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Boeing Plant 1

See    Renton Plant
To see where the RED BARN was, look over this 2012 image.
A lot of swamp land has been taken over.

Plant I's large final assembly building was constructed next to the Red Barn after Boeing was awarded a contract in the late 1910s by the US Navy to build 50 Curtiss HS-2L patrol bombers. The facility was located south of Seattle in the Heath Shipyard on the banks of the Duwamish River. When Plant II was constructed at Boeing Field two miles to the southeast of the facility, the former shipyard became known as Plant I. It was closed in 1970 and sold to the Port of Seattle. The Red Barn was donated to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation and subsequently became the Seattle Museum of Flight's first building.                              This is a 1929 view!

Plant I images are from Boeing Archives

Clipper Launch  1938

With a nose similar to that of the modern 747, the Clipper was the "jumbo" airplane of its time with a top speed of 199 miles per hour. Boeing built 12 Model 314s between 1938 and 1941. At the outbreak of World War II, the Clipper was drafted into service to ferry materials and personnel. Few other aircraft of the day could meet the wartime distance and load requirements. Able to carry 74 passengers and a crew of 10, the four-engine Model 314 was the largest passenger airliner of its time. The Clipper's 74 seats converted into 40 bunks for overnight travelers. See: LAKE WASHINGTON

F3B-01 - 1920's ERA

F3B-1 could be used either with landing gear or with a single float. The F3B-1's ailerons and tail surfaces used an entirely new method of semimonocoque, all-metal construction in which added stiffness was provided by a corrugated covering. In this type of construction, a metal skin is stretched over a light frame. Semimonocoque construction proved so satisfactory that it was used for all subsequent Boeing biplane fighters. In all other respects, the F3B-1 was a conventional design with a metal tubular frame, built-up wood wing spars and plywood ribs, and a fabric covering.

A 1966 View


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The RGB LED matrix described here can be used to signal feedback to the user, as for example in my MIDI Matrix with 56 Inputs and 56 Outputs. But, it can also be used for fancy stuff, Vegas mode, bling, impressing your neighbours,…

The PCB is as wide as the RGB LED modules themselves, with enough space above and below for mounting holes. This means that the modules can easily be chained horizontally in order to create type crawls. If you cut off the top and bottom mounting holes along the line that is printed on the PCB then you can also create larger screens extending in two dimensions.

It consists of 4 DOUT shift registers (74HC595) that feed the RGB LED display module in a matrix style. It is connected to J8/J9 of the core board. In order to access the RGB LEDs, use the BLM-X module which makes it straightforward to access single colors / single LEDs in the matrix.

The schematic is simply a reproduction of the DOUTx4 board with the RGB-LED module connected in the correct way. Download the schematic of the MIDIbox RGB-LED Matrix here.

A minimal size PCB has been created to allow easy cascading of modules.

Where to buy?

If you are interested in building this, send a personal message (PM) to user ilmenator over at the MIDIbox forum (you have to register to be able to send PM). As of summer 2014, I have PCBs available for 5€ each, as well as semi-kits for those having difficulties sourcing the parts (SMD parts and RGB LED modules) themselves.

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C1 - C4 capacitor SM1210 100n 4
R1 - R24 1/4W resistor SM1206 100 24 SMD 1/4W 100
U1 - U4 shift register DIP-16 74HC595 4 74HC595
IC socket DIL-16 4 GS 16
P1, P2 IDC connector 5×2 2 WSL 10
MATRIX1 RGB LED module 60x60mm 1
SIL precision sockets 16 pins 2

An additional 5V power connector (P3) is not necessary. The RGB LED matrix modules can be found in various variants, e.g. with round or square LEDs. Search the web, you will find them starting from around 4€ per piece. They should follow the specifications defined in this document.

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Mini ASOS & Topshop Haul

I really tried to wait and not buy anymore clothes until after christmas, but I just couldn't resist these bits. This grey baggy jumper had been in my ASOS saves for ages, so when I sore it had gone down in the sale I just had to get it. These pointed boots had also been reduced so obviously I had to get those as well. I love these boots though, I've been after a pair like this for so long and although I wanted to avoid suede I'm really happy with them. I also love pointed shoes because they apparently make you look a little taller and anything that makes me not so hobbit-like is always a winner!

Topshop is my weakness, I can always find something I like there and sometimes it's just too difficult to resist. I've wanted a cream bobble hat for ages and this one just fits so nicely and doesn't look too big. I also got a really basic striped long sleeve top. It's so soft and will go with a lot of other things in my wardrobe. Also I'm sorry the last photo is a bit... yellow, I tried to pick a good time but it just always seems to be dark at the moment, the struggle is real!

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  1. I really like this outfit, it's really cute, especially the jumper :)

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  2. Those boots are really cute! I have bought so many pairs this year xx

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  4. absolutely love your boots, perfect for everyday wear:)

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  5. I have some boots just like thta, so easy to wear. A must have for every wardrobe i reckon!

  6. Those ankle boots are gorgeous :) -Maireem

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  7. Hehe I know the feeling! I can never wait til Christmas either xD Such lovely picks, I love those boots! I'm now following you on GFC! :D xx

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  8. I love the shoes, they look amazing! :)

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  12. Lovely stuff♥

  13. This is a lovely haul! xx, adaatude.com

  14. Those boots are gorgeous! Love your little haul (:
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  15. Love the black boots, so pretty & definitely my kind of style x

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Growing in learning and life requires courage and the ability to take risks. Students are encouraged to set themselves high standards and to be strong and resilient in their endeavour to realise their potential.

To assist in this process Mary MacKillop College girls are encouraged to extend and explore their interests and knowledge through their choice of co-curricular activities. Every young woman has the opportunity to involve herself in a variety of pursuits designed to complement and balance the curriculum. The College offers an extensive co-curricular program which encourages participation, team-work, self-confidence and creativity.


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Thursday, July 17, 2008

It's like a metaphor, see? Because after a while, it's not about Matt anymore.

Everybody knows, I'm a crusty old cynic. But I'm not dead. There are still some things that inexplicably make me go all mushy inside--like cats who run and cry at the same time (meow-wow-wow-wow-wow), spontaneous standing ovations, the last scene of You've Got Mail, and Veterans' Day parades.

So yeah, I know--we've all seen Matt, wherever the hell he is. But this?

This is lovely.

My favorite moment comes at 2:37.

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BUDGET 2014-15

 Finance Minister of India, while presenting his maiden budget said, decisive vote for change represents the desire of the people to grow, free themselves from the curse of poverty and use the opportunity provided by society. Country is in no mood to suffer unemployment, inadequate basic amenities, lack of infrastructure and apathetic governance, he added.

FM said, “The situation is challenging, due to sub 5% growth and double digit inflation. Continued slow-down in many emerging economies is a threat to sustained global recovery. A recovery was visible with the growth rate of world economy projected at 3.6 per cent in 2014 vis-à-vis in 2013.”

“First budget of this NDA government to lay down broad policy indicators of the direction in which we wish to take this country. Steps announced are only the beginning of the journey towards a sustained growth of 7-8% or above within the next 3-4 years, along with macro-economic stabilization.

Deficit and Inflation
Decline in fiscal deficit from 5.7% in 2011-12 to 4.5% in 2013-14 was mainly achieved by reduction in expenditure rather than by way of realization of higher revenue. Improvement in current account deficit from 4.7% in 2012-13 to year end level of 1.7% was mainly achieved through restriction on non-essential imports and a slow-down in overall aggregate demand. He stressed the need to keep a watch on CAD.
A 4.1% fiscal deficit is a daunting task in the backdrop of two years of low GDP growth, static industrial growth, moderate increase in indirect taxes, subsidy burden and not so encouraging tax buoyancy.

Here is what the finance minister has given :

Direct Tax Proposals
  • Personal Income-tax exemption limit raised by Rs50,000, that is, from Rs2 lakh to Rs2.5 lakh in the case of individual taxpayers, below the age of 60 years. Exemption limit raised from Rs2.5 lakh to Rs3 lakh in the case of senior citizens
  • No change in the rate of surcharge either for the corporates or the individuals, HUFs, firms etc
  • The education cess to continue at 3%
  • Investment limit under section 80C of the Income-tax Act raised from Rs1 lakh to Rs1.5 lakh
  • Deduction limit on account of interest on loan in respect of self occupied house property raised from Rs1.5 lakh to Rs2 lakh
  • Conducive tax regime to Infrastructure Investment Trusts and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) to be set up in accordance with regulations of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
  • Investment allowance at the rate of 15% to a manufacturing company that invests more than Rs25 crore in any year in new plant and machinery. The benefit to be available for three years i.e. for investments up to 31.03.2017
  • Investment linked deduction extended to two new sectors, namely, slurry pipelines for the transportation of iron ore, and semi-conductor wafer fabrication manufacturing units
  • 10 year tax holiday extended to the undertakings which begin generation, distribution and transmission of power by 31.03.2017
  • Income arising to foreign portfolio investors from transaction in securities to be treated as capital gains
  • Concessional rate of 15% on foreign dividends without any sunset date to be continued
  • The eligible date of borrowing in foreign currency extended from 30.06.2015 to 30.06.2017 for a concessional tax rate of 5% on interest payments. Tax incentive extended to all types of bonds instead of only infrastructure bonds
  • Introduction of a “Roll Back” provision in the Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA) scheme so that an APA entered into for future transactions is also applicable to international transactions undertaken in previous four years in specified circumstances
  • Introduction of range concept for determination of arm’s length price in transfer pricing regulations
  • To allow use of multiple year data for comparability analysis under transfer pricing regulations
  • To remove tax arbitrage, rate of tax on long term capital gains increased from 10% to 20% on transfer of units of Mutual Funds, other than equity oriented funds
  • Income and dividend distribution tax to be levied on gross amount instead of amount paid net of taxes
  • In case of non deduction of tax on payments, 30% of such payments will be disallowed instead of 100%
  • Government to review the DTC in its present shape and take a view in the whole matter
  • 60 more Ayakar Seva Kendras to be opened during the current financial year to promote excellence in service delivery
  • Net Effect of the direct tax proposals to result in revenue loss of Rs22,200 crore

Indirect Tax Proposals
  • To boost domestic manufacture and to address the issue of inverted duties, basic customs duty (BCD) reduced on certain items
  • To encourage new investment and capacity addition in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector, basic customs duty reduced on certain items
  • Steps taken to boost domestic production of electronic items and reduce our dependence on imports. These include imposition of basic customs duty on certain items falling outside the purview of IT Agreement, exemption from SAD on inputs/ components for PC manufacturing, imposition of education cess on imported electronic products for parity etc
  • Colour picture tubes exempted from basic customs duty to make cathode ray TVs cheaper and more affordable to weaker sections
  • To encourage production of LCD and LED TVs below 19 inches in India, basic customs duty on LCD and LED TV panels of below 19 inches reduced from 10% to NIL
  • To give an impetus to the stainless steel industry, increase in basic customs duty on imported flat-rolled products of stainless steel from 5% to 7.5%
  • Concessional basic customs duty of 5 percent extended to machinery and equipment required for setting up of a project for solar energy production
  • Specified inputs for use in the manufacture of EVA sheets and back sheets and flat copper wire for the manufacture of PV ribbons exempted from basic customs duty
  • Reduction in basic customs duty from 10 percent to 5 percent on forged steel rings used in the manufacture of bearings of wind operated electricity generators
  • Exemption from SAD of 4% on parts and raw materials required for the manufacture of wind operated generators
  • Concessional basic customs duty of 5 percent on machinery and equipment required for setting up of compressed biogas plants (Bio-CNG)
  • Anthracite coal, bituminous coal, coking coal, steam coal and other coal to attract 2.5% basic customs duty and 2% CVD to eliminate all assessment disputes and transaction costs associated with testing of various parameters of coal
  • Basic customs duty on metallurgical coke increased from Nil to 2.5% in line with the duty on coking coal
  • Duty on ship breaking scrap and melting scrap of iron or steel rationalized by reducing the basic customs duty on ships imported for breaking up from 5% to 2.5%
  • To prevent mis-use and avoid assessment disputes, basic customs duty on semi-processed, half cut or broken diamonds, cut and polished diamonds and coloured gemstones rationalized at 2.5%
  • To encourage exports, pre-forms of precious and semi-precious stones exempted from basic customs duty
  • Duty free entitlement for import of trimmings, embellishments and other specified items increased from 3% to 5% of the value of their export, for readymade garments
  • Export duty on bauxite increased from 10% to 20%
  • For passenger facilitation, free baggage allowance increased from Rs35,000 to Rs45,000
  • To incentivize expansion of processing capacity, reduction in excise duty on specified food processing and packaging machinery from 10% to 6%
  • Reduction in the excise duty from 12% to 6% on footwear of retail price exceeding Rs500 per pair but not exceeding Rs1,000 per pair
  • Withdraw concessional excise duty (2% without Cenvat benefit and 6% with Cenvat benefit) on smart cards and a uniform excise duty at 12%
  • To develop renewable energy, various items exempted from excise duty
  • Exemption to PSF and PFY manufactured from plastic waste and scrap including PET bottles from excise duty with effect from 29 June 2010 to 7 May 2012
  • Prospective levy of a nominal duty of 2 percent without Cenvat benefit and 6% with Cenvat benefit on such PSF and PFY
  • Concessional excise duty of 2 percent without Cenvat benefit and 6% with Cenvat benefit on sports gloves
  • Specific rates of excise duty increased on cigrettes in the range of 11 per cent to 72 per cent
  • Excise duty increased from 12 percent to 16 percent on pan masala, from 50 percent to 55 percent on unmanufactured tobacco and from 60 percent to 70 percent on gutkha and chewing tobacco
  • Levy of an additional duty of excise at 5 percent on aerated waters containing added sugar
  • To finance Clean Environment initiatives, Clean Energy Cess increased from Rs50 per tonne to Rs100 per tonne
Service tax
  • To broaden the tax base in Service Tax, sale of space or time for advertisements in broadcast media, extended to cover such sales on other segments like online and mobile advertising. Sale of space for advertisements in print media however would remain excluded from service tax. Service provided by radio-taxis brought under service tax
  • Services by air-conditioned contract carriages and technical testing of newly developed drugs on human participants brought under service tax
  • Provision of services rules to be amended and tax incidence to be reduced on transport of goods through coastal vessels to promote Indian Shipping industry
  • Services provided by Indian tour operators to foreign tourists in relation to a tour wholly conducted outside India to be taken out of the tax net and Cenvat credit for services of rent-a-cab and tour operators to be allowed to promote tourism
  • Service tax exempted on loading, unloading, storage, warehousing and transportation of cotton, whether ginned or baled
  • Services provided by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation for the period prior to 1 July 2012 exempted, from service tax
  • Exemption available for specified micro insurance schemes expanded to cover all life micro-insurance schemes where the sum assured does not exceed Rs50,000 per life insured
  • For safe disposal of medical and clinical wastes, services provided by common bio-medical waste treatment facilities exempted
  • Tax proposals on the indirect taxes side are estimated to yield Rs7,525 crore
  • 24X7 customs clearance facility extended to 13 more airports in respect of all export goods and to 14 more sea ports in respect of specified import and export goods to facilitate cargo clearance
  • ‘Indian Customs Single Window Project’ to facilitate trade, to be implemented
  • The scheme of Advance Ruling in indirect taxes to be expanded to cover resident private limited companies. The scope of Settlement Commission to be enlarged to facilitate quick dispute resolution
  • Customs and Central Excise Acts to be amended to expedite the process of disposal of appeals
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
  • Government to promote FDI selectively in sectors
  • The composite cap of foreign investment to be raised to 49% with full Indian management and control through the FIPB route
  • The composite cap in the insurance sector to be increased up to 49% from 26% with full Indian management and control through the FIPB route
  • Requirement of the built up area and capital conditions for FDI to be reduced from 50,000 square metres to 20,000 square metres and from $10 million to $5 million respectively for development of smart cities
  • The manufacturing units to be allowed to sell its products through retail including E-commerce platforms
Bank Capitalization
  • Requirement to infuse Rs2.40 lakh crore as equity by 2018 in our banks to be in line with Basel-III norms
  • Capital of banks to be raised by increasing the shareholding of the people in a phased manner
PSU Capital Expenditure
PSUs will invest through capital investment a total sum of Rs2.48 lakh crore in the current financial year
Smart Cities
A sum of Rs7,060 crore is provided in the current fiscal for the project of developing “one hundred Smart Cities’
Real Estate
  • Incentives for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS). Complete pass through for the purpose of taxation
  • A modified REITS type structure for infrastructure projects as the Infrastructure Investment Trusts (INVITS).
  • These two instruments to attract long term finance from foreign and domestic sources
  • including the NRIs
Rs1,000 crore provided for “Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna” for assured irrigation
Rural Development
  • Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission for integrated project based infrastructure in the rural areas
  • Rs500 crore for “Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana” for feeder separation to augment power supply to the rural areas
  • Rs14,389 crore provided for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna(PMGSY)
  • More productive, asset creating and with linkages to agriculture and allied activities wage employment would to be provided under MGNREGA.
  • Under Ajeevika, the provision of bank loan for women SHGs at 4% to be extended to another 100 districts
  • Initial sum of Rs100 crore for “Start Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme” for encouraging rural youth to take up local entrepreneurship programs
  • Allocation for National Housing Bank increased to Rs8,000 crore to support Rural housing
  • New programme “Neeranchal” to give impetus to watershed development in the country with an initial outlay of Rs2,142 crore
  • Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) to be restructured to address intra-district inequalities
Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe
  • An amount of Rs50,548 crore is proposed under the SC Plan and Rs32,387 crore under TSP
  • For the welfare of the tribals “Van Bandhu Kalyan Yojna” launched with an initial allocation of Rs100 crore
Senior Citizen & Differently Abled Persons
  • • Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana (VPBY) to be revived for a limited period from 15 August 2014 to 14 August 2015 for the benefit of citizens aged 60 years and above
  • • A committee will to examine and recommend how unclaimed amounts with PPF, Post Office, saving schemes etc. can be used to protect and further financial interests of the senior citizens
  • Government notified a minimum pension of Rs1,000 per month to all subscriber members of EP Scheme. Initial provision of Rs250 crore
  • Increase in mandatory wage ceiling of subscription to Rs15,000. A provision of Rs250 crore in the current budget
  • EPFO to launch the “Uniform Account Number” Service for contributing members
  • • Scheme for Assistance to Disabled Persons for purchase/ fitting of Aids and Appliances (ADIP) extended to include contemporary aids and assistive devices
  • National level institutes for Universal Inclusive Design , Mental Health Rehabilitation and a Centre for Disability Sports to be established
  • • Assistance to State Governments to establish fifteen new Braille Presses and modernize ten existing Braille Presses
  • • Government to print currency notes with Braille like signs for visibly challenged persons
Women & Child Development
  • • Outlay of Rs50 crore for pilot testing a scheme on “Safety for Women on Public Road Transport”
  • • Sum of Rs150 crore on a scheme to increase the safety of women in large cities
  • “Crisis Management Centres” in all the districts of NCT of Delhi this year government and private hospitals
  • • A sum of Rs100 crore is provided for “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana”, a focused scheme to generate awareness and help in improving the efficiency of delivery of welfare services meant for women
  • • School curriculum to have a separate chapter on gender mainstreaming
Drinking Water & Sanitation
  • • 20,000 habitations affected with arsenic, fluoride, heavy/ toxic elements, pesticides/ fertilizers to be provided safe drinking water through community water purification plants in next 3 years
  • • “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” to cover every household with sanitation facility by the year 2019
Health and Family Welfare
  • • Free Drug Service and Free Diagnosis Service to achieve “ Health For All”
  • • Two National Institutes of Ageing to be set up at AIIMS, New Delhi and Madras Medical College, Chennai
  • • A national level research and referral Institute for higher dental studies to be set up
  • AIIMS like institutions in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidarbha in Maharashtra and Poorvanchal in UP. A provision of Rs500 crore made
  • 12 new government medical colleges to be set up
  • • States’ Drug Regulatory and Food Regulatory Systems to be strengthened by creating new drug testing laboratories and strengthening the 31 existing State laboratories
  • 15 Model Rural Health Research Centres to be set up for research on local health issues concerning rural population
  • • A national programme in Mission Mode to halt the deteriorating malnutrition situation in India to be put in place within six months
School Education
  • • Government would strive to provide toilets and drinking water in all the girls school in first phase An amount of Rs28,635 crore is being funded for Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rs4,966 crore for Rashtriya Madhyamic Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
  • • A School Assessment Programme is being initiated at a cost of Rs30 crore
  • Rs500 crore provided for “Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya New Teachers Training Programme” to infuse new training tools and motivate teachers
  • • Rs100 crore provided for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses
Higher Education
  • • Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in Humanities to be set up in MP
  • • Rs500 crore provided for setting up 5 more IITs in the Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
  • • Five IIMs in the States of HP, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Rajasthan
  • • Simplification of norms to facilitate education loans for higher studies
Information Technology
  • • Pan India programme “Digital India” to with an outlay of Rs500 crore to be launched
  • • Programme for promoting “Good Governance” to be launched. A sum of Rs100 crore provided
Information and Broadcasting
  • • Rs100 crore allocated for 600 new and existing Community Radio Stations
  • • Film & Television Institute, Pune and Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata are proposed to be accorded status of Institutes of national importance and a “National Centre for Excellence in Animation, Gaming and Special Effects to be set up
  • • Rs100 crore is provided for Kisan TV, to disseminate real time information to the farmers on issues such as new farming techniques, water conservation, organic farming etc
Urban Development
  • • Vision of the Government is that 500 urban habitations to be provided support for renewal of infrastructure and services in next 10 years through PPPs
  • • Present corpus of Pooled Municipal Debt Obligation Facility facility to be enlarged to Rs50,000 crore from Rs5,000 crore
  • • Rs100 crore provided for Metro Projects in Lucknow and Ahemdabad
  • • Extended additional tax incentive on home loans shall be provided to encourage people, especially the young, to own houses
  • • Mission on Low Cost Affordable Housing anchored in the National Housing Bank to be set up
  • • A sum of Rs4,000 crore for NHB from the priority sector lending shortfall with a view to increase the flow of cheaper credit for affordable housing to the urban poor/EWS/ LIG segment is provided
  • • Slum development to be included in the list of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to encourage the private sector to contribute more
  • • A programme for the up gradation of skills and training in ancestral arts for development for the minorities “Up gradation of Traditional Skills in Arts, Resources and Goods” to be launched
  • • An additional amount of Rs100 crore for Modernization of Madarsas
  • • Government to establish two more Agricultural Research Institute of excellence in Assam and Jharkhand with an initial sum of Rs100 crore
  • • An amount of Rs100 crore set aside for “Agri-tech Infrastructure Fund”
  • • Rs200 crore provided to open Agriculture Universities in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan and Horticulture Universities in Telangana and Haryana
  • • A scheme to provide every farmer a soil health card in a Mission mode will be launched
  • • Rs100 crore has been provided for this purpose and additional Rs56 crore to set up 100 Mobile Soil Testing Laboratories across the country
  • • To meet the vagaries of climate change a “National Adaptation Fund” with an initial sum an amount of Rs100 crore will be set up
  • • A sustainable growth of 4% in Agriculture will be achieved
  • Technology driven second green revolution with focus on higher productivity and including “Protein revolution” will be area of major focus
  • • To mitigate the risk of Price volatility in the agriculture produce, a sum of Rs500 crore is provided for establishing a “Price Stabilization Fund”
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God, Music, and the Limits to Analogy

As I’ve written elsewhere, God is the Being who exists alone in His category… whatever that might be. We know a little. We are tempted to say that God is infinitely present, powerful, intelligent, and good. These ideas are more Greek than anything, because they were in love with philosophical absolutes. But using those categories can deceive us if we are incautious, because it allows us to pretend that we know more than we do. In His initial communication with humans, God seems not to have tried to “name” Himself, or describe Himself, or apply adjectives to Himself in an attempt to make Himself known to His people. He said, “I am who I am,” or, “I will be who I will be,” or, “I am that I am,” depending on whose translation you believe. He made Himself known by His deeds more than by His self-description, though there isn’t necessarily a rigid line between the two. Start reading from Genesis 1, and notice how long it is before God applies adjectives to Himself.

The Scripture simply points out that God is above everything else that can be named in any of those categories, far, far above, and leaves it at that. It does not say precisely that God knows everything (and how humans could even understand what it means to make the statement is beyond me…). What is “everything”? Everything that can be known? Everything that matters? Everything that will ever be? Everything that might have been? There are things that fit in one of these categories, but perhaps not in another. Does God know anything that cannot be known? It seems to me that to claim there is nothing that God does not know is as much a statement about the nature of reality as it is about the nature of God, and it places limits on the type of reality God is “allowed” to have created, according to our theories. That’s what’s behind the old kid’s question, “Can God make a rock so big that He can’t lift it?” In other words, there can be conflicts between infinite characteristics, as we understand infinities. If God knows everything, particularly the future in an exhaustive way, does it have to mean that he wasn’t powerful enough to make a Universe where He didn’t? Or is it merely that He decided not to make such a universe? Could God destroy the universe, then forget He ever made it? If not, his power is limited. If He could do this, His knowledge would be limited after He forgot having made the universe. Do we limit God (our understanding of Him, that is) by insisting on infinities whose definition and nature we cannot grasp?

Nowhere does scripture tell us that God is only enormously, or “infinitely,” powerful, intelligent, good, just, loving, immortal, present, etc. Those are only the “aspects of God” that relate to humans directly, because there is some analogy from these “attributes of God” to the far lesser parallels in human beings. That is, humans are present in a place, have some intelligence, some power, some moral status, some lifetime, etc., so the parallel of “God’s version” of those characteristics may tell us something about both ourselves and Him. But the Orthodox remind us that God is other from us, and probably has unseen, unknowable, and unguessable aspects, attributes, and character that may interact within the Godhead in various ways, including with those attributes listed above, in ways that again demonstrate the folly of humans trying to think they have “captured” God with some set of concepts.

God is a PERSON, who has graciously allowed us to know what is surely only a small part of his essence or character, in those attributes we can imagine, and to which we can relate in our finiteness. And that is what makes the Incarnation so completely breathtaking. The Incarnation was a huge sacrifice in itself, before there was a Crucifixion. He shed so much of that Magnificence to become one of us, and disclose Himself to us more fully. Could this life be merely a sort of boot camp, to prepare us to accept more of His self-disclosure in the next?

A very poor analogy might be that many of us engage in occupations or recreational activities that we literally could not explain to a person from five thousand years ago, and any attempt to make the explanation would be bound to create misunderstanding. I suspect our attempts to “describe” God aren’t much better. We can say what He did, and we can say what He reveals to us (in scripture, in the “general” revelation of nature, and via the Spirit), but we cannot say with either precision or completeness what He IS, only that He is.

Of course, some of the contradictions mentioned earlier, caused by dueling infinities, are perhaps less real than apparent. We simply don’t know. We can manipulate concepts of “infinities” mathematically, and symbolically, but that doesn’t mean humans can grasp them. We should exercise some degree of humility. God is unique, and probably “infinite” in some sense(s), but we don’t really know what that means, and while it may comfort us to say it, it is probably semantically null. We, on the other hand, are exceedingly finite, marginally stupid, and pretty weak. From this flows a basic principle.

Analogies involving humans and God flow basically in only one way, and produce distortions, ranging from risible to terrible, when applied in the wrong direction. We can “compare” ourselves to God in a meaningful way, but we cannot compare God to ourselves without committing a very fundamental category error. There may be small exceptions to this. We may learn something about love by watching humans interact, and from that we may speculate about God’s love. But since every human aspect is finite, when our reasoning involves trying to place limits on God that flow from our human perceptions of each other, and from what we understand of the nature of “knowledge,” or “power,” or “justice,” or “love,” we have surely erred.

What passes for skeptical argument against the existence of God, the goodness of God, or the power of God usually flows from trying to place human limits on God, that is, analogizing from humanity to God, or from the creation itself to God. But it all flows the other way. We are what we are because God is what He is. Creation is what it is for the same reasons. This is why it’s so ludicrous for naturalists to sneer at the notion that God might have made the entire universe just for us. They want to know, why is it so ridiculously huge? Why spend 13.7 billion years getting it ready for us? But surely our understanding of God’s motives in this instance is limited by how humans do things, and how they have to do them. On the other hand, if you happen to be God, taking 13.7 billion years to get the place ready for the renters may just seem like a good way to do things, satisfying some “aesthetic” sensibility or concept. And really now, is there any reason to think the universe seems all that huge to God? Is He impressed with the size of it? Is He awed with Himself and the Creation? It’s pretty foolish to impose human categories and “sense of scale” onto God.

I expect that ants are awed with the size of the White House lawn. I suppose I would be too, if I had to mow it.

Failed arguments made by skeptics about God usually take the form, “If God was good, then He would….”, or “If God was all powerful then He would have….”, or “If God knew everything then he would have…”, and so on. Such arguments usually assume that God is a super nice man with a big brain and lots of power. Humans are simply incapable of grasping who God is, apart from his self-revelation, and we don’t help the situation by applying the same logic as a 10 yr old speculating about what he’d do if he was immortal, super-good, super-powerful and super-smart. (“Daddy, if you could have any super-power you wanted, what would it be?”)

One way to say this is that even if we attempt to “analyze” God in a functional way, we could not move from that analysis to a resynthesis of Him, because whatever parts or aspects of God we can separate out do not add up to the PERSON that He is.

And now, for a bit of pure conjecture. I think God may have given us something that is shared by most humans and all societies, a thing whose nature and characteristics make it analogically similar to God in certain ways. That thing is music. The nature of the similarity is that just as God is the sole inhabitant of His “category” (superintelligent, superpowerful, superpresent, immortal creator of the universe, able to move in and inhabit all dimensions of space and time simultaneously, as well as outside of them, etc.), music seems to inhabit its own category without even a kissin’ cousin in other human endeavors. I am not saying that “music is like God” or “God is like music.” I am saying that each is the sole member of its “set.”

I’ve written elsewhere about the uniqueness of music. It is often thought to be analogous to art, mathematics, language, or communication, but the analogies actually flow the other way. It seems to me that people try to dignify many other disciplines and activities by analogizing them to music. We speak of two basketball players who are “making beautiful music together,” the “harmonization of texts,” the “counterpoint of ideas,” the “rhythm of dialog,” and so on. Mathematicians seem especially fond of musical metaphors for their own work. Even theologians create “harmonies of the gospels.”

I suspect that most people who have only a casual awareness of music will find all of this a bit difficult to absorb, particularly if they have not thought deeply about all the things that they “know” about music without fully “knowing” that they do. But professional musicians with academic training will understand a little better. If, to you, music is just singing or playing an instrument, or going to a concert, you may not fully appreciate the intellectual subtleties, expressive nuances, the internalized structure, the great precision and perceptual skills that are involved in the higher levels of musical endeavor. Yet, with all of these aspects, music is just one thing. It is a single integrated and integrating thing, which requires all of these human capacities to be integrated in it, but exceeds the sum of its parts. It is mysteriously “other” in human life, not much like anything else at all. When we attempt to pull out music’s different aspects, and try to account for music as merely the sum total of its various aspects, we make the same error as trying to resynthesize God out of the analysis of His aspects. (It is, by the way, similar to the error of trying to account for human beings as the sum total and interaction of our cells, DNA, etc., as if we are merely a meta-effect of our parts.)

None of this means that it is a bad idea to analyze what we can of God, or of music. It means we should be humble about it, accepting that there is a whole which we cannot vivisect in order to truly understand it. While we cannot kill God by making this analysis, we can certainly kill our experience of God by believing too much in our analysis, and not enough in the person of God. And if we believe that our analysis of various aspects of music has somehow captured its essence, we run the risk of killing our ability to experience it properly, as well.

One other observation about music: essentially every other “advanced human activity” has its roots in something far simpler, and immediately practical and useful for survival in that first, simplest expression. Art may have grown from the ability to scratch in the dirt to create simple representations (“Johnny, if you see one of these, run!”), the ability to shape clay to make pots, the making of clothing from animal skins and fibrous plants, the making of weapons (stone flaking) and so on. The utility of even very simple language for cooperation in practical tasks is obvious. If you can count, you can estimate the number of animals in the herd, the number of opponents you face, or the amount of food you need for the winter. If you can measure, you can judge how much water to carry, how long the spear should be, and so on. Dancing developed and celebrated the skills of hunters, warriors, and possibly those seeking a mate. If you can dance, you’re healthy and coordinated, and more desirable.

What can you do if you can sing? Or if you can tell if someone else is “doing it right”? Or if you’ve spent your time learning to play the lute, or the flute, instead of how to throw spears or make clothing? And how is that immediately useful? What benefit does it confer? From what simpler ability that IS useful for survival does music spring?

Music is the most useless of human activities, yet paradoxically, the mastery of it requires great coordination, sensitive aural perceptions, truly incredible amounts of practice (putting almost anything else to shame in the precision it requires), intellectual power and subtlety. It literally takes a lifetime, in a way that most other things do not, to master it. And even then, there is always something new to learn. This new learning is NOT merely additional facts and knowledge, or additional skills, though those things are true, too, but uniquely musical learning/development/growth that reflects the characteristically integrative nature of music, with a bit of “new learning” involving facts, relationships or theories, skills, perceptions, etc., all related to an internalized musical structure that resists being pulled apart into its components.

More discussion of this is at the links on art, mathematics, language, and communication.

Did God make us love music, and want to do it, so that we would train our minds, coordination, perceptions, and so on, “saving them” in culture, so to speak, for a later time when such precision would be required? Are there new skills and capacities humans will develop in coming centuries or millennia, of which music is a mere hint, or perhaps only a part, in the same way that the ability to scratch in the dirt and recognize simple signs and pictographic images was a mere hint of the richness of written language and mathematics, that would not be developed for many thousands of years? What capacities has God built into us, of which we know nothing yet?

Music is a uniquely integrative thing, involving at its highest levels nearly every intellectual, physical, perceptual and expressive capacity of a human being, all integrated around a single thing/activity/experience. At its best, it uses essentially all of a person to “do” it. All of which gives rise to another speculation: did God make us love music, and create the capacity for it, so that His people would be able to use it to preserve the oral tradition of His revelation and historical activity among them, until they developed the tools to write it all down?

I memorized 150 lines of Wordsworth in high school, and it’s all gone now. But I still know the words to any song that I sing once a month or so. I am quite confident that my children sing the same words to many songs that were sung in the 19th century, and have little doubt that their grandchildren will do the same. To me, this makes the notion of a very reliable and accurate “oral tradition” far more likely than it may seem at first glance.

To the main point: music may be an example of a thing that is “alone in its category,” and reminding ourselves of the limitations on analogies between music and art, math, language or communication may help us avoid the far more serious error of seeing God as a really big, powerful, smart, good, immortal human, as if we “share a category” with Him. And perhaps that’s what makes music such an appropriate vehicle for the worship of God.

A theologian friend of mine who read a draft of this post had another comment, that “God is personal, and music is personal.” I think the idea is to remind us that God is not merely the embodiment of infinite principles, but rather is the Person from whom those principles flow. The analogy of music to this is that music is one thing, a personal thing, that can only be done by and with persons, but out of which all these other relationships flow involving perception, skills, intellect, expression, etc.

As interesting as speculation about music’s role in the preservation of the revelation and history may be, the first mention of music in the Bible involves Jubal, an instrumentalist. So choral directors should not be too smug.

But: can you imagine getting to hear Jesus sing?

There wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house. But they would be tears of inexpressible joy.

I have the feeling that, being Jesus, He would soon be inviting us to sing and play along.

4 thoughts on “God, Music, and the Limits to Analogy

  1. Good wordsmanship bro. a few grains of salt:

    God is All that is In All.
    To say that God knows everything means that God is, and is the source of, all thought and thoughts. And He is constantly applauding the infinitely creative ways that we put those thoughts together.
    To say that God's Incarnation was a sacrifice is strictly a human perspective. There is no uppering or lowering with God, which is part of what it means to be Everywhere.
    God has endless faith in us.
    God has genuine, affectionate interest in us.
    We should behave the same way towards our neighbors.

    Categorizing human creativity of any kind is an oxymoron.
    Music reminds us that we are spiritual beings dreaming in a physical reality.
    Work brings us satisfaction, Play brings us pleasure. Both completely define each other.
    Music is effortless pleasure for some, diligent work for others.
    Still, if you are not talking, you're singing.
    If you are not writing, you're drawing.
    Music, or creative expression of any kind, can be recorded and played back. But it can never be captured. Creativity can only be experienced at that very instant in which it is being expressed. The same is true with spirituality, by the way.
    Humans need Play in order to survive. In other words, we must listen to music.

  2. "To say that God's Incarnation was a sacrifice is strictly a human perspective. "

    Umm… maybe… but it's also a scriptural perspective, which is why I linked that phrase in the post to the Biblegateway. Run down the link and see what you think.

  3. "Umm… maybe… but it's also a scriptural perspective, which is why I linked that phrase in the post to the Biblegateway."

    Thank you. I clicked. Classic, inspiring words. A subject of many a fiery sermon.
    Comment on Philippian letter:

    Is it a humble act to inspire humility? I'm not sure of the answer. Whenever I've read this and similar inspirational essays from Paul, I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm being politely commanded to do something or to behave a certain way. This is all fine and dandy, and maybe it's just me but; is it the nature of humility to be inspiring, or demanding? I don't think Jesus humbled himself with the intention that it would then give him, or others the authority to command us to go and do likewise. That said, I'm not so sure he intended to inspire us either, although he certainly inspired Paul. Jesus was simply humbled by his affectionate interest in us. Humility is an attitude borne of love. Read carefully: humility is no big deal(?).

    Re: human perspective

    Human perspective tends to be an "uppering and lowering" kind of perspective. God's is not. Therefore, we humans naturally place God's perspective "above" our own, where God does not. To God, there's nothing inferior about human perspective, even if it is "imperfect". All perspective is equally valuable from God's perspective, which allows it to eventually approach perfection. God's "highest denominator" type of perspective which I am proposing comes from grace; which to me means unwarranted, irrational favor (from my perspective). God places only the highest value on each and every part of Creation. Unfortunately, that is nearly impossible for humans, especially Westerners to perceive (maybe not for the Buddhists). So we choose to see things as higher and lower.
    Of course, the notion of God's Sacrifice is a scriptural one. Scripture is a Divinely inspired, human perspective. It was written for us. Perhaps scripture is a good example of equally valued perspectives (or combined perspectives if you'd like)?
    Obviously it's a little silly to attempt to possess or live by God's Perspective. We must put together reality in a practical way. But we also have this natural urge to pursue "Perfection" (Matthew 5, especially the last part), or "find God". To relieve some of the tension there, I just think it helps to remember that God is pursuing and "finding" us as well.
    I assume you've heard this all before.

  4. It makes a lot of sense. I’ve been thinking a lot along similar lines lately about music and my faith. The comparisons between them and other things are indeed very shallow at best. And that’s what makes music unique is that there isn’t a good way to compare it to other things. I’ve always heard around other musicians that talking about music is like dancing about architecture. It’s a funny comparison, but as another comparison involving music, it only hints at the deeper problem of people trying talk about music in relation to other arts or activities. Music is precisely different in many of the ways you describe in the post from other activities by nature.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

My first car...

One week had passed at my new job. I cannot complaint. It all went very fine for the big major part of it. For the car thing, my mom decided to give me her car. My mom very much like Toyota Yaris car. It’s a cool little car. She went for a second hand silver Yaris. I don’t have too much problems to drive my mom car, an Echo. So now, I am now the owner of an Echo car, which worth about 5 000$ with the winter tires.

After work Friday, I went for registration for my first car insurance. The cost? 1 297$. I took a real basic package that covers for as much as 1 million dollar in case I caused somewhat of a car incident. I could have save close to 200$ if I would have took the 200k protection. Problem being that in case of a major accident, it could happen that the damage reached much more than 200k. So to keep my peace of mind, I went with the 1 million protection and pay in cash the 1 297$ for the car insurance. The amount is quite heavy, but it’s because I never had a car of my own before, I never had been registered as second driver for a car. Personally, I always prefer to use public transportation. A lot more cheaper and safer.

As you can imagine, now I am kind of broke but confident I will be able to catch up in the next couple weeks. My trip to Ottawa, my move from Montreal to New Brunswick, car insurance and ho... shopping, shopping, shopping... you know, all those things needed but I never bother to buy. Like a travel suitcase, shoes, new running shoes, tops, pants and how many other things... But won’t thing for sure, I won’t have to buy anything for a little while and I am currently on a frugal mode. I now have everything I need. And currently, what I really need is fresh new CASH.

Here are my current expenses:

Balance accumulated on different credit cards: 1 918.51$
Car insurance for 1 year paid in onetime payment to avoid the interest fee of 3%: 1 297$

TOTAL: 3 215.51$

Yeah, I know...

I currently have a 1 500$ available in my banking account that I can transfer over my credit cards. I will be receiving a pay check next week for my current job. I am also waiting for a big paycheck of 1k+ from my old job for money that I had left for my vacations. I should be all right to pay it all and I am very lucky to be able to do so. Because I really don’t hold anything in term of immediate available cash. I live paycheck per paycheck. However, I do have some savings, it’s just everything is fully invested and untouchable. An emergency, laid off are among the kind of events that will make be sell my stocks. I lived emergencies before, I been through laid off. I never had to sell my stocks. It represent much more than you can even imagine to me. And it’s not anytime soon that I will be canceling my DRIP.

I will see how it goes, but I may not be able to invest again anytime soon. I want to invest in a few stocks of CNR to help stabilize the value of my portfolio. I know I didn’t update my portfolio value since a really long time, but with the stock market going upside down, I didn’t feel like updating my portfolio was a necessity and I still feel the same in date of today. My non-registered portfolio closed Friday session at 107 192$. Before the stock crash of August, my non-registered portfolio was at a very good 113k. I am at minus a 6k here. Do I feel like updating my portfolio value? No not at all. I don’t have anything to hide, I always been fully exposed here on my blog, it’s just going through a -6k phase inside my portfolio is difficult to go through, but I am able to deal with is. I mean now, my strategy is to invest in extra high quality stocks, exclusively blue chips. One part that really don’t like with that strategy is that high quality stock, the type I am trying to add to my portfolio, well, those ones only pay very little in dividend. I guess I will get use to it. At this point, I find EnerCare Inc. (ECI) very tempting. I wouldn’t like to invest in it when the price hit 8$ see what I mean. On the long run, I guess I could mix blue chips with other whatever chips and alternate...

While moving back home in New Brunswick, my monthly budget is about to change but I will do my best to control my expenses because I really need to control them.

Here was the “before” budget, while living in Montreal:

Rent: 555$
Internet: 50$
Cell phone: 41$
Line of credit #1 minimum payment: 100$
Line of credit #2 minimum payment: 65$
RRSP loan: 108$
Credit card balance transfer minimum payment: 44$
Student loan: 100$
Groceries and other: 450$

Total: 1 513$

And here’s the “after”:

Rent: NONE
Pension for my parents: 300$
Internet + extra cable channels: 50$
Cell phone: NONE
Line of credit #1 minimum payment: 100$
Line of credit #2 minimum payment: 65$
RRSP loan: 108$
Credit card balance transfer minimum payment: 44$
Student loan: 100$
Groceries and other: NONE
Gas (for my new car!!): 40$
Extras: 100$

TOTAL: 907$

Money saves by being in New Brunswick: +606$

Yeah, so while living in New Brunswick, I won’t be paying any rent. So I asked my mom who much she wanted. She said 300$ so ok, it will be 300$. I could even give her 400$ that it wouldn’t be a problem at all. For now, I won’t be complaining, it will be 300$ and I gave her a 150$ for this month.

I now have Internet installed at home and I am very happy! I got it with Rogers. The 50$ include the Internet and a few extra cable channels for my dad. I am pretty much all set now. Moving from Montreal to New Brunswick hasn’t been difficult, but it involves a lot of preparation.

While living in Montreal, I was spending a lot of time outside of my apartment, that’s why my expenses were higher. Here in X town of New Brunswick, we barely have any cafes at lot, if not a Presse Cafe. And ho misery, there’s no Second Cup! Right there alone, it’s a 50$ per month that I am saving... I no longer buy coffees most of the time.

I guess this post was detailed enough to give you a portrait of what my life is now that I am living in that X town of New Brunswick. My life had changed drastically, maybe for the best. I no longer hear customer speaking in my ears (I am not missing my old job in a X call center) and I no longer lived in the Quebec corruptible province. Have all a good weekend.

Anonymous said...

From your portfolio, do you know how much you invested of your money and how much you gained since you started investing. Also, do you know how much you loss this year.

Anonymous said...

good that you left Quebec. Now you can work on your English and start anew living at your mom. You're a diamond in the rough.

canuck said...

Your letters are always interesting and like you am seeing some losses now and disappointed in Just Energy..i could have sold it at $1500 and turned around and buy it lower than what i paid for it now with a hefty this what the stock market is about sell high then buy low again.

Kevin said...

Hi Sunny, good to see you are adjusting comfortably to your new living environment. Are you happy with your new job? I hope you are getting paid more than your last job. Don't worry about the market, when the index eventually goes up your portfolio will probably out-perform it. If you are looking for blue chip dividend stocks, how about BCE or BTE?

Anonymous said...

Hi Sunny,

Glad to see your move to New Brunswisck went smoothly. Have you ever considered taking your parents for dinner once/twice a month in lieu of rent? Just an idea to think about.

Sunny said...

Hi Anonymous 1,

That's a real good question that I had been asked before and fact is credit line, and other debt money is mixing up with my own real funds. So it's difficult to answer. It will request sometime to find out and it's not something that I care about. But the question is good.

I lost about 1k in one bad investment and my portfolio is down of about 4k from the original money invested so I guess I am down of somewhere 5-6k, including RRSP, US and TFSA account.

Anonymous 2,

Yeah, I will suggest everyone with a bit of common sense to leave Quebec province whenever the opportunity present to you. My English its already perfect. My stocks are my diamonds.

Hi Canuck,

The stock market is really rough these days. Just Energy is sensible to the market, just like any other stocks I guess. Anyway, no worries, I always been a fan of Just Energy. I had been holding them for a long time. It's still a good stock, its just the market is crazy these days. I am very happy that I am now busy during day time. It wasn't a life anymore, watching the stock market during day time and going to work at night on weekdays AND on weekends... yak. I am happy that I am finally done with that misery time. Well at least for now.

Hi Kevin,

I am doing fine. I like my new job and yes, I am getting better paid, much more benefits too. Yeah, you are right for sure. Like always, my portfolio will outperform :0)

It's kind of you to say such thing.

I don't like Quebec based companies, they are not reliable, Quebeckers are not reliable. No way I am going to invest in BCE, and I am seriously thinking of avoiding CNR as next investment because the head office is located in Montreal. F Quebec. I don't know BTE.

Hi Mark,

Inflation in New Brunswick is the highest in Canada, at 4.1% if I remember correctly. My mom really need the money. I could give her even more than the 350$ that she's asking. That include food + housing. I am getting a good pay here so giving out some cash is really not a problem. They don't really like to eat out.

Anonymous said...

Bon débarras! On a pas besoin de racistes de ton genre au Québec, qui font du Québec bashing continuellement.

Retourne dans ton Canada... et fait toi bien assimilé!

Sunny said...

I am fully bilingual just like my province is. Here in New Brunswick, we respect English and French. We're not like Quebec idiots where everything is in French only.

While living in Montreal, I find it pretty stupid that in Subway, and in messages giving in the subway, everything is in French only. English represents a massive part of Montreal, but Quebec does not respect its own English speaker. And it's a shame. Here in New Brunswick, English people had learned to respect the French ones and vice versa.

There's so much corruption in Quebec province! Brian Mulroney took advantage of his prime minister to take 300k in the airbus scandal. Are you proud of that?

There's not just Brian Mulroney alone. Montreal is full of scandalous financial advisers who had steal from citizen. Mainville, Norbourg, Stevens Demers, Earl Jones. While living in Quebec, I knew I had to do my thing alone. That's why I open a broker account.

It's obvious that Quebec people, with their Bloc Quebecois, Amir Khadir and a bunch of other vicious organizations, well, it's obvious that Quebeckers believe that they deserved more than what they have now. But that's not true.

Quebeckers cannot take care of business properly. Corruption is the construction field? Whatever, there's no commission for that right? Why? Because Quebeckers want to continue to live in corruption.

That's why Gerald Tremblay had been reelected as Montreal representative of corruption going on in Montreal.

Quebec hospitals are so poorly managed, its rely reflect Quebec culture.

I lived in Quebec for a while, I know what I am talking about. Quebec province make us Canadians look dump in face of the world. you need to live with your failures and your corruption. It's all yours, not mine.

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Monday, September 5, 2011

JORF Painting Party.

Well, it finally happened!! I had my first official "art class". It was actually a party which was bid on and won by Mrs. Sharon at this year's Shake 4 Jake. I donated a party for 10, and a local chef donated the food, and another local business donated a case of wine. (Mrs. Sharon, it's still here. I forgot to give it to you!)

I decided since it was getting a little fallish in the air that we'd do a canvas they could proudly display for two whole months. I chose pumpkins.

These girls call themselves, "Sister Cousins". I got what they were talking about cause I kinda have some of those myself. In fact, my "sister cousins" will be going on our annual pilgrimage to Canton, TX in about a month!! Whooop Whoooop.

Anyway, these ladies get together often to craft and to drink coffee, among other adult beverages. Ha.

Most of them had never painted, however. They were initially intimidated by canvases and brushes, but settled in nicely! And speaking of painting....

I had enough canvases prepped with the texture medium that I just went ahead and let them each do two. We added a candy corn to our class. I'd never done that particular shape, so I thought it'd be fun for me too!

After all, I DID have to demonstrate all the different techniques and products, so I ended up completing three paintings during the class as well.

This lady on the end here is Mrs. Sharon. She was the one who actually purchased the party. I am very grateful to them for contributing to our JOR cause! That money should help lots of kids/ families affected by pediatric cancer.

I tried to show them all kinds of ideas.... this one, below, is my attempt at a background using all ripped up paper. I am still not sure what I will do as my foreground. But so far, I am diggin' it!

This is Chef Eric's pamphlet and cards. I was also very thankful to him for his donation of food for the group. He hooked us UP!

And, finally, we have some completed pieces. Just imagine these in a foyer entryway of a home, propped right up on an easel! Tracy got a little glitter HAPPY and well, I think they turned out great!

Sharon repeated throughout the entire day, "I just love mine." "I really, really love mine!". She even got so good she'd go over to her fellow Sister Cousins with advice, and even started brushing on Tracy's!!

Good thing they're close!!

We used stencils, spray paint, misted paint, glitter, and stamps.

These were Sharon's first EVER attempts with paint on canvas. Not too shabby, eh?!

I was really impressed with Belinda too!

How's that for a first timer?!

Oh, and this is mine. I got a little crazy with the swirls, but I like it like that! In fact, I've already sold this one off Facebook!If you are interested in the other two, just let me know. This one is about 8x10, so it'd look cute propped up on a little easel.

And would you look at these?! I was just so impressed with my starter group!

On this one, she decided to use whitish paint on a polka dotted stamp pad.

This is my third painting. I did this one to show them how you can also use masking tape to create these stripes. I really, really like this one! And, did I mention it's for sale?! I have to get rid of these, because I have two more fall retreats planned, and I will make at least this many more as I paint alongside the participants.

ANd last but not least...

So, here you have it... the first ever painting class at my art studio... MoZart is officially in business! Yipppeeee... let's do this!

If you are local or even kinda local and want to plan a shindig for you and your girls, give me a holler. Not a whole lot of weekend between now and Thanksgiving.

And as for my MoZart weekend participants, I am FIRED up.... cause now I know we can get a WHOLE LOT done in a weekend!! This was about a 2 1/2 hour project (two canvases).

Mindy said...

It looks like they have all painted before! I'm super excited now. I can't wait to paint!

Kaia said...

MoZart.. love the name!! I also loved the striped background canvas!

kimybeee said...

great job and so much fun!!! i would love to participate - are you moving to wv anytime soon?? lol maybe someday our paths will cross! i love all of your artsy - fartsy stuff and i am very glad that you are sharing your blessings with others!

Amy K said...

MoZart is clearly going to be a success. Congrats on a great day...great job by everyone...this is the start of something big!
It makes me smile when you get "swirl happy". Love your work!

jennifer beard said...

I love all the artwork! I want to purchase your candy corn canvas!

Cherry said...

I like that phrase "sister cousins"...So are you gonna get to go? Love the pumpkins.....

Our 3 Miracles said...

Your creativity always leaves me in awe! I swear I couldn't draw a straght line if I tried, actually I'm sure your precious girls draw better than I do! Love the Mozart classes and wish I were closer, I'm sure I'd learn a thing or two! Is your pumpkin canvas (next to the striped one) still for sale? If so I'd love it!

snekcip said...

Oh Mo! It all looks so fun!! I'm gonna make a MoZart retreat one of these days! Who knows....if you have another one in November.."my face, may be in the place"!

RADstitches said...

I wanna paint just like you when I grows up!! LOL. Seriously I want to paint!!!!

Susan said...

Love the pumpkins! What texture medium do you use?

Unknown said...

I'm headed to Canton next month too!!! I can't wait. Maybe we'll see you there!


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Happy Endings! [314/365]

And what he got.
For those who know the Lord's Prayer by rote, there is one line in it - 'Bring us not into temptation but deliver us from evil...', today's news was a reminder of how the strongest among us can crumble to temptation.

David Petraeus, CIA Director and four-starred general who oversaw operations at Afghanistan, tendered his resignation citing 'poor judgement in having an extramarital affair' with his biographer. The buxom lady in question, Paula Broadwell, has herself been under FBI investigation for sending anonymous threats via emails and accessing top-secret and confidential files belonging to Petraeus.

Incidentally, this was not even the intended result of the investigation, but seeing the turn of events I am thinking if the director of the best spook organizations failed to keep his fling secret, then that only proves that it simply can't be done.
Many might argue that he took the high road by owning up to the 'mistake' but I wonder if he would have thought this when he was having the romp.
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All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' sounds like a intimate detail of the couple's bedroom education than anything else. But then again, I wouldn't blame Petraeus for the momentary lapse of good judgement because beneath all those medals and stars he is just a man with an aging wife who looked more like his grandmother, and got lucky with a lady who looked like one of those Bond babes. Shaken not stirred
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 Professionally, I'd question the authority of an organization that kills, maims and assassinates citizens of other countries, when it's own chief has little morality.

Looking into the future, we will all forget about this. Both the families will survive this very public fiasco, their spouses and children will stand by them unlike former Ms Woods. They will express their deepest regret publicly. One of them will probably land a fat book deal to spill all the salacious bits (and no prizes for guessing who that will be) and there will also be a Hollywood movie (and even a porno) that will be based on this.

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On Trend: The Good Old '70s

January 09, 2011

By Katrice

The word vintage has become cliché amongst fashion lovers. Even those of us who don't have a truly vintage style or taste in clothing and accessories loosely to throw the word around when we want to put extra special emphasis on a fabulous find. It has a vintage feel. I'm sure I've said it a time or two. Well, by the look of ad campaigns and the runways, we may all be a little vintage this year. Keeping in step with the re-emerging styles of decades past (including some '80s classics that shouldn't have been recycled), the '70's are back. High waisted trousers and jeans. Check. Fur. Check. Hot pants. Check. Thigh high boots ... you get where I'm going. So, if you enjoy thrift and consignment store shopping, you'll be on trend with very little effort. Note: This is an even bigger bonus style year for women in the 30's club who've been lucky to snag something fierce of their mother's from her heyday.

What to Wear

High Waisted Pant (Snazzy belting, even better)

Miss Selfridge High Waisted Jeans, $15

Limi Feu Button Panel Pant, $388

Flirty Blouses (Think, Silk)

Oyster Open Tie Front Shirt, $80

Beyond the Valley Digital Print Blouse, $120

Hugo Boss Silk Ruffle Blouse, $170

 From Boho to Hollywood

Burberry BE Sunglasses, $153

Oliver Peoples Zaya Round-Frame Sunglasses, $375

Prada Petrol Honey Gradient, $360

More than Less (Cocktail Rings, Neat Layers, Medallions and more)

H&M Bangles, $10.75

Flower Tassel Necklace, $300

Janis Savitt Snake Chain and Crystal Necklace, $2,165

Larkspur & Hawk Annabel Ring, $1,150

Silver Hinged Owl Necklace, $15

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  2. Thank you. I have always loved her style. I guess that's the California flare.

  3. I love the first pic in this post. It is definitely vintage but current for your fashion age. As a "ample" girl I always find it hard to carry off the vintage look when my options are so limited. Maybe you can help???

  4. Although silk makes me sweat, I love all things bow and ruffle-like! I am also enjoying the sun glass trend for the past few seasons.

  5. I think some high-waisted pants are in my near, near future! Thanks for the belt tip as well.:)

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This week our focus is WORSHIP OVER WORRY. With everything that is happening in the world, it is important that I share ways that we can overcome as a community, as a society, as a world in addition to our normal marketing discussion. This month we have addressed the power in choosing. We started with choosing faith over fear, then peace over panic, and now WORSHIP OVER WORRY. Take a look at the video or read the summary below to learn more about how to choose WORSHIP OVER WORRY.

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