text:
\section{Motivation
}
The usual introductions to quantum computation are necessarily burdened by the
mathematical gear required for a comprehensive description of it, like quantum computational
networks or the quantum Turing machine. This inevitably increases the cost of accessing the subject.
We think that providing a bare description of the seminal quantum algorithm devised by Deutsch
$\left [1\right ]$
is the best way of both introducing the subject and opening it to interdisciplinary
research. It is reasonable to think that knowledge of this elementary quantum algorithm, the
prototype of all the subsequent quantum algorithms, is sufficient to investigate the foundations of
quantum computation.

 Section 2 describes the problem solved by Deutsch algorithm, Section 3 the quantum
algorithm itself, and Section 4 is a discussion of the fundamental questions raised by its quantum
computational speedup.

\section{ The problem
}
The problem solved by Deutsch algorithm is as follows. We have the set of
functions of table (\ref{table}).

\begin{equation}
\begin{tabular}[c]{lllll}
$a$
&
$f_{00}\left (a\right )$
&
$f_{01}\left (a\right )$
&
$f_{10}\left (a\right )$
&
$f_{11}\left (a\right )$
\\
$0$
&
$0$
&
$0$
&
$1$
&
$1$
\\
$1$
&
$0$
&
$1$
&
$0$
&
$1$
\end{tabular}
\label{table}
\end{equation}

$f_{00}\left (a\right )$
and
$f_{11}\left (a\right )$
are constant functions,
$f_{01}\left (a\right )$
and
$f_{10}\left (a\right )$
, with an even number of zeros and ones, are \textit{balanced} functions.

 Bob, the problem setter, chooses one of these functions and gives Alice, the
problem solver, a black box\protect\footnote{ The box is called black because its inside (i. e. the function chosen by
Bob) must be hidden to Alice.
} that given a value of the argument
$a$
produces the corresponding value of the function. Alice knows the set of functions but
ignores Bob's choice. She is to find whether the function chosen by Bob is constant or balanced by
computing the value of the function for suitable values of the argument (namely, by performing
\textit{function evaluations}).

Logically, and in the case of classical computation, Alice has to perform two
function evaluations, for
$a =0$
and
$a =1$
. In the quantum case, just one is enough, for a quantum superposition of the two
possible values of the argument. There is the so called \textit{quantum computational
speedup}.

\section{ Deutsch algorithm
}

An algorithm is a prescribed sequence of
arithmetical operations performed on a set of registers that contain the relevant numbers. Presently
we need: (i) a two bit register
$B$
that contains the \textit{problem setting}, namely the suffix
$b$
of the function chosen by Bob, (ii) a one bit register
$A$
that contains the argument
$a$
for which the function should be computed by the black box, and (iii) a one bit
register
$V$
meant to contain the result of the computation, modulo
$2$
added to the former register's content for logical reversibility. Register
$B$
is absent in the original algorithm. We have introduced it in view of discussing the
reason for the computational speedup.

In the quantum case, each register is
characterized by its quantum state. For example, in the quantum state
$\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B}$
, the value of
$b$
contained in register
$B$
is
$00$
. The vector
$\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B}$
is called a \textit{basis vector} of register
$B$
; the other three being
$\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} ,\left \vert 10\right \rangle _{B} ,$
and
$\left \vert 11\right \rangle _{B}$
. The content of register
$B$
can be acquired by measuring the observable
$\hat{B}$
of eigenstates
$\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B} ,\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} ,$
etc. and eigenvalues respectively
$00 ,01 ,$
etc. Similarly, the basis vectors of register
$A$
are
$\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A}$
and
$\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}$
, those of register
$V$
are
$\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V}$
and
$\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}$
.

Deutsch algorithm goes as follows.

In the assumption that, say,
$b =01$
, the initial state of the three registers is:

\begin{equation}\left \vert \psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}\right ) \label{inb}
\end{equation}

 In view of what will follow, the state of register
$B$
should be seen as the random outcome of the initial measurement of
$\hat{B}$
on the part of Bob,             in a state where the problem setting is completely
undetermined. It is simpler to think that Bob selects a problem setting at random; he could change
it unitarily into a desired setting but this is irrelevant to present ends. The initial state of
register
$A$
can be any basis vector of it, we have chosen
$\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A}$
. The purpose of the particular initial state of register
$V$
will soon become clear.

State (\ref{inb}) is thus the input state of
the quantum algorithm prepared by Bob. The first operation performed by Alice is
the application of the Hadamard transform
$H_{A}$
to register
$A$
. This is a unitary transformation defined as follows:
$H_{A}\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} +\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )$
and
$H_{A}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A} =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )$
. Thus
$H_{A}$
sends state (\ref{inb}) into:

\begin{equation}H_{A}\left \vert \psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{2}\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} +\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}\right ) \label{hadamard}
\end{equation}

The second operation is function evaluation
$H_{f}$
. It is performed \textit{in quantum parallelism} on each and every element of
the quantum superposition (\ref{hadamard}), as follows.

For example, the element
$\left \vert \psi _{01 ,1 ,0}\right \rangle  =$
$\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V}$
tells us that the function chosen by Bob is
$f_{01}\left (a\right )$
(suffix
$01$
in register
$B$
), that the argument of the function to be computed by the black box is
$1$
(see the content of register
$A$
), and that the content of register
$V$
is
$0$
.

The function evaluation transformation is therefore
$H_{f}\left \vert \psi _{01 ,1 ,0}\right \rangle  =$
$\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}$
. In fact, by definition, the basis vectors of registers
$B$
and
$A$
go unaltered through function evaluation; the computation of
$f_{01}\left (1\right )$
yields
$1$
(table \ref{table}), which -- modulo
$2$
added to the former content of register
$V$
-- yields
$1$
-- so that
$\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V}$
goes into
$\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}$
.

Let us also note that function evaluation is logically reversible, thus unitary,
since the output of the transformation keeps the memory of the input.

Similarly, the element
$ -\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}$
goes into
$ -\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V}$
, etc. Note that, as a consequence and more in general,
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left \vert b\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert a\right \rangle _{A}(\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} -\left \vert 1\rangle _{A}\right )$
goes into itself when
$f_{b}\left (a\right ) =0$
, into
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left \vert b\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert a\right \rangle _{A}\left (\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V}\right ) = -$
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left \vert b\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert a\right \rangle _{A}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}\right )$
when
$f_{b}\left (a\right ) =1$
. In the overall, function evaluation sends state (\ref{hadamard}) into:

\begin{equation}H_{f}H_{A}\left \vert \psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{2}\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )(\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}) \label{sel}
\end{equation}

 Applying another time the Hadamard transform to register
$A$
sends state
(\ref{sel}) into:

\begin{equation}H_{A}H_{f}H_{A}\left \vert \psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B}\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}(\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}) \label{output}
\end{equation}

We will see in a moment that the state of
register
$A$
, namely
$\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}$
, encodes the solution of the problem, the fact that the function is balanced. Alice
eventually acquires the solution by measuring the observable
$\hat{A}$
-- of eigenstates
$\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A}$
,
$\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}$
and eigenvalues respectively
$0$
,
$1$
-- in state (\ref{output}) (note that
$\hat{B}$
and
$\hat{A}$
commute). She acquires the eigenvalue
$1$
, which tells her that the function is balanced.

In view of the Discussion, we note that the
quantum state remains unaltered throughout the measurement of
$\hat{A}$
-- the state of register
$A$
immediately before measurement is always an eigenstate of
$\hat{A}$
. There is thus a unitary transformation between the outcome of the initial measurement of
$\hat{B}$
, namely state (\ref{inb}), and the outcome of the final measurement of
$\hat{A}$
. The process between them is physically reversible since no information is destroyed along
it.

 We also note that the reduced density operator of register
$B$
remains unaltered through
$H_{A}H_{f}H_{A}$
: its basis vectors go unaltered through
$H_{f}$
and the two
$H_{A}$
only apply to the basis vectors of register
$A$
.

That the eigenvalue
$1$
of
$\hat{A}$
tells \textit{balanced} and
$0$
\textit{constant} can be seen by writing Deutsch algorithm for all the possible
choices of the value of
$b$
. We do this by performing Deutsch algorithm for a quantum superposition of all the basis
vectors of register
$B$
. The initial state becomes:

\begin{equation}\left \vert \Psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}\left (\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 10\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 11\right \rangle _{B}\right )\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A}\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}\right )
\end{equation}

The successive states:

\begin{equation}H_{A}\left \vert \Psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{4}\left (\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 10\right \rangle _{B} +\left \vert 11\right \rangle _{B}\right )\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} +\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}\right )
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}H_{f}H_{A}\left \vert \Psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{4}[\left (\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B} -\left \vert 11\right \rangle _{B}\right )\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} +\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right ) +(\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} -\left \vert 10\right \rangle _{B})\left (\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}\right )](\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{V} -\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{V}) , \label{parallel}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}H_{A}H_{f}H_{A}\left \vert \Psi \right \rangle  =\frac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}[\left (\left \vert 00\right \rangle _{B} -\left \vert 11\right \rangle _{B}\right )\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} +(\left \vert 01\right \rangle _{B} -\left \vert 10\right \rangle _{B})\left \vert 1\right \rangle _{A}](\left \vert 0\right \rangle _{A} -\left \vert 1\rangle _{A}\right )
\label{out}
\end{equation}

We can see that the state of registers
$B$
and
$A$
in (\ref{out}) is a quantum superposition of four tensor
products, each the product of a choice of the function computed by the black box (the value of
$b$
in register
$B$
) and the corresponding solution of the problem (the number in register
$A$
:
$0$
if the function is constant,
$1$
if it is balanced).

 The important thing is of course the fact that the solution is reached with just
one function evaluation. This is a revolutionary result, logically and in classical physics two
successive function evaluations are required.

\section{ Discussion
}

 The discovery of the first quantum speedup raised a natural question. The
speedup is of course in the mathematics of the quantum algorithm. However, conceptually, what is the
reason for it?

The first thing to say is that today, thirty two years after the publication
of
$\left [1\right ]$
, there is no accepted answer to the above question.

 A partial answer is \textit{quantum parallel
computation}. This is the fact that also Deutsch algorithm performs the two function
evaluations required in the classical case, but it does that simultaneously for a quantum
superposition of the two function arguments.

 Although it exactly explains the speedup of Deutsch
algorithm, in the general case of quantum oracle computing\protect\footnote{ An oracle problem is a generalization of Deutsch's problem. Given a set
of functions known to both Bob and Alice, Alice should find a characteristic of the function chosen
by Bob (e. g. the function period) by performing function evaluations. Most quantum algorithms solve
oracle problems.
} quantum parallel computation does not account for the number of
function evaluations required to solve the problem. The speedup is a quantitative feature and its
explanation should be quantitative in character.

It should be noted that all the quantum algorithms discovered so far have been
found by means of ingenuity. Of course their speed up is always in their mathematics, but the
reasons for it are very different from algorithm to algorithm. We report an authoritative conclusion
about the possibility of unifying the explanation of the speedup. Quoting from
$\left [2\right ]\text{:}$
\textit{The speedup appears to always depend on
the exact nature
of the problem while the reason for it varies from problem to problem}.
This was written in 2001, but in our judgment the situation has not changed since then. In
mainstream literature, there is no unifying, quantitative explanation of the speedup, neither a
fundamental physical explanation of it.

 Of course one might also think that there is none. The speedup could be an
epiphenomenon emerging at a certain complexity level, non reducible to some fundamental quantum
feature. We believe that, after thirty two years without an explanation, this way of thinking is on
the increase.

Important advances have been made instead on the quantum computer science
front: identifying quantum complexity classes and relating them to the classical ones. There is an
important body of literature on this, we provide
$\left [3\right ]$
as an example. As things are now, these studies
concern the mathematics of quantum algorithms and are not related to their physical interpretation.

 The evolutionary approach
$\left [4 \div 6\right ]$
stands on its own. In
$\left [6\right ]$
, we provide a fundamental and quantitative explanation of the speedup that, given
any oracle problem, allows to compute the number of function evaluations required to solve it in an
optimal quantum way. The other side of the coin is that the explanation in question is very
unconventional.

We outline it. It comes out from a radical application of the trademark
of quantum computation pointed out by Deutsch in his seminal 1985 paper
$\left [1\right ]$
. The all with quantum computation would be representing abstract computational
notions physically. The explanation comes out by physically representing, besides the
computation, the notion of black box, namely the fact that the problem setting (here the random
outcome of the initial measurement) is hidden to the
problem solver. We represent this concealment by postponing the projection of the quantum state due
to the initial Bob's measurement at the end of the unitary part of Alice's problem solving action --
an always legitimate operation. As a consequence, the input state of the quantum algorithm to Alice
becomes one of complete ignorance of the problem setting selected by Bob (we are under the
assumption that the state before the measurement of
$\hat{B}$
is one of complete indetermination of the problem setting). By the way, the fact that
the quantum state depends on the observer -- whether it is Bob or Alice -- is foreseen by relational
quantum mechanics
$\left [7\right ]$
.

For reasons of time-symmetry
$\left [8 \div 11\right ]$
applying to the reversible process comprised between the initial and final
measurement outcomes, a part of the random outcome of the initial measurement corresponding to half
solution (half of the information specifying it when it is an unstructured bit string) should be
selected back in time by the final measurement. As a consequence, the input state to Alice, of
complete ignorance of the outcome of the initial measurement, is projected on one where she knows
that part of it (and thus the corresponding half solution).  It turns out that quantumly it is
possible to shield an observer form the information coming to her from the past measurement,
not from that coming to her from the future measurement.

By the way, such an advanced knowledge of
half solution vanishes in the ordinary representation of the quantum process -- that with respect to
Bob -- where no observer is shielded from any measurement outcome. The information coming to the
observer from the final measurement (a part of the problem setting) is completely masked by that
coming to him from the initial measurement (the entire problem setting).

As a consequence of the above, an optimal quantum algorithm would require the
number of function evaluations required by a classical algorithm endowed with the advanced knowledge
of half of the solution of the problem. This would be a quantitative explanation of the speedup
coming out from a fundamental time-symmetry.

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Australians' attitudes to violence against women. Findings from the 2013 National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) (2014)
Found in: Resources on violence against women and girls
The National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey involved 17,500 phone interviews with a cross section of Australians aged 16 years and older. The survey was developed by VicHealth in partnership with The University of Melbourne, the Social Research Centre and experts across Australia, and supported by the Australian Government Department of Social Services as part of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022.
The survey shows that most measures of community understanding and attitudes on violence against women have not improved in Australia in almost 20 years. In some areas, they have worsened. Two out of every five women experience some form of physical or sexual abuse. And nearly half have experienced sexual harassment since the age of 15.
Few Australians openly support violence against women but many subtly endorse it by trivialising and excusing acts of abuse. Three-quarters of Australians find it hard to understand why women stay in abusive relationships. And half of all Australians believe that women could leave if they really wanted to. One in five Australians believe violence can be excused if the offender later regrets it.
Despite community education and law reform in Australia to promote a model of consent based on mutual negotiation and respect, one out of every ten Australians agree that "if a woman does not physically resist – even if protesting verbally – then it isn't really rape". Twice as many people will excuse sexual assault if the woman is affected by alcohol or drugs at the time, More than one in three people believe that women make up false claims of rape. There is a significant increase in Australians who further excuse and explain rape by believing it results from men not being able to control their need for sex. While young people under the age of 25 are one of the groups least understanding of violence against women, attitudes of young men have significantly improved since the last survey in 2009.
There is greater recognition that women should be supported when escaping domestic abuse. A majority agree that men who are violent toward their families should be made to leave the family home instead of the woman and her children being forced to leave.
Finally, the report shows a concerning rise in the number of Australians who believe that both men and women are equally responsible for partner violence. In reality, ninety five per cent of all violence committed against both men and women iscommitted by men.
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Shall Every Knee Bow?
Billy Graham put the point below vividly. He said that there is a "God shaped hole" in people. I think there is. I was very religious in my teens and still find religion moving even though I am the most utter atheist intellectually. And I did send my son to a church school
It seems to me that we evolved to be religious as a way of coping with life at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short -- JR
By Rich Kozlovich
There was an article that I came across today that states, "Many atheist scientists take their kids to church"! The article went on to say that; "about one in five atheist scientists with children involve their families with religious institutions even if they do not agree with the teachings, according to a study done by Rice University and the University at Buffalo." The article pointed out that "The findings surrounding atheists shouldn't be too surprising, since the Pew Forum Religious Survey taken back in 2008 that showed 21 percent of self-described atheists responded that they believe in God."
Does everyone really find this to be extraordinary? Anthropologists have noted that in every culture in the world, and in all of human history, religion has played an important role in people's lives. There was one prominent atheist, Antony Flew who claimed at the end of his life that he was now a believer. Why? Is it true 'there are no atheists in foxholes'? Of course the explanation was the he had lost his mind. Even Albert Einstein, who was not a religious person in any sense and absolutely rejected the idea of a personal God, rejected the idea of atheism.
For the believers among my readers the explanation is simple; we are designed to believe. For the unbelievers among my readers the explanation is simple also. There is no other logical explanation!
Believing takes on many forms. For some it has to do with a higher power. For others it can take on the worship of oneself and for others it can take on the worship of some philosophy or other; but we all seem to have the desire to look to some higher explanation for existence and human existence in particular. But one thing seems clear; 'believing' is inherent to our genetic code. Otherwise how can anyone explain why so many have believed so much over so long a time of human history in so many different cultures? Of course, the problem for the unbelievers among my readers with this explanation is that they would then have to explain how that genetic code was designed in that manner…or designed at all for that matter…. if there is no higher power.
I do find it fascinating how some can believe that Intelligent Design is "a pig that won't fly"! The design is so complicated that it defies explanation how infinitely small mutations over millions or billions of years could bring us to what we are now. Whether one disagrees or agrees with evolution, I question how anyone can say that there is no designer. Some feel that an intelligent designer used evolution. Some feel evolution is a mistake constantly making more mistakes and changing everything all the time all by accident. I wonder how anyone can explain how this can happen by accident and develop successful organisms since "geneticists estimate that 99 out of 100 mutations are harmful, and about 20 out of the 99 are lethal."
I also have to wonder how any organism could "know" which mutations were beneficial over a million years or so since the complexity of the design would require some kind of organizational planning. Take a woman's monthly cycle. It is amazingly complex! The right amount of chemicals, hormones and enzymes would have to come into play in exactly the right sequence of time in order to finish the cycle. However, if a woman becomes pregnant during the cycle another whole set of chemical conditions would come into play. How could any organism "know" how to plan for two diametrically opposing end results? Remembering that there are untold species in the world that have cycles unique to themselves. That means that this would have to be done an incalculable number of times in an incalculable number of organisms. We are to believe that this happens through a series of positive accidents that would overcome all of these deadly accidents! Isn't that a form of belief, i.e. faith? It does seem to defy logic...or science as it were!
How would an organism know what chemicals to develop over millions of years? How did the organism know that hormones and enzymes were needed and how did the organism know how to organize them? How did the organism know which chemicals would work harmoniously together and how did the organism know what the conclusion would be afterward without some sort of plan?
Which brings me back to the beginning! If life started in the ocean in some chemical rich soup, through some accidental electrical discharge, how did that cell, or group of cells replicate themselves? Evolutionally thought would require millions of years of mutations before the next step to propagation would come into being. If that is so; how did they replicate? Wouldn't the presumption be that these cells already had an amazingly complex chemical make-up that would create an end result? If so; doesn't that imply planning and design? Doesn't planning and design require intelligence?
I find it interesting that many of the people I respect, communicate with and read regularly are atheists. Funny thing is that I find I enjoy their commentaries. They have a keen understanding science and are only interested in the truth and are willing to follow it wherever it leads. Why is it that so many really bright and courageous people are unwilling to believe?
I can understand anyone's reason for not subscribing to any religious group. The sanguinary history of the world's religions has not done much to inspire confidence over human history. So I can understand someone being un-religious, and I can understand why someone would believe that there may be a higher power that doesn't interfere in the lives of humanity. I can understand why people might not be sure and proclaim to be agnostic…although I consider that to be pragmatic atheism. What I can't understand is how anyone cannot believe that there must be a planner behind this phenomenally complex reality we call....existence!
Never, in the history of Britain, has the fact that Belgium is 30 miles away mattered less
I think Britain should leave the EU and join NAFTA instead. I am sure they would find Americans and Canadians a whole heap easier to deal with. A similar language and legal system is a heck of a good start. And airfares between London and New York are very reasonable these days. Lots of Brits shop in NYC anyway -- JR
At last a British Prime Minister has done it. Finally, a leader has been prepared to put the national interest first and say 'no'. The taboo has been broken. David Cameron's refusal to sign us up to any new European treaty could have profound consequences.
It leaves the rest of Euroland free to forge ahead on fiscal fusion – a common tax policy, single economic policy, and ultimately a single government. As early as March, most of the new Euroland's laws will be made in Brussels and economic rules in Frankfurt.
But Britain need no longer be part of it. Instead of Britain leaving the European Union, this week's events raise the intriguing possibility that the rest of Europe might quit instead – leaving us bound together by a trade arrangement, and not much else.
'But we'll be isolated!' howl the Europhiles. Predictably, the BBC has spent the past couple of days grimly warning that Britain is now heading for the sidelines.
The same clownish commentators who a decade ago told us that we were 'little Englanders' for not wanting to join the euro have taken to the airwaves to say much the same again. There is, insist the advocates for everything European, a danger that we will be shut out, cast adrift in a hostile, friendless world.
Listening to such claims, I wonder how the Europhiles imagine that this country ever rose to global prominence in the first place? It was precisely when our leaders started to say 'no' to entanglement in endless European imbroglios that this small island off the north-west coast of Europe became a global economic and commercial powerhouse. Far from being fearful of detaching ourselves from Europe, doing so might allow us to resume the role we successfully played for centuries.
Almost 500 years ago, Henry VIII was even more intransigent in his European negotiations than David Cameron. He did not just take on the leader of France, and the then grand continental elites. He repudiated the entire idea of Papal supremacy. The breach that followed was not simply a matter of theology – or of his trouble with wives. It helped set us apart from Europe and many of Europe's titanic power struggles in the years that followed.
In the 17th Century, Stuart monarchs tried to align themselves – and the rest of us – to Europe again. We got drawn back into continental power politics – even bailing out several of the king's continental cronies.
Perhaps, like the Europhile elite who today insist we bail out the eurozone, the Stuarts felt more in common with the princely rulers of Europe than their own people who they left to pick up the tab. When Charles I lost his head, he was executed by those suspicious not only of the king and his Europhile courtiers.
Cromwell and the Parliamentarians – like the great mass of British voters today – were instinctively distrustful of continental entanglements. They felt they had more in common with East Anglian settlers living in the New World than with the French or the Dutch in the Old.
By the mid 17th Century, we were well on our way to being more than merely European. We planted colonies across the world: America, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. When the wealth created by trade with these colonies sparked the industrial revolution, we found many of our greatest markets in India, China and south America – not just in Europe. Far from being 'little Englanders', by the end of the 19th Century we were trading with the whole planet.
When Europhiles claim that it is Britain's historic role to join the eurozone, they have presumably never heard of its precursor, the Napoleonic Continental System?
Like the eurozone, the Continental System was a single market, protected by high tariff walls designed to keep out cheaper imports. Like the eurozone, it was doomed to fail precisely because the longer its members remained part of it, the longer they were cut off from global trade and prosperity being created elsewhere on the planet.
The single European currency is just the latest in a long line of attempts by European elites to arrange the affairs of the Continent by grand design – from Napoleon's France to Kaiser Bill's Germany and beyond.
What is remarkable is not that David Cameron should find himself reverting to the traditional British detachment. Rather it is that it should have taken Britain's political leaders so long to have reached this position 40 years after we made the historic mistake of joining the Common Market.
When Britain joined what became the European Union in the early Seventies, it accounted for 36 per cent of global GDP. It has been downhill ever since. By 2020, what we joined will account for 15 per cent.
Far from being a member of the world's most dynamic trade bloc, we have shackled ourselves to a corpse. While the euro club has been in decline, the world on which we turned our back has prospered.
In the past decade alone, China's economy has expanded by more than 140 per cent, India's and Brazil's by more than 70. The fastest rising economic indices in Europe, meanwhile, are likely to be those for debt and inflation.
Advocates of closer British integration into Europe often like to point out that we still do more trade with Belgium, than with China, India and Brazil combined.
That is precisely the problem. Outside the moribund West, the world is witnessing an explosion of wealth creation. Indeed, the economic take-off in China, India, Mexico, Brazil and east Asia today is perhaps without any precedent in human history. We could be part of it if we would only detach ourselves from sclerotic Euroland.
Far from taking a step into the dark, we would be rejoining old friends. Britain could once again take her rightful place as part of the global Anglosphere – that sprawling collection of English-speaking countries, with which we already have much in common; Australia, Singapore, India, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States.
Britain has a long history of independence from Europe. Indeed, we have been at our happiest and most successful as a people when we have stood apart from a continent of grand power politics and grand designs, and instead joined in with the whole world.
If, in the age of steam trains and sail boats, we were able to forge such close links with millions of people around the planet, think of the possibilities in the age of the internet.
Never has geographic proximity been less important when determining economic success. Thanks to broadband and Skype, competition and markets located half a world away is a mouse click away. The fact the Belgian coastline is a mere 30 miles away has never seemed so unimportant.
I leave the last word to a Frenchman. When General de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application to join the European project, he declared that it was because when forced to choose between Europe and the open ocean, Britain always chose the open seas. He was right – and perhaps he understood our history better than we do ourselves.
How Europhile BBC turned triumph over Britain's veto into disaster
The BBC was accused of reporting Britain's veto of the eurozone rescue plan as a national catastrophe rather than a tough decision David Cameron was forced to make.
Conservative MPs said the broadcaster's 'biased' coverage began on Radio 4's flagship Today programme and continued throughout the day on radio and television.
Presenters used solemn tones to inform listeners about Britain becoming isolated following David Cameron's refusal to sign a new treaty.
In some cases, it was several minutes into news bulletins before the BBC got round to reporting Mr Cameron's explanation of why he had resisted pressure to hand over more powers to Brussels.
On Radio 4's 6am news bulletin, Justin Webb announced gravely: 'Leaders of 23 EU countries are to draft a new fiscal pact to help stabilise their currency WITHOUT the involvement of Britain.' He added: 'President Sarkozy accused David Cameron of making a deal between all 27 countries impossible.'
It was a full two minutes into the broadcast before listeners heard Mr Cameron's remarks explaining why he was forced into exercising Britain's veto.
Mr Cameron's refusal to give in to Germany and France's demands was the lead story on most of the BBC's outlets yesterday.
Concerned: BBC Business Editor Robert Peston gave 'grave' warnings about the eurozone veto today
Tory MP Peter Bone complained: 'The BBC seemed to be using language that suggested it was a disaster. It was being pro-EU and anti-British, and it was in marked contrast to how other major news organisations reported it.
'In fact, it was a triumph for Britain and a triumph for the Prime Minister. When it comes to Europe, the BBC is institutionally biased.'
Downing Street declined to comment, but insiders said Mr Cameron's aides were resigned to him coming under attack from 'pro-EU media outlets' including parts of the BBC.
On Today, Business Editor Robert Peston informed listeners they should be 'concerned'. He warned gravely: 'For Britain, frankly, that is massively important because, if the eurozone goes down, the impact on the British economy will be hideous.
'It would inevitably tip us back into a very severe recession. So we should be concerned that this deal to save the world doesn't seem to have materialised.'
On the BBC TV One O'Clock News, presenter Sophie Raworth began with: 'David Cameron has dramatically refused to sign a new treaty designed to resolve the eurozone debt crisis' – even though critics pointed out that the proposed treaty had merely sought to stabilise, rather than to resolve, the crisis.
Viewers then had to wait until almost 1.03pm to hear Mr Cameron's remarks on the story.
Last year, BBC Director General Mark Thompson accepted the corporation had previously been guilty of a 'massive' left-wing bias. He also confessed that the BBC's coverage of Europe had been 'weak and rather nervous'.
A BBC spokesman said: 'The Prime Minister's comments on the developments in Europe have been a central part of our coverage throughout the day. 'The coverage has reflected the story as it has unfolded and featured a wide range of voices.'
Atheist Group wants to inject negativity into a joyous season
A national atheist foundation plans to seek permission to hoist its own banner to join secular and religious Christmas displays on an East Texas courthouse square. The display surrounding the Henderson County Courthouse in Athens includes a traditional Nativity scene, as well as multiple Santa Clauses, elves, wreathes, garland, trumpeters, dwarfs, snowmen, reindeer and Christmas trees, the Athens Daily Review reported.
"We've got an array of decorations and feel that we are in compliance with federal law," County Judge Richard Sanders told the newspaper. "We're not pushing any religious down anybody's throat. These are holiday decorations we enjoy."
However, county officials received a letter Monday from the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which argued the seasonal display on courthouse grounds amounts to an unconstitutional endorsement of the Christian faith.
Foundation attorney Stephanie Schmitt says that since the county allows the nonprofit group Keep Athens Beautiful to erect the displays on the town square, they amount to a "public forum." Schmitt told the newspaper the group would ask to put up its own display.
Schmitt said the foundation had received 20 to 25 complaints this holiday season of religious displays it regards as illegal. In Elmwood City, Pa., the foundation has proposed hoisting a banner that reads: "At this season of the Winter Solstice, LET REASON PREVAIL. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
Meanwhile, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said his office received a report Thursday that someone had defaced some of the figures in the display, but the markings were later removed.
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Capital Soccer Club is pleased to introduce our new U8 Futbolistas program for players aged 6, 7, and 8. This new program will provide more flexibility and will better serve the youngest players in the club.
Capital SC recognizes that committing to an 8 month season for players who are 6,7, and 8 years old is not practical. Therefore, we have changed our U8 Futbolistas program and split the season up into multiple sessions, each of which, will focus on different aspects of the game with the main focus of each session being on technical development and fostering a love for the game. The change to multiple sessions allows families the flexibility to sign up for as few, or as many, sessions as they like and provides an introduction to Capital Soccer Club, our training philosophy, and club curriculum.
Each session will consist of 6 weeks with the dates of each session corresponding to the Capital Soccer Club calendar.
Each session will consist of weekly indoor training sessions which will last for 1 hour. Each practice will build on the previous week's lesson plan with each session having it's own unique technical focus.


If a patient had a right medial rectus recession by 5mm and then a right lateral resection of 8 mm- would this be a horizontal muscle 67311 or vertical 67314 ?or another ?
I believe that your correct code would be 67312: Strabimus surgery, recession or resection procedure; 2 horizontal muscles.
staff releases incorrect muscle and then has to go back and release correct muscle.
Can we enter 67311 twice with the first 67311 with complication code and E code and then enter 67311 with the correct dx code along with a modifier.


Not so fast… New York State threw us a curve ball.
Many of these deductions are subject to limits for New York that differ from federal limits. Also, keep in mind that the New York standard deduction is only $16,050 for a married couple while the federal standard deduction is $24,000. It very well may be the case that taxpayers with itemized deductions that fall between those amounts (and in excess of those amounts) will want to tax advantage of this change in New York.
Although this is actually a benefit for taxpayers (more deductions) it adds yet another layer of complexity to an already tangled web of information and misinformation in the public conversation. If you were under the impression that your facts lined up in such a way that you were done with tracking personal deductions, it is very likely that you were wrong.


Funeral services for Mr. Jerry Thigpen will be held Friday, June 29, 2018 at 2 PM in the Chapel of Higgs Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Thigpen Cemetery in Rockledge. Reverend George Grimes will officiate. Mr. Thigpen died June 27, 2018.
Mr. Thigpen, 65, was born in Dublin and was a resident of Rockledge, GA. He was a retired farmer and a Baptist by Faith. His father, Carlton Thigpen, preceded him in death.
Visitation will be held Thursday from 6-8 PM at the funeral home.


For visual effects artists, a software plug-in - a small piece of code that adds new, often spectacular, capabilities to your editing or compositing application - can be the trick that pushes a show up to a Spinal Tap 11.
effects to HD, 2K, or even 4K image files.
software and Magic Bullet, which gives video a film-like look.
7800GTX card to render video to film effects in real time.
on, from the ground up.
artists won't tweak and tailor the effect to fit their production."
you'll dramatically slow down your render times.
manually without plug-ins so that I could use the entire render farm."
skill, and restraint, you can go a very long way."
software from their online store.


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Your commercial tires see miles and miles of roadways. They need to be durable, safe, and provide a comfortable ride all at a value. At Al's Tire and Auto, we provide customers in Northern Cambria, Ebensburg, and Johnstown, PA, as well as surrounding areas with the best commercial tires available.
Whether your truck drives on highways, through urban or regional areas, we're got the tires for you. Enjoy quality commercial tires from great brands like Roadmaster & Goodyear.
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Our client is a private bank and wealth management company seeking to recruit a Contract Management Accountant.
This is a 12 months' contract with scope to become permanent.
To provide leadership oversight and guidance in respect of the following functions within the company's Trust's offices in Guernsey and other jurisdictions.
•	Developing and agreeing with Senior Group Trust management and Group Finance management the transfer pricing framework between the Group Trust offices.
•	At least 8 years PQE and 2 years within a management accounting role at manager level; not transferring from Fund / Trust accounting to a management accounting role.


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The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev.2 - system in Latvia. The industry "freight transport by road and removal services" has the code "H494".
Statistics on "Transport industry in Latvia"


You can turn off the Motorola Droid's airplane mode from multiple menus, allowing you to resume normal activity on your smartphone. While airplane mode is useful when you need or want to use your Droid without connecting to a wireless network, keeping it on will prevent you from making calls, sending messages, browsing the Web or using any application requiring network access. The same procedure for turning off airplane mode can also re-enable it in the future.
Press and hold the power button on the top of the Droid while viewing the home screen.
Tap "Airplane Mode" from the options that appear.
Confirm that airplane mode is off by the absence of the airplane icon in the status bar at the top of the screen.
Press the Menu button while viewing the Droid's home screen.
Select "Wireless & Networks" from the options provided.
Tap the check box next to "Airplane Mode" to turn it off.
Confirm that the mode has been disabled by the absence of the airplane icon in the status bar at the top of the screen.
Michael Koyan has had articles published on various websites. He is an online banking specialist for a financial institution based in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Koyan received a Bachelor of Business Administration in business management from Kent State University in 2007.


Collagen wound dressing: This is used for chronic wounds, bed sores, ulcers, transplant sites, surgical wounds and wounds with large surface areas.
Alginate wound dressing: This is used to treat moderate to high amounts of wound, venous ulcers and packing wounds.
Composite Dressing: This is multi-layered dressing that offers more than one wound care treatment.
Large wound dressing: This type of dressing is done to treat moderate to large burns, necrotic wounds, pressure ulcers, donor sites and infected wounds.
Apart from these four basic types of dressing of wound treatment, other types of dressings like foam and compression dressing and cover dressings like wound wrap, gauze and tapes are also available. As far as the cost and duration of the treatment is concerned, it usually takes not more than 10 minutes to dress a wound with a cost of approximately $15-$22 per hour.


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package ru.r2cloud.jradio.smog1;

import java.io.IOException;

import ru.r2cloud.jradio.BeaconSource;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.ByteInput;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.crc.Crc16Arc;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.fec.ViterbiSoft;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.fec.ccsds.UncorrectableException;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.smogp.SmogPShort;
import ru.r2cloud.jradio.smogp.SmogPShortCorrelate;

public class Smog1Short extends BeaconSource<Smog1Beacon> {

	private static final int RS_LENGTH = 128 + 32;
	private final ViterbiSoft viterbi;

	public Smog1Short(ByteInput input) {
		super(new SmogPShortCorrelate(input, 8));
		this.viterbi = new ViterbiSoft((byte) 0x4f, (byte) 0x6d, true, ((RS_LENGTH + 1) * 8) * 2);
	}

	@Override
	protected Smog1Beacon parseBeacon(byte[] raw) throws UncorrectableException, IOException {
		Smog1Beacon result = new Smog1Beacon();
		byte[] data = SmogPShort.fecDecode(viterbi, raw);
		if (Crc16Arc.calculate(data) != 0) {
			throw new UncorrectableException("crc mismatch");
		}
		result.readExternal(data);
		return result;
	}

}

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Over eighty Community Foundation funds are designated to benefit local agencies each and every year. These funds may have been established by the agency or by a donor with a particular affinity for a specific agency. Generally speaking, agencies may use distributions from designated funds to support their operations in any way they feel appropriate. Annual distributions from these funds exceed $178,000.


Creighton getting boat raced by 'nova 93 -72 with 2:32 remaining. . .
Temple beat Wichita St. by 2 in OT. Shockers are 7-3 in the AAC. They probably did not anticipate having that many losses I would guess. League leader Cincinnati is 9-0.
Washington is leading #25 Arizona St. by 10 at halftime. ASU has been holding onto a ranking for a long time for a team w/ a losing record in conference.
BYU is trailing LMU by 11 at halftime!
St. Mary's leading USF by 17 at halftime.
Huskies up 10 at the half. I think they have the right guy in place now.
BYU down 11. Bryant was clocked in the head and hasn't returned. It looked bad even though no foul was called.
UW wins. I found myself rooting for them too.
BYU with a head scratcher.
PACIFIC TIGERS take care of business on the road, 63-45 over Santa Clara.........now back even with San Diego in standings. They have equaled their most wins in WCC since rejoining......Tough team with 7 scholarships and only 10 players to scrimmage....evidently on certain areas of practice, Coach Stoudamira goes against them!
I actually feel kinda bad about trolling that board right now.
I'm pissed off that USF didn't put forth a better effort.
By now I should be used to it: everyone is out to be the dragon slayer, and SMC is just another team.
Crappy gyms, crappy league, crappy refs.
I guess the only way to improve all 3 is for them to join the NBA. Surely they would own those guys!


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Q: Add new class to new data from Ajax with JSON data type My Ajax request is working fine and returning the desired data. But i want to add new class to
 element which i am getting from AJAX request. I am trying to add new class i.e $elm.addClass("newclass") under Ajax success, but i am not seeing this new class being added to new li elements. There is no error. i am not sure whats wrong with this as i am not getting any error also.
function  loadSuccess(data, status, obj)
 {

for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
    var nodeid = data[i].attr.id;

    if (nodeid=="BALX") {

        $("#"+nodeid).addClass("selected");

    }
 }

};

HTML--From Chrome Inspector-->first time--Parent Node--

        <li role="treeitem" id="ALLACCOUNTS" ALLACCOUNTS --1

---------------after clicking on the parent node "ALLACCOUNTS"--Its a Ajax call-----

ALLACCOUNTS --1

BALSHEET --2

A: Here is an example of what you're trying to accomplish. I think you might be off on your selected. Try making sure jquery is actually finding the element using developer tools:
https://jsfiddle.net/9j429sw4/
HTML

Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

Test 4

CSS
.selected {
  background-color: green;
  color: red;
}

JavaScript
var ids = ["test1", "test2", "test3", "test4"];
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: '/echo/json',
    success: function (response) {
      for (var i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
          if (ids[i] == "test2") $("#"+ids[i]).addClass('selected');
      }
    },
    error: function (err) {
      alert('error');
    }
});

A: Try using .class instead of #id.
And look for this element with your console.log( $("#"+nodeid) ); to verify if this really exists.
Maybe you have more than onde #id element and get some error.
Force this with $("#nodeid_name").addClass('selected'); right into your browser console, like $("#BALX").addClass('selected'); and see what happens.

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Players are allowed to own their own apartments in AO, but it's one section of the game slightly neglected, and very infrequently explained to new starters, this guide will explain the basics of owning your own little corner of Rubi-Ka.
How do I get an Apartment?
All player characters can own an apartment. You get your apartment in a very straight forward way, unfortunately it's also easy to do without realizing it! This can lead to new players often not knowing that they already have an apartment, let alone where it is!
You get your apartment the first time you enter an 'apartment' door in one of the backyard areas of one of the starting cities. All apartments are in the backyards. You cannot have an apartment anywhere else.
The picture to the left is of the apartment entrance in a neutral backyard. In Omni backyards the apartments are up the stairs on the upper level of the backyard to your right as you enter the backyard from the city. In clan territories they are also on the raised section behind the training mission entrance.
Once you have entered your first apartment it's yours and a key will appear in your inventory.
This must be in your inventory every subsequent time you want to get into your apartment. Please note that you can't use it if it is in a backpack. It must be in your main Inventory.
What is inside my apartment?
Well not much! Each apartment is three rooms, a short entrance hall, a large room and a smaller room to your right. Apart from that it's fairly blank for now. Clan, Neutral and Omni apartments all look different.
Furniture can be found in missions and from furniture terminals in some shops. At the moment you can only have ten items in your apartment. If you leave any more furniture in there over the ten limit it will disappear so be warned!
'Chez Silirrion' my own little patch of Rubi-Ka in Borealis!
While there are plans to upgrade what you can do with apartments according to the 'envisioned' section of the main site, you can't at the moment get anything like tables, chairs or beds. You can however get pictures for the walls, stereo systems, lights, lamps, statues even a refrigerator!
Can other people get inside my apartment?
Yes, you have to be teamed with them, and you have to be the team leader, you do not have to dupe the key like in missions.
You have to purchase an Apartment Application Form in a shop, it will reset your apartment so you can get a new apartment, but you do lose anything stored in the previous one, so be careful with that key!
Can I change my apartment if I went in one by accident when I started?
Yes, like mentioned above you can get to reset your original Apartment and get a new one at a different place if you want.
Can I get a Luxury Apartment in Jobe?
Only those who pre-ordered Shadowlands got them, the only way to get one after the release of the expansion is by winning apartment keys through promotional giveaways and contests, usually run by Funcom and fansites. You can check how Jobe Luxury Apartment look by checking here. Those who purchased Shadowlands after it's release still get an Apartment in Jobe, but nowhere near as nice as the Luxury type. It is however different from the ones available in Rubi-Ka.


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Eliana "Elle" Ramos (December 23, 1988 – February 13, 2007) was a Uruguayan fashion model.

Modeling
Ramos was a fashion model in Latin America and was signed to Dotto Models, a prestigious modeling agency based in Argentina. Outside of South America, Eliana also worked in Mexico and stayed in Japan for three months in early 2006 with her sister Luisel.

Death
On February 13, 2007, Eliana Ramos was found dead at her grandparents' home in Montevideo, Uruguay, at age 18. Preliminary examinations indicated the cause of death as heart attack, believed to be related to malnutrition; final test results were released at a later date.

Fellow models confirmed that she had suffered for many months after her sister Luisel Ramos, 22, died of heart failure, but rejected speculations that an eating disorder could have played a role. Her sister died shortly after stepping off a runway in August 2006 during a fashion show at a Montevideo hotel. An autopsy cited the cause of death as a heart attack.

The deaths drew widespread media attention in Latin America, where the fashion industry's treatment of young women has been the subject of debate since anorexia was blamed for the deaths of model Ana Carolina Reston and three other Brazilian women in December.

The sisters' father, Luis Ramos, was a former football player for the Uruguay national team, and was reportedly vacationing with his wife elsewhere in the country at the time of Eliana's death.

See also
List of deaths from anorexia nervosa

References

External links

1988 births
2007 deaths
Deaths from anorexia nervosa
Neurological disease deaths in Uruguay
Uruguayan female models
Uruguayan people of Spanish descent
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Jim Sipchen prevailed at trial on a legal malpractice claim that alleged his client was negligent in handling a commercial real estate closing for a below-grade commercial unit located in a high rise residential condominium building in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. The plaintiffs alleged that the attorney committed malpractice by not investigating the property's zoning prior to closing, which in turn, caused them to purchase space that could not be leased to any tenant because the unit was zoned only for residential use. Jim successfully argued to the jury that the attorney was not engaged to investigate the property's zoning, the zoning for the property could be changed, and the plaintiffs did not aggressively pursue such a zoning change, but rather, allowed the property to fall into foreclosure. The plaintiffs asked for over $600,000 in damages, but the jury returned a verdict for the defense after deliberating for about an hour-and-a-half.


While i'm enjoying forcing myself to work with the simple stylized folk-art style, those of you that aren't will be happy to know that the next one is the last blackboard page - for now at least.
And a reminder - or tip for new readers - to see the current blackboard folk-art a bit larger and without the obstructing word balloons, vote for eMT on TWC. Collect all the clues for those fun "A-Ha!" moments later.
EDIT: My apologies on the mix-up for the vote incentive. Yesterday's blackboard folkart did not go up until today.
Which group would pay the most?
It really depends on how that question is interpreted. It could mean who pays out the most, or who gets paid the most.


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Ciara Rollins
HomeAll TeamCiara Rollins
Board of Directors, Connecticut Advisory Board
Ciara is a seventeen year old, senior at Three Rivers Middle College in Norwich. Ciara loves all things performing arts; dancing, singing, acting, music and more recently stand up comedy. Ciara's theatre credits include; Derrick Williams & the Gospel Family's, He Is Risen; Broadway Kids and Company, Mary Poppins, spring 2017, Bye, Bye Birdie, spring 2016, The Wizard of Oz, spring 2015, Hairspray in spring of 2010 and summer of 2016, Annie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Crazy for You, and Into the Woods, as well as participation in competitions. Other performances include Writer's Block Ink productions from 2009-2011; Emerson Theater Collaborative, The Big Bank in the summer of 2010; ETC's summer program; Bud not Buddy in 2012 and Aesop's Fables: King of Beasts in 2013; The Best of What's His Name in 2014.
Ciara has been camp counselor with ETC's summer theater camp, for the past 3 yrs., in the spring of 2015, she was a part of a show about bullying called, Always Picked Last, summer of 2015, she had a small part in Skokie Detective Charter School, as well as doing the choreography and photography, for the show, in summer 2016, Ciara appeared in ETC's summer production of Barrio Girl, where again, she was a counselor and choreographer, this past summer, she once again did choreography for Rock Around the Sound, and was a counselor. Ciara has also done her original poetry/stories, for Zora Neale Hurston readings, has participated in a reading of Prudence Crandall, with ETC Ciara has found a new love, in comedy, and performed a comedy stand-up routine as a junior at Three Rivers Middle College and at Miracle Temple Church. She appeared in East Lyme Regional Theater, Once Upon This Island, in summer of 2013, Footloose in the summer of 2014. She also had a screamingly good time as a ghost as part of Sights and Frights and a high strung teenage girl (no typecasting there) from 1876 with Lantern Light Tours, at Mystic Seaport. When Ciara attends college she would like to Major in Arts Management and Entertainment business. Her dream is to start her own Talent Agency, for children of all ages, act in movies and television…….win an Oscar by the age of 25….and marry a football player!


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Viola luciae är en violväxtart som beskrevs av Carl Skottsberg. Viola luciae ingår i släktet violer, och familjen violväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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The vast majority of people who flee their homes to escape conflict, violence and disasters do not cross an international border. Of the 65 million people forcibly displaced around the world, 40 million – or more than six out of ten – are internally displaced people. They are the invisible majority.
The relationship between internal displacement and movements of refugees and migrants is not well understood. This is a major knowledge gap which we want to address. In the coming years, we will seek to build an evidence base painting a more quantitative and qualitative picture of the entire displacement continuum, from the drivers of onward movement across borders to return to countries of origin.
This introductory paper presents our thematic programme. It also provides a list of potential case studies and current and targeted partners. To undertake this massive task, we invite all the data, information and support that affected communities, international agencies, NGOs, academic institutions and governments can provide.
Download the introduction (PDF, 0.5MB) in English, French, Spanish or Arabic.
Internal displacement and the Global Compact on Refugees – Are today's returning refugees tomorrow's IDPs?
On the occasion of the thematic discussion for the global compact on refugees (November 2017) we publish a new policy brief reviewing the existing policy and research and set out our position on returning refugees, internal displacement and durable solutions. Such research was collected with the aim of informing this week's thematic discussions, and we provide concrete suggestions for input to the global compact's programme of action.
Returnees in Syria - Sustainable reintegration and durable solutions, or a return to displacement?
In the absence of systematic data along the displacement continuum, this paper aims to shed some light on the push and pull factors throughout the displacement journey and on the wide spectrum of returning refugee and IDP experiences in Syria.
At the end of 2017, internal displacement in Afghanistan was back on a rising trend. As the conflict deteriorated, so too did the welcome of Afghans in neighbouring countries. As many as half a million undocumented Afghans returned from Iran and Pakistan between January and November 2017, many by force.
The data presented in this case study is drawn from 2017 research on IDPs' protection needs carried out by Samuel Hall for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It looks at the main challenges former refugees and migrants who have returned home to internal displacement, known as returnee-IDPs, face in achieving durable solutions, and argues that returnees who continue to face needs related to displacement and should be included in planning and policy for internal displacement.
Local human rights organisation Cristosal and IDMC conducted 16 surveys and four in-depth interviews in autumn 2017 with returnees who had fled El Salvador to escape violence. The study was designed to examine conditions for returning deportees and the risks of them becoming internally displaced, often not for the first time.
As a result of the lack of comprehensive quantitative data on internal displacement in El Salvador, the study also brings together qualitative data and analysis of other information on issues such as violence, crime and human mobility, to build a clearer picture of how the phenomenon is developing and its impacts on those affected.
IDMC has set out to better understand the relationship between internal displacement and cross-border movements. This case study on Iraq forms part of the resulting Invisible Majority thematic series. It examines drivers of displacement and the onward movement of people within and across borders, provides better understanding of their priorities and preconditions for return, and explores obstacles to their achievement of durable solutions.
As part of this case study, we conducted more than 300 interviews in Iraq, Jordan and Sweden. The research cannot claim to be representative, but it offers a useful snapshot of displacement along the entire displacement continuum, including internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees, returning IDPs and returning refugees.
In the 2017 Global Report on Internal Displacement, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) set out to better understand the relationship between internal displacement and cross-border movements. As part of the resulting Invisible Majority thematic series, this report, based on over two hundred interviews with displaced Colombians, examines drivers of displacement and onward movement of internally displaced people (IDPs) within and across borders, provides better understanding of priorities and preconditions for voluntary return, and examine obstacles to durable solutions for returning refugees and IDPs in Colombia. While the report does not set out to assess the successes and failures of the 2016 Peace Agreement, it nonetheless brings to light a number of challenges to its implementation.


Please note: the recording of this webinar is available for free to view on demand.
In this webinar we will discuss models and methods for museums to meaningfully pursue original research across national borders.
How can museums meaningfully pursue original research across national borders? How can international collaborations question and expand the canonical narratives of art history? What are the practical challenges of international partnerships? This webinar seeks to address these questions through a survey of different models for international collaboration and a discussion of their different research outcomes.
The AAMC Foundation is honored to present a webinar as part of its Engagement Program for International Curators, made possible by major support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Nicholas Chambers is Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (AGNSW). He has previously held the positions of Milton Fine Curator of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh; and Curator of Contemporary International Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Chambers has organized numerous exhibitions for a diverse range of exhibition platforms – from artist-run-initiatives to major public art museums. His most recent exhibitions are 'Adman: Warhol before pop' (on display at The Warhol until 9/15/2018); and 'Unpainting', an exhibition surveying different approaches to abstraction from the 1950s to the present, at the AGNSW.
Ilona Katzew is curator and department head of Latin American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she has built the museum's collection of viceregal art and made key acquisitions of modern and contemporary art. Katzew has curated many exhibitions on Latin American art and has published widely in her area of expertise. Her books include Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (2004), Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America (2009), and Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World (2011). Her most recent international exhibition, Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici (2017-18), was selected by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times among the top exhibitions of 2017, and the accompanying catalogue has received multiple awards for scholarly excellence.
Reuben Keehan is Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, where he has been a curator of the 2012, 2015 and 2018 Asia Pacific Triennials. With a long history in the public and non-profit sectors, he was previously Curator at Artspace, Sydney (2006–11). His recent curatorial collaborations include Yayoi Kusama: Life is the heart of a rainbow(National Gallery Singapore, 2017-18); Time of others (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, National Museum of Art Osaka, and Singapore Art Museum, 2014-15); and Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing 2013 (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013).
Fernanda Mendonça Pitta's research interests focus primarily on 19th Century Brazilian art in a transnational context and Historiography of art. She also writes regularly on modern and contemporary art and contributes to scholarly journals on Brazilian art and art historiography. Her latest curatorial project is an exhibition on the artist´s image in 19th Century in Brazilian Art to be open in December 2018 at Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Pitta has a PhD in art history from the Universidade de São Paulo, with a dissertation titled "A Peaceful and Bucolic People: Customs and History in Almeida Júnior's paintings," which is forthcoming as a book by Martins Fontes´ Press. In the Summer of 2017, she was a fellow at Clark Art Institute as part of the Summer Collaborative Working Group and is currently an International Awardee in the AAMC Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators.
This webinar is part of AAMC Foundation's Engagement Program for International Curators, made possible by major support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
The Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences. Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art, the foundation provides opportunities for interaction and study, beginning with the presentation and growth of its own art collection in Chicago. To further cross-cultural dialogue on American art, the foundation supports and collaborates on innovative exhibitions, research, and educational programs. Implicit in such activities is the belief that art has the potential to both distinguish cultures and to unite them.


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Lake Magaguadavic is een meer van 28 km² in de Canadese provincie New Brunswick. Het bevindt zich in het zuidwesten van de provincie, op iets minder dan 18 km van de grens met de Amerikaanse staat Maine. Het meer watert af via de gelijknamige rivier die zuidwaarts stroomt richting de Fundybaai.

De naam van het meer is afkomstig van de inheemse volkeren Maliseet en Passamaquoddyuit. Het betekent 'meer van de alen'.

Magaguadavic


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  Pélussin est
      une commune géographiquement positionnée dans le département de Loire en Rhône-Alpes. On dénombrait 3 405 habitants en 2008.

À coté de Pélussin sont situées les villes de
Chuyer localisée à 4 km, 694 habitants,
Véranne localisée à 5 km, 667 habitants,
Roisey située à 3 km, 831 habitants,
Lupé à 5 km, 302 habitants,
Saint-Michel-sur-Rhône située à 5 km, 741 habitants,
Saint-Alban-du-Rhône localisée à 5 km, 849 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Pélussin est située à seulement 23 km de Saint-Étienne.

À Pélussin le salaire médian mensuel par habitant est situé à approximativement 2 214 €  net. C'est supérieur à la moyenne nationale.

La ville offre de nombreux  équipements, elle dispose, entre autres, de un bassin de natation, un terrain de tennis, un centre d'équitation et neuf boucles de randonnée.

Le parc de logements, à Pélussin, se décomposait en 2011 en 461 appartements et 1 333 maisons soit
 un marché relativement équilibré.

À Pélussin, la valeur moyenne à la vente d'un appartement se situe à 1 359 € du m² en vente. la valorisation moyenne d'une maison à l'achat se situe à 1 725 € du m². À la location le prix moyen se situe à 8,35 € du m² par mois.

La commune est équipée s'agissant de l'éducation des jeunes de deux collèges.
Pour les très jeunes, la commune est équipée de deux écoles primaires.
Pélussin propose les installations permettant une éducation de proximité.
Si vous avez un projet d'achat immobilier à Pélussin, il est important évaluer la qualité des équipements éducatifs


On behalf of the the Kongma Sakyong, Jampal Trinley Dradül Rinpoche, the Office of the Sakyong is pleased to announce the appointment of fifteen new shastris, effective on the Harvest of Peace weekend: September 22 – 23, 2017. These shastris join over one hundred shastris appointed in recent years, all fulfilling three-year terms in their respective centres. We welcome these inspiring new shastris into their vital positions serving Shambhala's Pillar of Practice and Education in their centres.
Angelika Behrooz (Boulder, Colorado) has been a devoted student of Shambhala since 1986. In 1987 she had the good fortune of attending the Vidyadhara's cremation. Other notable steps on her path were a two-year staff residency at Karme Chöling and the completion of the three-year retreat at Gampo Abbey. In her professional life she holds a Ph.D. in Physics and was active in research and many years of teaching. She currently owns and operates a bookstore with her husband.
Merlin Cox (London, England) first came across the writings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1977 and then encountered him in person during his 1981 teachings in London. He attended the 1988 Vajradhatu Seminary led by the Vajra Regent and is now a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He served in various roles in the Dorje Kasing and the administration at the London Shambhala Centre, including a seven year period as director. A software engineer, he worked for Amnesty International for 15 years, and is now self-employed, living in London with his wife, adult son and guinea pig.
Sue Gilman (Atlanta, Georgia) began practicing and studying in Atlanta in the 80's and has been a member of various Shambhala communities including Boston and New York. Sue was the first Director of Sky Lake Lodge and a Director of Development at Karme Chöling. She has been teaching in Shambhala for more than a decade. Back home in Atlanta, Sue has spent the last 5 years as the Executive Director of the Wren's Nest, the oldest historic house museum in the city. She spearheaded major energy upgrades to the 145-year-old house and developed a program of community conversations around racial reconciliation. She continues to convene conversations on race, the environment and other subjects that impact our world, both at the Shambhala Center and in the broader Atlanta community. Dhi Good (Denver, Colorado) began the Buddhist path in 1990 at the Denver Zen Center, and was ordained into the Lotus of the Flame Order in 1994. She joined the Shambhala sangha in 2005. As director of Shambhala Online, she works with a virtual team to support online studies in Shambhala. She holds a master's degree in Future Studies and enjoys exploring change, technology and learning organizations.
Mariel Gomez (Vancouver, British Columbia) has been a student of Shambhala since 2002, and became a meditator instructor in 2006. She has worked in various capacities serving the Shambhala community in Santiago, Boulder and Vancouver. Mariel studied psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and received an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from the University of British Columbia, where she is presently also undertaking a PhD in Human Development and Learning. Through research, evaluation and intervention, her work has been aimed to support children's learning in educational settings. Her current research focuses on the strengthening of preschool and school teachers' education.
Ingrid Hoffellner (Vienna, Austria) started practicing in the Shambhala Community 1994 with Kyudo and has been a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since 1999. She works as an architect, focusing on the renovation of social housing. She has been a teacher in Shambhala since 2011 and is now studying the Scorpion Seal path. She is also engaged in Nalanda practices, including Miksang and Ikebana.
David Kahane (Edmonton, Alberta) is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and a part of the Shambhala community since 2007, serving as Centre Director of the Edmonton Shambhala Centre from 2014-2017. He is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Alberta specializing in democracy, citizen involvement, and systems change, and has won two national awards for his teaching. He is fascinated by questions of social action in Shambhala in light of teachings on basic goodness and enlightened society. He tends a permaculture food forest in downtown Edmonton and is father to young Solomon.
Antonín Machander MD (Jablonec, Czech Republic) has been a stomatologist (oral surgeon) since 1965, and a student of yoga since 1969. In 1989 he founded the Centrum of Psychosomatic disturbances with colleagues, where he works as a psychotherapist (Person-Centered Psychotherapy, family therapy.) While he considered himself a buddhist since the age of 18, he was not permitted contact with buddhist groups. In 1978 Antonín read the books of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and in 1980 began regular correspondences with MI's in Boulder. In 1987, after 18 years, he was allowed to travel abroad, he took refuge vow with Ösel Tendzin and attended the Vajrajana seminary in 1990. He attended Kalapa Assembly in 2000 and completed Chakrasamvara practice 2004. He became an MI in 2006, and is practicing Scorpion Seal 9. He has translated more than ten books of Chögyam Trungpa and Sakyong Mipham. He is married for the second time with 5 children.
Elisa Marzuca (Santiago, Chile) encountered the Shambhala meditation path when she was 18 years old, while studying psychology. She has been part of the Santiago Meditation Center since 2000, where she has been Director of Practice and Education, an MI and teacher. She has taught yoga and meditation within the prison system and is founder of Padma, an institute where psychology, meditation and yoga find a space to complement and enrich one another.
Will Ryken (St. Petersburg, Florida) first connected to Chögyam Trungpa and the Buddhadharma in Boulder, Colorado in 1972 and that was it. While in Boulder, he became a Dorje Kasung in 1975, lived at Karme Chöling for two years and then was Director of Dorje Khyung Dzong for another two, returning to Boulder until moving to Florida in 2006. Mr. Ryken co-founded the Shambhala Sun Summer camp in 1984, and he is a Dapön in the Dorje Kasung. Mr. Ryken has been teaching in prisons for the past twenty years and is currently a mentor for a gentleman on death row in Angola state prison in Louisiana. He currently lives in Ruskin FL. with his wife Paula Bickford. They both teach and play at the St. Petersburg Shambhala Center as well as teaching and assistant directing Shambhala and Kasung Program around the world. Mr. Ryken is well known for his wisdom and humor.
Achim Schlage (Hamburg, Germany) joined the Shambhala Community in the early 1980's and has served the Munich and Hamburg Shambhala Centers in various positions. In 2000 he co-initiated the European Donor Group, a group of sangha members dedicated to propagate generosity within the European mandala, and the Family Working Group in Europe. He served as Chagdzö for Shambhala Europe. He is practicing kyudo, has been teaching in Shambhala for 10 years and lives with his wife and three sons in Hamburg, Germany.
Joachim Sehrbrock (Vancouver, British Columbia) has been a student of Buddhism and a practitioner since 1996. He became part of the Shambhala community in 2000 while studying Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University. Joachim is passionate about Buddhist and Depth Psychologies and has published and taught widely on sexual and gender diversity. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has worked as a psychologist in clinical and academic settings since 2005. Joachim lives with his husband in Vancouver, BC.
Ruth Wallen (San Diego, California) has been a member of the Shambhala community since 1980, when she felt immediately at home attending a Level One at the Berkeley Dharmadhatu. After moving to San Diego she served as coordinator, and more recently has worked in various capacities to support the development of practice and study at their growing Shambhala Center. A practicing artist, whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecology and social justice, she is a professor in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College and also teaches at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in San Diego with her husband and teenage daughter.
Tessa Watt (London, UK) has been a member since 1992 and a teacher since 2012. She was Director of the Awake in the World festival (2013) celebrating 50 years since Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's arrival in the West. Tessa teaches mindfulness in the UK's Houses of Parliament and a range of other workplaces. She was a leader of the Mindful Nation UK report (2015) launched by the All-party Parliamentary Group for Mindfulness. She is an Associate of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, and co-founder of Being Mindful (beingmindful.co.uk) which runs MBSR courses for the public. Tessa is author Introducing Mindfulness (2012) and Mindful London (2014). In her earlier career she was a BBC Radio Producer, making documentary features around the globe. Tessa has a PhD in History from Cambridge and an MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London where she also lectures.
Denise Wuensch (Denver, Colorado) began practicing Buddhism in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, while living in her hometown of Houston in the mid-1970's. She attended the first Vajrayana seminary offered by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 1992, and has served in the Kalapa Court, his personal residence, as Head of Household since 1994. She currently holds the title of Shabdo in that role. In her profession as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker she has a private practice in Denver, Colorado, specializing in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Trauma Recovery. In addition, she also works as a hospice social worker, providing support and counseling to families and patients at the end of life. She lives with her husband in Denver.
E Ma Ho – what wonderful choices – may you all prosper and radiate.
What an inspiring group! I am honored to serve with you. Thank you for your dedication and devotion.
Although I'm not familiar with many of the names, I'm sure that, as always, the Sakyong's right on the mark. I'm particularly delighted to see Sue Gilman's name among the selection. She is both full of humor and compassion which is a prime combination!


You might think this is going to be straight-up invective against dad shoes, and there you'd be wrong. Against some, sure. The $850 Balenciaga Triple S looks like what would happen if you tried to put on a pair of Skechers while already wearing a pair of Skechers, only for ten times the price, and the Yeezy Wave Runner looks—at least to me, a Certified Old—like any number of late '90s Feet You Wear Adidas runners, only with that ever-important Kanye co-sign. But again, it's not "dad shoes" that I have a problem with. It's making "dad shoes" a thing.
Take the Nike Air Monarch IV, the dad-shoe archetype designed by Jason Mayden (who recently shared a sketch of one of his original 2002 designs), a refreshingly style-free model that sells literally millions of pairs a year to people who probably think Yeezy is an off-brand Febreze. They're the sneaker for people who don't care at all about sneakers other than the fact that they need something to mow the lawn in. So they buy a new pair whenever the old ones fall apart, making the Monarch one of the best-selling models in the history of Nike. Just know that Nike makes way more off this humble department-store model than it does off any high-tech, high-dollar signature shoes.
Back in 2013, I wrote something for this very website about how everyone should really get a pair of Monarchs. I meant it, although, I never went so far as to get a pair for myself. But other people did. Before my piece even ran, there was a "Team Monarch," complete with #TeamMonarch hashtag, celebrating the uncelebrated. Nike eventually made a PE version of the shoe for Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, although, the retail versions remained unchanged (and readily available at your local Modells or Kohls).
Matt Powell isn't going to want to hear it, but Kanye West had a lot to do with this swing towards dad fashion. As Kanye himself became a dad, and as he continues to steer Yeezy based on his personal likes and dislikes, he's unwittingly—or perhaps wittingly—raised a whole generation of youths who are now willing to pay whatever it takes to dress like a 40-year-old father of two. Adidas led, other brands followed suit. And the Monarch, it seems like the Monarch has just always been there. Waiting.
From a sneaker perspective, the Nike Air Monarch IV is the equivalent of one of those tribes in the Amazon who have never had any contact with Western civilization. It's pure, in the sense that it was a sneaker designed to serve a particular market that has been doing exactly that for years and years now. There has been no need for new colorways (at least, hardly any), and no one (at least, hardly anyone) has been clamoring for a Monarch V. The Monarch IV is what it is, and what it is, is perfection.
And now that's not going to be good enough.
It hasn't been ruined yet. There is still time to save the Monarch before it becomes the next Air Force 1, complete with jewel Swooshes and a Supreme collab. (Concepts actually did collaborate on a Monarch, but it has yet to release.) And that is to leave it alone. I'm not saying don't wear it—by all means wear it if you want to—but wear it when you want a break from "sneaker culture" instead of trying so hard to make the Monarch IV a part of it. Put it on your feet, leave it off Instagram.
There's no easy way to put this, so I'll just say it: The Air Monarch IV doesn't need us. It never has. Again, Nike sells them by the millions to people who think of their sneakers about as much as they think of their underwear. Wearing a pair of Monarchs is about as rebellious as listening to Drake or eating McDonalds. Literally millions of people do each of those things every single day without ever thinking about them. Wearing Air Monarchs does not make you special. If anything, it does the opposite. Embrace THAT.
Look, we all know that trends gonna trend. Things went from minimalist to maximalist, and they'll go back again. Eventually even dad-Ye will get off the dad-fashion wave. The Triple S will die off of its own accord, like a mammoth in a tar pit. In the meantime, though, let's try our best to leave the dad shoes to the dads. They need them more than we ever will.


Eating oatmeal with blueberries for breakfast this morning. Need something to warm my belly since its a balmy 2 degrees with a minus 15 wind chill. Will be heading out soon to head to College for Creative Studies campus.
This week's chapter of The Complete Artist Way talks about "Virtue Trap." – you know, you feel guilty for what you want versus what you feel is your obligation. An example would be a man really wants to take photography classes but feels he shouldn't because it would take time away from him being with his young family. Or the woman wants to take pottery classes but feels guilty about it because she needs to be at home and the money should be spent for things needed at home. That's "virtue trap." I have done it many, many times to myself.
She states in her book, that "we" are afraid to appear "selfish" and as a result of this virtue trap, we lose our self. Ouch.
The author says, to the reader – are we self destructive? If we continue down this path of being Martyred Mary or Fabulous Fred, – we are being self destructive to "us" – who we are. Our needs.
There is a quiz you answer and then an "forbidden joys exercise and a wish list exercise. And then tasks for the week. One of the items she asks is to list the 10 items that I would like to "own" that I dont. She suggests collect images of those ten items. The other is gathering image files of desires.
I do think about this quite a bit because I believe it has gotten me to where i am now. My choices and decisions made for the sake of others, not necessarily mine. I do know one thing – it is something I want to stop doing. My other challenge is what it is that I really want to do from hereon in.
Alas. It is time for me to get going on my day.