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Solemn Mass for the Immaculate Conception in Singa...
Pontifical Low Mass in Cincinnati
A Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Nature of Ca...
Advent Carol Service for Aid to the Church in Need...
Solemn High Mass at St Mary Moorfields, London
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A New Home for the EF in Naples
The Real Eden Project - How the Garden is an Exten...
Vatican Radio Interview with Cardinal Burke on the...
Classics of the Liturgical Movement: Dom Paul Dela...
Cardinal Robert Sarah to Head CDW
Advent Carols in Downtown DC
An Advent Chant Workshop and Retreat in Ramona, CA
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The Presentation of the Virgin Mary
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Eucharistic Procession at Seton Hall University
Dominican Chants in Honor of Our Lady
The Dedication of St Paul Outside-the-Walls
15th Century Wall Paintings Uncovered in a Small W...
The Sign of Peace - Latest Issue of Sacred Music J...
How Sinful Is It to Disregard the Rubrics?
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Dom Alcuin Reid on "Elements of the New Liturgical...
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Monteverdi Vespers in Washington DC
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Dom Mark Kirby on Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vi...
An Ordination and First Mass - Silverstream Priory
The Octave of All Saints 2014 - The Confessors
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15th Century Wall Paintings Uncovered in a Small Welsh Church
I am indebted to NLM reader Gina S. for bringing to my notice this story of the uncovering of wall paintings in St Cadoc's, Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Experts were called in after the architect noticed a single red line high up close to the rafters on a wall where a tiny patch of an estimated 27 layers of whitewash had fallen away from the plaster underneath. Gradually, the whitewash was removed to reveal on one side of the church a large floor-to-ceiling painting of St George and the dragon, and pictorial representations of the seven deadly sins. The church was founded on the site of a monastery around 1200; these painting are thought to date from the late 15th century, largely because of the dress of the figures, which is contemporary to that period. The photo top left is of avarice and the other details are of St George and the princess.
As usual, what strikes me about this is how during this Gothic period the whole church was covered with imagery. BBC Wales has a video describing the restoration here.
Above: the exterior of the church and, below, the interior before, during and after restoration
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Labels: Gothic, Sacred Art


Elizabeth ("Beth") Graham is a director at Grant & Eisenhofer, leading the firm's complex pharmaceutical and medical device litigation practice. Since 1989, she has dedicated her practice to complex mass tort and class action litigation.
Ms. Graham's expertise spans the practice areas of mass tort, consumer fraud, product liability, environmental, and business torts. She has served as Lead Class Counsel in multi-million dollar cases, has acted as a member of various Plaintiffs' Executive Committees in complex actions, and has prior experience as national defense coordination counsel in product liability litigation.
Ms. Graham is actively representing thousands of injured victims in various cases against major pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. Currently, Ms. Graham serves as Co-Lead on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee and as Chair of the Law & Briefing Committee in In re Zofran (Ondansetron) Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2657), as Liaison Counsel and a member of the Executive Committee in In re Essure Product Cases (JCCP 4887) and on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in In re Power Morcellator Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2652). Ms. Graham is Co-Chair of the Law & Briefing Committee for In re Xarelto Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2592) and is a member of the Xarelto Bellwether Selection Committee.
Prior to joining G&E, Ms. Graham served on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee and represented victims in the In re Sulzer Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Liability Litigation (California JCCP 4165). She has served as Lead Counsel on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in high profile class actions such as Borman Automotive v. American Honda Motor Corp. (MDL No. 1069), which resulted in a $435 million settlement; and litigation against Chrysler based on its Minivan Doorlatch failures and ABS brake defects. She has also represented hundreds of families injured by environmental contaminants, including radon, arsenic and rocket fuel, resulting in confidential settlements in excess of $25 million. Ms. Graham also has vast experience as a consultant to other mass tort firms that seek her advice in structuring their cases.
Ms. Graham is an accomplished speaker, often presenting at AAJ programs, Mass Torts Made Perfect programs, and Harris Martin conferences, and she recently presented at the January 2017 Masters of Mass Tort conference. Additionally, Ms. Graham is Co-Chair of the American Association for Justice Zofran Litigation Group, and is a member of the Publications Committee for the AAJ and a co-author of "Overcoming the Clear Evidence Defense," published in the July 2016 issue of Trial magazine.
Prior to her representation of injured individuals, Ms. Graham worked for large product liability defense firms as national defense counsel and was a partner at prominent San Francisco area law firms.
Ms. Graham earned her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, where she was named a St. Thomas More Scholar. She earned her B.A. from St. John's University in 1987.


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The old motto that "cash in king" has never sounded truer than it does in the current economic climate. Without healthy cash flow, businesses can not hope to survive for the foreseeable future. When considered the current credit challenged times, cash flow management and forecasting takes on ever a greater significance. The lack of credit available for businesses from traditional sources has led to an increase in enquiries into alternative funding options such as asset-based lending (ABL).
According to a research, it has been revealed that the number of business clients being refused finance by traditional lenders has virtually recently tripled. In addition, about 60 percent reported that there was an increase in business owners proactively seeking to learn more about alternative methods of funding.
Today's financial managers must understand the cash dynamics of their business, the key to successful financial management at present is to use this understanding to anticipate these issues and then communicate with funding institutions and stakeholders early and honestly. This goes in line with a very important corporate governance principle known as "transparency".
Businesses looking to improve vital cash flow, both short and long term, can consider receivable finance, which enables funding to be leveraged against unpaid invoices without waiting for customer payments thereby delivering an immediate boost to cash flows. Revolving receivables and inventory finance can be combined with fixed assets and collaterised term loans to provide even more liquidity and this can be the lifeblood to many companies during this debt ridden turbulent era.
ABL unlocks the hidden value of a business's assets by raising funding from various assets a business owns such as debtors ledger, inventory and PPE. This can then be used to ensure working capital enable stability, growth or even turnaround plans to be realized offering stressed businesses extra headroom required to execute their well-laid restructuring plans. For companies willing to re-engineer, re-structure and create a viable business plan going forward, this facility can make all the difference. But only if the lender is brought in at the right time to work in partnership with the management team.
Financial modeling is vital and tight cash flow management is often the difference between the success and failure. The ability to successfully predict the true cash dynamics of a business comes from a clear financial overview. Using this overview and conservative (set aside your aggressiveness for the time being) model to predict the cash flow in the current climate is essential.
If the financial information is accurate, clear and up to date, any business' financial performance can be modeled to understand how bank heads and covenants are affected by changes in the main business variables (sales, margins, capital expenditure, and debtors' payments rates). Clearly working in close partnerships with a lender has never been as important as it is now. During these fast moving times, cash flow can change for better or worse almost overnight. Once the management team can anticipate likely financial and cash flow issues, they must be communicated in a timely fashion to funding providers and other stakeholders. If possible, always avoid giving this important group of people surprises.


Among libertarians, Rose Wilder Lane is best known as the author of the libertarian classics The Discovery of Freedom and Give Me Liberty. Outside of the libertarian movement, she is known – if at all – as the at least partial ghostwriter of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder's popular Little House on the Prairie series of books. (See William Holtz's Lane biography.) A chapter of Lane's literary career that is relatively unknown to both groups, though it brought her an enormous readership at the time, is her stint as a weekly columnist, from 1942 to 1945, for the Pittsburgh Courier, the u.s.'s leading black newspaper and a prominent voice for racial equality.
Before her discovery of the Courier, Lane by her own admission had had a blindspot on the issue of race; she had "heard of lynchings and other racial injustice, but had assumed they were isolated incidents." After she began reading the Courier's documentation of the extent of racial oppression in the u.s., she declared that she had been an "utter fool" and a "traitor" to the "cause of human rights." (p. 284) Soon she had joined the paper's campaign against racism by becoming one of its regular writers.
Here's hoping that more of Lane's Courier material gets made available.
When the form asks for "race", I write "human".


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The CarbonTracker (CT) model has been used in previous studies for understanding and predicting the sources, sinks, and dynamics that govern the distribution of atmospheric CO2 at varying ranges of spatial and temporal scales. However, there are still challenges for reproducing accurate model-simulated CO2 concentrations close to the surface, typically associated with high spatial heterogeneity and land cover. In the present study, we evaluated the performance of nested-grid CT model simulations of CO2 based on the CT2016 version through comparison with in-situ observations over East Asia covering the period 2009–13. We selected sites located in coastal, remote, inland, and mountain areas. The results are presented at diurnal and seasonal time periods. At target stations, model agreement with in-situ observations was varied in capturing the diurnal cycle. Overall, biases were less than 6.3 ppm on an all-hourly mean basis, and this was further reduced to a maximum of 4.6 ppm when considering only the daytime. For instance, at Anmyeondo, a small bias was obtained in winter, on the order of 0.2 ppm. The model revealed a diurnal amplitude of CO2 that was nearly flat in winter at Gosan and Anmyeondo stations, while slightly overestimated in the summertime. The model's performance in reproducing the diurnal cycle remains a challenge and requires improvement. The model showed better agreement with the observations in capturing the seasonal variations of CO2 during daytime at most sites, with a correlation coefficient ranging from 0.70 to 0.99. Also, model biases were within −0.3 and 1.3 ppm, except for inland stations (7.7 ppm).
• Model-simulated CO2 concentrations are evaluated with in-situ observations at diurnal and seasonal time scales.
• The model performs better in reproducing the daytime CO2 concentrations than the nighttime.
• The model captures well the seasonal variations of CO2 concentrations during daytime at most sites.
Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-019-8150-x.
在以往的研究中, CarbonTracker(CT)模型可用于理解和预测在不同空间和时间尺度范围内控制大气CO2分布的源, 汇和动力过程. 然而, 精确再现接近地表的CO2模型模拟浓度仍然存在挑战, 这通常与较高的空间异质性和土地覆盖相关. 在本研究中, 通过与2009-2013年期间东亚现场观测数据进行比较, 我们评估了基于CT2016版本的嵌套网格CT模型模拟CO2的性能. 我们选择了位于沿海, 偏远, 内陆和山区的站点, 并且将结果进行日变化和季节时间尺度的展示. 在各个目标站点, 在捕捉CO2日变化方面, 模式和观测的一致性是不同的. 总体而言, 全部24小时的平均偏差小于6.3 ppm, 当仅考虑白天时, 偏差进一步降低, 最大偏差为4.6 ppm. 例如, 在Anmyeondo站点, 冬季的模式与观测的偏差较小, 大约为0.2ppm. 该模型揭示了冬季在Gosan和Anmyeondo站点, CO2浓度几乎无日变化, 而在夏季与观测相比则被轻微高估. 该模型在再现CO2日变化方面的表现仍然是一项挑战, 需要改进. 该模型在模拟大多数站点处的白天的CO2季节变化时与观测数据符合的更好, 相关系数在0.70~0.99之间. 其中, 模型与观测的偏差在-0.3和1.3 ppm之间, 内陆站点除外(偏差为7.7 ppm).
This work was supported by the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program "Research and Development for KMA Weather, and Earth system Services-Development and Assessment of AR6 Climate Change Scenarios" under Grant (KMA2018-00321). We gratefully acknowledge those who provided the access to the in-situ data at the WDCGG (https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/wdcgg/cgi-bin/wdcgg/catalogue.cgi).


Wow. Lee Chong Wei, Silver Medalist for Badminton Olympic, getting award tonight, he would be presented with a cheque for RM300,000 and a monthly pension of RM3,000 and now getting Datukship. Congrats Datuk Lee Chong Wei. He's gonna be rich by playing badminton man. So who want to start play badminton now? Come join me!
KUALA LUMPUR: The appearance of Malaysian badminton star Lee Chong Wei caused some excitement at Parliament House yesterday.
Lee paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Malaysian pride: Abdullah proudly looking at the Olympic silver medal won by Lee at his Parliament office. Looking on is Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ismail Sabry Yaacob. Lee met with the Prime Minister for 15 minutes Tuesday together with other members of the badminton team.
Najib told Lee that a special ceremony would be held at Lee's home state in Penang tonight, in which he would be presented with a cheque for RM300,000 and a monthly pension of RM3,000 – for winning the nation a silver at the Beijing Olympics.
Asked what he would do with the money, Lee told reporters that he might buy a house and live there with his parents.
GEORGE TOWN: Penang will award a Datukship to badminton singles player Lee Chong Wei, 26, who won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas would confer the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), which carries the title Datuk, on Lee on Aug 30.
"The state will award the DSPN to Penang's first Olympic silver medallist, Bukit Mertajam home-grown talent Lee Chong Wei," Lim told a press conference Wednesday.
He said Chong Wei had done not only Penang but also Malaysia proud with his achievement.
"Even though Malaysians were disappointed that he failed to win the gold medal, we are proud at his singular achievement which has brought joy to both state and country.
"The state government hopes that this recognition will spur him on to break more records and achieve greater success to win greater glory for both Penang and Malaysia," said Lim.
He said the DSPN was instituted in 1976 and limited to 800 living persons, and is conferred on individuals of high position who have contributed unique and valuable services to the state.
Chong Wei was not at the morning press conference as he is only scheduled to arrive from Kuala Lumpur in the evening while Lim has to fly off to Kuala Lumpur for his live debate later Wednesday night.
Also at the press conference were state Youth and Sports, Women, Family and Community Development Committee chairman Lydia Ong Kok Fooi and Chong Wei's eldest brother Chong Hoon, who contacted the badminton player on his mobile phone and placed it on loudspeaker mode.
Chong Wei said he was very happy and did not at all expect to get a Datukship for being a silver medallist.
"I thought that maybe, if I win the gold medal, I might be given Datukship. But no, I never expected it for the silver and was very surprised," he said.
Chong Wei said he thought Chong Hoon was joking when he called him on Tuesday evening with the news.
"My thanks to the Penang state for fully supporting me," he added.
Chong Hoon, 33, said he was proud of his brother and happy for him.
wahhh.. datuk!! 300k!!! monthly rm3k!!!
wow, RM300,000? and a RM 3K per month?
if got gold medal then how much??
Got gold medal the reward is RM 1 million and life pension RM 5k.
Although it's just a silver medal, it's meaning is equivalent to a gold medal. The gold medal for Lin Dan has come easy for Lin Dan but Chong Wei has fought hard against Lee Hyun-il to ensure that we don't come back empty handed. He's our hero!


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Thursday 9 January 2020, by Pierre Rousset
The student mobilization on 29 November 2019 had a deep echo across Pakistan. Affirming solidarity with all the discriminated and exploited sectors of society, it became a rallying point for a wide range of social and progressive movements in a country and a state undermined by numerous regional, national or religious fractures and by abysmal social inequalities.
This is why repression strikes severely. Activists prosecuted for "sedition" have avoided immediate imprisonment by paying bail. [1] But they must appear again in court on 7 January to find out if their bail will be maintained. This is very important as the charge of sedition is particularly serious.
The demonstrations of 29 November deserved their name - Solidarity Marches - tackling all injustices, even the most politically or socially "sensitive" such as the rights of minority populations, the status of women or transgender people, the laws against blasphemy, the sometimes "feudal" (or even almost slave-like) conditions of exploitation in various economic sectors and so on. In doing so, the Marches became a rallying point for a wide range of leftist political currents and social movements.
Convergence of resistance
As Farah Zia notes in the English-language daily The News, the students "were joined in the march by teachers, journalists, lawyers, old guard revolutionaries, civil society activists, working classes, political workers. All genders were represented in the inclusive crowd that the Mall has not seen in recent years. Not even in the [2009] Lawyers' Movement. The non-Punjabi youth were conspicuous by their sizeable number. A rare occasion when the 'burgers' mingled with their public school counterparts in a public space." [2]
Amna Chaudhry adds in another English language daily newspaper, Dawn:
SAC [Student Action Committee] was adamant that the march also addresses the wider problems of privatisation, misogyny, racism and the sheer neglect of marginalised groups. As a result, mobilisation for the march did not just take place on campuses, but student organisers also engaged with labour leaders, lawyers, doctors and feminists
Women were encouraged to be at the forefront of the march that day; labourers were given as much importance as any other group. Student Mashal Khan — who had been killed on made-up charges of blasphemy — was honoured alongside revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxembourg. In doing so, the march consolidated the issues of the marginalised as irrevocably tied together and created a space in which all citizens could give voice to their demands (…)
This year, student activists sought the help of labour unions, such as the Bhatta Mazdoor Union, the Labour Education Foundation, and the All Pakistan Wapda Hydroelectric Workers Union. The transgender community, Mohiba Ahmed adds, played a huge part in organising and mobilising for the strike. Since the Student Solidarity March also opposed the increasing privatisation of public institutions, they found common ground with doctors and lawyers who have the same grievances. [3]
A long term preparation
The second Solidarity March has been long in preparation, says Raza Gilani, a member of the Progressive Student Collective:
We learnt a lot from our first march. Perhaps the most valuable lesson was the importance of making connections with activists all over the country. We spent the past year travelling and building these connections, and that is why the march this year was such a success. The organisers claim their inspiration is the 1968 movement against the dictatorial regime of Ayub Khan. "It is the workers, peasants, students and women who will lead the movement, just like last time. All these groups have to come together for us to be able to achieve our goals(…).
The movement is also criticised because there are women at the forefront," adds Ahmed. "But women are suffering the most at the hands of universities. Campuses are not safe for them, the lack of scholarships and hostel facilities affect them even more and that is why they are at the frontlines today," she says. "Women have to be a part of this, as does the transgender community. We want these people to come together, for this to be an intersectional movement. [4]
The accusation of sedition
The Marches on November 29 were therefore not a flash in the pan, but the expression of the ripening of a new activist and united generation determined to articulate resistance to all injustices from a progressive perspective. The ruling political circles and the various fractions of the state apparatus are not responding uniformly to this challenge. But it is clear that at least one wing of the law enforcement agency wants to strike very hard. Hence the accusation of sedition.
As in many other countries - starting with Modi's India, seen as the sworn enemy of Pakistan! - the accusation of sedition, terrorism or endangering national security is frequently used to suppress political opposition and social movements. The army has sometimes planted false evidence in the homes of peasant or worker leaders to have them sentenced to particularly harsh conditions of imprisonment (torture, solitary confinement and so on): namely Indian rupees. One of the most serious charges in this country, along with blasphemy – is being denounced as a "paid agent of India". The accusation of terrorism allows activists to be tried under emergency legislation.
The right of self-determination is obviously not recognized, and, in the face of central state oppression, irredentist movements exist, as in Baluchistan. However, the military, to cover up its own crimes, can accuse peaceful, unarmed movements, which do not jeopardize the unity of Pakistan, of threatening national security. as was the case with the Pashtun Tahfuz Movement (PTM), in the north-west of the country. Following violent repression, soldiers imprisoned the two members of the National Assembly elected in this region: Ali Wazir and Moshin Dawar. It was only after an intense mobilization in Pakistan and a major international solidarity campaign that they were released on bail.
Sedition, terrorism and blasphemy
The charges of sedition or terrorism and blasphemy operate according to different methods, but both operate both within the framework of (legal) institutions and outside of them. For example, intelligence services can "disappear" people deemed to be overly critical (such as bloggers) – and the justice system can force them to "reappear". The state apparatus (in the broad sense) is not homogeneous. Courts of law are often subject to established powers (ultimately intractable, as in the case of Baba Jan at Gilgit Baltistan, whatever the improbability of the accusation). They can also take very courageous positions, as when the judges of a Supreme Court declared the Christian villager Asia Bibi innocent of the crime of blasphemy for which she had been condemned to death. The great democratic defence campaigns in Pakistan are carried out by means of mobilization, but also at the legal level. Thus, many lawyers and human rights defenders will support the so-called "leaders" of 29 November, accused of sedition, on 7 January 2020.
In the case of blasphemy, extremist religious movements do not hesitate to exercise expeditious "justice"" themselves. No person in detention and condemned to death for blasphemy has been legally executed to date - on the other hand, they can be murdered in the prison - or outside, if they are released (once exonerated, Asia Bibi had to be secretly taken to Canada to be saved). Many more are killed before they are even arrested.
Radical Islamists do more: they assassinate lawyers and figures who defend "blasphemers" or who criticize the extension of blasphemy laws. Salman Taseer, governor of the main province of Pakistan and a member of the government party at the time, was shot by his own bodyguard because he had defended Asia Bibi.
Most recently, a recognized academic specialist in English literature, Junaid Hafeez, arrested in 2013, was sentenced to death for blasphemy, without any proof whatsoever. The real reason is probably that he invited a feminist colleague to speak at his seminar. He has remained in solitary confinement for six years and his mental health is suffering painfully. The group of fundamentalist lawyers (there are many) pleading for the charge have threatened to kill their colleague who defends Hafeez - while his previous lawyer, Rashid Rehman, had already been attacked in his office and murdered in 2014. Religious extremists have threatened judges with the same fate if they did not sentence the accused to death, which they have done. As a rule, the perpetrators of these religious crimes are not worried. Impunity reigns and the pressure on the judicial authorities continues to increase.
A battle on multiple fronts
This (incomplete) overview allows us to understand both the depth and the driving forces of the current student and popular mobilization (in response to so many injustices) and the challenges facing the new activist generation. It has had to engage battle on multiple fronts from the start to be able to bring together the living forces of the resistance and reconnect the thread of a historic, progressive struggle, which dates back at least to the 1968 years, and lay the foundations for 'a new left-wing force, rejuvenated, socially rooted and inclusive.
7 January represents a very important legal and political deadline. As a first step, the situation in Pakistan should be made more widely known, so as to once again ensure our solidarity with those who are pursuing a difficult struggle in this country.
[1] The police had to admit that they had not completed their investigations.
[2] The News on Sunday, 8 Dcember 2019 "The march and after".
[3] Amna Chaudry, Dawn, 8 December 2019 "The Student Solidarity March called for justice, not only on campuses but for all marginalised segments of society".
[4] Amna Chaudhry, op. cit.
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Pierre Rousset
Pierre Rousset is a member of the leadership of the Fourth International particularly involved in solidarity with Asia. He is a member of the NPA in France.

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We took our chance and then we defended like lions-Alexandre Guimaraes
The Mumbai boss spoke after his team triumphed over NorthEast United…
Mumbai City FC continued their winning start to the Indian Super League season after beating NorthEast United FC 1-0 at the Mumbai Football Arena yesterday.
Speaking to the media after the match Head Coach Alexandre Guimaraes was understandably pleased with his side's second successive win that saw them maintain their perfect start in the campaign.
When asked whether his team were a bit lucky to win on the night Guimaraes said, "I think that speaks really well of our performance because as you play more matches you get more wins. For them, it was the third game while it was the second for us. It was the first time here that we practised in our home. We had to be patient, it was that kind of game. We took our chance and then we defended like lions."
Diego Forlan was once again the difference-maker as the forward first played a key role in earning a penalty and then converted from the spot to give his side the win. Reflecting on the Uruguayan's performance the manager said, "Again I think he played a very good game, other players also tried to find him much more and that is normal as he plays more, everybody will know his movements better and he has played two games and has an assist and a goal."
The Mumbai side still do not have the full complement of players at their disposal. Sunil Chhetri and Amrinder Singh are away on AFC Cup duty with Bengaluru FC, Haiti international Sony Norde is on internal duty while forward Gaston Sangoy is still injured. When asked whether he was having to adopt a more conservative style of play due to the absentees the former Costa Rica boss said that the club's long preseason in Dubai had helped him train the team in different formations and ways of playing.
"Two games, two victories, it is like a very good start…We believe in the work we did in the pre- season and are doing currently, so these results are just a reflection on our hard work. But if the players do not believe in themselves, then you cannot achieve. My players are showing good character and determination to win. Sometimes we play good, sometimes we play bad but this fighting spirit always makes you achieve something."
MCFC have now kept two clean sheets in two games which represents a significant improvement for a side that had consistently shipped goals in the previous two editions of the competition. Speaking about his side's newfound solidity at the back Guimaraes said, "Yes, it is important. We started to work on that in the preseason to be defensive solid. For all the players to contribute in defense. Also, we have shown very good physical stamina to play in this way."
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Sit Down and Don't Touch Anything
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Rethinking the role of human error
Autumn Christian
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
― Albert Camus
I always wanted to be a good girl, and I thought that meant I shouldn't touch anything.
The first time I broke a plate in front of my husband my head screamed because I wanted the world to freeze. I stood hesitant and numb, surrounded by the shards, waiting for his reaction. I was expecting to be yelled at, or at the very least, have him be annoyed or disappointed.
He just looked at me and shrugged. "It's okay. It's just a plate. That's what, four dollars?"
That simple moment forced me to rewrite my entire understanding of the universe. I thought I knew the script. I thought I knew the punishment for when my hands and fingers became too big for the environment, when lines intersected in error.
I'd been so used to living in a world where every mistake was a colossal disaster. I ended up in jail as a teenager because of an argument that started when I didn't clean up a Diet Coke spill in the kitchen properly.
All my life I had been too big, too clumsy, too loud, too much. I wore too much makeup, or not enough, or my clothes weren't the right style. My hair was too long or too short. The music and books I listened to weren't the right one. I ate the wrong food in the fridge or I tried to make myself a sandwich at the wrong time, when someone in another room didn't want to be disturbed. I tried to become a little less human every day.
A big reason I became a writer was because it was quiet. In the blind interior of myself I could constrain my motions to my fingertips against the keyboards. I could shift the universe without shifting my eyeballs. I could break myself inside the safe confines of a pair of headphones and a sweater that hid my curves, hide my breath.
I could never be a dancer, or an artist, or a musician. I'd spill out too far. I'd risk extending myself into a space I didn't belong.
And I didn't even belong inside me. My ribcage. My head. My shoulders. They were too big, too ostentatious. I was always apologizing for being in the way. I was constantly paying the price for existing.
I carried my body like I wanted to disappear. If I became small enough maybe I wouldn't have enough gravity to lift a plate to break.
Even when I moved out on my own I was terrified to rearrange the furniture or put a painting on the wall. Windows offended me. Decorations frightened me. I couldn't understand how other people could live with such reckless abandon. How they could so frivolously let their whole selves spill over their living spaces. How they could buy rugs, lamps, little decorations, loud plates, loud portraits, like they were just allowed to belong?
People used to come up to me at work and joke about how bare my desk was. Sometimes they'd even buy me little things so I could decorate it. I'd end up with toys and knick-knacks that I didn't identify with, that didn't feel like me. For several years I accumulated most of my possessions that way. Like I was just another passive object among objects.
For the longest time my greatest fantasy was to be shut in a little closet with a laptop and a desk and a bottle of wine and a dirty naked bulb that swung overhead. I wanted the harsh light to illuminate the ghoulish pop of my fingers against the keyboard.
I wanted to write novels alone until I forgot what the sun looked like.
That is, until the moment nearly eight years ago I broke a plate, and someone observed me doing it, and I didn't fall apart in their eyes.
And in that split second I realized I'd spent my entire life trying to accommodate myself for a lie.
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I was not the cupboard that was supposed to sit still so that it could hold fine China. I was not the column meant to support a greater work of art. I was not the doll meant to be propped up in the corner, with white lace, untouched for a dress, lips pursed but never making a sound.
One of the few benefits to being human is that we're design to manipulate our environments.
For most of existence nature has been an unchanging monolith, unable to modify itself except through cycles of life and death and rebirth that mostly remained the same.
We aren't an aberration. We aren't a mistake. We're nature's answer to the problem of a static existence. We're what nature built so that it could learn what it was like to fly in machines made of metal and soar to the moon.
A good girl doesn't sit in the corner with her hands folded waiting for the dust to cover her eyelashes.
She's meant to make noise, cause trouble, move outside the boundaries. She wasn't built to try to accommodate the world. She was built to push, and pull, and stretch across its landscape.
The toddler tries to put forks in sockets and pull vases off of tables. So the dancer stretches the space where her body can move. She is meant to spill; across the floors, bend an ankle, hit her knee against a stage prop. The artist splashes paint that may hit the wall instead of the canvas.
A good girl breaks the plates. And when she does, so what? The plates were made for us, and we can make more. The mistake was always believing that the possession was more cherished than the error that broke it.
A little noise, a little destruction, is a small price to pay for what she could become.
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I used to have a neurotic need to control the environment around me. To make it perfect and untouchable. Everything put in the right spot, eternal. Then I had my kid. I had to learn that so much stuff doesn't matter. Who cares if she draws on the fridge. The living room is a living room not a museum. Of course there's going to be toys and other signs of life everywhere. The dining table will have scuffs and marks from life on it. Accepting this has been liberating.
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Nikki Sixx Says Music's Drug Enablers Won't Stop the Money Train
Martin Kielty Published: November 22, 2017
Former Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has slammed the "enablers" who surround musicians and make it more difficult for those with drug issues to deal with them because it might affect financial returns.
Sixx has been vocal in recent months about the U.S. opiate crisis, particularly its effect in the artistic industries. Last month he dismissed the idea that taking drugs enhanced creativity, and in September he marked International Overdose Awareness Day by recounting his own worst experience while under the influence of heroin.
In a new interview on the syndicated talk show The Doctors, Sixx was asked if the "rock 'n' roll lifestyle" encourages drug abuse. "Yes and no," he replied. "It depends on the artist. Like when Whitney Houston passed away, I think it was a good time to look at enablers. There's a lot of people around the artist – there's managers, there's agents, there's road managers, there's crew, there's family members. So when you see a person heading towards that addiction, a lot of people don't want to stop the money train, and that's where you hear about a lot of the tragedies in rock 'n' roll, and other kinds of music as well."
You can watch the clip above.
Describing himself as a "survivor or heroin addiction and alcoholism," Sixx recounted the infamous story of how he wound up close to death after an overdose. "I was a heroin addict for exactly one year, and my heart stopped for two minutes and I came back," he said. "I went home and I shot up again and overdosed again. And I woke up the next day and I kind of had a spiritual awakening – that's the only way I can explain it. .… It was the first time I didn't want to do drugs."
Sixx said the experience changed his perspective. "At that time I said, 'I want to turn my life around and do something good with this horrible information,'" he recalled.
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In the past, knitters have considered Fair Isle knitting, orstranded knitting as it?s also known, to be an advanced style thatinvolves the frightening task of taking scissors to your hard-wonwork. As intimidating as this may seem, the cutting process, orsteeking, is actually not something to worry about. In FearlessFair Isle Knitting, best-selling knitwear designer Kathleen Taylorwalks knitters of all levels through the technique. With Taylor?ssimple patterns and large, easy-to-follow charts, the projectsyield delightfully vibrant results. The 30 stunning designs, whichrepresent Taylor?s updates on classic Fair Isle motifs, includejumpers, socks, dresses, hats and bags. With this book, Fair Isleknitting has become more accessible than ever and serious knitterswill agree that that?s a beautiful thing.
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Scissors Paper Card: JAI 198: Just Add A Blog Hop!
JAI 198: Just Add A Blog Hop!
Welcome back to the start of challenges for 2014 at Just Add Ink. We are kicking off the year with a Blog Hop.
The theme of the blog hop, as you may have guessed, is the Envelope Punch Board and the Thinlints Dies. You can use either, or both, in your creation. I chose to use the Envelope Punch Board to create an Envelope Mini Album.
The album is full of photos of my daughter Ada and her BFFs (best friends forever). I started off with four 6x6" envelopes created with the Envelope Punch Board and adhered them together to create the base of the album.
In the photo below you can see that not all of the envelope flaps were adhered down. They are used as the basis of a pocket.
The middle pages ended up with two pockets.
The next few photos show the album decorated with DSP. It's a bit of a sneak peek of the new Sale-A-Bration DSP. It's so gorgeous!
Pretty, soft, feminine papers, perfect for little girls.
Here's the album fully decorated with the DSP. Lots of cute patterns to choose from.
Here is a decorated page, showing one of the inserts from the pockets. I ended up using a circle punch to create a little spot for your fingers to go to make it easier to pull out the insert page.
If you are keen to give this album a go, you can find the tutorial video here.
The next stop on the Blog Hop is the very talented Trish Rayfield.
Tina this project is absolutely gorgeous. I agree that this paper is just perfect for a little's girl's BFF album. I am thinking this is another additional DSP pack that I am just going to have to have! I am definitely tagging this album idea to do in 2014, thanks for the inspiration!
I love your little album Tina and may have to give that a try. I'm not good at albums but this one is lovely.
Tina what a clever idea using the Punch board to make envelopes for an album. Must remember that and thanks for sharing the video tutorial. Will store that idea away!! The album is gorgeous. Such a treasure to keep.
I love your little album, what a great idea, for a gift.
Wow Tina this is totally awesome. I LOVE it. I'd really like to give one of these albums a try. Thanks for the tutorial link.
Tina, this is adorable! What a fabulous project, and great way to showcase the gorgeous new papers (and versatility of the EPB).
This is such an awesome little album. I am going to try this out. Such fun new papers too eh.
Absolutely gorgeous! I'm gonna have to try this one day!


Resume built for oil and gas job opportunities by a jobseeker with experience in PDS Piping Engineer Saipem Snamprogetti Milan Italy, Avineon India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad & Woge Info - would you like to offer this candidate a job/contract employment?
•	A competent professional with over 13 years of experience in the areas of Piping Design Engineering in Oil & gas Refinery, Chemical Plants and Petrochemical Industries. Last 8 years on Pds.
•	Presently working with SAIPEM(SNAMPROGETTI) ,San Donato, Milan ,ITALY. as Senior PDS Piping Designer.
•	Proficient at piping layout drawings & isometrics in 3D-environment (PDS) mainly for Oil & Gas-refinery, Petrochemical complex.
•	Well versed with piping packages like Pipe rack Piping, Pump Piping, Exchanger Piping, Column Piping, Tank Farm Piping, etc & expert in developing design keeping in view the plant situation & space constrains.
•	Knowledge and understanding on P & ID, Piping ISO Drawings, GA Drawing and Line Schedule.
•	Proven track record in implementing cost saving measures to achieve substantial reduction in terms of raw materials, manpower and machine utilization.
•	Excellent relationship management skills with the internal and the external clients across functional areas.
Deputed from Woge Info Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, India. as a Senior PDS Piping Designer.
•	Handling Piping Packages like Pump Piping, Exchanger Piping, Cooling Tower Piping, etc.
Jan' 2006 - Feb' 2008 with M/s Avineon India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India.
as a Senior PDS Piping Designer.
TRIMBLE COUNTY GENERATION STATION, Doosan Babcock, UK.
JGC, Singapore. Offloaded to Avineion.
•	Handling Piping Packages like Pipe rack & Pipe Track Piping, Pump Piping, Exchanger Piping and Cooling Tower Piping, etc.
•	Nozzle orientation, Platform requirement drawings, etc.
•	Pipe supporting, Support MTO & Support Sketch preparation.
•	Isometric Sketch & Drawing preparation.
•	Divide pipelines to Strict built & modules.
•	Accountable for coordinating with various disciplines like Civil, Electrical, Instrument, Loss prevention, Project control & Project engineering.
•	Preparation for Internal & Client reviews.
Jul' 2004 - Dec' 2005 with M/s Saipem India Project Services Ltd., Chennai, India.
Deputed from Mech-ci cadd, Chennai, India.
as a PDS Piping Designer.
•	Preparing equipment layout, updating plot plans, piping layout & issuing isometrics.
•	Overseeing preliminary Material Take-off.
•	Modelling access ways & maintenance envelops wherever required.
•	Piping clash checking and modification.
Nov' 2001 - Jul' 2004 with M/s PPT Engineering Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, India.
•	Routing of piping as per the system requirements using P&I Diagrams.
•	Preparing piping layouts in autocad.
•	Drafting of fabrication detailed Drawings of storage tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers & Structures.
•	Preparation of Gas pipeline route drawings.
•	Preparation of piping layouts using autocad.
•	Preparing piping ISO's using autocad.
Mar' 1999 – Nov ' 2001 with M/s Infotech Enterprises Ltd., Hyderabad, India.
•	Preparation of As-Built drawings.
Jan' 1997 - Feb' 1999 with M/s HYDERABAD INDUSTRIES Ltd., Hyderabad, India.
Worked in slurry process industry as supervisor for maintenance workshop. Had good exposure to slurry piping.Had good experience on overhauling of all types of Pumps and other equipment like pneumatic cylinders, hand riggers, hydraulic cylinders etc .
•	Managing the team and productivity through proper profiling and value addition.
•	Allocating jobs and rotation of the same to develop back up for each job at the branch.
•	Monitoring members thereby ensuring the timely achievement of group & individual target.
•	Responsible for developing equipment layout, plot planning and general arrangement drawings.
•	Preparing isometrics and Material Take Off.
•	Nozzle and Platform orientation & Requirement.
•	Pipe Support Location and Modeling (Logical & Physical).
•	Reviewing the vendor drawings and documents, checking piping layouts and inter discipline drawings and documents.
•	Giving inputs for Stress Analysis and incorporating stress comments on piping layouts and Isometrics.


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