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An Ideal Black Girl returns with "Dimedi."
It took a bird chirping outside her window in the bright, morning light to bring singer Natu Camara back to music. It was 2013 and the West African singer — once a rising star in her homeland of Guinea — found herself in New York City, mourning the death of her husband; her grief compounded by the disorientation of being suddenly alone and speaking only French. Awakened by the intrusion, she engaged the bird in conversation.
"I started singing when the bird is here, when the bird is here, what is the message?", Camara explains. From the noisy bird she finally grasped what friends had been trying to tell her, a moment she recalls in the lyrics of her song "Khony": "I knew it was time to go, so I stepped to my feet, no need for shoes, I started to fly, flew like a bird"
Link to YouTube video "Arabama Di"
Shaken out of her period of mourning, Natu was finally able to pick up her guitar, a gift from her late husband, and went back to making music full time. "I went back to my jobs and quit," she says. Four years passed, she had over 30 songs written when she met Malian superstar Salif Keita, who was in town performing two at SOB's. A recording session with Keita's musicians in Brooklyn ensued, followed by a longer session in Bamako, and the result is Dimedi — Camara's brand new solo album, set for release in Spring 2019.
"As an artist there are moments in life where you say "where am i? What am i doing? what happened to the Nat i knew?"
February 23rd, Natu premiered the video for her song "Arabama Di" at a Harlem viewing party. It was filmed in the rice paddies of Tayaki and streets of Conakry by Abeeba multimedia. This spring she will introduce the music to American audiences. Most of the songs speak about children, women's rights, human rights are written from her experiences.
"Dimedi" produced by Natu Camara, Djessou and Abou arranged by Natu Camara. Dimedi album cover photo: Jamie Ambler
Dimedi was recorded in a few weeks at Studio Moffou in Bamako — with members of Salif Keita and Rokia Traore's bands — but the album was a long time in the making. "A friend of mine with a studio in Brooklyn proposed to record two songs ["Gonlein" and "Nnakhounde"], if could pay the band," Natu explains. "Salif Keita's musicians agreed to come. After some time Salif himself showed up and clearly loved the music."
A short time later she received a call from Keita's guitarist Djessou. "Listen sister," he said, I think you have a lot to give to this world, but New York is super expensive — why don't you come to Mali and record your album?" A month later, she was in Bamako recording Dimedi. The result is 13 songs that once heard are hard to get out of your head.
The sessions left a big impression on Camara. "The musicians are so disciplined, and they love music," she says. "It's not easy to find. [They] dedicated all their time coming in the morning and leaving whenever we were done. Sometimes we would in the studio stay all night. They would say don't you get tired. It's unbelievable that a girl can be like this; they were so impressed, and not used to women taking control like this."
Amit Peled and Natu Camara performing a few songs from "Dimedi" at the video preview party
It wasn't the first time Natu surpassed expectations in her musical career. As a teenager , She and three high school friends formed Ideal Black Girls — the first all female rap group in West Africa. Forming a rap group at that time was about as far as one could go from the expectations that Guinea's conservative culture held for girls. Ideal Black Girls overcame all obstacles to have a huge impact as pop artists and role models. They recorded two albums and toured West Africa to great acclaim.
The Ideal Black Girls (L-R) Hadjy, Missbah, Dine, Natu. Formed in 1997, they were the first all female rap group in West Africa. Photo courtesy of the artist
Natu says "we stood for women's rights, girl's rights, girls respect, some would say we were extremely feminist. In everything we would do we wanted to have more women than men. We created the only all woman's festival, Rapsodie, in 2004, with a second edition in 2005. We hired only girls, I trained 24 girls. On our tours everywhere we went we didn't see girls, we figured there were girls but they didn't get help, so we invited girls from Senegal, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast."
Dimedi meets life with a song; Natu wraps her experiences and observations on life in Africa and New York in the exquisite melodies and cosmopolitan rhythms of contemporary West Africa. Most of the songs on the album speak about children, women's rights, human rights, and are written directly from Natu's experiences.
Natu and Guinean kids. Projected photo by Jamie Ambler
The title track, "Dimedi", Sung in the Soussou and Fulani dialects, the song recalls sitting in the moonlight telling fairy tales. It's a striking, slow tempo track that reaches back into memories of her childhood, with kora, guitar, upright bass, and piano prominent in the hypnotic arrangement. "My grandmother was in a small tiny village. a lot of my behavior came from there. The whole village was leaning on her, that was a big deal, so inspirational to me."
🇬🇳N'oubliez pas de vous Abonner pour voir mes nouveautés. -Don't forget to subscribe to my Channel for more viodeos. Dédié à ma grand-mère et tous les enfants du monde. Dedicated to my grand-mother and to all the children in the world.
"In 'Arabama Di' I speak about the problems in my country — the dirty streets, roads with too much traffic, kids selling things on their head in the streets instead of going to school. Instead of attacking the government, I dictated the problems and how we're gonna fix it." In the video Natu strides through the streets joined by more and more bystanders moving forward as one. " 'Arabama Di', in general is speaking to the government and the population, saying: 'If you don't take care of the country no one will'."
" 'Yigui' talks about your trusted person, this is an homage to my group Ideal Black Girls', Natu continues. "They are the only ones who know me in and out… No matter what the situation they are my partners in crime. I talk about where we came from and where we are going. Wherever you are, they are right there next to you — thinking about each other wherever you are, no matter the distance, I still love you. I will always be next to you."
Natu Camara talking about her music at a Harlem viewing party, February 23rd
"Hello," sung in English, comes from Natu's experiences living in New York City. Chance encounters, a conversation with an elderly woman sitting on a bench in Central Park, coming up from the subway and finding a man the on the sidewalk having a diabetic crisis. "Hello" reminds listeners how we tend to forget about each other in a crowded, busy world.
"I have learned a lot in this city," she says. "Back home I used to play on big stages, as a kid, but I never played in a bar or cafe before. I started playing bars and cafes in New York which got me very close to people and brought some other feelings to me, a connection. When I went back home I made people experience that because they are not used to it, they only see big shows. People said 'Oh my god, I could spend my day listening to you!' [When] I teach them the chorus, it's priceless. I learned that here. thats a big deal!


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Grab a piece of quilt art and help raise funds for the Quilters' Guild.
The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles is made up of seventeen areas, Region 16 consists of the whole of Scotland and outlying Islands, which makes it the largest geographical region in the Quilters' Guild. It is a very active and enthusiastic region, and hosts some great regional events throughout the year.
This year the region produced a brilliant collection of journal quilts. These were offered for sale to raise funds for the new Guild headquarters, Museum and Art Gallery at St Anthony's Hall in York. They were exhibited at the Loch Lomond Quilt Show earlier this year, where Gillian took the photographs shown here in the Region 16 Journal Quilts album. Look out for a feature about the exhibition in the October issue of Popular Patchwork.
Some of these lovely quilts are still for sale. Unsold items are indicated in the album and details are given about how to buy one. Quilts cost £30 each and anyone interested should contact Region 16 Regional Co-ordinator, Lesley Hurrell. Any journal quilts that are still unsold by the Scottish Regional Day at Portlethen on 13th September will be included in a silent auction. Quilts are normally sent by first class post without incurring any extra cost, but should you wish to have it sent recorded delivery then there is an additional charge of £2 to cover the extra postage. Cheques should be made out to "The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles - Region 16". Please email Lesley to find out where to send your cheque, and to check for the latest availability of the quilts. This is a fantastic opportunity to help raise funds for a worthwhile cause, and a chance to own a little piece of art at a bargain price.
To learn more about Region 16, please see the Quilters' Guild website.To enquire about any of the featured Journal Quilts, please contact Region 16 Regional Co-ordinator, Lesley Hurrell.


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Jayant Kaikini and Ashwin Sanghi are among the winners of this year's Atta Galatta-BLF Prize
Jayant Kaikini won in the fiction category for a translation of his short stories and was also named the winner for Lifetime Achievement in Kannada.
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The Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize announced its winners for 2018 this week. Founded two years ago, the prize recognises works of both fiction and non-fiction.
The fiction category had two winning books this year, both of them short story collections that were translated into English – Jayant Kaikini's No Presents Please, translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, and Baburao Bagul's When I Hid My Caste, translated from the Marathi by Jerry Pinto. Pavan Varma's biographical Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker won in the non-fiction category, and Ashwin Sanghi's mythological thriller Keepers of the Kalachakra nabbed the Popular Choice Award.
Apart from naming him as a winner in the fiction category, the prize also recognised Jayant Kaikini for his entire body of work through the Literary Achievement in Kannada Award.
The writers will share a total purse of Rs 2 lakh and join past winners including Perumal Murugan and Ruskin Bond.

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Rosemary is a fragrant herb that is native to the Mediterranean and receives its name from the Latin words "ros" (dew) and "marinus" (sea), which means "dew of the Sea." It also grows in England, Mexico, the USA, and northern Africa, namely in Morocco. Known for its distinctive fragrance that is characterized by an energizing, evergreen, citrus-like, herbaceous scent, Rosemary Essential Oil is derived from the aromatic herb Rosmarinus Officinalis, a plant belonging to the Mint family, which includes Basil, Lavender, Myrtle, and Sage. Its appearance, too, is similar to Lavender with flat pine needles that have a light trace of silver.
Historically, Rosemary was considered sacred by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Romans, and it was used for numerous purposes. The Greeks wore Rosemary garlands around their heads while studying, as it was believed to improve memory, and both the Greeks and the Romans used Rosemary in almost all festivals and religious ceremonies, including weddings, as a reminder of life and death. In the Mediterranean, Rosemary leaves and Rosemary Oil was popularly used for culinary preparation purposes, while in Egypt the plant, as well as its extracts, were used for incense. In the Middle Ages, Rosemary was believed to be able to ward off evil spirits and to prevent the onset of the bubonic plague. With this belief, Rosemary branches were commonly strewn across floors and left in doorways to keep the disease at bay. Rosemary was also an ingredient in "Four Thieves Vinegar," a concoction that was infused with herbs and spices and used by grave robbers to protect themselves against the plague. A symbol of remembrance, Rosemary was also tossed into graves as a promise that loved ones who passed away would not be forgotten.
It was used throughout the civilizations in cosmetics for its antiseptic, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant properties and in medical care for its health benefits. Rosemary had even become a favorite alternative herbal medicine for the German-Swiss physician, philosopher, and botanist Paracelsus, who promoted its healing properties, including its ability to strengthen the body and to heal organs such as the brain, heart, and liver. Despite being unaware of the concept of germs, people of the 16th century used Rosemary as incense or as massage balms and oils to eliminate harmful bacteria, especially in the rooms of those suffering from illness. For thousands of years, folk medicine has also used Rosemary for its ability to improve memory, soothe digestive issues, and relieve aching muscles.
Rosemary Essential Oil's chemical composition consists of the following main constituents: α -Pinene, Camphor, 1,8-Cineol, Camphene, Limonene, and Linalool.
Used in aromatherapy, Rosemary Oil helps reduce stress levels and nervous tension, boost mental activity, encourage clarity and insight, relieve fatigue, and support respiratory function. It is used to improve alertness, eliminate negative moods, and increase the retention of information by enhancing concentration. The scent of Rosemary Essential Oil stimulates the appetite and is also known to reduce the level of harmful stress hormones that are released when involved intense experiences. Inhaling Rosemary Oil boosts the immune system by stimulating internal anti-oxidant activity, which in turn fights ailments caused by free radicals, and it relieves throat and nasal congestion by clearing the respiratory tract.
Diluted and used topically, Rosemary Essential Oil is known to stimulate hair growth, reduce pain, soothe inflammation, eliminate headaches, strengthen the immune system, and condition hair to make it look and feel healthy. Used in a massage, Rosemary Oil's detoxifying properties can facilitate healthy digestion, relieve flatulence, bloating and cramps, and relieve constipation. Through massage, this oil stimulates circulation, which allows the body to better absorb nutrients from food. In cosmetics for hair care, Rosemary Essential Oil's tonic properties stimulate hair follicles to lengthen and strengthen hair while slowing the graying of hair, preventing hair loss, and moisturizing dry scalp to relieve dandruff. Traditionally, Rosemary Oil combined with Olive Oil in a hot oil hair treatment has been known to darken and strengthen hair. The anti-microbial, antiseptic, astringent, antioxidant, and tonic properties of this oil make it a beneficial additive in skin care products that are meant to soothe or even treat dry or oily skin, eczema, inflammation, and acne. Effective for all skin types, this rejuvenating oil can be added to soaps, face washes, face masks, toners, and creams to achieve firm yet hydrated skin that appears to have a healthy glow that is free of unwanted marks.
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COSMETIC: Stimulant, Analgesic, Anti-inflammatory, Antiseptic, Anti-fungal, Anti-bacterial, Astringent, Disinfectant, Antioxidant.
ODOROUS: Anti-stress, Cognition-enhancement, Psycho-stimulant, Stimulant, Decongestant.
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Rosemary is a perennial bush that often grows on the sea cliffs of Spain, France, Greece, and Italy. The leaves of the aromatic Rosemary bush have a high oil concentration, and it is part of an aromatic family of herbs, which also includes Lavender, Basil, Mint, and Oregano to name a few.
Rosemary is a hardy plant that can withstand frost, but it also loves the sun and thrives in dry climates where the temperature is between 20ᵒ-25ᵒ Celsius (68ᵒ-77ᵒ Fahrenheit) and does not drop below -17ᵒ Celsius (0ᵒ Fahrenheit). Though Rosemary can grow in a small pot inside a home, when grown outside, the Rosemary bush can reach a height of approximately 5 ft. Due to its adaptability to various ecological conditions, Rosemary plants can vary in appearance in terms of their colors, the sizes of their flowers, and the aromas of their essential oils. The Rosemary plant requires adequate water drainage, as it will not grow well if it is over-irrigated or in soils with a high clay content, thus it can grow in the earth that ranges in soil type from sandy to clay loam soil as long as it has a pH range of 5,5 to 8,0.
The upper side of Rosemary leaves are dark and the undersides are pale and covered in thick hairs. The tips of the leaves begin to sprout small, tubular pale- to deep-blue flowers, which continue to bloom in the summer. Rosemary Essential Oil of the most superior quality is obtained from the flowering tops of the plant, although oils can also be obtained from the stems and leaves before the plant begins to flower. Rosemary fields are usually harvested once or twice a year, depending on the geographical region of cultivation. Harvesting is most often done mechanically, which allows more frequent cutting due to higher yields from rapid regrowth.
Before distillation, the leaves are dried either naturally by the heat of the sun or by using driers. Drying the leaves in the sun results in poor quality leaves for producing oils. The ideal drying method involves the use of a forced air-flow drier, which results in better quality leaves. After the product is dried, the leaves are further processed to have the stems removed. They are sieved to remove dirt.
HOW IS ROSEMARY OIL EXTRACTED?
Rosemary Essential Oil is most commonly extracted through the steam distillation of the plant's flowering tops and leaves. After distillation, the oil has a watery viscosity and can be colorless or pale yellow. It's powerful and refreshing smell is herbaceous and similar to mint with an undertone that is characterized as woody and balsamic.
The uses of Rosemary Essential Oil are abundant, ranging from medicinal and odorous to cosmetic. Its many forms include oils, gels, lotions, soaps, shampoos, and sprays, to name a few suggestions for homemade products.
Used in aromatherapy, the woody, evergreen scent of Rosemary can promote relaxation and boost alertness as well as brain function, thereby improving memory. To relieve stress while studying and maintain concentration, diffuse Rosemary Essential Oil in the room for a maximum of 30 minutes.
Diluted with a carrier oil and used topically, Rosemary Essential Oil's detoxifying and anesthetic properties can boost immunity by recharging the body's detoxification system. By diluting Rosemary Oil in a carrier oil such as Fractionated Coconut Oil and massaging it into the lymph nodes, the body will be stimulated to more rapidly eliminate waste and to soothe digestive ailments. Its analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties make it an ideal essential oil for relieving muscle aches and pains. For a massage oil that reduces pain, blend Rosemary Oil with Peppermint Oil and dilute the blend in Coconut Oil then rub on tender muscles and aching joints.
Rosemary Essential Oil's anti-viral, anti-microbial, and antiseptic properties make it a natural homemade multi-purpose cleaning spray to cleanse indoor environments and eliminate harmful bacteria therein. A dilution of Rosemary Oil in distilled white vinegar and water make a spray cleaner that is suitable to wipe down surfaces like countertops.
As per NAHA guidelines, we do not recommend the ingestion of essential oils. It is imperative to consult a medical practitioner before using Rosemary Essential Oil for therapeutic purposes. Pregnant and nursing women and those taking prescription drugs are especially advised not to use Rosemary Essential Oil without the medical advice of a physician. The oil may have a negative effect on the fetus and potentially lead to miscarriage. Rosemary Essential Oil should always be stored in an area that is inaccessible to children, especially those under the age of 7. Those with high blood pressure should avoid using this oil, as it may further elevate blood pressure.
When applied topically, Rosemary Essential Oil should be used in dilution – a carrier oil such as Almond, Coconut, Jojoba, Olive, or Hemp is recommended – and in small amounts, as using the oil directly or in high concentrations can potentially cause skin irritation. A skin test is recommended prior to use. This can be done by diluting the essential oil in a carrier oil and applying a small amount to a small area of skin that is not sensitive. Rosemary Oil must never be used near the eyes, inner nose, and ears, or on any other particularly sensitive areas of skin.
Rosemary belongs to an aromatic family of herbs that includes Basil, Lavender, Myrtle, and Sage.
Rosemary was considered sacred by ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Romans, who used it to improve memory, incense, protection, and as a reminder of the life and death cycle, among other uses.
Rosemary Essential Oil of the most superior quality is obtained from the flowering tops of the plant.
Rosemary Essential Oil is best known for its stimulating, soothing, and pain relieving properties.


On Monday 19 October 2015, some of our most talented Optical Assistants ventured into central London to receive their Diplomas in Optical Retail (Level Two) at the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, in Blackfriars. Situated at the magnificent Apothecaries' Hall, ten were able to make it in person to collect their certificates, and we are thrilled to celebrate and commend their success.
Well done to all for your incredible achievement - we wish you all the best for the future.


"Intelligent design" refers to a scientific research program as well as a community of scientists, philosophers and other scholars who seek evidence of design in nature. Through the study and analysis of a system's components, a design theorist is able to determine whether various natural structures are the product of chance, natural law, intelligent design, or some combination thereof.
The pattern of the rocks in the talus slopes below the faces is due primarily to chance and natural law. The pattern of erosion alongside the faces is due primarily to natural law and chance. The pattern of the presidents' faces is due primarily to intelligent design.
In nature, design theorists cite information rich systems like the genetic code, irreducibly complex systems like the bacterial flagellum, and the fine-tuning of the laws of physics as evidence of intelligent design.
Design theorists are currently engaged in research in the fields of biology, bio-chemistry, genetics, astronomy, information theory, cosmology, physics, and paleontology.


Experts teach you how to take care of the mixing pump - Zhejiang Wan Shi Le Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
More and more people have realized the importance of preventing the failure of construction machinery. There is an old saying in China that "preparing for the rainy day and taking preventive measures." Only when the normal use of construction machinery is ensured, the project can be completed as planned. The only way to go forward smoothly is to use the construction machinery to make every boss feel even more powerful. Therefore, it is very important to ensure the continuation of the machine life.
The phenomenon of destruction caused by chemical or electrochemical reactions between the metal surface and the surrounding medium is called corrosion of the Raymond Mill. This corrosion will not only affect the normal operation of the mechanical appearance equipment, but also will corrode the parts inside the machinery. Such as rain, chemical substances in the air through the mechanical parts of the external access, cracks, etc. into the machinery inside, corrode mechanical parts, accelerate mechanical wear, increase mechanical failure cement production equipment. Because of this corrosion is sometimes invisible. Inadvertent, mortar concrete pumps,easily overlooked, and therefore more harmful composite crusher. In use, management and operations personnel should take effective measures to reduce effective measures to reduce the impact of chemical corrosion on machinery in light of local weather conditions and air pollution conditions at the time. The key is to prevent the infiltration of rainwater and chemical components in the air into the machinery. .
Mechanical impurities generally refer to dust, soil, and other non-metallic materials and some metal shavings, wear products, etc. that are produced by the construction machinery during its use. Once these impurities enter the inside of the machine and reach the mechanical surface, the damage is very great. Not only does the relative movement stop and accelerate the wear of the parts, but it also scratches the matching surface, destroys the lubricant film, and increases the temperature of the parts. High, lubricant deterioration. According to the determination, when the mechanical impurities in the lubricant increase to 0.15%, the wear degree of the first piston ring of the engine will be 2.5 times larger than the normal value; when the rolling bearing enters the impurity particles, its life will be reduced by 80% to 90%. Therefore, for construction machinery that works in harsh environments and complicated conditions, it is necessary to use high-quality, supporting parts and lubricants and greases to block the source of harmful impurities; secondly, to do a good job of mechanical protection at the work site. To ensure that the corresponding agencies can work properly to prevent various impurities from entering the machinery. For faulty machinery, try to repair the coal mill at a regular repair site. During on-site repairs, protective measures must also be taken to prevent parts that are replaced during on-site repairs from being contaminated by impurities such as dust before entering the machine.
When stirring and towing the pump during operation, the temperature of each component has its own normal range of double-roll crusher. If the general cooling water temperature is 80 ~ 90 °C, hydraulic transmission system hydraulic oil temperature is 30 ~ 60 °C, below or beyond this range will accelerate the wear of the parts, causing deterioration of the lubricant, resulting in changes in material properties and so on. Tests have shown that the main drive gears and bearings of various construction machines operate at -5°C in lubricating oils and operate at 3°C in lubricating oils, increasing the wear by 10 to 12 times. But when the temperature is too high, it will accelerate the deterioration of the lubricating oil. For example, when the oil temperature is checked at 55-60°C, the oil oxidation rate doubles when the oil temperature rises by 5°C. For this reason, during the use of construction machinery, it is necessary to prevent overload operation at low temperatures, ensure normal operation of the low-speed pre-warming phase, and allow the machine to reach the prescribed temperature before proceeding with driving or work. Do not ignore it because no problems occur at the time. Important to do; Second, to prevent the machine running at high temperatures, the mechanical operation process should always check the value of various temperature gauges, found that the problem immediately stop the inspection, found that even if the failure to exclude the roller break. For those who cannot find a reason for the moment, they must not be handled and still make the machinery sick. In the usual work, pay attention to check the working condition of the cooling system compound crusher. Water-cooled machinery must be inspected and added with cooling water before daily work. For air-cooled machinery, dust on the air-cooled system must be regularly cleaned to ensure that the cooling air ducts are unobstructed.


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Politics / The League
Millman's taxonomy.
by William Brafford · April 26, 2010
If you like to chat about political philosophy in the abstract, you may want to head over to the American Scene, where Noah Millman's trying to develop a taxonomy to get at some of what we miss when we try to fit everything on a single spectrum. His three axes are:
liberal vs. conservative (attitudes toward the individual and authority)
left vs. right (attitudes toward social/economic winners and losers)
progressive vs. reactionary (attitude toward past and future)
Of course, there's much more detail in the original post. It seems to me that Millman's basically got the right idea, even though a few kinks need to be ironed out. As for me, I'm probably a conservative left reactionary, which makes me the opposite of Andrew Sullivan, who's a liberal, right-wing progressive. Where do you put yourself? What do you think the taxonomy misses?
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William Brafford
William Brafford grew up in North Carolina, home of the world's best barbecue, indie rock, and regional soft drinks. He just barely sustains a personal blog and "tweets" every now and then under the name @williamrandolph.
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I can't decide if I'm a liberal right reactionary or a conservative right reactionary. Or a liberal right progressive. Curse my indecision!Report
William Brafford in reply to Will says:
@Will, I'd guess that you're mildly liberal in Millman's sense.Report
Rufus F. says:
Haha! I got conservative left reactionary too. It's still a bit fuzzy though- I'm not sure I like either of the choices on that first one.Report
William Brafford in reply to Rufus F. says:
@Rufus F., that's one of the trouble spots. Some of the fuzziness is because a lot of people play cultural authority (i.e., the authority of 'mediating institutions') against political power.Report
Rufus F. in reply to William Brafford says:
@William Brafford, That's part of it. The other thing is that I personally idealize the absence of authority in a way that sounds like their "liberal". But, what I realized after teaching for a few years was that there really are a lot of people who do better, and accomplish more, within structures of commanding authority. I would try leaving the students free to guide their own learning and a lot of them would be pissed off about it. So, ideally I guess people accomplish greater things in the absence of authority. But it's hard for me to know if it isn't just crueler in some cases to cut them free to drift on their own.
So, I guess the thing is that it's hard for me to come to a hard and fast conclusion on that one. I've got trouble with the 'conservative' position, which strikes me as arrogant and paternalistic, and also the 'liberal' position, which also strikes me as arrogant and presumptuous.Report
Rufus F. in reply to Rufus F. says:
@Rufus F., Actually, after posting this in the morning it occurred to me that he might be doing a fine job of defining liberals and conservatives and I might just be finding liberalism and conservatism to be relatively limited philosophies.Report
T. Greer in reply to Rufus F. says:
@Rufus F., Upon reflection, I do not much like this either. I left the following comment on their site:
I will add to the chorus of folks who think this is brilliant, save perhaps the first metric. You state the metric as thus:
"a liberal outlook trusts individuals and questions authority; a conservative outlook distrusts individuals and defers to authority."
This skews things a bit. It seems to me that one can be an individualist without placing much trust in individuals themselves. Ayn Rand is the perfect example here. As you state, she did not really trust in the power of the great majority of mankind at all. She placed her trust in a dogmatic and authoritarian belief system. But this system was completely centered on the individual. Rand saw life through the eyes of the atomized individual and could imagine nothing else.
Contrast this with some of the Chinese Daoist philosophers. These men were extremely skeptical of authority, but overall their philosophy was grounded in a communitarian worldview.
So how to classify people like this? I suggest, as have others before, that you break up 'liberal' and 'conservative' into more specific groupings. As I see it, the replacement metrics could be:
* Individualist vs. Holists. Individualists are those whose world views are centered on the individual. Individuals make up communities, not the other way around. The Holists, on the other hand, have a world view centered on larger groups – individuals are segments of a much larger, more important, interdependent whole.
* Humanitarian vs. Cynic (Skeptic?) – Humanitarians believe that individuals are in essence good beings, and will succeed if given the chance; Cynics believe the opposite, believe that humans are, as you state, perverse, and have little faith in innate human capacity or our ability to change it.
Under these two groupings, the two earlier examples make more sense. Rand is an Individualist Cynic, while the Daoists were Holistic Cynics.
So what do you guys think? Does this make sense, or am I talking crazy?Report
T. Greer says:
Yeah, that is the one advantage the political compass has over this metric – it allows for degrees. As Millman has it, either we are leftist or rightist, conservative or liberal. But what if one of those distinctions matters little too me? I knew right away, for example, that I was reactionary. But it took me a long bit of contemplation to figure out if I was a left or right wing. Eventually I just decided that this metric was not particularly important to me. I am probably left-wing, but if so, I am a very weak leftist. In contrast, the 'degree' of my reactionary-ness is quite high.Report
William Brafford in reply to T. Greer says:
@T. Greer,
If you look at how Millman applies his concepts to various bloggers, I think you'll see that he's thinking of these as spectra. E.g.: Douthat is "deeply conservative" but not very intense on the right/left divide. As for me, I'm pretty strong on the conservative thing but I'm only medium on the other two.Report
The liberal vs. conservative axis is interesting the way he puts it… I suppose I would make the distinction like this: when you watch COPS, or Dallas SWAT, or any of those cop shows, is your first inclination to sympathize with the police or to sympathize with the hillbilly?
When it comes to the idea of free speech or a free press, do you sympathize with the people who are saying "we should make exceptions" or with the people who would be told what the exceptions would be?
In any given power dynamic, who do you sympathize with?Report
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird says:
I suppose I'd also make a further distinction between left and right. I don't like the "winners and losers". While the description of the "right" may be accurate, it seems to me that the left's focus is more on "equality" than on the whole "loser" thing. That emphasis removes the note (that probably only I can hear) of ugly paternalism.
Progressive vs. Reactionary makes sense to me, though. That one, at least, is straightforward.Report
William Brafford in reply to Jaybird says:
@Jaybird, regarding the liberal/conservative thing:
I like Millman's schema because it deals with pre-policy gut-level commitments. Hopefully there's a process that goes something like this: (life experience) -> (gut-level commitments) -> (reasoning and argument) -> (political commitments). Given a particular pundit, we can guess at where she lands in this system, and that's why this is fun. But I don't think it really works the other way: if I know your basic commitments and even the relative weights of such commitments, I can't get to your policy preferences, because the reasoning process can be so idiosyncratic.
I don't think "equality" gets you out of a "winner"/"loser" perspective. The only reason to try to achieve equality is that some people have more stuff than other people do.Report
Mike at The Big Stick in reply to Jaybird says:
@Jaybird, The Progressive / Reactionary thing interests me the most. I think quite often Reactionism is mistaken for Progressivism. What I mean is that I think that Progressivism (in the modern sense) is often a reaction to populist outrage and more of a vote grab that a well-intentioned attempt to move culture forward. I think it's fair to call Conservatives reactionary because we are the foot on the brake pedal. I just wonder if we're giving modern liberalism a pass on the label of reactionary as well.
Maybe it all comes down to what is being reacted to? Liberals react to populist outrage, conservatives react to liberal overreach.Report
Jivatman says:
I think that out of the three, right/left is probably the least accurate.
First of all, a quibble, people who sat on the left, the anti-monarchists, included extreme free-marketers like Bastiat, furthermore, as did the term "liberal" itself (it still maintains a semblance of that meaning in Europe, such as with some of the Liberal Democrats).
Next, people who favor a freer market do not do so because they look at outcomes – that entrepreneurs should be rewarded – but because they believe that people's economic freedom, and contracts, should be respected.
Those who support a larger social safety net are likely to do so because of equality, usually called fairness.
Economic Libertarians are more likely to use macro statistics that show countries implementing free market policies, like much of the former USSR, with torrid growth rates, wheras egalitarians are more likely to show how places like Western Europe have less disparity between the rich and poor.
For the libertarians, the growth is not really what concerns them, economic freedom is, for the egalitarians though, the disparity is in fact what concerns them.
Inevitably, there is always a conflict between freedom and equality in many economic decisions. A voucher program for example will allow some people to afford private schools while others will not. Will it raise the quality of education for everyone, including those who receive no more money on a voucher than would have been spent on a public school? Many argue so.
Of course, we could still spend even more money than currently on education in those programs.
Or take a plan by one of the "orange book liberals" (more economic liberal wing of the lib dems). Which would convert the NHS into a national health insurance scheme used by other european countries, with a combination of public, private, and voluntary providers.
So there is even some overlap possible, one could advocate more money spent on education and health care, but still advocate more economic freedom.
The progressive vs. regressive dichotomy is definitely one of the most interesting of the things highlighted here, and probably the most difficult one I have to place myself in. I have great nostalgia for Greece, and the Age of Enlightenment, but on the other hand love technology. I would prefer some combination I guess.
When the term conservative was first used, this is meant regressive in this sense, especially as exemplified by Edmund Burke. Still, he was an economic and social libertarian, viewing liberty not as an abstract principle but something that had anciently been in the heart of English people. He said the following of the American revolution:
"I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity".
Compare to Paine, a progressive, one of the most vocal agitators of the American, and later french, revolutions.
It should be no surprise that Burke looked favorably upon institutions, such as religious, while Paine saw little use for almost any old institution, believing totally new ones should be built.
Both were "liberals" in the sense we would now call libertarians; advocating free trade, personal liberties, rule of law, ect, but one was a progressive and the other a regressive.Report
The progressive-reactionary axis is the most problematic, I think. It matters a lot whether you think we should go back to the sex roles of the 50s, or the consciousness of the 60s, and if you think that the past is always better than the present or that some aspects of the past was better than the present, or may be better than the future.Report
Mike at The Big Stick in reply to TJ says:
@TJ, I don't know that reactionary always means 'looking backwards fondly'. As I stated above, it's usually about trying to control liberal overreach. I look at conservatives as simply fighting a delaying action most of the time so that society can 'progress' at a safer pace.Report
North in reply to Mike at The Big Stick says:
@Mike at The Big Stick, I'll agree with you on the end effect/result of conservative activity Mike. But Conservative intent seems to be very much reactionary which is why so many social liberals actively fear them.Report
Mike at The Big Stick in reply to North says:
@North, Well as I said – I consider conservatism to be reactionary. That's not a bad word. I always use the car analogy. When I was taking driver's ed I was in one of those specially equipped cars where the instructor had his own steering wheel and brake pedal if I did something crazy. A couple of times I got a bit too excited and jammed on the gas going through a neighborhood or I wasn't paying attention when merging on to the freeway. The instructor tapped the gas and in one case grabbed the wheel and pulled the car over to give me a talking to.
You can probably see where I'm going here. Liberals, who just want to get where they want o go as fast as possible look at conservatives who tap the brakes and occasionally grab the wheel as being a pain in the ass. We're the grumpy old driving instructor who yells "Slow down"! You all perceive it as some kind of desire to keep society static. It's not. We just want to get where we're going in a safe way.
I rely on Disraeli as a touchstone for much of conservatism. It was he who said that change is inevitable and the choice is not between change or no change but in how change is inacted and at what pace. God conservatives should look forward too. We just remain skeptical about change for the sake of change.Report
@Mike at The Big Stick,
Indeed Mike and as you define it I certainly would consider it a good thing and not even those to the left of me would be able to work up much of a lather about it. But frankly that does not appear to be the extent of it. To use your metaphor conservatives appear to want and verbally pine for the ability not only to grab the wheel to slow us down but also to take full control, drive the car back to our house and not only deny us a car license but also to take away our bikes and put us back on tricycles again.
Now I'm too young to feel a lot of this viscerally myself but I've spoken and heard the elderly gays for instance who remember how it was. For them god was a crucifix embossed on the soul of the boot that was stomping on their faces. Women as well. You can imagine how charmed they are at the idea of turning the clock back.Report
@North, I think yeah, sometimes conservatives have to completely stop the process. Often this doesn't mean the liberal intentions are bad, but they need to go back to the beginning and start over. As for trying to go backwards, that's only when liberals were able to push their agenda through and it later proves to have been bad (abortion comes to mind there).Report
@Mike at The Big Stick, Well so long as we're talking idealized conservatism and not the kind at work in the country today (setting aside the abortion issue, no need to go down that winding road) I'm fine with your definition.Report
TJ in reply to Mike at The Big Stick says:
@Mike at The Big Stick, Well, I find it odd to run together the principled conservatism of Disraeli with the label "reactionary". Reactionary politics seem to me to be primarily fascist or quasi-fascist, longing for a time of greater social hierarchies. In any case, I know many liberals who idiolize the 60s and thinks that it has been downhill since then.Report
@TJ, Again – I don't think reactionism is about looking backwards. Take the internet for example. Let's say Al Gore really did invent it and it's a liberal policy initiative. A conservative might say, "This internet thing seems like a good idea but maybe we should make sure people can't suffer identity theft and kids can't look at porn." They shouldn't be saying, "We were better off when we sent mail on paper." An ideal form of conservatism (and I refuse to debate conservatism as practiced by the current GOP because it skews the conversation) should only be the angel on your shoulder, not the troll clinging to your ankles.Report
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That All-Important First Line
Several days ago a reader asked me:
I have not written fiction in nearly 20 years and can't seem to get the first line written. Do you have any advice for getting me through the first line? Writing an outline is no problem, I just can't seem to find a proper introduction. Once I'm past this wall the story will flow as it almost always does (I've spent the last decade or so writing history). Also, I am considering writing this as a narration instead of first person.
It's a really good question. The first line of a novel is like the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth: everything else follows from it.
I think pretty hard about how my novels start. Here are the first lines (or paragraphs) of some of them:
The Empire of Time (my first published novel, 1978):
The intertemporal shuttle between Earth/2015 and Beulah/1804 was an old subway train.
Icequake (1979):
Penny Constable woke up suddenly and looked at her wristwatch. The glowing orange light-emitting diodes told her it was 0503 hours, Thursday, February 7, 1985. With any luck it would be her last day in Shacktown.
Eyas (1982)
Out of darkness came dawn.
Tsunami (1983)
"Three hundred and three metres," Don Kennard said into the microphone. "I'm about two metres above the bottom. Visibility is fair."
Brother Jonathan (1985)
He hurt.
Cramps made lumps of pain in his legs. His thighs and buttocks went numb, then ached back to life. Itches crawled across his skin. His ribs and wrists and ankles were raw and chafed under the straps that held him down.
The Fall of the Republic (1987)
When his working day began at midnight, he did not yet know that he would kill a man before dawn.
Rogue Emperor (1988)
Late in the afternoon of May 22, AD 100, Gerald Pierce sat four rows up from the arena in Rome's new Flavian Amphitheater, the stadium later to be known as the Colosseum. The emperor Domitian himself was presiding as editor over the day's show. Sixty men had been killed so far, not counting the lunchtime executions of fifteen noxii, condemned criminals unworthy of a gladiator's death.
Gryphon (1989)
Alexander Macintosh, captain and soon to be proprietor of the spacecraft Wuthering Heights, felt very ill at ease with himself and his world. The drive had just cut off, and the ship was moving at three hundred kilometers per second; in his present mood it felt like three times that, a headlong acceleration to disaster. Earth glowed bright and welcoming through the skylights in his office, yet he would rather have been out past Jupiter, staring at the cold bright stars.
Henderson's Tenants (in progress)
"No way to break the news gently, Mike." Jeremy Stein came around his desk and sank into the armchair next to Mike Henderson's. Awkwardly, he patted Mike's shoulder. "You've got advanced pancreatic cancer."
When you look at them together, you'll notice that they tend to make unusual statements, and they tend to show someone under stress.
To find out what the heck an intertemporal shuttle is, you'll have to read more. To find out why a spacecraft captain feels anxious about going to Earth, you'll have to read more.
That's just a routine hook; you can do the same thing with a college essay or a magazine article. The first line of a novel should also describe the moment when the rest of the novel becomes inevitable. When Don Kennard is at the bottom of the sea, he has nowhere to go but up. When Mike Henderson knows he's got terminal cancer, he faces the biggest battle of his life. As readers, we recognize this—at least subconsciously—and we read to see how these characters will confront their problems.
Their stress has to be appropriate. If you're going to write a novel about a middle-aged nun's sudden crisis of faith, you can't start with a barrage of gunfire. If your hero is going to kill a man before dawn, that death is going to shape the rest of your hero's life. If your hero is time-travelling to ancient Rome, what he sees (and how he responds to it) will decide the course of the story. (Gerald Pierce, by the way, is the hero of The Empire of Time, The Fall of the Republic, and Rogue Emperor. He gets stressed a lot.)
I have often committed the cliché of starting a story at the beginning of a day, with someone waking up or going to work. Yes, it's embarrassing, but every story follows a kind of daily or seasonal cycle: from dawn to noon to sunset. Gerry Pierce is a tool of oppression; his work day begins at midnight, the bottom of the cycle. Eyas begins at dawn on the first day of a new year, and before the end of that day my hero (still a baby) will have begun his life with the Fisher family—a slightly odd family living in British Columbia ten million years from now.
Whether or not you start at the beginning of a day, you start at the moment when the story becomes inevitable. Gerry Pierce in the Colosseum is about to see something that will change his life. Penny Constable isn't going to get out of Shacktown on February 7, 1985 (my 44th birthday, by the way) because the West Antarctic ice sheet is going to collapse in a few hours. Until Mike Henderson knows he's dying, he can do anything he wants to. Once he does know, his options are few.
If you really know where you're going, the first line can sum up the whole story. That's what "Out of darkness came dawn" does in Eyas: after ten million years of suffering, humanity is one lifetime away from liberation. The pain endured by Jonathan Trumbull (a spastic quadriplegic) is going to end—not at once, but soon, and by the end of the novel nothing will hold him down.
So your novel can start in the last moments of a peaceful world, just before everything goes to hell. Or it can start in the last moments of hell's rule, when the damned begin to fight for their salvation.
If, like many writers, you're writing your novel to find out what you're trying to say, it's a good idea to leave the opening lines until the story is done. Then, knowing where you've ended up, you know where to start. If the novel ends in blowing snow, you can start it on a sunny April afternoon. If it ends with a cheerful roll in the hay under an August sun, it can start with a rape in shivery February drizzle.
As for my reader's second question, about writing in "narration" (third person) rather than first person, that's the material for another long post...and I still have a lot of grading to do, so bear with me on that one.
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I have to agree with you about the importance of the opening of a novel. That first hundred, and then thousand, words are the most important - and most difficult - to write.
Posted by: Lisa Hartjes | April 29, 2006 at 06:29 PM
The way you write is exquisite, your writing style and the words you chose.I believe I would go about purcasing any of those.
Posted by: Stephanie Capo | May 04, 2006 at 09:31 AM
What do you make of the Lulu self publishing concept?
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Posted by: Tony Scally (United Kingdom) | May 17, 2006 at 01:46 PM
My first line:
"The Catholic priest was the only one in the room with a sun tan."
Posted by: Paul Humphreys | May 23, 2006 at 02:41 PM
You're absolutely right about the importance of the first line and how to achieve a positive effect. I will now give my first line for a story I'm writing:
De vijftiende dag van de zesde maand in het jaar 2006. Het was op die dag het begon: die waanzinnige maalstroom aan gebeurtenissen, die onverwachte wending van de geschiedenis, die het eind van de wereld zoals die gekend was inluidde - het begon allemaal op die ene zonnige namiddag. Het begon allemaal in een duister zaaltje. Het was de ontmoetingsplaats van een sekte.
This probably won't mean anything to you, since it is written in Dutch. In translation, it would be something like this:
The fifteenth day of the fifteenth month of the year 2006. It was that day is started, that insane maelstrom of events, that unexpected twist of history, which announced the end of the world as it was known - it all started during that sunny afternoon. It all started in an obscure chamber. It was the meeting place of a sect.
I wish you lots of luck with your writing.
Andy 'Andreo' Peetermans, 15 years, Flanders (Belgium).
Posted by: Andreo | June 16, 2006 at 06:04 AM
In my case, I was examining the problem of power as expressed in anarchist philosophy and contrasting that with reality as expressed in places like Somalia and Iraq, and ruminating upon Chairman Mao's statement that "power flows from the barrel of a gun". Which is true, to a certain extent -- the power of the State, for example, relies upon a monopoly upon major forms of violence (fail to pay your taxes or ignore the State's restrictions upon things such as traffic lights and see what I mean, the State will seize you or your property at gunpoint). Yet simplistic. Mao had one part of the equation right, but forgot about other things, such as the ability of money to buy guns, the ability of fervent support amongst the people to provide guns or deny guns, the willingness of people to use guns (the problem with anarchist theory is that it ignores the reality that most people are apalled by violence and thus removal of the government inevitably ends up with rule by sociopaths who enjoy violence), etc. The example of the American South in the late 1860's where the majority ended up re-enslaved because the minority had military training and more guns was on my mind too.
So I sat down and asked myself, "what am I going to write? What is the title of this thing?". I picked a title out of thin air. I asked myself, "who is the protagonist of this thing?". I came up with a protagonist, who, I must admit, was created primarily as a reaction to the protagonist of a neo-noir where in my opinion said neo-noir got it both right and wrong. Then I sat down and wrote: "Power grows from the barrel of a gun."
The rest went from there. We now know there's guns, there's going to be (presumably men) of power, and other things of that nature, even if in this case said gun is being held by a Barney Fife impersonator in the employ of a security company.
Just write. And BTW, the last line of chapter 1 is as important as the 1st line. If it doesn't give someone a reason to turn the page and see what happens in chapter 2, you're not going to sell.
Posted by: E.L. Green | June 20, 2006 at 11:47 AM
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Prince William interviews Sir David Attenborough in passionate plea to save the planet
By Natalie Oliveri| 12 months ago
'We can wreck it without even noticing'
Prince William has turned interviewer, taking to the stage in Switzerland for a question and answer session with leading naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
Speaking of the natural world, the 92-year-old warned the World Economic Forum in Davos that "we can wreck it with ease, we can wreck it without even noticing".
In his interview with the Duke of Cambridge, Sir David said it was "difficult to overstate" the climate change crisis.
"We are now so numerous, so powerful, so all pervasive, the mechanisms we have for destruction are so wholesale and so frightening that we can exterminate whole ecosystems without even noticing it.
"We have now to be really aware of the dangers that we are doing.
Prince William said it was a 'personal treat' to interview the broadcaster. (AAP)
"And we already know that of course the plastics problem in the seas is wreaking appalling damage on marine life - the extent of which we don't yet fully know."
When introducing Sir David to the stage Prince William said it was a "personal treat" to interview the broadcaster.
Sir David urged people to care, respect and revere the natural world.
Agreeing with him, the prince said: "Work to save the planet is probably going to largely happen on our watch".
Sir David told the crowd: "We can go everywhere, we can go into the bottom of the sea, we can go into space, we can use drones, we can use helicopters, we can use macroworlds, we can speed things up, we can slow things down, we can film in the darkness - and so the natural world has never been exposed to this degree before".
He said more people now, than ever, are out of touch with the natural world.
Sir David Attenborough told Prince William the human race was in danger of wrecking the planet without even noticing. (AAP)
"It's not just a question of beauty or interest or wonder, it's the essential ingredient, essential part of human life is a healthy palate.
"We are in the danger of wrecking that".
Sir David, who has been making documentaries since the 1950s, says he was "astonished" by the response to Blue Planet II, which raised the issue of single-use plastics and the damage they were doing to the world's oceans.
He was presented with the Crystal Award at the forum for his leadership in environmental stewardship.
On accepting the award Sir David urged world leaders to come up with "practical solutions".
He told the prince: "The point is that we have this option ahead of us - we have to take the option to protect the natural world… that's where the future lies.
"There's a source of great optimism there, we have the knowledge, we have the power, to live in harmony with that natural world".
Prince William has previously spoken of his admiration for Sir David saying, the veteran broadcaster has had "the single most important impact in my conservation thinking".
The Duke is patron of the Tusk conservation charity and has spoken numerous times about the impact of the ivory trade and wildlife trafficking.
In 2015, Prince William spoke on Chinese state television urging Chinese people to stop buying products made from endangered species saying "rhino horn cannot cure cancer".
He said elephants, rhino and other endangered species will be extinct by the time children born that year - including his daughter Princess Charlotte – reach the age of 25, unless China ceases its demand for poached wildlife parts.
Duke Of Cambridge
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I can not get the crontab to work. This is what I have in crontab -e but it will not perform a maint job.
I tried changing users in the above string and also "chown" the directories to every combination I can think of.
Any other command other than sudo creates an authorization failed.
installed using deb package AFTER restoring the database from a windows machine, so it loaded as an upgrade.
Sorry about that, the cut and paste missed the end and I didn't catch it.
I'm assuming there is some type of permission issue or peer to peer conflict?
Took the $ off and it still doesn't work.
Can you post an example to a string that is known to work?
Here is some more info. I can manually run the jobs but I get this output below.
ERROR: Running as 'root' forbidden! To avoid permission conflicts, must run as the web-server user instead.
Example: su www-data -c "/usr/bin/php /usr/share/timetrex/html/maint/cron.php"
NOTE: Jobs are scheduled to run at specific times each day, therefore it is normal for only some jobs to be executed each time this file is run.
user@timetrex:~$ su www-data -c "/usr/bin/php /usr/share/timetrex/html/maint/cron.php"
user@timetrex:~$ su www-data -c "/usr/share/timetrex/html/maint/cron.php"
user@timetrex:~$ su root -c "/usr/share/timetrex/html/maint/cron.php"
user@timetrex:~$ su user -c "/usr/share/timetrex/html/maint/cron.php"
Is there anyone out there running timetrex on ubuntu 18 with working maint jobs running?
What permission should cron.php be set to?
That is what I needed! Seems to be working now.


I like to hand-make cards and February is the time to do it in our family - four birthdays plus Valentine's Day. I'm a bit out of ideas now but quite pleased to have created individual cards for everyone.
And where does this rather large jug come from? It reminds me of the stuff we saw in Murano, and although I wouldn't exactly call it beautiful it's kind of interesting. But what could I use it for?
Not keen on this glass lampshade but it is genuine 1930s, and might be worth a few pounds. I wouldn't sell it on eBay as it might break in the post but our local charity shops only sell fairly new stuff so I don't think they would recognise it as an antique. After surviving for 80 years I feel it would be a shame if it ended up chucked out in a charity shop bin. Any suggestions?
I'll keep that, for sentimental reasons. As for the rest, I'm fighting the temptation to repack it and put it back in the loft.
Still, yesterday I did use one of the items which has sat forgotten in the cupboard for ages. T and I got an unexpected bouquet of Scilly Islands jonquils from a friend. There were so many flowers we didn't seem to have a vase to fit them, when I suddenly thought of my grandmother's glass jug. It has a very wide neck so they all fitted in.
They are beautiful and giving us a lot of pleasure. Glad we didn't get rid of the jug, which I always liked anyway.
I was still thinking about how to deal with all the other stuff when we went into central London yesterday, to run a few errands. We had a cup of tea on the fifth floor of John Lewis, overlooking the escalators, a spot I love. Somehow I can sit for hours and watch the escalators rumbling quietly away.
Yesterday, I thought how well those crowds of people in the store organise themselves without anyone to tell them how to do it!
You have a camera eye, watching strangers moving or talking.
Yes, I an often most interested in the "unconsidered details"
it feels so good to declutter, but the decisions we have to make bog us down.
I am just trying to be tough. I am so often glad when things are gone.
Before you get rid of those things, you might want to do a little research. They could actually be worth something. Well, maybe not the sash but it IS interesting.
I have a tendency to collect things because they are interesting, which is one reason that U-store facility does seem rather tempting at times!
Personal organization does not apply to rules of public behavior. We learned in school how to get in line, give way, all that stuff. We just lose it on the way home.
Seriously, it is so difficult to declutter personal space. I'd ask the charity shop of their protocol. If they know the business, they'll skim the valuables at the door and sell them to a dealer, use EBay, etc.
I'm already thinking that I should be looking out for a charity shop that seems to understand old stuff. I think a lot depends on the people running it. There is one in Suffolk which always seems to have antiques in, but I don't really see myself driving 3 hours each way to drop the lampshade off. I guess i will remember to take it next time I go.
I see on TV where organizers label piles for keep, donate, yard sale, recycle, and such. The problem with that is the label magnetizes the word Keep so that more stuff clings to it like I did to my mother the first day of kindergarten (eventually letting go reminds me of tearing Velcro apart). Then you get to the good stuff/too poor to give that away situation. Consignment shops can be the answer or charity donation that gives receipts for the estimated value.
Yes, and what the programme doesn't show so much is the poor de-cluttering person returning to the piles and quietly moving items from "Recycle" to "Keep"!
Every time I try to get organized and get rid of a few things, I remember their history and decide maybe I should hang on. So little gets thrown out or passed on.
The flowers and jug are lovely...I'd do a bit of research first on the other things...Good luck!
This reminds of the William Morris quote: " Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
You might check with an antiques dealer, the lampshade (or the sash) might be collector items. As for the jug and flowers, they are lovely, and i wouldn't be able to give away my grandmother's jug unless i was forced to. Glad you will be keeping that!
I am wondering if I know anyone that sells antiques. I used to have a friend with a stall at Portobello road but he's stopped doing it now.
Beautiful flowers in the glass jug.
I am trying to toss out "stuff" and it is so hard because I know I will need it down the road. So I have decided to buy whatever I need for the project.
The thing is I just do not paint, I watercolor also, color pencils, wood cut prints, ripped paper collages, print cards and till last year ceramics on and on. So I have stuff. I am pricing to have another garage built for supplies !.
Now don't kill me but if you do not keep the vase or give it away after finding out it's history, I would break it up and glue it on another piece of glass for an abstract stained glass window and hang it in a window. But that is just me.
Never been that keen on those 1930's lampshades but there must be a shop in London that deals with them. One in Westbourne Grove near the church used to specialise in lamps from that era.
I would have thought so but many such shops seem to have closed down now. I think a lot of folks buy the lamp and lampshade together these days.
Could the sash be masonic? They go in for things likes sashes and badges, don't they? Love the daffs - we've got some in the hallway, but not the lovely white ones. That letter is hilarious - she obviously took so much care with it! I've been organising things too - but have ended up with a big pile of things that need to be sold, and no outlet for selling them easily. Hoping church fairs will be coming up soon and I can rent a stall!
I think the sash is sort of masonic. I don't know the name on the box though. Wonder where my parents got it.
That note by your daughter is for keeps.
The bouquet of Scilly Islands jonquils is really pretty, or rather the way it is arranged in the jar.
I love this! Wish you'd show your cards, Jenny. I'd love to see them!
I wish I could offer some good thoughts on the organizing but if you saw my space you would know why I'm not the person to do that! However, with that lampshade, maybe you could sell it to a dealer. There must be tons of them in London, Portobello is no place else. I would think someone would buy. Even if you don't get the real value, you would at least be giving it a chance at a new life and get a few pounds back for your trouble.
That escalator photo is fabulous and oh, how I love those jonquils!
I went mad a few weeks ago and did a bit of de-cluttering. My madness didn't last long...but I did get rid of a few things to the local charity OP Shop!
That is an interesting-looking jug. Do you have an antique dealer nearby? That could be the outlet for the lampshade.
The flowers make me want to go and get daffodils for my living room, too - but I won't be around all weekend and most of the week anyway, so it would be a waste.
I can see what you mean about watching the escalators. They have something of a calmingly hypnotic quality.
I discovered, when disposing of some of Joe's stuff, that certain charity shops take the more unusual and auction them on eBay. Apparently they get more money that way. I also believe there is a demand for things like that lovely jug.
I learned so much when I went travelling for a year - I realised just how little I actually need if I have to carry it on my back!
As someone who just ditched 95 percent of her stuff, I don't think of myself as a minimalist either. Loved seeing your stuff and reading what you thought of each thing. Happy Decluttering and thank you for sharing.
I got your message. It might work. Worked for me. Though I had nooooooo idea that I was gonna declutter after the half marathon.
I, too, like to produce my own cards but not by hand. I use my (and occasionally those of other people with their permission - unless I'm trying to surprise them by sending them one of their own!). Some years ago my brother (a master collector) was staying and we had a blitz on my loft. Fortunately he will be here again this summer because it's now as bad as it ever was.
Decluttering and organizing is a difficult chore. It's probably easier for me, because I don't have anything valuable, just trinkets and old things that are either worn out, broken, useless, or duplicates. I used to pretend I would move and therefore had to get rid of stuff (since movers charge by the pound). I should do that again!
I love your header - most beautiful.
Good on you making your own cards... they are always so special.
Yes that little note is definitely something to be kept.
The others who've commented have said it so well.
We had to de-clutter and get rid of things years ago when we decided to sell up and travel around Australia in a bus. We stored some large items but lots of things just had to go. The one thing(s) we still regret are a lot of our books and vinyl records.
Now, we're in a small home and I try to keep with our Bus rule still... one thing in - then one thing out ;D) I don't always succeed.
Sorry I haven't been much help but have to say those Jonquils are gorgeous!
I gather there's quite boom in storage facilities, with many people storing all their superfluous possessions rather than taking a deep breath and chucking it all out. Garages also tend to be used for storage rather than parking a car. We removed temptation by having our garage demolished!
The Ancient Order of Foresters is a friendly society. Its main function seems to be providing insurance to its members - life insurance, sickness insurance, children's trust funds and so on. Maybe you have an old policy stashed away somewhere?
The jug is rather hideous, isn't it? It certainly has the gawdy Murano look!
Oh Jenny, I did laugh over your daughter's note. Wonderful! I'm sure mine have done the same. That thirties jug, now. If you weren't so far away, I'd buy it off you! What a fascinating thing! Lovely post as always!
A little de-cluttering is good for the soul. Those flowers are gorgeous and look just right in that jug.
Can i buy that deco lampshade?
You have some interesting stuff there. I actually liked both the strange looking vase and the lampshade. I'm on my second round of decluttering, so not that much clutter left. Just did my bookcases. Always the most difficult for me.
Hello, again, Jenny! The daffodils look so nice in that glass jar and I feel like that their fragrance wafting from. Presents and letters from children and grandchildren are priceless, probably I'll keep them till my end. My children's books and toys , which were useless when they grew up, got revitalized when my grandchildren started enjoying them. Happy for having kept them. BTW, do you know Marie Kondo, author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing"? Her method is sorting and purging by category rather than by room and when deciding what to discard, make sure that the things you hold onto make you happy. As for myself, I still cling to old method, tidying room-by-room little-by-little.


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Ed Ruscha Editions —1959-1999
"For 40 years, Edward Ruscha has been an influential voice in postwar American painting as well as one of contemporary art's most significant graphic artists. From his first prints and artist's books made in the early 1960s to his latest projects, Ruscha has created a body of editioned work that is uniquely American in both subject and sensibility. He first began making prints in the late 1950s, and produced his first lithograph in 1962, which was soon followed by his landmark book, Twenty-six Gasoline Stations. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ruscha continued to publish similar books, filled with photographs depicting commonplace items or locations that commented on the sterility and anonymity of the Los Angeles landscape. These works are now considered pivotal in the history of the contemporary artist's book"
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné (Two Volumes Complete). Published by Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center and printed at Hatje Cantz 1999. Complete two-volumes set. Large and heavy 12 1⁄2 × 10 inches Remainder marks to bottom edges. Light wear to slipcase and cover, front cornes with a little scraping, wrap-around jacket worn else clean set
First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Two volumes in paper-covered boards in a cloth slipcase with photographically illustrated dust wrap. Volume One is 128 pp. with approximately 400 four-color and black-and-white reproductions, a complete catalogue of Ruscha's print work, artist's books and other works. Volume Two is 158 pp. with numerous four-color and black-and-white plates and reference illustrations, a foreword by Kathy Halbreich, essays by Siri Engberg and Clive Phillpot, "The Information Man" by Edward Ruscha, a detailed key to the catalogue compiled by Siri Engberg (including edition size, proofs, inscriptions, printer, publisher and print run information), a bibliography, exhibition history and title and subject indexes
Paul Klee — Pedagogical Sketchbook
Bauhaus Bücher 2 Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook translated into English by Sybil Moholy-Nagy. New copy from Lars Müller Publishers.
Yvonne Rainer — Space, Body, Language
Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language / Raum Körper Sprache. Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior and Barbara Engelbach
Richard Prince — American Prayer
Large oversized hardcover – app. 30 x 30 cm. Richly illustrated catalogue from Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, 2011. 243 pages, short text in French, illustrated throughout in color. An excellent clean and attractive copy. First edition, 1st printing.
Andrey Tarkovsky — Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema
London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1986. 8vo. Softcover. 269 pp. Illustrated. Name to title page and some pencil notes in chapter five and two pages a bit soiled else overall a good to very good solid copy of this hard-to-find item


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