Montague's words help to gauge the temper of the modern world as it would be rendered in remarkable poems and fiction written in the English language during the early decades of the twentieth century. A novel that communicates this temper in general and the feelings of disenchantment in particular, in personal and sociological and one could even say epochal contexts, is Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925). This novel also tells us much about the war and the postwar years, about human feelings and relationships, and about the malaise that would afflict individual and collective life in the era between the two world wars. In this novel, the reader is able to gauge the mood of the times, in terms of both the human personality and the historical situation, as these were inevitably intertwined. What we recognize above all is a broken world and broken sensibilities impelled by the annihilative effects of war on both the human consciousness and the human soul. And, too, we witness the human condition in crisis in an epochal context of debasement and deterioration.
How inner human emotions, and particularly how love and death evince the consequentiality of a murder—war, is clearly a heart-word in the literature of disenchantment that Woolf registers in her novel, in which feelings of forlornness, desperation, deprivation are prevalent, and in which, to employ a Dickens phrase, we see how "a crestfallen, disenchanted man" emerges to characterize the modern age in transition. Romanticism itself, it can be said, comes of age in a world now abruptly shorn of illusions, dreams, promises of greatness. Human destiny, it seems, is arrested as men and women now confront their own souls—and their innermost angst.
Secular tendencies and habits that ignore the spiritual nature of ourselves, even when the spiritual substance is itself indiscernible or indefinable, fail to gauge the full force and effects of interior, invisible warfare as these encompass the human psyche and condition. As a result, the total picture of the human drama that evolved during and after the Great War is never fully comprehended when spiritual essences, both seen and unseen, are barely invoked or examined. Critical imbalance tends, as a result, to characterize literary discourse as a whole because of hostility to spiritual truths within a secular milieu. Indeed, the secular and secularizing view that pervades the intellectual realm in our time—and it is a view that promotes itself zealously—is ultimately advanced by zealous ideologues who rule over the cultural scene at large. This selfsame view, widely held and imperiously espoused, simply refuses to consider the origins and spread of the pervasive disenchantment in those early decades of the twentieth century.
To correct this critical imbalance is a central task here if the disenchantment that seemed to spread like a cancer in modern society after the war is to be perceived in its full power and complexity. "Enemies of the permanent things" should not be allowed to have the last word in twentieth-century life, literature, and thought, and in effect to denude the life of the soul in direct relation to the depth and magnitude of disenchantment as a symptom and portent of the spiritual malaise that deepened and accelerated after 1914–1918. The disenchantment that novelists like a Virginia Woolf, an Ernest Hemingway, and an F. Scott Fitzgerald elicit in their fiction has an immediacy that, in the course of time, underscores the prophetic element and ramifications.
The modern age, it can even be said, begins on a note of disenchantment that great imaginative novelists and poets portray in its specificities—a process that history amply confirms in the continuity of false beliefs. In a sense, it can be said, disenchantment emblematizes the deaths of belief that now define postmodern attitudes and habits, in those advanced forms of nihilism and anarchy that bring the Enlightenment to its final dismal hours of agony. Today, great humanistic artists (and critics) are thus being steadily replaced by "talents and technicians" who infect the literary scene with their dissonant sensibility. "We have suffered a paralysis or eclipse of imagination before the nightmare of history in this age," the American critic John W. Aldridge notes in words that have a sad and harsh relevance.
Virginia Woolf reminds us dramatically how great imaginative fiction unites social history and the truths of reality in memorable, enduring ways, conjoining moral intensity and civilized sensibility. To read the text of Mrs. Dalloway is to re-experience the full violence of war inflicted on body and soul and mind; to comprehend the ravages of cruel history; and, above all, to rediscover how disenchantment swept over the human personality and the state of humanity in a time of un-alleviating tragedy. That we are, it appears, at the beginning of a new age, a new social order, underlies the prophetic truths that great imaginative literature reveals to us in pensive words and voices that do not necessarily seek to define the phenomenon of disenchantment, but instead to render the experience in prose and in poetry, and in effect to reflect, in the more subtle tones of a growing awareness, the jarring rhythm of disintegration in modern existence.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway portrays the acute physical and psychic effects, and the sundry ramifications of disenchantment in the post-1918 years. It shows in the most vivid and heartbreaking of ways how the experience and suffering of the battlefields of the European War wreaked havoc; how the combatants who survived the holocaust then struggled wearily to understand their civilian surroundings; how, in short, they "coped," or failed to cope, with the realities and the demands of civic society. Even if the late War and the Armistice were now simply a memory, painful memories of the war resonated among those survivors seeking to go about the business of human existence in peacetime.
The truth of Massis's statement permeates the whole of Mrs. Dalloway and is personified, continuously and pitilessly, from the beginning to the end of the novel, by Septimus Warren Smith—"aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes strangers apprehensive, too." It is precisely the overarching note of apprehensiveness that captures and conveys the basic temper of Mrs. Dalloway, and that, in the end, testifies to the disenchantment that post-war literature (and society) was to highlight, with the inextinguishable power and acuity that were to earmark the modern age in its origins and developments since 1918.
Septimus was one of the first to volunteer after the outbreak of war on August 4, 1914. "He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole who, before the war, had deeply impressed a shy, stammering, "half-educated, self-educated" Septimus, newly arrived in London from Stroud. She "lit in him such a fire as burns only once in a lifetime," exciting deep feelings, love, and idealism, and an aspiration to make something of himself, even to be someday an important literary figure. This early phase of his life was filled with poetry and enthusiasm, and was a portent of Septimus's future as his London employer, Mr. Brewer, believed. "Something is up" in Septimus, an enthusiastic Mr. Brewer said, as he gauged his young employee's character and prospects. Indeed, those brilliant portents, no less than his pre-war world, would soon turn into ashes, as that "monstrous" August of 1914 seemed to announce an eventual crumbling of modern civilization.
What D.H. Lawrence has likened to a "disintegrating autumnal process" now began to take hold as the "prying and insidious… fingers of the European War… smashed a plaster cast of Ceres, ploughed a hole in the geranium beds, and utterly ruined the cook's nerves at Mr. Brewer's establishment at Muswell Hill," to recall here Woolf's words in Mrs. Dalloway. Septimus Warren Smith was to epitomize a way of life that would undergo cataclysmic changes and that would never return when the maroons boomed on November 11, 1918.
To be sure, Septimus, once he returned to England, and resumed his position under Mr. Brewer, was "advanced to a post of considerable responsibility. They were proud of him; he had won crosses." Septimus and Rezia, who trims ladies' hats for an occupation, now rent from a kindly Mrs. Filmer, "admirable lodgings off the Tottenham Court Road." But it was by now too late, too late for Septimus, for whom Shakespeare and "the intoxication of language… had shrivelled utterly"—and "the world itself is without meaning." An "appalling fear" had taken possession of him, at once choking and reducing him to bitterness and denial: "The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair." For Septimus the drama of the horrors of 1914-1918 was to be not simply a "Great Interruption," as Henry James called it, but the unbearable experience of a "murder war"—an eternity of darkness, emptiness, desolation.
His professional success, which he has gained by "sheer ability" has grown by leaps and bounds, and he is honored by those who admire his reputation, and who can also afford his "very large fee." In the meantime, when Sir William's own wife waits for him to conclude one of his distant visits to the rich and affluent, she thinks of "the wall of gold, mounting minute by minute," which her husband is steadily building "in dealing with nerve cases," as he ministers to his patients far and wide. And he savors his power over life, makes his unilateral judgments and decisions, as he carefully doles out his time ("[t]o his patients he gave three-quarters of an hour"). His general attitude is gallant, condescending, and always self-satisfying in knowing the worth of his medical judgments and decisions in the eyes of his peers.
Sir William does not personify a metaphysics of evil that one encounters, say, in some of Fyodor Dostoevsky's and Joseph Conrad's villains, who essentialize abstract and extra-worldly essences of a demonism that places them somewhere between heaven and hell. His Goddess was one of "proportion, divine proportion," whom he evokes again and again; this is the Goddess who conveys Sir William's public persona and mystifies his accomplishments. It is, so to speak, his calling card as a physician who has profound insight and helps to undo the blunders of general practitioners like Dr. Holmes.
His goal is to embrace and to advance unilaterally the diverse agencies of power so as to make his patients (and his own wife) capitulate to the sovereignty of his will. He is, as his very gestures and declarations demonstrate, the "master of his own actions," as he "swooped; he devoured. He shut people up." The power to control others' fate, to make his word absolute, to silence all opposition, to dominate human life: That was his constant goal. The pursuit of power best describes his creed of faith and his raison d'être. Both Rezia and Septimus, whatever their anguish and the degree of their resentment, recognize Sir William's power to judge and to prevail.
In word and attitude, Sir William is the archetype of a scientific elite as distinguished from other intellectual and social groupings; in this, he manifests a modern state of mind empowered by its specialized view of the modern conditions and realities of material existence. His diagnosis of and his prescription for Septimus's rehabilitation are in the end barren of understanding the depth of the disease of disenchantment that the soldier-poet Wilfred Owen designated as the "undone years" and "the hopelessness" that the combatants experienced.
At this pivotal juncture, Dr. Holmes again appears on the scene; he is, for Septimus, "the brute with the blood-red nostrils," as on an earlier occasion Septimus pictured him in his mind: "Once you stumble, Septimus wrote on the back of a card, human nature is on you." Indeed, Septimus never gets over the morbid feeling that both Holmes and Bradshaw are pursuing him as agents of "human cruelty." They were his judges who "saw nothing clear, yet ruled, yet inflicted." The scene here has an electrical intensity and marks the moment when Rezia and Septimus are to be separated. As she prepares to pack Septimus's things to take with him to one of Bradshaw's "homes," she hears voices from below and then goes downstairs, thinking perhaps that it was Dr. Holmes who had come. "Septimus could hear her talking to Holmes on the staircase. 'My dear lady, I have come as a friend,' Holmes was saying." Rezia, who intuits danger to her husband in the bedroom, tries to bar his way, but "a powerfully built" Holmes puts her aside.
At Clarissa Dalloway's party that same evening, Sir William and Lady Bradshaw, who are among the invited guests, pass along, rather perfunctorily, to Clarissa the news of Septimus's suicide, which she now envisions in harrowing detail: "He had thrown himself from a window. Up had flashed the ground; through him, blundering, bruising, went the rusty spikes. There he lay with a thud, thud, thud in his brain, and then a suffocation of blackness. So she saw it.'" For Clarissa, "her party," for which she has been meticulously preparing, is of major personal importance, to be attended by great personages, "old friends," dignitaries, Ladies and Gentlemen, and, yes, the Prime Minister himself—"this majesty passing; this symbol of what they all stood for, English society." His presence, obviously, incarnates not only the success of the party, but of Clarissa as the paragon hostess.
In Septimus, Clarissa not only sees her own mortality but also feels the fleetingness and fragility of human existence: "Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them." Indeed, though death signified for her that "one was alone," it also signified that there "was an embrace in death." The mood of Mrs. Dalloway is pensive and even elegiac in reflection, invariably touching on the everlasting questions—sin, guilt, evil, death, redemption.
Virginia Woolf's concentration on evil in this novel is especially intensive as she demonstrates in her graphic portrayal of Sir William Bradshaw. Even in the last three pages of the novel it is Bradshaw who is startlingly there; it is as if Mrs. Woolf cannot ignore, or dismiss, or forget, or escape him, such is the elemental power of his presence as an "enemy": "this distinguished-looking man and his rather common-looking wife…what could one know about people like that?" For Richard Dalloway, who is casually observing the Bradshaws, "they're damnable humbugs." For Virginia Woolf, however, William Bradshaw is far more than simply a humbug, a deceiver, a fraud, or a sham. He is, as E.M. Forster emphatically remarks in Abinger Harvest (1936), "uninterruptedly and embracingly evil." Clearly, Sir William Bradshaw is Woolf's quintessential metaphor for evil.
To be sure, Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about what Virginia Woolf has termed in one of her celebrated essays, "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (1924), "the spirit we live by, life itself." In the more immediate context of the novel's story line, it is about "this hot June day," "this moment in June," with its "myriad impressions." In a deeply metaphysical sense, however, it is a novel that transports us into the kingdom of enmity and that, simultaneously, contemplates the horror of evil: its sensations, motions, forms, enticements, consequences; its dynamic of oppressive brutality and violence and death. Its contemplation of evil makes Mrs. Dalloway a modern classic that speaks in a universal language and has universal meaning, known to and felt by humankind in all countries and climes.
Books on the topic of this essay may be found in The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore. Republished with gracious permission from Modern Age (Summer 2004).
 For a thorough examination of the conflict's impact on Woolf's war consciousness, see Karen Levenback, Virginia Woolf and the Great War, 1st ed. (Syracuse, N.Y., 1999).
 See Richard B. Hovey, Hemingway: The Inward Terrain (Seattle and London, 1968).
 See his Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the Assembly-Line Fiction (New York, 1992); and also his The American Novel and the Way We Live Now (New York and Oxford, 1983).
 See R.V. Young, At War with the Word: Literary Theory and the Liberal Imagination (Wilmington, Del., 1999).
 Modern Age: A Quarterly Review (Spring 2003), 178.
 All quotations from Mrs. Dalloway (1925) found in the text of this essay are from the Harvest Book edition of the novel published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (New York, 1953).
 "The War We Fought," Promise of Greatness: The War of 1914–1918, edited by George A. Panichas, with a foreword by Sir Herbert Read (New York and London, 1968), 284.
 Peter Filkins, "Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway," British Writers Classics, Vol. II (New York, 2004), 198.
 Quoted in George A. Panichas, "D. H. Lawrence's War Letters," The Courage of Judgment: Essays in Criticism, Culture, and Society, with a foreword by Austin Warren, 1st ed. (Knoxville, Tenn., 1982), 220–231. The essay that immediately follows, "In Retreat," 232–237, should also be of interest.
 For Henry James's reactions to World War I, see George A. Panichas, "Henry James and Paradigms of Character," The Critic as Conservator: Essays in Literature, Society, and Culture (Washington, D.C., 1992), 57–76.
 Sir Herbert Read, Foreword, Promise of Greatness, v-vii.
 See George A. Panichas, "Chapter Three: Satanism," The Burden of Vision: Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1977), 89–112; and also his "Moral Warfare in Joseph Conrad's Victory," Modern Age: A Quarterly Review (Summer 1999), 240–251.
 "The Early Novels of Virginia Woolf" (New York, 1955), 108.
 Collected Essays, Vol. I (New York, 1967), 319–337.


…Or at least by its title. The Bookseller magazine has announced its "winner" of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year: The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais.
The book in question is actually a statistical report written by Philip M. Parker, a professor of marketing at Insead, an international business school in France.
[F]ollowing well-established awards practice, Philip Stone, the magazine's charts editor and awards administrator, released a congratulatory statement on Thursday. Sadly, it was not a ringing endorsement of the winner.
The "losing" titles on the award's shortlist? Curbside Consultation of the Colon, Strip and Knit With Style, Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring, and The Large Sieve and Its Applications.


Full boxes of granola bars, fresh mix tapes, and the heady thrill of anticipation get your body ready for a nice long ride.
The gas tank is full, your stomach is full, your washer fluid is topped up and your bladder is empty.
The first few hours are always wonderful until between hours 5 and 6 when I ALWAYS just remember that I left my clothes in the washer.
I always remember about 20-30 minutes out of town, but i always wait for about an hour until i tell someone so they don't grumble and feel obliged to turn back so i can get it.
I think the best way to entertain on the long trip in a car is to amount a car DVD player on your car.
Judging by the link attached to your name, that doesn't sound like a biased recommendation at all.
Anything in the world seems possible during those first few hours. Total Freedom. Ahhhhhhh….
I like this part, but only after when you clear the places you already know, like your hometown. Then, for everyone but the driver, it's Stare And Comment On The Scenery time.
Seeing that first unfamiliar thing is totally awesome.
Great timing, I happen to be going on a road trip today!
Great post! That pic reminds me of driving through the maritimes which I did almost every year until I was 16. Awesome!
You're flying high above the clouds, the car is invisible, the day is just beginning and the whole world stretches out before you like a map.
I just randomly came across this page and truly it's just a great read. Had to book mark it because I agree with a lot of these things, just a great way to look at the dimple things in life, great page! Keep up the awesome work!
. . . and then to the ugly point when you wish you had a Passenger Seat Ejection button.
And your bum's not numb…yet!
Spring 1975, Arizona to Wisconsin on the last days of old Route 66. Four days with wife and baby, big U-Haul truck going east to a new life. Awesome!
And you are actually getting along with your back seat-mate because absolute boredom has not kicked in yet……hour 3 and up – Mommy, Toni's looking at me again!!!! Am not, Rockee just stick her tongue out at me…..ahhh, memories of a 6 hour car trip to Johnstown PA….
So true, so true. There's so much excitement and anticipation until the 5th or 6th hour hits.
The first part of the trip is great. I usually take Oreo cookies with me.
It's always the best part [excluding the reaching destination part].
I love the feeling of stretching your legs after a few hours on the road. What's better is if you can stretch out (or curl up) in the backseat with a strategically positioned pillow. I absolutely love road trips. The only occasion for buying Pringles and Twizzlers for me.
When you get to the open road and there isn't any other cars in sight, so you can kick off your shoes and take off your seatbelt and just relax in the sun, sipping your ice water with your sunglasses on.
If you are very into playing truck games you really should surf this site that serves numerous variants of truck games such as motorcross fmx.
The "I'm 20 and invincible" power drive: hour 44, nearing destination and all chat between you and your driving companion stops. Eerie silence settles in (not the normal breaks in conversation), like absolutely everything has been said and you've used up all the words: you'll never speak to each other again. Then, in a blink, you're both off the rails and gibbering insanely – random sounds, words, screams, laughs. The car stops for the last time, the reset button pushed and everything is normal again. Hey friend!
One of my rules for every road trip….. you must consume Peppermint Patties!
Bu then it gets to the part were you're driving through the desert and you can't find a thing on the radio except for mariachi and the occasional country station that wouldn't be so bad except it doesn't stay but for half a song.


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That's not weird that's called being a real person.
It's peaceful (unless it's like literally right over you) and not weird.
@rantsauce No, please don't mix hash tags with capitalized underscore notation.
@iamavalos apologies. It's the phone keyboard's fault.
a thunderstorm together with some melancholic lofi piano music. beautiful.
Do you like thunderstorms, or the feeling if safety, knowing it is an enormous life-threatening power that will not be able to touch you while you're hiding indoors/in the car/wtv..?
@netikras exactly this. but that doesn't make it worse.
@netikras going for a walk during a thunderstorm is actually still quite calming. 😊 Love the darkness, the rain, being alone outside.
I went to uni in a place where thunder storms are frequent, and whenever the lights in the comp sci labs started flickering everyone shouted "Save your work!!!". Over the years, many an assignment had been lost hours or minutes before deadline.
@heyheni interesting lofi piano music played by strings.
Have you seen the latest phenomenon? It was something that almost never happens called a "reverse lightning".
https://nu.nl/268722/video/... (sorry about the ads and it's a dutch news site, can't find it elsewhere).
Yeah, especially the really loud ones that make the windows tremble.
I will go and park myself out on my porch with my surface when they're a thunderstorm. Some of the most peaceful and productive work I do is during this time.
Hi, weird, but I love thunderstorms. Nice to meet you.


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Aramco's Underwriting – Flashy, Foolish Geopolitics
Martin Sosnoff Contributor
Aramco refinery. Photo by Michel LAURENT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
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If you agree with me that the clearing price for oil averages near $60 a barrel for years to come, the underwriting of Saudi Aramco at a premium valuation makes no sense, financially.
This is not like the U.S. bringing Comsat public decades ago that roped in every grandmother seeking a growth play for the grandchildren. Based on Aramco's $1.7 trillion price tag, its dividend paying capacity is akin to AT&T. Call it 60% of earnings.
But Aramco is set to distribute some 80% of current earnings. The yield works out to just 4.4%. Exxon Mobil and AT&T, both with a history of blue-chipish regard, yield 4.8% and 5.3% respectively.
Saudi honchos are bent on sucking in a new generation of uninformed regional investors. Their underwriting price is too high for informed Western world players and underwriters. Unintended consequences of dissatisfied holders seem likely along with a black mark on Saudi financial acumen.
Beware of grandiosity. The case of our obliterated World Trade Center, brainchild of Nelson Rockefeller, was a comparable excess that never should have seen daylight. Our present situation is whether the Big Board should sell at 18 times forward 12-month earnings power. I'm a player, but ready to bang out my ragamuffins at the initial whiff of dead fish.
For me, AT&T ain't a polite, long-term holding, but a surrogate for a BB high-yield debenture. It's a faceless case of yield-spread comparisons, now and looking ahead.
Lest we forget, energy houses over a cycle can do dumb things. Decades ago, Texaco bought Getty at the peak of an energy blow-off. Not to be outdone by Occidental Petroleum thirsting for Anadarko Petroleum and overleveraging itself. Open your window and throw out the rest of your OXY, Carl.
I remember, early seventies, when the Saudi king tripled the price of oil to punish us for our support of Israel, but those days are over and gone. Currently, OPEC barely hangs together. There are millions of barrels in shut-in capacity crying for an export home.
My comparison model for Aramco is Exxon Mobil whose roots date back to John D. Rockefeller's roll-up of nascent Pennsylvania energy properties, late 19th century. Standard Oil of New Jersey prevailed as the industry powerhouse, low-cost producer and refiner, capable of driving out of business anyone that got in its way. Was it Teddy Roosevelt who broke them up? Let's not forget, also, either the chop-up of AT&T, later on when its lucrative long-lines monopoly was divided into half a dozen regional stand-alones.
A valuation comparison between Aramco and Exxon Mobil seems legitimate if only for the sake of referencing earnings, dividend enhancement possibilities and comparative price-earnings ratios based on prospective earnings-payout ratios.
First, consider Exxon Mobil's recent checkered history. This year and latest five years showed woeful numbers, both absolutely and comparatively with the S&P 500 Index. Why invest in blue chips, specifically energy plays like Exxon, even Schlumberger which ticked over $90 some five years ago, presently high thirties. Think of General Electric, too, a management-made disaster, but revered over past decades. The market doesn't rest in Stupidsville forever. The oil sector in boom years stood closer to 20% of the market, now nearer 5%. Even financials, crushed in 2008-2009 down to 5%, now rest over 10%.
Aramco's initial payout ratio approximates 80% of earnings. Exxon's management, more conservative and realistic, keeps its dividend payout ratio perennially closer to 50%. Exxon ain't a negative-surprise piece of paper, but still a terrible performer, down 30% from its 12-month high. Blame stinko oil quotes.
In energy, my preference is for "darkness before dawn" stocks like Halliburton which has popped 20% from the recent low. It's P/E on current earnings power isn't rich and the dividend payout ratio is conservative, even on depressed earnings. Let the white shoes buy Schlumberger. Conceptually, I prefer "excess of pessimism" stocks to widely heralded paper like Saudi Aramco. Halliburton's 12-month high is $37, but it ticked at $60 two years ago. Today, it's cheaper than the market on depressed earnings.
Exxon Mobil's quarterly is not a felicitous document. Year-over-year, upstream earnings were halved, downstream numbers nearly as weak. Operating cash flow, a telltale metric, dropped 20%, but shareholder distributions under 50% remain conservative. You could say Exxon is a bastion of conservatism, financially speaking, but who cares? For Exxon to be a stock you need benchmark crude back at $75 a barrel. Nobody as yet sees this in the cards.
OPEC just announced a crude cutback of an additional 500,000 barrels. But, the U.S. has moved from a net importer of one million barrels to an exporter of one million barrels. The world's awash in oil. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon stand a better chance at hitting a $2 trillion market capitalization next five years while Aramco goes through all the motions of being a thriving business, but stands in place as a richly priced piece of paper.
My final number cruncher goes back to the Nifty Fifties of 1972. Establishment investors like Morgan Guaranty Trust embraced growth unequivocally at any price. Jockeys in stocks like Xerox, Polaroid and IBM told clients like Morgan to expect price appreciation of 2%, monthly. Years later, the casualty list rests unexpectedly long: How about Xerox, Polaroid, Eastman Kodak, Sears, Roebuck and Avon Products to start?
Not that Aramco fades away, but the Saudi establishment, many of whom attended our premier "B" schools like Harvard and Stamford risk some backlash for their underwriting hubris. Not a confirmed value player, I bought more Halliburton and added to my Alibaba position, neither mutually exclusive.
As late as 2001, General Electric with a market capitalization of $415 billion was numero uno in the S&P 500 Index. Exxon Mobil was number three as it was in December, 2014. General Electric in seventh place had lost around $150 billion in market cap since 2001, on its way to oblivion.
Apple lead this list five years ago as it does now. Exxon did run neck 'n' neck with Microsoft in 2014, but faded badly. Going back as far as 1990, the energy sector weighting in the S&P 500 Index has contracted, while technology staged a comeback from its tech bubble fiasco of 2001. Five years ago, Facebook, Apple and Alphabet were much smaller market-cap properties.
Consider this gritty takeaway: Sector concentration is more critical to performance than individual stock picking. The last thing in the world the Street wants to deal with is how secondary stock selection can be. Net, net, if you like technology, buy the Nasdaq 100 Index. Past year's performance is up some 40%. I haven't seen this index on anyone's recommended list.
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Martin Sosnoff
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Q: StateManagement with provider package recently Im working with provider and im happy so far ,,, the problem is i want to show a loading screen [with the help if flutter_spinKit package ] while the user has pressed the sign in buton is waiting to get into the home page ....normally with set state and staefull widget we follow these lines below:
1.create a boolean variable and set to false

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*ternoray operator in the return value of the build method :
return isLoading ? LoadingPage() : Scaffold(

*set to true when th textfields are valid

*set to false again when we are sure there arent any error with the textfiled or null user...
I dont want to use stateful widget or setstate anymore please help me how to provide this logic with provider5
if there is any advice on statemanagement in flutter Im all up ears.
I appreciate your help inadvance...

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David Wozny, Aaron Seitz, Ladan Shams; Learning associations between simple visual and auditory features. Journal of Vision 2008;8(6):171. doi: 10.1167/8.6.171.
It has recently been shown that exposure to new visual features can lead to a strengthening of the representation of those features in adult humans (Falconbridge et al. VSS '07). Is this plasticity confined to features within visual modality or does it extend to crossmodal features? The aim of this study was to discover if passive exposure to novel auditory-visual feature correlations can lead to the learning of crossmodal features in human adult sensory system. METHODS: We performed two experiments. In each experiment, we exposed subjects to a visual feature that was coupled with an auditory feature during an exposure phase, and we tested the detection/discrimination of the visual feature in absence or presence of the auditory feature before and after the exposure. In both experiments, one visual feature (V1) was coupled with a specific tone (A1) and another visual feature (V2) was presented in silence. In Experiment 1, V1 and V2 corresponded to two sinusoidal gratings of orthogonal orientation and the task during test sessions was a 2IFC contrast detection task. In Experiment 2, the V1 and V2 corresponded to two orthogonal motion directions, and the task during test sessions was 2AFC motion discrimination. RESULTS: Exposure caused a relative improvement in visual performance for the exposed pairing V1A1 compared to V1, V2, and V2A1 conditions. Comparing d' and criterion for auditory-coupled conditions vs. silent conditions before and after exposure suggests that this learning is due to a change in sensitivity rather than a change in bias. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that auditory and visual stimuli are integrated at an early stage of visual processing, and that low-level AV features can be acquired even in adulthood. Exposure to a coupled auditory stimulus can facilitate detectability and discriminability of a visual stimulus, specific to the exposed feature pairing.


The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab government to restore the house of freedom fighter and martyr Sukhdev Thapar at Noughara Mohalla within four months using Rs 81 lakh provided by the central government for this purpose.
In an order passed on August 30, the HC directed the government that All India Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar Memorial Trust, which has been managing the Thapar's house till January 2012, should also be associated in the restoration work.
Thapar's house is situated in an area near Chaura Bazaar and is surrounded by narrow lanes.
The Punjab government had taken over the house for maintenance in January, 2012, following which the trust knocked the HC door to get it back.
However, after more than a year, overlooking the the trust's demand of the Thapar's house possession, the court asked the government to rope in the trust in the restoration work.
"An affidavit has been filed in the court on behalf of the respondent (the Punjab government) stating that the Government of India has sanctioned Rs 3.24 crore to it for the conservation and preservation of the protected monuments, of which Rs 81 lakh is to be spent on the Thapar's house restoration," the court noted while disposing off the writ petition by the trust.
"The archaeology department is stated to have already been taken the conservation work, as the tender for preparing a detailed project report (DPR) is finalised. Consultants have been entrusted with the task of preparing the DPR," the court noted.
Interestingly, a committee too was formed in May 31 comprising two government officials and the president of the trust to take care of the house. Since then, several meetings held to discuss possible measures to restore the house.
The high court, in its ruling, categorically mentioned: "We call upon the respondents to ensure that the restoration work is carried out at the earliest, preferably within four months, and in view of the composition of the committee, the petitioner trust would be kept associated."
Welcomed the ruling, the trust stated that it was in the interest of the house. President of the trust Ashok Thapar said the government should immediately start renovation work so that the house could be restored.
He also said that a direct pathway from Chaura Bazaar should be laid down so that visitors could come directly to the house avoiding crowded lanes.
Tribhuvan Thapar, press secretary of the trust, said the roof of the house was in a dilapidated condition that required immediate renovation. He urged the Punjab government to provide sanitation facility at the site so that more and more people could come to the house.


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Keith Phipps
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Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
A single shot from Volver illustrates what sets Pedro Almodóvar apart from other filmmakers: About halfway through, the film pauses for a long close-up of star Penélope Cruz. For a lot of directors, that would be enough. She's an arresting beauty, and most of her American roles use her as that, and little more. But Almodóvar worked with her first, and he knows that there's much more to her than her looks. What's more, that shot is a close-up tight enough to reveal that Cruz, like the character she plays, has begun to see her ingénue youthfulness fade. There's makeup on her face and sadness in her eyes, and when she opens her mouth to sing the title song, the voice of flamenco singer Estrella Morente emerges. There's no small amount of artifice to the art, but to call it artificial is to miss the point. The obvious effort needed to create it becomes part of its beauty.
A professional cleaner, Cruz is first seen sweeping the grave of her parents, who died together in a fire. Before long, she's forced to confront a flurry of unexpected problems, beginning when her shiftless, alcoholic husband (Antonio de la Torre) reveals that he's lost his job, and continuing when he decides to spend his first day of unemployment making sexual advances to Cruz's daughter (Yohana Cobo). That decision has some unexpectedly bloody consequences that leave Cruz a widow while challenging her cleaning skills, but as she does her best to forestall the inevitable discovery of a crime, a funny thing happens: The inevitable takes its time coming. The story goes in another direction entirely, as Cruz takes over a restaurant abandoned by her landlord, while she and sister Lola Dueñas laugh off, at least for a while, rumors that the ghost of their mother (erstwhile Almodóvar leading lady Carmen Maura) returned to help her dying sister.
From there, the plot bends in several different directions, but the film doesn't always curve with it. Almodóvar speaks, as always, in the language of Hollywood melodramas, but he twists the language for his own purposes, and the deeper he gets into his career, the more comfortable he's gotten with making that language his own. In an '80s film like What Have I Done To Deserve This? or Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar would have let the plot build steam in the service of a high-camp explosion, but here, the emotions matter—the easy interaction between Cruz, Dueñas, and later, others. The comfort of family and friends in times of crisis gets the foreground; the crises themselves drift to the back. That's occasionally to the film's detriment, since it lacks the propulsion of recent efforts like Bad Education, but it's no less rich. Almodóvar is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much deeper, and now they run deeper still.


How to handle change in life effectively!
South Platte Counseling offers counseling, life change - transition therapy, empty nester, anxiety, addiction, PTSD, aging and depression treatment in Denver and Englewood, Colorado.
Change…and I'm not talking about the coins in your pocket.
The only sure thing in life is change. How come so many of us have such a problem with change? It occurs naturally, yet we continually fight it. One of the most frustrating things for me is when I know I need to change something, I know what changes need to take place, yet I still don't do anything about it.
A good place to start would be to explain the stages of change developed by Carlo C. DiClemente and J. O. Prochaska.
Individuals in the pre-contemplation stage of change are not even thinking about changing their behavior. They are not even aware that change needs to take place.
Individuals in the contemplation stage of change are willing to consider that change needs to happen, and the possibility offers hope for change. However, people who are contemplating change are often highly ambivalent. They are on the fence. Contemplation is not a commitment or a decision to change. People at this stage are often quite interested in learning and gathering information about the change.
In the contemplation stage, people look at risk and rewards. They consider the pros and cons of their behavior and the pros and cons of change. They think about the previous attempts they have made to change and what has caused failure or success in the past.
Deciding to change is the benchmark of the determination stage. All the pros and cons, all the risk-rewards, are finally tipping the balance in favor of change. Not all ambivalence has been resolved, but ambivalence no longer seems unattainable to change. Most individuals in this stage will make a serious attempt to change in the near future.
Individuals in this stage of change put their plan into action. This stage typically involves making some form of commitment--public or private--to change in order to get external or internal confirmation of the plan. Making a public commitment helps people obtain the support they need to change. People often find it very helpful to know that others are watching and cheering them on. The action stage normally takes three to six months to complete.
Change requires building a new pattern of behavior over time. The real test of change is long-term sustained change over many years. This stage of successful change is called "maintenance." In this stage, the change has become firmly established.
When I think about change, I feel deep down it's a blow to ego or self-esteem. We are saying to ourselves that something is not right and needs some action. At a gut level, we defend against this and hunker down in our comfort zone, even if our comfort zone may not be a pleasant place. The first step is awareness, and this is where change starts: reframing what we say to ourselves and others in positive ways. Starting out with behaviors and taking small, simple, specific steps is a great place to start.
A quick example of how this applies to me: I probably have 13 books on my nightstand that I am reading or wanting to read. I could say that I will read all of the books on my nightstand in 2019 and that would be a goal. Instead, I am going to try to read for 15 minutes each night. The latter is small and instills a habit that I want to acquire, whereas a goal, once completed, allows you to stop or beat yourself up for not completing it.
As I think about change, I will sit in quiet reflection and pay attention to what I need to be aware of. With awareness, I can then move in the direction of change. After I contemplate the change, I can then make plans to incorporate it. My plans for change will be small and doable behaviors. I will be compassionate with myself and flexible in my change. I know that fear will keep me stuck and try to hold me back as a new awareness emerges. I know the voices in my head will tell me how hard change is and that it would be easier to do nothing. I know that change is the only thing in life that is constant and it is a lot less painful to embrace it than oppose it.
Kirk Johnson is the owner of South Platte Counseling Center in Englewood, Colorado. Kirk is a licensed professional counselor and licensed addictions counselor. He also teaches at Regis University in the graduate school of counseling. His passion is helping people realize their full potential.


Chicks dig scars. This means that were it not for my odious personality, I'd be completely snowed under. My head looks like a dog's had a go at Kryten from Red Dwarf.
Obviously, I've been through the majority of the reasons for this here before. However, I just looked at the date when I was struck with the dazzling realisation that! It's been 5 years to the day since I had the operation to screw my neck back together.
Five years of being bionic, almost to the hour that I'm writing this. They've been exciting times. Actually, they haven't really. But considering the exciting times that led me into that situation that's probably for the best.
It was an exciting operation, mind you. It lasted about 3 or 4 hours, I think. Two neurosurgeons went in through the front of my neck and screwed my spine back together (for those experts amongst you, it was my odontoid process, I had a type 2 fracture of C2). All the while I was being CT scanned, so a live-action 3D model of my head and neck was available to make sure they didn't do anything really daft, like accidentally drive the screw into the bottom of my brain. I blanche to think how expensive this must have all been. All hail Great Britain! A country where, at the moment at least, you can really seriously injure yourself without financial ruin!
The mark of a good surgeon, the saying goes, is that they leave no mark. And so it proved to be. The sum total of the outward physical evidence of what I sincerely hope is the coolest operation I will ever have: a 2½-inch long scar, almost invisible to the naked eye. Perhaps this is why chicks don't dig me so much. Perhaps chicks should carry portable x-ray machines and metal detectors.
The good people responsible were Hurstwood Park Neurosciences Centre in Haywards Heath. A magnificent bunch. Such was their efficiency that, having checked in to the hospital on the 9th and been operated on on the 10th, by teatime on Saturday 12th I was at home again. I can't recommend them highly enough. I would also recommend you do your best to avoid having to use their services in the first place, mind you.


We love this picture from one of our fun trips to Branson, Missouri!
We met in Texas. We dated for THREE LONG YEARS, and have since been married thirteen. We have two three sweet boys ages one month, two years, and four years.
The Wanderers are a fun-loving family who enjoy being outdoors, music, arts of most every kind, craft shows, and BOOKS!
Our site, The Winsome Wanderer is designed to be a helpful source to families on the topics of parenting, marriage, and the organization, cleaning and design of the home. We certainly don't have all the answers, but we have lots of great ideas, haha. Sharing what has worked for us and what hasn't, wisdom from those around us, and lots of great ideas, we hope you will enjoy your reading. At The Winsome Wanderer, you will find the hilarious, the helpful, the serious, and the mysterious. Read us for fun and to be informed.
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A WALKABOUT is a spontaneous journey through the wilderness of one's choosing in an effort to satisfy one's itchy feet, a need to be elsewhere, the craving for the open road, that space over the horizon, Or, maybe it just feels good to go walking around … :wink: Yeah. It's WALKABOUT. Thanks Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan via the Urban Dictionary).
We are thrilled to be taking you along with us as we Walkabout to Reach the Wonderful!


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Khamenei Breaks His Silence on Recent Protests in Iran
Written by Admin on June 6, 2018 . Posted in NEWS
Khamenei, Iranian regime's Supreme Leader, speaks on the anniversary of the death of Khomeini, his predecessor.
Supreme Leader of the Iranian regime, Ali Khamenei spoke at an event on Monday, May 4th, to acknowledge the death of the regime's founder, Khomeini. He used the occasion to address the threats his clerical regime faces in Iran today.
Khamenei spoke of the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK), the orchestrators behind many of the recent protests and focal point for the Iranian opposition. He insisted that the rivalry between the regime and the MEK has been present since the regime's founding days under Khomeini. He said, "Since day one after the revolution, hypocrite groups [the derogatory name regime uses doe MEK] have existed, making a stance against our Islamic state and… creating problems for us".
Dwindling International Support
After acknowledging the MEK and the threat it poses to the regime, Khamenei moved onto the difficulties his regime faces abroad. With the US now out of the Iran deal and economic sanctions about to come into effect, he warned his supporters of foreign governments and their influence. He accused "foreign governments" of "imposing a disfigured deal to our country".
However, Khamenei did concede that the Iranian people had been protesting the corrupt regime. While trying to blame outside powers for it, he acknowledged that recent protestors in Tehran had expressed anger at regime's meddling in other parts of the Middle East. He said, "one day in Tehran's streets… we witnessed people chanting "Not Gaza, Not Lebanon".
He also addressed claims that the recent protests had included protestors from all walks of Iran life. He refuted the claim and described it as an enemy conspiracy.
Rhetorics that only show regime's weak position
He ended the speech by threatening other countries. "The enemy knows if they launch one missile, we'll launch dozens back", he said. Interestingly, the regime-affiliated Fars news agency titled the piece covering Khamenei's speech, "If they launch one missile, we'll launch two". It's now a fact that the regime uses similar rhetorics everytime in crisis, in order to cover up the deepening crisis that has engulfed the regime, given the sanctions and the rising protests across Iran.
Washington post quoting an expert on Iran, regarding similar threats by Khamenei on regime's reaction to the extension of sanctions after the U.S. pulled out of JCPOA, wrote: "The supreme leader's threat to step up enrichment is an attempt to use nuclear blackmail to force Europe to save his regime from an economic and political crisis of his own making".
While the regime has been using its Ballistic Missiles against the neighboring countries, Khamenei went on to outline the importance of Iran's missile development programs, and their role in the regime's security. He said, "producing a variety of missiles and the strength of our missiles will provide security for our country."
This is while experts consider the Iranian regime's ICBM program, affiliated to its nuclear weaponry program.
Khamenei ended his tirade with another attempt to destabilize the wider region. He spoke in Arabic and called on the region's Arab youth to rise up against their governments. His comments are yet another example of the Iranian regime's meddling in international affairs and deliberate undermining of other governments in the Middle East.
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Iran's theocratic and decidedly unsavory regime has been hoping that a policy of ruthless repression and outright lies about the … more
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Every Argument Has Two Sides
We'd like to be a reference for anybody who wants to know both sides of any topic.
Every argument has two sides. A small minority of people refuse to acknowledge this, so steeped in their beliefs that recognizing the opposition is either too scary or too mind-blowing for their sad, feeble brains. Trying to argue with these people is impossible because an argument requires both parties to accept that multiple sides exist: when you've chosen ignorance as bliss, there's almost no way to break down that barrier.
For the vast majority of people, arguments are a commonplace part of life. I argue daily about a wide variety of topics: Is Lebron the greatest basketball player ever? Is The Walking Dead the worst written show on television? Can a person survive eating a lone cup of blueberries for breakfast each morning? The more you know about each side, the more fully-formed your argument can become, and the more your pool of knowledge will expand.
There's definitely one subject that remains the gold standard for arguing, the murky, shifting views of the political world. The usual course of action is attaching your name to a party (REPUBLICAN! or DEMOCRAT!), then spending the remainder of time defending your party's stance on each issue. Some argue blindly, some informedly, but recognizing that there is an opposition is key.
Foragainst.com was created with with this purpose in mind. Instead of forcing people to visit the websites dedicated to their own political agendas, why not present a site that acknowledges both sides of a debate, presents them, and then allow the reader to decide what to do with that information? You have a brain, now go use it.
"The website stems from my frustration with the last presidential election," Foragainst.com creator Kent Coleman told Beehive Startups in a recent interview. "You watch the news and there is such drastic bias on both sides. I just wanted to understand the issues: what is this person running on and what is this person running on? I decided if objectivity doesn't exist, I'll at least create something that brings both sides together, side-by-side."
By bringing together opposing viewpoints on the same website, Coleman has created a space where people can do what they're best at, reading about an issue from all possible angles and then using logical thought to discern what they believe. With a wide range of hot button topics (gun control, amnesty, abortion, presidential candidates, etc.) divided into two categories (For and Against), Foragainst.com is built to be read by people of any background and any belief system.
"I want to test the general idea with politics and see if we can get a little bit of traction out of it, see if people like the idea," Coleman said.
If people do like the idea, Coleman has plans to expand into other areas, giving users the chance to arm themselves when debating about sports, tech, or a multitude of other things. In the meantime, Foragainst.com will focus strictly on politics while embracing the steadfast idea that every argument has two sides.
"We'd like to be a reference for anybody who wants to know both sides of any topic," Coleman said.
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Q: Fill an area between two lines in a chart in Excel There are a lot of hacks to fill the area between two lines in a chart; however, I want one that works seamlessly between 2003/2007 and mac 2011. Preferably, something that is not a hack.

A: I realize this is an old post, but I came across it looking for the same thing and created simple how-to with a data set and examples.
I recently had the need to create an Excel chart with the space between two lines shaded.  After searching the Internet I was still confused on the best way.

I figured there had to be a way and after a few hours I came up with the following idea.  The simplest way I have found is to use a mix of stacked bar chart and line charts.
The first thing to do is layout our data.  For this example I used the following data:
In Excel Mac 2011, create the following data in columns A through F:
A:
Leave A1 blank, in A2 put the title "period"
B: Leave B1 blank, in B2 through B8 enter: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
C: C1 through C8 enter: Base, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21
D: D1 through D8: Gap, =E2-C2, =E3-C3, etc..
E: E1 through E8: Top, 9, 8.25, 8.5, 8.75, 9, 9.25, 9.5
F: F1 through F8: Bottom, =C2, =C3, =C4, etc...
The things to pay attention to in the data set are:
The X (horizontal) axis label is offset to the left of the first column of data to let Excel know that this column is the x-axis and not another data set.
The second column, "Hidden Base" and the last column, "Bottom" are the same data.  I actually used =C2, =C3, etc… for column F.
The Gap column calculates the difference between the Top and the Hidden Base, =E2-C2, =E3-C3, etc..

Select the entire data set, A1 through F8, and create a Stacked Area chart.

Notice how the x-axis has "Period" as a label.
Next, select the "Bottom" series, which should be on top, by clicking on it and changing the series type to a Marked Line.

Do the same for the "top" series.
Now, select the "Hidden Base" series, right click and select "Format Data Series" and choose "No Fill", "No Line" and turn off shadows.

Now select the legend and then select the "Hidden Base" key and delete it.
At this point you can adjust the markers, fills, line weights, titles, etc.. to achieve whatever your looking for.

You can also adjust the data and the shaded area continues to work well.

Enjoy!  I hope you find this helpful!
See the post here as well: http://www.illuminateandenumerate.com/2013/11/how-to-fill-shade-between-lines-in.html

A: Best I think of is using an Area chart and filling the lower area with white so you get something like this.


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It was raining. The street lights and shop signs made quivering reflections in the puddles forming in great lakes in the sunken block paving. A street cleaner in a giant 'hi-viz' waterproof coat ambled along the street, pushing his trolley with one hand, holding a litter picker in the other.
Despite the earliness of the hour, the staff of the on-trend fashion store 'Emin8' had already arrived and were clearing the shop floor, bundling stock into boxes, cleaning rails and stacking hangers.
Ruben, the store manager staggered through to the back room with a large box just as his phone chirruped. He set the box down in the outgoing pile and read the display, smiling. Then he hurried back through to the shop front.
The news was greeted with mixed reactions from the different staff members. Some were swept along by their manager's excitement, as eager to see the new collection as he was. Others were less enthusiastic, still smarting over being called in so early or being asked to work on their days off.
For the next ten minutes Ruben was in a spin, directing staff to move rails here, display blocks there, sweep sections of carpet too long covered and reorder the already ordered boxes awaiting collection.
Finally he stopped, raising a hand in the air in the manner of a recon scout. He diplomatically ignored the derisory snorts from Heather and Tom. He had no patience with their world-weary cynicism today, he needed his staff to sparkle for the promised new collection.
Anneka hopped from foot to foot, clasping her hands and beaming. 'Oh, I can't wait!' prompting further snorts from Tom and Heather.
The staff dutifully followed him through to the store room with Tom and Heather trailing at the back. Ruben was not alone in ignoring them. By now most of the staff were pretty tired of their attitude. The new range had been heavily promoted on the social networks, generating excitement whilst taking care to reveal absolutely nothing about it. Everyone, with the exception of Tom and Heather, was keen to see what the fuss was all about.
Ruben hauled the metal door up just as the truck was reversing into place. The driver hopped down from the cab, scanning his paperwork. He jolted to a halt when he looked up and saw the line of faces watching him.
'Ruben Winter I presume?' he said as he hopped up into the back of the truck.
'That's me!' said Ruben, rubbing his hands together.
'Emin8 Summer Collection, packs ES4, 5 and 6,' said the driver from somewhere among the trolleys of boxes.
Suddenly the trolleys surged forwards and all the staff stepped back involuntarily. Anneka nearly tripped over Tom in her excitement, gushing her thanks as he righted her. Heather scowled at them both from a chair at the back of the storeroom.
Five minutes later the truck had gone, along with the old collection, and Ruben was standing beside the boxes containing the new range, his head slightly bowed. The staff watched in awed silence as he took his parcel knife from his pocket and held it over the tape of the first box. He paused reverentially, then carefully sliced through the tape and peeled back the lid.
'Everyone ready?' he said, in little more than a whisper.
Most of the staff nodded eagerly and crowded closer, huddling around the box. Ruben looked inside and pulled out the topmost garment. He held it up, rotating it so everyone could see. The room fell silent, briefly. Then Heather started laughing, followed quickly by Tom.
'I … I don't understand,' said Anneka.
Ruben frowned at the garment, then peered into the box, rummaging through and pulling various items out. They were all distressingly similar.
He returned some time later, pale-faced and trembling, to see Tom modelling a key piece from the new range. He swallowed hard and slumped against the doorpost as Heather emerged from the ladies loo sporting an equally outrageous ensemble. Anneka was crying in a corner of the room while the rest of the staff clapped and cheered, laughing uproariously. They belatedly spotted him watching from the doorway and the laughs and claps slowly died away. Anneka sniffed dramatically and got shakily to her feet.
'Well?' she asked, her voice laden with bleak hope.
Tom and Heather collapsed against each other, hooting with laughter.
'What?' said Anneka again, her knees buckling.
'This is what we'll be selling,' he said expressionlessly.
He stepped aside, closing his eyes tight and shuddering as Tom and Heather sashayed past him, wiggling and gyrating, he in a poison pink mankini with feather enhancements, she in a cut away black bodysuit with see-through panels and matching knee boots. He offered up a silent prayer of thanks that they hadn't found the 'adult toys' in the bottom of the third box yet.


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One big thing COVID has done is change our habits. There are things I used to love doing that I miss tremendously and then there are some things I've learned to live without and may never go back to doing at all. For instance, I loved going to the movie theater at least once a month and especially for certain special movies that must be seen in the entertaining atmosphere of a movie theater. But after being restricted from that pleasure for eight months, I find I don't really need that activity at all. I don't think I'll ever go to a movie theater again.
There are many other activities and events that we took part in eight months ago that we no longer do. Some of these experiences are ones we really miss and some of them are just things we may have done out of habit and COVID broke that habit. Over the last eight months, we formed new habits to replace the old ones. Healthline.com states, "It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic." Well, we've had 245 days since the first school shut down due to the virus to create new habits—some of which are now automatic.
Many of these new habits are great. I know busy families have enjoyed the additional together time that they didn't even know they were missing. Several people have finished projects that they had been slowly working on for years in their limited free time. Normally stressed out people are doing creative activities they always dreamed about trying, but just never stopped long enough to accomplish these dreams. There are some old ways of living we will never return to, nor would we really want to.
One of the new habits that has developed during this time is church online. When we were first told we couldn't meet in person together, we were devastated. Zoom quickly became a household word and phone calls became more frequent. We missed each other. We felt discouraged and alone. We looked for online sermons for encouragement and shared links with other Christian friends. One of my friends said he listened to more sermons during quarantine than he had listened to in his whole life because he had so many preachers from his past who were putting messages online, and he wanted to hear them all! Sunday mornings eventually became stress free "Sabbaths." We could have "church" at any time convenient for us, sitting comfortably on our couches. It became quite nice, in fact. Church on a screen, however, was never meant to replace church as a community.
A study of the original word now translated as "church" shows: Latin ecclesia, from Greek ekklesia, where the word is a compound of two segments: "ek," a preposition meaning "out of," and a verb, "kaleo," signifying "to call" - together, literally, "to call out." That usage soon disappeared and was replaced with "assembly, congregation, council," or "convocation."
It's not a place, it's a people. It's not a building, it's a community. It's not a structure to meet in, it's the body of Christ to live in. This people, this community, this body needs to be together. Churches all over the country have seen a significant decline in attendance. Some of this is due to precautions taken to avoid the virus; but, many times it is due to the replacement by other "habits." The church is no longer a people "called out" joining together as a community, but a substandard, impersonal meeting with a screen.
Hebrews 10:25 says, "Do not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching." God knew we were habitual creatures. He also knew we needed each other. So if you never step into another movie theater again, that's okay; but don't get used to being absent from the gathering Jesus felt so strongly about that He died on the cross to make it within our reach.


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A Critical Analysis Of Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, mainly portrays the transformation of a stubborn flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a professional and elegant woman through the handiwork of her "sculptor," Professor Henry Higgins. Eliza was discovered by Higgins and Colonel Pickering at Covent Garden, where she was caught off guard selling flowers to Pickering, while Eliza was talking Higgins took note of her horrendous language. Soon, as expected Eliza appears on Higgins doorstep to ask for his language skills in order to become a flower-shop girl.
Pygmalion is based on Pygmalion, a sculptor who falls mad in-love with the statue he created. In the myth, Aphrodite brings the statue alive, but Pygmalion forgets that as the statue is now human, magically the statue he created has a mind of her own. You can see how George Bernard Shaw has incorporated the myth into his play,…show more content…
Doolittle is persistent in her mission of mastering the English language. Yet the real test is of her ability to attain savior faire. Bernard Shaw utilizes Eliza 's lowborn speech as derogatory towards British society, though this same criticism is cast upon the upper class during the whole book. It is also transparent that the higher classes' only judgment relies on speech. Higgins and Pickering 's treatment of Eliza throughout the book and her personal growth differentiated from each other due to their varying classes of society. Eliza rises to a higher social cast not only due to the help and expertise of Higgins and Pickering, but also through her own personal development as a
The Magic Toyshop Analysis
Once upon a time stirs memories…… Angela carter's second novel "The Magic ToyShop" is a large spread of mythology, fairy tales, feminity, sexuality and reality. The protagonist of the novel Melanie, like every little girl dreams and fantasizes about herself. Her dreams twined with her fate, walks her through her destiny. The novel commences with Melanie's desire to wear her mother's wedding dress. Her desire and curiosity to feel like a woman, to feel like a naughty little princess, this episode ends up with her mistakenly destroying her mother precious wedding dress.
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Pygmalion tries to find his ideal image of a woman, anima, in Galatea, a sculpture he created. After finishing his work which was so perfect, he fell deeply in love with it, which made the statue become alive with the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, written in 1912, derives its name from this myth. It is a modern metamorphosis of the myth in which Higgins, Professor of phonetics, succeeded to improve the social class of Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl, through the power of language (Mugglestone, 1993). In other words, Higgins uses Eliza in his sociolinguistic experiment and transforms her into a woman of a high class, an "artificial duchess" (Crompton, 1967).
Symbolism In La Belle Epoque
La Belle Époque was the time period in between the late 19th century and early 20th century where the standard of living increased as well as the demands for leisure culture/entertainment. Women also began to be treated better more specifically in the workforce which led to more women having jobs, which meant they would be able to support themselves. This leads to women also wanting better/equal working conditions and fairer laws. With all this power coming to the women it is obvious that they would also want to be able to vote. More importantly though la Belle Époque brought a new wave of art style called symbolism.
Liza Dolittle As A Flower Girl Analysis
2. The transformation of Liza Doolittle from a common flower girl to a lady. The bet is accepted by the professor that he would transform Eliza the Shabby flower girl into a lady and that she would be able to pass on as a duchess in the garden of an ambassador. The process of her education is difficult. Eliza has courage, talent, and determination as so as able to face the difficulties through the process of her education in phonetics.
John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums Symbolism
Symbolism provides a reader with both subtle and distinct details to understand what is not being said aloud in a short story. The title of the story clearly points out the most obvious symbol in the story: the chrysanthemums. Elisa Allen's beloved chrysanthemums represent her identity, femininity, and sexuality as a woman. The story never mentions the couple having children, but it is apparent to the reader that Elisa wants to have them. She tends to her beautiful flowers almost as if they were children as "she pull[s] out the little crisp shoots, trim[s] off the leaves of each one with her scissors and [lies] it on a small orderly pile" (Steinbeck 420).
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What Does Carménère Wine Taste Like?
Carménère is a medium bodied savory red wine originating from France, but now predominantly produced in Chile. The name for the grape was derived from the French word for crimson "carmin" referring to the bright crimson autumn leaves of the vines prior to leaf fall.
It was originally planted in the Medoc region in France and occasionally used in small percentages in Bordeaux blends. Carménère was largely abandoned in France due to its poor fruit set and unreliable yields after the threat of phylloxera in the 19th century. Around this time, Carménère was brought to Chile and originally planted amongst other varietals, including Merlot. It was later identified and now flourishes in Chile's optimal warm and dry growing environment.
Carménère is Chile's quintessential grape varietal. In 1998 it was declared the official variety for the country. It is found principally in the Colchagua, Rapel, and Maipo valleys. Outside of Chile, Carmenere is found in small quantities — North Eastern Italy in the Veneto is of particular note. Carménère is produced as a mono varietal but often is accompanied with Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon.
What Does Carménère Wine Taste Like? What Foods Pair Well with Carménère?
Carménère is deep and bright ruby red in color. When harvested early, Carménère can lend toward the herbaceous side of the flavor spectrum. When optimally ripe, these wines exhibit pronounced notes of red raspberry and savory sour cherry fruit. Spicy earth notes are present along with dark chocolate, tobacco and leather.
The high acid and soft tannin profile makes Carménère an ideal food pair with a variety of cuisine from cheeses to meats with lower fat content.
Many fine examples are found in Chile such as Montes Alpha Carménère from Colchagua Valley, Chile. The wine demonstrates the elegant quality that can be enjoyed upon release or will age gracefully for 10 years. From the Veneto in Italy, Inama Carménère Piu is another example of a premium fine wine made primarily from Carménère.
Frank La Susa II, DipWSET and his brother have been running a wine bar, retail and event company in Milwaukee since 2012 called Corvina Wine Company. Aside from on premise service and tastings they participate in corporate events, festivals, and wine tastings throughout the country. He initially approached wine studies with the Court of Master Sommeliers but found that his international business background suited the trade element and the comprehensive sections of the WSET Diploma.


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ECHINODONTIUM BALLOUII (BANKER) GROSS, comb. nov. Steccherinum ballouii BANKER, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 341. 1909.
Description: ECHINODONTIUM BALLOUII (BANKER) GROSS, comb. nov. Steccherinum ballouii BANKER, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 341. 1909.
Radulum ballouii (BANKER) LLOYD, Mycological Writings 3, Mycological letter No. 29, page 1. 1910.
Illustrations. Figures 1, 2, and 15; see also BALLOU (1908), BANKER (1909), and LLOYD (1916a).
Macroscopic. Basidiocarps (Figs. 1 and 2) lignicolous, perennial, effused-reflexed to conchate or bell-shaped, woody, occurring singly or in groups, 2-8 x 1-4 x 1-2.5 cm; upper surface (Fig. 2). Fuscous Black to Blackish Brown (3), rimose-rugose, zonate; margin Sepia, 1-3 mm wide, acute, undulating, pubescent, under surface (Fig. 1) warted and fertile; context Hair Brown, woody, zonate (apparent with hand lens), 2-5 mm thick; hymenophore Citrine-Drab to Sepia in herbarium specimens, apparently golden-yellow when fresh (LLOYD, 1916a; BANKER, 1909), dentate; teeth scattered to adjacent, subulate to wart-like, up to 1 cm long, 1-2 mm in diam, apices acute to obtuse, sometimes composed of several small warts, inner tissue darker.
Microscopic. Context hyphae of two types; skeletal hyphae (Fig. 15e) thick-walled to solid, 3.5-4.5 µm in diam, smooth, brown, darkening slightly in KOH solution, rarely nodose-septate; generative hyphae (Fig. 15f) thin-walled, 3.5-4.5 µm in diam, hyaline, smooth, nodose-septate with secondary simple septa, occasionally branched; hyphae of the inner tissue of the teeth similar but frequently branched and frequently nodose-septate; hymenium hyaline; subhymenium stratified, up to 200 µm thick; cystidia (Fig. 15a) subulate to fusiform, 25-45 x 5-9 µm, upper portion incrusted, usually protruding up to 15 µm, originally thin-walled and hyaline, becoming thick-walled and colored (Fig. 15b) similar to skeletal hyphae; basidia (Fig. 15c) clavate, 20-25 x 6-8 µm, 4-sterigmate; spores (Fig. 15d) ellipsoid, 7-8 x 4-6 µm, hyaline, strongly amyloid, lightly echinulate.
Rot character. Undetermined. Host. Chamaecyparis thyoides. Range. Known only from New Jersey.
Specimens examined. NEW JERSEY - Forked River, Ocean County, New Jersey, on C. thyoides, W. H. BALLOU, April 6, 1908, TYPE (NY); Orange County (apparently Ocean County), on C. thyoides, W. H. BALLOU, May 1, 1909 (NYS and BPI).
Discussion. Both BANKER (1909) and LLOYD (1916a) recognized a resemblance to Echinodontium tinctorium. If either had compared it to E. tsugicola (then considered a doubtful species) a greater resemblance would have been noted. Neither Steccherinum nor Radulum include species with perennial and woody basidiocarps, and no species of either genus is known to form a thick, stratified subhymenium. Furthermore, E. ballouii is very similar to E. japonicum, although there is good evidence for two distinct species. E. ballouii is treated as a separate species because the spores are larger, the teeth are wart-like, the cystidia are more fusiform, and the habitat is coniferous rather than angiospermous wood. Unfortunately, collections of E. japonicum are rare, and E. ballouii apparently has not been collected since 1909. Cultures of both species are unavailable, and the determination of their relationship may not be clarified until cultural comparisons including interfertility tests can be made.
Basidiocarps grow attached to dead branches high in the crown of living Atlantic white-cedar. The wood of this tree is valuable and most of the older stands have been harvested. A mature stand is being preserved in the Lebanon State Park, New Jersey; so there is hope of collecting this fungus in the future. Several recent attempts by the author have been unsuccessful.