
For the trousers, I just went for a standard black pair. Again, in no way screen accurate. But passable. You can get these anywhere that sells trousers.
For the fedora, I just picked up a cheap one on amazon.
I also ordered a brown curly wig from Amazon. As the wig made my head massive, I put two safety pins through the wig and into the fedora to keep it on my head.
The scarf came from Lovarzi and is a 13” replica of one of the scarfs Thomas Stewart Baker wore, as The Doctor. This is a high quality replica and I absolutely love it.
Shoes, I just wore my Nike’s. I know, not screen accurate.
But you can’t prove he isn’t wearing these on Big Finish audios!
Overall, I was proud of the way this outfit came together. I’m in no way a cosplayer, but after doing this. I can see why people enjoy it, I got so many smiles, hugs and high-fives at the party. Maybe I’ll work on a more screen accurate version in the future.
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http://barbandchriszoo.blogspot.com/2014/03/mardi-gras-more.html | common-crawl | Sorry, virtual vacationers, we've been too busy to blog. Just know that we are having a wonderful time down here despite the weather being somewhat cooler than we'd like.
Yesterday was, of course, Mardi Gras, and we celebrated it by going to the Gulf Shores parade and then going to a nature center at a nearby park. Of course we had King's Cake with dinner as well.
There were plenty of beads!!
Sorting through the loot at the end of the parade is always fun!
Today we went mini-golfing and then did some antiquing and shopping in Foley.
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http://barrelofbooksandgames.com/a-suitable-vengeance-by-elizabeth-george-inspector-lynley-series-book-4-9780553295603.html | common-crawl | Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction--and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can't help taking the investigation personally--because the evidence points to a killer within his own family. |
http://bearcreekpainting.com/about-us/ | common-crawl | The owner, Nick Turcsany, has resided in NE Tarrant county and Irving for over 35 years. Over the past 20 years, Nick has owned and maintained rental properties, including flipping houses and other real estate work. For 10 years, Nick practiced as a financial and business consultant for businesses including local painting, roofing, and other residential contracting companies. After years of experience and working in home improvement, Nick founded Bear Creek Painting Inc. so he can ensure that homeowners in the area receive excellent customer service, professionalism, and the top integrity in the paint-contracting industry.
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http://betaforums.animeblogger.net/viewtopic.php?t=167&view=previous | common-crawl | 80's anime recommendations?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: 80's anime recommendations?
they turned 15.
Young adults claim the 90's were the best thing for anime since sliced bread. Folks in their late 20's/early 30's claim that the 80's (or 70's) were the best ever, and things have gone downhill ever since. Kids these days refuse to watch anything that's more than a few years old.
from the 80's or earlier stand out in your minds?
My own genres of choice are drama/comedy/romance/mahou shoujo, but I'm more than willing to go outside them for any notables.
Pretty much every movie Studio Ghibli's ever done.
So it looks like my favorites run 80s - current time or so. I only got really involved in Anime & Manga starting in the summer of 1996 so some of my favorites predate my introduction to anime/manga fandom by over a decade.
Personally I think anime & manga fandom is in a golden age now. Now is the absolute best time ever to be an anime/manga fan because it's so easy to get hold of series, even stuff that's not licensed. I remember back when I was trading with everyone and their brother (and sister!) I could meet to build up my VHS fansub collection and having to wait a year or more even to get fansubs of new series. Now I'm watching some shows subbed almost as soon as they air (Zettai Shounen is a good example, in manga Negima & Naruto are really good examples, I just got to read chapter 102 of Negima today in fact.) This isn't to say current series are better overall than past series, it's just that series are far more accessible and that's what's making this a golden age for anime & manga fans.
I may not be normal though, I tend to collect in excess. I'm not kidding when I say I have about 3000 VHS fansub tapes for example.
I'm starting to question Gokujou Seitokai. Maybe in part cause I have a thing about puppets and annoying charcters, but the most recent episodes have been lacking IMHO.
I mean they already have a sizable cast as is and go add like two more characters mid-season. I've thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes with the sub-characters' stories but the one with (forgot her name)'s younger sister... blah. And adding her to the cast, even worse! As for Kotoha Kutsugi, she's an okay addition since she was hinted in earlier episodes, but dunno... they didn't necessarily *need* to have her.
... but to get back on topic, I'll have to agree with Maestro. Ever since 2000, it's been a boom for anime fans (speaking specifically in N. America). I can definitely remember being surprised when Borders started to have a manga section and finding current anime DVDs at local stores. Also, prices are finally starting to get "cheap." I remember the days when I bought Eva and Tenchi Muyo $30+ a pop for 1-2 episode(s)! I was, however, probably one of the luckier ones that a comic shop owned by my cousin opened up during my late middle-school years (er.. late '90s). I was able to get anime cheap or free back then... heck, I use to do the copying of vhs fansubs for them!
... probably it, before I started to buy anime myself and watch VHS fansubs.
More like late-80's, but one of my all-time favourites is the Bubblegum Crisis OVA.
mid to late 80's and early 90's...
And that's just off the top of my head. I stopped shortly into the 90's because nothing was holding my interest. Looking at a variety of series since then, things didn't start picking up again until the late 90's.
That's my list... well, the short version.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned this...
...remains one of my all time favorites and it is so 80's!!
Forgot to mention Dirty Pair as well.
Well, I've got A-Ko, Gall Force and Dominion on LD, Gundam 0080 & 0083, Lodoss Wars, Macross Plus & Giant Robo on VHS, and Ghibli & BGC on DVD. I've gotta finalize on a format!
and most of all, Princess Sara.
As a kid, I absolutely loved Voltes V when I saw it in the late eighties. I think I used to memorize the OP theme. As for the angst of Daimos and Candy Candy... I had a love-hate relationship with those two. For some reason, all I can remember about Princess Sarah is Miss Minchin and Lavinia. Oh, gawd. I feel old.
I wonder if they'll still hold my interest if I see it now.
I remember hunting down fansubs for Maison Ikkoku back then.....I think I went through like 8 ppl to get the whole series.
Oh, gawd. I feel old.
I think I have all the fansubs of it, but I've not watched them all as I discovered after the fact that I hated it.
~~ It's one of my all time favorite. I had to trade like mad to get the stuff that 1 person wants cause he had the whole thing. |
http://bib.ge/dogs/open.php?id=2286 | common-crawl | The American Mastiff has a much dryer mouthed than other mastiffs. The dryer mouth is due outcrossing the English Mastiff with Anatolian Mastiff, which occurred early in the development of the breed. The American Mastiff is a large, massive, and powerful dog. The head is wide, heavy and rectangular in shape. The eyes are amber in color. Darker the better. The ears are rounded and set high on head. The muzzle is medium size and well proportioned to head and has black mask. The nose is black; It has a scissor bite: . The neck is powerful, and slightly arched. The chest is deep, broad and well-rounded, descending to the level of elbows. The ribs are well-sprung and extend well back. The back is straight, muscular and powerful, with well muscled and slightly arched loins. The forelegs are strong, straight and set well apart. The hind legs are wide and parallel. The feet are large, well shaped and compact, with arched toes .The tail is long, reaching the hocks. Puppies are usually born dark, and lighten as they grow older, some becoming very light fawn by age one year; some retain dark hairs. Colors are fawn, apricot and brindle. White markings acceptable on feet, chest and chin/nose; Temperament: Dignity rather than gaiety; quiet, calm, loving and loyal. Protective, but not aggressive.
American Mastiffs tend to be healthy happy dogs with fewer reported incidents of many of the health problems you see in other large breeds.
American Mastiffs do just fine in an apartment with daily exercise, a walk will do, or a run in a fenced in yard. As they grow older they tend to become a little lazy. They are relatively inactive indoors ("couch potatoes") and a small yard will do.
Mastiffs are inclined to be lazy but they will keep fitter and happier if given regular exercise. Like all dogs, the American Mastiff should be taken on daily regular walks to help release it's mental and physical energy. It's in a dogs nature to walk. They should always be leashed in public. |
http://blackdiamondgames.blogspot.com/2010/02/ | common-crawl | Magic: The Gathering Zendikar was the best selling Magic release ever for Wizards of the Coast. Supply was short and demand was very high, partially because of the quality of the set and partially because of the amount of supply made available by Wizards. Sales for retailers were stratospheric and there was talk of Magic becoming viable once again, as retail pricing and online pricing reached parity. For those who did well with Magic, it promised a potential golden age of sales, in which reward once again matched effort. Worldwake tossed all that in the trash.
Worldwake is the current Magic set. It's a "middle" set in the block, although it has a high number of cards. We were told early on that supply was also going to be severely limited, as with Zendikar. Oh, happy day. Limiting supply should create a price floor and provide price parity online. Magic was beginning to lose its "commodity" pricing, staying close to MSRP. However, there was one detail that was different from Zendikar, fat packs would be allocated based on how many cases of boosters you bought. Therein lied the problem.
Every store will always sell every fat pack at full price, or they're doing something wrong. The supply will run out far before demand is met. So to link booster box sales, the "commons" to fat packs "rares" was to encourage stores to buy too many booster boxes. Stores were incentivized to over-order booster boxes to get the fat packs. Booster boxes could then be "flipped" online for close to cost. Who cares, right? As long as you get your fat pack allotment.
The supply of booster boxes, therefore, became very high. The online price immediately tumbled to about $85, $13 over cost, while at the same period during the Zendikar release, boxes sold for $125. That $125 price was important, because it meant stores could sell boxes at close to full price. Those who ordered Worldwake based on Zendikar sales, assuming they would be in price parity with the online world, were now vastly overstocked. The crowd that was buying in-store went back online. Store owners in turn began flipping their boxes online, which drove the price down even further.
As I sit here today, the price of a box of Worldwake sells on Ebay at below cost. I know this because I'm the lowest price seller by fifteen cents. I've got massive Worldwake overstock, as do other retailers I know. There is incentive to dump quickly. First, most who bought this didn't have the thousands of dollars up front, so the bill is due soon. Second, about half of all sales of Magic sell in the first 30 days of release. For example, if you sell a total of 50 boxes of a Magic release, 25 of those will be within the first 30 days and 25 will be from 30 days on until a couple years later when you sell out. There is great incentive to dump inventory before demand falls off. This Friday marks the end of the first 30 days for Worldwake.
So what did we learn? Wizards denies any sort of manipulation of supply and demand but they manipulate it by their actions nonetheless. If you were clever enough, you saw the writing on the wall with Worldwake (I was warned by some), but you also envisioned the money in the till from Zendikar, and nobody wanted to miss out on that (I was encouraged by others). So what's happening with the next set? A complete allocation of all product, full manipulation of supply. Of course, I'm welcome to source from multiple suppliers. Should I be worried? Oh yes.
Perhaps it's an obsession with order that makes me think this way, but I believe a major part of retail is theater. The stage is literally set for a special retail experience. We work for hours before customers arrive for things to be just right. Displays must *pop* with interest and engagement. There should be no distractions. Customers should not see the inner workings of a store, arrival of new product, stains on the carpet, dark corners with broken lighting, unusual odors or employees talking to their friends. Employees should greet customers and be clean and well groomed. It's an ideal, however, as game stores are specialty stores and don't have the resources for such mass market perfection. We strive for all of these things, but often have problems in at least one area at any given time.
What we lack in resources, we hopefully make up with personal interaction and enthusiasm. A mass market store is like a movie theater, with a generic, consistent experience, but nothing compelling. That's part of why home theater has become so popular as ticket prices have gone up. A specialty store is like a community theater that interacts with the audience. There needs to be something that can't be purchased online or at the local book store. This was hard for me grasp at first, as I wanted everything to appear corporate.
It was my customers who reminded me of my proper role. Professionalism doesn't exclude the personal touch, so I have no problem talking at length with customers and getting to know them and their likes, writing a blog that shows the man behind the curtain, and generally accepting that part of our appeal is that we're not a sterile, corporate experience. I'll apologize for the dirty carpet and the giant stack of incoming boxes, but I will strive to improve.
We have a lot of work to do to achieve our theatrical goals, also known as merchandising. My last store had engaging displays, but in the rush to simplify the new store, most are gone. They took time to maintain and clean and usually required an investment of product. This was part of my streamlining phase a while back, in which I worked towards efficiency by being more like a franchise. In many cases, The Four Hour Workweek and similar books were helpful in getting our processes established, but there are "soft" areas of store management that do poorly when streamlined (more likely these soft areas need to have a better process established, like display rotation).
It's no excuse, there should be more displays and fresh ways to interact, like our miniature villages, war game demo tables, and perhaps a couple of new board game demos like we had for Blokus. Display cases need fresh content. Product needs to be displayed in innovative and unusual ways. Displays are abstract concepts in retailing. They often don't result in sales of the displayed game, but instead engage a customer with the store, increase their time shopping, which then results in increased sales. "A = B which equals C," which is hard to see if you're not working every day. Employees, therefore, see them as a nuisance (A = B, B = 0) while owners see them as income generators (A = $$$).
On the flip side, some store owners reject theater and see their lack of cleanliness, order and engaging displays as more honest. They play the music they want to hear, not what fits the theme of the store. They wear what was clean that day, rather than a uniform or other identifier. Retail theory plays little to no role in their store. They hire whoever comes along. It might be fun to work in Rob's record store in High Fidelity, but it was the kind of '90's store that could never exist in our modern world. Perhaps Rob knew this as he transitioned careers.
I ordered a pair of Yu Gi Oh Duel Terminals yesterday. This is a rather innovative product in the game industry. It's a video game that dispenses cards that can be played either in the tabletop game or on the system by scanning in the card. This was tried last year with console gaming unsuccessfully, suffering from piracy and other setbacks. The Duel Terminals allow players to play each other or simply get the hot card. It's big in Japan, has regular sets unique to the terminals coming out every few months, and the player base has clamored for them, making wild promises and predictions that has caused lots of investigation on my part. They may be right. Analyzing it from a business perspective, it seems like a worthwhile investment with acceptable risk.
So what about the character of the store? One of my business partners wondered what I would do if other game companies came out with electronic variants like this. I welcome it. If Wizards of the Coast wants to create some really cool electronic gaming table, I would consider it a worthwhile investment. We're a hobby game store, but it's inevitable that our hobby games have electronic components. How many people out there are gaming purists that never click on a computer, buy a PDF or play an electronic game? How many game masters use laptops to prepare or even have one at the table? Our biggest concern about RPGs is that the electronic variant is killing sales (D&D DDI). Wargames died when that model went electronic. Sticking your head in the sand and relying on the uninformed and technophobic is not a valid business model. I feel I'm doing that sometimes.
Also, here's a thought: These kinds of cross overs aren't cheap, which rewards those who are running their businesses successfully and leaves out lazy game store owners who only go after low hanging fruit. One of the problems in the game trade is the barrier to entry is so very low. It might sound elitist, but the more initial investment required to open a store, the more likely we'll have better stores with solid business models.
Still, we don't want to run an arcade. Nobody wants to hear beeps and annoying music while somebody else plays electronic games in what's supposed to be an analog refuge. This includes the customers but also the staff. As a game store owner, I recognize that I'm doing something I love in exchange for less compensation. Losing focus and character is something that happens gradually, so we're naturally suspicious about these things.
We struggled with where to place our Duel Terminals. They'll go in the front of the store next to the doors. It's an area known in retail as the Decompression Zone, invisible to customers who have just walked in the door, yet still visible to staff. It's dead space really, which is why, if you've ever noticed (you probably haven't), we place our Monopoly rack, toy wheelbarrows and other stuff that's unloved in that space. There should be enough room, but we'll have to make sure we avoid large crowds around them and that the sound is turned down. Their location was also chosen to avoid shoplifting (basic stealing of stuff) and pilferage (when stuff is pocketed in unwatched areas). In other words, our biggest concern is that these things don't become a nuisance.
What we can order is constrained by our supplier, Costco. The problem is that we need a steady supply of delivered Mexican Coke, which puts Costco as the obvious choice. Mexican Coke is consistently one of our top five items in the store. If we have to divide our order with two distributors, getting MexiCoke from Costco and other stuff from distributor number two, we're suddenly not that attractive a customer and it becomes difficult to get that Costco order to the free shipping minimum. This is actually how the game trade works, with many orders driven by free freight. Costco, unfortunately, is the LCD of suppliers, meaning they don't offer anything out the ordinary.
I was mentioning to someone in the game industry today that one of the biggest problems a store owner has is figuring out how to sell to customers. What do they want? We simply don't know, and worse, aren't in the loop when their demand is eventually satisfied. We've got this conceit that we sell games, you buy games from us, therefore, all your games are bought from us. It's so not true. What we desperately seek is the equivalent of little bubbles over peoples heads as they walk in the door, listing the games they've bought.
Sometimes we get a glimpse of these little bubbles if we get to know our customers well enough. They play games away from the store with titles we don't carry, or get them before our release date. We'll sell a half dozen of a $100 starter game, and then sell twenty $30 expansions. There is a retail escape valve that opens up called the Internet when an item is perceived to be too expensive. We also forget that we just can't carry everything and, in fact, often hint that the customer should just go buy that obscure thing where they saw it. At the same time, we push special orders, hoping and praying we can get the biggest chunk of their entertainment budget. It's a strange high wire act.
At the end of the day, we're lucky to get glimpses of what's going on, and occasionally we will figure out why something doesn't sell or why they don't by from us. For example, a sale or other adjustment of the value proposition can shift perspective radically. We have dozens of people we only see during our auctions. Many are local, they're just not our customers except for this one day. They buy only online based on price or they only buy during the sale.
Ebay is often the final arbiter of a games value. When I've got a game I can't sell for a penny on Ebay (Abagio), it explains a lot. Likewise, RPG books have a "true market" price slightly below Amazon. At the same time, although we're forbidden in various ways to sell Games Workshop products online, it's rare that a GW clearance item would slip below our cost. In fact, many go for MSRP or above.
Price is only part of the proposition. I've got customers who won't buy games unless I've played them. "Let me know when you've played that." is what they'll say as they wave goodbye. Convention sales are often based on that demo/play experience. Having enough product knowledge to actually explain a game well enough to sell it is hard, and with 650 board games, nobody has played all of them. Some store owners will go as far as only carrying games they've played. Good luck with that.
It almost goes without saying that we serve at the pleasure of our customers. However, it's like working for a schizophrenic monarch who can't decide what he wants, who he wants it from, and when he wants it. He may tell multiple servants his desires and then randomly choose one when it's time. The king is a madman and we serve at his pleasure. What does that make us? Part of being a clever retailer is deciphering what the monarch is saying, asking him leading questions, and getting him to commit to a course of action. Otherwise, we're working on false pretenses and likely to lose our heads. Game stores are made and broken with purchasing. Understanding the customer is key to that endeavor. Long live the king.
With the success of our Facebook fan page, we're now getting as many or more blog comments there. It seems the blog is becoming a feeder service for Facebook, which I suppose isn't all bad. The down side is we sometimes have two conversations going at the same time. I don't have a solution for that, since we've got two different mediums.
Nobody knows where all this social networking is going. There are different demographics for social networking services. Facebook used to hit a younger audience, but it's becoming the Microsoft Windows of social networking, with the default medium for young and old. Some hate it, most use it. Twitter is like the counter-culture Linux of social networking, but a bit too hip for my liking. The value of Facebook dawned on me slowly, while I still grasp at the point of Twitter, especially now that Facebook has evolved with more "public" profile "fan" pages. I suppose it's personal taste.
The same study that tells us all this also claims that blog reading and writing is down. Without the import to Facebook, my own blog would be of only marginal use and interest, I think (more marginal than it is now at least).
By 2009, just 15% of internet users ages 18-29 maintained a blog, a nine-percentage-point drop in two years. However, 11% of internet users ages 30 and older maintained a personal blog.
Some business owners ask if they should write a blog. I think they should if they enjoy it and have something to say. From a pure marketing perspective, it's probably the least useful medium if they're interested in connecting with their customers. I've been doing it for a couple years, with over a thousand posts, but I only get about 150 visitors a day, while after two months with a Facebook page, we're approaching 300 people. Feeding Facebook makes the blog a useful "widget" for that service.
After a contradictory post about how I'm not a gamer, here are the three Forge World Venators after construction. I'm still working on the one drivers hands and arms (if you're noticing that). It turned out I could fit a Tallarn into the drivers seat without modifying the roll cage and raising the turret. I added Hellstrike missiles to the first one to hide the extra space created by the modification.
Technical: If you want to give your Tallarns Venators (which they deserve, after all), you'll need two blisters of Tallarn autocannon or lascannon teams per vehicle. The gunner loses his legs below the knee and has his canteen removed so he'll sit flat. The driver's lower body fits in without modification, but you'll need to trim off all the raised seat detail. Then saw off the models hands. Create forearms by putting the hands on the steering wheel to his torso. It works if you don't look too closely.
I have a resistance to being classified a gamer. True, I wasn't always a gamer, in the polyfabulum sense, a multi-genred creature who can't be satisfied with just one game. I was happy to play Dungeons & Dragons for decades before starting the store. In fact, my dream game store is a creature from the '80's, a "fantasy store" that's about a third RPGs, a third lead, and a third "other," like war games and those little creations in plastic baggies that were sold off spinner racks, like Car Wars. Alas, that is not our simple world.
I think my resistance to "gamer" comes from my academic training. In Buddhist Studies, you were considered not to be objective if you "went native" and actually practiced what you studied. I went to a grad school where practice was considered your first priority, so this slight was always at the surface, and we knew which "famous" scholars were closet Buddhists. The "gamer" situation is in reverse.
The baseline in the game trade is that you are a gamer, a compromised business person who "went native" and gave up serious business or endeavors in exchange for a hobby store, in which the store is your hobby. In that world, I think I seek to stay objective by resisting the "gamer" moniker and comparison to the type of people I associate with those stores. I'll commiserate with my customers about their D&D campaign or their 40K list, but professionally I want to talk turn rates, cash flow and SBA loans. Business is right underneath the surface. I never play games during my work day and always make sure my in-store gaming is clearly off the clock and not as an employee.
In a trade where everyone has gone native, and there's hardly a reason to stay in the trade without going native, I desperately seek to stay objective and business focused, which turns my self perceived rebel Han Solo into more of a money focused Ferengi like Quark, spouting Rules of Acquisition (actually my rebel alter ego is more Garak the tailor). It even feels crass to me sometimes, but taking to business as second career, it's hard to have perspective.
This business-gamer dichotomy isn't cut in stone, however. I think as I get more comfortable with the business side (remember I'm a business convert, not a trained professional), I'll likely put on that gamer cloak with more confidence and acceptance. There is a huge amount of resistance to owning a game store with the outside world. My family is happy I'm "having fun." Banks can't decide if I'm a high risk (during the holidays) or a financial genius (after the holidays), as my credit score roller coasters from wildly fluctuating utilization rates. So for most of the world I stay closeted, at least until they can't deny my business acumen.
Looking back at beverage sales for 2009.... Any requests for 2010?
Our Wizards of the Coast rep, Charles, was on tour of Bay Area game stores and visited us this morning. He took a bunch of photos of the store. I'm posting them here. I find them more interesting than taking my own photos, since it shows what interests an outsider visiting the store. It also shows the store in full operation, warts and all. If I were to take photos I would feel obliged to painstakingly arrange items on shelves or omit photos of half empty display cases (I hate display cases) or rogue slatwall hooks. Click on the interesting ones for a larger photo. |
http://blocksnswaps.blogspot.com/2006/08/im-ready.html | common-crawl | When I sent off 40 scrappy Buckeye blocks to swap, I knew that to make the bedsize quilt I wanted, I'd need 24 more blocks. When someone else in the swap posted a message about how they wished they'd swapped more blocks, I suggested to her that she use the time until the swapped blocks come back to make extra blocks. Last weekend and (mostly) this one, I followed my own advice and made those 24 blocks.
I like the pattern that comes out with all these blocks. I never thought of coloring it that way. it's a relatively simple block, but when put together your way, it seems much more complicated. That's the effect I like! Thanks for sharing pics. |
http://blog.agroknow.com/?p=5370 | common-crawl | The Land Portal Foundation is looking for national or regional partners to build an information and data ecosystem on land governance. The Land Portal Foundation is particularly interested in working with well-established information providers or land-related organizations who want to further develop their information services. The aim of each partnership is to create a sustainable connection between the collection and use of content at specific locations and the aggregation of content from all levels and promoting its use globally. The purpose of the partnership will be to increase the availability and accessibility of land-related content from the global south by developing shared approaches and standards for data sharing and exchange. The Land Portal is interested in forging long-term collaborations.
You have a high awareness of the importance of information and data and a strong commitment to managing and using it within your activities.
You are composed of a network or a federation of organizations and have the ability to build capacity among your network.
You either are focused on land issues or have a strong land component to your work.
You are interested in the potential of a long term partnership with the Land Portal Foundation and the possibility of more extensive collaboration.
Building the capacity of local partners for using information and data openly.
Integrating local content about land issues, including statistical information on land ownership, concessions, transactions and land rights, as well as other content, such as publications, videos, news and reports into country pages, the Land Book and the Land Library.
The engagement of local partners in stimulating and participating in debates about land issues at a national, regional or global levels.
Cooperation with local partners in developing the land information ecosystem locally and globally.
Technical assistance and advice, especially related to (Linked) Open Data (LOD), which means making content openly available through open licenses and open formats.
Global content and comparative content from similar countries.
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Data modelling and integration.
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An expansive global network.
The Land Portal Foundation continuously seeks to extend the range and quality of the services it offers to others. It is in this context that the Land Portal Foundation is interested in partnering with motivated organizations to share good quality information on which land policy, at national and global levels, can be based. It is essential that partners are genuinely interested in and committed to collaborating with the Land Portal Foundation.
Share statistical data or metadata for bibliographic data but also other content such as maps, charts, media content etc., and contribute to the collaborative development of a shared open data architecture. The purpose of this is to promote effective content sharing, reduce duplication and increase the visibility and reach of content by allowing partners and third party providers to easily access content that can be represented and tailored to their own audiences and contexts.
Develop shared approaches to the sourcing, quality assurance and categorization of data and information sources.
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Engage in cross promotion of partners and their content.
Partners will be identified through a tendering process. Interested organizations are invited to submit expressions of interest.
Potential partners should submit short (not more than 2 pages) expressions of interest describing what information you have to offer and how you would benefit by collaborating with the Land Portal.
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http://blog.artemisgames.co.uk/archives/category/uncategorized/page/2 | common-crawl | Welcome to the second monthly playtest report. Due to the levels of concentration we’ve been putting into Shards, and its kickstarter, we didn’t do much playtesting of our own games. Instead at the monthly Playtest Northwest meet I was playtesting an in-development computer game.
The game, created by Luke Perkins, is as yet untitled. So, for the purposes of simplicity I’ll call it LupeLang.
In LupeLang you play a scientist who has just been cryogenically frozen until the 35th century – at which time she is aware there is some sort of time anomaly, having received a message sent back through time. Unfortunately the message was written in a language unknown in the present day, and thus her assignment is to learn the future language and then send a translated message through the anomaly; and return through it herself if possible.
You awaken in a museum that has been laid out with exhibits of images from the 20th century and earlier, each of which is marked with a description in the future language – a form of pictographic representation. For instance: △ might mean “mountain”, and thereby also “stone” and “huge”, while ∪ means “artificial container” including buildings as well as pots.
As the game progresses you learn more about the language and solve puzzles involving locked doors that can only be opened by placing the correct symbols beneath a picture.
There were various issues with the control set up which I won’t go into here because I’m not massively interested in that side of video game design, but we also spent a lot of time discussing the worldbuilding aspects of the game.
Ignore it. Just plain never explain why the museum is set up like that, let people just suspend their disbelief and not care. This is the easy option, you won’t get praised for the plotting, but people can simply enjoy the gameplay.
Explain it. Why on Earth is the place using code-locks like that? Why has the language become pictograms? What sort of place is this museum of 20th century images? This is hard – the premise of the game is one that seems innately ludicrous.
Fortunately that sort of worldbuilding is exactly what we do at Artemis Games, so I was well set up to help with it. Ultimately we discussed it, and came up with a potentially quite compelling explanation; but one that Luke wants to keep as a slow-release mystery for the first stages of LupeLang. Still, all told while we weren’t playtesting anything of our own it was definitely a productive event.
Shards is Successful – What Next?
The Shards: Worldbuilding Zine kickstarter is ending today, and while it’s far from the greatest success we’ve ever had, at 300% funded its undeniably successful.
Well, over the next six months there’s the fulfilment – every month we’ll be writing 44-48 pages of content for the zine, and keeping that exciting and informative is going to be a big job. But that’s not all we’re going to be doing.
Writing and delivering Shards to our backers. This is top priority because it’s a promise we’ve already made; we will not let our backers down!
The only convention we’re currently booked to trade at is the Student Nationals in Glasgow – but now we know that Shards has been successful we intend to book more.
Relaunching the Jigsaw Fantasy Patreon for Shards, so that people who prefer to pay their subscription a month at a time can do so more easily.
Updating our website – www.artemisgames.co.uk doesn’t display clearly all our products, nor does it make it easy to find where they’re for sale.
Redacted by order of our Co-conspirator.
Continuing work on at least one of our card game projects, and potentially launching it through Kickstarter.
The most likely project is Tinfoil Hat – our conspiracy party game – although that is still a few playtests away from being ready for market, as we need to ensure that the rules push the fun forward even for those players who try to minmax every aspect.
Experimenting with Bountey crowdfunding – we’ll talk more about this once it’s worked out, but essentially it’s a way to have multiple projects waiting long-term for the point at which the funding exists to engage with them.
Shards – Excited About Layout and Typesetting?
We are – we’ve just increased the size of the Zine by 12% without adding a single extra page.
With our experience of printing on playing cards and small leaflets in our previous projects we’ve become well aware of the cost of wide borders, and the dangers of small ones – just how important it is to get them as small as possible and no smaller.
Shards is our first major case of printed long-form text, and we’ve therefore been playing with the borders for a while now, working out what size they can be – but we missed one major factor that more experienced book-printers would have spotted immediately: The three outside borders and the inside border should not be the same size. We’d been working with them equal, and that was costing us a lot of space as it means the borders had to be a whole 6mm (quarter of an inch) wider. That’s a 4% increase of the usable height, and 3% on the width.
But that’s only a 7% increase in area – so why am I saying 12%? That’s where the typesetting aspect comes in: words rolling over the end of the line, and paragraphs rolling over the end of a page, take up a surprising amount of space.
But Wait, There’s More: We’ve also tested decreasing the font size from its past 12pt to a smaller 11.5pt text, on the upper end of what paperback books use – it’s still thoroughly readable for even low-quality eyes, but it saves another 8%, letting us fit in even more content.
We knew from the start that we wanted the text bigger and clearer than on our past Concept Cards projects – their space requirements were far tighter – but we overshot what was necessary. Partly this is due to our first test print being done on a printer with a slight misalignment – the text blurred in a way that made it slightly harder to read at small sizes – which has now been corrected.
Let me leave you with a final thought: There’s one week left on this Kickstarter – so now’s the time to back before you miss out!
With the changing numbers of pages we’ve been doing a bit of shuffling around, but we’ve worked out which of the pieces we’ve got written will be going in the first issue – and which are getting pushed back to issues 2 and 3.
So here’s the contents section – page numbers are not included, as art and typesetting may shift some things; or a “People’s Hero” backer might increase the size of the Zine still further.
↳ The Adventurer’s Gate: At the center of the maze is the most challenging exit to reach, one that will take cunning, combat skill and endurance combined.
Bokort’s Bar: A future tavern with alien patrons and bartenders, alongside some technological gambling games.
↳ Staff: The bartenders, bouncer and croupier.
↳ Notable Patrons: Interesting people who might be found here reasonably often.
↳ Hooks: Example ways to weave the location into a story as well as a world.
The Great And The Wise: Neasa Aranrhod: A fey queen with an interest in answering questions “helpfully”.
Using the 5 Ws in Worldbuilding: An introductory article looking at how to dig deeper into an aspect of your world by asking the standard questions: “Who?”, “What?”, “Where?”, “When?”, “Why?” and the honorary sixth w “How?” – using one of our past creations to illustrate the method.
Magpie’s Nest: Stealing Thieves: Some things you can take from history, mythology, folklore and fiction to craft your worlds thieves, and their gods.
Letter Lich: In this issue, she answers a questioner asking how to incorporate Drow into a roleplaying campaign without causing trouble for an arachnophobic player.
Credits & Thanks: Art credits along with thanks to our biggest backers and supporters in this project.
We now have a date for Shards launch – the 12th of this month. It comes with a set, and appropriate, end date – the 4th of March “GM’s Day”.
We’ll be doing 6 issues over the next 6 months, each with three shards of setting – at least one being sci-fi and one being fantasy – a fourth article on worldbuilding, and a letters section where our resident agony aunt The Letter Lich can help you solve your worldbuilding and game-running problems.
Each issue is a minimum of 36 pages long, but there’s also going to be a high-roller backer level that allows the backer to fund 4 additional pages for every copy of the zine, for all six issues; because sometimes it feels good to give!
We’re currently finalising the writing and art for issue #1, and will be launching with those in the bag and at least half of May and June’s articles already written – insuring against any future schedule slips.
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http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2010/07/historic-handwriting-workshop-at-hawick.html | common-crawl | The Hawick Heritage Hub are running a workshop on reading old writing on Thursday 12th August, from 7 pm-8 pm.
It's led by one of their archivists, and uses reproductions of real historical documents. The cost is £5 which includes printed handouts and reproductions.
I think this is likely to be popular, so book early, and in any case, no later than Thursday 5th August 2010 on 01450 360 699, or see their poster for their email address. Please mention that you saw it advertised on the Borders Family History Society blog.
Fergus Dochartaigh said...
There's no substitute for an experienced person discussing a document and helping you learn to understand the writing.
However if you can't get to the course, look at http://www.scottishhandwriting.com for examples of writing and how to recognise the letters. |
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http://blog.jasminehabart.com/2012/02/boop.html | common-crawl | Martha Stewart gets some chow with her fave Chow Chow at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Only the best for Genghis Khan, who later won Best in Breed at the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
A lot of people think this is weird; I think it's awesome. Also, he's so pouffy!! He looks like a giant teddy bear. Aka, he reminds me of Gus and Mickey.
Another winner makes me think of Gus and Mickey... For obvious reasons!
They claim he's a Pekingese dog, but I'm pretty sure that's a Himalayan cat who won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show on Tuesday.
Best in Fluff goes to Gus and Mickey. Now where should I take them for lunch? Table for three, please. Just kidding. They'd much prefer dinner.
And the design goes to...
Caffeinated birthday wishes to me!
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http://blog.robkershaw.com/2005/06/ovenless.html | common-crawl | Good job I took Gilly out for a big lunch today since (quelle surprise) the cooker hadn't been fixed. I left a ratty voicemail for them to pick up tomorrow and I'll ring them first thing tomorrow. I can cope with eating sandwiches at night for one day, but not two.
After dropping her at the station (woo...only one week until we're off to Greece!), I went out for a pint with the house. Kasia was very drunk which is always amusing, and bitched about Olesya all night, which was even more amusing. Her favourite earrings went missing, leading Kasia to believe that Olesya is involved. So she invited us to turn her room upside down to find them. So we did. If anyone remembers that old Neil Buchanan show Finders Keepers you will get the idea of what it was like. Drawers ripped out, shelves overturned, chairs thrown around..."look high, look low!". All we needed was a big blue arrow pointing at the location, and we would have been sorted. Stu was in his element. It's always fun to trash someone's room when it isn't your own.
Didn't find the earrings though. |
http://blogote.com/opinion/sony-ps3-firmware-problems/7435/ | common-crawl | How Good is Sony’s PS3 Move Against Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect?
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/food/tag/ed-giobbis-marinara-sauce/ | common-crawl | I can see the finish line on my book, Mycophilia, concerning the new science in the field of mycology (okay, it’s a mushroom book) and really hauling to get done by January 1. So some things have fallen by the wayside, like preserving obscene amounts of food. However, I cook dinner every night, and I am burning through my stores of frozen and canned goodies, so I thought I’d share some of those recipes, in case you’ve got chiles and tomatoes put by, too.
I’ve been futzing around with this recipe for a year and now I am really digging it. The trick to a high, light quiche is lots of milk and cream. For this dish I just saw off a chunk of the chile peppers I charred and froze in August. You can substitute ½ cup of milk and ½ cup of cream with 1 cup of soft goat cheese if you like. You can also forego the chiles altogether and use fried zucchini flowers on instead. |
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/dottie-wham/ | common-crawl | The Colorado legisature: The good ol’ days — or were they?
In searching the archives for stories on the Colorado legislature and its 120-day limit, I came across a gem of an article about how much the general assembly had changed with more women, less drinking and fewer practical jokes.
Among those featured in the story by the legendary Capitol reporter John Sanko: Sen. Bill Owens, who went onto become governor, and Sen. Dennis Gallagher, now the Denver city auditor.
After 31 years under the Gold Dome, Charlie Hebler says goodbye today and embarks on a new career as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Hebler lobbied for 30 years on health care, hospitals and other issues. She has a degree in nursing, a master’s in public health and a doctorate in public health. She leaves for Botswana April 2 and will be there for 27 months.
“This is something I’ve wanted to do since college,” said Hebler, who turns 67 shortly after landing in Africa.
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http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/shaping-the-discipline-of-digital-art-history/ | common-crawl | Photogrammetric model of the Earl of Orkney’s estate, one example of 3-D assets the Orkney team are gathering as part of their research.
Hard questions abound in the emerging discipline of digital art history. Among them are questions of scale and questions of perspective, which concern the use of 3-D and geospatial analysis in art historical research.
For instance, two places that figure in art historian Jennifer Grayburn and archaeologist Julie Gibson’s research are the towered medieval churches of St. Magnus Kirk on Egilsay (founded in the twelfth century) and St. Magnus Cathedral (founded in 1137) in the Orkney Islands. One church is in ruins, though, while the other still stands in its complete form.
Following the martyrdom of the Orkneys’ patron saint in 1117, St. Magnus became a popular figure within a dynamic trading and political network that connected the Orkneys to the rest of the British Islands, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland. Despite this interconnectedness, scholars have mostly researched sites in this network in isolation. Grayburn and Gibson aim to uncover the relationship between the two geographically separated and seemingly unrelated churches and their function as part of a larger cultural landscape. Digital tools play a key role in doing this.
The pair took their project to a two-week workshop this past summer on Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks, held in Venice, Italy, and funded by the Getty Foundation. Organized by Duke University’s Wired! Lab in collaboration with Venice International University, the workshop was geared towards advanced scholarly research projects, especially those with already established teams.
It also tested a new model of participation in digital art history workshops, with art historians accompanied by the visual media scholars, 3-D and virtual reality specialists, historians, librarians, filmmakers, and programmers with whom they collaborate. With nine projects accepted, the seminar produced a heady scholarly debate and encouraged the sharing of information that showed real potential to sustain advanced work in digital art history. For those interested in learning more, conversations are accessible on Twitter with the hashtag #DAHVenice2018.
To bring teams together to test and develop specific art historical projects.
To use discussion of key readings as well as modeling of diverse spatial technologies of visualization and analysis to develop the participants’ projects.
To develop a workflow model for sustaining their projects into the future.
The projects brought to the workshop by a group of participants from around the world featured a wide range of art historical topics. Along with medieval church architecture in the Orkneys, the researchers focused on topics from the ancient fortifications of the Balkan city of Trogir to early modern Florence to modern-era Istanbul. Reflecting the most developed areas of digital art history, there were strong clusters of topics in the ancient, medieval, and early modern eras, especially when they overlapped with archaeology, a field of long-standing engagement with digital methods.
The group was united by their shared challenge to embrace both the capacities of the digital and the values of the art historian and visual critic, as well as by the “hard questions” of scale and perspective that concern the discipline of digital art history at large.
Grayburn and Gibson’s project, “Modeling Power and Pilgrimage in Medieval Orkney,” reckons with geographic scale as it seeks to analyze the architectural landscape across a chain of scattered islands, in many cases with incomplete physical remains. The team is combining digital methods with material evidence and textual sources such as the Orkneyinga Saga, a literary work on the history of the islands, to reconstruct a large number of sites and gain a more comprehensive understanding of the region’s complex economic and political systems.
For example, digital reconstructions of the two churches that bear St. Magnus’s name have allowed the scholars to confirm they were visible to each other—an important point of connection for the powerful and the pilgrim alike between the “kirk” where the saint purportedly died on Egilsay and the cathedral where he was eventually entombed. Unpacking the art historical significance of such discoveries will follow as the team continues their research.
The DECIMA group’s project also deals with issues of scale, but in terms of data.
Represented at the workshop by Éric Pecile and Hana Suckstorff, the project is recreating a model of Florence from a late sixteenth-century map and by incorporating the data sets of three historic censuses undertaken in Florence between 1551 and 1632—going a step beyond most other digital mapping projects for pre-modern cities that rely only on the record of the built environment of the time.
Screen capture of DECIMA’s interactive exploratory map of historical Florentine data.
The scale of the project is vast. Users of the map can zoom into individual buildings to discover individual data points such as household size or occupation. They can also design queries of the data set that can track changes over time in property value or population across the entire city.
Art historical projects that engage perspective often consider a single object or collection of objects in relation to a particular point of view in space, time, or attitude. An example at the workshop was “Visualizing the Sanctuary at Samothrace,” a collaborative exploration of place and experience led by Bonna Westcoat with Vincent Baillet and Ian Burr.
and even 3-D walk-throughs of the site, like the video reconstruction below that takes the perspective of a pilgrim entering the sanctuary’s threshold gate (the Propylon of Ptolemy II) and continuing into a theatrical complex populated with schematic silhouettes.
Focusing on a building by the famous Ottoman architect Sinan that was repurposed in the nineteenth century as a mental asylum, “Modeling Movement” exemplifies some of the most advanced integration of spatial analysis and computational methods.
Scholar Burcak Ozludil is exploring how the space was transformed and how that shift may have not just reflected, but actually enacted new mental health practices in the period. This research question demanded not only deep analysis of architectural plans and photographs, but also attempts to reconstruct how inmates and staff experienced the spaces.
Since there are often few documents that can help flesh out these individual stories—especially of silenced historical groups like mental patients—Ozludil paired up with her colleague Augustus Wendell, who took the lead in developing a spatial platform that helps to model experience.
Reconstructing rituals, movements, and experiences is, of course, critical for many scholars who study the meaning of buildings and art objects that were displayed and experienced in specific spaces. Ozludil and Wendell hope that their platform, SpatioScholar, can be used more widely in art history for spatial analysis.
Questions of perspective can also be extended to the composition of a project team. The “Visualizing the Mount Estate” collaborators are doing just that in their study of an important Qing dynasty (1644–1911) imperial park in Chengde, China. The Bishu shanzhuang, or “Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat,” was constructed over the course of the eighteenth century, encompassed over 250 architectural assemblages at its height, and spread across 3,500 acres—an area more than four times the size of New York City’s Central Park. Yet 200 years of reconstruction and decay now mask its original layout and function.
To recover these aspects and better understand this critical cultural site where emperors entertained, relaxed, and conducted state business as many as seven months out of the year, the team involves multiple scholarly points of view. In addition to the art historical expertise of Stephen Whiteman and the digital technology knowledge of Hedren Sum, Biju Dhanapalan brings filmmaking and storytelling acumen to the project. They are borrowing digital tools and methods from film pre-production, visual effects, and gaming to complement those from geography, art and architectural history, and material culture studies. The outcomes of this novel approach are still to come, but the collaborators expect to develop new ways to engage with and experience dynamic historical environments.
Screen capture of Visualizing the Mountain Estate’s interactive map of the site at Chengde.
For the workshop organizers, the mutual support and interaction among the teams surfaced shared art historical questions at the heart of their projects: How do we understand the human experience of space as part of establishing the meaning of an object or site? How do we analyze the built environment when historical or physical evidence is partial or ambiguous? How do we think about spatial art historical subjects within the context of larger and complex physical and social environments? These three key questions kept returning in our presentations and conversations, and they will undoubtedly continue to inform ongoing research.
The seminar participants will meet again in Venice in June 2019 to present further results of their collaborations. We will also see how our collective conversation about the ways that 3-D and geospatial analysis can enrich the field of art history more broadly has evolved. Members of the organizing team anticipate sharing broader insights and recommendations for the field’s development in writing, at conferences, including the College Art Association meeting in New York in February 2019, and by example in their own 3-D geospatial project work going forward.
I am a professor of art history and the director of Wired! Lab for Digital Art History & Visual Culture at Duke University. My work focuses on modern German architecture and politics.
This is great! Thank you for writing this up.
This is fascinating and important. My concern is how to promote equity given the imbalance of digital resources and knowledge across the country – and around the world.
This is really wonderful. Could you give the date and time or title of panel at CAA on which this project will be discussed?
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Mary knows that science works, but yearns for the perfect man to bring her the extreme pleasure she desires. So what’s a Medical Examiner with a degree in genius to do?
Playing doctor has never been so much fun...
NOTE: It’s Alive is only available via Amazon at this time.
I received a copy of It’s Alive as a gift on 20-Aug-2014 which qualifies it for my 2016 The Mt. TBR Struggle is Real challenge!!!! It’s Alive languished on Mt. TBR for 1 year, 8 months.
It’s Alive is the story of Dr. Mary Shelley and her antics. With that name, you already know where Mr. Carpenter is going with this tale. That sounds awfully crude but it’s a site less crude than what Carpenter wrote. O_O Dr. Shelley is joined in her little romp by her best friend, Inga (I see what you did there, Carpenter).
Mary goes with Peter home where they proceed to have a night filled with debauchery.
Did I mention that Mary is supposed to be “a lethal combination of brains and a smoking hot body” who is a genius but for some strange she works as a medical examiner at the city morgue. Which I find weird. And she’s not even the boss. But this is a Weird Shit Wednesday read so…no sense is required?
So. After Mary decides to create her monster, the reader gets treated to a healthy dose of the Male Gaze that is supposedly a Female Gaze. I got quite tired of reading about how hawt Mary thought she was and how desperately she wanted some decent dick that came with good (insert things here). Over and over again we are treated to Mary’s hawtness via the Male Gaze.
I also feel it necessary to talk about being smart and hot and a women. It happens all the time – there are tons and tons of smart, beautiful women. I include myself in that list…and I have never, ever, EVER been as hard up for some dicking down as Lil’ Miss Mary here. I’m just saying. Yeah, sure. Some (read: a lot) men are dumb…but if you hold being dumb against a man you couldn’t date any of them. Once a man even thinks about sex (read: once every 10 seconds) he stops thinking.
Getting back to It’s Alive.
Around 60% Lil’ Miss Mary started to remind me of a man: nothing on the brain but sex. With anyone or anything at any given moment. I mean, the broad started thinking about screwing the (first) first responder that arrives at scene of a horrific accident Mary witnessed. I was gagging because one paragraph would describe the horrific accident (severed body parts, tons of blood) while the next paragraph has Lil’ Miss Mary lusting. Always with the lusting. Her coochie is going to swell up, turn black and fall off from over use + weird appliance use.
Like Wolverine bursting from the water, all wet and muscular, Mary’s man would too. Only hers would be a creation for science. And also for need because she really wanted a personal fuck-toy that didn’t have batteries or strings attached.
I swear. I spent most of this read in a slightly horrified state. Then the ending happened. I really, really liked the ending. Go figure! Jumped it up a 1/2 star!
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She looks pretty rough right now, but I'm confident she'll come out of Rehab looking like a whole new pony.
Maybe a pretty dappled palomino pony?
Only time will tell. I'll keep you posted!
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Surfing the news sites seeking attention for my seemingly near-insatiable, up-to-the-second addiction for current events, apparently life seemingly has flat-lined as we crawl out from under the hideous holiday season — from Thanksgiving (maybe even since Hal-loo-ween) and onto New Years Day, a quick-blast of counterfeit emotions — and suddenly the same impending topsy-turviness so-well slated for 2013.
Noted fatal irony: The bat-shit crazy are operating the asylum.
Tragedy continues, of course. A shooting in Aurora, Colo., again, this time a slaughter in private. And another rape case is getting creepy and bizarre, no, not in India or Pakistan, but in freakin’ Steubenville, Ohio. A bit north of here this morning, a 7.5 measured earthquake with a few aftershocks, one a 5.1 itself — the shaker located about 60 miles from Craig, Alaska, just a bit more than 200 miles south of Juneau, along the coast.
In digesting all the Internet-provided news outlets (The Journalist’s Toolbox, a most-handy site), I did come across a couple of background items of interest, both inundated with the horrendous financial bullshit of late.
I understand why the debt ceiling is a problem.
What I don’t understand it why it’s Obama’s problem.
If the U.S. defaults on loan obligations because of failure to increase the debt ceiling, every single American would be made somewhat poorer by the dead weight loss to the American economy that this would cause.
I don’t see why either political party or either branch of government should gain any leverage by threatening economic harm to the United States of America whose financial management is the mutual responsibility of each of them.
The whole thing reminds me of the great moment in “Blazing Saddles†when Sheriff Bart takes himself hostage by pointing a gun at his own head.
Yes, apparently we are.
You can read through reams of reporting about the debt ceiling and not find anything that explains the most basic facts about the situation.
It is widely being reported on as a conventional Washington standoff, in which Dems want a debt ceiling hike, Republicans want spending cuts, and we’re now going to see a game of chicken in which the two will meet somewhere in the middle.
This bears no relationship to the reality of the situation, in which Republicans are pretending that in refusing to hike the debt ceiling, they are withholding a concession for which they should ultimately be rewarded.
In reality they are demanding that Dems give them something in exchange for agreeing not to do immense damage to the whole country.
As Dellinger’s email neatly demonstrates, the situation is profoundly absurd and unbalanced — yet this is completely lost in the business-as-usual coverage.
And aided by assholes — the Wall Street Journal (via Mediaite) claims the upcoming March debt ceiling dust-up can be won by the GOP by taking the whole country hostage, and they should be serious about it: You can’t take a hostage you aren’t prepared to shoot.
This ‘hostage‘ word, remember, is life and livelihood of us the people — we get shot.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people.
We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in — only temporarily, mind you — to prop up the economy and save the world from financial catastrophe.
The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences.
We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn.
But the most appalling part is the lying.
The public has been lied to so shamelessly and so often in the course of the past four years that the failure to tell the truth to the general populace has become a kind of baked-in, official feature of the financial rescue.
Money wasn’t the only thing the government gave Wall Street — it also conferred the right to hide the truth from the rest of us.
And it was all done in the name of helping regular people and creating jobs.
The bailout deceptions came early, late and in between.
There were lies told in the first moments of their inception, and others still being told four years later.
The lies, in fact, were the most important mechanisms of the bailout.
The only reason investors haven’t run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.
Investors may not actually believe the lie, but they are impressed by how totally committed the government has been, from the very beginning, to selling it.
What’s more, some parts of the bailout were designed to extend far into the future.
Companies like AIG, GM and Citigroup, for instance, were given tens of billions of deferred tax assets — allowing them to carry losses from 2008 forward to offset future profits and keep future tax bills down.
Official estimates of the bailout’s costs do not include such ongoing giveaways.
“This is stuff that’s never going to appear on any report,” says Barofsky.
Read the whole piece, fairly lengthy, but well worth it. Taibbi is by far-and-away one of the better journalists nowadays, especially in the financial/Wall Street arena, and writes in such a fashion even a dumb-ass can easily understand.
According to the FBI, in 2010, there were 8,775 people who were murdered with guns, compared to 540 people who were killed with blunt objects, a small minority of which were people armed with hammers.
The exponentially-higher number of people killed by guns also includes many innocent people killed by indiscriminate gunfire, such as drive-by shootings.
Still, hammers are not the only “weapon†that conservatives are equating with firearms in an attempt to undermine any gun control legislation.
A state representative in New Hampshire, warned of another deadly weapon: credit cards. “Anything can be used as a deadly weapon, said Rep. Dan Dumaine (R).
Credit cards have been cutting people’s throats for years — not just in that bat-shit crazy way.
Being us ain’t pretty.
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Home treatments for gum diseases can allow you to deal with common gum problems all on your teeth. Cat dental disease is just a standard issue. Read more Piles is a significant frequent disease. Gum disease isn't always painful and you may be unaware you have it.
All treatment ought to be none invasive. A good deal of people are reluctant to use chemical flea treatments on account of their chance of a toxic reaction with the epidermis. You might need to replicate the complete treatment for a few days and soon you will find some respite from sore gums. There are a number of home treatments for Gingivitis gums which may be practiced regularly.
There are a lot of unique indicators of gingivitis. The components needed for your own treatment are easily accessible in the cooking zone. You'll find a couple of things you can do in order to acquire responsibility for the circumstance and dissuade the behavior. The ideal option is an expert fluoride application out of the dentist, but there are a number of products that you can use when you wait around for it.
Fleas are a frequent dilemma for dogs. Aside from causing a great deal of itching and annoyance, they may also lead to harmful infections. Now you know the causes of ear diseases, you are also inclined to become interested in understanding just how to understand whether your pet dog has ear mites. Dogs n Mites is 1 example.
Utilize Salt to knock out Gingivitis Salt, usually found in every household, may be the very first and the best treatment for gingivitis. Instead of buying bottles of flea shampoos, it's cheaper to make your own with vinegar and other ingredients. Vinegar which is made of organic ingredients can prove to be stronger than your usual chemical established flea remedies. Baking soda can be a well-known gingivitis home remedy. You can make use of a baking soda paste regularly in the place of toothpaste, however be carefulbaking soda is still extremely abrasive and should be used gently in conjunction with olive oil.
When her skin is simply usually swollen, it's likely just ironic. Form ears, other components of the human anatomy as foot and tail also needs to be medicated.
It's particularly vital that you keep your mouth clean when you have a cavity, since plaque starts to form in just 20 minutes of ingestion. Mouth is believed to be the mirror of the general health of human body. A dry mouth may quicken tooth decay by allowing the accumulation of cavity-causing bacteria. Speak with your doctor if tender mouth remains a problem for you personally. Furthermore, brushing your cat may be a great bonding experience for both of you.
Ensure you wash your teeth using a all-natural toothpaste afterword. The teeth have been coated by bloodstream in order that it is quite ordinary they change color depending on the blood supply to it.
Can gums regrow?
Normally, black teeth have been connected with the usage of tobacco or any individual drugs. In some instances, unhealthy gums could require a more potent response and ozonated olive oil could deliver successful healing right at your residence. In some cases, it may possibly also be wholly normal to have brownish or black gums, irrespective of skin color. Possessing dark gums could also be caused by sun exposure. |
http://cartype.com/pages/6255/scion_tc__2014 | common-crawl | Scion revealed the new 2014 tC sports coupe at the 2013 New York International Auto Show, showing off a sporty new look, upgraded interior and an enhanced driving experience for the brand’s top-selling vehicle.
2014 Scion tC.
Aggressive Look with New Exterior Design and 18-Inch Wheels.
The 2014 Scion tC is defined by more assertive styling, starting from the front with distinctive new headlamps and an all-new hood that extends lower toward a more open, muscular grille with an embedded tC logo. The new upper- and lower-grille treatments are bordered by LED accent lighting.
Beneath the rear bumper, a new black-out valance features an FR-S style, lower-center trim piece and lower perimeter reflectors; new advanced LED tail lamps complete the picture. New 18-inch alloy wheels with 225/45R18 tires carry the aggressive character through to the car’s profile. Standard on the tC, the wheels feature a premium dark gray finish, contrasted by eye-catching machined-spoke surfaces.
The tC will be available in seven exterior paint colors, including two new additions, Absolutely Red and Blue Streak Metallic.
Upgraded Materials and Scion Standard Display Audio Enhance Interior.
The 2014 Scion tC’s cabin adds new technology, additional convenience features and upgraded materials. The tC will be the first model in the family to come with the all-new Scion Standard Display Audio, featuring a 6.1-inch LCD touchscreen. The system will be incorporated into all 2014 Scion models, making Scion the industry’s first non-luxury brand to feature a touchscreen audio system as standard equipment across its entire lineup. The new audio system comes equipped with features that Scion drivers will enjoy, including Bluetooth® compatibility, HD Radio™ Technology and steering wheel-mounted controls.
The new base audio system will be joined by an available, all-new Scion BeSpoke Premium Audio system featuring Aha™. This upgraded system includes full navigation, as well as the ability to connect compatible smart phones through Aha to access 30,000 free audio stations, including Scion’s own signature station featuring a lineup of its 17 music channels. In addition to audiobook stations, sports, news and entertainment, the Aha service utilizes location–based services like Yelp and TripAdvisor, and integrates most of the popular social media applications, all at a great value for consumers.
Added convenience features for the 2014 tC include auto-off headlamps and an auto-up and down driver's window. The interior is upgraded with premium materials and lighter color fabric on the seats and the headliner.
Sportier Automatic Transmission and Enhanced Dynamic Handling.
Getting there will be more than half the fun in the 2014 tC. Its 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine delivers 179 horsepower at 6,000 RPM, and it is available either with a six-speed manual transmission or an updated six-speed automatic that can change gears nearly twice as fast as the previous model for both upshifts and downshifts. The automatic transmission now features Dynamic Rev Management technology, adopted from the FR-S, which quickly blips the engine to match its revs to gear ratios on downshifts, limiting driveline shock and adding to the visceral experience of driving the car.
Handling is enhanced by making modifications to stabilizer bar hardware, optimizing the shock absorbers, and by increasing the body rigidity with additional spot welds. Driving enthusiasts will also appreciate the retuned electronic power steering that provides a more engaging response. Together, these changes help the new tC to deliver a sportier, fun-to-drive experience behind the wheel. The 2014 Scion tC will arrive in dealerships in June.
Limited-Production Scion 10 Series Models Celebrate Scion’s 10th Anniversary.
In 2003, the first Scion xA and xB vehicles heralded the launch of the Scion brand, which was designed to bring new buyers into the Toyota family and appeal to emerging, younger drivers. The brand has accomplished both, and today it is recognized as having among the youngest median age drivers in the industry. Since its introduction, 75 percent of Scion owners have been new to the Toyota family.
To celebrate Scion’s 10th anniversary, Scion will launch a limited-production version of each vehicle in its lineup called Scion 10 Series. Every Scion 10 Series car will be painted a premium color: Silver Ignition. The anniversary message continues when the driver enters the car to see the Scion name illuminated on the dash before fading to reveal the number 10. The unique models will number a total of 10,000 vehicles, which will begin arriving in dealerships in June.
Other stand-out features include silver seat belts, a solar-powered illuminated shift knob and an LED Scion locator badge that lights up when the car is unlocked. Each vehicle also carries a sequentially numbered interior badge. The xB, iQ, and xD will feature unique alloy wheels in a graphite finish.
2014 Scion tC TRD wheel.
2014 Scion tC interior.
Scion tC : 2010 Blends Style and Refinement.
Scion tC : 2011 Premieres at the 2010 New York International Auto Show.
Scion tC Release Series 7.0 : 2012 Scion will only build 2,200 units.
Scion tC Series 9.0 : 2015 Scion’s First Blacked-Out Badge. |
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http://catalog.jjc.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=1&coid=3542 | common-crawl | Course consists of the fundamental principles of construction layout and surveying, use and care of equipment, concepts of horizontal, vertical, and angular measurements, and basic survey computations. This course will also cover the examination of methods and procedures for accurate measuring and layout of construction projects such as sewer lines, building layout, grade stakes, slope stakes, and construction grid systems.Prerequisite: AEC 106 . |
http://catholicmom.com/2018/02/22/new-catholic-singer-songwriter-audrey-assad-evergreen/ | common-crawl | Learn more at AudreyAssad.com, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.com.
Here’s a taste of this album — the final track, “Drawn to You,” co-written with Matt Maher.
Evergreen is available for preorder on Amazon and iTunes.
She is one of my favorites! I have all of her solo albums. Her lyrics always touch my heart and spirit. I can’t wait to listen to this album.
I didn’t realize she was Catholic. I have her first album which I love. Can you recommend other Catholic singers? Going to check out hee new album. Thanks for the review.
I love her songs and videos (how they often have landscapes and the lyrics). I am glad that you shared this as I did not know she had a new album coming out. I also love Matt Maher, so I was happy to see that the song you chose to share was co-written with him. |
http://centstudio.com/greater-training-consulting.html | common-crawl | Making ready our state’s K-12 college students for the pains of a faculty training by means of Nevada’s adoption of the Widespread Core State Standards (often known as the Nevada Academic Content Requirements) is a prime priority for NSHE and our companions within the Nevada Department of Education and Nevada Board of Education. Human capital concept offers a framework for inspecting the influence of acquired variables similar to education, studying and experience on profession outcomes and it was additional develop on the belief that education can function a key determinant of decision selection and providing advantages to specific ventures (Dickson et al, 2008).
The Higher education coverage was deficient within the sense that it did not take the issue of self employment at tertiary degree critical (European Journal of Social Sciences – Quantity 15, #1 2010).The Higher training policy was mainly involved with the event of each larger and middle manpower.
Within the current previous, the demand for larger education has elevated enormously all by the country primarily because of awareness about the significance of upper schooling, whereas the tactic of higher training could not accommodate this ever rising demand.
Search thousands of health care jobs in academic and scientific settings on the nation’s main college hospitals and affiliated providers. That is, it is exhausting to argue with his prediction that tuition fees skyrocketing costs of higher education can embrace in them, bubble shape, the destruction of upper schooling, as we all know.
In cognizance of this reality, Adejimola and Olufunmilayo, 2009, suggested that training needs to be refined with a view to create and enhance the availability of entrepreneurial initiative and activities. Enhance and update your English, Maths and examine abilities as a way to research at a higher schooling stage and progress your profession.
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http://charlesfrith.blogspot.com/2016/12/demonic-aliens-collins-elite.html | common-crawl | It's been a few years since I last covered a Nick Redfern interview, as the only thing worth knowing about the alien issue is the deep state spends a lot of money and invests a huge amount of "limited hangout" time to own that particularly unreality network.
This is all the usual nonsense from the manipulative (and highly manipulated) media, who can't be trusted on the extremes of any argument so it's probably somewhere in the middle.
What makes the Collins Elite an interesting story is that it portrays a series of events whereby military intelligence put together a think tank of sorts to figure out the alien contact questions. Their conclusion which is broadly speaking given credence within the spiritual truth-seeking community, is that the UFO/Alien question is a transdimensional one, that can't be touched, recorded or measured and is thus no different from the paranormal spectrum.
I wouldn't normally invest this much time in describing an excellent interview but the subject came up over dinner with a prominent UFO researcher, I relistened to the original work I'd covered a few years ago and for some reason the video I listened to at least 4 or 5 times over the weekend was removed despite lingering on Youtube for years barely touched by anyone.
I like that kind of thing so I've found an alternative for you to listen to. Unfortunately it has adverts but Nick Redfern is invariably interesting listening and I've tagged the space he's covered below.
Update: The original video was removed so the only substitute available is above. |
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http://chowfookcheong.blogspot.com/2012_02_15_archive.html | common-crawl | No matter how delicious it smells to everyone, when you just don't have the appetite, ...
... its just a mixture of green, orange and more green. Even if it was cooked by Mommy.
Not sure what this is supposed to be but one thing I am certain is that its in front of me. The 'Mintensity' pack must be some sort of an experiment for mints by Mentos. Sure they have the fruit mix and the Sour mix some time ago and it was well accepted by the Public. But Mints?
This is how the package looks like. Only those who are curious would buy them, or, well, Mint fans, I suppose.
The flavours are: Extrra, Strong, Fresh and Soft. Personally, I like Fresh.
So, for those who like to try out different versions of the Mint without having to buy individual packs, this is the more economical solution. But if you buy them outside the Mentos range, then the taste is reset.
Finally, the Tea Lights have started to come into Malaysia. OK, they came more than a year ago but for some reasons, was not 'popular'. And the prices they commanded emited a lot of Boo's from the Wallet Community no doubt. Anyway, this coming from China, suprisingly, costs very little. So, for that price, I am sure there is something fishy there which really made me quite curious.
1) Someone bought them by container loads.
Ah, this is where the mystery reveals itself! There are no circuit boards, just the switch and the LED.
And so, I have stumbled upon the next generation of the Flickering Tea Lights. In the first generation, it needed two button cell batteries and the flickering effect is controlled from a circuit board. Here, everything has been packed into the LED. All you need now is just the battery and there you go. This now only saves material costs but also, they can now turn them into actual candles if they wanted too as I have seen smaller batteries.
The only problem which I could not understand was why green? It should be warm white, damn it.
Anyway, it would be perfect for Bruce when and if he does a Flying Dutchman model. |
http://churchmarketingonline.com/2011/03/cmo-university-update-understanding-keyword-competition/ | common-crawl | Understanding what makes a keyword competitive allows you to create an effective strategy for targeting the best keywords and maximizing the traffic to your website. If you don’t understand it, then you are probably spinning your wheels and getting nowhere. So, read on and start “Understanding Keyword Competition” today.
What factors do you look for when determining what keywords you want to target?
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http://ciiradio.com/2018/07/12/minerals-council-75-of-sas-gold-mines-unprofitable/ | common-crawl | Three-quarters of SA’s gold mines are unprofitable or barely making money, says the Minerals Council SA as the sector enters wage talks that some participants hope will reflect the realities bedevilling the sector.
SA’s 140-year-old gold industry, for decades the world’s leading source of the precious metal, is a shadow of itself barely clinging onto eighth place ahead of Mexico. Its mines are old, deep, with falling grades and productivity, and rising costs.
From more than 392,000 people employed in 1994, the sector now has 111,800 and that decline is showing no signs of slowing, with the weak rand price of gold forcing the closure of Pan African Resources’s Evander gold mine and the shutdown of the Cooke mines owned by Sibanye-Stillwater.
Against this backdrop, the gold sector including Sibanye, AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony and Village Main Reef, starts wage talks on Wednesday to set a fresh two-year wage deal.
The opening demands from the two biggest unions, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), with 51% representation of the 79,517 employees at the four companies, and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) with 34%, did not reflect an awareness of the difficulties.
Among a long list of demands, the NUM is demanding that basic entry-level wages be increased by 33% to R10,500/month from R7,785. Amcu, with its usual demand of R12,500/month, put its demand at 58% above prevailing wages.
With labour costs making up 53% of gold mining costs, an increase of those proportions, combined with the costs of the other demands, would force marginal mines out of business and lead to large job losses.
“Increases without a commensurate improvement in the gold price, exchange rate, cost profile or outputs will mean that the cost of labour as a portion of overall costs will rise, and the number of marginal and unprofitable operations will increase,” the council said on Tuesday.
The council is expected to table a counteroffer aligned to the consumer price index, which increased by 4.4% year-on-year for May, with some at the talks expecting a settlement to be two or three percentage points above that level.
The problem with the positional negotiating model was that unions came in with unrealistically high demands and these were countered by the council’s unrealistically low offer, he said.
Sibanye was likely to be the company most under pressure during the wage talks, with its terrible safety record so far in 2018, accounting for 21 of the whole mining industry’s 46 fatalities, and its board’s voracious appetite for deal-making, snapping up three large platinum assets and vying for a takeover of Lonmin, the world’s third-biggest platinum miner.
AngloGold has reduced its footprint in SA to a single underground mine, which is struggling. Harmony has bought the Moab Khotsong mining complex from AngloGold for $300m to lower group costs in SA and raise average grades.
A number of its mines are nearing the end of their lives in SA.
The JSE gold index has fallen by 18% so far in 2018, with Sibanye and Pan African dropping 50% and 43%, respectively.
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http://cincyillustrators.blogspot.com/2009/06/ | common-crawl | This is my film created for the 48 Hour Film Project. It's called Nick Knight in The Tiger's Tale. This is how the film was premiered. We'll be doing a director's cut in the near future.
I still have a lot of studio work in non-disclosure limbo. Since I usually retain all the rights to my driveway art, I'll share this weekend's piece.
You can see a straight-on view at the chalk-o-holic blog.
I'd like to invite everyone to the premier of my film, "Nick Knight in ... 'The Tiger's Tale.'" I helped create this film for the 48 Hour Film Project. "The Tiger's Tale" is a film noir-type detective movie, but with some unexpected twists and turns in it's whopping 7-minute run time. Like every film in the 48 Hour Film Project, it had to have these exact elements: a fork, a character named Lynn or Len Pellaton, and the line, "What the hell is this?"
I hope you can make it out to see my – ahem! – directoral debut. The movie is screening during the 3 p.m. block.
Black Beauty is Out!
The early reader version of Black Beauty I illustrated was released today. Yay! The book was really challenging with all the horses, costume, architecture, tack, etc. The story has a lot of sad parts but at least all is good in the end.
Here is my favorite spread. Fellow illustrators' lunch regular Dave Hartz was the model (for the cabbie-not the horse).
This is the famous "22 Panels That Always Work," created by Wally Wood, the superb dramatic and satiric comic book artist. They're a wonderful aid for graphic storytelling, suggesting ways to add drama and variety to comics and individual illustrations.
Higher-resolution scans and more about this piece can be found at the blog of Joel Johnson, the art's owner. Thank you, Joel, for making this available to us all.
These drawings were allegedly created by Wood as a cheat sheet for himself. He didn't need it...
...but sometimes the rest of us do.
In honor of Father's Day, here is the sketch for a large painting I am working on called: "Peter and Flopsy Plus Eight". I had first planned to do this on a 16" by 20" piece of masonite, but wussed out and am doing it on cold press illustration board (acrylic on gesso) instead. Ever since I started this sketch, I have seen a lot of rabbits around in the yard, biking, eating my garden, etc. I am not sure what this means, but it is a little odd...
Hey everyone, once you're done with Christina's book signing on Saturday the 20th you could come on over to the Gardens for the Cincinnati Rollergirls' final home bout! I did this poster for it, at first it was challenging for me to figure out how to indicate that it was a battle between Cincy and Columbus without using a buckeye or a plant or anything because those things arent really recognizeable to me (especially if I drew it in my style)- but hey I think the flag works and is more exciting.
If you come on Saturday be sure to say hi, I'll be at the merch booth!
From Jerry: Here's the cover of my new book about the Bengals when they were actually good-Hence the Star Wars reference-in another millenium. It has 261 drawings in it plus the writing. Foreward by former Bengals All Pro tight end Bob Trumpy. Due out in September hopefully before they accidentally win a game.
Google Want Artists to Work for Free...
Check out this article in the New York Times that is making my head spin. We're trying to link art and commerce as we build value to the visual voice.
From Jerry: Every year I do two of these for Ohio State graduates.
From Jerry: CityBeat this week. I'm supposed to stick with loacl subjects, but I figured Columbus is close enough plus Tiger is big news anywhere. I used the Nike 'SWOOSH' icon as the basis for this one.
The latest DVM Newsmagazine illustration. This one's about a guy who all of a sudden expects his dog to know/obey his commands when they visit the vet.
While you are at the Blue Marble Anniversary Celebration, congratulate Tamara Schmitz for winning Honorable Mention at the New York Book Festival last week. What an achievement!
One June 20th, Blue Marble is having a big bash with Illustrators and Authors signing all day.
The Cincinnati Rollergirls are having an art show/auction at the Northside Gallery from Wednesday, July 15th - Saturday August 1st, with an opening and closing reception. This event is a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Rollergirls, so the proceeds will be donated to CRG.
We need rollergirl/derby themed art to display and hopefully sell! We can accommodate all types of media and would like to have a diverse range of pieces. Also, think about small pieces that we can sell easily and make a quick profit. I'm thinking, small photos, jewelry, sculptures, etc.
Photogs: We would love to show any pieces you have left from the Rock-n-Rollergirls show and/or any new stuff.
The deadline for completed pieces is Friday, July 10th. We will be installing pieces that weekend to be ready for the opening that wednesday.
I would also like a brief description of what you will be creating by the end of June so that I can start planning the exhibition.
Carol Tyler is signing her new graphic novel "You'll Never Know, Book One: A Good and Decent Man" at Shake It Records on Saturday June 13th from 5-7 PM.
Also, her father, 90 year old WWII veteran Chuck Tyler will also be there to sign copies of the book!
UPDATE: Publishers Weekly gave Carol a starred review for the book! Check it out!
Different is usually even more fun.
My client for theis project was a fine young man named Kevin, wanting something for his family gatherings this summer-something to play up the competition between the USA military service branches in his relatives, the friendly frictions between Army and Air Force.
He knew exactly what he wanted; I can take no credit for creativity here. The images are above.
Just wanted to thank you again.
As I say, different is usually fun. This one did not even involve caricature, nor ink or even paper. A weird tech problem with the project was the manufacturer of the boards would NOT release the information on what kind of paint was used. If I used the wrong pigment the image might just peel off in the first rain, so that was not an option. Eventually they relented, and I am grateful.
Craig McKay Wins Reuben Award!
Local illustrator Craig McKay just won a Reuben Award in the Advertising Illustration category from the National Cartoonists Society.
This his third award in that category!
30th Anniversary Author and Illustrator Festival a...
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CISP reserves the right to amend this AUP (as well as other policies and agreements) at any time and in any manner. Notice of any amendment will be posted in accordance with the T&C. All amendments are effective immediately.
1. Subscriber is at all times bound by these Terms and Conditions (T&C), and by CISP’s Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”). Subscriber’s use of the Service is Subscriber’s acceptance of and agreement to be bound by these T&C and the AUP, which are the “Agreement”. For purpose of these Terms and Conditions, “Service” means any of the services that CISP provides customers, including, without limitation, data storage (backup or primary), content hosting, virtual servers, dedicated servers, Internet access, managed services (e.g., anti-virus, DDoS firewalls, operating system updates, hardware monitoring, etc.), and physical facilities (cubes, phones, pcs, etc.).
2. CISP may from time to time change its AUP. Those changes are effective when posted. Subscriber’s use of the Service after a change in the AUP is Subscriber’s acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the change. A change in the AUP is not grounds for termination of the Agreement or for Subscriber’s non-performance of obligations under the T&C.
3. Subscribers may not use the Service to conduct, participate in, assist, or in any way further illegal activity.
4. CISP may, at its sole discretion, cooperate fully with any law enforcement agency or individual who requests access to or copies of information in CISP’s possession, custody or control, or otherwise available to CISP, that bears on Subscriber’s use of the Service for any unlawful purpose, and Subscriber waives any right Subscriber has or may have to object to disclosure of such information. Without derogating from any provision in this contract, or any other right CISP has, Subscriber acknowledges that in response to such a request from a law enforcement agency individual, CISP may immediately terminate all Services to Subscriber.
5. Subscriber agrees to pay for the Service the rates and charges that have been communicated to Subscriber. Except as otherwise expressly stated to Subscriber in a writing signed by an authorized representative of CISP, CISP may change the rates and charges from time to time. Those new rates and charges become effective on the date established by CISP and Subscribers’s sole recourse, should it object to paying the new charges, is to terminate the Service on or before the effective date of the new rates and charges.
6. Payment for Subscriber’s access to the Service is due in advance and must be received by CISP on the last day of the month before the month for which payment for Service is being made. (E.g., For service in January 2006, CISP must receive Subscriber’s payment by December 31, 2005.) Payment may be made by credit card, wire transfer, or ACH. In addition to the base rate and charges, Subscriber is responsible for payment of all applicable taxes. Any and all amounts Subscriber owes but fails timely to pay to CISP bear interest at the rate of the lower of eighteen percent per annum, or the highest rate that may lawfully be charged to Subscriber.
7. If Subscriber fails timely to pay for the Service, or any other rate or charge that is due, CISP may, in addition to other legal or equitable remedies it has or may have, immediately terminate the Service to Subscriber.
9. The Company may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon the failure of Subscriber to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not relieve Subscriber of responsibility for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable interest and any collection fees.
10. Subscriber may cancel the Service with at least 30- but not more than 60-days advance written notice. Written notice may be sent to CISP at its place of business or by email to |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| or by electronic communication through CISP’s customer service site. Upon receipt of Subscriber’s written notice of cancellation, CISP will send an email to email address Subscriber has provided CISP. Completion of the process set forth in that email is required to make cancellation effective. If Subscriber does not respond to this email within 48 hours, the process is void and Subscriber must reinitiate it to cancel the Service. Cancellation does not relieve Subscriber of the obligation to pay CISP in full for all rates and charges that are due and owing, and Subscriber remains fully liable for those rates and charges, plus accrued interest, penalties, and fees, until all are paid in full.
11. CISP has no obligation to provide Subscriber with technical support regarding Subscriber’s use of the Service.
12. Subscriber represents and warrants that neither Subscriber nor any client, affiliate, customer, or other person in any way associated with Subscriber who uses the Service will use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose that violates the Acceptable Use Policy. Subscriber is responsible to CISP for all usage of the Service connected with Subscriber’s account. Subscriber must indemnify and hold harmless CISP from and against all claims, damages, and losses, including costs and attorney fees, caused by, arising from, or related to Subscriber’s use of the Service, including but not limited to violations of the T&C or the AUP, whether by Subscriber directly or by a person or entity who uses the Service under Subscriber’s auspices, whether the claim, damage, or loss arises directly against CISP or is incurred by CISP as a result of the actions of a third party, including legal actions brought against CISP by third parties.
13. CISP MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE. In the event of any breach of this Agreement by CISP, or any failure of the Service whatsoever, CISP is not liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, actual, incidental, punitive or any other damages, or for any lost profits of any kind or nature whatsoever, even if CISP has been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss. Subscriber’s sole remedy in the event of a failure of the Service, or any interruption of Service, regardless of the cause of the interruption, is a service credit, which CISP may in its sole discretion grant.
14. If CISP assigns Customer an Internet Protocol address for Customer's use, the right to use that Internet Protocol address belongs only to CISP and Customer has no right to use that Internet Protocol address except as permitted by CISP in its sole discretion in connection with the Services. CISP maintains and controls ownership of all Internet Protocol numbers and addresses that CISP may assign to Customer. CISP reserves the sole and unfettered right to change or remove any and all such Internet Protocol numbers and addresses. CISP’s allocation of IP addresses is limited by ARIN's new policies. These new policies state that use of IP addresses for IP-based virtual hosts will not be accepted as justification for new IP addresses. What this means to you is that you MUST use name-based hosting where possible. We will periodically review IP address usage, and if we find that clients are using IP addresses where name-based hosting could be used, we will revoke authorization to use those IP addresses that could be used with name-based hosting.
15. Customer’s bandwidth and disk usage may not exceed the per-month quantity Customer ordered and paid for (the “Contracted Usage”). All usage, which includes incoming and outgoing traffic, is measured on a calendar month, with partial months prorated on a daily basis. If Customer’s actual usage exceeds the Contracted Usage, CISP may take the corrective action it determines is appropriate. This corrective action may include, at CISP’s sole discretion, the assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination of this Agreement. Regardless of CISP’s corrective action, Customer has no right of any kind to a refund of fees or charges paid or assessed before the corrective action. If CISP elects to charge Subscriber for usage in excess of Contracted Usage, the charge for that amount will be billed automatically immediately upon CISP’s calculation of the amount due. Contracted Usage that is not used during the month is not carried forward to future months, nor may it be shared with other subscribers.
16. All new webhosting accounts involving new domains will be set up and entered into our DNS servers within 3 to 5 business days. Due to unforeseen complications, however, this process may sometimes require up to 7 business days. If the new domain is registered by the account holder, there will be no handling fee. If the domain is registered by CISP on behalf of the account holder a handling fee will be incurred.
17. New webhosting accounts which involve the transfer of a domain from another provider to CISP require a minimum of seven (7) days to be set up and entered into our DNS servers. In some cases, such transfers may take up to sixty (60) days. Due to the unpredictable nature of the transfer process, no guarantees are made regarding the amount of time a specific transfer may take. If the transfer of the domain is done by CISP on behalf of the account holder a handling fee will be incurred. If the customer cancels service during the transfer period for any reason, all charges are considered earned.
18. CISP may suspend network access to any Subscriber if in the sole judgment of the CISP such action is necessary to protect the integrity of CISP’s services or to enforce the AUP. In no such event is Customer entitled to any service credit.
19. CISP reserves the right to amend its policies at any time. All Sub-Networks, resellers and managed servers of CISP must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation. You will be held responsible for the actions of your clients in the matter described on these Terms and conditions. Therefore, it is in your best interest to implement a similar or stricter Terms and conditions or otherwise called Acceptable Terms of use policy.
20. You must provide us with, and keep current, good contact information for you. E-mail, fax, and telephone contacts are used, in that order of preference.
21. If either party fails to require the other to perform any term of this Agreement, that failure does not prevent the party from later enforcing that term. If either party waives the other’s breach of a term, that waiver is not treated as waiving a later breach of the term.
22. Severability. If any part of this Agreement is for any reason found to be unenforceable, all other parts nevertheless remain enforceable.
23. Binding Effect. This Agreement binds the Parties as well as their heirs, successors, and assigns.
24. Amendment. No amendment of this Agreement is valid unless it is in writing and signed by the Parties.
25. Entire Agreement. This Agreement is the entire agreement of the Parties. It supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral.
26. This Agreement is governed by the substantive laws of the State of Ohio, without giving effect to its choice-of-law provisions.
27. Any and all disputes under this Agreement must be resolved in the Court of Common Pleas, Lucas County, Ohio, and the Subscriber irrevocably consents to that Court’s personal jurisdiction over Subscriber and subject-matter jurisdiction over the dispute.
28. CISP does not take responsibility for published price errors or typos, and will not redeem them. Please contact |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| to confirm any pricing. |
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