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I can't seem to find a resource that explains how to do this. An example would be to take a cylinder that has been rotated whose plane is at a different angle from a cube and rotating it so the face of the end of the cylinder meets flat with the face of the block. Is there a reference in the manual or a YouTube somewhere?
Ok - I think I found it. Set the workplane to what I want. Select the object the alt+shift+W and the object aligns to the plane.


If you have young children, chances are that they're already quite adept at using the computer. This is a new generation of little wired ones, and we've got our work cut out for us as we are trying to stay ahead of them.
I bet you are much concerned with protecting your children from the sketchy dangers on the Internet! Luckily, if you've got a Mac, OS X comes with some great Mac Parental Controls built right into the operating system which will help you combat this situation.
The built-in Mac parental controls make it safe for your kiddos to use Mac computer without your direct supervision. Here is the tutorial about how to launch the parental control on a Mac. The process is quite simple (as it is standard operating procedure with all things Apple).
However, it is not quite good enough to only use the built-in Mac parental controls if you want to get the detailed information about Internet history on a Mac as it can only record the websites visited on Safari. What you need is a keylogger for Mac which can record websites visited in Safari/Firefox/Chrome even in Private Browsing mode.
Aobo Keylogger for Mac is a keylogger for Mac which records not only the websites visited on any browser but every single keystroke typed on the keyboard as well as passwords on any applications and websites.
If you are parents of young children and in need of Mac parental controls software, Aobo keylogger for Mac is ready for you.


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Superheroes have been important threads in the fabric of society for a couple of generations now.
They've graced our screens, danced across the pages of our comics and storybooks and dominated our childhood conversations and arguments. Without them, our childhoods would have been boring, our adolescent years a complete nightmare and the seriousness of adulthood would drive us insane. Thankfully though, they've been there to save the day, literally. Otherwise, just imagine how things would have been. The horror of it all! Yikes !
For Africans however, despite the profound impact these heroes have had on us, serenading our minds with epic tales of wonderful yet practically impossible feats of valor, we've never really had any connection to them, other than, in most cases, our humanity. What I mean is, they've never really felt like ours ( probably because they aren't, lol) and that's why when Black Panther was premiered, it swept us all off our feet.
Truly, it was a terrific movie but even if it hadn't been, let's be honest, we would still have raved on about and cooed over it. Of course! Why shouldn't we? We had a right to do so. Black Panther was the first major movie superhero to come out of Africa. We felt excited, thrilled, enamored, enchanted and a bucket load of other feelings I can't even describe in words. But even then, was Black Panther really ours?
Sure it was a portrayal of an African character in a fictional African country, but this character was neither created by Africans nor based on ideas by African people. This, of course, doesn't take away the fact that Black Panther was an incredible movie, but it does bring up the question: when do we get to see a truly African hero, made by Africans with characters derived from our own stories?
Hmm. Interesting question, huh? Is it mind-boggling though? No. Not at all.
The answer is quite simple. We'll only get to see them when we start making them ourselves. That's what makes the concept of Afrocomix so enthusing. In the African Legends saga, we see the stories of African folktale legends, being told, from Ghana's Ananse and Nigeria's Oya to Kenya's Ol-Moran and several other heroes. In other stories, we see pure African creativity on full display, such as in Karmzah, where a disabled super-heroine saves the day while breaking stereotypes and challenging us to strive to defy the odds in whatever we do and wherever we find ourselves doing it.
How inspiring?! Talk about a true African role model!
These stories will undoubtedly evoke a sense of African pride in you and hopefully instill in you a sense of duty to spread the word about them. They can all be found on the Afrocomix app which can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store.
This, of course, is just the beginning. Indeed, it's the dawn of a new era!
Author: Nii Okpoti Kwame Oddoye
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There's no denying that Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools and digital marketers can (and should) employ it into their strategy. As a financial advisor numbers are important – they're hard to ignore or hide. Same is true for your website. Tracking and monitoring your website analytics is crucial and is the foundation of a performance-driven website. Google Analytics offers users a huge amount of data, but we're here today to answer the top five most commonly asked questions by financial advisors about Google Analytics.
1. What is the audience overview landing page?
Each time you log into Google Analytics, you will first see your Audience Overview report. Alternatively, if you have more than one website, you will instead see a list of websites to choose from and then redirected to the Audience Overview report for your chosen website. This page will show you an overview of your website traffic for the selected date range, including metrics such as: total number of sessions, total number of users, average number of pages viewed per session, bounce rate, average session duration, and percentage of new sessions.
2. How do I adjust the date range in Google Analytics?
The default setting will always show your data for the last week. In the date range box in the top right, you can click on the dates to change the date range of the data you are viewing. You can also check the compare box to compare your data from one date range (such as this month) to a previous date range (such as last month) to view your data. This is very helpful for instance if you have recently launched a new website, actively started blogging, or began posting on social media and would like a general overview of how your new marketing initiatives are impacting site visits and other metrics.
3. For 90%+ of my organic keywords, Google Analytics sayS "(not provided)" How can I Uncover those keywords?
The (not provided) result is Google's way of protecting search engine user's privacy by hiding the keywords they use to discover your website via search. Google's Webmaster Tools (now called Search Console, free), can help you uncover some of those keywords. They won't be linked to your Google Analytics data, but at least you will have some clue what keywords searchers are using to find your website.
Once you have setup your Google Search Console, click on the "Search Traffic" tab on the left hand tool bar, then click "Search Analytics." At the top of the page (in the grey tool bar) select "Clicks" (total number of people who saw your result and clicked on it), "impressions" (total number of times your result showed up in the search results) "CTR" (click through rate) and "Position" (your webpage ranking for that search term – i.e. where in the search results your page was listed on Google).
Once you've selected all four of those metrics, you will be able to see the search terms that are driving organic traffic to your website, as well as how popular your result is for each keyword. The higher the CTR for any keyword, the better your website is performing for that keyword. If you see a keyword that has a high number of impressions, but low CTR, that means people are not choosing your website for that keyword (and if that keyword is important to you, you'll want to think about changing the meta description viewers are seeing for your page in the search results, as it obviously is not compelling or relevant enough for users to want to click on your page).
4. How do I share my Google Analytics data with someone?
Fortunately, you don't have to give your Google account information over to someone who needs to access your Google Analytics data. You just need to go to your Admin menu and under the Account, Property (website) or View you want someone to see, click the User Management menu.
5. WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT METRICS FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORS TO MONITOR in Google Analytics?
New vs. Returning Users – ideally you would like to see a good mix of new and returning users. You'd like to see prospective clients checking you out but also see your current clients coming back to your site over and over again to login to their accounts, read your latest blog posts, etc.
Bounce Rate – if you have a popular blog, your site-wide bounce rate may be higher as a good percentage of visitors may come to your site, read your latest blog post and leave. You can work to improve your bounce rate by always linking old blog posts within your latest post. Financial Advisors should aim to have their bounce rate between 40-60% (though single page scroll sites will ALWAYS be much higher as the user never has to navigate to another page on anything to see all the content.
Referral Traffic Sources – you should ALWAYS pay attention to what other sites are sending traffic to your website!
Organic Search Traffic – this will give you some insight into how much of your traffic is coming from people simply doing a basic search and finding your page. For instance, "financial planner in Cleveland, OH" (remember, for the list of organic keywords, you'll need to head over to your Google Search Console page).
Avg Session Duration/Avg Page Time – people are often surprised to learn that a typical financial advisor's site has a average session duration of just under 1.3 minutes! You have a very short window of time to make an impression – so make sure your landing pages are optimized to present your Unique Value Proposition and Call to Action!
Mobile – if you do not have a website that has been designed to be responsive, and yet 40% of your traffic is coming from mobile devices, you need to update your site ASAP!
GEO Location/City – Most financial advisors have a specific geographic location in which they work. By selecting to see how your site is performing for visitors in the specific area in which you are located, you will have a much better idea of how your site is actually performing for your target audience.
Our latest blog post is a webinar replay which discusses Google Analytics for Financial Advisors: Which metrics matter most?
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Rick Perry refuses presidential handshake but has a better idea
By Michael Dorstewitz July 8, 2014 July 8, 2014
Texas Republican Governor turned down President Obama's request for a hand-shaking photo opportunity, but offered something else instead. The president accepted Perry's counter-proposal.
When Obama offered a brief hand shake when Air Force One touches down in Austin Wednesday, Perry made like Ford and had a better idea, according to The Huffington Post.
"I appreciate the offer to greet you at Austin-Bergstrom Airport, but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas," Perry wrote in a letter to Obama. "I would instead offer to meet with you at any time during your visit to Texas for a substantive meeting to discuss this critical issue."
The border crisis has turned into yet another White House scandal — but one with a huge difference: It just won't go away.
As soon as illegal immigrants are allowed in, they quickly disperse and disappear, blowing off scheduled immigration court hearings. In addition, some immigrants have reportedly crossed the border carrying such diseases and conditions as swine flu, ebola virus, scabies and tuberculosis.
Last week, Perry invited Obama to inspect the border with him during the president's Austin fundraising visit. The tweet read:
.@BarackObama: While in TX next week, I invite you to tour the border with me to see firsthand what is happening there. cc: @WhiteHouse
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) July 2, 2014
This was Perry's second invitation to take some time out to tour the border during a Texas fundraising trip "to see firsthand" the immigration crisis, according to The Hill. The previous request was made in June; both were turned down.
Perry hasn't been shy about his criticism of the president's disengagement of the border situation.
"I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from," he said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, The Huffington Post reported.
Perry's second request prompted the offer of an airport photo op.
The president accepted the Texas governor's counter-offer of a "substantive meeting" via a letter from Obama confidant and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, according to CNN, which reported:
In Jarrett's letter, she also asked Perry for his help in convincing Republicans in Congress to approve the President's request for more than $2 billion in federal funds to add new border patrol agents and immigration judges in the Southwestern region, as well as expanded facilities to hold detained migrants. The president has also asked for expanded legal authority for the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the process of returning the children to their countries of origin.
Since Jarrett wrote the letter to Perry, Obama has almost doubled his request for funds to clear up the border debacle — it's now $3.8 billion, according to The Washington Post.
Breitbart News reported that the meeting between the two is scheduled for Wednesday. The president will also be attending three Democratic fundraisers on Wednesday and Thursday.
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Law and Government, National Security, Politics, Social IssuesTagged: President Obama
Michael Dorstewitz
Michael Dorstewitz is a recovering Michigan trial lawyer and former research vessel deck officer. He has written extensively for BizPac Review.
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Homeowners living in postcode district BS5 in Bristol and M32 in Manchester currently have the best market conditions for selling, according to recent findings from PropCast.
Its monthly England & Wales House Selling Weather Report examined buyer demand for each postcode district by counting the number of properties for sale and calculating the percentage of these that are under offer or sold subject to contract.
Percentages in the study were portrayed as degrees: 0%-20% is very cold, 20%-35% is cold, 35%-50% is hot and anything above 50% is very hot.
At the top of the top of the leader board with a market heat temperature reading of 70 degrees are postcode districts BS5 and M32, revealing a very hot sellers' market for each location. These were followed by BS3 Bristol (69°), S18 Sheffield (68°), B27 Birmingham (67°), BS6 Bristol (67°), B34 and B37 Birmingham (66°), BS4 Bristol (66°) and B28 Birmingham (65°).
https://www.theadvisory.co.uk/propcast/Unsurprisingly, London continues to dominate PropCast's top ten coldest postcodes. NW8 in northwest London was recorded as the coolest for the second month in a row, dropping one degree to six, while also seeing the biggest annual fall in buyer demand at 33%.
Meanwhile, L2 in Liverpool ranked second place at eight degrees, but recorded the highest growth year-on-year in buyer demand at 33%.
London postcodes make up the rest of England & Wales' ten hardest areas to sell a property – all between eight and 11 degrees – with SW10 and WC2 the only London postcodes to record growth in buyer demand over the last year.
However, Braza said sellers in a cold buyers' market, particularly London, should not be downhearted as it is still possible to sell well.
For more information on the historic data trends, you can view the PropCast tool here.


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Layla Weighted Blanket Review: Less Anxiety, Really?
Last Updated on April 27, 2021 by Terry Cralle
Layla is one of the most popular mattresses and pillow makers in the market. However, aside from the great variety of flappable mattresses, pillows, and other bedding accessories, Layla also featured its weighted blanket that comes with a lot of benefits for both older and young. Weighted blankets grew in popularity among people with anxiety, …
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8 Benefits Of Weighted Blankets: Why It's Good For Sleep
Last Updated on October 6, 2021 by Terry Cralle
In the past few years, weighted blankets have been deemed as the so-called 'magical blankets'. Even nowadays, people seem to favor weighted blankets over the regular ones under the belief that the weighted ones carry numerous benefits for our mental health. Beyond mental health benefits, the weighted blankets have primarily come under the spotlight because …
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Top 5 Best Oxygen Monitors 2022 (AKA Pulse Oximeters) for Home Use
An oxygen monitor or a pulse oximeter is a device that provides a real-time reading of a patient's oxygen levels, blood pressure, and heart rate. The real-time reading helps doctors come with faster assessments of the patient's health and can provide excellent assistance in determining further treatment or therapy. Pulse oximeters are generally used by …
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Maskne – What It Is And How Can You Prevent It?
Even when other health issues have become less important during these testing times of the COVID-19 pandemic, people still experience dermatological problems like acne. However, the widespread use of face and respirator masks for proper protection has even increased dermatological issues in people around the world. Sure, face masks provide limited viral exposure, but we …
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Best Adjustable Bed for Back Pain: The Ultimate List for 2022
Back pain is something that we can all relate to – we've all had those painful aches in our lower back after a long car ride, or tightness in our necks and shoulders after hunching over a desk all day. But sometimes, back pain gets out of hand. When you're dealing with chronic back pain, …
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Pulse Oximeters: 15 Things You Need to Know Before Buying
Pulse oximeters have a vast application in monitoring people with various respiratory diseases, lung cancer, and other ailments. Still, ever since the COVID-19 pandemics broke out in early 2020, the pulse oximeters sales rose, with a lot of healthcare workers using them to track the progress of the deadly disease. The ability of the instrument …
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Where To Buy N95 Masks? (NIOSH, OSHA, CDC and WHO Approved)
N95 respirator masks are currently the best available masks for proper protection against coronavirus transmission. These masks have been approved by global health organizations and disease centers, so naturally, the demand for N95 masks has skyrocketed in the past few months. But, even so, people still don't know which sources and sellers of N95 masks …
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Are you ready for the next Sneak Peek and giveaway for the March 2015 Release???
Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another sneak - we have another day of sneak peeks! And we have our New Release Hop on February 28, 2015 where we will give away ALL THREE to one lucky stamper!
Click on the Rafflecopter widget below to enter to win this set - Yappy !!! ! You have until 7 pm TAWS time tonight to get your entries in! For our friends that do not have Social Media accounts, you can also just comment below. We will randomly pick commenters for our giveaways, too!
This contest will run TODAY only (2/26/14), but we will have giveaways for the next few days!
Hey there friends! Jeni here. I've got a fun little sneak for you! This Yappy set is SO fun!! It's got a load of great sentiments to put together, but I also love that it can be used with other sets to build upon! I know this set will be reached for over and over again!!
Hi it's N@ Ali. As Jeni said, this new set is packed with plenty of great sentiments, for example you will find many combination possibilities with the recently released Bubbly set.
Hi! Chrissie here! Yappy is so much fun! I combined it with the cutie hedgehog from Branched Out!
Hi Dana here!! You are going to love Yappy! There are so many possibilities and they all go great with almost any TAWS stamp set!! I finally decided to use two of the sentiments in the set, i thought they went great with Breakfast Club!!
Hi all! Angel here! Here's my card using the new Yappy Set! This is such a COOL sentiment set, I love the clean font! Yay for Sneak Peek time!
Hi everyone, Tanja here. The new set Yappy is ingenious. The possibilities to combine it are endless. For my card I also used Monster Madness and Monster Mash.
We have our first Sneak Peek giveaway today for the March 2015 Release!
Don't forget to come back tomorrow for another sneak - we have three full days of sneak peeks! And we have our New Release Hop on February 28, 2015 where we will give away ALL THREE to one lucky stamper!
Click on the Rafflecopter widget below to enter to win this set - Hard Boiled !!! ! You have until 7 pm TAWS time tonight to get your entries in! For our friends that do not have Social Media accounts, you can also just comment below. We will randomly pick commenters for our giveaways, too!
This contest will run TODAY only (2/25/14), but we will have giveaways for the next 3 days!
Hello! It's Tracy here with a sneak peek of this adorable new set! I used Hard Boiled for the mama chicken, baby chick, hay, and sentiment. Such a fun and unique baby card!
Yay for Sneak Peeks!!! It's Lisa and I love getting to share new images with all of you, and of course this set is just too darn cute! Here's my little peek for you..
Hey, Anni here! Love this time of the month when the new sets are ahead! And Hard Boiled is so super cute!
Whoo Hoo.. It's Holly here and I'm so excited for this release.. The images are just adorable, you are going to love all the sets! Today I'm showcasing Hard Boiled along with the other Ladies.
Hi everyone! Simonne here with my Hard Boiled sneak peak card! This stamp set is so AWESOME (as is the whole release!). It's packed full of adorable chicky-related images and sentiments. I love it!
Hello TAWS Friends! Meredith here bringing you a sweet card that I made for my middle son for Valentine's Day using the new set Stumped and an oldie but goodie TAWS set True Colors.
Hi everyone and happy monday! Tanja here. Today here I am with a bird-day card :-) I used Branching Out and Birds of a Feather.
Hi it's N@ Ali. Oh this deer from Stumped is just too cute! The sentiment is from Rock Solid and the partial bubble from Cake Day.
Hey, stampers, Anni here! I made an easter card with the cute set Chick Magnet!


The 25th of September became the lucky day for one more casino player who won 7.7 million on Mega Moolah slot. It is stunning, but a new Mega Moolah winner is added to the millionaires' list of this fantastic slot almost every month. This means every slots player can strike the life-changing mega moolah jackpot at any time.
The bet limit, as well as your expertise, play no role here, everything depends on pure (and quite capricious) luck. For those, who are completely new to the slot, we repeat that the main slots win labeled the Mega Jackpot can become yours once you spin the fortune wheel in the randomly triggered bonus game. Any gambler can only hope the pointer will stop on the most desired section of this truly life-changing wheel and add his/her name to the game's winners list. It is worth noting the sum of this progressive jackpot does not drop below the one million pounds limit. Thus, here you are, people, who will always be known as Mega Moolah-made millionaires.
We will start with Klaus from Finland, the player who staked 0,50c and gained the US $5.5M on 22 April 2008 while playing Mega Moolah at Blackjack Ballroom Casino. He could not believe his eyes the moment he noticed the array of figures on the screen. Then he checked the casino account and later got the phone from the casino with congratulations. What came next is the history of the happy slots player.
The crucial moment in Georgios life came on the 18th of May 2009 when he won over €6.3 million. The Greek Mega Moolah fan bet €5 and could not believe in his impressive luck after winning such a sum.
The 5th of October 2009 brought to life one more millionaire. This time it was Polish player called Radoslaw M. He became richer on $1.2M and could not dare to touch the computer at first. Later, the shock had changed into joy and Radoslaw realized he could get married and lead a troublesome life with his beloved one.
The Mega Moolah Summertime game (one of the slots variations) made the gambler Mrs. P. the US $4.2 million jackpot-holder on the 29th of August 2010.
The year of 2011 gave one more million to the world. The player A.D. stroke the €3.8 million win after betting 0,50c on 14 October at Challenge Casino. Being connected to the Mega Moolah jackpot network, the Lord of Rings progressive game awardee Susan C. with £1.9 million on the 28th of December 2011.
The hot July day in 2012 and this cool slot changed the life of the British player from Midlands after awarding him with the £2.6 million win.
One more lucky player won 5.4 million Norwegian Krones (almost one million US dollars) in November 2012.
The unbelievable sum of £5.88 million went to John Orchard from Lincolnshire, the UK on 9 December 2012. This passionate bingo player staked 30p and became the winner of the Dark Knight Rises game, the one that shares the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot).
The series of astounding mobile jackpot wins have started with the $3.9 million prize of G.M. player. His mobile phone has made Gabriel a millionaire and he could not believe his luck at first.
After this, a slots fan I.R. got $3.3 million in Mega Moolah in November 2014.
Just after a few months (in October 2015), Jonathon Heywood from Cheshire, UK won the mind-blowing Mega Moolah prize of £13.2 million. Emotions of this soldier-millionaire were overwhelming.
The year of 2016 became exemplary in the history of Mega Moolah wins. A casino player added €6.9 million to the account on 8 April 2016.
After just two months, the New Zealander Rawiri Pou won more than 10 million NZ dollar enjoying this slot. We can say the life of the simple fast-food worker changed on 17 June. Later on the 28th of August 2016, someone called D.P. got 7.9€ million, the biggest sum ever stroked on a mobile device.
And now 2017, one more productive year. The Captain Cook's Casino player N.C. won 6€ million playing the Mega Moolah mobile version on the 16th of January. Two other mobile slots fans, C.F. and a client of Tipico Sportwetten, gained 6.6€ and 8€ million respectively. A gambler from Norway won 3.7 million on 22 May 2017.
There are two lucky players who won 1.5€ and 1.7€ million in June and July 2017. One of the recent wins happened on 14 August 2017 when an anonymous gambler got 5.13 million. The latest win was on the 25the of September. We are sure this one is not the last.
Founded in 2000 in Canada, Citadel Instant Banking (further, Citadel) is the very popular e-banking service available for clients in over 30 countries. Nowadays, it cooperates with hundreds of banks and provides high-quality online payment services for millions of people. Many Internet marketplaces, shops, sites providing certain services, etc. eagerly accept Citadel clients and transform their e-commerce in the real pleasure. Lots of online casinos have noticed the popularity of the payment option and now we can find Citadel among other banking methods in various online casinos accepting Citadel money transactions with gambling purpose.
The first merit of the system is that it is connected with a bank account. Such a connection means the protection of the client and the convenient use of the banking option. Furthermore, you should not create a separate Citadel account because a bank account is enough to use the service.
Whether you play in some instant banking casino or want to make an immediate money transfer somewhere else, you will face no difficulties in completing the operation. The only nuance appears at the very start when you have to choose among three available variants through which to process the Citadel transaction. Yes, this instant e-banking method allows clients to pay via the payment assistant, through the Citadel site or using the 'Rapid System'.
Payment Assistant is the downloadable application after the installation of which a player will be able to operate the funds through the bank account. If you choose the service's website, your payment will be completed automatically once again through your financial institution account. With the last 'Rapid System' option, a client gets a special reference number necessary to make the operation. It may sound complicated, but actually, each of these methods is easy to use.
You will be re-directed to the casino's site after the deposit confirmation and see the sum on the screen. The money will be available for the real-cash play almost immediately. Moreover, a player should not pay for using the system's services. But, attention – a bank can charge fees for its services completed via Citadel. Another important issue is the possible limit of deposits. It depends on a concrete bank. However, the more frequent are payment operations via Citadel, the higher the deposit limit.
It is possible to complete withdrawals through this instant payment option after successful gambling sessions. You will have to follow the above-described steps to cash the money out and transfer them to your account. There are, however, difficulties connected with this. The first one is the limited number of casinos that accept this withdrawal variant. The second one is the withdrawal time that is not the matter of seconds and is usually charged with additional fees. The wisest way is to find the details about the possible Citadel withdrawals beforehand.
The first advantage Citadel clients distinguish is the ultimate security of each operation and the personal data protection. The system applies the checked security measures used in the best banks. Moreover, an online casino or another money receiver will not get the access to your personal information because the system provides the complete anonymity. Other evident pros include the real-time payments; charge-free services; and no necessity to create a separate Citadel account.
We reckon Citadel is the worthy e-banking services with the high-quality work standards and the protection of money operations. You will not have to interrupt a play in a casino for hours to wait for a deposit because Citadel ensures fast and easy banking procedures. So, just join Citadel clients and start playing in online casinos.
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Interac is an exclusively Canadian online banking system made for Canadians by Canadians. Starting from 1984 (the day of its creation) Interac has won hearts of millions of casino players and other categories of customers that benefit from Interac e-Transfers on the regular basis.
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The great number of Interac users is passionate casino players that strive to reach the top in the online gambling paradise. This goal will be hard to achieve without a reliable banking option allowing a player to operate the money in a fast and productive way. Interac provides the high-quality and well-protected services combined with the intuitive and clear steps necessary for any transfer.
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The greatest joy of any casino player is the successful and profitable end of a game. Then the obvious question appears – is it possible to claim the won money from the casino through Interac. The answer is certainly - yes. By following the same deposit principles mentioned above, every person can withdraw the winnings from various Interac casinos.
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We didn't notice essential disadvantages, though games and pages might load with higher speed. Fans of multi-platforms casinos will be disappointed. Though, if you want to entertain yourself you can play on this website.
We really like Royal Panda casino as they're a fresh mobile casino brand that puts a genuine emphasis on fun and a great user-experience for its players. Thankfully they like to back this up with great mobile casino bonuses and promotions and some amazing mobile pokies.
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POLi is a web-based financial service that allows customers from Australia and New Zealand to pay online from their bank account into their online gambling account.
This system is easy to use, safe and reliable. POLi is a great alternative for players without credit cards. All payments done with POLi are handled immediately and the funds from the user's bank account into the account that the player owns on an online casino is accessible instantly.
Complete the payment applying the Pay Anyone functionality of your existing Internet Banking facility.
In order to deposit into the casino account using the POLi you must download from POLi website (getpoli.com) and install the POLi Web browser. The system must meet the specific requirements and POLi provides detail instructions to its customers.
Is there any cost for using POLi?
There is no cost to make transfers utilizing POLi, however, the bank may apply fees for electronic funds transactions.
Over the years and with outer influences, the online casino industry has taken innovative steps to provide many banking options for you to use. Most of the funding options today, are in place because most people face the frustration and difficulty in depositing to their casino accounts using their credit or debit cards.
In most cases, this is through no fault or error on your behalf. In essence, the most likely reason is your bank is blocking the use of your credit card at any online gambling venue. Understandably if you are new to online gambling, you may have experienced this a number of times already, and not knowing what is wrong, have called your bank or have tried many times to deposit, each time receiving a denied message.
If you are having problems making a deposit with your credit or debit card, you should consider using one of the hundreds of online payment services available nowadays. Today we're going to explain you in details what are Giropay and Sofort payment methods and how to use them.
Giropay is a fast banking payment method for players from Germany, Austria, and Netherlands based on the PIN and TAN procedures of the popular home banking process. Giropay is a quick, secure and simple payment service to process money transactions online.
GiroPay has partnered with many Dutch, German and Austrian banks to provide the service that it does. All transfers are based on your existing banking PIN code, as well as a transaction number (TAN) which identifies the transaction taking place.
For instance, to fund the online casino accounts, players simply select Giropay as a payment method at their online casino of choice to be redirected to their regular bank's internet banking login page. Once their transaction information is displayed, players simply have to enter and submit their account number and PIN and their funds will be instantly transferred into their online casino accounts.
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December 7th-13th was special for the computer science world – it was Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek). CSEdWeek always falls around December 9th, the birthday of the legendary Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, in recognition of her amazing contributions to computer science. During this week, Symantec partner Code.org encourages students around the world to try one hour of coding. This annual Hour of Code campaign is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Code.org has several one-hour tutorials in over thirty languages and for all ages (all the way up to 108!), including a Star Wars-themed tutorial where you can build a galaxy with code. Anthony Flaviani, Symantec's Senior Director, Security Education Services, used his Hour of Code to volunteer with students, discussing the "dark side" of coding and introducing some basic security awareness concepts.
Only one in four schools teach computer programming, so most students are not exposed to computer science. CSEdWeek and Code.org want to change that by inspiring students to take interest in computer science and encouraging parents and teachers to support computer science education. This year's Hour of Code was the biggest one yet. Over 190,000 events were registered worldwide, reaching over 50 million students!


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Pags now hosts his nationally syndicated weekday show from his flagship at WOAI in San Antonio, a portion of which is also simulcast on Newsmax TV. He also hosts Premiere Networks' nationally-syndicated "The Weekend" on more than 225 stations.
Pags also makes frequent guest appearances on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and HLN. He resides with his wife and four daughters in Texas. When he's not on-air or spending time with his family, the cancer survivor, professional saxophone player, car and technology enthusiast admittedly spends way too much time on social media.
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Pags Parody: Trump Gets In Their Heads
Watching the president's visit to England and seeing the few protesters and hearing the feigned outrage by the media here.. I couldn't help myself but to do this parody.


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In a telephone interview, North's attorney Brendan Sullivan said, "I cannot talk to you about it." In interviews during the past two weeks, associates of North said it is "common knowledge" within the Marine Corps that North suffered an undisclosed illness of an emotional nature that required three weeks of treatment at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
"It was general knowledge among his contemporaries, particularly those who had gone to the (Naval) Academy, that Oliver was reported to have suffered from an emotional or nervous incident or period of depression that had required hospitalization, " one senior Marine official told The Herald.
Several of North's fellow officers said they were surprised in 1981 that the incident did not prevent North from winning the sensitive position on the NSC. An NSC spokesperson said they could not say whether the hospitalization would have precluded his serving on the NSC.
North was fired Nov. 25 as deputy director of the NSC after disclosures that payments by Iran for U.S.-supplied weapons went to assist U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels.
In late 1974, Marine Corps records show North was based in Okinawa as commander of Company A, First Battalion, Fourth Marine Division. He held that position for 29 days, from Nov. 11 to Dec. 9, 1974. He was replaced Dec. 10 by Capt. Ernest Brown.
Upon his return, North was assigned to a post in Washington.
A reliable official source told The Herald the unit diary for North's company contains an entry that indicates North was reported sick for a period of three weeks immediately after his arrival in the states. It shows he was sick from Dec. 16, 1974, to Jan. 7, 1975, with the diagnosis listed as "unknown, " the source said.
Unit diaries are often released by the Marine Corps under the Freedom of Information Act. However, Marine Corps lawyer Capt. Mike Rogers said information of a medical nature is generally kept secret.
Former Marine Capt. Brown, now a civilian, said in an interview that he was told soon after North's departure from Okinawa that North suffered emotional problems upon returning to Washington.
"This was general knowledge, " Brown said.
A third senior Marine official who was an associate of North in the 1970s, told The Herald that North spoke with an acquaintance in December 1974 and described an emotional incident that led to his hospitalization.
A fourth senior Marine official, who was also close to North during the mid-1970s, confirmed in an interview that he was personally aware of North's hospitalization in December 1974. This source said he was advised within a matter of days after the hospitalization that it stemmed from an episode of "emotional distress."
"To the best of my recollection, it was soon after (North was hospitalized), " the source said. Officials at the NSC and the FBI say the background investigation for NSC nominees, while extensive, does not usually involve a review of medical records.
"Normally, no, that doesn't come into the background investigation, " said FBI Special Agent Susan Schnitzer. ". . . Unless on their application they stated they have a problem."
NSC officials, citing the Privacy Act, said they would not disclose the contents of North's background form. An NSC spokesperson said investigators would not normally examine a nominee's medical record unless the application disclosed previous treatment for a nervous disorder.
"They do ask a question if your family has a history of mental illness or if you've ever had a problem of this nature, " said Jackie Murphy.
The hospitalization is a troubling incident in North's otherwise impressive military career. It has long been the subject of discussion within the close-knit circle of military acquaintances who have known North since his days at the Naval Academy.
"It was common knowledge, " said one senior Marine official.
Currently every Marine with a top secret clearance or higher completes, under penalty of perjury, form DD-398, a Statement of Personal History. The form asks for an answer of yes or no to the question, "If hospitalized or treated by a doctor for nervous disorders."
An instruction booklet for preparing the forms explains: "Often a nominee will indicate 'no' when in fact he has been treated for a nervous disorder or a nervous breakdown in the past.
"The rationale used is that he didn't consider it a 'history, ' but rather a single episode. This reasoning is incorrect. Any treatment or problem within the context of these questions must be listed with an explanation."


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Gatsby raffle winners announced March 28!!
Sell raffle tickets and you could win an iPod Touch!
Each student received a book of 20 raffle tickets in hip pocket. Sell raffle tickets to everyone you know - family, friends, neighbors, the dog walker, and everyone else! Turn in completed ticket stubs, your tally sheet and money to the school office each week.
Make checks payable to the Glenwood School Foundation. Additional tickets are available in the school office.
You could win prizes every week and earn a chance to win an iPod Touch!
1. Write the buyer's information and your name on the ticket stub, so you get credit for the sale. If your name is not on the ticket stub as well as the buyer, it won't count for the kids prize eligibility.
2. Return all ticket stubs and money in an envelope to the school office. Write "Going Gatsby Student Raffle", your name, teacher and room number on the envelope. Please include a tally sheet with each set of tickets you turn in as well.
Every week you can win a great prize.
Sell 50 or more raffle tickets and be entered into a grand prize drawing for an iPod Touch! For every 50 additional tickets you sell over 50, your name will get entered into the iPod Touch drawing again. NOTE: Our top seller will win an iPod Touch , but will not be eligible for the iPod Touch drawing as well. A single student can only win one of the iPod Touches we are giving away.
Sell tickets off site, outside local supermarkets, and be automatically entered into the drawing for the Apple iPod Touch. If you and your family can participate please sign-up in the school office.
*NOTE: Top Seller will not be entered into the drawing for the other iPod. One student cannot win both iPods we are giving away.


Asymmetric Jeans - Yes, They Are A Thing!
Asymmetric Jeans – Yes, They Are A Thing!
Ukrainian fashion designer Ksenia Schnaider has decided to gift the world with the most bizarre jeans ever - "Asymmetric Jeans"
According to the New York Post, they are exactly what the name implies: jeans that have EXTREMELY miss-matched legas. One leg is "skinny", the other looks "bell bottom"
Not a surprise, every social media platform went nuts over these!


Norbert Elias publiceerde in 1939 zijn grote werk Ueber den Prozess der Zivilisation, waarbij hij een model ontwierp om de ontwikkeling van sociale en psychische structuren in hun wederzijdse verbondenheid te bestuderen. Tengevolge van de oorlog verwierf dit boek slechts een geringe bekendheid. Pas de laatste jaren neemt de belangstelling toe, wat onder meer tot ujting kwam in een in 1969 verschenen herdruk. Voorts verschenen The Established and the Outsiders (1965, samen met John L. Scotson) en Die höfische Gesellschaft (1969). Binnenkort zal verschijnen Was ist Soziologie? Elias woont sinds 1965 in Engeland, waar hij socjologie doceert aan de University of Leicester. Gedurende het eerste trimester van de cursus 1969-70 was hij als gasthoogleraar verbonden aan het Historisch Seminarium van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Goudsblom: To begin this interview I should like to read you a quotation from Amitai Etzioni's recent book, The Active Society: 'the institutionalized control of the means of violence is largely a macro-variable; it has only minimal application in micro-theory and next to none in intra-role and intra-personality analysis.'[ii] I would think that you will have something to comment on this.
Elias: Yes, I am quite surprised that so intelligent a sociologist uses the categories micro and macro sociology without asking himself how these two types of sociology are connected, because the facts, the data with which they are concerned obviously do not stand unconnectedly side by side in reality. Therefore their problems and findings too must be somehow connected.
G: And then, the example he gives seems to be particularly ill-chosen.
E: That is perfectly true, but it is his evident inability to see how the structure of violence control in the individual and the structure of violence control in the state can be linked to each other. I do not know why so many sociologists over1ook so simple a thing, but I think I have succeeded in embodying it in my own theory.
G: Yes. I suppose that Etzioni and most other sociologists would agree that, at closer inspection, these things do belong together, but they say they can treat them separately for the purpose of analysis. One of the formulae they often use is the formula 'other things being equal,' as if by invoking this formula they can simply concentrate on either a macro or a micro level.
G: Well, you raise the question yourself!
E: My inclination would be to say that there are two main reasons. The first is that the whole trend of our reflection, the whole traditions of our conceptualisation, is so much attuned to what I call in German Zustandsreduktion. There is no corresponding word which I can at the moment find in English. It means the reduction in thought of all things that you observe as being dynamic to something static. Our whole conceptual tradition, particularly our philosophical tradition, pushes our thinking in that direction and makes us feel that one cannot come to grips with observed happenings as flowing events in speaking and thinking. The second reason is an ideological one, that is to say, a great deal of our thinking has strictly conservative ideological undertones and, if that is so, one inevitably tends to think of society as it is, rather than of society as it becomes -has become in the past, is becoming in the present, and may become in the future.
G: When I hear you mention these two reasons, it seems to me that they are actually linked to each other. I mean that the tendency towards Zustandreduktion in social science is very much connected with the ideological tendency.
E: Yes, but the tendency towards Zustandsreduktion in reflection is not confined to sociology. It is deeply embedded in our philosophical and linguistic traditions.
G: But has not physics, for instance, emancipated itself from this tendency?
E: Not wholly. I can give you a very short example. Physicists still have not got over their surprise that they cannot operate with the concept of cause and effect on the subatomic level. They do not see the concept of blind mechanical causality as a specific type of perceiving connections which has developed at a certain time in a specific phase in the ,development of our knowledge. As long as they consider the concept of cause and effect as an etemal category , they cannot get over their surprise that this category does not apply when we gain further knowledge and especially when we open up new levels of our universe. They then make hundreds of guesses as to how this is possible, while in fact the opening up of new levels of the universe requires a new effort to study the different types of connections we encounter there and to develop not only new mathematical but also new non-mathematical forms of thinking to fit them.
G: The words cause and affect come to us very easily and it is very difficult to conceptualise an alternative to cause and effect.
E: But only because the idea that our forms of thinking are Unchanging and etemal has taken such a hold over us that, if I say we cannot always use the term cause and effect in sociolgy , or we cannot identify explanation with cause-and-effect explanation, everybody says 'this is impossible.' While in fact we must constantly reflect not only on the observations we make on the empirical level, but also on the forms of thinking we use to cope with what we observe. And if we find that our present forms of thinking do not fit what we observe, we have to develop new instruments of thinking.
G: And do these have to be entirely new? I am thinking of Max Weber's definition of what sociology should be. He said that sociologists have a double task, consisting of deutend verstehen and kausal erklären. And deutend verstehen was apparently something he considered necessary, because kausal erklären is not enough in sociolgy.
E: I will, if you want me to, come back to this deutend verstehen, but I want to say something else first. I think that all those definitions are too learned and too abstract. For me, sociology is an undertaking in which the primary task is to help us to orientate ourselves in this social universe of ours - to orientate ourselves better than we are able to do now, and accordingly also to act less blindly. That goes for both empirical and theoretical levels. Both are necessary in order to orientate ourselves, and the first step in that direction is the step which makes us aware that we are dis-oriented, that we do not really understand the universe which we form with each other. So I am not satisfied with this rather academic way of regarding sociology. I think we must be strictly scholary, of course, but always with the knowledge that a sociologist has the hard task of helping to orientate ourselves in the unknown social universe which we form with each other.
G: Homans has called this 'the familiar chaos of daily life'.
E: Yes, daily and not daily.
G: Don't you like the words 'familiar chaos'?
E: No, he means something quite different. One must clearly say that what seems most familiar to us covers our ignorance, so the question is not whether this is a chaos, but whether we are not aware of our own not-knowing.
G: So actually, it is not a chaos, but an unfamiliar order.
E: It is unfamiliar and it is not a chaos. Quite. But in any case, unless we are able to make that which seems most familiar to us completely unfamiliar, we shall never be able to find our way in it.
E: By 'distantiation': to step away from it, to look at it again, to get away from the idea that we know all about it -then perhaps we can get to know it anew.
G: Is this in any way parallel to the alienation effect that has been used in the theatre by Berthold Brecht?
G: WeIl, not always. That is why I mentioned Brecht.
E: Yes, you are right there, but it seems to me that this aspect of Brecht is getting lost. If one speaks of alienation today, one no longer realizes that he gave it a relatively positive meaning in the theatre. But today 'alienation' is only used in a negative sense.
G: I am reminded now of aremark by the American sociologist Maurice Stein in his book, The Eclipse of Community. There is one sentence which goes something like this: 'the feeling of being alienated may be our last shared experience.'3[iv] This sums up very concisely an image of men being entirely cut off from each other; the only thing that still connects them is their common experience of being alienated.
E: A terrible picture, a completely unrealistic picture. It sounds as if affectionate love had completely disappeared out of our world. Which is obviously wrong!
G: Not only love, but also hatred.
E: Certainly, but let us say affectionate love had disappeared. In fact, our world has become even richer in this spontaneity of affection than it was earlier, but it was never lost. When I think of my 'parents or grandparents' marriage, both were full of warmth and affection. So, what the heck?
G: And do you think there has been a turning-point recently, that the idea that everyone is so very much on his own, a sort of small closed human universe, is beginning to loose its hold over the younger generation?
E: It may very weIl be so, but let me say something about the theory of the civilising processes in this connection. So far, the civilising of human beings and the standards of civilization have developed completely unplanned and in a haphazard manner. It is necessary to form a theory so that, in the future, we may be able to judge more closely what kind of restraints are required for complicated societies to function and what type of restraints have been merely built into us to bolster up the authority of certain ruling groups. What I have done is not enough, it is only one step. We must find out more about it. We do not know. I do not believe that we can live entirely without restraints, as some communes today try to do. But I firmly believe that the ways in which restraints are built in today are wasteful and uneconomical.
G: This has a certain similarity with what Herbert Marcuse calls repression and surplus repression.
E: I must decline any relationship. That is all philosophy, and we must investigate these problems empirically as well as theoretically. We cannot do it with philosophies; we need both more experiments and more theoretical understanding.
G: I agree. Marcuse seems to believe that he has already solved the problem.
E: Yes, but I dislike the description. The sort of general description of our society with complete hostility, is as harmful as the description which rests contents with what is, and regards it as wonderful. We have to sit down and do some hard work and hard thinking in order to find out what is wrong. But if one just sits down and calls our world mad, this helps as little as when one says, 'How wonderful our world is'.
G: He is, of course, thinking of some very concrete reasons, like the Vietnam war, for calling this world mad.
E: But this means proceeding as if he knew why there are wars! As if, by simply crying 'There shouldn't be any wars', we shall stop wars! This is an illusion and a very dangerous one. Moreover, if you only accuse one side of being guilty of wars, you increase the chances, the danger of future war.
G: Now you say that we should investigate empirically and theoretically how much restraint will be necessary for people in order to live together in a complicated social world.
E: Not only how much. What kind. The whole pattern of conscience-formation, the whole pattern of taboos. Not only how much. I have no idea what built-in restraints with regard to sexuality are really economic or fruitful in terms of our living together. I simply do not know. I can only guess that what we have today is entirely wasteful.
G: But, don't you think that at the moment the restraint on sexuality is becoming less of a problem than the restraint on violence?
E: All types of restraints require a far more thorough investigation, not in the form of present-day psychology, but in the form of a unified human science which embraces the social as well as the psychological aspects.
G: And should one consider the psychological aspects especially in psychoanalytical terms?
E: Yes. But psycho-analysis, while it was an enormous breakthrough, has a theoretical framework which is also an example of Zustandsreduktion. :While it goes into individual dynamics and appears to be dynamic from the psychological point of view, it is Zustandsreduktion because a kind of super-ego formation and Oedipus situation which can be found in middle-class people of our society is theoretically presented as eternal, as a nature-given formation of man in general. In that sense it is static.
G: But still, as you have demonstrated yourself in your book on the civilising process, you can use the basic theoretical ideas of psychoanalysis very weIl in a dynamic perspective. I mean, you can show the changing Affekthaushalt and the changing relation between ego, super-ego and id without treating them as fixed entities.
E: Yes, but psychoanalysts often proceed as if e.g. super-ego structures were unchanging. Further developments of psycho-analytic theory will be necessary for the practical problems which I have raised. Again, I am not saying Freud is wrong, because he was an enormous breakthrough. But today, psycho-analysis is one of the few branches of knowledge acquisition which still follows the ancient pattern in which the practitioner and the person doing research are not differentiated. And while I think research in all fieldS should be done in close relation with experimentation and practice, I also think it requires a degree of specialisation. If research is entirely in the hands of those who are at the same time doctors, the future of this branch of science is severely handicapped. My own friends who are psycho-analysts realize that psycho-analysts will have to collaborate far more with sociologists in the future than is the case today. There is no fruitful way to further development of psycho-analytic theory except by interdisciplinary collaboration.
G: In your book on the civilizing process you also used two words that are not at all technical: Scham and Peinlichkeit, referring to thresholds of shamefeeling and of revulsion. Although they sound very innocuous and easy, these words seem to lie at the crux of the whole problem of personlitity and social control. At first sight, one may be inclined to think that they refer to personal feelings, but, on closer analysis, one ia inclined to l:hink that shame and revulsion are not personal feelings, but functions of social control.
G: I was leading to that. Isn't it - and that is why I called it the crux of the matter - isn't it right to say that we should get away from the idea that we are faced with a dilemma? Shouldn't we reconceptualize everything with the idea that, as you said, they are both?
E: Yes, I don.t think for a moment that one could say that shame feelings and feelings of revulsion are not personal feelings. They are highly personal feelings. But they are at he same time built-in peraonal feelings, built it in accordance with social controls. You cannot say they are not personal feelings. So there is no one or the other. Wasn't this your question?
G: No, my question was rather: shouldn't this awareness be the starting-point of a whole reconceptualization of a great many categories? For most of the categories that we are using in sociology and psychology today refer to either personal or social characteristics.
E: WeIl, I fully agree with that. We are bound by classifications which correspond to autonomous academic disciplines and we think that the corresponding factuaI data are as autonomous as the two occupational groups wish to be in relation to each other. Psychologists and sociologists wish to be academically autonomous, and our conceptualization of either 'sociaI' or 'psychological' is really a reproduction of the professional ideology of two different academic groups.
G: Yes, but doesn't it go back even further? I mean, today it may be the ideoIogy of two professional groups. But the whole way of thinking, of contrasting individual and society goes back much further .
E: Yes, you are absolutely right, it goes back much further and much deeper. Undoubtedly. But let us reformulate it and say a very old Weltanschauung division has become petrified and reinforced through its institutionalization into different disciplines.
G: The basic theme in all your work is the unity of all the apparently diverse phenomena that have been the subiect-matter of history, sociology, psychology, psycho-analysis, economics, political science. The problem to many of your readers who may wish to continue with such studies is that when they see this unity, they may lose the firm grasp that a more narrow disciplinary approach might give them.
E: WeIl, if people have become socialized with a particular scheme of classification, they feel thrown into the sea of uncertainties if someone tells them that this scheme of classification does not correspond to the structure of what we are actually observing. Formerly people Iinked a particular plant, a particular type of direction of the sky, a particular type of illness, a particular type of animal with one tribe, and another animaI, another direction of the sky and other aspects of the world with another tribe; people who used such a classificatory scheme were probably also very unwilling to abandon something that gave a really firm security in their whole thinking. So I can understand that people feel thrown into the sea of uncertainties if they are told that these types of divisions do not correspond to what we are observing, but are merely remnants of an oId tradition of thinking. But my whole conviction is that our image of and orientation in our social world will become very much easier once we realize that human beings are not economic in one of their pockets, political in another and psychological in another, in other words that no real divisions correspond to the traditional divisions. I say I think that one can give a new, greater certainty if one abandons this classification.
G: Yes, but the reply to this would be that the method of science in general is analytic, that is, one does not face reality with all its possible aspects at once, but tries to isolate the aspects that seem to have regularities of their own. Then, one makes a model of those regularities, hoping that this will enable one to predict always with the condition 'other things being equal'. Now physical sciences have gone a long way along this analytic line, because there is a practical possibility to rule out disturbing conditions.
E: I think the term analytic method is a disguise for something quite fictitious. If analysis means cutting off one thing from another, it is obviously very inlportant what scheme you use for dissecting. And my argument is that, if you dissect according to the traditional classificatory scheme, psychology here, economics there, politics there, God knows what there, then this if;ype of dissection is obviously inadequate for what we actually observe; as we get along, it becomes more and more inadequate. Moreover, I do not agree with the theory of science that all science has to do is to analyse. True, analysis is one step, but synthesis is another. You cannot have an analytic method which does not have models for putting together again what you have dissected. Therefore, I think all the human sciences will in the end have to build an overall model of interdependent human beings, which can be improved and changed in accordance with the evidence, -in any case a model which shows how the dissected parts belong together, or can be fitted together. But today, no one shows me how psychology, sociology, economics, politics are really connected with each other.
G: But they say that, by dissecting social reality in this manner, certain partial developments can be predicted. Especially economists and also demographers claim that they can make prognoses and predictions.
E: Yes. I think that in our present theory of sciences we do not distinguish clearly enough between the application of human sciences for purposes of shortterm adrninistrative planning, and scientific work without regard for its immediate application. Today many people take it for granted that the main task of science is to provide predictions for state or business planning. Let me give you an example. Econometrics is extremely useful in providing techniques for enabling adrninistrators of the state and in business to make shortterm forecasts and, thus, to plan for the near future. This is very useful and very necessary , but we mus not confuse these techniques with prediction in the sense used by people like Popper, who seems to consider it the main criterion of anything that aspires to the status of a science.
G: But what other criteria could you mention?
E: The other criteria, vastly underplayed today are, for instance, the criteria of explaining, and in particular for explaining longterm processes. I know that every type of explaining is linked to the possibility of forecasting, but the present emphasis on forecasting alone creates an imbalance which in the human sciences is surely due to the immediate need to legitimise themselves through the shortterm help which they give administrators in their practical tasks. So, my answer is that I would rectify this imbalance by saying that there are many dilferent types of forecasting. At present the emphasis on shortterm forecasting threatens to stifle basic or longterm research and theory building in sociology , without which a good deal of social action, as weIl as shortterm sociological research, is inevitably misconceived and misdirected. We need more basic research into the largely unknown human universe, in order to find out why things have happened, and why they are happening today.
G: Could you go on a little more in this direction? There are so many ways of conceiving of the 'why.' Some people feel satisfied when they have had a historical report, others think that they understand when they have an explanation in terms of human motives, again others think they understand if they can give a functional analysis of the social system.
E: My own formulation would be that our primary task is to see that the human sciences provide us with a more adequate, better fitting faculty to diagnose the present events in the social universe. Once we have a more realistic diagnosis, we can really determine what we should do about things. One can only make a better fitting diagnosis if one has long-term processes in mind. They cannot be made, as is so often done today, simply by means of short-term, makeshift predictions. In the book on the civilising and state formation processes I put forward for the first time a model for diagnosing the nexus of events in longterm processes, by showing how the development of standards and types of restraints are connected passively as well as actively with certain aspects of the state-formation process. This provided both an explanatory and a diagnostic model. One could continue it by, for instance, asking why the power of governments has increased in the last hundred years even in parliamentary democracies, as shown by the increase in personnel and in the functions of government. We must have a clear picture of why this is so. This is iust one longterm problem among hundreds, which requires longterm developmental sociological research.
G: And would then the sociological solution to such problems lie in a diagnosis of the underlying iilterdependencies of the human beings who together fornl a specific social configuration, as in this instance a configuration of 'the rulers and the ruled'?
E: Yes: but this is in itself a pretty wide subiect.
G: I know, but I am trying to fill in more fully what you mean by 'more adequate explanation...'.
E. ...than those we have today.' Well, I mean that we can see the facts. We can demonstrate the fact that in 1850 what were regarded as functions of govemments in industrial nation states were far more limited than those we have today. May I say that I think that you formulated your question a bit too abstractly? On a very empirical level it is quite possible to find relatively simple answers to the question: 'what is the explanation for the general extension of govemmental activities even in countries that are ideologically opposed to this extension?' This is an empirical question, and we do not need to go into the interdependence of everything. It is an example of the type of question which requires explanation, and which means a stepping back from certain ideological assumptions. Why is it that in a country like America, which is severely opposed ideologically to the extension of govemment activities, such activities are in fact constantly growing? This is a problem which cannot be answered merely on the economic or the political level; you have to have an overall sociological model for configurational developments of this kind in order to answer such questions.
[ii] Amitaj Etzioni. The Active Society, New York: Free Press, 1968, p. 48.
[iii] Zie Norbert Elias, 'Problems of Involvement and Detachment,' British Journal of Sociology, VII (1956), pp.
[iv] Maurice R. Stein, The Eclipse of Community, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960, p. 329.
[v] R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p.50.


The Tasty Andalucia program makes Andalusia better.
It's remarkable that just one conversation is all it takes to cause a surge in productivity in your salivary glands. One unassuming Monday morning the familiar trills of the telephone were to bring great excitement to Entrelenguas, bearing news of an invitation on a gastronomical tour of Andalusia. For a foodie, the opportunity to indulge one's inner gourmand is never to be passed up on and so mid-November I set off for Malaga, keen to RSVP to the invitation that had so whetted my appetite: a trip with Tasty Andalucia.
First up: a trip to a winery in Sedella, a mountain village about an hour or so from Malaga. Having whizzed up the winding hillside, fighting extreme dizziness before the wine tasting had even begun, we arrived at the vineyards. Sedella's damp winters provide the perfect climate for viniculture, our drizzly reception proving no exception to the norm. Despite being greeted by reams of grey fog, we were assured that the mountain views were usually spectacular and in fact were what first attracted wine-maker Lauren Rosillo to the village. Holidaying in Sedella in 2006, he heard whispers of a long-lost indigenous grape, the Romé, and decided to investigate further. Fast-forward to the present day: having planted a new north-facing vineyard and revived a previously defunct south-facing vineyard, out of use since the 1940s, Sedella is now producing 3 distinct varieties of wine. Preserving ancestral agricultural techniques are at the heart of their activities – Sedella is one of very few commercial vineyards in Spain in which donkey-drawn ploughs are used to work the land. Admittedly, getting a tractor up 450 slopes would be somewhat of an uphill battle, so to speak! To produce such high-quality natural wine Rosello steers clear of pesticides and is almost witch-like in his use of traditional recipes and brews, liberally spraying his vines with boiled camomile water to fight possible sources of infection. He has also introduced spiders into the vineyard to predate on insects which could otherwise wreak havoc on the vines. Upon the discovery of one such spider in my wine glass, 'don't tell the others they'll complain,' it became clear that the classic waiter-waiter jokes cross boarders!
When in Spain, it can sometimes feel like talk of your 5 a day is referring to your jamón intake, rather than portions of fruit and veg. Come Tuesday morning, however, we were en route to Primaflor to meet a man on a mission to get Spaniards eating their greens. Primaflor is a family business which has its roots in floristry. Originally producing carnations for a German market, hence the name which conjures up images of Lederhosen and Oktoberfest rather than the sun-baked Andalusian plains, Primaflor has since taken a leafier path, diversifying into salad varieties. Based in Almería where they have 6400 hectares of land, the biggest challenge currently faced by the company is water shortages. An ingenious hydroponic system is however helping to make the most of every last drop, recycling the water in which their lettuces are grown. Agriculture is truly part and parcel of life in this province, entire families, from grandfathers to grandsons working at Primaflor. In fact, at a recent celebration dinner, held in honour of the company's 40th birthday, the hard work of 20 employees who had been at Primaflor for more than 30 years was recognised at a prize giving. Incidentally, CEO Cecilio Peregrín explained to me that were they to have awarded prizes to employees who had been at Primaflor for 25 years or more that figure would have tripled to 80 employees, just one example of the shrewd business principles that have enabled the company to flourish! Leaving Pulpí on our way to the eponymous capital of the province of Almería I was struck by the juxtaposition of beautiful ocean on my right and the so-called 'plastic sea' of greenhouses (invernaderos), used to produce so much fruit and veg on the left. It so happens that Primaflor supplies a slightly more upmarket greenhouse, Rodrigo de la Calle's Michelin star restaurant: 'El Invernadero.' During my next trip with #TastyAndalucia I wouldn't mind stopping by!
Arriving in Almería we put our foot down, keen to get to the port in time to see the boats arriving with the evening's catch. All manner of fish and seafood was being brought in, including the famous red prawns, 'gambas rojas,' so typical to the region. Safe in the hands of local marine biologist Elvira Morote, we were ushered into the auction in which all the fresh fish was to be sold. Just 10 years ago the auction was a more musical affair, all bidding was sung, but nowadays each buyer is equipped with a remote with which they can make their purchases – all mod cons! Even better, you don't have to be buying restaurant quantities of fish to be able to enjoy this wholesale price. A new project, 'Del barco a la mesa,' (From the boat to the table) is making inexpensive fresh fish available across Spain. Keen to buck latest trends showing a sharp decrease in the number of young Spaniard regularly eating fresh fish, Elvira and her team have launched an internet shopping platform directly from the port. There's no need to trek to the fishmonger, simply pop a mackerel in your online basket just as you would a new top from ASOS! Your chosen fish will be dispatched within 2 hours of arriving off the boat and they even include tips for checking that its fresh. The fish should have round eyes, shiny scales and vibrant red gills – all signs that it hasn't lost lots of water and is fresh from the sea.
Bright and early on Wednesday morning, we headed inland towards Granada to visit another winery, 'Bodega Muñana,' and enjoy some local artisanal cheese. Once again, the ascent to the vineyard was not for the fainthearted, our chosen route featuring hairpin bends a plenty, however this altitude is essential to the wine production at Muñana. Situated 3700ft above sea level on the north side of the Sierra Nevara, the mineral rich snow melt from this mountain range provides the perfect irrigation for the vineyard. Mountain caves serving as cellars provide the ideal conditions in which to mature their famous Delirio wines, renowned for being particularly strong and inducing feelings of 'delirio' amongst their consumers! After many assurances that it's 5 o'clock somewhere, we got started on the tasting, trying wine of different ages. Younger wines tended to have a more purple tint, whereas older wines were of a deeper brown shade thanks to a lengthier ageing period in French oak barrels. We then met Ignacio from Quesos de Leyva, an artisanal cheese maker who produces various cured, semi-cured and fresh varieties from ewes' milk. He explained an old Spanish proverb to us, roughly translated as 'If you're going to buy wine, whatever you do, don't let them serve you cheese,' (I promise the original was catchier) as strong flavours can distort your palate. He must, however, have been in cahoots with Muñana as such advice was promptly followed by a generous serving of his finest products! I must admit, no one was complaining as the selection offered up to us was finger-licking good, to the extent that we ate the lot – rind and all (this was, however, completely organic and fit for human consumption as opposed to the average plastic-coated cheese you buy from the supermarket.) We left Muñana bursting at the seams and headed off extremely merrily on our way!
Early Friday morning, four bleary-eyed bloggers hurried back to Malaga ready to catch their flights home. Brimming with stories and recipes to share with families and friends we bid farewell to Tasty Andalucia.
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