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: thanhnoelld; December 17th, 2009

Strip Generator
is amazing ( via Harish )! I could n't defy giving it a effort:

Oh, the wonders of Phonetic Puns ...

( Clink on the image for a clear version )

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: thanhnoelld; November 15th, 2009

As many of you cognize, I learn Social Media Marketing for the UCLA Extension
I established the category in the autumn of 2008, and we 're in the midst of the Springtime 2009 semester. We hold 72 people enrolled in the family. Since the Extension revolve about grownup instruction, the category is a perfect representation of the businessmen in Greater City of the angels - insurance, wellness attention, amusement, little concern, pr, advertizement, aerospace, etc.

Acquiring about personal stigmatisation

And the people who attend are in mid - to - senior degree places. They desire to cognize more about societal media - how it works, what it intends, what the benefits are,etc.It Holds a great category this clip! Very lively. And last hebdomad Rodney Rumford ( @ rumford ) discourse Chirrup and the family loved it. Personal stigmatization is a hot theme with this category likewise, as it proceeds to be a gripping subject for many businesspeople
Especially with the economical crook downwards, I consider workers are recognise that they take to be their ain best exponent. Notwithstanding, I keep to feel a generational difference in accepting the construct of personal branding

Those who hold been in the manpower longer still appear immune and regard personal stigmatization as tout. Newer workers appear a bit more unfastened to the conception of getting your ain best advocator.

Bottom line, I 'm integrating a session on personal stigmatization into the class for two grounds: No one is exempt from the possibility of need to look for a new business; and I desire to offer some resources I believe will assist clear things upwards for the category. Therein societal and on-line universe, everyone now holds a digital presence - whether they agnise it or not.

Marque Genuineness

I 'm a BIG exponent of marque legitimacy - both for the personal and concern marque. To it terminal, I 've moderately much holded with what Dr. Hubert Rampersad has to say in his white paper: Authentic Personal Branding
Here Holds a brief excerption - I 've too included his Personal Stigmatization Model likewise.

Everyone holds a Personal Marque but most people are not cognisant of this and make not negociate this strategically, consistently, and efficaciously. You should take charge of your marque and the message it directs and touch how others comprehend you.

Authentic Personal Branding Framework ( Hubert Rampersad)

This proved reliable Personal Stigmatization framework entails a systematic and merged voyage towards self-awareness, felicity, and digesting merchandising success. A way in conformance with this system is a journeying into the internal ego, where your brainiac, values, hopes, dreamings and aspirations lie quietly waiting to be detected. The related practical tools will channelize you to implement, keep, and cultivate your marque efficaciously, joint your marque amorously and passionateness, better your comprehended value in the market, get an expert in your field, and make believability and a solid repute within your industry. This modern personal stigmatisation attack will permit you to reckon your life objectively and genuinely and renders a route map to interpret your brain, dreamings and aspirations into manageable and mensurable mileposts and betterment actions.

We 'll cover this in the family in two hebdomads and I will be urging a figure of resources, including Dr. Rampersad's.

Writer:

Beverly Macy is the Managing Mate of Y&M Partners

and learns a societal media family at the UCLA Extension. She besides co-hosts Gravity Summit

events and furnishes personal stigmatisation coaching.

Response to `` Personal Stigmatisation in Mixer Media Merchandising Category at UCLA ''

Heli Sirki

tells:
June 2, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Thank you Beverly!

This was such a great station! I was happy to read your inputs on how there appears to be a contemporaries spread in people 's reaction to personal stigmatisation - because gas ' is exactly how personal stigmatisation is ofttimes comprehended in my commonwealth besides. I conceived it was a cultural issue, that ego publicity is not typical or easy to Finn ( especially among older coevals ). Understanding that it is a planetary contemporaries issue does it easier to undertake.
Dr. Rampersad 's model is fantabulous! I was really struck by his old work `` Sum Balance Card '' that allows both full quality direction and Hour view. The piece was rendered into Finnish by the Finnish Center of Excllence (EFQM audits)
who mouth rattlingly highly of Dr. Rampersead.

In 1995 as an image advisor and fresh MBA I was enquire how to unite these two sides: strategical direction and single employees goodly being and work-life balance issues.
Authentic Personal Stigmatisation appears to be the reply. This mode the personal values and corporate values can really correspond! Very challenging, but fantabulous model for any concern director to believe and take strategically their Hour pluses! And course a MUST for any enterpriser or business seeker therein digital info age.

All the best!

Heli Sirki
Helsinki, Suomi

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My Violoncello Grade: I Get It, Or I Make n't

: thanhnoelld; November 12th, 2009

Today I practised violoncello to my bosom 's content. After the last category, I got some new vocals: 1 ) Takings My Life and Lashkar-e-Taiba It be 2 ) For Unto USA a Kid is Born ( from Handel 's Christ ) 3 ) Pathetique Sonata Op. 13 2nd Motion Solos ( one would hold heard of it; here Holds a piano
version ) 4 ) Hatikvah

The first two vocals are anthems which I am really familar with. The 3rd one is a Beethoven 's vocal; the last one - I holded no hint whatit sounded like. So I sought on the net for Hatikvah ( or HA Tikvah, which intends The Hope
in Hebrew ). So I agnised it Holds the national anthem of Zion. I listened to that once ( a man done this
with his mouth doing a cornet sound ). So I essay to play the anthems and Hatikvah.

I applied to consider if I play better if I cognise the melody line goodly. Today I noticed that Holds not e'er the instance.... to my surprise.

Tone-wise, Hatikvah came out best. It came out mulct even the first effort.

My decision of the day: For my violoncello, either I get it, or I make n't. I am not a true player.

I was rather delighted with myself, until I saw this

Fingers smart.... argh!!!

p.s. my lovely husband used some WD40
to the violoncello 's fine tuners
- they 're not so tight anymore - sweeeeet.

This is USA in 10 Ages

: thanhnoelld; November 11th, 2009

I heard mortal on the radiocommunication the other day who holded a new definition of a `` Gaucherie '' - you cognize, those verbalisation politicians do day in and day out and wish they holded n't. V.p. Biden 's the Solecism Mill, for instance.

Well, the newdefinition of a Slip is when a politician effs upward and accidentally states the truth. Turns out the Veep 's recent observations on Russian autumn squarely into this new position of gaffsterism. Biden got it right
He merely repents stating it aloud.

This is what is in shop for the good old U.S.A.. Believe I 'm nuts? Cheque out Dmitry Orlov 's Blog, Cluborlov
He holded a front row place at Russia 's scissure upward. He sees one coming for us, overly.

Biden holded it right: Rural Russia is dying of poorness, disregard

Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: August 05, 2009 04: 31: 57 Necropsy

KUVSHINOVO, USSR The regime administrator was splitting with optimism: More nippers are being born, many rubles will be commited in substructure and his part is weathering the world-wide economical storm.

`` The situation is so good, '' stated Boris Zaitsev, a square-shouldered man who uttered in a confident drone.

Outside his office, some 170 mis north-west of Moscow, the front stairs to the Soviet-era authorities edifice are fall under a heap of junk. Deep, spine-rattling chuckholes that rival subdivisions of Baghdad riddle the town 's streets. The part 's population holds plump by more a fourth. Functionaries here care to indicate visitants to Kuvshinovo 's new Greek orthodox church, an elegant wooden construction. Work inside the church holds n't been completed, because the money ran out. Raiders seeking for icons and cash antecedently torched the office of another local church. Twice. A priest in a nearby settlement, who Holded took an anti-alcoholism run, was fired to decease with his house. The country around this rural enclave is in steep diminution; once-thriving fields are empty and the population is in free-fall. Along with many other towns and settlements in Brobdingnagian rural Russia, it Holds a microcosm for a state that, according to recent surveys, is shrivelling forth.

In Kuvshinovo and outlying crossroads, the population holds dropped to 16, 000 people from 22, 000 in to a lesser degree 20 geezerhood. USSR as a whole lost12.3 million people from 1992 to 2008. An inflow of immigrants, chiefly from former Soviet districts, aided conceal the extent of the job. The population is now 142 million, but it would hold been136.3 million without that upsurge from exterior.

The statistics aid explicate why V.p. Joe Biden struck such a sensitive nervus among Russia 's opinion elite when he told recently that the land holds `` a shrivelling population base; they hold a shrivelling economy, '' and added, `` It Holds a really hard thing to treat with, loss of imperium. ''

Despite the Kremlin 's posturing on the macrocosm phase and its difficult line in what Russians name the `` closely abroad '' occupying Georgia, closing away gas to Ukraine, claiming a privileged orbit in other post-Soviet dominions the decay in the heartland advises that Russia is n't a renascent power suchly as a country that Holds essay not to fall apart at the seams.

The mansions and gardens of old imperial Russia hold molten or tumbled, as hold many of the corporate farms that fed Communist Russia. Today, the crossroads stud a forsaken land of rampant poorness where handses imbibe from morn to nighttime. The interrelated crises of low birthrate, high mortality and ragged substructure hold left much of the state wasteland.

Looking over the meadows that take to the onion dome and the glinting gold cross of a spire a couple of mis outside Kuvshinovo, a Eastern orthodox priest mulled the interrogation: What Holds happing to Russia?

`` There are settlements with justly two people left, and others where nonentity dwells, '' Alexander Peshekhonov told, taking his words carefully. Peshekhonov, his grayish hair forced back in a ponytail, added the obligatory caution that, `` Our land is great. ''

He so flickered a finger at his pharynx, a gesture signification, `` They imbibe. ''

When springtime comes about, he stated, the bodies of locals who fell drunkenly into the snowdrifts of wintertime are happened in the pasturelands and routes. One man responsible firing the church office in Kuvshinovo was caught in a marketplace, selling icons and spiritual cassette tapes he 'd swiped to raise money for vodka.

`` If you read the papers and listen to our leaders ' propaganda, you get the feeling that everything is Fine, '' Peshekhonov told. `` But I make n't believe that. ''

Even darker times may lie before.

A major survey that the Un relinquished in April, authored by taking Russian experts, projected that USSR would lose at least 11 million more people by 2025. AnotherU.N.-sponsored study stated last yr that the population could fall to equally low as 100 million in 2050.

That study named a recent advance in natality but admonished that, `` while these favorable tendencies may endure another five or six eld, all recent prognosis... call that Russia 's population diminution will simply escalate. ''

`` There Holds a jeopardy that in the most negative situation, Russia will halt bing as a province, '' stated Olga Isupova, a senior demographic investigator at the Higher School of Economics, a guiding private Russian university in Moscow.

Inquired whether that was really a possibility, Isupova sayed a newsperson who was about to see Kuvshinovo, `` If you travel out there and bump something more optimistic, delight state me. ''

Down a dust-covered route so a ungraded way from Kuvshinovo, Doctor Anna Voronova maintains medical clinics in the settlement of Pryamukhino. Sitting behind her desk in a dimly illuminated room with warped floorings and chipped pigment, Voronova told she saw very much of people with imbibition jobs. She maked n't intend but vodka and beer.

`` They purchase home cleansers, or dissolvents utilise to clean a machine, and imbibe it because it Holds inexpensive, '' she told. `` It Holds not one or two people; it Holds many people. ''

There were 720 people populating around Pryamukhino in 1990. Today, there are roughly 500, a diminution maked in component by an hejira to Russia 's metropolises, but mostly by the fact that deceases outnumber births.

The talk about drunkenness is n't bounded to handwringing clergymen and small-town Dr.. A survey printed this June analyse three Russian industrial metropolises with typical mortality tendencies and chance that during the 1990s, to a higher degree one-half of the deceases of those aged 15 to 54 were alcohol-related.

The determinations, authored by a select panel of experts including representatives of the Russian cancer research Centre and the University of Oxford, advise that USSR is imbibing itself to expiry.

Unless something alterations, `` the settlements will go out, '' told Yulia Novosyolova, a school equipment director in Pryamukhino whose hubby shovels coal in the wintertime and inclines to cowses in the summertime.

Novosyolova, who invited a invitee to tea and pastries, holds three girls aged 17 to 22. All of them hold locomoted offly or are planning to, and none of the three sounded optimistic about the hereafter.

Another treasure from the Stott archive: The Message of Line

: thanhnoelld; November 5th, 2009

JRWS - Innocent Suffer Stott - Why do Innocent Suffer (1956) Holding holded the opportunity to publish John Stott's 1952 Parochial Evangelism online , back in January, here is another following episode from the archives. I was screening out my bookshelves ( in the end ) and came across his small pamphlet named `` Why Make The Innocent Suffer? The Message of Business '' ( from 1956 ). Again Uncle Privy holds given his permission to hold this released in this way , so that we can see what he was up to over 50 geezerhood ago!

How this occured:

It commenced life as a talking given at the All Souls Doctors ' service ( in 1955 ): because All Psyches sits in the bosom of London 's medical frat ( Wigmore St & Harley St are in the parish ), this service applied to be a regular occurrent.

So it was account for the the Evangelical Confederation 's national mag

So it was printed as a little folder ( for all of 6d! ) and re-released several times

As with the 1952 leaflet, all the trademarks of Stott 's penning are already clearly apparent:

a thorough, elaborate hold of the text in mitt

a crystal pellucidity and concision

nice balance in the headers ( but daze horror - 4 points here not 3! )

apt ( if brief ) pastoral applications

There are some superb moments. I was particularly struck by the beauty besides as the profound challenge of this paragraph on the Fourth sympathiser, Elihu:

Make not the buds of Christlikeness interruption into their finest flower during or after a period of run? Make not the flowers of religion and fortitude turn best in a sickroom? Makes not the Almighty Jesus went more existent and treasured when we lie on our dorsum and are squeezed to consult into His face? Energy not our moral and religious view gone corrected when we are snapped from the fevered rushing of life and are transferred into the privacy and the tranquility of sickness? Make we not come to value our celestial treasure more highly when we hold lost our earthly wellness or ownerships, relations or friends? God 's intention is to transform us into the beautiful image of His Boy Deliverer, and one of His methods is to let us to endure. Elihu holds a existent share to do in that argumentation. But his is not the last word.

Read the whole thing to see what the last word is!

Malheur Subject Wildlife Safety, OR.

: thanhnoelld; November 4th, 2009

Decoration day Weekend Trip in Photos

My wife and I attended Malheur Subject Wildlife Safety in Southeastern Oregon for Decoration day weekend to make some bird observance and a bit sportfishing. I holded thought to post this deadly after but other narrations and a trip to MA and Maine got in the style.

We took a day trip through the Catlow Basin and through component of the Alvord Basin to Coyote Lake Basin likewise. While there I maked a trifle sportfishing for the Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cutthroat
which is a minor races of Lahontan Cutthroat. I caught and snapped two of these fish.

Phlox Cognizance Colewort

Flowering Desert Cognizance Borecole

Willet Cognizance Kale

Orange False mallow ( Sphaeralcea munroana ) Cognizance Colewort

Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) Ken Cole

Sand lizard ( Sand lizard ) Cognizance Kale

Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cuttrhoat Ken Cole

Willow/Whitehorse Brook Cuttrhoat Cognizance Kail

Cottontail Cognizance Colewort

Geothlypis trichas Cognizance Kail

Northern Shoveller Cognizance Kale

Green Coot Cognizance Colewort

Eastern Kingbird Cognizance Kale

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<p> Decoration day Weekend Trip in Photos </p>
<p> My wife and I attended Malheur Subject Wildlife Safety in Southeastern Oregon for Decoration day weekend to make some bird observance and a bit sportfishing. I holded thought to post this deadly after but other narrations and a trip to MA and Maine got in the style. </p>
<p> We took a day trip through the Catlow Basin and through component of the Alvord Basin to Coyote Lake Basin likewise. While there I maked a trifle sportfishing for the <a target='_blank' href='http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/Species/Data/LahontanCutthroatTrout/'>Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cutthroat</a>
which is a minor races of Lahontan Cutthroat. I caught and snapped two of these fish. </p>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Phlox Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_5933-1.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Phlox Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Phlox Cognizance Colewort </p>
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<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Blooming Desert Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_5951.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Blooming Desert Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Flowering Desert Cognizance Borecole </p>
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<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Willet Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_5999.jpg?w=360h=225' title='Willet Ken Cole' height='225'><p> Willet Cognizance Kale </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Unknown Desert Flower Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_6044.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Orange Globe Mallow (Sphaeralcea munroana) Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Orange False mallow ( Sphaeralcea munroana ) Cognizance Colewort </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_6052.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Sand lizard ( Sand lizard ) Cognizance Kale </p>
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<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cuttrhoat Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_6080.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cuttrhoat Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Willow/Whitehorse Brook Cuttrhoat Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cuttrhoat Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_23_6089.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Willow/Whitehorse Creek Cuttrhoat Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Willow/Whitehorse Brook Cuttrhoat Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Cottontail Rabbit Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6117.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Cottontail Rabbit Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Cottontail Cognizance Colewort </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Common Yellowthroat Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6131-1-1.jpg?w=360h=219' title='Common Yellowthroat Ken Cole' height='219'><p> Geothlypis trichas Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Northern Shoveler Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6776-1.jpg?w=360h=225' title='Northern Shoveler Ken Cole' height='225'><p> Northern Shoveller Cognizance Kale </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Common Coot Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6146-0.jpg?w=360h=228' title='Common Coot Ken Cole' height='228'><p> Green Coot Cognizance Colewort </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Eastern Kingbird Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6239-1.jpg?w=360h=235' title='Eastern Kingbird Ken Cole' height='235'><p> Eastern Kingbird Cognizance Kale </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Brewer's Blackbird Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6302-1.jpg?w=360h=278' title='Brewer's Blackbird Ken Cole' height='278'><p> Brewers Blackbird Cognizance Colewort </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='American Avocet Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6489_1-1.jpg?w=360h=229' title='American Avocet Ken Cole' height='229'><p> American Avocet Cognizance Kale </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Yellow Warbler Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6628-1-1.jpg?w=360h=223' title='Yellow Warbler Ken Cole' height='223'><p> Yellowbird Cognizance Kale </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='White Faced Ibis Susan Bordeaux' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6759-1.jpg?w=360h=298' title='White Faced Ibis Susan Bordeaux' height='298'><p> White Faced Ibis Susan Bordeaux </p>
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<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='American White Pelican Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6828-1-1.jpg?w=360h=200' title='American White Pelican Ken Cole' height='200'><p> American Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Cognizance Borecole </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Forester's Tern Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6868-1.jpg?w=360h=240' title='Forester's Tern Ken Cole' height='240'><p> Foresters Tern Cognizance Borecole </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Great Horned Owl Chick Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6919-1.jpg?w=360h=225' title='Great Horned Owl Chick Ken Cole' height='225'><p> Bubo virginianus Biddy Cognizance Colewort </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Tree Swallow Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_6997.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Tree Swallow Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Tree Sup Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Western Tanager Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_7087-1.jpg?w=360h=255' title='Western Tanager Ken Cole' height='255'><p> Piranga ludoviciana Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Garter Snake Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_24_7115.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Garter Snake Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Grass snake Cognizance Kail </p>
</div>
<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Tiger Swallowtail Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_25_7238.jpg?w=360h=241' title='Tiger Swallowtail Ken Cole' height='241'><p> Tiger Swallowtail Cognizance Colewort </p>
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<div style='width: 370px'><img width='360' alt='Horned Grebe Ken Cole' src='http://wolves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/2009_05_25_7318-1.jpg?w=360h=225' title='Horned Grebe Ken Cole' height='225'><p> Horned Grebe Cognizance Kail </p>
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Zappa Plays Zappa Nails it Again | Higher Land 8.

: thanhnoelld; November 3rd, 2009

Last dark was a nighttime to recall ( and certainly not a dark easily buried ). Dweezil Zappa
and the pack of talented players cognise as `` Zappa Plays Zapp
a '' executed a 2 hr 45 min posed without interruption. They were so tight and goodly practised it was mind boggling. Holding seen the grouping perform at the same locale mostly exactly a year ago
, I believed I was already steel oneself against the astonishing eve of music. It turns out I was incorrect. I was nohow steel oneself against such an awe-inspiring reproduction of music by the late great Frank Zappa
The highlight of the eve for me was the performance of Black Page #1
( the membranophone solo ) and Blackness Page # 2 ( the musical version ). Vocalizer Ben Thomas
( the new bozo ) even rendered interpretative dance attendant. Wish I could hold holded my DSLR camera with ME Alas, the P & Sec photos will should serve.

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Salving a Literary Memory: Naturalism ' Excavated off the FL Seacoast

: thanhnoelld; November 2nd, 2009

I catch the hosiery with my atmospheric pressure gage on that, and check my resting supply: Not much. I hold only somely decent clip for a safety halt before I rise. Really, I holded desired we might chance the ship 's whistling today, but it was a needle in a hayrick possibility. Crane holded composed poignantly of it: `` If there was ever a voice of desperation and decease, it was in the voice of the whistling... a vocal of man 's terminal. ''

I head for the anchor line, employing my mitts to tardily force myself across the undersurface since the current is now excessively strong to fin against The full site holds been churned into a sandstorm by a new underwater spate, peradventure an progress warning of the impending southwards storm forepart back on the surface. Safely on the rope, I force myself easily up, fork up manus. I look back one last clip and see the wreck of the Commodore slicing back into a apparitional underwater haze. I do a safety halt at 20 pes to blow away N, so interrupt through the surface. Around me, the waves hold commenced to turn much biggerer, ptyalizing white froth and crashing into each other, signaling the beginnings of the new conditions forepart. Everyplace I look, it is all graythe sea, the sky, even our ain little boat. Crane, from his place in the dory, seed a similar world, drawing it as the `` cosmopolitan indifference... of the slate greyish seas. ''

As the four manpowers from the Commodore eventually came ashore in the rolling January ledgemans at Daytona Beach and were flung from the little boat, oiler Higginsby far the strongest man aboardwas the only one to submerge in the breaker. For Crane, it reenforced the opinion that even the toughest homoes are no lucifer for natural forces.

The man who assisted make literary naturalism would simply inhabit another three ages after his ordeal, dying at the age of 28 in Bedenweiler, FRG of a tubercular status exacerbate by the wintry day and nighttime in the unfastened boat. His truelove, Despoina, was at his side.

While his short narration accent the indifference of the natural creation towards man, it besides instructed that adhering between mans can be fortified by facing that same angst together. Crane pent: `` When it came nighttime, the white waves paced backward and forward in the Moon, and the wind took the sound of the great sea 's voice to the workforces on shore, and they experienced that they could so be translators. ''

Presently, all the frogman are back on the surface and safely in the boat. The sky, once a solid Grey of cloud and vappor, holds gotten darker and it is raining now, a difficult pelting rainfall. There is a good natured comradeliness aboard among us, and a happy sharing of new artefacts recoveredincluding an incrust Remington rifle. Weaver forces anchor and we head ashore, crashing through the waves as we locomote. Because of the conditions, there is no beacon to be seen sticking on the skyline like the point of a pin today, but there holds been an vast bang in the doing, in the confrontation of life by direct experience.

As we near Ponce inlet I eventually see the brick pharos and by now, it is far biggerer than a pin. One of the frogman turns to me and enquire what I will write about this day. I state him it will be an history of plunking the wreck, and possibly of re-learning Crane 's message of Naturalism. He agitates his caput and grinnings, but I ca n't estimate whether it Holds a smiling of blessing or one of preoccupied incredulity.

I consider of how the ship 's cook was cited in a local paper after his delivery in the breaker, and fig I could make worse: `` These paper loggers hold got touchwood... even if they make say such painful whoopers on occasion. ''

A shark & me, from another dive (Courtesy Norbert Wu)

A shark & me, from another honkytonk ( Courtesy Norbert Wu )

PS: After my narration seemed in Newsweek, Serbousek, Friedmann and myself were invited to visit Greater new york to get on the national Today Show. I worsened, but the other two travelled on, keeping to say the tale of the Commodore to the country. By 1998, Serbousek and the Ponce Recess Beacon Association were allowed an `` Admiralty Catch '' for the wreck which gave them the perquisite to save the site. Proficient frogman from the Cambrian Foundation were undertaken to assist relieve the Commodore and to enter a elaborate site progrgram of it. By 2001, the Juan ponce de leon Beacon Saving Society maked an exhibit dedicated to the wreck and its history.

The Commodore still rests under the sea, far plenty offshore so that -- -if you were to be in an unfastened boat over the site -- -the Mosquito Light would wedge upward like a point of a pin on the skyline.

Blueberry Miss Dawdler

: thanhnoelld; November 1st, 2009

I hold not experienced like making much for the past few years. Sitting at place, seeking to maintain warm, I hold watched very much of vidies and listened to the radiocommunication. I hold embarked online but a couple of times and founda few more drones.

I basked watching theanimated lagger for Blueberry Miss, composed and read by Newbery Medalist and fecund writer Neil Gaiman.

And another picture ( 2006 ) - ashort pieceby Tori Amos about how Neil Gaimanhas enlivened her.

Chinese chirography

: thanhnoelld; October 19th, 2009

Ken
desired a special bar for his papa 's 74th birthday. I doed a penmanship designing bar for Cognizance 's dada as he savour chirography.

I may be of Chinese descent but I 'm definitely not Chinese literate even though I can read simple Chinese words and I mouth a few Chinese idioms. Ne'er kept a Chinese thicket to indite anything earlierly. My girl is but larning penmanship in school. She desired to assist compose `` longevity '' and `` happy birthday '' in Mandarin on the bar. I need to state her she 'll necessitate to do some more before she can make so. I cognize, I can be so awful sometimes. So I pent the wordings myself.

Done a fault, which Laura spied before bringing to Ken Phew!

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