Holidays are upon us! Have Pomegranate Lemonade on hand to add to a little sparkling beverage and you'll always have a delicious special drink to share.
One night, while I'm putting the kids to bed, Mark receives a phone call. When I come out, he tells me someone is coming by with some pomegranates. Cool, I say. I love Pomegranates! But why, who gets rid of Pomegranates?
Sounds good to me. Though I'm not sure how anyone can buy too many pomegranates. They're like a once MAYBE twice special fall/winter treat I allow myself. So I wait up. Expecting them to come by with maybe 4-5 pomegranates. Maybe they weren't expecting the hard work that comes with eating this delicious fruit?
What I was not expecting were 2 1/2 boxes full with approximately 100 pomegranates! Seriously? I was most definitely in my own kind of fruit heaven. I spent the next 2 weeks…yes 2 weeks. Peeling this precious fruit and pulling out the little arils.
I tell you what, though, the work involved was completely worth it in the end. I have 2 quarts of frozen arils in my freezer – perfect for salads, parfaits, and adding color to other dishes – 6 pints Pomegranate Jelly, and then I took the rest and juiced them (which is no easy task without a juicer!), and made 3 quarts of Pomegranate Lemonade.
Combine the Pomegranate Juice, Lemon Juice and sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil, and simmer until sugar is all dissolved.
Depending on how sweet your pomegranate juice is, and how tart the lemons are you can add less sugar. My pomegranates were more tart, and lacking in the sweet flavor.
Pour hot juice into sanitized quart canning jar.
Dip lids in boiling water for a few seconds, then place on top of jars. Secure with jar rings.
Process in a water bath for 20 minutes. Let cool, and listen for a "pop" that will signify the lid is sealed.
When ready to serve, pour over a cup of ice and let chill. To make it fancy, mix with sprite or similar soft drink. Great for holiday gatherings.
Sealed juice will last up to 1 year.
I do remember her! Thanks for reminding me she uses pomegranates! I was just browsing and found her Sweet Chili Apple Pomegranate salsa – sounds so perfect!


text:
Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, string, hair, nail, 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5581_front.jpg)
Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, string, hair, nail, 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5581_back.jpg)
Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, string, hair, nail, 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5581_detail1.jpg)
Kachina Doll
CULTURE Hopi Pueblo
MEDIUM Wood, pigment, string, hair, nail
DATES late 19th century
DIMENSIONS 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm) Other: 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER 04.297.5581
CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund
CAPTION Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, string, hair, nail, 3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16in. (9.7 x 8 x 26.5cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5581. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5581_front.jpg)
IMAGE front, CUR.04.297.5581_front.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Innovation management: don't forget about legal watch!
Legal and regulatory aspects are rarely mentioned when discussing innovation management. But they do play a major role, and the analysis of the legal environment is a crucial issue. It allows smart organizations to implement original strategies… even though there are a number of pitfalls.
Michael Haddad
In a previous article I mentioned three drivers of innovation: technology, uses and societal challenges. Firms will focus their strategy on one of these three drivers. But managing innovation also requires keeping an eye on the whole picture. This includes vast, complex and often neglected legal and regulatory aspects. A properly handled legal watch will make the difference between a defensive and offensive position.
Mechanisms of intellectual property are a key issue in innovation management.
First of all, the ability to display entry barriers in order to amortize the necessary investments is crucial for innovation. Patents can prove very effective weapons to discourage copycats, especially when handled by major industrial groups that are able to submit litigation and infringements to courts. For instance, the dynamic industry of mobiles phones is a battlefield between several giants such as Apple, Samsung or Google, who seize key patents to ban competing products on their markets. For startups that were able to protect efficiently an indispensable technology, it's a great opportunity to monetize their research.
From the protection of intellectual property to regulatory innovation
But the expiry of a patent is also a crucial moment. 3D printing is an exemplary case. Its basic principle was already known 25 years ago but it wasn't until the expiry of a strategic patent by a firm called Stratasys concerning plastic extrusion in 2009 ("Apparatus and method for creating three-dimensional objects," US 5121329) and the subsequent Open Source movement (with projects such as the RepRap prototyping software) that paved the way to DIY printers for under 500 USD. Before that, world leaders such as 3D Systems and Stratasys kept their technology for exclusive use by professionals, with prohibitive prices for the general public. The quick dissemination of this technology opened markets that attracted players with a quick ability to adapt, watchful of the excitement that followed the expiry of the Stratasys patent. Legal watch on the expiry of some patents, combined with a focus on low-level signals from innovating communities, allows firms to reposition technologies that fall into the public domain on an emerging market.
Standards are also an effective way of creating a market for an invention. This is especially true in the field of sustainable growth. For instance, energy generation based on renewable resources is almost never competitive compared with fossil or nuclear sources. The hope of seeing green technologies emerge can only be achieved through the intervention of public authorities. This intervention can take several forms: funding through subsidies, penalties to polluters or regulatory obligations at several scales: that of a sector, with technical standards (e.g. catalytic converter in the automotive industry) or that of an economic system, for instance, the creation of a CO2 market in Europe.
Industrial companies can take advantage of these legal evolutions. Continental was able to establish its new NOx sensor in the automotive sector; Corning developed a new material, cordierite, for catalytic converters and California's advantageous tax system for hybrid or electrical vehicles allowed Toyota to find its first market for the Prius car.
Accurately identifying the evolution of standards and knowing how to anticipate legal evolutions are key competencies that can allow a firm to take positions on niche markets, which are called upon to extend. The pioneering position is not without risks and, as pointed out by Oded Shenkar: followers are sometimes the most successful. But it can also be very rewarding for a pioneer to defend its vantage points.
Some firms went even further, by developing strategies that combine careful management of intellectual property, close monitoring of legal regulations and work along with public authorities to activate these evolutions.
DuPont de Nemours in the 1980s offers a textbook case. This important chemical manufacturer successfully handled the ozone hole crisis linked to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) such Freon, used as refrigerant gas, of which they were one of the main producers. By investing alongside with public authorities in research, they developed a substitute technology, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, less harmful for the environment but also, above all, protected by new patents. The remarkable timing of this operation is no coincidence: DuPont de Nemours successfully managed to have CFCs banned at the very moment its key patent on this technology entered the public domain ("Process for Fluorinating Halohydrocarbons," US3258500), pulling the rug under the feet of manufacturers who thought they could use it to compete. This widely reported case was a genuine strategic achievement in terms of legal innovation.
Low-level signals of legal watch: the scientific literature
The environmental implications of a technology are at the source of a public intervention to ban it or mitigate its impact. By challenging the established rules, this intervention will often create conditions for the emergence of an innovation that uses substitute technology, as was the case for CFCs. To detect ongoing movements, legal watch must be based on a close monitoring of scientific literature.
This new regulation is often based on an extensive scientific literature. For instance, the ban of bisphenol A in baby's bottles in France in 2010 was preceded by toxicological studies carried between 2003 and 2008 to determine its dangerousness. Currently, after the dissemination of particle filters on diesel engines, public agencies in charge of environmental protection focus on particles emitted by vehicles apart from the powertrain, more specifically the particles emitted during the wear of certain parts (tires, brakes, clutch). In the United States, several cases of contamination by copper brake pads have been reported. In France, official environmental agencies such as Ademe started to discuss this issue. These initiatives are perceptible and, to a certain extent, predictable, if we analyze the exponential growth of scientific publications on the subject. These studies focus, on the one hand, on the toxicity of this new class of particles and on the other hand, on the implementation of measuring protocols on the side of the road and in-situ. Expensive solutions to capture brake particles have been developed. They will find a market only if their toxicity is scientifically proven and governments act through regulation. In this field, scientific watch is therefore a very useful component of legal watch and allows for the anticipation of developments that can disrupt markets.
Even though legal research can prove useful to manage innovation, on certain markets, regulation is a factor of immobility. To find a way out, innovation will take shortcuts. The mobility of actors and their ability to step back makes all the difference. Two examples illustrate this fact: one success and one failure.
Recent failures in the tobacco industry show that giving too much attention to legal aspects can sometimes blind both players and observers.
The law sometimes sets rules that give an almost hegemonic position to historic players, leaving almost no chance to new entrants. In the field of wines and spirits, the ban on advertising impedes any new company to make itself known and reinforces the privileged position of large, well-established groups. The same applies to the tobacco industry that never needed to renew itself before the emergence of a ground-breaking innovation, offering a substitute product, less harmful, combining electronics and agro-food: the e-cigarette. Tobacco manufacturers overlooked this product and very few analysts predicted the revolution that would shake the entire market. Tobacco manufacturers are used to legal watch: it is actually a key competence in an industry strongly impacted by sanitary standards and public policies for tobacco prevention, that are currently being completely renewed. But with a routine watch, one can overlook events that happen outside the scope of one's monitoring, while still having some significance. Manufacturers have tried to fight back by funding studies on the harmfulness of e-cigarettes and by trying to ban it. But the battle was already lost because they started way too late.
Conversely, a firm's agility and its ability to look ahead allow it to take advantage of a very strict legal environment… especially if it isn't its own! Regulatory asymmetries between industrial sectors can offer splendid opportunities for firms that are sufficiently agile, as shown by a last example from the famous NBIC (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology, Cognitive science).
Tissue engineering and 3D impression of living tissues is a promising technology in human health that solves many problems linked with skin grafting and organ transplants. However, the sector of health is highly constrained and protected by many barriers before a medical device or a new molecule is granted a market authorization. Pioneering start-ups in this field, such as Organovo in the United States or Poietis in France, quickly identified cosmetics as a first and more easily accessible market. In effect, this industry is under a prohibition of animal experimentation and actively searches for substitutes. 3D printing of skin is a viable solution to achieve this. L'Oréal, the industry leader and very concerned by the societal impact of its products, had invested since 1997 in tissue engineering technology and acquired Episkin and Skinethic in 2006. This allowed to stop all experimentation of its finished products on animals and to get ahead of the standard to become the world leader of a new, promising market: tissue engineering of human skin.
These few examples show a variety of strategies that can result from a well-led legal watch, integrating standards and legal aspects in innovation management. From the close management of a patent's expiry (DuPont) to the development of a new activity (L'Oréal), through the assessment of future constraints and of emerging activities, it appears that standards and other legal constraints are not simply technical parameters but also strategic elements. An intelligent consideration given to these aspects, as well as to sanitary or environmental preoccupations and scientific literature, can help outmaneuver competitors. The case of the tobacco industry calls for caution because legal watch can also lead to a form of myopia. But in the management process involved in an innovation project, an accurate analysis of the legal framework is, at the same level as technology watch, a major asset.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=214766
https://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2005/03/need-ride.html
Chairman, X Open Innovation, Applied Optics & Algorithmics Pole Manager, L'Oréal Recherche & Innovation
Innovation, the Indian Way
An original innovation culture, expressing itself in an amazing ability to reverse concepts. Three meta-innovations illustrate the Indian way. / Richard Robert
Is modular design the key to fast innovation?
Can we protect the meaning and relevance of innovation while accelerating and increasing its impact? This is the issue challenged by component innovation.
Low cost: why ecosystems are so important
When a firm is placed within a complex network, it must create value for the entire ecosystem. / Milena Klasing Chen


Hello everyone. I'm looking to resource the cutting bits where I can order online or call a toll free number (doesn't happen at Carvewright yet). I'm especially looking to find the 1/16" carving bit (BCR062) and the cutting bit (BCT125), but a resource for any/all of the bits would be nice until Carvewright has a chance to get their after-market product support running properly. (BTW, I have tried to order by email; they don't respond). Thanks.
I called Sears today to talk with them about the machine in the course of our conversation the salesman told me that the bits that they sell will work in the machine. You might want to go to Sears and see their bit selection to see if they have the bit that you need.
Hi - thanks for the reply but I did go to 3 large Sears stores and they had scarce supplies of plunge bits, and nothing 1/16" was even a possibility - a combination of the large home retailers and the local hardware stores worked. A place called "precisebits.com" is going to make a bit very similar to the 1/16" tapered bit soon and all the other bits are sort of common or very common. The 1/16" tapered bit is a good design structurally and it's relatively wobble-free given it's small diameter. Amana makes a regular 1/16" bit, but for reasons just mentioned I shy away from it.
How do you tell if a router bit is a "plunge" bit?
How do you tell if a bit is compatible with the the CW specifications?
I called CW and ordered my bits yesterday they are out of stock but expect them in Thursday or Friday.
I don't believe ( Sears ) stocks the bits at this time but I understand they will shortly.
plungeable bits are the ones that do not have bearings on the top which allows them to dive rightinto the board, the ones with bearings can not.
the bearing is the round part on the very top so if you are looking for them becareful cause i have not found a single one in my area that will work properly.
There's more to it than that! :!: To start with, the Carvewright bits have flats on the shank for the set screws in the quick change holder to register into.
Plunge bits have cutting tips on the end of the bit, not just on the sides of the shank. Believe me, the Carvewright bits are priced quite nicely and are specifically made for the machine.
i forgot about the adapter good point sir.
I have the full set of bits from CarveWright, PKunk, and the only bits with the flats ground in them are the two bits that come with the machine (carving 1/16" and cutting 1/8"). All other bits both 1/4" and 1/2" shank bits have no flats.
I'll have to take your word for that Bob. I haven't removed any of the others from their adapters. :D So, what keeps say, the V-bits from spinning in the adapter? Just the tightness of the setscrews?
Pkunk, I read somewhere about putting Loctite on the bit when putting it in the adapter... maybe that is to prevent spin outage.
Yup, Pkunk, and Jon, besides putting locktit on the threads you do have to be sure that the shank is tightly bound to the quick release. Locktit is only good on the threads and doesn't bind the shank to the housing.
I am curious to know specifically what items are included in the CW0024 full bit set.
I'm not sure exactly what that particular set of bits would be or how many it has in it, but check Bit Selection in Designer to see the bits they have designed for. There are 14 bits there, and I have at least that number, but I also have duplicates of some also.
Has anyone used other bits besides Carvewright bits? I did order the CW bits but I need a 3/8 ball nose and they don't have one they only have 1/2 and 1/4.
I know they say they would prefer you to only use their bits because theirs are made to fit the collets and other manufacturers shafts may vary slightly. Wanted to see if anyone has used non-CW bits and not had any problems.
Aaron, although I've only used the CarveWright bits to this time (as I have them), I don't see why other manufacturers' bits wouldn't work as long as the shanks fit the quick release adaptor snug and tight enough with the machine screws (and locktite). Question? What will a 3/8" bit do that a 1/4" bit won't?
It for a "channel" so to speak, where the bottom is rounded, like the pictures in the Design Software show for the 1/2 & 1/4 Ball Nose. So if I used a 1/4" bit it would have multiple groves at the bottom instead of one. Hope that makes sense.
How about making the bottom of the channel a carving, but do the flat edges (to a shallower depth) by vector cutting them? Perhaps more strokes but if you can't fine the right bit to use, it can be done with the ones you have and come with the machine using the 1/16" carving bit and the 1/8" cutting bit.
The set did come with a 3/8" straight bit so that could be used the the sides etc, but I am not sure I can do the round bottom like you talk about using vector. Can that be done in Designer?
Well, yes, you can do it in Designer; at least you can in my version 1.115. Let's see if this attachment will be something that would work for you. I'll make a trench and at the bottom give it an inverted lateral dome using surface option.
Board is 12" x 6" x 1/2" and the trench is 5" x 0.375 (3/8") and depth of 1/4". I made the rectangle, gave it an inverted vertical dome Surface and this is what I get. I did the rectangle just off the end of the wood to show the outline of the trench.
And if you don't have the Surface option of vertical dome, I believe you can use the mpc file I've attached on your Designer still, I think, but I'm not sure of that. It should carve like that if your Designer will show it like I made it, though.
I did NOT carve this, just designed it ... just to be clear, but it should carve as it's designed.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.... now I know what it is I wish to order. Wouldn't it be easier for the CW folks to include this info on the price sheet???? I would have ordered too many bit adapters!!
I have been working with the design software whilst I await delivery of the magic device, and am getting ready for the "accessory" order. Your info makes clear what it is I want/need/desire/crave/must have.


Not sure I'd use the Lionel outdoors with any sort of track-fed power.
While that isn't a big issue, the pins are brass-plated steel, and will rust VERY badly.
There are "adaptor" joiners I have used in the past for Lionel to some German track, should work with AC.
Difficult to clamp Lionel, as the track is hollow and the base isn't set up for clamps.
I still have some Lionel in use, but on non-powered yard tracks in the shed.


WHEN a scattering of nomadic 9th century Greek monks, who lived out their lives in solitude in remote caves 350km north-west of Athens, found themselves facing growing threats from marauding Turkish invaders, they decided that their safety could, in fact, be in numbers.
So they moved to the base of one of numerous strange sandstone pinnacles that reached 500 metres or more above the surrounding Plain of Thessaly, and while continuing their individual lives of solitude within caves there, came together on Sundays and major important religious dates to jointly worship and pray.
And ultimately they built a small chapel among the rocks for these gatherings, but when that too was plundered and many of its precious art works the monks had created were stolen, the monks started climbing higher into the fissures of their pinnacles until in the 11th century they had reached the tops of some twenty or more.
There they used an elaborate system of retractable ladders and baskets on the ends of long ropes to haul building materials and other supplies, and even themselves and hired workers and pilgrims up to their retreats, and to spend the next 300 years constructing individual monasteries overlooking the surrounding plain.
By the 14th century there were some twenty of these extraordinary places of worship that for seven centuries until the 1920s could be reached only by those ladders, or the baskets that swung so perilously off relays of ropes to the ground.
Modern-day scholars say that these Meteora Monasteries as they are known, Meteora meaning literally "suspended in the air," were not only important religious centres but ultimately academic and artistic ones as well – having been places of refuge at times of crisis for philosophers, painters, poets and deep thinkers, and who were credited with having saved the Hellenic culture and traditions.
And in their later years Meteora also attracted a small community of nuns of the Eastern Orthodox Church who built a convent on one of the peaks alongside the Church's long-time monks, but today there are just five monasteries and that convent remaining, with none having more than a dozen full-time occupants.
Just how the rare sandstone pinnacles that rise out of the Plain of Thessaly were formed is uncertain, but a major theory is that the Plain was once covered by an inland sea, and when this receded when the seabed rose, this action and subsequent weather conditions eroded the soft, elevated sandstone seabed leaving only the harder cores standing.
The monasteries today are major, if remote, tourist attractions described as amongst the most spectacular of places to visit in Greece. And although they were attacked during WWII when Germany suspected they were concealing insurgents, and many of their art treasures were pilfered by Nazi forces, they still contain hundreds of priceless items reflecting the lives of their earlier occupants.
These include post-Byzantine murals considered amongst the most beautiful in Greece, frescos including one by Theophanes that depicts in gruesome detail the persecution of Christians by the Romans, intricately carved wooden crosses, embroidered funeral orations, icons by some of Europe's most-famed iconographers, and other eclisiastical treasures.
One also contains shelves of skulls of former monks, while another became the richest after the Serbian Emperor, Symeon Uron gave all his wealth to the monastery to become an impoverished monk there.
And in more recent times yet another, Agia Triada also known as the Holy Trinity Monastery, was used for scenes in the James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only.
Thankfully the monasteries can be reached more easily today, with a bridge from an adjoining plateau reaching to one, and with bridges, ropeways, roads and other links from there to most of the other five – although one still requires a climb of a-near 150 steps cut into the sandstone.
Daily train services link Athens with the town of Kalambaka from where the monasteries can be reached by foot, or short cab ride. Two of the monasteries are open daily, while the others are closed at least one day a week.


text:
Revenant Publications
Creative projects, reviews, illustrations and other work by talented people.
Original Designs and Merchandise
Read Lil' Horsemen
Halloween: Original vs. Remake
On November 1, 2015 By R. PettyIn Movies
We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween! Another holiday has come and gone, however we had so much fun and great conversations about this topic that we've decide to extend it another week. We also want to thank everyone for reading and discussing horror movies with us all month. It is my pleasure to review this one, and heads up, I could talk forever about this one!
Photo: http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com
Halloween – The Original
Possibly my favorite movie from this era and definitely in my top five in the genre, John Carpenter's Halloween is a classic. This was one of the first – maybe even the first – slasher movie I saw as a kid. I don't want to gush and seem like a fan girl because I do poke fun at a few things too. So, here are a few of my favorite things about the original Halloween.
False Sense of Security: From the opening scenes, the audience sees this is a quite little suburban town. The teenagers are decent kids who party, but most teenagers do. The younger kids are excited about Halloween, and there are lots of shots of trick-or-treaters, trees, streets and houses. As the movie unravels, you feel sympathy for these townspeople. They have encountered a tragedy and evil that may defeat them and destroy their little town. You wouldn't expect an evil force, and the original takes you from all those wonderful Halloween memories you have to fearing Michael Myers. It takes you on a roller coaster of emotion and disrupts what should be a fun-filled holiday.
Pure Evil: Myers is pure evil. It's that simple. Some people are just born with an evil that consumes them. Whether you believe in this theory or not, the original Halloween did. There was no backstory. You do not know why Myers was a killer, and I never cared to know. I just accepted the "pure evil" within him because it was believable. He never says a word. He just punishes and kills, and that's what makes him more threatening to me. Evil motivates him, and if you aren't scared of evil, then what does scare you? The evil serves as a supernatural force, which is much harder to control than a person. It's unpredictable, reckless, and illogical. The idea that you can't control it is more effective from a horror standpoint and leaves you uneasy throughout the movie.
Jaime Lee Curtis: My pick for the top final girl. Curtis set the bar for final girls. She's played several strong female characters over the years, and Halloween helped her establish that career role. In Halloween, her character is smart, responsible, fun, and studious, however she also smokes pot and hangs out with her friends. She is a normal teenager who becomes tormented by Myers. Her character was developed very well, and you follow her through her ups and downs. She was strong and weak; she fought and cried. She was a woman survivor. Curtis is and always will be Laurie Strode.
Photo: filmedge.net
Halloween – The Remake
I don't think I saw Rob Zombie's Halloween in theaters, and if I did, I apologize to who I saw it with! We've talked a little about re-imagining movies – such as A Nightmare of Elm Street – and that's what Zombie's version is. He took the original and built on it. It wasn't a true remake because he added and changed a lot, and Zombiefied it as only he can do.
I have a few issues with this version, but as a stand-alone horror movie, it's pretty intense.
No security: As an audience, you never feel safe watching this movie. Zombie takes you from a highly dysfunctional lower-class family, to an asylum, then back to the dysfunctional family. There is nothing pretty in or about this movie. As an audience, it's difficult to feel shocked about anything that happens because you almost expect it. It's predictable. Whereas in the original, the murders are a tragedy because terror invades a small quiet town. You get to know the town as a whole, instead of Myers. I don't agree with Zombie's choice because Myers and his life are terrifying enough. He strips all innocence from the beginning. And if you take away the town's innocence from the beginning, you take it away forever and leave no hope.
The backstory: I appreciate a little backstory, but I feel the first half of this movie is way too long. Zombie refuses the idea of "pure evil," and make Myers a product of his environment. Coming from a dysfunctional and abusive household, Myers snaps. Then he is so consumed by loss and hatred, it turns into evil. Comparing the two, I prefer the original idea, however I accept that modern audiences need this backstory. They want to know why, and they have to see progression. If Zombie had shortened it 20 more minutes, I think most people would not complain about the length. Reviewers seem split down the middle about this – you either love or dislike the backstory – I side with the latter.
Laurie Strode: Once Myers escapes, Halloween 2007 turns into a respectful remake. Scout Taylor-Compton portrays Strode's character well, and she stays true to the innocent good-girl type. Her character is modernized, and for the purposes of the remake, that's okay. However, audiences don't really know her. The emphasis on Myers is so heavy, Halloween 2007 lacks teen character development, which should be as important as Myers' story. In the remake, Strode doesn't stand out above her friends, and she is not the only final girl. It's a disservice to the character, and I wonder if Annie (Danielle Harris) survives because the first franchise kind of screwed her over.
Zombie does keep a lot of the original details, which shows he wasn't trying to outdo the original Halloween. Myers dresses up as a ghost with the glasses, Zombie uses the original score, the masks are the same, the girls resemble the original girls, etc. It is gruesome and bloody, which I can take or leave. I also expect that from Rob Zombie. I enjoy the movie much more once Myers escapes, but the violence and kill scenes feel too long. For that reason, I can't watch this movie often because it borders torture instead of quick-slasher fashion.
The verdict: The original. I watch it every Halloween night, and it is perhaps a perfect slasher movie.
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!
Halloweenhorror moviesslasher movies
Story of the Month: Nightmare on Elm Street and the Cure to Horror
Original Vs Remake: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Jem of a Birthday Present
The Grand Glory of Galavant
The Next Warhammer Scenery Painting Challenge!
Making Easy Wargaming Smoldering Wrecked Vehicle Markers!
Realm of Battle Sector Imperialis COMPLETED!
Die Hard: Yes it IS a Christmas Movie
2016: Best of List for One of the Worst Years Ever
Better than it should be: Men At Work
The Un-Thankful List 2016
Doom (2016) – A Return to Form
What We Write About Most
Art Books Concerts/Shows Games Grammar and Punctuation History Movies Music Opinions Projects Random Fun Reviews Short Stories Story of the Month TV Shows Writing for Web and Tips
Revenant Publications on Twitter!
A Jem of a Birthday Present revenantpublications.com/2017/04/19/a-j… https://t.co/zGqxyaT0sW 3 years ago
The Grand Glory of Galavant revenantpublications.com/2017/03/29/the… https://t.co/3bJ4oyDyUm 3 years ago
The Next Warhammer Scenery Painting Challenge! revenantpublications.com/2017/03/08/the… https://t.co/BYH5fHj7HZ 3 years ago
Follow @RevenantPub
© 2016 Revenant Publications, All Rights Reserved.
The content contained on this website, including but not limited to all writings and drawings, are the original creations of their indicated authors. Those authors retain all rights to their creations permitted by law. The content contained on this website and webpages may not be republished, rewritten, reproduced, or appropriated in any other way without the express written permission of the work's indicated author. We don't mind sharing, but please credit the writer. Stealing and plagiarism are not cool.


text:
By egdcltd
InfoBarrel > Lifestyle > Dating & Relationships
Why I Am Madly In Love With Monica Lewinsky
The Aphrodisiac of Power
Mmmmmm . . . Monica!
Yeah, yeah, go ahead and laugh it up now.
But I'm telling you, I have carried a torch for this zaftig Jewish American Princess ever since she first came to attention as Queen of the Presidential Pants.
She has, however, quietly managed to persevere in the aftermath of the most publicly played and hypocritical sex scandal ever to hit The White House. She is much smarter than anyone might give her credit for, and while she is always pretty, she can be a downright stunner when she's hosed off and dressed up.
That's why I am madly in love with Monica Lewinsky.
The Golden Age in America
We are going back in time once again.
Before taking this little field trip a review of the rules are necessary: keep your hands in your pockets – your own pockets, this time – and don't cross the velvet rope. [Insert cheesy time-travel special-effects graphic here . . . ]
Credit: Vic Dillinger, 2011
. . . it was the decade of the 1990s.
The Sun truly never shone brighter on America.
Ne'er didst the bunnies roam more freely and carelessly; nay, nor didst the deer and the antelope play more friskily than when the greatest President this country has ever known sat regally and benovently on his throne in the Oval Office.
Under the party-time, feel-good, LIFE-IS-GREAT administration of William Jefferson Clinton we were finally seeing that the light at the end of the tunnel was not an on-coming train (having just come off two economically disastrous administrations, Ronald Reagan's and George H.W. Bush's) Credit: Vic Dillingerâ"¢, © 2012.
But woe came to the land when a dark pall spread its ugly talons, clawing away our veneer of prosperity and joy. Our President, it turned out, was not a god after all, but a regular, ordinary horn dog that got caught with his hand in the . . . ummm . . . cookie jar.
And, unfortunately, the owner of said jar – a cheery, very pretty, and vivaciously bouncy brunette White House intern named Monica Lewinsky – became the most reviled home wrecker on the planet.
Who was this succubus using her feminine wiles for evil instead of good? Who was this foul temptress who led our benighted President, Wild Bill Clinton, astray?
It turned out she was just a girl.
The Little Intern That Would
San Francisco, California, gave rise to Bill Clinton's Bathsheba on July 23, 1973. Monica Samille Lewinsky (probably the only woman on the planet with such an interesting middle name – I'm guessing it's Jewish for "Salma" as in Salma Hayek) was born into affluence and grew up in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Monica's moneyed background was double-barreled. Her father, Bernard, was an oncologist of German Jewish descent (his father escaped the Nazis before migrating to the US via El Salvador). Her mother, Marcia, was of Eastern European Jewry, and is an author under the pen-name "Marcia Lewis" (not a good one, but an author nonetheless).
Monica's parents couldn't play nice, however, and in 1987, they divorced when Monica was in her mid teens. This was tough on my little Jewish princess, and it may have been from here that some of her "daddy issues" were formed (interests in older, unattainable men. She later had an intimate relationship with a teacher). Marcia and Bernard both married other people – Marcia, who is a socialite drama queen in her own right, managed to snag a really old fart that also happened to be a multi-zillionaire.
Monica and her family practiced their Jewish faith, attending synagogue and her going to a Jewish school when she was younger. She went to elementary school in Bel Air as well, and later to Beverly Hills High School. She was named "Outstanding Junior" in school. In 1991, she transferred for her senior year to another prep school in Bel-Air. She went on to do two years in community college where she also worked in the drama department of her former school, Beverly Hills High, and at a boutique. Completing a lot of her undergrad general education studies, she moved on to Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Oregon), where she graduated in 1995 with a degree in Psychology.
Her aspirations led her far afield: she moved clear across the country into the Washington, DC area after college. Taking advantage of her family's wealthy connections in the Land o' Politics, Monica gained a coveted internship in the Clinton White House in July 1995. On November 13, 1995, she got a paid position in the White House's Legislative Affairs Office. She'd only been on board for four months. It was November 15, 1995, the day of her first sexual contact with the President, which put her on the fast track. She was barely 22 years old.
Wanton of the West Wing
Details, of course, are dodgy.
Bill Clinton had already had more mud slung at him than any other president before him. No president before or since has come under the media spotlight, the intensely microscopic scrutiny, that Bill Clinton endured during his campaign and when he was in office. The very word "beleaguered" describes his two-term administration, not because anything important was happening, but because he was Bill Clinton.
Wild Bill's history of infidelities is well-known now, but was just beginning to rear its ugly head then. And I do mean ugly. And I'm not talking about the details of what he allegedly did with various women while governor of Arkansas or even during his campaign and after. I'm talking about his "conquests". Once these women started surfacing, I completely understood Monica's appeal – she was young, and gorgeous, and definitely a major step up from what he'd previously associated with.
Later, Monica confirmed that she and the President had nine sexual encounters over the period from November 15, 1995, to March 29, 1997. This is 499 days, kids, and that means she and the Prez weren't really doing so much. That's an average of one sexual encounter about every 55.4 days or 7.9 weeks (dang, I love math!!). I could only hope that was neither's sum total sexual output during that time, because that is frankly pathetic.
And pathetic describes the nature of their "sexual" relationship. Yes, it was sex. Yes, it was all oral or manual, but it was still sex. No, vaginal intercourse was not involved. That does not, however, diminish the experience for either party nor does it undermine the seriousness of the situation (married man, hot intern)
On April 16, 1996, Monica got moved to the Pentagon because her superiors thought she was hanging around Bill too much. She later spilled the beans about her liaisons with Bill to her yenta "friend" Linda Tripp. Tripp began secretly recording conversations between herself and Monica when Monica discussed her sexual contacts with Bill. In January 1998, Tripp (a busy-body harpy with an axe to grind) coughed the tapes up to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr (who was already looking into the Whitewater Land Company dealings involving the Clintons).
The rest is comedy history.
"Aaaannnndd, We're Stupid in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . "
Late night talk-show hosts had a field day with Monica Lewinsky and the situation (fellatio, the semen-stained dress held for evidence, etc.). She was the national punch line. America got its p Credit: fanpix.netrudish, hypocritical, post-Victorian, poker-up-the-wazoo panties all in a bunch over this. One would think Bill and Monica were like Bonny and Clyde – only, instead of robbing banks, they rampaged across the countryside killing all the baby bunnies and puppies.
The ensuing simian-media feces-flinging about this non-event will stand as perhaps America's lowest moment in journalism. First, there was no story here:"Man Cheats on Wife". Yeah, there's something we don't hear about every day. So what? No crime was committed. So what if Bill Clinton was President? The US Constitution does not have any part of it that states "The President shall not get any strange while in office".
The impeachment movement was a joke – there was no offense against which to impeach him. He had not compromised the nation's security, he had not committed treason, nor had he undermined anything in the Constitution. He had not been seditious. He had not fomented a rebellion. He had not traded arms for hostages or masterminded a break-in of another political party's headquarters. He had not gotten us involved in a pointless and costly conflict in the Middle East (as his predecessor had done or as his successor would do).
Lied to the country? That's what you got? He didn't owe the country any goddam explanations about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, so whether he lied or not is irrelevant. And any guy caught cheating is definitely going to lie to his wife. Even if she catches him physically in the act, he will lie: "What? I didn't do nothin'. Who you gonna believe: me or your lyin' eyes?" Lying is not only normal under such circumstances, it should be expected. No, any excuse for a vendetta against Bill Clinton by Republicans and other Clinton haters was needed; he gave someone such an excuse. [And Hillary Clinton was not the wounded or wronged wife she would play later. She knew all about it before it went public, trust me. She had been to this particular rodeo before, having been married to Bill for over two decades.]
The absurdity of Ken Starr's "investigation" was sickening. Those people were slavering over the chance to use titillating words such as "fellatio", "vagina", or "hot pastrami on rye". Every official involved in this non-starter looked like (and apparently was) a moron. There are not enough short buses on the planet to transport the level of idiocy involved here.
When I think of the millions of tax-payer dollars (and the broadcast time, ink, and buzz) thrown away on this incident, it makes me feel bad for us. Surely, America (and the world) had more important things to worry about.
I know I did – I was trying to find out Monica's phone number!
Credit: tumblr
I thought Monica Lewinsky was a doll.
I'd never seen her until that one video clip where Wild Bill gives her a hug in a crowd scene and she's wearing her little beret. My heart melted for that image of Monica. I could see it in the way she looked at him in that moment; I understood her. He was the most powerful human being in the free world. "Starry-eyed" would barely begin to describe the look of adoration on her face. I've seen the groupie mentality at work, and I've taken unfair advantage of it myself. [Not maliciously, but if it's being handed over on a silver platter, what the falgol? I just made that up: "falgol". You can use my new word.] I totally got Monica Lewinsky.
Bill Clinton couldn't keep it in his pants. So what? The only people who should have known (if any) or been discussing this issue at all, if they even deigned to bother, would have been Bill, Monica, and Hillary Clinton. [Hillary was known around The White House by her staff as "The Big Girl". With ovaries of steel, Hillary could weather this little blip on the radar easily and cannily – and she did.]
But America, paving the way for the false prudery and unnecessary prurient interests in all things that deflect the bright light of truth away from themselves, vilified Monica as if she were a killer of baby harp seals and baby polar bears. Her humiliation only worsened when Bill, under oath before Starr's feces-encrusted-in-the-corners-of-his-mouth's interrogation, denied having any sexual relationship with her.
Intellectually, I know Monica knew this was just a diversion. But in her endorphin-addled brain, spinning no doubt from the headiness of the situation (Would they get caught? Terrors!!), she would have done anything I'm sure.
Bill, I must say, should have known better. Not so much the cheating part: who cares? I'm talking about using Monica as a plaything, knowing he literally had her eating out of the palm of his hand. This is his only crime as far as I am concerned – he let his position dictate the terms of their relationship, and he let her be overpowered by it. He could have, just once, been the bigger person. [Although I did want to high-five him. Seriously, I'd be proud to have called Monica Lewinsky my girlfriend. I'd brush her hair out nice and fluffy, dress her up in a pretty spaghetti-strapped backless thing, and get her some subtly tasteful earrings, maybe a . . . ]
What? Oh. Yeah. Sorry . . . just drifted off there . . .
Bill should have been the adult. Yeah, I see it from his side, too. Here's this tasty young morsel, just cute as a button, with those big ol' perky sweater puppets, gorgeous hazel eyes, and that bright smile. I know I couldn't resist. She had no power in that relationship, and although it is certain he did not force her to do anything, the very nature of the dynamic between them (he the Prez, she an intern in a soon-to-be-stained dress) meant he should have walked away. Gently.
Had Monica not worked as an intern, I could've forgiven him. Had she been a waitress at Hooters, or Janet Reno, or somebody outside his sphere of influence and authority, I could've easily overlooked it. I'm not upset with him for his sexual behavior (rock on, dude). I'm upset about his taking advantage in many ways of this confused and star-struck young woman.
After the "Mess on the Dress"
The sheer dumbness of keeping a crumpled dress, with dried Presidential semen stains on it, was a classic moment in both stupidity and white trashery. Monica Lewinsky is not white trash, yet why she succumbed to Linda Tripp's white trashery is beyond me. And she shoulda just washed the dress.
Probably the only person in the world who could have understood and sympathized with Monica Lewinsky's plight at that time would have been US Olympic figure-skater Tonya Harding. In January 1994, Tonya's husband conspired to have her greatest rival, Nancy Kerrigan, taken out of competition. This was done by knee-capping her at a practice session in Detroit. Tonya was not involved in the conspiracy to disable Kerrigan (who recovered nicely and went on to win a medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics). But Tonya knew about what had happened after the fact, and she did not come forward in a timely manner. Instead, she let it slide until investigators figured out the plot, then came after her for obstructing justice.
Nobody knows better than Tonya Harding what it is like to have your name become synonymous with "evil" overnight. She was banned from working in skating, she was vilified in the press as an ogress (which she was not), and she was practically railroaded out of town. It took her years of trying, getting slapped down again and again, to recover some semblance of a normal life in the wake of that disaster. I'd bet Tonya was watching the news the day the Monica mess broke, thinking, "Well, they'll forget about me for a while!"
Monica unintentionally followed in Tonya's footsteps. As with Tonya, she was suddenly anathema – no one wanted to work with her or be around her except to make fun of her or to capitalize on her notoriety. [I thought for sure some savvy advertiser woulda snatched her up – wouldn't Monica have been a great pitch-woman for ChapStick®?] But, no, she was shunned. Although not the social pariah that Tonya Harding was made into, Monica couldn't get a break, either.
Back in Business?
Monica was a celebrity almost instantly but, unlike the Paris Hiltons of the world, she quickly recognized the thing that got her attention was not something of real merit, not something you proudly post on a résumé. The dubious nature of her cult status sunk in and by early 1999, she quit giving autographs, explaining, "I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for." [Now if Paris Hilton could only be a big, grown up girl like Monica, and have such an epiphany the world would be a better place.]
In March 1999, Monica's interview with Barbara Walters set a viewership record for a news show. She helped create a book from her perspective with author Andrew Morton, also published in March 1999. Here's where my love for Monica grows – she was savvy enough to get not only $500,000 for her participation in the book, but she also secured a totally cool $1 million dollars for the international rights to her interview with Babs. Time magazine excerpted parts of her book as a cover story, also in March 1999. Good sport that she is, Monica (as Sarah Palin would several years later) appeared on Saturday Night Live in a couple of sketches in which she was the punch line. You go, girl!!
During her time of tribulation, she took up knitting as a diversion. She turned her little hobby into a business when she got serious about it – she designed a line of handbags in September Credit: fanpix.net1999 under her new company name The Real Monica. The bags were sold on-line as well as in boutiques in New York, Los Angeles, and London. They were made in Louisiana, presumably by toothless swampbillies ("As Seen on Tee-Vee!"), and Monica traveled there often to supervise their manufacture.
Monica's weight (like many women's) fluctuates with her mental state (getting fatter the more miserable she becomes). Although a regular-sized Monica Lewinsky is a totally hot über-babe, a super-sized one tends to start looking like Liz Taylor at her more gross Credit: Guy DeLort/WWD, 1979extremes in the 1970s. So, in early 2000, Monica – who, chunky or not, is still pretty and always puts herself together well – inked a deal with weight-loss guru Jenny Craig and started shooting commercials for the fat reducer plan. Her deal called for her to lose 40 pounds in six months to endorse the program. [Holy Cats! Truth in advertising! Can we stand it?]
In return she would get $1 million.
Monica had not wanted to be in the public eye, but she needed the money for legal fees, so she agreed to come out and play. She also said she believed in the program. Jenny Craig was lambasted for their choice of spokesperson, but defended Monica by saying she reached a younger demographic (she did) and she represented the busy, active woman of today (she did). They also said she represented a lot of women across America with weight struggles and weight issues (she did).
Monica Lewinsky objectively was ideal for Jenny Craig to use as a model. However, other dopey franchise holders didn't agree, and lobbied for the company to go back to using an older, less-controversial ad campaign. [There should have been no controversy here at all, ever. Remember? Monica did not kill all the puppies and baby bunnies in the world, she just – you know . . . ]
The company quit running Monica's commercials in February 2000, cut her contract short, and gave her $300K of the million she should have gotten. They didn't even give her a chance to prove her worth to them. [Shades of Tonya Harding – what the hell is wrong with this country?] Frankly, for want of anything better to do, she moved to New York City, and became a scenester. That same month in 2000 she did a shot on The Tom Green Show (a Canadian "funny man" who was once married to Drew Barrymore). Later the same year, she got a correspondent-at-large gig for British Television on a show called Monica's Postcards. She did person-on-the-street stuff and reported on US pop culture and lightweight things of that nature. But it was a job.
The terms of the Clinton sex "scandal" involving Monica were agreed not to be discussed publicly by the principals until a certain time had passed. In March 2002, no longer having to abide by that expired agreement, Monica showed up on HBO where she bravely answered questions from a studio audience about her relationship with Uncle Bill. Monica then hosted a short-lived reality show on Fox in November 2003. From there she appeared as a guest on British TV, in Sweden, and on a couple of talk shows in the US.
It's Alive!
Bill Clinton produced an autobiography in 2004, imaginatively titled My Life [I guess he stayed up all night thinking that one up.] In it, according to Monica, he is less-than-truthful about the nature of their relationship and her part in it:
"He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. [. . . ] I really didn't expect him to go into detail about our relationship. [ . . . ] But if he had and he'd done it honestly, I wouldn't have minded. [ . . . ] I did, though, at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. [ . . . ] This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. [ . . . ] I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character."
This book, of course, renewed interest in her for all the wrong reasons. In 2005, she stopped selling her line of bags, uprooted, and moved to London. She attended the London School of Economics, and got her master's in Social Psychology in December 2006. In perhaps one of the most personally relevant master's theses ever written, Monica explored her public trials and torments: "In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third-person effect and Pre-Trial Publicity." Knowing what it is to be tried in the court of public opinion, as a modern-day Jezebel, Monica knows: there is no such thing as an impartial juror.
She has done her best to stay out of the limelight, almost pathologically avoiding publicity. She lives semi-reclusively, venturing out on occasion. Monica Lewinsky sightings are becoming almost as elusive as Loch Ness Monster sightings.
PBS scheduled a four-hour (two-part) documentary on the Clinton Administration, Clinton, as part of its ongoing American Experience series. The show originally aired over two nights, February 20, 2012, and February 21, 2012. The part detailing the affair started in the third hour.
In early May 2014 she came out again to publicly discuss her relationship with Bill for an interview in Vanity Fair magazine. It is unclear as yet how Monica Lewinsky will fare in the wake of this renewed rehashing of her short time in the Oval Office.
No doubt there will be more jokes.
Such a Nice Jewish Girl
Monica is mostly bi-coastal in the US these days. She has her New York apartment, and a place in LA owned by her family she stays in occasionally. She is trying to start her own public relations firm. [She should do business with former child star Johnny Whitaker's company in Los Angeles – if anybody could understand what her life is like right now, it's gotta be any former kid actor.]
Her self-esteem is reportedly very low. It's really sad in retrospect. Monica, this beautiful woman doomed to be tittered about (and 17 years after the fact, still the punch-line of many jokes, new Credit: Mark Richards, 2011 @dailymail.uk ones at that) can't seem to settle. Most tellingly the sexual "scandal" between her and Bill is almost always called "the Lewinsky Affair" or "the Lewinsky scandal" or some variant. That terminology places blame for the whole thing apparently at her feet.
However, this was not Monica's scandal. She was not the married party. She was not the President of the United States. She was just an impressionable intern taking advantage of her position. Power is an aphrodisiac, and those with it should wield it wisely.
Monica Lewinsky is still a hottie in my book. [I really love her hair; I just wanna plunge both my hands into that thick mane.] She's still pretty, she still smiles brightly, and you know what? I'd marry Monica Lewinsky in a heartbeat and be proud to call her my woman, even if she is a little fluffier than I might like these days.
I do adore her. Chutzpah in the face of adversity, beautifully soft hazel eyes, luxuriant tresses, smart, educated, and -- yeah -- sexy: that's why I am madly in love with Monica Lewinsky.
look how pretty she is !!!
The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia
Amazon Price: $12.95 $6.54 Buy Now
Trucker Man
Next >> How to Infuriate Professional Musicians
egdcltd
Date Ideas in Small Towns and Rural California
Love and Marriage: Tips for a Happy Marriage
'Till Death Do Us Part: Ten Solid Tips For a Strong and Lasting Marriage
Fall In Love With Your Mate All Over Again
Love 101: 5 Bad Traits In A Relationship
Love 101: 5 Relationship Skills To Develop
Love 101: 5 Ways To Tell If Someone Likes You Romantically
Love 101: 5 Essential Relationship Traits
Love 101: 5 Ways To Reignite The Spark In Your Relationship
Edward Klein The Truth About Hillary Clinton. New York City, NY: Sentinel, 2005.
"Lewinsky Affair." rotten.com. 15/02/2012
"Monica Lewinsky Scandal Back in the Spotlight in New Documentary." inquisitr.com. 15/02/2012
Mike O'brien "'A social pariah': How lonely Monica Lewinsky has failed to find happiness... and is STILL the butt of lewd Clinton jokes." dailymail.co.uk. 7/09/2011. 15/02/2012
"Lewinsky scandal." en.wikipedia.org. 15/02/2012
"Monica Lewinsky." en.wikipedia.org. 15/02/2012
Laura Italiano "Monica's Mother's Breakdown Revealed." nypost.com. 3/10/1998. 16/02/2012
Eric Pooley "Monica's World." cnn.com. 23/02/1998. 16/02/2012


Developers at XDA forum have shared the flash tool and stock firmware files for LG G3, using which users can restore stock firmware on their devices.
Those who have accidentally bricked their devices and want to unbrick or unroot it and reinstall stock firmware can do so using the firmware files available at XDA. Unrooting will reinstall all the factory and default restrictions on the Android device.
LG G3 users, who are currently looking for an unroot method, may follow our unroot guide below.
Do not forget to back up all data of the handset, before following the tutorial. Additionally, ensure that the device has above 80% of battery charge.
Now you should be able to enjoy the stock firmware on the LG G3.


text:
7 Secret Alternatives to UK Destinations
You've done London, of course. You've taken a trip west to see the Neolithic stones of Stonehenge and the Roman spas of Bath. You've hung out with an academic crowd in Oxford or Cambridge, journeyed north to Viking York and ticked off the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. Now what? Here are seven of the best kept secret destinations in the UK. Hush, though! If you tell, they'll all want to come.
Replace Bath with... Colchester
England's oldest recorded town is also its oldest Roman city. With a history dating back almost 2000 years, it's a wonder that more people don't visit this north Essex town, an hour from London by train. Visit the Norman castle, built on Roman foundations, and the ruined St Botolph's priory, founded about 1100AD. The excellent Hollytrees Museum, adjacent to leafy Castle Park, has interesting displays about the city and its past residents, including an extensive collection of antique clocks. When you're ready to rest your legs, the town has plenty of cafés from which to choose, including the characterful Tymperleys, housed in a Tudor mansion.
Replace Loch Ness with... Loch Awe
Loch Ness might be more famous on account of its elusive monster, and Loch Lomond might receive more visitors thanks to its convenient location an hour outside Glasgow. But Loch Awe lives up to its name. This is one of western Scotland's hidden gems and yet it's the longest freshwater loch in the country and the third largest. On its shores you'll find the ruined Kilchurn Castle, one of the most photogenic castles in the north of the UK.
Replace Stonehenge with... Avebury Stone Circle
Stonehenge has long been a victim of its own success, with visitors separated from the ancient standing stones by a low rope barrier unless they've managed to score a rare special access pass. Go to nearby Avebury instead and you can touch the stones. Built between 2850BC and 2200BC, the henge contains the largest stone circle in Britain which encloses two smaller stone circles.
Replace Brighton with... Margate
Forget Brighton, star of the East Sussex show. The neighboring Kent coast also has many classic British seaside resorts, but Margate's a stand out. Though it lost its pier to the sea in the 1970s, it still has a thriving amusement park, Dreamland, whose restored wooden rollercoaster, the Scenic Railway, is the oldest in the UK. But there's another reason to visit: Margate's shell grotto. No one knows when it was built, but it was discovered in 1835 and has been operating as a visitor attraction ever since. Mosaics on the walls and ceiling utilise 4.6 million mussel, cockle, whelk, limpet, scallop and oyster shells.
Replace Snowdonia with... Brecon Beacons National Park
Snowdonia's the most famous of the three national parks found in Wales and the spectacular bays and headlands of the Pembrokeshire Coast draw tourists from all over the country. The third, the Brecon Beacons National Park, is a dark sky reserve, free from the light pollution that blights much of the UK. Hike through ancient woodland to tumbling waterfalls. The mountain peak Pen y Fan towers over the landscape, and though it's much less visited than Mount Snowdon it's arguably as dramatic. Other highlights include Cwm Sere, Cwm Oergwm and Cwm Cynwyn, tranquil glaciated valleys affording breathtaking views to those who seek them out.
Replace York with... Lincoln
York Minster is astonishingly grand, the kind of jaw dropper that people fly thousands of miles just to say they've seen with their own eyes. Lincoln Cathedral, despite being one of Europe's finest Gothic structures, is comparatively under-visited. Yet this magnificent building, consecrated in 1092, was once the tallest in the world. The central spire that made it so was added in 1311; it collapsed in 1549, but the cathedral remains a breathtaking sight to this day. Reach it by walking up the aptly named Steep Hill, a pictureseque cobbled street lined with shops and cafés.
Replace Cornwall with... Northumberland Coast AONB
The UK's areas of outstanding beauty are scattered across its four nations. One of the best, with a stretch of shoreline to rival the craggy coast of Cornwall, is the Northumberland Coast AONB. Sweeping sandy beaches backed by grassy dunes frame vistas of isolated islands. Castles dot the landscape, with Bamburgh, Lindisfarne and Warkworth among the best preserved. Alnwick, used as a filming location for two of the Harry Potter movies and more besides, lies inland not far away. Just offshore, the Farne Islands delight summer birdwatchers who flock to the area in the hope of seeing puffins, guillemots, razorbills, terns, eider ducks and shags. Grey seals make their home there throughout the year with pups born in the autumn.
Discoveries UK
The Most Stunning Coastal Towns in Europe
Beat the Heat With Photos of the Coldest Places on Earth
The Best U.S. Cities to See From the Seat of a Bike
Celebrate Independence Day With a Trip to Carol Highsmith's America


Welcome back to RPS News and our April newsround. In this bulletin the team discusses some important dates such as the forthcoming SATSs Week and the Isle of Wight trip directly after SATSs for our hard working year six pupils.
We also hear about the recent R Factor competition, a fund raising cake sale and much more. Our "and finally" performance this month is a fantastic dance routine.
To watch the news, please click on the play button below.


Black leather comfortable chairs in a rental meeting room.
Want to keep your employees motivated and your business growth on a constant move? Get out of the office and change the surroundings to get those creative juices flowing. A hotel meeting room rental in London is the perfect break from the same office routine and can be used in a number of flexible ways.
Book a meeting space in London for an array of business and recreational activities so that the morale of your employees always remains high.
Share your skills and expertise with your employees during a monthly workshop session. If you have a team that's eager to learn from you, these workshops will allow you to polish their skills and in turn increase your profits. The casual setting allows employees to relax, and thus make the brainstorming sessions more productive. A combination of dynamic activities and games will ensure your employees understand the foundations of your business and work tirelessly to make a name for your business in the market.
Your team has been working hard all year and it is time to acknowledge the efforts they've all put in. Just book a meeting space in London and hold a small event to recognize the part that everyone has played in the success. A few words of encouragement and awards to celebrate everyone's contribution are just the pat on the back your employees need to work even harder.
A successful business requires great connections in the industry. If you want to gain a competitive advantage, it's important that you organize regular networking meetings. Give your employees the chance to increase their exposure and make the right connections. These sessions will get you real referral partners and help you build strong inter-industry connections.
Kiva Solutions is the highly recommended UK meeting room booking engine that allows businesses to book that perfect venue online. It is an efficient meeting reservation system that provides a diverse range of meeting room rental options.
This is the hassle-free and time-saving platform that businesses have been waiting for!


Ammie Jackson is a web developer who's working with a distinguished multinational corporation in Australia. She has pursued her degree from the Australian National University. She has also been an accomplished freelancer. She has also recently joined Myassignmenthelp as an academic expert.


A back water valve is a check valve that goes onto your main sewer line after the last connection. This valve is designed to let everyday sewage pass through, unless city sewers begin to back up (usually caused by heavy rain), at which time the valve closes, preventing your house from flooding.
Call Black Forest Plumbing today for your free consultation, and let us protect your house! We'll test any size backflow and handle all permit pulling.
Limited time offer: back water valve installation for as little as $325.00+HST after rebate!


Offering readers a snapshot of a moment in history that left no company unscathed, the book zooms in to show, in riveting detail, how one company struggled and recreated itself in the midst of it all. The fastpaced narrative is driven by day-to-day tension as conflicts arise and lets readers into Schultz's psyche as he comes to terms with his limitations and evolving leadership style. Onward is a compelling, candid narrative documenting the maturing of a brand as well as a businessman.
In 2000, Starbuck's founder and CEO Schultz (Pour Your Heart into It) stepped down from daily oversight of the company and assumed the role of chairman. Eight years later, in the midst of the recession and a period of decline unprecedented in the company's recent history, Schultz--feeling that the soul of his brand was at risk--returned to the CEO post. In this personal, suspenseful, and surprisingly open account, Schultz traces his own journey to help Starbucks reclaim its original customer-centric values and mission while aggressively innovating and embracing the changing landscape of technology. From the famous leaked memo that exposed his criticisms of Starbucks to new product strategies and rollouts, Schultz bares all about the painful yet often exhilarating steps he had to take to turn the company around. Peppered with stories from his childhood in tough Canarsie, N.Y., neighborhoods, his sequel to the founding of Starbucks is grittier, more gripping, and dramatic, and his voice is winning and authentic. This is a must-read for anyone interested in leadership, management, or the quest to connect a brand with the consumer.
Howard Schultz is the chairman, president, and CEO of Starbucks and the author of the New York Times bestseller Pour Your Heart Into It. Joanne Gordon is a former Forbes writer and contributing editor who has spent more than a decade profiling companies and business leaders for numerous publications including five previous books.


text:
Лунарні міфи — міфи походження про Місяць і  місячні цикли. Пов'язані з астральними міфами, насамперед солярними: місяць і сонце протиставляються один одному в рамках системи бінарних опозицій, властивої міфологічній свідомості (вгору — вниз, чоловіче — жіноче, живе — мертве). Так, в старокитайській натурфілософії пасивне, темне, жіночне начало їнь співвідноситься з Місяцем, а активне, світле, мужнє ян — з Сонцем. Зазвичай Місяць зв'язується з негативним початком, зустрічаються і винятки: так, в Дагомейській міфології місячна іпостась (Маву) двоєдиного деміурга Маву-Ліза протиставиться ночі, знанню, радості, сонячна (Ліза) — дню, силі, роботі.

До найбільш поширених міфологічних мотивів, пов'язаних з Місяцем, відносяться етіологічні сюжети, що пояснюють появу самого Місяця, походження місячних циклів, місячних плям і т. д. В індоєвропейських, сибірських,  індіанських міфологічних системах чільне місце займає сюжет про «небесний шлюб» Місяця і Сонця. Місяць при цьому може виступати і як жіночий, і як чоловічий персонаж (останній варіант переважає у народів Сибіру і, напевно, у більшості архаїчних племен. Цей міф одночасно виступає як етіологічний, що пояснює походження місячних фаз: в балтійській міфології Перкунас розрубує Місяць мечем за зраду Сонцю. У Сибіру часто зустрічається сюжет: Місяць спускається на землю, де його схоплює зла відьма, хтонічна богиня (Хоседем у кетів, Ілентой-котой у селькупів), Сонце приходить йому на допомогу і намагається вирвати його з рук чаклунки, але та тримає його міцно, в результаті Місяць розривається навпіл. Мотив розривання або пожирання місяця жахливими істотами також дуже поширений і пояснює не тільки місячні фази, але і місячні затемнення.

Образи «вмираючого» і «відроджуваного» місяця пов'язують Місяць з міфами про смерть. У багатьох архаїчних народів є уявлення про те, що раніше люди вмирали і знову відроджувалися, як Місяць, але згодом чомусь позбулися цього дару. У австралійського племені аранда є міф: в давнину жила людина тотема опосума, який помер і був похований, але незабаром вийшов з могили у вигляді хлопчика; він постійно вмирає і оживає на небі.

У багатьох народів є особливі міфи про походження плям на Місяці. Найчастіше вони інтерпретуються як «людина на Місяці», зазвичай — жінка з коромислом і відрами (у нівхів, татар, можливо, у скандинавів, Біль). Часто «людина на Місяці» опиняється там в покарання («погана жінка» у татар, Каїн в апокрифічних оповідях і т. д.)[ В азійських традиціях плями на Місяці інтерпретуються як «місячний заєць» або «кролик», а у народів Південної Америки, Південно-Східної Азії, Австралії і Південної Африки вони пояснюються як рани, бруд або фарба на обличчі Місяця.

У розвинених міфологіях замість безпосереднього поклоніння одухотвореному Місяцю з'являються антропоморфні божества, які його уособлюють. В неоязичницьких традиціях Місяць вшановується як втілення Триєдиної богині.

Місячні божества

 Артеміда (грецька міфологія)
 Артум (етруська міфологія)
 Баал-Хамон (фінікійська міфологія)
 Геката (грецька міфологія)
 Діана (римська міфологія)
 Ігалук (інуїтська міфологія)
 Койольшаукі (ацтекська міфологія)
 Куу (фінська міфологія)
 Лусин (вірменська міфологія)
 Мама Кілья (Інкська міфологія)
 Мані (скандинавська міфологія)
 Менес (латиська міфологія)
 Мену (литовська міфологія)
 Мецтлі (ацтекська міфологія)
 Нанна (шумерська міфологія)
 Селена (грецька міфологія)
 Сін (шумеро-аккадська міфологія)
 Тот(єгипетська міфологія)
 Хонсу (єгипетська міфологія)
 Хіна (полінезійская міфологія)
 Цукуйомі (японська міфологія)
 Чандра (індійська міфологія)
 Чан'е (китайська міфологія)
 Шеларді (урартська міфологія)

Див. також
 Астральні міфи
 Солярні міфи
 Місячне божество
 Катастеризм

Примітки

Міфологія
Місяць у культурі

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Woman Jailed For Giving Inmate Boyfriend Meth Balloons (Photos)
David Bonner
An inmate at the Oregon State Penitentiary died in 2016 after swallowing seven balloons full of methamphetamine.
The balloons were passed to him mouth-to-mouth during a "kiss" with his girlfriend, the Daily Mail notes. Once in his stomach, however, two of the balloons leaked, poisoning him to death.
Now the girlfriend, 46-year-old Melissa Ann Blair, has been sentenced to two years for supplying the meth-filled balloons to Anthony Powell, who had been serving a life sentence for stabbing his former mother-in-law to death.
Powell, who was 41 at the time, reportedly planned to pass the balloons naturally and sell the contents to inmates, but the plan was foiled as a result of his fatal meth overdose.
What happened to the other five balloons was not reported.
An investigation into his death led police to discover that Blair had smuggled the drugs into the prison when she visited Powell.
Blair was arrested in Nov. 2016 for possession of meth, and was jailed Thanksgiving week 2017.
At her hearing, Blair's defense team said she was afraid of Powell and felt she had no choice but to bring him the drugs. "It was a real Svengali situation," argued her attorney, John Ransom, referring to the devious but fictional hypnotist.
Blair was introduced to Powell by Powell's friend, Brandy Pokovich, the New York Daily News reports.
Pokovich told the court that she became pen pals with Powell after he wrote to her husband, a former inmate, but she replied to him instead.
For more than a dozen years, they formed a deep bond via frequent letters, phone calls, and visits, Pokovich testified.
She called herself Powell's "sister by choice" and told the judge that he felt remorse for the knife slaying which landed him in prison.
"Now, because of the choices that were made, I no longer can pick up the phone and hear his voice, I can't go on a visit and see his big cheesy smile and get the best hug in the world," she told the court. "He was not just an inmate. He was a very loved and cared-for person who had a family that would always be there no matter what."
In her mugshot, Blair smiled and showed no signs of remorse over her late boyfriend's death, the Daily Mail observed.
Whenever she gets out of prison, she must complete a drug treatment plan.
Sources: Daily Mail, New York Daily News / Featured Image: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via Wikimedia Commons / Embedded Images: Clackamas County Sheriff and Oregon Department of Corrections via Daily Mail
melissa ann blairDrug Smugglinganthony powellMethamphetamine
Woman Jailed For Spiking Boss's Coffee (Photos)
Child In Meth House Calls Rats And Roaches His Friends (Photos)
13-Year-Old Boy Caught Driving With 25 Pounds Of Meth (Photos)
Woman Arrested For Shoving Meth In 2-Year-Old's Mouth
Police Sued For Mistaking Doughnut Glaze For Meth
Woman Jailed For Sexual Assault With Fake Penis (Photos)
Woman Allegedly Left Her Son With Meth During Burglary
Woman Arrested After Attempting To Bail Out Inmate Boyfriend Who Beat Her


This post was originally published on this siteThey were likely driving a green 1994 Chevrolet Camaro with Oklahoma License Plate CZR875. There is a "Punisher" decal on the back window.
This post was originally published on this siteA news release states a Chevrolet Camaro was travelling southbound on I-459 in the … The Camaro crashed head-in into a tractor trailer truck.


text:
Viewing posts tagged shakespeare
Posted by: Jack Graham 1 year ago
This time, Jack indulges his unhealthy obsession with Anti-Stratfordianism, and forces James, Kit, and Daniel to watch Roland Emmerich's 2011 self-funded passion-project Anonymous.
Anonymous; 2011; d. Roland Emmerich; w. John Orloff; starring Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Rafe Spall, Jamie Campbell Bower, Mark Rylance, and Derek Jacobi; distributed by Columbia Pictures.
It lost about 15 million dollars.
Based on the wackiest version of the longstanding conspiracy theory that the plays of Shakespeare were secretly written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Anonymous is both less entertaining and less plausible than the rest of Emmerich's films, including the ones about aliens and giant lizards.
It was 'controversial' at the time, in the sense that everyone who knew anything about Shakespeare both ridiculed and denounced it, especially its attempts to market itself via 'information packs' provided to schools.
In the process of telling his dreary, plotless, and confusing shaggy dog story, Emmerich encourages some of the finest Shakespearean actors of our time to make utter fools of themselves. Not that some of them need all that much encouragement. The whole thing manages to be simultaneously totally insane, quasi-fascistic, and profoundly dull... which is ...
wrong with authority,
anti-stratfordianism
read more / 14 comments
Posted by: Jack Graham 2 years, 9 months ago
In Richard III, the deposed former queen, Margaret, widow of Henry VI, though notionally banished, continues to haunt the new Yorkist regime of Edward IV. She has no role anymore, no status. (In most theatre productions she literally has no role - she is cut from the play for time reasons). She is a defeated enemy. An enemy, moreover, who is directly responsible for the death of the new Yorkist king's father. Even so, the Yorkists are content to let this relic of the defeated Lancastrians carry on perambulating around the court, snarling at them, cursing them, and wailing of her unjust plight at their hands. They occasionally grumble that she should be gotten rid of, but nobody does anything about it. Not even openly taunting and cursing the new queen, her replacement, can earn Margaret more than a verbal rebuke. Margaret haunts the outskirts of the play like a bad conscience, the bad conscience of all the other characters. That's certainly how she thinks of herself: as a living rebuke to those whose triumph is also her desolation. And it's hard not to think that they see her that way too, despite the fact that she has plenty to ...
tricky dicky,
read more / 7 comments
This should be read as, in some ways, a continuation of the previous instalment.
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time.
Richard III, I, I
Used as the epigraph to Ben Aaronovitch's novelisation of 'Remembrance of the Daleks'
In Richard III, as I started to talk about last time (in Part 4), Richard draws upon his 'deformity' for an identity. As noted in a previous instalment, Richard is a narcissist (hardly an original observation) and a vital part of his narcissism is expressed in his concentration upon what he sees - or spins to us, the audience - as his own physical monstrosity. He concentrates on his physical 'defects', talking them up, poetically riffing on them and exaggerating them (if he were as monstrous as he says he is nobody would be able to look at him let alone accept him as colleague or husband) until ...
Doctor Who,
davros
Posted by: Jack Graham 3 years, 11 months ago
There's a play called Sir Thomas More. It is never performed, despite having bits in it written by Shakespeare. Every Shakespeare play is performed. Even the rubbish ones. Except Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas More is never performed, ever. Not any more.
Actually, in academia and the theatre world, it is well known how the play spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by Press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in its wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in Sir Thomas More, all felt that human nature could not bear the strain, nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterward with more awful effect.
Basically, anyone who has ever seen Sir Thomas More performed has gone insane. (I'm not sure how ...
mad people,
sir thomas more,
yes i *am* taking the piss
Posted by: Jack Graham 4 years ago
What bloody man is that? It's bloody Jack Graham. Again.
The curtain rises on Shabcast 8. Listen and/or download here.
Another Shabcast so soon? Yes, but don't get used to this kind of schedule. It's only happening because time is out of joint.
This time, myself and my actorly buddy Elliot Chapman (returning guest from the Macra shabcast, and Big Finish's new Ben Jackson) discuss Shakespeare's great tragedy 'Macbeth' (we only shabcast about things that begin with 'mac'), and Shakespeare generally. We even say the word 'Macbeth' occasionally... hopefully without bringing too much theatrical ill-luck down upon ourselves. We chat as we watch the TV film of Trevor Nunn's legendary production from 1978, starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, and produced by Verity Lambert. The second most profound material she ever televised.
Elliot will be appearing in a production of 'Macbeth' soon to run in Redcliffe Caves in Bristol, produced by Insane Root as part of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival. Jack will be appearing in the kitchen soon to make himself an evil sandwich as part of a obscene, perverse ritual. Root for us insanely, and download our shabcast.
When shall ...
elliot chapman,
macbeth,
shabcast,
I wrote this for somebody as a favour, to fill some space. I thought I might as well post it here. It isn't really a Shabgraff piece, but it exists.
William Shakespeare wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. It wasn't the Earl of Oxford, or Francis Bacon, or Christopher Marlowe, or any of the other candidates sometimes suggested. But how can we be so sure?
We have the accounts of Shakespeare's contemporaries. His rivals, detractors, friends and colleagues had no doubt. Ben Jonson wrote in his published diaries about his criticisms of the plays - right alongside his love and admiration for his friend Shakespeare, their author. Nobody questioned Shakespeare's authorship of his own work for centuries. It wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that a brilliant but eccentric woman called Delia Bacon wrote a book in which she heavily hinted that the true author was Sir Francis Bacon. She convinced a few people – including Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud (who never believed anything silly, of course). The early-to-mid 19th century was an age still influenced by the Romantics, who had invented the idea of the Artist as a lone creator, driven by the ...
This got cut from something else I was writing. I'm putting it here because I'd rather put it somewhere than just delete it.
At first sight, Flint and Rayna in the Star Trek episode 'Requiem for Methuselah' look like a fairly standard sci-fi reiteration of Propsero and Miranda. That's been done a fair few times, of course. Most famously in Forbidden Planet. (The reiteration of Shakespeare is apt enough, given that Flint owns a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio. He never claims to have been Shakespeare, but probably would if prompted.) Oddly though, the more 'Requiem for Methuselah' progresses, the more it looks like Othello rather than The Tempest.
Because 'Requiem for Methuselah' seems – rather astonishingly - to have a 'double time' scheme to it, very much like Othello. The play is famous for having two apparently separate and irreconcilable chronologies mapped onto each other within it. As many critics have observed, judging by the events we witness, there seems to be a space of about twenty-four hours between Othello and Desdemona's marriage and Desdemona's murder by Othello, and yet multiple other indications with the play – including ...
It occurs to me that this post (in which I had a go at 'The Reign of Terror' for giving us a thoroughly reactionary and misleading picture of the French Revolution) should've been called 'That Isn't Right'. So I've given that title to this post instead, which is also about all manner of wrongness in the representation of history.
I wasn't going out on much a limb dissing 'The Reign of Terror' (the acronym of which is TROT, amusingly enough); nobody is terribly attached to it. 'The Aztecs', by contrast, is one of those stories that fan opinion tends to think of as irreducibly Good. It isn't that everybody likes it, but anyone trying to say that it's Bad definitely has the burden of proof upon them.
I'm not actually going to say that it's bad, as such. On the whole, it's very well made. But....
Black and White and Red All Over
"Tell me, Aged Servant of Yetaxa...
do you approve of interracial marriage?"
Firstly, the Aztecs are played by white people. It's not easy to tell for sure, but it looks like at ...
blacking up,
john lucarotti,
culture industry,
cripping up,
imperialism,
hartnell,
racism,
aztecs,
historical materialism,


Where can you recycle your unwanted furniture?
Too Good To Waste is a re-use/recycling charity and social enterprise operating in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
The overall aim of Too Good To Waste is to reduce waste by collecting reusable household items and redistributing them via their charity shops. The income raised enables them to help low income households and provide training and volunteering opportunities.
Contact Too Good To Waste to find out how to donate unwanted furniture.


text:
setsuled —
Trompé Setsuled ( setsuled) wrote,
Trompé Setsuled
setsuled
Mood: sleepy
Humour Balloon
I felt like an angry water balloon yesterday. Bloated. I don't know why, but after my first pot of coffee, I had to make urine several times, and my head felt like it was going to burst. I felt like water or blood was going to leak from my ears every time I leaned over the page of comic I was working on.
Fuck, I was chomping at the bit to get work done, too. But all I managed was to pencil two pages over the course of seven hours. I actually had to completely erase and start over on two panels, something I almost never have to do. I finally had to call it quits at around 9:20pm when a difficult angle on a crowd shot was utterly defeating my cognisance. I felt like there was a hex on me. If so, fess up now--which of you was it? Maybe it was a general hex on comic artists cast by someone I don't even know . . . Anonymously hexed; how depressing. Que mala suerte.
I did manage to find an 85% cocoa chocolate bar last night. That's dark, baby, yeah. I also re-watched the first episode of Dirty Pair because Tim'd found a new fansubbed version--apparently it's being released on DVD in Japan. Which would explain why Sunrise took the theme off YouTube.
Anyway, it's one of them fucking Thursdays, so I better open up negotiations with sleep. Though I have been managing to get to bed as early as 5am lately. So I may well have six hours of slumber ahead of me . . . By the way:
Pictures from the Waning Year
I don't know much about Anthony Bourdain, the widely loved celebrity chef who committed suicide this morning. I have a lot of friends who love his…
Living for Others, Dying for Others
To sleep! perchance to dream:—ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,…
Bonus Entry for a Meat Head
For as long as I can remember, my private nickname for Henry Rollins has been "Mr. Meat Head". I think this blog of his will probably help you…


Now the very last barrel was being rolled to the doors! In despair and not knowing what else to do, poor little Bilbo caught hold of it and was pushed over the edge with it. Down into the water he fell, splash! into the cold dark water, with the barrel on top of him.
We hope you enjoy this month's block, Barrels Out of Bond, designed for your piecing pleasure by Lilja Björk Sigurdórsdóttir.
June brings us the return of a Fandom In Stitches friend as well as the return of a fabulous TABABOM prize!
Amber's Originals is owned and operated by crochet princess Amber, who specializes in customized crochet designs like the one she created just There and Back Again!
Remember, to be entered to win this custom-made prize, add your There and Back Again block photos to the Fandom In Stitches flickr group!
Only TABABOM photos from the flickr group that are posted in June will be eligible for this drawing.
Wow, this is pretty amazing!
Every month's pattern has been my new favorite, but I really really love this one!


Is Your Technical Communication Job Affecting your Health?
Could the way you think in your technical communication role be affecting your health? Hypervigilance can be good for work, not so good for your home life.