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How happy days are made to be!
Image by Nick Kenrick ..gone to Cuba , back soon
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The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again (Villanelle) by Thomas Hardy
"Men know but little more than we,
Who count us least of things terrene,
How happy days are made to be!
"Of such strange tidings what think ye,
O birds in brown that peck and preen?
Men know but little more than we!
"When I was borne from yonder tree
In bonds to them, I hoped to glean
How happy days are made to be,
"And want and wailing turned to glee;
Alas, despite their mighty mien
Men know but little more than we!
"They cannot change the Frost’s decree,
They cannot keep the skies serene;
How happy days are made to be
"Eludes great Man’s sagacity
No less than ours, O tribes in treen!
Men know but little more than we
How happy days are made to be."
this is not a selective colour . the leaves were as is .. the background ones were monochromatic in the fog
Marlene Dietrich – ‘Blonde Venus’ (1932) … Wandering Eyes (March 7, 2013 / 25 Adar 5773) …item 2e.. Marlene Dietrich at Berns 1963 — Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind …
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Women have been given what the Torah calls, binah yesera, an extra dose of intuition, and this is the situation where we need to use this skill to figure out how to respond. Nagging and criticism are not only unlikely to be effective but may push him to act out and engage in this behavior even more (perhaps to assert his independence).
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…..item 1)…. Dear Emuna: Wandering Eyes … aish.com … www.aish.com/ci/de …
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My husband thinks it’s normal to notice the prettiest woman in the room.
March 7, 2013 / 25 Adar 5773
by Emuna Braverman
Dear Emuna,
Whenever my husband and I go out, he always comments on or even pays attention to the prettiest woman in the room. I have told him repeatedly that it bothers me but he dismisses my concerns by saying that his reaction is normal and that I should just chill. Is he right? It makes me not want to go out with him. Am I overreacting? What should I do?
Paranoid Wife
Dear Loving Wife,
As they say, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you” Or, to paraphrase, it doesn’t mean it’s not true. I don’t believe that you are overreacting. You are correct that your husband should keep his eyes to himself (or on you!). In fact, on Yom Kippur, men have to specifically repent for their wandering eyes.
But, as with many things in marriage, the question is not who is right but how to handle it. In this case, I understand how you could find this painful and demeaning, even though your husband probably does not mean it that way and is likely more “clueless” than malicious. Your job is to determine the most effective way to achieve your goals.
Women have been given what the Torah calls, binah yesera, an extra dose of intuition, and this is the situation where we need to use this skill to figure out how to respond. Nagging and criticism are not only unlikely to be effective but may push him to act out and engage in this behavior even more (perhaps to assert his independence).
So what should you do? I think you should begin my doing everything you can to keep his attention on you and your relationship. If you are going out together, dress up for him. Talk to him, be interested in him, ask him questions about his thoughts.
You may bristle at this advice. After all, he’s making the mistake, why is it your responsibility? But the answer is that you are in this together and you want to make every effort to enhance your marriage. I do believe that the more attention a man gets from his wife, the less likely his eyes are to wander. Perhaps you’ve stopped trying, perhaps you take the relationship for granted, perhaps you’re too tired to make the effort. We can never stop trying, we can never stop making the effort – not if we want our marriages to stay alive. And that applies to every one, in every marriage, whether their husband has wandering eyes or not.
If, in spite of your best efforts, he continues in this behavior, I recommend that you go for some counseling. Maybe he will be able to hear from a third party what he can’t hear from you – how demeaning and insensitive his behavior feels to you. And maybe he will be able to express in a safe environment that it is certainly not his intention to hurt you and the two of you will be able to work out better communication skills and behaviors.
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— WHERE’S THE LIMELIGHT?
Dear Emuna,
Last night was my daughter’s school production, their big song and dance extravaganza. She has been practicing for weeks and talked of nothing else so I was very excited to go. But the experience wasn’t as pleasant as I had anticipated. I understand that certain talented girls will always get the lead dramatic roles, musical solos and dance parts. But beyond that, it seemed to me that some girls were in every dance or choir number (and front and center no less) while my daughter’s dance group got about 30 seconds of stage time. As my daughter said to me on her way out the door, “Don’t blink or you will miss me.” While I enjoyed many aspects of the production, I was unable to quell my feelings of frustration and resentment. Can you help me?
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— Green-Eyed Monster Mom
Dear Tiger Mom,
You are clearly a mother who is zealous on behalf of her daughter. That is good. It is a mother’s/parent’s job to look out for her children, to be their advocate, to want their best. This is just a variation of that instinct – taken to an extreme. Because it’s certainly not clear that a lead role – with all the accompanying honor and attention – is always what’s best for our children.
The most important issue here is your daughter’s attitude. Did she like participating in the play? Was she as frustrated and resentful as you or did she just have a good time? Was she able to enjoy the sense of unity and fun that rippled through the whole school?
Was her comment meant good-naturedly or was it an expression of pique?
If she is fine (and perhaps even more than fine), don’t allow your frustration to communicate itself to her.
Don’t spoil her experience and, above all, don’t introduce jealousy and resentment where there is none.
Your daughter will take her cues from you so you need to get over it! If she has the ability to take true pleasure in the good of others, then learn from her good character. Sometimes our children are our best teachers.
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— WINNING BY CHEATING
Dear Emuna,
My 5-year-old daughter likes to play games. The problem is that she’s always changing the rules, dare I say cheating, to make sure that she wins. Is this normal or is it a bad quality that I must immediately try to uproot?
Unsure Mom
Dear Uncertain Mom,
Most likely that is just a reflection of the innate desire to win, our inherent self-centeredness and it’s certainly not uncommon in children of her age.
A very positive spin would suggest that she is a very creative person whose talents are inhibited by things like “rules” in games (that’s the excuse my husband makes when we play Scrabble!).
But since life does indeed have rules we need to follow, and since we do want to encourage honesty, I would gently introduce the idea of choosing some rules at the beginning of the game and sticking with them (although I wouldn’t fight about it). This is consistent with the Torah’s dictum “M’dvar sheker tirchak,” “Stay far away from falsehoods.”
I don’t think there’s anything to worry about at this point but I do think you should slowly and carefully try to weed out this behavior, both for her character’s sake and for her social life. Other children will only put up with this type of action for so long before they react negatively to it and then the “winner” needs to do a little bullying to keep getting her way.
Again, I don’t think you are at that point and I don’t think it’s cause for concern at the moment. I just think you should act (slowly, carefully, gently) before it is.
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…..item 2a.1)…. Marlene Dietrich – Hot Voodoo Lyrics …
Artist: Marlene Dietrich
Album: Miscellaneous
Genre: World
… SONGLYRICS – Know the Words … www.songlyrics.com/
Did you ever happen to hear of voodoo?
Hear it and you won’t give a damn what you do
Tom-tom’s put me under a sort of voodoo
And the whole night long
I don’t know the right from wrong
Hot voodoo, black as mud
Hot voodoo, in my blood
That African tempo, has made a slave
Hot voodoo, dance of sin
Hot voodoo, worse than gin
I’d follow a cave man right into his cave
That beat gives me a wicked sensation
My conscious wants to take a vacation
Got voodoo, head to toes
Hot voodoo, burn my clothes
I want to start dancing, just wearing a smile
Hot voodoo, I’m aflame
I’m really not to blame
That African tempo is meaner than mean
Hot voodoo make me brave
I want to misbehave
I’m beginning to feel like an African queen
Those drums bring up the heaven inside me
I need some great big angel to guide me
Hot voodoo, makes me wild
Oh fireman, save this child
I going to blazes
I want to be bad
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…..item 2a.2)…. youtube video … Marlen Dietrich dancing in Gorilla costume … 3:29 minutes
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Uploaded on Jul 7, 2010
Marlene Dietrich in 1932′s Blonde Venus. I make no claims of ownership of this material.
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…..item 2b)…. youtube video … Marlene Dietrich – Black Market ! … 4:30 minutes
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Uploaded on Sep 18, 2011
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…..item 2c)…. youtube video … Marlene Dietrich – Somethin’ I dreamed last night … 3:40 minutes
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Uploaded on Mar 27, 2008
Marlene Dietrich sings the song "Somethin’ I dreamed last night". I love to listen to this song at night, when I’m alone studying:)
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…..item 2d)…. youtube video … Marlene Dietrich "Awake In A Dream" (Desire, 1936). … 2:22 minutes …
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Uploaded on May 10, 2010
Marlene Dietrich 1901-1992. Chanson et photos tirées du film "Desire" de Frank Borzage sorti en 1936.
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…..item 2e)…. youtube video … Marlene Dietrich at Berns 1963 … 37:06 minutes …
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Published on Jul 10, 2012
The singer, actress and mega star Marlene Dietrich visited Berns in 1963 for a sold out concert in Stockholm. The show was a success and Marlene Dietrich, although over her sixties, made an amazing impression on the swedish audience. She sang the following:
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby ……. — time line 03:25
- La vie en rose ……………………………………………… — time line 05:59
- The Boys in the Backroom ………………………….. — time line 09:15
- Jonny, wenn du Geburtstag hast ………………. — time line 11:29
- The Laziest Gal in Town ……………………………. — time line 15:20
- Lola ……………………………………………………………. — time line 18:20
- Honeysuckle Rose ……………………………………. — time line 20:35
- Lili Marlene ………………………………………. — time line 23:40
- Sag’ mir wo die Blumen sind …………… — time line 27:14
- Falling in Love Again ………………………… — time line 31.52
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Lili Marleen
English lyrics (David)
Mack David is credited for the American version (published in 1943 as "Lili Marlene") made famous by Marlene Dietrich, though there is speculation that Dietrich actually may have written some or all of those English lyrics herself.
Outside the barracks, by the corner light
I’ll always stand and wait for you at night
We will create a world for two
I’ll wait for you the whole night through
For you, Lili Marlene
For you, Lili Marlene
Bugler, tonight, don’t play the call to arms
I want another evening with her charms
Then we will say good-bye and part
I’ll always keep you in my heart
With me, Lili Marlene
With me, Lili Marlene
Give me a rose to show how much you care
Tied to the stem, a lock of golden hair
Surely, tomorrow, you’ll feel blue
But then will come a love that’s new
For you, Lili Marlene
For you, Lili Marlene
When we are marching in the mud and cold
And when my pack seems more than I can hold
My love for you renews my might
I’m warm again, my pack is light
It’s you, Lili Marlene
It’s you, Lili Marlene
My love for you renews my might
I’m warm again, my pack is light
It’s you, Lili Marlene
It’s you, Lili Marlene
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How to Improve the 2nd Most Important Page on Flickr
Image by Thomas Hawk
Timoni West, a designer for Flickr, is out with a post detailing how broken what she calls "the most important page on Flickr" is. It’s refreshing actually. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone from Flickr actually dare to write a post that was openly critical of Flickr in public. Generally speaking Yahoo/Flickr does not handle criticism very well (have I mentioned that I’m banned from their help forum for life simply for respectfully criticizing Flickr in the past?)
Alexia Tsotsis over at TechCrunch reported on the post last night here and Kotke reported on it yesterday as well here.
The page that Timoni points to as the most important page on Flickr is in fact pretty important, it’s the page where you go to see your contacts’ most recent uploads. I would disagree with her about this being *the most* important page on Flickr (that would be the recent activity page), but it probably is the 2nd most important page on Flickr and it’s been languishing for years.
Basically the problem is this. When you go to view your contacts’ photos on Flickr, unless you actually go to their url *specifically*, there are only 4 ways to view your contacts’ photos. You can filter these photos by contacts vs. friends/family and you can filter these photos to show you the last single upload or the last 5 uploads.
That’s it.
Everything else gets buried.
So every day, the system buries much of the content that you really do want to see the *most* on flickr — the content you are absolutely most likely to engage with. The current page is quality agnostic and will show you the crapiest possible camera phone shot by someone that you barely know, just because you’ve made them a contact — at the expense of possibly showing you a photo of your own child losing her first tooth or your favorite rooftopper’s latest urban adventure (really click through on that one, you won’t be disppointed).
To compound the problem, the less frequently you visit flickr, the worse this problem becomes.
Apparently Timoni put a pitch in last year to rework this page, but we’ve yet to see anything tangible come out of this.
From Timoni:
"The page fails on a fundamental level—it’s supposed to be where you find out what’s happened on Flickr while you were away. The current design, unfortunately, encourages random clicking, not informed exploration.
The page isn’t just outdated, it’s actively hurting Flickr, as members’ social graphs on the site become increasingly out of sync with real life. Old users forget to visit the site, new sign ups are never roped in, and Flickr, who increased member sign-ups substantially in 2010, will forego months of solid work when new members don’t come back."
Spot on Ms. West.
So the question now becomes, how in the blazes do you fix this page? Timoni has some good ideas I think, but I’ll throw my own ideas in here too. And feel free if you have ideas on how to fix this page to comment below.
1. Flickr needs lists. Flickr’s current system of dumping your contacts into two buckets (contacts vs. friend/family) is sooooooooo 2004. Maybe even 2003. Flickr needs to understand that we naturally value our contacts differently. There will be a handful of people that I do not want to miss a *single* photo of. There will be some super important people in my life- my wife, my mom, my boss (joking), my dad, my best friend from when we were eight. While I have a lot of "friends" on Flickr, I need to be able to create a list of "super friends."
I may also want to slice and dice my flickr contacts up (did I mention I like knives? again, totally joking Flickr do NOT delete my account).
What about a list of San Francisco photographers? What about a list of people that are in my Hot Box Group (the best group on Flickr by the way — join here now)? What about a list of people that I’ve actually met face to face? What about a list of graffiti photographers? What about a list of neon photographers? You get the idea.
By allowing us to create lists, and then filter our contacts photos by lists, flickr helps us design our own optimal customizable experience. Twitter did lists a long time ago. Flickr needs to get with the 2011′s.
2. Use Interestingness to show me the most interesting photos of my friends. Flickr has an internal system that effectively ranks every photo on the site with a hidden score. It’s pretty simple actually, the more faves, comments, tags, notes, views, external links, etc. a photo gets, the higher the score.
Basically the crowd rates every single photo on the site. They then do two things with this data. They pick out 500 high ranking photos each day and dump them into Explore (that is unless you’ve been blacklisted from Explore like I have after I wrote a blog post critical of them). And they also use that data in their search engine — to help you find the most interesting photos that you might be looking for.
There is no reason why interestingness cannot or should not be applied to the contacts page. Mediocre camera phone shots or other photos that people dislike, should not be shown at all. On the other hand if 10 people fave a shot and it gets lots of comments, then maybe people want to see that shot more.
Flickr should give me the option to see not only my contacts and friends/family photos this way, they should also allow me to see any of my lists this way. And they should give me 5 options on how to view these photos (the last 12 hours, the last day, the last 2 days, the last week, the last month).
Having this sort of a view will allow me to quickly uncover the best photos by the people that I want to see, not just the most recent photos randomly.
3. Have a "Fresh" section. Another option I should have when viewing my contacts photos should be called "fresh." Fresh sounds so refreshing doesn’t it? Not stale like 2004.
This view would filter out all of the photos that I’ve either hid or have already interacted with. If I’ve already seen a photo in a particular view and faved it and commented on it, why show it to me again as a thumbnail? Or if I find a photo that I hate, why not let me hide that photo (or even that entire photographer’s stream without having to drop them as a contact). "Fresh" would be a new way to view only the photos that I haven’t hid/interacted with.
I will leave *what* the UI should actually look like to the Pros like Timoni. But the above functionality could turn Flickr’s tired old contacts page into something so much greater than it is.
I hope Timoni doesn’t get in trouble for writing something critical of a page on Flickr, by the way. I think it’s really great that she’s being transparent about what’s broken. Having people like that on the team is an asset. And engaging with the community to both talk about it and talk about how to improve it is a *good* thing, not a bad thing.
Speaking of which, someone really should make Zack unban me from the Help Forum one of these days. Heather’s long gone now. It’s petty and counterproductive.
Oh and totally unrelated, all of the best Flickr accounts are currently setting up accounts at 500px as well. If you are not already on 500px, you are so missing out — the quality of the photography there is mind blowing and totally blowing flickr away. You can follow me on 500px here. Check out the list of Flickr Pros who have already joined and add your own 500px url to the list as well.
Competition, such a beautiful thing!
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