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NPR Podcast 'Throughline' Examines The Real Black Panthers The movie Judas and the Black Messiah, about Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, is up for six Oscars on Sunday. The NPR podcast Throughline looks into the history of the Black Panther Party.
NPR Podcast 'Throughline' Examines The Real Black Panthers
April 23, 20215:04 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Ramtin Arablouei
Rund Abdelfatah
The movie Judas and the Black Messiah, about Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, is up for six Oscars on Sunday. The NPR podcast Throughline looks into the history of the Black Panther Party.
The Academy Awards are this weekend, and the film "Judas And The Black Messiah" is nominated for several Oscars. The movie has generated a lot of new interest in the Black Panther Party, and NPR's Throughline podcast has been exploring the group's history. Here are the hosts, Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah.
RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: Founded in 1966 in Oakland, Calif., the Black Panther Party had an unforgettable image. They were an all-Black organization that argued for armed self-defense and Marxist politics at the height of the Cold War. They called the police pigs and described them as an occupying force. And in the midst of the Vietnam War, the Panthers argued that struggles anywhere were directly tied to struggles everywhere.
HUEY NEWTON: In America, Black people are treated very much as the Vietnamese people or any other colonized people because we're used, we're brutalized. The police in our community occupy area, our community, as a foreign troop occupies territory.
ABDELFATAH: That was Huey P. Newton.
DONNA MURCH: They were able to bridge the connections between anti-imperialism, anti-communist foreign policy and then connect and - essentially, to say, you being killed by the police is directly analogous to what's happening in Vietnam with the millions of Vietnamese people that are being killed.
RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, BYLINE: This is Donna Murch, a professor of history at Rutgers University and author of "Living For The City: Migration, Education And The Rise Of The Black Panther Party In Oakland, California."
MURCH: So that kind of radical internationalism and anti-communist politics was - it was terrifying, I think, to Cold Warriors...
MURCH: ...Although maybe that's being too generous.
MURCH: If you look at the size of the Panthers, at their very largest, they were 5,000 people. These were largely teenagers.
ABDELFATAH: Many of whom were just friends of the founders like Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. And the reality is during the first few years of the Black Panther Party, their numbers were probably in the hundreds. And yet...
MURCH: It's this organization that J. Edgar Hoover says is the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States.
ARABLOUEI: (Reading) The Black Panther Party represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.
ABDELFATAH: This is from an actual memo J. Edgar Hoover wrote to FBI agents.
ARABLOUEI: (Reading) Leaders and representatives of the Black Panther Party travel extensively all over the United States, preaching their gospel of hate and violence.
ABDELFATAH: Why was the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, so concerned about this small group of radical Black college students and teenagers? Was it that they were Black and armed? According to Donna Murch, yes. But there was something else.
MURCH: It was their ability, not that they were anti-white - it's that they were able to organize with whites.
BOBBY SEALE: When the man walks up and says that we were anti-white, he says, well, I mean, you hate white people. I say, me, hate a white person? That's your game. That's the Ku Klux Klan's game.
(APPLAUSE)
SEALE: I say, I wouldn't murder a person or brutalize them because of the color of their skin. I said, yeah, we hate something, all right. We hate the oppression that we live in. We hate cops beating Black people over their heads and murdering them. That's what we hate.
ARABLOUEI: All power to all people - wasn't that their, like, call?
MURCH: All power to all people, yes. And so the people that they saw as part of their coalition were the Red Guard Party...
ABDELFATAH: Which was a Chinese-American youth radical group.
MURCH: ...The Brown Berets - so kind of radical Chicano leftists and communists.
ABDELFATAH: And in an era where open anti-gay or anti-queer sentiment was common, the Black Panther Party...
MURCH: Really in contrast to many of the other radical organizations of the period, they had an explicit alliance with both the feminist and what were, at that time, called gay radicals.
NEWTON: Homosexuals are human beings, and they are oppressed because of the bourgeois mentality that tries to legislate sexual activity.
ABDELFATAH: And they had an alliance with a group of white Appalachians who flew the Confederate flag. I'm going to repeat that - the Confederate flag. They were called the Young Patriot Association.
(SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE)
KATHLEEN CLEAVER: Everybody knows that all the people don't have liberties, all the people don't have freedom, and all the people don't have power, so that means none of us do.
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing) No more pigs in our community - off the pigs.
ABDELFATAH: Even though today the Black Panther Party is largely remembered in the popular imagination as gun-toting militants, in the late 1960s, that's not the reason the FBI targeted them. Donna Murch says it was the fact that they had a vision to organize workers across all racial and ethnic groups in the same way Marxists had done in Cuba or China or Vietnam. Even though there had been labor organizing and socialist parties in the United States, the Black Panthers had a unique vision.
MURCH: I think the thing that made them the most dangerous was the way that they wed cross-racial organizing with explicit anti-imperialist Marxist politics.
ABDELFATAH: And there was one more thing. Remember that quote from J. Edgar Hoover about the Black Panther Party being the biggest threat to U.S. internal security?
MURCH: It happens at just the moment that the Panthers begin to start creating liberation schools and free breakfast programs. They created liberation schools so that the children could be instructed during the day, and they started inviting neighborhood children. And they realized that many of the children were hungry. And in response to that, they started breakfast programs where they essentially would invite any and all children to come to Panther headquarters, and they would provide their children with free breakfast. And if you go back and you look at the FBI documents, one of the things they were most afraid of is that they were going to create kind of self-perpetuating institutions that could have a much larger base in community. So the hammer came down on them very, very quickly.
ABDELFATAH: That hammer came in the form of the FBI program COINTELPRO, or Counterintelligence Program. The program started in 1956. And after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the program focused its attention on stopping the Black Panther Party. The FBI's own documents, which you can easily find online, show that of the 295 direct actions taken against Black radical groups, 233 were directed at the Black Panther Party.
MURCH: One of the lessons I learned as a Panther historian is that repression works. We can kid ourselves and say that it doesn't, but repression does work.
MARTIN: Donna Murch speaking with Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei. You can listen to the whole episode wherever you listen to podcasts.


What does a number mean anyway?
The other day I was trying to find something to wear to work – a task I struggle with on an almost daily basis. As I was looking through my closet, I found a pair a pants and put them on. They fit. Not a big deal, right? Well, it was a big deal because they were two sizes smaller than I was used to wearing. And, I hadn't worn that particular pair of dress pants in about six to eight months.
I was thrilled. Wait….I was more than thrilled. I was ecstatic beyond belief.
Until the next day when I tried on another pair of dress pants in that particular size and there was no way in the world I was going to get them zipped or buttoned. I was deflated. Kind of, but not really. I am starting to realize that the number on the tag doesn't really mean a whole lot. Seriously.
Right now, I can wear three different size pants. In jeans, I can wear one size – the biggest of them all. In a certain brand of dress pants, I can wear another size – the smallest of the three. But in other pants, both jeans and dress pants, depending on the brand, I can wear the size that's right in the middle.
How's a girl – okay, a woman – supposed to feel good about herself and about losing nearly 20 pounds when the size of her pants fluctuates between three sizes! Aargh!
And why is it that men can wear the same size pants – for example a 36 – no matter if they are jeans, dress pants or sweats, and whether or not they are Calvin Klein, Lee, Ralph Lauren, Levi's, Gap, Nautica, Old Navy or even Wranglers. It's so not fair.
I feel your pain, CFG.
This is one of the reasons I hated shopping for so many years.
It took me many years to find the one store where I can consistently buy the same size for pants — and they all fit properly! My biggest problem is my height. At 5'4″ it's really hard for me to find pants that fit properly in the waist that aren't 6 inches too long for my legs.
I curse my siblings for this. All three of them are quite tall. I'm the only one who got stuck with the short gene.
Now hold on there Princess. As a representative of the tall community it is a nightmare for us to find pants that fit in the waist and aren't 6 inches to short for us. I think it's a conspiracy of the fashion industry. Keep the women coming back for adventures in their favorite stores: Will the Pants Fit Today? LOL!
I try to follow one rule: Are they my size and do they look good on me?
I am right in the middle as far as the height thing. I am 5'6″, so most often, I don't have a problem with the length of my pants, just the size. PrairieWoman, I like what you said about if the pants fit, but the part about are they my size….I don't have one size. I have three!!!!! Darn fashion industry.
I would love to find a tall woman! Preferably English speaking.
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Forest Tapestry - Geometry looks like actually wondering the forest among the trees in the cold weather. It will suit best in your dorm, apartment, and living room or even bedroom. It will transform your room into your private igloo somewhere in Europe. We are sure you will get many compliments from friends.
Good Product But should have a bit more resolution, close looks a bit pixelated.
Beautiful, turns out to be blue but it's amazingly clear, I lightly ironed out the creases and it came to life.


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Folklaw: 20 October 2006
Keeping abreast of the lawA German plastic surgeon was made to feel like a boob after a number of his breast enlargement patients took off without paying for treatment.Dr Michael Koenig of…
Keeping abreast of the law
A German plastic surgeon was made to feel like a boob after a number of his breast enlargement patients took off without paying for treatment.
Dr Michael Koenig of Cologne, Germany released a wanted poster that police were sure to take notice of — before and after shots of the cosmetic enhancement of the ladies in question, Bild newspaper reported.
The doctor claims that a syndicate of women managed to cheat him, each registering with fake numbers before escaping without settling the bill. One lady, calling herself Tania, took off straight after surgery.
"She said she wanted to go out for a breath of air and she just didn't come back," Koenig said. In the interest of doing its civic duty, Bild published a five-column picture of Tania's naked chest, with the caption: "Is this the strangest wanted poster of all time?"
Charging around $12,537 for the procedure, Koenig has been forced to initiate an early payment policy. "Now I am demanding money upfront, pardon the pun," he quipped.
Divorce makes strange bedfellows
A joke by comedian Robin Williams that divorce is Latin for removing a man's genitals through his wallet seems to have been taken literally by a couple in Florida.
A recently divorced man is contesting his obligation to pay alimony payments, not from jealousy or financial hardship, but because his ex-wife has since become a man.
Lawrence Roach, of Seminole in the United States, said that it isn't right for him to have to pay $1,630 in monthly maintenance to his wife of more than 17 years.
"You know, I'm a man and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man," he said.
"It's humiliating to me and degrading."
Roach wants the law to be changed, to reflect the fact that he would be unable to marry his now male ex-wife, even if he desired to do so.
"If you can't be married to a man legally, how can you legally pay alimony to a man," he asked of the American judicial system.
The former Mrs Roach, who has taken on a new identity following his gender reassignment, became divorced from Roach around 18 months ago.
A US legal analyst, Joe Episcopo, doubted Roach would emerge victorious, according to Bay News 9.
"His divorce decree is basically a contract that he has to follow," he said. "Alimony is based on their relationship while they were married, not after the marriage is over."
For Roach to avoid the payment, his ex-wife would have to first remarry or pass away, Episcopo said.
International man of mystery
Do you know this man? A somewhat odd individual, who broke into the same house three times, cannot be identified by Welsh police.
The man, with dark hair and olive skin, aged somewhere in his 30s, forced entry into a house near Ammanford on three separate occasions. While inside, he had a shower, made himself a meal, and relieved the owners of a sewing kit.
Llanelli magistrates were unable to allow a plea to be entered for the man, who was remanded in custody, while immigration officials and police try to work out who he is. His name, age, nationality and language all remain a mystery at this stage.
"A map of the world has been offered to the defendant with no response," prosecutor Laura Carthew said, explaining that he had been equally unresponsive to a selection of flags of countries of the world.
According to police, the man uttered something in a tongue believed to be Amharic, yet a translator could not understand what was said. At a hearing, a book allegedly dropped by the man contained writing belonging to a "small tribe at the bottom of the Atlas mountains" in Morocco, according to the man's solicitor, Mike Reed, who said he had not seen anything like this in 30 years of legal work.
Latvian customs officers find moonshine pipeline
Customs officers in Russia have unearthed a secret pipeline feeding vodka into Latvia.
According to the border police in Buholovo, the pipe had been installed in order to transport homemade vodka out of sight of the local authorities so that it could be sold in Latvia.
For a long time border police suspected an illegal smuggling operation was active, but they had been unable to bust the syndicate open.
"We had our suspicions that there was someone running hooch across the border here but we could never figure out how they managed it," a border policeman, Yakov Kabanov, said.
The pipe was only found when the local council sent workers to plant trees in the area. "They probably would have got away with it for decades if those trees hadn't been planted," he said.
Car theft a snaky business
Anyone who has ever been the victim of auto theft may want to take a leaf out of Radovan Darkic's book, and protect their car with a 6-foot snake, though they should take a little more care if they do so.
The Serbian pet shop owner from Belgrade couldn't afford a car alarm, so until recently, each night he'd leave the mammoth reptile in his E-Class Mercedes to deter crooks from stealing it. This seemed to work fine until it escaped, leading to his arrest.
Darkic confessed when he called police to report that his pet had slipped out through an open window and slithered into the engine compartment. In response, the authorities charged him with endangering public safety.
"I only wanted to make sure that even if I couldn't take revenge on anyone who dared to rob my car then at least the snake could do it for me," Darkic said ominously.
Parents resort to kidnapping to stop wedding
For those parents who aren't too keen on their beloved child's choice of partner, spare a moment for a mother and father in the US, arrested after kidnapping their daughter before her wedding day.
The desperate parents invited their daughter on a shopping trip, only to drive 390 kilometres from Provo to Grand Junction, Colorado, according to Provo police captain Rick Healey.
Lemuel, 59, and Julia Redd, 56, were later arrested and charged with second-degree felony kidnapping of their daughter Julianna, then aged 21.
"I've never had a case quite like this," Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said.
"It is strange that parents would go to that extent to keep an adult daughter from marrying the man that she had chosen to marry."
The groom, Perry Myers, to whom Julianna is now married, called the police when his bride failed to attend the nuptials. However, the parents managed to keep their daughter hidden long enough that when they returned to Provo from Colorado, she had missed the ceremony at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Salt Lake City.
The happy couple are now expecting their first child. If convicted, the parents could spend up to 15 years behind bars.
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(thing) by Quizro Tue Feb 01 2000 at 22:25:19
British television series from 1960 starring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Known in the United Kingdom as Danger Man, its theme song was the impossibly cool tune "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers.
(thing) by fondue Tue Jan 15 2002 at 22:10:50
A fantastically playable shareware platform game for the DOS PC released in 1991 by Apogee Software. Somewhat similar to Core Design's Rick Dangerous games, the premise was to guide your tiny grey-faced* spy around a series of screens involving pixel-perfect keyboard (or Gravis Gamepad) athletics. My only concrete recollection of this game is that I had the first episode (off of a PC Plus coverdisk), and it was the first game I ever played on my dad's spanking new 486 PC. I can still remember the PC speaker death sound effect and the alarming multi-coloured fade-out between screens, but most of the actual details have been erased from my memory.
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(thing) by fuzzie Sun Sep 29 2002 at 12:21:01
A platform game for DOS, developed by Apogee Software and released in February 1992. In typical Apogee fashion, it's shareware, and the first episode ("The Hunt for Red Rock Rover") was released freely, whereas the other two episodes ("Kill Again Island" and "Dr. No Body") had to be paid for. Each episode has 15 levels and then a fortress, inside which is the "boss" whom you must defeat to complete the episode. You can't get inside the fortress before destroying the "radar dish" in each level, which work together to provide security.
Surprise, you play a secret agent! The story is simple: you're Agent 006 and a half, a secret agent, in other words: a "spy". You work for the government, which has developed a ruby-powered orbital laser codenamed "Red Rock Rover". The blueprints for this laser have been stolen by terrorists, and you must infiltrate their headquarters, which are located on a series of islands, and get them back.
My first impression upon playing it, so many years ago, was that it looks so much like Crystal Caves! And, indeed, it's obviously based upon the same code: the gameplay is pretty similar, the graphics (although improved from Crystal Caves) are blocky and look very similar, the status bar is almost identical, the menus are almost identical, etc. However, it was (and is, if you're not turned off by the fact it's over a decade old) still fun to play, it's not so similar as to make it boring, and it has some nifty new stuff. For instance, pushable barrels, which you must push from side-to-side and off the top of walls in order to climb to necessary places.
Here come the NINJAs! The enemies aren't really very varied, essentially consisting of ninjas and robots. There were various types of robots; one type clings to the ceiling and moves around, trying to shoot lasers at you, another type floats in midair, occasionally stopping to send deadly bolts of electricity flying towards the floor, yet another type crawls around on the floor and is heavily armoured There is also a robot dog, and several powerful walking robots which usually have some kind of hidden vulnerability. 'Ninjas' is a bit of a catchall for various types of enemy: thugs, ninja masters, ninjas, sentries and guards. When you shot a thug, he turned into a ninja master, upon shooting him he turned into a ninja, etc, until the guard was shot and he turned into a tombstone, which you could then collect for points.
Oh yes, points. As usual, there were many different types of objects which you could collect to try and get an even higher points score: money bags, briefcases, toothpaste, computer cards, spy watches, walkie-talkies and teddy bears! The teddy bear deserves special mention; it's the one from Commander Keen, and, of course, gives you an awful lot of points for being so wonderfully huggable! You also have boots of speed, gun powerups and teleporters, and if you collect the letters 'S', 'P' and 'Y' in order you get a bunch of .. wait for it .. points! Yay!
The levels have the coloured keys, keycards (and also floppy disks and computers which serve the same purpose), doors and moving platforms most people have grown to either love or hate. In each one you have three lives, represented by little faces in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. And, as ever, you have bullets which you have to collect in order to shoot them ... from your gun, as I'm sure you'd never have guessed. The object of each level is to destroy the radar dish. However, to escape from each level, you have to destroy the exit door with dynamite, which obviously you have to obtain from within the level. If you escape the level with all your lives intact, you gain a bonus of (I think) 10,000 points!
And that's about it .. If you liked Crystal Caves, you'll probably love this. If you've never heard of either of the games, go ahead and try one, you might enjoy it. They look horribly outdated, as ever, but the controls are pretty good, they're fun, they'll provide hours of enjoyment (read: they'll stave off boredom for a few hours) and .. well .. they're part of the classic games I played when I was a kid, which will forever be special to me.
System requirements: 450k of RAM, EGA graphics. Supports joystick control and PC Speaker sound.
Secret Agent Man Crystal Caves theme song Token TV Show Characters
Agent spook The angstiest poem in the world The Mole
If I Were King Captain Midnight WPLJ number 6
Bus Conversation in Cleveland Kingsley Shacklebolt Peter Malchin Johann Kalb
Kurt Austin Otto Skorzeny The Bureau and the Mole Wild Bill Donovan
Michael Redgrave Pierre Boulle Activity based costing Punch-Counterpunch
Clamdigger
Children of the Corny: A Nodermeet Out on the Prairie
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Practice includes criminal and civil and extends to extensive advisory work in public and international (Extradition, EU law and Global human rights). Hugh is renowned for his outstanding abilities in appeals and regularly appears in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court (Extradition, Human Rights, Judicial Review and Civil). Hugh maintains that civil and criminal practice is complimentary each area providing mutually supporting competences.
Hugh's transfer to the UK from Ireland in 2005 coincides with his focus in the International field and the growth of his reputation at the Bar as a meticulous advocate. Hugh was Chair of the EU and International Affairs of the Law Society in Ireland in the 2004-2006; Vice-Chair 2003-2004. Member of the Irish Law Society Standing Committee on Curriculum Development (CDU) 2005-2007. Vice-Chair 2006. He represented Ireland on the prestigious Union International du Notariat Latin between 2005 and 2007. He is a member of the Association of Law Teachers (IALT) and Canon La Society of England and Wales and is currently accredited by OHIM (EU). He is a member of the South East Circuit.
Hugh has lectured extensively in International Human Rights protection and is an associate faculty member of the Law School of the Irish Law Society. He lectured in Warsaw (2003) and also in South Africa (2004-2005) where he contributed to a programme extensively funded by the Irish Government to assist local lawyers become skilled in the rewarding but monopolised commercial field. His continuing interest in education is reflected in a lecture at the College of Law Bloomsbury in London on the topic of Military Law.


Earlier this year, Noosa Yoghurt's Co-Founder Koel Thomae touted the company's growth, reporting $220 million in sales in an exclusive interview with Inc. Magazine. And it seems the company's upward momentum has caught the attention of private equity firm Advent International. This week, both companies announced Noosa will be joining Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods and Rao's Specialty Foods under the banner of Advent's Sovos Brands.
Advent International first acquired a majority interest in Noosa in November of 2014 and has been an important part of the yogurt company's growth, according to a press release.
The acquisition will help Sovos Brands expand its assets in the yogurt category and the companies will continue to operate and manufacture Noosa's products out of its Bellvue facility. CEO and President of H.J. Heinz, Sovos will lead Noosa following the acquisition.
The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.
For more deli, dairy, bakery, and specialty foods acquisitions, mergers, and mashups, stay tuned to Deli Market News.
G'day! We're noosa! noosa is made using a secret family recipe, whole milk, a touch of honey, and real fruit purées.


Developments in mobile technology over the past ten years have revolutionised the classroom and education systems. Connected devices such as tablets and smartphones, along with innovative learning platforms, have directly impacted the methods teachers use to educate their students as well as how these institutions remain relevant in a digital society.
Our research found that 75% of schools encourage staff and pupils to use their own devices, which helps provide schools with the technology and tools to establish a better connected learning experience. Many schools today are moving in the right direction in terms of adopting technology, but more could be done to make the most of connected devices and resources.
Underpinning these technologies and ensuring schools have the capabilities to offer a strong connected learning experience is reliable and secure Wi-Fi. It's a crucial platform that serves to enable students and teachers to access resources, make the most of new devices and assist the better running of schools by maintaining engagement in the classroom.
Over half of IT managers in schools believe poor Wi-Fi is holding back children's digital learning while only 41% believe they have the right wireless solutions in place to offer a strong connected experience for students. This demonstrates the obvious need for schools to ensure they have the right technology in place to provide the best possible teaching experience and help students develop.
An age-old problem for teachers has been how to cater to children of varying abilities in the same classroom. It's a consistent challenge to determine who is falling behind or who is disengaged and how to reach all of these students in the right way at the same time. The use of technology can greatly diminish this problem.
Using various platforms connected by Wi-Fi, teachers can gather insights to better assess student capabilities and create personalised learning plans. Mobile technology allows students of different abilities, to work with content and a curriculum that is exciting to them through devices which provide up to the minute access. It delivers the potential to keep the whole classroom engaged at the same time by reducing the frustration caused when students are not captivated by their work.
Some may think increased use of technology and devices in the classroom could deter students from communicating with each other and contribute to lower collaboration levels. Yet, the opposite is in fact true.
By using connected devices, students are able to communicate with one another, work in teams and contribute to a project in groups. There are various applications now on offer to help build students' communication skills and encourage them to work well as part of a team. Because of developments in devices and applications, the classroom now provides a more collaborative learning experience helping to forge better relationships between students and their teachers.
The digital student of today is used to engaging with various types of content outside of school, including videos and applications such as Snap Chat and Facebook Live. With this in mind, schools should cater to this learning style to keep students engaged. However, in order for a roll-out of this kind to be successful, the right underlying bandwidth is key.
The internet powers an abundance of tools, platforms and learning resources for students, and should be used to supplement teaching plans. With only a limited time in the classroom, slow connections causing video buffering or poor access to resources which aren't compatible for tablet or mobile is hugely detrimental to learning. Simply put, the better the access to these resources, the better the learning experience.
The overall quality of current teaching experiences directly impacts a student's learning experience, no matter what age. With a good wireless connection and access to the latest technology and solutions, teachers now have the opportunity to personalise their lesson plans, keep disruption to a minimum while positively engaging students and maintain productivity, regardless of their learning speed.


Life happens, glad things are turning around. Been loving the comic so far!
Hooray! You're back! Sounds like it has been a heck of a couple rough months. Glad it has stablized in your favor. Don't be too worried about timing, I'm here for the long haul. GOMP and any other stuff you want to let loose on an unsuspecting world will have me sitting here making goofy remarks and cheering you on.
so glad!! LOVE this comic!!!!!
Congrats on the job! Situations like that are so hard.
I'm glad that you updated, but even more glad to hear that you're recovering. I send you my best and hope to see GOMP one day on CN.
thanks again for not letting this work die.


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The Battle of Flers-Courcelette
Posted on September 15, 2016 by Library and Archives Canada Blog
By Alex Comber
Far from achieving their objectives, the Battles of the Somme, continuing into August 1916, had accomplished little, at enormous expenditure of lives and resources. The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which took place September 15 to 22, 1916, was another attempt to achieve a decisive result on the Somme Front. Fighting as part of the British Reserve Army, the Canadian Corps, commanded by Sir Julian Byng, would contribute two of its infantry divisions to the left wing of a wider attack.
This was the first major offensive operation for the Canadians, and their first experience of the devastating human toll of combat in 1916. The battle began by a massive artillery bombardment of enemy positions, similar to the earlier Somme battles. This "creeping barrage" was better timed with the pace of advancing soldiers, and kept just ahead of them. Most enemy units did not have time to recover and prepare their defences before the Canadian infantry battalions were upon them.
This trench map, part of the War Diary of the 27th Battalion (City of Winnipeg), shows the planned lines of advance of this Battalion's leading companies, from jumping-off trenches near Pozières (bottom left) toward the "final objective" just to the north of the sugar factory. Trench maps offer a wealth of detail, and this one shows the village of Courcelette at the top, and information about the other units that would advance on either flank of the 27th Battalion. (MIKAN 1883247)
Highlights of the successful advance of Canadian units included the capture of the village of Courcelette by Lt. Col. T.L. Tremblay's 22nd Battalion (French Canadians) and the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles) as well as the capture of the heavily fortified sugar factory east of the village by the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario). Elsewhere, the attack stalled, and hopes for a decisive success faded, as the Germans launched strong counterattacks or withdrew to fortified positions. Canadian units suffered approximately 24,000 wounded and killed soldiers during the operation.
This Canadian War Records Office official photograph of October 1916 shows the remnants of what was originally a sugar factory before the War following the bombardment and Canadian advance on the fortified German position. (MIKAN 3403776)
The first tanks, called "Land ships" appeared on the battlefields of Flers-Courcelette. They were slow, cumbersome, and mechanically unreliable, and most were put out of action or broke down before they could help the advancing soldiers. However, the few that remained operational destroyed fortified pillboxes and caused chaos in enemy lines. Lt. William Ivor-Castle, an official photographer working for the Canadian War Records Office, filmed tanks advancing to their starting positions, and these caused a sensation when published in England as the first photos of tanks "in combat."
This Mark 1 tank, named "Crème de Menthe," was one of the most successful of those supporting the Canadian attack at Courcelette on September 15, 1916. Early tanks were painted with colourful "Solomon-style" camouflage. (MIKAN 3397296)
Alex Comber is a Military Archivist in the Government Archives Division at Library and Archives Canada.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case Of The Three-Sided Dream
Photograph by Jim Marshall
The plethora of so-called 'biopics' seems to be dominating the conversation at small theatres, where regular programming is sometimes interrupted so that we can be treated to real films about real artists, people we truly love and admire so much. Being starved of more of their art – in most cases because they died young – and also because we are curious to know what made them tick, we will jump at anything that is likely to feed our abject hunger. Then, having satiated ourselves, we might reflect on the experience. It is then that we find that some of the experiences left us feeling us strangely empty either because what we just heard and/or saw was either misrepresented or not the whole truth, or, sadder still, a little bit of both. But now comes a biopic that breaks this mould. The Case of the Three Sided Dream is a frank, visceral film about the music and magic of the legendary reeds player Rahsaan Roland Kirk, made by Adam Kahan.
Kirk was an artistic anomaly who was born in 1942 and died just forty-two years later. However, in his short life he caused a stir in music and Black-Consciousness. He was vocal – very vocal – about being discriminated against, but his real energy and anger was channelled through his music and the myriad reeds – some expressly made for him – that he played, often simultaneously. It was the great bassist, Charles Mingus, with whom Kirk once played, who cautioned that Kirk ought never to be misunderstood as being a 'circus-act'. Mingus always maintained that Kirk was a great musician whose time had probably not yet come. Indeed this is probably true and you cannot help feeling that way during the many dazzling moments if the film dedicated to Kirk's performances. Like many of his peers, Rahsaan Roland Kirk played in small, luridly lit clubs. He probably made little to nothing for his efforts. But that never stopped him or led him to stray from the straight and narrow. He also had a knack of drawing attention to Jazz through mystically-titled recordings.
This film takes its name from one such recording by Kirk. The Case of the Three-Sided Dream was a 1975 double album produced by Joel Dorn properly entitled The Case of the Three-Sided Dream in Audio Color. Reviews at the time of its release heard a universal, deep, almost serene sound in the music, which, at the end of it all, was what set Rahsaan Roland Kirk's music apart as it grew out of its bluesy roots to become something larger than life itself. In many ways, Kirk – like Sun Ra – traversed a different path as he reached out on his quest to express himself with the sheer purity of sound. This would explain his ceaseless search for an instrument, or instruments, which would play the music that he heard inside his head. The raw beauty of what came out of his horns was a result of that endless quest that took place somewhere between waking and sleeping as that is the only place you could ever imagine Kirk resided all the days of his life.
Using available footage and following the often surreal storyline Adam Kahan succeeds in making a film that captures almost all of what Kirk meant when he revealed his quest through the three-sided dream. Kahan pieces this together with footage of performances and important interviews with musicians who played with, but more than anything else, were close to the musician – Akua Dixon and Steve Turre, among them. The most revelatory moments, of course, come from Kirk's wife, Dorthaan Kirk. Expertly editing footage that he had to work with Kahan has succeeded in piecing together a compelling story of the life and legend of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. While you may never fully understand what Kirk's 'dream' was really about you come out of the screening feeling that you know him better: better for the music you heard, better for the things that those closest to him had to say about him and better for the film you just saw that seems to make his like's journey complete.
Produced and Directed by: Adam Kahan
Edited by: Adam Kahan
Music by: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Tomorrow is Read Across America Day and if you've been following my blog for a while, or if we happen to be Facebook friends, you probably already know that I'm a big fan of books. Children's literature is such an important topic for me so it only seemed fitting to do a lunch to celebrate this fun nationwide event. I also thought I'd share a few books my kids (two boys ages 7 and 9) have been really excited about so far this year!


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Churchill Review
This drama about the iconic British prime minister tells a darkly personal story set over just a few pivotal days during the Second World War. It's skilfully written and directed, and anchored by a wonderfully layered performance by Brian Cox. But there's a nagging sense that there's nothing new to see here, mainly because this is such a well-documented and dramatised point in history.
The story takes place over the first few days of June 1944, as the Allied military leaders make final preparations for the D-Day invasion. Due to his lingering trauma over his experiences in WWI, Winston Churchill (Cox) has serious misgivings about the plan, and challenges both the American commander Eisenhower (John Slattery) and senior British officer Montgomery (Julian Wadham). He even makes an appeal to King George (James Purefoy) to intervene. The problem is that he is coming across as a cranky man stuck in the old world, unable to see how warfare has changed in the previous 30 years and reluctant to relinquish control to the next generation. His wife Clementine (Miranda Richardson) is also becoming fed up with his ranting and raving, so she sets about trying to make him see reason.
Director Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) tells this story in a style similar to The King's Speech, a more revelatory true-life drama that fictionalises backstage conversations. This is an artfully made film, beautifully shot and edited. And Alex von Tunzelmann's script digs deeply into the characters and themes. So it's a bit frustrating that it's impossible to watch the movie without knowing full well whose argument wins the day and how the events will play out. At least the actors make the most of their roles. Cox delivers an awards-worthy performance as a veteran fighter struggling to remain on the sidelines as the battle approaches, continually adding emotional weight to Churchill's towering tirades. Richardson is limited to a series of isolated scenes, but shines as she takes him on.
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Churchill Trailer
It's June 1944 and the war has been waging for five long years. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wants to end it once and for all, but the last thing he would ever do is surrender as a nation. Despite the fact that the allied forced are standing at the coast ready for the orders to invade Normandy and take back the parts of Europe that Nazi Germany has taken over, Churchill doesn't want to rush in until he's certain they have the best chance of success. Naturally, the allied military leaders General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery are becoming frustrated with the man's fear of failure - for it is only that that stands in the way of their D-Day victory. But there's a lot more behind this stubborn and volatile human being than most people see; one who does see it is his dedicated wide Clementine who may be the only one who can save him and, in effect, save Europe.
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Spotlight Trailer
Michael Rezendes is a dedicted reporter for the Boston Globe and part of their Spotlight Team; an investigative division focused on justice and whistle-blowing. When accusations of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic Church arise, he leads the team into their latest case, determined to uncover the truth about a morally questionable priest and his scandalous activities across six different parishes over the course of several decades. It is alleged that the church knew what was going on, but chose not to act and hold their reputation above the welfare of their children. Not only that, but past statements from attorneys don't appear to add up and a delicate battle ensues with the government and police all getting involved as the Boston Globe take on the church. There's a large team at the newspaper working on bringing this case into the open once and for all, and they refuse to let these atrocities be swept under the rug another time.
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Ted 2 Review
Fans of the surprise 2012 hit Ted will find plenty to love in this sequel, in which Seth MacFarlane takes the same approach: throwing every kind of gag at the screen in the hopes that some of them stick. Thankfully, there are quite a few laugh-out-loud moments to make sure the film is continually entertaining, even if the plot isn't particularly inventive.
In the past three years, John (Mark Wahlberg) has seen his marriage fall apart, while Ted (voiced by MacFarlane) has married his girlfriend Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). A year later, Ted and Tami-Lynn are in a rut and decide that perhaps a child will help kickstart their romance. Unable to conceive for obvious reasons, they turn to adoption, but this raises a red flag about Ted's status in society: he isn't actually a person, and the state declares that he's property. On the verge of losing everything, Ted and John hire novice lawyer Samantha (Amanda Seyfried) to defend Ted's right to be treated as a person. But their opponent is a slick lawyer (John Slattery) hired in secret by toy company Hasbro, which is now in league with Ted's long-time stalker-nemesis Donny (Giovanni Ribisi).
The ongoing central gag here is that John and Ted have never grown up, stuck in their dope-smoking fanboy ways, which allows for all kinds of rude mayhem, plus lots of cameo appearances from genre stars, including a gratuitous trip to New York Comic-Con that turns into the film's funniest sequence with a series of sublimely silly running gags. On the other hand, the one-joke premise badly limits the film's scope for coherent storytelling, merely dashing from one nutty set-piece to the next and hoping that something funny will happen. Thankfully, most sequences are genuinely amusing, at least for audiences whose goal is just to have a good time at the movies.
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Ant-Man Trailer
When you need someone to break into a place and steal something, a career cat burglar is your best bet. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is in jail, which isn't the best start, but when Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) needs a thief, Lang is still his man. Pym was once a miniature superhero known as Ant-Man, yet when Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) takes over his company and tries to mass-market the powerful Ant-Man suits, Pym hires Lang to break in and steal the suit back. From there, he must become the Ant-Man - no matter how much he hates the name.
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'Mad Men' Donates Props & Costumes To Smithsonian Museum
By Elinor Cosgrave in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 28 March 2015
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The props and costumes from 'Mad Men' have been donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
The hit AMC series Mad Men may be drawing to a close but its props and costumes will live on in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The series executives have made the decision to donate many iconic items from the show. The items were handed over in a star studded presentation ceremony in Washington D.C. on Friday morning (27th March). In attendance were Mad Men cast members: Jon Hamm, John Slattery and Christina Hendricks. The show's creator Matt Weiner and AMC President Charlie Collier were also in attendance.
Jon Hamm and Matthew Weiner attended the presentation ceremony at the Smithsonian.
Read More: Jon Hamm Went To Rehab for Alcoholism before 'Mad Men' Finale.
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'Ant-Man' Stands Under The Golden Gate Bridge In First Look Picture
By Lenny Barksdale in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 August 2014
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Marvel's latest super-hero franchise to move onto film has a new photo
Marvel's Ant-Man has had its fair share of setbacks, but production is fully underway now and we have a first look photo to whet our appetites.
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man
The photo sees Paul Rudd as the titular ant hero (not anti-hero) standing under the Golden Gate Bridge next to a beaten up old Ford. We're guessing he's got some reason to go incognito, as he's looking fairly conspicuous – hood up and holding a mystery bag. He's also been in the wars as evidenced by those butterfly stiches on his brow.
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God's Pocket Review
By Rich Cline
Despite a strong sense of the characters and the setting, this film struggles to engage viewers with its downbeat story about how tough life is. Even though the performances are powerful enough to hold the attention, the film feels like it drifts aimlessly along, never coming into focus in a meaningful way. And since everything is right on the surface, there isn't much subtext to help the events resonate with the audience.
In the God's Pocket neighbourhood in 1980s Philadelphia, everyone knows everything about each others' lives. Mickey (Philip Seymour Hoffman) works as a driver delivering meat, but spends just as much time planning small-time scams with his pal Arthur (John Turturro). Then his life is thrown out of balance when his hothead stepson Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) dies in what is suspiciously described as a workplace accident. Mickey's wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks) struggles to cope with her son's death, so Mickey is easily pressured by the local mortician (Eddie Marsan) into buying a funeral he can't afford. To make some extra cash, he plans a heist with Arthur and their careless pal Sal (Domenick Lombardozzi), which predictably goes awry. Meanwhile, a famed local journalist (Richard Jenkins) starts looking into Leon's death.
It's not like the film is low on plot: there are plenty of story strands to push each character further into their own personal desperation. And the tightly knit setting provides an intriguing counterpoint as everyone's dirty laundry is aired for all to see, which pushes their true emotions even further underground. This lets the actors deliver riveting performances, even as they're all beaten down to mere husks of humanity. In one of his final roles, Hoffman is terrific as a guy for whom everything goes relentlessly wrong. Hendricks is pretty wrenching as the rather drippy Jeanie, whose interaction with Jenkins is both warm and depressing. Thankfully, Turturro and Marsan provide a spark of energy, as does Joyce Van Patten in a scene-stealing role as Arthur's gun-crazy aunt.
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God's Pocket Trailer
God's Pocket seems to be an ordinary working class neighbourhood at face value; full of people with ordinary jobs and ordinary families. However, a dark undertone begins to show when Mickey Scarpato's insane stepson Leon dies following a so-called accident at a construction site. Mickey wants people to believe he slipped and fell to his death (not that anybody cares that the town is short of a man like Leon), but Leon's mother Jeanie is desperate to know what really happened. While Mickey tries to comfort his wife, Jeanie is approached by a shameless reporter named Richard Shellburn who is also investigating any mystery behind the death. All Mickey wants is the body in the ground and a large debt of his to be repaid - but it looks like his life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.
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Mad Men Season 7 Premiere - Alison Brie, Jessica Pare, Christina Hendricks [Pictures]
By Elinor Cosgrave in Movies / TV / Theatre on 03 April 2014
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The seventh and final season of 'Mad Men' premiered last night (2nd April) in Los Angeles and was attended by the whole cast - past and present.
The season 7 premiere of Mad Men was attended by the whole cast as they celebrated the final series of the long running drama.
Jon Hamm at the season 7 premiere of Mad Men.
The period drama which focusses on a New York advertising agency and executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm) has aired since 2007 but the network behind the hit show, AMC, announced last year the seventh series would be the last.
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Despite a strong sense of the characters and the setting, this film struggles to engage...
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Q: Angular NgModel does not change if a change from a debounced observable is in-flight I am messing around with an admittedly weird setup using ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush and RxJS Subjects with debounceTime.
In this Plunker, I am surprised by the following behaviour:

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*Type in the first input box ("Model 1") and verify that it updates the model, and the reset button works

*Type in the second box, and note that the reset button does not work if there is already a change in-flight

*Once the 10-second debounced change is finished, the second reset button does work as expected

The second reset button deems not to work because instead of immediately updating the value of model2 in my ngModelChange listener, I pass the change event to a Subject and debounce it, then only update it after a 10-second debounce. But I am stumped as to why the reset button won't work when an update is in-flight like this. What's going on?

A: This actually happens because the value of this.model2 hasn't actually changed from "Model 2", even though the value of the input seems to have changed visibly. Because the value being passed into ngModel doesn't change, the new value of the input is not overwritten.  The solution here is to maintain the variable model2 updated with the current value:
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Mueang Roi Et (, ) is the capital district (amphoe mueang) in the western part of Roi Et province, northeastern Thailand.

History
Mueang Roi Et is an ancient city. The area around the city was made into a district in 1908. In 1913 its name was changed from Pachin Roi Et to Mueang Roi Et.

Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise): Changhan, Chiang Khwan, Thawat Buri, At Samat, Mueang Suang (at a single point), Chaturaphak Phiman and Si Somdet of Roi Et Province; and Mueang Maha Sarakham of Maha Sarakham province.

Administration
The district is divided into 15 sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 195 villages (mubans). Roi Et is a town (thesaban mueang) which covers the whole of tambon Nai Mueang. There are a further 14 tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

Missing numbers are tambons which now form the Changhan and Si Somdet Districts.

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Mueang Roi Et

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Hands-On With LG And Google's First Smartphone Collaboration, The Nexus 4
Chris Velazco @chrisvelazco / 10 years
After having seen its mug plastered all over the internet in the days leading up to its release, actually playing with LG and Google's new Nexus 4 seemed a bit anti-climactic. I mean, when you've seen a device like that cracked open and posed for your pleasure, it felt like there wasn't much I didn't already know about the thing.
Oh how wrong I was.
The first thing I noticed when I picked up the Nexus 4 is how remarkably sturdy it feels. Despite being an LG device, the Nexus 4 doesn't really feel like one — it's far more solid and slab-like than the plasticky handsets that the company has churned out in the past. This may sound weird, but I once I picked it up and got a feeling for its heft, I couldn't resist the urge to tap the thing on the table a few times just to see how it held up (the answer: quite nicely).
Turning the thing over reveals the funky patterned finish that we've seen before, and it catches and reflects light in some interesting ways. To be honest, it seems a bit too flashy for a Nexus device (previous Nexus phones were largely free of visual flair), but that's just me picking nits. I get the feeling that Nexus aficionados will either love or hate the way the Nexus 4 looks, and for now I'm caught right in the middle.
Speaking of looks, the Nexus 4 (as you've probably already heard) runs Android 4.2, which doesn't stray too far from the aesthetic seen in Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. You can check out a more detailed list of tweaks and additions here, but one change in particular threw me for a bit of a loop — the app launcher now sports five columns of apps instead of the customary four.
Meanwhile, the Nexus 4's display represents a big step forward from the one seen in its predecessor. Don't get me wrong, I love my Galaxy Nexus to bits, but the Pentile sub-pixel configuration meant icons and text didn't appear as smooth as I would've liked. Thankfully, the Nexus 4's 4.7-inch 720p IPS panel rendered colors brightly and accurately, but I think my eyes have grown accustomed to the way colors pop on AMOLED panels.
That's all well and good, but how does the thing run? Well, it's always tough to judge a phone's performance after only playing with it for a few moments, but the whole thing — from swiping through pages of widgets and apps to scrolling through long lists of emails — was as snappy as you would expect from a top-tier Nexus handset. Of course, we've got LG's Optimus G to thank for that since both devices share the same 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 2GB of RAM. To trot out a well-worn Android cliche, the experience was downright buttery, and I'm looking forward to really putting this thing through its paces.
I'll refrain from making sweeping judgments for now, but the Nexus 4 managed to make a strong impression during the few brief moments we shared together. Expect a deeper dive into Google's newest Nexus phone later this week after I've had some serious playtime, but in the meantime enjoy the rest of these photos.


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Q: What are the customizations when using the facebook like iframe within my webpage? I have the following code to show

which works great but I wanted to see if i could customize it to:

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*Not show which one of my friends like it.  So instead of saying:
Joe Thompson and 100 other people like this
I just want it to say:
100 people like this
basically I am trying to fit this like button in a small area of real estate on the page adn I want to have more certainly around what will show up

A: Unfortunately there's no way to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ change that line of text to read specifically how you want.  It can be removed all together yet still show the like count if you change layout to button_count.  However with this option, iframe is not available to use, so you'll need to change over to XFBML or HTML5.

A: you can use this one just change [Enter Your Page URL] with your URL


Love me a "blast of rhubarb" (favorite rhubarb scent being the discontinued Britt Red) and the names of these fragrances are indeed interesting! Black Angel appeals to me the most because I am always on the lookout for the ultimate happy fragrance…to date the perfumes that put me in a state of euphoria are Jour Ensolielle, Reglisse Noire and Orange Sanguine.
May I add that I am extremely jealous that YOUR significant other not only samples and offers insight but also WEARS fragrance! Then again there is a new generation of perfume enthusiasts in my house so I do have some sharing going on. Yet I would love to snuggle up to hubby's neck and actually smell something other than Dove soap!!!
And yet: a soap smellin man is no bad thing….!
this is true but every once in a while I would like some fragrance on his neck and/or down yonder (am I allowed to say that?) LOL!!
On this blog you can say anything. In fact, to be honest, I don't want The Black Narcissus to be a bastion of propriety like some perfume blogs. I myself swear a lot when the moment is right, and there are no prudes in this house.
I bet he smells lovely anyway. Duncan is not a scent fiend like me, but I know he enjoys it.
Goodness you are too funny (but at least now I have your address so that I can mail you samples!). As much as I desperately wanted that $200.00 full bottle I only had a sample of Orange Sanguine and believe you me I drained it quite quickly! However, I will keep my eye out for other Ateliers and any samples I receive will be promptly sent to you…I promise (and let us hope the package doesn't get confiscated and/or I get arrested…wouldn't hubby be thrilled about that!). As soon as my clean vials arrive I will send you samples of Reglisse Noire and Jour Ensolielle mentioned above as well as others you were interested in and a few surprised that I think you might like (I have this thing for West Coast artisanal perfumers so you will get some of their goodies).
Thank you so much, and though you are the Mother Theresa of the perfume world, you know I do insist on returning the favour so you can send me your address to my email address: opoponax8@hotmail.com and when I think of something worth sending it shall reach thee.
ps. just lie on the envelope: say stationery, or an ornament or whatever. On no account say perfume!
Me too! That beginning note is utterly delectable!! DId you read my ridiculous review of that one?
Am reading it now! $50 a mango?! Jeez!
BLACK ANGEL WAS THE PERFUME THAT DUNCAN CHOSE THE OTHER NIGHT FOR OUR CHAMELEON PARTY, AND ONE GUEST, ALEX, WAS PAROXYZED BY IT: what IS that perfume, i could could (expletive) somebody right on the spot….always a good sign that a perfume is kind of working….
I have never smelled a perfume with rhubarb, or rhubarb leaves. I can only imagine…We share the same full body 'dusted bonbon' style of perfume application. I enjoy full immersion!! Your descriptions make my mouth water.
Then you may be disappointed, as on whole these perfumes don't QUITE reach that point of no return….
and yet, the fruity beginning of ghosts IS quite definitely mouthwatering, uplifting, and worth a try. I would quite happily wear it often if I had the full bottle.
One waits for what feels like an age for a remarkable rhubarb perfume to come along and then in a matter of hours The Dandy reads about two of which he was only vaguely aware.
People are talking about Jul et Mad all over and now you bring back to that Buxton collection that I never did get around to trying.
Back on terra Britannica such a short time and already so many scents to search down!
I'm elbow-deep in tuberoses over here, and you want to add rhubarb? What an interesting mental combination. Today so far I've worn Fracas pure parfum and By Kilan Beyond Love,and my after-dinner scent will be Tubereuse Criminelle. Yesterday was Gardenia Passion followed by Gardenia Tuberose. I don't quite know what came over me. Ginza, if you get a minute, do take a look at my post of today on the Aussie Perfume Junkies. It's about my current obsession with white florals and I would love to get your input.
Damn, Ginza, I keep trying to comment and they keep disappearing into the ether. Let's see if this one sticks, and if it does, then I'll think of something to say.


than some climate deniers have in their whole body.
A post today at Hot Topic gets really stuck in to Don Brash. Don gave a speech today to the Federated Farmers annual conference. He mentioned the ETS, which exists because of a belief in the dangerous global warming created by the actions of humanity, which Don and many others disbelieve.
Therefore Gareth Renowden, the dynamic self-starter who runs the Hot Topic blog (named after the book he wrote — guess what that's about?), which exists to sell more copies of his book, so he's never going to admit he's wrong about the climate (yes, he has a strong vested interest in this "discussion"), couldn't let it go without having his say. Thing is, he vilifies more than he informs.


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Q: Simplify a series. This sequence of numbers below are not arithmetic  or geometric.  As such, i cannot understand  how to proceed when asked to 'Simplify this series'.
1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,.....
Can i write this as 1, 4, 9, 16, 25,.... ? In this way, obviously it is sequence of squares. As such, it can be simplified as below.
Sum= (n (n+1)(2n+1))/6
But if i proceed in this way, am i straying away from simplifying it?

A: The $n^{th}$ term of the sequence is the smallest positive integer $m$ such that the associated triangular number $\sum_{r=1}^m r= \frac{1}{2}m\left(m+1\right)$ satisfies $\frac{1}{2}m\left(m+1\right) \geq n$. To find this, solve the quadratic $n = \frac{1}{2}x\left(x+1\right)$, take the positive solution (you will see that one is positive and one is negative) and then take ceiling of the result. That is, $$a_n = \lceil\frac{-1+\sqrt{1+8n}}{2}\rceil,$$ where $\lceil\alpha\rceil$ denotes the smallest integer greater than or equal to $\alpha$.


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