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It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
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Photo: Faya Rose Toure and Hank Sanders
By Sen. Hank Sanders —
It's a crying shame. No. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame what the Mayor of Montgomery and its police did to two Black women leaders. More broadly speaking, it's a damn shame what these same forces did to four African American leaders and one White leader of Jewish background. All were fighting heroically to save hundreds of lives in Alabama per year. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
Shame is a powerful thing. I know because I have personally felt the power of shame. However, when the shame is so humiliating that it makes us cry, that is far more powerful than the run-of-the-mill shame. These Black women leaders were so deeply humiliated, it summoned the solace of tears. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame. .
Faya Rose Toure called me from inside the Montgomery City Jail. I was outside in my car waiting. She was painfully humiliated. She was violated so greatly that she was fighting to keep from crying. I could hear the humiliation in her words. I could feel the shame in her voice. I felt humiliated and angry. No, I was outraged. About an hour later, I received a call from Karen Jones, who was in the same jail. It brought more painful shame into the moment. Faya is my wife and fellow struggler for more than 50 years. Karen Jones has been my friend for years and a fellow community struggler for even longer. I cried silent tears of humiliation. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
We had gone with Faya, Karen and others to the Montgomery Police Department so they could turn themselves in on arrest warrants. Five had arrest warrants. I was not one of the five with warrants, but a group of us were present when the incident for which they were being charged arose on Thursday and were also present at the Montgomery City Jail on Monday. We went to the Montgomery Police station expecting to sign signature bonds and be released to go home. After all, each charge was a non-violent misdemeanor during a raging pandemic. We were expecting to sign and leave because we were told by officials with the City that is what would happen. Instead, the five were arrested, handcuffed behind their backs and jailed for hours. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
The damn shame is how the two women, Faya and Karen, were treated. The three men were not treated as shamefully. They strip searched the women. They had to take off all their clothing, bend over, hold open their buttocks and cough three times to be searched in the crevices of their bodies. Faya was then forced to walk up two flights of stairs with her hands cuffed behind her back in spite of the fact her broken wrist was not fully healed. In addition, an elevator was readily available. They were also exposed to jail personnel, some of whom were not wearing masks, with COVID-19 on the loose. They could have or may have caught the virus. We don't know yet. They were placed in blue jail jumpsuits. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
Faya is 75 years of age, a mother and grandmother, an attorney at law, a former municipal judge, and a chief founder/builder of the world-renowned Bridge Crossing Jubilee. Karen is a 45-year-old community leader and activist with health-related disabilities. There was absolutely no need for such humiliating and dangerous treatment of these women in the midst of a pandemic. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey stated in the Alabama Emergency COVID-19 Order of March 13, 2020, that law enforcement should issue summons instead of arrest warrants for misdemeanor charges that did not involve violence. There was no need for arrest warrants in these cases. There was no need for arrests. There was no need for handcuffs. There was no need for jail cells. There was no need to risk catching the dangerous virus in this pandemic jail. There was no need to strip search these two Black women leaders. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
The date was Monday, July 20th. The previous Tuesday, July 16, 2020, we had gone to Montgomery in an ongoing effort to save hundreds of lives in Alabama per year. We have been doing these demonstrations and press conferences for six to seven years in an effort to expand Medicaid in Alabama. This time five words – Black Lives Matter / Expand Medicaid – were spray painted on an area of the asphalt in the street in front of the Alabama State Capitol while the press conference, a live "Die In" and eulogy were taking place. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
The police had swarmed Karen Jones, who was leading the painting of Black Lives Matter. At the same time next to Karen, the White man John Zippert, was painting the words Expand Medicaid, but he was not swarmed. In fact, only one female officer subsequently talked to him and then walked off. This is the activity that led to the five arrest warrants on charges of defacing public property and one charge for criminal mischief against Karen Jones. It was just a little spray paint on street pavement. They were all misdemeanor charges. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
Montgomery has a Black Mayor, Steven Reed. It had a Black police chief, Ernest Finley. The myriad of Montgomery police officers and Alabama State Troopers were all black with one exception. Faya, Karen and I had actively supported the election of this Black mayor just last year. In fact, Faya was threatened with arrest in Montgomery during the mayoral election while passing out get-out-the-vote materials. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
Faya and I started struggling jointly to include Black people in political office while in Harvard Law School in 1967. We have never stopped. I also participated in the last leg of the Selma-to-Montgomery March in front of these very same Capitol Steps in 1965. Now she and fellow leaders are being humiliated by some of those we struggled to include. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
The three men – John Zippert, Johnny Ford and Kamasi McFarland – say it was a very humiliating experience for them as well. John Zippert, who has been arrested many times during protests over the last 50 years, said this was his most humiliating experience yet. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
In New York City, city leaders painted Black Lives Matter on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. In Washington, D.C., city leaders painted Black Lives Matter on the street in front of the White House. In Montgomery, Black Lives Matter was painted on a small piece of pavement, and that landed five leaders in the city jail, and the two Black women were humiliated something terrible. All were exposed to the raging pandemic. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
These leaders have been dubbed The SOS Five. However, there are other leaders, we will be back this Tuesday, July 28th, at high noon on the Alabama Capitol Steps. Lives must be saved. It's a crying shame. No, it's a damn shame.
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1939: John T. 'Jack' Watson, P.Eng.
A native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, 'Jack' Watson began studying electrical and mechanical engineering in his early teens, taking night classes while working 10-hour days as a clerk. He came to Canada in 1902 and was hired as a machinist for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Calgary. After a brief period installing electrical transformers in Seattle, he returned to Calgary as an engineer for the city power plant. During this time he continued his studies and in 1907 received a first class engineer's certificate.
In 1916 Watson was hired by the City of Lethbridge as chief engineer at the city power plant. By the end of his first year as engineer, the plant had earned profits more than 10 times the total for the previous three years and by 1924 they had increased 30-fold. In 1927 Watson accepted a job with the East Kootenay Power Company as superintendent of its new power plant in Sentinel, Alta., but returned to Lethbridge a year later to occupy the newly created position of city manager, which he held until retiring in 1949.
While city manager, Watson received wide acclaim for re-allocating large profits earned by the electric and water utilities to help reduce tax rates substantially. Under his direction, Lethbridge was one of the few Canadian cities with sound finances during the Depression and the Second World War.
Watson was first elected to council of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta (APEA; now The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta) in 1925 and served a total of seven years, including as association vice-president in 1938 and president the following year. He passed away in 1960.

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World Boko Haram returns most Nigerian schoolgirls, warns against putting them in school
Boko Haram returns most Nigerian schoolgirls, warns against putting them in school
Krista Larson and Haruna Umar
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
Some of the newly released Dapchi schoolgirls are pictured in Jumbam village, Yobe State, Nigeria, on March 21, 2018.
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Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month, dropping them off in the middle of the night Wednesday with a warning: "Don't ever put your daughters in school again."
Several of the girls interviewed by The Associated Press said they had been travelling for days before the convoy of vehicles arrived in the centre of the town of Dapchi around 2 a.m. Residents who had fled upon hearing that Boko Haram was headed their way watched from hiding as dozens of girls descended from the vehicles apparently unharmed.
"We were freed because we are Muslim girls and they didn't want us to suffer. That is why they released us," said Khadija Grema, one of the freed girls who said a Christian classmate remained captive.
The extraordinary development brought elation to most of the families, but more heartache for the relatives of the six girls still unaccounted for. The sister of one girl fainted Wednesday upon hearing that she was not among those freed.
One 14-year-old released by the fighters told reporters that five girls had died. She did not provide other details and it was not immediately possible to independently verify her claim.
The abductions in Dapchi have evoked painful memories of the tragedy in Chibok, where 276 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school. Nearly four years later, about 100 of them have never returned home. Many had been forced to marry their captors and had children fathered by them.
The Nigerian government denied that it had paid a ransom or made a prisoner swap in exchange for the girls' freedom. The girls were released "through back-channel efforts and with the help of some friends of the country, and it was unconditional," Information Minister Lai Mohammed told journalists in the capital, Abuja.
Islamist militants release most of the 110 girls aged 11-19 kidnapped on February 19 from the town of Dapchi. Reuters
"No money changed hands. They only had one condition — that they will return them to where they took them. So in the early hours of today, they did return the girls and most of them went to their parents," he said.
The girls were meeting with counsellors at a nearby hospital, and "will be quarantined and be counselled before they go back to their schools," he added. Nigeria's government later said they were being taken to the capital on a military plane.
The fighters had rolled into Dapchi in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the centre of town. As terrified residents emerged from their homes, the extremists issued an ominous warning, resident Ba'ana Musa told the AP.
"We did it out of pity. And don't ever put your daughters in school again," the residents said the extremists told them. Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language.
Nigeria's government said 104 of the 110 schoolgirls had been confirmed freed.
The latest mass abduction is thought to have been carried out by a Boko Haram splinter group aligned with the Islamic State group that has criticized the leader of the main Boko Haram organization for targeting civilians and has focused instead on military and Western targets.
The release came a day after an Amnesty International report accused the Nigerian military of failing to heed several warnings of an imminent attack on Feb. 19 during which the girls were seized. The military has called the report an "outright falsehood."
Wednesday's miraculous development also brought renewed focus to the 100 Chibok girls still missing since April 2014. Coincidentally, some of the Chibok families had already made plans to travel to Dapchi that day to lend their moral support before it was known that most of the girls had been released.
Some of the Chibok families instead joined in rejoicing with the Dapchi parents, said Lawan Zannah, secretary of the Chibok parents' association.
"This development gives us light that ... we can take a message to our other colleagues at home that yes, what we have seen will give us hope that our own (girls) too will be released," Zannah said.
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Forum: Discussion on foreign talent goes beyond jobs
Office workers crossing the junction of McCallum Street and Cecil Street, on March 27, 2019.PHOTO: ST FILE
Jan 10, 2020, 5:00 am SGT
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I refer to the letter by Dr Patrick Liew Siow Gian (Educate Singaporeans on value-add that foreign talent bring, Jan 9).
Singaporeans are by and large rational. In fact, few places roll out red carpets like we do in welcoming newcomers to the country. After all, we are mostly of immigrant stock ourselves.
As an open trading economy traditionally, we have grown accustomed to people from near or faraway places.
There is no doubt that foreigners help grow the economic pie for all.
We have accepted this narrative and it takes masses to boost demand for just about everything.
But it is social interaction at the ground level, or the lack of it, that is cause for concern.
We may be small and have a relative short history as a nation. But that does not make us less of a people who should be treated with dignity, especially as host to guests in our own land.
Has our warm hospitality been mistaken as subservience?
Has overplaying the narrative of the need for foreign talent made us overly dependent on them?
Do we ever graduate from being trainees to trainers in the process?
If so, have we grown accustomed to this outcome over the years?
It is also perturbing that despite expanding the capacity of our tertiary institutions over the years, we still do not have sufficient employees to feed the economy.
This discussion is certainly not about "us" versus "them". It goes beyond jobs, although to bring it up amid economic uncertainties may seem opportunistic.
Undoubtedly, we need a solid Singapore Team to stay competitive. But on a day-to-day basis, how components of the team are interacting is cause for concern.
Lee Teck Chuan
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 10, 2020, with the headline 'Discussion on foreign talent goes beyond jobs'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Serious Men, Inglourious Basterds
By Nathan Pensky / 12 July 2010
Given that Hollywood executives generally greenlight as few new ideas as possible, the same cinematic idea can often be represented within the same season as a themed pair. There was that period when both the Lord of the Rings movies and the Star Wars prequels were nipping at each other's heels for box office supremacy. Then there was the year of the two Truman Capote films, Capote and Infamous. And who could forget the summer when two "end of the world" movies, Armageddon and Deep Impact, came out within six weeks of each other? These are but a few examples.
Competing versions of similar ideas are so often released in quick succession that one can't help but make comparisons between them, whether the films are connected by genre or similar subject matter or not. Nowadays, a vampire movie is not so much a vampire movie, as it is but one entry in the Twilight/Harry Potter/Narnia/Lord of the Rings Industrial Complex. If you don't like a movie of any particular genre, just give it a few weeks. Like public transport, another just like it will be along shortly. Then again, genre or gimmicky subject matter can easily play to a film's strength, or at least provide more fodder for nerdly discussions with fellow cinephiles.
Such a comparison between two films perhaps only tenuously connected must have happened in film nerd roundtables everywhere in 2009 with the release of Inglourious Basterds and A Serious Man. Quentin Tarantino's WWII fantasy-revenge film about a band of Jewish-American guerrillas cutting a reign of terror through Nazi Germany was like the fulfillment of a prophecy foretold by Seth Rogen's character in Knocked Up. In praising the Spielberg film, Munich, Rogen's character said what I think a lot of cinema-literate Jews had been thinking to themselves for years. "Every movie with Jews," says the Rogen character, "we're the ones getting killed. Munich flips it on its ear. We're capping [people]!" Perhaps under the influence of the Armageddon/Deep Impact effect, and whether appropriately or not, it was inevitable to compare Basterds and that year's other film about Jews grappling with worldly trouble. In this case, however, the comparison is weirdly apt.
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and the Coen brothers' A Serious Man are very different in many ways, yes. Yet there is something of the Coens' hero Larry Gopnik in the faces of the Jewish-American soldiers as they wreak havoc upon their would-be Nazi overlords. While Inglourious Basterds is about a band of freedom fighters standing against the murderous decadence of the Nazi Party, rather than one man's inward crisis with the riddle of existence itself, there is a profound and personal moral center to the Basterds' struggles, a "seriousness." The motivation behind the their reprisals against Nazi tyranny can, in fact, be understood by way of Larry Gopnik's wheedling moral pontifications. Both the Basterds and Larry Gopnik are contemplative of the role of the upright man in a society gone wrong.
The deliberation of Larry Gopnik's spiritual conundrum makes for the majority of the action of A Serious Man. Gopnik is a good man, intelligent, faithful, steadfast in his convictions. Yet by the time we begin our time with him, his life has become a shambles. His wife hates him; his children view him as a non-entity, good only for fixing the television antennae; his students make unfair demands; and the string of rabbis to whom he turns in his hour of need offer nothing in the way of comfort. How can Hashem be punishing him, someone who has always tried to do right? In one scene, Gopnik sits by a public swimming hole with an unnamed female friend, recounting his troubles. Gopnik echoes the skyward directed exhortation made throughout the film, "I didn't do anything!"
This line is important both for its comic effect, and its more "serious" complaint against Hashem. As much to his estranged wife as to a Columbia House Record Club representative demanding payment, Gopnik speaks to a spiritual winnowing. This is a process unknown to Tarantino's opportunistic Nazis. In Basterds, this "seriousness" is perhaps best understood in how these most dependable of movie villains are portrayed. Tarantino's Nazis are eloquent, appreciative of the finer things, though their laughter comes on with a forced desperation. The Jews in this film, on the other hand, say little but stand by with stone-faced resolve.
Tarantino's film is set in the waning months of World War II, when a German defeat has become a foregone conclusion. The Nazi government is entrenched but beset on all sides by enemies, wedged between both a western and eastern front. All who wear the Nazi uniform seem to understand that brute strength will no longer be enough, and this realization in the film is a reflection of Tarantino's opinion of the Nazi in modern cinema; we have all seen the goose-stepping, Macht schnell-ing Nazi before. We know his tricks. Tarantino shows us the affable, the wry Nazi who can talk his way out of danger but for the "seriousness" of those who remain unamused.
Consider the first scene in Basterds, in which the imminent conflict goes entirely unstated. Tarantino's penultimate "New Nazi," Col. Hans Landa, unexpectedly drops by for a visit to the home of a dairy farmer, who is housing hidden Jews. The farmer, Landa himself, and we as observers, all know who and what a Nazi is, what the "traditional" Nazi's role in this particular scenario would be. The standard Nazi regalia on Landa's uniform, the sun glinting off of the stormtroopers' gunmetal, the loud heel-toe report of the colonel's boots on the farmhouse floor, all are meant to signal that this is no friendly chat. Yet Col. Landa doesn't seem like a monster. He greets the dairy-farmer warmly, speaks fluently in both French and English, insists that the investigation is just a duplication of office work as he tidies up the old files of his predecessor. While the farmer is clearly on his guard, he seems hopeful that Landa is not the penetrating scourge his reputation would suggest. And so the effect of Landa's almost girlish chattiness is one of contrast between what all involved know historically and what we see on the screen. (Tarantino deals with this dynamic much more explicitly in the film's historically revisionist finale.) In the course of the conversation, Landa arrives, both organically and inevitably, on the subject of why he has earned the name "The Jewhunter" in occupied France. He explains that he is so proficient at finding Jews because he can "think like a Jew."
Where he compatriots dismiss Jews as inhuman, he admires their resourcefulness, or what he perceives as "the depths to which one can sink when all dignity is abandoned." Where we are used to Nazis screaming and bludgeoning, Landa's racist rhetoric is conversational, subtle. Nothing is so chilling than Landa's admiration of Jews as a "worthy adversary." Finally, the colonel dispenses with the Emily Post intimidation routine; he always knew that the family in question was hiding under the floorboards. The farmer is undone by this charming monster; the Nazi's politeness has primed him for the brutality we all knew was coming. So why did Landa go through the patronizing theatre of having a conversation? Because for Tarantino, a Nazi meeting his opponent head-on and without the niceties of social interaction would be too pedestrian a version of these, being the worst villains in all of cinematic history. These villains are villainous not because they seethe and slaver but because they smile and talk about the weather. These Nazis' scariest attribute is their humanity.
The true Jewish presence in Basterds is how they react to their Nazi oppressors. Such a reaction is deftly delivered by Melanie Laurent's Shoshanna in her sidestepping the romantic propositions of the German hero Private Zoller. Through tales of his warlike exploits, Shoshanna knows Zoller to be a man to be reckoned with. No less overbearing is Zoller's status as a Nazi solider in occupied France. The institution to which he has pledged loyalty has already won her and her country militarily. Zoller is smart enough to know that if he wants to win her in other ways, he will have to make light of his threat as occupier, that he will have to kill her with kindness. He comes at his final quarry not with force but by waylaying her with every bit of charm he can muster. He tries every approach, the annoying suitor, the young man put upon his superiors, even the boyish admirer. (How strange to watch a Nazi try so hard to be liked!) But she shows him only contempt; she has more "serious" matters on her mind.
Likewise, this quiet resolve is communicated effectively by Eli Roth in his portrayal of Donny "The Bear Jew" Donnowitz. In the film, Donnowitz is recruited along with the other Basterds to be dropped into Germany to herald the coming onslaught of the Allied Forces. In this capacity, and as he gains notoriety in his execution of captured Nazi soldiers with a baseball bat, Donnowitz becomes a folk hero whose larger-than-life presence takes on special power even to the Fuhrer himself. And every iota of this power is evident in the scene where we watch him earn his reputation.
The problems of A Serious Man's Larry Gopnik are more prosaic, the Basterds' more apocalyptic in portent. Yet both stem from the same basic issue, Jewish men interacting with the troubles of the world. Larry Gopnik is a man trying to be righteous in a culture sometimes menacingly indifferent to basic morality; the Basterds strive to maintain their ethnic identities against a culture that has shattered itself against nationalistic idols. Whether through the steadfastness that comes through tradition or the strength to stand up against the coming tide of modern monsters, the Jews of both films strive to maintain their identities against foes both spiritual and painfully practical.
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The EPA: They Don't Need No Stinkin' Climate Treaty
By Dan Miller 2009-12-27T03:59:24
There was lots of fuss in Copenhagen as masses of party attendees emitted more than 46,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide just getting to and from there. They damned the wickedness of the rich nations (who made possible the aircraft in which they traveled) in poisoning the atmosphere and then lamented the failure of President Obama to work his magic and pull a treaty out of somebody's hat -- most anybody's hat but their own. Even so, and despite the sulphurous fumes still emitted by the president of the United States, they probably had a good time enjoying the first-world delights of Copenhagen, including the prostitutes available to them gratis. Perhaps it will have a cathartic effect, but that seems unlikely.
The best they could come up with was a nonbinding accord to curb global warming. President Obama predicted that it would probably be endorsed by a plenary session of the conference. He then departed for Washington before the plenary session actually voted. He cleverly observed that, despite the unprecedented although feeble outcome, and the far less than even modest expectations, "we will not be bound by anything that took place today." Huh? In the end, the nonbinding accord was not endorsed. Instead, it was merely "taken note of" and viewed as "binding" on whatever countries "endorsed" it, whatever that means, which seems inconsistent with President Obama's earlier statement about not being bound.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hopes that a binding treaty might come along late in 2010. The Japanese prime minister called the taking note a "a major step forward," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel had "mixed feelings." Some protesters carried signs proclaiming "climate shame." In short, the much touted Copenhagen conference ended with a whimper.
But don't fret. The Environmental Protection Agency is on the job and can do just about as much damage to the U.S. economy, and thereby to that of the world, without a treaty. Yes! It Can! Si! Se Puede!
Republican members of Congress who contended that President Obama needed "Congress to deliver on any commitments he makes to reduce global warming gases" were probably sniffing fairy dust, and in any event no such commitments were made. Had that happened, getting the two-thirds Senate approval for a treaty (required by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution) would have been out of the question. Nevertheless, there are many things President Obama can do without congressional consent. Getting a multi-billion dollar annual appropriation to fund "developing" countries to the point that they can emit only their fair share of carbon equivalents may have been a problem, but only a minor one.
The Environmental Protection Agency, now under President Obama's control, has massive powers previously granted by Congress and can do just about anything in the environmental arena that President Obama wants. We should have caught on to this mess ages ago, but apparently we didn't. Administrative and executive agencies have tremendous quasi-legislative power and discretion, so long as they act within the expansive parameters established by Congress. That's a fact of administrative law, and has been since numerous "independent" and "executive" agencies were given sweeping quasi-legislative powers back during FDR's New Deal. Congress has, to put it blandly, been overly generous.
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namespace Checkpoints {

    CBlockIndex* GetLastCheckpoint(const CCheckpointData& data)
    {
        const MapCheckpoints& checkpoints = data.mapCheckpoints;

        BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH(const MapCheckpoints::value_type& i, checkpoints)
        {
            const uint256& hash = i.second;
            BlockMap::const_iterator t = mapBlockIndex.find(hash);
            if (t != mapBlockIndex.end())//t != mapBlockIndex.end()
                return t->second; //TODO add checkpoints
            	//return NULL;
        }
        return NULL;
    }

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title: Nails This Week - Pearl Comfort
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Happy Saturday, my lovelies! How's it hanging on this chilly February day? We've had a ton of rain in the Bay, so it's been a lot of staying in the last couple of weeks! But it's been nice, because the relaxed time has actually got my creative juices flowing! I've picked up a new hobby (more details in the future!), been getting back into drawing, and, of course, got some new nail art for you!

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Neutral tones with nude pearls is such a comforting color scheme to me. I love the looks of these nails against a cozy sweater or some soft lace. Perfect for being cuddled under a blanket with the rainy day outside!

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To get this look, I made an extended half-moon curve with white polish along each nail, painted a coat of the crystal glitter coat, and then glued a small pearl in the center of each curve.

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That's all for this week, my lovelies! Stay warm/dry/happy, and I'll see you next time!

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**Nail Polishes Used:**

- Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in "Let's Snow" (#195)
- Forever21 Nail Color in "Crystal/Clear"


I am honored to have participated in The Savannah College of Art & Design's Alumni Mentor Program. SCAD's Alumni Mentor program is where different departments host alumni visits to show their portfolio, participate in critiques, conduct portfolio reviews with current students, as well as answer any questions students have, especially about post-graduate life.
I graduated from SCAD in 2008 with a B.F.A. in illustration and a minor in fashion. Even though I have kept in touch with my professors since I graduated, it was great to see them again, be back in a classroom setting, meet the current students as well as the new professors that have joined since I graduated. It was also fun just having conversations with professors and students on different topics related to the world of illustration. I learned a lot. I also collected some amazing things from the illustration department and current students. After seeing some pictures from my portfolio presentation, I realized that I talk A LOT with my hands! Thanks so much to SCAD, their amazing professors, and their students for making me feel so welcome and for such a wonderful experience.
Fish and Ships playing cards by SCAD Atlanta Illustration Department, business card and button by Nino Flors, portrait by Lydia Hancock, and 'zine by Mengxi Fu.


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When a slaughterhouse recalled nearly 9 million pounds of meat, this rancher got caught in the crossfire
CNN Exclusive by CNN Investigative Correspondent Chris Frates
BOLINAS, CALIFORNIA - Bill Niman's name has long been synonymous with high-quality, humanely raised beef - featured on menus and store shelves across the country. So it was something of a shock when his beef was caught up in a massive recall earlier this year.
In January, Rancho Feeding Corp. started recalling nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat. Federal officials tell CNN that inspectors believe the Petaluma, California, slaughterhouse was buying cancerous cows and processing them when government inspectors weren't looking.
But Niman said he only used the plant to slaughter his own BN Ranch cattle, not old, cancerous dairy cows. In fact, he said, either he or his employees were with the cattle during inspections and slaughters, so there's no way his cattle and the cancerous cows could have been mixed up.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture disagreed, saying it couldn't guarantee that Niman's beef wasn't swapped with or contaminated by the cancerous meat.
Niman calls the USDA's logic "preposterous," arguing that the difference between his cattle and the cows Rancho was buying is obvious - "the difference between a motorcycle and an automobile."
Unfit for Human Consumption: How nearly 9 million pounds of bad meat escaped into the food supply
Even Jesse Amaral, one of Rancho's former owners – the plant has since been sold – said through his lawyer that Niman's beef was not "tainted, diseased or uninspected" and that "there is no reason" to prevent Niman from selling his beef "because it is wholesome and was fully inspected."
Still, 100,000 pounds of beef is locked up in freezers, costing Niman about $400,000. To put that in perspective, BN Ranch's revenue last year was less than $2 million.
"It's been devastating for our business. It's been a huge distraction. It's going to be a huge financial hit. We're going to have to borrow money or sell part of our company in order to stay alive," he said.
Standing among 100 or so cattle on his ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Niman was pessimistic about the chances of the USDA reversing its ruling, and he's struggling to come to grips with having to throw the meat away.
After raising the cattle from birth and accompanying them to the slaughterhouse, Ninan said, the idea of tossing the meat into the dump is "immoral."
"It's repugnant," he said. "It's incomprehensible to us, really."
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Thinking things through
I'm seriously crossing my fingers and hoping Niman gets out of this mess. Definitely NOT deserved.
kjackfuturerd
Reblogged this on My Blog and commented:
Are you eating a cancerous cow?
May 6, 2014 at 6:15 am |
It is clear that the USDA is to blame YET AGAIN. This happens frequently these days, especially if you watch these types of articles. The USDA is too big and unmanageable and has lost control. They are always seeking to place blame on to others that do not have the protections they do!
May 4, 2014 at 12:24 pm |
wonder which of the govt. agencies that helped put you out of buisness will buy your coastal land and develop it into a condo complex
May 3, 2014 at 11:50 am |
It is astounding that people still eat flesh. It is the main convergence of just about every enviro, food production, food availability, and health issue we face today.
It is also amazing that some people still just eat. We should absorb all nutrients through the air.
Cancer cows have sold for slaughter for years, I have personally seen this when I was in the cattle trucking business , I remember a two headed cow that was sold to a local meat packer, where do you think all the fast food restaurants get their cheap beef? If you want a 99 cent hamburger , you get what you pay for, dried up or sick dairy cows. If people knew some of what I have seen you would never eat fast food hamburger again, my family will not eat them!
hoagie
Fry his greedy ass...
Timothy Whiting
Mr. Niman should go after that sleazy strumpet inspector for concealing the tainted meat which in turn caused disastrous consequences.
Bill S.
And people are sickened by lab grown meat?
Lloyd Alford
PLEASE do not EAT Calif. BEEF!!!!!!!! when we do this & the good guys suffer, maybe they will clean up the BAD GUYS short of DEATH, or LOSE their BUSNISS & WAY OF LIFE!!!!!!!!
I don't understand why no one is asking why so many cows are diseased and sick in the first place? Yes it is important that the meat from sick animals should not be distributed to the public for consumption, but no one is writing about why so many animals are so sick. That to me may even be a bigger story.
You are right! We must be vigilant and the mainstream media must continue the pressure
∞Weeds∞
Thank the Ag-gag laws for keeping it shady. Rather than fix the problems investigative reporting law maker prefer to put the subject on ignore.
Who is not to say that the diseased cows are trucked across state lines to this and other slaughterhouses of ill repute. It's amazing that there is no rule/law outlawing the shipment of sick animals for the purpose of slaughter.
There weren't that many cows "sick and diseased in the first place". You don't understand how the USDA effects a recall in a situation like this. They recall EVERYTHING that was produced in a given timeframe. There is no way all of that product was bad, but they don't know for sure what was and what wasn't, so they just recall everything.
IT just goes to show what companies will go to what lengths to make a PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!
EXACTLY!!! You know what you are talking about! They need to be blown out of the water!!
Cancerous cows being fed GMO feed I'd suspect. MMMMM. . . Look mom, I have three hands and twenty-seven toes!
Legal Alien Doctor
What baseless statement!
Your comment really shows a total ignorance of the process.
Genetics makes crops resistant to bacteria, fungus, and some viruses. The most common procedure involves transfering genetic information of similar species that nature has made more resistant to pests & have benefited of an evolutionary advantage. Not to worry, there is hope for people like yoU! I am director of a Stem Cell Therapy laboratory, & we have made great strides; there is hope that people like you may still be able to get a brain in your lifetime!
Shiley U. Jest
And the genetically added (built in) pesticides and herbicides consumed in the grain has nothing to do with causing cancer? Here is an experiment you should try at home:
Purchase a bottle of Roundup from your local store. Consume 1 drop a day. Continue until you show obvious signs of cancer – which should occur in less than 3 years. If you can do this for more than 3 years, then you will have disproved a huge concern of the Anti-GMO movement.
Where's the R?
Or die trying.
No one has built Roundup(R), or glyphosate – the active ingredient, into any plant. The Bt toxin – a protein – they have engineered in is digested just like any other protein.
Oh, yeah – you misspelled "Shirley", too.
The difference between a motorcycle and a car, Mr. Niman? Motorcycles have 2 wheels. Cars have 4. Last time I checked, both healthy and cancerous cows have 4 legs. They are NOT visually distinguishable. Your faulty analogism convinces me that you are full of it and should not be trusted. I side with the USDA. Somehow, I think you will financially muddle through this bump in the road. That said, I hope you've learned your lesson concerning greed.
Was making assumptions your major in college? Dozens of ranchers use the slaughterhouse. it wasn't Niman's slaughterhouse. It had nothing to do with his greed. Bill Niman a great reputation as a rancher. Do you even know how many thousands of cows it would take to come up with 9m lbs of beef? He has a 100,000 lbs of beef in limbo–that's probably around 130-150 head of cattle from his ranch. Do some critical thinking, jeez.
So are you saying that one bad apple shouldn't spoil the whole bunch? Or are you saying the cattle producer, one who treats his cattle like they were his own children chose to send them to a "public school" instead of a highly reputable "private school" for " processing"? Perhaps this is a case of you get what you pay for.
And yet, still there is no anger that this has, did and still does occur in the US.
One thing not mention was over what period of time this 9 million pounds of beef was processed, and if the weigh is hoof weight or net weight of final goods.
I've worked in packing houses, and looked at thousands of carcasses. Lots of difference in carcasess – while not the origina, you can often tell the breed by the carcass. Niman is actually understating it a bit – some carcasses look more like lambs – others like elephants. A better analogy could have been a motorcycle versus a truck.
So don't opine when you don't know what you are talking about.
Foolish on siding with the USDA..........do more homework and follow these kind of articles more closely. The USDA always declines comment. Why is that? They are too big and unmanageable. This is merely ONE MORE situation like the hundred others that are glossed over in the news.
The "grievance" was specifically about cows with cancer-eye. And, yes, genius, these are very distinguishable – visually – from those not affected.
What the vast majority of "you" don't understand is that there was not 9 million pounds of "contaminated" meat. In these situations, the USDA asks for a recall of ALL THE PRODUCT THAT WAS PRODUCED IN THE SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME. They don't "know" what was "good" and what was "bad", so they recall all of it. There is no way that every single animal slaughtered during that timeframe had cancer -eye.
It is unfortunate that Mr. Niman's cattle were caught up in the middle of this, but unless he has solid records of exactly when these animals were slaughtered – and that there was definitely inspection present during all these times – he probably has no chance at all.
Sher Bach
Just another reason not to eat meat. And as far as the USDA not knowing anything, playing dumb, getting duped...Bullsh*t. They are at the root of 99.9% of this countries problem with food. If the lobbyists have enough money to grease palms, you can betcher britches your plate will be greased with something that might taste good but be really unhealthy for you and your family. Investigate, fully, where your food comes from...or DON'T complain when you get sick, fat and tired....
I MUST be tired....caught my own typo too late...COUNTRY'S not countries...sorry...the spelling Nazi that lives inside my head speaks to me when I make a mistake...LOL
Yeah, and what cure do you have for your self-righteousness? Investigate your own food? That's just ridiculous. Who has the resources and wherewithal to track their food sources back to the farm, much less the animal? Maybe that should keep you up at night, instead of spelling quandaries.
Exactly! We don't have the resources and the agencies responsible for protecting mainstream society are not doing their job. Isn't that obvious?
shellBell
She didn't say to track anything. She said don't eat meat. Read then comment. Thanks.
TomGI
It has long been known that the USDA is one of the revolving door agencies allowing lobbyists to obtain government jobs and move back into the commercial business world with their contact lists so they can bastardize the system and grant special loopholes and laws to benefit their clients. Another is the FDA. Ralph Nader has spoken on this abomination and he certainly has argued before Congress to stop it. So far Congress hasn't wanted to bust their contributors because their PACs and campaigns are fueled by the big industrial trade groups and their distribution and retail outlets
Weight gain, animal abuse, higher carbon emissions, all related to beef consumption.
rcflyer8410
No regulations or accountability. GOP scum have seen to this. In many red states, it is now a crime (which will be challenged and likely overturned) to photograph / video tape animal cruelty at these facilities and release it to the public. Yes, GOP scum could care less about animals... just the handouts they get from these scum business entities. Democrats aren't perfect and I do not agree with many things they do – but the GOP are 10000 times worse and are nothing more than a voice and face of the most horrific and immoral policies and acts in this country. Yes, the so-called "jesus party" is anything like the hero they worship.
ejb4501
Business in this country, and VERY much the beef industry, is at war with the consumer. They blame the government, and GOP lawmakers take money away from inspectors. It's so wildly corrupt, it'[s disgusting. ANYthing for money, money, money. And the American People are suffering BIG-TIME because of it. From GMO to tainted beef to dangerous cars, you name it. Where the heck is morality anymore?!? And it SURE isn't in the churches whose congregations support these lawmakers who make it harder and harder to protect consumers.
DankoRamone
Shouldn't the meat plant be liable for BN's losses? Even though the meat *might* be safe, it makes sense to prevent it's sale, given it was processed in a plant processing tainted meat. The risk of cross-contamination does exist. Had Rancho not been processing diseased cows, this issue wouldn't exist. BN should recover their losses, plus damages.
Don Lewis
Meat cannot be insured which is why this story is a real mess....we're doing a documentary on it: petalumafilms.com
RanchoCuccomonga
But Mr. Cliven Patriot Bundy said them Ranchers are better than black people because Ranchers provide a service!
So some a**hole racist has less constitutional rights than the rest of us? Follow the money...
So some r*c*st has less constitutional rights than the rest of us? Follow the money...
So some r*c*st has less c*nst*t*tu**n*l r*ghts than the rest of us? Follow the money...
Petaluma, California – his ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean – follow the money and you will find a land developer or politico waiting to scoop up his land.
Interesting!! You are right! Its all about GREED! Well put
Whoever is responsible should be sent to jail
Good thought Joel. I would additionally require them to eat only their own tainted beef while incarcerated (so long as the taxpayers don't have to pay for their medical bills).
That would be the USDA and they have too many protections and are too large!


Bayou La Batre Community Center will be host to this year's fourth annual Alabama Seafood Cook-Off on Wednesday, June 13. Winner of this contest will go on to represent Alabama at the 15th annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans as well as the 2018 World Food Championships in Orange Beach.
This year's competitors include Chef Jeremy Downey of Bistro V in Birmingham, Chef Jeremiah Matthews of Southwood Kitchen in Daphne, Chef Jason Ramirez of Villaggio Grille in Orange Beach and Chef Scott Simpson of the Depot in Auburn, all of whom will be competing for the first time, with the exception of Chef Ramirez, who was runner-up at last year's ASCO.
While Bayou La Batre comes alive with competition, the town's own Taste of the Bayou event will be running in conjunction. Locals can sample fresh seafood and experience Lower Alabama's seafood capital for $10 per ticket.
It's a good ways away, but this year's Southern Wing Showdown — on Sunday, Aug. 5, in Atlanta — will have a Mobile star as a competitor. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 top chefs from the Southeast will be competing for the title, along with Southern National's Duane Nutter.
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Quest 2016 Dream Direction. Plunge with Me?
A dream directs the source of conflict, and may contain a resolution?
Quest 2016 Goes Deeper
Calling All Dream Readers.
I am floundering with an inability to make any decisions: Reeling from both inner and outer events.
Last night I woke at about four o'clock beset with thoughts, all repetitive and unproductive. 'Please help me think at a deeper level' I shot out to whomever might be listening- my hopefully deeper source of wisdom, and as the dawn broke I fell asleep.
This is the dream that I had.
I arrive with my cello to join a new, rather ragbag amateur orchestra in a University hall with odd antechambers. The rehearsal is intended to cover two parts of a concert, one relatively simple with a break between it and the next. During the break I wander into an adjacent room, chat with a few and then when the second half is about to commence I say 'This difficult half should have been taken first while we were fresh'.
When I return the cello is not to be found. I panic and go from room to room in search of it, trying to recall where I left it. I don't find it, and inside something dies, but I still hope.
During this search I am hailed by a group of elderly, dread-locked hippie types standing on a raised dais, and called over by name.
'Philippa we want to talk to you' They then proceed to introduce themselves but I cannot see their features clearly, heavy hair, makeup, very layered clothes. One says
'I 'm holding a shower, mine is 'white flour'. Another says his is 'fabric scraps', another seems to have piles of wool. I wonder what a 'shower' means. The only kind I know are baby showers, but these people are inviting me to receive their varied offerings. As I depart one gives me a bag of something.
I wander into a large hippie market hall ( many peddling varied tat like an open fete in Glastonbury), where near the entrance the bag given to me bursts. A pile of white flour lands on the floor. I realise that was the literal meaning of white flour, and I am stuck with the consequences of the 'gift'. One peddler says 'You'd better clear that up'. I have nothing to use except my hands and take a two handed scoop of flour (about half the pile) and walk out to dispose of it.
Outside I see a series of watercourses with clear clean water trained over a series of steps, falls, pools. I realise if I dispose of the flour there it will 'cloud' the clear water. But nowhere is clear of running water so I dispose where it will do the least damage. I then see a pile of thick rust coloured mud and take a large scoop of this intending to get it to soak up the remaining flour. When I return inside a peddler comes up, looks at the mud and says 'Delicious. Have you tasted it?' He rolls a small pellet and offers it to me. It is faintly sweet, but not unpleasant, yet I feel this is a kind of duping, persuading me that mud is 'food'.
As I depart a Japanese man is embarking on a humerous 'Act' in and out of a straw African type hut. He disappears inside.
I wake up. This image captures what remains.
I have some clear ideas about this dream but before I articulate them I would rather hear from others (you?). I had such truly helpful suggestions about the 'three fountains' dream that I seek what might be called 'the innocent view' without corrupting it with circumstances that might skew your interpretations. I know it was a very important contribution to my current conflict.
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Author philippareesPosted on January 17, 2016 January 17, 2016 Categories Life ReflectionsTags Cello lost, Clear water, Clouding the water, Dream, Eating mud, Meaning, Orchestra, White Flour
18 thoughts on "Quest 2016 Dream Direction. Plunge with Me?"
courseofmirrors says:
Why not play the cello for your own pleasure, and add your voice? Improvise. At times, when the atoms in my body seem out of sync, I play my Indian harmonium, letting the sound flow from note to note, which connects me to an orchestra of friends, of whom some have passed on.
Your post reminds me to do this more regularly.
Who the heck tells you to clean up the mess? If you must, release whatever (symbolically) in that clear running stream, wonderful image, which will absorbs and purify any stagnant mindsets.
In alchemical terms the dream seems to indcicate a befriending between archetypal and personal dynamics.
Re: Act. There's a method of acting developed by Suzuki, which calls awareness to the feet and their relationship to the centre (hara) of one's body.
Ken Finton says:
I wish there were a dream forum where people discussed dreams. Many points have been covered by others above. The only thing I would add is that hippies are extinct now. I do not think that either you of I, being close to the same age, were comfortable with that era … we did not truly belong to that extinct tribe. When I have such dreams it is not a cello (as I am a guitar player), but a car or a truck. My means of transportation and ability to get away is stolen of missing. This has actually happened to me several times. It leaves me fending for myself in a foreign environment without the proper tools to survive and get away. It boils down to a feeling of powerlessness and being lost in a world that is unfamiliar to our past and fear of an uncertain future.
I was a VERY comfortable hippy when I hit 30 in the States! But those in the dream were now 'pretend hippies'. The thoughts on the dream have been pretty illuminating.
Joe Linker says:
Hold On…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnOEiehONQ It's not the voice, it's the sound of the voice.
I am persuaded! He can I might. Great video. Thanks Joe.
I also paused at the shower of flour. Flower Power. Summer of Love (1967). In the hippie context, but the flower children lost their petals and all that was left was thorns on skinny sticks. That's a wintry feeling. The last image suggests then a new spring, flowing again. The mind thaws and the writer writes.
Yes Joe, the antiquity was certainly evident (understandable) but the 'search' was uppermost ( even more understandable!) and the encounters possibly provoked by the underlying panic, that the music was gone.
It's never too late to start singing.
It IS when your lifelong affair has been with tobacco! Makes for a resonant reader (in short bursts!)
mmmmm, powerful dream. I'm interested in how you end your post – about the dream of the three fountains which I somehow missed I think. This I know is one of the images at the beginning of the Rosarium Philosophica – the alchemical search for gold from the dross that relates to the psychological processes within the individual, which if followed faithfully, allows for discrimination. The fountain has three spouts from which water flows. Water is prominent in the dream –
As to the rest Philippa I don't think I can offer anything – Viv has said much, useful prods. I agree re: flour, albedo, flower, flowing … flour is also manna –
The peddler? Maybe he is offering you a gift – from the mud the lotus grows and emerges …
Good luck – let this dream continue to puzzle you and don't rush about it …
You are quite right Susan. It is tempting when you asked for a dream, which I did, to rush to read it, and probably at a superficial level. I must dream on! I have added the link to the three fountains dream!
leennascreativebox says:
Hi Philippa. I'm sure how much help this will be, but here's what I think. See how it resonates with you, and if it doesn't, then please ignore it:)
The main impression I get is of bewilderment over where you belong — in the orchestra or at the fair? And perhaps why they might not quite be right for you, or what you need to look at most carefully to see if you can fit into the group.
In the orchestra section, you seem fine, until it occurs to you that the planning/organisation isn't one you agree with. But 'losing your cello' (your place) panics you. Are you willing to sacrifice something you hold dear if you leave this option?
The group of older hippies who know your name and call you over, talk about confusing things, and leave you a gift you neither want or asked for, may be an option from your past re-presenting itself. This I feel is reinforced later by the mud-food. Perhaps you were never quite comfortable in this group either: the terminology used, the disorganisation?
The gift bag leading to a mess may indicate that you'll feel that this option will result in a literal mess of things/goals, and while it may be salvageable, you won't feel comfortable with the result. The 'mud-food' and your sense of unease about it may indicate that what's being 'sold' to you is just stuff you've come across before and can create for yourself. All that's different is the marketing.
The Japanese man and the African hut is the hardest one for me to make sense of. Perhaps that's where the beauty lies. If this act intrigued you, then perhaps you should investigate this odd and seeming ridiculous option, especially if the last image is one you feel had sprung directly from it.
If, on the other hand, the hut act left you feeling uneasy, then I'd suggest staying well away from the oddest option.
The last image may represent two things if not linked to the hut act, I feel: that you may have to look further or that you might have to build a boat from all that mud and white flour:)
Hope this helps:)
A very great help Leena! You are good at the broad overview. Bewilderment is exactly where I am, and not knowing where I belong! I have as many attractive options but they may all be tat! The offers of seeming 'gifts' had an undercurrent of 'goods' for which I would have to pay, but the flour mess was 'given' but inadequate and catastrophic, making a conspicuous mess. Ending a dream with sight of an African hut was the last fleeting image, yet in a sense it returned me home.(The Japanese I can't 'get' at all) What shone most significantly was the contrast between the rushing crystal waters and that anything wished on me ( flour) or selected to solve (mud) would only 'cloud or pollute the clarity. Relating these to outer life is not difficult, I have been meeting a lot of 'peddlers' I cannot quite see recently. They called me over by name! But all this was due to the loss of the cello which necessitated a search bringing me into their orbit. That part I can understand! I have lost the music and the means of making it and contributing to a wider orchestra!
Thanks so much for such a thoughtful contribution. Most generous of you.
It's a pleasure, Philippa. Solving riddles is something I sometimes enjoy:) I'm sorry you feel you lost your music. The way I see it, a cello is an instrument, not the music itself. I have this friend who practiced piano. She wanted to perfect it. She was to travel for a time and couldn't take her piano with her. She got a complicated harmonica instead, then proceeded to play an classical piece from memory, only stopping once or twice to find a note or two with the piano. I was amazed. Musicality is something that lives in you. Changing the instrument can still play the same melody. Just a thought:)
Thanks Leena. I took the cello to indicate the loss of an essential core- it used to be central to my life and the three orchestras I founded. I no longer play at all, but what its role in the dream seemed to signal was the 'instrument' by which to play with others, and the loss and search for it brought up tat and dubious alternatives. The instrument I now might play is the instrument of the mind, and the application of it in writing to connect. Which book would reveal it most cleanly seems to be the dilemma! In terms of the atmosphere surrounding these alternatives they did not seem benign, but provocative and faintly contemptuous, yet other interpreters have found symbolic 'flowers, showers, manna' which merit thinking about! Ashen suggests releasing the cloudy flour would purify, whereas it seemed to pollute in the dream! Deciding whether to heed the emotional or the symbolic is a moot point?
Thanks, Philippa. I always tend towards the literal. A friend of mine once suggested that I go back into a dream that confused me, while in meditation, and ask questions of the players and elements (like the flour). It wasn't a pleasant dream that I dealt with, but it did reveal its answers after I'd done it twice. Either way, good luck with your choice and may you always see with clarity:)
"I arrive with my cello to join a new, rather ragbag amateur orchestra in a University hall with odd antechambers. The rehearsal is intended to cover two parts of a concert, one relatively simple with a break between it and the next. During the break I wander into an adjacent room, chat with a few and then when the second half is about to commence I say 'This difficult half should have been taken first while we were fresh'. First bit is relatively easy: the two halves of life, before and after mid-life. Playing in an odd, *ragbag* orchestra suggests that the first half of life was with Bohemian but recognised outlets. It's only when you get to the break to assess things you understand the first half was simple and the second much harder because you're no longer fresh.
"When I return the cello is not to be found. I panic and go from room to room in search of it, trying to recall where I left it. I don't find it, and inside something dies, but I still hope." Cello is your medium, the thing you use to play your music, but its gone and you hunt everywhere but its gone. Is this your message or your medium that is missing?
"During this search I am hailed by a group of elderly, dread-locked hippie types standing on a raised dais, and called over by name.- they know you by name. That's important.
'I 'm holding a shower, mine is 'white flour'. Another says his is 'fabric scraps', another seems to have piles of wool. I wonder what a 'shower' means. The only kind I know are baby showers, but these people are inviting me to receive their varied offerings. As I depart one gives me a bag of something." My first thought with flour is flower. Shower also connects with the flow of water, of inspiration. Their gifts are ambiguous because they don't say what you are to do with them.
"I wander into a large hippie market hall ( many peddling varied tat like an open fete in Glastonbury), where near the entrance the bag given to me bursts. A pile of white flour lands on the floor. I realise that was the literal meaning of white flour, and I am stuck with the consequences of the 'gift'. One peddler says 'You'd better clear that up'. I have nothing to use except my hands and take a two handed scoop of flour (about half the pile) and walk out to dispose of it." The container for the gift is inadequate and the gift spills. You feel somehow there's a mess you must clear up. You've only got your most basic tools, your hands, to deal with this. But someone else is telling you you must clear it up.
"Outside I see a series of watercourses with clear clean water trained over a series of steps, falls, pools. – we're back to the water again "I realise if I dispose of the flour there it will 'cloud' the clear water. But nowhere is clear of running water so I dispose where it will do the least damage." damage limitation? " I then see a pile of thick rust coloured mud and take a large scoop of this intending to get it to soak up the remaining flour. When I return inside a peddler comes up, looks at the mud and says 'Delicious. Have you tasted it?' He rolls a small pellet and offers it to me. It is faintly sweet, but not unpleasant, yet I feel this is a kind of duping, persuading me that mud is 'food'." – so much of new age philosophy is just this, the duping of people that mud is food. You see this, and you've even tried it, just to be sure, and now you know. There's a contrast between the white flour/flower (albedo) and the rust coloured mud (rubedo), but both are earthy, messy, primal matter.
"As I depart a Japanese man is embarking on a humerous 'Act' in and out of a straw African type hut. He disappears inside." Why Japanese? Noh theatre springs to mind: the masks we all wear.
The final image is again of flowing water, very significant as it flows clearly and cleanly. It's almost like all the intervening mess didn't happen.
If you want to talk, I'm in this evening.
What an immediate and comprehensive understanding, adding, as I knew they would to my first thoughts. Thanks a million. I do want to talk, have done for days .Will message. You are very perceptive about the congruence of literal and symbolic images.
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Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the admonition accompanies the researchers' computational modeling of what happens when just a few males — the typical targets of harvest, such as large-antlered deer or stag beetles with extra-long horns — are removed from populations. Though it's widely understood that such pressures cause evolutionary changes, write Knell and Martínez-Ruiz, the extent to which ornamental traits like big antlers are intertwined with genetic health, and the long-term effects of removing those genes from reproductive circulation, are little appreciated.
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Sources: Bischof et al. "Regulated hunting re-shapes the life history of brown bears." Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018.
Knell, Robert J. and Martínez-Ruiz, Carlos. "Selective harvest focused on sexual signal traits can lead to extinction under directional environmental change." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017.
Palkovacs et al. "Ecology of harvest-driven trait changes and implications for ecosystem management." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2018.


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Osborne scored the opening goal at Blundell Park and played around 70 minutes of the game, while McAllister remained on the pitch for the full 90.
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Jamey Osborne in action for Grimsby Town's reserves against Burton Albion.
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