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Surviving Marriage
Contributed by Joseph Stapleton on Feb 13, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: A Sermon about marriage with illustrated suggestions
Surviving Marriage
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It seems with the completion of Revival and the series of sermons I preached on Building a Better Body, that we should stay on the roll. However, this is Valentine's weekend and after next week I will be on vacation for the first weekend in March, Bob will be preaching in my absence. When I start back March 8th, we will start another series entitled "When We Move Out, God Moves In" all about giving God room to work in our lives and our church.
This is a romantic weekend, designed to bring us to a place of cherishing our marriages. And I can honestly say that Americans truly believe in marriage. According to statistics 96% of Americans will marry at some point in their lives. Sadly, well over half of those people will divorce, but 80% of divorced Americans will re-marry. This indicates that we truly believe in marriage, and we should for it has been ordained by our Creator. Matt 19:4-6 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
But after the years go by, the spark that was there in the beginning sometimes has ALL but disappeared. The fact is that marriage is a lot of work and many people enter into it thinking that it will be easy, BUT time shows us otherwise.
A woman took her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor said, "Your husband is suffering from a very serious infection." The husband, who was hard of hearing said, "What did he say?" His wife said, "He says your sick". The doctor went on. "But there is hope. You just need to reduce his stress. Each morning, give him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, nice, and kind. For lunch and dinner make him his favorite meal. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse. Don't yell at him or argue with him. And most importantly...just cater to your husband's every whim. If you can do this for your husband for the next 6 months to a year, I think your husband will have a complete recovery." The husband said, "What did he say?" His wife said, "He says, You're going to die".
Now, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am NO expert on marriage, if not for the grace of God, and the tolerance of my wife of 15 years, who knows where I would be today. I say that as someone forgiven by the Grace of our amazing God for divorce in my fleshy life, and now happily married as a Christian. I speak today using the Word of God to speak on the subject of marriage, I speak as one of authority ONLY because God has not only ordained this institution in His Word, but He gives us instruction as well. If you have your Bible turn with me to Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: 10 If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
I would like to make a few suggestions about marriage this morning. Some for the ladies and some for the men. I am not going to stand up here and preach about how the wife should be submissive to the husband, although the scripture is clear on this point. The scripture is also very clear that a submissive wife needs to have a husband that would lay down his life for her as Christ gave his life for the church. NO, this sermon is much lighter than that, it is simply using some of God's Word to show us that there are things we can do to make things better in our marriage.
Now I am going to rotate between suggestions to the woman and suggestions to the men, we will start with the ladies.
LADIES: There is NO such thing as a PERFECT marriage! The Bible tells us that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. US men, are not perfect, we will not do as you Ladies hope we will, and I say this because many of the women I have counseled tell me of how they dreamed of being married to their Prince Charming. Then they find out that they are not so CHARMING after all.
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Justice of the peace
Jus·tice n.
1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.
Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. --Ps. ixxxix. 11.
The king-becoming graces,
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I have no relish of them. --Shak.
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Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. --Shak.
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Note: ☞ This title is given to the judges of the common law courts in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade.
Bed of justice. See under Bed.
Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary.
Justice of the peace Law, a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP.
Syn: -- Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity; uprightness; fairness; impartiality.
Usage: -- Justice, Equity, Law. Justice and equity are the same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly legal is at times far from being equitable or just. Here a court of equity comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts of law; and as the latter are often styled courts of justice, some have fancied that there is in this case a conflict between justice and equity. The real conflict is against the working of the law; this a court of equity brings into accordance with the claims of justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language which should lead any one to imagine he might have justice on his side while practicing iniquity (inequity).
Justice, Rectitude. Rectitude, in its widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words in our language, denoting absolute conformity to the rule of right in principle and practice. Justice refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1) Commutative justice, which gives every man his own property, including things pledged by promise. (2) Distributive justice, which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) General justice, which carries out all the ends of law, though not in every case through the precise channels of commutative or distributive justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler in his dealings with those who are subject to his control.
Peace n. A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically: (a) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies. (b) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law. (c) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience. (d) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees."
Note: ☞ Peace is sometimes used as an exclamation in commanding silence, quiet, or order. "Peace! foolish woman."
At peace, in a state of peace.
Breach of the peace. See under Breach.
Justice of the peace. See under Justice.
Peace of God. Law (a) A term used in wills, indictments, etc., as denoting a state of peace and good conduct. (b) Theol. The peace of heart which is the gift of God.
Peace offering. (a) Jewish Antiq. A voluntary offering to God in token of devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with Him. (b) A gift or service offered as satisfaction to an offended person.
Peace officer, a civil officer whose duty it is to preserve the public peace, to prevent riots, etc., as a polliceman, sheriff or constable.
To hold one's peace, to be silent; to refrain from speaking.
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All three contenders surround AJ and chase her around the ring, and
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Okay, I hosted this girls night months ago and it was so much fun! It's taken me way too long to put a post up about it!Anyone who knows me knows how much I love Survivor. I had been thinking/planning this night for several months before it finally came to fruition.Along with a veggie tray, fruit tray, and drinks, I had some Survivor-esque food to go along with our theme. I bought fresh coconut that I cut up (I was shocked when I found out there were girls there who had never tasted fresh coconut before!), I made fried plantains (which were a little weird but went along with the theme), I made rice and put it in plastic seashell dishes, and, my crowning achievement, a volcano cake!
After we had eaten I had everyone draw a "buff" out of a bag to determine which tribe they would be on. Once everyone had a tribe, they all split off to decorate their "flags" (aka poster boards) with their tribe names that they made up. After the poster boards were finished it was on to the first challenge!The first challenge consisted of a map, phrase, and flag for each tribe. We tacked their tribe poster boards onto the deck outside and everyone stood on their tribe mats (just towels laid on the ground). I gave each tribe a map and, on my go, they opened them up. The maps led them to three different areas around my yard where they had to find three different bags with words to the phrase they all had to put together. Once a tribe had all three of their bags, they had to go back to their mat and then open them up and start working on their phrase.
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When they thought the figured it out I had to double check to make sure it was the right one (there were three different ways it would be put together) and once I gave the okay the tribe had to tape the phrase to their poster board, grab their tribe flag, run back to their mat, and stake the flag into the ground. The first two tribes to finish were able to move on to the next round!The next challenge was set up with each tribe standing in a line with each person being an arm's length apart from the person on either side of them. They had to blindfold themselves and then they were each given a small plastic cup. On each end of the line for each tribe was a bucket. On one end there was a large bucket filled with water and on the other end was a smaller empty bucket. Being blindfolded, and not allowed to talk to each other, they had to transfer water from the large bucket to the small bucket using their cups. The first tribe to fill their small bucket to overflowing won!
I didn't want anyone to feel left out so the tribe who didn't finish the first challenge still got to be involved. I split the losing tribe up and put half on each tribe doing the water challenge. Their role was to verbally help the competing tribes if they were having trouble finding each other. So, the competing tribe could talk, but the losing tribe members became "callers" who could help but only by talking, they weren't allowed to physically guide anyone's hand. (Phew, did that all make sense??)
After the water challenge was over we all went back inside for a Limbo competition! Originally it was supposed to be the tribe who won the water challenge competing against each other for individual immunity, but everyone wanted to participate and who was I to stop them from having a good time??The person who won was awarded with an Individual Immunity Necklace!
And then, it was outside for our Tribal Council! (And by Tribal Council I mean relaxing campfire in my backyard.)


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Other Voices: It was Jenny's turn to teach me
My daughter Jenny has high-functioning autism, a developmental disability; her IQ is normal, but she has behavioral issues and lacks many social skills that most kids her age take for granted.
One summer Saturday in 2002, just before her ninth birthday, we were in Carnation at an event for children with autism. She was happily swimming along a safe, shallow sandbar in the Snoqualmie River along with perhaps a dozen or so other kids, while the adults watched from a beach on the shore.
Unfortunately, Jenny got a bit too bold and went too far out in the water, where the sandbar disappeared. The river's current suddenly picked up, and the depth of the river dropped from her waist to well over her head. The current caught her and began carrying her downstream.
When she realized she couldn't swim against the current, she began screaming for help. I jumped into the river fully dressed (I was wearing long pants that day!) and swam toward her. Although I could see her and could tell she was still above water, I couldn't tell how serious it was or what might happen in the time it would take me to reach her. For perhaps seven or eight seconds, I felt a terror I'd never felt before. I thought, "My God, is she going to go under before I can get to her?"
That didn't happen. Jenny is a good swimmer, and when she realized she couldn't swim against the current, she simply turned into it and swam to shore. Before I even got to her, she climbed up onto the shore. Then she began screaming at me -- "Dad, you're not supposed to be in the water! You've got your clothes on! You're all dressed!" -- her way of expressing fear.
This whole episode couldn't have lasted more than 60 seconds from the time Jenny first yelled for help until the time she climbed onto the shore. Scary though it was, it was never really critical -- she didn't breathe in any water or hurt herself. In fact, once we got back to the beach with the other kids, Jenny immediately went back in the river on the sandbar with the other kids while Dad drip-dried on the shore.
It wasn't until that night that I realized how profoundly this scare had affected me. Jenny's progress in handling her autism as she's gotten older has been marked with peaks, plateaus and setbacks. The last several months prior to this scare had seen a particularly marked setback in her progress. She'd had significant problems, which had caused a lot of worry and despair around our house.
Friday night, the night before the scare, Jenny had shown certain repetitive behaviors around the house -- she's quite a prankster -- that I'd found depressing and exhausting. Saturday night she did the exact same things, but then I didn't mind at all; I even found myself laughing with her. Behavior I'd found depressing just one night before was now endearing. Like some kind of magic bullet, I realized on that Saturday night that my worry and despair had vanished. The exhaustion I'd been feeling dealing with Jenny's problems was also suddenly -- bam! Gone.
Jenny's problems are still there, and when they are particularly intense, I remind myself of this story. It helps me regain a sense of perspective, and gives me a calming energy to face whatever is next. It can be hell raising a developmentally disabled child, but it's nothing compared with the hell of losing one.


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A Resource for Performing Artists, Scholars and Audiences.
Time: August 30, 2014 at 11am to November 30, 2014 at 7pm
Location: Artsonje Center
Street: 87 Yulgok-ro 3-gil
City/Town: Jongno-gu, Seoul
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Artsonje Center hosts Sung Hwan Kim's solo exhibition.This solo exhibition at Artsonje Center is a concise presentation of Kim's art, one that systematically integrates and reconstructs video, drawing, installation, and performance in a single exhibition space. Kim was selected as the first commissioned artist for the opening exhibition of The Tanks at Tate Modern, an exhibition space that opened in July of 2012 as the world's very first film and performance gallery. Temper Clay (2012), the work commissioned for that occasion, will be presented to the Korean public for the first time. Having appropriated the title from a verse in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, Temper Clay repeatedly uses the images of paper and fire to magically convey a woman's life. This solo exhibition also presents other video works such as Manhatas Dance and A-DA-DA.
This exhibition will serve as an opportunity to see not only the unique intersection of Korean and personal narratives through Kim's art that is referred to as "visual literature", but also the elaborate structure of an experimental art that transcends diverse genres. It is especially noteworthy that Kim constructs the gallery as an experimental and open space that he will also use as the actual stage for his new performance to be shown at the museum. To accompany the exhibition, a catalogue with the artist's drawings and texts by five writers including Sung Hwan Kim and Stephen Greenblatt, professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will be published.
Sung Hwan Kim was born in Seoul in 1975 and is currently based in New York. Kim studied architecture at Seoul National University and went on to Williams College where he majored in mathematics and art. He then finished his MA program in visual studies at MIT and participated in the residency program of Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. In 2007, he won the Hermès Korea art prize for his Summer Days in Keijo – Records of 1937. He has held solo exhibitions at various venues including Haus der Kunst (2010), Queens Museum (2011) and Witte de With Center (2008), and participated in the opening exhibition of Tate Modern's The Tanks in 2012.
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The Break-Up0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 9:53 AM
Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Neither are in my favorite of actors. As someone in the process of a break-up (i.e. getting divorced), I was SO on Aniston's side in this movie. I kept yelling, "That's my EX!", as I am sure many women will do upon seeing this movie.
Vince Vaughn plays an inconsiderate jerk that you just want to hit. Not only is he lazy and not appreciate of his girlfriend, but he has this sense of entitlement that makes you want to scream. And when he calls her 'nagging'--ARGH. Through the roof.
Good movie, but kind of slow. It's not really a comedy, so don't buy that line of B.S. The best time to watch this movie would be after a break-up, because you can relate so well to the content at that time and any other time it might be tiring and boring.
Grey's Anatomy--Burke and Christina1 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 8:10 AM
I am quite sickened by this storyline...in a good way, too. After being shot, Burke's hand is damaged and shakes at times. However, he is doing heart surgery on people anyway. Christina knows this. In fact, she encouraged him to pretend that he was still "The Great Preston Burke" despite his damaged hand. It is completely reckless to be operating on people and saving lives when you know damn well that the first rule is "Do no harm".
Christina has not told anyone about her boyfriend's malfunction, or the fact that she is helping him cover it up. She is helping him so much with surgeries that you for that she is actually Dr. Bailey's intern. Christina seems like she is using Burke as well as protecting him. She gets to do all these advanced surgery and is helping him more than a little. How could someone so smart be putting anyone Burke operates on into mortal jeopardy. Maybe she thinks she is so smart that no one will ever figure out that Burke is no longer physically capable of being a surgeon. Maybe she thinks that she is just as clever and talented surgically as Burke that it doesn't matter. Obviously, she has a guilty conscience, but she is doing nothing to right her wrong or AT LEAST stop putting lives in jeopardy.
GIlmore Girls--Not Up To Par?0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 7:47 AM
At the news that Amy Sherman-Paladino was leaving Gilmore Girls, I felt that the show took a big hit. Paladino IS Gilmore Girls!
Maybe this is the direction Paladino had wanted the show to go anyway, as she assured views that she had taken her replacement under her wing and had laid out her grand plan to that person.
Now, I am a loyal viewer. I have watched since the series premiere. However, this season has had plenty of episodes (i.e. plenty of opportunities) to continue of the vein of fine writing, dialogue and comedy. It has fallen short of the mark, in my opinion.
Luke and Lorelai broke up and barely ever have a scene together anymore. They made Lane and Zach get pregnant with twins after one night of bad sex on their wedding night...and oh yeah, they got parasites there and spent the whole honeymoon barfing. Lorelai got back together with Chris and, oh yeah, they just got married WITHOUT RORY in Paris. Rory herself has become very boring and self-centered and her romance with trust fund baby Logan is fizzling out to this viewer. Luke, my favorite character, is left to having only scenes with April. While I love these scenes, it feels like Luke is on a completely different show than everyone else.
Where is the baudiness of Miss Patty? Where is the scratchy rasp of good-hearted Babette? Where is Taylor Doose out on another crusade (or tirade) of making Luke's eyeballs pop? Sure, there was that incident of the car through Luke's restaurant, but really, the prominent Town Selectman is barely seen anymore.
Where is gentle, remembers-where-she-came-from Rory? Her interactions with her best friend, or closest thing to it, are slim and don't carry the same quality they once did.
Every episode, I am hoping that the show will get back to WHY people liked Gilmore Girls. Lorelai and Rory are barely ever interacting or have storylines that INVOLVE each other. The show is called 'Gilmore Girls', but it seems like each Gilmore Girl has gone her own way and the feel of the show is very much divided.
Lorelai and Rory both seemed to have come a long way, personality wise, in good ways and in bad. I am finding Rory to be too uber-confident in her looks, her intelligent, her "breeding stock". Everything is TOO EASY for her now. I know she worked hard to get where she's at (though being in a prep school and attending Yale certainly paves the way for her) but everything is so elitist in Rory's world and she has become the type of "mean, judgmental person" that she criticizes.
Lorelai has become wishy-washy on everything. Her personality used to vibrate the screen. It seems like too many zippy pop-culture references. Yes, pop culture references have always been a part of the show, but it seems like Lorelai is spewing them out like word vomit instead of having a bit of real dialogue.
I can't quite put my finger on exactly WHY the show feels very different. Oh wait, yes I can: Paladino is gone and the spark is not there anymore.
Bring back the quaint town of Stars Hollow and all its eccentric, wacky inhabitants. Bring back the sweetness of Rory, the strong-willed Lorelai, and the gruff but lovable Luke! Ahem...pretty please?
Grey's Anatomy--Callie0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 7:45 AM
I'd like to know out there in Internet land...who likes Callie? I am never quite sure where I stand on her. Sometimes she just seems morbid and weird, and other times she seems like a strong, sensible woman that every man should want. I love when she is talking about cars with George's brothers and seems so un-girly girl. The anti-Meredith. She's not weepy or whiny like Meredith. She's a tough as nails kind of girl. And yet at the same time her toughness can get to me. Why can't the gentleness of George pull her down a notch.
So, I pose the question: Do you like Callie, do you not like her? Do you like her with George? Do you like her newfound friendship with Addison Shepard?
Tamara0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 7:28 AM
A straight-to-dvd horror about a girl, Tamara, whose typically has a bad life. Her father is an alcoholic, everyone in school hates her due to an expose article, and she just looks frumpy. This, of course, is the old trick of "uglying up" a very pretty girl right before they make her "transform" into a jaw-dropping beauty.
Tamara is a witch. Tamara dies. Tamara comes back as sexy hottie bent on revenge against the students who accidentally killed her. Tamara slinks around in sexy dresses and purrs sensual, but threatening phrases and then exacts her revenge.
If you can handle some bad acting, cheesy writing, and predictable plot, then watch Tamara. Yes, you know going in what to expect as a sub-par, direct-to-dvd movie. I wouldn't recommend paying money to rent it, but hey, if it's on tv and you can't find anything better to watch--be my guest.
John Tucker Must Die0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 7:23 AM
John Tucker Must Die is a fun romp through the land of teenage revenge. The main character, Kate, looks like the missing triplet of the Olsens. Due to her mother's (Jenny McCarthy) habit of packing up and moving to a new town every time she gets dumped, Kate is again the new girl in school. She's practically invisible, though that's SO HARD to believe because of her beauty.
Soon, she becomes entrenched in the lives of 3 very different girls with one thing in common: John Tucker. All have been hoodwinked by him, as he has been dating all three at the same time. Kate becomes their guinea pig of revenge on him.
Now that you know the basic premise, give it a watch. Guys may not like this movie too much because their is an underlying theme of 'girl empowerment', but it is not short on comedy. It's just a light, entertaining watch with a satisfying ending.
An American Haunting0 comments Posted by Jaclyn at 7:16 AM
I find that a horror tale woven into the tapestry of the 19th century has a better effect on me that a modern day one. Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek are the parents of Betsy, who becomes plagued by a violent spirit in their farm home. John (Sutherland) had made profit off of a witch's lands: Kate Batts. The court ruled in her favor, but John's punishment was light and Kate Batts cursed him and "his precious daughter"...and then the creepiness comes.
I admit that many moments are cheap scares where they amp up the music suddenly, and you are more startled by the suddenly loud music. However, there are true moments of fear.
We follow Betsy as the attacks on her become more and more violent. You feel the helplessness of her mother, father, and teacher, Richard. I cannot tell you more. Overall, the movie is not terribly clever, but it is worth the watch.


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For slandering of the sentence of the court. Attorney Rex, plaintiff, versus Swift, by ore tenus for dispersing of libellous papers tending to the slander of the court that he was unjustly sentenced as the said defendant stood on the pillory to receive his punishment and this was by him done by practice betwixt him and one Colborne, prisoner in the Fleet, for which offence he was recommitted to the Fleet there to remain during Her Majesty's pleasure and for 7 years space to lie in the hole there, 1000 marks fine and to have both his ears cut off, one on the pillory at Westminster and the other in Cheapside.
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Monira al Qadiri
Monira al Qadiri combines intensive research on the cultural histories of oil with her career spanning exploration of 'The Aesthetics of Sadness.' We spoke back in September about her upcoming screenings and lecture performance at MoMA, her grandfather's opaque pearl-diving past, and the Kuwaiti government's Disneyfication of the twentieth- century oil markets. Al Qadiri was born in Senegal in 1983. She lives and works in Berlin.
Living Content You grew up in Kuwait until the age of 16, and then you went to Japan to study Japanese. Can you tell me more about the time period when you decided to start pursuing art?
Monira al Qadiri I grew up in a very kind of artistic household – my mother was an artist. From the moment that I was conscious, there was a studio with art materials everywhere, and that was what we would do for fun at home instead of playing; we would be drawing and making things.
Since I was a kid I was thinking that I'm going to be an artist, like mom. When I was about 9, I became obsessed with Arabic dubbed Japanese cartoons, and I thought that I could become this cartoon character, caricature. So I blindly pursued this passion to go to Japan. I got a scholarship and I went to Tokyo, alone. At the age of 16! Which is absolutely insane to think of it now. How could my parents let me do that? I stayed there until the age of 27. I did my BA, MA, PhD, so I basically spent my entire adolescence in Japan. In the beginning it seemed very exotic and wonderful, even though I couldn't become a cartoon character – very disappointing. Japanese society can be very conservative, rigid, and cruel. After ten years, I started to see this dark underbelly of the country.
LC What did that underbelly look like? A policing of how you were being in the world?
MQ As a foreigner who speaks very good Japanese, like I do, you will still realize that there are parts of the Japanese society that will never accept you. Even when it seems that you are like them, and you think like them. They will ask you, "Oh, is your mother Japanese? Where's your father from?" To be honest, the main thing was also how Japanese society treats women. I thought that it was even worse than some aspects of Arab society. It's just a very conservative place to be, and this kind of conservatism and the kind of love for the establishment is also reflected in the art world, where there isn't really an infrastructure to support young artists. Nobody takes risks with younger artists. So, after 10 years, I wanted to try my hand at going back to the Middle East, to see what was happening there.
LC So your practice began while you were still in Japan. Do you consider the work from that time in response to the repressiveness and conservatism there?
MQ I was very interested in gender performance, and I was obsessed with masculinity and sex appeal, and in general challenging the notions that weren't accepted in Japan. It was a time when I was nostalgic for where I come from. All these sensibilities that they had, that were just not fitting anywhere for me. So I made a lot of work about that.
LC So you made works like 'Wa Waila' when you got back to Kuwait, and other music videos with you basically in costume –
MQ Well, 'Wa Waila' it was actually made right before I went back. I was still in Japan.
LC Ah, okay. But when you returned to Kuwait, you continued to think about masculinity. Was there a difference in that exploration back home? Did you have a community around you that was more on the same page with gender performance?
MQ No. I was just a freak! Everybody was saying, "She'll grow out of it, she'll grow out of it!" And I did grow out of it, but in Japan actually, not in Kuwait, surprisingly. In Japan, I was heterosexual and I adored men to the point that I wanted to look like one. A kind of narcissistic tendency. But it was truly more like a gender performance rather than an identity issue.
I wanted to fall in love with men, so it was 'wrong!' "I can't fall in love with you, you look like a man!" I really had to girl it up while I was in Japan. That really kind of broke me.
This character was part of who I was, and when I came back to Kuwait, I realized why I was doing it. In Arab societies, in order to access power, you have to be a man. Even now, when I go to Cairo for instance, I feel like I want to do drag. Because no one catcalls you in the street and you feel powerful in the way that you can just walk out and be an asshole if you want to. It's this 'wrong' way in which I absorbed patriarchy. But yes, I don't think that anybody in Kuwait really understood what I was doing at the time. I mean, now maybe there's a kind of community? But in the mid-nineties, it wasn't really a thing, it was very underground. There was a short period when the society was a bit more open and a bit better for gay men or trans men….
You would see men at the mall who were dressed effeminately, for instance, but it all got banned in the early 2000s. I was like, "Thank God I left before that happened!" I would have been in prison.
LC I wanted to ask about your sister, Fatima, and her recent album 'Shaneera' that was also all about drag. I'm just curious about family life. How does it tie into your exploration of queerness, or however you might call it?
MQ Like I said, my mother is an artist, and my dad used to be a kind of diplomat slash government opposition member. So we lived in a very kind of outlaw family in Kuwaiti society. Everybody thought we were strange, like, "Who are these people, what are they doing?" My parents broke out of the traditional and religious conservatisms, and they moved to Moscow in the 70s, because my dad used to be a Communist for a while.
They had a lot of different lives compared to a lot of people in Kuwait. Obviously that rubbed off on us. We were free to speak our mind, we could do whatever we wanted. Then people used to make up rumors about our family all the time. So it was this very strange outlaw family. Which I think was very good for us. I always fantasize about what it would have been like if I grew up in a normal Kuwaiti household. Would I be here? Of course not. I would already have five kids and plastic surgery.
LC Quite a spectrum. I want to move to ask you about your recent works. You have this kind of back and forth motif between pearls and oil. I'm curious to hear you speak more about that. How did that start? When did that relationship become clear for you?
MQ I moved to Beirut after Kuwait, and I don't know why, but I started thinking a lot about my grandfather who I've never met. He was a singer on a pearl diving boat. Pearl diving was the main industry, before oil, for about 2000 years. And then oil came and pearl diving was completely destroyed.
For me, his life is a fiction. Is he really real? What was their life like? This extreme poverty living on boats for six months of the year, trying to get pearls and making very little money out of it. It's just so alien to us now. I was just thinking about what links my life to his. It's so disparate, so different, and so detached that it's almost not real. He was the patriarch, the real man in the family. He was this scary ass dude. I heard horror stories about how horrible he was.
LC Is this on your dad's side or your mom's side of the family?
MQ My dad's side. He was just this ultimate macho kind of character, which I think trickles down to me. And I was thinking, "What can I do to link myself, as a post-oil baby, to him?" Then, suddenly, I had this idea when I was looking into these images of pearls and oil, and I was like, "Wow, they have the same color scheme."
My work is all about this kind of tragedy. My thesis in Japan was all about the aesthetics of sadness. I'm really obsessed with tragedy, as a concept, as a mood, and as a philosophy. I think that using color as the only thing that links us to our history, is also kind of very radical and very tragic.
LC You apply the color sometimes to these large scale objects. That are linking not necessarily to history but to a future. They're titled "Alien Technology," and have been described as biomorphic alienware. Do you see your relationship to pearl diving in a nostalgic kind of way? I'm thinking of how in the U.S. for example, there are people who move to an rural part of the country, like, "I'm going to get back to the land!" and they start farming… (laughter) Is there a sort of wistfulness there for you?
MQ It's not wistfulness or nostalgia. There is a void in the history of the region. As we are in non-democratic societies, history is always a kind of taboo. We're not really supposed to talk about poverty, or about ways of life, or industries that existed, that were the norm before oil. Oil is seen as this mystical substance that came to us and that we're the chosen people. The history is sanitized to become this Disney-esque "Vay! Pearl Songs!" They make these ads now, where old men who used to be pearl divers are on iPads on their boats. But of course nobody does this! None of it reflects any kind of reality. It's so distorted now, to a point that it's become absurd. So this is not nostalgia at all. You need to know your history in a more realistic form, especially that in the early 20th century a lot of this information is blacked out because there were so many mini-wars and coups… Sheiks killing other Sheiks, and tribes killing other tribes, and so much blood. There is this huge period that is very vague and nobody really knows what happened because now we're just being taught this official history, "This is your country. It was founded in 1961, we're new. Before that? We don't know." So my work is about this terrible acknowledgement of history and, of course, thinking about the future because the petroleum interval in history is going to be very short, it's not sustainable. Everybody knows that, even though our governments ignore it, but it's the truth. We're the freaks of this weird time…I'm also acknowledging my freakishness. It's from the oil! [laughter]
LC I definitely get that sense in your work, of the absurdity, surrealism of the present and the ways that we're just burning through this substance that takes millions of years to form.
MQ Exactly! And the extreme forms of decadence. It's insanity. People don't really realize that this is just like those fleeting moments… Plus, there's no kind of vision for the future after that. Like, maybe we should use this money to build some kind of infrastructure so that we can live on later.
LC I just think about the Chinese One Road policy. They're trying to connect everything across two continents and there are going to be like… 'Planes, trains and automobiles' going back and forth. And they've made these videos that are similar to what you were describing. Disney characters singing about how great they are.
MQ Oh definitely. I share a lot of affinity with the Chinese context.
LC Can you talk about the work you had in "Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis," in Guangzhou?
MQ This group exhibition first happened in Beirut in 2016. They actually commissioned my first small drill works. My work is very biographical, and it speaks a lot to history, but you can equally look at it through this ecological lens. These things that are destroying the world are both very beautiful and very menacing at the same time. It was very relevant at the time, in 2015, because we were all taking part in protests because the Lebanese government stopped collecting the garbage. It was related to corruption because the garbage business is privatized in Lebanon. I mean you can't brush over the fact that it's a failed state. The warlords were fighting over the spoils.
LC I think that's at the time of the Paris climate accords, right?
MQ Yeah. Everything was going out of whack and I felt at that time that it was really important to talk about ecology. It was very interesting to show my work in that context, in Lebanon, and then equally interesting to be part of the same show in Guangzhou, in China. Guangzhou is like the factory of China and it also made a lot of sense to organize the show there, in that context. I was so excited about that. Strangely enough, China is having a more pro-ecological viewpoint than the US now. The shift that's happening is quite interesting.
LC It seems like it's being cast almost as a way the Chinese are a foil to the Trump administration… In your work there's this attitude of thinking about 'after oil.' It's a resignation to the inevitability of some other energy source. Will you talk about that?
MQ Yes – Two years ago, I did this lecture at the American University in Kuwait. I think people were really shocked because usually, the taboos in our society are sex and religion, it's very simple. But you're not supposed to talk about this either; the oil markets.
There was a journalist who wrote an article the next day about the lecture, and they said, "Oh, she spoke about art history and her favorite colors." So that was a very strange censorship going on… And, in 2014, the oil markets crashed right after I made my first public sculpture of an oil drill. I thought, "Wow, I feel like a Soothsayer".
People really started talking about it much more openly and really kind of panicking. The government is/was panicking. Now, the prices have stabilized a little, but it's never going to go back to what it was. It is just going towards a steady decline. Maybe places like the UAE or Qatar have a different future vision. I don't know if that's sustainable, but they're at least thinking about it. In Kuwait's case there is no future vision. We're just living off oil until it's over, and then the country will collapse overnight. There's always this kind of existential crisis…
LC It makes me think of your thesis, "The aesthetics of sadness". You're getting ready to mourn, prepping for being incredibly sad.
MQ I think it also stems from the Gulf War in 1990. Kuwait was invaded in one day and ceased to exist overnight. There's all this wealth in Kuwait but wealth is fleeting, it's not really a strength in anything. I think a lot of people – especially people in power – after that incident started seeing Kuwait as a kind of temporary project. Not as a 'real' state. I think that also reflected on this kind of 'no future' vision, like 'We're just going to enjoy it while it lasts.' So I always try to support myself economically and individually without any income sources that are related to oil. I want to be independent in my life. A lot of people in Kuwait can't really say that. I work really hard to make it happen. I am independent. So if it's collapsing, I'm fine.
LC You have a clairvoyance that other people don't have yet.
MQ Well I think it also comes from my parents. They have a different outlook on things and they were always saying, 'Try to build a future somewhere else. You never know how long this is gonna last.'
LC I read Reza Negarestani's book, 'Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials,' last year. He writes in this semi-fictional mode following a narrative through the 'field notes' of an acclaimed archaeologist who claims that oil is an entity, a terrible deity of evil. It's a sci-ti theory-fiction set in Istanbul and around the Middle East. I'm thinking about that book, and the layers of archaeological, philosophical research that Negarestani deploys. What role does research play in your practice? And are you more interested in the cultural impacts of these things, or are you also looking at scientific dynamics – all of the above?
MQ Well, I think about oil as a cultural player, as a character, as a person, as an alien, as a politician. It's just droplets of dinosaurs; I try to imagine the dinosaurs speaking to us. Like 'What are you doing to my bodily fluids!' Everything is kind of fictionalised, including this kind of history and the oil itself, which is a storage of ancient sunlight. It's solar power stored in these dinosaurs… I do think about the geological aspect of it, but maybe not in the same way as Reza does. The inspiring thing about his book was that you can imagine oil as being a character. That was very impressionable for me.
LC I wanted to ask something about your work in an institutional setting. You sort of touched on it when you were just talking about your lecture on the oil markets getting glossed over. But there is also an interview that you gave where you describe your work as "Wahabi Cubism." Wahhabism is a Salafi Islamic doctrine that teaches ultra-conservative adherence to the Quran and hadith. So I'm curious about what kind of mediation… When you put your work in different places, does the way that you're talking about it change?
MQ No, I mean… The work I was referring to specifically is called "Muhhawil (Transformer)" which is a 4-channel video installation showing the murals that religious associations were painting on power stations in Kuwait. I thought it was really interesting and freaky at the same time because they're against art. They think art is a sin and that you're imitating God when you do it, so you should never do it. But you can never stop people from being creative. Even if they're the most conservative people on the planet, they still have a creative streak, and they use this religious context to make new things and invent new ways of expressing their devotion.
When I showed this piece in Kuwait the first time, I was actually terrified. I thought something would happen to me, but people took it very positively. I think because it was animated. People were seduced by that, and then they were like, 'Oh, this is great. We should show it at the mall, we should sell it to the religious ministry. They'd love it.' And other people were like, 'Oh, you're showing the regression of our country. Good on you.' So it was positive, but from all different sides of the spectrum. So I'm glad in a way to be playing with this kind of ambiguity. But I don't change what I say or do, if it's censored it's fine. I actually find that kind of interesting. My main genderbending, crossdressing video was banned in Dubai once because they thought it was about ISIS. (laughter) Maybe the guy who did the censor was watching the news whilst eating his lunch, and had indigestion or something, and then he watched my video and they all mixed. It's that arbitrary!
LC What video was that?
MQ It's called "Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain)" It's part of a music video series titled "Music to My Tears." I was upset for about five minutes, but then I was like, 'Wow, that's actually so interesting.' And as long as there were no repercussions to that, it's fine, I can't show it in that country, it's fine.
LC You spoke somewhere about the artistic community of people that you met in Beirut, and now you're living in Berlin. You've had the kind of unique experience to live in so many different places and be making work. How are you feeling about your community now?
MQ I mean I never truly felt like I belonged in Kuwait or Japan or Beirut… I am always an outsider, I've never been an insider anywhere. But I find that eternally more interesting and exciting. These different artistic communities in Kuwait, Japan, Lebanon, and now in Europe, taught me that art isn't ubiquitous, and the way these communities think, discuss, and conceptualize art is completely different. And I always felt that that's really good for me because it kind of gave me a freedom. I didn't feel the need to be part of any kind of distinct discourse. In Japan the works are usually hyper visual and, let's say, non-textual, non-verbal. In Beirut, it was extremely verbal, and non visual, and it was interesting that that's what people think art is, and that's what they do. And then, in Amsterdam, where I was doing a residency, I felt that work there was very much related to craft, very focused on how you make things, and on production. So it's just interesting how different these perceptions are. Now, I'm new to Berlin, but there are also multiple 'scenes' here. I like jumping in between.
LC That reminds me, I wanted to ask about production processes for your large scale sculptures. Are you working with fabricators? What does that process look like?
MQ I work with fabricators. I'm originally a painter, so I only dealt with two dimensional things, including animation. But I've always had this longing and kind of fascination with three dimensional things, even though I can't make them. I am so bad at making sculptures. I just don't understand how to deal with size and things like that. So then 3D modeling came along and gave me a lot of wiggle room. So now I can make a 3D model on the computer, I can print, and then I send the model to a fabricator. This technology freed me from my handicap, which is not being able to make 3-dimensional objects, and now it's sort of all i do!
LC What are you reading or looking at currently? Is that informing what you're working on?
MQ Right now… yeah, I'm working on a performance that has to do with Japanese ghost reading. I've been very interested in the idea of ghosts this past year. When I was living in Japan, the general concept of ghosts was so real. This was a kind of schism between all my friends and I. They were like, "You're lying, you're just pretending, you believe in ghosts and you're just pretending to be tough."
In the Arab world, there is no concept of ghosts. We have Djinn which are these beings that live parallel to humans. But they're not ghosts; they're not dead people. So it's really not the same. So I'm working on this project that has to do with ghosts and I'm reading a lot about that right now. The Japanese ghost reading is very distinct and specific. Actually I had this incident with a ghost reader who read my ghosts and she told me a very interesting thing, but I don't want to ruin the performance!
LC That's okay! Is it like palm reading?
MQ No! It's more like you go there, and she looks at you and she's like, "Oh my God, your mother is floating there, and she's telling me this." The ghosts are stuck to your body and they change. So sometimes they leave you, sometimes they come back, sometimes you have new ghosts. You might not have any ghosts at all… Some people have one, and some people have forty! Like me!
LC A whole party with you all the time!
MQ So, it's about my forty ghosts. I was just in Japan in the summer and doing a lot of research about ghosts. I think it's an interesting new phase in my practice, but then again it's all basically the same. They're all men, so then it's about masculinity as well.
LC It seems that ghosts can go either direction: they can be scary, horrific. The movie The Grudge, I think is based in Tokyo, right? That's a terrible house ghost.
MQ …The Ring!
LC The Ring! It can go in that direction or maybe people are more at peace with it, if it's their ancestors – that way of thinking. It also can be this mourning, and the sadness. Another way to bring all of your threads back together.
MQ In Japan, in popular culture, ghosts are usually women with long black hair, and scary. And yes, I think it is quite interesting that my ghosts are men. It just makes so much sense!
LC I just have one more question – what does the near future look like for you? What are you excited about?
MQ I'm excited about going to MoMA next month and delivering my lecture performance "The American Century: The End." I've never done it there but it makes a lot of sense; we grew up on American culture,
I speak American English, even though I've never lived there. We know American landscapes, homes and interiors, characters, and that's because of the pop culture that we've been consuming all our lives. But it's waning now, it feels like the end of an era. Especially from the perspective of my generation, born in Kuwait, in the 1980s. We were called chicken nuggets; brown on the outside, white on the inside because we really grew up assimilating American culture.
A lot of us speak English better than Arabic. We went to these American or British schools because it was kind of a status symbol at the time, if you could send your kids to these schools. And even if people couldn't afford it, they would do it anyway, even if it meant going into debt, like my parents. America as a fantasy, not the real America. I grew up knowing nothing about the real America.
The talk is about junk food, and how in the eighties, it used to be this magical glittering thing. A hamburger at McDonalds was amazing, now it's like the most disgusting food, you don't even know what's in that shit. It's an emblem for America itself. I'm very excited about being able to engage with an American audience about this subject. I was thinking about it four years ago, and people wouldn't really understand what I was saying. "What are you talking about, the end of America?" But it's happening and it's happening now, so it's suddenly a relevant topic. Everyone wants to talk about it.
The lecture-performance is a new format for me, but I'm becoming more comfortable. I'm enjoying it. It's an interesting way to relay an idea, and I think that led to making actual performance pieces in some way. I made my first one last year, and now I'm doing this big project that I mentioned earlier, about ghosts. Performance is very exciting for me right now. It's so terrifying, it's like bungee jumping! The excitement of sharing a moment in time with people that is not virtual, there's something very interesting about that. Maybe I'll get too terrified and I won't be able do it anymore. But now I feel emboldened enough to perform, and that's new for me, so it's very exciting.


text: Iancu v. Brunetti On June 24, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that section 1052(a) of the Trademark Act barring registration of marks that are scandalous or immoral to be invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. The PTO refused to register Brunetti's FUCT clothing mark and he challenged the statute. Historically, the USPTO applied section 1052(a) by asking whether a "substantial composite of the general public" would find the mark to be "shocking to the sense of truth, decency, or propriety." The Supreme Court found the PTO's application to be content discrimination, violating the bedrock of the First Amendment, which is that the government cannot discriminate against "ideas that offend." Finding that the facial viewpoint bias of section 1052(a) results in viewpoint-discriminatory application, the majority opinion found the statute unconstitutional in its entirely because the government must be "viewpoint-neutral" to survive First Speech Clause review.


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The current combination of increases in housing prices and higher interest rates, as well as stricter mortgage rules, is making the rental market more attractive to many. But there's a problem. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the vacancy rate on rentals in Ottawa fell to 1.7 per cent in 2017 — the lowest rate in six years.
The answer seems to be to build more rental units and this is just what real estate developers such as Campanale Homes are doing.
Campanale Homes, named production builder of the year at the Greater Ottawa Homebuilders' Association's 34th Annual Housing Design awards, was founded by brothers Rocco, Tony and Vince Campanale in 1979. Seven members of the next generation are now part of the family business, contributing to various aspects of the full-service real estate company.
"The vacancy rate in Ottawa is extremely low, one of the lowest it's ever been," said the company's marketing and land development specialist Christian Campanale. "We saw a need and know there's a desire for urban terraces, so we are building a project to provide a supply. It's very timely. This will be one of the few rental projects in Barrhaven."
He pointed out that the location, close to the Longfields transit station and across from Ken Ross Park, makes various parts of the city and the commercial centre of Barrhaven easily accessible.
"You can take the 95 bus downtown or to Orleans and there are also plenty of shared paths that take you right to Chapman Mills, which is essentially downtown Barrhaven."
The two-storey, 1,000-square-foot-plus units each have two bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms and a 100-square-foot balcony. Additional features include granite countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms and laminate flooring throughout.
"As an energy-efficient builder, we have modeled the terraces to be 15 per cent above building code," noted Campanale. "This means occupants save on their energy bills and reduce their environmental footprint. As a proactive and progressive builder that has prided itself on providing the Ottawa region with quality homes for over 39 years, we are also installing four electric charging stations in the parking lot and plan to add another six in the future."
"We want our tenants to feel comfortable calling the urban terraces home for a long time," said property manager Jenna Campanale. "It is for this reason we are committed to providing them with energy-efficient homes, while maintaining Campanale's quality interior and exterior designs."
The urban terrace project, which already has a significant waiting list, is divided among five buildings. The first, which will be ready for occupancy in January 2019, contains 16 units, while each of the remaining four contains 12 units.
"As the demand for rentals continues to increase, we are proud to release newly built homes to the Barrhaven market that are unique compared to existing rentals in the area," said Jenna Campanale.
Christian Campanale added that following notification of all those on the waiting list, the remaining units will be available on a first-come-first-served basis, with leases ready for signature from July 21. He emphasized that the intent is for the urban terraces to have a luxurious feel but for rents to remain affordable.
Affordability, noted long-time real estate broker Harold McKay of ReMax, is a major reason for the need for more rental properties, particularly for those between 25 and 45 years of age.
"With tighter mortgage rules and interest rates going up, it is harder and harder for younger people to get into the housing market," he said. "Many can do it only with help from their parents."
He pointed out that at the other end of the spectrum, many retirees want to avoid the responsibilities of home ownership and upkeep, but are not ready to move into a retirement home. "They often choose high-end rentals as an alternative."
From the landlords' perspective, they too face increased costs in upkeep on their existing properties. According to the CMHC, more than 80 per cent of the 62,000 purpose-built apartment units in the city are more than 25 years old and, therefore frequently in need of repair and renovation.
For further information on Campanale's urban terraces, visit www.campanale.com/urban or call 613-730-0835.


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The A2 cards probably look familiar as they are basically the same as the cards I made to go in my birthday box in a bag HERE. Yeah...have I ever told you that I like the Bella Rose paper...just a little?!
I really like the 3x3 cards that you can see below. Simple but perfect to attach to a gift for a friend and the little tags...how cute are they? Oh...do you like the new ribbons I got from SU! the other day. It is the ribbon on the little to/from tags. Very pretty! I think these cards and tags really round out the stationary box so well! Todd's mom's birthday is tomorrow but I don't think I got the package out in time...bad DIL I am!
Tomorrow I'll be showing you, what I think is, a very pretty CD holder. I hope you'll be back to see it!
I hope that you all have a super Saturday! We have a fun and full day planned today from a 1st birthday party to some stamping later...yay!


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The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Reviewby Ryan Smith & Joshua Ho on November 2, 2015 8:00 AM EST
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In pretty much any smartphone, displays are going to be one of the most important aspects of the user experience. If a display is dim or has a highly reflective display it will be unreadable outdoors. If the contrast is low, the display can become difficult to read and not particularly appealing to the eye. Other issues like lack of color stability and contrast stability with changes in viewing angles will be much more noticeable than on something like a laptop or desktop where the monitor is usually kept at a constant position in space relative to the eye. In order to evaluate these factors we use both relative comparisons and absolute measurements. Although the human eye is sufficient for relative comparison, for absolute measurements we use X-Rite's i1Pro2 spectrophotometer for precise color and luminance measurements, along with X-Rite's i1Display Pro colorimeter for accurate contrast figures. Hardware alone is insufficient for collecting and presenting data, so we also use SpectraCal's CalMAN 5 with a custom workflow, which allows for collecting and presenting data in a readable manner.
In the case of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, the display appears to be effectively unchanged from the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6s retains the 1334x750 resolution of the previous variant, and the iPhone 6s Plus has the same 1080p resolution as well. Apple continues to use the same M2 scaler as well, which means that although the display's physical resolution is 1080p Apple is actually rendering the display at 2208x1242 and scaling it to fit the display. The resolution of the iPhone 6s is on the low side relative to most Android devices, which is noticeable but the pixel density is sufficient to avoid any obvious problems here.
As with the iPhone 6, both the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus use dual domain pixels, which make the subpixels look more like chevrons under a microscope. This improves viewing angles by reducing the amount of color shifting that occurs when the display viewing angle is changed. As far as I can tell, Apple continues to be one of the few OEMs that pulls this off effectively. Although contrast and luminance aren't perfectly consistent with changes in viewing angles, it basically looks like the display is painted underneath the glass. The iPhone 6s Plus does a better job at pulling off this illusion as the higher pixel density helps to eliminate some of the fuzziness or pixilation that might otherwise occur. Samsung gets close here, but for whatever reason ambient light causes noticeable interference effects and in general there's noticeable color shift when moving the display around. Weirdly enough, the OEM that seems to be doing the best job here continues to be HTC with the One M9+.
Moving on to our usual brightness and contrast testing, it looks like Apple has improved the maximum brightness of their displays with the use of the new LED backlight driver, but it's important to note that in the case of the iPhone 6s, the maximum brightness isn't constant. The behavior is relatively subtle, but with iOS 9 at maximum brightness the display brightness steadily lowers over the course of an hour by about 10 nits maximum. It looks like this effect tails off in both the rate of luminance decrease and overall luminance decrease as peak brightness approaches 500 nits, where the effect appears to be non-existent. It's likely that this behavior is designed to reduce the battery impact of keeping the display at maximum brightness in all situations. Either way, peak luminance is high enough that it isn't a struggle to read the display outdoors and contrast in low-light conditions also remains high due to the use of photo-alignment in the liquid crystal layer which helps to make the liquid crystals stay in the right shape.
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
In grayscale, we don't quite see the near-perfect white balance we saw last year but gamma remains almost impeccable when compared to the industry standard power 2.2 gamma. I suspect that the units we received this time are closer to the mean for white balance compared to last year, as in general due to the blue LED backlights used in most LCDs a colder color balance will generally require less power to display than a warmer one.
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In our saturation sweep testing, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus both continue to track closely to expected values for sRGB, which is the current industry standard color gamut. I don't really have any criticism here. The previous iPhone's displays were of similar caliber, so this is pretty much par for the course if you're used to iPhone displays.
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Similarly in the GMB ColorChecker, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus both pass with flying colors. If you're using an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus for any remotely color-critical work like viewing and/or editing photos and videos, it's a pretty fair bet that you'll be able to rely on these phones to provide an accurate color reproduction in pretty much any condition. Samsung does provide better contrast and the possibility of extra color saturation with their Galaxy S6 and Note 5, but this comes at the cost of potential for burn-in, increased power consumption in certain scenarios, and increased distortion with changes in viewing angles. I think this means that it basically comes out to a wash, but depending upon personal taste one may prove to be better than another.
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Shadow7037932 - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkFinally! Now how about the Nexus and Moto X reviews? :P Reply
RazrLeaf - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkI'm hoping that they get those out before the Black Friday. Reply
nathanddrews - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkHow about the new 950/950XL? ;-) Reply
zeeBomb - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkIm pretty sure that'll be somewhere in December. Reply
abhaxus - Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - linkof 2016?
By that time the ads will completely take over your phone screen instead of being just a tiny scrolling one that takes up 1/3 of the screen.
RIP Anandtech. Reply
ezridah - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkIt doesn't look like they'll do a Nexus 6P review because they're weren't provided a sample. Very disappointing to say the least... Reply
tuxRoller - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkWhich is a shame, considering the amazing reviews its been getting, and it seems that at least someone has produced a really excellent experience with the snapdragon 810! Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkI will love to see the 6P review from Anandtech as well. I've read every popular reviews out there on 5X and 6P, on websites and youtubes. I've decided to go for the 64GB 6P, but I would still love to see Anandtech's take on 6P, especially comparing to Nexus 5(that's where I'm coming from) and Nexus 6. Reply
djsvetljo - Monday, November 2, 2015 - linkI admit, I only read the "Final Words" page and it felt like Russian propaganda before 1990. I respect Anandtech for its highly techy and geeky reviews and tests but I am now 100% convinced that anything Apple related is paid (IMO). There aren't many reviews out there that dare to "the best..." instead of "one of the best...". Reply
djsvetljo - Monday, November 2, 2015 - link"The best" was used 7 times in the summary. :D Reply


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Tensions are running high at Banger Boy HQ as the team prepare for two of the biggest races of the season. It's a race for space to get the Dreamers cars ready for the spectacular Firecracker banger racing event, which sees cars competing from all over Europe.
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The Bazadaise Originates from the Bazas town of the South West of France.
Traditionally the breed is a draught breed of the Pyrénées and the Gironde. It is thought that the breed came about, following the crossbreeding between Spanish cattle and local cattle in Aquitaine. Every year, in its hometown of Bazas, a festival is held in honour of the breed.
The breed is used in beef production and is famed for its meats tenderness, flavours and marbling. The breed, historically, was used for hauling tasks, due to its huge size. They were chosen due to their hardiness, resistance to parasites and endurance of fluctuating temperatures.
It wasn't until the late 1890's when a herd-book for the breed was first set up, though by 1970, following the second world war, there were only an estimated 700 cattle remaining. Conservation and breeding efforts followed and ensured the breed got numbers back up in excess of 3,500 by three years ago.
The breed is exported to countries around the world, and is either kept as a purebred animal or crossed with other beef breeds. Among the countries known to import the breed, is the UK, Spain, Chile, Belgium, Holland, Australia and many more.
The Bazadaise is generally either dark or light grey in colour, with some variations found. These can be due to both sex and age of the animal.
Their skin is black, whilst the muzzle and mucous areas are a paler colour. The breed has incurved horns, which usually are downward facing, with a yellow base and black tips. Their horns are very sturdy, whilst they have small dark, hooves.
As mentioned above, the breed are renowned for their hardiness, strength, resistance to parasites and their tolerance to fluctuating temperatures. They also have excellent grass finishing abilities, have great mobility and extended muscles.
Mothers are also widely known to be excellent calvers, rarely coming into difficulty and are a very fertile breed. Mothers can even have a calving interval of 370 days. They have excellent conformation and great muscle development, making them perfect for beef production.
They also have excellent live weight gains and can even reach weights of up to 500kgs by 24-months. Mature bulls can reach up to a weight of 1,100kgs, while they can make it up to 145cms in height. Mature cows meanwhile can make up to 750kgs and 140cm in height.
Calves are usually between 35-42kgs at birth, the reason the breed are easy calvers. They are usually born a pale colour, which they will keep until approximately 3months old. Calves can reach up to 200kgs, by only four months old. Their muscle development can be noticed after a matter of days.
The best of South Western France, used to be the go-to breed for heavy haulage duties. Now, the Bazadaise is simply the king of calvers and maybe even the king of French Beef breeds.
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The Winnipeg Jewish Review was given the opportunity to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper while he was in Winnipeg recently. I was given the opportunity to ask one question. I was able to submit three questions and Mr. Harper chose the one he would answer. By way of background, I have twice been invited to meet with Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau and attended both times. On the last occasion I asked Trudeau about the Iran deal and have previously asked him about support for Israel and Palestinian unilateral measures at the UN. I have always understood that I have been asked to these ethnic press events by the Liberals and Conservatives since the Jewish vote in South Winnipeg Centre is significant. Since this riding was won by MP Joyce Bateman last time with just over 700 votes, and has previously been Liberal, it has been clear to me for a long time that this riding would be hotly contested.
I understood from the conversation that I had with the person from Prime Minister Harper's campaign team that there would likely be another journalist at the ethnic press meeting asking a question related to the economy. I decided to focus on submitting questions that I believed would be of specific interest to the Jewish community in that they related to either Israel or antisemitism or terror in Canada ( by radical jihadists who potentially could target Jews)
I would have asked Prime Minister about the Iran deal since I believe it affects the Jewish world specifically since Iran has repeatedly indicated its desire to wipe Israel off the map. However, I already had received an answer about the Iran issue recently from Jason Kenney, Minister of National defense and was able to compare and contrast it an answer given by Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau's, when I met him. To see the answers of Kenney and Trudeau on the Iran deal issue click here .
The question that Prime Minister Harper chose to answer out of my three questions related to ISIS and terrorism.
The question I asked Prime Minister Harper was two pronged: I asked him to outline why he is of the view that the Conservative Party's position on fighting ISIS, (as opposed to the approaches of other parties) is more realistic / beneficial to Canada ? (and to Israel ?) I also asked what Canada has done to insulate Canadians from a potential terror attack on our soil by radical Islamic Extremists?
I want to explain to my readers why in particular I chose the topic of ISIS as a subject. It is because of the threat the group poses not only to Canada, but also to Israel. Specifically, since I read Israeli media daily, I had noticed an article in the Jerusalem Post on September 14 about the fact that Israel is going to build an eastern border fence due to its fear of an ISIS takeover of Jordan.
The article concludes, "Everyone knows the real reason behind the building of this fence-the very real fear that Jordan will collapse. The scenario is not far-fetched. In fact it Israel's nightmare." In this regard, I note that the Winnipeg Jewish Review has our own correspondent Timothy Bratwold in the West Bank area and over the last few months when I have been in touch with him, he has been sharing his concerns of a future possible takeover of Jordan by ISIS as well (Note: ISIS cells have been found near Hebron last January).
Harper: They [the other parties] are against the mission against ISIS that's led by President Obama and has the support of virtually all of our allies, including most of the countries in the region itself in the Middle East. We brought forward new legislation to give our police and security forces the tools other countries have to counter terrorism and the resources, as well. Talking about things like sharing information among departments, being able to act through warrants to prevent terrorist threats if they develop, being able to take down terrorist recruitment websites that may be posted in Canada. These are all things that are sensible things that other countries do. There are also against that. They make a false argument that somehow we have to pick between freedom and security.
You know proper security legislation enhances our freedoms. Terrorists are a threat to our freedoms. I don't know what freedom is threatened by anything we are doing, but in principle, the NDP in particular, has opposed all security legislation. What the other parties say we need to do are humanitarian support in the region and counter radicalization efforts among youth. What I would say to you, is these things we already do. In fact, in this campaign, I announce the Kinishke Project which is a famous counter radicalization project we established coming out of the Air India inquiry. We've announced that we are extending that for another 3 years. We have, through the RCMP and other security agencies in Canada, some of the best intercultural dialogue anywhere in the world – that's why our security forces have been so successful in identifying various plots and breaking them up before they are executed.
In terms of humanitarian support, we are one of the largest humanitarian donors in that region. $800 Million [goes] directly into the Syrian/Iraq region and Jordan just on the sidelines - about a billion and three if you look at the wider region. So, these are false choices the opposition presents. Because you are doing humanitarian support, why can't you do military support, as well? Because you are doing counter radicalization, why can't you also have stronger security legislation to deal with actual or potential terrorists? So, we are doing all of these things.
On ISIS, let me just speak to that in particular. I actually think the Liberal and NDP positions on the mission against ISIS are actually shocking. They are so out of line with what virtually every country in the world believes. This is an organi


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Introduction: Game of Thrones Cardboard Art
I always wanted to make something from Game of Thrones to decorate my room. I decided to make this cardboard wall decoration because I hadn't a lot of tools and materials.
Step 1: Tools and Materials
You don't need a lot of tools or materials. You only need some cardboard, a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, a knife and a lot of drawing talent or a computer, printer and a pair of scissors to make a template
Step 2: Step 1
First choose a picture you are going to use. I used the dragon from Game of Thrones but you can chose anything you want. Start by making a template and draw the picture you have chosen on the cardboard. Of course you can just draw something on the cardboard without the template.
Step 3: Step 2
Now cut through the top layer of the cardboard without cutting in the waves of the cardboard. You better start by practicing it on a small piece.
Step 4: Step 3
Peel away the top layer without damaging the waves and bottom layer. I noticed it goes smoother when you help it come off with a knife.
Step 5: Step 4
Remove all small pieces of cardboard and clean up the waves to make it look more finished.
Step 6: Finishing
Cut out your figure in a smaller shape if you haven't done it already.
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great idea I luv how this community encourages creativity then sparks more. I am going to try and use this idea to fill in the cut out with colored pouring medium then (use the idea of lights behind) after finishing the rest of cardboard with resin to make sturdy.
Cool! Good luck with your project!
Fantastico.Muy buena idea.
You've missed the last and most crucial step! Attach LEDS to the top and bottom to illuminate through the holes/corregations and thus the piece you cut away!
great idea! I'm trying that
Cool technique! Great job!


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411 Teen: Disability Rights Florida
Join host Dr. Liz Holifield for "411 Teen", a locally produced program created with teen input for a teenage audience. Guests provide insights into topics that concern adolescents. This week Dr. Liz sits down with members of Disability Rights Florida, a group that advances the quality of life, dignity, equality, self-determination, and freedom of choice of persons with disabilities through collaboration, education, advocacy, as well as legal and legislative strategies.


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Salt Lake City Spinal Decompression
Treatment for Chronic Back Pain After an Accident
Back pain is a common problem for people who were injured in car accidents, slip-and-falls, or other types of personal injury accidents. Decompression therapy is a nonsurgical, noninvasive treatment that can provide you with long-term relief.
It has been used to treat several types of injuries that commonly occur after car accidents, including:
- Whiplash
- Sciatica
- Damaged nerve roots
- Herniated (slipped) discs
- Damaged joints
- Neck and back pain
- Posterior facet syndrome
Spinal decompression is one of the treatments offered by the skilled chiropractors at P.I. HELP in Salt Lake City. Call us today at (801) 383-2483 for immediate medical assistance after an accident.
What Happens in Spinal Decompression Therapy?
The purpose of spinal decompression is to stretch the spine in order to take pressure off the spinal discs. Spinal discs are rubbery pieces of cartilage that separate each vertebra. These discs absorb shocks to the spine and prevent them from rubbing up against each other.
Spinal decompression does not require any incisions or medication. You remain fully clothed during the treatment while a doctor places two harnesses on your back. You then lie down on a motorized table that will be moved around to stretch the spine as needed. After several decompression treatments, your spine should be stronger and blood flow throughout the body should improve.
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You should seek medical treatment as soon as possible after an accident, even if you do not feel any pain right away. Injuries do not always manifest painful symptoms when they first occur; it can take days or weeks for symptoms to begin. This is why you will want to have a medical professional examine you for hidden injuries so that you can begin treatment as soon as possible. At P.I. HELP, we offer free transportation to and from our clinics, so contact us today to get started on your recovery.
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What Happened?
Our company recently began working with a website optimization service. As the introductory phone call drew to a close, our new account manager asked me to take a customer satisfaction survey—and told me, "That's how I get paid."
This was useless, awkward, and inappropriate. It showed that what I had to say didn't really matter. Plus, this was my account manager—there's no way I'd give him a poor rating that might sour our weekly phone calls.
Why This Doesn't Work
This entire approach to customer satisfaction surveys misses how interactions can create value for the company and customer alike. The company could have gotten accurate data (we'll get to that in a minute), and the customer could have had a great on-boarding experience, unencumbered by feelings of obligation or guilt.
Furthermore, the survey was painfully generic. For example, one question was the ubiquitous Net Promoter Score (NPS): "How likely are you to recommend us to a friend?" Not only is NPS so overused that many customers are numb to it—it's often just irrelevant. Who would I recommend my account manager to? Most of us don't discuss niche web services with friends. The rest of the questions were equally trite and focused on broad outcomes, not specific nuances.
By the way, if this had been a tech support call, linking employee pay to survey ratings could favor quick fixes that might seem right at first—but don't fully resolve the issue, and leave customers calling back a week later.
The Big No-No
Unfortunately, this company's survey only gathered selective, biased feedback and inaccurate customer feedback metrics. It revealed no valuable insights about the actual quality of the customer experience, or how to improve.
If companies want to master the customer experience to build customer loyalty, they need customer feedback surveys that collect accurate, valuable data.