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Haaretz's Sayed Kashua and Omri Herzog Win Literary Prize
Bernstein Prize goes to Kashua for his novel 'Second Person Singular' and to Herzog for literary reviews in Haaretz Books.
Author Sayed Kashua and literary critic Dr. Omri Herzog are the winners of the Bernstein Prize for 2011. Kashua received the NIS 50,000 prize for an original novel in Hebrew for "Second Person Singular" (Keter Books ). He writes a weekly column in Haaretz Magazine. Herzog was awarded the NIS 15,000 prize for literary criticism in the daily press, for three reviews that appeared in his column in Haaretz Books.
The jury cited Kashua's novel for its "fascinating and satirical look at Israeliness and especially the Arab-Israeli mind, a topic that has barely been reflected in Hebrew literature. "The novel addresses the split identity of the Arab Israeli, with its contradictory wishes and its impossible yearnings," professors Michael Gluzman, Gabriel Zoran and Avidov Lipsker wrote. "Courageously (but also with considerable humor ), Kashua depicts his characters as Arabs who are becoming educated and enlightened, abandoning the village and coming to the city out of the aspiration to develop and become a part of the general, Jewish society. This story, which echoes the plots of the Hebrew plots of enlightenment during the period of the Jewish revival, sharpens - for both the characters and the readers - questions of belonging, identity and identification." The jury called "Second Person Singular" an important work in the emerging trend of Arabs who write in Hebrew, "which challenges the boundaries of Hebrew literary discourse and offers a complex and challenging look at Israeli society s a multicultural society." Kashua welcomed the announcement, saying on Monday: "My son was discharged from neonatal intensive care today and we are considering naming him Bernstein. I am frightened with happiness at the good things that have happened to me today."
The reviews for which Herzog was awarded his prize discussed Yoram Kaniuk's "The Last Jew: A Novel," Uri Orlev's "Homeward from the Steppes of Jambul" and "Yedid Nefesh" ("Soul's Beloved" ) by Ari Eitan.
Writing about Herzog's review of Kaniuk's novel jurors Eliezer Dar-Drezner, Liora Eini and Mordecai Rosenblum noted that in discussing a book that was recently reissued after 28 years Herzog illuminated it in a contemporary light and gave older readers the desire to reread the novel.
The jurors said Herzog's review of Orlev's book, itself targeted at younger readers, addressed an adult audience without being patronizing. His critique of "Yedid Nefesh," they wrote, clearly points out "its weaknesses without detracting from the desire to read the book."
Herzog said on Monday, after being notified of the prize: "I have always thought it is wonderful that the Bernstein Prize is awarded both to people who write literature and to people who read literature and respond to it. This is a wonderful honor and I am very grateful to the jury that has found me worthy of it." Past winners of the Bernstein prize, which was established in 1978, include Yaakov Shabtai, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Ronit Matalon, Assaf Shor, Dror Burstein, Sami Bardugo and Yuval Shimoni.


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I hadn't ever been
impressed with anything from Rabbit in its former
incarnation, and I had my doubts that anything
significant would have happened now that the label
is with Virgin. Really Virgin is selling the same
quality of program now that they were putting
out when they first appeared and were getting
slated by the press. Zyto,
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is badly executed with naff scrolling and extremely
poor graphics. The game is too hard as well; I
found it almost impossible to reach the third
level. A point I think annoying is the time it
takes to die once death is certain. You can happily
lose the buggy and control over the ship, yet
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not impressed and at £3.99, compared to Mastertronic's
superior product, it's just not budget.
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After Virgin's purchase of the Rabbit Software label
last year, they have finally decided to release some
titles on it. Using Rabbit as their budget software
division, one of Virgin's first releases is Zyto,
a 'Scramble' derivative.
the right little urban terrorist that you are, your
aim is to destroy a six-level subterranean city using
a space ship with a wheeled buggy as a base. The idea
is to collect six pieces of bomb, one on each level,
and take them with the buggy to level 0. Once you get
to level 0, the six bomb sections must be assembled
in the same order in which they were collected. Once
assembled the bomb detonates, stripping the city's outer
defences and allowing you to force it into submission
by shooting the inner defences.
ship has two modes of travel. Initially you are mounted
upon a buggy able to move left and right over Zyto's
mountainous terrain. When moving over a hill or dell,
the buggy does its best to keep level by extending and
retracting the telescopic legs on which its wheels are
mounted. It isn't indestructible, however, and clumsy
handling may well destroy it.
get over such problems you use the aerial section of
the craft, taking off from the back of the buggy, to
fly over Zyto. In this flying mode you can collect blocks
scattered about the landscape simply by flying the ship
through one. To drop a block, press fire. Skilfully
placed, these small platforms can be used as bridges
for the buggy. Fire also activates the gun, though there's
only limited ammunition. The fuel allowance is also
limited and quickly drains away as you zoom about the
planet. Both fuel and ammunition are replenished by
redocking with the buggy.
Zyto's inhabitants aren't enormously happy with your
vandalistic intentions on their city, so they send out
a few nasties (or nicies, depending whether you're a
human or a Zyton) after you. The majority are airborne
and only become a problem on your forays into the sky,
but on the ground there's a particularly nasty buggy-destroying
robot wheel. Spinning over the ground, you have to destroy
it before it gets you.
six levels of the city are interconnected by holes in
the ground and in the roofs of the caverns that house
Zyto. If your buggy falls through a hole unprotected,
it is destroyed but if you have collected a parachute,
then a gentle landing is assured.
the lower levels electrical discharges scatter across
the land barring your way. These charges need to be
vanquished by turning off all the blocks on a control
panel, which is made up from blocks of varying patterns.
A block can be turned off by flying through it at full
speed and, once you have done this, all similarly patterned
blocks are also turned off. The blocks are toggle-switched
so they can be reactivated if you travel through them
game is presented with a horizontally scrolling section
on the top of the screen and a status panel on the lower
part. The world is wrap round, so if you travel far
enough to the left or right, like Magellan, you find
your ship back in the same place. The status panel gives
details of fuel and ammunition supplies plus the time
you have left to complete the mission.
This is a rather odd little
game which took me quite a white to get into because
the instructions aren't exactly the apex in gameplaying
information. Once I'd finally found out what to do,
I didn't really want to play the game again.
It's not
exactly bad as such but it does have many really niggly
bits, like the wobbly scrolling and the rather uncontrollable
rocket. Zyto
is worth playing once I suppose, but there's not much
to hold the interest afterwards.
Presentation 66%
adequate instructions but a few useful options.
first I thought I was in for an improved version
of Rabbit's excellent Scramble
game, and there is, visually at least, a touch
of Troopa
... until on playing I found to my disappointment
that this was not so. Revamped it may well be
but from what? The graphics and sound are both
pretty dire and although there are some interesting
gameplay elements, I came away feeling somewhat
depressed after playing such a 'tepid' piece of
Poor scrolling, landscape and sprites.
No music and weak spot effects.
There's an urge to play a few games
. . .
. . . but not many thereafter.
For Money 45%
Twice the going rate for a budget
game and not even as good as most.
Rabbit have seen better days and
so has budget software.
by Dimitris
Kiminas (8 Dec 2003)
The original review had by mistake a screenshot
from a Mr. Men (!) game.
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NFL Prospect Focus: Eric Ebron
Ebron is the first of what will probably be 35–50 underclassmen who declare for next May's Draft. The third- year junior and former three-star recruit has been a vital part of the Tar Heels offense the last two seasons. In 2012, he caught 40 passes for 625 yards and four touchdowns. To date, this season, he is Carolina's leading receiver with 50 catches for 771 yards and three touchdowns.
Ebron usually plays in the slot but will also line up in tight. He has adequate size for the position at 6'4" – 245. He looks taller because he is so long. With his long arms, he plays like a 6'6" guy. Ebron has good-to-really-good overall athleticism. He has very good speed (4.6 play speed) and shows body control, flexibility, and change of direction. When flexed out, he shows very good initial quickness. He can get into his routes quickly and has the cutting ability and burst to get out of a cut and gain separation. He needs improvement with his route running. He can find open areas in zones, but he can be sloppy with his routes versus man-to-man.
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Overall, Ebron has the traits clubs are looking for a "tight end" in today's NFL. He is best suited to play as a flexed out or move tight end. He lacks the bulk and overall size to be consistently effective in tight as a "Y" at the next level. He has the frame and length to add some bulk without losing any of his speed or athleticism. Come May, unless he really falters at the Combine, Ebron should be a certain first round pick. Used in the right way, he is a mismatch waiting to happen and could be a nightmare for opposing defenses.
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Anyone who's been in the writing business for a while knows about the elevator pitch. It's the super-short version of the book you've written, the single sentence you'd use to convince an agent or editor to give the manuscript a read if you happened to be stuck on an elevator together — or, as is more frequently the case, when you're allotted two minutes to chat with an agent or editor at a writers' conference.
Needless to say, learning to craft a strong elevator pitch is essential in marketing a book-length manuscript. It not only gets your foot in the door but also forms the basis for what, if you're lucky, eventually becomes your book's marketing campaign. That blurb on the back of the book? The pithy description of what to expect? Often enough, it's pretty close to the author's original pitch. And the first line of that description is the elevator pitch.
But the elevator pitch can be more than a marketing tool. In fact, it can be the star that guides you through the countless rounds of revision you do before the manuscript goes in front of an agent or editor — and the countless more you'll do after it's been accepted for publication.
I was talking to my friend (the incredibly talented) Kelly Simmons recently, and she mentioned that the reason most manuscripts get rejected is that they don't deliver on the promise of the query package. In other words, a writer can still stumble after making it past that first hurdle of tempting a potential agent with a great elevator pitch and even the second hurdle of starting to reel the agent in with a great query letter and one-page synopsis of the novel. The problem comes when the novel in question doesn't bear a close enough resemblance to the pitch.
The good news, however, is that the problem isn't insurmountable. Indeed, the fact that the author came up with the elevator pitch along with the aforementioned one-page synopsis suggests that what these documents contain is the ideal, distilled vision of what the author is trying to accomplish with the manuscript. It's a little bit like an outline written after the book's been drafted. And since — in the case Kelly described, anyway — the pitch and synopsis have already gotten an agent's attention, that means the book, in its "ideal" form, will likely be a marketable commodity.*
So let's look at the situation in practical terms. Let's say you've drafted a novel. It's in the neighborhood of 110,000 words long. You've heard that selling anything over 100,000 words long is next to impossible, so you'll need to do some cutting. On top of that, you also know that no first draft is ever publishable right out of the gate, but the prospect of editing this behemoth is a little daunting, to say the least. Where do you begin?
My best advice is to figure out your elevator pitch and also to craft a brief synopsis of the novel — a single page at the most — but to do it without looking at your manuscript. Basically, you're explaining to yourself what you think you just finished writing. Once you've done so, let a little bit of time pass and start reading your manuscript with an eye toward whether or not it matches your elevator pitch in broad terms and your synopsis in relation to the details.
Let the elevator pitch serve as your compass and the synopsis as your road map. Whenever you sense the story is drifting away from what you envisioned, make a note in the margin. This is where you'll have to do some work — cutting or reworking various passages until the manuscript matches up with what you thought you were trying to do.
This strategy worked especially well for me when I revised The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl for The Permanent Press. Martin Shepard said he liked the story, but he thought it could be tighter. His only real instructions were to cut about seventy pages from the manuscript. The rest he left up to me because, in his words, I was the writer, so I should know what to cut.
So I went back to my query materials and used them as a guide, particularly my elevator pitch: "The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl paints a riveting portrait of a woman whose quest to be everything to everyone exposes the dark secrets of America's suburbs."
Right off the bat, if it wasn't riveting (to me, anyway) and wasn't focused on the pressure the protagonist feels with respect to being all things to everyone, then it had to go. Then there were the dark secrets of America's suburbs; if the secrets were just a little dim or poorly lit, then they had to go, too. Seventy pages worth of cuts later, I re-submitted my manuscript, and Marty offered me a contract.
So work on your elevator pitch and hone your one-page synopsis, but don't forget that they're not just marketing tools. They're also editing tools, and you can use them to make sure that the manuscript you've produced matches the novel you've been envisioning all along.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Community Ties Bicycle Ride - Delaware County Friends of the Trail
DCFT's annual fund raiser, the Delaware County Community Ties Bicycle Tour, is set for Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 7:00 a.m. and will roll off from the Northside Fellowship Church parking lot, 6841 Freeman Rd on the corner of 3C and Freeman Rd in Westerville. Supported rides of 31, 62 and 100 miles are on schedule, as well as an 8-mile family fun ride! The tour winds through several Delaware County communities with food stops, and provides a full post-ride lunch.
Online Registration is now open at: http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1722992&assetId=CBDBB4
If you are interested in joining the Community Ties team or becoming one of the hallowed sponsors of this event, please drop Dave Staats an email at email@example.com.
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Third Hand Bike Parts Swap this Sunday- Sunday, May 24
If you have bike parts laying around please come out and sell some of them and support Third Hand. Need some bike parts? Stop out and check out what fellow bikers are selling.
Third Hand Bicycle Co-op
174 East Fifth Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
Sunday May 24, 2009
1pm - 5pm
Bring Your Own Blanket (BYOB)
$10 per blanket to sell bike parts - proceeds go directly to Third Hand
Garth Shack will be performing as well.
Third Hand Bicycle Co-op
174 East Fifth Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
Sunday May 24, 2009
1pm - 5pm
Bring Your Own Blanket (BYOB)
$10 per blanket to sell bike parts - proceeds go directly to Third Hand
Garth Shack will be performing as well.
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2009 Ride of Silence Pics
Lots of pics in this one.
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Injury of the Week
I met a messenger at Tip Top last night and he showed me what happens when you brush your leg up against a hot disc brake rotor. Ouch!
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Singapore Night Rides
Night Cycling is one of the most popular night physical activity in Singapore! Cycling at night is safe and fun! Enjoy the coolness of the night and see the other side of Singapore which you have never noticed! There is also a low volume of traffic at night so you will not have to worry about the heavy traffic which is always present during the day.
Let me introduce myself to everyone. My name is Eric Lim, I have a strong passion for cycling since young but due to career constraints, I had never got anytime for sports or riding until recently… I'm currently staying in Hougang and my city ride buddy is Alex Seah.
Alex stays in Pasir Ris and we are both founders of SGNC. Singapore Nite Cycle was formed to gather night cycling enthusiasts who are passionate about night cycling around Singapore.
We will dedicate to promote night cycling as a healthy lifestyle to everyone we know or just got to know, share and learn from each other's knowledge on night cycling in Singapore.
We organize regular night cycling rides around Singapore, and often take breaks in between to enjoy the local good food we can find!
Check out our articles for regular updates on our riding and images we took during our night cycling trips!
If you like cycling or are considering taking it up, we welcome you to join us for our weekly night cycling city rides even if you are a beginner! Don't worry, we are not very fast riders either… Safety comes first, we ride safely, steadily and happily!
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Unicycling is a recreational sport that has many diverse disciplines. Traditional activities include freestyle, touring, racing, riding in parades, and team sports such as hockey and basketball. The modern disciplines, which are now the most popluar, are the extreme riding styles including mountain, street, and trials unicycling.
This Unicycle Page is dedicated to providing links to the best internet resources to learn more about the sport of unicycling.
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UAE – Abu Dhabi and Dubai Fallout Dust Monitoring Training Completed.
On the 2 November 2013, the training in the UAE was completed.
The mandate to monitor their whole country is a first in the world that we know of. All other monitoring is specific to an activity or industrial concern. DustWatch looks forward to seeing the progress with this fallout dust monitoring program in the UAE.
The mandate is ambitious but with due diligence it will be achievable.
The mandate is being carried out by the National Center for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) in the Abu Dhabi.
Well done to those trained and thank you for your hospitality.
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LONDON — Escalating political turmoil in near-bankrupt Greece intensified concerns Wednesday that the Mediterranean nation may be spiraling toward a calamitous default with investors, potentially igniting a new phase in Europe's debt crisis.
Global markets shuddered as embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou launched a risky gambit to push his Parliament to pass another round of austerity measures. Failure to pass the cuts could lead the European Union and International Monetary Fund to withhold bailout money, leaving Greece short of cash to pay its creditors as early as next month — an event that some economists warn could destabilize the global financial system.
After thousands of protesters clashed with police as Parliament debated the measures in Athens, Papandreou tried and failed to forge a coalition government to ensure the package's approval. In a late-night speech to the nation, he then said he would reshuffle his cabinet and call for a vote of confidence this weekend, wagering his job in an attempt to strong-arm politicians into passing the hugely unpopular package next week.
The spectacle spooked investors; in the United States, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.5 percent, almost 179 points, to 11,897.27. Markets around Europe dropped by a similar amount Wednesday, and continued the slide Thursday morning.
The political drama in Greece is playing out against deepening fears that the Mediterranean country poses a broader risk to the economic recovery underway in Europe and the United States. Some experts have compared a Greek default to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, suggesting it could touch off a run of bank failures that could ripple across the globe.
The high stakes could yet force the Europeans to continue aiding Greece, and pressure mounted on E.U. leaders to end weeks of infighting over how and whether to continue propping Athens up.
The European Central Bank on Wednesday said that risks associated with high levels of government debt were now Europe's "most pressing concern" and that the year-long effort to quell the crisis was "fraught with some detrimental shortcomings." Though European officials have tried to contain the crisis by throwing bailouts to three small, troubled nations — Greece, Ireland and Portugal — investors are worried that far larger, heavily indebted nations such as Spain and Italy could be next. The sheer size of their economies could challenge the ability of the E.U. and IMF to bail them out.
Some rating agencies are now putting the risk of a Greek default as high as 50 percent. The effects could cascade through the global financial system, particularly in Europe, where major banks hold massive portfolios of government bonds from Greece as well as other financially troubled nations in the region. Emphasizing that point, Moody's Investor Services on Tuesday said it may downgrade the credit rating of several major French banks because of their holdings of Greek government bonds and other investments in the Greek economy.
A Greek default could affect other governments as well, undermining confidence throughout the 17-nation euro zone and driving up the borrowing costs of countries across the region. U.S. banks generally have limited exposure to Greek debt but could be affected by problems in Europe's banking system.
To forestall that, European and IMF officials have been in talks for weeks over a new aid package for Greece, which was provided with a $160 billion, three-year bailout last year that has proved inadequate. Growth has been less than expected, tax receipts have run behind schedule and government-promised changes have been slow to produce results.
Those talks, however, have produced as much discord as agreement. Along with forcing Greece to make further concessions — and triggering the political crisis — there has been a standoff between the European Central Bank and a group of European nations, most notably Germany, that say they will not lend Greece more money unless private investors contribute to the country's rescue. The German finance minister has suggested that Greek bondholders extend the term of their investment by seven years, giving the country more time to invigorate its economy.
The political turmoil in Athens, however, has raised the prospect that the crisis in Greece could escalate fast.
"A political situation like this is the last thing you need when you're already on the edge of a cliff," said Ioannis Sokos, market analyst at BNP Paribas in London.
Though Papandreou — a U.S.-educated champion of efforts to rekindle economic growth — maintains a narrow majority in Parliament, some of his Socialist Party members have recently turned against his austerity drive. If he cannot bring them in line to support him in the confidence vote this weekend, his government may fall.
"He is going to win this," said a Greek government official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Of course there is always a risk, but he is doing this for the country. He will pull through."
Papandreou told the nation Wednesday that he was taking such drastic steps because the conservative opposition had rejected his offer to forge a new coalition government — an offer in which he said he would resign if his opponents agreed to vote for the austerity measures. The conservative opposition, however, has argued that the plan backed by the IMF and E.U. — particularly the raising of taxes — has succeeded only in driving the country further into recession, and instead it demanded a renegotiation of the bailout terms.
"I have learned in my life to fight for the country, for the economy, for the people," Papandreou told the nation.
The IMF has said that disbursement of the next tranche of bailout funds — a little more than $3 billion from the IMF and nearly $9 billion from other European countries — is contingent on the Greek Parliament approving the new concessions.
Yet analysts said European officials, whose nations stand to lose the most in a Greek collapse, may ultimately prove more forgiving, perhaps finding a way to provide Greece with bridge funds if it is unable to pass the measures.
"European leaders want to stop this from spreading. Spain in particular is still very vulnerable," Sokos said. "Even in a worst-case scenario, if the reforms don't pass, that could push Europe to at least give enough money to keep Greece alive."
Schneider reported from Washington.


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AFP: The West is threatening Russia's sovereignty by financing non-governmental organisations (NGOs), encouraging young people to protest and using the media to shape opinion about the government, a Russian parliamentary report has said.
According to the report by the Federal Commission for the Protection of National Independence, Western interference in Russia's internal affairs poses a greater threat to the country than the militant Islamic State (IS) group.
The commission listed nine threats to Russian sovereignty from abroad, including the "creation and support of NGOs which carry out political activities in the interests of foreign states" and "the incitement of young people to protest".
"The use of media and social networks to discredit the country, institutions of power (and) political leaders," was another threat, according to the report published on Tuesday.
The commission was established in June in response to accusations from Washington that Russia had interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
The US authorities and their "NATO satellites" are specifically named in the document.
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A boost for rural schools?
The equalization funding for Gwinnett, Clayton and Paulding counties will increase dramatically in the 2014 fiscal year, but equalization payments to the rest of the state will decline slightly. This means that, even though the equalization fund has increased, three large districts have soaked up so much of the fund that the share for others is falling.
FY 2013: $43.2 million
FY 2014: $65.6 million
FY 2013: $27.6 million
FY 2014: $36.4 million
FY 2013: $26.1 million
FY 2014: $35 million
Rest of the state
FY 2013: $339.2 million
FY 2014: $337.4 million
2011 2012-13 2011 Poverty College degree Building 2012 gross Equalization Equalization
County population enrollment hh income rate 2011 or higher permits tax digest payment, 2013 payment, 2014
Gwinnett 824,941 164,976 $63,076 12.4% 34.7% 873 $28.2 billion $42.3 million $65.6 million
Clayton 249,423 51,757 $42,936 18.4% 17.8% 106 $7.0 billion $27.6 million $36.4 million
Paulding 142,324 28,406 $63,023 9.0% 22.3% 187 $3.0 billion $26.1 million $35 million
Washington 21,111 3,104 $31,784 25.2% 10.9% 13 $812.5 million 0 0
Hancock 9,400 1,091 $24,483 24.8% 13.8% 12 $464.1 million 0 0
Lincoln 7,994 10,190 $36,741 25.8% 10.2% 30 $318.7 million 0 0
Stewart 6,058 563 $30,417 23.4% 12.0% 0 $147.3 million 0 0
Warren 5,721 712 $33,330 25.3% 5.9% 0 $207.0 million 0 0
Clay 3,111 344 $24,750 43.1% 9.5% 9 $151.7 million 0 0
Quitman 2,464 345 $32,656 25.1% 7.6% 3 $112.3 million 0 0
Taliaferro 1,703 200 $24,125 30.6% 8.5% 2 $93.1 million 0 0
Sources: U.S. census, Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Department of Revenue, legislative budget documents
Gov. Nathan Deal won praise in January when he announced plans to plow an additional $40 million into struggling Georgia school districts that are having trouble raising enough money to educate their children.
What neither the governor nor applauding lawmakers knew at the time was that virtually the entire increase next year will flow to Gwinnett, Clayton and Paulding County schools.
And many of the small-town systems that most Georgians would call poor are getting nothing.
That's according to preliminary calculations the Georgia Department of Education recently made using a new equalization funding formula legislators approved last year. About two-thirds of districts get the money on top of their regular state allocation to help address the financial disparity between wealthy and poor systems.
Gwinnett County's equalization take alone next year will rise from $43.2 million to $65.6 million. Meanwhile, dozens of small, rural systems in Georgia — and many of metro Atlanta's biggest systems — will get no extra funding. It makes some superintendents wonder if politics are involved in determining who gets how much.
"I am not sure there is anything equal about it," said Cherokee County Superintendent Frank Petruzielo. "It seems to me that it is the most politically motivated component of education funding in Georgia."
House Education Chairman Brooks Coleman, R-Duluth, who co-chaired an education funding commission that recommended the changes to the equalization law, said politics has nothing to do with it. Gwinnett, he said, is benefiting from the formula used to determine payouts because it has a giant, growing student enrollment at the same time property values have tanked.
"There was nothing done to specifically help Gwinnett," Coleman said. "It's a function of the numbers."
Brian Robinson, spokesman for Deal, said the governor didn't know where the extra money was going when he proposed the increase.
"The Legislature changed the way we calculate equalization last year. We fully funded the formula that is now in the law," he said.
Using more up-to-date enrollment and financial data, the House slightly altered Deal's original request, approving $474.4 million in equalization funding for the upcoming school year, up from $436.1 million this year. Excluding Gwinnett, Clayton and Paulding, the amount of equalization funding would actually drop, slightly, next year. About half of all equalization funds go to suburban or exurban metro Atlanta-area districts.
The equalization fund, set up in 1985, is supposed to provide greater equity in school funding for systems with lower property tax bases. It was often thought of as a way to help poor, rural districts that can raise little from property taxes. But the collapse of the real estate market in metro Atlanta changed the equation, and the largest grants in recent years have gone to districts that are neither rural nor comparatively poor.
The state's formula for disbursing the money uses the number of students in the district, the value of property and the property tax rate. A property wealth-to-student ratio qualifies some suburban and urban districts to receive grants.
In the final hours of their 2012 session, state legislators passed a bill intended to slow the growth of the equalization fund and get more money to poor rural districts. The changes reduced the number of systems getting equalization — weeding out some of those deemed too "wealthy." In some cases, rural districts got more. In others, they were left out completely.
Gwinnett has been getting an increased share of equalization money in recent years because it has the right combination of rapid enrollment growth and eroded tax base.
Rick Cost, the school system's chief financial officer, noted that in 2007, Gwinnett schools enrolled 9.1 percent of all students in Georgia. Its tax digest was 8.9 percent of the state's total. Next year, he said, Gwinnett will enroll 9.9 percent of all students in the state, but its tax digest will amount to 8 percent of the state's total.
In 2007, Gwinnett didn't qualify for equalization funding. Since then, it has been ranked poorer and poorer by the state formula, and has collected an extra $186 million. That money goes to help offset the system's loss in property tax money.
"Since fiscal 2008 … we have lost $143 million in annual local tax revenue … and we have 26,000 more students," he said.
The tax base in many systems has plummeted since the recession, but enrollment in those districts is not growing like Gwinnett's. Enrollment in DeKalb, Cobb and the city of Atlanta systems, for instance, has remained about the same or fallen since the October 2007 count. Enrollment in much of rural Georgia has been stable or fallen as well.
Gwinnett is often considered an innovator in education. Even in tight times, it is making a digital push to invest $54 million in technology improvements that, within a few years, will make hardback textbooks obsolete, allow students 24/7 access to their schoolwork and give teachers the ability to give tests and track student success — all via the Internet.
By contrast, some of the small, rural systems missing out on equalization have one teacher per subject in their high schools, few advanced courses or foreign language options, no financial reserves to fall back on and no hope of raising serious money from property taxes.
Quitman County's district, with 345 students, has a much smaller enrollment than most Gwinnett elementary schools. Its superintendent, Allen Fort, worries about having to lay off one or two of his 24 teachers because of limited funds.
"But somehow we're richer than Gwinnett County," said Fort, whose Southwest Georgia district doesn't qualify for equalization funding. "Don't call it equalization, because it's not equal."
Fort said Quitman schools raise about $70,000 from a mill of property taxes. The system's budget is $3 million.
"One mill (of property taxes) in Gwinnett County could run my system for 10 years," he said. "I am not against Gwinnett getting money, I am just trying to figure out how we got none."
Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, D-Dawson, a member of the Senate education and appropriations committees, represents much of Southwest Georgia. Several of her districts don't receive equalization funding.
"If you look at the financial challenges these districts continue to have, it's not fair," she said. "There needs to be a concerted effort to take a long, hard look at how you define equalization. Without proper funding, there is no way for our students to compete against students from other parts of the state."
David L. Sjoquist, a state tax and funding expert at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, noted that officials have made efforts in the past to lessen the amount of equalization money going to districts like Gwinnett.
"Everybody has looked at that and scratched their head. Everybody has looked at that and said, 'That's not fair,' " he said.
Sjoquist said there have been proposals in the past to incorporate some measure of personal wealth into the equation, which would help places like Quitman County, where household income is about half of Gwinnett's, and the poverty rate is twice Gwinnett's. But so far the idea hasn't gone anywhere.
Coleman, the Gwinnett lawmaker, said counties like Gwinnett and Clayton get the equalization money because they have "earned it" under a formula designed to help systems that need it the most. "Gwinnett is big, and it's poor," he said.
But Gwinnett also has a strong legislative delegation, and the school system has its own lobbyist at the Capitol. Fort has a hard time believing Gwinnett's political clout hasn't played a role in developing and maintaining a system that benefits the local school system.
"Clout, hell, they've got a sledgehammer," he said. "There are more senators and representatives in Gwinnett County than there are in South Georgia. In the end, we don't matter."
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Tom & Toon Brings Thai AYCE Buffet to NYC!
We somehow missed the opening of a new Thai restaurant, Tom & Toon (241 51st St. between 7th & 8th), which launched with little fanfare in August of 2010. Our oversight may have been appropriate, given the predictable narrative of the restaurant. There's an un-extraordinary menu akin to its neighboring Thai brethren in the 'hood, such as Siam Inn two store fronts down, or the overabundance of Thai joints up and down 9th ave. However, Tom & Toon shouldn't be easily dismissed, for it is the only Thai restaurant that has an all you can eat lunch buffet in Midtown. At $11.95, it's a bit over our $10 lunch rule, but we've always be willing to stretch the price boundaries to $11 for buffets. So what's another buck when something as rare as Thai AYCE is involved!?
The buffet runs from 12-2pm, and offers a diverse selection of Thai standards. On my visit, I counted 9 different entrees, as well as readily available steamed white rice and green salad. The selections of pad thai, chicken curry, curried fish with holy basil, chicken wings, sautéed mixed vegetables, spring rolls, etc are kept in covered hotel pans over a low flame, and seemed to be brought out in small batches, ensuring some degree of freshness. I was happy to observe the restaurant workers fastidiously fussing over each buffet item – refreshing emptied pans, checking holding temperatures, and swapping soiled serving utensils with a clean replacement on a constant basis.
As with any AYCE restaurant, it's important to keep expectations in check, for this is about quantity and not quality. There won't be any dishes that will wow customers of this buffet, though I couldn't keep myself away from second helpings of satisfying vermicelli noodles and a fragrant and spicy fish curry. And with the lone exception of considerably gummy spring rolls, everything that I sampled was acceptably hot and fresh. Service was attentive, and polite, and they graciously fielded inquiries about "what to do in New York after seeing Wicked" from the Australian tourists at the table next to me while helpfully handling probing questions from this Midtown Lunch'er.
There are very few Thai restaurants in the Theatre District that cry out for a curtain call. However, given Tom & Toon's distinction as one of the few (if only) Thai AYCE restaurants in Midtown, we can certainly get behind this opening. They seem to have an ostensible commitment to freshness and quality of their buffet, and the food ain't bad. Though you may have resolved to shed a few pounds in 2011, and despite the $11.95 price tag, Tom & Toon's lunch buffet might be worth breaking your New Year's resolution for.
Tom & Toon, 241 West 51st Street (btw. 7+8th), 212-226-4565
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One of my favorite themes is friends to lovers, especially in the short story format. For some reason that suits my writing style well. There is so much a writer can do with that theme. It just hits perfectly sometimes.
I have two friends to lovers stories in Naughty Literati collections, and though they're very different, they also snuggle in closely with this theme.
In Love Potion #69, which is in the Naughty Hearts anthology, Jenna and Keith have known each other for a long time. They work next door to each other, Jenna's father has a restaurant right across the street. They know each other, have even floated around the idea of dating.
When they come together, due to a bit of magic and Keith's own clumsiness, the feeling is almost of inevitability, as if they'd been dancing around this for so long and it just works. They fit together perfectly.
To contrast, Mel and Tod from Stay the Night, which is in the Naughty Flings anthology, are more acquaintances than friends. She runs the bookstore that he visits every morning on his commute to work, and they have a nice rapport, but they haven't explored any relationship beyond that. One day, they bond over a book Mel is reading. Tod reveals his attraction to Mel.
Tod and Mel explore a new phase of their friendship, connecting on a personal, as well as an intimate level. They also fit well together, but their connection is new and dynamic in a different way. Getting to know each other in and out of bed is exhilarating and beautiful.
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Leicester University held their Narrative Space Conference between the 19th and 22nd of April with some of the great and good of the academic and non academic world coming together in this fascinating conference.
Regrettably, the Icelandic volcano eruption meant that not just as many of the international speakers were able to make it to the conference as had been planned, but a flurry of last minute reorganisation by Suzanne Macleod and her team of magic makers ensured that as many as possible of those who couldn't be there had the opportunity to deliver their seminars through the wonders of live technology.
However, notwithstanding the travel difficulties and the obvious disruption that caused, Suzanne was delighted to be able to introduce Lee Skolnick with the legendary introduction of "Live From New York" which lightened the mood considerably.
Peter Greenaway, the conference keynote speaker was one of those denied participation by the lack of flights to UK air space and great credit goes to Peter Higgins of Land Design for standing in at the last moment with an interesting talk and presentation.
The Museum Studies Department at Leicester University recently opened their brand new purpose finished building and ClickNetherfield's involvement in providing custom made display cases to be used by the students during their studies led to us supporting the Narrative Space conference as joint sponsors with Haley Sharpe Design.
ClickNetherfield's Technical Director Mike Chaplin presented a fascinating session exploring "Narrative Cases" and offered new opportunities for our case products to be considered as a narrative space with which to further engage the museum visitor rather than a glass barrier between the visitor and the displays.
Expanding on his theme, Mike gave details of our new e vitrine concept due to be unveiled at The Museum & Heritage Show in May 2010.
Clive McCready of our TESS Demountable division participated in a chaired panel discussion on sustainability, this being a subject that is particularly close to Clive's heart and reflects the direction in which he is moving TESS.
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Magnetic Island
Unluckily for me, I was booked onto an early bus at 7.30am from Airlie Beach to Magnetic Island- there were a lot of empty seats from people who missed it because of the night before! After a five hour journey, I had to then get on a boat (not what you need hungover I can tell you) and then a public bus to the hostel. There is two main hostels on Magnetic island: Base and Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. I stayed in Base hostel, because I was hoping (rightly) that I would already held a koala by that point, and it was a good choice- it just happened to be my favourite hostel in the whole of my Australia trip. It had a very beachy vibe, all wooden huts and bean bags etc and because there are no real clubs anywhere nearby, it has the BEST bar and nights out.
We got up early on our first day and looked to hiring a car- the 'Barbie' cars are famous to hire here, little pink cars. We didn't manage to get a pink one because they had all run out but we hired a little red automatic between four of us, and then a snorkel, some fins and a stinger suit each and set off! The island was actually bigger than we were expecting and definitely more hilly, but our little car struggled along! We found a little shop where you could buy wallaby feed and then asked directions to where they were and found them. When we found some, they were gorgeous. We saw a mum with a tiny little joey in its pouch. After that, we found a patch of water to snorkel in and donned the attractive stinger suits etc but didn't manage to see anything, because the waters were still quite murky from the cyclone. We stopped off for some fish and chips on the beach for dinner, and then drove our car back to be dropped off at the bottom of a hill (small mountain) for sunset. After what seemed like forever, we reached the top and it was worth it- we were so high up we could see for miles. We walked back and once we made it home we got ready for a night out- boozy bingo at our hostel. It was my favourite night of the whole trip. Boozy bingo was so much fun- they played a lot of music and drinking games in between reading out the numbers. After the bingo there was a massive disco and everyone was dancing on the tables all night. At this point, I knew most people in the hostel, having met them somewhere along the way up the coast which made it doubly fun. I could have easily spent so many more nights there!
From Magnetic Island to Cairns it was another long all-day journey (again with a terrible hangover- there seems to be a pattern here) and we got there pretty late at night. I went for one beer and then attempted an early night but I didn't sleep due to some horrible people in my room. To be fair, I was staying at Gilligans which is the huge party hostel in Cairns- it is attached to a massive club.
The following day I had my first ever skydive!!!! We had an early start, got picked up at 7am and were driven to Mission Beach, a couple of hours away. Luckily by chance I was in a group with five friends I had made which took the edge off doing it by myself. We were one of the last groups of the day so had to wait around for ages, which only made us more nervous. Everyone was given a free meal token but nobody wanted to eat! We played cards to pass the time until our group got called at around 1.30pm. We filled in some safety forms and got introduced to the skydive professional we were paired up with, who strapped us up into the harness and packed us into a bus. They film every part with a GoPro and make you answer some cringey questions etc which is a nice idea afterwards when you buy the photos but very embarrassing at the time! As soon as we got into the bus I stopped being nervous and started enjoying it. As I was getting into the plane, my instructor stopped me and said me and him would get into the plane last so we were the first to jump out. Crazy!! The weather was incredible, we were told we couldn't have had better conditions, it was so clear and sunny. Once up in the plane it was so so exciting as we climbed higher, knowing that we would level out at 14,000 feet in order to jump out the plane. Because I was first one out, my guy opened the shutter door and then the next minute, my body was dangling out as we got ready to jump out. Once you get over the initial 5 seconds of fear, the free-fall was absolutely incredible- you're going fast but you're still going slow enough to see everything around you and you fall through the clouds. After a while the parachute comes out and you float a lot more slowly to the ground and can see views of the land, beach and reef. We all landed safely on Mission Beach. It was such a good feeling, I was absolutely buzzing afterwards!!
Scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef
One of my other days in Cairns, I booked myself onto a Great Barrier Reef trip which included snorkelling and diving- because it would have been rude not to! I had by chance booked onto the same one as my friends which made it amazing. The journey out to the reef was about an hour and the water was so rocky- so many people suffered with sea-sickness. When we arrived we were split up into groups and took it in turns to do some snorkelling and diving. I have my diving qualification but haven't dived for two years so went in the beginner group for a bit of a refresher session. I was a bit nervous to start with but forgot how cool it is, being able to breathe underwater! After a really yummy lunch, we stopped off in another dive site and did some more snorkelling and diving. It was a really good experience but I didn't see that much- just lots of fish. Lots of the coral appears bleached or dead which is sad, I think a combination of climate change and tourism has ruined it. Maybe there are better bits that are more alive, I don't know.
So long Australia!
So this very long post rounds up my travels in Australia! After five days in Cairns, I had my flight to Bali booked the following evening. I had THE most amazing time in Oz, spending time in Perth with my family, loving Sydney and Melbourne, surfing in Byron Bay and then especially on this stretch between Noosa and Cairns. So many nights out, made so many friends, did some amazing things, saw incredible places, drunk a LOT of goon and loved every single minute. It definitely won't be the last time I'm in this country! But I was looking forward so much to being back in Asia- and hopefully spending a little less money on everything! Onto the next chapter….


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Last week The Walking Dead Season 8 trailer debuted at Comic-Con and quickly sent fans into a frenzy thanks to its final shot of Rick waking up as a much older man. Cue all the theorizing.
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To install Wordfast, there are two methods at this time:
The easier one consists of opening wordfast.doc in Word. Activate macros when prompted to do so, go to the installation section and click on the link "Install Wordfast".
The other method consists of locating Word's start up folder on your computer using "Tools/Options", clicking on "Default File Paths" (I use Word in French version, so the names might sometimes be slightly different on your computer). Note the path down, go to "Tools / Macros / security" and select "medium" or "low" as security level. Close Word.
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Up to the Promise? The Impact of Electronic Voting on Trust in the Election Process in Latin AmericaWorking Paper No.: 89
Date Published: 2009-10-01
R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Gabriel Katz, California Institute of Technology
Julia Pomares, London School of Economics
Electronic voting has disseminated extensively in the developing world and at a fast speed. In Latin America, 10 out of 18 countries have piloted some type of automated voting. Among the drivers of this technological change is the prospect of new technologies for boosting confidence in the election process in the region. However, more than a decade after its introduction there is no analysis about whether e-voting is up to the promise. Based on voting experiments conducted in Argentina and Colombia, we show that voters are very confident in new technologies. Contrary to evidence on U.S. elections, participants in both experiments were more confident in direct-recording electronic (DRE) technologies than in paper-based optical scanning systems. Moreover, the availability of a paper verifiable audit trail does not increase confidence in the voting process. Finally, in line with previous studies, we find that voters' age and education shape their opinions about the legitimacy of the e-voting process and that there is a positive association between ease of use and confidence that the vote was registered as intended.


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A diary of diaries 2017-19
I went to see the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain today, after my friend and neighbour Reg had told me that his granddaughter Florrie has worked with this year's Turner Prize winner Charlotte Prodger. For me, an added bonus was to discover that Charlotte Prodger is a diarist! Her prize-winning film 'Bridget', shot on an iPhone, includes 'sounds from her immediate environment overlaid with a narrative by the artist and her friends. This is taken from Prodger's diaries, correspondence with friends and extracts from books. The artist considers these to form part of a historical framework of knowledge, experience and solidarity that has shaped her own queer identity.'
Charlotte Prodger quotes a lot from Julian Cope - and a lot of her diary entries are about being mistaken for a boy. Her film is wonderful.
I got an email today from Ernest Pollard, co-editor of 'Wings Over the Western Front: The First World War Diaries of Collingwood Ingram'. He told me that Naoko Abe's new biography of Ingram, which has been a great success in her native Japan, is to be published in the UK by Chatto and Windus in March 2019. The title of the book is self-explanatory: '"Cherry Ingram": The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms'. It's also been chosen as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 ... I'm looking forward to it!
To the British Library to see a display in the 'Treasures' gallery, 'Michael Palin: Writer, Actor, Comedian'. One of the exhibits is the unpublished manuscript of his first novel, 'A Bit of a Break', which I've been interested in even since reading about it in the first volume of his diaries, 'The Python Years' ... Michael Palin had a bout of writer's block after embarking on it, and came here to Charlbury to gain inspiration and finish it, which he did at the Bell Hotel, just down the road from here, on Wednesday 30 November 1977.
I did write to Michael Palin a few yearsago, offering to publish it, and he responded to say that he was just off to Brazil, and would think about it on his return - but in the end he decided against it.
I came across the art diaries of Brian Clarke at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich today. He's been obsessed with stained glass since he was a boy, and at the age of 20 he toured Europe in search of some of the greatest examples ever created. '3 May 1974, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. The most dramatic glass I've seen ... The effect of the glass was obvious - people entering the chapel from the long spiral staircase were totally shocked when they actually saw the glass - "O! God just look at the stained glasses." ... The children who saw it were beautiful, they just ran towards it laughing. Everybody seemed to be smiling, the glass is the greatest most open expression of joy. It affects us so dramatically now - how it must have stunned the mediaeval mind.'
I got a call from my friend Will McLellan - film-maker and writer - saying he had run into Dr Irving Finkel at the Port Eliot Festival, where they were both giving talks: Irving about diaries, and Will about his relaunched book 'Wild Ride to Freedom', based on the visual diary he kept in prison in Franco's Spain in the 1970s. Will and Irving had never met before, but when they got talking about diaries, they realised that they both knew me.
This morning I dug out my copy of Volume One of Michael Palin's diaries, 'The Python Years', before driving to Friar Park in Henley, which I'd been lucky enough to be invited to visit. When Michael Palin first visited the gardens here in October 1975, he described the amazing grottoes, caves, Japanese houses and Japanese bridges, but still I wasn't prepared for what I found: immaculate lawns, a rose garden, maples and cloud-pruned yews, lakes full of waterlilies, and the largest rockery in England.
After we'd been shown round by the head gardener, Giles, Olivia Harrison came to greet us, and she told us about her late husband's lifelong love of plants, trees and gardens. George Harrison was very much a hand-on gardener, and another entry from Michael Palin's diary, talks of visiting him there in November 1978, when George had 'just come in from planting bulbs in the garden'.
I went to St Edmund's Hall in Oxford this evening for a talk by Professor Lucy Newlyn about her book 'The Diary of a Bipolar Explorer'. Lucy Newlyn explained that the diary wasn't written up as the events happened, but retrospectively from emails, letters, and the poetry that she wrote as a way of overcoming her depression.
She had previously published two books of poetry: but when her publishers persuaded her that prose sold better than poetry, she set about turning her poetry into prose - and creating this diary.
It's 435 years since John Dee, his family and his household made the perilous sea trip from England to the Continent, and today a correspondent of mine has referred to this in an email.
'The human story is what is of most fascination to me,' he writes. 'My heart goes out to all of them on that painful journey to Europe, cooped up on a freezing ship for a month at the worst time of year for travelling across the North Sea.' And he adds, regarding one of Dee's reasons for making the crossing: 'I worry for John Dee meeting the Emperor.'
Diaries, I think, help us to empathise like this across the centuries. That's just one of the reasons why I think they're so important.
It's exactly seventy years since the painter and diarist Josef Herman arrived in Brussels as a refugee from Poland. Today we're in Brussels too, and I think of Josef Herman when we get lost and have to ask a policeman the way, because one of Josef Herman's first impressions of life in a non-totalitarian country was of how different the police were.
'Even when off-duty a Polish policeman breathed fire through his nostrils,' Herman wrote. 'Here the policeman actually saluted before he answered my query in a civilised leisurely manner ... For the sheer fun of it I stopped every policeman I saw just to hear his soft, polite voice, just to watch his courteous manner.'
(From 'Related Twilights: Notes from an Artist's Diary', edited by Tony Curtis, Seren, 2002.)
The holiday diaries that I kept as a boy are full of little souvenirs: decorated paper napkins, for instance, and sugar wrappers that I stuck in with sellotape. Today, in the new Bodleian Treasures exhibition at the Weston Library in Oxford, I came across some century-old feathers from a carrier pigeon, attached to a page of the typewritten diary of First World War intelligence agent Richard Meinertzhagen exactly a hundred years ago, in November 1917. Meinertzhagen shot the bird ('of enemy origin', as he wrote in his diary) and discovered Morse code 'etched and scratched on the shafts of each feather' - and still visible today.
Hurrah! I have just heard back from Terry Talty, whose wonderful hand-made Ireland diary I came across in Dublin a month ago. I had tried two different email addresses for her and Steuart Bremner, with no response, and in the end I found a land address and sent a postcard. Given the hand-crafted nature of the book, it seems appropriate that the old-fashioned method did the trick where electronic ones had failed!
I am so pleased that Terry and Steurart now know how much finding their creation has meant to me - I have been showing it to anyone I think would be interested, to see how long it takes them to realise exactly what it signifies.
In the bookshop of the National Gallery of Ireland today, Evelyn drew my attention to a book with an intriguing design on its spine rather than any writing. So I reached up and opened it at the words:
We've made this book for you:
Someone who is curious,
likes looking,
and is interested in art
being made now
I had a sudden sense that this might be something quite exciting, so I turned the page and read:
'Please feel free to take this book. It is not part of the museum's inventory nor property of this museum, or anyone else. It may become your property just by taking it.'
By this time I had an idea of what we were looking at - I'm a fan of the '1000 Diaries Project', after all - but it was only on digging deeper that I realised exactly what we'd found: a unique handwritten diary with hand-drawn sketches, the latest of which was done just a week ago. And the last diary entry is from just last week: 'Monday Aug 28, 2017. Not getting in to see the Vermeer, so will visit the most modern of the Irish art.' As we did too!
I did wonder at first if someone else was a more deserving recipient than me - then I thought 'No!' I'm a bookbinder, art lover and connoisseur of diaries, and I am so thrilled to have found this: so I'll reciprocate, though I'm not sure exactly how. Either way, this is the most magical thing to have happened to us in Dublin.
I went to the British Museum today to meet Dr Irving Finkel. He is very excited about a coded diary which one of his 'trusty recruits' discovered in a skip, and which he has managed to decipher. The diarist, Allan W. Cliffe, was a friend of Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), whose own diary for 1831 contains many cross-references to their circle of acquaintances.
Today Irving remarked on how few coded diaries there are ... Anne Lister, Beatrix Potter and Henry Hucks Gibbs are rare examples. And, strangely, their codes seem to share various characteristics, as if they were all in collaboration with each other - which can't be true.
To Somerset House for their exhibition 'Dear Diary: A Celebration of Diaries and their Digital Descendants'. I should have guessed that the Great Diary Project would be behind it - in fact I think I even recognised some of the exhibits from Dr Irving Finkel's core collection, and I half expected to come across some of the diaries kept by my grandfather and uncle, which my mother donated to the archive.
Sometimes I find exhibitions and books about diaries a bit predictable, but there was a great deal here that was new to me ... The idea of cuneiform tablets, with their information on the sun, moon and stars, as the precursor to modern appointments diaries, which still include information on lunar and solar movements - the fact that the word 'diary' in English only dates back to 1581 - and the idea of most diaries being 'paratactic', i.e. giving equal weight to a whole range of diverse subjects, regardless of how important they really are. My favourite such example comes from the diary of Pauline Baynes, illustrator of the Narnia books, who wrote after meeting the author for the first time: 'Met C.S. Lewis. Came home. Made rock cakes.'
There was a bookbinders' end-of-term party this afternoon, and our host David brought up the subject of ordinary people's diaries ... 'How many years have to elapse,' he asked, 'before the diaries of ordinary people become interesting?' It turned out that he has several decades' worth of his late aunt's diaries.
One of the other guests inevitably raised the question of what one does with old diaries, so I took the opportunity to mention Irving Finkel and the Great Diary Project. I was pleased to discover how many people there happened to know about Irving and his amazing work.
I went to the British Museum today to see their new display 'Moving stories: three journeys', which tells the universal story of the migration of peoples in a very personal way. One of the central exhibits is a sketchbook entitled 'Ali's Boat Diary I', by the Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, 'which tells the story of a young boy wishing to escape the horrors of present-day Iraq'.
I find it interesting that galleries and museums are at the forefront of a strong and new reaction against the mainstream media's hostility towards innocent people fleeing war zones in the Middle East and elsewhere. At the Ben Uri Gallery in north London, for instance, which I visited a couple of weeks ago, the first thing I came across was a bold statement declaring: 'Within the space of two short years the political climate and media opinion influencing it has changed in the free world ... Museums are one of the few public institutions that can stand proud for principles based on truth and fact ... In response to the world we live in, Ben Uri has reassessed its exhibiton programme over the coming years and committed to a series of exhibitions surveying the contribution and input of refugees and immigrants to 20th and 21st century British art.'
It's an amazing legacy - and an inspiring way of looking forward.
I discovered the work of the painter Ray Atkins at the Reading Museum today - and also discovered that he's a diarist. Alongside many of the paintings on display are observations he made in his notebook at the time. On 1 September 1969, for instance, while working on his painting 'The quarry, Playhatch, No. 1', he wrote: 'Art must be timless. Sometimes one's worst side says what one has done is old-fashioned - just because it has nothing to do with the art that is in fashion. It's mad! Just because it can exist and say what it has to say at any time. It has nothing to do with 1969. What it has to do with is the first of September and Ray Atkins and a quarry at Playhatch.'
To Oxford to meet Mike Webb, author of 'From Downing Street to the Trenches', which draws heavily on diaries from the time of the Great War. Afterwards I took the opportunity to ses the new 'Volcanoes' exhibition in the Weston Library, where several manuscript diaries are on display, including Mary Godwin's diary from 1816 - 'the year without a summer'.
It's now known that that year's dreadful weather was caused by the largest volcanic eruption of the last 500 years: the volcano Tambora in Indonesia. Its effects were felt as far away as the shores of Lake Geneva, where Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin were kept indoors for days on end by the wet dreary weather, and where 'to amuse themselves they wrote ghost stories, and Mary started the work which would become her gothic masterpiece "Frankenstein".'
Today would have been Virginia Woolf's 135th birthday, and on BBC Radio 3 today I heard mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and accompanist Julius Drake performing music from Dominick Argento's opera 'A Music of One's Own: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf'. The libretto consists entirely of words taken from Virginia Woolf's personal writings, and the opera ends with a setting of a diary entry from March 1941, just before she committed suicide.
And this is an issue that has been much on my mind today, following some heartbreaking news from Australia this morning. RIP Jamie, you sweet-natured, gentle boy – gone from us far too soon.
2016 diary
2015 diary


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*The most talked about moment at last night's 2013 MTV Video Music Awards was when former Disney star Miley Cyrus climbed out of a giant teddy bear and twerked her way through her controversial new single "We Can't Stop."
It was so disturbing, it had Will Smith and his kids looking at her like this…
Cyrus strutted around the stage, accompanied by dancers wearing giant teddy bears while she was sporting a furry bustier designed to look like a mouse.
At one point, the 20-year-old singer grabbed the rear end of one of her dancers before bending over to shake her own behind at the audience.
BTW, MTV bleeped the word "molly" in her song, a nickname for the drug ecstasy.
If that wasn't enough, Cyrus then stripped down to a flesh-colored two-piece to join Robin Thicke for the beginning of his performance of "Blurred Lines," alternating lines with the R&B crooner.
She also danced around him suggestively, touching him and herself with a foam finger, and bending over in front of him and shaking her rear end.
After "Blurred Lines," Thicke then segued into his new single "Give It 2 U" while Cyrus remained on stage dancing suggestively with her foam finger.
The best thing about Cyrus' performance? A cutaway to the Smith family – Will, Willow and Jaden – looking appalled.
To see the performance, CLICK HERE: EURweb.com
Article and Pictures Courtesy of EUR Web
Robin Thicke Gets Caught Up in Twerking with Miley Cyrus at the VMAs! was originally published on wzakcleveland.com


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Student Outcomes
- Students define rational expressions and write them in equivalent forms.
Student Outcomes
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|State Standard
|Rewrite simple rational expressions in different forms; write a(x)/b(x) in the form q(x) + r(x)/b(x...


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Top Reasons to Buy Pop Up Gazebo
Posted by Jonathan Blampied on August 22nd, 2017
Pop up gazebos can be considered as smaller versions of traditional gazebos. They are called as such because they are literally just popped up to set up. A pop up gazebo is a great investment in many ways, and here are the top reasons why you should get one for yourself:
1. Pop up gazebos can be used on various occasions. What makes these portable gazebos great is that you can use them in bazaars, garden parties, camps, school fairs, and other outdoor activities that require temporary shelter. If you are planning to buy a pop up gazebo, look for one that is sturdy and durable so that it will be versatile enough to be placed in just about any location.
2. They are more affordable than traditional gazebos. If you don't really need a wide coverage, you don't have to buy traditional gazebos anymore because you can just go for the portable ones instead. They cost less than traditional gazebos, especially if you'll buy them from an online shop. If you are interested in buying a durable yet reasonably priced pop up gazebo in NZ, consider buying from online stores that offer the best deals.
3. What's really convenient about a pop up gazebo is that it can be set up in less than a minute. There is no installation required at all. All you have to do is expand the frame and that's it! The best pop up gazebo in NZ can also be put down as easily as it was set up. Simply collapse and store it.
4. If you buy a pop up gazebo that is high-quality, you can rest assured that it will be able to resist water as well as withstand extreme weather conditions. The best popup gazebos are waterproof, mould-resistant, and can protect you from the harmful UV rays. They are also expected to have durable and sturdy frames, which are preferably made of stainless steel, anodised aluminium, and other non-corrosive materials.
To get the best popup gazebos in NZ, make sure to buy from a reputable shop that has been in business for a significant time already.
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