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Posted by Bethan Holt, Fashion Junior at Large
I say "Socks and Sandals", you think...
|Giving a bad name to the socks and sandals combination (from www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk)
But here at FEAL, we've started to think that it's time to freshen up our perspective. And this week is the perfect time. If you're anything like me (and are in the UK!), you'll have been woken by blindingly bright rays of sunshine each morning. This leads you to don summer skirts and dresses and eschew a coat. Then, you leave the house and realise that the sunshine doesn't quite translate to temperatures balmy enough for your attire. I have made this mistake every day so far this week. But moving back into winter clothes is too depressing a thought to entertain. So our solution? Wear your summer shoes with socks to save your tootsies from freezing.
Here are some inspirational street style pictures to get us going...
|From www.thesartorialist.co.uk
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|From www.vogue.co.uk
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I haven't yet seen a good photo of FLAT sandals and socks. I reckon at the very least the look requires a low block heel to get from Nanna to Fashion. It can go very girlish and cute if it's executed with a flatform and frill- anyone else remember the white frilly socks which you wore with school summer dresses? Going to John Lewis to buy them signalled the start of Summer when I was little.
I'm going to attempt a more grown-up version with a proper heel and perhaps a sleeker sock, though I have fallen a little bit in love with the lace ones below. Right now though, something a little bit toastier is required I think.
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Christ College, Pune was established in 2007. It is a Christian minority institution affiliated to the University of Pune. The college is recognized by Government of Maharashtra and managed by Carmel Vidya Bhavan Trust of the CMI (Carmelites of Mary Immaculate) congregation. The college aims at forming leaders who are intellectually competent, spiritually mature, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy and socially responsible, individuals who are open to grow and champion the cause of justice, love, truth and peace. The college is located at Vadgaonsheri in North-East Pune, opposite Weikfield IT Park, with the fast developing suburbs of Kalyani Nagar, Viman Nagar and Kharadi as surrounding areas with large IT Parks and residential areas. It is just 300 m from Pune-Nagar Rd., 04 km from Pune Airport, 09 km from Pune Railway Station, 13 km from Swargate Bus Station and 14 km from Pune University Campus.
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Israel Upgrades Anti-ballistic Defense System, Amid Recent Iran and Syria Drills
Haaretz analyst Amos Harel says new improvements to Arrow system should be viewed as part of the complex campaign currently conducted between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah.
As regional threats against Israel are being highlighted by the country's leaders, the Defense Ministry is working on upgrading its Arrow anti-ballistic defense system, specifically the Arrow-2.
- Syria Army Conducts Large-scale Exercise
- New Iran Talks Could Be Last Chance
- Barak, Panetta to Announce Special U.S. Aid to Israel
- Syria TV Building in Damascus Hit by Bomb Attack
- Report: Syrian Prime Minister Defects to Jordan
- Israel to Test Arrow 3 Anti-missile System
- David's Sling Passes Important Test
The ministry did not provide details about the improvements its making, but a senior security official told Haaretz the improved Arrow-2 will allow Israel to intercept medium-range rockets and missiles. This can help against potential attacks by Syrian and Hezbollah M600 advance rockets, an accurate weapon with an estimated range of 300 kilometers. The Arrow's maximal range was apparently also improved.
The Arrow project, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and by the U.S.-based Boeing in the 90s, is a long-range anti-ballistic defense system. Arrow-2 batteries are already deployed and operational, and according to agreements between the two countries, the U.S. is funding the development of an advanced system, Arrow-3, which will be completed within a few years.
Originally, the Arrow missile was intended for intercepting long-range ballistic missiles such as Syria's various Scuds and Iran's Shahab missiles. In recent years, Israel has developed (with U.S. financial aid) the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system against short-range threats, such as Qassam and Katyusha rockets. Gradually, the system was upgraded to answer medium-range threats, like the Iranian Fajr-5, which has a range of 75 kilometers.
However, Israel's response to the rocket and missile threats was not complete. There was a gap in the defense, between the Iron Dome's maximum range and the Arrow's minimal range. A third system, David's Sling, is meant to bridge that gap; but it is still being developed and will only be operational in 2015. The improved Arrow-2 is intended as a partial and temporary, though important, response to dealing with the gap until then.
The security source says that the improved Arrow interceptor, named Block-4, includes upgrades to its software, hardware, sensor array, command and control systems, and also to its interception missiles.
Earlier this year another improvement was introduced, when the system's radar
Green Pine radar was replaced by a newer model, the Super Green Pine. The new radar was proven successful in a series of tests, most recently in February.
"The radar is more robust and has improved range," the official said, adding that upgrading the Arrow's command and control system will allow it to expand the response to various threats.
Israel's security establishment, under the direction of Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the ministry's director general Udi Shani, have given funding of missile and rocket defense systems top priority. In 2012, the budget allocated for the defense establishment's Homa missile-interception project was increased. Recently, the Obama administration announced an additional $680 million in U.S. financial aid aimed at funding different ballistic-interception projects.
The new Israeli developments, as well as the Defense Ministry's decision to provide Haaretz with exclusive details about those developments, should be viewed as part of a complex campaign currently being conducted between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah. Just as Syria and Iran are flexing their muscles, demonstrating missile- and rocket-launching capabilities in frequent training exercises, Israel has decided to publicly announce the fact that it had significantly upgraded its defense systems.
In spite of Israel's impressive achievements in its development of missile interception systems, the production rate is still slow. Up until now, only four Iron Dome batteries have been manufactured. The United States has promised funding for four additional batteries. Estimations are that a minimum of 12 Iron Dome batteries will be required to cover Israel's north and south from the threats of short and medium-range rockets.


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We're so close we can practically hear those wedding bells ring! One of the most important parts of a wedding (ya know, beside the bride the groom, the rings, the vows, etc.) are the flowers, of course! Luckily, in tonight's all-new episode "That '70s Show" Martha has taken it upon herself to be queen of the petals. Unfortunately her ideas—like an huge portrait of our beloved couple made entire out of flowers—are not exactly what Castle and Beckett had in mind for their big day.
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Ok so I've known Michael is in puberty and has been for awhile, but the last few days I have noticed something has changed. His feelings for girls and women have changed. He is talking more about feeling "all tingly and getting goosebumps" when he sees a girl he likes and about getting excited seeing girls. He has a crush now on an older woman (he has had MANY in the past), and talks about wanting to marry her. It is still very sweet and innocent, but yet I can feel it, the undercurrent of more to come. His body is changing daily. A friend recently commented on his voice sounding deeper. He wants more independence when going places. He calls up friends and has detailed long conversations where he is not silly. But mostly, he is becoming interested slowly in other girls. He announced to me at dinner tonight that he likes girls. I told him, "I know." I wanted to joke, since you've been about four. But, I sense that there is more to come. All the hormones, the meltdowns, the testing, the sometimes "surly" pre teen I am seeing is then followed by the boy who came home today and shared his very teenage type feelings with me. He was calm, collected and organized.
Another change I am noticing is that he will stop me if I try to help him by saying, "I can do it Mommy. I am a senior now. " It's true that he is on the senior side at school now. He is so proud of this. In fact, when he is acting out and sometimes even below his age level even with the challenges, what really works to get him to stop and think about his behavior is, "are you really being a senior now Michael?" He will quickly check his behavior, and move on. I can see by the questions he is asking, from relationship ones to world ones, that I have to go out and do more homework to be ready to answer the questions I know he will have soon. I am beginning to read up on all I can regarding autism and puberty. I want to be able to answer his questions honestly, directly and without embarrassment. Not that I am embarrassed. The body changing is a natural and beautiful thing. Love and sex are beautiful things. I don't know how he will really understand it all, but I plan to try and do my best to see things from his perspective.
So if as a parent you see your tween or teen struggling with questions about puberty, how best can you address them? I think the best thing to do is to read up on how other adults with autism handled their own puberty experience and what they were told, for better or worse. I also think reading articles from psychologists experienced with working with exceptional kids in puberty can be another good tool, followed by using your own personal experience to make your child realize they are not alone. Now, if your experience off puberty and its explanation by family around you was negative, obviously do the opposite. If your family explained puberty in a positive way, go with that. And finally, however you answer your child, just remember to let them know their questions are normal and that you love them no matter what.
Exceptional Parents, what has been your experience if your Exceptional Child is in puberty? No matter what remember stay calm, be patient, and tell your child everything they are feeling is normal. Reassure them that you are there to help them through the challenging moments, and that there is always help out there if more intense issues arise. Until next time.
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Vuelta top ten contenders
Who will podium at the season's final Grand Tour?
Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale)
Three Grand Tour podiums in 12 months, including one win, speaks for itself and Nibali's consistency – and not his descending prowess – is what truly marks him as a genuine Grand Tour rider. In last year's Vuelta, he raced methodically, playing the averages and displaying a tactical awareness that is so often lacking in many of his generation.
The 26-year-old Italian will undoubtedly start as the favourite as the profile and number of mountain stages count in his favour. With explosive climbers including Igor Anton and Joaquim Rodriguez both challenging, Nibali will ride defensively on occasions but his general all-round strength, coupled with his superior time trialing abilities over the Spaniards, should see him challenge for a step on the podium at the very least.
If there's a question to be answered, it's whether he has reached a plateau as a rider. Not a bad plateau though, is it?
Igor Anton (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
We'll never know how close Anton would have come to overall victory in last year's race, but before his crash on stage 14 there was no doubting the fact he was the strongest rider in the race. With two stage wins, one on stage 4 and the second coming at Andorra on stage 11, he lay 45 seconds ahead of his closet challenger – Nibali – before his fall.
This year Anton has shown flashes of that scintillating form. A courageous stage win at the Giro d'Italia stage to Monte Zoncolan was so full of panache it would have blown the scales apart on the IG Market ranking system, but from that moment the Spaniard faded badly, leaving certain question marks over his ability to go the distance over three weeks.
But the Vuelta is a different proposition and it's unquestionably Anton's biggest goal of the year. The fact that the route ventures into the Basque country will act as a catalyst for what potentially could be Euskaltel-Euskadi's first Grand Tour win.
Jurgen van den Broeck (Omega Pharma-Lotto)
A small chuckle escaped our lips when Marc Sergeant declared that VDB could crack the top five in the Tour de France in 2010. We ate our words three weeks later when he finished fifth and since then the Belgian has looked the part.
Fast forward to this year's Vuelta and the biggest question surrounds his fitness and form. Unlike Wiggins' clean collarbone break at the Tour, VBD suffered a collapsed lung, three broken ribs and a wrecked shoulder. Now back on the bike and preparing in the Sierra Nevada, he will need to hit the ground running in the Vuelta.
A dark horse, perhaps, but one that could win the race if his form is as strong as it was pre-July's crash.
Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD)
Photo: Roberto Bettini
Whisper it quietly but Scarponi could end the season as the number one rider in the world. Currently fourth, a stellar GC ride, coupled with strong performances in the Italian one-day races later in the season, could elevate him to the top spot in the world. We're just as speechless, too.
First things first and Scarponi has already talked himself up a genuine contender for the race. His climbing ability will count in his favour and his performance at the Giro, where he finished ahead of Nibali and was Contador's closest contender, will make him a dangerous proposition.
Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC)
On paper Menchov is the most successful GC contender – two Vueltas, a Giro and podium in the Tour – but he has been a shadow this year. The fact he hasn't won a single race since 2009 and that Geox-TMC failed to receive invitations for most of the biggest races this year certainly doesn't improve his billing, and at 33 you can't help but see his stint at Gianetti's team as one final paycheck before the Russian totally vanishes back beyond the curtain.
However, if Menchov gets his head together the route certainly gives him an opportunity. Against the clock he can be crushing, while like Nibali he can follow and even probe on the climbs. With Andy and Frank Schleck and Alberto Contador both missing, he should be there or thereabouts and at his best he could make the podium.
Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha)
Photo: Roberto Bettini
Quite just how his rivals view Rodriguez is a bit of a mystery. On his day, he can climb with almost anyone but his time trialing is without doubt the weakest of all the GC riders. In fact, it's so bad that it makes the Schlecks look like hour record contenders. Yet with only 40-odd kilometers of individual racing against the clock, not all is lost for the Spaniard.
If he can stay within a respectable three minutes of his rivals on the stage 10 time trial, he may still challenge for a podium place. Lose close to the six minutes he did in last year's race against the clock and he'll be hunting for stage wins – although one suspects that's his best role anyway.
Bradley Wiggins (Sky)
There's no doubt that Wiggins was in the form of his life when he crashed out of the Tour de France in July, but despite the British press's love affair, that doesn't necessarily suggest that he would have challenged Cadel Evans and the Schlecks for a podium finish. Remember, Levi Leipheimer won the Tour de Suisse around the same time as Wiggins took the Dauphine and the lesson remains: Not since Armstrong's years of domination has a rider won in June and gone on to really challenge at the Tour.
Still, Wiggins has the chance to prove any doubters wrong over his true GC credentials. The opening TTT could see him lead the race, while the stage 10 time trial should see him distance the likes of Anton, Scarponi and Rodriguez by at least two precious minutes. Unlike many of his rival GC contenders Wiggins also has a team of genuine climbers to support him. Away from the glare of the Tour, three weeks in Spain could see the making of Wiggins. 2009 seems like a long time ago now, so it's time the Brit proved it wasn't a fluke result.
Dan Martin (Garmin-Cervelo)
Photo: Riccardo Scanferla
While Johan Bruyneel's record of Grand Tour wins is beyond comparison in the modern era, a closer look reveals the pool of talent he gave up in his pursuit of preparing Armstrong for success. Comparatively it's hard to knock Jonathan Vaughters' record of picking up where the Belgian failed or at least decided not to look. First there was Christian Vande Velde's fourth in the 2008 Tour, before two more former Postal riders, Ryder Hesjedal and Tom Danielson, went on to crack Tour top 10s.
Vaughters certainly has a talent for spotting what others have failed to develop or notice and in Dan Martin he could have another Grand Tour contender.
Martin was laughed at when he turned up to race at VC Pomme but Vaughters took a chance and Garmin has one of the most exciting climbers of a generation. But while his palmares has steadily improved the Irishman has done virtually nil in Grand Tours. Harsh perhaps as the Vuelta in 2009 was his first test over three weeks and last year's Giro was affected by allergies, but this year's race marks a potentially seminal moment in Martin's career.
Heading into the race with form, fitness and confidence, he will be hoping to last the distance as a top 10 contender. While failure to do that would certainly not be the end of his ambitions in major tours it would perhaps take some of the shine from his star.
A stage win or two is certainly within his grasp, though, and with Christophe Le Mevel also riding the pressure will be evenly spread.
Steven Kruijswijk (Rabobank)
If Martin deserves inclusion at the expense of Nicolas Roche and Carlos Sastre then Kruijswijk deserves his place here as well. At 24, he appears like the real deal as a stage racer, confirmed by this excellent ninth place in the Giro. He followed that up with third in the Tour de Suisse which suggests that he has the head as well as the legs – how many riders would have simply put their feet up after the Giro?
The course again suits his climbing ability, while the only doubt is whether he can handle two Grand Tours in a single season. We think he'll take it in his stride and walk away with the best young rider's jersey in the process.
Andreas Klöden (RadioShack)
He says he's still not at 100 percent following his Tour de France crash but the German wouldn't head to Spain just to pedal through the heat. At 36, he's closing in on the twilight of his career but there's still enough power in the legs to mount a genuine challenge on the top ten. If it all goes to pot expect to see him joining up with his old pal Jan Ullrich at a sportif or two.
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According to an article on Modern Ghana.com called Climate Change and Social Impacts, global warming is causing all kinds of bad things. According to the article, global warming is ruining the farms in Ghana especially in the Ashaladja community.
The effects of climate change are increasingly threatening the sustainability of the environment. Evidently, it has provoked very serious and grievous social impacts. For instance, climate change effects have led to deepening unemployment. Ashaladja is a community in Ghana where agriculture which is the key source of livelihood of the inhabitants has been adversely affected the over 5,000 indigenes.According to the article, climate change has caused floods ruining the Cassava, Yam, Cocoyam, and Plantain crops. Because of the ruined crops many youths have had nothing to do, and as the old saying goes, the idol brain is the devil's playground.
Thus the youth including young women have become jobless and are forced to engage in deviant behaviors such as armed robbery, prostitution, and drug abuse as means of survival.Holy Crap! Prostitution and drugs, and Crime in Ghana just because of global warming. Will that move up to the Northern Hemisphere and the 48 states. After all, we Americans are exhaling CO2 and driving gas guzzlers. All Gore was right! We're all going to die, but who knew it would be from STDs, ODs and getting beaten by crooks . Unless of course this is just a little more global warming fear mongering.
Again, the influx of young people from the rural to the urban areas as an attempt to escape serious droughts has denied development in those rural areas. Indeed, if the able, talented, energetic and vibrant young people are hurriedly leaving for the city or urban centers, then how can development take place in those communities? This signal is posing a threat to the future of these communities thereby denying the possibility of eradicating poverty. The negative social impact of such development may not be quantified.


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Silver Service, ca. 1879
About five years ago, my sister and I inherited this from a friend. And what she told us about it was that her stepfather's parents had had this made as a wedding gift to his bride, his father to his bride. And the shells represent the seashore, where they had met and spent a lot of time. A couple of years ago I took three pieces in to an appraiser not too far from our home. And he looked at it and said, "Oh, this is nothing." And that was the last we did, and we use it all the time and enjoy it.
Do you use it every day?
Not every day, no, but for special occasions.
A big party, Thanksgiving, I would think. It's French, probably made in Paris. It actually has the maker's mark and an export mark dated 1879. You can see it's just got everything you could possibly want in a silver service. You have a complete table setting with dinner forks, lunch forks, salad forks, dinner knives, soup spoons, teaspoons, demitasse spoons. Here we have a nice ladle. This is, I believe, a berry spoon for serving berries.
Oh, is that what that is?
With the gilt wash on the bowl, which is really quite lovely. You have several pieces with gilt wash. Here we have a little silver salt, also with a gilt wash inside with a glass liner. And the matching spoon, also with a little shell pattern. It's really quite exquisite. I counted slightly over 200 pieces altogether. And I would say, it could easily bring $10,000 to $12,000 at auction.
$10,000 to $12,000? Wow. I was thinking maybe a couple hundred.
(laughing) Good grief.
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ja'-van (yawan, meaning unknown):
⇒See a list of verses on JAVAN in the Bible.
(1) In Ge 10:2,4 = 1Ch 1:5,7 Septuagint Iouan); Isa 66:19; Eze 27:13 Septuagint Hellas, Greece); Da 8:21 m; Da 10:20; 11:2; Zec 9:13; Joe 3:6 (Heb 4:6) Septuagint hoi Hellenes, i.e. "Greeks"), "son" of Japheth, and "father" of Elisha, Tars, Kittim, and Rodarim, i.e. Rhodes (incorrectly "Dodanim" in Ge 10:4). Javan is the Greek Iaon or Ia(v)on, and in Gen and 1 Ch = the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, probably here = Cyprus. The reference in Eze 27:13 (from which that in Isa 66:19 is copied) is the country personified. In Joel the plural yewanim, is found. In Dan the name is extended to the Greeks generally. Corroboration of the name is found in Assyrian (Schrader, editor, Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek, II, 43). "The Persian Yauna occurs in the same double reference from the time of Darius; compare Aesch. Persian., 176, 562" (Skinner, Gen, 198). In Egyptian the word is said to be yevan-(n)a; in the Tell el-Amarna Letters Yivana is mentioned as being in the land of Tyre. See HDB ,II , 552b.
(2) Place (Eze 27:19); the name is missing in Septuagint.
⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
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At 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 6, two men were shot and robbed in Prospect Park, just down the hill from the Vale of Cashmere, really just a few dozen feet from the zoo and the heavy traffic of Flatbush Avenue.
"The men were engaged in a sex act," the Daily News reported. They were shot, in fact, as the 78th Precinct confirmed, prior to being robbed.
On the gloomy Saturday afternoon that followed, just a muddy little twirl of yellow police tape was tangled in the bushes. Nearby, a cop sat idly in a car; two generators rigged to floodlights, now dark, marked a spooky triangle of forest.
And not far away from the crime scene, under a brutal steady rain, a few men loitered and paced, dressed in their Brooklyn casuals, looking for "sex acts." None of them even carried an umbrella.
That these woods immediately returned to regular use as a cruising ground isn't unusual. Areas like this are the decrepit, unchanging standbys of man-on-man match-ups. Online message boards regularly update men on conditions in similar places, like the N.Y.U. Bobst library, Equinox steamrooms, the 34th Street N/R station, and nearly every park-and-ride lot on the Long Island Expressway: Have they been raided recently? Are the men hot? Anybody, you know, been shot?
But outdoor Manhattan proper is changing, and rapidly. An emphasis on 24-hour communities built around public spaces dominates new construction, and all over town, the parks are being picked up and shaken so hard that the riffraff falls out like coins from a pair of tangled jeans on a dark M.T.A. platform. Rezoning—and zoning variances—in many neighborhoods are turning manufacturing districts that were desolate and therefore randy in the dark of night into Dullsville, U.S.A.
"The Stroll," that particular stretch of Ninth Avenue below 14th Street, now looks at night rather more like the downtown strips of Providence and Pittsburgh. And in daylight hours, the market for nickelbags and the kind of date entirely conducted in the front seat of a car has given way to a market for Marcel Wanders' Bottoni armchairs at Design Within Reach ($1,298!).
What has been displaced in these sorts of speedy transformations of Manhattan's recent past are the things that people do on a whim, motivated by the desires that seem to spring up out of the landscape and surprise. They've been replaced by the sort of complicated desires one needs a subscription to a Condé Nast magalog to articulate.
And whether planned or the result of a rollicking free market, Manhattan's newest public spaces—from the plans for the waterfronts to the World Trade Center Memorial Plaza—range from the morbidly contemplative to the hideously cardio-aerobic.
When the architectural or municipal plans for downtown and riverside are viewed after a cocktail or two, New York City might look as if it's building a veritable Disneyland for cruising gays. The East River Waterfront survey proposes pavilions under the F.D.R. and recommends that the city "screen sanitation buildings with new trees and landscaping" and even build trellises and swings. The approved Greenpoint/Williamsburg project, which extends from the top of Brooklyn down to the old Domino sugar plant, would "establish a route for a continuous path along the waterfront," surely with lots of nooks and crannies for crooks and trannies, to steal a line from the old cruiser's bible, Betty & Pansy's Severe Queer Review.
But. The shores of the Village-adjacent Hudson River, now ramrodded into piers and playgrounds and bike paths, were once a place for which gay libertines felt a sense of real ownership.
On a recent stakeout, there was little evidence of gay sleaze at Hudson River Park—besides one little graffito on a bathroom wall. "Eric 212 XXX-XXXX, bottom in Washington Heights 29—blond." One night, Eric answered the phone:
Hey, is this Eric?
ERIC: Uh-huh … yes?
Hey, I got your number off a bathroom wall.
ERIC: Ha, ha. O.K.
So, is that a cruisy bathroom?
ERIC: Which one?
Oh, at Hudson River Park, by Christopher Street.
ERIC: Oh, at the piers. I guess some days—but not really.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's any action there.
ERIC: Umm, I'm in the middle of a long-distance long call.
Oh, O.K., sorry! I'll call you later.
It's not even that easy to get to the Hudson River: As Philip Lopate notes in Waterfront, the West Side Highway can't be crossed in places by foot during the time allotted by just one green traffic light. But, with success, one is rewarded by a fright of "fast use" and social control. Bicycles screech for joggers as Rollerbladers dodge baby strollers.
The new piers and pathways have disclaimers. "Climbing on this sculpture isn't permitted," and "Quiet Zone No Radio Playing after 8 p.m.," and, bafflingly, at the piers: "If you see a discharge during dry weather please call 311." Signs demarcate dog-free lawns. (Just think, it was only made illegal after 1850 to toss dead animals into the Hudson. Now dogs aren't even allowed to pee near the river.)
And for all the autumnal-evening sexual tension of workers free from their desks, and for all the cock you can see swinging in shiny workout shorts, well, there's not much in the way of release, because the whole place itself is built to discourage such acts.
"The ideal setting for homosexual activity is a tearoom situated on an island of grass, with roads close by on every side," wrote the sociologist and minister Laud Humphreys in Tearoom Trade, published in 1970. "This constitutes a dilemma," Mr. Humphreys continued, "for those who would engage in impersonal sex of this type: how to find a setting that is accessible and identifiable, that will provide the necessary volume and variety of participants, while preserving at least a minimum of privacy?"
On a recent evening on the piers, a gray-haired man read The New Yorker. Another slept on Astroturf. Black kids sat in aluminum chairs at the end of the pier like South Beach retirees, facing that sign across the river that celebrates Lackawanna. An enraged girl screamed at ex-friends across the pier: "That bitch stole money from me!" A parks employee got out of her truck to escort the angry girl away, but a solemn boy with the screamer held up his hand in the international gesture for "I got it," and off they self-policed. By sunset, the three near-empty, unloved Richard Meier buildings were all clouds.
And a stakeout of the bathroom in which Eric, 29, bottom, Washington Heights, had written his number—with its two clean stalls, lack of other graffiti and half-asleep attendant outside—revealed nothing but joggers delighted (as they should be) to find a public restroom in Manhattan. The bathrooms close, all the signs say, at 8:30 p.m. anyway.
The High Line, that thin, elevated track of soon-to-be-spruced-up public park that runs along 10th Avenue, is, in the drawings for its rebirth, both giga-modern and abundant. Its sleekly louche looks suggest a prime place for an upwardly mobile man-on-man shopping spree, where two fellas freshly met might consider a bit of juicy contemporary art and end up buying $200 jeans at Jeffrey. (Look, baby, we're the same size!)
Cruising requires opportunity, critical mass and an excuse for loitering, none of which coalesce in Hudson River Park. But in the plans for the High Line—which aren't really plans yet so much as notions—architects have considered the site in direct opposition to the speed of the riverfront. Loitering, ahoy!
"[T]he High Line's design team emphasizes the Line's distinction as a 'slow space,' a more contemplative, meandering experience" compared to Hudson River Park, according to a series of public questions posed to the High Line gang in May 2005.
Slow is their watchword. In fact, "slow stairs" is the most evocative phrase used by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architects who, along with Field Operations, apparently will have designed the High Line. "The wide, shallow stairs fulfill a specific design purpose in that they are intended to serve as a transition from the busy, fast-paced city streets below to the wild landscape of the High Line surface above.
"This is intended to be a slow journey, an experience unto itself.
"Along the way … visitors will have the opportunity to come face-to-face with the Line's construction materials and substructure for a truly tactile sensory experience." And, undoubtedly, face-to-face with each other.
Charles Renfro, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, seconded that in an e-mail. "In our design for the High Line," he wrote recently in response to a conversation about public space and cruising, "we are trying to keep and push the qualities of the Line that lend it its sexiness: It's overgrown, it's partly a ruin, and it's outside the city. Our paths meander through high and low vegetation, on occasion ending abruptly. We're trying to un-linear the Line. So while it may sponsor gay cruising, I think it will also sponsor straight cruising and a general sense of pleasure that few public spaces in New York provide at this moment."
Few public spaces, indeed—visually or sexually. There is no particular, dedicated street-cruising gay ghetto in Manhattan any longer, although such may erupt situationally, as the sheer carnival that came into life on Eighth Avenue—most notably on the corner of 21st Street during the last blackout—will attest. (Of course, cruising happened everywhere, gay and straight. And most notable about the cruising of the blackout: It was slow. Who had anywhere to go?)
"People will cruise," Mr. Renfro wrote, "whenever and wherever there are glances exchanged. The 'L' train is the cruisiest and sexiest public space in town."
Well, sure—but where do you get off to get off?
Apart from the temptations of the High Line, when one really looks at the plans and drawings for the other Manhattan improvements in the fluorescent light of day, they suddenly seem indistinguishable from those that prefigured the horrors of Astor Place's new "Sculpture for Living" building, or even Houston Street's hideous chunk of housing, Avalon Christie Place. These sort of new private buildings—so middle-class chic!—embody skewed modernist living ideals gone utterly pear-shaped.
"That modernist apartment was the fantasy where you're Rock Hudson," said Lee Edelman of Tufts University's English department, speaking by phone recently. Mr. Edelman is the author, most relevantly, of an essay called "Men's Room" in Stud: Architectures of Masculinity. "It's all hard surfaces and gleaming angles. You couldn't live, and most gay men still can't, without feeling like the human presence is an intrusion in it …. And I think the next step in it is the relations to design, architecture, and space, in which you yourself are already a flaw in a design."
Apparently, the plans for these sorts of spaces don't need us any more. "It's like HAL in 2001," Mr. Edelman opined, "saying, 'Let's get rid of the humans.'"
It's even true at the structure (or lack of structure) most conspicuously designed for human interaction. "At the Memorial Plaza," according to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's current World Trade Center memorial plan, "the visitor enters an unexpected forest in the city, a unique space with a canopy of hundreds of oak trees." Putting aside the whole, you know, death and horror thing, doesn't that sound just like a playground for lurkey turkeys?
"Well," said Larry Shea, 38, an artist and a filmmaker, "I certainly wouldn't want to go on record saying I'd be cruising at the memorial site. What I thought was the cruisy thing was, when there was a garden on the 70th floor?" (An original, long-scrapped memorial plan by Daniel Libeskind included a wild garden above the 65th floor of the Freedom Tower.) "And I thought, 'That would be fun to have sex in!' I was like, 'Yeah—I want to fuck up there!'"
But over time, that plaza could become Pickup Central. Here's how fast: The meatpacking district, partitioned off by the Astor family in 1878, and containing 250 slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants by 1900, was in 1959 the "largest meat and poultry receiving market in the world," according to The New York Times. The Ninth Avenue elevated, which once made a rude sweeping curve not far from present-day brunch-hole Pastis, only came down in the 40's.
After that, the district took less than half a century to become what it is now, the world's largest post-frat drunk tank, after a brief incarnation as Sin Central. Very brief: Lickety-split, the infamous Anvil only opened in 1974 and closed in 1986.
Surely, New Yorkers' relation to the World Trade Center—and to Sept. 11—will evolve more rapidly than certain mythologists might like. In 200 years (given, of course, the existence of nearby human residents and even a mildly healthy economy), won't the memorial plaza be the last remaining under-built space in downtown Manhattan? Won't pale sunbathers line the pits in early autumn—while off in the suburbs, youngsters wearing turbans play with toy airplanes, the hodgepodge of 9/11 references the only remaining recollection of a day with a meaning no less confused than Labor Day and Memorial Day?
"Who knows, over time?" Mr. Shea had said about cruising the W.T.C. "But I have a feeling it's going to be such a policed and boring space that it wouldn't really be erotic."
Of course, it might not be just the fault of city planners. Bricks-and-mortar sex may very well be going the way of the mom-and-pop store.
First, the cruising scene started getting brokered online, with mixed results. The Web site www.cruisingforsex.com is a bulletin board where men post information about cruising spots around the city. They don't all see eye-to-eye. Of 71 Broadway: "Busiest times are morning rush and noon time" is followed by "I've tried this bathroom a half dozen times, and it has always been closed." City Hall Park: either "Oh my God! If you want sex, this is the place to go" or "There's no sex going on here." The Grand Central Terminal bathroom (downstairs by the escalator) is either packed with married hotties or chockfull of homeless. The Ramble in Central Park is either a hotbed of mingling of the classes (Hello, Olmstead and Vaux!) or a rabidly policed nightmare, depending on who's doing the narration.
What all this inconsistency means is that the cruisers, and would-be cruisers, have given up their power as a bloc. They wander aimlessly through toilets and parks, or just stay home, never knowing where to lurk and deculturated from sexual history. Hey, Netflix delivers porn!
And increasingly, gay men are taking to Web sites like Craigslist to contract sexual encounters online, which then take place in one or the other's apartment ("I can host" or "I can travel" or "Manhattan only" are common provisos there). It's the cruising equivalent of eBay.
"I would imagine—and I have no empirical evidence of this—but I imagine the online community has drawn more and more identified gay people out of the public spaces," said Clarence Patton, the acting executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Project, during a discussion about police action in the wake of the shooting in Prospect Park. (In general, in addition to complaint-generated attention, "the other time policing goes up is when something like this happens.")
Cruising in New York among the self-identified gay classes might now be taking a breather; maybe now it's just something for the closeted. Do gay New Yorkers even want to feel the thrill of the rakehell when they can work out their psychosexual derangements without even leaving the apartment? (And how misguided, then, was the guy from Staten Island who posted to Craigslist's "Men Seeking Men" page last week, asking: "Where can i go to cruze at around here?")
"Our fantasies are really colonized by media in such a way that I think reality is a little scary for people," said Mr. Shea. "There's all these reasons why people have retreated in this sterile world of Internet communication and sharing statistics. The actual dirty work of desire is almost too scary for people, and also it has a bad name. Whereas computers? You're being efficient.
"Because part of the beauty—if you want to use the word 'beauty'—is being surprised by what you like. It's kind of like that iPod attitude: "I want that song, I don't want the whole album." In the end, sexual interaction is a mystery. You surprise yourself, and that's what's lost with the Internet."
Or perhaps New York never recovered from Rudy Giuliani and his strident "public nuisance" crackdowns. When he left, in fact, so did his opponents—among other stalwarts of the pro-sex 90's scene, Michael Warner, a professor at Rutgers and a founder of the group Sex Panic, which militated about the line between public and private sex, didn't return calls and e-mails about the state of cruising.
Or perhaps everyone's left for Berlin, a city which subscribes to a model of post-industrial city growth by importation of the culture class—read: wild gays and bohemians—propagated by the academic Richard Florida.
"When I first moved here," said the American artist D-L Alvarez, who left for Berlin a few years ago, "one big eye-opener, one thing that got me to move here … I was coming home from a movie theater with a friend late at night. We took a shortcut through the park, one of those warm summer nights. I see these cop lights ahead. I freaked out a little, because I don't know the rules …. But instead of busting people, cops were there with safe-sex pamphlets, and telling people which parks were safer and which were more dangerous. Cops were there to protect the people. It was this whole new concept."
Of course, in Berlin, the foxy daddy-figure Mayor Klaus Wowereit even frequents cruisy gay bars, according to Mr. Alvarez—a sharp contrast to creepy, unpredictably asexual Mike Bloomberg.
In Prospect Magazine this month, Joel Kotkin savaged Mr. Florida and his pro-hipster theories as a dot-com-era washout, and the results that Berlin has (not) achieved; Mr. Kotkin makes a convincing, if entirely sad, case that the middle class is the strength of a city.
And non-rich Manhattanites, with their awful Murray Hill and their full-service buildings and their bloody Whole Foods, are nothing if not safely middle-class. Along with the death of bohemian Manhattan, decent places for a guy to get some have evaporated.
There are a few pockets left, most of which will be promptly shut down with any public scrutiny. At Siberia—the bar made semi-famous as the place where Jayson Blair drank while not reporting stories—on Columbus Day weekend, Dean Johnson, old-school gay party promoter, hosted the redundantly titled party Triple XXX. "Don't go into the basement w/o checking your wallet," read the e-invite. "It's hard to avoid pickpockets when your pants are on the floor."
But one wonders if that's just nostalgic and utterly wishful thinking.
As the city builds, maybe the friends of Mr. Johnson will regroup to try the new public spaces, looking for that magical alchemy of opportunity and plausible deniability and, of course, odd beauty. "Gay people have good taste," said Mr. Shea. "The cruising sites around the world are sometimes the most beautiful places." Good buildings make people hot—as Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow so concisely sang: "I feel sexy, sexy Eiffel Towers!" Let the architect beware.


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Chapel Theatre Collective presents
Friends with Guns
By Stephanie Alison Walker
Directed by Illya deTorres
FESTIVAL DATES: Jan 31, Feb 1, 2 @ 7:30pm; Feb 3 @ 2pm
ADDITIONAL RUN DATES: Feb 7-9 @ 7:30pm, Feb 10 @ 2pm, Feb 13-16 @ 7:30pm
VENUE: Chapel Theatre, 4107 SE Harrison St., Milwaukie OR 97222
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You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun — and why. The time of easy answers regarding this issue is long gone. In the wake of current events, we are all forced to reexamine our strongly held beliefs about gun ownership. Friends with Guns explores the question of what we can compartmentalize…and what we can't. It pulls the curtain back and does all of this through a female lens. Finalist for the 2018 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference


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Network Account Search (NAS) allows selecting a parent Health Care Organization (HCO) record to be imported with the Health Care Provider (HCP). After enabling the ADD_PARENTS_TO_TERRITORY_vod Veeva Setting, which Parent HCO displays in the NAS results when the HCP has multiple Parent HCOs? What is the sort order of parent HCOs in the multi-select pop-up window from which the user can select?
Parent HCO names are sorted by corporate_name__v alphabetically and the first one displays in NAS result.
- For a Chinese HCO name, if pinyin_name__v is present and not null, parent HCO names are sorted by pinyin_name__v, but the first one's corporate_name__v displays in NAS result
- For a Japanese HCO name, if corporate_name_furigana__v is present and not null, parent HCO names are sorted by corporate_name_furigana__v, but the first one's corporate_name__v displays in NAS result
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Those of you who read the Rule of St Benedict each day, or listen to the recordings on our main website, have probably been struck by the fact that the current chapters have a lot to say about faults — offences against silence or monastic discipline generally. In each case, Benedict specifies a form of making satisfaction — what a child might call 'putting things right'. That is an important concept to get hold of. To put things right, we must first admit they have gone wrong; and how difficult most of us find that! Proud people don't make mistakes; they have oversights, are forced into difficult positions, make excuses for themselves and will only apologize for any offence they MAY have given. Benedict will have none of that. The so-called penal code in RB is not about apportioning blame or punishing faults as such. Rather, it is a way of bringing us to humility, to the truth about ourselves and others, reintegrating us into a community from which we have exiled ourselves by our own behaviour. As such, it is much more searching than may at first appear.
Take today's brief chapter about making mistakes in the oratory, RB 45. When we trip over a word or sing a wrong note, we kneel briefly on the floor. It alerts everyone; and if the false note or word has led everyone astray, it often helps to get us all back on track. Such a little thing, you might think; we all make mistakes, why bother about it? The point is that in our communal worship of God carelessness has no place. To sing the Divine Office hour by hour, day by day, requires concentration. It would be easy to become sloppy now and again, but to allow such sloppiness would be not merely a personal but also a communal failure.
Sometimes we don't see that personal wrongdoing has a communal dimension. We argue that no one else is affected by what we do. But rather like the false note in choir, even our most hidden faults, such as nursing a grudge or jealous thoughts, weaken the strength of the community as a whole by injecting it with a kind of moral poison. The only antidote is humility and that truthfulness I mentioned above. I think the Lord was on to something when he urged us to turn and become like little children. Putting things right may be more difficult for us as adults. We have to 'unlearn' so many defensive strategies; but ultimately, isn't it worth it?
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Trump: Symptom, Problem or Distraction? – Discussion night next Tuesday @ Hydra
After a month off for the recent demo against council cuts, our discussion nights are back!
Trump's election, and his actions since, have seen a massive wave of protest and action across the US to combat his destructive policies.
Many have echoed these protests in the UK and elsewhere, with thousands coming to the streets (some for the first time). However, other than voicing our somewhat vague displeasure, what purpose does this series of protests serve?
Can it be moulded into effective trans-Atlantic solidarity? Serve as a warning to those looking to import Trump-style politics to Europe? More importantly, can it have an impact on the abhorrent racism, misogyny and anti-working class actions of politicians much closer to home?
After all, we may pour scorn on (or laugh at) Trump's plans to build a ridiculous and expensive wall across his country's southern border… but our country ALREADY HAS SUCH A WALL – Continue reading
Violence, Money, Revolution: A Year of Anarchist Discussion
Good news, everyone! Bristol Anarchist Federation has been running its monthly discussion nights for an entire year. Over the past twelve months, we have covered a range of subjects from 'anarchism and violence' and 'revolutionary women', to 'mental health under capitalism' and 'a world without money'. The talks have been consistently popular, with most meetings seeing about 40 people attending – although, over 200 people showed up for our talk on mental health! We have met lots of new people, some of whom have gotten involved in anarchist organising in Bristol and helped to develop our ideas and actions. Continue reading
The Case For No Borders (Discussion Night)
When: 7pm Tuesday 20th September
At: Hydra Books, Old Market
Cost: Free/Donation
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After a break for August our monthly discussion nights are back with A Case for No Borders! Continue reading
Discussion: Where next for the anti cuts movement?
We recommend reading the following two articles, although its not required! Anyone looking to fight the cuts or learn more is welcome, whether or not you consider yourself an Anarchist.
Poking a Future Monarch with a Stick
A critical analysis of the anti-cuts movements against the ConDem coalition written by a Bristol AFed member.
A Storm is Coming
An article from one of our friends in SolFed about why the anti-cuts movement is about to kick off again Continue reading
"Creating A New World In The Shell Of The Old" – Report Back from Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair 2013
The 4th annual Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair took place last Saturday 11th May at the Showroom Workstation. A member of Bristol AFed went to the Bookfair as part of the Kebele Social Centre/Infoshop Collective. This is their personal account of the day:
After a slow start to the day – waking up at 4am and being stuck on the side of the motorway until 9am – we finally arrived at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair at around midday. We set up our stall next to Bristol Against Arms Trade (BAAT) and were happy to find ourselves nestled between comrades from Collective Action and The Commune with The Cowley Club Social Centre (from Brighton) and Sheffield IWW opposite us.
Once we'd finished setting up I took some time to look around the other stalls. There were at least 28 stalls at this year's Anarchist Bookfair. Despite this the Bookfair gave off the impression of a bustling and active movement with lots of people walking between stalls and talking to eachother. This really felt like a local Bookfair and I loved it.
Film & Discussion Night at The Cube
Monday 7th February, 8pm Cube Microplex, Dove St, Bristol
£4/3/no one turned away through lack of funds.
On October 20th 2010 George Osborne announced plans to implement £81billion worth of cuts to public spending. Independent economic thinktanks such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies have described the cuts as highly regressive measures which will hit the poorest hardest, and that the cuts are the deepest seen in UK since the second world war.
Since the announcement of the cuts, there has been a growing wave of protests at the unnecessarily deep and poorly targeted cuts. The series of student led demonstrations against the 80% cut to the university teaching budget, tripling of tuition fees and removal of the education maintenance allowance have seen the 'post-ideological' ipod generation occupying university buildings and leading protests around the country. The UK Uncut direct action campaign has been highlighting the hypocrisy of a government that claims that 'we're all in it together' and then allows large corporations such as Vodafone and the Arcadia group to avoid and evade billions in taxes while the poorest in society are hit the hardest. As time passes and the effects of the cuts start to bite, these campaigns and others like them are only going to intensify.
The government is determined to plough ahead with these savage, unnecessary, ideological cuts. But a growing protest movement is starting to stage the fight back. Join Bristol Indymedia for an evening of short films, invited speakers (including one from Bristol Anarchist Federation) and discussion as to how best to resist the ConDem cuts.


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To use our 1.3 I/O, you should compile and link using a `-fhaskell-1.3' flag.
You should consult the PROPOSED 1.3-I/O standard. GHC 0.26 implements the "December 1994" draft, which we distribute in `ghc/docs/io-1.3/'.
Alternatively, you could grab the "June 1995" draft, from `pub/haskell/report/', on `ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk'. The main December--June change that you need to know about is: many of the I/O functions have been removed from `Prelude*' interfaces (no import required) and put into `Lib*' interfaces (import required).
GHC 0.26 still provides the I/O functions via `Prelude.hi' (no import required). Ignore the "June draft" pleadings for `import LibIO', and you'll be fine.
There is no guarantee that the final 1.3 proposal will look anything like the current DRAFT. It ain't a standard until the fat committee sings.
For interaction with our non-standard `PrimIO', including `_ccall_'s. we also provide:
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Moral Character and the Presidency
We don't usually think of American Presidents by reference to moral character, but it's clear "character" tends to predict success or failure. To which of these Presidents may we assign "good character"?
1974 President Nixon resigns
1974 Vice President Ford assumes Office of the President
1976 Jimmy Carter elected President
1980 Ronald Reagan elected President.
1988 George H. W. Bush elected President
1998 William Jefferson Clinton Impeached
2000 George W. Bush elected President
2009 America's first Marxist President, Barack Obama, elected.
2016 Donald Trump elected President
At least three Presidents on this list lacked moral character which may explain our consternation with recent acts by President Trump.
What explains President Trump's public abuse of a subordinate? Disregard of lesser persons by persons is not uncommon by persons of wealth. The wealthy have a sense of privilege and pride that overrides common sense.
But, this is the President of the United States!
Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 were given a choice between a candidate who violated regulations concerning classified information and one who was recorded explaining how he could take sexual advantage by assertion of his celebrity.
Though Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate, many Republicans were tempted to vote Democrat for the first time because the Republican candidate lacked good character. They reasoned that Hillary Clinton would serve only one term, but Trump would destroy the Republican Party and set back the interests of political conservatives by at least ten years.
In the final analysis, Republicans were given a choice between two bad alternatives. It now remains to be seen if the price for that choice is a future decade of failure.


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South Park: The Fractured But Whole has slipped into the next financial year, Ubisoft's Q3 financial report has revealed, and the company has revised its fiscal 2016-2017 sales figures as a result.
Whereas Ubisoft was previously targeting around €1,610m fiscal sales, the company has now revised this down to €1,455m.
Elsewhere in the report, however, Ubisoft reports record engagement levels and that its three-year plan digital development is "ahead of schedule."
Sales for the nine months ended December 31st were up 5.5 per cent compared to the same period last year, reaching a total of €811.3m. However, with titles such as Watch Dogs 2 and Steep under-performing over the UK Christmas period, Ubisoft's Q3 sales were actually down 5.7 per cent year-on-year, reaching €529.9m compared to €561.8m for Q3 2015-2016.
Ubisoft noted that Watch Dogs 2's launch was "not as dynamic as expected, but momentum [is] now positive." As for Steep, Ubisoft said it actually had "slightly higher-than-expected performance"
However, Ubisoft says it's optimistic about the year ahead, stating that "given the continuing favorable structural changes in our business, namely the move towards a more recurring and profitable profile," the company's expecting to meet its non-IFRS operating income target of between €230m and €250m for the full year 2016-2017.
Player engagement levels are also up, with Ubisoft noting that monthly active users were up 33.1 per cent in the nine-month period, and that Rainbow Six Siege now has 15m registered players and record daily active users. The Division also saw a 152.3 per cent jump in daily active users.
Ubisoft said it also saw record back-catalogue sales over the last nine months, hitting €462.9m. This accounted for 57.1 per cent of the company's total sales, and is an increase of 64.7 per cent year-on-year.
The company also saw record digital sales over the last nine months, raking in €383m. This accounted for 47.2 per cent of Ubisoft's total sales, and showed an increased of 84.4 per cent year-on-year.
Co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot commented: We are successfully pursuing our transformation into a more recurring and more profitable profile. The positive effects of this transformation are remarkable. They illustrate how far ahead of schedule we are in our digital development, which is one key element of our three-year targets.
"Our overall player community is growing rapidly. We hit record engagement levels during the period, with 33% more MAU year on year. The number of daily players of Rainbow Six Siege is at its highest ever, an exceptional performance given that the game was released 14 months ago. Meanwhile, The Division has continued its successful come-back, with engagement up by more than 150% by the end of December. This resulted in record back-catalog sales and digital revenue for the third quarter, and we saw another sharp rise in player recurring investment.
"In light of the positive impacts of our transformation, combined with our overall solid performance and tight cost control, we are standing by our objective of achieving record operating income and operating margin for fiscal 2016-17, despite lower-than-expected sales. Our targets for fiscal 2017-18 will be announced mid-May and will include an increase in our topline and operating income, while factoring in the very competitive environment that we expect to see throughout the year. Longer term, with the current successful implementation of our strategic plan, we are confident we will achieve our targets for fiscal 2018-19. In fact, by the end of fiscal 2016-17, we expect to meet, or even exceed, the 45% digital revenue and 17% player recurring investment targets we had set for fiscal 2018-19."


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After realizing what NOT to do for a peg doll swap...
...sniffing all too many sharpies while making ornaments for a Jesse Tree swap...
...and modge podging like mad for a 12 Days of Christmas ornament swap...
..I decided I would teach myself how to wood-burn for an upcoming Lenten Resurrection egg swap.
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How I Made Our Lenten Resurrection Swap Eggs
First, I broke our our brand-new woodburning kit, which we got at a discount around Christmastime in preparation for this project, and the bag of wooden eggs, which a friend purchased in bulk and divided with swap members. I searched for the smoothest of the eggs since I wanted to dive in for the first time without having to sand.
Then, while the woodburning tool was heating up, I began searching for and sketching images of my assigned image: nails. An easy image, I know, but I wanted to land on a design that had a bit more oomph than a single nail or two. So, the kids and I set to brainstorming.
Once I settled on an image, I drew it on a paper, turned the paper over, and colored the backside with pencil. I did this on scrap paper so the pencil markings from the drawn nail side would not transfer onto my table.
I then flipped the paper over on the image, and traced it. Thereby transferring the image of the nails I had settled on -- old style nails in the shape of a cross -- into the egg.
Image drawn, it was time to woodburn.
My first go went well, but I did end up learning something that I passed on in our swap group page:
When aging with long hair, pull your hair back before wood burning. As my developing need for bifocals got the best of me, I leaned close to my woodburning tool and egg. A bit of hair told me how close I was when it gave a singe scream (a quiet one) and sent off a putrid smell to break the silence of my woodburning concentration. Pony tail holder now in place! LOL
After burning just two eggs, my kids joined in the craftivity at our kitchen table by beginning to paint peg dolls for a kids' swap. So, that was the end of my woodburning. I simply could not concentrate on my project while helping them with theirs.
The next day, Nina, grateful for my help the day before, offered to help me sand the rougher wooden eggs in my bag.
We sanded and sanded, using multiple grades of sandpaper, but many of the eggs just would not completely smooth. So, after consulting with several swap members, including the swap coordinator, I gave up on the sanding and added this tip to my future swap brain file:
Accept rough surfaces or buy Grade A eggs. The "seconds" we bought just did not want to get smooth!
At that point, it was time to transfer the image onto the 11 eggs I had yet to do. (All of us in the swap are doing 13 eggs so we can each keep one full set while donating a full set to a local mom!)
Then, it was back to my woodburning, with my hair tied back to avert further singing and my neck craned forward to make up for my aging vision. (Learning humility and acceptance is a BIG part of these swaps for me.)
Since my daughter wanted to help with this part, I let her play photographer, and, then, after she had been watching me carefully for some time, I allowed her to use a hand-over-hand method to burn some of the eggs with me.
And, yes, before I let her delicate hands get so close to the ultra-hot tool, I said a prayer to both of our guardian angels. For, while she had proved her patience and I was confident that she could burn the wooden eggs with me, I was nervous while guiding her little hand.
After letting her do a few eggs with me, I suggested she go back to being our photographer.
Between my daughter's efforts and mine, this is what our eggs looked like once they were all burned.
So, it was time for painting.
The acrylic paint color I chose to paint the eggs looked like it was going to be a muted, almost pastel, "blood" color. However, once I got it on the egg tops, I realized it was much darker. I decided to go with the color even if it was dark since it seemed fitting for the nail image.
So, I after the tops dried enough, I did the fronts of the eggs, the back, and the bottoms, all leaving drying time in between.
The hardest part was the oval around the burned nail image. I started these ovals quite wide around the images because I do not have the steadiest hands, and, then, each time the line of an oval looked too uneven, I simply closed the oval in a bit. I found by tipping a paint brush on its side, holding it close to an egg, and rotating the egg around slowly, as opposed to moving my paint brush hand, I had the most luck.
Finally, all the eggs were done. They were not perfect, but they were as good as I could get them and I was afraid if I kept trying to improve them, they would end up worse, not better.
I let the eggs dry for a day, did a few minor touch ups, let them dry again, and then set to sealing them.
I had used layers of Modge Podge to seal things in prior swaps, but had since been told that it was not the best sealer. So, upon a recommendation, I purchased Triple Thick glaze spray for this project, thinking it would be quick and easy to apply, with beautiful long-lasting results.
Such was not the case... First off, I thought our home was well-ventilated enough when I went to spray the eggs, but it was not. I almost asphyxiated us all, I think. Second, as soon as I sprayed, paint began to run off my eggs. Disaster!
Seeing my hard work at painting ovals arund woodburnt images dissolve, I tried to pick one egg up to wipe the running paint off with a rag, only to realize the was super sticky. So, I did a quick wipe, used soap, water, and alcohol on my hands to wash the stickiness off, and, then, grabbed a plastic bag to use as a glove.
With speed, I "saved" as many eggs as I could and, then, transferred them all onto new bags to dry, so I could throw out the other smelly, sticky, paint-glaze pooled bags in the outdoor trash.
Since I did not want anyone to face the same near-demise my eggs did, I immediately posted in our local swap group about what happened and also asked about others' experiences in a national swap group. I learned that many use Triple Thick, but few ever use spray, while others prefer Minwax. I also learned that our local swap leader, indeed, uses Triple Thick spray for projects, and has for years, without any incident.So, after another 24 hours or more of letting the eggs dry, I bravely took the eggs outside on a tray and gave them a second coat to cover over anywhere my first effort at sealing may have failed due to my handling the eggs to wipe off running paint before the eggs had dried.
This time, the spraying went much better. No big runs happened and, after leaving the eggs on the stoop for several hours, I was able to take them in, let them dry over night, and transfer them to a carton.I was sad as I did so over the eggs that had been ruined. However, I cheered up when another swap member who'd stopped by to return my woodburning tool, which she had borrowed, took a look and said they were fine. She could not believe how smooth my ovals were. (Really?!?) And, she thought the eggs had homemade character. (Such a sweet and encouraging friend!)
So, now, my eggs sit ready to be swapped. I cannot wait to see what the other moms did and to get my whole set of wooden Lenten Resurrection Eggs.
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Sarah, from Frugal Fun for Boys, inspired our local swap coordinator to suggest this swap. Head on over to her DIY Resurrection Eggs post to checkout her wonderful work!
No Time for Crafting?
If you don't have time for wooden egg crafting, you can easily whip up some sensory smart Holy Week/Resurrection eggs like I have done in the past.
You can also purchase ready-made ones, like this set we found at a thrift shop a couple years ago and enjoy annually.
Or, dispense with the eggs altogether, and enjoy some hands-on Holy Week art instead.
There are so many ways to bring the Resurrection Story alive for children. How do you teach and review it with your kids?


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Yesterday, we were presented with one of the oddest PR outreach strategies I can recall. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich decided to forgo attending that pesky impeachment trial going on in Springfield, and instead decided to drop in and chat with the ladies on "The View," allowing Joy Behr to tousle his strangely-famous hair, and beg him to do his Nixon "I am not a crook" impression (which, I suppose thank heaven for small favors, he did not do). This followed his morning appearance sitting across from Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America."
I suppose the governor is feeling somewhat persecuted in his home state, but that doesn't really explain what he hopes to gain from this rather unusual strategy of ignoring a trial and instead going to the national networks. When you consider that the audience for these shows is predominantly made up of people outside of Illinois, what could possibly be the objective for this outreach strategy? It certainly isn't endearing him to those largely responsible for deciding his fate. To use a much overused phrase in PR: he doesn't appear to be "taking things seriously."
This is the curious pathology of some in the public eye. When cornered (usually by actions of their own doing) they attempt to charm their way out of a situation. It rarely works.
The governor's potty mouth, his clear and unequivocal statements concerning the matter in which he finds himself in hot water, and his apparent blatant disregard for the process going on in Springfield all contribute to what appears to me to be a total lack of understanding of the seriousness of his situation.
Taking his case to the talk-show circuit doesn't appear to me to be helping his case–it seems more baffling than anything else. If it's an attempt to garner more favorable press, I have to wonder if there is really much difference in coverage that implies: "the governor has done something that is likely illegal" to coverage that implies "he's completely off his rocker." While it does change the subject matter of the coverage, is that really an improvement? That strategy might work for off-balance Hollywood starlets, but shouldn't we expect more serious treatment from elected officials? Or is changing the topic of the coverage sufficient in an effort to develop a more sympathetic persona while looking to the likelihood of the event of a very public criminal trial?
It is perhaps a result of our more interconnected society that a governor feels the need to go beyond the borders of the state that he represents to mitigate the damage done. As local coverage is now accessible worldwide, perhaps the damage control needs to be also.


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I first thought that my biggest challenge as a cell church pastor was to deeply work on the principles and values until the entire structure had shifted. Indeed it was a big challenge! We had to work hard to accomplish a complete transition. We never skipped or ignored any step of the transition phase. Yes, it was difficult to transition our church, but there was something even more difficult.
Even though transitioning was hard, keeping the leaders motivated and the vision healthy was even harder. I learned this along the way.
In his book Axioms, Bill Hybels says that vision leaks. And I have to agree. Some leaders lose their passion and vision and must be reminded continually about God's purpose through cell ministry.
In our church, we have a "Vision Day" every other month. We invite all small group leaders, supervisors, coordinators and pastors to a number of workshops and vision casting activities. We spend the whole day together, morning, afternoon and evening. We invite outside pastors to preach and to do the workshops. As the lead pastor, I always preach the main message. They must hear from me and see my passion for cell ministry. All content on the Vision Day has something to do with cell ministry. We talk about topics such as: Why we do what we do? How to have exciting cell meetings. How do we fulfill the Great Commission, the leader's prayer life, accountability, discipleship and making disciples? We always want the vision to be clear and the leaders to be focused.
I can tell you that I have seen leaders bored in the vision and leaking a lot. But I have also seen these leaders brought back on track, as they experienced the "Vision Day." God gives them the grace to breathe again.
Transitioning is hard, but keeping the vision healthy after years of doing cell ministry is even harder. Lead pastors must be aware of it and make sure they are reinvigorating the vision when it starts to leak.
This article originally appeared here.