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In this article, which is pretty much aimed at newbies, I'll tell you how to plot points on the screen, which you need if you're going to do stuff like plotters (obviously), vector graphics etc. I won't discuss going into effects very much here, though.
First of all you have to decide what kind of area you want to plot into. The most common seems to be an area of 16x16 chars, which is probably because plotting into a charset is very easy and fast (this gives you and area of 128x128 pixels). In some situations you might want to plot into a hires bitmap, which is a bit slower, or sprites, which can be handy if you want to move the plotting area around, or if you want to be able to expand it.
Please notice that the example code is written from the top of my head, so it might not work, but I hope it does. :) It's not there to be copied, but to give you an impression of what it should look like.
I'll go through routines for all of these 3 alternatives in this article, and I'll start with the simplest one: the 16x16 chars area.
For this one to be fast, you need the chars laid out in the correct way. If you think about it a bit, you'll realize that you want to line up the chars vertically (in the upper left corner you have char 0, below it char 1, below that one char 2 and so on, and to the right of char 0 you'll have char 16 ($10), below that one char 17 ($11) and so on). With this layout, the bytes to plot into will be indexable by the y coordinate, as you'll see in the example code below.
To plot a point in this charset, you need to know 2 things: which address you should plot into, and what you should put there. The information you have is the x and the y coordinate. So what you have to do is to use these to find out which byte to plot into, and what to plot into it. For this you need 3 tables: the x low table, the x high table and the table which tells you what to plot. You don't need any y table, because the y coordinate will just be used as an index, based on the address you put together from the x tables.
Let's say your charset is located at $2000. If you're going to plot a point at (0,0) (x coordinate 0, y coordinate 0), you want to put the value $80 (bit 7) into address $2000. For (4,4) you want to put the value $08 (bit 3) into address $2004. So what should the tables look like?
The x high table holds the high byte of the address that corresponds to a certain x coordinate, with the y coordinate being 0. So it'll start with $20, $20, $20, $20 (16 of those, as the first 32 chars are used for the first two columns of chars), then $21, $21, $21 (16 of those too) and so on. The x low table holds the corresponding low byte of the address, and starts with $0, $0, $0 (8 of those), then $80, $80, $80 (8 of those too) and then it starts over with 8 instances of $0, 8 of $80 etc.
let's take an example: let's say you want to plot a point into x coordinate 42 ($2a). On index $2a in the x high table you'd find $22, and in the x low table you'd find $80, and putting them together gives you the address $2280. Just add the index for the y coordinate to that address, and you have the address to plot into.
The only thing that remains to explain is how to find out what to plot. That's very simple as well: the three low bits of the x coordinate have this information. So you just use those as an index into the table $80, $40, $20, $10, $08, $04, $02, $01. Repeat that sequence throughout a whole page (so that you don't have to and out the other bits of the x coordinate) and you're done.
The code will look something like this (assuming we have the x coordinate in the x register and the y coordinate in the y register):
lda xlo,x
sta $fe
lda xhi,x
sta $ff
lda plottab,x
ora ($fe),y
sta ($fe),y
Pretty simple, huh? Sure it is! The only thing not explained above is why we're using ora and then sta, not just sta. Well, if you've already plotted a point into a byte, and then you plot another one into the same byte, you don't want the first plot to get erased, right?
If you've understood the previous section, you should be able to figure this one out yourself, but I'll give you some hints anyway. The plottab is exactly the same here, of course, you still use the three low bits. Finding the address to plot is a bit more complex, though.
One technique to use is this one: use the y coordinate to find the start of the line to plot into, then add the high part of the x coordinate, multiplied by 8. For this to work, you need a high and low y table. The addresses to the leftmost bytes of a hires bitmap (at $2000) are $2000, $2001, $2002, $2003, $2004, $2005, $2006, $2007, $2140, $2141, $2142 etc. So, first there are 8 consecutive addresses, then you add $0140 to the first address and keep going.
So the y high table will start with $20, $20, $20, $20 (8 of those), then 8 instances of $21, 8 instances of $22, 8 of $23, 8 of $25 (no, that's not a typo) etc. The y low table will start with $00, $01, $02, $03, $04, $05, $06, $07, $40, $41, $42, $43, $44, $45, $46, $47, $80, $81, etc.
Now, the x address will need to use 2 bytes, because the coordinates range from $00 to $140 (as a hires bitmap is 320 bytes wide). These 2 bytes can be used in different ways, of course. The most appropriate might be to have the 3 low bits in one byte and the 6 high bits in another byte, but we'll go for the general solution here, and assume that the x coordinate consist of one byte with the low 8 bits, and another one with the high bit (so only 1 bit is used here).
Then the code would look something like this (with the x in xlo and xhi and the y coordinate in the y register, of
lda xlo
and #$f8
adc ylo,y
sta $fe
lda xhi
adc yhi,y
sta $ff
ldx xlo
lda plottab,x
ldy #$00
ora ($fe),y
sta ($fe),y
As you can see, this one will be a bit slower than the simple charset plotter above, which is why that one is more common.
You should have grasped the basic concepts of plotting by now: use tables to find the byte to plot into and use the 3 low bits of the x coordinate to find out what to plot into the byte. So I won't go into plotting into sprites in detail, but just give you some hints and then leave it as an exercise to figure out the details.
Indexing into a bunch of sprites is a bit more complicated than a hires bitmap. But let's say you want to plot into 4x4 sprites. The first row of sprites will be $00, $01, $02 and $03, the second one $04 and so on. So the offsets for the x coordinates will be 0 for x coordinate 0-7, 1 for 8-15, 2 for 16-23, 64 for 24-31, etc. Then you need to add 3 to this address for each y coordinate step (i.e. 0 for y coordinate 0, 3 for y coordinate 1, 6 for y coordinate 2, etc.).
That doesn't work for y coordinates 21 and above, though, so you need another table for the additional addition there. This will be a direct addition to the high byte of the address you got for the x coordinate. You'll just add 1 to it for each multiple of 21 in the y coordinate.
You can probably figure out the rest on your own...
I should say something about clearing too, as you might want to clear the bitmap each frame too to get rid of the old plots and start over with an empty bitmap each frame. The brute-force way of doing it is to simply sta 0 into each address in the bitmap. This will take 8000 cycles for a charset, assuming you've unrolled the code, so that it looks something like this:
lda #$00
sta $2000
sta $2001
sta $2002
sta $2003
sta $27fe
sta $27ff
But it may take less time to use a table which you create while plotting. For each point you plot, you store the address in the table (or directly into speedcode). Then you only have to clear the bytes that you've actually plotted into. I think that's enough for now...
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Law and Ideology: Borders, Identity and Spatial (In)Justice
6th International Workshop on Law&Ideology. Štip, North Macedonia, 10-11 November 2020
At the end of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant noticed that limited spatial resources bring people and communities closer to each other, what eventually causes tensions and conflicts. In this situation, either further escalation of the conflict towards violence or mutual communication aimed at developingcoexistence rules that are acceptable for the widest possible group is possible. For Kant, the latter solution, that guarantees "perpetual peace", was the most rational and probable. The final embodiment of these ideas was the discourse of globalization, indicating the processes of blurring and disappearance of borders between states, cultures and legal systems, what was to trigger unprecedented eruptions of creativity, activity and interpersonal cooperation. The optimistic vision of "the end of history" by Francis Fukuyama was accompanied by the symbolic end of borders embodied in the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
However, on the thirtieth anniversary of this event, in various places around the world the walls are rising rather than falling: Israel has separated itself from the Palestinian Occupied Territories by the infamous separation wall made of concrete; Viktor Orbán fenced Hungary to stop the influx of refugees. The most intensive discussions are being centered on the Donald Trump's "the wall" between the United States and Mexico, which has become almost a phantasmatic frontier that haunts our populist times. The border always strengthens the identities of the parties it separates, putting them at the same time in opposition and conflict. The appearance of "the wall" has simultaneously activated a complicated apparatus of repression and law, which on the one hand introduces and maintains borders, and on the other, counteracts and deconstructs them.
That is why during this year's Law & Ideology workshop we would like to discuss the phenomenon of divisions in space, especially in the context of law and politics.
Space in theoretical or socio-legal projects rarely has been seen as an important topic. However, one shall note that there is no life-sphere without spatiality. According to German sociologist Martina Löw, even the very process of formation of space reflects social processes. Therefore, the existence of space depends on man-made structures – the creation of space is usually defined by social goods, people and their mutual relations. Analysis of space is possible only ifthese elements are taken into account. Therefore, we assume that space is a category that can be used to form a social theory.
According to British geographer Doreen Massey, space is established through interactions – both in the micro and macro scale. Moreover, space is being constantly constructed as it is, in a way, context for social processes. Therefore, the recognition of space and social issues should be combined.
Spatial influences can be understood both as great geopolitical strategies and modest internal institutional arrangements used to shape or supervise the subjects residing in a particular space. It is worth emphasizing that the production of space has a political-economic dimension. As Foucault points out, we can analyze the relationship between power and knowledge only on the basis of spatial observation. According to him, creating space is a manifestation of authority, which is associated with disciplinary power. For example, the space made it possible to control people without police intervention thanks to the suitable arrangement of buildings.
One of the tools that can be used to analyze these phenomena is the concept of spatial justice. It can be understood on several levels. As Gordon Pirie wrote, the concept of spatial justice can be considered as "social justice in space" (Pirie 1983: 471). In this sense, spatial justice – as social justice applied in space – focuses mainly on the rules for the distribution of various goods and rights in space. Already at this level, the issue becomes complex due to the coexistence of different concurring theories of justice. It turns out that space is not only an area of distribution, but in itself it functions as a tool for both creating and manifesting social phenomena.
According to Henri Lefebvre, each society produces its own kind of space. For instance, in neo-capitalist society, space is based on the division of places that should be connected with each other, e.g. by highways. Thus, the state not only manages the existing space, but also creates it. It contributes to the reproduction of the conditions of power by controlling space and building a hierarchy of places through spatial division and ghettoization. Such space is state-controlled and hierarchical at the same time. It is possible to measure it and assess its value by market tools and what is more, the property relations change, leading to space fragmentation.
Going further, we can speak of spatial injustice, which can be understood as a process, as geographies or distributional patterns that lead to unfair allocation of social resources (Soja, 2009: 3). It is commonly pointed out that while it may be quite easy to recognize spatial injustice, huge difficulties are associated with describing the mechanisms of its creation and maintenance.
As can be noticed, spatial (in)justice is a source of and a tool for divisions, especially in the context of (re)distribution. This topic is worth examining in the framework of the role of law and politics or maybe more broadly – , regarding the impact of political, economic and social factors on the construction of space. This is what our workshop is intended for.
Suggested presentations topics may include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Political ideology and the spatial planning (zoning) law
- Law and ideology and the division between public and private space
- Legal basis of ideologically grounded borders and divisions in space
- Legal tools for shaping collective social memory in space
- Spatial justice and different philosophical concepts of justice
- Legal and ideological pluralism and territoriality
- Neoliberalism and the legal grounds for commercialization of public space
- Law, space and the common good
- Legal (over)regulation of public space/juridization of public space
- Spatial dimension of human rights and the discussion on universalism of human rights
- Public space as the place of political protest
- Public space as the area of populism
- Feminist perspective on legal geography
- Ecological perspective on legal geography
- Cities, capitalist development and law
- Socialization by space
- Architecture of law
Applications and Conference Fee
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted by the 10th of September 2020.
We will inform about acceptance of papers by the 15th of September 2020.
Applications should be submitted by EasyChair.
Whilst there is 50 euro conference fee, all potential participants are kindly informed that we are not able
to offer any scholarships.
About the International Workshops on Law and Ideology
The International Workshops on Law and Ideology have been organised since 2014 jointly by the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory (CLEST) University of Wrocław and partner institutions in other countries. The first workshop was held in May 2014 in Wrocław and was devoted to a general exploration of the of theme of 'law and ideology', in particular from the perspectives of Marx, Lacan, Foucault and Žižek. The second workshop, held in Sarajevo in May 2015, was cohosted by CLEST and the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo and was devoted to Memories of Struggles, Struggles of Memories. As selection of papers from the 1st and 2nd Workshop were published in June 2016 in the Wrocław Review of Law, Administration and Economics (volume 5, issue 1). The 3rd Workshop was organised jointly by CLEST and the Faculty of Law, University of Tbilisi and was devoted to Rule of Law and the Politics of Conflict. The fourth workshop ("Adjudication and the Political") was co-organized by CLEST in Timisoara (Romania) in 2017. The last workshop "Central and Eastern European Constitutional Liberal Democracy in Crisis", was organized at European Humanities Univesrity in Vilinus.
Organizing committee
Piotr Eckhardt (CLEST, Jagiellonian University)
Karolina Kocemba (CLEST, University of Wrocław)
Olga Koshevaliska (Goce Delchev University)
Michał Stambulski (CLEST, University of Zielona Góra)
Strashko Stojanovski (Goce Delchev University)

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Within a Budding Grove, pp. 344-368
Yes, it's time we returned to Proust. Let's see what Marcel has been up to recently.
If you recall, he's just seen Berma, the famed actress, and was disappointed. It seemed boring, monotonous, uninspired. Nothing at all like the performance he had imagined he would witness, and he begins to worry that life will be full of similar disappointments. Yet the wild applause at the final curtain makes him doubt his first assessment:
Then, at last, a sense of admiration did possess me, provoked by the frenzied applause of the audience… the more I applauded, the better, it seemed to me, did Berma act.
I love the next few lines:
"I say," came from a woman sitting near me, of no great social pretensions, "she fairly gives it you, she does; you'd think she'd do herself an injury, the way she runs about. I call that acting, don't you?" And happy to find these reasons for Berma's superiority, though not without a suspicion that they no more accounted for it than would for that of the Gioconda or of Benvenuto's Perseus a peasant's gaping "That's a good bit of work. It's all gold, look! Fine, ain't it?", I greedily imbibed the strong wine of this popular enthusiasm …
Can we trust our first impressions? Or do we wait to agree with what others think?
M. de Norpois joins Marcel's family for dinner that night, and pontificates on art, politics, diplomacy and food. (At one point he begrudgingly tastes a dessert, with the comment, "I obey, Madame, for I can see that it is, on your part, a positive ukase!") His conversation is full of references to his wide experience, quoting or translating proverbs from other lands, including one from Arabic about how one should respond to criticism: "The dogs may bark; the caravans go on!"
Marcel is so enchanted by M. de Norpois' hauteur and diplomatic demeanor (gained from extensive experience in The World At Large) that he practically worships the man, and at one point is thrilled to think that M. de Norpois might actually mention Marcel's name to Mme. Swann — she would then realize that Marcel knows the ambassador and would thus be willing to welcome the boy into her home.
M. de Norpois convinces Marcel that Berma's performance was good, that Marcel's favorite writer, Bergotte, is a hack, and that Marcel's best writing is a poor imitation of Bergotte's worst. In short, the old man crushes Marcel, yet the poor boy only sees this as illumination.
I can't help wishing Marcel could be loyal to his own ideas, less under the influence of the huge celestial bodies that surround him, but I suppose it's inevitable. Gravity can't be denied.
There's a long bit at the point where Marcel, still hoping de Norpois will put in a good word for him with the Swanns, momentarily mimes the action of kissing the old man's hands. The older Marcel considers this moment from a more informed distance, posing the idea that we are all so insecure about our abilities to have an impact on the world that we imagine no one notices anything that we do (it's the "20 years from now, who's going to know the difference" attitude).
The older Marcel tells us that the younger Marcel thought de Norpois had missed the gesture,
And yet, some years later, in a house in which M. de Norpois, who was also calling there, had seemed to me the most solid support that I could hope to find, because he was the friend of my father, indulgent, inclined to wish us all well, and besides, by his profession and upbringing, trained to discretion, when, after the Ambassador had done, I was told that he had alluded to an evening long ago when he had seen the moment in which I was just going to kiss his hands, not only did I colour up to the roots of my hair but I was stupefied to learn how different from all that I had believed were not only the manner in which M. de Norpois spoke of me but also the constituents of his memory …
Ambassadors may have high levels of discretion, but it seems this one, at least, had no ability for empathy.
Marcel makes one other point about M. de Norpois:
… like all capitalists, he regarded wealth as an enviable thing, but thought it more delicate to compliment people upon their possessions only by a half-indicated sign of intelligent sympathy; on the other hand, as he was himself immensely rich, he felt that he shewed his good taste by seeming to regard as considerable the meagre revenues of his friends, with a happy and comforting resilience to the superiority of his own.
If only the younger Marcel had known all this. But at least the older Marcel gets his revenge — by including this story, and this perfect caricature in some truly celestial writing.


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Professor/MASLED Coordinator
Department of ASL & Deaf Studies
Sorenson Language and Communication Center First Floor
Hello! I'm Raychelle Harris. I'm a faculty member at Gallaudet University. Originally with the Department of Interpretation for one year, from 2008 - 2009. Then from 2009 to now, I've been with the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University in 1995, majoring in Sign Communication. The degree name now has been changed to American Sign Language. I eventually received my Masters degree from McDaniel College in Deaf Education in 2000. I worked many different jobs, mostly teaching high school and college second language learners of ASL. I also worked in Deaf K-12 schools as an ASL specialist teaching primary language learners, also known as first language (L1). Later on, I decided to return back to school for more schooling, studying for a doctorate in Deaf Education at Gallaudet University.
My dissertation topic was focused on academic discourse within academic settings. What does ASL look like in an academic setting? Particularly in preschool? It was a captivating study. My teaching and research interests are primarily focused in the areas of teaching and learning. In the classroom, I'm interested in how languages are taught and the methodology used to teach languages. I'm also interested in how language assessment is done, and the methods involved in the process. Not only that, I'm also interested in curriculum development and making the curriculum tailored to the students of today. Another fascination for me is the use of technology within ASL classrooms, including how to teach online ASL courses. Research methods, social justice and ethics of working with the Deaf community is another area of interest. Not only that, I'm also interested in specialized discourses. There are many of them. One classic example is ASL in academic settings. What does it look like?</
Raychelle has been teaching ASL as a first and second language since 1993. Raychelle is currently the program director of the Masters in Sign Language Education program housed in the ASL & Deaf Studies department at Gallaudet University. The program prepares students in the teaching of signed languages. She was one of four co-editors of Journal of ASL and Literatures (JASLL) website. Raychelle holds Professional Certification with the American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) and is a state-level Certified Deaf Interpreter and Court certified interpreter in the state of Texas.
Raychelle specializes in methods (and theories) of teaching languages, L2 assessment tools and curricular design, and field experience (practicum and internship). She has taught (and/or developed) nearly all of the courses in the program, including but not limited to:
Raychelle's full service duties is dedicated to the MASLED program - advising, field experience placements, curricular revisions and program assessment. She also serves on the Council of Graduate Education (CGE) committee. Outside of Gallaudet, Raychelle is a member of National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and ASL Teachers Association (ASLTA). She also joins local homegrown organizations when she can, such as Deaf Women of Austin (DWA), Austin Deaf Club, Protactile and DeafBlind gatherings and Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) events.
In the last five years, on top of her year-round, three semester (fall, spring and summer) teaching and coordinating duties, Raychelle was able to publish two books (her dissertation and a book on Deaf culture), several book chapters, three book reviews, two academic journal publications, three encyclopedia submissions, and a newspaper article in a psychology magazine. She was also able to review five different journal article and book chapter submissions.
Raychelle has been invited to present at over 40 different venues internationally (colleges, deaf schools, universities and organizations). She was also asked to endnote a national conference, but declined because she felt the honor should go to a person of color, traditionally underrepresented at this particular conference venue. Raychelle has presented at numerous conferences, including American Sign Language Teachers' Association, International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Association for College Educators of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, American Evaluation Association, National ASL and English Bilingual Early Childhood Education Summit, Gallaudet University Regional Interpreter Education Center, ASL Roundtable, Revolutions in Sign Language Studies, Visual Language and Visual Learning Lecture Series, and Conference for Community and School Awareness for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind.
In addition, she is a versatile scholar, who is able to present on assessment, curricular design, early childhood language acquisition, language teaching methodology, specialized discourses (such as Academic ASL) and advocacy for sign language peoples.


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Pixies vs. Pirates Slot - Review and Casinos 2020
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The bottom line is that this is a feature that definitely helps players to get lots of extra payouts that would have otherwise been missed, but it can take a bit of getting used to because it stands out as being atypical in how it works.
These wilds count for anything except for the X Ways chests that we'll go into below or the scatter symbols.
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WHARTON, WILLIAM HARRIS (1802–1839). William Harris Wharton, orator and leader in the Texas Revolution, son of William and Judith (Harris) Wharton, was born in 1802 in Virginia. His parents died when he was a child, and he and his brother, John A. Wharton, were reared by an uncle, Jesse Wharton, in Nashville, Tennessee. William H. Wharton was graduated with the first class from the University of Nashville and was admitted to the bar in 1826. He was in Texas by December 5, 1827, when he married Sarah Ann Groce, daughter of Jared Ellison Groce. They had one child, John Austin Wharton. William Wharton returned to Nashville until April 1829, when he returned to Texas and established Eagle Island Plantation on land given to the couple by Jared Groce as an inducement to stay in Texas. Wharton early identified himself with the party of the colonists agitating for a more energetic policy toward Mexico. Sources conflict, but many believe Wharton served at the battle of Velasco and was one of those who signed the document of final surrender. He was a delegate from Victoria to the Convention of 1832, which asked for separate statehood for Texas and drew up a provisional constitution for a state government. Wharton wrote the petition to Mexico asking for statehood, a document which has become a political classic in Texas. At the Convention of 1833, he held the office of president. By 1835 Wharton and others were openly agitating for complete independence from Mexico, in opposition to the conservative policy of Stephen F. Austin. Wharton was elected a delegate to the Consultation, where the majority of the members were still in favor of a moderate policy; so the group merely stated loyalty to the Republican Constitution of 1824 as the reason for the war. Austin was elected to command the army, and Wharton was chosen judge advocate. He went with the army in the siege of Bexar, then resigned his commission a few days before he was notified of his appointment as a commissioner to the United States with Austin and Branch T. Archer to secure aid for the Texans.
United by common bonds of patriotism and common responsibilities, Wharton and Austin forgot their enmity of the preceding years and cooperated in the cause to which they were both devoted. Upon completing their mission, Wharton and Archer urged Austin to be a candidate for president of Texas, and they supported him in the campaign in which he was defeated by Sam Houston. In November of 1836 President Houston appointed Austin secretary of state and Wharton first minister to the United States, hoping to secure recognition by and possibly annexation to the United States. The appointment necessitated Wharton's resignation from his seat as senator in the First Congress from the Brazoria District. Recognition was won on March 3, 1837, but annexation at that time was hopeless in spite of Wharton's persuasive pleas.
After he resigned as minister in early 1837, Wharton was captured at sea by a Mexican ship and carried to Matamoros, where he was imprisoned. He succeeded in escaping and making his way back to Texas in time to be elected to the Texas Senate in 1838. Though he resigned before the beginning of the Adjourned Session in May 1838, he was reelected the same year. In December 1838 he introduced a bill to modify the flag and the seal of the republic (see FLAGS OF TEXAS, and SEALS OF TEXAS). Wharton was killed on March 14, 1839, when he accidentally discharged a pistol as he was dismounting at the home of his brother-in-law, Leonard W. Groce, near Hempstead. He was buried in the family cemetery at Eagle Island Plantation near Brazoria. The addresses and political documents that Wharton wrote reveal that he had rare ability as a diplomat and statesman. Wharton County was named in his honor.
James A. Creighton, A Narrative History of Brazoria County (Angleton, Texas: Brazoria County Historical Commission, 1975). William Wharton Groce, "Major General John A. Wharton," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 19 (January 1916). Laura Hale, The Groces and Whartons in the Early History of Texas (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1942). Ethel Zivley Rather, "Recognition of the Republic of Texas by the United States," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 13 (January 1910). William S. Speer and John H. Brown, eds., Encyclopedia of the New West (Marshall, Texas: United States Biographical Publishing, 1881; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Rosa Belle Wilson, Mission of Austin, Archer and Wharton to the United States (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1937).
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones..."
Chances are you didn't even have to think about the rest of the expression. It's one of those sayings that somehow we just know. We're born, we learn our ABC's, and then around the same time somebody also gives us that expression (bonus points if it was also paired with "I'm rubber, you're glue").
It's neat how something so wrong can survive for so long in our culture, isn't it? And I'm just flatly stating it: the expression is wrong. I know it is, because I couldn't tell you what I had for breakfast three days ago, but I can tell you that Sara Johnson* said I looked goofy running 12 years ago when I played basketball for my homeschool group (sorry, I'll quit bragging).
It probably wouldn't take much effort at all to remember something hurtful somebody said to you, would it? Let's just agree on this: sticks, stones, and words hurt. And today, we're more capable of using words to hurt than we've ever been. The internet and social media have made us both victims and villains-the power to destroy (Prov 11:9) has never been more obvious.
Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.
Ephesians 4:29
Imagine if that scripture was displayed for 10 seconds before any social media app let you log in. Would your behavior change? If Ephesians 4:29 popped up before you hit "send" on a message angrily pecked out on your phone-would you still send it?
Through technology, we have a real potential power to uplift or destroy. And the harder of the two options will always be the one we're supposed to do. Following Ephesians means delaying the instant gratification of getting the last word in, then hitting the "block" button. Or posting a status in anger. It means choosing to encourage rather than destroy.
Will you join me this week and seek for ways to encourage people online?
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Despite a fierce second-half effort, the Monroe College Women's Basketball team suffered its first loss of the season on Wednesday, falling to Union County College, 81-73. Three Mustangs players scored double figures.
Monroe held the lead several times throughout the first quarter, but ultimately entered the second trailing 19-16. The Mustangs even led by as much as three points (11-8) on a steal and basket from Camilla Kilinc at the 5:25 mark.
The second quarter saw Union County outscore Monroe 19-9, giving them a 13-point cushion at halftime (38-25). The deficit grew to 19 points early in the third quarter, but the Mustangs fought back, using a 12-0 run midway through the quarter to get back in the game. Monroe cut the gap almost in half, trailing by ten points after three quarters.
A Jada Banks layup at the 8:28 mark in the fourth quarter pulled the Mustangs within a possession, at 57-54. Three minutes later, another bucket from Mercy Amechi got them within two. Eventually Monroe had to foul to stop the clock, and Union County pulled away for the 81-73 win.
In the game, Cristina Soriano picked up her first double-double of the season with 15 points (on 7-9 shooting) and 12 rebounds. Banks came off the bench to score 25, and Shania Johnson finished with 11.
The Monroe College Women's Basketball team is now 3-1 on the season. They will host the Monroe College Invitational over the weekend and open play with CCRI on Friday, November 18th, at 8PM.


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A self shooting observational documentary producer/director making engaging, thought-provoking films about real people, often filming over extended timeframes.
Emiment Monsters : Reviews
A Manual for Modern Torture
- Duration
- 1 x 52'
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- Filmed
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- John Archer
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- BBC Scotland
- Creative Scotland
- World Premier
- Glasgow Film Festival
- March 2019
- Year
- 2019
Eminent Monsters passes a powerful message that needs to be spread far and wide. Apart from its extremely disturbing accuracy in depicting the effects of torture, the film impressively highlights the replication of the same sinister logic in present day contexts, including mainstream entertainment, and illustrates the near complete lack of accountability despite abundant evidence of grave violations.
Eminent Monsters is a compelling look at the trajectory of psychological torture in the US and around the world. Devastatingly, the impact of everything revealed by this film is still felt today by men in Guantanamo Bay who were subjected to the most horrific practices. Psychological torture destroys entire families – we must do all we can to stop it happening and Eminent Monsters is a crucial step forward in achieving that.
We need to move away from being driven by obtaining confessions and instead approach interrogation from a position of investigation. What this film allows us to say is that what is happening is totally unacceptable.
An incredible film. Eminent Monsters gives a unique and clear understanding of the "14 hooded men" case. Judges should see the film when they use it as a point of reference in deciding what is torture.


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A MAN has been questioned in connection with a drugs haul.
Thousands of cannabis plants and cannabis resin worth about £8,000 were seized from a suspected cannabis factory in Saughall last month.
Hydroponics equipment and drugs paraphernalia were also discovered at the Greenway address when officers from the Chester Outer Neighbourhood Policing Unit executed a drugs search warrant.
A 48-year-old Warrington man was arrested and has been helping police with their enquiries into the cultivation investigation. He has been released on bail until May.
Sgt Alastair Hinze, who was involved in the execution of the search warrant, said: 'Around 1,000 plants in total were recovered, along with a substantial amount of cannabis resin and a range of growing equipment.
'This indicates cannabis cultivation. Significant development has been made with this investigation and our enquiries will continue.
'In the meantime, I hope residents feel a sense of reassurance from the fact that a large amount of illegal substances are off the streets. Our work is all about making the community a safe one and we are committed to doing that in any way we can.'
The Chester Outer Neighbour-hood Policing Unit includes Hoole, Handbridge, Blacon and Lache. Community Action Team officers are keen to hear from residents who are being affected by crime issues.
To contact the team, based at Blacon Police Station, leave a message on its answering facility. The number is 0845 458 6375 and all messages are regularly checked and responded to.


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How long has your business offered apprenticeships?
For the last 8 years, we've offered a number of various apprenticeship schemes at TR, one of which involves apprentices moving around our different departments to increase their knowledge and understanding of what a global company like TR does. From warehouse to quality, sales, admin, marketing and HR to credit control, purchasing and IT, apprentices are exposed to all aspects of our business and operations. This helps each individual to learn about TR and also to establish where their skills and interests lie in terms of furthering their career with us. We also provide apprenticeships in different functions; our Finance, Warehousing, Sales, HR and Marketing departments all run dedicated schemes within TR.
We are steadily increasing our apprenticeship offerings and we take on a growing number of apprentices every year. Typically an apprenticeship will be the first two years of an individual's career within TR before they specialise in a function.
Why does your business invest in apprentices? What are the advantages?
We relish the opportunity of welcoming apprentices into the fold because not only does the experience help them, it helps us too! Having someone learn about the business on the job either by moving through departments and undertaking specialist training or within a specific function means that when their apprenticeship is complete, their knowledge and variety of experience is second to none. Having those people in our team is extremely beneficial as they grow to know the business and how we work.
What's the future for your business and apprenticeships?
We will continue to take on apprentices across the TR network because we see the value in their contribution to the company and we are also dedicated to identifying and nurturing future talent. The schemes are a great way of supporting people to discover what path they want to take whilst also building up a solid knowledge of the company and the industry. Our business continues to grow globally and part of this success is due to our commitment to finding and developing organic talent. The apprenticeship schemes are just one of the ways that we do this and who knows, some of our apprentices may one day be the future leaders of the business!


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Filmfest 2019
Original version
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International Premiere
Director: Emily Cohn
Section: International Independents
Art student Izzy is nearing the end of her first year in college. It's her last chance to lose her virginity before spending an uneventful summer with her grandparents. The right opportunity seems to present itself at a "Crush Party". The problem is that the only people who are invited are those who've been designated someone's crush on Instagram. It's high time for Izzy and her two best friends to think up a plan.
Cast: Isabelle Barbier, Deeksha Ketkar, Sadie Scott
Screenplay: Emily Cohn
Director of Photography: Saaniya Zaveri
Film Editor: Emily Cohn, Michelle Botticelli
Composer: Matthew Liam Nicholson
Production Designer: Wulfart Blankfield
Costume Design: Ruth Arden Lewis
Producer: Judy McGrath
Production Company: ESC Productions
Co-Producer: Emily Cohn, Jennifer George, Abby Pucker, Barrett Rouen
World Sales: Visit Films
Director: Emily Cohn
Emily Cohn studied creative writing at Oberlin College, Ohio, and film production at the Prague Film School. Her first short film, PIERCED (2013), was named best drama at the All-American High School Film Festival. Her Web series THE DO NOT ENTER DIARIES was featured in the New York Times. CRSHD is her first feature film.


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- June 22, 2010, 3:52 PM GMT
- George Osborne Grows Up
- The minutes immediately after a budget are not usually the best time at which to make a rounded assessment of the measures and their likely economic and political impact. Too many budgets have been declared masterful in the heat of the moment and then exposed as an exercise in smoke and mirrors tomfoolery days later. (Gordon Brown, come out from behind the curtains).
To his immense credit, George Osborne acknowledged this at the outset and declared that he was not going to hide shocks in the small print. He would be upfront about the pain involved.
How, overall, did he do? A handful of cheerleaders will come forward at high speed to say that there has not been such a brilliant budget since Nigel Lawson was a boy. Perhaps. Ed Conway has a more measured assessment that is well worth reading.
I've got a column on the political impact to write for the paper tonight, but here are several early observations:
1) There was immense goodwill leading up to this budget, almost everywhere apart from in the Labour movement. Quite simply, it is not in anyone's interests that an attempt to sort out the public finances and gear up for growth should fail. The necessity of him succeeding meant that he started with the benefit of the doubt. Osborne as shadow chancellor was not widely popular in the country (too young, he and Cameron are cut from the same cloth). But for his first budget, he needed to surf the post-coalition deal wave of goodwill. He did that with considerable skill. In the process he came of age, looking older and a much weightier figure.
2) Osborne's pitch was very cleverly constructed — emphasizing that the pain will be spread across the country and the income groups.
3) Harriet Harman's response was punchy, rather robust on the Lib Dems and quite effective in the end at cheering up her troops. But Labour cannot seem to get its head around a proper economic argument at the moment — it is just agin cuts.
4) Cuts, what cuts? Look at the Treasury's own figures. The rate of increases in spending are slowing dramatically, almost to a halt at several points, so that it will feel like dramatic cuts. But the overall figures for government spending are clear.The total will go up every year of this Parliament.
5) The real pain is still to come. The headlines tomorrow will say that today was the day when it really started to bite. Well no, not really. The balance of retrenchment is on freezing some budgets and hacking other unprotected departments such as education and defence. The full detail on that will only come with the spending review in the autumn. That's when all hell will break out if it's going to.
from: http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2010/06/22/george-osborne-grows-up/
Chancellor George Osborne increased VAT from 17.5% to 20% and cut welfare spending as he moved "decisively" to tackle Britain's record debts.
Child benefit and public sector pay will be frozen and 25% cut from public service spending – but alcohol, tobacco and fuel will escape tax hikes.
Unveiling his first Budget to MPs, Mr Osborne said "tough but fair" action on debt was "unavoidable".
But Labour said it was "reckless" and would "throw people out of work".
Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said Mr Osborne's budget would stifle growth and hit hardest "those who can least afford it".
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- VAT increase
- Public sector pay freeze
- Child benefit frozen
- Housing benefit cuts
- Disability Living Allowance cuts
- Tax cut for lowest paid
- Two year council tax freeze
- Capital Gains Tax increased
- Bank levy
- NI tax holiday for job creation outside South-East of England
Key points: At-a-glance Harman attacks 'reckless' Budget How the VAT rise will work UK to 'balance books' by 2016 In quotes: Budget reaction
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson described the financial statement as a "massive gamble economically and politically".
It represents a major departure from the previous government's economic policies, with business leaders saying they hoped it would be a "defining moment" in Britain's economic recovery.
But trade unions have warned hundreds of thousand of jobs could be lost in the public services, potentially wrecking local economies and sparking a "double-dip" recession.
Setting out his plans in the Commons, Mr Osborne said "decisive" action was needed to prevent a "catastrophic collapse" in economic confidence but stressed it would be done in a "fair" way with the better-off shouldering most of the burden.
"Everyone will pay something but the people at the bottom of the income scale will pay proportionately less than those at the top. This is a progressive Budget," he said to jeers from Labour MPs.
UK households, on average, will be about £400 a year worse off, Budget documents suggest, with the poorest 10% losing £200 and the richest £1,800, although the poorest will be hit harder than most as a percentage of their income.
Mr Osborne vowed to balance Britain's books within five years, with the bulk of the savings to come from cuts to benefits and public services rather than tax increases.
And he laid the blame for the state of the nation's finances squarely at the door of the previous Labour government, saying: "The years of debt and spending make this unavoidable."
'Biggest gamble'
Tax credits will be cut for families earning more than £40,000 a year – and there will be a two year pay freeze for public servants paid more than £21,000. Those earning less will get a £250 rise for two years.
Mr Osborne also announced real terms cuts across all government departments of 25% over four years – except health and foreign aid which are ringfenced.
Will Hutton, of the Work Foundation, who is advising the government on public sector pay, described the cuts as "brutal" and questioned whether they were achievable without wrecking the coalition government.
He described Mr Osborne's Budget as the "biggest gamble a post-war government has made".
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The full details of the impact of the cuts will not be revealed until Wednesday 20 October, when Mr Osborne publishes his spending review.
The VAT increase, which Mr Osborne said would raise £13bn a year, is to come into effect in January.
Capital gains tax will be increased to 28% for top rate taxpayers – less than the 50% some Conservative backbenchers had feared. This will come into effect at midnight.
In other moves, Mr Osborne pledged to pledge to link pensions to earnings – or prices or 2.5% if they are higher.
Housing benefit will be reformed with a maximum limit of £400 a week, in a package saving £1.8bn a year by the end of the Parliament.
Other benefits to be cut include the health in pregnancy grant while the Sure Start maternity grant will be restricted to the first child only and lone parents will be expected to look for work when their youngest child goes to school.
Bank levy
But there will be an extra £150 a year for the poorest families, through changes to family tax credits.
The government is also to introduce a medical assessment for Disability Living Allowance from 2013 for new and existing claimants.
Mr Osborne also announced plans to help the low paid by raising personal tax allowances, taking an estimated 880,000 people out of the tax system and give millions of basic rate taxpayers a tax cut of £200 per year.
From January 2011, the government will introduce a bank levy, which will apply to the balance sheets of UK banks and building societies and the UK operations of foreign banks. Mr Osborne said the move would raise £2bn a year once it was fully in place.
Mr Osborne said public sector workers paid more than £21,000 a year would have a two year pay freeze with those paid less getting a flat pay increase of £250 for the next two years.
The plan is the first step towards a key Liberal Democrat coalition demand of taking all those earning less than £10,000 out of tax.
'Enterprise-led recovery'
The chancellor must find £3.5bn to pay for the giveaway – which will be clawed back from top rate taxpayers – and Labour are likely to argue it is irresponsible in the current climate.
Mr Osborne also froze the Civil List payments to the Royal Family at £7.9m a year and said in future years they would be subject to scrutiny by the National Audit Office.
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It is rare for a Budget to contain both an overhaul of the taxation system and a significant shift in the boundary between public sector and private sector
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He stressed that the pain of his austerity measures would be shared by "everyone" – but said all would share in the proceeds of the "enterprise-led recovery" that he promised would follow.
"Yes it is tough, but it also fair," said Mr Osborne of his first budget, adding: "Everyone will share in the rewards when we succeed. When we say that we are all in this together, we mean it."
He said that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now estimated growth this year of 1.2% and 2.3% next year – compared to its previous forecasts of 1.3% of 2.6%.
Giving her response to Mr Osborne's statement, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman poured scorn on the Liberal Democrats for providing a "fig leaf" for their Conservative coalition partners, arguing "this reckless Tory budget would not be possible without the Lib Dems".
Lib Dem 'fig leaf'
"The Lib Dems leaders have sacrificed everything they ever stood for to ride in ministerial cars and to ride on the coat tails of the Tory government," she added.
Plaid Cymru also lashed out at the Lib Dems, with Treasury spokesman Jonathan Edwards accusing party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of sitting next to Tory leader David Cameron "like a nodding dog, agreeing with every word as VAT was raised".
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Public sector workers will be shocked and angry that they are the innocent victims of job cuts and pay freezes
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"They are running out of major election policies on which to U-turn," he added.
The SNP welcomed some Budget measures, such as the freeze on whiskey duty and the restoration of the pensions and earnings link, but branded planned spending cuts "irresponsible".
In a message to Liberal Democrat supporters, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the government had "no choice except to clear up the financial mess that Labour left us".
And he said the Budget had taken "difficult decisions in an honest and fair way and with the clear stamp of Liberal Democrat values running through it," citing examples including the restoration of the pensions and earnings link and the tax boost for the low paid.
'Breadline Britain'
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, who has vowed to protect the party's core values, issued a statement in support of Mr Clegg after the Budget statement, saying it would protect the "needy and vulnerable".
So far only one Lib Dem MP, Bob Russell, has publicly suggested he might vote against the Budget, as the party had campaigned against VAT increases at the election because "the low paid disproportionately pay more".
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I am not at all happy. I need to discuss with colleagues how it is we have got into this situation."
Dave Prentis, general secretary of public service union Unison accused the coalition government of "declaring war" on public services, saying the Budget would "raise the spectre of breadline Britain" in some parts of the country.
"Public sector workers will be shocked and angry that they are the innocent victims of job cuts and pay freezes".
But CBI director general Richard Lambert called the Budget "the UK's first important step on the long journey back to economic health".
Green MP Caroline Lucas called Mr Osborne's statement a "budget for pointless austerity" full of cuts that were "neither unavoidable or fair".
But in an e-mail to Conservative supporters, Prime Minister David Cameron said: "In this emergency Budget I believe you have the measure of this government.
"Will it provoke debate? Certainly. Will it cost our coalition some popularity? Possibly. But is this the right thing to do – for the health of our economy, for the poorest in our society, for the future of our country? I passionately believe it is."
from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10371590.stm
George Osborne was born on May 23rd, 1971 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Osbourne
May 23rd, 1971
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Monday, 31 December 2012
Art for Arts sake?
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Nice to have something thoughtful to ponder over New Year. Couldn't agree more.ReplyDelete
I would add to your list the Imperial War Museum's exhibition drawing links between WW1 camoflage and modern art of the same period; and J R Hales wonderful book 'War and artists in the Renaissance.
On a practical example I was much taken by Degas paintings of FPW uniforms and as a result followed the style in painting my figures in deep flat colours with no shades or highlights.
And if they please me then surely that is the whole point.
Thanks for this and other interesting posts and a happy and prosperous New Year.
John Happy new year to you too. This is an avenue I'm continuing to explore through War Artists and military Illustrators . I'm having to dig out/remember "arty stuff" I did 30 plus years ago and try to find my few remaining Art books. I'll HAVE to try to find a copy of Hales which I didn't know.. I've never really been into the Imperessionists- being on the whole more of a Pre- Raphealite chap myself- possibly because one of my Art teachers at school rammed the dammned Frogs down my throat... however I'm now looking at them again so Degas will be interesting again.Delete
There will be more on this in the coming year as I study a bit....
I think the fireKorps 15 Irish Wars range is a good example of miniatures looking like art work.ReplyDeleteReplies
Dan I'm not familiar with the range- but if they used Derricks prints for the English that would be good.Delete
However I was talking just as much about finishing my own figures- for instance it would be nice if I could paint my 40mm ECW as "in the style of William Dobson" or even "style of Van Dyke" for the Officers perhaps? I can try! .


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World Entrepreneur's Day is a chance to celebrate the tremendous ingenuity and resilience of the millions of entrepreneurs in developing countries who are delivering an end to poverty for their families and local communities.
How can it be that in 2018 on World Entrepreneurs' Day, one in three people live on only US$3.20 a day? That's A$4.34 – the cost of a large cappuccino in some Australian capital cities.
And it's all they have to buy the necessities we take for granted – food, clothes, safe shelter, healthcare, medicine and education for their children. Can you imagine making $4.34 a day stretch far enough to provide all your family's basic needs? I can't.
These same families often don't have toilets or access to clean drinking water, which means they constantly suffer from debilitating preventable illnesses that keep them trapped in poverty.
This is why Opportunity, by providing microfinance loans, is equipping 5.8 million entrepreneurs in Asia to build businesses, earn regular incomes and create a future for their families. These borrowers start a small business in their village and demonstrate real entrepreneurial skill to not only create a successful business, but to overcome the challenges of their environment. Those challenges range from a lack of community infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and schools, exposure to extreme weather conditions; even inefficient transport for raw materials and finished goods.
It's unacceptable that in the 21st century so many families in developing countries lack access to the basics the Western world takes for granted.
Yet, despite all these challenges, the entrepreneurial spirit is so strong that the Opportunity microfinance partner portfolio repayment rate is an amazing 98 per cent. This ensures that funds can be recycled after the loan is repaid, and the impact of our initial investment can create future opportunities.
When I was in India with Opportunity's Board at the beginning of this year, I was inspired by the enterprising women living in rural villages who were building businesses using Opportunity loans: businesses like food stalls, dressmaking, kiosks and making papadums and tiffen (small boxes filled with a spicy lunch). Each of these women is determined to end her family's poverty. They are driven to educate their children, so they can live dramatically different lives to their own.
An aspect of equipping families to end poverty is to help them prevent the debilitating illnesses that stop them working in their businesses. That's why Opportunity trains women in India and Indonesia to be health leaders, empowering them to educate families in their local communities about ways of preventing illness and improving their health – by washing their hands, drinking clean water, building toilets, using sanitary napkins, growing vegetables, breastfeeding and giving birth in hospitals.
Healthy families are more able to journey out of poverty because parents can work to earn a living and kids can go to school, everyday, rather than constantly missing out because of constant illness.
We know that education is a powerful tool to help families end poverty, so Opportunity provides school fee loans to parents, enabling them to educate their children. We also provide loans to school leaders – who are often groups of entrepreneurial parents – so they can build classrooms, buy textbooks and computers, recruit qualified teachers and continually improve the quality of the education they provide to children who are eager to learn.
So, on World Entrepreneurs' Day, lets honour the microentrepreneurs in developing countries who are turning around their lives through hard work, ingenuity and passion. Like us, they want the best possible future for their children, so let's empower them to do just that.
Meredith Scott, CEO, Opportunity International Australia
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Chapter 1
Perspective is a peculiar thing.
What we see is often relative to where we are; moreover where we have been.
The measure of how we view ourselves and others, I find, is very much a result of how our past effects our vision.
Through recent self-imposed sobriety and solitude, I have been able to look upon my outward self from a different vantage point and see something new. Not only did I witness myself in a willful regression to emotional immaturity, but also a negligent spiral of self-destruction.
My "Thinking Mind" (as Tolle refers to it) can easily [logically] explain my "fit throwing". My bad behavior was my inner brat claiming her moment of tantrum. I was weary of responsibility and care taking without reward or recognition. Constant consummate 'Good Girl' always trying to make the right choices, be the bigger woman, sacrifice for others, and put "the greater good of the whole" before myself, in the end only to lose the kingdom and the prince, and everything along with it. Who wrote this fucking fairy tale anyway?
Dismayed, I assumed an attitude of entitlement to something I'd never truly done in life - behave badly ... on purpose. Good Girls ask permission, Bad Girls ask for forgiveness; or so we are told. Enter Ekart Tolle.
My bad behavior was short lived.
And even though I am (and will always be) childish in nature, a goofball at heart, and extremely playful; immaturity was a too tight sweater in too hot weather: wrong size - wrong season.
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I'd heard of 'The Power of Now' often, and it's been sitting on my "To Read" list for quite some time. Having to endure the Houston Commute to and from on a daily, I wanted to be sure I was making good use of otherwise squandered time. Hello Audio Books!
Truthfully, Tolle's voice is monotone and lulling. At first it was a struggle to stay awake in traffic. I found my mind wandering to ADHD'esque minutia. Yet, as I began to intently listen to the message I realized that focusing my far too busy mind on a task as simple as listening to this audio book was a step closer towards the primary goal of the book itself which is to clear the mind and be present in the now.
Much of the concepts outlined in chapter 1 were all familiar. I fully connected with one in particular: The Pain Body & The Ego.
Tolle discusses The Pain Body, and our relationship to it. How we self-identify with our past pain, allowing our triumph over it to define who we believe we are. From what I understood, this creates connectivity of The Pain Body to The Ego.
The question was then presented: If you identify yourself by your past or the pain you have suffered, are you willing to let that go? Do you fear you will lose your identity if you don't have this triumph to claim for your own?
Without the past, or projection of the future who are you NOW?
If I identify myself as the sum of my experiences, am I then only a perpetual projection of all that has happen to me?
As an artist and a writer I have always transmuted my pain through art, thus my identity as an artist is very much connected to my pain.
Without it ... what then?
Do I unnecessarily hold on to pain because my ego counts it as my identity?
My recent "bratty behavior" lead me to this present path, so I do suppose all things serve their purpose.
I am consciously AND subconsciously clearing, for what I don't know.
I am consciously AND subconsciously clearing, for what I don't know.
As I journey through "The Power of Now" I plan to blog.
My mind is often a constant buzzing of incessant thought. Writing quiets the hive, and brings order to such things. The concept of the book seems an undertaking, and so I hope to digest it the only way I know how -
I welcome any comments, thoughts, musing, or critiques (especially if you have read it before)
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by Alex White on Feb.08, 2011, under News
Sometimes life can get you down. I think everyone is familiar with what we've been going through. However, Paul Fischer was happy to give us some relief. Paul, the New Media Director at Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland, just informed us that we're guests at the con.
I look forward to connecting with all the fans who can get there!
And who knows? Maybe by the time I'm there, I'll have even better news…
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Harvey John "Jack" Kelliher, Jr., age 84, of Duncansville, formerly of Bradenton, FL, died Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at Hillview Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, Altoona. He was born in Waukesha, WI, a son of the late Harvey J., Sr. and Elizabeth (Schane) Kelliher.
Survived by his wife Paula (Brubaker) Kelliher; four sons; two daughters; two step-daughters; numerous grand and great-grandchildren; and a brother.
He was preceded in death by two sisters.
Jack was a graduate of Waukesha High School in Wisconsin. He was a US Air Force veteran serving from 1954 until 1962. He worked in electrical for Miller Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and also for AT&T.
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Pro Power BI Architecture
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- Solves the common challenge of managing multiple environments—such as development, test, and production—with a Power BI solution
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Darien mom charged for allowing drinking at 18-year-old's party
A Darien woman was charged with failure to halt possession of liquor by a minor after an underage drinking party was held at her home. Officers were dispatched to Mansfield Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. on June 27 after a report from the department's anonymous tip line.
An officer approaching the area could hear loud music coming from the home in question and saw several taxi services leaving the front of the home. As officers pulled into the driveway five youths were seen running away from the house and another two tried to walk down to Mansfield Avenue. The officer, noticing that they were both clearly intoxicated, instructed them to go back to the home. One of them almost tripped and fell as they were walking while the other had no shoes on at the time.
When asked the two would not immediately admit what house they had been at, but eventually admitted the location of the party. Officers told them to have a parent come to the scene to pick them up as they met with the owner of the home, Debra McLaren.
McLaren said she had just throw an 18th birthday party for her daughter, which had started at 6 p.m. The party had begun with about 20 of her friends, but more people began arriving later. She said she had been home for the duration of the party and had come outside to check on things several times during the evening. McLaren told police she wasn't aware of any alcohol being consumed until about 9:30 p.m., at which point she claimed she ended the party and told the youths to take Uber rides home.
However, when questioned by a second officer McLaren said she became of the alcohol at 10:30 p.m. Based on the level of intoxication displayed by the teens, officers concluded that they had been drinking for an extended amount of time. When questioned further McLaren allegedly told officers "I could really use a break."
While searching outside the home officers found a table and cups setup for beer pong next to the pool and several empty containers of alcohol in a garbage bag. McLaren told police there were no additional partygoers at the house, but during a walkthrough officers found five more teen girls in bedrooms. McLaren claimed she did not know where all the kids were since they had started running. According to police McLaren's daughter had fled the home when officers arrived.
Based on their investigation of the party officers determined that McLaren should have been aware of the alcohol consumption at her home and she was issued a misdemeanor summons. She was released on a promise to appear in court on July 10.
McLaren's Stamford-based criminal defense lawyer Mark Sherman said his client neither provided nor permitted underage drinking to take place. "As soon as she learned there was alcohol on the property, she immediately began confiscating it and required each guest to call Ubers and taxis. That's why the ubers were there when the police arrived." Sherman is confident that the court case can be resolved "quickly and fairly" in Stamford Superior Court.