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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:48:14 GMT

WORLD AGAINST WAR DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2008
11.30 Blythswood Sq

Mon n bring your flag

to faerierhona

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:10:58 GMT

in response to:
--- suicivilized wrote:
> actually, there is nothing to sell.
> i am a non-profit person with a good idea of how we could all express our wish to be free.
> take this chance if you have any sympathy for wanting a more peaceful world.
>
> And inform yourself before you judge.

If I am interested in this sort of thing, i will find it. Do not spam communities with it that have nothing to do with it. Do not contact me again
Reply | Add as friend | Mark as Spam

Do not be such a coward as to judge me and not let me reply.

Do not tell me what to do, or you are as bad as the governments that cause all this war and suffering.
I am reaching out to give everyone this chance, and I believe spirituality is the most relevant interest to have when concerning these ideas.
Everyone deserves this chance.
I doubt you will find anything like this searching in Google.
Nevertheless, good luck in all you do and I hope you find the right path.

Jamin' Represent

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:42:21 GMT

http://tinyurl.com/whatyouthink
is a project in order to organise the knowledge and opinions of the majority in order to hopefully discover some clear attitudes and courses of action in this critical time.

We need your help to re-organise community facilities, to show leaders the light, of which their ignorance has created needless frustration, suffering and destruction.

Issues from environmental to political and sociological must be considered from every possible perspective in order to cover everyone's needs.

I am a non-profit person. I do not get paid for this.
In fact, I am sacrificing university work to do this, because this is what I believe in, and I know others believe in freedom and equality too.

So, will you give it a chance, or are you against these things?

Oh, and the reason this seems like spam?
I'm only one girl.
I can't be fucked typing out completely individual messages to everyone.
Please don't be blinded by your own skepticism, and see this thing for what it is - I know that is all you ever try to do when you criticise, but if you read it you would understand there is nothing more to it than what it is, and its need for participation, comment and promotion.

Thank you for listening,
Blessings

na stress, jah bless

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:55:13 GMT

Check Check It
A gateway to FREEDOM?

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:11 GMT

Reply to this post and i'll give you a letter.
then go to your LJ and post 10 thing's you like beginning with that letter.
Hayley gave me M

1.
The Moon

2.
Me

3.
Milkshakes

4.
Maraschino Cherries

5.

Men

6.
Mary Jane

7.

Monkeys

9.
Marshland

10.
Music

fae the Danny

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:36:10 GMT

Leave a comment and I will;
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) in return, you must post this on your own lj.

"YUH."

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:58:14 GMT

MOTIVATION SHOWN MORE CLEARLY in Francoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" or Jean-Luc Godard's "A Bout de Souffle"

1: Narration: 3rd omnipresent privaledged position gives equal view to all motivations, but no inside-the-head signs other than those represented by actions of chars.
ie. admiration + imitation of Humphrey Bogart
1st person narr gives clearer idea of Cecil's motivations,
"I realize that one might find complicated motives for this change in me, one might endow me with spectacular complexes...but I know the true reasons were the heat, Bergson, and Cyril, or at least his absence."

2: but only one-sided view of other's (though it seems to fit) - Elsa's motivation, her father's
"I wanted my father's desire to fester in him, so that in the end he would give himself away"
conflict as well with other desire (actually likes Anne)
stated motivations and conflicts "I want you to love me, but at the same time I don't want you to. I love my freedom also." double-edged as if she had not called cops, she would not have been free (possibly jailed)

3. clear motivations, also
MONEY. SUCCESS (as a journalist)
"At all costs I must take steps to regain my father and our former life. How infinately desireable those two years suddenly appeared to me."

4. unclear; not knowing self, "masks", identity - motivated by finding an identity or finding an identity through motivation?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:42:22 GMT

QUOTATIONS FROM Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and William Shakespeare's Othello

LANGUAGE: "Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten"
contrasts with Nwoye's attraction to the song and poetry of the new religion, though he does not understand what it means (even at end does not understand what it means)
clever language to portray clever language

"Instead of saying 'myself' he always said "my buttocks"...
He said he was one of them, as they could see from his colour and his language...
contrasting; he is clearly not one of them "harsh accent", trying to be convincing...
'Your buttocks understand our language' said someone lightheartedly and the crowd laughed...
'Your buttocks said he had a son' said the joker. 'So he must have a wife and all of them must have buttocks.'...
mockery, noone buys it but with no harm.
At the end of it Okonkow was fully convinced that the man was mad...
in igbo ideology, theory of christianity does not make sense (theory of christianity does not make sense -- holy trinity)
It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow"
younger generation influenced (as they disagree with old ideology, not that they disagree with the new -- unanswered questions -- Ikemefuna's (the peace offering) death)

Othello: derogatory phrases such as "thick lips" "old black ram" and "devil"
insults; cuckold, whore, strumpet
"I have a thing for you"
"Tis a common thing" ('thing' being slang)

saying one thing and doing another, Iago speaks truth "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving" and yet still plays the deceiver

empowering "Keep up thy bright swords, for the dew will rust them"
"...out-tongue his complaints"

IDEOLOGY IN PROVERBS AND SAYINGS AND THE LIKE (more lang, of a sort):

THE TITLE - from W.B. Yeats poem "The Second Coming"
"He best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"

"'There is no story that is not true' said Uchenda, 'The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abominations with others."
acceptance of other side to coin -- wisdom

"The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger."
at end -- other perspective. story of his life (just made into a whole book) cut down to a paragraph.

"The white man whose power you know too well has ordered this meeting to stop"
question of 'power'; end to the power of lang. -- when lang (for Okonkwo) is denied, he "uses his fists"

-- "had a slight stammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists"

"As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others."
opposite of western saying "one bad apple does not spoil the bunch"

OTHELLO; "In following him, I follow but myself" -- own ends

"I am not what I am" -- declaration of deceptive nature

"'Virtue'? A fig! 'Tis ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners..." -- ideology of will and control, we are what we make ourselves, then how can he be not what he is?

"But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they're jealous: 'tis a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself" -- Emelia points out the true ideology of a jealous mind - Iago's - this is why he is not what he is.

GENDER + Honour: "...I do beseech your honour."

"I nothing, but to please his fantasy."

"I will chop her into messes - cuckold me!" + Iagos little ditties about the foul and fair etc.

THINGS FALL APART
"...was possessed by the fear of his father's contemptible life and shameful death." IRONY. thought of his father as feminine

"Dazed with dear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak..." while his friend does not. does not want to be thought of as "feminine"

"This is a womanly clan, he thought" as they do not want to take violent action, as if this is a bad thing.

"The crime was of two kinds, male and female. Okonkwo had commited the female, because it had been inadvertent. He could return to the clan after seven years."

GENDER in defense of the feminine: "'...He could not do anything without telling her.'
'I did not know that,' Okonkwo said ' I thought he was a strong man in his youth.'
'He was indeed,' said Ofoedu
Okonkwo shook his head doubtfully.
'He led Umuofia to war in those days,' said Obienika"
despite idea of "male honour", opposses Okonkwos ideology

"It is not bravery when a man fights with a woman"
roles

"It is true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme."
roles also, oppossing, once again, Okonkwo's ideology (the masc. is right, fem. is weak)

OTHELLO the duty of women known: "To you I am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you. You are the lord of duty;
I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband;
And so much duty as my mother showed
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord."

"...Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them, they see and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have... Then let them use us well; elose let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so."

"Thou hast not half the power to me harm
As I have to hurt"

euh

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:20:25 GMT

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
"Colonel Aureliano Buendia organised thirty-two armed uprisings and he lost them all."
crossing border - failure BUT revered in army at home "...one of our greatest men."
however, double-edged as said by officer trying to track down Jose Arcadio Buendia

Aureliano Segundo: "...Macondo had been a prosperous place and well on its way until it was disordered and corrupted by the banana company, whose engineers brought on the deluge as a pretext to avoid promises made to the workers."

a "truth" of border-crossing bringing disempowerment that has been denied by the oppressors; disempowering economically, in context of human rights and even the weather

"With Ursula's death the house gagain fell into a neglect from which eit could not be rescued even by a will as resolute and rigorous as that of Amaranta Ursula"
crossing border of life-death gives up power of maintanance that had been Ursula's strength in life

"He won't ever come into this house again" Fernanda said, "as long as he carries the rash of the foreigners"
banishment from house under new rule, because of new rule

"Look at the mess we've got ourselves into," Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time "just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas"
about disruptive foreign neighbours "at that time" foreshadows (dramatic irony)

"...built a seperate town across the railroad tracks..."

"The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows"

BOHUMIL HRABAL

"...I'd been out of work ever since I defended her honour.."
crossing border disempowers (branded as traitor for sticking up for individual)

"...I bowed too, as though they'd included me in their greeting..."
aware that they did not, no power

"...they were actually ignoring me, barely tolerating me as someone who went along with Lise."
unaware at the time.

"I seemed to gain stature in her eyes, more than if I'd been a Czech count..."

"...I was stabdubg here with my penis in my hand to prove myself worthy of marrying a German."
undignified, ridiculous situation

"But already I saw that these women thought of me as a flunky, as less than a flunky..It was as if I wasn't there at all, as if I meant no more to them than a clothes horse."
women -- usually his only source of "power" see him as nothing, contrasts with previous view of them seeing him as familiar and friendly

"If I had a hotel in Prague, they'd have to respect me..."
border crossing again to gain respect - self respect, and a business to gain else's respect
(respect gained in end by wanting to be alone, lost by being dressed up)

"...saw myself as I never had before, as a member of Sokol who when the Germans were executing Czech patriots had allowed Nazi doctors to examine him to determine if he could have sexual intercourse with a German gym teacher, and while people at home were suffering he was sitting pretty in German hotels and inns, serving the German army and the S.S. Waffe"
crosses border in his mind of identifying - guilt? life put in context.

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:08:03 GMT

I don't think it's funny.

as requested

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:01:12 GMT

Are you being the subject of your life, or being subjected to it?
Yes/no answers will suffice; essays also accepted.

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:22:47 GMT

For your listening pleasure, as requested, I present to you Thomas in da club.

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:31:02 GMT

Who wants to help me clear all the things I don't really need out of my room either this week or next?
C'mon -- you might get free stuff out of it.

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:20:30 GMT

There will be no DEVO for me tonight.
Only buses that don't show up, and a lack of dinner.

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:05:23 GMT

Everyone who reads this sucks.

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:26:21 GMT

Right. So. I'm finally back home.
Erm. Prom was fun. Found out that Gerry [the tranny that I met on the bus] was working at it, Mr. Guidi promised me (but never gave) a dance, and Mr. Cairns bought me a drink, gave me a lift to Andy's and gave me a free bottle of South Somewhereian wine. Score. Good night, I reckon.
Erm.
Download was good, for the most part. Met some amazing people. Followed a smurf around. Learned the joys of spinning poi to drum n bass. The people I was with were sound, and really helpful. My flipflops broke, were gaffa taped up by the poi-people, and then broke again, so I got to hop around. Also - there were bands! I didn't even bother with bands until Sat. Just walked around chatting to cool people.
The journeys there and back were shite.
I've missed my cat. And Iron Maiden. Oh well.

Who wants to come to a burlesque lifedrawing session with me on the 17th?
Or who wants to come to DEVO on the 24th?
Any takers?

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:58:58 GMT

Sorry. I'm not THAT good at paint that I could make it actually look like you.

I thought you might like that?

Sun, 27 May 2007 22:58:34 GMT

Sat, 19 May 2007 15:21:27 GMT

So here's the thing. It's about the "I" vs. the "we".
Shabine, known as Shabine "the patois for any red nigger" and nothing else, chooses the "we", leaves his island, and joins all the other Shabines to be lost at sea or wherever they might end up.
Coleman "Brutus" - traitor or defender of the Republic? sticks by the "I", giving up his past, chooses to forget.
Shabine can't forget.
Coleman is in the position where he can pass for a Jew, which backfires (silly people hating Jews)
Themes? Nationality, individuality, language.
Walcott chooses the native language for Shabine; Coleman has been brought up to respect words in the Shakespearian/Chaucer sense. This also backfires.
Shabine freely calls himself a "red nigger". Coleman is shocked to be labled thusly;
"But "nigger" -- him?" "he also discovered at Howard that he was a Negro as well"
He is aware that passing for a Jew will give him advantages (even his father; educated and proud, had to humble himself for work ("all he could do was meekly say "Yes, suh" - not his language, but the language forced upon him in order to keep the peace/his job).).

In short, white people in the 1920s, on the whole, sure did suck.

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:47:43 GMT

There comes a time in your life when you ask;
Should I become an angry feminist for this exam, as I know I can do well? Or should I do Beckett and Hamlet to earn myself brownie points with the Becket-boys? Or should I go all religious with Donne? Or should I do something else completely?

"The prescribed poets are: John Donne, George Herbert, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Carol Ann Duffy. The Norton Anthology selection from these poets is prescribed, although you are welcome to discuss poems not included in the anthology in your coursework essay and exam should you wish to do so. In the cases of Walcott and Duffy, additional poems will also be distributed on a handout in the relevant lectures."

Wed, 09 May 2007 19:47:16 GMT

You like updates?
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM UPDATES!?

my money green like the helmet of a fascist

Tue, 01 May 2007 21:58:26 GMT

My cat keeps biting me because I'm drenched in chlorine.
Are cats naturally attracted to chlorine?

This is what I remember.

Geometrical isomers (cis/trans) need a double bond and two diff. groups.
Chrisality - needs a carbon with 4 diff. groups

Hess' Law states that the enthalpy of reaction is the same regardless of whether one step or any series of steps is used.
pV=nRT

deltaHtotal = deltaHproducts - deltaHreactants
deltaStotal = deltaSproducts - deltaSreactant
deltaG = deltaH - TdeltaS
= -RTlnK
= -nFE

l=n-1, ml=-l to l.
Q numbers tell us size (principal), shape, direction/orientation and spin (spin)

-2.5 degrees in bond angle in a tetrahedral geometry for every lone pair.
lonepair-lonepair>lonepair-bondingpair>bondingpair>bondingpair with respect to repulsion

amides are not basic, not very reactive
COC - ether
COC=O - ester
COCOC - acetal
COCOH - hemi-acetal

These are part-functional groups, and need the other side (ie. acyl chloride)
R-[phenol ring] - aryl
R-C-} - acyl
saturated R-{ - alkyl

weak ligands = high spin = unpaired electrons

s oribital - 1, p orbital - 3, d orbital - 5

curly arrows: nucleophile - electrophile
bronstead-lowry base: reduces (OH-), acid: oxidises(H+).

A pseudo reaction is one in which one reagent has a hidden/latent effect on reaction rate (usually H2O).
An elementary reaction is a single molecular event.
Reaction intermediates are present during reaction but are not products.

Condensation pol. - monomers linked + small molecules
Addition pol. - monomers linked.

That's all I can remember :(

can you spare an umlaut?

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:29:37 GMT

were brilliant, despite the drunken yelling of weegies.
The percussion section are really fun to watch, if you're ever going to go see these guys. They'll be making a little beat one minute, and then suddenly you'll be watching them fly all over the place, throwing around metal tubes, or just crumpling bits of foam - their instruments are really good, y'see. I think I've picked a favourite instrument. Though the duct-taped-pipes produce a really good sound, I really like the plastic jar of cups and bottles. They spin it on a turntable, put a microphone next to it and let you listen to all the whooshing sounds that come out of it. Blixa occassionally whipped out a radio, and switched it between frequencies, and that's how you incorporate Scottish news into an otherwise German song.
I think Blixa Bargeld has swallowed a zoo, because the sounds he can produce from just his mouth are pretty amazing. It must be an old zoo, because, at the start of the set, he came across as a bit of a grandad. Later, he threatened to make the music quieter if the crowd kept shouting out.
Also, Adam's going to grow up to be him. They have the same way of gesturing, and very similar nailpolish.

That morning I walked home from Tramway, and got 6 hours of sleep.

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:31:13 GMT

Riiiiiiiiight.
Electron configurations are pish, so long as you've got a good periodic table.
Finding out oxidation states is also pish, so long as you've got a good periodic table (all you have to do is balance up the unknown ion/transition metal so that the molecule is overall neutral, adding or subtracting as neccessary for a positive or negative ion)

pH = -log[H+]
likewise
pOH = -log[OH-]
However
pH = pKa + log [A-]/[HA[

The closer together levels are, the higher the spin you will have.
However, this doesn't matter in a d1,2, or 3 configuration, or a d9 or d10 configuration, as the spin (directions) will be the same.
Always start adding opposite spins to the lower levels.

High dialectric constant is good for dissolving ionic solids (it's polar!) but not molecular solids ie. water.
Low dialectric constant is good for dissolving molecular solids, but not molecular, ie. benzene.

Kw tells you the..self-ionisation of water? something like that.

Degree of dissociation describes the fraction of molecules that dissolve in water to form an ionic solution (dissociate).

All organic acids are weak (and don't fully dissociat)

I think that's everything.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:51:07 GMT

* Karatecising.
* "Yeah, well I would've asked my maw but she was too busy shagging yer...er..maw"
* Big issue vendor gets off my bus ("so ME! yknow?" guy), man falls down, and he helps him up
* Really bad holocaust-related play ideas.

Also, does anyone have a vintage-looking-ish or theatrical or just sexyish dress that I could borrow for Sunday? Shoes would also be nice.