tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66142942839434587042024-03-05T00:24:57.451-08:00Amazing News for YouDaily Update and Daily Supportyanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.comBlogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-70293435009051947082012-04-12T11:32:00.001-07:002012-04-12T11:32:20.475-07:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:1em; } table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a { color:#000099; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; } img {border:none;} </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://amba12.wordpress.com" title="(http://amba12.wordpress.com)">amazing Ambiance</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wizardrss/xofm"> <img style="padding-top:6px" alt="" border="0" src="http://gmodules.com/ig/images/plus_google.gif" /> </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/JJtTirC4OtI/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Numerology</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 11 Apr 2012 10:05 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5172 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-amba" id="post-5172" readability="31"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/numerology/" title="Permanent link to Numerology">Numerology</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> April 12, 2012 at 1:05 am (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-amba/" title="View all posts in By Amba" rel="category tag">By Amba</a>) </p> <p>In a few minutes, I will have completed 66 years on this earth. Add another 6 . . .</p> <p>turn it upside down . . .</p> <p>and you have <em>the Mark(down) of the Discount Retailer!</em></p> <p> </p> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/JJtTirC4OtI?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/DVgCaweP1iY/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">A musical interlude…</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 11 Apr 2012 06:27 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5169 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-ron category-uncategorized" id="post-5169" readability="30"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/a-musical-interlude/" title="Permanent link to A musical interlude…">A musical interlude…</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> April 11, 2012 at 9:27 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-ron/" title="View all posts in By Ron" rel="category tag">By Ron</a>, <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a>) </p> <p>Here's a little something for our cat dancing bloggeress to get those kitties bouncing around the room too! 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Watching her I thought, "Maybe this is the ultimate aim of life. Maybe all the struggle and passion and toil is about recreating this state of pure play over and over again, since it can't last." Like tossing a ball up into the air again and again just for that moment when the sun gilds the ball at its apogee, its moment of freedom from gravity.</p> <p>And then it falls, its momentum harvested for the next toss.</p> <p>Kitty, barely legal at 9 or 10 months, is in the agonies of heat for the second time in three weeks. As young men are drafted into the army before they're even mature, young females are drafted into the army of reproduction before they've had more than an eyeblink to enjoy life and discover their powers. Said powers, barely suspected, will be bent to the service of feeding the next generation as it enjoys <em>its</em> brief moment of consummate freedom to play. This is as true of traditional human societies as it is in nature.</p> <p>It's easy to understand why this has been necessary. Life is in a race against death and this was the only way not to lose. The second law of thermodynamics is on the side of death; life is an energetic defiance with a high cost. It can afford only the briefest of escapes from the drag of thermodynamic necessity.</p> <p>This disproportion between the time spent keeping life going and the time spent enjoying it may be natural, but let's not pretend it's noble. It's brutal. <a href="http://www.carrothers.com/rilke4.htm" target="_blank">Rilke wrote</a> about life's mystery that too many of us "pass it on like a sealed letter." Or, at best, we steam it open and steal a glimpse before guiltily gluing it shut again to get it back in the mail to the ever-receding future.</p> <p>I propose that traditional societies are misguided in glorifying submission to necessity and trying to keep life confined within its strict forms. I propose that the greatest achievement of human beings (which indeed has come at a high cost of extraction of energy from the rest of the living planet) has been to push back death far enough to prolong that time of pure play. Curiosity, creativity, wonder, pleasure, delight—there can't be too much time for that. There still isn't enough. Growing up late, having fewer children later and handing them an <em>opened</em> letter, playing one way or another all our lives—call it narcissistic self-indulgence, call it "failure to launch" or "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," call it art, call it witness, call it high praise.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/98i-Ui6Lwfk?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-49509385478594301392012-03-26T11:32:00.001-07:002012-03-26T11:32:41.326-07:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:1em; } table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a { color:#000099; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; } img {border:none;} </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://amba12.wordpress.com" title="(http://amba12.wordpress.com)">amazing Ambiance</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wizardrss/xofm"> <img style="padding-top:6px" alt="" border="0" src="http://gmodules.com/ig/images/plus_google.gif" /> </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <ul style="clear:both;padding:0 0 0 1.2em;width:100%" id="summarylist"> <li> <a href="#1">Medical Mythology</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2">Tree & Me</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3">The priest, the rabbi, and the minister</a> </li> </ul> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/fAQIW-MV6to/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Medical Mythology</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 25 Mar 2012 02:54 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-realpc" id="post-5155" readability="53"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/medical-mythology/" title="Permanent link to Medical Mythology">Medical Mythology</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> March 25, 2012 at 5:54 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-realpc/" title="View all posts in By Realpc" rel="category tag">By Realpc</a>) </p> <p>I was walking through town today (Sunday) and a woman offered to give me a ride home. I said no thanks, I have a car, I'm just taking a walk. But then I went back and asked how she knew where I live. She said she sees me walking, walking, walking, all the time. I explained that I only walk a half hour before work on week days, which really is not much. I asked if she thought I was a crazy homeless person, just because she sees me walking. I said I have been walking, and doing yoga, all my life and that is probably the reason I am not sick and on drugs, like practically everyone else my age.</p> <p>(I don't usually do this, must have been in a weird mood today).</p> <p>So she replied that the drugs must be doing something right, because we are living longer than ever now. She said there are lots of people in their 90s now, and there never were before.</p> <p>I said first of all, there were always people in their 90s. And if you ask someone in their 90s you may very well find out they don't go to doctors or take drugs. I said we are not being kept alive past age 40 thanks to the drugs, that is just propaganda from the drug companies, to make us think we need them.</p> <p>I tried to explain that average lifespan has increased, mostly because young children are not dying anymore, thanks to antibiotics and vaccines. I tried to explain how the drug companies misuse the statistics to make us think we would all drop dead at 40 if not for them.</p> <p>She waited patiently for me to give up and leave. If she didn't think I was a homeless crazy before, she was sure of it after my lecture.</p> <p>But I am so tired of hearing the same old myth.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/fAQIW-MV6to?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/Mr48QiLFc3A/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Tree & Me</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 18 Mar 2012 07:20 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5144 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-amba" id="post-5144" readability="30"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/tree-me/" title="Permanent link to Tree & Me">Tree & Me</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> March 18, 2012 at 10:20 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-amba/" title="View all posts in By Amba" rel="category tag">By Amba</a>) </p> <p>This young <em>Magnolia grandiflora</em>, planted today on my friend Chris's land outside Chapel Hill, will incorporate some atoms of Jacques and will eventually grow to be 40 to 50 feet tall.</p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/atree22.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5151" title="a&tree2" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/atree22.png?w=495&h=371" alt="" width="495" height="371" /></a></p> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/Mr48QiLFc3A?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/j3E9YalxTsw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">The priest, the rabbi, and the minister</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 17 Mar 2012 11:48 AM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5117 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-rodjean" id="post-5117" readability="46"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-priest-the-rabbi-and-the-minister/" title="Permanent link to The priest, the rabbi, and the minister">The priest, the rabbi, and the minister</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> March 17, 2012 at 2:48 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-rodjean/" title="View all posts in By Rodjean" rel="category tag">By Rodjean</a>) </p> <p>So, officer O'Malley comes into the back room at the Italian restaurant, only to find the priest, the rabbi and the minister sitting on the floor with dice and cash in plain view. It is obvious that they have been illegally gambling, but the cop hasn't actually seen them doing it. So, he turns to the priest ans says, "Father, have you been gambling?" The priest says a quick Hail Mary, then says, "No." The cop turns to the minister and says, "Reverend, have you been gambling?. The minister says a short prayer asking Jesus for forgiveness, then he also denies gambling.</p> <p>Frustrated, he asks the rabbi if he has been gambling. The rabbi responds, "With whom?"</p> <p>I heard a number of such jokes when I was growing up. They were pretty mild, but they often played softly with stereotypes. The priest was generally earnest and a little naive. 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It is obvious that they have been illegally gambling, but the cop hasn't actually seen them doing it. So, he turns to the priest ans says, "Father, have you been gambling?" The priest says a quick Hail Mary, then says, "No." The cop turns to the minister and says, "Reverend, have you been gambling?. The minister says a short prayer asking Jesus for forgiveness, then he also denies gambling.</p> <p>Frustrated, he asks the rabbi if he has been gambling. The rabbi responds, "With whom?"</p> <p>I heard a number of such jokes when I was growing up. They were pretty mild, but they often played softly with stereotypes. The priest was generally earnest and a little naive. The rabbi was usually clever and a little more worldly.</p> <p>It is hard to imagine a little joke like this getting through the din of vulgarity in the modern world.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/j6auk4E4zwY?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/j9OtPzVNNW4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Crime Pays</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 14 Mar 2012 03:59 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5134 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-realpc" id="post-5134" readability="28"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/crime-pays/" title="Permanent link to Crime Pays">Crime Pays</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> March 14, 2012 at 6:59 pm (<a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-realpc/" title="View all posts in By Realpc" rel="category tag">By Realpc</a>) </p> <p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/guy-who-rented-all-94-rooms-of-aspen-hotel-for-party-scores-awesome-new-goldman-job-20120312" target="_blank">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/guy-who-rented-all-94-rooms-of-aspen-hotel-for-party-scores-awesome-new-goldman-job-20120312</a></p> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/j9OtPzVNNW4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-53356048488259652532012-03-19T12:13:00.001-07:002012-03-19T12:13:20.237-07:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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It is obvious that they have been illegally gambling, but the cop hasn't actually seen them doing it. So, he turns to the priest ans says, "Father, have you been gambling?" The priest says a quick Hail Mary, then says, "No." The cop turns to the minister and says, "Reverend, have you been gambling?. The minister says a short prayer asking Jesus for forgiveness, then he also denies gambling.</p> <p>Frustrated, he asks the rabbi if he has been gambling. The rabbi responds, "With whom?"</p> <p>I heard a number of such jokes when I was growing up. They were pretty mild, but they often played softly with stereotypes. The priest was generally earnest and a little naive. 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The Creations have joined forces and organized and they are infiltrating our universities and scientific publications. Scary!</p> <p>http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/id-making-an-end-run-around-science/#more-4253</p> <p>"… they want to change society and the nature of science itself. They want to inject supernaturalism into the process of science, so that it can be made to support their world-view and religious beliefs. They cannot do this honestly, so they do it deceptively. They are also well-funded and tireless."</p> <p>Oh my godless! The Creationists are coming and we must find a way to stop them!</p> <div class="wpadvert"> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/yQdGXbVbrUg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/1U85irVIGnI/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Harassment Theater</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 10 Mar 2012 10:39 AM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5119 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-5119" readability="63"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/harassment-theater/" title="Permanent link to Harassment Theater">Harassment Theater</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> March 10, 2012 at 2:39 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a>) </p> <p>Did you hear the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the minister? You better not tell it at my office – or a lot of offices these days.</p> <p>The partners in my firm were gathered together again for sexual harassment training. The earnest young lawyer talked about recent developments in the law, then she put on a film which, on about a sixth grade level, told us a pat on the back for a job well done constitutes sexual harassment. As management, We're supposed to be safe persons to whom to report sexual harassment – as well as inappropriate religious jokes or ethnic comments. We then trigger the investigation. The basic message is better safe than sorry – don't touch anyone you work with – or engage in conversation that touches on race, sex, gender, religion, physical handicaps, etc. Half the people in the room – essentially lawyers aged 35 – 70, were checking emails on their iphones as the earnest young lady spoke. We all knew the drill.</p> <p>Two hours later, my secretary attended the "staff" session of the same program . At age 64, she found the "training" mildly insulting, and mostly just stupid. She walked into my office afterward, mockingly saying she had to report questionable conduct – while on the elevator, a secretary had touched an attorney. Playing along, I reminded her that I had a duty to investigate to determine whether the contact was inappropriate. So I quietly asked, "Were they going down?" We laughed at the stupidity of the behavior code, and we got back to work.</p> <p>Several other long time secretaries commented on how lame the "training" was. Our office is not a hotbed of harassment, but most people ignore the code which sounds like it is out of Catholic school in the 50s. Most folks know the difference between office banter and harassment and know how to tell somebody who is taking things too far to knock it off , and most dislike sitting through some fatuous film telling them what they already know.</p> <p>Why do we go through (and pay for) this Kabuki theater? Because, if a harassment suit is filed, a good defense is that the firm was unaware of the harassment and had in place a harassment policy with regular sessions designed to tell us what behaviors are inappropriate and who we can complain to.</p> <p>I am old enough to remember when women put up with real workplace harassment. The situation was not good. But, the remedy - establishment of a statutory right to be free from upsetting behavior in the workplace, or any comments based on gender, gender preference, or gender expression, which is defined as a "hostile work environment," has created a cottage industry paid to teach us what we already know. 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It seems to me this is a vital notion and ought to be common knowledge. It helps a great deal in thinking clearly about economics and politics.</p> <p>* * * * * *</p> <h4><a href="http://gravatar.com/realpc920" rel="external nofollow">realpc</a> said,</h4> <p>March 2, 2012 at <a title="Permanent link to this comment" href="../2012/02/28/5107/#comment-11191">6:38 am</a></p> <ol id="commentlist"><li id="comment-11191"> <div id="div-comment-11191" readability="-48"> <p>The best way to make things fair is to allow competition. The problems we have right now are partly because Wall Street and the US government work together, instead of being in competition. So there is nothing to prevent them from being corrupt.</p> </div> </li> <li id="comment-11192" readability="-48"> <h4>mockturtle said,</h4> <p>March 2, 2012 at <a title="Permanent link to this comment" href="../2012/02/28/5107/#comment-11192">10:46 am</a></p> <div id="div-comment-11192" readability="-48"> <p><em>The problems we have right now are partly because Wall Street and the US government work together, instead of being in competition. </em></p> <p>Yep!</p> </div> </li> <li id="comment-11193" readability="-48"> <h4><a href="../" rel="external nofollow">amba (Annie Gottlieb)</a> said,</h4> <p>March 2, 2012 at <a title="Permanent link to this comment" href="../2012/02/28/5107/#comment-11193">11:02 am</a></p> <div id="div-comment-11193" readability="-36"> <p>Double yep!</p> <p>Although I don't think the government, by definition, can <em>compete</em>. In practice, that would turn into controlling/regulating. That's the only kind of adversarial relationship it seems government and private enterprise can have. And deregulation or regulation loopholes then become one kind of favor the government has to sell.</p> <p>This idea seems really important to me: <a href="http://antidismal.blogspot.com/2009/03/douglass-north-on-natural-state.html" rel="nofollow">Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass North on "the Natural State."</a> North says "limited-access" social orders, which we would see as cronyism (capitalist or otherwise) and the monopolizing of power by self-perpetuating elites, seem to be the natural way for large societies to organize themselves, and "open-access" social orders, which allow access by merit and are protected by competition, are a rare achievement. Once you grasp this idea, it becomes very clear how an open society is always tending to almost gravitationally revert back to the natural state. Once you see that inertial trend at work in our own society, you see what amazing tools the founding fathers gave us to fight it, but you also see how much vigilance and ingenuity must be employed in using those institutions to keep open access pried open as the heavy door keeps falling shut.</p> </div> </li> </ol><div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/fVTJto1bChE?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/b9b7zVqIluw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Capitalism: The Loyal Opposition</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 28 Feb 2012 08:27 AM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5107 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-amba" id="post-5107" readability="57"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/5107/" title="Permanent link to Capitalism: The Loyal Opposition">Capitalism: The Loyal Opposition</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 28, 2012 at 12:27 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-amba/" title="View all posts in By Amba" rel="category tag">By Amba</a>) </p> <p>Interesting <a href="http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/434/capitalism_and_its_discontents?page=1" target="_blank">interview with economist Richard Wolff in <em>The Sun</em> </a>magazine. His prescriptions are predictable, but his diagnosis is startling. Even if you do not favor direct government employment of the unemployed, or taxing the rich and corporations at 1960 rates, as Wolff seems to — ain't gonna happen, so forget about it — he makes some strong points that are hard to answer about the particular ways wealth has been transferred upward.</p> <p>He talks about how for the first time, after about 1970, there was no labor shortage (because of automation, offshoring, and women in the workplace), so employers no longer had to raise wages to retain workers, while workers had to work longer and harder—and yes, go deep into debt—to maintain or increase their standard of living. Result: productivity and profits increased, but the ones who were doing the producing didn't share in the proceeds.</p> <blockquote readability="7"><p>it's been the best thirty years that employers in this country have ever had. More product was being produced, but employers didn't have to pay workers more.</p> <p>[<em>The interviewer points out that we in the U.S. equate capitalism with freedom</em>]</p> <p>Yes, employers are free, in this system, to stop raising workers' wages. But their exercise of that freedom has deprived the mass of Americans of a rising standard of living to accompany their rising productivity. Employers have kept all the benefits of the productivity increase in the form of profits [which were attributed to the genius of executives]. So one sector of our free economy has deprived another sector of its due.</p></blockquote> <p>This too was interesting, on deficits:</p> <blockquote readability="8"><p>Then the government turns around and borrows money. It borrows from foreign governments, but also from banks, insurance companies, large corporations, and rich individuals who purchase Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and securities. In effect corporations and the rich can not only keep more tax dollars; they can then turn around and loan the money they kept to the government and earn interest on it. The interest that must be paid to them comes either from taxes levied upon the mass of Americans or from the savings the government achieves by cutting its payrolls and programs.</p></blockquote> <p>I'd love it if you would read and discuss this. I'd love it even more if you did not assume I'm endorsing most of what Wolff says. I don't favor his prescription, but I did find these two points of diagnosis startling. You know I am economically naïve, and these points may have been obvious to most of you. But go ahead, try to explain them away.</p> <p>You will say that entrepreneurs are rewarded with profit for risking capital and providing products, services, and work opportunities for others. I'm with you so far. 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Now I have something to share.</p> <p>Two weeks ago my father died. He was a professional violinist, an avid sports fan, a strong man and a strong personality. He put down his worn tuxedo at 90, after playing professionally for78 years. Congestive heart failure eroded him till he could not walk ten steps without stopping to catch his breath. He declined aggressive treatment, deciding instead on hospice care.</p> <p>He was chipper on the morning of his last day on Earth. The about Noon he took a turn for the worse. His passing would be brief, but not easy. He started groaning and gasping for air, complaining that he could not get comfortable as the nurse and I rolled him onto one side, then another. I held his hand and recited a couple of prayers with him. I looked into his eyes, my face a foot away from his, and told him that I loved him. I talked about the good old days and how he had performed for Presidents and played with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Sammy Davis Jr., and other stars. He listened and spoke occasionally, but he was still uncomfortable. He looked at me with anxiety in his eyes and grabbed my arm with a strength he had not shown in years.</p> <p>The nurses gave him a combination of Ativan, Morphine, and Haldol. His speech started to slur, but he restlessness and discomfort continued. He cried out for Jesus. At times he was unintelligible. At one point, after about four hours, he lifted his arms towards the ceiling, gazed upwards, and in a breathy voice, he whispered, "I'm dying, I'm dying," as if it had just occurred to him. The nurses gave him more Ativan. At five hours, a new pattern appeared. He started to doze, not breathing for about 30 or 40 seconds, then he suddenly awoke with a start and with a wild look in his eyes, he started gasping for breath. This lasted for about two minutes, then he stopped breathing and appeared to doze again for another 30 or 40 seconds, followed by more gasping. (I have since looked it up and learned that this has a name. It is "Cheyne-Stokes" breathing. The literature claims the dying look more uncomfortable that they are, but who knows?) I just held him and talked to him. At six hours he wasn't saying much, but he gestured and said he had pain in his throat. I looked at the nurse and said, "Isn't there anything you can do to make him comfortable?" She gave him more morphine. Finally, a few minutes later he fell asleep and began to snore. I stepped out of the room and asked for a drink of water. I returned two or three minutes later, and he had stopped breathing.</p> <p>Some of you may have been present through a "hard passing" death. I had never been with someone in the hour of death before. It was harrowing and disturbing. It left me spent and a bit numb. The nurse told me it was quite common. If you Google "death – agitation" you will see that this is how many people die. I had no idea. The movies portray the dying as very collected, saying things like asking Knute Rockne to tell the team to "win one for the Gipper" some day, or trying to give a cop a description of a criminal. That may be true for a few, but not for most of us. We are never quite in harmony with this world. Rudely shoved out, we enter this world, and many of us will be rudely shoved into eternity.</p> <p>PS There was one funny moment. After switching my dad every few minutes onto one side or the other, at one point he was on his back, with his head elevated. He mumbled that he wanted to be moved again. I said, "Dad, which way do you want to go?" He just pointed up.</p> <p>Months have passed since I posted here. Now I have something to share.</p> <p>Two weeks ago my father died. He was a professional violinist, an avid sports fan, a strong man and a strong personality. He put down his worn tuxedo at 90, after playing professionally for78 years. Congestive heart failure eroded him till he could not walk ten steps without stopping to catch his breath. He declined aggressive treatment, deciding instead on hospice care.</p> <p>He was chipper on the morning of his last day on Earth. The about Noon he took a turn for the worse. His passing would be brief, but not easy. He started groaning and gasping for air, complaining that he could not get comfortable as the nurse and I rolled him onto one side, then another. I held his hand and recited a couple of prayers with him. I looked into his eyes, my face a foot away from his, and told him that I loved him. I talked about the good old days and how he had performed for Presidents and played with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Sammy Davis Jr., and other stars. He listened and spoke occasionally, but he was still uncomfortable. He looked at me with anxiety in his eyes and grabbed my arm with a strength he had not shown in years.</p> <p>The nurses gave him a combination of Ativan, Morphine, and Haldol. His speech started to slur, but he restlessness and discomfort continued. He cried out for Jesus. At times he was unintelligible. At one point, after about four hours, he lifted his arms towards the ceiling, gazed upwards, and in a breathy voice, he whispered, "I'm dying, I'm dying," as if it had just occurred to him. The nurses gave him more Ativan. At five hours, a new pattern appeared. He started to doze, not breathing for about 30 or 40 seconds, then he suddenly awoke with a start and with a wild look in his eyes, he started gasping for breath. This lasted for about two minutes, then he stopped breathing and appeared to doze again for another 30 or 40 seconds, followed by more gasping. (I have since looked it up and learned that this has a name. It is "Cheyne-Stokes" breathing. The literature claims the dying look more uncomfortable that they are, but who knows?) I just held him and talked to him. At six hours he wasn't saying much, but he gestured and said he had pain in his throat. I looked at the nurse and said, "Isn't there anything you can do to make him comfortable?" She gave him more morphine. Finally, a few minutes later he fell asleep and began to snore. I stepped out of the room and asked for a drink of water. I returned two or three minutes later, and he had stopped breathing.</p> <p>Some of you may have been present through a "hard passing" death. I had never been with someone in the hour of death before. It was harrowing and disturbing. It left me spent and a bit numb. The nurse told me it was quite common. If you Google "death – agitation" you will see that this is how many people die. I had no idea. The movies portray the dying as very collected, saying things like asking Knute Rockne to tell the team to "win one for the Gipper" some day, or trying to give a cop a description of a criminal. That may be true for a few, but not for most of us. We are never quite in harmony with this world. Rudely shoved out, we enter this world, and many of us will be rudely shoved into eternity.</p> <p>PS There was one funny moment. After switching my dad every few minutes onto one side or the other, at one point he was on his back, with his head elevated. He mumbled that he wanted to be moved again. I said, "Dad, which way do you want to go?" He just pointed up.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/k3yI41veg6Y?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-58772006802297001132012-02-16T12:10:00.001-08:002012-02-16T12:10:08.920-08:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:1em; } table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a { color:#000099; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; } img {border:none;} </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://amba12.wordpress.com" title="(http://amba12.wordpress.com)">amazing Ambiance</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wizardrss/xofm"> <img style="padding-top:6px" alt="" border="0" src="http://gmodules.com/ig/images/plus_google.gif" /> </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <ul style="clear:both;padding:0 0 0 1.2em;width:100%" id="summarylist"> <li> <a href="#1">A bit of color…</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2">Love in the Middle Ages</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3">Something for a Cold Night in February</a> </li> </ul> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/ajuv8j5it0U/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">A bit of color…</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 15 Feb 2012 10:13 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5092 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-ron" id="post-5092" readability="42"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/a-bit-of-color/" title="Permanent link to A bit of color…">A bit of color…</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 16, 2012 at 2:13 am (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-ron/" title="View all posts in By Ron" rel="category tag">By Ron</a>) </p> <p>Normally, I do my Fred and Ginger posts over at my blog, <a href="http://fluffystuffin.blogspot.com/"><em>Fluffy Stuffin</em></a>, but I thought I'd share this one with the Ambiance readership.</p> <span class="embed-youtube"></span> <p>Color Fred and Ginger from 1939! (there is no sound) This is from the film <em>The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle</em>, the last film they made for RKO in the 1930′s. They did a color film 10 years later for MGM, <em>The Barkleys of Broadway</em>, but alas, no color for them in the RKO days except for little snippets like this. They were going to have a color sequence in 1938′s <em>Carefree</em> for the song "I used to be color blind", but RKO cheapened out when Fred's solo film in 1937, <em>A Damsel in Distress</em>, failed badly. This sequence is quite odd; it's a fantasy dream sequence, mostly shot in slo-mo…and having it in color would have been cool! Hollywood experimented with color in small sections of black and white films, (<em>The Women</em> comes to mind) but they pulled out all the stops for the big blockbusters like <em>Wizard of Oz</em> and <em>Gone With The Wind</em>. I believe this bit we see here was shot with Ginger's own camera, which she would take to sets:</p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/gingershandheld.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5093" title="GingersHandheld" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/gingershandheld.jpg?w=240&h=300" alt="" width="240" height="300" /></a></p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/ajuv8j5it0U?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/dGTa9Ih092M/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Love in the Middle Ages</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 14 Feb 2012 11:35 AM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5083 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-amba" id="post-5083" readability="40"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/5083/" title="Permanent link to Love in the Middle Ages">Love in the Middle Ages</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 14, 2012 at 3:35 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-amba/" title="View all posts in By Amba" rel="category tag">By Amba</a>) </p> <p>The god of love has one year to prove he's still relevant. The lovers he's been assigned as his final exam–two yearning, prickly, battle-scarred, independent middle-aged people, Evan and Eve–aren't exactly making it easy.</p> <p>Set in Vermont maple syrup country, NYC, and SF, <em>A Godsend</em>, my buddy Dalma Heyn's "love story for grownups"—wry, hopeful, sexy—is available today in all e-book formats for only 99 cents — the price of a song. Literally*. What have you got to lose? And if you know somebody else who might like it, please pass it on.</p> <div readability="3"><a title="" href="http://dalmaheyn.com/books/a-godsend-a-love-story-for-grownups/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAo0S_k_u5yscVe&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdalmaheyn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F07%2FGodsend-Cover-199x300.jpg" alt="" /></a> <div readability="2"> <p><em>A love story for all of us who are no longer kids; who are hopeful even in changing times, and who know that love can happen in an instant . . . at any age.</em></p> </div> <p>*Don't you love it? When someone says, "You can have it for a song," now we can put a number to that!</p> </div> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/dGTa9Ih092M?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/Fkvo_VJouA4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Something for a Cold Night in February</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 11 Feb 2012 03:17 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5061 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-tim" id="post-5061" readability="123"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/something-for-a-cold-night-in-february/" title="Permanent link to Something for a Cold Night in February">Something for a Cold Night in February</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 11, 2012 at 7:17 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-tim/" title="View all posts in By Tim" rel="category tag">By Tim</a>) </p> <p>Reduced, as we are, to the enforced aphorisms of Twitter, or a few laconic lines in Facebook, the scolded <em>diktat</em> to be pithy in blog posts seems like a piece of Victorian social morality, (<em>pace</em> Strunk & White and Professor Althouse) made quaint by technology and new circumstances. So, I don't think it impolite to ask you to read something that might tax a Twitterer's dried-up brain.</p> <p>Not having the Latin of Martial to write epigrams, it might do this blog, and our brains, a little good to see some lengthy, honest English prose, albeit from a time when the educated knew Martial, and their English wasn't as honest as it might have been. They also generally understood the allusions Laurence Sterne put into <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, his comic masterpiece that came out in nine volumes between 1761 and 1767. It was full of everything from Rabelais and Cervantes to the Bible and obscure bits of Classical learning, not to mention Sterne's bawdy humor and ridicule of solemnity. Schopenhauer counted <em>Tristram Shandy</em> as one of the four most important novels written, along with Goethe's <em>Wilhelm Meister,</em> Rousseau's <em>Nouvelle Héloïse,</em> and Cervantes' <em>Don Quixote.</em></p> <p>So, here is the first chapter of Book VII of <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, published in 1765, and which I hope can loosen our virtual tongues to say something about in 2012. Sterne, so full of good spirits, and ready to fly halfway around the world to avoid him, did have the honor of Death knocking at his door three years after these lines were written, having been summoned by the "vile cough" he writes of, or as we know it in our modern, clinical way, tuberculosis:</p> <p>* * * * * * * *</p> <p>No——I think, I said, I would write two volumes every year, provided the vile cough which then tormented me, and which to this hour I dread worse than the devil, would but give me leave——and in another place—(but where, I can't recollect now) speaking of my book as a machine, and laying my pen and ruler down cross-wise upon the table, in order to gain the greater credit to it—I swore it should be kept a going at that rate these forty years if it pleased but the fountain of life to bless me so long with health and good spirits.</p> <p>Now as for my spirits, little have I to lay to their charge—nay so very little (unless the mounting me upon a long stick, and playing the fool with me nineteen hours out of the twenty-four, be accusations) that on the contrary, I have much—much to thank 'em for: cheerily have ye made me tread the path of life with all the burdens of it (except its cares) upon my back; in no one moment of my existence, that I remember, have ye once deserted me, or tinged the objects which came in my way, either with sable, or with a sickly green; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and when DEATH himself knocked at my door—ye bade him come again; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it, that he doubted of his commission——</p> <p>"There must certainly be some mistake in this matter," quoth he.</p> <p>Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story——and I was that moment telling Eugenius a most tawdry one in my way, of a nun who fancied herself a shell-fish, and of a monk damned for eating a mussel, and was shewing him the grounds and justice of the procedure——</p> <p>"—Did ever so grave a personage get into so vile a scrape?" quoth Death. Thou hast had a narrow escape, Tristram, said Eugenius, taking hold of my hand as I finished my story——</p> <p>But there is no <em>living</em>, Eugenius, replied I, at this rate; for as this <em>son of a whore</em> has found out my lodgings——</p> <p>—You call him rightly, said Eugenius,—for by sin, we are told, he entered the world——I care not which way he entered, quoth I, provided he be not in such a hurry to take me out with him—for I have forty volumes to write, and forty thousand things to say and do, which no body in the world will say and do for me, except thyself; and as thou seest he has got me by the throat (for Eugenius could scarce hear me speak across the table) and that I am no match for him in the open field, had I not better, whilst these few scattered spirits remain, and these two spider legs of mine (holding one of them up to him) are able to support me—had I not better, Eugenius, fly for my life? 'Tis my advice, my dear Tristram, said Eugenius——Then by heaven! I will lead him a dance he little thinks of—for I will gallop, quoth I, without looking once behind me, to the banks of the Garonne; and if I hear him clattering at my heels——I'll scamper away to Mount Vesuvius——from thence to Joppa, and from Joppa to the world's end, where, if he follows me, I pray God he may break his neck——</p> <p>—He runs more risk <em>there</em>, said Eugenius, than thou.</p> <p>Eugenius's wit and affection brought blood into the cheek from whence it had been some months banished—'twas a vile moment to bid adieu in; he led me to my chaise——<em>Allons!</em> said I; the postboy gave a crack with his whip——off I went like a cannon, and in half a dozen bounds got into Dover.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/Fkvo_VJouA4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-81665130707424541142012-02-15T11:11:00.001-08:002012-02-15T11:11:41.612-08:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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The lovers he's been assigned as his final exam–two yearning, prickly, battle-scarred, independent middle-aged people, Evan and Eve–aren't exactly making it easy.</p> <p>Set in Vermont maple syrup country, NYC, and SF, <em>A Godsend</em>, my buddy Dalma Heyn's "love story for grownups"—wry, hopeful, sexy—is available today in all e-book formats for only 99 cents — the price of a song. Literally*. What have you got to lose? And if you know somebody else who might like it, please pass it on.</p> <div readability="3"><a title="" href="http://dalmaheyn.com/books/a-godsend-a-love-story-for-grownups/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAo0S_k_u5yscVe&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdalmaheyn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F07%2FGodsend-Cover-199x300.jpg" alt="" /></a> <div readability="2"> <p><em>A love story for all of us who are no longer kids; who are hopeful even in changing times, and who know that love can happen in an instant . . . at any age.</em></p> </div> <p>*Don't you love it? When someone says, "You can have it for a song," now we can put a number to that!</p> </div> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/xVXzheJLl_Q?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/NOhXTs5q1m8/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Something for a Cold Night in February</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 11 Feb 2012 03:17 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5061 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-tim" id="post-5061" readability="123"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/something-for-a-cold-night-in-february/" title="Permanent link to Something for a Cold Night in February">Something for a Cold Night in February</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 11, 2012 at 7:17 pm (<a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-tim/" title="View all posts in By Tim" rel="category tag">By Tim</a>) </p> <p>Reduced, as we are, to the enforced aphorisms of Twitter, or a few laconic lines in Facebook, the scolded <em>diktat</em> to be pithy in blog posts seems like a piece of Victorian social morality, (<em>pace</em> Strunk & White and Professor Althouse) made quaint by technology and new circumstances. So, I don't think it impolite to ask you to read something that might tax a Twitterer's dried-up brain.</p> <p>Not having the Latin of Martial to write epigrams, it might do this blog, and our brains, a little good to see some lengthy, honest English prose, albeit from a time when the educated knew Martial, and their English wasn't as honest as it might have been. They also generally understood the allusions Laurence Sterne put into <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, his comic masterpiece that came out in nine volumes between 1761 and 1767. It was full of everything from Rabelais and Cervantes to the Bible and obscure bits of Classical learning, not to mention Sterne's bawdy humor and ridicule of solemnity. Schopenhauer counted <em>Tristram Shandy</em> as one of the four most important novels written, along with Goethe's <em>Wilhelm Meister,</em> Rousseau's <em>Nouvelle Héloïse,</em> and Cervantes' <em>Don Quixote.</em></p> <p>So, here is the first chapter of Book VII of <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, published in 1765, and which I hope can loosen our virtual tongues to say something about in 2012. Sterne, so full of good spirits, and ready to fly halfway around the world to avoid him, did have the honor of Death knocking at his door three years after these lines were written, having been summoned by the "vile cough" he writes of, or as we know it in our modern, clinical way, tuberculosis:</p> <p>* * * * * * * *</p> <p>No——I think, I said, I would write two volumes every year, provided the vile cough which then tormented me, and which to this hour I dread worse than the devil, would but give me leave——and in another place—(but where, I can't recollect now) speaking of my book as a machine, and laying my pen and ruler down cross-wise upon the table, in order to gain the greater credit to it—I swore it should be kept a going at that rate these forty years if it pleased but the fountain of life to bless me so long with health and good spirits.</p> <p>Now as for my spirits, little have I to lay to their charge—nay so very little (unless the mounting me upon a long stick, and playing the fool with me nineteen hours out of the twenty-four, be accusations) that on the contrary, I have much—much to thank 'em for: cheerily have ye made me tread the path of life with all the burdens of it (except its cares) upon my back; in no one moment of my existence, that I remember, have ye once deserted me, or tinged the objects which came in my way, either with sable, or with a sickly green; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and when DEATH himself knocked at my door—ye bade him come again; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it, that he doubted of his commission——</p> <p>"There must certainly be some mistake in this matter," quoth he.</p> <p>Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story——and I was that moment telling Eugenius a most tawdry one in my way, of a nun who fancied herself a shell-fish, and of a monk damned for eating a mussel, and was shewing him the grounds and justice of the procedure——</p> <p>"—Did ever so grave a personage get into so vile a scrape?" quoth Death. Thou hast had a narrow escape, Tristram, said Eugenius, taking hold of my hand as I finished my story——</p> <p>But there is no <em>living</em>, Eugenius, replied I, at this rate; for as this <em>son of a whore</em> has found out my lodgings——</p> <p>—You call him rightly, said Eugenius,—for by sin, we are told, he entered the world——I care not which way he entered, quoth I, provided he be not in such a hurry to take me out with him—for I have forty volumes to write, and forty thousand things to say and do, which no body in the world will say and do for me, except thyself; and as thou seest he has got me by the throat (for Eugenius could scarce hear me speak across the table) and that I am no match for him in the open field, had I not better, whilst these few scattered spirits remain, and these two spider legs of mine (holding one of them up to him) are able to support me—had I not better, Eugenius, fly for my life? 'Tis my advice, my dear Tristram, said Eugenius——Then by heaven! I will lead him a dance he little thinks of—for I will gallop, quoth I, without looking once behind me, to the banks of the Garonne; and if I hear him clattering at my heels——I'll scamper away to Mount Vesuvius——from thence to Joppa, and from Joppa to the world's end, where, if he follows me, I pray God he may break his neck——</p> <p>—He runs more risk <em>there</em>, said Eugenius, than thou.</p> <p>Eugenius's wit and affection brought blood into the cheek from whence it had been some months banished—'twas a vile moment to bid adieu in; he led me to my chaise——<em>Allons!</em> said I; the postboy gave a crack with his whip——off I went like a cannon, and in half a dozen bounds got into Dover.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/NOhXTs5q1m8?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/re01aYnCImE/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Why Was That Last Post Password-Protected?</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 02 Feb 2012 06:29 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5057 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-amba" id="post-5057" readability="32"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/why-was-that-last-post-password-protected/" title="Permanent link to Why Was That Last Post Password-Protected?">Why Was That Last Post Password-Protected?</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 2, 2012 at 10:29 pm (<a href="https://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-amba/" title="View all posts in By Amba" rel="category tag">By Amba</a>) </p> <p>It's a one-time thing. I wanted to share a subscribers-only article with the Feldenkrais mailing list; it was too long to copy into an e-mail. So I did it this way. It's an interesting enough interview in its own right, but it was highly pertinent to a discussion going on on that mailing list; I couldn't have directed you to the link, and I couldn't have posted the whole thing publicly without possibly getting into trouble. (YouTube silenced my video of J's life, because there were clips from copyrighted songs on the soundtrack.) 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So, I don't think it impolite to ask you to read something that might tax a Twitterer's dried-up brain.</p> <p>Not having the Latin of Martial to write epigrams, it might do this blog, and our brains, a little good to see some lengthy, honest English prose, albeit from a time when the educated knew Martial, and their English wasn't as honest as it might have been. They also generally understood the allusions Laurence Sterne put into <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, his comic masterpiece that came out in nine volumes between 1761 and 1767. It was full of everything from Rabelais and Cervantes to the Bible and obscure bits of Classical learning, not to mention Sterne's bawdy humor and ridicule of solemnity. Schopenhauer counted <em>Tristram Shandy</em> as one of the four most important novels written, along with Goethe's <em>Wilhelm Meister,</em> Rousseau's <em>Nouvelle Héloïse,</em> and Cervantes' <em>Don Quixote.</em></p> <p>So, here is the first chapter of Book VII of <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, published in 1765, and which I hope can loosen our virtual tongues to say something about in 2012. Sterne, so full of good spirits, and ready to fly halfway around the world to avoid him, did have the honor of Death knocking at his door three years after these lines were written, having been summoned by the "vile cough" he writes of, or as we know it in our modern, clinical way, tuberculosis:</p> <p>* * * * * * * *</p> <p>No——I think, I said, I would write two volumes every year, provided the vile cough which then tormented me, and which to this hour I dread worse than the devil, would but give me leave——and in another place—(but where, I can't recollect now) speaking of my book as a machine, and laying my pen and ruler down cross-wise upon the table, in order to gain the greater credit to it—I swore it should be kept a going at that rate these forty years if it pleased but the fountain of life to bless me so long with health and good spirits.</p> <p>Now as for my spirits, little have I to lay to their charge—nay so very little (unless the mounting me upon a long stick, and playing the fool with me nineteen hours out of the twenty-four, be accusations) that on the contrary, I have much—much to thank 'em for: cheerily have ye made me tread the path of life with all the burdens of it (except its cares) upon my back; in no one moment of my existence, that I remember, have ye once deserted me, or tinged the objects which came in my way, either with sable, or with a sickly green; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and when DEATH himself knocked at my door—ye bade him come again; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it, that he doubted of his commission——</p> <p>"There must certainly be some mistake in this matter," quoth he.</p> <p>Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story——and I was that moment telling Eugenius a most tawdry one in my way, of a nun who fancied herself a shell-fish, and of a monk damned for eating a mussel, and was shewing him the grounds and justice of the procedure——</p> <p>"—Did ever so grave a personage get into so vile a scrape?" quoth Death. Thou hast had a narrow escape, Tristram, said Eugenius, taking hold of my hand as I finished my story——</p> <p>But there is no <em>living</em>, Eugenius, replied I, at this rate; for as this <em>son of a whore</em> has found out my lodgings——</p> <p>—You call him rightly, said Eugenius,—for by sin, we are told, he entered the world——I care not which way he entered, quoth I, provided he be not in such a hurry to take me out with him—for I have forty volumes to write, and forty thousand things to say and do, which no body in the world will say and do for me, except thyself; and as thou seest he has got me by the throat (for Eugenius could scarce hear me speak across the table) and that I am no match for him in the open field, had I not better, whilst these few scattered spirits remain, and these two spider legs of mine (holding one of them up to him) are able to support me—had I not better, Eugenius, fly for my life? 'Tis my advice, my dear Tristram, said Eugenius——Then by heaven! I will lead him a dance he little thinks of—for I will gallop, quoth I, without looking once behind me, to the banks of the Garonne; and if I hear him clattering at my heels——I'll scamper away to Mount Vesuvius——from thence to Joppa, and from Joppa to the world's end, where, if he follows me, I pray God he may break his neck——</p> <p>—He runs more risk <em>there</em>, said Eugenius, than thou.</p> <p>Eugenius's wit and affection brought blood into the cheek from whence it had been some months banished—'twas a vile moment to bid adieu in; he led me to my chaise——<em>Allons!</em> said I; the postboy gave a crack with his whip——off I went like a cannon, and in half a dozen bounds got into Dover.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-affiliate/3-ways-a-successful-amazon-affiliate-avoids-failure/">Amazon Affiliate</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/Fkvo_VJouA4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-49215389788480416502012-02-03T11:47:00.001-08:002012-02-03T11:47:44.790-08:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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I wanted to share a subscribers-only article with the Feldenkrais mailing list; it was too long to copy into an e-mail. So I did it this way. It's an interesting enough interview in its own right, but it was highly pertinent to a discussion going on on that mailing list; I couldn't have directed you to the link, and I couldn't have posted the whole thing publicly without possibly getting into trouble. (YouTube silenced my video of J's life, because there were clips from copyrighted songs on the soundtrack.) Anybody who wants the password, just ask.</p> <div class="wpadvert"> <span>Advertisement</span> </div> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Affiliate Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.hud1generator.com">Hud Software</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/iqGcLMu9i8w?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/oqsAS3XPHmw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Protected: Jesse Prinz on the Plasticity of Human Nature</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 02 Feb 2012 11:53 AM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5050 post type-post status-publish format-standard post-password-required hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-5050" readability="27"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/jesse-prinz-on-the-plasticity-of-human-nature/" title="Permanent link to Protected: Jesse Prinz on the Plasticity of Human Nature">Protected: Jesse Prinz on the Plasticity of Human Nature</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> February 2, 2012 at 3:53 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a>) </p> </div></div><br><br><center><a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/amazon-store/amazon-affiliate-script/">Amazon Affiliate Script</a> | <a href="http://www.androidmodz.com/android-games/">Android Games</a> | <a href="http://www.hud1generator.com">Hud Software</a></center><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~4/oqsAS3XPHmw?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com">Ambiance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=d1mc4Fm6z0GdNQS6MSfiDaE6O7I">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-51478847715042329052012-01-27T11:28:00.001-08:002012-01-27T11:28:43.314-08:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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I've been looking through my blog archives tonight, first looking for a particular old post, and then just looking at what I had done, and some of the conversations that had taken place. I stumbled upon this in a comment from a reader, discussing a favored type of comfort music:</p> <blockquote readability="2"><p>Deep saxophone jazz, the kind that sounds like having a cigarette in bed on a hot night after sex and feeling your pulse beat under the drumskin of your belly.</p></blockquote> <p>Makes ya want to take up smoking, doesn't it? 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As I've gotten older the worst part of the place is the steep climb of stairs, done as quickly as possible to get ahead of the oncoming hordes. As is my wont, I always try to sit up front, as close to the band as I can get. That alone is its own special experience.<br /> I was completely unfamiliar with Irish music (except the treacly pseudo-Bing Crosby pop) when a friend took me to see a highly thought of band….and they were awful! But Greg promised me the next band would not disappoint, and 25 years later, they still do not: <a href="http://www.altan.ie/index.html">Altan</a>.</p> <p>It's hard to describe the joy you get from what to you is "new" music; music that doesn't fit the cliches you "know", music that shows you so many great things about the culture and the performers…I was buzzed about it for weeks after hearing them the first time, which in turn, has led me to see quite a bit of Irish and Scottish music, more than I ever thought I would growing up! Not everything reverts back to childhood joys!<br /> There's also something else — seeing a band over a long period of time. You want both the familar and the new, to see where they want to go musically! It doesn't always work out, as I recall one tour where Altan was pressured to be a bit more "New Agey" than I think they were naturally inclined to be, but that's the biz for you! If you love them, you stick with them in the hope of this being just a phase.<br /> The moment I'll always remember is when, Frankie Kennedy, one of the original founders of the band, the husband of the lead singer/fiddle player <a href="http://www.altan.ie/mairead.html">Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh</a> passed away from cancer at a quite young age. I wasn't sure if they would tour, but they did with Mairead in black, without the band mentioning his passing during the show. This lent a somber note to those of us who followed the band, but it was the first encore that nearly did me in. She came out to sing a song that she had done as a duet with Frankie playing the flute — alone. I couldn't look, and covered my eyes so I wouldn't get upset. Later, she upbraided me for that telling me that if I had started crying, she'd start crying, and she was on stage! Crying — and drinking — was for backstage.</p> <p>A video taste of her singing for you…<br /><span class="embed-youtube"></span><br /> I can't wait to see them again, if only just to get in some solid footstomping to some of the more lively jigs and reels, like this one</p> <span class="embed-youtube"></span> <p>If Altan comes your way….I couldn't recommend a band more highly. 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Absolutely G*d-damned right. Unless you're goin' all the way.</p> <p>This was a lesson NOT learned by <a href="//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9016853/Italy-cruise-ship-disaster-maritime-authorities-point-finger-at-ships-captain.html">Francesco Schettino, Captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.</a><br /></p><blockquote>Authorities were holding Schettino for suspected manslaughter and a prosecutor confirmed Sunday they were also investigating allegations the captain abandoned the stricken liner before all the passengers had escaped. According to the Italian navigation code, a captain who abandons a ship in danger can face up to 12 years in prison.</blockquote> <p>The accounts so far don't look good for the Captain's future. He should have stayed in the boat – or hightailed it to Brazil.</p> <p>Better still, never get IN to the boat.</p> <p>For blogger/opinion writer <a href="//isteve.blogspot.com/2012/01/cruise-liner-captains-dont-go-down-with.html">Steve Sailer this brought to mind a similar incident</a>. In 1991 the cruise ship Oceanos sunk off the coast of South Africa. What happened was covered by <a href="//www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115773,00.html">People Magazine</a>:<br /></p><blockquote readability="12">On Saturday evening, Aug. 3, as a 50-mph gale buffeted their ship, passengers aboard the Greek cruise liner Oceanos gamely made their way to the main lounge for the evening's entertainment. No sooner had they settled in than the lights went out. The 492-foot ship, suddenly without power, tossed in high seas off South Africa's aptly named Wild Coast. For 361 weekend tourists, one of the most harrowing nights of their lives had just begun. The Oceanos was sinking. <p>Disgracefully, many of the 184 crew members clambered aboard the lifeboats ahead of some of the passengers and paddled to the safety of tankers and trawlers that had drawn nearby. At daybreak on Sunday, South African Air Force helicopters joined the rescue operation. But to the astonishment and anger of the 217 passengers still aboard, Capt. Yannis Avranias grabbed the second chopper off the ship. With no one clearly in charge, an unlikely hero emerged among the remaining crew: Robin Boltman, 31, the ship's magician.</p> <p>Giving the performance of his career, Boltman entertained and calmed passengers throughout the pitch-black night. In the morning he ascended to the bridge and maintained radio contact with rescuers. Finally, at 11:30 A.M., after all other passengers and crew had been removed to safety, Boltman was lifted from the ship by a helicopter. At 1:45 P.M. the luxury liner nosed into the Indian Ocean and disappeared under the waves.</p></blockquote> <p>I had seen Sailer's excerpt earlier in the day and left it up. I wanted to read it to my wife when she got home, and did so. This caused her to say, "I think I heard of this guy recently, before this wreck in Italy." So I hit Yahoo up for some search engine action, and found a story up near the top with an interesting headline:<br /></p><blockquote>DID OUR SINKING MAGICIAN GO DOWN WITH THE CONCORDIA?</blockquote> <p>It's an <a href="//www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/did-our-sinking-magician-go-down-with-the-concordia-1.1214318">article from the Daily News</a> of South Africa, written by Barbara Cole, and starts off with<br /></p><blockquote>[M]any are asking whether Midlands magician Robin Boltman was on the doomed cruise liner Costa Concordia. Boltman has a knack of being aboard cruise ships that go to watery graves.</blockquote> <p>Um, <i>what?</i> He's been on more than one? Yes, he has, although he wasn't on this Costa Concordia. Besides being on the Oceanos on her final voyage, Boltman was also on the final voyage of the Achille Lauro back in 1994. In that incident the ship caught fire off the coast of Somalia and eventually sank. Here's a tidbit from the Daily News story:<br /></p><blockquote readability="3">When fire broke out on the Achille Lauro, the captain Guiseppi Orssi called Boltman to the bridge and asked for his advice, telling him he did not want to make the same mistakes as the Oceanos captain. <p>"I told him he first had to sound the alarms," he said.</p> <p>"It is important to stay calm and collected. Passengers should also go to their cabins and get their life jacket and any medication."</p></blockquote> <p>So score one for Captain Orssi for consulting an expert!</p> <p>For those of you who think the Achille Lauro sounds familiar, that would be because of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking">high seas hijacking back in 1985</a>. So add that to the list of reasons to NOT get on a cruise ship.</p> <p>So here's a partial list of reasons to not get on cruise ships: sea sickness, <a href="//www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/GIlist.htm">sickness (there's a freakin' CDC page for this!)</a>, terrorists, pirates, rocks, icebergs, storms, U-boats, <a href="//www.smh.com.au/news/World/Freak-wave-pummels-cruise-ship/2005/04/18/1113676675687.html">rogue</a> <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouge_Wave#Twentieth_century">waves</a> (two links), drunk captains, dare devil captains, incompetent captains, incompetent crew, too few life boats, <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GHL8VhMjo&feature=related">Bond villains</a>. 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It boasts a great<br />Web browser, and its curated Android app store includes most of the big must-have apps<br />(such as Netflix, Pandora, and Hulu). The Fire has an ultra-affordable price tag, and the screen<br />quality is exceptional for the price." - CNET<br />"<br /><br />The Fire gives me the features I want at a price point that's less than half of the iPad 2.<br />I can check my email, browse the Internet, maybe play a few games, most importantly,<br />I can read magazines in color on a Kindle." - Gizmodo<br />"<br /><br />The Fire is a marvelous device." - Chicago Sun Times<br />"<br /><br />Amazon’s Kindle Fire is likely to be the first successful tablet not sold by Apple, and there<br />are several good reasons for it: the low price of $199, the convenient, portable size of 7 inches,<br />and a rich catalog of books, movies and music offered through Amazon’s Web-based services." - Ars Technica<br />"<br /><br />There's a new mayor in Droidville. 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Meet the Kindle Fire." - Seeking Alpha<br /><br />Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon's revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser<br /><br /> * 19 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books<br /> * Thousands of popular apps and games, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, and more<br /> * Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk<br /><br />Show More<br /><br /> * Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content<br /> * Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle - same as an iPad<br /> * Fast, powerful dual-core processor<br /> * Favorite children's books, graphic novels, and magazines in rich color<br /><br />Stunning Color Touchscreen<br /><br />Movies, magazines and children's books come alive on a 7" vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high resolution. Kindle Fire uses IPS (in-plane switching) technology - similar technology to that used on the iPad - for an extra-wide viewing angle, perfect for sharing your screen with others.<br /><br />Magazines in Rich Color<br /><br />Enjoy your favorite magazines with glossy, full-color layouts, photographs and illustrations. Choose from hundreds of titles, such as Bon Appetit, Elle, and Oprah. Special editions of titles like Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ come with built-in video, audio and other interactive features.<br /><br />Beautifully Simple and Easy to Use<br /><br />Designed from the ground up, Kindle Fire's simple, intuitive interface puts the content you love at your fingertips - spin effortlessly through your recent titles and websites straight from the home screen. Whether you are in the mood to watch, read, listen, play or browse, you can get to all your favorite content with a single touch. It's that simple.<br /><br />100,000 Movies and TV Shows<br /><br />Over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to stream or download, purchase or rent - all just one tap away. Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows.<br /><br />Fast Dual-Core Processor<br /><br />Kindle Fire features a state-of-the-art dual-core processor for fast, powerful performance. Stream music while browsing the web or read books while downloading videos.<br /><br />Your Favorite Apps and Games<br /><br />Thousands of the most popular apps, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, ESPN ScoreCenter, Comics by comiXology and more, plus you'll get a great paid app for free every day. Enjoy the best games, including Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies and more, from top developers like Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, Rovio and more. All apps are Amazon-tested on Kindle Fire for the best experience possible.<br /><br />Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk<br /><br />Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-accelerated browser that uses a "split browser" architecture to leverage the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Supports Adobe® Flash® Player. Learn why it's so fast.<br /><br />Millions of Books<br /><br />Read bestsellers, children's books, comic books, and cookbooks in vibrant color. The Kindle Store offers over 1 million books, including 800,000 titles at $9.99 or less. In addition, over 2 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available such as Pride and Prejudice.<br /><br />Free Cloud Storage<br /><br />Forget about memory - Kindle Fire gives you free storage for all your Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud. Your books, movies, music and apps are available instantly to stream or download for free, at a touch of your finger.<br /><br />Your Favorite Children's Books<br /><br />Kindle Fire is great for parents and kids. Stir your child's imagination with over 1000 beautifully-illustrated children's books, including favorites like Brown Bear, Curious George, and Circus Ship.<br /><br />Easy to hold in one hand<br /><br />Designed to travel with you wherever you go. Small enough to fit in your purse and light enough to hold in just one hand, Kindle Fire is perfect for browsing, playing, reading and shopping on-the-go.<br /><br />18 Million Songs<br /><br />Stream your music library from Amazon Cloud Drive or download to your device and listen offline. Looking for new music? 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Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android<br /><br /><a href="http://sempoyong.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/kindle-fire-amazon-silk/">Kindle Fire</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=clicshop03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0051VVOB2"><img src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAFzBZhMjyWqyQw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productreviewdigest.com%2Fimages%2Fspecialprice.png" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=clicshop03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0051VVOB2"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh74MTBNukaqNZUBxXgo4lOtyLJwn2IWozqxly3KpHecVRaTsnjRsFeVH1MEXVnhs_bsigZ2j0QihFRLBW6Uk9al_B9abkCd9tw9BqKbHgVbL7Dez68RpZb4NeVPuIU9iLxij4Kv5TU0d5R/s1600/bd.gif" /></a>yanto mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279382049426611824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614294283943458704.post-16751203552458492672011-12-26T11:08:00.001-08:002011-12-26T11:08:29.670-08:00amazing Ambiance<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote { padding-left:6px; border-left: 6px solid #dadada; margin-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li { margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:1em; } table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active, ul#summarylist li a { color:#000099; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; } img {border:none;} </style> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"> <table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" width="99%"> <h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"> <a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://amba12.wordpress.com" title="(http://amba12.wordpress.com)">amazing Ambiance</a> <br /> <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wizardrss/xofm"> <img style="padding-top:6px" alt="" border="0" src="http://gmodules.com/ig/images/plus_google.gif" /> </a> </h1> </td> <td width="1%" /> </tr> </table> <hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0" /> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="1" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wizardrss/xofm/~3/xnR3vXfhizU/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Merry Christmas!</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 25 Dec 2011 01:10 PM PST</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div><div class="post-5007 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-by-randy" id="post-5007" readability="68"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/merry-christmas-3/" title="Permanent link to Merry Christmas!">Merry Christmas!</a></h2> <p class="commentmeta"> December 25, 2011 at 5:10 pm (<a href="http://amba12.wordpress.com/category/by-randy/" title="View all posts in By Randy" rel="category tag">By Randy</a>) </p> <p>In a little while, my house will be full with family and friends for Christmas dinner. Fortunately, I won't be the one cooking for fourteen – just providing the meeting place this year. That's because half of them want to see what I've been doing the last couple of months. Some of you here might be wondering, too.</p> <p>I believe mentioning before that the view from the back yard is delightful. (In fact, somewhere around here is a picture or two featuring that view.) While the breakfast area, the master bedroom and another bedroom all have large windows through which one can enjoy that view, it has always bothered me that the one room I spend the most time in, the family room, doesn't.</p> <p>At the end of September, two able-bodied and knowledgeable friends and I embarked on a project to rectify that situation. We removed a door, moved a window, put a new 8′ tall sliding door in where there was once a window, moved the gas fireplace from the center of the back wall to the corner, added a large window where once the fireplace and a well for an old-fashioned large TV set, and finished that area off as a window box seat.</p> <p>As we finished only last week (and still have much "touching up" to do), we obviously weren't in a huge hurry. The project was most definitely entertaining, often educational, and rarely tedious or bothersome. It was a great way to take my mind off other things. Suffice to say we had lots of fun.</p> <p>Here's what the room looked like before we started:</p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_0016.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4992" title="IMG_0016" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_0016.jpg?w=495&h=371" alt="" width="495" height="371" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>And here's what it looks like now:</p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6060.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4998" title="IMG_6060" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6060.jpg?w=495&h=288" alt="" width="495" height="288" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>We couldn't resist adding a twist:</p> <p><span id="more-5007"></span></p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6064.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4999" title="IMG_6064" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6064.jpg?w=495&h=371" alt="" width="495" height="371" /></a></p> <p>What's that opening up from behind the window seat?</p> <p>It's the television:</p> <p><a href="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6067.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4991" title="IMG_6067" src="http://amba12.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6067.jpg?w=495&h=371" alt="" width="495" height="371" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>If not for the the very reasonable price set by the fine folks at Firghelli Automation for their lift ($590), this would not have been option as we'd read/heard that this kind of equipment usually retails for about $2,000. Anyway,everything turned out great as far as I'm concerned.</p> <p>In other news, chemotherapy didn't work, which is not a great surprise as it usually doesn't in cases like mine. IMO,it was worth making the attempts, though. Throughout that process, I was indeed fortunate that the side-effects were by-and-large minor. In the meantime, the tumors reproduced at a terrific pace and are now recorded as "innumerable." A CT scan two weeks ago showed that four or five nearby lymph nodes have been affected as well.</p> <p>Well, it's time to get cleaned up before the guests start arriving. 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