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Latitude has swiftly become a deep-rooted fixture on an ever expanding festival circuit, offering weary Glastonbury revellers an opportunity to recharge under the Suffolk sun and various meeejia folks the chance to check out a series of fine adult-orientated headliners without too many screaming kids. You know, the sorts that actively roll in muck and tongue each other for photographs. Ergh.
This year's event – three days of good weather, fine beer and excellent company – took place from July 13 'til July 15, mixing musical attractions with a healthy dose of comedy, poetry and theatre, set against a stunning setting. DiS dispatched a handful of critical sorts to Henham Park, in Southwold, and asked them to select their personal standouts. After all, if it's simply a list of participating acts you're after, you could just click to the Latitude website, here. If you liked.
In no specific order, then…
Will Dean
I'm From Barcelona
I'm from Barcelona are ridiculous. Dumb, even. Twenty-nine people singing Technicolor major-chord songs with little meaning. But, by bloody blimey if they're not the most fun you'll ever have. Emanuel Lundgren and friends play the Sunrise Arena (in the middle of the woods) and you can't see a thing except for hundreds of balloons bobbing up and down and one DiS writer dancing like an uncle at a wedding. It's joy squeezed up, mixed with cider and sprayed around the room in the form of liquid melody.
The Whip
The Whip are missing their keyboard player. Half of their sound is pumped over the PA. There's hardly anyone here. Never the mind, as they're bloody brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that their electro-rock-clash draws in people from the lovely Suffolk sunshine. Recent single 'Divebomb' goes on a bit as the band admit they don't know when to finish it without keyboardist Dan, but it's such a good song that the now bubbling crowd couldn't give the proverbial hoot or two. It's about time Manchester produced another great band…
DiScover act: Sunset Cinema Club
There's not much in Redditch that's good. A couple o' roundabouts perhaps, a nice pub or two in the outskirts and that's your lot. Well, no more! Sunset Cinema Club sing noisy whippets of yappy future punk. And they sing it well. Alright, playing their first-ever festival slot in front of an apathetic crowd of sunbathers might not quite suit them, but stick them in a sweaty West Midlands bar and then we'll be talking.
Ben Yates
Saturday begins well with a set from the much-hyped American six-piece Annuals. Those Arcade Fire comparisons? Spurious, as it happens. They may have four percussionists at some points in the show, but today, at this moment, Annuals are very much their own band. My only complaint from their Be He Me-heavy show is that they manage to keep me enticed for the whole length of their set and, as a result, I suffer horrible sunburn. The shits…
Final Fantasy
Owen Pallet, aka Final Fantasy, plays solo to a stunning wooded backdrop. The violinist from 'that band he'd rather not mention' manages to overcome the tricky hurdle of replacing the full-band sound of 2006's He Poos Clouds with some ambition and a trusty looping pedal. He breaks out 'This Lamb Sells Condos' and 'Do You Love', before performing a wonderful cover of John Cale's 'Paris 1919'. His set ends abruptly, but it doesn't matter – everyone is making their way towards the main stage to get a good place for the best band in the world, Arcade Fire (who, as an aside, manage to move the crowd to levels of religious fervour and, for that, they deserve all the praise they get).
DiScover act: Vessels
One of the great things about wandering around a festival of this size is the opportunity to discover new bands that you wouldn't bother checking out on the internet. A good example of this is Leeds–based quintet Vessels, whose ear-smashingly awesome guitar crunches are more suited to the expansive festival stage than the constraints of a shoddy 4-track demo. The combination of unpredictable math-rock structures and steadfast post-rock manoeuvres a may sound irritatingly contrary and self-indulgent on paper, but in a live setting it rocks. You can guarantee you'll be reading a lot more about Vessels on these pages in the near future.
Rachel Cawley
Noah and the Whale
Every time I see Noah and the Whale I leave with my little heart a fluttering. Each time, a burning question of "Do you think they will let me join?" lingers. Not that they could possibly need me, but just because they play music with such tangible threads of enthusiasm and humility and reality – and, essentially, they have avoided any of the possible trends you could leech a new band on to, and cut to the chase of melodic mastery and frank, open delivery. Their violinist (who we see earlier in the weekend playing with Emmy the Great) provides the flourish to their sound, playing the fiddle without ever letting it sound emotionally overwrought, as is the usual trap with the instrument.
New Young Pony Club
Setting is everything. Now night has fallen, the sunrise arena, lodged away in a clearing of the woods, has started to feel like a hidden cave. Packed out with people, the proximity of the dense woodland to all sides gives welcome claustrophobia, the sense of a packed out party. 'Ice Cream' and 'The Bomb' sound so much more intense than on record, and the crowd are barely under control, pushing and pushing at the barriers to get closer to the sounds that lead them on. Vocalist Tahita is the star of this event. She has become the woodland nymph and darts between rays of spotlights and shadows of trees, in and out of sight she leads us on into the night.
DiScover act: Slow Club
Having missed my original train out of London and lugging my excessive amount of luggage over what seemed to be several miles across a damp field, my first thoughts would usually be of eating, resting and recuperating. However, I knew that Slow Club were playing in a matter of minutes, so it was a case of throwing the tent together and gallivanting off down the hill to see the wonderfully cacophonous acoustic two-piece, camera swinging from my hand. She, Rebecca, has the strident voice and plays the milk bottles; he, Charles, lets his voice intertwine and has an arresting way with the guitar. Twee they may be, but it's a joyous, inclusive and not one little bit sickening type. There was no way I was going to miss them, and you shouldn't either.
Dan Wale
Bat For Lashes
Natasha Khan and her cohorts, maybe unexpectedly, step up to a lofty billing on the main stage. Wearing a skeleton-emblazoned cat-suit and, despite having to deal with a few minor technical difficulties, she and her troupe of femme fatales deliver a powerful performance. Indebted - perhaps a little too much - to Björk and PJ Harvey the Mercury-nominated four-piece may be, but it's hard to mark down good taste. One in the eye of lad-rock.
Gruff Rhys
The Super Furry frontman is quite simply the act of the weekend. Criminally underrated in both his group guise and now as a solo performer, he is in parts folksy, experimental and comedic. Gruff plays solely from his latest stellar album Candylion, but live looping, sonic adventuring and a 12-minute 'Skylon' performed in a pilot's uniform and on airline seats keep him constantly mesmerising. And, for the record, the children's TV-inspired stage set is by far the best of the festival.
DiScover act: Jeremy Warmsley
Jeremy Warmsley captures the spirit of things. Performing in the woods and given room to fly by an achingly good backing band, magnificent vibrations drift through the trees, drawing people to the source. Surreal and more than a little special, the once flimsy Warmsley is flexing previously unrealised muscles.
Sean Adams
Patrick Wolf
It's great to be an unpredictable star, but so many times I've gotten excited about seeing Mr Wolf and then gear doesn't work or he just doesn't appear to want to be there. This show, however, was totally different. He parades around the stage dropping re-worked versions of early tracks, glittering and preening out their once-murky edges. As hands punch the humid tent air to 'Bloodbeat' and the dancing onstage and off gets, well, freakin' frankly. Patrick proves he's an anti-pop star in waiting, and really could be our generation's Cliff Richard. DiSsers leave with dumb grins to hug trees.
Friendly Fires
On paper, Friendly Fires don't sound so good: Rapture-y anthems + Hot Chip looseness + Kooks hooks + bassy !!!-isms ÷ teenage suburban Brits = meh! The sum of these tightly-honed parts however is alarmingly catchy, so much so I'm not beyond putting a bet on them being the band of next summer.
DiScover act: Dockers MC
This newcomer steps up onto the poetry stage with a hoodie and a wide-eyed stare. I'd heard rumblings that she's rather special, and as she begins a hilarious stalker-penned 'letter to Rolf Harris' skit, it's clear this Brixton gal has a lot between the bullet holes.
Lead image, Patrick Wolf, by Lola Peach. New Young Pony Club and Bat For Lashes by Rachel Cawley.


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The Case of the Missing Pumpkin Latte
The craze for Pumpkin Spiced Latte has intermittently drained supplies at Starbucks scattered across the country. Instead of sporting a tuft of whipped cream on their noses, fans have one word on their lips: shortage. Lisa Fleisher has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
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Chapter 5 Verse 10
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
church having, in verse 8 given the daughters of Jerusalem a strict and solemn charge, that when they found her beloved, they would tell him that she was sick of love, made them, in verse 9 very inquisitive after him; being as it were uneasy till they knew what he was, and wherein he excelled others; and therefore put this question to her, "What is thy beloved more than another beloved?" to which an answer is returned by her, in this and the following verses; in which she first gives a more general description of him, and then descends to particulars. The general description of him is in the words now under consideration; in which she describes him,
I.Positively, in regard to what he was in himself, as to his favor and complexion; "my beloved is white and ruddy."
II.Comparatively, as he may be considered with regard to others; "the chiefest among ten thousand."
I.She describes him by his favor and complexion, "white and ruddy." Which some652652Foliot & Ainsworth in loc. Ambros. in Psalm 118. octon. 5. col. 907. Theodoret. & Tres Patres apud ibid. understand of his two natures, human and divine; who may be said to be white, as to his divine nature; "the ancient of days," the everlasting God, is represented in Daniel 7:9 as being clothed with "a garment white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool:" the description which John (1 John 1:5), gives of the Divine Being, is, that he "is light, and in him is no darkness at all;" which is thought653653Color albus praecipue decorus Deo est, Cicero de Legibus: 1:2. to be best represented by this color, which is simple, and has no mixture and composition in it. Christ is "the light of the world;" he was known by this character to the Old Testament saints; he was prophesied of as the great light which should lighten the Gentile world; this was owned by old Simeon, witnessed by John, and asserted by himself: and then it is thought by these interpreters, that he may be said to be red or ruddy, as to his human nature. The first man, who was a type of Christ, and "a figure of him that was to come," was called Adam, which signifies red; and perhaps he had his name from the Hebrew word hmda adamah, which signifies red earth654654Vid. Baxtorf. & David de Polnis in Lex, in rad. µda & Joseph. Antiq; 1. 1. c. 1. s. 2. , out of which he was formed, Genesis 2:7, so Christ is called " the last Adam? (1 Cor.15:45), because he "took part of the same flesh and blood the children" whom he loved, "are partakers of." Now, according to this sense of the words, her answer is this; Would you know who and what my beloved is, and wherein he excels others? I will tell you, and be it known unto you, that he is no mean, common and ordinary person; no, he is a glorious and an extraordinary one; his name is alp pele, wonderful, a wonder, a miracle; and so is his person; two natures meet in him; he is God and man in one person; he is "the great mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh;" and when you hear this, you will cease to wonder why I so charge you, and why I love, value, and esteem him above all others.
Again others655655Hieron. Greg. Psellus, S. Thorn. Beda, & Rupert. in Sanct. in loc. understand these words of Christ's human nature only; and that he may be said to be white, because of the innocence, purity and holiness of his human nature; which was not tainted with original sin, as ours is, he not descending from Adam by ordinary generation; but was miraculously conceived in the womb of a virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, and therefore it is called "that holy thing:" neither was there any sinful action committed by him in all his life; but both in nature and practice he was "holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners;" he never sinned in thought, word or deed, though he "was made sin for us." Also they suppose, he may be said to be red or ruddy, on the account of his sufferings in this nature; by reason of which he may be represented, in Isaiah 63:1,2, as being "red in his apparel," and as being clothed with "dyed garments;" for what with the buffetings and scourgings of his body, the crowning his head with thorns, and piercing his hands, feet and side, with the nails and spear, the garment of the human nature was like "a vesture dipped in blood:" to this purpose is Alcuin's note on the text, which is not to be despised; he is white, says he, because without sin; red, with the blood of his sufferings; "chosen out of ten thousand," because he is the only mediator of God and men. Now there cannot appear a more beautiful and delightful sight, to those who desire "to know nothing but Christ and him crucified," than to see the just Jesus suffering for unjust ones; him that "knew no sin, made sin for them;" and the holy, harmless, innocent, and unspotted lamb of God, shedding his blood for the vilest of sinners: according to this sense, the church's answer is; Would you know what my beloved is, and wherein he excels others? I will tell you, he is not lack with original and actual sin, as you and I are; for though you see him red with sufferings; yet he was "not cut off for himself, but was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities;" for in his nature and actions he is white, pure and spotless; and such a mixture of white and red, of innocence and sufferings, render him extremely amiable and lovely to me. Or else,
As others656656Vid. R. Aben Ezra, R. Alshech, & Ainsworth in oc. & R. Sol Jarchi in ver. 16. have observed, these words may be understood of the different administrations of mercy and justice: Thus when Christ pardons sinners, "though their sins be as scarlet," he makes them "as white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, they become as wool;" and when he justifies persons, he is said to clothe them in "fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints;" and when he promises glorification to them, it is in such words as these, "they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy;" and so glorified saints are represented, "clothed with white robes, palms in their hands, and hallelujahs in their mouths;" for all which see Isaiah 1:18; Revelation 3:4, 5; and 7:9, 13, 14, and 19:8, and then when he is represented as taking vengeance on his enemies, and executing wrath upon his foes, he is said to be "red in his apparel," and to be "clothed with a vesture dipped in blood;" for so they understand Isaiah 63:1,2; Revelation 19:13, and it may be farther observed, that the wrath which the Lord poureth forth upon the "wicked of the earth," is represented by a cup of red wine, expressing the fierceness and fury of it; "for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and, the wine is red," etc. (Ps.75:8). And this agrees with the common notion of the Cabalistic doctors, that when God appears in mercy and kindness, then he may be said to be white; but when in wrath and anger, red: of this frequent mention is made in Zohar, and in other Cabalistic books:657657Vid. Shirhashirim Rabba in loc. fol. 20, 1. according to this sense, it is as if she should say, My beloved has mercy and grace for his people, which he bestows in a sovereign manner upon them; and he has vengeance for his adversaries, which he executes upon them according to the strictest rules of justice; and this mixture of mercy and justice, of white and red, renders him an extraordinary person; it makes some to love him, and others to fear him. Or else,
These words may be interpreted of Christ's battles and victories, and may represent him as a mighty warrior, and a triumphant conqueror: Thus in Revelation 6:4. the warrior, who had "power given him to take peace from the earth," is introduced as riding upon "a red horse;" and in verse 2, he that "went forth conquering and to conquer," as riding upon a "white horse;" thus Christ, who is "the Lord of hosts, the man of war," considered as fighting the Lord's battles, may be said to be red or ruddy; and as returning from the field of battle, as a mighty conqueror, having "spoiled principalities and powers," and got an entire victory over all his and our enemies, may be said to be white. And now this great person, as if she should say, has done all this for me, and "made me also more than a conqueror;" and this person is my beloved.
But passing these several senses, which perhaps may be thought too nice and curious, though agreeable to the analogy of faith, yet it may be, will not bear so well here; though I choose rather to understand them of the beauty, glory and excellency of Christ, as mediator, without applying particularly these colors of "white and ruddy," to either nature, or to any particular actions performed in either: and I cannot but think that the church, in this description of Christ, has some reference to the account that is given of David, 1 Samuel 16:12. which is, that "he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look at." David was an eminent type of Christ; of his line the Messiah came, who is sometimes called David in scripture; and is both his "root and offspring, the bright and the morning star;" and as described by David, is "fairer than the children of men," being "white and ruddy, which discovers the best temperature, the most healthful constitution, and the completest beauty: as mediator, he is a perfection of beauty; all divine perfections are in him; the glory of them all shine resplendently in his face or person; and they are all glorified in him and by him, who is "the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person." There is also a mediatorial glory that he is possessed of, which is the result and consequence of his work; and which readers him exceeding fair and beautiful in the eyes of believers now, and is what they will, with wonder and pleasure, everlastingly gaze upon in another world: likewise as mediator, all fullness of grace dwells in him; and as "full of grace and truth, his glory appears as the glory of the only begotten of the Father."
Again, Christ, as mediator, is "white and ruddy," a perfection of beauty in the eyes of believers, as considered in all his offices of prophet, priest and king; and in all his relations, as husband, father, brother and friend, which he bears and stands in to his people: moreover, he is exceeding beautiful in their esteem, in all that he has done and suffered for them; but of this beauty and fairness o£ Christ, see more on chapter 1:15.
II.Christ is here described by the church comparatively, as he may be considered with regard to others; "the chiefest among ten thousand."
The Septuagint render the words thus, "chosen out of, or from ten thousand:"658658jEklelocismenov apo muriadwn, Sept. electus ex millibus, Vulg. Lat. David de Pomis in Lexic. Hebrews fol. 18. 3, renders it magnificatus, electus. so Christ is both by God and men; he is chosen of God from among ten thousand, as man and mediator: when that large number of all the individuals of human nature, which tie resolved to create in time, came up in his vast and eternal mind; a certain number of them he for himself whom he meant to make instances of singled out his mighty grace and mercy, and therefore ordained them to life and salvation; and out of this select company, which he had in his eternal view, he chose the man Christ Jesus, and singled oat that single individuum of human nature only, to be united to the eternal logov, logos, the second person in the glorious Trinity; and therefore he is said to "exalt one chosen out of the people:" he chose this glorious person to be the Savior. head, and mediator of his elect ones, that living stone, which is disallowed and rejected by some men, who would be accounted builders, is "chosen of God, and precious;" he has laid him as the foundation, and "made him as the head of the corner;" he knew that he was furnished with suitable abilities to be the sinner, savior, therefore he "laid help upon one that is mighty;" he called him to the work, invested him with the office of a mediator, and appointed him his "salvation to the ends of the earth:" and now, had all human beings been summoned together to have chosen a savior for themselves, they could never have made a better choice than God has made for them; with this choice every sensible sinner is well satisfied, and rejoices in it; and was it to be done again, would say, as the Psalmist did, "He shall choose our inheritance for us," (Ps. 47:4).
He is also chosen of men from among ten thousand: there is none among all the angels in heaven, the large number of inhabitants that fill the upper world; nor any among the vast crowds of the sons of men, so desirable to sensible sinners as he is: they make choice of Him only for their Savior i far being sensible that in vain is salvation hoped for any where else, they say of all the works of their hands, even of the best their hands ever wrought, "ye shall not save us;" neither will we any more give you such honor, nor have such a dependence on you as to say, "ye are our gods," but Christ, and he only, shall be our salvation; and though he slay us, yet will we trust in him: they choose him for their ruler and governor, their Lord and King; and though they have formerly been under, and have submitted to the government of others; yet they now desire to be his subjects and servants only, and to be obedient to his laws and commands: they likewise fix on him as the alone object of their love, whom they have the strongest affection for, and desirous to keep the most inviolable chastity to; for though he is out of sight, he is not out of mind, "whom having not seen they love;" nor can he be out-rivaled by any, being preferable in their esteem to all others.
Moreover the Hebrew word may be rendered, a "standard-bearer659659hbbrm lwnd vexillatus, ornatus vel elatus ut vexillarius, Buxtorf. vexillatus myriade, Mercerus; vexillatus a decem millibus, Montanus; vexillarius est e myriade Junius; sub signis habens exercitum decem millium, Tigurine version. , or one standard among ten thousand." The church of Christ here below is in a militant state; she has many enemies to grapple with, which cause fightings without, and fears within; and though these enemies are mighty and powerful, crafty and cunning, yet in the name and strength of her Lord, she sets up her banners, and appears as terrible to them, and as majestic to others, "as an army with banners;" and this banner, or standard, which is both her covering and her comfort in the day of battle, is love, according to chapter 2:4. It is the love of Christ, as a banner displayed, an ensign set up, and standard erected, which invites and engages so many to enlist themselves in Christ's service; and, when enlisted, animates them to fight the Lord's battles so courageously as they do; Christ, he is the standard-bearer, and the great "captain of our salvation," being by God the Father given as a "leader and commander" to the people. Now Christ being said to be "the standard-bearer among ten thousands" may be understood of the multitude, either of ministering angels660660Vid. Targum, Aben Ezra, & Shirhashirim Rabba in loc. , who are under him and at his command; or of saints, who are enlisted in his service, and ready to do his pleasure; he having set up his standard, and being himself "an ensign to the people," multitudes flock unto him, and fulfill the prophecy of him, as the great Shiloh, to whom "the gathering of the people should be:" herein lies the glory and excellency of Christ that he has ten thousand, that is, a large number of choice and select ones under his standard, such as there are not the like in all the world besides; and how stately and majestic does Christ look, and what a noble sight is it to see him bearing the standard before such a company! such a sight as this John had of him, at the head of a vast multitude of those shining ones, who were "clothed with white robes," and had "palms in their hands," having just obtained a glorious victory over their enemies (Rev. 7:9, 13, 14). Or else, the intent of the word is, that Christ is a more excellent standard-bearer than all others661661Intelliges insignem prae decem millibus, ut m prae comparationem designet, Mercerus in loc. Insignitus prae myriade, Cocceius, Marckius; insignius prae decem millibus, Pagninus. : there may be ten thousand persons who carry a flag, but none of them all are to be compared with him, either for comeliness, strength or courage; none have such a choice and select company under them as he has; neither do any carry such a banner as he does, whose motto is love; and herein was he, who is "the lion of the tribe of Judah," represented by that tribe, which of all the tribes of Israel pitched their standard first, and had the greatest number under it (see Num. 2:3, 4).
But these words by our translators are rendered, "the chiefest among ten thousand;" and the sense of them is no ways opposed by the former versions; for if he is "chosen out of," and is "the standard-bearer among ten thousand," then he must be the chiefest among them; he is the chiefest among all the angels in heaven; for to "which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son," etc. He is the Son of God in a higher sense than angels and men are; angels are the sons of God by creation, saints by adoption, but Christ is the Son of God by an ineffable generation; as he is God, he is the creator of angels, and to him they pay homage and adoration; they are his servants, and are at his command, whom he sends forth as ministering spirits, to do his pleasure; and though as man, in the state of his humiliation and abasement here on earth in the days of his flesh, he was "made a little lower than the angels;" yet now in the very same nature in which he was abased below them, he is now exalted above them at the Father's right hand; for "to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand," etc. as mediator, he has "obtained a more excellent name than they;" for the name of a savior or mediator is given to none of them; and as such they are beholden to him, though not to make peace and reconciliation for them, they having never sinned and incurred the divine displeasure; yet they are obliged unto him for confirming grace, to secure them in that state in which they stand. He is also the chiefest of all on earth, as well as of all in heaven; in all things, and over all persons, he has the preeminence; he is the head of saints, their "everlasting father," and tender husband; he is the great master of the family, and "the first-born among many brethren;" he is the King of saints, and Lord of the creation; and should be the chiefest, and have the chiefest place in the desires of our hearts, in the contemplations of our minds, the affections of our souls, and in our ascriptions of glory; for "he is the chiefest among ten thousand."
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The new and exciting part is now I can share those books online with all of you.
Today I'd like to share a book that I made last year that I am so proud of. This is the story of my husband's Connor family. The Connors were his mother's mother's family. They came to California by way of Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona while working in the fields. Life was not easy for them, especially during the depression and during the time in history when Native American were misstreated since they were Native American.
So here it is. Please enjoy it. Also I have had a few of you in the Connor family that wanted a copy of this. I can order you a copy at any time, just let me know. The cost is $50.94 plus shipping.


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The past few days I have laughed, cried, danced, signed, learnt, taught... but most of all I fallen in love. In love with Zambia.. with Zambians.. with the amazing work that Sound Seekers is doing here.. and with all the Deaf children that I have been lucky enough to meet on this trip. Spending time at their school is one of the best experiences of my life and one that I will never, ever forget.
Within minutes of arriving their smiles were infectious and I had about 20 children surrounding me making me teach them the BSL alphabet and then they wanted to know every word... good, happy, hungry, proud, school.. all giggling and showing each other the differences between the languages.
Below are just a few images from spending the day with the Sound Seekers team who were providing hearing tests and hearing aids for the children at the school. I have so many more images, some video and a whole lot more to say about this incredible trip.. so I'll be back.. but first I have a flight to catch..


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DescriptionChinese Original 19th Century Gouache. With a fabric border, as pictured. Laid on paper. Unsigned. Condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. Some losses as shown.
8.1 x 11.3cm (3.2" x 4.4")Sheet: 11.3 x 17.5cm (4.4" x 6.9")
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This painting on pith forms part of a larger collection of gouches by presumably the same artist or set of artists dating from the 19th century. The collection is comprised of a wide range of traditional subjects including costume studies, festival scenes, fishing boats (or junk boats) at sea and depictions of torture. Fragile by nature, these paintings on pith paper have kept in remarkably good condition, maintaining their vibrancy by virtue of being stowed away in adequate conditions and out of direct light. Pith presumably came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs, following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Paintings in oils, on board and canvas were costly and difficult to carry home. Earlier and more prestigious export water-colours had often been on a larger scale and painted on fine Chinese paper or on paper imported from Europe. They may have suited the sea-captains and informed the aristocracy but for the hoi polloy they were too expensive. The albums of pith paintings (and later the little glass-fronted boxes) were inexpensive, light, easy to pack and gave the pictures some protection on the long voyage home. Because many were sold in albums and hence protected from the light, they retain their bright colours to this day. Because of the nature of pith and its cellular structure, the gouache used by the Chinese sat on the surface and produced a bright and even sparkling effect. Very fine detail could be achieved but pith did not lend itself to the flat wash of colour favoured for European watercolours. Collection Code: 132A
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The more I study the Remain campaign and its leading figures, the more it seems the entire leadership of it is centred in the Westminster-Whitehall-City triangle. Let me call it the London Bubble.
They all know each other, these London-based mandarins. Politicos, bureaucrats, diplomats, quangocrats and lawyers; bankers, financiers, tycoons, profiteers and city slickers. Add the attendant journos and broadcasters who have abandoned their duty to hold establishment to account and found it more chummy to join it.
You see their faces coming up on programme after programme, panel after panel, debate after debate. You see them mouthing the same rubbish about trade and prosperity and avoiding any mention of sovereignty or independence.
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And this is the exact reason why I did not want the Yanks to sign him
Just like that, Shohei Ohtani's season is likely over.
ESPN reported the Angels star likely will need Tommy John surgery that would sideline him this year and possibly all of next season, too.
"Everything I'm hearing is that the reality is, he probably will need Tommy John surgery," Pedro Gomez said on "SportsCenter" on Monday morning.
The Angels announced Friday they had placed the dual-threat rookie on the disabled list with a Grade 2 sprain of the ulnar collateral ligament sprain in his right arm. The team said he had received platelet-rich plasma and stem cell injections and said they'd reevaluate the situation in three weeks.
General manager Billy Eppler said on Friday the Angels were hoping Ohtani would be able to avoid the procedure. And Eppler, in the wake of the ESPN report, denied that anything had changed with that plan.
"There have been no changes in Ohtani's diagnosis and neither our physicians nor medical staff have recommended (Tommy John surgery) or said it's likely," Eppler told The Athletic.
Ohtani has lived up to expectations as one of the most touted prospects to hit the MLB in years — both on the mound and at the plate.
The righty from Japan is 4-1 on the mound with a 3.10 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 61 ⅓ innings. He's hitting .289 with six home runs and eight doubles in 34 games.
The Angels are 37-29 and sit 4 ½ games behind the Mariners and Astros in the AL West.
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Japanese pitchers have sooooo much more mileage on their arms from the way the pitch in those leagues, to the point where few/none have long term effective careers in MLB. Best case you hope to have short-term success before they hit the wall physically and you have to eat the back end of their contract.
The good thing about Ohtani is that he came over here young enough that he could still have a long post-Tommy John career after he recovers from the surgery.
The good thing about Ohtani is that he came over here young enough that he could still have a long post-Tommy John career after he recovers from the surgery.
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I think he will be fine, and I'd like to say "good thing my team didn't get him", but this would STILL be the least of the Mets' problems.
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Apparently he is shut down for pitching but they may hold off surgery and keep his bat
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Apparently discussion is now hit in 2019 and only pitch in 2020
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For the balance of the year, we'll be focusing on companies that we believe are well-positioned for the slow-growth environment that we envision for 2013. These names all sport strong balance sheets and rock-solid business franchises -- qualities that should easily help them withstand a broader soft patch. That said, given the fiscal-cliff uncertainty, we would start with partial positions in each, even though we like these stocking-stuffers at their current prices. In the event of a market selloff, we would then fill out each position at lower levels -- and, of course, should we see a resolution to the fiscal impasse, we would be comfortable paying somewhat higher prices.
In this column, we will highlight American Express (AXP). Among financial-sector names, this company was one of the best at navigating the 2008-to-2009 financial crisis and recession. Earnings did fall by more than 50% during this stretch, with annual net income falling to $2 billion vs. the normal level of $3 billion to $4 billion. However, the firm never lost money during this period. Sustaining profitability throughout the financial crisis, the worst U.S. business downturn for more than 50 years, was a feat that few financial institutions managed to accomplish.
It's important to note, as well, that this earnings decline was due to credit writedowns, rather than a cyclical or secular decline in the business.
In any case, since then AmEx has regained all of its lost ground, and is back to reporting record profits, with Street estimates calling for 2012 income north of $5 billion. This has taken place even despite an uncertain global economy, and can be attributed to AmEx's premiere global brand, extensive global card base and merchant infrastructure, as well as to accelerating global electronic-spending trends. Also lending support has been growth in emerging markets and continued cross-border spending trends in key developed markets of North America and Europe.
For the most recent quarter, AmEx delivered solid earnings of $1.09 per share, in line with consensus. Billed business grew by more than 8%, including foreign-currency effects, while marketing and promotional expenses remained in line with trends. Credit write-offs continued to decline to record low levels, and -- thanks to robust capital ratios, which exceeded 12% of assets -- management expects higher returns on capital, going forward. Management also affirmed guidance for the year, even despite the tougher macroeconomic concerns across North America, Europe and the emerging world economies.
There is a lot that we like about AmEx. It sports a stable revenue and earnings growth profile, combined with an attractive valuation level at 12x analysts' 2013 EPS estimate of $4.71. The stock currently has a modest 1.37% dividend yield, but an above-average AA investment grade credit rating and a below-average 17% payout ratio, which we expect to rise in the future.
Looking ahead, we expect AmEx to generate consistent revenue growth of 5% per year, as well as earnings and dividend growth of more than 10% each. The stock is also currently trading at a 2x multiple, which points below its long-term historical valuation level of 14x earnings. That allows for upside capital appreciation from current levels.
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Seattle Symphony Opening
In case you don't already know: http://seattlesymphony.org/about/careers/auditions.
Mark Wiseman
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So, is anyone going?
Mark Wiseman
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I recon at least 120 of our closest friends
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Anyone know what the number invited was? After the resume and tape filtering?
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This audition is like the anti-Cincinnati. For that audition, everyone who went just put it on their Facebook that they were going, and afterwards they posted how they did. I've talked with a few people who are auditioning at Seattle, but it's like a state secret. Which is fine too.
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Seattle isn't an AFM orchestra. I imagine it is in the interest of AFM members not to advertise. I promise there will be plenty of amazing musicians at the audition. Last time I went on stage right after Alan Baer in the prelims. Guess which of us advanced? (Not me.) Needless to say, if you want this gig be prepared to play better than the best.
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Good luck to all the candidates this week! It's an incredible job and even more beautiful place to live. The hall is World-Class.
Regarding the Union status of the orchestra, it's not AFM but it IS union. The union, IGSOBM, is internationally recognized and we've had many AFM musicians play in Seattle over the 17+ years I was there. It's never been an impediment to hiring them to play extra or for full-time employment. The reluctance of people to post wether or not they are attending the audition probably has more to do with stressful nature of the serious business at hand.
Rest assured that the orchestra will hold the candidates to the highest standards in the audition process. It's going to be a real battle. Glad I'm not taking it!!!!
Again, best of luck to you all!
Chris Olka
Cincinnati Symphony
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Is tomorrow semis or is that on Sat? How many are moving on?
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Anyone have word on the 1st and 2nd day?
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Congratulations to John DiCesare, winner of the Seattle Symphony tuba audition! Couldn't have happened to a nicer or more hard-working guy.
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Congratulations to him! Anyone know who else was in that finals pool? Just out of curiousity?
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Congrats to John and congrats to all those who made it to the semi-finalists pool:
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Jon Hill
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Steve Dombrowski
Peder Maclellan
Aaron Tindall
John DiCesare
Haiyu Wang
Kevin Bock
Joe LeFevre
Jatik Clark
Bill Connors
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That is quite an impressive list of accomplished musicians. Congratulations to all of you!
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I was across town playing a ballet during this audition, but if I heard correctly, the other finalist was Joe LeFevre.
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A negative cover story in Barron's this week tanked Facebook stock and now a new report on mobile developers saying that Facebook could easily lose its market share have caused the social network stock to tumble.
The stock, which fell from its initial public offering price of $38 in May to less than half of that this month finally rose a little when chief executive Mark Zuckerberg publicly acknowledged the company made mistakes earlier this month. The share price rose from $17.68 to $21.86 in mid-September, a much-needed bump. However, following the Barron's story and the report by Appcelerator, shares fell 9.1 percent to $20.79, according to Forbes.
"Mobile developers believe that a mobile-first startup could disrupt Facebook," Appcelerator and research firm IDC wrote in a report after polling 5,526 mobile developers, Forbes reported. "A resounding 66 percent of mobile developers state that it is 'likely to very likely' that a mobile-first social startup will disrupt the market for social applications on mobile devices and take market share from Facebook."
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Previously, Zuckerberg said the company's problem was relying on HTML 5 instead of creating standalone Facebook applications for the iPhone iOS and Google's Android. Wall Street has been fickle about the social network ever since its mobile shortcomings have been made apparent.
Could a startup destroy all that Facebook has created? It's unlikely it could and even more unlikely it could do so in only a few short years. Within that time, with Facebook poaching engineers and other savvy workers, it will likely come up with some solutions.


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What It Takes To Be an Independent Search MarketerBlog Post: February 16, 2011
I have been working in IM for 15 years. In that time I have worked for some big agencies, small agencies, and myself. I didn't take the time to read all the comments on this post, so what I say could be redundant, in fact it probably is. If you have worked for a large agency, you know the most common frustrations are
- Having to meet the KPIs set by overly enthusiastic sales people
- Dealing with clients who have spent all their money on a hot looking site, but have just now realized that they have a billboard in the desert. They come into the project with a bad attitude and expect you to flip the magic Google switch and turn on traffic.
- The agency you work for is run by someone who has cut their teech in another area (like software development) and they think that this qualifies them to offer search marketing.
- Budget constraints keep you from being able to spend the appropriate amount of time on a project.
- You spend 80% of your time trying to report metrics that YOU know mean nothing.
- getting emails from your boss who needs to tell the client "how much was that Tweet worth?"
- Did I mention spending all your time on reporting and powerpoint presentations?
- Having to read between the lines, when the PM asks you for un-measurable metrics, what they are really asking is for you to cook the books.
- the day you realize that you have just moved from outlining your strategy to defending your actions.
- Ill stop at 9, I am trying to get over my issues with symetry.
I have worked for quite a few agencies and its almost always the same drill. Those who can do, those who can't decide to add search marketing to their menu of client services. It sounds like I am a bit biased towards doing your own thing, but I have picked up some valuable lessons that I wish someone had made clear to me earlier.
- If you are on the payroll of a shop of any size, someone has busted their ass and spent many a sleepless night getting to a place where they could afford to hire real employees. In most cases, at one time, they did know something about something.
- Running a full service agency is expensive. Just because you see invoices going out that are charging $175 an hour for search consulting (and you would be happy to do it for $50) doesn't mean they have a license to print money. There are ALL KINDS of expenses that you would never think about.
- You are so good at what you do because its all you have to do. If you plan on starting your own company with more than just you, there just arent enough hours in the day to get everything done. You have to hire, and hire, and hire. That is an incredible headache, imagine having to deal with 30 people like you, working for you, thinking that they are smarter than you, plotting how to steal your clients. Its a tough game.
3 years ago, I helped start a company that specialized in local search and DFY sites and marketing. I know, I know, local search, but the guy I started it with was actually quite prophetic about the direction of search. We had other avenues too, many others, and business started coming in - FAST. 10 clients, 50 clients, all paying monthly. We had to start hiring as many people as we could. I saw pots of gold. After a year, I was growing frustrated. I felt overworked, underpaid, and extremely frustrated. My partner loved to bring in clients, come up with new ideas, but balancing them was not his strong suit, or mine. I don't respond well to stress. Things need a priority. If everything is top priority, I get frazzled. We brough in more people, more partners, all of them were about the initial deal. It got chaotic and I flipped out. I started to forget why I left my cushy job managing corporate PPC accounts that focused on BRANDING - yes, I know, the golden goose.
I was contacted several times throughout the year by a big agency in my city. I finally agreed to talk to them and hear what they were about. I met with them with no intention of accepting a job. I wasn't going to work for someone ever again. I met with them 3 times, each meeting with someone new. I heard all about this company, how great it was, how their environment was so great, how they were growing and had made the INC 500 for the second year. One of the top 10 fastest growing tech companies in the US. I met with the team I would be working with if I accepted. This company is an Indian owned company with an office in the US with about 50 people and an office in India with over 200 people. They said all the right things and plucked all the right strings. They made me an offer, it was OK. $75k a year to start and a bonus of about $15k which they made sound basically guaranteed. In fact when the offer was made, my future manager (lets call him BM) included the bonus in my salary "well all we can do is 75,000 a year to start but with the 15,000 bonus, thats 90,000 so its almost at your requirements). They wanted someone to come in and build the team, they had a few people there but needed someone to provide cutting edge knowlesge and to really whip things into shape and build the dream team. Budgets were unlimited, they wanted to expand. I met with the future team and they were all really nice, one person who was clearly a seasoned internet marketer, and a couple young kids who were eager but very inexperienced. I was sold.
I dissolved my partnership in the company I helped build and decided to go back to work for someone else. The first month was good, everyone was open and receptive, the team was good. There were certainly some high dollar clients and opportunitites, but something seemed a bit off. After a few months, the cracks started to show. It was like moving into a house and watching cheap drywall start to crack. The main guy on my team was having a hard time, even though it appeares that everyone was being supportive, I started to see the signs that there was some shady business happening. This guy, lets call him DH, was trying to stay optimistic but it seemed like the shit work just kept piling up and piling up, he wasn't happy and they weren't happy with him. He started looking for work elsehwere. One day DH took my aside and told me that when he was hired , the team lead took him aside and told him what he was about to tell me. He said that this company had a clear pattern of scouring the earth for "the best", luring them in with talk of money and building an empire together. They wanted experts in the US to help build a structure and systemize the search marketing and turn it into a cookie cutter plan that could be sent to their oversea employees. He said as soon as they feel there is nothing more they can get from you, they will force you out. He said they dont like to fire people but they will make your life hell so you leave, if you don't leave, eventually they will fire you. He was snatched up pretty quickly by a university, then a month later, the PPC manager left, the writing was on the wall.
I no longer work there. I am back with the company that I helped to build. My partner has worked out the kinks and relinquiched control of the areas he shouldnt be involved in. Our business is BOOMING and we are struggling to fill seats to keep up with the demand. We just closed a deal with an NFL team, we have 100+ clients and life is good. When I first started this company, I spent a lot of time regretting leaving the agency I had been working for. I missed the regular paychecks, not having to deal with anything other than simple PPC management, having work stop at 5 pm. I probably manufactured good memories and glossed over the bullshit I hated so when the Indian company worked their snake charming on me, I was like a fat girl at 2 am. Within 5 months of working at the agency, I knew that I had made a huge mistake and I had the foresight to start making arrangements to go back with my own company. It's only been 2 months , but I now know that I will NEVER go back to working for someone else. In fact I just turned down an incredible job as search manager for an amazing, fun, successful company. Trust me, I was tempted, but I stopped myself and drew on my past experience. The grass is NEVER greener, the grass is just different. Its very unlikely that you will make enough money working as an inhouse or agency search specialist, unless you are working for a company that promotes from the inside, but even then, you better diversify your skills. If you decide that you don't have what it takes to work on your own, or start your own company, you better be ready to change jobs every couple years. Tech recruiters know that unless you see a direct line to that corner office, you are going to actually lose money by staying with a company "forever" - at least in this field.
My advice is: if you are REALLY good at what you do, hook up with someone else who is good at everything else (book keeping, business, sales) etc. You cant do it all on your own. The second tip is 2 words: SUB CONTRACTORS.. I owe my last agency job for that one. Who knew yo could find extremely talented SEO's for $5/hr
Sorry for all the typos, you guys really should put spellchecking on this blog.


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Deficient protein GM-CSF production found to impair gut's immune tolerance
The protein GM-CSF plays a critical role in maintaining immune tolerance in the gut, with defects in the protein increasing the susceptibility to inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), according to a new mouse study by a team of researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. IBD is a severe intestinal disease characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation that results from a dysregulated immune response to microbes and food antigens. Writing in the peer reviewed journal Science published online March 13, 2014, the research team writes that this advances our understanding of how commensal microbes can regulate intestinal immunity and should pave the wave for identifying new drug targets.
"These results are highly relevant to clinical inflammatory bowel diseases because GMSCF-impaired function is now emerging as one of the best predictors of IBD severity," said the study's senior author, Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Oncological Sciences, the Tisch Cancer Institute and the Immunology Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
GM-CSF is a cytokine that promotes the development and function of a group of gut resident macrophages and dendritic cells. Although GMCSF is mostly known for its role in inflammation, Dr. Merad's laboratory discovered that GM-CSF is produced in the normal gut by specialized cells called innate lymphocyte cells (ILCs) in response to microbiota signals. Strikingly, they found that microbiota-induced GM-CSF was required to imprint gut tissue resident macrophages and dendritic cells with regulatory function that was critical to protect against inflammation of the gut. Deletion of the GM-CSF gene in the mouse led to reduction and impaired regulatory function of gut tissue macrophages and dendritic cells which compromised induction of tolerance to food antigens and increased mice susceptibility to IBD.
"These results represent a significant advance in our understanding of how commensal microbes can regulate host intestinal immune responses and suggest that the identification of downstream targets in macrophages and dendritic cells along the GM-CSF axis can help the rationale design of novel strategies for the treatment of IBD patients with defective GM-CSF function," explained Dr. Merad.
Drs. Merad and Mortha are now developing a multiscale approach to identify GM-CSF downstream targets using macrophages and dendritic cells isolated from GM-CSF deficient mice and exposed to recombinant GMCSF. The regulatory function of novel targets will be validated in collaboration with Judy H. Cho, MD, Ward-Coleman Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Assistant Chief of Research in the Gastrointestinal Division, and Jean Federic Colombel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, at they Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. They will study human macrophages and dendritic cells isolated from IBD patients with defective GM-CSF function, "The approach represents a step forward in personalizing how we treat patients with IBD," said Dr. Colombel.
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This absolutely made my day. Completely hilarious.
A bunch of obviously confused women's studies majors, where they basically train in contradiction, irrationality and hypocrisy, decided to explain to their kindergarten adult students exactly what consensual sex looks like and what the penalties will be for failing to grasp the Rules for Fucking at Yale.
Called the "Sexual Misconduct Scenarios", the memo is designed to get students to understand that if they are having any kind of sex that is not robotic and not routinely peppered with super romantic legalese, they are doing it wrong and will get no cookies. No. Cookies.
And also that if she says "No" a whole bunch of times and then you have sex anyways, "No" actually means "Yes" and you get ALL THE COOKIES! Hooray!
Let's just dive right in.
Oh, and you can ignore all the bullshit androgynous names, since Team Fucking gave up by the last one, and just called the dude Tyler.
1. Ryo and Casey are dating. Casey is uncertain about whether they should have sex, but Ryo is persuasive and finally obtains Casey's voluntary agreement. As they engage in sex, Casey says "wait – stop – that hurts." Ryo nonetheless continues for several more minutes, restraining Casey. Afterwards, Casey is upset. Ryo apologizes, but says they were past the point of interruption.
While there was initial consent, that consent was withdrawn. The UWC penalty would be expulsion.
You can see the team high fiving each other for an unmistakable slam dunk! Woo hoo! We nailed it!
"That hurts"? What is "that"? Is Casey referring to a particular angle or thrust or to the whole sexual encounter? Is the hurt something that can be remedied and then carry on, tally ho?
Basically, Yale is going to expel Ryo for forgetting to bring lube? And Casey reached a degree of trauma that can only be described as "upset"? Ryo is a clod, no doubt, but in order for that to be rape, Casey is gonna have to be a little more clear.
"Dude, you're hurting me. You need to stop right now."
Fail. Scenario is totally ambiguous.
2. Jessie and Vic have been flirting all semester, and agree to meet at a party. After dancing closely together for a while, Vic proposes going to one of their rooms and Jessie agrees. On the walk to Jessie's room, they send a few texts, letting Vic's friends know not to worry and asking Jessie's roommate to please sleep somewhere else. Once in the room, they begin touching. Each is interested in hearing what the other wants, and each is paying attention to the other's signals. They reach and sustain clear agreement upon mutually desired sexual activities.
This is consensual sex: Vic and Jessie reached positive, voluntary, unambiguous agreement to engage in sexual conduct together.
Vic: Baby, do I have your sustained clear agreement?
Jessie: Oh yeah, this is mutually desired activity.
Vic: Ooh, is consent still in effect?
Jessie: Mmmm, but check back in twenty seconds, honey, in case ambiguity arises.
Vic: Oh no, baby, no ambiguity. I can get expelled for that. Did you bring the lube?
Very. Sexy.
Who has sex like this? Who wants to?
3. Sidney and Harper are dating. On several occasions they are physically intimate, but within limits set by Sidney, who is opposed to having sex at this stage of their relationship. One night, when they are being intimate within their mutually agreed upon boundaries, Harper begins to cross them. Sidney expresses concern, but Harper is encouraging, saying "it will be okay just this once." Sidney replies "we shouldn't do this," but continues to touch Harper in an intimate way. As Harper initiates sex, Sidney says "this is a bad idea" and begins to cry, but embraces Harper and the two proceed to have sex.
Initial consent was followed by ambiguity. Sidney's acquiescence to sex was accompanied by too much dismay to constitute unambiguous agreement, especially given Sidney's longstanding prior refusal to engage in sex. The UWC penalty would likely fall in the range of probation to suspension.
And BOOM!
"No" really does mean "Yes".
Sure, Harper is probably going to face a suspension of some sort, but that's a small price to pay for the knowledge that no matter how many times she said no, you can turn that into a yes by fucking a crying girl.
I still wouldn't call this rape, not by a long shot, but what kind of douchebag has sex with a woman who is crying? If her kitten just died, or she failed an important exam or her highlights turned out just terrible, I can see the sex and tears scenario, but this is what passes for acceptable by the #rapeculture brigade?
And what is the initial consent, might I ask? That Sidney expressed reservations but continued to touch him? So the act of touching implies consent?
Good to know.
4. Jamie and Cameron are at a party. It is crowded on the dance floor and they are briefly pressed together. Later, Jamie encounters Cameron in the hallway and smiles. Cameron, who is now very drunk, follows Jamie into the bathroom and forces Jamie to have sex.
There was no consent to have sex. The UWC penalty would be expulsion.
Finally. An actual rape. The appropriate reaction is a criminal conviction. Who gives a fuck what UWC thinks?
5. Devin and Ansley are engaging in a consensual sexual encounter, which Devin begins to intensify. Ansley responds by pulling away slightly, moving Devin's hands and saying "not so fast; I'm not sure." Devin cooperates briefly but then intensifies the contact once more. Ansley inches backwards and then becomes still. Nonetheless, Devin has sex with Ansley.
While the initial sexual activity was consensual, that consent was not sustained. The UWC penalty would likely range from multi-semester suspension to expulsion.
Oh, she inches backwards and becomes still?
Yeah, no.
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
If you no longer consent to sexual activity then you need to let the other person KNOW that. Devin CANNOT read Ashley's fucking mind. And don't give me this "if she goes still" it's rape bullshit.
Ever hear of the mannequin?
Lots of women stiffen with pleasure. If you're stiffening because you are no longer down with sex, then SAY so.
100% fail.
6. Alexis and Riley are studying together in Riley's room. During a break in their studying, they rub each other's shoulders. Alexis then introduces some intimate touching. Riley moves closer and says "Okay, but I don't want to go too far – we still have a lot of work to do." Alexis continues to touch Riley in an intimate way. Riley willingly agrees to some contact, but mostly sets boundaries. Alexis jokes that they deserve to have sex as a reward for their hard work studying; Riley laughs. After their studying is done, Alexis suggests again that they should have sex. Riley responds they should probably get some sleep but continues to touch Alexis. After a few more minutes, Alexis asks once more. Riley pauses, then says okay and pulls Alexis closer. They have sex.
This is consensual sex. Despite initial hesitation, the ultimate agreement to have sex was voluntary and unambiguous. There is no violation of the sexual misconduct policy. The UWC would likely counsel Alexis about the inappropriateness of sexual pressure, and recommend SHARE's sensitivity training program.
Aaaand BOOM!
"No" means "Yes". Again. And this time the price is just a little sensitivity training.
Really, Yale, what exactly are you trying to teach?
Personally, I think no means yes a whole lot of time, but this seems rather….inconsistent, shall we say with the whole No Means No argument.
I think you're gonna have to pick one, or just throw your hands up and let individual women take responsibility for their own sexual choices.
Oh, wait.
How can you punish men if women are actually responsible for their own choices?
Such a conundrum.
7. Morgan and Kai are friends who begin dancing and kissing at a party. They are both drunk, although not to the point of incapacitation. Together they decide to go to Kai's room. They undress each other and begin touching each other. Morgan moves as if to engage in oral sex and looks up at Kai questioningly. Kai nods in agreement and Morgan proceeds. Subsequently, without pausing to check for further agreement, Kai begins to perform oral sex on Morgan. Morgan lies still for a few minutes, then moves away, saying it is late and they should sleep.
There was initial agreement, but the bounds of that agreement were not clear. Kai may have thought that Morgan had consented to reciprocal oral sex, but took no steps to obtain unambiguous agreement. The UWC penalty would likely be a reprimand.
Seriously? This makes approximately zero sense, no matter how you spin it.
If Morgan is the woman, then she gives a Kai a blowjob, which he has agreed to with a nod. Then when Kai turns around and goes down on Morgan, she lies still (see mannequin, above) and then moves away.
If Kai is the woman, then Morgan kneels in front to her and performs cunnilingus, and then when Kai returns the favor and starts giving Morgan a blowjob, he lies still and then moves away.
I guess they could both be men, or both be women, but it comes down to something fairly obvious, no?
Someone sucks at oral sex.
Ladies, nail down that deep throat technique, or you could face reprimand. Gents, perfect that muff dive or your record will be permanently amended.
And I'm almost speechless…
8. Tyler and Jordan are both drinking heavily at an off-campus event. Tyler becomes extremely drunk. Jordan offers to take Tyler home. On the way, Tyler has trouble walking, and makes several wrong turns. Once in Tyler's room, Jordan initiates sexual activity. Tyler looks confused and tries to go to sleep. Jordan has sex with Tyler.
There was no consent to have sex. A person who is incapacitated—lacking the ability to make or act on considered decisions to engage in sexual activity—cannot give consent. The UWC penalty would be expulsion.
Wow. A case of male rape. And Jordan gets expelled.
I'll just hold my breath waiting for that to happen in real life.
Call me a cynical bitch, but isn't it rather touching that the single case where gender is unambiguous, and the man is the one raped, is the very case in which drunk women are excused for their behaviour by proxy?
…lacking the ability to make or act on considered decisions to engage in sexual activity is rape.
And who will the accused be in most of these scenarios?
Because women never get drunk and take advantage of men?
It's because men aren't self-pathologizing, perpetual victims weeping while constantly seeking someone else to blame for banging that fat chick while drunk.
So, we can summarize the Yale Fucking Rules as follows:
- Being an inconsiderate sexual partner IS rape
- Having robotic, tedious, constantly assessing legal consent sex is NOT rape. Or fun.
- Having sex with a crying woman who has continuously said no is NOT rape.
- Dragging someone in the bathroom and forcibly fucking them IS rape.
- Being unable to read someone's mind IS rape.
- Pressuring someone to have sex when they would rather study is NOT rape.
- Being bad at oral sex IS rape.
- Having sex with drunk women IS rape.
Holy hell, Batman.
I think Yale is gonna have to change their motto:
Lux et veritas
Light and truth?
More like
Erratus et inconditus.
Lost and confused.
Then again, on the bright side, at least Yale has cleared up that "No" does indeed mean "Yes". Now they can get to work figuring out if "Yes" really does mean "Anal".
In which case, definitely do not forget the lube.
Lots of love,


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About the Author: Andrew Posner is Assistant Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe welcomed young American artist Eric Telfort for a three-week State Department Visual Arts Initiative (VAI) program in August. Our Public Affairs Office staff organized a well-attended series of local artist and youth workshops, along with an exhibition of Mr. Telfort's paintings at the Bulawayo Gallery, located in the second-largest city in Zimbabwe. The gallery is a hub for artists in this dynamic, outspoken city that is a stronghold for the MDC opposition political party in Zimbabwe. The Bulawayo Gallery attracts many prominent artists and large audiences, but Eric's program there was the first American art program in many years. It was a milestone for U.S. cultural programming and outreach, which brought some interesting challenges.
Zimbabwean immigration officials delayed clearing Mr. Telfort's paintings and material for several days, relenting only after some negotiations and an Embassy-written guarantee that the art would go back to the United States. One reason that this exhibit came under especially close scrutiny from government officials was that in March, Zimbabwean artist Owen Maseko's exhibit at the same gallery was shut down by the national government. Mr. Maseko's work depicts the government-sponsored ethnic cleansings that took place in Bulawayo in the 1980's. His paintings are bold, political works, and the exhibit led to his arrest and detention. The gallery director was forced to close the exhibit -- but, rather than replace it with another exhibit, he took the daring step of covering the gallery's street-level windows with newspaper for the duration of the planned exhibition time. In that way, all passersby knew that there was something inside that they were forbidden by the government to see.
In this context of artistic repression, the VAI program was especially successful in bringing together this American artist and his Zimbabwean peers to discuss the artist's visual language for expressing the human condition. Telfort's work, entitled "When I Was 6," is a look into the personal stories of the artist's childhood in "Little Haiti" (Miami, FL) and provides a visually compelling U.S. cultural experience. Through the work, Telfort has his audience think about the cultural, social, and political issues that surround life for a child growing up in a low-income American neighborhood. His Zimbabwean audiences identified with Telfort's themes of childhood, poverty, and diversity, and came away with a better understanding of the African-American cultural experience.


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Christopher Poile
posted on Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 12:05 pm
Hello everyone,
Is it possible to model a multilevel growth mixture model, if there are two groups, and the within-level variables are different between those two groups?
For example, suppose we have an experiment that has a manipulation which changes the observable variables. Within-level data:
Condition 1:
Round 1: OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB
Round 2: OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB
etc... for 5 rounds.
Condition 2:
Round 1: OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
Round 2: OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
etc... for 5 rounds.
The between-level variables will be the manipulation, and other time-invariant covariates such as personality. We predict these will affect OutcomeA, and possibly Measures A, B, C.
I would like to use Multilevel Growth Mixture Modeling because I want to compare the two conditions in the same overall model. This way I can test for manipulation differences in the intercept and slope of OutcomeA, and how those intercepts and slopes are affected by the second level variables.
Is this possible? I can't find a relevant example in the Mplus manual. But I think I might be able to do it by using a modification of 10.10 (Mplus manual) and adding KNOWNCLASS, and combining that with 6.18, 6.12, or 6.16. Would this work?
I greatly appreciate any help you could give me with this perplexing problem!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 1:41 pm
The first group should be assigned missing on MeasureC. If you use KNOWNCLASS, this should work. You should be able to add this to any example. You need to use TYPE=MIXTURE, the CLASSES and KNOWNCLASS options, and add %OVERALL% to the MODEL command.
Christopher Poile
posted on Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 4:49 pm
Thank you Linda, that is very helpful!
Is it okay if I build on this problem? I'm trying to understand what is allowable and not in this type of model. In general, do the same assumptions and restrictions about LGC models need to hold? For example, does the time span between OutcomeA's need to be the same across conditions?
To clarify, suppose a round lasts 5 minutes. OutcomeA is a measure of the behaviors person 'A' can do in 5 minutes. In Condition1, person A is allowed to do behaviors every round, and there are 5 total rounds:
Round 1 (5 mins): OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB
Round 2 (5 mins): OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB
...for 5 rounds.
But in Condition2 there are twice as many rounds in total. OutcomeA is measured only 5 times (to match Condition1) but there is a round in between OutcomeA and the other measures:
Condition 2:
Round 1 (5 mins): OutcomeA
Round 2 (5 mins): MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
Round 3 (5 mins): OutcomeA
Round 4 (5 mins): MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
...for 10 rounds.
Can I combine the 10 rounds of Condition2 into 5 rounds to match Condition1? For ex:
Condition 2:
Round 1 (10 mins): OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
Round 2 (10 mins): OutcomeA, MeasureA, MeasureB, MeasureC
� for '5' rounds?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 11:07 am
The time scores can be different as long as the growth shape is the same in both groups, that is, linear, quadratic, etc.
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There's something so liberating about going sockless—until your feet start sweating. And while powders and foot deodorants will absorb some of the perspiration and odor, there's no way to fully replace the myriad benefits of a sock without actually wearing one. Here's the ultimate solution: no-show socks, which give the appearance of bare feet without the smelly side effects.
It seems that I have been having the same issue with these socks as most other people have. They keep slipping off. The first time I wore them the left sock was the only side slipping off and I had to continually take off my shoe to slip it back on. Same thing happened the second time I wore them. Being that I wear size 13 shoes I thought that maybe they would fit more snug and I wouldn't have the same issue after I washed them but no. I like the look that it gives of "no socks" which is why I continue to wear them but now I use a piece of tape on the heel of my foot to keep the heel of the sock from slipping off.3


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Robert Stewart (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822) was an Irish and British statesman.
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- I feel no wrath against the people, I am only doing my duty.
- Speech in the House of Commons in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre, introducing a Bill to outlaw such radical meetings, prevent the training of dissidents, and seize arms (3 December 1819).
Quotes about Castlereagh[edit]
- Quest.—Why is a Pump like Viscount Castlereagh?
Answ.—Because it is a slender thing of wood,
That up and down its awkward arm doth sway,
And coolly spout, and spout, and spout away,
In one weak, washy, everlasting flood!
- Thomas Moore, Poem What's My Thought Like?
- As for my friend Lord Castlereagh, he is so cold that nothing can warm him.
- Lord Cornwallis.
- Just and passionless.
- There probably never was a statesman whose ideas were so right and whose attitude to public opinion was so wrong. Such disparity between the grasp of ends and the understanding of means amounts to a failure in statesmanship.
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Dear TOR members,
First of all, this is my first post here, so greetings to all.
Recently I've become interested in composing and producing music inspired by the Silmarillion as a form of fan art contribution to the topic.
So here's my first and second movements I've done so far in this huge undertake concerning creating symphonic hybrid music inspired by chapters of the beloved The Silmarillion book.
The first track is called 'There was Eru, the One', and works around the topic of the God of the tolkienesque world, his first thoughts, and the Flame Imperishable. Starts of with a fanfare part, goes to an emotional first part where the God's thoughts are concerned with the yet to be created beings and things and his Love for them, then goes to depict musically the Secret Fire that moves the living beings of the world to be born.
The second movement is called 'Let These Things Be, Part 1', and is about the further happenings of the Ainilundale (still not till the end of the chapter, which will be covered by the third movement).
Have a listen, I hope you like it, and I'm really curious about your opinion, constructive criticism. Thanks!
You can have a listen anytime on the free listening platform SoundCloud here:
1st : THERE WAS ERU, THE ONE https://soundcloud.com/pal_zoltan_illes/pzi-symphonic-tales-of-the-silmarillion-i-there-was-eru-the-one-classicalepicfantasy
2nd : LET THESE THINGS BE, Part 1 https://soundcloud.com/pal_zoltan_illes/pzi-symphonic-tales-of-the-silmarillion-ii-let-these-things-be-part-1-classicalfantasytolkien
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text: My neighbor got burglarized and had a bunch of firearms stolen. This is a list that he gave me to spread the word on. They were taken in the predawn hours on 10/17/2011 in Port Orchard, WA. They took his whole safe (cheap walmart kind), a couple more from his bedroom (missed the two in the living room), all his wife's jewelry and a computer. Ignored all the electronics. He's sure he knows who it was and that they had been to his place before. His very protective dog did nothing. Taurus Mod. 2-850021 .38spl snub-nosed revolver, blued, SN. MI78392 Ruger Vaquero .44mag single action revolver, stainless, SN 55-60033 Remington 870 Express, 12ga, parkerized, SN W707318M Winchester 94 Ranger, .44mag lever rifle, SN 28910 Traditions Buckhunter, .50 Muzzle loader, SN 00-48-32333 Ruger LCP, .380 acp, blued, SN 374-84491 Colt Trooper MkIII, .357mag revolver, blued, SN J85928 Ruger P94, 9mm pistol, brushed nickel, SN 30830038 Colt M1911, .45acp, Commercial Model CA1953 (No NS Provided) Italian? 36 Navy double action revolver, black, SN x1315 Remington 1148, 12ga semi-auto shotgun (No NS Provided) Norinco MAK-90, 7.62x39, (No NS Provided) Stevens Model 44, .22lr, blued (No NS Provided) Winchester 91 (cir. 1942), 30-30, blued, (No NS Provided) Universal M1 Carbine, 30 Carbine, (No NS Provided) Winchester 255, .22lr lever action rifle, (No NS Provided) Unknown .22 single shot bolt action rifle Not sure how many Washington folk are on here, but spread the word. These may be headed to a pawn shop anywhere.


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Universal City bans driver texting
Universal City has banned texting while driving and will begin enforcing the new ordinance Oct. 4. San Antonio may adopt a similar measure a few days later.
It is the public safety issuedu jour, one that is sweeping the nation faster than the thumbs of a texting 20-something.
Many cities and almost two dozen states have outlawed texting while driving, and now one of Bexar County's smaller municipalities has followed suit.
Universal City has banned texting while driving in its 6.2-square-mile jurisdiction and will begin enforcing the new ordinance Oct. 4, just a few days before the San Antonio City Council is poised to adopt a similar measure.
Some 5,500 traffic deaths nationwide last year were blamed on distracted driving, which includes texting, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a Washington conference on distracted driving Tuesday. Cities across the country have been scrambling for ways to curb the practice.
San Antonio City Councilman Phil Cortez - whose fiancée, Leticia Cantu, proposed banning texting in the city in April, when she filled in for Cortez while he was away for Air Force Reserve training - is spearheading the effort and does not foresee opposition when the council votes on the issue, likely on Oct. 7.
Cortez said he does not have any heartburn over a nearby city adopting a ban before San Antonio does.
"I think because it was introduced here in the city, it brought attention to other municipalities in the area," he said. "So we led the way in terms of beginning the dialogue and the debate, and other cities are following suit. To me, it's a great idea. This is great for the entire Bexar County region."
If adopted Oct. 7, San Antonio's prohibition against texting at the wheel would take effect Oct. 17.
In Universal City, a town of 14,000, the decision to ban texting was easy.
"How can you possibly text and have a hand on the wheel when you're driving?" Universal City Mayor John Williams said. "I'm very proud of the council for making the decision. I haven't heard a single complaint."
If enacting texting bans is the easy part, enforcing them is considerably harder, said Stephen Baker, a commander with the Austin Police Department's highway division. Since the department began enforcing the city's ban on texting while driving Feb. 1, it has cited only 59 drivers and warned 45. The challenge, Baker said, is the prolonged period of time needed to verify that a motorist is actually texting.
"Before issuing a ticket an officer would need to know that you're not dialing 10 digits and waiting for your phone to ring," Baker said, noting that most tickets are issued by officers on motorcycles, which are harder for motorists to spot.
Baker said the majority of ticketed drivers have paid their fines rather than go to trial, at which officers are forced to rely on methodical notes to prove a driver broke the law. While he supports texting bans, Baker encourages municipalities weighing such a measure to consider outlawing cell phone use behind the wheel altogether.
"A hands-free ban would have been easier, especially when it comes to explaining to citizens what the law is," he said.
Universal City police have been educating the public about that city's impending ban, Assistant Police Chief Bill Gabbard said. He said he didn't foresee problems enforcing it because vehicles driven by texters look a lot like those driven by drunks.
"I want to be able to go home every day and not have somebody hit the back of an 18-wheeler because they were texting, or run over a child ... because they were texting," he said.
San Antonio officials began discussing the ban in April. The proposal has worked its way through council committees, in which city officials and council members discussed whether to address all forms of distracted driving or to focus only on cell phones.
They chose the latter. San Antonio's ordinance will likely ban using cell phones for anything other than phone calls in the city's 503 square miles. Like Universal City's ordinance, that means no Internet browsing, no Facebook or YouTube, and no texting, officials said.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus reiterated his support for the proposal in an interview Wednesday, brushing aside concerns about enforceability. He said a ban would, at the very least, serve as a deterrent.
"I don't see texting while driving going down unless there are laws that will restrict it," he said, adding that his department would resolve enforcement issues when they arise. "It's in everyone's best interest that texting while driving be banned."