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Females, or, the set of all sets
Luara Karlson-Carp
Even writing feels like complicity these days. Whacking a bit of something congealed on a plate for friends, hypothetical friends and critics isn't so bad, but there is no escaping the knowledge that our creative secretions are the nectar of our godless god. I keep finding munching negation machines everywhere. The university gorging on my labour (whether I'm sincere or not), Lacan's bitter Hegel, billionaires masticating Byron Bay, the forever-chemicals raining on the great lakes, human cattle yard units gnawing on the internal corners of Brunswick, cybernetics constitutively, Irigaray on the Plato-to-Freud pipeline, in Sam's opinion my mother, the banal finality of the form/content distinction we're all routed into suckling the smartphone twitter teat blah blah blah. The outside is prefigured and we know it; that anyone still writes is a tragic miracle.
The logic of the negation machine is as follows: it is a machine that eats the outside, it assumes that what exceeds the systematicity of its informational structure will be eventually negated in its particularity and apprehended by that structure as information. You know, like Gucci window dressings awash with scenes of passionately cool protestors in impeccably agonistic plaid, how resistance to capital is prefigured as a desirable, commodifiable aesthetic. What does this machine feed on though, exactly? I don't think I'm a negation machine, though I do feel I'm being munched. I think it's a sex thing.
Consider Russell's paradox: if I have a set, essentially just a nominated aggregate, say the set of all women who write about their mothers, then the set of all women who write about their mothers is not one of these women, so isn't included in the set. But consider a different set, the set of all things which aren't women writing about their mothers. This set includes itself; it is not writing about its mother. Things all seem fine, and Frege (the author of "set theory", now called "naïve set theory" thanks to Russell) was quite excited about it. But then Russell wrote Frege that infamous letter, a paean to the problem of the mother, I reckon, in which he asked: what about the set of all sets that do not include themselves, does it include itself?
You see, Frege was a mathematician and logician trying to logicise maths, as numbers were still kind of magical, and it behoved a man of science to see this amended. The set of all sets: we have the set of all women who write about their mothers, which doesn't include itself, as we have already encountered, and we have the set of all things which are not their mothers, which does include itself. Frege dreamed a wily dream that using this kind of logic could make everything work: all that exists could be ensconced in a water-tight matrix of syllogisms, this thing in this set, that thing in that, all the way down, forever more. A dream of a good night's sleep1 that never ends. But Russell knew he was still awake, and so asked: does the set of all sets that do not include themselves include itself in its own set? Does the envelope of the world contain itself? Does the envelope of the daughter contain herself, daughters all the way down… Can we write the new. I'm asking, does the munching negation machine contain itself?
Now, set theory is to be distinguished from the predicate logic of class. By this I mean the logic of those who might call a woman an adult human female. They know, they go so hard, they have found two beautiful predicates, adult and female, to attach to the attribute woman, which then finds its home in the warmly god-gaze of the universal, "human". All shines down brilliant and bright from this singular sun, the horror of the munching negation machine is shielded by the infinite light of that brightest nothing over a nothing, the signifier human over the void of what-the-fuck. This is predicate logic, the logic of what in set theory are called classes, which are distinguished from sets. The attribute apple has the predicates redness and roundness, which distinguish them from other fruits as apples. And likewise, women are definitely shiny, round and red adult females, always better if the juices stream down the chin. It is good to be clean. "Sets", unlike classes, aren't defined by predicates, but are aggregates that follow the logic of membership. The set of all fruits contains apples, maybe women, but it doesn't aim at Being. There is no question of the copula, what a thing is, but rather the concern is merely with whether it is included in the set or not. Being, or the universal, is therefore not the referent; the ultimate referent is irrelevant as membership is not concerned with the fundamental taxonomy that underlines the notion of class, but merely arbitrary groupings. Set theory leaves hermeneutic suspicion at the door.
This focus is on the question of membership alone, and not what qualifies membership, in some ways this mirrors (contra the predicate-fascism of the TERFs) the (post-)performativity notion of gender in which a woman is no more than what woman does, and she does what we say she is.2 But this is still a little too sceptical, and therefore philosophical, for Lacan, who considers the issue thusly: there are apparently these things called women, and it's impossible to know what they want. Women are like sets that include themselves, they can't be universalised because there's no exception that could enclose their outside. The set of all things which are not men includes itself. We know what men want, they want money, fame, power and hole. Their desire is sustained by imagining someone who has all these things in infinite supply.3 Perhaps, then, they are like the set which doesn't include its object-cause of desire, the set which doesn't include itself. The logic of the signifier, the word, the position of the universal, requires the set-that-doesn't-include-itself logic, as there is an exclusion in the form of the set itself, which stands against those things included in the set and encloses them as a "whole", as an "all". Woman isn't orchestrated by any such exclusions, for Lacan. For woman, the object-cause of desire isn't over there, excluded, closing off a totality. It remains internal. She is included in her own set. She is not-whole, there is an intimate exteriority which defines her, prevents her from closing up, maybe, and this logical oddity can therefore not, strictly speaking, be said to exist.4
TERFs are part of the lineage who think to define woman as lacking this structural coherence, access to psychic universality etc., is sexist. Queer theory was in part born from the ashes of debates between those who took this non-coherent, nonuniversalisable, predicateless notion of women seriously, namely Lacan and his detractors. If you don't believe me, consider the premise of Gender Trouble: that no notion of "women" can ground feminist theory and politics without excluding someone it means to capture. Whilst responding to many more concrete contexts and struggles than Lacan probably ever dared to dream to schematise, Butler's thesis is surely, in part, an Anglo extension of the woman does not exist. Butler universalises this position of nonexistence, melting the problem of the pure difference of sex, at least in the formal sense of her psychoanalytic interlocutors, down into the flat multiple of gender. The idea of gender nullifies an operative difference here that can't be understood via the logic of predicates (as Butler knew but the TERFs forgot), but just because predicates are dumb when it comes to defining sex, this doesn't mean there isn't difference at play, that there isn't a systematicity to be reckoned with. In universalising woman does not exist, queer theory leaves the corollary question in relation to men and the universal unattended. Men (white…) have kind of grounded history, assumed the universal, the historical form of politics. Surely the notion that we can flatten this position into one identity among many speaks to a kind of moment of historical abstract mediation that is more symptomatic than liberatory. I can't really claim Lacan has teeth on this problem either, but he seems alight to the fact that even if the content of the pure difference of sex cannot be pinned down with some kind of wishful-thinking metaphysic, neither can the paradoxical heart of the universal be wished away.
At this juncture, Lacan turns to the logic of the set, and to this question of the paradox of the set of all sets, and the impossibility of answering the question of whether this set does or does not include itself, to think sex. If we try to think the set of all sets that don't include themselves, the set of all of man, we see that this set excludes itself from membership. If I include the set of all sets that don't include themselves, it becomes a set which includes itself. It disappears. Desiring, now, from the other side.
Andrea Long Chu in Females is, as such, indubitably set theoretical. When she tries to think the set of all sets that don't include themselves, or the totality of man, she comes up with a beautifully Russellian answer: everyone is Female. The totality of man, everyone, moves from the masc universal (which doesn't include itself) to the place of woman, a set that does include itself, ending in disaster and paradox. Everyone is female. This is to say, for Chu, that everyone desires someone to do their desiring for them, that being female is to sacrifice something of the self to make a space in which to host the desires of another. With this ratbag soothsaying, like Lacan, instead of chickening out, (e.g., capitulating to predicate logic like white feminists scared of losing their identitarian claim to capital because the cat girls are fucking with the definition of woman), Chu resists the cult of poststructuralist dissolution and formalises the paradox. Everyone is Female, but not all females are women. I think we need this weird washed-up structuralism to meet the munching negation machine head on.
I've finally written an abstract for my thesis, I'm realising it as we speak:
"I'm walking along a headland just after my mum nearly died. The sunset is beautiful but I'm too aware of the performance involved in taking beauty seriously to go there, so I awkwardly meditate on the mediating alienation instead."
This is exciting. It's not. Its cathartic but you can probably already tell that from where I'm standing, catharsis always peters out into the swill of layered abstractions too quickly for anything to actually move. I'm writing an MA on Luce Irigaray and all I see in her work is mediation, the mediation between something which has the potential to be different, a new that is beyond novelty, a difference that could *make a difference*, and the negation munching machines that stillbirth it all as the same old shit before we can even be moved. Particularly, essentially, moved at the level of speaking. So that we might speak a language other than mimesis, parroting. Being aware of the performance involved in witnessing a difference that could make a difference, getting caught in the alienation of a sunset's beauty after near-bereavement, for example, leaves one with the option to either fall into nihilism or try to mobilise that performance imperfectly, maybe even disgustingly, to push the performative form to its parodic, bombastic extreme. This is the route taken by performativity, patron lifestyle-methodology of queer theory, contra nihilism. The nihilism of refusing to not be alienated, to resist catharsis, even parodic catharsis. Both these strategies confront the perfect beauty and absent alienness of the mother, of that heaving artifice called nature, of one's sex, of all these things that speak to each other, negatively of course, between the lines of cybernetic negation of the excess, though their capture as figural outsideness is always prefigured in the circuit and they know it.
I know it's convoluted, but this is the move I am trying to stick, or that simply won't wash off: try and make a set of all sets, and you get a woman, though it's impossible to say what that is. The resources for the logical coherence of the set are undermined by aiming for the ultimate abstraction, asking the question of sexual difference. Try to think the universality of man and out pops a universal Female. A universal problem of desire. Chu states, then, that we ought understand sexual difference as a difference at the level of phantasmatic defense. She writes,
"Everyone is female, but how one copes with being female—the specific defense mechanisms that one consciously or unconsciously develops as a reaction formation against one's femaleness, within the terms of what is historically and socioculturally available—this is what we ordinarily call gender. Men and women must therefore be understood not as unreconcilable opposites, or even as two poles of a spectrum, but more simply as the two most common phyla of the species Females."5
If we consider this defense against being "Female" as a defense against castration, then Ladies and Gentlemen, Chu is the Lacanian of our time. Especially if we replace "phyla" with "set", and understand Females as animals who reproduce in the hollow of lack that is filled with the misrecognised desire of the other, in other words, Lacan's universally castrated subject.
But does Chu also just reify a (post/anti/something) humanist universal at the end of the day in this figure of the Female? A predicative one, even? I don't think so, because it serves the function of a formalisation of a paradox. Everyone is female, and everyone hates it. This is what generates the desire, the desire to be other than female, though the lack constitutive of the female is the condition of the possibility of desire as such. To take this one step further, to really fuck with you, perhaps we have never even been female, perhaps the female is also simultaneously the horizon of our desire, this sissy desire to go all the way, as well as the diabolical marker of that which we wish to transcend, whilst also being the condition of our desire. With such hysterical demands, the species Female can then be best captured, in logical terms, by naïve set theory and Russell's paradox. Only the paradox here isn't the evidence of a bung theory, but a manifestation of the real, the real of desire as contradiction.
Only Bertrand Russell knows why I can't write my thesis. It is a set of all sets that don't include themselves, and when I try to gather my desire, that is, gather all these sets which don't include themselves together into this document, these 30,000 words, I hit the paradox. The thing I desire comes to include itself and therefore ceases to be. Someone once said, I think it was Russell, that there is a red-thread connection between finishing a thesis and killing your mother. A mother is also a Russellian paradox. Try to make a set of her sets and she's finished. She cannot include herself, even at the level of the set of sets, the word "mother", for she is defined by including another. Her logic is constitutively inconsistent, but this inconsistency is the mother of all desire: the desire to correct inconsistency, or the desire to express it. The desire for the impossible axiomatisation of set theory, the creation of a metaphysics, or if you're really lucky, some art. Or fucking, if sublimation is just too gauche. The desire for failure. The desire to be something other than a daughter.
I suppose there's a kind of bad nihilism involved in becoming so obsessed with trying to pin down this contradiction, to put forward this very laboured metaphor, maybe the metaphor of labour, the status of the labourer as the one who produces offspring, or the proletariat. In Latin, proles is "offspring", and proletarius is "the man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father". We are, indeed, all females when our ancestral fathers are the midwives to the state. But it's a bit stultifying to dedicate one's time to reifying this fact in the discourse of the university, and in such polite company too. If I can't write my thesis because my essence is contradictory desire, the university knows this and draws my passion from my throat to teach its doomed little zoomers. The dream of the utopic university, a temple for the thrill of the intergenerational exchange of seminal ideas, the birth of the new and not merely the novel, the sanctity of equality before a well-endowed HECS scheme—my lust for all this has kept me in un(der)paid work as a casual tutor for years. A dream perhaps not to correct inconsistency, nor express it, but share in it. The university's recognition of the passion of this dream is its business model. We are all females to Duncan Maskell.
But maybe this is the problem. How historical is Chu's shit-posty structuralist anthropology? Have we always been Female, or is this loathsome status the product of a feminised labour market and the decline of capital accumulation's need for a reserve army of proles, and therefore the requisite strict sexual divisions of labour? Has desire always occupied the hollow of the sacrificial self?6 Maybe we are all females, but let us also consider that maybe we still haven't quite made it. I think I began by discussing the prefiguration of the outside and I think of this in accordance with the economisation of femaleness, of the capacity for production in that vacant self (sometimes body), of femaleness culturally realised as the lever of a possible circulation of value, even surplus value. Is it possible to imagine the new, creativity, in terms other than value? Can we imagine an opposite for value, beyond its binary of valuable/valueless? Can we denature its status as master signifier?
I can't write my thesis and someone important says to me it's like this: if our mothers are deeply implicated in the formation of our desires and so too the form of our selfdestruction, the Eros and Thanatos, Apollo and Dionysus, the jouissance that keeps us eating ourselves, then the desire to write a thesis is the same desire which prevents its being written: the desire for desire, that suspension in infinite potential sustaining all desires, keeping them alive at the cost of any final consummation. It is both carrying on the family tradition of hysteria, dutifully, and carrying on the family tradition of hysteria, in horror. The horror of being a dutiful daughter is the horror of being woman. The horror of being a woman is to wear universal femaleness on one's sleeve, to shitpost the wounds of the negation machine on the body. But I want to not know what a body can do, again. Speaking should be left for a voice ready to articulate contradiction. I don't want my body to speak for the family, for anyone, not even me.
"Anyone can just take a look at any sleeping animal to realise that sleep is designed to suspend the ambiguousness that there is in the body's relation to itself, namely the deriving of jouissance therefrom." Jacques Lacan, …or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018), 193. ↩
Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 2006), 10. ↩
To be a bit belabourious, in Lacan's infamously tedious Seminar XX "sexuation graphs", he defines man as he whose existence has an exception, a fantasised exception to the rule of castration, and he relates this through Freud's story of the Primal Father/Primal Horde, in which a primeval band of brothers come together to kill their father for monopolising all the women. Integral to Lacan's man is the latent presence of this myth of there being one whose cock is always good for it, and everyone knows it. So, he perhaps (this is kind of in Seminar XIX but I'm really stretching it) is like a set which doesn't include itself—the set itself stands apart from its aggregate, much like that primal father. The set of all men who have killed their father because he was too chad. ↩
Jacques Lacan, Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan. Livre XX, Encore: 1972-1973. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (Paris: Seuil, 1975), 68. ↩
Andrea Long Chu, Females (London: Verso Books, 2019), 12-13. ↩
I'm thinking of you, Eva Birch! ↩
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When we are presented with so many options, it's hard to know where to start! Before you jump back into the dating game, first decide what it is you really want out of a partner and relationship .Write a list of all the traits you NEED and WANT, be honest but also realistic; seeing it written down on paper will help you assess whether or not the person you are looking for is achievable or if you are indeed living in a Disney movie.
Once you have decided what it is you want in a partner, start targeting groups, people and dating sites that can offer opportunities to meet that type of person. There's no point either waiting around for them to manifest on your doorstep or trying out every single option till you find them, get specific with where you invest your time, emotions and even money. Narrow the playing field and stay focused on the goal.
Dating is only as complicated as we make it, and if you are starting to grow tired of trying to find Mr or Mrs Right then maybe it's because you have unnecessarily thrown a whole lot of rules into the mix! Keep it simple by getting back to the basics of what it takes to have a healthy and happy relationship. Call instead of texting, court one another and get to know someone's personality and intentions before you rule them out or give them your heart.
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Home / News / Vanderbilt Appoints First Black Female Athletic Director in SEC History
By Alan Hunt
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Vanderbilt Appoints First Black Female Athletic Director in SEC History
Photo: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
May 21, Candace Storey Lee became the full-time Vanderbilt University athletic director. Lee had served as interim director since February. She is the first Black female athletic director in the history of the NCAA's Southeastern Conference (SEC).
"I am incredibly honored to lead the Commodores, and I could not have been in this position without the support of the university's leadership, our dedicated coaches and staff, and all of Commodore Nation," said Lee.
"There are challenges ahead and much uncertainty about what college athletics can and should look like during a pandemic, but I firmly believe that anything is possible if we all work together. My priority, and the university's priority, continues to be examining everything we can do to support our student-athletes and ensure their safety and well-being."
Incoming Vanderbilt chancellor Daniel Diermeier said in a statement,
"Candice is perfectly positioned to lead our athletics program to new heights of success on and off the field of play. She has the drive, creativity, and perseverance to help elevate our student-athletes, and the entire Vanderbilt Athletics program."
Lee previously held the roles of deputy athletic director and senior woman administrator. She is also a Vanderbilt alumna and was a captain on the women's basketball team.

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In 1993 the theme of the Oxford Symposium was 'Look & Feel: Studies in Texture, Appearance & Incidental Characteristics of Food.' In her performance Alicia mashed up a variety of pink and white foods with her hands; strawberries, marshmallows, meringue, cream. Enticing images of food were then accompanied by the amplified sounds of chewing and swallowing. Finally, she rolled about on a transparent mattress filled with potato chips.
The distinguished food writer for American Vogue, Jeffrey Steingarten hailed it as "a major event in the 50.000 year history of gastronomy... The point" said Mr Steingarten, was that Ms Rios had taken the act of masticating food out of its context by using the external organs, the fingers, instead of the smaller internal ones, teeth, tongue, and palate. She had thus made public an act which is essentially private.
According to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the Futurists did something similar, also using their hands to chew their food for what they called 'prelabial tactile pleasure.'(1) By transferring the act of chewing to the whole body Alicia highlighted its tactile, even sensual, nature. The mouth is sometimes associated with the sense of taste alone, yet its tactile capacity is extraordinary, as anyone who enjoys kissing well knows! James Gibson suggests that the mouth may even be more sensitive and intelligent than hands in perceiving things.(2) Babies putting things into their mouths are taking advantage of this sensitivity to explore the world around them. Our tactile perception of food is a part of its enjoyment.
(1) Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara 'Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium' in Performance Research 4(1), 1999, pp. 1-30, p. 7.
(2) Gibson, James J. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1968, p. 138.


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Nigerian Army Chief Laments That Some 'Repentant' Terrorists Have Ulterior Motives
According to Maj-Gen. Musa, the terror group has remained dangerous despite the death of its leader, Abubakar Shekau.
The Nigerian Army has said though thousands of terrorists and their families have laid down arms in the North-East, some of them have ulterior motives.
The Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, disclosed that 20,000 insurgents and their families had laid down their weapons but some of the 'repentant' terrorists are not sincere.
The commander, who spoke on the sidelines of the Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja, added that another challenge the military has is that the insurgents use civilians as cover, making it more difficult for soldiers to kill them, the Nation reports.
He said: "We have over 20,000 combatants and their families surrendered. This tells you there is something we are doing right. What we do with them after surrendering is our next focus. The expectation is that after all have surrendered, then, everything will fizzle out. But, that is not the case.
"Frankly speaking, for us, this is a good development. A lot of people have been thinking and also expressing mixed feelings if at all the news is true. Of course, there are some insurgents who truly wish to surrender, but we cannot jettison the fact that some of them do have ulterior motives.
"Like I said, to us, this is good and if we follow it through in the right way, then, we may begin to see the end of this insurgency sooner than we actually think."
He said: "Before Shekau died, they (Boko Haram fighters) pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the West African Province ISWAP and ISWAP gets its funding from foreign donors. It is the lust for these monies that have further emboldened them. This is why they overran Shekau. These people who are enemies of the nation, who do not want peace in Nigeria are the same people pushing ISWAP too. It has nothing to do with religion or any form of ideology, but is purely driven by the quest for money.
Dismissing public concerns that the Nigerian military has been outstretched by the security challenges in the country, he said, "No group can outstretch the Armed Forces of Nigeria. What people need to understand is, we in the military can easily be identified because we put on uniforms. These guys go on mufti and we cannot just go into a community and start killing everybody. If we have to do this, then, this fight would have ended since.
"But, what about the collateral damage on the part of innocent civilians? If we have to shoot, then, we must target the real trouble makers and not just anyone. This is the problem. They mingle among civilians. This is why it has become so dificult. If it is conventional warfare, we would have finished them a long time ago."
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NLRB says college football players, some other athletes can unionize
By Jimmy Golen
NCAA adopts interim name, image, likeness policy | NewsNOW from FOX
Rich 'BD' Salgado talks about the NCAA's temporary name, image, likeness policy for student athletes with NewsNOW's Pilar Arias. The NCAA approved the interim 'NIL' policy, which means athletes will have the opportunity to earn money from endorsements, sponsorships, social media, and more as soon as July 1. All three NCAA divisions agreed to adopt the policy, the NCAA announced on Wednesday.
College football players and some other athletes in revenue-producing sports are employees of their schools, the National Labor Relations Board said in a memo Wednesday that would allow players at private universities to unionize and otherwise negotiate over their working conditions.
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo also threatened action against schools, conferences and the NCAA if they continue to use the term "student-athlete," saying that it was created to obscure the employment relationship with college athletes and discourage them from pursuing their rights.
"The freedom to engage in far-reaching and lucrative business enterprises makes players at academic institutions much more similar to professional athletes who are employed by a team to play a sport, while simultaneously pursuing business ventures to capitalize on their fame and increase their income," the memo said.
RELATED: Supreme Court, NCAA decisions embolden advocates for college athletes compensation in California
Neither the NCAA nor representatives for the five largest athletic conferences immediately responded to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
The nine-page NLRB memo revisited a case involving Northwestern football players who were thwarted from forming a union when the board in 2015 said that taking their side "would not promote stability in labor relations."
Abruzzo's memo noted that much has changed since the then, including a unanimous Supreme Court decision this year that lifted restrictions on some forms of compensation for college athletes.
Abruzzo also noted that players across the country had engaged in collective action following the killing of George Floyd — actions that "directly concerns terms and conditions of employment, and is protected concerted activity."
AP College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo contributed to this report.
As Phoenix hospitals fill up amid new COVID surge, doctor says people with mild cases can be treated at home


Iowa Democrats took aim today at Mitt Romney's tax proposals.
Democratic Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky and State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald told reporters that Romney's tax ideas would save $54 per year for a family of four making $40,000 annually. Meanwhile, they said, such a family could save up to $1,900 per year under President Obama's policies, if the family receives college loans and the earned-income tax credit and has payroll tax deductions.
Romney has said he's aiming to help the middle class and to spur the economy by ending taxes on investments and interest for people who make less than $250,000 per year.
Romney has said that Democrats' repeated attacks on him show that they are afraid he'll be the Republican nominee. He's pointed to polls suggesting that he stands the best chance of beating Obama in the general election. Dvorsky denied today that the Democrats have been singling Romney out for attacks. "We have been doing it all year against all comers," she said.


Several years ago, I noticed yellow flowers popping up all over our yard. They appear at the same time as our daffodils. While they looked similar, the flowers had at least double the amount of petals. Can you tell me what they are?
This is a double-flowered daffodil. Relatively new to the gardening scene these daffodils require the same care as the traditional daffodil but provide a different look in the garden. A squirrel may have transplanted a couple of these into your yard. Once planted, they started to grow and multiply. Natural mutations can also cause this change in the flower. Enjoy the nice surprise, no matter how it arrived.


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Blog Entries ⋅ Contemporary Society
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, May 29 Issue
By ChinaSource Team ⋅ May 30, 2014 ⋅ Topic: Contemporary Society
These are the topics that caught our attention this week pork fat, bound feet, and a Miao festival.
In China, Pork Fat Inspires Poetry, Art and Literature (May 23, 2014, China Real Time)
It's hard to imagine that a book about pork fat would be a bestseller, but apparently that's what has happened in China.
"A table without pork fat is like literature without poetry." Say the word "pork fat" and you might conjure up queasy thoughts of high cholesterol and hypertension to the minds of many. But a new book about just that subject has sparked a wave of nostalgia among some of China's writers, painters and performers.
Book designer Zhu Yingchun invited more than a hundred contributors to share their memories about pork fat. He compiled the results into a book, titled "Pork Fat," that features literature, poetry, art and messages from the famous about the fatty meat.
Despite the increasingly health-conscious nature of consumers in today's Chinese market, the book has been popular among certain circles in China, generating about 20,000 yuan ($3,200) in sales in four months.
Given the western love for bacon, perhaps this shouldn't surprise us.
Photographer Documents Bound Feet as 'Living History' (May 28, 2014, China Real Time)
China Real Time has a post about a photographer trying to photograph the few remaining women in China whose feet were bound when they were children.
In 2005, Jo Farrell took a two-hour bus ride to a village in China's central Shandong province. There, she met an old woman called Zhang Yun Ying who allowed Ms. Farrell to take pictures of her "lotus feet." Since then, the Hong Kong-based photographer has gone back to Ms. Zhang's village every year. "[We] celebrated her 80th birthday four years ago," Ms. Farrell said. "I always look forward to going back.
Now, Ms. Farrell is on a mission to document China's remaining women with bound feet, most of whom are in their 80s and 90s. She doesn't know how many are left. Up to now she has documented "dozens" of them, mostly in Shandong but also Yunnan, using black-and-white film processed in her own darkroom.
She has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to publish a book of her photographs. You can read more details of the project here, as well as view a number of her photographs.
Photoessay: A Feast for the Eyes The Incredible Spectacle of the Ten Miao Parade (May 27. 2014, Life on Nanchang Lu)
Fiona Rielly, keeper of the blog Life on Nanchang Lu recently traveled to Guizhou to see the Sister's Meal Celebration put on by a Miao community:
As part of the Sister's Meal Festival Celebrations, the Ten Miao Parade takes place in Taijiang, Guizhou. Miao groups from ten different village areaswomen, men and children, all in their best festival dressdance and march through the streets to the town square. It is simply the most rich, colourful, and spectacular display of ethnic dress I have ever witnessed.
The photographs are gorgeous!
Scenario #4
Four possible scenarios for China's development were identified back in 2007. Which one, if any, will we see in the year 2020?
Joann Pittman ⋅ Jun 28
China's Social Credit System: Less Than Meets the Eye?
Understanding and evaluating the social credit system.
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Thoughts on a Current Chinese Film
"In human history there have been countless times that have proved that people who try to obstruct this good news are only like praying mantises trying to stop chariots. People who enthusiastically try to replace the good news with something else not only lose their opportunity to get on the ship,...
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A Reading Round-up
Ten years ago I was in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. I had been in the city since it was announced as the host, and watched it get ready— stadiums to construct; roads to build; subway lines to put in. The city transformed itself before our eyes.
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Mitsubishi Toppo (1990-2004)
Mitsubishi Toppo
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The Mitsubishi Toppo is a small leisure automobile that Mitsubishi Motors manufactured from 1990 to 2004. The car was derived from the Minica . The vehicles were equipped with a small three-cylinder inline engine with 657 cc and 30-46 hp (22-34 kW) or a four-cylinder in-line engine with 659 cc and 50-55 hp (37-40 kW). There were manual four- or five-speed transmissions, as well as automatic transmission with three or four stages avaliable.
Originally the car was called Mitsubishi Minica Toppo , which existed in two generations. A retro variant was introduced in 1997 under the name Mitsubishi Minica Toppo Town Bee .In 1998, a new generation was introduced, which bore the name Mitsubishi Toppo BJ ("Big Joy"). A larger version, the Toppo BJ Wide was introduced in 1999. In 2004, the production of the model was discontinued.
Engines: Gasoline 0.66 liters (22-40 kW)
Length: 3255-3395 mm
Width: 1395-1475 mm
Height: 1695-1790 mm
Wheelbase: 2260-2340 mm
Curb weight : 620-860 kg
Minica Toppo (H22 / H27), 1990-1993
Minica Toppo (H31 / H36 / H32 / H37), 1993-1998; additionally as Minica Toppo Town Bee (H31A / H36A) 1997-1998
Toppo BJ (H42 / H47), 1998-2004; additionally as Toppo BJ Wide (H43A / H48A) 1999-2001
Toppo (H82), from 2008 (base model Mitsubishi eK )
Mitsubishi Starion (1982-1990) 26 / 28 Mitsubishi Town Box (1999-2011)
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Carter County je okres v státu Kentucky v USA. K roku 2010 zde žilo 27 720 obyvatel. Správním městem okresu je Grayson. Celková rozloha okresu činí 1 067 km².

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'Incredibly touching' – Twickenham community replaces NHS doctor's stolen bike
Twickenham residents rally to replace NHS doctor's stolen bike
Paul Chapman used his bike to commute to West Middlesex Hospital
Generous Twickenham residents have pulled together to replace an NHS doctor's stolen bike.
Dr Paul Chapman, a frontline worker at West Middlesex Hospital, was "gutted" after the bicycle he used for commuting was taken at the beginning of January.
Appealing for information on Facebook, he asked locals if they had seen the bike, which was a Christmas present from his mum.
Little did Dr Chapman know his post would be picked up by a sympathetic stranger, who took matters into her own hands.
Tiffany Robinson, from Twickenham Green, said when she saw the story she was upset on the doctor's behalf.
"Lots of bicycles are being stolen at the moment but was particularly shocking considering he's a doctor and the NHS is under so much stress.
"It just seemed so wrong, he's barely had a day off since the pandemic started," said Tiffany.
She decided to launch a Crowdfunder, hoping to raise enough money for a new bike, lock and lights.
The first pledge was £100 – and afterwards her inbox "pinged constantly" with emails about donations.
"It went a bit mad," said the teacher.
In under 24 hours Tiffany closed the Crowdfunder, which had hit almost £1,000.
Tiffany has realised Dr Chapman and his girlfriend are her neighbours – describing the couple as "genuine" and "lovely."
In an online statement, the doctor thanked the "incredibly touching" work of the Twickenham community.
He said: "I had resigned myself to a takeaway KFC to cheer myself up.
"To see so many people and businesses in the local community reaching out to help has made my year. I simply cannot thank everyone enough."
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1999 vs B4.DA.$$
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When Walter Zawislak, P.E., LEED AP, project manager in STV's land development group, and Sharon Huber-Plano, P.L.A., LEED AP, associate and senior landscape architect, first toured the A. Hoen & Co. Lithograph Building campus in Baltimore, they were immediately struck ...
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The Zimmerman Trial's Ace Attorneys
By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Zimmerman is NOT GUILTY and you know it!
We here at KoopaTV have been following the George Zimmerman trial as it's happened — live — since the whole thing is pretty much public viewing. There is something about highly publicized trials in America. I have no idea if all trials are like this and we just don't know about it, or these are just hilarious because they're highly publicized. ...Or highly publicized because they're hilarious. It's almost like something out of Capcom's Ace Attorney franchise, actually.
Up until Friday of last week, we were exclusively looking at the State's (prosecution's) side of the case. In standard Ace Attorney fashion, the prosecution called up "experts", detectives, and those who were at the crime scene or knew about it. And in standard Ace Attorney fashion, the defense had to "turnabout" those prosecution witnesses to basically become defense witnesses, or construe their testimony in a manner that benefits the defense throughout the course of cross-examination. In Ace Attorney games, the defense doesn't actually have any witnesses. Oh, and basically every trial is a murder trial, just like in the Zimmerman case. The difference here is that no one is denying that George Zimmerman did shoot and kill Trayvon Martin, but the defense's argument is that he is not guilty of 2nd Degree Murder. So there aren't any measures by the defense to try to incriminate any of the prosecution's witnesses... Although some sure have their lives ruined by the end of cross-examination (such as Rachel Jeantel — not that her life was going anywhere beforehand).
And Zimmerman isn't guilty, well, according to our collective perspectives here at KoopaTV. If we were the jury, Zimmerman would be free pretty easily. Rawk and I thought that Zimmerman was not guilty before the trial even started and maintain that. YoshiRider123 took the opposite perspective — Zimmerman was GUILTY! ...But as he watched the trial, he actually was convinced to go for a non-guilty verdict.
Anyway, not that juries exist in the Ace Attorney world. Well, except for in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney in the last case. But that's an exception! In Ace Attorney we have the Judge who makes rulings unilaterally. Zimmerman's defense actually tried last week on Friday to get the judge presiding to acquit Zimmerman unilaterally, Ace Attorney style, in a 50-minute "The Reason You Suck" Speech. The defense bashed the prosecution for only having circumstantial evidence and not actually having a case despite the prosecution just finally resting said case. That motion was denied, leaving the defense to call its own witnesses and departing from the Ace Attorney system of only prosecution witnesses. Of course, in the Ace Attorney world, trials only last three days anyway, so that's a clear departure.
Dr. Shiping Bao — Absolutely hilarious man,
the kind of belligerent witness you'd see in Ace Attorney.
Now, those who aren't rooting for the defense like we at KoopaTV are might be disconnected from the comparison between the defense-oriented Ace Attorney series and the Zimmerman trial. However, even those on the prosecution's side (...What's wrong with you?!) should appreciate that the prosecution finds its own witnesses annoying at best and is ultimately embarrassed by them — Much like how Miles Edgeworth (a prosecutor in Ace Attorney) is embarrassed by characters like Wendy Oldbag and Detective Dick Gumshoe.
Idea and art courtesy of Rawk. Rachel Jeantel is the most embarrassing witness of them all,
and was also the prosecution's "star" witness. See how little they have to work with?
In every Ace Attorney game, there is a greater evil by the end that you (Phoenix Wright or Apollo Justice... and this also applies to Ace Attorney Investigations) and the prosecutor of the game have to basically team up to defeat in court. That also isn't present here, but this might not be the final case of the game! Erm, real life. Rumor has it that the prosecution's case in the Zimmerman trial is so flimsy because they didn't even want to have this trial for 2nd Degree Murder — It was only the race-baiters like Al Sharpton and malicious groups like the New Black Panthers that heavily pressured the state of Florida to do this. They say that if Zimmerman walks, there could be riots. Sounds true if you look to Twitter where Trayvon supporters are calling for Zimmerman to be killed, and even Zimmerman's supporters to be killed!
The Zimmerman trial, maybe more than any other publicized trial, really speaks to the defendant-defense attorney relationship that Ace Attorney promotes. Phoenix Wright defends the normally defenseless — when no one else believes the suspected, he will. With even the most powerful man in the world, President Barack Hussein Obama voicing his opinion against Zimmerman — empowering race-baiters everywhere to harass Zimmerman and his family — all George Zimmerman has to turn to are his family members (who are just now being called to testify — his uncle is a badass) and his defense attorneys.
His life is in their hands.
And do you know what's in your hands? The fate of the Ace Attorney series! So get Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies when it hits the 3DS eShop in Fall of this year.
To catch yourself up, go ahead and play the other games in the series. BUY them! You can get WiiWare versions of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations. Or you could get all three of those (if you're soulless) via Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy HD on iOS devices. Or you could track down the DS cards on places like Amazon. You know, here, here, and here. You'll also want Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, although that last one is a spin-off. ...A very good one!
They're all visual novels. ...Great ones too. Even more entertaining than watching real trials! Because while we won't hear from Rachel Jeantel ever again (unless she's arrested for rioting in the future), you'll sure continue to care about the likes of Phoenix Wright.
The Zimmerman trial isn't over yet! If you'd like to talk about it, this article's comments section is the place to do it! Meanwhile we'll continue watching the live gavel-to-gavel coverage.
George Zimmerman goes from having Obama against him to the nation of North Korea.
One year anniversary of Zimmerman's freedom.
The trial is over now and I'm rejoiced. It truly was like an Ace Attorney case, and I can't wrap my head around the concept of life imitating art but it is true in this case...
Blessings for Zimmerman and his family, may they find peace and a future. May the Trayvon supporters unveil their eyes to the truth, and comprehend that not everything is racism.
Ludwig Von Koopa July 15, 2013 at 5:09 AM
I love when life imitates art.
(Did you wait until the trial was over to make this comment?)
Well, unlike an Ace Attorney case, we probably don't know the full truth of what happened that night. We have a verdict and everyone should respect the jury's decision, but even I'll admit there are some "contradictions" in the defense's case that were never resolved.
Hell, I'm still left wondering why the hell Zimmerman wanted to be a neighbourhood watch guy when he can't even throw a punch.
"In Ace Attorney games, the defense doesn't actually have any witnesses." What do you mean by that?
The defense does not call witnesses.
The only time this happens is the end of 1-5 because Edgeworth agrees to it 'cause the court doesn't trust the prosecution.
I'm pretty sure the defence does.
Ludwig Von Koopa December 26, 2014 at 12:37 PM
In real life they do.
In Ace Attorney, they do not besides that one point. It's a rule of the series.
What about Polly the parrot?
That was only because Von Karma "suggested" it.
Otherwise Wright wouldn't be able to do it himself.
But Phoenix was the one who called Polly up as a witness anyway. Also, I think there was a time in The Stolen Turnabout that a witness was called up by him.
Well, he wouldn't be able to do it court process-wise if it weren't for Von Karma.
If you look at the digital manual for Ace Attorney Trilogy, it actually says that the job of the prosecutor is to call up witnesses. (Along with an asterisk saying this is merely a fictional representation of the legal system.)
I duunnnnooooo wot you're specifically referrin' to with The Stolen Turnabout.
I think Phoenix called Desiree? I don't remember who but I am sure that Phoenix called someone to the stand.
I'll look into it later.
...actually I'll look into it now.
She, uh, entered the court herself with the bag.
Oh. Uh...then I guess you're right.
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Víctor Leonardo Gutiérrez Marín (San José, 28 de agosto de 1991) es un futbolista costarricense que se desempeña como delantero en el Club de Fútbol UCR de la Primera División de Costa Rica.

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Debutó en la Primera División con la Universidad de Costa Rica en el Torneo Invierno 2009 jugando un partido ante el Club Sport Cartaginés que terminó 1-1.

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A haulout in a family-run Guatemalan boatyard provides the antidote to marina insulation.
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
Osprey on the Hard
An epic clog set up Osprey for a Río Dulce haulout and a radical holdingtankectomy.Wendy Mitman Clarke
Most cruisers would be challenged to find a silver lining anywhere in the vicinity of a clogged commode. And the clog on Osprey, our 45-foot steel cutter, was epic, the kind of monster that can break a person after two days of wrestling with head hoses, which seem to wrap themselves around fittings like hungry anacondas.
Johnny, my husband, finally concluded that the only way to extract the offending hose was to remove the holding tank. That Vietnam War phrase about bombing the village to save it started to have real meaning. Then, with the tank out and the hose laid bare, bad plumbing was suddenly the least of our worries. Under the tank was a section of hull to which we'd never had access where water—probably just small splashes from people doing daily stuff like washing faces and taking showers—had trickled down and collected along a stringer. There it sat and did what water and steel do best together: produce rust.
The consequences of our haulout at Astillero Magdalena, located a few miles upriver from the marina where we were spending hurricane season on the Río Dulce, were startlingly immediate. As I watched Carlos, a young, skilled welder, cut an eight- by eight-inch hole out of the side of my home, I reflected on my love/hate relationship with steel as a boatbuilding material. In fact, I started entertaining notions of recreational vehicles and K.O.A. campgrounds. The ordeal sent our spirits plummeting.
But then, a glimmer of hope. It was clear right away that this place was far more than just a boatyard. Built by Abel Ramirez, a fisherman who needed a place to haul his workboat years ago, and operated by him and his son Abel Jr., it was also the family compound. As such it was an ever-changing study in the juxtapositions of traditional and contemporary Guatemalan life as well as work and pleasure. A small, wood-frame house with an outdoor, wood-fired cookstove was the center of the hillside property, while attached to it was a more modern home, brightly painted and immaculately kept. Nearby stood an enormous work shed, an engine and machine shop, and a two-story building that housed the laundry, showers, parts department, and office. It wasn't unusual to see Alejandra, the matriarch, folding clothes or playing with a grandchild, while 10 feet away, four or five grease-stained men labored over a huge Detroit Diesel undergoing a rebuild. While the Travelift—75 tons of gleaming, brand-new hoisting chutzpah—lumbered around the lower yard, kids bathed the family dogs at the water spigot. Every afternoon, the kids played a rousing game of fútbol, which seemed to have very few rules, no real boundaries, and only one goal net.
In the early morning, while the local fishermen launched their slim cayucos from the landing next to the yard's railways, the air would fill with the sounds of roosters crowing, birds singing, dogs barking, and, soon, the rumble and fuss of a busy boatyard. At midday, children streamed from the school next door, racing past in their dark trousers and skirts and white blouses. In the late afternoon, dragonflies peppered the sky, hundreds of them hovering just above the boats' masts, and down the street in the village of San Felipe, pool balls clattered under the tin roof of the open-air watering hole.
I hadn't realized that we'd insulated ourselves at the marina; we certainly had never meant to. But this sudden change of scenery was like a door opening into a culture we'd only glimpsed until then. My continuing Spanish education grew daily thanks to gentle help from the yard staff, and the fútbol tribe immediately welcomed our kids. Every afternoon they came home sweat-soaked, filthy, and grinning ear to ear, sometimes carrying sliced oranges sprinkled with a delicious, musky spice whose name I still don't know.
When the work was finished, we were truly sad to leave. And I was grateful for clogged heads and unexpected clouds, and the silver linings we otherwise might never have seen.
After a winter in the San Blas, where the Osprey_ kids played more beach baseball than boatyard fútbol,_ Osprey_ will head for Cartagena, Colombia._


Even though I grew up in the city I always had an interest in bushcraft and wilderness ways. I spent much of my childhood in my backyard hanging out in trees and pretended to live in the woods. After reading a book on Indian and outdoor lore I set out to recreate some of the crafts… making cordage from vines, a spear using slate flakes, twitch-up snares, and practicing archery among other things.
Part of what fed my outdoor and wilderness interest was my Grandfather (my Mom's Dad) who grew up on a farm in Minnesota. He would recount his hunting stories and showed me a photo of a hut that he and his brothers made on an island in a nearby lake. Later in life as an explorer he became a "rock-hound" and hunted for agates, Jade, and found many arrowheads in the process.
My Dad grew up on a farm in South Dakota where his skills centered around repairs and innovations to keep things running. He also stumbled upon an Indian artifact in the field which he later donated to his home town museum (Historical Society of Lake Norden). Later in life also took our family camping in various state and national parks where we could put our feet in the soil and wade in the water.
These family stories and activities contributed to my pursuit of primitive and survival skills despite my urban up-bringing. It was during the Y2K scare that my wife and I homeshooled our sons. The internet was burgeoning with "survival" information and while researching for projects for "science night" I ran across an article about fire by friction using the bow & spindle method. That "sparked" my interest in firecraft that continues to this day. I broadened the scope of my research and began to practice what I read. I was able to share these skills and knowledge with the Boy Scout troop that my sons and I joined.
I have endeavored to teach my sons these skills so that they can pass them on to their children. I'm grateful for my "roots" and hope to be an inspiration to my "branches". I heartily agree with the Scout motto to "Be Prepared".
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The newest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII. Which along with the old footage also Shows some new footage as well. At the moment its still waiting for the game to come out as Square Enix still hasn't given us an release date. Given on the way Square Enix talked about the demo (which will be delivered with the first copies of Advent Children Complete) I won't suspect this game to come out before summer 2009.
The newest trailer for Final Fantasy versus XIII. The trailer is quite long of length and shows a variate of new footage. Unlike FFXIII itself this game is going to be based on reality, which you can now clearly notice in the trailer. Despite the length however we still didn't get to see the actual gameplay.


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Obama, Biden being sworn in for second term
JULIE PACE
WASHINGTON — Formally embarking on a second term, Vice President Joe Biden took the oath of office Sunday, surrounded by family and friends in an early morning ceremony that kicked off a day of celebrations marking four more years for the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama was to be sworn in just before noon at the White House, 24 hours before re-enacting the ceremony before an expected crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered at the Capitol and across the National Mall.
Biden, following a private Mass, was sworn in at the Naval Observatory. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appointed by Obama as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court, administered the oath of office to Biden, who placed his hand on a Bible his family has used since 1893.
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United states," Biden said as he recited the oath.
Among the 120 guests on hand to witness the vice president's second swearing-in were Attorney General Eric Holder, departing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and several Democratic lawmakers.
Sunday's subdued swearing-in ceremonies are a function of the calendar and the Constitution, which says presidents automatically begin their new terms at noon on Jan. 20. Because that date fell this year on a Sunday — a day on which inaugural ceremonies historically are not held — organizers scheduled a second, public swearing-in for Monday.
A crowd of up to 800,000 people is expected to gather on the National Mall to witness that event, which will take place on the Capitol's red, white and blue bunting-draped west front. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who famously flubbed the oath of office that Obama took in 2009, was to swear the president in both days.
Once the celebrations are over, Obama will plunge into a second-term agenda still dominated by the economy, which slowly churned out of recession during his first four years in office. The president will also try to cement his legacy with sweeping domestic changes, pledging to achieve both an immigration overhaul and stricter gun laws despite opposition from a divided Congress.
But for one weekend at least, Washington was putting politics aside. Obama called the nation's inaugural traditions "a symbol of how our democracy works and how we peacefully transfer power."
"But it should also be an affirmation that we're all in this together," he said Saturday, as he opened a weekend of inaugural activities at a Washington elementary school.
Only a small group of family members was expected to attend Obama's Sunday swearing-in, including first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha. A few reporters were to witness the event.
Roberts was to administer the oath of office shortly before noon in the White House Blue Room, an oval space with majestic views of the South Lawn and the Washington Monument.
The room, named for the color of the drapes, upholstery and carpet, primarily has been a reception room as well as the site of the only presidential wedding in the White House, when President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsum in 1886.
Obama and Biden were also to lay at a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery Sunday morning, then address supporters at an evening reception.
The president planned to save his most expansive remarks for Monday's inaugural address to the crowd gathered on the Mall and millions more watching across the country and the world. Obama started working on the speech in early December and was still tinkering with it into the weekend, aides said.
The president's address will set the stage for the policy objectives he seeks to achieve in his second term, including speeding up the economic recovery, passing comprehensive immigration and gun control measures and ending the war in Afghanistan. Aides said Obama would save the specifics of those agenda items for his Feb. 12 State of the Union address.
The president launched a weekend of inaugural activities Saturday by heading up a National Day of Service. Along with his family, Obama helped hundreds of volunteers spruce up a Washington area elementary school.
Obama wore rubber gloves, picked up a paint brush and helped volunteers stain a bookshelf.
Obama added the service event to the inaugural schedule in 2009 and is hoping it becomes a tradition followed for future presidents.
Mrs. Obama, speaking to volunteers Sunday, espoused the importance of giving back in the midst of the weekend of pomp, circumstance and celebration.
"The reason why we're here, why we're standing here, why we're able to celebrate this weekend is because a lot of people worked hard and supported us, and we've got a job to do and this is a symbol of the kind of work that we need to be doing the next four years," Michelle Obama said at Burrville Elementary.
Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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Unusual names trending in 2017
Best of both worlds, names that are still considered unusual but are trending this year
back to Top baby names
Top 100 girls' names chosen in the UK this year
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Unusual baby names on the rise in 2017
Looking for a name not in the top 100 most popular? These names are on the rise in 2017 but still have a unique edge
When choosing your baby's name, there's several different roots you can go. You can take inspiration from the top 100 most popular names around, go for something more traditional, get inspiration from artists or movies.
If you're looking for a name your little one won't have to share with three other children in their classroom, but don't want a name that is so out there they will have to spell it out to people for the rest of their lives, there is a happy middle ground. We have compiled a list of the more unusual names that are trending in 2017.
Popular culture has crept into the list of unusual yet highest climbing names with influences from Celebrity Big Brother, pop music and TV box sets like the Hunger Games' character names appearing.
Unheard of until last year, American singer Aubrey O'Day appeared in last year's Celebrity Big Brother and the girl's name, Aubrey, has since seen a huge rise in popularity ever since, up 183 places and now ranking 175th in our most popular list.
Suicide Squad has influenced the popularity of girls named Harley (as in the DC comic character played by Margo Robbie). The name Primrose has climbed 42 places influenced by Hunger Games character Primrose Everdeen.
Boys' names have also been influenced by popular culture with Cohen rising 56 places following the death of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen who died in November 2016. Likewise the name Lenny is up 30 places and features 147th on the most popular boys' names list.
Name choices for celebrity babies continue to influence UK name choices with Levi rising 20 places - both Matthew McConaughey and Sheryl Crow chose the name for their sons. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis' name choice for their son, Wyatt as also risen in popularity, as has Michael Buble's son's name, Elias.
Girls names trending in 2017
1. Aubrey
2. Beth
3. Lilah
6. Primrose
7. Amira
8. Cora
10. Halle
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• Marnie
• Delilah
• Phoebe
• Alexa
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• Leila
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2. Wyatt
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To help us filter out the day-to-day nonsense and make sense of how Brexit could develop over the coming year, we've created a simple decision tree.
It starts with the overarching question: can the government strike a plausible deal with the EU? We believe there is a strong probability that it can — there's just too much at stake on both sides of the Channel. As for whether they can do it in a timely manner, we think the chances are a coin toss (mathematics for don't know). And if the government does arrange a deal before 29 March 2019, would it pass Parliament? That's another don't know. But if it were to, we think it would be with the agreement of the Tory hardliners (the "European Research Group") led by Jacob Rees-Mogg. We call that a "sandstone Brexit" — the softest rock (or hard Brexit) you can find. If the government and the EU cannot come to terms at all, there are two choices as we see it: a hard Brexit or a second referendum. The probability here is another coin toss.
When we calculate the probabilities, we find that by far the most likely result is a "never ending story". The politicians agree on principles but not the details. In short, they keep kicking the can down the road. Sterling would probably rise, potentially benefiting investors who own domestically focused UK assets and hurting those with foreign investments and the FTSE 100, which tend to do poorly when the pound strengthens. A hard Brexit has the second-highest probability. A no-deal break with the EU would send sterling tumbling as low as $1.20 or less, we believe. Again, holders of overseas assets and the FTSE 100 would probably do best.
Then comes our sandstone option, followed by no Brexit. A sandstone agreement would probably make sterling amble lower, as the greater barriers to cross-border business will hamper the UK's future prospects. However, a continued trading relationship would mitigate the pound's fall.
Figure 7: Which way next?
Exploring the potential terms of the UK's divorce settlement with the EU.


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The EquiStep coaching, mentoring and team building programmes are designed to help your team grow and develop. Every team should be developed and prepared for both todays' challenges and the assignments that await them in the future. Mastering certain techniques such as; coaching, mentoring and team building are critical for the future success of your business. We will discuss your needs and aspirations by helping you choose the right program or system for your company. We will show you around, introduce you to our wonderful horses, learn more about the challenges you are dealing with and share how we might be able to help. Call or email today to arrange a visit.
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